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

FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.—LOST on the 13th October last, near the Bank of England, a BLACK LEATHER CASE, containing several Bank of England Notes, and Bills of Exchange. The numbers and dates of the Notes are as follow, viz.—Two for 100/. each, No. 12,862 and 12,898, dated sth July, 1845. One for 40/. Ne. 52,220, dated 7th,April, 1845. One for 201., N.. 8,524, dated 9th August, 184.5. One for 10/. Five for 5/. Ha ch , No. 8 , 4520, dated 11th April, 1845 ; No. 35,702, dated 13th August, 1345 ; Nos. 13,572, 31,942, and 45,047, dated 11th Sep te.nber, 1845. A Bill of Exchange for 591. Bs. 4d., dated 10th Inly, 1845, at three mouths' date, T. Jones on J. Shea. Another Bill for 301., dated saute day, at three months' date, Samuel Isaacs on W. B. Hine Parker and Co. A Cheque en the Bank of England for GI. 10s., dated 27th September, drawn by It. Dart, payable to 'Farmer. A Bill of Exchange, dated Bth October, 1845, at seven days, for 4251. 135., drawn by the West Riding Union Bank, Huddersfield, on Masterman and Co. Another Bill, dated 9th October, 1845, at seven days, for 17/. 10s., drawn by the Liverpool Commercial Banking Company on Williams and Co. Another Bill, dated 6th October, 1845, at 21 days, for 50/., by York City and County Banking Company, (W. H, Cramp,) on Barnett and Co. ♦ Bill, dated 10th October, 1845, at twenty-one days, for 121. 7s. Id. by ditto on ditto. Payment of the Notes is stopped at the Bank of England. Who ever will give such information as shall lead to the recovery of the above property to Mr. M. Thompson, sollcitor, No. 2, Bucklersbury, will receive the above reward. UNICORN INN, ST. IVES, _HUNTS —The Crown Inn, St. Ives, being closed, FRANCIS EARL begs to inform Commercial Gentlemen, his Friend's, and the Public in general, that he has fitted up the above old' established Inn, with good beds and excellent stabling, for their accommodation, and hopes by liberally providing, and strict attention in every department of the business, to merit their patronage and support. St. Ives, Bth November, 1845. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Svo., T" ATTRACTIVE MAN , A NOVEL. BY MRS. TROLLOPE. Authoress of "The Vicar of Wrexhill," " The Widow Barnaby," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. WAGHORN TESTIMONIAL. Subscriptions are received by the following Bankers, &c. Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street. Messrs. Cockburns and Co., 4, Whitehall. Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., 43, Charing•cross. Messrs. Colitis and Co., 59, Strand. Messrs. Glyn (Sir R. C., Bt.), Halifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard street. Messrs. Herries, Farquhar. and Co., 16, St. James's-street. Messrs. Scott (Sir Claude, Et) and Co. 1, Cavendish-square. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, I:ombard-street. Messrs. Twining's, 215, Strand. Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street. Messrs. Grindlay and Co., 16, Cornhill, and 8, St. Martin's-place, Charing-cross. Messrs. Smith, Rider, and Co., 65, Cornhill. Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co., Leadenhall-street. J. 3f. Richardson, Esq., 23, Cornhill. By order of the Committee, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill. JOHN STIKEMAN, Hon. Sec. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVF.NINO Will be performed THEll6llliiiiiCilßL. Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Aritne Miss Rainforth. To conclude with a grand Ballet Fantastigne, THE MARBLE MAIDEN. In which Messrs. Petita, Pichler, Albert, Mdlles. Adele, Damn:arc, &c., will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BUSY BODY. Sir Francis Gripe, Mr. W. Farren ; Marplot, Mr. Hudson; Miranda, Mrs. Seymour : Patch, Mrs. Humby. To be followed by WHO'S THE COMPOSER? The Marquis di Pompolo, Mr. Tilbury; Signor Cafarini, Mr. Buckstone ; Filippo, Mr. Ilud4on ; Carina, Miss Julia Bennett. ' ' To conclude with HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr:Hudson ; Rivers, Mr. Tilbury ; Charles Rivers, Mr. H. 11011; Mrs. Montague, Mrs. W. Clifford. THEA.TILE ROYAL, ADELPHL THIS EVENING Wlll be repeated THE ilrftEE.. BUSLIES.;„ or, A Huudred Years Ago. In which Messrs. 0. Smith, Se/by, Stoker; Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Fltzwilltam will perform. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR'; 'or, Magic and Ma sourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Pau/ IledliOnt and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c, will perform. To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT. THEATRE ROYAI4 LYdEtTM, THIS EVENING Will be performed OUR.NEW GOVERNESS. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform. After which, a New,Farce v ealled-rNEJET , DOOR. • To conclude with ALADDIN and the WONDERFUL LAMP. PRINCESS'S, THEATRE, OXFORD.STZEET. Tllls EVENING Will be - performed AS . "i'OU LIKE IT. larpies, 14. tr. Wallaek ; Touchstone, Mr. Compton ; Rosalind, Mrs. Stirling ; Audrey, Miss Emma Stanley. To conclude with a New Grand Ballet, entitled LE DIABLE A QUATRE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE LAST MAN. After which, THE RAILWAY KING. Sam Stag, Mr. G. Wild Sally Slop, Miss Kate Howard. Te he followed by GONE TO TEXAS, in which Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lacey will perform. To conclude with THE BOYHOOD OF BACCHIJS. The Boy Bacchus, Misc Kate Howard ; Momus, Mr. G. Wild. NEW STRAND THEATRE. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—BRILLIANT SUCCESS. M. PHILLIPPE will repeat all his most popular and peculiar TOURS DE PHYSIQUE, and introduce several new and novel ex periments, including the GRAND DISTRIBUTION. To conclude with a NIGHT IN PEKIN, in which M. Philippe will execute several Chinese and Indian experiments, universally ac knowledged to be the most astounding Feats ever attempted by any European. Doors open at a Quarter past Seven ; to commence at a Quarter to Eight. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITZIEATRE OF ARTS. PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE LAST OF THE BARONS ; or, Warwick, The King Maker, and the Battle of Barnet. To be followed by a new Equestrian Spectacle, in which will appear Messrs. Cooke, Paul, 'Millie, and :Mlle. Pauline Hinnie. To conclude with A DAY AFTER THE FAIR. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Haliyard, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Joe Tiller, Mr. Fredericks; Mary May bed, Mrs. 11. Vining. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled POPPING IN AND OUT. Rooney Macfln, Mr. Hamilton. After which, Mons. PLEQE and FAMILY'S extraordinary per formance on the Tight Rope. To concluJe with EL RYDER, THE LION KING. El Hyder, Mr. Hughes. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed GERALDINE ; or, The Twin Orphans of St. Pre, in which Mr. E. F. Saville and Miss E. Terry will perform. ' After which, ALEXANDER SELKIRK. Alexander Selkirk, Mr. E. F. Saville. To conclude with TILE HOUSE DOG. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, Nov. 11. TEERMOMETER, Lowest, 45; Highest, 53; Noon, 45. BAROMETER, 29.33. WIND E by N.E.; light breeze and cloudy; rain at times, ERRATUM —The Barometer on the 10th marked 29.5, not 30.5, as given hi the Weather Table of that date. 111011 WATER AT 1.014/DON-BRIDGE MIS DAY. Morning .. 52 minutes after 11 I _Evening •. 0 minutes after 0. ,1 • _ .1 ~ • ..... ~ ~,..,..„....0 ..* ,o soi ~.,__ __,...., , ._-. 7$ --- eh , „. /,. .' 6: t' ' ' '2' . •al 0' . ' - , 4 - 011" . ~., . V 2 i g 5 Z. , 4 x ,' %. n f• -7" - . ..--, . OJ' Itent'ug 4,-- nit LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1845. From all parts of the United Kingdom accounts continue to pour in of the hopeless and very frighful condition of the potato crop. The murrain, in various types, displays itself with a degree of intensity only aggravated as the season for pitting or storing advances to its close. By the accounts from ISunderland which we yesterday published, it would seem that a form of disea , e more hideous than the mere generation of fungus and parasitical excrescences of a vege table nature is now becoming apparent. The potato is found, in this state, to be infested with myriads of minute red worm, the larvse of which are deposited throughout the whole superficial texture of the bulb. It is melan choly to reflect how large a proportion of the hardy and industrious population of those colliery and shipping districts of which Sunderland is one of the principal ports will be condemned, from poverty and other causes, during the winter upon which we are now rapidly verging, to subsist, largely, on a root thus infected with noisome cor ruption. For, on the too favourable supposition, even, that employment may be found for this industrial community throughout that inclement quarter to almost as great an extent, and on equally advantageous terms, as at present ; those " other causes" will operate with baleful effect against their chance of obtaining more wholesome and nutritious food. In any case they will have to contend against the posi tive evil of reduced and really inadequate wages to which " competition," in all the departments of agriculture, mining, manufactures, and commerce have been gradually but sternly subjecting the whole industrial labour of Great Britain. This is the first difficulty which will interpose itself to their pro curing sound and salutary food. It may appear very strange to them—it will be felt very hard by them—that though they may find the market of employment open to them, and may manfully set themselves to the most laborious occupa tions, working over-hours, and making all imaginable sa crifices of domestic comfort and needful rest for that purpose ; the scale of their wages sl:all be utterly unremunerative ; or, at any rate, be controlled by a perpetual tendency to diminish rather than to increase. Their astonishment and disappointment will only prove that they are no more capable of appreciating the merits of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tampering with our monetary system, than we are. The secand difficulty in the way of their getting at better food—that is to say, good bread instead of diseased potatoes —is also the more formidable one. The cruel, the wanton the wicked operation of the existing corn-laws does not per mit to poor men that modification of the penalty of poverty, which they would realise on being but half-starved. The exigency of the " sliding-scale" is—like the test of qualifying misery prescribed by the New Poor-law—absolute, ab ject destitution. When there is not corn enough in the kingdom to stop the saucy mouth of famine, Sir ROBERT'S sliding-scale slides down as glibly as the marking slider on the scale of a " ladies' shoema ker's " foot rule. When the balance of parochial economy trembles between the expenses of a famishing fellow creature's removal " to his parish," the fees incident to a magistrate's " order of removal," and the charges of con stables and conveyance, with the sequents of the coroner's inquest and the undertaker's bill, in the event of death before granting out-door relief or receiving the sufferer into the in firmary of the union, it is csnceived by the Poor-law authori ties that the pivot point is turned, and the prohibition duties —on human sympathyrun down to that line on the " scale," which open to them not the out-ports, but the por tals of the poor-house. To entitle you to be fed, you must be all but beyond the power of feeding. To give you a claim to eat ,chop bread,, you must f irst have exhausted year substance in purchasing' it at the dearest possible rate. Here • again is a philosophy of which, though taught by Sir Roam= PErr. - as "Emeritus Professor," we doubt very much ^ whether our Bceotian com patriots of the North can be brought to peroeiYO either the beauty or the advantages. How vexatious for the Premier, who has allowed a dozen Cabinet Councils, within little more than as many days, to be summoned, assembled, adjourned, re-assembled, and dismissed, with no more practical results tpan those of a dozen remarkably bad lacifer matchez, vainly ignited and contemptuously thrown away ! Our deficient corn harvest is not to be supplemented by foreign importations. Our pestilence-smitten potato crop must not be replaced by sound corr. The throes of coming famine are not yet sufficiently convulsive. We suffer, but are not yet frenzied. We complain, but we shall go on some time longer—perhaps--without raving. So, there is still no " Order in Council" for opening the ports. The " sliding scale" continues to fall, by a necessity, inherent in its bwn construction, as irresistible as the law of gravitation. It is admitted on all hands that its touching that point of de clension at which it becomes neutralised or extinct would, under existing circumstances, avert an incalculable amount of present privation and suffering, and an unknown ex tent of future misery, from the devoted heads of millions of our poorer fellow-creatures and country men. To linger at the penultimate stage is to perish of inanition on the very borders and within sight of plenty. But the Prime Minister will not allow even the SOVEREIGN to accelerate this consummation. He has inflicted upon the whole empire, for the last quarter of a century, the curse of dear money. He seems resolved now, upon perpetuating, if it be possible, or maintaining, for as long a term to come, the curse of dear bread. No Minister who was not interested, as he is, in this dearness both of the ene commodity and the other—as a large money capitalist and a large landowner—could have endured for one week the contemplation of the working of his corn-law and his money legislation. The former he has based upon the principles of that rule which COCKER and WALKING !TAME have denominated "simple (i. e. self) . interest.' , The latter he seems to have framed on no higher elements than those of " vulgar fractions." The one is an exempli fication of the most obtuse prejudice—the other, evidence of the most exploded prepossessions of modern European states manship. But the time is at hand at which the popular voice will vindicate its own demands in the name of com mon sense and common humanity. All ministers of expe dients ultimately succumb to principles. The Premier's public career has been a succession of dramas, of which the plot was always founded on the attempt to set up an expe dient, and the catastrophe the establishment of the rightful principle. He has yet to "go through " the denouement of his tragic farce of " The Gold Standard ;" and the public have yet to be edified with the downfal of his usurping Cur rency Bill of 1819, and its progreny of 1826 and 1844, and the restoratiop of the rule of legitimate money. In reference to this matter of the currency, we postpone for want of room some further remarks which we propose to offer in confirmation of an able exposition of sound monetary principles that we had yesterday the pleasure of transferring to our columns from those of a Contemporary. But, in ad dition to the observations we submitted in our yester day's impression on the still' increasing drain of bullion from the cellars of the Bank, and on the Bank's weekly ac count, as published in last Friday's Gazette, we desire to direct the reader's attention to these facts. That account showed a decrease in the weekly circulation of 149,0001., and the de crease in gold store (helping it out by taking credit for 1,685,0001. of silver bullion) to 304,0001. ; so that to gether- the two items of decrease amounted to 453,0001. But, on the other side, one class of deposits had last week increased from 8,930,1341. to 9,099,7371.; a difference In the,. amount of their banking floating capital of 169,6031. Their " Rest" had increased by 12,3201. ; their "Public deposits" by 163i3961.—t0tal of in crease on. hese items, 345,3891. Now,inreference to the com bined operation of deposits' locked up, and circulation re duced, and bullion, stores diminished, this, account represents a pressure on the public circulation equivalent to the sum of the actual aggregate of the heads of decrease, and that of the items of increase, to the extent of which latter the com mercial public has always a right—under the automaton ma chinery adapted by Sir ROBERT PEEL to the action of the Bank of England—to expect to be benefited. Here we verily believe lies the secret of Sir ROBERT'S aversion to an Order in Council, opening the ports to foreign corn. He knows that the gold bullion would flow out of the country upon the same tide on which the vessels that had brought the consignments of grain would sail down the river on their homeward voyage, with return cargoes, not of manufactured goods—which at present you cannot persuade the foreigner to take in exchange for wheat —but with your vainly hoarded sovereigns. It must, how ever, come to this. The Premier is already convicted of having been run away with by two enormous fallacies. He must make up his mind to enter a double record of his politi cal failures by promulgating two Orders in Council. The one will repeal his sliding-scale; the other must repeal his Currency Bill and " its complement." Government taxation paper, or Bank of England small notes, must be formally called into circulation ; and in this way only can we hope to escape the horrors of impending; scarcity with scarcity prices, and the convulsions of a monetary panic, which nothing but persevering in our present suicidal monetary system could make inevitable. It is a generally received opinion, and admitted by impa tial Frenchmen themselves, that France with her present limited commerce, and with no colonies that deserve the name, can be only a second or third-rate naval power. The Chambers may vote any sums they please for building ships of war; France may possess the finest docks in the world, and the finest vessels, but money cannot make sailors, and without an ample supply of able and skilful sea men, men accustomed from youth to the hardships of the ocean, and deterred by no danger, the most powerful navy in the world would in the space of two or three years' war, become only a useless incumbrance. It was the trade of Holland, employing so many merchant vessels, that first raised that small republic to a great naval power, and its strength in that respect has decreased exactly in proportion as other states have become more en gaged in the carrying trade. These are chiefly England and the United States of America, who, probably, have larger commercial navies than any other ten ,states in the world. Some of the influential men in France begin to view the question in this light, and to place no confidence in the Strength of a French fleet till a new system is adopted, by which the navigation laws shall be altered and colonies formed as nurseries for French seamen. The Prince DE JODIVILLE seems to be partly of that opinion, and is compelled, therefore, in the meantime, to look to steam-ships, and other modern inventions, as the only grounds for security against the vast resources of England and the United States. But a steam navy is at best but a doubtful arm of defence. Steam ships are of great use in rendering assistance to a fleet; they are excellent for bombarding towns, and as privateers would be unrivalled, but without a vast proportion of large sailing vessels, manned with good seamen, they could make no fin pression in a great naval fight. The French journals, there fore, that call out for increasing the naval power of the country are directing the attention of the Chambers to this important subject, and urging, as they have for years done, the Goverment to lose no time in adopting great measures for rendering the navy really effective. A long article on this subject, as we stated yesterday, appears in the Flotte, in which a comparative view is taken of the actual strength of the English and French navies, and in almost every respect superiority is given to the former. The following analysis of the English fleet is thus stated : Three-deckers afloat, 19, carrying from 120 to 104 guns. Two-deckers afloat, 32, carry ing from 90 to 70 guns. Frigates afloat, 54, carrying from 60 to 36 guns ; and corvettes, brigs, &c., 95, carrying from 26 to 10 guns. The French actual naval force is given as follows :—Three-deckers, 4, with 120 guns each. Two-deckers, 19, carrying from 100 to 80 guns. Frigates, 28, carrying from 60 to 40 guns; and other small vessels 65, with 30 to 10 guns each. The total tree of each nation, including vessels building, is reckoned as fol lows :—English, 282 ; French, 161. After stating the man ner in which this force of vessels of the line, frigates, and brigs is divided, numbering those armed, the advance-ships, and the reserve, the Flotte makes the following remarks :—" The three deckers and the vessels of 92 to 78 guns are in perfect order. The 23 of 70 to 76 alone are ant of repair; nearly the whole of them re quire repairs, and that of an important description, pro bably for one-third of them. They are the oldest vessels of the British navy. They are ordinarily when armed employed upon distant stations. Thus then, should England wish to make a great demonstration of her maritime force, it must be evident to those who are acquainted with the English arsenals, and the power of the Admiralty, that within a month after the orders should be dispatched from London the 28 vessels and 6 advance-ships might be joined to the 15 vessels and 15 armed frigates, making a total of 43 vessels, of which 12 three-deckers and 21 frigates would be furnished in time of war with the best sailors. What could France do if she wished to contend against this powerful fleet ?, To the eight ships and 12 armed frigates she might join four ships and four frigates afloat, and arm promptly enough five ships and five frigates in ordinary. These vessels ought to have their materiel complete ; but such is the penury of our arsenals, that it is frequently necessary to take from the ships in ordinary the exchanges indis. pensable for the armed vessels. Admitting then, that a these vessels were mtmhiwielt,endrfitcee month after the declaration of war, com pletely ready to go to sea, we should have 17 ships and 23 frigates to oppose to 43 ships, 12 of which are three-deckers, and 21 frigates." This is a striking difference in point of numerical force, but the difference is still greater ' in the qualities of the combatan's. The sailors of both na tions are equally brave, but mere bravery without other qualities . cannot obtain victories, and supposing, with the Prince DE JOLNVILLE for a moment, that by some accident the . French fleet should obtain over the English a great victory, it would be equal to a defeat. One-half possibly of the goad perhaps e se navye a n in e n f, r from in o ec u iew l kt d i hsi e b e eihsdkseiurfl recruits e ca d rtfuer o diot r ms disabled. Eciotirt:lelidisrh b harbours T rohbua h olt e diu r rt sswuani rth a o r fully manned and equipped, to which the French had no adequate force to oppose. The writer comes to the conclu sion, as stated in The Sun of yesterday, that before France can compete with England she must have maritime commerce and colonies. The former, certainly, she may in crease by abolishing foolish monopolies, by encouraging other nations to trade with her on liberal terms, and by some alter ation of her navigation laws. But colonies cannot be created in a few years—a century would be required, and even then , theYreneh, to make them useful, must change their whole system of colonization, The only intelligence from Madrid, of the 3d instant, poe. sesaing the slightest interest relates to the public funds, which have been rising for some time. °t the journals ret4b to the circumstance as a proof ( the grov /lug credit of the Government, and we hope it is not fount' Led on some other shallow foundation, brought about' by a ompany of jobbers. The funds have not only risen, but pi. great deal of business has been done. The note to the offichal bulfe tin gives the fol lowing prices :—Three per Cents.„ 30/ 4 fur cash, and 37 1 for time, and good business done; Five per Cezits., from 25 1 / 1 to 25%. The accounts received at Paris from'the Freuch Ambas sador at Constantinople, are considered highly favourable. It appears from them that the Ottoman Porte had yielded to the demands of Baron DE BOITRQUENEY for satisfaction, relative to the murder of the Fran ch priest and the in demni ties to the convents which had suffered from a late po'oular commotion. The supposed murderer is to be brought, w,qh out delay, to Constantinople, to undergo his trial ; all the French subjects who had been obliged to quit the Lebanon are to be reinstated in. their establishments, and compensation is to be made to the inmates of the convents of Abey and Solima. This is considered a• great triumph on the part of France. These results are thus given in the Journal des nebate:—"We have received news from Constantinople of the 23d Oct., and are ,happy to be able to state, that the differences which have arisen between the Porte and the Ambassador of France have been settled, and that entire satisfaction has been given to the demands made by the Baron DE BOURQUENEY. The Ambassador had demanded the punishment of the murderers of Father CHARLES, a priest, placed under the protection of France, who was massacred in the Lebanon, in the month of May Last, and had also pro tested against the order given by CHEKIB EFFENDI, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Coins nissioner of the Porte in Syria, for all European subjects to quit the moun tain. :The Baron DE BOURQUENET had given ,in an ultimatum to the effect that French subjects should be immediately replaced in their establishments, and that an indemnity should be granted to those who had been compelled to quit them, in consequence of the refusal of pro tection—that the Sheik HAMOUD should be summoned to Constantinople, and that he should be tried for his conduct in the events of May—that the guilty parties should be sought out, and that the port should pay indenanitie.s for the sack of the convents of Abey and Solima, and that the officer who commanded the detachment of troops present at the sacking of the convent of Abe} be punished. This ultimatum has been accepted entirely by the Porte. The necessary orders were sent to CHEICID EFFENDI two days after, and M. BOUREE, Consul of France, started immediately for his post, to watch over the execution of these orders." It also appears, frbm accounts of the same date, that some important changes have taken place in the Turkish Ministry. RESCHID PACHA, now Ambassador at Paris, is recalled for the purpose of being placed at the head of the Cabinet with the title of Minister for Foreign Affairs. This is ad mitted on all hands to be a good appointment. SA.RIM EFFENDI, at present ambassador iu London, goes in the same capacity to Paris, and CHERIE EFFENDI, the late Minister of Foreign Affairs, and at present commissioner in Syria, goes as ambassador to London. BAHR' EFFENDI, the secretary of the embassy in Paris, remains in Paris in the meantime as Charge d'Affaires. We extract from the Semaphore de Marseilles the follow ing curious paragraph : " We have been assured that a letter written by Abd.el-Kader, and forwarded to Paris by General Cavaignac, had struck terror into the beart of an ,august personage, and sadly -complicates the em. barrassments of the • situation; The Emir is said to have declared that during the last ten years be had constantly - held in his hands' the lives of the prineei and generals who had fought in Africa; that be had under his orders 1,200 fanatics, ready to suffer martyr". dons, who were most anxious to repeat the s cene o f Yl e b er, : an d purify themselv es in the blood of the Christian generals; that he had hitherto restrained the religious ardour of these sectaries of Mehemet, but that ih future be should' be guided by the attitude, which' Prance woUld assume towatds'him. It is Added that at the moment when this alarming notification reached Paris, the Depar. ture of the Duke of Montpensier had been agreed in council, but that the tears of the Queen caused it to be adjourned." A good deal of business was done, both at TORTONI'S and the Boulevard des Italiens, on Sunday, when prices had con siderably improved. The Three per Cents. were done at 82f. 15c., and. the Five per Cents. at 117 f. 45c. Some business was likewise transacted in Spanish Stock, the Three per Cents. selling at 34 for cash, and 354 and 36 for time. The following are the prices of shares at Marseilles and Lyons : MAlmmum, Nov. s.—Marseilles and Avignon, I,ooof. ; Vierzon, 740 f. ; Boulogne, 580 f. ; Bordeaux, 662 f. 50c. LYONS, Nov. 7.—Marseilles and Avignon, 982 f. 50c. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,170 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 995 f. ; Orleans and Vierzon, 723 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 10. Anglo-Belgian Boulogne- and Amiens Bordeaux &Mediterran Bordeaux and Toulouse Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Do. ( Mackenzie's) Central of Spain .. ,uxembourg Madrid and Valentia — Namur and Liege North Jamaica ... Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux 10% OverYssel Pari?&L7ons (Laffitte) 21, Ceylon . Djmerara Dendre Valley ...... ... Dutch Rhenish 7% Dieppe & Paris j . ;;Ci.. Dijon and Mulhouse ... East Indian Fampoux & Hazebrouk Grt Northern of France (Laffitte's) Ditto (Rosamel's): 3 Do. (Le Boeuf) Do. Pepin le HaHenn — Great Paris and Lyons — Great Western Bengal Great Western Canada 3 1 / 2 Jamaica S. Mid. Junction Do. North Midland... Do. Extension Jersey Louvain and Jemeppe 2 l /2 Lyons and Avignon 2 4 Ditto Gannezyn's). Ditto (Caloa's).... Paris and Orle9• Y. “uu Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron's) Do. (Aymard;) Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2% Paris and St. Quentin. Rouen and Havre — Royal North of Spain — Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Basle Tournay,Jurbise, Lan dent, and Hasselt... Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie's) 4% Do. (Lefebvre's) Verona and Ancona—. West Flanders 41,4 CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.) PICKFORD v. THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.- JUDGMENT. The Loup CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which came before his Lordship upon an appeal motion from the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor of England. The plain tiffs in the case are the Messrs. Pickford, the celebrated car riers, and the defendants the directors of the Grand Junction Railway Company. The plaintiffs filed their bill, charging the defendants with having made certain charges for the carrying of goods which were illegal, and they prayed a declaration of their rights, and also an Injunction to restrain the defendants from making the charges complained of. Upon the case coming on before the Vice-Chancellor, he refused to grant the injunction asked for on the ground of delay, the plaintiffs having allowed a considerable time to elapse between the filing of the bill and the application for the injunction. From that decision the plaintiffs appealed to the Lord Chancellor. his Lordship, after going shortly into the facts of the case, stated his opinion to be that the plaintiffs had failed upon all the points urged by them in sup port of their application; and the appeal must, therefore, be refused, with costs. LN TIM MATTER OF STAIR. This ease was ordered, upon the application of counsel, to stand over to the next day of petitions. DAVENPORT ; V. BISHOP. The further - arguments in this part-heard appeal were then resumed, and occupied the Court the remainder of the morning. ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) His Lordship sat at ten o'clock, and was occupied during the greater part of the day in hearing unopposed petitions. These were chiefly praying that money lying in the Court to the credit of certain causes might be transferred to the petitioners. His LounsmP, in the course of these petitions, expressed his determination to enforce strictly the 122 d order of the Court, by which any pleading, petition, motion, or affidavit, that mi g ht appear to be of unnecessary length, should be re ferred to the taxing-master, who might be directed to in vestigate the same, and if it should appear to him that they were of unnecessary length, that he should make such an order as might appear to him just, as a set-off to the. demand for the costs. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) NIXON V. THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY COMPANY. The arguments in this part-heard cause were resumed to day. The question in the case relates to certain contracts for the construction of part of the railway. The case occupied the whole morning. (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) LIEVESEY V. WILLCOCK. Arguments were heard on both sides, and judgment given in favour of the defendant. It appears that the plaintiff-, Lievesey and Knowles, were on terms for a coal mine near 1 Wigan, when they met with defendant, who, in considera tion of Lievesey and Knowles giving up their interest in the lease to him, contracted to pay each of them 30s, a week for their personal services as underlookers 'in the mine, and to give them or their executors 5 per cent. on the profits. Defendant, however, dismissed both from his employment : Knowles for intoxication and neglect, LiTesey for neglect only. They came into Court to sue performance of contract. In consequence of the nature of the evidence by which the charge against Lievesry was supported, his Honour hesitated to pronounce against him ; but as Knowles, In the opinion of the Court, had by his conduct broken the agreement, and as Lievesev had assumed him as a ao-petitioner, his Honour decided that the Court could net afford relief to either. The bill was dismissed with 20/. costs, without prejudice to the cause. Counsel for plaintiffs, Messrs. Wigram, Q.C., and Blun dell; for defendant, Messrs. Russell, Q.C., and Milne. WOODWARD V. MILLER. Mr. Miller having purchased a property sold Iy auc tion at the instance of the executors, Woodward) declined to own the purchase, on the ground of fictitious bidders having been present to advance the amount of pur chase-money. - Evidence was put in by the plaintiffs, admitting that Mr. Broadhurst was present on the day of sale for that purpose, and gave several biddings till the price was enhanced to 030/. Mr. Miller said he bought under the belief that the bidders were bona/3de bid ders. Mr. AVIGRAM, Q. 0, was proceeding with his argument for the plaintiffs, maintaining that these fictitious biddings have never prejudiced the sale in law, when our report left. (Before Vice-Chancellor 1 Vton.A3t.) TAMLYN V. REYNOLDS. The plaintiff appeared to plead his own cause below bar. The case arises out of the sale of devised estates, over which plaintiff, as a devisee, declares he holds unsatisfied claims. So far back as 1818, Mr. Tamlyn appeared before Sir John Leach. His HONOUR'deferled judgment. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) ELWELL V, TIM BIRMINGHAM CANAL COMPANY. This was an action taken by the plaintiff against the Birmingham Canal Company, for a false return to a writ of mandamus, issued by this Court; damages were laid at 10,0004 It appeared from the statement of counsel, that the objections of the Canal Company were, that notice of the damage done to the plaintiff's mills had not been given within one month, as required by the Act ; that the venue should have been laid in the county of Stafford; and that the untice lid not specify the extent of the damage doe; as required by the fifty- second section of the Act. _ _ -.."=---- ' Plaintiff's Counsel contended that the notice -was sufficient, and that it was not necessary to lay the venue in Stafford, inasmuch as the action was upon a writ of mandamus. The damage to the defendant's mill was alleged to have been done by the Company decting an engine` to pump up the water from one level to another, whereby his mill was deprived of the water necessary for the working of it. Counsel argued at great length that the plaintiff had made good his right to the compensation awarded to him by the arbitrators to whom it had been referred, even in accordance with the provisions of the Public Act, and the Canal Com pany's Private Act, and that therefore he could not see why the Company should resist the award. The case occupied the entire day. Counsel for the de fendant having stated his case, and counsel for the plaintiff having replied, with which he occupied the Court until near three o'clock.--Judgment deferred. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) The proceedings in this Court, up to the time of our going to press, were of the most uninteresting description. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) JOYCE V. GREENE. 11Ir. JA.Ttvis, Q. C. moved their Lordships in this case, which had been prosecuted in the Liverpool Court of. Requests for a rule of prohibition to set aside the proceedings in the case. The defendant was an attorney, and having subpcened the plaintiff on a trial in which he was professionally concerned, the plaintiff summoned him for his expenses, which amounted to a guinea. Now the Learned Counsel contended that the defendant incurredno liability in subpmning the plaintiff, but the party for whom he acted did. • Mr. Baron. PARKE—That depends upon the conduct of the attorney : prima facie the client is liable, and not the attorney. _ --- Air. ARvis apprehended that it did not. Mr. Baron PARKE—Why if an attorney promises to see a witness paid his expenses if he will attend a trial the attor ney renders himself liable. Mr. JARVIS urged that a promise of this sort must be specially stated in the summons, but nothing of the kind appeared upon the face of the summons in this case. The LORD CHIEF BARON—What state is the case in? Mr. JARVIS said judgment had been recorded, and the amount levied for. It was not so much for the amount they were contending as for the principle involved in the case. The plain tiffproduced witnesses to swear that the defendant promised to see him paid, and on the other hand witnesses were exa mined to prove that he did not. Ile contended that the Commissioner of the Court of Requests had no jurisdiction in a case like this. The LORD CHIEF BARoN—Was that objection made before the Commissioner? Mr. JARVIS replied that it was not. The Lonn CHIEF BARON—It is too late then to urge it now. You have said enough to induce the Court to refuse the application. It should have been made while the pro ceedings were pending in the Court of Requests.—Rule re fused. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) Thomas Mathews, a powerful-looking man, was charged with the following brutal conduct : It appeared from the evidence that he was misconducting himself in a very gross manner in St. Luke's, between nine and ten o'clock on Sunday night. Police-constable 108 E interfered, and seeing that he was somewhat tinder the in fluence of liquor, procured a little boy to conduct him to his home. The prisoner had not advanced many paces in com pany of the lad when he turned round, and,without receiving any provocation, declared the policeman was a meddling vagabond, and applied a variety of the coarsest epithets to him. The' constable, with a forbearance not often exer cised by his class, took no notice, but was walking along his beat, when the prisoner suddenly seized him, threw him into the kennel, and beat and kicked bins in so dreadful a manner that the blood poured from his nose, mouth, and ears. The poor fellow has s i nce th en been suffering from a violent pain in the head and spine. The prisoner, who had no 'excuse to plead, was.sentencad to a fortnight's imprisonment in the Hsuse of Correction,. without the power of releasing himself by the payment pf a fine. , MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000 bags, of which speculators took 6,000. Pricesdid not advance, but were well supported. Each day's post brings with it a vast body of evidence of the rising state of the market for potatoes and grain, and of the full expectation that as the winter advances the poorer classes must suffer from famine by reason of a still further enhancement. The question is demanded in all quarters— " What are the Ministers about ?'l. All classes--the chant, the banker, the tradesmen, and the masses, require earnestly for a present reply. As for any commission being appointed now 'to inquire into the subject referred to above, as Was stated yesterday, is held to be entirely out of the question. Until there is something definite made public upon this topic, the funds will be inju riously influenced, and trade and commercial operations be all but suspended. The accounts received by the merchants connected with the West Indies by the steamer just arrived, are considered of a most satisfactory character. The immense arrival of specie from Mexico (2,751,193 dollars) is about the largest remittance brought by the royal mail steamers. The Mexican dividend fund will be increased considerably by the present arrival. The Funds have today exhibited symptoms of improve ment again, and there is a further slight advance in prices. Consols are 96 to 96% for present transfer, and 96% to % for account. Exchequer Bills have advanced to 255. and 28s. premium. Bank Stock is rather better, being 200 to 201 1 4. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 97 to 97%. The Foreign market is buoyant. Spanish Bonds have touched 28 3 4 to 29% for the Five per Cents., and 37 3 / to 38 for the Three per Cents. Portuguese Converted Stock fur Account has been quoted 57. Mexican Bonds have been at 31% to 32; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 60 to 60%. Shares are held more firmly. Staines and Richmond are very scarce in the market, owing to the South Western having guaranteed 4 per cent. on its capital, and an equal division of the profits above that sum. BB,ITtSI.I FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Bank Stock ............200 201 1 4 20114 . 3 3 p p e e C rr Cent. Reduced .censeis Annuities 961,x, 96 94% 95 7 New 3 1 / 1 per Cents Long Annuities to expire J an. 1860 10 7-16 9-16 10 9-16 Ditto 30 y - ears, Oct. 10,1859 10% South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account - ...... 96 1 4 3 -- , 1 % Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, I%d 2B 25 Ditto 500/. .. 25 28 Ditto Small .. 28 25 943 g 96 pm. 25 pm. 28 pm. 25 PRICES ALeDxiitt ONR - CLOSING , 5 per Acc C Account nt ..... .... 1 .8 3 . 2 .... .. 3 .......... 31 1 : t 32 31 e: O r, F FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent... 86 31 Ditto, Deferred Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — 35 Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto. Account ... ...... ..... 57 57 Russian Bonds . . 111 111 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. 4 Ditto, Account .. 29% 28% 28 If i Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. .... .. Ditto, Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — 40% Belgian 41, per Cent. Ditch, 2% per Cent . Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 933 A 94 93% Ditto Bonds ..93 93% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLO3ING RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK pRICES Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine ; and Portrush 1%.....• Aylesbury and Thame.. 19 ...... .............. ‘ Belfast & County Down ..... . Bideford andTavistock... 1% ...... Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 ...... 125 Ditto New 1 74 ...... 30 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction ......... 2 ...... 4 Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 22s ...... p Bridgewater & Minehead ... _ Bristol and Exeter ..... 70 Ditto, New .......... 2 1 - 0 1 4 10 BBristol andand L G i .I N o . e u r c . ester j u nc . . .. _3O : ... .. :.. .. Caledonian Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln 14 4 Do. New Cambridge and Oxford.. 11 Canterbury and Doyen. lA Chelmsford and Bury ... 1% — , , Cheater and Holyhead... 15 Chester and Manchester 425. — Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction 5 ...... Cork Blackrock, and Passages •••••• 22s — Cork and Killarney ... 21 Cork and Waterford ... 1% l l4 Cornwall .................. 5 ... . Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester.....,,,,, 114 Chichester and Brighton 20 Coventry and Leicester 14 — Churnet Valley ........ 2 Chatham and Portsm'th 1 Dalkeith ... ............... Derby, Gainsbro', and Great Grimsby ..... .... _ Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford .....•............ 2%...... Direct Manchester IG I / -p .... 1.14 ( Remington's) ....... 2 3 y, 23 4 Ditto (Rackstrick's)... 5 Direct Northern ......... 2% 2 Direct Norwich ........ 1 Dublin and Armagh..,,, Dublin and Belfast June. 5 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine ............. 2% Dublin and Galway... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 21/, Dublin and Cashel ...... 5 Dublin and Mullingar... Diss, Beecles, Yarmouth 1 lublin and Belfast J une 5 Eastern Counties...... 14/. 16s 2 0 3 /4 20% • Ditto New ............ 4/. 1 6s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....6/, 13s. 4d Ditto ditto, Nu. 2...21. 13s. 4d P EastDereh'm andNoech 1 Eastern Union ............ 20 .. Ditto, Quarter Sha res 21 4 Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21h East Lincolnshire ...... jl4 2 3% 3 ...... East & West of England 1% Edinburgh and Glaszow 20% 7 p l 6 P ii P ...... Ditto, Quarter Shares 124 Ditto, New ......... 5 Edinburgh &North ern .. Edinburgh and Perth... it, 5 Ely and Huntingdon ... s'z . Enniskillen and Sli go ..... 2% — Essex and Suffolk 1% Exeter, Yeovil,& Dors e t 2% l4 2 Glouc., Aberystwitb,and Central of Wales 1%..... Goole and Doncaster .. 425• ...... p . Grand Junction ...100 Ditto Half Shares 5O — Ditto Quarters 25 Grand Union l% 1 34 2 1 / 8 .... Great Eastern & Western 2% GreatGrimsby and She. field Great South. and West. (Ireland) 1.4 Ditto Extension ...... 7% — .......... Great Munster 2% — •••• Great North of Scotland 21/2 — Great Northof England..loo Ditto New 5 — Do. New .... . ......... 2 ...... 25 3 4 ‘ireat Western BO Ditto % Shares 5O - Ditto 1 4 Shares 2% 1 3 1, /2 Ditto Fifths Guildford, leare'm,Ports. 2% Harwich Hull and Selby 50 Ditto 1 4 Shares Do. Half Shares 2 ..... ... ...... . Hounslow Western Hull and Gainsborough 1% Inverness and Elgin 1 — Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 — -•• . Irish North Midland l% — ••• •I Isle ofAxholme 25 — Kendal and Windermere 1 Kentish Coast 1 a — Killarney Junctions — — Lmcaster and Carlisle... 30 Larne, Belfast, and Bal lymena — Leeds and Carlisle ...... Leeds and West Riding Junction Leicester & Birmingham 225. p ..... ... Leicester and Bedf,)rd... 225....... 5 42' p Leicester and Tamwo r th 42 5. - a , A /13 P Livery. and Manchester.loo ... Do. 1,4 Shares Do. Quarters 25 Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% ..... Lpool., Mncbstr, & New castle Junction London and Birmingumloo 2lB 214 217...... Do. Thirds .. Do. 1, Shares ..... ........ Ditto Fifths ..... ..... 2 Ditto Extension ...... 1% — London and Blackwall. 16/. 133.4 d — Do. New Ditto Extension London and Bright on 5O 64.7 1 59 1 / 601,4 59M Do. consolidated Bths 35 ...... Ditto, Sixths ...... ... 0%...... London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 20% Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and ... ... ..... Hereford London and Greenwich 12/ 1554 d... Do. Preference ...18/173 2d — London, Hounslow, and 'Western Lund. &S. Western 411 6s 10d 72% 73 Do. New Consol. Bths 20 — Do. New Do. New London & South Essex — London and York 2%. ..... 4%%... London and Windsor - ••• ......... •• London, Warwick, and Kidderminster .... .. ... . '2% London, Salisbury, and Yeovil - ... • .. 2%... . ‘.... Londonderry& Coleraine 5 ...... • ••••••.4 .... Londonderry and Ennis killen , 4• ..... •••• 5 "..... -. - Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham s' . — • Manchester and Leeds ... 76 . • Ditto %- Shares ~.-... 31 .. .. ... .... DI Quarters 2 Do. Sixteenths . 4 , , , ,1 — Manchester and Birnun. 40 Do. Quarters • Do. New Quarters Do. Continuation and Welsh Junction Manchester,Bukton,and Matlock • 425. — p Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction ..... — Manchest. & Southanapt. 2 •••••• 3 % Midland... Do. Fifths 100 l4O ... ..... ..... 2 Do. New Midland,Birm., Derby — 100 lO7 110 105 109 Midld. & East. Counties — Midland Great Western (Irish) Do. Extension, No. 12% — ..... Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 ...... 58 .. Do. New Brandling... 15 Newcastle and Berwick 5 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction... 1 X...... ... Newport & Abergavenny 2%...... New Ross and Car10w... 22s Newry and Enniskillen 2% Boston ... ...... ........ 2 %..... 84%1,i North British Do., New North Devon 2 - ... 1% .«..... Northern and Eastern... 45 Do. Scrip - - Do. Quarter Shares... 1 9 % — Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover 21.• .. North Staffordshire 425...„.. 34% p North Wales - North and South Wal es and 'Worcester Norwich and Brandon._ 16 Ditto New 1 ..-- Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham ' 2 Nottingham and Boston 1% Nottingm., Erewsh. Val ley. and Manchester 1% Nottingham and Mans field Oxford, Gosport, Ports - mouth,& Southamptn 425. Oxford and Worcester... 2% 6 % IA Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... ....... 1% Perth and Inverness .. 2% Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 ..._ Portsmouth Direct ...... 33/ — Preston and Wyre 5O Do. 1 ,6 Shares - Reading, Guildford, and Reigate - ........ ••• •• Richmond Rugby and Huntingdon 2 — Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick — Scottish Central Scottish Midland l% 3 *4 Sheffield & Manchesterloo Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2 1,4..... 4% % ....... . ... Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union P Shrewsbury & Hereford 2k, — Sligo and Shannon I YB Somersetshire Midland 2% South Devon.. South Midland 225....... 4M 3% p South Staffordshire June. 21,4 — South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 34 1 ,1 Do., No. 1 l2 D0., Ne. 2. Do., No. 3 Southampton, Manches ter, & Oxford Junction 2 ...... St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction.. ........ Staines and Richmond . - •e••• 1 StafFordsh. & Shropshire 23/ iouth Wales ..... ...... ..„ 21,4 — Tean and Dove Valley 1% 1%% ...... .., .. Ph irent Valley 2 ...... 15% 1G • 16 Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke 514 Vale of :Neath _ ... Warwick & Cheltenham U Waterford and Kilkenny 3 .... -- Waterford and Limerick 7%....... — and Düblin W aterford, Wexford, and Valentia Waveney Valley ..... - Welch Midland Vest Cornwall ..... 1 1 4... .. West Yorkshire WestLondon,Old Shares 20 West End and Southern Counties .. 1 1,4 Wexford and Carlow ... 2 1 4 Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton ... Us Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union ..... 1%..... Worcester and S. Wales 425. Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 — Ditto, New York and Carlisle 2 34 3% ... . . . York and Lancaster 2% ......,.w.. .• York & South Connecting York Etna North Midland 50 — Ditty % 5hare5........ 25 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do Selby 2O — Do. Extension l l4 26 25 1 FOREIGN RAILWAY:S. Anglo. Belgian 4 Boulogne and Amiens... 8 Bordeaux & Dlediterran. 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... — Do. (Espelete's) .. ... 2 .... . :s. Di' ld Calais, Dunk, an,.. Flanders - •••.•• Central of Spain ... .... 2 Ceylon .. ss. Demerara 2% •••••• ... ............ Dendre Valley Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2 Dutch Rhenish East Indian... ..... .... ss. Fampoux & Hazebrouk 2 Great North. of France (Laffitte's) Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... Do. Peppin le Halleur 4 •. --- --- Do. (Le Boeuf) Do. (Constituted)....• Great Paris and Lyons 2 Great Western Bengal... p. ! . ...... -- West Great *esterlldin - a7:l a.. . 3 1 4 ....•• Jamaica .Mid. Junction 1 Jamaica North Midland 1 Do. Extension ...... ... 1 Jersey Louvam and thmeppe... 4 ... y ... ... --, 11, 1845, Lyons and Avignon 2 Luxembourg ...... - 4 Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... .. Namur and Liege North Jamaica... ...... ... 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 Over Yssel 413 s 4d — Paris &Lyons(Laffitte's) 2 Paris and' Lyons (Gan neron's) Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ...... Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen . 20 Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2 ...... Ditto (Aymards)...... 2 1 4 — •• ..... Paris and St. Quentin ... 2 Rouen and Havre ...... 18 Royal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse ...... 6 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic Tournay, Jurbise, Lan dent, and Hasselt 4 Tours and Nantes (Mac kenzie's) .......... ...... 2 Do. do (Lefebvre's \ 2 Ditto (O'Neill's) 2 Verona and Ancona.... 3 West Flanders .. 4 MINES 2 3 4 13% 33 2 9 I/ -; 53/4 Real del Monte Unregd. JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American 50 Union of Australia 47% 2-11 - P % P A P 24% ___ 2 69m WATERFORD, Nov. B.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—Arrd. Re. Hance, Halifax. 2 O Ph 73 CORK, Nov. Rostellan, Jamaica. CASTLETOWN, Nov. s.—Arrd. Leviathan, Roycroft, St John's, New Brunswick, and sailed, 6th, for Baltimore. BOWMORE (ISLAY), Nov. s.—The Dee, Kelly, from Sligo, which got on shore here 20th ult., got off this morning. The Caledonia, from Lochindaul to the Clyde, sprung a leak, after leaving the former port. and sunk off Port Ellen. SWANAE ' Nov. 9.—A large billet head, gilded, of a ship of about 600 tons, evidently knocked away by being in con tact, was picked up near Peveril Point, 7th inst. An arrival from Lima, bringing dates to the 7th Sept. from Lloyd's agent at that port, furnishes the following important naval intelligence : LIMA, Aug. B.—Arrd. her Majesty's steamer of war, Cor morant, 6 guns, Captain G. Gordon, from Panama, with dispatches from the English governor for the admiral, and merchants'. letters to, the 17th June; the whole distance, by this route, having been done in the unprecedented Short time of 53, days. , 9th. Arrd. French corvette, Fortune, 24 guns, • Captain Bermond, from Valparaiso, and sailed, 11th, for the., Marquesas Islands, to join the French admiral., 24tli. Her Majesty's brig-of-Ivor, Frolic, 16 guns, Capt. Hamilton, from Arica; in 6 days, for Buenos Ayres, to join the squadron in the Pacific, 29th ? sld herAlajesty's brig : of-war Frolic, 16 guns, Captain Hamilton, Ivith•se,aled oiders,lautsup'posed to be for the Sand wich Islands, to join the Admi ra l, Si r 'George Seymour. 30th, her Majesty's frigate Fisguard, 46 guns, Capt. Duntze, for Valparaiso. CAUTION TO MARINERS—SUNKEN ROCK. 1 0 1 ,4 1' - P LIMA, SEPT. 2, 1845.—Masters of vessels proceeding from the Port of Pisco to the Chincha or Guano Islands, should give the N.E. point a good berth until the centre of the island bears south, and then haul into their moorings abreast of the loading shoots, there being a sunken rock about half a cable's length off the N.E. point of the island, not laid down in any chart. 3 3 / 4 141 NOTlCE.—Masters of vessels loading guano with the shoots at the Chincha Islands, are cautioned against throwing over board ballast at the loading anchorage. 20% 109 CAUTION.—Any master or masters permitting ballast to be thrown overboard in less than 12 fathoms water, will be fined in the penalty of one hundred dollars. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. .BAY MARKETS. 58 46 131/2 SinnurrELD.—Meadow Hay, from 31 lOs to Si 3s ; Clover ditto, 4/ lOs to 6/; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 11 18s to 2/ per load. Trade steady, at about last week's quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 51 5s ; Clover, ditto, 4/10s to 61; Oat Straw, 1116 s to 1118 s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ls Eper load. A fair average supply, and a firm demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 51; Clover, ditto 41 lOs to 6165; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 11 I.s; Wheat Straw, 1118 s to 2/ per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. 3% 22 1 ,6 4 3 % p SUGAR.—British Plantation has been firm. Bengal good to fine greyish yellow has been sold at 53s Gd to 5Gs 6d for Dhobah kind. Barbadoes Molasses have been taken in at 23s to 23s 6d per cwt., and brown Bahia Sugar has been sold (for refining in bond) at 22s per cwt. COFFEE.—CeyIon low good ord mixed has been chiefly bought in at 48s to 49s 6d per cwt. Mocha has been mostly sold at 64s 6d to 70s for good mid clean garbled. SALTPETRE.—BengaI, 1,359 bags only partly found buyers at 25s to 27s 6d for 11 to 4i per cent. refraction, being about the prey ions value. 01.... 22 1/4 TALLOW—P.Y.C. is 42s 3d per cwt., on the spot, and Town 44s per cwt. TEA.—The market Is firm, and the deliveries are good. 10% 1 57 IS 16% 3% 3 A P 30 31 / 2 r 34% ..... 34 3 1 A 2% SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE COMPANY (THIS DAY.) A special general meeting of the Proprietors of the South wark-bridge and Steam-boat Pier Company was held to-day, at one o'clock, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to consider and determine on the propriety of selling the pro perty in question to the North Kent Railway Company for the purposes of a terminus. Charles Price, Esq., presided on the occasion. The CHAIRMAN briefly opened the business. He said that for some time past several railway companies had appointed deputations to wait upon the directorsrespecting the purchas ing of the bridge. The directors had at last come to terms with one, the North Kent Railway Company, and the conditions would be learned from the report, which the secretary would now read to the meeting. The Secretary then read the report, the substance of which was, that a negotiation had taken place between the Direc tors of the Bridge company and Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid and George Whitmore, Esq., on the part of the North Kent Railway Company, for the sale of the bridge, steam-boat pier, &c., for the sum of 300,0001. Se veral other railway companies had made offers since June last, but some of them had abandoned their schemes, and others had fallen off. They (the Directors) had, however, at last closed with the railway company in question, and the Directors recommended the proprietors t o agree to the terms proposed, namely, 300,0001., the purchase to be contingent on the railway company obtaining their Act; the purchase to be then at once completed. Mr. ALLN urr moved that the terms of the agieement come to between the Directors and the North Kent Railway Company be confirmed by the proprietors present. He thought. it was a very good offer, and one that ought to be received by the meeting. Mr. BELL seconded the motion. Captain GROVER inquired if any deposit was to be paid on the purchase-money. The CHAIRMAN answered in the negative, and said he be lieved the Directors of the Railway Company had no power at present to apply their capital to the purposes of the present agreement. Captain GnovEnconsidered that a deposit ought to be paid. It had been done so in other cases ; in the cases of the sale of the Regent's Canal, the Andover Canal, and recently Charing cress-bridge, on which 10,0001. was agreed to be paid. Without some guarantee from the railway company, he most decidedly objected to the confirmation of the agreement. He would be satisfied with five per cent. on the purchase. money ,• let them pay down 15,0001. as adeposit, to be forfeited should they fail in obtaining the Act for the Company through any neglect or omission on their part. He would therefore move as an' amendment that a deposit of five per cent. be paid in the sum of 300,0001. as a guarantee. Mr. CHAFFERS seconded the motion. A desultory discussion took place, in which the CHAIRMAN stated that the Directors, were satisfied with the highly re spectable character of the two gentlemen who represented the Railway Company, and did not press the payment of a deposit, seeing that these gentlemen objected to it, and when it was shown that according to the Registration Act the Directors of the Railway Company had no power to take any portion of the deposits of the shareholders fur such a purpose at present. The amendment was then put from the chair and nega tived, and the original motion, confirming the report of the Directors for the sale on the terms named, carried by a large majority. The meeting then broke up. 3 1 A 9% OPENING OF THE PORTS.—MANCHESTER, Nov.lo. A requisition is in the course of signature, calling on the Mayor to convene a public towns meeting, to memorialise the Government in favour of opening the ports for the free ad mission of grain and all kinds of food. GREAT PEDESTRIAN MATCH FOR 501. —.Y es . terday the match made for J. Byrom, to run four miles of road under twenty. two minutes, came off near the King's Arms, Acton. bottom, in the presence of a large number of spectators. Byrom has acquired considerable fame, and was the favourite in betting. Byrom started at a rattling rate and covered the first mile in five minutes and nineteen seconds ; the next mile was performed fin five minutes and a half, a rapid pace being continued ; and the third mile was reached in five minutes and ten seconds. Finally, the feat was accomplished easily, the four miles of road having been run over in twenty.one minutes and four seconds. A good deal of money was pending on this race. Mi. OM - - DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LEWlSRAM.—Yesterday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, a destructive fire broke out in the farm.yard belonging to Mr. John Duncan, licensed victualler and farmer, situate at Russia.grcen, Lewisham. It ori ginated In the centre of a large stack of rowing, whence it ex tended to a couple of ricks of hay. The alarm having been promptly given, not many minutes elapscd before the parish en gines from Lewisham and Greenwich arrived. These were quickly set to work, but owing to the very inflammable nature of the stock, the fire travelled with great rapidity, and two stacks of clover standing on the ground also became ignited. The fire still progressing, a messenger was dispatched to London, requesting the aid of the brigade engines, and Mr. Henderson, the foreman of the district, dispatched the Southwark-bridge -road engine to the spot; and as soon as Mr. Connorton became aware of the outbreak, he also started to the scene with the West of England engine and fire men. The neighbours and police exerted themselves most man fully, and by throwing buckets of water upon, and by covering a rick standing under a long range of buildings, the same was pre served from destruction. The firemen laboured until past six o'clock, when they at length obtained the mastery over the flames, The damage done is very considerable, the stock of rowing being consumed. Two ricks of hay are partly destroyed, and two stacks of clover are extensively injured. The fire, it is supposed, arose from spontaneous ignition. Fortunately:Mr. Duncan was Insured in the Phoenix FiTC.QMCC, LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. 11.—Wind this day at noon E., by N., mo derate breeze and cloudy, with light drizzling rain at times. DEAL, Nov. 10.—Wind S.W., squally.—Arrd. Anne Jane, Rigby, China • Oriental Queen, Ramsay, Calcutta; Jean Key, Havannah. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 10.—Wind S.S.W. to W.S.W.—Off port, Minorca, Singreen, Buenos Ayres, sailed 28th August; Lucina, Albrecht, New York for Stettin; Totnes, OFF THE WlGHT.—Zenobia, Africa for Gottenburg. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 10.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Dahlia; Hooper, Quebec ; Messenger, Stubb, Labrador. BRISTOL CHANNEL, Nov. 10.—Arrlyleiades, Richebucto ; British Queen, Dodd, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 10. —Wind E., moderate.—Arrd. Alba tross, Mills, Quebec. Sid. Victoria, Caithness, Monte Video ; William and Ann, Cressin, Santa Cruz ; Doris, Townley, Sierra Leone ; Grenville, Touzel, Santa Martha ; Panther, Lane, New York. Off port, Sisters, Laguna; Alicia, Quebec*; Ward, Chapman, —' • Breton, —. OFF THE AlfzEiv HEAD, Nov. s.—Maerer, Quebec ; Lion, Coleman, ditto. LITERA T EJRE. THE MASTER PASSION, & c . By T. C. Graff • tan, 3 vols. - These volumes contain many talesand sketches whi t have already app eare d i n different periodical,, but at o f now collected for the first time. They chiefly Cuus i6t r . travelling reminiscences, anecdotes, and legends. or po et traits of original characters whom the auth , r has IS ; with in his wanderings. The style is bold and animat e it interests without fatiguing. This is quality in a work of fiction. We may, read a tuformatiou• dull history for the sake of obtaining but in a novel we only seek for amusement ; and 0 1696 " ment we are sure to find in Mr. Grattan's writings! there is no affectation, no striving after effect, all is ire; and unstudied, full of vigour and reality. We are t pth°ll. that many of the incidents are true, many of the -, i s ratters; real this may be so or not, it matters little, Iv o , enough that they are naturally described and re t b e a necessary dily be believed, and in this is their great chartu,,o impost may interest, but it is probability i" amuses. The principal tale, " The Master Passion," appea,r e n d Colburn's Magazine so me y ears b ac k. It is a l e g . " ,, o f of Chamouni, and is full of intere t. The hero is oft en e those dark and dreadful chara c t ers , happily more ° the found in fiction than in reality, hati n g and despising world, shunned and feared by all. This gloomy 0115 ;i 3 is thrope is softened by love for a young peasant girl the feeling becomes the "master passion" of his life, oid, redeeming trait in his dark cha r a c t e r ; but se are t, " Love flows like the Solway, and ebbs like its ti de ; the master passion of love being changed to jeal °ll ,: i i i , renders him even more terrible than before. Th e c il - d eluding chapters of this tale are powerfully writt"' 'es are full of thrilling interest. Many of the other st° rl _ , are of a very different character, some light only calculated to amuse—others full of reflections ° individual dispositions, tending to show that— " The proper study of mankind is man." the The first volume is embellished with a portrait of te author. The following extracts will show Mr. GA. tan's opinion of the wisdom of his countrymen, a n excuses for American vanity : • eet The extreme diversity of shades in Irish character is more remarkable than the wild harmony with which t" 0 ;., blend together. Almost every individual is made IT f hra c tradictions, or at least of contrasts. The joy of an has always a dash of melancholy in it; and there is 3 r`*" bow even in his most clouded sky. sni and tail% It is incontestable that Ireland is more fertile than other other country in what is generally called folly ; folly — r t I its Proteus forms, but specially of that humiliating se t it have just alluded to. lam almost inclined to think th a ap t is quite a matter of chance whether any given Irish ip of turn out a wise or a foolish man ; and iu the traie l 4y, adults it is hard to say to which category they belong• e en almost without exception, seem to hover through life bet th en the two attractions: and in nine ca ses ou t o f ten a fa i „ ic es would turn the beam. It is this uncert a inty which 6 „ 0 1 such a racy flavour to Irish humour, and such p i cturescl ll ;ti. to Irish conduct: Other nations scarcely k no w bow to ,s; mate us. Our fools perpetually say the shrewdes t thi - our wise men constantly do the most foolish. t the And is it then , really, I have often asked myself, that the quickness of intellect which is admitted to distingois' r mass d my countrymen, is but a chance item in the balallbr sheet of the national character, and that, due allowan ces ce ei shades of difference being made, and the proportions he t ' h icii sense and nonsense fairly struck, it is even doubtful w ought to be held predominant? I s th e boundarY be i tw t cf intellect and idiotism so narrow? Is it a mere acei4e n t b e r cerebral formation that m a k es one man an ora t o r andtolt' an "innocent?" Of what are "Irish eloquence" Wm' wit" compounded? And h ow are we to" draw the live tits , tweentheni,on one hand, and bombast and ribaldry et t ot es Other? Does the reputation of our bold-voiced dernagf,„ b els and spirit-stirring speakers in Parliament bang on the thread ofa ,plrenological subdivision ? May Dryden's coup "Great*leis snit to inadridss near allied, ' , And thin partitions do their bounds divide, be specially applied to liishinen?` and Must we be tb , at",hst prove a pendant to the,, truisinaf, an old L at i n writer; scholars are the'lliost ftiolish men in the world?" „„ 3 te: Is it not unfair, or at bent IStierile, in English trave„oo be surprised or angry winh the Americans for their evili ca r , , displays of national vanity? Have they not a right f ° , eider themselves one of the greatest nations existing' . it iot that point conceded, is it wonderful that they should coi l ' of. themselves the greatest? Why, then, those expres s ,l e of , annoyance and disgust at this strongly-developed fain Transatlantic character? Arne t Let it be remembered that the United St a tes of - 1 - 111 t to" have made for themselves a distinguished position in. 061, scale of national greatness--they have fought for andf ro pea ; their liberty from one of the mo s t p ower f u l p eo ple of -r4 u ; 01 In a later contest, they maintai ne d ga ll an tly w h a t they at et so gloriously won. They see their population and their 1 3° ., every day increasing with alm os t i ncre dibl e progre s ,l l , Their greatness is all visible, while their r emotenes 3 : be . other countries leaves them without con t ras t s to show 'a , their inferiority on miner points. They hear fr , IS one eli g i s e. the Union to the other but the langu age o f rec i pro cal E„ r 7,tt- The voice of sarcasm or blame co mes f a i n tly across Or l ike lantic deeps ; and, when heard in feeble echoes. it sound s envious whisperings rather than full-toned reproof. e pee A blustering self-sufficiency is the inevitable cons i9 . r of all this internal combination ; and a perpetual aceelp ii ii; given to it from outward sources. Every ship-load or grants that reaches the American sho r e s b r ings a ni"ricie practical eulogy to increase the stock of American 1 1 ) ,„a; Each new settler is a living tribute to the wor th of the „` and all who come predisposed to admi re an d fl a tter, se ° 4 " o pi. come an integral part of the vanity th e y f e ed. The goo.u o de nion they at first formed for the coun t r y i s no t likely Loot crease when it is converted into pride of themselves- of every additional settler abets the general disease, and " e ra ry the iew travellers that Europe sends out to ma ke a ten l P ° Je ot sojourn, can have ill-bred candour to com b a t the prey a cap weakness of self-satisfied millions ; civilisation alone cure it. ilisea But is America likely ever to become a truly c 1 ; 71 ,41 nation, if civilisation be t a k en t o i mp l y expans i o n of and refinement in m an n ers an d h a bit s o f t h oug ht ? It 00 constant contact with oth er coun t r i es t h at alaul, Ar ta , rub off the asperities of na ti ona l pre j u di ce—the great Until true refinement. Such a remedy A mer i ca can never bay° me the days when her overgrow n em pi re s h a ll b rea k luta " ments of territorial separation. Then every rival State will discover faults in its n e ,i7o hour which it never saw when th e i r i n t eres t s a nd feol er f were in common, and jealousy will see defects iu the 11 qualities that self-love considers as perfections. Nortu r ol s, southerns, monarchies, and republics—despots and olie t oca will then, by opposing efforts, disperse the very Pre) 0,1 1 they had while united upheld ; and eve r y s eparate b r , 4 of lopped from the great national tree will lessen the P 33 1 ;0 1 congregated vanity which oversh a d ows th e l an d. Batt c osa then, we must bear w ith th e A mer i cans , an d e ven e%., t rl them, while they say, and write, an d b e li eve their co o ' to be " The wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best !" MAGAZINES CONTINUED,* DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZIA,- E ',..b o liC This is a good number. The " German 1 - 1 : 4 " Church " is a capital essay on the present aingoer, phase of Catholiczsm in relation to Rcman ism "i n ho le e many ; and, among other things literally " picks ,e ng of very discouraging extent in that most ironna, s e rbor modern impostures, Bishop Von nominees and Pljso, Arnold's (of Troves) "Holy Coat." It comprises , h e r, by far the best notice of Ronge (the modern 0' as his countrymen term him), his past history, anA st ier sent doctrines, th a t we h ave yet seen. " Blacais Recreations" are very amusing and instructive Pape Under " Irish Dress and C us t oms " we h ave so me t ye curious lore, portions of which we extract fo r an"amusement of the reader : ar ier All the laws against Irish customs, e s p ec i a lly the ej „selr ones, were evidently made by men extravagantly rose diced against the native Irish. The English s ettlers,.. i re regarded the mere Irish' and the wild 'lrish' inuch.' o stg do a Mohawk or an Ojibbeway. The language of the!ra of is therefore a l mos t i nvar i a bl y t h at o f a c i v i l i se d sneeklorae a barbarous people. The Norman settlers, indeed, in ose things seem to have been as c re d u l ous as th e Greek tithe graphers of several centuries before. Strabo descsth e e s oieg native Irish as being greedy ca nn ib a l s , d e li g hti n g in „sell' their dead fathers, and publicly committing incest an the lar crimes. In th e reign of Richard the Second, at least' It story of Irish cannibalism was believed by the Engl is ies ian is recorded in Froissart, on the authority w e t; totrt s: who had been much in Ireland, that the natives ofag throats of their enemies like sheep, and take out their t, he which they eat as a great delicacy. They use kle°.' l3 ; says, 'dont ils occient leur ennemy ne tiennent la homme pour mort jusque a' tent qu'ils lui agent o ' l '6o gorge comme dun mouton, et lin ouvrent le Yent.,sres 4a prennent le cueur et l'emp or t en t ; e t di en t les slue" - „s de ; congnoissent leur n a t ure qp'ils le mangeuent par g r , s a s erer, lid.' According to the sa me au th or it y , th e na ti v es s": in forests, and lived in huts made of b ou ghs, likv p. ea beasts. 'Et demeurent en grot es f a it es (lessons ar br f 4 roi s ; hayes et au buissens, ainsi comme bestes sauvages..„,..,lo: sart Chronicle, tom. iv., c . 63. Edi t. L yons. So "j''ol3l' Cambrensis, in his history of the conquest, mention tit to Dermot M'Murrogh, seeing among the heads brot'g pore him the face of one he particularly disliked, bit the, p ot and lips off. He also mentions th a t one D on ald ha con''' out the two eyes of M‘Murrogh's son, upon which W 5 I r ish mentator, Hooker, notes that among the barbarous, C . 4. this * was a coarteo us ki n d o f punishment.'—Giral.Calr' s 'iv A "Froissart s t a t es th a t thi s account was g i ven to ho': gentleman named Castide, who, by his own statement' s od in early life a retainer of the Duke of Ormond her e in ' s is taken prisoner by an Irish gentleman (whose n e ve srB; Frenchified into Bfin Costeree), who kept him seven sore he and it. would appear treated him very kindly, T i le was married his daughter and had two children by her. t ec oale afterwards retaken by the English, and as he had " bi quite familiar with the Irish language, was cho se 's do Richard 11. to be with the tire Irish kings who can e be save homage to him in Dublin, t o t eac h th em how to. themselves. His account of his progress in this le ugly'amusing. He first obse rve d th a t a t di nner they " d th e" faces, which he resolved to correct. They also allowe :de , to dependants to eat off the- same dish, and when Cast: ss an d correct their taste for l ow com p an y, p u t t h e minstlf, 4 ll servants at the lower part of the t a bl e , th ey a t first 5 ' 3 ", ass objected, but aft erwar d s goo d-h umoure dl y d o ucemen eec " her. rented. He also obj e ct e d t o th e i r no t wear ing nr sscol, Their names are Frenchified as follows : —Le Grand As d et Roy de Mecte, Brun de Thamond, Roy de The s e i s ell D'Aire, Arthur Mavemaire, Roy de Linstre, Colm a T s .stee de Cheveno. and D'Erpe. When at last they were k a 'e s 'a t ie, and brought to dine with the king, they were, says ,r for much stared at by the lords present. not without re. scl e , , , to it was, believe me, a great novelty, grand bouvea us fdif. see four Irish kingss—Froissart, tom. iv., cap. liN' t their Lyons. The whole a ccoun t l eaves an i mi l ressi on na i v e wild Irish majesties had much more sense ard e eris au politeness than their self-sufficient and frippeq instructors. oth er "Besides their inveterate prejudices, there were a's ° o' , the reasons for the low estimate these early writers give, to the Irish. The country had been for a long time previon English invasion torn by internal dissensions and oil, l e sigh and the natives had, in fact, much declined from Irt: 44 state of cultivation we read of in the golden age ‘' 115 d • civilisation ;in addition to which th e A n glo-Norma" pas little opportunity of being a cqua i n t e d w ith any e",... 1 the tires than the hostile septa engaged i n the marshes c ps border of the pale, whose habits, like those of 'ail m ei o ses gaged in an irregular border warfare, were wild and r ot s, Some of these writers, too, were so extravagantlY Paulo of that they are to be believed no more than Marco w Pontoppedon. Giraldus Candirensis, for examp a le ss , many stories of dreams and prophecies, stoutly e a ;t: t e t 1 2 ; truth, and endeavours to prove the probability, of al; of of a conversation between a wolf and a priest in Dl ea cco ecl; a coin that always came back to Dublin of its own a d l a rds' and numerous other. equally extravagant miracles; an colt asserts that the true cause why Ireland was not wh e " ) .; u ght quered, was b ecause Prince John came here when he to have assisted the holy church at the crusades." • aie The best of th e ot h er papers i n t hi s Magazol' ) o f "The Whycheets—e 14eof freaa the Census 184 0 ..„.. • 1