The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-30 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, Will be repeated a grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornare, Mr. Borrani ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Bamford, To conclude with the celebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Aehmet, Desplaces ; The Peri, Mdlle. Plunkett; Nourmahal, Mclile. O'Bryan ; Aysha, Mrs. Payne. The Box-ottioe 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, HAYMARKLT. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, Will be pes(ormcd a New and Original Comedy, In Five Acts called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. Strickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe,, s ; T om C a k e Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Countess of Pompton, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn Maims Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. To be followed by A New and Original Farce' called YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James Natty, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Humby. After which, the Farce of TEDDY THE TILER. Thady Mul lowny (the 'flier), Mr. Collins. Pirtvate zee. Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. Tlikets and tktir of Mr. I. T. Ar ober, at the BO X . O ffi C e, from Ten a THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. tri• ;he Dujection of Madame CELESTE. 1111iI3 EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, Will be rqpiated_. a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Could Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanilla, Mr. Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. Alter which, THE WRECK ASHORE. Miles Bertram, Mr. Hudson ; Marmaduke Magog, Mr. Wright ; Ali ce , Mrs. Yates ; Bella, Mae. To w conslude with CUPID, in which Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright Paul Bedford, and Miu Woolgar, will perform. Preriliter Mr. G ell er t; Principal Painter, il r . Pitt ; Leader of the Band, 4r. Mellon.—l3cr-office open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, 0 X FORD.ST RE ET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYJNON • or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanoir, Mr. Walton; ' H orn , Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C. Jun. ; Richard, Mr. Him. ; Renaud, Mr. Mattacks ; • Ivon, Mr. Le ffl er; Mermineaddlle. Helen Copal! ; Gertrude, Mrs. Foebroke. To eonclude with THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wallack ; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Di ector, Mr. Emden. Machinist Mr. Edmund BraiwelL Dress Circle, bs. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Galls Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 64. ; Boxes, 2a. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, bd. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prose,. ilium Boxes, Two ettineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half past Six and the Performances to commence at Seven o ' c l oc k. The h ex_office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be . had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, Will be repeated an Original Drama, entitled HOME AGAIN; or, The Lieutenant's Daughters. Characters by M essrs . F. Vi n i ng , F. Mathews, Craven, and Keeley, Miss Fortescue and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINOEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, Turner, Stoker, and Kerley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in wbieh JuMen's Mazurka and Cellarius Valse will be danced by &Mlles. Louise and Adele, Miss James, and Mi,s Fairbrother. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASSIONS Witli entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. Crarep, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli.lge, Mrs. A. INTgan, Miss Turner, Maui James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES - OF AntiISSION.--Balcouy Poxes. 4t. • Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2r. ; Upper .Boxes, le. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes en the Mit my 'tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second liar (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guires. The Box-olflce is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, Will he repeated Douglas Jerrold's NELL GWYNNE. iwynne, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Orange Moll, Mr. H. Hall. After which, THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE, in which 1. H. Hall, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. Montgoinerie, Mrs. C. Pope, and lifiss Bromley will perform. To conclude with LA CATA RIN A, in which Messn. Roberts, Searle, HowArd, Aylitre, and Mrs. Coleman Pope will perform. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPkiII'HEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W BATTY. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER ;10, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitlei THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race. Fiore and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Foe and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. .6psom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Three Conscripts. acting and stage-manager, Mr. W I) Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. It. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY HFATRE, THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER All be repeated a New 'ram; entitl,d THE SEA LED 'SEN TENCE, supported by vessrs. Hughes, N. T Hicks, Vale, Johnson, Morrison, Mrs. R Honner, Mes. Lewis, &c. After which, a New Farce, entited A HT OF HORRORS. Characters Messrs. Va e, Lewis, John,on, Heslop, Mrs. Daly, Miss •S'errey, &c. An Ethiopian 'En'ertairnnent by the REAL AMERICAN )30U I'HERN MINSTRELS. Te conclude with MARTHA WILLIS, THE MAID SER. VANT. Supported by Messrs Hicks, Neville, Vale, Morrison, Lewis, Johnson, Mrs, H. Vining, Mrs. flicks, Mrs. W. Daly, &c. Places and Private Boxes to i had of Mr K.rschner, at the Box. Affiei; from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE THIS EVENING, NOVENIaErt Will be repeated THE STRANGE RUDER, in which Netsfo. Seaman, Higgie, Herbert, and Mii.; Vincent will perform. After which, THE MO PAGES OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. Frederick the Great, Mr. W H. Madd.cks; Augustus, ;Kiss Hamilton; Theodore, Miss Louisa Lvens . To coaclude with ALIVE, OR DEAD. Rudolph, Mr. W. H. liladdr.aks ; Agnes Hanber, Mrs. W. We-t. Private Family fioxes,.£l Od. andEl IL. 6d. THE WEATHEK.—SrN 4 )I , FACE, Nuv. 30. TammordErtut, Lowest, 36; High ~ A. 40; ',.`,00n, 37 BA.ROMETF a, 30.15.—Wcab, N.E. Nom—The number 32 on the Therm :mister ‘l. - .•notes th, frenaing point, and 55 temperate. In l!arons,tkza fair h Liquidly placed opposite 30, and rain at 29 HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 45 minutes after 41 Evening rninut , :a after , t C.?Lok_.'; tv - s=c-f4 , 2t ••• • • " • )` , SECOND EDITION. tt -41 ~.lilt JONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1844, The distrust and anxiety of the Irish Tories on the subject of the Educational Reforms which Sir R. PEEL has in view, and which, it is supposed, he will bring forward at an early period of the next session, appears to be daily on the increase. What adds to the perplexity and tribulation of this cross-grained party, is the fact that, with all their inquisitiveness, they can get no insight into the nature of the pro jected reform in question, so have no pretext for or ganising an active, uncompromising opposition, for it is impossible that they can oppose with any-show of propriety a scheme with whose merits or demerits they are not merely imperfectly acquainted, but profoundly ignorant of. At present, all is mystery on the part of the official autho rities. Not a word transpires in any quar ter. No communication has been made, even to the Education Board, so that nothing is left for the Tories but conjecture ; and as they are of a somewhat de . sponding turn of mind, with the finest possible con ception of a party grievance, their conjectures are pretty sure to be of the most dismal character. The Dublin Evening Mail hastens to sound the tocsin of alarm by assuring them that it has every reason to believe that an active correspondence between the Home-office and the Castle of Dublin, " touching the projected reconstruction of the Irish University," is now @Buying on, and is daily surrounding Lord HEYTESBURY " with more embarrassments than he was aware would fall to his lot on accepting the Lord- Lieutenancy of Ireland. The most mysterious si lence," adds our disquieted Contemporary, "is ob served in the diplomatic circle—a circumstance which argues badly for the justice and honesty of the design ; and great doubts are said to be entertained of the willingness of the Irish Executive either to recommend or adopt the proposed innova tion." This last remark is, of course, thrown in by way of comforting the afflicted Tories, as nurses give children a lump of sugar after having administered to them a dose of physic; but let not these bigoted par tisans imagine for an instant that there is the slightest foundation for our Contemporary's hypothesis. No thing is more unlikely than that the Irish Executive will refuse to adopt the Government reforms. The appointment of Lord HEYTESBURY is a guarantee that they will be adopted without hesitation. His Lord ship was sent over to Ireland about the time when Sir ROBERT PEEL made his important speech on the subject of national educaticin in that country; and lie would scarcely have accepted the office of Viceroy, unless he had fully made up his mind to carry out the educational reforms of the nature of which the Premier had just given an intimation. Lord HEYTESBURY, then, we repeat—despite "the great doubts " of the Dublin Evening Mail—will be found among the firmest supporters of Sir R. PEEL'S projected scheme, for, to say nothing of his official position, he is a practised politician, made circum spect, liberal, and sagacious by experience —the best of teachers—and must be well aware of the impera tive necessity that exists fur instituting. a prompt and searching reform into the- system of education now in use in Ireland. Having administered his small mo dicum of consolation to the Irish Tories, our Dublin Contemporary next goes on to exhort them to be ac i*ively on the alert, so that they may be prepared to enter the held of opposition when the season fur the political cam i osign arrives. "We cannot tell NS . "here the blo w mill,be struck," he observes, " but f,, r t h at very rea soil Ice recommend the greater vigilance in watching the mo, `cent of the enemy, and the greater deter- - 1 ~~ ;~ ~~ - • mination to resist and defeat his machinations. Fore warned is forearmed." This recommendation of our Contemporary is nearly if not q'iite su erfluous, for who can doubt that the Irish Tories w 1 muster all their forces—combine all their energi s—and make every strenuous effort in their power to defeat a mea sure which has for its avowed object t e introduction into the sister country of a more enlarged and enlightened system of education ? Who, we say, can doubt, that they will thus act ? Moreover, who can doubt that they will be defeated—signally defeated ? Sir ROBERT PEEL—the wariest of Ministers----would never have expressed himself, as he did last session, had he felt that he had any very dangerous apposition to encounter from Irish Toryism. He is one of those cautious characters who—to quote the words of the old adage—" always look before they leap," and never would he have taken his " leap," had he thought that it would have landed him in the midst of a bog or a quick-set hedge. . any maritime war the advantage will be with us if we have the United States on our side. Let us defend • our commercial interests with firmness, but let us not confound our affairs with those of Great Britain in the question of Texas, or even in that of the tariff. Let us never forget that in every naval or continental war the English have been our enemies, and the Ame ricans our friends." The National writes in the same strain. " The questions," it says, " pending between the two coun tries will be solved in a sense unfavourable for our neighbours. The hope of seeing a moderated tariff granted to English manufactures, thereby increasing their market, will not counterbalance the uneasiness excited in England, with regard to Texas and the Oregon. For ourselves, we have never had any other wish than to see the United States, under the empire of their institutions, increasing their prosperity at home, and drawing still closer the bonds of alliance with France, in conformity with the interests of the two nations; and, therefore, we hail with joy the ac cession of Mr. Fora." The Constitutionnel sees affairs in a very different light, and says the reduction of the tariff would be much more advantageous to England than to France, and it is not at all probabl e th a t th e f ore i gn po li cy of the Union will undergo any change. The Southern States, determined on lowering the tariff, will de mand a reduction of the land and sea forces, and a state that disarms is not likely to provoke a war I ' with England. In short, add s th a t journal, affairs will remain in the same state. Mr. POLE is but the nominal chief of the Go vernment. It is Congress that governs. The Jour nal de Debats takes a gloomy view of the election, not at all warranted by circumstances : "If the last accounts from the United States are con firmed, the election of Mr. Polk is secured, and in that case we shall see the direction of public affairs, at a pe riod when it requires the most consummate experience, escape from the most capable hands to fall into those of a candidate chosen without reflection, of whom the best that can be said is, that he is of more than ordinary me diocrity. The result of this election will be to give the ascendancy to the Radical party, that is to say, to give it to a party whose very essence renders it unfit for the re establishment of order, and the consolidation of a society shaken to its very foundation. We must deplore this conclusion, not only on account of the confederacy of North America, but likewise fur the sake of universal civilization, which is interested in the direction taken by a nation so highly placed." THIS DAY'S NEWS. PRIVY COTJNCIL.—(THISDAY.) • The Judicial Committee of the Pricy Council sat to day in: the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were the Master of the Rolls, Lord Campbell, Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Sir E. East, Sir A. Johnston, and Sir E. Ryan. JUVEER BRAKE AND OTHERS V. VURUJ BHAEE AND OTHERS. Their Lordships in this case gave judgment, remit ting the case to the Court of Sudder Adawlut. HOSANNA RIRABOOSE V. BERLE: - The further arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed to-day. The case came before their Lordships upon an appeal from an order made on the equity side of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras,by which the Court on the petition of the respondent, the Registrar of the Supreme Court, obtained leave to file a bill as the next friend of, and on behalf of, the infant children of a person named Arathoon Kirakoose, an Armenian, who died intestate. In consequence of this order a bill had been filed in the Supreme Court at Madras against the present appellant, by the respondent, as the next friend of the infants ; and from that decision the present ap peal was brought. The further arguments occupied their Lordships the whole day. CHARGE AGAINST THE GOVERNOR Of GUERNSEY. Their Lordships have specially appointed the 2d and 10th of next month for the hearing of the charges brought against the Governor of Guernsey by the inha bitants of that island. In the " Money Articles" of all the London news papers it will be found that the very high price ob tained by Consols is a subject of astonishment to some, of congratulation to others. In the former feeling we should certainly participate, were it not for the very peculiar condition of circumstances which now affects the investment of capital. In the latter we should concur, did not our apprehensions for the future greatly outweigh say easons we can discern for satisfaction with the present. Between the extravagant and perilous enterprises which are on all hands now. soliciting investments, with pro mises of tempting returns, indeed, but these founded on bases of security almost as flimsy and as worth less as the sheet of paper on which they are set forth—between these and the legitimate channels, as they are called, of the public securities, there are few left to choose from. The great established cor porate stocks of the elder public companies are seldom brought into the market, and, when they are, soon disappear, from the avidity with which they are sought after by capitalists who prefer, and can a f ford, a moderate, but certain and unfluctuating return for their money, to precarious dividends, ranging this week between an unit and a thousand— the next, descending from a thousand to an unit. The Government securities, from this cause, and others of the same nature, become in demand. The operations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in re ducing a large portion of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., and the considerable sums of money thrown back on the hands of small annuitants, to whom many provincial banking establishments decline to allow the rate of interest they formerly paid on such deposits, on account of the increased liabilities they are placed under by the last Joint-Stock Banks' Re gulation Act, may hare contributed their influence to produce this action in favour of one of the most favourite stocks, notwithstanding the obvious dis advantage at which the new funders must invest at such a price as 100 and a fraction. But what is the reason of a fact we learn from the concurrent autho rity of the same articles, namely, that, notwithstand ing a high price of Consols thus unfavourable to the general operation and object of present investments, and notwithstanding the release and diffusion of so many broken masses of money no longer employed, and, moreover, the enormous aggregate of ready capital procurable on Government paper and first rate bills at from two to two and a fraction per cent —discounts, on any other bills, however unexception- Ible, are procurable only with the great degree of lifficulty they speak of ? Five per cent., and from half as much more to as much again, would be given, but these rates will not fetch out the dormant cash. ['his is surely an anomalous and a mischievous state of things. When it prevails, money accumulates to an enormous extent in a few hands, but is withheld from the many. The operations and energy of the many are more or less paralysed by the torpid action and dead weight of the few. Property, in its repre sented form, ceases to circulate, because the means of circulation are absorbed by a few isolated points of the general machine. To give multiplication and expansion to these means would surely be the first ob ject of wise legislation. The legislation of Sir ROBERT PEEL establishes a more direct principle of absorp tion, contracts the number of points, puts additional checks on the circulation, and keeps down the natu ral tendency of representation and expansion by the high-pressure power of a metallic currency, which we greatly fear will one day involve in its own explosion the ruin of our commercial credit, as it has already effectually sapped . the foundations of our commercial prosperity. fatal interference with our monetary system has proceeded on the normal solecism of attempting to make gold at once a standard of value at a fixed price, whilst he has permitted and recognised the trade in that metal as a commodity or merchandise, subject, like any other, to all the fluctuations of value in the market, which are produced by the varying amount of demand and supply. He compels the Bank of England, and all other issuers of paper in this part of the kingdom, to pay their notes on demand in gold, at the Mint price of 31. 17s. 100.—a price so cheap as to have repeatedly been, since the enactment of 1819, less than the price of gold of the same fineness in the market. All issuers of bank notes—the Bank of England " first and foremost"—have been compelled to limit their issues, not according to the simple re quisitions of the wants of trade, the exigencies of the demand, the amount of property of all kinds in the market awaiting conversion into money capital, but by the chances of their ability at any future period, proximate or distant, to procure gold in sufficient abundance to meet all notes of their issue which may be presented for payment. Had the principle of con vertibility been limited to gold "at the market price" —if the current payment, instead of being enforced at the fixed and almost universally cheap price of 3/. 17s. lOid. per ounce, this grievous cause of currency contraction—of a heavy per centage loss to banks of issue and of exhausting weakness, hazard, and decay, throughout the whole operation of our commercial system and our domestic economy—would have been, if not utterly extinguished, at least infinitely modi fied so as to become of comparatively innoxious ef fect. Under the system as it actually exists and works, the employer of industrial labour is as much acted on in an innumerable class of cases by this ex traneous pressure as the banker. To compensate him for the risk he runs of having to take up gold at pe riods when it is dear in the market,' and the fluctua tion of prices he must meet when it is plentiful, he impinges on the wages of labour. He no longer gives a " fair day's wage for a fair day's labour"—that righteous equivalent which Lord JOHN RUSSELL has so ably and so eloquently advocated. In what events these fearful anomalies of our monetary and social condition are pretty certain to determine, we shall en deavour to show in an early notice of the " First Re port of the Committee of the Society for the Emanci pation of Industry," and of the " Three Letters on the Scottish Currency Question," by " SCOTUS." To the former of these tracts we shall direct the especia attention of our readers. QUEEN'S BENCH,(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord DENMAN and a Middlesex Special Jury.) HILL V. STRATFORD. This was an action to recover the amount of a pro missory note, drawn by defendant, of which the plaintiff is holder ; and the defence was that the Rote had not been given for a legal consideration, but for a gambling debt. The defendant, Mr. Hugh Stratford Stratford, is the young gentleman whose name has of late been so fre quently before the public in connexionwith certain alleged gambling transactions, out of which the present action has arisen, and which have already formed the subject of trial before every metropolitan court of record, from the High Court of Chancery down to the Court of the Bankruptcy Commissioners. Various witnesses having deposed to the :fact that it was a gambling transaction, the jury, without retiring, found a verdict for the de fendant. EXCHEQUER. —(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius.) (Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) GARDNER V. ALLEN. This was an action to recover compensation and damages for the alleged unlawful detention of a horse and cart. The case was of no interest whatever, except to the parties concerned.—Verdict for the defendant. The following are miscellaneous extracts from the papers : The France says :—"We can' announce from certain information that the projected marriage between Prince George of Cambridge and the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia is by no means abandoned.'' " MM. de Cormenin, Garnier-Pagees, and de Lan juinais, arrived at Toledo on the 17th. They were pre sent at the religious ceremony of giving the benediction to the colours of the reserve battalion of Tarragona." The Journal de la Haye contains the following : " A Flemish journal published in Brussels, under the title of Vlaemsche Belgen, appears to doubt the truth of our assertion, that General Espartero was at Brussels when the English journals declared him to be ill in London. We maintain what we have already asserted on this subject. The ex-Regent passed eighteen hours in Brussels ; and we could, if necessary, name the house where he spent the night, and the persons whom he saw." CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice MA.ULE and Mr. Commissioner BuLLocx, &c.) MANSLAUGHTER ON THE RIVER.—A young man, named SamueleSinns, was indicted for having, while in command of the Waterman steamer, No. 6, improperly run down a small boat, rowed by Edward Everett, a licensed waterman, and containing four passengers, by which the said Edward Everett and another person were drowned. The body of the first-named person was af terwards found, and these proceedings were instituted in consequence. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Wilde were for the prosecu tion; ,Mr. Clarkson and Sir John Bayley for the de fence. The States of Denmark having, by a large majority, adopted a motion for a petition to the KING, as Duke of Holstein and Schleswig, praying him to incorporate those States with the kingdom of Denmark, several towns of the Duchy of Holstein, forming part of the Ger manic Confederation, have sent addresses to the States of Holstein,'entreating them to resist this proposition. THE BOURSE--THURSDAY, Nov. 28. First Highest Lowest rice. Price. French Five per Cents IIP rioe.9 .. 1 1 9 10 . . 118 90 . Fours . Three per Cents..... 82 55 .. 83 65 .. 83 40 . Bank of France 3145 ..3150 3145 Ludlam Bank, 5,800 f. Sharesso2o ..5020 —5020 Belgian Bank-- •• • • 590 .. 590 • • 580 . Spanish 4 Threes .. Portuguese Five per Cents.. 64* .. 541 • • 541 Dutch Two and-a-Half.— • • 63 .• 63 .. 63 Neapolitan— •• •• .• ••• • • 96 .. 96 10 .. 96 Rosnan ••• • • •• RAILWAY SHA.RES. St. Germain'. ••••••• • • • • 940 • • 540 935 . Versailles, R.B. •. • . .•• • • 447 50 . • 447 50 .. 442 50 • L. 8.•• •• •• •• 320 .. 322 50 .. 317 50 . R0nen........ ..........1010 . 1010 ..1007 60 Rouen to Havre ••• • • . ...... 785 785 -• 782 50 . Orleans •• ..... -• —lO5O .•1060 ..1047 50 Strasburg to Bale.. •• • • 276 25 • • 277 50 • • 276 25 Avignon to Marseilles•• •• . • 907 50 .. 920 . 907 50 Mr. BALLANTINE having stated the case to the jury, proceeded to call witnesses. • John Fryar, a labourer, proved the finding of the body on the 22d November. Edward Everett, inspector of Thames Police, saw his father (the deceased) leave the stairs on the Rotherhithe side of the river. He had with him four passengers. He was 66 years of age, and had for many years been a waterman. There was no obstruction on the water then. The steamer was making her way across in the wake of the skiff. Her speed was seven or eight miles an hour. The proper rate in the pool is only five miles. Just before the occurrence the steamer had not in any way slackened her speed. John Savory, a seaman, was in the skiff with the de ceased on the 25th of October. He did see a person on ►he paddle-box of the steamer, Waterman No. 6, when she was coming up In their wake. Witness made a sign to draw offmore into mid•channel, but it was unattended to. The deceased then pulled to the larboard side, in order to save his boat from being cut in two by the bow of the steamer. The paddles, however, caught her, and she was capsized. The steamer was going at the rate of ten miles an hour. She did not slacken her speed. John Taylor, another seaman, who was also in the skiff, gave similar evidence, as did two other witnesses. John Chambers, examined by Mr. CLARKSON—III master of the schooner Ann, moored off the Tunnel pier. There was a strong eddy occasioned by the schooner, from the position in which she lay athwart the stream. Were it not for that eddy the small boat could have made the stairs easy enough. To a steamer coming up the river the eddy would not be perceptible. He thought the captain of the steamer could not have avoided the accident. Last Price. 118 90 • 107 ~ 83 40 •3145 -5020 .. 185 .• 96 10 • 935 •• 442 50 • 317 AO • 10J7 50 782 50 .1047 50 • 277 50 • 912 40 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, DBc. 3. Versailles, R.B.•••••••• •• 417 50 .. 447 50 .. 445 . L.E.......... 322 50 .. 322 50 .. 315 Rouen to Havre.• .....• •• • . 787 50 .. 787 50 .. 785 . Orleans, ......... •• •- •• 1052 50 • •1055 —1046 25 Strasburg to Bale. Ivignou to Marseilles—. •• 905 .. 920 905 445 315 785 1046 25 277 50 915 By Mr. BALLANTINE—He could not have avoided the accident, from the position in which the steamer was at the time I first saw them. There was no time for the steamer to have backed, as she was just in the act of striking the skiff. Richard Field, a waterman, ascribed the fatal occur rence to the rate at which the steamer was going. Mr. CLARKSON contended, that before the prisoner could be held accountable in such a case as this he must be proved guilty of some personal act ; and he cited the law from Carrington and Payne in support of his posi tion. Sir John Bayley followed on the same side. Mr. Justice MAULE said that the whole evidence proved that the direction of the steamer at the time of the occurrence, and for some short time before, had been wholly under the control of th e prisoner, and therefore he thought that the cases cit e d b y the I earned Gentle man for the defence did not apply in the present instance. Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the jury. He regretted the decision to which his Lordship had Just come, for, convinced as he was, of the prejudice that existed in the minds of the jury against the rate at which steamers were said to proceed upon the river, he would have had the matter rather dealt with a s a matter of law than one of fact. The Learned Counsel then adverted to the facts, as sworn to by the different witnesses, and asserted that, under the circumstances of the case, the prisoner could not have otherwise acted. Witnesses were then called for the defence. , The jury, not being able to agree upon a verdict, were "ocked up. We have received Madrid papers of the 22d, but they contain no intelligence respecting the flight of ZURBANO, though it was believed that he would be able to make his escape, either into Portugal or France. The Chamber adopted several clauses of the Reform Bill, almost without opposition. The Three per Cents. closed at 28} for cash, and 28 13-16 at GO days ; and the Five per Cents. at 201 at 60 days. Several of the Paris papers hare articles on the election of Mr. POLE to the office of President of the United States. The more violent Opposition journals, falsely called liberal, rejoice at the result, not from any regard to liberty, but because democracy has triumphed, and still more because they regard this demonstration as a blow to the power of England. They look forward to a war between this country and the 'United States, and joyfully predict that neither the affairs of Texas, nor the question respect ing the Oregon territory, can be settled otherwise. France, of course, will take part with democratic America—the French fleet will co-operate with the fleet of the United States—and proud England will be humbled. The constant practice of the writers in these journals, in looking forward to aid from some foreign Power, in case of a war with England, gives us a very low idea of their patriotism. What ! Is France become so weak that she can not defend herself Ndthout the protection of an American fleet? The Siecle would seem to admit the fact. " There is," it says, " a great political fault to be avoided in our negotiations with America. In THE SUN, VONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1844. • MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was no further change in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, Sales 4,000 bags.—The Share-market was animated. Dublin and Drogheda, 58 ; Eastern Coun ties, 13 ; Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 14* ; Grand Junction, 2141 215 k ; Ditto, Half, 107* ; Great Western, 141 ; Ditto, One-Fifth, 264 ; Hull and Selby, 66 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter, 51 ; London and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 37/ ; Ditto, Quarter, 26k; London and York, 4k i ; London and South-Western, 762 77 ; Lynn and Ely, 2- ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 123 k ; Midland Counties, 108 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 79* ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter, 12 3 1 ; Lyons and Avignon, -24 495.; Paris and Lyons, 595. 58s. 6d.; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 6i i ; Central of France, 12 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4/ i. The accounts, per Hibernia, relative to money matters state:—" Prices are now lower than they have been for at least fifteen years, and the currency of 1843 was nearer a specie standard than it has ever before been. So long as this standard. is maintained, so long will prices remain as at present quoted. The production of our principal staples increases so fast that the supply must have an influence on prices, and reduce them from year to year; but this can be regulated according to the quantity produced, and a much greater uniformity will exist than during great fluctuations in the currency and a depreciation in the circulating medium. By keeping our circulating medium down to specie standard we check foreign importations more than a high tariff would, and the greater the similarity between the currency of this country and those of Europe, the more we are able to shut out their productions, and consume our own. An inflated currency annuls the tariff, as all foreign manu facturers require, to enable them to contend successfully with the protective features of our tariff, are high prices in our market." The amount of notes issued by the Bank 'of England during the week to Saturday last was 27,528,8751., being an increase of 21,0802 There is a corresponding in crease, as usual, in the bullion to the issue department, and which, added to 113,258/. in the banking depart ment, gives the net increase at 134,3381. The public de posits continue to rise fast, being more by 932,7331., but the private lodgments have been diminished. The English Securities continue very firm, although business has been dull, and there have heen one or two sales made by an influential broker. Consols for imme diate transfer haie realised 1001 to 100- ; and for time 101 to * ; Bank Stock is 207 to 208, being an advance again ; the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1021 I; and the Three per Cents. 998 to par ; Exchequer Bills are rather heavy, at 595. tot 575. premium. Business in the Foreign Investments is dull also. Spanish Three per Cents. are 35 11. Portuguese Con verted are steady at 55k. Mexican Bonds have been done at 364 I. Belgian Stock is worth 1022. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 63. The Railway Shares have had a firm tone, and, owing to the buoyancy of the market at Liverpool, prices rather tend upwards. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99, 100 3 per Cent. Como's. Anus WA %,4 New 34 per Cent. Ann u iti es ioe%4 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 12 Bank Stock for Account Console for Account .....».».«.».«.«.«.».» 101 Exchequer Bills. 130, I%d 10001. ....................... .......„ ..... 59 57 pm. 5001 .......................... ........... 59 57 pm. Ditto 5ma11„..... « ........ ........... 59 57 pm. Ditto Advertised. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 1024 Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 p er C ent. .. .......... Ditto for the Account ..... -............---" 36%% Ditto Deferred Stock 16% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.... ........ Ditto Converted 55% Russian Bonds, 1822,5 per Cent llB% 119 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 — Ditto Three per Cent. Dutch 2% per Cent s 63 RPICES OF SHAR 8 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Bristol and Exeter I 7O Bristol and Gloucester 3O . . ..... 35 to —• Cambridge and Linc o l n Direct Northern 2% 24 to Eastern Counties ........... ........ 25 ......... 1314% to '1: - Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ..... .... 62 ......... to -- Great Southein and Western} 5 3 (Ireland) % to Great Western ................... 75 London and Blackwall 16% ..„.. 6% ... „to London and 8right0n........., 5O ........ 48 London and South Western 41% 7B 781... to 80 Ditto Eighths 9 ........ 214 London and Croydon London and Y0rk............ ........ 2% 4%% .., to Manchester and Birmingham ... 4.0 Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21 .....„„ 60 Rugby 1 South Devon lO ..... .... 10%% .. to , _South Eastern and Dover ...... 37% ••«.. to 38 Ditto New .......... ............ York and North Midland ......... 50 lO3 Ditto 34 Shares Ditto Scarbore' Branch Ditto Selby Scrip Ditto Extension — Boulogne and Amiens 2 4% ......... to 5 Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bourdeaux Paris and Lyons 2 - Paris and Orleans Paris and R0uen............ ....... .... 20 ......... 39%% to Rouen and Havre. ..... ........... 12 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 29.—We have an iinvoved feeling in our market to-day, and a fair amount of business has been transacted at the following quotations :—London and York, n 3 11-16 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, li 11-16 ; Churnets, 3,i ; Boulogne an d Amiens, 4i ; Trent Valey, 78 ; London and Birming ham, New 321. Shares, 38 ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 18s. 9d.; Huddersfield Canal, 19. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN. There was a most excellent supply of Fruit and Ve getables, yet the demand ruled steady, and prices were mostly supported.—Potatoes from 2s 6d to 4s 6d per cwt ; Turnips, 2s to 3s ; Carrots, 4s to 6s ; Coleworts or Greens, 2s to 2s 9d ; and Leeks, 8d to ls9d per dozen bunches ; Apples and Pears, 2s to 4s ; Spinach, 10d to is 8d ; and Onions, is 6d to 2s 6d per half sieve ; Pine Apples, 7s to 8s ; Out-door Eng lish Grapes, 8d to 10d ; Hot-house ditto, 3s to 5s ; Foreign Grapes, 6d to 10d ; Filberts, 10d to is 2d; and Cobb Nuts, 8d to Is 2d per lb ; E ng li s h Melons, 2s 8d to 4s ; and Foreign ditto, is 6d to 3s each ; Red Cab bages, 2s to 4s per dozen ; Hors e R a di sh, 2s to ss; Broccoli, Is 6d to 2s 6d; and Celery, 8d to 2s per bundle ; Mushrooms, 8d to is per punnet ; and New Oranges, 8s to 103 per 100. HUNGERPORD. We had only a limited supply of most articles, yet the general demand was in a sluggish state, at but little variation in prices. NEWOATE AND T.EA.DENHALL. There was a very large supply of both English and Foreign game and poultry, owing to which the demand was excessively heavy, at very low figures. For prime Beef and Mutton, the demand was somewhat active, at very full prices, while in most other kinds of meat, a steady business was transacted. Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Veal3s to 4s ; and Pork 2s 4d to 3s 10d per 81bs. by the carcass. NEWPORT. We had a decided improvement in the trade, and prices were freely supported. Beef from 26 8d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per Sibs. EILLZNGSGATE. Comparatively speaking, the supply of Fish was not very extensive, yet the inquiry was inactive, and prices were not supported. 177BXTECHAPEL. Most kinds of Meat were in moderate supply and steady demand, at our quotations. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 25 8d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 2s 10d to 4s; and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 10d per albs by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from 7d to 7fd ; of household ditto, sfd to 6fd per 41bs loaf. HIDE MARKET. Raw hides at per stone of 141bs.—Best steers and heifers 5s 8d to 5s 10d ; middling hides, 4s 10d to 5s 6d ; in ferior hides, 4s 4d to 4s Bd. Sheep and calf skins, at per skin--Market calf, 6s 6d to 8s ; long woolled sheep, 2s 6d to 3s 9d ; short ditto, 2s to 3s. HAY MARKETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 4/ 16s ; Useful ditto, 4117 s to 5 / 4 s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to Si lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 61; Oat Straw, I/ lOs to 11 12s ; Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 11 15s per load. A limited supply, and a steady demand at full prices. CUMBERLAND. —Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 18s to 4118 s; Useful ditto 51 to Si 4s; fine Upland ditto, 51 5s to Si 122 ; Clover Hay, 4/ 10s to 5/18s ; Oat Straw, 11 Ils to 11 13s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load. Supply_ moderately good an d t ra d e somewhat brisk. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3115 s to 4/ 15s ; Useful ditto, 41 16s to 513 s ; fine Upland ditto, 515 s to 51 lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 108 to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 10s to 1112 s ; Wheat Straw, 1113 s to 1115 s per load. Both hay and straw sold steadily, and prices were supported in every instance. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. —FRIDAY. The Wheat trade is very heavy to-day, best samples scarcely maintaining last week's prices, and inferior qua liti4s must be noted Is. per quarter lower. Fine samples of Barley are scarce, and for such the prices of this day week are realised ; but low qualities are difficult to dis pose of, at a reduction of Is. a quarter. In Oats and Shelling no material alteration, but Beans have declined Is. to 2s. per quarter. 1 Per qr. of 601 b. to the bushel. Wheat Suffolk, Essex, an d K ent Red EXTRA. N EW . to 46 44 to 45 Ditto ditto White... 51 49 50 Norfolk Red ..^•• 45 43 44 Ditto ditto White... 50 45 4is Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red. ...... 44 42 4,3 Ditto ditto Whte... 50 46 48 Yorkshire Red....... 45 40 42 Ditto ditto White... 56 45 48 Foroig- Red 49 41 46 Ditto ditto White.. . 52 48 50 Pier quarter imp er i al. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 37 34 35 Grinding Yorkshire and Lincol ns hi re 34 31 22 29 30 Foreign .................... .... ......... .. .... — 34 30 32 ier qr. of 6,11 b. to the bushel. Beans, Small fine ••••••"....«•..."•• ........ ••••• Ticks 44 38 3 39 0 Foreign. 43 35 40 Oats, Potato and Pol an d —s ... —li ••• ...D. Mealing lod. to 12d., Foreign —d, to —d. pet Stone. Shelling 265. to 27w. Od. per Load. Malt ' Rapeseed 231.05, 251. N. —I. Os. per Last. Dover has never been so full of company at this season of the year as at the present time. Nearly a ll the princip a l h ouses are engage d and occupied by fami lies of distinction. Among the more recent engagements are the Earl of Kenmare, Lord Boston, Lady Went worth, the Hon. William Burrell, Mr. Jonathan Peel, Mr. C. B. Bewick, &c. &c.—Dover Chronicle. It is rumoured that Sir William Follett is to be made Judge of the Privy Council (which Lord Brougham devised for his own benefit)—and that Stafford North cote, Esq., is to be brought forward by the Tories 63 his successor.— Western Times, ORLEANS, TOURS, and BORDEAUX RAILWAY. Three of the Directors, accompanied by the engineers of the Company, have just completed a tour of inspec tion over the section of this line between Orleans and Tours, preparatory to the delivery to the Company by the Government. Of the 114 kilometres (72 miles) comprised in this distance, there are 94 kilometres ready for the imme diate commencement of the ballasting and laying the rails. The remaining 20 kilometres are in an almost equal state of forwardness, except in the immediate vicinity of the city of Tours, where the earthwork is very light. Tho stupendous bridge over the Loire, at Mont Louis, had the last arch keyed-in in the presence of these gen tlemen. It is a noble structure of 12 arches, each 25 metres span (82 feet English), and is built with the beautiful stone of the country. It reflects the highest credit, as indeed do all the works on the line, upon the Government engineers, MM. Foulon and Moraudiere, upon the latter of whom, more especially, has devolved the direction of the lower part of the line. Not only the masonry, but the;earthwork also is com pleted, with the exquisite finish which characterises all the work of the French engineers. The embankments are constructed in successive layers of from half a metre (20 inches) to a metre in thickness, laid in from barrows or carts. The slopes are dressed off with the most care ful precision, and the cuttings are faced with stone pitching tamest to the very top ! This mode of con• struction is much more expensive than is usual in our railway works in this country ; but we are not quite sure that it is not cheaper in the end. At all events the Company, who have tojwork and maintain the line, have abundant cause to rejoice at the carefulness and solidity of the construction throughout. After much deliberation and considerable difficulty with the department of Public Works, the joint station at Tours for this and the line to Nantes is definitively fixed to be at the very gates of the city, which will be an immense convenience to the public, and no small advan tage to the city itself. The plans are approved, and the erection of the buildings will be commenced forthwith. The Company will have an independent station at Or leans also, communicating, if needs be, with that of the Paris and Orleans Company. The other stations will be commenced without delay, and have been deferred hitherto only that the wishes of the Company might be consulted as to the sites and general disposition of the buildings. About 100,000 metres cube of coarse sand and gravel, for ballast, extracted from the bed of the Loire, during the summer months, is already carted on the line ready for use, and excellent material is at hand for forming the bottom layer, to bed the sleepers en. We hope, probably in our next, to be able to announce the ratifi cation of a formal contract with Messrs. Mackenzie and Brassey, for the completion and stocking of the whole line to Bordeaux, leaving still a good margin on the capital of the Company. This would, indeed, be the crowning act of the prudence and good management that have characterised all the operations of this Com pany, if, in the face of seventy millions, estimated by the Government engine e r s as the requisite capital for completing and working this line, and of seventy-fire millions, estimated by more than one of the competing Companies, the Directors can accomplish it for less than sixty-fire millions of francs, of which their capital is composed, they will have earned the lasting gratitude of the shareholders. It will be a novel feature in the history of railways for the shareholders to have a guarantee, at least six years beforehand, that the capital is sufficient—. that there will be extra bills to be paid, and no loans raised or shares created to provide means of payment. We use the word "guarantee" advisedly, because the well-known wealth, as well as skill and experience, of the firm in question, can leave no doubt that they will accomplish, and in the least possible time too, whatever they undertake. It is confidently expected that the section to Tours will be opened in the month of August next year. gong congsifdreemrabtlheeeh grand ange . entrance Alarg t e o . New Palace- yar d i s at the present time under iextendin Westminsteru e o f ground, iial 1 to the corner of Judges' Chambers, has since yest er d ay been enclosed w i t h a high paling. lt is understood th at workmen have rec e i ve d orders tb commence on Mond a y morning the erecti on upon this site of range of tem porary buildings. It is intended to apportion twelve rooms for Committ ees o f t h e House of Commons, an others for Vice-Chan ce ll ors B ruce and Wigr arerersod two conversant with the su bj ect are of opinion thatttes number of Committees which will sit next session, will be altogether unprecedented. With regard to the new Houses of Parliament, though there are persons who speak of their being ready for use within a few months, an examination of their present state cannot but dispel any such idea, and convince even inexperienced persons that their completion will not be witnessed for a very considerable period. ESCAPE or PEISONERS. — Two prisoners, Robert Stephenson, and Thomas Pearson, under confinement for trial at_ the ensuing sessions for the North Riding of Yorkshire, charged with three separate acts of larceny, effected their escape from the lock-up at Mahon, during the night of Tuesday last. They were labourers, formerly residing at Seamer, but have latterly been living at Cayton, near Scarborough. Ste phenson is about twenty-eight years of age, five feet ten or eleven inches high, fresh coloured, and walks erect. I'earson is about 30, stiff built, five feet six or seven inches high, has dark hair, and a sallow complexion.— Durham Chronicle. NEW COURT (Before the RECORDER.) A DANGEnous " SPREE." --A respectable-looking young man, named Alexander Webb, was indicted for stealing a coat and waistcoat, the property of William Dickson, under the following circumstances : It appeared that the prosecutor and the prisoner had been drinking together during the whole of the evening, when, both parties being drunk, the former about twelve o'clock invited the prisoner home, upon reaching which the prisoner, as he alleged in his defence, for a" spree," put on the articles named in the indictment, with which he walked out of the door. He was, however, followed by some friends of the prosecutor, who gave him into custody. The Learned RECORDER, in summing up, said it was entirely for the jury to decide whether the property was taken in a drunken frolic, or with a felonious intention. The jury, after a lengthened consultation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner, who seemed to be deeply affected dur ing the trial, then walked from the bar. John Belton, a cab-driver, was indicted for stealing a coat and other articles , the property of John D ona ld , ' and Henry Belton, his brother, was indicted for feloni ously receiving the same, - well knowing them to be stolen. The evidence showed that the prisoner,!llenry Belton, had a coat very similar in appearance to that named in the indictment, and having been discharged from the prosecutor's service, he sent his brother for his clothes, and some other trifling articles, to the prosecutor's stables, when the coat was taken. The jury at once Acquitted the prisoner. Henry King and Richard Allen were indicted for stealing a quantity of metal, the property_ of James Wilson Edwards. The prisoners had been in the prosecutor's employ ment, and, taking advantage of the facilities thus afforded them, committed the theft. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Court sentenced them to six months' imprisonment. Edward Warren, Philip Roberts, and George Bowers, were indicted for stealing one hogshead of sugar, the property of the London Dock Company. In another indictment the sugar was described as the property of Thomas Drake. The prisoner Warren pleaded guilty to the indictment. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Baldwin appeared for the pro. secution, and Mr. Clarkson, with whom was Mr. Doane, defended the prisoners Roberts and Bowers. The facts of the case have been already fully laid be fore the public in our police reports. Evidence having been adduced at great length in sup port of the prosecution, Mr. CLARKSON took a technical objection to the in dictment, which having been allowed by the Learned Recorder. The jury, by the direction of the Court, acquitted the prisoners Roberts and Bower. Edmund Warren was then placed at the bar for judg ment, and sentenced to be transported for seven years. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT NOTTINGHAM.-- The inquest on the body of Dean was brought to a conclusion last evening, when the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against the Nottingham Station-house-keeper." OXFORD, Nov. 29.—The H e bd oma d a l B oard has received th e report of the committee on Mr. Ward's publication, and are now engaged in devising some drac tical measure of censure. It is not, however, anticipated that the matter can be brought before the Convocation during the present term. The proposition of the Rev. Mr. Bricknell's pamphlet for including the origo mall Tract 90 in an authoritative condemnation finds favour in some quarters, and yet may be acted on. LATE ROBBERY AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND. UNION-HALL. —(THIS DAY.) Joseph Smith, a costermonger, was charged before Mr. Cottingham, with being concerned with two others (not in custody) in committing a very daring highway robbery. _ , Richard Walkinson, whose face was very much cut and bruised, stated, that he was mate of the Unicorn, brig, of Hull, and that on Saturday evening last he came ashore to spend an hour with a friend. On returning, as he was passing St. George's Church in the Borough, he was accosted by a man with whom he entered into conversation, and who prevailed on him to go down Mint-street, to a public-house. They, however, had not proceeded many yards, when the stranger, and two other men, one of whom was the prisoner, rushed upon him, knocked him down, and in the struggle to recover him self, they set upon him, and beat him in the way he then appeared, and robbed him of his watch, which they tore away from the pocket, breaking the guard-chain by their violence, and then ran away, leaving him bleed ing in the street. He was afterwards picked up by a policeman, to whom he gave a description of his as sailants, and the prisoner was subsequently taken into custody. The policeman said that from the description he also knew the other two men, who kept out of the way ever since, and that the prisoner was their constant associate. The prisoner said that he got his living by selling things about the streets, and that he could prove he was at home on the night in question, and not engaged in the outrage. He, however, had no witnesses in attend ance to prove the fact, but if time was given he would do so. Mr. COTTINGHAM said that it was a most outrageous assault and robbery, and that he should remand the prisoner. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. (THIS DAY.) At the weekly meeting of the above vestry, the clerk read a paper to the vestry concerning a complaint made last week of a nuisance existing for some time in the neighbourhood of All Souls Church. It will be remem bered that on Saturday last a letter was read from the churchwardens, complaining of the obscene conduct carried on openly at a large house facing a new door which led to the gallery of the above church, the exist ence of which nuisance prevented many of the parish ioners from using that door, which would otherwise have been a great convenience to them. It was then decided that the vestry-clerk should be desired to write to the rate-payers of that house, and make a report con cerning it to-day. It appears that a communication was made with Martha Willie, the occupier of the house in question, who admitted the nuisance, and made a pro mise that it should not be repeated.—The vestry was adjourned at twelve o'clock. FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRUSSELS, Nov. 27.—Prince Gallitzen having visited everything curious and interesting at Brussels, set out yesterday for Paris. MALINES, Nov. 27.—Yesterday, at two o'clock, the ceremony of the benediction of the new bell of St. Rombaut took place in the great square of this city with extraordinary magnificence and pomp—the bell receiving the name of " Salvator," which was also the name of the great bell which it was necessary to recast. The bene diction and baptism'of the new great bell were performed by the Cardinal Archbishop of Malines, accompanied by a numerous body of the clergy, by the Metropolitan Chapter, and by more than 250 young men belonging to the seminary. Baron de Steenhault, Burgomaster of Malines, was godfather, and Madame de B or t, w id ow o f a Burgo master of Malines, was godmother. An immense crowd was present at the ceremony. The fete was terminated by a splendid banquet given by the Cardinal Archbishop, in the Archiepiscopal Palace, to the ecclesiastical, civil, and military authorities. BRUSSELS, Nov. 27.—The Chamber continued to-day the debate on the ways and means. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Nov. 26. Austrian 5 per Cents. 113 Bank Shares — 1650 Anglo-Russian Loan 1144 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 1054 105 Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 9934 Ditto in Certificates 99% -- ' New 4 per Cent. (1840) 9114 _ — Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per C ent 61% St Ditto 5 per Cent. — Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. — Spanish. New 4 per Cents. 1 , 111 ..... 18% Polish Bonds — New Tickets — FATAL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.- FIFTY LIVES LOST. Among the casualties incident to the working o nines andcollieries, in this country, we regret to have to record this week, the loss of fifty lives, by the terrible agency of fire-damp, at the Cwm Avon Colliery, Neath, on Wednesday last. On account of the shattered state of the works, consequent on the explosion, and the noxious effluvia, only four bodies had on that day been taken out. Our information as to details, considering the distance we write from the fatal spot, cannot be copious ; but of the painful truth of this frightful catas trophe, there is, we regret to state, no room to doubt.— Monmouthshire Merlin of Friday. RAILWAY RETURNS. AILWAT TBAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year: EXAMINATION OF BURGESS AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. —(THIS DAY.) Oa the Lord Mayor taking his seat this morning, Burgess was placed at the bar, in the cu3tody of Daniel Forrester, charged with fraudulently obtaining the trans fer of 8,0001. (Consols) on the 3d of September last, which sum was entered in the books of the Bank of England in the name of Mr. Oxenford. It will be in the recollection of our readers that the sum was paid to Jo seph Elder, the prisoner's accomplice in the transaction, who committed suicide at Boston soon after his arrest on the charge. Mr. Freshfield, the solicitor, stated the charge against the prisoner, and that a warrant had been issued for his apprehension by the late Lord Mayor. He was prepared to go into the case, but as the prisoner only yesterday arrived from Boston, he (Mr. Freshfield) thought that the most advisable course would be to remand him. The prisoner, in a low tone of voice, said he wished to be remanded. Mr. Freshfield then called— Mr. Oxenford, who stated that the 8,0001. fraudulently obtained from the Bank of England, was his property, and that he never authorised any person to use his name, or to withdraw it. A clerk in the Bank deposed that the prisoner was a witness to the transfer of the stock. The LORD MAYOR then remanded the prisoner until Wednesday next. Burgess is a tall man, and appeared to feel acutely the position in which he was placed. He appeared to be lame, possibly from an accident which he met with while endeavouring to escape when pursued by the officers in Boston. NAME OF RAILWAY. Last week. 229 2,116 44 01 4 E l i'l, b0 c..).,9 c..).,9 186 1,537 805 296 757 1,923 2,901 1,201 740 6,393 1,341 11,207 3,437 15,372 579 3,054 641 4,658 725 2,304 5,472 7,429 1,378 309 829 4,314 3,271 191 449 2,665 528 546 2,007 v. 23 Arbroath and Forfar . 22 Birmingham and Gloucester.. . Brandling Junction . 23 Bristol and Gloucester 22 Chester and Birkenhead 21 Dublin and Drogheda • 26 Dublin and Kingstown 24 Dundee and Arbroath 23 Durham and Sunderland... 23 Edinburgh and Glasgow 24 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 23 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 23 Glasgow and Green0ck......... 23 Grand Junction 23 Great North of England ........... 24 Great Western . • 22 Liverpool and Manchester . 23 London and Birmingham 24 London and Blackwall. • • ...... 23 London and Brighton . • 26 London and Croydon • . . 28 London and Greenwich 24 London and South Western 24 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 22 Manchester and Birmingham........ 23 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. 23 Midland Counties 23 Newcastle and Darlington ........ 23 Newcastle and C ar 1i 5 1e........ .. .... 24 Newcastle and North Shields 22 North Union and Bolton and Preston 25 Paris, Corbel, and Orleans • • • • 25 Paris and Rouen . ...... ......... 23 Preston - mad Wyre. ......... ..... 23 Sheffield and Manchester .. • •••• • • • 28 South Eastern.. • ....... • • ...... • • s • • 23 Taff Vale .......... ••••••••• • • • • • • • 24 Ulster . .... . 2 4 Yarmouth and Norwich • •• ••••• • • 23 York and North Midland •••••• • • • • • HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUCHESS OF MECKLENBURGH STRELITZ.---We hare reason to believe that their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz will pro long their visit to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge until the commencement of May next. It is understood that the Grand Duchess's accouchement may be expected early in January next. We understand that it was the particular wish of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge that their daughter should be confined in this country ; and it has been solely with that object in view that her Royal Highness an.d her Illustrious Consort have made so protracted a res i dence hero. It is needless to remark that the Hereditary Grand Duke and his family cordially acceded to the natural desire of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. We hear that, owing to the limited conveniences pos sessed at Cambridge House, the interesting event will not take place there ; and as her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester has offered apartments to her Royal niece at Gloucester House, it is most probable the Grand Duchess will be confined at that residence. The Queen had, it is said, offered apartments for the Grand Duchess at Buckingham Palace, as her Majesty and court do not contemplate leaving Windsor Castle before the first week in March. INCENDIARISM IN NORFOLK.—On Sunday last a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr Dicks, of Twyford. A barley stack, the produce of sieacres, was quite consumed. One of Mr. Dick's labourers has been taken into custody on suspicion of being the incendiary. —Suffolh Chronicle. -• SUMMARY OF NEWS AN: 1-) Vubltr eptnton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. saw Awn POLICE!. James Clark, 60, John Clark, 28, William Cleritttol and William Smith, 23, i nd i cted for the meteor Samuel Cou c h man , t h e D over policeman, were tr ied fore Mr. Justice Williams, at Maidstone and ae 6 l°, 1 tt as there was no di rect proof that they were se' present when Thomas Clarke, who is still at larger s Couchman the fatal blow. At Gloucester, Richard Young, indicted for ata b b his wife at Cheltenhan, was acquitted on the grew' insanity. Edward Lovell, a linen-draper's assistant, we 6 4 0 quitted at th e C en t ra l C r i m i nal Court on two cher robbing his employers. The prisoner was i n dideu i o stealing a quantity o f va l ua b le property, but the 00 thing the pr osecu t or wou l d venture to swear to le TO old pair of sh oes . I t came out in the course of the TO that his wages were only from 6s. to 7s. a week. t s, verdict of acquittal seemed to give great satisfaeti° crowded Court. 0 10 Miss Hayes, w h ose case h as excited so much sysl/00 attended at Queen-square , and thank e d t h e war $lO and the publi c f or the kindness she had receives. said that she was going on Monday to a situatiTre had obtained on the recommendation of a lady, .an 0 0 quested th a t p art o f t h e money subscribed tbr be fit IA (which in all amounts to upwards of 301.) to taken care of for her at this Court. N XISCNULX.4I.SX3IIOI7II. The winter assizes for the county of York werel i :ei on Thursday evening, by Mr. Justice Coleridge._ A ' o ds f prisoners in York Castle await trial, and the ez n 1 presents a fearful catalogue of crime :—For ma r s hfio d i stabbing and wounding, 7 ; rape, 4 ; arson, 2 w.„g u rtLe robbery, 26 ; burglary, 10, &c. Amongst the the cases will be the trial of John Kendrew, for the of Mr. W. Inchbold, a farmer, near Boroughbridg e ; t etel, A new parish c h urc h h as b een erected in Ms° r ote: under Sir Robe r t P ee l' s recent Act, and was costae; by the Lord Bishop of Chester on Thursday. , co f o. been built by th e assoc i at i on formed some time s'u,seei erecting ten churches in Manchester, the total ey being upwards o f 5,0001. Accommodation has b e en vided for 1,200 p ersons , h a lf the seats being 101tl;01) priated. A large n um b er o f c l ergymen assembletishOt consecration, and the s ermon was preached by the 10: Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., Lieutenant of C lai itl o ./ convened a general meeting of the magistrates 0 4 0' county, at Ennis Court-house, for Saturday, the L: t iiti December, to investigate the murder of the ha. 4.7 10 Gloster, sq. Moylish, near Limerick. 60, 4 The stipendiary magistrates of Ireland ar e number, of who m 17 h ave b een promoted fre„,Toilati' sub-inspector s or county i nspectors of colistscopste , From the y ear 1838 G overnment overlooked the bulary, for t o th e present date, nearly six years, ni f were promoted from the constabulary. th eCS'i The Lords o f th e T reasury have instructed 0 ,eyt toms department in Canada to exempt from PaY a- l iee e !A the Imperi a l d u ti es household furniture and othe.r,oll7, saries which may accompany settlers, and are lettny-atie' solely for their own use, or that of their families' ...4 1 for the purposes of trade or sale. dy' is According to l e tt ers f rom St. Petersbur e the , o clt communication between that city and Ure l. , ls it t f j :o already obstructed. Th e steamers which star . w - r e commencement of the mon th f rom S t. P e t e rsbe Cronstadt wer e o bli ge d to return, the ice on t h e ba r too thick to attempt a passage. Handel's " I srae l i n E gypt " was repeate d 104 by the Sacred Harmonic Society, at Exeter r ac e under similar vo ca l c i rcumstances. The atte nse 10 1, 6 considerable, including the Lord Mayor and a larg e of ladies, who sat in the side gallery. n LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS jO3 LONDON, Nov. 30.—Wind N.E. , moderate bree— cloudy. _re esl. DEAL, Nov. 29.—Wind S.E. to E.S.E., fres h Be' Arrd. Ruckers, Nielson, Demerara ; Beaufort? 0 001 Honduras ; Pears Douglas Montreal. Sid' : Bahia ; Duke Norfolk, Tobag o Ocean, Montserra t ' the rest of the outward bound. ; r0 9 4 . 14 :' PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 29.—Wind E.—Arr.-134 A. ( Campbell, Ichaboe • Concordia, IVlalach, New l e l aw ielc% Rotterdam ; Mary:Bolton, St. John's, New Bru il " New Brtle .. ,s Aurelian, Quebec ;:AmeliaSt. John's, LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29.—Wind S.S.E. moderate.,oo rerne o ; Any Aristocrat, Buenos Ayres • Andes, Leonora, Demerara ; Canena:Barbadoes ; Sciet e ' tigua ; Ocean, Hayti ; Perseverance, Savanneu, diaka, Philadelphia. Off, Royal Albert. The 2as i lertil hence to New Orleans, in putting to sea ran on the mob Bank, but came off and has pu t back lee k lZpiebe ° strained, and must di sc h arge . Th e Carlton, fro? io gaft to this port, was driven ashore on the ga,., e f dole' Shoals, 30th Oct., three men drowned. The Yl i ttuebe c Robinson, bound to this port, which put beek, w re . Tb a was discharging 11th inst., and would winter tu e nu t,ba r r Orbit and the Quebec, both for this port, bare ' t he L t. to aw Q r u e e n b e e: with damage, having been ashor e on Of Terrieil►'ing, REDCAR, Nov. 29.—The sloop Blythe, v Whitby, ran on the rocks off this port yesterday but was got off this morning. Bry ß a ß n Y t t t h t a e t n t t h st :y ....s ar u e ff n o o Th w c p h a r ) on i ,Asrvilkß7ANNKel.v—mlarikeeth,owldieursbeof xtiessasftriessslrfri 1 Ash , making in th n i e g ck t w . h h e o s l e e co 2 lod s. the pound dividend Louis Philippe left Saint Cloud for Paris on Wee, day, and p res id e d at a Council of Ministers a t Tuileries. The Illoniteur announces that the King, by an ord u ; nance, dated the 27th, has raised to the peerage Co Jaubert, formerly a Minister, and Member of the CIA' ber of Deputies. The Moniteur also publishes a royal ordonnance, dated the 23d, app o i n ti ng the Commission charged with the,; counts to be rend ere d b y Mi n i sters for the legisle s Session of 1845. The Flotte announces that the pay of capitaielL o corvette, of the fi rs t an d secon d class, has just Si raised 500 f. Thus the captain s o f t h e fi rs t class l in future have 4,000 f. a year, and those of the s e_ w m" class 3,500 f. The fog was so dense, in Paris on WednesdsPlite,i; noon, particularly on the banks of the S e i ne , that d e : with great difficulty the bridg es cou ld b e distinguish the According to th e R evue d e P ar i s, in order to lessee ~,,tit consequences of th e di savowa l of Rear-Admiral Den°. Thouars and Lieut e n an t D'A u bi gny, the Minis k trf o f tend to raise th em s h ort l y, the former to the rangy Vice-Admiral, and th e l a t ter to t h at of '°Capitainer Corvette." Several statues and other specimens of the art s 2 China have arrived at the Louvre, all of the most b , tesque appearance. Among the statues is one of a 7 - i t darin in combat with a serpent. The doughty here have enjoyed the highest consideration in his own L ees. ro . try, from his immense abdominal rotundity, whieu.,,di ders him by far much broader than he is high, ieenif that its prominence must prevent his using against enemy his redoubtable weapon, which bears the '— proportions of breadth to length. The Hospice of St. Brieuc (Cotes du Nord) has la j et, received as an inm a t e a woman, named Jeanne Co ri of the commune of St. Alban, who is in her 106th t i r o s having been born in 1738. She was twenty years tu", 4o the time of the battl e of St. Cast e , which she rev:Alio perfectly, as we ll as t h e seven years' war by the F‘eg against the town of St. Malo. of A letter from Frankfort states that the mothet Messrs. de Rothschild, w h o i s n i nety-nine years ef,Mi has recovered from the late severe illness which her life in imminent danger. A subscription has been opened at Brussels, fort! relief of the needy sufferers by the late inundatio s if Florence. Some very liberal donations have ar e been received. We learn from the Hague, 24th instant, that th e fr hie jection, for the second time, by the First Chamber of: . States, of the addr ess as p ropose d b y the Second Ott ber, has creat e d an i ntense sensation there, and ;la fears are entertained of some violent retaliation oe part of the Deputies. It appears, however, that'll influential members of the Court were endeavouring effect a reconciliation. The rejection in the First C ber was by a majority of 19 to 2. According to an article from Posen, in the Brame Gazette, a spirit of revo l t o f rather serious extent 0° manifested itself in R uss i an Li t h uan i a, on the part _r The peasants against the nobility who are landowners. de E peasants loudly demand the abolition of the serilt e te j imposed upon th em , an d h ave in some instances reso rted to open acts of rebellion for their emancipation. COtr AT — xasuxoscazillas. Sir Robert Peel, accompanied by Lady Peel A d eild family, leav es Whit e h a ll- gardens early in the ens' week for Drayton Manor. Le ( l i° The Duke and D uc h ess o f Ri c h mond and the Gordon Lennox are expected to arrive on Mondei e o ci in Portland. place, from Gordon Castle. The Ear Countess of March and their infant daughter have 8 d to Molcomb H ouse , near Goodwood, for the viffid, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox has arrived in Peru' place from the north. The Duke of Sutherland, Earl Fitzwilliam, Earl WI Viscount Curzon, Lord Dormer, Lord Hathertont Wrottesley, Lord Leigh, Hon. William Peel, Mr' r e f rnund Peel, Mr. Robert Peel, and a numerous lis t : 0 noblemen and gentl emen , h ave consented to 'etor stewards at the f or th com i ng Bi rmingham Queen's mot pital grand ball, w hi c h i s fi xed for the 14th of Jall:do Lady Jane Pe e l, L a d y G ooder i cke, Lady Wrot t Lady Mordaunt, and Mrs. Newdigate, are a mong' ladies patroness es . 0 1 ° The Duke of Portl an d i s near l y restored to head The Noble Duk e p ur p oses to pass the winter at We', Abbey, surrounded by a family circle. 0 9 Earl Delawarr l e f t U pper G rosvenor-street on 1111 day last, for Bourne Hall, Cambridgeshire, where Countess and family are still sojourning. Lord Foley entertained at dinner on ThursdaY eili o ; ing the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Colo. of Charlevill e , L or d Ad olphus Fitzclarence, the wer, Frederick Cadogan, the Hon. Frederick Leveson G e , the Hon. Spenc er C. C owper, and T. Duncombe, sok M.P. Lord G. Bentinck i s s t ay i ng on a v i sit to the Duke of Portland. Lord Keane has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel ft ° Hants. The Viscount d'Abrantes, Ministe r Pl en ipete--n n oot and Envoy Ext raor di nary of his Majesty the O s ' oei of Brasil, with t h e Vi scountess, Signor mseeds " , family, left Hake's Hotel, Manchester-square, 001 for the Continent. T e k I th, z N re,