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DEDICATED TO MAJOR-GENERAL SIR NEIL DOUGLAS, K.C.B. and K.C.11., Commanding her Majesty's Forces in Scotland. In a few days, in 2 vols. small Bvo., price 21s. bound, MY ADVENTURES. By COLONEL MONTGOMERY MAXWELL, K. 11., Commanding the 36th Regiment. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, Will be performed Auber's celebrated Opera THE SYREN. Marco Tempesta, Mr. W. Harrison; Scipio, Mr. D. W. King; Zerlina (the Syren), Miss ltainforth After which, THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert; Count Malvino, M. Delferier ; Benedict, M. Desplaces ; Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele Dumilatre; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; Julia, Mdlle. Auguste Delbes ; Diana, Mdlle. O'Brien. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farrcn ; Charles Suriitce, Mr Charles Mathews; Lady Teazle, Madame Vestris. After which, Mr. Charles Mathews' Bur etta of HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. Motley, Mr. Charles Mathews; Dicky Darling, Mr. Strickland; Becky Morgan, Mrs. Caulfield. To conclude with THE MILLINEWS HOLIDAY. Orchebtra Stalls (which may be retuned the whole of the Even ing), ss. each. First Price—Boxes s ; Pit, 35. ; Gallery, es.; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nde o'Clock—B , xes, 3s ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Ed. /doors opened at Hall past Six, Pet formance commence at :even. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One nines and a-Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.oflice, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELE.STE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 15. Will be repeated a New Dram 4, entitled TtiE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Coul.t Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanille, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. After which, an entirely New Drama, entitled CESAR DE '3AZ AN ; or, Love 4nd Hiniour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe; Cesar de id izan, Mr. Webst-r ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. To eonclude with a New Eccentric Mythological Burlesque, called TELEMACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright ; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford ; Dinah, Mr. Cowell. Prompterlqr. Gallot ; Principal Painter Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr , M ellon. — Box-odlce open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. On Monday will be revived the Popular Drpma of V ICTORIN E. "Caesar de Bazan" is published in Webster's National Acting Drama, price 6d, In the Press, " The Mysterious Stranger." PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, Will be repeated the New Drama, called DON CA SA R DE AZAN Don Cwsar, Mr. Wallack ; Charles the Secont , Mr. Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling ; Countest di Rotondo, Mrs. FoAiroke. After which, a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival. Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling To be followed by MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. To conclude with the New Farce of TAKING THE PLEDGE. Augustus Larkins, Mr. Oxberry ; Alexander Paps, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Emily Gussett, Mils Emma Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2a.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two dulneas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half fruit Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-otfice, 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 15. Will be performed a New Comedietta, entitled WATCH AND WARD. The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. After which, a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINGEN 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 which Mdlles. Louise and Adele, of her Majesty's Theatre, will make their appearance. After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Turner, and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Woolli4ge. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASSIONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli fge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi,s James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 4v.; Upper Boxes, Se.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Scl. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6 Tier Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the B a lcony er ((holding eigh t persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea. The Box.,)ffice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the diree ti m of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEAT RF. Lelsee, Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, Will he performed DON C/EZ AR DE BAZAN. Don Cresar, Mr. Roberts ; King Charin 11. , Mr. John Howard; Maritana, Mrs. Coleman Pope. After which, THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE. To conclude with QUITE AT HOME. Principal Characters by Messrs. Howard, Aylifle, Dean, Mrs. Melville, and Mi,s Carter. Great attraction every Evening—quiro Betty's Hounds meet This E;ieniig, at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. TI - 1.8 EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, NNW be repeated a New Specticle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-l-for•e and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled National Fete , . Rest Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fo c and full Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epsom Races and other Spotting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship, . . To conclude with a Favourite Alterpiece.. Acting aria stage-m mager„ Mr. W 1) isroadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till rive. Lessons in the Art of Riding y Mr. It. Smith daily. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE Increasing auccess of Dan Cresar de Bagan—First Week of another New Drama. THIS EVENING, NO VEMBERJS, Will be performed a New Drama, enti'led DON C/ESAR DE EAZ AN, supported by the entire Company. After which, an entirely New Drama, THE SISTERS OF C HA TII.I.ON, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, R. Shephard, Vale, Johnson, Heslop, Mrs. R. Honner, Miss Terrey, Mrs. H. Vining, &c., will perform. To conclude with aNew Farce, entited A NIGHT OF HORRORS. Characters by Messrs. Va e, Lewis, Johmon, Heslop, Mrs. Daly, Mies Terrey, &c. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, Will be performed THE WANDERING JEW, in which Messrs. Seaman, Dale, Higgie, and the Misses Harcourt will appear. After which, PORK CHOPS, in which Messrs. G. Wild and Herbert will perform. To conclude with SIXTEEN-STRING JACK. J,.hn Rana, Mr. T. H. ffiggie ; Kit Clayton, Mr. 0, Wild. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and XI lls. 6d. TIIE WEATHER.—Sint OFFICE, Nov. 15. THICRIKONNTER, Lowest, 48; Highest, 54; Noon, 54. BAROMETER, 30.15.—Wurn, W.S. W. Notes.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. From the commencement of the present century the master difficulty experienced by the successive Governments which have exercised office in that in terval—has been—how to deal with the Poor-law ? the necessity which, from time to time, has been felt to be so indispensable for amending its defective machinery, or for simplifying the complexity of its operation, or for controlling the enormous annual lemand for poor-rates in the whole annual rental of , he country—this necessity is been the impelling motive of so many attempts at improving the Poor law, on the part both of Whigs and Tories. They have encountered more continuous, exhausting, and thankless labour in putting forth those attempts than suer in the endeavour to govern Ireland or conciliate their opponents to their scheme of foreign policy. But the attempts themselves have proved but failures more or less qualified by the advantageous working, otherwise, of particular details. There has been, 'n all of them, a great defectiveness of system ; a palpable want of unity in the action of their different )arts; and a discrepancy of principle between the test to qualify for the relief to be extended under f` ln an article we published a few days s i nce , on th e such Acts, and the test for discriminating between IZ eport of the Select Committee on British Ship the claims of the various classes its recipients. From ping," we alluded to the " degree" of protection which this censure we can by no means exempt the 4th and some of the witnesses conceive it to be both necessary sth WILLIAM IV., c. 76 ; and the fact of these de and politic to extend to that interest, and to the opi- ficiencies of system, and this discrepancy of princi nions entertained by others, of the inexpediency of pies, is strikingly corroborated by the Bill which attempting to establish any such protection at all. Sir JAMES GRAHAM was reluctantly compelled, at We shall hardly he consid ere d t o f avour the principle the close of last session, to propound to the considera of protection, who have so uniformly advocated the tion of Parliament, for the virtual further amendment establishment, to the fullest practicable extent, of free of the existing "Poor-law Amendment Act," just trade in every department of commerce. Neverthe- cited, in no less essential a particular than the Law of less, in order that we may not be misunderstood as to Settlement. the tenour of our former observations, it may be ne- That Bill, our readers may remember, was merely cessary to repeat the expression of our regret that the brought in and printed for distribution to Members. British Government have not distinctly " protected" It will be discussed at an early day after the re- British shipping, by acting on a system of retaliatory assembling of the two Houses. It purports to be a policy towards the shipping of all States, which, hay- "Bill for Consolidating and Amending the Laws re ing entered into reprocity tre a ti es with us, have lating to Parochial Settlements, and to the removal dishonourably departed from the spirit of such of the Poor ;" and has already excited no little alarm treaties, by exacting heavier tonnage and other duties and displeasure among very large and influential on our merchant-vessels in their ports, than we, in communities of the kingdom, more especially the conformity with these reciprocal stipulations, resident rate-payers in manufacturing towns and levy on their merchantmen in our ports. To districts. This is not to be wondered at. The ahem this extent we are clearly of opinion that ab- tions it proposes to establish are described, in a *tract principles should give way to practical exi- " Report" now before us, "of th e C omm itt ee ap gencies, wh en c i rcumstances have intervened to pointed b y th e T own Council of Leicester to con destroy the eq ua l re l a ti ons b etween the contracting cider and report " upon the measure "of the parties, on the assumption of which those principles most sweeping and. startling nature, and, moreover, have been recognised and avowed by them. It seems of an ex post facto" character. "The Bill (the Com to be mere drivelling to go on, in the bona fide dis- inittee add) entirely abolishes all settlements of charge of our own part of these contracts, towards every description acquired before the passing of the States which have openly departed from, a n d still Act, unless the parties havi; been removed by or dens, pertinaciously persist in violating theirs, to war d s us, or th e i r sett l ement has been attained by writing, On every principle of equity the contract has been under the hands of the majority of the overseers of annulled and determined by their own act and deed. the parish; and it establishes as the only ground of The notion of a one-sided reciprocity is a positive settlemest—first, that of birth ; and, if the place of anomaly ; but to p e r s i s t i n it un d er an impr ess i on of birth cannot be ascertained, then, !secondly, that of the necessity for d o i n g so ( eve n to the extending an the settlement of the father, as it would be, if living absolute premium t o the gra spi ng b a d f a ith of the after the passing of the Act; or, if the father be not other parties to such agreements), in order that the settled in any parish in England, or if such parish abstract principle of "no protection" may be vindi- cannot be ascertained, or-if the pauper were not cated, is a mere puerile pedantry. But is the case born in wedlock, then the place of settlement is the we have put of this systematic violation of reciprocity parish in which the mother would—if living after the treaties an imaginary one ? Upon the question passing of the Act—be settled. It will, therefore, be whether it be, or be not, depends the propriety or im- seen that, at one blow, all existing settlements, with propriety 'of establishing, with regard to British the exception of that of birth, are swept away; and shipping, and in respect of the circumstances which that this change applies not only to the future, but our hypothesis assumes, an exception to the general I affects all settlements already acquired by any other rule, " that protection, in any branch of commerce, is mea ns ;th an th a t o f bi rt h , or unappea l e d aga i nst inexpedi en t." orders of removal, or written acknowledgments." Now, • the evidence of Mr. STRAKER, a ship- I Now, to show how serious a question a sweeping owner and ship-builder, of North Shields, we find 1 measure of this kind becomes—in connexion, espe t fairlhe followi ng important iss answers to ue questions, which y put thi s po i nt i n cially, with the opinion o f so i n t e lli gent a b ody as By Mr. Nv A "__ can the y s r ipp s i u n g o. gest any remedies for .1 that which has produced the Leicester Town Council the improvement of opinion of ?—Noevery great pr-eomwendeyr this Bill , Report, that "it may be safely predicted that should can suggest. It is the with whom I have conversed Bill pass into a law, it will give rise to as much, would tend to aggravate the evil they do hope any further relaxation and, in the first instance, more litigation, than has the Government will make a stand wheretaken place under the law which it is intended to I ,4) R s,qu, tOnk that the principle of rec ipro 7 ty c i i : . fairly supersede ;'' we may observe that, in its present form, .oarrt6o iadmveusrste necessarily exercise a most disastrous and SO; CilihsArt—ln what respect ?—The salt true s influence en the future prosperity of all • 'HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 4 minutes after 5 I Evening ... 29 minutes after & SECOND EDITION. large manufacturing towns. But since we cannot, by any illustrations of our own, so forcibly develop the course by which this result would be accom plished, as the "Report" has already done, we entreat attention to the three extracts from that document, which we give in another column, and which we have headed respectively, " Consequences of the proposed alteration of the Law of Settlement," &c.; "Case of the borough of Leicester under the proposed alteration ;" and " Effect of the five years' residence irremovability clause, both on manufacturing towns generally, and on rural districts." Yet that a strong case exists to require the reform of the Law of Settlement, and with a view to the restraining of that endless and most expensive litigation which makes good for provincial attorneys at the expense of all the rate-payers of England and Wales, we are as firmly convinced as were the framers of the 4th and .sth 'WILLIAM IV. when bringing forward that Act. The amount expended in law charges alone, connected with the investigation of settlements, and the trial of appeals, for the year end ing Lady-day, 1834, was almost incredible-258,6041. —about one-twentieth of the gross levy of rate for that year. The Act of 4 and 5 WILLIAM IV. endea voured to remedy this state of things by contracting the grounds conferring the settlement, but more dis tinctly and carefully prescribing the form of proof, nature of evidence, and right of appeal. But the ob jects thus aimed at have been notoriously defeated by the conflicting decisions of courts of law, their severe construction of the provisions relative to the wording of orders of removal, and the consequent difficulty ex perienced (in itself a hardship, usually, of the most cruel nature on the unfortunate pauper applicant) in now obtaining such orders. And as to the expense, it appears, from the Leicester " Report," that " Although the amount expended in law charges has been diminished since the passing of the Act (as appears by the last report of the Commissioners, in which it is stated to have been 84,7501. for the year ending Lady day, 1843), it must be borne in mind, that this decrease in the expenditure is not to be attributed entirely to an improvement of the law, but that it may in part be ac counted for by the difficulties experienced in obtaining orders of removal." of our credit on the banks of the Bosphorus has pro cured for M. DE BOURQUEIEY a seat at the Luxem bourg ?" If we are to believe the; following 'account in the &forme, the state of the cotton Manufactures in Normandy is most deplorable, and firms a sad con trast to the activity which prevails_ in our manufac turing districts : "Amongst the disastrous facts which demonstrate to what a state of distress both masters aM operatives are reduced, the state of the Rouen manufactures gives a melancholy contradiction to the shamelns collectors of statistics of our over-increasing prosperity. At this moment the master cotton-spinners of that city, to the number of 300 or 400, have agreed to sF.orten the period of labour of their operatives by one-third, antil the end of the month of March next—that is to say, that during five months the week, as far as regards 65,000 operatives, shall consist of four days, instead o? seven. Let us hear the excuse of these masters. They assert that the foreign markets are closed against them. Their stores are overstocked, notwithstanding the considerable con sumption in Algeria. The names are mentioned of some houses which have from one to two tsillions'-worth of manufactured cotton on hand. In order to avoid abso lute ruin to themselves, and likewise the necessity for dismissing their operatives, the manufacturers have but one resource—the reduction of one-third of the hours of labour. But have they diminished their luxuries ? Have they diminished one-third of th e i r unnecessary ex penses ? Let the operatives of Rouen give to a petition for inquiry the support of their numbers and of their sufferings. Let the masters themselves protest against our system of political economy, of which they avoid the consequences by throwing them on the operatives." The French Three per Cents, continued very firm, and closed on Wednesday at 82f. 75c. THE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Csnts•• •• • • 119 45 .. 119 65 .• 119 50 •• 119 50 Three per Cents.• • .• 82 90 .. 82 90 .. 82 80 •• 82 85 Bank of France 3145 ••3160 .•3145 —3160 Lathan Bank, I,ooof Shareslo9s ..1095 1095 .. 1095 5,000 f Sharesso3o —5030 —5030 —5030 Belgian Bank ..• . • - • • • • • • • • 660 .• 660 .. 060 .. 660 Belgian Fives,ls4o 1842 .• • • • • •• 10 71 •• 1071 .. 1071 .. 1071 Two-and-a-Half.• • • 61 75 .. 61 75 .. 61 75 .. 61 75 Dutch Two and-a-Half ....• 62: •• 62 .. 621 • 62f Spanish Threes .• • • • • • • • • • • 36/ 3 6 1 361 .. 361 Astive • . •• 32} .. 33 .. 321 .. 33 Passive • 6/ .. 61 .. 61 .. 61 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 55 .. 55 55 .. 55 Neapolitan • •• • •• 98 60 .. 98 65 •• 98 60 .. 98 65 Bomar, cx ..... 1031 .. 1031 .. 1031 103} RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, R.B.— • 400 .. 400 . • 400 • • 400 L. 8.. ...... ... • • 283 75 • • 285 • • 283 75 .• 285 Ronan, .••• . iooo toot 28 —loon ..lOUI 25 Rouen to Havre.. 772 60 •• 775 -• 772 50 .. 775 Orleans • • -• •• • •1010 ..1010 ..1007 00 —lOO7 50 Strasburg to Bale.. •• •• 270 .. 273 75 .. 270 • 272 50 Avignon to Marseilles— 825 . 825 .• 820 .. 821 25 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, e ov 16. Versailles, R.B • • • • •• 400 .. 400 .. 400 • • 400 L.B •• •• •• 287 50 .. 284 .• 282 50 .. 285 Rouen • • • . • • .....1000 • .1003 75 —lOOO ..1000 Rouen to Havre. • • • • • • • • • • • 772 50 .. 773 75 • • 772 50 .. 773 75 Orleans .•• • • • • • • •• • . •• •• ..1005 ..1010 ..1005 —41006 25 Strasburg to Bale-. •• • • •• 270 .• 272 50 •• 270 .. 272 50 Avignon to Marseilles.• • • •• 822 5G 827 50 .. 823 .. 822 50 We cannot better conclude than by quoting from the conclusion of the Committee's " Report," the "Re medies suggested" by them. It is a passage well entitled to the deliberate consideration of the Legis lature ; and whatever difficulties might probably be encountered in attempting to carry such a scheme into practical execution, the proposal is entitled to every degree of attention, from the boldness and sim plicity of the substituted recommends for the present Poor-law and its ancillary Law of Settlement : " Your Committee have now discharged the duty in trusted to them by the Council. They may, however, be asked what remedy they would propose for the uni versally acknowledged evils of the present system ? and to this they would reply—that the objections to the Law of Parochial Settlements, not only on the ground of com plication aad expense, but on the score of humanity, are so great, as to admit of but one remedy ; and that is, the Abolition of the Settlement Laws altogether, with all their cumbrous and expensive machinery, and providing for the support of the poor out of a general fund, to be raised by means of a national tax, to which all property, whether landed, funded, or personal, should be liable to contribute, and which is consistent with the principle of the law of Queen Elizabeth, under which every indi vidual was liable according to his ability, whether arising from real or personal estate. This plan would encounter opposition in the first instance, but it may be supported by so many considerations of justice and policy, that little doubt can be entertained that, sooner or later, it will bo adopted by the Legislature, and become the law of the land. THIS DAY'S NEWS CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor heard cause petitions, lunatic petitions, and appeals to-day. IN THE CASE OF THE FEVERSHAM CHARITIES. This case came before the Court upon petition, praying the confirmation of the Master's report, ap pointing two new trustees to certain extensive charities in Fevershara. A reference was directed to the Master to appoint new trustees in the room of two gentlemen who had left the parish, one now residing at Dover, and the other at Finsbury. The Master appointed two gentlemen, and the object of the present application was to confirm that report. His LORDSHIP ordered the report to be confirmed. The Court then disposed of the several lunatic peti tions on the paper, and afterwards proceeded with the part-heard appeal of Livesey v. Livesey, which occupied the Court the whole day. " If, however, there is no prospect of a speedy abroga tion of the Laws of Settlement—if it is still considered advisable, on account of existing interests, to continue them for the present—if it is still deemed humane and considerate towards the poor to break up their homes, to separate them from their families, and to bandy them backwards and forwards from parish to parish, and from county to county, because they have the misfortune to be poor and dependent—your Committee would confidently and unhesitatingly express their opinion that it would he infinitely better to continue the existing Laws of Set tlement. and to amend the machinery by which they are carried out, by lessening the expense now required in procuring orders of removal and in contesting their va lidity, than to adopt a measure so objectionable in its provisions—so unjust and ruinous to all large manufac turing towns and villages—and so calculated to yield a fruitful harvest of litigation, as the Bill now introduced by her Majesty's Government." VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the whole morning with unopposed petitions and short causes. (Before Sir J. WIG RAM.) LUND V. BLABS HARD AND OTHERS. His HONOUR gave his decision this morning on two demurrers, put in to the plaintiff's amended bill by the defendants, who are members of the Yorkshire Agricul tural and Commercial Banking Company, and the Lon don and Westminster Bank. The main arguments in the case had been heard, but the Court required a further hearing on the only two points raised by the demurrers' misjoinder and multifariousness; and Mr. K. Parker and Mr. Hetherington have argued on the part of the plaintiffs against the demurrers, on the grounds above stated. The plaintiffs are shareholders in the Yorkshire Banking Company, the defendants were con nected with the management and direction, and the Lon don and Westminster Bank had been appointed the London agents of the Company. His Hoxotra overruled both demurrers. We have received Madrid journals of the 7th, but their contents have been anticipated by the telegraphic dispatch, which conveyed intelligence to the Bth. In the Congress, on the 7th, a rather stormy discussion took place on an amendment to the 9th clau‘e, pro posed by one of the Members for Barcelona. In the Address, as drawn up by the Committee, allusion is made to the "rapid improvement of our rising in dustry." To this Senor SAIRO moved as an amendment, that "there was greater necessity than ever to extend a powerful protection to native industry." In other words, that the present high tariff should be raised, and smuggling more encouraged. There was a strong party in the Congress in favour of high duties, but the Government in the end prevailed, and the amendment was withdrawn. Senor LLORENTE moved another amendment, in the shape of an additional clause, the purport of which was to call the attention of the Government to the state of their commerce and colonies, in supporting which he made great complaints of the abandonment of their marine, ob jecting to the construction of vessels in foreign ports, and insisting on the fitness of making a new law respecting the slave trade, as a matter of the greatest interest for the Spanish colonies. Sir K. Bruce did not sit today, his Court being en. gaged for the business usually transacted in the Ses. sions-house. , QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) 1101VARD V. GOSSETT. This was an action brought by Mr. Howard, an attorney, of Norfolk-street, in the Strand, to recover damages from Sir William Gossett, the Sergeant-at- Arms to the House of Commons, for an alleged unlawful arrest and false imprisonment. The defendant admitted all the facts laid in the declaration, but pleaded that he Was justified in what he had done, by a warrant of the llouse of Commons, for the arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff. To this the plaintiff demurred, and the demurrer came on for argument this morning. The case arose out of the proceedings in the well-known case of Stockdale v. Hansard. The plaintiff, as attorney for Stockdale, had conducted the proceedings in that case, and after Stockdale had been arrested and imprisoned for contempt of the House of Commons, the plaintiff, .his attorney, was also summoned to the bar of the House, and shortly afterwards arrested and imprisoned by order of the House, and it was to recover compensation for this arrest and imprisonment that he had brought this action. Mr. KELLY, in support of the demurrer, contended that the warrant set forth in the pleadings could not justify the arrest and detention of the plaintiff, inasmuch as it set forth no cause of offence whatever, but simply directed the arrest and detention of the plaintiff without specifying any cause of imprisonment, or naming any time at which such imprisonment should cease. Lord Coke had laid it down in his Institutes, that every mitti mus must show good cause of arrest, in order that the prisoner might obtain his relief by habeas corpus if the cause set forth should be wrong. If this warrant, which pecified no offence, should be held to be a good warrant, and if; on an application for habeas corpus, their Lord ships were to remand upon such a warrant, it would im port that the House of Commons might arrest any sub ject of the realm without any offence or any charge, which would be a violation of Magna Charts and of the Petition of Right, in both of which it was laid dawn that no freeman should be imprisoned or detained without cause shown, whereby be is imprisoned and detained. It was true that in the bad times of the James's and the Charles's, when the Courts of Justice were themselves the greatest violators of the law, warrants were issued for the apprehension of per sons without specifying the cause of offence ; but Sir Edward Coke, before those times, had expressly laid down the law to the oontrary ; and since the days of James 11., the practice had been universally condemned, and, in good times, the law, as laid down by Lord Coke, had always been considered as the current law. The warrant was also bad, for want of a lawful conclusion. The Minister of the Interior said the Government was determined to execute the laws and treaties against the slave trade, but that the means at its disposal were not sufficiently extensive to enable it to put a period to the traffic ; and the Minister of Marine said that only one steamer had been ordered to be constructed abroad. The Commission again succeeded, and their clause was carried. The trial of General PRIM was resumed On the 6th, but little further evidence was adduced. A domici liary visit had been made by the police at the resi dence of the General, and a strict examination of all his papers and effects taken place, but without any important discovery having been made. The prose cutors seem to have abandoned the charge of attempt ing to assassinate NARVAEZ. The Three per Cents. were done at 271 at GO days; and the Five per Cents. at 205-16 at GO days. The Paris papers, which have at last duly arrived bring no intelligence of importance, and the leading articles are of the same description. The Journal des Debats and the Constitutionnel have articles on Mr. WAGIIORN'S letter to the Pacha of EGYPT, proposing a railroad across the Isthmus of Suez. Both of them are opposed to the plan, and recommend the con struction of a canal. These articles will be found under the proper head. The Courricr Francais, for want of a more fresh subject, goes back to 1841, and comments on the treaty for the pacification of Turkey and Egypt, and the protection of the Christians. Russia, it says, had only one object in view—to see Turkey return to barbarism, and thus forfeit all in terest that Europe might have for her. Austria, though animated by a better spirit, was of as little use. From such a colleague, the Ambassadors who were anxious to promote the cause of civilisation in Turkey, and guarantee the welfare of the Christian community, could derive no effectual aid. To the British Minister, in fact, is attributed all the merit. " The question with Sir STRAT FORD CANNING," says that journal, " was not merely to prevent the shedding of the blood of a few victims; it was necessary to put a stop to the system of re-action of the Turkish Ministry. Sir STRAT FORD CANNING pursued this twofold object with praiseworthy firmness. He comprehended, as a good Englishman, that Russia alone had an interest in Nsw a ei l o l li o fun w litdso i t n ed g rbii : t p h erd a ete t httee s en y r dfr s aee t n e dd m a ttbbi by no of n t o i b n s u t e a . c e H . e T a l h l e owe T d u r h k i i m s h afntyh e capital concession t on their o open part insur rection, and even M. DE BOURQUENEY, as we are in formed by one of his friends, considered this so pro bable, that he said we must go no farther. But the English Ambassador replied, we must go on,' and the question was thus at least half-carried. Here, however, he was checked, for the French Ambassador, after having taken one step, refused to take another. The return of M. DE BOURQUENEY is now announced. Let him tell us what influence we 'exercise at Con stantinople. In the wake of England on a question of humanity; motionless, when a decitive measure is necessary against a Ministry which is driving the empire to its ruin. Such has been the ccoduc o to e f v t e h r e , representative of France. We do not, however, accuse him, for he has evidently only followed in structions, and his docility will be rewarded vial'. the Peerage. Be it so; but in serving his own into, rests, has he served those:of his country ? And will it be a sufficient consolation for us to know that the eq lire It simply ordered the arrest of the plaintiff without stating where he Ivan to be brought, where he was to be imprisoned, what time he was to be imprisoned, or how he was to be delivered. There was no indication of his offence, neither was it stated what he was to do to purge himself of his oirenee. This was directly contrary to the law as laid down by Lord Coke, who laid it down, that every warrant ought to show a lawful cause of imprison. ment, and ought to have a lawful conclusion, such as, that the prisoner should be 'detained until delivered by due course of law. The defendant was not told by the warrant to bring the plaintiff before the House, but he ants to take him into custody, and to keep him in custody ; it would appear until they should choose to order what should be done with him. Now this was contrary to Magna Charts, and the warrant was therefore void. He now came to what was the practice in regard to contempts, and he believed it would be admitted that it was only for con tempt that the House of Commons possessed the power of imprisonment. Now the practice of all tribunals having the power of attaintiag for contempt, was to call ❑pon the party accused to 'answer; if he refused, or gave no saflicient answer, he was adjudged guilty of con tempt, and the warrant authorising his imprisonment in variably set forth that he was committed for contempt. Here it was not stated that he was committed for con tempt, and he would ask on what principle the . House of Commons was to depart from a practice which was binding on all other tribunals committing for con tempt. No contempt whatever appeared upon the face of this warrant, and the Court could not presume that the committal was for contempt. If the Court were to do so the liberty of every subject would be at the mercy of the House of Commons. lie submitted that no au thority could be found in which any warrant had been held lawful, which did not set forth theoffence for which the party was to be arrested. With regard to the cases of imprisonment for contempt, he would merely refer the Court to the arguments of Sir J. Campbell in the case of Stockdale and Hansard, where everyone of these cases had been collected. He did not deny the right of the House of Commons to imprison for contempt, but he did contend that they had no right to imprison for any other cause, or for no cause at all, or by virtue of a war rant showing no cause. The next question was, sup posing the warrant to be bad could the defendant fall hack upon the averments in the plea in aid of the war rant. He apprehended theidefendant could not. Having set forth the warrant as his justification for the arrest, he could not depart from it, and if that warrant were bad he could not show aliunde that there was good cause to justify the arrest. If a Sheriff's officer arrested a man upon a bail writ of capias it would be no justifica tion of that arrest to show that the bad writ was founded upon a good judgment. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE — In an action against a magi- Made for false imprisonment, if the warrant is bad, but he sets forth that the conviction is good, would not that be sufficient, supposing he only pleaded the general issue? Mr. KELLY submitted that such a case could not apply to an action brought against the officer executing the warrant, although it might if they were suing the House of Commons, or the Speaker ; but he apprehended that, as the action would be for the imprisonment, and not for the conviction, the setting forth the conviction would not be a sufficient justification. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—I do not say so ; but is it not a general notion do not say whether right or wrong— but is it not a general notion that a bad warrant may be aided by a good conviction ? Mr. KELLY apprehended not. The party :ought his remedy against the party arresting him for the impri sonment, and not for the conviction. If a magistrate possessed the power on conviction by parole directions without the intervention of any written document, of ordering imprisonment, then the conviction might justify such imprisonment ; but if it was necessary that the warrant should be made in writing, and such warrant should be found to be bad, then the party would have been illegally committed, and would be entitled to his remedy. Now, what were the averments in the third and fourth pleas? They were—that the plaintiff, having been summoned to appear at the bar of the House of Commons, failed to attend, and that thereupon an order was made that he should be brought to the bar. (The case had not concluded when we went to press.) COMMON PLEAS. : -(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) The Court this day, took the demurrer paper, the cases in which were interesting only to the profession. (Sittings at Nisi Prius.) The Court sat also as Nisi Prius, in the Sessions House, Westminster,. BENRAM V. PIDDING. This was an action for goods sold and delivered, and would possess no peculiar interest, but for what was characterised as an " artful dodge" on the part of the defendant The plaintiff is an ironmonger and general dealer, and supplied the defendant with goods upon a running (mount, for which he charged in his bill the sum of 231. Payment having been delayed longer than was agrk eable to the plaintiff, he brought this action. The defendant paid into Court 51., pleading to the re mainder of the claim " not indebted." Mr. JAMES, for the p'aintiff, put in evidence of the goods being supplied. He remarked that the defendant, who was not represented in Court, had been advised by some artful practitioner, more cunning than wise, to pay in the sum of 5/., in order to bring the debt below 20/., and thus escape arrest and imprisonment. But by a re cent decision in the Court of Exchequer, it was clear that this manwuvre would not avail him. Verdict for the plaintiff in the whole amount. CLEVELAND V. WALTER. This was an action of Pjartmant, under very eurinus:eir. cumstances. The principal was Miss Cleveland, who deposed, that her father was a tripe-dealer, formerly residing in Tower-street, St. Giles's, but carrying on business at present in Silver-street, Golden-square. He quitted the house in Tower-street about twelve years ago, and left a relation in po ssess i on o f th e p rem i ses . Since that, Mr. Walter, who had married a distant re lation of plaintiff's, was put into possession of the business, with an arrangement to this effect: the plaintiff was to supply defendant with the stock in trade, and:to give him one-half of the profits; and also to allow him 1/. per week independent of that commission. That once in two or three weeks she, in place of her father, used to settle with defendant, that she received from him the rent which he had received from persons lodging in the house. He used also to pay her the whole of the receipts of the business, and she re turned one half of the profits to him. He used to at tend at her father's house to settle his acconnts with him, but on one occasion he sent word to her that he was unable to come to plaintiff's house, being unwell. In consequence of this she went to the house in Tower street, when he told her that he had no money to give her. He afterwards refused to settle with any one but Mr. Cleveland, and subsequently refused to give any ac count of the business, whereupon plaintiff gave him no tice to quit the premises, which he defendant refused to do. Several other witnesses were called, who corroborated the above evidence. It was also proved that defendant, having been obliged to become insolvent, spoke of plain tiff as his employer in his schedule. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, who appeared for plaintiff, laid great stress on the latter fact. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, with imme diate execution. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) EX - PARTE JOHN RADCLIFFE. Mr. HATHERTON moved, in this case, for a writ of habeas corpus to bring up the bodies of two infants, who were detained in the custody of their grandfather, Abra ham Turner. The present application was made on the part of the father of the children, who stated in his affi davit that his wife and infant daughter Mary, aged two years, went to the house of Turner, and that the infant was detained in the custody of Turner, who refused to give her up. On a subsequent occasion his second daughter, Fanny, aged four years, was taken to Turner's house without his knowledge, and also detained. The wife of the deponent also went to the house of her father and refused to come back, though he wrote to her to do so, and to bring the children with her. The deponent also stated that he treated his wife with kindness, as he believed.—Application granted. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) PETTY V. WALKER AND OTHERS. The action in this case was tried at York, when a ver dict was given for the plaintiff—damage s, one farthing. One of the defendants in the action, named Isaac Ironside, moved this morning for a rule of Court calling on Mr. Fretson, of Sheffield, the plaintiff's attorney, to show cause why he should not refund the sum of 431. 15s. 6d., paid to him, under protest, as costs in the above action. The applicant's affidavit,upon which the pre , sent motion was fonnded, stated that immediately after the verdict had been returned, he tendered to the plaintiff's solicitor one halfpenny (not having a farthing in his pocket), but that this sum was refused by the latter. The defendant further stated to the Bench that the Under Sheriff told him that if the plaintiff's solicitor imagined that the verdict obtained would carry costs he was mis taken, and that it was in consequence of his advice that he acted as he had done, after the finding of the jury. For ten days after the trial the defendant heard nothing of the action, but at the end of that time he was as tounded at receiving a letter from Mr. Fretson, dated Queen-street, Sheffield, making a claim of 431. 185. 6d., as above, accompanied with a threat of execution if the amount were not paid within a specified time. In order to avoid running any risk, defendant paid the sum, under protest. He now applied to the Court, with a view of recovering the amount. The defendant having, at the request of the Bench, read the affidavit detailing the facts of the case, The COURT granted the rule. BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) A middle-aged man, named John Carlyle, living at it, Eaton-street, New•cut, Lambeth, was brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with having stolen a sovereign, be longing to Mr. John Luff, under the following singular circumstances : , The prosecutor was going over Waterloo-bridge on the night previous, about half-past seven o'clock, and stopped to pay the toll. He put his hand i n t o hi s poc k et and pulled out a quantity of loose money, from which, while selecting a sixpence, he let fall a sovereign on the causeway. The prisoner was just coming up to the gate, and on the prosecutor searching for his sovereign, he assisted him, but, strange to say, it could not be found. The prosecutor, having his suspicions, immediately asked the prisoner if he got it ? But he replied he had not, nor had he seen it. Prosecutor was certain no one else could have picked it up, and determined to give. him into cus tody. He accordingly called the policeman on duty there, F , OS, and gave the prisoner into custody. He stoutly upheld his innocence, and off e r e d every f ac ili ty for search ; but in his right-hand waistcoat pocket a sovereign covered with dirt was soon found, to his great discomfiture. The prisoner expressed his ignorance of how it got there, and said afterwards it was his own. Mr. JARDINE said there was sufficient, without his previous statement of not having a sovereign in his pos session at all, to commit him for trial.—Committed. — Cl7.' 'i ' • . . V lit . 0 , • Isl.. 4t .) -- 'il . , ;,,.1•,,, ,- sil e" -016_,.- v q ., c ; ;_n o ;4llllll4i .- ~,,,,' ACA-..-,i,j, ~,;w44, - eil;:i -.• <l-5c,%,„..*-b,-,-.7',"' . Pttn, , , 4 .. ,P. , . 4 . , , ~,, •. , 1,, .!..,,, ....... , , P _._,.. tentAt 2'nn. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1844. in Prussia is one instance ; the vexatious rules and re gulations that you are subjected to in foreign ports, and the delays and various things you have to contend with. By Mr. LYALL—A re not foreign ships subject to the same ?—No. The following answers of the same witness also go to show that the intention of the reciprocity treaties is thus defeated by foreign countries, and that it would be only fair to restrict the privilege of " bond ing" to cargoes brought in British ships, as an equi valent for the restrictions enforced by such foreign States : By Mr. CHAPMAN—You have been long at Newcastle, have you bonded warehouses there ?—We have. For articles of import generally ?—Yes. Do you not know that in the articles of corn, and tim ber, and cotton, and Obacco, if imported into the port of Newcastle, the Government of this country has the power, without contravening any reciprocity treaty, to collect a revenue on those articles if imported in a foreign ship, and letting them be bonded in a British warehouse ; if this indulgence were granted only to those articles when imported in a British ship, will you state to the Committee whether that would not be an advantage to the British shipowner ?—Certainly, I think so. Is that a recommendation that you think any ship owner would object to ?—I think not. By Mr. LIDI;ELL—You would confine the power of bonding articles imported to those which are brought in British ships alone f—l think it would be a benefit to the British ship-owner; and I will go further, and say to the British merchant. It would work in two ways : he might import more goods, and thereby employ more shipping; it would do away with the necessity of ad vancing the duties till the goods were wanted. By Mr. CIIAPMAN—In the case of a vessel laden with corn, the duty having to be paid instantly if in a foreign vessel, have you made any calculation as to the difference that would be made in the freight of that vessel ?—No ; I consider that, according to the present corn-laws, it would he very difficult to make any calculation, for with the sliding-scale you do not know what the duty would be. By Captain GLADSTONE—Do you know anything of the trade with the Brazils ?—Very little ; I never had but one ship there. Are you aware of any preference being given in the foreign trade to foreign vessels over British vessels ? In every trade that you are speaking of the Swedes, and some other trades, have the preference." Now, on turning to the " Return of Countries, in which Treaties of Reciprocity with regard to Shipping have been entered into," we find that Brazil executed such a treaty on the 17th of August, 1827 ; Prussia on the Ist of April, 1824 ; Sweden and Norway in June, of the same year. The witness last quoted has demonstrated how these and other powers have acted to us under those treaties. It is to be noted, however, that Mr. HALL, a ship owner and ship-broker, of London, takes a very dif ferent view of the mode in which these treaties have been acted on. For these are his answers to questions addressed to that point : By Mr. LIDDELL—Have you any reason to believe that these reciprocity treaties are not fairly and ho nestly observed, in all cases, by foreign powers ? No. On the contrary, I believe that our interest is so well represented in foreign ports, that our Government would be immediately made acquainted with any preference or advantage which was shown to foreign shipping. This answer would be of more moment if it fol lowed that Lord ABERDEEN, on receiving such infor mation, would adopt any effective measures consequent upon it. Besides, what does Mr. HALL's vindication of the respect of foreign States for these treaties amount to, when he is further pressed ? Nevertheless it does appear that cases do exist in which an undue preference is shown to ships of those (foreign) nations ?—lt must be indirectly. Is it not so in the case of salt in the ports of Prussia ? I am aware of that ; but I believe that has been remedied in consequences of remonstrances having been made. We have against this, not the " belief," but the positive evidence of Mr. STRAKER to the contrary. ft is remarkable, too, that Mr. HALL himself expressly admits " that reciprocity treaties are undoubtedly fa vourable to foreign shipping; whereas, in a state of peace, it is impossible to favour British over foreign shipping." If we add to these the other important considerations that Mr. TANNER'S evidence proves, that British ships in ports of Russia (which Power entered into a reciprocity treaty with us in January, 1823), of Prussia, and of Holland, are charged duty Ton ships' provisions, which they have in store, in itich ports ; that at Marseilles, and in the Brazils also, British ships have, according to Mr. IsTicuoLsoN, of underland, their provisions sealed up, and are ,bliged to buy other provisions in those ports, a prat• tical hardship, the fact of which is confirmed and exemplified by Mr. CTJMING also; we think we have a ight to assume that we have made out a case for that contingent protection to British shipping, which the .mreciproca.ting parties to reciprocity treaties with us must marvel at our having so long abstained from enforcing against them ; and which circumstances so special would amply warrant us in making a marked exception to the general principle and pervading policy we shall at all times advocate, in the abstract, 3f unrestricted freedom of trade. UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.) Thomas Greaves, John Graham, and William Bennett, were charged with stealing fOO cwt. of iron, the property of Sir John Rennie, at Bankside. A policeman on duty on Bankside, at four o'clock, this morning, hearing a noise on Sir John Rennie's premises, proceeded there, and found the above quantity of iron had been removed to an adjacent wharf. He also saw three men running out of the yard towards the river -side, and, on examination, the three prisoners were found con cealed in a barge close to the spot. Since the prisoner's p,ppreliension, another man, named Bryant, a marine store-dealer, in Broadwall, was taken into custody, in the act of removing a large quantity of iron in a cart from his house, the greater portion of which was identified as having been stolen from Sir John Rennie's premises. The prisoners were remanded. Elizabeth Taylor and Sarah Corben, two young women, recently in the service of. Mr. Beale, a solicitor, of Maid stone, were charged with embezzling 401., the property of their master. It appeared the prisoners were entrusted with the above sum, at various times, for the purpose of paying off the tradesmen's bills in the town. Instead, however, of discharging the bills, they both absconded, and were taken into custody in London, having taken lodgings on this side of the water, and both were dressed out in the first style of fashion.—The prisoners were remanded. WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENT, IN PERTH.— The admirers of Scotia's minstrelsy enjoyed a luscious treat on Monday evening, when Mr. Wilson, the sweetest of her minstrels, made his appearance once more in our theatre. We never heard that admired vocalist in better voice. His command over its pecu liarly pliant texture, for the expression of the alterna tives of the humourous and the pathetic, was never more conspicuous than on this occasion. In these days, when he has so many imitators, not rivals—so many who have entered the walk which he •first and origi nally chalked out as his own—so many who furtively, in a sense, have attempted to occupy the field which he first so successfully cultivated—in these circumstances, we say, it is refreshing to listen to the melting, and the ex hilirating strains of the original Wilson, undiminished in his powers, but rather, as evidenced in his exertions of Monday evening, soaring above himself.—Perth Paper, a Nov. 13. Prime mutton is now selling at Wetton-under- Elge, Gloucestershire, at 40. per lb. The contract for mutton for the the Dursley Union for the next three months was taken a few days age at 30. per lb.—Bristol Mirror. HONEY Al 3) COMMERCIAL NE W S CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. . _ . . A fair business was done in cotton at Liverpool yes terday. Sales 5,000 to 6,000 bales at previous rates. The business comprised 800 Surat at 2id. to 31d., 300 Maranham at 41d. to 5d., and American at 34d. to sd. per lb.—There was a moderate business transacted in Shares, at a slight improvement in prices. Bristol and Gloucester, 371 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 31* ; Churnet Valley, 21. 18s. 6d. ; Dublin and Cashel, 34 ; Eastern Counties, 134 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 14i ; Ken dal and Windermere, 3 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 12t ; Lancaster and Preston, 45 46 ; London and Birmingham, 214 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 361 ; Midland Counties Fifths, 3/. Is. ; South-Eastern, 381 ; Lyons and Avignon, 21. 12s. ; Paris and Rouen, 38i ; Paris and Strasbourg, 21. Bs. to 2L Bs. 6d. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4 34. Much disappointanent has been expressed in the City this morning by merchants connected with the Canada trade, at the non-arrival of letters by the Acadia steamer. It was supposed that the mail from Boston had been delayed by heavy falls of snow, as the bags were not received at the time the steamer left Halifax. A file of papers, however, has been received from Que bec and Montreal, at the North and South American Coffee-house, which contain a good deal of shipping news. Sir Charles Metcalfe appears to have been most successful in the elections. By the Acadia late advices have been received from the United States—viz., to the Ist init. Electioneering for the rresidency was the universal order of the day. The success of Mr. Clay was held to be certain. The shipments of the new crop of cotton was proceeding with the greatest activity; 1 r 3,500 bales having been put on board, against 19,200 bales in the corresponding period of last year. The season fur exporting the new crop is dated from the Ist October. We learn from Vera Cruz that an English vessel had arrived there, having on board an extraordinary courier, who proceeded immediately to the residence of Santa Anna. The report was, that he had most important dispatches from the British Government, by which the probability was increased that the war with Texas would not be prosecuted. It is stated in the letters from Tampico that a con ductor had arrived there with two millions of dollars, the largest, we believe, on record. It was guarded by 300 men. It would be shipped as soon as possible for Eng land. Business was extremely dull at Tampico, but the general health of the place was good. It has been imagined by many in the City, from the few remarks made under this head, who true to the con tract for the new French loan, that the biddings for that portion of it, declared open to tender, had been actually taken. The biddings are to be made on the 9th of next month, and the reason why the Parisians have ad vanced on the Bourse is stated to be principally in con sequence of the knowledge of the fact that the Messrs. Rothschild and Brothers will tender for it. The Funds have been steady this morning. The Commissioners bought Reduced Three per Cents. at 99g. Consols for Money have been at 100-a, and fur the Account at 1001 only. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. are steady at 102 and 102 - ; Ex chequer Bills remain at 565. to 58s. premium ; India Bonds, under 1,0001., have rallied from 755. to 795. premium. Bank Stock may be quoted at 204 - 5. The confirmation of the news before received that a large amount of dollars was at Tampico for remission to this country for the Mexican dividends, has raised the Mexican Bonds to 36 ; Spanish Three per Cents. have realised 36 also; and the Active Stock, 24 The Por tuguese Converted Annuities have receded from 541 to 534. Dutch Stock has remained steady. The Belgian New Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Scrip commanded f to premium. The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Shares have been on the decline to-day. The Great Western, the London and Birmingham, the Brighton, and most of the other shares have advanced. Business has not been particu larly animated during the day. There has not been any business transacted in the Joint-stock Bank Shares to-day. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock.... ... ... .......... ......... ..... 2O-, 20.04 3 per Cent...Red'uced Annuitie5........... ....... 9934 % 54% 3 per Cent. Consols. Anns New 3% per Cent. Annuities ...... 102% 102 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 .. 12 5-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860.......... 12 5-16% I ndia Bonds, 1,000. ....... .. ....... ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 75 Ditto under 1,000. ....... ........ ..... ••••••••••••••• 79 Bank Stock for Account 205 Consol • for Account ••••••••••••••••••••••••• ....... ow 100% Exchequer Bills. I%d. 114 d .....•••••••••••••••••••• ••• .........•. 59 56 pm. Ditto &air.... ...... Ditto Advertis ed......... FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent. ...... ..... ..... 35% 96 Ditto for the Account • . ..................... 35% 38 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per C'ent. ..... ............... Ditto Converted 5434 51 53% Ditto for the Account 53% 5414 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 24% Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Acc0unt......... ............... ... Dutch 2 36 per Cent 5.......... Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates . 9 6%% Dutch 5 per Cent 5.........”............ ........ ...... 99 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. RA ILW AYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO .........99 100...... to 98 Bristol and Gloucester 3O .... ..... 37% ..... to 37% Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead... ....... .... 5 Churnet Valley Direct Northern ' ,234 2 14 1 4 ... to Eastern Counties ............... ..... 25 Ely and Bedford Great North of England. 100 Ditto New ....•.....•••••• ...... ... 5 .....«.. 15 Great Western ................... 75 Ditto % Shares ........ ..... ..... 50 ......... 86 Lancaster and Carli sle ....... 10 ........ 12%% London and Birmingham......... 100 .....„.218 Ditto % 5hare5. .................... 2 ......... 21 Londonand Blackwall ..... ........ 16% ...... 6 London and Brighton ......... ..... 50 ....... 46% London and Greenwich London andlOreenwich (Preference) 18% London and South Western ...... 41% ..... 74 London and Croydon ... ....... ..... 13% ...... 16% London and York 234 3% Manchester and Leeds ........ ••••••• 70 OM ..... 106% •••••• to Midland Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 ......... 48% Northern and Eastern 45 to Ditto 34 Shares 1 Wm sc•or., NorwiclCand Brandon South Eastern and Dover York and North Midland .... ..... 50 .."..... Ditto Scarbore' Branch . Ditto Selby Scrip .." ..... ... ..... 20 "...moo 63 Boulogne and Amiens Orleans and Bourdeaux ..... Porissod 20 383 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 14.—The market continues firm, with abetter inquiry for stock:— Birkenhead and Manchester, 5 9-16 ; Accrington 2 ; Darwen mad Bolton, 2.a ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2 5-16; Churnets, 2 3 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 141 ; Midland, pref., 3if ; West Yorkshire, 81 ; Boulogne and Amiens, LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. ' LONDON, Nov. 15.—Wind S.W., moderate breeze. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 14.—Wind S.S.E. to W.—Arrd. Sovereign, Main, Macao, sld. May 30, Anjier Aug. 1, St. Helena Sept. 28 ; Sumatra, Rowell, Sumatra, for Bre men ; her Majesty's ship Griffin, West Indies. DEAL, Nov. 14, P.M.—Wind westerly, nearly calm.— Arrd. Steadfast, Honduras ; Anthony, and Ann, Arrow smith, and Humber, Hopkinsou, Miramichi ; Jane, Pictou. Sld. Gladiator, New York. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Priscilla, Taylor, Quebec. SHOREHAM, Nov. 13.—Arrd. Staindrop, Quebec. OFF ILFRACOMBE, Nov. 13.—William Wilberforce, Quebec, for Bridgewater. BRISTOL, Nov. 14.—Arrd. Woodpecker, Williams, Antigua ; Columbus, Cowling, Ottawa, and Elleslie, Quebec ; Mary Jane, Williams, Prince Edward's Island. Sld. Miranda, Cape de Verds. NEWPORT, Nov. 12.--Sid. Australia, St. Thomas's ; Robert Pulsford, Boston. SWANSEA, Nov. 13.—Arrd. Terrier, Davidson, and Lion, Colten, Cuba. BIDEFORD, Nov.-14.—The Fairy Queen, Clark, of and from Liverpool, to the lonian Islands, came ashore on Saunton Sands yesterday, and is expected to become a wreck ; crew and part of cargo saved. CARNARVON, NOV. 12.—The Pheasant, Jones, from Newport to Belfast, was driven ashore at Dinas Duille, 10th inst., where she lies high and dry, apparently without much damage. POOLE, Nov. 13.—The Duddon, . Harley, from New castle to Oporto, is ashore within the harbour, having sprung a leak. BUDE, Nov. 14.—The Knysna, frem Westpoint to Bristol, ashore at Crackington Haven, has gone to pieces —cargo washing ashore. LivEnrooL, Nov. 14.—The Mary, Kingsland, loading at New Orleans for this port, took fire, 19th ult., and burnt to the water's edge ; of 1,700 bales cotton, about a quarter was expected to be saved in a damaged state. The Atlantic, hence to New Orleans, was taken into Key West, 14th ult., leaky, and mast cut away, having been ashore on Carysford Reef. The Catharine, Baird, from Quebec to this port, was ashore at Point Neuf, 12th ult.—master, mate, nine men, and two passengers drowned. _ STRANRAER, Nov. 12. —lt blew a heavy gale at N.N.W. yesterday and the preceding night. The schooner William, of Runcorn, was lost near Cornwall Light ; mate drowned. ULLAPOOL, Nov. 11. —The William Gillees, of Glas gow, took fire at the Isle of Martin on the 11 th instant, and will be a total loss. SUNDERLAND, Nov. 15.—The Fanny, of Sunderland, foundered off Hartlepool during the night of the 13th instant ; crew saved. YARMOUTH, Nov. 14.—The Lucien Josephine, from Shields to Dunkirk, was wrecked on the Scroby Sand yesterday ; crew saved. A foreign galliot has been brought in here today abandoned, after being in contact with the Ann, of Sunderland, which is in the Roads with loss of bowsprit, &c. ; crew of the galliot saved. ABERDEEN, Nov. 12.—Sld. Sweet Home, Ichaboe. YARMOUTH ROADS, NOV. 1 4.—Arrd. Pomona, of Aberdeen, with bows stove, having been in contact with the Hero, of Hartlepool. CONWAY, Nov. 13.—The Vaichwal, Wrench, from Bangor to Liverpool, has been stranded near here ; master drowned. The St. George, Owen, sunk in the Bay ; crew drowned. Late last evening, a report reached us, that a female named Phillips, was murdered. on Sunday morning, at Navestock, in this county. The circumstances, as stated by our informant, are, that deceased went to a beer-house at White Horse-side, near her residence, where she drank a pint of beer, and, on leaving, took some with her in her hand ; that two men, who arc in custody, left the house at the same time, and when she was within 100 yards of her own home, knocked her down, and so maltreated her that they left her for dead. Subsequently the parties themselves informed her husband that she was dead, and he found her in a field lifeless, her petticoats twisted round her waist. One of the men, our correspondent states, was taken at Romford yesterday, and the other a short distance from home. An inquest was to be held yesterday before C. C. Lewis, Esq.—Chelmsford Chronicle of to-day. MARKET NEWS.--:(THIS- DAY•) CORN-EXCHANGE---(FRIDAY.) In consequence of the strong adverse gales the arrivals of English, and, indeed all other grain, up to our war: ket this -week, have Leen very small. The show of Wheat of home preduce was small, yet the demand for that article was in a sluggish state, at Monday's tions. For the best fine for e ign Wheat the inquiry `va s somewhat active. In other p arce ls next to nothing' was doing. So little B a rl e y and Malt wer e offering that the Pea s rates were nominally u na lter e d. O a t s , Beans, and Pe were held at very high prices. -quota- Er.gfish. Irish.. Foreign. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Aarley. Oats. rout 2, 1,e30 qrs. 3,020 qrs. no 7,00.1 qrs. 1,310 2,1711 Malt. 3,010 am SMITEFIELD. We had a very limited supply of Beasts, yet the Beef trade was in a sluggish stete, at barely Monday's quo tations. There was no Foreign stock offering, While the arrivals from Scotland did not exceed 40 Scots. Tbe numbers of Sheep were very small, owing to which th e demand for them was firm, at very full prices. The Veal trade was excessively dull, and the rates bad 5 downward tendency. In Pigs very little was doing , e t , late rates. Mulch Cows were a mere drug, at from 16 ' to 191. each. Per Bibs. to sink the offal. s, d. to s. d. I. d. Inferior Beasts ..... 03 2 4 2 0 Second qualityditto.. 3 a py Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Coarse.woolled ditto.. 3 1 5 0 Prime largeOzen 3 2 3 8 Southdown Wethers 31 0 " Prime Scots, &c. 6 Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 6 Large Hogs 3 0 4 0 Prime small ditto 3 8 4 0 Small P0rker5........_. 3 on 0 Suckling Calves, each 16 0 31 0 Quarter old Pigs, each • 16 0 Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. 1 Calves. I Mo. 7to 3,110 I: 180 380 NEWGATZ AND LEA3IIINUJITai• 0 , The supply of Meat ou sale was n ot ver y exteusl, yet the demand ruled heavy, on the following Mips' At per stone, iy the Carcase. e. d. Los. d. to 0. d. _ Beet, 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior 3 midd1ing......... 2 8 210 middling a 0 3 - prime large 3 0 32 - prime .. 3 4 3 4 - prime small 3 4 9 6 Pork, 1arge............... 2 6 4 0 Veal ..».« 3 0 4 0 3 40 BOROUGH HOP MARICZT. Although the supply of Hops continues rather oa: sive, the demand is active, and the late advaace in t he quotations is well supported. The duty has not yet been declared, but it is estimated at 140,0001. The folk:0 ,1 1g. are the prices of new Hops :—Sussex pockets, 71 to 81 Wealds, 71 5s to 8/83 ; Mid Kent, 91 103 to 191; Kent, 101 to 12/ ; Choice, ditto, 121 to 131; Farnham' 10/ lOs to 131. COLONIAL SUGAR.—The demand for West India has been O a , and advanced prices have been obtained. Sales of w e week to last evening inclusive, about 1,900 hhds, chiding 100 hhds Barbadoes at 66s for fine yellow, 54s 6d to 56s 6d for low. REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been at 72s 6d to 73s per cwt, and brisk. EAST INDIA.-3,553 bags Bengal sold well, mid t° good white 61s to 64s per cwt, low to good mid Yell °w " 53s to 595, and Dhobah kind 70s ; 651 bags Maurigis,e sold at 43s to 55s for low brown and yellow. Privat e l the demand for both these sorts has been good, and 31i nilla is 6d dearer. There were 228 bags Madras 5 ° at 45s to 54s per cwt. FOREIGN.- 300 boxes common yellow Havannah Sag er , sold publicly at 21s, and a good deal has been taken 0 that rate. COFFEE.—The business in British Plantation I les • been moderate, 141 casks 184 brls and bags, at ag,c ti n sold at 30s to 58s and 94s for triage to good ord good mid; Ceylon has not been quite so brisk, e t il i o ; tion 3,567 bags have only been partly sold at 54 5 p' - es ord, and very good ord was taken in at 55s to 565. •L berry sold at 75s to 88s per cwt ; 108 bales Mocha Ilnre en at 49s to 67s for sea-damaged; 3,532 bags Sing°l l .vb Java were taken in at 38s for sound good ord brow ol l/ , and at 32s for very ord brown, some of the damage i selling at 21s to 35s ; and of 1,698 bags Padang, !it ° 990 damaged found buyers at 18s to 24s 6d, vej cheaper, and the sound being taken in at 27s for g to ord brown ; 257 bags Brazil partly sold at 29s 6d 6 d 34s per cwt., fine ord coloury being taken in at 4 35 to 445. Cocoa.—The demand for Cocoa has continued O d a Grenada had been sold at 42s to 44s per cwt., gl ° Trinidad at 42s to 445. n or SPICES.—Good bold heavy white Singapore PeLr 0 has realised 61d, and ord 4i-ld per lb. Malabar has u"' 3Rd to 30, and Sumatra 2.0 per lb. for RlCE.—Bengal has been firm at lOs 6d to 1 2 s white, and Java is firmer. COTTON.—There have been 7,300 bales of Surat off e e and which chiefly sold at *1 to 31,-d per Ib , the rest be t' taken in at 4d per lb ; 1,630 bales Madras sold at 2 3 a 34-d per lb. TEA.—The market is steady, but not partieu l is rll active. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. has been 40s 6d to 40s 961 per c wt on the spot, and 40s 6d for the end of the year. Rum.—This article has been very dull. Some very beautiful and extraordinary spe Cl*toev of wood from New Zealand, for cabinet work, Oen, lying exhibited at the Company's o ffi ces, 131 r o f street. They have been lately imported from the co . e_. by Mr. Levin, who has converted a portion into elegac articles of furniture. The woods far surpass all othe r s,:. known in this country, and we should imagine w ould ev come a considerable source of gain to the Company• EXTENSIVE SALE OF HOUSES.—THE V ALTIOL FREEHOLD PROPERTY.-Yesterday a sale by took place at the Auction-mart, by Mr. G. R o bins' property situated in Lisson-grov e , cons i st i ng o f s ere e valuable freehold ground rents, producing a clear tol d of 2401. per annum, secured upon fifty-six frec li ii ° o houses, including shops and corner houses, the 0 . 1 , 1° ,[ 0 f value of which was near 2,0001., the reversion in l e i ,"; c b which went to the purchaser in seventy-five years. 5 ":" was the period of the several leases. The auction-r ° was crowded, and several gentlemen of large capital w y g ,, present. The total ground rent amounted to 2401. ro , and the yearly rent of the houses to 1,913 L TheP oo t perty fetched 7,486/. 10s. Among th e l o t s was the , and Anchor public-house, which was subject 0 . 4 ground rent ; the rent was 1501. per ann um. It 14- ,. fee-farm rent, and the reversion fell to the purchase" seventy-five years. This went for 100 guineas- STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TitArti o g The hosiery trade, in every branch, i s gra dually g e ;d e s worse, and nothing but complaints are heard on an sibs from the workmen especially. The principal brsc c e the making of hose properly fashioned on the fi l ly or the manufacture of w hi c h ex t en d s over a large tri/idcb country—is not mor e d u ll th an th e cut up b ran ch, o r a . e . is confined to particular districts. The coarse hes!' ;re nerally made about 24 or 26 gunge, and whim' o f termed " boot hose," have been for a longtinl e r l boso much depre sse d, i n man y i ns t ances t h e specie s 0 Tee termed " drop-offs" having superseded thern.l. ro o drawer and p an t a l oon b ranc h i s a l so su ff er ing " the declensi on .—Th e cotton glove trade feels te D o' floral depression ; a n d i n the silk hosiery tra d e ,: 0 0, thing can be mor e g l oom y th an th e s t oc ki ng ers' which, in many instances, are all but deserted. O f bobbin net trade has met with a sudden defiressien.y r oil ' slight nature, a sort of panic having seized se w ,' of firms, who have, in consequence, discharged "" os ir females employed in the warehouses, under rather L eer sual circumstances. Still this is consid e r e d to be r s t of a premature alarm, not f oun d e d on an y serious it demand, and the scolloping the lace on the niscp' r icet is hoped, will have a tendency to renova te the in p e r's for a time. We have seen a machine on the re' principle at work, in which no time is lost by t"`4oo/' cess, which is very singular, contrary to what is.b h og rally conceived must be the me th o d o f accomp li s h the scollopping. Any required pattern of s collop be made, as the edge is operated upon by the jis e q u p et' and may be so by wheels, the chain, or any otbe h l . . o ol tern surface app ara t us . Th e ex t ra cos t o f Ica e u l se ls will not exceed 251. The patentees intend to lice o af limited number of machines, at not mo r e than 0 5 ; 'in inch per annum, They ha ve t a k e n ou t a breve b e vention in France, and arrangements are intende d uot made with the machine owners of that kingdoni,or only to license them, but to furnish them with lo tus ready made, the law allowing the free export ° da ted chinery giving them every facility. The patent is 0 01 23d April, 1844, and consequently will not expire S y t° April, 1858. It is equally applicable to traverse oo tac straight-down nets.—The silk warp trade has be en extremely depressed, and many frames bav e ot e to stopped and stinted. This has extended at lPi e( l,--" the wide rotary frames, which are also now sw ill Nottingham Review. , at MAN FOUND DROWNED.—Yesterday mornly by t he an early hour, some persons who were walking o f East Lock of the City Canal, observed the WO been man floating on the surface. Assistance havinq otti llf, procured he was got out, but life proved to b e s o f extinct. He appeared to he about thirty-five Y7-bier, age, five feet six inches high, dark complexion 0 11 7 dark full whiskers, stout, dressed in an old pilot 07 4 00 sleeved waistcoat, drawers, and cord trowsers, hsg o , hie also a blue shirt and a flannel shirt. On sear s s ang pockets they proved to contain a small red pursei_,,co in in it three half-sovereigns, one an d fourr o gfer silver, and twopence halfpenny in copper , . ‘ 1 6 1 . 0 0 1, single-cased hunting watch, maker's name, S'ed bad London, No. 21," w it h , a common key attac h _esee°' narrow ribbon; a small brass comb, and an iron ri clue box. He had every appearance of a seaman, but h en ce ' being obtained as to what ship he belonged to, ° so , he came, he was taken to the Poplar bonehnC,.„ o eioe' formation was immediately dispatched to the ohleVirereo office at Bow 'street, and from thence to the • metropolitan offices yesterday evening. tha t ts re TH E WILL FORGERS.—W t° e understand out kiefr spectable young woman is on her way. 13sbe r. r South Wales, with the view of being mar ried 14 , _ . , d woo She sailed from Greenock a few weeks ages 7be beli furnished with a free passage by GovernMen t- r di s borr longs to the neighbourhood of London. - 1-1 Evening Post. rnai - The extent to which chill poisoning is ca rried wo o be surmised from the fact stated before the I' l _ 4 _ ll _ o gle tar y Committee on the health of towns , th at _l l u e ndre fi r druggist in Nottingham, made up thirteti; cour se e' weight of treacle into Go dfrey's cordial in tu one year !—Nottingham Review. Damsons were on Tuesday morning streets at the moderate price of six Pe"e luin 3 tn is They were quite fresh ; and some late p At thi s muscle pint. mussle kind were selling at twopence per boy , fruit is protracted period of the season, the a . airs ` her, ce esr for scarcely seen in the market, and the present the weath er ' 0 1 may be attributed to the mildness of _ dro p fie on the first appearance of frost these fruits cried_aeber Atcw.h: ; i1 hav e the trees.--Devizes Gazette. the 11- 5 ' 00 Accounts from Genoa state, that __ sun trap swollen all the torrents with which that e ir o f te_ country is interspersed. The greater p e e !r aw o bridges have been carried away, and som h c ro ' lig ht do t P stopped up with rocks, which had WO by the waters, rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1844.