The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-29 00:00:00

r IPOOL . ERNI 4 ' r A 10 0156 ail stean4 ?re a t ti a half United S the 16th ins` da, wer e n the f° r° , nd in Ci p° .e. "I'l ark ,/ \Vhigs g re ; ming 0 114 ''', Vebster• put i n to t' . - 6 Mohairk, RR. 101 300 b'r.z I•=lanri . 50 ii•tr!' „ 125 it .u 3• 5o Pr?. 50 Nor. and Wt,r.. SECOND BOARD. 50 shares Canton 2:5 shares Stonington 44 50 State Bank . 50 Long Island 100 Farmers' Trust 3 Bt 125 shares Nor. and Wor 74i 25 East Boston AT THE PUBLIC STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 14. 50 shares Dry Dock s6o 69 25 Morris Canal b3O 36 25 Long Island Railroad 73 Nor. and Wor. c 76f 100 Canton nw sup 48 2:, Mohawk Railroad 50 Harlem t w 68 TtaE MARKET, Nov. 14.—The sales of Cotton are GOO bales. Flou r is better by 6 cts. Genoese, $4,62 a 69; Ohio, 4,62; Georgetown, $4,69 a 75. 1 , Rye is worth aboutthe slip, though small 'it% are sold at less. Several cargoes of Southern Corn )14 Itt 50 ets. wt. B ar l ey i s h e ld at 70 cts. O ats, 32 It 33 et,. I ' O UO bags Sumatra Coffee, sold at 6? ets. per lb., 41141 time. bO V hisit•oy h as filen to 27 cts ; sales of State Prison ' 3 . Ashes d roo p, an d in k s h ave b een ma d e a t some "s under ti_ -4 4,12 and :;. 4 4,25. Il„Qterling h 8 a ' bll 10 10i• francs 5,21 1 , which shows a light eat] i r. M (31 EY AND C• =MillEitt;lAL S CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. k T he American advices j ust rece i ve d state t h at P o lk Z as dare of his election. Cotton was declining in the u4Slitets of New Y or k, Boston, &e. lhe ex change was 110 to There are very heavy mail-bags , t) th fro m varty Canada and the States, and the Metcalfe Was obtaining a majority at the elections. fThe Cotton market at Liv, rpool was dull again yes .)e,,r,thtY, and prices still tended downwards. Sales, 5,000 ~"'es, including 1,000 Surat, at lid. to 30.; 200 Pernam, s id. to siti. ; 200 Egyptian, at 5-1-d. to 5P.; and the u e •s, t Ai neriean.—The more speculative Railway Shares w e r e in some request, and others without alteration : C s t°l and Gloucester, 341 ; Chester and Birken t•ead• Half, ; Direct Northern, 21; Eastern Conn- Perpetual, No. 2,20 s. ; Edinburgh, Leith, and „,ranto n , ; Grand Junction, Half, 107 ; Kendal and Cualertnere, 4i; Liverpool and Manchester, Half, 102 k; Loudon and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 31; London and urK ' 3 A. ; London and South-Western, 75; Midland L i titl es, 107 i 108 ; North British, 5 ; Trent V a lley, ; If' . 1 s and Avignon, 24; Paris and Lyons, 615.; Paris and uf n 39 : 4 1 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 5/ ; 4, 1 " .4 ' (4' France, 11 1. r 1. here has not yet b een any i n f ormat i on t h at can b e th e upon with respect to the probable recovery of " n 0 &c., stolen from the banking firm of wh ii p:_liog ers an d C o. I t i s sa id t h at at an i nterv i ew h et n Daniel Forrester had la s t e v e nin g with th e fi rm , ts t i o 4 w ere communicated which lead to a sanguine expec- T jl that the property will soon be recovered. no o n e notice, w hi c h was i ssue d l ate yester d ay a f ter - Of lit the B an k o f E ng l an d , announc i ng t h e i ntent i on Pr ove e P irectors t o ma k e a d vances o f money upon ap fzitn securities at 2i per cent., was not unexpected in st ar ) i nfluential quarters ; as from previous circutn ees that have occurred, it is clear that in the "bank• aepartment" a strong competition has been corn of ri ,ed by the Corporation with the private bankers gu ar t9e City of London. It is, however, feared in many t htuL t e„", that this continued low rate of interest by an "slitnent having the power to put on the screw at ~,..o e a ,sure may lead to many disasters in the commercial pee s hence hence a certain amount of dispraise is e x. taitd at the small amount to be charged on advances b or . ( ' h.Y the Bank of England, although it should be 21 'le in mind that in S e pt em b er th e B an k t oo k bill s at 15, r cent. , ini i - there is some anxiety felt for the arrival of the letters - 1 / 4 1. 1 iners brought by the Hibernia steamer from Li 1 ax and Boston, a hich by the accounts received from t e ;r1 )00 1, was in sight of port when the mail ta . 9 No doubt there will come to hand the missing 8 ,7; e 11 from Canada. The result of the election for Pre this'e! nt of the • d States will be fully established by arrival. Rite 6 1 ' 3 he settlement of the Account in the Foreign market, C,nB°l4ewhat, checked speculation in the English Funds. w 6 'is for the Account opened at 101*, but they are he Shaine lo wer — v i z., at 101, and for Money at 1001. t `'"lrnissioners bought about 15,000/. Stock to-day, - "Auced Three per Cents. at par, and Three-and-a tolroter pe r Cents. at 102 Z-. Bank Stock has advanced rath er ' India Stock at 288. Exchequer Bills are Th r bigher than they opened in the morning. g ho e ft Aecount in the Foreign market has so far well Three Spanish Actives have been sold at 244, and S tucks u r eo per Cents. at area Belgian and Dutch 1419 1 th ' e ae firm ' Mexicans re at 36* i for Money, N ot 0 , Portuguese Converted at 55i- for the Account. fSh ar , !lell business has been done in the Railway " ino• FUN- Prices have not varied much. BRITISH - Tuts DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank sto c k vrroce th e Offi c i a l List) 9 per c ent. ...... ........... ...... 206 207 lez Cent. c on ,": l Z l lnnuities 100 94 100ri 1 1.0 % Per Cent .. 7 - 7.= 102%34;i India Annuities E xPire sth 2a 15 8 1-16 India ..................« 8 3 Ditto under] 83 Ditto New Annuities 91% Bank Stook for Account C °fts43l for Account 101% 101 Net. Bills. ---- .....„--- liict. It4d .... .... 58 80 pm. ............ 58 80 pin Ditto rnal...:::::::**** ............ 58 " P" I, Ditto Advertised...--. ""*"'"” - °I!NGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 10214 ~---'4,ati Bonds 5 per Cent '''tto Scrip ' v% Columbian Bonds. . ......... ... ..... .. • •••••• MI Mexican Bonds, 1i13.1:75 per Cent. •••••• :;63.1i Ditto for the Account .... ......................... SS b Ditto Deferred Stock lti4 a-ortuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ...... ......... ••• Ditto Converted ... Ditto for the Account ..... •..... .. ...—•••••••• 5Ms 1/% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 24 Ditto for tne Account 24.4 Ditto Three per Cent. ..........••••••••-"'"'".• ftcastYL Ditto for the Acount ....- ..... •»•••••••• blyenezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 42404 otch 254 per Cent 5.................. ....... Sir OF BHARISS 11118 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ,„, RAILWAYS. PAID. Pea SHADE. It riiiVghaTrk and Gloucester...... 100 ......... S 8 ...„. to 07 Caltbll..,anil Gloucester. ..... ........ 80 ... ..... 34%...... to 35 Eut,,lgge and Lincoln . 14 2%...”. to torirfa 4,Cuuntied ..... !..,........... 2.5 185Z%-...,.... ttoo ; ar_, houthe. n and"weaterni 4 fir,Zlncll .............................. k.... ,afrth of England. 190%...... 118 A to 00 Condon--I.ZIII 1 and Windermere ~i and Birmingham 61141-4 and York, York.... ....".... 2% 4% ... to lON to 100 ti)4Zchterdtnlean.ds.l7r.lin::gto.:7ll7.ju"rt..a.. 10'1)1 ......... 5754 k ° Scri,, 2,5 ... ...,, 35 „.. to -.. itZtilt,ich ana iir";;;Ct.O.:: . ...... ....... ... .. 12 111,1,- and Lincoln 51% %leo!" and Amiens 2 Pie, -' end Vierzon ......... ...... • NI. l'ls and Bourdea 1 ?aril xNI Lyons ux to,- "d h0uen............... ... 20 ......... 30111% ••• to -- I.:ohdoi,,°lrr aroca SANDS ". Nati,,“ 'Joint Stock . tiAls ilProvlncialof England.- 35 hasar eltk-sTER ... I HANCE NOV. 28.7-The qlB . ....Tock ALC . , be withoUt change; a fair amount of business 3 `g don a ~,-16 ..1 e, at steady prices :—Clie4hiro Junction, '.•l 4 ; Wigan and Liverpool, 81s. ; Churnets, Sh fg 6 • t Xt "-Ott' nl4Btern Counties, 13i. ; liuddersfield and „-‘ktiehe ','-'i- ; 'Windermere, 41- ; Oxford and Rugby, 1i ; "4.8. 4‘er vaid Leeds, Quarter Shares, 10i ; Ditto, h tee 4th 51. nth Shares, 3i ; Manchester and Birming 411t1 / • . Midland, 40/. Shares, 2i prem. ; Sheffield b 44,01 rtrlisi ni la • West Yorkshire, 7 ; .Assurance, 10-/c. tl• and ' Ut..Y, 1221 Goole, Bs. 9d. premium ; Bolton and 2.. A.Noli lltat ACCIDENT ON THE 14, tn,lttlinLAND RAILWAY. kttpLd ell i'g", nnother accident, e on 11 ' 14 ' e'- with most • , 'Pus consequences, occurred which might have b 61. Lt. , lui way. „ sin r .a4,Lii,b, `N e have had many of the passengers at r ru la th , '''klit just as we were going . to press, and h l' a eli .I) t p - i i,,, l 'e learn that the London train, . which should t the rate wi,..'",, at tprin minutes past five, had arrived a of ur rnst if ,"," a short line of railway is in progress line uy . --.., co nn , • North with the London %nettrer teting the . atation c u. about a quarter of ami e l from the Derby th e 0 . , and wure proceeding at a slow pace, when from iie w r lilts not being properly laid, the train got :m the that "nbankinent. At present, we are informed f laid there is not more than twenty yards o . rails to h'e'n on the new line, so that when the train got_ Itickil'e end, it wa.s stopped' by the gravel, which in the} l aY a considerable de th. The engine was buried Filch beartii-work, and seve P ral of the carriages were a 1 -I.9l ' e rl by the sudden shock, but we do not hear 11: one bei • • . than the fright they ' l tai neA ,ng injured, further . th e It , u• tied the train been going at the usual speed, lays of life must I • been Irvad•Ul. The pass ' l4‘e ( it 't of duty to e a u _, engers who have made a porn ow u‘ our office justly complain of this gross and (.!an '4l3 tle . i lives eto be oil this ~.Q ect. dow many more are sacrificed lo ts 8 'lan, where the Hudsonian principle of econo:ny . beenthi.., worked to such nietties.—Derbi Reporter ot - aity, 134 ________--- t_.,- , 8 a 411148LEY LINSN TRADR.—'rhe trade of this f;:". 1 uneorntnonly brisk, particularly in the branch of ,icy drills, so touch so that weavers are scarce ; and 411 they ma) touch when the manufacturers are continually (, the their w:, es —Duncesttr Gazette. -N o A --.4 LATE ROBBER Y AT THE ROYAL MILITARY .a CAL F fur.) 'll', WooLwictl.—The three prisoners, Hawks th u, Calvert and Craig, committed by Mr. Grove from ~e Woolwich Police -court, charged with stealing a sil -1 (r. wit tell, and about 301 worth of wearing apparel, be -1:,"?Olg to the Gentlemen Cadets studying at the Royal mll,ltary Academy were tried on Wedntsday at the aidstone Assizes ' and all found guilty, and sentenced to tie v , , ti 3 ears transportation each. rTel 1,4 at, or mu LEVIATHAN STEAM-SHIP GREAT ll,t rralisi.—On Wednesday forenoon the new leviathan )!I steam -ship Great Britain, so long locked up in the )ristol docks, made her first experimental trip of her 1 i )°.." , r1.41 eugine s in the C umberland-basin, and they were utin t o be perfectly satisfactory. ,The accounts received front Lebanon describe that — Junt r . t 4 i .)' as being the prey to civil war. The . mo.LIII - tlet!rg have, as we mentioned two days ago, laid siege IllajLeru'ilu and the Governor of the place has inn -1 the foreign consuls that he cannot answer any 'unger for their safety.—Clironick. so r LLOYD'S SH XTILIS DA Y.) LONDON, Nov. 29.—Wind W., mo&rate breeze, with drizzling rain. DEAL, Nov. 28.—Wind S.S.W. to W.—A rrd. Mobile, Martin, Penang ; Syria, Stroyan, Singapore ; Tele graph, Bennett, Sierra Leone • Tancred, Smith, St. Lucia. Sid. Rosalind, W es t doast of Africa ; Village Girl and Cano, Jamaica. RAMSGATE, Nov. 28.—The Speculant, Mustede, from Hamburgh to Gibraltar, which put in here 25th instant, leaky, is discharging. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 28.—Wind S.S.W. Arrd. H.M.S. hornet, Jamaica, sailed Lth ult., and from Ber muda, 31st ult. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 28.—Arrd. St. Ann, Richard, Quebec. Sid. Dacha steamer, Lisbon. STARCROSS, Nov. 27.—Arrd. Emma, Zollee, and Pro vidence, Quebec. OFF SALCOMBE, Nov. 27.—Arrd. Lady Mary Stone, Buenos Ayres ; Windsor Castle, Patterson, New Or leans ; Ocean, Baltimore, for Rotterdam. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 28.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Trio Hooper, Buenos Ayres; Roslin Castle, Victoria, Quebec. SWANSEA, Noy. 27.—Arrd. Oreenfells, Cuba ; British Lady, Prince Edward's Island. The Amethyst, Canton, for Port Juneaut, cut bowsprit and figure-bead, had larboard bow stove, &c., by getting in contact with the Arietta, Ellis, for Cuba, both were in tow of a steamer. MILFORD, Nov. 27.—Arrd, Mary Lynn, Ichaboe. CARDIFF, Nov. 27.—Arrd. Radford, Miramichi ; Maria, Evan and Mary. and Harriet, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 28.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrd. Osprey, Kirk, Bombay ; Mary, Ichaboe ; Letitia, Cleveland, Demerara ; Mary And Henry, Buctush ; True Blue, Tatmagouche ; Sarah, Montreal ; Acadia, and City of Waterford, Quebec ; Lady Rowley, Wright, Newfoundland. Sld. Cletus, Buenos Ayres ; Caleb Angus, Belize ; Ambassador, Charleston ; Dorchester, Boston. Off, Hibernia steamer, Halifax ; Royal Albert, —. A vessel, of about 350 tons, dismasted, water logged, and abandoned, with "--SE, Sunderland," on her stern, was passed on the I sth inst., lat. 49, lon. 35, by the True Blue, arrived here. The Ino, hence to Trieste, was spoken yesterday, bearing up for Beaumaris. CORA, Nov. 26.—Arrd. Welcome, Dennistoun, Ichaboe; Beaver, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off, Levant, Lane, Ichaboe ; Volusia, Honduras. AT ANGRA PEQUINA, OCT. 16.—Loading, Rubicorn, Dalas, Roseanna, Fenton, Lydia, Perry, David Banks, Jolly and Arundel, and Baxter. THE FUNDS-(C BRITIS/ Bask Stock ex dlv. 20: 3 per Cent. Red ...... 99h Cent. Cons. ..... 1007 per Cent. Red ew 3U per Cent. 1 5 7.. %1 New 5 per Cent.... ........ Long Annuities to expire Jas. 1830 l2 1 13 Oct. 1859 Jan. Indian Stock 2B4_ OSING PRICES FUNDS. Initto Bonds £l,OOO B3 pm. Ditto under £l,OOO B3 pm. 'South Sea Stuck Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, I,oooi. I%cl :1) pin. Ditto 5001 llitto Small 6O pin Sank Stock for Acct 2371( ' Consols for Act........,. 101 India Stock for Acct — FOREIGN FUNDS. Russian, S per Ditto, Metallic ..... ipanish, 5 per Cent., 1840. Ditto, 1811 ........ Ditto, 1812 Ditto, 1843. Ditto, 1841 Ditto, 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct., — Freach, 5 per Cent....... —r . c. French, 3 per Cent....... —t Exchange D utc h , 2% per Cent ..... . 62 Ditto,.s per Cent 99 SHARES. Austrian. 5 per Cent ..... Belgian, 5 per — Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent, — C , iba Bonds, 6 per Cent.., — Chthan, r per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent..,,. , Danish, Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, Pc.s, 5 per Cent Mexican, S per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct Bristol and Exeter (TO paid) Cambridge and Lincoln, 1% paid 9 Churnet Valley, 2 paid Direct Northern, 2% paid Dublin and Belfast Junction. 2% paid 33i Eastern Counties (25 paid) Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 21 13s 4d. paid,No 1 % . Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 p a id Great North of England, 100 paid Ditto ' yew Shares ( 5 paid) Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Fifths, 12 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) London and Blackwall (161. 13s 4d.) 6% Londoa and South Western (411. 6s. lod. paid) — Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon ...... Ditto Guaranteed. 5 per Cent., 9 paid ..... London and York, '234 paid al; Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid York and North Midland (50 paid) lO4 Ditto Extension Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid .......... ..... ..... 4% Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid .. 111 ) 4 Orleans and Bourdeaux. I paid Paris and Lyons, 2 paid 3 Paris and Orleans )2O paid) Hza MAJESTY'S SHIP GORGON.—The following extract of a letter from an officer on board will be read with interest by the public :—" Monte Video, Sept. 24, 1844.—We have been unceasing in our efforts to get afloat since I last wrote to you. We have now got three camels' under her, and are just getting a fourth ; all of them very powerful. We have, besides, a cassoon under her stern to raise her up, and lighters lashed on to her sides down low, with boilers, casks, and tanks fastened together. The other day we had a high tide, of which we took every advantage in our power. We got the steam up, and hove on all our purchases ; but we had not enough of water, and the consequence was, that there was too much strain on the cable, so it carried away. However, she went astern five inches, which, under the circumstances, is considered a great deal. Her - quarter also went out a little. I may tell you, that when the tide is low the water just reaches her paddlewheel, and when high, it only reaches round her bow. lam sorry to inform you of a serious accident which hap pened some days since. The tide having risen higher than usual, she heeled over to starboard, and burst one of the lighters which we had to float her off. When we got the boat out of the dock we made the rope fast to the capstan. Some way or other the capstan flew ronnd, swinging the capstan oar with such force as to kill two men dead on the spot, who were holding on to the end of the rope. A boy also fell overboard, and coming against some machinery, injured his arm. The injury produced lock-jaw, of which he has just died in great agony. I really cannot tell you how much this accident has de pressed us all, especially as the unfortunate persons bore excellent characters in every respect. This is the third accident we have had since we were driven on shore. It came on to blow on the 22d, and the tide rose very high. We were all ready to heave, so away we went to work ; carried away our purchase, and moved astern one foot, and canted her stern out. Thus, you will perceive, we are going off by degrees. I cannot tell you this time that we are exactly off, but we are getting everything out, and expect to go afloat very soon. More than this of course I should not be justified in saying. As far as the good things of life are concerned, we are rather com fortable, having recently been supplied with a large stock of sheen, turkeys, and a pig. The weather has been frightfully revere during the last three days ; thun &riles been very frequent, and the rain has fallen in torrents, I might almost say cascades. It may interest you to hear that the log for the day we went on shore took up two sides of foolscap." SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST FIVE GENTLEMEN.—On Wednesday, at the Rochester Petty Sessions, warrants were granted for the apprehension of George Wise, son of Lieut. Wise, R.N., Director of Police, Chatham Dockyard, George Cockburn Warden, son of 1)r. Warden, Chatham Dockyard, Lieutenant Jones, of the Royal Marines (two others are at present unknown), for grossly assaulting, and firing a loaded gun at George Ladbury, his father John Ladbury, and a lad, while em ployed in their occupation of fishermeu, at a place called Gillingham-spit, in the river Medway, between six and seven o'clock on Tuesday evening. Tile New Theatre, Shoreditch, is approaching to completion. Yesterday the workmen were laying down the stage, the whole of the framework having been made in another part of the promises. The flats and scenery, the seats of the gallery, pit, and boxes, are also complete, and only have to be fixed in their respective situations, when the decorations and orna mental parts will be commenced, so that it is expected that the edifice will be opened on Boxing-night. DESERTIONS.—No fewer than seventeen heads of families have deserted their wives and children in Clerk enwell parish within the last fortnight or three weeks, leaving nearly 100 persons chargeable to that parish. The trains of the Great Western Railway were on Wednesday last detained for a considerable time, in consequence of the bursting of a spring adjoining the line, in the neighbourhood of Salford, about five miles from Bath. The railway to the extent of a mile and upwards, was for several hours completely covered with water ; workmen were, without loss of time, engaged in securing the spring, and the trains were then enabled to proceed without interruption.—Bristol Gazette. At the Court of Excise yesterday, Charles Llewelyn Tudor and Frederic Tudor, wine merchants, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, were fined in the penalty of 501, for not hav ing a license, and having the words " licensed to deal in foreign wines " over the door ; and W. Edgar White, No. 8, Water-lane, Fleet-street, was summoned upon two informations for having the words " Importer of and dealer in foreign wines, spirits, and beer," painted over his cellars, not having taken out a license. The officer informed the Court that the defendant " sprung up in business all at once, and no one knew where he came from." Defendant had made no entry, neither had ho applied for any license. The cellars had since been closed, and defendant had gone to carry on his business at Maidenhead. The Court fined the defendant in the full penalty of 100 i. Sournaatrrost, Nov. 28.—IIis Royal Highness the Duke et Cambridge arrived here this day by train, en route to visit Mr. Sloane Stanley, at l'aultons. His Royal Highness will on Saturday proceed to Cadlands, and honour Mr. Drummond with a visit. His Grace the Duke of Rutland ftrrivt d here yesterday, and proceeded to Cadlands, where great preparations are being made for the approaching nuptials of the only daughter of Mr. A. Drummond with Mr. Cockrane, M.P. for Bridport. The marriage will take place on the 3d of next month. Sir Hobert and Lady Sale and family, with Mr. Stunt, arrived here yesterday by railway, for Major Portman's seat near Christchurch, on a visit until Sunday next, when the Gallant General and family will return here to the Royal hotel, remaining until Tuesday next, when they will embark in the Oriental steam-ship for India. GRAND BALL AT MARCIIMONT llousE.--On Wed nesday evening last Sir Hugh and Lady Campbell gave a brilliant b,,11 to the nobility and gentry in the county of Berwick and surrounding neighbourhood. The com pany staying in the house consisted of the Countess of Mieto and three Ladies Elliot, Mr. and Lady Blanche Balfour, Lord Frederick, Lady Augusts, and Miss Fits. clerence, of Etal House, Hon. F. Fitzclarence, Captain Hunter Blair, Ladies Jane and Caroline Churteris, Lady Fuller ; and at the ball there were also present the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, Sir Charles Dalbiac, Earl and Countess of Home, Earl of Lauderdale and Sir An thony Maitland, Lord Saltoun and Mr. Macdousil Grant, Lire Elcho, Sir George and Lady Harriet Suttie, Sir John, L a d y M. W. and Lady Ridley, - Lady Massey Stanley, Sir Elizabeth, and Misses Pringle, of Stitchvll. h THE STIN, LONDON, FR 1 if, EVENING' STATE OF SPAIN. [We willingly publish the following letter, because it is only fair that an advocate of Spain should be heard. But, after all, does he not confirm our state ment ?—] TO 7'IIE EDITOR 01 , TIIE SG Sia,—Your leading article this evening on Spain and its people is calumnious and unjust—unworthy, besides, of the politics advocated by your paper. You compare Spain, inhabited by fifteen millions of people, to France, with a population of thirty. You say that France, in the midst of its civil dissensions, re pelled its foreign aggressors, put down a vile aris tocracy, and made itself a name, before the era of Napoleon. You say that Spain has produced nothing but adventurers in civil war, butchers, men who re cognise nothing but the law of force, with whom, with the single exception of Eapartero, no generors man can sympathise. You take no account of the circumstances of the two nations ; you show no side but the bright side of the French Revolution; you write half a century after it ; you forget the murders, drownings, hangings, imprisonments, denunciations, fines, confiscati o n s o f property, ass i gnat bank ruptcies, and all the atrocities that characterised that Revolution ; and you blame the Spaniards for not following quite so actively in this exterminating career. You forget that the Spanish Revolution was early checked by the infamous interference of its powerful neighbour, under the Duke d'Angouleme. You forget the previous career of a greater army than that of the Duke d'Angouleme—the Imperial Army of the great Napoleon in Spain ? Did the Spaniards show no vigour, then, in resisting foreign aggression ? Is the nature of their country, too, such that they are capable of acting together ? Are they not separated from each other, cut up by mountains, thinly assembled together, and incapable for this reason of largely combined movements ? Have the Spaniards had the advantage that France had before her revolution, of a widely-diffused literature, a phi losophic spirit of inquiry, generated by free intercourse with the rest of the nations ? Had she not, on the contrary, the misfortune to be go verned by a Monarch deriving his revenue from ad ventitious sources of supply, and therefore able to fix his despotic rule without the consent of his people ? Had she not a Church absorbing all the property and stifling the intellect of the people, for reasons peculiar to the geographical structure of the country, and others, which it would be too long now to enter into ? It would be too long, indeed, to describe the great disadvantages under which she laboured, as compared with either England or France, from which she started into revolution. Her career, a rough one naturally, has been interrupted by the unlawful med dlings of other nations. If she is so unfortunate as not to have elements in the higher order of society with which to regenerate herself, she must begin from the lower. She must take brave and loyal men like Zurbano, if men of better breeding are corrupt and venial. The upper order of society has produced no thing. The Queen, infamous, and more degraded still, avaracious ; Narvaez, a plunderer, a cut-throat, an in triguer, a man loading himself with honours without deserving them, inventing plots against hi s f r i en d s who become powerful, and loading with favours mean people who flatter him; the Finance Ministers stock jobbers; a Cortes sold to the highest bidder; officers who make great parade in ball-rooms, and are cowards in the field. This is the state of things that you would uphold against the revolution. Spain will never be either happy or honoured with such blood-suckers at the helm. Delenda est Carthago. They must be got rid of, and by rough hands. Zurban o , a man o f t h e people, is one of them. I wish him success. T o say, as you have said, that he is ready to sell hi mse lf t o any party, is contrary to all experience of his history to the present time. He has ever been faithful t o th e Constitution. In addition to his fidelity, he has the rarest of all qualities, heroic bravery. Though it may cost Spain another struggle, any struggle is better than degradation.—Your obedient servant, A SPANISH TRAVELLER. London, Oct. 27. . ....---,...,.....-.,...-......--..,........... POLICE JUSTICE --THE LUXURY OF WE A L TH. (Prom Punch.) Yesterday, the Bon. Au- John Briggs was ehargel gu,stus Toppin9ltam, a per- before 1; r. Honeycomb,: son of geutletnanly exte- with Eaving e , mmitted an rior, was brought before assault upon Mr. Jessamy Mr. Honeycombe, charged Bloom, a person of some with a very gross and vio- what genteel appearance. lent assault on Grace Mit- It appeared that the pri tens, a most respectable soner and his wife were pro and - moelc-looking young ceeding home on Thursday woman, whose face, how- night, They had a few ever, retained marks of a words ; in fact, the prisoner severe blow, she having lost was a little the worse fox four of her front teeth by liquor, and his wife was the violence of the accused. walking a few paces in ad- Police-constable Lynx lance of him. The complain deposed that he was, on ant meeting the w °man, ad- Monday night, on his beat dressed her in a very rude in Coventry-street, when and unseemly w ay, ut the he heard the screams of a same time th rowing hisarrns woman. He ran, and dis- round her. Whereupon the covered the complainant prisoner, rushing forward, lying on the pavement, and struck thecemplainant, snit the accused at the bar knocked him Cato the road. shouting and hallooing, and Charlotte Briggs deposed swearing he was a gentle- to the above facts. She had man, and no mistake. been very grossly assaulted Whereupon, after much by the complainant, before difficulty, the constable he was struck by her hus. took the prisoner into cue- band. Lodz-. Mr. honeycombs said he Grace Mittens (the com- had no doubt that an as plainant) deposed that she sault had been committed; a was employed in a dress- very gross assault; never maker's establishment. She theless, people oust not had been kept late at work take the law in their owu on Monday night, and was hands : there wauld be an returning home, when the end t o a ll thi ngs if people at the bar accosted took the law in their ow n her, placing his arm round hands. He wished to know her waist. She told him what the prisoner had to to go about his business, say for himself ? when, with his clenched The prisoner said that, fist, ho struck her so vio- seeing his wife assaulted, leutly on the mouth, that he could not help doing he dislodged four of her - what he had done; he was front teeth. not sure that he should not Mr. Honeycombe asked do the like again, under the the prisoner what he had like circumstances. to say for himself.? Mr. Honeycombe oh- The prisoner said he had served, that he had no doubt been out dining. that the complainant had Mr. Honeycombe ob- very grossly misconducted served that that could be himself ; neverttieless, the no excuse for such unmanly prisoner had committed an atrocity. It was a most assault, and the sentence shameful and cowardly as-. was that he must pay a sault upon a defenceless, fine of 2L, or undergo six virtuous girl, and he cer- weeks' imprisonment. tainly vt ould fine the pri- The prisoner had not a loner in the sum of 51., or farthing, and was— RE two months' imprisonment. MOVED IN THE PRISoN VAN. THE FINE WAS IMmF•• DIATELY PAID, and the gentleman drove from the office in his cab. DREADFUL CASE OF STABBING A LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN ON THE lIIGU SEAS. "'"i'"-i'Rv" OF NEWS c,.‘ qs g4d i'- - 4- gl , Vubitt Coinicat. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The pupils of the Conservatoire Royal had the honour of performing Raoul de Crequi, on Monday evening, before their Majesties at Saint Cloud. Amongst the company present on this occasion was Marshal Bugeaud. Before his departure from Algiers, Marshal Bugeaud published an order of the slay, announcing that Lieute nant-General de Lamorciere would act as Commander in-Chief during his absence in France. The Patric states that the Marshal will go to Excideuil at the end of this week, but will return to Paris to take part in the discussion on the Address in the Chamber of Deputies. The Gazette des Tribunaux gives an account of an extensive fraud by a Paris bookseller, whom it calls N—, and who has fled from justice. It is stated that in one day he got discounted fifty bills for various amounts, some of them, it appears, large, drawn on different booksellers in the country. He produced false letters from them acknowledging the receipt of books, and au thorising him to draw for the amount. The bankers who were applied to to discount the bills bad, therefore, no suspicion of fraud. For a few days, says the Constitutionnel, some of the hatters at the Boulevards, and in the purlieus of the Palais Royal, exhibited in their shop• windows new fashioned hats ticketed Chapeaux Zurbano, Chapeaux Narvaez, wishing, no doubt, to revive the Bolivars and lkfurillos, but they have been withdrawn by order of the police. We learn from Palrea, in the Balearic Islands, that the Jesuits have just established themselves there i❑ spite of the law to the contrary, and that the political chief and several of the other authorities were present at the cere mony of opening their church. A letter from St. Petersburgh, in the Universal Ger man Gazette, states that the health of the Empress has improved, and no longer causes any uneasiness. On ac count of the mourning worn for the Grand Duchess Alexandra, the Empress appears but rarely in public, and it is thought that a considerable length of time will elapse before the fiktes of the Court of St. Petersburgh will resume their former brilliancy. It appears by a letter from Bayonne that the roads in many parts of Spain are infested by banditti to a greater extent than at any other time during the last four or five years. The Observateur des Pyrenees states that a proposition has been made to the Spanish Government by an English company to construct a railroad from the bridge of Aviles (Asturias) to Madrid. Its capital is said to be 2,000,0001. It demands a lease of 80 years, and per mission to bring into Spain, free of duty, all the matters necessary to construct and work the line. The spirit of gaiety pseuliar to France has been lately displayed by the squadron of Admiral Parseval, during its station in the roadsted of Tunis. Several of the ships gave amateur theatrical representations, and the Ocean even went so far as to send out its play-bills printed in letters of gold. A letter from the North of Italy, dated November 7, states that the Adige had, on the 25th ult., for the third time this season, broken through its dykes on the right and left, and spread over all the flat grounds from Neumarkt to Deutschinetz, rendering not only the high road impassable, b►rt also that from Laag to Saburn. In the last-named village the water was four feet deep, and all communication was cut off except by boats. The Althar, of the 17th, states that the three Arabs, condemned to death for the murder of the Agra Mahoun, being ordered for execution at Tenyat-el-Had, were directed to that locality under the escort of a body of gendarmes. When the party had arrived at their resting-place for the night, beyond the defile of Wad- Djer, the prisoners knelt down, and remained at prayer longer than previously. Throughout the whole passage, indeed, they had been apparently unremitting in their devotions, and whenever a halt took place. It came out, however, afterwards, that they were busily em ployed in getting rid of the irons on their legs, and con trived to escape. LAW AIM POLIO*. In the Court of Exchequer several actions were tried for the recovery of penalties from Charles Cundy and William Dean for smuggling silks, in each of which a verdict was taken by consent for the Crown for a single value. The sum of these single values is 4,575/. Bs. for each defendant. Hence, as the law makes the penalty three times the single value, each defendant is, in fact, liable to the extent of 13,7261. 45., or of 27,4521. Bs. be tween them. All these cases were connected with the Custom-house frauds. F John Wilson, alias Rowland Howell, aged 30, de scribed as a tailor, was indicted at Maidstone for feloni ously setting fire to a stack of hay, the property of John Stephens, at Farnborough. He was acquitted. At Gloucester, Mr. Justice Coltman sentenced Paul Weare to eighteen months' imprisonment and hard la bour, for maliciously stabbing a than named Baxter. The Judges are beginning to act on the decision of the House of Lords in the O'Connell case. A man was convicted at Warwick of having in his possession the mould of a shilling, and in passing sentence Mr. Justice Pattecon said the indictment consisted of two counts, but since a recent decision in the House of Lords, he could not pass one sentence on them both, and therefore he ordered that on each count the prisoner be transported for ten years, but the term to commence at one and the same time. At the same assizes a dancing-master of Birmingham, named Matthew Bennett, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for an indecent assault on one of his female pupils. John Mewsane, a soldier in the Coldstream Guards, for a robbery under a threat of charging a person with an indecent assault, was sentenced to fifteen years' trans portation at the Central Criminal Court. In the New Court the Common Sergeant sentenced Henry Miller and Charles James, alias Fitch, members of a notorious gang of swindler s , t o seven y ears ' transporta tion each. They were convicted on separate indictments, and James, who was twice convicted, had an additional fourteen years added to his sentence William Popjoy, charged with having stolen 150 yards of Orleans cloth from the 'premises of Messrs. Garrard and Co., linendrapers, Leicester-square, was fully committed from Marlborough-street. The pri soner, who was a sailor, stated that he had been robbed by a woman of all his money, and that he had committed the theft to get transported. Captain Archer Whaley Owen, master of the ship Fairy Queen, appeared before Mr. Ballantine, at the Thames-office, to answer a charge of assaulting Edwin Davis, an apprentice, on the high seas, in a very brutal manner. It appeared that he had frequently flogged the boy in a most unmerciful manner. lie was held to bail to answer the charge at the Central Ci iminal Court. COMILT-PASZION!ASIAIR. Lord and Lady Colchester received a select party at Kidbrook, Sussex, last week, to meet the Earl of Ellen borough, her Ladyship's brother. The Noble Earl came expressly to town on Saturday to dine with Sir Robert Peel, and to attend at the chapter of the order of the Bath at Windsor Castle. The alliance which has been spoken of for some time between the Rev. Lord A. Fitzclarence and Miss Gordon, daughter of Lord Henry Gordon, and niece to Lord Aboyne, is understood to be fixed for the 2d of January next. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, accompanied by Lord Henry and Lady Anna Loftus, after a brief visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, left on Wed nesday afternoon, for their residence at Brighton. Viscount Clive, who came from Petworth House on a visit to the Duke and Duchess, has taken his departure. The Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond left Be 1 - grave-square on Tuesday last for Brighton, where it is their intention to reside during the winter. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby hare left Clarendon Hotel on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, where a fashionable circle have assembled to a visit to their Graces. The Marquis of Worcester, son of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, will attain his majority in February next, when the event will be celebrated by great re joicings on his Grace's extensive estates in Gloucester shire and Monmouthshire. The Earl and Countess of Harrington left Whitehall Gardens on Tuesday last, for Brighton, where the Noble Earl and Countess purpose to stay about thri.e weeks. The Earl of Pembroke has arrived in Stratton street, after having made a short tour on the Contitent. Madlle. d'Este has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from a tour of visits. Earl Fitzhardinge has arrived at his residence in Spring Gardens from Cheltenham. VELISCIIII.7.A7OIIIIIOI7III. In the Gazette of Thursday, among other notices is one for an Act for making, erecting, and maintaining a bridge across the Thames, near Chelsea Hospital, and another for a Bill to incorporate the governors and sub scribers of the London Orphan Asylum. The others are chiefly railway notices, of which there are not less than forty-nine. On Wednesday a gang of swindlers, who have been taking a great deal of money by means of forged begging letters, were rounced upon in the money-order office of the General Post- o ffi ce, Dublin, by two of the detective police, and taken into legal custody. They had just re• ceived the amount of orders from the country—sumo of the fruits of their successful operations upon provincial dupes. The detectives were waiting for them in the office, and seized upon them the moment they bad con verted their money -letters into cash. At Liverpool, on Wednesday evening, the fifth annual charity ball of the Licensed Victuallers' Society took place in the Town-hall, by permission of the Mayor and Town Council, and under very distinguished patronage. LONDON AND BIRMINGHA M RAILWAY.—In the speech of the Chairman, Mr. Glyn, at the special meeting of the Company, that gentleman, in referring to the proposed branch from Worcester to Wolverhamp ton, was made to say that the Worcester Committee proposed to the Grand Junction Company, that that portion of the projected Mesworth, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line should be made jointly. The Com pany referred to by Mr. Glyn was, as the context showed, tho Birmingham and Gloucester, and not the Grand Junction Company.—Herald. The Directors of the Bank issued a notice late this afternoon, that they will lend ni ney on the usual secu rities during the shutting of the banks, for the payment of the dividends, at the rate of 2i per cent. per annum. This notice has taken the banking interest all aback, ae they seem to have expected an advance rather than a reduction in the rate. The time limited is the 17th January, and we believe that it is the lowest terms upon which the Bank of England ever made loans.—fficrning Htrald. COURT CIRCULAR. lirmnsoft, THuitsDA.Y.—The Queen held a Cour and Privy Council at three o'clock this afternoon. The Council was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Lord Wharnchffe, Lord President the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief; Sir Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treasury ; Sir James Graham, Secretary of State for the• Home Depart ment; Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs ; Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies ; Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the Admiralty; Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward; and Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse. At the Council Parliament was ordered to be fur ther prorogued from Thursday, the 12th December, until Tuesday, the 4th of February ; and a proclama tion was ordered to be issued summoning the Parlia ment to meet on that day for the dispatch of business. Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Boar.i. The County of Montgomery was divided into three districts for a Coroner. The Hon. Wm. Bathurst was the Clerit of the Council in Waiting. At the Court Sir Hamilton Seymour was pre sented to the Queen at an audience, by the Earl of Aberdeen, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to take leave. The Hon. John Duncan Bligh was presented to her Majesty, at an audience, by the Earl of Aberdeen. The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting ; Lord Rivers, Lord in Wait- ing • Mr. R. Ormsby G ore , G room i n Waiting ; Col. Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting ; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert. After the Council the Earl of Haddington, Lord Whaincliffe, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and the Hon. W. Bathurst, left the Castle for the Slough station, and proceeded to town by a special train on the Great Western Railway. The Duke of Wellington also took his departure from the Castle. The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, took her early morning walk. Prince Albert, the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, Colonel Wylde, Mr. Ormsby Gor e , Captain F ranc i s S e ymour, and Cap tain Vyner, left the Castle before eleven o'clock this morning, to hunt with his Royal Highness's harriers. The meet was at Aldridge's Farm, The illustrious party ret ure d to the Castle shortly before two o'clock. near Salt-hill. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken for their accustomed equestrian and walking exercise. The Earl of Delawarr left the Castle to-day. The Hon. C. A. Murray arrived at the Castle from Brighton. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band attended in the evening. Mr. David Thomas White had the honour of sub mitting to the Queen and Prince Albert an engraved portrait of the King of the Belgians, from an ori ginal miniature painted by Sir W. C. Ross, R.A., for her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, when the Queen and the Prince were pleased to express their entire approbation of the same. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present were the Master o the Rolls, Lord Campbell, Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Mr. James Parker, Q.C., and Mr. Burge, Q.C., were heard on a petition from St. Lucia, Branee v. Hunter." An appeal from Bombay was heard, " Juveer- Bhaee and other appellants v. Vuring-Bhaee and others," respondents. For appellants Mr. Loftus Wigram, Q.C., Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Forsyth ; for respondents, Mr. Burge, Q.C., Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Moore. The case was adjourned. DEATH OF MRS. BLOSIFIELD, MOTHER OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—The death of the above amiable lady took place last evening (Tuesday), at her residence in Bury, under circumstances of a peculiarly saddening character. Mrs. Blomfield had been in her accustomed health during the day—indeed, had been walking in the town. In the afternoon she complained of unusual symp toms ; these increasing, ended fatally at about eight, P.M. It is known that the Right Rev. Bishop of London (who is the son of the deceased lady) was expected in his native town, to officiate at the re-opening of St. Mary's church. Strange and melancholy to say, his ar rival tot& place at the moment of dissolution. Mrs. Blomfield was, we believe, in her eightieth year. The character of the deceased—her connexion with the dis tinguished Prelate, and the approachicg ceremony at which he was about to assist, occasioned a deep concern and sympathy in the town. We understand that the sudden and painful occurrence will not prevent the cere mony of re-opening the church taking place. The Bishops of Lincoln and Norwich are severally named as likely to officiate in the stead of the Bishop of London.—From the Second Edition of the Bury Herald. CARROTS A SUBSTITUTE FOR EGGS IN PUDDINGS. —lt is not generally known, and will not, perhapF, be credited, when it is observed that boiled carrots, when properly prepared, form an admirable suceedaneum for eggs in the making of puddings. They must, for this purpose, be well boiled and meshed, and afterwards passed through a coarse cloth, or horsehair sieve. The pulp, when thus cleared of any chance fibrous or granular matter, may be introduced among the other ingredients constituting the pudding, with the total omission of eggs, in a quantity proportionate to the size of the former. A pudding composed partly of the above material will be found to be considerably lighter than if the same had been made with eggs, and will impart a far more grateful and agreeable flavour. Upon the principle of economy, the above fact is well worthy the prudent housewife's attention, and there are some housekeepers, approved culinary practitioners too, who, in making their Christ mas plum-puddings, adopt the receipt under notice in preference to using eggs for this purpose. Any person who will but take th© pains to try the above experiment upon a small scale, will be fully satisfied with the justice of the remarks here submitted. NegENiniii LITERATURE. DRA WING-ROOM SCRAP-BOOK. Rsher, Landon, 1814. The re arc , not less than thirty-six plates in this Annus I, many of which are executed in a style and with a tinis'n far superior to the ordinary run of such engravings. Among them is a half-length portrait, engra red by 801 l from an original painting by Carr;eck, of the great Irish agitator, Daniel O'Connell. He is represented sitting in an easy chair, in an atti tude of deep con t emp l at i on, with one hand lightly pressed against his breast, and the other hanging carelessly over the arm of the chair. Doubtless Ire land is the subject of his musing, but from the staid and somewhat pensive expression of his countenance, we infer that he entertains no very sanguine hope of carrying a repeal of the union. "My Youth's Best Friend," which is placed in the title -page, is a very carefully finished engraving. A young girl, whose back is turned towards the spectator, is in the act of embracing her mother—an elderly lady, with a very sweet and placid expression of countenance. The attitude of the daughter is full of grace and ease, and though we cannot see her face, we entertain a firm conviction that she is exceedingly good-looking. The flower-vases on the table, the handsome gold mirror on the wall, the bird-cage hung up to the ceiling, and the half-opened window through which we get a glimpse of some of the luxuriant trees in the gardens ; —these minor details give variety to the picture, and consequently add to its effect. The " Prince of %Vales and the Prince?s Royal" are portraits of her Majesty's two eldest children, which, it seems, have baon painted by Ross, in pursuance of the royal com mand. The faces of the children beam with health and good-humour. "Give an Obolus to Belisarius" is engraved from an original painting by David. The picture is by no means deficient in expression, but there is far too much exaggeration about it. The countenance of the blind, supplicating Belisarius, in particular, is full of grimace, when it should have worn an air of touching, melancholy resignation. But this is the painter's fault, the engraver has ac quitted himself with skill and judgment. The literary department of the Drawing-Room Scrap Book, which consists of a variety of prose and verse sketches illus trative of the different embellishments, is under the superintendence of the authoress of the "'Women in England," which is a sufficient guarantee that the articles are above mediocrity, if they be not em nently distinguished by genius. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. PROSE THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, THURSDAY 14;VENING. TIMES.—The following ni•tice was issued this after noon by the Bank of England : " Bank of England, Nov. 28, 1844, " The Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng land are ready until further notice to receive applications for loans upon the deposit of approved bills of exchange not having more than six m on th s to run, Exchequer Bills, and East India Bond s , suc h l oans to b e repaid on or before the 17th of January next, with interest at the rate of 2i per cent, per annum, and to be for sums of not leas than '2,000/. each." The above does not differ from former notices, except that the interest is 2i, instead of 3 per cent. ; but it is tolerably evident that the expectation of such a reduc • Lion has prevailed in the Money-market fur several days past, and that to this is to be ascribed the recent rise and great firmness of the Consol-market. The Directors in this case are pursuing that course a% hick they have already intimated it was their intention to do, of forcing business on such terms as the state of the Money market would permit, considering themselves quite as much in the character of private as in that of chartered bankers. It will effectually prevent that rise in the value of money which before was generally anticipated as likely to take place. We have received a letter from a Correspondent con taining some queries respecting the Bank returns, and the position of that Company. The first is—" The Bank having reduced their Government securities to 13,539,775/, as stated in the last return, which is nearly half a million less than the securities required as the basis of their issue, how is it that the 14,000,000/. still appears to their credit in the issue department 2" In answer to this, it is sufficient to point out that the 14,000,000/. in the issue department is formed of 11,015,000/. original debt due from the Government to the Bank, and which is so expressed in the return, and, added to this, 2,984,9001. of securities to make up the amount of 14,000,000/, This latter small sum probably consists of Exchequer Bills or funded stock. These form the basis of the issue of notes according to the last Act, and they have nothing whatever to do with the amount of 13,539,7751., which is the amount which the banking department, and not the issue department, holds of Government securities, and which varies according to the amount which the Bank has for investment. Thus, when the public deposits on the 12th of October were upwards of 8,000,000/, the Bank had upwards of 16,000,000/. invested in Government securities ; and now that after the payment of the dividends the public deposits have been reduced to below 4,000,000/, the Go vernment and other securities held by the Bank have been diminished in a corresponding proportion, and this has taken place, as was recently observed, without mate rially altering the amount of notes in circulation ; the difference in which at the two periods above alluded to is below 300,0004 The fact, therefore, being, as is apparent both from the wording of the Act and the nature of the returns, that the 14,000,000/. in the circulation department is totally distinct and separate from the item headed " Go vernment securities," in the banking department, the next query of our Correspondent, regarding the neces sity of altering the amount of the first of these sums in the return, in proportion as the second varies, does not require further answer. The last of his inquiries, as to " whether the dead weight annuity is not held by the Bank of England as security for a portion of the debt of 11,015,000/. due to them by the public 2" appears to require no other reply than a reference to the Act, and the periodical returns. The 11,015,0004 is put down in the circulation depart ment distinctly by itself as the " Government debt ;" while in the banking department the Government secu rities held by the Bank are explicitly stated to include the " dead weight" annuity ; and it is well known to all who are also in the least degree acquainted with the subject, that the two transactions are perfectly distinct in their nature, and owed their origin to two dissimilar transactions at very different periods, the one taking its rise from money advanced to Government at the estab 'ishment of the Bank, and becoming increased by subse• quent additional loans ; and the "dead weight" annuity being a sum paid for a limited period of years to the Bank in compensation for money advanced to Govern ment after the close of the last war. POST.—The Bank, it will be recollected, have, since the appearance of their September notice, been giving money on bills at the rate of two-and-a-half, and on notes at the rate of three per cent. ; so that there is in the present announcement less to remark upon than would at first view be supposed. The exchanges con tinue favourable to this country, and, lately, the institu tion has been recovering a portion of its treasure. There was consequently no motive for making money dearer by an advance in the charge for interest. With respect to an increase in the stock of bullion, however, it may be observed that no importance is to be attached to the matter. The accession of 100,0001. more or less was owing, no doubt, to the purchase last week of an impor tation of half a million of dollars from Mexico or else where, and this shows the uselessness of making compa risons of returns issued at intervals of a single week. The Bank returns require to be looked at quarterly, or perhaps rather oftener. An examination of the items upon this system will enable bankers and others to see what is the governing policy of the Board of Directors, and what the course of the foreign exchanges. On the whole, the reduction of the Bank rate to-day has been regarded as a measure by no means unfavourable to speculative enterprise. SUN.—The arrangement of the Account has produced a further rise this afternoon in the value of Consols, which close at 1001 for Money, and at 101 t o k f or t h e 1 7 t h January ; New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were 109 ; and the Three p e r C en t s 994 t o 100 . Ihe Foreign Bonds drooped a little. Spanish Five per Cents. were 234 to 24 ; and, the Three per Cents., 354 to ; Portuguese Converted, 53 ; Mexican Ac tives 35i to 364 ; Belgian, 101} ; an d Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents., 624 to 63k. Tho additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Cambridge and Lincoln were f to 4 ; Great Western, 664 ; Birmingham, 119 ; London and York, 1f ; Midland, if ; Newcastle a n Darlington, 37 to 36; Richmond and \Vest-End Junction, f; South - Eastern, 44; Ditto, New, if 7 ; York and North Mid land, 50i to 50 ; Ditto, New, 25i ; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 46f ; Ditto, Extension, 13 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 24 ; Orleans and Vierzon, 94 ; Ditto and Bordeaux, 44 to 5; Paris and Lyons, 1; Paris and Orleans, 214 ; and Ditto and Rouen, 19} to f premium. Birmingham and Glou cester hare been 5; Direct Northern, k ; Eastern Coun ties, 114 ; Blackwell, 91 ; Greenwich, 34 ; Midland and Birmingham and Derby, 21 ; and West London, 17 discount. DR. KEENAN'S SYSTEM OF PHYSIOLOGY. Last night Dr. Keenan concluded his short course of lectures at the Western Literary and Scientific Institu tion on his new system of Organic Chemistry, which at tributes the nervous energy to the generation of electri city in the lungs. In applying his theory to practice he attempted to show the peculiar actions of various kinds of food and air on the animal strength and spirits, and he illustrated his opinions by reference to the constitu tion and temperaments of the inhabitants of different climates. The vivacity of the French he attributed to the dryness of the air of France, and he contrasted the energy of the Afghans with the lassitude of the Ben galese, in exemplification of the different effects of dry and moist air. The humidity of the air in England was, he affirmed, the cause of our sombre dispositions, but though the climate of Ireland is at least equally hu mid, he dilated on the great cheerfulness of the people, notwithstanding their potato° diet, in confirmation of his theory—the effect i❑ their case being attributed to their more frequent exposure to the air. In this instance, as in many others during the course of Dr. Keenan's lec tures, his facts either did not bear out his theory, or they had little relation to it. He dwelt much, and with great truth, on the bad effects of cultivating the mind so exclusively in children, without sufficiently attending to their physical condition ; but admitting, as probably most of his audience would, that the want of air and exercise is prejudicial even to mental development, it does not follow, as a necessary consequence, that the air inhaled generates electricity, and that the size of the chest indicates health merely because it shows there is a large galvanic battery in action within. Dr. Keenan regretted that the limited time of these lectures would not allow him to enter into details, and that much of his theory might therefore be considered as assumption without proof ; but if the great principle were admitted that the nervous influence is caused by electricity generated in the lungs, all the lesser effects might be deduced there from. He was loudly applauded at the conclusion of the lecture. LIVING IN CARNIARTIIEN.—It is satisfactory to us to know that the wages, added to the privileges of the working classes in this vicinity, are superior to those of the same class in many parts of England, while they have house-rent and provisions much cheaper. It may be interesting to our distant readers to learn the prices of the luxuries of living in Carmarthen ; our London friends in particular will be astonished at finding that in the market last Saturday might be bought—fine geese at 2s. each; a fine young turkey, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d. ; a pair of ducks, 2s. 2d. to 2s. 6d. ; and fowls from ls. to Is. 6d. a couple. Our poultry is certainly not so large ai that from Norfolk, but for succulency and delicacy of flavour it is not to be surpassed. Beef, mutton, and pork are to be bought at 4d. and 4id. ; picked joints of the finest meat, sd. W e ha ve a mos t plentiful year of potatoes ; they may be bought, fine and goad, at Is. the bushel, 60 to 65 pounds to the bushel. Fresh butter, 26 ounces to the lb., at Is. 6d. Eggs are now 24 a shil ling, in the summer they are 36. Good heavy oats, 40 pounds to the bushel, are at Is. Ild. to 2s. Cheap, how ever, as all this appears to be, we are quite outdone in Jersey, which, being a free port, is enabled to import duty free from Britsny, one of the cheapest provinces of France, provisions, wines, &c., at very low rates. There (in Jersey), a turkey is 2s. to 35.; ducks, Is. 6d. a pair ; gunpowder tea, ss. per lb. ; double refined sugars, 4d. to 6d. per lb. ; and Brazil sugar, 3d. Very good port and sherry at 245. the dozen, claret at 18s. to 24s the dozen, brandy, 4s, the gallon ; very fine and old do., 7s. ; Hollands, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 4d. the gallon. The prices are still further reduced by the English shilling passing for thirteenpence. Add to all this, there are no taxes, and there is not a tull-bar in the island.—Carmarthen Journal. GAS EXPLOSlON.—Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a man, named Edward Al‘Donald, 50 years of age, in the employment of the Equitable Westminster Gas Company, Ilorseferry-road, entered an excartion in the Vauxhall-road with a lighted candle in his hand, for the purpose of examining the various joints of the main gas-pipe, when presently a quantity of gas, which was escaping from a small aperture in the pipe, ignited, and exploded with a loud report, and before Al‘Donald could effect his escape his clothes caught fire, and his Mee and hands were frightfully scorched and burnt. Ho r ema i ns in a state of great suffering. ' On Wednesday considerable sensation was created here (Liverpool) by a rumour that Captain Launcelot • Reed, the commander of the Sir Charles Napier, of St. Stephen's, had been maliciously and dangerously stabbed by one of his crew on the high seas. We regret t 9 state that the rumour turned out to be correct. It appears that the Sir Charles Napier, a fine ship of 714 tons, new measurement, left St. S tep h en ' s for Liverpool on the 25th of last month, with a cargo of deals consigned to the firm of David Cannon, Son, and Co., of South Castle street, in this town. Upon the morning of the 16th instant she was overtaken by a squall in lon. 26 W. The captain immediately ordered the men to take in sail, but perceiving that one of the crew, Samuel Brown, was much more tardy in his movements than the urgency of the case demanded, he gave" - the fellow a push, with a view of making him execute his work with greater ra pidity. Brown instantly made a plunge at the captain with something he held in his hand, which could not be distinguished in the grey of the morning, but which af terwards turned out to be a sheath-knife, one of those dangerous instruments in such common use among sea faring men. The captain gave him a blow in return, which threw him back against the long-boat, and then seized hold of him for the purpose of taking him aft and putting him in confinement. Whilst he was in the act of removing him, Brown several times endeavoured to stab him with the knife, but, fortunately, none of the stabs took effect. When, however, the captain had suc ceeded in getting him as far as the mainmast, the fellow gave him a dreadful stab in the abdomen. The captain seems at this moment, and not before, to have been con scious of the deadly instrument with which he was as sailed, and of the imminent danger he was running by putting himself within arm's length of such a scoundrel, for he called out to the mate that he was murdered. The mate and several of the hands ran to his assistance ; and, about this period, M r . P orter, j un., the supercargo, and son of the owner of the vessel, Mr. William Porter, of St. Stephen's, run on deck and saw them removing the captain into the cabin. Mr. Porter had the captain's clothes immediately taken off, and then discovered that a great portion of his bowels were protruding through the wound in the abdomen. The wound was then in cised, the bowels were put back, and the wound was sewed up and dressed. It was then found that the cap tain had received two other stabs a little below the left shoulder-blade, and that there were no fewer than eleven cuts made with the knife in the pea jacket he was wearing at the time the murderous assault was com mitted. Those cuts had evidently been given whilst he was conveying Brown aft, and when so many ineffectual attempts were made by the fellow to plunge the knife its some part of his body. Since then, the captain lay in such a state as to be incapable of being removed from the cabin floor, and has been suffering the most excru ciating torture. Brawn was placed in irons on th e instant, and kept closely confined in the store-room. The ship arrived in the Mersey about half -past eleven o'clock yesterday, and upon casting anchor in the river off the Clarence Dock, the captain was conveyed ashore in a steam-boat, and has been placed under medical care. Brown was taken into custody by constable Greaves, and lodged in Bridewell. He will, in all pro bability, be brought before Mr. Rushton to-day, and ordered to be remanded until such time as the captain may be able to appear against him, if that period shall ever arrive, which, under the dangerous circumstances of his case, is extremely doubtfuL The captain is a married man, only twenty-nine years of age, and Le longs to Liverpool. His sister formerly kept a public house here, known by the name of the Lighthouse. Brown is twenty-four years of age, and shipped from St. John's, New Brunswick. It was reported he was an American, but we understand that this is not the case, and that he is a British subject.---Gore's Advertiser of yesterday. lIATLE RAILWAY CO MPANY. — Yesterday the ad journed half-yearly meeting of this Company was held at the Office of the Company in New Broad -street, at which A. L. Gower, Lg., presided. The secretary read the report of the Directors, from which it appeared that the business of the railway was proceeding in a very, satisfactory manner. The income was not only sufficient to pay the interest of borrowed capital, but left a small surplus. Great benefit was expected to arise to this Company from the establishment of the West Cornwall Railway. The Directors, under this impression, had matured an agreement between this Company and the West Cornwall Railway Committee, subject to the ap proval of the meeting. The solicitor to the llsyle Rail way Company read the draft agreement, from which it appeared that this Company was to guaranree a sum of four per cent. per annum to the other Company, by way of a lease of the West Cornwall Railway, the cost of which was estimated at 180,0001. Mr. L. Vigers entered at some length into the great advantages which would accrue to the Hayle Railway Proprietors by this agree- ment, by which they would have a large surplus to be divided, after the payment of the four per cent. to the other Company—the estimated revenue being about 60,0001. After some discussion, the report of the Di rectors and the draft agreement was received and adopted. Three Directors were then elected, when a vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned. TRIBUTE TO Morocco.—The tribute, or protection douceur, or whatever other name diplomacy may give to this unreasonable exaction of Morocco from nations with which she has little or no intercourse, has hitherto been regularly paid by Sweden, amounting to 29,000 dollars annually ; but since the accession to the throne of King Oscar, the Government have come to the de cided resolution that, excepting the amount due for last year, which they agree to pay, not one dollar more shall go out of the public purse for this purpose. The amount annually paid by Denmark has been 25,000 dollars, of which two years are at present due, and, on the same conditions as Sweden, the Government of Denmark have come to the determination that the present payment must be considered in full of all claims on this score for the future as well as for the past. From the dilatory cha racter of Barbary diplomacy, it must be impossible to predict when a final adjustment may take place, but it is anticipated that the intervention of England and France will ultimately bring about the desired arrange ment. Be that as it may, whether success or failure attends the endeavours of the mediating party, one thing is certain, that Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, are firmly resolved to pay no more tribute, even should the consequences force the m t o esta bli sh cruisers o ff the coast of Morocco for the protection of their commerce. THE STATR APARTMENTS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.-- It was expected that these apartments, which have been wholly closed to the public since Saturday last, would e h ff a e v e e t been havi n g o p b e e n e ed n is a s g u a e i d n on to W-morrow ev o e r ui d n e g r toythesat. terday morning, however, this order was countermanded; and they have now been commanded to be closed un t i l after the 12th of next month, when the w hole . suite will be required for the magnificent enterta inments to be ISiaiest.i to numerous illust rious and dis tinguished honour of the invest i ture of the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg and G o th a as a Knight givenby her guests, Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.--yesterday informa tion was received at Bow-street that on the night of the 20th inst., as Mr. John D owner, o f Rudford, Sussex, was returning from Petworth Fair, he was stopped about a mile from Petworth by four men, who forcibly pulled him fro m his gi g i nto the road, and while three men held him down in the road, a fourth gave him a violent b low-on the h er d w i t h a blud eon, which re n d ere d hi m insensible. Th ey t h en robbe d-him of a silver hunting watch, several memorandums and bills, one for 371., in a yellow money bag, three or four sovereigns, and some silver. Two men are in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the outrage, and are remanded until the pth THE AMERICAN PAPERS. At this juncture, when the people of the United States have just given their decision upon the re spective merits of the contending political parties in that republic by electing Mr. Polk, a summary view of the results of previous similar elections may be in teresting. First, however, we will show the mode of proceeding laid down for the Presidential electors. They meet at the capital (Washington), and elect from their own body a president and secretary, to the former of whom the Secretary of State delivers three lists of the names of the electors, signed by the Go vernor, and sealed with the seal of each State. The electors then vote by ballot for President and Vice- President, who must belong to different States. Dis tinct lists of the voters for President and Vice-Presi dent must be made, with the number for each, which must afterwards be signed, certified, and delivered to a messenger appointed to deliver the same to the Pre • sident of the Senate, at the seat of Government. The compensation of the electors is the same as allowed to the Members of the Legislature for travelling the same distance, and attending the same length of time. In case of no choice being effected by the electors (the number necessary to elect is 275), as instanced in the election of 1824, the House of Representatives (we believe) gives the decision. The following view of the results of former Presidential elections shows the votes given for each candidate from 1796 to the elec tion of 1840. Washington was unanimously chosen the first President, and was inducted into office on the 30th of April, 1789, and he continued in for eight years. or the third Presidential term the votes were as follows : 1796. For President. For Vice-President. John Adams received 71 IT. Pinckney received . 58 Thomas Jefferson ... 68 j Aaron Burr ... 50 1800. Thomas Jefferson ... 73 I Aaron Burr ... ... 73 John Adams ... ... 64 IT. Pinckney ... ... 58 1804. Thomas Jefferson ... 162 Charles C. Pinckney . 14 I 18( George Clinton... ... 163 Rufus King ... ... 14 is. James Madison ... 122 1 George Clinton... .. 118 Charles C. Pinckney . 45 1 Rufus King . ... 47 1812. James Aladison ... 128 1 Elbridge Gerry... ... 128 Do Witt Clinton ... 89 1 Jared Ingersoll... ... 58 •- - - 1816. _ _ James Monroe ... 183 D. D. Tompkins ... 113 Rufus King ... • 34 Opposition scattering. 1820. James Monroe ... 218 1). D. Tompkins 212 No opposition but one vote. Opposition divided. 1824. Andrew Jackson ... 99 J. C. Calhoun ... 182 John Q. Adams 84 Fiv© others ... 78 W. 11. Crawford 41 - - Henry Clay ... 374 No choice having b ee n e ected by the electors, John Q. Adams was chosen President by the House of Re presentatives. J. C. Calhoun ... 171 Richard Rush ... ... 83 W. Smith... ... ... 7 Martin Van Buren ... 189 John Sergeant ... 49 William Wilkins ... 30 A. Elmaker ,36. R. M. Johnson ... 147 Francis Granger ... 63 Scattering ... ... 84 John Tyler ... ... 234 R. M. Johnson ... ... 48 L. W. Tazewell ... 11 James K. Polk ... ... 1 nsiderable. What the Vice cannot say.—Times. 1828. ... 178 ... 83 Andrew Jackson John Q. Adams 18. Andrew Jackson ... 219 Henry Clay .. ... 49 John Floyd ' ... ... 1 i William Wirt ... ... 7 18 Martin Van Buren ... 170 W. 11. Harrison ... 73 llugh L. White ... 26 Willie P. Mangum ... 11 Daniel Webster... ... 11 18 W. H. Harrison ... 234 Martin Van Buren 60 I Polk'a majority will be co Presidential vote will be we SII HEM POTTINGER.—The intended dinner to Sir Henry Pottinger at Liverpool will take place on the evening of Tuesday, December 17, in the great ball room at the Town hall. The Mayor will preside. The ceremony of presenting the piece of pl.ste, which is now being subscribed for, will take place in the forenoon of the day.—Manchester Guardian. _ lITDROPHOBIA.—During the last five or six days the greatest alarm and excitement have existed through out the neighbourhood of Turnham-green and Chis wick, in consequence of a mad dog having bitten several persons and animals. It appears that on Wednesday week, the 20th inst., a small Scotch terrier dog, the pro perty of Mr. G. Battersbee, the landlord of the Prince of Wales public-house,Turnh am• green, which was 18 months old, and had been in his possession from a puppy, was observed to be in a very strange and excited state. No thing was, however, thought of it, and the dog was allowed to range about during the day, and it has since been ascertained that he has bitten several dogs at Chiswick, Hammersmith, and Brentford ; and also a donkey, be longing to a water-carrier, named Clark, at Chiswick. About twelve o'clock on that day (Wednesday) the dog followed home from his master s house a young man named Fowler, in the employ of Mr. Dean, a market gardener at Strand•on-the-Green, who resides nearly opposite the Prince of Wales, and there flew at him, and bit him severely on the thumb of the right hand. Fowler shortly afterwards complained to Mr. Battersbee of the dog having bit him, and laid his thumb open, but nothing serious was thought of it at the time. About an hour after, however, a little boy, between four and five years of age, the son of Mr. King, a tailor, living two doors from the Prince of Wales, was bitten in both legs by the dog ; and subsequently, on the same afternoon, Mr. G. Batters bee himself, while sitting in the bar, was bitten by the animal in the middle finger of the right hand ; a woman named Brown, a dealer in fish, living at Chis wick, while passing the house, was bitten in the leg ; Mr. C. Battersbee (brother of the landlord), in the right thumb ; a man named Stowell, in the employ of Mr. J. Cloud, liveryman, and Mr. Battersbee, senior, in the thick part of the thigh. still no suspicion was entertained that the dog was in a rabid state until the evening of the same day, when the dog was seen to bite the door-posts ; and it becom ing know that several persons as well as animals had been bitten by him, Mr. Battersbee directed that the dog should be tied up in the stable, which was done. From that time until Sunday last the dog refused either food or drink, but foamed at the mouth, and gnawed the straw on which he was placed, and even the bricks underneath; and on Sunday he was destroyed. All the persons known to have been bitten have been placed under me dical treatment, and have had the parts cauterised with out any unfavourable symptoms having appeared. Nu merous dogs in the neighbourhood, supposed to have been bitten, were yesterday destroyed. Mr. Battersbee has also destroyed hit cats, it being impossible to say to what extent the virus has been communicated. The young man Fowler, owing to inflammation extending up his arm, has since become a patient at St. George's Hospital. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.— Since Thursday last, not less than seventy-seven persons have been admitted into the workhouse of the Banbury union ; and we be lieve we are not mistaken when we state that an equal number are ready to present themselves for a like pur pose. Of the seventy-seven, forty-one are from the parish of Bloxlis.m, and they entered together on Friday last, passing through our town in melancholy procession. —Banbury Guardian. IMPORTATION OF DUTCH OXEN, POULTRY, AND POTATOES.—Yesterday afternoon the steam-packet Ba tavier, Captain David Dunlop, arrived alongside th e St. Katherine's steam-packet wharf, from Rotterdam, with passengers, and a miscellaneous cargo. She brought no fewer than sixty head of live fat oxen and cows, several thousand live geese, ducks, and turkeys, and a large quantity of potatoes, of excellent quality.