The Sun. — London, England, 1850-11-21 00:00:00

All persons begin to find that " money is very scarce." The failure first of the small, but prudent and indus trious, shopkeeper follows, then that of the great and powerful merchant. Panic, confusion, and ruin now pervade the country, till the Chancellor of the Ex chequer sits down and writes a letter authorizing the Bank to increase the circulation of the country by an issue of notes, and the panic is at an end. The panic is at an end, but years must elapse before the ruined families, the demoralised operatives, the merchant re duced in the scale of society, and the farmer driven from house and home, can be placed in their former position.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Now all this has been and will be again the case. The manufac turers are now well off, but let gold be withdrawn from the Bank, and its issues contracted, and ruin must again overtake them. I do not know that the effects of a contraction of the currency can be ex.. plained in a more practical and impressive manner than was done by Mr. Cobden, before the Parlia mentary Committee on banks of issue, in 1840. This Was his statement " I could adduce a fict derived from my own expe rience that would illustrate the heavy losses to which manufacturers were empased in their operations by these fluctuations (in 1837) in the value of tueney. "lam a calico printer; I purchase the cloth, which is my raw material, in the market; awl have usually in warehouse three or four months' supply of material. I Must necessarily proceed in my operations, whatever change there may be—whether a rise or a fall in the market. I employ 600 hands, and those hands must be employed. I have fixed machinery and capital, which must also be kept going; and therefore, whatever the prospect of a rise or fall in prices may be, lam con stantly obliged to be purchasing the material, and con tracting for the material on which I operate. In 1837 I lost by my stock in hand 20,0001., as compared with the stock-taking in 1835, 1836, and 1838; the average of those three years, when compared with 1837, shows that I lost 20,000/. by my business in 1837, and what I wish to add is, that the whole of this loss arose from the de preciation in the value of my stock. " M 1 business was as prosperous; we stood as high as printers as we did previously; our business since that has been good, and there teas no other cause for the loves I then sustained, bat the depreciation of the value of the articles in warehouse in my hands. What I wish particularly to show is, the defenceless condi tion in which we manufacturers aro placed, and how completely we are at the mercy of these unnatural ac tuations. Although I was aware that. the losses were coming, it was impossible I could do otherwise than proceed onward—with the certainty of sufferiag a loss on the stock; to stop the work of 600 hands, and to fail ta supply our customers would have been altogetht r ruinous; that is a fact drawn from roy own eaperieece. I wish to point to another example of a most striking kind, showing the E frmt of these fl ietnatieus on nyr chants. I hold in my hand a list of 33 articles, which were imported in 1337, by the house Butterworth and Brookes, of M4nebefircr, a house very well known; Mr. Brookes is now Berouga-reeve ef Manchester. Here is a list cf 36 articlos imported is the year 1837. in the re gular way of busiuess, and opposite to each tier isle is the rate of loss upon it as it arrived, and as i t was sold. Th:i average loss is 37,} psr cent. on Ooze 36 articles, and they were imported from Cawen, Trieste. Bombay, Bahia, Xesandria, Lima, and in fnet all the.interme , diate places almost. Thi I presume. is a fair guide, to show the losses which other merchants incurred on ei mnilar articles." It was probably the. havi suffered so severely fro m the effects of a contracted currency that inducsd Mr. Cohilen to make such energetic and persevering etFort; for the repeal of the corn-laws, and thus Sir Robert Peel's Bills were the cause of the ngitation which was directed against the protective duties ( n * the produce of the agriculturist. But having re garded the general effects of a contr ac ti on o f the corrency, lit us, to make it plainer, take a particular case. A B producee in a year 10,000 articles, which he sells at 5; each, his profit on them being, we will say, Is. each, and his whole profit, therefore, se:00/. a year. Let the articles be reduced in price one-tenth, that is, let his commodities be sold for 4s. 61 each, his profit then is reduced to 6d. on each article, and his annual income to 2501. Now, he may be told that the price of other things is reduced, as the farm( r is now told, and that therefore be is as well off as he was before. Bat though he new gets for 450/. as msny articles of' consumption as he before got for 5001., he loses 25'3. by the sale of his productions ; and he therefore gains 501. by the reduction in price and loses 250/. I say nothing about his taxes, rent, and other fixed payments, which probably remain the same, and are to be paid out of diminiehed profits. Now see how the effect of a reduction of prices acts upon the farmer. I have here a table headed "Coro, Taxation, and Rent," compiled by the writers at Bir mingham, who, under the signature of Gemini, have long scientifically and disinterestedly laboured to dif fuse a knowledge of the question of the currency. By this it appears that the taxes in 1815, the most expensive year of the war, were 72,210,5121., and the average price of wheat being 655. 7d. a quarter, the quantity of corn necessary to pay the taxes was 22,020,994 quar ters, while the taxes in 1849 being 52,951,7491., and the average price of wheat 445. 31. a cluoarbar, tha quantity necessary to pay the taxes would he 23 932,993 quarters, or more than in 1815. And raking the rent of 200 acres of land at 30s. an acre, as estimated in quarters of wheat in the year 1815, it isould take, at 655. 7d. a quarter, 91 quarters 4 bushels to pay the rent, while for the same farm in 1849, with wheat at 445. 3d. a quarter, it would require 135 quarters 4 bushels. 'With these facts before him can any farmer doubt that the money laws affect him as well as the laws about corn ?—(hear, hear.) But, I say, that not only the farmer, but every industrious producer must be injuriouely_ affected by this low scale of prices. It is quite' true that the manufac turing interest at present is comparatively prosperous, for though the profits of the manufacturer are lower, the wages of the skilled workman are not proportion ably reduced, and he gets the advantage of cheap food. It frequently happens that after a period of great depression in the manufacturing districts, the number of skilled workmen being reduced and no new hands having learned the trade, the supply of skilled labour when trade revives being limited, a high rate of wages is paid. But as the market be comes supplied with fresh labourers, if the profits of the master remain small, it is impossible that wages should continue high. With a contracted cir culating medium there. must be a forced cheapness of commodities, and labour toils in vain to overtake this forced cheapness. For let the producer work harder and make twice as many things, still, if the quantity of money he not increased the price must suffer a further decline, and though he works harder he gets no more profit. In this way the producer is forced, by competition between man and his fellow man, to give more of the produce of his industry for the same monied price, and by this forced cheapness the labourer is ground down to the point of starva tion. I have read with much interest the excellent articles which have appeared in theillerning Chronicle, under the bead of " Labour and the Poor," of which it may truly be said, that they contain more import-, ant and authentic information on the condition of the labouring classes of this country than all the Parlia mentary reports upon the subject which have ap peared. In a speech recently made at a meeting by Mr. H. Mayhew, the writer of the letters on the state of the metropolitan districts, after saying that " the mania for cheapness" lay at the root of all the evils of the system, he said that " there was now a general desire prevalent to possess things at a cheap rate, without regard to the manner in which they might have been come by ;" and, after alluding to the " scenes of misery and horror " at this moment in esistence, he declared that he had not yet arrived at the remedy. Now Mr. Cobden, and those who act ' with him, ,appear to think that the remedy is to be found by gi4tting the raw material cheap, by satisfying cheap labour by means of cheap bread, and by sup plying the' consumer with everything cheap. But th e people of this country can, I think, never prosper under this system. For, however cheap the raw ma- Ueda' may be, and however cheap labour may be, competition' will overtake them both. More goods must be supplied for the same money, and the result will be that, without a sufficiency of the circulating medium, the profits of the manufacturer will be kept down to the lowest possible point, and the poor ope rative, who has nothing but his labour to sell, will yearly become less able to exchange that labour for a sufficiency of the necessaries of life.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) In this dreadful contest between capi tal and labour, which we have seen going on in this country for the last thirty years, the great capitalist, by laying in a large stock of the raw material in a time of panic, at a ruinously low price, may obtain much wealth, but the poor man must suffer most severely. And this is the way in which a peaceable and indus trious population are transformed into Chartists and Socialists. For, as Mr. Wolverley Attwood has elo quently said, " Human nature has but a limited capacity of endurance ; there are bounds to the suffer ings which instinctive submission, and the hope of a better future, will prevail on the human frame and mind to bear in silence. These bounds passed, and that hope disappointed, the spirit casts off the habitual restraints which a tacit acquiescence in an order of things long established renders almost natural, and become at once opposed to the whole system of social arrangement."--(Hear, hear.) What appears to me the remedy for all this has been repeatedly pointed out. It consists in the establishment of such a cur rency medium as may be capable of expansion with the increase of population, and the increase of com modities produced by that population tor sale. With gold, at its market price, a safe and adequate cur rency might without difficulty be provided. An ob jection was recently made to my attributing to Mr. John Taylor the plan for a national or taxation money. I have not the pleasure of being acquainted with Mr. Banister, the gentleman who makes this ob jection, but am happy to know that we have so able a :upporter of the cause, who has long studied the question. In a pamphlet, published in 1847, he says, •• the writer's opinion for many years has been, and still is, that the Government should issue paper, and • which- paper should be taken for taxation," &c. Mr. Banister is not, I believe, a cqua i n t e d with Mr. John '1 Taylor, or he would not, I feel assured, speak of him in the depreciating terms which he does. I respect Mr. Taylor as a man of talent, research, and originality, and as having for many years most dis interestedly laboured in this cause, but my respect for him is increased by his total want of any petty jealousy or unwillingness to accord to any one the fair share of merit due to him for his exertions in the cause. He has written so much, so long, and so well on the currency, that he can well afford to allow full credit to every currency re former.—(Hear, hear.) In a letter which I lately received from Mr. Taylor, he says,—" I would let all the world claim and get the merit of the plan of currency, if the Legislature would but adopt its provisions, and it is one sign of the hopefulness of our cause when men begin to claim a participation or priority in the announcement of ,the proposed system of money. With me the first idea was sketched in the pamphlet published in 1821, entitled The Restoration of National Prosperity shown to be immediately Practical.' I wrote and published a more detailed plan, in the London Magazine, about 1823, 1824, and repeated it. with illustrations, in all my pamphlets, in 1832, 1333, 1836, Sec." ‘Vhat ever system of paper money the Legislature may ultimately adopt, Mr. Taylor's "Essays on Money," and on the " Standard and Measure of Value," as well as other works, will always command high estimation from every one who philo sophically studies the theory of monetary science.— (Cheers.) And now, gentlemen, I will not detain you any longer, and I beg to thank you for your kind attention. It is impossible to look at the future of England without many anxious forebodings. We see at this time great manufacturing activity and great agricultural depression. We see the various classes of society opposed to each other ; and, above all, we have an increased and increasing population, requiring every day the devotion of increased means to educate, to.employ, and to support them. But if we be true to ourselves we need not despond. There was a time when the world, with a man who then appeared to be the world's master (Napoleon), was opposed to us, when our financial, social, and political difficulties were many and great, and dark clouds hung heavily over our country's destinies. What then enabled I England to weather the storm? We had a skilful and resolute pilot at the helm. But whence came the means to man the ship ? The common sense of the English °people, making use of their powerful agent, represents.tive paper meney, as Mr. Alison, the historian of the French Revolution says, caved the country. The same ageot is as powerful in peace as it was in war; only let our monetary system he re vised and we shall see England rising triumphantly over all her difficulties, and diffusing throughout the world the peaceful blessings of commerce, civilization,' and Christiatity.—(Universal applause) Before I sit down I beg leave to propose for the office of joint secretary of this society a gentleman, the son of one of the oldest, most respected, successtul, and intelli gent agriculturists of this county. for whom I have the•greate.st respect, and who will, I feel assured, fill the office wis h r qual credi; to himself and advantage to the society, Mr. Enoch Hedgkinson.—(Applause.) Mr. RonenT BAKER seconded this resolution, which was supported by Mr. \V. Wilkinson (the se cretary), who cordially agreed in the proposition, and was carried upanimously. He then proposed, and Mr. Johnson •seaonded, a vote of thanks to Me. Twells, which was passed Unanimously, and he having re turned thanks, the meeting broke up. THE SUN, LON DON, HIGH WATER Al lON DO7. BRIDGE Tn DAY —Morning 36 min. after 2 Evening 57 nun. after 2 To-Momaow— Niorning 16 min. after 3 Evening 35 nun. alter 3 .. THE WEATIIEII.—SuN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 49—highest since noon yesterday. 43 —lowest this morning and during the night. 44—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29.68; a rise of nearly an inch since yesterday. WIND N. to N.N.E.— cold breeze, and cloudy, dull weather It rained all the afternoon and evening of yesterday. NEV NOVEL, by the Author of " EMILIA. WYNDHAM." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., L ETTIcE ARNOLD, By the Author of " EMILIA WYNDHAM," " THE WILMINGTONS," &c., " We cordially recommend this adrreraide and beautiful story to our readers. It is a healthy moral tale—truthful and practical—told in a most charming manner. In it we find all the graces which so eminently adorn and recommend the author's preceding efforts. There is the Caine kind spirit auimtting every illustration, the same benevolent purpose, the same truthfulness of delineation." —Weekly Chronicle. Henry Colburn, l's l )l!sher, 13, Great Marthm-ongh-street. RER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Tar, GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. THIS EVENING. Lase Week of the Berlin Choir. Labite - cy's,Great National Quadrille of all .Nations, with Four flanks and Double Chornm, comprising 262 Performers. Maefarren's Serenata, The SLEEPER. AWAKENED. llaroun Alraschid, Mr. Frank Boida ; A bou Hassan, Mr. Sims Reeves ; Zulieka, Madile. Angri. Slaves, Guaras, &c., by the Chorus of tile Establishment. Band of the Ist Life Guar:ls, Band of the GreT:adier Guards, Band of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and a Corps of British Military Side Drums. The English Chorus, and Choir of the Berlin Chapel Royal. Angri. Frank Bodda, and Sims Reeves ; Molique. Hayward, Barret, Baumann. Richardson, Remus it, Franc, Arban, ;tad l'iatti. Musical Director, Cornpo,er, and Conductor— A. Balfe. Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Laeltzky. Conductor of the Choristers of the Berlin Chapel Royal —Herr Neidhardt. Promenade (admitting to the Ha7f-Circles, Gallery I G and Pit Stalls) .• __ The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and tho Concerts will com mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven. Boxes and Stalls to Le had at the Box-office, where Programmes of the performance may be obtained. Correct Books of the Serenata, countersigned by the lion. Secre tary, to be had only In the Theatre. All o hers are fraudulent and Incorrect. and Royal l'ota.nie and Zoologin'. Gardens, will supply the Refresh nents and Wines, &c., &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Le.se. and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. MACREADY. THIS EVENING, . _ Will be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. Duncan, Mr. Rogers: Macbeth. Mr. Macready ; Banqu Mr. Howe ; MacduiT, Mr. Davenport; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Warner; Hecate, Miss I'. Horton. To be followed by IHE BOUTITI DTAMOND. To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Peter White, Mr. H. Bedford. TirEATRE RoyAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed ford. Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. After which a new Farce called THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS ; or, The Shilling Hop. Captain Kiteflyer, Mr. Boyce ' • Major Stiff, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, Miss Chaplin. To conclude wish a Terpsichorian Burlesque called ESMERALDA. Characters by Messsrs. 0. Smith, Wright, P. Bedford ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. TOTAL PRINCESS" THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley, THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new Play called THE TEMPLAR. Characters by Messrs. Ryder, Fisher, Belton, Addison, Yining, Cath cart, Everett, C. Kean ; mu/ Mrs. C. Kean. After which BETSY BAKER; or, "Too Attentive by Half." Characters by Messrs. J. Vining,, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Murray. To conclude with TWICE KILLED. Private Boxes, &c., to he had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may taken at the Box-office, Oxford-street. from Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed PHILIP OF FRANCE AND MARIE DE MERANIE. Characters by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, 3. Farren, Norton, IV. Farren, jun., Johnstone, G. Cooke, Diddear ; Miss Helen Faucit, and Mrs. L. Murray. To be followed with NOT TO BE DONE. To conclude with ALLOW ME TO APOLOGISE. ROY AL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be p , rformed SEZVE HIM RIGII I'. - To be followed by MY HEART'S I ; or, A Desperate Remedy, ,hl which Messrs. C. Mathews, G. Vining, Bellingham ; Madame Yes trio, •Miss Kenwortby, and Elsa I. Dickenson will appear. To conclude with THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE. NSTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVENING, The Entertainments will commence with a new and original pectacie, entitled THE ENCHANTED PALFREY ; or, The War rior of the Crescent. To he succeeded by an Inimitable Display of Batty's Feats of Equitation in the Cirque Olympiquc, by the male and female Eques trians of the Establishment To conclude with a favourite Farce. Box-ofilce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY OFFICERS.—The directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company have re solved that, in future, they will net give any allowance or compensation to their servants in cases of death or injury arising from accidents, " as they have an opportunity, by the payment of a small premium periodically, to insure an ade quate sum in case of injury, and to provide for their families in the event of death." In consequence of this resolution, the manager, Mr. Latham, has issued a general order, urging upon engine-drivers, firemen, and guards, the necessity of availing themselves, forthwith, of the benefits held forth by the Railway Passenger Assurance Company.— Glasgow Daily THE Emus STEAMEIL—NearIy 140 passengers booked to go by the Oriental Company's steamer Indus, which left Southampton yesterday with the Indian mail ; among them was Sir John Grey, Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Forces. Sir John leaves England on the 24th inst., and will join the Indies at Malta. Such was the large number of passengers by the above eiamed steamer, that her officers were compelled to give up their berths, for which they receive a handsome equivalent from the Oriental Company. Major Edwardes purposed to return to India by this steamer this voyage, but he has now booked himself to go out on the 20th of January next. The Indus is fall of cargo. Amongst it is a large amount of specie, about 80,0001. sterling, prin cipally in Indian rupees. During the last two years the Pe ninsular and Oriental Company's steamers have landed at Southampton about 4,000,000 of rupees in number, which are now rapidly leaving this country for India. DUTY or A JUDGE.—In the course of an argu ment in Vice-Chancellor Bruce 's Court on Monday Mr. James Parker read from the notes of the trial a passage of Mr. Justice Patteson's charge to the jury, in which that Learned Judge said that a judge is bound to understand all Acts of Parliament, and that one of the most difficult duties a judge had to perform was to interpret modern statutes, and that he could not quite clearly understand the Act before him. Sir J. &Bruce observed that Mr. Justiee Patteson was a persoa from whose opini,n it was very dangerous to differ, he being so generally right; but for the first time in his life, he felt comp e ll e d to dissent from part of what had been read as the charge to the jury, for his Honour did not think a judge was bound to understand all Acts of Parliament, how ever a judge might be bound to try to comprehend them, and that was hard enough. World—a great inn, kept in a perpetual bustle by arrivals ant departures; by the going away- of those who c h o a m v h j g us pa of t t h i o d s e r e bills wil l and n t h h e a d \ e b t a o f si N m a i t la U r re a ; cc a o D u d nt th io e settle. —Eliza Cool's Journce. COUNTIES THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE EA STE RN state that Mr. Thatt chairmane to tile RAILWAY COMPANY.—We are request, os t o urged b tri l e li with Betts has definitively resigned the otiice l . y Eastern Counties Railway Company.nlileemen sent in his resignation consequent on an accident g some weeks since, but was subsequent leagues in_ the directory to re-consider the mattei:. sAcfotel; giving every consideration to the wishes of his Wien Mr. Bette continues to adhere t o his ori g inal intention. 41161' DAILY WEATHER TABLE. The State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PLymouTH—Wind storm—rain. PORTSMOUTH—Wind W., strong breeze—overcast. BRIGHTON—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. HASTINGS—Wind S.W. strong breeze—rain. SOUTILAMPTON—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W. strong breeze—overcast. BASINGSTOKE —Wind S.V., strong breeze—overcast. BRISTOL— Wind W., strong breeze—overcast. READING —Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain. GREENWICH—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SWINDON—Wind W., gentle breeze—rain. OXFORD—Wind S.W. strong breeze—rain. COLCH STER—Wind w., gentle breeze—overcast. CAMBRIDGE—Wind S., strong breeze—partially cloudy. RUGBY— Wind W., gentle breeze—heavy rain. BIRMINGHAM Wind S.W., calm—heavy rain. YARMOUTH—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. CONWAY—Wind N.N.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. (lone:HEAD—Wind N., hard wind —overcast. MANCHESTER—Wind N.E., fresh breeze —rain. LANCASTER—Wind S.W. gentle breeze—overcast. WHITBY— Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. DARLINGTON—Wind E., gentle breeze—showery. SHAD—Wind N. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SUNDERLAND—Wind E., gentle breeze—rain. CARLISLE—Wind N, gentle breeze—cloudy. BEATTOCK —Wind N., strong breeze—rain. BERWICK—Wind N.E., strong breeze—overcast. EDINBURGH— Wind E., hard wind—heavy rain. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock : KINGSTOWN ( DUBLIN) —Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain. LEIGHTON—Wind S.E., strong breeze—overcast. COLCHESTE —Wi no SW., breeze—partially cloudy. strotistcHAm—Wind S., strong breeze—nartiallv cloudy. 1 ETERBOROUGH—Wind BAY,' gentltt breeze — partially cloudy. CREWE —Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. LivEnpoot,—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. LEEDS—Wind S.W., gentle breeze— partially cloudy. YORE—Wind S., strong breeze—rain. LANcAsTER—Wind S.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. SHAY—Wind S., strong breeze; —rain. WHITEHAVEN— Wind S.E., strong breeze —overcast. CAnt.isi.E —Wind S., strong breeze—cloudy. BEArrocK—Wind S.E.— strong breeze—overcast. EDINBURGH Wind S.E., gentle breeze —cloudless. DUNDEE—Wind S.W., strong breez:—cloudy. r".;,'",) fl';••••• 1 - - • _ , ; N \2, \ • 31 V '`,:t"'••••,7'.4-; I 7:.;.; 7,7 A LONDON, THURSDAY, Ni WEKBER 21, 1850. Revolutionary ideas have extended even as far as the Celestial Empire. From the latest dispatches, it would appear that the revolt - , long fermenting in the land of the parasol and the pagoda, has swelled at last into a really formidable insurrection. Rumours of all kinds were, of course, efloat as to what had already occurred, and likewise as to the supplementary disasters that might be expected. In one direction the imperial army was falling back, in cons'quence of having en countered a severe and unexpected discomfiture. In another the local magistrates were flying before the rebels on the road to Pekin. Here one consider able town was being sacked by the conquerors, there another was groaning under the horrors of bombardment. Opinion was divided as to whether the forces of the Brother of the Sun would be suffi ciently powerful, or rather sufficiently capable of immediate concentration to repulse the violators of the public peace and the assailants of his imperial au thority —or whether the Chinese EMPEROR would be driven by the emergency to call in British assistance. Certain it was, under any circum stances, that the situation of affairs was most urgent, and that an instant di ciaion one way or the other was absolutely requisite. As an evi dence of the necessity existing for some immediate settlement of these difficulties, it is only needful to in number ing no less than 30,000 men the oggres..l,„ ~0 ceeded to within a distance of only one hundred and twenty miles from Canton. Hitherto, moreover, it would appear that this redoubtable body had triumphed over all obstacleF, had compelled the militia to fly before them in panic, had routed even the Imperial soldiers, and had reduced the surrounding country to a com plete state of subjection. The reality of these events had forced itself upon the judgments of the most incre dulona among the English merchants by reason of the black mail levied upon all commodities passing within reach of the insurgents. From this particular alone it will be perceptible that the rebel army is less ac tuated by high political motives than by a lust of power and spoliation. Scarcely a reasonable conjecture can be formed of the origin of these singular disturbances. No motive whatever had as yet been avowed by its leaders ; and the whole seemed to have been fomented less by demagogic agitation than by the natural cupidity of men inimical to all ordinary restraints and enamoured of the lavish spoil and law- less life of banditti. Out of these sentiments, rather than out of any noble ambition for political improvement, the whole scheme appears to have sprung, armed to the teeth, and ready to crush all military opposition. Upon the course pursued by the EMPEROR the fate of his dynasty is most assuredly more or less dependent. Either he will put an end to the movement by a vigorous act of generalship, or be will find himself compelled reluctantly to demand the aid of British intervention. Under the former contingency he will be enabled, no doubt, to repress fur a while the marauding spirit which, during the last few years, has convulsed the greater portion of his dominions—but without any prospect of thoroughly eradicating the vices of incipient rebellion. Under the latter contingency his rule may discover an im mediate and appreciable security—but while accept ing the beneficial influence of British support, he will be inevitably dooming his power to a gradual and ultimate absorption. Directly the Anglo- Saxon race obtains the toe sews, the spot on which to move the lever of its enormous influence, then commences that system of indirect appropriation which in the end eats into the very heart of a kingdom, however remote or gigantic. The fact has in a great measure been illustrated by the British Government in almost every quarter of the globe, but nowhere so remarkably as in the empire immediately contiguous to that presided over by the Chinese EMPEROR. The progress of our power as conqueromover the various provinces of llindostan has been altogether of too remarkable a character to have escaped the observation of the Chinese Government. From having witnessed the consequences of our invasion of those provinces, first in the aspect of protectors, and lastly in that of lords paramount, the Ministerial admirers of the Celestial Potentate will be anything but desirous of placing him, by a similar course of proceeding, within the grasp of a power so dangerous in the multiplicity of its appropriations. Nevertheless, although the Im perial Councils at Pekin may be reluctant to call into its assistance a friendly authority more perilous, because more insidious and potential than the openly hostile one which it is at present solicitous to vanquish—it must be evident that it is not in any way debarred from so doing by any wholly insur mountable obstacles. Indeed, there may be found a precedent so striking of its kind as to induce the Chinese ruler and the statesmen of his despotism to waive all their terrors of Anglo-Saxon subjugation, and at once annihilate the hopes of their assailants by availing themselves of our friendship. This precedent is none oth er th an th e memora ble circumstance of their requiring and receiving the aid of our military and naval armaments against the pirates in festing the oriental seas. Havine , consented once to acquire security et our hands, they may again per. chance commit themselves to the like protection— though this time we cannot but regard the chanco of any such requisition as in the highest degree impro bable. For one thing it must be remembered that the danger is not external but internal, not along the maritime frontiers of China but in the interior of those dominions. Consequently the Celestial 14:ef- PEROR would be anything hut solicitous to admit our forces within the sacred barriers of that territory which has never yet been allowably and openly trod den by the feet of races deemed by its inhabitants to consist only of barbarians. The sanctity of the I K HURSDA Y EVEI Chinese soil will not, after so many centuries of insulation from the rest of the human family, be opened to the desecration cf our footsteps for any light reasons or under any ordinary circumstances. Of this we may rest satisfied. The customs conse crated by the practice of so many successive genera tions will not be abandoned at the first glimpse of peril, at the first blast of the horns of a body of free booting insurgents, no matter how formidable they may be intrinsically and numerically. Without desiring to witness the commencement on our part of a system of Chinese spoliation, we may yet be permitted to look forward with hope to some remarkable turn of events such as would lead to our closer intimacy and more frequent intercourse with the Chinese population. The moral, political, and intellectual stagnation of that ancient and, in many respects, distinguished race, has been now of too long continuance to admit of its wholesome perpetua tion. At a period when the whole genius and ambi tion of mankind appears to be fermentating prepara tory to some great and hitherto unprecedented ad vancement, it is melancholy to witness the continuance of their ancient torpor among the Chinese multitude. To behold its abandonment we must now, more than ever, aspire : and, as a possible step towards this end, the revolutionary movement in the interior of the empire is, to a certain extent, a source of satisfaction. The Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law has rendered many valuable services to the community. Numbering among its members persons of profound learning and vast experience, who have attained the greatest eminence in the legal profession, it is by no means surprising that the existing abuses are clearly exposed, and suitable remedies suggested fur the consideration of the Legislature. These abuses may be sufficiently obvious to persons of all classes in society. It requires no great degree of fn ennae.n ou l the enormous injustice per petratedunder the existing unaneery ayatiatir, zinc ea,v harassing delays and ruinous expenditure to which the suitors are subjected ; but it is easier to de nounce the evil than to provide a fitting substitute. The utmost caution, the calmest deliberation, must be used, or the remedy may prove worse than the disease. A new system, hastily andrashly adopted, might prove more mischievous, more intolerable than that which has been so generally complained of—so unequivocally condemned. When an eminent judge of the Court of Chancery, in pronouncing a decree, declared it to be " the usual decree for destroying an estate according to law," no controversy can exist as to the imperative necessity for the intro. duction of large and comprehensive measures of Chancery reform. But to what extent shall the pruning knife be applied ? Where shall the intended innovations stop ? Is it intended to overturn the en tire edifice, to abolish the Court altogether: or is it merely desired to cleanse and purify it from the filth and excrescences that heve grown up during succes sive egos, until at lergth they have arrived at such rank luxuriance as to convert what was intended to be, and which, under a judicious syatem, inight have beer; a blessing to the community, into a curse—whet should have been ameans of relic. f into an instrument of oppres sion and persecution ? These are interrogatories that must he seriously pondered over before any fitting re sponsescan be returned—problems, in the due solution of which the interests and welfare of society are in volved in no ordinary degree, and the modern Uoirus who undertakes the arduous duty of unravelling th mysteries of the legal Sphynx must be thoroughly acquainted with the subject in all its varied ramifi cations, so as to trace each abuse to its source, to ascertain the fountain whence it sprung, and the means by which it might be diverted from its usual channel. The probable consequences of any new rule of principle or practice must also be accu rately calculated, so as to ascertain that its meaning cannot be perverted or made to operate in a manner totally opposed to the objects for which it was origi nally framed and promulgated. Oa Monday evening a matter of more than usual importance was brought forward at the meeting of the society. Mr. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, an American barrister of high standing, and one of the commis sioners who proposed the New York code, whicl• abolished the distinction in procedure between law rind thof .+.t.• attended and clearly and distinctly explained the nature of tee ‘,., changes that had been introduced, and their effect during the period that they have been in operation. The alteration wes indeed cne of no ordinary magni tude; it was of a truly radical character, striking at. the very root of the matter. It appears that New York had originally, and until within the last three years, a judicial constitution very like that of England. There was the Court of Chancery in every respect analogous to our own, guided by the same principles. The decisions of English Chancellors of judges in equity were quoted more frequently, and more strongly relied on, even than their own. And the admirable works of Judge STORY and of some of his eminent brethren prove that we also may receive valuable instruction from the other side of the " broad Atlantic." There was also the Supreme Court, corresponding to our Queen's Bench. The divisions of law and equity were in fact as clearly observed as at West minster and Lincoln's Inn. As, however, the same fruit will spring from the same seed, complaints arose in New as well as in En g l an d, o f the d e l a y s and Yok, expenses r of the equitabl e t r ib una l, an d o f th e occasional defeats o f j ust i ce b y an over - r i g id a d he . rence to the stri c t ru l es and techn i cal i t i es of the common law. But there to discover an evil was to insure prompt attention to the means by which it might be eradicated ; there is not the same slavish adherence to mischievous forms, merely because they have been in existence for centuries. An erroneous system will not be perpe tuated merely becaus e i t is A of n o a u g r e d ull y ancestors i estors is only respected when e, a grey inequity." it is really shown to be • The wisdom " e w i sdom," and gross and palpable folly is not dignified by the epithet. Com missioners were appointed to investigate the matter, and to report , on the nature of the most efficient remedies. There learned men f a ithfully discharged the important trust confided to their charge, and the result of their recommendations has been _the e total abolition of the Court of Chancery in the But this was not all. The good points of both system of law and equity were retained, the bad ones discarded. A happy mixt ure 1 of law and equity Calculated to r ender substa.4:o,l 3...41.. :... ...11 ........../ was erected on the ruins of both systems, which was entrusted to the administration of the Supreme Court. The old forms of pleading were abolished, and thenceforward there was to be but one form of action ! ! The natural sy s t em of pleading was adopted, that is, such a system of allegation as the litigants would adopt i n familiar life in asking advice, or stating the case to an arbitrator. The pl a i nt i ff put in his complaint, stating the facts, the defendant his answer. The plaintiff might reply, but there the pleadings closed! These are, indeed, important alterations, but we are assured by Mr. FIELD that " no difficulty had arisen in the practical working of the system, but very great convenience and the same code had been adopted in other states al ready." Tbis is powerful evidence of the value and efficiency of the new code, the novelty and importance of which will justify a c l o ser examination as to the principles on which it is formed, and that we may be assured it will speedily receive In the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the law. expressing th e traders, and oth ers The mem o rial to the LORD MAYOR, feeling of th e merchants, ba , nhers , of this city, th a t a Tribunal of Commerce would b e a great bo on for the commercial world, and request ing hi s L or d s hip t o call a public meetin g , i n order that the feeling of the citizens of London may be fully taken o n the subject, has now grow n t o a most ponderous roll of parchment ; the originator of the movement, Mr. FitANCI3 LYNB, being determin e d, as it is said, to convince the doubtful, at a first sight, that the feeling is universe), that " the commercial law of thi s coun t r y i s n ot administered with that simplicity which its circumstances, as well as truth and justice, demand." The memorial has been signed by firms of the very highest resp2.ctability, representing the following trades:—the corn, wine, spirit, coal, tea, drug, colonial and foreign trade of the country. I n a f e hours last week upwards of one hundred leading hOuS - iis in Mincing-i;ino Signed the memorial; and although the members of the Stock Exchange are not I N G, x NO4TE amecliitely connected with commerce, t bey have larked their sense, of the wisdom of the 3 movement, y signing the . memorial to the LORD X tATO3I, the tairman of their committeeleading thews: r . Such, the present time, is the history' of this n lovement, which may be added the pleasinglact th at Liver ol,- Minchestekand Glasgow..have decla red their infOhy with the movement, and re,adine ies to do ything to - acid weight, to it; and who can wonder such a simultaneous barst; when ail so * ell know tt Omni* Upon thousands of cases, onl; y fit for iA4bitration : court, or Tribunal of Conim erce, are ner referredfill et/err expense of ,every • sort has' bh exhausted, under the guise that a j adge and im in the . Nisi:Prins Courts ewas the of aly proper Plaf4 its decision; and'irhencat i gat, t here, with all a fees paid,, and nothing further left I . Sut labour for e orofessionals, then the -gentlemen i n silk dis cove as they modestly tell the judge, wl to quickly agni, that "te natter might be more sat! isfiaorily sett, _N by being rellnied:' The n?erchant are now quite k:E of this honoirable species of rc Ibbery, on the pat .)f the honourable profession ; and therefore now wirl one voice' demand a Coirt of h jbitration or Tribnal of Commerce, wherein, at a tri iMing cost, they m:T settle. their commercial disputes. The pblict feeling is now so ripe on t he subject • that tblawyers cannot avert .the change al they know, tiough their name be Legion; and ; the most respectable are now wisely ready to second the mer chant' present movtment, founded, as. they must see it iF, on common sense • and simple justi ice ; and many thousand cases,' which now rathain in a beyance, mustcontiOte so to do till the law is altered. Triminals bf commerce are of extreme . ant equity and it val'the vice which natntally groys ci nt of an artificial sate of society that brought into be ,ing. our present'. s ystem, "invented for the creation c /costs, and not,6r,the daaadminiatratien of justice ;" 4o,a4ki-tti,fiAtilio a • Victory but too oftY:o over ruttiand jilstioe., :It ,lits been a lucrative. Weld for . those lawyers, Win; iovst so to make money. Holy Writ points at such a system in the 29th, clk fir of Isaiah, 20th verse- 4 ' The terrible one is br42glit:to nought ; and the scorner is consumed, and a itl that watch for iniquity are tut pff; that make r a' I Man an 'offender for a word."' In a ,short that of Com merce, by LEONE LEM we realdig the it tikllo instituted in 116Q 5 . by. thg. C:"ltutum tutu of Pim,. tribunals of coamtbrce; and;lit; this time, it i 3 well ; known, they work well in France, Finders, Rhonish i , Prussiii; - and elsewhere';.it Western Europe, and esti' very' hest effeAlts are ackloivledged. Take Prot - 4; for an exampl6, 220 seciallAtinals are establish in the most commercial departments, and there also I rociiil ttihunals, which also take cognizance, Or commercial mittere. -'1.0846 there were introduced 207: ; 279 new caseibeforafthese 390 tribunals, 177,446 were brought bgoo the 220 special' tribunals, sald 29,833 only be N: the civiliribunalei judging com mercial matters. 14 ~ . -": 'lb There can ,rio doubt that t ta w: country has' not kept packs - Arith the terns of oar fist-growing society ; and that we are Oist -when truth' and justice refuse to he trcholelled I Twe gnat subjects are now attracting public- attentro4tl4* rend Religion—;-and it is somewhat r'emarkabf3, that, two of the boldest champions now before the public should be Mr. LYNE, of No: 6, and Dr. CUMMING, of No. 7, Hunter-street, Brunswick -square ; 'told we expect Cardinal WISEMAN will find Dr. CUILMINGP as tough this afternoon, at the H-'.:..:%.,.-square Rooms, on the subject of Romish °digs opposing lawyers will find Mr. LYNE, at the forthcoming . meeting at the Mansion-house, in opposition to quirk and" quibble. The success of the latter gentleman is as necessary as that of the fanner to keop Gospel truth alive in this country. We are convinces every fudge on the bench must at times feel ho - x unjust and cruel it is, after a man has expanded vast sums of money, labour, and anxious care to get bia:Matter settled quickly, to be told by the judge that ho has done no good for himself, as his case was one for a court of arbitration, and not for a court of law I Is this justice ? UHE FRENCH REPUBLIC. --- --- We have received the . Paris journals of yesterday. The following-communicated note appeared in the !!' , ./ 014 • "The Petrie of this day conclud e s an article on the present 'state of Germany with a viokrit, Jet tack upon an allied Government (Russia). It is the dutyof the French Government to protest against this article in the most formal manner. The sole policy of the Government is that which is clearly and honestly laid down in the Message of the President of the Republic. The Government knows no other. It has always given the example of respect for nationalities and foreign government. It will never de part from this line of conduct" (commnnicated by Minister for Foreign Affairs). The article in the Petrie warned the Government of the designs of Russia and her vassal Austria on Prussian and German independence, and urged the necessity of France coming forward for the protec tion of Prussia, should necessity require it ; the ar ticle is understood to have been written under the dictation of the PRESIDENT himself, and to express his sentiments, while the contradiction emanates • from General LAHITTE, the representative in the Cabinet of Absolutism and Legitimatism. The Patrie of yesterday has the following observa tions on this communicated note : . " The Minister of Foreign thought it neces sary yesterday to publish in the Moniteur a (.lommuni rmted note, in which he protests against our article of Saturday on the affairs of Germany. We are forced to avow that in reading this note we experienced a move ment of surprise perfectly justifiable. W hy was this note published ? What necessity was Slier° for it? The Minister of Foreign Affairs points to the Message of the President of the Republic. So do we. What says the Message? That the Government will reotain neutral between Pussia and Austria, up to the day oat Which French interests should be engaged and compronised an the struggle. We said nothing else ; only, we explained what, in cur opinion, French interests demanded fee m the foresight and patriotism of our Government. What did we say that could call for the intervention of the Minister of Foreign e'sffairs? Did we call for war? Far from that; we expressed the most sincere desire for the maintenance of peace. Have we made an appeal to the revolutionary passions which Prussia has sometimes the wrong of over-exciting against conzervative opiuiona from which Austria never departs? Certai n ly not. In fine, have we demanded that France should espouse the cause of Prussia, no matter what occurred? Our attitude in the . Danish question has in advance replied to that question. Such s thought cannot be found anywhere in our two articles on German affairs. We merely foresaw the case Where Austria, aided by Russia, annihilate Prussia, I n might desire to that case, there could not be two lines of poli c y to follow, there could be only one — that which Louis XIV. followed before Napoleon, and which Napoleon followed after Louis XIV.; that which the restoration adopted, for that policy is neither poli tical non'menarch:o.l; it is better than that, it is French. That policy is the one which prescribes to France to prevent Austria from increasing beyond measure on the itrune It 15 ch.-. ,-1. imprudently allow Russia to extend her arm to our frontier. Who could disapprove of it?" The Ministerial paper, it will be seen from the above, protests against the ambitious designs of Austria, and declares that France will interfere to prevent her from beyond measure increasing on the Rhine and the Po. On the other hand, the equally Ministerial Constitutionnel gives the following warn ing to Prussia " Does Prussia believe that it would be sufficient for her to triumph over Austria, and to eubdue the second rate kingdoms? That this qu estion would not, from being Germ an , b ecome European? European equili brium could not be broken with impunity. France, whom no immediate interest calls at this moment beyond the Rhine, would not allow to be modified to her de triment the neighbourhood created for her by the trea ties of 1815; she would not permit there should be este ' blished along her frontiers an uninte rru p ted dominion that would - isolate her from the continent; she would not allow to be overthrown to her prejudice the actual pro- portion of forces. France, whose arms have so often re established in their estates the Palatine Electors and the Electors of Bavaria, could not without dishonour permit any power to destroy, or absorb the second-rate states which are her traditional allies; to do so would amount to the abandonment of all her interests, and the deser tion of her past history; it would be to desert the policy uniformly followed by Henry IV., Richelieu, Mazarine, Louis XIV., Vergennes, and Napoleon. France has made Kings beyond the Rhine, and these Kings sh a ll not be turned into subjeete," The National, which believes that the Govern ment has joined the great Absolutist and obscurantit conspiracy, of which RusAa and Austria a-' tie heads, has the following excellent re mar k s on the ire cent increase in the army : " It is only four months since General cl'He."Ton I de manded an extra or di nar y cre dit of 12,-100,000 francs. It is not en oug h I His successor, General Schramm, asks a supplement to this supplemeet 10,400,000 f. as the consequence of the Presideetial decree, which has ordered the immediate incorpor a ti on c f 4' 0,0000 men taken on the contingent of 1849. \Ye have paid upwards of sixty millions for the Roman expedition against a riendly Republic, wo must now pay for putting Franco in a condition to go to the support, in case of need, of Austria and her &lies, who are in the way of complet leg the destruction of the liberties. of Germany and of securing there the prepond erance o f absolute Govern ments. Thus, are the words of the President becoming t6ii , a,ted into clear and precise acts." On the same . day General SCHRAMM presented a IBER 21, lB5O . LEGATE. vote of credit for theproposecl increase in the army. It was ordered to be referred to the Bureaux. "It was rennrked on Monday," says the Pouvoir, "that General CAVAIGNAC abstained from voting in the ballot on the election of General LAIIITTE." Although: there was DO considerable amount of business tretrisacted at the Bourse, the price of Govern ment stock ; was firm, and the improvement which took place after 2 o'clock was well maintained to the close. 'The Five per Cents. opened at 92f. 90c., fell to 921. 75c., and rose gradually to 93f. 35c , at which price they closed. The Three per Cents. closed at 581.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 787 f. 50c.; Bitten, 610f.;\ Havre, 2461. 25c. ; Great Northern, 462 f. 50c. ' • Avignon, 187 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 3 7 5 f. ; Beale, 127 f. 50e. ; Bordeaux, 387 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 3421. 50c.; tours and Nantes, 2411. 25c.; the New Piedmontese Loan, 85f. BUSINESS DOSE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 20. 'Boulogne and Amiens, 8 - Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 14: 3 / I —Dutch Rhenish, 2%—Northern of France, 14% Orl4ans and Bordeaux, 2 '4— Paris and Stras. bourg, 8 3 4—Rouen:and Havre, 3%—Sambre and Meuse, 2% —West Flanders, 17f 3 ex div. 4 SPAIN. Madrid journa4 of the 15th have arrived. Their contents are unimportant. 'The Boise was {closed. GERMANY. The news from Germany which has arrived is, as usual, of a.contradictory nature, some the journals declaring that everything indicates war, others as serting that the negotiations between Austria and Prussia have taken 'a decidedly pacific turn. From Berlin we learn that on the 16th there was another fall in the funds, which was attributed to the increa ing agitatzlikr in the Inaivinces, and to the addresses which blurt len voted to the KING, calling upon him to stop in the path of concessions to Austria. Oa the other hand, we find, in the Austrian Observer of the 15th, an article in which it is stated, "from a positive source," that the Austrian Government has already complied with all the , essential points of the demands oftthe Austrian Cabinet. This journal adds that Aden and Hamburgh' are to be evacuated ; the Prus sian troops in Electorrit Hesse: are to confine them selves to the military, passes ; all the uMcers and rrlISBl9 , ll volunteers ba'ie been recalled to the duchies; 'the' dissolution of the College of Princes and of the :Union is promised, and the free conferences for the re-organization of Germany are to commence in the course of the month. A letter from Kiel, in the Cologne Gazett4 states that the Prussian Cabinet ha-• informed the Provisional Government of the duchies that it is to reduce the army, and that if this be not done Prussia will do nothing to oppose he occupation of the duchies by the federal troops. - 7 .311 this , if true, is important, as it shows a determi ! nation to settle existing 4fferences by negotiation s ; " but the most important information is from Electoral Hesse.. According to accounts from various points of that territory, the Prrissian General had given notice that , an armistice 'with the federal troops had been agreed to. Some of the acconnai say that the Armistice is limited to a week ; others, that it is with otit limit, but may 'pe terminated at any time by either party, on - giving twenty; our hours' notice. The fad of an armistice having been made, however, is a pro &f that both AusLla and Prussia are desirous of 2r. writing any collision which might interr u pt th e n egaVadons fo?; , the maintenance of peace. ;TAL . In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin o f the 16thi , tha Bill" for the further continuance of the treaty of commerce :with France was p asse d b y 10(osotes.oit of 107. The motion of Signor ROSEL LINr, proposing that the Bills left unfinished at the, closcof the present session should be continued in tae following - one,*ivithout having to recommence Lien; was set aside by tne adoption of the ot6er of the. day. In the same sitthig the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce stated that no treaty of commerce had been stipulated between England and Piedmont, adding that those two countries were on the most friendly terms with each other, and that he wis happ.~ to as sure the Chamber that the good understanding; exist lug between them we." daily increasing. . • On the Bth inst. a sum of 510,595 scudi (3,060,000 francs), paper money, withdrawn from circulation during the preceding month, was burnt i.: 4 ; the Palazzo Borron3eo, at Rome. _Prince PIGNATELLI Rtrrro, a member of the fmily of the Dukes of Monteleone, died at Naples on the 7th. . . "GOD AND MY PIGHT." ENGLAND SPEAKING TO THE POPE's Clayton seems determined to give Cardinal Wire man no rest; he haslhere produced another excellent caricature, in which - our gracious Sovereign is repre sented as addressing to the Cardinal from her thron e the immortal words of Shakespere " What earthly name to interrogatories Can task the free breath of a sacred Queen? Thou canst not, Cardinal, devise a name So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous, To charge me to an answer, as the Pope. Tell him this tale; and from the mo7lth of England Add thus much more ;—That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our domi::iosis; But as we under heaven are stlpren2.- So, under Him, that great surtemacy. Where we do reign, we will aloud uphold Without the assistance of a mortAl hand; So tell the Pope; all reverence set apart To him, and his usurp'd authority." The Cardinal exhibits a ludicrous look of terror, and seems to feel that he is in fa scrape, and to wish him self well out of it. THE PAPAL AGGRESSIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—At a public meeting, held at the Guildhall in this city to-day, :for the purpose of protesting against the Papal aggression* and agreeing to: a loyal address to her Most Gracious Majesty upon the subject, Captain Murray (a citizen) struck at the root of the evil, and moved an amendment to the ad dress, to the effect, "That her Majesty would be graciously pleased to adopt L neasures for removing from the Church, and from plane, office, and emolu - ments within the Church, thost , ministers professing Tractarian 'principles." This amendment being seconded by Alderman Plummer, was carried by an immense majority. If such a clause had, or even now were to be introduced into the loyal addresses laid ihefore her Majesty, it would considerably strengthen the good and wise in tentioDs of Lord John Russell, ara, sir, &c., AMICUS. Canterbury, Nov. 20, 1850. TO THE EDITOR OF '."HE SUN. EMPJON V. COLQUI/VON. Sln,—ln your report of this caso in The Sun of yes terday, the defendant's name is moron gly spelt. It should be as above, and not "Colanham." This correction is necessary, as there might be a gentlornan on the Stock Exchange of the latter name.—l am, Oir, &c., H. GRAINGER, Solicitor for the Plaintiff. 27, Bucklersbury, Nov. 20, 1850. Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection : without esteem true love cannot exist.... Eliza Cook's Journal. The Marylebone Exhibition Committee of 1851, yesterday received subscriptions of 211. from the carriage department, and 111. ls. from the engineering department (London division) of the Great Western Railway. These two liberal subscriptions are. understood to be but the first iLAAahnent from these departments. _____ Orders have been issued from Scotland-yard for the enrolment of the superannuated police,_ who will be c a lled out for duty during the approaching Exhibition in ,AB5l. Tun DEVOURING ELEMENT.—Thee police foree.-- Punch. CARDINAL WIsEMAN.—We understand that several of the Foreign Ambassadors have paid their respects to the Cardinal since his arrival at St. George's Cathedral. At Seville there have been great rejoicings on the Cardinal's promotion, it being his native city. The Cardinal was the guest of the Archduke of Tuscany and of the Emperor of Austria on his way from Rome to England. AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS.—The American mail steamer Arctic, Captain Luce, sailed from the Mersey yes terday forenoon, on her rei urn voyage to New York . Con trary to usual practice, the Arctic sailed direct from the Huskisson Dock, where she hue been lying, the capacious gates of which, eighty feet wide, were opened at tide time, and having got up her steam, received the mails and passen gers (about fifty-five in number), she steamed out of dock, s eh i l d e the an - 1 proceeded down the river in beautiful style, s r cheers of a large number of spectators _ o n n i s t t o h c e k , 1 the 6 th t° witness her depgrture. The Baltic, Cap third Ysinorke p third ship of this line , wo uld leave New " • instant, and is expected at Liver p ool about Tuesday next. Adversity is the trial of princip le. Without it a man hardly knows whet her he is an honest mnn.—Eliza Cook's Journal. TAE DEAD or ........ • - 10 -- The year 1850 has been of the President of the United -- -nay notice those them N• e a e the Emperor of China, the remarkable,.so far for the deaths of notable persons. Among of Franc , States, am; - Ki n g fx-.., oro i rtgo , the Duke of Cambridge, Sir President of tit , 40 Sir Francis Jeffrey, the mas f the most distinguished Prime Ministers Rubcrt Pen], England ever had;, one John C. Calhoun, one of the oldest se dswortb, the Poet Laureate; Neander, the terry critic ; IN:v. nators in tliC Christianity % the Rev. Dr. Judson, the able defender of ~. B a ptist Missionary; Margaret S. Fuller United Stater; venerable A ra•ricar; • ri Essayist; Jacob Hays, High Sheriff the vigorous America. ror to evil doers" for over half a yen. of New York, and a " tel- of less .._.Themark snow hex . tury ; and a host of others . , already SNOW IN TAB PYRENEE‘. - enees. A few clays since and a manbelonging , ri were buried in a snow-drn, • • • cau-ed several accidents in the Py, ~ two women .1 a similar manner, to Saint Jean Pied de Port perished 1, of chAnonn , i while returning from the Spanish village ----, '" --- 1 . 112 . cl oi Mr c . F r ench raper. The Earl and Countess of Shrewebull 1 °- John Talbot, who 11 „i ved at some from the St. F r arce, intend to depart f rom that city ear ly i n the aly• - m onth for Sicily, for th e winter. Mr. Talbot's he 9,1131 Lliv delicate. - 1 1-19BrrLorOsOapt Ml‘ald°aNMEeYTUSlH—tlaYtril:ll4,rit' s ee hi. cbanP6 ' . - LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-(THIS D: A d l2 L OND ON, Nov. 21,-Wind a t noon N.W., - c breeze end fine. KINGEJODING, Nov. 11.-Tbe Gesehw estcr ' • o - f . Diesuin. Konigsberg to London, was stranded near Alt% ) gab Bth inst.; crew saved. A schooner or brig, !of burg , kaulc 'town, drove on shore near Nyemandegaab 7th to THESTED, Nov. 9.-The Hendrich, of l'apPeo , ~, St Petersburgh to Antwerp, drove on shore last niger i _ MANDAHL, Nov. 4.-The Lykkens Prove, to Luna( n, put into Keleyen Oct. 24, leak. stet , LANGOESUND. Nov. 11.-The Christian Attgue,.... Breving to London, put back to this port Nov. 7. letoip. and with loss of deckload , &c.,. and must discharge: , ~.._ HJORRING.-The Die ,a of Althagee, was straueeci_u; Raberg during a heavy gale from Vf. last night , (3 7 saved. A. 41 Sage CARLISLE, Nov. LV 19. Wald W., fresh. --.0-i• - • Aarlia la Quebec. CLYLE.-Arrd. Boadecia , Callao. rarlebr LUBECK, Nov. 1 6 . - Th e Stride'. NYe --_, to this port, is totally wreck ed near ass; crew se-r posed to be drowned. ELSINORE, Nov. 15.-The Fu.lsis, if 1 1 don, put in to-day leaky. a %Di ? Londe WEYMOUTH, NOV. 19.-Arrd. Fleece, Exeter, leaky. ear& LIVERPOOL, Nov. 20. - Wind N.N.E. ' - x i s Loodianah, Calcutta; Carlton, Paraiba; Maria Le, ; Honduras. Ski. Beloochoe, Bombay; Hebbert, DT; • Ayres; Esther Ann, Pernambuco;_ „waTsl.:"lfelrisit Orleans; Arctic steamer, New York. There b as j e been any weather here, either wind or rain, tO !T o be for the great fall in the glass yesterday, but it 0 ,, w , t el thought that a heavy gale prevailed to the Boer Lo s and westward. The Schilizzi, from Rio Gree' l l Oh E s c h h o o r o e ne iß r, o ra f ly b d e li r d d ß o O ney ß , ay (n ; arrived leaky, having struek on the Bar coining ( : 41 01 tia Ric:TA:sot: September. The M a rgare n t re s ar cho s o a n ve e d r Abergo" ; c . saved. DEAL, Nov. 20.-Wind W.S.W. to S. W., shore near veEV striae and squally.-Arrd. Norma, Vallesen, VolP arai e s t 4 . 0 hack, Columbine, Sierra Leone; Lana goe'',l, l 'St. Francisco. The Emily, of and from om Ho" , ' ° ; 0 ,04 Thomas, received damage, having struck off Doctf oo to SBoREHAM, NOV. 20.-The Mary AO, unde r Sev goo' London, which put in here 2d Nov., havi n g __, repairs, has proceeded. sr 10 ' bere yesterday from Odessa, experienced v e ry TORBAY, Nov. 20.-The Maria _Fortuna'e• brae,ele weather in the Mediterranean, when she bad h er ne sgeo swept, varried away sails, and received other t or bo d ar w d as compelled to throw part of cargo (wh eat/ f :vi ro ai m t, r S , w at a r n u s n e k s , for cork, SAUNDERSFOOT, Nov. 19.-Tle Elba, of se" t ,off the cre w left be t e eor ' ,an d "jog state, drifting along shore with stresoa d r est down,. l,,lai.oth a . nd it is expected she will be Wre' le Maria brigar , 1 .I'll • MILFORD, Nov. 19.-Wind S.W., a gals. web both Point, anchors &lead near the rocks under CitatT l e 0 0 theroeks.. utreiengNaewhrp'oavtYchg;ale this Waning, a jo , her g, C) 0. bet tine, of and for QileeDitOWD, (fro! s.di where she was scuttled, to prevent The Mavis, from Wexford, p anchors, and went on shore in S. Bride's 13sy this 0 eir noon, tied is expectedwreck; seveo. to become _a total I t, th is ,, RYE, Nov. c N 20.-The Abigail, Glasgow to sex le. came on shore this morning, and is expected off .„ o e, a, _ BODE, Nov. 20.-The Briton barque' of Pe orot l g i Qacbee to Gloucester, ran for this piece this to lu iag of he r " and struck off the Creek •there is b ee° , off on next tide. i ; hag (seir CONSTA . NTINoPLE, Nov. 5.-The At,antai l e'e i arted ir.oafil er, p FA LMOUTH, her repairs, and is taking in cargo• strong g al' 3' 0 W . dN W stre- g A rrd. M• • Nov.. .- in . " . , e chief, Clyde, for Lisbon, leak'', ce a t er r ' WIGTOWN, Nov. 19.-The Faaae, of this P . oe , % w ick ceeding down the river Cress on the 16th to st " 0 , 1 0- upon a jetty at the Grange and stoat; cif upon Attempts will be made to save her. of this ABERDEEN, Nov. 19.-The Nancy 010 0 P, ni y flip port, for Hamburgb, was wrecked in Stacebsoum mornin • g during a heavy I S E ga eat . • n ett DUNDEE, NOV. 19.-The B ac h u ei is on shered. 11 h th a : West Have, and will be a wreck; crew 49( 4. blown very strong all night, and continues Cheepat' 01 HOLYHEAD, Nov. 20.-The Heart of Oak, e 0 to Newport, isthe a on reeks in the bah -R,. e become Rlly total wreck; cargo washing on sliOr • O OO L, Nov. 20.-The Victoria, of .Aberdove), . lost the Bristol Channel,in Abeiglo - U3) night, with loss of came on shore i ego mainmast; Mc , / s 0 ave . D 101- Tho Margaret, in 3 of Liverpool, ran on shore i Bay this mornin g; crew caved. e to ~, Sbielu S n a YARNOUTH, N OV. 20.-The Quaettee, ( , 03 e5 tie London, was 'in contact in the Roads with the u Elizabeth, and lost b • owsprit, &e. 1 f O' er KRAGEROE, Nov. 10.-The Ann Camp bell, 0 po et, aprl, Konigsberg to Hull, put in here yesterdollie to Grangemouth, discharge. The Earn, of Leith, ST 30 ,0 has put in to-day leaky' ac discharge. --...----....... 13 A.Y• MARKET NEWS.-(THIS m; :, ) NEWS.-( 'PHIS I h T ff lT' a GilVrn 11173) 11413)5Nig43 I'lll6°ll' steady demand for the best Beef. „, od and Pork, at full prices. In other kind of ge' e , 6tl little do' Mutoc,e;6o, to 3a 8d; Veal, from 2s 44 to 3s 64; by the carcase. 3a to 33 104; Pork, 33 to 4 3 2d P 0 0? 4 5.12 . VIAZIrmr 31 Virri-gfe,,... - _!,--.P7rsa• _. .-ii:: 1 , r ,,traw it - -at 83 p" , 2s to s Supply good, and trade du11.4/ os ; CIMIBERT ANI ClOve” 3/ . ' U. - llefeudow Hay, 2/ 10e to et Iced' A full avera g e Os to 4/44; cud Straw, 1121 to 1 1 : P _ average supply, and a sluggish demon' sl 17 4 ,i ci( N ) V y, II r IT 3 7 O HAPEL. - Meadow Hay, 21 Ss if Pet Loa. s to 4145; and Straw, 112+ to 11 63 Trade rather dull, at late rates. 0 Isla MEAT in artnzivs. SourHALL, Nov. 20.-Our 1 t to-dill ill 0 41 supplied with • iTl3l" ie „ eh e 40 each kind of fat stock , in " 1 3s s ° ' l‘f business was ' .. doing, as follows:-Beef from d , rot Mutton, 38 4d to 4s 24 Veal, ^ Itas 8 ' A ; es 4( 0 re -33),d to as no 104 per 81bs to sink the olfals. , 4 off ODIFORD, Nov. 20.-Prime Beasts and Sheelmpaa steadily, at very full prices; otherwise the ;wo! was in a sluggish state. Beef trom 33 24 to 4 3 ; 3 , to ,3 ' 3s _4d to 4s 2d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 8d; l'°, rk ' 2 es '1; 10d_per Sibs. Quarter old Store Pigs, liii '`) id 0 3 "„, 4 s lu ggish state , Nov. 20.-Although ;he deroo,,L, 0/, flee' tee'. " 1° 53 6a t ° state, prices were well su ppor ..„, " 38 6d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 64 to 4s 4d; ve- foil 3s 8d; Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per Blbs. , a ee, at ) CUIIICIIDEI" NOV, 19.-Our market oleo oi.-,:. 0 t 4s r.ilres-----B-9ef, from 3s 6d to ies; gest" , 0 Cali ' Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 64 per epees eesiee ßgl e l e• CHESTER, Nov. 20.-A full' a versge - _1 ea 4s+ 6 _ s transacted in to-fl eay's market and the geeer",td to 4 1 , had an upward t ' ' from 38 poro Mutton, e 3s 64endep". Sect, ee 6e; 440 to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s 24 to -. 18 , to e 3. to 3s 8d per 81bs ; Suckling Ca b '? - Ind Quarter-old Store Pigs,. 183 to 224 ea c "' --see .—.------_______ CORN AVERAGES' cO O 00 GENERA], AVERAGE PRICES 01 BVIT 0 15 c j i l y.eta rn a '' l e fr d° For the We; , ,}: ended .Nc v. It. I 50, inade up frog I. ,„,,d al , , ; Inspectori , in the different C'ties and Towns Jo -t , g . 0 ,5 ' . .1 per InyperlalQuarter. - 00 5 ; 129 5 0 PRICE I 4 . 111;AT. I R ARLET.! OATS. 1 RTr• 1 os , 9 , •• i 305 100 1 24s 10 I 17s 20 1 24s 2 ,1 ' r'S'' ' ; DUTIES ON FOREIGN CON'S' 9 I D . WHEAT. BARLEY I BiE. 1 0.- Is OATS. Is " is Od - I Is Od I Is Od lIS ild:r icol,',o,s, wh Q e,t U t ANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN TIIE I'A S ,,,, 90; 13' ' '82'560; Intrie7, 78,239; Oats, 24,007 ; I I I" 3,99 R; P ena, THERE'S ett. NE W MUSIC' ,r n VA Tr ,s ROAR. graceful, Ballad. Wri d C ' l ° scdbli Ven an 0 7 n, The words cf . this bollad are very P rattP e _ g a ti tl ': 3- 0 10 Th melody is expressive, and at t he f a ll, 3lll p 6ll.ec exuisitely s i kl pi e; and being wit hi n toew of 0 -iIISIC IN THE WIL..- 1 lid compass of antrdieftry voice, -this ballad c o/n : / 13 to become a favourite in every drani"g 4°- accompanimentii are admirably arrangeo• • .--- . Our m - -6; , E i °8 : °": : :1 p2,reßviEol 7---- s E. com of,,,,trah.evih propounced on its first appearance ---are `; ‘ , 13 0 ).0 ' 41 ,. each week , fully justified. FraCtiCe F s , f6ir be preparing -,ii ena ri ;,, pr ,, ,,t l ,p s c i tlu ile o f the ti me when, Lee irav - dro 'V' faso x P nt i mn l i i rehi b tlrthl i h t i i iti o ei ial u nnaei donro, a sa t kipi . iyniet ' sci - e.pheei,t i . tl..ts, i ievs a ri " ii tsfririi t o:II Q .1; cl : actually arrived, it will assume 9 illa strai i ; semi-official importance, as the week l Y rt tel' v b, r f ecorder of inventions, designs, and ,43t,e0",, actures. This week, among the princiPal ` r, i51 . ..1 0 ; 0 ments carria ara—a view of Warkworth ofilsrbal/ l i on 31)13 umherland, a sketch of the Lord Z.layn r d '' :°11 ; mercia g l e, posartdionaof ptlhaen townof the of Dic k siverpo o 3: „ .l i t t h n eg 6 j t a: l : is e ri t. with an outline of the exquisite model ° ,',,,hibiP:',,; mentioned to be t ra nsmitted to tho grea t . '' „rof it 's rbergit ci Minor skt : bracket edlamp, woodcuts bo t ap are likewise scattered ilicir3dPle)bt i t opi ni h : r ioudp o :rd u ee ih fpl boa t sl h ftuien e r letterpress.olletranotherh, tg n hg t ee g si l nt a igo s s n . ns a u l ar l i v t ir to i h n i g ovvy v,mhniacnohuu‘ftsa,:int t n . t r i l r le : : -: f.u p i c: froo 3 i wvirs t t s oreeo c edw o t iumns the following e paragrap h :—.. --la tl ' is -i t o o e b o l ° , , . R 4 3: 1, nu : delEdnN stone. r ahr - a s ev T eb a ul E i is l e tad . h - , ; aea t ip 0 0 A EmEN T. n %lei' ~ti® e f:o p t e h r o iE h l l e f n o t r horses." eb prevented noise, and, a t theeo:l such i3 s c'o a i nn ra go a ttf:d :b: :cu'r: :Is I 35 : I:er :u a le r r 1: :!!. : : : : ttegottfd w°,', firra able e e a li n t ( e i rary lie contributions are, g as much to the ptapco, as the Pl e ' cl lustrations. byP`' y.—EAdulation is either in temp ---1' ' era te zeal, "' liza Cook's JournaL i cito THE ANC • Loitro JOHN us sOL . o il ') crisp. —.E liza ESTOR OF , r tsr , , ham L or d Russell, the Christian patriot and ina . iibe rt, , the now sacrifice dieof with refo made libation of his blood in the cause of religi.e...to 1 l i ssu, sealed Protestan a tru gr o f f,rig; 4 and in the communion of the Churco,, to 1 . 11 , ,,, these B d land; though I could never comply with o r rise r .1:01,,, heights of tome people, I wish with all mein soul ot_. _"',`" e tii! differences were removed, and that all cere .I:_r c i ) ,` o , a i i ) o: would so far consider the danger of Popery as t ''' (o ' l ,l o ‘ 1 ,3 our heats, slid agree against the common enen)Y.,_tc. 1c,,, grclolirgioi,t,i,s, word:. _. A 6iocer,, the Churchmen would be less severe; and the Diss,,r, a t ;.,,;: scrupulous ; for I think bitterress and an t e 7 do e t c i ,i ii times bad, but much more noN I did believe, : t ' A bat 1 ,1) .. ., ° that Popery is breaking in on this natio, 011tlicir deslF Who advance it will stop at nothing to carry 0 0 . „ be ir hef t --..1 am heartily sorry that many Protwtan `se gi! e ' pro test :l , l mK hand to it. 13ut I hope God will preser 07. ~,.. oat: religion and this tuition thatigh lam afraid it ii to L'nzt Milt tealit 11141"07' 4101 3 OOP a• 9 l