The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-07 00:00:00

,--/ lEN G)°' Dg.) ro ri, ers I this T av ili, for e ,( : 1 , conrraation 'es ad agen ts in thchair.. folloNvig ; Fitzwliavit b us inessiro that thcato.P, x to solne:,,,°::, this t nu* our objet,: an collect:'. A state ° re are met t' 11 ~ i ttees and' si l l e measure s %, l his purPos e ,ihij et,—First, r an agemen t c e i tiOessali par, an d if ne e said Ceol t° A -e such o p+ :iliary CoIl3lOl nmittee '-or le execution nded Ad not obt o e resolutions,„, Lian,presellti; zncej - Yv h° oo ' ia whose if. sirs led,,th e ,fidentia* 7ied unsoi ll9 ; )fintroclu c re d is whom I h a directorYt, ionth, 1 e 41 ie add. tO, DI ee to. the L; i v nothing , p.; kowever, tip to the AP with us. 1 the Coma' leased to e o the nies, elected ol resident jil; k of this e l ainted it #0 leney. 1 " i ll ,. ar riviog t i e f .with utry. 18°- e. c o o that the ,1 it it , 23TP .. 7 0 , 8 ' St. CieT DiainoP ire aware t he ts. the interl . ill the Fop line fronl • scheme . ,J re, besides9ol nce in 0 8 4 leading wan conly d l o ; our p 10135 tent. lie englo`"o. ba, agiog ev is very 11 '',0 and so 3 trden. ? Jared, the 14t.40 15th of P o i r officers ° gentlelne°' u jit ould be _.(.ln as it CO in country. itsl Conway , ' t K of the 00 • - Do have ople ar e e bgt, erefore, w ere ii 4 , suchs° ( Se, , the Clv 7l to Inu l Jt e eof 0 have tt 0 , 3 0 coop , . lairnuili :DO; ' en t sh ar e r ought sty, i ° ft ° 'ell, to anati9 o , A THE ANTIQUARIAN DISCO VERI A. Since o ur last publica E tio S n, in which we LEWES gave some details relative to the interesting discoveries of the remains of W illiam de Warren and of Gundred his wife, daughter of William the Conqueror, in the excavations which the rail wa3' contractor is now making through the ruins of the a t nei ent Priory of St. Pancras, at Lewes, the interest which l - Inc novelty of the discovery was then exciting has greatly ncreased and the progress of the excavations, which will run fora coßSiderable distance through the Priory- and the grounds anciently attached to it, is :daily watched by nume °4,s spectators. A number of a r ti s t s are a l so on the spot Makin`ug sketches, prob a bl y f or pu b lication in the illustrated Pape r& ha ppy' to The Railway Company and th e con t ractor, we are add, have lent their aid to the of any oth er relics which the shovel and pick-ax p e reservation of the " navvy" InnaatYureturn uP' by directing that in eve r y case w h ere the b eing foe( the soil indicates a p ro b a bili ty of other relics earth• und, the greatest care shall be used in removing the .41Further discOveries are thus described by the pen of W. H. w."htaall/V, one of the magistrates of the Lewes bench, ose antiquarian researches, given to the • world a short p olll' rt e iOr i i n o c f e in his " Barons' War," have thrown a light over What Was a comparatively obscure, but highly important "SeveralEnish—the Battle of the Barons, under Simon de ?ttontford, in the reign of Henry 111. more skeletone havr been found,:lying parallel to e ach other, and a ll w i th their feet to the east. The bones of this chil d have also been discovered among them, and probably was one of the founder's kin, on that account admitted n it° the sanctuary of the grateful monks. On the 30th there wa s added the discovery of another body at the eastern end ha the excavation, which was distinguished from the rest by • ' vi ng" a very remarkable leaden chest at its feet. The form :is that of drum 111 inches high, and the same in dia deter' "lightly Ornaniented by straight lines down the es, at intervals of three Welles with a leaden top, 11° ''' loose, but which has been soldered on the lower part; no inscription can be detected. The interior is nearly filled b li y . l) a b Y an urn of coarse earthenware, fixed into its position fra„, quantity of red clwv occupying all the space between it a"„.,,the outer case—the urn contains a quantity of . saline . ' b ( ;',l 4 " , ill which are the human entrails of the adjoining 3', but without the heart, according to medical testimony. Abo ,le 11• lit two inches from the bottom of the leaden case there , :p a e B a n i re l 1 projecting tube, now closed at the orifice, which to have been designed as a drain to the vessel.. one, Person thus carefully buried was probably a dignified de.„' o , b ut whether layman or prior nothing now remains to . are y The traces of walls near these numerous skeletons , of • re Yet too incomplete to justify any opinion as to the form -. b si e ttua an t Y ed b uildi ng which . it s eems ~ Probable may formerly have covered them, that the Chapter House was here These.„ new discoveries have been placed, with the cists iti - t'ung the remains of William de Warren and Gundred, '• f s,„"' n , thover Church, near the black marble tomb which °--ertY covered the remains of those distinguished.per :, clerk • • Z e a s g r e o s t ; They are under the care of Mr. Goldsmi f th,,pari n sh - Scnithover who gives An explanation o the s i a a • !•tig 'lllics to those visitors who reqUire it. A sub : ipt ioa • • ed As 'ilPenetl for contributions, which are to be ap .. hi , . to the provision of a proper receptacle of these . huginkY restinginte historical remains. This will be . more , tt:j., ll ; e : . o r'Vora costy, according to the liberality of 6 le nt .Bl ," ) rg; - and we trust that the sum raised will be suf vrorfh 1, provide a place of sepulture to these remains, h e i, •Y of the station which the distinguished persons filled "re passing to their _mother earth.—Brighton Gazette. Ils. ....---•emimme r• IIL INFORMATION FOR MALTSTERS.._We i o b n ii t t Ler it advisable, on every occasion, to guard and . cau lsw. "`e honest trader who may he unacquainted with the b ei ,! mid therefore be liable to violate its provisions without . 4"K aware of it. On the 27th of September the Board of frotnelB,esued general order in reference to the malt duties, of ti,'''',llcb Webve the folloWing extract for the information had :',7 whore it materially concerns:—" The Board have insisters : consideration various representations that many the Lers colopress their grain in the couch frame, and . that of &regulations for preventing and detecting this description thi s an d. are not administered uniformly by the officers of en , t reye",.. .. .i the Board are aware that many maltsters ar ,r tam erroneous views on this subject, supposing that they ex`ceat,liberty to compress the grain, provided they do not Act weed the er centages mentioned in the sth section of the b e .1,, 4 , gist Nict„ c. 49. The Board direct that all maltsters le.,.'"roled. that the law does not authorise any, even the I,oset compression of the grain. The penalty of 100 L, ini_. e s , ~,1 33 ' the 33d section of the Act of 7 and 8 George II , the * "';',is itittrred, if the inaltster tread or force together apply i i n n the cistern or couch frame; and the increases gain has only•the sth section of the Act of Ist Viet., c. 49, in -cases where suspicion is entertained that the con e i I ?as been compressed, and such increase is deemed of tin usive evidence of the fact, when found after the removal kthe reo f e rain from the cistern or couch frame and the return fibinto the vessel from which removed. It is well atm" that many malsters, by throwing the grain in a .,.. 5 . ve 0. t the. e rr on,t. of the cistern into the couch frame, and by:t-mom, hy b 'gram to an undue height and letting it fall heavily, and eoni,J:7ing it forcibly against the sides of the couch frame, th.'''' to compress it, and thereby subject themselves to apt Penalt of the statute. That . they be also informed that will most likely avoid . incurr . ing the said penalty if they e oph‘ Y the grain from the cistern into the couch frame in the ra r ,'•of a cone, or, if the couch frame be large, in two or -r e ones- and afterwards leVel the grain in the usual 1444 , 1 ,t1e e r.' , 1 '‘ . (l 8@ TEN HOURS BILL.—MEETING OF DELEGATES. ti Saturday evening last a meeting of delegates from manufac stre: t owns was held a t t h e school-room, in Great Ancoats- T om "; in this town, and subsequently by adjournment at the Wood log , - unt, for the purpose of devising plans to promote the pass. T he ~° the Ten Hours Bill in the next session of Parliament. li cit : 6 ' Were delegates present from Glasgow, Bradford, Manchester, taik t . Yde, Bury, Oldham, Waterhead-mills, Lees, Preston, Avh auleld, Stockport, Chorley, Cuerden, Heywood. Rochdale, Jun el_it°h, NeWton, and some other places. Mr. John Fenton, ee Ir ß urY. was in the chair. The chairman of the Lancashire oo th_4_ Short Time Committee submitted their plans for carrying 4 pir:t!ititation, which were put in the form of six propositions : tobeiviatike,,,th.taht:df,utniidatof 500/. be forthwith raised; second, that offices d e ,„" la. Manchester, to which all correspondence should be ad. permanent secretary should be appointed to 11447, the business; fourth, that petitions be sent to Par. pe t i,, ol ; B, fro rn h every mill in the kisgdoni ; fifth, that bison In e Procured from the clergy and medical pro. 1%. each town, and in every case, where prac ka r be aloede by the dean, vicar, or bishop, as the case .ann•ci4.; sixth, that petitions be procured frem as many mill tory i .." Possible in favou r of an abridgment of the hours of fac bei. 4 uour ~,,, , I..p,a„i:. and. that naemorial s be sent to the agricultural Mem -o',atilt ;"Z. them not to prevent the manufacturing Members %14 4 " e the condition of their own workpeople." The h ea: 1 0 l ' a ' i nduced to petition agricultural Mombers, because b l ,? t ,.. ° Urs u,n .p ti fi t n t a i t .., 4 l_ the great division in March, 1844 , when the if i s u .n.tr tment . eirraii three times carried, there wer 2 . 3 Mere. , 00 ,. • Illg tl.ie. manufacturing districts who voted infavour :Pfeaem,2* and.but.lo against it ; therefore it was the Members wl leii. it ": agricultural districts, on the subsequent division or th ' 4l, tara tb e g ilt the aural to resign, who prevented the passing I.'ans be adopted or esolutions were passed :-1. " That the above „isikto „.9;" 2. " That the necessary funds be forthwith -tc4tlt9,rF,FirltilY,,,llle.tri into execution , and that the . committee be tip P et t krta th-`,41M*13, te take offices, and to appoint a secretary _ .rae1i,..._.,. eintreased duties which must necessarily devolve bnlittee,l:l,rd Thanks being:voted 'to the Central Short. time Corn. tett traotit 11` ta heY, and the chairman, the proceedings fermi. t, 44.414,iirr TelOok.--Atenchester Guardian. A lk oi, 4 alici re , IN. HYDE -PARK.— Yesterday informa- I cee, t hat u'ated Ahroughout the divisions of the Metropolitan It: Falltian" Wednesday evening, about half-past six o . 'c!ock, t- "t s-1411-""Lfetriale, living at No. 12, Bowling.green.buildings, uli . e, az . . sh e - ew-road, Paddington was proceeding to Kensing milk • ente' a est ed w al ong tit HYde-park by Victoria-gate, Bayswater, and e qr • ee seitieriad outside of Kensington-gardens to the bridge the !II that tine. When she had gone a short distance she per lootittaly !axi o : .rt'.,;aiLvras following her, and when . she arrived near pi,, o , _wa tt q ::: nie north bank of the Serpentine, which is a very 4. , . 40,4 ili.slite rod, the man came up to her, and pulling out a i tait ea h to d,r3chet. Presented it at her, at the same time saying, tol d 4,1 at t o to.night, for I have a wife and family had , ~.r it , ltet tj,!' ' Mrs. Cantrill, although dreadfully alarmed, t heis" .9 ich was .se the pistol, and she would give him what she ti i , " 4 4 wi th ,_: 61 ) 1 Y a few halfpence, and on her giving him what h 1,1444 wit h beg, decamped the way he came. • She describes a 4 4. whIsk ets . d ve feet eight inches high, dark complexion, and 't . ' res 'ett in a corduroy jacket, dark trousers, and Tw i t ti..- 11 C APTAIN No 4-417........v/4* v LEICESTER.—WINDSOR, ti c4 o til m c ,,_ * regret to state that the Hon. Captain Leicester, 44 t el lh - thl ne , r to Lord De Tabley, of the Grenadier Guards, sta ll ,m,,, a ,own, who b ° *1,2 44 i. whi le urat a blood -vessel in the early part of rsb t ,, JYle i n en dutY With his regiment in the Great Park, i s 'kit 744ktracal,rn°1t dangerous state, at his apartments in the In. 81 •,, re'cas, Sheet -street. The unfortunate gentleman, who Ilv., Which bia s Pse YeaterdaY (a considerable hemorrhage taking li,ooetea. 1 h's ~mi cal attend a t, "lov, b reduced him t h IteNter r.._Lord De Tabley, the Rev. F. o nt t ., e at v id ery ht l e owest ebb), has been dz e s i : e l: t t e r o r, n resithdoutrbl the b. gin -- .1 D e r • 'hied n g at a , abley arrived at Windsor this morning, and t he - "Y h I" White Hart Hotel. Lady De Tablet' (accen t _ n 0 0 ., bet children), Who had been on a visit to her mother, "as b„/ alon te 'cis, arrived at Windsor this mornlng, from 1 4a, i - vse m th near Uxbridge The Hon. Captain Leicester, who , A' Yet, n u :. ° 9reeadier Gua.rd ti , - ni s a,. s for about fifteen years, is in the m ot 14 ) „,„ iii , Ilit u btellt has OBSERVATIONS.—A Parliamentary si t ke, fr. a ' j u st be e • a tvat cr -a c op . _..olsu printed, in answer to a return of Mr. r v oi l es at h J' ' ructions to astronomer s of the several ob lioce lutes of ° _the and abroad in the year 1837.8, with the number '041:It that ""tronornical observations made at each observatory !°r Z at a.._*. It appears that no instructions were sent by the l t , um of - aiirait y to lugs hi Oblast asonomic , the Astronomer Royal in 1837 8. One lator a observations is printed in each year by the (Ittslt,,koitoyfettt ecotboiaerri.otts Aviarietpoorrst bisyatnhneually made in the month of Astronomer Royal on the ,-so d ~,' It i t , adda2rY, and communicated to the Board of Ad t•tie , e , a op e ._ vu, that at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of t . : ,h 4 f oyed r 1,8.6°, tahsetreon.o2n_ jeat observations have been printed since . .;ht ~,-,7441 th e ~.,__ ' ti " r onemer and Ms assistants having been chiefly stit,,l,the‘arerne, 01 ,: t a r a on ern.ent of an arc of the meridian. Diffe !nnieal observations made at Greenwich and t tp hoB tat b io 4 4 e r be en Pnnted since 1837, under the superintendence sadciP 1, 1 lorfice. , , ei d - very IrEtaaGENcE sr,. of ''ed i t gooa dm .---VVORCESTER, Nov .s.—We teige. ,t 41,... e and for hops on Saturday • for fine samples 4,41 b . called brisk, and high prices were made for parcels 4 ti 4l t to d• lPtl °n 1 and e 1411th for d Pose __a yen stout brown qualities Me 'e not so , Le. 4 4 1 - 4 7 of s last week, the low Prises asked being a temp tih,!,o'l4.. but, I,fithr_ Purchase a few. The fresh supply was very 1 00 ,Z ek a pre„"tywgnoantd remained unsold the previous Saturday, on offer, in the market, altogether perhaps ittp,. 't old "t i bein tohtec, t l:as sed L er, of which, 682 pockets of new and 440 14 the4:7 Pock Alaveset besidesr new and d os 4 e o in of y t e h ali the week, r w r h ic ie e l: . ' atlase 04 quoted. EXETER, Nov. 6. STOCK E ECUANGE.—The sales are—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, p.—Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth (Head's line), j 4 p.—Taw Vale Extension, 1 4 p.—Central Cornwall, p.—South Wales, s—Eastern Counties, 22. Yesterday being a holiday, there was little or no business transacted. LEEDS, Nov. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Leeds and Bradford, 45 1 —Ditto, Extension, 40—Leeds and Thirsk, 12%—New castle and Berwick, 14—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton, 16—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 52 c. n.— London and York, 4 4—Cambridge and Lincoln, Extensions, 3Y; 3 —London and York (Bawtry), 3 3 4—Great Eastern and Western, ss. p.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, par—Leeds and York, 3s. 9d. p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 4%—Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2%—Manchester, and Southampton, 4 —North Western, 34—Nottingham, Erewash, and Amber gate, 4 1 ,4—Nottingham and Grantham, 4% —South Mid lands, 3% p.—South Staffordshire, s%—Wafield and Brad ford, 6s. p.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 265. p.—Welsh Mid land, 2%—York and Carlisle, 3%—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 13s. p. HULL, Nov. 6. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The great and unusual influx of orders to sell has caused considerable depression in all kinds of stock, and for cash almost any price would have been sub mitted to in Scrip Shares. Still the opinion seems more generally acquiesced in, that the worst has been got over, and that the accounts from the City will be more cheering to-morrow. The sales are—Hull and Selby (10 per cent. guaranteed), Half Shares, 19%—North British (Carlisle), 3 14—Axliolme, 4—Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 38s. 6d.— Derby and Gainsborough, 11. 16s. 6d.—Hull and Barnsley Junction, 1 1 % p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 425. Liverpool and Leeds, 2%—London and Birmingham Exten sion, 1/. I3s. 9d.—London and York, 4 3 / 4 —London and Nor wich Direct, 4s.—Nottingham, Erewash, &c., 4%—Notting• ham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 4%—Nottingham and Boston, 3 1 4—Nottingham and Mansfield, 4%—Wakefield and Brad ford, 2%—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 3/. 3s. 9d. YORK, Nov. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great North of Eng land, New, 50—Newcastle and Darlington (Brandling), 48— York and North Midland, Extension, 23%—London and Ycrk, s—Leeds and Dewsbury, 13 1 / 2 —Newcastle and Ber wick, 13%—North British (Carlisles), 3 —Coventry, Nun eaton,Birmingham, and Leicester, 2%—Grand Union, 25'— Leicester and Bedford, 2%—North Staffordshire, s%—Welsh Midland, 3 EDINBURGH, Nov. 4. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The salefi are—Aberdeen, 81. 155.. Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin. 2/. Bs.-Airdrie and Bathgate, V.-Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Half Shiites, 15/.- Armagh and Portrusb, 2/. 12s. 6u1.-Ayr and Dumfries, 31.55. -Ayr and Galloway, 21. 188.-Banffshire, 2/. 135.-Belfast and County Down, 31. 55.-British and Irish Union, 51.- Caledonian, 12/. 108.-Caledonian Extension, 41. 10s.-Cale donian and Dumbarton, SL-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 3/. 55.-Cambridge and Lincoln, 5/. 7s. 6d.-Camwarth and West Linton, 2/. 10s.-Chelmsford an d B ury , 1/. 17 s. 6d.- Clvdesdale unction, 20/.-Cornwall and Devon, 21. 12s. 6d. -Deeside Railway, 6/. 2s. 6d.-Direct Northern, 2/. 18s.- Dublin and Enniskillen, 51. 55.-Dundee and Arbroath, 36/. 155.-Ditto, New, M.-Dundee and Perth, 10/. 10s.-East of Fife, 3/. -East Lothian Central, 4/. 1 1s.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 5/. 55.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex news, 72/.- Ditto, Half Shares, 18/.-Ditto, Quarters, 181.-Ditto, Ditto, New, 131.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 11.75.- Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 3/. 10 s.-Edinburgb, Leith, and Granton, 241. 10s.-Ditto, Preference, 191.-Edin burgh and Northern, 51. 135.-Ditto, Newport, 1/. 145.- Ditto, Lochgelly, 2/. 25.-Edinburgh and Peebles, ex new, 3/. 35.-Edinburgh, Portobello, and Musselburgh, 2/. 3s. 6d. -Edinburgh and Perth, 51. 10s.-Forth and Clyde June tion, 4/. ls.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 721.-Ditto, New Stock, 23/.-Ditto, Quarter Shares 21/. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Bel fast Union, 31. 10s.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 31.55. -Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 3/. 10s.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 45/.-Glasgow and Greenock, 22/. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 2/. 55.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmaha gow , 51.-G reat C ounty Down, 3/. ' -Great North of Scotland, 4/. 75.-Ditto, Extensions, se. p. -Great North and South Wales, 1/.-Inverness and Elgin, 2/. Bs.-Lanark and Lothians, 5/. 12s. 6d.-Larne and Bally mena, 2/. 75.-London and Hounslow, 2/.-London and Man chester (Hem.), 31. 155.-London and Manchester (Rastrick), 61.-London and Windsor, 1/. 55.-London and York. 51. -Midland and Eastern Counties, 21. 17s. 6d.-Moray s hi re , 55.-Newry and Londonderry, 2/. 10s.-North British, ex news, 24/. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, ex news, 61.-Ditto, Fifths, 71.-Ditto, Carlisles, 4/. 125.-North Wales Mineral, New, 61. -Perth and Crieff, 3/. 38.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. 12s. 6d.-Scottish Central, 181.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 2/. 17s. 6d.-Scottish Midland, 4/. IN.-Scottish North Western, 2/. 11.4.-Scottish South Midland, 3/.-Scot tish Western, 2/. 128.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1/. 12s. 6d. -Shrewsbury, Oswestrv, and Chester, 71.-South Midland, 81.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 3/. Gs.-Stirling antk Midland, 475. 6d. p.-Strathern Junction, 3/. 12s. 6d.-Surrey Grand Junction, V. 7s. 6d.-Tean and Dove Valley, 2/. 10s.- Tyne Valley, 3/. 135.-Wishaw and Coltness, 571. GLASGOW, Nov. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 8/. 95.- Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 505.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 37,8-Ayr and Galloway, 585.-Banffshire, 50-British and Irish Union, 4%-Caledonian, 12 1 4-Caledonian Extension, 6-Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 565.-Ditto and Dumbartonshire Junction, 705.-Carnwarth and West Linton, 455.-Clvdesdale Junction, 20 1 4-Dundee and Perth, 9%- East Fife, 555. -East Indian Railway, 3%-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 255.-Edinburgh and Perth, 5- Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 20s. p.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 785.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 665.- Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 645.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 6 I A-Glat:gow, Airdrie, and Monkland Junc tion, 4 1 4 -Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 695. 6d.-Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, 615.-Great North of Scotland, 80s.-Great Eastern and Western, 75. 6d. p.-Inverness and Elgin, 455.-Lanark and Lothians, 38s. p.-Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 425.-Larne and Carrickfergus, 525.-Lesma hagow, 4 3 / 4 -Midland and Eastern Counties, 555.-Paisley, Barrhead, and Hurlet, 8-Sanquhar and Muirkirk Junction, 475. 6d.-Scottish Central, 17 -Scottish Southern, 51s. 6d.- Scottish Western, 525.-Scottish North Western, 525.- Scottish South Midland Junction, 575.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 575.-South Midland, 6%-Strathern Junction, 70s. DUBLIN, Nov. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bandon and Bantry, 1 1 /—Cork and Waterford, IN—Dublin, and Belfast, June. tion, 9 t/ 2 —Dublin and Drogheda, 8: - 4i—Ditto, New Shares, 1 l 4—Great Southern and Western, 2:3—Great Southern, Clonmel to Thurlos, 21—Midland Great Western and Royal Canal, s—lrish Great Western, Dublin to Galway, 4 1 4 — Enniskillen and Shp, 2% —Killarney Junctions, 2 1 / ‘,-New Ross, Carlow, and hilkenny,l'A—Waterford and Limerick, 9 —Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, 114—Wexford, Water ford, and Valentia, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TIIE DENDRE VALLEY RAILWAY AND CATNAL COMPANY. The Directors of the Dendre Valley Railway and Canal Company, who have recently visiteyl the locality of this twin undertaking, in company with Mr. George Rennie, their engineer, have just given the Shareholders a most satis factory report upon the prospects of the enterprise. We give some extracts front this report : " Although the Cahier des Charges, in Art. 3, allows a period of six months to the Company for depositing the definitive plans and sections of the railway with the depart ment of public works, after those of the Government engi neer shall have been communicated to them, yet the Direc tors, anxious to meet the views of the Government in affording occupation to hundreds of labourers through the winter, have caused the plans of their own engineers to be proceeded with simultaneously with those of the Govern ment, and in the course of a few weeks the whole will be completed. "The situation of the basins and wharf of the canal has been determined upon, and the necessary notices on the land owners along the line are at the present time in the course of being served, and it is confidently expected that next month the contractor will be in a position to commence his opera tions on the canal. "Tour Directors have also to announce to you that. the con struction of a railway from Tournay to Jurbise is conceded to a private company, and as this line will join that of the Dendre Valley at Ath, the direct communication will thereby be opened with France by the Great Northern Railway of that kingdom, and with the South and West of Belgium by the lines already conceded by the Belgian Government. " The recent visit to this part of Belgium of the Directors, commenced at the proposed Junction with the Mons and Conde Canal at Jemmapes, and proceeding along the exact course, through Ath, Lessines, Grammont, Ninove, to Alost, all towns of considerable importance and large population, and almost connected throughout the entire line by villages and hamlets, containing inhabitants of the most industrious habits. " During this inspection, they closely investigated the sources from which the estimated traffic must flow into the projected undertakings, and they can with the greatest satis faction affirm, after viewing the immense collieries of Mona, the quarries of Ath and Lessines, the perfect cultivation of the rich and fertile valley of the Dendre, the active, industrious habits of its dense population, and its numerous manufactories, as well as the great facility offered by the face of the country for the execution of the works, that the prospect of returns that will result to the proprietors of the Deudre Valley Railway and Canal are such as no other similar undertakings in Belgium, or even perhaps in England, can surpass, and which fully bears out, if not exceeds, the favourable report of the engineer. " The province of East Flanders is, in fact, the most fertile and the best cultivated of the whole territory of Belgium. " The statistical returns of population attribute tdThe pro vince of Antwerp a population of 1,311 souls per square kilometre; to Liege, 1,460; to Hainault, 1,815; to West Flanders, 2,022; to Brabant, including Brussels, 2,034; while those of East Flanders give as many-ta 2,633 souls." But above all, it is in the transpofrof coal and ponderous goods, that the Directors of the Company formed, and with diPTight be aware, had been attended with a great deal of . RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. ,cultY, but at last they had succeeded in coining to terms LIVERPOOL, Nov. 6. w mch were satisfactory to the Grand Junction Corn- STOCK EXCRANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lance. any, and such as would be to the advantage of the shire, and Cheshire, 8 1 A—Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool London and Birmingham. He was sorry that the 29—Eastern Couuties, 2 034—Edinburgh and Perth, 4% — Proposition for an amalgamation of the t wo companies Gl asgow and Dumfries, 2 21 i—Gran d -Junction, 233 1 / 4—Ditto, had not been agreed to when first proposed.—( Hear, hear.) Quarter Shares, 49 1 4—Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 32 1 4 — Such a course would have removed a great amount of diffi- Ditto, Eighth Shares, 20 1 ,4—Grand Union, 2A—Hudders culty out of their way, and saved a great amount of heart- field Canal and Railway, 10—Liverpool and Manchester, burning and foolish squabbling. But that was past, and New Sham, 5 6 1 4—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4% there was no use reflecting on it ; and the subject formerly se —London and Manchester (Rem.), 2%—Leeds and Think, desirable was to be submitted to them that day. By the 9:4—lllidland, Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 112— amalgamation of all the interests proposed an immense ad North Staffordshire, 5 %—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver vantage would be _gained. They would then command the ham ton 61 , 4—Preston and Wyre, 37—Rugby and Hunting- Most direct line to Liverpool and the north generally, possess don, :?—Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Stafford- Ihe most ample means for the accommodation of the through .04 ffle, , and have the whole placed under one entire manage- ' shire, 37 , 4—Scottish Central, 16% South Midland, 6—Dublin and Armagh, 205.—Dutch Rhenish, 8 1 / 2 —Paris and Lyons mem. Another advantage of this amalgamation would be (Latitte), 2;4. that they would get rid of the competition for the Holyhead _ "'Mlle, with which they had been threatened, and, secondi that 'they would command the use of the large establish Tent at Crewe for the mechanical purposes of the entire line. !if com pelled to go t o P ar li ament next session, they would De ready for it by this amalgamation; but, if parties who Were disposed to o they pp ose were ded for that, would be also ready.them On all hands they sober-min would be pre recdypared. Moreover he would, and he was sure they would, be to s u b mit to any arrangement to secure the public in stn that P ar l iament might be disposed to make. He was desirous that the fullest protection and accommodation should be given to the public. (rhe meeting had not concluded when our report left MANCHESTER, Nov. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Exten sion, 4—Cambridge and Lincoln, 4 1 /o—Clitheroe Junction :3 1 ,—East Lancashir e , N o . I, 19 — Edi n b urgh and Perth, e; —Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 6%—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 10 c. n.—lnverness and Perth, 48s.—Liverpool and Bury, 30—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 2%—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston. 4%—Lon don and Manchester (Remington's), Wit—Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters, 12 1 4 c. n.—Manchester and Birmingham and Welsh Junction, 11 ;i—Manchester and Bury At:nospheric, 14—Manchester and Southampton, 3% —Manchester, Wigan, and Southampton, 2%—Mold Junc tion, 3—North Staffordshire, 51 4—Nottingham and Mans field, —Nottingham, Boston, and Grantham, 4%-ox ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 7%—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 4 1 4—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 44—South Midland, 6 4—South-Eastern and Dover, Halves, 4—Welsh Midland, S. SHEFFIELD, Nor. 6. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Grimsby and Shef field, Quarter Shares, 31. 13s. 6d.—London and Windsor, I-.. London and York, s—Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 6—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 41. lb. 6d.—South Midland, 5/. 12s.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 2/. 15s.—York and Carlisle, 3. BRISTOL, Nor. 6.. STOCK ExcrLAYGE.— The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, New, 814—Great Western, Half Shares, 86—Ditto, Quarter Shares, I64—Manchester and Southampton, 4L 35. 9cl. North Devon, 2 4—SouthWales, 4 3 / 4 —Vale of Neath,3/. Bs. Sd. ~~ great reason, their expectations of profit. The means of production, and the wants to be supplied at the places of con sumption, are such that literally the Deudre Canal, intended to transport to the Lower Scheldt coals, stone, and lime, of the Hainault, will find, to make use of an English word, a nearly incalculable traffic. The navigation of the Upper Scheldt alone, employed in 1844 more than 7,000 boats, and the Mons and Conde Canal afforded above 8,000, represent ing above 1,200,000 tons; and a reduction in the price of transport would procure to the coal basin of Mons the sup ply of Holland which is now procured from Newcastle. We have often held up to ridicule the " fanfaronnades" of English prospectuses which speak of Belguim, as it would hardly be excusable to speak of China, but we must make an exception to the conscientious report of the Directors of the Dendre, the hopes they hold out to the shareholders in this enterprise, are to our eyes certainties, and there is not in this pamphlet one single word which is not rather below than above the truth.—Le Politique, Nov. 3, 1845. FLANDERS and HAMBTJRGH MAIL. BRUSSELS, Nov. s.—The Moniteur publishes in its official part the programme of the ceremonies at the opening of the session of the Chambers, by his Majesty in person, on the 11th of this month. The receipts of the Custom-house at Antwerp, in the month of October, amounted to 703,967 francs. The Belgian ship Harriet sailed from Antwerp two days ago, for Galveston, with 171 emigrants. By a resolution of the 18th August, 1844, a reduction was made in the rates of postage in the kingdom of Prussia, which was limited to the interior of the kingdom by a late decree. This measure is extended from the Ist of November for letters destined for France and its colonies, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the Grand Duchy of Luxem burg, and vice versa. It has been in force with respect to England for some time past. " For some time past," says a letter from Bruges, " we haveliad such fine weather that we could fancy it was spring. This magnificent weather is extremely favourable to the labours of agriculture, especially to the operation of sowing ; it also permits th e cont i nuat i on of the bricklayers' works which have been everywhere undertaken for the purpose of afford ing employment to the poor." A letter from Constantinople, in the'Universal German Ga- zette, says :—" It is in contemplation to send General Jochmus Pasha as Minister of Turkey to Brussels. The General, a na tive of Hamburgh, who has not been employed since the cam paign in Syria in 1840, is said to have offered his services for that post. M. de Behr, the Belgian Minister at Constantino ple, endeavours to promote this project, which might have advantageous results for Belgium. MANItEIM, Ocr. 28.—The Government official journal of this day publishes the decree of the Grand Duke convoking the Assembly of the Estates for the 21st of next month. FRANKFORT, Ocr. 29—A French banker of this city and se veral of the principal manufacturers of gold and silver articles of this city and Hanau have been the victims of scandalous frauds, perpetrated by English Jews, who resided for some time at Wiesbaden. These Jews had letters of credit for large sums on our bankers, and had often large sums in advance. This gained them confidence; and the bankers, when a ppli e d t o , answered that th e y were good. This enabled them to ob tain from the first gold and silver magazines the valuable articles enriched with jewels and diamond; for which they paid with bills of exchange, and absconded with their booty. A traveller of this city loses 30,000 florins, ethers much more, and the Jewish banker the bulk. The total amount is said to be 475,000 florins of which these Englishmen have cheated the confiding Germans. It is reported that they embarked at Marseilles. It must be confessed that these swindlers operated with large sums, and with great dexterity. THE FRONTIER OF BOSNIA AND TURKEY, OCFOBEn.— The latest accounts from Serajewa of the 13th inst., as well as the statement of eye-witnesses who have arrived from that place, give particulars of the cruel persecutions to which the Jews were exposed! there. A Turkish girl, having com mitted a theft in the shop of a Jew dealer, was turned out of doors; she fell purposely on the ground, and, screaming ter ribly, assured the Turks who had collected round her, that the Jew had ill-t rea t e d h er w i t h out any cause. The Turks immediately took their arms, and to the number of 2,000, breathing vengeance against the Jews, repaired to the resi dence of the Pasha, who had the weakness to leave them to avenge themselves. They proceeded accordingly to the Jewish quarter, which w as t o t a ll y p i llaged in a few.hours. It is easy to conceive the lamentations and the misery of the Jewish merchants. Immense quantities of goods of all kinds were carried off, and at length, when the Christian population began to be alarmed, and applied to the Pasha for assistance, he caused six of the principal Jews to be taken, as he alleged, for their safety, and to be conveyed no one knows whither. It .may indeed be expected that the plundered Jews will obtain indemnity at Constantinople, whither they have sent petitions to the Chief Rabbi. Meantime, however, they are reduced to beggary. The Greek Rajas at Serajewa are ex tremely kind to them, but the Consuls cannot interfere, as they are Turkish subjects.—Harnburgh Papers, Nov. 4. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussw, Nov. 8. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ...... Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent Ditto Threeper Cent .... Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ...... Ditto, ditto, 1840 •••... • • • • .. . ..... 106 Ditto, ditto, 1842 •• . ...... .. •• • • 1023 Ditto, 1844..• •••• • • • • ...... 997 ,. Ditto, 1836.. Ditto, 1838 • • 75 Ditto of the City, 1832 ........... ..... Ditto, 1843 •• • •••• • • • ••••••• • • • • • • 100% Bank of Belgium• • • • • • 777 —Brussels Papers. Nov. 6. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Nov. 4. kustrian 5 per Cents • • •• ••• • • • Bills. Money 114 Bank Shares ••• • • Anglo-Russian Loan •• .• • .Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 1033( 103 Ditto Ist series Inscription ... .••. • • • 104% Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 96 Ditto, in Certificate. • ...... ....... New 4 per Cent., Hope and Ce. -• 913 Ditto Stieglitz •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 90 1 % 90 Spanish New 5 per Cent........ ••• • • • 2034 201 Ditto 3 per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 30 29' Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent • . Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent ..• • • 5.9 Ditto 3 per Cent. • Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844 B5 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ..... 86 National Bank Shares.... THE ARMY. c 4 A RTISEMENT. LYME REGIS AND TAUNTON RAILWAY AND HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. We have looked, from the first, with a favourable eye upon this undertaking, about which there is an unassuming sound ness that is striking. The Direction is entirely formed of wealthy arid influential parties locally interested, who are about greatly to improve the harbour of Lyme Regis, already the best and most accessible in the western bay. We are in formed, upon unquestionable authority, that her Majesty's Lords of the Admiralty are so favourable to the project as to have written to the Committee to that effect, at the same time requesting an inspection of their plans, which will, of course, be immediately acceded to, as the plans, surveys, &c., are all in a sufficiently forward state for the next session of Parlia ment, and will be duly lodged before the 30th of Nov. The Committee have, however, come to the novel, wise, and honest determination of only taking the small deposit of 2s. per share at present, so that should they not, by any untoward circumstance, be able to go to Parliament in the ensuing ses sion, the remainder of the deposit, viz., 21. per share, will not be required for twelve calendar months. This judgment and forethought reflects the greatest credit upon the solicitors and managers of the Company. REGENT'S CANAL. Last evening a public meeting of the owners of property, and other persons interested in the Regent's Canal and op posed to its conversion into a railway, was held at the Angel Inn, Islington, for the purpose of receiving the report of a committee appointed on the Bth of October last. Mr. SAMUEL CHARLES WHITBREAD, having been called on to preside, ;said, on the first public announcement of the scheme for converting the canal into a railway, a meeting of the parties interested in the waterway was called at a few hours' notice, and it was the opinion of all present that the proprietors had taken a most unjust course, and were looking to what they should get for their own shares, not caring for their lessees: or the public, who had a right to the waterway. They were acting in direct opposition to their own Act of Parliament, which directed that they should make and main tain the water-way, and watch over the interests of their tenants. The SECRETARY then read a voluminous report, giving a history of the canal and.the cost of its construction, and the powers vested in its proprietors, and contending that the Canal Company had entered into contracts and agree ments to induce parties to expend money on its banks, quite incompatible with the notion of stopping it up or converting it into a railway. The Committee were of opinion that the proposed line would .be most injurious to all engaged in the coal trade, and were of opinion that if full compensation were to be given for the losses that would arise to traders, &c., the proposed railway would never be made, since the cost would be double that of making a railway on another and better site. The present goods traffic on the canal could not be conducted with a passenger traffic in addition, unless there were four lines of rails, for which the canal and tunnels are not wide enough. None of the provisional committee of the proposed railway were engaged in trade on the canal, and the Committee were of opinion that if the owners of pro perty and traders on the banks desired that it should con tinue an open public waterway, the canal would remain a canal for the use of their children's children. Mr. RIDGE moved that the report be received and adopted. Mr. LEA seconded it, and it was carried with but one dissentient. 96th Regiment. -2 companies, (head quarters) Launces ton ; 2 companies, New Zealand; 1 company, Adelaide ; company, Oatlands; 1 company, Campbell Town ; 2 com paaies, Tasman's Peninsula. 99th Regiment -4 companies, (head quarters) Sydney; company, Blackheath ; 1 company, Maitland ; 2 companies, New Zealand. Mr. ESDALLE said he had been induced to lay out a large capital on the canal, by the 67th section of the Act of Par liament, which set forth that they were to have " free liberty to navigate."—(Hear, hear.) He moved, " That this meet ing deem it highly necessary to continue to watch the pro ceedings of the Regent's Canal Company, and oppose that or any other project for stopping up the canal." ORDNANCE CORPS. Rifle Brigade--Rifle Brigade depot, Ist battalion, Beggar's Bush Barracks, Dublin. Captain A. S. Murray, has em barked at Southampton, per mail steam-vessel, for the Medi terranean, to join the Service Companies at C or f u . M a j or Robert Walpole is commanding the depot companies. Re cruiting, 1 sergeant and 8 rank and file. The draft of 1 sergeant and 30 rank and file, and 3 boys, embarked at Cork in the lowa for Corfu, on the Bth October. The Board of Ordnance have recommended that the House of Industry, in Strand-street, Limerick, hired as temporary barracks, and capable of accommodating 7 officers and 236 men, belonging to Mr. Watson, be purchased by Govern ment, and be converted into permanent barracks. A new military hospital is also ordered to be built at Limerick. HE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA IN SICILY. PALERMO, Ocr. 24.—The Kamschatka and Bessarabia steamers arrived on the 23d, at two o'clock in the afternoon. On board of the former of these vessels were the Emperor and Empress of Russia, 'the Grand Duchess Olga and Prince Albert of Prussia. The arrival of their Majesties so soon was quite unexpected by the authorities, who, if not caught napping, as has happened in another place on a similar occa sion, were, at all erents, not in attendance at the moment. When they did appear, the Emperor not only declined all the usual public honours paid to crowned heads, but even refused to admit the mighty men of Palermo into his pre sence. The Empress has also declined (but in more cour teous terms) the services of the Princess of Partama, who was appointed by the King of Naples to wait upon her Im perial Majesty as lady of honour; and the Emperor has also declined the attendance of the Duke of Serradifalio, one of his Neapolitan Majesty's aides-de-camp, appointed for that purpose. Great crowds assembled on the mole to witness the disem barkation of their Imperial Majesties. The party occupied no less than ten huge carriages ' and this ind e p en d ent l y of the numerous household which arrived some days ago, to prepare for the arrival of the Imperial Family. The Court occupy three splendid villas at Olivarra. Among the fol lowers of the Empress, some Tcherkelds, who are to be in attendance on the Empress during her stay here, attracted particular attention, from the strangeness and wildness of their appearance and costume. The Empress occupies the villa of the Princess Radali-Butera, and arrangements are now making for an apartment for the Emperor in the same villa. Prince Albert and the principal officers are at the villa of the Duke of Serradifalio, while the remainder of the suite occupies that of the Duke of Mon telerie. The authorities do all they can to make the residence of the Emperor and Empress in Sicily agreeable, and the town and neighbourhood will long benefit by their visit. The streets through which the Imperial party are likelyto pass have been new paved, the roads in the neighbourhood of the Imperial residence have been levelled and improved, and everything unseemly that could offend the organs of sight or smelling have been, as far as possibl e , remove d . ,Some of the atten tions of the authorities are pushed to an extreme, which has roused some feeling of annoyance among the people, as, for instance, the sentinels round the Imperial residence are dressed in the uniform and carry the colours of Russia, a degree of politeness which occasioned such indignation that apprehensions were entertained, at one time, of a row. NAPLES, OCT. 4.—The Emp eror an d Empress of Russia arrived at Palermo on the 23d of October. The telegraph having announced their disembarkation, the King of Naples, accompanied by the Count and Countess of Aquila and the Count of Trapant, embarked from Naples, on board the Tancredi steamer, to pay a visit to his Imperial guests. The Queen of Naples was unable to accompany hisllajesty, being on the eve of her confinement. The King of Naples, on his arrival, sent one of his aides-de-camp to ask when he could pay his respects to the Emperor in person, but the Emperor, instead of waiting for the visit, anticipated it, by going im mediately to the palace of the King, and the two sove reigns met on the staircase. The meeting was a very cordial one. It is said that the Emperor will not remain at Palermo for more than a month, and that on leaving it he w ill pay a v i s i t to the King of Naples in his capital, where he will remain for some days. In anticipation of this visit the King of Naples is already concentrating his troops, well knowing that nothing can aflbrd so much grati fication to the Imperial Czar as a military spectacle on a large scale. Fortunately for the comfort of both sovereigns, his Majesty of Naples will be able to make a very tolerable ap pearance, even in the eyes of the Autocrat of all the hussias. His army in the neighbourhood of Naples is very numerous, and for appearance and appointments can vie with almost any troops in Europe, our cwn not excepted. In a review, no troops make a better figure than these of Naples. They are said not toact with equal propriety on the field of battle; but, as a Frenchman said, they cannot be expected to excel in everything, and it is not their fault that their talent does not lie in lighting. 1 t At Palermo the Emperor and Empress have refused all kinds of public honours, and live in a very retired and in obtrusive manlier. The Emperor is to be seen daily in the streets, accompanied only b y a va l et de place, who has the honour of acting as his cicerone. Among the personages in the smite of the Emperor are the Count Nesselrode, Count Orloff, and the Baron de Mayendorff, the Russian Ambassador at Berlin. The Duke of Genoa and the Prince of Carignan have already arrived in Sicily, on a visit to their Imperial Majesties, and one of the Princes of Prussia is daily ex pected. It is also currently reported that the Duke of Bor deaux has expressed his intention of paying a visit to the Emperor. T 1 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. NAVAL RETIREMENT. The following aro the actual numbers of post-captains in the list, eligible for the retirement, who have sent in their names to the Admiralty as willing to accept the terms pro posed :-- COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the vicinity of the Castle for some time this morning. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness rode out in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving, followed by the Lady Portman, and the Honourable Misses Stanley and Dawson, in a landau and four. Lord Charles Wellesley and Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde were in attendance on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken for their early morning exercise. In the afternoon the Royal Family were all taken again in the grounds adjoining the Castle. The Bishop of Oxford, and Mr. George Edward and the Honourable Mrs. Anson, had the honour of joining the royal circle at dinner yesterday. The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe took her departure from the Castle to-day. There was no addition to the royal dinner party this even ing at the Castle. Of the first 100 on the list ... 46 Of the next 150 on the fist 76 Of the remainder on the list Total number Thus, it appears that 48 names are required to complete the 300, and the time for receiving the applications is limit( d to the end of this month. THE SURVEYOR'S 90• GUN Snip Aunow.—Extract of a letter from her Majesty's ship Albion, dated Oct. 27, 1845, latitude 47, longitude 10 west.—" Here we axe, having had four trials of sailing, and the Rattler having towed Superb first day, Rodney second day, Albion third day, and Canopus on the 25th, at the rate of 4 1 / knots in the wind's eye, per hour, and the rest of us chasing her—had she been an enemy's ship towed out of action, any good sailer would have taken her. At all events, we are always beaten. Rodney and Albion started with Superb on Friday; Superb boat us about six miles dead to windward, and Rodney about two miles; to-day we had a little shell practice, and during the time we were firing the senior officer demanded inclination; and Rodney was 7 degrees port to 9 starboard, ourselves 15 port to 16 starboard ; rather a wide difference, is there not. between the two ships? I must say that this ship rolls more and more every day. In the morning before (26th), at eight AM., the ship rolled many times very heavily, so much so, that it so happened that the lower deck ports were up, and heavy seas came in and floated everything in the after cock pit. It ran over the combings at least two feet deep. To remain till 3d of December, unless the Vanguard brings counter orders."— West of England Conservative. The Apollo troop-ship, Commander Radcliffe, arrived at Santa Cruz on the 12th of October, from Cork, with troops on board, bound to the Cape of Good Hope. A Cabinet Council was held esterday a ft ernoon at th e residence of Sir Robert Peel, in Whitehall-garelene. The Ministers present were—Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Iladdington, Earl of Ripon, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Right lion. Sidney Herbert. The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Ripon arrived in town yesterday morning. The Council sat four hours. • Summonses were issued to the Cabinet Ministers yesterday, to attend a meeting in the Exchequer Chamber, at West minster, on Wednesday, the 12th November, for the purpose of settling the roll of Sheriffs for the ensuing year. The President of the Board of Trade had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar. THE EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS BETWEEN THE RODNEY, ALBION, CANOPUS, AND SUPERB. We have much gratification in being enabled to lay be. fore the public the following detailed account of the latest trials between the above four line-of -battle ships and the Daring 12-gun brig, under the orders of Commodore Fair fax Moresby, C.B. They come to us from an officer of the squadron of distinguished character, and we feel as sured that when the Gallant Commodore's official report shall be published, the subjoined will be corroborated in every respect. FIRST TRIAL.—As soon as the squadron got outside the Plymouth Breakwater, on the 21st October, the Daring was ordered by the Commodore to look out ahead, and when she had proceeded a little distance from the line-of battle ships, a general signal was made to chase the Dar ing. This was at 12.55, the course was W. by S., and the wind was N., a nice steady breeze, and smooth water. At 1.10 the squadron had made all sail—whole topsails, topgailant sails, royals, and fore-topmast studding sails. At 1.18 the Rodney and Superb appeared to be going ahead of the Canopus, when the signal was made to them to " Look out ahead of Commodore." The Albion at this time was right astern under all sail, dropping. At two, P.M., the Canopus had gone ahead of the Albion 1,850 yards, of the Rodney 560 yards, and of the Daring 750 yards; but the Superb had come up with the Canopus 210 yards, the weather and wind the same. At three P.M., without change of wind and weather, the Superb had come up with the Canopus 1,000 yards, and the Albion bad come up with the Canopus 50 yards. The Canopus had gone ahead of the Rodney 120 yards, and the Daring 880 yards. At 4 P.M. the Canopus had gone ahead of the Rodney 140 yards, and of the Daring 100 yards; the Superb drawing up fast with the Canopus, and the Albion having neared the Canopus 102 yards, the wind and weather just the same. At 4.55 the signal was made by the Commodore to cease the trial, when the ships were in the following positioes : The Superb had beaten the Canopus 2,080 yards, and the Albion had beaten the Canopus 200 yards; the latter had gained on the Rodney, during the whole trial, 870 yards, and on the Daring 1,560 yards. The trial was a very good one, and there can be no doubt that every ship could have fought their lower-deck guns during the whole trial. SECOND TRIAL.—The next trial was on the 23d of Octo ber. At eight A.M., the Commodore made signal to chase strangers in view. All the ships with all their port stud ding sails set and royals; course W. by S., wind E.S.E,; force of wind 5 with a swell from S.E. ; wind on the port quarter. At 8.30 the squadron had made all sail, and at the time of starting the ships were in the following position :—the Albion distant from the Commodore's ship, the Canopus 1,524 yards, the Rodney 1,446 yards, the Superb, 1,675 yards, and the Daring 736 yards— all astern. At 9.35 the Superb had come up with the Canopus 295 vards ; the Canopus had increased her distance ahead of the Albion 716 yards, of the Rodney 334 yards, and of the Daring 554 yards ; wind and weather the same. At 10.35 the Canopus had gone ahead of the Albion 320 yards, and of the Daring 1,150 yards ; the Rodney had gained on the Canopus 70 yards, the Superb had come up 60 yards. At 10.40 the Superb carried away her foretopmast stud ding sail boom, which caused her to drop a little. At 10.55 the Canopus carried away hers also ; but, by the angles taken, she seemed to held her own with all but the Superb. At eleven the Albion carried away her maintop mast studdingsail halyards, but soon had the sail set again. At 11.35 the Canopus had gained on the Albion 1,140 yards, on the Rodney 70 yards, and on the Daring 1,570 yards. The Superb had also dropped 300 yards; the wind and weather much the same, with a little swell. Within this hour all the ships had taken in their lower studding-sails, except the Daring. At 12.35 the Canopus had gone ahead of the Albion 810 yards, of the Rodney 180 yards, and of the Daring 1,560 yards; the Superb had gained on the Canopus 550 yards; the wind had increased a little. At 135 wind and weather much the same, the Superb had come up with the Canopus 440 yards; but the latter had increased her distance from the Albion 1,410 yards, from the Rodney 60 yards, and from the Daring 840 yards. At 3.30 the Commodore made the signal to shorten 'sail, when the squadron were in the following positions:— The Albion astern of the Canopus 5,660 yards, the Rodney 734 yards, and the Superb 440 yards off. This day the fleet had a good seven hours' trial, during which time they ran 72 miles. Nothing could be fairer than this trial. The wind was steady in the port quarter during the whole period, and the ships could have fought their lower deck guns. the ports having been kept open during the run. The Superb was first, having beat the Canopus 1, 000 yards ; the Canopus was second, having beat the Rodney (third) 734 yards; and the Albion 5,660 yards. On two or three occasions, in light winds, the Rattler screw steam-sloop was ordered to tow the Albion, Rodney, and Superb, which sh e did i n ver y goo d style, taking them 4 knots, against a head swell and breeze. On the 25th of October, the Superb, Rodney, Albion, and Daring, had a trial of sailing on a wind, the Rattler towing the Canopus dead to windward, against a good breeze, three knots an hour. In about six hours the Superb beat the Rodney dead to windward, and the Rodney beat the Albion. The flaring, on this occasion, beat the large ships con siderably. Upon the whole, in the above few trials, the Superb may be considered first, the Canopus second, the Rodney third, and the Albion last. The Albion and the Superb rolled very much indeed; and it is the opi nion of every one that if the Superb had had her proper quantity of water and provisions on board shq - MAJORITY OF LORD VISCOUNT LASCELLES.—This nobleman completed his twenty-first year on Tuesday last, on which day a grand dinner was given at Harewood, the invitations to which were numerous. On Wednesday a ball was given to the tenants of the Earl of Harewood and others. The festivities will be continued until the end of the week. "—Doncaster Gazette. LIEUT. WAGMORN'S EXPRESS.—The Journal des Debtris has the following relative to the transit of the India mail via Trieste and Germany :—" The very rapid journey effected by Mr. Waghorn for the purpose of changing the route of the Indian mail, respects of th e hi g h est i mportance for France, and a the ll solicitude of the Government. Letters whi c h we have received is for in a e l rece ived from Trieste inform us that the Austrian Govern ment, which aims at securing the advantages which it wouldderive from the transit of the Indian mail via Trieste, encouraged and powerfully seconded this first attempt on the part of Mr. Waghorn. We repeat, then, that we attach the greatest importance to this trial of Mr. Waltham, and we deem it of a nature to merit the entire attention of the Government. The question which it gives rise to is of a primary Interest for the country, for it remains to be seen whether France will preserve the transit of the Indian mail, or whether she will suffer herself to be despoiled to the profit of Germany." The Dobai* insists upon the expediency of the Go vernment resorting to every possible means for forwarding the line of railways from the Mediterranean to the English Channel, by which means, it says, the transit from Alexandria to London, which at present occupies 290 hours, might be performed in 228 hours, even allowing eight days for the transit from Alexandria to Marseilles The Beforme notices the journey accomplished by Mr. Waghorn, from Alexandria to London, in nine days and seventeen hours, thus anticipating the Indian mail through Marseilles, and adds the following observations :—" This fact by no means astonishes us. It is the consequence of the bad organisation of our steam-boats, their inferior rate of sailing, to be attributed to their faulty con struction and the obstinacy of the Minister of Commerce and the Board of Health at Marseilles, which will net modify the system of quarantine. We have repeated to satiety, that if a change be not effected in our sanitary code, France will lose the conveyance of the Indian mails; the travellers who return from the East, and, shortly, the transit of merchandise. Already have t-evellen aban doned our packet-boats, terrified by the quarantine at Marseilles, and new the mails are about to escape us. Shall we wait until the trade of the East shalihave taken the road through Germany to repeal or modify our sanitary laws, the antiquated remains of an cient prejudices ? Such a want of care in our Government cannot be conceived, for the question refers, not to political principles, but to national interests. Does our Government wish to sacrifice them to Austria and to England ? The consequences of the obstinacy or the weakness of our Government are beginning already to affect our commerce with the East. In the year 1843 it amounted to 88,000,000, this year it has decreased to 8 0,000,000. It is the commencement of our commercial decadence." FIRE AT THE NORWOOD INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.— About two o'clock on Wednesday morning this establishment was thrown into the greatest consternation by the alarm of fire being given in different parts of the building. It appears that upon the members of the estublishment retiring to rest everything seemed perfectly safe, and about two o'clock several of the boys, who were in bed, awoke, and found themselves surrounded with smoke and almost suffocated. They immediately left their beds, and began to search for the cause of the annoyance, when they found it pro school. which was envel o p e d in n eed flem ed from the flames, and le that t ry inthe they we boys' efast -a pproaching the ceiling of the dormitory room, where the boys were sl eeping. The alarm was immediately given, every member of the establishment w as ca ll e d up, and every me ans employed to extricate the child ren f rom t h e i r beds, where many of them lay in a sta te of stup or. Life being con sidered safe, all hands were immediately "gated in allaying the flames and preventing their progress. For a considerable time it was confidently expected that the whole range of buildin g s w ou ld be burnt down ; but ow ing to the activity of Messrs. Aubin and Gibson, and the resident Dr. Monks, and other members of the establishment (the whole of whom were nearly na k ed), and a good supply of water being on the premises, they s ucceeded in about an hour's time in preventi n g the progress of the O re, and the extension of the flames was impossible, every part adjoining had received such an immersion. Fortunately there is not one life lost, nor any one seriously hurt. Several of the children received slight burns in passing from their rooms to the yards, but nothing of importance. It is not known how the fire originated; it commenced under the boys' gallery, which was made into a kind of sto re - room for their clothes, &c. Had it n o t been so providentially discovered, the loss nearly 200 boys. Th ese, had net the fire of life must have been immense, for above th e room where the fire commenced there sleep be n discovered insured, whe was , e damagemust nearlyis all have perished. Th e buildings are estimated at between 60/. and 100' iatndth e dispute between the Marquis del Carnetto and the council of the city of Naples has not yet terminated. Not withstanding the earnest request of the King, the Duke de Bagnoli, the syndic of Naples, has refused to withdraw his resignation, which he insists on being accepted. THE BANK AND THE CURRENCY.—Yesterday afternoon the Bank of England advanced the rate of Interest on bills at ninety.sve days, discounted by them, to Three.and.a-half per cent. This is a novel way of helping the public out of the effects of the panic—just as if, when a man were dro yning, and had succeeded in grasping a plank, some kind person were to push him back into the whirl of waters, and let him quietly sink to the bottom. The Bank of Ireland, we perceive, is playing the same game. What the object can be, it is not very difficult to imagine. Both, nominally national establishment; are doing the most un. friendly thing in their power—viz., tightening the Money Market. The evil effects of this will be felt for many a long day. We hope that 'Government and these bank, have not had an under standing on this subject. It is believed that it is the result of an arrangement with Whitehall. It would be folly to shut our eyes to the fact that such a movement as this is calculated, if not in tended, to renew the panic which had almost subsided. It must throw a shade upon everything, and the effects will be palpable, oven this day, in the heavy state of the funds. We fear before this day week some large defaulters will be declared.—. Railway Express. [ADVERTISEMENT.]-ANASPASI A IN THE TRRAT WENT or Corisummon.—The Dispensary for the Treatment of Consumption, Asthma, and other Affections of the Chest (by Anas pasia), is removed from 113, Strand, to 14, Leicester-place. Dr. Cronin, physician to the Institution, has removed from 6, Craven street, Strand, to 14, Leicester-place, Leicester-square. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. - BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY Everarro.— A fatal accident occurred this morning at Stoke Prior, near Bromagrove. It appears that the mail train left Birmingham at its usual hour, one o'clock A.M., and upon its arrival near Stoke, the driver observed a man in a white frock crossing the line, but so near that it was impossible to stop the train and prevent the fatal consequences which ensued. The man was thrown down, and upon examining the line, the deceased was found to be most shockingly mutilated. His head was completely destroyed, and his limbs found scattered in all directions. It is difficult to account for the reasons which induced the deceased (a journeyman brick maker) to cross the line at such an early hour of the morning. It is supposed that he must have been intoxicated, as there was no crossing of the line where the aocidel.t occurred, and even on his way home he would have had no right to be in the place where rst seen as the train came up. The inquest is to be held to.. morrow morning, but there does not appear to be the slighest blame attached to the men in charge of the engine. DEATH CAUSED DT A FISH-BONE.—On Thursday, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the King's Arms, Frede rick-street, Regent's-park, on the body of Mary Ann Powell, aged fifty. The deceased, who was a very corpulent woman, and re sided with her family at No. 19, Fitzroy-place, New-road, was, on the morning of Wednesday last, sitting at breakfast, when a bone of a fish sticking in her throat brought on a violent fit of coughing, which terminated in blood flowing copiously from her nostrils and mouth. A surgeon was cent for, who pronounced her to have broker: a blood-vessel, and being unable to stay the bleed ing, deceased sunk under it, and in half an hour died perfectly sen sible, and only understood by those around her to articulate, " Pray for me."--Verdict, " Natural Death from the bursting of a blood-vessel." BIRTH ExTRAORDINART. — We last week stated that the wife of John Scully, a labouring man, had presented him with three children at once. As this large addition to his family threatened to encroach considerably on his limited means, Scully cast his eyes about as to how he should best replenish his purse; and it appearing that his wife was entitled to a sovereign from a benefit club each confinement, he made a claim on the stewards for three sovereigns —one for each baby. The stewards objected, contending, that though there were three children, yet it was but one confinement; and the case came before the magistrates, who decided against Scully. To make him, however, some amends far his disappointment, his worship, the Maycr, generously presented him with a sovereign.---Bristol Gazette. FIE SlOrN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1 CAVALRY. First Royal Dragoons—Dundalk.—Half a troop is ordered to march from Belturbet for Enniskillen, there to occupy the barracks while the cavalry stables are undergoing repairs. Six rank and file are under orders to march from Belturbet for Killishandra, there to remain during the repairs of the cavalry stables. Lieut.-Colonel Marten, K.H., is on leave of absence to 30th November. Major Stephens is commanding. Cornet Stephens has joined head quarters on appointment, on the Ist of November. INFANTRY. sth (Northumberland) Fusileers.—Enniskillen.—The De tachment at Ballyshannon, consisting of Brevet-Major APGregor, Ist Lieutenant Scroggs, 3 sergeants, 1 drummer, and 45 rank and file, is ordered to be reinforced to a company. 6th Royal Regiment.—Mullingar.—A recruiting party is on march to Dublin to embark for Liverpool, en route to Leeds, there to be stationed. 7th Royal Fusileers.—Depot, Naas.—Captain Cochrane arrived in Dublin from head-quarters on 30th Oct., there to embark per steam-vessel for Cork, to take the command of the draft at Spike Island, Cork harbour, consisting of Lieut. Porter, 1 sergeant, 40 rank and file, and 2 boys, under orders to join their service companies in the West Indies. 30th (Cambridge) Regiment.—(Castlebar.—Twe recruit ing parties are ordered to march from head-quarters for Beggar's Bush recruiting depot, Dublin, there to embark per steam-vessel for Bristol, to be stationed at Bristol and Exeter. A recruiting party is ordered to proceed en route from Castle bar, for Dublin, there to embark per steam-vessel for Glas gow, en route to Aberdeen, there to be stationed. 34th (Cumberland) Regiment. The service companies embarked at the Cove of Cork, on the 28th of October, for conveyance to Corfu, on board of the Java freight ship, 1,175 tons, with the following officers and men, &c. :—.Lieutenant- Colonel Airey, commanding; Major Brown; Captains Matthews, Kelly, Goodenough, Lang, Simpson, and Gwilt ; Lieutenants Harvey, Packs, Maxwell, Oxley, Talbot, Sitwell, and Burrill ; Ensigns Sir George Henry Scott Douglas, Bart., Best, Warry, and Jordan; Paymaster Roche; Quarter master Williamson ; Surgeon Bain, M.D. ; Assistant Sur geon Fraser, M.D., 1 regimental sergeant-major, 30 sergeants, 11 drummers, 24 corporals, 576 privates, 4 officers' wives, 2 female servants, 6 officers children, 86 soldiers' wives, and. 46 children. Lieutenant T. A. M. Brisbane is on leave of ab sence to the 31st March next, at Largo, Brisbane-house, the seat of General Sir Thomas Macdougall Brisbane, G.C.8., F.C.H., Colonel of the Regiment. Honorary distinctions, " Albuhera" " Vittoria," " Pyrenees," " Niville Nive," " Orthis," "Peninsula." Major H. Deedea is commanding the depot companies at Fermoy. 40th Regiment —We are informed that her Majesty's 40th regiment is to embark for England at the end of the present month, on board the Poictiers, Seringapatam, and Scindian. The regiment has acquired an excellent character whilst on service in India. The garrison of Fort William will thus be left without any European corps for a time ; but it is expected that the 39th, now at Dinapore, will do duty here. The head-quarters of the 40th will be on board the Seringapatam. The men will be allowed to volunteer for any of her Majesty's regiments in Bengal. The Governor-General gave a dinner on the 19th to the officers of this regiment, on the occasion of their departure from Calcutta.—Bombay Times, Oct. Ist. 79th Highlanders.—The Diadem, (398 tons) frei g ht- s hi p, will sail f rom D eptford, for the ove of Cork, on the 3d Nov. to recei ve on b oar d drafts of the 72d and 79th High landers for conveyance to Gibraltar, and 88th Connaught Rangers for Malta. 88th Connaught Rangers. —Depot, Boy - le.—Ensign Gore has arrived in Dublin from leave of absence, en route to Cork, to join the draft under orders for embarkation for Malta. This regiment is about to sail in the Diadem, 398 tons, for Malta. DISTRIBUTION OF THE ARMY IN OUR AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. 51st Regiment. -5 companies, (head quarters,) Hobart Town ; 4 companies, Tasman's Peninsula. 58th Regiment.-3 companies, (head quarters) B a y of Islands ; 3 comp an i es , New Zealand ; 2 companies, New foundland. COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS OF CANADA. (From the Toronto Globe.) The fears which were recently entertained for the col , mercial and monetary condition of the province are Kapp, , removed, and there is every prospect of a brisk fall and wi • ter trade. The first cause of this favourable state of thin is the abundant harvest, with which a beniticent Providen has blest the labours of the husbandman. The advance the price of wheat is also a large element in this posperit, It is rarely that the cultivator of the soil has both a larg quantity and an increased price, for when the quantity large the price generally falls, and rises with a short prodw, The advance on the price has been occasioned by the deft. , ency of the crop in Britain, but it of course extends to hop , sales, as well as exports, and renders this a very beneficial ye 0 to thefarmer. The rise in the price to the domestic consum , although very valuable and important to the firmer, is a ' so great as to injure seriously the paying consumers; all t , industrial classes will share in the g ain b y the additioi , sums of money which the farmers will be enabled to spe, . Annuitants and others, not engaged in business, will p , their part of the advance without any equivalent. As far .0 the home consumption extends, there will be merely an e - change from one clas s o f th e commun ity t o another, with , increase in the amo un t o f th e c i rcu l a ti ng medium i but t grain exported will bring to Canada a clear addition to 1 , capital of the whole extra produce and extra price upon t I quantity shipped. We do not exaggerate when 'lye estims this at 200,0001., a most important addition to a poor count. like Canada. This will aid theconsumers to pay the impo : from the mother country with ease and promptitude. f ' advance of about Is. currency a bushel on wheat, beyo . some years past, was required to give a stimulus to the ern- i gies of the C ana di an f armer, to extend his cultivation 0 other articles, which the British Market will take ofl, s . ii• as flax and hemp, f or w hi c h B r i tain pays several millio, 0 sterling annually to foreign countries, and which she woe readily take from Canada. We know from good authorit 1 that a farmer in the home district this year cleared 251. p, , acre by those articles, and that he intends to have 100 acres sown with them for the ensuingyear. We regard the rise on wheat as more beneficial than if i I had been very great, for in that case it would have checkee. ' the prosperity of the manufacturing districts of England, and have diminished the consumption of timber and ashes, and other articles exported by Canada, It would, besides, have affected the money-market there, by draining the specie to the European continent in payment of grain, and have so alarmed the capitalists, that the railroads contem plated in Canada must have been delayed to some future day. The risk, we trust, of all these untoward events has passed away. The British crops are not so deficient as to require very large supplies, but the price is such that every' bushel of wheat that Canada can spare will be sent to the mother country. The railroads of Great Britain are reach ing a magnitude that fills the mind with astonishment. A hundred and fifty millions of capital are embarked, or about' to be embarked on them, and twelve millions stifling muse be paid for railway gavelling, in order to cover the interest and expenses. The income, we believe, of those finished ia actually yielding about half that sum, and there are no ap-0 pearances of a check, although the whole annual sum is equal to about one-fourth of the Government taxes; and this is but one branch of the expense of travelling. The vast sums required for these undertakings, and the many millions of stock held and to be paid by British capitalists for French railroads would have placed the country in the utmost jeopardy, if in allition it had been necessary to make great remittances for grain. But all fears for the next twelve months are now over. The Bank of England still holds her 15,000,000 or 16,000,00() of specie, the revenue is in an improving state, and the world ' is astonished with the exhibition of a nation carrying on her shoulders a load of debt which would crush all the civilised world besides. Canada is receiving her share of this pro perity, through the adva n t ages o f h er preference in export, ing grain. When the million and a half of expenditure on public works comes to an end, which will be next year, we' shall have the beginning of the railroad expenditure, which will more than compensate for the loss. Nothing is so much, wanted in addition as a company or companies who wilt lower the fare of the steam-boats and take off the tolls, which, in point of fact is placed on our magnificent lakes by thcl present odious monopolies. THE PUNJAUB. 45. would be as bad as she was on the former trials. As it is, ehe is now in yacht-trim ; but what is the use of a ship that cannot sail with all her provisions on board? That old Frenchman, the Canopus, seems to combine all the qualities of a thorough good ship—fit to chase or to run away; to fight, or to blockade. —Herald. TIIE EXPERIMENTAL BRIGS. (From the Plymouth Times.) It will be withi n th e recollection of our readers that dur ing the time the late squadron of brigs were under trial, and before any official report had become public, the partisans of the Surveyor's department of the navy were constantly endeavouring to mislead the public mind relative to the merits and qualities of their own vessel, the Flying Fish, which they stated to be the most complete and perfect of the whole; and, not content with this, they endeavoured to strengthen their statements] by most unhandsome misre presentations of the other brigs, particularly L'Espiegle and Daring. The fcrmer was made, more especially, an object of official jealousy and vituperation, solely from the circumstance of her having been built and constructed by three gentlemen of the late school of Naval Architecture, whom tiny described " as being of little or no use"--" as sauntering about the dockyards and picking their teeth with chips." All this was, of course, only a continuation of the policy pursued by th e l a t e Fi rst Lord of the Admiralty, who took so active a part in ruining the prospects of these gentle men —certainly the best educated and most talented men in the dockyard service. He stated, as is well known, in his place in Parliament, as an excuse for keeping them in subordinate situations, they had "failed in the science they professed;" but did not explain how. At last, however, this shallow policy of sacrificing the interests of science upon the altar of a political party, merely to uphold the views and in terests of a few individuals, became so very apparent that the present Board of Admiralty deemed it expedient to em ploy these much-abused gentlemen, for the first time, in the construction and building of ships for the public service, by which it would be seen whether they were fairly open to the mean misrepresentations of those whose very existence de pended on keeping them back in the service, or not. Now, it proved that, so far from their being incompetent to the very highest duties which could be required of them as naval constructors, scientifically educated by the Government, that they sent in very beautiful and perfect designs for a line-of battle ship, a frigate, and a brig, accompanied by a most complete and important report on the general state of our national naval architecture, and which, we are assured, on the best authority, gave the greatest satisfaction to the Ad miralty. The brig, as is well known, when constructed, al though the first vessel ever built by these gentlemen, came very nearly within the line of flotation given by calculation, and differed less from the construction drawing, than any of the other vessels ; whereas the Flying Fish, the brig pro posed by Le Surveyor of the Navy, and constructed in his department, differed so much from the intended line of flota tion, as shown in the construction drawing, that if all her ordnance stores, including guns and all her provisions in casks, together with her anchors, had been sent on shore, she would not then have swam upon the lines intended. So much for the comparative merits of the constructors of these two vessels, and so much for the alleged failure in the science professed. Come we now to the reports of the trials of these vessels as men-of•war. The official reports upon these trials, al though called for in the House of Commons, have been de layed and kept back from time to time, in certainly a most extraordinary and suspicious way. At length, however, those who so withheld them have been literally compelled to 'yield them up; and it will be most gratifying to those who endeavour to mai n t a i n t h e necessity of scientific educa tionin the public service, to find that they fully bear out the enlightened and patriotic principles which they so frequently advocate. The first of these reports which claims attention is that of Commodore Corry, who states, that "on a wind," in mode rate weather, there is very little difference between the Flying Fish and Espiegle ; th a t i n a h ea d Bea, the Daring is the superior vessel ;" whilst in a following sea," there was little difference b e t ween th e th ree. " I n the thirteenth trial, L'Espiegle "had a decided advantage over the Mutine and rest of the squadron." In fact, any one who will peruse Commodore Corry's very clear, well-arranged, and valuable report, will see that, to say the least possible in favour of this, the first vessel ever constructed by the gentlemen of the School of Naval Architecture, she was in no wise inferior in sailing qualities to the Flying Fish, the latest production of the Surveyor's department of the navy, after fifteen years' empirical experience at shipbuilding at the public expense. And it will be apparent to every one that in this same report it is proved that the Flying Fish was very frequently beaten by the other brigs —not only by L'Espiegle, but by the Waterwitch and Mutine. In the ninth and tenth trials the Flying Fish was third. Upon the whole, Commodore Corry awards superior sailing qualities to the Daring. But in reference to other dualities, viz., capability of firing guns, &c., lie remarks, " last al luding to the inclination, I must state that I could not help remarking the extreme stiffness of L'Espiegle when com pared with the other vessels, which must give her a great advantage when firing her guns." Now, when it is consi dered that this brig carries her ports nearly a foot higher out of the water than the Flying Fisb, and, by Captain Thomp son's report, she left Plymouth Sound with full five months' provisions under hatches, whilst the Flying Fish could only stow, in a similar way, :fourteen weeks', can any one doubt of the superiority of this vessel over the Flying Fish as a British man-of-war? Even the report of Commander Harris, of the Surveyor's ow n vesse l, th e Fl y i ng Fish, is favourable, and highly honourabl e t o L'E sp ie g l e, admitting, in fact, that each might claim success upon four trials to windward out of seven ; whilst in eight subsequent trials Commander Thomp son states that L'Espiegle beat the Flying Fish five times, and Daring three times. Yet, notwithstanding these striking facts, the organ of the Surveyor's-office, which seems to keep no terms with either consistency or truth, has the impudence to tell the public that these returns to the House of Commons prove the great supe riority of the Flying Fish over all the ether brigs, as they have repeatedly maintained. Verily, none are so blind as those who won't see. If Captain Corry's report goes for anything, it goes to show directly that the constructors of L'Espiegle have been most unjustly dealt with, both by Lord Minto and the late Board of Admiralty, and tyrannically kept down to subordinate situations in the dockyards against every principle of honourable deal ing. If the Admiralty will only look a little forward there will appear a most melancholy prospect of obtaining in a few years, properly qualified persons for superintending the work of the dockyard ; and from whom can be selected surveyors of the navy and other officers in the higher department of the service. In fact, they have only the wreck of the School of Naval Architecture to depend on. Some of them may be certainly found eminently quali fied as practical and theoretical shipbuilders, extremely well versed in the routine of the dockyard, and who are beside sound mathematicians; but even those are getting far advanced in life, and unless some grand step be taken to train up and educate fitting persons in the science of naval architecture for the Go vernment service, why, as a matter of course, that service must either become degraded in its class of shipwright officers, or be left at the mercy of any successful private shipbuilder or amateur, who, through the patronage of the State, can seize upon the office of the Surveyor of the Navy. The Reform Admiralty have made a pretty mess of it, they "and their apron men." They have certainly left the Go vernment ship-building in a far worse state than they found it; with such a man as Sir Byam Martin, Comptroller of the Navy, and such men as Sir Robert Seppings, Sir William Rule, Sir Henry Peake, and others, there was at least some guarantee that the public affairs could not be misconducted by underlings and managing men, whilst, at the same time, there was some little regard shown to the progress of science in the establishment of the School of Naval Architecture. We have, in this respect, to use a homely proverb, got out of the frying-pan into the fire. It was remarked by an old stage coachman, in regard to railways, that if you are thrown off a coach into a ditch "there you are. But if you are smashed in a railway carriage where are ye?" /sow where we are in the naval architecture of the Government by this smash of the reform government in their royal road to learning, we believe it would puzzle any to tell—such a mass of contradicti ons was never before heard of in any public establishment. With respect to the official reports of the brigs, we earnestly recommend them to the serious attention of naval men, as being quite conclusive to the principles for which we are contending, and as being a complete con tradiction to the numerous attempts of hired writers to mis lead the country upon all the important questions of its government shipbuilding and the melancholy state of its dockyard affairs. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. Last night the monthly meeting of the club was held at the British Coffee-house, W. Harrison, Esq., the Commodore, presiding, faced by Lord A. Paget, the Vice-Commodore, and supported by Lord W. Lennox, and about eighty influential gentlemen of the club. Mr. REYNEE.L brought forward his long-delayed motion for the establishing a new club-house, or removing from their present quarters, and after conside ra bl e di scuss i on the motion was unanimously carried, and a committee of thirteen gen tlemen appointed to inquire as to the best mode of carrying out the same, and to report thereon. Among the gentlemen appointed were the Commodore, Vice-Commodore, Lords W. Lennox and Seaham ; the first meeting to take place on Thursday-, the 20th inst., at Cuttriss's Piazza Coffee-house. The great confusion at present existing from the mode of taking the ballot was, on the motion of Mr. GREENWOOD, altered to taking the names collectively, or by balloting singly if one black were found in five It was also decided, upon a motion of Mr. BUCKNALL, that the Society should in future receive 1/. for every yacht sold after being placed on its list. The remaining business having been disposed of, thanks were awarded to the Commodore, &c., and the proceedings terminated. SIR ROBERT PEEL:—We are exceedingly happy to state that the answer to inquiries in Whitehall-gardens yesterday was, that Sir Robert had nearly recovered from his recent attack of the gout, and was in excellent health. THE COURT.-In the event of a continuance of the present fine autumnal weather, her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the infant Royal Family, are expected to proceed to Osborne House about the 20th or 21st inst., where the Court will probably remain for about a fortnight or three weeks. MTSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE lOF LADY ADELA VILLIERS.—BRIGIITON, Nov. 6 . —Considerable excitement has been caused in this t own b y the sudden and mysterious disappear anceof of Lady Adel a C or i sanda Maria Villiers, y oungest daughte r oungest the Earl of Jersey, who. has been missing since yesterday tLodge, afternoon. His Lordship and f am il y are at present residing at Upper Rock-sprd ens. I t appears tkat at f i ve o c afternoon her Ladyship re ti re d to h er roo m, with the tention of dressing for dinner, but as she i to ai e d b e did not make yesterday avowed akeher pearance at table, inquirie s were made, and she was not eer t found in the house. O n f ur ther investigation t was ascertained l od lodge-gate, ea,n and turned uarneddown quarter. pastt a t hetfirio o' cl o ck , a ys Ladyship passedtw it h o sm all throughhond bundl e theio he r St. James's-street ; but s nothingsince a further hrttheerraciolwualdy shtaetiolena,rbnuedt no o f p h e e r r . . Inquiries have been mad son employed about it remembers any person answering her Lady ship's description going by either of th e tra i ns which left last night after five o'clock. Every means have been resorted to to trace the fugitive, but hitherto without the slightest success. Intelli genet of the distressing occurrence was forwarded to the Countess of j,,, e y, who was on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, and the Countess returned to East Lodge early this morning. Lady Adela is only 17 years of age. MAKING THE BEST OF IT.—Not long ego the minister of a dissent ers ' meeting-house, near this town, failed to make his appearance at the hour :appointed for the commencement of the service. The congregation waited patiently fer some time, but still he came not ; and anxiously they waited on, expecting each moment that he would be seen ascending the pulpit, but still they waited in vaM. They, however, remained quietly in their places, and scarcely a whisper broke the silence of the house of worship. At length a highly respectable gentlemen of this town, seeing his son in the lower part of the chapel, and no doubt think. ieg it time to commence proceedings, called out " Tom I" Tom responded, " Yes, father." " Hadn't we better sing a hymn, Tom ?" " Yes, father, I think so," responded Tom. Accord ingly a hymn was given out and sung. Still the minister did not appear, and the service came again to a dead standstill. The old gentleman above alluded to, however, came again to the rescue. Calling again to a relative, he said, " Hadn't some one better read a sermon 1" " 1 think so," was the reply, • .and forthwith the re. spondent, a sharebroker of this town, went into the vestry, found a sermon, ascended the pulpit, and read the discourse with good emphasis /tad diicretion..—Lircrpoel Albion. (From the Allgemeine Zeitung.) Sir Henry Hardinge's government of India has been hitherto remarkable for its moral policy, its avoidance of all, military parade, its serious devotion to the internal interests of the country, and the civilisation of the natives—a line of policy which offers a sufficiently striking contrast to the warlike achievements of his predecessor. Nay, although one of the best and bravest soldiers of the Peninsular war, it is said that he has not, since his landing in India, held, as yet, even one review of the troops, and so concealed his military energies, like his policy, beneath his zeal for schools and colleges, no less than b enea th th e s i mp li c i ty of a very retired pri va t e life. Meanwhile, however, the moment is approaching when the Indian mails will bring us intelligence of the most im portant movements. Opportunity, and means and ways, for British intervention in the affairs of the Punjaub may now I be more nearly destined and predicted; and in consequence of the combination of an intelligent policy, supported by an army sufficiently strong to command respect, the kingdom of Lahore is being gradually encircled on all sides by troops. The events which, after the death of Runjeet Singh, rapidly followed one another in this kingdom —the fearful crimes which desolated the palace of Lahore—the lawlessness which allured the army to frequent revolts—and the misery which these revolutions heaped upon the people —are already suffi ciently known in Europe. There is no present probability that any one of the branches of the family of Runjeet, or the contenders for the dominion of the State, will be able, by means of their own resources, to regain a secure sovereignty over this disrup tured land. During the last three years England observed the strictest neutrality, and the Council of Calcutta did not trouble itself to know who sat on the throne, so long as the nominal Sovereign possessed sufficient strength to keep the army within bounds and to govern the country. The result, however, of this moderation was an uninterrupted succession of violent revolutions and continued blood-sheddings, whilst chance or the will of th e army ra i sed some one chieftain to a power which was ruinous to all who possessed it. It has thence been confirmed by experience that the authority and even the lives of the Princes of Lahore are endangered, and it is probably under these circumstances that the assistance of the British Government has been applied for, and the country consented to sacrifice a portion of its former inde pendence, so that once more will a kingly house be incorpo rated into the list of the subsidiary States of the Indian em pire. Conformably with the conditions of such a treaty, these Princes will retain their exalted rank together with the civil administration of the country, but the military go vernment will be transferred to English officers. In other words, this sort of intermediation is desired by the Princes themselves, and will be very advantageous to their subjects, as it ensures to the country a peaceful government, although it will encounter the most strenuous opposition on the part of the Sikh army. Notwithstanding all the political con vulsions which Lahore has had to endure, the army of Run jeet Singh has sot lost much of its strength. It is still ap parently the finest army ever possessed by a native Asiatic Prince, and it will remain united and strong as well against foreign influence as for the defence of its own existence. The cavalry, and especially the artillery, are magtificent, so that it will be impossible to overthrow these troops without one of the most sanguinary battles ever recorded in the annals gf Indian history. On the other hand, however, the British army, which has long been stationed in the north-western provinces, has been selected and equipped with the moat ex traordinary care for the exigencies of this momentous affair. The Sikh infantry is perfectly equal to any body of foot soldiery in the world, and the army consists in a far greater proportion than has hitherto been customary of European cavalry—l believe not less than five regiments —a species of force in which the preponderance of English strength and in trepidity in Asiatic warfare has been everywhere very powerfully felt. Sir Henry Hardinge is preparing slowly to advance to wards the north, and as a rup t ure w i th the Sikh army seems now inevitable, we look with the most lively interest to wards the further progress of events which ought to crown this long interval of expectation with sudden and successful activity. A WHALE IN BELFAST LOFGH.—On the morning. of Wednesday last th e serv i ces of the Coast-guard, stationed r Cultra Point, were called into active requisition by the appearance of—not a smuggler, but something " very like a whale," plough ing the waters a few hundred yards from the pier. " A whale: a whale I" was the cry. The alarm spread far and wide, and, ere long, almost the entire population of the village were gathered on the beach, anxious to catch a sight of the aquatic moister who had voyaged so far from his ocean home. 'Without loss of time a boat was manned by four or five of the Coast-guard men, armed with harpoon, eintlass, carbine, and hatchet, resolved to make the stranger pay dearly for his visit. Whether the fish had been tempted by curiosity or in quest of prey so far as the Lough, can only be guessed at. There, however, he was, his back rising dim and huge above the billows, and furrowing in his way the liquid ele ment in sport or fury. After a good deal of manwuvering, the men succeeded in bringing their boat alongside the enemy, At' then commenced their assault upon him without mercy. The fish, accustomed to " do as he liked with his own," namely, the whole of the inferior finny tribes, was, no doubt, surprised to be thus assailed in what he would consider his own dominion, though an extreme, and, till then, unvisited part of it, and, after a little show of opposition, he attempt e d t o ma k e o ff, b u t his endeavour s w ere fruitless. After receiving two or three shots, and a good many strokes with the harpoon, a grappling-iron was thrown ever him, and the boats were rowed shorewards amid the huzzas of the spectators, with the poor whale vanquished and weltering in his blood, which dyed the waters, and soon the retreating tide left him " high and dry" upon the beach. The fish thus captured proved to be a whale of the bottle-nosed species, and the money its sale will repay the prowess of its captors, as it is computed y ted b that it will yield at least 200 gallons of oil. It exhi bited great tenacity of life, having survived six hours after being brought to land, though cut and hacked in an extreme degree, In length it measures 22 feet, and its girth is nearly 12 feet, the breadth of the tail being 5 feet. It is of a light lead colour, and, to use a cattle dealer's phrase, it seems in capital condition ztdphaerFoat t h lai R e : other Erl yap AT attraction o e ni s t On Wednesday and yesterday crowds of persons flocked from s s toi : e rE e l . I y e o i f t Ta u l s i h e II much the e o fir n r.e w nhs which the Ecg to great. —Bann e r consisting s e rarity of the fish, at least on our shores, as in its dimensions, as there C , i t u ai o r l E w t e r , n a LC ; Ao a mT n at broke out on Wednesday night upon the premises of Mr. Barnes, Pentonville-hill, continued to burn for several hours; and it was not until nearly two o'clock yesterday morning that the fire men had succeeded in getting the flames extinguished. In a great measure may be attributed the rapid progress of the conflagration to the fact of there not being a sufficiency of water to supply the whole of the engines. This may appear rather surprising, when it is stated that the reservoir of the New River Company's works is situate within a few hundred yards of the spot. Had not the fire men exerted themselves to the utmost, the work of destruction must have been far more serious than it has been. The following is a copy of Mr. Superintendent Braidwood's official report of the extent of damage done :—" 15, Lower Queen's-row, Pentonville;—Mr. J. Barnes, builder; the workshops, &c., with their contents, nearly consumed. The cause of fire unknown. Insured In the Sun Fire-office for stock in trade and premises. 15, Lower elleTtl'.. row—Mr.lposeph Barnes;: dwellitig.house, the most part destroyed. The furniture and other contents nearly consumed. Uninsured. 14, Lower Queen's-row.—Mr. Salter, confectioner; building and contents damaged by fire, water, and hasty removal; insurance unknown. 13, Lower Q ueen ' a . row. _M rs . Barnes, sta t i oner ; furniture much injured by wa t er and removal; u ninsured. 12 , Lower Queen Lrow.—Mr. J. Mason, music.seller ; contents of stock in trade and furniture greatly damaged by removal; insu rance unknown. 10, Lower Queen's -row.—Mr. Petty, hair dresser and perfumer ; building considerably damaged by fire ; the stock and furniture extensively injured ; insured in the Phoenix fire.office. 20, Penton -place.—Mr. Barnes, fun.; furniture da maged by water, &c. l, NVestern.place.—Mr. H o d g k ins; roof of the house damaged. The engines that att en d ed were, two be. longing to the parish, seven of the London fire establishment, and two belonging to the West of England and County offices." P.ROVISIONS IN GLASGOW. —The retail provision markets are very high; the best oatmeal, which lately sold at Is. 10d. to 2s. per stone, is now retailed Is. 10d., being a rise of 10d. per stone In about a higher': ' in price in this city than in other towns in , r is 4d. per stone cheaper than in Edinburgh. from 3d, to 4d. per 'tom—Glasgow Cons,' L, which was lately sold at d at 2e. Bd. to 2e. 10d., month. Bread is higher in Scotland, while flour is Potatofe are retailed at itittitig444, ,‘ it.--Tl3- -7- , -_,) _