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

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.' THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. The celebrated BERLIN CHOIR every Evening. THIS EVENING. Angri, tefort, Mulique, Piatti, Beaumann, and. Goddard, the Eng lish Chorus, and the Choir of the Berlin Chapel Royal. The Pastoral Symphonie - The Overtures to Midsummer Night's Dream and Guillaume Tell—The Grand March from the Camp of Silesia. Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Balfe. Conductor of La Mhsique de Danse—Herr Labiczky. Conductor of the Choristers of the Berlin Ckapel Royal—Herr Neidhardt. • Promenade (admitting to the Hal-Circles, Gallery/ and Pit Stalls) • • • • • • • • • • I 6 •. The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will corn nee at Eight, and terminate about Eleven. Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-office, where Programmes of the performance may be obtained. Mr.'Thomas Masters of the Polytechnic Institution, the Coloseum, mod Royal. Botanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply the Refresh ments and Wines, &c., Re. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. MACREADY. THIS EVNIN, Will be performed KING LEAR. E King G Lear. Mr. Macready. To be followed by THE IRISH DIAMOND. After which MY FRIEND IN THE STRAPS. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a Terpsichorian Burlesque called ESMERALDA. Characters by Messsrs. 0. Smith, Wright, I'. Bedford ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliarn. 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. After which, MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Principal Characters by mums, Wc.ght. 'Tedford, Worrell; and Miss Harding, To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, _ _ Will be performed an entirely new Play called THE TEMPLAR. To be followed by . a new Farce, called PLATONIC ATTACH MENTS, in which Mr. Keeley, 3lr. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley will appear. After which SENT TO THE TOWER. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may be 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, IL Farren, Norton, IV. Fa Ten, jun., Johnstone, G. Cooke, Diddear ; Miss Helen Faucit, and Mrs. L. Murray. To be followed by A BACHELOR'S VOW. Atter which ALLOW ME TO APOLOGISE. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, called THE WHITE HOOD, After which SEI:VE Hist RIGHT. To conclude with THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE. ASTLEY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under tha 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 Spectacle, entitled THE ENCHANTEP PALFREY; or, The War rior cf the Crescent. to be succe:ded by an inimitable Display of Batty's Feats cf Equitation in the Cirque Olympique, by the male and female Eques trians of the Establishment To conclude with the Farce of THE BENEVOLENT TAR. Box-oillea open front Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. MGR WATER AI LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY —Morning 10 min. after 6 I Evening 33 rain. after 6 To-Moalow— Morning 1 min. after 7 I Evening 34 rain. after Ti THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOV - EMBER 10, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 55—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.31. WIND W.—mild, dull day. MONDAY, Nov. 11. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 58—highest since noon yesterday. 46—lowest this morning and during the night. 55—this day, at noon. BARomE.TER, 30.14. WIND W.—fine sunshiny weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. The State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.-The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PLYMOUTH -Wind N., calm- foggy. PORTSMOUTH-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. BRIGHTON-Wind N., calm-partially cloudy. ll.ariNGs-Wind N. W., gentle breeze-cloudless. SoUTHAMPTON-Wind W., strong breeze-foggy. FOLKESTONE-Wind N.W., gentle breeze-overcast. BASINGSTOKE - Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast. BRISTOL- Wind S.W., calm-cloudy. READENG-NN ilad S.W., gentle breeze-overcast. GRE EN WIC EI -Wind S. W., gentle breeze-overcast. SWINDON- Wind S.W., light airs -overcast. OxFoup -Wind N.W., calm-rain. CoLcraI•STER-Wind N.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE-Wind S.W. gentle breeze-overcast. Ryas e--‘ \lnd W., gentle breeze-overcast. FIGTERBOROUGH-Wind S. W., calm - partially cloudy. YARMOUTH-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast. CnitwE- Wind S.S.W., light breeze-overcast. CONWAY-Winn W., strong breeze-cloudless. HoLyrrEAD-Wind •;.W , gentle breeie-overcast. LIVERPOOL--Wind S.E., zentle breeze-overcast. MANCHESTER-Wind S.W , gentle breeze-overcast. LEEDS - Wind W. N. W., calm - cloudy. YORK-Wind W., gentle breeze-overcast. LANCASTER-Wind S., calm-scud, rain. SHAP-Wind N.W., calm - partially cloudy. St-xnEat,artn-Wind E., gentle breeze- overcast. CAru.IsLE-w ind S. W , gentle breeze-cloudy. yrro:li-Wind S,W.. gentle breeze -ran. EDINBURGH - Wind S.W., gentle breeze overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock - Coarc —Wind W., light breeze—clear. MULL! o AR—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CAaLow —Calm—partially cloudy. DUNDALK—Wind N. W., gentle breeze—clear. Bum' iTON—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. HASTINGS - Wind S. W., strong breeze—overcast. HOLYHEAD —Wind W., strong breeze—cloudless. LIVERPOOL—Wind W.. strong breeze—cloudless. WHITEHAVEN— Wind N. W., strong breeze partially cloudy DUNDEE —Wind N. W., strong breeze—cloudless. 1_ 7, 4 ' I? f , t --', v .„ 7 4 0, ‘ 4 -F .t l , 7 t, ~,t,,, ,:1 1 ... 1 '4,"(,.;,:41.24:). , P , r "c . ' vl - j --14 e, -- '‘ . ..rk..`;:•):., 4 - ,- 41% p '' „ ~ Cie:7 ~,,, • ", ; I -_,,,.. s , ' S ' _, . ~..,....._____ _ ....,.ft., , _. r • ~,,,, , „: _ -..:. A ~ etreinna Ant, C<I. TY LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1850. The more than Spanish pride, conjoined with more than Hibernian impudence, of the recently nominated Cardinal, has roused a feeling of resistance to Papal usurpation throughout the length and breadth of this laud, of which neither the POPE, the Cardinal, the priests, nor the Puseyites had previously entertained the. remotest idea. In every class of society we find men vieing with each other in expressions of attach ment to the principles of the Reformation, and glory ing in the muse of Protestant, thus showing that those " who repudiate the name of Protestant" are indeed a miserable, almost infinitesimally small minority, and that those journals who consider a Minister of the Crown is acting unbecomingly in publicly and offi cially declaring that the country is attached to the glorious principles of the Reformation must be con side red not as the organs of public opinion, but of the opinions of a clique of parsons, who are furious not so much at the Papal usurpation as at the feeling of op. position to sacerdotal despotism which it has aroused throughout the country, and which will effectually prevent them from realising the scheme they have long had at heart, of becoming every priest Pope in his own parish. Speaking of the effect produced by the Papal Bull on these gentry, a correspondent says,— " I am pleased at the Pores impudence; be has raised a perfect fever amongst the parsons. I don't see that it concerns anybody else but them. A. great many of them would like to have the same power and control over their flocks that the priests have. They have been trying it on for some time in the shape of s ham priests, but now the real thing is surrounding them they are afraid of losing their fat livings. The POPE'S Lull and the Ueiversity Commission will make them loek about them. " An old friend of mine used to say that when two Bishops knocked their heads together it was sure to elicit sparks amusing to the people." The attachment to the principles of the Reforma tion, and the determination to oppose all attempts of Rome or of Oxford to infringe on our civil and re ligious liberties, extends to all classes of the commu nity. Already had the Presbyterians spoken out by Dr. Cummnio,the Dissenters by the Rev. T. BINNEY, and the people by the numerous meetings which have been held throughout the country ; and on Sa turday, at the LORD MAYOR'S dinner, we had the Ministers of the Crow❑ and the grave judges of the l aw declaring in unmistakeable terms their strong attachment to the glorious principles of the Refor mation. Tire noble sentiments the Prime Minister had already expressed in his letter were reiterated by Lord JOHN .RLISSELL in the following eloquent terms : " The Lord Mayor, in speLking of any merit which her Majesty's Ministers may have, has alluded to the declaration which has recently been made on my part.— (Loud cries of Hear, bean') I can only say, gentle men, that that attachment to the religious freedom of this country which I have hitherto felt will always con tiuue to animate my breast, and that it will be try duty to maintain to the utmost of my power ths aap.ealacy of our Sofereign—(Loud cheering) —and the rrligioua liberties of the people from Under our feet we'll stamp thy Cardinal's bat, In spite of Pope or dignities of church.' " It would appear from the speech of Lord CAMPBELL that it is by no means certain that Cardinal WISE MAN has not by his impudent usurpation rendered himself amenable to criminal justice; for Lord CA MPBELL, the greatest judge who has appeared during this century, who unites to the learning of COBB the uprightness of HALE and the patriotism of CAMDEN, thus jocularly alluded to the possibility of the appear ance of Cardinal WISEMAN at the bar of his court : - - - - " I have observed that there is only one topic in your present excited state to which you are disposed to listen —(Loud cheers)—and to that topic it does not belong to me by any means to allude. I have the honour to hold a distinguished office in her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, and it might so happen that his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, and his Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth, might be tried at that bar.—(A laugh.) If his Eminence and his Holiness should appear in my hall, then they may depnd upon it that they will have an impartial trial.—(Great laughter and cheers.) My Lord Mayor, you say that justi ce i s equally administered to persons of all conditions in our courts, and if the Pope himself appeared in his triple crown before me he would receive the same justice as if he were an humble parish priest.—(Cheers.)" It is gratifying, most gratifying, to find "all sorts and conditions of men" thus coming forward to de clare their attachment to the glorious principles of the Reformation, showing that England still remains true to herself, and is not to be induced by cajolery, or intimidated by threats to abdicate her prottd posi tion as the Protectress of Protestantism all over the world. We referred a few days since, through the columns of this journal, to the satisfactory and very successful experiments of Mr. OWEN on the peat-bogs of Ire land. We hailed it as a great and important project of public utility, calculated to effectuate much good, by giving extensive employment to the labouring poor, and bringing into cultivation wide tracts of land now comparatively useless. Upwards of two million acres of the area of that island is covered with a surface of peat capable of conversion into pro ducts in every-day use, of great commercial impor tance, and yielding an immense profit to the specu lator, and we can entertain little doubt that British capitalists will avail themselves of so profitable an in• vestment for their money. We shall to-day briefly refer to dncther source of industrial employment, capable of yielding as re munerative a return, if not more, to the speculating capitalist, and which has unfortunately been hitherto allowed to lie as useless and unproductive as the Irish bog lands, we mean the teeming fishing grounds which encircle the coast of Ireland. It is unfortunately notorious that along the coast, and in the maritime towns of that country, there ge nerally prevails an amount of misery and wretched ness almost unparalleled. In several of these dis tricts famine performs its hideous cycle, and makes its periodical visitation with the certainty and regu larity of the seasons. The awful state of the people for want of remunerative employment may be judged . by a case reported to have come before the magis trates at Yanturk petty sessions in the county of Cork a few days since. From this it would appear theta wretched-looking labouring man, named WaLsn, summoned a farmer, named GREEN, for one shilling and sixpence, as the hire for eighteen days' reaping and saving the harvest. The plaintiff having proved that he had worked eighteen days, and that the de fendant promised to pay him one penny per day, the following dialogue took place in presence of the Court : " Defendant—Gentlemen, I deny it. Why should agree to pay HIM a penny a-d ty, when I could get the best MEN IN THE COUNTRY FOR THAT NOW ? I have a witness that I agreed with him for ONE HALF-PENNY PER WEEK, which I tendered to him, and he refased it. I now tender it to him again in the presence of your Honours. (Defendant then produced 6cl;, which he offered to give Walsh, PROVIDED HE G T 4id. CHANGE.) " Plaintiff—Why should I take it ? He owes me Is. 6d., your Honours, AND WELL I EARNED IT. Whilst I was with him I was obliged to be up in the morning at four o'clock to let the cows out of the sleeping field, and remain herding them till the other men came to their work, and was then obliged to work with them all day, and got nothing for my support but alittle dry Indian gruel. THEY USED TO GIVE THE MILK TO THE PIGS AND CALVES BEFORE MY FACE, AND WOULD NuT GIVE ME A DROP." The defendant in the cruel and heartless spirit of the Jew in the Merchant of Venice endeavoured to convince the magistrates that " a bargain was a bar gain, and ought to be kept," and insisted on the benefit of his bargain. The bench, however, we are glad to say, concurred in the truth of the poor la bourer's averment, and decreed for him the paltry sum he demanded, with EIGIIT AND SIXPENCE COSTS. Can the records of human miselly, can the history of human wretchedness through the wide earth, fur nish a picture like this of poverty and suffering on the one hand, and hard-hearted unfeeling villany on the other ? Here we have a miserable fellow- being voluntarily contracting, in order to sustain a wretched existence, to toil from four o'clock in the morning till relieved by the darkness of night for one penny a day ! And an inhuman wretch has the hardihood in a Christian land, and in a country too characteristic for emotions of good nature and generosity, to go into a court of justice to r es i s t this beggarly dole, for it deserves not the name of the labourer's hire. SHY LOCK possessed the milk of human kindness compared with this miscreant of Kanturk. The Venetian Jew would sacrifice his love of gain for vengeance, and insist on his " pound of flesh," by which his unfortunate victim's life and sufferings should together end; but this Irish SEIYLOCIC, far more cruel, would consign his victim to a slow and lingering death, while he extracted from him a sordid and un- holy profit. We rejoice that the magistrates were in some degree enabled to " curb this cruel devil of his will," by mulcting him in costs, and we sincerely regret they were unable to grant this poor man a quantum meruit—or at least more reasonable wages. If there ever were a case in which the principle " To do a great right do a little wrong," could be excus able, it certainly would be in a case like this. We have dwelt somewhat longer on this distressing case than we intended, and shall now return to the sub ject of the Irish,Fisheries, the proper working of which, we believe, would prove an infallible mode of prevent ing a recurrence of such horrors as we have just de tailed, and which would appear to us quite incredible , whatever quarter they may be assailed.—(Renewed cheering.) Let IN e add, however, one thing further. When perils much more grave—much more Imminent, impended over this country, a wise princess, who at that time ruled her desti n i es , thought fit to ca ll to her aid ail those, whatever might be their religious persuasion, who were faithful to the Throne, and true to the interests of the country. Such was the conduct of Elizabeth in times of as great danger as ever oc curred to this country. Such conduct is worthy of imi tation, and I believe, with the religious liberty esta blished in this country, persons of all religious persua sions, while obeying the dictates of their conscience as to the mode of worship they think right to adopt, will rally round the institutions of the country, pay a grateful homage to the Crown for the protection they receive, and rejoice that they live in a land where freedom is general, and where, I trust, it is permanently esta blished.—(Great applause.)" Highly gratifying, also, to every Protestant must be the clear and explicit declaration of the Lord Chancellor on this subject, more especially when we consider the immense ecclesiastical patronago at his Lordship's disposal. We hail his Lordship's speech on Saturday as a pledge that that patronage will be bestowed on none but those who rejoice in the name of Protestant, and who are firmly attached to the principles of the Reformation—a Reformation which, to use the words of the Lord Chancellor, " at this time calls more than ordinarily en every true-hearted Protestant to . maintain and defend it—(Cheers)—against the insi dious within—(Hear, hear)—and the enemies with out.—(Hear, hear.) There are some who have thought it right to depart from that simplicity of Christian worship which our divine SAvlouit adopted and left us an example of, and who have sought to approximate as near as possible to Romish forms, one would almost think to invite that very invasion with which we have been recently visited.— (Hear, hear.) You are called upon to watch the pro gress of that invasion. Protestant England is in formed that she has now come under a Roman Catholic hierarchy. The hymn of triumph for the admission to equality in civil liberty has given place to the note of insult, triumph, and domination, announcing that you have come under a Roman Catholic hierarchy.— (Hear, hear.) Considering the language of the do cument to which I refer, and considering the truly Romish construction which some attempt to put upon the oath of supremacy, it would seem as if some were acting in anticipation of the fulfilment of an ancient prophecy, which presents a cardinal's cap as equal to the Crown of the Queen of ENGLAND. If such be anticipated, I answer them in the language of GLOUCESTER : N, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER ti , 1850. Yet, within view, even within reach of such rich resources, the most abject poverty is known to prevail. Frequently the listless fisherman will see shoals upon shoals of the most exquisite fish so close to shore that, even with his crazy boat and ill-appointed tackle, he could secure a large quantity. A few he will procure, to supply the necessities of the day, but more than this would be useless waste. He has no market to send it to while fresh, and no salt or means of curing it. In utter hopelessness he must turn away, bitterly feeling his inability, from his poverty and isolated posi tion, to render subservient to his uses the goods placed within bis reach by an all-bountiful PROVIDENCE. We remember with what universal approbation the press of both countries hailed the formation of the "Great Western Fisheries Company," and all the happy consequences that were anticipated. Wealth and plenty were to be introduced into the dreary abodes of the Irish fishermen ; all was to be bustle and trade. From Bantry to Donegal Bay, from famine-stricken Skull to wild Connemara there was not to be a hand unemployed. Large vessels were to be supplied ; the best tackle was to be provided, curing stations and marts were to be established at convenient points and distances along the shore. In short, a new El Dorado was dis covered which would yield a golden harvest to Ireland and the empire. But, alas! these dreams have not been realized. We believe this company is still in existence ; but from Irish apathy and want of English enterprise they have been unable to carry out their benevolent inten tions. It is to be lamented that gentlemen of wealth, spirit, and philanthropy, such as Mr. OWEN, are so rare. His experiment on Irish peat, we have seen, has realized more than one hundred per cent. We have little doubt a fishing company would realize a still larger profit, while the advantages to the empire would be incalculably greater from the improved social and physical condition of Ireland. CABINET COUNCIL.--(THIS DAY.)—A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office to-day, at one o'clock, at which were present the Marquis of Lans downe, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor (who came from his Court at Lincoln's Inn), the Marquis of Clanricarde. Earl Grey, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Minto, Viscount Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir George Grey, Sir John C. Hob house, Sir Francis T. Baring, the Right Hon. Fox Maule, and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. The Ministers wr.:re in deliberation when we went to ' press. SQine of the Ministers are expected to leave town to-morrow to attend a Privy Council at Windsor for the further prorogation of Parliament. OXYGEN, MAGNECTIC.—Mr. Faraday, at the last monthly meeting of the Royal Institution, announced to the members present his discovery (the subject of a paper sent in to the Royal Society) that oxygen is magnectic, that this property of the gas is , affected by heat, and that be believes the diurnal variation of the magnectic needle to be due to the action of solar b:sat on this newly-discovered characteristic of oxygen—the important constituent of the atmosphere. We do not mean to give the above as the terms of Faraday's an nounfLement, or as the exact facts of the conclusions drawn from his last experimental researches, but only as a foresha dowing of the new results and views of one of our most emi nent British philosophers. We must add, however, that Bequerel also has recently directed attention to a somewhat similar conclusion ; he communicated to the Academy of Sciences at Paris, that oxygen is magnectic in relation to the other gases, as iron is to the rest of the metals, and inferred that it is probable or possible (we have not the paper by us to refer to) that diurnal variation may be connected with this property of oxygen.—Literary Gazette. SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—Last week a boy, named William Shakspear, was charged before Mr. Lucy, magistrate of Birmingham, with pocket picking. The incident caused some amusement in the police-court. DOCK YARD.—William Edye, Esq., has taken the direction and superintendence of the works of the new basin at this yard.— Devonport Independent. LORD MAYOR'S DAY AND DINNER.—The Ob server of Sunday, Nov. 10, gave five of their folio columns of the City dinner, and all matters connected therewith. The Observer of Sunday, Nov. 3, gave the fullest report (upwards of five of the Cbseiver columns) of the Bi'hop of London's charge at St. Paul's. on the previous Saturday. The exteia sive publication of the Observer commences on Sunday morn• ings at four o'clock, in time for all the early railways. Mon day's edition best fur the country and abroad, Monday afternoons at four o'clock, Price of the Observer, sixpence. Office, 170, Strand. DEPARTURE OF THE NIAGARA.—The British and North American Royal Mail steamer Niagara, Captain Stone, sailed on Saturday from Liverpool to New York direct. She carried out 70 passengers, a good freight, and the usual mails. The in-coming steamer, the America, from Boston and Halifax, was expected at Liverpool on Saturday. We have great pleasure in stating that her Majesty has been pleased to grant a pension of 1001. a year to Mr. I John Payne Collier, the editor of Sh a k speare, and author of " The History of the English Stage." The warrant is dated the 30th of last month, and expressly mentions that the pension is given "in consideration of his literary mer;ts." Few men have done more than Mr. Collier for the illustra tion of our Elizabethan literature, and of the lives of the many worthies of the great period of English poetry. OXFORD, Nov. B.—This morning Mr. Harrison, from Merchant Tailors' School. was elected a scholar; and Mr. James Price Beck (late of Rug,by School) and Mr. Chas. Alford Cookson, commoners, were elected Dean Ireland's exhibitioners. Mr. Edward O'Connor, who for the last 15 years had been editor of the Dublin Even* Pocket, expired sud denly at his residence on Wednesday last. BALLOON ACCIDENT.—MADRID, Nov. 2.—A Mr. Orlandi made a balloon ascension at Barcelona on the 27th ult. As no news was obtained of him for two days, great unhappy uneasiness fate te was a s o t s l e s u t r he A shouldArbon. He narrow escape of his life. Th e b a ll oon was wa f te d over t h e snow-covered mountains of V a ll v id rera , w h ere it was enve • however, with the a same ve r loped in a thick mist, now and then pierced by lightning. The intrepid aeronaut was covered with a thick coating of hail, that fell incessantly. The wind drove the balloon with terrible velocity, and at last it fell into the sea, where M. Orlandi, holding fast by the ropes, managed to keep him self above water during three hours, when he was washed on shore at ten at night, his balloon being carried out to sea again. After two hours spent on the sold sand he recovered his strength sufficiently to get up and look out for shelter. He was stopped by one of the coast-guard, who had like to have shot him as a smuggler or a bandit, but who recognising him as the man of the balloon (et hombre del globo) took him to a village and put him to bed. A subscription has been set on foot for him, as, with the loss of his balloon, he has been deprived of his only resource. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF A COTTON-MILL BY FIRE. —We regret to state that a fire occurred yesterday morning, which resulted in the total destruction of one of the largest cotton-mills in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, the property of Messrs. Cooper, Walker, and Co., situated at Mile-end, Calton. Tht premises in question were of great extent, and covered a large area, being, moreover, in the immediate vicinity of two cotton-mills almost equally large. We be lieve the probable loss in buildings, machinery, &c., will not be short of 34,000/. or 35,00 1., which is only partially met by insurance—the amount covered, we have been informed, being not more than 22,000 W. —Sorth British Hail. His Grace the Duke of Wellington, accompanied by the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, drove into Dover on Thursday afternoon, and paid a visit to the establishment of Mr. John Haseldine. After making several purchases, the Noble Duke left for Wahner Castle. We are happy is say his Grace appeared in excellent health.—Dover Chronicle. THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—It is under stood that the annual dramatic representations before the Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal family, and a brilliant circle of distinguished visitors at Windsor Castle, will com mence to-morrow (Monday) fortnight. The performances, as on former occasions, will be under the immediate direction of Mr. Charles'Kean. The first piece selected by her Ma jesty and her Royal Consort is that fine production of the immortal bard— The First Part of Henry the Fourth.— Weekly Chronicle. AN INVISIBLE SELF-ACTING CARRIAGE STET.--- The numerous fashionable visitors who have, during the past few days, inspected the elegant state equipage of the Lord Mayor elect, at the establishment of 11 Iessrs. Laurie and Marner, have been further gratified with a view of a novel and interesting invention which the firm have recently pro duced, bearing the above appellation. It presents the advan tage of having steps of a light and elegant character attached to a carriage without the beauty or uniformity of its design being destroyed by that unsightly excrescence exhibited when steps are affixed externally, or causing that discomfort and inconvenience occasioned b - the loss of space when fitted internally. The invention would not be inaptly termed the "Magic Step," for while the doors of such carriages remain closed not a vestige of such an adjunct can be detected, but no sooner is a door opened than, simultaneously and noise wfohateedvesrtep, returningprese presents lessly, that conven i ent appendage, a light and tastefully form itsitself p place ce with out with the any sameappfaarceinl facility y a g o n e n t z, door being re-closed. The Earl of Carlisle, accompanied by the Hon. C. Howard, dined with his tenantry at Brampton on Wednes , day. His Lordship had arrived somewhat unexpectedly, just as they were about to sit down to the court dinner, and at once joined them at the social board without ceremony. George Cotter, is appointed Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court at St. Lucia, in the room of M. Lafitte, deceased. ELECTION OF MAYOR OF LIVERPOOL. - LIVER POOL, SATURDAY, Nov. 9.—The election of mayor of this town took place to-day. The two candidates were Mr. Councillor Littledale, the representative of the merchant princes, an exceedingly wealthy and liberal gentleman; and Mr. Alderman Bent, the representative of the tradesmen, also enormou3ly rich, and of high stqtaling in the town. Mr. Bent was elected by a majority of 36 to 26, if they were not accompanied by such strong marks of authenticity. The immense pro luctiveness of the Irish Fisheries; the large profits which might be realized from them at a comparatively small expense ; the immense benefit which would be conferred on Ireland by giving constant employment to the starving poor along the coast ; the advantages which must result to the whole empire from an abundant and unfailing supply of so wholesome and nutritious an article of food, have supplied a fruitful theme to writers both in England and Ireland. The public press of both countries has pointed to the Irish fishing-grounds as to mines of wealth. Books have been published on the subject by gentlemen of great intelligence—indeed, all com petent authorities agree that, as a source of industrial employment, it is one of the most important in the three kingdoms. FRE FRENCH REPUBLIC. " The recital of what passed in the Permanent Com mittee was exact, but is it necessary to say that the facts relative to which this strange scene took place were not only completely false, but without any ki n d o f ser i ous foundation ? The following is a faithful account of this astonishing matter. A member of the Committee cer tainly came, and declared to his colleagues that on the night of October 29 twenty-six persons, belonging to the Society of the Dix Dlleernbre had :Let at a grocer's in the Rue des Saussaies, to deliberate on the question if General Changarnier and M. Dupin were to be assassi nated. The General's death was first put to the vote, and decided on unanimously; on that of M. Dupin there were 22 votes in its favour, and four against it. The grocer, who presided over the meeting, seeing this un expected difference of opinion energetically declaimed against the traitors, and then the vote was again com menced. Twenty-three vrtes were given in favour of death. The grocer again broke out against such conduct. A third vote took place, and at last M. Dupin had the whole of the votes against him. Lots were then drawn to designate those who were to strike the blow. Tvvo pieces of raper, one marked with a C, for Changernier, and the other with a D, for Dupin, were thrown into a hat. The man who drew out the first returned thanks to Heaven for having been selected as the avenger of his country. The other who drew out the second had a less firm mind, and he nearly fainted. It was necessary to give him several glasses of burnt brandy to recover him. Such was the account given to the Committee. It thrilled with horror, as may well be imagined. The members asked each other how it happened that the per sonages menaced with death had not been informed of the matter by the Minister of the Interior and the Pre fect of Police; there was in that either a strange inca pacity or want of information, perhaps were something worse. The Committee appointed a sub-committee of three delegates, MM. Leon Faucher, Baze, and Monnet, to go and ask explanations from M. Baroche respecting his strange silence. They did so, and explained the matter to him with all the gravity which the circum stances required. M. Baroche was at first seized with a singular perplexity, not knowing exactly whether he ought to look on the matter as serious, or laugh at it. He saw, however, that the gentlemen who had called on him were perfectly serious, particularly as one of them informed him that M. Dupin had left the rue du Bac, and taken up his residence at the hotel of the President of the Assembly, in order to piece his life in greater surety. M. Baroche assured the three mem bers of the Committee that he would at once set about obtaining .information, and forthwith he proceeded to the hotel of the President of the Assembly. M. Dupin had not removed there; the members of the Committee had been deceived. M. Baroche then went to M. Dupin's private residence, and had little difficulty in persuading his old colleague at the bar, that he would not have shown any negligence in watcbiug over his safety, had he known that his life was in peril. M. Baroche then returned home, and did ail ho could to tied out the real bearings of this strange matter, and at last he sifted the circumstances to the bottom. What ho discovered was as follows:—There exists at the National Assembly a special functionary charged with the duty of making reports to the President of the Assembly on the political situation of Paris. That functionary is appointed by the executive power, and has no relations with that power; he receives his salary from the city of Paris, and has no relations with the superior authorities of the city. He is accountable only to the President of the Assembly. Such a situation is, as will be at once per ceived, altogether anormal. This functionary has not under his hand the means of obtaining information which the police have at their disposal"; he is informed simply by one or two agents which depend on him. But this functionary was deceived by false information, which to all appearance these men were only too ready to give him. Consequently, when the Minister commenced his inquiries, every one replied, that there was not a word of truth in all that had been related to him. The Procureur of the Republic wrote to the Prefect of Police, and the latter replied—' The whole matter is a wineshop story, reported by a drunkard, and to which the functionary attached to the Na tional Assembly has assigned an importance quite deplorable for the public, and ridiculous for himself.' Consequently, what is found at the bottom of the pre• tended plot which so wonderfully disturbed the Com mittee? A foolish piece of pleasantry—a hoax, passed off on a drunken agent by the frequenters of wineshops. If, before bringing the matter to the knowledge of the Permanent Committee, he bad asked for information from the Minister of the Interior, this wretched mysti fication would have been avoided. This silly story may, however, serve to enlighten the public as to the source of the reports which have so often disturbed the Com mittee. The functionary, from whom it receives re. ports, in order to justify his exceptional position, consi ders himself particularly charged to protect the Assem bly against the evil designs of the Executive Power, and, in consequence, the surveillance which he exercises is directed in that spirit. From that have arisen those absurd rumours, those ridiculous alarms, which so often penetrated into the Permanent Committee. And it is with those histories of coups-d'aut, of plots, of drawir g lots to designate the persons who are to assassinate, that disquietude has been so ofen excited, and interests alarmed! The Permanent Committee must permit us to tell it that in all this it has manifested a credulity much to be regretted." General PIAT has addressed the following letter to the members of the Council Ganeral of the society o the Dix Decembre " A decree, dated the 7th of this month, dissolves the So piety of Mu'ual Assistance, the Dix Decembre. Men of order before all, we must submit to this dissolution. In consequence the meeting of to-morrow, Saturday, cannot take place. You will be hereafter convoked fur the liquidation of the accounts of the society. Receive, &c "Paris, Bth Nov." " GENERAL PLAT. N. CARMEN, the Prefect of the Police, has sus pended the salary of M. YON, the Commissary of the Police attached to the Legislative Assembly, and published a letter, in which he gives as his reasons for this measure that "on a recent occasion M. YON thought fit to address inexact reports to members of the Assembly respecting a pretended conspiracy against General CHANGARNIER and the President of the Chamber, without having at the same time trans mitted these reports to the Prefecture of Police." The National says that M. DUPIN is determined to propose to the Assembly a special vote for the purpose of making good to M. YoN the salary of which he is thus deprived. The Jesuit Univers publishes a furious attack on Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S letter to the Bishop of Durham. The Journal des Debats, in speaking of that impor tant document, says—" This letter is very sharp in terms, but at bottom it is moderate, and is certainly not unworthy of the liberalism of which the Minister hes so often given proofs during the long course of his political life." gUSU.si ESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 9. Boulogne and Amiens, 734 —Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 1414—Namur and Liege, ;A—Northern of France, 14% —Paris and R ouen, 21—Rouen and Havre, 9%. GERMANY. I ENTRY OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS INTO COBURG THE PRUSSIAN LAND WifER CALLED OUT. The. Cologne Gazette of yesterday contains the following telegraphic dispatches " BERLIN,N, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. " It is said that a body of Austrian troops, marching from Bamberg, have entered Coburg, on their way, as it is supposed, to Schleswig-Elolstein. The Duke of Co burg is reported to have arrived in Berlin." " BERLIN, FRIDAY EVENING. " The Deutsche Reform, which has just appeared, contains an article in which it is: asserted that the Go vernment has not yet abandoned the hope of securing an honourable peace by means of its energetic military de monstrations." " An answer from Vienna has arrived in the course of the morning, and the Ministry, under temporary pre sidency of Colonel Ladenberg, is already deliberating on its cont e nts. A definitive resolution will, h owever, only be arrived at after a deliberation in which th e Ki ng will act as President, and which will t a k e pl ace after the arrival of Count Bernstorff, who has been delved on his journey by indisposition." The Prussian Moniteur publishes the f o ll ow i ng order : " On the proposition of the Ministry, I approve of th e immediate calling out of the army , and authorize th e Minister of War to take the necessary steps for that pur pose. (Signed) " FREDERICA( WILLIAM. " VON LADENBER, VON MANTEUFFEL, VON DER HEYDT, VON RABB, SIMONS, VON STOCK. RAUSEN. " Berlin, Nov. 6, 1850." A telegraphic dispatch, dated Berlin, i e s v r e e n p in or g te e d f . he 7th, s a y s : " Her Von Lad en berg will take the presidential chai r of the mi n i s t ry , a d i nto Orders have, it been issued from Vienna to Count Rechberg, the civil commissary of the Diet, to delay as much possible, in his operations in the Electorate cf Hesse, an attack upon the Prussians." The Berlin Bourse is in a panic in consequence of the order for the mobilization of the Landwher ; the public received th e i n t e lli ge nce with rejoicing. The order was given in consequence of the rejection by Austi is of the terms offered by Prussia, and the de mand made by the former for the immediate evacua tion of Hesse by the Prussian troops. The following is from the Deutsche Reform:— " God command the blessing! With these words hi s Majesty i s sa id t o h ave com pl e ted the important order, by which the entire Prussian army is called to uphold the honour and dignity of Prussia. ' God command his blessing' will be the reply of the whole Prussian people to the inspiring call of its noble prince. " How may we not hope that the blessing of God will attend the earnest measures of the Prussian Govern ment, .after that thi s h as hi t h erto studiously avoided all that did not strictly harmonize with its duties and rights, and after having erred, if at all, from too great confi dence in the sincerity of others, and too large a measure of the spirit of self-abnegation, but, certainly, not through haughtiness or to gratify a love of arbitrary authority, even to the twelfth hour was the dear de- We have received the Paris journals of Saturday and of yesterday. M. CARLIER, the Prefect of Police, has published an official denial of the truth of the report made to the Committee of Permanence that the members of the Society of the Tenth December had conspired to as sassinate General CHANGARNIER and M. Durex. On this subject we find the following in the Constitu tionnel " CASSEL, Nov. 6. " Major Bauer and one or two sub-officers came here for the purpose of taking possession of and removing the 4,500 new muskets standing in the depot of this city. These officers met with unexpected difficulties. No one would sell the chests, of which about 100 were neces sary. Bauer ordered a number of a carpenter, who im mediately received an injunction from his guild to make no chests for any ,of the officers. The matter was settled by the Prussian commander who notified that the tit* was in his charge, and that ao arms could be removed. The poor men lately discharged from the army are maintained by public subscriptions until they can be passed to their homes." " Nov. 6. " Yesterday w as a qu i et d ay, b ut to-day FULDA., at noon we wero surprised with an alarm of war. It was said that the advanced posts had come into collision, and that the Bavarians were marching hither upon Neuhof. The troops have been sent forward from this city, and have taken up their positions. It is said also that the Prince of Prussia will arrive to-day. The statement that a Prussian hussar had been shot proves untrue. The out pbsts have frequently met, but without firing. A Bavarian officer yesterday accidentally fell from his horse and was raised by a Prussian soldier and assisted to mount his horse. The alleged spy who was brought in yesterday turns out to be a Prussian officer who was travelling in civil dress. The error was not discovered until General Groben saw the prisoner. The Prussians are at Loschenrode, a mile and a half from this town, on the Frankfort road, opposite to the Austrian and Bavarian troops. The Bavarians have already crossed the bridge at Loschenrode. A temporary arrangement, it is said, is in progress to prevent hostilities. All at present is still. The Hessian state-councillor Scheffer is with the bead-quarters of the Austru-Bavarian army. Our city is like a camp. Fresh masses of troops are in motion." " FRANKFORT, Nov. 7. " Tha unexpected report of the mobilization of the whole Prussian army and Landwehr produced a greater panic on the Bourse than has been known since the March revolution. Austrian paper fell 5 and 6 per cent. below their yesterday's prices, and even then found no purchasers. South German, Spanish, and other paper gave way considerably. It is stated that arrangements have been made for transferring the seat of the Diet to Aschaffenburg, in case of certain eventualities. Bavarian cavalry entered flanau to-day to replace those who ad vanced yesterday." From %Virtemburg we learn the dissolution of the Chambers. A letter dated Stuttgart, Nov. 8, says,— " The result of yesterday's sitting of the Assembly, when the credit of 300,000 florins demanded by the Minister of War for raising the Landwehr was discussed, is exciting great astonishment. The Mercury gives the debate up to thr"e o'clock, and publishes the division in a supplement. The first resolution reconsidered by the committee— ' The Chamber declines to sanction the proposed grant as unnecessary'—wai affirmed by 52 to 5. The second —' The Chamber protests against every result of the proposed preparations'--affirmed by 50 against 7. The third—' The Chamber declares to the Government that, if the latter will abandon the policy hitherto pursued, aril act in a manner corresponding to the rights of the people, and take up a position of armed neutrality, the Assembly will support it in the same, and provid e all [Beans required f Jr th e protect i on of the land and the maintenance of the honour of the state'—affirmed una nimously. The Minister of the Interior then read a decree dissolving the Assembly, repealing the law of July 1, 1849, interdicting all further deliberations of the Chamber, and restoring the old committee of the former House of States. The greatest excitement was produced, and the President proceeded to the election of the com mittee in spite of the protests of the Ministry. " When the election of the committee was completed M. Schoder closed the sitting with these words-- " This committee will watch, according to its power, over the violated constitution, which we commend to the protection of Almighty God, in whom we trust and who will strike injustice to the ground.'—(Bravo.) " The Deputies and spectators then withdrew. The Committee of the States which the Government has :main called into existence consists of Prince Hohen lohe, Count Rechberg, MM. Murschel, Holzingor, Beiel, and Hofer, with six coadjutors when sitting as a plenum." The Gazette of Lower Saeony refutes positively the statement that Hanover has refused to act with the Diet in the affair of the Duchies, and states that M. de Hammerstein, secretary of the Minister of the In terior, has left Hanover for Frankfort to receive his instructions as one of the Federal Commissioners. The Saxon Government has ordered the army to be placed upon the war footing, and directed between 2,000 and 3,000 horses to be purchased for the re mount of the cavalry. In the sitting of the First Dresden Chamber, on the 4th inst., the Minister of Justice, Dr. ZSCHINSKY, announced this decision to the House somewhat in the following terms:— '° The Government has found itself' under the neces sity of mobilising the Saxon army. lam commissioned to announce this to you, and to remark that a detailed explanation of causes and purposes will be laid before the Chamber so soon as possible." The President of the Chamber replied that the mea sure had taken the country by surprise, and that it would be highly satisfactory if the explanation were given without delay. Meantime the semi-official Dresden journal contains the following, under date of the sth. After declaring that it regards the entry of the Prussian troops into Hesse as the in evitable forerunner of conflict, the journal says— "lt is the duty of the Saxon Government under these menacing circumstances to place its troops in full readi ness at the disposition of the Bundestag. The various considerations of the burdens that must consequently be imposed on the land must give way to more urgent and higher obligations demanded by the honour and security of the land. "Inasmuch as the Saxon Government deep!) , deplores the dangers resulting from these complications, inso much must it at least remain free from accusations of precipitancy or menace. On the contrary, insomuch as we know instructions were given to the Minister of War before issuing the decree of the 2d instant, to place him self in a position to meet unexpected eventualities, any hopes that may exist of seeing apprehensions vanish are not sufficient motives for interrupting required precau tionary measures. The hesitation displayed by the Go vernment to have recourse to such measures afford gua rantees that they have only been recurred to in the race of imminent danger, and that they will terminate simul taneously with this danger. According to the latest ac counts from Berlin this desired circumstance may be speedily anticipated." The billet office at Dresden has been ordered to prepare quarters for about 7,000 to 8,000 men, Saxon troops, during three or four days, and subsequently for a permanent increase of the present garrison of about 1,500 or •1,800 men. The German Reform states that, in consequence of the above resolution, the Prussian Minister ordered the Prussian Envoy at Dresden, by telegraph, to demand explanations as to this armament, and that the Saxon Government bad replied forthwith, that the resolution was adopted in consequence of a previous note of M. DE RADOWITZ ; but that in consequence of subsequent intelligence re ceived from Berlin considerable modifications would take place. _ An order of the Saxon Ministry directs the troops to lay aside the German cockade. and to employ e x . elusively the national colour. It has also directed that officers and soldiers shall solely take oath to the KING and standards, as provided by the military code of Saxony. COUNT BRANDENBURGH, THE LATE PRUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER. (From the Berlin Reforine.) Count Frederick William von Brandenburgh was edu cated for the military profession. He entered the service in the Ist R•A, , iment of the Guards in November, 1807. In the following year he was promoted from second to fi.•st lieutenant, and in 1811 he received the commission of captain. In March, 1812, he was attached to the staff of General von York, under whose auspices he was pre sent in several engagements. In 1813 he became major, and in that rank he took part in the actions of Mokern, Kolditz, Konigswartha, Lowenberg, Bunzlau, Freiburg, St. Dicier, the taking of Chalons-sur-Marne and Chateau Thierry; he was also present at the better known battles of Leipsic, Gross-Gorschen, Bautzen, the Katz bad), Brienue, Laon, and Paris. At the passage of the Riiine at Caub Count Brandenburgh was the first who reaohed the French Wink. For his good conduct at Mokern and ceased noblernar, whose loos the nation and the Prince alike mourn, animated by feelings of trust and hope, but we doubt not that his manly, open breast would have closed itself against the confid,nce of peace, had he lived to see new pretensions obtruded on Prussia, most deeply injurious to the honour of the land. " Notwithstanding the critical indications pre,ented to her view, Prussia has hitherto refused to believe that the other great powers of Germany could speculate on her humiliation, and prepare to work her downfal, even at the price of a war of brethren. But now that, at the same moment when measures are in preparation tor solving all impending difficulties, outrageous claims are again addressed to us, Prussia must also be prepared for the case of an eventual contest in spite of all her conci liatory endeavours. Our Government will first occupy the ground of negotiation which she has trodden until these last few days. Up to the present moment the Go vernment cherished the hope that even Austria would in the end decide upon the interests of a German and European peace, as we have done, so as not on its part to undertake the responsibility of a murderous civil war. But, enlightened by recent experience, we cannot justi fiably omit preparation for the extrernest contingencies. Our Government would certainly have been glad to spare the land the sacrifices which the present military pre cautions involve, but it cherishes the consciousness that it has not frivolously or prematurely advanced on the serious measures on which it has resolved, and knows also that the nation is ready to make the sacrifices which have become inevitably necessary with enthusiastic pa triotism. Prussia has a past which indicates duties and imposes saerifices—a past which contains the promise or a glorious future. The Prussian nation which exults in the recollections of her history will not renounce its just claim on the coming time. "Still is Prussia ready to enter upon any way cf peace which is at the same time a way of honour, but it others will insist on war, then is Prussia ready to enter va lorously the field. To one course as to the other, we say God command the blessing.' " On the 7th inst. GOTTFRIED KINKEL effected his escape from the prison at Spandau by the aid of a rope lad der. The Director of Prisons lost no time in issuing a description of his person, with orders to all officers to apprehend him immediately. He was attired in the prison dress when he escaped. The following letters, taken from the German papers, give the news from Hesse Cassel : Wartenberg he received the Iron Cross of the first class. On the 30th of May, 1814, he was made lieutenant colo nel, and attached to the person of the Lto King (la's bal . -brother). In 1816 he received the cowman(' as culprit , ' of the regiment in which he bad first entered the service. Erom 1816 to 1846 ho received various marks of the Royal favour in promotion to the higher ranks of the army, charg,s, and decorations. His last military promotion was that of the Bth of May, 1848, when ho was made general in command of the Bth army corps. The events of the autumn of that year placed him at the head of the Ministry; since that period his career must be known to all; his services in the re-establish ment of our internal affairs will always be memorable. In his administration he laboured with his colleagues as an honest, upright, and peace -loving character. To a strong will, that in November 1848 was displayed in Berlin and Prussia, and in May of the following year showed itself active over almost all Germany, he united a rare modesty. The two characteristics he preserved under all circumstances, and no greater praise can be bestowed on our latest policy than when it is judged according to the character of Count Brandenburgh. Prussia before all things! No one acted up to this motto with:greater devotion than he; in November, 1848, he promised the King to set his lite on the existence of the monarchy, and now he has sunk beneath the burden of his mission. DENMARK AND TILE DUCHIES. Accounts from Hamburgh, of the 6tb, contain the last intelligence from the Duchies. Several foreign officers, among them the Bavarian Colonel VON DER TANN, had retired from the Holstein army, as they considered the war terminated, in consequence of the recent resolutions of the Germanic Diet. The Lieu tenancy-General had, however, announced that it would only yield to force. The federal troops would consequently have to act in Holstt-in. A Berlin letter states that the Prussian General HAHN had returned to that city, after having failed in his mission to the Lieutenancy- General. The fe deral envoy would, it was believed, not be more suc cessful. It was positively asserted that Hanover has refused, in a most peremptory manner, to execute the orders of the Diet relative to the affairs of Holstein. The Borsenhalle of Hamburgh states that the Prussian garrison in that place has received orders to hold itself in readiness to march. In the sitting of the Danish Volksthing of the Ist, a proposition for the adoption of a communal law for Denmark was rejected by 48 votes to 36. This was considered a grave defeat to the party of the peasants. LEVANT MAIL. By the Levant mail we have received Constanti nople journals to the 24th, and Athens journals to the 28th ult., both inclusively. They contain no political news of interest, but we find in the Journal de Con stantinople, of the 24th, the following account of a horrible accident :—" Yesterday, at about ten in the morning, the port was shaken to its foundation by a horrible explosion. This was caused by the blowing up of the Niere Chefket of 120 guns, carrying the Admiral's flag, near the arsenal, in the midst of the Ottoman fleet. The powder magazine caught fire, and in a few minutes the port was covered with ruins and dead bodies. The ship was five minutes before she sank, and then dis appeared with the exception of her maintopmast. Six or seven hundred men were on board when the fright ful catastrophe occurred, and of this number about two hundred only were picked up floating in the water." Letters from Zara, of the 29th ult., state that the Sultan's troops in Bosnia had invested the fortress of Mostar, and that the rebels would shortly be obliged to yield. The intelligence from other parts of the Herzegowina is also favourable to the Turkish Go vernment. We learn from Trieste that on the 2d a telegraphic dispatch arrived there from Vienna with orders to place all the steamers of the Lloyd Company at the disposal of the Government, to convey 20,000 men of the army of Italy to Trieste. A SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE. On Wednesday afternoon last the 23d regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Torrins, were marched fully equipped to the grounds of Lord Morley, at Saltram, where a sham fight took place, during which several rounds of cartridges were fired by the troops. The military exploits were witnessed by the Earl and Countess of Morley, the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, and a large party of fashionables of the neighbourhood, Captain Rich, the Captain- Superintendent of the Royal Naval Hospital, and his daughter, being among the numb er . O n t h e firing of one of ? the vollies Miss Rich received a wound in the neck, which was well nigh being of a fatal character. It bled profusely, and at first occa sioned considerable anxiety and alarm to the unfortu nate lady and her father, to whom she immediately communicated the unhappy circumstance. On examination, however, the wound was discovered not to be dangerous, but had it been a little deeper, the result must have been fatal, the flesh being torn away close to the jugular vein, which was for some distance laid bare. The wound is long and jagged, and appears to have been caused by a nail having been tired from a musket by one of the soldiers. The question at once arises how came it in the musket ? certainly a nail, or any other article which would cause such a wound, as that produced, could not get into a musket by accident, and the fair conclusion is, therefore, that it was placed there intentionally, and was aimed at some one whom it missed, and unhap pily struck Miss Rich, for whom, without doubt, it was not intended, as none of the soldiers could pos sibly have any cause for entertaining feelings of ani mosity against her. We hope, and doubt not, that the strictest inquiry will be instituted, and whilst we, could wish that our suspicions may not prove true, and that the wound might have been the result of some accidental circumstance, yet we cannot but think there are very strong grounds for believing it to be the act of some one whose malicious feelings had prompted him to an attempt at assassination.— Devonport Independent. DEATH or DR. CARSON.—This estimable gentle man, whose position for a long period as Rector of the High I School rendered his name and his classical attainments fa miliar to the great bulk of our townsmen, died at his house in Lauriston-place on Monday last. The funeral took place yesterday in the Grey friars' Churchyard. The general feeling of respect for Dr. Carson's memory suggested the idea of something approaching to a public funeral. The whole of the present pupils of the High School accordingly followed to the grave the remains of the venerable old man, whose voice had so often been heard within the walls of their Alma Mater. Upwards of a hundred members of the High School Club, headed by their Vice-President, the Lord Provost were also in attendance. The procession extended to a great length, and from its numbers and character presented an imposing appearance. On reaching the Greyfriars' Churchyard, the pupils of the school separated and lined the passage to the family burial-place. The members of the club passed between the lines, followed by the coin and the pri vate friends of the deceased; the pupils all uncovering as they passed. It was fitting that he who is so thoroughly identified with the High School, should have been thus fol lowed by its present scholars to the grave. Than Dr. Carson none ever possessed a warmer spirit of affection towards the young scholars of his classes.—Scotsman, of Saturday. THE GOVERNORSHIP OF MALTA.—Our correspon dent of Malta informs us that there is no longer any doubt as to Mr. More OTerrall's retirement from the Government of Malta. He has declared that he shall leave in April next, as his constitution will not permit of his risking another summer on the Malta island. Lord Beaumont, we under. stand, is to succeed Mr. More O'Ferrall.--Daily News. CURIOUS APPLICATION OF GUTTA PERcHA.—In more than one church the Gutta Percha Company's tubes have been fitted up from the pulpit and reading desk to pews occupied by deaf persons, and, notwithstanding they may sit upwards of 30 feet from the pulpit, they can hear every word perfectly. MAYOR OF BRISTOL.—On Saturday John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., was elected Mayor of Bristol for the sixth time, an honour unexampled in the modern history of the city. MAYOR OF MammonAm.—On Saturday Mr. William Lucy was, with only one dissentient voice, re elected Mayor of Birmingham for the ensuing year. The active part Mr. Lucy has taken in promoting the Exhibi tion of 1851 rendered his re-election almost a matter of certainty. MIDDLE TEMPLE.—The following members of this society were called to the bar, and sworn in on Saturday last, before several of the benchers Caldwell Roscoe, John Hargrave Hodgson, George Edward Frere, Henry Lushington Phillips, and Wm. Parker. EXTRAORDINARY RAPID VOYAGES.—The Penin sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Ripon, with a full heavy cargo for Malta and Alexandria, and 14s passengers chiefly for India, which left Southampton at 9 A.m. on the 20th of October, reached Malta at 2 p.m. on the 29th, after eight hours' stay at Gibraltar coaling, and notwithstanding that she experienced a strong contrary gale of wind in the Mediterranean, with a head sea. The Medusa from Mar seilles, with the overland London mails for India of the 24th October, reached Malta early on the morning of the 30th, after a run of 62i hours. Among the numerous passengers she brings the Right Hon. Lord and Lady Cottenham and family, who propose wintering at Malta for the benefit of his Lordship's health. THE CONISCLIFFEYOISONING CA S E.-D ARLINGTON, Nov. 8 --The mystery in which this case remained shrouded at the close of the last inquiry has been considerably removed by the discovery of further particulars, which leave little doubt but that deceased died by his own act. DISASTERS AT SEA.—A Neapolitan boat, called the Maria della Lolera, arrived at Malta on the 28th of October, with the crew and 50 passengers (all fugitives from the cholera), of the Tuscan brig Corriere dei Due Amid, wrecked on the 15th idem in f the Gulf of Catania, when on her passage to Malta and Leghorn from Bengazy, laden with wool and wheat. The Sicilian authorities were so p an i c stricken at the appearance of any one from a place where th e cholera rages that they lost no time in obliging them t o de part in the first craft that could be found, in which, though a mere run across of about 100 miles, these poor miserable people were huddled together for a whole week. Some men are good company for half-an-hour, others for half-a-day, and otherS for their whole lives.— Eliza Cook's Journal. A new church is about to be erected at Rosberville, Gravesend, for which a contract h as b een entered into by a firm at Stratford, in Essex. AN ANCIENT MARINER.—There is a sloop, a vessel of and belonging to the port of Aberystwith, about 140 years old. She has made several voyages this year to the west of Englanql. The old vessel looks well, and is still considered seaworthy:— Carnarvon Herald. TILE SHARE MARKETS. ITISII Bail ways. 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I 8 18 - 18% 6 14 714 - 4,„ - I p• /5 10% - 10% 15 - - 5 3 8% 8g dle. 12 3 6% 6 cliff. B_9!y-94( 20 20 -- 13 10 5 6 20 8 9 dl4. 10 13% i 0 10 WWI 15 103 11% 834 4 3 dig' 10 19% 19% Iv 1 - -•• i 0 1 25% -26 l 5 I 4 % 4 % dis• ;3‘ 1 .. 10 .. 9% I 9 .. 7 dl5 3 3 - , 3g m 4 - 23 -24 1734 N I .. .. O 144 aa BUSiflesi dO mar t , as, IS 2 8 it% ' 4%1 '1163' e ]lu '' ►3% t iis '' 6 9 604 li ts 7 N Aberdeen.. .. .. • • Do. Preference •• Ambergatc, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juneion Ayrshire and Galloway • • Belfast and County Down Berks and Hants Exten. (Great 'Western Per pet ual 5 per cent ) Birmingham and Oxford Junction, ca is duly paid, or with a guar... Do. without a guar... Bin - 114)g., Wolverhamp ton, and Dudley, ea:181 duly paid, or with a guarantee • • .. Do. without a guar. • • Binning., Wolverliamp., and Stour Valley • Birkenhead, Lancas., and Cheshire Junction • • Bristol and Exeter.. Buckinghamshire • • • • Caledonian .. . • • • DJ. 1. /. Preference .. Do. Clydesdale June. c.. - Chester and Holyhead .. Do. Preference .. Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per ct.! Do. 2d de., 5 per cent.] Do. Gov. Loan, 4 pr. ct.! Direct Lond. and Portsrn. Dublin and Belfast Junct.! Dundalk and Enniskillen , East Anglian (25/. L. ti E. and L. & D.) •• • • Do (181. E. & II.) Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. Preference Do. (51.) 7 pr. et. Pref. Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Pref. Eastern Counties .. • • 2 Do. Exten., 5 per cent. ..NO. 1 • • • • 6 1 Do. No. 2 .. .• 6 1 Do. New Preference, • 6 percent. .. • • • • 1 Do. North. and East. 6 per cent. .. 5 Do. do. 5 per cent .. 5 Do. do., New .. • • 4 Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares • • 2 Do. do. do. .. Do. do., 2& C shares 2 Do. do., scrip, guaran. 6 per cent. • • • • 2 East Lancashire • • 2 Do. New quarters .. Do. 6 per cent. pref. quarter shares.. .. East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 per cent .• • • • • 2 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5 Edin., Perth, and Dundee 2 Do. Newport .. • • 1 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South- West, 5 Do. pref. consolidated Do. do. G. D. & C. stock Gloucester & Dean Forest Great Northern • • • • 2 Do. halves, A, deferred I Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. 1 Do. 5 per cent. pref. • • Great Southern and Western, Ireland • • Do. eighths .. Great North of England . 10 Do. new 40/. .. • • 4 Do. new 30/. .. .. 3 Do. new 15/. . Great Western .. • • 10 Do. New, 17/. .. - • 1 Hull and Selby .. s Do.'half shares .. • • 2 Do. quarter shares .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. 5 Do. thirds .. I, Lancashire and Yorkshire 10 Do. quarter shares .. 2 Do. fifths .. • • • I Do. thirds .. • • • • I Do. new, guaranteed 6 per cent. . • 1 Do. ?Judders. & Sheff. Do. West Riding Union 1 Leeds and Bradford • • 5 Leeds and Thirsk • • • • 5 Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 1 Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 2 1 Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 3 Do. pref. qrs., 1818 .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport ..• - • 1 London and Blackwall 11 London, Brighton, and South Coast .. • • 10 Do. guarteed 5 per ct., late Croydon thirds • • Do. preference, 5 p ct. 5 , Do. preference, cony. 5 per cent., 1852 .. Do. new guaranteed, 6 per cent. .. 10 London and Greenwich . 12 1 Do. preference .. • • 2 London and N.-Western 10 Do. do. new quarters . 1 Do. fifths Do. 10/. sh., M. & B (c) London and S.-Western . Do. new 50/. .. Do. new 40/. .. • • Do. new preference Londonderry & Coleraine Do. half shares .. Lowestoft, guar. 4 per ct. Do. do. 6 per cent. .. Londonderry and Ennis killen. .. • • •• Do. half shares • • .. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire • - • • 1, Do. quarters, No. 1 • • 1. Do. new, 10/ preference 1 Do. Blanchester and Lincoln Union • • 4 Midland .• .. • • • • IC Do. consolidated pref. IC Do. 50/. shares . • . a Do. Ili. ming & Derby 10 Do. Consol. Bristol &I Binning., 6 per cent. 10 Do. Bristol & Glouces.l 4 Do. do. do. • • 129 1 Do. Erewash Val. pref.) 5 Do. Leic. & Swanning.: 8 per cent. guar. •. : 10 Midland Gt. West. (Ire.); 4 Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. I 5 Newcastle and Carlisle.. 10 Do. quarter shares .. 2 Newmarket .- .. 2 Do. extension scrip • • 2 1 Newport, Abergavenny, and llereford Newry & Enniskillen Newry, W arrenpoint, & Rost revor Norfolk • . Do. New 201. shares .- Do. Extension Do. guar. 5% per cent. Do. Waveney Valley.. I Northern Counties Uaion North British . Do. Preference North Staffordshire .. North-Western .. .. 1 Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. Preston and Wyre Do. Halves (A) .. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.. .. Royston and Hitchin Do. Shepreth Exten... Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland Do. new . Shrewsbury & Birming. Class A.. .. Do. Class 8.. Do, New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. 31in.) Do. Hales Do. Oswestry 1)o. New.. .. Do. 8 per cent. Pref. • Shropshire Union .. South Devon .. Preference .. Staffordshire Eastern Do. do. 4% per cent... South Wales.. .. South Yorksh, Doncaster, and Goole .. Sheff., Roth., and Goole, N. Div„ guar. 5 p cent. Do. do. South Div. .. Swansea & Lougher, &c. Taw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath . Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Waterford, Wex., Wick., and Dublin .. Wear Valley, 6 per cent guaranteed .. Do. do. do. . do. . Do. do West Cornwall .. Whitehaven and Furness Windsor, Staines, and S. Western .. Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth .. York, Newcastle, & Ber wick .. Ditto and Newcastle tension .• Ditto G.N.E. purchase, or preference Do. Hartlepool Dock, and RallWay .. 10 York and North Midland 5 Do. Preference .. •. 1, Anglo-Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian) • • 6 1 Boulogne and Amiens .. 2 Central of France (Or leans and Vlerzon) . Demerara t.. Dutch Rhenish .. East Indian Do. do. do. Great Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto .. . Louvain a la Sambre Luxembourg .. .„ Ditto .. adt id and Valentia .. Namur and Liege Northern of France Orleamtand Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Strasbourg and Basle .. Tours and Nantes .. Toarnay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt West Flanders Australasia British .North America. Colonial ............. Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. Do. New • • .. National of Ireland .. • • Provincial of Ireland.... Do. New .... • • • • .... Union of Australia .. • • Do. New. Union of London ...... Union of Madrid ..... . [Settling days in the ma terod ewers, lit 4 eWd - 45 16% 16% 8 —B3 d1o• 4 O. 15% -3% 9 3% [7 14% 5 3 l 0 - 08 • 2 41 2 1 -2 3t 34 08. 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