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Nov Vfn. Vll.of MISS StRICKLAND'S LIVES OF TIDE QUEENS OF-,ENGLAND. Containing— T:::! SEQUEL of the LIFE of QUEEN ELIZABETH, and the CWIPI,EiE LIFE of ANNE of DENMARK. " Tl,ese volumes have :he faseluatien of a romcnce united to the Litegrity of history."—Times. N. 13. New andlieyised Editions of the first six volumes arc also now ready. Elenry CoDam], Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROY A L, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, Will he performed a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, entitled rHE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnhcim, Mr. Borrani ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton; Arline, Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, bliss Betts. After which, THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lurar, M. Albert; Count Malvino, M. Delferier ; Benedict, M. Despisers; Beatrice, Millie. Adele Dumilatre; Agnes, Mdlie. Clara Webster ; Julia, Mdlie. Auguste Delbes ; Diana, Mdlle. Plunkett.: The Box.otsce is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5. Will be repeated Vaobrugla's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren, I uckstone, and C. Mathews, Madame Vestris, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. E. Yarnold, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. Glover. Atter which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, founded on Don CTsar tie Bazan, entitled A MATCH FOR A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart ; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C. Mathews ; i%lariqu:ta, Miss Julia Bennett. To c,.nclude with an Original Comic Drama, entitled SAM PATCH. Sam E.tch, Mr. Marb!e ; Mrs. Somerville, Mrs. E. Yarnold; Mrs. Mouser, Mrs. Stanley. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and Dna uinea and a-Half each. lick& ts and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.othce, from fen till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, NOV v.MBER 5, Will he re, sated a•New Drama, entitled [HE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Cout.t Henry de Beaus')lea, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vantlic, Mr Selby; '1 he Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. After which, an en. irely New Drama, entitled C/ESAR DE EA ZAN ; or, i.ove ind /femur. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Cwsar de B ,zan, Mr. Webster ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a New Eccentric f.iytholegioal Burlesque, called TELE sIACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford; Dinah, Mr. Cowell Pilompter, Mr. (}allot ; Principal Painter, idr. Pitt • Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-cdite open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OX FORD-ST BEET, Li'SSEE. Mr. J. 51 MADDOX. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, Will be performed THE SIREN. Principal Characters by Messrs Walton, C. Horn, Jt.n., Leffler, Aller.,.,nd Sldlle. Nau. To conclude with the New Drama, called DON C/ESA R DE IS AZAN. D,st Cresar, Mr. Wallack ; Cr) arles the :2 econt , Mr. Walton ; Maritana , Mrs. Stirling ; Countess dr Rotondo, Mrs. Po-broke. Stage Manager ' Mr. H. I, Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist. Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle. 51. ; Boxes, as. ; Pit, es.; Gallery, la Half.price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, is. lid. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, tld. Private Boxes. Iwo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-H df. Doors to be opened at Half rst Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-otlice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh - im. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the heatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, I ATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Cruder the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, Will be pnformed a New Comedietta, entitled WATCH AN D WARD. Toe charac'ers by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. Atter which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARK Y. Suppot ted by Nlessrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Turner, and Stoker, Miss Arden. Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. WoolliAge. ro be 1011 owed by TWICE KILLED. Characters by Mes ra. Collier, Twiner, Craven, at.d Keeley; Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS.ONS With entirely Ne' Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Character; by Mr. Duldear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Keeley ; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli tge, Mrs A. Wigan, Miss Turner, blr,s James, Miss Arden, Mllll Grove, Miss Fort:scue, and Mrs Keeley. PRICES OF A 1.) LaSlON.—Balcony Boxes, 41.- Upper Boxes, as.; 2s.'; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2.. ; Upper Boxes, Is CJ.; I".t, Is. Private Boxes on tin. li.ne.iny Tier k holding eight persons). Tao tininess. Private Boxes on the Second (holding eight persons), On,. Guinea and a-HalL Private boxes on the Pit Mier (holding six persons), One Cub es, the Box- aSce is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc ti,i, of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEAT'i.F. Le,sce. Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, Will Ir performed DON C.2EZ AR DE B A ZAN. Don Cwsar, Mr. Polikrts; King Charles 11., Mr. John Howard; slaritana, Mrs. Coleman Pope Mr. Roberts and Mrs. M nteomErie will dance their celebrated Polka. After which, THE BOOTS AT THE SWAN. Friiky, Mr. Rlbeits; Jacob, r H. Hall; CeciFa, Mri. Niontgomele. To comlude with QUITE AT HOmE. Prinepal Characters by Mes'rs. Howard, Ayhtle, Dean, Mrs. melville, and Mi s Cart r. AsTI.- I's itoi AL AMYHI7 HEATRE yr ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Open every evehing Di th its unequalled rotation ,f Equestrian ar.d Dramatic Entertainments TI - LS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, The Splendid Spectacle from tire Poem of the iilustrOus Sir Walter entitled LOCHINVAR; or, The Bridal of Netheriy, and stet.,l of the Drive. Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and n' vel feats of Horse manship, and first time in England the Dressed Dome 01 the Me ssage Toby brt ke and ridden by Mr. T. Davis. ro conclude with THE BLOOD-RED KNItIHT; or, The War riors of Palestine. Acting and stags.m Inapt', Mr. W. D Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding. I, Mr. It. Smith daily. DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Increasing SUCCe39 of Din Cmiar de Bazan—First Week of another New Drama. THIS EVENING, NO ,PEMBER 4, Will E:e 1 erformed a New Drama, enti led DON CESAR DE BAZ AN, sit;ported by the entire Company. After an entirely New Drama, THE SISTER' OF CH A TILLON, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, It. Shephard, Vale, Johnson. M:s. R. Homer, Miss Terrey, Mrs. H. Vining, &c., will perform. I', conclude with MY HUSBAND'S DOUBLE Plaets 2.nd Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. cthce, from Eleven so Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, W ill be performed LIFE'S A LOTTERY ; • r, Jolly Dick the La:nplighter. Mr. G. Wi d; Bessie Blossom, Miss Lyoni. Atte which, DON CiESAR DE BAZAN. Principal lharacters 1,,y Messrs. stadiston. Dale, Herbert, and Miss Vincent. To to Mitre with THE Alt I FUL DODGE, in whic t Mr. G. Wild aid Mi is Hampton will appear. Private Family Boxes, .£1 Is. Od. and .£1 Ili. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, Nov. 5. Tnxintoy-a - rFR, Lowest, 36; Highest, 45; Noon, 42 BARONIECER, 29.25.--WIND, N. Yons.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing; point. and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is u;ually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mormng 46 minutes atter S I Evening... 24 minutes after 9 . knows how many churches and chapels in this insulted country ! When th 3 dolorous parson STOWELL had sufficiently afflicted his hearers by this budget of grievances, he suddenly changed his tone, and bade them be of good cheer, for, after all, things were by no means so bad as they appeared to be. What, if numbers of their friends had deserted them, the truest and soundest still re mained to comfort them by their presence, and spur them on to fresh triumphs in the righteous cause of Protestant bigotry ! What, if many of the clergy regarded them as a pack of fools, this fact only proved that the " spirit which animated CHRIST and his Apostles had descended to them in its purity and integrity !" What, if their pro ceedings were discountenanced by the Legislature, Lord ASHLEY and Mr. PLUMPTRE were still their friends, and while these enlightened senators stuck as tight as barnacles to their cause, what could pre vent that cause from achieving a glorious triumph ? What, though Rome was building churches and chapels and school-houses in all directions, Pro testantism was beating Popery in the number of her new ecclesiastical edifices by at least ten to one ! On the whole, therefore, Parson STOWELL was of opinion that his hearers had much more cause for hope than despair, and as he had com menced by afflicting their sensibilities, so he con cluded by cheering them—just as if an apothecary should first give his patient a poisonous draught, and then administer the stomach-pump by way of counter acting its noxious effects ! We have seldom if ever read speeches with more ineffable disgust than those de livered by the two parsons rejoicing in the names of THELWALL and STOWELL. They are as strong in intolerance as they are weak in argument, and supply by noisy bluster what they want in calm, methodical good sense. The whole range of the British proverbs—those axioms of the concentrated wisdom of a nation—does not include one more profoundly true than this— " What should be everybody's business is nobody's." We have never heard or read the frequent complaints that are made of the discouragement and gradual decline of our shipping trade, without being strongly reminded of the practical truth of this adage. We are, essentially, a maritime nation. That we should be so is as indispensable a condition of our political existence as it is an incident of our geographical position. But upon the same fact is based the peculiar fabric of our social system, with its large command of all the habits, and its enormous con sumption of all the products, of those regions of the civilised world that trade with us. And it may be fairly contended, that to the moral operation of the same cause are attributable many of those tendencies of our manners, tastes, pursuits, prejudices, and pre possessions which, be their combined effect what it may in other particulars, imbue at least two-thirds of the entire population of the empire with what we must call, for want of a more significant designation, " the spirit of seamanship." An Englishman gene rally carries about him some sort of vague impres sion, that in reality his " march is o'er the ocean wave," and that, in very truth, his " home is on the deep." Nay, this spirit is of so overmastering a cha racter, that it is the culminating ambition of even his proverbial love of sport. An old sea captain, or a weather-beaten admiral, does not so tire of his pro fessional career as to take to the turf for want of ex citement ; but nothing is more common than for a veteran of the betting ring—an owner of running horses, or a master of fox-hounds—to subside into a bold and active member of the Royal Yacht Club. How, then, can the public at large look on, and, year after year, witness, apathetically, the decay or disparagement of that invaluable interest whose capi tal, talent, energy, and enterprise, are devoted to the noble occupation of ship-building, or the various and important dealings connected with the shipping trade ? How can the other great classes of the com munity look on without the most serious apprehen sion at the growing deterioration of this immense proportion of the floating capital (not to play upon the phrase) of the empire ? How can the statesman, the politician, or the economist, bring himself to regard, with indifference, the downhill progress of a depreciation which has attacked the present material value, and impaired the future prospects, of that com mercial marine in whose prosperity or decline is in volved the ultimate fate of all the governing princi ples that now give to the British character its peculiar force, constancy, and power ? Simply— because " what should be everybody's business is nobody's." The Report from the " Select Committee on British Shipping," appointed by the House of Commons, and which Report (ordered to be printed on the 25th of July last) has just been issued from the Vote office, is a document well calculated to awaken a wholesome and a very active curiosity throughout a most extensive body of readers, as to details con nected with this interesting subject. We ought rather to have spoken, indeed, of the " Minutes of Evidence," and the documentary tables and papers attached to them, than of the " Report" itself, which is a mere declaratory statement of seven lines, suggesting no remedies for the evils deposed to by the witnesses, and offering no opinions upon the effect of those depositions. Owing to that baneful practice of postponing important public business, which we have so often deprecated as a signal defect in the administrative management of business before the House of Commons—" the late period of the session" at which " their appointment took place," this Committee " have not found it possible to com plete their investigation, so as to enable them to come to a satisfactory report." They therefore lay before the llouse what "evidence they have already received, and trust that the reappointment of the Committee may take place at an early period of the next session." So do we ; for to a more important end their labours could not be addressed. Neverthe- less, we have but little faith in such prospects, whilst the present habits of conducting business in House of Commons' Committees are to continue. The enor mous value of British commercial shipping engaged in the trade between "foreign countries" and (great Britain may be appreciated from certain papers gicen in by Mr. G. F. YOUNG, the eminent ship-builder and owner, formerly Member for Tynemouth. In 1824, the aggregate was 609,164—the foreign tonnage en tered inwards, for the same year, being 308,951. In 1841, the British tonnage had increased to 1,134,560 tons; the foreign to 530,161. But from a State ment of British Tonnage entered inwards in the United Kingdom from the "British Possessions and Colonies," in the years 1824 to 1841 respectively, we find that the enormous aggregate of tonnage, including the entire British colonial trade, coasting ditto, fisheries and steamers, was 3,361,211 tons! Of this vast amount, 319,546 should be put down as " unemployed tonnage." The result would be, that in 1841 we had actually afloat and employed 3,041,665 tons in our own commercial marine ; a tonnage utterly without parallel in the history of any other State in the world, and representing a , capital as afloat, which, taking a very low figure between the extreme ones for the cost of building an inferior American craft at 61. a ton, and a first class Thames built vessel at 201. a ton, we suppose we may safely estimate it, say at 91.—at 27 , 3 74,9851.—exc1u5ive of the 319,546 tons unemployed. But we fear that the year 1841 must be regarded as the last term (it was also the highest) of prosperity attained by our ship ping trade. Mr. G. F. YOUNG (and no more compe tent or respectable authority can be quoted) is of opi nion that during the last three years the shipping interest has been in a greater, and longer continued state of depression, than he can remember it to have suffered under at any former period. Mr. SOMES, the eminent shipowner, of London, concurs in this opinion, and so does Mr. SMALES, of Whitby. Mr. TANNER, of Sunderland, confirms it, with the pleasing qualification that in the present year the trade is ex hibiting strong indications of improvement, as com pared with the last. Mr. ANDERSON, of South Shields, considers its depression at this moment to be greater than it has experienced during the last forty years ; and Mr. S. HULL, of London, thinks that de pression has been progressive since the year 1815, and that what little improvement may just now have shown itself is local only, and attributable to the new trade in guano. The same witnesses speak to the amount of this depression in shipping property and the rate of freights, as having reached, within these few years, from 25 to 50 per cent. As may be i magined, the wit nesses ass i gn var i ous groun d s f or this depression. Some attribute it to the general de pression which they consider as pervading trade in , general. Others refer it to the over-building of ship THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVigNII4G. in 1839, 1840, and 1841, especially of inferior de scriptions, whilst the quality and building of foreign i shipping has been carefully improved. Mr. lIUSKiS SON'S reciprocity treaties are largely challenged as a main cause of the depression, owing to the very great disadvantages under which British shipping enter he ports of certain foreign Powers, as compared with those which we extend to shipping of those foreign flags. The cost of provisions, the heavy charge of light dues, the Trinity House pilotage, and other regulations, and some causes still more remarkable, are given among those which have worked to the shipowners the serious amount of injury'complainecl of. But as these are matters at once too complicated and too grave to be summarily disposed of, we shall return to the subject on a future occasion. DAY'S NEWS, QUEEN'S BENCH.---(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) LAKE V. THE DUKE OP ARGYLE. This was an action brought by a printer, to recover a debt due to him from the British American Association, of which the Duke was President. The case came on for trial, and the jury found for the plaintiff. Mr. KELLY DOW applied for a rule to enter a nonsuit, and for a new trial, on the ground that there was no suf ficient evidence produced at the trial to fix the defendant with the liability, and contended that the case was per fectly different from the case of a commercial and trading firm. Lord DENMAN read through his notes of the evidence as adduced at the trial, from which it appeared that the plaintiff had ben employed by the Association before the Duke became President. The COURT took time to consider their judgment. THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF DOVER. Mr. HILL applied for leave to amend a rule which had been obtained last term, to bring up certain orders for the payment of money made by the defendant:, in order to their being quashed. Mr. KELLY, who was in Court, prepared on the part of the defendants to show cause against the rule, opposed the application, which was refused, with costs. The debate in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies on the address commenced on the 28th ult., and was expected to continue for some days. The discussion on the first day appears to have been favourable to the views of the Government. Previous to the opening the debate some questions were put to NARVAEZ re specting the attempt on his life, and the arrests at Madrid and Barcelo :a. He stated generally that the enemies of the Government were getting up con spiracies both in foreign countries and in the interior, against the peace of Spain ; but that the Government was strong enough to resist, and if the enemies of the Government depended upon the army, it would be much disappointed. With regard to the attempt on his own life, he said the subject would come before the tribunals. He denounced Revolutionists, and declared that the Government wanted neither the means nor the courage to put them down. In conclusion, he added :—" The Government is in possession of all their plans, and the delinquents now in the hands of justice will be speedily visited with the rigour of the law. The cause of order is in no danger, for the Go vernment has both the wish and the power of main taining it. As for me, nothing can induce me to swerve from the path of duty, and from the defence of the QUEEN and the liberty of my country. Paovr- DENCE has hitherto protected me, because it knows the rectitude of my intentions ; but if I am doomed to fall by the hands of my enemies, I shall die contented, for my conscience will tell me that I have done every thing in my power to uphold the throne and the insti tutions of my country. The banner of the Govern ment is, the law and the constitution.' Those who are anxious for their preservation must rally round it." This speech produced considerable effect, for it was cheered from the galleries as well as from the body of the House, and General CONCHA, though opposed to the Reform scheme, announced his intention of supporting the Government against every attempt at revolution. Barcelona journals of the 29th ult. state that thirty individuals had been arrested, and a Council of War was immediately summoned to try the criminals. Six of them had been ordered for execution. On the Madrid Bourse (28th ult.) the Three per Cents. were done at 27i at 60 days, and 27 1-16 for cash; the Five per Cents. at 204-; and the Floating Debt at 63i at 60 days. The Paris papers are chiefly filled with the report of Marshal SOULT on the Polytechnic School, and comments on the affairs of Spain. The report of the Marshal in the Journal des Debats extends to five columns, and appears to be drawn up with great care and judgment. The remarks on the newly-disco vered plots at Madrid and Barcelona possess little interest. Several of the Opposition journals, and among others the National, assert that the affair has been got up to answer present purposes. The Journal des Debats pretends to believe in the conspiracy, yet it is curious to see how tke writer, in his narration of events, now and then throws doubt on it by the words—" If we can believe the intelligence." The following is the account given by that journal of what occurred at Madrid and Barcelona, and a very lame account it is : " The news received to-day from Spain is of great im portance. The conspiracy, the existence of which was announced by infallible symptoms, has exploded and failed. Our readers have not forgotten the manifesto of Espartero, in which the Dictator seemed to place him self at the order of future revolutions. They have like wise not forgotten that at this signal a great number of refugees belonging to the Anarchist party, among others General Ametler, who was so prominent in the last troubles of Catalonia left, secretly, the places of resi dence assigned them. Fortunately, the French police watched closely the frontier, and the greater part were arrested at the moment of their attempt to enter Spain. The plot, nevertheless, went on—but it seems that the Anarchist party felt itself how much influence it had lost in Spain, by the progress of public opinion—for this time it is not by insurrection or by pronuncia mentos it has been attempted to act, but by assassina tion—and if we can believe the intelligence that has reached us, a plan of assassination, a kind of St. Bartho loew, which should include Ministers, Captain-Gene rals, and principal functionaries of Government, was or ganised. It was at Barcelona that the first essay of this new attempt at revolution took place t. on the evening of the 27th. The moment the Captain-General of the province, Baron de Meer, left the theatre, two wretches fell on him. The assassins failed in their attempt, and they were instantly arrested. But as an escort were taking them to the Mazanares, a mob of 500 persons came to their rescue, and succeeded in car rying them off. This mob were not there by chance, and if the Baron de Meer fell, no doubt they would have been prompted by the confusion which the death of the General must have caused among the garrison and au thorities, to get possession of the city of Barcelona and give it up to all the horrors of anarchy. Several of these fellows were arrested. The movement was limited to the acts of these 500 bandits, as the mass of the popu lation took no part, and the town of Barcelona remained perfectly tranquil. At Madrid it was, on the evening of the 29th ult., th coaspirators were to act. The pro posed victim was Galeral Narvaez. The General was to dine that day at flea French Embassy, and at the mo ment of the arrival a h:s carriage six men armed were to start forth, stopthe carriage, and while some were to fire on the coachman and servants, others were to mas sacre the General. Providence did not permit the ac complishment of this dreadful crime. Among the as sassins there was an officer, put on half-pay by General Narvaez. This man, touched by remorse, and probably affected by the extent of the crime he was about to com mit, or, according to another version, having changed his mind on hearing the speech pronounced by Narvaez in the Senate, persuaded his companions to postpone for another day the execution of their plan. Other reports say that the General was saved by a fortunate accident. His watch was too fast, and when his carriage arrived the assassins were not at their post. It appears that the officer in question, on the same night, made the fullest revelations, and on the following day, at the mo ment the assassins were waiting for their victim, tNey were surprised by the police and two seiz.ld with arms concealed under their cloaks. An examination at once took place, and the informations given by the officer alluded to were confirmed. Among the persons implicated was Colonel Prim, who, it will - 1w recollected, played a prominent part in the insurrection against Espurtero in Catalonia. Shut up in the town of Reuss, he defended it with courage against the Espar terists, and the Government of the Queen complimented him by making him General and Count de Reuss. Not withstanding these favours Prim was the soul and head of this conspiracy. He was arrested, and the man who furnished the arms found on the assassin, says, it was with him he dealt. We give this news with the greatest pain, and it is shocking to think that an officer distin guished by his courage, and elevated so high by the Go vernment of his country, could be so criminal as to take part in a plan of assassination. It is further said that the plot has many branches, particularly at Valencia, under General lioncali; but what has taken place at Madrid and Barcelona is sufficient to inspire all honest men; with horror, and we trust that the divisions which were about to break out among the Moderados will cease. The discovery of these plots will make the position of Government much stronger, and Spain, it is to be hoped, will acquire sufficient strength to put down faction. Madrid was tranquil when the last accounts came away." At Togroiefs, on Sunday, the French Three per Cents. were quoted at 82f. The dejeuner provided on the occasion of the Queen's visit inhob a een t ilol t erT l xo i t e afchve l eelf t larn o fier y nne - , al Exchange by Messrs. Staples, of the A abTsyh l b oet to and :1 1 ed di te r ehr s se g gaeoi of the attentions - t s uh t pe r e co e o t e , r so ogeaireysexe Corporation ibeeeontesoni of extensive the London ea k esr e eco n dayel of royal table were spoken of by her Majesty to Prince Albert w it a o s Y ci A p .L en E t ter h A e ri p G u E brie, F t hoer gratuitousthe s days h in the hearing of those behind her chair. r th ip is bui N lLi w g Lions for the widows and orphans of four men killed during the progress of the works, amounted to 93/. Os. 31d., which was received in the following coins :—four sove reigns, one half-sovereign, one crown piece , 88 half crowns, 992 shillings, 842 sixpences, 14 2 fourpenny pieces, 5 threepenny pieces, 665 penny pieces, 667 half penny pieces, and 25 farthings. The Sacred Harmonic Society's Concerts re-com mence on the 6th inst., with the performance of Handel's Oratorio Israel in Egypt. INFLUX OF SHIPPING.—So many vessels have ar rived in the port of London from all parts of the world during the past week, that it has been found impossible to provide a sufficient number of officers of the Customs, by whom the vessels are boarded at Gravesend, and who never leave them until the whole of the cargo has been delivered, to meet the emergency, and several vessels, in consequence, have of necessity been for a time left un guarded. This is of very rare occurrence, and is partly owing to several of the tidewaiters having been taken from their regular duties to assist in the landing depart ment, in order to facilitate the discharge of the vessels, and the landing and housing of their cargoes. brother Commissioners upon the point, whether the Court of Bankruptcy was a Court of Appeal from the Insolvent Court; but he would consult them, and let the parties in this matter know his decision upon Mon day next. • MIDDLESEX SESSIONS (THIS DAY.) The criminal business for the Novvinber Sessions com menced this day before the Assistait Judge and a full bench of Magistrates, at the Court-house, Clerkenwell green. The names of 78 prisoners appeared in the calen der, of which 63 were charged with felony, the remain der being misdemeanour. Most of the cases were of the ordinary description. The Learned ASSISTANT JUDGE in addressing the grand jury,alluded to the recent alteration which had been made in the criminal law, inconsequence of which he now appeared before them in a different capacity from that in which he had the honour of last addressing them. This alteration would lighten the mass of business at the Old Bailey, to the great saving of time to the prosecutors and witnesses. He trusted it would also put an end to the evening sittings, which were attended not only v, ith the greatest inconvenience, but also were much to - be re probated in a moral point of view. In speaking of the building of the New Prison, the Learned Judge depre cated strongly any attempt to introduce a general system of solitary confinement in that gaol. In his opinion nothing could tend more to brutalise a man than when turning the key of the prison upon him he was never to see the face of a fellow-creature. Such a course would debar all chance of reformation. The solitary syst( m had been strongly and successfully protested against by the magistrates of this county, and its injurious effects had been made manifest by Mr. Kilsby, the Governor t. f the New Prison, so that the public need be under no ap prehension of this inhuman system being introduced. The Learned Judge then briefly referred to their duties, and remitted the grand jury to their room. POLICE TESTIBIONY.—EmiIy Mills was indicted for stealing one sovereign, the property of John Brown. The prosecutor, who was a man of colour, and cut a most ludicrous figure in the witness-box, stated that he was a seaman, and being paid off met the prisoner, who eventually robbed him of the sovereign. A constable of the K division, who took the prisoner into custody, told a quite different story to day in Court from that which he stated before the magistrate. In fact, there was not the slightest similarity between the two statements, which he made upon his oath, against the unfortunate prisoner. The Learned ASSISTANT JUDGE strongly denouniied the conduct of the constable, and said, that while he would always protect the police when right, he should also condenen them when wrong. He should take care and let the inspector know and hear his (the police man's) evidence.—The jury acquitted the prisoner. A KIND MASTER.—Murtha Money, aged 17, was in dicted for stealing several napkins and other articles, the property of her master, Henry Hugh Campbell. She was also indicted for stealing other articles from John Anderson, her previous master. The prosecutor, Mr. Campbell, stated that be received an excellent character with the prisoner, but suspicion having been excited, her boxes were searched, and all the articles named in both indictments found. He wished at the same titre, considering her previous good conduct and her youth, to recommend her to the mercy of the court. The prisoner, in her ch fe.nce, denied taking the arti cles, and attempted to insinuate that the reason her master gave her into custody was, because she resisted some improper overtures made to her. This the prosecutor indignantly denied. A verdict of Guilty having been returned, The Learned ASSISTANT JUDGE said that in conse quence of the kind recommendation of her master (which, indeed, she scarcely merited) he should inflict a light sentence, which was, that she be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months. A number of prisoners were convicted and sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from three to nine months for picking-pockets on the occasion of her Ma jesty late visit to the City to open the Royal Exchange. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) A lad named Brown was charged with the following -4 . , .itipt at rob Ling the house of Mr. W. Essex, a gentle - "'fly. at 3, Gordon-street, Gordon-square. man rest,... '-"oclicd at the door of Mr. Essex's The prisoner h.. on the previous night, house between ten and eit Mrs. Essex. He and said he had a s ea l e d l e tter f o r - the handed the letter to the servant, and came door. The servant was going to deliver the letter to her mistress, when fortunately Mr. Essex came down, and having opened the letter, found it contained nothing but a dirty scrap of paper. Mr. Essex's house was robbed a short time ago of a great deal of valuable property by a similar device. The prisoner said he was sent with the letter by Mrs. Al!sop, of Regent-street, and afterwards told a different story.—He was remanded. UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.) William Thornton, a young man, was charged beford Mr. Traill with letting off fireworks. A policeman stated that on the preceding night while on duty he saw the defendant come out of a baker's shop neatly opposite to this court, and placing a cracker on the pavement, then ignited it, and it soon exploded. He was about to let off a second, when he (the policeman) secured him, and he made a most violent resistance. The father of the defendant complained loudly that his son should have been taken into custody for merely let ting'off a squib, and that he (the father) was determined on indicting the policeman at the sessions. Mr. TRAILL said that accidents of the most frightful nature were caused by the practice of letting off fire works in the public thoroughfares, and that it was a por tion of the policeman's duty to see, particularly at this period, that it was not allowed. The Magistrate then inflicted a mitigated penalty on the defendant, and told him at the same time, if he had any complaint to make against the policeman, he must apply to the Commis sioners, and if they found he had just grounds, they. ould then have the case investigated at the Court. The police have had particular directions to take all persons into custody found letting off fire-works this day. FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRUSSELS, Nov. 2.—lt has long been in contem plation to improve the course of the river Meuse. We now find in a journal of Liege: a letter which, to demonstrate the necessity of these ameliorations, mentions three more accidents which have lately oc curred at Liege, on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of Oc tober, by boats striking the piles of the bridge. These accidents (says the letter) are only the repeti tion of those which, during the last twenty years, have taken place every winter on the Meuse, in con sequence of the defective course of the river to the commune of Liege ; which has already cost the lives of many persons, and ruined many others. The Impartial qf Bruges says—" The conductor of Messrs. Van Guid and Cc., who was arrested in Eng land, has been set at liberty, after giving up the 35,000 francs which he had stolen, and made good all the expenses which have been incurred on this occasion. The money was sent to Brussels yesterday. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Nov. 2. Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. . ... Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Three per Thirty-seven ns, ditto (1840) 103% 1844.. 10236 Loan of City, 1813, .i' ' our per Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent — Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 60% Issue of 1841 . . .. ....«• ... alb*" ••••••••••••••••••••• • —Brussels — Papers, - Nov. 3.. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, Ocr 28. Five per Cents. Metalliques- 109% Four par Cents. lOO% Three per Cents. 7SX Bank Shares . ... ... " . 41Ugemeine Zeitung, ..... 31. kIAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, NW 1. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares....* ...... .......... . .... 1635 1630 Anglo-Russian Loan Russian 5 per Cent., lst series, Certificate...." 105 105 Inscription, Ist series ILS3( Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates .... 99% New 4 per Cent. (1840) . . .... ....... ...... . ........ 91% Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... 6 % 61% Ditto 5 per Cent. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 86% 86% Spanish, New 5 per Cents. • 18% Polish Bonds — New Tickets PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BaULIN, Om 29. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 3% per cent. Prussian English Bonds, 1830, 4 per cent. Exchange on London 6 22% Prussian State Gazette, Oct. 30. THE GAME MANIA.----The most mean and coreemp- tible part of the game mania is, gentlemen (?) getting permission (as many do) to sport over the property of others and selling the game they kill upon it, even though they have surplus game on their own estates. This is mean and disgraceful in the extreme.—From a Corre spondent. QUICK PASSAGE.—The _General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Trident, so celebrated for quick passages, left the Company's wharf, Poplar, last Wed nesday night, and arrived at the Duke of Buccleuch's Granton Pier, after an unprecedented short passage of thirty-seven hours only. WILD PowL.—(From a Hampshire Correspondent.) —Within the last few days, since the wind has prevailed from the eastward, several large flights of geese, wid geon, and other sea fowl, have visited our coast. The early appearance of these migratory visitors is looked upon, in these parts, as prognostic of an early winter ; as the former are never known to quit the more northern latitudes, where they breed, unless they are instinctively operated upon by climaterial influence The long gun punters are busily occupied in training up their frail skiffs for their adventurous and hardy pursuits, to meet the approaching full moon ; and it is to be hoped that they will prove more successful in their undertakings during the forthcoming than they were throughout the last winter, which proved so unusually mild that the ma jority of these toiling punters did not, from their labori ous nocturnal excursions, pick up birds sufficient in num ber to ri compense them for their expenses attendant on their outfit for the season. The number of passengers during the week end ing 31st of October, through Boulogne, amounted to 1,241 ; through Calais, 271. Of the 1,241 passengers through Boulogne, the number from Folkestone amounted to 205 ; from Dover, 174 ; from London, 122 —5Ol. To Folkestone, 342 ; to Dover, 222 ; to Rams gate, 'l6 ; to London, 160-740 Total, 1.241. At a wardmote held in Broad-street Ward yes terday, Mr. Henry Marriott was elected to the Common Council in the room of Mr. Moon, lately elected Alder man of the ward of Portsoken. 4-ge, • ••••:. ".• ft au Aka , • 11 .•'r • .;„,1,06: DA oEr 1••• L • ea • ECOND EDITION. et - Vida ilttlt LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1844. We had hoped that the McGimes and the O'SuL LIVANS, and the other rampant Protestant bigots who about five or six years since rendered themselves so no torious by their virulent philippics against Catholicism, were nearly if not quite extinct; but, unfortunately, we find that this is not the case; the breed still flourishes, as indeed might have been expected, for what is so tenacious of life as fanaticism ? You imagine it defunct, when, 10, at the very moment you are hugging yourself in the pleasing conviction that it has received the coup de grace, you discover to your confusion that the "snake is scotched not killed," and that it is ready to start up again as brisk and mis • chievous as ever ! These reflections occurred to us as we glanced over a report of the " Great Protestant Meeting"—as one of our morning Contemporaries calls it—which took place yesterday at Exeter Hall. At this meeting two parsons, rejoicing in the names of TIIELWALL and STOWELL, vied with each other in the fierce intolerance of their declarations against Catholicism, and all who did not hold that creed in the most unmitigated abhor rence. Parson THELWALL, who commenced the pro ceedings, talked the customary amount of nonsense about the Gunpowder Plot, which, he said, proved that " the principles of Popery involved disloyalty, rebel lion, and treason against a Protestant Sovereign and Government," and added, in aspirit of the most ran corous bigotry, that " whatever professions Romanists ini.4ht make of love and friendship, the unchanged and unchangeable principles of the Church of Rome bound them to persecute and murder Protestants, when ever they had the opportunity." How dare the man talk in this way of our Catholic fellow. countrymen ! How dare he charge them with being bound by the articles of their faith to become wholesale persecutors and murderers ! Never was there a more audacious • calumny yet uttered in a public assembly ! Parson STOWELL, resolved not to be behind his brother par son in point of uncharitableness, inveighed in terms of indignant contempt against "the crosses, banners, and similar mummery," which he had recently beheld in a Roman Catholic procession at Manchester, and deepening in his tone as be proceeded, went on to observe that " there were at this very time combinations of Irishmen in London ready to come forward, whenever occasion should serve, against the constitution and liberties of Eng land." The speech of this remarkable parson was in every respect an extraordinary one. The first half of it was in flat contradiction to the other half. The one neutralised the effect of the other. It began with a Lamentation—it concluded with a Jubilate. At its commencement the speaker was inex pressibly afflicted at the idea of the and impediments t o w hi c h the Protestant Association was subjected. Eve r ythi ng went wrong with g this amiable fraternity. It h a d l ost many of its ea friends—it was discouraged by th e L egislat ure--re- garded garded with apathy by " runny of the clergy ":and had the mortification of hearing that the grant to Maynooth was to be doubled next session. But this was not the worst. Rome was beginning to bestir herself, and had recently caused to be erected, GOD WEBSTER V. WILBON. This was an action brought against the Mayor of Kendal for an assault. The mayor had held his court for the election of town-councillors in a room, and put up a notice stating that none but persons coming to vote were to be admitted. The plaintiff; a burgess, ac companied a voter to the room, and was ejected by the defendant. He therefore brought his action for the assault, and the Lord Chief Baron, before whom the cause was tried, held that the defendant had a right to hold his court in a room, and to eject the defendant; and told the jury, that if they were of opinion that the arrangements were proper, they would find for the de fendant. The jury found for the defendant, but added that they thought the arrangements were not propr. Mr. KNOWLES now moved for a rule to set aside the verdict, on the ground of misdirection on the part of the judge, inasmuch as by the 82d section of the Municipal Act the plaintiff had a right to be present in the room, and also that the court was an open court, and the de fendant had no power to remove the plaintiff from the court, and also on the ground that the verdict, although nominally for defendant, was in fact for plaintiff, inas much as it stated that defendant's arrangements were not proper, Lord DEN3LIN—You are entitled to a rule. Rule nisi granted. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) There was nothing of interest in any of the motions which cam) before the Court this morning. At eleven o'clock the Court resumed the case of "Payne v. the Guardians of the Strand Union," which occupied all the afternoon of yesterday, and would engage the Court till its rising this day. It was a claim for 50/., for work done as a surveyor, which was disputed by the Board of Guardians. The case was a complicated one, and pos sessed little interest. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) COLLINSON V. THE NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON RAIL WAY COMPANY. This was an action tried at the last Durham assize, before Mr. Justice Cresswell, to recover certain penalties of the defendants for injuries done to the plaintiff by in terfering with a road upon his farm. By the 263 d sec tion of the Act for constructing the railway, it was enacted that where a road was "cut through, raised, de pressed, or crossed," so as to become impassable, the de fendants should construct another road in its place, or renvttly the defects in the old one. By the succeeding section Ot." the Act, it was enacted that the defendants should pay 0!e sum of 20/. a day to the collector of the trust of such roaci, so long as the specific instructions in the Act were not com with. In the case of a private road the Act provided that p svment should e made to °leaded b th at under the proprietor. The defendants htL i their Act the plaintiff could not - ma : .7 tain . an tion, he not being the owner, but merely the c ' e ct! - pier of the farm, across which the road ran. This road was intersected by the Company's line at its junction with the Darlington-road ; and the plaintiff alleged that his communication with Darlington, which is a market town, had been seriously impeded. The jury on the trial, after several hours' deliberation, could not agree upon a verdict. At.midnight they went to Mr. Justice Cresswell's chambers, and informed him that eleven of them were unanimous in their verdict, but that the twelfth differed from them. The Learned Judge directed them to find a verdict for the defendants, with leave to the plaintiff to move the Court above. He also said that in his opinion the plaintiff was not the proper person to have brought the action. Mr. KNOWLES now moved the Court for a rule to show cause why the verdict given at the trial should not be set aside, and a new trial granted. The COURT, after considerable discussion, allowed a rule nisi, and expressed a hope that an amicable settle ment might be effected between the parties, by which the exorbitant expense of a new trial would be avoided. Mr. KNOwLEs, who concurred in the sentiments ex pressed by the Court, stated that the defendants would find his client willing to enter into an amicable arrangement. HAYWOOD V. RAYWOOD. This was an action fr tried before Mr. Justice Whiteman, at the last Worcester assizes, and the jury, to the sur prise of the Learned Judge, found a verdict for the plain tiff for 2181. The action was brought by Anne flay wood, the admlnistratrix of John Haywood, deceased. The defendant, Jacob Haywood, was a large farmer, in Worcestershire, and employed his brother, John Hay wood, whom he had relieved from pecuniary difficulties, to manage two farms of which he was the owner. The action was for work and labour rendered to the defendant by the testator, the plaintiff, and their son and daughter. No specific agreement was made between the parties as to the amount of remuneration which they were to re ceive for their services,' and the only evidence of any arrangement consisted in a conversation between the plaintiff's son and the defendant, the defendant telling him that he would allow 2!. 2s. a wee k f or th e t wo •.• farms. Mr. CROWDER now moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial had, on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence.—Rule granted. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) 'WOOD V. wEncwowrit. This was an action of trespass, to which the defendant pleaded a light of way. On this issue was joined, and the jury found for the plaintiffs, damages 40s. The question was whether a way through two closes, which had Lbeen long used as a thoroughfare, was a public way or not. Mr. Sergeant SHEA. this day obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, WILMOT V. WILLIAMS. This was an action upon a bill of Exchequer for 1801., in which the verdict was for the plaintiff. The case was tried in London before Mr. Justice Cresswell. Mr. Sergeant BYLES this day moved for a rule for a new trial, on the gronnd that the Learnel Judge had excluded material evidence. After hearing the Learned Sergeant at conidderable length, the Court refused the rule. HOLDING v. STUTCHFIELD. This was an action of debt, in which the defendant bad obtained a rule to stay proceedings upon affidavit that the amount of the debt and costa (281. 7s. 6d.) had been paid to the plaintiff's attorney. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY now moved for a rule to re scind that order, on the ground that the money was not paid in four days after the declaration was filed, but on the sixth day, the plaintiff having incurred additional costs to the amount of 21. in the meantime. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE said that as the money bad been received, the application came too late, and must be refused. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner PANE.) IN THE MATTER OF MARY ADCOCK. The insOl;eCt - WplitY tiroUgliher — EZnsel, Mr. Sturgeon, for her final order. She was opposed by Mr. Lucas, on the part of the late Sheriffs of Middlesex, Messrs. Musgrove and Moon, for fraudulently contract ing a debt of upwards of 501. Evidence was entered into to show that in the month of November last an execution was put into a house oc cupied by some relatives of the insolvent, when she claimed the goods distrained, and they were given up to her by the Sheriff. She afterwards entered an action for unlawfully breaking into and entering her premises, but a verdict was returned for the defendant, the jury finding that the property seized belonged not to the in solvent but to her relative. Mr. Lucas contended that under these circumstances, the commencing an action without any reasonable pros pect of being able to pay the costs, was a fraudulent ccmtracting of a debt.. In reply to his Hortoun, the insolvent said that she had at that time no means of paying the expenses in curred, and The Learned COM3IISSIONER gave it as his opinion that bringing an action against the Sheriffs under such circumstances was unjustifiable and fraudulent, and the final order was in consequence adjourned sine die. IN 11E NEWLAND. In this case, the Rev. William Newland, of West square, Lambeth, Whose name has for a considerable period been before the various Law Courts of West minster, in connexion with an alleged trespass upon some property belonging to a Mr. Holmes, applied for his interim order. Mr. CooKE, who opposed, said that his client (Mr. Holmes) was a creditor in the sum of 4721., the damages and costs in an action of trespass. The action had been tried before the superior Courts, and Mr. Holmes was already out of pocket somewhat more than 2,000/. Mr. Newland had already applied to the Insolvent Court, but had been refused relief there, on the ground that he had not given an account of pro perty to the value of 12,000/. possessed by his wife in the funds, as also several houses In West-square. He (Mr. Cooke) contended that having been already refused in the Insolvent Court, he could not now apply to the Court of Bankruptcy. Mr. Newland, at considerable length, appealed to his Honour's sense of justice. He thought he had been most cruelly treated in the law proceedings adverted to, and he cited several cases to prove that that Court had a legal jurisdiction in the present matter. Mr. Commissioner FANE said the whole proceedings were much to be regretted. It would have been more prudent every way—more like Christians and country men, if, instead of spending such large sums in law processes, they had come to some amicable arrange ment. He could not give an immediate judgment on the point as to whether the insolvent's petition eould be re ceived, for be was somewhat opposed to his learned NOVEMBER 5, 1844, MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAYS) ItaT SMITIMELD.—Coarse Meadow tlay, 3/ 10s to 4l 10s , Useful ditto, 41 12s to 5/ ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 35 r,, 5/ 8s ; Clover Hay, 4/ is to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 12s per load. The best Meadow Hay sold briskly, at full prices, but other wise the demand ruled heavy. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 4/ 12s; Useful ditto, 41 14s to 513 s ;. tine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to 5/ 103 ; Clover Hay, 4/ 108 to 51 18s; Oat Straw, 11 8 e to 11 lls ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 14s per load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm. Prices fully stationary. WHITECHIPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 10s to 41108; Useful ditto, 4/ 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, Si 3s to 518 s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 616 s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 108 to 1/ 12s per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish inquiry. COLONIAL SUGAR.—A fair business has been done in British Plantation, about 500 hhds having been sold at fully former prices. The public sales have consisted chiefly of 8,032 bags Bengal (mostly brown Khaur). About 1,500 bags con,isted of go©d to fine crystallised yellow, all of which sold briskly at 63s to 70s, being comparatively high prices. Only part of the remainder found buyers at 42s to 52s for low brown Khaur to mid yellow, soft date kind, which is again 1s cheaper. The quantity of Bri tish Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks, was 523 hhds, 16 trcs, and there *were taken thence for home consumption, 1,337 hhds, 186 trcs, 259 brls. The stock in the port of London, on the Ist instant, was 21,195 hhds, 3,226 trcs of British Plantation, 52,142 casks and boxes of Havannah, 45,345 bags, &c., Mauritius, 122,661 bags, &c., Bengal, and 7,385 baskets, and 133,994 bags East India. COFFEE.-979 bags Ceylon were all disposed of at 56s to 67s for good to fine fine ord British Plantation kind, and good to fine ord at 52s to 545. The stock of British Plantation on the Ist inst. was 3,961 hhds 4,865 barrels and bags, and of East India 12,192 bales, 120,522 bags. RUM.---The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 20 puns; there were taken thence for home consumption 269 puns, 31 hhds, and exported 31 puns, 94 hhds. The stock in London on the Ist inst. was 14,925 puns, 2,613 hhds. s4LITET,-1,996 bags at auction chiefly sold, but went off very irregularly, via. at 24s to 25s for 121 to 64- per cent. refraction Madras, and 23s to 26s for 17 to 6 per cent. refraction Bengal, being in some instances 6d lower. SPICES.-500 chests Cassia Lignea found buyers at 51s to C4s 0 for low mid coarse to good quality, being for the low and mid descriptions a decline of fully is to 25,. TALLow.—P.Y. Candle is dull, at 40s 9d to 41s per cwt on the spot, and town is 45s p:r cwt. TEA.—The market is firmer with a moderate business doing, VittAceo.—Early last month the market was very quiet, but since the demand has improved, and the total sales for October are 1,400 hhds. DRY SALTERY.—Indigo has been well supported; Lac Dye remains without alteration in price, and Cochineal has been declining lately. HEMP.—Clean is 27s 5d per cwt. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL. NEWS CITY, QUARTER, TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather dull, but there was no change in prices. Sales 4,000 bales, viz. 500 Egyptian at sd. to 9d. for 80 bales of fine quality; 200 Pernam, at 53d ; 300 Surat, at 23d. to 31d.; and the rest American, at 34d. to sd. per lb.--A fair business was done in Shares, and the market was firm. Chester and Birkenhead Junction, 61 ; Dublin and Cashel, 94- ; Ditto and Drogheda, 34 ; Eastern Counties, 133 ; Grand Junction, 206 ; Ditto, Halves, 103 ; Lan caster and Preston, 423 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 201 ; Ditto, Halves, 100 ; London and Birmingham, 215 ; London and York, 3i ; Midland Counties, 107 ; North Union, 141 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 101 ; South-Eastern, New, 15 ; York and Selby, 763 ; Lyons and Avignon, 21. Bs. 6d • Paris and Lyo ns 21. 19 s . Gd. ; Paris and Rotten, 381. 113. ; Paris and Strasburg, 21. ss. 6d. The Guano trade, notwithstanding the irregularities that have recently taken place in the way of adultera tion, is likely to be one of rising importance in this country. Several cargoes have very recently been dis posed of at Hull and Liverpool, and here also, at advanced prices. When it is considered that there are at present not, far short of tw - t hundred sail , of vessels employed in the trade, giving an impetus to the shipping interest, u TL 4 largely benefitting the agriculturists, the utmost is passible ought to be afforded to those ipwhot e t e a t i i , o e n r 1.71:5 . t . in the enterprise. Such, however, is not the fact. The lEiteiit P.Ccounts from Ichaboe state that the greatest irregularities well 4 committed, by attempts of foreign vessels to take in cargoes out of turn, and serious collisions were expected to occur. A. sloop of war was expected daily on the station, and this would, doubtless, put a speedy stop to intrusions. There are no arrivals to-day with late foreign news. The Funds are rather better to-day. Consols for immediate transfer have realised 994 to 100 k, and for ilnle 100 to 100*. Exchequer-bills are flat at 655. to 635. prezniuns. East India Bonds have been 90s. prem. Bank Stuck Lns been 204 to 2043, The Ncm Three and-a- Quarter per Ccritfit- are 1011 to 102; and the Three per Cents., Reduced, 99A- to Long Annuities are [2 to 12 1-16. The Commissioners have purchased Three per Cents. and New Stock to the amount of 25,000 L There is a rather buoyant market for the foreign in vestments. Spanish Active Bonds have touched g 4 to ; and the Three per Cents., 35.1 to f; Portuguese Old Bonds are at 85. Mexican have been 344 ; and Bra zilian New, 84 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are marked 624 j-; and the Five per Cents., 99 being firm. Business in the Share Market has been less animated, and there is scarcely so much buoyancy. Great Western are 653 to 643 prem. ; Birmingham, 115 to 1143 prem. ; Chester and Holyhead, 14 prem. ; York and North Mid land, 63 prem., as in the list below. The French lines are still in favour. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock ... . . ... 3 per Cent. Reduced . Annuities -- 9914% 3per Cent. Consols. Anna New 3 5 4 per Cent. Annuities lOl% 102 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan 1860 l2 1-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Bank Stock for Account Consol. for Account 10014 Exchequer Bills. I%d. 134 d. Ditto 5ma11................ ..... 65 63 pm . Ditto Advertised..„..... FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent. ..... Ditto for the Account ..„—...... Ditto Deferred Stock 15% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..... Ditto for the Account. B5 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840.......,......, 24 Ditto for the Account 243„ 21 Ditto Passive Bonds ...... ........ ..... Ditto Deterred 106N% Ditto Three per Cent. 35% Ditto for the Account Dutch 234 per Cents ....... 6254 /1 Dutch 5 per Cents 9914 PRICES OF SHARES 1 HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO .........103% ...... to Ditto New 1734 25% to Bristol and Gloucester 3O ..... 415, ..... to Chester and Holyhead 5 ..... 64 Dublin and Belfast Junction 254 454 Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... -..... 50 .... ..... Ditto 34 Share • 1234 15 Ely and Bedford Great Western ....... 75 Ditto 34 Shares Hull and Selby London and Birmingham. lOO 215 ..... to 2143 2 London and Greenwich ..... 12% ...... 9% London and York..-...... ........... 234 3% to Manchester and Leeds... ........ .... 70 Ditto 34 Shares 3O .. 473 s Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ....—.. 4934 Midland .... . ...... ..... 100 ...-....108 North British South Devon York and North Midland -- 50 ........113 --- to Ditto % Shares Ditto Scarbore' Branch Ditto Selby Scrip Central of France (Masterman's) 2 .....„. Ditto Constituted 2 o43i ... to Boulogne and Amiens Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ... ..... 4 Paris and Lyons. 2 1 - Paris and Orleans Parisand R0uen., „.„,„.„....„.„.. 20 •• 39% % ... to —. Rouen and Havre JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 4.—We have had a quiet market to-day, with but little alteration in prices.—Cambridge and Lincoln, li 15-16 ; Ely and Bedford, 1- ; Leeds and Thirsts;, 4i ; Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston, 2i; Manchester, Bury, and Rossen dale, 7i ; North Union (A), 132 ; West Yorkshire, Bi. CLOSING PRICES.' BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ex city. 201 Ditto Bonds £1,000...... pm. 3 per Cent. Red ..... ..... ... 99% itto under £l,OOO — pm 'we Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent. Red Ditto Old Annuities ... -- New 3% per Cent. lO2 Ditto New Annuities ... New 5 per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 134 d... 63 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 . ...... ....... 65 ,n. p Jan 1860 l2 1-16 Ditto Small co pm. Oct. 1859 ll 13-16 Bank Stock for Acct.... 20.1 Jan. 1860. ........ Indian Stock lndia Stock for Acct.... FOREIG N FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent .....„ — Russian, 5 per Cent.......... Belgian, 5 per Cent lO2 Ditto, Metallic ... ..... . . ... ... Brazilian Bonds ...... ..... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 1841 ...... ............. Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1842 Chllian, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 1843. _ Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish,3 per Cent ...... ...... 89% Ditto, 3 per Cent ....... Greek, 18:5, 5 per Cent — Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct.. Mexican, 5 per Cent . ...... Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct... French, 3 per Cent —f. —r. Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent, Exchange -f. '-a, Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct... Dutch, 234 per Cent ...... Portuguese Bonds, a per Cr Ditto,:s per Cent SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid). . 103 Bristol and Exeter (;0 paid) 75 Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Churnet Valley, 2 paid 3% .. Eastern Counties (25 paid) ........ Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 8 )4 London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) London and Croydon London and York, 2% paid 344 Birmingham and Derby, .t 100 paid 7B Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid Northern and Eastern (45 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) — Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 palcl. Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 7B Paris and Lyons, 2 paid 2% Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 paid CHILD KILLED BY A FERRET.—A child about three years old, named Charles Flitton, was killed by a ferret at Whittlesfurd, last Sunday night. The mother occupied a room in the old workhouse, and left the child asleep in bed about seven o'clock in the evening. at which time a ferret belonging to Joseph Brett was in the room, in a box through the lattice of which it could pass. On her return about a quarter-past nine o'clock the mother found her child so wounded by the ferret that he died a little before three in the morning.— Cambridge Chmicle. LLOYD'S - SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. s.—Wind this day at noon, N.Wit fresh breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, Nov. 4.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Ann Gre nt, 71 eY ; Aden, Hobert Town ; John Witt, Calcutta; Albion, Ichabee ; Acorn, St. Helena ; Su. ann b, Sierra Leone ; Tweed, Fernando Po'; Whampoa, Demerara; Berbice, Berbice ; Barbara Gordon, Tobago ; Elizabeth. St. Grenada ; British M onarc h, D emerara , Glaphyia, r ; Abel Gower and V ere , Jamaica ; James, 13e [Ruda ; Desdemona, New Orleans ; Florence, Madei,,,,, r % ST. MICHAEL'S M OUNT , P ENZANCE , Nov. Maria and Bet s y, Gilb er t, f rom C ar diff t o Plymouth , reports having passed thr oug h a quan tity o f wreckag e yesterday, off the Li zar d, suc h as ca bi n b u lkh ea d s , boards. spars, &c. A s hip' s wa t er cas k, a very l arge hen coop' and half a topsail-yard, su pp ose d t o b e l ong t o a ship' 200 or 300 tons, apparently a short time in the wate r, were picked up this morning and brought in here. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 4.—Wind N.N.W. to N.—A r T., her Majesty's ship Cornwallis, Trincomalee ; sailed July 10 o ; Cape, Aug. 31; St. Helena, Sept.l3; Ascension , 1 r OFF DARTMOUTH, Nov. 4.—R o y a l T ar , Bell, Bata i t FALMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind E., f res h breeze.—A ll ,; Neptune, Santand er , f or Al esun d, l ea k y, an d ph pd choaked ; Esther, Dunki r k, f or C e tt e , pumps choaked,'—pr part of cargo thro wn over b oar d, h av i ng b een 00 beam-ends. PLYMOUTH, Nov. I.—Arrd. Angelique, Edwards, N ett York, for Amsterdam. OFF PENZANCE, Nov. I.—Spartan, Henry, IchSb° e %, OFF DOVER, Nov. 4.—Cito, Bl ac k S ea, for Arolte.; dam, leaky, with loss of sails, and part of cargo thr° overboard ; Stamboul, Smyrna, with sails s plit, 1081 4 bulwarks, &c., having be e n s t ruc k b y a h eavy s ea ult., off ape St. Vincent. CORK, Nov. 2.—Arrd. Ann Wise, Smith, Rio Grand e ' St. Helen, Deslandes, Gold Coast. CROOKHAVEN, Nov. l.—Arrd. R over . Si ms, St. Jolday New Brunswick ; Emulus, Strutt, St. John's, N ell. foundland, fifteen days. FISMUARD, Nov. 3.—The Antelope, from Bangor t° London, is sunk in Goodwin Sand ; part of cargo e l . pected to be saved. The Ann Elizabeth, of AberyswYl from Chester to Lond on , i s on G oo d w i c k S an ds an bilged, The Cyrus, Thomas, of Milford, from Baog n o l f to London, which was off this yesterday with a signal distress flying, has been abandoned, and is now at anc in the Roads. WORKLNGTON, Nov. 3.—lt continues to blow a ga le from the eastward. _ _ LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4.—The Sovereign, hence to Ye t ; mouth, N.S., is ashore on the coast of Wicklow, dismaste w DUBLIN, Nov. I.—A vessel, with all hands, is re; ported to be totally lost off Ballbriggin, name unkowi . dismasted vessel is at anchor off the Greystones, about Is mile and a half from this, and another vessel is ashore Itt the Beach. KINGSTOWN, NOV. 2.—The Kingston, Compton, i s aground in the harbour, with some damage, but it i s hoped may ride out the g a l e . Th e Willi am and To e bells, of Sunderland, has lost a mast, and is much a s ' mated. The Commerce is sunk in the harbour. WATERFORD, Nov. 3.—The Sir ius , o f S te ttin, fr e l Newport and Alexandria, has put in here haky, 811 ., must discharge. The Carelon, from Bridgwater to Ol d port, came to anchor off this yesterday, but parted se o , drove out to sea, crew saved. Wind S.S.E., with str elle gales, somewhat more moderate. Coax, Nov. 2.—The headboard o f a s hip, marked , Shannon, was picked up near th e Li g hth ouse yeSterl ‘ i CARLINGFORD, Nov. 3.—The Orissa, from Livar„ to Bombay, is ashore in Cra u f or d B a y, i n a b a d p o sitie ° with rudder unshipped, but makes very little wa ter. BELFAST, Nov. 2.—Four small vessels in ballast $' ported to have paid their anchors in the Loch, an d tchs v, gone ashore on the north side. Several pieces of wr ec o and apparently new cabin fittings, one of which e„,' marked " John Johnson, Berwi c k," h ave b een picke°' near the South %Vest Light-vessel, county Down. DROGHEDA, Nov. 3.—The Shannon cutter, ' l. ' Dublin to Whitehaven, was totally l os t y es t er d a y, to O f northward of Ballybriggan, mast e r, m a t e , an d one b°l4 drowned, five of the crew saved. , 01 WARKWORTH, Nov. 4.—Th e sc h ooner Grahams' Perth, is ashore near here, but without much damage' r SOOTHAIVIPTON, Nov. 3.—Part of a ship's board, marked Silence, was picked up on Southw Beach, on the night of the Ist inst. w h'it WARKWORTH, Nov. 4.—The Iris, of Whitby, - I I( was driven on Bulmer Rocks, 3d inst., is com p waterlogged, waterlogged, and apparently breaking up, part of keel and large planks having wash ed ashore. LErrm, Nov. 3.—lt is still blowing a gale at E•-• but with some appear ante of abatement. r 113 HARTLEPOOL, Nov. 3.—The C e li a , o f L on d o n, it .° f Memel to Lynn, with ti m b er , i s as h ore on t h e b ea ch De' here, and her deckload scattered along the coast. h , BRIDLINGTON, Nov. 4.—A brig belonging to Ar c o angel, from Memel to London, with staves, drove f„c e her anchors at Alwick last night, an d wen t as h o re. he master, his wife, and two cr ew d rowne d. P ar t of cargo of the Sarah Ann, ashore at Cawdon, has b e ' saved. Hum, Nov. 2.—The Diana, of A rc h ange l, for L et/ : don, is ashore at Hornse a W oo d, an d f ast b rea king l o s master, wife, and one man dro wne d ; s i x save d, and t remain in the wreck. The schooner, supposed ashore Clee Ness, was not ashore, but at anc h or c l ose under 01° land. S A.m. The weather has become moderate. st . LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4.—Wind N.E. to N.—bld• r Vincent, St. Vincent ; Canton, St. J o h n ' s , New Billo w wick ; Satisfaction and Grace, Ich a b oe ; Hotspur, 11 , 5 tigua ; Henrietta, V era C ruz ; St. M art i n ' s , St. Jo" et Now Brunsw IflscisTovar.—Arrd. Mary, Worrall, Valparal°' . 1 00 Coati, Nov. I.—The bottom of a vessel of tons was passed in lat. 30 N., lon. 48 W., by the 31211.1 Ann, arrived off this port for Valparaiso. 1 0 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, AUG. 24.—Arrd. her Ma.le s i t Y ; , ship Cleopatra. Sid. 31st, her %lajesty ' s ship I s '" Ichaboe. The Rot&batille Montgomery, from Quebec to 13c 1 f 1 1, 11 is ashore to the northward of Dublin, crew and pas,s e r,; gers saved (fourteen men and three passengers.) 1 "„ Shannon, Collins, is totally wrecked at Knockine:' o near Dublin. The Busy, Hughes, from Dublin to ti ll port is much damaged in Kingstown harbour. The following vessels were sunk in Kingstown Of, hour in the gale :—The Kingstown , hence to about , (also burnt) ; the Capricorn, from St. Domingo to S A ,'' port ; the William and Isabel, from Archangel to G l A v' cester ; the Jupiter, of Newfoundland ; the Commer crew saved. Tint PUBLIC lIEALTU.—The quarterly returns (1 tained from 115 districts, 34 pla ce d un d er t h e metror', ;11 and the remaining 81 comprising, with some agrieultt districts, the principal towns and cities of England, t 0 population having been 6.578,912 in 1841, show that of deaths registered in the last quarter, ending the 30tx, h4 September, were 38,784, or 141 l ess th an th e defl o (38,925) in the June quar t er , an d 1,701 more th eif 37,083, the average of five previous September quayt e if Allowing for the i ncrease o f p o p u l a ti on, t h e mo rtall er will be found to be about the average of the 0 01 t quarter (July, Aug us t, an d S eptem b er ) ; that qf!artlie being now the least fatal in the y ear . Th e deaths metropolis amounted to 11,825, which are 354 more w ho were registered in the spring quart e r, an d 694 a bove t o , average uncorrected fur the increase of populati ° o ( The deaths from small-pox in the first wow ic e ips the quarter were 36, in the last 37 ; from (scarlwo 58 in the first week, 85 in the last, and 99 of the tenth. Meazles was fatal, but to a sl ll fo r extent ; typhus showed a tendency to i n crease, the deaths from this disease, including what is O fa ," times called "common continued fever," and " felif amounted to 424, whil e th e average i s 352. In ",,r country districts the most remarkable increase of 03 ; 0 . tality occurred in Cornwall, and the Redruth and K e zance districts. S ma ll-p ox h as b een ep id em i c in n), districts all over the kingdom, and has proved fati" te cl, great numbers, whose vaccination had been: negl , • 'The districts in which the mortality was greater ti l eh o the mean mortality of the corresp on di ng quar ter in I h, same district are stated to have b e en th e we st, n°, rt n j and south districts of the metropolis, Portsea I s s " t b, St. Alban's, Wycombe, Bedford, Colchester, Plyn: 311 0. Redruth, Penzance, Stroud, Heref o rd, Sh rews bury, derminster, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Aston, ventry, Nottingham, Liverpool, West Derby, Blackbulig Chorlton, Bradford, Merthyr Tydvil ; while tbosa,., which the mortality was l ess th an th e average mortall ‘!, of the corresponding quarter in the same districts tc , said to have been the central district s of th e metropo e .', Norwich, Devizes, Exeter, Basford, Sto c kport, Macc i no , field, Great Boughton, Bury, P resco t, S a lf or d, Asbly, Sheffield, Hull, Sunderland, Tynemouth, Newcastle -° ' Tyne, Pontypool, and Wrexham. 0- -FFERTORY AT BRIDGWATER.—It is said t.-- this practice be continued much longer in St. Aft ir t i of Church, our townsmen intend r es i s ti ng th e church-rates. One of the two must go, at all elrell*" Somerset County Gazette. THE HOOP NUlSANCE.—Yesterday a porter .A carrying a load of ironmongery on a k no t on bis be: at i• Queen Anne-street, Cavendi s h- square , w h en a boy dling a hoop on the foot-pavement rolled it betwe i s „"p it legs and threw him to th e g r oun d ; on b e i ng r aised ; o 'o' was found that the unfortunate iaan h a d sus t a i n ed ey" te lf pound fracture of the left thigh. He was inunt i t r• removed to the Middlesex Hospit a l, w h ere th e f., 1 u /0 was reduced. It is to be h o p e d th a t th e p o li ce Wiu n ded instructions to prevent the nuisances whi c h a re Atte" with such lamentable and serious consequences. yes' GREAT FOOT RA CE FOR T WENTY POUNDS.'"" e re, terday the race between the two celebrated ro l lthe John Smith (th e R egen t- s t ree t P et ) an d Jecks°ll at American Deer), came off near the Old flat 111., `;' e ta. Ealing, in the p resence o f a b ou t th ree thousand b :P t beW tors. Both men h a d acqu i re d great notor i e ty L'.7 t previous performances, and the race created gre i witt terest. In betting sto 4 was laid on Smith ; at th e lead they went awa y a t a grea t p ace . S m i t h too k to 7 tN o closely foll o w e d by hi s o pp onen t, an d w h en w ithin nia do hundred y ar d s o f th e w i nn i ng goa l, b ot h nle_, ° r ace, strenuous exertion, and, after a well-contesteu if to ile Smith came i n th e w i nner by t en y ar d s . The int o odl• of road was ran in t w o m i nu t es an d twenty-eight sec ci- On Monday, the 28th of October, a shockirl:,. s is dent happen e d t o J ames J ones , carman , manYj e j a ider the employ of Mr. S. Davies, coal-merchant , Da n a f t er and Times-wharf, Pimlico. On returning " 1 1; nom' delivering coals to Sir R. Smirke, of Statirnore,;, wag pany with three other carmen, with their u nload. core gons following him, he accidentally fell under th b i g t o'er wheel of the one he was driving, which we n e orge body. He was immediately conveyed to St. t he Hospital by a post-chaise, where, notwithstanl.lu_bdiej care and attention at that excellent i n stitution , e n . e ha t his on the Ist inst. It is more melancholy to relat, o '„ ow ing son first saw him fall, who was driving the 1 two the team, it being arranged that they should meet waggons that had been delivering coals at Lee_Y .sr ' ace ed mer's, Cannon-park, Edware and from thet a :l' oi dre homewards to take their wives and families t ottf illuminations, by consent of their employers, I n " ev en& cipating a merry evening, instead of so mourn ful all