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NOTICE. THE AUTHOR. of ROCKING-HA.II.'S NEW worts, entitled " LOV r. AND 4mlo.:rios," in 3 vols., will be ready in a few days, and those who desire early copies are requested to send their orders immediately to the Libraries. Henry Colburn, Pabliah.2r, 13, Great Marlboreugh-strect. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THE GRAND THIS NA EVEND TIONAL CONCERTS. TG. Macfarren's Serenata, The SLEEPER AWAKENED. 1 illaroan Alraschid, Mr. Frank Bodda ; Abou Hassan, Mr. Sims Reeves. Zulieka, Angri. The celebrated BERLIN CHOIR every Evening. Great National Quadrille of all Nations. Band of the Ist Life Guards, Band of the Grenadier Guards, Band of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and a Corps of British Military Side Drums. The English Chorus, and Choir of the Berlin Chapel Royal. Angri, Lefort, Frank Bodda, and Sims Reeves ; Monello, Goffrie, Platt', Baumann. Barret, Richardson, Remusat, Franc, Maycock, Arban, and Miss Goddard. Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Balfe. Conductor of La Musique de Danse—lierr Labltzky. Conductor of the Choristers of the Bertha Ckapel Royal—Herr Neidhardt. Promenade (admitting to the Half-Ciretes, Calleryl l 6 and Pit Stalls) • • .. • • • • • • • • The Doors open at Wag-past Seven, and the Concerts will com mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven. Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-aface, where Programmes f the performance may be obtained. Mr. Thomas Masters of the Polytechnic Institution, the Coloseum, and Royal Botanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply the Refresh ments and Wines, &c., &c. Correct Books of the Serenata, countersigned by the Hon. Secre tary, to be had only in the Theatre. All o,hers are fraudulent and incorrect. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMArtKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MACREADY. THIS EVENING, Will be performed OTHELLO. Othell Mr. Macready ; Tag* Mr. Davenport ; Desdemona, Miss Reynolds ; Emilia, Mrs. Warner. To be followed by THE IRISH DIAMOND. After which MY FRIEND IN THE STRAPS. • THEATRE ROYAL, ADEL PIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Braerpichrian Burlesque called ESMERALDA. Characters by Mess. 0. Smith, Wright, P. Bedford ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Pitzwilliarn. Atter 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 Messsr. NV - :elt, Bedford, Worrell; and Miss Harding. To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Keo.m. and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new Play called THE TEMPLAR. Characters by Messrs. Ryder, Fisher, Belton, Addison, Vining, Cath cart, Everett, C. Kean ; and Mrs. C. Kean. After which BETTY BAKER; or, "Too Attentive by Half." Characters by Messrs. J. Vining, Keeley, qrs. Keeley, and Miss Murray. To conclude with A MODEL OF A WIFE. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may he taken at the Box-office, Oxford-street. from Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new Comedy, entitled MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER, in vt hich Messrs. H. Farren, W. Farren, Compton, Norton, Mesdames Stirling, L. Murray, Louisa Howard, and Ellen Turner will appear. To be followed by TIME TRIES ALL. After 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. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, . B. Baker, Horncastle, Belilingham ; Miss Baker, and Mi s. Macnamar a. To be followed by MY HEART'S IDOL ; or, A Desperate Remedy, in which Messrs. C. Mathews, G. Vining, Bellingham ; Madame Ves tige, Miss Kenworthy, and Miss I: Dickenson will appear. To conclude with THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE. ASTLZY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVENDIG, Ti.e Entertainments will commence with a new and original Spectacle, entitled THE ENCHANTED PALFREY ; or, The War rior of the Crescent. To be succeeded by an inimitable Disnlay of Batty 's Feats of 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-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Tii,nnpson. - taGti %ATER s 7 LONDON uatIDGE. Tars AT —Morning 42 min. after 11 f Evening min. after 0 To-3foalow— Morning 3 min. after 12 I Evening 33 Rini. after 12 THE IVEATHER.—SON OFFICE, NOVEMBER. 16. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 45—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and daring the night. 50— this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.09. WIND S.W.—dull, dirty weather, with rain. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. The State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.-The stations are arranged in order of latitude. KINGSTOWN (DUBLIN) -Wind S.W., calm-overcast. PLYMOUTII-W ind S.E. gentle breeze - overcast. Po MTSMOUTII-Wind N.W., calm-foggy. BRIGHTON-Wind 4.E., calm-partially cloudy. II A STINGS -Wind N.W. _g_entle breeze-cloudless. HM t4OUTAPTON-Wind strong breeze-foggy. F OLKERT•NE -Wind N., gentle breeze--overcast. TUNBRIDGE-Wind N.W., calm-frost. BASINGSTOKE -Wind W., calm-foggy. READING -Wind S.W., gentle breeze-foggy. GRE EN WICII-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. SWINDON-W ind N., light airs-overcast. Oxrom-Wind S.E., calm-foggy. LEIGHTON - Wind N.. gentle breeze-overcast. CAMBRIDGE-Wind W.. gentle breeze-cloudy. RUGBY-Wind IV., gentle breeze-overcast. BIRMINGHAM - Wind S., gentle breeze-rain. PETERBOROUGH - Wi and S.W., calm-overcast. Ya.nmourn -Wind W., gentle breeze-cloudless. CREWE- Wind S , light breeze-rain. MANCHESTER-Wind S., gentle breeze -rain. LEEDS - Wind N.E.. calm- foggy. LANcasrzn-Wind N , calm-scud, rain. Wm= Wind S., gentle breeze-overcast. DARLINGTON-Wind S., gentle breeze-strong frost. SHAP-Wind S.W., gentle breeze- rain. SUNDERLAND-Wind W., gentle breeze - overcast. CA R LISLE-W ind N.W., gentle breeze-foggy. BEArrocu.-Calm -foggy. BERWICK-Wind W., gentle breeze- overcast. EDINBURGH Wind N.W., calm - partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Thursday morning at nine o'clock :- CALLOW-Wind N. W , gentle breeze-rain. DUNDALK-Wind S., gentle breeze-rain. PooLF. --Wind N., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. BRIGHTON-Wind N.. gentle breeze-cloudless. HASTINGS-Wind N.W., gentle breeze-cloudless. WHITBY-Wind N., strong breeze -partially cloudy . . WHIT/HAVEN - Wind N.W., gentle breeze-cloudless. DUNDBE -Wind N.W., gentle breeze-cloudless. • • s*". .' "' - .e .• , • • - iV ---.\ . TY - t 4 ..* s ..' ' . •34 0 tr - • /1' T • I E 11 i-- ' r• MUT Ult LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1850, To the High Sheriff of Bedfordshire is due the honour of having been the first to convene a county meeting to protest against the meddling of the Bishop of ROMS in the ecclesiastical and .temporal affairs of this country. That meeting, which was held ou Wednesday, was convened in accordance with a re quisition signed by 400 of the most influential gen tlemen in the county, including persons of every political party and of every Protestant denomination, and we would earnestly hold up the conduct of the Bedfordshire gentry and of the Bedfordshire High Sheriff as examples to the gentry and high sheriffs of every county in the kingdom. This is emphati cally a question of the freedom of the laity ; it is the •-freedom of the laity that the supporters of sacerdotal espotism seek to annihilate, and it is for the main tenance of that freedom that we are more especially called upon to do battle. It is not upon the narrow ground of a sectarian squabble for authority between rival churches that this question is to be discussed. If the question of dispute be merely whether we, the laity, are to be the spiritual slaves of MASTAI FERRETTI or of HENRY PIIILLPOTTS (and from the tenor of the reply of the latter to the address of cer tain of his clergy, in which he almost traitorously repudiates the doctrine that the SOVEREIGN is in this country the sole fountain of honour, and almost blas phemously arrogates to himself divine authority, it is clear that he would fain have it so), then We say the matter is not worth the trouble of discussion. But we, in common with the Bedford re quisitionists, take far higher ground ; we consider it a question involving the right of every man to exer cise his private judgment in the interpretation of the Scriptures, and stigmatising as tyrannical usurpat;on the right claimed, whether by the Bishop of Roma or the Bishop of EXETER, to impose his interpretation of the Scriptures upon any other man, we stand up for that which is the foundation of all Protestantism— the right of every individual to exercise his own private judgment in all matters relating to religion. There fore it is that, notwithstanding the numerous meet ings which have been held of clergy in their various archdeaconries, and of parishioners in their various parishes, the latter of which even may be considered quasi • ecclesiastical, as they are for the most part held in the parish vestries and presided over by the clergy man, we are rejoiced to find that Bedford has set the example of assembling a county meeting of laymen and Protestants to resist the daring attempts which are still perseveringly made by those who " repudiate the name of Protestant" to deprive the laity of all re ligious liberty, and to inaugurate mediaeval supersti tions, with their necessary accompaniments, mediaeval ignorance and mediaeval slavery. The High Sheriff of Bedfordshire (Colonel Gurus) put the question in its true light in opening the proceedings of the Bod- ford meeting. lie said— " Wh2 he first intimation was conveyed to him that i . a strong eeling prevailed throughout tha cmisty in favour of holding a county meeting he at once expressed his sincere desire ihet they should have a thorough Pro testant demonstration, and not a mere political or sec tarian one.—(Cheers.) And be was happy to say that that wish had been heartily responded to.—(Loud cheers.) The names attached to the requisition included persons of all classes, of all political opinions, and of all the various Protestant religions denominations—(Cheers) — and he must say that he rejoiced to see that at this im portant crisis Episcopalian and Nonconformist had held out to each other the hand of fellowship against the common enemy—(Loud cheers) —that to-day they were rivals only in loyal devotion to a Protestant Sovereign, in ardent attachment to a Protestant constitution, and in a firm determination to resist the present or any other foreign aggression upon the civil and religious liberdes of Englishmen." It is on this broad basis that we should wish to see formed a Protestant League, which shall include every individual of every sect who does not repudiate the name of Protestant, but who does protest against the usurped authority of the Bishop of ROME. At the same time we agree with Lord CHARLES RUSSELL (whose speech at the Bedford meeting was worthy his name), that we should take as our motto "No fear," and we fully subscribe to every syllable in the follow ing admirable and eloquent passage from the Noble lot was of course a second time withdrawn. It ie unne- • eessary to go through the remaining lots ex uno discs on2nes. Suffice it to say, that a property in Galway brought 121 years' purchase, while one in Kilkenny -was withdrawn, little more than eight years' purchase having been offered. The only redeeming feature during the day was the sale of a small property in the county of Cork, which produced about twenty years' purchase on the net rental. F 1 4 '1tLi • C “1.. A C. 13 X NMARK AND THE DUCHIES. COPENHA.GEN, Nov. 6. PrusEia has lately m* le two propcsitions to thE Droish G.,vernment. The first is to appoint a corn rnision of Prussians, Austrians, and Danes, to con sider the difFerenevs existing between the Danizth Crown and the Duchies. The Cabinet of Berlin de sires that that of Copenhagen should make the ne cessary advances at Vienna to obtain the adhesion of Austria to this proposition. Answer has been made, that it was not for Denmark to prescribe to Germany in general, and to Austria in particular, in what manner either should fulfil its obligations. The second proposition is for an armistice. This has been neither accepted nor repulsed. As it was concluded in obscure terms, the Government has applied for the explanations necessary to determine its meaning. Desiring, however, to furnish a new proof of its good will, it has announced its readi ness to order General KEOGH to cease hostilities for a fortnight, provided that a similar engagement is taken with the Holsteiners, The Danish Govern ment cannot accept the conditions which the Stat halterschaft has attached to this suspension of hos- -- We have received the Paris jourm::i yest , ..rday. The Gonstitutionnel,j the acknowledged oriian of the Gaveruinent, pub!ishes the following announce ment : " The Government has incrased by four regiments the it:Lila:try division of Stms'oourg. We need not spy that this measure does not indicate any change ill the policy of the Executive. It is a simple measure of pre caution, in presence cf the circumstances of Germany. The Cabinets of, Austria and Berlin berm inclined to wards a policy of conciliation. But the population in Prussia continues in a state of great fermentation," The Assembly did not meet yesterday, but the various Committees sat, and in one of them the con sideration of the Bill for the re-organization of the National Guard, gave rise to a very:animated discus sion, in the course of which M. VATISMEML, a Le gititnatist, and ex-Minister of CHARLES X., expressed an opinion that the re-organization of the National Guard, in Paris, should he different from that of the provincial districts ; several Legititnatists went even further than M. VATISMENIL, and made no secret of their wish to see the National Guard altogether dis banded ; while M. LACROSSE, and M. MATTIIIEU DE LA REDORTE d*-fended the institution as eminently national. M. DE MILLEVILLE and the reactionaries of his class, consisting of the old Or leanist Opposition, contended that it was absolutely necessary that the authorities should make inquiries into the characters of the men before entrusting them with arms ; this of all the propositions is the most unconstitutional and the most dangerous, inasmuch as if carried out it would make the National Guards merely the armed Seides of the Minister for the time being. M. DE TINGUT has presented a proposition to modify the electoral law, according to which the electoral list shall be drawn up by the mayor, sitting in the municipal council, assisted by two delegates for each commune, and the council-general of the de partment. On that list shall be inscribed ex officio, and in alphabetical order-Ist, all Frenchmen, aged twenty-one, in possession of all their civil and political rights, and having resided in the canton for three years at least; and 2dly, those who not having attained, when the list was formed, all the conditions of age and domicile, shall have acquired them before it is definitively closed. The proof of the conditions mentioned above is left to the judgment of the municipal council and of the delegates. It is said M. BANOCHE has manifested a disposition to give way on the subject of the police of the As. sembly ; the triumph of M. YON over M. CARLIER is therefore complete. The following are the principal items in the weekly Bank account : It is needless to comment on this melancholy state of affairs. We again ask, where are the English and Scotch capitalists ; or why will they let such extra ordinary bargains slip through their fingers ? There is, happily, no want of wealth—of ample and al most unbounded resources in the country. And why are thoy not now made applicable ? It is true that the market is largely supplied with estates, but that is no reason why the demand should wholly cease, and freehold lands be considered " drugs," which should he carefully eschewed as " unclean things," which should not be touched under any circumstances. Would similar results follow if the lands were situate in this country ? Most undoubtedly not. We venture to assert, without fear of contradiction, that if property, to four times the amount, in Eng land were offered for sale it would not occasion such extraordinary depreciation, but that fair and rea sonable biddings would still be obtained; and Set there would be the difficulties, delays, and expenses attendant on a tedious investigation of title, and the certain risks which a purchaser must always en counter in this country, all of which are avoided in transactions effected through the medium of the Encumbered Estates Commission in Ireland. It is also certain that various remedial measures will be introduced and most probably carried next ses sion, all of which will materially enhance the value of landed property in Ireland. Why then this panic— we cannot call it caution—which terrifies purchasers ? Why this unreasoning and absurd fear ? If the Se curities for Advances Bill, which only required a little extension of the principle to all classes of pro perty, to be the best and most unexceptionable mea sure that has for many years been submitted to Parliament—if, we say, Sir JOHN ROMILLY'S admi rable Bill had received the legislative sanction last session, we should not now have to deplore these untoward results, or again and again have to direct the public attention to the golden opportunities which day after day are neglected and despised. Lord's speech : " He looked upon the present opportquity as most seasonable for making that which, in his bumble judg• ment, it was important that the country should have the opportunity of making, namely, a firm Protestant de monstration; and the only fear he had ever entertained W 23, that the opportunity might be neglected—that the warning voice might not be listened to.—(Hear.) In that, hovvever,he had been nobly undeceived. —(Repeated cheers.) On all sides he saw his countrymen rising and giving expression to their sound Protestant feelings, and declaring their attachment to their Protestant institu tions in Church and State.—(Cheers.) lle saw, also, that our rulers, both temporal and spiritual, had nobly spoken out, had faithfully denounced this act of aggres sion on the part of a foreign enemy, and he hoped had with some success shown forth and expressed their faith in our glorious national institutions.—(Hear.) Oa that score, then, he had no fear; and if we were called upor to enter into the contest between Protestantism and Popery, and between truth and error, how could he for one moment doubt the issue of it?—(Prolonged applause.) Was not the power which struck down Popery in the fifteenth century sufficient to keep it down in the nine teenth?—(Great cheering.) Did it not, humanly speak ing, fall before the power of the printing-press; and did we not now live happily in the enjoyment of a free press in this country?—(Loud cheers.) Whilst, however, he had no fear, there were no limits to his amazament at the audacity that had prompted this act." To this act of audacity the POPE has been prompted, not by the foe without, but by the traitors within the Protestant camp ; the encouragement to this act cf audacity came not from Rome so much as from Oxford, not from Cardinal WISEMAN so much as from Bishop PHILLPOTTS, and Bishop WILBERFORCE, and Dr. PUSSY, and Mr. G. A. DENNISON, men who receiv ing the pay of the Protestant Church repudiate the name of Protestant. It is these men who have de ceived the PorE, and who have encouraged him to the commission of this amazing act of audacity and folly. As was well observed by Lord CHARLES RUSSELL— " The Pope had mistaken grossly—he bad mistaken the falling off of a few dead leaves ss symptomatic of the decay of the heart of the tree.—(Hear, hear.) He had gloated on the passion for a meretricious ritual displayed by a few, and hoped that it was tantamount to a total abandonment of Gospel truth.--(Cheers.) He had wit nessed with delight a recent attempt of the Church to establish a spiritual oligarchy, and for once he had come to a sound conclusion that a spiritual despotism must be preferable to a spiritual oligarchy—(Loud cheers)—and that the infallibility of one man was more consonant to reason than the infallibility of a dozsn.—(Cheers.) But, again, he had committed a gross blunder, even in con nexion with this subject. He heard a wish go forth from the cloistered cells of England, and he mistook for the voice of the people that which England had since pro nounced, and was now pronouncing, to be a mere aspi ration of the feeble-minded." His Lordship might have added, and added with justice, dishonest; but whether feeble-minded or dishonest, it is absolutely necessary that all those " who repudiate the name of Protestant," who with the Bishop of EXETER arrogantly deny that the SO VEREIGN is the sole fountain of honour in this country) rebel against her supremacy in the Church as well as in the State, declare that they cannot consider this recent act of the POPE "as an outrage on the autho rity of her Majesty the QUEEN," cannot see in it any interference with her MAJESTY as " supreme governor over all persons, and in all causes, spiritual and ecclesiastical as well as temporal, in her domi nions," and blasphemously claim for themselves a divine superiority, should be at once removed from all posts of honour, emolument, and authority in the Protestant Church. We trust that the example of Bedford will be fol lowed by every county in the kingdom, and that at every meeting a memorial will be addressed to the QUEEN, beseeching her MAJESTY to adopt immediate measures for the removal from all offices of trust, authority, or emolument in the Protestant Church, all persons who deny her MAJESTY'S supremacy, or who " repudiate the name of Protestant." Francs. Specie ~. 340,948,916 Ditto in the departments ... 101,959,222 Bills in portfolio ... 50, 252,191 Bills in branches ... ... 85,598,648 Bills lying unpaid ... 579.659 Bank notes in circulation ... 421,334,300 Ditto in departments ... 82,321,425 Credit to Treasury ... 48,254,689 Private credit accounts 67,608,142 Ditto in branches... ... 26,089,451 Prince CRRISTIAN of .Glucksburg and Count VON PLESSEN are on their way from Warsaw. They are the bearers of an autograph letter from the CzAa, in which he declares that he will not eilow the question of the duchies to remain subject to the arrangement of the quarrel of Austria and Prussia. There are no notable differences between the items of this account and those of last week. A new journal entitled Vote Universel, was pub lished on Thursday. it is a large journal, and is to be published daily. Its politics are those of the de funct Reforme, which was the organ of N. LEDRU HER. MAJES l'Y'S THEATRE. GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. The committee last evening fully redeemed the pledge they gave in their programme, that these concerts should have, as one of their great objects, the encouragement of the cultivation of a taste for music of the highest order by the production of classi cal works, vocal and instrumental, by living English composers. Last night was produced a classical work which will do honour to the English school of composition wherever classical music is appreciated, and which is destined, if we mistake not, to take its place hereafter by the side of the master- pieces of Mozart and Handel. We allude to Mr. G. A. Macfarren's serenata, The Sleeper Awakened, which was pro duced last night at these concerts with a perfection which left nothing to be desired, and with a success as genuine as it was triumphant. Our non-musical readers may, perhaps, be inclined to ask what is a serenata ? A serenata is, in fact, a secular oratorio, a dramatic musical composition, produced without the aid of scenery, machinery, or gorgeous cos tumes—an opera minus the usual stage accom paniments. Handel was rather fond of this style of composition, and in his Axis and Galatea has given ns what has hitherto been con sidered the model serenata; but Handel, in the composition of serenatas, confined himself ex clusively to serious subjects • and to Mr. G. A. Mac farren is due the honour Of being the originator of the comic serenata, for such is his Sleeper Awakened, and as perfect in its way as is the Acis and Galatea of Handel; taking Mozart as the standard of comparison, we may say that what the Acis and Galatea is to La Clemenza di Tito, that is The Sleeper Awakened to the Nozze di Figaro. The libretto is by Mr. John Oxenford, and Mr. G. A. Macfarren has consequently enjoyed the great advantage of having words and songs with meaning as well as rhyme to set to his music, an advantage not always enjoyed by composers, but one of which Mr. Macfarren has well known how to avail himself, for he has always seized the meaning of his author, and translated it admirably into the universal language— music. A composition more brilliantly sparkling, more dramatically expressive or more perfectly instru mented, we have never heard than The Sleeper Awakened. It touk two hours and a half to per form without any entre•acte or interval of rest, and yet there was nothing heavy, nothing common-place about it, nothing that the most fastidious critic could have wished removed; the attention never flagged, the audience were carried on with the author, the com poser, and the performers, in the development of the story, and at the conclusion there was not, we are sure, a person in the house who would have wished to have it curtailed in the least. The following is the official programme of the cast and arrangement of the serenata ROLLIN. The Committee of the Assembly, to which was re ferred the demand for leave to prosecute M. CHAROII for baying killed M.DuroNz in a duel, has unanimously resolved to recommend that the authorization shall rot be granted, thus confirming in the case of the Republican representative the precedent which had been set in that of the Legitic2atist representative, M. LEO DE Let BORDE. There was not much business transacted at the Bourse t3-day. The Five per Cents. opened at 931. 10c., and closed at 931. 25c. ; the Three per Cents. closed at 571. 90c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 7851.; Rouen, 610 f.; Havre, 245 f.; Great Northern, 460 f. ; Avignon, 175 f.; Vierzon, 3621. 500.; Basle, 1221. 75e. ; Bordeaux, 387 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 3421. 50e. ; Tours and Nantes, 2421. 50c.; the New Piedmontese Loan, 85f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 15. East Indian, 9N —Great Indian Peninsula, i%—Namur and Liege, 7%. DRAMATIS PERSON/E. Haroun Alraschid (Caliph of Bagdad), Mr. F. Bodda. Abon Hassan - - Mr. Sims Reeves. Zulieka (Hassan's Wife) - Mademoiselle Angri. Guards, Slaves, &e., by the Chorus of the Establishment. The scene is in Bagdad, partly before and in Hassan's House—partly in the Caliph's Palace. ARGUMENT. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived. They do not contain any news of importance. The Bolsa was closed. The first scene takes place before the house of Abon Hassan, in Bagdad. Hassan is telling an admiring party a tale which sets forth the happiness of constant love. On the aneouncement of evening prayer the party dis perse. When all have departed, the Caliph Harou❑ Alraschid arrives in a palanquin, attended by a grand procession. He alights, and dismissing his train, as sumes the disguise of a merchant, that he may examine the manners of his subjects. He knocks at Hassan's door, and is hospitably entertained by him and his wife Zulieka, but is somewhat shocked by the introduction of the forbidden liquor—wine. When left alone with Has san, be infuses a drug into his cup, which sends him at once to sleep, and then commands his slaves to bear the sleeper to the palace. The second scene takes place in the p tlace, where Hassan wakes, and is made to believe that ho is the Caliph, the real Caliph enjoying the scene in conceal ment. Clothed with his new honours, Hassan orders presents of all sorts to be sent to Zulieka, whom the beauties of the seraglio cannot erase from his mind; and as a wholesome exercise of his power, he cancels the prohibition against wine. In the midst of the revelry consequent upon this edict, Hassan is again sent to sleep by the Caliph's drug. The third scene is before the house of Hassan, whose absence causes great grief and indignities to Zulieka. The Caliph, delighted with the constancy of Hassan, wishes to test the virtue of Zulieka, and for this pur pose he courts her, in his previous disguise, but is in dignantly repelled. The fourth scene is in the interior of Hassan's house. He is brought in, still asleep, by slaves, and when be wakes, he is so much vexed by the loss of his splendour, that ho at first treats Zulieka with unkindness. The fond couple are, however, soon reconciled, and are con vinced that the supposed merchant is a magician. Ac cordingly, when Haroun Alraschid arrives (still dis guised) he is coolly received C s but he soon explains the trick he has played, orders the presents to be brought in, which Hassan bespoke in his Caliph state, and rewards the constant pair by appointing them to high offices at court. Railways. We have recently expressed our deep astonishment and regret at the apathy exhibited by capitalists with respect to the valuable properties now submitted to public competition under the auspices of the Encum bered Estates Commission. Heretofore such unques tionable advantages as are now freely offered to pur chasers would have attracted numerous speculators, not merely those who sought bona fide investments, and the acquisition of estates that would have re mined permanently in their families, but others who might fairly calculate upon making a handsome profit by disposing again -of their purchases. No thing, however, will do. The capitalists are keeping aloof, holding tight hands on their purse-strings. They will yield to no temptation ; they heed not " the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." And all the blandishments of the learned Commissioners, of Baron RICEIARDS, Professor LONGFIELD and Mr. TIARGUAVE, are wasted on the obstinate class. Oc casionally some trifling lot may be disposed of at an almost nominal price, little more than one-half its real value, but the amount of sales bear an almost ludicrous disproportion to the quantity and value of the property set up, so as to render the sluggishness and want of activity more painfully perceptible. The overture is amongst the most felicitous of Mr. Macfarren's compositions, and the opening chorus " Applaud, applaud him," at once arrests the attention by its lively brilliancy; then follows a duet for Zulieka and Hassan, "Oh ! where the weary heart is blessed," which was exquisitely given by Mr. Sims Reeves and Mademoiselle Angri; immediately afterwards came a most dramatic preghiera, "Mighty Alla rules the East," which contrasted most effec tively with the lighter music by which it had been preceded. Our space will not allow us to give a full analysis of the music of this delightful serenata, and we must therefore confine ourselves to the most remarkable of these admirable compositions. Fore most among these is the contralto song, " Should joy with smiling face invite," which was deliciously ren dered by Mademoiselle Angri, whose pronunciation of the English language is admirable, and so clear and distinct as to put many of our English vocalists to shame; " A vision most g orgeous," which was ren dered by Mr. Sims Reeves with infinite spirit; a very delightful song, "Beautiful Night," carefully rendered by Mr. Frank Bodda, and a fine canon for three voices, "Good Night," which is one of the most perfect specimens of vocal part-writing of which the English school of music, rich as it is in music of this peculiar character, can boast. The instrumentation throughout was full and complete, and Mr. Macfarren has amply availed himself of the immense orchestral resources placed at his disposal. The success of this serenata was triumphant, and at the conclusion there were loud calls for Mr. Macfarren. The theatre was crowded to excess 'by one of the most delighted audiences ever assembled within its walls. It is difficult to account for these strange results in a satisfactory manner. There is no lack of bidders —c uriosity or some feeling attracts numerous specta tors to every attempted sale ; but the sums offered are so ridiculously disproportioned to the actual value that although no reasonable offer is rejected, Dine-tenth s of the sales are necessarily adjourned, and properly so, for fie acceptance of such biddings would be but little better than acts of confiscation. We know not how persons can expect to obtain eligibly circum stanced estates at ten or eleven years purchase on the rental, at a time when Three per Cent. Consols are quoted at 96/, and when we are told that there is an abundance of money in the market, which can be ob tained at an easy rate of interest, and when the amount of bullion in the Bank coffers, and the reserve of notes in the banking department, as well as the large importations of gold from California, afford the strongest guarantee that this happy state of affairs will continue some time longer. But so it is. It would almost appear as if a regular combination bad been entered into to depreciate prices, and that the " bearing system" was flourishing in rank luxuriance in the precincts of Henrietta-street. If we could be surprised at any result, after the proceedings in reference to the extensive and valuable Antrim estates of the Earl of MOUNTCASHELL. on Friday, we should be so at the proceedings on Tuesday. On that day six properties were set up, the first and most important of which were the Waterford and Tipperary estates of Mr. WALL, con. taining in all 3,340 acres, and producing a rental of 3,3531. 15s. 31. This desirable property was divided into eleven well-selected lots, of which only one, pro ducing a clear profit rent of 260 1 ., changed hands, being sold for 2,9501., or about 1 1 l years' purchase. The other lots, or nearly 19-20ths of the entire, were postponed from the inadequacy of the sums offered. A small eat at 2 in the county €f Limerick, valued by the inspector un'.er the Land Improvement Act at 971. 18s. per annum, was then disposed of for 1,0751., or about eleven years' purchase. The crowning ab surdity of the day was, however, witnessed, when another estate, also situate in the county of Limerick, containing 600 acres, and producing a net profit rent, over and above all outgoings, of 3491. 9s. 31., was set up. This lastsmentionei property had been previously put up in July last, but had been withdrawn in consequence of 2,200/. only having been offered, which was justly considered by the Commissioners as far below the value. On the present occasion, how ever, little more than one-third of the former bidding could be obtained, 800/, being the highest offer, and the LIFE BOATS.—Among the various contrivances for diminishing the risks to which the lives of our maritime population are exposed, the life-boat is unquestionably en titled to the highest praise ; but it is equally certain that the life-boats which are at present in use fall far short of the perfection attainable Great loss of life having occurred from time to time on the coast of Northumberland, and other parts, by the upsetting of life-boats, the Duke of Northumberland, with the benevolent view of improving in future the construction of such boats, by the judicious disposition of the centres of gravity and buoyancy, has offered 100 guineas for the best model of a life-boat; and a number of scientific and naval gentlemen have formed themselves into a committee to examine the models and conduct the requisite experiments. The Royal National In stitution for the Preservation of Lives from Shipwreck (which has already expended nearly 4,4001. on life-boats and other approved means of saving lives from shipwreck) has offered an' additional 100 guineas to build a life-boat after the model which his Grace may approve of. It is consi dered that the chief objections to the present life-boats are— first, that they do not right themselves in the event of being upset; secondly, that they are too heavy to be launched or transported along the coast in case of need; thirdly, that they do not free themselves of water fast enough ; and, fourthly, that they are very expensive. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THE OLD VICTORY.—It has of late been confidently stated that the old-time-and cirmmstance-lionoured ship, 'Nelson's Vi c t ory , was t o b e put out of commission, and to be laid up, or broken up, and that another—a seagoing . ship —was to substituted as the flag ship for Portsmouth. We are glad, however, to be enabled to state that such is not the fact. The old Victory, it iy true, is to be paid off on the 2d of December next ; but the Admi ralty have ordered her to re-hoist the Port Admiral's flag at the main the next day, and to continue iu United Service Gazette. GOTHIC ROMAN CATHOLIC PALACE.—A very hand some residence, a Gothic palace, is now nearly finished for the new Boman Catholic Bishop of Clifton. It is situate behind the chapel (nearer to York-place). This, with the convent of the Sisters of Mercy, the schools, the chapels, &c., form (rite a little Roman Catholic colony in that part of Clifton. the Cathedral or Church of the Holy Apostles 18 to have a new Gothic casing. —Bristol Times. Tar SUN, LONDON, SATTJRDAY EVENING 4 NOVEMBER 16, 1850. TBE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Id. Nominal Prices. [0 9% GERMAN Y. The Legitimatise Gazette de France publishes the following correspondence from Vienna : " A letter from our correspondent at Vienna, of the Sth, stltes that the note in reply to that which M. de Rosenberg brought from Berlin, on the subject of the free conference, left on the 7th. As our correspondent had led us to anticipate, the proposition was rejected. Ha adds that the reply of the Au,trian Cabinet was very categorical on the subject of the free conferences. The Prince de Schwartasnberg once more refers the Cabinet of Berlin to the treaties of 1815, declaring that the moment would be ill chosen to deviate from them. since the Germanic Diet was almost reconstituted. The Prince, moreover, expressed his opini,)n that the conferences proposedby Prussia would only throw Germany into a provisional situation even more dangerous than the, for mer one. He observed that the Diet, being legally re established, might the more efficaciously occupy itself with the revision of the federal constitution, as it won have the character of power recognised by the great powers." The Journal des Debats has the following from Berlin of the 12th : _ " It is affirmed that the Cabinet has sent a reply to the last proposition from Vienna. The Government persists in demanding that no time be lost in arranging the free conference, and refuses to pronounce, by way of preliminary, by the College of Princes, the dissolu tion of the union. It is thought that Austria will sus pend her armaments, the telegraph having brought news last night of an order to suspend their march having been issued to the regiments on the military frontier. The retreat of General Groeben upon Hersefeld and Cassel was a necessity. His position was compromised to a degree that his co mmun i cat i on with the other Prus sian corps in Sax on y and Thuringia might have been intercepted. With regar d to th e D uc hi es , it is positive that neither our Government nor that of Brunswick will allow a passage across their territories to the Austrians • Itt to the t i a s h jewueistnthtrruy regardna rumoured r Prince e t d o t Generalhat sGeneraloimde s R Ndt into w s va t i, ,zze. goes Ministry, niis o s t n rry a o, n b e tb x il traordinary mission t o H anover . N ot hi ng is as yet set e that, M. Manteuffel will reta i n the Foreign-office. P As t m r e s e th len e g n oss u ip sfas " rn throughout the Prussian nothing al e warlike i s k a dominions is at its height, and the inhabitants of the Rhenish Provinces are no whit behind their fellow countrymen in their d es i re to v i n di cate th e h o nour of Prussia the and peopletroopsdeeplyanddiscon tentedPrussiant retreat tt. troops in Ilesse, has tendered his resig nation, an example which has been followed by Ge neral VON Bosh and Prince RADZI.VIL. The line and the landwher are fully prepared to take the field. The withdrawal of the troops from Hesse was in con sequence of a note from Russia declaring that the EMPEROR would consider a continuance of the Prus sian policy in the electorate a casus belli. The move ment of Russian troops towards Gallicia and Hungary still continues. The Berlin Constitutionelle of the 12th has the following :.-- " The news of the arrival of an English note, in which Lord Palmerston protests against the occupation of Hungary or Gallicia by Russian troops, in case of a coeflict between Austria and Prussia. circulated this day at the Bourse, and produced great effect among specula tors. Smiler i n telligence is communicated by the Ham burgh corresponde nt. It was considered at Berlin on the 13th that there would be no war; the Prussian propositions had been, it was said, accepted at Vienna. This idea receives confirmation from the Vienna intelligence of the 11th, which states that the Austro-German question was leading to a pacific solution. The Prussian troops have evacuated the territory of the Electorate of Hesse except the military roads ; the Federal troops entered Cassel on the 12th. aid which the Red EM P E ROR Encouraged by the has given the Elector of rims) to violate a constitu tion which he had sworn to observe, the King of WIRTEMBERG has applied to Austria for military aid in order to enable him to violate the Wirtetnberg Constitution. Letters from Frankfort of the 13th state that the Prussian troops will be withdrawn from Baden, and that the fortress of Rastadt will be evacuated. The King of llANovsit has protested against the passage of Austrian troops through his territory. A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazetie,d sted 10 h instant, says— '. I near tram a well inform , d quarter that England has put the question to Austria whether the latter, in the re-organiz Won of the Diet, has in view the uncondi tiona mlintenance in their int,grity of the treaties of 1815, and if the proposed modifications will lead to any chituge in the territorial relationship of any of the Fe . demi powers, as the admission of combined Austria (Gesamt•CEsterreich) into the Diet would need the ad hed,ou of those powers who signed themselves guaran tees of the Diet. Such an admission (that of combined Austria) would he no less abt.ormat than the Prus sian Union. ;4 I. Persigny i s said to have induced the French Government to take a similar view of the case, and instru ct i on s have been sent to that effect to M. de la Cour, the French representative here, to k communicated by him to Prince Schwartzenberg. At all events, a recognition of the Frankfort Assembly by the two great western powers is not yet contemplated. In the Council of Generals, held yesterday, Radetzky strongly expressed his disappr obation o f the aggressive policy of the Diet, and of the untimely and iejtelicious article in the Vienna Gazette (that of the 6th iust)." iO By, to 83i 6 8 114. —lh dia. Aberdeen.. Do. Preference • • • • 8 Ainbergate, Nottingham, Boston, E. Juncion Ayrshire and Galloway.. Belfast and County Down! 3 Berks and llants Eaten.; (Great Western Per petnal 5 per cent.) Birmingham and Oxford Junction, calls duly paid, or with a guar... 2, Do. without a guar... 2 , Binning., •Wolverhamp• ten, and Dudley, calls duly paid, or with a guarantee • . • • .. 1 Do. without a guar. •• 1 Worverhamp., and Stour Valley •• 13 1 Birkenhead, Lancas., and Cheshire Junction •• 26 .. Bristol and Exeter.. • 100 67 Imckinghamshire • • •• 17 1 4 Caledonian •• •• •• 50 Do. 1 oi. Preference •• 10 SLA, Do. Clydesdale June. • • Chester and Holyhead .. Do. Preference .. •• Clarence . !O 27 -29 :0 26 -27 4010 -11 78 1 2 .. -•• Do. Ist Class, G per ct. Do. 2d de., 5 per cent. Do. Gov. Loan,4 pr. ct. Direct Lond. and fortem. Dub!in and Belfast Junct. Duly' alk and Enniskillen East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) • • • • Do (18/. E. & IL) •• Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. Preference • • _ _ I 5 128 Do. (5/.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Pref. Eastern Counties Do. Exten., 5 per sent. No. 1 .• .. ••1 6 I Do. No. 2 .• .• ••I 6 1 Do . New Preference, 6 per cent. .. • • • • 1 Da. 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., 1; & C shares 2 Do. do.. scrip, guaran. 6 per cent. • • • • 2 East Lancashire • • • • 2 Do. New quarters • • Do. 6 per cent. prof. quarter shares.. • • East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 per cent • • .. ..1 Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Do. Newport .. • • Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South-West, Do. pref. consolidated Do. do. G. D. & C. stock Gloucester & Dean Forest Great Northern • • • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. pref. • • Great Southern and Western, Ireland . • Do. eighths .• • • Great North of England . Do. new 40/. .. Do. new 301. .. Do. new 151. . . Great Western .. • • Do. New, 171. .. • • Hull and Selby • • • • Do. half shares . • • • Do. quarter shares .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds • • • • • . Lancashire and Yorkshire 10 Do. quarter shares .. 2 Do. titths .. . • • 1 Do. thirds .. • • .. Do. new, guaranteed 6 per cent. •.• 1 Do. 'Udders. & Shell. 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 I Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 3 Do. pref. qrs., 1848 ~ Liverpool, Crosby, and' Southport .. - London and Blackwall 1 London, Brighton, and South Coast .. • • Do. guarteed 5 per ct., late Croydon thirds.. Do. preference, 5 p ct. Do. preference, cony. 5 per cent., 1852 . • Do. new guaranteed, 6 per cent. .. IC London and Greenwich . 12 1 , Do. preference .. 2' London and N.-Westera 10 , Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths • 1 Do. 101. sh., M. &B (c) London and S.-Western . Do. new 50/. .. • • Do. new 401. .. • • Do. new preference • • Londonderry & Coleraine Do. half shares .. Lowestoft, guar. 4 per ct. 21 Do. do. 6 per cent. • • 21 Londonderry and Ennis killen. .. • • 2; Do. half shares • • • • ' Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • .. Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire 1)o. quarters, No. 1 • • 2, Do.new,lo/ preference 1 , Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union .. 4 ! Midland • • • • .. Do. consolidated pref. 101 Do. 501. shares • . Do. Minting & Derbyi 101 Do. Consol. Bristol 1k! Birming., 6 per cent.' 101 Do. Bristol & Glouces.' 41 Do. do. do. — 1 29 11 Do. Erewash Val. pref.! 51 Do. Leic. & Swanning.' 8 per cent. guar. • • 101 Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) 4' Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. .. 51 Newcastle and Carlisle.. 101 Do. quarter shares .. 2, Newmarket • • .. .. 2 Do. extension scrip 2 Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford • . Newry & Enniskillen .. Newry, \V arrenpoint, Rostrevor • • _ Norfolk • • • • .. 11 Do. New 201. shares • • Do. Extension .. Do. guar. 54 per cant. Do. Waveney Valley.. Northern Counties Union North British.. .. Do. Preference .. North Staffordshire .. North-Western Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Preston and Wyre Do. Halves (A) .. Reading, Guildford; and Reigate.. • • • . Royston and Hitchin Do. Shepreth Eaten... Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland .. Do. new .. Shrewsbury & Blrming, Class A.. • • Do. Class 8.. • • Do, New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford , Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) • . Do. lialyes .. • • • • Do. Oswestry .• Do. New.. .. .• Do. 8 per cent. Pref. Shropshire Union .. • • South Devon .. Do. Preference • • • • South Staffordshire • • South-Eastern .. • • Do. do. 4% per cent... South Wales.. .. • • South Yorksh, Doncaster, and Goole .. . • .. Sheff., Roth., and Goole, N. Div„ guar.s p cent. Do. do. South Div. . • Swansea & Loughor, &c. Taw Vale Extension • • Thames Raven 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. 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 Railway 10 York and North Midland 5 , Do. Preference .. ax, 1 .. ..I 9 1 do. . do. . Anglo•ltallan (late Ita• hail and Austrian) .. 6 I Boulogne and Amiens .. Central of France (Or. leans and Vierzon) • • 2 Demerara Q.. • • • • 1 Dutch Rhenish • • .. East Indian .. .. Do. do. do. • • Great Indian Peninsula. • Ditto ditto • • .. Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg • • •• • • Ditto •• • . Madrid and V alentia Namur and Liege .. • • Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux .. Parts and Orleans .• Paris and Rouen • Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and liavre .. • Sambre and Meuse Strasbourg and Basle .. Tours and Nantes • • .. Tournay, Jut bise, Lan- - den, and Hasson •• 21 West Flanders .. • • ..1 2 1 JOIN' Australasia British North America.. Colonial .. •• • Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock Loudon 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 .... 634 6Th die. _7% .. —•• 6 1 %-1 p. .5 I - 8%1) L 5 6 - 7 P 66% ►7% 6% 10 1 4-I1 10 --10% • • V; ale. 15 I 1? - 2 L 5 114 - IY, OVERLAND MAIL INDIA AND CHINA. We have received by electric telegraph, via Trieste, the following summary of Indian intelligence, in anti cipation of the overland mail. The dates of the last advices were Hong-Kong, September 27 ; Calcutta, October 8 ; Bombay, Oc tober 17. No event of political importance had occurred in India Proper since the departure of the last mail. The hill tribes on the Kohat frontier were again manifesting a hostile disposition, and the passage through their defiles was interrupted. It is again announced that the works on the Bom bay Railway had been commenced. Disaffections and mutinies among the Nizam's native regiments still continue. The Governor-General was on the point of depart ing for Peshawur. CHINA. From llong-Kong we learn that the insurgents were getting the better of the Imperial troops. Nu merous bands of robbers were plundering and burning throughout the provinces of Kangsi and Canton, and after the capture of the city of Kintschan the insur. gents had advanced to within 120 English miles o Canton. BORNEO. Intelligence had reached Singapore of a victory gained by the Dutch over the Chinese in the Sombas River, in Borneo, after a bloody engagement. It was reported that Sir James Brooke's mission to Siam had proved an utter failure. COMMERCIAL. Freights from Hong-Kong to Liverpool 3/. 10s. Exchange on London, six months' sight, 6s. 9d. Calcutta—Exchange, 2s. lid. to 2s. lid. Freights to Liverpool 3/. 10s. Bombay—Manufactured goods dull. Exchange 23. lid. ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BERMONDSEY. About three o'clock this morning, whilst the firemen and engines were at full work in the task of suppressing the threatened conflagration of a whole district in Crimscott• street, Grange-road, Bermondsey, the sudden bursting of an immense boly of flame over the adjoining thoroughfare of Spa•road informed them that a further and a fearful call upon their exertions was made within a hundred yards of the spot where they were already engaged. It was found that the workshops, sheds, dressing-house, &c., of Messrs. Eastman and Soo, the extensive tanners, were the premises then on fire. Every possible effort was made to check it, but nearly the whole was reduced to a heap of burning ruins before the progress of the flsmes vas at all repressed; and so late as half-past one o'clock this afternoon, when our reporter left the place, several engines were still necessarily at work. The smoking ruins cover a space of about five acres. It is said that two days ago sparks were observed flying from the chim ney of one of the workshops, and it is supposed that some of these sparks falling upon a heap of dry bark spread a smouldering flame through the combustible mass, which broke out in this destructive fire, w hich involves the loss of several thousand pounds' worth of property. The has been no loss of life or personal injury sustained. CAPTAIN COLLINSON'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION. --Fur ther official intelligence has been received from the expedi tion under the command of Captain Collinson, C 8., consist ing of the Enterprise, commanded by himself, and the Investigator, by Commander M'Clure. Captain Collinson, in the Enterprise, arrived at Woahoo, Sandwich Islands, June 24th, and sailed on the 30th for Kotzebue Sound. The Investigator arrived there on the Ist of July, and was to sail in a few days to follow her consort. These ships had re ceived supplies and dispatches sent by the Swift, 6, Com mander Aldham, which arrived at Woahoo on the 6th of June; and the Cockatrice tender, Master-Commander Run dle, sent by Rear-Admiral Hornby, C. 8., with dispatches. &c., from the Admiralty, had arrived at Woahoo on the 3d of July, in time to catch the Investigator. The expedition was all well, in good spirits, and full of hope.— United Service Gazette. CONTEMPLATED REFORM MEETING IN LIVERPOOL. —On Thursday a numerous meeting of Reformers was held in the Financial Reform Rooms, Liverpool, Laurence Hay worth, Esq , M.P., acting as chairman, and Mr. Jackson as secretary. It was unanimously resolved to forward the re quisition (which had been lying for signature in the town) to the Metropolitan Reform Association, praying for a depu tation to meet the Liverpool Reformers, and a subscription was entered into to forward the cause, and secure a hearty reception to the deputation. A great stimulus was given to the meeting by the reports that have been current regarding intended Ministerial retrenchments. ATTEMPT TO SHOOT AT BATar.—On Thursday a man named J. Worthy was charged, before the magistrates at Bath, with attempting to shoot Mr. J. Harris, of the Bath herald-office. The prisoner. it appears, was for several years a newsman in the Bath Herald establishment, but a number of papers having been missed, the prisoner was charged with purloining them, and dismissed from his situation. This appears to have exasperated him greatly, and on Wednesday evening he went into the office, where Mr. Harris was sitting behind his desk, and as soon as he entered he said, "You are the man I want," and immediately presented a pistol to Mr. Harris's head. The weapon was held within two feet of the prosecutor's face, and he instinctively pushed forward and seized the prisoner's wrist. Worthy, however, extricated himself from his grasp, and again presented the pistol. lair. g positin made his way round to the prisoner, Harris thereupon dropped behind the counter, and in a h e again seized, and a desperate struggle ensued, s d wt u ho r oo i p n ini g n n which Mr. Harris asked the prisoner if he knew what he was going to do, and he replied—" Yes, I'll blow your b r ains out, you villain." Some persons engaged in the office t h e n came to Mr. Harris's assistance, and took the pistol from the prisone r. The-cock w as down and the cover of the pan broken off, the trigger, neither of the witnesses to the police station, the prisoner but whether was done in the struggle, or ai a n3 ; g ith an oath, " I meant to blow his e l a; ar dl say.eto t p h r e i s : O e n r ns t s ha n b a s p ew p , brains out ; for he has taken a wa y my char . acter, and I may as well be dead as alive.' At the station-house, when charged with attempti n g to shoot , Mr. Harris, he also said— " I only wish I had done it." The char,, , ,•e was drawn by the inspector on duty, and found to consist of powder and paper, tightly rammed in ; but no bullet ar shot has been f iund. The prisoner, on being cautioned in the usual way, declined saying anything in his defence, further than that Mr. Harris had taken away his character and means of living by saying he was a thief. He was committed to take his trial at the next assizes for the county of Somerset. SUICIDE ON THE SOUTH•WESTERN RAILWAY.— ' Mr. W. Carter, the Coroner for East Surrey, hell an inquest at Mr. Smith's, the Two Brothers Tavern, New-road, Batter sea-fields, upon the body of Mr. Robert Henry Hancock, a member of Trinity College, Cambridge, formerly possessed of of a very large amount of property, and brother-in-law to Mr. Gooch, late chief engineer of the South-Western Rail ' way. 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'OREIGN. [3 41 2 co 7, 13% - 14 V 4 . 5 . % -- bU dis. 9 'A — % In. 5 34 wit. I,‘ dls 1 / 2 pm. 7)6 • — • 14 I l 0 Is 4 % 7 —7% 14►4 14 436 —4% (lbs. 31 24 23% 6% 634 die. 9% —9% 234 10.. —.. % 10% dle, 1% - 2 STOCK BANKS. 40 129 -2834 50 43 -42% .. - .. 2 47 8 - 24% •• - •• 27 -- 27% 17% - 18 42% - 43% 15% - 16 13 -135 i 12% - 13 (Settling days in the month of November. Ticket tered shares, 14th and 28% Account days, 15t1 N o minal Tric .. _ .. Anglo•3lexican(is. 5/. .) Asturian ...... • ... • • • • Australian ........ •• .. Barossa Range ....... Blaenarvon Iron and Coal Bolanos Scrip • • .. -- " .. - .. 3Y 2 -3% .. - .. .• ;3ritish 1r0n... .. Brazilian Imp. (is. 5/. p.) Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba Do. St. John del Rey.. Cobre Copper .• . • • General.. • • .. • • • • • • • • • • Real Del Monte, Utireg. Do. Black Debentures . Do. Red Debentures . • ! Santiago de Cuba lO Tin Croft .. • ... • ..... • • 7 United Mexican .. • • ...• 28 2 8 - - " 14% - 15 33 % 324 - .. .. ..... •• .. - .. 9 - 9i 5% -- _ .. 6 MISCELLANEO US. 404 ---426 26Y - 27 79y 2 - 80 6G% - 67 Canada . 22Y, Gen. S,team Navigation . 14 Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 Royal Mail Steam .. •• .. 60 --- -- --------_ MONEY and COMM ERCIAL PrEctS. CITY, TWO CYCLO-„„ es. The sales of Cotton at Liver 00l yestereleY were. we timated at 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 America° st taker► on speculation; the market closed hearil;vo,,ed previous prices.--Railway ay Shares were finn, at iniPh rates. An item in the weekly account to the 9tb inst. °f the Bank of is that Engla"cl, that will attract ob ervatinjio!„%io of " other deposits," because of the redact,' t ~, en. them,f_um which seems to tell of more activeselurictio ):-s.3lneY• This might well arise, from tb abstrbto is o_ t r e H a ver for exportation to the Continent, but 1 , stilt• As to th wanted presented to us in this account that ID' o b e r t o h the fc gross tipvrei v since w . t d h e demand withdrawal that arose for accommodation upon 0, creased. securities , eighed by the increase of the Government a e fi 00 tha t° The comparison of the present account With preceding wea k is as follows • Notes Issued . •• Decrease ." • Rest ... • a c t a i circulation uobluaanitaitonunefe sitth:Wobast: 1 r i s ,, i . lol:s l o, l iti e o.t r : ... ••• 29,41 4,79 5 •'' -• 13 6 4v • ••• ••• 24 84 ' Increase ••• ••• 0 2 189 Public Deposits „• 7, " 08 p , ••• "' 70 7 S Increase ••• 0 7)8, 4 ' 3 " Other Deposits ;„. ••• ••• 21 3, 66 6 Decrease „, „, 00 , 9 Seven Day and other Bills ••• rs .90 no a lto Decrease ..• ••• •.• Government Securities ... •• 80, 1 " Other Securities ... ••: 1° ' 9 58 546 Decrease ... ••• 10 , 15 0 ' 7 60? Notes „, ,„ 44 7.6 Increase ... ••• ~2 5 ,51 ° Bullion ••• „, ••• 1 6, ', 0 ,30 1 ' 30 Increase .. Active Circulation 19 ' 66 5 ••• "' 46 7 . hog Decrease ..• f,sc- The amount of business done in Bills of tiftere"-ot upon the Continental cities was yesterdel>s 094 again limited, and the altered feeling withlooorte,,o two is strikingly exemplified by the fall tbst the rates. It will be recollected that last Tee; o f ceP to war was in the mouth of every one, the W l ti tee °l „ro' deuce occasioned an enhancement in the ', t ote '6l, pound sterling, but as soon as mising aspect, we see the downward tendene„l.ebaes,'or and a reaction ensue unfavourable to the,l; o lty politics Wea r " v rev has payments to make abroad. The n''' .. e bog e ; counting for this adverse state of the e '", f t rail in the assumption that the balance ', s , it to p not in our favour, but it is obvious t o tal i l ib applies to the Continent, it cannot hold g° ° ," t hs 0 4 to our commerce with more distant parts ot oe e de By transmission of specie or by arbitration, e t, but tl a P io state of things may perhaps be brought e b ,1 0 05, 10te abroad must suffer by the renewed conve' s. o sa 'de proportion as there will be a disp os i t i o n to P bt roeg io itt duce that will realise cash, there will be 0 , to fir 90 sire to curtail expenditure, and c onseen ent r l t tes t y,4 o from the consumption of imports. 'f, be „ - rsti s, days' bills yesterday were 25 35 to 374 13 71 0 6 0 0 on Antwerp, 11.171 to 18 on Anisterdele, 2 5 to "" Hamburgh, 1191 to on Frankfort, and 1-. . de elft Vienna. , rasb Taking the Railway Traffic Roturns of ' b f - 04 9 1 t i l er and comparing them with the like date, o t ,, D o 1,'"443' still exhibit an increase, and although It t : par , t , ;ietr, so considerable as in the summer leeTVe e" ge' cause the cholera raged, it i$ still gratil'toild'r tots for d re t firmatory of the view that gradually th e the United Kingdom will ield as 0 30 , e11 4:5 6t 10. 0 years. That the opinion on this bee" g — pol ll° we may conclude from the numerous tnotleliDe made in shares this week, in the face of 11 u fun Adst• h sto7 A Amsterdam on the 11th inst. , Dor 5 4 4 6. rather weaker at first, but closed hot ter, viz' Veo4o good deal was done in Spanish, Sce. At Frankfort on the 13th inst., Anstorlo.3qolo4 were 71:-Z to 721, and Spanish Three Pel v ri a,ond,r6P week The compriseexports 0f 113.000 ounces of 5111" the precious me tals 0 1)-- ,, e dt ounces of gold. dist ricts The accounts from the manufacturing A Pe s a e s n rrb t tebusinessforeign teal rather pacific, p b a e c i i n fi g e. rather depressed ' ; 10 / intelligenceand the againtoday E ngl ish g 6 to in consequence. Consols have been t ;3O/ t i .s' l) O r Trausf r, and 97 to for Account. 99• and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 9 7 4.,," ° , D de IC- I quer-bills have realized 68s. to 693. pre101"„; -,! The Foreign Securities are generallY " r 7,afse c ," sr ° have been done at 32 and 324 but thi 3 ne 'r CePopoo brought forward sellers. Spanish, Tbre e u Lf Pe r nominally 39 to ; Dutch Two-and -11-'l-e - I 5i to 4 ; Russian 1081 to 109. f iCe it Railway Shares are very buoyant. ne lbi s A very extensive business has bee n .0- sr 1 1 Mining Shares. 0 QUARTER T GT CDoitntsools Account,. Dee.. 11 w 9. 7 01 , 1 1, BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAYI AT tO 96y 3 per Cent. R e ( d b u 'r c ° e i d n 14 . 9 91°A 3 per Cont. Consols Anns ''''''' INneDdwiiat3tSol4t undero Stock.. k e r . Consols el ge ß u o f eonrrd Bills. c. 1. Ic e l. ;Bo n o. 0. Account 0. no 0. A lt 1. . n . a . s . ............. ,98sipt ...... • ......... ....• Pi ts 141 - 69 P M ar ch. 66 s, i6A 1,0601. 5001 Small 41611(r PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT 0 ' ..- Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. ... 88!is Ditto Account ...•... ••••,.„•••;,';00 0 ' . " agli titioxican Bon.Zs, 1846,5 per t• vv-r -' Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons ......... 3 , 1 82 9 $ Ditto for the Account ..... .. 80 7 Peruvian Bonds, 4 1 / 2 per Cent ..•••' 56 Ditto Deferred ; ............. ~... Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ••• 34 3 ¢ Ditto 4 Der Cent. ............. ..• 10 s$i Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Ce n. 9 64 I,o ooo' Dividends on the above paYab l ? ill b i /Ai Dutch 2 1 h per Cent., 12 Guild .°' 57 - e. , A . Ditto Account Ditto 4 Der Cent : C ertificate s ••• I f ' ) - e 1.. .„,.. i „ 44 0 ISY $ ~a 0 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.- - Q - ; tP r d LONDON, Nov. 16.—Wind this day ° , I, V II U A E n E n N e t , TO Thomas,WN, Nov. ic 0 n l s 4 t and hazy. it tr lt , Isl e andgford, f r et% A lor LYNN, Nov. 15.—The Westmorelsoba, be e d to on shore on the Long Sand 12th Nov.' A t oy' 0 A V. i o after discharging part of her cargo, 611- jo r., 0 beach, with considerable damage. pmaa S si I n o ma r itta k sv u t i k c e L ,u s t wt ,aaswNtaoFea. towed into 6.—The tienr to beinger 1 drivenscs r c o h o o ll o f ° r e t r 6 io t b h c ° ro c o o r o 4 : , : ii : 0 too off Tjacki, during a gale. .a—wind s.V.fainierie 12°60,4 d oge) il. a tO on R th o e irr E o i n n K nis N h o c v oa . sltlb.y—tThheeicJe,tioline twb:nBtigiVgloiter,ol off with loss of both anchors, and ffr- s atl o, WI Cronstadt. job with BREMERHAVEN, Nov. 13.—T he leaky' 11. Hartlepool to Altona, has put in here r d, Itol ll o ° boat, sails, &c., and the mailer overboa f r oto 0 0 0 HAMBURGH, Nov. 13.—The ArgY i l , e ' D oer e trer to Dauzic, went on shore off Lanc ll)s of ' tit A trivEanszipsiEcrk,edNuopv. yesterday,l4.— T he ° T e r ei - 1 dde s ir : b r e d b eg, 1I r 0 night of the 9th Nov. , t jg chef, " be t 'at e i t° ton, G and towed in here. Oa being . right e , 03 0 c o 1 , found open; the cargo ( flour, in , b sl4 , sl ',vsfe r l, be li A nt l ]i ney," appears to have been long ill til e d Oe'l - 'Ol wo - V, CARDIFF, Nov. 13.—The Active. - fl i n g, g e so' 0 Malta, in going out of dock this 0 3 o r o d l es a OO bank of the Guttawav, and laid badly , ri ss 0 0 01 4 water when the tide flowed, that sb° Iv , Si t/1 01l beach to prevent her sinking. Iso e- iS c o , A fir-built schooner or brigantine, s o iteti rr is or with part of her foremast standing, 1111 11 the o e I V Sept. 8., in lat. 41 N. long. long. 13 Wr " b. ard' ll /0 1e r et i 0° Walea, Hopkins, which sent a boat 00,ing of Jo; A O sinking state; from some her abandoned and stripped of everY t ' s os, O bo e , was scuttled, being in the track of les don lor appeared to be the Enighedeu , of T011,.........4 1 A f fil SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 15.—w n S. eIP 14, 0* ( 1, ter steamer, Brown, London. Wed N ° ,i.r 4 . WATERFORD, Nov. 14.--W- d . Sir• , 10 Johanna Sophia, Tank, Odessa. vcr,S• . CPSe DEAL, Nov. 15.—Wiud VV• to B rit p, o r e di papers fo ul) , e rg. Il i. Peter Semi, R t.hie, Rio Janiero;;lo4oo. :iOOl (supposed), Bahia; 51addiscn, Stnith , , s; Doti f i ' ve )ll,l ol York; Lucy, Wright, Shields for .A.-_!t,,, of r i 4 a. , frim the River for Hobart Town; -uu_7 mott ~e t v Inglis, Calcutta. Sid Prix, Jamaica; , 1001: 0 Slu'i°' LIVERPJOL, Nov. 15.—Wi n1 A 1.- ; 16 , P Laiog'sir V 1 , 14 stuntinople; P 1 omit. Newfoutidland...,s, lor Calcutta; Cnarlotte, ditto; ii o l ,_ - _ ne isco; ru e , i , i Arequipud, Cassetvridei, San r' Ayr es; : 1 fr o or e N,pter, Panama; May. New Orloaes; Persian, APa' a ' ?J e w 1 &O P ' , \laranham; Cuba, Gounivellsu; Tre_ h de ic Tis k ;: r or it if t e , a f efl P ; verence, St. John's, New Brun riti ill / Charlesto Mager* and Siddo i ; w icic; '.- P Andrew's. New Brunswick. , Afo ll if, , Lint, I b oyO r OFF W E vmotiTtr.--Jeti n y ~ ,,0 al p PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 15.-- Willtl;ar), • 1-1 mondstone, Cape of Good Hope. , / 4.V., 16 : 0 0 f ° , 1 Orth ' l o ll ' Arrd. Carolina (Austrian ship of Arrd, . 0 ), ~, Art ° la, P IP Mediterranean. vv* d 5.8 . " -- O t3i .hoO F 0 FALMOUTH, Nov. 15.-- if 1 , n otz; ( i - d o Mauritius; Gin st %none, Starting,, V 001 1:0 11311 Denis. Off port, Ilindoo, Tay ... o r oo _,,,0, Geteshead, Nevvcastle for t• , •• Clyde; Cronstadt, for Liverpool; N°P. Et rau Ftnve-- Business done to-day. 14 1 A _44 % 71% 71 71% 47% 3 48U 734 % 34 1183; 118 li 19N 31 4 % 69 68 k 42%U 12% % 17% 14_18 7% disc dis, 20% 20 17 iii 12 12% 23 % glia% ex. d days for regit and 29th.] MIN: Paid 1 13 0 13 5 24! . y ~~ f '~ . 4~1. 8 % % PLI til town, ,_ 1111: 11 . Oly m JE brad, , PIE Leans. BR O A W, Watc