The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-19 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. TO IRONMONGERS AND OTHERS. TO be DISPOSED OF, at Christmas next, an established BUSINESS in the STOVE, GRATE, and FURNISHING IRONMONGERY line, situate in the first thoroughfare in the City of London. The Lease, Fix tures, and Stock will a mount to about 2,000/. a moiety of which may be paid by instalments. Inquire of Mr. Cureton, 49, Bread-street, Cheapside. MR. AINSWORTH'S " JACK SHEPPARD." On Saturday next, the 23d inst., PART 1., PRICE ONE SHILLING, to be CONTINUED WEEKLY, and comprised in FIFTEEN PARTS, with ALL GEO. CRUIKSHANK'S PLLUSTRATIONS, JACK SHEPPARD: A ROMANCE. By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Orders received by all Booksellers and Newsmen through out the United Kingdom. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. TROLLOPE. In a few days, in 3 vols. post Bvo., " F AUL T. By MRS. TROLLOPE, Author of " The Widow Barnabv," " Vicar of Wrexhill," " Domestic Manners of the Americans," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THUGGEE IN INDIA. Now ready, in 3 vols., post fivo., CONFESSIONS OF A THUG. By CAPTAIN MEADOWS TAYLOR, Of the Service of his Highness the Nizam. " These Confessions,' though given is the form of a stm y, earry with them the full imprc:s of their authenticity. The work must necessarily excite great interest. "—Sunday Times. "As a romance the merits of this work are very great. The incidents, altogether new to fiction, are full of wild and stir ring interest."—Edinbargh Evening Post. " The admirers of romances will have a treat in this work, suoh as they have not had for years. Its truth and reality give it an interest such as ne mere fiction can e xcite." —Atlas. Richard Bentley, New Burlington HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA havin g AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of LARGE F O RTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HANIBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any rde ! , the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressin g , WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, TWO HUN DRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUN DRED AND FIFTY, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, kc. Scc. THE DISTRIBUTING DAY BEING NEAR, and Shares clearin g off most rapidly, A RISE 1N PRICE will soon/occur. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, Nov. 19, 1839, Will be repeated the New Original Play, in Five Acts, tenwrit by James Sheridan Knowles, called LOVE. Duke of Carinthia, Mr. Cooper ; Sir Rupert of Lorch, Mr. J. Vining ; Huon, Mr. Anderson ; the Countess of Eppen stein, Miss Ellen Tree; Katherine, Madame Vestris. After which, THE COUNTRY SQUIRE. Squire Broadlands, Mr. W. Farren ; Horace Amelius Sel wood, Mr. Chas. Mathews ; George Selwood, Mr. Fitsjames Sparrow, Mr. Meadows; Fanny Markham, Madame Vestris Alice, Mn,s Humby ; Temperance, Mrs. Orger. To-morrow, Love, with The Beggar's Opera. _ _ - - , Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, •2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2e. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The production of Ainsworth's " Jack Sheppard," has attracted complete overlows, and been pronounced to be the greatest achievement ever yet attempted, it will consequently be acted every Evening. THIS EVENING, Nov. 19, Will be acted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. Illustrating all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivant. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith, Ross, Neville ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss Grant Mrs. Laws, &c. To conclude with an Extraordinary Drama, in Two Acts, entitled THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTERS; OR, HELL'S BELLES. Astaroth, Mr. Neville ; Cerberus, Mr. Cullen ; Diavoline, Miss Martin ! Robert, Mrs. H. Vining; Polycarpe, Mr. W. Smith ; Tambour, Mr. Ross. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of " Ab Comer" shall appear to-morrow. We do not consider it expedient at present to publish the letter of " An Englishman." :HIGH-WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO. ORRO W. Morning...... Si minutes after 0 I Evening...... 23 minutes after 1 11 A ''''=:: .7. ( , ~ ,sr' , Pin .l ' ' ' '4hi k 1 , ,', vim ' , “ Zht 111X+ LONDON: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1839. It appears by a comparison of the Bank of Eng , land circulation in December, 1838, and last Oc. tober, that it was at the latter period 1,641,0001. less that at the former. At the former period the circulation was by no means redundant, aid at pre. sent it is almost one-tenth less. We do not include the deposits as circulation ; including them, the diminution is upwards of 4,000,0001., or one-fourth of the whole. But while our circulation has thus been artificially curtailed, there can be no doubt.that the business of the country has some- what extended. New lines of railroad have been opened since last December, and new steam voyages undertaken which have turned out eminently successful. More money must, in fact, be necessary now than last year, and there is much less of it. This, then, is one source of crippled trade, and of prices being ruinously low, as they were reported to be at the last inarkets throughout the manufacturing districts. The state of things thus indicated is exciting alarm amongst the mercantile classes, and a pamphlet which has just reached us, entitled " Corn and Currency, or how shall we get through the winter ?" has the fol lowing passage, which deserves serious considera- tion : " But without further reverting to the past, the main question now is. what is to be done ? for if something be not done to alleviate even the present pressure for mo ney, not to say avert any further application of the screw there will to a certainty, before winter is over, be not merely broken merchants and manufacturers, but broken heads throughout every corner of the kingdom. We shall have not merely stoppages and bankruptcies, but what is even worse, an immense population thrown out of employ from the shutting up of manufactories, and the abandon. ment (for a time) of all railway undertakings, and other great public works now in pr , gress ; for it is but too well known that our manufacturers have been for long too closely competed with by those of the Continent, to afford to pay six or eight per cent. interest for money ; and that as Railways, and other such works, are restricted by Act of Parliament from borrowing money at more than five per cent., many if not all of those requiring to take up mo ney on debentures, to enable them to go on (and there are a vast many in that predicament), must of necessity stand still. Well, then, what is to become of the hundreds of thousands of unwashed artisans and brawny labourers thus thrown out of employ, and left to find food for their fa milies, with the loaf at 10.1. ? What are they to do, we repeat, save riot ar,d be sent to jail ? And what is to be collie of their helpless wives and children throughout a long and dreary winter, unless sheltered by the work house ? And all this misery merely to save the pride of the Bank of F " We are n ' o n g lal ' d I but this we will say, disposed . to counsel violent measures ; to protect the say, that if Government do not interfere ' Community from the consequences of bad legislation, the And that, in the present ought to try and protect itself. eritinstance, can easily be done by uniting to Stop t Bank ; for it is as clear as the sun at noon day. that if t h e community do not stop the Bank, the Bank will stop the which would be the greater ; and we all know evil. Lik e a woma n with c hild, the sooner delivered th e the sooner that the Old Lady sooner . well, arid therefore r and sure we are, that the day of p ut to bed the better ; ever known in the city of London,nerreatest congratulation king dom, will be that on which, she throughoutßkh the acknow ledged its incapacity to pay in gold,the Screw is required. The Bank may prolong a painful existence longer a month or two longer, or even struggle through st t e h n L e e for ie in which she is now plunging ; but if she should 'm.. even tually succeed in doing so, it can only is -e at a much greater sacrifice of character than she would forfeit, by at once suspending her payme nts in gold. ' Although we by no means agree with the au . thor's recommendation to compel the Bank to stop_ having ourselves a better remedy, we think, fdr the present disorder—that such thoughts are entertained i and seriously proposed to be acted on, indicates that property,notwithstanding the care of the Legislature, is exposed to great danger from a nearer source than the erring doctrines and the violence of the Char tists. In truth, one species of property—stock in trade, Sze.--is ruinously d epressed by the present aiidii oper sof the Bank, and those who feel that de pression call out for a stoppage of the Bank, which would have an equally ruinous effect on fixed in comes and other species of property. While the ( Legislature is providing for the security of property by costly "beans, by a rural police and a large military force, the injury, if not the ruin, of different classes has, in fact, been successively achieved by the subtle and obscure operation of the currency in the hands of the Bank of England. Is it not strange, passing strange, that the Legislature which professes such a holy horror of allowing the prero gative of coining to be usurped by individuals, should place the whole supply of money in the hands of a few merchants ; and is it not still more than passing strange that it has given them no: only the power to alter the great measure of all value as suits their purposes, but has made it for their interest, contrary to the general interest of men in trade, to ruin their customers that they may enrich themselves ? All classes must be succes sively customers of the Bank ; now the landlords want to borrow, next the merchants, so that it has all in turn, and the disasters of all are turned succes sively to its profit. While the Bank has thus so much shortened the circulation, it has been, and is dis counting at the rate of 6 per cent., so that it coins the public distress into gold to fill its own coffers. Mr. PoULETT THOMSON is no longer here to see the effect of his own handiwork, but the de- vice attributed to him, and certainly supported b him and the Ministers when the Bank Charter was renewed, of making Bank of England notes a legal tender, has a dd e d amazingly to the power of the Bank, and to the mischief inflicted by it on the community. Its great capital was not enough to secure credit and circulation for its notes, and so the Ministers gave them a legal advantage which they denied to all other bank notes. They gave to Bank of England notes a value as a legal tender over and above all others, and over and above the credit of the Bank, of which the result was and is to give theni the command of the market, to keep down the circulation of other paper, and reduce the community to the necessity of carrying on its busi ness with little more than half the required quantity of money. Such a state of things cannot, we be lieve, last; but whether it shall be rationally and quietly terminated, or whether it shall be termi nated by violence and fraud, will depend on the know ledge and sagacity which the influential part of the mercantile community may at once bring to bear on the subject. The author of the pamphlet we have quoted— which is one of no ordinary merit—refers to the employment of a silver standard ; but he says that it could not by any possibility assist us in our pre sent dilemma, which is the want of bullion of both kinds. But were payments in silver legalized to any amount, a sound and safe paper currency, pro portionte to the amount of silver in hand, might immediately be issued, (just as we have a cramped paper circulation on a small amount of gold,) which paper currency would go a long way to give re lief, and would be a more safe and a more honest expedient than authorizing or compelling the Bank to stop. Suppose the Bank of England, and other banks, instead of confining themselves to an issue of notes to pay 51. and 101. sterling, and so on, were to issue notes to pay on demand five ounces, ten ounces, and so on, of silver ; and we are by no means sure that individuals or Companies might not at present legally issue such notes to any amount ; for silver by weight is a merchandise not a coin, and none of the laws relative to the coinage would stop it ; immediate relief would be given. The metallic basis of the currency would be extended by the amount of all the silver in cir culation or in bankers' hands. It is a sound bank ing system when the issue of paper does not exceed thrice the amount of bullion in the coffers of the banker (infinitely more sound than the suffrance and bankrupt system of the Bank of England, with paper in circulation exceeding eight times the value of the bullion in its coffers)—and thus by this plan, the whole amount of money, sound, good, and valuable money, might be immediately augmented by the whole amount of silver in the country in use or convertible to money,and by twice or thrice that amount of sound paper based on the silver. We know not what, but we are sure something must be done to place our currency on a better footing, and that a state of perfect freedom as to banking, and as to the coining and issue of money, would be infinitely pre ferable as a remedy to the many quackish nostrums which are now proposed by scheming and theoreti cal men. The merchants of Quebec have already made an attempt to convert the new Governor-General, Mr. P. THOMSON, to their peculiar views on the sub ject of trade. There is nothing, when hostility is dreaded, like taking the field early—first, if possible. It argues courage, and a conviction that one of the belligerents has confidence in the justice of his cause. After the first levee held by his Excellency on the 9th ult., the Committee of Trade of Quebec approached the Governor with their first " loyal " address, of which the following extract comprises the substance : Merchants ourselves, and representing the mercan. tile community of this city, it is, we assure your Excel lency, with no small degree of pride and satisfaction that we see the Government of the country entrusted to one who himself has been a merchant, and notwithstanding that the opinions understood to have been entertained by your Excellency in regard to a most important branch of the trade of this country, differ very materially from ours, we have never doubted but that from the moment of your undertaking the Government of these Colonies, your strenuous and unbiassed efforts would be directed to the promotion of their interests, commer cial as well as political. We are fully persuaded that the withdrawing of that protection hitherto afforded to the timber trade of the British North American colo nies, would be, not only fatal to their prosperity, by de stroying their great staple trade, and weakening the bonds that now happily unite them to the mother country, but also highly injurious to the empire at large. We therefore confidently hope that when your Excellency's mind shall have been more parti cularly applied to this subject, you will be satisfied that it involves the question of supporting or aban doning those important elements of national strength and greatness, " Ships, Colonies, and Commerce." This is the first thrust, and we must admit tha Mr. THOMSON has shown some adroitness in par rying it. In his answer to the address he replies, with a diplomatic caution which even Count NES-. SEL RODE might envy, as follows : You may rely upon my attention to the great inte rests you re present.—Whatever acquaintance with commercial subjects I may have acquired by my early pursuits, or through my later duties, will be earnestly and zealously devoted to the consideration of all that re lates to the trade of these colonies, and with an honest endeavour to promote their prosperity as connected with that of the British empire. Mr. TrwmsoN's early pursuits, and not his po litical opinions, have obtained for him the confi dence of the mercantile classes in Lower Canada, and it is but too apparent that if he attempt to break down the timber monopoly, so injurious to Great Britain and to the Provinces, he will have them as fiercely opposed to him as he already has the mush room aristocracy of North America on account of his plebeian origin. Yet this is one of the Great Reforms which this country expects from the new Governor-General. To substitute the sound and cheap timber of the Baltic for the dear and rotten growth of the woods of Canada—to free the Pro vinces in return from the absurd commercial restric tions which confine their industry to lumbering, sawing, and fishing—are among the great improve rnents whi c h we ex p ec t, and are justified in expect lug, from the Governor-Generalship of an intelli gent British merchant with the ample experience derived from having filled the office of President of the British Board of Trade. Our readers will find in another part of The Sun, under the head " Secret Societies of Germany," the substance of a Report made to the- German Diet, by the Central Committee of that august body, on the progress of revolutionary ideas and clubs in Germany since the downfall of the French empire, though dating only from the French re- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1839. volution of July. When we consider the dignity and gravity of the Assembly to which this Report has been addressed—the nature and tendency of the important facts which it discloses—the high rank and personal character of the members of the Com- I mittee, who vouch for its entire accuracy, we feel persuaded that we cannot attach to it an undue degree of importance. The lesson which it teaches is curious and instructive. According to the ad- mission of the Committee the founders of the Re- volutionary Clubs were Princes and Councillors of State. When the assumed rights of the power ful and the rich—of Kings and Nobles—were menaced by the French Republic, the said Kings and Nobles became conspirators, and formed secret societies for destroying the domination of the enemy, or in less ambiguous terms, for maintaining or recovering, if lost, the ascendancy which they claimed over the rest of the people. But as hun dreds of thousands of the people of Germany would have hesitated to risk their lives and properties for such an object, it became necessary to invest it with the looser adjuncts of patriotism—with declarations about " independence of our common country," " rights and liberties of the German people," and an hundred other mock phrases intended to promote the views of Sovereigns without the remotest regard to the welfare of the community. But it appears from the Report that the people had resolved not to be so duped, and that although their rulers had signified to them that the necessity of their associa ting ceased with cessation of all danger to the rights of Kings, they could not be persuaded that their liberties and the secure ascendancy of their old oppressors were exactly identical. They had discovered that the lesson taught them by despots could be turned to an account not contemplated by their teachers ; that the means by which a people may successfully struggle against op pression from without, might be rendered equally effective in checking administrative despotism. Whatever dangers, therefore, threaten the petty So vereignties of Germany from Revolutionary So cieties, the Princes and their Ministers have them selves to thank for them. They were the founders of the system ; they put weapons into the hands o the oppressed, and now affect astonishment at see ing them direct them against the oppressors. We are not here either defending the views, nor advocating the existence of the Secret Societies which disturb the repose of the German Absolu tists. We are merely pointing out the real sources to which their very being is attributable, in order to guard our readers against the common fallacy of assuming secresy to be an exclusive charac teristic of mob hostility to established institutions. All authority resting on force is neither more nor less than a conspiracy against the rights of the many ; and all Governments when carefully analysed will be found to be only secret societies influ enced by views often as dishonest, and always as little known to the masses whose well-being they in volve, as those of the founders and directors of the Society of " Young Germany, " Young Italy," or any other treasonable Association on the Continent. Besides, these Societies have the advantage of most established Governments in one very important re spect. They are supported by the voluntary suff rage of each member individually—a support to which no Sovereign in Germany dare to lay claim ; and if they impiously arrogate to themselves a power over the lives of their members, they only follow the example set them by the petty despots who denounce them. It is time that Princes should learn that they ought to affect no surprise at the imitation of their own cruel juggleries on the part of men quite as clever and as cunning as themselves. They will be n• longer allowed a monopoly even of bloodshed ; and this fact appears more than any other to distress the German Diet. The murder of KOTZEBUE by a political maniac is for the hundredth time invoked to fill the German populace with horror ; but not a word is uttered about the wholesale murders of the patriot Poles by the genius of Despotism in Germany and elsewhere, the CZAR ; of the mas sacre of Constitutionalists in Spain, first by the Army of the Faith, and next by CARLOS and his adherents ; or even of the judicial murders committed in Germany since 1830. We ask the reader's pardon. We have made a slight mistake here. The murders in Poland are alluded to, and in terms laudatory of the sanguinary atrocities of the NERO of the North. The Committee has the effrontery to cite in evidence of the treasonable designs of the Germans, the fact, that they openly expressed the deepest sympathy for the brave but expatriated Poles, and that at public meetings, their glorious but unavailing struggle was lauded as worthy of the admiration of all true patriots Yes, the ermined hypocrites who affect to shudder at the assassination of KOTZE• BUE, the hireling scribbler of despotism, gloat over the massacres at Warsaw, and the HEROD-like slaughters of the Polish infants whose bones yet whiten the roads from Wilna to the wilds of Siberia 1 One fact is fully established by this Report of the German Diet. The old Governments can no longer hope to maintain themselves on the princi ples hitherto recognised, even in Western Europe. They must undergo an entirely new organiza tion, and relinquish many of their hitherto most cherished prerogatives. We arc not so sanguine as to hope that man will ever become a perfect being, or that he will ever cease to be the dupe of fraud in some shape or other ; but we nevertheless feel pretty confident that it will no: do to try to frighten him, after the full development of his mental powers, with the raw-head and bloody-bones legends which so awed and terrified him in the nursery. No sophistry will blind such a man to the fact, that the judicial murder of one RIEGO is a million of times more atrocious—more deserving of eternal reprobation— in ore characteristic of a system at once bloodthirsty, shameless, and detestable, than the maniacal assassination of a legion of KOTZEBUES, prompted, as that assassination really was, by mental aberration. The Gazette des Tribu - naux has published one of the most horrible accounts that we ever re member to have read, of the murder of a slave by his master in the island of Guadaloupe, in the month of May last. The unfortunate slave, a young and powerful man, was reported to his master to have said that a concubine whom he (the master) kept was in league with SATAN. The master, AM E NOEL, was seventy-two years of age, and his con cubine fifty, but as the slave had had ample proofs before of their violent dispositions, he resolved, though innocent of such a ridiculous imputation, to escape to the woods. He was, however, taken and brought back bound, after being nearly killed in an attempt to escape. His punishment then corn menced, but the details are too revolting to be nar rated. Bound with cords, so that he could not move a limb, stretched as on a rack, and fastened to a torturing machine which prevented him from sitting, standing, or lying down, he was left in a loathsome, suffocating dungeon by his master, with directions to. be constantly beaten and tortured, and to have but a small quantity of foul water allowed him once a day. On the second day of his torture, his master accompanied by his concubine visited him, and, in answer to his cries for mercy and his vows of innocence, they with their own hands flogged him into a state of insensibility. Nature could not endure this long. Th e miserable slave, after five days tor ture, was at last relieved by death, when the inhuman wretch, the master, ordered the body to the t last the abffe a c i a r s r t e forth ache d like he that of of a t dead he au authorities e s A : mas ter was tried ; the facts were fully proved ; and the on the occasion was so unanimous upon these points, CHAN CER,Y CO U , RI '--(TFIIS DAY.) that the meeting lasted but a few minutes, and NICHOLSON v. F OSTER . without other results. The LORD CHANCELLOR gat . 0 jud gmcnt to day in The general impression was that a moderate Ca - this case, on which the bill was i fled for the purpoe of taking the accounts of a par'tner'ship of a coppersmith binet would be formed about the 15th, under the arid still trade. The princip;rl question in the case Presidency of ARRAZOLA, now the oracle of the was whether in taking the partnersh. ip accounts, Messrs.• , Camarilla, and that the decree for the dissolutio n Williams and Sons, who were partner: in the coppersmith trade were also to be considered pa rtners in a patent v would be at once published. It was discovered , still which had been manufactured I.) the partnership. directed however, that the discontented were tampering His Lordship the accounts t o be taken upon with the army, and that a disposition to renew the the principle that Williams and Sons w. ere not partners scenes of La Granja was pretty general among the l in the patent. common soldiery. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DA x.) The Warwick Advertiser, of Saturday, has some ani madversions on a letter of Mr. Cleave, and on some re marks in The Sun, relative to the treatment of Lo vett in Warwick gaol. Our respectable Contempo rary treats the subject with so much candour, and in so good a spirit, that it is hardly necessary for us to reply. He must, however, allow us to call him the defender of the Magistrates who treat political priso ners with needless and injurious severity, by refusing them animal food. If the Visiting Magistrates had the will, they could find the way. As regards the conduct of the Chaplain, we cannot reconcile the two statements. The one is that " the Chaplain did not feel himself justified in freely allowing, on his own responsibility, the admission of " Tait's Magazine," and the other, that there was no such refusal. Putting aside the su perincumbent phraseology, the first sentence is as pre cise as the last, and leaves no doubt that the Magazine was refused by the Chaplain, and that the only chance Mr. Lovett had of seeing it was through the kindness of those tender-hearted Magistrates who feed a prisoner five days in the week on bread and gruel, and potatoes, and who, of course, would disregard the disallowance of the Chaplain for the sake of gratifying Lovett with the perusal of a Radical publication. We will bet our Con temporary five hundred to one that the Magistrates took the cue from the Chaplain. The word " ever" in the sentence relative to his confinement in the Infirmary, was inserted from inadvertence, but with perfect good faith, for we firmly believed from Mr. Cleave's letter that Lovett, " having been for a long time in a delicate state of health, previous to his trial," had been confined in the Infirmary ever since his imprisonment. We willingly make this admission, and we only wish the candour of our Contemporary had led him to make a similar admission relative to the refusal of the Chaplain, or left him and the Magistrates to de.. fend themselves. Consent petitions and short causes occupied the Court the entire morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) BENTLEY V. FOSTER. The arguments in this case, which were commenced. yesterday, were concluded to-day. The case came before the Court upon motion to dissolve an injunction restraining the defendant, the proprietor of a publica tion entitled " The Novelist," from publishing in that pamphlet any part of the celebrated Romance called " The Headsman," written by Mr. F. Cooper. The injunction which it was now sought to dissolve, had: been granted by the Court during . the font; vacation, upon an application ex parte. That ap plication on behalf of pltaintiff was founded upon an agreement, entered into between Mr. Cooper and himself, by which the former agreed to give the copyright of his works in this country to the former. Mr. WIGRAM, on behalf of the applicant contended that Mr. Cooper being an American, and the work having been written in that country, Mr. C Doper could , not have any copyright in his works here, and therefore could not transnfer that right to the plaintiff. Mr. K. BRUCE and Mr. JACOBS, in support of the in junction, submitted that although Mr. Cooper was an American, yet by the copyright laws of this country be would be protected, and that the contract entered into . between himself and the plaintiff, being a contract entered into in this country was valid, and would, therefore, be enforced both in law and equity here. Mr. JACOBS having addressed the Court this morn ing, and Mr. WIGRAM having replied, His HONOUR said the only question for him to de termine was what now should be done with the injunc tion. It was a matter of course, if the defendant re quired that the plaintiff should bring an action to try whether any legal injury had been committed upon him by what the defendant had done. His Honour considered that there was no weight what ever in the argument that there had been a violation of the legal rights of the plaintiff. It was clear to the mind of the Court that what was mainly intended by the Copyright Act was to protect the first publication of any work in this country, and if a foreigner chose first to pub lish any work that he wrote in this country, that very act gave him the benefit of the statute. His Honour considering the plaintiff to have a clear legal right, felt I bound to continue the injunction until it was determined by action whether or no that right had been invaded. Mr. K. BRUCE said his client would undertake to bring an action within three weeks to try that question. —lnjunction continued. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. This market exhibited its usual appearance with regard to supplies and business. Fish was more plentiful than it has been lately. Turbot, Bs. to 255. ; Cod, 3s. to 15s. ; Lobsters, 10d. to 3s. 6d. ' • Soles, 10d. to 3s. and 4s. per pair ; Beef , 7 d. to Bd. per lb. ; Mutton, 7d. to Bd. ; Veal, B d. to 9 d. ; Po r k. 7d. to Bd. Vgetables much as they have been for some time. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The supplies were good, and so was trade, prices steady. Turbot Bs. to 255. ; Cod 2s. 6d. to 10s. ; Crimped Salmon 4s. per pound; Oysters 12s. to 40s. per bushel; Lobsters 9d. to 3s. 6d. ; Soles 6d. to 3s. per pair ; Whitings 4d. to Bd. and Haddocks, Bd. to Is. 6d. HAY MARKETS. Tho supplies were to a fair extent, and the trade lively. Prices much as last quoted. Hay 60s. to 955. ; Clover 80s. to 120 s. ; Straw, 325. to 425. per load. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY DEAL, Nov. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Yorkshire, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Mary, Quebec. Sailed the Daniel, Tucker, for St. Michael's. LIVERFOOL, Nov. 18.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Airey, Nicholson, from Quebec ; Amelia, Trinick, Gijon. Sailed the Majestic, Smith, for New South Wales. Off port, the Mersey, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Tra veller, Trinidad. MARGATE, Nov. 18.—Off port, the St. Vincent's Plan ter, Allen, from Jamaica. SHEERNESS, Nov. 18.—Arrived, the Centurion, Hip pinstall, from Quebec. BRIGHTON, Nov. 18.—Off part, the Avoca, Boadles, from Madras. _ _ PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 18,—Wind S. W. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 17.—Wind S. to S. W.—Arrived the Active, Hall, from Fayal, towed in dismasted, bound to London; Nestor, Lock, Quebec. FALMOUTH, Nov. 17. —Wind S. S. E. to W. S. W., fresh breezes —Sailed, Reindeer, packet, Havannah and Mexi co; Crane, packet, West Indies. Off port—Pakenham, Summers, Lagunn. PENZANCE, Nov. 17.—Arrrived, Springflower, Sy monds Quebec; Resolution, Davies, ditto. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY,I'WELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—A con siderable business has been done in the Cotton Market to-day. The sales are 6,000 bags, at an advance of i t d. per lb. on Friday's prices. 1,000 bags have been taken on speculation. UPPER CANADA TIMBER TRADE.—BYTOWN, OCT. 17.—As we anticipated a few weeks ago, the favourable market for lumber during the past season, and the cheer ing prospects from the abundant harvest, have induced many more persons to embark in this trade for the ap• proaching season than have been engaged in it during the past year. We have understood this to be the case, from the great number of applicants for licenses at the Crown Timber Office ; and we learn from those who have visited the places, that the portages are crowded with men and provisions, ascending to the woods to commence their winter operations. THE FUNDS. Within these few days we have had numerous arrivals from most parts of the globe ; this morning we have scarce any worth notice, which causes a stagnation in speculating in the various funds to the present hour. The New York packet-ship, of the Ist inst., is daily expected. Every arrival from the United States, at present, particularly in regard to commercial affairs, will prove of great interest to the merchants. The Great Western steamer from New York is not expected before the Ist of December. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 902 - for Money, and for the Account 901 1. Exchequer Bills, 2 discount to par ; Bank Stock, 178 179 ; India Stock, 2502 .5211. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active closed at 268 -a, opened the same ; Portuguese left off at 3211, at present 321 f i ; Brazilian, 721 73i ; Colombian, 301 31/ ; Spanish Passive, 61 7 ; Deferred, 11t 5 - 3 i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 511 521 ; Five per Cents., 971 98/ ; Mexican, 291 301. Money is rather easier in the house, but continues scarce for mercantile transactions. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 178% % India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ......... ......81,% Ditto Bonds 6 3 dis 3 per Cent. Cons 9056a4 Soath Sea Stock 3 yi, per Cent 97%i Old Annuities 87% Ditto Red 97 % 74, i New Ditto New 3% per Cent 9gx% S 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire 1 Ditto 500 Jan. 5, 186 0 l3 9- 1 6 % Ditto Small .... 2 par pm. Oct. 10, 1859 ..' 13 7-16 Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1860 13% r-16 Ditto Advertised .. - Jan. 5, 1880— ' Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1870 ---, Consos for Account ..... .... 903 4 RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds ..... ...... Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account 32) 2 1 ,1% Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds I) tto Account Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 3Ol/ Spanish Bonds °6 57i 6 Ditto Account 3''% Ditto Account 26% 6 1A Danish Bonds 73%k %% Passive 63 Ditto Account Deferred ll4 Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account — 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange. —l. —c. Ditto Account Dutch, 2) per cent. 52% Ditto, 6 per Cent. - Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Accnint.............. ... _____. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) At the sitting of the Court this morning, Sir Robert Monson Rolfe, the newly-appointed Baron of the Ex- chequer, took the oaths of supremacy, abjuration, and the other oaths customary upon being appointed one of her Majesty's Privy Council. The COURT then gave judgment in the following cases : PEARCE V. JONES. This case was tried before Mr. Justice Coltman at York Assizes. It was an action to recover the amount of an attorney's bill of costs. The question at issue was whether the sum paid by the client was 3001. or 4001. The Jury found that the sum paid was 4001., and an application was made for a nonsuit, on the ground that an untaxed bill of costs, which had been sent in a month after the action was brought, had not been pleaded. The Learned Judge was of opinion that the objection could not be sustained, inasmuch as that last bill was not in issue. _ ..... ....._ The COURT was of opinion that the Learned Judge was right in so ruling it, and therefore there would be no rule. FOSTROOPE V. FOSTROOPE. In this case, which was tried before Mr. Justice Lit tledale at Leicester, the Court granted a rule for a new trial. READ V. PARMITER. In this case, in which Mr. Platt moved to set aside the verdict as against evidence, the Court thought there should be no rule. ROBERTS V. BORRO. This was an obstruction of a right of way, tried be fore the Lord Chief Justice at Sussex, in which a verdict was had for the defendant, and a rule had subsequently been obtained to set aside the verdict, on the ground of its being against evidence. The COURT was of opinion that there was no ground for disturbing the verdict. GRIFFITH V. PAYNE. This case was tried before the Lord Chief Justice at Surrey. It was an action upon five bills of ex change. Verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. Petersdorff had subsequently applied for a rule to set aside the verdict on the ground of the rejection of evidence with respect to the endorsement on the bills being forged. The COURT thought there was no ground for dis urbing the verdict. THE QUEEN V. THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY COMPANY. In this case, which was an application for a mandamus to compel the defendants to do what they were required by the Act to a certain turnpike road over which the railway passed, the COURT said it was not quite satisfied on all the points of the case, and therefore they should make the rule for the mandamus absolute. THE QUEEN V. TAUNTON. In this case, which had bean argued before the Court during the present term, and which turned upon the construction of certain clauses in the Municipal Act, the Court granted the rule for the quo warranlo. Their Lordships then took the Special Paper, which occupied the Court for the remainder of the day. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. THE LEICESTER AND NORTHAMPTON CANAL COMPANY. Mr. HILL, on Saturday last, applied for a rule calling upon the Leicester and Northampton Canal Company to show cause why they should not equalise the duties on coals carried on the canal. His LORDSHIP this morning granted the rule. THE QUEEN V. HAYWARD. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for a rule to show cause why a gentleman named Hayward should not pay the costs of a mandamus and of the present application, under the following circumstances. According to the Act for regulating the affairs of the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, the parishioners are required to assemble every Easter Tuesday, or within ten days after, and make out a list of fit and proper persons for the office of Overseers, which list shall be returned to the Jus• tices, who are to select four. In April, 1838, a meeting took place, at which Mr. Hayward presided, and he de clared the majority to be in favour of a list of eight per sons whom he favoured. He refused to grant a poll or division, and, therefore, the proceedings were entirely void, and there was no list according to the requirement of the Act. A mandamus was moved for, and the Court granted a rule to show cause. The case having got into the peremptory paper was not argued for a considerable time. But the Court ultimately decided that the proceedings were void, and, th ere fore, the mandamus issued directing a fresh election. The mandamus was returnable on the 2d instant, and the return stated that on the 27th March last the in habitants assembled and selected eight persons, four of whom had been appointed by the Magistrates, and sworn in for the current year ending March, 1840, in conse quence of which he (Mr. Hayward) was unable to do as commanded. Supposing this to be a valid answer, the question was.ought not the parties who had a pplied for the mandamus to be reimbursed for the expenses to which they had been put in consequence of the de fault of Mr. Hayward in April, 1838. His LORDSHIP granted a rule nisi. THE QUEEN V. MORRIS, MYERS, AND O THERS. Mr. BODKIN applied for a certiorari to remove an indictment from the Central Criminal Court into this Court. The indictment was found against the defen dants at the last Sessions for a conspiracy. The affi davit stated that the indictment arose out of a claim to goods to the amount of about 2 ; 0001., for which an action was about to be brought by the defendant against the assignees of a bankrupt named Edwards, and that the indictment was of a special character, and the in quiry was of great importance to the defendant, who was anxious to o btain the assistance of a Special Jury, and the assistance of Counsel who were not in the habit of attending the Central Criminal Court, especially as he had been in the habit of contracting with the Boards of Government, andan inquiry in the Central Criminal Court might be very prejudicial to him. The defendant was ready to enter into recognizances to any amount to try the question at the first sittings after Term, and de posed that his object was not delay. His LORDSHIP granted the application, directing the defendant to enter into recognizances himself in 1001., and two sureties in .50/. each. THE QUEEN V. THE MAGISTRATES OF MARGATE. Sir F. POLLOCK moved for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue against the Magistrates of Margate, commanding them to issue a warrant of dis tress against a person named Waddington, for the pay moenmtoissi f2 o l. ne l r B s s : 3d., under a rate laid by the Marga te cm Her Majesty has conferred the hono ur of Kni g ht. which they had been hood to do on the ground that the whole of a previous rate had not collected. hood on J. Phillips ; Esq., the late Mayor of New port, who behaved so well at the late insurrection. His LORDSHIP granted a rule nisi. • f' it IC ES OF SHARES THIS DA -, AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brighton Railway HALF-PAST ONE,. We continue very dull in the City, in respect to in telligence, and during the course of the morning the business doing both in the British and Foreign Markets were on a very limited scale, although Consols continue firm with an improvement in the morning quotations. Consols may be quoted at present 90i- for the Ac count, and for Money 90i Exchequer Bills, 2 dis. to par ; India Bonds, 6 to 3 dis. ; India Stock, 252 ; Bank Stock, 1781 I lower. In the Foreign Market little doing except in Spanish Active. Spanish, 26i ; Portuguese, 324 ; Spanish Passive, 61 ; Colombian, 30i ; Danish 73i ; Dutch Two-and-half per Cents, 524 ; Five per Cents, 98. No further arrivals or reports to communicate at present. CLOSING PRICES Bfii'.~H FONDS P.,.1,i; `,.0,1: ... ....,. l7 l ll I!. ei.. S' 3tt 252 3 Fer reo";.; ::cil 3 I,:r Cent CI •.s. 3,4 ,'r Cc,. ' l'cti 97% D' l - o ,:,:.n , Arn , . - ;r New :-.•:, tie,. C -' C. - .) F. - . 1 - _'. ,- , I I :t-' Ncw 5 •,ci t c.- — if • .13 Lfl! ,, 9 d;, 14 3. 7, Ann.,;;;'es'..o excf.:e DM" 5001. so 3Pm Jan. 'St 0 00.. l&:9 - pct SZJan 1660 . 1 , 01i.1;10 N I , ON DS A ,, sirtan, 5 pe , cee IPo ",,t.',,,t , c...e Bo,,tis, ~,,er cem. Belgian, 5 iICJ('-: cent ICJ( New 0",.o Brazilla 3 Bonds Pfte....'an. 5 ••bcr .:ctit . — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent -... r 1 issao Covt;s, 5 Crp c•-1t..... _ .... V)iliao, 6 Pet cer .- ~ _olomb!an, 6 per ccrii; Da to, I 524 'OM Danirb, 3 per cent... ....... 7334 C•eck Boiats, 1815, 5 per ct. 6 p ceo.. , 18.1 Perav:al, I 525,6 nr ccro• S H Dii;,o, Mezz.. , c — Spanisa, 5 per cent. , ;1(4 Ditto, Deterred IFrenco, 5 per cent —,, —c Exch-. , 2e -r —c Fieect,B”-.• cell • D. , ,e'1.:?::; pe , ' re i.. 52 ift,o, 5 oe. cm:-. ............ ... fEi ORES Grcat We'tern Railway — ::: Ditto New Sha-es and Brighton P I rndon and Croydon Railwa Ditto Scrip Northern and Eastern Railwi •••• 000000000000000000000000 ••• .................... ......... :5 1 4 (1:,.5%) .................. .......................... 15 ray ............................. . jury, consisting of slave-owners, acquitted him, subject to a fine of three hundred francs, amidst thunders of applause, echoed and re-echoed by hundreds of assembled spectators ! The counsel for the accused asserted that the right of tor ture enjoyed by slave-owners was an invio lable right, and as for the murder of slaves such charges were sufficiently disproved by the fact that it was not the interest of masters to kill them 1 This doctrine was re ceived with cheers by a crowded Court. The re porter of this infamous dffair asserts, that if similar enormities are not heard of in France, it is because that in Guadaloupe the journals dare not publish them. Though by the laws the island enjoys a free Press, such a Press dare no more make its appearance in Guadaloupe than in the heart of Russia. But the publication of even this slave tragedy must prove beneficial to the great and righteous cause of abolition. The excessive ignorance as well as cruelty which it displays on the part of the slave-owners of Guadeloupe (for it was proved on the trial that the masters and slaves equally be lieved in the existence of pacts with Satan made viva voce), and above all the effect of slavery in eradicating from the minds of the owners the simple distinctions between guilt and innocence, are facts which cannot fail to make a powerful im pression on every honest mind. The Chamber of Deputies is already pledged to take the question of Emancipation seriously into consideration next Session ; and we trust that the abolitionists here will not be backward in lending M. DE TOCQUE VILLE, the able and eloquent advocate of that righteous measure in France, their powerful sup port and active co-operation. There is very little news of any interest in the French Journals of Sunday. The Moniteur an- nounces various judicial changes and appointments among the Judges of the Interior, but as they are all subordinately administrative, we shall leave them undistuibed to grace the columns of the official Journal. We regret to have to state that the news of the suspension of the New York Banks has pro- duced the worst effects in the great commercial towns of France. Business which was very active before the arrival of the suspension intelligence at Lyons suddenly stopped, and nothing whatever was doing there, on the 14th, in the silk trade. This stoppage of the staple manufacture of that city, at a .. _ time when bread is at famine price, and at the com mencement of the most inclement season in the year, will it is feared, reduce the working-classes to the utmost state of destitution. The Emancipation of Toulouse, of the 14th ,nstant, announces the murder of the Carlist Chief, Count D'ESPAGNE, in the following terms : "On the Ist of November the Count d'Espagne was overtaken wandering through the mountains by some companies of Bep del Oli. The soldiers having recognised him, bound him with cords and brought him to the steep heights of Coll de Nargo, between the hamlets of Oriane and Orgacia, where they put him to death, and flung his body down the precipice, where it was picked up a few days afterwards." We doubt the truth of this statement. It is, however, certain that the Carlist rebel has not pre sented himself on the French frontier. Having twice broken his parole he dreaded the disgrace of appearing before men of honour to claim the protection of a country whose hospi tality he had twice so shamefully abused ; and in Spain he dared not attempt to seek con cealment within sight of the blackened walls of the villages which he had burned, after brutally mas sacreing their defenceless inhabitants. When last seen he was skulking near the frontier, an outcast and a vagabond, without bread or shelter in a land which he had made desolate. Some of the Paris journals begin to notice the re-appearance of TRIERS and GUIZOT within the precincts of the Tuileries more frequently than is likely to prove agreeable to Marshal SOULT and his colleagues. The KING, too, has more than once lately astonished the Council by backing his opinions with quotations from the speeches and writings of the ex-Ministers. GUI-. ZOT'S chance of the Portfolio of the Interior—the only office upon which he has set his heart—is not equal to that of TmERs, who aspires to replace SOULT as President of the Council and Minister of War. But SOULT will not be got rid of easily. It will require a strong majority in the Chambers to drive him from a post which he fancies he fills better than could any other man in France. The Commerce has a long statement of the changes which have taken place in the French im ports and exports for the last twelve years, from which it appears that the trade of that country has been gradually increasing with England, the United States, Sardinia, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Tus cany, Rome, Algiers, Dutch Indies, Senegal, and Bourbon ; that it has been almost stationary with Belgium, Holland, Hanseatic Towns, Germany, Turkey and Egypt, Sweden and Norway, Cuba and the Spanish provinces, South America and the British Indies ; and that it has been declining with Austria, Prussia, the two Sicilies, Brazil, Mexico, Hayti, and the West Indies. The aggregate in crease upon the whole, however, exceeds 70 per cent. A letter from Algiers contains the following pas sages : _ _ _ The . expedition of the Biban has caused a great sensation here and in the interior of Algeria. It is said that the Emir considers this campaign as an affront, and as a violation of the Treaty of Tafna, and it is ex pected that war will soon break out. Camps were going to be formed between the Fondouck and Hamza, in which fort there is to be a permanent garrison. " The letters from Oran announce that Abd-el-Kader has endeavoured to starve that town ; the prohibition to carry any corn into it was so positive that for several days no Arab ventured to infringe it. It was necessary to take flour from the magazines of the army to feed the civil population. The scarcity did not cease till the arrival of a ship from Marseilles with a cargo of flour. Alicl-el-Kader is so irritated against us that he has caused some persons to be imprisoned at Mascara, on a sus picion of having sold horses to us. Other more rigorous measures are spoken of."—Le Courricr Francais. PARIS, Nov. 16.—The King of Sardinia while yield ing to the wishes of the merchants who have long de sired the renewal of the navigation between Sardinia and Spain, has positively declared that he recognises no other King of Spain than Charles V., whose rights he will support by all kinds of aid. It is believed that the exchange of notes between our King and the Court of Naples, have been for some time past more frequent than ever. It seems that the two Powers desire to come to an understanding in order to preserve to Don Carlos the support of Austria. —Le Commerce. The Madrid Journals which have come to hand are of the 10th inst., but they bring no solutien of the Ministerial difficulties. The Correo Nacional of the sam e date says that , n otwithstanding it was generally b e li eve d that the ques tion would have been settl e d t h at w eek, the pri nci p al p oint remained undecided. The irresolution of the Ministers was most injurious to the public in terests, In the El Commercio of the same date, we find the following statement, which appears to rest on good authority ;—A meeting of a con, siderable number of Deputies took place yester day. After hearing the statement in question, they at on ce unan i mous ly agreed that t he ma jority of the Congress would take no part what to the Crown t o eevohemerie,inc;e suggestions formati on o f a Ministry, no matter from w t g te belongedsti ons to that exclusive e f t y c ame or mi g ht decide of Ministerialthecoun country—always, however,, without the Representatives ready to respect the prerogative of the Crown—doing more than to express their opinion ill the proper place upon those subjects which the fundamental law consigns to their charge ; and that, under every circumstance, it would be derogatory to the cha racter of the majority of the Congress to entertain or resolve any questions touching the appointment of a Ministry. The opinion of the Deputies present EVENING EDITION :;XCELQUER COURT-THIS DAY. (Sittings in Banco.) SIIELDON V. M`MORINE. Tie question in this case is the same as that which was argued a few days ago in the case of " Hibblewhite v. M'Morine." It related to the sale of fifty shares of the Brighton Railway Company by the plaintiff to the defendant, and the refusal of the latter to accept them. The plaintiff sold them after the refusal to accept by the defendant, and brought Ms action for the loss consequent upon such re-sale. The verdict was for the plaintiff. Rules for new trials were obtained in each case, which were argued at great length a few days ago, when it appeared in our columns ; but after Mr. Cresswell had argued the case for the plaintiff, and had left the Court, a new question was raised ; viz., whether the transfer of the shares offered to the de- fondant, being in blank, were legal, and so made a legal testier according to the contract. That question now came on to be argued, and Mr. CRESSWELL contended that the instrument of transfer was not a deed. The Act of Parliament merely required that the sale and transfer of all shares should be made by a written document, which was af terwards to be stamped for the benefit of the Revenue ; but there was no necessity for its being delivered as the act and deed of the party. On the contrary the clerk of the Company must make a memorandum of the tran saction in the books of the Company. He instanced the case of writs and subpoenas, which were notoriously sealed with the seal of the Court in blank—again it had been held over and over again that bills of exchange signed in blank might be filled up subsequently, and from that time became a legal instrument ; so he contended was the case here. The transfer was made from Prit chard to any one who might be nominated by the plain tiff. The Learned Gentleman cited many cases from the books, in support of the arguments he addressed to the Court. Mr. COWLING having followed on the same side, Mr. ALEXANDER, contra, contended, that upon look ing at the Act of Parliament, on looking at and read ing the 156th section of that Act, could any one for a moment doubt but the Legislature intended that all transfers of shares must be made by deed. It was so clear, that he would not take up the time of the Court by attempting to answer that for which there was no founda tion. He would merely call the attention of their Lordships to the fact that, in all cases of filling up blanks in deeds or bills of exchange, cited by his Learned Friend, they were under peculiar circumstances—either the filling-up took place in the presence of parties, or something was knowingly left to be done ; in the case before the Court the transaction between the parties was complete, there was nothing more to be done. Pritchard parted with his shares ; he could only do so according to the provisions of the Act, which formed. the Ccmpany, and regulated its proceedings by a deed ; he did so by a deed, but it was dooe in blank, and therefore was invalid. Such being the state of facts, it was clear the plaintiff had not made a legal tender of the shares, and therefore the rule ought to be made absolute. Mr. TO➢ILINSON followed shortly on the same side. The COURT said the whole case was a very important one, and they would take time to consider it. EXCHEQUER, CHAMBER. (THIS DAY). :N RE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY COMPANY. PETITION OF WHEELWRIGHT AND OTHERS. Mr. WILBRAHAM said the petitioners in this case were the trustees of a charity, and they prayed that the sum of 951. agreed on for a portion of land taken by the Company, and 351. as compensation for damage, might be invested in the Accouutant-general, and the interest thereof paid to the trustees of the charity from time to time. Lord ABINGER—They are not trustees ex-officio, but personal ? Mr. WILBRAHAM—OnIy personal. Lord ABINGER—Then I can only order it to be paid to them, and not to any future trustees. Mr. BACON, who appeared for the Company, did not object, provided the order was made without prejudice to their right to call for a conveyance if they should be advised to do so. The order was granted for payment to the present petitioners only. IN RE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.--PE' TITION OF THE LORD MAYOR, ETC., OF LONDON. This was a petition from the Corporation of London, praying that the sum of 5001., paid by the Eastern Counties Railway Company, for certain land taken by them for the purposes of the Railway might be invested in the purchase of Three per Cent. Consolidated An nuities, and that the dividend might be paid to the petitioners. His LORDSHIP granted the application. THE CANTERBURY ORGIES• The following is the apology now put forward for the disloyal speeches and disloyal cheers of the Tories at Canterbury. The parsons and the mili tary must be highly gratified with the character given them by the Times of this morning. What a picture of the censors of morals—the teachers of religion—and the great bulwarks of our Protestant Church, as drunk as troopers I The great organ of the army and church-militant thus describes the orgies at Canterbury : " A military Tory, irritated by the disparagement of the persons and principles he is attached to, or a mili tant parson who knows little or nothing of the exterior vtorld, and sees before him but the injury done and threatened to his Church, comes forward at a public meeting, and there, under the influence of warmth and wine, and with an idle ambition to say some thing that shall he thought strong, commits himself to some expression which the thoughtless part of his au dience applaud." MESSRS. CHAMBERS AND SON'S BANKRUPTCY. Yesterday morning a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Chambers and Son, was held in the house of Mr. Denew, in Charles -street, Ber keley-square, to receive a communication from Mr. Lambert, who had been proposed as an assignee to act with Messrs. Denew and Legh, and to consider wha t steps should be taken in consequence of that gentl e " man declining to undertake the office. The proceed' ing began by Mr. T. C. Treslove, Queen's Counsel, who was in the Chair, reading a letter, dated Oct. 24, frog' Messrs. Mayhew, Johnston, and Mayhew, in which it was stated that they were instructed by the principal creditors, who had met on that day for filling up th e vacancies, to request hire (Mr. Treslove) to perm it himself to be placed on the Committee. That gentle man on the following day, the 25th October, comniti" nicated his refusal to form one of the Committee. Fi e however attended Messrs. Mayhew's meeting at Ms' Groom's on the 26th, but merely as a spectator. 'n e e Learned Gentleman proceeded to give an account 0 ' what took place there, and was followed in th e sal° cou rse by Mr. Lambert, who stated the circumstanc es which led him to refuse being put in nomination a s ooe of the assignees. Both gentlemen strongly censured the conduct of Mr. Mayhew. The Learned Chairman thought it questionable whether,:in point of law, if „,eer tain assignees were appointed in consequence of Inn Mayhew's canvassing amongst the creditors that ar pointment might not be set aside. After some further conversation, in which g i : Denew, the Rev. Mr. Newcombe, and Mr. Jer rar° took part, the nomination of Mr. Artis was agreed en' The meeting then separated. The parish of St. George's, Hanover-square, are er e : ditors to the amount of 10,0001., and it is said thet they will support the nomination of Messrs, Legh, D e. new, and Artis. bat Viscount and Viscountess Powerscourt ,ifi,' received a succession of vis it ors at PowerQcourt Caso!' round Hayes, Bart., M.P., and Lady Hayes ; Wicklow. The Earl and Countess of Roden, Sir Ed- Wicklow. & e;r h h a e ve c b o e u e n n te am ss on o g f the guests. a Fitzgerald, the Right Hon. Frederick and Mrs. SW(' y w l i a n s a d t n , s.o d h r a select party at Eastwell Park, Kcnt. o s n un T d f a i y urs fo d r a Lord Alfred Paget, who accompanied the Princes Ernest s Albertreturned Castle, o of n Saxe a tvoi visit isCoburg town,teo n h -t eearr and a t a o: . I i ii :iDijnfte.osv:e ay a . a Lord and Lady Charles Fitzroy are a t presen t t Euston Hall, Thetford, on visit - his a to Grace the Duke of Grafton. L • eh Lady El iza beth Finch and Lady Franc es Fla have arrived in elgrave-suare. Lord Franc ß is Gordo q n and Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence arrived in town on Friday. s en - B. B. Wi'li . ams, Esq., and Miss Williemt'iand tertained at dinner, yesterday at their house in Pcn . ' c na tor place,the Hon. Daniel Webster,the distinguished '-)e--rd of the United States, Mrs. Webster, Admiral Sir EdV eb ., Codrington, &e. &c. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. NY. m ster and suite embark on Thursday, per Mediator, from Portsmouth for New York, on their return to W 2 s ington. and The Hon. Charles C. Cavendish, M.P., _ e Lady Catherine Cavendish, who left Burlington 14 . 00 , 5 their de on Saturday for Latimers, Bucks, were to take . parture yesterday for Chatsworth, to visit the Dukeno! Devonshire. Mr. and tbe Misses Cavendish accornPa ) the Hon. Gentleman and his Lady. The Countess Sebastiani had card parties everY evening last week at Manchester House. an d FEVER.—VVe lament to Hose. fever fever other fatal diseases are now prevalent in several par" of the United Kingdom—caused directly, no doubt, by the long continuance of wet weather, but aggravatV. by economical circumstances. Sickness, death, a . d d the tress, are all more or less frequently connected with b an eful operat ion of our starvation s y stem of C orn laws. C o unt Batthany has left Mivart's Hotel for Melton Mow bra y , where the Count intends to p I ass the hunting season. _....-...50i1100