The Sun. — London, England, 1853-11-18 00:00:00

Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company (that is to say): local and personal acts, 7 and S Vie., cap. 99 ; 8 and 9 Vic., caps. 42 and 115 ; 9 and 10 Vic. ' caps. 250, 251, 27 4 , and 275 ; 10 and 11 Vic., cap, 144 ; 12 and 13 Vic., cap. 55 ; 14 and 15 Vic., cap. 131 ; and 15 and 16 Vic., cap. 146 : And also of the several acts following, relating to the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company (that is to say) : local and personal acts, 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 325 ; 13 and 14 Vic. cap. 26; and 15 and 16 Vic., cap. 168 : And also of the several acts following, relating to the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company (that is to say): local and personal acts, 9 and 10 Vic., caps. 304, 322, 323, and 324; and 10 and 11 Vic. ' cap. 236. And also of the several acts following, relating to the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company (that is to say) : 7 and 8 Vic., cap. 65; 8 and 9 Vic., cap. 33; 10 and 11 Vic., caps. 147, 162, and 238 ; 11 and 12 Vic., cap. 60 ; 12 and 13 Vic., cap. 41; 13 and 14 Vic., cap. 111; 14 Vic., cap. 21; and 14 and 15 Vic. caps. 21 and 131; and also the act re lating to the Mold Railway, 10 and 11 Vic., cap. 162: And also of the several acts following, relating to the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Com pany (that is to say): 1 Vic., cap. 107; 3 Vic., cap. 2; 8 and 9 Vie., cap. 99; 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 91; 10 and 11 Vic., caps. 222 and 223 ; and 15 and 16 Vic., cap. 167, and also any acts of the last session of Parliament relating to the same company. And also of the several acts following, relating to the Lon don and North-Western Railway Company (that is to say): an act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the ninth and tenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to consolidate the London and Birmingham Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham Railway Com- PiiiPies," and the several other acts distinguished in the Queen's Printer's copies of the local and personal acts as 8 and 9 Vic. caps. 36, 37, 43, 105, 111, 112, 123, 156, and 198 ; 9 Vic., cap. 67; 9 and 10 Vic., caps. 80, 82, 152, 182, 192, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 259, 261, 262, 269, 300, 309, 322, 323, 324, 328, 331, "359, 368, 369, 380, and 396; 11 and 11 Vic., caps. 73, 107,114, 118, 120, 121, 132, 139, 159, 161, 178, 188, 228, 236, 270, 278, and 294 ; 11 and 12 Vic., caps. 58, 60, and 130; 12 and 13 Vic., cap. 74; 13 an d 14 Vic. cap 36 ; 14 Vic., cap. 28 ; 14 an 15 Vic. cap. 94; 15 Vic., caps. 98 and 105; and 16 and 17 Vic., caps. 97, 110, 157, 160, 161, 205, 216, and 222. And Notice is hereby further Given, that printed copies of the proposed bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on or before the thirty-first day of December in the present year. Dated this 10th day of November, 1853. H. and W. TOOGOOD, Solicitors for the Bill, 22, Parliament-street, Westminster. DARTMOUTH, TORQUAY, and SOUTH DEVON EXTENSION RAILWAY. — Incorporation of Company; construction of Railways from the t T e orq a u l ay . Station of the S ou th D evo n Railway to or near Dart_ mouth, and also t o th e Pi e r or Harbour at Torquay, with an Approach Road to the Dartmouth Floating Bridge ; Power to make Working Arrangements with the South Devon Railway Company, and to enablethatdzeta Coemapanyetfo s A ub e subscri be, ttc. , to the Undertaking ; Amendments ts to the South Devon Railway Company, and of the Dart mouthompany.)—Notice is Hereby Floating Bridge C Given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for an Act or Acts to incorporate a Company for the purpose of making and maintaining the rail ways hereinafter mentioned, or some or one of them, with all p ro p e r a pproaches, stations and oth er wor k s and conveniences connected therewith (that is to say):— A railway commencing by a junction with the Torquay branch of the South Devon Railway at or near the north end of the Torquay station, at or near Torre otherwise Torr, in the parish of Tormoham otherwise Tormohun, in the county of Devon, and terminating at or near Hoodown Ferry Pas sage House, in the occupation of Mary Burgoine, in the parish of Brixham, in the same county : which said intended railway will be made or pass from, in, through, or into, to bo situate within, the several parishes, townships, extra-pa rochial or other places following, or some of them (that is to say), Tomoham otherwise Tormohun, Torro otherwise Torr, Torquay, Tor Abbey, Chilston, Cockington, Paignton, Good rington, Gahnpton, Churston Fervors, Kingswear, and Brixham, all in the said county]: Also a railway commencing by a junction with such in tended railway at a point in a field or enclosure adjoining to and on the north-west side of the lane leading from the Brix ham and Kingswear turnpike-road to Hoodown Ferry Passage House aforesaid, and which point is three hundred yards, or thereabouts, in a direct line from the proposed terminus of the first mentioned intended railway at or near Hoodown Ferry Passage House aforesaid, and terminating in the parish of Brixham aforesaid at or near a certain public-house called or known by the name of " Dartmouth Floating Bridge Inn,' occupied by George Griffis, and situate at the eastern end of the Dartmouth Floating Bridge, and on the east side of the harbour of Dartmouth ; and which said railway will pass from, in, through, into, or be situate within the said parish of Brixhamc Also a railway commencing at or near the western quay or pier of the harbour of Torquay, in the said parish of Tormoham otherwise Tormohun, and terminating by two junctions with the first-mentioned intended railway, the one at or near Livermead House, in the parish of Cockington, in the said county of Devon, and the other at a point in a field belonginr , to Charles Herbert Mallock, Esq., adjoining to and on the west side of the road leading from Livermead House aforesaid to Torre otherwise Torr, and which said last-named point is twenty chains or thereabouts iu a direct line from the sea shore; and which said railway and junctions will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within, the several parishes, townships, extra-parochial or other places of Tormoham otherwise Tormohun, Torquay, Cockington, and Tor Abbey, or some or one of them, all in the county of Devon : And it is also intended by the said act or acts to authorise and empower the said company so to be incorporated as afore said to make a road or approach, commencing from or near tho proposed terminus of the firstly-described intended railway near Hoodown Ferry Passage House aforesaid, and terminat ing in the said parish of Brixham at or near a certain public house called or known by the name of " Dartmouth Floating Bridge Inn," occupied by George Griffis, and situate at the eastern end of the Dartmouth Floating Bridge, and on the east side of the harbour of Dartmouth ; and which said road or approach will pass from, in, through, into, or be situate within the said parish of Brixham : And it is also intended by the said act or acts to confer upon the company to be thereby incorporated all necessary powers for effecting the purposes following (that is to say):— To stop up, alter, divert, cross, or break up, either tempo rarily or permanently, any turnpike or other roads, high ways, footpaths, streets, railways, tramways, canals, aqueducts, streams, rivers, navigations, sewers, drains, pipes, and watercourses within the beforenamed parishes, townships, extra-parochial or other places, or any of them, which it may be necessary or desirable to stop up, alter, divert, cross, or break up for any of the purposes of the intended railways, road, and works; To make lateral deviations from the lines of the said in tended railways, road, and works, to the extent and within the limits defined upon the plans hereinafter men tioned, and to purchase, by compulsion or otherwise, lands, houses, and hereditaments for the purposes of the l i intended railways, road, and works, and to vary or ex tinguish any rights or privileges connected with such lands, houses, and hereditaments ; To levy tolls, rates, and duties upon or in respect of the in tended Railways, road, and works, and to alter existing tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemption from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and to conf er , vary, or extinguish other rights and privi leges : And it is also proposed by the said act or acts to authorise the South Devon Railway Company to subscribe and contri bute funds towards the said undertaking, and to guarantee to the intended company such interest, dividend, annual or other payments, as m a y be agreed upon between such com panies respectively, and to take and hold shares in the said undertaking, and to apply any capital or funds now or here after belonging to them, or under the control of their direc tors, or to raise additional capital by the creation of new shares, either with or without preferencey or . priority in pay ment of interest or dividend, or , or any Company them ; and to enable the said South Devon Railwa as aforesaid, and to vote at meetings of the company to be incorp ora t ed to appoint directors of that cos said South ' Dev And it is also proposed by the said intended act o • acts to enable the said intended company and the Railway Company to make, enter into, and carry into effe c e n such contracts and arrangements, on such terms and condi! tions, and subject to such restrictions, as may be or max have been mutually agreed upon by or on behalf of those co rapa _ nies, with reference to the working and use of the s a id in tended Railways, road, and works, the conduct, man agement, and direction of the traffic, or any portion of the traffic, u pon the same, and the division and apportionment of such traffi c, and the tolls, rates, and cbarges arising therefrom, between and amongst the said two companies ; and for enabling the said intended company and the said South Devon Railway Company to appoint a joint committee for carrying into effect any such contracts or arrangements, and to exercise by means of such joint committee or otherwise, such of the rights, powers, or privileges, whether with reference to the levying of tolls, rates, and duties, or otherwise, now or here,- after vested in or belonging to the said companies, and all such other rights, powers, and privileges as may be necessary or expedient for more effectually carrying into effect any such contracts or arrangements. And it is also proposed by the said intended act or acts to confirm all or any arrangements, now or hereafter to be en tered into, between the said intended company and the South Devon Railway Company, or on thoir lachnlf, vv tit reference to all or any of the purposes before mentioned : And Notice is hereby further Given that on or before the 30th day of November instant, maps, plans, and sections, showing the direction, line, and levels of the said intended railways and works, and plans and sections of the said road, together with a book of reference to such plans, and a copy of this notice, as published in' the London Gazette, will be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Devon, at his office at the Castle of Exeter in the said county ; and that on or before the same day a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each parish or extra-parochial place in or through which the said railways, road, and works, or any part thereof, will be made or pass, together with a copy of this notice, as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection, in the case of each such parish with the parish clerk thereof at his residence and in the case of each such extra-Parochial place with the parish clerk of some parish immediately adjoining thereto at his residence. And Notice is rxibyinfurther Given, that on or before the 31st day of Dece present year, printed copies of the intended bill or bit wtmiliell be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of And it is also proposed by the said intended act or acts, so far as may be necessary ettitnaerbpurposes thereof, to alter, amend, extend, vary, and Power :o or repeal the powers and provisions or some of the provisions of the seve ral acts of Parliament following, a nd or one of them (that is to say)!:—" The South Devon , 1844," " The South Devon Railway Act (Amendmewntay Ac ß t ranches) 1846," Amendment) " The South Devon Railway Act (Extensions •eir , i; of his Majesty 1847," and "The South Devon llailwayllar of Bartmoensrlishing a 1851." And also an act passed in the 11th ,year of the , in thefrom or Kin.. George the Third, intituled, " An A l ct for placecounty Floa b tin Bridge over the Harbour near to b Lower Sand Quay Point to Ohl Rock of Devon, and for building Quays and Landing for making Roads and Approaches thereto, with Branchess'a'' therefrom." Dated this 3d clay of November, 1853. TOZER, WHIbBORNE, 3fACKENZIE, and TOZER Teionmouth. H. and W. TOOGOOD, 22, Parliament-street, West minster, Solicitors for the Bill FATAL ACCIDENT BY FIRE.--Yesterday morning an accident terminated fatally to Elizabeth Reed, Hunter street, New Kent-road. The deceased was in the act of reaching something off the mantleshelf when the wind from the door wafted her dress against the bars of the grate, and it became ignited. Her screams attracted the attention of the other lodgers, who rushed in, and hav ing extinguished the fire, conveyed her to Esther Ward, Guy's Hospital, where she died shortly after her admis sion, being burnt nearly to a cinder. - TIIEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Nov. IS, The GREAT AMERICAN EQUESTRIANS will exhibit their astonishing Feats, unmatched in the history of such Performances, assisted by the most renowne d Gymnastic Artistes, 0. Dale and Barnes, the European and American champions. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, Nov. 18, Will be performed THE LADY OF LYONS. Characters by Messrs. Howe, H. Corri, Chippendale, George Vamdenhoff, and Miss Reynolds. ---, To be followed by A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS. Cha. racters by Messrs. Howe and Buekstone ; Miss Reynolds and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. __. After which, LOVE'S ALARMS. Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Coal, and Compton ; Miss Emily Ormonde, Miss E. Romer, and Miss Featherstone. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Uneer the Management of Mr. CaAar.zs SAN• THIS EVENING, Nov. 18, Will be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, L9rd Byron's Tragedy of SARDAN APALUS , con siderably abridged for stage representation. Principal characters by Mr. C. Kean and Miss Mufray. To conclude with DEAF AS A POST. Principal character by Mr. Harley. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, Nov. 18, Will be performed A NICE FIRM. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, THE COMMENCEMENT 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 ADELPHL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Nov. 18, Will be performed THE DISCARDED SON. Characters by Leigh Murray, Paul Bedford, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeley and Miss Woolgar, &c. To be followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. After which, THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM. To be followed by "HOTEL CHARGES!" or, How to Cook "A Blain." ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Nov. 18, 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 by Mr. F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. GRAND MILITARY SPECTACLE—THE INVASION OF RUSSIA, and THE BURLESQUE: FIFTH WEEK of the Star of the Arena, Miss KATE COOKE, who continues to be received with increased enthusiasm. THIS EVENING, Nov. 18, The Entertainments will commence with the Grand Equestrian Military Spectacle, entitled BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF RUS SIA ; 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. Box-office open fkom Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY —Morning 9 min.after 3 I Evening 25 min.aft. 3 10- Moaaow—Morning 41 min.after 3 Evening 58 min.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 18. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 45—highest since noon yesterday. 34—lowestithis morning and during the night. 41—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'08. WIND, W.S.W.—Light breeze, and fine, frosty weather. _ 4* Trq 4 , * LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVM,IBER 18, 1853. Yesterday we observed that it was most ad visable to regard with suspicion the different ac counts received from the Seat of War—aware, of course, that the best would be xnade of it by each of the opposing Commanders. To-day has brought our advice the fullest justification. According to the Russians, the Turks have been by them to tally defeated. According to the Turks, they themselves have, on the contrary, been victo rious. Intelligence so bluntly contradictory at once provokes, by necessity, the closest examina tion. Guided only by a comparison of these two conflicting statements, let us, with the map before us, take the matter into our impartial consideration. Now, how stand matters ? We will take the locali ties and dates precisely as they are set forth in the despatches received from Bucharest and from Constantinople. We will disregard, as compara tively unimportant under the circumstances, the advices reached us from Batoum, on the one hand, and from Vi enna on the other—the latter to the effect that 50,000 Russian troops, under General OSTEN SACKEN, had been sent ) by way of reinforcement, to the main army under Prince GORTZCHAKOFF— the for mer to the effect that a Turkish corps had taken, by assault (with a loss to their Muscovite 0 1 3 Pecnents of 1,000 killed, and of 80 prisoners, including a general officer), the important fortress, 'variously called Chekvetil and Krapousgw ! And we will restrict our allusions to the more startling announcement, said to have recently transpired on the banks of the Danube, in the neighbourhood of Oltenitza. Let us scrutinise, for a moment, the accounts relating to those events, given to us by the Turkish, and afterwards by the Russian, authori ties --accounts at total variance with each other. We all remember the drift of the Turkish infor toaltion. It was detailed in our columns only as reoently as yesterday. It described the first suc cess of the SULTAN'S troops at Oltenitza (that of the 4th inst.) as having been followed up by a yet more triumphal engagement. It intimated that the victorious Osmanlis had already pursued their enemies beyond Bucharest, and depicted the :main body of the Russians as in full retreat upon Cronstadt. In addition to this, it will be recollected, that we were informed of 115,000 Turkish soldiers having been despatched. by ',ray of Servia with a view to intercept the dispiEriteci Muscovites in that direction. Well, to-d ay how very opposite are the accounts received in this country fromthinosfewhodichthNavterseobrseecqeiuveendt yesi;erday ! We are now informed to th e affair of the 11th, Prince GORTZCIIA.ROFF, with. 40,000 men, attacked the Turks and de.. them afterwards t o re t reat feat ed them, allowing acre ass the Danube without molestation. Startled by this amazingly unexpected intelligence, lo say tu y s ask seriously and di s p a ssionately if this, to the least of it, is probable ? Is it ? We think not. And our reasons for so thinking may be givolu briefly enough and succinctly. We think the account, therefore, improbable, firstly, than bane cause it is positively known that not more 24,.000 Russian soldiers were at the command of GORTZCHAKOFF, and that, consequently, the num -1 ber above mentioned, viz. 40,000, is actually, as the French Consul at Bucharest (our informant) smanises, a gross exaggeration. What confirms us in the belief that the number is an exaggera tion, that, in fact, the whole account is deserving of our utmost incredulity, is the rather suspicious eirctunsta,nce that the whole of this amazing in telligence was furnished to the French Consul at Bucharest—by whom ? Why, by the Russian authorities ! And is not that coincidence pro voca.tive of suspicion ? If it be questioned for a moment, we would here simply refer the publdc to the close of the French Consul's telegra graphic despatch to his Government. He says— and liet these words be especialhy remarked—that "as Me despatch left Bucharest, a continuous can non( Ide was heard from the direct ion of the Danube.'' Cou - ple that fact with the p receding statement (the statement made by the It assian authorities), and see if you do not recognise in the latter an exceeding improbability. If the Turkish army, after being defeated by 40,000 Russians under GORTZCHAKOFF, had retreated across the Danube, how possibly can we account for this continuous cannonading (in the direction of Oltenitza) audible to the French Consul at Bucharest ? The whole account furnished by the Russian authorities is more than suspicious—we have in this closing sentence of the telegraphic despatch its formal contradiction. It is only the more desirable, however, by reason of these contradictory statements from the seat of war, that fuller and more reliable intelligence should be awaited with all possible eagerness. All that can be done until then is to exercise our patience, and to await the arrival of additional news, with a reasonable solicitude, of course, but without trepidation. Meanwhile, what will be the course pursued simultaneously by the French and British Governments? If our answer be looked for, we suppose it must be in the columns of the Moniteur—not from the lips of any member of our mysterious and inscrutable Coalition. NATHANIEL MOBBS has been left for execution, the several applications for a commutation of the extreme penalty have been rejected, and unless the Home Secretary should see cause to change his present determination, the wretched criminal will, on Monday next, the 21st inst., be publicly strangled in the presence of many thousands of persons of both sexes, assembled to witness the mostattractive, of what our popular contemporary, Household Words, has termed " Open Air Enter tainments" in England. None can deny the jui tice of the sentence. None can assert that the miserable convict has not fully merited the awful fate that awaits him. He cruelly sacrificed the life of the woman he had vowed to love and che rish. He was the murderer of one who was en titled to look to him for protection and comfort, and it was no* solitary instance of ill treatment. It was not the first time he had been guilty of acts of cruelty against his unfortunate partner, until, as the eminent Judge who tried the case declared, in pronouncing the expiation he would have to undergo, " his brutal violence pro bably excited him to the commission of the fatal act which terminated her career, and his own." We have alluded to those aggravating features in the case, not for the purpose of exciting or enhancing the indignation that must be enter tained against the atrocious crime of which lie has been guilty—not to smother any sensation of pity that may arise towards the culprit, but simply to show that we have not omitted taking into consideration the worst features of the case before expressing the deliberate opinion, that the extension of mercy to the ill-fated man would not be attended with evil consequences to society, and that it is a case where the Royal prerogative might be judiciously exercised in his favour, with out in any degree increasing the probability of similar atrocities. If the execution of NATHANIEL MOBBS could afford the slightest particle of additional security to helpless females, if it would deter a single ruffian from recklessly ill-using his wife, we should say let the law be carried into full operation, so that the salutary example may strike terror into the cowardly hearts of all persons disposed to similar outrages. But believing that in this in stance the capital punishment would be worse than useless—that it would act as a provocative and incentive rather than as a preventive of the crime--we would add our entreaties to those of our esteemed and respected contemporary, the Morning Advertiser, that the metropolis may be spared from the revolting exhibition. And we do so on different grounds from those so ably and consistently advocated by that journal. It is almost unnecessary to say that we have never advocated the total abolition of capital pun ishments. We have always held that the wilful and deliberate murderer who coolly and deliber ately plans the violent death of a fellow-crea ture, and carries his deliberately premeditated intention into effect, is worthy of death in the most disgraceful form ; and we believe that the infliction of the extreme punish ment is calculated to deter others from similar acts. But this only applies to premedi tated murders, where the offender had, in cold blood, made up his mind to commit the outrage, and where he would have time to reflect on and consider the consequences of his guilt. Such a person would be terrified at the gibbet, and of the gaping and heartless crowd—gathered together to make sport of his agony, to criticise his dying struggles, and applaud the dexterity, or censure the awkwardness, of the executioner. But these things will have no influence on the man whose passions are inflamed to the verge of insanity, if not be yond it, who at the moment is utterly reckless of himself, prepared to relinquish even life itself for what he believes to be but the accomplish ment of an act of righteous vengeance. Such a person would rather glory in the knowledge of the price at which he was to purchase his revenge, that he had vindicated his wrongs even at the cost of his own life. He would during the perpetra tion of the crime glory at the proof that he was about to give of the sincerity of his determination. Such a person would rather be urged onward than controlled by the knowledge of the ultimate ex hibition in the Old Bailey. If prepared to lay violent hands on his own life at the moment, he would not be frightened at the gallows in perspec tive, when the final expiation would be postponed for several months. Sir BOYLE ROCHE was laughed at for his practical bull in proposing that suicide should be made a capital crime, punish able with death. " Alderman CUTE" was ridi culed for his inflexible resolution to " PUT SUICIDE DOWN ;" but surely the law, which hangs a man who decidedly and unequivocally attempted to destroy himself, is guilty of as gross and pal pable an absurdity, and may as thoroughly be "laughed to scorn." The law, too, makes allow ance for the weakness of humanity, and reduces the punishment of an act committed iu the heat of passion. As, for instance, "if a man pull another's nose, or offer him any other great per sonal indignity, and the other thereupon imme diately kill him, it is manslaughter only ;" or "if a man take another in adultery with his wife and kill him directly on the spot, it is manslaugh ter only" (see 1 Hale 486 ; R. v. Manning T. Raym. 212). Now, although we do not for a moment pretend that in MOBBS'S case the Jury could have properly returned a verdict of man slaughter, or that there was any foundation for the jealousy by which he was inflamed, he yet believed that his wife had been unfaithful, and that she had spent the night preceding her death in acts of impropriety, in place of in a room of a female neighbour, and it was in that persuasion (of which he gave such fearful evidence, by the determined attack on his own life, from which he tthen, , thath have was with diffi culty recovered for a public execu tion)e hi hec e ommitted the crime. We would, life saved, and the punishment his modifiede execution e eu t t i o e u wo perpetual utde banishment, useless, or worse less, as an example ; and that, therefore, as the law does not act from motives of revenge only, he should be reprieved, and also because the crime was not deliberately planned ' but committed in the heat of passion, and under the supposition (enormous we confess, but not the less decided) that he had been wronged in the tenderest point by his unfortunate wife ; and that by hi s deter mined effort to commit suicide, he bad given the most unequivocal evidence of his sincerity. W e also believe him to be partly the victim of the law itself, for had he been flagellated, or other wise severely punished in the first instance, and his habitual ill-usage checked, he never would have been stimulated to the cri me for which he has forfeited his life to the offended laws of his country. The unfortunate dupes of the mischievous agi tators who go about engendering strife and aggra vating the differences between masters and work men are beginning to have their eyes gradually but certainly opened to the absurdity of their con duct, They perceive the reckless folly of which THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1853. they have been guilty in quarrelling with their real friends iu obedience io the dictates of thos who feel no interest in their permanent welfare, but use them merely as instruments to carry out their own object, that of getting the destinies of trade under their own control and management. The great majority of the operatives are now not merely willing to resume work on former condi tions, but to submit unconditionally to the rea sonable demands of the masters, and to eschew all connection with a system which has already led to such heartrending results. The sufferings they have already endured—the bitter privations to which their innocent and helpless families have necessarily been subjected—have taught them a severe but salutary lesson, and they now deeply deplore the grave mistake they committed, and would willingly take any pledge to appease the just irritation of their quondam employers. It is greatly to be lamented that the masters cannot make arrangements to take back those who now confess their error, and would consent to abjure the Societies and Unions by which they have been misled. It is painful to see the wear ing effects of famine beginning to tell, not merely on men, but on women and children, palling their cheeks and reducing their strength. The haggard faces and wan aspects of the sufferers must plead powerfully in favour of a merciful use of the vic tory that has already been achieved in many of the districts. We cannot extenuate the conduct of the suppliants. It cannot be denied that they have merited all they have endured, and are still enduring. But they are our fellow-creatures, and, conscious of the magnitude of our own errors, we should regard theirs with leniency and con sideration. It is said that the millowners of Burnley and Bacup, and what may be termed the outposts, have stated, in answer to the urgent applications for the re-opening of their mills, that " any attempt to do so would be pre mature." It is also asserted that there are very considerable stocks on hand, so that they would, even had there been no dispute, have been com pelled either to suspend operations or to work short time. Under such circumstances, and smarting under the irritation naturally arising , from the arrogant demands put forward, they ap pear determined to make the best use of their victory, conceiving they have not only their own interests to look to. But although they would be justified in so doing, we should greatly regret to see so stern an adherence to legal rights. It could not, of course, be expected that they would now consent to patch up a precarious truce, liable to disturbance at any moment. It could not be anticipated that they would take back parties who would contribute any portion of their earnings, however trifling, to the funds for the support of the " turn-outs" in other localities. They would not merely be justified, but imperatively re quired, to demand the most efficient guaran antees against such steps. The first condition, a condition absolutely indispensable, would be a clear, distinct, and unequivocal renunciation of all connexion with trade unions and societies formed for the purpose of in any degree regulating the management of the concerns, and a solemn pledge against any pecuniary assistance being afforded to those who are still standing out against their em ployers. If these preliminary terms be not entered into, no reasonable expectation can be entertained of permanent tranquillity. " The snake will be scotched, not killed," and all the elements of dis turbance will exist in undiminished force. The temporary arrangement will be broken on the first apparently favourable opportunity, and the mas ters will be exposed to still heavier pecuniary losses, and that at a time when they are less able to sustain them than at present, while the suffer ings and privations of the operatives may be in no degree more tolerable than those they are now enduring. An arrangement that allowed the operatives to , continue their combinations and confederacies would be worse than useless. The men might themselves be well disposed and unwilling again to come into collision with their employers ; but experience proves that they are subjected to a most stringent and galling des potism, that does not permit freedom of action, or even of thought, to the most strenuous advo cates for " the rights of labour," who, in striving against the mild and legitimate rule of their em ployers, the purchasers of their only available property, yield themselves in soul and body the veriest slaves of irresponsible and good-for-nothing scoundrels, who make them the mere tools of their own nefarious projects. Any contribution to the funds of the turn-outs would be equally prejudicial to the cause of order, although the subscribers themselves did not again join the societies. It might turn the scale against the masters in the places where the contest is still waged, and where the committees are concen trating all their forces in the hope of striking a heavy blow at capital. A victory of the malcon tents at Preston would speedily excite new dis turbances at Burnley and Bacup, at Accrington and Bury. The masters are leagued together in the cause of order, and none can now be so obtuse as to take any step that might be injurious to the general cause. A binding pledge against any sub scription would, therefore, be an indispensable preliminary to the resumption of operations. There is a recent precedent in favour of de manding such pledges. When the engineers, foiled in their attack on the masters, expressed their willingness to rehrn to work, the masters insisted on every man signing an undertaking, binding himself, while in their employment, not to belong to, or even to subscribe to the funds, of any trade society. The demand was very dis pleasing to the agitators ; but it was steadfastly persevered in, and the great majority of hands speedily succumbed to a condition which they found to be indispensable. The same declaration would, with very slight alteration, answer the purpose on the present occasion. The leaving a locus penitentice to the men, who are already awakened to their error, would, we verily belisve, bring the dispute to an earlier termination even at Preston, and deprive the agitators of the trifling influence that still remains. We throw out this suggestion to the masters, believing that they will find it well worthy of calm and attentive consideration. Among the many benefits arising from the pros perous state of the country may be reckoned the progressive increase in business, more or less, of all the Life Assurance Companies. As men's minds are less harassed by difficulties and anxieties they become more disposed to consider in what way they can best make provision for their families when it may please the ALMIGHTY to remove them. Thus the principles of Life Assurance are gra dually becoming better understood, the prejudices of many hitherto existing are being removed— and the means of attaining the object at the least sacrifice of present comforts more fully ap preciated. This is evidenced by the yearly in crease in the number of insurers. Having always advocated the principles of Life Assurance, it is satisfactory to record the fact, and it gives us pleasure to draw the attention of our Commercial and Trading readers to a Meeting of the Provi dent Clerks' Mutual Life Association, recorded in another part of our columns, because it is a proof of what we have stated. Thirteen years back this Association was first established, from which time we have watched its steady progress, and advocated its claims to the support of those for I whom it was more immediately formed. The large Meeting and result show the position it now holds, and where, in the early stage of its pro ceedings, it was difficult, as the Chairman stated, to get gentlemen of position and character to take the responsibility of its management, there is now a strong competition. In connection with this Association is a Benevolent Fund for Insurers who are clerks, and it has often been our pleasing duty to record the benefits it confers. Let us, therefore, once more draw the attention of the public, and clerks especially, to the advantages offered by this Association. BANK OF FRANCE.—The letters from Paris state that the Bank of France are said to have discussed the expediency of limiting their discountsto 75 days. It was not generally believed, however, that any such measure would be adopted. uposion Nioll.ll LA W INTELLIGENCE—(Tirrs DA 7). COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) FOREIGN PATENTS. -IN RE ROSENBERG. This bankrupt was described as of the Albany and elsewhere, distiller, &c., and was the inventor of a novel scheme for the improved manufacture of casks. The project was taken up by several fpreign companies, but failed in consequence of a disunion between the English shareholders. From the preliminary statement of Messrs. Robinson and Knowles, it appears that the debts amount to about 8,0001., and the assets, if realised according to the bankrupt's estimate, to 38,0001. Mr. Lawrence applied for an extension of protection in consequence of the complicated nature of the ac counts, which had prevented the accountant from filing the accounts. The application was granted. SECONDARIES' COURT. (Before Mr. Secondary Potter.) TABERNACLE V. STRAUSBORG. The plaintiff in this action is a livery-stable keeper at Deptford, and defendant is a gentleman residing in Bridge-street, Blackfriars. The action was brought to recover for the hire of a horse and chaise, and for damage done. The hiring was charged at 1/. 18.. injury to the horse 21. 25., and damage done to the gig 51. ss. From the evidence for the plaintiff it was shown that the animal had been cruelly over-driven, and could not lie down for a fortnight, being so dreadfully cut about, and would probably never recover so as to make it saleable for street uses. The gig was knocked about in such a manner as to be rendered useless until it had undergone extensive repairs. Mr. Duncan, as counsel for defendant, called wit nesses, who, however, did not shake the evidence given on the other side, and a verdict was given for the amount claimed. 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. Mr. William Cotton, the late Governor of the Bank of England, and a manufacturer and shipowner at Lime house, was examined this morning. He said that, within his memory, the Corporation of the City of Lon don had undergone an entire change. Formerly, when the principal merchants and bankers resided within its jurisdiction, it represented the wealth and commerce of the city, but now it was corn posed of the shopkeeping and retail-dealer class. He approved of the separation which exists between the Court of Alderman and the Court of Common Council, but he thought the magisterial functions of the aldermen should be taken out of their hands and entrusted to stidendiary magistrates, as the time which the proper discharge of such duties demanded, de terred men of eminence and wealth from accepting the office of Alderman. The Common Council he thought was too numerous for an executive body ; it was more fitted for the exercise of legislative functions than the superintendence of municipal proceedings, and he would therefore reduce its numbers, placing the right of elections entirely in the hands of the ratepayers with out reference to their being freemenor members of one of the trade companies ; for in I oint of fact the freedom serves no useful purpose, while the companies had almost ceased to have any special reference to the trades whose names they bore, and the liverymen, as such, ought no longer to enjoy the municipal franchise, He had no personal knowledge of the privileges which the corporation claimed with regard to the trade of the City, but it was his de cided opinion that there was great room for improvement in the mode of administering and expending the large funds which came under the control of the corporation. The City authorities had never been very prominent in promoting objects of public utility, though they had always manifested much anxiety in behalf of the comfort and welfare to themselves and of their fellow citizens, who resided within the limits of the City, and had repeatedly made strenuous efforts to improve the streets and thoroughfares of the City. On the whole, he should be sorry to see the ancient con stitution of the City entirely abolished ; but at the same time, while he entertained that opinion he felt that such changes and improvements might be introduced into its system as to make it, as of old, a reflex of the interest of every class in the City, from the highest to the lowest. It would, then, once more he the representative of the wealth, the commerce, and the industry of the City of London. Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the City Commissioner of Police, and Mr. A. Pulling, the barrister, were in attendance to be examined. There were only two com missioners present this morning. viz., Sir John Patter son and Mr. Cornewall Lewis, the chairman, Mr. Labouchere being absent. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 17. The second dramatic performance at the Castle this season took place this evening. The pieces selected upon this occasion were a comedy, in three acts, by Mr. Slingsby Lawrence, entitled the Game of Speculation, and a comic drama, in one act, by Mr. Charles Mathews, entitled Little Toddlekins. The parts were filled ac cording to the following programme : GAME OF SPECULATION. Mr. Affable Hawk Mr. Charles Mathews. Sir Harry Lester Mr. Robert Roxby. Graves Earthworm Mr. Frank Matthews. Prospectus Mr. Basil Baker. Grossm ark Mr. Suter. Hardcore Mr. Addison. Frederick Noble Mr. H. Butler. Thoma 5..... Mrs. Hawk Mrs. Melfort. Julia Miss M. Oliver. Dimity Miss Desborough. Mrs. Mason Miss Ellis. LITTLE TODDLEKINS. Jones Robinson Brownsmith, Esq. Mr. Charles Mathews. Barnaby Babicombe, Esq Mr. Basil Baker. Captain Littlepop Mr. H. Butler. Amanthis Mrs. Frank Matthews. Annie Babicombe Miss M. Oliver. Susan Miss Ellis. Director Mr. Charles Kean. Assistant-Director Mr. George Ellis. The theatre arranged and the scenery painted by Mr. Thomas Grieve. Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert entered the Rubens Room, where a tem porary stage has been erected, at eight o'clock, accom panied by the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, and other members of the Royal dinner circle, comprising the Belgian Minister, the Marquis of Abercorn, Earl de Grey, Lord and Lady John Russell, Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in attendance. The performances immediately commenced after her Majesty and her illustrious circle had taken their seats. The Queen's Private Band was in attendanee in an anti-room. LONDON SACRED HARMONIC_SOCIETY. This society opened its sixth season last evening with an excellent performance of Israel in Egypt. The prin cipal vocalists were Mr. Lawler, Mr. Leffler, Mr. Lockey, Miss Birch, Mrs. Lockey, and Miss Stabbach. Mr. Surman was most uproariously greeted upon his entrance into the conductor's chair. Before the oratorio, a festival anthem, composed by Dr. Elroy, organist to her Majesty, for the Gloucester Festival, was given for the first time in London. The composition is one which reflects high credit on Dr. Elvey's talents as an i nstru mentalist, and was received with approbation by a crowded audience last night. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Another morning entertainment was given on Wed nesday, at Drury-lane, the children of the Four idling Hospital being present. They took the same sez ►te as the boys of the Duke of York's School, but occupied more of them. The girls, in their neat white caps, tight in front and bulging out behind, with white tippet s, sat demurely enough ; their enjoyment was quiet ; bi it the boys behind them were in an eternal fidget, silo uting and laughing in their delight. The performances were of the usual character, en livened, however, by some new changing charactems . Mr. Ryland personated the principal characters of Oliver Twist in a " rapid act of horsemanship." Mr. New some enacted the Rose, the Shamrock, and the Thistle— the first being rather strangely represented by a sailior, the second of course a tatterdemalion with a sbillela gh, and the third by a Highlander. Besides the changiing cha racters, Mr. Leon performed a Zulu Chief, and looked sufficiently savage. But perhaps the most successful! 49.qu es trian and vaulting performance of the morning was t hat of Miss Ella, a girl of from twelve to fourteen yes trs of age, who, at full gallop, leaped through twenty b.al loons —four each round. Her next feat was leapin g over three strips of calico, which are generally about three feet broad, but which on this occasion were full. y six. Ten of these long leaps did Miss Ella take, aligh tii ig on her knees, and, as it appeared, springing from tih, both feats performed without the slightest swerve or quiver, the young Amazone giving herself up hef t and soul to the excitement of the gallop and the leap. The clowns performed their usual tricks. Mr.. :Barry gave his clever imitations of hustings oratory, a Jul Mr. Weale amused the children, little and grown-up r b y his quaint pranks, and especially by his personationt of a frog, LA i'EST FoREIGN RUSSIA AND TURKEY. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated Bu charest, the 14th inst., says : The Danube has been recrossed by the Turks at Oltenitza, after having previously destroyed their fortifications at that place. They recrossed without molestation. The Russians have concentrated 45,000 men at or about Oltenitza. Attempts are being made, both by the Russians and the Turks, to occupy the island of Mokanon. A brigade of the sth corps is advancing from Ibrail on Gowrna Jalomnitza, under the command of General Englehardt. Part of the reserves of the 4th corps, which are supposed to number about 12,000 men, and who lately entered Moldavia, have replaced General Englehardt's corps. Servia refuses to permit the entrance of Turkish troops. The Austrian, Correspondenz of yesterday says': —" On the 13th, the Turks blew up their works at Oltenitza, and retired to Bulgaria." It is officially declared that the corps of obser vation, which is to be conct.ntrated. at Tamesvar, is for the purpose of securing the Austrian frontier as well as to maintain the principle of neutrality. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated yes terday morning, says : " Telegraphic advices from Prince Gortschakoft received last night, state that the Turks have quitted all their positions on the left bank of the Danube, except Kalafat, without battle, simply on account of the concentration and development of the Russian forces. " The Turkish entrenchments have been razed. "This is authentic." Another telegraphic despatch from Vienna, yes terday evening, states : • " The report of the Turks having abandoned their positions on the left bank, except Kalafat, officially confirmed from Hermannstadt. " The Turks quitted Oltenitza on the 12th, de stroying their own entrenchments. " The Turks attempted a passage near Kalarash, and from an island opposite Giurgevo, but the Russians repulsed them at both places with consi derable loss." Private letters from Vienna, dated the evening of the 14th, mention that it was positively asserted that Galatz and Braila had been attacked by the Turks. The former town is in Moldavia, on the left bank of the Danube ; the latter in Wallachia, on the same side of the river. Private letters from Jassy, of the 6th, announce that the Russians were sending their sick and wounded to Kircheneau, a town in Bessarabia. The number of sick was increasing every day, so much so that the hospitals of Wallachia and Moldavia were insufficient to contain them. Letters from Servia of the 4th announce that the Porte, in accord with the reigning Prince of that province, is about to increase the garrison of Bel- grade. A letter from Constantinople of the 2d announces that Abdi Pasha, who commands the army of Asia, had entered the Imeretia, after having passed through Erzeroum andliars, and that he bad been received by the mountaineers with every demon stration of joy. A general attack was about to be made on the Russian line, which being of great ex tent is vulnerable on several points. A letter from Bucharest of the 6th, announces the arrival there of 70 wounded Russians. The success of the Turks at Oltenitza is in this letter attributed to the circumstance that the Rus sians had nearly all their heavy artillery at Plll'. luta, ten miles from the Danube, and were there fore unable to return the fire of the Turkish 24- pounders. The merchants and the corporation of Bucharest have petitioned against the incorporation of the Wallachian militia with the Russian troops. Martial law, though not proclaimed, prevails cic facto. Young Philippesco, the son of the Minister of Finance, has been ordered to leave the country. Letters from the Russo-Polish frontier of tilt. 11th inst. state that reinforcements have been ordered to proceed at once, and by forced marches, to the Russian army in the Principalities. The same letters state that Osten-Sacken's corps crossed the Pruth on the 2d or 3d inst. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin states that the Turks have gained another victory at Oltenitza. The despatch contains no date or other details. A letter from St. Petersburg of the Bth says, that all the troops in the vicinity of the capital have been ordered to keep themselves in readiness to march at a moment's notice. On the 3d the Em peror reviewed the regiments of the Imperial Guard, 18 battalions of infantry, 20 squadrons of cavalry, and 6 batteries of artillery. The Hamburgh, News mentions that the Empe ror of Russia has declared to the different courts that no negotiation'or mediation can meet with attention on his part until the Turks have re crossed the Danube, and the Sultan withdrawn his declaration of war. A Paris letter in a German journal states that General Baraguay d'Hilliers, the new French Am bassador to Constantinople, has carried with him to the capital a selection oisome of the finest arms in the arsenals of France, and amongst them a cannon on the system of the Emperor of the French. These arms are to be presented to the Sultan on the part of the Emperor. A private letter from Odessa of the 3d announces the arrival there of all the functionaries of the Rus sian Consulate at Constantinople. We learn by a letter from Constantinople, of the 3d, that as soon as the news of the crossing of the Danube was received in the Turkish capital, it was cianmunicated by the Porte to the French and English Ambassadors, who, on the same day, sent off despatches to their repsective tiovernments. In consequence of a conference between the French and English admirals and their ambassa dors, twelve vessels of the combined fleet had come up to Constantinople and entered the Bosphorus. A Russian vessel of war, which had run on shore on the coast of Eregri on the Asiatic side of the Black Sea, was seen in that position by a Turkish cruiser, and called on to surrender. On the com mander refusing, she was boarded by the Turks and taken possession of with the crew. The Sultan having decided on going to Adria nople in the spring, and making that city the Im perial head-quarters, his Highness went in person to the Porte and officially announced his resolution in the following terms : " My faithful cannot sufficiently applaud the zeal and enthusiasm of my troops, as well as the de votedness and fidelity which all my functionaries and my subjects, in general, have constantly testified on the occasion of the preparations which have been made since the day when it became probable that the difference which had arisen between my Government and the Court of Russia would end in war. The state of war being now a certain fact, I doubt not that every one will for the future lend his co-operation with still greater eagerness and fulfil his duty. The real cause of this war consisting only in •the laudable resolution of pre serving the sacred rights and the in.lependenee of my empire, supported by the Almighty power of the Most High, and invoking the Holy Spirit of our Prophet, I have decided, with God's as sistance, to be present at the accomplishment of such a duty in the earliest days of spring. It will consequently be proper to commence immediately the preparations necessary for my Imperial cortdge, and as rny head-quarters will be first fixed at Adrianople, it is important that everything necessary for the men who will be under my command be arranged beforehand. You will, therefore, in accord with my other Ministers, hasten to carry all the necessary measures into execu tion. May the Most High, through love for the Holy Prophet, render our Empire victorious, and may all those who shall contribute to the success of this task obtain happiness in this world and in the next." After the departure of the Sultan from the Sub lime Porte, the Ministers signed an address con gratulating his Highness on his resolution. It is expected that the corps diplomatique, or at least those who by their rank are accredited to the Sultan, will accompany him to Adrianople. We read in the Univers :—" A letter from Bu charest of the 31st ult. gives us information of facts of which we can guarantee the authenticity. At the time of the publication of the first manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas, which ended with the words 'We will march in the defence of the orthodox faith,' two Poles in a regiment in Bessarabia went to their colonel, and said to him, 'We have just read the manifesto of the Emperor, and as we wish to act as good soldiers, we come to demand from you our discharge, because, as Catholics, we cannot fight for the Greek religion.' The colonel demanded instructions from St. Petersburg, and received orders to have them shot. Four others presented themselves, and made a similar request, and they were also shot in Moldavia. Before the Russian facts. FRANCE. A report was current yesterday in Paris that the English and French Governments had come to an understanding as to the use to be made of their fleets, now that they have found their way to Constantinople, and that they were determined that they should be immediately sent into the Black Saa to act with energy in behalf of the Turks. It would have been well for the world if that resolu tion had been adopted months ago; but it is to be apprehended that even now it is without foundation. But besides this, the winter navigation of the Black Sea is so difficult that it would be a service of danger, to which it might be imprudent to ex pose the fleets without abs lute necessity. The Bank of France, contrary to expectation, has not raised its rate of discount ; but it has de termined to limit its loans on railway shares from 60 millions of francs to 50 millions. The raising of the discounts will probably depend on the suc cess of this measure. Namik Pacha, charged to negotiate a loan in Paris and London, arrived at Marseilles by the Mentor. He was to leave next day for Paris. The despatches brought by the Mentor confirm the success of the Turks at Chefkatil, in Asia. The combat took place on the 28th ult., and the fort wascarried by the Turks after four hours' fighting. 200 prisoners had already arrived at Constantinople when the Mentor left. 260 vessels laden with corn arrived at Constantinople from the Black Sea, between the 18th of October and the Ist of Novem bar. Prince Stirbey's private secretary arrived at Vienna, on the 11th, fr om P ar i,. Th e i n t en ti o n which the Prince had manifested of proceeding to Paris appears not to be changed. It appears from an official report that the yield of the last harvest is about 10,000,000 hectolitres below the average yield, and that up to the present time 3,600,000 hectolitres of corn have been im ported into France. _ The Moniteur contains a decree appointing the judges and supplementary judges of the .Chambre des Mises en Accusation for the iligh Court of Jus tice for the judicial year 1853-54. Another decree, on the proposition of the Minister of Marine, renders the disciplinary and penal decree of the 24th March, 1852, relative to the mercantile marine, apl licable to Algeria, to which colony it did not previously apply. The Moniteur also contains a circular, ad iressed by the Minister of Public Instruction to the architects appointed to examine the different churches and ecclesiastical buildings of France, 'ailing on them to report on their condition and on the repairs of which they stand in need, and also to k forward him a plan for a presbytery and for a school-house, which may serve as models for future buildings of that kind, and which plans are to be accompanied by an approxitnative estimate for the expenses which the Minister desires shall !n3 based on the closest principle of economy. The Bourse yesterday remained in the same state of inaction as on Wednesday. The Three per Cents. opened at 73f. 40c., and closed at 73f. 50c. for the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 99f. 65c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,145 f. ; Rouen, 1,020 f. ; Havre, 485 f. ; Great Northern, 848 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, SoBf. 75c. • Paris and Lyons, 892 f. 50c. ; Ly on s to the Medi terranean, 720 f. ' • Western of France, 682 f. 50c ; Bordeaux and Cette, 580 f. ; Great Central, 507 f. 50c. ; Lyons an l Geneva, 492 f. 50c. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier 690 f. ITALY. The Milan, Gazette of the 12th publishes a list of 72 political refugees whose property has been laid under sequestration in the provinces of Milan, Como, Mantua, Lodi, Pavia, Brescia, Cremona, Bergamo, and Sondrio. In this list we find the names of many distinguished persons, such as Count Arese, the two Counts Boromeo, General Lechi, Duke Litta, Count Litta, Marquis Pallavi cini, Marquis Rosales, Princess Belgioioso, The Minister of Finance of Parma has published a declaration to the effect that in consequence of the Customs' Union stipulated with Austria, ac cording to which no restrictions can be laid on trade between the countries belonging to the Union, the late decree forbidding the exportation of corn from Parma is only applicable to those countries that do not form a part of the Union. SPAIN. A letter from Madrid states that the publisher 4* the Diario Espanol has been condemned to two ,uonths' imprisonment, and a fine of 500 reals, for an article against the Ministerial measures relative to railroads. Various measures, proposed by the Minister of War, were sanctioned by the Queen at the Cabinet Council, held on the 11th, under the presidency of her Majesty. The Ministry intend to submit to the Cortes a series of projects of law, which will contain the political, administrative, and economical pro gramme of the Ministry. M. Jose Joaquin de Mora had been appointed Consul at London. The Gazette publishes a Royal decree, appointing the Marquis de Beualua, former Minister of Spain at Berlin, Member of the Royal Council. BY* another Royal decree the Marquis de la Rivera, Minister of Spain in Mexico, is named Envoy Ex britord L nary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Berlin, and M. Miguel Tacon, Marquis del Bayainot Consul-General in London, is to succeed the Mar quis do la Rivera as Minister in Mexico. The Three per Cents. were done at 42 g ; the New Three per Cents. at 22 7-16; the Debt of the first Class at 91, and that of the Second at 4i. SWITZERLAND. In Freiburg the Archbishop has excommunicated the members of the Supreme Spiritual Court. Private letters frem Geneva, of the 15th inst., announce the fall of the Government of M. James razy, who was defeated at the elections of the 14th inst. by a small majority composed, it is said, of Conservatives, discontented Radicals, and Protee taut clergymen. RAILWAY TRAFFIC _RETURNS. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re: turn for the week ending Nov. 12, 1853 £14,375 6 0 Corresponding week last year 12,740 16 74 Increase in 1853 £1,634 9 1 0 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY:" Truffle return for the week ending Nov. 12, 1853 £11„61 18 4 Corresponding week last year 9,612 4 6 Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 ' 1 95,874 5 i f; Total of th e h a lf-y ear t o thi s d a t e, 1852 26 7, 2 96 llv THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffie return the week ending Nov. 6, 1853 £18,820 18 Corresponding week last year 14,528 17 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re; turn for the week ending Nov. 13, 1853 £18,574 1 Corresponding week last year 17,017 16 10 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return. O r the week ending N ov . 13, 1853 £ 3,952 163 Corresponding week last year 3,494 13 Increase in 1853 £457 3 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WZ3TERN RAILWAY.—Traffio fe e Aim for the week ending N o v. 12, 1853 £ ,624 15 ' A ' ..7,orresponding week last year 4,246 7 Increase in 1853 £378 8 i SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—T ra ffi c retnrrlo , t he week ending Nov. 13, 185 i Corresponding week last y ear 2 2; 6 53 1 3 8 113 WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAlLWAY.—Traffie eetUrin ~., the week ending Nov. 12 (29 m ih s ) I t-;139 19 1 „'" Corresponding week last ye a r (13 ..... 61 1 5 ' ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following m° lll _' hers of the college, having u n d ergone th e ne cessary examinations, were admitted lice n ti a t e i i n m idwifery °' the college at the last meeting of the court :—Mes srs* James Lovell, Canterbury, diploma of membership dated Juno 17, 1853 ; Charles Dunn, Scarboroug h ' July 4, 1853 ; John West Walk er , Spil s by, O c tober 11 ' 1850 ; Samuel Argent, Hinckley, July 1, 1853 ; 3.°h' ; Rains, Bonsai; Derbyshire, May 20. 1853 ; Thonl a Duncan, Chelsea, October 28, 1853 ; John Efu' is° e s n ' Newport, Yorkshire, Ap r il 15, 1853 ; H enr y Thorn h Cornelius, Northampton, July 9, 1850 ; Thomas Jos e l / k Cookson Powell, Bristol, October 28, 1853 ; and Fr ft° P owell, Chichester,ctober 14, 1853. of , LINCOLN'S -INN, Nov.N 17.—The following members e re this Hon. Soci e ty h ave b een ca ll e d t o th e b ar , and we . r . sworn in last evening in th e h a ll : —M r . Walker V r, row, 8.A., Mr. Charles Spencer Perceval. Horace Brooke, M.A., Mr. Twynihoe William,c, de- M.A., Mr. Edward Forster Neale, 8.C.L., Mr- ker rick William Bosw or th, M.A., Mr. William P3r i t., Hamond, M.A., Mr. Charles Harcourt Chambers , l A ., Mr. George Russell, M.A., Mr. Theo. Ashton, A act . Mr. John William Hornsby, Mr. Thomas JoneP h Y r Shaw, 8.A., and Mr. John Singleton Winder, 13 -',,i .ge r THE EXPECTED BREVET.—The Morning A dven sti o says :---As announced in our journal, while donb i t!, r bio hung over the subject, th e b reve t i s put off sine d ‘ !„ e nt to many military m en w ill b e a seve re disappnin b ": if but they must refer the result to the right cause of of the military department i ns i s ts on making a dis i s ) i t se lf independence of the civil administration, and la Y l i er oent open to the char g e o f th e aveng ing votes in P ar t ue toril the aru-' it is not to be wondered that the civil portioith opposed to the peculiar Conservatism of its oT ot . Government should do as our father did w se of wt t a ra oryu ry ldra power in the hands of kins, dl..akeumili the power of the purse when they have it. ;go, like ly to be geeaazillncewudlh;lotenadre hardly be found among the partizans of wu to the present misfortune, whatlossutff from mr s s u c to li hne a tbi p jee r g o i p e n e rn s ei s ns e,g71:19:1:11014 Sc ql I 6 pe dic tei rude of these