The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

MAJOR AND MRS. DARBY GRIFFITH. ready, In 2 vols., small Ili 21 Illustrations, pi ice 21s bound, A JOURNE Y ACROSS THE DESERT, FROM CEYLON To :',IARSEILLES. ‘;‘ , lnprising SKETCHES of ADEN, the RED SEA, LOWER n IPT, MALTA, SICILY, and ITALY. By MAJOR and MRS. GEORGE DARBY GRIFFITH. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVE' Nt)VF.NIBEit 25. be perf2nned a N,sw tlrsul Op./a, in 'Thief. Acts, entitled Pttt A.N ;Ir, Uriani; 11 - . - ..idene, Mr. V. Mr_ ~...trettJa; Arline, Rainfortn ; Queen of the 3lls, Betts. After which, the Grand Faßet, entitled THE CORSAIR., 26ortd, M. Albert; Julien, M. Desplaces; Sanguo, M. Montessu; Meslora, Miss Clara Webster ; Une Vivandiere, sldlle. Auguste, Delaes ; .ile. A4ela Dumilatre. The Box-ortice 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. HAY rti AREL.T. Leave, Mr. B. WEBS TER._ THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER f.s i Will he ierrorm d a Nev and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, cnl ed OLD HEADS AND V DUNG HEARTS Colonel Rocket, Mr. S; rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe - ; Tom Coke, Mr. Webster; !kb, Mr Ikekstone; Jesse Hu: al, Mr. W. k'arren ; 1 he Count- ss of Orin, Mrs. W. Clifford; Alice Hawthuri. Madame Vustri:i; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia enni tt. co-iclude with THt: I 111 MIIASSA DOR. Sir Patrick po, Mr. Collins, laabala , Ws, Julia riennett. Orche,tra Stalls (which may be re: r. n ell the whole of the Even ing), sq. each. First Price—Boxes, i ; Pit, ds Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at N ~^_o 'Clock 43 fixes, 3.1 ; 25.; Gallery, Is.; Upper Galle.y, td. Doors opened at Half past Six, Pe. furmance commence at even. Private Solicit, Two Guineas and Onc Guinea and a-Half each, Tickets and races to be had of Mr. I. I'. A,: cher, at the Box.otlice, [rpm fen till live o'Clcck. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL tinder the Directiun of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 2:i, Will be repeated a New Drama ' entitled FRE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Court Henry de Beaus , ileil, Mr. Iludson ; Count Vandle, Mr Selby; The Mysterious str ,riger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright! Checliore, Mr. With. Ater which, THE WRECK ASHORE Miles Bertram, Mr. Hudson ; Marmacuke Migog, Mr. Wright; Alice, Mrs. Yates; Bella, Mrs. Fazwdliam t o c include with CUPID, in which Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright Paul BetVord, and Miss Woolgar, w,ll penal m. Prompter, Mr. Gall:it ; Principal Painter, sir Pitt • Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Bex-ndice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S TIFEATRE, OXFORD.STHEET LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING. NOVEMBER 25, Wi'l be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled I'HE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanoir, Mr. Walton; Olivie-, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn, Jun.; Richard, Mr. Him* ; Re latul, Mr. Mattacas; Ivon, Mr. Leffler; llerniiue, aldlle. Helen Conde'!; Gertrir:,e, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which, a New ComeJletta. entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival. Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirl.ng To conclude with a New Grand Orient it Ballet, call,cl THE ENCHAN TED BELL. Azolin (an Hindoo Peasant), it Roussett ; Palmira (the Sultan's Daughter). Mille. Caroline Roussett; Naire (her Friend), Mdlle Teresina; Ding Do.lg (the Genii of the Bell), Mice Marshall. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell.. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, as. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, is. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, iwo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Proses nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-H dr. Doors to be opened at Half pest Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Bux-otlice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massinghsm. 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 25, Will be performed a New Comedietta, entitled WATCH AND WARD. The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a New Farce, called A IRIP TO KISSINGEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Manton, Collier, Yarnold, Turner, Stoker, and Ke icy, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mdlles. Louise and Adele, of her Majesty's Theatre, will make their appearance. After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Turner, and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Woollbige. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASSiONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. Crawl], and Mr. Keeley; Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli Ige, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, MI ,s James, Miss Ardcn, Miss Grove, and Mn.. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Poxes. 4i.; Upper Boxes, as.; Pit 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, l's. 6d.; Pit, In. Private Boxes on the iialrAny Tier ii 2 elding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a.Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persona), One Guirea. The Box-office Is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc. of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, Will be repeated Dougl.s Jerrold's NELL GWYNNE. Gwynne, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Orange Moll, Mr. H. Hall. After which. THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE, in which Mr. H. Hall, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs.. Montgomerie, Mrs. C. Pope, and Miss Bromley will perform. To conclude with LA CATARIN A, in which Mean. Roberts, Searle, Howard, AyllfFe, and Mrs. Coleman Pope will perform. 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 25, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race- Horne and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled National Fete3. Real Fnx-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living For 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 unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Three Conscripts Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadroot. Boa-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. FOR THE BENEFI C OF MR. W. SMITH. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, Will be performed the Third Act of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. F. F. Saville• Gertrude, Mrs, H. Vining; Ophelia, Miss E. Torrey. A'ter which, the Fifth Act of RICHARD THE THIRD. To be followed by the Third Act of EV ADNE. Evadne, Mrs. R. Bonner. To which will be added the Third Act of PIZ ARR O. To he succee.tcd by ti UGH LIFE BELO W STAIRS. An Ethiopian Ervertziinmea by the REAL AMERICAN SOU I HERN MINSTRELS. To conclude with ROBEtt f MAC &IRE. Robert Mucaire, Mr. E. F. Saville; Jacques Strop, Mr. W. Smit•). Places turd Pnvare Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box Alice, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, Will be repeuted THE STRANGE INTRUDER, in which Messrs. Seanaan,Higgie. Herbett, and Mi,q Vincent will perform. After which, A HUS:iANO AT SIGHT. Lonisberg, Mr. Hlg.ie ; Baroness, Mts. W. West To c'osiclude with ALIVE, Oft DEAD. Rudolph, Mr. W. H. Maddocks ; Agnes flant”. , , Mrs. W. West. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is Od. and LI Hs. dd. TILE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 23 ruznatomunsn, Lowest, 40 ; Highest, 43 ; soon, 42 BAROMICTRE, 30.2.—R1ND, E. nYTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the revzing point, and 55 temperate. In Barornlqers fair is traley- placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. antng ... 5S minutes after I Evening ... 13 minutes after 2. Wit ( NN .. 0, IVf•MA , ' "?..,..‘ ~:f llt h4N • ' .i• A • ' " 1. . 1 4 4 - / ..'- , ' '', . 7 1 . .:}2 . \ -- ..: , .... -.--- e.A ,1, ~- .. ~.. ~ ,N., ..n. ~I. •.._ , ~,,.,: i. .. .tt LT.., 4...,;4 , ... • ,,,..,,rn. , .-40,T . -- 3,,--, , , ....._ -,,,,:.,,.„.„--, tit.. _...„, flcrrning nlt LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1844. We never despaired of the Protestant people of England when the doctrines of the Puseyites should he fairly brought under their notice. Englishmen, fortunately, are not 'hasty in their decisions—they take time to consider, and no people, perhaps, after mature deliberation, ever come to a more upright and conscientious judgment. They have now had at least three years to form an opinion on this new Popery scheme, and laymen of all ranks—men, indeed, of every grade in society, excepting those who wear the shovel-hat and the surplice—are ueanimous in condemning PUSEY and NEWMAN. This is a noble tribute to the b!esiings of the Reformation. Parishes in every direction are rising up against their Popish rectors, vicars, and curates ; they will have no Roman Catholic ceremonies, however harmless and innocent; they justly regard them as the forerunners of slavery and the re-establishment of a religion to which the whole constitution of the country, in Church as well as state, is directly opposed. It is a reproach to Protestants to say that this feeling has been created by the wild schemes of certain bishops to force upon them a weekly collection for the poor. Their objec tions are of a much higher and more sacred character. The Church of England is pUrely Protestant. It has, till within the' last four years, shunned the Court of Rome as the " mystery of iniquity ;" it has denounced every concession to Catholics ; it has grudged the paltry pittance to Maynooth ; it strug gled to the last against Catholic emancipation ; it up • held, in every instance, the great and glorious prin ciples of the Reformation ; and the people naturally believed that the Church would adhere to principles which it had avowed as the very essence of its exist ence. A new race, however, sprung up in the ,University of Oxford. They were regarded at first as mere drivellers, as contemptible as the Mormonites, or the followers of JOANNA SOUTHCOTE, till they were taken under the especial care of the Episcopal Bench .. The people rebelled against the missionaries sent forth by this new sect, appealed for protection to the bishop of the diocese, but in many instances the replies to these appeals were jesuitical, and in others— we refer to the Bishops of LONDON and EXETER par. ticularly—the Protestants of the Established Church were insulted and branded as disturbers of the Ca tholic Church. Everything the Puseyites did was right—they adhered faithfully to the rubrics, and every ceremony offensive to Protestants was sane tioned b y t h ese fathers of the Church. Even the A rchlwishop of CANTERBURY, from whom they expected tome relief, di sm i ssed them with an evasive answer; and all men saw th a t th ere Was a generalcombination in the body of the Church against the Protestant generally regarded The Primate of a ll E ngland is regarded as a person of a meek and Christian dispes tion—he is so quiet and imperturbable, that no man imagines he can sanction any measures contrary to his sacred oaths. Yet, notwithstanding several appeals, he has allowed the heresy to go on increasing, withoat taking one step to obstruct it, and has per- THE SUN, LONDON, MON'DAT MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, IM4, nutted members of the University of Oxford—men paid by the Protestant establishment—to denounce the Reformation as a great crime, and to advocate all the most obnoxious doctrines of a religion which he professes to abhor. These meek church men are the most dangerous characters in a com munity. While they pretend to be passive, they are secretly encouraging egregious encroachments on religion !sea liberty, and always find tools to carry their baneful purposes into effect. To the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY, with all his meekness, we attribute the entire blame of this lamentable divi sion in the Protestant Church. Of what use are archbishops and bishops, if not to keep their clergy in order ? Yet the Church is divided against itself, and these superintendents, whenever they interfere, only add fuel to the flame. The only safeguard of Protestantism rests with the people themselves. The Church is bent on a march to Rome. The Puritans who opposed LAUD, justly sacrificed on the scaffold, have been scoffed at by all churchmen, but they manfully opposed the encroachment of the clergy, and to them the people of this country owe the glorious consti tution which they now enjoy. They denounced such men as PLISEY, and BLOMFIELD, and PHILPOT, and HowLEy, and it remains for the laity of England to imitate their example, and resist all perjured churchmen who receive pay as Protestants, yet are doing everything in their power to undermine the Establishment, and bring the people back to the most insufferable state of slavery. in accordance with the plans prepared in Greece. Con siderable sums have been sent to the frontier provinces, and as much as several hundred thousand drachmas have been spoken of. In Epirus and Thessaly a considerable sum of money has been collected. The reluction of the Greek army favours this project, for many brave officers have been thrown on their own resources, and they turn their eyes to the frontiers of Turkey.' ‘• The Augsburg Gazette states that the Porte, after having promised M. de Bourqueney to have the Domi nican convent at blossul re-established, has sent word to Sheriff Pacha to have the house rebuilt, such as it was, that is, a storey and a half high, but to go no further. The Porte has also formally forbidden the Rajas to pur chase the land round the Catholic churches whether at Mosaul or in other places, in order to giveit afterwards to the churches, as that would place it under the protection of France. Such a measure,' remarks the above jour nal, is evidently hostile to the interests of Catholicism in the East as well as to France. Mde Bourqueney took his departure without having settled this difficulty.' " THE BOURSE--Tuußsnay, Nov. 21. First Highest Lowest Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Centa•• •• 119 50 .. 119 55 .. 119 45 119 55 Three per Cents..•.. 82 90 .. 83 10 .. 82 90 .. 83 10 Bank of France Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. BharesloBo ..1085 ..1080 ..1085 5,0001. Shareeso2s —BO3O ..5022 50 ..5030 Belgian Bank .. • • • • • • • • •• • • 625 .. 625 .. 615 .. 615 Belgian Fives 1831. 1840 ........ 1031 .. 1031 .. 1021 .. 1031 1842 ...... 1061 .. 1061 .. 1061 .. 1061 Two-and-a-Half.... 61 65 .. 61 65 .. 81 65 .. 61 65 Spanish Passive: . .. 6 .. 6 .. 6 .. 6 Portuguese Fire, per Cents— an .. 54 .. 53j .. i 4 Neapaitan•••:.:.....• • .. 97 90 .. 98 15 .. 97 90 .. 98 15 Bosun .... 105 .. 105 .. 105 .. 105 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ....... ..... .. 930 .. 930 .. 930 .. 930 Venalilea, R. 8..• ..... ..... 427 50 .. 430 L. 8.•• •• —.. .. 302 50 .. 210 R0n0n.......... Rouen to Havre•••• 7BO .. 780 .. 427 50 .. 430 .. 302 50 .. 308 75 .. 996 25 .. 998 75 .. 780 .. 780 Orleans -lOW 75 ..1025 ..1018 78 —1025 Strasburg to 8a1e••....•... 276 25 .. 276 25 .. 276 25 . 276 25 Avignon to Marseilles...... 875 .. 875 . 872 10 .. 872 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, DEC. 3. St. Germain ••• • • • 930 .. 930 .. 930 Another great meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League took place on Wednesday night, in the New Hall, at Rochdale. The organs of monopoly must be grievously perplexed by this additional proof of the vitality of the League, for according to their accounts it was in a state of fearful decrepitude full three months since, and there was not the slightest probability of its ever again disturbing the slumber of the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, or giving occasion for any further manifestations of eloquence on the part of Mr. BANKES, whose description of his Dorsetshire Arcadia caused, it may be remembered, a very considerable sensation in the House of Commons last session, if not by its matter-of-fact accuracy, at any rate by the brilliant inventive genius by which it was characterised. The Post, the Standard, and the Herald, having already pronounced the Anti-Corn law League to be all but in articulo mortis, and Messrs. COBDEN and Buiairr engaged in busy pre parations for officiating as chief mourners at its funeral, it must be a great act of presumption in this contumacious Confederacy now to come publicly for ward and declare, that so far from being in ill-health, it never was in a more thriving condition in its life, and as for dying, it never had the slightest intention of giving up the ghost ! We remember a remark- .. 930 Versailles, R. 8... iL.I3 Rouen.... Rouen to Havre•• .. •• •• .. .• 777 50 •. 778 75 .. 777 50 .. 778 75 Orleans ......... •• .. —.1017 50 •.1027 50 ..1017 50 ..1027 50 Strasburg to 8a1e••........ 276 25 .. 277 50 .. 276 25 .. 277 58 Avignon to Marseilles•• • • •.:872 50 .• 876 25 .. 870 .. 873 75 AMERICAN EVE'S. ably robust and vigorous gentleman, with a face like a full-moon, and a chest like that of Hercules in the Elgin marbles, and who never in his life knew what it was to have a headache, modestly observing in reply to some common-place interogatory of a friend, that, thank Gon, he enjoyed excellent health, though he looked delicate; and so may the League reply ;—it enjoys excellent health, tho►igh it looks delicate—at least in the estimation of our Tory Contemporaries, who never will be persuaded but that it must very shortly go off in a galloping consumption. Those, however, whose judgment is not wholly eclipsed by their pre+ judices, take a very different view of the case, and consider that at the present moment the Anti- Corn-law League exercises a greater moral influence over the public mind than it has done at any time since its first establishment. Were it not so, we should not find it effecting such searching reforms in the Register as it has recently done—reforms which, at the peat election, will illuminate Sir Ro- BERT PEEL'S mind in a very effectual manner, and go far to convert a majority against the Corn-laws in the House of Commons, into a majority in their favour. Mr. COBDEN gave his Rochdale hearers some sound advice on this important subject of the Registration. " Hitherto," he said, " we have been an Anti-Corn law League instructing the people, and agitating them about Free-trade ; now I really think we are going to take my friend SHAMAN CRA.WFORD'S busi ness out of his hands, and advocate an extension of the suffrage. We want to persuade our fellow countrymen to buy the property that will qualify them to vote ; and I most sincerely wish that every head of a family in this country was worth the money necessary to buy that vote. But that is much easier done than many people suppose. Another meridian has dawned upon us within the last few months. We pledged ourselves some time ago to contest the boroughs and try what we could do to gain them ; but it never occurred to us that we could win counties in this country. And yet with 252 county Members in the House, and not six of them voting for Free-trade, it has occurred to us that unless we can make some change there, we shall not be likely to get a majority in that House. Now, 1 believe the counties may be won in many instances, as I have be fore said, much easier than the little pocket boroughs." If the League, following the advice given some years since by Sir ROBERT PEEL to the Conservatives, sticks to its present determination of fighting the battles of Free-trade in the Registration Courts, we cannot for a single instant permit ourselves to doubt of its success. It has a vast majority of the middle classes in its favour, but unfortunately not a few members of this class, however well disposed to wards the cause of Free•trade, are apt to be sluggish and inactive in the discharge of their duties as electors, and to neglect to qualify themselves at the proper time and in the proper manner. Now, by the exer cise of a little tact and perseverance the League may easily manage to rouse the dormant zeal of these lethargic but well-intentioned folks, and will reap the benefit of its exertions in a vast increase of the numbers of its supporters at the next election. Madrid journals, of the lith, announce the con viction and sentence on General PRIM and the other prisoners. Previous accounts stated that the process was brought to a conclusion on the evening of the 14th at nine o'clock, and that the Court was cleared. The members, it appears, had no little difficulty in agreeing on the judgment and sentence, for they sat all night, and only a little before six in the morning the sentence was pronounced. By this PRIM is con demned to six years' imprisonment in a fortress, but was to retain his rank and decorations. His fellow prisoners had _been condemned, some to two, and others to three years' imprisonment, on similar terms. The Supreme Military Tribunal was ulti mately to decide on the fate of the prisoners, and point out the places of their imprisonment. The discussions on the Reform Bill were continued, and occasional amendments made, which, of course, were rejected. The public take no interest whatever in the affair. The Bourse was closed on the 15th, being the feast If ST. EUGENIUS. The Paris papers contain little interesting to the English reader. The Moniteur officially announces the convocation of the Chambers for Thursday, the 2Gth of December, as previously stated in The Sun. The Journal des Debats has an article on electric telegraphs, and urges the Government, as a matter of economy as well as State convenience, to establish them on all the new lines of railway. " The present defective system," it says, " costs the State .500 francs per mile, so that a vast saving might easily be affected. The same journal contains a letter from its Madrid correspondent, giving details of the pro ceedings which took place on the 14th, at the trial of General PRIM ; but they add nothing to the previous intelligence. The writer denounces the un fair mode of trial, and says " the precipitation with shich the affair has been proceeded with and judged, the want of proper formality, and the indifference of the public, have confirmed me in my first impression. Judicial proceedings, above all, demand reform in Spain. An oral defence, public examinations, more respect for the judges, more liberty to the advocates, are the most urgent and useful ameliorations." These papers contain no further particulars respecting the movements of ZURITANO, and merely publish the extract from the Phare de Bayonne, which has already appeared in this journal. As far as can be ascertained from the various accounts, the affair has been much magnified, and probably will end in smoke. The following are miscellaneous extracts:— Prussia tea A Berlin lett e r o f th e 15 t h s t a t es t h a t t h e Ki ng o f siahas accepted from the King of Hanover a n invi tation grand hunt, which is to take place in the forest of Gcerde. We read in a German journal . . " ' A secret agitation is at work, and will soon explode? •~ •.. the most vital importance, and insures to her creditors the regular payment of their dividends. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. $17,000 Ohio Sixes, '6O 5,000 Illinois special Bonds 10,000 Indiana Bonds 10,000 Pcnn'a Fives slo 71 25 Sh. Bank Corn. Scrip 99 100 Farmers' Trust blO 39 50 Illinois Bank 50 Manhattan Gas 50 Canton Co. 120 Erie RR. 50 Mohawk, RR. .................... ....... 250 Reading RR. 100 Harlem, RR ... .... .... ~. s 60 67 100 East Boston Co. 150 Long Island RR . 74i 120 Morris Canal 3l 50 New Jersey RR 95 150 Stonington RR s3O 45 25 Housatonic RR. 1,000 Nor. and Wor. RR 73 COTTON TRADE.—There has been a good inquiry, both from shippers and pinners, and to-day about 1,200 bales were taken at steady rates. The southern markets are very dull, with very large receipts and limited sales. CORN TRADE.—The corn traie was very inactive. Speaking of this the New York Herald says :—" The decrease in the shipment to Canada has been pro duced by the abundant crops in England, and no de mand, in consequence, coming from that quarter. HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAILS PRAGUE, Nov. 11.—The Duke of Bordeaux has been here for the last week, and will make a considerable stay in Bohemia to join the hunting parties on the estates of the Prince of Rohan, and other great land owners. The Prince has been making such minute in quiries respecting the management and produce of land, that it seems certain be intends to settle in Bohemia. HswovEg, Nov. 16.—1 t is mentioned that the post of Cabinet Minister has been offered to Count Kielmansegge the Hanoverian Minister in London. We believe the Count has not accepted this post. STocHoLm, Nov. 12.—The Estates of the Kingdom were summoned on the 9th, to meet in Pleno Plenorum, ' when they were informed that his Majesty had given his sanction to all the changes in the Constitution, which had been agreed to by the Estates on this Diet, among which are the following:—Thatthe Diet shall meet every third year; that the King has the right to accept or reject the projects of law presented by the Estates during the Diet ; the abolition of the differences between the Noble and not Noble Members of the supreme tribunal; the abolition of the right to suppress newspapers. COLOGNE, Nov. 14.—The sale of the third number of the quarterly journal published by Wejand, at Leipsic, is prohibited. We hear that it is on account of an article respecting the Jesuits, by Kopp, at Heidelberg. BERLIN, Nov. 13.—The well-known painter, Pro fessor Mong er, set out yesterday, for St. Petersb urg h, being invited to paint the portraits of the Emperor and Empress, which are intended as presents to the Queen of Great Britain. BRUSSELS, Nov. 20.—The Chamber decided to-day that the debate on the budget of ways and means shall take place on Tuesday next. BELGIAN FUND3.—BausszLe, Nov. Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. ......NN -- Three per Thirty-seven Millions, ditto 1/0441 Loan of City, 1843, Four per Fent, . 102% Society of Commerce, Four and a Ha l f per Cont. Bank of Bel g ium, Five per Cent ... .......... 59 Issue of ...... ..... —Brussels Papers, Nov. 21. AUSTRIAN FU NDS.—Vmsxzsa. Nov 13 }lye per Cents. Metalliques ....... 110 Four per Conte• •••••••••••••••• ..... ••••••••••••••«••••••••••• 10034 Threelaer Cents. 75% Bank Shares ..... 160* Lean 1834 Ditto, 1839 RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand l6O Gloggnits Milan ll9 .411genteine Zeitung, Nov. 17. HAMBURGH RORSENHALLE, Nov. 19, Moncy. Austrian 5 per Cents. ....... ..... 113 B ank Shares.. ....... ....... •••••••••••••••••••• ..... 1640 ww• Angle-Russian ann. .. . ......... ....... 11434 ._ Russian 5 per Cent., let series, Certi fi cate.... 105 q 105 Inscription, Ist series — 1053( Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series ...... . .... •••••••••••• ........ ....... 90% Ditto In Certificates ..... ............. 99 54 New 4 per Cent. (1840) 9 1 14 Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. . ........ 6174 60% Ditto 5 per Cent. Angla.Danish Loan, S per Spanish, New 4 per Cents. ..... 19 18% Polish Bonds New ..... ........ Co*sol I%d. I%d. - - ......... 62 60 pm. Ditto SmalL.... _ _•• ••...».,...••...».,... 62 60 Ind •••••• ....• •••••••••••• 60 62 pm. Ditto Advertised:"... ..».«...,. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent...,..„„.._....,..„ 88 89 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ....... ..... a 36 Ditto for the Account •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 3 61 Ditto Deferred Stock, 16% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ........ Ditto C0nverted......................... ....... Ditto for the Account . Spanish Bonds, Fire per . Cen .... t 184 . 0 — Ditto Three per Cent. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• -- Ditto for the Acoount 35% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred .... ...... ."......... ........... 12% Dutch 2% per Cents...." •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 63 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certi ficates Dutch 5 per Cents 99 PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PEIrSHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ....... 9 8 to 97% Ditto New . ..... ••••••••••••• ........ 17% 24 . to Bristol and Exeter 1... ... .......... 70 ........ 69%. to Bristol and G10uce5ter..„.......... 30 ... ..... 35% Chester and H01yhead............... 5 ......... 61...• to &A Churnet Valley ... .... ......... ..... 2 Eastern Counties ••••••••••••••••••••• 25 ••••••••• 13% to .. Eastern Union Great North of England. lOO ll/4; Great Western •••••••••••••••••.•••••• 75 Ditto 4 Shares .................... 50 ........ 86% Ditto kifths..... 4..." •••••••••••••• 12 ........ 26 ....see to ....a London and 81ack . wa11............. 16% . ...... 6% London and Brighton .... ........ 50 .... 47% London and Greenwich . .......... 12% ... "... .. 9% ..« to London and South Western ..... 41% ...... 75% London and Croydon .............. 13% of«. . 16% % ,to .. Midland ..... ........ ...• 100 ...»„..I€B%les% to 107% Birmingham an d - Derby........... 100 ..... ... 79 Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 ........ 503 s ..... to Norwich and Brandon .......... 8 ..... .... 12% Sheffield and Lincoln ...... ......... 1% South Eastern and Dover ......... 33% Trent Valley! 2 ........ 8 .....• to York and North Midland Ditto Scarbore' Branch ......... 10 ..,. 32 Ditto Extension Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bourdeaux Paris and Lyons 2 1%... to -. Paris and Orleans ..... •••••••••••••••• 20 .....«.. 40% ..... to 40 Parisand Rouse ..... ••••••••••••••••••• 90 ••••••••• 38% .•.•• to Paris and Strasbourg 2 ......... 2% JOINT STOCK RANKS. London and Westminster 2O 26%% ... to .... 100% Exchequer Bills. 1 0001. •••••••• THEATRE ROYAL DRERY-LANE.---NOthing is now talked of but the forthcoming opera, on Wednesday next, at this theatre, of The Daughter of St Mark, of which Mr. Balfe has composed the music, and Mr. Bunn written the libretto, as in the instance of The Bohemian Girl We hear, on all sides, that, in addition to the character of the music being of a much higher order than any Balfe has yet composed, there are some beau tiful melodies in it, peculiar to this gifted artiste. Mdlle. Dumilatre's last performances are to. night and to morrow. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—At a Committee of the Court of Aldermen, held on Saturday, the proposi tion of Alderman Wood, to abolish the evening sittings of the Central Criminal Court for the trial of prisoners at the Old Bailey, was taken into consideration, and it was unanimously resolved that the experiment should be tried, commencing with the sittings in the month of December next. The consideration of the second part Alderman Wood's proposition, as to having a third court for the greater dispatch of business and the accommoda tion of the public, was reserved until the result of the experiment of abolishing the evening sittings should be ascertained. THE STEAM-BOAT AND THE LOCOMOTIVE—NIN• DERMERE.—A very elegant steam-boat is building f r Windermere, to ply round the lake with pleasure parties. This is not in connexion with the railway, but rather in consequence of it ; and the " true romance" of the story is, that the gentry who have expressed such dislike to the locomotive steam-engine are giving every encour agement to the aquatic steamer. The time will come when they will recognise and acknowledge the conveni ences of both.—Railway Record. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 22.—We have had a quiet market to-day, without much change in prices. Bristol and Gloucester, 351 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2i ; London and Birmingham, 26 ; Midland, 40/. Shares, 2 prem. ; Preston and Wyre, 18 ; South- Eastern, new creation, 7.1 ' • Southport and Euxton, 2 4 ; West Yorkshire, 6i to ; Liverpool and Ormskirk, 2. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bask 5t0ck"........ex div per Cent Red 99X per Cent. Cons. 101.1% 3% per Cent. Red New 3U per Cent • 1023( New 6 per Cent..„.„ — Long Annuities to expire Jas. 1860...••••••••••• Oct. 1659.............. 11 13-16 Jan. 1id0......... Indian ....... FOREIG P Austria', 5 per Cent ....... Belgian, 5 per Cent lOl% Brazilian Bonds 69 Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent - Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent..." Chlllan, 6 per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent" — 51exican,5 per Cent .....„ 9 ,1( Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Peruvian Bonds. 6 per Ct — Portuguese Bonds,* per Ct Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 93 pm. Ditto under 41,000 — pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Bills, 1,000/. I%d ." 60 pm. Ditto 5004 Ditto Small 62 pm. Bank Stock for Acct — Consols for Act loo} India Stock for Acct — N FUNDS. Russian 5 per Cent............ M Ditto,Metallic ipanish, 5 per Cent., 1840... 241 i i)itto, 1841 Ditto, 1642 ............ Ditto, 1843. Ditto, 1841 ..... ••••••••••• 00000 Ditto, 3 per Cent ••••••••••••••• 353 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per et... Freech, 5 per Cent., —t. —C. French, 3 per Cent...— —c. Exchange ....... —c. Dutch, 2% per Cent .. 63 Ditto,:s per Cent SHARES. Birmingham and Glouteiiii(loopaid).. ...... 07% Ditto New shares, 173{, ptid 24 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 7O Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Churnet Valley, 2 paid ... 3% Dias, Beecles. and Yarmouth, 1% p a id . ...... Dublin and Galway, 23 paid ..•,«. ••.111 2 Eastern Counties (25 paid) .... ..... ............. ........ 13 Great North of England, 100 paid Great Western (75 paid) ... . . ........... ....... .. ...... Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid Ditto Fifths, 12 paid London and Blactwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 6% London and Brighton (so paid) London and Greenwich (121. IS.. 4d. paid) London and South Western (411.65. 10d. paid) 74 London and Croydon London and York, 23% paid 9 Midland (100 paid) . 10734 Birmingham and Derby, #lOO paid.... ....... . ..... Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid Si Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid . ..... .... 12 Sheffield and Lincoln hire, 13 ( paid • 1% South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ..... .... 33 Trent Valley, 2 paid 9 York and North Midland (50 paid) 103% Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid ... 31% Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 68% Ditto Extension Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid ...... ........ .... ...... A Orleans and Vierzon, 2 prid lO% Orleans and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ...... .... ....... Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 paid ................. .................... 381 Paris and Strasbourg, 2% paid 2% The high price of the funds naturally causes the value of all eligible securities for tho purpose of invest ment to fetch proportionably high sums. This fact was fully exemplified last week at Mr. George Robins's sale of ground rents at Lisson-grove, which, being freehold, may certainly be deemed the next best security to the funds, but, when the expenses of transfer and other con tingencies be considered, cannot, in our opinion, be pro nounced equally eligible; yet M r . R o bi ns was ena b led to obtain thirty-one years' purchase, thus yielding a pur chaser less than 3 per cent. ; for, although he becomes entitled to a reversionary interest, yet, at the remote period of 76 years, no calculation could at present be made for this expected advantage. The ground-rents sring amounted to 240 1 . a year, and sold f or 7.500/. A re markable fact attends this sale—viz., one o f th e l o t s , th e mu Hope and Anchor public-house, whi c h f or 76 years pro duucedd simplya peppercorn, f e t c h e d 100 gu i neas ; this the peried before any rent can be received will, at compound interest, amount to the enormous price of 4,6001., and certainly double the value of the property.—Advertiser. LOVE'S DESPERATION.—On Wednesday last, some excitement was created in Ulverston, by a respectably attired female casting herself out of the window of a room in the Queen's Arms Inn there. She tied a hand kerchief round her face, then slipped it Up over her eyes thus becoming " blind" to all danger, and putting up the sash of the window, got out b ac kwards,C and after hang ing by her hands for a short time, dropped down. She alighted on her feet on the pavement, but losing her ba lance she fell backwards, her head coming in contact with the stones. She was immediately taken up in a state of insensibility, and carried into the inn. From inquiries, it appears that the female is the daughter of a respectable tradesman in Kendal, and is about nineteen years of age; that she has become enamoured of a young man about the same age, who is connected with a com pany of itinerant players which were at Kendal last week, and removed from that place to Ulverston, where she also proceeded on the wings of love, in pursuit of the " cushla ma chree." She was, however, followed by a r. lative, who took her to the Queen's Arms, where she had her under restraint, when the incident above related took place. DEATH OP TILE HON. GENERAL PREDERICY ST JoEN.—We have to record the demise of this venerable general officer, who expired at Chailey on Tuesday last, somewhat suddekly, fur the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman was take n unwell about four hours before he expired. The deceased was second son of Frederick, second Vis count Bolingbroke, and brother of the late Viscount, and consequently uncle to the present peer. He was born Dec. 20, 1765, a n d wa s three times married— namely, first, the Bth December, 1788, to Lady Mary Kerr, third daughter of William, fifth Marquis of Lothian, who died in childbed, Feb. 6, 1791 ; secondly, April 6, 1793, the Hon. Arabella Craven, third daughter of William, sixth Lord Craven, who died June 9, 1819 ; and, thirdly, Nov. 14, 1821, Caroline Elisabeth, youngest daughter of the late Mr. J. Parsons. The deceased General had families by each marriage. The Hon. General enured the army in August, 1779, and with the single exception of Sir George Nugent, Bart., was th e senior General in the army, his commission being dated as far back as June, 1814. In 1798 the Hon. and Gal lant deceased, then Colonel St. John, served throughout the rebellion in Ireland. He served with distinction in India, under Lord Lake, and b the two campaign s against the Mahrattas, being second in command ; was engaged in seven sieges, and two general actions, besides engagements of minor importance. His commissions were dated as follows :—Ensign, August 31, 1799 ; Lieutenant, Feb. 7, 1780 ; Captain, Dec. 12, 1780 • Major, April 8, 1783 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, Feb. 23, 1791 ; Colonel, August 21, 1795 ; Major-General, June 18, 1798 ; Lieutenant-General, Oct. 30, 1805 ; and General, June 4, 1814. PROMISSORY NOTES. The Bank Returns for Scotland and Ireland exhibit for the four weeks to Nov. 9, a general increase in the circulation as follows : SCOTLAND. Chartered, Private, and Joint-St oc k B an k s , Now Last time 3,284,295 2,987,665 Increase 276,630 IRELAND. Bank of Ireland, Nov 3,896,750 Last time Increase 298,900 Private and Joint-Stock Banks, Now 2,832,397 Last time 2,456,261 Increase 376,136 NEW LIFE-BoAr.---A life •bout, built of India rubber and cork planking, has recently been constructed under the direction of Lieutenant G. Walker, R.M., which promises to be of great service in cases of ship wreck. The objects to be attained are to combine light ness with strength. so that the boat may be readily ; launched, be able to resist the waves and collisions with rocks, and at the same time be incapable of sinking. The former requisites are attained by constructing the boat of courses of planking, composed of ground cork and India rubber, which may be made into planks of almost any length and thickness, and the prevention from sink ing is attained by air-boxes placed under the flooring. The boat that has been constructed on this principle is thirty-four feet long, and eleven and a half wide from the outside, and it is calculated to be capable of taking 100 persons at a time from a wreck in safety. With twenty five persons on board it draws only fifteen inches of water. WHOLESALE WRECKING.—The Courrier du Havre of Monday contains the following narrative, which re minds us somewhat of the wreckers in Cornwall. About nine o'clock on Saturday night about 100 people with baskets, sacks, bags, and shovels, assembled on the Place de l'Eure, and gathered up the coffee scattered along the shore from the wreck of the Deux Paulines, and even took possession of fragments of the vessel. Two officers of the customs endeavoured to stop the plunder, but were soon overpowered by numbers and beaten off. They would have fared much worse but for their own prudence in making a timely retreat. The pillage was continued throughout the night, and in the morning the predatory band was increased. One man took away, on a horse which he brought for the purpose, 1,20016. of coffee, but of this quantity 7001 b. was found in his house, and taken away and lodged in a warehouse. The officers on duty at the citadel compelled all who entered through it into the town to deposit their loads under the vault of the Porte de Secours, where they still remain.— Galignani's Messenger. PECULIAR SITUATION.—In the county of Chester there is a residence called Hardingwood House, in the parish of Lawton, from which the inhabitants, every time they go to church, pass out of the province of Canter bury into that of York ; go through two counties, Staf fordshire and Cheshire ; three parishes, Wolstanton, Andley, and Lawton ; three constabularies, Tunstell, Chell, and Nantwich, and the two dioceses of Lichfield and Chester. THE VALUE or PROPRETT.—The small return now obtained for money on solid security was made manifest last week at the Auction Mart, on the occasion of Mr. George Robins having to sell freehold ground-rents amounting to 240/. a year. A reversionary interest was appended to this sale, at the expiration of 77 years, but 11)4 reversion, at such a distant period, was worth no thing, and yet the ground•rents averaged more than 31 years' purchase ; and a peppercorn rent for 77 years, (when the fee simple will be possessed), of the Hope and Anchor public•bouse, estimated at 100/. a-year, actually produced 100 guineas. The interest upon this sum, with the compound interest for 77 years, will amount to 4,600/. which is consequently the enormous value the pepper corn produced.—Morning "BETTER TO BE BORN FORTUNATE THAN RICH."-- It is currently reported at Sleaford, and we believe cor rectly so, that a well-known millwright (a working man) of that place, by a recent decision in the High Court of Chancery, immediately comes into the possession of a large estate near London of the annual value of 13,0001., as well as arrears of rent for the same for the last twenty years, amounting, of course, to the sum of 260,000L—Lincolnahire Chronicle, MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS I COURT CIRCULAR. (From The Sun of Ssturday Evening.) . WINDSOR, FElDAY. — Yesterday, the Queen, accom- The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were only panied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Saxe 3,000 bales, but at previous rates.—A good business was Coburg and Gotha, took a carriage airing attended by done in Shares, and the Market closed firmly :—Chester the Marchioness of Douro, Madame la Baronne de and Birkenhead, 318 ; Churnet Valley, 4 34 ; Direct Wangenheim, and the Hon. Miss Hamilton ; Colonel Northern, 28 ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2, 19s. 61. ; Ely and Bedford, li ; G ran d J unct i on , 215 ; ! Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, a tt en di ng on Ditto, Half shares, 107 ; Kendal and Wind e r mere , 3i ; horseback. Lancaster and Preston, 461 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Prince Albert, accompanied by his Royal Highness 204 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 102 ; London and Birmingham, the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, his R o y a l High -218 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 38; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 26 ; ness the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, and the Mar- London and York, 60s. 61s.;'North Wales Mineral, with quis of Granby, and attended by Mr. George Edward new, 9/ ; Manchester and Leeds, 114 ; Ditto. Half Anson and Col. Wylde, left the Castle before elevc Shares, 48 ; Midland Counties, 1074 8 ; N ewcas tl e an d o ' clock yesterday morning, to hunt with his Roya. Darlington, 484 ; South Eastern, 374 ; Ditto, New, 7t ; Highness's harriers. The meet took place on Mr. Paris and Lyons, 31. Is. 6d. ; Paris and Rosen, 38 4 ; Nash's farm, near King's Langley. The illustrious Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 41. li. 6d. ; Boulogne party afterwards returned to the Castle. and Amiens, 4. The Bank of England weekly return show s an aug- -„, rincess Alice, The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess mentation of 106,800/. in the circulation an d b u lli on to the Issue Department; of 8,823/. in the bullion to the ercise in the pleasure-grounds adjacent to the Castle Banking Department; of 225,565/. in the public de- yesterday morning. Prince Alfred was afterwards posits; of 667,063/. in the general securities; and a de- taken out for some time. , crease of 310,510/. in the other deposits. The Earl of Aberdeen took his departure yesterday. Stocks are very quiet to-day, but exceedingly firm, The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby ar- Consols having been again marked 1001 to 100. Ex- rived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit to her Ma chequer Bills keep at 603. to 625. premium. East India j es t y . Stock is steady at the improveme n t t o 288. The:New Her Royal Highness the D uc h ess o f K en t, L a d y Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 102* -1, and the Fanny Howard, the Countess Wrati s l aw , Catain Three per Cents. 99i 8. East India Bonds are 83s. Francis Seymour p and Sir James Clark , joined premium. , The Foreign Investments have been dull al s o, b u t the royal dinner party at th e C as tl e yes t er d ay . Spanish Bonds are firmer, owing to the satisfactory cor- The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in respondence between the Committee of Bo n dh o ld ers an d attendance during dinner. H er M a j es t y ' s pr i va t e Messrs. Reid, Irving, and Co., inserted in another part band afterwards attended in the evening. of The Sun. The Three per Cents. are 35i i. The This morning their Royal Highnesses Prince Actives are nominal. Portuguese Converted realize 35* Albert, the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and to 34j Mexican are supported at 36* to 354 ; and Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, walked for some time Brazilian at 88.1 to 89. Dutch Twoasnd-a-Half per before chapel. Cents are at 63. The Queen, Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess The Railway Shares have been somewhat feebler in a of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, the Duke Ernest of few instances, but the aggregate business is not of im- Wurtemberg, all the Court, and the Domestic House portance. The new lines have been those chiefly dealt in. PRICES OF BRITISH k UNDS AT ONE O'CLOOK. hold, attended Divine S e r v i ce thi s morn i ng i n th e (From the Official List) private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ............... 92% N. Charles Leslie Courtenay officiated. 100% li laT g i n p t. er c re io n : . .. A A nn n u n tt i es 102 %IA Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 ) the afternoon service in the private chapel. Lady Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 India Stock India Rom:141,1,000... .. ...........«......" B3 Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Ditto under 1,000.....--- Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed airing in the forenoon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has arrived at Yetworth House, to honour Colonel Wynd ham with a visit, from Arundel Castle Sussex, the seat of the Duke of Norfolk. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester House. Mr. Roebuck, M.P., had an interview with Lord Stanley on Saturday, at the Colonial office. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town on Satur day, from a visit to her Majestey, at Windsor Castle. Mr. Joseph Armitage, chairman, and a deputation from the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie on Friday, at the Board of Trade. Sir Robert Peel had a dinner party en Saturday, at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. Dispatches from the Governor of Cape Coast were reeeired on Saturday at the Colonial-office. I'l-1E LAW OF GAMING. IMPORTANT LEGAL OPINION. BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY EVENING.—For many years past the magistrates of this borough have been in the habit of convicting licensed victuallers for allowing card playing in their houses, the act of playing having been hitherto held as an unlawful act. A few days ago several respectable licensed victuallers were summoned before the magistrates, charged on the evidence of the police, with having allowed card-playing in their houses. Mr. Harding, solicitor, rigidly cross-examined the witnesses, when they admitted that they did not hear or see any thing which warranted them in swearing that the parties were playing for money or any other consideration. Mr. Harding then submitted that the mere playing at cards in a public-house did not constitute an offence, and that unless it could be proved that the parties played for money or some other consideration, no conviction could take place. In this view of the case he was followed by Mr. Edmonds, who contended also that it was requisite to specify the precise nature of the game in the informa tion. Messrs. Gen and Barlow, magistrates' clerks, ad mitted that the arguments required consideration, aad agreed to prepare the points for the consideration of counsel. They accordingly submitted the case to Mr. Archbold, to which is now appended that gentleman's reply:— " In the Licensed Victuallers' Act, the 9th Geo. IV., cap. 6, the forms of the licence provide that the person licensed shall not knowingly suffer aay unlawful games, or any gaming whatever, in his house. Under this Act an information is laid before Justices against AB, li censed victualler, for knowingly suffering gaming with cards in his house. and the evidence proves that, with the knowledge of A B, persons were playing with cards in his house at the game of All-Fours,' but it is not proved that they were playing f„r any stake. Under these cir cumstances, it is objected that no conviction can be made, for the following reasons : First, that no stake is proved to be played for ; and, secondly, that the game is not named in the information. The opinion of Mr. Archbold is requested, Ist, whether it is necessary to prove that a stake was played for ? 2dly, whether it is necessary to specify in the infro ma tion the particular game at cards which was played ; and whether a statement of the name of the game is suf ficient, without stating the mode of playing it ? " A similar information is laid in the same words against C D, and other licensed victuallers, but in that case, although the evidence shows that parties were play - ing at cards with the landlord's knowledge, it does not appear what game was played. In addition, therefore, to the objection which exists in the other case, it cannot be proved in this what specific game was played. " Mr. Archbold is requested therefore to advise whether a conviction can properly take place against CD. The principal question upon which Mr. Arch bold's opinion is asked, is whether a licensed victualler can be convicted of an offence against the tenor of his license for allowing persons to play at cards in his house for recreation only, and his attention is directed to the statute 33d Henry VIII., cap. 9, the eleventh section of which will not apply, unless some gain is to accrue to the landlord; but by the 16th section, playing at cards by any manner of artificer or craftsman of any handicraft or occupation, husbandman, apprentice, labourer, servant to husbandry, journeyman, and other persons therein named, is prohibited, except at Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence. " Are not games at cards, therefore, by such persons at other times than Christmas, and then out of their masters' houses and presence, unlawful games, and may not a licensed victualler, in such case, be convicted of knowingly suffering unlawful games in his house, with out any proof that a stake was played for ? If Mr. Arch bold should be of opinion that a licensed victualler is so liable to be convicted, he is further requested to advise as to the form of the information, so far as regards the statement of the offence, and state what facts are neces sary to justify a conviction." ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN, DEFEAT OF CLAY, AND CERTAIN ELECTION OF POLK TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The steam-ship Great Western arrived here yes terday at noon, bringing New York papers to the 9th instant inclusive, being eight days later than the last arrival. She made her voyage, after an excellent run, in thirteen days and a half. She brings thirty one passengers, amongst whom is Mr. Laning, with dispatches to Hanover, and Mr. Castelli, with dis patches also, for Sardinia. The most important feature by this arrival is the defeat of Henry Clay, and the certain election of Mr. Polk to the Presidential chair for the next term. Clay has lost the State of New York by a majority of 9,021 ; Pensylvania had also gone against Clay. Throughout the entire Union the greatest excitement prevailed, and business was almost entirely suspended. The number of Presidential elections in the Union amount to 275, out of which New York returns 26, and Pennsylvania 26, so that these two States return nearly a fifth of the whole number. Upon this subject the .New York Weekly Herald says— " Annexed will be found returns—not official, but sufficiently accurate for all practical purposes—from fifty-four counties, which give Mr. Polk a majority of 9,021, the remaining three counties having only given 3,732 for Harrison, in 1840. Ihe most start ling defection to Clay has taken place in the abolition counties of the west. These have, probably, voted largely for Birney, although we have none of their re turns as yet ; but that alone can account for the di minution of Clay's votes from Harrison's. Mr. Clay came to Cayuga-bridge with only about 7,000 majo rity, a very serious diminution from the vast popula rity of Harrison in 1840. The excitement last even ing throughout the city was of a most tremendous character. " Thus, the important question of the next Presi dency is settled at last, and, just as we have all along predicted, in the teeth of the politicians around us. New York city has determined the vote of the State, and the State settled that of the Union. If the Whigs could have formed a complete combination with the natives here, with even the existing vote of the aboli tionists at the west, they might have carried the State and elected Mr. Clay. But their policy, management, and managers, for the whole canvass, have been bad, intolerant, silly, and contemptible. It is the Whigs themselves who have destroyed Mr. Clay's chances, they have sacrificed by their intolerance and squabbles, and humbugs, the prospects of one of the noblest statesmen in the country, though some• what defective in certain small points. Mr. Polk is undoubtedly a good man, and will make a good President, but he never can pretend to possess the personal talents or influence that Mr. Clay could. He will encounter mighty difficulties from the various cliques now forming to influence his action. We will have a Van Buren clique—a Class clique—a Tyler clique—a Calhoun clique—all striving to possess his confidence. exclusive of the others. He will be tor mented from this time forward, during the next four years, by office beggars and politicians. If he have the firmness to keep aloof and act on independent principles, he may have some peace and a little comfort. " Thus at last have the democracy had a mighty triumph—but their victory arises as much from the folly of their opponents as from their own merits and exertions." The latest accounts at Canada from New York give the following result of the elections : 40 Con-, servatives, 23 Radicals, and 9 doubtful. There are eighty-four members in all to be elected, and by the above, seventy-two are certainly chosen, giving the Governor-General a majority of at least eight, throwing the doubtful ones against him. Twelve more are to be returned. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, Nov. 8. There was another very general decline in stocks to-day, undoubtedly produced by the result of the elaction in this State, Farmers'Loan fell off 2 per cent ; Illinois, 21; Indiana, ; Pennsylvania Fives, ; Ohio Sixes, ; Stonington, 1 ; Norwich and Worcester, / ; Ilarlem. 1 ; Mohawk, 1 ; Canton, 2 Long Island, /; Morris Canal, ; Kentucky Sixes, United States Bank, and Erie Railroad closed firm at yesterday's prices. The sales were not very large, but the opinion among operators appear to he favourable to a further decline. Sterling Exchange for the steamship to-morrow is very firm at 101, and in several instances 10i was demanded. The inquiry is very limited, and it is probable that most of the operations will be made to-morrow. Since the departure of the Acadia, the New York herald says there is quite a decline in the quotations for many of the State stocks, including some of those now regularly paying the interest on their public debt. Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania State stocks have fallen off very much, and a further decline in the market value of the stock of delinquent States, must be experienced. The election of Mr. Polk settles the policy of the administration of the ge neral government for the next four years, and the principle of distribution falls to the ground. The hope that many entertained of the success of Mr. Clay, on account of this principle alone must now be abandoned, and the creditors of the delinquent States, look to other sources for the payment of their bonds. Every State must now depend upon its own resources. Nothing can be expected from the gene ral Government to aid them in their financial diffi- ulties. IVe cannot at present see the slightest fa vourable indication in the movements of the repudiat ing States, calculated to afford the most trifling hope to those interested in the regular payment of the ac cruing interest on their large debts. So far as the State of Illinoi3 is concerned, the whole negotiation about which so much has been said, and so much time and money consumed, is narrowed down to the decisionte Europe . advance vt t a h an e lcee L tvai e tex g hdoe is rfia l s a lat Legisl ature of t he he winaeithds f k:tal th e bondholders State th e coming nf agreedupon, eteiocnsnotnhrn earr expl od es,lauu tsoriginal ifrea l w t a i x n re gards ds the a er a ff d a e ir b s t, position. The subscription to the proposed loan remains open in London until the Legislature decide the question. Some additions have been made to the subscriptions here, but not to an amount to affect the end desired. Indiana is beyond hope ; holders of stock of that State, in Europe, have em ployed Governor Davis, of Massachu3etts, to lobby for them through the approaching session of the Legislature, to obtain, if possible, some action in re lation to their demands. As for Pennsylvania, it is at present impossible to tell what maybe the result of the course adopted by the last Legis lature to meet the interest punctually on the immense debt of the state. The sale of the public works is out of the question. It will be found toim possiblean evidence obtain purchasers of s th o ia on in the thetermms proposed.erements We have able regarding resul t t e h a e n nutb e Delaware expe ti s ed i o w n and i , t bt b a c m m o a r i e n favour- line . Maryland may do mud) better wi di her creditors than any of the other delinquent states, but at present every thing is in doubt and uncertainty. So far as heard from the people were liquidating the demands of the tax collectors very rapidly. Very little change has taken place in the financial condition of solvent States, The public works of this State and of Ohio have binn unusually productive this year, which, oo far u the latter State is concerned, Qf THE OPINION. " The present informations, I think, cannot be sup ported, without proving that the parties were playing for money, and that the landlords knew of it. The licence prohibits the knowingly suffering any unlawful game, or any gaming whatever. A game may be unlawful, although the parties do not play for money, or money's worth. But the offence here charged is knowingly suf fering gaming with cards; and to prove a playing for money or money's worth. An information for the other offence stated in the licence, namely, knowingly suffering any unlawful game, may be set out in the offence thus:— [Here follows the form of information, which is merely useful to magistrates' clerks.] " As on stating the species of game played, it is in all cases desirable to state it, in order to preclude any ob jection of uncertainty; but I do not think it absolutely necessary that it should be stated, because playing at any game of cards for money is gaming, and playing at any game of cards by artificers, &c , out of Christmas or in Christmas, except in his master's presence, is an un lawful game. " J. T. ARCHBOLD. " 4, King's Bench-walk, Temple." WATLINGTON.—AWFUL EFFECTS OF THE GAME LAWS.—On Tuesday last, about half-past three o'clock, the inhabitants of Pyrton, a village within a mile of Wellington, were thrown into the greatest consternation by a melancholy report, which, alas, proved too true, that a poor boy, about sixteen years of age, of the name of Henry Pridcheat, had committed suicide by hanging himself with a pocket handkerchief, from the top of a gate four feet high. It appeared that the poor boy- was employed by Mr. Dickers, a respectable farmer in the parish, to shoot sparrows on the new sown wheat. On Monday afternoon, whileperforming his duties, he started a pheasant ; the temptation being great., and feeling a desire to try his capabilities on a larger scale, he fired at the bird, and unfortunately killed it. At this moment William Clark, one of Lord Parker's gamekeepers, came up, and threatened him with a prosecution ; the idea of appearing before a magistrate, and in all probability, of being sent to prison, filled his mind with the greatest mental agony. The keeper having taken his master's gun he was afraid to return to his employer, and he is described as having wandered about in the greatest distress. On the follow ing morning it is reported that he applied to a person in the village for som poison to kill, as he said, his masters' rats, but was refused, and in the afternoon he was dis covered by some children at play suspended from the top of a gate, on the footpath leading from Pyrton to Weston, in a kneeling posture, a breathless corpse. The deceased has been employed by Mr. Dickers nearly five years, who gives him an excellent character. The above may be relied on as an authentic fact, as our cor• respondent has visited the village, and had a melancholy view of the mortal remains of this new victim to the atrocious game laws. So great is the want of agricul tural employment in the parish, that no fewer than thirty-three able-bodied persons are employed by our surveyors repairing .the roads, withal, good judges say that the land wants all the labour.—Oxford Chronicle. A few days ago a lady travelling in Liverpool, by one of the Waterloo omnibuses, got seated by the side of a member of the swell mob, equipped for his vocation with a cloak and false pair of hands, the latter being de murely folded before him. While he thus appeared to be sitting harmless as a lamb, he was busily engaged in cutting through the lady's apparel to get at her pocket, from which he succeeded in extracting her purse, con taining six sovereigns,— Sheffield Iris. LITERATURE. MEDICAL TIMES. Vol X. Carfrae, London, 1844. The present part, which is the tenth of this miscel lany, contains an infinite variety of information respecting medical matters, and suggests remedies for some of those maladies—such as consumption, for instance—which are most common among the inha bitants of this country. We also find in it occasional extracts from the lectures of the ablest surgeons and physicians of the day. PUNCH'S POCKET-BOOK. London, 1844. Our facetious and indefatigable friend Punch ex' hibits to great advantage in this, his most recent, pro: duction, and has given us a pocket-book which abounds in all sorts of grotesque drolleries. We have an infinite variety of sketches both in prose and verse , and, among other diverting extravaganzas, we find an article entitled "The Stranger's Guide to the Great Metropolis," in which, in a spirit of the gravest , and most insidious ir on y, Punch, with that love o f practical joking peculiar to him, gives the country visitor to London such directions, as if i m plicit adhered to, cannot f a il t o p rocure hi m t h e high ana enviable honour of a personal introduction to a polic e inspector at the station-house ! In addition to its humourous verse and prose sketches, this pocket-look contains much useful information such as, °0 an Almanac for the y e ar, a li s t o f th e Members o, the two Houses of Legislature, Astronomical Notices, and particulars respecting the Taxes, and the Transferf Days of the Public Funds, &c. As a specimen Punch's humourous rhymes, we quote his " Invectiv e against Attorneys," with the spirit of which we dially sympathise : Friends, neighbours, countrymen, I take The liberty to warn ye Against that universal scourge, A rascally Attorney. In ev'ry town you travel thro', The first thing you discern is A plate of brass, with letters large, Some " Rogue and Co., Attorneys." When debts and duns are plaguing one, The thought a constant thorn is, All others may be satisfied, But never the Attorneys. When lands are gone and body bare As any babe new -born is, The wretch may call his soul his own— His skin is his Attorney's. From good men's hate I'd screen the man Whose name my bitterest scorn is; To yield him to that deeper curse, The friendship of Attorneys. When dawn dispels the feverish dream, My first prayer in the morn is, Oh keep me from all evil things! But still more from Attorneys. And when, at night, I go to bed, It always my concern is, To finish with a bumper-toast, " Confusion to Attorneys." So I will lead a pious life, That, when to die my turn is, My soul may find a resting-place, Where there are no Attorneys. CORONERS' INQUESTS. MELANCHOLY CASE.-A Coroner's inquest was held on Thursday evening, at th e G un T avern , Woolw i '" before C. J. Carttar, Esq., and a respectable jurN, ll d view of the body of William Terence Maden, a eh" aged two years and si x wee k s , a ll ege d t o h ave di e d fr°"" , starvation. The jury having viewed the body expressed their se re prise at the miserable un d er - groun d room i n w hich w family resided. Elizabeth Maden, a young Irish woman of decent pearance, with an i n f an t a t h er b reast, d epose d t hat i P s e i was the wife of Willi am M a d en , a gunner o f t h e ItaY Artillery, who had left on foreign service about fi rs weeks since. De cease d was h er c hild , h e was two y am ' and six weeks old, an d h a d b een ill f or a b out a nien,T Witnesi had taken him t w i ce t o th e O r d nance HeaPin on the Ist and 18th of the present month. The niedl; gentleman told her the child was ver y ill, an d gave he four powders, and told her to give him some castor tile occasionally. He did no t t e ll her to call again, and s g did not go between th ese d a y s , b ecause s h e did O° A think the child was s o near d ea th. Wi tness receiv e 'd 2s. 6d. a week fro m th e reg i menta l f un d , an d 19 . 6d. al for two loaves from the p ar i s h. Thi s was a ll s h e had _ the support of he rse lf, th e i n f ant, an d t h e decease d She could do no work on accoun t o f th e ill nes s of cr e ceased and the child a t th e b reas t. O ut o f t h e 4s. oh received weekly, she paid ls. 9d. (and latterly 1 9 . , for rent. H e r firing cost her sd. a week, candles 1 : 7 , soap 3d. This left about 9d. a week for their suPVbc which witness spent in potatoes and broad. She Ong e say that she was in distress indeed. She applied to s 0 of of the " quality " about the neighbourhood, but nee e be them gave her anythi ng . O ne l a d y re f erre d her to t t lady of the district, but witness could not find her !„. 1/ till the child died, when the lady gave her one shilli ng' and an order for some tea and coffee. The child dial s ., about half-past nine on Tuesday morning. O n MOON it had some beef tea, which Mr. Bayly kindly ga ve he r a It had nothing on Sundoy, except a little coffee se bread, and during the week it had nothing but a pnta t°B c and a little bacon occasional)y. Witness had no west °- milk to give it, only a little tea. No person in the heel gave her any money, but the landlady gave her set s ' bacon, and two or three times a basin of soup : The Child feet and stomach were swollen. It often cried for feel d a Witness would have fed it v e ry diff eren tly, if she e°n have done so, but sh e cou ld no t. O n S a t ur day nig ht some person, whom she did not know, sent her a shil ling : When her husband left her she had three or fe lli shillings. Sarah Ann Wilks, landlady of the house in the last witness resides, said the family was in 1 1 3 , greatest distress. Si nce th e f a th er l e f t W oo l w ich, t o , child had never lift e d u p it s h ea d. Wi tness h a d nej ,4 ° seen the mother and c hild h ave anyt hi ng but bread, potatoes, and coff ee . Sh e use d t o carr y the c hi . in her arms wherever she went, and a kinder innt7 o witness never saw . O n th e d ay t h e c hild died, tZ* was not a bit of fire i n th e raom , an d w i tness begg pound of meat from Mrs. Bayly for it. feral Verdict----" That the deceased di e d f ro m causes, but accelerated from the want of proper twig' nt ment, owing to the ignorance and inability of the Pa rs to afford it." 0 Some benevolent p ersons i n th e t own are anXiell4 to obtain in obtain subscripti ons to ena bl e t h e poor woman to J e , e , her husband in Malta, and Mr. J. Watts, high constal2i• has offered to receive subscriptions. SUSPICIOUS DEATH ON E PPING F OREST .—Y,..t ev afternoon an inquest was h e ld b e f ore M r. C. C. l'the one of the corone rs f or th e county o f E sse x, 0t e King's Oak Inn, Hi g h B eec h, on th e rema i ns of d'of Harris, seventy years of age, whose body was r ecen to discovered hanging in th e f ores t. Th ere being s ° oo l . suspicions of the va gues t c h arac t er t h at h e had to died by his own hand, the jury returned a verdict tow effect that the d ecease d was f oun d d ea d , b ut by ci means his death had been caused there was no evide ° before them to show. MR. JUSTICE EESKINE.—This Learned Judg l for some time past been residing at Clifton, for tht", establishment of his he a lth.—Sonierset County Gaa",iiii THE POWGATE, EDINBURGH.—For some r°, ° f f o r past excavations have b een ma ki ng near th e Cowgtu,,,) t ete the foundation of a suit e o f cour t- rooms t o occ orturn h the Lords Ordinary. Th e b u ildi ngs are t o run rf from the present buildi ngs cons tit u ti ng our co urts °' and the south wall w ill verge upon t h e spo t w here One % of our readers will rem em b er th e B ac k- s t a i r s aseelT 4 l- g . of yore. In the space cleared by the workmen, $ has meat of the first wall of the city (built about 146 0 ) De been laid bare. About the end of September+ s ° the much more recherches discoveries were made by workmen. South from the fragment of wall, and di ree v a so from the present b u ildi ng for the first and sect divisions of th e C our t o f S ess i on —f ourteen feet be I 4 the surface of the e ar th— was f oun d a ran ge of st r ,, ° o - wooden co ffi ns, lying close besid e eac h other, and - the taining human remains. In one, the skull co ntainel brain, still so f a r fr es h as t o s h ow th e ver micular ° h et of surface. These coffins were straight in the sides, the had lids rising int o a r id ge i n t h e centre. A 13°14 and same time, ten or twelve yards west from that spot, to, also beyond the line of the city w a ll, the workmen f citi i of embedded in the ground, e i g ht een f ee t b e low the ler o ge the present Cowgate, a common-shaped barrel: atl c hee size (six feet high) resting on one end, and eighteen i ll to ee deep into a stratum of bl ue c l a y, w ith a massi i r e „ s eo 0 beside it; leading to the pre sum pti o n that it haa; n g barrel kept for the purp ose o f ga th er ing rain, h a k e o ut stone step to enable any one to ge t to its top, and ta", a re a supply of it contents. Th e s t aves of this bare' dor still, for the most part, f res h an d so und. Still fu r oo e to the west, near to the barrel, and at about th e ute ets depth, was found a copper dish or basin. about eirlbtur inches diameter, and six deep, having t h e rim 5 3 it o evasated. There can be no doubt that all these bodi es have lain for several centuries undisturbed. Th e bur eh• would be a portion of tho se i n t er red in St. Giles' e Tbe yard, which was abandoned in the sixteenth century' ( fits barrel and dish must have been part of the c arte s i u s t e d in of a citizen of s till ear li er age . Th e Cowgate e ages 1470, however much earli er , an d it was for sorn,t the c old the residence of the g rea t. S o l arg e a copper disu only belong to a pers on o f some distinction. 1311 ., to most curious inference from these discoveries, ise7tooe the gradual rise ')f the level of the street in t welve feet of time. Some years ago a street was below the present causeway of the Cowgate,_ sea ted eastern extremity; here we find household artiseite'soient still lower. This, however, is common in " i s tions cities, in consequence of the want of police reg, to o in the middle ages. Refuse and rubbish were I s; . ." c iden ere the street, and, not being removed, soon bectnenkt's down, and thus raised the soil. Even PaYeul e nt i e ualli thus lost sight of. Fresh accumulatio ns time' found twilled. its taking place, the ground rose of course, stn" the nee r the bases of buildin gs were acc ommodated to 01 1 level.—Scotsman. --Se Ye BUY SALT MEA T IN THEnieone butchers, from Leadenhall-market, who we r t rg r i n oa e t :: o on Friday and fined f u r having a draugh t d h a t a two ounces against purchasers, each sled . the salt ' en hed scale, being wooden, became saturated -Wit h ork we l e g kecl brine from the quantity of salt beef and d -m a yor - t he therein throughout the day. The Imr ons i r t e a r g eci e W i l_t ol he , the defendants whether the draught was purchaser in the evening, and being si l tic h cire u . o it affirmative, his Lordship said that under:ley t heir stances he would advise the public " t° meat in the morning." 0 aG