The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-02 00:00:00

last ready, in 3 vols. small Bvo., embellished with a Portrait of the Author, after a Drawing by D. 3faelise, R.A., and several Wood Eagravings from designs by George Craikshank, Kenny Meadows, said Frank Stone, SKETCHES FROM LIFE. By the late LAMIN BLANCHARD ; With a Memoir of the Author, By Sir EDWARD lIIILWER LYTTON, Bart. Henry Colbuni, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera, lu three acts, called MARITANA. Charles the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Don Caesar De Bazan, Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. H. Phillips ; Maritana, Miss Romer ; Lazarillo, Miss Poole. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Ballet, called THE DEVIL TO PAY, in which Mona. Bretin, Mdlle. Flora Fabbri, Mdlle. babas (of the Academie Royale, Paris), Mdlle. Louise, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mons. Delferier, Mr. Howell, and Mr. Wieland will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLLEN'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCERTS. LAST WEEK BUT TWO. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. Grand Selection from Bellini's Opera, " Norma," with Solos for Flute, Clarionet, and Cornet-a-Pistons, performed by Mr. Richard son, Mr. Lazarus, and Herr Koenig. Beethoven's Symphony in C. Minor. The Post-horn Galop—Kmnig. Solc, Violin, Master Day. Duetto for Pianoforte and Violin, performed by Master Day and Miss Day. Solo, Clariouet, by Mr. Lazarus. • And (for the Eighth Time) Jullien's New Quadrille, The British Navy—Jullien. Commence at Eight precisely; terminate before Eleven. M. Jullien's Grand Ball Masque Is fixed to take place on Monday, December 22. The Audience Portion of the Theatre will, as before, be set apart for Spectators. Prices of Admission for Spectators :—Dress Circles, es. ; Boxes, as.; Galleries,2s. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an Original Comedy, called THE MAIDEN AUNT. Sir Simon Sage, Mr. W. Farren ; Percy Sage, Mr. Hud son ; Mrs. Sarah Wilmot, Mrs. Glover; Catherine Wilmot, Mrs. Seymour. After which, will be repeated an entirely New Farce, called THE MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE. Mr. Ally Croaker, Mr. Webster; Margaret, Mrs. Humby. To be followed by a New and Original Farce, called RAILWAY BUBBLES. Gorman Hudson, Mr. Hudson, Ellen Seyton, Miss Seyton. To conclude with HOW TO PAY THE RENT. Morgan Rattler Mr. Hudson. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Tears Ago. In which Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker ; Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will perform. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c, will perform. To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT. PROWESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE VIOLET. Andre, Mr. Wallack; Trenquet, Mr. Granby ; Armand, Mr. Leigh Murray ; 'Marchioness d'Orrille. Mrs. Fosbroke; Blanchette, Mrs. Stirling; Blanche, Miss May. To be followed by Shakspeare's Play of KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. Petruchio, Mr. Wallack ; Katherine, Mrs. Stirling ; Blanca, Miss E. llonner. To conclude with a New Grand Ballet, entitled LE DIARLE A'QUITRC. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be prodneed aNew Two Act Comedy, entitled WHO IS SHE ? Characters by Messrs. J. Brown, C. Boyce, Binge, Cockrill. Miss Hamilton, and Mrs. Walter Lacy. To be followed by the favourite Vaudeville of CAPTAIN CHAR LOTTE. In which Mr. Walter Lacey and Miss Kate Howard will pertbrm. After which, THE BOYHOOD OF BACCHUS. The Boy Bacchus, Mies Kate Howard ; Mounts, Mr. G. Wild. To conclude with THE RAILWAY KING. Sam Stag, Mr. G. Wild ; Sally Slop, Miss Kate Howard. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPUITTIEATRE OF ARTS. PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE LAST OF THE BAEONS; or, Warwick, The King Maker, and the Battle of Barnet. New Scenes of the Circle, combining the talent of the French and English Artistes. To conclude with WAR IN CHINA. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, THE MINUTE GUN AT SEA. Supported by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Cowell, Heslop, Fredericks, Mrs. Vining, and Miss Martin. To conclude with THE FACTORY BOY. Supported by Messrs. Rogers, Hughes, Cowell, Mrs. Vining. Miss Martin, and Mrs. Daly. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. E. F. SAVILLE. THIS EVENING Will be performed DCRIMEL THE DESERTER: or, The Point of Honour. Durirnel, Hr. E. F. Saville; Chevalier St. Franc, Mr. Diddear ; Bertha, Miss Richardson. After which, THE POOR GENTLEMAN. Lieutenant Worthing ton, Mr. Dale ; Frederick, Mr. Shepherd; Corporal Foss, Mr. Searle Emily, Miss Vincent. o conclude with ABELARD AND HELOISE. Abelard, Mr. E. F. Saville: lleloise, Mrs. IL Hthlner. In the course of the evening will be pourtrayed " Coffin's Ode on the Passions," and a variety of Siaging and Dancing. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DEc. 1. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 38; Highest, 47; Noon, 46 BAROMETER, 29.9. WIND W.N.W.; morning, rain; afternoon, fine. mart WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 27 minutes after 3 I Evening .. 50 minutes after 3. frritht *um effect of . the protective system to be the very reverse of this, 1 namely, to discourage the conversion Of pasture into arable land. They show that the system of farming, of which the Gloucestershire dairy-farm is the representative—a system under which the tenant merely collects the natural produce of the soil with the employment of as little labour as pos sible, is that in which the greatest excess of returns over ex penditure arises from the protective system. the value of the returns being increased 1/. Os. Bd. the acre, while the ex penses are only increased ss. 4d. " This kind of farming, therefore, enjoys a clear pro tection of 15s. 4d. the acre ; and as the rent of such land does not exceed 20s. or 255., three-fourths or three-fifths of it may be said to be made up of protecting duties. " On the other hand, when the same land is broken up, yielding grain and forage crops alternately, employing more capital and more labourers, at wages which enable them to live as well as the few who, under the former state of husbandry, .were boarded in the farm-house, the cost of production becomes raised by protecting duties mere than the value of the returns by Bs. 7d. the acre. " It is evident, therefore, that even supposing the protecting duties on food to be repaid in wages, they injure the agricultural labourers by diminiihing the demand for their labour, and consequently depressing the value of it." We are glad to see the effect of the corn-laws on the cost of cultivation brought so ably under review by a practical agriculturist. Cheapness of production has been found the best source of profit in every branch of industry, and it would long since have been applied to agriculture as well as to other branches of production, had not farmers been duped into the belief that high prices are coincident with large profits. Farmers are too apt to forget that they, their families, and their la bourers, are consumers as well as producers, and that every addition made to the cost of their consumption is an equal addition to the outlay requisite for repro duction, a cost which must be defrayed before they can begin to estimate profit. When they cannot buy cheap corn they must purchase dear manures, they must pay higher rates of wages, or they must pay higher poor-rates to atone for the inadequacy of wages. They must also live in constant insecurity, and see capital pre vented from flowing into their business from the want of confidence in farming pursuits. It is because the corn laws compel the farmers to produce a diminished quantity at an increased cost, that " protection" has been justly stigmatised as " the bane of agriculture." LONDON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1845. The general demand for the abolition of restrictions on the importation of food which has been raised by the principal manufacturing towns in the empire within the last fortnight, has been witnessed with apathy by the great body of English farmers. They have raised no antago nistic cry for the continuance of protection—they have not shown any anxiety for the retention of the corn-o laws—they have held no meetings, and framed no peti tions. This abandonment of a cause for which they were recently ready to make large sacrifices, arises from two causes : the agriculturists are convinced that their prosperity is identified with that of the manufacturers, that distress in Lancashire is inconsistent with pros perity in Lincolnshire, and that the fall of profits on cotton takes away customers from the growers of corn. A second, and more important cause, of this change in the " agricultural mind " is, that the farmers are beginning to discover that the system of agricultural protection is a system of mutual plunder, under which the growers of the different descriptions of agricultural produce mutually rob one another ; and that it besides creates an uncertainty which prevents the application of capital to the improvement of the productive powers of the soil. This view of the question is very ably main tained in a pamphlet just published by two eminent practical agriculturists, Mr. MORTON and Mr. TRIMMER —the former already favourably known as the author of the best treatise on the nature of soils which we possess in our language. Estimating the average cost of pro tection at ss. 6d. per quarter, he proceeds, first, to calcu late the effect of this enhanced price on the farmer of 400 acres of land in East Norfolk. Such a farmer sells no protected article produced by himself except wheat and barley. Now, it is clear that he must either repay I is labourers the amount of the protecting duty which they pay on their articles of consumption in the shape of increased wages, or that the system robs the labourers to that amount. Having examined all the details of ex penditure, with a minuteness which it is not necessary to follow, Mr. MORTON arrives at the following con clusion:— Ametint paid by the cultivator of 400 acres of light land in East Norfolk, in the shape of protecting duties on agri cultural produce consumed by himself, his labourers, and cattle : and first for seed, as we have allowed the protective duties on the gross produce of the farm without deducting the seed, we must here charge the same duties on the corn sown: — Seed Corn. Bushels. Acres. X 9. d, >4 100 = ali qrs. at ss. 6d.... 811 10 Barley N 100 = 434 do. at 4s. Bd. ... 10 0 1 Clover, red 12 lbs. fi 100 = 1,200 lbs. white 8 fe 100 = 800 lbs. 2,000 say 17icwt. at 10s. 8 17 6 Trefoil 8 lbs. 100 800 say 74 cwt. at ss. 115 9 Rye-grass, Y bushl. oe 100 =5O boslals.l2iewt. at 10s. G 5 0 £35 10 9 Horse-keep 29 11 6 Oil-cake tbr sheep and cattle Tradesmen's bills, 10 per cent. on 1001 lO 0 0 Sandries Twenty labourers' food Twenty labourers' beer 4 13 2 farmer, has been one of the orators at the great League meetings in Covent-garden. We should like to have proof furnished of the extent to which the kuowle.ige disseminated by the League, with such untiring perse verance, and on so many various ways—by lecturers, orators, public meetings, tracts—has told among the farmers. There is no knowing this till one tries. Con tests bring out converts. A contest now may ensure victory at the next election, if it is not within reach at this moment. Defeats beget resolutions and energy for the future. Besides, when we hear on all sides of Tories flinging party overboard, and proclaiming them selves free-traders, there is no saying how many unex pected recruits may come, when the issue of the con test will be famine or free-trade. By all means Hert fordshire should be fought. Another election is impending, also, in the borough of Woodstock, where about four hundred Englishmen, in vested with the elective franchise, as a trust to be exer cised for their country, have twice, within the last eighteen months, written themselves slaves of the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, and are now called upon a third time to do the same. Is there no hope, in this crisis, of something better even at Woodstock ? Is there no shame among these four hundred freemen ? Past pro ceedings have shown that there is no shame in the dege nerate Nobleman who domineers over their consciences. But we cannot believe that the electors of Woodstock do not pant for deliverance from the disgraceful thraldom in which the Duke of MARLBOROUGH has held them ; and we could wish to see some man of spirit giving them the opportunity, and going to beard this ducal lion in his den. The once glorious name of CHURCHILL is known now to stink in Woodstock. The Duke's electoral serfs are most unwilling slaves. If an opposing candidate were to appear, all political questions might possibly be merged in the question cf the Duke of MARLBOROUGH'S personal unpopularity. But even as to politics, rotten potatoes may teach the Woodstock electors much. If Lord ALAN CHURCHILL, the Duke's nominee, will not promise to help to give them cheap bread, he should have the full benefit of their rotten potatoes. The hostile feeling towards England, which animates many of the writers in the French Opposition journals, occasionally leads them into strange vagaries. In the bitterness of their resentment for supposed injuries, and in the overflowing of national prejudices directed against their nearest neighbours, they confound right with wrong, forget the very history of their own country, and make assertions which the most common observer ' sees at a glance tell infinitely more against France than England. The National but Se other day drew up a fearful catalogue of the losses which Great Britain had sustained in North America in 1782, old the acquisitions made by the United States both at that period and afterwards. These are facts known in history ; they are honourable to the Anglo- Saxon character, and only show that the spirit which per vaded their ancestors was still cherished by the WASHING TONS, and JEFFERSONS, and Musmos, and that the Eng lish were compelled to yield to that spirit, not so much from the power of the young and exhausted republic, as from the sacred principles of justice and liberty, and the cordial approbation which the noble deeds of these pa triots received from a vast proportion of the British people. England lost her dominion over these pro vinces, but liberty was established--a fresh barrier was raised against despotic and monarchical Go vernments her trade with the independent States continued undisturbed, and on the whole she gained infinitely more than she lost by the American Revolution. It is singular, that in making statements of this description, for the purpose of humiliating this country and cheering on the Americans to pursue their victories, the French writer should have utterly forgotten the exhibitions which France has made in regard to her colonies, her trade, and her commerce, since the middle of the seventeenth century. No country In the world, if we except helpless and effete Spain, ruled by women and priests, has suffered such colonial losses as the mighty kingdom of France ; and one of these losses, the greatest of all, was sustained, or rather promoted, by the idol of the war party in France—tbe man who looked to ships and colonies as the only substantial means for 1 conquering England, or, at all events, of sharing with her the dominion of the seas. The French kings of the CAPET race did a great deal in that respect for France. They established colonies, some of them of the most noble description. Need we mention Pondicherry, and Lower Canada, and Louisiana ? Never was there a more thriving set tlement, nor one so likely to benefit France, as Pondi chery was about the year 1750. French settlers were trading with the natives, commerce was increasing daily, and the shipping and commerce of France felt the beneficial consequences ; yet all these were sacrificed, not from any love of liberty or any noble sentiment whatever, but from sheer mismanagement and national apathy. Quebec and all its dependencies were lost somewhat in the same way; but what are we to say of Louisiana ? It was settled, we believe, under the reign of Louis XIV., and promised fair to be one of the noblest colonies in the world. After many negotiations with the Court of Spain, who claimed it as a portion of her domain in the new world, it was finally ceded to France, and handed over to NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, when First Consul. What did he do ? He imitated the profligate son of JACOB, and "sold his birthright for a mess of pottage." He wanted money to fit out his new domestic establish ment as Emperor, and sold the right of France to a rich country, extending for 2,000 miles in length and 650 in breadth, producing everything that France most required. No acquisition could have been so valuable in every respect, and, though England in the course of the war might have seized New Orleans, and formally taken possession of the country, at the general peace, it would to a certainty have been restored. Yet, by BONAPARTE'S base and selfish act, it was lost to France for ever : her only hold on the American continent was gone, and the finest opportunity for creating shipping and colonies, and a powerful royal navy, was sacri ficed for the paltry consideration of 400,000 dollars. It would be impossible to point out any one instance of more egregious political fully; yet M. TRIERS, the blind worshipper of NAPOLEON, finds no fault with him for the transaction, but spends all his eulogies on the deeds of his hero at Austerlitz, and Jena, and the conquests he made on the Continent, which speedily vanished like the morning mist. NA POLEON was the greatest enemy France ever had, and had she suffered no other losses than that of Louisiana, ought, for that deed alone, to be execrated by every good Frenchman. We advi,e, therefore, these instigators of war between England and America to look at home, and mind their own affairs. They will find that, though England has lost muzh colonial territory, she still has more than she really wants, and that France, in that re spect, is reduced to the very lowest ebb among the nations of Europe. We called the attention of these fire-eaters some days ago to the humiliating condi tion in which the French Chamber of Deputies placed themselves by refusing the insolent demand of one mil lion sterling made by America. The Siecle, no friend to England, admits the truth of our remarks in these words : I " We shall take no part in the dispute ; all that we have to do is to state facts, and, if possible, prevent a collision. We are far from depreciating the interests engaged in the Oregon question, and if it should be settled by a *ar, it is well known on what side our good wishes would be; but it ap pears to us that the affair of twenty-five millions of francs demanded from France has proved that American democracy can push its demands beyond what is just. We admire the enterprising boldness of this republic, and sincerely desire its grandeur, but we must not accustom it to think that its equity is to have no other standard than its own pretensions." We trust that the Liberals of Hertfordshire mean to make some effort to prevent the representation of their county from passing quietly, if pass it must, from Lord GRIIISToN to another Peelite. The Hertford Mercury has named a number of gentlemen who ought to be looked to by the Liberal party upon this occasion, and among them Mr. BRAND (who has old and strong claims on the county), Sir BuLwEn LYTTON, Mr. SPENCER COWPER, and Mr. BLAKE, formerly Member for New port. Where there is such abundance of likely candi dates, it will be hard, indeed, if no candidate turns up. At such a time as this no county—even where the chances are much worse than any one can pretend to consider them in Hertfordshire—should be suffered, to go uncontested. Lord Joint RUSSELL'S and Lord MoR pETH's letters have suddenly dashed away the distiitc tion between Whigs and Free-traders. The cause of the Anti-Corn-law League is now the cause cf the whole Liberal party. A week ago there might have been jea lousies and shades of opinion in the party ; that is now at an end—we hope and believe for ever. When Lord MORPETB has sent his subscription for Mr. COBDEN'S vote making machinery, we do not expect to hear ever again objections to League interference from Whig mouths; and M r. e° II DEN has made the amende honourable to nrd JOHN RussELL and the Whigs for all that he may ever have said distasteful to their feelings. Let Hertfordshire then seize the opportunity, and be, as s h e may be, the first county to show the bread-tax Mi nister the determined union of the whole Liberal party against the starvation laws, to which his Cabinet have nailed their colours. The battle may not be won; but a victory now for corn-laws and famine will carry no joy to the heart of Sir ROBERT PEEL, If we remember right, Mr. BAKER, a Hertfordshire Gross as have been many of Lord LYNDHURST'S pre vious jobs, we doubt whether his last is not his worst. One of the Commissionerships of Lunacy, created by the Act of last session, with a salary of 1,5001. a-year and a retiring pension (all this emolument was argued to be necessary in order to secure the services of first-rate barristers), has been filled up by the appointment of a Mr. CAMPBELL, who is a hriefless barrister of some nine years' standing on the Northern Circuit, and the expla nation of whose appointment is that he is a natural son of a late Peer. We had hoped that the Reform Act had done for the system of making the public pay for aristo cratic indiscretions by blows. We still hope that it has found its last upholder in the present LORD CHAN CELLOR. There is only one word for this appointment, and that word is disgraceful. Mr. CAMPBELL has been jobbed into an appointment for which certain members of the bar have strong claims—viz., those of the former Metropolitan Commissioners of Lunacy, who were not included in the selection for the smaller num ber of Commissioners created by the Act of last session. If none of these gentlemen were to have it, then many distinguished members of the bar would have been glad of it. It is an office much better paid than those of police magistrates. or assistant poor-law commission ers, or inspectors of prisons;—and distinguished mem bers of the bar are candidates for all these offices. When Lord JOHN RessELL said of the Lord Chan cellor, that he received the best pay and did the least work of all the Ministers, we presume he did not in clude his job-work. Lord MELBOURNE had some time before traced Lord LYNDHURST'S mode of using his talents to a certain infernal personage ; but he beats his supposed instructor hollow— " When the Devil W 53 sick, The Devil a monk would be." But in sickness, and at a time of life when sickness might be supposed to occasion serious retrospection, Lord LYNDHURST does not cease to job. We have received Madrid journals of the 22d and 23d. The election for Deputies to supply the places of mem bers appointed to Government offices was going on favour ably for the Government. At Cadiz, Valladolid, and several other towns the Ministerial candidates were at the head of the lists. This is extremely probable—indeed it is beyond doubt. NARVAEZ has so arranged matters that elections in Spain resemble very much county meetings in England, as described by the Duke of WELLINGTON. The Opposition, however, propose to make a show of resistance by nominating PACHECIIO as a candidate for the Presidency of the Cortes, but they may save them selves the trouble. On the 23d the Three per Cents. were done at 35i at 60 days, and the Fives at 24i for the same period. The sudden rise in the Paris Stock and Share-market, which took place on Thursday, continued throughout the whole of Friday, and on Saturday morning, prices appeared rather firm ; but towards two o'clock every thing gave way, and a heavy fall ensued, though prices remained considerably better than they had been about the middle of the week. The Three per Cents. rose to 82f. 15c., on Saturday, and the Fives to 117 f. 15c., but the former closed at 87f. 70c., and the latter at 116 f. 75c. Shares in several of the railways also fell considerably, but we hear of no serious fail ures, and anticipate a more settled state of business. The Opposition and Ministerial journals are occupied with letters on the state of the relations of France with ROSAS and long comments on them. The Constitutionnel began the attack, accusing Captain PAGE, sent out to the Plata on a special mission, for neglecting his duty and suffering himself to be duped by the artifices of Roses, and his daughter. But the Constitutionnel rec koned without its host. Captain PAGE, in a spirited letter, denies every word of the statements put forth. We subjoin that letter, with the comments of the Journal des Debuts, which may be useful in explaining some of the mysterious proceedings in that quarter. Captain PACE addressed the following letter to the Con stituticnnel " I have read in your number of to-day a recital entirely fabulous, relating to the presentation of letters which accre• dited me to General Roses, Governor of Buenos Ayres. lam perfectly aware, Mr. Editor, that every man who has the honour of being called upon to serve the King's Govern ment in La Plata must expect the most injurious attacks from a system of falshood and calumny which has for years been organised in order to delude Europe, and draw it into unjustifiable measures. I, however, owe, to the dignity of an officer commanding one of the King'.; ships, and charged with a special mission to declare—first, that the letter which you have published was delivered by myself into the bands of his Excellency M. Arena, Minister fur Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Confederation, to be fully and entirely communi cated to his Excellency General Roses, according to the ordere. I bad received ; secondly, that this letter was re turned to me by M. Arena himself, and that it is still in my possession ; thirdly, that at the time of the presentation of this letter, and of my first audience of General Roses, I had never in my life seen Donna Manuelita, his daughter ; con sequently 1 give the most formal contradiction to whoever may dare to repeat or maintain the truth of the fable you have published as to the pretended intervention of Donna Manuelita in the presentation of the letters which accredited me to the Governor of the Argentine Confederation." The attack made by the Constitutionnel calls forth a severe reply from the Government paper, and reminds M. TRIERS of his boasting on the Syrian affair. "What were the wishes of the French Government," says the Journal des Delats, "in accordance with that of Great Britain ? It wished to establish peace on both sides of the Plata ; it wished to put an end to a war at variance with the general interests of commerce, and to acts of hostility contrary to existing treaties. But it did not, nor does it now, wish to overturn the Government of Buenos Ayres ; it never had any motive for private ani mosity against the man who is its legal and acknowledged chief; it was never within its intentions any more than within its tastes to interfere in the internal affairs of the Argentine Republic, nor to substitute any other authority for that which was established. Thu Cfrovern tnent then was right, before resorting to an armed inter vention, to endeavour to gain its end by pacific mediation It desired nothing better than to see Rosas voluntarily accept the mediation of the two powers, instead of being obliged to use compulsion. To re-establish peace by force upon the banks of the River Plata was an un grateful task for both Governments, and even for the military and naval forces employed in it. Little, very little glory was to be gained by it, and the disdainful attitude of the sailors of the two countries, amidst the contests of these two pitiable republics, of these questionable nationalities, sufficiently prove the estimate they make of them. Had they no other object than to save the expenditure of money and exertion, which might be better employed, the endeavours of the French Government to bring the question to a pacific l i resolution would be more than sufficiently justified. The intervention will be carried, we do not doubt, to such an extent as circumstances may render It necessary. This is a question which the two Governments reserve to themselves the right of deciding upon. But, throughout the whole affair, the French Government has nothing to disavow, nothing to regret. It has first tried con ciliatory means, before having recourse to coercion. Is not this better than the reverse ? Is not acting thus more worthy a Government like that of France than to begin with menaces, and then recal them?—to send a fleet the moment of negotiating, and then withdraw it when the time of fighting is come? We do not wish to make a great noise about the expedition to La Plata, but we candidly ask, is it not at least worth the cam paign in Syria ?" £209 8 9 " Amount received from protecting duties on the produce which this &rater sells : Wheat 4 qrs. at 100 acres = 400 qrs. at 51. 6d. £llO 0 0 Barley 5 qrs. H 100 acres = 500 qrs. at 4s. 8d....116 13 4 £226 13 4 “Deducting the amount paid for rot ction fr the amount received by it on the produce sold, P we find that the of this farm gains 171.45. 7d. by the protective system." P But he has to pay for protection 541. in the shape of increased rent, and at least 40/. in increased household expenses, so that instead of a gain we find a positive lure of 76/. 159. sd. But this is not all ; if the price of grain were sufficiently low to allow of his fe e di ng s h e ' p the manure pr o d uced by such and cattle on oats , Bw., stock would be more beneficial than the bones, rape cake, or guano, which cou ld be purchased for 2001. ; so that if he sold his sheep and oxen when fatted at their p r i me cost, he would still save the 2001. which he is sow obliged to expend in the purchase of artificial manures, because the high price of grain will not now allow of his feeding A similar estimateitives the loss on farming 1,000 Beres in Lincolnshire, at a rate of something more than 2L per acre. In fact, the only persons that appear to de rive any gain from protection are the dairy farmers, and their gains would be converted into losses if they turned any part of their pastures into arable land. On this it is JuAtiv remarked,— "We a re o f ten to ld t h at t h e o bj ect o f t h e protective system is not t o k eep up rents, b ut t o b ene fit th e agr i cu ltural labourer., by preventing millions of acres of arable land being thrown out of cultivation, which means being con verted to pasture. The result of our calculations shows the j The following statement of facts, which we find in THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, DI4ICV' _._I4MBER 2, 1845. ie l i - And COMMERCIAL 3N EWS ton, ano I,V ........ ....... " ' - •••• • Do. New Consol. Bths 20 Do. New Do. New London & South Essex 2 3 / 4 London and York . 2% 3I X3 1 / 4 London and Windsor ... 1 ••. ......... •• London, Warwick, and Kidderminster • Loudon. Salisbury, and Londonderry& Colerain 5 ...••• 6 ...... Londonderry and Ennis killen ... 5 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham 5 Manchester and Leeds... 76 Ditto % Shares Do. Quarters 2 Do. Sixteenths ... 4 1 4 — . Manchester and Birmin. 40 ...... 66 Do. Quarters Do. New Quarters Do. Continuation and Welsh Junction Manchester.Buxton,and Matlock 425.. . .... p Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction .. Manchester and Rugby Direct Alanchest. & Southampt. 2 2 1 / 2 M abind 100 .....137 135 140. Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Midland,Birm., Derby...loo llO Midld. & East. Counties 1N...—. Midland Great Western (Irish) Do. Extens. to Sligo... 2% Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 ...... 49 50 .... Do. New Brandling... 15 Newcastle and Berwick 5 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction... 1 .i - ,' — Newport & Abergavenny 2% ...... New Ross and Carlow._ 22s Newry and Enniskillen 2% — ..... Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... .... 2%.. ... 2% Norfolk Extew'ion North British Do., New - Do. Exten. to Carli s le 1 1 4 Do. Ext. to Dalkeith 5 North Devon 2 .. ... ...... ....... North of Norfolk .. Northern and Eastern... 45 Do. Scnp Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover 2 1 ,.. .. 2% North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 3 "l i ii 3 p....... North Wales - North and South Wales and Worcester -..-.. 20% 4% De 11.• 3p Northern and Southern Connecting — — Norwich and Brandon... 16 Ditto New 3 — Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Boston 1% 1 .1 14 Not tingm., Erewsh. Val ley, and Manchester 1% Nottingham and Mans field Oxford, Gosport, Ports mouth, & Southampta 425. — Oxford and Worcester... 12% 14 : 14 Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Perth and Inverness ... 2% Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 Portsmouth Direct 3% 3 % Preston and Wyre 5O Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate . Richmond 5 Rugby, Derby, and Man chester Rugby arid Huntingdon 2 Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick ScrAtish Central Scottish Midland l% Sheffield & Manchesterloo Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2%•••• • 3 5 1 ; Shropshire Mineral 425........ % dis. Shropshire Union Shrewsbury & Hereford 2% Shrews., Wolverhamp , &S. Staffordsh. June. — Sligo and Shannon l% Somersetshire Midland 2% — ..... • South Devon 25 ... .. 28 South Midland 425....... 2% 1% p... South Staffordshire June 2% -- South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d — Do., Ne. 1 l2 — Do., No. 2. Do., No. 4 Southampton, Manches ter, & Oxford Junction 2 — St. Alban's, Hatfield , an d Hertford Junction ... Staines and Richmond... 1 Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 % South Wales .... ... 2% 3 Taw Vale Extension ... ••• •• ••••• Tean and Dove Valley 1% Trent Valley 2 ...... 141 i 14 15 .. Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke 5 14 Ulverstone and Furness ...... Vale of Neath Warwick & Cheltenham 2% 2:3‘ Warwick and Worcester 425. — Waterford and Kilkenny 3 Waterford and Limerick 7% Waterfd,WxfrGl,Wicklw, and Dublin W at erford, Wexford, and Valentia Waveney Valley 2 Welch Midland West Cornwall West Yorkshire WestLondon,Old Shares 20 West End and Southern I•• .•••• 1.11• ••• ..... ~. 143/4 ...• 35/ ... 3 1 h ~ lh dis. • l A P .•••• ••• Counties - Wexford and Carlow ... 2 1 / 2 - ...... Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 Wilts, Somerset, and • Southampton ... ..... 1% — Wilts. Somerset, & Wey_ mouth Worcester,Hereford,Ross and Gloucester 425.......425...... .— Worcester, Tinbury, and Ludlow — Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union ... .. 1% Worcester and S. Wales 425. Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby - ••• •• ...... Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 Ditto, New York and Carlisle 2 3 /4 21 4. ...—. York and Lancaster 2% York and North Midland 50 Ditt.) 1 / 2 Shares Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do Selby Do. Extension . 5 FOREIGN RAILWjAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 - Barbadoes — ...... • Boulogne and Amiens 8 —...• '7% Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... . Do. (Espelete's) ...... 2 .... . . .. ...... Calais, Dunkrk, andW est Flanders - , Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast Central of Spain ... . - Ceylon - .... Demerara 2 l /2 ... . --- Dendre Valley ...... ... Dijon and Mulhouse Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... ..... .... ss. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2% Fampoux & Hazebrouk 2 Great North. of France Constituted Great Paris and Lyons 2 Great Western Bengal... ss. — Great Western Canada... 3IA ...... Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Jamaica North Midland 1 Do. Extension _ 1 ~.. 1 ~••• 1 • • , ......- •• • ••••• ••• • °.... .••• 1~~• ~~ ~. ...- • • ... ro• ~.. Po. 1% ... ot4 r•• "''. 6 3 / 4 •• 1%; ... 10% ••• 1% Jersey Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... Lyons and Avignon 2 - Luxembourg... 4 Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... - Mauritius .. Namur and Liege - North Jamaica 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... ... Over Yssel 413 s 4d - - . •• Paris &Lyons(Laffitte's) 2 Pans and Lyons (Gan neron's) ' - 3 - . Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ...... - Paris & Lyons (Sud Est) 2 Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen . o 2O Paris and Strasbourg (Gannoron's) .. 2 ...... - Do. (Compto de L'Est) 2 ...... Ditto ( Aymards)...... 2 1 4 Paris and St. Quentin ... 2 - , • ••••• ~ 13% ••• ..... ~ 2 • 1 3 4 .. 1% Rouen and Havre ...... 18 Royal North of Spain ... 2 )ar Sambre and Meuse ...... 6 ...... 4; 2 - - Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic Tournay, Jurbise, Lan - den, and Hasselt....... 4 Tours and Nantes ( Mac kenzie's) .1— _ _ 3 Do. do D• ... (Lefebvre's' 2 'Ditto (O'Neill's) Trinidad - .... Verona and Ancona... 3 West Flanders ...... .... 4 MINES Real del Monte Unregd. JOINT STOCK BANKS,. London Joint Stock lO OPENING THE PORTS. -We 1 earn from the Sheffield Independent, that a requisition, calling upon the Mayor to convene a public meeting of the inhabitants of Sheffield to address her Majesty on the subject of immediately calling Parliament together, with a view to immediately repealing the corn-laws, is in the course of circulation in the town, and that it has already received many 'ism &tures. , •,• V" . • 4 • A *), • Ir - • • Allk g if .ta,/ • - •- Gatgrtani, shows the, deplorri„ble stato a the. hov °Frt.; France of Tlier- The Constztu. I " recent decision of the Court of Cessation. upon • tionnel had published a rather severe criticism _ 1., d had refused Several of the journals complain in strung terms . a i ~,. tragedy by M. Loyau de Lacy, an ,_ , sert the defence of that gentleman in the Via in desired. Application was made ials to compel , that he M. Lovau and his professional advisers considered w t i o th th w e h t p ribu - : ~ o be the law, and i r .(erests, Or reputation, shall n att . the v,,h i c h Ca c n ie s ctilaturtieson that t o a ny complypperson o acked by a journal in it was decided by the Cour Royale that a criticism upon, a literary production, in which to of h r i e s pl character, y ; but there is no personal animas against the author, is not of the a h have the right injurious nature of attack for which a remedy is provided by law. On an appeal to the supreme court this decision was reversed, and it was declared that a simple designation okthe name of an author gives him an absolute right of reply, which the offending journal is bound to insert. It may readily be con ceived that this decision has caused great surprise, and given much annoyance to the public press." " The Kzpeur announces as a certainty that the adjudi cation of the Lyons and Avignon railroad vi ill take place on January 15. " The Moniteur contains a royal ordonnance ratifying the adjudication of the Paris and Strasbourg and the Tours and Nantes Railroads." On Saturday the Three per Cents. closed at 81f. 70e.; the Five per Cents. at 116 f. 75c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,105 f. ; Rouen, 890 f. ; Northern, 660 f. ; Havre, 715 f. ; Avignon, 830 f. ; Vierzon, 600 f.; Bordeaux, 560 f. ; Boulogne, 480 f.; Troyes and Montereau, 415 f.; Basle, 225 f.; Fampoux, 475 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a• Half per Cents., 55%. The following are the quotations for other lines :- Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 51. premium; ditto (Calon), par ; ditto (Ganueron), par ; ditto (Lapinsonniere), par ; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), par; ditto (Hin guerlot), 498 f. 50c.; ditto (Bechet), 4991.; ditto (Ay mard), 498 f.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), par; ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 499 f. 50c.; ditto (Le fevre), 4991. 50e. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 501 f.; ditto (Lecointe), par; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), par; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), par; ditto (Espeleta), 509 f. ; Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaens), par; ditto (Ca rette), par ; ditto (Colbert), par; Charleroi (Kysaens), 470 f. ; Caen (Delamarre), lf. MARSEILLES, Nov. 25.-Marseilles and Avignon, 875 f. ; Boulogne, 520 f. ; Vierzon, 662 f. 50e. ; Orleans and Bor deaux, 605 f. ; Nprthern, 6751. LYONS, Nov. 27.-Marseilles and Avignon, 842 f. 50c.; Paris and Orleans, 1,125 f.; Paris and Rouen, 9221. 50e.; Orleans and Vierzon, 622 f. 50c. ; Northern, 665 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOv. - 29. - - Anglo-Belgian — Mauritius Boulogne and Amiens. 7 1 / Namur and Liege l 3 /4 Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica ... Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 9 1 4 Do. (Mackenzie's) .. Over Yssel Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris& Lyons (Laffitte) 1% cific Coast Central of Spain .. ,', Ditto (Calm's)... - Ceylon . Demerara Dendre Valley ... Paris and Rouen . 35 Dutch Rhenish Dieppe & Paris Jtinct — (Ganneron's) Dijon and Mulhouse ... Do. (Aymard'e) l 3 /4 East Indian ....- ........ ',./i i Do. (Compte de L'Est) 1% Fampoux & Hazebrouk Paris and St. Quentin. Grt Northern of France Rouen and Havre Constituted l O l/ Royal North of Spain. Do. Pepin le Halleur — Sambre and Meuse .... 3 3 / 4 Great Paris and Lyons l% Strasburg and Basle ... Great Western Bengal Tournay,Jurbise, Lan- Great Western Canada 3 3 / 4 dent, and Hasselt... Jamaica S. Mid. Junction Tours and Nantes De. North Midland — (Mackenzie's) Do. Extension Jersey — Do. (O'Neill's). ...... Louvain and Jemappe l 3 /4 Trinidad Lyons and Avignon.... Verona and Ancona — Luxembourg .. l 3 /4 West Flanders 2 3 /4 Madrid and Valencia... HARBOURS OF REFUGE. TO THE EDI7'OR OF THE SUN. Sia,—l read with much pleasure the brief, but excel lent, letter on " Harbours of Refuge," which appeared in The Sun of the 27th ultimo, and signed "R. S." I hope with your correspondent " that the French Govern ment report will have its full consideration with our Government." The very able and lucid document on this highly important subject by Baron Charles Dupin, and read by him before the sitting of the Royal Insti tute of France on the 17th ult., is of great national inte rest both to England and France, and cannot fail to at tract the most serious and attentive consideration of the British Government. M. Dupin appears to possess a clear and intimate knowledge of our coast and fortifica tions, and 'his remarks respecting the proposed break water in Seaford Bay (as suggested in the report of the English Commissioners) are very striking, and remark ably decisive and corroborative of the importance and commanding situation of that noble bay. "At Seaford," observes Baron C. Dupin, " there is a magnificent anchorage," " which fortunately is at an equal distance from Portsmouth to Dover;" and describes the situation as "formidable" and "aggressive," and which "would threaten, at the same time, all the French ports com prised between Havre and Boulogne ;" and adds that, by means of a branch railroad, " there will be no difficulty in getting from London to Seaford in less than two hours." The great advantage of the approximate inland harbour at Newhaven, so near to Seaford, is also ad verted to by M. C. Dupin, and which, from its capa bilities of improvement, promises to become one of the most important ports of the English Channel, and, ere long, a station for steam-vessels running to and from France. The recent coast visit of his Grace the Duke of Wellington must have convinced him of the desirable ness of carrying out the recommendations of the Har bour of Refuge Commissioners during his Grace's stay at Seaford and Newhaven, and whose testimony of the eligibility of the site, together with that of Baron Dupin, will have no small weight with the decision of our Mi nistry. The French authorities are fully alive to this national question ; let us hope that England may prove so too !—some sudden disaster might unfortunately plunge us in a war with France; but our southern coast is in a sad state of defence, and no intermediate protec tion or refuge for merchant-vessels or war-steamers; — and where such an immense amount of property and the safety of thousands of sailors, but, above all, the honour and security of Great Britain is concerned— ought not pecuniary considerations to become secondary, and of inferior moment, when the end sought is of per manent consequence, and having for its especial objects the preservation and security of the lives and property of our fellow-countrymen, and to repel any attacks which might at any future period be made upon this favoured isle ? _ _ I fear I have trespassed upon your indulgence, but having frequently read the earnest entreaties, in your editorial remarks, directing the attention of the Govern ment and Legislature on this momentous subject, and particularly regarding " Seaford Bay," I doubt not you will, if convenient, grant insertion to this in your widely-circulated and excellent journal. I am, Sir, very obediently yours, Dec. 1, 1845. AN ENGLISHMAN. (From The Sup of Last Night.) .., was a dull ire.sket for Cotton at Livagool uu Satur ,. Sales only 1,000 bags, at previous rates. The fact that a very large amount of bullion has been transmitted to the Irish and Scotch Banks previously to the new Act relative to them coming into operation on the 6th instant, has scarcely been taken into account, in considering the diminution in the stocks of the pre -010118 metals recently held by the Bank of England. For Scotland alone, it is represented by a cerro.spondent of the Times (a Scottish banker), that 2,000,C.001. . and silver must I:,,veaft,' , lid kept in the eoti - rs ;Ite buok , of that portion of Great Britain. We have before stated that a very inconsiderable amount of bullion would be required for exports iion to the Continent, to pay for grain sent here, and for the especial good reason that the stocks on hand there are not over-abundant. But even were such to be the fact, the managers of the Corporation would be pleased to be eased of two or three millions in this way, as they have an im mense quantity of gold and silver on hand beyond their requirements. The last instalment of the loan guaranteed by Parliament for carrying on public works in Canada has been called for. The amount required is 60,0001., which will complete the total sum that was allotted by the Legislature for the pur poses in question. The contract is too small to affect the Money Market in any way. Tenders are to be made for it on Friday next. The last bargain in - loan made was at 110. It is held almost exclusively by rich men, and transactions in it are of very rare occurrence. The period having now passed for the deposit of plans, sections, &c. with the Board of Trade, no time should be lost on the part of the "promoters"—of Committees, whether of " management" or " provisional"—to call meetings of those interested, and to provide the funds for liquidating all claims upon them. By the Act of last session, all such "promoters," or by any other name whatsoever designated, are held responsible for all expenses incurred. And it is truly ludicrous to find men, who for months have permitted their names to figure among lists of provisional committees, now gravely informing the public by means of an advertise• rnent, that his or their names were used without sanction, and that they have " withdrawn " from them. Such indi viduals will, without question, find that the parties who have claims upon committees of management will not let them off so easily as appears to be contemplated. An example ought, and must be made, of parties who, while premiums could be obtained for scrip, said not a word about their names having been used without sanction, but when an adverse state of things occurs, endeavour to sneak out of the responsibilities they have incurred. There are no arrivals of importance to-day in the City. The Funds have been rather more firm to-day. Consols for Account have advanced to 95 1 4, and for Money 95. There is, however, not much business doing. Exchequer-bills have fluctuated only from 19s. to 21s. premium. India Bonds are at 38s. premium, and the New,Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are at 95% I h. For the Foreign Funds a quiet market has prevailed to day. Spanish Actives hare been in request at 27%; and the Ttillee per Cents. at 36 3 %. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are firm at 58%; and the Four par Cents. Certificates are at 92. Mexican Stock opened at 30 1 2 , and is now at 31. The Portuguese Four per Cents. have advanced from 55 1 / z to 57. The Railway Share Market is in an excited state this morning. Of the vast number of projects deposited regu larly, not a moiety is expected to pass the standing orders. ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced 93%% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94% % 95 New 3 1 4 per Cents. 95%% India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,0001................ 38 South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities ... 933 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 19 21 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small CLOSING PRICES 93% 95 95 1 4 - ••• 93% 95 pm. 21 pm. 19 pm. 21 ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 Ditto, Account 30% 31 Ditto, Deferred 10; Ditto Account 57 Russian Bonds 17% 58 112 1 / 2 27 1 / 6 27% 61 / . 2 15 3 4 3634 3714 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 27% Ditto, Passive Ditto Deferred 1 5 34 Ditto 3 per Cent. 3 6 3 /4 Ditto, Account Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent. Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70c. Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92 92% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICIS Aberdeen Aberdeen,Banff, & Elgin ..,... Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Theme.. 1% Belfast & County Down 2% Bideford andTavistock... 1% — .. . ..... Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 Ditto New 17% Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham & Leicester Direct Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 223 Bridgewater &Minehead 425. Bristol and Exeter 7O Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... Bristol and Liver. June . 2%...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 3%.. Do. New Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% Canterbury and Dover.. 1% — Central Kent 2% Chelmsford and Bury ... 1% — Chester and Holyhead... 15 Chester and Manchester 425. Chelteaham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction 5 Cork Blackrock, and Passages .... 225. Cork and Killarney ... 2% Cork and Waterford ... 1% — Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester... . l l4 ...... Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter .. ..... 425. Derby and Crewe Derby, Gainsbro', and Great Grimsby . . 13,1 Derby, Uttoxeter, and . Stafford Direct Manchester (Remington's) Ditto (Rackstrick's)... 5 ...... 3% 4 Direct Northern Direct Norwich 1 Dublin and Armagh 1%..... Dublin and Belfast June. 5 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dudley, Madely, and Broseley Dundalk & Enniskillen 2% 1 Eastern Counties 14/. 16s l9 18 1 / Ditto New 6/. 16s. 4% SIA p...... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....61. 13s. 41 3 A p Ditto ditto, No. 2...4/. 13s. 4d... EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union 25 .. ... •• Ditto, Quarter Shares 2 1 / t — Ditto Extension Do. Ipswich and Bury 1 7 / — Do. Exten'n to Norw'h 21 /s — Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1% — Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... Ditto, New ... 6 Edinburgh & Northern.. 114 — ••• Edinburgh and Perth... 1% — ... .. Ely and Huntingdon ... 5 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 24 Essex and Suffolk .. ... 1% — Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 2% Glouc., Aberystwith, and Central of Wa1e5...... 1%...... ••• Goole and Doncaster .. 425. Grand Junction 100 — Ditto Half Sh ares 5O Ditto Quarters 25 Grand Lblion l% l l /8 1% Great 2a s t em &W es t em 2% ...... 1, 8 % ... .. GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension 7% Great Munster 2% — Great North of Scotland 2% Great North of England..loo Ditto New 5 — Do. New .... .. ........ 2 — .... Great Western BO ......143 142 Ditto % Shares SO Ditto 1 / 1 . Shares 2% l4 13 Ditto Fifths __ _ _ Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2 LA..... Harwich Hull and Selby 5O Ditto 1 4 Shares 1)o. Half Shares Inverness and Elgin 1 Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth fish North Midland l% Isle ofAxholme 2% Killarney Junctions l l4 Kendal and Windermere 1 Iy‘ — Lancaster and Carlisle... 30 Lame, Belfast, and Bal lymena Leeds and Carlisle Leeds and West Riding Junction Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ..... -.- Leicester and Bedfjrd... 225. Leicester and Tamworth 425. Liverp. and Manchester.loo ... Do. % Shares Do. Quarters. 25 — Liverpool&Leeds Direct 2% .. ... Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction London and Birminghmloo 207 ... ..... Do. Thirds Do. 1 A Shares Ditto Fifths Ditto Extension ...... IAI — • • - _ Ll% 80 4% n 234 13% 5 4 P 3 / 4 P 8 1 % dis 98 20% 17% London and Blackwall. 16/. 133.4 d. 8% 9 Do. New Ditto Extension - ........ ... London and Brighton Do. consolidated Bths... S 5 Ditto, Sixths London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 18 1 4% Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and Hereford London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... Do. Preference ...181173 2d — 3% 601 A 183,i 8% LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DaC. I.—Wind this day at noon S.W., light breeze and cloudy. DEAL, Nov. 2 9 AND 30 . — Wind W.—Arrd. British Tar, Mi ramichi ; Sirens, Vellannorano, I-lavan na h, an d p roce eded 'Westward, and both proceeded; Boyne, Milner, Madras; Ri ve r Ceres, Culverwell, Si erra L eone ; Willi am fTraomlentthiree, White, Ceylon ; Chin a , F erguson , B om b ay . A rr d. Forster, Killick, Nassau; Pack e t, M'Ki n l e y, P a t agon i a .— S 1 dp.ottlsi; llea T e it o , H Nov. Hill, Rio Janeiro. .N.W.—Arrd. Wellington, Chadwick , N ew York.—Sld., St. Nicholas, Pills, New York ; Diligence, tra n sport, New York. i ov. 30.—Wind N.W . t o ors DARTMOUTH, Nov. 27 .—Ilannah, Rio Janeiro. PLYMOUTH NOV. 29. — Wind variable and light; 30th, W.S.W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. 28th, Sir F. B. Head, Allan, Miramichi, and sailed 29th for Ipswich. Sid. 30th, Trois Freres, Tons, Santa Martha. Conic, Nov. 26.—Arrd. Margaret Wilkie, Suttie, Saldanha Bay; 27th, Curlew, M`Lav, Salda n h a B ay fitm.L, Nov. 29.—Wind - W.S. W., strong gale.—Arrd. Wil liam, Charlton, St. John's, New Brunswick; Recovery, Bromham, Tatmagouche ; Clarissa, Pottery, St. John's, New Brunswick. It blew a heavy gale from the southward last night, moderating about eight o'clock this morning. The Blakeney and Hull packet, Kitwood, from Blakeney, with wheat, is sunk at the entrance of the harbour. I P I- L:t ' ant, leaky, has from Porsgrum to swGhAiic.F.,h pNutoisn'heWre Calais, R com menced discharging. DUBLIN, Nov. 28.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Thomas Demp sey, Dance, Demerara; Looslitank, Keane, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Alhambra, Turner, St. Andrew's ; Industry, n rr t h h e e 26th 1‘1a Stevens, Quebec ; Caledonia, Cowley, ditto ; Monarch, Stevens, ditto. The Earl and Countess of S andwic h left town on Saturday, on a visit to Viscount an d Viscou ntess Sydney, at Frognalllodge, Kent. Earl and Countess Cowper , accompanied by Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn and th e Ron. William Cowper, arrived at Pansanger, ne ar Hertf or d , on Saturday last, from Sandringham, the Holy C. Spencer Cowper's seat near Lynn. By the demise of the Right Hon. Lady Lillia s Oswald, formerly of Auchincruive , in A y r, North Britai n , but late of Lausanne, in Switzerlan d, the sum of 30,00 w., part of the life interest which her Lady shi p en joyed from the residuary estate under th?, w ill of her late husband, Ri c h ard Alexander Oswald, Esq , reverts to h is g rand-d aughter then Miss Lindsey, now Mrs. de Blonay (w ife of Go defroy de Blo nay, Esq.). The will of her Ladyship , who di ed in Septem ber last, has just been proved by her execut ors, by whi c h she has also left her property and cont in g ent ri ght under her late husband's will, principally amongst his rel a ti ves, and has appointed Mrs. de Blonay her resid uar y le gatee and o ne swornof he unr,ier, executors. oool. Her personal property in England was The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne do not intend to receive company at Bowoo d Park until Christ mas. The Noble Marquis, on his arr ival at Bowood on Friday a t Wimbledon afternoon, fr P from visiting ark, had the t be Duke a ri d Duchess o f Somerset, gratification to learn that his daughter, Lady Louisa Howard , had, o n the previ ous could be birth to a son, and, with her infant , given Wa s as well as bedesired. Earl and Countess De Grey, who arrived at Bath from Wrest Park, Beds, the week before last , do not int en d to come to town before the end of February. It was ar ranged that the Earl and Countess were to entertain a large p ar t y at Wrest, but the Noble Earl had a return of his troublesome complaint, which caused his hasty departure for Bath. The Earl and .Countess of Abingdon are p ass i ng , the winter at Wytham Abbey, Oxfordshire. The Noble L or d is in improved health. The Earl of Liverpool, after attending the funeral of the late Earl of Verulam on Tuesday, returned to Fife House, and on the following day repaired to Buxted Park, Surrey. Earl Cadogan and Ladies Augusta and Henoria Cadogan arrived last week at Viscount and Viscountesa Chelsea's villa at Roehampton, from a protracted visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey, at Beaudesert, Staf fordshire. At the close of this week the Noble Earl and daughters go to Bath, where they contemplate residing during the winter. ; „'; Z • thP •• 1- , gkowl,s of Usti:A ne 1.10libt; On b':llLia,' aiterl'('`'n. , There was no addition to the ro) a l dinner part y° the evening. esve . reol The wet and boisterous state of the weather y— 00 morning prevented her Majesty and her Royal Coasll taking their accustomed early walk ; and their it o l, Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the P r incess 1 10 and the Princess Alice, were a l s o preventd. Leing ° 3 ‘ e' the: - .r mofninz airing„al the ,e , e. brach. ) e-ii-, ''.:xcell , ,--11, , ,) , Elaron Derli -I, land, is a bout to l who 1 - ,a, , ,1 bcen +4- )l4 ' 0 "f to pe,st p oi4e, his departure for for the Hague at the end of this w eek, acconfpan"' his daughter. liol 4 A deputation of nintn gentlemen, includig reP i e r d sentatives from all i• thee railway companies 011014 with British colonies, had a font conference wit h j'a of s ta te Stanley, her Majesty's principal ' Secreta r y the Colonies yesterday, at the Colonial -office. . 0 Si! A deputation from Ashton had an interview wi iv Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence ill V' ing-street. fr ifi t Y Dispatches were sent off yet rdav evening ' -° l O O Colonial-office for the Governors of the We s ve viog Colonies. Dispatches were also sent off las P tl' hso ptll for the Governors of New South Wales 11l Australia. -------- OP FRENCH PL A Y S.—ST. SA THEATRE. Pal i M. Theaulon's amusing vaudeville, La Mer cati •ne. I; la File a la Maison, was produced here last evel )l o lsJf is an admirably constructed and smartly writte_i:eitor and, unlike many of the French vaudevilles, iS °_l los so ll ' listed merely to amuse—it teaches a great is ioi7V l), isi The Countess de Mirval (Mademoiselle Martel I.:, e rv i ei til? daug hter, P . , el gri ° widow with one child, a grown-up (Mademoiselle St. Marc). The Countess, h "Or° still young—still fond of admiration, and ansie l logh, ° , another alliance; but although she loves her her eit she fears her as a rival, and will not introduCe:liate: society lest Ernestine should, by formilig d l hat reduce her mother at once into the rank el c o a As the blunt straightforward Baron de Noris (l' b a 10! h e r brother, tells her, it is an annoiance to b et thought a mother, it would be death to be 3 ,g, r c a- lisf,: t i / d, To this family M. Alfred de Sol!ghY. ( "i n tro° to „a young man about town," is ritio ll ter He pays the most unremitting 0 1_, e j 0 0 , the mother, and is, in fact, regularly itit t o do cavalier, ; but he is also smitten with the 0 7, 0 ,0 0 be daughter, and, as he himself sapresses it, ' OF summer midway between spring and auttle 3ll %,, , oedt not, however, ventured to make any dech ° l - efnbe Destine, who seems rather to favour the „,., 8111. 0 %. 4 0i de St. Almon (M. Ulric), ap, etege of the w:', - e s, orfbe Princess Owinska (Mademoiselle LerotrE)S;il,Aoes, bal masque, to which the De Mirvals are Initltsc: pd Countess accepts the invitation for h e rsell;LA; lot it for Ernestine, much to the annoyance o f tw :I t iliolool l also that of her uncle, the Baron, who directs half . o f femme de chambre, to dress Ernestine for th e ogl e ' 1 ).$ ed as the Countess shall have departed. The Cit e i . l e , dressed for the ball, and is joined by AL, ) , , , bi t friend, the Chevalier de Wilberg (M. I'al en joli i i . oo who cannot speak a word of French. 1 -' 1 ,, e ,1 opt is handed to Wilberg, and her fan to Ab re ; ,b 0 escort her to the carriage. Alfred, hew,.. ; e. , -f r,,l , posely left . her fan on the table, and tw m et . '4ol an opportunity of handing the Countess - "ill care of Wilberg, while he, under pretenceteryie9 the fan, has an opportunity of gaining ati, in .ii, 1 i a ,,0 Ernestine while her mother is at the ": ig,r, however, he is disappointed. Juliette, l'ilisiot yl room, politely hands him the fan, an d te f V;10 Ernestine is asleep. He, however, hears he o r titr ° f) r ) boudoir, and takes advantage of the nicul e ri of Juliette to conceal himself. Ernestine elite t htitf for the ball, and practises her dance he f() ) , re g ie Fatigued with dancing, she drops into stc"; t heP 0 poses fur a moment. Alfred is about to sel z ,; g ielP able moment for an interview when a loud TOO o d bell forces him to regain his retreat, $ ll Tbil, ii / enters and conducts his niece to the Wl' e „, 0 0 0 1 tion ends the first act. The scene of the s h - 0 ile a ? at the Princess's—an ante-room adjoining t t ,`;pee r , The Countess, distracted with jealousy , i 5 ; 111 S return of Alfred. She is joined by he r '. 11) 0 r e iire" reproaches her with her love of a dosirtr c e m i l envy of her daughter, at proposes an oi l lth , 1 0 1 Ernestine and his protege ; to which at lel 3 w iy d luctantly consents, on condition that the lie g!: tO couple shall immediately remove to Brest' se, her of that rival whom she dreads. Th e slis efr. her, and she is joined by Alfred, to where,j, ',e/ i . nicates the plan to which she has consesr 00V suedes her from it, and insinuates that If e st ,l 7 4 o attribute her proceedings to envy and ' le d tig li ;t l in consequence magnify the charms of he r -s o o 's , taunt her. The Baron and Amede 0 0 9 them, and she withdraws that c°l3 o o , 0! a moment before she had given• t el s of, is left alone with Alfred, and the bl° ll e dtb e j," immediately accuses him of having prevee' re and asks him plainly which of the two b e jelsd marry—the mother or the daughter—tellb i be Il i same time that the daughter has no love fernolf le? at this, he asks permission to make Pr i rfsb e ef, daughter, promising, at the same time, thi4 00 1 . ; 0 his suit, he will use his influence with thef.. - estr o 4 cure her consent to the marriage a ...,100 of Amede. He retires, and finding Ernesi4 elp,' escorts her to the ante-room to plead 11 01 - 5 /1 Countess sees their approach, and cone 1 1 ,01 overhear his conversation with the maskets,Lys o i tine is astonishel at his suit ; she has 01 %70 h r, him as a friend, never as a lover. He thr' 7 " to lorf, her feet, and the Countess, unable to 011 ,10 0 ,6 dignation, rushes from her place of on ce pe i him with his perfidy, and, snatching off th e a t i lt' lady, recognises in her rival her own Adis"' rest is soon told. Ernestine is united te:",, iii r Countess profits by the lesson which has b e ," e cter and Alfred is exposed and summarily e ,i' ; o oi l l piece was admirably acted. MudeineisePeed o fi ' as the lovely, simple-minded, warm-heartlloll ' 04 1 was most interesting ; Mademoiselle Mr‘,4 fir N majestic and impassioned Countess, w as ye," j font, as Alfred, was the most fascinating aigeol/ most impudent, yet at the same time m ea t e l) He was the very personification of "ree d , J ai , r Lemadre, too, as the blunt, honest Baron , i deti4 and Pagenier, as the dumb Dane who 51 ) . .„' 5 03 - O r o ( , acted in the most quaint and humorous 7 0 ;18 0 6 able. It was followed by the Yallu e ' ~,e' et F ils, in which the versatile I,2lfOnt Si i S T OV I I characters of both the old and lb ° , 'os t ri to perfection. In this piece M. Plunheurditifj made a great deal of a somewhat su i b i ° ols, This gentleman is a true artist. The ; I t be - ling vaudeville Le Lansquenet complete d a ble amusements. The house was very fash ion A g .... 0 . SPORTING IN TELLI 6 if. r TATTERSALL'S—Yzs OO- ,/,,, There was no great increase in the attel3ses4 market, to use a City phrase, was so ns . 1) 01 ; A i Sting, Brocardo, Ginger, and Humdrum 00,-6 backed for sums that, however small per ~s e, ' O f appearance compared with the pettifoggir:eegdilii upon which the recent quotations have " - ero ti 7Or We subjoin the prices of the few horses a bs i notice, and the amounts for which they r ie " 0 1 ._ THE DERBY. t„ 7to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting to g— tlO'i terwards offered dog ,ii 1 500 to 30 agst General Shubrick's Brocst on o py 1000 to 35 agst Colonel Anson's lago—tAn t o s „sir 30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Ginger" — ,O e , 33 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Malcolm -g o y ' 40 to 1 agst Mr. 1). Cook's The Foe) , ''-' ,(7 small sum -- tsP Y 45 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Humdr um taken freely) 1000 to 20 agst Mr. Bowes's Hoorrah—tom THE OAKS 10 to 1 agst Forth's lot—taken to abou t 16 12 to 1 agst Col. Peel's three—taken k 0 i d, 15 to 1 agst Sir C. Monck's Varnish ':,I, , 25 to 1 agst Mr. Preston's Osprey—ts ke „ - to 1 ;$ P 25 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Polka—tai; e 0 to J " 30 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's The Mist--to•"„ e iT0Y" SALE OF CAPTAIN RENARD'S 1q A 1• TATTERSALL'S YESTERVIT Guillotine .............................. Miss Redmond .................• •••• 6 0 Lingcropper ........................ 92 Merry-thought..., ................ .'" 91 0 The Skipper The Spiller Hedge. creeper ....................... 75 Sir Anthony ............................ Tiptop was bought in, 9 0' I tY l VO (J O MEETING OF THE WEST RIDING 0 r _ 4 1.0 0 : : 1 11 11 FAVOUR OF FREE TRADE.—The Leeds eicety:49. the free-traders of the West Riding have coOV sent a requisition to the High Sheriff P i „, Ord, meeting of the Riding with as little ot e '''st tP i rds6 _, consider the propriety of petitioning he r noP„ t ie• m tie jesty to call Parliament together with ol ',"49 l A reo the purpose of removing immediately al' foi - A nif tions on the free importation of articles es to rs r, country, and to cause such other mett. g t r t for P ot ist i/ eli she in her wisdom may be pleased to di r r - this c " re" ro adequate supply of food fur the people 0 , t u , t lo she - Oa el) this requisition are already attached tbe Francis Lindley Wood, Bart. ; Fr u-tic- OS' i l l' 0 Fawkes, Esq. ; W. B. Wrightson, kit; . 4 1 Wood, Esq., M.P. ; Jas. G. Marshall, P s i ' Pr" jer r i Esq. ; Hamer Stansfeld, Esq. ; Edwer- • t he , g t: Fred. Schwann, Esq. it t 1/Lotr, r o4. , The Comptroller-Generalship , v9ca,"he sicte, f 7 of John Dickenson, Esq., is filled up hY, 00. 19 „rteoP W. J. Dickenson, Esq., rother of tile 14#,Cotor neral. Mr. Arnaud is appointed As sists ' in tend. ,00 A fl I CA 0 .01; e 71, O r i FREE TRADE COUNTY I N/ el e fly ' Anti-Corn-law League are still act ive 7ed t be orl 4i l Bl. work of registration. They have arr : ° l ' o , of I( b iretcoo, counties into districts for the conven ier ioc os o o District I. South Lancashire, North, s . 2, t . ", 0, Riding, North Cheshire, South Chest°. /jurbi."'t!oli, berland, West Cumberland, Nord i c , solit' a t P AP Northumberland ;3, North Sta ffor, I.4o o ,itlr ej eSl North Warwick, East Worce ster ; r os ter , $00e0..0 North Derby, South Derby, Sout h VO 0 0 , ffel 5, East Gloucester, West Gloucestthsidcllefits, 11 West Somerset, North Wilts ; : o at S li f ialit Surrey, East Sussex, South EsseX, corn Kent, Herts ;7, East Cornwall, Il re i •clia n. O r el i ' h eld u t TUB STRIKE OF THE CAUId.- -T be en -bb ; Norfblk, West Norfolk.—Laneaster tl t r a , 01109. Meetings of both masters and men havoeho ante of er j, sj a week ; at one of the former, Mr. J„ to lesit e r eee,, t e r, t o weaver, proposed giving the melt 9 ` . b y the AP,,t i o penny per yard. the men stood out for a penny per .Y 4 t r ., ti en ",„,,sed t heird This was agreed to by eXtr i t;e re t° ol: "de demur and delay, most of the jour l ' e J,e pr%igeo their usual avocations at the adva ti ev er, t to masters. Numbers of them have, 11 °" 0 bet 0• h o P e Ve/sh nia parture for Glamorganshire , either in that county or in England.-- 1414 3 1 / 4 3 % p 2% 140 18% 110 176 p ...... 341/2 8 1 4 THE Sunda Railway for the be dtlive standing Consid promotes I s iovernb eircunist that the bein euei nes , 1114 ease, Al one moon but not livered w them, or 48 the 'Nett, ar .41 1 ... 4111414; ... at , ? -4%,,,