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EVENING EDITioN. COMPLETION OF MR. BREMNER'S TRAVELS IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE. Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo. with Portraits, 2.85. bound, -IF:XCURSIONS in DENMARK , NOR WAY, and SWEDEN. With 'Notices of the State of Public Opinion in those Coun tries, and Anecdotes of their Courts. BY ROBERT BREMNER, Esq. Author of " Excursions in the interior of Russia," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRI ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 16, 1539, Will be repeatei the New Original Mat, in Five Aets, written Jaaaez Sheridan Knowles, called LOVE. Duke of Cariathitr, Mr. Joaper; Sir Rupert •f Loreh, Mr. J. Vining ; Rune, Mr. Anderson ; the Cunt of Eppen stein, Mies li3ea Tree; Katherine, Madame Vestris. After whieh, THE BRGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Maeiseath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachuso, Mr. W. F3rren Lestit, Mr. Bartley ; Filen, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Pmeitarn, Mrs. C. Jena, ; Polly reachum, Miss lainforth; La-7 Leakit„ Marlorne Vest-via. To-morrow, Love, with The Beggar's Opera. Drees Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. ; First and Second Cirobac, is. ; Seeoni Price, 3s. id. ; Pit, 33. ; Second Price, 214.; Gallery, Is. Doers to be *petted at half-past Six—the performances to rem'veste. at Seven *'Clock. Tickets anti places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Netter, et the Box-offiee, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon appliesstion. Private Boxes to is had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 147, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Week of the Season, and Last Five Nights of Ainsworth's osiginel and extraordinary Drama of " Jack Sheppard," !he representation of which has been witnessed by upwards of 150,000 persons. THIS EVENING, Dv - . 16. Will lee acted, Ainsworth's celebrated D rama of PACK SHEPPARD. Illustrating all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivant. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Ileslop, Laws, Smith, ; Mrs. 'Vining, 'lra. Daly, Miss 3lartin, Miss 'l - rant 3113. Laws, &c. After which, '.‘PETER BELL. To conclude with JOCKO, THE BRAZILIAN APE. The Ape by .Mon3icur Geuffe. ne;ii.WATIBB AT LONDON BRIDGE TO•+tORHOW. ...... 47 minutel after 10 t Evening 24 minutes atter 11 TO CORRESPONDENTS. ,sine noticed ourselves the subject of X. Y. Z.'s com munication, his manuscript is left for him with o ur publisher. -4'3 10„ *A . . i ....„ l / 4, . ~,,,,,,,,, ht ~--..., - ' 4 , ffit* 4.,„, ,- , A y 4.14 k - , .., -,- z •-• • . ~.,.:, . ,• , Zht '')lllX+ LONDON : MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1839. UNITED STATES, CANADA, &c. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. By the arrival of the packets New• York, Capt. h•:rstow, and Roscius, Capt. Collin, from New York, whence the former sailed on the 19th, and the latter on the 25th ult., papers and letters have been received from that place to the 26th ultimo. 'file commercial affairs of the States had consider- ably improved, though business had been somewhat dull previous to the 233, owing to the non-arrival of the British Queen, which sailed from Ports mouth on the 3d of November, and did not reach New York until 7 o'clock P.M. on the 23d, having been twenty days seven hours on her voyage, and experienced very severe weather. Many additional banking establishments south of New York had resumed specie payments, and it was generally be- lieved that nearly the whole of the banks through out the Union would immediately resume. The New York Morning Courier of the 20th, in allud- inn; to this subject, says : " The indications of a speedy resumption in the southern cities daily become stronger. Amongst the most prominent of these is the large demand for south ern funds, and a consequent continued reduction in the rate of discount paid on them." And concludcs with the following paragraph from the Cincinnati Reporter : " The banks in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri—some are now paying specie and others are not. Of the banks in Ohio which do pay specie, are the Commercial Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio Life Insu rance and Trust Company, Franklin Bank of Cincin nati, Lafayette Bank of Cincinnati, Franklin Bank of Columbus, Clinton Bank of Columbus, Bank of Hamil- ton, the Bank of St Clarisville, of Marietta, of Yanes vi!le, of Muskingum, of Mount Pleasant, and of New Lisbon. The Kentucky and Indiana banks do not pay specie. The State Bank of Missouri, we under stand, does. And we also learn that the State Bank of Illinois has suspended, and the Springfield Journal is of opinion that the other banks have pursued the same course. There are many others in Ohio, which have suspended, will be forced to resume again, when their ;heir thirty days have expired, unless they contemplate winding up their business. We intend keeping in our columns a standing list of specie paying banks ; and as fast as those in the State we have spoken of resume, they will be added to it. The above, we believe, is correct." In the Armistead slayer affair, the Spanish ?li nister in the United States had laid claim, on be half of his Government, under an existing treaty, to her cargo and slaves, as the property of Spanish subjects ; salvage of them was claimed by Lieute nant GEDNEY and the other officers of the war brig by which they were captured. It was ex pected that the latter claim would be abandoned, and that the PRESIDENT would surrender the slaves to the Spanish Government. The yellow fever had committed dreadful ravages at Texas and Galveston ; in consequence, many of the citizens had fled into the country. A dreadful gale had occurred at the latter place on the sth ult., which did much damage among the shipping. It lasted for three days. The news from Canada is both meagre and un- important, the date of the advices extend down to the 23d. ult. from Montreal, and the 22d from Quebec. Sir GEORGE ARTHUR is stated to have forwarded his resignation to the Home Government, The New York Morning Herald, on the subject of the Union of the Provinces, says : " Governor Thomson, it is positively asserted, will ad here to the instructions he received from the British Go vernment, to carry into effect the union of the two Canadas." The Governor-General left Montreal for To ronto on the 18th, escorted by a party of the 7th Hussars. Major-General JACKSON was sworn in the same day, and duly installed as administrator of the Government during the absence of Mr. THOMSON. The New York Morning Herald, in alluding to the state of Canada, says : " The state of public feeling in both the Canadas is highly interesting. A violent opposition is generating to Governor Thomson among the Tory population, which leads them already to talk of democracy and the downfall of the Crown, with complacency. At the last ac counts the Governor was on his way to Toronto, to open the Assembly in the upper province, and to propose the treasures of the Home Government. These measures caus e th e spirit of discontent to increase ; and if the Canadians are only left alone by our Loafers, they will soon snake a rvolution out o f p ure s pit e t o , pretty Victoria and her present Cabinet. But if the rampant Canadians should declare their independence. and and then ask admission intot unruly our spirits union, o w on't let them. Such a setir ls its Te wo h uld ave give us more trouble than they are worth se veral curious specimena of t h ese British Tories in this city, and they give us no very exalted idea of their in telligence, order, or regard for law. If the Canadas dissolve their connec tion with England, a n d send G vernor Thomson back , like a barrel of t ur • (P ' pentine, they must set up business on the ir o wn hook. Well have nothing to do with them. Meantime Gener a l S cott ;till be on the border, during the winter, to keep our Loafers in order, and to see fair play." The Quebec Mercury states, that a com pany of her Majesty's 11th Regiment of Foot, one hundred strong, had been ordered from Quebec to Mada. waska settlement in Yew Brunswick, and adds, that this step is rendered necessary in consequence of rumours of a hostile nature from the Maine Boundary. By these arrivals we have later advices from Mexico, by which we learn that the internal affairs of the Gauntry were perfectly quiet and tranquil. A special messenger had arrived at Washington from Vera Cruz. The yellow fever continued of to rage violently at the latter place ; there were five hundred cases in the hospital. The following are the only extracts which the papers just received contain worth quoting : NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, Nov. 24. Considerable business in stock was done at the first board on Saturday ; at the second, little business was transacted, and at neither was there any material altera tion in rates. Stocks were generally rather higher. Mohawk, however, fell off 11 per cent. Sales were made of De laware and Hudson at 631-, 30 days ; U. S. Bank 76 i 1 to 77,3 days ; Haarlem -111, 3 days ; North American Trust and Banking Co., 411, and Mohawk 531. Money is more plenty among capitalists, and sales of favourite business paper, were made at 2 per cent. per month. Exchange on Philadelphia is more abundant, and paper on that city and Baltimore was sold at 10 to 101 ; Mobile, 9 to 10 ; New Orleans, 51 to 6. On other places rates are unchanged. Nothing doing in Foreign Exchanges. The supply, however, is fair, and continually increasing by remit taoces from the south. W e quote London, 108 to 109 ; Paris, 5.35 to 5.30 ; Amsterdam, 581 to 59 ; Hamburg, 35,- to 36 ; Bremen, 77. 1 7 to 78 ; Mexican Dollars are buying at 1 per cent. prem. ; Spanish Dol lars are at 41 ; Spanish Doubloons are at 16 to 16 25 ; Patriot, 15 60. The notes of the Providence Bank are now redeemed by J. T. Smith and Co., Wall -street, at a 4 per cent. discount. Other Rhode Island banks at 4to 5 per cent. It is confidently expected that we shall very shortly hear of the resumption of specie payments by all these institutions. New York Safety Fund country bank-notes are 31 to 4, and red back at 4 to 5. We learn that a full statement of the affairs of the bank is in town, and though we have not seen it, we arc assured, on good authority, that making every allowance for bad debts, and estimating its state stocks at their nominal value, but stocks of incorporated com. pairs, hypothecated to the institution, at their actual value, it exhibits a surplus of assets, over all its liabi lities, of five millions of dollars. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 23, 000 Shares U. S. Bank from 76 to 78 • 276 Delaware and Hudson 63 634 90 Dry Dock 69 70 993 N. American Trust 65 Amer Exchange Bank 10 Illinois State Bank 80 Canton Company Bank 125 Mohawk Railroad 25 Boston and Providence Railroad 96 85 Stonington Railroad Co . . 161- 16 ) 323 Haarlem do. 50 Long Island 10 Union Bank lO4 304 Syracuse and Utica lOO 103 145 Kentucky 60 Paterson Railroad 1,000 Dollars Treasury Notes NEW YORK COMMERCIAL MARKETS Nov. 23. ASHES.—The transactions of the week have been extremely limited, 300 bbls. pots have been taken at four dollars 371 cents. to 4 dollars 50 cents. and 150 bbls of pearls at five dollars—our previous quotations. COAL—There has been no addition to the stock o, Liverpool since our last ; sales are made to arrive at II dollars ,50 cents., on time—other descriptions at former prices. COFFEE.—AII descriptions of this article remain dull, tend in Brazil a decline has been effected of Ito cent. per lb. We have only to notice the following sales :-700 to SOO bags Brazil. 10 cents. to 11,i cents. ; 400 to 500 Laguayra, 111 cents. to 11; cents. ; 100 Maracaibo, 11, 1 , cents. ; 50 Java, 13} cents.—on time ; 100 Cuba, 91 cents.—ciLh. Together with a parcel of about 500 lngs Brazil, for export, on terms not transpired.—lm port, 5,950 bags Brazil, 41 bags Maracaibo, 74 bags Cuba. COTTON.—In consequence of a decline of in this article early in the week, shippers have been induced to come into market, and an increased animation has been exhibited. In consequence of the small stock on hand the market closes firm. Considerable quantities are now shipped from this port to Europe by southern agents, without being offered in market. The sales ex tend to fully 3,450 bales, viz.-1,175 Upland 9 to 11 cents. ; 200 Mobile 10 to 10i- ; 1,775 New Orleans 9 to 1 0 ;300 Florida 0i- to 10 DvEwoons.—The market is now well supplied with Logwood of the various descriptions, but owing to the difficulty in procuring freight, no important transactions have taken place since our last report. Fustic is still scarce, although in no demand. With the exception of about 50 tons Campeachy Logwood sold on terms not transpired, we have no transactions to ❑otice. FLOUR.—There has been a fair demand for Flour since our last, and prices have gradually advanced. During the week, sales of Western, to the amount of 7,000 bbls. were made at 6 dollars 181 cents. to 6 dollars '25 cents., and yesterday 3,000 hbls. were taken at. 6 dollars 37,- cents. to 6 dollars 50 cents., at which price it is now held. The stock being very light for the season, it is scarcely probable that lower rates will be submitted to. For Southern Flour there is very little inquiry at present ; sales of Georgetown were made at 6 . ;1-. Mot. AssEs.—With the exception of a cargo of 300 hhds. of Trinidad Molasses, a little tart, which were sold at 21 cents., we have few sales to notice ; 100 I:hds. Porto Rico were taken at 26 cents. and 80 hhds. Neuvitas Sy-up at 28 cents. New Orleans may be quoted at 26i to 27i, and Cuba Muscovado at 26. OiL.—Holders of linseed oil have become more firm, and but few transactions have occurred in the ar ticle during the past week. We quote at (38 to 70 cents, 6 months, for English and Dutch, and 60 cents cash for American. RICE.—The sales of this article since our last report amount to about 330 tierces, from 3 dollars, 12 cents., to 3 dollars 50 cents, principally at 3 dollars 374 cents. for the primest parcels cash, for exportation. To wards the close of the week the demand has decreased and the best parcels may be considered heavy at our highest quotations. The new crop proves far superior to that of last year. Import-922 tierces, and five half-tierces. SALT.---The market being completely overstocked, very little business is done. Small lots of Liverpool have been taken at 1 dlr. 45 cents. ; and sales by auc tion of 500 sacks were made at 1 dlr. 30 cents. SUGARS.—There has been no improvement in the demand, and prices remain without any material varia tion. We notice sales, 260 hhds. Porto Rico, 64 to 8 to 81 ; 150 Ste. Croix, 8i to 84 ; 220 New Orleans, 6 to 64 ; 400 boxes brown, 7 to 8 ; 200 white 10} to 114 ; 50 bbls. white Brazil, n. TALLOW.—SmaII sales of candle tallow at 10 to 10 c. per lb. TOBACCO.—The sales since our last embrace about 120 hhds. Kentucky, at private sale ; 70 hhds. at public sale, at about former prices ; the lower grades show a small decline ; St. Domingo, sales of 50 bales at about 20c. and usual credit. EXCHANGES.—There has been a fair demand for foreign exchanges during the week ; the closing prices were, on London, 1081 to 109 ; Paris, 5 35 to 5 30 ; Amsterdam, 381 to 39 ; Hamburg, 3.54 to 36 ; Bremen, 77 to 78. FREIGHTS.—There is more demand for freight to Europe. To Liverpool we quote a small advance. Cot ton, in square bales, is taken at 5-16 ; round ditto, 7-16 ; naval stores, 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. ; flaxseed, Bs. ; flour 2s. 6d. The rates to Havre remain without va riation. To New Orleans and other southern ports freights are so very dull that no rates can be given. SEAMENS' WAGES, WITH SMALL STORES.—T O Europe, per month, 15 dlrs. ; West Indies and New Orleans, 15 dlrs ; coasting, 16 dlrs. ; East Indies, 12 drls. ; South American, 13 dlrs. CIRCULAR. At a Convention of Delegates from the State Secu rity Banks, held at Rochester, on the 12th of No vember, 1839, Washington Hunt, President of the Lockport Banking and Trust Company, was called to the chair, and Thomas H. Rochester, Cashier of the Commercial Bank of Rochester, was appointed Secre tary. The following Banks were represented : Lockport Banking and Trust Company—byW. Hunt. Canal Bank of Lockport—by G. W. Rogers. Merchants' Exchange Bank, Buffalo—by W. Moore. Farmers' Bank of Orleans, Gaines—by L. A. Phillips. Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, Batavia—by J. S. Ganson. Bank of Danville—by J. Faulkner and I. L. Endress. Exchange Bank of Genesee County, Alexander—by J. S. Ganson. Bank of Western New York, Rochester—by G. Clark. Commercial Bank of Rochester—by E. Peck and T. H. Rochester. Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Rochester—by A. G. Smith. Bank of Brockport—by Joseph Ganson and T. R. Roby. Bank of America, Buffalo—by A. C. Stevens. Genesee County Bank, Le Roy—by M. P. Lams on . On motion of G. Clark, the following gentlemen were appointed a Committee to report resolutions ex. pressive of the views of this Convention, viz.,Wash ington Hunt, J. S. Ganson, and Thos. H. Rochester. The Committee, after a recess of the Convention, reported the following resolutions, which were unani mously adopted. Resolved—That the State security banks here repre sented, are desirous to aid in giving uniformity and con vertibility to the circulating medium of the state, and will make. every consistent effort to remedy the existing derangement and inequality in the currency. The proceedings of the Convention of certain safety fund b an k s, held at Auburn on the Bth instant, having been read, and said Convention having proposed that the notes of the safety fund banks be redeemed through the agency of the New York State Bank in the city of Albany, on the terms particularly specified in the cir cular letter signed by Wm. M. Oliver, Chairman ; and the said Convention h av i ng i nv i ted ‘ the banks under the general banking law to participate fully in the above arrangement, qiiojict to a prnportionate pert of thq expense ;" it was Resolved—That it is expedient for the state security banks to unite with the safety fund banks in the ar rangement above referred to, and to redeem their notes in the city of Albany on the terms proposed : Provided, first, that the safety fund banks generally shall unite in carrying the said arrangements into effect ; secondly, that the messenger shall be required to carry packages for the state security banks, and render them all the services to which the safety fund banks are entitled ; and thirdly, that the details of the arrangements can be adjusted in such a manner as shall be satisfactory to the Committee hereinafter named. Resolved—That an Executive Committee of five be appointed, with full power, and whose duty it shall be to correspond with the Committee of the safety fund banks, and to carry the foregoing propositions into effect, in such manner as they may deem most judicious. Resolved—That the banks here represented will un dertake to execute such arrangement as shall be con cluded by the aforesaid Committee. On motion, it was Resolved—That Washington Hunt, of Lockport ; Thomas H. Rochester, of Rochester ; J. S. Gannon, of Batavia ; William Moore, of Baffalo ; and Horace White, of Syracuse, be the Executive Committee. Resolved—That in case the said Committee shall fail to complete a satisfactory arrangement in respect to the safety fund messenger and the proposed system of re demption, they be authorized to employ a messenger for the sole use of the state security banks, and to adopt such other means as may be necessary to send home country notes for redemption. W. HUNT, Chairman. T. H. ROCHESTER, Secretary. Tilt,: SUN - , LONDON, MONDA_Y, D.ECEMWER. 16, ;.:,... TEXAS. (From the New York Courier and Enquirer). By the steamer Columbia, the editors of the New Orleans Bulletin have received dates to the Bth from Galveston, and to the 4th from Houston. The yellow fever had committed frightful ravages in the towns above-mentioned ; in consequence, many of the citizens had fled into the country. The shipping at Galveston experienced serious injury from a heavy gale of wind that occurred on the sth instant. The storm lasted during three days. Its violence was so great as to drive ashore all the vessels in port, includ ing three steam-boats. Emigrants were pouring into Texas in large numbers. Arrivals at Galveston, from New York, recently, had brought upwards of one hun dred families of German settlers, who intend to locate in a colony somewhere in the upper country. A still larger emigration is expected from England the ensuing winter• and spring. A dinner was given to President Lamar on his arrival at Austin, the new seat of Go vernment. His reception there was spoken of as quite flatter ing. A new town has recently been laid out on Ar kansas Day. The Texas Sentinel is the title of a new paper to be established at Austin. No Indian disturb ances had occurred for a considerable length of time. A company of men were recently despatched from Gal veston to Austin, to be stationed at some remote out posts on the Indian border ; and measures were in progress to secure an adequate defence for all the ex posed points on the frontier. WRECK OF THE SCOTIA. NARRATED BY DR, MADDER, ONE OF THE PASSENGERS BY THE ROSCHIS. Fifth of December, p.m., fell in with the wreck of the Scotia, bound trona Quebec to Glasgow, burden 600 tons, loaded with timber, water-logged, in latitude 46, longitude 32 30. On seeing signals of distress flying, we altered our course and bore down on her, and on the Roscius approaching approaching her, Captain Collins hailed her : the answer was, " We are water-logged— seventeen feet water in her hold !" The prompt reply of Captain Collins was," If you want to come on board put out your boats." A cheer from the people of the sinking vessel followed ; such a cry as men in desperate circumstances alone could utter, and that thrilling cry went up as the simultaneous shout of men in the ex tremest peril suddenly restored to life and hope, and in stantly every hat and cap was seen waving on the crowded poop. An effort was now made to approach us, but the water-logged vessel was utterly unmanageable—she pitched heavily, as if she would have gone down head long, the seas swept over her, and as she rose poured through her broken ports. Her mizentop mast, and fore and maintop gallant masts had been cut away to ease her, and the poop deck where the crew were con gregated seemed the only place of safety left them. In attempting to near us she came staggering down on us, and we were compelled to make sail to get out of her way. The sea was very heavy—we again lay to, and were then about a mile from the Scotia. Night came on, and no boats were seen—the unfortunate Sco tia was then lost sight of altogether. About six o'clock Captain Collins hoisted a lanthern, and the light was immediately answered by the Scotia ; it was the opi nion of Captain Collins that one of their boats had put off and had been swamped in attempting to reach us, and that the survivors had determined to wait till mornin g before another attempt was made. It seemed, indeed, doubtful in the extreme if any small boat could live in such a sea. It is impossible suffi ciently to commend the conduct of Captain Collins, his anxiety to reach Liverpool before the steamer which was to have sailed six days after us made every moment of importance, we bad moreover 70 steerage passengers and 21 in the cabin, and to forego taking advantage of a fair wind, and to lay to for a night in a heavy sea, with every appearance of a heavy gale, was a determi nation which I greatly fear many a master of a ship would have found great difficulty in coining to. Capt. Collins, however, made this resolution promptly, and without any expression of impatience at the detention it occasioned. His only observation was "We must stay by the poor devils at all events till morning —we can't leave them to perish there, d—n it." May we not hope when " the accusing spirit flew up to Heaven's chan cery with the oath, and blushed as he gave it in, the recording angel as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever." At seven p.m. cheering was heard in the direction of the Scotia ; the people, we supposed, had taken to the boats, and had then left the sinking vessel. In the course of an hour, or rather less, the long-beat of the Scotia, filled with men, was on our lee quarter. By the admirable arrangements which were then made by Captain Collins for rescuing them, the men were taken on board without the least accident. This boat brought 18 ; the Captain and five men had still re mained on board, and were preparing to put off in the jolly boat. No little anxiety was felt for the safety of this small boat ; in the course of half an hour however she was seen, and with two oars only she gained the Roscius, and the Captain and his five men were soon taken on board. To the credit of the poor master of the Scotia, be it observed, that he, Captain Jeans, was the last man to leave the sinking ship. The anxiety expressed by the men who came in the first boat for the safety of their Captain ; and, indeed, the terms in which the whole of his people, then and subsequently spoke of Captain Jeans, showed how highly he was respected and esteemed by his crew, and if he had not been so, he would probably not have kept his ship afloat so long as he had done. Nor was the anxiety of Captain Jeans for the safety of his crew, less manifest ; the first question he asked on coming on board the Roscius was, " Are all my people safe ?" The captain and crew were all Scotch, and their conduct throughout reflected no discredit on their country. When they came on board they were worn out with continual exertion. The men had been night and day at the pumps since the previous Tuesday, but, exhausted as they were, they immediately turned to, and with one accord went on deck and did duty with our crew ; and no sooner were the boats cast adrift, than there was ample occasion far their services—a violent gale from the north-east set in, which must rendered it utterly impossible for the people to have taken to their boats, and the violence c.f which on the following day must have been inevitably fatal, for it 'would *lave been impossible to have kept the pumps going and the sea already, even before the gale from the north-east set in, was making a clear breach over her, and threatening to carry away her poop-cabin, the last place of refuge left the poor people of the Scotia, except the top, where they had already stowed water and provisions, in the momentary expectation of being compelled to aban don the deck—and thus providentially were twenty-four human beings preserved from a watery grave. LETTER FROM THE MASTER OF THE SCOTIA TO CAPTAIN COLLINS. Liverpool, Dec., 1839. Sir,—On behalf of myself and crew, I beg leave to express to you the heartfelt gratitude we feel for the assistance you rendered to us when, on the sth instant, the vessel I commanded, the Scotia, bound from Que bec to Greenock, being waterlogged, and myself and my people worn out with continual exertion (and still, un fortun: tely, unable to keep her free), you promptly con sented to take us off, and thereby rescued us from cer tain death. For all the kindness and generous treat ment we have sub!equently received from you, we thank you from our hearts, and in the prayers of ourselves and families you never can be forgotten. I am, Sir, most gratefully yours, To Captain John Collins, JOHN JEANS. Packet ship Roscius, of New York. Every country Paper almost which reaches us is full of th e agitation which is preparing on the Corn-l aws . This is as it should be. Let no other topic be suffered to interfere with the abolition of those laws : so will the Legislature be convinced that at length the sufferings of the people have made them dreadfully in earnest, and the righteous ness of their cause will ensure them complete success. At Manchester the G uardian says there is to be a public meeting, which, last year, owing to the success of the Tories in working on the Char tists, could scarc el y be held, but which this yearrit]m will,il n t we. The labouring class es are at l engt h, tie to Lila ifijury CIR. ) a sutler t presume, be m ost numerous an d sutler from the Coo Pren ia Corn-laws, .')u s, i ancr l t t o the duty of agitating for the bolition of the m. The mechanics of Sheffield, for example, have put forth an excellent address to their fellow workmen throughout the kingdom, which contains a srmary of the mischief inflicted on ihe country by the Corn-laws, and this summons to aid in the repeal : " Friends and Fellow Workmen,---We, the Commit tee of the Sheffield Mechanics' Arti-Corn•law A'socia- Lion, earnestly call upon you to exert yourselves on this question, by forming associations of your own in places where there are none ; and where they do exist, by joining them heart and hand. We hope that cur brethren, the agricultural labourers, will not fail to aid us, as their own welfare is fast linked with our's. Let the merchant, the manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artizan, and the labourer, join in one common league. Let it not be said that the apathy or opposition of the working class is the cause of these laws remaining to crush our best interests. We would say, Arise, men of England, and show the moral strength of firm bnt peaceable agi. ration." The Staffordshire Examiner states that the men I of Wolverhampton are to give a grand dinner to their two Anti-Corn-law Members, and that a great exertion is to be made in that neighbourhood to agitate for the Abolition. The Lancaster Guar dian, referring to the proceedings at Manchester, echoes the recommendation to agitate. The Pres ton Observer, the Carlisle Journal, and, in short, almost every Newspaper published in the manufactur ing districts, join in the advice, an d t h e N ews p a per Press must have lost all its wonted influence—pub lic opinion, even when founded on justice, and expressed with honest and earnest warmth, must have become the mere shadow of a shade—if there be not, at the commencement of the approaching Session, such an agitation as will make the walk and roofs of the Parliament Houses shake, and awe even the unrighteous Bishops—who have never lifted up their voices against the starvation laws— into righteousness. Great indeed is the distress, and great the glootn in the manufacturing districts. There the people will be astonished to think that they have struggled so long when they see the last returns of the Bank of England published in Friday's Gazette. With a population increasing every day, with an active and untiring people seeking employment in every direction, with business greatly increased and in creasing—for the Corn-laws have not been equal in power to the laws of nature, and have not wholly arrested that growth of society which is consistent with the decrees of the ALMIGHTY ; with all these circumsances, requiring an increase of money, the manufacturers will learn with astonishment that the circulation of the great Bank of issue—the notes of which are a legal tender, and the foun dation of all the currency of the kingdom—has actually, within a few years, been reduced one half. Not many years a;.o the circulation of the Bank of England was 33,000,000/. ; now it is not more than 16,732,0001. Within these eighteen months it has been curtailed upwards of 2,200,000/., or, including the deposits as circulation, it has been lessened, since June 1838, 7,154,000/. So that, with an increased and increasing business, the cir culation has been curtailed, beating down prices, and producing loss after loss to all the owners of property. This great diminution in the quantity of currency is mainly owing to the Corn-laws, which, abstracting the gold from the Bank, compels it to cur tail its issues, and compels it to destroy much of the property and much of the trade of the country. In this state of the Money Market the manufacturers will see such a convincing proof of the injury in flicted on them by the Corn-laws, and such a cer tainty that nothing better is to be hoped for till ;hose laws are repealed, that they will be spurred :0 a last struggle to procure the Abolition. We would have the agriculturists notice, too, ;hat this successive diminution in the quantity of the currency depreciates their property far more than it would be depreciated by the repeal of the Corn-laws. In fact it tends to make the farmer's produce sell for Continental prices, while its cost to him, tin eluding the rent, remains unaltered. We would have him especially notice, too, that the curtailment of the issues of the Bank, consequent on an expor tation of gold to buy corn, takes place at the same period when his corn comes to market, so that he is compelled, in the majority of cases, to buy with a full currency and high prices, and, greatly to his loss, to sell with a contracted currency and low prices. He does not yet feel all the effects of this limited circulation, but he soon will ; and he will learn that the price he will receive for his short crop will not remunerate him to the extent he ex • pects for the cost of bringing it to market. His day is coming, and the distress which now over whelms his customers, the manufacturers, is only a shadow of that of the years 1835 and 1836 which he will have to encounter. Independently, however, of the pecuniary advan tages to the manufacturing capitalists resulting from a repeal of the Corn-laws, let them remember that at present their homes are not safe from the vast discontent of the people. Never is that to Le dreaded when they have plenty of employ ment and good wages, when prosperity gladdens all classes, and a continual increase of masters and capitalists is constantly bringing the most intelligent and successful workmen, the leaders of the fellows, over to the other side, as masters and ca• pitalists. It is the duty of the manufacturers, there fore, to press on the landlords the propriety of abolishing the Corn-laws, as the surest and best means of restoring that prosperity, and with it that safety of person and property, which once charac- . tensed England. We will, in conclusion, say one word to the landlords—to the once high-minded gentlemen of England. Not a little alarm exists through their ranks for the safety of their property. One of the most serious charges made against the Chartists is that their doctrines attack property. Years ago, however, Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH warned the landlords that they would expose property to dan ger whenever they confounded it with taxation. The Corn-laws confound property with a most iniquitous tax, and expose it to all the danger of destruction to which the latter is exposed. For their information we will quote another short extract from the Ad dress of the Sheffield Trades, which will perhaps convince them that their own injustice is the cause of that danger to property which they dread ; and that they will assuredly lose their property unless they abolish the Corn tax : " If there arc some proud lordlings who consider they have a right to do what they like with their own ; who are not content with holding thousands of acres of the land of these kingdoms, given to their ancestors by a bas tard usurper, or seized by force and maintained by the sword, like those of the Earl Warrener ; if these men s a e r r e vie n e ot on c c o e nt a e t n ta t w eh i e t holding dh to o their lands w them, when they wer it e hout the obliged to equip and maintain the military force of the realm, which he yn are esyt ill d v e e t e n r o m w i n t e h d r o t w o n p r u e v p e o n n t yyoounr fromshould e x e e r h s a n ; g i . f ing your labour for food for your families, with those %vim would give you the most in return ; let them re fleet on the present condition of the once great landed proprietors. of France, whose millions of acres, owing to their tyranny, folly, and stupidity—whose mil lions of acres have passed into other hands, and their families for generations have been reduced to abject poverty. This was a just retribution for the evils that had afflicted their country, and was in accordance with the maxim of old Roman law, that whoever made his property an injury or nuisance to the public, should be deprived of it." The war between the ecclesiastical and civil powers, —that is, between Church and State —in Scotland, is carried on with the most determined spirit on both sides, and the Kirk, so long the proud boast of the country for the usefulness, moral habits, and unob trusive conduct of her ministers, now exhibits the melancholy picture of a house divided against itself. The Commission s itti ng at Edinburgh, as we stated on Saturday, h ave suspended by one vot e seven clergymen, thereby prohibiting them f rom I ) aptizing, preaching, fulininiFteriil! (1,„ Sacrament, or performing any clerical functions whatever.l Nothing frightened by this interdict, i and believing that they are acting in accordance with the law which most Churchmen profess to 1 obey, these ministers not only have entered a pro test against the whole proceedings, but have pro nounced them illegal, arbitrary, and oppressive, and have threatened the Moderator with an action for any damages they may sustain in consequence. It appears from the debate that Dr. CHALMERS, in the first fit of indignation against these " idolaters of the law," as he sarcastically describes them, was disposed to visit this " act of disloyalty" with the highest infliction, that is depo sition, for attempting " to shake the nerves of the Clergy of the Church by threatenings of confisca tion and imprisonment, to induce them to cpiail be fore the judicatories of the civil power." As the majo rity of the Presbytery, however, persist in these at tempts to intimidate the Assembly, probably the next step will be to depose them, and thereby strip them of their worldly property, as well as of their spiritual power. As affairs stand at present, the suspended Clergy certainly have the law on their side, and they are likely to have it so long as the Lords Spi ritual and Temporal exist. Presuming on that they have issued through their agent the following denun ciation against the President of the Assembly : I, Alexander Peterkin, writer in Edinburgh, Procu rator for the Presbytery of Strathbogie, and the Rev. John Cruickshank, minister of Glass, the Rev. Wil liam Masson, minister of the parish of Botryphnic, the Rev. William Allardyce, minister of the parish of Rhynie, the Rev. James Walker, minister of the parish of Huntly, the Rev. James Thomson, minister of Keith, the Rev William Cowie, minister of the parish of Cairnie, and the Rev. James A. Cruickshank, mi nister of the parish of Mortlach, being a majority of the said Presbytery, do hereby represent to you, the Rev. Henry Duncan, D.D., Moderator of the Commission of the General Assemby, which met in an adjourned meeting thereof at Edinburgh, on Wednesday the eleventh day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty nine, as Moderator foresaid, and through you to the ma, jority of said Commission who have concurred ia and voted for the several sentences pronounced at the said adjourned meeting of Commission, having reference to the said parties, that the said sentences, and all the pro ceedings therewith connected, are incompetent, arbitary, ilegal, and oppressive, being in evident contempt of he law of the land, as declared in the sta- tutes of the realm, and in decrees of the Supreme Civil Judicatories of this country, and in violation also of the standing laws of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, in violation of the rights and duties and most injurious to the character, interests, and feelings of the parties aforesaid. And therefore I, as Procurator foresaid, do hereby protest that you, and all who by their votes in passing the foresaid sen tences, have been accessory thereto, and have con curred therein, shall be liable to the said Rev. John Cruickshank and others aforesaid, each and all of then), in all cost, skaith, damage, and expense, which they have thereby incurred, or may incur in consequence Iherrof, and that you shall farther be liable, conjunctly and severally, to them thereonent in all the legal con sequences which may result from the said illegal pro ceedings. And hereupon, and upon all and sundry the premises, I take instruments as Procurator foresaid, in the hands of the Notary Public hereto subscribing, in presence of witnesses ; and this schedule of protest I deliver to you pe)mnally, sitting as Moderator fore said, of said meeting of Commission of Assembly, in open Court assembled, this twelfth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine years, betwixt the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock forenoon. The revolution in the Canton of Tessin (Ticino), Switzerland, of which we published an account last week, copied from the Morning Chronicle, is confirmed by reports in the Paris Journals o f Saturday. This revolution is the triumph of the Catholic party, as that of Zurich was of the Pro testant. The details are of no general interest. We have received Madrid Journals of the sth, 6th, and 7th inst. General ;VIA EoTo had arrived in the capital, where he was well received by the QUEEN REGENT. Nothing was talked of but the election contest, as it was believed that the incle mency of the weather would suspend, of necessity, all military operations. The Funds were still de clining, the Five per Cents. Active being quoted on the-.7th, or 28 cash, without much demand. 'We . subjoin 'from the Eco de Arragon of the 9th inst. a summary of the latest news from the theatre of war : " Espartero's army occupies precisely the same posi tions as before. On the Bth eight Carlists presented themselves at Saragossa as deserters from Cabrera, and the letters from Alcanis state that desertion prevailed in the Carlist chief Bosque's ranks. Letters from Daroca of the sth, announce that on the 3d Cabrera, with five battalions and 600 cavalry, quitted Esternel tie Canizar and the environs, marching towards Cabra, which he entered on the evening of the 3d. The same letter adds that the Carlist chief Alegre, who was mak ing excursions from Segura to levy contributions, had suddenly pounced upon the village of Villar de los Na varre, in the very centre of the Christino lines, and had pillaged several houses for the second time. The Eco de dragon says that Martin Barrea, alias Zur bano, is to blockade Segura. On the 2d O'Donnell, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Centre, was at Teruel, pursuing the Carlist Chief Arevalo, who was with three battalions and 400 cavalry, near Villel. The first division of the Army of the Centre, after taking the Carlist fort of Castry, marched to besiege Chulilla. The activity of the Carlist troops near the Ehro, and on the frontiers of Valencia and New Castile had caused corresponding movements of the Christinos." The discovery of the Bonapartist plot—the probable settlement of the Eastern question—the war in Africa—and the political gossip to which the approaching meeting of the Chambers naturally gives rise, occupy the columns of the Paris Jour nals of Friday and Saturday. In defending the Government from the attacks made upon it by the Opposition Press, the Moniteur reviews the social state of France since 1830, and asserts that the revolutionary mania has been gradually declining since that period. We have not room for the de fence of the Moniteur, which is temperately and well written, but which withal contains no fact or argument unknown to our general readers. The Temps states that twenty-eight letters writ ten in cipher by Prince NAPOLEON LOUIS BONA PARTE were seized, and the key to them found among the papers of the Marquis de CROUY CHANEL. The same journal adds that the Prince, on learning the seizure of his letters, had offered, or caused to be offered, to the French Government to leave London immediately, and to retire to what ever part of America might be designated, stipu lating as a condition of his departure, that his letters should be torn up, and that the names of the per sons compromised in them should not be divulged. The Semaphore of Marseilles of the 9th inst., contains some interesting news from Tunis, the publication of which the crowded state of our columns obliges us to postpone till to-morrow. ABD--ELKADER, it appears, is endeavouring, by every means in his power, to secure the co-opera tion of the BEY in his attack upon the French. Admiral RousSIN has arrived in Paris. The following extracts, including the latest intel ligence, are from the French papers of Saturday : The Deputies begin to arrive in great numbers at Paris. The ante-chambers of the Ministers are much frequented. The Council of Ministers Las not yet begun to dis cuss the speech from the Throne. M. Pierre Legarde, calling himself short-hand writer to the Capitalc, has been placed under arrest this morn ing by virtue of a writ issued by M. Zangiacomo. M. Lc garde was arrested once before, and on a statement having been given in several journals that he was the Editor of the Capital, that journal replied that no person of that name was concerned in editing the journal, and that the person in question had a very humble employment in its office. It was reported today at the Palais that the Chan cellor and the Grand Referendary of the Court of Peers have applied to the balonnier of the order of Ad vocates in the Royal Tribunal of Paris, for a list of those advocates who might be officially appointed to act as counsel for the accused of the second category of the affair of the 12th and 13th May. As the opening of the . session draws near, the Council of Ministers meet very frequently. _ M. de Lamartine has arrived at Paris. The Major-General commanding the departments of ; the Meuse and the military sub-intendant of Bar le Duc, I are gone to Conmerey to proceed with the organization of two squadrons of the Bth Regiment of Chysseurs, which are to go to Africa. . . I,: . nns journal, announcing that everytlaw pr, paring for the departure .of the troops of the garrison, which are to go to Africa, says that nothing can exceed the ardour of the soldiers who are destined to revenge our colonists and soldiers surprised by the treachery of the Arabzi. Cabrera has written a letter to a person at Bayonne, in which he begs him to make known that all the reports of a convention with the Constitutional army are entirely false. The haughty partizan rejects, as unworthy of his character, any arrangement, and does not conceal that the French Government has the greatest share in all those negotiations.—Le commerce. BOURSE, — P ARIS, DEC. 13. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. 'mach 5 per Cents ll2 21 ... 11'2 25 ... 112 10 ... 112 10 4 per tents lOl 50 ... I'l 59 ... MI r,o ... 101 51) 3 per Cents SO 55 ... 50 60 ... SO 50 ... 80 50 ~rit'. el r'rance .attitte Bark I, l `oof. Sh 107.) _1075 .. .1 0 75 ... I 75 5,000 f. r•h 52'.:2 50 —.5722 50 ...5020 59 ...L222 50 !elgian 5 per Cents He ... 102 ... 1(Y14 ... 10: Bank 755 ... 703 ... 755 ... 760 Cluponc SpatUs]] - tye 25% ... 25%4 ... ... 25% Passive 61,4 6 1 4 6 I, New ferre'l Portuguese 3 per Cents Nes: nlitm , . ?.0 ... 101 20 ,; IiAILWAY SHAIID, St. ('ermai 57.1 Versailles, H 8 LB. 315 ... 3/5 II Vrc Urledns ... 455 ••• • 3:5 ▪ 9J5 • 510 ▪ 315 _ 9),5 ... 455 ‘lulhausen to "I hann Str,,bure to Bale 312 50 ... als ... 312 50 315 ASPHALTES AND Bl'l U ENS. yarn (51abetly's) . PRUSSIAN FUN OS.— BERLIN, DEC. 10. Hills. Money. St. Scheid. Sch., 4'. ; per cent ‘, g•ri s 103% Prussian English Loan, 15...10, 4 per cent. 10.2% 102% Extliange on London, three months— 6 213 i, —.Prussian State Gaa'ile. Dec. 11.. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) CREEK, DEC. 14.—Arrived the Nameless, Suller, from Tangier MARGATE, DEC. 15.—Arrived off, the Lively, Parker, from Algoa Bay ; Aini Baldwin, Crawford, Lima ; Jus tin 3, Bentley, Calcutta ; John, Kendrick, Tencriffe ; Sir Wm. Bensley, Gubb, Ouebec. VEAL, DEC. 15.—Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the Moira, from Calcutta ; Nine. Denny, ditto ; Galatea, Proudfoot, Algoa Bay; Henry Davidson, Demerara; Peken, Pyc, Quebec; Buoyant, North America; Mary, Brown. Riche bue:o ; St. Vincent, China ; Toronto, Montreal; Euphra tes, Beckham, Madras ; Eden, Noble, Calcutta; Barron, Hall, Pictou. Sailed the Quebre, Hebard, for New York ; Iris, Rio .I:mein); John Moran, Charleston. DO'F.R, DEC. 14.—Off port, the Theresa, Young, 'rum Calcutta. PO:.T3MOUTII, DEC. 14, Wind W.-15th E. to S.E.— Arrived her Majesty's ship Andromache, from Burmuda, sa led 29th ult. ; the Boadicea (transport) ditto. CLYDE, DEc. 13.—Sailed the General Monagos, Thompson, for Barbadoes; Antillis, Lee, Havana ; Nina, Hanrner, St. Kitts ; Earl Dalhousie, Trinidad. MILFORD, DEC. 14.—Arrived the Lord Stanley, Davies, Sierra Leone, leaky, having struck on the Hats and Bar rels last night. KINGSTOWN, DEC. 14.—Arrived the St. George, Poole Qaebee ; Leonard, Dobbin, Carpenter, ditto ; Elizabeth Midwinter, Trinidad. CROOKIIAYEN. DEC. 11.—Arrived the Mary, Pattison, from Honduras, rather leaky. CORK, DEC. 13.—Arrived the Eliza Ann, Hopper, Quebec. Off port, the Columbian, Robinson, Laguna; Mary Caroline, Quebec. THURSO, DEC. ll—Arrived off port the Agnes and Ann, NITA-lane, from Miramichi. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 15.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Volunteer, N . PNlinn, from Calcutta ; Frankland, Parn,ll, ditto ; Rebecca, Longford, Pernwribuco ; Wm. Russell, Bruce, P.iraiba; New York, Barstcr,v, New York, with 30,000 dollars; Roricius, Collins, ditto, sailed 25th ult. with 180,000 dollars ; Severn, Williams, ditto; Arica, Stugg, Arica; Reliance, Faval, MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have numerous arrivals this morning, in conse quence of which the delivery of the letters and papers trim the Post-office have been retarded to a late hour. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 17th October. The following are ,:tracts : " PORT NATAL.—The American Missionary, Mr. Lindley, has arrived from Port Natal. He gives a very interesting account of the country and emigrants ; the former, he declares, is splendid in the extreme. He speaks very highly of the piety :aid industry of the Boors ; and considers th-it they audDingaan are equally anxious for peace, but mistrustful of each other. The farmers are living in large congregated masses, for fear of the Zoolas ; and be thinks unless peace be made and 'secured within a few weeks, they will be obliged to act on the offensive. " A petitim. of the landholders, tradesmen, and other inhabitonts of Cape Town to his Excellency at a pub lic meeting, states—That having ascertained the in troduction in the Honourable Board of a Bill for the exemption from the laws against usury, certain bills, promissory notes, &c., they contemplate with the greatest alarm the possibility of its being carried, and becoming a law, as they conceive that its immediate consequences will be highly •detrimental to the best interest of the community at large, and peculiarly oppressive and ruinous to the.‘agriculturists, landholders, and trades men, n d the labouring classes of the colony." (From the Graham Town Journal, Oct. 3.) TUE WEATHER.-At Somerset we have had the severest fall of rain and snow that has been expe rienced for the last 16 years. Many sheep and goats have died from the cold. Heavy rains have delayed again the post from the frontier. We have received Halifax papers to the 22d Nov. The weather still continues very favourable, mild, and dry. We have received Prince Edward's Island papers to November 20. ST. JOHN'S, N.B.—A diabolical attempt was made to set fire to the Commercial Batik. The fire was fortu nately discovered by a person passing the building before it had made much progress. Sir John Harvey has issued a proclamation forbidding the cutting of any por tion of timber, however small, on the disputed territory, and authorising the Warden to seize the timber and drive off all persons so employed. THE FUNDS. Owing to the favourable intelligence, from the United States, received by the two packet ships from New York, Consols have rat her improved ; thoy lel:. off o;i Sat urday as 91i 92 tot the A , count, and opened this morning- at 92 to 92k ; Reduced, 901 ; Exchequer Bils, 4 2 dis. ; Bank Stock, 1771 1781 ; huhu Stock, 253 255. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which closed on Saturday at 23i 4 , may be quoted rather higher, at 23i 24 ; Portuguese left off at 334 1 1-, at present. 334 34 ; Colombian as they closed 25} ; Bra zliian, 71i 721 ; Mexican, 284 ; Spanish Passive, 5 7 ,i 64 ; Deferred, 10i 11 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53:g ; Five per Cents. 99i The Lisbon packet still remains due. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DA V AT ONE O'CLOC&. Isank Stock — I inia Stock S per Cem. Red. tio%% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. —. South Sea St oc k — 3 , z per Cent . —Old Annuities Ditto Red. 9314% New Ditto New :3;( 2 pci Cent — i 3 pc, Cent. Annuities, 17i1 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toex vire Dit to 500 ... 2 I dis. Jan. 5, 18&' 13 13-16 Ditto Small 3 dis. Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Csinmcrcial — Jan. 5, 1860 —; Ditto Advertised ...... Jan. 5, 185 0 — Bank Stock for Account ... --- Aprils, 188 0, — ndia Stock for Account .. -- Jan. 5.187 0 --I Consos for Accowit '92 % RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAI AT ONE 0 CLOCK Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds . Brrazilia n Bonds Ditto Account Eluenos Ayres Bonds . Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Chill= 3ond i — , Prussian Bonds Ditto tc,sc.. nt —' Russian Bonds, 182'/.......... ::o.l.nnt s.Br.tids — Ditto Account Ditto colz nt CAL - x - r.: sr 8czd5,1824...25i 3 A X% , Spanish Bonds V% 4% 4 ... E;',) 1.;.:0-11t ''3% A, Ditto Accot.nt. anish 31:r 1 • — Passive Ditto I.:. ••'' nt Greek Bonds —' French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 18'25 — , --. 4 per cent....... —f. —c. Ditto Account —, -- 3 per cent. —f. —e. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent ' --- Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account — , Dutch, 2ii per cent. 5 334% Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account 28% k Ditto, 5 per cent 99% Neapolitan Ditto Acc0unt....„........ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE 0'C.1.0.:K. Paid. Per Share Brazilian Imperial Mining Co (Issued at 51. pm ) ::0 19 London and Blackwall Railway l5 12% HALF-PAST ONE. We have received the .lournal of Antwerp of yester• day's date. The King has daily received petitions full of signatures, in which it is demanded to change hi s Ministry. We have received Quebec Papers to Nov - 21 • and P.as beingofcaonnysodisefaatulptreerss•e Comparative statement of arrivals, tonnage, s i e n nle s r i s ve a , t fo t r he th p e or y t e o ar f s Quebec, to ( t i o ls th 3 e , Passengers. Vessels. Tonnage. 20th November 4 72 ...... ti nge 1839 1833 ...----. _ morning 2p4t:yBoi paying has anbdee4n receiving32s settling More this year 46 The chief operation this e durin theti' e balances Foreign (i,f Account,e di f itferenc g the present ac count ; as yet The Consol Market continues firm, wit!) scarce any nt, 92 fluctuation during to 92k for the o pening • Reduced a o pen , ...0i 3- Exchequer ; .. Bank Stock, no- Bills, 2 4 dis ; Bonds,wirleddtihaoen morning. h eaBr 6 Is.; thing done. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Acti ve , s t ea d y , a t 24i ; Por tu g uese 34; Thre e per Cents. nothing done Colombian, 25;, i ; Mexican, 28i i ; Spanish Deferred i m proved to 11k ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53j ; Five per Cents., 99i. We have no further arrivals or reports to communi cate. The Lisbon mail not arrived. Alderman Birch having resined his gown for Candlewi c k W ard, and Sir - James Duke having de clined t o b ecome a candidate , it is expected Sir George Carroll w ill b e • e l ecte d w ith ou t o pp os iti on . The works of the Great Western Railway, be t 7 ,7 London an d Bristol, are so far advanced tnat the nirectors will open about thirty mica further of the line at the same time that they open it to Healing-. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Master of the Rolls, on coming into Court this morning gave judgment in the following case 111`KENNA V. EVERETT. This was a motion to discharge for irregularity ,nn or der obtained cx parte for the examination of two wit nesses de bene esse, one of them, Elizabeth Evans, being stated in the order to he in the 70th year of ber age, in a very infirm state, and not likely to live long. His Lordship having looked at all the cases hearing on the point, was of opinion that the order was not strictly according to the rule of the Court, that rule being, that where the age or the health of a witness was stated as a reason for an examination, de bene esse, the age must be seventy years, and the health in a dangerous state. Those two o facts were not sworn to in this case, and the order, therefore, so far as it re lated to the evidence of Elizabeth Evans, mast be dis charged. The other part of the order, which was for the examination, de bene esse, of Thomas Davis, stated to be a private soldier in her Majesty's corps of Sappers and Miners, and under orders to proceed to Bermuda, there to remain for seven years, was contended to be irregular, as it was contrary to the practice and esta blished decisions of the Court, to permit the examinajon of a witness, de bene esse, who was about to quit dui kingdom. His Lordship had read through the cases with a view to that point, and though he had found several instances in which it was said the three cases in which witnesses might be examined de bene esse upon an order obtained ex parte, or as of course, were the cases o f a witness being 70 years of age, in a dangerous state of health ; or the only witness to a material fact in the cause ; yet he could not find it had ever been distinctly stated by the Court that an order of course might not be obtained for the examination of a wit ness who was about to quit the kingdom. In the 13th volume of Vesey's Reports there was a case in which it was stated a witness, who was about to quit the kingdom, might be examined de bene ease, and there was a case so far back as the time of Lord Hardwicke, in which an order had been granted, aS of course, for that purpose, but the expressions used by the Court in those cases were such as to make it some v, hat doubtful whether that point could be considered as decided or not ; and he (the Master of the Rolls) could not say an order of that sort was irre gular because obtained without notice. The order, therefore, must be discharged as to the first witness, but not as to the second. ItOMILLY V. GLINT. The application in this case was to discharge an order obtained by the defendant for leave to defend in forma pauperis, on the ground that such order had been ob tained on false suggestions ; and that the defendant, in stead of being a pauper, as he had alleged himself to be in the affidavit on which the order was obtained, was . a person carrying on trade as a boot and shoemake', In good circumstances, having extensive credit and consider able property. In support of that allegation an affi davit had been filed, which the defendant had answered ; and the result (his Lordship observed) was either that the defen dant was fraudulently putting on an appearance of credit, by which he deceived the whole world in the mode of carrying on his business, or that he had improperly ob tained the present order. Considering the mode in which the defendant had denied.some of the allegations in the affidavit of the plaint iff, and the number of alle gations he had not denied at all, sufficient remained to satisfy his Lordship the order ought not to stand, and therefore it must be discharged with costs. VICE-CHANC ERY.-(THIS DAY.) WHITTAKER V. CLARKE. Mr. K. BRUCE applied ex parte in this case for a special injunction to restrain the defendant from selling a work published in Paris, but imported into this cou n try, entitled "Le Nouveau Dictionnaire." The ol lowing are the circumstances under which the applica tion was made to the Court. As long back as the year 1828 the plaintiff, together with several other persons, empkiyed two eminent literary French gentlemen to edit, revise, and improve the French Dictionary, which had a most extensive sale in this country. Early in the present year the plaintiff discovered that that work had been pirated, but by whom they could not ascer tain until a short time since, when they found out that the defendant was selling a dictionary called the Noveau Dictionnaire, and upon comparibg the work published by the plaintiff with that of the defendant, it was op parent that the one was a piracy of the other. Under these circumstances the plaintiff applied to the Court to restrain the defendant from selling their work. His HONOUR considering the case one that called for the interposition of the Court, granted the injunction. ILLINGWORTH V. THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAIL- WAY COMPANY. The further arguments in this part heard motion oc cupied his Honour the remainder of the day. EQUITYEXCIPIEQUER. (THIS DAY.) Sittings at Sergeant's Inn s before Mr. Baron A LDERSON. The sittings in this Court have been suspended dur ing the past week, in consequence of the illness of Lord Abinger, the Chi3f Baron. ILs Lordship not being sufficiently well to atte,id this morning, Mr. Baron Al derson took his place, It lying been auth: isrd, by a warrant, bearing her Majesty's signature, '`to hear and determine between this time and the first day ot 1 -1 Term all matters and causes depending in this Court ilary as a Court of Equity." THE YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.—FETI TION OF BROOKSBANK• This was the petition of certain Charity Trustees, pray:ng that the monies which had been p chase a id into Court by the Railway Company, for the pu of lands belonging to the Charity, might be laid out in the purchase ct other lands. His L . n onsiiir directed a reference to th e Master to ascertain whether the purchase proposed to be made was a fit and proper one. IN RE NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE HAILWAY.--FETITION OF The petitioners in this case, who are the assignees of a bankrupt, prayed that the purchase-money of certain lands vested in them, subject to the pay ment of some legacies, might be invested until the question relative e to those legacies should he determined. They als prayed the costs. After some opposition on the part of the Company, His LORDSHIP granted the application. THOMPSON v. THOMPSON. „ Mr. KENYON PARKER moved on behalf ot Huai. Thompson and Joseph Thompson, that the defendants Matthew Thompson and George Thotnpson might within ten days pay into the Bank of England the sum of 785/. and bring into Court certain d eeds and papers. The suit was instituted for the purpose of having an account of the estate of Matthew Thompson, the father of all the parties, the defendant Matthew having taken out administration to his estate. Previous to the death of the father, his son John, who was in partnership with a solicitor, at Bradford, named Hailstone, died intestate. s i n e , but hriminil te That was in Aug ust 1831. Mr. Baron .A.LDERSO N—He perished in the Rothsay steame r ? Mr. t a tFheAgp PARKER—Yes Y p e ar s tes to the suit. ;i n son Matthew to do so, but an a cco u n t of that estate h ad neve r been taken. Th e f at h er di e d i n F e b rua ry, 18 38, with permitted leaving father did no take out adtndini his tr at wiof d The i ; his Matthew then administered, and the bill was now filed for an account of the father's estate. Mr. SIMKINSON opposed the motion, on the g round that no part of the money now sought to be paid into Court w as part o f t h e estate of the father. This was not a bill to administer the estate of John Thompson, but the estate of Mathew Thompson. The father, of course, would be entitled to a portion of the clear estate of John Thompson, but not until all the dema nds against the estate of the latter were satisfied, and it was he' lieved that about 1,1001. would be required for that for purpose. Besides, there might be other claimants ' the it possible that the wife might not have died at the it same moment as the husband ; and althoug h they were both drowned, she might have survived him fora few seconds, and that would materially alter the case. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—It might be a doubtful ques tion, and was a matter of evidence w hether one might not have been washed overboard before the other. It was not like a matter of execution, where the fath eran son were hanged on the same gallows, and it was a question which suns ived. Mr. SIMKINSON submitted that there was no ground for the application, and that all bad been done that was possible to wind up the affairs. The parties were all attorneys—(A laugh)—and not satisfied with l e tting st other people quarre l and benefiting by it, they mu needs quarrel amongst themselves.—(Laughter.) Mr. Baron ALnEnsoN could not see what amount to order to be paid into Court, and therefore dismissed the motion as to that, but ordared the papers to be pro duced. 7..11.1.9t1,41 0.90111,11 The Earl of LanOcrdalp has been appol l .e d --(1, • year, 575 EV Jvcs 'IIIIItON. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) RISHTON V. COBB. The LORD CHANCELLOR ` gave to-day is case, in which the question was whether a lady was entitled, under the will of a testator, to two legacies, one of 5001., and the other of 2,000/. It appeared that the testator left the lady, for whom he had a great af fection, the legacies in question, under the supposition that she was unmarried. It turned out that the lady was married, but had left her husband ; and the ques tion under those circumstances was, whether the lega cies took effect. Upon the case being brought before his Honour, the Vice-Chancellor, he was clearly of opinion that the lady was entitled to the money ; the parties appealed from that decision, and upon that ap peal the Court now gave judgment. His Lordship was of opinion that the judgment of the Court below was correct, and dismissed the appeal with costs. The Court then proceeded to hear appeal motions, this being the third Seal after Term. 575 ... 575