The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-03 00:00:00

GREAT MUNSTER RAIL WAY. The Committee of Management beg to Inform their Share holders that the Plans and Sections, and Books of Reference of this Railway have been duly lodged with the Clerks of the Peace in Ire land, and at the Board of Trade, in conformity with the standing orders of Parliament. By order, DUDLEY BYRNE, Secretary. fl 3, 3f oorgate-street, Dec. 2, 1845. L ONDON AND YORK RAILWAY EXTENSION AND BRANCH LINES. The Shareholders are hereby informed that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly deposited with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks of the Peace, in conformity with the standing orders of Parliament, in respect of the Wakefield and Leeds Exten glen, the Hertford, the St. Alban's, Luton, and Dunstable, and the Stamford and Spalding branch lines. By order of the Committee of Direction, J. R. MOWATT, Secretary. Offices, No. 7, Lethbury, Loudon, Dec. 2, 1845. D ORKING, BRIGHTON, and ARUNDEL RAILWAY. The Managing Committee have great pleasure in announcing to the Shan holders that the Plans, Section.; and Book of Reference have been daly deposited with the Board of Trade and Clerks of the Peace for Surrey and Sussex, as required by the standing orders of Par liament. By order of the Board, R. FURNER, Sec. pro. tern. Adelaide Hotel, London-brifte, Dec. 2, 1845. R UGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER RAILW AY. The Shareholders of this Company are informed that the Gazette and Newspaper notic?s have been duly given, and that the Plans, Sections, Books of Reference, BDc., have been duly deposited with the Clerks of the Peace for the counties through which the line rune, and with the Board of Trade. GEORGE WELLER, Solicitors of the Company. GEORGE PELL, jun.,j 8, Ring's-road, Bedford-row, Dec. 1, 1845. STAINES AND RICHMOND RAILWAY. The Committee of Management have great pleasure in an nouncing to their Shareholders and the Public that the Plans, Sec tions, and Books of Reference, were all duly deposited on Saturday, the 29th day of November last, and that the Parliamentary Notices have been given, and every preparation made for going before Par liament in the approaching session. The Committee take this oppor tunity of informing their Proprietors that the deposits have been for MOMS monthsinvested at interest, and that arrangements are in pro press for leasing the Line to the South-Western Railway Company, upon terms highly advantageous to the interests of the Shareholders. By order, J. C. GOVET r, lecretary. 32, Moorgate-etreet, December 1, 1645. G REAT NORTH and SOUTH WALES and WORCESTER RAILWAY. The Provisional Directors have the pleasure of stating to the Shareholders in this Company, that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference, of the Main Line from Carmarthen to Aberystwith and Machyu'leth, with a Branch to Cardigan, and also of the Branch Line from Machynileth to Newtown, have been deposited in due time at the Board of Trade, and with the several Clerks of the Peace for the counties of Carmathen, borough of Carmathen, Pembroke, Cardigan, Montgomery, and Merioneth, respectively. The Provisional Directors also take this opportunity of replying to all inquiries, by informing Shareholders that the principal part of the subscribed Capita has been advantageously invested upon Govern ment securities, as required by the deeds of the Company ; and they earnestly invite the continued steady co-operation of the Share holders in support of nfis underta:ing, which generally, and espe cially in the Principality, has received so large a share of the public favour and confidence. By order of the Committe, London, Dec. 3, 1845. CAPEL BANBURY, Secretary, AMALGANIAIION of the CHELMSFORD and BURY and ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY COMPAN lES. The Committees of Management of the above Companies have great pleasure in informing their respective Shareholders that, all difficulties having been at length surmounted, the Companies are now amalgamated, the separate Commit tees ofManagement being combined In me Board. Both lines were substantially the same, and the junc tion now happily completed, while It obviates mutual opposition and establishes friendly relations with all existing lines in the three eastern counties, enables the amalgamated Company to deposit the ten per cent. required by the standing orders of the House of Lords, and to reserve a considerable balance, without any further call upon the Shareholders, and justifies the most confident assurance of ob taining their Act without serious Parliamentary opposition. The Chairman of the Essex and Suffolk and the Deputy-Chair man of the Chelmsford and Bury are respectively nominated the Chairman and Deputy-Chairman of the united Company, and John Miller, Esq., F.R.S.E., is appointed engineer. The necessary arrangements respecting the Shares in both Com panies will be made with the least practicable delay, and on terms of perfect eqaality, and due notice will be given thereof. Meanwhile it will be satisfactory to the Shareholders to be informed that upwards of eighty thousand pounds is, and has for some time, been invested, at interest, upon proper securities. Two sets of Plans and Sections having been deposited with the Board of Trade and the respective Clerks of the Peace for Essex, Suffidk. and Norfolk, the landowners on the line, and all others locally interested, are especially requested to observe, that One Set only will be carried before Parliament, namely, Coat entitled " Chelmsford and Bury Railway," and bearing the name of John Miller, Esq.., as engineer. ROBERT BEVAN, Chairman. THOMAS GREENWOOD, Deputy-Chalrman. Company's Offices, 81, Moorgate street, Dec. 2, 1845. CHELMSFORD and BURY and ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY COMPANIES. Whereas Two Sets of Plans and Sections have been deposited with the Board of Trade and the Clerks of the Peace for the Counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, one of which has been so deposited in the name of the Chelmsford and Bury and the Essex and Suffolk United Railway Company, and the other set in the name of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway (with the Extension to Thetford) and Branches; _ ffotice is hereby given, that the set of Plans and Sections, entitled the Chelmsford and Bury Railway (with Extension to Thetford) and Itraaches, and that set only, ►ill he carried before Parliament. ROBERT BEVAN, Chairman. THOMAS GREENWOOD, Deputy-Chairman C.ompanyta Offices, 61, Moorgate-street, Dec. 2, 1845. J OHNSON, MAYOR.—The FIRST COURT, on Tuesday, the 2d day of December, 1845, and in the ninth year of the reign of Victoria, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, &c.,—Resolved, That the thanks of this Court be preeeated to the Right Honourable Michael Gibbs, late Lord Mayor, for the able manner in which he discharged his duties as Chief Magistrate of this city ; for the invariable promptitude and un remitting regularity, discrimination, and ability with which he per formed his arduous and important magisterial acts ; for his frequent attendance for the promotion of charitable institutions, and for his liberal contributions towards benevolent objects ; for his splendid en tertainments, by which he maintained the ancient hospitality of this city ; for the puactuality and firmness with which he presided over the meetings of this Court ; for the courtesy which he manifested towards its members, and for the zeal evinced by him in de fending the privileges of the Corporation and the rights of the citizens of London. ILV.RE.WF.TIIER. THEATRE ROYAL, DILLTRY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera, In three acts, called MARITA NA. Chitties the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Don Caesar De Bazan, Mr. W. Jiarrison ; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. IL Phillips; Maritana, Miss R•mer ; Lazarillo, Miss Poole. _ . . After which, will be repeated a New Grand Ballet, called THE DEVIL TO PAY, in which Mons. Bretin, Mdlle. Flora Fabbri, Mdlle. Habits (of tile Academie Royale, Paris), Mdlie. Louise, Mr. W. 11. Payne, Mons. Delferier, Mr. Howell, and Mr. Wieland will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCERTS. LAST WEEK BUT TWO. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENINQ. PART I. Overture, " William Tell"—Rossini. Quadrille, from Verdi's Opera of " Ernani"—Julllen. Duetto for Pianoforte and Violin, performed by Master Day and baits Day—Beilini. The Original Valse, A Denx-tents—Jullien. Sole, Oboe, by M. Barret—Barret. Symphony, The Andante, from Haydn's Surprise Symphony—Haydn , dulllen's New Quadrille, The British Navy—Jullien. PA is T 11. Opera, " Robert I.e Diable," Grand Selection, with Solos —Meyerbeer. Valse, A Deux-terns (Second Set), The Bridal—Jullien. Solo, Concertina, by Mr. Case—Case. The Imperial Polka—Jullien. Solo, Violin, Master Day—De Beriot. The Original Napolitaine ; or, Tarentella des Salons—Jullien. Commence at Eight precisely; terminate before Eleven. Promenade and Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. M..Tullien's Grand Ball Masque is fixed to take place on Monday, December 22. The Au.lience portion of the Theatre will, as before, be set apart for Spectators. Prices of Admission for Spectators :—Dress Circles, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Galleries, 2s. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING WMI be repeated an Original Comedy, called TUB MAIDEN AUNT. Sir Simon Sage, Mr. W. Farrell ; Percy Sage, Mr. Hud son ; Mrs. Sarah Wilmot, Mrs. Glover; Catherine Wilmot, Mrs. Seymour. - Atter which, will be repeated an entirely New Farce, called THE MIiERIES OF HUMAN LIFE. Mr. Ally Croaker, Mr. Webster; MAritaret,Mrs. llumby. _ _ To be followed by a New an Original Farce, called RAILWAY BURBLES. Gorman Hudson, Mr. Hudson, Ellen Seyton, Miss t4eyton. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Perkin Pyeilnch, Mr. Euckstone ; Jessie Donald, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING Will he repeated THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Age. In which Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker; Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will perform. Te be followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Redford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c, will perform. To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE VIOLET. Andre, Mr. Wallack; Trenquet, Mr. Granby ; Armand, Mr. Leigh Murray ; Marchioness d'Oryille, Mrs. Fosbroke ; Blanchette, Mrs. Stirling; Blanche, Miss May. To be followed by A MAN WITHOUT A HEAD. To which will be added THE BRIGAND. Arica which, a New Farce, entitled JACK O'JJOTH SIDES. John Tweddale, Mr. Ox berry. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be produced a Saw Two Act Comedy, entitled WHO IS SITE' Characters by Messrs. J. Brown. C. Boyce, Binge, Cockrill, Miss Hamilton, and Mrs. Walter Lacy. To be followed by the favourite Vaudeville of CAPTAIN CHAR LOTTE. Ia which Mr. Walter Lacey and Miss Kate Howard will perform. After which, THE BOYIIOOD OF BACCHUS. The Boy Bacchus, Miss Kate Howard ; Momus, Mr. G. Wild. To conclude with THE RAILWAY KING. Sam Stag, Mr. G. Wild; Sally Slop, Miss gate Howard. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will ha performed THE LAST OF THE BARONS ; or, Warwick, 'The Ring Maker, and the Battle of Barnet. New Scene s of the Circle, combining the talent of the French and English Artistes. To conclude with WAR IN CHINA DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Wlll be perfo rm THIS EVENING ed a New Drama, THE MINUTE GUN AT SEA Supported hy Mess rs. Hughes, Hicks, Cowell, Heslop, Fredericks Mrs. Vining. and Mi ss Martin : To conclude with THE FACTORY BOY. Supported by Messrs, - Rogers, Hughes, Cowell, l airs. Vining. Miss Marti n , and Mrs. Daly. ROYAL TICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, THE TOWER OF LONDON , or, The Death Omen nand the Fate of Lady Jane Grey. Supported by Mr. Oshaldistoo, Saville, mi u Vincent, Mims Richardson, 11110 EII z a Terry, Bco. To conclude with JAI'HET IN SEARCH OF A FATHER. rred to the STOPPAGE OF .NEW OXFORD -ST Holborn and day, in consequence of' some accidents havinga"--er foot paPengers in the pnaseswagestroefet.thbeetnwieirneicry Oxford-street, by the there being no paved footway, her Majesty's c om s n jel.Licles, rs of Woods and Forests gave directions that at each end of new street a barrier should be immediately set up to vent the thoroughfare of vehicles. They will remain there till the houses which are now being built on either side of the street are completed. The stone pavement will be laid down. FIRE.—NARROW ESCAPE FOR RAILWAY SPRCU LAToRs.—On Tuesday evening last, about six o'clock, in con sequence of an escape of gas, a writer's office in the New Town took fire, by which the premises were put in great jeopardy, along with the plans and specifications for no fewer than ten new railways lying in the office, all of which must have been put a stop to for the time had the necessary do /•:S ',not been discovered and rescued. .These were ccin - tin box, which was got out . . without much in- P l 7' 'The fire having been observed in time, it was xtin , o r f e tha doin , g much e damage, beyond the burning of Such j jv t h e e u x 9s • Glasgow Chron i c le. ofeitteh ment in railway matters (says c . >„,-,. • the corresponden t Glasgow Argus), tbat a gentleman being. auddenlY asked b e ' you do?" re ph e d „ Y s 2 , f , riend who met him, " How do N 11 TIIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN ENG, DECEMBER 3, 1845. NEW NOVEL, EDITED BY MRS. GORE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T HE QUEEN OF DENMARK. AN HISTORICAL NOVEL. EAlted by Mrs. GORE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE WEATHER—Sus OFFICE, DEC. 3. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35; Highest, 48; Noon, 36. BA.NOMETER, 29.58. WIND W.; fine sunshiny weather. mart *ATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 15 minutes after 4 I Evening -. 39 minutes after 4. - ....• .. ....t), t .--, - 0 .-,•„ A •- • it. , ,9;-- i'rr,, -, ,j - !•P,, 0 . t ,5 ,1 Arrv iii iV,,>: - 7 ,;•,' • 'Nil : .t.74.-ti - 42 ., ,N§FoT ii itA iie :'....., , ~.u : ol:te_,4:'w . A vrfo,. o ~.. . ~,---- SECOND EDITION. Ur 11111111 nit LONDON, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1845. Within the last few days rumours of Cabinet resigna tions have been rife. Gossip has been especially busy with the names of Lord STANLEY and Lord ABERDEEN, who are both said to be about to resign. There is clearly a stir in the Cabinet. In the present embroglio of politics, past opinions may help us a little to conjecture the course which any particular Member of the Cabinet would take; but, a priori, we should have thought Lord ABERDEEN the last person to desert the Premier, and Lord STANLEY the last person to be dissatisfied with the present do-nothing policy of the Cabinet. We do not profess to understand the present position of the Govern ment, and shall be surprised at nothing ; but, otherwise, we are not disposed to give credit to the rumours about I Lords STANLEY and ABERDEEN. If the Cabinet were now in a condition for mere tinker ing to be of any use, nothing would be more likely than for Lord STANLEY to be shifted from the Colonies, which he has grossly misgoverned, to some office in which the Government might have his name and party influence without the damage of his administrative incapacity. If the Cabinet were going to repeal the corn -laws, nothing would be more likely than for my Lord TAM'. BOFF to resign; but the Cabinet cleaves to the corn laws. Lord STANLEY'S resignation now—even his removal to a post where he would be less mischievous— would be a sign of vitality and strength not to be looked for from a Government that, to all appearance, is dying by inches. The question now is, can the Government survive this crisis? If we saw them throwing out Lord STANLEY, it would be like a sick man's throwing out the gout ; and the doctors of the Carlton, who now shake their heads all day, and look glum, would begin to hope. But the many meetings of the Cabinet—the many visits of Cabinet Ministers to Sir ROBERT PEEL—Lord STANLEY'S long consultations with Sir ROBERT—show that there is a Butter among the Volscians. Lord Jour; RUSSELL'S long shot from Edinburgh has been a stag gerer. According to an extract from a private letter received from New York, and posted up in the underwriters' room of the Liverpool Exchange yesterday, all the strong and decided expressions respecting the Oregon that ap peared in the inaugural address of President POLK will be repeated in the forthcoming Message ; he will claim the whole of the disputed territory, and propose to the Legislature that the joint occupancy shall cease, and that the laws of lowa shall be extended over all the western territory to the Pacific. It is said that the Cabinet, with the exception of Mr. BUCHANAN, is unanimous on the subject. The annual ses sion commences usually ou the first Monday of December; the Message will consequently be deli vered in the course of the present week, and it may, therefore, be expected in England about the 18th inst. By persons tolerably well acquainted with the relations between the two countries, and the prevalent feeling towards England throughout the Western and Southern States, this document is looked forward to with very little interest. The sentiments of the members both of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, in refe rence to this country, have been well ascertained during the last and the present Presidency by their votes on the annexation of Texas, and the measures for oc cupying the Oregon territory. Whether the Mes sage on these points may be modified or not, ought to be to the English Government a matter of per fect indifference ; and whether Poix talks about latitude i 54 Or latitue 49, or the " whole Oregon or none," Eng settlement of a question which, intrinsically, is of little importance, but which involves the whole policy of the two nations, to be delayed for even one year. If America claims what England is not prepared to grant, and announces her resolution to put an end to the mutual occupation within the specified time, our Government must regard that as a preliminary to a declaration of war, and act accordingly. Delay is out of the question. These protracted disputes about territory have only become more difficult of settlement by procrastination ; and it is better at once to have a clear understanding, not only on the Oregon dispute, but on many other disputes of infinitely more importance. No English statesman, of whatever party he may be, can have vi ewe d the encroachments of the American Republic, and the projects which its rulers and people have announced within a very brief period, without serious alarm for the security of our possessions and the balance of power in the New World. The voice of the American nation leaves no doubt whatever about the occupation of the Oregon territory and the expulsion of the Hudson's Bay Company from the banks of the Columbia. Prepara tions are in progress for sending out squatters to Cali fornia ; Texas has been wrested in the most insidious and unfair manner from Mexico, and that unfortunate and incapable republic, in a very few years, will be so completely hemmed in by its powerful and unscrupulous neighbour, that it must fall an easy prey as soon as Pre sident POLK, or any future President may consider the fit time for conquest has arrived. England cannot stand by unconcerned and idle when such barefaced and un justifiable encroachments are made in the very neigh bourhood of her valuable colonies, when the annihilation of her trade in that quarter is openly avowed, and in a few years the riches of Mexico shall be swallowed up by the overgrown republic. War, no doubt, is a horrid and a dangerous game, but nations never escape from diffi culties by disgraceful concessions, nor is war ultimately avoided by pusillanimous delay. The thirst for conquest throughout the Union is too manifest to be mistaken ; England has felt its effects in Canada, and only a few years more are wanting to make her feel them in other quarters of the most vital importance to her best interests. It becomes her, therefore, to be pre pared for the worst, and meet the coming danger in time. She never was in a better position, nor ever bad a more just cause for asserting her rights America has rejected even an offer for accommodating the differences ; she has departed from terms admitted in all former negotiations on the subject ; she will not hear of arbitration, but treats England with as much contempt as Mexico, and is preparing to annex the whole of the Oregon, somewhat in the style of the un principled occupation of Texas. Even hostile writers in Fran 13 now admit that her claims are not well founded, and though it is our affair, yet it is satisfactory to know that her best wishers cannot justify the claims of TYLER and POLK. Both nations would suffer by having recourse to the last alternative—a trial of strength but that is not the fault of England. The first effects would be felt here se riously. Manchester, and Leeds, and Birmingham, and some other manufacturing towns, would lose much of their trade, though since the last war many new mar kets have been opened for them; privateers would in tercept merchant vessels without convoy, and other casualties attendant on war would ensue ; but these England has already experienced and met with unflinch ing fortitude, even when engaged in the dreadful contest with NAPOLEON. Is she weaker now, after thirty years repose, than she was, when in 1815 she astonished the world by her renewed vigour and exertions, and gained what General FOY called the greatest victory of the age ? Is her credit lowered ? Are the sinews of war ' less strong, or the means of both offensive and defensive warfare less within her reach? It is admitted by all, except perhaps the Americans themselves, that British fleets could blockade every important harbour of the Union, that the value of cotton and tobacco and other productions of the slave-holding states would be lowered by one-half, and that, even allowing the greatest bravery, skill, and exertions on the part of the Americans, their commerce would be nearly destroyed. But she cannot carry on a war without imposing heavy taxes or bor rowing money. The former would not be much relished even by the warlike States of the west,' and the latter is impossible. The American Government could not obtain credit for a hundred thousand pounds on any Exchange in Europe. We do not mention these ; be e listendely state to, facts as matters of boast, or as threat s — a " merely plain truths, in the hope that they m and that a calculation of consequences may induce the American Government to act with moderation, an d not insist on claims which are rejected by every European authority, and which that Government knows England never can yield. The Chronicle has administered but sorry comfort to the seller of railway sorip, frightened by the visions which the Times has conjured up, of attorneys, and actions, and denunciations from the judgment seat. Mr. GLADSTONE'S Registration Act has made the sale of scrip illegal, says the Chronicle, and has thereby taken away from the buyer any right of action that be- fore existed. But if this Act has done so much it has done more ; it has made the seller of scrip liable for any such sale to a penalty of ten pounds. The words of the Act which the Chronicle, Wrongly, in our opinion, applies to railway companies, are these (7 and 8 VIcT. c. 110, s. 26) : " With regard to subscribers, and every person entitled, o claiming to be entitled, to any share in any joint-stock com pany, the formation of which shall be commenced after the Ist day of November, 1844, until such joint-stock company shall have obtained a certificate of complete registration, and until any such subscriber or person shall have been duly regis tered as a shareholder in the said registry• office, it shall not be lawful for such person to dispose, .by sale or mortgage, of such share, or of any interest therein ; and that every con tract for, or sale, or disposal of such share or interest shall be void, and that every person entering into such contract shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds." If the Chronicle is right in applying this clause to railway companies, we think the Gallant Admiral to whom in his provisional•committee-man capacity the Times so pointedly addressed its gentle warnings, is not to be congratulated on his alternative. We suspect, indeed, he would gladly compound for the penalties by running the risk of the action. But we venture to think that the Chronicle is wrong, and for these reasons:— 1. Clause 2 of the Registration Act says—" Except as hereinafter specially provided, this Act shall not ex tend to any Company for executing any bridge, &c., &c., railway, &c. &c., which cannot be carried into execu tion without obtaining the authority of Parliament ;" and there is no special provision to bring such companies within the operation of the clause that makes sales of scrip illegal. 2. The words " until such joint-stock company shall have obtained a certificate of complete registration, and until any such subscriber or person shall have been duly registered as a shareholder in the said Registry-office," clearly limit the operation of the clause to companies which do not require the authority of Parliament. Such companies do not acquire their powers till they get these Acts. Other companies acquire their powers on complete registration. It is true that clause 9of the Act provides for a complete registration of companies which require Acts of Parliament, and enables the® to obtain a certificate of complete registration on depo siting their deeds at the Parliamentary offices, in com pliance with the standing orders of the two Houses, and returning a copy of the deeds to the Registry-office. But this complete registration is very different from the complete registration, which, in other cases Incorporates companies ; and it is not to such complete registration as this that the words of the penal clause, " until any such subscriber, or person, shall have been duly registered as a shareholder in the said Registry-office," apply. The " due reg; . , trft . tration" of shareholders in the Registry-office is de scribed in clauses 7 and 11 of the Ae'r,. Clause 11 provides for half-yearly returns of liew shareholders to the Registry-office from " the directors of every joint stock company completely registered under this Act, except companies which shall have been incorporated by Act of Parliament niter complete registration." 3. The Chronicle quotes the words of the 7th clause of the Act, " That it shall not be lawful for any joint stock company hereafter to be formed for any purpose within the meaning of this Act, whether for executing any such work as aforesaid under the authority of Par liament, or for any other purpose, t, act otherwise than provisionally, in accordance with this Act, until such company shall have attained a certificate of com plete registration, as hereinafter provided;" and then proceeds, " Now, sales of scrip certifi cates are beyond the provisional powers of joint stock companies by the 26th section." We believe the 26th section to have nothing to do with the words quoted from the 7th. The 26th section at most, if the Chronicle were right, would forbid a certain act on the part of subscribers to railway companies. The words of the 7th section refer to the powers of companies for car rying out their objects, with which sale and transfer of shares has nothing on earth to do. We submit, then, that the Chronicle is wrong in its reading of the Registration Act. Into the question raised by the Times, of the liabilities of parties who hold scrip to actions for the purchase-money, we will not now enter ; but we think no gallant Admiral's sea-side slum bers need be disturbed by any fear of such an action. What is any scripholder to gain by suing his seller ? There will be no case of a company which stops short of Rivoivino• to Parlia----- • • •• • 0 • most for bad management) a portion of the deposits must not be returned. Why, the London and York Company, after its Parliamentary battle of unex ampled length and cost, has still enough of its five per cent. deposits left to fight again, and makes no fui they call upon the shareholders for fighting the battle of next session. In schemes, then, which do not go to Parliament (and it is with reference to these that the Times has advised purchasers of scrip to go to law), a large portion of the deposit money must remain to be returned. If the scripholder goes to law, judg ment in his favour will not console him for the swallow ing up of his recovered purchase-money in his lawyer's bill. We strongly advise, then, all scripholders to trouble themselves no further about KEMPSON V. SAUN• DERS,—if it be necessary to compel provisional com mittee-men to return deposits minus expenses, in cases of abandoned schemes, to do it through general meet ings of scripholders, or by the means which a free press affords of bringing public opinion to bear on unprin cipled directors ; but, by all means, if they want to get any of their money, to shy an attorney that would quote KEWPSON V. SAUNDERS and the Times, as they would shy the It was with feelings of regret, not unmingled with sur prise, that we read the letter addressed by the Earl of DUNDONALD to the Editor of the Times, on the subject of harbours of refuge, which letter we republished in The Sun of yesterday. The Noble and Gallant Officer con. tends that these ports and harbours are unnecessary, be cause he is in possession of means " by which, whatever hostile force was therein assembled, could be destroyed within the first twenty-four hours favourable for effec tive operations, in defiance of forts and batteries mounted, with the most powerful ordnance now in use." " Protective harbours," continues the Noble Earl, "save . - as screens from wind and sea, may be likened to nets wherein fishes, seeking to escape, find themselves in. extricably entangled." Now, it appears to us that in that one parenthetical passage (" save as screens from wind and sea") his Lordship has granted the whole question. It is as screens against wind and sea that we contend these harbours are required ; and, whatever may be the nature of the secret plan which the Earl of DUNDONALD communicated to the Government in 1812, we cannot but think that if he found himself at sea, off a lee-shore in a heavy gale, he would be right glad to find a harbour of refuge at hand, in which he could in safety await "a time favourable for effective operations." - . The means " for the effectual destruction of all the navies in the world" would, we opine, be found ineffec tual for the preservation of a single ship. Now it is for the preservation, not for the destruction, of navies, that we would fain see the formation of these harbours of refuge ; and, although the Earl of DIINDONALD de precates the voting away the vast sums requisite to carry them into execution as a serious evil, yet, we think, that, judging from experience, it would not be difficult to show that the expenditure of even five millions in the formation of harbours of refuge would be an act of judicious economy. We should like to see a re- _ turn of the number of lives lost and the amount of pro perty destroyed by shipwreck in Plymouth Sound for the twenty years immediately preceding the building of the breakwater; a similar return for the twenty years following the erection of the breakwater ; and a return of the number of vessels which had entered the Sound during both periods; and we have no doubt it would ap pearthat the value of the property saved from destruction during twenty years by the erection of the breakwater amounts to a much larger sum than that expended in its construction. It is somewhat curious to find the Earl of DUNDONALD, to whose patriotic exertions, when Lord COCHRANE, in 1812, the nation owes the formation of the Plymouth Breakwater, coming , forward in 1845 to oppose the construction of similar breakwaters on other exposed parts of our coast. The Madrid papers of the 25th ult. are chiefly occu pied with the elections, which appear to be going on more favourably for the Opposition than anticipated. There are no accounts in these papers of the state of the poll at Barcelona on the second day's poll, but accounts from Bayonne state that the Liberals had been com pletely successful at Saragossa, and returned their three candidates to represent the capital of Arragon in the Cortes. On the 25th the Three per Cents. were done et 35 15-16. The Fives were not quoted. The Paris papers contain no fresh intelligence from Al geirs, from which we are to infer that affairs remain nearly in the same state ; that the French troops are making little progress in reclaiming the rebellious tribes, and that the communications between several important stations are still interrupted. Saerul of the journals contain articles on the Oregon qu!stion ; and the Jour nal des Debats, the organ of the Government, has at length spoken out on the subject. Itdenies the claims of President PoLK, but, at the same time, states that he is so pledged by promises given at his election, and the language of the political demagogues of the west is so clamorous, that he will, in all probability, be obliged to maintain them, to their full cxtent, in his Message to the Congress. " The differelce of opinion between the two Cabinets," says that jotrnal, " are very great. President POLK doubtless, in virtue of pledges given at the time of his election, inserted in his inauguration Message, the most solemn document that can emanate from him, a passage which nothing had rendered neces sary, and which declared the extreme opinion of the Western States. The English Cabinet was moved at this unexpected incident in the negotiation ; Sir ROBERT PEEL and Lord ABERDEEN replied, in full Parliament, in terms as explicit as those made use of in the Mes sage. England did more ; she continued, at the expense of millions, her maritime preparations, at which France took umbrage in a very mata•propos manner, and which preparations have now raised the English navy to a formidable degree of power ; she has taken her pre cautions as though a war might break out in the year 1846. The United States, on the contrary, have pre pared nothing against such an eventuality. If things now passed as in the last century ; if commerce had not created interests which render a declaration of war very difficult, we should say that everything depends on the M essage which President Poux is to deliver to Congress. In the event of that magistrate main taining his assertion of last year, there will only remain the last argument of kings and people ; for of what avail would be negotiation thereafter. The question would no longer be as to the division of territory, for Mr. Pout will have Oregon entire. England has latterly proposed to refer it to arbitration, but this the President will not consent to. What other arguments can, therefore, be brought forward besides those which issue from the cannon's mouth ? Electoral necessities can, therefore, alone explain the conduct of Mr. PoLic, who had the reputation of being a calm and reserved man. He is a native of Tennessee, one of the western states of the Union. It is on the west that he founds the hope of his re-election, and the west demands the entire of the Oregon territory. It is, therefore, with much reason that some of the American journals tell their country men that the Oregon question, which to be understood requires an attentive study of old treaties and diplomatic documents, is solved at once in every village of the west by political demagogues, who have read nothing, and who only know one thing —that they are sure to please the multitude and obtain their suffrages, by telling them that GOD has given them the new continent from one extremity to the other for their exclusive use. How ever this may be, there is every reason to fear that the Message will be in accordance with the feelings of the democracy of the western states. Private letters from A:aeries, which come down to the 10th of I;rovember, hold out little to the contrary. The annexation of Texas caused the first election of Mr. Porat, and to secure his second he wishes to obtain possession of Oregon. The calculation will be extravagant, but the general opinion at New York, at Philadelphia, and at Washington is, that the President will do it. A war between America and England will be a calamity for the civilised world, and by degrees every maritime nation may be drawn in to take a part in the conflict, in consequence of the vexatious interruptions which neu trals will not fail to meet with in the desperate struggle which will desolate the surface of the ocean. But for England and for America it will be such an overturning of interests, that we cannot but think that, whatever the language of the President in his Message may be, the cause of peace will not on that account be irretriev ably lost. If war should break out, New York, New Orleans, and Boston would be closely blockaded, and their merchants ruined, but at the same time what injury would be inflicted on British commerce, which covers every sea, by American cruisers ? What would become of Manchester, if a supply of American cotton failed it ? and how would the south-western states of the Union, whose principal produce is cotton, be sup ported without that market ? What a shock would it even be for the constitution of the Union itself?" The writer concludes his remarks with a hope that peace will continue to spread over Great Britain and the United States the benefits with which it has loaded these two great nations, to the great advantage of all other countries. Accounts from Toulon state that IBRAHIM PACHA ar rived at that place on the 27th ult., in the Egyptian fri gate the Nile. He was received by a salute of 21 guns from some of the ships in port and from one of the bat teries, and the French vessels were dressed out in honour of his arrival. The Maritime Prefect and the Marquis VS., 1, 5.7 Lill. J. I Alla,. O WAD IJAI the Nile, and at eleven o'clock IBRAHIM landed with his suite, and was received by the authorities and the troops, who were drawn up in line. The Prince was dressed in the most magnificent style, as were also the principal personages of his suite. He is stated to be apparently in good, health, but his hair and beard are perfectly white. On reaching the Prefecture, where apartments had been prepared for him, he received the authorities, and after. wards went into the roads with the Admiral in his barge. On their return there was a grand dinner at the Prefec ture. He was to stay two or three days at Toulon, and afterwards, proceed by Marseilles to the baths of Vernet. The Share Market on Monday was more firm, but no ' great amount of business was transacted. The following is said to be the fall in the prices of several important lines during the last week :-Rouen declined 52f. 50c. ; Orleans to Bordeaux, and Avignon to Marseilles, 47f. 50c. each ; Boulogne, Rouen to Havre, and St. Germain, 40f. each ; Paris to Orleans, 35f; Northern, 26f. 50c. ; Montereau to Troyes and Farapoux, 25f. each ; Versailles (Left Bank), 22f. 50c. ; Strasbourg, 21f. 25c. ; Versailles (Right Bank), 10f. ; Orleans to Vierzon, 7f. 50c. The market closed as follows :-Three per Cents. fur cash, 81f. 95c., for account, 81f. ; Five per Cents. for cash, 116 e. 45c., for account, 116 f. 55c • Bank of France Shares, 3,290 f. • Neapolitan, 100 f. 50 e. ; gpanish and New Loan, not quoted. The closing quotations on many of the lines were lower than those of Saturday-Paris and Orleans leaving off at Rouen and Havre, and , 1 4 , v 100 igm f. 0 ; n, P n ar o i t s q a u n o d ted ß ; m v ie i n e , rz r , 60 . ;5E Strasbourg and Bale, 225. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 482 f. 50 c. ; Northern, 600 f. ; Bourdeaux, 560 f. ; Montereau, 430 f. But little was done in other lines. Paris and Lyons (La- Paris and Strasbourg (Definitives) a t par; Di tto (Ganne ront t ) e , ) 500f.may b ; D q c u ti o n t i ed ti v e a s t ) 502f. 54 50c- ; (Union), 508 f. 75 c . 0; f. ; Tours and Nantes (Defi nitives), 505 f. • Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 505 f. ; (Lecomte), 500 f: BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 2. Anglo-lgian - Mauritius Boulogne and Amiens.. 7 3 4 Namur and Liege 2% Bordeaux &Mediterraa - North Jamaica ... Bordeaux and Toulouse - Orleans and Vierzon Do. & Cette (Espelete) 1% Orleans and Bordeaux 9% Do. (Mackenzie's) • • 1 % Over Yasel Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris & Lyons (Laffitte) cifie Coast - Ditto (Ganneron's). - Central of Spain - Ditto (Calon'a).... e. - Ceylon . Demerara - Paris and Orleans.-- 44 ' Dendre Valley ...... - Paris and Rouen . Ditch Rhenish Dieppe & Paris Janet - (Ganneron's) Dijon and Mulhouse ... - Do. (Aymard' s ) 1 1 K 3% East Indian ........ Do. (Compt e d e L'E st) - Fainpeux & Hazebreuk - Paris and St. Quentin. - Grt Northern of France Roues and Havre...-. - Censtituted _ Royal North of Spain. - Do. Pepin le Halleur - Sambre and Meuse .... Great Paris and Lyons l% Strasburg and Basle ... - Great Western Bengal - Teurnay,Jurbiso, Lan- Great Western Canada - dent, and Hasselt... Jamaica S. Mid. Junction, - - Tours and Nante s De.Nerth - (Mackenzie's) Do. Extension Jersey - Do. (O'Neill's). ....... - Louvain and Jemappe l% Trinidad ................. Lyons and Avignon l% Verona and Ancona.... _ Luxembourg Madrid and Valencia.. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRAMPTON COURSING MEETING. A sweepstakes for sixteen dogs was won by Mr. F ox ' s Fairy, Mr. Mounsey's Tyrant ran up. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TMSDAY. THE DEREY.-15 to 2 agst Sting (t)-17 to 1 agst Bro cardo-27 to 1 agst Spithead-27 to 1 agst lago-30 to 1 agst Malcolm (t)-40 to 1 agst Aranilldc. (t)-40 to 1 agst The Traverser (0-50 to 1 agst Smuggler Bill. CHESTER Cur.-500 to 10 agst Hope-500 to 10 agst In trepid-500 to 10 agst Event—and 1,000 to 10 agst Ratan— offered against each in one bet. ROYAL SOCIETY.—The anniversary meeting of this Society was held yesterday, at their apartments in Somerset House. The Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton, President, in the chair. The royal medals were awarded to G. B. Airy, Esq., astronomer royal, for his paper " On the. Laws of the 'fides on th e coa st of Ireland, as inferred from an extensive series of observations made in connexion with the ordnance survey of Ireland ;" and to "Thomas Snow Beck, Esq., for his paper " On the Nerves of the Uterus." The Copley medal was awarded to Professor Schwann, of Louvain, for his "Physiological Researches on the Develop ment of Animal and Vegetable Textures." The President delivered his customary annual address, accompanied by notices of the distinguished deceased Fellows, after which the new Council were elected; and the Fellows of the Society and their friends dined together at the Crown and Anchor Tavern —the Marquis of Northampton presiding. The fol lowing is a list of the officers of the Council :—President— The Marquis ofNorthampton. Treasurer—George Rena e, Esq. Secretaries—Peter Mark Roget, M.D. ; Samuel Hunter Christie, Esq., M.A. Foreign Secretary—Lieutenant Col one l E. -Sabi ne , R . A. O t h er M em b ers o f the Council—John Rostock, M.D.; Sir Wm. Burnett, M.D., K.C.H. ; Charles Daubeny, 31:D.; Bryan Donkin, Esq.; Very Rev. Dean of Ely; Thomas Galloway, Esq. ; William Robert Grove, Esq., M.A.; Leonard Horner,-Esq. ; Sr John W. Lubbock, Bart, M.A. ; John F or b es B oy l e, M.D . ; Willi am Sh ar p e y, M.D . ; William Henry Smyth, Captain, R.N.; John Taylor, Esq. ; ,Charles Wheatstone, Esq..; Rev. Robert Willis, 111. A. ; Lord Wrottesley. Th e F e ll ows w h ose na mes in the preceding li s t are rinted in italic@ were not Members of the last Council. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very quiet, the sales not exceeding 2,000 bales. Prices wore rather in favour of buyers. There was a slight improvement in Shares, with rather more doing. The following Railway shares were disposed of yesterday at the auction of Messrs. Lomond, and Co., there being more inclination to purchase in new lines at low prices : Description. Paid. _ _ Dendre Valley Ditto . Sold for. 0 9 G 0 9 0 1 18 0 0 8 6 0 10 6 1 10 0 Rugby, Derby, and Manchester 2% West End and Southern Counties ... 1% Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s Isle of Ely Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire 2% Midland Irish Great Western, from. Dublin to Mullingar Ditto ditto ... Shropshire Union Railway and Canal... 42s Ditto ditto ... Irish North Midland ... 1% Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s Ditto ditto ... ... Warwick and Worcester ... 42s Over Yssel 83s 4d E xeter, Dorchester, and Weym. Coast... 42s Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 105 s Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 73 Ditto ditto ••• ••• ••• Direct Northern ... Grand Union ... ... 1% Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s Great Indian Peninsular ... 5s London and York ... North Staff., Churnet, and Potteries ... 42s Ditto ditto ... Dutch Rhenish ... . . 5 Eastern Counties—Stock No. 2 ... 938 4d Shropshire Union and Canal ... 42s Shrewsbury and Birmingham. ... 2 1 ,E Chelmsford and Bury ... .. Tean and Dove Valley Man. and Birm. Cont. and Welsh Junc. Ditto ditto London and York Ditto ••• • ••• ••• ••• North Staffah., Chumet, and Potteries, 42s Ditto ditto ••• Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22a Ditto ditto ... Leicester and Birmingham ... 22s South and Midlands Junction ... 42s London and Manchester (Remington's) 2 3 / 4 Ditto ditto ... Essex and Suffolk ... Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 105 s Chelmsford and Bury ... 1% Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s Ditto ditto ..• Northavapton,Banbury, and Chelt'ham. 2 Ditto ditto ... Somersetshire Midland ... 2% Great Eastern and Western 2% Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby ... 42s Great Indian Peninsular ... Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries 1% Kentish Coast ... 1% Eastern Counties ... ... 141 16s Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s Ditto ditto ... Ditto ditto ... Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s Warwick and Worcester ... 423 Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• Cornwall and Central Devon ... Direct Northern ... ..• Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries... 1% Scottish Midland Extension ... 1% Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s Liverpool,Manch.&Newcastle-on-Tyne 50s Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast ... 1 Calcutat and St. George's Point ... 7a Great Western of Bengal ... M Ditto ditto ... ... Great Indian Peninsular ••• Ditto ditto ••• ••• ••• Jamaica South Midland ... 1 Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 1053 Somerset Midland ... 2% Bideford and Tavistock ... 1% London, Bristol, and South Wales —. 42s Metropolitan Junction ... 2% Great Welsh Central ... 42s Leicester and Birmingham ... 22s Ditto ditto ••• ••• ••• Chelmsford and Bury ... Essex and Suffolk ... ••• Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries... Mauritius 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 11 6 1 11 6 O 15 0 O 15 0 O 19 0 O 18 6 1 3 0 1 11 6 1 2 0 2 10 0 O 9 6 O 10 0 1 15 0 1 9 0 O 10 0 0 7 6 2 18 6 5 6 0 5 5 0 6 15 0 4 16 0 1 12 6 3 8 0 1 1 6 1 6 1 3 0 1 3 0 2 18 0 2 19 0 5 7 0 5 7 0 O 18 6 O 18 6 0 18 6 018 6 1 0 0 1 8 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 19 6 2 10 0 1 0 6 O 19 0 O 18 6 1 19 0 2 0 0 1 5 6 1 16 0 1 15 0 0 18 0 O 8 0 O 17 0 0 3 6 19 10 0 O 19 0 0 19 6 1 0 0 1 5 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 I 6 1 13 0 1 18 0 1 1 0 1 9 0 O 12 6 1 3 6 219 6 O 19 6 0 9 6 0 10 6 0 11 6 0 9 0 0 18 6 1 12 0 0 10 6 O 10 6 2 13 0 1 10 6 0 15 0 O 19 0 1 15 0 O 19 6 O 18 0 0 18 6 1% 1 1 6 1% 1 0 0 1% 1 1 0 1 0 11 6 There are no arrivals in the City to-day, except the Con tinental mails, and the commercial markets are compara tively dull. The value of railway property (together with much other aseful information) is given in the "Banking Almanac and Di. rectory," and from thiait appears that Middlesex, the smallest county but one in England, is richest in railways, having an annual income from them of 960,443/. ; Lancashire stands for 593,515/. ; Surrey for 191.018/. ; Durham for 171,089/. ; Der byshire for 104,2041.; and Yorkshire for 95,510/. The total amount of railway income in 1843 was, for England and Wales, 2,417,6094, and for Scotland, 181„333/.. ; since which period a material increase must have taken place. At the date in question no less than twenty counties in England, and five in Wales, were without railways. The Stock Market still looks well, and as respects time bargains there is an improvement in the quotations. Con sols have been 94 3 / 4 to 95 for present transfer, 95% to 95% for Account. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been further reduced, being 19s. to 14s. Bank Stock has been p a v elv v:h el t i g,2ol2l%. East India Stock is worth 262. -a tzuarter per UCLIM nave ueen :toy s - ,o 95%, and the Three per Cents. 93% 93%. The Foreign Investments have been rather firmer, although with a very limited business doing. Spanish Five per Cents. are 28 ; and the Three per Cents. 37%. Mexican Bonds have been at 31% for the Actives, and 17 for the Deferred, being better. Peruvian are 34. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 58 3 A to 59%. The Share Market is tolerably firm. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Anna 9 4 34 95 94 3 4 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 lO 7-16 14% Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 l O l4 India Stock 262 South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities 93% Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1 3 Ad. 1 1 ,4 d. 1,000/. 5001. ....... ..... .., 2O 15 pm. Ditto Small — .. 20 15 pm. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Dan:sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... 86 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 31% Ditto Deferred Stock l7 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 34 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 — Ditto for the Account Ditto 3 per Cent Ditto for the-Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cents 5 84 59% 58% Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 913/4 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER S, HARE. Aberdeen Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin... ..... Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% — to Aylesbury anti Theme ... 1% — Belfast & County Down Bideford and Tavistock .. ... 1%..... Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ......124 Ditto New Shares Birmingham and Oxford Junction Birmingham and Deicester Direct — — .... to Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s .. — to Bridgewater and Minehead... 425...... Bristol and Exeter 7O Ditto New 2 ....... 6% to Bristol and Gloucester 3O Bristol and Liverpool Junct. 2% to Buckinghamshire 425. Caledonian Ditto Extension Cambrian Grand Junction ... Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1%...... 3 1 / 2 1 4... to Ditto. New Cambridge and Oxford l% to Canterbury and Dover 1...... Central Kent 2% to Chelmsford and Bury .., ..... lx — ...... t . Chester and Holyhead ls Chester and Manchester Cheltenham and Oxford ...... 2 Clydesdale Junction.-- ...... 5 Cork, Blackreck, and - Pauages 225. . ... to Cork and Xillarney 2% . .... to Cork and Waterford 1%...... Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir., and Leicester l l4 — to Dartmouth, Torbay, & Exeter 425. Derby, Gain;boro', and Great Grimsby 1%...... Derby, Uttexeter, and Staff'd 2 %...... Direct Manch. (Remington's) 2T 4 — to Ditto (Ritckstrick's) Pirect Northern. .. 2%„.... 1%.. . ... to to Direct Norwich Dublin and A tmagh .... ...... 1% — to Dublin and Belfast Junction 5 Dublin, Belfast ,and Coleraine 2% Dublin and Ga lway Dudley, Madely, & Broseley 2% — ... „ to Dundalk andEn niskillen ...... 2% — to Eastern Countie s Do. New 6l. 16s, 6 p .. .. to Do. Perpet. 5 p er Ct. No. 1. 61.13 s 4d 3 4 p...... to Ditto, ditto, Na. 2. .. 41. 13s. 4d — ...... to East Dereham ai ld Norwich 1 Eastern Union Ditto v t Shares Ditto Extension Ditto Ipswich an d Bury ... 1 DittoExtensiont °Norwich 2 1 A Ditto Cambridge and Ely 2 1 A — to East Lincolnshire.. East and West of 1 , :ngland... 1% — ...... to Edinburgh and Gla igow 5O ..... 65 ...... to Ditto 4 Shares... ......... Ditto New 1 % Shit] Ts Edinburgh and Nort hero-- 1 1 4 to Edinburgh and Pert h lq to Ely and Hunting& m 5. Enniskillen and Stip ► ... 2%...... .. .. to Essex and Suffolk.... ... 1% ON is Exeter, Dorchester, at id Wey mouth 42s. ...... ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, &Do rchester 2% — ...... to Gloucester, Aharystwi tb, and Central of Wales . . . l% to Goole andDoncaster... GrandJ unction , 100 Ditto 1 ,4 Shares Ditto Quarter Share 5...... 25 GrnclUnion(Notting.ScLynn) 1% 1504% to Great Eastern and Western.. 2% GreatGrimsby andSheflield... 5 Great South and W.(lrish) ... 15 Ditto Extension Great Munster 21,4 — Great North of Scotland 2% to Great North of England...... 100 Ditto New .. Ditto New Great Western Ditto, llaif Shares ... ...... 50 ...... 87 Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto Fifths Guildford, Fareham, Foams, 2% — to Harwich Hull and Selby ... 50 lO2 ..... to 100 Ditto Quarters . Ditto, Half Shares Inverness and Elgin Ipswich, Norwich, and Yar mouth Irish North Midland l% ... .. to Isle of Axlielme 2 5 43 - Killarney Junctions .. 14 — to Kendal and Windermere 1 1,! — to Lancaster and Car1i51e......... 30 ...... 41 ex n to Larne, Belfast, & Ballymena 2%...... to Leeds and Carlisle ...: ...... .. 2% — to Leeds and IVest Riding June. IAI — ...... to Leicester and Birmingham... 22e. Leicester and Bedford 22s. M p... to % p Leicester and Tamworth 423....... Liverpool and Manchester...100 Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters ...... ..... ... 25 ...... Liverpool and Leeds Direct... 2%...... Liverpool, Manchester, and NowcastleJunction London and Birmingham ...100 2lO ...... to 215 Ditto Thirds . Ditto 4 Shares Ditto Fifths Ditto Extension London & Blackwell... 161. 13s. 4d 9 ...... to 8 3 / 4 Do. New l l, — to Do. Extension London and Brighton Ditto Consolidated Bths 35 Ditto, Sixths Ol, . ... London and Croydon 131. 15s. 9d. lB% 4 to 19 Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 8 ...... London, Cheltenham, Oxford, Gloucester, and Hereford... 13 ' 1 London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d — Ditto Preference lBll7s 2d... London, Hounslow, &Western 2 . .... London and South Western.. 41% — .. ... to Do. New consolidated Bths.. 20 Ditto New .. Do. New London and South Essex 2 3 /1 — to London and Y0rk....... ... 2% 3N%% to London and Windsor Lon.,Warwck, Kidderminster 2%...... 2 London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% — to Londonderry and Coleraine... 5 Londonderry and Enniskillen 5 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters Ditto Sixteenths ...........4 1 4 Manchester and Birmingham 40 Ditto Quarters Ditto New Quarters Do. Continuation & Welsh Junction IN to Manch, Buxtm, & Matlock 425. Manchester, Birmingham, and Manchester & Rugby Direct Mould Junction Manchester and Southampton 2 Midland 100 .....142 .... . to 141 Ditto Fifths Ditto, New Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ll3 ...... to Midland and Eastern Counties 1% — to Midld. Great Western (Irish) 2 l i i Do. Extension (No. I ) ... 2% Newcastle &Darlington June. 25 — to Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Newcastle, Durham, and Lan. cashire Junction l% to Newport and Abergavenny . 21/ 2 — New Ross and Carlow 225.. — Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2% — ...... to Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 2% 2 V A 3 /4 to Norfolk Extension North British . ... 17% 2l Ditto New B l /2 Do. Extension to Carlisle... 14...... ... Do. Extens. to Dalkoith ... 5 ...... North Devon North of Norfolk Northern and Eastern 45 Ditto Scrip 35 Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto Neer North Kent & Direct Dover 2% 2N to North Staffordshire 42s. . ... 34 1 / i p to North Wales 3 1,4 .... -- '- - to North and South Wales and Worcester ••• • •• North. & South. Comiosting — to Norwich and Brandon l6 ...... ..... to Ditto New ditto Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Boston IN 1%..... .. to Notting.,ErewshVal.,&Mane. 1% Nottingham and Mansfield... ..... .. Oxford, Gosport, Portsmouth, and Southampton 42s. Oxford and Worcester Oxfrd, IV itney, & Cheltnham 1 .. i 4 orth :mil Itivorno•e Pilbrow Atmospheric Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre 5O Ditto, Half Shares Reading, Guildford, & Reigate 425. — Richmond _ . ... Rugby, Derby, & Manchester 2% 1%...... to -- Rugby and Huntingdon Rugby, Leamington, ana Warwick Scottikill Central Scottish Midland ... _l t 4 — to Sheffield and Manchester ...100 - to Ditto 1 ,4 Shares _ ... 8 Shrews.,Wolyer.,Dud.,l3irm. 2 1 ,4...... 3% ... to Shropshire Mineral Shropshire Union . 42s. ... .. IA dis to Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2% — to Shrewsbury, "Tolverhampton, and S. Staffordsh. Junction ..... to Sligo and Shannon Some r s e t shire Midland _ _ South Devon ... 25 .. to South Midland South Staffordshire Junction 2% South Eastern and Dover ... 33%...... 35 Ditto New, No. 1 -- Ditto, New, N 0.2 - Ditto New, No. 4. Southampton, Macchester, and Oxford Junction. St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction Staines and RichmoNd.... SLiffordshire and Shropshire South Wales Taw Vale Extension Teen and Dove Valley l% to I'rent Va11ey..... ............ .. 2 Trent Val. & Holyhead June. 2% - t. Tring, Reading, & Basingstoke 04 — to lilverstone and Hurnees — ... . Vale of Neath Warwick and Cheltenham ... 2% — to Warwick and Worcester 425....... Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick • 7 1 / 4 . .. to Waterford,Wexford,Wicklw, and Dublin Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia Waveney Valley .. 2 Welch Midland West Cornwall West Yorkshire West London, Old Shares ... 20 West End & South. Counties 1 1 / 4 to Wexford and Carlow Wiabeach and St. Ives 2 - Wilts, Somerset, & Sthamptn 1%... .. Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 2%...... 3 1 4 4 to Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Worcester,Tinbury, &Ludlow — to Wrster, Shrews. & Crewe Un. 1% ..... to Worcester and South Wales.. 425. — Worcester,Warwick,& Rugby 425. — Yarmouth and Norwich ...... 20 Ditto, New... . .. 17 York and Carlisle - York and Lancaster York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Scarboro' Branch Ditto, Selby 2O Ditto. Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes Boulogne and Amiens 8 ...... 7% to Bordeaux and Mediteranean .2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Mackenzie's` 2 - Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Espelete's) Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 Central of Spain ... Ceylon .... sa. Demerara. Dendre Valley Dijon and Mulhouse 2 . _ Dutch Rhenish East Indian Eastern Belgian Junction.... 2% ...... Fampoux and Hazebrouk..... 2 Great Northern of France Constituted Great I'aris and Lyons 2 Great Western Bengal 56. Great Western Canada Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Jamaica North Midland 1 Ditto Extension Jersey 1 Louvain and Jemeppe Lyons and Avignon 2 Luxembourg Madrid and Valentia Mauritius 1 Namcr and Liege 4 ... 2% to North Jamaica 1 Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 ..... , 9% to Over Yssel 413 s 4d.... • Paris and Lyons( Laffitte) ... 2 Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 3 ... Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 . ... Paris and Lyons (Sud Est)... 2 Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris& Strasburg( Gannern's) 2 Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2 Ditto (Ayusards) Paris and St. Quentin 2 ...... to -- ...... .., Rouen and Havre l 2B ........... —. . .to --- Royal North of Spain Sambre and Meuse - Strasburg and Bale ..... - _....... St. Laurence and Atlantic.... - Tournav, Jurbise, Landen, and kasselt - . to --- Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 4 ...... • to Ditto Ditto (Lefebvre's)... 2 ...... - Do. (O'Neill's) .... ....... ... 2 ...... to Trinidad ........ ........... 2 1 / . ••• ‘2 . • .... -' Verona and Ancona 3 ...... -- West Flanders MINES. ' British Iron Scrip ... ... - - ...... to -- Galvanised Iron Real del Monte, Unregistered ..... 3 3 / 4 ...... to ---- JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster. .. 20 - National of Ireland 2O ...... 19%... .. to -- LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY', Q LONDON, DEc. 3.—Wind this day at noon, .-- - w light " breeze and cloudy. , Q u ebec. OFF MARGATE, DEC. I.—Lord Metcalf e, Fors t er, . from DEAL, DEC. 2.—Wind W.N.W., moderate.--Arrelmea, Vas river, Brothers, Reid, Madras; Ann Grant, B=others, Bombay; Sir John Rae Reid, Dyson, St. liitts; Hire, Quebec. Vid • I C $ P 4 M PoRTSOUTII, DEC. 2.—Sld. Port Fleetwood, er, of Good Hope. .. COWES, DEC. 2—Arrd. Swiss Boy, Perkins, Mat4llssl. OFF SIVANAGE Nov. 30.—Isabella, Queb ec. SW DARTMOUTH,DEc. 2.—Arrd. Mary Ann, Adams, foundland. . n .„ t ; g Odle: ~.1 BEAUMARIS, Nov. 30.—Arrd. Thompson' .*'''-'°. ° l „, 11 , " - NV MT E 1-1 AV EN , DEC. I.—Wind W.N.W., a g"" --- Harman, Landel, Quebec. 0 (Pi c a .. CORK, Nov. 29.—Arrd. Lady of the Lake, Jara e , - 1 HP bee. 30.—Duke of Gordon, Bissett, An firs Pecla`i":" port, Express, Clarke, Valparaiso; Ellerslie, DalhousO• fro rn PORT TALnor, DEC. 2.—The Olive-branch, P. l.cli v , t ), 14 Plymouth to Newport, was wrecked near Porta' o rge instant ; master and mate drowned ; saved in a damaged state. g 10 0 1 GALWAY, Nov. 29.—The Lara, Roderick, from - $ 1 ,4 sad to this port, came on shore on Mutton Island last n i g" far remains; crew Nov nearly all the tie/ ARBROATH, Nov. 29. The William, of N rot-, of this port, was lost on the banks of the Tay last nig"" te SHIELDS,wo men drowned. , t,,, P I DEC. I.—The Java, Wilson, from Ygr,i l soe - Newcastle, has been in contact on this coast 10 ,111.- ..., • Bell, of London, and received damage. ~,,e6 LLANELLY, DEC. 2.—The John Barry, Liken, s ee sea to Cork, in making this harbour last night duri>egir• „ A ut. gale, got on shore on Cape Patrick sands, but was pr k i, after discharging part of cargo,and brought into tbis 0 t he th e ALDBOROUGH, DEc. 2.—The Cyrus, of Whitby, AP 40 tlt Russells, of Arundel, were in contact this morni n g t v ria° - latter lost bowsprit ; both vessels have gone to -$ t he Roads. ia HULL, DEC. 2.—A Norwegian barque is repo Humber, with loss of rudder, ice. , MARKET NEWS.-(THIMI CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNB Y ,Ii. The supply of English Wheat was somewhat allalredaseilt of very inferior quality. The finest parcels of W l ' Di i t white moved off steadily, at full rates of c urrencY:w h est, kinds exceedingly little was doing. Free Foreign; 07ge, quantity of which offering was by no means jp 'iv a slow inquiry, though at full prices- , ce , under lock scarcely a transaction took Pl a t f aslwr, quantity of Barley on offer was large. The be ba ps parcels were quite as dear, other kinds hung 014 oats !' Malt, a steady business was doing, at late rates. at full prices, but Beans and Peas had a downwalu ARRIVALS. 9 07 Oat , I Barley. 25° -rj . 1,510 qrs. 9,460 Wheat. 1,650 qrs. English .• • • • • Irish Foreign .. • • •• kalt. 1.500 qrs. WBITECHAPEL. , n of , i ,OO ll/111 We had a full average supply of each "'" d u 0 1 2 4 11 Generally speaking, the demand ruled firm, A ourq 6 d; Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s iid; Mutton, 3s 6d to 42 45 to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per Blbs. COMMON PLEAS.-(THI.- ‘l. - 11 CRIB[CON.—CLARKE V. DUNSFOR Dp • The trial of this case was resumed this morn .6aist;ll ry, at three o'clock, returned a verdict for the Ptbo Damages, 5,0001. We shall give the particulan s o f in our next edition. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER' (THIS DAY.) AO. THE PIRACY AND MURDER Ctr a doli, esC ), The majority of the Judges of the Courts of w il- i, l orala Common Pleas, and Exchequer, assembled this Sergeants' Inn, for the purpose of hearing the 0 :40e:ot civilians against the conviction in the case el` r t th e murder which was tried before Mr. Baron Pl att ' $ Exeter assizes. „ As o, or Sir Joseph Dodson, Dr. Melvin, and Mr. „u7 c iirig , appeared for the Crown, and Dr. Adams, Dr. P e i ,tr geant Manning, and Mr. Denison, for the prise lle „dedi Dr. ADAMS opened the argument, and come o f oo first instance, that the prisoners had been guilty .6000 piracy. Piracy was particularly defined in the f ,e ' o eiv o ir ties between this country and the Brazilian G O ' t hose well as in several Acts of Parliament confirmingoog te ties ; but he was sure these prisoners had done ne t e ffefie s of could justify their being charged with the Acts fit piracy, within the meaning of those t p h ri e j , treaties, and therefore he was prepared to urge t.' he eidade was wrongfully seized. But supposing '. to ter 4 $r had been guilty of the offence of piracy, the s , ° „ l " r ed reif, Felicidade, he maintained, had not been carn o eelitr cordance with the provisions of the Acts of par 0 0 1 1 , forming to the instructions issued to the Royal 1• 114 ;',1',0 eel treaties which existed 1,a...cc,. this vuuntrY = b treaties Those Acts ...a instructions required that the ea1 1 ,, - f,r - jo e not be made by an officer in the Royal Nevi -,, 0- J r, than a lieutenant, but here the capture had hef. - 0,1 0 . 5 0 4: the Echo, which was only under the command of coore man' The Echo, however, it was said, must be „,,, p , ri lf e in the light of a tender or a jolly boat of the 1 ,7 0 1 14 0 0 , was under the command of a lieutenant in the namely, Lieutenant Stupart. Now, upon the 1,0 O le , 1 sion, a case was cited to their Lordships !wire et disposed of this point; but he could not Lordships that there were many subsetlev 90 1 4 upon the point. There was, for instance , o ot , 0 0, the Jepharina, in Hazle's Reports, which clearlf e ., s ot, that a tender or jolly-boat, commanded by aLieutentigel, not make a capture, or participate in the ed ° o rtie s d capture of this sort. Well, then, he said these P, justified, by the law of nations, in taking the sterijiLke, to regain their ship, and obtain their liberty piecoee that they had concocted a plot to murder all t, ll° „ to ! II :pi:, board the Felicidade, but they did concert a P'e" 0 0 .70! be v necessary steps to recover their vessel, and t - re pl i feet right to do so. In carrying out that plan t - t hisL o so e : sued, and this alleged murder took place. B li Loess not render them accountable to the English ' r .,4 the Felicidade, having been wrongfully seized , ilian Brazilian vessel, sailing under the P rs ' s j or , tr and they committed the act without uto le e r ro r prepense, but simply to carry out a E ti l Ati e covering that which had been taken 0 ,7 4 bsr o f violation of the law of nations. That point , tP to is, 7.0 0 posed of, the next question for him to co nsider, t he r- 4 % these parties had committed any offence agai nst her Majesty. Now it could not be an offeence o atai peace of the British Sovereign, because it was 11 ,%iiee o f e r on board a British vessel, or within the jurist° pa rt o chl . ; Court of Admiralty; and he should dismiss tit s e ° argument without further comment or rental . '" 01 ,- RO P o i sion, he submitted to their Lordships that thes e s tew( been wrongfully captured and detained, and the the of" tock to recover their liberty was justified hY or h e o e eti nations, and by no means prohibited by the tr e a this country and the Brazils. ce a l l o t Dr. HARDING followed on the same side. — e ar,' yo' that the prisoners had been guilty of no effe lle „ e r tita,,'o law of nations, not even supposing they had - A hig,,L, er.„ o engaged in the slave-trade, because slave tra",, ri .j v piracy, nor was it contrary to the law of nat ic ' e „ gili lt t e tif'of - submitted to their Lordships that they had bee n T e o offence under or by reason of the treaties oti e , o re England and the Brazils, and therefore they 7_,t 41 nt" • dir'" and wrongfully captured; in fact, captured In e rge,,Aic A, of the treaties themselves. He followed up 0. 0 4 rj protesting that they were not within the crinn°7 o i, of the British empire ; and concluded by alle„ o t Walla ° mitting they had committed an offence Aga': the nations, it was of ranch less importance 01° ' creli murder. t of o e Sir JOSEPH DonsoN then replied on the par at t __g He said it was contended on the other side, 01 ', oho e d Felicidade had not slaves on board at the On deeei Ace'" off the coast of Africa she was not liable to be hip% 44 dealt with as a pirate, but if their L e ,' bee IV A refer to an Act of Parliament which .",!„ Y0 9 ; e0 .J,, quoted in the course of the inquiry, tu o e figth v a str this was not the case. The Act was the 7th an : h it 131 !'" 4 ,1 which, together with the treaty itself to WhLi c ee tal l y 17:70 tion, eclared that after the expiration oft u r 0 0 0 9 1107 the ratification of a treaty, -which had just Pr i g s it ro r, entered into between thif country and the finP e olc f . not be lawful for the subjects of the the to oer . A Brazil to be engaged in carrying °° ) ,. 4 1 ty trade, under any pretence, or in any f i l l , ev Their Lordships would observe the terms oo r W, t the Act under any circumstances or in any nte n —fisi e rrstit i o , He should maintain, then, that under their Pr u no iteJf" c o , parties were pirates, and Lieutenant Stupart wae_2,;tare in deeming them as such, and directing their uii e tigeg,'', ingly. By the first article of the convention ; ilis o 2 0 d .f r, cruisers were empowered to seize nr e e l t ,oelerP that might be suspected of having been or 1?, b p ort s (0 10, the slave-trade, and take them into & Wit' s es el if e j be,2 amination. If, upon that examination, the Te i , mi rd, 4 .00, to be a slaver, and to have had slaves on ',,7 1 this fitS liable to condemnation; and if it were 00 1 Y " Itr t lra' e e" alone, he should contend that Lieutenant Stu se of fled in capturing the Felicidade for the Pure nation. SECONDARIES._(Tni s , 1 Pl' 0' (Before Mr. Secondary For 9 1 . ket MATTHEWS V. IRISH, Ste' t o O _Ay., This was an action brought to recover the 5 a f life -f riot l l for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff O ho deti t el l e d t ll° and metal dealer in Crooked lane, city, an d , t t plow is a sadler in Clement's-lane, Cit 'Th defeat.- t - y. e the 0 he was never indebted. etr e- t 0 ti From the evidence for the plaintiff it aPP the olds ' e sa, November last the defendant and G. J. Irish , , the ti . r l . l y th, an order for some goods, which were sup Plied I ra ide o/1 1 d afterwards. Only one witness, however, c ould t er ' al. defendant, and he said that he knew th e' ern the fan_ 4 se" there was such a strong resemblance betweenba be P t , pa o l t ; son that they were not easily known aPs r ‘ ro ivise d i3O 0 1 o f defendant; several times, and he always P lie d, yr-,,,„a , For the defendant, however, his son was the hos,iss,At that he had dealt with Mr. Matthew* ~ es be ,At 101-0 the plaintiff for ten years—his father did and did Sole sadler, carrying on business in Holborn , 9 0 18 41 ;70 it 0 such goods. Moreover, he gave up business !, who 'he he was continually in Holborn, or at with either' wit , sinker, in Clement's-lane, and assisted eit u 1 1:PI . 1 th . •I share in the business. The accuracy of the witness was _ d fi s to , gi, ho questiolle had bev'ingt tity, but he swore positively, although n otic e ° wo w -- .. in the earl part of the proceedings that th Y ot 0 00 0 F wrong arty,p and defendant's son admit gat ee ge tl° ea / fel . The SECONDARY said that it did not m Goods ; •-do it was, it depended on who ordered the ,I t tled, Pra fret clear that, after the last account was 1 t, be .4. ordered by a person sworn to as the fiefs an d a stid t tbe s tdt a The jury stopped the summing Up for satisfied, and gave a verdict fur the v aintD. A. 040 0 cla im w ad the only ease possessing the slightest 13 ANKi (Befor e