The Sun. — London, England, 1836-11-15 00:00:00

• 's ------------ PRICES OF S'fOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock. 199% 9 % India Stoek 251% 3Yz 3 per Cent. Red 66% '7 0% Ditto Bonds 2 die. 99 par 3 per Cent. Cons 87 % 8 7%34 , South Sea Stock 3% per Cent ............. ........... 97 j Old Annuities - Ditto Red 95%1,.i% % !New Ditto 3 dis. --- New 3% per Cent 96% '7 6% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... --- New 3 per Cent ---Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 5 Bank LongAnnuitiesto expire Ditto 500......•••"' 1 3 dis. Jan. 5, 1660 14% 9-16 i Ditto Smal l Oct. 10, 1850 — I Ditto Commercial ............... pm. Jan. 5. 1800 14% 13-16 Ditto Advertised .......... .. —pm Jan. 5, 1880..................... --- Bank Stock for Account...—. _ 200 Apia 5, 1880 —..-- India Stock for Account ..... ... 252% Jan. 5, 1870 -- Consols for Acconnt ...... 87% 8 7% Omnium —. pm- PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds —l Belgian Bonds ............ •—••••• 99% THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds ...... Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds — Ditto Account _ Ditto New Bonds 56 5N 6 Ditto Account S 6 IA Ditto, 3 Bonds per cent. 36 Prussian Russian Bonds, 18'22 ...„ Ditto Account — Ditto sletallic — Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1834 ...... .. 19 1 ,4 % i i i I,£ Ditto Account 19 104% French, 5 per cent.......... -- f t.. —c. c 1 --- 4 per cent. __ _ Ditto Account . .......... Brazilian Bonds ..... ..... Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chillian Bonds ➢)itto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, M 24 21 3 4 2 Ditto Account ..... Dmish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1525 ....... Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent . Ditto Account . Neapolitan ...._.-- 3 per cent. 7Bf. 25c. --- Exchange 2sf. 40c. Dutch, 2t4 per cent. Ditto Account `a l ia 3 Ditto, 5 per cent. 99M0 ( 2 Ditto Account ... s,9l/ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Great Western Railway Company „„ London and Blackwall Railway , London and Greenwich Railway Cor. London, Saliisbury, and Exeter Rail , London and Westminster Bank Provincial Bank of Ireland 30 3 rnpany 2O Tway 1 1U l 22 Q% 2211',, th I /4 131 N MAILS, Arrivcd. Due I) America 0 0 ltrazil it 0 Ayres 0 o carthagena 0 1 flablin—. 0 flarylers I ------. ArrlvNi. Dne. Arrived. Due 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 1 1 Guam. &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 Hamburg 1 0 fklexico 0 1 Holland 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning Ominutes after 8. Evening......3l minutes after B. PORTUGUESE FIVE PER CENTS, 1836. Specially Secured on the Debt due by Brazil to Portugal. THE Half-yearly DIVIDEND on this LOAN, due on the Ist of December next, will be paid on that and the succeeding days between the Hours of Eleven and Three, at the Counting-house of Mr. J. L. Goldsmid. No. 18, Threadneedle-street, Nov. 15, 1836. PORTUGUESE FIVE PER CENT. LOANS, 1831, 1832 AND 1833. THE Half-yearly DIVIDEND on these LOANS, due on the Ist December next, will be paid on that and the succeeding days, at the Counting-house of Messrs. J. and S. Ricardo and Co., between the Hours of Eleven and Three. PORTUGUESE SIX PER CENT. LOAN. _ The Half-yearly DIVIDEND on the remaining Unredeemed Bonds of this LOAN, due on the Ist December next will be paid on that and the succeeding days, at the Counting-house of Messrs. J. and S. Ricardo and Co., between the Hours of Eleven and Three. The Warrants to be left for examination three days previously. with Lists in numerical order, printed forms of which may be ob. tained at their Office. Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, Nov. 15, 1836. HAMBURG, SEPT. 28, 1836. f)i UR Friends, and all those who may have to write NJF to us, are requested to be particular in directing - , HEINE BROTHERS, in HAMBURGH, and to observe, that a letter with one inclosure doubles the Postage only, but several inclosures would by far increase the same. Thus IW., 201., or 301., for instance, if remitted in One Bank of Eng land Note would only cause double Postage, but 10/. remitted in two notes, would be liable to a much higher charge. It is there fore most advisable, for any Person having to remit Money to Iftm burgh, to forward the amount in One Note; or having to receive Money from Hamburgh, to receive the same in One Note, when ever possible. Of course remittances from Hamhurgh to England, surpassing the usual amount of One Bank of England Note, may rather he made in Bills of Exchange, on London. To save expenses that may as well be avoided, we request our Correspondents not to overlook these particulars. HEINE BROTHERS. The publication qf THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at I 0 minutes past Three o' Clock. e r t -77,,,, , )„,„-2, f r. .'"Or ' 2 :4- I :4' ',N rir~u ~ y ~ ~~ a' ~'-~ ~'~l~~ L t- rr, a, k,t)A. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 183t3. The French Journals of Sunday contain no intel genre of any political importance from the Peninsula. In Paris all is repose, as the factions are silently pre paring for the great struggle in the Chamber of De puties. Ministers are a good deal frightened, but it cannot be denied that they do all in their power to throw their opponents off their guard by affecting a growing admiration for conciliatory measures ; by treat ing political offenders with unusual lenity ; by tacitly admitting the existence of some popular grievances ; and by feigning a great respect for the judgment of their pre decessors in office—while doing everything they can to expose the baneful effects of their policy. But Count MOLE will find M. TRIERS quite a match for him in this sort of warfare. The Ex-President of the Council is not oppressed by the weight of his conscientious scruples ; and his political principles are of that plastic, buoyant description, which enable their professors to swim triumphantly over the devouring whirlpools of all revolutions. So far Count MOLE might compete with him ; but the Count lacks his ready oratory, his collected audacity, his readi ness, his tact, and that supercilious mannerism which baffles the blows, and disconcerts the move ments of the most able adversaries. M. TIMERS may be defeated, but he cannot be disconcerted ; lie may be ousted from his position again and again, but he cannot be made to think less flatteringly of his own abilities, or less sanguinely of his prospects. He was the only Minister in France since the accession of Lours PHILIPPE, in whose presence the King really felt uneasy. He was the only Minister who thwarted and resisted the will of the SOVEREIGN to his face. But M. THIERS has neither depth o: character, nor dignity of demeanour ; his acquire ments are all shallow and superficial, and he cannot, even if he desired it, take a profound and statesman like view of any question. He has, besides, no com mand of himself ; and from a dictatorial habit which he contracted in the Clubs when a very young man, his firmness is constantly mistaken for insolent obstinacy, his opposition for mingled recrimina tion and contempt, and his admonitory councils for haughty supercilious dictation. This offensive ness of manner was peculiarly painful to the KING, whom he always approached, and with whom he con stantly conversed, as if both had met on terms of the most perfect equality. The KING did all in his power to give his Minister delicately to understand that the distance between the SOVEREIGN and the subject is immense ; but M. THIERS would understand nothing but that he was in the presence of an idol of his own making—an idol whose worship might do very well to humbug the people out of doors, but before which it would be monstrously ridiculous to bend in secret. The KING then had recourse to a d ferent mode of bringing his audacious servant to a sense of his duty. He admitted M. THIERS into his presence when surrounded by the members of his own family, who, of course, might be expected to treat the KING only as the father, the friend, and the guardian. Each before hand was made acquainted with the Royal pleasure. The duties of an entire allegi ance superseded, in outward show, those due to the tender husband, the fond father, and the affectionate brother. But all failed to make anv impression upon the self-satisfied and unabashed air of the Pre- mier. The KING tried coldness, but the Minister resented this by sulking in his turn, and all but insist ing upon apologies being made to him. In this way matters went on till the discussion in Council of the Spanish question. Then it was that M. THIERS openly declared himself opposed to the KING'S views, and even at the Council table, in the pre sence of his Colleagues, treated his MAJESTY'S opinions as those of a mere political tyro. The KING was greatly incensed at the presumption of his Mi nister ; but his displeasure knew no bounds when he understood that AI. TRIERS had applied to Lord PALMERSTON, soliciting a declaration of active in tervention on the part of England against Don CARLOs, and pledging himself to force the King of THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1836. the FREIVH to unite in this measure along with Great Britain. In the warmth of the instant Louis PHILIPPE suffered some hasty expression to escape him, and M. TRIERS confident that France could not do without him, and that ere many months he would be borne into office on the shoulders of the deputies, in sisted on giving in his resignation. His successor, Count MOLE, was no stranger to the calculations of the incensed ex-President of the Council, and he adroitly commenced his career by doing all in his power to ruin the reputation of TRIERS. With this view he com menced a quarrel with the Swiss Directory, and when an outcry was raised against him, he very skilfully threw the whole blame upon his predecessor, who had compromised the dignity of France. Where there could be no doubt as to the unjust severity of the laws sanctioned by M. THIERS, as in the case of the Press, and the punishment of political offenders, M. MOLE took especial care to soften their ri gour in the execution, thereby leaving it to be in ferred that M. THIERS was the real author and abettor of all unconstitutional oppression. The ex-Minister grew alarmed for his reputation ; he found that France was, after all, quite indifferent as to where he might pass his leisure hours ; on the first report of an insurrection at Strasburg he left Italy, travelling day and night in order to reach the capital, in time to mix up his name in some way or other with clemency to the guilty, or a more than ordinary devo tion to the person of the King. He arrived too late. M. MOL E had been before-hand with him in adjusting the whole affair ; so that all THIERS could do was to profess a willingness to support Ministers, now that the safety of the State was declared to be in peril. The Minister received him with a good grace, and with an insincerity equal to his own, assured him that the Go vernment expected everything from his pure patrio tism, great talents, and enlightened influence in the Chambers. The great struggle - will be between THIERS and MOLE. The KING will naturally support the present Premier; but as he dreads the insolence of THIERS, should be be constrained to recal him, he will carefully abstain from mixing himself up with either of them in any public way. Besides the KING and THIERS know each other too well to make it prudent for them to provoke inquiry into the pat ticulars of their past relationship. Had LOUIS PHILIPPE trusted THIERS less, his MAJESTY could afford to be less scrupulous, in openly opposing him with all the in fluence which he derives from the regal dignity. But, like most very clever men, the KING imagined it would be very easy to divest himself of agents when his objects were accomplished. THIERS, however, is not a man to be so employed and discarded. He is not a mere tool like PERSIL; nor is he like MOLE, capable of being tongue-tied from a sense of personal honour. The KING now knows and feels this, and though he detests the Ex-Minister, he cannot divest himself of the apprehension that nothing would be more dangerous than to provoke his hostility. THIERS awaits with impatience the commencement of the Ses sion, convinced that a triumph equal to that of M. NECK ER awaits him. There are few incidents of any moment in these journals. It will be seen by our extracts from them that Prince Louis NAPOLEON passed through Paris on Friday night on his way to Havre, whence he is to be shipped off to America. On the 6th inst. the siege of Bilboa had not been recommenced:; but the Carlists were making preparations to move against the town. The rebels are busily employed raising fortifications at Estella, Elisondo, Vero, and Urdache. The com munication with Bilboa, by the river, is reported to be open, the Carlists having entirely failed in their at tempts in this direction, owing to the presence of a British vessel which had approached the town during the siege. We copy the following letter, on the subject of the wrongs inflicted upon the Polish refugees by the Prussian Government, from the columns ofiMorning Contempo rary. Prussia has latterly distinguished herself by the freaks of her agents at Cracow, and her base attempts to stir up Russia to declare the political extinction of the Republic : Sir,—A Polish officer who has lately escaped from Prussia, and whose veracity may be implicitly relied upon, has sent to the Polish Committee the following account, which I beg to communicate to you, in the first belief that you will hold it up to the indignation of the British public, and urge it on the attention of your Government : The world believes that Prussia , which has mainly con tributed to the untimely end of the Polish revolution, has at last faithfully executed the engagements which she has entered into to allow the Polish refugees to leave unmo lested her territory. At the present hour there are in the fortress of Graudentz (Grudziaz) 177 Polish non-commis sioned officers and soldiers, employed in the hardest labours, and subjected to the most barbarous treatment. Their ex istence there is kept in the utmost secrecy. They are not permitted to communicate with the outside of the for tress ; their appeals and petitions are not listened to, and the Prussian soldiers are paid by the Government to watch closely over and punish them severely whenever they find an opportunity for it. I could adduce a great many facts bearing testimony to my assertions. The following show only the inhumanity of the Prus- scans : The soldier Ortowski has been thrown down from the walls of the fortification by a Prussian, with whom he humbly remonstrated that the hard labour which he un derwent was above his strength. The unfortunate man broke both legs in his fall, and cannot but remain crippled for ever. The non-commissioned officer Lasczynski, and another soldier, at the moment of walking out of their prison, were suddenly stopped by a sentry, who would not allow them to proceed further. They were immediately imprisoned, and, merely on the testimony of the Prussian soldier, who said that they pushed him, have been sentenced to ten years close imprisonment. A gentleman named Bogdanski having written for one of the soldiers a letter to his family, has been held in a most severe prison during three days, at the end of which he sud denly died. The Rev. Mr. Kawczynski, who had fled from Poland, has been thrown into prison, and after four years of close confinement has bean given up to the Russians. You will see, Sir, by this account that the hand which murders the Polish patriots in Cronstadt and Siberia perse cutes them in Trieste and sends them down to the walls of Graudentz. I am Sir, your most obedient servant, S. SZ ATK 0 SKI, Secretary to the Committee of the Polish Emigrants in London. 24, King-street, Regent-street, London, Nov. 11. Dutch papers to the 11th inst. have been received. We have copied from one of them a rather long ab stract of an article on the separation of Holland and Belgium, to the effect that the people of Holland are not and were not opposed to the nationality of Belgium. This is true. The only person who sin cerely opposed the secession of Belgium was the King. His opinion upon this question is unaltered, and unalterable. W e have no news direct from Madrid this morning. The following brief notice, on the subject of the war in Estremadura, is copied from the Courrier Francais Of Sunday An extraordinary courier arrived on Saturday at the Spanish Embassy with accounts from Spain of the date of the 6th inst. According to these accounts Gomez was still i n Estremadura, between Truxillo and Caceres, upon the left bank of the Tagus. Rodil was manoeuvring at a short dis tance from Gomez, on his right, and holding him in check. march, in order to reach him ; and it it wasv as g e u x i p e e k e e t n e i c n l ghis that he would in a day re-establish communications with Rodil. Madrid was quite tranquil, and no apprehension was entertained there that Gomez would be able to pass the Tagus." artifices employ e d b y t h e T or i es Among the many arti to get up " Conservative manifestations," as they hu mourously phrase it, not the least silly is their attempt to show off' their Operative Associations. Every per son who is above the rank of an idiot in intellect sees and knows, that between the working classes of Great Britain and Toryism, there is an impassable gulph fixed both by nature and art. The Operatives are the natural enemies of the Tories, because the fundamental principle of Toryism is to keep things as they are—to keep the working and useful part of the community as beasts of burden, to minister to the pleasures and enjoy ments of those whom accident or the usurpation of the rights of the people has placed above the necessity of working for themselves. The struggle of the opera tive is to raise himself in the social scale, to emanci pate himself from the shackles in which an artificial convention to which he was no party has bound him, and to assert his claim to equal rights as a member of the great brotherhood of man. The struggle of the Tory is to keep him down to what he calls his proper level, and to check as a crime against society every generous aspiration that might tend to disturb the ba lance which he has established—that beautiful equili brium which gives him all the power and profit, and his bumble neighbour all the drudgery. What are the Operatives but hewers of wood and drawers of water to the Aristocracy ? Do they exist for any other purpose than to toil, and sweat, and starve for the benefit of their superiors ? Let history answer the question. To its decisions we fearlessly appeal. The great object of Reform, as we understand it, is to secure to the industrious classes a greater degree of comfort and happiness than they have hitherto enjoyed. It is to reverse the process, which has hitherto been followed, of making the interests of the few every thing— of the many, nothing. Hence the opposition it meets with from the privileged classes: hence the enthusiasm with which it is embraced by the mass of the people. To bribe the Operatives into a confederacy against themselves is what the Tories are now aiming to ac complish. It is a truly magnificent project, and will, we have not the least doubt, be successful, as soon as the Tories are able to suspend the laws of nature. Judging, however, by what has already been effected in this way, we are bound to say that the period which is destined to witness this revolution in the moral na ture of man is at an indefinite distance. Now and then the richer Tories make a subscription, and get up a feed, to which they entice a few wretched half-starved men, to whom a full belly is far from being an every day occurrence ; or, which is more generally the case, they compel by threats those Operatives over whom they have the authority of masters to attend, and then give out that these proceedings are altogether volun tary manifestations in favour of Toryism ! An example of this occurred on Thursday last at Blackburn. But what a miserable failure it turned out ! There are probably not less than 10,000 Operatives in Black burn ; yet, will it be believed, with all the influence of all descriptions that the Tories could use—after beating up too for recruits at Manchester, Bolton, Preston, arid other places—they could muster only about 400 guttlers I What was said and done at such a meeting may, if it were worth a moment's consideration, be easily imagined. The persons who had been mainly instrumental in getting up the guzzle made speeches full of all sorts of extravagant falsehoods and nonsense, until nobody would listen, or was capable of hearing, and the meeting dropped off. It is said, that " when the wine is in, the wit is out." The same holds, we suppose, with respect to gin ; for when the Chairman came to give an account of the Association, the worthy gentleman had the good-natured simplicity to state that " the opulent had contributed largely to the pecu niary wants of the Association." This is just what we suspected. By one of those blunders to which all papers are subject, we exceedingly regret that a paragraph was copied into The Sun of Saturday from the Morning Herald, headed " TIIE GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND—(FrOM the Agricultu rist)," &c. Now, any one who knows the political principles of The Sun, and its respect for private •cha racter, must have been grievously surprised at reading such a paragraph in our columns. A more impudent, lying, and scandalous paragraph we never recollect to have read in any Journal. Happily the malicious ten dency of the paragraph is neutralised by its ignorance alike of grammar as common sense. To those who know the public and private worth of Mr. PATTISON, the Governor of the Bank of England, it is quite un necessary for us to say anything in addition to our already and long-recorded opinion of his merits ; and we only insert the present explanation, as much in justice to our own sense of propriety, as in delicacy to the feelings of others, which must have been outraegd by the abusive paragraph in question. The partial interruptions of commercial confidence which have lately taken place in Ireland are, we are happy to see, at an end ; and, as is usually the case after a period of excitement, men begin to wonder at the acts of precipitation into which they have been betrayed. Not the least ground can be shown for even a shadow of suspicion against the solidity, either of the agricultural Bank of Ireland or of the Belfast Bank ; yet such is the public sensitiveness, where its pecuniary interests are touched, or even appear to be touched, that no sooner is a report, originating in the basest motives, raised against the character of the Agricultural Bank—no sooner is the slander whispered, that it is " no better than it ought to be,"—than people take the alarm without giving themselves time to reflect or inquire into the truth, and begin to act upon the faith of ru mour, until they themselves are within an ace of pro ducing the very catastrophe which of all things they most dread. The establishment thus singled out for destruction is obliged to protect itself by all the means in its power. It cannot be expected to be just and generous at the same time. It must circumscribe the facilities which it may have been in the habit of afford ing, either in the way of accommodation to its cus tomers or to other banks, and the consequence is, that a general feeling of insecurity gradually creeps abroad, and commerce becomes paralyzed. The notes of the Bank of Belfast are payable only in Belfast, but the Agricultural Bank had been in the habit of cashing them. Was it to continue this accom modation when a violent assault was made upon its own credit ? Assuredly not. Its first duty was to look to its own safety when a run was made upon it. But look at the consequence of this simple act of self preservation. The credit of the Belfast Bank becomes immediately implicated, though that establishment had nothing whatever to do in the matter, and never was in a more flourishing condition. It is sufficient that thevnotes of the Belfast Bank have been refused by another Bank, to give a dangerous colour to a circumstance, in itself, entirely unconnected with the security of either. It was reported too—perhaps the report originated with those whose "wish was father to the thought"—that the Galway branch of the Agricultural Bank had sus pended payments for a day or two. This is a sheer false hood. Had it been otherwise, it would have afforded, under the circumstances, no just cause of alarm ; but every demand made upon it was answered with out hesitation. The judicious measures pursued by the Bank of England have in no small degree contributed to restore confidence in Ireland. Large and prompt remittances have been made by the Bank to the establishments upon which the run had commenced. Thus the evil has been checked in the bud, and the consequence has been a bene ficial change in our own monetary affairs. A sensible i m p r ovement in the funds has taken place. There is no difficulty whatever in discounting good bills at the Bank of England, and the pressure that was lately felt has begun to abate. It is supposed that the CHAN- CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER will very soon raise the interest on Exchequer Bills. LITERATURE. NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY , TO THE SHORES OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN, 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1836. These volumes are from the pen of Mr. King, and contain a narrative of Captain Back's expedition (to which the author acted as surgeon and naturalist) in search of Captain Ross, which was undertaken by order of Government in the early part of the year 1833. Some account of the expedition has already been published by the Gallant Captain himself ; but the subject is so replete with interest, that it will bear more than one narrative, especially when that narrative is so fruitful in incident,'and told in such a lively, gra phic spirit, as is the case with the one before us. Mr. King started from Liverpool on the 17th February, 1833, for New York, which city he reached on the 27th of March, after a perilous and stormy voyage, in the course of which the crew en countered two enormous icebergs, one of which was " estimated at about one thousand five hundred feetlin length, and seventy in height." One or two of the passengers, nobly regardless of chilblains, were anxious to take a pleasant stroll on the summit of this icy mountain, and even bivouck there, " in order to enjoy—enjoy !—a nearer view of its wonders ;" the project was, however, abandoned when they came to consider the probability of being crushed to atoms in their attempt to approach the chilly enormity. The expedition halted but a few days at New York, whence they set out for Montreal, where they arrived in a con dition little short of absolute dislocation, owing to their having been compelled to travel over the most villanous roads, in a huge waggon withont either springs or seats. In due course of time they entered upon " the vast waters of Lake Superior," and luckily escaping the fogs to which it is subject, continued their route (having exchanged their large for small canoes, at Fort William), down the Savannah river, where they fell in with a strolling party " of Santous Indians," who accommodated them with a plentiful supply of stur geons, one of which dainties " weighing at least fifty pounds, was purchased by one of the men for a pint of peas." No sooner, however, was the bargain con cluded, than the Indians, suspecting that they had been done, pelted the expedition with " turfs and fish heads"—a favourite mode among these savages of ex pressing dissatisfaction, and which sundry savages much nearer home adopted the other day with Sir John Hobhouse, at Covent-garden. On leaving the Savannah, the expedition passed through an almost interminable number of lakes and rivers, and on the shores of the Buffalo Lake encountered that strange animal, the skunk, of which the following satisfactory acconnt is given : " The skunk is a small, pleasing-looking animal, with a full, bushy tail, long black hair, and a broad, white stripe along each side. The animal resented our intrusion in the usual way, by the discharge of a noisome fluid, of a deep, yellow character, which emits one of the most powerful stenches in nature. The unfortunate man who had un consciously brought the evil upon the party, was half stifled, and obliged to throw his capot into the lake, well aware that nothing would take away the smell, which that obnox ious secretion had occasioned. Were it not for this pecu liar power of annoyance, the race would soon be extir pated ; for the animal has a slow gait, and can be overtaken without difficulty. When care has been taken not to soil the carcase with any of the strong-smelling fluid, the meat is considered by the Indians as a great dainty." After enduring a variety of fatigues and perils, which none but the most practised constitutions could have borne up against, the expedition, having previously as certained by letters received from England, that Cap tain Ross had reached England in safety, prepared for its return home, which, however, like the journey from Montreal to the Buffalo Lake, was not accomplished without considerable difficulty, and even danger. Mr. King details these hazards, as no doubt he submitted to them in a cheerful spirit, without affectation, or the slightest attempt to extort the commiseration and astonishment of his readers. His volumes are, in con sequence, very delightful reading ; are penned in a simple, unadorned style ; and as full of stirring inci dents and strange surprises, as Captain Franklin's me morable narrative of his journey to the shores of the Polar Sea. They are embellished with three or four cleverish engravings. THE GERMAN TOURIST. :Hutt, London, 1836. Much agreeable information may be picked up in this volume, which is a translation from the German of Professor Wolff. The descriptions, in particular, of the cities of Berlin and Dantzic, and of the famous Potsdam, celebrated as being the favourite resort of Frederick the Great of Prussia, and whence he dated the majority of his voluminous and com plimentary letters to Voltaire, are lively and copious in no ordinary degree. The embellishments, which are not less than seventeen in number, are for the most part specimens of skilful engraving. The best is the view of the Holstein Gate, Lubeck, from a design by Vickers, who by the help, here, of a bit of cheerful landscape, and there, of a picturesque group or two, has contrived to give a very interesting and life-like look to a very tame and monotonous subject, thus falsifying the old adage, that it is impossible to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, Nov. 14.—Wind W.—Arrived the Dapper, Dic kenson, from Calcutta ; Matchless, Sutton, from Gambia ; and Woodbridge, Neall, from Quebec. Came down from the river and remain, the Lady K. Barham, Freeman ; David, Lyons ; and Sally and Caroline, Campbell, for Jamaica ; Rebiezo, Fonsen, for Oporto; Sarah, Tyer, for Valparaiso; and Nancy, Way, for Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, Noy. 14.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived off port the Orissa, Rankin, from Singapore, sailed June 3, Batavia, July 3 ; and St: Helena Sept. 17. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Wind S.W. FALMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Wind W. S. W. to W. N. W., fresh gales.—Arrived the Matalina, from Licata ; and the Azores Packet, Peters, from Xabea. WEYMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Arrived the Pataso Nova, Sinds, from Oporto. DOVER, Nov. 14.—Arrived off port the Sir John Beresford, Mitchell, from Calcutta. CORK, Nov. 12.—Arrived the Mary, White, from Bombay; sailed from St. Helena Sept. 27 ; and the Felix, —, from St. Übe's. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13.—Arrived the Medora, Rudd, from Charleston ; Shannon, Leadbitter, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Solar, Wood, from New York ; Kingston, Al sopp, from Africa ; and Rapid, Mathias, from Palermo. Off port the Southerner, from New York. SLIGO, Nov. 12.—The large timber ship which was water logged of here has broken in three pieces, and about a third of her cargo drifted t osea; the remainder is expected to be save d. A piece of canvas, painted black, was found in her with white letters, supposed to be the Crown, Terry, from Quebec to London, which was abandoned the 3d of August, in lat. 50. long. 27. The Little Bray, Brewer, from Cardiff to London, was on shore near Bideford on Sunday. The Right Hon. Lord Lynedoch arrived at Lyne doch last week from the Continent. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—MELANCHOLY EF FECTS OF SEDUCTION.—This morning, a few minutes after six o'clock, as two labouring men, of the names of King and Hobson, were proceeding to their work, at Islington, in passing over Meetwater Bridge, at the back of the Re gent's Park, they observed, as they thought, a person near the edge of the Regent's Canal, but could not distinctly see ; suddenly they heard a splash in the water, they immediately ran to the spot, when an unfortunate female rose to the sur face. Hobson having a spade in his hand caught part of the dress with it, and with King's assistance, brought her ashore, in an exhausted state. On questioning her as to the cause of committing the rash act she burst into a flood of tears, and stated that having been seduced by a soldier belonging to the Blues, and who had now deserted her, she could no t p o ssibly return to her offended parents and family, who were re spectable, residing in a street in the parish of St. Maryle bone. The poor men after procuring her some refresh ment conveyed her to her parents' residence, where she was received in a kind and affectionate manner. She is only 17 years of age. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) CAMPBELL V. MACKAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning in this case, which was argued before his Lordship on Sa turday and yesterday. The case came before the Court upon an appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor, overruling a demurrer in the bill of the plaintiff for multi fariousness. His Lordship, after going a great length into authorities upon the subject, declared his opinion to be in accordance with that of the Vice-Chancellor, and affirmed his Honour's judgment. WATSON V. MURRAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this case, discharging the order of his Honour the Vice-Chan cellor, overruling the exceptions t o th e Master's Report, and dismissing the Bill with costs, and directing the Master to review the Report. IN THE MATTER OF THELITDLOW CHARITY. The LORD CHANCELLOR said in this case he had now received a letter from the party, who had not given him an answer before, stating that he had no instructions upon the subject, and his Lordship therefore assumed that the par ties had mad• their election not to move in the matter ; it therefore remained for him to do that which he considered his duty, without the application of any of the parties at tending before the Master. As the course his Lordship had to adopt was for the purpose of bringing the party be fore him to answer for his contempt, he would ab stain, until that party was present, entering into the substance of the case, or the letter had been addressed to the Master. The offence of the party sending that letter, had, however, been considerably aggravated by a letter he had written to his Lordship. The course his Lordship therefore would pursue, was to follow that adopted by Lord Hardwicke and the Court of Exchequer in a case in which a letter had been sent to one of the Judges of that Court. The signature to the letter having been verified, his Lordship would now make an order nisi for Mr. Lechmere Charlton to shew cause, why he should not be committed to the Fleet for contempt, and also ordering him to appear personally for that purpose on Tuesday next. This case seems to have excited the greatest interest, not only among the Bar but the public, and the Court, long before his Lordship took his seat, was crowded to ex cess. It is said that, in his letter to the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Charlton states that he glories in what he has done, and will not recal one word of the letter to Master Brougham. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAT.) Nothing of any interest occurred here this morning. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) M'CARTHY IP. COLVIN AND CO. The COURT gave judgment this morning in the above case, which had been argued a few days ago, and which had excited some interest in the commercial world. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, a gentleman residing at Calcutta, in the East Indies, to recover a sum of 4201., paid by his correspondent, Mr. Casterton, in London, into the house of Colvin and Co., to be by them remitted to him in India. The defendants merely advised their cor respondents in India that the money had been paid to the plaintiff's credit, and the house in India failed previous to the arrival out of the advices. The plaintiff had been nonsuited, subject to the opinion of the full Court, and Lord DENMAN said they were of opinion that there ought to be a rule for a new trial. LILLY V. PRICE.-LIBEL. This was an action for a libel, brought by Sir John Scott Lilly, against the defendant, an attorney, for having written a letter reflecting upon the plaintiff's character. The case was tried before Lord DENMAN, at the last Lon don Sittings, and the Learned Judge having left it to the Jury to say whether or not they were of opinion that the letter in question was a confidential commnnication, in which case they should find a verdict for the defendant, the Jury returned an answer in the affirmative. An application had been made during the present term for a new trial, on the ground that, where the defence was that the expressions had been uttered as attorney to a client, and of course confidentially, that should have been pleaded specially, which had not been done in the present cast The COURT was of opinion that that was a defence which did not require to be specially pleaded. It was a defence which went to the very root of the action, and, consequently, the party had that defence open to him with out pleading it specially.—Rule refused. SIMS V. CHAPLIN AND OTHERS. In this case an application had been made by Mr. Ser geant BOAIPAS for a new trial, and the Court had disposed of all the points except one, which was, whether the plain tiff was entitled to recover, he having sent an article of more value than was stated in the description, and without having given the notice of its value required by the Carrier's Act. The defendants had pleaded non assunasit, and also that the parcel had not been delivered at any regular re ceiving house, and without the notice required by the Act of Parliament. Under that second plea there could be no doubt that the plaintiff was entitled to recover, as the Jury were of opinion, and so also now was the Court, that the parcel had been delivered at a receiving -house, and con sistently with that plea that it had been delivered with notice. It had then been argued by the Learned Sergeant that the plaintiff would lose his right in non assumsit, be cause, as it had appeared in point of fact that there was no notice of value ; he would contend that there was no promise on the part of the defendants under the Act of Parliament, and the case of " Owen v. Vernet," which had been tried in the Court of Exchequer about two years ago, was referred to. That case, however, had occurred before the new rules, and the Court was of opinion that that de fence could not now be pleaded in a plea of the general issue. It was the duty of the defendant, in making out that defence, to put the plaintiff in possession of that de fence, and not having done so, the Court was of opinion that there should be no rule.—Rule refused. The COURT also delivered its judgment without observa tion in the following cases, which had been argued during the present term :—ln the case of Piercy v. Hall, there ought to be a rule for a new trial—in the case of Price v. Keane, there ought to be a new trial—in the case of Hall v. Dixon, which was an action for throwing down a wall and repairing premises, the Court saw no ground for dis turbing the verdict, although Mr. Justice Gazelee, before whom the case had been tried, thought the damages rather high—in the case of Doe dem. Rawlinson v. Wainwright, there ought to be a rule for a new trial. The COURT then took the special paper. BAIL COURT. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE sat this morning. FEES OF COURT_ ____ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was instructed to apply to his Lordship by the Clerk of the Declarations, one of the officers of the Court, for a rule calling upon Mr. Lewis, a respectable attorney practising in that Court, to show cause why he should not pay to the Clerk of the Declara tions certain fees that were due to him, or in default be suspended from practising as an attorney for such period as the Court might direct. The Learned Gentleman then went into a history of the case, which merely related to fees.—Rule granted. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) BROOKS V. FARLOW AND BROOKS V. BOLLAND. Mr. Sergeant STEPHEN appeared to show cause against a rule which had been obtained in this case, which con sisted of two actions brought upon a bill of exchange for 2001., one action against the drawer, Farlow, and the other against Bolland, the acceptor. The declaration in the first instance, in the case of Brooks v. Farlow, contained a count upon a bill of exchange against the defendant as drawn for money paid, and an account stated. The defendant de murred to the declaration on the ground of its having set forth " a bill of exchange for 2001., four months after date, which period had already elapsed," instead of stating " which period had elapsed before the commencement of this suit." The declaration was amended by consent, and the amended declaration stated the period had elapsed before the commencement of the suit ; and also the count for money paid, and the account stated had been struck out of the declaration, and it now consisted exclusively of the count upon the bill of exchange. The time for pleading to the declaration expired on the 7th of November, and the plaintiff had delivered his bill of particulars, claiming 941. as part of the consideration of the bill of exchange mentioned in the declaration. The de fendant, previously to the expiration of this time, took out a summons for a detailed particle of the said sum mentioned in the particulars of the demand. The case came before Mr. Justice Parke, who refused to make the order prayed, and dismissed the summons, but gave the defendant two further days for pleading. This further time expired on the 9th of November, and in the mean time his Learned Friend, Mr. Sergeant Bompas, was instructed to apply to the Court for particulars, and he obtained a rule Nisi. The LORD bIIIEF JUSTICE did not know that the decla ration contained only one count. He understood that there were two. Mr. Sergeant STEPHEN believed that the motion for a rule was granted on the ground that the declaration con tained two counts. The defendant was not entitled to a bill of particulars upon a count founded upon a bill of exchange. Mr. - Sergeant BOMPAS appeared to support the rule. He contended that the action ought not to be brought upon a bill of exchange, but for goods sold and delivered. The bill of exchange having been given to the plaintiff for goods delivered at variou s times, part of the bill of ex change had been drawn. The question between the parties was not the amount of the bill o f exchange, but of part of it, !d. being in fact the amount of certain goods sold and delive , He begged to state that when he applied for the rule, he was not aware that the declaration had been amended. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE was Sure that the rule Would never have been granted if they had known the state of the record. He distinctly understood that there was a count for an account stated, as well as for a bill of exchange, and a party was entitled to a good bill of particulars upon a general count of an account stated. It now turned out that there was no count at all except the count upon the bill of exchange, and that was a count upon which a party was not entitled to a bill of particulars at all, unless strong special cause were made of the utter inability of the party not knowing how to go on with his defence. This was not the case in the present instance. It seemed to him, there fore, to be a case in which they ought to confirm the order made by the Learned Judge (Parke), who bad the case before him at Chambers. In his opinion that Learned Judge was quite right in his determination, and the rule must be discharged with costs.—The rule was accordingly discharged. PREROGATIVE COURT-THIS DAY. LADY BROWNLOW V. BLIGH—JUDGMENT. This was a question of granting administration to the _ papers left by the late Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Darnley, who died on the 22d December, 1831. The case was before the Court on the first day of session, when it was ordered to stand over by the Learned Judge, for him to look into the papers, in order to give effect, if possible, to what appeared to be testamentary intentions of the deceased. The property of the deceased lady was on the last Court day stated to be about 2,0001. chiefly in funds. Sir HERBERT JENNER said it was affirmed that the value_ of the property left by the late Countess was upwards of 6,364/., the jewels being valued at about 4,0001. and there being arrears of annuities to the amount of 2,000/. , Dr. ADDAMS explained:that the value put upon the jewel by Mr. Bligh, who was the British resident in Stockholm, through error, was below what it was now proved to be. Sir H. JENNER said he felt satisfied that the value had been erroneously given. The Learned Judge thin pro ceeded to refer to the contents of the testamentary paper s found up to the death of the Countess of Darnley. n e papers which the Court held ought to receive probate ifer e , dated at Cobham Hall, in April, 1831, with a codicil , an d one dated at Eastbourne, on the Bth of August, 183 1, which was headed, '‘ This, please God, will be my last will." The papers directed among other things to give eigh t hundred pounds to building an addition to the c hurch at Sandgate, and the residue of the value of the jewels, wh ich were to be offered to the Queen or the Princess Victoria, if a In providing could be given for them, to be expended n providing an almshouse, and an annuity for six poor widows for ever. Dr. ADDAMS said there was some difficulty to whom the probate should pass—Lord Darnley, who had died sine°, the Countess, was executor, according to the tenor ; a nd Mr. Bligh could not act as he was at Stockholm. The Court considered Lady Elizabeth Brovvnlow wa.g, the Executrix. The case must stand over to ascertain if Lady Elizabeth would accept the trust. The Court was left proceeding with the causes of Hand ley and Jones v. Thomas. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before Sergeant Adams and a Bench of Magistrates.) Baton pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with havinc , stolen a loaf of bread, value 3d., on th e 9th of November inst. Richard Mason pleaded guilty to an indictment, by which he was charged with stealing several articles of wear' ing apparel, the property of the overseers of Chiswick poor house. The prisoner, who is an old man, and was an inmate of the workhouse, was sentenced to imprisonment for S 1 calendar months. John O'Brien, a young lad about ten years of age, bay' ing pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen four pounds weight of bacon, was sentenced to be transported for seve n years. The Court intimated their opinion that the Pr' . soner was a hardened offender, and the only way to refor o ' him was to take him away from the care of his parents, who, it appeared, countenanced his thefts. David Donald was indicted for having stolen nine pound* weight of bacon, the property of James Ravenshaw. , The goods in question were stolen from Ravenshaw shop on the night of the 2d November. Two young lads, one of whom was the prisoner, were observed outside, and when the theft was committed, both ran away. Upon pursuit the bacon was let fall in the street, and a witness named Mullens deposed that Donald was the person in whose possession it was. The prisoner, who is an apprentice to a working ea? . cutter, received an excellent character from several wit nesses. The Jury acquitted the prisoner, upon which The Chairman, Sergeant ADAMS, said—Well, Gentle. men, if any of you shall ever be placed in the situation of the prosecutor, I hope you will not know what it is to have your witnesses discredited on their oaths. _ Michael Ryan was indicted for stealing a coat, the pro'perty of Timothy B rowne , on th e s t h o f N ovem b er . stant. Ho was found guilty. The CHAIRMAN Well, young gentleman, you have been here before, for stealing a tea-kettle. Prisoner—No, Sir, I have never been here before. The CHAIRMAN—WeII, at the Old Bailey, then. Prisoner--No, Sir, it was at the 'Westminster sessions. The CHAIRMAN—WeII, then, you are an old offender. I think the best thing we can do for you, is to send you out of the country. You will, therefore, be transporte d for seven years. Prisoner—l am very glad of it. I have no father or mother in this country to direct me. Mary ill'lntire was indicted for stealing several articles, of wearing a pp are l, h ouse -li nen , & c ., f rom t h e h ou se 0 1 George Frederick James, in September last. The prisoner lodged in the house of the prosecutor, an d on various occasions pawned the articles stolen. The prisoner handed in a written paper in her defenc e ; admitting the fact of pawnin g th e ar ti c l es i n ques ti on , bu t denied all intention to defraud. She was found guilty, and sentenced to be transporte d for seven years. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWEL VII 0' CLO or. Arrivals this morning, French, Ostend, and Dutch mails ; ship letters from Singapore, old dates ; Calcutta, 19th and 28th June ; Bombay, 23d July. THE FUNDS. Most of our arrivals this morning being of old dat e ' we have no intelligence of importance to communicate. , The various funds, British and F o r e i gn , a pp ear buoyan t this morning. Consols, which closed yesterday at 87i1, 1° : the Account, opened at 87i 88—a n d 87i f or M one y . LP S I , chequer Bills, 42 ; India Bond s , 1 di s . 1 p rem . ; Stock, 1984 1994 ; India Stock, 2515 2524. I n the 1" ° reign market Portuguese Stock has improved, owing tto the report in the French p a p ers o f a counter revo l u tioa lll the Alemtejo, which cause d grea t ag it a ti on at Li s b o n ; also the event of the Portuguese dividend being advertised , al had the effect to get up Portuguese from 554 to 565 ; A per Cents. from 354 to 36 ; Spanish Active, which closs; at 191, has improved to 194 19/ ; Passive, 54 ; Defers:: 7/ ; Colombian, 214 22 ; Mexican, 214 22 ; Dutch per Cents., 52/ 53. at This is settling day in the Foreign market ; the Acce a to the present time appears to be going off well. fi A LF-P4 52' o.o' We have no further arrivals, nor any reports. a The settling of the Foreign account is going off with ° , difficulty. The extreme fluctuation has been, in Pe r " ,o guese about 4 per cent., in Spanish 2 per cent. f the Consols are not quite so good as in the early part j o morning, when they were 871 to 88, at present 874 3 co both of the markets. Little has been doing. Money s care in the House. o de, Exchequer Bills, 15d., 2 disc. ; 2d., 5 3 ; India 130, Th 2 disc., par ; Bank Stock, 1994 ; India Stock, 2525 ; '. nish Active, 191 ; Deferred, 7/ ; Portuguese, 56i : Pe per Cents., 351 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., DUTCH FUNDS—AmaTERBAit, Nov, 11. ills Money. f i "; Actual Debt, 234 per Cent s'2Ni 524 Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. ~ A snort Syndic, 43i per cent. 94 9471 Ditto, ditto, 334 tier cent 7 5 1 ,/ 7,, ; „ Commercial Company, 4 , ,, per cent l76i II.A, Ditto (1832 and Ism) 5 per cent. - Exchange on London, One month l2 0214 Two months —Dutch Papers, Nov. 12. THREE O'CLOCK' Consols for the Account, 81 Q. We learn that the agriculturists in this district h ave determined to increase the - wages of their farm-labour to an extent commensurate with the advance which has taken place in the price of grain.—Salisbury Herald. Among the many indications of a severe winter MaY stormy petrel, being found in a field in the be mentioned the circumstance of that interesting bird, the Mr. Henry Thurnall, of Whittlesford. It wa s quite e%•• hausted when discovered.—Cambridge Chronicle. The church-wardens and their friends have aban doned the church-rate, and deter ined to appeal to the 1i•• berality of the public forvoluntary m support . _Manchester suppo • Times. WOODCOCKS.—On the 2nd inst.) Jnlin Gregsu,nt game-keeper to John Barham, Esq., of Appleby Ca s ten of sportin g,—Kendal shot at Hoff occupation or nine woodcocks t Lund, near Appleby, rises; a circumstance, we believe, unparalleled in the fo al g.—Kendal Mercury. • at Chatsworth, lcoPar"' sworth, is a remarkably fins chetah, or hunting ,12. In the menanetie of the Duke of Devonshire, brought from India, and presented by Lady William Pv tinck to his Grace.