The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-23 00:00:00

MR. WARBURTON'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 2 ;01.;:;;;iiRv0., with numerous Illustrations, prieo 255., bound, T HE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS ; OR, ROMANCE AND REALITIES OF EASTERN TRAVEL. By ELIOT B. G. WARI3URTON, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlberough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, Witt be performed a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, entitled THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnhelm, Mr. Borrani; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devllshoof, Mr. Stratton ; Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. To conclude with the Grand Fairy Ballet of THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM, in which Mdlle. Plunkett, Mdlle. Clara Webster, Mdlle. O'Bryan, Mrs. W. H. Payne, and Madame Guibilei will appear. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six In the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. S rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles bfathee s • Tom Coke, Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural , Mr . Farren ; The Countess of Fon-pion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Sennett. After which, Mr. Charles Mathews' Buretta of HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. Motley, Mr. Charles Mathews; Dicky Darling, Mr. Strickland; Becky Morgan, Mrs. Caulfield. To conclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone, entitled THE THIMBLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Buckstone, Sam Shindy, Mr. Strickland; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifffird. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the Even ing), ss. each. First Price—Boxes, ; Pit, Os. ; Gallery, 2s. ; N Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at ne o'Clock—Bixes, 3s. • Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Ed. Ooors opened at Hal l.past Six, Pei forrnance commence at seven. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. -.—. ... THIS - EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Count Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanilla, Mr. Selby ; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Checliore, Mr. 0. Smith. After which will be repeated VICTORI ; or, Sleep on It. Alexandre, Mr. Hudson ; Michael, Mr. Sao?, Victorine, Mrs. Yates; Elise, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with a New Eccentric .Mytholegioal Burlesque, called TELEMACHUS ; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright ; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford ; Dinah, Mr. Cowell. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Ur. Pitt ; Leader of the Pend, Mr. Mellon.—Box-odice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING. NOVEMBER 23, Wi'l be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYMON • or. The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanoir, ' Leffler Mr. Walton • 'Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn, Jun. ; Richard, Mr. Hime ; Renaud, Mr. Alattacks; Ivon. Mr. ; Hemline. Mdlle. Helen Condell ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. To be followed by MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. To conclude with a New Grand Oriental Ballet, called THE ENCHAN ['ED BELL. A zolin (an Hindoo Peasant), M. Roussett; Palmira (the Sultan's Daughter), Mille. Caroline Roussett; Naire (her Friend), Mdlle. Teresine; Ding Doug (the Genii of the Bell), Miss Marshall. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 23.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6.1. Private Boxes, Two Guineas , nd One Guinea and a-Half ; Promo- Mum Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions far the Season to be had at the Theatre. 1 HEATRE ROYAL LYCE H UM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. OUSE. Under the Management of Mts. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23. Will be performed a New Cemedietta, entitled WATCH AND WARD. 'The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINGEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Xio och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, Turner, Stoker, and Ke .ley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. Atter which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS A BOUT*TO MARRY. Supported by Itlessr , . F. Matthews, Meadows, Twiner, and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Woolliige. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in wt ich Wiles. Louise and Adele, o• he , Maj . sty's Theatre, will make their appearance. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS.ONS With entirely Nev- Scenery, Machinrry, Dresses. &c. Principal Ct.arao•ers by Mr. Daidear, Mr. I ( oilier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. (,raven, and Mr. Keeley ; Misr Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli lge, Lire A. Wean, Miss Turner, Mr s James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF A D7.lllSlON.—Baleouy roxes 4;.; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25. ; Gallery, rid. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2e. ; Upoer Coxes, is 6d. ; P t, Private Boxes on the it ller 'holding eight persons), Tao Guineas Private Boxes on the Second 11Fr (ho'dieg eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half Private roses en the kit 'Fier (hoiclne sis persons, One Guir ea. Los—silice is open them T.-n to Four o'Clock, under the direr_ ti .n cK Ar. Grogan, late of Cot ent-gardeu Theatre. STRAND THF.AT4I , . Lessee. Yr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, rcrnted Doug! s J,trolT, NELL GWy , NE. Nell Gwvi:no, MIS V% alter Lacy ; Moll, Mr H. H a lt fter which. TOE KNIGHT AND THE spiarE, in which 11011, Mrs. Mater Lac:', Mrs. Montgomerie, Mrs. C. P o pe, wit! Miss Brumley will pe:f .rm. Tu concla te with THE E z OUTMAN. Bobby Breakwindow, Attwoo.l. reat attraction every F A T, iir;: Betty's flouthls meet This Eveni , g, at ASTI EY'S 110 Yr:;.: Pli /IF ATTU'. ARL'S 2:J•orietc..r rend r,fr. W. BATTY. THIS EVEN I N r, NOVEMBER !et, IA ill Le repeated a New Speva , entale ITi • E ROYAL FOX HUNT ; Ihe Rqcc.l,,,r c a,rl I.i a's Co..r,e of Man and Stted; iticr.duclne :inegtiallba Natio al Fax-el.,a:e on the Stage and in th, Cl;rc'e by limn.; J , ‘” an.i real Pack of Hounds, uurchased by Mr. Vatty of Mr T:ittersall, to realise this novel productf.n. ces and o; her Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Lrelr, and unequalle I Feats of Horsemanship. To conclutic with a favoinite Afte. piece. Acting and stage..o,nag.lr. hir. W Broadrodt. Box-nee.e open from Eleven tin Five. Lessens in thv Art of Biding H. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, Will ho se•ieaterl a New I 'ming. entitled THE SEALED SEN TENCE, supported essrs. Hughes. N. T. Hicks, ‘J:sle, Johnson, Morrison, Mr , . It Hoosier, M. s Lewis, &c. Alier which, the Farce of THET WO GREW R!ES. 'To ".ortclurle with the N,:.st , Dr.ana, enti•led DON CiPiA.R DE J AZAN, stwporteo t y me entire cesny,,,,. Places ,nd PrlTate Rox , s to t,' had of Mr. Kerachne7., a' the Box • dice, &oil. Eleven to Farr. VOYAL VICIORT A THEATRE THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23. Will be repeated Tlik: STRANGE INTRUDER, in which Messrs. Seaman, Higgie. Herhe:t, and Allis Vincent will perform. After which, A HUSt.t.,. NO AT SIGHT. Lonisberg, Mr. Hig,,ie; Baroness, Mts. W. West. To conclude with THE 'kVA* , DERIN G JEW, in which Messrs. Seaman, Dale, Higßie, and the Misses Harcourt will appear. Private Family Boxes, XI 10.0 d. and XI its. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 22 THERMOMETER, Lowest. 33 ; Highest. 42; soon. 41 BAROMETER, 30.35.—Wrin, W.N.W. A "OTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the irrezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is placed opposite 30. and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mt ruing ... 38 minutes atter 0 I li vening 0 minutes after I. - 5 . fatr - ~..: ~...• .2, .., 4-le, 1. 44 - ' , 4 ,1 - ..,,,t 11.: i • p, l ..,... .40, / ,kic _ _ °nib LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1844. In his late elaborate judgment in the case of the Rev. WALTER BLUNT, Curate of Helston, who, it may be remembered—among many other accusations which were brought against him by one of the church wardens of the parish—was charged with having re fused to bury the corpse of a young man who had bean baptised by a Dissenting minister in a colony where no Church minister was to he found—in his judgment in this case, the Bishop of EXETER, al luding to the particular charge we have just men tioned, observed :—" I now resolve these doubts by saying that the office for the burial of the dead ought not to be used for an adult who, having been bap tised in schism and having lived a schismatic, has never been admitted into the Church." Now, in op position to this intolerant episcopal mandate, we will quote the emphatic opinion delivered by Sir JOHN NICHOL upwards of five-and-thirty years ago, in the case of " KEMP against WsexEs," as we find it given by a correspondent in the Times • .of yesterday :—" Why the rights and interests of the church," says this enlightened Judge, " are to be lti:cted by considering Dissenting baptisms as Chris tian baptisms, by allowing persons so baptised the c ommo.n right of being buried according to the ordi dinary forms of the Church, and by a minister of the Church to whose support they are bound to contri bute, has not been explained. If the law has not ex cluded them from this ordinary right of Christianity and humanity, the ministers of the Church will not urely be degraded by performing the office; on the esntrsuy, the generality of the clergy will rejoice that is this last office of Christian charity there is no separation between the Church and their Protestant Dissenting brethren." Sir JOHN NICHOL then goes on to observe, under an evident impression that the intimation is a necessary one :—" it is by a lenient tnt 3 liberal construction of the laws of disability and .exclusion, and not by a captious and vexatious con st'xuction and application of them, that the true in terests and true dignity of the Church Establishment are best supported." Here we find the Bishop and the Judge directly at variance on the important sub- ' ject of the burial of Dissenters by ministers of the Establishment. 'Tie former insists that that funeral service of the Church ought not to Cie read over such schismatics ; while the latter maintains that the clergy ought to rejoice that in this last office of Christian charity there is no separation between Dissent and Orthodoxy. It is cur:ous that the Bishop, from whom—when we take into consideration his sacred calling—the greatest amo . i.nt of c h ar i ty an forbearance might be expected, exhibits preci se l y th e : eas t o f t h ese Christianq uali. ties, and adopts the u lt ra -i n t o l erant v i ew of the question ; while the Judge, who, as a keen, practised lawyer and man of the world, might be supposedpr tso.. be less encumbered with elevat e d an d catholic m sions, takes thsit view of the case which i s most in ac cordance co rdance with the beneficent and enlight(ned spirit of Christianity ! We trust that the majority of our readers will b:1 far more readily aposed to side with qir JOHN Nicium than with the Bishop of EXETER, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1844. for though the latter may, perhaps, have the authority of the Rubric in his favour, the former may plead the direct sanction of the Gospel, which never fails to inculcate lessons of charity and toleration, and more than once alludes to " peace on earth and good will to men," as being the basis on which the Christian religion is founded. But S how can there be either "peace on earth," or " goodjwill to men," when the Church, by its intolerant practices, is the first to scatter abroad the seeds of discord and discontent ? How can a spirit ;of harmony and forbearance be expected to 'prevail in the social circle, when the Church carries its theological prejudices to so great an extent, as to refuse to administer the rites of sepulture to him whose lot through life it was to dissent, from conscientious motives, from some of its particular dogmas, though in the ruling principle of his belief he was a sincere and zealous Christian ? Surely he is no longer a Dissenter from whose body the breath of life has departed 1 Can the cold, sense less mass of clay which lies shrouded in the coffin, and which Corruption in a few hours will claim as her own, be justly reproached with its non-adherence to the Thirty-nine Articles ? Is the Church bound, as a part of her duty, to war with dust and ashes, and push her theological animosity beyond the tomb ? Cannot even Death soften the bitterness of her feelings, and induce her to offer up a prayer ',beside the grave of a Dissenter? The Rubric may authorise her to refuse reading the burial service over his ashes ; but justice—common sense— humanity—religion—in a word, all the finer and nobler instincts of our nature alike revolt at the idea of such wretched—such preposterous bigotry. The proceedings at a recent meeting of Road Trus tees, Commissioners of Supply, and Justices of the Peace for the county of Edinburgh, convened for the consideration, among other business, of Sir JAMES GIBSON CRAIG'S " Resolutions" touching the Scotch banking system, were of unusual interest and im portance. The " Resolutions," which have already been before our readers, embodied the powerful case of the people of Scotland against the extinction of their one-pound, or small note circulation ; and the not less powerful case of the Scottish banking in terest, against the introduction into that country of the gold " standard of value," as it is called, which Sir R. PEEL has been permitted to set up, by statute, in this. The principal speakers at the Edinburgh county meeting were the Viscount MELVILLE, the Earl Of ROSEBERY, the Lord DUNFERMLINE (for merly the Right Hon. Mr. AnEacitomny), and Sir J. G. CRAIG. On the original motion for the adop tion of the report embodying the " Resolutions" in question, Mr. TYTLER, of Woodhouselee, moved an amendment that it was expedient for the meeting to defer the expression of any opinion on the subjects of their discussion until the intentions of her MA JESTY'S Ministers thereupon should have been made known. Fifteen hands were held up against, and fifteen in favour of the original motion ; which was finally affirmed by the casting vote of the Chairman, Sir JOHN HopE, Bart. The various speeches delivered at the meeting appear to have ranged over all the principal grounds on which the general question of a currency, its na ture, relations, and management—must be considered; although, of course, the chief topic enlarged upon was the tendency of any proposition for depriving Scotland of her present small bank-note circulation. As some of those speeches involved the most frequent and specious fallacies advocated by the bullionist dis ciples of Sir R. PEEL, whilst others were remarkable for the perspicuity and force with which they illus trated the argument in favour of retaining—for Scotland—her present paper currency—we venture to crave attention fur the remarks we propose to offer upon them. ft will be recollected, that after a vast deal of re• monstrance, agitaion, and debate, at public and other meetings throujhout Scotland, and a memorable pamphleteering warfare, in Ahich Sir WALTER SCOTT took an active and most useful lead, under the signa ture of " Malagrowther " Scotland was rescued from the operation of the general principles anti the particular measures that had been brought forward by the present Sir R. PEEL in 1819 for the re• organisi.ti ei of our monetary system. Again, when Sir ROBERT submitted, in the course of last session, what be calls " the complement" of his legislation in 1819, he was reluctantly compelled to postpone its application to Scotland; for we will do him the jus tice to declare that he fairly and distinctly intimated his purpose to bring her also within its scope in the now ensuing year. We are, therefore, unable to see the ground of Mr. TYTLER'S and Lord MELVILLE'S hypothesis, that the intentions of the Premier on this point are not yet sufficiently known. We warned the banking interest, and the whole people of Scot land, at the time, when remarking on the fatal supineness with which the parties who represented them in Parliament, looked on at the visitation of the Bank Charter Renewal Bill on the people of the other portion of the United Kingdom—that their own turn of suffering would, assuredly, come next, unless they then, and at once, vigorously combined with the English opponents of the measure in arresting its further progress. We repeat, with regret, that, generally speaking, the gentlemen connected with Scotland held aloof. They saw that the Right Hon. Baronet's " fire-raising"—in the legal phraseology of their country—was about to consume the monetary resources of England (and, eventually, of Ireland), but they reflected that it was still a twelvemonth's journey for this statutable conflagration from West minster to Edinburgh; so, on the night of the main division, they went home quietly to their beds, some of them without even the effort of contributing the scanty buckets of their individual votes to the miserable minority which represented the whole force of extinction that could be brought even to attempt to play upon the "devouring element" —as the Bank Charter Bill might well be called with reference to what it is, assuredly, even now consuming. But we return to the Edinburgh county meeting. The speech of Lord MELVILLE, much as it is to be commended for its general good sense and modera tion, will scarcely escape the censure of those who may carefully peruse it. It was a trimming speech, the object of which seemed to be to avert, by post ponement, a collision between the principles of cur rency (to the general soundness of which he testified) embodied in Sir GIBSON CRAIG'S "Resolutions," and the incompatible, but inevitable, tendency of those on which Sir ROBERT PEEL'S measures are based. To talk of the country's not knowing what monetary measures applicable to Scotland are in contempla tion of Government, is not to deal in earnest with the fact, or with the question. It is but attempting a compromise between present expediency—founded, we fear, on some political prepossessions—and perma nent principles, that must affect the most vital inte rests of the empire. On the engrossing matter of the small bank-notes, his Lordship said, " He was not inl the secrets of Government ;" yet "he did not hesitate to say he did not believe they intended to meddle with the subject ;" and yet, again, "at all events, he did not think such a measure called for." Substantial reasons, these, after the significant hint, too, of the Premier, last session, for postponing the consideration of the "Resolutions" upon which he was called to vote ! But his Lordship, on a great economic State question, has the vision of a Cyclops. He has but one eye to look through. He can see Scotland, only, as she stands before him. His bounded horizon does not comprehend England. A bank-note currency, he argues, " is a system to which the Scottish people are accustomed." (Have not the Eng lish been used to it, in a far more extensive degree ?) " Gold might be more solid and preferable on the whole ; but, so long as the people (of Scotland) preferred this system (bank-notes) themselves, he thought that Parliament would do very wrong to compel the abolition of one-pound bank notes" — paid Scotland. And wherefore not quodd England ? But he approves of the gold standard for England — whether because gold is more " solid " here, and the people more " soft," than in the north, he does not tell us. We must take leave to dispute some important items in the statistics of his Lordship's speech (which, on a balance of its arguments, really vindicated the " Resolutions" it was delivered against). His Lordship assumes the gold circulation of England to be 23,000,0001., exclusive of what is in the Bank. Take this Bank store in round numbers at 14,000,0001., and Lord MELVILLE'S credulity must have exagge rated this enormous aggregate of 37,000,0001., we venture to tell him, by nearly one-half. (We take this amount of Bank bullion from last week's returns. At another time we s.hall contrast the point it has thus gradually decreased to with the maximum amount of seventeen or eighteen millions which it touched at the passing of the Bill of last session.) Lord MELVILLE wisely, yet surely inconsistently with his own pre mises of satisfaction at the system of gold currency now established in England, states that notwithstanding the vast aggregate of our gold circulation, drains had occurred upon the Bank of England, and might occur again, which would again leave her coffers almost empty. " We may," continued his Lordship, " have drains from short harvests—we may have drains from foreign speculations, no matter whether wise or unwise—people come demanding money, and they will have it. We may have drains for foreign wars and subsidies, and from various causes, but the greatest danger is from short harvests. It was the duty of a wise Government, then, to see that the circulation of this kingdom was in such a state, that when any emergency shall occur, we shall be able to supply the deficiency caused by the outpouring of the coin of the kingdom. He wished to know what Scotland was to do in such a case ? Could she furnish her quota ?" Will his Lordship be so kind as to point out what England "is to do in such a case ;" how she is to furnish her quota ?" What golden currency that ever yet existed in any empire of the ancient or modern world, would suffice to answer the demands which ra domestic panic or a foreign war would in stantly produce for gold, in exchange for the millions, multiplied by hundreds, not by scores, of British securities represented in convertible paper ? How does his Lordship suppose that the possible " de ficiency" he speaks of "isto be supplied ?" A case occurs, no matter what, to create a run for gold. The Bank, in contemplation of the probable extent it may run to, contracts its issues; and the security Sir R. PEEL leaves to all the operations of the immense mass of represented property, or property struggling for development into capital, is the balanced amount of convertible Bank paper, and of—in fact, for this is the ultimate resolution of his bullion problem—Bank bullion. The enterprise of mercantile speculation animating the energy of ready capital, is to be brought up certainly, though at some uncertain moment, when its action shall have exceeded the limited revolutions and obstructed movements of Sir ROBERT'S double balance-gold-and-paper engine. Talk of a " standard of value I" He has only succeeded—and but too well —in devising a standard of limitation. But we must postpone our further notice of the Edinburgh county meeting till a future opportunity. Accounts from Madrid of the 14th state that the trial of General Paint was resumed at ten o'clock on that day, in the presence of great crowds of spec tators, consisting chiefly of military men and fo reigners. RIBEIRA presided. The proceedings com menced with reading the act of accusation, the written evidence, and all the other papers connected with the affair from the beginning, which occupied the Court till four o'clock, when the counsel for the defence were asked if they had anything to say. General SCHELLY demanded time to consider the additional evidence produced, but he was allowed only an hour and a half. At the meeting of the Court the counsel for each made speeches, but they were listened to with little interest, and the scene was monotonous till General Pant himself appeared. An eye. witness thus describes the scene and the ap pearance of the accused : " General Prim is a very young, and still younger looking, man, his age being only 32 years. He possesses a handsome person, with a peculiarly prepossessing face. He was dressed on this occasion in a plain black dress, and the only thing military about him was his general's scarf, which was sent to him last year by General Ser ra'io after a victory gained over Amettler at Maturo. He was escorted into the middle of the hall by five sol diers. His appearance before the tribunal, his proud carriage, the disdainful glance with which he regarded his accusers, his firm and unembarrassed voice, and his sang froid, produced a deep effect both on the judges and on the public. Ile commenced by saying that had he been accie ed simply of conspiracy against the Cove rnment, he would not have appeared, but as people had chosen to suppose him guilty" of a foul and cowardly conspiracy, his honour required him to protest with all his force against so abominable a calumny. He went over the history of his principal accuser, Al berni, who at one time was dismissed from the army. lie denied in the most solemn and positive manner the assertions made by Alberni, and also protested against the evidence given by the other accusers associated with Alberni. The act of accusation, as drawn up by the Pro. curator Fiscal, was also commented upon by the General with great indignation and force. He complained that, with regard to the trabucos, no proper investigation had been made to discover the truth of that part of the investigation, and he especially complained that the superior officer to whom the trabucos were sent during his absence, had not at all been interrogated. He also complained in a very dignified but indignant style of the unworthy manner in which he had been treated in prison ; not having been allowed for a long time even a chair on which to sit, and being prevented from holding the slightest communication with any one, not excepting even his advocates, whom he was not allowed to see till he had been subjected to the most minute examination. He went on to say that the Procurator-Fiscal did not endeavour to prove his case by the evidence given in the depositions, but endea voured to make out a case by picking out such portions as suited his purpose, without reference to the whole tendency of that evidence ; and he finished his speech with the following words :—‘ Either the Procurator- Fiscal has had the way he is to take laid down for him, or if he acts of his own accord, he thirsts for blood.' The speech of General Prim, which was spoken in a bold and off-hand manner, prthlaceci a great effect upon the audience. After General 2rim had finished, three more of the accused were introduced, but they contented themselves with simply protesting against the manner in which the act of accusation was drawn up. The Pre sident then declared that the defence was at an end, and the public were excluded." The proceedings were brought to a close at nine o'clock, but the judgment is not known, as it must be submitted first to the Supreme Military Tribunal. The discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, on the Reform Bill, was continued, and every amendment rejected. The abolition of trial by jury, in matters connected with the press, was put to the vote, and carried by 127 against 22. The Three per Cents. were done at 271 i I for cash, and 27 11-16 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 20 9-16 at 60 days. The Paris papers contain a variety of articles on various subjects, and of considerable interest. The Co►rstitutionnel attacks the Government for the de fective state of the steam navy. The Commerce follows in the same strain on the neglected state of the mercantile navy ; and the Journal des Debate has a very long article :on the necesasty of establishing a better observatory at Paris, and calls upon the Go vernment to propose a vote in the Chamber for that purpose. Lord ROSSE'S gigantic telescope seems to have led the writer to the subject, who certainly puts forth some amusing statements. Among others the following :—" The moon herself, which, astronomically speaking, is quite close to us (95,000 leagues, or thirty times the diameter of the earth)—the moon, with her ;gigantic mountains and her extinguished volcanoes, is the heavenly body with which we are the least acquainted. All that we know of her has been obtained with glasses which magnify two hun dred times. The new apparatus that is proposed will magnify six thousand times, so that we shall be able to perceive the mountains of our satellite as from Geneva we see Mont Blanc." The National contains communications from its Madrid correspondent relative to the trial of General PRIM and the state of the country, with an article denouncing in strong terms the CHRISTINO Cabinet, and the arbitrary acts of NARVAEZ. No certain in telligence had reached Paris respecting the plans or movements of ZURBANO. The following particulars, however, appear in the Phare de Bayonne " Some days back Zurbano, who since his return to Spain has been residing on his property in the neighbour hood of Logrono, received an order from the Spanish Government to proceed to Santander. It appears that, in place of conforming to this order, he retired in the direction of the Sierra des Cameros, mountains sepa rating the province of Soria from that of Logrono. There, getting together some soldiers who had served under him during the civil war, he placed himself at their head, and penetrated unexpectedly into the town of Najera, six leagues distant from Logrono. The number of soldiers that accompanied him is not exactly known. One version gives him 50 horsemen, another ' raises the number to 80, and finally, a third states that he ha 3 with him 50 horsemen and 80 foot soldiers, when he appeared before Najera on the evening of the 13th. As to the political ~ t antiard which he has dis played,: nothing has come to our knowledge on that point, although, for our own part, we are inclined to be lieve that he intends acting in favour of Espartero under the banner of the Constitution of 1837, or rather that of 1812, according to which the Queen could be declared under age, and a regency appointed for four years. The persons who are acquainted with the ferocity of Zurbano will not be astonished that his first act at Na jera was to have an unfortunate celador, who fell into his power, shot. lie had been so long deprived of the pleasure of shooting somebody ! It is said that he has acted in a similar manner with respect to three other individuals, which does not in the least degree sur prise us, but we ought at the same time to add that up to the present time, we have learnt nothing with any cer tainty relative to these facts. Immediately after his entry into Najera, Zurbano convoked the Municipal Council, and had all the arms and horses fit for service in the town delivered up to him. lie published an appeal to all the Progressists in the country, and particularly to such soldiers as served under his orders during the civil war. The Commandant-General of the province of Logrono hastened to dispatch extraordinary couriers to the Captains-General of Burgos, Navarre, and the Basque provinces, with the news of Zurbano's rising. The Captain-General of Burgos immediately directed two battalions composing the garrison of the place on La Rioj a. On his side, the Captain-General of the Basque provinces dispatched the day before yesterday all the troops that could be disposed of at Vittoria, with General Jauregui, the second in command. It is proba ble that the Captain-General of Navarre, from which place we have not yet received any news, will also have sent from Pampeluna forces in the direction of Viana and Logrono. General Concha, the new Captain- General of the Basque provinces, who left Madrid in the night of the 13th, was proceeding to his command by the malle-poste, but, on his arrival at Burgos, having learnt the rising of Zurbano, he determined to remain in that city until he could proceed with an escort, for it was rumoured that some horsemen, who were said to belong to Zurbano, had appeared on the high road." The following is the article in the Constitutionnel on the steam navy of France : "According to a decision of the 4th of March, 1842, our steam navy was to consist of 40 vessels—viz., 5 of 540-horse power, 15 of 450, 20 of from 220 to 320, and 30 of 160 and under ; assuming for the vessels of from 220 to 320 an average of 270, and those of 160 and under an average of 150, the total would represent a power of 19,350 horses. Instead of these 70 vessels we had, on the Ist of January, 1844, only 47, and most of them of the smaller size, representing on the whole only 8,240 horses—viz., one frigate of 540, three of 450, one of 320, seven vessels of 220, 21 of 160, 1 of 150, 2 of 120, 1 of 400, sof 80, 3 of 60, and 2 of 30. Thus, instead of a maritime force of about 20,000 horse-power, we had only about 8,000, and most of the vessels too weak and light to be of any use in the event of a war. This blank in our maritime armaments will probably attract the notice of the Chambers. The Minister of Marine hopes to fill up the blank by putting his hand on the transatlantic steamers. We will not examine this question at the present moment, but we must observe that, even if it be intended to appropriate to the royal navy the force of 7,000 horses represented by these packets, it is doubtful whether the strength of our steam navy would be aug mented otherwise than in appearance, as it is by no means certain that these vessels, which have been con structed with a different object in view, would be real vessels of war." The court-martial on M. BESSON met again on the 16th at Toulon. After hearing the remainder of the evidence, and the defence of Lieut. BESSON, the judges retired to deliberate, and at the end of about an hour returned into Court, and stated that, on the first question, " Had Lieut. BESSON voluntarily caused the loss of the Groenland?" the answer was unani• mously in the negative. On the second question, " Had she been lost through want of precaution and care ?" the answer was four in the affirmative, and four in the negative. The defendant having the benefit of the equality, the President pronounced his ac quittal. _ _ _ The Prince DE JOINVILLE and the Duke D'AUMALE arrived at Toulon early in the morning of the 16th, accompanied by General DuaosNKL and the other persons of distinction with whom they left Paris. The Princes, in the course of the day, visited the Arsenal, and were present at the launch of the Pour suivante frigate. Their reception at Toulon was en thusiastic in the highest degree. In the evening, there was a grand dinner at the Hotel of the Mari time Prefecture where the Princes had fixed their residence, and the town was illuminated. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, Nov. 19.—The average price of wheat last week was 17f. 93c. ; and that of rye 10f. 69c The import and export duties remain unaltered. The Chamber of Representatives, after having re ceived a great number of petitions, resolved itsel into a secret Committee to enter on the examination of its own budget. After having decided on this question, the public sitting was resumed, to examine the project of law relative to the importation of twelve million kilogrammes of corn from the duchy of Limburg, with a reduction of 75c. from the pre sent duties. The debate taking a political turn, the Chamber again formed itself into a secret Committee, which, as we hear, was adjourned till to-morrow. In this Committee the Minister urged the necessity of this project of law, as he had proposed it to the Chamber. A royal resolution of the 2d of November autho rises the Commercial Bank of Antwerp to a certifi cate of the Roman Five per Cent Stock inscribed in the Great Book of Rome, to the amount of six mil lions of francs, and for a period which will expire on the 31st of December, 1854. This permission is granted on the following con ditions : 1. To fulfil in any points the obligations mentioned in the National Act executed the 16th October last. 2. Not to issue certificates of less nominal value than I,ooof. at the least, as well as the coupons, with leave to mention the corresponding value in Roman piastres. 3. To insert in the certificates the cases which may interrupt the payment of the interest (rente course) as well as the conditions by means of which an original share may be obtained. 4. To have the certificates stamped, as prescribed by the law of March 21, 1839. If these condition; should not be complied with, the permission will be withdrawn. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bauseate, Nov. 90. Actua Debt, 2)6 per Cent., .....».« .»....».»....» Rothschild's Loan, Five per nt .. .. Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Ce nt 963 Three per Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ...... 76 —.. (1840) lO4 1844.... ......... •••••••••••••••••••• 103 Loan of City, 1813, Four per Cent. " ... . 102% Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per ' Cent. Bank of Bel um, Five per Cent Issue of 184 i.. . ...... . . ••••••••••••••••••••••••• —.Brussel; Papers. Nov. 21. DUTCH FUNDS.—Amenliums, Nev. 16. Money, Mils. Actual Debt, 236 per ........... Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent. D.tto, ditto 5 per cent..... 9954 lc° Arnett Syndic, 456 per cent 993( 99% Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent — Commercial Company, 4% per cent 147 147% Loan 1837, 434 per cent. Exchange on Londe*, Onemonth Two month5... Hamburgh, One month 25 50 Two months 35 25 Dutch Papers, Nov. 20. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Nov. 16. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 336 per cent. lOO 9934 Prussian English Bonds, 1630, 4 per cent. 8 234 Exchange on L0nd0n..... .. .... • 6 22% Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 17. DR. KEENAN'S NEW PRINCIPLE OF PHYSIOLOGY. Dr. Keenan on Thursday delivered the second of his course of lectures on organic chemistry, at the Western Scientific Institution, on which the room was again well filled. He went over much of the same ground that he had traversed in his first exposi tion, his theory being simply that the human body/is an electro-motive machine, and that the electricity is generated in the lungs by the oxygenation of the food. The point on which he particularly dwelt was the ab sence of all philosophical explanation of the cause of motion in the theory of Liebig, who supposes the chief purposes of the lungs to be generated from heat and the evolutions of carbon. There was great in genuity displayed by Dr. Keenan in the manner in which he placed his theory before the audience ; but it was accompanied with considerable misrepresenta tion of the views of Liebig, and was founded for the most part on assumption. He assumed, in the first place, the disputed question, that the nervous influence and electricity are identical ; and having taken that for granted, he rested his theory of the generation of electricity in the lungs altogether on analogy, and that of an imperfect kind. Though the generation of voltaic electricity is produced by the absorption of oxygen, it is doubted by many phy siologists whether any oxygen whatever is absorbed by the blood in the lungs, and there is little analogy between the absorption of oxygen by a zinc plate from the decomposition of water and the assumed absorption of oxygen and the formation of water in the lungs by the decomposition of atmospheric air. The excitement of frictional electricity, which Dr. Keenan attributed entirely to the oxydisement, of the amalgam o n th e ru bb er can w ith great difficulty be attributed to chemical action, since electricity is often excited under circumstances when no oxydisa ble base is known to be present. Even supposing the identity of nervous influence and voltaic elec tricity, the analogy of the action of the lungs bears but feebly in support of Dr. Keenan's theory, and he leaves the heat of the body altogether unaccounted for. In applying his system of physiology to the management of the human body, Dr. Keenan contended that the electricity in the nerves spread over the stomach and in the lacteals assists mainly in digesting the food, and that when the stomach has more food thrust into it, in proportion to the oxygen absorbed by the blood, than the electricity thus generated can digest, the remaining portion of oxydisable food irritates the stomach and intestines, and the electricity of the nerves is exhausted by the repletion and over work. In this manner, he affirmed. there are quite as many of the rich starved to death by repletion as there are of the poor who are starved from the want of food. Dr. Keenan's lecture was very well received, but, owing to his speaking with out notes, he is very discursive, frequently repeats, and, consequently, makes his lectures rather confused and much too long. FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—Last Saturday, between thirty and forty tons of the bind or roof of a coalpit belonging to Messrs. Barber and Walker, at Kimberley, fell in. A few minutes previously several men had been working upon the spot where the hea v y ma t er i a l f e ll, but fortunately their services had been required in some other part of the pit, and thus their lives were preserved. —Nottingham Review. REVERSE or FORTUNE.—The police-constable 299, James Tracy, who was struck by Mr. Ashton, of the Watch-office, in self defence, at the South Dock station, has since been elevated to the title of Earl Tracy—an Irish peerage.—Liverpool paper. ALARMING FlRE.—Thursday morning, shortly after 2 o'clock, a fire broke out upon the premises oc cupied by Mr. Richard Hanks, 11, Duke-strePt, Picca dilly, which was not extinguished before considerable damage was done to the ground floor and workshops, containing a valuable quantity of stock, furniture, and other property, both by fire, water, and removal. The contents are insured in the Phcenix. We hear that it is in contemplation to invest his Highness the Reigning Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg Gotha with the insignia of the illustrious Order of the Garter, as an honorary knight, by her Majesty, during his visit to his august relatives in this country. A dis tinguished party, including Earl Delawarr, the Premier, and other personages of high note, are expected to as semble at Windsor Castle the middle of the ensuing week, by_royal invitation to meet their Royal Highnesses. BUTCHERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.—The an niversary diener of this excellent Institution was given on Thursday, at the Freemasons' Tavern. The number was larger than that assembled last year, amounting to above three hundred. The Chairman was Alderman Challis, who was supported by the Sheriffs, Messrs. Hunter and Sidney, Mr. Giblett, anti several other friends of this Charity. In announcing the principal toast, the Chairman dwelt with tact and feeling on the benevolent purpose of the Association, vindicated the Society from the assertions made as to their want of humanity some years ago, and pointed with a just de gree of triumph to the fact that at present the butchers of London expended 1,0001. annually, on fifty-three re cipients of their bounty, the men receiving 201. and the women 151. per annum. The subscriptions were on the usual liberal scale, and the evening was passed in the utmost harmony. NAVAL MEDICAL SUPPLEMENTAL FUND.—Thurs day a special general meeting of the subscribers to this fund was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Sir Wm. Burnett, K.C.H., president, in the chair, to receive the report of a Committee appointed to investigate the af fairs of the society. The chairman having acknowledged that the fund was in a very embarrassed state, called upon Mr. Crandell, the secretary, to read the report of the Committee, which was exceedingly volumnious, and contained the recommendation of the Committee to re duce the annuities from 40/. to 261. 13s. 4d. ; and also the opinion of the law officers of the Crown that they could not make that reduction without an Act of Parliament authorising them to remodel the society. The report also contained a draft of the Act necessary for those purposes. The report was adopted, and thanks were voted to the Committee and the chairman of the day. A VESSEL RUN DO% N NEAR GRAVESEND.—Loss OF LlPS.—About three o'clock on Monday morning, being somewhat foggy, as a vessel named the Ranger, about 80 tons burden, belonging to Goole, was working up the Reach for London, a collier brig, also beating up, struck the Ranger in midships with such force as to sink her almost instantaneously, carrying with her the master, Mr. Duffield, who, it is said, was in the cabin at the moment, and who perished. The rest of the 'new, four in number, had a narrow escape. The collier, after having laid too for several minutes, in the hopes of picking up the ill-fated master, proceeded on to Graves end, where the crew of the Ranger were landed. Mr. Duffield was a native of Grimsby, where he has left a wife and family. Mr. Ramshay's (of Naworth Castle) celebrated blood stallion, Liverpool, died at Brampton on Sunday last. It is believed that, by the decease of this fine animal, the loss to the owner will be to the extent of some hundreds of pounds annually.—Newcastle Adver tiser. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The English Investments leave off very firmly, Consols being 100 k for Money and Time. The Three per Cent. Reduced were 994 ; the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 102 k; and Exchequer Bills, 60s.ito 625. prem. The Foreign Market was a little better, Spanish being 24 to 24k for the Actives, and 35k for the Three per Cents. Messrs. Reid, Irving, and Co., have an swered an application of the Committee of Spanish Bond holders, to the effect that the issue of Three per Cent. Bonds does not exceed 6,458,0631. The amount to be remitted for the next dividends has not yet been certi fied by the Spanish Government. Mexican Bonds were firm at 36k ; and Brazilian atB9 to 891. Portuguese Converted were 544. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Dublin and Belfast were 1i ; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 4 to 3i ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 2i ; Birmingham, 118 ; Ditto, Thirds, 354 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 1 ; Croydon, 2+ ; Man chester and Leeds, Half, 19k; Midland, 8; Ditto, Fifths, 1 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 29 to 29i ; Northern and Eastern, Scrip, 10k ; Norwich and Brandon, 4i ; South-Eastern, 4i ; Ditto, Scrip, 7 ; York and North Midland, Scarborough Branch, 214 ; Ditto, Selby Ex tension, 124 to 13k ; Boulogne and Amiens, 14 s ; Or leans and Vierzon, 8 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, n k; and Paris and Rouen, 18i1 premium ; Bristol and Exeter, lf discount to par. Eastern Counties have been 11i to 11 ; Birmin ham and Gloucester, 14 ; Blackwell, 10k ; Brighton, 2i ; and Greenwich, 3* to 3 discount. Aus tralasian Bank Shares were 4 premium. The Exchange on Amsterdam and Antwerp was rather higher this afternoon ; on Hamburgh scarcely so good ; and on Paris, Frankfort and Trieste about the same. (From The Sun of Last Night.) A considerable degree of languor pervaded the Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday, although the demand from the trade continued fair. Sales 7,000 bales, of which speculators took 2,000 bales.—The Rail way Shares were rather more dealt in. Bristol and Gloucester, 344 ; Caledonian, 4 ; Chester and Birkenhead, New, 234 ; Dublin and Cashel, 84 ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2,20 s. ; Churnet Valley, 34 ; Grand Junction, 215 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 1074 ; Great North of England, 30L Shares, 64 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 344 ; London and Bir mingham 321. Shares, 38; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2644 4; London and South Western, 754 ; Direct Northern, 48s. 9d.; Manchester and Birmingham, 51 ; Manchester and Leeds, 1134 114 ; Midland Counties, 108 ; North Union, 140 ; Sheffield and Manchester,: 97 964; South Eastern, 384 ; Ditto, New, 74 ; Lyons and Avignon, 24 ; Paris and Lyons, 3/ ; Paris and Rouen, 384 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 86s. 85s. ; Sambre and Meuse, 21 ; Central of France, 10. There are accounts from the Mauritius this morning to the 4th September. There is not much of importance in the letters or papers, money was extremely scarce, the payments into the Treasury having been very large. The state of the crops is scarcely alluded to in the ad vices that have come to hand to-day. Bills on England were at from 9 to 10 per cent. discount. There are no arrivals from other quarters of im portance this morning. The transactions in the public securities have not been to any extent this morning. The purchases of stock by the Government brokers have been reduced within the last day or two, from about 30,0001. to 15,0001. The in vestments were made to-day at 1024 in the New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. Consols for Money and the Account have been sold at 1004 ; India Bonds at 83s. premium ; and Exchequer-bills at 60s. to 61s. premium. Bank Stock has advanced within the last few days ; it is now at 206. A very few bargains have been made in the Foreign Funds to-day. Spanish Three per Cents. have been at 35k. Russian Bonds were at 1191; the Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. at 63; and Colombian at 13k. In the other Foreign Stocks little business has been done this morning. The Share Market is flat, especially for the railways. Quotations are rather lower for most of the lines. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 21.—Our market continues firm, there has been more inquiry for the heavier stocks, and a considerable business has been done. Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, 6j-i 4 ; Ac cringtons, 3 2a ; Darwen and Bolton, 22 ; Wigan and Liverpool, 4A-; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2i 9-16 ; Chur nets, 3 11-16 a ; London and York, 3 1-16; Manchester and Leeds, 1131 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 484 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 10 : 1 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 14 ; Man chester and Birmingham, 51 50 : 1- ; Southport and Eux ton, 24 ; West Yorkshire, 7+ 6i ; Preston and Wyre, 174 ; South-Eastern, No. 2,7 a premium. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock. ..... ......ex div. 206 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO B3 pm. 3 per Cent. Red 994 Ditto under £l,OOO BO pm. I per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent. Red Ditto Old Annuities ... New 34 per Cent. 1023 Ditto New Annuities ... New 5 per Cent. — Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I%d ... 311 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 lan. 1860 l2 1-16 Ditto Small 62 pm Oct. 1859 ll% Bank Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860 12% Consols for Act......... 1003{ Indian Stock India Stock for Acct. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... — Russian, 5 per Cent........... Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic .... ............. Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — &)itto, 1841 .... ....... ..... Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 1842 ••...• Chllian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1843........ ....... ..... Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish,3 per Cent .. ....... Greek, 184, 5 per Cent — Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct... Mexican, 5 per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — French, 3 per Cent........---,.f P.......nan Bonds, 4 per Cent .--.............tr - .....,:....;...... - --r Peruvian Bones , ts per Ct .... Dutch, - Cent _— 1 uutch, i 34 per , -at ... ... ... Portuguese Bonds, b per C rt I Ditto,.s per Cent .... • 99% SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 98% Bristol and Exeter (70 paid)...... Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2% paid 4 Eastern Counties (25 paid) Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 21 13s 4d. paid,No.l % Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid London and Blackwail (161.135. 4d.) 6 Lonion and Brighton (50 paid) Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) 9 London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid Midland (100 paid) .... .......... .. ............. lOB Ditto Fifths, 2 paid 3 Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip (25 paid) 35% Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid . ...... .... 12% South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ... .... 3'7% Ditto, New Shares, 4 paid .. 11 York and North Midland (50 paid) — Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid Ditto Extension Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid .................... . 3% Orleans and Bourdeaux, I paid 4% Paris and Rouen. 20 paid ..... ..... ....... COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar — Ditto, at sight l2 4 Leghorn 3O 50 Rotterdam 2U. 12 64 Genoa 25 85 Antwerp 25 95 Milan — flamburgh M.B. 13 134 Venice Altona l3 134 Naples Finis, 3 days' sight... 25 65 Palermo, per oz llB Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon 55 Marseilles 25 95 Oporto 55 Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine.. 121 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ares — Berlin Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 953 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto Madrid 36i Foreign G011,bar5...f.3 17 9 Cadiz Doi' Bilbao 36 New übloons ..... 0 0 0- Barcelona 36 New Dollars 0 4 9' Seville THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cults •• 119 35 .. 119 35 .• 119 30 .. 119 35 Fours. lO6 75 166 75 106 75 .. 106 75 Three per Cents.-- 83 10 .• 83 15 83 5 .. *3 10 Bank of France 3127 50 —3130 .•3120 ..3130 Laftltte Bank, I,ooof. SharesloBo —lOBO ..1080 ..1080 5,000 f. Sharesso27 50 ••5027 50 ••5027 50 ..5027 50 Belgian Bank •••• 635 .. 635 •• 635 .• 635 Belgian Fives, 1840 104 .. 104 • • 104 104 1842 •••••••• 167 107 107 .. 107 Two-and-a-Half 61 75 .• 61 75 . • 61 60 61 70 Spanish Active 32- .. 321 •• 321 .. 22-.1 Threes...... Passive 6 .. 6 •• 6 .. 6 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 53 .. 53 .• 53 .. 53 Neapolitan•• •• •• •••••• .. 97 60 .. 98 .• 97 60 .. 98 1/.0 •• •• RAILWAY MARES. Versallles,R.B.•• ••........ 435 .. 437 50 .. 432 50 .. 432 50 L.B.•••••••••••• 312 50 •• 312 50 •• 310 .. 310 Ronon•• ..................1000 . 1000 .. 997 50 .. 997 50 Rouen to Hair••... Orleans ......... •• .. - 1017 50 .•1020 ..1015 .. 781 25 ..1017 50 Strasburg to Bale.- ..... 278 75 .. 978 75 .. 276 25 . 276 25 A.viguon to Marseilles• .... 875 . 877 50 875 .. 875 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, 30. St. Germain. 940 •• 940 .. 940 .. 940 Versailles, R.B. L.8..............815 .. 315 .. 310 .. 310 Rouen..• ................. 935 .. 997 50 .. 995 .. 995 Rouen to Havre•........... 780 .. 781 25 . • 780 .. 780 Orleans ••• • • •• •• •• • .......1017 50 ..1018 75 ..1016 25 ..1017 50 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 277 56 .. 277 50 .. 276 25 .. 276 25 Avignon to Marseilles.-- 875 .. 880 .. 575 .. 876 25 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—We are given to understand that the entire profits of the last season. are to be expended upon one scene alone in Balfe's new opera, called The Daughter of St. Mark. A procession takes place from the amazing height of forty-three feet, in which nearly six hundred persons make their appearance, the costumes of whom are of the most varied and brilliant description. Its pro duction will form all together a musical era in this country, the whole opera being in recitative. LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM OTAHEITE. (From the Shipping Gazette.) Accounts down to the 11th June have reached us from Otaheite, when her Majesty's ship Thalia, 42, and Salamander (steamer), were both off the port of Papeite, in which harbour the French had the Uranie frigate of 60 guns, and the Ambuscade, 32, with a steamer. The Charte, 46, was gone to the Marquesas for more troops. . The oppressions and cruelties of the French con tinued unabated, and their insolence towards the English was even greater than before. The Thalia, it appears, called there on her way to Valparaiso, in consequence of having heard, while at Sydney, of the unchecked barbarities which the French were indulging in at the expense of the poor Queen and the inhabitants of Otaheite. " The French had hired one of the traitor chiefs to go on board the Basilisk to assassinate the Queen but the base intention was happily discovered in time to guard against it." Captain Hope, of the Thalia, refused to salute the French flag which had been so unaccountably hoisted on the island. The French were fortifying in every direction. From this information it must be supposed that affairs in the Pacific are likely to become worse before they can be better, and that disquiet never would have advanced to its present h e i g ht h a d our Ad m ir a l kept the Vindictive at Otaheite, or proceeded thither himself, with the Dublin. Admiral Thomas evinced a considerable dislike to the scene of tumult, and kept at a distrnce, enjoying a peaceful retirement amongst the shades of 0 whyhee. Admiral Thomas had never been near Otaheite, not withstanding the disgraceful conduct of the French, not only towards the natives, but towards our mer chants and other Englishmen there. The absence was deemed extraordinary, as they were not ignorant that the Admiral would pass near Otaheite on his passage to Valparaiso from the Sandwich Islands. This was so unlike the course which a British Admiral usually pur sues as a Commander-in-Chief, and its example bodes so little good to the navy and to the distant d pen dencies of the state, that the Admiral's motives for neglecting Otaheite should be explained—but no one can explain them but himself. Vessels with British registers, and laden with British property, were continually running between Sydney and the islands while they were undisturbed by the French. This trade, we presume, is at an end. Col ling wood's captain has failed to preserve it. It is for the Collingwood to repair the loss. She is on her way to Otaheite. PROPOSED RAILWAY STATION IN FARRINODON STREET.—It is in contemplation to convert a portion of Farringdon-street into a station, connecting that place with the Eastern Counties Railway, by means of the formation of a railway between Farringdon-street and the Tottenham station. A company has already been formed, and notice given of their intention to apply for an Act of Parliament. The line proposed will be direct from Farringdon-street, crossing the City Canal to Tot tenham, at which place it will join the Eastern Counties (Cambridge line) Railway. FALL or A HOUSE.—Thursday forenoon a new building, situate at the corner of Draper's-place, in Old street, St. Luke's, fell and buried a number of workmen, bricklayers, and labourers, in the ruins. The accident is supposed to have been caused by the giving way of the foundation of the house, which is near a sewer, now in course of formation. Four of the men were taken out of the ruins, and conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, but only two of them, named William Lutton and George Hill, were admitted, and they were found not to be very seriously injured. It was believed, however, that three men, still missing, were under the ruins. FALL OP A WALL.—On Thursday morning, about eleven o'clock, a wall about forty feet in height, sud denly fell, at the corner of Showfield-street, in Chelsea_ road, with a tremendous crash, burying underneath the ruins four individuals who were at the time at work upon it. The unfortunate men, John Newman, aged 30, a master bricklayer; William Lee, aged 45, journeyman; James Lardner, aged 28, journeyman; and Arthur Ellis, aged 16, an apprentice, were standing upon some scaf folding erected near the summit of the above wall, when the latter, which had recently been run up, gave way near its base, and the whole instantly fell. Assistance having promptly arrived, the men were got from ammig the rubbish, and three of them were conveyed in a sadly mutilated state to St. George's Hospital, whilst Newman, who resides near the spot where the accident happened, and sustained a severe injury of the skull and legs, was conveyed home. Each of the unfortunate men lie in a very precarious state. The cause of the occurrence is stated to have been the wet weather, which prevented the work from setting or drying. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) Au Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic. toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 16th day of November,lB44. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ... 27,507,795 Government debt 11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 ,Gold coin and bullion Silver bullion £27,507,795 'M. MA: Dated the 21st day of Nov £27,507,795 .RSHALL, Chief Cashier. vember, 1844. BANKING D] X. :PARTMENT. Proprietors' capi tal 14,553,00 Rest 3,137,195 Public deposits (including Ex ehequer,savings' banks, Commis sioners of Na tional Debt, and dividend ac- Government secu rities (includ ing Dead Weight Annuity) 13,539,775 Other securities 9,398,630 Notes Gold and silver coin counts) 3,879,458 Other deposits Seven day and other bills 989,320 X 30,588,9071 M. MA Dated the 21st day of Noi X 30,588,907 ISHALL, Chief Cashier. 'ember, 1844. PROMISSORY NOTES. (From Last Night's Gazette.) An account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promis sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been in circulation by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank of Ire land, and by all other Banks in Ireland, during the four weeks ending the 9th day of November, 1844, pursuant to the Act of 4th and sth 'Victoria, cap. 50 : SCOTLAND. Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks £3,284,295 IRELAND. Bank of Ireland 3,896,750 Private and Joint-Stock Banks Total H. L. WICKHAM. Stamps and Taxes, Nov. 21, 1844. It gives us great pleasure to announce that her Grace the Duchess of Buccleuch was safely delivered of a daughter at Dalkeith Palace on Tuesday. This happy event will be the occasion of much rejoicing throughout the wide-spread domains of the Noble Duke, the young stranger being the first daughter of the noble pair.— Caledonian Mercury. INCENDIARY FIRE AT COGGLESHALL.—About three o'clock yesterday morning (Thursday), the uninhabited mansion of Charles Skingley, Esq., of Great Coggleshall, was maliciously set on fire, and with the extensive pre mises adjoining, was completely burnt to the ground, nothing but the naked chimneys being left standing. There is no clue at present to the vile incendiary.— Chelmsford Chronicle. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND tiutitt eptitten. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Duke de Zemours went on Saturday to Rani' bouillet, and reviwed the regiment of Carabineers quartered there. After the review, the Royal Duke was present at a corrouse/, or imitation of the tour naments of the micdle ages, with also went off with great eclat. At every point the Prince was greeted with cries of " Vive le Roi Vive le Due de Ne" mourn !" On Sunday there was a grand dinner given by the actors in the tournament, to which the autho rities of the town were invited, and the healths of the King and the Duke were toasted. The Duc d'Aumale and Prince de Joinville arrived at Toulon on the 16th, and were expected to e mbark next day for Naples. A Berlin paper states that the Duke de Rovigo has been in that city, for the purpose of soliciting the King to use his influence towards restoring to him the domain of Sommerchenburg, in Westphalia, which, was given to his father by N apo l eon , b u t d ec lare d national property by the Prmsian Government, an the dissolution of the kingdom of Westphalia. Th e Duke's visit, however, is said to have been unsuccessful . The Quimperois announces that a typhus fever is, raging at St. Bri enc (Cot es d u N or d). Thi r ty al the students in the grand ecclesiastical seminary have been attacked, and the whole establishment has been cleared except of twenty of the patients, whose cases are too bad to admit of their being removed. The English packet Wilberforce brought in to Havre on Monday the crew of the French vessel the Bon Pere, of Fecamp, which went down, with all her sails set, off the coast of England, in one of the late gales. These men, seventeen in number, in' eluding the captain, speak in grateful terms of the care taken of them during their passage from London to Havre. At the Tribunal of Correctional Police for the Seine on Monday, M. Orfila, the son of the Dean et the Faculty of Medicine, was fined 25f., and ordered to pay I,ooof. damages, for an injury inflicted upon the porteress of the house at Passy at which 10 father resides during the summer months. Arriving in his father's carriage, which he was driving on the 29th of May, he entered the court-yard before the porteress could remove her hand from the gate, and her thumb was crushed between the carriage and the gate. The price of bread at Brussels, says Galignani, is at this moment five centimes higher per kilogramme than in Paris ; but there is a still greater differenoe between Paris and Marseilles. In the latter place the price is ten centimes higher. We cannot under stand why there should be so great a difference 0 one-fourth between Paris and Marseilles. A large and model hospital, to be called the Hoe tal Louis Philippe, is about to be built by the Muni' cipality of Paris, near the station of the Northern Railroad, on the ground situated at the northern ex' tremity of the Rues du Faubourg St. Denis and St' Martin. The troops of the garrison of Madrid had been kept under arms during the night of the 13th, in the expectation of a revolt in the regiment of San Fen" nando, which, however, did not take place. The court-martial appointed to try General Prinl and his co-accused assembled on the 14th, and at nin e o'clock in the evening brought the proceedings to ° conclusion, but the judgment was not made p u blic. A letter from Barcelona of the 12th s t a t es that .D l ' Lefebvre, the French merchant, has received from the Spanish Governme n t th e i n d em it y w hi c h had been awarded him for Zurbano's cruel treatment, sow for the losses which he had sustained on that occasion' LAW AND POLIC3III. The Court of Common Pleas was occupied in hearing appeals from recent decisions of the Revising Barristers. A suit instituted in the Arches Court by Mr. l l ' NV. Evans against his wife for a divorce, on . ....t llB ground that she had committed adultery with a' 0 Elliott, eight months only aft er h er marr i ag e, dismissed by Sir H. J. Fust, for the want of 5 101 ' . cient evidence, notwithstanding a verdict had b . A O obtained with 5001. damage s , an d th e l a d y h er self 1 withdrawn her opposition to the suit. Several wine• merchants were summoned before the Court of Excise for not having renewed their licenne, s ; and also for having the words " Li cense d t o deall foreign wines " painted over their place of busine ss. and were severally fined in the miti ga t e d penalty °/ 10s. to 20s. Robert Franklin, son of a coffee-shop-keeper ;fi t King-street, was summoned to Marlborov,gh-str e ti e o for an assault on a boy named Foy, who is in, ma , employ of Mr. Jenkinson , baker, Fouberts - P late d Regent -street- Pearadio owed Jenkinson a bill, o n - ne tnreefed Foy to go to Franklin's and remain the until he was paid. O n th e b oy ' s refusal to go nut. Franklin pushed him ou t, an d t hi s was the ass ow- The Magistrate dismissed the case. At Greenwich, Isabella Collins, coffee-house keeP e j t East-lane, Greenwich, and Robert James, of Le"; isham, apprentice to Mr. Worth, arespectable butob;' carrying on business adjacent to the female stealing were both committed for trial, the latter for steain, llilbs. of beef, and the female prisoner for receiving the same, well knowing that it had been stolen. COUVRT-1 1 2LIMI OM& albs. The Duke of Wellingt on h a d a se l ec t par ty to di p ' ner at Apsley House on Thursday evening. to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have gen e , . Broadlands, the noble Vi scoun t' s seat , near Rotn s. 111 Hants, for the winter. A di s ti ngu i s h e d p a rty ' shortly assemble there. Lord and Lady Charl es W e ll es l ey are prolone et their visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Eye at Burleigh House, and, according to present e% P7 l ; tations, are likely to remain there until his Lords" goes in waiting on her Majesty. for On Monday, Mdll e . D'E s t e l e ft Wi t l ey G lob ,Ce the Spetchley station of the Birmingham andrdiee tester Railway. On th e same even i ng th e u s vor Caroline, Catherine, and Amelia Cust, Earl Br° low's Sir arrived at Witley. oe Robert and Lady Peel have issued invi'"ti for dinner parties to-day and Monday next. Sir Henry Pottinger had a lengthened i n terfi tb ec I on Wednesday last with Sir Robert Peel A w ay Right Hon. Baronet's private residence in White gardens. The Earl and Countess of Jersey and LadY t he mentina Villiers were to leave Arundel Castle Lo s, seat of the Duke and Du c h ess o f N or f o lk on It oa day, to join the party to assemble at PetwortP, visits to Colonel and Mrs Wyndham. „A lee The Earl and Countess of K enmare arriv—, the week on a visit to the Do wager L a dy het Countess's mother, at Malvern Wells, whe re ta hle Ladyship has been residing f o r some conside r ti Earl Howe, Deputy Grand Master of Freetil a y s° o l3l, for England, having received the appointment of, ' t o vincial Grand Master o f W arw i c k s hi re , „ mea nt y led decease of the late Earl Ferrers, will be duly ills o ar at a provincial grand lodg e , summon ed for the sion, at Coventry, on Monday next. o re The Earl of Denbigh and the Ladies Fieldi . n. g ie ct on a tour in Italy. The noble Earl and fate rt l i e f oo s. Milan at the commencement of this month for ur t i c e3 Lord Elphinstonc, by the last letters, had ar ray ed at Milan from Germany, his Lordship having P the greater part of the spa season at Marienba o _ The Earl and Countess of Eldon and the ri lr anto ie dren have repaired on a visit to the Hon- y o clr and Mrs. Arthur Duncombe, at their seat near lington. 3X ii 3 0 NIIMAN OTTS. h firs The new church at Camberwell, of whichl-ert,,tetl stone was laid in September, 1842, was con e f o re with the accustomed ceremonies on Thursual ce fif' g noon by the Bishop of Salisbury. The serviebuteb commenced at 11 o'clock, by which time th e tioo of was crowded in every part by a congreg a 0 1 ,0 ' nearly 2,000 persons, who were admitted b y e sef• Among them were Archdeacon Wilb er force, s w ir Job e Mr. Eden, and a great many clergymen ; ri woo ° and Lady Pirie, Mr. H. Kemble, f o i%tl the gentry of the neighbourhood. _roo Another extra Gazette, extending to . 'O itt pages, was issued on Thursday. It is filled ent!inbed a repetition of railway and other notices pop"' e it previous Gazettes. b ad tie At the last meeting of the Royal Asiatic tla es t was stated that the Rajah of Travancore ° so d tbil blished an observatory and a printing p ress ' id at he appointed none but Christian Judges., O r * 1 Much interest is evinced in the musical grs the present moment in regard to the tvoL e y ev, erbe e bi operas to be produced at Berlin—one 1 1 othe f or entitled Das Schlesische Feldlager, anin e u tter c° to Spontiwho is ni, named Die Athenienserinn. 0 , poser, now at Dresden, will s hortl, return Berlin, to superintend the rehearsals of D easwearel. serinn, in which a Mdlle. Jenny Lie% jog un lady by birth, who has lately been suo.Y rlf Meyerbeer, is to make her debut. 101 0 e , 56 Captain Francis Edward Holyoake, R•'; rl ago oi our Consul at Dunkirk, died at the ad vsne years last week, at Studeley. De tect in. A fir The amount of O'Connell tribute co iinze rle do e rick on Sunday was 3371. 4s. 6d. no bly dio g porter pronounces that " Limerick f!' sn , preq7s. its duty." The amount exceeds that 0 . 764 1 . 1 e d year save the last. The amount at CorKliwt; i n erT oti , 1' The Examiner expects that this sum sold 11 to at least 9001. Fermoy contribu tes he (I'll inel 247/." dents ° t de d its •A contemplated meeting of stu be otten. os olle versity of Dublin at the Rotunda---4,°_,iniz agsl . , academicals—for the purpose of pr oL ,;' Peel liberalising scheme with regard v ersity " lege, has been put a stop to by the Um 6'60. i 1 r t r R 1