The Sun. — London, England, 1847-11-20 00:00:00

. n the Mr. T El S UN, CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very gat. Sales 3,500 bales, making 22,430 bales for the week. Railway Shares were not quite so good, but there was very little stock offering. The Bank of England return to the 13th inst. presents most satisfactory features. The Bank is now so far gaining strength, and has such a fair proportion of assets to liabilities, that there can no longer be any doubt of the expediency of reducing the rate of discounts. In deed the diminution of the " other securities" shows that trade will not flourish while money is so dear, and that as engagements run out, there will not be a renewal. The bullion is now steadily augmenting, and the national re ceipts look better under tho head of public deposits, thanks, probably, to the pressing collection of taxes, The following aro the features in the return : Notes issued -- Increase Rest Increase .£22,848,375 421,845 3,610,979 29,732 Public deposits Increase 1,000,452 Other deposits 8,312,171 Decrease - to . to I* to Seven day and other bills Decrease 37,658 Government Securities 10,583,607 . Decrease Other Securities 19,560,468 Decrease 359,447 Notes .. Increase . . 767,625 Bullion. Increase Active circulation Decrease 345,780 It is represented in a morning Comtemporary, that:the East India Company had applied to the directors of the Bank of England for the loan of 2,000,0001., and that 8 per cent, was demanded, which was demurred to. We are in a position to contradict the assertion, which originated, we are assured, in a stock-jobbing quarter, so that the market for Consols might be influenced. The General Steam Navigation Mail Packet arrived this morning from Hamburgh, bringing on freight 200,0001. in half Imperials (gold), on account of the Russian Government. It is stated that more is coming. The private accounts from the West Indies are most distressing. Bankruptcy appears to await the colony in its whole extent. Estates were put up for sale, but there were not any buyers to be found, and a degree of des pendency prevailed such as never was before witnessed. In the City this , morning, we regret to learn that very serious apprehensions are entertained that one or two firms will be announced as bankrupt before the close of the day. _ Soon after the commencement of business in the Stock Market a party, Mr. John Williams, was declared a defaulter. The differences are calculated at about 2 0,0004 He was a Bear, and his account having to be bought in, the market for Consols was run up to 84g. Since, however, the prices have become flat at 84, the value b . eing just now i per cent. higher for the Account. Consols for Money have only fluctuated from 84* to 84i, the former being the nearest quotation now. The price upon Exchequer bills is at 3s. discount, and of India Bonds under 1,0001. at 20s. to 30s. discount. A single bargain has been Made in Bank Stock at 188. In PortugUese Four per Cents. there has been a pur chase at 21f ; in Spanish Five per Cents. at 17 to 16i ; and in Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 54 to 541. The Railway Share Market is not buoyant to-day. Purchases are made with hesitation, and prices very variable. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK . (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 188 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... .... 827,6 83% 82% 3 per Cent. Consols Anns.. .. ....... B4 %% li New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anas . 84%%% India Stock 234 India Bonds 1,0301 — Ditto under 1.0001 Consols for A ccount Exchequer Bills, 3d. 1,0004 2 dis par 3 1 dis 5 00/. ...... P Small . 1 ........... .. ................ RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Equador Bonds 2% Portuguese Bonds, 5 p er C ent — Ditto. 4 per Cents 21% S panish Bonds, 5 p er C ent, 1840 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21/ per Cent.,l2 Guild 54 54% BUS) NESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK Aberdeen RA"Ays • PAID , Pan SHAZE• Amber. No.it.: .................... 40 ..... 22% to Ayrshirel3iiinlifasi.nteaunaadinneotiti:ogna.x.ti Boston, &c. 2% • —•- to to 1- yl fO vp r d ai L ll n ... : 1 1 5 0 21 h .. .. —1 to Birmingham, NVol Birming., Wol. l o B .......... ___— & D u d ley—to to ,$` St our Vl. Birkenhead, Lane ire, and Cheshire Junctioan Boston, Stara, & 11 . i; ..... g .. ... . ‘l / 4 to Bristol and Exeter . ......... n . - ... .. .. 75 5 Do., Thirds . -234 ...... to _— c a u i c ed kni on g i h an a ms . h . irlel . ..... : -. .. B • ........... ..10,.54s _lo% too —__ Ditto, Half .......... 5°3 /, ...... to Ditto, SharesClydaleJun' ....... 3 -..— •/8 er and Holyhead... ........ 3 5 % ........ Chest to ... to Ditto, Preference ............ 8 ......... 74 to Clarence. Ro , I Into _VI ...... .. ........... ........ i::: ; 814 — ..... tot 1 ~,./0., Al Class, 5 per Cent... 10 ... , 4) G.," D u b l i n ' "'• Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 —•• ••• to r.._ n _, end Belfast Junction.. 20 ...... : , 4 ; 1 • 1 wait and Enniskillen ... 15 ...... 4418 t Anglia, 25/., L & E aud L. & D . ... ..... . 25 Ditto, 1 8/., E. 11; ii ..... 18 ...... to E , D itto, 34 10s., E. & IL.. 1 3 % .... to 74 *kern Counties ..... .. ........ 20 Do. P.erpet, 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d — • to I'D!" e 0....... ......... N 0.2,61. I3s. 4d — ... .. to T)T,''•, York Extension ..: Northern & Eastern... 50 . .... to ,_•, c arter .... .. ..... ...... 12%... E `'°. New ....... .. astersn Union 50 to Ditto, Quarter tto, Shares Ditto Shares .. ......... ..13s. 4d Ditto Thi rds ........... . .13s. per cent.) ... East DittLancashire . . 25 o New . ................. .. 13 Do N ew Quarters -, woa . r . ters .. ... VA to East Lincolnshire Edinbu l and G lasgow 12%...... 12 Ntu rg , Halt Shares sg" ..... 1 5° 5 .. — Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% to Edinburgh and Northern ... 22% — Dittot o New..... ... ........ 21 Ditt o , N ew port.. ."' 7 /2 Ditto, ditto, New Edinburgh and Perth 2 Ditto, Extension . . E xeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester ..... 2% .... .... Ditto,_ to alas&New ... ............ Dumfries, & Carlisle -84 60.8 d... •'.... to Dittasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... • . ..... to o, New Du• 'A Shares (5 per ct. gull.) 12% -..— toGreat Northern... ........... 8 .. • to Do. London & York Exten. 2 - ... to Gt. South. & West (Ireland) 3 5 .. ....,. 21% —*** t eatGr North of England 100 — too DDitto, New 40/ 5 ...... 5514: ..; to -- Ditto, New 30/. ........ - itto, New .51.......... 11i...-. . .to Great Western 50 8 ...... 99% ...... to Ditto, Half Sh ares Ditto, Quarter Shares . Do. New 171..„... '"••• ...... t 0.... .. „' . ...... to ... to ) . Huddersfield and Manch es t er 2 2 —. 77f .. Ditte, Thirds 7 ...... Hull and Selby 5O to ...... Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — to Ipswich & Bury St. Edtnunds 15 ...... to Do. do. an d N orw i ch Do., do., E xtens i on Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 2% ..... . ..... . to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Du., Thirds... Lancashi re an d Y or k s hi re Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares ••• t o -- Ditto Quarters 14% •• 11% .... to Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ... ••• D itto Thirds (Reg.) ... 10/. 4s tiu , Live r p oo l an d B ury... 34 Do.(Rudders. and Shall) 33 ....•• -..• to , Wakefi e ld, Pontefract, and Goole "47% — D D o-, West Ridi ng U n i on ...4/. 2s — o, Preston and Wyre ... 25 ...... .. ~ do., Half Shares (A) 9 fDitto ditto .. (B) 1!A eeetlB and Bradford ...... to ,Leicester -- and Bedford 5O ..... .. ... to 16s. Do, D Branch % Shares 12% ...... Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% - .r Extension (green)... 2% — to t uo., New E xten•(pink)... 2% — ...... to 'deeds and Thirsk . 36 Ditto, New ..... - ... ...... .. 17%. .Liverpool. Crosby and Sort h- L;Pu.,_rrt. ................. . ........... 2 ...... Newcastlen Junctoo 2 1,4 — Ditto Leo don & Blackwall 16/ 13s 4d T,tn_iew, No. 1, ... ...... .. ... .6 ....... -- ew, No, 2 4/ 13s 4d i 4,0. st.xtensi . ...... to to ••••• 011 ........ ..... 15 ' .. 1::: ----.- - to ...ond • IBright., &South Coast 50 ...... ...... to )):. Consolidated Eighths... 30 . ... Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9. . — , °•. PraL Coay. 5 per Cent. 50 .... London and Greenwich... 1 2/.155. 4d... -- ir Dnitto Preference_. ........ 18/ 17s 2d.. -- Lo_don and North Western -100 .... 1541/ IA to - 1 2.°. Quarter ... ..L. and B. 17 ...... 4 .... .. . to .....---" ... • to .--• Lk% do. New . ,IDo. do. Fi ft hs..." .". .......... 22 ...... — l2 l . 0 . uarters .: ..... G. j ,/ tic). 40 1. Shares. ....1, - . 25 ...... .. to. 404 siutz Shares .„ & &X 15 ...... eg1•••.... and B. 40 Mt. ...... JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 Colonial ..... ......... ........... 25 Commercial of London London Joint Stock ..... ..... 10 London and Westminster... 20 Ditto, New National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, New National of Ireland 2 2 14 — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2% to Union of London ... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican .. .......... 100 An Mining Company ... 11 Australian-- ........................ Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 British-- Iron . ................... 10 - Brazilian Imperial • ...,. .. ... 21 ......... ....... 40 10 ...... ..-- Galvanized Iron ............ ...... Real del Monte, Unregistered COURSE OF EXCIIANGE. to Arnstersiam .... •• • • 12 9 Gibraltar.. ........ •• . . RDit::), at sight .... • . 12 5 Leghorn .. ••—•• 31 50 otterdam .... .•• • • • 12 9% Genoa •• • ..... .... • . 26 40 6 ntwerp ........ •• • • • 26 35 Milan .......... ••• • • . Allamburgh .. •. • • M.B. 14 1 Venice.... .. .. ...... .. ltona .......... —.• • • Naples .... ..••• • • • • • 31 Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 85 Palermo, perm... .. . • 117% Ditto, .. ... .. . • ... 26 20 Lisbon .. .. ...... ••• • • • 50N BMarseilles . ......• •• • • 26 30 0p0rt0.... ••—..• • • • • • 50N ourdeaux...... .• • 26 ZO B e Janeiro ...... •• • • 23% Frankfort on Maine.... 124% Bahia .......... "•• • • Petersburgh, Sll. itble 36% Buenos Ayres ........ Berlin.- ........ ••• • • • 710 New York, 21 days' sight 47% Vienna, effec. ••• •10 24 Philadelphia .......... Trieste, ditto.... •• .. •• 10 25 PHICES OF lITLLION, PIE OZ. Madrid •• .. •• .•••• • •• 46 Foreign Gold is bars.. £3 17 9 Cadiz •• •—.••• • • • • 4.8 k New Dollars .• "0 4 95.4 8ia......... •• •• •• • • Portugal Gold Coin .• 00 0 Saßarcelona .. .... ..... Spanish Doubloons .. 00 0 vi11e............. • • Silver la bars .... ••• • 0 4 11% . • FALMOUTH, Nov. I9.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Snelheed, Gorter, Surinam, for. Amsterdam, leaky, &c. BRIDLINGTON BAY, Nov. 1 9.—Jane, Quebec, for Shields. HULL, Nov. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Mary Caroline, St. John's; Win. Ward, Gravel!, Davis's Straits. TnooN, Nov. 17.—S1d. Loathlank, Bombay; Citizen, Rio Janeiro. CLYDE, Nov. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Elirtbeth, Duckett, Quebec. Sld. Arab, Demerara; Abigail, New York ; Sarah Botsford, Honduras. DUBLIN, Nov. 18.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Elizabeth, St. John's, New Brunswick. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 19.—The Concord, Wilson, coal laden, arrived here yesterday, took the ground and filled—discharged part of her cargo, &c., and was taken into the Camber. SHIELDS, Nov. 19.—The Vigilant has become a wreck —stores saved. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 19.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Marion, Jamaica. STUDWELL ROADS, Nov. 14.—Arrd. Credo, Quebec. CLYDE, Nov. 18.—Wind S.W.—Sld. 16th, Trident, Demerara; 17th, Queen of Isles, Lima. Hum„ Nov. 19.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Helena, Val paraiso; Meranham, New Orleans; John de Wolf, St. John's. LYNN, Nov. 18.—The following vessels are on shore in the Channel :—The Baltimore, from Memel ; Whirr, Do 104 ... M. and B. (A.) 7 1 ,x..... - - MO NE Y and COMMERCIAL IN EW, t. Do: 104 .. M. and B. (B.) 7% - ......- to Y, QUARTEIi Do. 101. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western.... 41/. 6s 8d - - t at Liverpool , Do. New Consolidated Bths. 40 - t o - es, making 22 Ditto New 504 ....... . ...... 32%...... 28% to - Ditto New 404 .... ..... .. - 26 .s were not c Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 - - ock offering. Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 - - - ' return to tin Ditto, Thirds 61. 13s. 4d... % dis. to - London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% - to - es. The Bt Londonderry and Coleraine... 27% - ...... to - such a fair I Londonderry and Enniskillen 23% - ..... to - an no long„ Manch, Buxton, & ;Matlo c k 3 - ...... to - Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo - t o - g the rate Ditto 1 / 1 Shares (No. 1) ... 13 - - " other sec Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 - to - e money Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 7% ...... - - e will not Ditto Grimsby 25 - - Ditto, ditto. ... 7 enting, a Ditto, ditto ... - to - o head • Ditto, Sheffield, and Linc. 7%...... - - ising c Manchester and Southampton 2', - - ... to . in the Midland 100 ......109 Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo - to Ditto, 401. Shares Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 10 ... , 8% 1 / 2 ... to Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo - ...... to Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per cent.... 100 - Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34 - ~ Ditto ditto 7l 95...... - '••• Midland, Leices. and Swan •••. nington (8 per ct.gua. Midld. Great Western (Irish) 30 - • •• Newcastle and Carlisle - ...... to Newmarket 'and Chesterford 13% ...... - ...... to _. ~u,583,607 Ditto Extension - ...... to )": 1 1 0 5 0 40 .............. .... : ................... t r i t ; . 15,000 Newport Abergy., and Here . 3 Norfolk 19,560,468 Ditto New 20/. • 359,447 Ditto Extension - ...... to • Do. Seri p, 1847, N. of Nora 2 2,797,710 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 - ... .. to - 767,625 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 to c2O Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor . lO 20, Northern Counties Union ..., 4 , North British .. .............. 25 - 345„ Ditto Half Shares.. 1214 ll: t axi... to - - ontemporary, that., Do. Quarters • 4% ...... 4 1 ,ix i... to Ditto, Extension ... % % ..... to - - tie directors of the Ditto Thirds ... .......... ..... 1 - %N., and that North Staffordshire... .. 7% ... - - ^ed to. We North Wales 3% ..... - , .... to - North Western 6 - - ”, which Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- After, verhampton .. . - Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7 1 ,x - ....., to -- Royston and Hitchin - ...... to - Scottish Central - . .to - Scottish Midland ..... ...... .... 17% - ...... to - Ditto, New lO • - to - Sheffield, - Rotherham, and Goole 5 - • to -. Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 - ...... to - Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 - to - Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) - --. ...... to - DittO Halves, Ditt o ... 8 ... . .. to Ditto, Oswestry l2 - to - Ditto (New) ......- 1 - ...... to - Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 - to - Shropahire Union . 4 - South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 - to - Ditto, Preference l5 - ...... to - South Staffordshire 4 South Eastern and Dover 33% Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 l7 Ditto, New, No. 3 l5 - to - Ditto New, No. 4............ 6 1 ,4 4 ...,.. to 3% South Wales ' l5 -- - South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 - Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 4 - to -- tlames Haven Dock and Railway 17% - to - raw Vale Extension - to -- Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 1 3 14- -- Waterford and Limerick ... .. 32 1 ...., - - Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin West Cornwall 4 - to - Nhitehaven and Furness ll ... .. - Windsor, Staines, and South Western - Wilts Somerset,&lVeymouth 30 ..... - ... -to - York, Newcastle, and B erw i c k 25 ... . - - Do. Original New & Ber'ck '25 .. ... 30% .. - Do. North Shields Purchase 25 ..... - ...... to - Do. Ex ten. No. 1 (Y. 8s N.) 10 - Do. do. No. 2, New & B. 10 - Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 - Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Ex tension .... .. ...... 20 IrtatElGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes --- ........ Boulogne And Amiens 2O ...... 14%xi... to - Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) - to - Central of Spain - to - Ceylon - - Demerara. ...........- ........... 5 - to - Dendre Valley - to - Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . - to - Datch Rhenish East Indian - Great Indian Peninsular - Great Southern of Madras ... ss. - - Great Western Bengal ss. Great Western Canada Italian and Austrian - - Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain a la Sambre - - Luxembourg - - Lyons and Avignon (Con . stituted) Madras At adras, Nellore, and Arcot... % - Madrid and Valentia - - Naniurand Liege.... - ... . to - Northern of France lO ...... - ..' ... to- Orleans and Bordeaux ... - - Over Issel 413 s 4d.... - Paris and Lyons - Paris and Orleans... 2O - ...... to Paris and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbourg ...... ..... 8 - Rouen and Havre 2O Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 - ..... to Tours & Nantes ... .. ...... .. 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hassell Trinidad.......... ... 2% - to West Flanders 8 - ...... to • LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G—(TI -118 LONDON, Nov. 20.—Wind S.S.W., light airs , wit h dense fog. DEAL, Nov. 19.—Wind N.W., foggy.—Arrd. Richard Reynolds, Walker, Quebec, for Rochester. Sld. Lord Dalhousie, Calcutta. Arrd. from the river, :Robert Sayers, Sydn e y, N ew S out h W a l es; Tullock Castle, Bombay; Kermaun Hutter, Bahia. DOVER ROADS, Nov. 19.—Arrd. Orion, Brazil, for Hamburg. W I LIVERPOOL, Nov. 19.—Wind W. to N.W.—Arrd. end Constitution, Bretton, New York. Sid. Joseph Bushby, Bombay; Oregon, Valparaiso; Clymene, Cullas; River- dale, New Orleans; Intrinsic, ditto; Henry Herbeck, New York ; B r i tann i a steamer, Halifax. Put back, t -t. Noy, Vincent, for St. Vincent, with quarter damaged; Emma, Heyn, for Hamburgh, with loss of bowsprit, both having been in contact. Off port, Emilia, supposed from Rio Janeiro, Theresa Jane, Maranhana ; Luna packet, Berlin. LONDON, SATURDAY COAL MARKE Adair's Main l6s 6d Buddle's W. Hartley 19s Od Davison'sWestHartley 19s Od Hedley's Hartley Hasting's Hartley lBs 9d Holywell Main ........ 18s 9d New Tanfield l6s 6d Ord's Redheugh South Yeare;,h Stewart's Hartley lBs Od Tanfield Moor ..... Tanfield Moor Butes l6a 9d Townley l7s Od Tees Tanfield l6s 6d West Wylartr WalbottierHartigy Wylam Wall's End, &c Bell and Brown 2os 3d Bewicke and Co 2os 3d Clennell lBs 9d Gosforth . 20a 3d Hedley Hebburn 2os Od Killingworth 2os 3d Eden Main ......... Bell Belmont 2os 9dl Braddyll's Hatton 159 arrival, T. YESTERDAY. East Hetton Haswell ........ . Hetton Keepier Lana bton Leasingthorne Murton Russell's Hetton Shotten Stewart's Scarborough ...... Hudson's Hartlepool Kelloe • 4 , 4 Adelaide Tees Brown's Deanery Richardson's Tees South Durham Seymour Tees Tees West Hatton Whitworth Biaangwaur. Stearn Cleveland Cowpan Hartley Derwentwattr Hartley W. llartley Netherton Snapethorpe ... Sidney's Hartley Elgin 3-142 sold. 18s 9d 183 6d ADELPHI THEATRE. The last work of the late Mr. R. B. Peake has been produced at this theatre in a style which testi fies greatly to the kindness and liberality of the management. The plot of this piece, which is called Gabrielli, is somewhat novel. A young ardent Irish man (Boyce) on his Italian travels falls in love with a prima donna (Madame Celeste), and in a fit of en thusiasm bequeaths her his heart, with a penalty of 10,0001., in case his family should refuse the legacy. He is afterwards killed in a duel by a gentleman who has spoken slightingly of his blood, and the will being in the hands of a sharp Italian lawyer (0. Smith), the family in Ireland is plunged into great distress, for the. Italian uses the will as an instrument of oppression, and would force the sister of the deceased gentleman to a marriage against her inclinations. The appearance in Ireland of the prima donna, who has come t o v i s it h er l over ' s tomb, and who refuses to receive any benefit from the will, relieves the family from its embarrassment. All pos sible pains have been taken to pay respect to the memory of the author, and while the drama has been put upon the stage in a very beautiful manner, it has been supported, notwithstanding the trivial nature of the characters, by the whole strength of the company, including, besides the performers named, Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar,,Wright, Paul Bedford, Mr. Munyard and Mrs. F. Matthews. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and :Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk. Their Royal Highnesss the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took walking and pony exercise in the Little Park to-day. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was also taken an airing. Prince Albert rode out on horseback this forenoon, attended by his Royal Highness's Equerry in waiting. Their Royal Highnesscs the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, and at tended by Baroness Hammerstein, and Mr. Edmond Mildrnay, took their departure from the Castle this morning. The Marquis of Anglesey and the Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey left the Castle to-day. The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening in cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny lloward, Baroness de Speth, Lord and Lady Ashley, Rev. Dr. Phelps, Colonel Wylde, and Sir George Cou per. The band of the Grenadier Guards were in attend ance during dinner. her Majesty's private Band after wards attended. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, and attended by Baroness Hammerstein, arrived at their residence at Kew yesterday from Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at Cambridge House yesterday from Windsor Castle. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-Office. It was at tended by Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lans downe, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John 'Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right lion. T. B. Macaulay. The Council sat three hours. Mr. James Heywood had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home Office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting on Thursday, at their Office, in White hall-place, Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial Office, for the Governor of Hong Kong. Sir George Grey returned to town yesterday from a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. RAILWAY RETURNS Itsat.weir TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Re ways for the past week—that - is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week' in the previous year :- ----- ling I NAME OP RAILWAY. Last week. y r E. 1 1.; Cl Pl' 14 Amiens and Boulogne . ............. 13 Arbroath and Forfar ..... .. ........ 12 Chester and Birk en h ea d ... .... ...... 11 Dublin and Drogh e d a .. ......... 16 Dublin and Kingstown .....• • • .... • • Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen..., 13 Edinburgh and Glasgow .... .... . .... 14 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 13 East Lancashire .. 7 Eastern Union ••• • • 13 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... 13 Glasgow and Greenock• •••• • .• • •• • • 13 Great Southern and Western ........ 14 Grea:. Western, &c .............• 13 Kendal and Windermere.. . • • 13 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • • ••• • • . 12 Lancaster and Carlisle...—. 13 Londonderry and h.nniskitler ........ 14 London and Nerth Western, &c. 14 London and Black wall 13 London and Brighton . •• • • • • 14 London and South Western. • • •..... 13 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 14 Maryport and Carlisle •..••••• • • • • • • 13 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 14 Midland Great 'Western (Irish) ...... t Newcastle and Carlisle•—• •• • •... '3 North British •• • • •••• • • • ..... 3 Paris and ltouen .•. • • • Preston and Wyre•.......... 13 Rouen and Havre ........... 12 Shrewsbury and Chester .... 13 South Eastern and Br anc h es . . 12 South Devon ........ . ....... 13 Taff Vale ....... ...... 14 Ulster . ..... ............, 7 Whitehaven Juncti on ..... 3 York and Newcastle . ........ 3 York and North Midltuid b 76 233 692 778 692 3,756 10,650 937 1,125 2,611 1,024 1,767 16,986 127 8,816 1,212 35,395 751 8,219 7,198 2,114 652 19,283 1,004 2,208 1,819 2,289 6,784 2,6.3 551 8,470 1,187 1,832 187 [1,056 7,178 i 214 617 708 696 286 3,837 8,656 761• 408 2,164 940 955 16,704 8.681 3G,654 793 7,026 6,042 1,887 683 1 c,793 2,335 1,556 1,349 5,791 7,141 639 1,936 777 5,342 6,236 1 men ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—We rogrel to bear that the Bishop of London is undoubtedly in a dangerous state.—Church and State Gazette. Howard, from Richebucto ; Sarepta and Helene, from Hartlepool. YARMOUTH, Nov. 19.—The Arms, Shields to Lou don, was abandoned in the Roads last night, with the water up to the cabin deck. The Bilton, Odessa to Leith, was assisted into the Roads to day leaky, and with pumps choked. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) OET..ARDEN. Potatoes, 5s to 7s per cwt.; Apples, is to 2s 9d; and Pears, 2s 6d to 6s per half-sieve ; Walnuts, 6d to Is per hundred; Greens, is 9d to 2s 6d ; Turnips, 2s to 2s 6d; Leeks, is 6d to is 9d ; Onions, Is 6d to 2s 3d; and Carrots, 3s to 5s per dozen bunches ; Red Cabbages, 2s 3d to 5s 6d; Savoy ditto, 9d to is ; and Cauliflowers, 2s 6d to 3s per dozen; Pine Apples, 5s to 9s each; Celery, 9(1 to is 6d; Horse-radish, is 9d to 4s ; and Brocoli 9d to is 3d per bundle; Mush rooms, 9d to is 6d per basket; Hothouse Grapes, 2s 6d to 4s; Filberts, 4d to 8(1, and Cob-nuts, 6d to 8d per lb ; Spinach, 2s 2d to 3s 3d per sieve. NEIW GATE' AND 34313ADEN11A2.L. Each kind of Meat moved off readily at very full prices. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; and Pork, 4s to 5s 2d per 81bs by the carcase. Geese, 4s fid to 7s 6d; Fowls, 2s 3d to 4s 6d ; Chickens, is 9d to 2s ; Ducks, is 6d to 2s 6d; Rabbits, 8(1 to is 2d; Le►erets, 2s 6(1 to 3s fid ; Grouse, Is to is 6d ; Partridges, is 3d to is 2d ; Pheasants, 3s to 4s ; and Pigeons, 8d to 10d each. Fresh Butter, Ild to is 4d per lb. NEPT. Beef, from 3s t o 4s 2 W OR d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 45 to 5s 4d per 811 a. 10 t o Beef, from 2 s 10d to on , 4s ; Mutt 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 4s to 5s 2d per 8113 s. 3177NGERPORD. We had a very steady general demand here to-day, and the quotations had an upward tendency. BILLXIII-GSGATE. Full average supplies of fish were on offer to-day; yet the demand was tolerably steady, at but little variation in prices. The prices of Wheate B n RE Bre AD ad in the metropolis are from 7d to lid; of Household ditto, 5d to 6d per 4lbs loaf. R IT. Market Hides , 561b DE to 64 DIARKE Ib, 3d per ib; ditto, 641 b t o 721 b, 3d to 34d; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3id; ditto, 801 b to 881 b, 3id to 4d; ditto, 88Ib to 961 b, 4d4 to 4id ; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, Ofd to sd; Calf. Skins (each), 46 6d to 6s 6d; Horn Hides, 13s; Polled Sheep, 4s 2d to 4s 10d ; Kent and Half-breds, 3s to 4s 2d ; Downs, 2s 9d to 3s 6d. EMT MATULE. SMITHFIELD. Meadow Hay, 2T / S 10s to 3/ 12s 6d ; Clover ditto, 3/ 108 to 4/ 15s; and Straw, I/ 5s to 1110 s per load. A moderato supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, 2 / 1 28 to 3/ 15s ; Clover ditto, 31 105 to 4/ 12s ; and Straw, 1/ 6s to it lls per load. Trade somewhat steady, at full prices. WHlTEcuiPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21. 10s to 31 14s ; Clover ditto, 3/ 108 to 4/ 17.; and Straw, 114 s to 11 10 8 per load. S upp l y good, and trade ratherdull. 20s Od 21s 3d 21s Od 21s Od . 21s Od 206 9d 21s Od . 218 Od EV EN ENG, NOV I _E - 14 - BER 20, 1817, PROPERTY AND INCOME TAXES. (From the Progress of America, by John Macgregor, Esq., M.P.) These never have been, nor are they likely to be, taxes agreeable to the people :—especially the tax upon incomes not derived from realised property, that is, the tax on trades and professions. But when we have, from ordinary sources, a deficient revenue, we are bound to resort to extraordinary means, and we shall always do so, in order to maintain the national honour, credit, and dignity. If a house tax, alone, would meet the deficient ex penditure, after the abolition of the unsound, and inquisitorial, taxes we have enumerated under the heads of excise, customs, taxes, and stamps, we would prefer, infinitely, to discountenance rather than to have any recourse to, an income and property tax. But it is clear that the demand upon the treasury, to meet the expenditure, will not, for some years, per mit the abandonment of the property tax. The next considerarion is, ca❑ we render it more equitable, and less inquisitorial ? We are convinced that this can be effected. The Income-tax collected in the year ending the sth of April, 1843 :—. ENGLAND AND WALES. Income. Tax. Schedule A, lands, tenements, &c., in respect of the pro perty thereof .. £73,728,429 £2,150,412 Schedule B, lands, &c., in respect of the occupancy thereof ... ••• 20,486,606 298,763 Schedul e C, annuities, divi dends, & c . 27,873,691 812,983 Schedule 1), profits or gains... 50,296,645 1,466.985 Schedule E, public ollicers,&c. 8,936,831 260,657 'otal • 181,322,202 4,989,800 SCOTLAND• Schedule A ... Produce of tax in Scot land on all the schedules 394,324 9,284,383/. at 7d. in the pound, should produce 270,7941., leaving for the remaining four schedules 123 , 530 /.=-_-394,324/., which sum, collected at the same rate as those four schedules produced in England, indicates an income of 4,680,9591., show ing the total income of Scotland to be 13,965,342/., and of Great Britain 195,287,544/., exclusive of incomes under 150/. In 1801, the assessments for England, in cluding incomes above 150/, amounted to 474,676,894 „ The income from assessments un der 1501 per annum, and not under 60/. amounted to 9,284,383 ... 18,105,240 Difference being incomes above 1504 per annum ••• ••• ... 56,571,654 Now, if 56,571,654/. : 18 ,105,240/. :: 1 95,287,544/ : 62,499,8311., and ifthe income is under 1501., and above 601., from all the schedules be, in 184.5, in the same proportion to those above 150/. as in 1801 (and there is no reason that they should not), then the total income of Great Britain, in 1845, should amoun t to 257,787,3154 We consider that of this amount 200,000,0001. may be estimated as the rents and profits of all realised property,: Viz., the rents and profits of all lands, tenements, houses, constructions, funds, stocks, and shares : including factories, ware houses, docks, shipyards, railways, canals, public funds, Bank of England stock, East India and South Sea stock, and the stock and shares of all companies whose stocks and shares are bought and sold in the market. PRO FORMA FINANCIAL SCHEME. Raving analysed the present system of taxation, we would propose the following simplification of the taxes upon the more sound principles which we con sider practicable. Pro Forma View of equalising the Annual Revenue and Expenditure, presuming that the Excise and Assessed Taxes, and the Stamps on Marine and Fire Assurances, and also the Duties of Customs (except on eight articles) should be abolished, and adding Distilled Spirits and Malt, now under the Excise, to the Customs, and Excise License! , to the Stamps : abolishing all other of the Assessed Taxes, and the whole Excise Establishment. First. Assuming the total annual expen diture not to exceed 05 0,000,000 Revenue, necessary to meet this expen diture, to be raised as follows: I. From uniform duties on (1) Tea; (2) Sugar and Molasses; (3) Coffee and Cocoa; (4) Tobacco; (5) Distilled Spirits ; (6) Wines ; (7) Dried Fruits; (8) Spices £21,500,0001 11. Home Distilled Spirits X5,000,0001 Malt, whether . 31,500,000 made at home 5 000 000 } 10,000,000 I or imported " from abroad.— 11. Stamps, leaving out Marine and Fire Insurances, and including Licenses now under the Excise . 7,500,000 .V. Unredeemed land-!ax Deficit to be provided for during the first year 9,800,000 ,00,000 This deficit to b e l ev i e d , not b y doubling, x5O or ra o ther more than doubling, the present income-tax, but by the less inquisitorial and more direct and equitable plan of an annual assessment, in the pound, upon the annual value of all realised property. And surely 11,000,0001., including the unredeemed land-tax, out of 50,000,0001. of total taxation, forms but a small proportion of the total sum to be levied directly. But if we may form an estimate, founded on the expe rience of the past, the ordinary sources of revenue would annually increase ; and the amount of direct taxation would be proportionably diminished, at least so long as peace shall continue. Finally, the direct taxation necessary would, we believe, not embrace more than the unredeemed land-tax and a house-tax, equal to the present window and other assessed taxes proposed to be abolished. We could also show that the customs, including the security and collection of the duties on malt and spirits, now under the excise, might be conducted at less expense than at present ; and that, at all events, an amount of expens e equal to that of the whole pre sent excise establishment might be saved to the country. We could also equitably modify the stamp duties, so as to produce a much greater revenue. The inte rest on Exchequer -bills might also be saved, as in Prussia, by the Exchequer -bill Office isuing paper, not bearing interest, but being at all times a legal tender, as much so as Bank of England notes are now. In our pro forma view of fiscal reform we have stated the deficit to be provided for during the first year at 9,800,000/., or nearly five per cent. on the annual rents and profits of all realised property. As we object to the present assessed taxes, and especially to the window-tax, which ought to have been re pealed simultaneously with the excise upon glass, we do not see how we can diminish the amount of our proposed property-tax ; except, 1. By substituting an additional tax on houses, in lieu of the winclow•tax. But this substitution, though very far less objectionable than the window tax, would, if we are to have a property-tax at all, be, however, a tax on houses greater than on other property. 2. By continuing other, though objectionable, duties. Timber is a raw material which, next to the essential food of man, ought to he admitted free from duty. But if the wisdom of Parliament will continue the timber duties, why not adjust these duties upon pure fiscal principles ? The duties on foreign and colonial timber have yielded a revenue of 1,691,3291. In 1844, by reducing the duties on colonial timber to Is. per load, which scarcely pays the expense of collection, the revenue from timber of all kinds, in cluding deals, amounted to less than 1,000,0001. If we should persevere in continuing the timber duties, we should modify them to about the following pro portions, viz a duty of ss. p er l oad on white pine timber from ' the colonies, and of 15s. upon the more valuable fir timber of the north of Europe ; and upon deals, &c., in proportion. We take these two duties fiscally, but not on any other principle. By these low scales, with a proportionate higher duty on deals as a semi -manufactured article, we might levy one million annually of revenue from timber. Exclusive of revenue from corn, the duty on other articles yielding any revenue, and that are not to be abo lished, are from copper ore, about 65,0001., tallow, about 175,000/. Neither of the uti from es for revenue from th ese s h ou ld b e continued.d The re venues from duties on corn, butter, and cheese should all be abolished. Therefore, we might save and realise, an additional revenue, as follows, viz.:- 1. Save. Interest on Exchequer- bills due .............................. 4 2. Realise. P rom timber ....... 5 00,000 ..... From equalisation of .. ar 1,000,000 duties, a furthers um 0f..g.... 1 000 , ,000 .£2 500 000 This modification of our fixed scheme would re duce the property-tax from 9,800,000/. to somewhat under 7,000,000/., or to scarcely. three-anda hhat per cent. on all realised property Without distinction. Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi was yesterday cited before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine by M. Reuel'', a theatri cal agent, echo demanded from her the sum of 1,230 f. for his commission, furhaving negotiated an engagonaent for her at a theatre at Rome, whereby she realised 25,000 f. by twenty-five nights' performances in the month of January last. In support of his demand, his advocate produced letters written by the director of the theatre and Millie. Grisi ; but her advocate contended that the plaintiff had nothing to do with her engage .t, and said that it was not the usage of the profes sion for premiers sujets like her to employ theatrical agents. The Tribunal, taking this view, rejected M. Rowdies demand, and condemned him to pay the costs. WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Dee arrived yesterday at Southampton, bringing the West India mails of the following dates : —St. Jago de Cuba Oct 21st, Jamaica 24th, Hayti 26th, Demerara 20th, Tobago and Trinidad 22d, Barbadoes 24th, Grenada, St. Vincent's, and St. Lucia, 26th, Mar tinique, Dominique, and Guadaloupe, 27th, Antigua, Montserrat, and St. Kitt's, 28th, St. Thomas's 31st, and Fayal Nov. 12th. The Dee has on freight 4,000 dollars on account of the Royal Mail Company, 216 ounces of gold dust, 2,900 dollars on account of British merchants, and a general cargo ; 998 bags and 22 barrels of pimento; 86 bales of sarsaparilla ; 19 tierces, 37 barrels and 16 bags of coffee; 13 barrels of ginger, and sundries. She brings accounts of a terrible hurricane which took place on the 11th of October at 'Tobago, an account of which will be found in another column. A great portion of the houses was destroyed, and the shipping suffered considerably. The Pantaloon arrived with yellow fever; 12 deaths. The Jamaica legislative session was opened on the 19th instant in a long speech by the Governor, which is generally commented upon in terms of satisfaction by the Jamaica journals. his Excellency cautiously abstains from pledging the Government to any spe cific measures, but holds out hopes that something effectual will be done to relieve the depressed state of th e colony. SPEECH OF THE GOVERNOR. After a few words on the reasons for meeting as early as possible, his Excellency turned at once to the absorbing question of the day : " Gentlemen," he said, "in proportion to the weight of circumstances which you feel to be press ing on you your deliberations ought to be grave ; your resolutions such as will bear the criterion of public opinion in other places than Jamaica; and such as you may be sure will obtain for you every where the support of the wise and good. Preludes, which indicate unreasonable purposes, raise obstruc tions in the path of those who indulge in them, and no one is blamed for c l os i ng a conference with' him who asks what is plainly impossible to grant. But I have seen nothing which makes me fear the existence of a disposition on the part of her Majesty's Govern ' ment to turn a deaf ear to any who address them in the language of reason, or to fix themselves before hand in a rigid posture of denial against temperate claims. An attempt to re-establish the principle of protection, or to renew generally the practice of making the prices of commodities artificially high to the British people by the exclusion of foreign produce from the markets, I most sincerely be• lieve would be an utterly hopeless effort ; and several legislative measures have now passed into laws, all Munded on the opposite principle, which are so con nected with each other, that it seems to be an equally vain expectation that any of them could be repealed without repealing the others. Prohibitory duties could not be re-imposed upon foreign sugar without im posing them also on foreign corn. The battle of the corn-laws must be fought over again in the United Kingdom, and gained by the party who lost it, before you could succeed in having your sugar protected by a prohibition of foreign sugar. But if I have rightly comprehended the policy on which the system of free trade is founded, and which has led to the open aban donment of protective systems, the planters of Jamaica have no reason to fear that they are permanently con demned to remain exactly in the same commercial rela tions in which they now stand to the mother country. The grand and fundamental changes of commercial policy which have recently taken place seem to involve minor changes, and to make it impossible that some further revisions of the import duties of the United Kingdom should not be permitted for the purpose of making adjustments that will give fair play to all par ties. Without such examination, duties might in some instances remain so high as to be destructive not only of the interests of the planters, but equally so of the trade and revenue of the United Kingdom ; and no effort, as it seems to me, can be more legitimate than that Jamaica should use its best endeavours to have justice done to itself in the progress of the in quiries that are sure to be made ; nor do I hesitate to declare that, to the extent I am about to explain, you have, in my opinion, a strong and sacred case to bring forward. On the 20th August, 1844, the declared average price of West India muscovado sugar, exclu sive of the import duty, was 325. 4d.; and in March, 1845, when the first distinct measures for the intro duction of foreign sugar were carried by the Minister of that day, the duty on colonial muscovado was re duced from 245. to 14s. the cwt., and sugar from foreign countries, in which slavery did not exist, was admitted at a duty of 235. 4d., instead of the former prohibitory duty. In August, 1846, the dis tinction between foreign sugar the produce of slave labour, and foreign sugar the produce of free labour, was done away with; and all foreign sugar was ad mitted at a duty for the ensuing ten months of 211., which moreover is gradually to decrease until, in 1851, foreign sugar and colonial sugar are to be ad mitted at the same rate of duty ; but when this fur ther encouragement was given to the importation of foreign sugar, permission was given for the use of sugar in the British distilleries which had previously been excluded from them, and changes were made in the duties on rum in favour of the colonial distiller, and for the purpose of putting him on an equal foot ing of advantage with the British distiller. Nothing can be more certain than that these reductions of duty on colonial sugar in 1845 and on colonial rum in 1846 were intended to operate in the way of com pensation for the fall in the price of sugar expected to be produced by the competition of foreigners, and that the permission for the use of sugar in distilleries was meant in some degree to moderate that fall. I can scarcely imagine indeed that it entered into the plans of the Government at either epoch to leave the situation of the British BUgar planter permanently worse than it had already become, and for that reason I incline strongly to the supposition that it was hoped these compensa tions would be complete equivalents. But what has been the result ? The average price of August, 1844, exclusive of duty, namely, 325. 41d. with the addi tion of 345. duty, constituted a London market price of 565. 4kd., but the average prices of similar sugar, exclusive of duty on the 28th of last August, was only 255. 50., which, with the reduced duty of 14,., gives a London market price of only 395. 53d. So that whilst there has been a reduction of 10s. duty in West India muscovado, it has sustained a fall of price in the English market of 16s. 11d. the cwt, or, setting aside the duty, of mere than Cl. sterling per ton. Against the apparent and grievous loss, how ever, which would be consequent on so sudden a fall, the Jamaica proprietor and planter ought to set off the advantage he derives from the reduction in the duties of rum; and a part of the apparent fall in price ought, no doubt, to be rather called a rise in the exchangeable value of cash, and to be attributed to the extraordinary pressure of money in Lon don, which it may be hoped will not be of a permit ment duration. But to whatever extent the real fall of price has exceeded the aggregate value of the reduction of the duties on sugar and rum, I freely declare my opinion that you have a strong claim to relief by a further reduction of duty, if the finances of England can sustain it ; as far as lam capable of forming a judgment, such relief would indirectly be advantageous even to the English revenue, derivable from the import of sugar ; and on the other hand would be effectual for the purpose of at least neu tralizing the effects of competition, and of placing the sugar planter in as good a position as that in which he stood three years ago. I wish, with all my heart, you could be placed in a much better one ; but we must look to what is practicable, and after a careful and painstaking examination of the circum stances ih which you stand, and taking these in con nexion with the considerations of awful importance which are implicated with the finances of the United Kingdom, on which it is not too much to say that the peace and salvation of the world depends, I cannot, at present, extend any hopes for your obtaining direct relief from the Imperial Parliament beyond the limit I have pointed out. I have, indeed, no instructions or authority from her Majesty's Government on which I am en titled to hold out an expectation even of that relief; nor can I pretend to be so well acquainted with the finances of the United Kingdom as to be capable of forming a confident judgment whether any further reduction of duties on sugar may be conceded ; but some indications of large and unexpected increases in the British revenue encourage a not unreasonable hope that such may possibly be the case, and I am at all events convinced that here is the strong point of your case, and that if you are to be relieved at all it is in this way, and on the grounds which I have stated, that there is the greatest likelihood of its being done.". Reverting, then, to the question of labour, his Excellency continu e d :--" Of obtaining any ear ly and effectual supply of additional labour by means of immigration, and to such an extent as to work any general improvement in the state of the island, I cannot honestly say that I entertain much expecta tion. All persons here, I bel'eve, are convinced that the importation of coolies from the East Indies is too costly, and that the numbeis of these people whom you could afford to bring from the other side of the globe must be too few to be efficient instruments in elevating Jamaica to a new prosperity. From Africa I trust you may receive some reply, even before the end of bbe t er he tmo 3 a r a year; but ry gradually I limitedkin increase, extent, at a nh t do p ui sent it n r ig e l c I hope th an e nonulmyconfidence of obtaining in the end somegreater and and undimi n i s h e d . I feel s more effectu a l ass i stance from that quarter is strong cannot last. Condemned and prohibited by ore th a t t h trade treaties of all th e ' , lost p o werful states i n th e world, it is incredible that they should much longer abstain from combining sincerely in methods calculated to put an end to so great a reproach, scandal, and crime. It is shameful that after such treaties it should have con tinued so long; but it would be still more shameful for foreign states either to acknowledge that they do not wish their treaties to take effect, or to pretend that it is beyond the power of the whole civilised world to give them effect. The introduction and establish ment by united Christendom of peace, order, law, a just and free commerce, and a pure religion on the coast of Africa, would abate this enormous atrocity, and would gradually bring that teeming population into a condition to estimate the advantages within their reach ; and.it would then rest only with the planters of each colony respectively on this side of the Atlan tic, by improving the condition of the labouring class, and by making it a thoroughly happy one, to attract in swarms to their shores a people of labourers, who have always been regarded as the most effective and best adapted for the agriculture of the An tilles. When I plainly avow to you that the two modes of relief which I have indicated, and, per haps, some relaxation of the navigation laws, are the only ones in which I can at present perceive any rea sonable hope of your having the assistance of the Imperial Parliament, it nevertheless seems to me that you not only ought not to despair, but that you have the strongest incentives to apply your own legislative powers to the people, the soil, the products, the agri culture, the manufactures, and the trade and the commerce of the island. " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly, " The most obviously important of the subjects which annually demand the consideration of the Legislature, namely, the revenue, is one which more peculiarly belongs to you, and upon this occasion I believe that a considerable falling off in the product of the import duties below the amount of the preced ing year, though not perhaps below the estimate for the present year, calls for an early and careful exami nation as a means of obtaining accurate and valuable details illustrative of the working of the present tariff, and which may be available in the formation of an improved one. It will not escape your observation, that the assent of the Crown to the repeal of the dif ferential duties, which were collected under an Act of the Imperial Parliament, has surrendered into your hands a permanent annual revenue of more than five and-twenty thousand pounds, and merged it in th e import duties imp ose d b y the island Legislatures, which have hitherto been voted only from year to year. I make no secret of my having called the at tention of her Majesty's Government to this circum stance." The remainder of his Excellency's speech referred to local matters. Instead of referring to a Committee for an Address in reply to the Governor's Speech, the following re solutions were adopted by the House : " Resolved, That in the present fearful crisis in the affairs of this colony, involving the speedy anni hilation of its great staples, it now only remains for the House to make a last and earnest appeal to her Majesty's Government and the Parliament of Great Britain to adopt such measures for the relief of the colony, by the remission of the duties on colonial produce or otherwise, as may, by sustaining the value of private property, enable the island to support its public institutions and maintain faith with the public creditor. " Resolved, That this House is ready to provide for the contingencies of the island to the 30th Decem ber, 1848, in the fervent hope that ere the termination of that period the case of the island will have been considered and ample relief granted by the Imperial Parliament, with whom alone rests the power of res cuing from destruction this once valuable colony. " Resolved, That viewing the present state of the island, this House cannot with propriety proceed to the consideration of any measure involving the further expenditure of the public money." At a meeting of the Jamaica Chamber of Com merce on the 19th inst., a series of r eso l u ti ons were adopted, of which the principal are as follows: "That this Chamber does not desire to charge the present or any former Ministry with a wilful desire to neglect this colony, or to devise measures detrimen tal to its interests, but it unhesitatingly declares be fore the world that successive Governments have, by a mistaken policy, emanating from the Colonial-office, brought this colony to a state of utter ruin. That as an integral member of the empire, Jamaica is entitled to an equal participation in the advantages enjoyed by the United Kingdom itself, as f ar as the inherent difference between the circumstances of each may admit. " That as corn and sugar are admitted to be articles of food.of the first necessity, and as corn is admitted into the United Kingdom duty free, so could our sugars be admitted duty free also. " That if loans of money to landed proprietors in the United Kingdom, for the purposes of draining, and improving agriculture, are considered necessary, so ought the same advantages to be granted to this island." AWFUL HURRICANE AT TOBAGO. On the night of the 11th of October the island of Tobago was visited by one of the severest and most desolating hurricanes that has occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. During that day heavy clouds were seen gathering to the west and north, and towards the evening the wind blew fresh from the latter quarter. These symptoms of an approaching hurricane seemed to create little or no apprehension in the minds of the inhabitants, because Tobago had since 1780 suffered but to a trifling ex tent from such a cause, and therefore they may truly be said to have been in many respects quite unpre pared for such a short but fearful display of Omnipo tent power. The night of the 11th of October will be long remembered in the annals of Tobago. The day, which was unusually sultry, oppressive, and lowering, was succeeded in the latter part of the evening by indications of heavy rains from the west ward, and towards nine o'Clock by slight gusts of wind, which, although evidencing the approach of a stormy night, was viewed with little alarm. By ten o'clock the heaviest sleeper was roused by the dread ful truth, that a hurricane of the severest kind was ravaging the district. A severe earthquake is said to have preceded the first outbreak, nor can it be doubted, after the proofs around us. The wind at first appeared to blow from the west by north, accompanied by heavy rain and lightning, veered towards the south afterwards, and previous to the termination of those dreadful hours of anxiety, blew again with increased violence from the north and east, till one A.M of the morning of the 12th. Continuing to rage with such fury for three hours, considerable damage was expected to be done, but the desolation a n d d evastat i ng effects produced by it are ibeyond description. High and low, rich and poor, have alike experienced its fearful influence, and been made to acknowledge the power of that Being " who maketh the clouds his chariot, and who walketh upon the wings of the wind." The lightning was vivid in the extreme, and incessant in its fearful bril liancy. No accidents appear to have taken place in this quarter, although several lives are stated to - have fallen a sacrifice to its prey—viz., one at Cove, two at Milford, one at Golden Grove, and one at Mont gomery. The morning of Tuesday presented a scene of de struction in every quarter to which the eye was directed, accompanied by the too powerful proofs of its severity being general, in the crowds of hapless beings passing along the roads with their little all saved from the wreck of their - buildings, and in search of a covering for themselves and families. The once smiling face of the country, dotted with the cottages and gardens of the labourers, the fruits of bygone earnings, were swept to the four winds of heaven, and no protoction left them but the hill side or the ravine, till the morning broke. The dwelling-houses on estates generally have sufThred terribly. Some are entirely swept away, and' their inhabitants at the present moment obliged to resort for shelter to any field which offers a present protection against the elements, and, it is to be feared, with little prospect of having such dwellings again raised Trees, the growth of many, many years, which withstood the viol ence o f a ll prece di ng hurricanes, have been bent and twisted like willow wands, and present theinselves denuded of foliage, stripped of their branches, and in many instances torn up by the roots and cast to a distance. The canes which, during the eventful day, looked healthy and luxuriant, have been in every case pros trated, as if a destroying torrent of water had passed over theni, and torn their leaves into shreds. Those most advanced have suffered most severely, w e fear, in several case's,- irremediably. The less ad vanced plants present a more encouraging appear ance, but afford no hopes that they will fully recover from their effects. Confident hopes are indulged in by some that the oldest plants may yet recover, but the forebodings of the many tend to destroy the supposition ; nor can it be concealed, whilst' nu m b ers are completely up. rooted and many . prost ra t e, that others are more or less injured. The destruction of sugar works, &c., is so wide spreadland general, and general e e mers of restoring them so doubtful, as to cast a gloom over the com munity. Wheresoever buildi:a have escaped from the fury of the tempest, th ings been obliged to be used for the houseless s d ufl e e r re h rs av o n n the estates and neighbourhood, whilst the wellin ing have been similarl apropriated. the provisi on g-house s l e ft stan d - I fear no very favouyra e account can be give n o f grounds. T he corn is laid flat; cassada and yams much shaken, and in too many cases rooted up- Plantains have been quite destroyed ; sweet po tatoes have suffered least of all. We are unabled to state on undoubted authority, that throughout the island, 30 great houses (or ma nagers' houses) are completely destroyed ; 31 ditto, ditto, severely injured; 26 works completely de- stroyed, 33 ditto, severely injured ; 456 settlers' houses destroyed; 176 ditto, greatly injured. In. Scarborough, Rocky Vale, Monkey Town, L ower Town o f S car b orough, and otherwise in the vicinity of Scarborough alone --122 houses of all descriptions (including outbuildings) were totally destroyed ; 84 ditto, greatly injured. The loss of life is estimated at nineteen only. The whole of the barracks were unroofed, and some of the side walls blown down ; the officers' quarters were entirely stripped of their verandas, roofs, and shingles, windows and door blown in and broken, part of the roof of the hospital blown down, canteen, ordnance stores, and out-building in ruins ; one soldier of the 19th regiment killed, and another seriously injured ; several soldiers of the Ist West India Regiment also seriously injured by the falling of the ruins. All the officers escaped, excepting the deputy ordnance storekeeper, who was much injured by the falling of his house, and the fort adjutant received a contusion whilst extricating others front the ruins. By the unwearied exertions of the officers of the garrison, particularly the officer commanding, the troops were provided with shelter and comfort able accommodation, under the circumstances (the rain falling in torrents during the following day), the greater part in tents erected in the pasture, and many in buildings temporarily cleared for their re ception. The loss of stores, arras - &e., is immense ; and from the total destruction tortfit barracks, it has been deemed advisable to send the whole of the white troops to Trinidad, for which purpose the brig Judson has been chartered, and sails for that island this evening. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Nov. 19. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday'.) The Members for the following counties were sworn in : Bedford, Berks, Cambridge, Chester, Cumberland, Derby, Devon, Durham, Essex, Kent, Lancaster, Leicester, Lincoln, and Middlesex. The Members of two or three of the counties were sworn in groups, numbering from twenty to thirty. The Members for the last five counties, whct were sworn together, numbered nearly forty. Each Member handed in a certificate of .his return, signed by the sheriffs, and afterwards signed the roll. The SPEAKER then, at Four o'clock, declared the adjournment of the House until Twelve o'clock to-morrow (this day.) BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 13th day of November, 1847. ISSUE DIRARTICENT. X. Note, issued.. •• •• 22,848,375 Government debt • • 11,015,100 Other securities •• • • 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 7,647,707 Silver bullion ••• • • • 1,200,668 422,848,375 22,848,375 M. MARSH 47.1 - 4, Chief Cashier. Dated the 18th day of November, 1547. . . . EPALTKEN T. GoVernment secnri ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) .. 10,583,607 Other 'securities .... 19,560,468 Notes .. 2,797,710 Gold and silver coin.. 410,146 lANXING Prop-letora' capital.. 14,553,000 Rest 3,610,979 Public depob:ta (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings-banks, and Di- vidend accounts).. 5,991,765 Other deposits •• • • 8,312,171 Seven day and other 884,015 433,351,930 £33,351,930 Dated the 18th day of NovembeM. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. November, 1547. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Fire Queen steam yacht is ordered to be fitted for port duty at this station. The Terrible, steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, is ordered to have new masts and yards of increased strength, to enable her to carry a heavier press of canvass. The Blenheim, transport, with the first division of the 69th Regiment on board for Halifax, tailed this morning._ The — Nautilus, 8, Lieutenant -commanding W. T, Rivers, sailed last evening to resume her station off Brighton. The Camperdown, 104, was brought down from her moorings this morning, to be a hulk for the offi cers and men at the ordinary during the fitting of the Blenheim steam guard-ship for their reception. The Princess Royal, transport, Lieutenant W. C. Harris, agent, sailed to-day for Cork. The Belleisle, troop-ship, Captain John Kingcome„ will embark military baggage to morrow; on Mon day the 69th Regiment will be put on board her. In Harbour.—Victory, Excellent, Victoria and Albert, Bellerophon, and Belleisle, Terrible, Oberon, Lightning, Fairy, Myrtle, and , Echo, steamers; 11faria Somes, transp o rt. At Spithea3.—Asia. In Dock.—Leander, Asia, Firefly, Sappho, Rifle man, Orestes, and In the Basin.—Prince Regent, Retribution, and Rocket. Vind calm, weather thick and hazy, but fine. THE FoG.—The metropolis was this morning en veloped in a dense fo l z. Tee gas has been bur lung all day in the shops in the principal thoroughfares, and the steamers on the river have, in some instances ceased to ply, and in all have been unable to keep an) thing liko their proper time. The railway trains, too, have been in many instances delayed, and the orcnibuses, instead of rattling en merrily as is th e i r wont, now "drag their slow lengths along like so many " wounded snakes.' The fog, which is increasing in intensity as the evening approaches, is accompanied by a temperature of the most piercing chilliness. THE IRISH PARTY.—The noblemen and gentle men connected with both Houses of Parliament, who assembled during the last session at King-street, St. James's, and were knoWn as the " Irish Party," pur pose again to associate together with the view of aiding the Legislature in the adoption of some general mea sures of amelioration for the sister kingdom. Since the last; meeting of the " party," its constitution has undergone considerable change. and the name has been altered to that of the " Irish National Council," by which designation it will in future be known. The body, as at present constituted, consists:of Repealers, Federalists, and Whigs, and includes several Members of the House of Commons rho have never before en joyed seats. Among the latter are Mr. Anstey (Youghal), Mr. Blackall (Longford), Mr. Devereux (Wexford borough), Mr. Fagan (Wexford county), Mr. Fox (Longford), Mr. Green (Kilkenny), Mr. Keatinge (Waterford), Mr.. Keogh (Athlone), Mr. McTavish (Dundalk), Mr. Megan (Westmeath), The O'Gorman Mahon (Ennis), Mr. Meagher (Waterford city), Mr. Monsell (Limerick), Mr. Moore (Mayo), Sir L. O'Brien (Clare), Mr. O'Flaherty (Galway bo rough), Mr. Reynolds (Dublin), Mr. Sadlier (Carlo,' borough), Mr St. George (Galway), Mr. Scully (Tip peray), and Mr. Tenison (Leitrim). The first meeting of the Irish Natonal Council will b e h e l d on Tuesday next, at Palace yarti, Westminster. Mr. Henry Grat tan is to preside. It is stated that, should the Speech from the Throne not recommend the adoption of prompt measures of a comprehensive and remedial character for Ireland, the Council will move an amendment to the Address. The meeting has been convened for eleven o'clock, and circulars have been issued request ing the attendance of Hon, Gentlemen.—post. . PROSPERITY OF SEAHAM HARBOUR.—We learn from authority that, one day last week, sixty-eight sail of loaded vessels were dispatched to sea in one tide, at Seaham Harbour. This was the largest number ever yet known. Such are now the power and weans of tl la port, which was in ear ly d a y s tra d uce d by the appella tion of Lord Londonderry's " duck-pond;" and The r to it harbour. haidr pa was predicted, could never beco3moeooo c a shipments are from 20,000, month.—Durham Chronicle. MYSTERIOITS AFFAIR .-- On Thursday last, a large bundle of linen, deeply saturated with blood, was found in a field t near and brought to the Police ha office a No clue has yet been f oun d to this Leeds. Chapeltown, mysterious discovery.—Leeds Mercury. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.---Yesterday afternoon the usual'meeting of the governors and committee of the above charity was held in the board-room Portog 1. street, Lincoln's Inn. The report stated that there are at present 118 in-patients, whilst the numbers.n of out ,gooreoatplyooornsitchke binavcreeabs:e.n placed on the b ra o as o tti k ea s nbtos for vea rl r e6 e lief, ard near 1,200 have been' acdemjiattneuda: in-patients. An increased number of poor married women have been attended at their own homes during their confinement (last year this cl ass was nearly 500). hSainvce establishment,peiatrsticipatedin its i b in 1839, ne:r 100,000 persons CONVOCATION OF TH E CONVO C en n LER GY .---A efits. the clergy took COn Of place yesterd a y i n S t. Paul's On vOCati Cathedral. The great doors at the w es t en d of the catht dral were thrown open soon after eleven o'clock, and the Bishops of Heref or d and Rochester, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, the advocates, proctors, and other officers of Doctor's Commons, a n d a num b er o, f the clergy, walked in procession up the centre aisle, preceded by the 'ver gers. The service was then read in Latin by the Bishop of Hereford, and a Latin sermon was preached by 1)r. Jelf, the Principal of King's College. Atter which the procession was again tormed, and the Convocation again quitted the cathedral. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.—Detachments of in 14th Regiment s t a ti one d i n Pl ymou th CitadFLi! re b 2 n daily instru c t e d by t h e officers of Artillery, in the use of the 32-pound e r s , mounted on theramp r ts ar o c aiftsloiaab tf o o u r t .. tress. Four additional powder-magazines to be constructed there, and more casement barracks I T n n D a ! L s ' HOP OF YORK.—We stand that the Queen wrote, with her own hand, u a n le d t e itea r r . E n3e o f condolence to Miss Harcourt , the daughter of th e l ate Archbishop o f this diocese, on the d em i se of that nte b d isP p h r ° elate. It is said by those who have been favoured with a sight of this interesting document, that its sentiment and expression reflect the highest credit upon the intellectual powers as well as the amiable sensibilities of her Majesty's disposition.—Doncaster Gazette, .lock, .?eded Mr. Rail orth- 1, for ellor rest- Ina' I med day the ;001. ein• was in' the )0 fts ief fe ns