The Sun. — London, England, 1853-11-09 00:00:00

-- --- LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. YouxatoAD OFFICES, 9th November, 1853. TO THE SHAREHOLDERS., GErnmaN, The assertions of Mr. Snell, calculated to produce an impression on the Shareholders against the acenracy of the statements of the Board, respecting the accounts of the Dorchester and Southampton induced two Gentlemen, members of your body, to attend at these offices, and examine the Books of the Company, in order to ascertain for themselves the truth or fallacy of the statements sub mitted by the Board. The result of their inquiry, contained in an article in " Herapath's Journal" of the sth inst., sent herewith, shews that the statement of the profits of that line is substantially correct. Messrs. Quilter, Ball, and Co., of Coleman-street, professional ac countants, eminently conversant with railway accounts, have been employed to examine the Company's books, and test the accuracy of the statements; and their report will be laid before the meeting on the 15th inst. It becomes my duty to call your attention to the following para graph in the Report of the Shareholders, who act with Mr. Snell, Viz.:— • lied to "We have now further to state, that , having again app examine the accounts of the company, with the assistance of an accountant, and having been illegally again refused, unless such accountant was a shareholder, we qualified Mr. Fowell, of 76A, Basinghall-street, and retain, to act with him, Mr. Cole man, the eminent accountant to the Bank of England, the London and North Western Railway Co., &c. We have now to report to you that, in the opinion of these unbiassed professional men, as far as the examination of accounts has proceeded, there is every reason to believe that M . Mertimer's state ment is only too true, viz., that the existing Dorchester Branch is a cons id er able yearly loss to our Company, and the representation by Mr. Scott, and others of the Board, to us shareholders, that it yielded a profit of 3% per cent. per annum upon its cost, was incorrect." I can state as a fact, on the authority of Mr. Coleman, the eminent accountant of the Bank of England, that he has not seen er exa mined the books of the Company at all with reference to the mat ter, that he has given no such opinion as stated in the Circular of the Committee of the 31st October before referred to, and that the statement contained in that Circular as to Mr. Coleman's opinion on the subject of the Dorchester Branch, is entirely unwarranted, and without his sanction. I have also to state that a communication from Mr. Coleman, con firming this fact, will be made public on Thursday next (to-morrow), unless Mr. Snell shall before that time publish a retractation of the statements made in the Circular in question. Justice to Mr. Coleman, fairness to the Board entrusted with the management of the affairs of the Company, and a due regard to your own interests, demand that you should not act precipitately by giving proxies upon an unwarranted statement, and that if any shareholders have been misled, they should, by letter to the Secre tary, recal such proxies, and, if possible, attend m person on the 15th inst., to hear such fa :1 statements as will then be laid before them, 'Verified by Messrs. Quilter and Ball. - - • - The other inaccuracies in Mr. Snell's report, many of which re fute themselves, remain to be ex p ose d at the meeting. One, how ever, deserves immediate contradiction—viz., that only six Directors are in favour of the Report. It is difficult to imagine how Mr. Snell could thus have been mis informed. The Board consist of 13 Members. Messrs. Uzielli and Reed, who are on the Continent, have indicated their support—and thus, with two exceptions, Messrs. Gaselee an 1 Mortimer, the Board is unanimous In the policy which it recommended. I am, yours faithfully, FRANCIS SCOTT, Chairman. CHESTER AND HOLY HEAD RAILWAY. C.)MMUNICA.TION li,tweeti ENGLAND, SCOTLAND and IRELAND, via HOLYHEAD. Notice Is Hereby Given, that on and after the let December, 1853, the Through Booting Arrangements for Passengers will be confined oimustvely to the EXPRESS VESSELS of till CHESTER and HOLYHEAD COMPANY, which leave Kingstown at 9 a.m , and Holyhead at 5.30 p.m By order. J. 0. BINGER General Manager's Office, Chester, 24th Oct , 1853. TITEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LINE Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. VHS EVPNING, Nov. 9 The GREAT AMERICAN EQUESTRIANS will exhibit their astonishing Feats, unnut ched In the history of such Performances, assisted by :ha most renowned Gymnastic Artistes, 0. Dale an i Barnes, the European and American c 'melons. TITEATRZ ROYAL. HAYMARKET, Under the management of Mr. Bnckstone. TILLS MVENIN,I, Nov. 9, Will be parforrned MONEY. Characters; be Messrs. G. Vanden 01!, Tilbury, Howe, Buckstone, Compton, FL Corn, and W. Farren ; Mrs. L. 8. Buckingham, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam To be followed by Tall BEGGA.It'A OPERA.. Characters by 3lis,es Featherstone , and Onnontle. ROYAL PRINCESTS TfIZATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Mena;orlent of Mr. Cusints KEAN. TUN EVENING, Nov. 9, Will be performed THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal character by Mr. C. Keen. To ho followed by MARCO SPADA. Supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Chester, Ryder, Raymond, and Everett ; Miss Heath and C. Leclereq. LYCEUM THEATRE, Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, Nov. 9, Will be prevented A CURIOUS CASE. Principal character by Mr. C. Mathews. After which, THE COMMENCEHENT OF A BAD FARCE which. however (it is hoped), will. in the end, show HOW TO MAKE HOME HAPPY. Principal character by Mr. Wright. To be followed PATTER v. CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with WRIGHT AT LAST. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster,—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Nov. 9, Will be performed THE DISCARDED EON. Characters by Leigh Murray, Paul Bedford, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeley and Miss , Woolgar, &e. After which, THE C &MP AT CHOBHAM. To be followed by "HOTEL CHARGES!" or, How to Cook " A Biffin." To conclude with COMING OF AGE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVRNING, Nov. 9, Will be performed THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by Messrs. A. Whfan, Emery, F. Robson, Cooper, and Galli : Mesdames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Cbatterley, E. Turner, and Wyndham. To be followed by PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters by Mr. F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITUEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. GRAND MILITARY SPECTACLE—THE INVASIO OF RUSSI k, and THE BURLESQUE. FOURTH WEEK of the Star of the Arena, Miss KATE COOKE, who continues to be received with increased enthusiasm. THIS EVENING, Nov. 9, And during the week, the Entertainments will commence with the GRAND EQUESTRIAN MILITARY SPECTACLE, entitad NAPOLEON BONAPARTE'S LNVASION OF RU3SIA ; or, The Burning of Moscow. After which, the matchless Scenes of the ARENA, supported by the greatest combination of Equestrian tal• nt in the whole World, with Mr. W. Cooke's highly-trained Stud of Horses. To conclude with JUPITER'S DECREE, AND THE FALL OF PHATON ; or, THE FIERY COURSERS OF THE SUN. Boa-office open from Eleven till Form. Stage Manager, Mr. W. W,st. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. MIS DAY —Morning 13 min.after 3 Evening 57 miu.aft. 8 'lO-Molutow—Morning 40 min.a,fter 9 I Evening 21 min.aft. 10 THE WEATHER.--SuN OFFICE, Nov. 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 59 —highest since noon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 50—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30 . 55. WIND, w.s.W.—Light breeze, and fine, c l ear weather 4 • rk c §it: .I[ll, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1853. Fighting has at length commenced in the Danubian Principalities. The belligerents have at last crossed their swords, and bloodshed i s already the consequence. Throughout the agita tion of this lamentable question we have main tained that war was inevitable —ultimately inevi table. Have occurrences proved that we were ,mistaken in those anticipations ? Answer this— the latest intelligence ! Intelligence, be it re membered, coming to us from a quarter that, so far as concerns the intimated result, testifies its undeniable , authenticity. Elsewhere will be found the particulars of this important information. It will .. be observed, moreover, from the nature of those particulars, that the fact of the struggle having actually commenced is placed beyond the reac h Of contradiction. For the accounts con- Teyed in our last despatches are simply to the effect that the Russians have been defeated, and that the R ussia of acknow ledgment. discomfiture themselves make the acknow eomfiture of the Cossacks must be regarded. course only as preliminary. Indeed, as little more than a mere trial of strength—an anticipatory sKirml . sh _—a casual dis charge of small shot f rom the l advanced posts, genera giving the signal for th e cannonade. It would be preposterous to attach to the intel ligence here referred to a larger importance than that we have endeavoured to specify in the 11 fore going words of discrimination. That th e a t Distic forces hard b y the wate rs of the ag°- Danub e have at laot come to blows, appea rs to b e the most interesting and significant part of this intel ligence. And so far, the news given elsewhere seems, indeed, to be altogether incontrovertibl e . It were frivolous to suppose for an instant that accounts such as those published in our impres sion of this evening could possibly be transmitted -, .sict, without being across Europe by way of P?, $ stamped, to a certain extent, with the indications of authenticity. Common sense assures us that the news is no fabrication. It would be simply ridiculous to suppose this for an instant —seeing that the conjecture would involve the necessity of imagining that the Russians were bent upon the j THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1853. task of their own defamation. According to these . 1 reliable advices, therefore, it would seem that the troops of OMER PAcHA have at length closed with those under Prince GORTZCHAKOFF. The upshot being the repulse of three thousand Rus sians by eleven thousand Turks, with a loss to the former in killed of eight officers and twenty-six wounded and prisoners of no less privates—in in the aggregate than six hundred. Naturally enough the Russian reporters of the struggle would be disposed to underrate their own numbers in the field, and to over estimate the amount of the forces brought to bear against them by their antagonists. Wherefore we would intimate, of course, that it were perhaps advisable to receive with a certain degree of suspicion the statement of our Muscovite informants to the effect that the Cossacks in their first struggle with the Osmanlis were outnumbered by nearly three to one as here announced. It appears, to say the least of it, improbable—especially seeing that the Russians, according to their own showing, were the ones to offer battle upon the occasion of this encounter. The despatches narrating the event first to Paris and afterwards to London being to the effect that " eleven thousand of 'OMER PACHA.'S troops were attacked by three thousand Russians" on Friday, the 4th of November. Whatever the likelihood of the Russians exaggerating the strength of their foes upon this occasion, and of understating the power of their own armament, it must be obvious they would be reluctant to state that their loss in the encounter was greater than what they had actually experienced. Consequently it re mains before us as indisputable that a struggle indeed actually took place between the Turks and the Russians on the 4th of November. Equally clear is it that out of that struggle the troops of the SULTAN have come forth victorious—those of the CZAR have lost in killed eight officers and twenty-six privates, and in prisoners and wounded no less on the whole than six hundred. If the soldiers of NICHOLAS have triumphed in Asia, the soldiers of .A.BD-UL-MEDJID -have won a glorious revenge by culling the first laurels of the campaign of 1853 on the European Conti nent. In . this circumstance lies the value and the significance of this remarkable information. It demonstrates that we have not been talking simply at random when we have insisted that bloodshed must sooner or later prove the result of our timorous and despicable negotiations. It shows in bloody characters, lettered over the field of battle, in the bodies of the dead and wounded, that the soldiers of Turkey are not precisely the kind of men their depreciators would fain have argued down to . the end of the chapter. It indi cates, in the commencement of a calamitous strife, that Russians and Turks have been impelled against each other (armed to the teeth and in spired by mutual hatred)whether they would or no, by the force of those infamous motives in which the evil and sinister ambition of the CZAR . found its most direct encouragement. The motives we mean, coming from a selfish hankering to keep out of harm's way, which have caused the nominal allies of the Sublime Porte to deaden the energies of the Councils of Constantinople by their intrigues, while inflaming by the influence of their craven weak ness, the cupidity, the courage, and the fanaticism of the Councils of St. Petersburg. Consequent upon which pitiable policy of the Coalition, we have had the abortive Note from Vienna, followed by the tardy appearance of the combined Fleets in the Sea of Marmora, by the Turkish passage of the Danube in answer to the Russian passage of the Pruth, and now by the blood which has been shed in this memorable struggle on the 4th of November. So much for the reiterated asser tions made by the Aberdeenites, to the effect that war would be happily avoided, thanks to the skill of their diplomatists, and the adroitness of their negotiations ! The struggle between Russia and Turkey hav ing at length actually commenced, it behoves the people of England no longer to permit the repu tation of the country and the honour of the Crown to be compromised by the continued tole ration of poltroonery, as an admitted principle, actuating the councils of the Imperial Govern ment. France would long since have aided in settling this deplorable dispute between the Porte and the AUTOCRAT, but that her prompt and chival ric policy was interfered with from the outset by the timidity of the ABERDEEN Coalition. We were assured that the conference at Vienna would bring matters to a satisfactory conclusion without the Turk or Cossack burning an ounce of gunpowder. The result was the utter and disgraceful failure of the Note put forward by the blundering diplo matists of the so-called allies of ABD-UL-MEDJID. We were told that there could not be any need whatever for French or English men-of-war pro ceeding further than Besika Bay—and lo ! the combined fleets have found •it necessary, at the eleventh hour, to proceed through the forbidden channel of the Dardanelles. We were fatigued and stunned with reiterated assurances that war was out of the question, that bloodshed was ridi culously impossible, under the circumstances. Have we not the answer before us in this contest of the 4th of November, in these six hundred and thirty-one Russians killed, wounded, and prisoners ? The Imperial Government of France has be. times superseded M. DE LA COUR by sending in the person of General BA.RAGUAY D'HILLIERS, a mili tary ambassador, to the Court of Constantinople. Meanwhile, a curious mission to the Levant is being entrusted by the ABERDEEN Ministry to Sir EDMUND LYONS—while rumours are flying about, to the effect that, as France has recently acted DE LA COUR SO E ng l an d is about to t t o wards Lord STRATFORD DE R EDCLIFFE—in o athe th w e a r rd w s M ors, that the British Cabinet is about to accredit to the Sublime Porte a distinguished soldier as our Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. A beautiful but melancholy incident is at this juncture insensibly forwarding the interests o f France and England by curiously cementing their friendship. The incident, we mean, of those touching tributes offered by this country to the memory of the gallant and generous-hearted BELLOT—evidences of a noble admiration, accorded by the greatest maritime power in the world to the fair fame of that chivalrous Lieutenant in the Imperial Navy of France—tokens of gratitude to the recollection of that daring youth who sacri ficed his life in the arctic snows in his volunteered search after Sir JOHN FRANKLIN and his missing expedition. Mourn though we may, mourn though we must, over the death of the heroic 33 g. l E a i ges itOT, is impossible to close our eyes to the truth that extraordinary and scarcely appreciable a have sprung out of that sorrowful but ous catastrophe —to France, to England, reputation. Of him may we to his o wn says as the ex - Member for Canterbury said so touchingly of ARMAND CARREL : " He died in his youth as the brave s h ou ld di e , With his spi r it still burning with chivalry." Expiring, as he did, i n t h e sacred causo of huma nity—we cannot, for hi s sake, find. it in ou r h ear t s only lament over hi s departure. to We cannot but exult in the lofty example he h as left us, we cannot but feel our hearts glow as we remember the inestimable opportunity his fate has afforded to France and England of drawing yet more closely by the blending of their sympathies the inestim able bonds of their friendship. As the spring time, according to the exquisite thought of Mr. EMERSON, "Engenders heats Turning the sod to violets," so raay it be with the memory of the young and gallant BELLOT—SO May it be preserved "ever green in our souls"—so may it blossom into good deeds and . generous sympathies between Frenchmen and Englishmen. Never more welcome to us all can be the knowledge of this increasing friendship between France and England than at this hour, when we are listening, as it were, to the distant reverberations of the Russian and Turkish 1 cannonade. The Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law has resumed its useful labours on the termination of the long vacation. On Monday evening the first meeting for the Seseion, 1853-4, was held, when a most satisfactory statement was made by the respected and efficient secretary, Mr. JAMES STEWART, respecting the progress already made, and the prospect of other and even more extensive measures of reform being speedily brought into operation. He showed what had already been effected by means of the invest'gt-.„ tions and inquiries instituted by the Society, aira , ' the carefully prepared and elaborate reports, and the valuable suggestions put forward by the several committees to whom the different matters had been referred, and which furnished the ground-work of the improvments and alterations effected in the procedure and practic3 of the Courts of Equity and Common Law, in the Law of Real Property, the Law of Evidence, the Law of Lunacy, and other matters too numerous to be here repeated. The Society had, indeed, ample cause for self-gratulation. No private Association had ever rendered' more important services to the community, or had succeeded in advancing their own views and feelings. No real evil—no substantial grievance has been brought under the consideration of a Committee without being divested of its technical_ difficulties, and exhibited in its true colours, so that the non professional reader might be enabled to under stand the propriety of the demands for reform in reference thereto, and the extent and mag nitude of the impediments that intervened before the required improvements could be effected. The public soon began to place confidence in re ports displaying great erudition and clearness, and placing the matter under discussion, whatever it might be, in a popular point of view. It was speedily seen that nothing was done for party pur poses, that the object of the inquiry was to elicit the plain truth, without disguise or concealment, and that strict and perfect impartiality might be relied on. The references were not made for the purpose of shelving an inconvenient question, or removing a portion of the responsibility from the shoulders of the Ministers of Government for the time being, but with the bona fide object of effect ing an improvement where it was actuallyrequired, and rendering it commensurate with the extent of the grievance to be removed. There was no halting at the threshold, no introduction of petty alterations. The legal reformers proceeded vigo rously, as well as cautiously, and when the causes of the disease were ascertained, they were not con tented with removing the decayed branch, but struck at the root of the evil, effecting a per manent and radical cure. It was by following such a course that the members of the Society succeeded in acquiring the public confidence to an almost unprecedented extent, that they effected so many beneficial alterations in the law, and that they obtained general support for every proposition which they deliberately put forward. They went in advance of public opinion, but so judiciously that they were certain of being followed, so that no suggestion has fallen to the ground or proved a failure. The good seed that was scattered forth has produced, or most assuredly will produce, its fruit in due season. We rejoice, then, to find that the attention of the Society has been directed, among other inte resting topics, to one of peculiar importance, which bears the same /elation to other legal ques tions that Parliamentary reform does to the great majority of those for which legislation is impera tively demanded. The propriety of the appoint ment of a Minister of Justice, in fact of an exclu sively political Lord Chancellor, who should have ample leisure to consider the various abuses re quiring amendment, and the proposed remedies, was referred to a committee to inquire and report upon. Our views on the subject have been so repeatedly put forward that it is almost unnecessary to say how fully and completely we agree with the suggestion. We have long since, on many occasions, advocated the complete separation of the political and judicial functions of the Lord Chancellor—we have shown that, from the multiplicity of his avocations, he is unable to discharge his multifarious duties, however efficient he may be, however profound his learning 9r indefatigable his industry. We require him to do the work of four men, and wonder that he cannot do it well, and have time also to consider the various reforms brought for ward, or about to be brought forward, so as to pronounce authoritatively thereon. He is at the same time a Cabinet Minister, bound to express his views on every subject of national importance, foreign or domestic—Chief Judge in Equity, to decide on appeals from Vice-Chancellors and other Judges—Speaker of the House of Lords, to preside over the deliberations of that august assembly— and Chairman of Committees, to take a prominent and influential part in the decision of appeals from his own decisions as Lord Chancellor. How then can he bestow that attention on any new question unconnected with these various avocations which it may require. It is utterly impossible that he should do so. It is not, therefore, by way of censure, to any Noble and Learned Lord who has filled the distinguished office, that we allege, as a general rule, that the chief opponents of legal reform have been the successive occupants of the Woolsack—that delay and procrastination have been repeatedly occasioned through the im possibility of a single individual getting through a quantity of work which could not be disposed of if the whole twenty-four hours were applied to the purpose, without a single minute for neces sary rest or refreshment, to say nothing of re creation, without which even the " JACK" on the Woolsack may prove " a very dull boy." We trust, then, that the ventilation of the subject by the Association may once more bring it under the Legislative consideration, and that the deficiencies of the bill introduced and carried under the auspices of Lord JOHN RUSSELL may be promptly and adequately supplied. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, and Lady Cecilia Gordon Lennox, propose leaving Gordon Castle, N. 8., on Tuesday, the 22d instant, for London. His Grace will remain a few days is town to attend the annual agricultural show of cattle, and then proceed to Goodwood-park until the meeting of Parliament. The Earl and Countess of Derby are entertaining a few relatives and friends at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. The Earl and Countess of Wilton and Lady Katherine Grey Egerton are among the visitants. MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE We unde rs t an d th e builder's contract for this nation a l institution wa s si gne d on Monday last by the treasurer (John Propert, Esq.), on behalf of the council, and that the works are now rap c id n Mary's-road, Islington, rapidly y n p rr r A og s r L e E BEQUESTS ssing. TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION. —The late Mr. H. Nicholson, o f St. Islington, and Furnival's Inn, by his will be queathed the sum o f 1001. to the Law Society, f or t h e benefit of the widows and children of p rofession a l men, and a like sum to t he Law Clerks' Society, in aid o f th e objects of the Association. AN INTERESTING CASE IN THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT. —An author agreed to arrange materials and write original matter for a book at a stated price per sheet. Afterwards the publisher agreed that the author should publish the original matter in a separate form, and for that purpose use the type of the publisher. On a bill for an injunction by the author against the publisher, the Court refused to restrain the latter from publishing the original matter in an altered form. THE NEW LORD MAYOR.—Yesterday Alderman Sid ney, the new Lord Mayor, was sworn in at the Guild hall in the usual form. There was a very numerous at tendance of hiti Lordship's fellow-citizens upon the occa sion. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(T.FiLS' DA Y'. ) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. JONES V. MORGAN. This was an action brought to recover 701. on a bill of exchange. The defendant was sued as the public offi cer and secretary to the Irish Submarine Telegraph Company, and he pleaded first that he was not secretary ; secondly, that if he was, he was not liable to be sued as such, the company being a chartered concern ; and, thirdly, that he did not accept the bill. At the trial, the jury found for the defendant on the two first issues, and for the plaintiff on the third. Mr. Hawkins now, however, moved on behalf of the plaintiff for leave to enter up jugdment non obstante veredicto, and he did so on the following grounds :—lt appeared that in Febru ary last, Mr. Morgan went to plaintiff, and producing an order purporting to be made by the board of the com pany, authorising him to accept bills in their behalf, he wished the plaintiff to discount a bill for 701., which the plaintiff did, and the bill, while it was directed "To the Directors of the Irish Submarine Telegraph Company," was accepted in these terms—" Accepted by order of the board ; payable at Spooner, Attwood, and Co.'s. W. M. Morgan, secretary." It was afterwards found.out that in point of fact the defendant was not the secretary, he having been dismissed from the office ; and the plaintiff now contended that he ought not to suffer from the defendant's own misrepresentations. He there fore prayed for judgment on all the counts. Baron Parke doubted whether the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict even on the 'third issue, for the declaration alleged that he had accepted a bill which was directed to him ; but he had done nothing of the sort. Baron Alderson —In point of fact the plaintiff has sued the company, and having failed to hit that bird, he now wants to shoot at the other. It is quite clear that the company being chartered, they cannot be sued through their public officer. Mr. Hawkins insisted that as the plaintiff had been induced to discount the bill by the misrepresentation of Morgan, he ought to be held liable. Baron Parke—The actionis a blunder from beginning to end, and if you were to have a new trial, it is possible that the verdict on the third issue might be reversed, for Morgan has accepted no such bill as that declared on. You had better not take anything by your motion. Mr. Hawkins—Under these circumstances, I think that, my lord, between the two stools we have come to the ground, but it is a hard case. Application refused accordingly. city, as the empty tills of shopkeepers would abundantly prove. The procession was to start for. Guildhall at 11 o'clock, but it was not all on the move until just 12 o'clock. In the interval the crowd in this neighbourhood found an ample fund of amusement in the little incidents which now and then happened, and one could not fail to -see by their demeanour that the " show" was looked upon in the light of a joke. A poulterer's man passing along the cleared way with a tray well filled with game and geese, &c., was considered quite apropos, and elicited a most boisterous shout of merriment ; " an unprotected female" terrified at a mounted Lancer, and getting in the way the more she re treated, was also thought excellent fun ; and the sudden appearance of a poor costermonger with his barrow just before the Lord Mayor, was treated as the height of burlesque. The following is the official programme of the procession : Police Constables to clear the way. The Boys belonging to the Royal Marine Society, with banners. • City Marshal's Man. Pensioners of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich. Yeoman of the Guard. Private Pensioners. Mates. Boat's Crew. Coxswains. Boatswains. Inspecting Boatswains. Two Police Constables. The Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Innholders. Watermen bearing the following Banners : The Royal Standard. n ' l 'a' The Arms of the Innholders' Company. d The Arms of Sir Chapman Marshall. The Arms a P. of Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Wire. 7 , re ° The Clerk of the Company in his Chariot. c-) ..a The Court of Assistants in their Carriages. Ei The Master in his Chariot. ",2 The Under-Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Girdlers. A Military Band. The Barge Master. Watermen bearing the following Banners : The Royal Standard. The Union Jack. The City Arms. a cs The Arms of Alderman and Sheriff Wire. fi r The Arms of the Lord Mayor. U The Arms of the Company. E. 4 The Clerk of the Company in his Carriage. The Wardens in their carriages. The Upper Beadle of the Company. The Master of -the Company in his Chariot. The Under City Marshal on Horseback. The Lord Mayor's Beadle. The Lord Mayor's Bargemaster in State Dress The Bargemen bearing the various colours. The Banner of the Lord Mayor. The Captain of the Thames Navigation Barge. The Principal Assistant Water Bailiff.. The Waternien with Colours. A Grand Military Band. - The Common Council of the Lord Mayor's Ward in Carriages. The two Under Sheriffs. • The City Solicitor. The Remembrancer. The Comptroller. The Secondary. o The Three Common Pleaders. The Judge of the Sheriffs' Court. o The Town Clerk. The Common Sergeant. The City Chamberlain. Farrier on Horseback. 5 Kettle Farrier on Horseback. Guard on Horseback. Drums. f Guard on Horseback. Trumpeter on Horseback. Trumpeter on Horseback Guard on Horseback. Guard on Horseback. Mr. Sheriff Wire, in his State Carriage. The Aldermen who have not passed the Chair. The Recorder. The Aldermen who have passed the Chair. The late Lord Mayor. Trumpeters on Horseback. Banrer of Justice. A Car, drawn by Six Horses, three a es- a abreast, containing " Justice." Banner of the Nations borne by Herald. Standard Bearers of the - following Nations on Horseback, in the Costumes of their several Countries : France Spain Italy Germany Turkey Persia Russia Greece China India - North America South America A Cart of Australia, drawn by two Oxen, containing an Australian Digger. Banner of Peace and Prosperity. Countryman with Country girl with Implements of Industry. Implements of Industry.. Country Girl with Countryman with Implements of Indistry. Implements of Industry. f:'s l o A Car, drawn by Nine Horses, three abreast, 0 rs ° containing " Peace and Prosperity." S • &I • 15 0 • a oi ci, --, 0 ,4 cs .. The Lady Mayoress, in her State Carriage, joined the Procession on its return from Westminster. The Lord Mayor's Servants, in State Liveries. The Band of the Life Guards, mounted. The Upper City Marshal, on horseback. Gentlemen of the Lord Mayor's Household. The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, in his State Carriage, drawn by Six Horses, attended by the Chaplain, Sword-bearer, Common Crier, and the Water Bailiff. Guard of Honour, on Horseback. It may be as well to mention that Mr. Sheriff Wallis's " state chariot" was no where to be seen, though it was included in the list. It is said that the hon. gentleman was not only not disposed to make an exhibition of himself, but was so ungallant as positively to refuse to supply his share of the ex pense in getting up the show. But what he left undone was more than compensated for by his more liberal brother sheriff, Mr. Alderman Wire. This gentleman's equipage was one mass of bright red, dazzling the eyes of the beholders, and, by its reflection, making the pale-faced citizens ac tually appear to blush. This important little functionary was himself enveloped in robes of the same startling colour, and his smiling countenance was almost lost in an abundance of white frill. The novel part of the procession, in which Mr. Cooke's equestrian troupe was seen to very great advantage, excited general admiration. One of his best riders, attired in a handsome Ty rolese habit, and mounted on a beautiful piebald charger, and bearing the banner of " Peace," led the way.He was immediately fol lowed by a car drawn by six fine horses, three abreast, on which was mounted at a considerable height a modest girl in white classic robe, ba lancing scales in her hand, having before her a city mace, and though rather pretty looking, " as stern as Justice." Then came horsemen clothed in the garb of different nations, and a varied and interesting sight they presented. There was a groan at the Russian, which the Turk mistook for himself, and turned round to see from whom it proceeded, but this move resulted in a loud and enthusiastic cheer. The Chinese participated in the good wishes of the spectators, and seemed mighty proud of it. The representatives of North and South America were amusingly tatooed and completely covered with dabs of various paints, and occasioned much merriment. What, however, brought the laughter of the people to a climax was the Australian digger with his red woollen smock, his sun-burnt countenance, his huge overgrown beard, about to split asunder with his pick axe a gigantic piece of quartz. Last of all in this groupe came " Peace and Prosperity," two young ladies appropriately attired and mounted on a large globe, which was drawn by nine horses three abreast. It is unnecessary to make any comments on the other parts of the pageant. Having, after some difficulty and delay, been com pletely formed, it left Guidhall precisely at twelve o'clock, passing from King-street, through Gresham street, Princes-street, Lombard-street, Fenchurch-street, Mincing-lane, Tower-street, Eastcheap, Fish-street-hill, Lower Thames-street, to Billinsgate &c. ; from thence by water to Westminster. The Lord Mayor embarked amidst loud cannonading, as brisk, perhaps, but not so destructive as the firing which the Turks encountered from L the Russians when making the pass of Giurgevo. When the ceremony at Westminster had con eluded, his lordship returned from Westminster to Blackfriars'- bridge, by water and passed through New Bridge street, Ludgate-hill, Ludgate-street, St. Paul's Church yard, Cheapside, and King-street, to Guildhall. At Bridge-street the procession on its return was joined by the Ambassadors, her Majesty's Ministers of State, the nobility, judges, members of Parliament, and other persons of distinction invited to the banquet at Guildhall. THE SCREW-STEAMER CR(ESIIS, which is advertised to leave England for Australia on the-lOth of January next, will take out ship letter-bags for all the Australian ports. She is advertised to start two days after the mail for Australia is despatched from England, by way of France and India, and will afford a most favourable opportunity for again testing the relative merits of the Cape and Indian routes to the gold colonies. The Crcesus is -700 tons burden, and 50 horse-power more than the Argo, the last steamer that competed so successfully with the Overland Mail. ARRIVAL AT CORK OF AN EMIGRANT VESSEL DIS ABLED.—An emigrant vessel in a battered and disabled condition arrived on Monday in Cork harbour. She is an American full-rigged ship, the Queen of the West (one of the Swallow-tail line of packets), and has 550 emi grants on board. She sailed from the Mersey on the morning of the Bth of October last, with a pretty fair wind, but soon got into unfavourable and contrary winds, On the 21st they were off the Old Head of Kinsale, and soon after, off Cape Clear, were met with a severe gale, they having, as we are informed, all their sails set. The bowsprit was carried away, and then the foremast, and she subsequently suffered such damage that she has ar rived in the harbour with nothing but the stump of her main and mizen-masts, and a jury foremast. During the time passed at sea after these disasters the sufferings of the emigrants were extreme, both from the condition of the vessel, its violent and continuous pitching, and the consumption of their stock of provisions. The emigrants (says the Cork Eamainer) complain of the conduct of the officers, which they say was the cause of the mishaps he vessel met With. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. A. telegraphic despatch received at Paris from Bucharest, states that the Consul of France there in writing to M. de Bourquency, under the date of the 6th inst., says : "On the 2d and 3d of November the Turks crossed the Danube from Turtukai to Oltenitza, to the number of about 18,000 men. " On the 4th General Parlof attacked them with 9,000 men, and, after a brisk cannonade, a combat with the bayonet took place between the two armies. " The Turks maintained their positions at Olte nitza, and have fortified them. " The combat lasted three hours. " In it the Russians lost several officers and 136 privates killed, and 6 superior officers, 18 subal terns, and 479 privates wounded. " The loss on the Turkish side is not known. 4,000 Turks occupy Kalarache, 2,000 have estab lished themselves on an island in front of Giurgevo, and 12,000 are in Lesser Wallachia." Another telegraphic despatch received direct from Vienna, states that from the 4th to the sth the Turks occupied the island near Oltenitza, and crossed unobserved to Wallachia at dawn. When seen, a battle ensued which lasted 28 hours. The result is unknown. It is rumoured that Giurgevo was. taken by storm. Turtukai and Oltenitza are towns on the right and left banks of the Danube, between Rustchuk and Silistria, on the direct route to Bucharest. Higher up the river, and opposite to Rustchuk, lies Giurgevo, from which another road leads to Bucharest. Still ascending the river, we come to Rahova, a town on the right bank, opposite to which lies Kalarache, at the junction of thls Schyl and Danube. The troops in Lesser Wallachia are those which crossed from Widdin, which forms the extreme left of the Turkish line. The Hospodar Stirbey has left Bucharest for Vienna. His departure has been officially an nounced to the representatives of the foreign Powers. The Government is carried on by a Com mission, and the Russians have seized all the public funds and treasuries. . The prices of goods and victuals have been fixed at a very low rate by the military authorities. Whenever any dealer asks high prices he is at once seized and flogged by the soldiers who superintend the public markets. . War seems imminent. The Russians in their entrenchments on the left bank of the Danube make no preparations to cross that river. The consuls of France and Great Britain expect instruc tions from their Governments, authorising them to leave the country. _ _ Intelligence from Constantinople up to the 27th Oct., says—the removal of Abdi Pasha from the command of the army in Asia is mentioned as pro bable. It is said that the Russian troops in the Princi palities are suffering from typhus, and that the number of combatants is reduced to 85,000. It will take six weeks before the reserve can come up from Bessarabia. Another account from Vienna, dated Bucharest, Nov. 5, says :—The Turks, availing themselves of a thick fog, took possession of an island opposite Turtukan, and then landed on the left shore ; the reconnoitering division was repulsed. The Russian vanguard threw the Turks back upon their entrench ments along the river. Yesterday the Turks attempted a passage near Giurgevo, Oltenitza, and Slobodzie. At Giurgevo they were repulsed. At Oltenitza they crossed ; a twenty-eight hours' cannonade ensued ; the Russians also here repelled them. At Giurgevo they fired upon a steamer coming from Hirsova, and then transported her to the Turkish shore. Prince Gortschakoff went to Giurgevo to-day. The Austrian embassy has sent a circular to all the representatives of other nations at Constanti nople, officially announcing that the Emperor of Austria has taken all Russian subjects and interests under his protection, during the actual state of war between Turkey and Russia. The remaining members of the Russian embassy and consulate left Constantinople for Odessa, on board an Austrian steamer, which had been hired especially for that purpose. Lk, It appears, from information received up to Oct. 27, that in Constantinople all fears of disturbances, and all bad feeling towards the Christians, which were so evident but a few weeks since, have eva porated with the declaration of war ; and, to judge by the aspect of the city, it would be little ima- lined that its inhabitants were of so belligerent a disposition as to have insisted on vindicating their rights by the sword. A great many British officers left by the Tues day's boat for Varna and Schumla. Lord Worsley, Colonel Buckley, and others, were amongst the number. _ _ Numerous conferences were held last week be- , tween the representatives of the four Powers, and between them and the Ministers of the Porte. The New Prussian Correspondence of Berlin, which has the reputation of being semi-official, states that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has pre sented to the Porte, on the part of England, *a new project of arrangement, which is not to be submitted to the Emperor of Russia until it shall have been accepted by the Sultan. The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin, sth, says :—" It is positively stated that the British Cabinet has- invited all the Courts, represented at the Conference of Vienna, to recommend to the Ottoman Porte the new project of me diation, by a collective note of the Ambassa dors of the Four Powers. The contents of this note relate, it is said, to the treaty of 1841, in which the Five Powers guarantee to the Sultan the inviolability of his sovereign rights, and express the sincere desire of seeing the tran quility of his Empire consolidated. In the project of the collective note, the assurance given by the treaty of 1841, is renewed. The note does not contain any fresh guarantee. The question is to know whether this note, which as yet is only a project, will obtain the approbation of the other Powers represented in the conference. England and France are alone in accord." Direct and positive news up to the 28th has reached the Wanderer from Omer Pasha's camp. On the preceding day, by 12 o'clock, 12,400 men had passed the river at Kalafat. On the 27th, Omer Pasha was certainly on the right bank of the river. The vanguard of the corps ad vancing from Sophia had reached Widdin. The troops which have already entered Wallachia will form the left wing of the corps which is to operate in the Principalities. Their first des tination will be Krajova, and as soon as the other troops have !advanced to their support, the river will be crossed at other places. (This has pro bably occurred, but the Russian despatch relative to Giurgevo is far from being clear.) The news that 6,000 Russian horse are in Krajova deserves no credit, but it is certain that the 2,000 Lancers, who pushed on in forced marches from Slatina to Krajova, were the vanguard of an advancing corps. The intelligence that Danneberg's army-corps of forty thousand men and more, is already in Lesser Wallachia, and its place filled up by Osten-Sacken's corps, is positively false. Up to the 25th of October, Osten- Sacken's troops had not crossed the Pruth, and it is impossible that they can be placed between Bucharest and Giurgiu in the first half of Novem ber, unless steamers are employed, which is not very probable. It must be observed that, in the cam paigns of 1828 and 1829, the Russians never ope rated with more than 15,000 men, although hosti lities were carried on during the whole winter. The news of the passage of the river created a great ferment in Wallachia, and in some places there were even demonstrations against the • Lussians. This is probably the reason why the state of siege was proclaimed, a measure to which the Russians never before resorted in these countries. Namik Pasha, aecording to a telegraphic despatch of the 26th, was still at Constantinople, waiting for de spatches from the Turkish Embassy in Vienna, after the receipt of which he was to proceed to London without further loss of time, on board an English steamer. It is not improbable that he may have a diplomatic as well as a financial mission. The following note was addressed officially by the Sublime Porte to the representatives of Austria and Prussia, dated (18th of the Mouliarrem, 1270,) 21st October, 1853 : "It is a matter of public notoriety that Russia, in violating existing treaties by the occupation of the two Principalities, has committed an act of a nature to justify war, and has, by creating all kinds of difficulties, compelled the Sublime Porte to take up arms for the defence of her rights, whilst the Ottoman Govern ment, with the desire of maintaining peace, pur sued on the contrary a conciliatory line of conduct, and replete with moderation. In virtue of the treaty of 1841, the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Black Sea were closed against foreign ships of war, but the state of war produced by the acts of the Russian Cabinet has placed the Sublime Porte under the ne. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 8. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes- terday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Col. the Hon. Charles Grey and Lieut.-. Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, left Windsor this morning by a special -train of the South-Westerr: Railway for London, and returned to the Castle at 25 minutes to 3 o'clock. Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stovin has been succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Hood as Groom in Waiting to the Queen. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday at a Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhi bition of 1851. His Royal Highness, attended by Col. the Hon. C. Grey and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, arrived at the New Palace at Westminster at half-past 10 o'clock, and inspected the works of art. Sir Charles L. Eastlake, P.R.A., attended the Prince. The committee sat in the New Palace at 11 o'clock, and was attended by Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P., Sir W. Cubitt, and Mr. Coulson, Q.C. Mr. Edgar Bowring, Secretary to the Royal Commission, was in attendance. Prince Albert left at a quarter before 2 o'clock, on his return to Windsor Castle. A Cabinet Council was held at 2 o'clock yesterday, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chan - cellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of New castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir W. Molesworth. Viscount Palmer ston arrived at the Foreign-office at 4 o'clock, from his seat, Broadlands, Hants, and joined his colleagues. The Council broke np at 6 o'clock. LORD MAYOR'S DAY. To chronicle the events of " Lord Mayor's Day" is generally a rather dull affair. There are few in " Cockaigne" proper, or indeed in the whole metro polis, who are not by ocular demonstration familiar with everything appertaining to the great annual civic pageant • and beyond giving an account of the rows, broken heads, and other mishaps which invariably attend the progress of " the first magis trate" through the capital to Westminster, the journalist has little more to do than to 'fall back on the records of past years. So simple, in fact, is his task, that he might accomplish it with an ease and an. accuracy that would astonish the uninitiated, far away from the sound of Bow-bells, ere he leaves his breakfast-table. Thousands have passed from boyhood to old age, and seen the same procession, the same ceremony, without any variation in the slightest particular. There is the old lumbering but glittering triumphal carriage, contemptuthisly dubbed "gilt gingerbread," but to simple juveniles nothing less than solid gold, brought by some civic argosies, or paid as tribute to the city potentate by his subjects in bygone times ; there is " milord, in awful state, blossoming in vermilion and golden manacles, but apparently rather uncomfortable, being squeezed up in the interior between the Mace bearer, the Chaplain, and the grim Sword-bearer, and looking more like an illustrious criminal pro ceeding to execution than a Mayor undergoing his inauguration ; there is the odd decoration on Mr. Sword-bearer's cranium, which is nothing more than a perpendicular muff, large enough to contain all the charters of right in possession of the cor poration ; there is the " man in brass," who is obliged on each side to be supported on his steed, and who serves as a butt for the gibes and ridicule of the crowd, and at the same time shows what dege nerate beings we must have become, when the armour of our forefathers, instead of being a pro tection, actually renders a man as helpless as a child. Then comes "ye ancient ceremonie in ye Court of Exchequer." Here, again, every one knows how the Lord Mayor asserts his independ ence, by politely insulting the learned barons, which he does by keeping on his uncomely hat, decorated with an undertaker's plume of raven black feathers ; how the learned barons return the compliment by covering their big wigs with a yard of black cloth, which gives them an extremely odd appearance, and raises a general titter in the court ; how the learned Recorder, we should be sorry to say for what hundredth time, sings the praises of the past Lord Mayor, details his successor's gene alogy, which, to the astonishment of all, extends as far back as the Norman Conquest, and if it does not distinctly connect Mr. Alderman Tea Dealer or Mr. Alderman Free Vintner with loyalty itself, proves that his forefathers have always been devout loyalists ; how, lastly, the Lord Chief Baron com pliments both in a neat, set speech, denies that what is seen on this day is an idle pageant, evi dently with a conviction that everybody thinks it is, and lauds it as a proceeding symbolical of the freedom and privileges of the greatest city in the world. All this, and a good deal more, might be related without even putting a foot inside Temple Bar, or approaching near Westminster Hall. But Mr. Alderman Sidney's advent to office possesses an interest which has not belonged to similar occa sions in preceding years. First of all, for reasons well known to everybody, there has been an interregnum of 24 instead of 12 months since the last Lord Mayor's Show paraded the streets of London. Then who knows but what, with a Royal Commission of Inquiry actually sit ting, and a Government measure of reform looming in the distance, that this may be the last, or nearly so, of such displays ? In the next place, Alderman Sidney, following in the footsteps of his Aldermanic brother Musgrove, has looped off the absurd por tions of the spectacle, such as the knights in armour, and other things equally ridiculous ; and, taking a hint from the more tasteful public processions in France and Belgium, has replaced them by pic turesque personifications of " Justice," " Indus try," " Peace and Prosperity," and so forth, and by living representations of the inhabitants of all foreign countries. But what distinguished to-day from all other 9ths of November within our recollec tion, was the extremely propitious state of the wea ther. Let it be recorded for once, if only once, that there was no November fog, no rain, no sleet —that the sky was as unclouded as any we can boast of in London, and that the sun shone forth with an effulgence rarely seen except in the height of summer. It would almost seem as if the weath er deities had repented o f th e ir long course of injus tice. to the city mo narc h i n this respect, an d was deswous of making amends now at the eleventh hour. It were supererogation to say that the route of procession is crowded, for is it over otherwise, even when the streets are deluged with rain, the mud ankle deep, and the fog so dense as to pre vent one seeing beyond a few yards in advance ? But the combination o f c i rcums t ances to which w e have alluded brought together a greater throng of people than is usually witnessed at such times, and, with the exception of a few hours in the morn ing, business was at a complete stand still in the cessity of securing for herself the advantage of right which accrues to her from that convention, and the I fleets of France and England, the august allies of the Sublime Porte, have been invited to enter into the Straits of the Dardanelles. The necessary firnians have been despatched on that head to the Governor of that Strait, and I have received the command of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan to give to your Ex cellency an official communication of that resolution in your quality of representative of the Court of Prussia (of Austria) a party to the above mentioned treaty. I take advantage of this opportunity to offer your Excellency the assurances of my most distinguished consideration. "REDSCHID." FRANCE. --- • It is stated in the Moniteur that, notwithstand ing the desire expressed by the Emperor, the arri val of their majesties at Compiegne had been the occasion of preparations and manifestations which, whilst being exceedingly flattering, caused them to regret the expepse which must have been incurred. The Emperor and the Empress wish to be able to visit the imperial residences without being the cause of any disarrangement or expense to the populations. This formal desire of their Majesties has been transmitted to the Mayor of Fontaine bleau, on the approaching journey of the Emperor to that place. A. telegraphic despatch from Bayonne states that the conference for the definition of the limits of the frontiers between France and Spain commenced yesterday. A decree is at the present moment under tike consideration of the Council of State, the object of which is to grant a supplementary credit of 4,500,0001. towards the completion of the Louvre. The Duchess d'Alba, sister of the Empress of the French, has been delivered of a daughter, to whom her godfather. and uncle, the Emperor, has given the name of Louise. By an Imperial decree, the following persons have been nominated to the household of Prince Napoleon :—Colonel Nesme Desmarets, of the Staff, to be first aide-de-camp, and M. Varcolier, to be private secretary. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, wishing to judge from his own observation the effects of the measure recently adopted for the retail sale of meat by auction, went on Monday to the Halle, accompanied by M. Monny de Mornay, Chief of the Division of Agriculture, and remained there during the whole time of the sale. The Prefect of the Bouches-du-Rhone and his family returned to Marseilles, in the Thabor, from their visit to Constantinople. Public securities rose considerably at the Bourse yesterday, on a report that an armistice had been concluded bttween the Russian and Turkish Com manders-in-Chief, and that the Eastern question is to be settled by au European Congress. The Three per Cents. opened at 73f. 90c., and rose to 74f. 40c.; they closed at 74f. 35c. for the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 100 f. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,1601. ; Rouen, 1,040 f. ; Havre, 500 f. ; Great Northern, 855 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 945 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 907 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 735 f. ; Western of France, 700 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 5871. 50c. ; Great Central, 515 f. ; Lyons to Geneva, 490 f. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 702 f. 50c. SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 3d inst. M. Medizabel died on that day. The Gazette publishes the following Royal decree : "In virtue of the prerogative conferred on me by the 30th clause of the Constitution, and conformably to the proposition of my Council of Ministers, I appoint Don Manuel de la Pezuela, Marquis of Viluma, President of the Senate for the next session, and Lieutenant- General Don Francisco Zavier Maria Giron, Duke of Ahumeda, Don Francisco de Olavarieta, President of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice ; Lieutenant-General Joaquin Bayona, and Don Francisco de Borja de Bazars y Silva, Marquis of Santa Cruz, Vice-Presidents. "Given at the Palace, November 2, 1853. (Signed) "Tim QUEEN." We read in the Heraldo : "A letter, written by General Prim to a person in, Madrid, confirms the intelligence brought by the foreign journals, that the brave Spanish General was to be em ployed by the Sultan the moment hostilities commenced with Russia. According to that letter, General Prim, in his journey from Constantinople to Shumla was es corted by 600 cavalry. The journey was so fatiguing, on account of the rigour of the season, that only one officer, a Spaniard, reached the head-quarters of Omer Pasha safe and sound, and that 15 horses died immedi ately on arriving. It was very probable, should the General accept the command offered him by the Sultan, that he will be placed at the head of the divisions of the advanced guard." M. Marfori, a relative of Marshal Narvaez, had been named Corregidor of Madrid. The Three per Cents. were done at 41 ; the NeW Three per Cents. at 21/ ; the Debt of the First class at 9 ; and that of the Second at 5. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, 7 A. M. By the steamer Atlantic we have advices front New York to the 29th ult. She has brought $500,000 in specie on freight. The steamer Niagara arrived at Boston from Liverpool on the 28th ult. The details of the California news, per Northern Light, had been received at New York by the ar rival of that steamer there. In addition to . $1,500,000 in gold dust on freight, there was a large amount in the hands of the passengers. There had been but few sales made from first hands in San Francisco markets • but notwithstanding this, there had been considerable purchases of dry goods for the interior, and most of the jobbers had done an active trade. The late accounts from Washington state that on the 24th of October there were treasury war rants entered for the redemption of 101,5811. United State Stocks. By the steamer Texas, from Vera Cruz, arrived at New Orleans, we learn that the revolution in Yucatan had been suppressed, after a loss of 300 men. The Spanish Minister had suspended his relations with the Mexican Government, and left the capital. The barque Harward, from Newport, bound to Norfolk, went ashore on the 22d ultimo on Wacha prique Shoals, and sunk to her deck in the sands. Crew saved. • The ship President, of Boston, from St. John's, New Brunswick, for Liverpool, with -deals was driven from her anchorage off Partridge I s land, and went ashore near Red Head, and it was thought would become a wreck. A loose feeling was manifest in the New York Stock Market. At the Bank brokers' the minimum rate for the best commercial paper was 12 per cent., and nothing done less. Prime paper quoted at 12 to 15 per cent., and second-rate paper 18 to 24 per cent. Exchange on London, 109 to 1091 ; Paris, 5-1 1 i to 543 1; Bremen, sok to 80g. Cotton in active demand, with sales of 9,0 00 bales for the three days, at an advance of lc. to ie. per lb. Provisions without change. Flour less active, without change in price. Wheat in good demand, at firm prices. Indian corn in good demand, with a sale of 133,000 bushels at higher prices. Freights to London.—Flour, 4s. 6d. per barrel ; wheat, ls. 4d. per bushel ; turpentine, 55.; and cheese, 60s. THE STEAMERS owned by the Mail Packet Companies at the port of Southampton, including those which are building, are 101 in number, viz., 33 screw and 68 pad' die-wheel steamers. The tonnage of these is 109,41 9, and the horse-power 32,638. LETTERS FOR THE ARCTIC SHlPS.—Letters for officers and men serving on board the Enterprise, Rattlesnake , and Plover, in Behring Straits, to be sent to the Ad miralty on or before the 31st December. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris je about 2 per mille discount (according to the last tariff)' which, at the English price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.12 ; and, th e exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.00, it follows that gold is about 0.48 per cent. dearer in Fo ie than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark, which, at the English Mie s e price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, b ur gve an exchange of 13.3'4 ; and, the exchange at Hat a i s on London at short being 13.2 k, it follows that gold s 0.77 I,er cent. dearer in Hamburg than in Londo n. at ? course of exchange at New York on London for bills si 60 days' sight is 109/ per cent., the par of exchange b e t we en - England and America being 109 23-0 per Cent.cent it follows that the exchange is nominally 0 . 17 Per f r in favour of England ; and, after making allowance °I charges of transport, the present rate leaves a tim e s _. profit on the importation of gold from the United St:t THE TEMPLE-BAR QUESTION.—It having been t in the report of the committee to which this su bjec t was referred by the Court of Common Council which appeared on the 14th ult., that the inhabitaolvitaft of the parish of St. Bride were opposed to the rer:.....e t of Temple-bar, and had signed a petition to that ttw as r:: to the Court of Common Council ; the subject as brought under the notice of the inhabitants at a meeting by Mr. Underhill, when the vicar, pai:onnowl7. authorities, and the parishioners disclaimed a.ll A strong ledge of or participation in such a petition. le• opinion was expressed against the continuance o f t T h e a te t P oe bar in its present state, and it was understoo d no. .__ o f subject would be shortly brought before the Fr__ the inhabitants, in order that they portunity of publicly exprening their opinion subject, may have t o n n 4.41,8 3 , e{~ the res r , atno th e join 1,2] eon the ton! afte to 2 to ha v Sto are Nes Per Spa Spa Vei i