The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-15 00:00:00

DEDICATED TO MAJOR-GENERAL SIR NEIL - 13OUGLAS K.C.B. and K.C.H., Commanding her Majesty's Fofces iii Scotland. In a few days, in 2 vols. small Bvo., price 21s. bound, MY ADVENTURES. By COLONEL MONTGOMERY MAXWELL, K.H., Commanding the 36th Regiment. - Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-streel Orders received by all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, Will be performed Auber's celebrated Opera THE SYREN. Marco Tempests, Mr. W. Harrison; Scipio, Mr. D. W. King ; Zerlina (the Syren), Miss Rainforth After which, THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lucar, 14„ Albert; Count Malvino, M. Delferier ; Benedict hi Desplaces ; Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele Dumilatre; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; 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, HARA.RKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBS R. THIS EVENING, NOV EMBER 15 Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE SeHOOL FOR SCANDAL Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farren ; Charles Surface, Mr. Charles Mathews; Lady Teazle, Madame Vestris. After which Mr. Charles Mathews' Bur:etta of HE WOULD BE AN ACT d R. Motley, Mr. Charles Mathews; Dicky Darling, Mr. Strickland; Becky Morgan, Mrs. Caulfield. To conclude with THE MILLI NE R'S HOLIDAY. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retuned the whole of the Even. ing), 53. each. First Price—Boxes, )9. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Num o'Clock—Boxes, 38. ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past Six, Performance commence at Seven. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One ninea and a-Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.office, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Count 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 CeESAR DE SAZ AN ; or, Love and Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe • Cesar de Bizan, Mr. Webster • Maratina, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a New Eccentric lidythologioal Burlesque, called TELEMACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright ; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford ; Dinah, Mr. Cowell. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Boz-oilice open from Eleven till Four. Private Bozos to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. On Monday will be revived the Popular Drama of 'VICTORIN E. " Cmsar de Baran" 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 Ci.SA R DE BAZAN Don Cwur, Mr. Wallack ; Charles the Secont, Mr. Walton; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs. Foibroke. After which, a New Comesietta, entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival. Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling be toilowea by MY W IrE•S SECOND FLOOR. To conclude with the New Farce of TAKING THE rLEDGE. Augustus Larkins, Mr. Oxberry ; Alexander Paps, Mr. Walter Lacy; Emily Gussett, Miss Emma Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 21.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 21. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Proses- Mum Boxes, Two duineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, ' and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clo c k. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh am. 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 Keeley, 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. VVoolliOge. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS.ONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, Ac. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. (*raven, and Mr. Keeley; Misi Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli ige, Mra. A. Wigan, Misa Turner, Mi.s James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 4 Upper Boxes, as.; Pit. 2s. ; Gallery, 6,1. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2r. ; Upper Bove, ls,,fid.; Pit. Is. Private Boxes on th e liticmy net . ‘r er ldl ( n h g p r e , r i s h o t ns t ) ) , er Tzr n o o rluig e as. B oxes ..t I T? e Private eond Guinea an d Boxes on the,Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guirea. *The Box- ace is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr. ti , n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEATR F. Lessee. Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, Will be perfonned DON C..:EZ AR DE BAZAN. Don Cassar, Mr. Roberts; Ring Charles IL., Mr. John Howard; Maritana, Mrs. Coleman Pope After which, THE KNIGH'r AND THE SPRITE. To conclude with QUITE AT HO NIE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Howard, Aylitle, Dean, Mrs. Melville, and Miss Carter. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASFLI'Y'S ROYAL A5l HEATRE OF ARTS. ,Pp4orietor and Matwer, Mr. W. B ATTY. ' TH S EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, Will be reputed a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUN'!'; or, The Race-Hor-e and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing un4qual , ed Natiot al Fetes, Real Fox-chase on the Stage ai.d in tho Circle by living Fo and full Pack of Hounds, purchased I,y Mr. Ratty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel products .I , :psom Neves and other Sporting Features. New Scerum of the t trek, and unPqualle I Feats of Horsemanship. "To conclude with a Fayourite Afte:picce. Acting and stag, , oinager'. Mr. W U tsroadfoot. .flox...ottce open from Eltven'till:Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding tp I.lr. IL mitt) daily. DA VIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Increasing success of Don Cxsar de Flazan—FirsiWejcof another New Drama. THIS EVENING, NO lEMBF,R 15, Will be. performed a New Dr .ma, enti led DON CIE'3AR DE Y,AZAN, su;!ported by the entire Company. A fuse wh!cis, an entirely New Drama, THE SISTERS OF CHA TILLON, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, R. Shephard, Vale, Johnson, Heslop, Mrs. It. Homier, Miss Terrey, Mrs. H. Vining, &c., will pert otm. To conclude with a New Farce, entited A NM HT OF HORRORS. Characters by Messrs. Va e, Lew,s, Johnson, Heslop, Mrs. Daly, Miss Terrey, &c. P‘ac'e's ~ 1:I Private Boxes to be had of Ur. Kerschner, at the Box office from Eleven to Four. ROYAL. VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER Will be performed THE WANDERING JEW, in which Messrs. Seaman, Dale, and the Misses Harcourt wrl appear. After which, PORK. CHOPS, in which Messrs. G. Wild and Merbert will perform. To conclude with SIXTEEN-ST/IWO JACK. John Rana, Mr. T. H. ; Kit Clayton, Mr. 0, Wild. Private Family Boxes, .£1 13,0 d. and XI Ils. dd. TIIE WEATHER.—Suer OFFICE, Nov. 15. IruumomETEß, Lowest, 48; Highest, '54; Noon, 54 . BAROMETER, W.S.W. NioTa.—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. 'HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 4 minutes after SI Evening ... minutes after S. Is that a recommendation that you think any ship owner would object to ?—I think not. By Mr. LIDDELL—You would confine the power of bonding articles imported to those which are brought in British ships alone ?—I 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. CHAPMAN—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 be 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. LumELL—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. It 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 upon ships' provisions, whildh they have in store, in such ports ; that at Marseilles, and in the Brazils also, British ships have, according to Mr. NictioLsoN, of Sunderland, their provisions sealed up, and are obliged to buy other provisions in those ports, a prac tical hardship, the fact of which is confirmed and exemplified by Mr. CUING also; we think we have a right to assume that we have made out a case for that contingent protection to British shipping, which the unreciprocating 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 abstrac of unrestricted freedom of trade. 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 demand for poor-rates in the whole annual rental of the country—this necessity has 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 ever 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, or otherwise, of particular details. There has been, in all of them, a great defectiveness of system ; a palpable want of unity in the action of their different parts; and a discrepancy of principle between the test to qualify for the relief to be extended under such Acts, and the test for discriminating between the claims of the various classes its recipients. From this censure we can by no means exempt the 4th and sth WILLIAM IV., c. 76 ; and the fact of these de ficiencies of system, and this discrepancy of princi ples, is strikingly corroborated by the Bill which Sir JAMES GRAHAM was reluctantly compelled, at the close of last session, to propound to the considera tion of Parliament, for the virtual further amendment of the existing "Poor-law Amendment Act," just cited, in no less essential a particular than the Law of Settlement. That Bill, our readers may remember, was merely brought in and printed for distribution to Members. It will be discussed at an early day after the re assembling of the two Houses. It purports to be a "Bill for Consolidating and Amending the Laws re lating to Parochial Settlements, and to the removal of the Poor;" and has already excited no little alarm and displeasure among very large and influential communities of the kingdom, more especially the resident rate-payers in manufacturing towns and districts. This is not to be wondered at. The altera tions it proposes to establish are described, in a " Report" n ow b e f ore us, " of the Committee ap pointed by the Town Council of Leicester to con sider and report" upon the measure as "of the most sweeping and startling nature, and, moreover, of an ex post facto" character. "The Bill (the Com mittee add) entirely a b o li s h es all settlements of every description acquired before the passing of the Act, unless the parties have been removed by orders, or their settlement has been attained by writing, under the hands of the majority of the overseer s of . the parish ; and it establishes as the only ground of settlement—first, that of birth; and, if the place of birth cannot be ascertained, then, !secondly, that of the settlement of the father, as it would be, if living after the passing of the Act ; or, if the father be not settled in any parish in England, or if such parish cannot be ascertained, or if the pauper were not born in wedlock, then the place of settlement is the parish in which the mother would—if living after the passing of the Act—be settled. It will, therefore, be seen that, at one blow, all existing settlements, with the exception of that of birth, are swept away ; and that this change applies not only to the future, but affects all settlements already acquired by any other means :than that of birth, or unappealed against orders of removal, or written acknowledgments." Now, to show how serious a question a sweeping measure of this kind becomes—in connexion, espe cially, with,the opinion of so intelligent a body as that which has produced the Leicester Town Council Report, that " it may be safely predicted that should this Bill pass into a law, it will give rise to as much, and, in the first instance, more litigation, than has taken place under the law which it is intended to supersede ;" we may observe that, in its present form, 1t must necessarily exercise a most disastrous and Idverse influence on the future prosperity of all 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 7—We have. For articles of import generally ?—Yes. Do you not know that in the articles of corn, and tim ber, and cotton, and tobacco, 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. • '•^4N ,1 .1" • • Y. _ 40s- SECOND EDITION. Itink a =') alt LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1844. In an article we published a few days since, on the " Report of the Select Committee on British Ship ping," we alluded to the " degree" of protection which some of the witnesses conceive it to be both necessary d politic to extend to that interest, and to the opi nions entertained by others, of the inexpediency of attempting to establish any such prOtection at all. We,shall,hardly be considered to favour the principle of -protection, who have so uniformly advocated the establishment, to the fullest practicable extent, of free bride in every department of commerce. Neverthe- P*B, in order that we may not be misunderstood as to the tenour of our former observations, it may be ne cessary to repeat the expression of our regret that the British Government have not distinctly " protected" :British shipping, by acting on a system of retaliatory valley towards the shipping of all States, which, hav ing ,;entered " into reprocity treaties with us, have Aishonourably. departed from the spirit of such treattei, by exacting heavier tonnage and other duties g)n "merchant-vessels in their ports, than we, in vonfonnit3r • with these reciprocal stipulations, l el y: =oh their merchantmen in our ports. To thi s - eVtent we are clearly of opinion that ab- Atract principles should give way to practical exi gencies, when circumstances have intervened to I les trb y the equal relations between the contracting assumption of which those p r i nc i p l es parties, on the belie been recognised and avowed by them. It seems to be mere drivelling to go on, in the bona fide dis charge of our own part of these contracts, towards states which have openly departed from, and still vertinAciously persist in violating theirs, towards us. 1)n every principle of equity the contract has been samulled and determined by their own act and deed. The'AOtioa of a one-,sided reciprocity is a positive anomaly; but to persist in it under an impression of the necessity for doing so (even to the extending an absoiiite premium to the gmping bad faith of the other parties to such agreements), in order that the abstract principle of "no protection" may be vindi cated, is a mere puerile pedantry. But is the case we have put of this systematic violation of reciprocity treaties an imaginary one ? Upon the question whether' it be, or be not, depends the propriety or im propr.iety ;of establishing, with regard to British shipping, and in respect of the circumstances which our hypothesis Assumes, an exception to the geeeral rule, that protection, in any branch of commerce, is inexpedient." .N9.v.v, in the evidence of Mr. STRAYER, a ship owner and ship-b u il der, of North Shields, we find ths following important ailswo - s to questions, which fairly put this point in issue fo By Mr. WAsox—Cen yo u suggest any remedies the improvement of Th e shipping ?—No great re medy r can I suggest. It is the opinion of every ship-owner pith whom I have conversed, that any further relaxati on would tend to aggravate the evil ; therefore I do hope tj . te Government will make a stand where they can. Do you think that the principle of reciprccity is fairly ea r lied out P—No. BT t Mr. CuridAri—ln what respect ?--The salt trade THE SUN, LONDON , FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1344. 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, 1934, 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." 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 propsal 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 and 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 be adopted by the Legislature, and become the law of the land. " 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 be 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 fruitflil harvest of litigation, as the Bill now introduced by her Majesty's Government." 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 clause, 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. 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 Palm was resumed on the Gth, 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 274 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 20 5-16 at 60 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. WAGHORN'S letter to the Paella 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 Courrier 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 allowing that system to continue. H e a ll owe d him self to be deterred by no obstacle. The Turkish Ministers pretended that any concession on their part would drive the fanatics of the capital to open insur rection, and even M. DH BOURQUENRY, 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 BOURQUENHY 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 decisive measure is necessary against a Ministry which is driving the empire to its ruin. Such has been the conduct of the representative of France. We do not, however, accuse him, for he has evidently only followed in structions, and his docility will be rewarded with the Peerage. Be it so ; but in serving his own interests, has he served those of his country ? And will it be a sufficient consolation for us to know that the eclipse Last Price, ,• 119 60 ,• 82 85 .3160 -1095 .5030 • 660 • 1071 • 61 75 • 98 65 • 923 .• 400 • 285 .1001 25 • 775 .1007 50 . 272 50 • 821 25 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, rov 16. Versailles, R. 8.. ••••••• •• • • 400 400 .. 400 L.B 287 50 •• 285 •• 282 50 Rouen •• • • • .....1000 ..1003 75 ..1000 Rouen to Havre-- .• 772 50 •• 773 75 •• 772 50 Orleans Strasburg to 270 .. 272 50 .. 270 Avignon to Marseilles-- 822 5G 827 50 .. 820 400 285 1000 773 75 1006 25 272 50 822 50 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 Feversham. 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. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the whole morning with unopposed petitions and short causes. (Before Sir J. WIGRAM.) LUND V. BLANSHARD AND OTHERS. His HoNowt gave his decision this morning 03 t'.7o 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 HONOUR overruled both demurrers. Sir K. Bruce did not sit to-day, his Court being en gaged for the business usually transacted in the Ses sions-house. QUEEN'S BENCII.—(TIIIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) HOWARD 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 House 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 ,hat the warrant set forth in the pleadings could not ustify the arrest and detention of the plaintiff, inasmuch as it set forth no cause of offence whatever, but simply cause of imprison ment, or naming any directed the arrest and detention of th e ' p l a i nt iff w i thout specifying an y 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 specified 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 Charta and of the Petition of night, in both of which it was laid down that no freeman should be imprisoned or detained without cause shown, whereby he 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 contrary ; 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. It simply ordered the arrest of the plaintiff without stating where he was 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 offence. This was directly contrary to the iaw 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 was 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 Charta, 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 attainting for contempt, was to call upon the party accused to answer ; if he refused, or gave no snfficient 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 upon presume the thatfac e o te f mpt. twarrant,N o andcontempt t the w e h t e e u v r e t r the committal was for con t em pt. If th e C our t were to c o a u p rd e ar n o e t d do so the liberty of every subject would be at the mercy of the House of Commons. He submitted that no au thority could be found in which any warrant had been held lawful, which did not sat 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 bean collected. He did not deny the right of the House of Commons to imprison for contempt, but ho 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 back upon the averments in the plea in aid of the war rant. He apprehended the defendant 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 bad writ of capias it would be no justifica tion of that arrest to show that the bad writ was founded upon agood judgment. Mr. Justice COLERIDCE—In an action against a magi strate 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? of our credit on the banks of ,the Bosphorus has pro cured for M. DE BOURQUENEY a seat at; the Luxem bourg ?" If we are to believe the: following 'account in the Reforme, the state of the cotton manufactures in Normandy is most deplorable, and forms 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 and operatives are reduced, the state of the Rouen manufactures gives a melancholy contradiction to the shameless 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 shorten the period of labour of their operatives by one-third, until 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 of 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 millions'-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 o f 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 Price. Price. Price. French Five per emits .. 119 45 .. 119 65 .. 119 50 Three per Cents..... 82 90 82 90 .. 82 80 Bank of France • 3145 —3160 ..3145 Laffltte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslo9s .•1095 ..1095 5,000 f. Sharesso3o ••5030 —5030 Belgian Bank.... •••• • • 660 .. 660 • • 660 Belgian Fives, 1840 •••• • • • 103/ • • 1041 • • 1031 1842 ..••.• 1071 .. 107/ •• 1071 Two-and-a-Half 61 75 61 75 .. 61 75 Dutch Two and-a-Half .•••• 621 .. 621 .. 621 Spanish Threes • • .• •• •• 361 .. 361 .. 36/ Active ••.••• • • •• 321 .• 33 .. 321 Passive •••••• 61 .. 61 .. 61 Portuguese Five per Cents.. b 5 .. 55 .. 55 Neapolitan Roman, ex dIV •• •. 1031 .. 1031 .. 1031 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain •••••••• •• • 925 .. 925 • . 925 Versailles, 400 .. 400 .. 400 L. 8.......•••• •• 283 75 .• 285 .. 283 75 Rouen, ex •• •• —lOOO . 1001 25 ..1000 Rouen to Havre.... Orleans .•. Strasbarg to Bale ... 270 .. 273 75 .. 270 Avignon to Marseilles-- 825 • 825 .. 820 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 fuer 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—damages, 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 43Z 18s. 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 ' be 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. 18s. 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 15, 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 into his pocket 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 $5, and gave the prisoner into custody. He stoutly upheld his innocence, and offered every facility 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. UNION-ITALL.-(THIS DAY.) Thomas Greaves, John Graham, and William Bennett, were charged with stealing 600 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 R enn i e ' s p rem i ses , 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 apprehension, 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 40/., 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, .t 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, of Nov. 13. Prime mutton is now selling at Wotton-under- Edge, Gloucestershire, at 4id. per lb. The contract for mutton for the the Dursley Union for the next three months was taken a few days,ago at 3id. per lb,—Bristol Mirror. 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. MY. Justice COLERIDGE—I do not say so ; but is it not a general notion—l 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 sought 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. BENFIAN 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 account, for which he charged in his bill the sum of 231. Payment having been delayed longer than was agreeable 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 plaintiff; 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 51., in order to bring the debt below 201., and thus escape arrest and imprisonment. But by a re cent decision in the Court of Exchequer, it was clear that this manoeuvre would not avail him. Verdict for the plaintiff in the whole amount. CLEVELAND V. WALTER. This was an action of ejectment, under very'curious:cir 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 possession of the premises. 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 11. 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. The Funds have been steady this morning. The Commissioners bought Reduced Three per Cents. at 991. Consols for Money have been at 1001 i, and for the Account at 1004 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 1,000/., have rallied from 755. to 795. premium. Bank Stock may be quoted at 2041 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, 244. The Por tuguese Converted Annuities have receded from 541 to 531. Dutch Stock has remained steady. The Belgian New Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Scrip commanded 1 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 5t0ck............. „. ....... ~ ....... .... ......... 205 204% 3 per Cent.. Reduced Annuities 99%%%% 3 per Cent. Coniols. Anns New 34 per Cent. Annuities .. . ... 102% 102 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 5-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. India 80nd5,1,000.. ....... . .......... Ditto under 1,000 .. 79 Bank Stock for Account 205 Consols for Account ........................ ...... Exchequer Bills. 150. I%cl 40 004 .... ..... ••••••••••••••• ..... ........ 58 56 pm. 5001.., •.,..............• •••••••••••• -•••• Ditto 3 ... ma11...-. ....... -- ..... .....• 58 56 pm. Date Advertised...,..... " FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent. . ........... Ditto for the Account Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 54% 54 53% Ditto for the Account 53% 54% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840.... ...... Ditto Three per Cent. ...... ......... .......... Ditto for the Account 3 5%% Dutch 2% per Cents fit Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates . 9 6%% Dutch 5 per Cents 99 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, RAILWAYS. PAW. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO .... ..... 99 100 to 98 Bristol and Gloucester Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead 5 5% to Chumet Valley Direct Northern . 2% 2%'4 ... to Eastern Counties .................... 25 Ely and Bedford Great North of England. 100 Ditto New Great Western ..... ........... ...... 75 Ditto % Shares ......... ........... 50 ..»..... 86 Lancaster and Carlisle London and Birmingham lOO ....,....218 ..... ..,. to 219 DiCo 4 Shares London and Blackwall 16% London and Brighton 5O ......... 46% London and Greenwich London andlGreenwich (Preference) 18% Lon don and South Western ...... 41% London and Croydon London and York 2% 3% to —2% Manchester and Leeds 7O 106% to Midland Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21 ..... .... 48% Northern and Eastern 45 — .. to Ditto % Shares Norwich and 8rand0n....... 6 South Eastern and Dover .... ..... ... 33% York and North Midland Ditto Scarbore' Branch Ditto Selby Scrip Boulogne and Amiens 2 .. 4 Orleans and Bourdeaux .. Parisand R0uen............... MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV. 14.—The market continues firm, with abetter inquiry for stock:— Birkenhead and Manchester, 5 9-16 ; Accrington 2i ; Darwen and Bolton, 2i ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2 5-16; Churnets, 2i aft ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 141 ; Midland, pref., 3* ; West Yorkshire, 8i ft ; Boulogne and Amiens, 2i-. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bask Stock... ...... ...ex div 201 31 Ditto Bonds £1,000...... 75 pm. 3 per Cent Red 99% Ditto under £l,OOO 79 pm . 3 per Cent. Cons . 336 per Cent. Red Ditto Old Annuities ... New 3% per Cent. 10234 Ditto New Annuities... New 5 per Cent, — Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 136 d ... 56 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditt o 5001. Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 Ditto Small 56 pm, Oct. 1859... ........ .... Bank Stock for Acct 205 Jan. 1860 l2 5-1634 Consols for Act lOO% Indian Stock lndia Stock for Acct.... -- FOREIG N FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent lOl Ditto, Metallic — Brazilian! Bonds ........ ....... Spanish, 5 per Cent., 1840 2434 Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Ditto, 1841 ............. ..... Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1842 — Chllian, 6 per Cent ........... Ditto, 184 a... ........... Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent — Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct... Mexican, 5 per Cent ... Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — French, 3 per Cent ..... . —f. —c. Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Exchange ...... ....... .... —f. —c. Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct — Dutch, 236 per Cent Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct Ditto,:s per Cent ... SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 97 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 7O Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Caledonian (5 paid) Eastern Counties (25 paid) .... ..... . 13% Hull and Selby, 50 paid Ditto Quarter Shares, 10 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 616 London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) 9% London and South Western (411. 6s. I(kL paid) London and Croydon London and York, 2)6 paid 3 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Midland (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid South Eastern and Dover (33 2814 d paid) . 4 2 14 York and North Midland (50 paid) ' lO2 Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid .. Orleans and Bourdeaux, I paid ............. 3% Paris and Orleans (20 paid) 39% Paris and Rouen, 20 paid rails and Strasbourg, 2% paid V.% 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, Hopkinson, Miramichi ; Jane, Pictou. Ski. 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.—S1d. 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. CIRNARVON, NOT. 12.—The Pheasant, Jones, from Newport to Belfast, was driven ashore at Dinas 10th inst., where she lies high and dry, apparently without much damage. 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 are 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. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS 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 24d. to 34d., 300 Maranham at 44d. 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, 374 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 314 ; Churnet Valley, 21. 18s. 6d. • Dublin and Cashel, 3/ ; Eastern Counties, 134 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 144 ; Ken dal and Windermere, 3t ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 124 ; Lancaster and Preston, 45 46 ; London and Birmingham, 214 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 364 ; Midland Counties Fifths, 3L ls. ; South-Eastern, 384 ; Lyons and Avignon, 21. 12s. ; Paris and Rouen, 384 4 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 21. Bs. to 21. Bs. 6d. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4 34. Much disappointment 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 inst. Electioneering for the Presidency 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; 113,500 bales having been put on board, against 19,200 bales in the corresponding period of last year. The season for 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 iii 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. 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 mar ket this week, have been very small. The show of Wheat of home produce was small, yet the demand for that article was in a sluggish state, at Monday's quota tions. For the best fine foreign Wheat the inquiry was somewhat active. In other parcels next to nothing was doing. So little Barley and Malt were offering that the rates were nominally unaltered. Oats, Beans, and Feas were held at very high prices. ARRIVALS. Wheat. l u Barley. English...." 1,630 qra. 3,030 qrs. Irish. - - F0reign.......... 1,310 9,17(1 alt. 3,010 qrs. I Oats. Flour 250 2,720 7,00 qrs. -- SMITHFIELD. We had a very limited supply of Beasts, yet the Beef trade was in a sluggish state, at barely Monday's quo tations. There was no Foreign stock offering, while the arrivals from Scotland did not exceed 40 Scots. The numbers of Sheep were very small, owing to which the demand for them was firm, at very full prices. The Veal trade was excessively dull, and the rates had a downward tendency. In Pigs very little was doing, at late rates. Mulch Cows were a mere drug, at from 161 to 191. each. Per 81bs. to sink the °UAL 8. d. to 0. d. s. d. to s. d„ . . Inferior Beasts ..... 2 4 2 b Second qualityditto.., 3 0 3,„ Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 C oarse-woo ll e d d i tto.. 3 6 8 " Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 8 S out hd own W ethers 310 4 " Prime Scots, &c. - Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 0 L arge H ogs 3O 3 6 " Prime small ditt0...... 3 8 4 0 Small Porkers 3 8 4 g Suckling Calves, each 18 0 31 0 Quarter old Pigs, eachl6 0 20 ' Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. 1 Calves. I Pigs. 720 3,110 t 180 380 NEWGATE AND MEADENIZAMIL. The supply of Meat on sale was not very extensive , yet the demand ruled heavy, on the following terms:--- At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d., s. d. to a. d• Beef, ..... 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior 2 6 2 1( 2 middling,,,,,„., 2 210 middling 3 0 3 prime large ...... 3 0 32 prime ... 3 4 3 v prime small 3 4 3 6 Pork, large...—.— , ... 2 6 3 Veal 3 0 4 0 BOROUGH ZOP MARKET. Although the supply of Hops continues rather exten sive, the demand is active, and the late adva nce in the quotations is well supported. The duty has not yet been declared, but it is estimated at 140,000/. The following are the prices of new Hops :—Sussex pockets, 71 to 8 1 ; Wealds, 71 5s to 818 s ; Mid Kent, 91 lOs to 121; East Kent, 101 to 121; Choice, ditto, 121 to 181; Farnham* 101 lOs to 131. COLONIAL SUGAR.—The demand for We st India has been good, and advanced prices have been obtained. Sales of the week to last evening inclusive, about 1,900 hhds, in cluding 100 hhds Barbadoes at 66s for fine yellow, and Ms 6d to 56s 6d for low. REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been at 72s 6d to 73s per cwt, and brisk. VAST INDIA.-3,553 bags Bengal sold well, mid to good white 61s to 64s per cwt, low to good mid fellow 53s to 595, and Dhobah kind 70s ; 651 bags Mauritius sold at 43s to 55s for low brown and yellow. Privately' the demand for both these sorts has been good, and liis; nilla is 6d dearer. There were 228 bags Madras solo at 45s to 54s per cwt. FOREIGN.— 300 boxes common yellow Havannah Sugar sold publicly at 21s, and a good deal has been taken at that rate. COFFEE.—The business in British Plantation has been moderate, 141 casks 184 brls and bags, at auction , sold at 30s to 58s and 94s for triage to good ord and good mid; Ceylon has not been quite so brisk, at aue• tion 3,567 bags have only been partly sold at 54s for ord, and very good ord was taken in at 55s to 565. Pea berry sold at 75s to 88s per cwt ; 108 bales Mocha went at 49s to 67s for sea-damaged; 3,532 bags Singapore Java were taken in at 38s for sound good ord brownish , and at 32s for very ord brown, some of the damaged selling at 21s to 35s ; and of 1,698 bags Padang, about 990 damaged found buyers at 18s to 24s 6d, being cheaper, and the sound being taken in at 27s for goal ord brown ; 257 bags Brazil partly sold at 29s 6d to 34s per cwt., fine ord coloury being taken in at 43s 6d to 448. CocoA.—The demand for Cocoa has continued good. Grenada had been sold at 42s to 44s per cwt., an d Trinidad at 42s to 445. SPICES.—Good bold heavy whits Singapore Pepper has realised bid, and ord -lid per lb. Malabar has been 3d to 3,id, and Sumatra 2.-ad per lb. RlCE.—Bengal has been firm at 10s 6d to 12s for white, and Java is firmer. COTTON.—There have been 7,300 bales of Surat offered► and which chiefly sold at 2d to aid per lb, the rest being taken in at 4d per lb ; 1,630 bales Madras sold at 2id to 3 7 0 per lb. TEA.—The market is steady, but not particularly active. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. has been 40s 6d to 40s 9d per cwt on the spot, and 40s 6d for the end of the year. Rum.--This article has been very dull. Some very beautiful and extraordinary specimens of wood from New Zealand, for cabinet work, are now lying exhibited at the Company's offices, in Broad street. They have been lately imported from the colony by Mr. Levin, who has converted a portion into elegant articles of furniture. The woods far surpass all others known in this country, and we should imagine would be come a considerable source of gain to the Cor_n_pany. EXTENSIVE SALE OF HOUSES.—THE VALUE Or FREEHOLD PROPERTY.—Yesterday a sale by auction took place at the Auction-mart, by Mr. G. Robins, of property situated in Lisson-grove, consisting of several valuable freehold ground rents, producing a clear income of 2401. per annum, secured upon fifty-six freehold houses, including shops and corner houses, the annual value of which was near 2,0001., the reversion in fee of which went to the purchaser in seventy-five years, which was the period of the several leases. The auction room was crowded, and several gentlemen of large capital were present. The total ground rent amounted to 240/. ssa and the yearly rent of the houses to 1,9131. The pro perty fetched 7,486/. 10s. Among the lots was the floP e and Anchor public-house, which was subject to Ile ground rent ; the rent was 1501. per annum. It was $ fee-farm rent, and the reversion fell to the purchaser in seventy-five years. This went for 100 guineas. STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.- - The hosiery trade, in every branch, is gradually getting worse, and nothing but complaints are heard on all side* from the workmen especially. The principal branch -- the making of hose properly fashioned on the frame!, the manufacture of which ex t en d s over a l arge tract ei; country—is not more d u ll th an th e cut up b ranch, w hich is confined to particular districts. The coarse hose, ge nerally made about 24 or 26 guage, and which ar e termed " boot hose," have been for a long time very much depressed, in many instances the species of hos e termed " drop-offs" having superseded them.—The drawer and pantaloon branch is also suffering from declension.—The cotton glove trade feels the ge neral depression ; and in the silk hosiery trade n° - thing can be more gloomy than the stockingers' shoe , which, in many i ns t ances , are a ll b ut deserted. T''e bobbin net trade has met with a sudden depression of a slight nature, a sor t o f p an i c h av i ng se i zed seve ral firms, who have, in consequ ence , discharged many females employed in the warehouses, under rather unu sual circumstances. Still this is considered to be rather a premature alarm, not founded on any ser i ous want erf .?,. demand, and the scolloping th e l ace on t h e mac hi n e, 1 " is hoped, will have a tendency to renovate the marke t for a time. We have seen a mac hi ne on the l ev er's principle at work, in which no time is lost by the pro cess, which is very singular, contrary to what is gene rally conceived must be the method of accomplishing the scollopping. Any required pattern of scollop may be made, as the ed ge i s o p era t e d upon b y the jacquard' and may be so by wh e el s , th e c h a i n , or any ot h er Pl"' tern surface apparatus. The extra cost of machinery_ will not exceed 251. The p a t en t ees i nten d to li ce nse 1 . 1 . limited number of m ac hi nes , a t no t more t h an l o s . per inch per annum. They have taken out a breveted in' vention in France, and arrangements are intended to he made with the machin e owners o f t h at ki ng d om , 33°t only to license them, but to furnish them with appal l.- tus ready made, the law allowing the free export of no ; chinery giving them every f ac ility. Th e paten t i s dated 23d April, 1844, and conse quen tly w ill not exp i r e 11 1 ". 0 1 April, 1858. It is equally appli ca bl e t o t ravers e as 1 straight-down nets.—The silk warp t ra d e h a s becom e extremely depressed, and many f rames h a ve been l" ~. stopped and stinted. This ha s ex t en d e d a t length the wide rotary frames, which are also now stinted.' Nottingham Review. MAN FOUND DitowriED.---Yesterday morning, at an early hour, some persons who were walking by tha East Lock of the City Canal, observed the body 01 man floating on the surface. Assistance having h e l l, procured he was got out, but life proved to be tote I f extinct. He appeared to be abo u t thi r ty-fi v e years age, five feet six inches high, dark complexion and ha l ,: full whiskers, stout, dressed i n an o ld p il o t c oat, dal; sleeved waistcoat, drawers, and cord t rowsers , having Lis also a blue shirt and a flannel shirt. On searching ,u tv „ pockets they proved to contain a sma ll re d purs e, ha v _' in in it three half-sovereigns, one shilling and fourpen si 7 ver silver, and twopence halfp e n n y i n copper . A 1,0,a single-cased hunting wa t c h, ma k er ' s name, " S. Gt .° London, No. 21," with a comm on k e y attached by narrow ribbon; a small brass comb, an d an iron toban_r ue box. He had every app earance o f a seaman , but 110 u_ s ' es being obtained a s t o w h a t s hip h e b e l onge d to , or when ce he came, he was t a k en t o th e P o pl ar b one h o use. In formation was immedi a t e ly di s p a t c h e d t o t h e c hief poliy': t office at B o w street, and from thence to the differ c metropolitan offices yesterday evening. a re- THE WILL FORGERS.—We understand that seetable oung woman is on er way out to IN' South Wal y es, with the view of being married to Barber. a _„ She sailed from Gr eenoc k a f ew weeks ago , and v i v: furnished with a f ree passage b y Government. Si': ): rg a longs to the neighbourhood o f London. -- - Ed in 1.1 Evening Post. The extent to which child poisoning is carried may be surmis e d f rom t h e f act stated before th e ParliaT e _ ia tary Committee on th e h ea lth o f towns , that one druggist in Nottingham, made up thirteen hun a _ reof e o f weight of tre ac l e i n t o Godfrey's cordial in the co urse one year !—Nottingham Review. non _ol Damsons were on T ues d ay morn i ng c ried about the per streets at the moderate pr ice o f s i x pence the They were qu it e f res h ; an d some l a t e plums At this muscle kind were selling at twopence per Pint- fruit is protracted period of th e season , the above scarcely seen in the market, and the present circa., may be attributed to th e m ild nes s of the vre_ lll 7 fro' on the first appearan ce o f f ros t these fruits dro p l the trees.—.ojvizes Gazette. Accounts from Genoa state, that the rains have swollen all the torrents with which that mo untaine e . u! country is interspersed. The greater porti on P ofoltu roads i bridges have been carr i e d awa y, and some of the t doffs stopped up by the waters. with rocks, which had been brough