The Sun. — London, England, 1853-11-17 00:00:00

-vv-Fir COOPER, ESQ. —A Portrait and Biograph S ical ketch of this distinguished Ophthalmic Sur geon, appears in the current Number of the " MEDICAL Ctactman," with many other articles of interest. Price 3d. ; or sent on receipt o f Four Postage Stamps. The trade supplied by Gilbert and Co., Paternoster -row. Office, 128, Strand. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Nov. 11. The GREAT AMERICAN EQUESTRIANS will exhibit their astonishing Feats, unmatched in the history of such Performances, .assisted by the most renowned GyDallftStie Artistes, 0. Dale and Farms, the European and American champions. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. BucXstone. THIS EVENING, Nov. 17, Will be performed A CURE FOR LOVE. Characters by Messrs. hippendale , and Buckstone ; Mrs. Stanley. Miss Vining. A f te r which, LOVE'S ALAR MS. Characters by Mes Romer, srs. W. Farrel, Core, and Compton ; Miss Easily Ormonde, Miss E. and Miss Featherstone. To be followed by A PRETTY PIECE OF iss RBUSI NE lds a nd Mrs.. Cha racters by Idessrs. Howe and Bu ekstone ; Meyno Ts conclude with POPPING THE QUESTION. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Unter the Management of Mr. CusaLzs BEAN. THIS EVENING, Nov. 17, Will be performed THE LANCERS; or, The Gentleman's Son. Principal characters by Messrs. Meadows, Ryder, Everett, H. Mellon, and D. Fisher; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. W. Lacy, Mrs. Daly, and Miss C. Leclercci. To be followed by MARCO SPADA. Supported by Messrs. w. Lacy, j. cheater, Ryder. G raham, and Everett ; Miss Heath and DEM C. Leclercq. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPUI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Nov. 17, win be performed THE DISCARDED SON. Characters by Le i g h Murray, Paul Bedford, and Seeley ; Mrs. Keeley and Miss weever, ecc. To be followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. After which, THE CAMP AT CHOMIAM. To be followed by "HOTEL CHARGES!" or, How to Cook . 4 A Blinn." ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Nov. 17. Will be performed THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, Cooper, and Galli ; Mesdames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Chatterley, E. Turner, and Wyndham. To be followed by PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters C• by Mr. F. Robson and Airs. Stirlin ASTLET'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. GRAND MILITARY SPECTACLE—THE INVASION OF T RUSS A, and THE BURLESQUE. g WEEK of the Star of the Arena, Miss KATE COOKE, who continues to be received with increased enthusiasm. THIS EVENING, Nov. 17, The Entertainments will commence with the Grand Equestrian unitary Spectacle, entitled BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF RUS ; or, The Burning of Moscow. To be followed by Mr. W. COOKE'S matchless Scenes of the ARENA, in which Mr. ALFRED COOKE will appear. To conclude with JUPITER'S DECREE AND THE FALL OF PILETON; or, The Fiery Coursers of the Sun. Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. THURSDAY, Nov. 17, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning . . The stations are arranged in order of latitude. FOLKESTONE-N., calm—foggy. TUNBRIDGE-N., calm—overcast. GREENWICH —calm—foggy. S iso oD—N.W., gentle b re eze—overcast. SWINDON —N. W., light airs—foggy. CAMBRIDGE -N., gentle breeze—cloudy. YARMOUTH—N.E., gentle breeze—rain. The.returns from the following places indicate the state o f the weather on T u es d a y morning at nine o'clock L I MERIOK-N.E., calm—foggy. MULLINGAR-E., strong breeze—rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ting DAY —Morning 39 min.after 2 I Evening 54 min.aft. 2 10-Moanow—Morning 9 min.after 3 Evening 25 min.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—Suw OFFICE, Nov. 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 36—loweatithis morning and during the night. 44—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 85—rising. WIND, N.N.E.—Light breeze, and fine, sunshiny, cold weather—fogs in the mornings. tions. in opposition tt ) the sneers of the Aberdeenites, and the confident assurances of those who relied on the magnanirt Lity of the Councils of the AUTOCRAT, that sooner a r later war would result from all those protracted negotiations, have not our asser tions beenprt wed, unhappily, but too correct by that f o rmidable si ;niggle between the Turks and Rus sians4th instant, when there fell in killed andw o o n the- und a on the side of the Muscovites, ac cording to tl ie earlier accounts 1,200 altogether, but as manl T as 3,000 according to the latest received irate) digence ? It were idle to go further in our triur aphant, but, :at the same moment most sorrow' enumeration. Really, and truly, we may be s aid to have cried " miching malecho" directly we w ere made acquainted with the arrogant and sinister mission ofPrince/VIEN-scumorr. In other terms,we intimated that it "meant mischief"—and has it not " me.a.. - nt mischief" —with a vengeance ? Has it not ? by the world can judge now for itself readily enorugh—it can judge from the terrible truths lettered i n characters of blood on the soil of the Danubian I?rincipalities — it can judge from the presence of -the Cossacks under GORTZCHAKOFF in the dominiol a s of the SULTAN—it can judge from the tard3r apparition of the French and British men-of -,war in the Bosphorus —it can judge p a ssage first of th e P ru th an d th en o f f t r h o e mthe Danube, from the Turkish capture of Bucha rest, and the Turkish victory of Oltenitza. Happily, as yet, the events of the war have more than realised our most sanguine anticipa- The soldiers of ABD-UL-MEDJID have everywhere proved successful—in Asia as well as in Europe—north of Trebizond as well as south of Bes sarabia. It is somewhat remarkable, moreover, that we simultaneously learn to-day by the Gazette des Postes, of Frankfort, that the Conference of the diplomatic representatives of the Four Powers have definitively closed their sittings at the Aus trian capital, and receive from that same city of Vienna confirmation of the news that the Turks under OMER. PACHA were, up to the latest date, carrying out triumphantly every one of their warlike operations. Already, in fact, the Russians are known to have been hastily retreat ing on Cronstadt, while the soldiers of the SUL TAN, after confirming their success, on the 4th instant, by a second and an equally victorious en gagement at Oltenitza, had advanced beyond the capital of Wallachia, in pursuit of the defeated troops of the AUTOCRAT—Bucharest having, in three places, broken out into a conflagration. It appears, moreover, that 15,000 Turks had been hastily despatched to intercept the Russians by way of Servia. Let us hope that the evident scheme of circumvention may be completed in an opposite quarter by a yet more desirable move ment. Information arrived in this country only the other day that the Turkish fleet in the Black Sea had chased several Russian vessels into the harbour of Sebastopol. Let us hope that there too, no less than in Wallachia, the earlier successes of the Osmanlis may be followed up by a series of prompt and judicious movements—that as a por tion of the military armaments of the SULTAN have hastened across by way of Servia, a portion of his maritime armaments may push forward to the northern shores of the Euxine, midway be tween the mouths of the Dnieper and the Dniester. The Russian forces, we have said, are described as retreating fast upon Cronstadt. What a thunderbolt, then, would it not be— were the Turks to crown by sea their triumphs on land by the sudden seizure of Odessa ! The Danube has been successfully passed by the sol diers of ABD-UL-NLEDJID-Oltenitza has been twice won—theyhave already advanced beyond the walls of Bucharest. Nov, while a portion of the Turkish army is advancing by way of Servia, with a view to embarrass the movements of their antagonists, it were a master-stroke of policy supposing a por tion of the Turkish fleet were boldly despatched across the Black Sea to Odessa. The seizure of Odessa would facilitate the final routing of the Russian army in Bessarabia : for the discomfited soldiers of the CZAR might there be brought to bay, and the We of the campaign be staked upon one crowning engagement. How readily now at this juncture might not France and England, by throwing their influence into the scale, and boldly co-operating with Turkey, bring matters to a conclusion. It would however, be sanguine, indeed, in us to look for anything like energetic action on the part of England so long as its councils continue under the auspices of the hesitating and timorous leader of the Coalition Government. With the Imperial Councils on the ether side of the Channel, it is, to a certain extent at least, otherwise. There Ministers can find courage to speak out boldly, without a craven and over-weaning solicitude to avoid offending the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. There, an official contradiction of the " untruth " in the Manifesto of the AUTOCRAT, is chivalrously printed in the columns of the Moniteur. Whereas, amongst ourselves, our Administrators persevere to the last in their pitiful policy of caution, reserve, and ta citurnity. Venetians might cry of yore, "0, for one hour of blind old DANDOLO 1" English men have yet greater reason to exclaim now-a days in regard to our foreign relations, Oh ! for one hour of PALMERSTON. hat er. 4 c4. 4 r , (c . ' 41 ,3.w0 LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1853, It is important that every intelligent English man should understand correctly the precise situation of the belligerent forces now struggling furiously for the mastery in the heart of Moldo- Wallachia. Unfortunately, however, it must be admitted, that this is in reality scarcely less diffi cult than it is important. Under ordinary circum stances it is barely possible to place reliance upon the accounts received from the seat of war—gar bled as those accounts naturally and almost invari ably are by the contending influences of antipathy and prepossession. Despatches from a battle-field are seldom, consequently, perused without a cer tain degree of suspicion. Bulletins, even when coming from the most truth-loving and GoD-serv ing Commander, are accepted, for the most part— cum, grano salis, due allowance being made for the reasonable solicitude of every Captain to make the best of everything in his communications to his Government. These considerations, we repeat, are nearly inevitable, even under ordinary circum stances. How much more so, therefore, at a crisis such as this now involving affairs for the time in embarrassing, if not absolutely bewildering, confu sion ! Yet the very difficulty of the task of detecting the actual progress of occurrences in the East should be regarded as an additional incentive to quickness of inquiry and vigila nce o f observation. It were preposterous, however, for even the shrewdest observer amongst us to dre am for an instant of unravelling the tangled skein of contemporary history by any other aid than -Li of the most minute, and painstaking, and unin terrupted investigation. Nothing, indeed, for the time being should be regarded as matter of insignificance. Everything in the way of detail and particularity should be accepted at its right value, as tending ultimately towards the popular enlightenment. Having watched the sequence of events with peculiar anxiety, during the past eight months especially, we may venture without much temerity, we presume, to direct the notice of the public at large from day to day to what we can not but regard as the deductions alone to be drawn from the consecutive fragments of information. Without arrogating too much importance to our opinions, moreover, we may surely be permitted to assume a certain right to pronounce those opinions in a manner, so to speak, a uthoritatively knowing well, as our readers must do by this time, how correctly we have h itherto judged as to the result of our protracted and fruitless negotiations. Let it be 'remembered, for example, that we insisted from 41, outset upon the necessity of our Cabinet adopting energetic measures instead of " trimming" nervously between anxiety to keep on good terms with the G Governm en t of St. Peters burg, and a desire to support the assaulted r i g ht s of the Government of C onstantin o pl e . W e asserted that no advantage could possibly accrue from those timorous attempts at conciliation. We maintained that the only course t o b e adopted with a probability of benefit t o Europe would be a course at once energetic an d temperate, a course serviceable to the interests of justice, and creditable to the character of our Administration. Have not occurrences, let us ask, now fully justified every one of those decla rations? If we predicted (as we did) that the Vienna Conference would in the end come to no thing, and prove altogether unsuccessful, have not our words been made good to the letter by the utter failure of that unfortunate Note, and the A religious body, by its public dissensions, and but o the other day by its appearance in a Chancery suit, has attracted to itself more than ordinary attention. Were most of our readers informed that amongst the numerous voluntary sects in this country, one of the largest—the largest in England itself—had the most absolute ecclesiastical go vernment in Christendom, not excluding Popery itself, they would probably be greatly surprised. Such, however, is the fact. Voluntaryism is by no means necessarily connected, as some suppose, with ecclesiastical freedom. The monastic orders, indeed, in their way, have furnished ample proof of this, while the supreme authority of the Pope, and the delegated absolute authority of the Roman Priesthood, are cheerfully supported by millions of willing contributors in the British Isles. Protestantism, with its doctrine of the right of private judgment and its freedom of dis cussion, particularly when combined with the Anglo-Saxon's sturdy partiality for self-govern ment, would seem to be especially unfavorable to anything similar ; and most of all when, being unsupported by the State, a hierarchy would be prostrate in an instant if its spiritual subjects withdrew their pecuniary support. Yet within the last century WESLEYAN METHODISM has attained its present magnitude and nume rical importance. The Birstal case recently decided by Vice-Chancellor WOOD has es tablished afresh the legal prerogatives of the body called the Wesleyan Conference, prerogatives transcending, we believe, those claimed by his Holiness of Rome ; indeed, comprehending the entire powers exercised jointly by him and all his clergy of every grade. It is indeed a curious question how such vast numbers of Englishmen have been induced to place themselves spiritually I under a form of government which even the high Tories amongst us would scout in politics. The political effect of their doing so is indeed apparent in the fa c t o f the universal Toryism of the Con ference mi n i s t ers, and th e p reva l ence o f s i m il ar 1 political vie ws amongst the electors belonging to the body. It i s Toryism, too, in the very ranks of society which are naturally the very strongholds of Liberalism and Radicalism, and is one of the in numerable illustrations of the reciprocal effect on now candidly ack now l e d ge d i nca p ac ity o f th e con- each other of religious and political principles. Lulting diplomatists? If we foretold (as wo did) I We share with the majority a resortable per- sons the belief that JOHN WESLEY was an honest and a much-needed Reformer. A drowsy clergy and their dozing flocks required to be aroused from their slumbers ; and the most sceptical will not deny that WESLEY, and as an orator his far greater friend WHITFIELD, did awaken a religious earnestness, which has spread, in many respects with happy results, to all other denomina tions, the Established Church itself par taking most largely, perhaps, ultimately, in the new religious zeal. Fully acknowledging this, we are not bound to render like homage to the ecclesiastical system devised by WESLEY, which must be held by every friend of civil and religious liberty to be equally hostile and dangerous to both. Lord Joint RUSSELL has declared as much in stronger language in his printed works, and we must concur with him. During life, WESLEY governed the whole body he had gathered toge ther, as an autocrat ; before his death, he assigned its government to one hundred ministers, nomi nated by himself, but afterwards to fill up itself all vacancies in its own body. The Conference starts, therefore, with the objectionable principle of self-election. With marvellous tact and adroit ness, as a patient perusal of documents assures us, and not without many ruptures and separations, the Conference has gradually managed to get everything pertaining to Methodism into its own hands. Nearly every portion of Wesleyan pro perty, estimated now by millions, is in its posses sion, while yet the trustees of the properties, not the Conference, are responsible for the enormous connexional debt. The Conference nominates all the ministers, the ministers in reality all the offi cers down to the humblest. It is needless to add, that, with unimportant exceptions, the immense an nual funds are at its absolute disposal. No officer, down to the humblest, can continue in office if thought by the preachers to be disloyal ; not only can the preacher withhold. at discretion the ticket, I which is the evidence of membership, and thus place him at once outside the pale of the body, but even if the disaffected man obtains a trial, the ultimate appeal of the excommunicating minis ter is to a court of his fellow-ministers ! Legisla tion, pulpit instruction, a kind of police supervi sion of each circuit, and the whole executive are in the same hands. The Conference minister is virtually accuser, judge, and jury ; he can examine the accused himself, by the far-famed " brotherly questions" which amused the world rather pain fully some years ago, and compel him to criminate himself. Indeed, within the domain of Method ism, the Conference minister is far more absolute than any civil or ecclesiastical despot in Europe. The Methodist layman is delivered over to the Methodist minister, bound hand and foot. No man is so completely at the mercy of his priest as lie. Such is the system. Of course, numbers will always be better than any system under which they live ; still it must be owned that of late years, especially since the great disruption, the system itself has been unsparingly, and we fear cruelly, worked. One of the most objectionable features of the public proceedings has been the dogged op position of Conference to all free discussion. They prohibit by law debating anything new in the various circuits unless permitted by Conference. The crime of the three ministers whose expulsion commenced the present great disruption was, not answering " brotherly questions" as to the author ship of pamphlets which inculpated some of the Dons of Conference. At the very last Conference they expelled one of their most popular and re spected ministers, because he wished, if he re mained with them, for liberty to discuss in a pamphlet the Scripturalness of Methodist laws and usages ! If such measure is dealt out to such men, it is obvious enough what must be the fate of the private man who dares to think for him self, or at least to speak as he thinks. In fact, there cannot be greater efforts made in Austria, Tuscany, or Rome, to exclude the Bible, than are made in Wesleyan Methodism to hinder the com parison of its principles with those of the Sacred Scriptures. It is not to be wondered at that with the grow ing intelligence of the masses, and their desire for civil and political freedom, such a system should become unpopular. It is in direct antagonism to the principles which outside of it they are ex pected and inclined to cherish. In quiet times the absolute power of the Conference is not ob served ; and it is peculiar to the system of Wes leyanism that it gives every member something to do, or at least something to say, provided it be but Methodistical saying or doing. This kind of limited activity within the chair is identified by the mass with real liberty, till something invites attention to the system as a whole. When this is the case, the more bold and inquiring desert by thousands. We are informed that Conference up to last year estimated the diminution of its mem bers at from sixty to seventy thousand, and this year at ten thousand. All persons who wish well to Methodism as one of the most zealous instruc tors of the working classes, can but wish that its leaders should wisely read the signs of the times. Laymen in the Church of England itself are be coming conscious of their rights ; in Scotland they ' have always had their due share in the Assembly. Amongst other dissenters they have all power in their hands ; and it would seem rather unwise conduct, to say nothing harsher, for the least educated body of ministers in the kingdom to con tend perversely for power, in opposition to the spirit of the age, to which their superiors in position lay no claim. CABINET COUNCIL.-A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Mi nisters present were—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat two hours and a half. The proceedings at the Free-Trade Freehold Land Society will be read with much interest by all true reformers. The society seems to prosper at a railroad pace ; and those who wish well to their country cannot do better than to follow such a very promising ex ample by instituting similar associations. DEPARTURE OF AMERICAN STEAM-SHlPS.—Yesterday forenoon the United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain West, sailed from the Mersey for New York with the usual mails for the United States, and British North American provinces, 100 passengers, and a large cargo of valuable merchandise on freight. About the same hour the British and North American screw steam ship Andes, Captain Moodie, sailed from the Mersey for Boston and New York, with a very valuable cargo of merchandise on freight. POULTRY SHOW.—We understand that the annual winter poultry show of the Surrey Zoological Gardens will take place in the Christmas Cattle Show week, at the Great Central Horse and Carriage Repository, oppo site the Elephant and Castle, Newington. This magni ficent building being but newly established, is but little known to the general public, and an inspection of the place alone will amply repay the visitor. Large, elegant, substantial, and commodious, within a mile of any of the bridges, with omnibuses every four minutes, and posses sing every accommodatian for the purposes intended, it presents advantages which no other site possesses, and cannot fail to prove highly attractive. SUNDERLAND.—It is reported at Sunderland that on the meeting of Parliament Mr. Hudson will apply for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, with a view to retire from the representation of that borough. The Conservatives speak of Mr. Duncan Dunbar as his successor. ENGLISH VERSUS YANKEE CLIPPERS. —The Chry solite, Captain Enright, one of the China clippers about whose passages so much interest has been excited, arrived in the Mersey yesterday forenoon. It will be remembered that on the 31st ult. the English clipper Stornoway arrived at Liverpool with the first cargo of new teas, although the Yankee clipper Challenge sailed for London two days previously. The latter ship having been leaky, had put into Fayal, and has not yet reached these shores. The Chrysolite sailed from Hong Kong on the Ist of August (13 days after the Challenge), and from Anger on the Ist September. On the 28th of the same month she rounded the Cape of Good Hope ; she made St. Helena, Oct. 7; Ascension Island, Oct. 11 ; and the Azores, Nov. 2. From that time up to the sth inst., she encountered violent gales from the N. to N.N.W., with a tremendous sea. She sighted Mizen Head on the 12th inst. ; she has thus made the passage from Hong Kong in 108 days, being six more than her former voyage. THE LATE MURDER AT GUERNSEY.—The inquiry re lative to the murder and partial burning of the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Saujon (of which some particulars have already appeared in this journal) had formally closed on the 2d inst., when the local magistrates drew up an act of accusation, constituting John Charles Tapner, lately clerk in the Ordnance Department at Fort George, a prisoner in the common goal. This proceeding is synonymous to the Engli2ll form of final committal for trial, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1853. CITY OF LONDON COMMISSION. (THIS DAY.) The Commissioners resumed their inquiry this morn ing, in the chamber of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The attention of the Commissioners this morning was principally directed to the question of the City meterage, which is so much complained of by the fruit and corn trades of the metropolis. The nature of the claim had already been incidentally explained in the former evi dence, but this morning two gentlemen, one con nected with the fruit and the other with the corn trade, came before the Commission to explain the manner in which the City m eterage affected those branches of comm erce. Mr. Keat i ng , the fir s t of these gentlemen, s t a t e d that the Cit y c l a i me d to meter all measurabl e f ru i t that was i mpor t e d i n t o London, although the process neither benefited the Crown, nor the trade, nor the public, and three City meters derived an income of 5,000/. a year from fruit and potatoes alone. This claim of the City did not extend either to oranges or lemons, nor to Brazilian nuts, but the Lord Mayor claimed by prescription to be supplied with samples of every description of produce imported into London, and, although in some cases his Lordship was still paid in kind in the majority of in stances, he received the samples in money value. This ias what was called the " Lord Mayor's Dues." Both these claims, Mr. Keating was of opinion, were unjust and ought to be immediately abolished. Mr. Hales, the other gentleman, who said he was largely engaged in the corn trade, explained the opera tion of the meterage system so far as it applied to corn, and stated that the Corn Exchange had memorialised the Lord Mayor to render the mode of collecting the meterage uniform, if the impost could not be altogether abolished. This point engaged the attention of the commissioners the whole of the day. LA ifT INTELLIGENCE -(THIS DAY). COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE STRIITT. This bankrupt is a solicitor, was made bankrupt as a newspaper proprietor and print-seller, &c., in Cathe rine -street, Strand, and to-day was appointed for his last examination. The bankrupt having been connected with the Era newspaper and the Lyceum Theatre, called the atten tion of a crowded court. The balance sheet prepared by Messrs. Glover and Son, Bucklersbury, commencing January, 1852, and ending June, 1853, showed Dr. to Cr. 5,2721. 6s. 2d. ; to creditors holding securities, 4,8591. 11s. 3d. ; liabi lities, 1,221.105. ; capital January, 1852, 7,748/. 14s. 3d. profits, 1,3021. is. 10d. ; creditor by good debts, 6,282/. is. 2d. ;doubtful, 6041. 19s. ; property held as security, 8,5871. 7s. 4d; other property, 2531. 18s. Bd. ; losses, 4761. is. 8d ; drawn out by bankrupt for house and:personal expenses, 1,5061. ss. 5d ; interest and dis cottf, 7391. 13s. 7d. ; office expenses, 6371. The pro perty given up was balance of account at bankers and shares in banking companies. The bankrupt was examined at some length, and in explaining the prospects of the debts set down as good being realised, said that he held a mortgage upon some property belonging to the Duke of Buckingham for 3,1001., and the estate had been valued at 21,0001., but it depended upon the winding up of the trustees' ac counts. He had also the security of a rent charge on the Lyceum theatre of 31. Bs. on each playing night, and 3701. was due since the bankruptcy. He was satis fied that was a good debt. His Honour, after having looked through the pro ceeding, said that although the accounts had not been kept in a commercial form, yet the bankrupt had ren dered all the requisitions of the assignee and creditors ; therefore, as no better accounts could be obtained, he would pass his examination. The bankrupt passed accordingly, undertaking to give some information as to a debt of 1,0001., alleged to be due from a Mr. Ledger. WEDNESDAY EVENING CONCERTS. The concert of last night opened with a selection from the Idonzcnco of Mozart, a work of peculiar interest, inasmuch as it was the first opera of any consequence written by the illustrious composer, and the success of which enabled him to marry theyoung actress Constance Weber. The unavailable character of the libretto and the intervention of long airs, which are simple displays of singing without illustrating the action, have been the occasion of the stage abandonment of this opera. The selection made by Mr. Benedict was creditable to the taste of that gentleman—that is, as far as it went. The beauties of that opera were but lightly ransacked, the pieces that were given being the three principal arias for the soprano, mezzo soprano, and tenor voices, the terzetto "Pria di partir," and the quartet "Andro ramingo." Miss Birch, Miss Messent, Mr. Benson, and Herr Kumpel were the vocalists, and acquitted themselves very carefully. The miscellaneous items of the concert were in the hands of Miss Dolby, Signor F. Lablache, Madame F. Lablache, and others, including Miss Fanny Ternan, who sang the showy cavatina, " 0 Luce di quest' anima" with a neatness and facility which brought down a repetition of the enthusiastic ap plause which awaited her former performance at Exeter Hall. In the course of the evening Herr Pauer played Beethoven's superb concerto, No. 5, in E flat, with accuracy and vigour. SOCIETY OF ARTS. The centenary session of this society was opened last evening, Mr. Harry Chester in the chair, who stated that he had been called upon only during last week to fill this important post in consequence of the unavoid able absence of Captain Owen, whose duties elsewhere prevented his attendance here. After the preliminary arrangements of the evening, which included the proposal of a vast number of candi dates, among whom were the names of the Duke of Newcastle, Lords Sefton and Fife, the Right Honour. able Miner Gibson, &c., the chairman proceeded to give a very interesting account of the origin and pro gress of the society. In 1721, three anonymous letters appeared containing proposals for the establishment of a society to be called the " Chamber of Arts." In 1748, Benjamin Franklin published his " Proposal for the Improvement of useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America." These publications seemed to have made a strong impression on the mind of the originator of this society• The public spirit of William Shipley, who is said to have been a drawing master, and brother to the Bishop of St. Asaph, gave rise to the Society of Arts, Manufac tures, and Commerce, in 1753. The first meeting was held at Rawthmalls' Coffee-house, in Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, where the society continued until 1755, when Peel's Coffee-house was resorted to. That place being found inconvenient, it moved to Craig's-court. In 1756 larger rooms were taken in the Strand ; but in 1774 the society moved to its present building in the Adelphi. The first President was Viscount Folkestone, who was elected in 1755, and occupied the chair until his decease, in 1761. Lord Romney was president from 1761 to 1793. The Duke of Norfolk from 1793 to 1815. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, from 1815 to 1843, when his Royal Highness Prince Albert was elected. _ _ In 1847 the society was incorporated by Royal Charter. The Society has encouraged all kinds of arts, sciences, and manufactures. Among other objects, the following may be enumerated!; improvements in dyeing, tanning, tapestry weaving, spinning, lace making, designs for weavers, embroidering, and calico printing by boys and girls under seventeen, for paper making, sextants, saw mills, quadrants, microscopes, for encouraging poor operatives to improve the processes in which they were engaged (under this head many substantial rewards have been given to the poor weavers of Spitalfields and Beth nail-green) • also for life boats, all kinds of improvements in ship building and architecture, for accurate maps of countries, for artificial mothers of chickens, locomotive fire engines, pumps, rising door hinges, beetroot sugar carding machines, "fictitious cotton," made from refuse of hemp, and also called "flax cotton ;" to commercial schoolmasters for teaching French, German, and Italian, surgical instruments, drugs, culinary improvements, hydrometers, locks, time pieces, machines for teaching arithmetic, needlework, music, and writing to the blind; to Captain Bligh for introducing bread fruit into the West Indies ; for an universal standard of weights and measures. In short, the objects are innumerable, and of every possible kind. *The total amount distributed in premiums and boun ties considerably exceeds 100,0001. The CHAIRMAN then alluded to the active part taken by the society in the promotion of the Great Exhibition of ISSI ; and after some practical observations on what the society proposed to do in the coming year, stated that the following subjects of discussion had been de termined on :—Gold crushing and pulverising, con sumption of smoke ventilation of collieries, sewing machines, manufactures of carpets, gas and its applica tion to domestic uses, which concluded his very able and interesting discourse. _ _ Mr. TooKE proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was seconded by Mr. Richardson. The company assembled afterwards inspected the various manufactures of all kinds that were exhibited. These will be open to the public by tickets from mem bers for some time, LATEST FOREIGN NE WS. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The following is front Constantinople, dated the 7th inst. : "A new project or note arrived yesterday morn ing, with instructions to the Ambassadors of Eng land and France to recommend it to the Porte ; but there appears to be a decided objection on the part of the Porte to its being signed. The city is perfectly tranquil. " Several Russian prisoners of war have arrived from Batoum, and more are expected. " The fort of Chekwetit, taken by the Turks on the 28th of October, contained 2,000 muskets, four cannon, and 1,000 men. " A small Turkish squadron is cruising in the Black Sea. " Two British and two French line-of-battle ships are lying off Therapia for the present. " No further reinforcement is expected from the Dardanelles. " Exchange, IL sterling, 136 piastres." Other advices from Constantinople of the 7th inst. state that large masses of troops are concen trated on the Asiatic frontier. The Sultan has received the title of The Victorious. A Turkish squadron has sailed into the Black Sea. A decla ration is to be demanded from Servia. Great financial distress prevails. The city is quiet. Pi rates have made their appearance at Solo. Accounts from Bucharest of Nov. 13, state that no further engagement had taken place since the affair at Oltenitza. General Osten-Sacken, with 50,000 men, has already crossed the Pruth, hastening by forced marches to Jassy. Report says that Austria has established a corps of observation on the Lower Save. Prince Ghika has arrived at Vienna. The Vienna Lloyd publishes the text of the ad dress which the new Greek Patriarch Anthinos has presented to the Sultan : "The undersigned having been elected Patriarch by the metropolitan synod of the notables of the Greek communion, according to the wish of the nation, and permitted by your Majesty's especial favour to depose his respectful homage at the foot of your throne, would consider it really and truly a glorious act if his devotion and perseverance were to succeed in realising your bene volent and just intentions on behalf of the prosperity cf your subjects. The benevolent and gracious words which your Majesty has been pleased to address to me, your most obedient servant, have informed me that the happi ness and tranquillity of the Greek nation are to be con fided to my care. Subjects of the Ottoman Porte ! and more especially you, oh Greeks ! know that our august and legitimate Monarch, in order to give you a proof his high favour, of his grace and generosity, has been pleased to address his words and imperial orders to you as a father speaking to his children. "Your glorious predecessor, the Sultan Mahomet 11., of illustrious memory, after conquering many countries, did, indeed, think proper to adopt a system of great leniency and protection with respect to his new subjects ; but your Majesty has triumphed over the hearts of all your subjects, and thus you have conquered all your peoples. Such a victory is glorious to any government. "We appreciate the grace and favour of which every day gives fresh proofs, and we vow, with submission and devotion, to be your Majesty's faithful subjects. "The Padisha having, in the fulness of his wisdom, been pleased to consult the interest of his subjects, and to maintain the ancient privileges which the conqueror granted to our nation, we, in our turn, are in all duty bound to have confidence in your Majesty's generosity, to be obedient to all your orders, to be grateful to the Ministers as the benefactors of the subjects—to the Naibs for the justice which they administer, to the Vizier and the army for their gallantry, to the Patriarch and all the metropolitans for their moderation and piety. "It is the duty of all your subjects to remain faithful and not to depart from righteousness and loyalty. Happy are we, under the sublime shadow of an incompa rable Monarch, that we find protection under the mighty wings of his grace. Condescend, Sire, to receive the assurances of the gratitude of the Greeks, your faith ful subjects. The sincere expression of that gratitude is a duty. "Oh, Divine Providence, protect the august person of our Sultan ! Maintain him on the Throne, and do not deprive his subjects of the satisfaction of enjoying his favours." The Journal de Constantinople does not exagge rate when it speaks of the arrival of 32,000 volun teers, but it forgets to add that, though healthy, they might in clothing vie with Falstaff's ragged regiment. Here you have their portraits, as taken by the correspondent of the Triest Zeitung "The new arrivals are strong, tall, coarse, heavy, bearded fellows with red caps (the fez), on the tops of which are green turbans ; neck and breast are uncovered, and over the ragged shirt is a light jacket in just as bad a state of preservation. The wide " unmentionables" reach but to the knee, the legs are hare, and their ex tremities are stuck into large shoes of red leather, which, owing to long service, permit the toes to take air at will. The cotton girdles which confine the waists of these patriotic youths contain a pair of pistols, and above the hips is generally fastened a bit of string, to which is attached a scabbard containing a sabre much the worse for rust. Notwithstanding their 'seedy' appearance, these men stalk through the muddy streets with as much dignity as if they were going on a mission to which they were specially appointed by fate." We learn from Constantinople that the Turks have crossed the river into the island of Tschatal— probably from Tulsha—formed by the Kilia and Sulina arms of the Danube, which places them directly'opposite Ismail. On the 24th, Prince Gorts chakoff sent away all the Turks from Brailow with bag and baggage. The vessels which were taking in their cargoes at Brailow have also been sent over to the island opposite. As this measure was a source of great annoyance to some Austrian cap tains, the Vice-Consul demanded of the local authorities some explanation, but the only reply given was " strategic considerations." Mahomet Pasha, the Commander of Varna has received orders to fire at every Ru ss i an ship of war that may pass within gun-shot. The state of siege has been proclaimed at Galatz, Abdullah Pasha, a Kurdish chief, who had been detained at Constan tinople, has been permitted to return to his people. It is understood that the Turks have promised not to pass the Pruth or the Cuban, a large Caucasian river, one arm of which falls into the Sea of Azoff, and the other, the Chervoi-Protock, into the Black Sea. The Austrian Government has given the Knight's Cross of the Francis Joseph's order to. Messrs. Werry and Turrel, the two Englishmen who defended the Austrian officers at Smyrna against the attack of the refugees. We read in the Siècle :—" The report which has reached the French Government only estimates the loss of the Russians at Oltenitza. at 1,200 men. Letters from Bucharest positively state that the loss amounts to 3,000 killed or wounded. It is this fact, according to these letters, which is said to have determined Prince Gortschakoff not to-re new the attack with 24,000 men, as he had decided on doing in a first movement of anger, which was very natural, after a defeat inflicted by the Turks on the Russians, who affected to treat them as' enemies unworthy of them. The general opinion is, however, that a decisive affair will take place from the 12th to the 15th, for the season urges on Omer Pacha to act. It is positively stated that the private telegraphic despatches relative to the war are now stopped at Berlin. The despatches from Government to Government, and from em bassy to embassy will alone have free passage on the line. If such a measure has been really adopted! the public will have the news a little later, but will be better protected against false news. One letter' does not arrive alone at Paris, and if it curtails or transforms the truth, others re-establish it, and the news resume a sincere physiognomy." We read in the Pays :—" The most recent ac counts received from the scene of war on the banks of the Danube give us reason to think that up to. the 11th inst. no decisive engagement had taken. place between the two armies since the affair of Oltenitza. Everything was confined at that date . . to some affairs of advanced posts, and to some isolated skirmishes. If we may believe different German letters, the loss of the Russians in the battle of Oltenitza amounted to more than 2,000 men. We are still without information as to the loss of the Turks." The following bulletin, printed in French and Russian, was posted up at Bucharest on the sth, by order of Prince Gortschakoff : " Taking advantage of a very thick fog, the Turks occupied an island opposite Turtukai, and afterwards crossed to the left bank of the Danube. Tiesday forced reconnaisance of the advanced guard of the imperial troops drove them back into the entrenchments which they had thrown up on the border of the river." A letter from Kalisch, in the Lloyds of Vienna, says :—" The return of Prince Paskiewitsch to Warsaw is connected with the declaration of war made by the 0 ttoman Porte against Russia. It is certain that the Prince immediately after his re turn gave orders to several officers of the staff to go to their posts in the Principalities. The corps of General Osten Sacken has received orders to go by forced marches to the banks of the Danube. General Lazareff Stanichen, commander of the park of artillery, has been sent to the government of Mohilen to send the battering train towards the Principalities. Prince de Radzi will, one of the suite of the Emperor, has arrived at Warsaw with `despatches from the Govenor-General. All the Rusaian, ofaceni who are abroad are rottinaiiig to Russia. The war manifesto will be read in a few days in all the cb.urches." The Spener Gazette of Berlin, of 13th, states that the numerous desertions in the Russian army are owing to the vast number of Poles forming part of it. The Russian army also contains many Musul mans, Islamism being the religion of the majority of the inhabitants of the southern and western pro vinces of Asia ; and there are even mosques in Poland. In general the Mahomedan population is about one-eighteenth of the population of the whole empire, that is three and a half millions. Their religious affairs are managed by two Muftis at Ufa, in the Governments of Orenburg Baktschi sari, and Tauris. The communes a re administered by Ulernas and Imans. The Journal de St. Petersburg, of the 27th ult., (Bth instant), publishes the following letter, ad dressed on 15th ult. (27th) to the Russian Minister of Finance, by twelve English merchants residing at St. Petersburg :-- "Monsieur 14 Ministre,—The English merchants se lected among the foreigu traders established at St. Peters burg, having had the honour to receive verbally from your Excellency on the 3d and sth of this month, in the name of his Majesty the Emperor, declarations of a thoroughly tranquillising character relative to the continuation of the Imperial protection for their persons, property, and com mercial operations, even in the unexpected eventuality of a rupture of the peace between Russia and Great Britain, they hastened to make this communication to the entire body of traders in this capital and their cor respondents abroad. The English merchants, in con cert with their commercial firms, several of which have had the happiness from a very distant period to enjoy the protection of the throne of Russia, fully appreciating the value of such magnanimous solicitude and condes cension towards them under circumstances which it is impossible to foresee, consider it a sacred duty to ad dress to your Excellency an earnest entreaty that you will be pleased to lay at the feet of his Imperial Majesty the expression of the most profound gratitude of the English merchants established in this capital for the paternal favour that has been announced to them, and which is so much in conformity with the character of a powerful and magnanimous Monarch. (Signed) "It. Cattley, S. C. Gwyer, T. Anderson, Charles Moberly, D. Wilson, W. D. Buske, F. Kruger, and by procuration, D. Loder and Co., John W. Buske, Thomas Harvey, T. Rodo konaki, A. R. Cattley, and M. Anderson." The Cologne Gazette, under date of Vienna, 12th, gays :—" Prince Stirbey yesterday received a visit from Arif Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador, and the prince returned the visit to-day. It is said that he has received a confidential communication, recommending him to shorten his residence here. Prince Ghika, who is expected here, will not re ceive a favourable welcome, which, it is thought, is owing to representations made by the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. The two princes will repair to Paris. The Count de Thun will return on the 16th to his post of ambassador at Berlin. The Princess Melanie de Metternich, daughter of Prince de Metternich, is to be married on the 20th to Prince Zichy." A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles of yester day announces the arrival there of the Mentor steam packet, which sailed from Constantinople on the sth inst. Letters from St. Petersburgh, of the 3d inst., state that a new levy of troops, in the proportion of seven men to every thousand inhabitants, had been commenced throughout the entire of the eastern part of the Russian Empire. According to the Russian correspondent of the National Zeitung the declaration of war was drawn up on the model of the Turkish, and was kept back for some time in the hope that some ac ceptable proposition would be made, or that a direct negotiation with Turkey. might be brought about : "The newest news is, that on the Bth inst. a feldjager left St. Petersburg with despatches for Vienna, the contents of which will put a check on all the proposals for pacific arrangements that are circulating at present. The Emperor has spoken out plainly, that as long as the Turks are on the left bank of the Danube, and the Sultan has not retracted his declaration of war, any further negotiations in the way of arrangement as followed hitherto are out of the question." The following is from Constantinople, Nov. 3 : Ever since last Monday, when the combined squadrons were first seen advancing towards the Bosphorus, the cannon from the Turkish batteries and from the British and French ships of war has been resounding at intervals. Four line-of-battle ships and eight frigates have entered and taken up their station in the Bosphorus, at Beyces, beneath the Giant's Mount, opposite Therapia. Admiral Dundas, commanding the British squadron, has taken up his quarters at the Hotel d'Angleterre, at Therapia. The Albion and Vengeance are the British men-of-war "stationed in the Bos phorus ; the Jupiter and Henry IV. the French. The French squadron stands under the orders of Counter-Admiral Barbier le Timan. The rest of the combined squadrons have anchored in different parts of the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmora. Though the orders for the fleets to pass the Dardanelles had been sent some time since, they haVe been a long time coming up, chiefly owing to the strong contrary northerly wind that has been blowing of late. The superiority of the screw propeller was evinced in the passage of the Dardanelles. Whilst 'the line-of-battle ships in tow of two large steam-frigates were slowly working ,their way up at the rate of half a knot an hour, the Napoleon (the French screw vessel of 130 guns) passed them, steaming on at the rate of seven knots an hour. Some of the ships got aground in the Dardanelles, and a serious accident happened on board a French man-of-war, in tow of two steamers. Being drawn aside by the current, the nearest, steamer was driven back, and ran against the line-Of-battle ship with a heavy crash, killing two or three men, and- wounding several others. With the exception of this, the passage has been effected with. safety. The time employed by the sailing - vessels, even when in tow of a considerable steam-power, compared to screw ships, indicates the necessity of adopting that system universally throughout the navy. Constantinople might be burnt down, and the Bosphorus occupied, long be fore a fleet of sailing vessels in• station at the mouth of the Dardanelles could come up to the rescue ; whereas screw vessels caii effect the pas sage in an astonishingly short time. We now have the British, French, Turkish, and Egyptian fleets within sight of the Golden Horn. Never were such imposing naval forces seen at Constantinople. Independent of these squadrons, there is scarcely a nation of Europe tha t. is not represented by two or three, or ,more, ships of war. The Bosphorous is literally crowded by men of-war, frigates, and steamers. The amount of artillery thus afloat is somewhat incredible. The British and French squadrons carry together nearly 3,000 guns • the Turkish and Egyptian fleets up wards of 2,000. These are momentous times. We now have the casus belli with a vengeance. War is declared, and has commenced. The Turks have crossed the Danube. On the 28th of October, Ismail Pacha passed the Danube at Widdin, and took pos session of Kalafat and the surrounding heights, which the Russians had been fortifying. , It appears that they retired on the approach of the Turkish forces, retreating towards Krajov a. The number of men who have crossed the Danube is variously stated ; in a letter written from Widdin, 13,000 are mmtioned. Omer Pacha was expected at Widdiu on the Ist of November, to superintend the passage of more numerous forces in person. Prince Gortschakoff's answer to the letter of Omer Pao,ha, calling upon him to evacuate the principalities, was curt and significative :—" The Emperor has not accepted the modifications intro duced by the Porte into the Vienna note. I have not the order to pass the Danube, but still less have I that to evacuate the principalities." The following extract from a letter, dated Bu charest, Oct. 21, has much interest : "Since the declaration of war Prince Gortschakoff has assured Prince Stirbey, in the name of his Emperor,_ to keep him at his post, even after the war; never theless he orders about the Wallachian authoritie s at his liking. Thus he has ordered that all the sum(' to be found in the treasury of the convents, publi establishments of charity, &c., be placed at his dis posal for the wants of the army. It has fur ther been ordered that none of the Wallachian Go vernment officials be paid before the month of November. The public Treasury is paying as much as 11 per cent. per. month for sums which it is obliged to raise in order to meet the demands of the Russian army. Prince Gortschakoff and all the Russian officers are much alarmed at the great forces brought together by Turkey. On the 18th news reached Bucharest that Omer Pacha had ar rived at Rutschuk, at the head of 30,000 men. The evening before Prince Gortschakoff had received orders from St. Petersburg to concentrate his troops, to keep the officers at their posts, and to be in readiness to com mence offensive operations. The Russian general immediately concentrated 22,000 men on the hills that are between Bucharest and Giurgevo. Orders were sent to the troops stationed in Little Wallachia to repass the river Alouta (Olto), and to spread along the line of the Sabar. Great agitation is kept up in the principalities, and some terror, reports being spread by the Russians that the urks will massacre the inhabitants of both town and country. It is thought that both the Princes Stirbey and Ghika will leave shortly, probably for Vienna. Prince Gortschakoff having proclaimed martial-law through out the Principalities, their authority is at an end. M. de Laurain, Consul-General of Austria at Bucharest, has been removed from his post, it is said, in consequence of some statements he had made, which had been disapproved of by his Go vernment. He is to be replaced by M. Michano vich, actually consulting-general at Constantinople. The Russian army in the principalities numbers at present 70,000 available men. The third corps d'almee is entering Moldavia in small portions. The Rus sians have therefore, on the whole, ' from about 100,000 to 110,000 men. The Russians declare that they will never surrender theitown ofßuchvost but in ---- A ashes. In the towns lining the banks of the Danub they say that they will offer no opposition to the Turks in order to let them pass the river, and proceed into th interior, when they will fall upon them.' From further information it appears that t Russians expected the Turks to force a passage): the Danube, if anywhere, at Rutschuk—not at d din—and that they were unprepared to opposet h landing of the Turkishforces at Kalafat, whichplac . has fallen into the hands of Ismail Pacha, in a sem: fortified state; as also the other surroundingheights The Turks are now busy fortifying themselves there The Russians have established two entrenched defen sive lines between Bucharest and Giurgevo, well furnished with cavalry and artillery. A great por tion of the inhabitants of the town of Krajova, Slatina, and Karakal, have emigrated into the in terior of Wallachia. FRANCE. A Council of Ministers was held yesterday after noon at the Palace of Fontainebleau. The Moni teur states that there will be several Cabinet Councils during the stay of their Majesties. The same journal states that the health of their Majes ties is excellent. The fête day of the Empress was celebrated yes' terday by the Imperial family at Fontainebleau• The Bishop of Adras said mass in the chapel of the palace in presence of their Majesties and. their court, and the persons who are staying at the palace on invitation. The Siecle says :—" M. de Kisseleff, Minister Plenipotentiary of Russia had been invited to the stag-hunts at Fontainebleau ; but it is positively stated that a sudden indisposition will confine this diplomatist to his hotel. Vely Pacha, Ambassador of the Sublime Porte, and who is not indisposed, will be present at these hunts, for which he ha o also received an invitation." By decree of the Emperor, Count Eugene Du; bois, who has been appointed director general 0.. railways, is named Councillor of State in non activity, and M. de Calvimont, Prefect of the Dor dogne, is named Maitre des Requites of the first class, in place of Count Dubois. On Tuesday Vely Paella ' the Ottoman ambassa dor in Paris, purch ase d forty thousand new muskets and carabines de Vincennes, for which be paid two millions of francs. The police have seized a circular signed by Ledril Rollin, and which has been extensively distributed in the ateliers of Paris. A great number of per: sons have been arrested in the departments, and more especially at Dijon. In consequence of the investigation in the affaire Delescluze, 1,220 balls h i ave been discovered at Tours. It is confirmed that the Bank will raise its rate of discount to 5 per cent. It is feared that this measure will cause a fall in the Funds. A meeting of the principal British residents and visitors was held yesterday at Meurice's Hotel, for the purpose of testifying respect and admiration of the late Lieutenant Bellot. His Excellency Lord Howden presided, and in an eloquent speech dwelt on the great merits of the late unfortunate sailor. A series of appropriate resolutions were, then proposed and carried unanimously. The verdict in the trial of the conspirators against the Emperor's life was pronounced yes terday evening. It was " not guilty" Tin the case of six of the prisoners, and 22 were found guilty, with attenuating circumstances. Of the latter, seven have been sentenced to transportation, three to eight years' exile, and the rest to terms of inl" prisomnent varying from five to ten years. There was scarcely any business transacted at the Bourse yesterday. The speculators appeared t., 0 be apprehensive of engagi ng i n any opera ti ons until some more decisive news shall have arrived from the seat of war. The Three per Cents. opened at, 73f. 45c., and closed at 73f. 40c. f or th e end 01 , the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 99f. 85c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, I,lso; f.`; Rouen, 1,020 f. ; Havre, 485 f. ; Great N o rthern; 848 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 810 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 895 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 720 f.; Western of France, 680 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 580 f. ; Great Central, 508 f. 75c. ; Lyons and Ge neva, 480 f.; Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 690 f. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 11th contains royal decrees, accepting the resignation of M. Banavides as governor of the province of Madrid, and aP' pointing M. de Zarogoza, deputy to the Cortes? to the post. The Heraido announces that it had ,_ been definitively settled that the Cortes should D . °. opened by commission : the Q u ee n b e i n g unable to attend on account of her interesting situation• The Royal Council had rejected the demand of the bank of San Fernando to be allowed to increase the number of its notes, and to make them of lower amount. The Council of Ministers was actively engaged in preparing the budget for presentation to the Cortes. The Three per Cents. were done at 42i- • t he New Three per Cents. at 22'4 ; the Debt of the First Class at 91, and that of the Second at 4i. GERMANY. The Archbishop of Friburg has excommunicate' l M. Burger, who has been appointed by the go' vernment of the Grand Duchy of Baden speczal commissioner for ecclesiastical affairs. MEDITERRANEAN MAILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRA.PH) SOtITHAMPTON, Nov. 17. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Indus, Captain John Soy, with the heavy portion of the East India, China, and Mediterranean, mails, has just arrived. Her dates are—Alexandria, the 4th, Malta the Bth, and Gibraltar the 12th inst. The Licht! brings 45 passengors, and on freight 953 bales and 92 cases silk, and a miscellaneous cargo of opiunip shawls, fruit, &c. The Indus spoke her Majesty's ship Leopard on the Bth, and the Terrible on the 12th instant ; the latter off Cape Trafalgar. Her Majesty's ship Queen, bound to Mediter• ranean, passed. Gibraltar on the 11th inst., without anchoring. THE PENIN►SULAR MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam. Navigatiof l Company's ship Iberia, Captain R. Roberts, ax*" rived here this morning bringing the usual Perlin' sular mails, and dates from Gibraltar the Bt l ll Cadiz the 9th, Lisbon the 11th, and Vigo the 1 2 t,,' inst. She could effect no communication wit . ' Oporto in consequence of the heavy sea off the bar. The bark Princess Sophia was signalled on the 15th, 50 miles S.W. of the Start. Tte Iberia brings 27 passengers, and on freigll h specie value 1,1251. sterling, 548 half-chests. of oranges, 58 boxes of dates, 250 boxes and 400 a l !'i boxes of raisins, 29 boxes of tomatoes, 2 boxes grapes, 5 barrels of flour, 115 b oxes of e ggs, an 45 packages sundries. the advices from Lisbon have been anticipateci by the Royal mail steamer Severn. From Gibraltar we have accounts to the Sth inst. Her Majesty's steamer Leopard, six clar 0 from Cork, arrived on the Ist inst. with troops , and left for Malta on the 3d. The Neapolitan steamer Calabrese, eight c1a,1, 11 , from Havre, arrived on the 31st ult., and proce ed ' ed to Naples. The Peninsular and Oriental Cot pany's screw-steamer Douro, five days from Soll t h. ampton, arrived on the Ist inst., and proceeded f°4 Malta and Constantinople. The screw-steal:lL Orontes passed the Straits to the eastward on Ir., 3d. The screw-steamer Tiber, five days from In pies, arrived on the Bth inst., and sailed the 14 1 5 day for Liverpool. The screw-steamer Livorno2L , in the bay when the Iberia left, as also her 05.' jesAtt's steam-friate Vesuvius. . • y Gibraltar exchanges were quoted as follon: —On London, 52* ; Paris, sf. 370.; Marseilles it: • o f Genoa, Of. 39c.; Madrid and Barcelona, i 1 1 : Cadiz, Seville, and Valencia, f' dis.; Alical l 'y dis.; Malaga, par ; Spanish Pillared dollars,' per cent. remium. A screw- p steamer, supposed to be from Liv° ll3°°ll was off Oporto on the 12th inst. 10. 4 MAILS FOE AUSTRALIA.—The following n otice, issued by the Postmaster-General yesterday :--- vie tralia.—The next mails for New South Wales, wi ll toria, South Australia, and Van Dieman's Land o bip be despatched from Liverpool by the cliPP er coo' on the 10th Matilda Wattenbach on the 4th proximo, under ogee will authorities b e m ad h e a u v p e i also h given General enotice Post-office thatshi p tract with the Postmaster,Generil.” The P OSO 3 . _„. 9 of January next for Melbourne and SydneY , e r , be ces us, by the General Screw Company's steamer '-' 1 :, p o rt 2,500 tons burthen, and also for Hobart Town of he rt Phillip some time this month by the City of go steamer. , hoe, NEW DOCKS IN SOUTHWARK. —A c omPa. - 1_,,, o r just started, having for its object the construct,;th, new docks, to be called the Wellington Docks, _ s 'l te to wark, the entrance to which will be nearly 01 , 1 ) ," ti t heir letter ..D(3l the St. Katharine's Docks. The ap companY!,;,nt t heY notices ot plication to aiament, stae. o u by intend to aply for powers P to rl connect the t 't a c'nd he tramway or p railway w ith the South-Eastern, d also London, Brighton, and South Co ast RailwaY c s a ,. 3 l e vel an" to make a new street, commencing on Jam a d _ ad. terminating at Orange-lace, --- Doptfords _J.cl! - 9 ~~„^"' •