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journalists, between certa' , opinions and the mode of giving effect to th , 2io. For example, ( )range Societies, with secret pass-words and chiefs, all com municating with one grand Orange lodge, with a Grand Master at its head, having soldiers in its ranks, and control over the military, ars con founded with the opinions entertained by the indi viduals composing them, and zealous-minded men called out to put down Orange Societies and Orangeism. In like manner, persons who are more zealous than discriminating, now observe that as Orangeism and Orange Societies were put down, so the Government ought now to put down Chartism and the societies of the Chartists. But the Government never put down Orangeism, and between the secret society and the opinion—the one an action the other an embodied thought, there is a wide difference, which should be remembered by the public. For secret societies meeting with pass words, and a peculiar organization, the law has already pro vided. No matter what opinions the members of such societies profess, they are illegal, and, what is more to the purpose, in general they are immoral. Concealment implies a consciousness of wrong, either doing or hatching ; and so far as such socie ties have a general object in view, intending either to seduce or coerce other men, they are plots and contrivances to overreach and injure, and are decidedly immoral. The only case, we believe, in Which they can be justified is where the persons meeting in secret are in a state of oppression and slavery, and all communion and association is pro hibited as a means of retaining the oppressed in slavery. Then secret meetings become moral from their very necessity, which shows by one word the great advantage of allowing pub• he meetings of all classes. Now, against all secret meetings, whether held by Chai Lists or Orangemen, which are both illegal and immoral, the vigour of the law may with great propriety and strict justice be called forth. But when the lovers of authority proceed a step further, and quoting some, to them, obnoxious opinions, about all men being equal, claiming equal rights, and denouncing th e slavery of the many for the aggrandizement of the few, as Mr. T. PROTHEROE did at Newport, and thereupon proceed, like some Tory newspapers, to denounce the Ministers for not putting down these opinions, and to call on the authorities to exert force to put them down, they confound a most in nocent and perhaps just opinion with an immoral act. The latter is the object of punishment—the former not. There can, abstractly speaking, be no more cri minality in forming an opinion that all men have equal rights to the gifts of nature, than in forming an opinion that a few, and they perhaps the weakest and worst of the society—according to " PIGEON PALEY" (as Dr. PALEY was called, for his well known illustration of Monarchical Government), have a right to a large share of the produce of the whole, and that while they riot in abundance the great majority must starve. No man, and conse quently no union of men, is authorized in saving, My opinion of this or that form of society is alone a a correct opinion, and I will suppress every different opinion. Whatever may be the opinions of the Chartists, therefore, they have a right to entertain them, but they have no right to organise secret so cieties or employ force to make other persons con form to their opinions. To put an end to all such societies is the duty of the Government ; but it is not justified in making any kind of war on the opinions of the Chartists. . To us it seems of great importance to remember this distinction, because, while all men will support the Government in putting an end to secret associa tions, the reflecting and liberal part of society may be revolted by an attempt to coerce men's opinions. The ease of the Welsh Chartists is bad enough, without o .ne particle of exaggeration or overstepping the bounds of justice. How far they might have seen justified had the Tories been in office, it is impossible to say, but the open manner in which the Convention was allowed to meet by the Whigs the freedom, the almost uninter rupted freedom, the Chartists enjoyed, till the fatal attack on them at Birmingham, to disseminate their opinions, left them without the shadow of a shade of a justification for secret, illegal, and imm oral meetings, to plot and hatch the means of making their will and opinions the law for other men. The Chartists are just as intGJerant as the M'GHEES and the GREGGS of Protestantism, with the additional wrong of work ing in secret. The great advantage of a Liberal over a Tory Government, in such a crisis of a nation's affairs, is at once made evident. The secret meetings, which are immoral where liberty to meet is allowed, would have been moral ' under the prohibitions and prosecutions of a zea lous Tory Attorney-General, urged on by the strife nwlting, persecuting Standards, Times, and Posts of the P res s. The liberty which the Chartists enjoyed is the very circumstance which makes their secr e t meetings, and conspiracies, and their out rageous recourse to arms, so extremely heinous in the sight of all men. We have inserted elsewhere a letter from an In habitant of Christchurch on the subject of the late decision of Sir HERBERT JENNER in the case of Mr. APSLEY PELLATT. We noticed that deci b;on at the time it was pronounced, and took the same view of it as our Correspondent does, but the public attention cannot be too often called to the gross injustice and grievous oppressions of which that baneful excrescence on the jurisprudence of the country, the Sp:.ritual Court, is the fruitful EVENING EDITION. parent. ---...-- The Queen Regent of SPAIY has dissolved the C or t es . The following is the Roya; .D __ ecree to that effect, published in the Madrid Gazed: of the 19th instant :-- _ _ " ROYAL DECREE. " Whereas my Council of Ministers has convinceJ use of the necessity of consulting the national will, on account of great events, which have completely changed the aspect of affairs ; in compliance with this advice, as Queen-Regent of the kingdom during the minority of my august daughter Isabella 11., and in her Royal name, in virtue of the prerogative given me by Art. 26 of the Constitution, I decree as follows Art. 1. The Congress of Deputies is dissolved. " Art. 2. Conformably with Art. 26 of the Consti tution, one-third of the Senate shall be renewed. Art. 3. The new Cortes shall assemble in the capital of the Monarchy on February 18, 1840, con formably with the same article of the Constitution. This is our pleasure, .‘ THE QUEEN R $: At o ur Palace , N ov. 19, 1839. EGENT. A. D. EVARISTO PEREZ DE CASTRO, President of the Council of Minister The 1110 ENT P articularly careful to cast all the odium of ,` his measure up on the " Council o f Ministers," and .41111 Y w e are not surprised at it. The same Gazette contains a long Cabinet Mani festo, in which the IVEnisters pledge themselves to th e n a tion faithfully to nphold the Constitution of 1837. That the degree of crejit due to this docu we subjoin a meet may be more easily a scertain,s.d, list of the amended Ministry, who have thus dar e d to brave the whole brunt of na tional esentment. No distingued names app ear among the r m ; but be it renv:mbered that— " .Pools rush, where a ngels fear to tread." The list runs as follows : President of the Council and Minister of Forei vi Affairs Perez de Castro. Minister of War g ' I Finance ... Senor Millan. Grace and Justice Interior ' Calderon Callantes. k Marino Senor Montes de Oca. The news of the dissolution of the Cortes wa s communicated by t e l egra ph t o the French Govern ment on Friday evening, and create (1 a great sen- sation in Paris on Saturday. The despatch con tained only the following brief ,-rouncemcnt " MADRID, Nov. 18.—A decree of the Queen- Regent orders the dissolution of the Cortes. Madrid is quite tranquil." The tranquillity of Madrid was supposed to be owing to the presence of a large military force in and near that capital. So long as the Constitution of 1837 is made the pass-word of the army, the Government can rely upon the fidelity of the troops. In the meantime the cry against the payment of taxes, unless sanctioned by the Cortes, was re echoed from province to province throughout Spain. This will place the Government in a most dangerous predicament, as the new Cortes will unquestionably call to severe account any Minister daring to violate the solemn resolution of their predecessors, and we do not see in what way the Cabinet can provide for the expenses of the Crown without taxes. No intelli gence of any moment had been received from Las Parras, the head-quarters of General ESPARTERO. That officer was awaiting the arrival of supplies be fore commencing active operations. His army was suffering greatly from want of provisions. It will excite some surprise here that the French Government, who only a few weeks ago expressed such a determination to maintain the integrity of Spain by insisting upon the speedy evacuation of Passages by the English, is at this very moment about to seize upon Minorca by one of those devices which succeeded s o admirably in Africa. True, the real design of the Government is not yet avowed ; but of the fact no doubt can be enter tained from the following announcement, which we copy from a well-informed Paris Paper : "The long• contemplated establishment of a military hospital at Mahon is definitively to take place, and is, we understand, in progress of execution. In conse quence of this measure, the passage between France and Africa, which is now 135 marine leagues, will be reduced to less than one half, and the sick may be hereafter conveyed first to that hospital, and, when able to continue the journey without danger, again shipped for France. With that view iron bedsteads belonging to the War Administration, have been em barked in the Rainier steamer, Captain Fournier, which was to have left Toulon on the 17th with the corres pondence for Algiers. This vessel was to put into Mahon, and deposit the articles necessary for the open. ing of that hospital. "This institution would have beenlongsince in opera tion if England had not thrown difficulties in the way of its establishment." We should like to know by what process the ". difficulties" of our Government in this affair were at last overcome. It is not surely intended to make the Mediterranean in reality a French lake. The Oriental question was considered as good as settled in Paris. According to the current rumour, MEHEMET ALI is to be left the hereditary sove reignty of Egypt and Syria, with the enjoyment for life of the Government of Candia, which at his death is to revert to the dominion of the Porte. The despotical tendencies of the French Go vernment, and the avidity with which it seizes upon every occasion to arrest the progress of the very principles which gave it an existence, are indig nantly denounced in a very sensible article in the Commerce of Friday. Hardly had LOUIS PHI LIPPE ascended a throne, purchased by a glorious revolution, when France was made to turn her back upon struggling Poland, prostrate Italy, and the con stitutionalists of Germ Any, who were severally handed over to the tender mercies of Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Switzerland was next trampled under foot ; and since the commencement of the unfor tunate war in Spain, everything has been done to render unavailing the noble efforts and free aspira tions of the Constitutional party. The same Jour nal assures us that since the ridiculous and fulsome eulogium pronounced by Sir ROBERT PEEL in the House of Commons, upon the system of Louis PHILIPPE, whom he affected to compare in greatness with NAPOLEON, the English Tories have become prodigious favourites at the Tuileries. But in what terms do the organs of that faction in France speak of the Orleans dynasty ? How do they receive the complaisant advances of King Louis PHILIPPE ? We have seen with what fOrce the French inde pendent Liberal press condemn the retrogade policy of the Court. Now mark the scorn with which the high Chinch-and-King, the abolutist organ, the Quotidienne, speaks of Louis PHILPPE'S darling system : " France must not be surprised if, in the height of its miseries, the Government offers no remedy. It does not consider these miseries as worthy of its attention. , Bread is dear, but that is nothing. In one arrondisse ment of Paris there are 16,000 paupers—that is no thing ; the Tuileries are guarded like !I fortress of the middle ages—that is nothing ; the entire system of so cial order is endangered by public demoralisation— that is nothing. Ministers belonging to a party soi. disant favourable to liberty, and instructed by the Chambers to take an opposite course to that of the Court Cabinet which they overturned, allow them selves to be led even more captive than their pre decessors, at the same time showing their own weakness and their affected contempt for their for. mer opinions—but this is nothing—less than nothing. Taxes are imposed by ordonnance without the concurrence of the Chambers or the authority of the law—that is nothing. Peers are made from all that is obscure, as if it was intended to destroy this institution—that is no thing. Our army in Africa, by the neglect of the Ali nistry, are dying of suff'erino's and hunger—that is no thing. Public offices are the prey of men of incapacity or bad reputation—that is nothing. The budget, al ready so overwhelming, is augmented—that is nothing. Spain, more ravaged than ever by fire and sword— England and:Russia united in insulting France (the only point on which they are agreed)—our commercial inte rests sacrificed by sea and land—without an ally in Europe—an equivocal and discreditable attitude in the East, where the Ambassadors of the other Powers act independently of France—all this is to be ranged in the class of the greatest trifles in the world." The French Journals of Friday and Saturday have all been duly received. The most important news they bring is the dissolution of the Cortes by the Queen of SPAIN—a measure of which the details will be found in another article. In answer to the repeated remonstrances of the Commerce on the subject of the unfortunate French exiles in Siberia, the Moniteur publishes the following official ar ticle : " A journal demands in the most vehement terms an explanation from the Ministry, respecting the truth of the reports which have been lately cir culated of the unhappy situation of between 2,000 and 3,000 French prisoners, who, it says, are still detained in captivity in Siberia. " A plain statement of facts will be a sufficient answer to these assertions, which are made use of to excite public opinion in the most delicate and sensitive point. ,c The steps which the French Legation at St. 1 Perurgh took on several occasions, between 1816 1 and in order to ascertain whether the Rus sianernment did in fact ret a i n i n se r v itud e et i s B b 3oo Government some rem nants of our an c ie n t arm i es , had instantly pr oduced unhappy the formal assuran ce of that Government, that there was not a single French man detained against his will in the dominions of the Emperor. " Marshal INIAtsoN in 1834, and Baron BA RANTR in 1836, returned the same answer to the new instructions which were successively sent to those Ambassadors, to inquire with the utmost care into the truth of the assertions of a Frenchman who affirmed th a t h e h a d esca ped by flight from the hardships o f t h e captivitys tandards. which e ndured in Russia, ever since the our he had the fortune of war had sepa rated them from i , The Russian Government ordered the Gover nors of Siberia to send •in an official report on the French prisoners of war who might be in the provinces under their administration. The reports of these Governors were corn • municated to our A in bassa,:!;.lr. It appeared from them t ha t t h ere WE re in Siberia only slime Frenchmen who had be, n condemned to hard labour for assassination. " It will be acknowledged that the department of 1 Foreign Affairs had reason to think itself SUM- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1t139. ciently informed respecting the credit due to the reports which represented thousands of French. men as being detained in the mines of of Siberia in . contempt of the treaties. For the sake both of the truth and public morals, the King's Government will investigate the origin of these reports, and will ascertain whether the source from which they issue is pure and disinterested. As for Marshal SOULT, to whom Le Commerce more particularly addresses its questions, he repels with indignation even the bare idea that he could for a moment be indifferent to the fate of a single French soldier who might languish in captivity far from his own country, and contrary to the law of nations, and he does not allow any person whatever to breathe even a suspicion on this point." BOURSE.-.-PARIS, SATURDAY, Nov. 23. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. 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The case arose out of certain partnership transactions between Sir G. Noel, Mr. Middleton, and a gentleman named Davidson ; and the question was, whether cer tain copyhold property, belonging to the customary heir of Nathaniel Middleton, was charged with the ar rangement that had been come to by the parties in 1803. The decree declared that the property was well charged, and referred it to the Master to take the ac counts on that footing, and also to state the balance due to Sir Gerard Noel. The Mas ter being of opinion that the deed which had been executed, and the transactions that had taken place in 1803 barred the right of Sir G. Noel to go upon the copyhold estate, refused to take an account of the ad vances he bad made, and signed his report without taking notice of that fact. Such being the case, the parties took exceptions to the Report, the validity of which the Court was now called upon to decide. His Lordship, alter going at some length into the facts of the case, stated his opinion to be that the Master had miscarried in the course he had adopted, and referred the matter back to him to review his report. The COURT then proceeded with appeal motions, this being the last day of Michaelmas Term. His Lordship will sit in Lincoln's Inn Hall to morrow, and proceed with hearing of appeals and ori ginal causes. The Court will only hear motions on the Seal days. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. These Sessions commenced this morning, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Mr. Al derman Lainson, and the Sheriffs. The Grand Jury having been sworn, and addressed by the Learned Recorder, retired to their:room, for the performance of their duties. The calendar contains the names of 232 prisoners, but :he greater part of the charges are for minor offences. EXEMPTION OF BARBERS FROM SERVING ON JURIES. A Juror claimed exemption, on the ground of being a member of the Barbers' Company, The RECORDER said that this privilege of exemption for the members of the Barbers' Company, was owing to a slip in the Act of Parliament. Surgeon-barbers were exempted, but since the Companies had separated, there could be no ground for the excuse of barbers ; and he trusted that the exemption would soon be done away with. lie would take care that the matter should be looked into : he should expect for the future that the Clerk of the Com pany would attend, in order to identify those claiming the exemption, as this privilege was in fact inflicting a great hardship on those liable to serve. The claim of exemption was then allowed. A Jury having been impanelled, Jacob Waterhouse was indicted for stealing in the parish of Greenwich two ewes, the property of B. G. Coledry. Both the prosecutor and the prisoner arc butchers. The prisoner had been out on bail and had surrendered this day. Mr. Payne appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson for the defence. James Cooper--Is gardener to Mrs. Cousins, of Greenwich ; found two sheep in his mistress's garden on the 23d September last ; took them to the prisoner, who said they were his, and took them away. Prisoner said he had lost five sheep. There was a field behind the garden, from which the sheep might have strayed, or they might have got in from elsewhere. Edward G. Coledry had two ewe sheep in a field near Mrs. Cousins' garden, on'the 22d September last ; had bought them on the Monday before at Enfield of Mr. Wale. Went to prisoners house on 25th, and asked him if he had fetched two sheep from Mrs. Cousins. The prisoner said he had. He asked if he had killed them. He said, yes. He said the skins were gone. Witness told him that his boy had seen the skins on his premises that morning. The prisoner said the boy was a liar. Witness then gave information to the police. - Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON.—Does not re collect saying be asked him if lie had killed the sheep be fore to-day. Has never said the sheep he lost were South Downs. Never saw the sheep in Mrs. Cousins garden ; and has had no opportUnity of identifying the sheep either by body or skin. Did not find any dif ference in his trade in consequence of the prisoner coming to live near him, and had never said so. There might have been one or two had left off dealing with him in consequence. Did not cause any account to be put in the newspapers. A person called on him a week after, and asked particulars, but he did not know what he wanted. Knows a person named Constantine, a reporter. Has read an account in the Greenwich Gazette. Cannot tell whether it was before or after the stranger called on him. Does not know if Constantine spoke to him about it. James Bennett, prosecutor's servant, had seen two skins on prisoner's premises on the Tuesday and Wed nesday. Cross• examined—Bad, when before the Magistrates, said that he saw prisoner at Mrs. Cousins' on Tuesday, and his master corrected him, and said Monday. Policeman B. 94 took prisoner into custody ; he said he bad fetched two sheep from Mrs. Cousins' garden, which he believed to be Mr. Coledry's, but as he was on bad terms with him he would not acquaint him, and turued them out ; he found two carcases on his pre mises, which he said he had bought—one of Mr. Cobb, of Deptford. Cross-examined—Cobb's man attended before the Magistrates and corroborated prisoner's statement, but was not bound over ; when taken prisoner said that he had fetched the sheep because he thought they were his. There were no marks of slaughtering on the premises. Edward Sweetlove was asked by prisoner to look after his shop on Monday night, while he killed one or two sheep ; this was about nine &clock. He remained at prisoner's until nearly ten. Cross-examined.—Prisoner had no light, and did not appear to have been engaged in slaughtering. There were no sheep in the shop. Policeman It 68 saw two sheep hanging up in pri soner's shop on Monday evening, between seven and eight o'clock ; they appeared to be fresh killed. Has been a butcher. Cross-examined.—Believes a scoured sheep, if not Totten, would make as good mutton as a healthy one. (The case was not concluded at the time of our going to press.) VICTORIES IN INDIA-HON OURS. The following marks of distinction are conferred by her Majesty on the wise councillors and brave officers by whom the late events in India were planned and pro secuted to a glorious end : Lord Auckland to be Earl of Auckland and Vis count Eden. Sir John Keane to be a Peer—title not yet known. Mr. M‘Naghten and Colonel Pottinger, to be Ba- A FRENCH PICTURE OF A MO NA RCHICAL THRONE SURROUNDED BY REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS. PALACE OF THE TUILERIES. We had been informed of the new precautions recently adopted for the defence and for the exterior and interior protection of the Palace of theTuileries, but a journal publishes on that subject such extraor-; dinary particulars, that we copy them, in order to afford the Government an opportunity of contradict ing them. " The service of the Palace was never more ri gorous than at present at any former period, or in any other reign. The soldiers themselves are terri.; fied by it. Our readers remember the fate of the poor man who was killed for having too closely ap proached the gate of the Rue de Rivoli. Ever since additional precautions have been taken, the military garrison of the Tuileries is obliged to take tile same ineav,ures, and is as much on the qui vive as if it were in the presence of the enemy. " There are round the Palace three principal lines of defence, included between the Seine, the square of Louis XV., the Rue Rivoli, and the Place du Carousel. The river closes on one side that extensive polygon, too deep to he forded ; its bridges, adjoining the Tuileries, form defiles diffi cult of access. " The parallel lines comprise the different de bouches of the streets of L'Echelle, St. Roth, and Ii ivoli, and is much better supported than that of the Carrousel. " Two military governors are installed at the Louvre and in the Tuileries respectively. They combine their operations, create, modify, and inter pret their consigns, and are able, by their military knowledge, to organize at a moment's notice a sys tem of defence. " The arms of the soldiers on duty are everywhere loaded. ‘ The guard is formed of companies of picked men, who are reviewed daily, of National Guards and of Cavalry. " During :he day several distinct secret sets of ' police keep watch on each other, and are in con tinual movement along the lines. This service is even organized amidst the crowd of the public, fol lows its undulations, and marches and stops with it. Each mouchard, or spy, carries under his coat a belt, in which are slung a brace of pistols and dagger. The comrade who relieves him merely makes a sign to him. Agents seated in hackney coaches are continually reconnoitring the approaches,: of the chateau, and a watch, or living telegraph, posted on the top of the roof, giv es notice of th e . approach of anything calculated to disturb the dy-• nastic order. " These precautions arc redoubled toward€ night fall. 350 picked men, supplied by all the rctr,i ments of the garrison, arrive at that hour, and take their station under the Pavilion de l'Horloge. " Rounds and patrols follow each other in rapid succession, and during the night they issue from the Palace, and are constantly met moving round it, along the quays, the Square of Louis XV., the Carrousel, the Rue de Rivoli, and the Rue St. Honore. Independently of these military dispositions, which are supported by numerous posts, are other reserves stationed at the Place des Pvramides and at the Ministry of Finance ; the battalion of infantry quartered in one of the wings of the Palace, and the cavalry barrack on the Quai d'Orsav ; these ra y within short dista nces o f each other, 8 constitute eresp lac a e ui tl effective forca of bet ween 3,000 an d 4,000 men, which may be turned out and concen trated at the Palace. in the course of four or five minutes. The parapets, bridges, railings, and gates, are well tuarded. The internal defensive measures are still More formidable. A ditch limits the garden ; the area of the gate of the Pavilion de l'Horloge has been raised in order to render its approach the more difficult; the chimnies have been secured by iron bars across them ; double doors of solid oak, and turning easily on enormous copper hinges, are petard (or bomb) proof ; the cellars and subterra 'leans paisages are guarded in such a manner that any attempt to undertnine the palace would prove abortive ; and certain cabinets, which are as strong as casewates, are traversed by a small winding staircase, extending from the eeliar to the roof; 150 servants, officers, and serge-ants of experienced cou rage, dressed during the day in a handsome uniform, throw it off at night. Each buckles round his waist a pelt filled with cartridges, is armed to the teeth, and keeps watch i n th e l ong galleries of that sombre abode. " Thus the Palace is secure, on the one hand, against all attempts from abroad, and in the inte rior against a military movement of the troop on duty. Police agents watch the patrols, and the latter the sentinels. Troops of the line, with loaded arms, are mixed up with the National Guards, wh o do not possess a grai n o f gunpowder, and within the precincts of the palace the household of Louis Philippe performs a secret and distinct service quite apart from the rest. " One of our friends passed on Saturday last at the debouche of the Pont Royal, about half -past 6 o'clock in the evening, and remarked with astonishment that all the avenues leading to that point were occupied by several brigades of town sergeants, whilst others of that force were posted behind the palisades erected round the works for repair of the bridge. These men communicated with knots of police agents standing near the gates, or silently sea t,a on the parapets of the quay. Several patrols w ere seen in the meantime moving along tht terrace, and two officers of th e chateau, whr . : appeare d to superintend the whole, were walk.'iug up and down on the flags. Other indivi.: ) ,uals, remarkable for their sinister countenarnes, were dispersed through the crowd, who stopped with surprise in that sort of ambuscade. The wheels of a heavily loaded cart having sunk in a hole, the agents imme.— diately congregated around it, and helped to extricate it. All of a sudden the distant noise of carriages and of th e gallopin g of cavalry was heard, and shortly afterwards Louis Philippe passed by like lightning, on his way back from Versailles."—Commerce. The Duke of Rutland left town by the 'railway on Saturday for Belvoir Castle, to receive hP_r Majesty the Queen Dowager Adelaide and suite, who are ex pected to arrive at the Castle to-day on a visit to the Noble Duke. The Duke of Argyll took hia departure yesterday morning for Invcrary Castle, Argylciihire, to join the Duchess, who has been residing there with the Marquis of Lorn:and family during his Grace's visit to tb,e me tropolis. The Earl and Countess of Sefton left town yesterday morning for Stoke Farm, on a visit to the Dowager Countess of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux. His Lordship arrived in town on Friva-y from a visit to the Earl of' Stradbroke, at Henham Y.all, Suffolk. The Earl and Countess were expected to leave Stoke Farm to day, for Croxtcth Park; Lar.eashire. Mr. Thomas A. NV. Parker, M.P., anti the family conrieetioni of the Earl of Macclesfield, are plunc 4 ed into the deepest grief by the premature death of the youthful wile of the Hon. Member, of an inflam matory fever. The melancholy event took place at Woodstock, on Tuesday last. The deceased lady, w h o was only in her 21st year, had only been married fot A r months on the 11th inst. We understand dlr.' funeral is fixed for to-morrow, when the mortal remains f a t t h e deceased will be deposited in the family vault Sher borne. The venerable Earl of Macclesfield, the Hon. Colonel Parker, and the other lumbers of th e f am il y are expected to attend the obsequi ef ,. The Right Hon. Sir Robert. Peel, Bart., left town on Saturday evenirig for Drayton Manor. The i‘psie Ho y House ü ßaro sea n ft e e t visited ratte ther,ai attending the Privy Council. Wellington Earl and Countess de Grey arrived at Wrest k, their B3d fe seat ..tn r. tislie, a Yorkshire,)re r in accompanied the w' ek , from b ym Newly r.an d Lady Hall , Mary Vyner. The Noble Earl, who came to town on Saturday t o a t ten d the Privy Council, left the same evening for the former seat. BRUSSELS, Nov. 23.—Senhor Luiz Victorio de Noronha, Charge d'Affaires of her Majesty the Queen of Portugal, had an audience yesterday of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to whom he delivered his credentials.— Monitcur Beige, Nov. 23. EXCHANGE OF ANTWERP, TWO O'CLOCK.— S ; r l .) ,-,nisl 23k, ) andoStock opened aat 2. Very t 2 31 fell graduallylittle businessto 2,2 w 1 2 d m )nc -,Kb; Marlborough - st r eet ., g s h p r ices s v t E r e : i E t tA policePißa r E is z c L o were u E :: E o l N t v k T m n ., w j n o , w h i f i s aa y at e , about forty years of age, and of fashionab.ieextemor, was coul d bi s enT.oyment , a .e s ttir a s e r l r e e r v k iou o s f l mi+ted for further examination on a charge of emb ezz li ng ' various tr...a of money iNhich i had. come into hi s posses uitable Loan C om p an y in Great Marlbo roug h- street, Mr. Wi ng fi e ld, o f previously to i G .:lsci r iti v e a k t ' I a l situation \ r l c a l r 4 lb w r h o le el u n g h ia he -s e( t l rac held ebts for u , c t . o r r to th e C ompany , ` ; ' - on by virtue I st ated that the amount the Company,had been al rea dy c alled upon to make good on account of the prisoner's I defalcations, was 1,8001. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals were good of most descriptions of Corn, and we had a fair show of fresh samples, chiefly in tender con dition. Wheat continued dull, at a further decline of 2s. for now, and Is. per quarter for old. For good Foreign the factors will not take lower prices. Barley was further reduced 2s. per quarter. Beans and Pease remained as last week, with a slow sale. Oats rather cheaper. The Flour trade very dull at the late decline. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) 55s 725, -White (old) 655. I;tic. -Red 18.19) s4s. Ms. Fine 625.638. Superfine 663. Ods --White (1839) 60s. MS. Beans, Small (new) 0 -s (old) Tick (new) 38s 41. (old) 42,44s Harrow (new) 40..42+ (old) 445. 46s . -- Fine' -Superfine 70s. 753. --Foreign free 60s. 82s. Rye 4fis. 40s. Barley 30s. 38s. -- Grinding 30s :36s - Malting 38s 445. Malt 565. 655, - Fine New &is. 795. Pease, Grey, New 36s 40s - - Maple New . 405..445. -- White 40s. 425. Boilers 42s 445, ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LO I Wheat. I B 5,150 qrs. 11, • Brank Oats, Feed —s.—s. New 0 4.28 Poland s —s. New 30,. - Potatoe 29,325. New 28•.325. Scotch 324.348. Irish .245. ... 265.23 . Flour Town (per sack) .... 5S 62, . Seconds 546.565. North Country 59, 52. Bran $ 9 )NDON DURING LAST WEEK larley. vats. en, u , ,992 qrs. 8.169 qrs. 6,662 .acks 7,917 646 J f,136 brls. :nglish .. ...... 2'oreign 11,719 I g,137 1 SMITHFIELD. The market was but sparingly supplied with cattle of any de sr•ription, but bing in good condition, and buyers numerous, we had a brisk trade for all kinds of meat. Beef of the finer Jrts advanced 2d. per stone, and the inferior met a good sale, at last week's currency. Mutton without alteration. Veal eagerly sought after, and advanced 43. to Bd. per stone. Pork ia good demand, at former rates. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 6d. ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. Beasts, 3,387. Sheep, 22,160. Calves, 87. Pigs, 494. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The supplies were good, and prices reasonable. Turbot ss. to 20s. ; Cod 2a. 6d. to 12s. ; Salmon very scarce. Soles 6d. to Ss. per pair ; Lobsters 10d. to 3s. 61. ; Oysters 12s. to 40s. per bushel; Whitings Bd.:to 10d. ; and Haddocks Bd. to 2s. PROVISION MARKET. The stocks generally by no means large, and there was but little business passing. Irish Bacon at 50s. to 535. for middles; Irish Butter, 765. to Ms. for Cork and Carlow ; Bladdered Lard, 625. to 645. No Foreign Butter in the market ; and nothing doing in Navy Provisions. HOP MARKET. The price •f Hops continue unaltered, and there was still a good demand for fine coloury descriptions. The lower.qualitics were extremely languid. The duty is 230,000/. SEED MARKET. Prices much as they were last week. The most lively de scriptions were Linseed and Rape Seed, the former at 355. :to 425. per qr. ; and the latter at 321. per last. The arrivals of all kinds of seed are ♦ery moderate. TEA MARKET. Tea continues to excite attention, and it is the only commo. dity that can be said to be brisk. Extreme prices continue to be paid, The kinds most sought after are the low Congous and Twankays. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY,• TWELTE O'CLOCK. The arrivals this morning are two French mails, two Ostend, and one Dutch. Ship-letters, from Philadelphia, Cape of Good Hope, 16th of Sept., Calcutta, 11th of May. Old dates with the exception of that from the Cape. _ . The only arrival", this morning of any importance is the express from Madrid, with the intelligence of the lissolution of the Cortes. The telegraph of Bayonne Further announces that all continued perfectly tranquil in the above capital. _ _ Two Mexican packets are now due ; some fear has been entertained for the first, being so long overdue but she might have experienced bad weather goiogtopt, in consequence of which her sailing from Vera crux might be of a later date than anticipated. It is stated that each of the above packets will , have a freight of a million of dollars on board. . THE FUNDS. •)) - Is7lrts Next Thursday being-settling day in the British Mar ket, the speculators and jobbers in Consols are looking to the balancing their accounts against the above day, in consequence of which it is not expected 'thit any operations of importance will take place until after that period. It is also expected that money will be rather in demand during the present week for the settling of the Account. The very few arrivals this morning created a pause in the operations of the various Funds. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 90i 4, both for Money and time, opened this morning at NI for Money ; for the Account, 90i, with little doing as yet. Money continues scarce and in demand. Exchequer Bills 6 ,3 dis. ; Bank Stock, 178 179 ; India Stock, 251 252 ; in India Bonds nothing done. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has receded in consequence of the affairs at Madrid, closed at 25k 26, opened this morning at 25i ; Portuguese a shade lower, left off at 31i 321, at present 31-i 32 ; Brazilian, 72 73 ; Colombian, 30i ; Mexican, 29i 30 ; Belgian, looi 101 i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52i- , Five per Cents., 98k. PitICES OF STOCKS TH__IS ,,: DAY AT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock — ; India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. Bfl % ,‘ %I Ditto Bonds 4 dis S per Cent. Cons. 90 552 s % South Sea Stock — 3y4 per Cent 973 's Old Annuities — Ditto Red. 97%1i New Ditto New IN per Cent 987 i 9 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to ex pi re Ditto 500 iJan. 5, 1860 19% Ditto Small 2 dis, Oct. 10, 1859 Ditto Commercial — Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised ..... Jan. 5, 1880 T C ki o 1 r s i s Ditto, ttt o ts:Dtttig s looauAnAANe for s Bcceeß; A :A:eoßon c ri uuitdr c ,nncni s o ost. Ode : ns n ,Ni t t s . 1 . 1 . . .. 0 . Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880. PRICESJan.S. O I p B7 p O. O ... R . E .. ...... 1./ ND — S Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account : C .. .1,0 9 C7 1 . Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account y Account res 801 . ' . d .. 5 ..... Buenos Ditto A 3IN 2 Ditto Account l2 Chilian Bonds Utto Account Columbian Bonds - -t Ditto Account Ditto Account — , Ditto Metallic... Columbian Bonds, 182,4 — Spani s h B onds ' 5 %;i Ditto Account 21.,4 , Ditto Account 22a% is Danish Bonds 73u, , ' Passive Ditto Account — i Deferred 11%% Greek Bonds... — French, 5 per cent....... —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — j --- 4 per cent —f. —c. Ditto Account —l ---- 3 per cent. —f. —c. --- Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cont. Exchange. —f. —c. ( Ditto Account ........ Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per cent ...... ..... OS Neapolitan —, Ditto Acctunt........ ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brighton Railway 3O 15 London sad South Western PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, NOVEMBER 9.3. per Cent. Consols 3% per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 ...... ~. 97% City of Dublin Steam Comp. 114 par Cent. Debentures... 90% National Insurance Company Bank Stock ls6y, City Debentures, 4 per cent. Grand Canal Stock Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE — . LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATIJRDAT.—We have had a moderate demand for Cotton to-day, and prices are rather easier. The sales 2,500 bags, chiefly American. Private letters from the Havannah, of the 12th of October, state that the Mexican packet so long due had not arrived there at the above date. The dull state of the weather, with the scarcity of arrivals this morning, tends to damp speculative opera tions both in the British and Foreign Markets ; in either of them to the present hour there is not a feature worth noticing. The speculators are now waiting the result of the dissolution of the Cortes at Madrid, and in what way it will operate in the various provinces ; much fear is entertained that it will have a bad effec: in the South of Spain. Consols at present may be quoted at the opening price of the morning, 90a for the Account, for Money they reached 904, at present 908. Exchequer Bills, 5 3 6 dis. ; India Bonds, 4 dis, ; Bank Stock, nothing doing. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active was done at 251, at present 254 ; Portuguese, 31i 32 ; Three per Cents , 214 ; Colombian, 30:1 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 528 8 ; Five per Cents., 98 ; Spanish Pas sive GI, have been 68. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute, it is un derstood, will pass the approaching Christmas at their seat, Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire. The Noble Marquis has returned from Cardiff Castle, Wales.—Hems Re- former. We are happy to have it in our power to contra. aid a rumour very prevalent in town, respecting the serious illness of the Earl of Eglintoun. His Lordship was slightly indisposed, but not so much as to excite alarm, and he is now convalescent.—Ayr Observer. ROLLS' COURT.-(l' ' HIS DA t.) This being the last day of Term, the MASTER of the ROLLS took motions, but no case possessing any feature of interest came before the Court up to . the time of our going to press. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF LISICEARD. In this case a rule had been obtained, calling upon the Mayor and Town Council of the Borough of Liskeard to show cause why they should not pay the costs of an application to the Lords of the Treasury for an annuity of 121. to Mr. Murray, late Clerk of the Market and Inspector of the Town Clock of that Borough. Mr. MANNING now appeared to show cause against the rule, and contended that the office was one which, under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations' Act, the Corporation should not have granted com pensation for. Lord DENMAN-Why do you not pay the costs? Mr. MANNING said the defendants conceived they had good grounds for resisting their payment. The fact was, that the Lords of the Treasury would never have made the award, but that the borough had only one representative, Mr. Charles Buller, who was at that time in Canada ; and had he been at home, and have paid a visit to the Treasury, the award in Mr. Murray's favour would never have been made.—(Laughter.) The COURT, after hearing the arguments of Counsel, thought no good grounds had been shown for refusing the payment of costs, and made the rule absolute. THE QUEEN V. RICHARD BLOW. The defendant in this case, who had been indicted and found guilty of obstructing a public road, at Ware, in Hertfordshire, appeared upon the floor of the Court, to receive judgment. After some affidavits in mitigation of punishment had been read, Mr. PLATT for the defendant said he really did not know what the parties prosecuting wanted, if they did not want to ruin the defendant. He was most willing to restore the road to its original state if that would be con sidered satisfactory. Counsel for the prosecution having assented to this, the defendant was discharged, on his own recognizances to come up and receive judgment when called upon. BAIL COURT.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE.) THE QUEEN V. THE TOWNSHIP OF BARNARD CASTLE. In this case an indictment had been removed into this Court to try the question whether a road in the township of Barnard Castle was a turnpike road, and whether the trustees were liable to repair it. Mr. Buss now moved for a rule to show cause why part of the fine should not be imposed on the trustees, under the statute of George 111., by which it is enacted that when the inhabitants of any parish shall be presented for not repairing a turnpike road, the Court shall impose a fine, such fine shall be apportioned between the inha bitants of the parish and the trustees or commissioners of such turhpike road. The trustees in the present case were in the receipt of 1,4001. and the cost of repairing the road was 750/., so that they had actually a surplus income for the payment of their debts. The fine sought to be enforced was only 301. but the object was to try whether the trustees were bound to repair or the township. His LORDSHIP granted a rule to show cause. COMMON •PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) "Thik being the last day of Term the LORD CHIEF '301 , 16i delivered several judgments.. THE SERGEANTS AND THE BAR. Immediately upon taking his seat his LORDSHIP called upon Mr. Sergeant S pan kic (the senior Sergeant present), and said, Iu respect to the application which was`made to the Court on the first day of Term by my brother Wilde, on the subject of the sole and exclu sive privilege of the Sergeants being heard, and prac tising in this Court, notwithstanding the warrant under the sign manual ; we have given the matter very full consideration, and resolved on the course we intend to adopt. Upon the first day of next Term, in case any Gentleman not of the degree of the coif shall be present I shall not call upon him to move. But at the same time, if such gentleman so first passed over shall be desirous of making any observations as to the right of himself and of other members of the bar not being of the degree of the coif, to be heard, we shall be willing to hear him on that point, and shall either then, or if his observations shall appear to re quire further consideration, at some future day, an nounce the course we intend finally to adopt, and the reasons on which it will be founded. MORGAN V. MILLER. In this case an action had been brought upon a bond given by defendants to plaintiffs to secure the pay ment of 5,0001. by instalments, and with interest, 2,0001. remaining unpaid. Defendants had been clerks of Mr. Whitter, a solicitor, and the sum was in con sideration of their having his business upon his death. Defendants pleaded that the bond had been obtained by fraud, and on that issue was joined. Defendants had filed a bill in Chancery to set aside the bond. The action had come on to be tried at Guildhall, in 1836, and it appeared to the Lord Chief Justice, before whom it came, that the case would more properly be decided by an arbitrator ; upon which it was agreed that a verdict should be entered for 10,0001.—subject to subsequent proceedings ; and that a decree should be obtained in the Chancery suit, for referring it to the Master, to find if any deduction should be made from the amount of the bond. The case came on now on two cross rules—one on the part of the plaintiff, to be allowed to proceed to the trial of his action ; and the other on the part of the defendants, for an at tachment against the plaintiff and Mrs. Farden, for disregarding the_order of reference. It was a lle g ed b y the fendants that the plaintiffs had endeavoured, in every possible way, to frustrate the arrangement which had been entered into ; and on looking at the iio.es of the proceedings before the Chancellor, the Court thought the plaintiff had not shown a real desire to fulfil that arrangement. On the whole, how ever, they considered the action should be tried, but it must be on payment of costs by plaintiff, and the at tachment must stand over, as security for the costs. HARE V. MILNE. This was a rule for setting aside an award, on the ground, first, that one of the arbitrators had consulted counsel as to his decision, and that the arbitration had gone on after the death of one of the parties without notice to his personal representative. The first point would have been conclusive had not the arbitrator dis tinctly denied that lie had consulted counsel to make up his mind on any other point than as to stating the facts on the award. The other point the Court did not think of itself under the circumstances decisive, and the rule must be discharged, without costs. REES V. MAY. In this case the rule for a new trial was, after con sulting the Judge who tried the action (Mr. Justice Coleridge), granted. SILVER V. BARNES.-DIUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES. In this case an action hard been brought on a pro missory note which had subs given to a Mutual Benefit Society, where persons cribed monthly sums, the amount to be afterwards lent to competitors among the subscribers, to the highest bidder. Th e quest i on wh i c h had been left to the jury was—wh e th er i t s h ou ld b e 1 (which, c l ear l y, as a loan )- an interest in considered a par t ne rship affair or a l oan ? The Conti' co nsidered this was c orrect l y put — an d a partnership affair, held da t or h tnh a ye t ayhy tei advanced. —Rule debsveealtefnr,nac as sd s transaction t s i °ll usurious) was scriber, havi ng ßule for a n ew tr i a l discharged. T R...—Mr.Mu r p4fixes the coldest day next E N yVea i londay the 27th of J anuary, an d t h e H hottest for the 20 th of July. CLOSE OF THE SHIPPING SEASON AT ST. PETERSBURGII.--Letters were re ce i ve d at this port on Tuesday from St. Petersbur g h un der the date of the 9 th November, which s tate that t he frost had set in, and E r A f T:x all intercourse with Cronstadt h a d , i n consequence , ceased. Linseed shipped from St. Pctersburgh to Cronstadt on the bth was then i n course of b e i ng ta k e n back. Thirty-five British ships remained on the 7th, but it was expected some portion of them would get away on that and the next • day, Prom .r fif teen to twenty ships, chiefly with goods from Hull, had not arrived. — Hull Advertiser. LLOYD'S SIIIPPING.-(T HIS DAY. DEAL Nov. 23. — . Win d vajable. —24. —Wind W. S. W., fresh.—Arrived the Lavinia, from Honduras. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23.—Wind variable.-24.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Bolma, Carroll, from Labrador ; Thalia, Graham, Calcutta ; John Bagshaw, Clugas, ditto ; Carlton, Murray, Miramicbi ; Token, Paulson ; Asia, and !Sorrell, Quebec; Conradine, Ulrica, and Naske, Dant zic ; Limena, ixtington,' Nsssau. Sailed the Clyde, Matches, for New South Wales ; Gazelle, Crichton, Bahia ; Scipio, Watson, St. Domingo ; Saudback, Boa pham, Demerara ; Islam, Hutchinson, Barbadoes ; and Margaret Jane, Roach, Newfoundland. PoitTstrouTn, Nov. 23. —Wind N. N. E.-24.--N. N. W. —Sailed the Queen, steamer, Warden, for Calcutta : L ouisa Maria, Urst, Batavia ; and Joven Emeline, Orel, Hamburg. FALNIOUTII, Nov. 22.—Wind N. to N.H., strong breezes; 23, ditto, light breezes.—Arrived the Ma quasber, Case, from Tobago—sailed the 10th ult. Sailed the Star packet, with supplies for the homeward-bound ; Henry Farmer, Bedselt, for Jamaica ; James Cruickshank, Young, for Trinidad ; Falmouth packet, Christian, for St. Michael's. Off port, the Anna, Coultas, from Cuba— sailed Sept. IS. BRISTOL, Nov. 23. Sailed the Pomona, Smith, for Trinidad ; Swift, Sear, for Sardinia ; Waterwitch, for . St. Michael's. GLOUCESTER, Nov. 23.—Arrived the Ann Elliot, Reed, from Archangel. Dunus, Nov. 23.—Arrived the Thomas Parker, O'Hara, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Caledonia, Bibby, from Quebec; Herald, Norton, from St. John's, New Brunswick. Coai, Nov. 22.—Sailed the James Wright, Coming, for Jamaica ; Lady Cornwall, Burney, for St. Mitt's ; Margaret and Helen, Wells, for Newfoundland. Off port, the Hanover, Brice, from Trinidad. VIASELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Latona, from Miramichi to Hull, 16th inst., lat. 49, long. 18, by the William Strands, arrived at Cork ; Margaret Johnson, lat. 49, long. 30, by the Bustle, arrived at Liverpool ; Semira, Nassau to Liverpool, 31st ult., lat. 32, long. 69 ; Asia, Quebec to Liverpool, 17th inst., lat. 49, long. 19 ; Alicia, Bristol to St. John's, New Brunswick, 10th, lat. 42, long. 41, by the Lee, arrived at Liverpool ; Solon, of \Vhitehacen, for Newfoundland ; Samuel Wilsm, London to St. Vincent, 15th inst. ; Indiana, of Havre, 19th ult., lat. 26, long. 67, by the Independent, arrived at Havre; Sumatra, Allen, London to Havannah, 2d inst., lat. 32, long. 44, by the Surinam, arrived off Dungeness ; Xenophon, bound to Miramichi, 9th ult., lat. 46, long. 55, by the Lord Oakley, Crow, arrived at Bridgewater; London Packet, Rio Ja neiro to New York, 27th ult., lat. 20, long. 55, by the Elizabeth, Hodnett, arrived in the River; Lively, Algoa Bay to London, 3d inst., by the Stratford, Lane, arrived in the River ; Belmont, of London, for Richebucto, 18th ult., off the Banks of Newfoundland, by the Sylvanus, Young, arrived at Aberdeen; Ellis, Liverpool to Mau ritius, 12th Sept., lat. 36, long. 20., by tho Margaret, Connell, arrived in the Clyde. THE FORTY-MIFTH.—The Chartists of Trow bridge have a bad feeling against the part of this regi ment which is stationed at that town, the remainder being at Newport. They last week beat three of the men almost to a state of insensibility. THE CLERGYMAN AND THE DEIST.—A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed Deist, who asked ban if he followed preaching to save souls? " Yes." " Did you ever see a soul ?" " No." " Did you ever hear a soul ?" " No." " Did you ever smell a soul ?" No." " Did you ever feel a soul ?" " yes: , " Well," said the doctor, " there arc four of the senses against one upon the question, whether there is a soul." The clergyman then asked, "If he were a doctor of medicine ?" " Yes." " Did you ever see a pain ?" " No." " Did you ever taste a pain ?" " No." " Did you ever smell a pain ?" " No." " Did you ever feel a pain ?" " Yes." " Well, then," said the clergy man, " there are four senses against one upon the ques tion, whether there be pain ; and yet, Sir, you know that there is a pain, and I know that there is a soul." PORK AT j A DISCOUNT.—On Wednesday se'nnight some pigs, eighteen weeks old, were sold in Louth pig market at ls. 6d. each.—Lixcoln Mercury. Died, on the 21st of November, at his seat, Orchardleigh Park, Somersetshire, Sir Thos. Swymmcr Mostyn Champneys, Bart., in the 70th year of his age. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.— Yesterday morning, about half-past one o'clock, a destructive fire broke out in Lombard-street, Fleet-street, on the premises of Mr. Slee, cabinet maker. The flames originated on the second floor, appropriated into a kind of store-rooms, and contained a large stock of dressing-eases and ladies work-boxes. The other part of the premises were let out to familes named Jones and Mansell, and seven apartments were used as paper -stores by Messrs. Brad bury and Evans. A great delay occurred, however, for a supply of water. The whole of the upper part was burnt, and damage done to the extent of at least 1,5001. The escape of the inmates was truly miraculous. A M rs . Jones, who was but last week confined with twins, was awoke by the crackling of the flames, and by the ceiling of the apartment, which was all on fire, falling on her back. She had not time to dress herself, and every thing she had was destroyed ; and she, in consequence, .is left wholly destitute. Mr. Slee is insured, it is said, to the amount of 2,0001. in the Hand-and -Hand Fire office. The damage done to the paper of Messrs. Bradbnry and Evans. the printers, is very extensive. ronets. General Sale to be K.C.B. Colonel Wade to be knighted, and C.B. Captain Thompson to have some honour, not yet de cided upon. Honorary distinctions for other officers are under the consideration of her Majesty.—Atlas. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 15th September. The following melancholy accounts of the emigrant Louis Triezhard's party, who left the colony for the inte rior in 1835, is taken from the Zuid Afrikaan Louis Triezhard's party, total ... 49 Hans Rensburg 's party, total 49 From the Great River, they have jointly got as far as the Vaal River in one month and a half, from thence in two months, to Zoutpansberg, where they arrived in May. On that journey three persons died. Trieshard and his party stayed on that mountain until 1836. Hans Rensburg left the party of Treizhard shortly after they had arrived at the Zout pansberg, to proceed before them to Delagoa, and his party being three weeks from Trieshard, they were all massacred by the Malonka or Knopneus (Knob nose) Caffres. Triezhard and his party, left the Zoutpansberg, in August, 1836, and arrived at the Balvela river—after they had passed an extensive plain, of four days' extent, on horseback, which they followed until near to Dela goa, almost all their cattle died on the journey. In 1837 they reached Delagoa. Having arrived at De lagoa, they intended to return, not liking the country at all, from its being so unhealthy, but almost all their cattle having died, they were obliged to give up that intention, and to chose Delagoa as their place of . abode. The above papers are entirely void of intelligence from the Borders. IRELAND. ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. On Tuesday last at the usual meeting of the Na tional Trades' Political Union amongst other resolu tions the following one was adopted : " That we have read, with feelings of the deepest horror, certain speeches delivered by persons of high stations, and who avowedly speak the sentiments of the political party known in these kingdoms as Conserva tives or Tories, in which the proposition of dethroning our present rightful and most gracious Queen Victoria is deliberately set forward, coupled at the same time with sentiments and language addressed to that pure and youthful lady, degrading to the utterer, whether of high or low degree"; and that we recognise in the con certed utterance, at both sides of the channel, of these treasonable and disgusting sentiments, together with other not-to-be-mistaken indications, a fixed and settled intention to foment a bloody revolution, to dethrone the present rightful monarch of these realms, and set up as king the Duke of Cumberland (the Grand Master of the Orangemen of Great Britain), to re-enact the penal laws against all who differ in belief from the tenets of the Church of England, and to confiscate, on an exten sive scale, the properties of all who adhere to the Queen and the Constitution." _ _ The next resolution was repudiatory of the Chartists, and the last went to form a Committee for drawing up an address to her Majesty, founded on the resolutions passed. Tres O'CONNELL TRIBUTE.—The people of Ireland, through their Managing Committee, have, with the hearty and zealous concurrence of the Catholic Hier archy and Priesthood of Ireland, appointed Sunday, the Sth of December, for the collection of the O'Con nell tribute. It has been, from circumstances which it is needless now to recount, long in arrear—the inade quate proceeds of the last collection being totally in commensurate with the manifold public calls upon the resources hitherto placed at Mr. O'Connell's disposal. in fact, we believe, that as steward for the allocation of this fund to public purposes—for in this light, with refer ence to this matter, it is only fair to regard him—Mr. O'Connell has drawn largely—and, many would say, im prudently, on his private fortune. It is, therefore, incum bent on the people of Irelandnay, it is absolutely indis ff pensable at a crisis like theTresent—a crisis whiclimust " eventuate in . results of the • first importance—a crisis which portends new and strange changes in the state of parties—that Mr. O'Connell should he placed in a position beyond pecuniary cares and anxieties—that the energies of his mind should be devoted alone to the public cause, With which ha has been identified, and of which he is, unquestionably, the leading champion.— Dub/in &fling Post. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING POST. Crawfordsburn, Nov. 20. SIR,—I perceive, by an extract from the States►nan, copied into another paper, that the editor doubts your authority to contradict his statement respecting my conversion to Conservatism. I had hoped it. would have been unnecessary for me to take special notice of so extraordinary a fabrication ; but since the discussion of the subject is still continued, I think I am called upon to sustain the contradiction given by you, and to declare that the entire statement Kith reference to my alleged change of principles, contained in the Statesman and Record of the Bth of November, is false in every point, and destitute of the smallest shadow of foundation. I am, Sir, your obedient, WM. SfIARMAN CRAWFORD. The Dublin Standard of Tuesday last contains seve ral letters which have recently passed between two members of the medical profession, relative to a cause of dispute, and though the tendency of the correspond ence is of a decidely hostile character, it is gratifying to observe how strictly the contending parties adhere to the rule laid down by Sir Lucius O'Trigger. Not a single letter but begins with " Dear Sir," and ends with " Yours truly,".and the only drawback to the affair is, that though the mediation of a gentleman named " Ireland" is inteposed, this " pretty quarrel " ends in smoke. Wel cannot too strongly reprobate the cus tom of duelling, but it would have been a treat, not withstanding, to have witnessed the manner in which such polite belligerents would have behaved towards each other when on the ground. We wonder if either of these gentlemen be related to the lady, who, writing an order for a leg of mutton, began her note with " Dear Butcher ?" THE LATE MORTALITY ON BOARD SHIP.— On Saturday the jury assembled, for the third time, at the Black Boy public-house, Wapping, to further in vestigate the circums:ances attending the deaths of Frederick West and John Musgrave, seamen, belonging to the William Nicol East Indiaman. The particulars of the proceedings have been already detailed in The Sun. After a good deal of discussion, strangers were ordered out of the room, and the following verdict was returned :—" We find that. Frederick West and John Musgrave died natural deaths by the visitation of God, caused by scurvy, brought on by the use of bad provi sions ; and the jury are of opinion that the captain ex hibited a great want of humanity in not paying more attention to the sick men, and procuring a doctor and fresh provisions at the Isle of Wight, when so many of the ship's company were ill, and two in a dying state ; and the jury consider Captain Potter. totally unfit to have a ship's crew under his command." The Coroner then addressed the captain, and said be hoped the lesson read to him by the jury would be useful to him in his future course. This was a case of great public impor tance. There was no class of men more useful than seamen, and none so helpless and unprotected. He fervently trusted that what had occurred, and the facts which had come out during this Fotracted investigation, would cause some improvement in the condition of se a . mon employed in the commercial marine of this country, and a better mode of regulating merchant vessels. Six other men belonging to the William Nicol aro now la bouring under severe illness from scurvy, and some of thorn are not expected to sur vice. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, NOv. 22. Since our last, the sugar trade has been so exceedingly flat, that the transactions in our market are perfectly in significant ; and added to the difficulty of meeting with any samples of the description which might find a toler ably ready sale, the business of the market is affected by an increased disposition to purchase low and middling sugars, which constitute almost the whole stock of the offices, in consequence of a similar reluctance to buy and a further decline, in London.—Mercury. UPSET OF THE DUBLIN MAlL.—This coach (via Cashel) was suddenly upset this morning (Tuesday) after it had entered Patrick-street, without any appa rent cause, and the guard, coachman, and two outside passengers thrown with violence on the pavement, but happily without injury to either. There were four in side passengers, who also escaped unhurt. Aid was in stantly afforded, when it a ppeared that the fror.t ax l e had snapped, in consequ ence of which the off fore-wheel came off, and the coach went over. The guard and coachman were on their feet in a moment, the bags taken to the post-office, the only damage done being to the coach, which was bulged and otherwise disfigured. — Cork Southern Reporter. It was stated at the meeting held Newport, on Thursday, that at the Westgate the owest estimated number at the attack W a 5,000 men, whilst the force opposed to them consisted of only twenty-eiAt privates, two n on-commissioned officers, and Lieutenant Grey - and that among the soldiers engaged t h ere were nl; three above the age of t..venty-three years.. The American Minist er an d Mr. S - Castle Howard, where hi s Excellency evenson left been staying since M on d ay last, on a and Lady visitt othhad the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, on Cheshire, t o v i s i t the A T I rt l r o g r u s i day last, sandii for arc Eit Marchioness Hall, s l of Westminster. EVENING EDITION! ..,..'~.