The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-21 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 26 minutes after 111 F.vening... 51 minutes after If. . , *.• I . :-' "4,:%" • ': ..;‘... .Vill' , 4. .u, • .4 4 ° • r 4,v, - I . soi ... ;JO ..„‘ ,- t , , 14 - , ..4. \ =• 4, . _...,,,L.‘, aw 1-‘73l;'. 37 ' • ,47V111,4.11 -'- .7 .41r42* ii t ; ^O 4 . „ .. 2 . ~ , ~ ~, • , ~,„.._ - - 13, Great Marlbort4h-street. E NEMESIS IN CHINA. A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR. THE NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION OF " THE VOYAGES AND SERVICES OF THE NEMESIS IN CHINA," &c., con taining the only complete account of the late war, IS NOW READY, comprised in a single volume, with Maps and Plates, price 18s. bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, Will be performed a New Grand Op era , i n Th ree A c t s , en titl e d THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrani ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton ; Arline, Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lucar, H. Albert; Count Malvino, M. Delferier ; Benedict, M. Desplaces ; Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele Durnilatre; Agnes, Mdlle Clara Webster ; Julia, hldlle. Auguste Delbes ; Diana, Nldlle. O'Brien. The Box-office 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 21, Will he perform , d a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, cal'ed OLD HE ADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. S rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe- s ; Tom Coke, Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Count ss or i pion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lidy Alice Hawthori, Madame Vestri,; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia ~ e nnett. After which will he repeated the Comedy of THE NERVOUS MAN. Aven Mr Strickland ; M ac Sh ane, M r. C o ll ins; M rs. ( lacket, Mrs. Stan ley. To conclude with TOM NODDY'S SECRET. Orchestra Stalls (which may be re.i.n ed the whole of the Even ing), Ss. each. First Price.--Boxes, s ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Second P r i ce at N .ie o'Clock—B ites, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, f)d. tioors opened st Half past Six, Pe , formance commence at seven. Private Boxes, Two Guineas arid Ona nines and a-Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.office, from Pen till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS 'STRANGER. Coui.t Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson; Count Vanilla. Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste; Croquet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. After which will be repeated VICTO RI •E ; or, Sleep on It. Alexandre, Mr. Hudson; M;chael, Mr. belay ; Victorine, Mrs. Yates; Elise, Mrs. Fitzwill , ...an. To conclude with a Neor Eccentric Mythologioal Purleeque, called TELEMACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, :dr. Wright ; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford ; Dinah, Mr. Cowell. Pronspter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter Mr Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mi e ll on.—Box-odice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, Wi'l be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Bearnanoir, Mr. Walton ; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn, Jun.; Richard, Mr. Himo ; Rerrnal, Mr. Mattacks; Ivon, Mr. Leffler; Hermine, Mille, Helen Condell ; Gertrude, Mrs. Foshroke. Alter which, a New Cometlietta, entitled THE WIDOW EWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival. Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirl.ng To conclude with a New Grand Oriental Ballet, callid THE ENCHANTED BELL. Atolin (an flindoo Peasant), M. Roussel; ; Palmira (the Sultan's Daughter), Mune. Caroline lionssett; Naire (her Friend), Mdlle. Teresine; Ding Dong (the Genii of the Bell), kiss Marshall. Stage Manager, Mr. H. 1. Wallack, Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradweil. Dress Circle, !a. ; Boxes, ;a. ; Pit, 25.; Gsllery Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dre s s Circie,2s. td. ; Boxes, 2 a. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, tad. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prose.. stttctn Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Hait ian Six; and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-oMce, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Adrais3ioas far the Season to be had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH ()VERA HOUSE. Under the Management or Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 21. `Will be performed a New Cemedietta, 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 TRIP TO KISSINGEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, Tamer, Stoker, and Keeley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT' TO 'MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Tuiner, and Stoker, Miss Arden. Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Woolli.gge. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Matte,. Louise and Adele, of her Majesty's Theatre, will make their appearance. Po conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASSIONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Colli er , M r . G our i e t, M r. Craven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli ige, Mrs. A. Wan, Miss Turner, Mi , s J ames , Miss ' Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 4i.; Upper Boxes, :34.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ltd. Second Prico—Balcony B o xes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is. lid.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the liAlc , my Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Thr (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private Boxes on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guirea. fhe Box- , )ffice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc ti in of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEATRF. Lessee. Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, Will be produced Douglas Jerrold's NELL GWYNNE. Ne'l Gwynne, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Orange Moll. Mr. H. Hall. After which, THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE, in which Mr. N. Hall, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. Montgomerie, Mrs. C. Pope, ,snd Miss Bromley will perform. To conclude with THE SEW FOOTMAN. Bobby Breakwindow, Mr. Attwood. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASTLEV'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Hope and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Heal Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Foe and real Pack of Hounds, purchased I:.);vMr. Batty of sfr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. orn Races and other Sporting Features. ew Scenes of the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with a Favourite Afterpiece. Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. 'Box-office open from Eleven till Five. I.essons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, Will he repeated a New I)raml, entitled THE SEALED SEN. TENCE, supported by NI esars. Hughes, N. T. Hicks, Vale, Johnson Morrison, Mrs. R Honner, Mrs. Lewis, &c. • • • -• After which, the Fake of THE TWO GREGO/OES. To conclude with the New Drama, entitled DON CESAR DE ZAZAN, supported by the entire Company. Places and Private 13oxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office s fro:n Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. lEVEING, 21. Will be pro duc e d THE N STRANGE NOVEMBER INTRUDER, in which Messrs. Seaman, Higgie, Herbert, and Miss Vincent will perform. After which (by desire), THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr ` - '6baldiston ; Mrs. Haller, Miss Vincent. To conclude with THAT RASCAL JACK. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and £1 Ils. 64. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, Nov. 20. TfrfcamostrrEß, Lowest, 46 ; Highest, 53 ; Noon, 50 BAROMETER, 30.2.—Wm), W. NOM—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is many placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. Muni% 4ATIL LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1844. 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 SIIALSPEARE, 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 Fe 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 term s little, if at all, worse, was visited with r. fine, accom panied—if we remember rightly—by a significant reference to the tread-mill ! Another, and still more striking instance of this peculiar working of the Law, occurred on Monday last at one of the Police-courts. Several poor women were brought before the sitting Ma7istrate, -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, ard 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 ?" 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 livi ng f or those poor people who , lik e are compelled to f o ll ow i t ; but what are we t o my , are To these unanswerable pl eas the Magistralte ' coolly repliek that " he was of o pi n i on i t would be akind 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 THE SUN, LONDOV, T_HURSDAY_ MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1844. to try and earn their bread by different meatis:' it is very easy to tal' it Ibis 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. Rnd 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 1 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 ! But no matter—perish all the poor vendors of fruit in the streets, rather than the thoroughfares should be obstructed ! So exclaims the Law, as interpreted by the wisdom and humanity of a Metropolitan Police Magistrate! It has in all times been the fate of our " Reformed Anglican Church as by law Established" (for it is necessary to be very precise in her designation, in these days of petty polemics and small Tractarian criticism), to be vexed with some troublesome and ill-conditioned ministers, whose follies and imperti nences have wrought grievous scandals on her fair reputation as a holy peace-maker, inculcating the noble doctrine of " good-will among men." Faith- `'ally, and piously, and efficiently as she has been re presented by some of her mitred servants, by others her Christian humility has been outraged, in their as sumption of a tone and deportment of arrogant world liness,— covetous of wealth, grasping at power, greedy of distinction, prone to indulge in pomp and display, insolent in the exercise of their own authority, obse quious and servile to that of higher places ; deferen tial to all above, overbearing to any below them. If she has had her Primates and Bishops, whose learn ing, and piety, and teaching have deservedly been ranked among the brightest ornaments of one age, .he has also had her Bishops and Primates whose ambition and avarice ; whose turbulence and vanity ; whose efforts to raise her clergy, or that section of it at least which comprises her hierarchy, above the laity in civil as well as spiritual station, have proved the disgrace and affliction of another. Our Church has boasted its TILLOTSONS, but it has produced its LAUDS. If among its priests we can still honour the apostolic simplicity and almost Divine charity of BERNARD GILPIN,—a name which might shed lustre on the less peaceful glories associated with the reign of ELIZABETII,—we must be prepared to find many High Church and State SACIIEVERELLS, whose ob trusive and unconstitutional career may suffice almost to dim the renown that still attends the recollections of ANNE. The present principal vexa tion of this Church is, beyond all question, the pre sent Bishop of LONDON. He really is not a much less monster grievance to ourselves. The Right Reverend Prelate will put himsalf k in ugly dilemmas, in spite of all the frequent remonstatices which former indiscretions have brought down upon him ; and we must, therefore, continue to discharge our duties of animadversion on his pertinacious wrong-headedness. Our readers cannot have forgotten the cases of Ware and Hoddesdon, to which we have from time to time called their attention; the complaints of whole congregations against the Pusey 4 pantomime intro duced by their ministers into the celebration )f certain portions of the Church service, under the assumed sanction of obsolete and ex ploded directions comprised in long-forgotten nooks and corners of the Rubric. Theyiwill remem ber the respectful memorials addressed to the Dioce san ; the petulant replies of that Right Reverend Father ; the rude communications of the Episcopal secretary to the churchwardens; the defection, or rather desertion, of the flock which used to assemble m the parish church ; their subsequent meetings for prayer and worship in Dissenters' chapels and other places—from their just and natural resolution not to be present at ceremonials, their objections to which had been so haughtily overruled by the Bishop, and challenged by the contuma cious perseverance of the incumbents. It will be seen, from a perusal of the proceedings that have ately taken place in the parish of Tottenham, and which we record in another part of our paper, that the Bishop of LONDON is again encouraging his clergy in their resolution to annoy their fellow-parishioners , by the revival of another of the obselete and offen sive forms enjoined by the letter of the Rubric; 'lamely, the offertory, or Sunday collection of alms in the church, from pew to pew, parishioner to pa rishioner. The treasurer of a handsome building fund which had been collected for the purpose of erecting one of the three churches of the Establishment in Tottenham, and seteral other of the most wealthy and influential inhabitants of the parish, members of the Establishment, addressed a very temperate but im pressive note to the minister of Trinity Church, against "certain material alterations in the course and order of the service as heretofore conducted," which the subscribing parties, instructed by the fearful results that had followed similar changes in other and neighbouring parishes, were of opinion " would be calculated materially to prevent that success in the preaching of the Gospel, as well as that good under standing between the minister and his people, so much to be desired ;"--they, therefore, " earnestly hoped that in consideration of such opinion the order of the service might be allowed to remain unaltered." Now really if the diocesan of the Reverend Mr. TWINING had been a Pope, and of as boundless notions of pontifical infallibility and supremacy as an ADRIAN, or a Jumus, or an ALEXANDER, instead of a sleek every-day Prelate, such as we are wont to imagine a CHARLES JAMES, Bishop of London, to be such a note as this could have given no offence, and would not have been misunderstood. But, in the first place, the incumbent, borrowing a little of the de haiit en Ms tone (not, we willingly believe, the pre sumption) of his diocesan, is pleased to call this paper a " petition !" A " petition" from the gentry and landed proprietors of Tottenham to the minister of the parish church ! The Rev. Gentleman replied in effect, that he would not recede from the objectionable forms which he had introduced, after very grave deliberation, and not with out previous self-communing " and prayer." This reply was addressed to Mr. MUSHET, the gen tleman whose name had appeared first among those subscribed to the representation forwarded to the Rev. Mr. TWINING. Mr. MINUET'S rejoinder to the minister deserves our especial notice and thanks. It is as manly, rational, and dispassionate, and even pious an exposition of the whole merits of these Tractarian innovations on the customary celebration of Divine service in our Church, under colour of enforcing the strict letter of the rubrical directions which are now so convulsing the peace of her flock, as could have been expected from the most orthodox controversialist in holy orders. It is truly something much better. Going far beyond the object of any meely polemical struggle—it is a sound lay sermon on the infinite superiority of the great essentials of Christian doc trine to all purely ecclesiastical forms or rites, and the paramount and absorbing duty of teaching and upholding peace and unity, and reciprocal good-will between all the members of a flock, in preference to that of vindicating or enforcing particular ceremonials, however high the human authority which may hare prescribed them. Mr. MUSHET'S fellow-parishioners would do well to reprint and circulate his letter as an antidote " in all cases of incipient Puseyism.” Well : our Right Rev. Father was next appealed to by a deputatian of the parishioners, and by the per tinacious minister; and his Lordship held, after throwing out a cunning, but vague and empty rebuke at Puseyism in the abstract, that the minister was justified in the (Tractarian) innovations complained of. Fin ally, a compromis e wa absurdity of which even the disciplined proposed, at the isciplined self-poe session of the imperious Bishop must have chuckled. A previous proposition was agreed to—namely, that the offensive forms should be suspended for a year. The Bishop having consented, this arrangement, after a stormy meeting between the two lie*. Gentlemen, (apostles of " the Rubric 4 the Ivhole liubric i and hotliing but the Rubric," at Tottenham), and the sub scribing remonstrants, was formally announced to the parish. Now this is a pleasant dilemma—but a pitiful exhibition, and a disastrous one too—for the Church and its Tottenham fold. The retnonstrants are wrong, or the incumbent is wrong ; he cannot be in the right if they are ; they cannot be in the right if he is.' For a twelvemonth, therefore, if the forms ought to be observed, the incumbent has consented to, and the Bishop has sanctioned, their suspension. If they ought not, then the complaining parishioners have voluntarily made themselves parties to the estab lishment of what they conscientiously believe to be wrongful, a year hence. Is this the sort of logic which the Bishop of LONDON commits himself to? Is this the simple truthfulness which the Churchmen profess themselves bound to vindicate ? Does CHARLES JAMES claim a dispensing power to release for a season his clergy from the binding force of what they de clare to be obligations on their conscience, as if he dated from the Vatican, instead of the " Palace, Fulham," and signed " GREGORY XVI.", instead of " C. J. London ?" This is ridiculous, painful, curious enough. But the history of the squabble .displays the BLosirIELD idiosyncracy (one little compatible with even the conventional, much less the personal dignity of the prelacy), in a still more remarkable manner. In order to overawe or intimidate the contumacious parishioners, he told the deputation, among other things, " that he would not preach in any church in his diocese where the ceremonial regarding the offertory was not adopted." In vain this Bishop is told that with a compulsory poor-law, which was not in existence when the offertory form was devised, or was pre scribed in the Rubric, an offertory enforced, as it were, publicly in churches on Sunday, is incom patible;—that it is an absurdity to compel the payment of poor-rates by law and " exact" vo luntary contributions (the ,contradiction is his Lordship's, not ours) by the argementum ad verecun &am administered, at pew-doors, in the shape of beg ging-boxes. The Right Reverend Lord will have the offertory observed. If not, hear it and mourn, churches of all his diocese, old or new, with free sittings or without them, CHARLES JAMES will not preach in you. He will not confirm in you. He will not administer baptism in you. You shall never hear his mellifluous voice, nor gaze with reve rential awe on his patriarchal demeanour That the Bishop was a rash, headstrong, mischievous, and meddling servant of the Church whose interests he is driving to destruction (in our view), instead of up holding, we have long been clearly of opinion. That he was really susceptible of personal vanity in so in tense and dandyfied a degree we did not surmise. What possible detriment can he suppose it will prove to any of his churches never to hear him preach, who has done so much to disturb the doctrine of peace. On the 12th the Spanish Chamber of Deputies re newed the discussion on the Reform Bill, when MARTINEZ DE LA RosA who had been interrupted on the previous day, replied to Senor TEJADA'S de fence of an absolute monarchy. After defending him self and his colleagues against the imputation of wishing to make the throne independent of the people, he said Constitutional government was the only form to which the country would submit, main tained that Spain was ripe for a representative system, and that it had hitherto failed solely from the ignor ance and weakness of the Executive. He added "that a vast abyss separated the Liberals who defended the constitutional throne and the partisans of the system supported by M. TEJADA ; that behind absolutism lurked revolution, and behind revolution absolutism ; and that the banner of the present Government exhi bited but the words " ISABELLA 11. and the consti tution of the State." There is in Spain but one legi- timate representative of absolute government—he who disputed the throne with our QUEEN. M. TE JADA, unwillingly no doubt, has placed himself on a slippery declivity, on which is to be found despotism, and at the bottom Don CARLOS." Senor TEJADA replied, and several other Members were anxious to make speeches, but the Chamber thought they had heard quite enough, and declared the debate on the general question closed. The Bill, to use an English phrase, has thus been read a second time. Intelligence to the 13th has been received, announcing that the preamble of the Bill, as prepared by the Go vernment and sanctioned by the Committee, had been adopted by the Chamber. Accounts from Cadiz state that the disturbance which had taken place there had been caused by the journeymen tailors, who had struck for an advance of wages, and were marching in procession through the city when the authorities interfered. This simple aTair was magnified into a great conspiracy, the re sult of which has been the following savage order by the Commandant of the place : " Art. 1. Every military man who, having been ex cited to treason, shall denounce the person who endea voured to seduce him, shall at once receive the sum of 640 reals as the price of his fidelity. " Art. 2. The officer who, in a similar case, will act in the same manner, shall have well merited of their country, and will obtain an honourable mention is their favour to the Government, which will be taken into con sideration for their advancement. " Art 3. The Council of War, the only tribunal com petent to take cognizance of sedition, conspiracy, and revolt, will judge and condemn the criminals, whatever may be their rank or condition ; and the punishment of death, indicated in the most positive manner by article 26, part 8, title X., of the ordinances of tha army, shall be applied without remission and promptly, not only with regard to the individuals who shall have tried to gain over partisans to the revolt, but also to those who, having had it in their power to denounce them, have failed to do so." On the 12th, the Three per Cents. were done at 27i for cash, and 27i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 204 at 60 days ; and the Floating Debt at 65i at 60 days. The Journal des', Debuts of Monday contains the following announcement respecting the loan :—" The companies that are to present themselves at the ad judication' of the 9th December appear to be finally formed. The firms of Paris have gathered, some round M. M. ROTHSCHILD, with all the receivers general, and the others round MM. HOTTINGUER and DuaAND. These two companies are thus composed of Frenchmen. We know not what trust there is in the report that a third company has been formed, which is mostly composed of Englishmen. But the two we have just mentioned suffice to give the Go vernment every desirable guarantee as to a serious competition taking place." Some of the papers have articles on the marriage of the Queen of SPAIN with Count TRAPANI. The Memorial Bordelais positively asserts that the mar riage between the QUEEN and the Count will take place next month at Valencia, and that the recog nition of ISABELLA by the Courts of Vienna and Rome will immediately follow. " It is affirmed, also," says that journal, " that the QUEEN'S sister is to marry the; Duke DE MONTPEN SLEW In the event of the Count DE TRAPANI assum ing impre4iately the title of King, in pursuance of the conventions entered into between the Spanish Court and that of Naples, it is affirmed that he will take the name of Lxwis the Second, and not that of FRANCISCO DR PAULA." On w then correspondentg u t n o io f c fa cation ti h oh e ne Q : s : Ti N i h ' t u s et imarriag equestion a t k h oe e fs hh a f d o r l i l d o e QUEEN'S marriage excites universal attenti • on, and the Count DE TRAPANI is much talked of. All the efforts of the opposition will bear upon the article relative to the marriage. A sort of coalition has been formed between the Moderados of the Pacheco- Concha party, which has been joined by a rather large number of reforming members, and by the Absolutists of various shades, who acknowledge VILUMA, BRAVO, MURILLO, and TEXADA, as their leaders. All concur in demanding the revival of the article of the Con stitution which gives the Cortes the power of deciding the question of the marriage of the QUEEN, and of her immediate successor. Some, who are partisans of the Infante Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, hope to secure in the Cortes more votes in his favour than the COunt DE TRAPANI would obtain; the others have similar hopes for the son of Don CARLOS, so great is the strength the reaction has acquired, thanks to the blunders of M. MARTINEZ DE LA RosA and of his French advisers. The French Cabinet acts, through the medium of its ambassador, in favour of the Count DE TaArAzu, and against Don CARLOS'S son. The amendment for eitiesioti of that pretender and his family has been suggested for that pin:Via:ie. The Neapolitan Envoy, Prince DE CARINI, scarcely quits the French Embassy or M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA'S residence, and he is doing his utmost to procure the adoption of the amendment." The same jotithttl attains a long article on the exertions of Russia to keep up her internal trade with China, from which we make the following extract : " Since the English forced the gate of the celestial empire, Russia has displayed a singular activity to fortify and increase its relations with China. There is besides at Kiachta, an entrepot at Zuruchaitu. Three great roads are actually employed in communicating between both countries. Two of these roads pass from Siberia by the plateau of Mongolia towards the Chinese fron tier; another strikes from Kiachta, and takes a south east direction towards Pekin; and the other goes round by Nertschinck, Zuruchaitu, Tsitchar, and crossing the Black River befure arriving at Pekin. A new commu nication which has been lately established between Siberia and China, begins at Irtsich and moves by Baikal. This road answers directly the relations which Russia seeks to establish with China. " To give an idea of the development of Russian com merce in these eastern countries, we need only say that in 1829, the merchandise brought to the fair of Nijni Novogorod amounted only to 100,000,000 of francs, and in 1842 they exceeded 160,000,000 of francs. Russian cotton manufactures figure for 30,000,000 f., and the other goods consist of cloth made for the north of China; of velvet, silks, iron, steel, and copper works, glass, porce lain, soap, &c. " The increase of the fair of Nijni Novogorod is a re markable indication that Russia seeks to create a com merce which she can maintain in defiance of European competition. It is in Asia she seeks for markets where she may command, until English competition meet her on that ground. That day, however, has not yet arrived, and Great Britain cannot now complain of the move ments of Russia in those countries where there is no true industry, and where her productions are but little known. The transit across Russia has become impossi ble, so much so that Prussia, .hat sent its cloths to China, has been obliged to give up the trade. In the far east are markets which Russia alone commands—whore she finds neither competition from England, France, nor Belgium, and where everything is prepared for her own particular interest." THE BOURSE--MoNDAY, Nov. 18. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cants...... 119 40 .• 119 45 •• 119 35 .. 119 49 Fours.... Throe per Cents.— 83 15 83 25 .. 83 10 .. 83 25 Bank of France ..... 3139 .•3130 .•3130 —3130 Lattlite Bank, I,ooof. SharesloBs ..1085 —lOB5 —lOB5 5,000 f. Sharesso2o ..b025 —0025 ..4025 Belgian Bank. Be:gian Fives, 1831— 1021 .. 102 i • • 102 i .. 1021 1840 •••••• 104 .. 104 .. 104 .. 104 1842..•..... 107 •• 107 1061 1061 Spanish Active . ....... 321 .• 321 • • 33 •• 33 Thr0e5............ 36 • • 36 •• 36 .• 36 Passive 6 •• 6 •• 5 .. 6 Neapolitan •• • . .. 97 15 • • 97 60 .• 97 .. 97 GO Roman • . RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .............. 925 .. 925 • • 925 .• 925 Versailles, MIL. • • 410 .. 430 • • 410 . • 425 L. 8............. 300 .. 315 •• 298 75 •• 315 Rouen• cy , s . 995 992 50 .. 992 50 Rouen to Havre.. ...... . 780 .. 780 -• 760 •• 780 Orleans —lOlO —lOl5 ••1012 50 —lOl5 Strasburg to Bale.. •• 275 .• 281 •• 275 • 280 Avignon to Marseilles•• .... 862 50 . 862 50 .. 856 25 .. 862 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, 0 ov. 30. St. Germain... 930 .. 940 •• 930 .. 940 Versailles, R. 8.•• •••• •• •• •• 412 00 .. 435 • • 412 50 .. 435 L. 8....... •• •• 293 75 .. 315 .• 293 75 .• 310 Rouen. .. • Rouen to Havre.• •• •• 777 50 782 50 . 777 50 •• 782 50 Orleans ••• •• • ..... •-•• ••••1016 25 ..1017 50 ..1012 50 —lOlB 25 Strasburg to Bale • .• •• •• 277 50 .. 280 .. '277 50 .. 280 Avignon to Marseilles• •• • MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The deaths during the week ending Saturday, Is. ov. 16, are un usually numerous, amounting to 1,072, greatly above the average. The excess is chiefly caused by deaths from small-pox and scarlatina. The deaths from the former are 51—average 17 ; and from the latter 84— average 45. The 51 deaths from small-pox occurred at the following ages :—Thirteen under 1 year ; twelve, 1 to 3 ; thirteen, 3 to 5 ; fire, 5 to 10 ; three, 10 to 20; four, 20 to 30 ; and one 30 years. The list of violent deaths is also very large, being increased by 25 cases, which occurred in the districts of Greenwich and St. Olave's, and which were registered only during last week, though on many of these inquests had been held at former periods. The bursting of a steam engine is another cause of the increase. The following is an analysis of the list of violent deaths :—Fracture or Contusion, 21 cases, of which four were by horses and carriages, 8 by falls, 1 by the fall of a hard body, and the remainder by means not stated. Drowning, 9 cases, of which 1 was accidental, 1 a suicide ; i n the remainder, juries have neglected to state, or could not ascertain, whether death was accidental or otherwise. Hanging, 1 case (suicide). Suffocation, 3 eases, of which 1 was murder, 1 accident, and 1 probably from accident. Poi3on, 3 cases, of which 2 were from ac cident or mistake, and 1 a suicide. And Burns and Scalds, 13 cases. Total, 40 males and 10 females (in cluding 1 case put to tetanus).—Fall of rain in inches. I'sB. A Cabinet Council will be held to-morrow, the 22d instant, at the Foreign-office. Summonses for the meeting were issued on TuPsday evening. THE BANKING ALMANACK AND DIRECTORY, 1845. —This work, which is the first of the kind, will be found most useful for bankers and shareholders in general. In addition to the calendar, which by the way is printed in a beautiful form, it contains a list of the meetings of banks and many other public com panies ranged under the month in which they are held, bank-note circulation returns, foreign ex changes, a digest of banking a n d commerc i a l l aw, and a list of the joint-stock bank s o f E ng l an d and Wales, with their fixed issues as settled by the new Act. We hav e a l so li sts o f t h e Scotch and Irish joint-stock banks, with the number of partners when that can be ascertained, the paid-up capital, the price of shares now, and the amount paid originally for each share. The rise which has taken place in the shares of some of the well-con ducted banks is enormous. The shares in the British Linen Company, for instance, which originally cost 1001., are now worth 2261., those of the Royal Bank have risen from 1001. to 1861., and in the Belfast North Banking Company the shares have risen 100 per cent. The Bank of Ireland exhibits the same prosperity. Besides ample banking and commercial intelligence, there is a great variety of miscellaneous information suited to every class. YARMOUTH.—We are glad to find that an improve ment is evident in the shipping trade of this port. The prices obtained for freights are steadily improved; many of our colliers are now receiving 7s. per ton. CONFORMITY TO THE RUBRIC.--Yesterday (Thurs day), a meeting of the whole chapter of Exeter Cathedral, consisting of the Dean. Chancellors, Canons, and Prebendaries, with thu Archdeacons of the Diocese, was held of the Chapter House, having been convened by the special request of the Lord Bishop, for the purpose of aiding his Lordship with their deliberations on the propriety of a regular conformity to the Rubric by the clergy throughout the diocese of Exeter. The meeting was private, and at its close the Lord Bishop returned to Bishopstowe, near Torquay. We have since been told that the meeting consisted of the Lord Bishop, the Dean, six Canons, and eleven Prebendaries. On the question of approving a more strict obedience to the Rubric the Chapterldivided, and the approval was carried by twelve votes to six. We understand that the results of the meeting will shortly be published.— Woolmer's Exeter Gazette. nu ROYAL ExctrANGE.—The raising and placing of the statue of Sir Richard Whittington, the far-famed Lord Mayor of London, on Tuesday afternoon, in the niche on the west side of the southern entrance to the new Royal Exchange, attracted considerable interest. The drapery of the figure is the costume of an Alder man, the left hand resting on a mace. It has been exe cuted by Mr. Carew, the sculptor. and cost 4501. The statue of Sir Thomas Gresham will be placed in the niche on the eastern side of the entrance, facing Bartholomew lane. The tesselated pavement is a complete failure ;it has been removed, and ornamental asphalte will be laid down in its place. OPENING OF ST. OLAvE's CHURCH.—This edifice was opened for Divine service last Sunday morning— the Rev. Archdeacon Wilberforce, Chaplain to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, preaching an impressive ser mon. The cost of the repairs is about 8,0001. Times, &c.—A simple and effective mode of killing the bed spider, green fly, thrip, and scale, with out injury to plants.—A paper, read at a meeting of the Horticultural Society of London, August, 1837 : " Put the pots or pl an t s i n t o a frame well osed, and then laurel-leaves bruised between them, when in the course of an hour the whole of the spiders and flies will he destroyed by the odour, which is that of Prussic acid ; the thrip and scale will be destroyed in about eight hours the night time being the most favourable for the experi ment. For a house of 20 feet by 12, two bushels of leaves would be amply sufficient." BRITISH IRON COMPANY.--Yesterday, the half yearly meeting of this Company was held at the offices in New Broad-street, S. H. Palmer, Esq., in the chair. It appeared, from the report, that there remained still a debt of 189,712/. due by the Company to the 4th of July, and that since that period the debt had been re duced to 110,0001. Arrears of calls, to the extent of 24,8031. had been recovered, and legal steps were being taken to compel defaulters to pay their calls, with a view to liquidate the above balance of debt, when the Com pany would be extinct. After the reading of the report some observations were made by Mr. Hitchens, Mr. H. Taylor, and other proprietors, when a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned. DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—An accident of a fatal nature occurred at Dalziel Colliery, near Ha milton, belonging to the Messrs. Wilson, on Saturday last. Three brothers of the name of Laird were ascend ing from their work, when, owing to some mismanage ment on the part of the engine -man, the cage was drawn up to the hurls, and one of the brothers, named George, was dreadfully mangled, and died in a few mi nutes, another had his hand split up, and the third his leg broken ; another man, named Philip, was also i n th e cage, but when he came on a level with the surface, seeing the danger he was in, ran the risk of jumping off, and was caught by some one on the pit-head, which pre vented his falling down the shaft. The situation of the sufferers' parents, on finding themselves in an instant almost deprived of their children, was 19.mentable. Th e engine-man has since been apprehended, but bailed out. Caledonian Mercury. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW CITY, WEDNESDA Y EVENING. The runds have not supported the improved quota tions of the morning. Consols have been 100+ this af ternoon. New Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. were 102 - East India Bonds brought 78s. to 83s. premium. There was a fall also in Spanish Stock, and sales were pressed. The Five per Cents. receded to 24-4 and 24, and the Three per Cents. to 35i- and 35. Portuguese Converted were 554 to 55. Brazilian were 89; Austrian, 113; Colombian, 13i; Mexican, 361; French Three per Cents., 83f. 75c.; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 62-',l- to 63. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Bristol and Gloucester were 5; Chester and Holyhead, 1; Cambridge and Lincoln, 111; Great Western, 64 to 64-; Ditto, Half, 37; Brighton Loan Notes, 11; Birmingham, Quarter, 2-11; Croydon, 31 ; Man chester and Leeds, 44 ; Midland, 8; Newcastle and Dar lington, 281 ; South-Eastern, 54- i; York and North Midland, Half, 26- to 26+; Orleans and Bordeaux, 34; Paris and Lyons, 14; Parts and Orleans, 19i; and Paris and Rouen,lBl premium. Birmingham and Gloucester have been 1 to 1+; Black wall, 101; and Midland and Birmingham and Derby, 20 discount. Colonial Bank Shares were 11 discount; and Union of London 2i- to 2+ premium. (Froir The Sun of Last Night.) There wn 4 a very inactive market for Cotton at Liver pool yesterday, hut without any variation in prices. Sales only 1,500 bales.—Shares were firm, and in rather extensive request !—Birmingham and Gloucester, Quar ters, 244 ; Chester and Birkenhead, ; Chester and Holyhead, 5} ; Churnet.Valley, 80s. 78s. 9.1. ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual. No. 1,71 s. 10d. ; Grand Junction, 215 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 29i ; Lancaster and Pres ton, Three-Quarters, 304 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 2034 ; Ditto, Quarters, 34 ; London and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 371 ; Ditto, Quarters, 26 ; London and York, 61s. ; Lioclon and South-Western, 75 744 ; Midland Counties, 108 ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 1054 ; North Union, 140 ; South-Eastern, 38 ; Ditto, New, 11i ; Trent Valley, 7ig ; Lyons and Avignon, 2i 535.; Paris and Lyons, 61s. 6d. ; Paris and Rouen, 38# 4 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 50s. 495. ; Tours and Nantes, 295. 295. 6d. The private letters received from the West Indies this morning are generally of a satisfactory character. The prospects of the planters were improving. A report had been spread at St. Lucia and other islands, that there was an intention on the part of the Home Government to re-establish slavery. It need hardly be stated that the rumour had beenmost emphatically contradicted. It is not an unimportant feature to notice, that in those plantations where guano had been used, the vegetation is most cheer • ing. We take the following from the St. Christvher Gazette of Oct. 23:—" The fine rains that have fallen since our last report have already given a deeper green to the cane-fields, but general as is the verdure, patches here and there that have been guanoed are distinguished by their intensity of hue from all canoe around them. The whole island looks extremely beautiful, the exquisite loveliness of the scenery being exhausted by the richness of the cultivation." This favourable sketch of the Island of St. Christopher applies with almost equal truth to other parts in the same direction. It may be said with truth that the West Indies are in a state of rapid improvement. "We have (says a West India Contemporary) internal prosperity both in the planting and the mer cantile world, and the prices of our produce still continues remanerative, in spite of the admission of foreign free-grown sugars into England, and of the vast increase of maple sugar in America, of which the State of New York alone produced last year 25,000 hhds. Nothing more clearly proves, than the unperceived growth of that gigantic antagonist, how rapidly the demand for sugar is spreading over the world ; and we have good reason to believe that our markets will soon be in a state of activity, and yet at the same time that protection will be awarded to us, as we have right to expect as British colonists, and as will secure us against the competition of more cheaply grown sugar." Again, " upon the whole, we have not at present any serious grounds fur complaint, but many for inspiring confidence and hope." If the information received to-day from the Brazils are correct, there was no desire on the part of the Go vernment of the empire to bring on a rupture with Rosas. The Exchange at Rio was firm at 251 d. to id. There was a demand for freights, shipping being rather k curce than otherwise. The dates from Rio Janeiro arc to the 3d of October, and from Buenos Ayres to the 7th of the same month. There was a good demand for Consols. For the Ac count the quotation has this morning been 1004, and 1001. All the other stocks have been firm. The Com missioners took Reduced at 99i, and New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. at 1021. Bank Stock has advanced to 206. India Stock has been done at 2864, and Ex chequer Bills at 60s. to 645. premium. There has not been any material variation in the prices of the Foreign Stocks to-day. Spanish has been done at 24k, Portuguese at 55k, Mexican at 36k, the Brazilian Five per Cents. at 884, and the Venezuelan at 42i. The Railway Share Market is somewhat firmer to-day. At Liverpool there is also more business doing. The general feeling is in favour of a decline in prices. PRICES OF BRITISH ,I•UNDS AT ONE o'CLO( tt. (From the Official List.) sank ..... 20534 21:6 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99N% 3 per Cent. Coinols. Anns New per Cent. Annuities 1024 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1t460 l2 1-16 12 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. IR6O. 12 5-16 India Stock India 80nd5,1,000.., ..... Ditto under 1 000 7B Bank Stock for Account 205% 205 Como', for Account ....... Exchequer Bills. INd_ %cl I,trtgq- ..... 60 64 pm, Dirty Advert' si PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK, Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ........ seA Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. ........ 36% Columbian Bonds. l4 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ..« ........ Ditto for the Account .............. 3634 Ditto Deferred 5t0ck................ 1644 Portuguese Bonds ' 5 per Cent. .• Ditto Converted Ditto for the Account ... ................ 55% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840.... ..... — Ditto for the Account 2434 Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Deterred 15% % Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 42% Dutch 234 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 9 6% li Dutch 5 per Cents .............. ........... ....... PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER S HARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ......... i 9" ..... to 9934 Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester 3O ......... 35% Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead... 5 ..... ... S}4% ... to • Churnet Valley Direct Northern 2% 2% to Eastern Counties ............ ........ 25 ..„..... 13A ... to 14 Eastern Union 5 - Ely and Bedford Great North of England IOO Ditto New London and Birmingham ... ...... 100 .........219 ... to 218 Ditto New Thirds.... ...... ..... 2 . ..... ... 38 u London and Brighton ..... ........ 50 .....,,,, 47 i - Z London and South Western ..... 41% London and Croydon London and York. ....... —.......... 2 34 Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ........ 51 to 50% Midland Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct 21 ........ 49% ...... to Norwich and Brandon ....... Sheffield and Manchester South Eastern and Dover ........ 3334 Ditto New Trent Valley 7 %......... to York and North Midland Ditto Scarbore Branch Ditto Selby Scrip Ditto Extension — :l: 12% to 13 Boulogne and Amiens Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bourdeaux Paris and Lyons 2 9% .. .... to —• Paris and 0r1ean5................... 20 ..... ... 3914% ... to Parisand R0uen.................... 20 ••••••••• 38 S/4 ••• to Paris and Stra bourg ........ ...... 2 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 19.—Our market continues good, and a fair business doing without much alteration in prices. Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, 7i; Accrington, 2i; Wigan and Liverpool, 4i; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2i ; Churnets, 4i 4 ; Eastern Counties, 13i ; Ormskirk and Preston, 2 ; London and York, 3 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shared, 104 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 494 ; Wolverhampton and Dudley, li i; Sheffield and Manchester, 964; South- Eastern, 381, ex New ; Ditto, New, 151, cum New ; Ditto, New Creation, 7'l premium ; Sheffield and Lin coln, 11 i ; Southport and Euxton, 2k- ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4. BRITISH FUNDS. Bask Stock ex dlv. 206 3 per Cent. Red 99%, 3 per Cent. Cons 3% per Cent. Red New SU per Cent.. ....... 102% New 5 per Cent — Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860........»..... 12 Oct. 1859........»..... Jan. 1860 l2 5-16 Indian Stock FOREIGt , Austnan. 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent. .... Brazilian' Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Chllian, n per Cent Colombian, 13 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 1825, 5 per Ceram — Mexican, 5 per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct Ditto Bonds £l,OOO _ pm, Ditto under £l,OOO B3 pm. South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities _ Ex. 13111 s, 1,0001. I%d Ditto 5001. Ditto Small 65 pm, Bank Stock for Acct..— 205 Consols for Act. lOO% India Stock for Acct FUNDS. Russian, 5 per Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per Cent., 1840. 24% 11441 Ditto, 1812 Ditto, 1843. Ditto, 184 t Ditto, :1 per Cent 35% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct — French, 5 per Cent.,...... —t - French, 3 per Cent. —l Exchange Dutch, '2% per Cent .. 6:2h Ditto,:s per Cent ..... SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) OB% Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Cambridge and Lincoln, 1% paid 2% Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Direct Northern, 2% paid Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) London and Blackwall (161.135. 4d.) 6% London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds (70 paid, Midland (100 paid) Ditto Fifths, '2 paid Fo Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid South Eastern and Dover (33 2s '4d paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) Orleans and Bourdeaux, 1 paid larks and Orleans (20 paid) .... ao Paris and Lyons, 2 paid a Paris and Rouen. 20 paid THE LATE INCENDIARY FIRE IN SUSSEX.-011T readers will remember that a young man, named Led better, had been taken up by the East Su3sex constabu lary on suspicion of knowing something of the origin of this fire. Ledbetter made a voluntary statement to the police, that, as he was standing in the field when the fire took place, two men came from the barn which was on fire, and threatened to blow his brains out if he gave an alarm. Ledbetter has since undergone two examina tions before the Lewes magistrates, and it is believed now that his tale was an idle one, as he was proved to be drinking at Patenham public-house when the fire broke out. lie was severely reprimanded by the ma gistrates, and discharged. No clue has been obtained of the incendiary. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND pubitt e 4) ptuton. " Who runs may read" PON.MICIN. "The King," says the Constitutionnel, "is expected in a few days, to go to the Chateau de Bizy, and to return by Dreux. On the 25th there is to be another representation at St. Cloud, the performers in which will be the pupils of the Conservatoire de Musiqut. Afterwards the Court will go to Fontainebleau, where the young Duchess d'Aumale will be received by her new family." The Memorial Bordelais asserts positively that Queen Isabella of Spain is to be married in May next to the Count de Trapani, at Valencia, and that the Pope has already granted the necessary dispensations. A report prevailed in Paris, on Monday, that Ad miral Dupetit Thouars had arrived in France. The Carnival at Paris this year will be unusually short, consequently the authorities have authorised the masked balls to be commenced in December. The Opera will give the first of its series on the 14th, and continue them every Saturday evening till the end of the season. Intelligence from Papaiti to the 6th June has been received through the United States. The most per fect tranquillity reigned there; the garrison was hard at work at the fortifications of the town. The insur gents had not laid down their arms, but, under the terror inspired by the affair of Mahahena, they demi not take a step out of their entrenchtnents. Queen Pomare was still on board the Basilisk, in the harbour. The Constitutionnel states, that "the first trial on a large scale was made of M. Hallete's plan of ap plying the atmospheric system to railroads a few days since, on a space of 300 feet in his manufactory at Arras. The result appears to have been so satis factory, that Messrs. Arago, Seguier, and other dis tinguished engineers, are to be invited to witness a second trial in a few days." Lyons seems to be as much infested with thieves as Paris. A general rendezvous, or head-quarters, I has been discovered at a public-house in the Rue St. Georges, and the police by judicious management has succeeded Ict arresting twenty of them. They all wear blouse* or smockfrocks, and carry stout sticks, assuming the appearance of countrymen or travellers. They never arrive at their head quarters by more than one at a time, and were thus easily caught as in a trap. Another band has been captured at the house of a man named Chaudeze. One evening last week a youth, of seventeen, was found weltering in his blood from a pistol-shot, on the road from Pont d'Ain to Amberieu. He lived just long enough to relate that he had been accosted on the road by a man who immediately fired at him, and when he had fallen approached him and exclaimed " Good God ! I have made a mistake, you are not the person whom I supposed ;" and the assassin then fled, leaving his pistol behind him. The Comercio of Cadiz announces the arrival of a vessel at that port from Buenos Ayres, bringing in formation of the capture of the Spanish schooner Rosario by the flotilla of Monte Video, as she was leaving the port of Buenos Ayres. The German Gazette states that a hairdresser at Ulm has invented a machine with which he pretends to be able to fly from Ulm to Paris in three days. Letters from the Levant mention that the state of Syria was hourly becoming more deplorable. A pro clamation issued at Constantinople, forbidding any person whatever to appear in the streets after sunset, had occasioned some disorders. 311. AW AND POLICS. The case of Chappell v. Purday, relating to the copyright of the music of Fra Diavolo, came on in the Court of Exchequer. The arguments were not brought to a conclusion, and the case stands postponed to Saturday. In the Consistory Court, Dr. Lushington gave judg ment in the case of the Earl of Dysart v. the Countess of Dysart. The suit was for the restitution of con jugal rights, and the Court gave judgment in favour of the Earl, ordering the Countess to return and live with her husband. The second November session for the county of Middlesex commenced on Tuesday, at the Court-house, Clerkenwell-green. The calendar presented a list of 59 prisoners for trial, 55 of whom stood charged with felony, and the remainder with misdemeanours. At Guildhall, on Tuesday, Thomas Hunt, a young man in a workhouse suit, was charged with stealing a rug from the West London Union. Mr. Alderman Humphery committed him to Bridewell for a month; Thomas Innis, a youth, charged with stealing a quantity of copper articles, the property of Mr. Pontifex, coppersmith and engineer, of Shoe-lane, Holborn, was fully committed from Clerkenwell. Mr. Bond, the magistrate at Queen-square, sen tenced Mr. John Forbes, the landlord of the Bell in Bell-yard, York-street, Westminster, to pay a fine of 51., for opening his house before the hour of one on Sunday. At Marlborough-street, Thomas Goodchild, a Clapham carrier, was fined 20s. and costs, for cruelty to a horse. Charles Clayton, omnibus driver, was fined a like sum for the like offence. John Connelly was fined 40s. and costs for cruelty. The fine was doubled in this instance on account of the case being a very aggravated one. A young man, named David Rees, late town traveller to Messrs. Dell and Co., blacking manu facturers, in an - extensive way of business, at 27 A, Adam-street East, Manchester-square, was placed at the bar of the Marylebone Police•court, before Mr. Long, charged with having fraudulently obtained money from numerous customers after he had quitted his employer's service. Three cases were gone into, and the prisoner, against whom the magistrate con sidered sufficient had been proved, was committed for trial. At Wandsworth, George John Page, a carpenter and wheelwright, in the employment of the South- Western Railway Company, was finally examined before Mr. Paynter upon a charge of plundering the above Company, and committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. I\lary Johnson and Mary Smith, the former with an infant in her arms, both quite young, were charged at Woolwich with breaking a large number of win dows at the house of Mr. Wates, relieving officer. The offence was distinctly proved, and, in passing sentence on them, Mr. Jeremy said, in two days no less than 500 summonses had he been called upon to sign to compel the payment of poor-rates, which, from this very cause, had become most alarmingly heavy on the inhabitants, and in fact they coud not pay them—and the reason is, that persons wandered from all parts of the country, some from this town, under the pretence of seeking employment in the Government works, or enlisting as soldiers; and find ing they cannot do either, they become a burden to the parish, and if not relieved, commit this damage, which of course the inhabitants had to pay. He should commit them for twenty-one days, and hard labour—which would be another expense; but he was determined to make an example of all brought before him. It was truly dreadful to think of five hundred summonses in two days for poor -rates—a thing he never knew before in his life. COTULT-rAellIONA233l.lti. Sir Robert and Lady Peel and family occupied a private box on Tuesday to witness the performances at the Lyceum Theatre. Sir James Graham on Tuesday caused summonses to be issued for a Cabinet Council. Earl De Grey arrived from Brighton on Monday, and intended to stay in town a few days. The Noble Earl's health is improved by his brief residence at Brighton. The Earl of Clare and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon have left Mount Shannon for Belgrave-square. The Earl of Yarborough has arrived in Arlington street, from Brocklesby, his seat in Lincolnshire, and on Saturday departs for Appuldercombe, Isle of Wight. The Earl of Jersey has left town to join the royal party congregated at Arundel Castle, the princely chateau of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, in Sussex. Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn have gone to Tollymore Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Roden, from town. Viscountess Powerscourt and the family are staying with the Noble Earl and Countess at the above seat. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose are entertain ing a distinguished circle at Sulby Hall, Northamp tonshire, where the Noble Duke and Duchess will receive a succession of visitors during the hunting season. The Duke nwl Duchess of Beaufort are expected in town at the latter end of the present week. The marriage of the Lady Augusta Somerset with his Excellency Baron Nieumann will, it is expected, he solemnised at the latter end of the ensuing week. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland remain for the present at Erskine House, near Glasgow, on a visit to Lord and Lady Blantyre. Their Graces are expected to leave Scotland for the south on Monday next. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster have arrived at Halkin Castle, Flintshire, from Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The Noble Marquis is in excellent health, and will entertain a family circle at Eaton during the Christmas holiday. The Duke of Devonshire returned to Chatsworth on Saturday last, from Hardwicke Hall, near Ches terfield. The Noble Duke does not intend to receive company for the present. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and family have left Chesterfield House, for Bretby Park, Derby shire, where the Noble Earl, surrounded by a nume rous circle of his sporting friends, intends to pass the hunting season. A party will meet at Bretby next week. The Earl and Countess of Harrington have arrived in Whitehall-gardens, from Elvaston Hal, their IRO in - Derbyshire. fit CZ.% AN7IIOI7X. A notice has been posted at the Custom-house, and in conspicuous places at the several dock establish.. ments, by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, to the effect that every merchant-seaman in the British service must, in pursuance of the Act 7 and 8 Vic. cap. 112, be provided with a mariners register ticket, by the Ist day of January next, p'° . viously to acting in any capacity in a ship belongrg to the merchant service (except as master, physicians surgeon, or apothecary), and that those registry tickets may be had by personal application at the General Registry and Record-office of seamen in London, and at the Custom-houses of the several out ports of United Kingdom, on and after the second day of December inst. By the 4th section of this Act, a penalty of 101. is imposed upon every master who shall not obtain from a seaman his register-ticket before going to sea. The 16th Regiment of Foot, at present stationed in Dublin, got the route for Cork on Saturday evening to replace the 72d Highlanders, who e mbark for Gibraltar on the 24th instant. The 6th (R O 3l l Warwickshire) from Chester, will, it is suppose" , form part of this garrison, on their arrival from England. A few of the friends and admirers of the Rev. T; Dale, residing in the parish of St. Sepulchre, 0 ' which church the Rev. Gentleman has been evening lecturer for sixteen years, have determined to present him with a piece of plate, in testimony of their high estimation of his ministerial services," and of his unfailing- eloquence in the cause of charity. A meeting was held in the National Association hall, Holborn, in aid of the fund now forming for the relief of the apostle of temperance. Mr. L. Buckingham presided, and opened the business of t o ,e meeting in a long speech, eulogising Father Mathew % exertions, and demonstrating his claims to national gratitude. Mr. Feargus O'Connor moved the first resolution, expressive of the sympathy of the meeting with Father Mathew. The second resolution, deter mining to send round collectors from house to house, Jim subscriptions in aid of the fund, was unanimously carried. A subscription was commenced before the meeting separated. The neat extensive stone building recently erectedat the corner of St. Swithin's-lane a n d Ki n g Wi liam-street, City, known as the Gresham Club-houfie, was opened on Tuesday for the accommodation of the members for the first time. On Tuesday a highly-influential meeting o f the bankers, merchants, manufacturers, &c., of Birminr, consider took place at the Town Hall, the purpose ol ng the propriety of establishing public baths for the use of the inhabitants and ot procuring grounds for the amusement and recreation of the working classes. On Tuesday the half-yearly meeting of the Britioh Iron Company was held at the offices in New Broad street, J. H. Polmer, Esq., in the chair. It appear f from the report that there remained still a debt 0 189,7121. due by the Company to the 4th of July' and that since that period the debt had been reduat to 110,0001. Arrears of calls to the extent of 24, 803 had been recovered, and legal steps were being . m en to compel defaulters to pay their calls, with a vie?: liquidate the above balance of debt, when the Cow. pany would be extinct. THE POLISH BALL. The ball and concert in aid of the fluids for re . lieving the distressed Polish exiles took place onTueldsl night at the Guildhall. The fittings-up and decors' tions were the same as on the occasion of the L o rd Mayor's annual dinner on the 9th inst. The nn was brilliantly lighted with gas and chandeliers, 1133' at the west end there was a large star of frosted O s , lighted by gas, surrounded by the motto of the grate,,," which had a very beautiful effect. Around the van were suspended banners bearing the arms of IP; several City companies, and at either end a mat° of flags and union-jacks tastefully grouped, and inter" spersed with these were figures in steel and gilt s r mour, and a variety of other devices. The floor Ws ° chalked, or rather painted, upon a novel plan, to Po' vent the inconvenience experienced on former oces sions from the dust. It was divided into four cor e ; partments, the two centre ones representing the „.. 1111 of the Lord Mayor and the Polish arms, and at eit w end the Prince of Wales's plume, the whole stg . ; rounded by a tasteful arabesque border. The Bat t in the ball-room was Mons. Jullien's unrics",:" quadrille band, which was stationed in an orcher o erected near the centre of the hall, and perforinet c. variety of quadrilles, waltzes, polkas, mazurkas , . during the evening, including Semiraniide, . 1 "; Bouquet Royal, 'Lampe, the Bird of Paradise, oncli t , o Le Pas du Diable, the Butterfly, the Royal Pollofl t The company began to arrive shortly after o'clock, and the carriages continued to set d° wn i , „ 8 g most without intermission till near eleven o'clec" , - which time there were, as well as we could estjulAt e l between 700 and 800 persons present. The concert took place in the Council Chitral° shortly before ten o'clock, under the direction of Ai r ' Benedict. Amongst the vocalists were Signor lirizzo Mr. J. Bennett, Signor Ferrari, M r . M as hin, Ali ss Graham, Miss Steele, Miss Sarah Flower, Miss Ails, sent, Mrs. Rodwell, Miss Dolby, &c. The perfor ni ances were loudly applauded, more especially the c a : vatina " Sotto it fraterno tetto," by Miss Flower, O s " trio, " L'Usato ardir," "By the sad sea waves b ! Miss Steele, and " Quando it core," by Miss Dol b y Shortly rafter the concert had commenced the LI Mayor and Lady Mayoress entered the ball-room, Al were loudly cheered. His Lordship proceeded to tf e , concert-room, which was densely crowded in ever . part, with repeated cheers. Among the company we observed the Right .4e . !.1 the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, the El f and Countess of Erroll, Earl Munster, the Ear l ° Glengall, Lady Adelaide Fitzclarence, the CI. teas of Tankerville, Lady Mary Fox, Lord Re s . ley Coutts Stuart, Colonel Fox, M.P., the Col. Leicester Stanhope, Hon. Charles Villiers, Hon. Mrs. Abbott, Sir Henry Webb, But., Sir J°r Key, Bart., Sir W. Magnay, Bart., Sir George', roll, Alderman Johnson, Gregory, Esq., MY. , Baring, Esq., M.P., &c. Dancing was kept up great spirit during the night, although at times, e j oi withstanding the immense size of the hall, there " b l e some di ffi culty in obtaining a su ffi cient space to ellso the votaries of Terpsichore to display their gre e L r evolutions. There were a few fancy costumes it 1 : 0 1, mingled with the naval and military uniforms P court dresses, which gave variety and picturesquee eo . to the scene. There was an ample supply of refrec l , meats during the evening, and the stewards were defatigable in their exertions to provide for the ee irt fort and accommodation of the company. The re're s ' o r , was at its height when we left the gay scene, et b f hour which we will not particularise further ths? saying it was somewhat advanced into the i norrae‘ and the exhilirating popping of Champagne c er g, was keeping time to the lively movements of 30 Jullien's baton, and giving fresh vigbur to those 1 0 , still sought the giddy mazes of the waltz or may t be From the number present, we have no douul' io t resnit will be most satisfactory to the benei e promoters of the entertainment. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENC ° ' ARRIVALS. The Marchioness of Downshire at Lord Bridpntt'''' tint/ Wimpole-street, from Hillsborough Castle, 0 Down; the Countess of Erroll and the Ladies IlaY' ° Clarges-street, from Slains Castle, Aberdeenshire; o n, Earl of March, in Portland-place; Mr. and the] -11,,,h Mrs. Hall and family, in Wimpole-street ; Sir °al• and Lady Howard, in Belgrave-,quare, from Sta nin l 7 ; General Mawby, in Baker-street; Mr. Dennistoun,tr in Great Cumberland-street ; the Marquis an d " chioness of Douro, from a continental tour. DEPARTURES. Lieut.-General Ellice, from Arlington-street, on os e, to Lord and Lady Francis Egerton, at Hatehford W o ol near Cobham; Lord and Lady Parker, for Sberb°,o4 Castle, Oxfordshire ; Lord Cantilupe, for the 1)11!;,gs; Montrose's, Sulby Hall; —Winthrop, Esq., for 11 0 1 1 ,; 0 5. the Hon. Lieut.-General Arthur Upton, from the A' w for Brighton. CHANGES. a fist The Earl of Wicklow, Lady Eleanor Law , an. fist Ladies Howard, from Shelton Abb ,, y, Arklow, on to the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn. at "1",04t* Court, Tyrone; Lord Robert Grosvenor, at goo r , the Rickmansworth, Herts, from Eaton Hall, Chestd re dorl o ' Right Hon. G. L. and Mrs. Dawson Darner, at o ,ot House, Dorset, from a visit to the Duke and Dif e itea lo Beaufort, at Badminton ; Conel Wyndham, a t „beg* Mowbray, from his seat in Leicestershire; Mr. Calgrota M.P., at Brighton, from a tour; Mrs. Lane i'.% , Ton" e visit to the Rev. Buckley, near Burton - n n- Geoll a visiting tour; the Hon. Captain and Mr' d TAO Liddell, at Ravensworth Castle; Sir Arthari yer- Brooke, at Colehrooke, from a tour of visits 1 1 ; managh; Sir 11. Pattison, at Brighton, from a O il _ J.LmoaehGwnnßibvAFeYri were zSpthali:s:ed,kaNy \c o ria v lll . lieedr 2o to .— th T e h d e e u g r n e d e e ronf a w serrd i!t:_eer:::::azt.: by the Honourable Society of GraY's I ri c ri vi Skinn er Villiers, Esq., and Charl es Troughton, Esq. days'o of r i j 1 l e o3f. N:tional of Sunday states, that " 8 Pu t l f :l e ; man wheelwright, named Barr decorated ated with t'T or i" 9n e; asoneofthheacdombatan'tsofer' thieothriar:elduo July, 1830, . sought for emP ) tir e OP the last six months without being able to Pr° c 1 , o ectr owing to a rheumatic affection of the joints, wh i , q c ;duced sionally deprived him of the use of his limbs. J - T hurs' to despair, he resolved to commit suicide, And 101 rO Ol3/ pay he was found asphixie (suffocated) in the eu: 13 .„,. 0. 1 58. which he occupied in the Rue Montmartre, ;-,,,„. Oa Barry was only 48 years of age. It was after Montmartre, Ili last article of furniture he possessed that he P ut ft r to ,his sufferings." s a i d that A FRICAN NITRATE OF SODA.---it i 5 ml titie s nitrate of soda has been discovered in large fl been r.r on the coast of Africa, and that samples bto'e brought ceived in Liverpool, equal in quality to tha t arts le, from Smith a America. It is expecte d that thig.T l erable like guano, will give employme nt to col l Sr e d, 00 amount of shipping. It is said to be found it', ° .. , '00 ..... - the surface of the ground, fifteen i nches, in thic s Liverpool Times.