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Harrison; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton ; Arline, Miss Ralnforth ; Qucen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert; Count Malvino, M. Delferier ; Benedict. M. Desplaces ; Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele Dumilatre; Agnes, Mdlle Clara Webster ; Julia, Mdlle. Auguste Delbes ; Diana, Mdlle. Plunkett. 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 7. Will be repeated Vanbrugh's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren, Buckstone, and C. Mathews, Madame Vestris, Miss P. Horton , Mrs. E. Yarnold, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. &lover. After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, founded on Don Caesar de Baran, entitled A MATCH FOR A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stuart ; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C. Mathews; Marlqu•ta, Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude with YANKEE LAND, in which Mr. Marble, the popular delineator of Yankee character, will perform. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and 0a.., Guinea and a_Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. At' cher, at the Box-office, from Fen till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, Will be repeated a New Dram', entitled I'HE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Cour.t Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson Count Vanilla, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Checliore, Mr. 0. Smith. After which, an entirely New Drama, entitled CiESAR DE BAZ AN ; or, Love end Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Cesar de B lean, Mr. Webatr r ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a New Eccentric Mythologic,' Purlesque, called TELEMACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford ; Dinah, Mr. Cowell. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Rand, Mr. Mellon.—Box-odlce open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STUEET, LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, . , Will be performed THE SY REl'4. Principal Characters by Messrs Walton, C. Horn, Jun., Leffler, Allea,and Mdlle. Nau. To conclude with the New Drama, called DON CXSA It DE /I AZ AN Don Cxsar, Mr. Wallack ; arias theSecont , Mr. Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countest di Rotondo, Mrs. Fo broke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, hid. Private Boxes, Iwo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two (guineas and a.l-1 ilf. Doors to be opened at Half_ pest Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh sm. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Matter the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBiII 7, Will be performed a New Comedietta, entitled WATCH AND WA RD. Tne characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT 'f 0 MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadow's, Turner, and Stoker, Miss Arden. Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Woolli.lge. Co be followed by TWICE KILLED. Character; by Mes rs Collier, Turner, Craven. and Keeley; Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS.ONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gourict, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Keeley ; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli lge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi.s James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, Miss Fort cue, and Mrs Keeley. PRICES OF ADM ISSlON.—Balcony Poxes. 4t.; Upper Boxes, 34.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2•. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. . Private Boxes on the it.ocony Tier (holding 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 persons), One Guir en. the Box—illice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc. II n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEATRE , . Lessee. Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, Will tyr performed DON C,EZ AR DE BA Z AN. Don Casar, Mr. Roberts; King Charlet 11., Mr. John Howard; Maritana, Mrs. Coleman Pope Mr. Roberts and Mrs. M ntgomerie will dance their celebrated Polka. A ft. r which, THE VALET DE SHAM, in which Messrs. Reimer, Howard, H. Hull, and Mrs. Mon gomrrie will perform. To conclude with QUITE AT HOME. Pi incipal Characters by Messrs. Howard, Aylitle, Dean, Mrs. Melville, and Mils Carter. ASTLFY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. B ATTY. Open every evening with its unequalled rotation of Equestrian and Dramatic Entertainments THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, The Splendid Spectacle from the Poem of the illustrious Sir Walter lkott, entitled LOCHINVAR; or, The Bridal of Netherby, and Steed of the Brave. Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle. and rvvel feats of Horse manship, and first time in England the Dreised Horse of the Me nage Toby br ke and ridden by Mr. T. Davis. Po conclude with THE BLOOD-RED KNIiiHT; or, The War. ►lots of Palestine. 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Principal Characters by Messrs.. sbaldisten, Dale, Herbert, and Miss Vincent. To co.iclure with THE A R FFUL DODGE, in whicl Mr. G. Wild and Mica Hamilton will appear. Private family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and I lls. ed. THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, Nov. 6, TdERMOMETER, Lowest, 36 ; Highest, 45; Noon, 44 BAROMETER, 29.35 —Worn W. . , N y.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the free-ing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is ueually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. bleeping ... 6 minutes after 111 Evening ... 13 minutes after 11. '')IIAX.4 LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1844. The account we have read of the proceedings that took place a few days ago at the "Watlington Petty Sessions," before Lord CAluoYs, has impressed us with a momentary doubt as to whether we are really living in free England, or writing in the Year of Grace 1844. We are obliged to the Oxford Chro nicle for a report of the business transacted at this justly-designated "PETTY" Sessions. Offences of a character more trumpery ;—the invocation of penal justice on account of more flagrant abuses of legislation, under the name of " Game-laws ;"—a more painful or contemptible exhibition of magis terial sagacity under the high-pressure action of statute-vouched absurdity—we never heard of. The whole account makes us blush for the point of civil degradation we must have touched, when such "serious fooling " as this—involving the personal liberty, property, and action of fellow-countrymen, whom, in our waking dreams, we have been wont to term fellow-freemen (!)—when such intolerable op pressions as these—can be openly enacted, in a legal tribunal, with the forms of law—and tolerated by the boasted majesty of public opinion. We hare, ourselves, a passionate attachment to field sports but we feel a stronger, because a better-reasoned, attachment for our own species. It is well, we . think, that country gentlemen and landed proprietors should be confirmed in their habits of rural residence by any reasonable and legitimate means of encou ragement. But if the enjoyment of the sports we mention be essential to this end, and form an im portant element of those means—that enjoyment must t. be qualified, and those means must be sane d—in reference to higher and more extensive interests. They must not, for a mom en t, come i nto collision with the first principles o f h uman liberty and individual action, as these are re d uce d but ascertained, controlled but protected, by the enactments of gen era l laws, and the usages of per mitted custom. Th e y must not interfere m with th a t reserved liberty which th ese l aws leave to after this incorporation into the system of civian lised society, in things indifferent. Among these " things indifferent," it would be difficult to show, on the enunciation of the abstract propositions, that such matters are not included, as how a man shall walk; on which side of him he shall look; what weapon he shall carry in one locality that he shall not be allowed to carry in another ;—what vermin he may kill, and what he shall not touch, though others may destroy it ad libitum. Now, the present Game " laws," as they are called, although they may be the concentration of land-owning wisdom as developed by its representatives for Sussex, and Hampshire, and Wilts—for Norfolk, and Suffolk, and Essex — for the East and the North, the South and the West of broad England—cannot override the established orders and ranks instituted by nature through all the kingdoms of creation. Weasels and stoats she prompts us to look at, intuitively, as vermin. They are destructive and sanguinary. Hares are not sanguinary, but they are ♦ery destructive, as the poor cottager and small farmer, whose rising crops are ravaged by puss's furtive propensities, know to their cost. The Game-laws kindly concede to the cottager and the small farmer the privilege of de stroying, by wholesale, stoats and weasels, which neither consume their green corn nor devour their turnips, nor commit petty larceny on their cabbage plants. Hares, and even rabbits, those great de stroyers, the Alarics and Attilas, of garden devas tators—they must not even wound, nor unlawfully detain in snare or springe. Not but these animals, by their very fecundity, are vermin ; not but that their community of habits with weasels and stoats, in many respects (despite of their natural antagonism), as in burrowing, &c., are vermin. But they are not good for eating when shot at. Rabbits and hares are good eating when shot ; but then—small farmers, or cottagers, or labourers, are not held good enough to shoot them. Now, let us see how these canons of squirearchical equity operate in practice. At the Watlington Petty Sessions, ABRAHAM BIRD was charged by a gentleman's gamekeeper— we shall quote the words of the Oxford Chronicle's report—" with the crime of carrying a gun across a field leading to Stoken Church." Have the Irish people so long assumed to themselves, as an "exclu sive grievance," the being subjected to an "Arms Act," occasionally, whilst our English yeomen are living under the infliction of a permanent tyranny of this kind ? For what was Btan's defence ? The gun had been left at his house for sale, and he was only carrying it to its owner. To his solemn assevera tion of this fact, the informing gamekeeper himself attempted no denial—opposed not even the suggestion of a doubt. The Bench adjourned the decision of this knotty case for a fortnight ; and at the end of that period, the man was fined 11., and costs! These county SoLoNs might just as well have fined one of Mr. PURDY'S workmen, "detected" in the act of carrying home a new double-barrelled piece to a customer. JoHst lIAWKIxs was charged by another man's gamekeeper (Lord MACCLESFIELD'S) with actually throwing a stone at a hare—not in any copse, or any park or field, in which he had trespassed, but on a footpath. The informer (a gamekeeper) admitted that he was 200 yards off at the time from HAwatsis, and that HAWKINS was 30 yards off the hare when he threw. It will be anticipated that the hare was not hurt. HAWKINS suggested an excellent reason for this, for he denied that he had thrown at all. The prosecutor knew nothing else against him. What should the Bench—(which seemed fully imbued with that degree of wisdom that the hare itself will suc ceed to next March)—what should the Bench have done with so trumpery a charge, thus utterly unauthenticated by proof, and presumptively dis credited by the fair character of the accused? Dismiss it with contempt, and costs, or at least a reprimand, to the gamekeeper ? Oh, no ! Their worships, or his Lordship and his worship, seemed almost sorry that if the man did throw, he had not proved himself a better shyer. llAwatsts had not been sufficiently annoyed by being called before them on so vexatious, so paltry a charge. They " ad monished" him. "If it had been proved that it was a stone he had thrown" (it could not be proved, and he denied that he had thrown at all), " they would certainly have convicted him. But as the case stood, they would give him the benefit of the doubt," for sooth ! In his place we would give the gamekeeper the benefit of an action. The wisdom of their wor ships is beyond " doubt," altogether. The same far-seeing gamekeeper next charged a lad of fifteen " with looking at seven wires" (we quote the words of the Oxford paper) "on the 15th ultimo. The boy protested that, coming along the path, he did see' the wires ; that he did not attempt to touch them. He was fined 155., including costs, and in default fourteen days' imprisonment." This righteous setitence on a free-born English lad was passed, not at Constanti nople, not at Cabal, not at Fez ; but by the Alfqfti of Watlington ! Another party was charged 'with carrying a gun for the destruction of game. (The latitude of con struction in charging design is of a " range," under the Game-laws, that beats Captain WARNER'S longest. Why may not the gun have been for the destruction of crows or rooks, rats or pole-cats ?) " Prisoner was in the field, and when he" (qu. ? the prose cutor ?) " came up with him, he took his gun to pieces and put it in his pocket." Fined 21., and 15s. 6d. costs. Another " Joxii HAWKINS" was seen by the same amiable servant of Lord MACCLESFIELD, in company with the preceding prisoner, whose name was " Jon N IlAwxs." This JOHN - HAWKINS was charged " with keeping an instrument for killing game," i.e., "he had a large stick in his hand." (I!) The informer, PALMER, "did not me him use it for any purpose.' (Why did not he charge the man with having two eves, two arms, two hands, and two legs, all "for killing game," but not "seen to be used for any pur pose ?") The Bench really "deemed this evidence insufficient to convict ; and this Jowl HAwitiNs "the luckier," like his namesake, was dismissed scot-free. One THOMAS HOWLETT (whether a pupil of Par, MEWS or not, is not stated) charged a farmer, named EUSTACE, with keeping a gun for destroying game. For if not for that purpose, what other could it be for ? True, they brought up a witness to prove on a stated day, the farmer had been seen . and in a field, too, t o fi re a t some bi r d s; b ut ` ': nether tomtits or bustards, pheasants, or hedge-,,p arrows no man could tell ! So farmer Eus T :, cE, too, "stole away,' and the prosecutor w aswn out ;"—no sport. But these proceedla have anoth e r ph ase , b es id es v their puerility. Do county magistrates imagine that, at tbi.l"; time of day, against the universal feeling of the public and of the press, they can venture, with impunity, to trifle with the grave business of the laws—to add to the burden of the expenses of criminal prosecutions—to harass the peasantry of their district by encouraging the worthless informations laid by every gamekeeper who desires to impress his master with an idea of his activity and usefulness, by hunting up for fine and imprisonment every offender against the strictest letter of the most oppressive and selfish laws that disgrace our statute-book ? Is this a time at which it is wise or safe —expedient, necessary, or just—merciful or equitable —to aggravate the sufferings of unemployed indigence and thoughtless youth in the rural districts, by affix inf..; to the offence of looking at wires, or carrying a gun, or shying a stone at a hare (if proved), the same penalty which is awarded to misdemeanours of a ra ,st disgraceful character, and even to some felonious acts ? Is it, indeed, a mode to attach the peasantry to the proprietary interest, or to inculcate respect for the rights of property and station, to visit with the the yet more enormous penalty of the disgrace attach ing to imprisonment in the common gaol, such inde scribably, petty, worthless, miserable escapades, as those of the 'rural delinquents, tried before Lord CA MOTS and Mr. J. BROWN ? It would be absolutely sickening, were not the emotions of disgust over powered by those of anger, to see the liberty and the conduct of the poorer classes so insolently trifled with as they are by these " Game-laws." We will predict their repeal for the next sessisn of Parliament. They cannot be submitted to. Earl RADNOR has addressed a letter to the Editor of the Economist on the subject of the Allotment System, of which, as might be expected, he strongly disapproves, chiefly, however, because it " is opposed to every principle of political economy." We do not think the system is to be thought the worse of on this account, for political economy is by no means infal lible, and though it has been the rage among our legislators and many of our public writers for some years past, it has been productive of little or no good on a comprehensive scale, while in not a few instances it has shown itself wholly at variance with the dictates of humanity, and though it may have the effect of sharpening the understanding, and imparting to it a keen, worldly, practical tone, we are yet to learn that it improves the qualities of the heart, or elevates or enlarges the intellectual nature of those who make it their rule of faith. But, perhaps, it may be urged by the advocates of this over-rated science, that it is rather a shrewd head than a feeling heart that is wanted in matters of legislation. This is undoubtedly true, but it is at best but a partial and limited truth, and the experience of many years has shown that a keen and worldly understanding, unaccompanied by a kindly nature, is incompetent to legislate in such an enlightened and comprehensive spirit as shall be pro ductive of general benefit. Our rulers have been steering by the lights of political economy ever since, if not before, the days of HusKissoN, and how haa the country at large been benefited by their gui dance ? Class interests, indeed, have derived advantage from their narrow system of legis lation, but the vast mass of the people have in no respect been bettered by it. Look at the condition of the poor man, whether in the manu facturing or agricultural districts ! What has political economy ever done for him or his ? Has it elevated his position in society—has it improved his moral character—has it drawn forth the kindlier and nobler feelings of his nature—has it even increased his pecu niary means, or given him a slight taste of some thing like prosperity ? Nothing of the sort. It has left him in precisely the same condition in which it found him—we might almost add, in a worse condi tion ; fur by avoiding everything like an appeal to his feelings, by treating him like a machine rather than a human being, and accommodating him with a strin gent New Poor-law—which, though equitable enough in some of its provisions, is cruelly unjust in others —by way of showing its sympathy for him ;—by so acting towards the poor man, political economy has at length succeeded in alienating him from his superiors in station, and converting him into a Chartist, a Socialist, a rick-burner, and what not. If public attention be now fully directed to the case of,_ttif poor and destitute ; if it be at length dis. Covered that something must be done for them, and that they must be treated in a far more kindly, re spectful, and considerate manner than has hitherto been the case, it is not political economy we have to thank for this tardy discovery, but the antagonist principle of humanity, which is now corning actively forward in the hope of remedying the evils of the former system. It is not as political economists that the manufacturers are now endea vouring to secure pleasure-grounds and parks for the recreation of the workmen in their employ, to instil into them a feeling of self-respect, and to improve their social and moral condition in every possible ovay ; but as humane and beneficent men, who have at length become awakened to the great truth that the poor and humble have affections, as well as prejudices and passions, and that these affections may be appealed to with success. Nor is it as political economists that the landowners are now making such an active stir in behalf of their peasants, but they are urged to it by precisely the same motives that are influencing the manufacturers. Political economy deals only with the understanding, and in the pride of its pedantry 'corns to take into consideration the important fact that the humbler classes have quick and ardent feelings which are not to be neglected or trampled on with impunity. Hence the notorious decline of this cold, calculating, selfish system, and the rise of that more enlightened and philanthropic party which calls itself " Young England," and which, by appealing to the heart as well as the head of the com munity, and adopting as its rule of action the divine behest, "Do unto others as you would they should do unto you," bids fair to confer an immense amount of benefit on all classes, but more especir;il y on the humbler and more hard-working orders of the com munity. The discussion on the address was resumed in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies on the '29th, when Senor ISTURITZ brought forward his amendment, but he appeared to speak as one not in earnest, or who had no hope of success. He declared that if he thought his amendment would lead to confusion, he would at once withdraw it, because he was anxious to see revolution at an end, and order and peace restored. He could not, however, help thinking that OA present time was very unfavourable for such im portant changes, and that it would havebeen more wise and prudent to have established first of all organic laws which might have worked well, and thereby have rendered any inroad upon the Constitution of 1837 unnecessary. Senor Ma'am.° defended the Go vernment scheme, and reminded the House that no Minister had been able to govern within the limits of the Constitution of 1837. He, therefore, contended that it was absolutely necessary to remodel the ma chine of Government. The President of the Council, in reply to a question relative to the affair of the Razo schooner, said that they had received from the English Ambassador at Madrid the assurance that every necessary satisfaction should be given. The discussion was adjourned. Preparations for the trial of PRIM were going on. No more arrests had taken place. The Three per Cents. were done at 27f for cash, and 27i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 21f for cash, and 20} at 60 days ; and the Floating Debt at 64; at 60 days. The I'aris papers, especially those of the Opposi tion, are still occupied with the affairs of Spain. In fact, the only political articles are on the Reform Bill and the conspiracies said to have been discovered at Madrid and Barcelona. The National, &ode, and Quotidienne, throw the blame of the late inroad on the Constitution upon the French Government ; and the articles which appear in some of their jour nals amply confirm the fact. Yesterday we pub lished a long account, taken from the Journal des Debats, of the late proceedings, in which a most un justifiable attack was made on ESPARTERO, as if the man who had conducted himself during the whole of his regency with the strictest honour, and a scru pulous regard for the laws, would lend his nn— __. influence to murder NARVAEZ, a'' .se and a second St. Ba r th o l omew . from the Nati ona l, as a rep l y his own selfish tiring about, f or We give the . to tile atrocious article : " We fully expected the Ministerial journals to utter tine phrases upon ,the frightful plot, of which Narvaez had so mach need, in order to strike terror into the hearts of the Deputies, who were determined to contend against his counter-revolution. The Debats did not fail, yesterday, to place this ittfair its its most dramatic light. It says that the manifesto of Espartero gave the signal. Several refugees attempted to return, but were stopped by the French police. Nevertheless the conspiracy fol lowed its course, and this time it was assassination— systematised assassination that was resorted to—a sort of Saint Bartholomew—which was to extend to the Ministers, Captains-General, and principal functionaries of the Government. Let Narvaez and his allies put forth as many such fables as they please—they and their object are well understood. Let them mock the people of France by repeating these odious stupidities— let them represent a great man, who has been invested with the government, as being enrolled in a systematic plan of assassination—let them have the courage to accuse a late Regent of having organised and directed a St. Bartholomew for public functionaries—this is an impudence so glaring, that it needs but to be seen to meet with justice. We can treat accusations of this nature with nothing Ir:`„ dain, and we are doing them too re noticing them. The only portant thing to tall th 6 Honour by public is, that the Pro^ : g eessist party hits never, either in France or Spai, disguised Its firm resolution to Mote in defence a the Constitution and liberties of its betditry, against all,the enterprises of reqtttors. It has not con spired in secret, but in open day. Espartero has loudly declared that he would place himself at the service of the coot for which he fought during seven years. Let. the tnen who seriously enter into politics separate en tirely the action of parties, the march of events, from these insidious attempts, whether true or false, which are wished to be made use of to delude public opinion. There is some consolation, however, in the fact that the Generals said to have been thus threatened have neither of them received the slightest scratch. Narvaez and the Baron de Meer are b ot h i n the enjoyment of perfect health. The first, t o k ee p hi s h and in, has alr ea dy s h ot folic persons, who were arrested one day and executed the'next ,/ His court-martial is in permanent sitting, and he is said at the same stroke to have sent nine other men to the gallies I It seems that these people may be left to their own vengeance, which they follow up with so much ardour, promptitude, and ferocity, so devoid of all that bears the semblance of the calm forms of justice, that our Ministerial jour nals have no occasion to stimulate them by their decla mations. Far be it from us to entertain the thought of encouraging assassination; if it be true that any man has rendered himself guilty of this trim a, we shall never express a wish that he may escape th.e chastisement of the law. But is it the law that 1 - ,as decreed the san guinary executions at Barcelow. ? To seize a man in the evening, and to shoot him the next morning :it day break, are these the regular proceedings of any tribunal —even of a court-martial ? Is not this another murder, no less infamous that; the ,rot ? If he first justly ) merits severity, how can any indulgence be shown to the second ? These reflections are applicable, even if there has been a premeditated insidious complot between a small number of persons. But how could it be, should it turn out that this business was got up by a police capable of any crime ? We do not put this question unadvisedly. The man who is put at the head of the police of Madrid has a character which warrants suspicion. This Avira neta, of whom our correspondent has written to us, has passed his life, his whole life, in conspiracies and secret plots. There is not in all Spain a single cut-throat of whose services he has not on occasion availed himself. He has himself boasted, as we can confidently affirm, of having the precise statistic of all the elements which are disposable for any dark manoeuvre—any coup de main. 'ltis I alone,' he has said, who am able to be the most terrible revolutionist in Spain.' " The Slide thus winds up an article on the same subject : " The honour of Narvaez does not shine forth with so pure a brilliancy that Prim, who is accused, may not stand in face of it. It is already known who is the con spirator and the perjurer, and it will be speedily known, it' some great injustice does not throw an obstacle in the way of the defence, which of the two is an imposter. These troubles, which announce a general explosion, show how mad and criminal is the enterprise in which the Spanish Government has embarked. That Maria Christina, to cause her weakness to be forgotten, to obtain from the Pope and the absolute monarchies a dearly-purchased pardon, should arm the crown against the laws and factions against the crown ; that Narvaez by audacity, the military qualities which he does not possess, should push on his fortune, and endeavour to ensure his safety by coups d'etat, is a blind self-deceit, which does not go beyond the common measure of follies that have stained unhappy Spain with blood ; but that a grave Minister, recalled for the third time from exile, tried if not matured by political revolutions, that Martinez de la Ross, upwards of GO years of age, should follow in the train of these adventurers is unpardonable. If there remains to this latter, as we suppose, some sen timent of generosity, his punishment commences at present, It is, in fact, a cruel one to see his country in insurrection around him by his fault ; to cause, and even perhaps to suppose crimes ; to be led, in fine, in an impious struggle, to adopt measures of violence and terror which a legitimate defence does not warrant. Here.we see the prisons filled, and courts-martial as sembling ; Narvaez declares that the army is faithful, and that the executioner is ready. That is enough for him to be at ease, but the conscience of M. Martine' de la Rosa will, without doubt, inform him that condem nations passed in the name of a perjured Government against the defenders of national rights and liberties are also assassinations." The Carlist Qnotidienne is equally indignant, though for a different reason : " The grand conspiracy announced was so probable, and had broken out so apropos, that every one was, with out doubt, at the windows to see it pass. In the printing offices of the good press there had certainly been com posed beforehand the consecrated phrase, discovery appears to have rendered the position of the Govern ment stronger,' or this, They find in them (happy words of Al. Dupin) that they only draw closer the ranks of the Conservative party.' But a sanguinary conclusion is always required in regenerated Spain to these odious intrigues. Scarcely has a new military idol been raised up by the sad imitators of the Protorians of the Bas-Empire, when all watch for the sun which is soon to arise. The young general whom the public in stinct designated as the nearest hero or the nearest victim—inevitable alternative—was Prim the new Count of Reuss. His turn was about to come on, and the end is hastened. He might have a fortune similar to that of Narvaez against Espartero. The fate of the unfortu nate Diego Leon is prepared for him. What matters a sanguinary stain the more, if the madmen of the Mode ir if I d v o h a party adishl called a c ce on t st e i t Government r m s o i m s e votedda)t s by o y n a g e e c r i — a mations of fear—if they are at liberty to afford an ap pearance of satisfaction to the French dynastic interests, a real satisfaction to the national interests of England ? A strong moral presumption weighs on Prim. It is the Debats which very coolly says so. We recommend the French Opposition to well consider this system of moral presumptions. It is pregnant with the future, once that the Bastille constructions shall have been completed." The Frencli Funds rose 3 0 centimes on Mon I.- from a rep o rt th a t the Government loan w:kruld not exceed. 1150,000,000 f., one-half of that said to have been, intended. The Three per Cents. closed at B :.e. 30c. !THE BOURSE- -MONDAY, NOT. 4. First WOW Lowest Last rri oe. Price. Price. Price. french Five per Csnt.e.. •• •. 119 .. 119 20 .. 119 .. 119 10 Four-and-a-Half...• 112 50 •• 112 50 .. 112 50 .. 112 50 Thrte pie Genus..... 59 10 •• 82 30 82 10 .. $2 20 lank of Trans 3072 SO ••3072 50 ..3072 50 "3072 50 Laffitte Bank, I.ooof. Ethereal 120 • •1120 ..1170 50 ..1170 5 0 3,000 f. Bhare4so3o .•$O4O ..5030 ..5040 Belgian Bank .....• .. • 655 .. 655 .. 655 .. 655 Belgian Fives, 1840 ••• . • 1031 • • 1031 •• 1031 .. 1031 Tne-gad-a-HaY 62 • . 62 • . 61 85 61 95 Dutch Two and-a-Half .• ..• 63 • • 63 .. 63 • 63 Spanish Threes •• • . ••• • • • 341 • • 31; • • 31; • • 34; Active ••• • • 32; • • 32; • • 321 • • 321 Old Deferred 6l . • 61 .. 61 • • 61 Portuguese Five per Cents .• 53 .. 53 .. 52; .. 521 Neapolitan• ••• •....• 98 80 .. 93 85 .. 98 80 .. 98 85 Replan • • •••. Vti ' t N A OP. tor:, 0 jre :?:t . T , • ' ~ • * Aka ' 1 1 7 . Di, ':'111 1 11 6‘‘ 4 % 41•14 . • r• • „ • A infoiT RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, • . L.B.•••• •••• 286 25 .. 286 25 .. 286 25 .. 286 25 Rouen •• •• •• —.1035 . 1035 ..1035 ..1035 Rouen to Havre .. . • 768 75 768 75 .. 767 50 -• 767 50 Orleans . Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• 275 .. 278 75 .. 275 . 276 25 Avignon to slarseilles 807 50 . 817 50 .• 807 50 .. 815 RAILWAY SHARES FOR SETTLING, Nov. 4. St. Germain.•.. • •••• •• .. 920 • . 920 .. 920 .. 920 Versailles, L.B . . Rouen • Rouen to Havre.. Orleans •............ .. Strasburg to 8a1e......•• •• 275 .• 278 75 .. 275 .. 278 75 Avignon to Marseilles.. •• •• 807 50 .• 816 25 .. 807 50 . 815 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. Nov 15. Versailles, L. 8.•... ...... 287 50 .. 287 50 .. 287 50 .. 287 50 50 —1035 „ion 1030 Rouen to Havre.••• Orleans .• •••• • .• ••• • • •1015 ..1025 ..1015 ..1020 Strasburg to 8a1e...... •• •• 276 75 .. 280 .. 276 25 .. 278 75 Avignon to Marseille s.• .. 807 50 .. 817 50 .. 807 50 .. 816 25 MORTALITY. IN TIIE METROPOLI S. - - Th e total number of deaths during the week, ending Saturday Nov. 2, was 966, showing a slight increase as com pared with the previous weQk, but still much under the average. Deaths from small-pox a n d scar l at i na are still numerous, amounting respecti ve l y t o 36-7 2, while the average is 17-45- In almost every other instance there is a decrease. The 36 deaths from small-pox occurred at the followin g ages : —t wo under 1 year; eight 1-3 ; nine 3-5; eleven 5-10; three 10-20; and three 20-30 y ears. Th e following is an analysis of the list of violent deaths :—F rac t ure or contusion, 3 cases, of which 1 was by machinery, and 2 by falls; wound, 2 cases (suicides); drowning, 2 cases (bothac c c a i s d e e s n ; ta p l o ) is ; o l n ltrg l in e g a , se l scald, 1 case. (ena:uerd(eur)ic;idaen)ci ffocation'3 Total, 11 males and 2 females.—Rain in inches, 1.69. General Steam Navigation Company TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. w tobacco in h;- • • Lombard-street, 6th Nov., 184'1.4:Mice, SIR,—In your paper of last night you state, under the police report, that the as Steward of oAf'iththehaQving"a greatsteamer u f a r n o t m i Rotterdamquantity smuggled _..... l ,ossession , and as the said report is —• • - the least found' vilcirely false and without '• ......inn, I will tha n k y ou t o i nse rt this in -- _ - , our valuable paper as a contr a di c ti on t o th e same , never having been charged before any magistrate for smuggling, and consider my station in life to be too respectable to be mixed up with any such transaction. I am, Sir, your humble servant, ROBERT HALE, Steward of the Ocean, to and from Rotterdam. P.S. I consider that your report is likely to do me serious injury if not nontradiettd, INDISPOSITION OF SIR L. SHADWELL.—The fol lowing notice was posted in the Vice•Chancollor's Court yesterday :—" Flia Honour •the Vic•P-Chancel lor of England Will not sit to-day, in consequence of in disposition.—Nov. 6, 1844." _ _ _ STATE Or TRADE.—The accounts received by the late arrivals from India and China ) do nut appear to have made any change in our market. Yarn continues very scarce, and exceedingly firm in price t in goods there is a moderate and steady demand at unaltered rates.--- , =- ROCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. 4.—There has been more business doing in the market to-day, but the prices have been considerably lower. It is a general rent-day in R.)chdale this week, of which the merchants take advantage, as it obliges the small manufacturers to sell. Pieces have been sold to-day at a reduction of from 2s. to 4s. a couple. The wool market still remains heavy. -'Manchester (Feqraign, Ogitious biscovear.—A highly curious and inte resting discovery, not only to geolTists4 but to others likewise, has Just be e t' M ade at the ntitiyii ifoh , Works, nea Pond petil: *MC the otiEffien Ingagecl on those WorkS and oCcUpied Ili one Cit the fflint4 10614; *eft pro ceeding with their operations; they met with a fossil ttett 63t1Sidefable side. it seas found in an erect posi tion and peilidildiCaltif to the tiiftio; of stratifieritioult. The circumference at the base, immediately above thtl point of junction with the root is six feet, and from thence it diminishes to four feet, in a height of about five feet. TIIE CRESCENT AND TILE CROSS; OR, ROMANCE AND REALITIES Of EASTERN TRAVEL.—Under the above title, a work is immediately forthcoming from/the pen of Eliot Warburton, Esq., which is likely to supply a want long felt by the English public as regards the East. The writer announces that " The work is in tended to convey in a popular form all the information most required by the general reader, and the Oriental traveller, on the subjects of which it treats. The author has visited Egypt, Nubia, Palestine, Damascus, and the Lebanon, the Coast and Islands of Asia Minor, Con stantinople, Greece, and the _lonian Islands. He has interwoven with his personal adventures the most recent information appertaining to the state of those countries, especially as regard% the condition of Egypt, the tribes of the Lebanon, and the Church of England mission at Jerusalem. The Overland Passage to India is in par ticular treated of, and the appendix will contain the most accurate information for the guidance of travellers." NAMING or STREETS.—At the Court of Commis sioners of Sewers, on Tuesday, Mr. Hickson, the principal freeholder of the property situate in Water-lane, Fleet street, attended with a m emorial signed by the other freeholders of the remainder of the property, praying that the Court would allow t;:e name to be changed into Whitefriars-street, The Court acceded to the applica tion, remarking that whenever ti.le owners of property applied for such an alteration, the APPlicf4j9r. would be Attended to. MONEY ANP COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, WEDNESDAY ETENINII. Consols closed at 1004 fur Money, and 1004 for Account. Reduced Three per Cents. touched 99i. Bank Stock closed at 204. The Foreign Investments were dealt in to a moderate extent. Spanish Five per Cents. left off at 24 to 4, and the Three per Cents, at 354 1. Colombian were 14 to 4; Chilian, 101 ; and Brazilian, New, 84 to 4. Portuguese Converted advanced to 55 and 56. Belgian Bonds were 1014. The additional transactions have been these :-Cam bridge and Lincoln were 4 ; Chester and Holyhead, to ; Ely and Bedford, 4 ; Great Southern and Western ( Ireland), 54 ; Great Western, 63 • Ditto, Fifths, 134. ; irmeaster and Carlisle, 34 ; South-Western, 334 ; Lynn a id Ely, 1} ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter, 3 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 28 ; Northern and Eastern, 112 ; York and North Midland, Scarborough Branch, 28 ; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 59 ; (Moans and Vierzon, 64 ; Oreans and Tours, 31 ; Paris and Lyons, ; and Paris laid Orleans, 1914 premium. Eastern Counties have been 111 4 discount. London and Westminster Bank Shares were 84 premium. (rm: The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet. Sales, 2,0a0 bales, at previous rates.-A fair business was done in shares, and, on the whole, at firmer rates. French shares were in request. Churnet Valley, 3L 115. 6d. ; Direct Northrn, 24 ; Dublin and Cashel, 9 ; Perpetual, 3L 12s. 4d. ; Grand Junction Half Shares, 1035 ; Great Western Half Shares, 874 ; Liverpool and Manchester Half Shares, 1004 ; Liverpool and Preston, a 9s. 6,1. ; London and Birmingham, 214 ; London and Birming ham 321. Shares, 361 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 244; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 474 ; Mid land Counties, 1074 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 44 ; Shef field and Lincoln, 21. 16s. 3d. ; Siuth-Eastern, 424 • Ditto, New, 15 . i ; Ulster, 39 ; Lyons and Avignon, 2/. 9s. 6d ; Paris and Lyons 3/. ; Paris and Rotten, 38i ; Orlean, Tours, and Bordeaux, 34; Boulogne and Amiens, 41. Bs. 9d. There are late accounts from the Cape of Good Hope this morning. A most severe gale had been experienced at'Port Natal. The Brazilian slaver Isabel, detained by her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, parted from her anchors, drove on shore, and was totally wrecked. From this part of the colony there has been received a sample of cotton-wool of a superior quality, grown there. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, published at the Cape, slays, on this matter :-" We consider this subject of so much importance that in transmitting the sample (of cotton just referred to) we purpose using the freedom of bringing it to the notice of factors in in fluential quarters in England, fully trusting that the growing cotton in a British colony, and by free-labour, will ob - am protection and encouragement. The Zoolah tribes, known to be in many parts of the interior a dense population, evince a disposition to be industrious." To the bounty system promulgated by the Govern silent, many objections were raised by the colonists complexity being complained of generally in the orders issued-still, sanguine hopes were entertained that the plan would work advantageously soon. The value of importations at port Eltz tbeth, in the quarter ending the 4th July, was 51,9591, and of exports. 55,398/., of which 33,521/. were for wools shipped to the mother country. The Eastern frontier had been placed in a more safe position by the establish.• ment of a line of military ports along the front of Cafferland, so as to command every Kraal, in a short time, within twenty miles of the boundary line. Among the Caffers there was a strong party in favour of war. The chiefs were all peaceably inclined. They had promised to do their best to propagate the Christian religion in their territories, and to protect the persons, the families, and the property of the missionaries. In the Funds this morning there has not been much business transacted. Money is still on increased demand, but we cannot quote any advance in the rate of interest upon the discount of the first class of com mercial securities. The determination of the Bank of England to charge a per centage upon accounts re mitted for the public to their own branches, has been subject of conversation, and of course the plan ' a3 held to be objectionable; but with the severe • ..ernas (at least the holders of IBank Stock are of such opinion) exacted on the 1 renewal of the charter, no question the court of Directors will receive the approval of ' eroprietors for turning to account a ll th e means they have in their power to increase the rest. Consols have been at par to 1004 fur Money, and 1004 to 4 for time. The Government broker is still a buyer. Exche quer Bills are 635. to 655, premium. Bank Stock is 204 to 205, and India Stock 2864 to 287. New Three-and a-Quarter per Cents. are 1024 to 1014. The market for Spanish Bonds is still supported, and they have been marked 24 to 4 for the Five per Cents., 354 4 for the Three per Cents. Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cents. are 654, and the Five per Cents. 99. Messrs. R. Raphael and Sons have received an account of the drawing of the 31,000,000 florins Dutch Five per Cents. at the Hague, on the 2d instant. The letters V. 11. have been drawn to the amount of 16,316,000 florins, and the letter S. of 8,684,000 florins, the former including the bonds of Van Harpent and Van der Hoope, and the latter of Saportas, to be converted into Four per Cent., or the money claimed at Amsterdam leefore the 28th inst. The letters N. I. X. C. R. L. Q. and 0. to the amount of 2,157,000 florins, and S. a further por tion of Saportas Bonds, to the extent of 3,843,000 florins, were also drawn for payment in money. Rus sian Bonds are at 119. Portuguese Converted obtain 55 to 5. Mexican are firmer, at an improvement to 35. Brazilian are 84. There is a quiet market for Shares generally. French are very firm. FINES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) lank 5t00k."........... ........ ............ ...... 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99 54 3 per Cent. Consols. Anna' lOO Iro New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 102% 01% 192 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 19130.. -16 12 India Stock Consol• for Account 100!4 Exchequer Bills. INd. I,_oool. •1•1 3, 41[141.•••••••••• ••••••• ..... 65 63 pm. OtA L••••• 0 •••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••. 83 - pm. Ditto inlet.... - ..... 63 65 pm. Ditto Advert ised. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONN O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto New Bands, 1829 and 18.11. Delilah Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 89% Dutish Exchange 2% per Cent Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent -... 35 Ditto for the Account ...... ............. Portuguese Bonds ' S per Cent, - Ditto Convert ed ,,, Ditto fie the AOCOUAL ........ ...... Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent ll9 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840..........., 24% 24 Ditto for the Account 2l Ditto Deterred 115..16 11% Ditto Three per Cent. .....«.„.«.„.« „.».„.. - Ditto Int the Account Dutch 2% per Cents .. 62% Dutch 5 per Cents. 99 PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O:.,CLOCK. RALWITA. nth. rifit Birmingham and GidUCester...... 100 .... ..... 102 to 101 Ditto New - Great Western ..... 75 - Ditto Fifths. ........ ...... 12 - London and Birtriinsher..it ... .. -14 - London s'td 3011th Weitern 41% - ...... to Ditto Eighths-- ............... % - London and Croydon - London and York 234 plc to 3 Midland ..... a. 4.. K'o ..:1103 to Ifirminglrtm red 'no re*Ustle and Darlington Junct. 21 rt!soionth Direct 11. 1 - South Eastern and Dover 32% 42%%% to - Ditto New 4 5 14,.. to - Yarmouth and Nor-ieh .i4...i0... r . 15,111 Dlthi 5 - York and Nertth Midland ... 50 114 ... 119 Ditto % ... :n... to Hite Brgrien liiiil.ll 1 M.. 45. e ^tio Boulogne and Amiens - Orleans Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 4 ...... t o Paris and Lyons .......• - Paris ynd Orleans ..... ....... .JO - Parisand Rouen ..........u+.+1111.„.. '.llll Nov. , tte a95111 Yea tO MA.SrettESTER Stolx EXell-kliGt, 5,-We have had a rtiofe atilt - bitted rnathet; and p . rides close firm.- Barnsley Junction, 54; Belfast and liallyflitiria, 3 13-10) Burnley and Accrington, 2; Wigan and Liverpool, 45; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2 24; Huddersfield and Man chester, SA-; fiudders i ileld fitid beffield, 4 ; Eastern Counties, 13f ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 2 1-16 ; Man chester and Birmingham, 504; Newcastle and Carlisle, 1041 Preston an 4 Wyre, Pref., 40; Sheffield and Man chesfrr, 1011 ottlt-Eastern i 421; West Yorkshire, 84; gailogise ahcl Attans; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 104; Manchester and a Salford Ditto, 12i; Bolton, Darwen, and Blackpool, 24. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bsd Sten...aaa...ft &V. 2( 1 1. Ilitto Bonds 41,000 lll,l 3 per Cent. Red g9tDifttl thtclet i per Cent. Cons 3 % per Cent. Red Ditto Old Annuities - New 3% per Cent. lO2 Ditto New Annuities ... - New 5 per Cent. , Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 134c1... 6.5 pm. Long Antalities to expire Ditto 5001 ...... 65 psi. tan 1860.. 12% Ditto errintil 65 pm. Oct. 1859 a, ll 13.46 Bank Stock for Acct.... - Jdn. it l2 3-16 Consols for Act. ..... 100 1 4 Indian StoCk - FORBIU N rumps. Austrian, 5 per Cent - I Russian 5 per - • Belgian, 5 per Cent lOl% Ditto, Metallic Brazilian Bonds ..... ..... - vanish, 5 per Cent., 1840... 24% thiehUs Atlas, 6 mi.* Cent - ditto, 1841 ...... - Cuba Bonds, 6 per Ceht - Ditto, ..... Chllian, 6 per Cent .., lot Ditto, 1843...«................. - Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent reek, 18.9, a per - 'Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct - .. Metiedtii 6 vet Cent .. .. •-• French, 5 per Cent,...... -t. c Bends, 5 per ...... - French, 3 per Cent -f. Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent. - Exchange ......... -f. Perttvian Bonds, 6 per Ct... Dutch, 234 per Cent ...... 62% Ptlrtuguese Bonds, 0 per Ct Ditto,s per Cent ... 2 2% SHARES. Chester tih'i slalatiead (?paid) 1111.„ .. ...........».. ..... 13)! astern Countia (28 rue) •••••• ly and Bedford, 1 paid ll4 feet Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 raid ... 1034 Orest Weston (75 paid) Ditto Fifths, 12 pant ••• 25% Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid I/Oion and South Weston (411.6 e. 10d. paid) , 74% Lynn afid Fitt, 134 paid Manchester and Birmingham Ditto, Quarter Shar..s ( 2 paid) Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid 55 Northern and Eastern (4.5 paid) South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 41 paid) 15% Ditto New Shares, 4 paid York and North Midland (50 paid) Ditto Scat bora' Branch, 10 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 79 Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid Paris and Lyons. 2 paid ▪ ne ?aria and Orleans (20 paid) Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid B% CUSTOMS.—It having appeared that some of the "orders" which are issued to the tidewaiters on board ships in the docks, and vessels and steamers in the river, by, the registrar or officer whose duty it is to issue such documents; and which alone authorise them to deliver any part of the cargo from the ship's hold for the pur pose of the same being landed or delivered overside, had not the signature of that officer, and fears being en tertained that the revenue is exposed to risk in conse quence of such irregularities, and that goods might be delivered without the proper authority, directions have been givep that in future no such delivery order be issued from the office of the registrar, without the same being stamped with a seal to be provided for the purpose, bear ing the words, " Registrar's-office, Customs, Legal gllfty . g, " &e., as the case may be ; and the tidewaiters base received instructions not to permit any goods in future to he delivered from the ship upon the receipt of such orders, unless they be 4cr stamped in compliance with this regulation. DR. WOLFF. Captain Grover has just receirod the following letter from the Rev. Dr. Wolff:— Meshed, month of Shahan, 23d. My dear Grover,—Not venturing when at Bokhara to keep a journal, I have forgotten the date of the Christian month ! After the infamous Nazib Abdool Summut Khan had forced from me the promise to pay him 6,000 tillas, I should, after all, have been put to death, if. Abbas Kulli Khan, the Persian Ambassador, had not saved me. lam now arrived in Persia, broken down in constitution, robbed of everything I had, and with a debt of 6,000 tillas (2,5001), which I am to pay to the brother of the Nazib Abdool Summet Khan, who is to accompany me to Tehran. You thought that 4,0001. could be collected for my purpose ; if you can now assist me in paying the debt above-mentioned to the infamous Nazib, who forced the promise from me in his garden, surrounded by his guards—well. If not, I shall be obliged to go to prison in Persia. The King has also sent with me an Ambassador, who is to go to England ; and the Nazibhas forced me to pro mise to pay the expenses of that Ambassador out of the money he advanced me. That same Ambassador has' excited the Turcomans of Miwr and Sarakhs against us, i.e., against Abbas Kulli Khan and myself, on our way to Meshed, and forced Abbas Kulli Khan to pay him, and the other Ambassador appointed for Persia, 150 tillas in the midst of the desert !—Yours, affec tionately, JOSEPH WOLFF. Meshed. The above, though dated from Meshed, was written at Mostroon. lam now at Meshed, and, two hours after me, your Gholam, Ali Ahmed Beyk, arrived. He found me broken down in Mullah Mehdee's house. I will only add that the Nazib wants only the in terest of the above money, to be paid to his son when of age. The Ambassador from l3okhara is also here; he has letters and presents for the Shah, the Sultan, and Queen Victoria. The Nazib has settled with the King that I should bear the Ambassador's expenses, from the money the Nazib expects to be paid back. I am not yet out of danger, but am too confused to explain all now. Mullah Mehdee will do it fur me. Lieutenant Wyburd has been murdered at Bokhara. JOSEPH WOLFF. NOTE ET CAPTAIN GROVER. Lieutenant Wyburd, of the Indian navy, is another diplomatic victim. This talented officer was sent on a secret diplomatic mission to Khiva in the year 1835, and has never since been heard of. This un fortunate man, it is right to say, was not altogether abandoned to his fate by the British Government, for in a letter written to me by Lord Aberdeen's direction, I find it stated that on Colonel Stoddart's being sent on his mission to Bokhara, in 1838, he was instructed to inquire after Lieutenant Wyburd. I have not, however, been able to learn that any effort has been made in his behalf since that time. I directed Dr. Wolff t o obtain all the information he could con 'L"-‹rning this unfortunate man, and to purchase his freedom should he be in slavery. The Doctor says he has been murdered at Bukhara, but it remains to be seen on what evidence that assertion is made. I am advised to state an interesting circumstance that occurred to me at St. Petersburgh, as it will show that the good Doctor's mission has not been entirely useless. I authorised Dr. Wolff to draw upon my private fortune for the ransom of any Christian prisoners he' might find at Bukhara. In the first batch he pur chased were ten Russians, and this circumstance was fortunately known before my arrival in Russia. A message from his Imperial Majesty was brought to me by the British Minister, expressing his Majesty's thanks and wish to reimburse me. My reply was, " That I considered it a very great honour to have been in any way instrumental in the release of his subjects, and that re-payment was quite out of the question." I am glad to take this opportunity to publicly thank his Majesty for his kind declaration, conveyed to me by the British Minister, that he would do everything in his power for the relief of Dr. Wolff. JOHN GROVER, Captain Unattached. Army and Navy Club, Nov. 6, 1844. BRITISH AMERLCAN LAND ASSO- CIATION. Yesterday a meeting was held, at three o'clock, of the Directors and Proprietors of this Corporation, at the offices of the Company, Barge-yard, Bucklers bury. G.R. Dobson, Esq. (the Chairman of Lloyd'A), presided. The CHAIRMAN stated that the object of the meeting wan to consider the propriety of holding two meetings during the year instead of only one, as was the prac tice now; and also to receive the report of the Direc . - tors since the last meeting. The report stated that the Company had sold on oredit 14,495 acres of land for 0,9381., and that the affairs of the Company were now assuming a most favourable aspect. In reply to several questions from Proprietors, The CHAIRMAN said the Company were most anxious, and had adopted every means, to induce the sale of their Canadian lands in this country, but it was difficult to find purchasers here, as persons pre ferred taking out their money with them to Canada, and geltig the lots before they purchased them. The Company offered to the purchasers of a certain quan tity of land a free passage, and if they were not satis fied with their lots, the purchase-money would be re turned, less the passage money ; and one most favour • able feature in the prospects of the Society wet:, that a number of French Canadians, who were well ac (i:tinted with the capabilities of the country, had located themselves upon the Company's property. Numbers of the settlers were deeply indebted to the Society, but in the unsettled state of things conse quent upon the Canadian rebellion, it would be foolish, and worse than useless, to make an appeal t o the Law Courts, However, he trusted, through the exertions of Sir Charles Metcalfe, aided by the Legis lative Assembly, the country would resume more than its wonted prosperity. The resolution that the report be adopted was, after a lengthened discussion, agreed to, and the meeting separated after a vote of thanks to the Chairman. AWFUL CALAMITY.-SIX LIVES LOST. DERBY, TUESDAY.- - An accident of a very awful charactgr has just occurred here. A few weeks ago the Town Council and Commissioners of the Borough agreed to arch over the Glitting mill-brook, in the Morledge, with the view of adding a large plot of land to the cattle market. Accordingly a Mr. Sims entered into a contract to carry on the extensive work, in connexion with the large sewer just completed at a great expense to the town. The works were com menced a few weeks back, and one portion of the arch over the brook completed, all but removing the cen tres. About eight this morning Mr. Sims's labourers commenced removing the centres, and whilst in the act of taking away the last prop the whole mass of mate rials fell in, burying the unfortunate men in the ruins. News of the sad calamity was soon in all parts of the town, and thousands of people rushed to the spot. Every possible exertion was made to remove the ma terials, but from the immense quantity which had fallen (the arch being an expansive one), this was a work of some time, notwithstanding there was no lack of willing hands. The first body found was that of the contractor's son-in-law, and as the mangled remains were disen tombed, a thrill of horror passed through the immense crowd. Up to this time, six dead bodies, all of them more or less mutilated, have been extricated, and the labour of removal is still going on, though it is sup posed all the bodies have been found. The bodies presented a sad spectacle, and the me lancholy event has cast a gloom upon the town. It is supposed that the centres of the arch were re moved too early, the late heavy rains having pre vented the materials " setting" sufficiently firm to allow of the taking away the centres. VICTORIA PARK.—The contract for three miles of park paling has been re taken by a Mr. Marshall, its execution having been thrown up by Mr. Hull, of Go dalming, who had previously taken it on terms of 1,500/. below the highest tender. Workmen are engaged in forming Old Ford-lane into a straight line of road, and a row of houses, called King's Arms-row, has been levelled. Within the last three weeks upwards of 700 loads of rubbish have been brought from the works in progress in the formation of the new road at White chapel, to fill up the excavations, and for other purposes. A circle has been staked out in the Grove-road, which is to form one of the principal entrances into the park, and some progress has already been made in the drainage of many of the fields. The chief part of the tenants in habiting the houses forming the remaining wing of Bonner's-hall have vacated their occupancy, prior to the demolition of this interesting structure, which will com mence at once. This is one of the most picturesque parts of the locality, the venerable trees which still re main showing it to have been the remnant of a formerly well-cultivated park. The active arrangements for its formation are under the directions of Mr. Pennithorne, the late Commissioner in Ireland under the Poor-law ;n -spection. DU rCII MAIL. THE LIA.ottE, Nov. I.—The First Chamber of lime States-General received the address in answer to the King's speech, which was agreed to yesterday by the Second Chamber. It was referred to the section, which immediately proceeded to examine it. It will probably be discussed by the Chamber to-morrow. The Central section will meet to-morrow to exa mine the project of law on the redemption of the Three-and- a-Ilalf per Cent. debt, and that on the payment of the debt due to the Commercial Company. THE HAGUE, Nov. 4.—ln th e S econ d Ch am ber * of the States-General, a message was received from the First Chamber announcing that it had not found suffi cient reason to present to the King the adddess in answer to his Majesty's speech, which had been com municated to it by the Second Chamber. The Cham lser received likewise the following extract from the Journals of the First Chamber of Saturday, the 2d of November :—" The First Chamber, considering that in this particular case it may be useful that the Second Chamber should be made acquainted with the reason of its declining to agree to the proposed address to the King, has thought pror to authorise its President to acquaint the Presi dent of the Second Chamber, either verbally or in writing, by an extract from the journals, that the &at would have entirely agreed to the address, had not a wish been expressed in it for a speedy. reri" l alai improvement of our fundamental law, 14 11 °1 vkhout entering into an inquiry h ow f a r such rtvi"' and improvement in general might be desirable, the First Chamber find in Article 227 of the funiamen; tal law the positive enactment that the necessity . ° 1 any ohange in addition to it must be declared leY law •, and this Chamber not having the initiative O; such law, and, therefore, must wait for the eventual presentation of them, and not anticipate Ow further examination by agreeing to the wish expressed in the proposed address of the Second Chamber." After a short conversation the Second Chambe r rejected, by a majority of 4:1 to 3, the proposal merely' to receive these documents as a notice ; and, on the contrary, decided by a majority of 44 to 2, to W. them printed and referred to the section. The Minister of Finance has published, by a notice , the result of the drawing, which took place on SAY day, of the second seri es o f b on d s o f th e national debt, at five per cent., which are to be repaid, of converted into four per cents. on the Ist of December next, conformably to the royal decree of the 20th Sep' tember last. The letters under which the bonds 0 1 the five per cent. national debt, which are to be re' paid or exch tnged, are inscribed in the great book, are R, and or the letter S ; the Ist, 2d, and 3d party, to No. 856, inclusive, the whole forming a capital 0( 25,000,000 fl )tins. FLANDERS MAIL. Lord Westmoreland, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi . nister Plenipotentiary of the Queen of Great Britain to the Prussian Court, arrived at Br usse l s th e d a y WO' yesterday, from London, on hi s wa y t o B er li n . Snea after his Lordship's arrival here he paid a visit to Count Goblet, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and to Mr. 3 1 41 Praet, member of tho King's household. His Lordshir set out yesterday morning for Cologne. Madame lola de Saint Elme, authoress of the " hie, moires d'Une Contemporaine," has, for some years pat resided at Brussels. After a life formerly brilliant, on always agitated, she is now, towards the close of he r carper, abandoned by her former friend , . She is ne e seventy-five years of age. Her face retains some trace ,: of her former beauty, and the various scenes in whic h she has been a witness and an actor are still present t ° the imagination. A noble family, feeling an interest is the state of destitution to which she is reduced, an -econded by her Majesty the Queen, has made arrange' [vents by which Madame Saint Elme will find an asyltu n in a hospitable family at Brussels. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Ocr 29. Five per Cents. Metalhquee••••••••••, ••••••••••••••••••• IA Four per Cent 5.............. ..... ..“ 000000 ... 1 Three per Cents. 7sli Bank Shares Allgemeine Zeitang, Wo;: . 1. DUNDNIL—The disgraceful act of throwing a ea" containing the body of a child into a well at the Hawk' hill (which we noticed lately) has been investigated by the authorities ; and, on Monday, John Rollo, COffin; maker in Hawkhill, was charged before the Police cou r t with having, on Friday, the 18th ult., gone to a draw' well at Hawkhill and pitched a small coffin, containing the body of a still-born child into it, in order to save t he a burying-ground tees. A great sensation was manifests in court during this trial, the witness (a woman) w ill found the coffin in the well next day having decla re that no one had taken water from it since. Rollo we sentenced to the full term of imprisoiLinent-60 day's. Dundee paper. PRIISENCE or MIND IN A LITTLE GlRL.—Last ',— day evening two little girls, daughters of Mr. P ste h r ' wat+ hm titer, were shut up in St. Michael's Cherf Abs rystwith, having fallen asleep near the corntan fl ' ° 0 bib!e, and being overlooked in clearing the church aLte f ta evening service. Upon awaking and finding t beinser h6 in tie de( the younger of the two began to cry, bti t , t elder (aged ' 9) immediately after she had pacified het set about exploring the interior. At last she succeed ed in gaining the belfry, where she set to work ringing the bell with all her little strength, and she did not Rice ove r till the church door was opened for her to return h o me,' Welshman. DIE 'WELLINGTON STATUE, ROYAL ExcfrAl° s ‘ —When the pedestal of this structure shall have received sufficient discolouration f rom n u is a n c es cominill e s thereon,—" Warren's Bl ac ki ng " ind e libly markes,if thereon, with other abomi na tions, the perpetration which the foggy evenings of November will much fel litate, it is the intention of the civic functionaries to tak e into considerivion the expediency of placing an lr oll ,, railing round the base. This hint is also applicable t : the King William statue shortly to be erected half mile eastward. Hot. DuTr.—The following are the days appoint ed for the payment of the hop d u ty in the Weald of lientts' Goudhurst, 18th November ; Cranbrook, 191 h - Noree /- ber ; Tenterden, 21st November. —Maidstone Journal. FALL OF A STALK AT ST. ROLLOX.—On Fridal afternoon, a little past three o'clock, a stalk, 240 feet height, situated at the corner of the works at St. noll ° ,l l immediately adjoining the Gl a sgow and Garnkirk BA; way, gave way at the foundation, and in an instant one brick was left above another. This stalk, we ander; stand, was only finished a few weeks ago, and about same time it was discovered that its base was not sour . ' Means were accordingly taken to insure its stability! Il i propping and otherwise, and little fear was entertain,, but that it would stand a while, when on Friday, as Ira been stated, it fell with a most tremendous crash. a , descent was almost perpendicular, and it therefore ee e- o f sioned little additional damage, for although a p o rtion ‘e the bricks tell within th e railway depot, and upon she rails, no furthe r acc id en t was the resu lt. S e veral al e , who were working close by the stalk heard it crack l t few seconds before it fell, and, fortunately, ha lili na quickly left its vicinity, escaped. The wind was bio me ing very fresh at the time, and the stalk fell in the sli t s direction ; but had its foundation been n}• -thing lak e secure, it would not have affected the stability of structure.—Caledonian Mercury. nr iable MORAL EFFECTS OF THE m STAGE.—It is re— a O, how virtuous and generously disposed every one is t i sol play. We uniformly applaud what is right and con t, what is wrong, when it costs nothing but the sentitne' —Hazlitt. Mr. Wilson, the vocalist, who has been deligh ti , n ri l crowded houses in Ab er d een an d th e su rrounding t° our during the last ten days, in expressing a hope th at no t railway would soon be in operation, said, " You l o s conceive how muc h p ers ons situated as I am are in de es to the rapidity of railway communication." He then 11 ; 0 3 tioned, that in ten weeks of the present spring h e , ith es travelled nearly 6,000 miles, singing about sli rt as a-week. This average was pretty good, but the perry se ance of one of the weeks wits more extraordinary o n sung in London on Monday evening—in Glasgoir dio , Wednesday evening and Thursday morning—in din, Wednesday burgh on Thursday evening and Friday morning's r of in Greenock and some other places on the remainder on the week—and was back again in London, singing the night week that he had left !—Aberdeen Herathi The Lord Mayor had been lately giving a aer i . e o dt splendid entertainments to a number of private frl tbe and public Companies. Amongst the latter were _ O , Courts of the Stationers', Vintners', and Fruiter; 05 Companies. Atone of these entertainments, in pr o l ) , ° o4 the health of Prince Albert, his Lordship, after all u ci his to the many estimable qualities of the Prince, an Dee d Royal Highness's patronage of the fine arts, annou fo a his magnificent subscription of 1001. towards th e f t he for erecting baths and wash-houses for the use.fbie's poor. That contribution had reached his L ord the hands during dinner, and it emphatically evinaes , ; lo yal Lord Mayor stated, the warm interest felt by bis, w et' Highness in everything calculated to increase laerttees fare of those who required so much the active eleething of the humane public to bestow upon them s' ) " 3 00 .ill; like comfort. His Lordship, at a subsequent entc i ,bea meat, mentioned that he had the further disting%ceet honour and gratification of announcing the 11113 90 01 ' donation of her Most Gracious Majesty in the sum s c rip' to the same great charity. The value of these st l , e a h t i tions was, his Lordship observed, greatly eahar'tisola' the sanction and patronage of her Majesty and her to lb° Consort, and he contemplated a vast accessiono an list of contributions in consequence of so pow er example. IS r e AWFUL VISITATION" OF THE METROFOL/,: hss understand that never, since London was Lon ew a y eon' there been such a flocking thither of gentlerne"reget meted with the law, as during the past and A nt ion week. The reason of this extraordinary lin m s le nt s st" we believe to be shortly as follows :—Hither'uf court torney admitted to the Court of Queen's Benc.h!kl'e C „ u rt: was supposed to be at liberty to practise in all ul of Westminster Hall, five in number, and the e ssos ed by attendant upon his admission mild all be per" - ',, jog of a , agent or deputy. According to the strict re a" be fore clause in the Act of last session, every he caa practise in the superior courts, trals t st t here 1 4t his own hand the rolls of each court ; at lea f . our n iclea so much doubt about the matter, that mall of t_e thei and most experienced practitioners, in o rder, _ n u for t safe side, have been, or are going, to Lencl' be said purpose from Liverpool, and the same n ms.X., s i na d the attorneys of every other place i 1 - 4 " a areas °f t Wales. It has been discovered that, i n hu ll _ been k ep t attornlign stances, the names of deceased attorneys b an d oth,_ t o i n nq t a h a e li r fi O e ll d s, p f e o r r s o t the purpose of e e nabling 1 i t t h i g o s e r l e: n. k t a,. s 7 r J o ni species of metropolitan review alluded to b e en, instituted, and the result, we un d e rstand. o ';; st.a ...,Lirf' will be, a very considerable weeding of th "' pool Mercury. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7 , 184;4