The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

Now Bendy, VII. of MISS STRICKLAND'S LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. Containing— The SEQUEL of the LIFE of QUEEN ELIZABETH, and the COMPLETE LIFE of ANNE of DENMARK. " These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the Inteo of history."—Times. _ . _ N.B. New and Revised Editions of the first six volumes are also now ready. Henry Coll,urn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROY A L, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, Will be performed a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, entitled THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnhcim, Mr. Borrani ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton ; Arline, Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Bats. After which, THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lurar, M. Albert; Count Malvino, M. Delferi , r ; Benedict. M. Displaces; Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele Dumilatre; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; Julia , Mdlte. Auguste Delbes ; Diana, Mdlle. Plunkett. Tne Box.othce is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, Will be repeated Vanbrugh's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY Adapted to the present Period. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland. W. Farren, Puckstone, and C. Mathews, Madame Vestris, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. E. Yarnold, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs. Glover. _ _ After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, founded on Don Cmsar de Bazan, entitled A MATCH FOR A KING. Charles the Second, Mr. Stout ; Don Sebastian della Rosa, Mr. C. Mathews; Mariquita, Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude with an Original Comic Drama, entitled SAM PATCH. Sam Patch, Mr. Marb:e ; Mrs. Somerville, Airs. E. Yarnold ; Mrs. Mouser, Mrs. Stanley. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and On, "uinea and a-Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, from lon till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, Will be rereated a New Drama, entitled BEIE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Coui.t Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanille, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chcchore, Mr. 0. Smith. After which, an entirely New Drama, entitled C/EIAR DE BAZAN ; or, Love And Honour. Charles the Second, Mr. Howe ; Caesar de 13 man, Mr. Webster ; Maratina, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a New Eccentric Mythologic 'l Burlesque, called TELEMACHUS; cr, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright ; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford; Dinah, Mr. Cowell. Prompter, Mr. Ballot ; Principal Painter, Wr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-orifice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STBEET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER Will be performed THE SY REI , I. Principal CharaCters by Messrs Walton, C. Horn, Jun., Leffler Alleo,and Mdlle. Nan. To conclude with the New Drama, called DON C/FSA R OE BAZAN. Don Cnsar, Mr. Wallack ; Charles the L'econt , Mr. Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs. Fosbroke. Stage Manager Mr. H . 1. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. tid. ; Boxes, ‘2.5. ; Yit, ; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and 3-Half ; Prosce- Mum Boxes, Two Guineas and a—Half. Doors to be opened at Half pest Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissloas 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 5. 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 TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARR Y. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Turner, and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. V% oollioge. lo be followed by TWICE KILLED. Characters by Met rs. Collier, Turner, Craven, and Keeley; Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. 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 ; Misi Fairbrother, Mrs. WoolliAge, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, Miss Fort'scue, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF AO MlsSlON.—Balcouy Boxes: 4i.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery; - 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2p. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier ;holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guirea. fhe Box—itlicesis open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the diree ti of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEATRE, Lessee. Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, Will be performed DON CrEZAII DE BAZAN. Don Caesar, Mr. Robt - rts - ; King Charles 11., Mr. John Howard; Maritana, Mrs. Coleman l'ope Mr. Roberts and Mrs. M ntgomerie will dance their celebrated Polka. After w hich, THE BOOTS AT THE SWAN. Frisky, Mr. Roberta; Jacob, Mr. H. Hall; Cecilia, Mrs. Montgomette. To conclude with QUITE AT HOME. Principal Characters by Mews. Howard, Aylitle, Dean, Mrs. Melville, and Mies Carter. ASTLI.Y'S ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE OP ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Open every evening with its unequalled rotation cf Equestrian and Dramatic Entertainments THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5,_ The Splendid Spectacle from the Poem of the illustrious Sir Walter ~ott, entitled LOCHINVAR ; or, The B ridal of Netherby, and steed of the Brave. _ . Entire change of the Scenes of the Circle, and novel feats of Horse. manship, and first time in England the Dressed Horse of the Me nage Toby brr ke and ridden by Mr. T. Davis. to conclude with THE BLOOD-RED KNWHT; or, The War. riots of Palestine ----- Acting and stage.m tnager, Mr. W. 1). Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till live. Lessons in the Art of Riding ty Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Increasing success of Din Cw4ar de Bann—First Week of another New Drama. THIS EVENING, NO JEMBER 4, Will be Performed a New Drama, enti led DON CIESAR DE BAZ AN, supported by the entire Company. After wh;ci4, an entirely New Drama, THE SISTERS OF CHA. TILLON, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, R. Shephard, Vale, Johnson, Heslop, M s. R. Homier, Miss Terrey, Mrs. H. Vining, &c,, will perform. Ts conclude with MY HUSBAND'S DOUBLE. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box dike, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, Will be performed LIFE'S A LOTTERY ; r, Jolly Dick the Lamplighter. Jolly Mr. G. Wi d; Bessie Blossom, M 1,3 Loaisa Lyons. Atte, which, DON C/ESAR OE BAZAN. Principal Characters by Messrs. a' sbaldiston. Dale, Herbert, and Miss Vincent. To ro , iclure with THE ARTFUL DODGE, in whics Mr. G. Wild and Miss Hamilton will appear. Printe FarrillT rt.i_ —.a I._tt- a,_ THE WEATHER.—►SUN OFFICE, Nov. 5. TmatmorkETEß, Lowest, 36 ; Higheot, 45; Noon, 42 BAROMETER, 29.25.—Wnw, NOTE.—The number 32 on the 'Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is umally placed opposite 3tl sand rain at 29. • HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 46 minutes after 9 f Evening ... 24 minutes alter 9. SECOND EDITION. • r 4 i—V. , .-Ai- Z ...'W ' , a.. 111 • ht, k" ... —t, ~..,,,, .so _,. ~ • . , ~ ; : 1 ,! e l o •Abj., , ,' ;:' . j -.--- -:, •_ , Wok ..„.ii.„ , , , ,„ '',... `'..,.\,. • , t , . 4.•:',411040 •A-1 , 0 ..,,, A , ,' Jl l l . . • • • '‘. t ",•%..x . ,... :?.., iP 7 Ze, ~, . i..imaizzeivr4lioagi . iiiiiiiT • ••.. • 4 A 14 i. ',,. h 1 k 1, -- 'N't" iC-1. •'OW ' NAtili',.. ' '-.. kr '.‘, . .P..... 1 1 .4. • / 1.• ..s etrtningnit LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1844. We had hoped that the M'GHEES and the O'SuL• LIVANS, and the other rampant Protestant bigots who about five or six years since rendered themselves so no torious by their virulent philippics against Catholicism, were nearly if not quite extinct; but, unfortunately, we find that this is not the case; the breed still flourishes, as indeed might have been expected, for what is so tenacious of life as fanaticism ? You im,agine it defunct, when, 10, at the very moment you ore hugging yourself in the pleasing conviction that it has received the coup de grace, you discover to your confusion that the "snake is scotched not killed," and that it is ready to start up again as brisk and mis• chievous as ever ! These reflections occurred to us as we glanced over a report of the " Great Protestant Mceting"—as one of our morning Contemporaries calls it—which took place yesterday at Exeter Hall. At this meeting two parsons, rejoicing in the names of THELWALL and STOWELL, vied with each other in the fierce intolerance .of their declarations against Catholicism, and all who did not hold that creed in the most unmitigated abhor rence. Parson THELWALL, who commenced the pro ceedings, talked the customary amount of nonsense about the Gunpowder Plot, which, he said, proved that " the principles of Popery involved disloyalty, rebel lion, and treason against a Protestant Sovereign and Government," and added, in aspirit of the most ran corous bigotry, that " whatever professions Romanists might make of love and friendship, the unchanged and unchangeable principles of the Church of Rome bound them to persecute and murder Protestants, when ever they had the opportunity." How dare the man talk in this way of our Catholic fellow. countryme n ! How dare he charge them with being bound by the articles of their faith to become wholesale persecutors and murderers ! Never was there a more audacious calumny yet uttered in a public assembly ! Parson STOWELL, resolved not to be behind his brother par son in point of uncharitableness, inveighed in terms of indignant contempt against "the crosses, banners, and similar mummery," which he had recently beheld in a Roman Catholic precession at Manchester, and deepening in his tone as he proceeded, went on to observe that " there were at this very time combinations of Irishmen in London ready to come forward, whenever occasion should serve, against the constitution and liberties of Eng land." The speech of this remarkable parson was in every respect an extraordinary one. The first half of it was in flat contradiction to the other half. The one neutralised the effect of the other. It began with a Lam en t a ti on —it conc l u d e d w i t h a J u bi late. At i ts commencement the s p ea k er was inex pressibly afflicted at th e id ea o f t h e embarrassments andimpedim en t s to which the Protestant Association was subjt c t e d g . Everythi ng went wron with • this amiable fraternity. I t h ad lost man i c .f its earl y friends—it was di scouraged by the Legsla,tu7—re garded with apathy by 9 many of the elery gn — nt an t d had the mortification of .hearing th a t the '' o Maynooth was to be doubled next session. But this was not the worst. Rome was beginning to bestir Herself, and had recently caused to be erected, GOD knows how many churches and chapels in this insulted country ! When thl dolorous parson STOWELL had sufficiently afflicted his hearers by this budget of grievances, he suddenly changed his tone, and bade them be of good cheer, for, after all, things were by no means so bad as they appeared to be. What, if numbers of their friends had deserted them, the truest and soundest still re mained to comfort them by their presence, and spur them on to fresh triumphs in the righteous cause of Protestant bigotry ! What, if many of the clergy regarded them as a pack of fools, this fact only proved that the " spirit which animated CHRIST and his Apostles had descended to them in its purity and integrity !" What, if their pro ceedings were discountenanced by the Legislature, Lord ASHLEY and Mr. PLUMPTRE were still their friends, and while these enlightened senators stuck as tight as barnacles to their cause, what could pre vent that cause from achieving a glorious triumph What, though Rome was building churches and chapels and school-houses in all directions, Pro testantism was beating Popery in the number of her new ecclesiastical edifices by at least ten to one I On the whole, therefore, Parson STOWELL was of opinion that his hearers had much more cause for hope than despair, and as he had com menced by afflicting their sensibilities, so he con cluded by cheering them—just as if an apothecary Should first give his patient a poisonous draught, and then administer the stomach-pump by way of counter acting its noxious effects ! We have seldom if ever read --peeches with more ineffable disgust than those de livered by the two parsons rejoicing in the names of THELWALL and STOWELL. They are as strong in intolerance as they are weak in argument, and supply by noisy bluster what they want in calm, methodical good sense. The whole range of the British proverbs—those axioms of the concentrated wisdom of a nation—does not include one more profoundly true than this— " What should be everybody's business is nobody's." We have never heard or read the frequent complaints that are made of the discouragement and gradual decline of our shipping trade, without being strongly reminded of the practical truth of this adage. We are, essentially, a maritime nation. That we should be so is as indispensable a condition of our political existence as it is an incident of our geographical position. But upon ,the same fact is based the peculiar fabric of our social system, with its large command of all the habits, and its enormous con sumption of all the products, of those regions of the civilised world that trade with us. And it may be fairly contended, that to the moral operation of the same cause are attributable many of those tendencies of our manners, tastes, pursuits, prejudices, and pre possessions which, be their combined effect what it may in other particulars, imbue at least two-thirds of the entire population of the empire with what we must call, for want of a more significant designation, " the spirit of seamanship." An Englishman gene rally carries about him some sort of vague impres sion, that in reality his " march is o'er the ocean wave," and that, in very truth, his "home is on the deep." NIY, this spirit is of so overmastering a cha racter, that it is the culminating ambition of even his proverbial love of sport. An old sea captain, or a weather-beaten admiral, does not so tire of his pro fessional career as to take to the turf for want of ex citement; but nothing is more common than for a veteran of the betting ring —an owner of running horses, or a master of fox-hounds—to subside into a bold and active member of the Royal Yacht Club. How, then, can the public at large look on, and, year after year, witness, apathetically, the decay or disparagement of that invaluable interest whose capi tal, talent, energy, and enterprise, are devoted to the noble occupation of ship-building, or the various and important dealings connected with the shipping trade ? How can the other great classes of the com munity look on without the most serious apprehen sion at the growing deterioration of this immense proportion of the floating capital (not to play upon the phrase) of the empire ? How can the statesman, the politician, or the economist, bring himself to regard, with indifference, the downhill progress of II depreciation which has attacked the present material value, and impaired the future prospects, of that com mercial marine in whose prosperity or decline is in volved the ultimate fate of all the governing princi ples that now give to the British character its peculiar force, constancy, and power ? Simply— because 44 what oiaowld Le cnr boa x i e, nobody's." The Report from the " Select Committee on British Shipping," appointed by the House of Commons, and which Report (ordered to be printed on the 25th of July last) has just been issued from the Vote office, is a document well calculated to awaken a wholesome and a very active curiosity throughout a most extensive body of readers, as to details con nected with this interesting subject. We ought rather to have spoken, indeed, of the " Minutes of Evidence," and the documentary tables and papers attached to them, than of the " Report" itself, which is a mere declaratory statement of seven lines, suggesting no remedies for the evils deposed to by the witnesses, and offering no opinions upon the effect of those depositions. Owing to that baneful practice of postponing important public business, which we have so often deprecated as a signal defect in the administrative management of business before the House of Commons—" the late period of the session" at which " their appointment took place,'' this Committee " have not found it possible to com plete their investigation, so as to enable them to come to a satisfactory report." They therefore lay before the house what "evidence they have already received, and trust. that the reappointment of the Committee may take place at an early period of the next session." So do we ; for to a more important end their labours could not be addressed. Neverthe less, we have but little faith in such prospects, whilst the present habits of conducting business in House of Commons' Committees are to continue. The enor mous value of British commercial shipping engaged in the trade between "foreign countries" and Great Britain may be appreciated from certain papers given in by Mr. G. P. YOUNG, the eminent ship-builder and owner, formerly Member for Tynemouth. In 1824, the aggregate was 609,164—the foreign tonnage en tered inwards, for the same year, being 308,951. In 1841, the British tonnage had increased to 1,134,560 tons; the foreign to 530,161. But from a State ment of British Tonnage entered inwards in the United Kingdom from the "British Possessions and Colonies," in the years 1824 to 1841 respectively, we find that the enormous aggregate of tonnage, including the entire British colonial trade, coasting ditto, fisheries and steamers, was 3,361,211 tons ! Of this vast amount, 319,546 should be put down as " unemployed tonnage." The result would be, that in 1841 we had actually afloat and employed 3,041,665 tons in our own commercial marine ; a tonnage utterly without parallel in the history of any other State in the world, and representing a capital as afloat, which, taking a very low figure between the extreme ones for the coat of building an inferior American craft at 6/. a ton, and a first class Thames built vessel at 201. a ton, we suppose we may safely estimate it, say at 91.—at 2 7,374,98.51.—exc1u5ive of the 319,546 tons uqemployed. But we fear that the year 1841 must be regarded as the last term (it was also the highest) a prosperity attained by our ship ping trade. Mr. G. F. YOUNG (and no more compe tent or respectable authority can be quoted) is of opi nion that during the last three years the shipping interest has been in a greater, and longer continued state of depression, than he can remember it to have suffered under at any former period. Mr. SOMES, the eminent shipowner, of London, concurs in this opinion, and so does Mr. SHALES, of Whitby. Mr. TANNER, of Sunderland, confirms it, with the pleasing qualification that in the present year the trade is ex hibiting strong indications of improvement, as com pared with the last. Mr. ANDERSON, of South Shields, considers its depression at this moment to be greater than it has experienced during the last forty years ; and Mr. S. HULL, of London, thinks that de pression has been progressive since the year 1815, and that what little improvement may just now have shown itself is local only, and attributable to the new trade in guano. The same witnesses speak to the amount of this depression in shipping property and the rate of freights, as having reached, within these few years, from 25 to 50 per cent. As may be imagined, the witnesses assign various grounds tor this depression. Some attribute it to the general de pression which they consider as pervading trade in general. Others refer it to the over-building of ship in 1839, 1840, and 1841, especially of inferior de scriptions, whilst the quality and building of foreign shipping has been carefully improved. Mr. Hums- SON'S reciprocity treaties are largely challenged as a main cause of the depression, owing to the very great disadvantages under which British shipping enter he ports of certain foreign Powers, as compared with those which we extend to shipping of those foreign flags. The cost of provisions, the heavy charge of light dues, the Trinity House pilotage, and other regulations, and some causes still more remarkable, are given among those which have worked to the shipowners the serious amount of injury complained of. But as these are matters at once too complicated and too grave to be summarily disposed of, we shall return to the subject on a future occasion. The debate, in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies on the address commenced on the 28th ult., and was expected to continue for some days. The discussion on the first day appears to have been favourable to the views of the Government. Previous to the opening the debate some questions were put to NARVAEZ re specting the attempt on his life, and the arrests at Madrid and Barcelo:a. He stated generally that the enemies of the Government were getting up con spiracies both in foreign countries and in the interior, against the peace of Spain ; but that the Government was strong enough to resist, and if the enemies of the Government depended upon the army, it would be much disappointed. With regard to the attempt on his own life, he said the subject would come before the tribunals. He denounced Revolutionists, and declared that the Government wanted neither the means nor the courage to put them down. In conclusion, he added :—" The Government is in possession of all their plans, and the delinquents now in the hands of justice will be speedily visited with the rigour of the law. The cause of order is in no danger, for the Go vernment has both the wish and the power of main taining it. As for me, nothing can induce me to swerve from the path of duty, and from the defence of the QUEEN and the liberty of my country. PROVI DENCE has hitherto protected me, because it knows the rectitude of my intentions ; but if I am doomed to fall by the hands of my enemies, I shall die contented, for my conscience will tell me that I have done every thing in my power to uphold the throne and the insti tutions of my country. The banner of the Govern ment is, the law and the constitution.' Those who are anxious for their preservation must rally round it." This speech produced considerable effect, for it was cheered from the galleries as well as from the body of the House, and General CONCHA, though opposed to the Reform scheme, announced his intention of supporting the Government against every attempt at revolution. Barcelona journals of the 29th ult. state that thirty individuals had been arrested, and a Council of War was immediately summoned to try the criminals. Six of them had been ordered for execution. On the Madrid BourFe (28th ult.) the Three per Cents. were done at 271 at 60 days, and 27 1-16 for cash; the Five per Cents. at 20i ; and the Floating Debt at 63i at 60 days. The Paris papers are chiefly filled with the report of Marshal Souvr on the Polytechnic School, and comments on the affairs of Spain. The report of the Marshal in the Journal des Debats extends to five columns, and appears to be drawn up with great care and judgment. The remarks on thi 'newly-disco vered plots at Madrid and Barcelona possess little interest. Several of the Opposition journals, and among others the National, assert that the affair has been got up to answer riresent purposes. The Journal des Debats pretends to believe in the conspiracy, yet it is curious to see how the writer, in his narration of events, now and then throws doubt on it by the words—" If we can believe the intelligence." The following is the account given by that journal of what occurred at Madrid and Barcelona, and a very lame account it is : "The news received to-day from Spain is of great im portance. The conspiracy, the existence of which was announced by infallible symptoms, has exploded and failed. Our readers have not forgotten the manifesto of Espartero, in which the Dictator seemed to place him self at the order of future revolutions. They have like wise not forgotten that at this signal a great number of refugees belonging to the Anarchist party, among others General Ametler, who was so prominent in the last troubles of Catalonia left, secretly, the places of resi dence assigned them. Fortunately, the French police watched closely the frontier, and the greater part were arrested at the moment of their attempt to enter Spain. rhe plot, nevertheless, went on—but it seems that the Anarchist party felt itself how much influence it had lost in Spain, by the preaseese of public opinion —for this time it is not by insurrection or by pronuncia mentos it has been attempted to act, but by assassina tion—and if we can believe the intelligence that has reached us, a plan of assassination, a kind of St. Bartho lomew, which should include Ministers, Captain-Gene • rals, and principal functionaries of Government, was or ganised. It was at Barcelona that the first essay of this new attempt at revolution took place, on the evening of the 27th. The moment the Captain-General of the province, Baron de Meer, left the theatre, two wretches fell on him. The assassins failed in their attempt, and they were instantly arrested. But as an escort were taking them to the Mazanares,_ a mob of 500 persons came to their rescue, and succeeded in car rying them off. This mob were not there by chance, and if the Baron de Meer fell, no doubt they would have been prompted by the confusion which the death of the General must have caused among the garrison and au thorities, to get possession of the city of Barcelona and give it up to all the horrors of anarchy. Several of these fellows were arrested. The movement was limited to the acts of these 500 bandits, as the mass of the popu lation took no part, and the town of Barceloaa remained perfectly tranquil. At Madrid it was, on the evening of the 29th ult., the conspirators were to act. The pro posed victim was General Narvaez. The General was to dine that day at the French Embassy, and at the mo ment of the arrival of his carriage six men armed were to start forth, stop the carriage, and while some were to fire on the coachman and servants, others were to mas sacre the General. Providence did not permit the ac complishment of this dreadful crime. Among the as• sassins there was an officer, put on half-pay by General Narvaez. This man, touched by remorse, and probably affected by the extent of the crime he was about to com mit, or, according to another version, having changed his mind on hearing the speech pronounced by Narvaez in the Senate, persuaded his companions to postpone for another day the execution of their plan. Other reports say that the General was saved by a fortunate accident. His watch was too fast, and when his carriage arrived the assassins were not at their post. It appears that the officer in question, on the same night, made the fullest revelations, and on the following day, at the mo ment the assassins were waiting for their victim, they were surprised by the police and two seized with arms concealed under their cloaks. An examination at once took place, and the informations given by the officer alluded to were confirmed. Among the persons implicated was Colonel Prim, who, it will be recollected, played a prominent part in the insurrection against Espartero in Catalonia. Shut up in the town of Reuss, he defended it with courage against the Espar terists, and the Government of the Queen complimented him by making him General and Count de Reuss. Not withstanding these favours Prim was the soul and head of this conspiracy. He was arrested, and the man who furnished the arms found on the assassin, says, it was with him he dealt. We give this news with the greatest pain, and it is shocking to think that an officer distin guished by his courage, and elevated so high by the Go vernment of his country, could be so criminal as to take part in a plan of assassination. It is further said that the plot has many branches, particularly at Valencia, under General Roncali; but what has taken place at Madrid and Barcelona is sufficient to inspire all honest men , with horror, and we trust that the divisions which were about to break out among the Moderados will cease. The discovery of these plots will make the position of Government much stronger, and Spain, it is to be hoped, will acquire sufficient strength to put down faction. Madrid was tranquil when the last accounts came away." At TORTONI'S, on Sunday, the French Three per Cents. were quoted at 82f. The dejeuner provided on the occasion of the Queen's visit at the loyal Exchange by Messrs. Staples, of the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street, has been spoken of by the excellent judges of the Corporation of London as one of the finest ever got up on so extensive a scale. The bill of fare and the attentions given to the royal table were spoken of by her Majesty to Prince Albert in the hearing of those behind her chair. NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.--For the three days this building was open to the public, the gratuit ous subscrip tions for the wid ows and orphans of four men killed during the progress of the works, amounted to 93/. Os. 3/d., which was received in the following coins :—four sove reigns, ono half-sovereign, one crown piece, 88 half crowns, 992 shillings, 842 sixpences, 142 fourpenny pieces, 5 threepenny pieces, 665 penny pieces, 667 half penny pieces, and_2s farthings. - Tfie - Sacred Harmonic Society's Concerts recom mence on the Gth inst., with the performance of Handel's Oratorio Israel in Egypt. INFLUX OF SHIPFING.—SO many vessels have ar rived in the port of London from all parts of the world during the past week, that it has been found impossible to provide a sufficient number of officers of the Customs, by whom the vessels. are boarded at Gravesend, and who never leave them until the whole of the cargo has been delivered, to meet the emergency, and several vessels, in consequence, have of necessity been for a time left un guarded. This is of very rare occurrence, and is partly owing to several of the tidewniters having been taken from their regular duties to assist in the landing depart- . i ment, in order to facilitat e th e di sc h arge o f the vessels, and the landing and housing-of their cargoes, THIS DAY'S NEWS . QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) LAKE S. THE HOKE OF ARGYLE. This was an action brought by a printer, to recover a debt due to him from the British American Association, of which the Duke was President. The case came on for trial, and the jury found for the plaintiff. Mr. KELLY now applied for a, rule to enter a nonsuit, and for a new trial, on the ground that there was no suf ficient evidence produced at the trial to fix the defendant with the liability, and contended that the case was per fectly different from the case of a commercial and trading firm. Lord DENMAN read through his notes of the evidence as adduced at the trial, from which it appeared that the plaintiff had been employed by the Association before the Duke became President. The Co EMT took, time to consider their judgment. THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF HOVER. Mr. HILL applied for leave to amend a rule which had been obtained last term, to bring up certain orders for the payment of money made by the defendant., in order to their being quttshed. Mr. KELLY, whc; was in Court, prepared on the part of the defendants to show cause against the rule, opposed the application, which was refused, with costs. INTBSTER V. WILSON. This was an action brought against the Mayor of Kendal for an assault. The mayor had held his court for the election of town-councillors in a room, and put up a notice stating that none but persons coming to vote were to be admitted. The plaintiff, a burgess, ac companied a voter to the room, and was ejected by the defendant. He therefore brought his action for the assault, and the Lord Chief Baron, before whom the cause was tried, held th a t th e d e f e ndant had a right to hold his court in a room, and to eject the defendant; and told the jury, that if they were of opinion that the arrangements were proper, they would find for the de fendant. The jury found for the defendant, but added that they thought the arrangements were not proper. Mr. KNOWLES now moved for a rule to set aside the verdict, on the ground of misdirection on the part of the judge, inasmuch as by the 82d section of the Municipal Act the plaintiff had a right to be present in the room, and also that the court was an open court, and the de fendant bad no power to remove the plaintiff from the court, and also on the ground that the verdict, although nominally for defendant, was in fact for plaintiff, inas much as it stated that defendant's arrangements were not proper, Lord DENMAN—You are entitled to a rule. Rule nisi granted. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) There was nothing of interest in any of the motions which came before the Court this morning. At eleven o'clock the Court resumed the case of "Payne v. the Guardians of the Strand Union," which occupied all the afternoon of yesterday, and would engage the Court till its rising this day. It was a claim for 50L, for work done as a surveyor, which was disputed by the Board of Guardians. The case was a complicated one, and pos sessed little interest. EXCIIEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) COLLINSON V. THE NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON BAIL• WAY COMPANY. This was an action tried at the last Durham assizes, before Mr. Justice Cresswell, to recover certain penalties of the defendants for injuries done to the plaintiff by in terfering with a road upon his farm. By the 263 d sec tion of the Act for constructing the railway, it was enacted that where a road was "cut through, raised, de pressed, or crossed," so as to become impassable, the de fendants should construct another road in its place, or remedy the defects in the old one. By the succeeding section of the Act, it was enacted that the defendants should pay the sum of 20/. a day to the collector of the trust of such road, so long as the specific instructions in the Act were not complied with. In the case of a private road the Act provided that payment should be made to the proprietor. The defendants had pleaded that under their Act the plaintiff could not maintain an ac tion, he not being the owner, but merely the occu pier of the farm, across which the road ran. This road was intersected -by the Company's line at its junction with the Darlington-road ; and the plaintiff alleged that his communication with Darlington, which is a market town, had been seriously impeded. The jury on the trial, after several hours' deliberation, could not agree upon a verdict. At midnight they went to Mr. Justice Cresswell's chambers, and informed him that .eleven of them were unanimous in their verdict, but that the twelfth differed from them. The Learned Judge directed them to find a verdict for the defendants, with leave to the plaintiff to move the Court above. He also said that in his opinion the plaintiff was not the proper person to have brought the action. Mr. KNOWLES now moved the Court for a rule to show cause why the verdict given at the trial should not be set aside, and a newitrial granted. The COURT, after considerable discussion, allowed a rule nisi, and expressed a hope that an amicable settle ment might be effected between the parties, by which the exorbitant expense of a new trial would be avoided. Mr. KNOWLES, who concurred in the sentiments ex pressed by the Court, stated that the defendants would find his client willing to enter into an amicable arrangement. HAYWOOD V. MAYWOOD. This was an action tried before Mr. Justice Whiteman, at the last Worcester assizes, and the jury, to the sur prise of the Learned Judge, found a verdict for the plain tiff for 2181. The action was brought by Anne Hay wood, the administratrix of John Haywood, deceased. The defendant, Jacob Haywood, was a large farmer, in Worcestershire, and employed his brother, John Hay wood, whom he had relieved from pecuniary difficulties, to manage two farms of which he was the owner. The action was for work and labour rendered to the defendant by the testator, the plainti ff, and their son and daughter. No specific agreement was made between the parties as to the amount of remuneration which they were to re ceive for their services, and the only evidence of any arrangement consisted in a conversation between the plaintiff's son and the defendant, the defendant telling him that he would allow 21. 2s. a week for the two farms. Mr. CwwDEn now moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial had, on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence.—Rule granted. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) moon V. WEDGWORTH. This was an action of trespass, to which the defendant pleaded a i ight of way. On this issue was joined, and the jury found for the plaintiffs, damages 40s. The question was whether a way through two closes, which had ibeen long used as a thoroughfare, was a public way or not. Mr. Sergeant SHEA this day obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, WILMOT V. WILLIAMS. This was an action upon a bill of Exchequer for 1801., Ln which the verdict was for the plaintiff. The case was tried in London before Mr. Justice Cresswell. Mr. Sergeant BYLES this day moved for a rule for a new trial, on the gronnd that the Learnel Judge had excluded material evidence. After hearing the Learned Sergeant at considerable Length, the Court refused the rule. SODDING V. STUTCIIF/ELD. This was an action of debt, in which the defendant had obtained a rule to stay proceedings upon affidavit that the amount of the debt and costs (281. 7s. 6d.) had been paid to the plaintiff's attorney. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY now moved for a rule to re scind that order, on the ground that the money was not paid in four days after the declaration wac filed, but on the sixth day, the plaintiff having incurred additional costs to the amount of 2/. in the meantime. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that as the money had been received, the application came too late, and must be refused. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) IN THE MATTER OF MARY ADCOCK. The insolvent applied through her Counsel, Mr. Sturgeon, for her final order. She was opposed by Mr. Lucas, on the part of the late Sheriffs of Middlesex, Messrs. Musgrove and Moon, for fraudulently contract ing a debt ofupwards of 501. Evidence was entered into to show that in the month of November last an execution was put into a house oc cupied by some relatives of the insolvent, when she claimed the goods distrained, and they were given up to her by the Sheriff. She afterwards entered an action for unlawfully breaking into and entering her premises, but a verdict was returned for the defendant, the jury finding that the property seized belonged not to the in solvent but to her relative. Mr. LUCAS contended that under these circumstances, the commencing an action without any reasonable pros pect of being able to pay the costs, was a fraudulent contracting of a debt. In reply to his HONOUR, the insolvent said that she had at that time no means of paying the expenses in curred, and The Learned COMMISSIONER gave it as his opinion that bringing an action against the Sheriffs under such en circumstances w as un j ust ifi a ble and fraudulent, and the final order was in con sequenc e adjourned sine die. IN RE NEWLAND. In this case, the R ev . William Newland, of West square, Lambeth, wh ose n a me has for a considerabl e period been before the various Law Courts of West minster, in connexion with an alleged trespass upo n some property belonging to a Mr. Holmes, applied for his interim order. Mr. CooKE, who opposed, said that his client (Mr. Holmes) was a creditor in the sum of 472/., the dam ages and costs in an action of trespass. The action had b een tried before the su p er i or Courts, and Mr. Holm es was already out of pock e t somew hat more than 2,0001. Mr. Newland had al rea dy a pplied to the I nso l vent Court, but had b een re f u sed relief th ere, on the ground that h e h a d not g iven an a,ccaopupnetaolefdproto perty to the v a l ue o f 12 , 0001 . p oss essed by hi s wife in the funds, as a l so severa l h ouses in West-square. the (Mr. Cooke) c on t en d e d t h at h av i ng b e en a l ready refused , in the Insolv en t C ourt, h e ' cou ld not now apply to h Court of Bank ru pt c y. his Mr i Ne Honour's v sense of justice. Newland, at constsicide. i erabl i e e thoughtogugthht most cruelly treat e d i n th e l aw proceedings had been dings a d verted to, and he cited s evera l cases t o p rove th at that Court had a legal jurisdiction in the present matter.. Mr. Commissioner FANE said the whole proceedings were much to be regretted. It would have been more prudent every way—more like Ch r i s ti ans and corantry men, if, instead of spending suc h large sums in law point mPre°ne te.S a l s eis t i o e t whether not give an i mme di a t e j u d gment on the had - gOme to some atni;e a bl e at the insolvent's petition could be re ceived, for he was somewhat opposed t. 2 his w ool ed .„. brother Commissioners upon the point, whether the Court of Bankruptcy was a Court of Appeal from the Insolvent Court; but he would consult them, and let the parties in this matter know his decision upon Mon day next. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS (THIS DAY.) The criminal business for the November Sessions com menced this day before the Assistant Judge and a full bench of Magistrates, at the Court-house, Clerkenwell green. The names of7B prisoners appeared in the calen der, of which 63 were charged with felony, the remain der being misdemeanour. Most of the cases were of the ordinary description. The Learned ASSISTANT JASDSIE in addressing the grand jury,alluded to the recent alteration which had been made in the criminal law, inconsequence of which he now appeared before them in a different capacity from that in which he had the honour of last addressing them. This alteration would lighten the mass of business at the Old Bailey, to the great saving of time to the prosecutors and witnesses. He trusted it would also put an end to the evening sittings, which were attended not only with the greatest inconvenience, but also were much to be re probated in a moral point of view. In speaking of the building of the New Prison, the Learned Judge depre cated strongly any attempt to introduce a general system of solitary confinement in that gaol. In his opinion nothing could tend more to brutalise a man than when turning the key of the prison upon him he was never to see the face of a fellow -creature. Such a course would debar all chance of reformation. The solitary system had been strongly and successfully protested against by the magistrates of this county, and its injurious effects had been made manifest by Mr. Kilsby, the Governor of the New Prison, so that the public need be under no ap prehension of this inhuman system being introduced. The Learned Judge then briefly referred to their duties, and remitted the grand jury to their room. FOLICE TESTIDIONY.—EmiIy Mill was indicted for stealing one sovereign, the property of John Brown. The prosecutor, who was a man of colour, and cut a most ludicrous figure in the witness-box, stated that he was a seaman, and being paid off met the pri s on er , w h o eventually robbed him o the sovereign. A constable of the K division, who took the prisoner into custody, told a quite different story today in Court from that which he stated before the magistrate. In fact, there was not the slightest similarity between the two statements, which he made upon his oath, against the unfortunate prisoner. The Learned ASSISTANT JUDGE strongly denounced the conduct of the constable, and said, that while he would always protect the police when right, he should also condemn them when wrong. He should take care and let the inspector know and hear his (the police man's) evidence.—The jury acquitted the prisoner. A KIND MASTER.—Martha Money, aged 17, was in dicted for stealing several napkins and other articles, the property of her master, Henry Hugh Campbell. She was also indicted for stealing other articles from John Anderson, her previous master. The prosecutor, Mr. Campbell, stated that he received an excellent character with the prisoner, but suspicion having been excited, her boxes were searched, and all the articles named in both indictments found. He wished at the same time, considering her previous good conduct and her youth, to recommend her to the mercy of the court. The, prisoner, in her defence, denied taking the arti cles, and attempted to insinuate that the reason her master gave her into custody was, because she resisted some improper overtures made to her. This the prosecutor indignantly denied. A verdict of Guilty having been returned, The Learned ASSISTANT JUDGE said that in conse quence of the kind recommendation of her master (which, indeed, she scarcely merited) he should inflict a light sentence, which was, that she be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months. A number of prisoners were convicted and sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from three to nine months for picking•pockets on the occasion of her Ma jesty late visit to the City to open the Royal Exchange. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) A lad named Brown was charged with the following attempt at robbing the house of Mr. W. Essex, a gentle man residing at 5, Gordon-street, Gordon-square. The prisoner knocked at the door of Mr. Essex's house between ten and eleven on the previous night, and said he had a sealed letter for Mrs. Essex. lie handed the letter to the servant, arid came inside the door. The servant was going to deliver the letter to her mistress, when fortunately Mr. Essex came down, and having opened the letter, found it contained nothing but a dirty scrap of paper. Mr. Essex's house was robbed a short time ago of a great deal of valuable property by a similar device. The prisoner said he was sent with the letter by Mrs. Al!sop, of Regent-street, and afterwards told a different story.—He was remanded. UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.) William Thornton, a young man, was charged before Mr. Traill with letting off fireworks. A policeman stated that on the preceding night while on duty he saw the defendant come out of a baker's shop neatly opposite to this court, and placing a cracker ou the pavement, then ignited it, and it soon exploded. He was about to let off a second, when he (the policeman) secured him, and he made a most violent resistance. The father of the defendant complained loudly that his son should have been taken into custody for merely let ting off a squib, and that he (the father) was determined on indicting the policeman at the sessions. Mr. TRAILL said that accidents of the most frightful nature were caused by the practice of letting off fire works in the public thoroughfares, and that it was a por. Lion of the policeman's duty to see, particularly at this period, that it was not allowed. The Magistrate then inflicted a mitigated penalty on the defendant, and told him at the same time, if he had any complaint to make against the policeman, he must apply to the Commis sioners, and if they found he had just grounds, they would then have the c ase i nvest i gate d at the Court. The police have bad particular directions to take all persons into custody found letting off fire-works this day. FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRUSSELS, Nov. 2.—lt has long been in contem plation to improve the course of the river Meuse. We now find in a journal of Liege,a letter which, to demonstrate the necessity of these ameliorations, mentions three more accidents which have lately oc curred at Liege, on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of Oc tober, by boats striking the piles of the bridge. These accidents (says the letter) are only the repeti tion of those which, during the last twenty years, have taken place every winter on the Meuse, in con sequence of the defective course of the river to the commune of Liege, which has already cost the lives of many persons, and ruined many others. The _lmpartial of Bruges says—`‘ The conductor of Messrs. Van Guid and Co., who was arrested in Eng land, has been set at liberty, after giving up the 35,000 francs which he had stolen, and made good all the expenses which have been incurred on this occasion. The money was sent to Brussels yesterday. BELGIAN FUNDS.--Banams, Nov. 2. Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., Rotbechild's Loan, Five per Cent. .. ..... Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Three per Cent.......... Minh us, ditto (1840) 103% 1844.... ...... 102% Loan of City, 1843, F o ur per 101% Society of Commerce, Four and a ......... Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 60% Issue of 1841.. ...... —Brussels' Papers, Nov. 3. " AUSTRIAN EU INDS.—VIENNA, OcT 28 Five per Cents. Metalliques- 10954 Four par Cents. ..... .......... .. 100% Three per Cents , 75 Bank Shares ..... .... . 131% .41 1 gemeine Zeitung, ..... " HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Nov 1. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1635 1630 Anglo-Russian Loan 114% Russian 5 per Cent., Ist se r i es, Certificate...— 105% 105 Inscription, Ist series — 1,53‘ Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 9th Series 993(, Ditto in Certificates 99% New 4 per Cent. (1840) Ditto 5 per Cent. Anglo_Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 86% 86 % Spanish. New .5 per Cent 5....... lB% Polish Bonds New Tickets PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BZLLIN, 0cr.29. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 3% per cent. Prussian English Bonds, 11830, 4 per cen t. Exchange on London. 2234 Prussian State Gazette. Oct. 30. THE GAME MANIA.—The most mean and contemp tible part of the game mania is, gentlemen (?) getting permission (as many do) to sport over the property of others and selling the game they kill upon it, even though they have surplus game on their own estates. This is mean and disgracclul in the extreme.—From a Corre spondent. QUICK PASSAGE.—The General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Trident, so celebrated for quick passages, left the Company's wharf, Poplar, last Wed nesday night, and arrived at the Duke of Buccleuch's Granton Pier, after an unprecedented short passage of thirty-seven hours only. WILD FOWL.—(From a Hampshire Correspondent.) —Within the last few days, since the wind has prevailed from the eastward, several largo flights of geese, wid geon, and other sea fowl, have visited our coast. The early appearance of these migratory visitors is looked upon, in these parts, as prognostic of an early winter ; as the former are never known to quit the more northern latitudes, where they breed, unless they are instinctively operated upon by climaterial influence The long gun punters are busily occupied in training up their frail skiffs fur their adventurous and hardy pursuits, to meet the approaching full moon ; and it i$ to be hoped that they will prove more successful in their undertakings during the forthcoming than they were throughout the last v% inter, which proved so unusually mild that the ma jority of these toiling punters did not, from their labori ous nocturnal excursions, pick up birds :uffi cient in num ber to recompense them for their expenses attendant on their outfit for the season. The number of passengers during the week end ing 31st of October, through Boulogne, amounted to 1,241 ; through' Calais, 27.1. Of the 1,241 passengers through Boulogne, the number , from Folkestone amounted to 205 ; from Dover, 174 ; from London, 122 —5Ol. To Folkestone, 342 ; to Dover, 222 ; to Rams- - gate, 16 ;to London, 160-740 Total, 1,241. At a wardmote held in Broad-street Ward yes teYday, Mr. Henry Marriott was elected to the Common Council in the" room of Mr. Moon, lately elected Alder man of the ward of Portsoken.. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY ) NAT NE.AUXETS. SMITHFItLID.—Coarse Meadow flay, 3/ lOs to 4110 s Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, Si 3s to 5/ 8s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 8s to 61; Oat Straw, 118 s to 11 lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 123 per load. The best Meadow Hay sold briskly, at full prices, but other wise the demand ruled heavy. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 4/ 12s; Useful ditto, 41 I4s to 5/ 3s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 5s to 5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to Si 18s; Oat Straw, 118 s to 11 Ils ; Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s per load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm. Prices fully stationary. WRITECHIPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 4/ 10s; Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 3s to Si 8s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/6s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 11 12s per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish inquiry. COLONX.6.X. Stman.—A fair business has been done in British Plantation, about 500 hhds having been sold at fully former prices. The public sales have consisted chiefly of 8,032 bags Bengal (mostly brown Khaur). About 1,500 bags consisted of good to fine crystallised yelloW, all of which sold briskly at 63s to 70s, being comparatively high prices. Only part of the remainder found buyers at 42s to 52s for low brown Khaur to mid yellow, soft date kind, which is again is cheaper. The quantity of Bri tish Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks, was 523 hhds, 16 trcs, and there were taken thence for home consumption, 1,337 hhds, 186 trcs, 289 brls. The stock in the port of London, on the Ist instant, was 21,195 hhds, 3,226 trcs of British Plantation, 52,142 casks and boxes of Havannah, 45,345 bags, &c., Mauritius, 122,661 bags, &c., Bengal, and 7,385 baskets, and 133,994 bags East India. COFFEE.-979 bags et ylen were all disposed of at 56s to 67s for good to fine fine ord British Plantation kind, and good to fine ord at 52s to 545. The stock of British Plantation on the Ist inst. was 3,961 hhds 4,865 barrels and bags, and of East India 12,192 bales, 120,522 bags. Bum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 20 puns; there were taken thence for home consumption 269 puns, 31 hhds, and exported 31 puns. 94 hhds. The stock in London on the Ist inst. was 14,925 puns, 2,613 hhds. - • SALTPETRE.-1,996 bags at auction chiefly sold, but went oft very irregularly, viz, at 24s to 25s for 121 to 6+ per cent. refraction Madras, and 23s to 26s for 17 to 6 per cent. refraction Bengal, being in some instances 6d lower. SPICEB.-500 chests Cassia Lignea found buyers at 51s to 64s fid for low mid coarse to good quality, being for the low and mid descriptions a decline of fully Is to 2s. TALLOW.—P.Y. Candle is dull, at 40s 9d to 41s per cwt on the spot, and town is 45s p'r cwt. TEA.—The market is firmer with a moderate business doing. TOBACCO.—EarIy last molth the market was very quirt, but since the demand has improved, and the total sales for October are 1,400 bhds. DRY SALTERY.—Indigo has been well supported; Lac Dye remains without alteration in price, and Cochineal has been declining lately. Ene.—Clean is 27s 5d per cwt. MONEY ANT) COMMERCIAL NEW CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather dull, but there was no change in prices. Sales 4,000 bales, viz. 500 Egyptian at sd. to 9d. fur 80 bales of fine quality; 200 Perham, at sid ; 300 Surat, at 21d. to aid.; and the rest American, at 31d. to sd. per lb.—A fair business was done in Shares, and the market was firm. Chester and Birkenhead Junction, 6i ; Dublin and Cashel, 9k ; ; Ditto and Drogheda, 3i. Eastern Counties, 13i ; Grand Junction, 206 ; Ditto, Halves, 103 ; Lan caster and Preston, 42i ; Liverpool an d Manchester, 201 ; Ditto, Halves, 100 ; London and Birmingham, 215 ; London and York, 3i ; Midland Counties, 107 ; North Union, 141 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 101 ; South-Eastern, New, 15 ; York and Selby, 76.- ; Lyons and Avignon, 2/. Bs. Gd ; Paris and Lyons 2/. 19s. ; Paris and Ro tt en, 38. 11s. ; Paris and Strasburg, 2/. ss. 6d. The Guano trade, notwithstanding the irregularities that have recently taken place in the way of adultera tion, is likely to be one of rising importance in this country. Several cargoes have very recently been dis posed of at Hull and Liverpool, and here also, at advanced prices. When it is considered that there are at present not far short of tw) hundred sail of vessels employed in the trade, giving an impetus to the shipping interest, and largely benetitting the agriculturists, the utmost protection that is possible ought to be afforded to those who take risks in the enterprise. Such, however, is not the fact. The latest accounts from Ichaboe state that the greatest irregularities were committed, by attempts of foreign vessels to take in cargoes out of turn, and serious collisions were expected to occur. A sloop of war was expected daily on the station, and this would, doubtless, put a speedy stop to intrusions. There are no arrivals to-day with late foreign news. The Funds are rather better to-day. Consols for immediate transfer have realised 99:1 to 100-,1, and for time 100 to 100-4-. Exchequer-bills are flat at 655. to 635. premium. East India Bonds have been 90s. prem. Bank Stock has been 204 to 2041. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1014 to 102; and the Three per Cents., Reduced, 99h- to Long Annuities are 12 to 12 1-16. The Commissioners have purchased Three per Cents. and New Stock to the amount of 25,0001. There is a rather buoyant market for the foreign in vestments. Spanish Activo Bonds have touched 24 to k ; and the Three per Cents., 35f to i; Portuguese Old Bonds are at 85. Mexican have been 344 ; and Bra zilian New, 84 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are marked 624 i; and the Five per Cents., 99 k, being firm. Business in the Share Market has been less animated, and there is scarcely so much buoyancy. Great Western are 651- to 64i prem. ; Birmingham, 115 to 114 i prem. ; Chester and Holyhead, 14 prem. ; York and North Mid land, 63 prem., &c., as in the list below. The French lines are still in favour. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank ....... 204% 204 3 per Cent.,Reduced Annuities 99%%14 3 per Cent. Comols. Ann, New 3 1 ,4 per Cent. Annuities lOl% 102 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-.16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Bank Stock for Account Consol- for Account Exchequer Bills. I%d. I 1,0002. ..... 65 63 pm. Ditto ..... 65 63 pm. Ditto Advertised FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839. B4 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 p, r Cent . ..... Ditto for the. Account Ditto Deferred 5t0ck..„.„...,„ ................ 1 5% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account B5 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 18 40........... « 24 Ditto for tne Account 24% 21. Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Deferred l -06 3 4% Ditto Three per Cent. ... ..... 35% Ditto for the Account .....»..........«.»,».«,. 35% Dutch 2% per Cents ... 62% Dutch 5 per ....... 994, PRICES OF SHARES 1 lIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SMARR Birmingham and Gloucester...... 100 .........103% Ditto New 17% 25% ... .. to Bristol and Gloucester 4R 2 - Chester and Holyhead ..... .......... 5 ......... 6% Dublin and Belfast Junction ...... 2% 4 % Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto % Share - Ely and Bedford Great Western ..... ..... Ditto % Shares ...... 50 86 ... to Hull and Selby London and Birmingham. London and Greenwich ....... 124; 9% to London and York.... .......... 3% ...... to Manchester and Leeds Ditto % Shares 3O .47 . to Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ........ 49% ... .. to Midland ..„...... ..... .... North British 5 ......... 5 South Devon __... York and North Midland Ditto % Shares Ditto Scarbors' Branch Ditto Selby Scrip Central of France (Masterman's) 2 ... ..... Ditto Constituted 2 ..... .... 94 % ... to Boulogne and Amiens .. 2 Orleans. Tours. and Bourdeaux 1 ..... .... 4 Paris and Lyons .. . - Paris and Orleans 2O 39% to Paruland R0nen........................ 20 ......... Rouen and Havre JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster 2O 26% to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 4.—We have had a quiet market to-day, with but little alteration in prices.—Cambridge and Lincoln, li 15-16 ; Ely and Bedford, li ; Leeds and Thirnk, 4i ; Liverpool. Orms kirk, and Preston, 2i ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossen dale, 7i ; North Union (A), 132 ; West Yorkshire, 84. ROBBERY IN AN OMNlBus.—Yesterday information was received at Bow-street, as the chief Police-office, that on Saturday last, while Mrs. Drew, of No. 7, Delahay-street, was riding between Cheapside and the Old Bailey, in an omnibus, No. 3,115, of Bayswater, she had her pocket picked of a 101. Bank of England note, No. 86,746, dated 10th of September two 5L ditto —number of one of them 90,385, dated 2d of September —and two or three sovereigns, in a long blue purse. It is supposed to have been committed by two young men, one of them five feet five inches high, hard featured, fresh-coloured, and dressed in dark clothes, with a cloak over his arm ; the other about the same height, pale, slighter than his accomplice, and dressed in a Tweed wrapper. CHILD KILLED BY A FERRET.—A child about three years old, named Charles Flitton, was killed by a ferret at Whittlesford, last Sunday night. The mother occupied a room in the old workhouse, and lett the child asleep in bed about seven o'clock in the evening. at which time a ferret belonging to Joseph Brett was in the room, in a box through the lattice of which it could pass. On her return about a quarter-past nine o'clock the mother found her child so wounded by the ferret that he died a little before three in the morning.— Cambridge Chronicle. A HA - RE V. STEAM.—On Friday week as a party were coursing near Countesthorpe close on the Midland line, the Newcastle down train happened to pass, when " puss," to elude her pursuers, jumped on the line, and, for some distance, ran in tine style betcre the train, till they met the up-train, going at the rate of about thirty miles an hour, which seemed to disconcert this novel competitor to steam, for she made a sudden spring up wards as it to escape, when she was struck by a part of the other engine, and thrown across the buffer of the up one, where she was seen struggling for a time, till at last it fell, and was picked up by a policeman, who would no doubt appropriate it, in defiance of the game-laws, to his own use as a penalty for its trespass on the railway. —Leicestershire Mercury. RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN BELGIUM.—On Monday evening, says the Independent of Brussels, a h orse , w hi c h had nintrga,3 •ed upon the railroad near the Soi gn i es stat i on, e s was run against by a train, and actually cut in two, without any of the carriages having been thrown off the rails, or even the rate of speed being relaxed. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS 101.' LONDON, Nov. s.—Wiald this eity at noon, fresh breeze, and cloudy. t SY‘ DEAL, Nov. 4.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Ann Grai l .; p: fey ; Aden, Hobert Town ; John Witt, C a li Albion, Ichaboe ; Acorn, St. Heena ; Susanna' Leone ; Tweed, Fernando Po ; Whanipoa, Pei Berbice, Berbice ; Barbara Gordon, Tobago ; ° 114 1.1 Grenada ; British Monarch, Demerara , GlaphY l.- 'l3eti ; Abel GJwer and Vert, Jamaica ; Jato 64 ,' o ,` muda ; Desdemona, New Orleans ; Florence, ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, PENZANCE, Nov I. 0: Maria and Betsy, Gilbert, frk:m Cardiff to riyol o ,i reports having passed through a quantity of , a' o! yesterday, off the Lizard, such as cabin bulkheads , u" - coe r spars, &e. A ship's water cask, a very large M I h i p ii and half a topsail-yard, supposed • to belong to 3 S 200 or 300 tons, apparently a short time in the were picked up this morning and brought in her e ' A pi PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 4.—Wind N.N.W. to 1C": 1 - 101; her Ma.;esty's ship Cornwallis, Trincomalee ; I!. 10 ; Cap., Aug. 31; St. Helena, Sept.l3; Ascensioo; OFF DAIITMoUTH, Nov. 4.—Royal Tar, Bell, 11g1 FALMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind E., fresh breeze•-'lO Neptune, Santander, for Alesund, leaky, an d ,1 1: 4 choakedi Esther, Dunkirk, for Cette, pumpschoe k ''' part of cargo thrown overboard, having been c aj • beam-ends. v v Ig fg f PLYMOUTH, Nov. I.—Arrd. Angelique, York, for Amsterdam. T OFF PENZANCE, Nov. I.—Spartan, Henry, AcT ,ter OFF DovEn, Nov. 4.—Cito, Black Sea, for lot! dam, leaky, with loss of sails, and part of cargo 'ot; overboard ; Stamboul, Smyrna, with sails sPlir6,4 bulwarks, &c., having been struck by a heavy ult., off onic, Nov. pe St. Vincent. AO C 2.—Arrd. Ann Wise, Smith, Rio St. Helen, Deslandes, Gold Coast. gt Job ° CROOKHAVEN, Nov. I.—Arrd. Rover. Sims, --• New Brunswick ; Emulus, Strutt, St. John's, foundland, fifteen days. g otr 'WV' FISMGUARD, Nov. 3.—The Antelope, from London, is sunk in Goodwin Sand ; part of catt y petted to be saved. The Ann Elizabeth, of Abel; from Chester to London, is on Goodwick Sand s at bilged. The Cyrus, Thomas, of Milford, from n:s to London, which was off this yesterday with a tig" distress flying, has been abandoned, and is now sit' in the Roads. WORKINGTON, Nov. 3.—lt continues to blow from the eastward. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4.—The Sovereign, hence t° ori; mouth, N.S., is ashore on the coast of Wicklow, ditmt i re; DuniaN, Nov. I.—A vessel, with all hands , ported to be totally lost off Ballbriggin, name unkota*lii dismasted vessel is at anchor off the Greystones, r i d; mile and a half from this, and another vessel is SEP' the Beach. toot t KINGSTOWN, Nov. 2.—The Kingston, Colet - t idt aground in the harbour, with some damage, e ll ti 101 hoped may ride out the gale. The William ° btl6 bells, of Sunderland, has lost a mast, and isle° maned. The Commerce is sunk in the harbour. 0 0 WATERFORD, Nov. 3.—The Sirius, of Stettin' poi Newport and Alexandria, has put in here hall' must discharge. The Carelon, from Bridgwater i ) ,O port, came to anchor off this yesterday, but par L ad drove out to sea, crew saved. Wind S.S.E., wit" - gales, somewhat more moderate. oa f Coax, Nov. 2.—The headboard of a ship, Shannon, was picked up near the Lighthouse y es ;1 0 1 CARLINGFORD, Nov. 3.—The Orissa, from JA` ir o iponr to Bombay, is ashore in Crauford Bay, in a bad po with rudder unshipped, but makes very little wat er ' 0% BELFAST, Nov. 2.---Four small vessels in ballast 1 00 1 ported to have paid their anchors in the Loch, an id gone ashore on the north side. Several pieces 01 ; 0 1 and . apparently new cabin fittings, one of wlL k i i s tiO • marked " John Johnson, Berwick," have been Pi''' . near the South West Light-vessel, county Down. fro o DROGHEDA, Nov. 3.—The Shannon cuttet to tY, Dublin to Whitehaven, was totally lost yesterclaY nn ' northward of Ballybriggan, master, mate, end drowned, five of the crew saved. WARKWORTH, Nov. 4.—The schooner Gra b ) , Perth, is ashore near here, but without much dam u d SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 3.--Part of ships board, marked Silence, was picked up on S° 11 " Beach, on the night of the Ist inst. eb WARKWORTH, Nov. 4.—The Iris, of Whit* i e seli was driven en Bulmer Rocks, 3d inst., ie c° ll 3o ° waterlogged, and apparently breaking u p, Par" e , keel and large planks having wash ed ashore. ~ $ 9 "- LErrir, Nov. 3.—lt is still blowing a gale at but with some appearance of abatement. „ (Pi t HARTLEPOOL, Nov. 3.—The Celia, of Lon"9l, Memel to Lynn, with timber, is ashoroon the bea d here, and her deckload scattered along the coast' Aft';' BRIDLINGTON, Nov. 4. A brig belonging ° e n; angel, from Memel to London, with staves, do r T u r her anchors at Alwick last night, and went ashor,e'of master, his wife, and twe, crew drowned. ra r : 4s cargo of the Sarah Ann, ashore at Cawdoe, saved. 1P : Hum., Nov. 2.—The Diana, of Archangel , l or oP rd don, is ashore at Hornsca Wood, and fast brea lo° so l ! master, wife, and one man drown e d ; s ix saved , it il of f remain in the wreck. The schooner, supposed esP de d s Clee Ness, was not ashore, but at anch o r close 'en land. 8 A.M. The weather has become moderate . ,,i • . o ' LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4.—Wind N.E. to N• Vincent, Vincent, St. Vincent ; Canton, St. John's, New Ag' wick ; Satisfaction and Grace, Ichaboe ; tigua ; Henrietta, Vera Cruz ; St. Martin's, St- - New Brunswick. KINGSTOWN.—Arrd. Mary, Worrall, Valparal s° ;, CORK, Nov. I.—The bottom of a vessel of abousk tons was passed in lat. 30 N., lon. 48 W., by th e Ann, arrived off this port for Valparaiso. , ;eq.! CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, AU G . 24.—Arrd. her . 03 : a .' Isl" ship Cleopatra. Sld. 31st, her )rajesty's ship Ichaboe. rte l e ' The Weebanlr, Montgomery, from Quebec to _ .d ef is ashore to the northward of Dublin, crew and P 9V` gers saved (fourteen men and three i passengers.)oe; Shannon, Collins, is totally wrecked at lineek,d! near Dublin. The Busy, Hughes, from Dublin' • port is much damaged in Kingstown harbour. O f , The following vessels were sunk in Kingst 4o4 Afin bour in the gale :—The Kingstown, hence to to t' (also burnt) ; the Capricorn, from St. Doming ell port ; the William and Isabel, from Archangel t fotte cester ; the Jupiter, of Newfoundland ; the Co' crew saved. THE PUBLIC HEAT:TEL—The quarterly retarl:,;:t tamed from 115 districts, 34 placed under the met and the remaining 81 comprising, with some ag ile d, A s' districts, the principal towns and cities of Enei ti d it is t w o f population having been 6.578,912 i n 1841, show " s ol.l',g deaths registered in the l as t quar t er , e nding th e -jerj September, were 38,784, or 141 l ess than th e (38,925) in the June quarter, and 1,701 o° o 4, 37,083, the average of five previous September tlorteief Allowing for the increase of population, the I:ll ,,,,its tii _ d t will be found to be about the average of the "00'4 quarter (July, August, and September); that, s c ho t ll Ol being now the least fatal in the year. The dee t , l l lll metropolis amounted to 11,825, which are 35 4 n j i, o o. /1 0 3 0 , were registered in the spring quarter, and at %le° of average uncorrected fir the increase of P e r c a The deaths from small-pox in the first I p l .. rlyitt the quarter were 36, in the last 37 ; from V 99 01 58 in the first week, 85 i n th e last, ar i n; - se l f o t the tenth. Meazles was fatal, but to ;steed' extent ; typhus showed a tendeney to ine r ,: 4 the deaths from this disease, including whet i ;40,0 times called "common continued f e ver," an d amounted to 424, a hile the average is 3 52 ' o f d es' country districts the mos t remar k a bl e i nc rease - j J j e o f tality occurred in Cornwall, and the Redrolh A i n e te t zance districts. S ma ll-p ox h as b een ep idernl districts all ov e r th e ki ng d om , an d h as prove". 0,10, 0 0 great numbers, whose vaccination had been, 11 „ et th e The districts in which the m or t a lity w as gr e t a pr the mean mortality of the c orres p on di n g ette r ' g - 4 Ord, same district are stated to h ave b een thew e " ISa t es and south districts of the metrop o li s , Po l l te cl V St. Alban's, Wycombe, Bedford, Colchester , U r pte Redruth, Penzance, Stroud, Hereford, Slirewer te e t ,e, derminster, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Je ls eU 7 o ventry, Nottingham, Liverpool, West Der/I'l'oo o ld Chorlton, Bradford, Merthyr Tedvil ;' while micro which the mortality was less than the a verage s - tr oop, of the corresponding quarter in the same d ,„ l ,trofiee said to have been the central districts of the ''' - ifecc o is Norwich, Devizes, Exeter, Basford, Stoclreer t, j esti l n e field, Great Boughton, Bury, Prescot, Safer' o tle''' Sheffield, Hull, Sunderland, Tynemouth, Ne svc Tyne, Pontypool, arid Wrexham. OFFERTORY AT BRIDG WATER .—It 15 -- 1 p. this practice be continu e d mu c h longer in s tetel tl / Church, our townsmen intend resisting the Pel ef eet ° ' church-rates. One of the two mu s t go, at e ll 00 Somerset County Gazelle. r tef a THE; all NUlSANCE.—Yesterday P ° •,, „0V carrvirg oad of ironrnotgery on a knot on i' l l ; 07 O h io Queen Anne-street, Cavendish square, when,t / to eee tl pit cluing a hoop on the foot-pavement rolled it I l s :isect 1/ 0 0' legs and threw him to the ground ; on being . I 'd c o if was found that the unfortunate man had aue ll :,,, ln v ied i6 t sie ' pound fracture of the lett thigh. He was ir fre e ce removed to the Middlesex Hospital, where t he w ill iletl was reduced. It is to be hoped that the policeo swill instructions to prevent the nuisances which el ' _ fe s , with such lamentable and serious conseque nces. GREAT FOOT RACE FOR TWENTY F° 11 , 14 :1 3 terday the race between th e t w o celebra,' -e kson John Smith (the llegent- s t ree t Pet) and „Lit t 11 3 _,,r 4 te American Deer), came off near the Old Pa n a Ealing, in the pr ese nc e o f a b ou t three thousa tors. Both men had acquired great notoriey ref , to r I previous i ,e r f ermances , and the race create a t be terest. In betting sto 4 was laid on Smith / 0 t he ' to o they went a wa y a t a grea t p ace . Smith t o 0 10 ° 00 closely f o ll owe d by hi s op p onen t, a nd wh en m en ro e' hundred yards of the winning goal, be t " tes ted t ole strenuous exertion, and, after a well con Smith came in the winner by ten yards. l a .bt sec i , of road was ran in two minut e s and twentf' et b e i t ig - e On Monday, the 28th of October, a e h°c so l ; ear l de , le , dent happened to James Jones, carmen ,in nt , 13 01 ' 0 0 0 ' the employ of Mr. S. D av i es , coal-tnerc he ho se, and Times-wharf, Pimlico. On returning ore , its delivering coals to Sir R. Smirke, of Stan ca _ lo ,eed ; r e' pany with three othe r carmen , with their tw ier the 'brs gons following him, he accidentally fell un ic u en t oYe r rg d wheel of the one he was driving, wh ich st. G e° , tb ° , body. He was immediately conveyed t„%stsetinbdien Hospital by a post-chaise, where, noteit' oni 1 4 hio care and attention at that excellent institu_telitite the tio g on the Ist inst. It is more mev,l,aanscdhroil,Litg°:tebeet t f o o . 1 0 1 : 01 0 00 9 A r , son first saw him fall, who team, it being arranged that they shoulu — t I,ol) l i e cee" waggons that had been delivering ccei s t here r_ f , th e mer's, Cannon-park, Edgware, and fr0 . r ..5 to vie homewards to take their wives and W ill 1- s thel vat' loVer ► P . CT • il:uminations, by consent of their otaP e,,. p eelee cipatiug a merry evening, instead of,Qrao- su Th e el-liad( Pair to deser t ful to.h M. T Th e Jett o f orgttnisl 141 entos 44 ( 1 pro voted b Th e uut e h Rolland lal ity, aPetch gets Wa A col respect: e L oa co t/11) , n City p„ "Ijeet fallen will do At G receive( office, e bellin g ten ees, With th the m a th e Pea t eeentli w as foi a nYthin 4tß 24:.,8 at 111 •guee window Rio t CI th at o i duty. the ii nt ; himself Geo Ars ej i m stealino. , but adri "d At n 'w its f i ne 'an ton Jun., of THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NoVEMBER 5 1844.