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 erders of Parliament. By order, DUDLEY BYRNE, Secretary. 63, Moorgate-street, Dee. 2, 1845. L ONDON AND YORK RAILWAY AXTISIGION AND BRANCH LINES. The Shareholders are hereby informed that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Referenee hare been duly deposited with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks of the Peace, to conformity with the standing orders of Parliament, lb respect of the Wakefield and Leeds Exten sion, the Hertford, the St. Alban's, Luton, ant Dunstable, and the Stamford and Spalding branch lines. By order of the Committee of Direction, J. R. O W TT, Secretary. Oilicec 4 N 0.7, Lethbnry, Loudon, Dec. 2, 184.5. D ORKING, BRIGHTON, and ARUNDEL RAILWAY. The Afabating Committee have great pleasure In announcing to the Shirr balers that the Plans, Sections; and Book of Reference have been duly depositeill with the Board of Trade and Clerks of the Peace for Surrey altd 81133E1, as required by the standing orders of Par liament. By order of the Beard, R. FCRNER, Sec. pro. tem A delit'de Hotel, London-bridge, Dec. 2, 1845. RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER RAILWAY. The SbarohOlden of this Company are informed that the Gazette and Newspaper notle,s have been duly given, and that the Plans, Sectioaa, Books of Reference, gra., have been duly deposited with the Clarks of the Peace for the counties through which the line runs, and with the Board of Trade. GEORGE WET.LER, Solicitors of the Company. GEORGE PELL, jun.,} g, IC:nes-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 h a ve 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 some months Invested at interest, and that arrangements are in pro prees for leasing the Line to the South-Western Railway Company, upon terms highly advantageous to the interests of the Shareholders. By order, 32, Moorgate-stmt, December 1,1845 J. C. COVET r, gocretars. GREAT 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 Machypileth, with a Branch to Cardigan, and also of the Branch Line from Machynlleth to Newtown, have been deposited in clue time at the Board of Trade, and with the several Clerks of the Peace for the counties of Carmathen, borough of Carmathen, Pembroke, Cerdigan. 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 snbseribed Capitel 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 tics underta , ing, which generally, and espe cially in the Principality, has received so large a share of the public favc ur and confidence. By order of the Com - tate, London, Dec. 3, 1845. CAPRI, DANBURY, Secretary AMALGAMA PION of the CHELMSFORD and BIXBY and ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY COMPANIES. The Committees of Management of the above Companies have great pleasure in informing their respective Shareholders that, all difficulties havingbeen at length surmounted, the Companies are now amalgamated. the separate Committees ofManagement being combined in one 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 omsiderable 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-Chatrraan of the united Company, and John Miller, Eq., 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 fir 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, Suffolk. 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 tParliament, namely, tkat entitled " Chelmsford and Bury Railway," and bearing the name of John Miller, YAK., as engineer. ROBERT BEVAN, Chairman. THOMAS GREENWOOD, Deputy-Chairman. Company's °flees, 61, Meorgate 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 ; Notice is hereby given, that the set of Plans and Sections, entitled the Chelmsford and Bury Railway (with Extension to Thetford) and Eraaclies, and that set only, will be carried before Parliament. ROBERT BEVAN, Chairman. THOMAS GREENWOOD, Deputy-Chairman. Company's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street, Dec. 2, 1845. JOHNSON, MAToR.—The FIRST COURT, held 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 presented 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 tertalamonts, by which he maintained the ancient hospitality of this city ; for the punctuality 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 citteens of London. DIEREWMTHEIt. THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE. TII IS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera, in three acts, called MARITANA. Charles the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Don Cmsar De Bazan, Mr. W. Parri.loll; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. H. Philllps ; Maritana, Miss Romer ; Lawn), Miss Poole. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Ballet, called THE DEVIL TO PAT, in whloh Mons. Bretin, Mdlle. Flora Fabbri, Pubes (of the Academie Royale, Paris), Mdlle. Louise, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mons. Delferier, Mr. Howell, and Mr. Wieland will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONBERTS. LAST WEEK BUT TWO. PROGRA3iME FOR THIS EVENING. PART I. Overture, " William Tell"—Rossini. Quadrille, from Verdi's Opera of " Ernani"—Jullien. Duette for Pianoforte and Violin, performed by Master Day and Miss Day—Be llinl. The Original Valse, A Deux-terns--Jullien. Solo, Oboe, by M. Barret—Barret. Symphony, The Andante, from llaydn's Surprise Symphony—Haydn Junkies Now Quadrille, The British Navy—Jullien. PAItT 11. Opera, " Robert Le Diablo," Grand Selection, with Solos —llleyerbeer. Valse, • Deux-tems (Second Set), The Bridal—Jullien. Solo, Concertina, by Mr. Case—Case. The Imperial Polka—Jullien. Solo, Violin, Master Day—De Beriot. Tin Original Napolitaine ; or, Tarentella des Salons—Jullien. Commence at Eight precisely; terminate before Eleven. Promenade and Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. Ed. If. Jullien's Grand Ball Masque is fixed to take place we Monday, December 22. The Audience portion of the Theatre will, as before, be set apart for Spectators. Prices of Admission for Spectators :—Dress Circles, es.; Boxee, ss. ; Galleries, 2s. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY3IARKET. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an Original Comedy, called THE MAIDEN A'INT. Sir Simon Sage, Mr. W. Farrell; Percy Sage, Mr. Hod eon ; Mrs. Sarah 'Wilmot, Mrs. Glover; Catherine Wilmot, Mrs. Ikeyrisonr._ After which, will be repeated an entirely New Farce, called THE MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFB. Mr. Ally Croaker, Mr. Webster; Margaret, Mrs. Ilumby. To ta• followed by a New and Original Farce, called RAILWAY BuriaLEs. Gorman Hudson, Mr. Hudson, Ellen Seyton, Miss Seyton. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND L Period, 1691. Perkin Pysfinch, Mr. Bucludone ; Jessie Donald, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELFHI. TUTS EVENING PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE VIOLET. Andre, Mr. Waßeek; Trengaet, Mr. Granby ; Armand, Mr. Leigh Murray ; Marchioness d'Oreille, Mrs. Fosbroke ; Blanchette, Mrs. Stirling; Blanehe, Miss May. To be followed by A MAN WITHOUT A HEAD. To which will be added THE BRIGAND. After which, a New Farce, entitled JACK O'LOTH SIDES. John Tweddale, Mr. Oxberl7. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be produced a New Two Aet Comedy, entitled WHO IS SHE 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. In which Mr. 'Walter Lacey and Miss Kate lloward will perform. After which, THE BOYHOOD OF BACCHITS. The Boy Bacchus, Mies Kate Howard ; Momus, Mr. G. Wild. To conclude with THE RAILWAY KING. Sam Stag, Mr. G. Wild ; Sally Slop, Miss Kato Howard. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be perforated THE LAST OF THE BARONS; or, Warwick, The Rinq Maker, and the Battle of Barnet. New Scenes of the Circle, combining the talent of the French and English Artistes. Will he repented THE GREEN HUSHES; or, A Hundred Tears Age. In which Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker ; 3lrs. Yates, and Mrs. Pitzwilliain will perform. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woelgar, Madame Celeste, &c, will perform. To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT. To conclude with WAR IN CHINA. NEW NOVEL, EDITED ET MRS. GORE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T" QUEEN OF DENMARK. AN HISTORICAL NOVEL. Edited by Mrs. GORE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 3. THER3IOBIETEE, Lowest, 35; Highest, 48; Noon, 36. BARON TER, 25.58. WIND W.; fino sunshiny woather. BUM WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 15 minutes after 4 1 Evening • • 39 minutes after 4. authority, and which that Government knows England never can yield. The Chronicle has administered but sorry comfort to the seller of railray scrip, frightened by the visions which the Times as conjured up, of attorneys, and actions, and denunciations from the judgment seat. Mr. GLADSTONE'S Registration Act has mach 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 ontitkd, 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 hare obtained a certificate of complete registration, and until any such subscriber or person shall hare been day 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 t©n pounds." If the Chronicle is right in applying this clause to railway companies, we think the Gnllaiit Admiral to whom in his provisional-ecmmittee-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 nut 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 them 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, arid 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 registra tration" of shareholders in the Registry-office is de scribed in clauses 7 and 11 of the Act. Clause 11 provides for half-yearly returns of new shareholders to the Registry-office from "the directors of every joint stock company completely registered under this Act, except companies which aka?' have been incorporated by Act of Parliament after 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 applying to Parliament, in which (allowing the ut 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 fin 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 limairsost 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 KEPIPSON 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 iu 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 moat 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 DUNDONALD 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 NVO 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. DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. W THIS EVENING ill be performed a New Drama, THE MINUTE GUN AT SEA. SuPPorted Mr'. Vinin 1 37 Means. Hughes, Hicks, Cowell, Heelop, Fredericks, , and Martin. To conclugde with THE FACTORY BOY. Supported by Messrs. Rogers, Hughes, Cowell, Mrs. Vining. Miss Martin, and Mrs. Daly. ROTAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, THE TOWER OF LONDON ; or, The Death Omen and the Fate of Lady Jane Grey. Supported by Mr. Osbaldiston, F. Saville, Mae Vincent, Miss Richardson, Ifio Eliza Terry. &c. To conclude with JAPHET fl SEARCH OF A FATHER. STOPPAGE OF NEW OXFOR.To TREET.—Yester bet:in:conuorrlboedrnto and day, in consequence of some accidents Zvi foot passengers in the new street, is; l io ic n l e e r s s , her Majesty's ceums men Oxford-street , by the passage of the nu there being no paved footway, of Woods and Forests gave directions that at each up u t o o f the new street a barrier should be immediately set vent the thoroughfare of vehicles. The y will remain ther e till the houses which are now being bu il t on either side of the street are completed. The stone pavement will be laid down. FIEE.—NARROW ESCAPE FOR RAILWAY SPECU 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, alongwith the plans and specifications for no fewer than ten new railways lying in the office, all of which must have been pat a stop to for the time had the necessary do cuments not been discovered and rescued. These were con tained in a tin box, which was got out without much in jury'. The fire having been observed in time, it was extin hitd before doing much d amage , b e y on d th e b urn i ng o f thhe floor i ng of the house.—Glasgow Chronicle. Such Is the excitement in railway matters (says the cerrsegondent of the Glasgow A being 10nd s enlK asked b friend A rgun), that a gentleman you terea „ Y a who met him„" How do The Madrid papers of the 25th ult. are chiefly occa. pied with the elections, which appear to be going onk 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 at 35 15-16. The Fives were not quoted. Lyons and Avignon.— 1 Luxembourg— Madrid and Valencia... -- The Paris papers contain Po 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 progres3 in reclaiming the rebellious tribes, and that the communications between simnel important THE SUN, LONDON, WiiIDNIESDAY _EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1845._ cltions are still interrupted. Several of the journals contain articles on the Oregon question ; and the Jour nal des .Debats, the organ of the Government, has at length spoken out on the subject. It denies 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, b© obliged to maintain them, to their full extent, in his Message to the Congress. " The difference of opinion between the two Cabinets," says that journal, " are very great. President Pala doubtless, in virtue of pledps given at the timo of his election, inserted in his inauguration Message, the most solemn document that can omanate from him, a passage which nothing had rendered maces- sary, and which declared the extreme opinion of the Western States. The English Cabinet was moved at this unexpected incident in the negotiation ; S:r 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 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 were rather in favour of buyers. There was a slight improvement in Shares, with rather more doing. The f.llowing Railway shares were disposed of yesterday at the auction of Messrs. Dimond, and Co., there being more inclination to purchase in new lines at low prices : Description. Paid. Dendre Valley ... ... ... ... ... 2 Ditto . . -- •• • ••• -•••-• Rugby, Derby, and Manchester ... ... 2% West End and Southern Counties ... 1% Calcutta and St. George's Point ... ... 7s Isle of Ely Wisbesch, and Lincolnshire 2% Midland Irish Great Western, from Dublin to Mullingar ..• ... ... 2% 20 0 Ditto ditto ... ..• 2 0 0 Shropshire Union Railway and Canal,- 42s 111 6 Ditto ditto ... ... 111 6 Irish North Midland ... ••• ... ... 1% 015 0 , 0 15 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0 Ditt o ditto ..• 018 6 Warwick and Worcester ..• ••• ... 425 1 3 0 Over Yssel ... ... ••• ... ... ... 83s 4d 111 . 6 Exeter,Dorchester, and Weym•Ceast... 42s 1 2 0 Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 105 s 210 0 Calcutta and St. George's Point ... ... 75 0 9 6 Ditto ditto ••• ••• ••• 010 0 Direct Northern ... ... ... ... ... 2% 115 0 Grand Union ... ... ... ... ... ... I% 1 9 0 Calcutta and St. George's Point ... is 010 0 Great Indian Peninsular ... ... ••• 5s 0 7 6 London and York ... ... ... ... ... 2% 218 6 North Staff., Churnet, and Potteries ... 42a 5 6 0 Ditto ditto ... 5 5 0 Dutch Rhenish ... .. . . ... ... 5 615 0 Eastern Counties—Stock No. 2 ... ... 93s 4d 416 0 Shropshire Union and Canal ... ... 42s 112 6 Shrewsbury and Birmingham. ... ... 2 1 ,4 38 0 Chelmsford and Bury ... ... ... .. 1:74 1 1 6 Term and Dove Valley ... ... ... ... 1% 1 1 6 Man. and Birm. Cont. and Welsh Junc. IN 1 3 0 Ditto ditto ... 1 3 0 London and York ... ... ... ... ... 2% 218 0 Ditto ••• •• ••• ••• ••• 219 0 Noyth Staffer., Churnet, and Potteries, 428 5 7 0 Ditto ditto ••• 5 7 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ••• 22s 018 6 Ditt o ditto ... 018 6 Leicester and Birmingham ... ... ... 225 018 6 0 18 6 1 0 0 South and Midlands Junction ... ... 42s 1 8 0 London and Manchester (Remington's) 2% 2 0 0 Ditto ditto ... 2 1 0 Essex and Suffolk ... ... ... ... 1% 0 19. 6 Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 105 s 210 0 Chelmsford and Bury ... ... ••• ... 1% 1 0 6 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0 Ditto ditto ... 018 6 Northampton,Banbury, and Cheltliam. 2 119 0 Ditto ditto ... 2 0 0 Somersetshire Midland ... ••• ... 2% 1 5 6 Great Eastern and Western .. ... 2% 116 0 Ditto ..• ••• ••• ••• ••• -- 115 0 Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby ... 42s 018 0 Great Indian Peninsular ... ... ... 1 4 0 8 0 Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries 1% 017 0 Kentish Coast ... .. ••• ... ... I% 0 3 6 Eastern Counties ... .. • ... ... 14/ 16s 19 10 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0 Ditto ditto ... 019 6 Ditto ditto ... 1 0 0 Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42e 1 5 0 Warwick and Worcester ... ... ... 425 1 1 0 Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• 1 1 0 Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• 1 2 6 Cornwall and Central Devon ... .. 2% 113 0 Direct Northern ... ••• •.. ... ... 2% 118 0 Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries... 1 % 11 0 Scottish Midland Extension ... ... 1% 1 9 0 Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 012 6 Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 3 6 Liverpool,Mancle& Newcastle-on-Tyne 508 2 19 6 Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast ... .. 1 019 6 Calcutat and St. George's Point ... 7s 0 9 6 Great Western of Bengal ... •.. ... 1 4 0 10 6 Ditto ditto •.. ... ••• _ 011 6 Great Indian Peninsular ... ... 4 0 9 0 Ditto ditto 0 I 8 6 Jamaica South Midland ... ••• ... 1 112 0 Calcutta and St. George's Point ... is 010 6 0 10 6 Ditto Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke • ... 105 s 213 0 Somerset Midland ... ... ... ... ... 2% 110 6 Bideford and Tavistock ... ... ... 1% 015 0 London, Bristol, and South Wales ". 42s 019 0 Metropolitan Junction ... ... ... 2% 115 0 Great Welsh Central ... ... ... ... 423 019 6 Leicester and Birmingham ... ... 22s 018 0 Ditto ditto ••• ... ... 018 6 Chelmsford and Bury ... ... ... ... I% 1 1 6 Essex and Suffolk ... ... ... ... I% 10 0 Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries... 1% 11 0 Mauritius ... ... ..• ... ... ... 1 011 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 mend information) is given in the "Banking Almanac and Di rectory," and from this it 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 fur 191.018/. ; Durham for 171,089/. ; Der byshire for 104,204/. ; and Yorkshire for 95,5101. The total amount of railway income in 1843 was, for England and Wales, 2,417,6091., 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 % 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 down to 202 3 / 4 and 202%. East India Stock is worth 262. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 95% to 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 1 Cents. have realised 58 3 / to 59%. The Share Market is tolerably firm. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 102% 1 / 2 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97 9 % 3 per Cent. Consols Anna 9 4 3 /4 95 943 New 314 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 lO 7-16 . 1 / 2 % Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 l6 India Stock '262 South Sea Stock — Ditto Old Annuities 93% Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account "MN% Exchequer Bills. I%d. 1 1 / d. 1,000/. 5001. ... ... .., 2O 15 pm. Ditto Small — .. .. 20 15 pm. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Danlsh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... 86 Blexican 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 . 37% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cents 58% 59% 58% Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 91% BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. took umbrege in a very mal a 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 w hich President PeLx 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 tlle dividon of territory, for Mr. PoLK 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. PoLx, 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 America, which come down to the 10th of November, hold out little to the contrary. The annexation of Texas caused the first election of Mr. PoLx, 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 T 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 Inn....uim Pacue 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 DE LAVALETTE paid the Egytian Prince a visit on board the Nile, and at elcven o'clock Inrumm 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 521. 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. 50e.; Montereau to Troyes and Farspoux, 25f. each; Versailles (Left Bank), 22f. 50c.; Strasbourg, 21f. 25c. ; Versailles (Right Bank), 10f. ; Orleans to Vierzon, 71. 50c. The market closed as follows :-Three per Celts. for cash, 81f. 95c., for account, Blf. ; Five per Cents. for cash, 116 f. 45c., for account, 116 f. 55c ; Bank of France Shares, 3,290 f. • Neapolitan, 100 f. 505.; Spanish and New ' Loan not quoted. The closing quotations on many of the lines were lower than those of Saturday-Paris and Orleans leaving cff at 1,100 f.; Paris and Rouen, 900 f.; Rouen and Havre, and vignon, not quoted; Vierzon, 605 f.; Strasbourg and Bale, 225. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 482 f. 50e. ; Northern, 6001. ; Bourdeaux, 5601. ; Montereau, 430 f. But little was done in other lines. Paris and Lyons (La flitte) may be quoted at 502 f. 50c.; (Union), 508 E 75c.; Paris and Strasbourg (Definitives) at par; Ditto (Ganne ron), 500 f. ; (Definitives), 540 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-Belgian ........... Mauritius Boulogne and Amiens.. 7 A Namur and Liege 2 l, Bordeaux &Mediterran - North Jamaica ... Bordeaux and Toulouse - Orlean s an d Vi erzen Do. & Cette (Espelete) 1% Orleans and Bordeaux 9 1 ,4 Do. (Mackenzie's) •• 1% OvtrYasel Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris & Lyons (Laffitte) 2% citie Coast ... - Ditto (Gannerea's). - Central of Spain - Ditto (Caloa's).... - - Ceylon . Demerara Dendre Valley - Paris aid Ro uen . Dutch Rhenish ...... 614 Paris and Strasbarg Dieppe & Paris Janet - (Ganneron's) Dijon and Mulhouse Do. (Aymard's) l% East Indian ......... Dc (Corapte de L'Est) - Do.Fa c an o p p n o es u tpi x itnu & tbee H d Ia a l ze l b ie r ur eu . k . Sambre and Ma nse .... - Paris and St. Q uent i n. - Grt. Northern of France Bones and Havre.-- - Royal North o f S pa i n . - 4 1 / Great Paris and Lyons. 14i Strasburg and Basle ... - Great Western Bengal - Tournay,Jurbise, Lan- Great Western Canada - dent, and Hasselt... - Jamaica S. Mid. Junction - Tours and Nantes De. North - (Mackenzie's) Do. Extensive Jersey Do. (O'Neill's). ....... - Louvain and Jemappe l% Trinidad ........... a l b la and As old for. 0 9 6 0 9 0 1 13 0 0 8 6 0 10 6 1 10 0 RAILWAYS. PAID. PEE SHARE. Aberdeen Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin... .. ... Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% to Aylesbury and Theme ... 1% — Belfast & County Down Bideford and Tavistock .. ~. ug..... Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ......124 Ditto New Shares Birmingham and Oxford Junct ion Birmingham and Deicester Direct — ••. to Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s — Bridgewater and Minehead... 425...... Bristol and Exeter 70 Ditto New Bristol and Gloucester 3O Bristol and Liverpool Junct. 2% to Buckinghamshire 425....... ...... to Caledonian Ditto Extension Cambrian Grand Junction ... Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1% 3 l / 24.— to Ditto • New 1%...... 2% Cambridge and Oxford l% tos Canterbury and foyer IN— to Central Kent 2% to Chelmsford and Bury .., ..... 1% — to Chester and Holyhead Chester and Manchester Cheltenham and Oxford ...... 2 .... Clydesdale Junction....— ...... — 5 ._. .._. . . Veron- micona.... ..._ pest Flaateri ......... 2% SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRAMPTON COURSING MEETING. A sweepstakes for sixteen dogs was won by Mr. Fox's Fairy, Mr. Mounsev's Tyrant ran up. LATEST BETfING AT MANCHESTER —TUESDAY. TIIE DERBY.-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 Manilldc. (t)-40 to 1 agst The Traverser (t)-50 to 1 agst Smuggler Bill. CIIESTER CUP.-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. 2 Cork, Blackreck, and Passages 225. . ... ...... to Cork and Killarney 2 1(2 — . .... to Cork and Waterford Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir., and Leicester 1 IA — to Dartmouth, Torbay, & Exeter 42e. Derby, Gaineboro', and Great Grimsby . . Derby, Utlexeter, and Staff'd 2 ....... Direct Manch. (Remington's) 2 ) — - Ditto (Rack.strick'is) -' 2A , Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Armagh l% to Dublin and Belfast Junction 5 Dublin, Belfast,andColeraine 2% to Dublin and Galway - 4 Dudley, Madely, & Broseley 2% — ..... to Dundalk and Enniskillen 2% to Eastern Counties Do. New Si. 169 6 p..... to Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d 3 / 4 p...... to Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ...4/. 13s. 4d — ...... to East Dereham and Norwich 1 Eastern Union Ditto 1% Shares... ........ ... 2 1 ,i •••••• Ditto Extension Ditto Ipswich and Bury ..•. l'zf i — . .... to Ditto Extension toNorwich 2ii i Ditto Cambridge and Ely 2 • — ...... to East Lincolnshire l% — ...... to East and West of England... 1%... Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ... . 65 Ditto 1 4 Shares 12%••••'• Ditto New 4 Shares Edinburgh and Northern .....• 1 1 1 1 — Edinburgh and Perth Ely and Huntingdon 5 ...... •• ... to Enniskillen andSligo ...... Essex and Suffolk - Exeter,Dorchester,and Wey mouth 425....... •••••• to -- Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2 3 / 4 - ...... to Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central of Wales ............ 1% — to Goole andDoneaster 42s. Gran dJ unction 100 Ditto % Shares 5O — to Ditto Quarter shansi.szyt 2 5 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 Tides on the coast of Ireland, as inferred from an extensive series of observations made in connexion with the ordnance surrey 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 Renn; e , Esq. Secretaries—Peter Mark Roget, M.D. ; Samuel Hunter Christie, Esq., M.A. Foreign Secretary—Lieutenant Colonel E. Sabine, R.A. Other Members of the Council—John Bostock, M.D.; Sir Wm. Burnett, M.D., K.C.H.; Charles Daubeny, M.D. ; Bryan Donkin, Esq.; Very Rev. Dean of py; Thomas Galloway, Esq. ; William Robe? t Grove, E sq ., ..M.A.; Leonard Horner, Esq.; Sir John W. Lubbock, Bart , ALA.; John Forbes Royle, M.D. ; William Sharpey, M.D. ; William H enr y S m yth, Captain, R.N.; John Taylor, Esq. ; Charles Wh ea t s t one , E sq . ; Rev. Robert Willis, -IL A. ; Lord Wrottesley. The Fellows whose names in the preceding list are tinted in italics *ere not Members of the last Council. GrodUnion(Notting.&Lynti) 1%....._ 1%4 1 to Great Eastern and Western.. 2% GreatGrimsby andSlieftleld... 5 Great South and W.(lrish) ... 15 Ditto Extension Great Munster— 2 l/ to Great North of Scotland 2IA. — to Great North of England.- „.100 Ditto New 5 — to Ditto Now 2 — to Groat Western Ditto. Half Shares ..-..~. 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares 91 , l 6 l, to Ditto Fifths ... . Guildford, Fareham, Portms, 2% — to Harwich Hull and Selby .. .. 50 lO2 Ditto Quarters . .. ... ...... 12% l 9 3jj ...... to 20% Ditto, Half Shares - Inverness and Elgin Ipswich, Norwich, and Yar mouth - — Irish North Midland...... l% — ... -to Isle of Axholme 2 : ,, , i' - Killarney Junctions ll4 — to Ken (14; 1 and Wi nderrn ere l l /2 — to Lancaster and Carlislo... ...... 30 ...... 41 ex nto 1 Larne. Belfast, to Ballymena 2%...... to Lecds and Carlisle .... ...... .. 2% — to Leads and Westßiding June. 1% — ...... to Leicester and Birmingham... 225. — LeiceBter and Bedford 228. % p... to % p Leicester and Tamworth 425....... Liverpool and Manchester... 100 Ditto Half Shares 50 ..... Ditto Quarters ..... ...... ... 25 ...... Liverpool and Leeds Direct... 2%...... Livorpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction London and Birmingham ...100 2lO Ditto Thirds Ditto J,-4: Shares . Ditto Fifths Ditto Extension Loudon & Blackwall... 161. 13s. 4d 9 ...... to 8 3 4 Do. New . Do. Extension London and Brighton 50 Ditto Consolidated Bths 35 Ditto, Sixths O l/2 London and Croydon 131. 15s. 9d. 1 8 .X . 4 1,4 to 19 Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 8 -• London, Cheltenham, Oxford, Gloucester, and Hereford.- 1 N — to London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... Ditto Preference lBl lis 2d... London,Hounslow, &Western 2 . .... London and South Western.. 41% — ..... to Do. New consolidatedBths- 20 33 Ditto New 7 .., ~. 16 Do. New • . 6 London and South Essex 2 34 — to Lou dnn and Y0rk........ ...... VA . 8% %%to London and Windsor .. 1 Lon.,Warwck, Kidderminster 2 1 /. ...... 2 London, Salisbury, & Yeovil DA — to Londonderry and Coleraine... 5 to - Londonderry and Enniskillen 6 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Mancbeiter and Leeds 76 ..... Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 4 1 4...... Manchester and .Birmicglum 40 Ditto Quarters Ditto New Quarters Do. Continuation & Welsh Junction .. 1% — to Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 425. Mancb. , ..tter, Birmingham, and ri.aliciiester & Rugby Direct Mould Junction Manchester and Southampton 2 Midland 101 .....142 .... . to 141 Ditto Fifths Ditto, New Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ll3 ...... to Midland and Eastern Counties l% to M i did. Great Western (Irish) 2 V., Do. Extension (No. 1) ... 2% Newcastle &Darlington June. 25 — to Ditto New Brandling .N'ewcastle and Berwick N - , , .wcastle and Carlisle Nn;castle,Durham,andLan. c ciabire Junction IY - Newport and Abergayenny . 2 1 ,4 — New Voss and Carlow 225. Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2 1 z i — ...... to Newark, t-2heffield, and Boston 2% Norfolk Ex ;.ension — — to North British •• ... ... Ditto New 3J; Do. Extension to Carlisle... 1A...... ... Do. Extens. to Dalkeith ... 5 ...... North Devon North of Norfolk Northern and Eastern 45 Ditto Scrip 35 Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto New ...... to e CRIP, o. r c -t" t 1 4k, 4: - /t pIY ' (1 , bRoTT - re s 7-46),: r„ SECOND EDITION. rn ri iU 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 surpris , .td at nothing ; but, otherwise, we are not disposed to give credit to the rumours about Lords STANLEY and ABERDEEN. If the Cabinet were nr,vv 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 he more likely than for my Lord TAM BOFF to r►sign; 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 alhday, 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 flutter among the Volscians. Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S long shot from Edinburgh has been a stag gerer. According to an extraet 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 exceptiou of Mr. BUCHANAN, is unanimous on the subject. The annual ses sion commences usually on 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 POLK talks about latitude 54 or latitue 49, or the " whole Oregon or none," Eng land must not be led from her purpose, and allow the 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 viewed 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 mcst 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 is a better position, nor ever had 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 France 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 rigour and exertions, and gained what General For 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 bo 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 facts as matters of boast, or as threats—we merely state plain truths, in the hope that they may be listend tot and that a calculation of consequences may induce the American Government to act with moderation, and not European insist on claims which are r e ject e d by-every North Kent & Direct Dover 2 3 A to North Staffordshire 425.... ... WA% p to North Wales ..... North and South Wales and Worcester ••• • • North. & South. Connecting Norwich and Brandon Ditto New ditto - - to Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham - Nottingham and Boston 1 x i .. 1%... .. to Notting.,ErewshVal.,&llanc 1%_..... Nottingham and Mansfield—. ..... Oxford, Gosport, Portsmouth, and Southampton 42s. —....— ~. to Oxford and Worcester 1 2 1 e4...... 14 3 / 4 1 A ... to Oxfrd, Witney, & Cheltnham 1'i . ..._~ Perth and Inverness Pilbrow Atmospheric .. _ _ Portsmouth 1 )ireet Preston and Wyre Ditto, Half Shares Rending, Guildford, & Reigate 425. Richmond Rugby, Derby, & Manchester 2% l 5 Rugby and Huntingdon Rugby, Leamington, anu Warwick ..... 425....... ScottiOt Central ... 7% — to Scottish Midland ... ......... ... 1% — to Sheffield and Manchester ...100 Ditto !i t Shares _ _ 8_ , —_ . to Shraws.,Wolver.,Dnd.,llirm. 2%...... 3% ... to Shropshire Mineral ... 425. .... Shropshire Union Shreivsbury and Hereford Shrewsbury, ivolverhampton, and S. Staffordsh. Junction ..... to Sligo and Shannon Son ers et shire Midland Sot, th Devon S . ;th Midland 425....... 34 p... to 2 3 % p South Staffordshire Junction 2 1 ,6 — South Eastern nnd Dover ... 33%...... 35 Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, N 0.2 Ditto New, No. 4. 2% — to Southampton, Macchester, and Oxford Junction. St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction Staines and Richmond 1 Staffordshire and Shropshire 2% - t. South Wales Taw Vale. Extension Teen and Dove Valley l% — to Trent Va11ey..... ............ .. 2 Trent Val. & Holyhead Juno. 2 5, 4 — Tring,Reading,& Basingstoke W I - ...... to lilverstone sendllurness — ... . Vale of Neath , Warwick and Ciicltenbain ... 2% — to Warwick and Worcester 425....... Watorford and Kilkenny.— 3 ...... Waterford and Limerick 7%.•. .. Waterford, Wexford,Wicklw, and Dublin Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia ,t; Wareney Valley Welch Midland 2% ...... %Vest Cornwall 2 West Yorkshire West London, Old Shares ... 20 South. West End & S Counties 1 1 / — to Wexford and Carlow Wisbeach and St. Ives Wilts, Somerset, & Sthamptn 1%..... Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 2%...... 3 1 2 to Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester ... ...... ...... 425. Worcester,Tinbury, &Ludlow Wrster, Shrews. & Crewe Un. 1N — ... .. to Worce,ter and South Wales.. 425. — Worccster,Warwick, & Rugby 425. — Yarmouth and Norwiela ...... 20 Ditto, New .... 17 . York and Carlislo 2 3 A to York and Lancaster . ... 2% — ...... to fork and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Half Shar©s . ... 25 •••••• ..... to Ditto, Scarboro' Branch 26 Ditto, Selby Ditto. Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes ......... Boulogne and Amiens 8 Bordeaux and Mediteranean 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Mackenzie's' 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Espelete's) . 2 Calais, Dunk, & W.Flaaders Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast I Central of Spain Ceylon Demerara. ....- ... ... 2 1 ,( t Dendre Valley Dijon and Mulhouse Dutch Rhenish ... 5 1 - %st Indian Eastern Belgian Junction—, 2 1 , , : z ...... --- to Famportx and Hazebrouk..... 2 ........ Great Northern of France Constituted ...... ........... 5 Great Paris and Lyons Great Western Pengal ss. Great Western Canada Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Jamaica North Midland 1 Ditto Extension Jersey 1 Louvain and Jemeppe ... 4 — to --. Lyons and Mignon Luxemblurg Madrid and Valentia Mauritius Namtr and Liege North Jamaica 1 Orleans axd 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 ... 2' Paris &Strasburg(Gannern's) 2 Do. (Comps de L'Est) 2 Ditto (Aymards) , Paris and St. Quentin 2 .... to -- ....... Rouen and Havro lB ...... _— .„ ... to --- Royal North of Spain 2 - Sambre and Meuse ......... ti - Stra.: , burg and 8a1e............ 14 - St. Laurence and Atlantic.... - Tournav, Jurbise, Landon, and Haseelt Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) Ditto Ditto (Lefebvre's) Do. (pw.iirs) ... ........ 4 .•.. . 4 ...... 2 ...... 2 ..... ...... to -- _ ...... to -- ...... to •—•— ...... to -- to -- TrinidiAd . 23i ...... Verona and Ancona 3 ...... ...... to -- West Flanders 4 - MINIMS. British Iron Scrip ...........10 •••• 24 to ...... to --• Galva ni:ied Iron - Real del Monte, Unregistered ...... to --- JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster. .. 20 ...... 25 ...... to --- National of Ireland - 20 ...... 19 1A... .. to --' LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAUgbc LONDON DEc. 3.—Wind this day at noon, breeze and cloudy. Qae l#3. OFF MARGATE, Dice. I.—Lord Metcalfe, Forster, fro DEAL, DEc. 2.—Wind W.N.W., woderatc.—Argraose, the river, Brothers, Reid, Madras; Ann Grant, 1 .„ t hsro, Bomhav ; John Rae Reid, Dyson, St. Kitts; JO Hire, PO Quebec. Vier, CO RTBMOUTII, DEC. 2.—Sid. Port Fleetwood, of Good Hope. t nsaL Cowl's, 2.—Arrd. Swiss Boy, Perki ns, OFF SWANAGE, Nov. 30.—Isabella, Quebec. g , V . DART:Emu!, DEc. 2 —Arrd. Mary Ann, Adam foun ß cilan 3lA d. * EAURIA, Nov. 30.—Arrd. Thompson , Re lt r ell l 4 WarrEHAVEN, DEC. I.—Wind W.N.W., * ie.-- co ,a n t e " Harman, Landel, Quebec. Corm, Nov. 29.—Arrd. Lady of the Lake, Jarn e r ni . °- bcc. 30.—Duke of Gordon, I3issett, Angra Pequ',,7 port, Express, Clarke, Valparaiso; Ellerslie, nsi b „ ° " - o ' t e. fr7t PORT TALBOT, DEC. 2.—The Olive-branc h I' Plymouth to Newport, was wrecked near Fortbc°_ o te all t ll° instant; master and mate drowned; nearly saved WAY in a damaged state. G Nov. 29.—The Lara, Roderick , from .44 $ l4 " to this port, came on shore on Mutton I s land last 134 b for remains ; crew saved. co tles ARBROATH, Nov. 29. The William, of bti this port, was lost en the banks of the Tay last log ter and two men drowned. SHIELDS, DEC. I.—The Java, Wilson, from 1 : 8 fOr ° Newcastle, has been in contact on this coast ' wit° I Bell, of London, and received damage. (foal .4ro ff LLANELLY, DEC. 2.—The John Bar y, Lileafl 0 .2 07 sea to Cork, in making this harbour last night ( 114 'gisr,,o; gale, got on shore on Cape Patrick sands, but 0 86 , 1 ,010 0 after discharging part of cargo,and brought ' into c r , r all ALDBOROUGH, DEC. 2.—The Cyrus, of Wb_ m e 0 1,11 Russells, of Arundel, were in contact this morw — ,, ' l° -° latter lost bowsprit; both . vessels have gone the ßoads. Ag a ill HELL, Drc. 2.—A Norwegian barque is Ter' Humber, with loss of rudder, &c. DA B.) 4 MARKET NEWS.,—(TIEIL. i f VsDd CORN E XC HAN GE—WEVN - o ns, ll ' otl The supply of English Wheat was somewli, t bo tlir' e tbe of very inferior quality. The finest parcels 01 . I fI L LY white moved off steadily, at full rates of c urreoc4lo".o kinds exceedingly little was doing. Free Foreign 108 4 00 quantity of which ofiering was by no inea lifi In 1 11 a slow inquiry, though at inn prices. plea'lo under lock scarcely a transaction took , In quantity of Barley on offer was large. The 70 11 10 parcels were quite as dear, other kinds hung ° O o l oo t i ot ?tlalt, a steady business was doing, at late rata., at full prices, but Beans and Peas had a downwa'" fol o o' ARRIVALS. oatf 0 / Barley. o dire. , 1,510 qrs. 2 : 1 5 6 - ,, - e i5O 1 - " .---- Malt. 1.500 qrs. WHITECIIAPEL. l o a d/ / Wo had a full average supply of each 4 1 Generally speaking, the demand ruled firm, at °ld , Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3a 6d to 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork, 35 10d to 5s 2d per 81b5' Wheat. 1,650 qrs. English • • • • • • Irish ...... • • Foreign ...... d i) COMMON PLEAS. (T I or , CRIM CON.-CLARKS V. ntrigsrotty•ng,i7 j . The trial of this case was resumed this morn ,f jury, at three o'clock, returned a verdict for t ill Damages, 5,000/. We shall give the particular§ in our next edition. EXCHEQUER CHAMJ -0 (THIS DAY.) , A 0;,,115 THE PIRACY AND MURDER ',-;"„ e etil The majority of the Judges of the Courts of 4" 00 40 ;" Common Pleas, and Exchequer, assembled til t ~ Sergeants' Inn, fur the purpose of hearing th e o fpir r oir civilians against the conviction in the 0 06 , 0 ,0 murder which was tried before Mr. Baron P' coies) Exeter assizes. Sir Joseph Dodson, Dr. Melvin, and Mr . ostul appeared for the Crown, and Dr. Adams, pr• e rt- ot v f geant Manning, and Mr. Denison, for the prisone_AA , L 4 Dr. ADAMS opened the argument, and c ont : f. soy first instance, that the prisoners had been guiltionorl piracy. Piracy was particularly defined in the ire or, i o ties between this country and the Brazilian g e e , - well as in several Acts of Parliament coniirri ° o l4 o l ties • but he was sure these prisoners bad done ~e , „zr could justify their being charged with t"" )1 , 1 0 1 ;4 piracy, within the meaning of th° B ! t bst treaties, and therefore he was prepared to urge ot i cidade was wrongfully seized. But suppoig. e isig e , had been guilty of the offence of piracy, the '0.0_ 4 4 Felicidade, he maintained, had not been cliP l ioßrl t t i pt cordance with the provisions of the Acts of Pt r r p'v . i forming to the instructions issued to the Royal , .` e ,i tb treaties which existed between this country t in „ptildri Those Acts and instructions requi re d th a t the not be made by an officer in the R o yal Nagy than a lieutenant, but here the ca pt ur e had e fs til.. 4 the Echo, which was only under the command; IF man' The Echo, however, it was said, must s osPF Si; in the light of a tender or a jolly boat of th e sol r e i4 was under the command of a lieutenant in the 4 0 1 namely, Lieutenant Stupart. Now, upon thit'oll sion, a case was cited to their Lordship s disposed of this point; but he could eri ate7 o ol Lordships that there were many env % 0 6 upon the point. There was, for instance,,, toti 1 the Jepharina, in Hazle's Reports, which cleft! 0 1 0 006,0) that a tender or jolly-boat, commanded by a L ie d o i ,,Poril not make a capture, or participate in the e vslymtal capture of this sort. Well, then, he said these.t'ep.9`.7o justified, by the law of nations, in taking the to regain their ship, and obtain their libertSii, too 'Y/ that they had concocted a plot to murder all t i o 000/ board the Felicidade, but they did concert 1 1 P I K kAjcii necessary steps to recover their vessel, and r_ feet right to do so. In carrying out that pl ii iw ut tle'4l sued, and this alleged murder took place. I s o , not render them accountable to the Englishet „ es , the Felicidade, having been wrongfully seirnsill° Brazilian vessel, sailing under the allf Or and they committed the act withou t o i at i yolif prepense, but simply to carry out a o ldDetiv, covering that which had been taken f fhe e, 1 1 .4 1 violation of the law of nations. That pointy R$ 145 5 : Fr posed of; the next question for him to conerT is t these parties had corn witted any offence aga`", 1 1 , 0 0 0 ,0 . her Majesty. Now it could not be au otlee n ri e ett'r n oq, peace of the British Sovereign, because it Yre s .aiclic't 6 j i on board a British vessel, or within the in r t i t , - ig co v e Court of Admiralty; and he should dismiss k. t jeoof argument without further comment or renisr sion, he submitted to their Lordships that thei lo p. been wrongfully captured and detained, Awl, ' i f t tle e took to recover their liberty was justifi eu e ye a nations, and by no means prohibited by t h this country and the Brazils. , fie ittjc°l4 4 °4 1)r. HAnDING followed on the same sir , e,;, „ c e , that the prisoners had been guilty of no one A '' A de 00, law of nations, not even supposing they 11 7 0( 000 /0 1 engaged in the slave-trade, because slave to otAtt i / 0 piracy, nor was it contrary to the law of n B h , pre", submitted to their Lordships that they ""i e stiog ill offence under or by reason of the treaties o g yf er 6 f ir l S England and the Brazils, and therefore thefairect_l4o and wrongfully captured; in fact, captured ir is arP r iodr A i of the treaties themselves. He followed UP trollso'4i protecting that they were not within the criitoptio of the British empire; and concluded V 3r tost witting they had committed an offence ag ars th e nations, it was of ranch less importance t" t li murder. r t 0 Sir JOSEPH DODSON then replied on the P s .bst t; e rli i He said it was contended on the other side, .. 0 0 noel' Felicidade had not slaves on board at the t e tie!, off the coast of Africa she was not liable to, li i s hlr eit dealt with as a pirate, but if their J-I„sti bed refer to an Act of Parliament which ; o r ee' quoted in the course of the inquiry, dbh ilti this was not the case. The Act was the 7th c 3 r e b it ;01 which, together with the treaty itself to Nv three log tion, eclared that after the expiration ft 0 .01 0 it P I, the ratification of a treaty, which had iti s l yns_i ls ' pe e l entered into between this country and th 6 the q, not be lawful for the subjects of on the Brazil to be engaged in carrying of t retolj trade, under any pretence, or in full o f th e bti Their Lordships would observe the terms 0 0%00 4 '01 the Act under any circumstances or in any t ro , f io l ore ejTp He should maintain, then,_ that under parties were pirates, and Lieutenant Stupart:nlilic 134 in deeming them as such, and directing thel_ l ,, o f ingly. By the first article of the conventlrroili4 cruisers were empowered to seize ' be io&..t Pi o 4 that might be suspected of having been o r l oh e 4:1 the slave-trade, and take them into a 13r1 We l el / 1K amination. If, upon that examination, th! o f D ot v tr e to he a slaver, and to have had slaves 'i v on fr ig ,e liable to condemnation; and if it were °l3 s " t oper o r alone, he should contend that Lieutenant „eia fled in capturing the Felicidade for the P ure nation. ------- p a.) SECONDARIES.—(TO I S n i . 0; (Before Mr. Secondary rerr' ) 0 ( ; 1 1, mai-rums V. IRISH, OS' $ o ute. - -.' $r This was an action brought to recover th, $ 107 0 619 for goods sold and delivered. Th Papa . is O f 40 / e d tl' e lel p and metal dealer in Crooked -lane, AY, e ll t P - a sadler in Clement's-lane, City. The defe llcisll . til l°l4 rta gad he was never indebted. _.,,ea oer, .. From the evidence fur the plaintiff it fir t h,' ow 10 November last the defendant and G. J. Irnst th i s o oftp o ; an order for some goods, which were supPilenso ill, oil', afterwards. Only one witness, however, ~c , :ie t idel iV le r, 0 0 6 defendant, and he said that he knew the "‘" note be „el' there was such a strong resemblance betwe t : b fr A to I V son that they were not easily known ell 3r c avie e ;ho!, l t defendant: several times, and he alway s Villed i Of," 1 For the defendant, however, his son 108 t he -ley, - that he had dealt with Mr. Matthews, 4 it? pot the plaintiff for ten years—his father did 11 ;d tll ,o ltil all Fiedler, carrying on business in Holborn, and 10 if ite b a 0 1 such goods. Moreover, he gave up bileine'sssio, rho 10 he was continually in Holborn, or at witnes s 11 Or sinker, in Clement's-lane, and assisted el t he 1 4 1 share in the business. "to bi eh i The accuracy of the witness WAS not iceqUestioeuicsd tte; sl : r tity, but he swore positively, although the y WI, . 0 00, in the early part of the proceedings thau d the go o lAir, wrong party, and defendant's son adulitte„ter 0 A cl e The SECONDARY said that it did not attar -oell it was, it depended on who ordered the n e d, sea clear that, after the last account wa r s „dot. ,A thet, ordered by a person sworn to as the dee to d esel t be P" The jury stopped the summing 11 ,P,' n tiff fo r oli o satisfied, and gave a verdict for the PL -- claimed. th olie lt°t Thin Wee the only eeee pomeesa - e II ( '1 T o .. a