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10, AlX'tan I.llV+ LONDON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1844. The Irish Orangemen—or rather the more bigoted section of that once powerful but now fast decaying fraternity—have at length come to the resolution of making a desperate stand against the threatened Edu cational Reforms of Sir ROBERT PEEL. This is just what we have been anticipating for some months past, though we thought that the hurricane would have been whistling about the Premier's ears long ere now, for it is full twelve weeks and upwards since he hinted in Parliament at the probability of those remedial experiments in the matter of education, which at the present moment are kindling the wrath of the Irish Orange faction to a degree bordering on absolute frenzy. The cry of these ferocious mal contents is no longer what it was at the last election— " PEEL and Protestantism 1" it is now " PEEL or Pro testantism !" implying thereby that either the Pre mier or the Established Church must be put down. The time for pursuing a mean course is passed. Moderation has ceased to be a virtue, and must henceforth rank among the iniquities. He who is not with us heart and soul ; who will not go the whole hog with uc, and die with us in the last ditch in defence of that glorious Ascendancy-system which we have clung to with such pertinacity all our lives— that man is our decided enemy. Even though he may entertain a lurking prejudice in our favour, still he is not to be trusted. Faenum habet in cornu ! He is dangerous, and mug be avoided as though he car wilt with him the seeds of a contagious malady. - the explicit and uncompromising language oi / * n b ), by the Orangemen, who are busy buckling on ttelf, • mour preparatory to a last furiou s assault P , „ h policy of the " Socinian Premier. The f following emarkable passage from the Dublin Warder 7 ;‘iiiilrsii94 that we have not in the slightest _ , degree exaggerated the sentiments of this meek, tolerant, and unobtrusive faction :—" It is now plain that the sword is drawn, and the scabbard thrown away between Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Irish Protestant Church and the Protestant people of Ireland. One or other must be put down! We have no sort of fear which it is to be. The - Church may deserve a whipping for her short-sighted con duct in aiding a selfish, hollow-hearted, treacherous, and weak poltroon into a position where, finding his genius unequal to his fortune, and his courage un equal to the rage of his opponents, he commences strengthening his hands by betraying his friends to their enemies, and varnishes over his own want of , principle by a splendid pretence to superior discrimi nation, liberality, and enlightenment. But though the Church may be whipped, she shall not be de stroyed for the gratification of a Socinian traitor. The struggle is a struggle for the existence of Protestantism in Ireland. We must make our choice—PEEL or Protestantism. Now or never." These remarks, though professing to be made in a spirit of calm, invincible confidence and determination are, in truth, wrung out of the very intensity of apprehension. The blind fury that per vades them is the bluster of the bully, who feels an ugly consciousness that in the struggle which he him self provokes, he cannot fail to come off second best. As expressing the opinions of the Orange faction, the passage is well worth notice; and not less so, as giving utterance to the exquisite terrors with which that faction is just now beset. It is plain that they foresee their destiny, and that the prophetic handwriting on the wall has not made its appearance, unob served by them. Like MARLOW'S Doctor Faustus, on his last night, they now begin to count their political life by minutes, and the agony of their apprehension increases just as the sand in the hour-glass diminishes. As a last desperate re source, they have taken to bullying ; and as drowning men are said to catch at a straw, so the Irish Orange men entertain a sort of faint, sickly hope that by loud words and threatening gestures they may frighten Sir ROBERT PEEL into the abandonment of his Edu cational Reforms. This is positively their sole remain ing chance, and as sure as night succeeds day, so surely will it give way beneath them. Sir R. PEEL knows them too well—is too well aware of their weak ness—to take fright at their blustering philippics ; but will pursue his course calm and unmoved, caring no more for their noise than the fox cares for the hissing of a flock of geese. We have more than once had occasion to remark on the harsh—and we might add, unjust—spirit in which the Law, as administered by many of our Magistrates, presses upon the poor and the helpless. Instead of being their sworn friend and guardian, as by a pleasant fiction of the Constitution it is presumed to be, on whose humane and considerate interposition in their behalf they may confidently calculate, when assailed by the strong arm of petty local authority, it is often so strained and interpreted—according to the letter rather than to the spirit—as to be their oppressor—their bug-bear, whom they shrink from with as much instinctive apprehension as the lower orders in the East shrink from him who is supposed to be possessed of the Evil Eye. Frequently in this enlightened country has accommodating Justice been known to smile on the delinquencies of the rich and the influential, but seldom, if ever, has it had other than a frown for the poor and the de fenceless. " That in the captain's but a choleric word, which in the soldier is flat blasphemy," says SIIAKSPEARE, who knew the workings of the busy, practical world about him, if ever man did. Respect ability may do many things with comparative impu nity, which if non-respectability—that is to say, rank, unadulterated poverty—were to attempt, it would be forthwith subjected to the severest pains and penal ties. The " choleric word" of the rich deepens into " flat blasphemy" when uttered by the poor ; as was proved the other day, in a case where a passionate gentleman, who had held abusive language towards a poor man, was let off with a bland remonstrance, while a cabman, who had abused a gentleman in terms little, if at all, worse, was visited with a fine, accom panied—if we remember rightly—by a significant refert,-.... to the tread-mill! Another, and still more striking of this peculiar working of the Law, Se veralpoor women were brought, liefo — relhe sitting Magistrate, charged with the flagrant enormity of selling fruit in the streets. In justification of this heinous offence, one of the defendants urged that she had no other means of support, and that " it was to keep out of the workhouse that she endeavoured to sell fruit in the Walworth-road." Another pleaded that "she had five children dependent on her for support," and asked " what she was to do, if pre vented from selling a little fruit by the road-side ?" A third said that " she had a sick husband, and that she tried to keep him and herself out of the work house by selling fruit, but that, if she was deprived of the means of doing so, that must be their fate." And a fourth observed, " I have no other means of gaining a subsistence; it is a very cold and harassing way of getting a living for those poor people who, like myself, are compelled to follow it ; but what are we to do ?" To these unanswerable pleas the Magistrate coolly replied, that " he was of opinion it would be a kind ness to many of those persons who obstruct the thoroughfares by selling fruit, to commit them to the House of Correction ; that it was an idle, lazy way of living, and that those who pursued it ought to be made to try and earn their bread by different means." It is very easy to talk in this strain, but how are the defendants to find other and more respectable means of earning a livelihood ? Selling fruit in the open air, in a rainy, foggy, inclement climate like this, we conceive to be about the last resource of abject penury, which has not been attempted till every other expedient has been tried and failed ; and yet the poor creatures who make this last desperate shift for existence, are coolly told that they are guilty of idleness and laziness, and are fit subjects for the House of Correction ! Yes, because they prefer attempting to gain an honest maintenance, under cir cumstances of the most precarious, humiliating, and injurious character to their health and comfort, to subsisting by dishonest means, it is frankly intimated to them that they are rogues and vagabonds, and that if they persevere in such ungenteel courses they shall be fined twenty shillings each ! And what, pray, is the cause of this Magisterial anathema against those who are found guilty of selling fruit in the streets, exposed for hours together to the fog, the rain, and the bleak winds of November? They obstruct the thoroughfares, forsooth ! So the poor, helpless owners of fruit-stalls—who have existed as a class from time immemorial in the metropolis—are to starve, rot on a dunghill, or walk off contentedly to the House of Correction or a union workhouse, in order that genteel and respectable pedestrians may not be impeded in their movements on the Walworth road ! Verily, respectability obtains absolute freedom of locomotion at a heavy—a cruelly heavy—cost to poverty and destitution I But no matter—perish all the poor vendors of fruit in the streets, rather than the thoroughfares should be obstructed I So exclaims the Law, as interpreted by the wisdom and humanity of a Metropolitan Police Magistrate Our attention has been called to a wrathful philip pic in the Morning Advertiser, reflectin g upon an article we published, on the 19th instant, relative to "the affairs of New Zealand." Our Contemporary is at once so diffuse and so irascible, so angry and so playful (though Mr. HALLIBURTON will stare at, if he ever meet with, such a "counterfeit presentment" of SAM SLICK'S humour), that it is difficult to col lect what are the precise charges against' us. We infer that the writer probably means to affirm, first, that he cannot detect " the two facts" to which we addressed our former observations. This is no fault of ours, and proves, at least, that our censor did not see double when he perused the article in question. But, since that touched upon two points only—and no more—(the petition complaining of Governor FITZROY'S conduct, and the commercial notice of the improved preparation of New Zealand flax)—our Contemporary's irritation, in respect of the second, must have made him quite oblivious of the first. Secondly, we are accused of "an indirect attempt to whitewash the leading persons connected with the New. Zealand Company," and—of all things in the world—of ultra- Toryism 1 ! It may be as unneces sary for us to repudiate the imputation of " indirect attempts" at attaining any given object of legiti morattehe apologist s disc ussionof discussion, as those of our being ultra-Tories, "mod flagrantfraudand persons really " convicted" of the the most heartless cruelty." We are quite content to pass such self-evident ab surdities without further notice than the subjoined commentary upon one of them. Speaking of her MAJESTY'S Ministers and the New Zealand Com- pang, we wrote thus:— " The course adopted by her MAJESTY'S Ministers was satisfactory to no party. A large portion of the public were displeased with what they considered, on the first announcement of the arrangements con cluded, to be an improvident and monopolitical bargain with a Joint-Stock Company for its special advantage." "The few previously-settled English residents or proprietors within the limits of that dis tant country considered themselves aggrieved by the purchases of the Company on the one hand, and the powers assumed and delegated by the Home Govern ment on the other." If this be " whitewashing the leading persons" of the Company, it must be white washing after a very Irish fashion. We never al luded to—never pointed at—the "leading persons," but spoke generally of the " managing direction, of the Company." Thirdly, we plead guilty, without hesitation, to the charge of not having consigned the directors "to the dark and dreary mines of Siberia" (as our Contemporary says he would have done) ; and indeed the whole of his apostrophe about the " firmament " and the " eclipse"—" the Times and the Sun-flowers—is conceived in a strain of varie gated eloquence, utterly above our comprehension. Fourthly, he rebukes us for congratulating the colony and this country on the rapid improvements now " effecting in the culture, preparation, and manufacture of the New Zealand flax." We con gratulate them, again. Our Contemporary may enjoy his own notions of the trivial importance of this ele ment in the establishment of a colony's prosperity. We persuade ourselves—on the results of carefully pursued inquiries and experiments, instituted (we state the fact for his information) many years before the New Zealand Company was thought of, in respect of the produce of " some extent of soil" in that country—results submitted, here, to the highest scientific and practical authorities—that our anticipa tions are fully warranted ; and there, we leave them. If we did not know how prone men are, when pre occupied. by one idea, to jump at all kinds of absurd and inconsequent conclusions, we might marvel at our censor's gratuitous assumptions. We strongly reprobate, and have never vindicated, the New Zea land Company's past proceedings ; but we also blame severely the conduct of the present Government and its predecessor towards New Zealand. This is not enough for our Contemporary. We don't follow in the wake of his one idea; therefore we are ultra- Tories. We don't turn out to join the war he has been waging on the directors, &c., of the New Zea land Company; therefore we are "converting New Zealand into a paradise," just as he himself is for transforming the offices of the Company in New Broad-street into lodgings in the mines of Siberia. We, he remarks, have written " a long, a very long article on New Zealand ;" therefore he assails us with a still longer critique upon our article. We can only trace these remarkable prepossessions of a fancy which seems unconscious of facts, to the influence exercised upon it by a recent onslaught made by the Times on a bubble Company. He recurs to the con duct of that eminent journal with great unction, and is so emulous of similar distinction, that, in rushing at the New Zealand directors, he is for overthrowing all who come across him in his way. Don QUIXOTE would decimate the Moors, though he had to cut through half-a-dozen well-filled goat-skins to get at them. "Young ambition" may be commended even in its most hopeless aspirations ; and, probably, that may be all the praise our Contemporary will realise from his emulation. But, on future occasions, we would recommend him to look more than once at his facts, before he enlists them in the cause of the one prejudice which may happen to be paramount with him. Accounts from Bayonne of the 16th state that General ZUEBANO had raised the standard of revolt near Vittoria. According to other accounts, the in surrection broke out Logrono on the 12th, and ZUR-. BANO placed himself at the head of the insurgents, said to amount to 400. The cry was, " The Consti tion of 1837—Long live the QUEEN, and death to the tyrants !" Intelligence from Madrid of the 13th also announce that several arrests had taken place both in ihata geneial insurrection was anticipated ; so that NARVAEZ has quite enough on his hands at pre sent. The troops at Madrid might for a time support him, but those in the country are so ill paid and fed, that they are ready to join any adven turer. The discussion in the Chamber on the Reform Bill is entirely destitute of interest. Every amend ment proposed by the weak Opposition, had been re jected by large majorities. A long conference had taken place between the French Ambrssador and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, but the result has not transpired. It was generally believed, however, to have reference to a communication from the PoPE about the sales of Church property. The Three per Cents. sold for 278 for cash, and 271 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 20 11-16 at 60 days; the Floating Debt at 641 for cash, and 651 at 60 days, and the Debt without interest at 6 3.32 at 60 days. The Paris Commerce announces that, on Sunday, the KING signed a royal ordonnance, convoking the Chambers for Thursday, Dec. 26. The Opposition, it would appear, are making preparations for the session, and are about to form schemes for embar rassing and finally overthrowing M. GUIZOT. The " Left," however, are determined not to join in this system of tactics, as it could lead to no favourable result for that party. The schemers are said to be Count MOLE, M. DE SALVANDY, and some other members of defunct Cabinets. "We would suffer these intrigues to pass," says the National, "if we thought they emanated from those impatient idlers whose political views are confined to the possession of office, and who imagine that public opinion ought to be satisfied when they have gained their object. But we are convinced that the impulse is given from a higher quarter, and it is for that reason that we wish to say a few words upon it. For some days past, there has been a party intriguing to secure the over throw of M. GUIZOT at the commencement of the session. Some of Count MOLE'S friends are pre paring to present to the Chamber a Cabinet quite ready to replace the present Ministers. It is pro posed to place Count MOLE at one extremity, M. DE SALVANDY at the other, and to fill the intermediate space with some members of the left centre, such as MM. VIVIEN, D TJFAURE, BILLAULT, PASSEY, MATHIEU DE LA REDORTE, &c. This mongrel Ministry would on the one hand have the support of Count DE MONTA LIVET, who finds M. GUIZOT no longer good for any thing, and on the other the silent protection of M. TRIERS, who is of opinion that the most superior actor would be very soon sought for after the doubles' had been made use of. But the difficulties are great. First, there are amongst those men but few sympa thies. M. BILLAULT does not care to compromise his future prospects with so fragile a combination. To these embarrassments is to be added the attitude as sumed by the left side of the Chambers. It was be lieved that this fraction would be glad to be rid of M. GUIZOT, but their good sense has suggested to them that it was the system itself that ought to be got rid of. If M. GUIZOT were to fall during this session, a new Cabinet without vigour or without means of ac tion would find itself completely at the disposal of the personal Government. 'rhe elections made under this new influence would produce a Chamber similar to the present. The system would consequently remain the master. 'The Left' thought, with reason, that they ought not to lend themselves to an arrangement which would be sterile at present, and fatal to the future prospects of France. They considered that it would be more judicious to suffer M. GUIZOT to dis solve the Chamher, and to convoke the electoral body. It is before the electors that the Left intend to plead their cause, and their best auxiliary will certainly be flanked by his two journeys to Ghent and to London." L GUIZOT,oen d on The same journal contains the following unjust remarks on the unfair policy of France towards Spain : " We have received a letter, signed by 24 Spanish officers, complaining bitterly of the manner in which They th eyhaalvseo,bleiekne agentstthreeatberdavbeyAthmeettier,have been exposedof the Ministry. to brutal violence because they attempted to regain their country! M. Guizot, it will be perceived, is con sistent. He makes himself the complacent auxiliary of Narvaes ; the amenities of Baron de Meer tickle him agreeably. Every Spaniard that desires to go and frankly oppose the reactionary party is in his eyes a conspirator, who must be arrested and thrown into pri son. M. Guizot, however, threw open the gates of PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, NEIN S P rITIt.:11 AND FOREIGN INAITUTE. PATRON. Hill Royal Highness the PRINCE ALBERT. FRESIDENT. Right Honourable the EARL of DEVON. TRUSTEES. The Lord Bishop of St. David's 1 Sir George Larpent, Bart. Lord Courtenay, M.P. 1 Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq. (With Thirty-three Vice-Presidents and T we nty-four Members of Committee.) SOLICITOUS—Messrs. Vizard and Co., 51, Lincoln's Inn-fields. The Winter Session of the Institute being now about to commence, the Committee have great satisfaction in drawing the attention of the public to the First Annual Report and proceedings of its anniversary, unanimously dopted at a General Meeting of the Members, the Right Hon. the Earl of Devon in the Chair. Copies of these Documents, including the latest List of Members (now exceeding 1,200), with Pro gra mes of the Fifty-two Evenings' Entertainments appointed for the Season, in Lectures, Soiree., Couversazioni, and Discussions, and the new iiianagement:for the Club Department, may be had at Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co.'s, 65, Cornhill ; Messrs. Fisher and Co., 38, Newoate-street ; Mr. Ridgeway's, 169, Piccadilly ; and at the Institute, No. 13, George-street, Hanover-square, where all in quiries will be readily answered, either personallyor by letter, ad dressed to the undersigned, JAMES S. BUCKINGHAM, Resident Director. Nov. 16, 1844. TO 1 E HAD AT ALL ThE LIBRARIES. POPULAR NEW NOVELS, PUBLISHED BY MR. COLBURN. 1. HILLINGDON HALL; or, The Cockney Squire. A Tale of Country Life. By the Author of" Handley Cross." 3 vols. 2. YOUNG LOVE. By Ms. Trollope. 3 vols. 3. ARTHUR ARUNDEL ; a Tale of the English Ytevolution. By the Auth.ir of " Brambletye House." 3 vols. 4. PARSONS and WIDOWS. By the Author of " Peter Priggins." 3 vols. 5. The WILFULNESS of WOMAN. By the Authoress of the " History of a Flirt," &c. 3 vols. 6. WHITE} thins; or, The Days of Charles 11. An Historical Romance. Third Edition. 3 vols. 7. CHATSWORTH ; or, The Romance of a Week. Edited by the Author of " Tremaine." Second Edition. 3 vols. 8. The 43110THERS. By the Author of " Oliver Cromwell," " Marmaduke Wyvil," &c. ' 3 vols. Also, just ready, 9. THE PALAIS ROYAL; an Historical Romance. By the Author of " Henri Quatre ; or, The Days of the League." 3 vols. 10. LADY CECILIA FARRENCOURT. By Henry Milton, Esq., Author of " Rivalry," &c. 3 vole. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. PHIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, Will be performed DER FREISCHU IZ. Adolph, Mr. D. W. King; Caspar, Mr. Si retton ; Kilian, Mr. H. Hornca-tle ; Linda, Miss Romer ; Rose, Miss Betts. After which, the Grand Ballet, entitled THE CORSAIR. onrad, M. Albert; Julien, M. Desplaces; Sanguo, M. Montcssu &fedora, Miss Clara Webster ; Une Vivandiere, Mdlle. Auguste, Delbes ; Guinare t Mille. Adele Dumilatse. The Box.othce 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 22, Will t-e perform d a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, cared OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. S rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mather , s ; Tom Coke, Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farrell; The Countess of t r.n•pion. Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. After which will be repeated the Comedy of THE NERVOUS MAN. Aspen, Mr. Strickland; Mac Shane, Mr. Collins; Mrs. lacket, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone, entitled THE THIMBLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Buckstone, Sam Shindy, sir. Strickland; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifford. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the Even.. Ina). ss. each. First Price—Boxes, s. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery. 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at N o'Clock — foxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, ed. Doors opened at Half-past Six, Pet formance commence at seven. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Coui:t Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanille. Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequtt, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. After which will be repeated VICTORI NE; or, I'll Sleep on It. Alexandre, Mr. Hudson • Michael, Mr. Selby; Victorine, Mrs. Yates; Elise, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To Conclude with a New Eccentric Mythological burlesque, called TELE VIACRUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, M r . Wright ; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford ; inah, Mr. Cowell. Prompter Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. M ellon.—Bee-office open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, Wl's be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYMON ; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanorr, Mr. Walton; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn, Jun.; Richard, Mr. Hime ; Renaud, Mr. Mattacks; Ivon, Mr. Leffler; Hermine, Mdlle. Helen Condell ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. To be folowed by a New Drama, entitled THE PREDICTION, In which Messrs. W. Lacy, Oxberry, Mrs. Brougham, Miss E Stanley, and Mrs. Lacy will perform. After which, a New Comenietta. entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival. Mr. Waller Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirbng. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half pist Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, Will be performed a New Camedietta, entitled WATCH AND WARD. The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinlech, and A. Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINGEN Vharacters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, Turner, Stoker, and Kerley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. Atter which, a New Farce, called FO PERSONS ABOUT: TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Turner, and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. WoolliAge. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mlles. Louise and Adele, of her Majesty's Theatre, will make their appearance. To conclude with THE SEVEN . .A . s•rr f.e. Prin c i pa l 1 " , -.1:3,114the r, Mrs. vvVcinrrita,- Arr. A. Mon, Miss Turner, MI ,s James, Miss Arden, Miss GITTC., and Mrs. Keeiey. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 4;.• Upper Boxes, Is.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, lid. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2p. ; Upper Boxes, is. 6d. ; Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Der (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea. The Box-oltice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc ti ,n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. 'ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, Will be repeated Dougl s Jctrold's NELL GWYNNE. Ne!l Gwynne, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Orange Moll, Mr. H. Hall. After which. THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE, In which M•. H. Hall, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. Montgomerie, Mrs. C. Pope, and Miss Bromley will perform. To conclude with THE NEW FOOTMAN. Bobby Brealkwindow, Afr. Attwood. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race- Hone and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled Natioral Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fos and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and unequallei Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with a Favourite Afterpiece. Acting and atage-m maser. Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lesions in the Art of Riding ty Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 29., Will he repeated a New 1 /rams, entitled THE SEALED SEN TENCE, supported by Messrs. Hughes, N. T. Hicks, Vale, Johnson, Morrison, Mrs. R Honner, Mrs. Lewis, &c. After which, the Farce of THE TWO GREGORIES. To conclude with the New Drama, entitled DON CHAR DE BAZAN, supported by the entire Company. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. W 1 1 1 be repeAcd THE STRANGE INTRUDER, lit which Messrs. Seaman,lliggie, Herbert, and Miss Vincent will perform. After which, A HUSI:AND AT SIGHT. Lonisberg, Mr. niggle; Baroness, Mrs. West. To conclude with THE WANIDERING JEW, In which Messrs. Seaman, Dale. Higgie, and the Misses Harcourt will appear. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and LI Ils. lid. WEATHER.—Star OFFICE, Nov. 21. TlizamosurrEit, Lowest, 37; Highest, 4 - 3; Noon, 40 BAROKRTER, 30.4.—W1ND, W. NoTz.—Tbe number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the :rec?ing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is u4ually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morifing ... 0 minutes after 0 Evening ... lfi minutes after 0. 4 lt . 141 i ron , 4 a „ • 7, lAr'" • — No, \-031-tt 101. - • .4140fT" • • THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22 184 g. France to those who were going, arms in hand, to attack Espartero's Government, and when we reproached him with favouring insurrection by such conduct, his jour nals replied to us, ' By what right can the French Go vernment keep within the kingdom refugees wishing to return to their country?' Well, by what right does M. Guizot do it at present? Where is the law permitting him to establish in so odious a manner the police of M. Nary= in France? But he goes further, and in the hope of frightening the Spanish people, he speaks like Louis XVIII. of another cordon sanituire on the frontier of the Pyrenees. This is only a wretched piece of parade, for the Spaniards will do as they like in their own country. If they rise up to overthrow the most corrupt and most foolhardy Government—if they inter for ever the counter-revolution all France will rejoice at it, and it is unlawful for M. Guizot, were he ten times stronger than he is, to attempt the slightest interven tion in favour of the faction which now oppresses and pillages Spain. This is what people must feel on the other side of the Fyrenees, for it is an incontestable verity on this side. Narvaez is most anxious, for his own interests, to spread the report that the French Government will come to his aid, but the French Go vernment has plenty of affairs of its own to attend to, and will take right good care not to go and mix up its interests with those of the Spanish counter-revolution, for it is well aware that both might be brought to an end by the same blow." The Carlist Quotidienne, which is highly indignant at the scheme for a marriage between the Queen of SPAIN and the Count TRAPANI, makes the following remarks on the subject:-- " The correspondents of certain Ministerial journals announce, as a positive fact, the marriage of Isabella with the Count de Trapani. They go so far as to fix the place and period of the marriage, and even the title which the person thus selected by the Cabinets of Ma drid and the Tuileries is, they say, to take. To believe them, this union, so long announced, is to take place at Valencia, and the young Neapolitan Prince is to assume before the marriage the title of King, with the name of Louis 11. Thus would disappear this condition of 'the Queen's husband, which, it was said, flattered the childish vanity of Isabella ; her husband would find himself a King, not like the pretended King of Portugal, after h a ving given a successor to the throne, but by the simple act of a family arrangement. This strange innovation would in itself be quite a royal constitution, improvised for a betrothal ; Isabella reigns in virtue of a usurpation founded on a ast will and testament, and her young husband is to be a King in virtue of another usurpation, founded on a contract of marriage, which would not pre vent his presenting himself as the successor of King Louis I. Would not this be most strange ? We believe that the King of Naples is anxious about this combina tion ; the Cabinet of the Tuileries approves of it ; and it is hoped that the Pope, who is intimately acquainted with the Count de Trapani, from the latter having some times visited him at Rome, where he was preparing the way for the Cardinalship, will at once acknowledge a young Prince whom he loves, particularly when he can receive letters from Paris and Madrid, saying :—We should have preferred the Prince des Asturias, but you see that the entire nation rejects him by the organ of their representatives. We doubt the Holy Father's de parture, in this conjuncture, from the policy of the mo narchical powers ; and, should he do so, it would be with reservations, which would destroy the political effect that is hoped for from his consent. A poor and wretched intrigue is this project of marriage, which will exclude from the Government the three Princes, the sons of Don Carlos, the eldest of whom will alone represent the mo narchical right, and the sons of Don Francisco de Paula, amongst whom the Liberal malcontents could choose a leader ! We could have comprehended a marriage with one of Louis Philippe's sons ; it would at least have been a usurpation a cheval ; but Count de Trapani's en sou tane is more than a fault, it is a folly !" The Court-martial on Lieutenant BESSON, for the loss of the royal steamer Groemland, on the 26th of August," on the coast of Morocco, commenced, at Toulon, on the 14th. It appeared, from the exami nation of the accused, that the vessel was quite new, having been built about the beginning of the present year, and that she went on shore during a thick fog, as she was leaving Mogadore for Cadiz. Every effort was made in vain to get her afloat, and the wreck was finally destroyed, to prevent its falling into the hands of the Moors. After examining the second in com mand, the Court adjourned till next day. Ihe following statements made by the Revue de Paris, we trust, will not be forgotten, when the Bill for solitary confinement in prisons again comes before the French Chamber. We are only astonished that civilized beings should listen to a scheme of such atrocious cruelty : " Practical experiment is not favourable to the peni tentiary system which Messrs. Tocqueville and Beaumont have imported from America. That philanthropic method has been employed in the prison of Senlis, during only six months, and we have already to register two suicides committed during the last three months. In presence of those facts, we ought to thank the Minister of Justice for not bringing up to the House of Peers the project of law adopted by the Chamber of Deputies last session. Now, when the discussion shall come .on, it will suffice, to defeat the schemes of the partisans of the I er at t lieemetem i . to cite facts passing under our eyes in system has been in itse,' - e7r7il !, ) ;;;;; 1 1= 1 `,0,7,:,;:' quences. Then the fate of the Bill shall no longer be doubtful, and the exalted prudence of the Chamber of Peers will certainly cause that assembly to refuse its sanction to the impressions de voyage of the philan thropists of the Americrn school." The Presse having published a letter from a French seaman, named FAZIERE, dated Mazatlan, the 12th of August last, and giving an account of his having been flogged and otherwise ill-used, by the order of a captain in the Mexican army, after his arrest by the authorities, for a quarrel, in which he had involved himself with two musicians ; and the Presse having accompanied thi3 letter with some severe observations on the Mexican Government, M. MAX GARDO, the Mexican Minister at the Court of France, has addressed the following letter to that journal : "I have just read in the Presse an article relative to an outrage committed at Mazatlan, on a seaman named Alexandre Fazilre. You must permit me to add a few words. As soon as the President of the Republic had received information of the acts of barbarity cm , mitted at Mazatlan, he gave the most urgent orders that the persons who had been guilty of them should receive an exemplary punishment. The Baron Alleye de Cyprey, in a note of the sth of September last, was pleased to do justice to the sentiments expressed on this occasion by the Mexican Government. It is further my duty to rectify an error contained in your article. It was as serted, in the first instance, that Faziere having become a Mexican by naturalisation, could no longer claim the protection of France, The question of nationality has, however, for the moment been set aside. What is now attempted to be established, in accord with the best writers, is, that the official intervention of diplomatic agents in iavour of the subjects of their Governments, in affizirs submitted to the decision of the tribunals of the country, can only be exercised i n cases w h er e th er e ha s bee n a denial of justice." The Constitutionnel makes the following observa tions on the commercial treaty, concluded between Great Britain and Brazil, in 1827, for fifteen years, and subsequently prolonged to 1844 : " This treaty will expire in a few days. The Cabinet of London has done all it possibly could to get it re newed, but in vain. The new Brazilian tariff has been in force for some days, and it will affect equally all kinds of goods ; it is a measure most fatal to European com merce in general, and to that of England in particular ; it is, above all, the result of the legislative enactments adopted here, and on the other side of the Channel, re specting sugar. Brazil can offer Europe, in exchange for the manufactured goods which she sends out, only sugar, coffee, raw skins, inlaid wood-work, and some quantities of cocoa, threads, and tobacco. In France, foreign sugars are sur-taxed rather heavily in the interest of our col°. vies and our beetroot sugar. In England sugar produced by slave labour is altogether prohibited. This has been done under the mask of philanthropy, but in reality it only serves as the prelude to the accomplishment of cer tain views of political economy of the Cabinet of Lon don, for ' had it been adopted in the interest of the aboli tion of slavery, it would have been applied to all tropical produce indiscriminately, and particularly to cotton cul tivated in the United States by the blacks, and consumed chiefly by the manufactures of Great Britain. It is easy t 3 conceive that Brazil should adopt reprisals, when it beholds its sugar rejected by the two greatest mar kets of Europe ; and France, not more than England, has been able to renew the treaties of commerce which she had concluded with that power, and which have now expired. The German association is in a different posi tion with respect to Brazil. The countries of that Union have no sugar colonies, and beetroot has not yet arrived at such a developement amongst them as to,require pro tecting measures. Therefore, it is not unlikely that the Customs' Union will succeed in concluding the treaty which France and England have in vain aimed at. An envoy from Brazil is at present in Europe, to come to an understanding with the Cabinet of Berlin ; and, should the negotiations succeed, the new Brazilian tariff will be modified in favour of the produce of the Zollverein. This tariff is exceedingly elevated, and will be highly preju dicial to the commercial relations which Europe enter tains with Brazil. All fermented liquors are to pay an ad valorem duty of 50 per cent., and thus the wines per cent. per cent. ;linen ; and brandies of France are affected as well as th e malt liquors of England. Crystals and glass of all ki n d s, plain and coloured paper, fruits, objects of domesti c con sumption, &c., are to pay 25 per cent. ad valorem. Che mical products, salt fish, iron and castings, tann e d hid es, woollen,sal t meat, cn s t t t e n e n l, , and and tin, are areto pay 20 pr manufactures, and, besides these duties, high as they are, the Bra zilian Government has reserved to itself the power of imposing a differential duty on certain articles coming from countries where the goods of Brazil also pay differential duties. These canditions differ widely from those of th e o ld t ar iff, and p art i cu l arly from those stipulated in 1827. According to that treaty, all goods and produce, natural or manufactured, of Great Britain, or her colonies were freely imported into Brazil on payment of duties never exceeding 15 per cent. on I the value. It is worthy of remark that several articles of Brazilian production are subject in England to duties, much more elevated, when they are delivered for internal nonsumption, According to the treaty, these articles had no other advantage than that of being bonded on the same conditions as similar productions of the English colonies. Here, it must be confessed, is a very consider. able change in position, and this inhontion will be so , much the more sensible in England, that her exports for Brazil amounted to 50 millions of francs a year. The French exports, which in 1843 showed a special com merce of 18 millions, will Equllly sutfcr from the tariff. M. de Langsdorf has not been more fortunate than Mr. Ellis, the English agent, and in this struggle the Cabinet of Berlin will probably have the advantage over its competitors. What Brazil particularly wants from England are manufactured goods of wool, cotton, &c., wrought metals, prepared skins, and fermented liquors; Germany is able to furnish all these articles, wines excepted, and she has already made some success ful attempts to accommodate several of her manufactur ing products to the Brazilian taste." THE BOURSE- 7 -TUESDAY, Nov. 19. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cants.-- 119 40 .. 119 50 .. 119 40 .. 119 50 Fours ..• •••• • •• 106 75 106 75 106 75 .. 106 75 Three per Cents••• 83 20 .. 83 30 .. 83 16 83 30 Bank of France ...3125 ..3125 .• 3125 ..3125 Lafiltte Bank, I,ooof Shareslo72 50 ..1075 ..1072 50 —1075 5,000 f Shareaso3o .•5030 ..5030 ..5030 Belgian Bank ..• • • • • • • • • • • • 635 • • 635 • • 635 .. 635 Belgian Fives, 1840 1842 .• •••• •• 107 .. 107 .. 107 107 Spanish Active . . • Threes •• .. Portuguese Five per Cents.. 54 .. 54 .. 54 .. 54 Neapolitan.. •• .. 57 75 .. 97 90 .. 97 75 .. 97 90 Roman . 105 .. 105 .. 105 .. 105 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles,R.B.•- 436 25 .. 437 50 .. 433 75 .. 433 75 L.B.•••••• 323 75 .. 323 75 .. 312 50 .. 312 50 Ronen 997 50 . 997 50 .. 997 50 .. 997 50 Rotten to Havre•• 783 75 .. 785 -. 780 .. 780 Orleans .............• 1016 25 ..1017 50 ..1015 ..1017 50 Btraebtug to Bale.- • • • • .... 280 Avignon to Marseilles— • •. 865 •• 280 .. 277 50 . 277 50 . 872 50 .• 865 .. 871 25 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, ) ov. 30. St. Germain ..... .......... 940 .. 942 50 .. 940 Versailles, R. 8............. 435 .. 445 .. 435 • • 940 •• 435 L. 8... .. 325 .. 325 .. 312 50 .. 312 50 R0uen....•.• ............1000 ..1000 .. 997 50 ..1000 Rouen to Havre.• •• • • •• •• 783 75 785 .. 781 25 .. 781 25 Orleans .........•.........1015 ..1018 75 ..1015 ..1017 50 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 280 .. 280 .. 278 75 .. 278 75 Avignon to Marseilles.. • • 865 .. 875 .. 865 .. 875 LA TER FROM AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The fast-sailing packet-ship Oxford, Captain Rath bone, arrived here to-night after a rapid passage of nineteen days from New York, whence she sailed on the Ist instant. We have received papers of that date, but they are merely one day later than those previously received, and contain nothing of import ance from the United States, where the Presidential election continued to be the all-engrossing topic. We have advices from Kingston to the 25th, and Montreal to the 28th instant inclusive. They contain full par ticulars of the elections then going forward, and ulti mate success appeared almost certain for the Govern ment party. LATEST COMMERCIAL NEWS. NEW YORK, OCT. 31, 6, P.M.—The stock market was rather flat to-day, the sales very limited, and the quota tions below those current yesterday. Stonington fell off * per cent. ; Norwich and Worcester, a ; Mohawk, 1i ; Pennsylvania s's, ; Long Island, 4 ; Reading Rail road, 4 ; Canton, ; Erie Railroad improved, ; Illinois, ; Morris Canal, ; Kentucky, t- ; Ohio 6's, As regards the Foreign money transactions, we may observe that the closing prices were very firm, with a very moderate demand. A slight advance on the exist ing rates for sterling bills would start large shipments of goldt-; aver at present prices not making profitable remittances. The exchange market seems to be in a very strange state. The amount of foreign indebtedness must be very heavy, and still we perceive the greatest indifference about making remittances, and a determina tion not to submit to the present high rates for bills. RATES OF EXCHANGE.-011 England, 104 ; on Paris, sf. 20c. sf. 21i. ASHES.—Pots are very inactive at 18:1: Pearls are steady at $4 25 a 4 311. COTTON.—The sales to-day amount to about 800 bales of which spinners took 200 bales, and shippers the re sidue. Prices continue in favour of sellers. The inquiry for Cotton has been moderate, but the market is quite firm. BANKING IN SCOTLAND. A county meeting was held at Edinburgh on Tuesday, when an interesting discussion took place on certain resolutions moved by Sir James Gibson Craig at a late meeting, and referred to a committee. The object of these resolutions was to maintain the present system of banking in Scotland. Lord Mel ville and Lord Dunfermline spoke against the resolu tions, the former, however, being in favour of one pound notes. Lord Rosebery and Sir J. G. Craig spoke on the other side ; and on a division, 13 voted for the resolutions, and 13 against them. Sir John Hope, the Chairman, gave the casting vote in favour of the resolutions. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.---The admirers of eminent talent, personal beauty, and general attraction, will learn with deep regret that Mademoiselle Adele Dumilatre's engagement positively closes on Tuesday next, and that she has but four evenings more to per form. She appeared in the Beauty of Ghent last night, and will perform in The Corsair to-night, and repeat those FliTe?! - 1 . .,0 ,, n, ,. M ... 0 .. p .„.. d1ty . a . nd ... Lue5 , d , ay .L...a neca- s ;ra w w op h e ic a h , called The Daughter of St. Mark, will be produced on Wednesday next, the 27th inst., being the anniversary of the production of The Bohemian Girl. ARRIVALS AT BRIGHTON.—Sir Montague and Lady Cholmeley, Sir James Baird, Bart., Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., Lord and Lady Colville, Lord and Lady Petre, the Countess of Kilmorey, Sir Henry Rycroft, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Cochrane, Mr. Cuthbert Ellison, M.P., Mr. Montague Gore, M.P., Mr. Stafford O'Brien, M.P., the Ladies Greville, Lady De Dunstanville, General Kemp, the Dowager Lady Holland, the Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's, Lady Lawley, the Earl and Countess of Granville, the Earl and Countess of Airlie, Mr. and Lady Louisa Rabett, Lady Grace Gore, Lord and Lady George Seymour, Lady Keats, Lady Webster, &c. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge passed through Brighton on Monday on their way to Arundel. A grand concert was to take place yesterday (Wednes day) evening at Arundel Castle. HUNGERFORD SUSPENSION-BRIDGE.—The works at the above bridge are proceeding with increased activity. Within these last ten days several extra hands have been employed in fixing the suspension -rods for the sup port of the platform, which will shortly be laid across. The bridge will not be completed until after Lady-day next. HINTS TO THE NEWLY MARRIED.—In commencing your matrimonial career, start with a determination that no ordinary circumstances shall induce you to spend more than two-thirds of your available income. Having resolved upon this, most rigidly adhere thereto. This is the first element of success, if accompanied with industry and perseverance. Pay all your household expenses, at any rate, at the time they arise. Take no credit upon such items of expenditure; if you can adopt the same plan in your business, you are on the high road to fortune. Let no foolish pride, no ridiculous example, no superficial advice, make you incur expenses in furnishing your house which your present means will not warrant. Your atten • tion must also be specially directed to the propriety of limiting your circle of friends to such a compass and to such a class as will not interrupt your business, or tempt you into expenses : these are rocks upon which the hap piness of hundreds have been wrecked. Are you to have a servant or servants ? is another question of no mean importance. Each servant, upon an average, will cost from thirty to forty pounds per annum; besides the waste, the breakage, and the destruction through unnecessary roughness. Spend your evenings at home. BRUTAL CAsE.—Between five and six o'clock on Monday afternoon last, the hackney-coach No. 191 was called off the stand in Farringdon-street, by a respectable looking man, in company with a young female. The coachman was ordered to drive to Eaton-square. On arriving in that locality, the man jumped out of the coach, and, closing the door after him, intimated to the coachman that he was known in the neighbourhood, and did not wish to be seen in company with the female, whom he directed to be taken to " Wright's," Chester mews, Grosvenor-square, where be would call the follow ing morning, mid pay whatever expense might be in curred. He then paid the fare and quickly disappeared. The coachman having now some doubts as to things being all right, got from his box, and, on opening the coach-door, he perceived the female lying across the seats with her clothes disordered, and on finding that all his efforts to arouse her were fruitless, he called a police-constable, and she was driven to the station house, where she was attended by a surgeon, who im: mediately discovered that she was labouring under the effects of some powerful narcotic, and that a gross outrage had been perpetrated whilst under its influence. She was directed to be immediately removed to St. George's Hospital, where the stomach pump and other remedies were promptly applied, and in a short time nearly the whole contents of the stomach were ex tracted, and the patient was gradually brought to a sense of consciousness, and the following morning the poor girl, whose mental sufferings appeared to be very great, gave the following statement:—She said her name was Ann Ball, and that her friends resided at No. 7, Eaton court. She had left her situation as housemaid in a gen tleman's family about a fortnight since, and was pro ceeding along Piccadilly on Monday afternoon, on her way to inquire after another situation, when she was ac costed by the above individual, who, although she knew nothing whatever of him, had spoken to her on one or two former occasions, and who now prevailed upon her to accompany him to the City, where on arriving they went to a tavern and had some brandy and water, after which, on entering the coach, she almost suddenly lost her senses, although perfectly sober before that time [This latter statement with regard to her being sober the coachman has corroborated.] A description of the vil lain has been given to the police, who are in active search of him, and it is sincerely hoped he will not long escape that punishment he so justly merits. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—(FOR LADIES.)—Lady Helena St. Clair will back herself against any young lady of her standing in society, at Poonah Painting, for a pair of gold earrings. The Honourable Colonel G reen home is ready with the cash. Inquire at Almack's. Mrs. Captain Meredith will work any lady of Ton, married or single, at fancy knitting, or crotchet, for an Indian shawl ; —cost unlimited. May be heard of at the Morn ing Post office. Emmeline Villiers will meet Adeliza Blount any day, and do a Turk or a bouquet, which ever she chooses, for a dozen pair of kid gloves. A cer tain young clergyman (A. B. knows who) and a gallant ensign, will act as umpires. Mrs. Alderman Buddle worth says that she don't mind doing a bit of plain work, from a pair of stockings to a shirt, with any woman in England, high or low. Will also truss a fowl, or make a blanket-pudding, with anybody—for any money. Ad-, Om to the old house iu the City.—Punch. FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, Nov. 18.—Some landowners in Flan ders, considering that, for divers reasons, the produce of their wools have become of hardly any value, soli cited an exemption from the land-tax for ten years, in order to enable them to incur the expense of con verting them into arable land, and to have the neces sary time to procure and to find labourers and farmers for their lands. We learn that it is almost certain that the new law relative to sugar, which is preparing in the office of the Minister of Finance, will be ready to be presented to the Chambers before the end of the session. The Austrian Government has just founed at Vienna a vast Atelier, where above 1,000 workmen, out of employment, are sure of plenty of work at all times, and sufficient wages. There is one peculiarity in this establishment, namely, that the workmen are perfectly at liberty, and indirectly interested in the prosperity of the establishment. THE HAGUE, Nov.'l9.—ln thelsitting of the Second Chamber to-day the following royal message was read :—" A revisal of the existing legislative enact ments respecting the practice of the several branches of medicine and surgery, having been judged neces sary, the annexed project of law, with an explanatory memorial, is submitted to your High Mightinesses for your consideration. (Signed) " WILLIAM." Many addresses to the Chamber were then presented. The amended:project of law in the excise on butchers' meat (or on the license to slaughter cattle) has been presented and distributed among the Members.— Dutch Papers, Nov. 20. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausana, Nov. IH. Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., 61% Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. 28% Three per Cent...—. --Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ..... 104 1844.. . • •••••••••••••••••• 103 Loan of City, 1843, Four per Ce n t . •• 102% Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent — Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent Issue of 1841.. ........ 000000 ..••••••••••••••••••••• —Brussels Papers, Nov. 19. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov 19. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. 100% Three per Cents. 7SS Bank Shares .•. ...... " 0000000000 160 A Loan 1834 Ditto, 1839 R A ILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand. 16 0 14 Gloggnitz ..........................« 118 1 4 Milan llOtA —Aligeneine Zeitung, Nov. 16. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE. Nov. 16. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1635 Anglo-Russian Loan 114% 1:4 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate." 105►,( 105 Inscription, Ist series — 1.)5 Russian b per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series ._... . _. .. - . 99 Ditto in Certificates ,•• 99V4 New 4 per Cent. (1840) Ol% Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... Ditto 5 per Cent. ......... Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. — Spanish, New 4 per Cents. Polish Bonds — New Tickets --- FINE ARTS. OPENING OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. The subject of this Plate, which is from a Daguer reotype taken from the top of the Mansion-house, is the opening of the Royal Exchange under the high auspices of her Majesty and Prince Albert. The Print represents the procession just at the moment it is advancing in front of the Exchange, her Majesty's carriage with her attendants leading the way, followed by an imposing squadron of the household troops. The group is executed with considerable skill and judgment, and the whole forms a very animated and graphic representation of one of the most interesting public spectacles that have been witnessed in England for many a year. The Print is published by Acker mann, and would show to advantage in a plain maple wood frame. Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart., expired at his seat, Hall Barn Park, on Monday last. The late Right Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, P.C., G.C.H., was the second son of Ralph Ouseley, Esq., by his first wife, the daughter of Henry Holland, Esq., of Limerick. He was born in 1770, and was consequently in the seventy-fifth year of his age. In 1806 he married the daughter of John Whitelock, Esq., and, in 1806, was created a Baronet. The late Sir Gore Ouseley was a Knight of the Russian Order of Alexander, and the Persian Order of the Lion and the Sun. In 1810 he proceeded to Persia as Am bassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and subsequently went to St. Petersburgh. He is suc ceeded in his title and estates by his son, Frederick Ar thur Gore, the present Baronet, who was born in 1825. PRIZE FIGHT BETWEEN BROWN, OF NEWCASTLE, AND REED, OF GATESHEAD.--Considerable excitement prevailed on Monday amongst the patrons of the ring, that being the clay appointed for the match to come off between the above professors of the fistic art. The men were in excellent condition, for when placed in the scales on Saturday, Reed was found to be one pound, and Brown one ounce under weight. It was decided that the lists should be on a common, near to the Highland Laddie public-house, about eleven miles from Newcastle, vas uaas —Aa ' . • tau scene ---u, action was thronged with pedestrians and carriages, and among the company, betting was going on very swim mingly, the odds being 6 to 4 upon Brown. The match was for 201. a-side. The pugilists, who seemed in high spirits, entered the ring, and having peeled, set to irk, at a quarter past eleven, and continued with much ani mation till sixteen minutes to twelve, the contest occu pying just twenty-nine minutes. In that time thirteen rounds were fought. In the first round Brown used his mawley.; scientifically, and pitched into Reed with tre mendous force on his knowledge-box. In the subsequent rounds, Reed gradually got the advantage, and ulti mately succeeded in flooring his opponent, and winning the brass, which was handed over to the lucky victor the same night at Parrett's, Rose Inn, Pudding-chase. A great deal of money changed hands upon the occasion. —Tyne Mercury. PRIZE FIGHT FOR TWENTY POUNDS.—On Tues day the pugilistic contest between Jones (alias Butcher) and Lawlor (of Paddington) came off at Greenhithe, in the presence of a vast assemblage of the " milling schools." The men were of light weight, and profi cients in the science of boxing. In betting Jones was the favourite at 6to 4. The parties having arrived at the selected locality, a ring was formed, and the comba tants entered an appearance, attended by their seconds, Caunt (the English champion) and Jem Turnar acting as umpires. The contest was opened with determina tion. Both men displayed courage, and fought with caution. At the third round Lawlor " drew the claret" of his antagonist, after fifteen minutes had been occupied in contending for victory. They continued the contest for twenty-eight minutes, when Jones hit his opponent below the belt (which, according to the rules of pu gilism, is unfair), but Lawlor having continued the round, the referee decided that Lawlor had waived his claim, and Jones was the winner. Lawlor refusing to continue the contest when time was called, some angry altercation took place, and the parties left the ground in no very friendly terms. A good deal of money depended on the result. THE BRIDGEWATER TRUST.—The trustees of this great canal property, created by the late Duke of Bridge water, and now possessed by Lord Francis Egerton, are about to seek for powers to combine certain short lines of railway with the Bridgewater Canal, which will greatly fa-3ilitate its working. With this view they are render ing all the assistance in their power to the plan for con structing a railway from Manchester to Altringham, in Cheshire, close to which place the canal passes ; and are also about to apply for powers to construct a railway from Preston Brook to Runcorn, with the view of facili tating their communication with Birmingham and the central counties. They also expect to be able to con nect the large collieries on the Worsley estate with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, by means of a branch line from the village of Worsley to join th e li ne w hi c h the Liverpool an.lManchester Company propose to form from Patricroft to the Bolton and Bury line, which passes within a couple of miles of Worsely, and traverses the Bridgewater estates for a considerable distance.— Liverpool Times, AMERICAN CANDLES.—The late importation of American candles by the New York packet-ship Eng land, at Liverpool, said to be a novelty at that port, is not so at the port of London. For a considerable time past the London and New York line of packet-ships have been in the habit of bringing large quantities of American composition candles, which, on being landed, are immediately placed in bond for exportation. A merchant has informed us that several ships which lately sailed from the docks for India, China, and other ports, were supplied with this description of candles, and that the importers, after paying freight, &c., realised a profit of about 2d. per lb. APPALLING DISCOVERY.—On Tuesday, as a young lad named Henry Bacon . was strollin g th roug h an unfre quented part of Hamhault Forest, near Loughton, in Essex, he was horror-struck at discovering the body of a man lying on the ground with a rope, which was much decayed, round the neck. He instantly gave an alarm, when it was discovered that the body was a mere skeleton, all the flesh having been devoured or decayed away. Another piece of rope, corresponding with that around the neck of the skeleton, was seen suspended from a tree above the body, leading to the conclusion that the deceased had hung himself. The body was removed to the King's Oak, Highbeach, where it awaits an inquest. The remains are supposed to be those of an excavator engaged on the railroads who was observed to be in a desponding state, and who was missed from High beach about six months since. The valuable and extensive estate of Whitehall, Ber wickshire, the proprty of Sir John Hall, Bart., of Dun ' glass, was sold last week to J. Mitchell Innes, Esq., who is about to commence great improvements on the Man sion-house and extensive domain.—Scotch paper EXTENSIVE FIRE NEAR TUE STRAND.—This morn ing between seven and eight o'clock, a fire, attended with a great loss of property, broke out at No. 7, South ampton-street, Strand, occupied by a boot and shoe maker, named Troy, and Mr. Anderson, a tailor. The premises were of great extent, and when the fire was first perceived it appeared to have obtained the complete possession of the building. The parish engine, with a great number more belonging to the brigade, as well as th© West of England one, with its superintendent, Mr. Connorton, were remarkably quick in reaching the scene of conflagration, but notwithstanding that all parties exerted themselves to the utmost, they were unable to get the mastery of the flames until the premises in which they originated were entirely destroyed and the adjoin ing property extensively injured. The fire is said to have broken out on the first floor, in the bed-room of a gentle man confined to bia bed by ill health. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL SE W S CITY, TIURSDA Y EVENING. The Funds close very firmly, Consols being 1000 for Money and Time. The New Viiree-and-aTQuarter per Cents. were 1024 Bank and India Stock were the same as in the morning • The Foreign Investment; did not inprove much upon the quotations of the early part of the day. Spanish Five per Cents. were 24 to 244; the three per Cents. , 35 to 351 ; Portuguese Converted, 55, 1 , to 544; Mexican, 36 to 361; Chilian Deferred, 53; andßrazilian, New, 851. Russian were 119/. The Railway Shares have been rather drooping th:e afternoon, but the sales were of no magnitude. (Front The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales, at barely previous rates. Shtres were not quite so good. Accounts from Sydney of July 30 state that the revenue for the quarter ending June 30, was still rather lower than in the year 1843, but there were evident symptom's of improvement, stock being more productive. The chief decrease is in the duties on foreign imports. There are dates to September 12 from the eastern colony of the Cape of Good Hope. The GoNernor, So : P. Maitland, had arrived there. and had performed an act of justice by settling the land claims, so long in abeyance, of the settlers of 1820. Thu frontier quiet, but at Natal some disagreement hai arise? among the Boers, and Pretorious was to be put on h is trial for alleged misconduct during the hostilities wi th the English. The Funds are well supported again to day. Consol s realise loot There is not the least speculation goi . , i g on. Exchequer Bills are 61s. to 645. premium. Da il ' Stock realises 206. and India Stock 288, both being very firm. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents' are 102 1 1 ,-1, and the Government broker has made hi° purchase at 102 i. The Spanish market continues at the decline cf Yc e ' terday afternoon, occasioned by the unfavourable no' s ' The Five per Cents. are 24 to *, and the Three F er Cents. 35 to *, but with very little doing. Portugu es ` . Converted are 54i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Co t. ' realise 628 to 63. The Railway Shares are very quiet, but generally they are quoted at firm rates. Birmingham, however , have again receded a little. PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Offibial List.) 9 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... 98Vi 3 per Cent. Coniols. Anns.: lOO ji% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 102% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 611 India Stock India 81 Ditto under ..... 83 Exchequer Bills. I%d. Ditto ........ ............ 64 60 pm. Ditto Advertised. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK , Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. 9O Portuguese Bonds ' 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted Ditto for the Account * . ....... . ....... 5 4 3 s Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 24 Ditto for the Account 24% Ditto Three per Cent. .....«.«....«.»....«.» — Ditto for the Account 35% Dutch 2)4 per Cents 63 OA Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Dutch 5 per Cent 5........... .......... ........... 99% PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILW AY& PAID. PER SHARD. n a Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ......... tir Ditto New Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester BO 344 Direct Northern 24 2% ...... to 19% Eastern ••••••••••••••••••••• 25 •••• Great Western ................... 75 .... " Ditto 34 Shares ..... .... ...... ...... 50 London and Birmingham. lOO 217 Ditto New Thirds 2 374 to London and Brighton 5O ~...... 47% ..... to - London and South Western - London and Croydon London and York 24 3 ......... to ,0 Manchester and Leed5 ........„..... 70 .... 1154 ...... to ' Midland ..... ........... Birmingham and Derby..„ lOO ..... ... 80 ......... t t ° 0% Northern and Eastern Norwich and Brandon South Devon lO ..... .... 10% .. . .. South Eastern and Dover ....„ 33 3 8%4 W 4 % -- Ditto New Trent Valley® 2 .......„ tO 100 York and North Midland _.... Ditto 4 Shares 25 sloi ..„ to -- Ditto Scarbore' Branch .... ..... 10 ...... to -fi o Ditto Extension — ... .... - Boulogne and Amiens 2 ........ 374 ...... I" ~ Orleans and Vierzon ...... , Orleans and Bourdeaux Paris and R0uen.................... 20 ..... - Paris and Strasbourg MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV. 2°' hire have had a steady market, and prices are firm. Che ss d Junction, 6i i; Wigan and Liverpool. 4*; Cambridg e 4i; Lincoln, 2 7-16 ; Huddersfield and Manchester; TAD. Manchester and Birmingham, 51 ; Sheffield gn u , 7,0c1 coin, 1 13.16; Preston and Wyre, 261 ; Sheffielcbitto, Manchester, 96-1- 97; South-Eastern, 381 -.1-, ex Nesv; ;l New Creation, 38, f, ex New; Trent Valley, 7i 4. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ex dlv. 206 Ditto Bonds £1,000..... 3 per Cent. Red 99% Ditto under £ 1,000...... ~ 3 per Cent. Cons. ..... ..„ 336 per Cent. Red — Ditto Old Annuities ... ..... ___ New 34 per Cent. 1024 Ditto New Annuities .•• New 5 per Cent.... ......... Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 ...„.... „ ••••• 83 1" - Jan. 1860.- ......... ... 12 Ditto Small ........... ... ... Oct. 1859 dank Stock for Acct.... ol i Jan. 1860 ..... Indian Stock-- ............ ... India Stock for Acct..* FOREIGN FUNDS. 110 Austrian, 5 per Cent ........ Russian, 5 per Cent........': ...:,/ Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic ... ..... : .... 9." :;,....,...,, . ~.... r •—• . ' .... guenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —. Ditto, 1841 ..............•"" ..• Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 1842........ „ ..•^•'"" ..." (Milian, 6 per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent — Ditto, 3 per Cen t.........""' . 0 0 Greek, 18:.5, 5 per Cent — Venezuela Bonds, 2 per C ... Mexican, 5 per Cent ..1 4 Neapolitan Bond:, 5 per Ct — French, 3 per Cent.. ....• .... f. ,/' Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Exchange .... ........... ... Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct — Dutch 2' Ai per Cent .....••" / Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct Ditto,.:s per Cent. .... .... ..... RES. Bristol and Exe:ti paid) and Lincoln, paid SS Churnet Valley, 2 paid _ Gr.'st Southerii - anil Western 'lreland) 5 paid 2is London and Birmingham (Stt: -. 1 London and Croydon ... Manchester and 1...,...,...; (70 paid, Ditto, Half Shares, al paid WA Midland (100 paid) Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid ...... 5° ,, Richmond and West End Junction, I paid ...... ... a l Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) -11i Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 12 Ditto Ext,n,on Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid " 40 saris and Orleans (20 paid) SPORTING INTELLIGENC" TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. . 0 Oi l So thin was the attendance, and so few were l or kel vein to back horses, that to attempt a list of r a s io price; would only be to lead our readers astray; we de. therefore, confine ourselves to the bets actually B DERBY. 1000 to 40 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas 1000 to 40 agst Mr. Gully's Old England 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Stanley's Minikin colt 61 05 1 875 to 25 twice, and 1000 to 30 agst Mr. 39 Anti-Repealer. 350 to 10 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse 2000 to 25 agst Mr. Worley's John Davis 1000 to 10 agst Mr. H. Hill's St. Pancras. All the bets, except the one agst Idas, were afte. offered. ,f TRY THE CIVIL COURTS-JI BAPTISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sl O O O lll SlR,—Great dissatisfaction app ears t o reign e '" com of the decisions given of late by Bishops 110 11 plaints made against many of the c l erg y. P"r , i t ir is net generally known that ch arge s aga'n" 0 0 " A clergy for non-conformity to the Book of CV r Prayer may be made before the ci v il courts, I n te # solicit space to point out the auth o rity, in case should prefer a civil to an ecclesia s ti c al tribuno" p r, The Act for the Uniformity of Common Pr 3l ,.:j or, the Ist Elizazeth, declares, that " it is enacted Il l ' ev er; dained by the authority aforesaid, that all an e ",i" Justice of Oyer and Determiner, or Justice Off; t bei' shall have full power and authority, in every' 0. cle open and general sessions, to inquire, hear, 41 termine all manner of offences that 5",. 4 .01 done contrary to any article contained in the r Act, within the limits of the Commission to WI tli 6 rected, and to make process fur the execution.:a same, as they may do against any person h e n l y Tete v dieted before them of trespass, or lawfully n e l fs t 1 4 , 1 thereof." It also enacts, that if the offender first ceive punishment from the Ordinary, no prol e , hai e shall be taken in the civil court, and if the 1:0 311 '; f 4 had punishment awarded by a civil court, the e shall not be liable to be brought afterwards to t ot. fur the same offence before the ecclesiastical n% stlbf This Act of Elizabeth was not repealed by fit}' sequent Act of Charles 11. for the Unifornb' 0 0 Common Prayer, but was confirmed fulli,lll ll ,, latter Act, enacting, " That the several ger ri pervi and statutes of this realm, which have been ° lli a ( . ) 6 made, and are now in force for the unif er s itb .v j prayer and administration of the sacramentsiptoo this realm of England, and plans aforesaid sh e ur e e in full forte and strength, to all intents and P W., whatsoever, for the establishing and confirraillas' e '; said Fool; intituled, ' The Book of Comm° r Jil te d and Administration of the Sacraments and ote_ 0 0 and Ceremonies of the Church, according to th e _ j peP t i the Church of England,' &c. &c., hereinbeforoed osid tioned, :o be joined and annexed to this Act , B ioiP! be appled, practised, and put in use, for th e 1 ' of all offences contrary to the said laws with „ f ' to the book aforesaid, and no other." I believe, at the present time, there are 6./e v- sl 5t clef' suits Woe different ecclesiastical courts agar t° gymen of ,he Church of England for refusing w e, parties wlo have been baptised by Dissenting,. frif.l ters, and his after the decision of the Court,Te Council igainst the Rev. Mr. Escott for _!.,, ln ce offence, and his suspension from the perforiP o f the funcions of his office for three months . ju dge Let or 3 single case be taken befo re a K ill o° ° Assize, rid all this contumacy of the law be put estop to.—l am, Sir, yours, 84C ' &c S' Nov. 9, 1844. NOT : CANT" —........messesemsrapros.... IV / TIE NEW POLICE COURT -- IN II; tb :o7 °ll e seit ' s e fi tlf g This Nice-court, which has been built on Qo e to of Blactruan-street, Borough, Bench2rison, is comp'F-tc.d, and the Scre tarf b o4° of has isq e d orders a I tofort the above b r o c v m e ov :i lj ;;;t e h l e t i f t i bt o r ibi ce liP i t' sg from — jnion-11court by the wining month. ~~''t 14'74 toV