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fourth time the Julie& brought the bones of both the Feringhees, and the Doctor immediately said they were the right ones, on which he took them and deposited them in a box. A gentleman of the name of Hart Saheb, who wriin Affghanistan in the regiment of Sher Buzau, who had come, via Peshawur and Caubul, in the disguise of Moollah,ls also at Bokhara. He observed all the customs of the Mahcunedans after he quitted Peshawur, and said his prayers regularly five times a day, and al ways stood as an Imam in the different mosques which he visited. He reached Bokhara many days before Dr. Wolff, and he openly joined the Doctor and the vakeel of the King of Iran when they arrived, and attended them to the durbar, conversing freely with the King. Water used to be brought three times a month to Bok bara from the river Amoo, but since Dr. Wolff and his attendants have arrived water is brought ten times a month. Dr. Wolff goes to the King in a very indepen dent manner, and has given out that he means to remain a whole year, being provided with the protection of the two powerful Sovereigns of Room and Iran. He says he will prove before he goes away that the two Fering bees were vakeels to the King of England, and that they were registered as such in the proper offices. Naih Abd-001-Summud Khan was privately very kind to Dr. Wolff and to the vakeel. He is one of the great Ameers, and he was appointed to command the army of Bokhara. settlement ; and says unfortunately there have been both new cases (of fever) and new deaths. We certainly have no wish to become alarmists, and think besides that there is a tendency in certain quarters to convert any instance of sickness which occurs into the fever of last year, We do not think the welfare of the colony is promoted either by wilful concealment or exaggeration of the sickness, and believe our Contemporary would be as far as ourselves from giving Ray to either. Within the period mentioned we certainly had not then heard of any deaths, and have since heard only of one, which we have been assured was not from fever.—/bid. In our neighbourhood there is little to notice beyond the continued violence of the rains and the influence they exert on the streets, which in several parts are scarcely passable, partly from the giving way of bridges, and partly from water lodging in the hollows and softening the newly.laid on materials. The appear ance of the sky, joined to the rise of the mercury in the barometers, lead us to hope the weather will now clear up, and we trust before a return of such a deluge the improvements so much wanted will be made upon the roads. It is understood the governor will take his de parture on Wednesday, in the Agincourt, in company with the Admiral, on an inspection of the northern ports opened to our trade. From the notification in this day's paper, it will be seen the Hon. Major D'Aguilar acts for him in bis absence, in his capacity of Lieutenant-Go vernor. Her Majesty's steamer will convey from these shores Captain Michael Quin, late of her Majesty's hos pital ship Minden, this ship having been all but put out of commission. Captain Quin will carry with him not only the good wishes of all who have bad the pleasure of his acquaintance, hut of all those who have suffered from sickness on board the Minden—to whom his kindness and humanity greatly endeared him. This is Captain Quin's second visit to China ; he commanded, in 1835, her Majesty's ship Raleigh, of Typhoon celebrity. We hear that the Driver, which left this on the 21st of June, with Sir Henry Pottinger, is expected to bring on the July maiL If this information is correct, it may be very soon expected. Last year it reached Macao on the 7th September, by the Anonyms, twenty-nine days from Bombay—Hong-Kong Register, Aug. 27. position. The first fort we found abandoned, but on the approach of the steamer to her anchorage, the fort on the right of the position opened a fire with its guns, which was returned. In the meantime the boats of the Dido and Phlegethon dashed gallantly at the two forts on the left, and the men landed and carried them. A native boat, manned from the Did*, advanced to the riOt hand fort, and, after an engagement of about ten minutes, the third and last fort was taken. The village immediately in the vicinity of the forts was burnt, the forts dismantled, and after a short pause the men were landed, and marched about half a mile to the town of Shereef Sahib, where it was expected a further resist • ante would be offered. The town, however, was found deserted, and was burnt, while the enemy were pursued in every direction they showed themselves. From fifty to sixty guns of various sizes were taken in and near the forts, and upwards of a tun of gunpowder was found in a detached magazine behind Shereef Sahib's house. It was evident how resolved this chief was to defend him self, as besides the forts already completed, eight other forts, in different states of forwardness, were in the course of erection ; and, had the attack been delayed, greater trouble would have been experienced, and more lives lost 1 in the capture. The Bth and 9th were passed in burning and destroying the rest of the straggling town, and the boats, which were very numerous; and on the 10th the force proceeded up the river, and, passing the river Undup, anchored off the deserted town of Sakarran, which was burnt. On the evening of the same day, the native boat before-mentioned advanced up the Undup a few miles, and on the morning of the 11th attacked and carried a small fort, well situated on a hill, and de fended by a barrier across the river. The enemy retired up a hill, and as they kept up a straggling fire, a gallant native chief, named Patingi Alli, landed with his party, and drove them, sword in hand, from their position. On the 12th, after overcoming numerous obstacles, the boats reached the town of Undup, which was deserted, and passing on (leaving the Malays to destroy it) worked till dark in removing the trees which had been feed across the river. The morning of the 13th the same obstacles were encountered and overcome by twelve o'clock, and the lighter boats were enabled to advance. and continued, during the day, pulling against a strong fresh breeze in the river. Early on the 14th it was evi dent that we were approaching the enemy, as a few boats were fallen in with and taken in full retreat ; and about nine o'clock A.m. a large fleet was found in a creek below the Dyak village of Undup. Above the creek, on a rising ground, was the temporary encampment of the enemy, end the Dyuk village stood on a hill above, at a long musket range distance. The enemy . abandoned their boats and encampment and opened their fire from the Dyak village upon our party. The position was commanding, and, I regret to say, that Mr. Wade, the first lieutenant of the Dido, was killed whilst gallantly advancing to the assault. The place was carried with out a check, and the enemy were completely and finally rooted and driven in every direction into the jungle. The object of the advance having been thus gained, the force dropped down the same evening to the still burn ing town of Shereef Mulah. The 15th and 16th were passed at the steamer, to rest the men after the severe fatigue encountered up the Undup, and in preparing fur an advance up the Sakarran river. The Sakarran, as I have said, is well cultivated on the banks, and the advance was made for two days with ease, although each night we were annoyed with parties of Dyaks, who threw spears from the bank, and occa sienally used the sumpitan or blowpipe. An advance of Malay boats each day preceded the force, and burned numerous villages on the way, but all the property had been carefully removed into the interior, and it was evident that the enemy were prepared beforehand for our coming. On the morning of the 19th a further advance was made till nine o'clock, when the leading boats of the Dido stopped to breakfast, and a force of about t.n small native boats under Patingi Alli was sent in advance to reconnoitre, with strict orders to fall back on any appearance of the enemy. These boats soon came up with a strong force of Dyaks, stationed on either hank, and rashly advancing across a barrier thrown over the river, pushed forward. When beyond the reach of aid, a raft was cut adrift, and six large native pruhus, with from 50 to 60 men in each, suddenly bore upon them (three from either bank), impelled down the strong stream, and closed before it was possible to re treat. A scene of confusion and dismay followed, and our native boats one after another were capsized, and about 30 men were speared before the second gig and pinnace of the Dido arrived to their relief. The fortune of the day was soon turned, the war-boats were captured, an 1 the Dyaks were driven with great slaughter from the banks, whilst the boats of the force advanced upon them as quickly as the current would permit . " The loss of the enemy must have been very great, as a body of' 4,000 or 6,004 men were exposed to our fire arms for several minutes, and the crews of the war prahus severely handled before they got ashore. The expedition may here be said to have closed, as no fur ther opposition was offered, and the boats returning to the Phlegethon, reached Putusan on the 22d, where we were joined by two boats of her Majesty's ship Same meg (Sir Edward Belcher), and on the night of the 24th once again reached Sarawak. Having remained in Sarawak a day or two, Captain Keppel received infor mation that Shereef Sahib had taken refuge in the Linga river, and that he was there collecting his tol lowers with the assistance of Shereef Jatier, a resident of that place. On the 28th the Phlegethon steamer and the boats of her Majesty's ships Dido and Semarang once more started, and proceeded up the river Linga. Alter pushing forward for two days through numerous obstacles, we had the satisfaction to learn that Shereef iihih, .n hearing of our return, finally and precipi tately abandoned the country, and fled across the mountains to the Pontianak river. The boats, in con sequence, returned to Bantiag, where a conference was held with the Malays and Below Dyaks of the place, and it was fully explained to them that the measures taken against piracy were for the protection of all pesceful communities of the coast. From these people 'lieu assurances were received of their willingness to co-operate with us, and one and all were alike urgent that the Government of their river should be transferred to the English. On the 4th of September the force reached Sarawak, and thus terminated a brilliant and successful expedition against the worst pirates on the coast of Borneo. " It is needless here to mention the gallant conduct of all concerned, but I may briefly sum up the service per formed and the obstacles overcome. A Malay horde, long the terror of the coast, fully provided with arms and ammunition, have been defeated and dispersed, and their leaders driven from the country, while numerous peace able communities in the vicinity have been released from a thraldom which has long borne heavily on their in dustry, and other chiefs have been shown what they may expect should they follow the same course. The Sakarran Dyaks have been punished along with the Malays, and there is every reason to hope, now that the well influence of the chiefs is removed, they may shortly be reclaimed from their piratical habits ; and, above all, the sufferings of the inland Dyaks have been ended, and the trade (which has yearly been more and more ob structed) protected from a horde of pirates who have long carried on their depredations with impunity. A shoaling and rapid river has been ascended fur upwards of 100 miles, obstacles of no common description have b en removed, and the enemy beaten wherever encoun tered ; and all this peformed with a cheerfulness at,d go )d-will which renders war an amusement as, well as d.:ty." THE PUNJAUB. (From the Delhi Gazette.) The news from Lahore is important. Another link in the great chain which bound the empire of Runjeet Sing together has been broken. Dewan Mull, the respected Governor of Mooltan, is really dead, and his son, Lelia Moolraj, a man of reputed talent, has been appointed by Beers Sing to succeed him. It is probable, though we can only surmise the fact, that the Dewan died soon after the infliction of the wound which has proved mortal. and that his relatives succeeded in concealing the fact, as is so often done it similar cases, until the son should have made sufficient interest at court to obtain the appoint ment of his father. It appears, that a notorious criminal had been summoned before the Dewan in person, to un dergo the investigation of some late and heinous offence. On being taken before the Governor, he drew a concealed pistol, and discharged the contents at Sawun Mull. The first accounts were that he had not been hurt by the fellow, but as it was also reported that he had swooned, we could scarcely believe that a man of the Dewan's character would exhibit so much weakness at the mere discharge of a pistol. The next account received in La hore e as, that he had been wounded, but was ra pidly recovering from the effects. Then came the Bazar report of his death, and in good time, when it might be safely made public, the authentic confirmation of that report. The loss is undoubt edly a severe one to the country he has governed so long and so ably, and is to be deplored by the lovers of good order, which he has certainly maintained on our frontier with a great degree of firmness ; we say our frontier, because the interests of the Khan Bahawulpore are so entirely interwoven with our own that we almost look on his territory as an integre' plrt of the British dominion. Mr. H. T. Prinsep, who must, of course, have enjoyed the very best opportunities of acquiring accurate knowledge, in treat . ng of the passes from Hin dostan into Affghanistan, observed that those leading directly west from the banks of the Indus to the Ghuznee and Candahar districts would not have been available to us on account of the personally hostile feel ing of Dewan Sawun Mull towards the British. No such opinion would have been pronounced by Mr. Prinsep if he had not had good reason for so doing ; but it is elan certain that no ()cession has offered, to the knowledge of the public, for the display of such feeling ; nor have we ever given him cause, that we actually know of, to exhibit its extent in his capacity of feudatory of the Punjaub empire ; but, nevertheless, we assume that such a feeling of enmity, proved as it is on Mr. Prinsep'e assertion to have existed, was not likely to have decreased 67 our encroachments on the very frontier of his territory, by our relations with Bahawulpore, or by the con stant passage, up and down the Sutlej, of large bodies of troops; and that in the event of a hostile invasion of the Punjaub by British troops as principals, Dewan Sawan Mull, however anxious he might be to be inde • pendent of Lahore, would have supported the head of the state against us, under the idea that the fall of the gene ral Government must involve the thstruction of all minor dependencies. We may, therefore, look on his death as the removal of a powerful barrier to our possible inter ference in the affairs of the country beyond the Sutlej. Military preparations continue at Lahore; troops are still being sent across the Ravee, and everything bears the appearance of a speedy rupture. The Minister is, however, doubtful as to the result of the struggle, and anxious to lose no opportunity of resorting to negotia tions. lie seems. nevertheless, pretty certain that if his brother, Jowhair Sing, whom Rijah Gholab Sing is so anxious to see, went to Jumboo, there would be as little chance of an accommodation, and of seeing him re turn, as there appears to have been with the members of the previous embassy; we hear nothing of their return, and may therefore believe in the truth of the general re port that they are detained prisoners, propably with their own consent. The 12th of this month was fixed on for the departure of 'leen+ Sing at the head of the array, but whether he will have actually marched on that day remains to be seen. Since tee above was written, we have :earned that the 'We:seer has at le..gth acceded l brother's anxious wish to go to j uwe-^see at; that he was to leave Lahore on the Bth or 9th. IRELAND. Dunme, DEC. 3.—The first of a series of projected meetings condemnatory of the Catholic Charitabie Be quests Bill, was held this day, in the Linen•hall Ward, pursuant to public notification. Town-councillor Sheri dan presided, and Mr. O'Connell was present during the entire proceedings. After several spirited and manly resolutions, expres sive of disgust with the insidious Catholic Charitable Be quests Bill, and declaratory of the fixed and unalterable determination of the people, by every legal and consti tutional means within their grasp, to give the measure the most unbending and fierce opposition, were adopted, Mr. O'CONNELL came forward to address the meeting, and delivered an eloquent speecfi. He denounced the B. quests Act as an insidious attempt to cause disunion between the Irish laity and their clergy, the Government being jealous of that well-deserved and most natural in fluence which the Roman Catholic pastors possessed over their flocks. The Bill, if carried into opera tion, would not render the people anything better than they were before. It was nothing short of a delusion, a mockery, and a snare, to assert that this legislative enactment was callulated, from the beneficial tendency of its provisions, to ameliorate their condition. The measure he looked upon as an insult to the Catholic Church, an injustice to the Catholic clergy, an impudent and wicked attempt to meddle with matters of a purely clerical character, and by that means sap the foundation of the true faith itself. Nothing could be more manifest than the desire of the Government to render the Catholic clergy less powerful, less influential, and less beloved, than they undoubtedly were in Ireland. But the Catholic people of Ireland were not the willing serfs, or the submissive slaves of foreign despotism, to suffer the degradation of their clergy.—(Hear, hear.) Ile repeated, that the Catholic Charitable Bequests Bill could not be looked upon in any other light than as an insult to the clergy of the Catholic Church. Bat the Government should not be permitted to drive their banding on Irish ground without finding, at all events, that the course was not as clear or unimpeded as might be desired. There should be well organised, well com bined, well directed, but nevertheless most constitutional agitation, against the measure. They should meet in wards, in parishes, in districts, all over Ireland, and pro claim that that they considered the offensive and in sulting character of the Bill quite sufficient reason for pledging themselves to impede its working, if the Go vernment persevered in driving them to adopt thatcourse. Mr. O'Connell then stated, at great length, his objec tions to the Bill—the objections of the entire Irish people; and concluded by stating that if no other person were to be found, he would himself, at the next meeting con vened to protest against the:Bequests Bill, propose a re solution, as one of the Archbishop's subjects, calling on the Most Rev. Dr. Murray to decline affording the Go verninent any assistance in working out the details of the measure, and to refuse accepting the Commissioner ship, which either had been offered or was about to be offered to his Grace.—(This expression of Mr. O'Con nell's determination was loudly applauded.) The meeting separated at four o'clock. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 3. STRIKING A SOLICITOR OFF THE ROLL FOR FRADULENTLY PREPARING AND FABRICATING CERTAIN DEEDS.—IN RE ANDREW CHRISTOPHER PALLOS, ONE OF THE SOLICITORS. Mr. PIGOT, Q.C., at the sitting of the Court, read the affidavit filed by Mr. Patios, solicitor, in obedience to the utd.,,t, of the Chancellor, explanatory of the part taken by him in the caeca-in and pr..naration of cer tain deeds referred to in the cause of " Foster v. tioom and others," which were declared in the course of pro ceedings before the Court of Chancery on Monday week to have been fabricated for the purpose of imposition and dishonesty. and with the intent of conveying, granting, aliening, and releasing unto Pallos and J. J. Hardy cer tain lands and heredttaments, forming portion of the Goold estate, in the county of Tipperary, and to their heirs and assigns. When the Chancellor disc3vered that the deeds in question were impeached by counsel for the defendants in the cause, be ordered them to be collected and impounded, and directed Mr. Pallos to be called upon to answer to the Court for his apparently fraudulent, most improper, and exceedingly dishonest conduct. The Learned Counsel addressed the Court at consider able length on. behalf of Mr. Pallos, and commented for cibly on those portions of the affidavit in which the depo nent swore that all the deeds were prepared in the office of Hardy, and amended in his own handwriting ; that he (lid not know by whom the alterations in the deed of 1834 were made ; that they were not done by him, or with his knowledge, assent, privity, or consent, or by any of his acquaintances, and that he was ignorant of the object of such alterations. That he was willing to sub mit to the inspection of the several parties interested in the case, all documents, deeds, and mortgages in his pos session, and that he never was a party to, or cognisant of, any plan for raising money, and that he never con templated the raising of money by any dealing under the deed of 1834, which purported to make him and J. J. Hardy trustees, The Lord CHANCELLOR stated that the explanation stated to be given by Mr. halos did not at all relieve that person from the serious charges appearing against him, and that, therefore, for the sake of the respectable profession to which he belonged, for the safety of the suitors of that Court, as well as of the public generally, it was his gainful duty to direct that Mr. Pallos's name should be removed from the roll of solicitors. As re ' pried the part which Mr. Hardy had taken in the transaction, explanation should be offered for it before the Benchers of the Queen's Inns. AT TACK ON THE PIRATES OF SAKARRAN. (From the Singapore Free Prem.) On Monday evening the Hon. Company's steamer Phlegethon (Scott) returned from Borneo, bringing ac counts of very important operations against the pirates of Sakarran, attended with much success but also, we regret to say, with considerable loss on our side. Below we give an account of the expedition, the detailed nature of which renders any rema: ke of our o en at present unneceseary. The Mu was to follow the Plilegethon to Singapore, and may be expected in about eight days hen. e. The Samarteng (Sir E. 13elcher, K.C.8.) was also at Sarawak wie n Zile Plilegethen left : " Lest year I was enabled to •furnish you with an ac count of the proceedings of her Majesty's eteamer Dido (Captain the Hon. Henry Koppel) against the piratical tribe of Serebas; and I am now happy to forward a brief notice of the measures taken by that officer against the equally piratical De aks of Sakarran. " The piracies of these Dyaks have long been noto riot's, and they hare carried on their depredations along the entire north-west coast of Borneo, and to the south ward even as far as Celebes. The principal promoters of piracy were Shereef Sahib, of Sadung, and his brother, Shereef Moolah, of Sakarran, and the boldness of the Dyaks is mainly to be attributed to these chiefs, as they were in the habit of sending parties of Melaye in every Dyak fleet, both to assist and guide the Dyaks to their prey. They shared with their Dyak colleagues in all plunder and slaves, and exercised so evil an influence that the popular nicknalue of Shereef Sahib was Bujang Brani (brave bachelor), the name of the Dyak bird of omen. Sadung has long been the nucleus of piracy, and Malay prahus, frequently manned by Lanune, were sent to cruise about the Natunas and Sambas, whilst the re gularfleete of Lanune, whenever they visited the coast, met with a friendly reception and drove their nefarious traffic with the inhabitants of Sangie. " Lest year the severe lesson given to the Serebas horde alarmed for a time both these piratical Shereefs and their colleagues, the Dyaks of Sakarran, and many promises were then made to Captain Koppel that they would in future abstain from piracy. On the return of the Dido to China the coast remained quiet for some months, but it appears that about the beginning of this year the final resolve was taken by Shereef Sahib to col lect his followers, and, in concert with his brother and the Sakarrans, to resist any attack that might be made upon them. " In April Shereef Sahib, having collected a large fleet of Malay and Dyak prahue, removed to Putusan, and directly began to fortify. No sooner was he estab lished than both Malays and Dyaks were let loose and committed depredations both by sea and land, stopping all trade, and butchering the unhappy inland Dyaks. It appeared as though the abstinence of a few months had given a keener relish to their ordinary pursuits, arid it was, therefore, with heartfelt satisfaction that we hailed • the arrival of the Did- and the Phlegethon steamers, who came to put an end to a horrible series of crimes, which it is needless fir me to dwell upon more at large. "Captain Keppel having inquired into the facts, de cided with his moral promptitude on making an imme diate attaek on Sekerran, and punishing both Malays and Dyake for tt:eir repeated and flagrant acts of piracy so recently committed. On the morning of the sth of August, the steamer Phlegetlion, with the boats of Dido in tow, and accompanied by ehnut 20 native /indium, pro ceeded to the enrreetee of the. Betting Leper, which was reached the same evening. On the following morning, the boats having joined, the force moved up to the en trance of the Linga river, and anchored fur the tide, to enable the steamer to pass the shoals, which intervene betwt en the Linga and Putusan. " To etieble your readers to follow the further pro ceedings 1 may hceett burly descrilee the river and the melees locelitiee. " Beton Leper is a noble stream, about two mil, s in width at it= entrance ; for twenty miles it is deep and free from .'anger, and at that dietence from the entrance is the consider .fie river of Linga on the eieet be . rel. Freut the Lings eo naive!' is e lyme to Oiiit tee_ then ; tee river is eileal, ie I!.•!•irl":1'._ , ,(d )),' seielberike, the tzele rapid, and et the epr'ngs a heavy bere I ttee in, which is dangerous for boats. From Putteein to the small and rapid river of Uncial) is ?rein fifteen to tweety miles further, and live miles beyond is the town of Sakar ran, situated on the junction of the Betting Lupar and the Sakarran. " The river Sakarran, which runs to the left from the town of the same name, is navigable ler boats for forty miles, and is a narrow but pleeseet stream, with cleared banks e ell cultivated, or laid out with fruii trees. The Datong Lupar is likewise wed cleared of jungle on the banks, and inhabited by Dyaks, who, however, are less addicted to piracy than the Dyeke of Sekarran. "The Undup is a small stream, and about live miles from its eteriteice was the town of the earne mane, the residence of ShereelMulah. Beyond Undup the stream becomes very narrow, the banks are wooded, and there are no inhabitants until reaching the village of the Undup Dyaks, about twenty-five miles further. On the morning of the 7th the steamer, with the boats in tow, et eighed at daylight, arid advanced towards Putusan ; after safely passing the shoals she anchored for an hour to wait for the rise of the water, and at' erwards brought up abreast of the forts of PIItLISMI. The position was not ill chosen, the straggling town being situated within the stream of Grattan, the north of which was defended by three forts situated in a bight, whilst the approach d the left or iir l igS rfo e artdbs bile , s'nuppthi7ltm. close of h mer, . , „i ff“ , , -, ;obligedln bsuazidt p 1 7 10 pi river 1 1 , 0 e 3t r : t : • ,-; ,- , : -- ,j))' silk *town of Putusan. Orders had been given ~e..,, ..: 1 ji y .p a peal ' tpel not to fire first on the enemy, and on AN Te ee i ti -1, re.Ppreed.hin'elin e left hand fort the boats were cast adrift, ( 9-e 1 1 -7--'''''44ind pulled 't the two forts on the left of the enemy's eeeeee MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS, The following are the results of "A Table of Mortalit, in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in. $e Week ending Saturday, the 30th of November, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General : Weekly Total. 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Now ready, in 2 Tols. small Bro., with Portraits, price 21s. bound, MY ADVENTURES, By COLONEL MONTGOMERY MAXWELL, K.H., Commanding the 36th Regiment. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOSY - FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. On Monday next, the 9th inst., will be published, Two Vols. Svo. with Portraits from Original Paintings, &c., MEMOIRS' OF _ _ _ T HE REIGN OP GEORGE By HORACE WALPOLE, Earl of Orford. Edited, with Notes, &c., by Sir DENIS LE 3IARCHANT, Bart. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). THEATRE ROY AL, DRURy„LANE THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 5, Will be repeated a Grand Opera ^eria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Corner., Mr. Bonen% ; Moncenigo, Mi. Weirs ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison; .atarina Lerner°, Ra.ntorth To conclude with the celebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Aehmet, M. Desplaces; The Peer, sallle. Plunkett; Nourmahal. O'Bryan ; Aysha. Mrs. Payne. The Box-ed.ce is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six is the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, Jul Tickets may he had on application to Mr. John Parsons . THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 5, Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, raVed OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket dr. S rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathes e ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone • Jesse Rural, Mr. W. iarren ; the Countess of I 4,o•pion, Mrs. IN. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Ve•tris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia .*.ennett. Alter which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled ,OMEBODY ELSE. Hans Moritz, W. Charles dathews; Minnie, 41adame Vestrie. 1 o be tollnwed by New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James eooley, Mr. Buckstone •' Mrs. Feeley ' Mrs. Humby. Pnvate Boxes, Two Guineas and On.: Guinea and a-Half each. tickets and Placos to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.orEce, rom I'en till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 5, Will be repeated a Now Drama, entitled SIDONIA DI AOLINA ; or, Ruse de Guerre. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Selby, Wright,aul Bedford, Madame Celeste, and Miss , Woolgar. Atter which, a New Drams, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS iTRANGER. Ceus.t Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanilla, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste; 4;requet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. To conclude with NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul eedford, Mr. Wright, and Kiss Reynolds will perform. • Prompter, Mr. °allot ; Principal Paint4tr, tr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon . —offiee open from Eleven till Four, Private dozes to be had at the Theatre. andat all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX . THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 5, Will be i r dented tt a Comedy of WILD OATS. Rover, Mr. Wallack, Harry "1 hunder, Mr. ritzjames; Sim, Mr. Oxberry ; Ephraim, Mr. Compton; Lady Amaranth, Mrs. Stirling; Jane, Mrs. Brougham ; Amelia, Mrs. Fostmeke. •To be followed by the New Drama, called DON CASA R DE BAZAN Dos Caesar, Mr. Wallack' Charles the Secont , Mr. Waltan ; Marital', Mrs. Stirling; Counts.; da Rotondo, taps. Fabroke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. L Wallack. Stage Di actor, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle ss. ; Boxes, ; Pit, 21.; Galls IL Half.price at Nine o'clock — D ress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 61. Private Boxes, I'wo Guineas and One ilutnea and a-Half ; Prosce aiuM Boxes, Two ettintas and a - Half Doors to be opened at Half ,mitt Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. "rhe Box-office, uuder the direction of- Mr. W. Massinghara. Private Boxes and Free Admissiois for the Season to be had at the rheatre: The operation of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S banking legislation is now beginning to develop itself in good earnest. It is with no feeling of *satisfaction that we note the gradual, but we fear inevitable, fulfilment of the-predictions which, from time to time, we have hazarded as to the results that would ensue on the famous "complement," in 1844—0 f the disastrous error of 1819. And yet that error was sufficiently comprehensive and various in its character, one should have thought, .to have rendered unnecessary the fur ther tampering,of the " renewing" and "regulating" statutes 'of last session, touching the charter of the Bank of England, and the circulation of joint-stock and other banks of issue. For there are few men of ordinary intelligence, who will venture at this mo ment to deny, that the Cuirency Act of 1819 has diminished the resources of this nation some fifty per cent., through The' destructive action of suddenly p ro- IIIEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM; LATE ENGLISH OPERA. -. HOUSE. Uzder the Management of Mrs. KEELEY, - - - THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 5. Will be perlbrreed a New Comedietta, entitled WATCH AND WAIID. - - The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinlech, and A. Wigan; Miss Fairbrother, 'and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSIN GEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, Furner, Stoker, and Kerley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. • In the course of the Evening A- DIVERTISSEMENT, in which lullien , s Mazurka and Cellarius Valse will be danced by .tddlier. Louise and Adele, Miss James ' and 114'4 Fairbrother. ' Atter which, a 4ew Farce, called. TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. %midsize. ' 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. Woollltge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, bliss James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMlSSlo24.—Balcouy Poxes. 46.- Upper dozes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ed-,lekoad Price—Baleony BOXOS, %L lt ai n to2t:t t lgd p ,j.ri . r hu f= 6 . ..c v ; false ( a-unity Vet tier (holding eight persons), One Ouinea and :Half. Private dazes on the Pit 'Tier (holding silt persons), One Guirea. Che Box-oftice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc. tied of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASTLEY'S ROY AL AMPIitfI'HEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor arid Manager, Mr. W BATTY, THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 5, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race- El or , .e and' Life's Course of Man and Steed ; introducing unequalled Natioi al Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage And in the Circle by living Fos and real Pack of Hounds, purchased o 7 Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. bps= 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 s tar-manager Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open front Eleven till Five. JAMMU in the Art of Riding 1 Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 5, Will be performed the admired Remance of CRICHTON OF CLUNIE, AN D CATHERINE DE MEDIC'S. Jam.. Crichton, Mr. E. F. Saville; GineVra, Mrs. ft Menner. An Ethiopian Entertainment by the REAL AMERICAN Sot/ HERN MINSTRELS: . To conclude with ROBERT MAC URN. Robert Macalre, Mr. E. F. Saville; Jacque* Strop, Mr. W. Smith. Places and frivate Boxes to be had of Mr. Keriehner, at the Box. Ace. from Eleven le Your. THE WEATHER..—SuN OFFICE, DEC. 5. Tannzeworring, Lowest, 26 ; Highest, 37 ; Noon, 3 BAIIOIIISTER, 30.15.-li/rum, N.E. claimed gold prices on the industrial and productive classes, in the shape of enforced and unnatural dimi nution of wages, and through the stupendous injus tice of compelling all persons under liabilities which had been contracted in the previously established paper circulation,' to redeem them in gold at a fixed specific rate of value, instead of at its current market price. Nobody now doubts, who has once taken the trouble to examine into the very simple elements of this question, that the establishment. of a cheap gold standala, with natural or gold reduced prices and low gold wages, has had the effect of throwing the great burden of all our indirect taxation upon the shoulders of the very industrial classes whom it has, so cruelly mulcted in the wages which would otherwise have easily borne it. Sir ROBERT FEEL'S early initiation into official station appears to have rendered familiar to his vanity the notion that he has received a mission to turn his hand to any and every species of remedial statesmanship. Heaven knows, he will never reap the graceful praise bestowed on poor GOLDSMITH— " Nihil tetigit quod non orna vit." His monetary law making began, has continued, and will terminate in NoTx.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotse the • ezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is many placed opposite 30, and rain at 29 HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. ... 4 minutes after 9 I Evening ... 39 minutes Otec 9. mistakes. He mistakes the first element of money— which should be representation of value, not value ' itselt. The presence of li.tringic v 4.0, sr 0. v ...a in dispensable, in any, well-regulated circulation, is suf ficiently provided for by such a quantity of gold and silver bullion as may serve to represent, promptly and conveniently, the balances of our transactions in foreign commerce, and perhaps in our internal trade. Retained for purposes like this, it does not impede, but facilitate that commerce and trade. It does not reduce the prices of the products of our highly-taxed industrial population to the level of the natural or gold prices necessary to remunerate the far more lightly, if not wholly untaxed, producing classes of the Continent. It leaves the circulation of bank notes to its own natural tendencies to expand or to contiact, according to the demand and supply of " money," or its larger and more proper significa tion in the market. It does not, by the dangerous high-pressure of artificial limitations on the quantity of money - which the producing power of this king dom requires for - its representation, positively and iniquitously and ruinously prevent the distribution of wealth. But Sir R. PEEL having thus determined to have only intrinsic in lieu of symbolic money, or at least to tolerate symbolic money only under the unqualified condition of its immediate convertibility by the issuers, into gold, on demand, at and after a fixed rate of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce, next proceeded to make thii condition, to the best of his power, if not impracticable, destructive of the permanency of his gold syitem. To pay bank-notes in gold, it is evidently necessary to be provided with a sufficient quantity of that metal to equal the amount of bank notes at any time outstanding. This it would ever be a sufficient puzzle to procure under any circum stances. But by the profound expedient of permit ing gold to be sold and bought as freely as any other commodity,. and thus enabling it always to command its market price, and therefore its fluctuating price-- the market of the world has always run against the Mint on Tower-hill. At the Mint they were com pelled to issue, and at the Bank of England they were bound to pay, as well as to receive —gold at the Act of Parliament price. In Cheapside, or anywhere else, gold might be fetching a price from four or five, to twelve arid twenty per cent. higher. So the Bank was always in danger of being drained, even despite its extensive purchases of gold in the very market which had just drained its coffers, at such an advance on the price it had itself issued at; and despite the still more mischievous and sudden contractions of its issues of notes, rendered imperatively necessary by its perpetual liabilities to this run for gold. In 1844, neither former blunders, nor the prices and the crises consequent on them, nor the destruction of many eminent banking and mercantile firms, nor the sudden, cruel, and needless overthrow of many a mple private fortunes, had cured Sir ROBERT of this fatal propensity to interference with matters monetary and commercial. As in 1819 he had been scared by colossal windmills, in the shape of adverse foreign exchanges, so, in 1844, he I was frighted out of his propriety by two more mar ; vellous discoveries. He discovered, first, that there was a tendency to excessive speculation in the conl- I tnercial interest ; and therefore he started from an arbitrary point, with a given entire circulation as that which he thought adequate for the wants of the country, and which, by the division of the Bank of England into two numbers, a bank of issue and a bank of deposits, was always to keep for that corpo ration a sufficient store of bullion in its coffers to pay ; all its own notes presented for that purpose. He dis covered, secondly, that the small-note circulation L permitted to Scotland ought no longer to continue— ; not, however, on the equitable ground that not being permitted to England it ought not to be allowed in Scotland, but on the assumption that it was injurious for the latter country. Well, at the end of last session, these views, except in so far as with regard to Scotland, their carrying out was postponed till. 1845, were affirmed by Acts of Parlia ' rnent. Since then, speculation—which it was his avowed object to repress—has become rampant, throwing itself into railroad projects of all kinds and prospects—and foreign securities, good, bad, or in different—with a prodigality, savouring almost of insanity ; and with results, the period of whose de velopment has not yet arrived, but will ere long show themselves in characters very intelligible. Since current of public opinion has set in strongly against then, legitimate commerce, which it was his avowed his crotchet. How, then, is lie to bring it to a sue- object to uphold and encourage, has so seriously cessful issue ? We almost doubt whether he has declined, that the market for colonial pro ever thought of seriously putting this question to duce, for example, is left almost without buyers, himself, or he would not persevere so strenuously in according to our Mincing-lane Circular of the day the agitation of a measure, which, in the first place, before yesterday. Grievous complaints are made of is impracticable; and, secondly, if practicable, would the almost total cessation of purchases. Would be attended with the most ruinous results to both coun- either of these results, both of them so deeply to tries. That Repeal is popular amongthe lower classes in be deplored, have occurred, under a monetary sys- Ireland is natural enough, for it is placed before them tem founded on a basis of symbolic money issued in the most specious garb, and their profound igno • from responsible quarters, and a quantity sufficient 'rance prevents them from detecting the real nature of for the legitimate purposes of representing property the humbug. They dream—alas, how idly I—that seeking investment or distribution ?We boldly an it will supply all their wants; remedy a ll th e i r swer in the negative. The very same causes—the wrongs ; pay all their taxes ; give them as much to selfsame impolitic tampering with private credit, and eat and drink as they could desire ; render them in. the elasticity of commercial confidence—which the dependent of their landlords ; and enable each, and Act of 1819 called into such desolating energy in all of them, to live like gentlemen, working just 1825-26, will assuredly bring about, ere many when they please, and making holiday when they months, at the utmost, have passed over us, some ter please. Such are the agreeable expectations w hich rible convulsions, again, if, in the meanwhile, Sir Ro the thoughtless, sanguine masses of Irish peasantry BERT persevere in tightening the screw which already entertain from a Repeal of the Union with Eng- paralyses our national resources by its unnatural ten land ; and in these flattering delusions they sion. He is, it appears, determined on next experiment are artfully encouraged by their leaders, who big upon Scotland. She shall not have 1/. or one guinea never let pass an opportunity of insisting on bank-notes. It is inexpedient for her welfare to retain the wonderful benefits that would accrue to them them." Indeed! She has now possessed them about from the restoration of their old Parliament in Col- 140 years. With them, and with her present system lege-green. No Repeal agitator ever thinks of giving of banks, she has survived the shocks of two native them a common-sense view of the question—of show- rebellions against the Imperial Government; she has ing them the reverse side of the picture—how the reclaimed her sterile wastes, improved in the most ad internal discords, and jealousies, and distrusts, and mirable and advantageous manner the whole face of divisions that would infallibly ensue from Repeal, would her arable soil ; beautified, aye, and built, magnificent have the effect of driving capital from the country, cities and towns , and , a ided b y the intelli g ent saga putting an end to all commercial enterprise, city and industry of her _people, outstripped almost rendering the . landlords more keenly and Selfishly every other competitor, in the proportion of her means, alive to their own particular interest than ever, and in the rapidity of her career of national prosperity. adding tenfold to the difficulties of the peasant in ob- Her monetary system has afforded all encouragement taining even the scantiest subsistence. No repeal agi• to industry—all development to trade—all facilities to tator, we say, ever thinks of giving any other than a agricultural improvement. Surely the shrewdness of one-sided view of the question. It would not the people of Scotland will not permit solid advan suit his party, purposes to do so, and ac- tages of this kind to be immolated to a worthless cordingly the restless and sanguine Irish masses crotchet of the Premier's. But they must go further are left to anticipate all sorts of benefits from than they intimate their intention of doing. They Repeal, not one of which will ever be realised. This must vindicate the broad, general, practical principle is a sad state of things to contemplate, and the only of that symbolic money, and that expansible mo remedy, we know of, consists in the prompt introduc- netary system to' which they owe so much ; ,ion of such a system of popular education into Ire- and not content with simply averting from and as shall give the peasantry a better insight than themselves the infliction of an enormous scheme ,hey now possess into their real interests. of currency regulation which has worked se much injustice and mischief to England—and because Eng land is their own grand mart and customer, has pro portionally prejudiced their own interests. They must insist on the Premier's retracing the steps he has taken, or his repealing the Act of 1819, and its supplements and complement ; and on his restoring that tried and salutary monetary system, which can alone secure to the dormant capital of this empire its full evolution ; to its productive power, its full energy; to', its industrial classes, " a fair day's wage for a fair day's labour ;" and the distribution, in the shape of these legitimate wages, of a fair proportion of the wealth they generate ; to its manufacturers and ar tisans, remunerating prices, not artificially kept down by a cheap gold standard; and to the whole country, the full and absolute benefits of that free trade which our geographical and commercial position so well qualifies us to realise, but which we are deliberately convinced no other means, whatever, can enable us to arrive at, of which this return to the better system of currency that we have foolishly abandoned, is not a primary and essential element. Madrid papers, of the 27th ult., contain some de tails of the melancholy events at Logrono. A letter in the Gazette states that the other son of ZURBANO, BALLANAS (his aid-de-camp), and five others had surrendered to the General commanding in that dis trict, and were immediately ordered to be shot. Several others, who had surrendered at Burgos, had under gone the same fate. ZURBANO still continued to elude his pursuers. The farce of discussing the Re form Bill was still going on in the Chamber of Deputies. ICIADRID BOURSE, Nov. 27.—Three per Cents., 31*; for cash, Sli. Five per Cents., 21* for cash, 22 fur account. The executions at Logrono, the state . of Spain, and the singular and unexpected attack made by the Journal des Debuts on the policy of Queen CHRISTINA and NARVAEZ, form the leading topics in the Paris journals. Most of the Opposition papers express astonishment and indignation on finding a Ministerial organ disowning and denouncing the policy of the present rulers, who were abetted in all their intrigues at Paris, and forced on Spain by the French Go vernment. "If you," says the Courrier Francais, in animadverting on the new tact of the Cabinet, " had no confidence in the men who now govern Spain, why did you assist in composing the new Spanish Ministry ? Why did you give the mot d' ordre to M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, who transmitted it to NARVAEZ ? Nobody will be your dupe. Whatever is now doing in Spain is your own work. How will you exculpate yourselves in the presence of the Chamber ? This is your great embarrassment. You will get out of it by denying your acts, as you have always done, and as cowards always do." The National, equally indignant, accounts for the change in these words :—" The Journal des Debats speaks of these things as every honest writer ought to do. But it is rather late in the day for this mani festation, and we shall take the liberty of inquiring into the motive which now induces the Conservative journal to take part against the odious Government of NARVAEZ. The motive, we think, is simply as fol lows :—As the season is near at hand, the Ministry is afraid, and with good reason, that it will be re proached with the existing calamities of Spain, and therefore seeks to avoid, by means of a few newspaper articles, all identity with the NARVAEZ faction. But who does the Ministry think to deceive by this tardy repudiation ? Has it not done all in its power to establish the party which at present reigns and exe cutes in Spain ? Did it not openly protect CHRIS TINA, and shut its eyes when her friends were re turning to their country, which they are now deluging with blood ? Will the . Ministry say that it groans at the excesses which the different Governments of Spain have by :turns committed, but that it laid down for itself a law to maintain, as regarded them, a scrupulous impartiality ? :Do not the facts,kon the contrary, show that the French Ministry did every thing in its power to deliver up the kingdom of Spain a prey to the Moderados ? Do not facts show that the French Ministry has contributed, as much as it could, to overthrow with ESPARTERO what it was pleased to call the government 'of the sword, and to preserve the present Government, to which it is certainly im possible to give a milder name ? An article of the Debate will not suffice, at least we hope not, to enable M. GUIZOT to wash his hands of the responsibility that lies upon him. The Chamber, notwithstanding the prudent outbreak of the Debate, will, without doubt, call him to an account for the blood which his miserable policy has shed in Spain, and for the in creasing degradation which his policy there brings upon the name of France." There is great truth in these statements, and it is now very evident that in the forthcoming session an attack will be made on Al, GUIZOT, meant for the KING, in regard to the wicked interference of France with the government of that unfortunate country. It will find a response in the heart of every generous Frenchmen, and will give the Cabinet more trouble than Queen POMARR and the right of search. " The Government of NARVAEZ and CHRISTINA," says the France, " has roused the indignation of the whole of Europe. It is repudiated at Paris as a disgrace to humanity. How was it to be supposed that the diplomacy of Europe, which has hitherto abstained from all contact with the usurpa tion of Madrid, would eonsent to press the hands stained with blood which the executioners who sur round the daughter of FERDINAND VII. are con stantly holding out ?" The Constitutionnel and the Commerce express similar sentiments. The following letter from Bayonne, published in the former journal, places the cruelty of the executioners in a stronger light than they have yet appeared : " Fresh information, brought us by our correspondence with Bayonne, convinces us more and more strongly of the reason and justice of General Oribe, in suspending the execution of the barbarous orders he had received from Madrid. It was not, as has been said, Caio Muro, the brother-in-law of Zurbano, who was arrested and shot with the General's son. Caio Muro was the Com mandant of the National Guard of Logrono, and his being, as it were, a man in office, the rigour used would in his case have been, if not justifiable, at least expli . cable. The person arrested and shot was also a brother in-law of Zurbano, being the brother of his wife ; but he was entirely a private character, and never belonged to any party. His name was Juan Martinez. He left Logrono solely at the entreaties of the young wife of • _ c°4'l‘'-'' L. - -'.:. :071;',01, \ % •. A . ~.. ~,,......• t i . ~i atf, . 2 : -- 4 ww -. -tr , '14°14 • ..ulle,- Aimr,' ,n- _;.. ~.,.. , , ~- SECOND EDITION. CHINA. Paul Ivy Stirling, Esq., Attorney-General of this ' cLlony, has been appointed a member of the Executive Council.—Friendof China, Aug. 7. CANTON.—Our dates are to the 14th. All was quiet. S , me heavy purchases of silk have been made. Another meeting was held at the Consulate regarding the build ing-ground leased by her Majesty's superintendent of trade from the Chinese ; but as formerly, the merchants would not agree to the very stringent terms upon which it is proposed to sub-let part of the ground to them. Two houses, as we mentioned some time ago, have signed the agreement, but nothing has been done in the way of building. The Hong merchants have had another call from their Government to pay five millions of dollars, their portion of the Canton ransom money, but they continue inflexible in their determination not to do so. They were all summoned into the city on the 12th. The result is not known, but the impression is that they e ill be imprisoned. However, Samqua, and others who are possessed of valuables, have removed from their own he ngs, so as to be out of the reach of the Government harpies.—Friend of China, Aug. 15. By her Majesty's steamer Vixen we have two or three papers to the 27th ult., but as our intermediate dates between the sailing of the Spiteful and those brought by the Vixen are still wanting, our intelligence i is incomplete. We gather, however, from those papers NI hich we have received, that much sickness has again prevailed at Hong-Kong, and that a number of deaths have occurred. At Amoy also there seems to be much sickness, though we _cannot gather from what cause. Tile sickness at Hong-Kong is attributed to imperfect drainage, &c. The Rob Roy, on her way from Macao to Calcutta, was obliged to put back to Victoria, having sprung her foremast in a heavy gale. We observe that the French Plenipotentiary arrived at Macao from Ma nilla on the 15th ultimo, when his Excellency immedi ately landed. SN'e gather from the Friend of China, am - , the Arnetieen Plenipotentiary has been negotiat ire: with Keying with a view to the improvement of some part; of rho 'Bril i,h tr , nty. It is mentioned that he has g or ihe 17th articl.). of the supplementary treaty, by which small vessels visiting the ditfe•rent ports bad to pay such enormous duties at each place, amended. The 13th article of that treaty, however, by which Chi ne; e merchants coming to Hong• Kong to purchase goods must ship them in a Chinese vessel, seems to remain unaltered. The mandarin; at the new ports have put a;very wide interpretation on this clause, since they have even extended it to the case of Chinese merchants sending goods from Singapore. We believe that they objected to admitting goods sent by some of the Chinese here in British vessels, and that the difficulty was got over by making out bills of lading in the names of the com manders or other persons not Chinese. The attempt to strain this article so as to apply it to Singapore is very ab..urd, and the more so, as it happens that most of the Chinese here who have shipped largely for the northern ports, are not subjects of the Emperor of China at all, but British subjects born in Malacca. After a little more experience of the working of the treaties, Mr. Davie wilt find room enough for a new supplementary treaty. Mr. Davis was to leave Victoria in company with the Admiral on the 28th ult., on a tour of inspection of the northern ports.—Singapore Free Press , Sept. 12. We understand the French squadron arrived at Macao on the morning of Thursday last, and the Am bassador landed in the course of the day.—Hong- Kong Register, August 20. Our brother of the Friend of China, in his issue of the 14th instant, says he cannot corroborate the state ment in our last number, that another week (from the 6th to the 13th) h a d passed without his hearing of any a Aditionel cases of sickness of a serous nature in the (1 4 ) ruin LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1844. Notwithstanding Mr. O'ConraLL's apparent ear nestness in the cause of Repeal, and the prominent manner in which he has put it forward at every public meeting that has been held in Ireland for the last ten years and upwards, we have always entertained an impression that, being convinced at heart of the utter impossibility of his ever being able to carry it, he merely agitated the measure with a view to drive the English Government into doing justice to the sister country, by showing them how thoroughly awakened the Irish mind was to a sense of its wrongs, and how resolved it was no longer tamely and sulkily to submit to them. That many others were of the same opinion as ourselves on this subject, is evident from the circumstance that Mr. O'CONNELL has at length deemed it expedient publicly to disclaim his having been influenced by any such motives, and to insist that in his agitation of Repeal he is as sincere, as sanguine, and as enthusiastic as ever he was in his agitation of the catholic Emancipation question. At the last meeting of the repealers in the Dublin Con ciliation Hall, the lion. and Learned Gentleman thus emphatically expressed himself :—" The English newspaper of the DissentersZthe Patriot, alleged that he was looking for repeal, not in order to obtain it, but in order to coerce England to do some thing in the way of concession or justice to Ire land. That was , a total mistake, and he wished the people of England now clearly to understand that there was nothing equivocal in his looking for Repeal, and that England could offer nothing short of Repeal which he would accept." This language is explicit enough. As the Duke of WELLINGTON told Mr. HUSICISSON, " there is no mistake here." Mr. O'CON . NELL really is sincere in his repeal agitation; and not only this, but he will take nothing short of it from the English Government ! Was there ever such an instance of arrant infatuation, to use the mildest term ? With the QUEEN —the two Houses of Parliament—the majority of the English people, and no small portion of Irishmen of the mere respectabl e and influential class with all these various powers warmly opposed to a Repeal of the Union, what earthly chance has Mr. O'CONNELL of ever being able to carry it ? He deprecates, we see, all idea of having recourse to physical force, and the CAUSES Or DEATH. Epidemic,Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 220 - 178 — Diseases of variable or uncertain seat 123 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l4B 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration 323 285 Diseases of the heart and Blood-vessels 39 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c l3 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 4 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c Old Age, or Natural Decay 72 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 1074 942 Deaths from all Causes ... 1075 946 DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIFAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER TIIE ABOVE READS. Total. Weekly Average of Five Tears. Consumption l2O 147 Scarlatina 56 34 Pneumonia Dropsy . ... . Hooping Cough .. ......... .. Typhus Small Pox 46 15 Disease of the Heart Measles .... 3O Apoplexy Dimeases of the Brain .... 14 9 Diarrhea.. .. l2 Sudden Deaths 26 1S DISTRICTS. West 147 138 North 174 171 Central East 258 207 South 295 242 Total .... ..... ...... .....1073 946 COUNTY OF ELGIN.--TITS BANKING SYSTEM. A special general meeting of Deputy-Lieutenants, Com m:ssieners of Supply, Justices of the Peace, heritors, farmers, manufacturers, and other inhabitants of this county, was held in the Court-house, on Friday week, for the purpose of considering the threatened alteration of the present currency of Scotland. On the motion of John Lawson, Esq., of Chapelton, the Hon. Sir Archi bald Dunbar, of Northfield, Bart., was unanimously called to preside. Sir Archibald Dunbar having accord ingly taken the chair, briefly stated the object of the meeting, and read a letter he had received that morning from the Right Hon. the Earl of Moray, Lord-Lieute nant of the county, expressing his regret that, owing to his present state of health, he could not be present at the meeting ; but stating his cordial concurrence in the purpose of it. Peter Brown, Esq., of Dunkinty, then rose and moved_ a series of resolutions, deprecating any change whatever in the currency of Scotland, and pledging themselves to oppose such a measure, which having been seconded by George M'Arilliani, Esq., were unanimously agreed to, aLd the meeting separated. Benito Zurentes, to flieavour to prevent his joining in th, insurreotio:i, and :educe him to return home. Juan Alartink a prevailed upon (knit°, who had ,eparated him self from his father hen he and his uncle were dis covered and t!dien." The Gazette de France contains the following:— " News wlts received a w days back ir,7 , m Otaheite, which the .Nlinistry has daed to publish. The restoration of Queen Potuare was therein announced, and it was stated that the event to , k in the midst of disquieting demonstrations. As was to be expected, the French were in consternation, and the English mts sionaties exhibited an insulting joy. The dispatches which contained the orders of our Government were. taken out by an English vessel, and this circumstance , it is said, has augmented the humiliation and dis couragement of our seamen. At the m. meat when this intelligence lett the island, a great fermentation reigned there, and grave complications were appre hended." THE BOURSE--TUESDAI, DEC. 3. First Ilighe:t Lowest LaSt Price. Price. Price- Frio.' French Five per Cents•• •• 119 20 .. 119 50 .• 119 20 .. 119 50 Fours 107 •• 107 .• 107 •• 107 Three per Cents 44 25 .. 84 30 .. 84 10 .• 84 13 Bank of France... .3160 —3165 .•3160 —3163 Lattitte Bank, 5,000 f. 1000 f. Shareslo9s —1093 .. 1095 .. 1095 Sharesso42 50 ••1042 50 —5042 50 —6042 30 Belgian Bank.. 585 .. 685 .. 585 Belgian Fiveß,lß4o Two-and-a-Half.. •. 61 60 •• 61 60 61 60 •• 41 fpg Dutch Two and-a-Half... 63 .. 63 •• 63 . 63 zspainsh Threes •• .• •• •• •• •• 36 •• 36 •• 36 .. 36 Active •• •• •• •••• •• 321 .. 321 .. 32f .. Passive ••• • • • Sf SI .. 54 .. b. Neapolitan.. •• ••••••••• 96 .. 96 40 .. 96 94.4 v Ronan • .... 1041 .. 1041 .. 1031 .. 108 t RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain •• .• • • • 937 60 .. 937 60 .. 937 50 .. 937 50 Versailles, R. 8... • • 441 .. 440 437 50 .. 437 tO L.B. .. Ronen• . Rouen to Havre • • Orleans • •.1055 ..1060 —lOB6 ..105b Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 278 75 .. 978 75 .. 977 50 . 278 To Avignon to Marscilles•• •• .• 922 50 .. 922 60 .. 9211 .. 920 RAILWAY SHARES FOR SETTLING, Dac. 3. Versailles, 11.11• ••• • • ...... 441 25 .. 441 25 .. 449 440 L. 8............ 320 . 820 .. 313 73 .. 313 21 Rouen..... Rouen tol Havre 787 50 .. 787 50 .. 782 50 .. 752 b a Orleans • lO6O ..1060 —lO5B 75 ..1068 26 Strasburg to Bale ..... 287 50 .. 287 50 .. 283 76 .. INS 2 6 Avignon to Marseilles— •• 922 50 .. 926 25 . 917 50 .. 91/ 6 $ RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, DEC 16. Versailles, L.P .• Rouen .................•••1018 76 ..1018 75 ..1015 ..191 5 Rouen to Havre.. •• • • .• • • 790 • • 791 25 .. 785 • • 735 Orleans... —losB 78 ••1058 75 ..1050 25 —1956 -A. Strasburg to 8a1e.... •• 280 .. 280 .• 274 75 .. 226 76 Avignon to Marseilles.• •• 925 .. 927 50 .. 917 10 .. 917 BIRTII.—On Wednesday, the 4th inst., at Holkhare, the Countess of Leicester, of a daughter. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number pf deaths during the week ending Nov. 30, is con sider! ably above the average, and exceeds that of the p re ' vious week by 161, the average for the last 6 0 autumns being 990, the number last week being 914 i. and for the week just ended 1,075. The increase ib chiefly in deaths caused by small-pox, scarlatina (which is on the decrease), sudden deaths, apoplexii bronchitis, inflammation of the chest, and genemi diseases of the lungs. Small-pox is still very fel l " l as comp vas with former years. Last week t he number as 46, while the average is only 17. Th e !: deaths occurred at the following ages :—Nine und er 1 year; fourteen 1-3 ; ten 3-5 ; nine 5-10 ; tw,• .° 10-20 ; one 22 ; and one 31 years. The following is an analysis of the list of violent deaths :—Fracture and contusion, 13 cases, of which 1 was by carriage, 6by falls, Iby the fall of a heavy ' 2 by machinery, and 3 by means not stated ; Neounui 3 cases (suicides) ; drowning, 3 cases (of which r was suicide ; in - one the jury could not ascertain , ° , 6 have neglected to state, the cause of the WO ° • being found in the water ; in another it could s ot bt ascertained); hanging,i 4 cases (suicides); burns, °. cases (accidental), of which 1 was reported to lie _, bl the clothes taking fire; scald, 5 cases; poison, 1 ) (suicide) ; and misadventure (a defective ver dictP 1 case. Total, 25 males, and 13 females. ruis DAY's NEW PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) g The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ;: 1 1 , to- day, in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The L°,,, present were the Master of the Rolls, Mr. Baron f or ; the rhancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall an d the Jo" , of the Admiralty Court. • JONS V. GODNEY. The further argumen E ts in this appeal from the sion of the Prerogative Court occupied their Lo rdsh i r the whole day. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY-) .„a The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hs% "" h..ard appeals Marquis wth ir The cases of Hertford v. Lord Lo for and Tulloeh v. Hartley were ordered to stand overt the convenience of counsel, till a future day. SPALDING V. RUDDICK. vo" The arguments in this appeal, the facts of whi c h seas no interest except to the parties c( werned, O"" the Co irt the remainder of the morning. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAV• (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord DENMAN Middlesex Special Jury.) THE QUEEN V. GOLDSREDE AND ANOTHES. 0 1j , This was an Indictment against the defendants , 6 0 0 0. shede and Sidney, for a conspiracy to defraud the of Richard Camden Bingham, her Majesty's Secrete n to Legation at Turin, by substituting one bill of exobp. for another. The bill in question was an accon 3 , ll 4 Lion bill, accepted by the prosecutor for a Mr. S u 'Ziee friend of his. The bills in dispute had been the one of a Chancery suit between Mr. Bingham and 04 0 0 fendants, which had been determined in !Mr. Bing" , f r favour ; and immediately afterwards the present.P cution had been commenced. red,Jid The Solicitor-General and Mr. Humfrey the prosecution ' • Mr. Platt and Mr. James delePojeti Sidney • and Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Phinn d ef. Goldshede. to The SOLICITOR-GENERAL having stated the 04 the jury, as it afterwards appeared in evidene* , the following witnesses : 10 / The Hon. Mr. Bingham examined by Mr. H 011 1;„ The witness is at present Secretary of Legation Court of Turin. Was Secretary of Legation at ,e1":001 in 1835 and 1836. He became acquainted with 1-'1 Richard Shiel in 1834. He was applied to in I'' 16 that gentleman to put his name to a bill of e xchal l 9o, was at the latter end of that year. He was then 1,100! with Mr. Vernon Shiel, with whom he was on term great friendship. I ,oo' Mr. Harris, the clerk to the attorney for the Pr ° f Lion, proved the service of notice to produce a b il l ° A change on the prosecutor's agent. Ite" On his cross examination by Mr. PLATT, he a &i d ' that he had not served a notice on the defendan t shede himself. ali t Mr. PLAIT submitted that personal service W ood lutely required in all criminal cases. He b°r - Court would take u note of his objection. ote of Lord DENSIAN—Of course, I shall take your objection, but there is nothing in Airto , S o r j Mr. A:lie, an officer of the Record office in th e of Chancery, produced the answers filed by BiDlr .. 6 4# Goldshede in the Rolls' Court. Mr. Bury, of the Commercial Bank, proved the writing of Sidney to the answer. A to 11° The counsel for the prosecution then propo se- j in the answer dated Aug. 29, 1840. Mr. PLATT objected, on the ground that cases examinations upon oath were not sum" fr against the parties accused. 0 A long argument followed on the point, iv -111 _ _ terminated 17y Lord DENMAN overruling the obje;ction. ~10 0 The answer, as far as it related to the pose e ' — Sidney of a bill for 250/. was then read. he n 5e The examination of the Hon. Richard Bing — hicli then resumed. The bill produced was that i t 0 is had accepted. He had received no value for e had never been understood that he was to pa , 1839 he was arrested on it on a Saturday in Jullosit4 was dressed to go out to dinner, and his cab wastedb.eir at the door. Sloman, the sheriff's officer arr es ,bel'A f ri He insisted on being taken to his solicitor's, 13 0 ,l_se c l it fused, and he was ultimately taken to a spenll l ,o.s , where he was detained until midnight. The 1 . ; - 1 , not continue the proceedings against him'; 1 - , o " t tg", e , drew the record, and never went to trial, alt:d was at Croydon every day awaiting it. He " 1 119 from Aix-la-Chapelle to attend this prosecutinn'oll_,,e Cross-examined by Mr. PLArr—Acceptedjheif,;, day before he left England. Accepted it for x A r " e n ot- Shiel, whose brother knew nothing of it. Th",,,fe _ 1 1 " - pact his friend would have suffered him t o trouble about it. Was once arrested at t he Mrs. Curzon. It was dismissed enirely on t h e dot 0 0 of its being a gambling debt. Never was arree; o ol,ll suit:of Mr. Hayes. Knows Hayes, who is he in Regent-street. Gave him an order, before 00,01 England, to the amount of 201., and paid h i l l ' r eee,,'oo return he ordered more goods. All the gonu s 3 s, from Hayes before I left in November , Iti e s rof paid for, to the best of my recollection. , he salog outlawed illegally. Has been outlawed al ,L et e.. at il Bigg and Company. Has not settled with st understood that there was a judgment age'-/tvies the suit of Davis, but knows no such pers on • the gt.„,°e. an accommodation bill. Did not to b e fore,. n os - if , jury. Did employ the attorney to conduct anjorortenor tion. Was introduced to him by Mr. James o f O be r, a wine merchant. Never went by the nan ). Djeel l thee bell. Once went by the name of Browne in C i e ire 1839, for three days. Davis's was the only re in be unprovided for. Never heard of Mr. St ocert/ r e i rheso Strand. Knows nothing about Mr. Da vie, ° br oad' t ri' lives. He has often gone by another name 4 ,u c0 10 % .0 1 gone by the name of Camden, but neve r to ;i c jo and never on account of debt. My nam e Camden Bingham. I never borrowed fiv my life. e to r °l tid By Mr. COCKBURN—I gave instruction,.‘stituta,;o torney from the moment of my arrest to not to, prosecution as soon as the time should co n og tke e ' c 't any vindictive feeling but from a desire to be obi , 0 5 justice. Had never any conversation on t he a P anything to be got from this prosecution' je ever said to me on the subject of cotoP ci L etio n 13 1 " never accepted more than two acce mm° no his life. t he ha il bo ot o i Sloman, the sheriff's officer, produce d t he ef. n clo ° Mr. James Courteney, wine m erehae l, , he doecteill the prosecutor—ln December, 1837, had Goldshede called on him and stat ed heard diSo t 9 he s t ° against Captain Slid]. He stated th e t e h- O_L, $ 11(111° a bill on the Hon. R. Bingham of ." xnat— ,lo- oblige Captain Shiel when the bill came to foals `Mt