The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-29 00:00:00

V - S tm-shiP tvvelva If from States inst., re still former Canal* I corn' 1 great o utline r. Oe nto the i n re °ruling duties 1V134 6 isaebu~ e other Rhod e a NC" o thers; Yet re i stan d if t'l it; it . .. 6 Moh aw k , RR. 60 101 Stoningto n 4 54 76 30 0 Lon g I s l and 63 50 Harl em . 12 5 Readi ng R R. 50 50 1- lousatonie RR 50 N o r. and Wei. 77 SECOND BOARD. JO shares Canton 2,1 :;hares Stonington 44 50 State Bank 50 Long Island b3o 75 100 Farmers' Trust 3Bl 125 shares Nor. and Wor 7 4 ,1 4„, 2 5 East B oston 4. THE PUBLIC STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 14. 50 shares Dry Dock s6o 69 ":::5 Morris Canal b3O 36 25 Long Island Railroad 75 Nor. and Wor. c 76f 100 C anton nw sup 48 25 1 1oliawk Railroad 50 Harlem t w 68 600 81t Nov. 14.—The sales of Cotton are Flour is better by 6 its. Genoese, $4,62 a 69; Ohio, ii"; Ge orgetown, 84,69 a 75. lotj: is worth a b ou t 73 c t s . i n t h e s li p, t h oug h sma ll *4\l4 uses worth at less. Several cargoes of Southern Corn St et 3n • 4 its. wt. Barley is held at 70 cts. Oats, 32 ~ . 1 14 4 1 b ags Sumatra Coff e e, s o ld a t 61 c t s . p er lb., , 111 1 ,1: e . bbl -, 0 3' has f a llen to 27 cts ; sa l es o f St a t e P r i son (hi e Ashes droop, and sales have been made at some- S t e im der $4,12 an d 84,25. flightr ding line bills 10 a 10 1 . francs 5,211, which shows a . 4 ' 1,,, „, „ ll —. x AND COMMERCIAL NE W S The CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. 143 American advicos just received state that. olk ' 4 la 811 re of his election. Cotton was declining in tho ehti r kets of New York, Boston, &c. The ex both was 110 to It. There are very heavy mail-bags party Canal% and the States, and the Metcalfe Th e was obtaining a majority at the elections. . te td °Cotton market at Liverpool was dull again yes -41.27' and prices still tended downwards. Sales, 5,000 ikt 5, including 1,000 Surat, at 2*d. to 3,-1(1.; 200 Pernara, I N A d ,„ to Sid, • 200 Egyptian, at 51d. to kid.; and the wer e - ;''' e riean. The more speculative Railway Shares tti B l,l l suite request, and others without alteration : h (1 - .6 a ,nd Gloucester, 344 ; Chester and Birken tir 'p'''atf, 16i ; Direct Northern, 21; Eastern Conn- Eta ' - n er P, e toal, No. 2,20 s. ; Edinburgh, Leith, and M oser ; Grand Junction, half, 107 ;•Kendal and e, 41; Liverpool and Manchester, Half, 102 i; 1'04°4 a n te, Birmingham, 321. Shares, 3/i; London and Counties' a "a ; London and South-Western, 75; Midland t yo enA l°l 108; North British, 5; Trent Valley, 7* ; , I toli tis -"" Avignon, 2i; Paris and Lyons, 615.; Paris and ' tt e r il ' " C 't ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 5 4 i e T he al of France, 11 N i i• ied te has not y e t been any information that can be 1. 40 mm ll P° ll With respect to the probable recovery of efs:• r a 7 , &C., stolen from the banking . firm of ;06\ gers a n d C o . I t i s sa id that at an interview iSCIf, .v7arliel Forre-ter had last evening with the firm, tittion:tekre e emmuniCated which lead to a sanguine expec 'th ""zit, the property will soon be recovered. 14 , c 'oa% 4 .1tioe, which was issued late yesterday aftr °' the lt ij.`" Bank of England, announcing the intention Prov ed oector s to make advances of money upon ap- Inany ;Securities at 2i per cent., was not unexpected in !tate, ;Securities quarters ; as from previous circum ht d 8 that have occurred, it is clear that in the "bank ofkeziweParttn a strong competition has been com tike'r, the Corporation with the private bankers %at e 'V of London. It is, however, feared in many eat e b i .t, that this continued low rate of interest by an I l easu l ,, a „ u ment having the power to put on the screw . at world: say lead to many disasters in the commercial Pree e ,,,,'llu hence a certain amount of dispraise is ex taildeT 84 the small amount to be charged on advances born,; 3 ' the Bank o f E ngland, although it should be 2 i il e - ,.` e x l mind that in September the Bank took bills at v 4 t* herea nd i 8 some anxiety felt for the arrival of the letters gal' papers brought by the Hibernia steamer from tit ) „, ILI t and Boston, which by the accounts received from terd e j, I, was in sight of port when the mail left yes mail f ro ICO doubt there will come to hand the missing 4 ide Tit " :4ll Canada. The result of the election for Pre this ar o_f the United States will be fully established by Th "v al ' hi ll , ° Settlement of the Account in the Foreign market, eolusr,llnewhat checked speculation in the English Funds. ho e , - "'s for the Account opened at 101*, but they are The e a, shade lower—viz ,at 101, and for Money at 1001. t',°4lnaissioners bought . about 15,0001. Stock to-day, Quarter "!icd Threeper Cents. at par, and Three-and-a te per 0 . 207,ents. at 102*. Bank Stock has advanced rath e ' .and India Stock at 288. Exchequer Bills are The higher than they opened in the morning. g 0,,, „.4eeount in the Foreign market has so far well d the I ,° h"' S Panish Actives have been sold at 244, and to e k s re ° Per Cents, at 351 j Belgian and Dutch Slid theare firm. Mexicans are are at 36* i- for Money, Portuguese Converted at 55 2 for the Account. t Not 13har much business has been done in the Railway (I this Iti°rning- Prices have not varied much. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock (irr°ra t he Official List.) .per Cent. Comols. Ariliti" ..........."." ***** 3 per c ent ifezia;izr.i 0000000000000000000000000 - 00000 206 207 1 1 1 00 0 44 99 New 34 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuitie s , E xpire sth Jan. 1860— ..... l2 1-16 India Stock In dia Bonds,l 288 . 83 •••••••• So obtatt under 1,0007 .....==:=:::::. B3 ~. Ditto ITet t l k nnui ties 95% •,1111t Stock for Account ............- ,ritsol, for A.ECOUnt "v"."..... .. ". ••••••=7 t 7ll 101 44C1Iftfuer Bills. 130. 1%(1 I MOI. ........ - ••••••••.- 58 88 P m * auui. ""'"*""*"" .... _ .......,,,,„ 58 60 pm . "011... Ditto 1;1itt41 Z217...,..............: . ..... - ........ .... 58 60 pm. _ ...NiviilaGriNi3FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. lo2u D i t to scri oods, 5 per Cent r% Vzhath lan Bonds. 1 3 34 ...... ....... ti pelean Bonds, 19 , 37,5 per Cest. ....... ..... 4 4 irtto for the Account Olue_se Bonds, 5 per Cent..........-"••••••• 7 5 ', 4 „,i_,1,0 converted s l - 11 to for the Account . ...... ...._..._..”-* Pattistooh tßrotnehdeesA, F cco lv u e n iier Cent .. 1 . 84 ... 0 . ... " ........ ::: 3 24 we 24 '4, 1 01Ite rr per Cot ........ .v_ e or e Accou b7:2 .auele Bo ndi, 2 per Cent 424% ~ bu l i e c r i t 234 Centg......"........... ......... OFS Per Cents .............. ...... ..-- DV In . --'. r. 811 " 18 0 . 111TS DAY AT . ONE O'CLOCK. la Ninth .I4ALWAYA, PAID. PER SHARE. MA1.31 a in and Gloucester 100 ....•••• to 97 C„arebt.,,mid Gloucester ".." so ..«..... 3.04 to 35 4 4.8 t, kille and Li ........ ..... 1% 2l,‘ to - (I _ rr l c,„____. ncoln ""at g () ..titles ..... ........".. 25 ......... 13% ....- to - t4lioupthel n nand Western 5 .... ..... 83i % „, to .9 tea N )-.. ... .. .. . tn, orth of *En . I ................ 100 us% to - 4 4: 5 and Wind g an& 1 44d0 rl and Birmi ng ham er ... 141 1 Itk" . t o an end t , wall 16% ...... 6 % -- to ;3% Zptll.N% a __, nghton ...... ium 0a Y0 rk , ,..... ... .......... 2% 44u ... to - itT'44q. Zl; * (l .. " ....... . lOO ..., 197% h7)4 - alern an,, r2 a rlingtonJunct. 21 --”.” - - 11 0 ,_tto s eri ' stern 1 1 1.71c1a arui'•:.... - 5t0,23 , . wandon ............ 118 - touTeki ... ........ ..... 1 - , D rlea h tb e and A 1 1 4 to 'tls... -4 and v. tal ent...-. ...... 2 p 47.4 low ,;erzon - and Ni l and L y zurdeau x - . .... to Syt gtl ... . to,, ~ ,,,,,,, t uen::::::::::::::::::: 2 20 ::: . ... ........ ••• t° .." 144;d011 J - 81 °CE DADE& 11,°11411?rT,tek .................. 10 ... ..... r t t o o :.: taii.O7NCH E ":Ln lalof England... 35 28.—The 11... et i s ._`..c44. STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. _ 6 -. be,,ia donwithout change; a fair amount of business a 1, 51 6 4.t at steady prices :—Cheshire Junction, t .0.1.. , , lly i... th,,,t' ° ; . gall and Liverpool, 81s. ; Churne s, t , n e i d, ~ que rn Counties, 13* • Huddersfield and 0 4„l_ di ; 14:1 14 tes Windermere 4i ; Oxford ' and Rugby, li; 144,,81L/tteeiit'no Leeds, Quarter Shares, 104 ;. Ditto, Itt l - ' 5 1; Al l Shares, 3i ; Manchester and Binning t(l ti oeoi idland , 401. Shares, 2* prem. ; She ffi eld t i L ti lisley , it n ' A li • West Yorkshire, 7 ; Assurance, 104. - I , 1 224 4 " Goo ' le, Ets. 9d. premium ; Bolton and 4 *-- " -- N - 0 5............... a.• Ti tt „ ; ------- m i , ACCIDENT ON THE 1-kst ---'.'uLAND RAILWAY. ttt,„ A tigh t, _ this ;Led with'4lother accident, which might have been our e t i lity. LoLost serious consequences, occurred on f rolt 4 tr e l tahttZe. have had many of the passengers at reach b . te L. we let Just as we were going to press, and :::: eb,aretore• Y:t:lntghat the London train, which should terib a ,'ere a S hp minutes past five, had arrived at the by Ten, o000;"0_rt line of rill yis in progress of iwa the North with the London line th e „ I) °, and w " about a quarter of a mile from the Derby atv,"°ihs no ere .Proceeding at a slow pace, when, from th em anit bein. n , 6 properly laid, the train got on th laid d t her • 11 t. At esent we are informed to ft . - wn e o n is t ,, l lut more than pr twenty yards of rails Iliekire end, 7," new line, so that when the train got i ll th -1 laY a c '" was stopped by the gravel, which ~_,,, eftrth._ co was depth. The engine was buried 04 . eh b to ,_ ork, and several of the carriages were k ia 4l 4, 3' ot i :l ll ei h7 the sudden shock, but we do not hear th,„'ned. is nq injured, further than the fright they . b ess of rttact train been going at the usual speed, .ui sa ti e m ust u nail ' pass es „ er nave been dreadful. is ii i 7 0 g diti ot , 4 t our i ol e.e s who have made it a point of duty to 1134 complain of this gross and can k *li ne ow many more lives are to be sacrificed il k!' b een _ , Where the Hudsonian principle of economy ' 41 4 day . w orked to such niceties.—Derby Reporter of t s . to It _____..... 77 .___ s)w: liti;- , LINEN The trade of this _ tttn .'8 "COMMOIIIy brisk, particularly in the branch f I. e Y drills . 0 11 th e ,80 much so that weavers are scarce ; and tki Telleing Y tret be, when the manufacturers are continually wagesDoncaster Gazette. At , ki) LATE ROBBERY AT THE ROYAL MILITARY 1 0v1 "Ir, WOOLWICIL—The three prisoners, Hawks theb9alvert and Craig, committed by Mr. Grove f rom . v et 2 oolvvich court' Po li ce-o charged with stealing a sil ktligl% watch, and about Worth of wearing apparel, be to the Gentlemen Cadets studying at the Royal 144id.rY Academy were tried on Wednesday at the leve74)4e A. , ssizes and all found guilty, and sentenced to 1., Years transportation each. tt„,„.4141. OP THE LEVIATHAN STEAM-SHIP GREAT ir,a4:4,114.--011 Wednesday forenoon the new leviathan tistliZto-ship Great Britain, so long locked up in the poi, ; la cks, made her first experimental trip of her touTvi-44 eugine 3 in the C umberland -basin, and they were , i ,_ 4 to be perfectly satisfactory. tai--cot" accounts received from Lebanon describe that gar y . , ne t ,, — , B 13 eing the prey to civil war. The . moun to 1 „7 naye, as we mentioned two days ago, laid s iege ,kitte, sit lero• and the Governor of the place has Intl -I.ou. 14 , the foreign consuls that he cannot answer any - met for their safetyChronick• LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. 29.—Wind W., moderate breeze, with drizzling ruin. DEAL, Nov. 28.—Wind S.S.W. to W.—Arrd. Martin, Penang ; Syria, Stroyan, Singapore ; Tele graph, Bennett, Sierra Leone • Tancred, Smith, St. Lucia. Sld. Rosalind, West Coast of Africa ; Village Girl and Cano, Jamaica. EAMSGATE, Nov. 28.—The Speculant, Mustede, from Hamburgh to Gibraltar, which put in here 25th instant, leaky, is discharging. OFF DOVER, Nov. 28.—Lady Caroline, Leadbetter, St. John's, New Brunswick. PORTB3IOIITE, Nov. 28.—Wind S.S.W. Arrd. H.M.S. Hornet, Jamaica, sailed tth ult., and from Ber muda, 81st ult. COWES, Nov. 28.—Arrd. Ellsworth, Long, Havannah, Rhode Island ; Aurelian, Quebec. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov.' 28.—Arrd. St. Ann, Richard, Quebec. SlePacha steamer, Lisbon. STARCROSS, Nov. 27.—Arrd. Emma, allee, and Pro vidence, Quebec. OFF SALCOMBE, Nov. 27.—Arrd. Lady Mary Stone, Buenos Ayres ; Windsor Castle, Patterson, New Or leans ; Ocean, Baltimore, for Rotterdam. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 28.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Trio Hooper, Buenos Ayres; Roslin Castle, Victoria, Quebec. SWANSEA, Nov. 27.—Arrd. Greenfells, Cuba ; British Lady, Prince Edward's Island. The Amethyst, Canton, for Port Juneaut, cut bowsprit and figure-head, had larboard bow stove, &c., by getting in contact with the Arietta, Ellis , for Cuba, both were in tow of a st eamer . MILFORD, Nov. 27.—Arrd, Mary Lynn, Ichaboe. CARDIFF, Nov. 27.—Arrd. Radford, Miramichi ; Maria, Evan and Mary, and Harriet, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 28.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrd. Osprey, Kirk, Bombay ; Mary, Ichaboe ; Letitia, Cleveland, Demerara ; Mary Ann Henry, Buctush ; True Blue, Tatmagouche ; Sarah, Montreal ; Acadia, and City of Waterford, Quebec ; Lady Rowley, Wright, Newfoundland. Sld. Cletus, Buenos Ayres ; Caleb Angus, Belize ; Ambassador, Charleston ; Dorchester, Boston. Off, Hibernia steamer, Halifax ; Royal Albert, A vessel, of about 350 tons, disrnasted, water logged, and abandoned, with "--SE, Sunderland," on her stern, was passed on the 15th inst., lat. 49, lon. 35, by the True Blue, arrived here. The Ino, hence to Trieste, was spoken yesterday, bearing up for Beaumaris. CORK, Nov. 26.—A rrd. Welcome, Dennistoun, Ichaboe; Beaver, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off, Levant, Lane, Ichaboe ; Volusia, Honduras. AT ANGRA PEQUINA, OCT. 16.—Loading, Rubicon), Dalas, Roseanna, Fenton, Lydia, Perry, David Banks, Jolly and Arundel, and Baxter. HER MAJESTY'S SHIP GORGON.—The following extract of a letter from an officer on board will be read with interest by the public :—" Monte Video, Sept. 24, 1844.—We have been unceasing in our efforts to get afloat since I last wrote to you. We have now got three • camels' under her, and are just getting a fourth ; all of them very powerful. We have, besides, a cassoon under her stern to raise her up, and lighters lashed on to her sides down low, with boilers, casks, and tanks fastened together. The other day we had a high tide, of which we took every advantage in our power. We got the steam up, and hove on all our purchases ; but we had not enough of water, and the consequence was, that there was too much strain on the cable, so it carried away. However, she went astern five inches, which, under the circumstances, is considered a great deal. liar quarter also went out a little. I may tell you, that when the tide is low the water just reaches her paddle-wheel, and when high, it only reaches round her bow. lam sorry to inform you of a serious accident which hap pened some days since. The tide having risen higher than usual, she heeled over to starboard, and burst one of the lighters which we had to float her off. When we got the boat out of the dock we made the rope fast to the capstan. Some way or other the capstan flew ronnd, swinging the capstan oar with such force as to kill two men dead on the spot, who were holding on to the end of the rope. A boy also fell overboard, and coming against some machinery, injured his arm. The injury produced lock-jaw, of which he has just died in great agony. I really cannot tell you how much this accident has de pressed us all, especially as the unfortunate persons bore excellent characters in every respect. This is the third accident we have had since we were driven on shore. It came on to blow on the 22d, and the tide rose very high. We were all ready to heave, so away we went to work ; carried away our purchase, and moved astern one foot, and canted her stern out. Thus, you will perceive, we are going off by degrees. I cannot tell you this time that we are exactly off, but we are getting everything out, and expect to go afloat very soon. More than this of course I should not be justified in saying. As far as the good things of life are concerned, we are rather com fortable, having recently been supplied with ft large stock of sheen, turkeys, and a pig. The weather has been frightfully severe during the last three days • thun der has been very frequent, an d th e ra i n h as fallen in torrents, I might almost say cascades. It may interest you to hear that the log for the day we went on shore took up two sides of foolscap." SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST FIVE GENTLEMEN.-011 Wednesday, at the Rochester Petty Sessions, warrants were granted for the apprehension of George Wise, son of Lieut. Wise, R.N., Director of Police, Chatham Dockyard, George Cockburn Warden, son of Dr. Warden, Chatham Dockyard, Lieutenant Jones, of the Royal Marines (two others are at present unknown), for grossly assaulting, and firing a loaded gun at George Ladbury, his father John Ladbury, and a lad, while em ployed in their occupation of fishermen, at a place called Gillingham-spit, in the river Medway, between six and seven o'clock on Tuesday evening. The New Theatre, Shoreditch, is approaching to completion. Yesterday the workmen were laying down the stage, the whole of the framework having been made in another part of the premises. The flats and scenery, the seats of the gallery, pit, and boxes, are also complete, an d on l y h ave to b e f i xed in their ' respective situations, when the decorations and orna mental parts will be commenced, so that it is expected that the edifice will be opened on Boxing-night. DESERTIONS.—No fewer than seventeen heads of families have deserted their wives and children in Clerk enwell parish within the last fortnight or three weeks, leaving nearly 100 persons chargeable to that parish. The trains of the Great Western Railway were on Wednesday last detained for a considerable time, in consequence of the bursting of a spring adjoining the line, in the neighbourhood of Salford, about five miles from Bath. The railway to the extent of a mile and upwards, was for several hours completely covered with water ; workmen were, without loss of time, engaged in securing the spring, and the trains were then enabled to proceed without interruption.—Bristol Gazette. At the Court of Excise yesterday, Charles Llewelyn Tudor and Frederic Tudor, wine merchants, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, were fined in the penalty of 501., for not hav ing a license, and having the words " licensed to deal in foreign wines " over the door ; and W. Edgar White, No. 8, Water-lane, Fleet-street, was summoned upon two informations for having the words " Importer of and dealer in foreign wines, spirits, and beer," painted over his cellars, not having taken out a license. The officer informed the Court that the defendant " sprung up in business all at once, and no one knew where he came from." Defendant had made no entry, neither had ho applied for any license. The cellars had since been closed, and defendant had gone to carry on his business at Maidenhead. The Court fined the defendant in the full penalty of lON. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 28.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived here this day by train, en route to visit Mr. Sloane Stanley, at Paultons. His Royal Highness will on Saturday proceed to Cadlands, and honour Mr. Drummond with a visit. His Grace the Duke of Rutland arrived here yesterday, and proceeded to Cadlands, where great preparations are being made for the approaching nuptials of the only daughter of Mr. A. Drummond with Mr. Cockrane, M.P. for Bridport. The marriage will take place on the 3d of next month. Sir Robert and. Lady Sale and family, with Mr. Sturt, arrived here yesterday by railway, for Major Portman's seat near Christchurch, on a visit until Sunday next, when the Gallant General and family will return here to the Royal Hotel, remaining until Tuesday next, when they will embark in the Oriental steam-ship for India. GRAND BALL AT MARCHMONT HOUSE.--OH Wed nesday evening last Sir Hugh and Lady Campbell gave a brilliant ball to the nobility and gentry in the county of Berwick and surrounding neighbourhood. The com pany staying in the house consisted of the Countess of Minto and three Ladies Elliot, Mr. and Lady Blanche Balfour, Lord Frederick, Lady Augusta, and Miss Fitz • clarence, of Etal House, Hon. F. Fitzclarence, Captain Hunter Blair, Ladies Jane and Caroline Charteris, Lady Fuller ; and at the ball there were also present the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, Sir Charles Dalbiac, Earl and Countess of Home, Earl of Lauderdale and Sir An thony Maitland, Lord Saltoun and Mr. Macdouall Grant, Lord Elcho, Sir George and Lady Harriet Suttie, Sir M. W. and Lady Ridley, Lady Massey Stanley, Sir John, Lady Elizabeth, and Misses Pringle, of Stitchell. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—A young lad, named Par rier, at present employed on board a hatch-boat at Wool wich, wishing to have a puff, as he expressed it, from his employer's gun, put in a small quantity of powder at the muzzle, and dropped a cinder into it. The gun having been previously loaded, the whole went off, and completely shattered his hand, making amputation necessary. THE GREENACRE FAMILY.—The daughter of this notedindividual, as well as her husband, are now inmates of hospitals—the former as a lunatic, and the latter in childb ed. On the execution of the father the son and daughter took a shop in the London-road, and notwith standing that their business, that of stay makers and hosiers, was prosperous, still, such was the effect pro duced on the, mind of Greenacre's son-in-law, that his senses gradually grew impaired, and he was bliged to be removed to a lunatic asylum. DEPARTURE OF THE GIBRALTAR MAILS.—SOUTII AMPTON, Nov. 28.—The Pacha, Captain Birnie, steam ship, left the docks at three P.M., taking out the Penin sula and Meditteranean mails, and twenty-five passengers —among whom were the Duchess of Manchester and suite, for Lisbon. The ship St. Anns, Captain Richards, from Quebec, arrived in the docks at three P.M., this day, with a cargo of deals and timber; she left Quebec on the 23d ult. The captain reports having experienced very bad weather in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A true bill has been found by the Middlesex Grand Jury against Mrs. Jane Tyrwhytt, for the late robbery at the Soho Bazaar. The trial has been postponed on the application of the accused. BERWICK CASTLE.—We are happy to be able to inform those of our readers who entertain a respect for the relics of a bygone age, that the remains of this an cient edifice will not, as far as present appearances go, be disturbed by the intrusion of the railway upon its time-honoured precincts. On the contrary, we are in formed, that both eastern and western towers will be left untouched, though parts of the eld walls of the castle will be removed,—Berwick Paper. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Pubftc eptutoit. " Who runs may read." WOR.EXON. The pupils of the Conservatoire Royal had the honour of performin g Raoul de C requ i, on Monday evening, before their Majesties at Saint Cloud. Amongst the company present on:this occasion was Marshal Bugeaud. Before his departure from Algiers, Marshal Bugeaud published an order of the day, announcing that Lieute nant-General de Lamoreiare would act as Commander in-Chief during his absence in France. The Patric states that the Marshal will go to Excideuil at the end of this week, but will return to Paris to take part in the discussion on the Address iu the Chamber of Deputies. The Gazette des Tribunaux gives an account of an' extensive fraud by a Paris bookseller, whom it calls N—, and who has fled from justice. It is stated that in one day he got discounted fifty bills for various amounts, some of them, it appears, large, drawn on different booksellers in the country. He produced false letters from them acknowledging the receipt of books, and au thorising him to draw for the amount. The bankers who were applied to to discount the bills bad, therefore, no suspicion of fraud. For a few days, says the Constitutionncl, some of the hatters at the Boulevards, and in the purlieus of the Palais Royal, exhibited in their shop windows new fashioned hats ticketed Chapeaux Zurbano, Chapeaux Narvaez, wishing, no doubt, to revive the Bolivars and Aturillos, but they have been withdrawn by order of the police. We learn from Palrea, in the Balearic Islands, that the Jesuits have just established themselves there in spite of the law to the contrary, and that the political chief and several of the other authorities were present at the cere mony of opening their church. A letter from St. Petersburgh, in the Universal Ger man Gazette, states that the health of the Empress has improved, and no longer causes any uneasiness.? On ac count of the mourning worn fur the Grand Duchess Alexandra, the Empress appears but rarely in ;public, and it is thought that a considerable length of time will elapse before the fetes of the Court of St. Petersburgh will resume their former brilliancy. It appears by a letter from Bayonne that the roads in many parts of Spain are infested by banditti to a greater extent than at any other time during the last four or five years. The Observateur des Pyrenees states that a proposition has been made to the Spanish Government by an English company to construct a railroad from the bridge of Aviles (Asturias) to Madrid. Its capital is said to be 2,000,000 f. It demands a lease of 80 years, and per mission to bring into Spain, free of duty, all the matters necessary to construct and work the line. The spirit of gaiety peculiar to France has been lately displayed by the squadron of Admiral Parseval' t during its station in the roadsted of Tunis. Several of the ships gave amateur theatrical representations, and tlie Ocean even went so far as to send out its play-bills printed in letters of gold. A letter from the North of Italy, dated November 7, states that the Adige had, on the 25th ult., for the third time this season, broken through its dykes on the right and left, and spread over all the flat grounds from Neumarkt to Deutschinetz, rendering not only the high road impassable, but also that from Laag to Saburn. In the last-named village the water was four feet deep, and all communication was cut off except by boats. The Akbar, of the 17th, states that the three Arabs, condemned to death for the murder of the Agra Mahoun, - being ordered for execution at Tenyat-el-Had, were directed to that locality under the escort of a body ( of gendarmes. When the party had arrived at their-: resting-place for the night, beyond the defile of Wad- Djer, the prisoners knelt down, and remained at prayer longer than previously. Throughout the whole passage, indeed, they had been apparently unremitting in their devotions, and whenever a halt took place. It came out, however, afterwards, that they were busily em ployed in getting rid of the irons on their legs, and con trived to escape. J .6.V7 AND POLICII. In the Court of Exchequer several actions were tried for the recovery of penalties from Charles Cundy and William Dean for smuggling silks, in each of which a verdict was taken by consent for the Crown for a single value. The sum of these single values is 4,5751. Bs. for each defendant. Hence, as the law makes the penalty three times the single value, each defendant is, in fact, liable to the extent of 13,7261. 45., or of 27,4521. Bs. be tween them. All these cases were connected with the Custom-house frauds. John Wilson, alias Rowland Howell, aged 30, de scribed as a tailor, was indicted at Maidstone for feloni ously setting fire to a stack of hay, the property of John Stephens, at Farnborough. He was acquitted. At Gloucester, Mr. Justice Coltman sentenced Paul Weare to eighteen months' imprisonment and hard la bour, for maliciously stabbing a man named Baxter. The Judges are beginning to act on the decision of the House of Lords in the O'Connell case. A man was convicted at Warwick of having in his possession the mould of a shilling, and in passing sentence Mr. Justice Matteson said the indictment consisted of two counts, but since a recent decision in the House of Lords, he could not pass one sentence on them both, and therefore he ordered that on each count the prisoner be transported for ten years, but the term to commence at one and the same time. At the same assizes a dancing-master of Birmingham, named Matthew Bennett, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for an indecent assault on one of his female pupils. John Mewsane, a soldier in the Coldstream Guards, for a robbery under a threat of charging a person with an indecent assault, was sentenced to fifteen years' trans portation at the Central Criminal Court. In the New Court the Common Sergeant sentenced Henry Miller and Charles James, alias Fitch, members of a notorious gang of swindlers, to seven years' transporta tion each. They were convicted on separate indictments, and James, who was twice convicted, had an additional fourteen years added to his sentence. William Popjoy, charged with having stolen 150 yards of Orleans cloth from the Ipremises of Messrs. Garrard and Co., linendrapers, Leicester-square, was fully committed from Marlborough-street. The pri soner, who was a sailor, stated that he had been robbed by a woman of all his money, and that he had committed the theft to get transported. Captain Archer Whaley Owen, master of the ship Fairy Queen, appeared before Mr. Ballantine, at the Thames-office, to answer a charge of assaulting Edwin Davis, an apprentice, on the high seas, in a very brutal manner. It appeared that he had frequently flogged the boy in a most unmerciful manner. He was held to bail to answer the charge at the Central Criminal Court. COUNT-WASZION.A.7IZAI, Lord and Lady Colchester received a select party at Kidbrook, Sussex, last week, to meet the Earl of Ellen borough, her Ladyship's brother. The Noble Earl came expressly to town on Saturday to dine with Sir Robert Peel, and to attend at the chapter of the order of the Bath at Windsor Castle. The alliance which has been spoken of for some time between the Rev. Lord A. Fitzclarence and Miss Gordon, daughter of Lord Henry Gordon, and niece to Lord Aboyne, is understood to be fixed for the 2d of January next. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, accompanied by Lord Henry and Lady Anna Loftus, after a brief visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, left on Wed nesday afternoon, for their residence at Brighton. Viscount Clive, who came from Petworth House on a visit to the Duke and Duchess, has taken his departure. The Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond left Bel grave-square on Tuesday last for Brighton, where it is their intention to reside during the winter. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby have left Clarendon Hotel on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, where a fashionablecircle have assembled on a visit to their Graces. The Marquis of Worcester, son of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, will attain his majority in February next, when the event will be celebrated by great re joicings on his Grace's extensive estates in Gloucester shire and Monmouthshire. The Earl and Countess of Harrington left Whitehall Gardens on Tuesday last, for Brighton, where the Noble Earl and Countess purpose to stay about three weeks. The Earl of Pembroke has arrived in Stratton street, after having made a short tour on the Continent. Madlle. d'Este has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from a tour of visits. Earl Fitzhardinge has arrived at his residence in Spring Gardens from Cheltenham. XXISCIMILANZOVIII. In the Gazette of Thursday, among other notices is one fur an Act for making, erecting, and maintaining a bridge across the Thames, near Chelsea Hospital, and another for a Bill to incorporate the governors and sub scribers of the London Orphan Asylum. The others are chiefly railway notices, of which there are not less than forty-nine. . (5n Wednesday a gang of swindlers, who have been taking a great deal of money by means of forged begging letters, were Pounced upon in the money-order office of the General Post-office, Dublin, by two o f t h e d etect i ve police, and taken into legal custody. They had just re ceived the amount of orders from the country—some of the fruits of their successful operations upon provincial d u p e s. The detectives were waiting for them in the office, and seized upon them the moment they had con verted their money-letters into cash. At Liverpool, on Wednesday evening, the fifth annual charity ball of the Licensed Victuallers' Society took place in the Town-hall, by permission of the Mayor and Town Council, and under very distinguished patronage. speech A e , c o ho o, the N DBt Chairman, hairlllln727lAr.itt Glyn, RAILWA Y: lyn,atthe l s n pec t i h a e l meeting of the Company, that gentleman, in referring to the proposed branch from Worcester to Wolverhamp ton, was made to say that the. Worcester Committ ee proposed to the Grand Junct i on ampany, that that portion of the projected Mesworth, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line should be made jointly. The Com pany referred to by Mr. Glyn was, as the context showed, the Birmingham and Gloucester, and not the Grand Junction Company.—Herald. The Directors of the Bank issued a notice late this afternoon, that they will lend money on the usual secu rities during the shutting of the banks, for the payment of the dividends, at the rate of 2i per cent. per annum. This notice has taken the banking interest all aback, as they seem to have expected an advance rather than a reduction in the rate. The time limited is the 17th January, and we believe that it is the lowest terms upon which the Bank of England ever made loans.--Morning Herald. STATE OF SPAIN. - - - - [we willingly publish the following letter, because it is only fair that a n a d vocate o f Spain hould be heard. But, after all, dies he not confirm our state ment ?—] Ti) THE EDITOR 011 THE SUN. SlR,—Your leading article this evening on Spain and its people is calumnious and unjust—unworthy, besides, of the politics advocated by your paper. You compare Spain, inhabited by fifteen millions of people, to France, with a population of thirty. You bay that France, in the midst of its civil dissensions, re pelled its foreign aggressors, put down a vile aris tocracy, and made itself a name, before the era of Napoleon. You say that Spain has produced nothing but adventurers in civil war, butchers, men who re cognise nothing but the law of force, with whom, with the single exception of Espartero, no generous man can sympathise. You take no account of the circumstances of the two nations ; you show no side but the bright side of the French Revolution ; you write half a century after it ; you forget the murders, drownings, hangings, imprisonments, denunciations, fines, confiscations of property, assignat bank ruptcies, and all the atrocities that characterised that Revolution ; and you blame the Spaniards for not following quite so actively in this exterminating career. You forget that the Spanish Revolution was early checked by the infamous interference of its powerful neighbour, under the Duke d'Angouleme. You forget the previous career of a greater army than that of the Duke d'Angouleme—the Imperial Army of the great Napoleon in Spain ? Did the Spaniards show no vigour, then, in resisting foreign aggresion ? Is the nature of their country, too, such that they are capable of acting together ? Are they not separated from each other, cut up by mountains, thinly assembled togeth er , and incapable for this reason of largely combined movements ? Have the Spaniards had the advantage that France had before her revolution, of a widely -diffused literature, a phi losophic spirit of inquiry, generated by free intercourse with the rest of the nations ? Had she not, on the contrary, the misfortune to be go verned by a Monarch deriving his revenue from ad ventitious sources of supply, and therefore able to fix his despotic rule without the consent of his people ? Had she not a Church absorbing all the property and stifling the intellect of the people, for reasons peculiar to the geographical structure of the country, and others, which it would be too long now to enter into ? It would be too long, indeed, to describe the great disadvantages under which she laboured, as compared with either England or France, from which she started into revolution. Her career, a rough one naturally, has been interrupted by the unlawful med dlings of other nations. If she is so unfortunate as not to have elements in the higher order of society with which to regenerate herself, she must begin from the lower. She must take brave and loyal men like Zurbano, if men of better breeding are corrupt and venial. The upper order of society has produced no thing. The Queen, infamous, and more degraded still, avaracious ; Narvaez, a plunderer, a cut-throat, an in triguer, a man loading himself with honours without deserving them, inventing plots against his friends who become powerful, and loading with favours mean people who flatter him; the Finance Ministers stock jobbers; a Cortes sold to the highest bidder; officers vk ho make great parade in ball-rooms, and are cowards in the field. This is the state of things that you would ,uphold against the revolution. Spain will never be either happy or honoured with such blood-suckers at the helm. Delenda est Carthago. They must be got rid of, and by rough hands. Zurbano, a man of the people, is one of them. I wish him success. To say, as you have said, that he is ready to sell himself to any party, is contrary to all experience of his history to the present time. He has ever been faithful to the Constitution. In addition to his fidelity, he has the rarest of all qualities, heroic bravery. Though it may cost Spain another struggle, any struggle is better than degradation.—Your obedient servant, A SPANISH TRAVELLER. London, Oct. 27. CO ti RT CIRC ULAR. WINDSOR THURSDAY.—The Queen held a C ou r and Privy Council at three o'clock this afternoon. The Council was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief; Sir Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treasury ; Sir James Graham, Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment; Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs ; Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies ' • Earl of Haddington, First L o rd o f the Admiralty ; Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward ; and Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse. At the Council Parliament was ordered to be fur ther prorogued from Thursday, the 12th December, until Tuesday, the 4th of February ; and a proclama tion was ordered to be issued summoning the Parlia ment to meet on that day for the dispatch of business. Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board. The County of Montgomery was divided into three districts for a Coroner. The llon. Wm. Bathurst was the Cleric of the Council in Waiting. At the Court Sir Hamilton Seymour was pre sented to the Queen at an audience, by the Earl of Aberdeen, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to take leave. The Hon. John Duncan Bligh was presented to her Majesty, at an audience, by the Earl of Aberdeen. The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting ; Lord Rivers, Lord in Wait ing; Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting; Col. Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert. After the Council the Earl of Haddington, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and the lion. W. Bathurst, left the Castle for the Slough station, and proceeded to town by a special train on the Great Western Railway. The Duke of Wellington also took his departure from the Castle. The Queen, Coburg and Go ac th c a o , m to p o a k ni h ed er b e y ar t l h y e m D o u rn c i h n e g ss o a f lk S Prince Albert, th e Duke Saxe Coburg and of walk Prince Gotha, and the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, Colonel Wylde, Mr. Ormsby Gore, C a pt a i n F ranc i s S eymou r, and Cap tain Vyner, left th e C as tl e b e f ore e l even o'clock this morning, to hunt with his Royal Highness's harriers. The meet was at Aldridge's Farm, near Salt-hill. The illustrious party retured to the Castle shortly before two o'clock. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken for their accustomed equestrian and walking exercise. The Earl of Delawarr left the Castle to-day. The Hon. C. A. Murray arrived at the Castle from Brighton. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band attended in the evening. Mr. David Thomas White had the honour of sub mitting to the Queen and Prince Albert an engraved portrait of the King of the Belgians, from an ori ginal miniature painted by Sir W. C. Ross, R.A., for her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, when the Queen and the Prince were pleased to express their entire approbation of the same. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present were the Master o the Rolls, Lord Campbell, Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Mr. James Parker, Q.C., and Mr. Burge, Q.C., were heard on a petition from St. Lucia, Branee v. Hunter." An appeal from I3ornbay was heard, " Juveer- Bhaee and other appellants v. Vuring-Bhaee and others," respondents. For appellants Mr. Loftus Wigram, Q.C., Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Forsyth; for respondents, Mr. Burge, Q.C., Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Moore. The case was adjourned. DEATH OF MRS. BLOMFIELD, MOTHER OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.--The death of the above amiable lady took place last evening (Tuesday), at her residence in Bury, under circumstances of a peculiarly saddening character. Mrs. Blomfield bad been in her accustomed health during the day—indeed, had been walking in the town. In the afternoon she complained of unusual symp toms ' • these increasing, ended fatally at about eight, P.M. It is known that the Right Rev. Bishop of London (who is the son of the deceased lady) was expected in his Retire town, to officiate at the re-opening of St. Mary's church. Strange and,melancholy to say, his ar rival took place at the moment of dissolution. Mrs. Blomfield was, we believe, in her eightieth year. The character of the deceased—her connexion with the dis- tinguished Prelate, and the approaching ceremonyat which he was about to assist, occasioned a deep concern and sympathy in the town. We understand that the sudden and painful occurrence will not prevent the cere mony of re-opening the church taking place. The Bishops of Lincoln and Norwich are severally named as likely to officiate in the stead of the Bishop of London.—From the Second Edition of the Bury Herald. CARROTS A SUBSTITUTE FOR EGGS IN PUDDINGS. —lt is not generally known, and will not, perhaps, be credited, when it is observed that boiled carrots, when properly prepared, form an admirable succedsteeum for eggs in the making of puddings. They must, for this purpose, bo well boiled and meshed, and afterwards passed through a coarse cloth, or horsehair sieve. The pulp, when thus cleared of any chance.flbrous or granular matter, may be introduced among thi other ingredients constituting the pudding, with the tocil omission of eggs, in a quantity proportionate to the sizga the former. A pudding composed partly of the abox*Axist i erial will be found to be considerably lighter thsll74 . idaame had been made with eggs, and will impartit . far More grateful and agreeable flavour. Upon the principle of economy, the above fact is well worthy the prudent housewife's attention, and there are some housekeepers, approved culinary practitioners too, who, in making their Christ mas plum-puddings, adopt the receipt under notice in preference to using eggs for this purpose. Any person who will but take the pains to try the above experiment upon a small scale, will be fully satisfied with the justice of the remarks here oubmitt4 LITERATURE. DRAWING-ROOM - SCRAP-BOOK. Fisher, London, 1844. There are not less than thirty-six plates in this Annual, many of which are executed in a style and with a finish far superior to the ordinary run of such engravings. Among them is a half-length portrait, engraved by 11011 from an original painting by Carrick, of the great Irish agitator, Daniel O'Connell. lie is represented sitting in an easy chair, in an atti tude of deep contemplation, with one hand lightly pressed against his breast, and the other hanging carelessly over the arm of the chair. Doubtless Ire land is the subject of his musing, but from the staid and somewhat pensive expression of his countenance, we infer that he entertains no very sanguine hope of carrying a repeal of the union. "My Youth's Best Friend," which is placed in the title-page, is a very carefully finished engraving. A young girl, whose back is turned towards the spectator, is in the act of embracing her mother—an elderly lady, with a very sweet and placid expression of countenance. The attitude of the daughter is full of grace and ease, and though we cannot see her face, we entertain a firm conviction that she is exceedingly good-looking. The flower-vases on the table, the handsome gold mirror on the wall, the bird-cage hung up to the ceiling, and the half-opened window through which we get a glimpse of some of the luxuriant trees in the gardens ; —these minor details give variety to the picture, and consequently add to its effect. The " Prince of Wales and the PrinceFs Royal" are portraits of her Majesty's two eldest children, which, it seems, have been painted by Ross, in pursuance of the royal com mand. The faces of the children beam with health and good-humour. "Give an Oholus to Belisarius" is engraved from an original painting by David. The picture is by no means deficient in expression, but there is far too much exaggeration about it. The countenance of the blind, supplicating Belisarius, in particular, is full of grimace, when it should have worn an air of touching, melancholy resignation. But this is the painter's fault, the engraver has ac quitted himself with skill and judgment. The literary department of the Drawing-Boom Scrap Book, which consists of a variety of prose and verse sketches illus trative of the different embellishments, is under the superintendence of the authoress of the " Women in England," which is a sufficient guarantee that the articles are above mediocrity, if they be not emi nently distinguished by genius. THE AMERICAN PAPERS. At this juncture, when the people of the United States have just given their decision upon the re spective merits of the contending political parties in that republic by electing Mr. Polk, a summary view of the results of previous similar elections may be in teresting. First, however, we will show the mode of proceeding laid down for the Presidential electors. They meet at the capital (Washington), and elect from their own body a president and secretary, to the former of whom the Secretary of State delivers three lists of the names of the electors, signed by the Go vernor, and sealed with the seal of each State. The electors then vote by ballot for President and Vice- President, who must belong to different States. Dis tinct lists of the voters for President and Vice-Presi dent must be made, with the number for each, which must afterwards be signed, certified, and delivered to a messenger appointed to deliver the same to the Pre • sident of the Senate, at the seat of Government. The compensation of the electors is the same as allowed to the Members of the Legislature for travelling the same distance, and attending the same length of time. In case of no choice being effected by the electors (the number necessary to elect is 275), as instanced in the election of 1824, the House of Representatives (we believe) gives the decision. The following view of the results of former Presidential elections shows the votes given for each candidate from 1796 to the elec tion of 1840. Washington was unanimously chosen the first President, and was inducted into office on the 30th of April, 1789, and he continued in for eight years. For the third Presidential term the votes were as follows : 1796. For President. For Vice-President. John Adams received 71 I T. Pinckney received . 58 Thomas Je ff erson ... 68 Aaron Burr ... ... 50 MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The following notice was issued this after ; noon by the Bank of England : " Bank of England, Nov. 28, 1844, " The Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng land are ready until further notice to receive applications for loans upon the deposit of approved bills of exchange not having more than six months to run, Exchequer Bills, and East India Bonds, such loans to be repaid on or before the 17th of January next, with interest at the rate of 2i per cent. per annum, and to be for sums of not less than 2,000/. each." The above does not differ from former notices, except that the interest is 2i, instead of 3 per cent. ; ut it is ' tolerably evident that the expectation of such a reduc tion has prevailed in the Money-market for several days past, and that to this is to be ascribed the recent rise and great firmness of the Consol-market. The Directors in this case are pursuing that course which they have already intimated it was their intention to do, of forcing business on such terms as the state of the Money market would permit, considering themselves quite as much in the character of private as in that of chartered bankers, It will effectually prevent that rise in the value of money which befure was generally anticipated as likely to take place. We have received a letter from a Correspondent con taining some queries respecting the Bank returns, and the position of that Company. The first is—" The Bank ,having reduced their Government securities to 13,539,775/, as stated in the last return, which is nearly half a million less than the securities required as the basis of their issue, how is it that the 14,000,000/ still appears to their credit in the issue department ?" In answer to this, it is sufficient to point out that the 14,000,000/. in the issue department is formed of 11,015,0001. original debt due from the Government to the Bank, and which is so expressed in the return, and, added to this, 2,984,9001. of securities to make up the amount of 14,000,0001 This latter small sum probably consists of Exchequer Bills or funded stock. These• form the basis of the issue of notes according to the last Act, and they have nothing whatever to do with the amount of 13,539,7751, which is the amount which the banking department, and not the issue department, holds of Government securities, and which varies according to the amount which the Bank has for investment. Thus, when the public deposits on the 12th of October were upwards of 8,000,0001, the Bank had upwards of 16,000,000/. invested in Government securities ; and now that after the payment of the dividends the public deposits have been reduced to below 4,000,0001., the Go vernment and other securities held by the Bank have been diminished in a corresponding proportion, and this has taken place, as was recently obs e rv e d, without mate rially altering the amount of notes in circulation ; the difference in which at the two periods above alluded to is below 300,0001 The fact, therefore, being, as is apparent both from ,he wording of the Act and the nature of the returns, that the 14,000,000/. in the circulation department is totally distinct and separate from the item headed " Go vernment securities," in the banking department, the next query of our Correspondent, regarding the neces sity of altering the amount of the first of these sums in the return, in proportion as the second varies, does not require further answer. The last of his inquiries, as to " whether the dead weight annuity is not held by the Bank of England as security for a portion of the debt of 11,015,0004 due to them by the public ?" appears to require no other reply than a reference to the Act, and the periodical returns. The 11,015,0004 is put down in the circulation depart ment distinctly by itself as the " Government debt ;" while in the banking department the Government secu rities held by the Bank are explicitly stated to include the " dead weight" annuity ; and it is well known to all who are also in the least degree acquainted with the subject, that the two transactions are perfectly distinct in their nature, and owed their origin to two dissimilar transactions at very different periods, the one taking its rise from money advanced to Government at the estab .. lishment of the Bank, and becoming increased by subse quent additional loans ; and the " dead weight" annuity being a sum paid for a limited period of years to the Bank in compensation for money advanced to Govern ment after the close of the last war. POST.—The Bank, it will be recollected, have, since the appearance of their September notice, been giving money on bills at the rate of two-and-a-half, and on notes at the rate of three per cent. ; so that there is in tho present announcement less to remark upon than would at first view be supposed. The exchanges con tinue favourable to this country, and, lately, the institu tion has been recovering a portion of its treasure. There was consequently no motive for making money dearer by an advance in the charge for interest. With respect to an increase in the stock of bullion, however, it may be observed that no i mportance i s to be attached to the matter. The accession of 100,0001. more or less was owing, no doubt, to the purchase last week of an impor tation of half a million of dollars from Mexico or else where, and this shows the uselessness of making compa risons of returns issued at intervals of a single week. The Bank returns require to be looked at quarterly, or perhaps rather oftener. An examination of the items upon this system will enable bankers and others to see what is the governing policy of the Board of Directors, and what the course of the foreign exchanges. On the whole, the reduction of the Bank rate to-day has been regarded as a measure by no means unfavourable to speculative enterprise. SUN.—The arrangement of the Account has produced a further rise this afternoon in the value of Consols, which close at 100.1 for Money, and at 101 to f for the 17th January ; New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were 1021 ; and the Three per Cents 99/ to 100. The Foreign Bonds drooped a little. Spanish Five per Cents. were 23/ to 24 ; and the Three per Cents., 35+ to i ; Portuguese Converted, 53f ; Mexican Ac tives, 35f to 361 ; Belgian, 101 f ; and Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents., 62/ to 63*. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Cambridge and Lincoln were f to .1 ; Great Western, 66{ ; Birmingham, 119 ; London and York, 1/ ; Midland, 7f ; Newcastle and Darlington, 37 to 36; Richmond and West-End Junction, 4-; South • Eastern, 4-1; Ditto, New, 7k 7 ; York and North Mid land, 50f to 50 ; Ditto, New, 25f ; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 46f ; Ditto, Extension, 13 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 2+ ; Orleans and Vierzon, 9f ; Ditto and Bordeaux, 41 to 5; Paris and Lyons, 1; Paris and Orleans, 21i ; and Ditto and Rouen, 19* to * premium. Birmingham and Glou cester have been 5; Direct Northern, ; Eastern Coun ties, ! ; Blackwall, 9i ; Greenwich, 3k ; Midland and Birmingham and Derby, 21 ; and West London, 17 discount. DR. KEENAN'S SYSTEM OF PHYSIOLOGY. Last night Dr. Keenan concluded his short course of lectures at the Western Literary and Scientific Institu tion on his new system of Organic Chemistry, which at tributes the nervous energy to the generation of electri city in the lungs. In applying his theory to practice he attempted to show the peculiar actions of various kinds of food and air on the animal strength and spirits, and he illustrated his opinions by reference to the constitu tion and temperaments of the inhabitants of different climates. The vivacity of the French he attributed to the dryness of the air of France, and he contrasted the energy of the Affghans with the lassitude of the Ben galese, in exemplification of the different effects of dry and moist air. The humidity of the air in England was, he affirmed, the cause of our sombre dispositions, but though the climate of Ireland is at least equally hu mid, he dilated on the great cheerfulness of the people, notwithstanding their potatoe diet, in confirmation of his theory—the effect in their case being attributed to their more frequent exposure to the air. In this instance, as in many others during the course of Dr. Keenan's lec tures, his facts either did not bear out his theory, or they had little relation to it. lie dwelt much, and with great truth, on the bad effects of cultivating the mind so exclusively in children, without sufficiently attending to their physical condition ; but admitting, as probably most of his audience would, that the want of air and exercise is prejudicial even to mental development, it does not follow, as a necessary consequence, that the air inhaled generates electricity, and that the size of the chest indicates health merely because it shows there is a large galvanic battery in action within. Dr. Keenan regretted that the limited time of these lectures would not allow him to enter into details, and that much of his theory might therefore be considered as assumption without proof ; but if the great principle were admitted that the nervous influence is caused by electricity generated in the lungs, all the lesser effects might be deduced there from. He was loudly applauded at the conclusion of the lecture. LIVING IN CARMARTIIEN.—It is satisfactory to us to know that the wages, added to the privileges of the working classes in this vicinity, are superior to those of the same class in many parts of England, while they have house-rent and provisions much cheaper. It may be interesting to our distant readers to learn the prices of the luxuries of living in Carmarthen ; our London friends in particular will be astonished at finding that in the market last Saturday might be bought—fine geese at 2s. each; a fine young turkey, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d. ; a pair of ducks, 2s. 2d. to 2s. 6d. ; and fowls from ls. to Is. 6d. a couple. Our poultry is certainly not so large as that from Norfolk, but for succulency and delicacy of flavour it is not to be surpassed. Beef, mutton, and pork are to be bought at 4d. and W. ; picked joints of the finest meat, sd. We have a most plentiful year of potatoes ; they may be bought, fine and gocd, at Is. the bushel, 60 to 65 pounds to the bushel. Fresh butter, 26 ounces to the lb., at Is. 6d. Eggs are now 24 a shil ling, in the summer they are 36. Good heavy oats, 40 pounds to the bushel, are at Is. lid. to 2s. Cheap, how ( via, as all this appears to be, we are quite outdone in Jersey, which, being a free port, is enabled to import duty free from Britany, one of the cheapest provinces of France, provisions, wines, &c., at very low rates. There (in Jersey), a turkey is 2s. to 35.; ducks, ls. 6d. a pair ; gunpowder tea, ss. per lb. ; d ou b e refined sugars, 4id. to 6id. per lb. ; and Brazil sugar , 3d. V ery good port and sherry at 245. the dozen, claret at IBs. to 24s the dozen, brandy, 4s, the gallon ; very fine and old do., is. ; Hollands, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 4d. the gallon. The prices are still further reduced by the English shilling passing for thirteenpence. Add to all this, there are no taxes, and there is not a toll-bar in the island.—Carmarthen Journal. GAS EXPLOSlON.—Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a man, named Edward M'D ona ld, 50 years of age, in the employment of the Equitable Westminster Gas Company, ilorseferry-road, entered an excavtion in the Vauxhall-road with a lighted candle in his hand, for the purpose of examining the various joints of the main gas-pipe, when presently a quantity of gas, which was escaping from a small aperture in the pipe,ignited, and exploded with a loud report, and before Al‘Donald could effect his escape his clothes caught fire, and his face and hands were frightfu7 scorched . and burnt. Ile remai ns in a state of great su enug. 1800. Thomas Jefferson ... 73 I Aaron Burr ... ... 73 John Adams ... ... 64_1_ T. Pinckney ... ... 58 1804. Thomas Jefferson ... 162 I George Clinton... ... 163 Charles C. Pinckney . 14 Rufus King ... ... 14 1808. James Madison ... 122 1 George Clinton... ... 118 Charles C. Pinckney . 45 Rufus King ... ... 47 1812. James Madison Da Witt Clinton 128 I Elbridge Gerry... ... 128 89 I Jared Ingersoll... ... 58 1816. James Monroe ... ... 183 ID. D. Tompkins ... 113 Rufus King ... ... 34 Opposition scattering. 1820: James Monroe ... ... 218 D. I). Tompkins 212 No opposition but one vote. I Opposition divided. 1824. Andrew Jackson ... 99 IJ. C. Calhoun ... ... 182 John Q. Adams ... 84 Five others ... 78 W. H. Crawford ... 41 Henry Clay ... ... 37 No choice having been efleeted by the electors, John Q. Adams was chosen President by the House of Re presentatives. J. C. Calhoun ... ... 171 Richard Rush ... •.. 83 W. Smith... ... ... 7 Martin Van Buren ... 189 John Sergeant ... 49 William Wilkins Lee ••• 30 lA. Elmaker „. 36. Francis Johnson ncisGranger Scattering ... 147 ••• 63 ••• ••• 84 John Tyler ... ... 234 R. M. Johnson ... 48 L. W. Tazewell ... 11 James K. Polk ... 1 ❑siderable. What the Vice cannot say.— Times. SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—The intended dinner to Sir Henry Pottinger at Liverpool will take place on the evening of Tuesday, December 17, in the great ball room at the Town hall. The Mayor will preside. The ceremony of presenting the piece of plate, which is now being subscribed for, will take place in the forenoon of the day.—Manchester Guardian. _ lIY;ROPHODIA.—During the last five or six days the greatest alarm and excitement have existed through out the neighbourhood of Turnham-green and Chis wick, in consequence of a mad dog having bitten several persons and animals. It appears that on Wednesday week, the 20th inst., a small Scotch terrier dog, the pro perty of Mr. G. Battersbee, the landlord of the Prince of Wales public-house,Turnham- green, which was 18 months old, and had been in his possession from a puppy, was observed to be in a very strange and excited state. No thing was, however, thought of it, and the dog was allowed to range about during the day, and it has since been ascertained that he has bitten several dogs at Chiswick, Hammersmith, and Brentford ; and also a donkey, be longing to a water-carrier, named Clark, at Chiswick. About twelve o'clock on that day (Wednesday) the dog followed home from his master s house a young man named Fowler, in the employ of Mr. Dean, a market gardener at Strand .on-the-Green, who resides nearly opposite the Prince of Wales, and there flew at him, and bit him severely on the thumb of the right hand. Fowler shortly afterwards complained to Mr. Battersbee of the dog having bit him, and laid his thumb open, but nothing serious was thought of it at the time. About an hour after, however, a little boy, between four and five years of age, the son of Mr. King, a tailor, living two doors from the Prince of Wales, was bitten in both legs by the dog ; and subsequently, on the same afternoon, Mr. G. Batters bee himself, while sitting in the bar, was bitten by the animal in the middle finger of the right hand ; a woman named Brown, a dealer in fish, living at Chis wick, while passing the house, was bitten in the leg ; Mr. C. Battersbee (brother of tha landlord), in the right thumb ; a man named Stowell, in the employ of Mr. J. Cloud, liveryman, and Mr. Battersbee, senior, in the thick part of the thigh. Still no suspicion was entertained that the dog was in a rabid state until the evening of the same day, when the dog was seen to bite the door-posts ; and it becom ing know that several persons as well as animals had been bitten by him, Mr. Battersbee directed that the dog should be tied up in the stable, which was done. From that time until Sunday last the dog refused either food or drink, but foamed at the mouth, and gnawed the straw on which he was placed, and even the bricks underneath; and on Sunday he was destroyed. All the persons known to have been bitten have been placed under me dical treatment, and have had the parts cauterised with out any unfavourable symptoms having appeared. Nu merous dogs in the neighbourhood, supposed to have been bitten, were yesterday destroyed. Mr. Battersbee has also destroyed his cats, it being impossible to say to what extent the virus has been communicated. The young man Fowler, owing to inflammation extending up his arm, has since become a patient at St. George's Hospital. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.— Since Thursday last, not less than seventy-seven persons have been admitted into the workhouse of the Banbury union ; and we be lieve we are not mistaken when we state that an equal number are ready to present themselves for a like pur pose. Of the seventy-seven, forty-one are from the parish of Bloxham, and they entered together on Friday last, passing through our town in melancholy procession. —Banbury Guardian. IMPORTATION OF DUTCII OXEN, POULTRY, AND POTATOES.—Yesterday afternoon the steam-packet Ba tavier, Captain David Dunlop, arrived alongside the St. Katherine's steam-packet wharf, from Rotterdam, with passengers, and a miscellaneous cargo. She brought no fewer than sixty head of live fat oxen and cows, several thousand live geese, ducks, and turkeys, and a large quantity of potatoes, of excellent quality. 1828. ... 178 ... 83 Andrew Jackson John Q. Adams Andrew Jackson ... 219 Henry Clay ... ... 49 John Floyd ... 1 i William Wirt ... ... 7 Martin Van Buren ... 170 W. 11. Harrison ... 73 Hugh L. White ... 26 Willie P. Mangum ... 11 Daniel Webster... ... 11 11 W. 11. Harrison ... 234 Martin Van Buren ... 60 Polk's majority will be col' Presidential vote will be we POLICE JUSTICE—THE ISUXURYNT OF WEAL T H,/^77),_ 7-7--._ (From Punch.; 1 or:; ~,.' .. k _ ... "4.5 k Yesterday, the Hon. Au- John •"0 iyai - charged 'AO 1 gustus Toppingham, a per- before bis: ;' . 111 -oB#Cord,bl=- 1:' ... I`. - son of gentlemanly exte- with ha • g jo,natalttealeg: '- 1 rior, was brought before assault u oti Ills: lessaulY ~.: I i Mr. Honeycombe, charged Bloom, a ers9it - 4; lome K /- with a very gross and vio- what gentopf apriearan lent assault on Grace Mit- It appeafektthakb*pti4:.' tens, a most respectable soner and his wife were paa)- and meek-looking young ceeding home on Thursday woman, whose face, how- night. They had a few , ever, retained marks of a words; in fact, the prisoner severe blow, she having lost was a little the worse f( or four of her front teeth by liquor, and his wife was the violence of the accused. walking a few paces in ad- Police-constable Lynx vance of him. The complain deposed that he was, on ant meeting the woman, ad- Monday night, on his beat dressed her in a very rude in Coventry-street, when and unseemly way, at the he heard the screams of a same timethrowinghisarms woman. He ran, and dis- round her. Whereupon the covered the complainant prisoner, rushing forward, lying on the pavement, and struck the complainant, and the accused at the bar knocked him into the road. shouting and hallooing, and Charlotte Briggs deposed swearing he was a gentle- to the above facts. She had man, and no mistake. been very grossly assaulted Whereupon, after much by the complainant, before difficulty, the constable he was struck by her hus took the prisoner into cus- band. . tody. Mr. Honeycombe said he Grace Mittens (the com- had no doubt that an as plainant) deposed that she saulthad beencommitted; a was employed in a dress- very gross assault ; never maker's establishment. She theless, people must not had been kept late at work take the law in their own on Monday night, and was hands : there would be an returning home, when the end to all things if people person at the bar accosted took the law in their own her, placing his arm round hands. He wished to iszow her waist. She told hire what the prisoner had to to go about his business, say for himself ? when, with his clenched The prisoner said that, fist, he struck her so vio- seeing his wife assaulted, lently on the mouth, that he could not help doing he dislodged four of her what he had done; he was front teeth. not sure that he should not Mr. Honeycombe asked the prisoner what he had to say for himself ? The prisoner said he had been out dining. Mr. Honeycombe ob served that that could be no excuse for such unmanly atrocity. It was a most shameful and cowardly as sault upon a defenceless, virtuous girl, and he cer tainly could tine the pri soner in the'sum of 51., or two months' imprisonment. do the like again, under the like circumstances. ➢Zr. Honeycomb° ob served, that he had no doubt that the complainant had very grossly misconducted himself ; nevertheless, the prisoner had committed au assault, and the sentence was that he must pay a fine of 21., or undergo six weeks' imprisonment. The prisoner had not a farthing, and was RE MOVED IN THE PRISON VAN. THE FINE WAS IMME•• DIATELY PAID, and the gentleman drove from the office in his cab. DREADFUL CASE OF STABBING A LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN ON THE HIGH SEAS. On Wednesday considerable sensation was created here (Liverpool) by a rumour that Captain Launcelot Reed, the commander of the Sir Charles Napier, of St. Stephen's, had been maliciously and dangerously stabbed by one of his crew on the high seas. We regret to state that the rumour turned out to be correct. It appears that the Sir Charles Napier, a fine ship of 714 tons, new measurement, left St. Stephen's for Liverpool on the 25th of last month, with a cargo of deals consigned to the firm of David Cannon, Son, and Co., of South Castle street, in this town. Upon the morning of the 16th instant she was overtaken by a squall in lon. 26 W. The captain immediately ordered the men to take in sail, but perceiving that one of the crew, Samuel Brown, was much more tardy in his movements than the urgency of the case demanded, he gave the fellow a push, with a view of making him execute his work with greater ra pidity. Brown instantly made a plunge at the captain with something he held in his hand, which could not be distinguished in the grey of the morning, but which af terwards turned out to be a sheath-knife, one of those dangerous instruments in such common use among sea faring men. The captain save him a blow in return, which threw him back against the long-boat, and then seized hold of him for the purpose of taking him aft and putting him in confinement. Whilst he was in the act of removing him, Brown several times endeavoured to stab him with the knife, but, fortunately, none of the stabs took effect. When, however, the captain had suc ceeded in getting him as far as the mainmast, the fellow gave him a dreadful stab in the abdomen. The captain seems at this moment, and not before, to have been con scious of the deadly instrument with which he was as sailed, and of the imminent danger he was running by putting himself within arm's length of s u c h a scoun d re l, for he called out to the mate that he was murdered. The mate and several of the hands ran to his assistance; and, about this period, Mr. Porter, jun., the supercargo, and son of the owner of the vessel, Mr. William Porter, of St. Stephen's, ran on deck and saw them removing the captain into the cabin. Mr. Porter had the captain's clothes immediately taken off, and then discovered that a great portion of his bowels were protruding through the wound in the abdomen. The wound was then in cised, the bowels were put back, and the wound was sewed up and dressed. It was then found that the cap tain had received two other stabs a little below the left shoulder-blade, and that there were no fewer than eleven cuts made with the knife in the pea jacket he was wearing at the time the murderous assault was com mitted. Those cut; had evidently been given whilst he was conveying Brown aft, and when so many ineffectual attempts were made by the fellow to plunge the knife in some part of his body. Since then, the captain lay in such a state as to be incapable of being removed from the cabin floor, and has been suffering the most excru ciating torture. Brown was placed in irons on the t instant, and kept closely confined in the store-room. The ship arrived in the Mersey about half-past eleven o'clock yesterday, and upon casting anchor in the river off the Clarence Dock, the captain was conveyed ashore in a steam-boat, and has been placed under medical care. Brown was taken into custody . by constable Greaves, and lodged in Bridewell. He will, in all pro bability, be brought before Mr. Rushton to-day, and ordered to be remanded until such time as the captain may be able to appear against him, if that period shall ever arrive, which, under the dangerous c ircum stances of his case, is extremely doubtful. The captain is a married man, only twenty-nine years of age, and be longs to Liverpool. His sister formerly kept . a public house here, known by the name of the Lighthouse. Brown is twenty-four years of age, and shipped from St. John's, New Brunswick. It was reported he was an American, but we understand that this is not the case, and that he is a British subject.—Gore's Advertiser of yesterday. :lAYLE RAILWAY COMPANY.—Yesterday the ad ourned half-yearly meeting of this Company was held at the Office of the Company in New Broad-street, at which A. L. Gower, Esq., presided. The secretary read the report of the Directors, from which it appeared that the business of the railway was proceeding in a very satisfactory manner. The income was not only sufficient to pay the interest of borrowed capital, but left a small surplus. Great benefit was expected to arise to this Company from the establishment of the West Cornwall Railway. The Directors, under this impression, had matured an agreement between this Company and the West Cornwall Railway Committee, subject to the ap proval of the meeting. The solicitor to the llayle Rail way Company read the draft agreement, from which it appeared that this Company was to guaranree a sum of four per cent. per annum to the other Company, by way of a lease of the \Vest Cornwall Railway, the cost of which was estimated at 180,0001. Mr. L. Vigers entered at some length into the great advantages which would accrue to the Rule Railway Proprietors by this agree ment, by which they would have a large surplus to be divided, after the payment of the four per cent. to the other Company—the estimated revenue being about 60,000/. After some discussion, the report of the Di rectors and the draft agreement was received and adopted. Three Directors were then elected, when a vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned. TRIBUTE TO Mortocco.—The tribute, or protection douceur, or whatever other name diplomacy may give to this unreasonable exaction of Morocco from nations with which she has little or no intercourse, has hitherto been regularly paid by Sweden, amounting to 29,000 dollars annually ; but since the accession to the throne of King Oscar, the Government have come to the de cided resolution that, excepting the amount due for last year, which they agree to pay, not one dollar more shall go out of the public purse for this purpose. The amount annually paid by Denmark has been 25,000 dollars, of which two years are at present due, and, on the same conditions as Sweden, the Government of Denmark have come to the determination that the present payment must be considered in full of all claims on this score for the future as well as for the past. From the dilatory cha racter of Barbary diplomacy, it must be impossible to predict when a final adjustment may take place, but it is anticipated that the intervention of England and France will ultimately bring about the desired arrange ment. Be that as it may, whether success or failure attends the endeavours of the mediating party, one thing is certain, that Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, are firmly resolved to pay no more tribute, even si:3 l ld th e consequences force them to establish cruisers of f the coast of Morocco for the protection of their commerce. THE STATE APARTMENTS AT WINDSOR CASTLN.--- It was expected that these apartments, which have been wholly closed to the public since Saturday last, would have been opened again to-morrow, an order to that eif,2ct having been issued on Wednesday evening. Yes terday morning, however, this order was countermanded; and they have now been commanded to he closed until after the 12th of next month, when the whole suite will be required for the magnificent entertainments to be eGhowthesatiatsuraeKonf Knight e t given by her Majesty to numerous illustrious and dis tinguished reigning D u guests, est of s Saxe n honourC r b rao u ma r g d o e, f n a . n , at fourth hdnd Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Yesterday informa tion f r a o s m M i r ) . e J t Downer,::eohobriryitohtalfiodFu,a Fair, h ofe was Rudford,stop stopped Sussex, about was a was received at Bow-street that on the night of the who gwa vhfeiol him m i t b h l arye violent ou menllel n d t hmr2e:imtltuehrffnirrncionsni hisl) e t gig o r titl into held him down in blow on the herd with a hlud i geon, which rendered him insensible. They then robbed him of a silver hunting watch, several memorandums and bills, one for 37/., in a f!.. yellow money bag, three or four sovereigns, and some 1.;,a silver. Two men are in custody on suspicion of being ,;; . ,a. concerned in the outrage, and are remanded until the 2 9th infix. )L.) lA. CMG. to 't i ,, de" el Orr l' . er the set'. 111 -0 t iiefa ?.5 in ;ock , a be stool 0 1 ' 1 01' , s too awl' tb Old 40 11 S jots THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEN 1 NG, NOVEMBER 29 1841,