The Sun. — London, England, 1850-11-22 00:00:00

BANK RET URNS. (From :h© .Condors Gazette of Tuesl An Aocinint, pursuant to the Act seventh e.3.a eighth Vietorut, cap. 32, of the Averag e Amount of Bank N)tes of ' the sever 11 13111143 of Issue is England and Virateq. in Circulation daring the Week ending Satur day, the 9th day November, 1850: Average PRIVATE B ANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover —Heath and Cl 13,354 Ashford Bank, Ashford--Jefamitt and Pomfret 11,790 Aylshaln Bank, Aylsham—R. and G Copeman 5,057 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Rickford and Hunt 25,051 Baldock Bank and Baldook and Biggleswads B. Baldock—Virells, Hogg, and Lindsell ... 22,079 lirnitapie Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co 12,813 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Ca Bedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bane., Bedford — Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. ewdley. Baak, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and ('rage .... 12,368 Bieester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—Tubb and Co. .. ... 13,980 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoc Sr , ner, and Co irmtngham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham—J. L. Meilliett, and Sons 14.215 Blandford Bank, Blandford—Bastard ana Oak. 7,126 B o ston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co . 59,090 Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 13,069 Bridgwater Bank Bridowater-3. Sc 3. Seale) 4.961 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, liarford, and Co 35,530 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Brosekyl3ank; Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 22,271 Buckingham Bank, Bucking ham—Bartlett, Parrott, and .Co.. . 19,670 • ,Bury and Suffolk Bank,Sudbury Bank, Stow , Market tank, ' Bury—Oakes Be v an, and Co. 63.46 0 „ ,Banhury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 27.86 . - vab tiry Old Bank, Banbury—Mes'srs. Cobb... 25.108 -Bat . City Bank, Bath—Meger and Son .. 3,217 • Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard— , Bassett and Grant 32,692 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds . ~.. p . 29,589 - Bradford L) .. ta, Bradfoi;cl,,,lt i orkshire-4i. • a 44 _W A AL liarris_ ...... • Brecon 01(1 Bank, Brecon--Wilkins and C 0... 66,968 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton 7 -11all, ,Yfpst„ and Borrer _ . .... ........ .. ... 25,920 Burlington and, Driffield Bank, a r Smith,„ and C 0...;......... 11, 53 7 • Bury St.-Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— • 4. Worliedge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge-and Broms ,v,,grove Bank . , Bromsgrove--Rufford, Biggs, • and 4. o.:-,- Cambridgo Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and .... 4 . ...• ▪ Cambridge and Cambridgaiiiiiro Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters • ,CsAterhu,ryjtank., Canterburp, T Efammond and ▪ Caimartlaen :Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and 2,040 10,023 16,121 41,525 28.606 't • ' US r • . . Churtsey Bank; Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste ... Celohestix. Bank, Colchester—gout:a, Green, - Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank. Truro—Tweedy and Co .. Coventry _Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood• 26,464 2,833 15,802 29,745 38,115 :COCA: _ _ City Bank, Extei—Ailford and Co , ":raven Bank, Settle—Birkbecki and CO. Christchurchßank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 6,949 17,899 76,35 G and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow - Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Nlonracuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and, Ross and 'Herefordshire Bank, Chepsto4—Bromage. Snead, and Co. Derby Bank,Derby—Me3srs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and Ilig•h Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devize3-'--Hughes Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew. and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—BackhOnse, & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- 6,671 9,096 8.254 37,656 23,757 9,106 10,297 61,835 74,265 8,969 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Biding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hall. and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Sparrow. and Co. 36,796 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 25,510 Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley 5,710 Farnham Bank, Farnhamt—LMnssts. Knight 14,729 Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co 4,739 Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and 101,563 Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co 4,401 7.184 24,043 29.821 15.278 14,770 Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen-,Sharples and Co. Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, ITadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich—. Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kinston and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and C. Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotzh and Sons... Laae End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and C. Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co Lampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lyrnington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macelestiell—Brocklehurst and Co 15,301 Manningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nun n and Co. 4,850 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and liungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 8,252 Marlborough and North Wiltshire Nov Bank Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillis 1,653 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams . 7,602 Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyam s and Co 11,134 - , Jklonmouthsh ire Agricultural and Commercial • Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 27,0;35 Monmouth Old Br.nk, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, ChepstoW Old Bank, - and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth 1 —Timmy" and Snead -.. Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport t —W. Williams and Sons. 8,753 Newark Bank; Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 21t 53 Newark and Slea.ford Bank, and Sleaford and • Newark-Bank, Sleafor&-Ilaudley, Peacock arid Co , 43.758 Newbury Bank, Newbary—Butiny and Sloeock 21,955 : 4 - Newmarket ,Bank., Newmarket,E aton, Ham mond, and Sou • .... 19,576 N riolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor an d , 0 = Dyson .. Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—HarVeys and if t vlsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur • • -neys - nnd Birkbeek 6.5,693 Ntittinghain and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tinghainliart, Fellows, and Co .,353 Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton— . Craddoek and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Madge, and _ 2a,045 C 9 New Serum Bank, Sarum Everett, and; • • Co Nattine•ham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co 27, 549 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old , Bank, Os weetty—Croxon and Co 13,994 Oxford sank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 5,566 , Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Par Sons, and Co. 31,605 , Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridr and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, ' Beeching, sad Sons . t',11,04 6. 03M - id:shire Witney 13an1C, 4.•zt and Co 8,457 18.551 39,205 4,823 17,924 28,451 19.668 18,853 62.478 19,075 8,935 19,205 40,822 7,971 5,315 54,367 37,831 29.118 32.452 14.723 79,555 25,368 6,910 3,453 THE gi.TN, Average Amount Pease a Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 40,928 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten arA Co 11,030 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter borough—Mears. Yorke , 7,658 Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson and White l2O PeToomkeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank. and Truro Bank. Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 26,144 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 27,299 Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and C 0... 5,035 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood., Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds and Co 5,438 Rochester, Chatham; and Strood Bank Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 7,185 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 9,142 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 10,840 Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co. Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co Ross (Ad Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Pritchard and Alla:way Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden-Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-Burton, Lloyd, and Co 11,325 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough-Woodall and Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Sh re wsbury-Rocke, Eytons. and. C 0...-. Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourna -Vallanee and Son l i Southampton Town and County Bank, South anipton-Maddison and Pearce 1,685 Southwell Bank, Southwell-Wylde and Co 12,813 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury-Messis:Brodie. .. . - Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury ---;• Brodie and Soutliathptort and iiampshite Bank, Southamp- Aon-Atherly.and Fall- - - °- - 3,190 Stone Bank, Stone-W. , Moore Stonrbridge- Bank, Stourbridge_-Rufford , Wragg, and Co .. Stafford pm * Bank, Stafford-Stevenson andCo 10,558 I,Staraford and * Rutland Bank, Stamford7 - Eaton , dayley, and CO. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge-Bate and Robins _Shrewsbury and Welshpool 'Bank, Shrewsbury J- , -Beck; Downward, and Co. '• 20,123 St. Alban's and Herta Bank, 'St. Alban's-Gib son and Stuart' Taunton Bank, Taunton-Messrs-Badcock 22,683 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Rundle, and , . ; Co „ ... .•• Thornb ury Bank, Thornbury--Rolph, Yates, and Parslow .. - 6,667 Tiierion and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns ford and Barne .. , 8,082 Thrapston Itettering Bank, Northampto'n-' shire, Thrapston-Yorke and Eland 10,403 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester-J. and S Percival Union Bank, . Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Allnatt &Co 6,728 Waxwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick- Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield-Leatharn, Tow, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap man, and Co 12,838 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester-Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester -Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth-Elliott and Bearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth-Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech- Gunny and Co. WiveliseGmbe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-Good ricke and Holyoake.. 11,290 Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley, Lavender, and Co. 8,731 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 74,602 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster-Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-CharlesFoster and Sons ... ... 1,275 Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster- Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton- Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 10,525 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten ••• - York Bank, York-Swann, Clough, and Co 42,806 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Bs,rnslty Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 46,657 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad- ford __20,093 Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield .. 9,268 Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . ... 31,067 Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 11,007 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel- tenham ... _ 95,819 Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle - 25,733 Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,736 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 17,717 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 135,203 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 18,670 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,633 Hull Banking Company, Hull 24,535 Halifmc Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax ... 40,345 Helston Banking Comloany, Helston 1,265 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 20,523 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 26,195 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,482 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 54,9114 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 47,980 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,997 Miiore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 31,726 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking C om p an y, N ewcas tl e 1,270 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 394,579 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 42,609 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 64,617 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton 20,370 North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 27,415 Pares's Leic.3sWrshire Banking Company, Lei cester • ............................ . 41,816 Saddleworth Banking Compa ny, Saddlew . ort . h... 2,687 Sheffield:Bankirv. Company, Sheffield ............ 34,953 Stamford, S palding , and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. 49,364 Stuckey's Banking, Company, Bristol Somerset ' shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang. port.. . .............................. ................ 290,069 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffn all ..... 41,660 Stottrbridge and - Itiddermtnstter Banking C m . Stourbri-dge parry, Sheffield and liallamshiro Banking Company, Sheffield ........ Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Sh , rliLlid Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond. ... Storey and Thomas's Banking Company Shaftesbury . 9,709 Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield .. Wolverhampton al id Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton • 30,538 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 13,525 Whitehaven . Joint .Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and Leuloir:gton Banking Company, 25,640 Warwick 27,054 West of Englam! and South Wales District Bank. Bristol ..„„ 77,516 Wilts and Dorset Banking. Company, Salisbury 6q,424 Company, West Riding Union Banking Hud. ' dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch ...•... ............ • ........ ....... ..... 2,943 Worcester City and Count y Bankin g Company, 5,260 Y0rk..........,,69,830 York City and County Banking , Company, York. 88,334 Yo W rk o Leeds ' 11548 . 3 Urcneisotenrl3.—aa in .. . .6 ;;Enp;;; ' , Yorkshire Bankinf,, , Company; , f P. DEANS, Registrar o Bank .Returns. Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Nov. 16, 1830. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1850, THE POPISH AGGRESSION. COMMON COUNCIL. A special general court of Common Council was held yesterday in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, for the purpose of addressing her Majesty en the subject of the recent Popish aggre , •sion. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided. Mr. JOHN WOOD in a lengthened address proposed a resolution to the following effect:—" That an humble, dutiful, and loyal address he presented to her Majesty on the subject of the recent proceedings of the Bishop of Rome, and expressive of the continued loyal attach ment of the Corporation of the city of London to her person, authority, and Government." Mr. BLAKE seconded the motion. Mr. CARR, a Roman Catholic member of the Court, took exception to some parts of the address, and defended the policy of the Pope, though he was not, he said, pre pared to justify, nor did he think his Holiness desired, to exercise any political power in this country. Mr. Alderman LAWRANCE would not deny to any man the right of worshipping his Maker after the fashion which his conscience dictated, but this move on the part of Rome would not increase but retard that liberty, and he was therefore opposed to it. He de nounced in no measured terms the Puseyite proceedings of Oxford, and pronounced an opinion that the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Exeter were as much to blame for this Romish aggression as Dr. Wiseman. He protested against the creation and recognition of Roman Catholic bishops, because such a step would be productive of great political evil. A bishop without a territory or church might seem an anomaly, but only let the Pope succeed in getting his bishop introduced into this land, and those requisites for sustaining his power and dignity would soon be ob tained. The noblemen, with ignoble minds, who had become proselytes, and had gone over to Rome, were blamable to the highest degree, and while he did not object to the creation of Romish bishops inlreland,which was purely a Catholic country, he must be understood as entertaining an uncompromising opposition to their appearing in England. Mr. STACEY hoped the address would be passed by a unanimous vote. Mr. DARIN was inclined to think that the Pope had been urged on by a " vaulting ambition that o'erleaps it self and falls on the other side," and when he learnt the storm of indignation which this aggressive policy had raised in Englansi, he would see the expediency of re tracing his steps, if he acted the part of a wiseman. Mr. TAYLOR pointed to Sardinia as affording an illus tration of the tyranny and war-to-the-knife spirit which always actuated the policy of the Romish Church. Only let Romanism gain the ascendancy in this country, and there would be an end of civil and religious liberty. Mr. Eaniorr thought that a limit ought to be put upon the toleration extended to Papistic principles. The tole ration which the Roman Catholics enjoyed should be confined within its present limits, for whenever and wherever Roman Catholicism had succeeded in establish ing _bishoprics there immorality and misery abou nded. Mr. JONES agreed with those who bad preceded him that much of the aggression which the Pope wished to be guilty of was attributable to the proceedings of a small portion of the Established Church, but the dissen sions which existed in the Church should form the subject of discussion on another day. They had enough to do nova in. confining themselves to the threatened in vasion from Rome, and in opposing that movement and supportingthise address, he begged to state that his motive fur doing so was a strong belief that the Roman Catholic Church was incapable of toleration. Mr. BENNOCH deprecated the idea of treat ing the Archbishop of Westminster with contempt, for his manifesto displayed a masterly pen and consummate ability, and his influence was to be dreaded rather than despised. For his part, he rejoiced that this movement had taken place, since it would serve the purpose of establishing Protestantism upon a firmer basis than it already enjoyed. He was a Pro testant Dissenter, and belonged to a country which had spent 2WOOO of its best lives in supporting episcopacy. He was, therefore, diametrically opposed to the prin ciples of Roman Catholicism; but though he was strongly inclined to denounce the aggression of the Pope, he could not conceal from hicisslf the fact that it had in a great measure been encouraged by the abuses which existed in the Established Church, and one of its Universities. In raisints their voices against the impudent proceedings of the Pope, let them also protest against the dissension which existed in the Church, and insist upon the abuses to which he had referred being at once rooted out. Mr. LOCK said the true source of the evil was Catho lic emancipation, and the only remedy for the grievance was the withdrawal of the concessions which had been made to the Catholics. _ Mr. D. W. WIRE trusted the Court would not sym pathise with the feelings of the last speaker. Why should they return to the days of persecution because the Pope of Rome had been guilty of an attempted aggression? But while he protested against that step he was equally averse to the spread of Romish influence in this country. Civil and religious liberty he would never forsake, but this move ment of Rome would destroy that freedom, and it was his duty to resist it. Dr. Wiseman had contrasted this creation of bishops by his Church with the parcelling the country out into districts by the Wesleyans, but the analogy there attempted to be drawn could not be sus tained, for while the Wesleyans recognised no fo reign power in matters spiritual or temporal, Ro man Catholics, who were sincere in their pro fession, were forced to owe a divided allegiance. The tendency of Roman Catholicism was to debase the mind and enslave the soul, and Heaven forbid that it should ever again obtain the ascendant in this country. Still he did not blame Dr. Wiseman, the Pope, or the Government, for this aggression, but the unfaithful sons of the Church of England, and though some of them had disavowed their former principles, he was strongly in• dined to think that it was not for the sake of Pro testantism, but was rather to be traced to a fear that their loaves and fishes were in danger. Mr. CARR, as a Roman Catholic, disclaimed owning any allegiance to the Pope either spiritual or temporal. ,Mr. Alderman SIDNEY spoke a few words on behalf of the simplicity of Protestantism_and; in favour of the address. The resolution was then put and carried with only one dissentient, after which a committee was appointed to draw up the address, and the court adjourned. PAPAL SUPREMACY. TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN. SlR,—While the advocates of Papal supremacy over the Christian Church in every part of the globe rest their claim upon a sapposed greet of spiritual supremacy made by our Redeemer to St. Peter, as related by St. Matthew in the 18th and 19th verses of his 16th chapter, it becomes us, as Protestants, who deny that spiritual supremacy, to examine into the grounds upon which that claim is supp , sed to rest, and the extent to which the power conferred by our Saviour was designed, or was understood at the time, to go. It cannot fail to be remarked as singular that, among the four Evangelists who have recorded the events of our Saviour's ministry, Matthew alone has deemed this address to St. Peter worthy of being preserved for the information of posterity, although the circumstance which gave birth to it has been carefully chronicled by three out of the four—viz., Matthew, cb. xvi., v. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; Mark, ch. viii., v. 27, 28, 29, and Luke, ch. ix., v. 18, 19, 20; but, of these three, Matthew alone records that portion which refers personally to St. Peter. Contrasted with this omission on the part of the two last, is the remarkable fidelity with which they have reeorded in nearly the same terms the rebuke given by our Saviour to St. Peter, but a few verses farther on, namely, in the 23d of the same chapter of Matthew, and the 33d of Mark; Luke and John alone omitting it. Hence it is clear that little importance was attached to the circumstance by those who were present; that they regarded the power so conferred as purely personal; and that it gave no spiritual supremacy over his colleagues to the individual upon whom it was bestowed. Although, even admitting that evidence of such supremacy could be found in the New Testament, it remains to be proved that the grant of supremacy was extended, beyond St. Peter, to those who might be able to prove themselves by an unbroken chain of historic evidence the legitimate and apostolic successors of St. Peter's piety and power. Now, where is the historic evidence to be found of Pater having at any time been Bishop of Rome, and as 4ueli assuming any authority, approaching in the least to that claimed by the Pepes, over the Christian churches of his day? Not certainly in the Acts of Apostles, where we find St. Peter playing comparatively but a secondary part; Paul and Barnabas. not Peter, being by far the most prominent actors in all the transactions of the period. Indeed, I are not aware that we possess any trustworthy evidence of Peter having ever visited Rome, although, as he was a great traveller among the Gentiles, it is far from improbable that he might have done so. An occasional visit to Rome, however, and the circum stance of his preaching the Gospel there, even could it be satisfactorily proved, did not confer upon him the Bishopric of that See, which we might more naturally conceive to have belonged to St. Paul, who not only visited, but resided and preached in Rome for two whole pars. But that the words pronounced by our Saviour, as re corded by St. Matthew, whom I quote in the orignal Greek, ,c Ka r l, 8, (N Z A.6/0), OTt CU Et TIETpOS Kul 6ri TO ' LUTYI r 747-pa . , olKoBotorroo p.ov TIIV EKKryTtaV KaL raat aBov OVK Karaxikrovatv airrqs. Kea ) 800"0) CMG Tag ACTS Tip fiad7.4,as TOUV ovpav v Kai. 5 eav Vicrns en, rils yip &Tat 855cia 6 vov , Tots apavOK, Kai. 5 '&v Vcrris cm. 71‘..15 garac X€Xv i ulvov EV TOZ3 _ 3 p• ofravois.' . From which it would appear th at our Savio u r's ex pression, " K ai T CCLITII Ty^ pa otKoBo,u - rimo /1.00 7111/ 6<kkriffiav," a pplies not to the in dividual, but to the faith which prompted the reply by that indivi dual, to the question put by Christ in the 15th , vGrse, where he sa y s, " Tt'va [ Lc 'YE .I- e P. ter promptly and unhesitatingly answered, Xrto-rs L U 1703 TOZ OECYZ TOZ (7)OVTOS '--" Thou art Christ, the son of the living God." — This is the rock upon which he declare"d he would build his Church, so that the gates of Hell should not prevail against it, and by means of which Peter should possess, so long as /e retained it, the keys of Heaven, and the power to bind and louse. The power must have been granted both conditionally and individually—conditionally, that he should retain the faith implied in his reply; for it is absurd to suppose that the Almighty would suffer him to retain it in the event of his falling off from that faith—and individually, since it cannot be supposed that it was intended to &- scent( to sucA>sscrs of every shade of belief, among whom our Saviour himself forewarned his disciples that apos facies and heresies would arise. Indeed it must require even more than the sophistry of the Vatican, the craft o( a Loyola, or the casuistry of Westminster Hall, to per suade any, but those of the weakest and most credulous understanding, that the mighty and superhuman power conferred was granted in endless perpetuity tl all the A e; ii_popei, and Ths. who loight c;1!m, as t-.Fumporary occupants of the SC,3 ( , f Ro:ne, a pretended u spiritual flesnt from this highly distii.gui,:thed Apstle. But, if this comrais.sion really conferred any spiritual su preinicy, like thAt subsequently usurped by the 1, ,man Pontiffs, how did it, happen that rho ii - dividual so uxal!ed above I..ia colleagues should have been held amenable to their cnisures? And yet we read in the 12'1 chapter of Acts, that " When Pact. Wa3 come up to Jcrugalem they that were of the circumcision contended with him, saying, ' Thou wen test into men uncircumcised and did eat with them.' " And Peter, recognizing their authority, entered into a full juoification of his conduct. Will Pio None, who pretends to be the Apostolic suc cessor of St. Peter, bat who, unlike the Apostles of old, ran gallantly away in the piebald livery of a footman, from the imaginary honours of a martyrdom, give an equally apostolic justification of his recent puerile at tempts at usurpation? When the supposed claim of St. Peter to the spiritual sopa.' macy of the Church, and his actual occupation of the See of Rome us its Bishop, shall have bee❑ estab- Hilted upon better evidence than the legendary traditions f the Vatican, it will be sufficient time to inopire into th e cliiim of hereditary power pretended to have sprung from it.—l am, Sir, &c., WILLIAM HAMILTON. 14, Octagon, Plymouth. , METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY When the question of a metropolitan water supply comes before Parliament next session, the first ele ment of discussion will be the nature and scope of the plans brought forward by the Board of Health. That board being, in fact,• an organ of Government, its representations will be regarded as possessing a weight propntioned to the position it occupies. In dividual projectors are standing aloof for a while, and competing companies reserve their propositions until Gwydyr-house has given utterance to its final re solve. On a social and sanitary measure of this mag nitude it was well to defer for a time the hopes of in terested or the proposals of speculative persons ; old water companies and new would have been bidding against one another for public favour, the one promis ing an impossible repentance, the other an impracti cable excellence ; every engine known in the warfare of committee-rooms would hare been brought into play ; the real character of a dozen different schemes would have been disguised amidst the dust of the con flict; and, finally, either the most subtle advocacy would have triumphed to the neglect of public considerations, or a commission would have been appointed at the close instead of the beginning. If some of these evils have been avoided by the delegation of the matter to the Board of Health, some yet remain in prospect, so long as the intentions of Ministers remain doubtful. When the Government assumed to themselves the conduct of the preparatory steps they may be said to have assumed the whole responsibility of the eventful measure. If the wants of a population of 2,000,000 constitute a plea for inquiry, they constitute still more a reason for consistent and definite action founded upon such inquiry. The problem which was given to the Board of Health to solve may be ssid to have been,—ls there within reasonable distance of the me tropolis water of a quality and quantity sufficient for the use, and favourable to the health, of the inhabi tants, and, if so, where ? Upon the answer made by them to this question, one of the most important measures of the forthcoming se,sion must de pend ; whether that measure come from the Mi nisterial benches or not, it is imperative that the answer should be complete and satisfactory. At present all we know is, that there are two plans in cJnternplation, about neither of which the evidence is perfect, one to procure a supply by draining a large area of high ground, the other by uniting in a single channel the waters of forty-five different springs, In appearance one of these plans offers a larger, a purer, and a cheaper supply than the other ; the only reason for hesitation in accepting it is, that it has not yet been placed in a position to come forward as the one solution of our difficulty : its practical excellence has not, in other words, been subjected as yet to tests which could warrant the construction of a measure upon it. In order that the absolute merits of one plan over the other may be established before the meeting of Parliament, and all doubts which could assail an impartial or a reasonable mind be removed, any resources necessary to such decision ought to be placed at the disposal of the Board. Unless they are enabled to bring a single definite proposition before the House, with the requisite guarantees, their opera tions will have been merely the basis for a legion of speculators to build upon, and the yery purpose of the whole inquiry will be resigned. There may be some ignorant or unwashed members of society, some averse to all contact of the pure ele ment either within or without, who are indifferent to the question at issue. There may be some lovers of the microscope who would sacrifice anything for an animalcule, some palates which require that their water should smack of something, some few reckless shareholders who , make it a condition of their own prosperity that men should swallow filth; but, beyond these sections, there are not less than nine-tenths of the inhabitants of London who view the future water supply with all the anxiety which a question at once _ sanitary and economical can command. There can be no choice between good water and bad ; but, not only is London water hard, vapid, charged with dele terious matter, animal, mineral, and vegetable, but it is also ill distributed and expensive, there are an immense number of houses without any water sup ply at all ; those which are supplied do not receive on an average so much as health and cleanliness demand, and those few which do receive sufficient pay an enormous rate. The existing water companies cannot or will not so far reduce their charges as to extend the distribution and the quantity of their supply, they cannot, if they would, change the quality of their water without subjecting it to a process which would enhance its expensiveness ; when they com pleted their machinery, a water supply was regarded as merely a commercial question ; they sought, there fore, the cheapest source, and underbid one another, not by presenting a purer, but a more defiled fluid for our purchase. We are aware now that health, cleanliness, and economy, depend not only on the cheapness of water, i. e. upon the amount at com mand, but also upon the quality. We naturally demand whether it be po ss ibl e to secure f or our popu lation one of the first and greatest of blessings— whether it be possible to secure it in such a way that those who are now the most stinted shall be the most cheaply supplied. It is because this want is some thing other than a commercial want, that Par liament can legitimately interfere as it has interfered. Deferring to this circumstance, Government took the divining rod in hand, and set out upon the investiga • tion. Officers are appointed to scour the country, to pierce into geological formations, to taste, and test, and analyze the fluid, to measure its amount, to cal teouwlan. t e th e facility and the expense o f con d uct i ng it to All London watches for the result with the interest of persons who are to be relieved from a nuisance, and endowed with a blessing at the same time. The principal merit in 11r. Napier's scheme is its compre h ens ive character ; th ere h as b een an t ece d en tly no one sugg es tion by which wa t er at once so pure an d ample in quantity could be obtained ; no supply coining fromone quarter cou ld b e d ev i se d exce pt upon some such comprehensive basis. There is every reason to believe that there does not exist within a moderate distance of London more than one area which _could furnish the qua'ity and amount of water which we require; we seem. therefore, forced to the conclusion that either there is no sing l e method by which the whole metropolis can be supplied now and prospectively on a better principle than the one in use, or else that the one method offers itself here. We are come to the end of our methods. Water is only to be had from rains, rivers, and springs. From rivers we cannot get it pure; from rainfall we cannot get it, as it seems, either s o pl e ntifully or so chea p l y as from s p r ings ; from sp r i ngs we cannot get it unless we embrac e a very wide district of coun tr y . Mr. Napier rep or t s a sufficiency of good water i n a certain locality. M r . Rammell calculates, by a m ore precise exami na ti on , that the qua n tity is an undou bted fact, and t hat the area can afford to dispense w ith it. What is now re quired is that the quality of each separate spring should be ascertained beyond dispute by chymical analysis, that a complete estimate of expense should be framed by competent authorities; in a word, that a thoroughly digested plan should be brought before Parliament. The evidence adducible in favour of such a plan will be the only ground upon which the powers of the existing companies can be contested, their allegations rebutted, and some general measure laid down. It is really in the interest of the water companies to join in imposing a measure of this nature upon Government. The most economical scheme to the public will be also the best for them, as they w ou ld secure a comp e nsation which, if it falls into private bands, will be much more scantily dealt out to them. It is useless to suppose that we shall remain content with the imperfect or deleterious supply now furnished when the sanitary importance of a pure one has become so manifest, and its possibility so nearly established. It need hardly be added that it is much in the interest of Government, at a time when party quest i ons are comparatively in abeyan ce , to signalise a sess ion by some internal reform which may commend itself to a numerous class, or satisfy some natural expectation. Even should Ministers decline to take upon themselves a responsibility which ought to he dictated alike by their position and previous agency in the matter, they should, at least, take care that an inquiry, which it was imperative to set on foot, should not be stopped short at the moment when success draws near. We could forgive hesitation or indifference after the in vestigation had furnished us with some incontestable data, but we ought not to be mocked with a tan talizing series of propositions of which none is con firmed, and a conclusion by which nothing is con cluded.—Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF Q::1::E.A"S BENCH, Acv 21. (S:tALgs bore Lord CAmPBELL MRa Jubtins COLERIDGE. WIGRTMAN, dull ERLE.) THE QUEEN (AT 'IHE SUIT OF B. M. WILCOX AND OTHERS) V THE PRoPRIETL R AND PRINTER OF THE " DAILY NEWS" CRIMINAL INFORH,VFION. The SOLICITPR-GENERAL said he had to move for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not issue against the registered proprietor and printer of the Daily News newspaper for a libel on Me. B. M. Willcox and two other gentlemen, the managing direc tors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which appeared in that paper on the 29th of October last. The passage in question formed part of a long article on the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company in reference to steam navi gation to the Autralian colonies. It related to a question which had excited a good deal of public dis cussion in this country, namely, navigation by steam be tween Singapore and the Australian colonies; and it was wholly within the province of a newspaper to dis cuss a question of that kind; bat the observations made in the article referred to affected the honour and the in tegrity of those three gentlemen so seriously that they felt themselves bound to come to a court of justice in order to clear themselves of such an imputation as that which was ca't on them. It appeared that, in the dis cussion which took place on this subject, the Daily News took a very prominent part ; and a letter had been written in the name of the company to the editor, signed " A Lover of Fair Play," which had for its object the vindication of the company. The editor published the letter, and in a short note gave his comments upon it, alleging, in answer, various complaints that had been preferred against the company, and which appeared in an East Indian newspaper called the Bengal Ilarkaru. The gravamen of the libel consisted ire a part of the article which substantially charged the managing directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company with having departed from the usual rule of the company with re gard to the repairing of one of their ships, called the Bentinck, in order that the directors might eet what was called their dustoree, which was an Indian word, implying the receipt of an illegal and improper per quisite taken by servants and middle men, on the money expended by them for their employers. He (the Solici tor-General) had the affidavits of the three managing directors of that company, who stated that there was not the slightest shadow of foundation for such a charge being made against them ; that they took no perquisites on the expenditure of the company, and de rived no advantage whatever in respect to the repairing the ships of the company. The directors therefore felt that by the publication of the statement to which he had referred they were disgraced in the eyes of their share holders; they felt that a charge of that kind seriously effected them as public men and as gentlemen, and there fore they had brought the matter before the attention of the Court; in doing so, however, they had no vindictive feelings towards the newspaper in question. Lord CAMPBELL (addressing the Solicitor-General) said he understood that his clients had had an oppor tunity of denying the charge, and had denied it amply, and he (Lord Campbell) and his brethren on the bench thought that the Court ought not to interfere. Rule refused. [The following appeared in our Third Edition of last night :—] FRANCE. Not even on the first night of the season was the Italian Opera more crowded than on Tuesday night. The theatre contained within its walls all that is most eminent for rank, fashion, and talent. Mademoiselle Fiorentini made her appearance in Norma, and was warmly applauded. The President of the Republic, accompanied by his new Aide-de. Camp, General Ro guel, entered his box at a little after nine o'clock. Considerable damage has been done in Pali.; by a storm of wind on Tuesday night and the night previous. The carousel and the quays were covered with slates blown from the roofs of the Tuileries and the Louvre. A chimney was blown down in the rue Avoir, and branches of trees torn away in the gardens of the Tuileries and the Champs Elysees. The following Bill, f o r regulating the electric tele graphic communications, was read a second time on Tuesday : " Art. 1. States that the (telegraph is open to every one whose identity is established, but with the under standing that private communications are always to give way to private ones. " Art. 2. Gives the rules to be observed by persons wishing to transmit telegraphic communications. " Art. 3. Authorises the director of the telegraph to refuse such communications as may be injurious to the public morality or to the interests of order. " Art. 4. Allows the Government to suspend the transmission of communications. " Art. 5. Enforces secrecy on the functionaries. " Art. 6. Absolves the Government from any respon sibility with regard to private correspondence. " Art. 7. Fixes the tariff for dispatches as follows: For a dispatch of from one to twenty words, 3f., with an addition of 12c. for every myriametre (somewhat more than six English miles). Over twenty words, the price for trans mission is increased a fourth for every ten words, or frac tion of ten words; the address, date, and signature are counted in the dispatch, and figures are reckoned as if written in words at length. Every fraction of a myria metre is considered as an entire one. Dispatches sent by night are charged one-half extra. The Minister of thelnterior is authorised to take subscriptions at reduced prices for the transmission of news intendid for journals, or fir those connected with them. " Art. 8. Allows the repetition cf the dispatch, in order to secure correctness, on payment of double fees. " Art. 9. Provides for the additional charge of deli vering the dispatch at the residences of the parties, at the rate of 50c. in the departments, and If. in Paris. " Art. 10. Regulates the order of priority in trans mission of dispatches, and stating that short ones should have the preference over long ones. " Art. 11. States that the Bill would come into ope ration on the Ist of March next, and regulates the diffe rent forms to be observed by persons wishing to send dispatches." GERMANY. Intelligence has been received from Electoral Hesse to the 18th. An armistice for eight days has been conoluded between the Prussian and the Federal troops. The 7th Prussian Rifles have been advanced from Buttlar to Geysa, and other villages in the direc tion of the Bavarian frontier, and the city of Battler has been occupied by the 12th (Prussian) Regiment of Foot. _ _ The Federal troops have sent a 12-pound battery from Fulda to Marbach, where the 2d division his its head•quarters. This vanguard and the head quarters of their first division are at Hunfeld, and their outposts and picquets are at Druben and I3urghaun, at the distance of from six to eight miles from Hunfeld. The line of demarcation, which ac cording to the armistice, separates the two armies, extends rather more to the north, along Biter feld, Rosenkirchen, and . Hasselstein. The head quarters of the Prince Taxis are still at Fulda, and his troops extend about eight miles in the rear of that city. To the left they lean on the border of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and to the right on the Bavarian frontier, which facilitates their concentration. They have, moreover, occupied all the roads and defiles within their reach. On the 16th and 17th the Austrian troops of the Vorarlberg Corps had entered Hesse by way of Biickenau, Schluch tern, and Neuhoff, and took their position at Loichen road in a line with the corps of Prince Thurn and Taxis. The German Journal of Frankfort of the 18th contains the following somewhat contradictory news from Electoral Hesse :-- " HERSFELD, Nov. 15.—1 t is reported that an order was received yesterday from Berlin to maintain the mi litary ro,ids even by force, and that the Prince of Tour and Taxis has been informed of it. In consequence the advanced posts have been strengthened, and a battalion of the 18th Regiment has been sent to Sieglos, a league from here, on the road to Hunfeld. There are 3u Prussian battalions between here and Vacha and Butt° cv." G . roeben rec e i ve d i nte lli gence 66 THE HESSIAN F RONT IER, Nov. 16.—General Von yesterday that an armis tice of eight days had been ogre :d on. In consequence the advanced posts have been withdrawn, and to-day some removals of troop s o n the frontiers. The soldiers consider their new locatiun as their quarters fur the w The last account is confirmed by the Cologne Ga zette as follows : " CASSEL, NOT. 16.—The commanders-in -chief of the two armies have concluded an armistice. The Prussian troops extend themselves more and more over the mili tary roads. The head-quarters aro at Friedwald." Baron Bodelschwingh has been ordered to proceed to Berlin. The Prince of Prussia's staff has pro ceeded from Coblentz to Cassel. No ostensible changes had occurred in the political crisis now taking place at Berlin. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS.--The Chambers have concluded th e ge neral discussion of the budget for foreign affairs, and proceeded to the debate on the separate articles. In reply to the interpellation of one of the Mem bers as to whether the Belgian Government had taken any steps with the Netherlands Government for the abolition of the duty on sugar in both c oun t r i es ? the Minister for Foreign Affairs replied that nego tiations had been opened ; but that the Netherlands Government was not fully prepared to enter into the measure. TURKEY. It is stated in a letter from Constantinople of the 10th that the Austrian Government had given its con seat to the release of all the Hungarian refugees in Turkey, with the exception of Kossuth, but that the Porte had declared that all must be released or none. The refugees themselves were, it is added, of opinion tlytt all ought to be treated alike. The definitive answer of Austria was expected with anxiety. Should it be favourable, Perczel and Batthyani would, it was said, take up their residence at Parts, and Kossuth to London. THE ARMY.—The colonelcy of the 48th Regiment has become vacant by the death of Lieutenant-General George Bliddlemoie. DENMARK AND TH E DUCHIES. (FaoM A C , ERht,rtiNDENT HAMEURGH, Nov. H.—Public suspense here is on the extreme stretch in relation to the mode and Imanner ie which the execution of the terms of the treaty between Denmark and Prussia, on behalf of the Gernein Bond, st all eventually be carried into and in the event of the S'attholders at Kiel re fusing to obey the summons which has b?en sent their:, not only from CAint Tires, the President of the Frankfort Bund, but now also supported by a similar demand, in confirmation thereof; by the Prussian Government very recently, to have their army disbanded by the 15th of December next. It is notoriously known, and such an act of non-corn pliance is very much applauded by the friends of the Holstein cause, that the insurgent Government of the Duchies have disavowed the power of the German Bund at Frankfort, under the patronage of Ansria, to make such a demand, assuming that Prussia alone had the right to send them any such orders, and to which they would pay any attention. It has,' how ever, now happened that Prussia, from the powerful demonstration made by the Austrian Government, in combination with that of Bavaria, to have an ulti mate end put to the present complicated tifflirs of Germany, and either to attain the fruits of a final peace throughout this extensive empire by force of arms, or by diplomatic arrangements, has thought better not to run the risk of an appeal to arms, but to endeavour to meet the demands of those powers, now forming the German Bund, in an amicable man ner. And hence we have within the last few days to record a notification from the Government of Prussia to the Stattholderschaft at Kiel, to attend to the formal summons sent them to conform to the terms of a treaty for the pacification of the Duchies, which she had of her own accord, and upon her own responsibility, entered into with the Crown of Den mark on behalf of the said German Confederation, and which treaty has been, after a lengthy deliberation on part of the whole of the Sovereign States, rati fied by them. There remains, consequently, no fur ther excuse on the part of the Government of Kiel to refuse the summons sent them by Prussia, nor to expect any future assistance from this power to carry on their useless hostile operations, by which so many human lives have been sacrificed to their unjust pre tensions to deprive the King of DENMARK , of the Duchy of Schleswig, to have in the end incorporated into the German Confederation, and the German Empire ; for Prussia to take possession of ultimately, when it shall suit her aggressive policy to cause her warlike eagle to put its claws upon both Duchies in perpetuity, or else why has Prussia all along been acting so unaccountable a part, and why her repre sentative in London gives himself so infinite a deal of trouble to endeavour to persuade the British people that Schleswig belonged to Germany and not to Scandanavia ? The policy of Prussia has been so evident in this instance, that otherwise she would have felt the shame of upholding such a state of useless bloodshed and waste of means in the unfortunate Duchies, which might have been employed in a better and a more upright and honourable cause long ago, , and peace would have now been causing prosperity to the people, instead of ruin and misery. Germany has now had ample time and opportunity afforded her people, at least those devoted to the cause of Schleswig-Holstein, and sung and piped, and street-organed her patriotic national begging hymn quite enough (the " Meerumschlangen,") to keep the sympathies alive, and to raise the wind in support of those poor unfortunate victimized cripples of Idstedt, of the Messunde, and., Friedrichstadt. I say Ger many's patriots have had ample time allowed them by Prussia (and Prussian partizans among the mem bers of the Bund) to have done all that they promised they would, and could have done, some months ago, and yet have left so unaccountably un fulfilled, in respect to the promises made to the 1101• stein insurgents, to supply them in case of need, with men and money to carry on their military operations. The Germans may say what they please, as an excuse for this miserable and extremely shabby conduct to wards Schleswig-Holstein, in leaving their vaunted promises unfulfiled to the extent which has been needful for the Government to keep their army pro perly in the field. There have been some considerable sums, unquestionably, subscribed for the support of their favourite cause ; but in proportion to the extent of the boasts and loud cries of liberty and justice, put forth through the medium of their one-sided press, in favour of Schleswig-Holstein among forty-one millions of Germans—individually, on almost all occasions, upholding to the skies the sacred cause in question— the amount which has been brought together, by hook and by crook, does, in reality, smell extremely of trumpery, or a " tea and turn out party." Why, our poor Chartist party in England have been known to have done more in two months in support of their own views, however they may have been thought in the wrong, than the whole of Ger many has been scraping together during six months and upwards, with the whole of the public press throughout it in their favour. Such is a fact, and no mistake, and yet Germans talk incessantly of liberty and justice for Schleswig-Holstein ! And what is now to be the result? 'Why the patriotic army of the Duchies has beets ordered to lay down their arms, or submit to a still worse degradation of having those arms forcibly taken from it by an indirect order from the Czar of Russia, using for his purposes an Austrian army, one which has been employed during a period of two years in putting an end to all other attempts at reform at home and abroad—in Italy, Hungary, and Hesse Cassel! It is, however, not liberty so much that the Germans comprehend in this question of Schleswig-Holstein as aggression against •a neigh bouring power, whose welfare and prosperity, in a commercial point of view, they are anxious to trample upon, in order that they may obtain the greater bene fits for themselves ; for the Danish nation is truly free, enjoying all the liberty which the people desire, and consequently are anxious for peace and tranquil lity, in order to reap the fruit of good government. And as for the people of the Duchies who have an op portunity allowed them of speaking plainly their real sentiments, scarcely one among them who desires anything more than a return to the Danish rule in preference to that of a set of men who are employed for their own purposes in obtaining the future pos session of these splendid provinces for Germany, alias Prussia, as before hinted at. In the Duchy of Holstein nothing is now heard hut complaints against the present unpromising state of things, and the con tinual demands for fresh sacrifices to carry on a war, and to support an army, which having promised so much hitherto, has performed so extremely little of what was expected from it, when under the command of the Prussian General WILLISEN, it started on its valorous but unfortuhate excursion to the Duchy of Schleswig, to annihilate at one single blow the Danish army sent to carry out the commands of its SOVERIGN, to support those who claimed the benefit of peace in lieu of anarchy and German uproarious misrule, which the Stadtholderate had introduced under the influence of Prussian sabres and bayonets, during a short period of its sway in that Duchy. Whereas at the present moment, in this Duchy of Schleswig, the people are not only not per fectly satisfied with the Danish regulations, and the introduction of order and tranquillity, but are made to feel much less of the inconvenience of war than the usual miseries attendant upon such an awful evil in general inflicts upon a people under such circum stances as those now existing in that country. Even the Germans there, who were formerly misled by the representations of the party at Kiel, even to acts of the most flagrant malversations against their rightful SOVEREIGN, are beginning to see clearly that they have been led by the nose, and in consequence have withdrawn themselves from all further participation in the revolt against legitimate authority. The Danish army, consisting of an effective force of 35,000 men, without including the numerous sick from the effect of the typhus fever, which has been the usual consequence of a numerous body of men confined to limited and extremely close and damp quarters, is in a state of excellent discipline and high spirits ; ready at any moment to meet their boasting opponents wherever and whenever it may suit their intentions to come forward to attack them again On all sides their defences are well and sci entifically arranged, and every day they are making fresh additions to them in parts where the Holsteiners never dreamt of the like. On the other side the army of the Stadtholderate is in anything but a comfortable state, without sufficient officers to command their re giments effectively, and labouring under the pressure of a want of confidence in their general, which is, above all, so needful to insure success. Skirmishes are daily occurring along the lines of the respective forces; but in most cases the Schleswig-Holstein A couple o days ago a party of between 70 and 80 men, and an officer, was surprised by the Danes, and 4 9 men taken p ri isoners. The papers endeavou r to conceal these mis haps as much as possible to their full extent, but private accounts have given this fact too clearly to be concealed entirely. The press even attempts to deny the assertion made publicly in the Berlin papers, and republished in letters from Kiel, that the Government of Prussia had sent a demand to the Government of Kiel to have the army disbanded and reduced ; but there is no denying this fact, any more than that Hanover will not deny a pas-age through the country to an army of Austrians. The Prussian Government has caused the un fortunate Gefion frigate ultimately to be remow d from the harbour of Eckernford, the scene of its dis aster on the sth of Aptit last year, the effect of which has since been amply wiped off the score of Danish bravery by the battles of Idstedt and the Missunde, ! as well as Friedrichstadt. This vessel has been demanded by the German Bund, and will possibly j o in the mud-lodged German fleet at Bremenhafen, at least so say the German papers. The Danish Governmeat having, therefore, now fully complied with all the points of the treaty of Berlin, may look forward with more justice to the permission to enter' _ ------ - fl t ; Hol-tein with her army should cirtivirat..... v- or SuCh ,it o p i r.Ation, und the ilols;ei ss army re fuse obedience to th. , Bond and Ps ussia, which it is f said the authorities will persist in to the last. Great bnacts are utak. every day of what this army will be role to do in the winter season ageinst the Danes should they only be alowed to advalice over the froz',?n lakes and rivers for such purpsse; and should they be disappointed in their ;I,riguine expectations of such an expedition, through trost and probable. snow, then they will have the consolation let% them of still being able to say what they might have plished had Germany not prevented them ultimately conquering the Danes. Most people positiveif beli eve that the army in qu,stion only requires a hard Ira', a ccorn• such as favoured the renovvned expeditions of the Swedes in former times, to drive the Danes entirely out of the Duchies; and not only this but to capture all the islands belonging to this part of the Danish the narchy ; and if they are tol4 it is far easier to figh t b with sabres and hiyonets, to prime sod load, In spring, su mmer, and autumn, than in winter time, they r e fer you to such former acts, of which they are as cap•ble as the Swedes of performing! Of cour.s't they suppose in making such extraordinary eakelia° tions that their weazel shall be at this time otter q iet f asleep beyond his entrenched Danneverke, points of defence, from such intrusive . visits. In one respect, it would almost be a pity ti* they should suffer any disappointment in making 3 trial of their skill in winter, having sigoellY been ow fortunate, otherwise, in that attempted in the WI Ge ol4 summer, and autumn, against the Danes. presumptionway, and the spirit of specit• goes a long lation often much further. friendlyan _--.......wwww.................. "" 2 ".""". - I ili HEALTH OF LON 1107i 7---- D t 'BNG I nig WE (Pablished by authority of the Registrar-General.) id The mortality of London, which rose, in its we e , i l, sum, considerably above 900 at the end o f Oet°' 4 l when a sudden fall of temperature was experieneeT has again declined, but only to a small estee_l! during the succeeding period, in which the thertoool; ter, as regards the mean value of its indications, tiost oearly recovered its former position. In tbe 94s, three weeks the deaths have been successively a, 921, and 908. Taking the ten weeks of 1840-4' which correspond to that ending last SattirdT, the average number was 991 ; and if this _ increased in the ratio of probable increewitti of population it becomes 1,081, coral: lo°d W e ek 8 which ow a decrease of 173. In the present h retber consumption is fatal in 125 cases, whie - i9 f ra thes° below the corrected average ; more than 10 0 ° of uccurred amongst persons between fifteen ye ol.B : , ° te rf and 60. From all other affections of the re a p c unt rgans (exclusive of hooping-cougb) the deaths al % be but itr i s O ff to b 148, which is under the average; .served that though pneumonia, which carl'ethaa trincipally young persons, is now less o' l°ll3 o og usaal, bronchitis, which is spread more eq ually o or y all ages, is fatal to rather more than its ° A r t i ee ses amount at this season. Amongst contagious rl7, - t wo small-pox was fatal in 13 cases, of wpi occurred to men above 20 ; and this disease lately shown a tendency to increase. There , F r also 24 children of measles, and 9 7 of ,i; - cl ° ° f mg-cough ; 35 children and 4 scarlatina ; 22 persons of diarrhoss a nd ;10 tb. ery; but no case of cholera was rugistereu " f die week. Typhus now predominates in this c lass° A pe rsont, o , eases ; and it was fatal lust week to 56 death from low fever in John-street, adults niefseo, TottenT s t, court road, is directly ascribed by the ule cli f g sAI tendant to deficiency cf sewerage ; on d al '' r 1 / 8 f 04 3 t example of disease and dew() arising' r .0 of neglect of cleanlinees within doors, and t s e v vi a wiclV, sanitary arrangements without, o ccurs je Tot ° I place, Hoxton, and is recorded by the regi'r t h e n the district. Within the last fortnight no lec ler be ets nine h persons labouring under typhus have A i e Us brought to St. Luke's workhouse from W itl i ci g of place. In this place is a small court, co nsii tw o, dirty houses, which are all ill-provided with W iri n tobi' and te almost destitute of drainage, weaning° lefuse ats have the greatest difficulty the ' removed by the contractor.____ rr ._. in g S HIP NE WS. / 'rich this port, Nov. 21.—The Star, f r ost 4 6 . 0 , fa j)ort, is on shore near Pwbelli. The ClitulV) port Leghorn,for has put back. The Magnolia, frog° °l.ipst. Constantinople, was at anchor on the 19th l od t he South hulls o f "'fay, with masts cut away during s g 5l" 11 13 1 ' °' the lorlank, have disappeared. The Jane water the Strabane and Adeline, wrecked oo foal d ope s ' fis h from e, has arrived at Valparaiso. ArrivetVvriocao Caroline, from Honduras; irom s th tu e b l b 7 e t k h i o ob i iMusay,cfranNa at1:003; '',4,,,..e5ia: C..orromw,enef; o f m r o m m i A s tlieexya. n d s r i a ad e d L_ati A ; r e l l b , e r f t r oaco: I C slid harto;:!rirtt Rotterdam; Orleans; i tN or ewNJticromer, Sea Lion andamQa(lietae;a POO York; Medemseh, Middlesex , an , Garland , f or J. • DI OP!, Se / shoreWHITEHAVEN,a,re, 0). Orleans. ilsrri ton yeiterly, and has beci)l.. on .. &ir e° Nov. 20.—The Lark w— t(01 ~,a il wreck. .., aek Nymph, iouJi• GRAVESEND Arrivei— Bl , Nov. 21.—Wind N• C•+ fresh,_c _ „ ev e; Tanner, from and Prince m Ylemtl; Norma, from Valporsiao; i'ver; Ann, from FamefGeorge, from Quebec ; itllivcetirve7.ll:s:;.cpade: , rom Calais; Janus, from I' 'ff4herg; Stilt 0003, the Iliedite; "DC I ti° l3en 1 01 raneau ; Reso a . for Aalborg; Lord John Russell, from Llirlingeo, Too' Auckland and Ocean, from Rotterdam; _tiger, , fro ry, ro° 11 1 tu,en; Wm. Jolliffe. fro m Havre • PflOC 89 9 Viet°P... 100 William ,. Antwer p; Cae - n• Magnet, from Amsterdam : ; s e w bein j oel; O ukle, , fromD Gullies,P" from Ostk nd; Lithuania, fru ° A folte Bolivar Leos% fh.raotrimidnraLe ... n from m ar k C • acutt3;lr'fr3obuld. Offil°:113froll from St. Übes; A ' Aurora, Freak' ota Denia; Smyrna; F- h" St. Sines ,want'f'dro'f.mel LcaLliaOi;spbeo°or:;ic:clifniiifreloi:ol: iffill olivar, from Algoa Bay; Johann biles°l i big. b Sailed —Valiant, Eliza, from Caen; Gladiator, froin Gi , asu l : for Demerara; Electra, ,totte rf°redea: itanzer, for Amsterdam •, Fyenoord, for Calais; ' Sir lamb. Robert Peel, for Dunkirk; Menai, for bc , fad me, for Havre; P • ' 13' 6° ' Trident, for Tonninge I Antwerp. Of g- VESSELS SPOKEN IVITO. .., 41 29, Flora, from Table Bay for Port Nata l, ' the Bird Islands. 26, i4OO Augustus, from Liverpool for Baltimore, 06 ' Op 43 N., long. 58 W. - Brig Harmony, from Waterford for 13 ° 6/°l3 ' for in lat. 42 N., j : g. 52 W. in X l° Bremen schooner aria Anna. from ---° Bremen, in lat. 40, long. 8 W. _........... _... ---==----=--- A SEABO K NE MAILb• . , • n dlo' u W hit& o te.-, When made up in -'-',. dis- ......„...„......,/ PLACES. General Post-office Mails .. patchc a London. __....•••••• .---.----. -- I cefts lS Africa (West coast).. Ist of the month America (via N. York by British packet) • . November 22 • • Night ••• ' i 2 1 America (via Boston . 1 5 01 ' by British packet) .. November 29 • • s i g ht.• • ! ill' America(byU.S.pack) December 6 • • Night pit. 0 Belgium .. .. .. Dail • Night • • • • ,SoY• 2 6 Brazil 1 •ov• Night.• " p i : . ~ • • • • .. 4th of the month Nig l i t •' ::,, 6 Buenos Ayres .. .. ith of the month Nig h t ," • , .1 1). .„ C. 5 ...Siit' California .. .. .. 17th of month Moraine .'f)e-', f o, , v central America .. 2d & 17th of month Morning • ~ r a• '', l o Channel Isles • • .. Mon., Wed., Chili .. .. .. . 17th of the mouth Morning 12'00 e s , sit e .. . , & Fri. Night • ' ..IPe e ' c - i lsilf t ..., France .. .. .. Twice daily .. .. !Urn. 84 ng . I Ttle s 's., 1 1 ,T Hamburgh .. .. Tuesday & Friday Nigh t " .. s l O n ,: e dit iv Holland .. .. .. Wednes. & Satur. Mornlbt 1" 23 Ireland .. .. ..ITwiee daily .. •° rn 8; 5°1.3 India (via Soutkamp.)2oth of the month Morning :: pee' India (via Marseilles)* 7thSc 24th of month Nigh t ' • 9 9 Mediterranean (vla pi'. Southampton) .. 20th of the month Morning • 1 Metliterninean (via ~ De - ' Marseilles) • • • . 7th & 24th of m onth Nib lit • Mediterranean (by I 7 7th, 17th, 19th, • 1•• 29 French packet via 27th & 30tk of . I.To 5 Marsel;les) .. month • • Nig ht ' . ..: , Pec -:, 9 6 Mexico . .. .. 2d of the month.. Morning • 11 40 . 20 Peninsular .. .. 7th,l7th,27th of rno 3lorning ". Dec . se Peru .. .. .. .. 17th of the month Morning '.lpe West Indies .. .. 17th of the 'month Morning 1 , West Indies (except .. Dee. '' 0 (ll' Havanna & Nassau),2d of the month .. gorilla .h 0 .. fas t.'" 0 2. 250' _ _ d morning •• 0, 113ec•5 01( Inday, the 111 ° 2501, d on the via no lo! [ADVERTISEMENT.] -- Skin Dt4easesl',, 0111/400 Powell's Testimony to the Eacy o f Hollo wa lte r lir," Ointment —Extract of a letter d ffic ated " 16, 13 1 "'"Dest e the Dublin, Feb. 9, 1847 :—Professor Hollow* fe ta 1 , 0 io' Having devoted my particular attention for i t solli e . d r igh s `, l IV treatment of cutaneous or skin diseases, I think o de 0 , to form you that I have in a great many cases r econ l ua d tb 6 es eo use of your pills and ointment and invariablY f°disesse,ol'Afell, have the most perfect effect in removing thoseiv. $, ry s ot. when of a very desperate nature. (Signed) 7 los, f' t , M.D." In cases of scald heads ringworrngt PalliljoniobilY ters on the face, the effect of the medirine 15 cosi , Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor H° 11"14.1 ment, 244, Strand, London. * The 24th of this Marseilles) will be mi month being a Su de up and dispatehe ------- At Edinburgh 8110110- of SOiliii° ~;(e Smythe, f 'Are n t h v thO on el : la N ne o , rw E i s c s h e , x. the wife of U. ---:cirliu- IPt'' fi d Co Esq., of Upton-lane, lA7thern*st.., tke "'' r ot' At the Grove, s l a ter, - On the 19th inst., the wife of the Rev. E. B. of the Grammar-school, Pocklington, Yorkshire. € Geori. OF A DAITOHTE IL •e of At the Croft, Detling, near biaidstone, the sof N. Cooke F.s.q. Nick► MARRIED. ~,„t dtts On the 19th inst : at St. John' Chu,rcb, ,li s aw doe ° l , P ° lst o th Middlesex, Benjamin Speight Haigh, Ls+ , -f Australia, to Elizabeth, only surviving Mr. F . Kennett, of Hampton-wick, survivilgldlese=r• daughter daOugnhttheer l o l f th co in lo s n t. e , l at jße--------------rarya'srwF, Catherine Wilder, ic'tzlir I . V de‘ On the vOth inst., at Kensington-garden-terrace, park, John Royds, Esq., aged 70. . ijele th On the 17th inst., at llolland-place. Kenning.o Tirool, youngest daughter of the late Mr. John H ea ter, 0 a 5/ ' road, North Brixton, aged 23. On the 17th inst , at Castle Hedinghatn, Esgetlts'osogeditlie. Richard Dodson Chevelev, of St Osyth, the eldes . _lout , late Richard Dodson Clieveley, formerly of WO " in the same county, and late of Liverpool. hea P ile' . Dora- writh' On the 16th inst., at Ilminster. Surnersew of eldest daughter of the late Rev. G. Cookson, rector lington and vicar of Powerstock - no '' c Wilnn Ogt On the 16th inst., George Elwick, Esq. , 01 '' square, Clerkenwell, aged 49. ndon Printed and Published try li111111)0 so , 11 o. 112, trand, Printer, at The Sun OfT; ot ga . St . rand, in the Precinct a the Savoy, in Ulddleatz, Fridays November 22, 1850. , ._,...-/ . 1 I vlll .* 14 ):tlh h l, zei gee A w,li. 4 t 4° I 141 i kt hi 444 ‘44