The Sun. — London, England, 1850-11-21 00:00:00

LISPA Y * ) moderate schwester, f s o! ded D° 4 lr lt d e or brig, na— b 7tb ; 15 e nbuq , f PAPP ih s, hit h itAr aul ore, • Y. g usto, Au Nov. T.._lesklt ischarge• L S stranded t n ight; cr." -Arra. Soci, Nye colebl, s v a d? cr ew 611 tito dt to L Oll ,l L o h° ati° b " cotv rovg gOleV . 0 pre or 1 0 14 Ott f ew C r 10CP' ° „e 0 114 vee r IS s bore 3i1 6 6 ; ss:j ov L i f er to k led e%P'" „i• lore. fro w . c tof°Y' Is gle dila ° 10 134° 61 ' 1 'eld s . 9 :8 Jo e y ' per e v e f , e !er stiO r .t fa o_d f) PA 0 f 500"; c. eti . t ei i ) 8 f M r ,60 00, 1 ,50 ,gdile i liiii r 0 1011 ' 811 r P , 41V to fl o . gi " ocl• 91 11 : 1 , to 101 9 r f ,ifil 9. f1 5° ,00 11 , o' Si f^ t.) or ik," d; is - ibee: 3 ; fl It Ole 45; to if Si ' t7 2531 ; pe , d l e fi t " P - Si fo ij 0 10 tit ,i o eo re ty cOr 1-, A to 5 4' p,, rw 6d; 90 1 718, nog to Rat 3 0 04 aids 0 A 0 94 "is , lIP PO' ri° g °4 90; 110 by ° W A raile r tb ° t i f ee t e P e Oi l oir° 0 38 )01. 11 1° 0 0° bi 4 80 o ° o el 0 o w 000 b oo d ° kiPP 0 o°l e blP°' TliE SHARE MARKETS. ITISII ItaUway,. Aberdeen.. .- • • •: I Do. Preference - • Attibergate, Nottingham, Bosto n, 4 E. J uncion FAyrshire and Galloway • • ast and County Down and Hants Eat en. (Great western Per- Petul 5 p er tent ) • • , ' lniii gbarn and Oxford Junction, ca'ls duly guar... Paid, or w i th a , Do. wi thout a 4ir Ming guar... IWOlVeraton,1 WOIVera ton, and Dudley, h eels) duly paid , or with a Uaran:ee •• • • - Do. without a guar. - 4.ta10g., WolverhalnlL, Birkenhead nd Valley • • Lanes., and Cheshire Junction • Stint,' and C xeter.. •• buckle ghainshire • • " Caltdoniam •• - - I ) .. 11'/. Pref erence - Chit. Clydesd a l e June... ester and llolyhead .. Clbe. Preferenc arcnc e e ~ .. .. • • • • - be. Ist Class, 6 p er ct. lao. Do. 2d do., 5 p er cent. DCoy. 1.0.tn,4 pr., ct. irect L ond. and P ortsm. Lublin and DelfastJurict. Dundalk anti Enniskillen East Anglian (25/. L. & and L. & D.) •• - Do ( 1 81. E. & 11 .) ~De. (31. 10 s.) 6 per cent. Preference • • Do. 0/.) 7 Pr. ct. pr e f. Easternlpe.(7l.l7s.) 7 p. c.P ref. Counties • • Do. E aten., 5 per cent. D„., No. 1 .. .. • • o: No 2.. • • uu• New Preference, 6 ~, Per cent. .. • • •• .ue• North. and East. h 6 Per cent. •• - Vu do. 5 per cent • • •‘,4)0. do., New - ..satern Cnion, class A, . I , 4 „ i c E. U. Shares • • --'l,', do. do. • • , -0 . do., R & c shar • --cl i dO, scrip, guaran. Per cent. • " • • 4 4 4 '-'Lancashire • • - h"0.0 6 New quar ters • • per cent. PreL r 1,.M.. quart er share s , -.t Lincolnshire, g n a . 6 rilbke cent •• - " l:10811h, and Glasgow -I,4t.sl:ertb, and Dundee EX ean xni I,,,.:::ewcipeErt, .. • • ''''`eter, Yeovd & Porch. Gla Bgew ftua southou..t‘hvest, 1)°. Pref. cons dictated .. Do. do. 4. I). & 43. stock ~,uleueser &Dean Forest Great Northern • • ...k. halves, A, deferre d h alves, B. 6 per ct. D Greats per tent. pref. • • Gr eat " e stern Sout hern and , Irela 4 4 '. eigh ths . nd • • . .. • • •eat North of England • 130. uo new 40/. .. • • new 30/. % be. new 151. •' •• be. `extern • - „tit,. a Xu • •. w, 17/ . Do ••• • quil nd Selby - - half shares .• - Do t • quarter shares ancastr and Carlisle .• . Do. thirds • • •• 4licklaire and Yorkshire, 150. quarter shares - .0. piths •• ' - N. thirds ... " - 'uc. new, guaranteed 6 Do cent. . • • - "0. tudclers. & Sheff. T /JO. WeSt Riding U Lis altd Bradfordnion -• • '4,64 and Thirsk • • - ~.0. pref. G p et., No• !, Do, Pref. 6 p et, No. • .t ~s'ic. Pref 6 p ct., No. 4 liuu. pref. qrs., 1848 .. -.,vexpeul. Crosby. and Londoneouthport .• - . Lon don and B lackwall .. ~, Brighten, and ootith Coast • • - D°, teed 5 per ct., Do. Croydon thirds.. 4"0. Preference, p ct. Do. preference, cony. 5 ," Per ent, 1852 Per • •11e,i• guaran teed, • 6 i r ;tdo cent. .. .. • • --5 and Greenwich • ~ .110. preference • • " •uctidn and -Western bo. do. new quarters • de ,nDo. 101 , sh., lt. &II (c) ''",14,1011 and 501.-Western • p• u o. new 50/. • • • • o. new 40i. .. - . Do. new preference • • .odonderry & Coleraine „Do. half shares .. • • 'westoft, t uar. 4 Per ct. , Ds, do. 6 per t ent. • • s'"d°aderrY and Ennis killen. - .. .. • • alan h es alf : shares • ' - ua c ti llottker,t i Llton, an d . 1 I it a t: n i:n e : h etqb e ei la s ; r t i e: i r tl i o.rri S em h , Ic e f fl o . e . l i d , ...&: bo m,nehepstreerfere.ncide Lincoln Union • • alidlatal • • • • - - 1)„0. eenholidated pref. ...)0. 50/. shares • • - 1.?,0. Dialling & Derby "0. Consol. tristol & ,1-ti ntling., 6 per cent. Do.i o. Bristol & GiouCea• do. do. el i Do. Erewash Vol. p . r_ ...i ))0. Leic. & swanning.! 114 1 , i 14 1 , 8 Per cent. 1 guar. (Iraer.), kid dlesbr G o t ' . .." Itedc . ::;6 Per cent. guar. p le• .• I 4eas. qU l :r a te n r d sh C: ar ar e! .• .• ` W lnarket .. 10'8 extension scr ip y ! ..,•,--„Port, Abergar.e.llll:,, z:,l,ltillerersordiodllen .. 4";, 84N vtLpoint, & hostrevor. • • • Eoriollt. • • - • • ' 1 1) , 0 . sew 20/. shares. ue. E.xtension • • • • Do. guar. 5% per cent. N. Waveney Valley.. IC,crthern Counties Union Aojth Ilritish.. • • - ~.0o I reference • • " k",.,nrt_ll, Staffordshire • • -taW °stern • • %%ford, Worcester and , Wolverhampton - * rreston and Wyre - ,h bo• Ralvea (A) • • " Itealling. Gnildfor and b_heigate.. . .. -..Yetort and h t .• going be.hepreth Exten..• Central ~ I . •• Scottish Midland .. • • Do. new . .. Shrewsbury 8Z Birralng. Class A... .. .. Do. Class 8.. .. .: Do, New Guarantee Ahrewsbuty 8; }leref d • •• Shrewsbury an d Cheater D(N or, Iv. lini., ..es er o. ales .. )•• •• •• bo Do Oswestry .. • . . ew., ~ ~, Do 8 ptr cent. Pef . 240Pahire Union .. •• eolith Devon • • .. • • south on •• •• "Nrtith Staffordshi ernre • • • ktntl•East NUt Do. do. k, ter Cellt • • W `. .- ' S out h 11 YOrkBh d River Dui, • an" °1111.,1t. ot.h., and Goole, Do guar. 5 p cent. 151--"._40. South Div. • • l ' - Z r 4 & tougher, &c. 'lZ'kle Extension • • 1:_ Haven Dock and _ufeLlolt(Y • • • • • • WWwaltattteer• ‘"l•tfifileaalvttnu„l'darelxiln.l.llWier: lice:1: WaeUadr Dug n • . " gllk.ll 6 per cent. D e gorgedso • • • • - wiles% ‘:10'. ts:11°): :: IV,liit 11.°r4w411 • • " n'lli: 6v en and Furness %.4t, Staines, and S. l'?,_llt.'• Zrnn ersei 84. , Loieutit .. •.1 .. .. Wes ,.oll Yew Dins cas tle, & Derer - o and •icev;Castie• E n Dittxtensioo U .N.E. E.p • • 'laic Dar prefe rancell:c „ o, .. .. .. b. Hartlepool Dock I Irk: . n it 44 R e N fe ' i r e ' erwnt aheYe2ll:l dl • a ii d•l ** I d4 tlo,i t 1144 a allan Oat ll(' A e Ita ulotd ustriato entraie 44,1 Amiens leans °l. France (Or' btlterara erzon) 4 3t enlah • • '• . 17, _ l l ti Igreatta t i :o t d i t at dan l T I° l 1:1 Pt,t; dn 1 ,kernbo Sambre urg • • 04 o arli ttlir 4 7' 1 11: :. 0 „itlide3rl, I..e‘ ma ce. 41in aTst,..rdeaux n C. 1119 •. ItZ P I, I% S't°"Ti ,laSbOtlrg , Thr e a l iaVre r a3l n ' t .11 eUSe 10, ),, Urg d Tnarrsima,44 4 11t B"le " Jut b e : • • vitd 11/1- Clajah r Z , is 4 % , Oh% ,tift .orth • • • • • • (.; A merica..oe, re e rnial of • • • • • • • .. torsion Jettit '14""n•• Ne t , en „ s ,' ,o ek _ estminster :sew wrincial Eng on li er •• • ' Ireland • " ° thi°' N ew :1 11 o f Au .. N ew stridi a Off L (IC; Netta in,. "Madrid ••• • • •••••• ter d aYs ed ' h.__ the , n( 14% an ,AILWAYS, Nominal Prices, Business done to-day. 11 1 4 X 14 1% 1 1 , 4 dis. 10% to 11' I,s dis 714 614 dis, 34 - 1 IL 27 -29 26 -27 7% - 830 6- 7 p 10 -11 69 —ES% 17 1 17% ICI —lo 5A 15 -16% 12% - 1234", . .. 28 —26 dig. 1 1 4 - 2 1 -1% ..% bS .. 6 % %1) par h p 1114 - 11% 55 -57 56 - 56% 5 -4% p 6% - 7 •• - •• 4% - 4 19 -19% 8 - 9 30% - 29% 23 -25 1 4 - I.x - NI 1334 - 14% 4 - 4X, 10 - 16% 117 i - 12% 35% - 35% %- %P• 242 - 245 72 78 3( 4% 5 Ms. 96 —9B 49 48% 21% 22% 62 63% 3 —35 6 p. 4814 49% 1330 13 ais. 8 —7% dis.l 84— 8 clis.l 12% 12% dls. N —6% dbl. 94% 95 13 12% 3 3% —2% die. 3% 3 dia. i% r s die. dig 3fi P .. - .. 7 -7% 85 - 84% io% 10% 58 - 58% 58 -60 136 - 138 11 -- 114 23 ,-- 24 119% —llB% 3 p. 3 p. 2 —23 b 68% 69% 16% 153..116. 14 —13 dis. 2 —234 p. - .. - 14 4% —4% die.! 22 -21 3 4 8% - 9 M%- 9% 3 (Us.' 42 43 21% - 22 (115. 22 -21% 124 - 125 .. . 114 -. 1% 18 —l9 15 —l4 dig. 15 —l6 6%-7g 476 -5 10 —9% dig. I*,, - 18% 42 - 41% 7 - 77 p. 183(--18 7% - 7 % p. 114 -11 5i 6 die. ' 9% —9% 10 —l3 5 6 8 9 itA % dis. 14 13% 3 7 336 dls. 13 —l4 11% 11 4 3 dis. 19% 2034 .. - .. 25% - 26 4% —41 i .9 -- - i dis, 3 -3% 4 -4% 14 - 14% 40 - 40% 20% - 21 .. ..-- •• 44 -44 ( 16% - 173 8 —B% dis. 3% 4 dia. 14S, 15►% 3 —3N . .. 23 23% 1% 2 dim. 2 —”s 7Yt 8 13% - 14% 534 5 3, d!5. is % Pm. U % Pm. 1 4 Ells 1,f 3 pm. -1 lai 1 % 7 -7% 14% - 14 4% 4% dis. ',9 —3l • 23 —i3 6% —6% dis. —9% 2% 2h 1036 -- 10)4 dis 1% 2 K /sANKS. 27% - 284 43 - 42% 241 - 24% 1$ - IS% 27% - 27% 17N - Ifqi 42} , , - 43 15% - 16 13 - 13% .. % -13 .. 12 rovember. Ticket account days, 15t1 80 , 9 6 8 13 14 0 178 1 2 . 6 13 4 6 13 4 1 1 0 12% 5: 11 13 4 100 23% 15 11 6 3! 100 12 15 4 20 100 4 2 0! '29 16 0 [3 5 3 9 12 3, :FOREIGN. 6 13 4 20 JOIST S' Anglo.Mexican(is. 5/. Asturian ...... • • • • • Australian .... ••• • • ... Parossa Range .. • • ... Blaemirvon Iron and Coal Bolanos scrip British Iron.. • Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.), 3 - 3.74 3 !ti - Du. Cocaes and Cuiabal Do. St. John del Rey.. Cobre Copper ...... Coplap° ............ General . . • ......... Real Del Monte, Uk.reg. Do. Black Debentures. - 14% - 15 33 1 : - 32% -4% Do. Led Debentures .. Santiago de Cuba ...... Tin Croft .............. United Mexican......... 9 - 91,4 '2B 28% 5.;;, Gy, :ISCELL.A.NEOUS. Canada ........ • • Gen. Steam Navigation l'enin. & Oriental Steam. Royal .Mall Steam .. •• 32 1 ,4 41 3 j - 4234 14 26% - 27 50 79 -80 GO C 67. - 67 Al ONE 1 , , and C 0.1111 TUE AL NE WS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The tales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,0(0 bales, all to the trade. The market was steady, and prices were still a shade against the buyer.—ln Railway Shires a good business was tone at higher prices. The quantity of Wheat sold in the markets which re gulate the duties upon forcign grain wai last week 82,560 qrs , and of Barley 78,239 qrs. The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 395. 11d. per qr. By permission of the Board of Customs a large quan tity of refuse tea is to be taken to the Nose and there thrown overboard, the importers having discovered that it is worth less than the duty leviable upon it. The return of winter usually brings with it a revival of old complaints upon admitted defects, and accordingly we are not suprised that the frequenters of 'Change find the darkness visible of a London afternoon by no means an' accelerator of their business. The idea of meeting earlier on the Royal Exchange has been mooted mere than once, and some little improvement has certainly been effected. There is a stricter adherence to the plan of shutting out late comers, and on Tuesdays and Fridays the dealings in foreign bills of exchange com merce at an earlier hour than usual. The alteration, however, could be carried much further with advantage to all parties, or even the holding of " high 'Change" a patter of an: hour earlier would be appreciated. At present the time is a quarter-past four, and the consequence is that the loiterer's and late corners are about the precints frequently until past five o'clock. This, iu turn, occa sions the detention of the merchants' clerks to a later hour than would otherwise be necessary in the offices, and great hurry to get off the correspondence and save the post, while the principals, being detained late in the evening, deem it of less consequence to come early on the following morning, and the system of retardation is perpetuated, in the later acceptance of bills, and various other ways. " High 'Charge" at half-past three or quarter to four would probably suit most parties, and Lot be too early, perhaps, for the Mincing-lane brokers, who often do notget through theirpublic sales much before that hour. Even with them, however, there is room for improvement, and some of their auctions might be com menced an hour earlier, and yet allow time for the in spection of the samples by buyers of ordinarily early habits. If the system of early hours among the bankers and others is to be fairly carried ent, it must extend through the principal ramifications of business, for there is now the greatest difficulty experienced by the collect ing clerks and others in getting their cash and cheques paid in. There aro other reforms that we could suggest, but those who miss from " their accustomed haunts" several of our influential City men who attend 'Change in finer weather, oil those who would desire to see others attend who never come at any season, would act wisely in bestirring themselves to secure the accomplishment of the first great step, an earlier meet. thg on 'Change. The accounts from the Frankfort Bourse, dated the ISth in 4., state that Austrian Metallics wore 731 to 74, and Spanish Three per Cents. 32 15-16ths to 33 3-16th. The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders have received a letter from their agents at Bogata, Messrs. Powles, Wilson, and Co., dated the 11th ult., respecting the new Grenadian debt, of which the follow ing is an extract : " Yesterday we had a conversation with the Minister of Finance, and again urged the propriety of coming to an understanding as to appointing persons at the ports to receive periodically the amounts applicable to the payment of the interest on the foreign debt. The Minister said that since his return from the country, whither he had gone in consequence of ill health, he had been so occupied that he had not been able to attend to this matter. Orders were sent some time since to the collector of customs to remit direct the funds to Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co. We finally suggested to the Minister to adopt the plan of making the 1-Bth of importation duties payable at the General Treasury in Bogota, where indeed 8-10:hs of the duties are now paid, and that this should be always payable in cash. He replied that he thought the idea good for many reasons; especially as the premium at the coast on gold always costs the Government two to three per cent. more than in the capital. That the Goverment documents admissible as cash, now in circulation, were few, and that he would give the suggestion attention.' " The committee have also received a communication from the same gentlemen, stating that in consequence of the political disturbances in the Republic of the Equator, they had not yet dispatched an agent to that country to advocate the claims of the bondholders, but that they were prep.red to do so as soon as they should learn that the Government was re-established. " From Mr. L,a.tl, the agent of the Vent znelan bond holders, the committee have a letter, dated La Guayra, 24th ult., in which he transmits a copy of a communi cation from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires IA Caraca3, addressed to Senor Lacuna, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, urging the Government to adhere scrupulously to the arrangement for appropriating the assigned pro porti,)n of tho customs' duties to the purposes of the foreign debt, a part of which, ho had been informed, had been etherwiie applied in violation of the agreement with the bondholders." The English Stock Market lost a portion of its buoy ancy before the conclusion of business yesterday after noon. in consequence of money sales being effected, and the Bears took advantage likewise of the revived rumour that the Bank of England intend this day to advance their minimum rate of discount. Upon this matter we some da)s since stated our views, but the further de cline last Tuesday in tho rate's of exchange, and the circumstance that money is a little dearer in Lom bard-street, have given strength to the rumour. Con sols have this morning ranged from 96i to 97 for Transfer, and from 97 to for Account. Exchequer bills have been 665. to 695. premium. The New Three und-a-Qtiarter per Cents. have been,marked 97; 3 1 to 98, and the Three per Cents. 96i- The Foreign Securities continuo rather heavy. Spanish Five per Cents. realise 17i, and the Three per Cents. 39i to t. Portuguese Ole Bonds hare been worth 85. M, xican Stock has been duller at 31 Danish Bonds have been marked 99; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 96 to 96i; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 56i to 57. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under:- 1550. 1849, Great Western £14,268 ~. £13.315 North-Western South-Western Brighton . . 9,209 Midland South-Eastern 8 975 20,775 8,935 North Stafford Caledonian 6,357 6.022 The Railway Share Market has been active and buoyant again this morning, especially for those lines upon which the traffic has been good. Aberdeen, North- Western, Great Northern, North Stafford, and Cale donian have been in request. Midland, Chester and Holyhead, and Oxford and Wolverhampton aro barely so good. QUARTER TO TfiREF'.. ~ ... ... 96i 97 ... ... 97 97k Console ... Ditto Account ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISG FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. Hank Stock ... ••• •• 212 3 : , er Cent. Reduced Anna........... 9ilA 1 4 96 1 4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.- -... 97 96Y R 971 A 97 96% Neve VA per Cent. Anna.. ...--...... 98 97 7 4 97% ;,ong Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o ...... 7% 7 13-16 7 13-16 rlclie, Bonds, 1,0001...., — Ditto under 1,000/........ ....... South Sea Stock .... _ Ditto Old Annuities; cons is tor Account 97% 97 Exchequer Bills. 1 1 ,4 d. & 2d 1,000/. June .... 66 69 p 500/. June Small, June 6O 69 p ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. — Do., 5 per cent Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupone— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto. Account Portuguese 5 per Cents. Mad= Bonds Ditto, 4V 5 per Cent Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840 — Ditto Account Ditto, Passive. Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, Account Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. dutch 2'4 per Cent., 12 Guild. • Dim, 4 per ( I.oi. (lArtitiontoP 37! --- - ROYAL HUMANE Socuar•—Yesterday a meeting of the governors of the above institution was held at the offices in Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross, for general busi ness; 13. Hawes, Esq., in the chair. The report was satis factory, and a number of cases of recent occurrence in which lives had been saved at great personal risk were laid before the committee, and adjudicated upon for pecuniary and other persons,rewards During the past bathing season in the Serpentine River, which had been resorted to by up wards of 300 000 only three fatal accidents had occurred. A number of attempted suicides had also been prevented by the vigi lance of the society's men. During the past year there had been submitt e d t o th e soc i e ty 150 c a ses, comprising 190 per sons, out of whom 173 were, after rescue, successfully treated and recovered. --- GRAY'S INN, Nov. 20.—At a Pension of the Bon. Society of Gray's Inn, holden this day, Montague Mordaunt Ainslie, Esq. (of Christ Church College, Oxford, ILA.), and William Arnold Bainbrigge, .Esq., were called to the degree of barrister-at-law. A melancholy accident occurred on the rive,r, Clyde on Sunday afternoon, b y the capsizing of a small sailing boat from Cartsdyke, whereby two a a pleasure party, named Miller and eameron, were drowLed. — Scotsman. 17 iy 10 % Ni 4 [lsy, 16 16 15 1 / 1634 13 12% 13% 21 20% 3 M 94 VA% , 2% 34 1 % % 14% % 34 li 4} 1N 12% % 73 72% % IN 49 )6 U 49 2% % % 12 fil 12 U 730 7 1 119 ;( 118% 1 0% 1 21% 25 24 424 % 18i( 19 7% lii % 7% % Ye [lB% 18 18t4 % % Is % 5 41 die. dis. 10 9% 14 14 2% % 20% IA % 25,4 17% tia 23 1 A % 83e 34 3 s ' 28 28U ex. d days for regis and 29th.] THE SUE, MINE 4, 1 13 0 13 5 Nominal Prices Business clone to-day. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21,. 1850. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.) RUSSELL V. THE EAST ANGLIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morn ing at some 'taiga' in this (WC, the facts of which we have already given in detail. The case came before his Lordship upon an appeal motion, from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, refusing to commit the Sheriff of Norfolk and his Under-Sheriff for con tempt. We may again state that the facts of the case were shortly as follows: —The bill was filed on behalf of the plaintiff and other bond creditors of the East Anglian Railway Company, for an account of the sums of money raised under various Acts of Parliament re lating to the company; and also prayed a declaration of the. court to the etiect that the bond and mortgage creditors were entitled to be paid their debts according to their scveial priorities. In accordance with a motion made to that ale:, a person of the name of William Seppings was appointed manager and receiver of the cempany's property, ar.d took possession of the railway and the plant upon it, and until a few months back he ' maint din possescicn. Bef .re the appointment of the receiver, two creditors of the company sued out execu tions—one for above 1,1001. for coals supplied to the railway, and the other for NU far costs which had been incurred in the re-investment of certain purchase money in land; and these executions were placed in the bands of the sheriff of Norfolk, in order that he might levy upon the goods of the company. The sheriff' accord ingly seized upon seven first-class carriages, six second class, and six third•ciass ones, together with other pro perty belonging to the railway company. The latter accordingly made application to Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce that he would order the committal of Edward Roger Pratt, the Sheriff of Norfolk, and of Frederick Brown Bell, the Under-sheriff, for a contempt of court in dis possessing the receiver of the company of the goods seized upon. The Vice-Chancellor refuted to make the order, and the result was an appeal to this branch of the court. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Bethell, Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Miller appeared in support of the appeal. Mr. R. Palmer, Mr. Bonney, and Mr. Apsland, of the common law bar, appeared for the sheriff of Norfolk; Mr. Rolt and Mr. Toiler for the execution creditors; Mr. Calvert, Mr. Malins, Mr. Martindale, Mr. Dickenson, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Baggelly for other parties. It was contended, in opposition to the appeal, and in support of the judgment of the Vice-Charcellor, that the latter proposed that previous to a decision of the rights of the parties, the amount levied by the sheriff ought to be brought into court. This, it was submitted, was a reasonable proposition, and it was argued, that if the Lord Chancellor agreed in the justness of that proposi tion, the appeal should be dismissed with costs, as the offer to bring in the money had been made in the Court below, and had been refused. Another point relied upon in opposition to the appeal was, that the appointment of a receiver was improper and impolitic, and was in direct contravention of the Acts of Parliament relating to the railway. It was argued, therefore, that under such cir cumstances, the sheriff could not be held to be guilty of contempt of Court in putting the execution in force. At the conclusion of this motion, and after the Lord Chancellor had stated his intention to give judgment on it on this day, Mr. BETHELL made a new application for the commit ment of the Sheriff of Norfolk for a further contempt of Court, which the Learned Counsel submitted he had committed on the 9th of the present month, and during the hearing of the appeal which had just been concluded —in taking in execution certain carriages, &c., of the East Anglian Railway Company, when the carriages formed a train, and were about to start with passengers for Lynn. Upon both these motions the LORD CHANCELLOR now gave judgment. His Lordship, after going at consider able length into the facts of the case, directed that the motion for the committal of the sheriff should stand over to the second day of next term, at the same time order ing him to place the receiver in the same position in which he was when the sheriff levied execution. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. The Court then proceeded to hear this appeal motion, which was specially appointed for to-day. The case came before the Court upoli appeal from the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, granting a seques tration against the effects of the company. The argu ments in this motion occupied the Court the whole morning. The other Equity Courts took motions to-Jay, none of which possessed the least point of interest. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) ,Sittings in Banco, before Lord CAMPBELL and Justices COLERIDGE and ERLE.) 11UNFRETS V. BROGDEN, SECRETARY OF THE DURHAM COUNTY COAL CONPANY.-JUDGDIENT. Lord CAMPBELL, on coming into court this morning, delivered judgment in this (wise. He said this was an action on the case, and the declaration alleged that the plaintiff was possessed of divers closes of arable and pas ture land, yet that the Durham County Coal Company wrongfully, negligently, and improperly, and contrary to the custom of wining followed in that part of the coun try, worked certain coal mines under and contiguous to the said closes, and dug for and got certain coals in the said mines so as to endanger the plaintiff's closes. The only material plea was not guilty. The case came on to be tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge at the last spring assizes for the county of Durham, and it appeared that the plaintiff was poskessed of the closes described in the declaration, and that the Durham County Coal Com pany were the lessees, under the Bishop of Durham, of the coals and mines nnder them, but there was no other evidence whatever as to the tenure or the title either of the surface or of the minerals. It appeared the ccmpany had taken the coals under the plaintiff's closes without 'caving any sufficient pillars to support the surface, whereby the closes had suck and subsided considerably; t h o u t th s e u p s a p m o n p gthe e sonsurface thatand the operation min b e a r d al h n s ot ad belonged beeneon_ ducted negligently by the' eompany. The verdict was entered for the plaintiff for 1104 damages, with leave to move to enter the verdict for the defendant if the Court should be of opini on th a t un d er suc h c i rcumstances t h e action was nct maintainable. The case was very ably argued in Easter and Trinity Term last ; and the case it ta k w e a n s o m n e te t ;d tioc , o d n t s h id a e t r , its decision. For the d e fendant being one o f cons id era bl e i mportance the Court b a d after the special finding of the jury, the plaintiff was not entitled to have his closes supported by the subjacent st ra t a; b ut t h e C ourt was o f opinion that that proposition could not be supported, and that the company was bound to leave sufficient props in his mine to support the surface soil. The Court had there fore to consider whether, when the surface of the land, by which was here meant the soil lying over the minerals, be longed to one man, and the minerals to another, and, there being no evidence of title to qualify the rights of enjoyment, the owner of the minerals might remove them without leaving supports sufficient to maintain the surface in its natural state. The plaintiff claimed no greater degree of support for his in lands than they . en joyed since the globe existedits present torm, Whe Where therethe l wereawof several England fre eholdshad lying long adjacent e to each other, degree of collateral support which each might claim from the other; and a man who had land next adjoin ing his (Lord Campbell's) land could not dig his own land so near to his (Lord Campbell's) that thereby his (Lord Campbell's) should fall into the pit dug by the other, and for that an action would lie. That doctrine rested on natural justice, and was es sential to the protection and enjoyment of property cn the surface. Where there wets separate freeholds, where the surface of the land and the Lmiuerals belonged to different persons, the Court was of opinion that the owner of the surface, where it was encumbered by buildings and in its natural state, was entitled to have it supported by the subjacent mi neral strata. For those and other reasons the Court were all agreed that the present action was maintain ' able, and that the rule to enter the verdict for the de fendant must be discharged. THE QUEEN V. THE REV. CHARLES BARTON.-CRININAL INFORMATION. Sir FEEDERIcK TrtusicEß, said he had to show cause against a rule, obtained recently by Mr. Hill, for a cri minal information against the Rev. Charles Barton, who is rector of Paxeby, in the county of Lincoln, and one of the magistrates for the county. The charges on which that application had been grounded had reference generally to the conduct of that gentleman, whilst taking, in the capacity of a magistrate, the dying declaration of one Robert Thompson, who met his death in an affray in August of the present year, at Barton-upon-Humber. The circumstances were these: —A person of the name of Sanderson, who was resident at Barton on the 12th of August last, was in bed, when he heard some person or persons outside his house throwing stones at his window. He arose from his bed, went to his window, and saw two persons engaged in those acts; be remonstrated with them and told them he would call for the police. The persons outside, how ever, continued their violence, on which he partially dressed himself and was proceeding down stairs, when his wife recommended bim to take a stick with him. He was passing his front room, and he hastily snatched up a poker, and went out to those persons. Some alter cation then took place, and ultimately a person named Robert Thompson, who, it was alleged, but aftewards denied, was one of the perssons committing that violence, was struck by Sanderson violently on the head with the poker. Thompson became insensible•, was carried to his house, and died on the 21st day of Augusnl Sanderson was, therefore, immediately apprehended; and en the 13th of August Mr. Barton, who for sixteen or seventeen years had been in the commission of the peace for the county of Lincoln, was met by a person named Gee, who was clerk to Mr. William Grayburn, the clerk to the magistrates of Barton-upon-Humber, and ss as told by him of the assault that bad been committed. It was stated to Gee, too, that the magistrates who usually acted in that district were from home, and Mr. Barton was re qua stead to take the exsuaination against Sanderson. Mr. Barton agreed to do so, and Sander son being brought before ham he afterwards remanded him to prison until the 19th of August. Mr. Geo told Mr. Barton, on the 13th of August, that the wounded man Thompson, according to the medical adviser's o sb iroodsus,,iyi following. Io y,ai nv improving,eg.h Itae I :( d awma l i h sn a a t tui thought it would ,o t 1) Burton t hy say mwt:tetillye Friday y ge o d r that Mr. Barton should take the examination of 'Chomp frooimi saxe iy. Saturday , t th h o iu l ll 7 , th w , h o it n he h r is he (Br. v,ai goingß. o a n r t o a t day, and that Mr. Gray burn should meet him at 'l•hompsnn's house at Barton for that pur p so. Mr. Barton arrived on the morning of the 19th at 'Thompson's house at the time appointed, but was not so fortunate us to meet with Mr. Gray burn, the magistrates' clerk, and after waiting for him a considerable tint., proceeded on his way to Hull, intending to make a fresh attempt to take the examination on his return in the evening, and he left a message with some of Thomp son's domestics, that if Mr. Gray burn called they were to say that Mr. Barton would meet him at Thompson's at a certain time in the eve ning, on his return from Hull. Mr. Barton arrived at the time mentioned in the evening, on his way from Hull, at Thompson's house, where, after witting some twenty-five minutes, Mr. Grayburn made his appearance. Some angry words then took place between Mr. Barton and Mr. Gray burn on the sulsket of the latter having fsiied twice to keep his appointment with Mr. Barton; and this took place in the presence of the eying enan, Thompson. The consequence was that Thompson's examination was taker, without, howerer, having been cautioned by Mr. Barton, the magistrate, of his approaching death, and of the necessity of his speak ing the truth, and without the usual oath having been administered to him by the magistrates' clerk, Mr. Grayburn, both of which were essential to make Thompscu's evidence available for the purposes of jus tice. At the inquest on Thompson the coroner refused to receive the declaration of the dying man, because the oath had been omitted by Mr. Gra) burn to the de ceased, and because Mr. Barton bad not cautioned him of his approaching death. It etas, therefore, contended by Mr.-Grayburn, at whose instance this application had been made, that owing to the indecorous and unseemly conduct of Mr. Barton, whilst t a king the declaration of the dying man, Thompson; the r e had been a failure of justice. The Learned Counsel then reed the affidavit of Mr. Barton, with the view of proving that cn the occa sion in question, when he (Mr. Barton) had agreed to take the examination of Thompson on his way from Saxeby to Hull, he was accompanied by two ladies, and that it caused him and them the greatest inconvenience that Mr. Grayburn had failed twice to keep his appoint ment, and that he had justly complained of Mr. Grayburn, but not in the terms or in the manner complained of by that gentleman. It appeared also that Mr. Gray burn attributed the con duct of Mr. Barton on the occasion in question to a private pique, arising out of a transaction which hap pened between them so far back as 25 years ago, This, however, Mr. Barton denied. He (Sir F. Thesiger) trusted their Lordships, if they thought there was any blame imputable to Mr. Barton in this transaction, would say that that blame was of the smallest possible kind; but he was satisfied that, on a careful consideration of the circumstances on both sides, their Lordships could not come to the conclusion that Mr. Barton had been ac tuated by any corrupt or malicious motives, or had been wilfully guilty of a dereliction of his duty, as had been alleged, for the purpose of gratifying some private re sentment he bad against Mr. Grayburn. Mr. M. D. HILL appeared on behalf of Mr. Grayburn to support the rule. He said the question was whether Mr. Barton bad conducted himself in the exercise of his office in such a way as to give way to a bad passion at a period when, of all others, calmness and impartiality were necessary to the proper fulfilment of his duties. Ile contended that at the interview in question Mr. Barton commenced the dispute, which was at all events to be lamented, even if it produced no failure of justice, and which was kept up by the same angry feel ings with which it had been introduced. Lord CAMPBELL, in delivering judgment, said he was of opinion that the rule ought to be discharged. A magistrate was amenable to the criminal law of the country, although he might not be actuated by a motive of pecuniary interest, and although he might not mean maliciously to injure any individual. If he gave way to his passion when he was acting as a magistrate, whereby justice was perverted or obstructed, he was guilty of a misdemeanour, and this Court would interfere to lay such a case before a jury. He (Lord Campbell) could not think his brother Matteson granted the rule merely because some ill-temper bad been dis played. He must naturally have supposed that facts afforded prima facie an inference that Mr. Barton did give way to his bad passion, and that justice had been obstructed ; but, on cause being shown, the Court thought the grounds on which the rule had been granted had been completely answered, and he (Lord Campbell) thought that Mr. Gray burn had conducted himself with great impropriety in the manner in which the application had been made to the Court. The other Justices concurred, and the rule was dis charged with costs. THE QUEEN V THE PRINTER AND PUBLISHER OF THE " DAILY NEWS." The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not issue against the defendants for an alleged libel on three of the managing directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Company. The COURT refu s sed the rule. [We shall give the particulars of the case in our Third Edition.] EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) O'CONNOR, M.P., V. DRADSHAW.-JUDGMENT. It will be recollected that in this action, which was brought by Mr. O'Connor, M.P., to recover damages for a libel, published in the Nottingham Journal, re flecting on his character in connexion with the National Land Scheme, a verdict was returned for the defendant, accompanied by an expression of opinion by the jury that the personal honesty of the plaintiff remained un affected. The main assertion contained in the alleged libel was, that the plaintiff had swindled the working people cf England of 100,0001., and appropriated the money to his own purposes. A rule was subsequently obtained for a new trial, and it came on for argument on Tuesday last, but the Court postponed their judgment on the points raised in the case. Mr. Baron PArKE this morning delivered judgment n the case, and stated that his opinion was that the rule fur a new trial ought to be discharged. The other Judges concurred. The rule was consequently discharged. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Steeplechase of 5 soya. each, with 25 Free Handicap for 801. The winner to be sold added; winners extra. if demanded, &c., and allowance if to be sold for less. LEAMINGTON RACES—TUESDAY. Mr. Land's Frank, 9st 71b (Fowler) 1 Mr. Hopkins's Gulnare, 5 yrs, 9st 101 b (Archer) 2 Mr. Cal ew's Young Lottery, 9st 41b ...( W. Planner) 3 Mr. Fawcus's Little Paul, lOst 21b ... (Taylor) 0 Mr. Wilson's Souvenir. 9st 10Ib (Meany) 0 Mr. Gray's Outcast, 9st 91b (carried 9st 121 b) (Frisby) 0 Mr. Denniston's Slow and Uncertain, Bit 121b(Owner) 0 Mr. J. Clarke's Young Sultan, 10st 41b ...(B. Barker) 0 Betting-2 to 1 agst Gulnare, 7to 2 each agst Gul nare and Little Paul, 4 to 1 apt Young Lottery, and 5 to 1 agat Souvenir. Won by a length, Young Lottery a good third. The winner was sold for 60 guineas. The Grand Open Steeplechase, a free handicap of 20 sovs. each, h ft, with 100 added; the second to save his stake, and the winner to pay 25 sovs. towards ex penses. Four miles. Mr. Hutton's Lucy Neal, aged, lOst 61b (Frisby) 1 Mr. Storey na.The Victim, aged, lOst 51b (W. 'Taylor) 2 Mr. Carew's British Yeoman, lOst 121 b ...(J. Mason) 3 Mr. Barnett's Sir Peter Laurie, l Ist 31b (O wner ) 0 Mr. Anson's Spring B e k , 10st .......... ..... (T. Oliver) 0 Mr. Staff)rd's St. Holi er , lOst 71b (incl. 71b extra)... 0 Mr. King's Shinron e , l Ost 51b (Wynne) 0 Mr. Osborne's Abd-el-Kader, lOst 41b (Ryan) 0 Mr. Cook's Verax, lO st 21b (J. Holman) 0 Mr. Reed's Champagne, 9 st 121 b (Turner) 0 Mr. T. Carter na The Skipper, 9st 71b (Archer) 0 Mr. Carew's Grimaldi, 9st - (W. Planner) 0 Betting-4 to 1 agst The Skipper -5 to 1 agat Abd el-Ksder-8 to I agst Spring Bok-10 to 1 each agat St. Helier, Victim, and Lucy N eal, and 100 to 6 agst British Yeoman. Won by tw o l engths. Hunt Cup Steeplechase o f 10 soya, each. Wi nners ex t ra . Three miles. Mr. Robertson's Ace of Trumps „„ ....(IL Gamsb) I Mr. Carew's Lamquenet, l lst 71b ........................ 2 Mr. Worthington's Ever green, list ....... .. (Owner) 3 Mr. Littledale's Charley Lopside, 1 Ist 71b ' Captain Rowley na Spectat or, llst ............ (Owner) 0 Mr. Hope sbg by Bark aton, 1 Ist ...(Mr . Leterier) 0 Mr. Arkwright's Coquin, li st ( e d li st 71b) (Owner) 0 TT Lord Strathmore's Tally ....o, I2st (Mr. Sheldon) 0 Betting-7 to 4 apt Ace of T ram p s -3 to 1 agat Lana qu enet-4 to 1 agst T a ll y Ho. W on easy by two length,. Free Handicap Hurdl e S takes o f 5 s ot's. each, and 30 added, two miles (12 S u b s. ) , were won by Mr: Benson's _. Little Queen, 4 yrs, 9A 71b (Frisby), beating Mr. G ulli ver's Fazeley, aged, lOst 31b, and several others. CAPTAIN COLLINsoN'S .BEHRING'S STRAITS ARCTIC-- Captain Collin son , ships of the e xpe di t i on und2:rFEll/770/v. We have been f avoure d w i t h seve ral letters f rom C. 8., in search of Si r J o h n Franklin, v i al Beh r i ng ' s Straits, which ha ve reac h e d England via P anama. One letter, dated H on olulu, June 30, sa y s : —. " Here we are aft e r a v ery tedious p assa g e of 175 days from England. W e did not see Inv esti g ator after the 21st April. We sail on the 30th (t hi s day) for B e h r i ng ' s Straits. We are too late I fear to effect the object of our cruise this season, but We cannot help it, so hope for the beat. " The Herald, Capt. Kellett , l eft here six wee ks since for the Strait s , so we expect to meet her, as well as the Plover, Commander Moore. " We h ave no t s p ar ed the canvas on our way here: everything thng We i find is tmhiosnVraocuesly expensi ve o n account of thedestitute of refreshment s , an d e Californian business. There are abount 50 ships in the place, all eager, for provisions, and the Government has not made any preparations for our departure." Other letters announce t he de p art ure of Captain Collins on , an d th a t his last words were that he Tin tended to join the Plover , take her und er his orders, and push for the ice at o nce, kee p in g the Plover in reserve to fall back upon. frlonmves‘tvigoaathoar; July 4, but it was exp ec t e d t h at on joinin g the Enterprise Captainmmander M'Cl ure, bad a l so sailed he Collinson would send her to Valparaiso for provisions and stores. NARROW ESCAPE or Ma. JUSTICE RLE.—Yes. terda:v morning, shortly be fore ten, as Mr., Justice E r i e was riding on h or s e b a ck to the Cou r t of Queens Bench, a h orse and cab, without a driver ca me u p at a fur ious pace f rom t h e direction of the Old Pal ace- y ard, and wh en opposite Can ning's statue, in New Palace -yard, was capsized ; th e d r i ver of another cab in attempting to stop the horse having unfor tunately fallen under the wheel. The horse upon which the Learned Judge was riding became extremely rest i ve, and plunged about in the mo st ,furious manner. Its rider en deavouring to control it t o the utmost of his strength, b u t was greatly, b u t not dan gerously the horse plunged so violent l y that the Le arned Judge was in imminent danger of being thrown off . At length several persons took hold of the horse, and the Learned J u d ge was relieved from his perilous position. The cabm an who at temptedg eruualy to o injuredstop i t n h e t h c e a b b e horse,ad andother parts of hi s person. FOREIGN CATTLE.--A large increase in the ordi nary arrivals from Ho:land has taken place by the steamer Apollo, arrived from Rotterdam, which has brought 194 head of oxen and cow', being an unusually large n um b er o f horned stock f ro m Holland, besides 851 sheep, 36 calves, and 36 pigs, the produce of that country. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Mr. Macready appeared last evening as Othello, " for the last time previously to his final representa tion of that character." ?Jr. Macready's very fine personation of the jealous Moor fully merited a re petition of all the eulogies which it has so often re ceived and deserved. His rez. - diug of the character from first to last was most impressive and effective. Mr. Davenport's lago was a very creditable perform ance. The gentle Desdemona found a very pretty and pleasing representative in Miss Reynolds ; and Mrs. Warner's Emilia, especially in the last scene, was excellent. Mr. Macready received, at the close of the play, the usual ovation before the curtain : a compli ment which was afterwards extended to Mr. Daven port, Mrs. Warner, and Miss Reynolds. The house was crowded to excess in every part. SADLERS' WELLS THEATRE. The chef d'ireuvre of John Webster, the Duchess of Malfi, was revived here last evening. It hae.been adapted to the exigencies of the modern stage by Mr. R. H. Horne, who has exhibited a reverential regard for the magnificent work of ono of our finest old dramatists in the alterations which he has found it necessary to make in order to adapt a tragedy, originally pro duced in 1612, to the tastes of an audience of 1850; indeed, he has been almost too reve rential, and we could have wished that he had altogether omitted the fifth act (in itself an anti-climax) or greatly altered the denouement, so as to have avoided the almost burlesque termination of the play, in which all the principal characters left surviving (the Duchess, it will be recollected, is murdered in the fourth act) kill one another. The plot of this work is simple to the last degree, but the author has filled it with horror, men tal and physical, to its extreme complement. The Duchess of Amalfi, in Italy (corrupted to "Malfi"), secretly mar ries her own steward; and her brothers, a prince and a cardinal, by means of a hired miscreant, deliberately murder her, as a punishment for the stain on the family honour. Prior to her death, however, they visit her with a series of moral tortures. She is made to see a wax figure, which she takes for the corpse of her husband ; all the inmates of a madhouse are turned loose about her to terrify her with their horrible antics, a funeral dirge is sung over her while she is still living, and at last her windpipe is closed by the fatal cord. The scene in which this banquet of horrors is presented is the most renowned in the piece, and here we may cite the comment of Charles Lamb, one of the most admiring of Webster's critics. He says, " All the several parts of the dreadful apparatus with which the Duchess's death is ushered in are not more remote from the con ceptions of ordinary vengeance than the strange cha racter of suffering .which they seem to bring upon their victim is beyond the imagination of ordinary poets. As they are not like inflictions of this life, so her language seems not of this world. She has lived among horrors till she is become ' native and endowed unto that element.' She speaks the dialect of despair, her tongue has a swatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. What are Luke's iron crown,' the brazen bull of Pha laris, Procruste's bed, to the waxen images which coun terfeit death, to the wild masque of madmen, the tombmaker, the bellman, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees? To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul; to,the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wear and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit—this only a Webster can do. Writers of'an inferior genius may upon horrors' head horrors accumulate,' but they cannot do this. They mistake quantity for quality, they 'terrify babes with painted devils,' but they know not how a soul is capable of being moved; their terrors want dignity, their affrightments are without decorum." The play is :well :put :upon 'the stage and i s ver y strongly cast ; Miss Glynn personating the Duchess; Mr. Phelps Ferdinand, and Mr. G. Bennett, Bosola. In the earlier scenes with the Steward, Miss Glynn acted the part as a light comedy one, exhibiting quite a spirit of coquetry, and was, as it struck us, in all the earlier scenes of the play, indeed, up to the conclusion of the third act, somewhat deficient in dignity. The scene in which she parts with her children, at the conclusion of the third act, was very finely given, and the whole of the fourth act was acted with terrific earnestness. Mr. Phelps was very fine in Ferdinand—we have seldom seen the ago nies of remorse more finely depicted; and Mr. G. Ben nett, as Bosola, was perfect. Taken as a whole, Bosola was the best acted character of the play. The applause was enthusiastic, and at the conclusion all the principal artistes were called on, and there were loud calls for Mr. Horne. The house was crowded. ST. MARTIN'S HALL. MONTHLY CONCERTS. Mr. Hullah commenced, last evening, a series of monthly concerts (to consist of eight) in the large room of the new building in Long-acre, called St. Martin's Hall. The audience was numerous, and decidedly of a less mixed character than is now usually met with at public concerts. It was re markably of the style called " fashionable," a style which was not only evident in the general aspect of the company, but sustained with unvaried consis tency throughout the whole of the entertainment. Whilst no passage of peculiar beauty was de nied a due recognition, still there was not any break in the refined smoothness of a watch ful, but almost silent criticism, by even one burst of loud (not to speak of enthusiastic) approba tion. The performance was in every part perfect, the works selected faultless, the auditory (without the exception of an individual or an instant) satisfied, de lighted, but evenly content with that satisfaction S and delight, and utterly thoughtless of any conventional obligation to express refined pleasure in boisterous acclamation. The first part comprised only Beethoven's Mass in C major, of which, after the manner in which it was produced last night, it would be a very pardonable slight, even to Haydn, to pronounce it the finest mass now extant. Indeed, it is difficult to think, on a brief consideration, of any sen tence in the whole range of sacred music so forcibly expressive of faith, awe, and mystery, as the sublime transition in the " Crede" to the important words " Genitum non facturn." The magnificent phrase was magnificently given, and a feeling audi ence manifested its profound sympathy with an in tensity which could not be expressed by any rude applause. The 'vocalists Miss Birch, Mrs. Noble, Mr. Lockey, and Mr. Bodda, together with Mr. Hullah's pupil choristers, and the entire orchestra, acquitted themselves in a manner altogether worthy of this noble subject, and their cultivated audience. The second part of the concert was Handers powerful but somewhat monotonous reduction of Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso to choral music, in which was introduced a new vocalist iss iCearns a debutante who promise s t o ran k' high the musical world, ana d o justice to the reputation of her distinguished father, the late William Henry Kearns,'! an orchestral com poser, whose least elaborate works constitute some of the most attractive portions of those nightly con certs which attract the greatest crowds in this most musical season. Miss Kearne's voice is soprano, of fine quality, pre-eminently clear, sweet, and pure, and her execution in a rare degree even and unforced. In the several recitatives and airs allotted to her she sustained to perfection the precision, accuracy, and harmonic truth which characterised the whole per formance, and reflected upon the conductor, Mr. Hullah, the highest possible credit. The success of Miss Kearns was more like that of an established favourite and mistress of song than of an unknown candidate at a musical reception. The other vocal Darts wera admirably sustained by Miss Birch, Mr. Lockey, and Mr. Bodda, who was honoured with the only encore which interrupted the refined suavity of the evening. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 20. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes. The Royal Family took their usual airings. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, attended by the Earl of Morley, Lieut.- Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Buckley, Lieut.- Colonel Hon. A. N. Hood, and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe- Weimar is expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Mljesty and the Prince. The Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, Baroness de Speth, the Rev. Lord and Lady Wrio thesley Russell, and the Commanding Officer of the Coldstream Guards (Colonel Codrington). The Viscountess Canning has arrived at the Castle, in the place of the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, as the Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. Dr. Paris had an interview with Sir Georg© Grey yesterday at the Home-office, to convey an address for presentation to her Majesty from the Royal Col lege of Physicians, on the subject of the late Papal aggression. The Cambridge University Commission met yester day at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. Present—The Bi s h op of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir J. F. W. Herschel, the Rev. Profe.sor Sedgwiek, and the Rev. W. H. Bateson (Secretary). Mr. Nathaniel Solomon, cf St. Helena, accompanied by Mr. G.:rdner, had an interview tivith Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-oflice. The American Minister had an i n t erv i ew w i t h t h e Ch a ncellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman cf the Board of Inland Revenue, and Mr. Pressly, had also an interview with the. Right Hon. Baronet yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street._ --- 111 r. J. Kenyon 131ackwell had an interview yes terday with Sir George Grey at the Home.office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Colonies. SWEARING•IN SOLICITORS.—Yesterday the Right Hon. Lord Langdale, Master of the Rols, attended at the Rolls Court, Chancery-lane, to swear in solicitors. The num ber of gentlemen to be sworn exceeded 200. They were in troduced to his Lordship in parties of twenty. TRINKETS from DEUTSCHLAND. BY A MYSTERIOUS CONTRIBUTOR. (From the Leader.) Last Monday, at five o'clock in the afternoon, we took a third-clnss ticket for Dover, at the office of the South-Eastern Railway, near London- bridge; walked, as is our wont, up and down the platform until start ing time, and were then huddled into a kind of cow pen, and dragged like a malefactor through the cutting air. Our sufferings, however, on the occa• sion were more sympathetic than directly physical. We are old campaigners, and came fortified with cur customary munitions of rugs and Russian fur. But there were two thin-clad chattering petrifactions of Frenchmen at our side, and two women crouching behind the shelter of a parasol in the next pen ; we were partakers of their pains, and, it is to be feared, also respondents to their sweet invocations on behalf of the South-Eastern directors. At is o'clock the steamer moved her snoring fins, and pointed to wards Ostend. She pitched drunkenly and we bolted downstairs, stretched ourselves along the seat, with our carpet-bag for a pillow, and in this attitude pre served the equilibrium of our interior. Reached i Ostend at five o'clock, an d at si x the trump e t sounded from the railway platform ; the engine yelled answer, and away we started. Through Bruges, through Ghent, through Malines the country all along being as flat as a pancake, until towards evening we approached Liege. Here nature began to give some signs of energy, set her arms a-kimbo and looked into our face with alter nate smiles and sternness. Some twenty tunnels pierced the bills, and new scenic features greeted our escape from each. The woods were drawn like many coloured scarfs over the shoulders of the hills ; the larch sprung like a tapering mist beside its darker brother, the mountain pine; grey rock-nobs jutted through the painted leaves, and along the bases of the streams crept and tumbled alternately. Picturesque houses, cottages, castles, and blue wood-smoke must round off the reader's conception of this delightful land. Reached Cologne at nine o'clock, and soon found ourselves swathed in the blankets of the Rhein berg. On Wednesday morning, before day•dawn, clouds spread like an umbrella over all the zenith, but a horizontal fringe of clear blue gave promise of a fine day. At six o'clock we loosed from the quay and steamed upwards. Two hours brought us in sight of the white walls of Bonn. To the left rose the ragged summits of the seven mountains, and upon the wildest peak, recoiling against the storm, stood the castle of Drachenfels. Right opposite stood the ruin of Rolandseck, " a noble arch in proud decay," clasping in its hoary arms the cankering atmosphere which ruined it piecemeal. Beauties, geological and psychological, hang about these scenes. Here and there the fluted basalt exhi bibited itself as a solidified outcrop of the central fires. The hills are very singular. Imagine four inches cut from the apex of a sugar loaf, six inches more from the centre ; fancy the latter put aside, and the conical top placed upon the broad base that remains, and you have the general characteristic of the hills about here. The smaller cones appear to have been forced up at a later period from the bowel-furnace underneath, and are encased by the older hills as the skin of certain warts encloses the protruding papillae. In the rotation of moods we are geologists and psyschologists in turn. The understanding and the soul possess us alternately ; and it is the habitual fixation of one mood which often gives it its predomi nance. Jean Paul, I doubt not, could have con quered mathematics had ho been pushed to it ; and Faraday, I imagine, might have composed a poem had Shakspere, instead of Humphry Davy, operated upon him. An image sometimes flashes out upon you in the writings of this man which irradiates his whole subject, and throws a poetic flush into the face of science. Doubtless Faraday finds pleasure in his permanent mood ; and doubtless Murchison, with his geologic hammer, would delight to wander along " those banks of Rhine ;" but we must confess an in fidelity to the pursuits of both as the steamer bore us along. Our mood was psychologic; not that we would have it so, but it came—shall we tell whence it came ? There is within every human breast a solar system which has not yet found its Newton. Aphe lions and perihelions, attractions and centri fugal divergences, night and day, full moons and eclipses, which have thus far baffled philosophic calculation. We watch from the earth the entrance of Jupiter's fourth satellite into the planet's shadow, we see it issue at the other side, creep round him, and again dive into the shade ; and we find that to complete the circle some two-and-forty hours are necessary. Centuries ago it was also two-and-forty hours, and centuries to come it will be the same. One unchangeable law stretches through ages, and Professor Airy converses with the Chaldean sage through their in terpreters, the stars. But, have those inner orbs fixed laws of revolution ; or, are not their phenomena me teorological, like the wind blowing where it listetli, and telling not whence it cometh or whither it goeth ? Their motions are certainly irregular, but may they not hearken to a common law, notwithstanding ? Some years ago a comet was twisted from its path by the planet Jupiter, and .sent swinging round the sun again ; after making a few revolutions, it escaped once more from the thraldom of our system and de parted, God knows where ! Here was deviation pro duced by a constant cause. The visible universe is pregnant with one force acting from different centres, and may not the invisible be so too? That brown rock which thrusts its crystalline forehead through the moss and fern, is a centre of force for me. The Rhine-land, with its ascending forests and vine ter races etched into crags ; those smitten ruins festooned with centennial memories ; the noble river which " foams and flows" beneath them—each and all pos sess their radient 'forces which act as certainly upon the human soul as magnetism upon the ferric mass. Nor is it these alone which determine my mood just now. Emerson is beside me, and the music of his " Wood Notes" mingles with the silent warb ling of the hills. Tennyson is also here, and so is Longfellow, with his genial, sunny heart ; and there is still another influence due to a neighbouring mass of bone and muscle which clasps a heart and arches round a brain, both of hopeful calibre, lie has dis solved Hyperion, and now pours the fluid mass laden with the perfume of his own feelings into me. In plain words, reader, my young friend with the beaver coat reads to me. and his voice blends harmo. niously with the tints of beech and hazel, with the bloom of the sky, and the rush of the river. These were the influences which, combined with the projectile force due to our proper individuality, determined the sunny orbit of our thoughts that day. But, whither has this sentence brought us ? In sooth, face to face with " Robert Owen's first prin ciple." Well, this shall not frighten our ortho doxy into fits. This creed of circumstances, like everything else, partakes of the lights and shadows of a man's moods. It is sometimes unanswerable, and sometimes not worth an answer. Nor is there any inconsistency in this, for our first insight is by no means a constant quantity ; it oscillates between mere dog insight and the insight of a God. In the dog-days circumstances loom upon us like Fata Mar gene on the coast of Naples, but the God's day comes, and the sky is clear once more. If, however, this creed of circumstances were granted, I do not see that we should be much the gainers. Grant that houses are made of bricks, the house is not built by the admission : before we can turn it to practical ac count, we must be able to distinguish bricks from buns. In other words, we must understand cir cumstances before we can apply them. Ilovv is this knowledge to be attained ? "By ex periment," replies an apostle of this creed. But, where are your experiments. I know that Harmony Hall, in Hampshire, was built at enor mous cost ; that its erection was hailed as the commencement of God's millennium upon earth ; that even at the present moment letters significant of this are stamped on one of its gables in silicic acid ; but, I know also, that it soon became a failure. Either too much or too little circumstance ; or, perhaps, a wrong dose altogether must have been applied here. Have you any guarantee that your next attempt will be more successful? I merely cite the experiment to show that, plain as your case appears, there are stern difficulties behind it ; for you work with materials of which you are ignorant ; and, probably, will ever re main so. " Given the circumstances," I have heard you say, "we can predicate the man.'' Now, given a Jesus Christ, or even a philosopher Fichte, will you oblige me by calculating his effect? Is it not like asking your four year old boy for an investigation of the oscillatory circle? Such men enter as transcendental functions into the social problem, and refuse to be solved by your feeble geometry. But, I doubt, you would " regulate" Christ's "enthusiasm" and Fichte's "ideality," and thus convert them into wholesome citizens of your "new moral world." Chronometers in ships have their springs sometimes polarized by a flash of lightning. In such a case, what would ycu think of a proposal to abolish the earth's magnetism, so that Dent's 50/. patent might still keep time? But we have spun too long in this funnel of specu lation. Forward, then, under the cannon of Ehren breitstein, and by the walls of Coblentz—through the Lurlei, past Bingen, into Maintz—then by rail to Frankfort ; forward to that brave little land, Hesse Cassel, at present the cynosure of political Europe; whence, from the tranquil shadow of an acacia, we have had much pleasure in conducting iu thought the foregoing discussion with our respected English reader. THE AUTHORS OF OUR OWN PLEASURES.—We have received the following from "An Amateur," who, we imagine, must have been a contributor to the defunct An nuals, and other so urces o f unpa i d literature. " Authors may,indeed, be called the authors of their own pleasures, for, after all, it mus t b e confesse d that there are f e w plea sures in this world to be compared to the ecstatic pleasure the author f ee l s i n rea di ng one of his own articles in print. According to this, no man can have so many sedulous penny-a-liner, for h e sees his articles in print almost every day of bi d life.— Punch. pleasures as the - - f ~/ \ INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. Cubitt, Eq., President, in the chair.) On `Tuesday the subject of the paper read was " The Ventilation of Collieries, theoretically end practically , ti.l N. considered," by Mr. William Price Struv6 (of Swan see) M. Inst. C. C. The author commenced by showing that the general principles which ought to govern the ventilation of collieries were— Ist. That a current of air through the channels of collieries, at a velocity of five feet per second, was sufficient for most purposes. 2d. That a current exceeding the velocity would only be attained at the expense of leakage and other evils. 3J. That in order to obtain the requisite supply of fresh air, the channels of a colliery or mine ought to be enlarged according to the exigency. In the process of laying out a mine a subdivision occurred by which the workings were apportioned into numerous compartments, which facilitated the system of splitting the current of air, or diverting it into nu merous channels, giving to each compartment a se parate, and, therefore, more effective ventilating force. At the same time the area of the channel was enlarged, and the aggregate length of the air tube shortened, so that it was quite practicable to pass through the workings of a mine 300 cubic t'eet of air per minute for each man employed. The velocity of the air current in a mine was so easily affected, that it was important to consider by what accidents, and under what circumstances, any changes took place. It could not be supposed that the excavated spaoe of old workings was completely filled by the " falls" of the roof and " creeps" of the floor ; extensive rupture of the stratification occurred, and through this broken ground great leakage must take place. This would seriously affect a long continuous air course, there fore, the way to meet this difficulty was to split, shorten, and enlarge the air channel. The details of two experiments at the Eaglesbush and Ynis David Collieries, where the air was pumped out by Mr. Struve's mine ventilator, showed that a large propor tion of the air was drawn from the old workings, and the " goaf," or broken ground surrounding the col liery, and did not come down the intake shaft, and traverse the actual workings, as it ought to have done. In both these cases, the enlarging and splitting of the air channels, so as to reduce the velocity of the air to about three or four feet per second, would have pro duced most beneficial results. These principles were shown to have been lost sight of in the majority. ✓ -":even of the great collieries, and the power of rarefaction by a furnace, was trusted to for dragging the long column of air over and through innumerable impediments. In some cases this was left to be produced by the increased tempe rature of the mice, from the candles, and the respira tion of the men, aided by the cooling effect of water trickling down the intake shaft. These scarcely sufficed to produce an average difference between the two shafts of thirteen degrees in winter, whilst in the summer, and certain states of the atmosphere, there was no difference at all, and, consequently, little or no ventilation. Where rarefaction by heat was used, the temperature in the upcast shaft varied from ninety de grees to one hundred and sixty degrees ; this, how ever advantageous for ventilation, was injurious to the shaft itself, and absolutely dangerous to the men who had to traverse it. A comparison of the dimensions of the air passages and the velocities of the currents in numerioas col lieries, led to an estimate of the motive power required to produce the results attained in the best ventilated mines, in case of the employment of a steam-engine and air pumps. This power would have varied between 23-horse power and 26-horse power. The efficiency of furnace ventilation was always increased by the depth of the shafts, especially if they were entirely devoted for the purposes of ventilation, irrespective of the working of the pit. The experiments of Mr. Nicholas Wood, Mr. G. Elliot, Mr. H. Vivian, and other mining engineers, were then quoted to demonstrate the insufficiency of the " steam jet " as a means of promoting ventilation, showing that it was a most wasteful application of power, when compared with the steam force employed to work Struv6's Mine Ventilator at the Eaglesbush Colliery. This apparatus consisted of two hollow pistons, resembling large gasometers, plunging into cisterns of water, and having inlet and outlet valves. The pistons received alternate motion from a small steam-engine of five-horse power, and being filled and emptied at each revolution of the crank, produced a regularity of current and a degree of co pious ventilation hitherto unknown in the mines to which they had been applied. The small cost of their establishment—only about 100/. for an extensive mine—joined with the little liability to getting out of order, was much in their favour. The paper terminated with copious extracts from the able mining reports of Mr. John Phillips and Mr. Kenyon Blackwell, confirming all the positions assumed by the author. The discussion upon this paper was announced to take place at the next meeting, Tuesday, November 26, until which time the meeting was adjourned. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS IUMBER OF DEATIIS FROM ALL CAL SFS RLGIS'I ERED IDT TEE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOV. 16, 1550. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases —. 4 '209 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... ... ... 38 Tubercular Diseases ... ... ... ... ... 167 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 100 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... ... 35 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... ... ... ... ... ... 148 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ••• ... -•• ... ~. 53 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• ... ... 12 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... ... 6 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ••• 5 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... ... ~. ~. 2 Malformations... ... ... ... ... ... ... Premature Birth ... ... .. ... Atrc,phy ... ... ••• ... ... Old Age ... ... ... ... ... Sudden ... ... ... ... ... Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Causes not specified ... ... ... ... ... 28 ... 19 ... 38 ... 12 ... 25 ... 5 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... Population Deaths in corre- Enumerated, Sponding week 1841. of 1849. West Districts... 301,189 . . 112 . North District: , .. 376,568 .. 165 . Central Districts 374,199 East Districts ... 393,067 South Districts .. 503,346 Totals... ~... 1,948,369 Males ... ... Females ... ... 87S 908 Death/ in the Week. 135 167 170 212 224 Males Females ... . .. 90S .. . 435 .. . 473 ... 787 ... 794 4 S 89 p 95% 97 69 p 69 p 69 p CLOSING PRICES. 99 % 31 3 4 85 108 36% 3 3 4 39 1 44 89 IA 3114 57 8714 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Total ... .... ... ... ...1,581 *ln this number are included 39 by Scarlatina, 56 by Typhus Fever, and 20 by Diarrhoea. About three months ago we called attention to a discovery which had been made of metallic veins in the island of Jamaica, in the range of hills abutting on Annotto bay. The original exploration was made under the immediate inspection of a highly-respectable magistrate of the colony, who during the past summer forwarded specimens to England, which excited very sanguine hopes. A company was sometime ago formed for the purpose of working the mines, and as a preliminary measure a gentleman of high practical knowledge in mining, from Cornwall, was dispatched to extend the exploration, and report the result of his inves tigation. Letters have been received from him by the pre sent mail, of a highly-favourable description. After an examination, extending over about six weeks, he reports that the veins of copper are considerably richer than was at first represented, and will exceed the proportion of the most valuable mines in the island of Cuba. A very rich vein of lead has also been discovered, and as the distance is within ten miles of an eligible point for shipment, and of compara tively easy access, the mines can be worked with a very hmall amount of capital. It is expected that the ores will be shipped to some extent by the very first opportunity of a ship leaving Annotto-bay. Persons acting for some Ameri can houses have also been exploring the spurs from the Blue Mountain range, so that it is highly probable mining opera tions may become of great consequence in that important colony. IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY TRAYELLERS.—A case, was decided in the Sheriff's Court, Glasgow, on Thursday, of some interest to the public. The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company were summoned for expenses caused to a Eassenger through delay in the starting of a train on the ast-day.: They, argued their non-liability' on the ground of the crush of passengers ; but Sheriff Bell held that such an occurrence should have been foreseen and provided for, and should not have been allowed to interfere with the closing of the doors at the hour, and the prompt starting of the train, and that a delay of three-quarters of an hour itn plied mismanagement. He, therefore, decerned for the full claim, with expenses.—Scotsman. BE/MING STRAITS BOAT EXTEDITION.—The boats' crews of the Plover may have a chance of receiving letters if posted by Friday evening's mail, addressed to "the Admi ralty Searching Expedition,:care of the Hudson's Bay Com pany, Sault St. Mary's, Lake Superior, Canaia West." SUDDEN DlZATll. — Charles Howard Sidebuthiun. Esq., formerly a cotton spinner at Ashton-under-Lyne' but latterly an agriculturist, li v i ng u p on hi s own es t a t e at Ash ley, in Cheshire, experienced an awfully sudden death at Manchester on Monday. The annual lair commenced on Monday, called the Salford Dirt Fair, and Mr. Sidebotham cause to the fair with a view of buying stock. In Bridge street, Manchester, he met Mr. Isaac Picton, of Broughton, and while in conversation lie suddenly sank down and in stantly expired. A surgeon who was called in said that death had arisen from disease of the heart. Mr. Sidebotham was about 60 years of age. The following Colonial appointments have just been decided ti n o :— ve l‘ ril li. o . r ß o a i n pl e i r i n ic l e an Ed la w t a e r 3 d lL for and ; D a u n ud ds ee ir , to be Lieut John Athol Macgregor (son of Sir E. Macgregor, formerly Gover nor-in-Chief of Barbadoes and the Windward Islands), to Ere President administering the Government of the Tirgin Islands. TUE PROGRESS or TRE TIMES.—We understand that, in order to show their disapproval of the recent nomi nation of Dr. Wiseman to the office of Cardinal, the Protes tant printers of London have resolved to set their faces, and their types, against titles in Roman characters, whola are now quite out et everybody's good books.mrPtinc4. N f, . firr J. 2% 100 100 42% 100 47% 2 12 0 Path of I 2dth. Paid. 100 173 6 % li 30 24% 69 9!.i 55% 8 :7,4 9 % %. Paid.