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taioEs OF STOCKS .r. 41 ,Stoek :,'lnt. Red. '21 ( 71: 'Cons. 8 3 %M% r c ent. Red gO! 90 % per Cent. „,...91304% Ann. was I t 18 , x —ng Ann. to expire 1 61.4 5-16 ' 4l l 1859 ..... I6 5-16 IX, 5, 1860.. ........... 16% . 5, 1880 rilk las° ..... 5, 1870 LONDON, .RIDAy EVENING. NOVEMBER 16, 1832. We learn from Paris that a messenger arrived fhe on Wednesday from Berlin with despatches highly pacific character. The Journal des bats of that day also contains a letter from e rlin, in which it is stated in the most positive 'riner that the Prussian Cabinet is entirely in ched f or peace, and that the Prussian troops 1 c) are to oocupy Venloo, according to treaty, °tob e o n the peace footing. This is highly 'obable, for the King of PRUSSIA has nothing gain by war. He has a large army, it is true, it would not suffice at the same time for enstve operations, and the protection of his hertish provinces. TALLEYRAND was right , l en he said to Lord PALNIERSTON, " Les wires portent it la guerre ; nzais les esprits pour la paix." Neither Russia, Austria, 1 r Prussia, could make war with effect, for the `ople in each of those countries have no interest a war, and without the people even despots rmot carry on war successfully. Thus circum 4nced, we trust that the first display of energy anifested by our Ministers in foreign policy l'ee th e y came into office, will be productive of l "leficial results, not only as regards the Belgian i `uestion, but also as regards the cause of liberty Ir oughout Europe. Our readers will find, in another part of The numerous extracts from French Papers, contain much gossip and conjectural opi '44lB, but little or nothing of a definite, positive ri aracter. Among the letters found at Nantz, 'ld belonging to the Duchess of BERRY, were it appears, from the Prince Royal of RUSSIA, who has always been remarkable for hostility to the pacific policy of his father's German Papers state that no doubt is enter 'lined i n Berlin of a speedy and definitive ar ta n gement of the differences between Holland 111 d Belgium, and that the Protocols of the C abinet of Berlin, which have been approved of at the Hague, contain Holland's renunciation of the right to search all ships that enter the e heldt under the Belgian flag. The same a uthoriti es , in speaking of the progress of affairs tot) e!ng the East, mention that the SULTAN is now mir e u his chief attention to his navy, and has Ten proposed to take into his service twenty - English men-of-war, armed and manned ! s hould he fail in this strange project, it is his 'Mention t o apply to the French Government. eanwhile the Pacha of EGYPT, though nego 14tions are on foot between him and the Porte, 4h continually sending reinforcements to his army. Extract s from the above Papers will be found n another column. 1, The n eg otiation for a new loan for Don 12 , R0 has, it seems, been suspended, the old °Titractors claiming the right of pre-emption. 4 ‘B the circumstances in which Don PEDRO S OW finds himself are essentially different from t hose i which existed when he contracted the first °,an, we hope his agents will be able to nego tte a new one on terms more advantageous to th e R egency. Without blaming the old con ::aetors for getting the best terms they could hen the risk was so great, we may venture to tell them that unless they bid more liberally for the new loan they cannot expect to obtain it. If we are rightly informed, they have had some pretty pickings out of the first affair in the way of commission, contracts, &c., but like turnpike road returns, they will talk of losses in order to deter ethers from competition. Count FLAHAUT, who has been twice to this country on special missions from LOUIS PHILIP, accompanies the Duke of ORLEANS to the army, without command or diplomatic character, but at the particular invitation of the young Prince, who has a high respect for the Count, both as a Statesman and a General. Count FLAHAUT was one of BONAPARTE'S favourite Generals, but he received the greater part of his education in England, and married the Baroness KEITH, who has extensive estates in Scotland. Count ZAMOISKI, the nephew of Prince CZA R TOMSK', also accompanies the Duke of OR LEANS to the army. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at 'Rotterdam, dated the 13th inst.:— g' It is the general opinion of well-informed men, as well as my own, that the Dutch Government does not in tend to detain British vessels. _ " This morning the Magnificent from London, was reported at the Custom-house, and received permits to discharge as usual. " Permits to load are also granted, and I regret that the English vessels have left our port in ballast, from fear of being detained." We learn by the letters from various parts of Spain, that the monks and priests who were most determined in favour of the Apostolical party, were using every influence they possessed to incite the ignorant of the lower classes in the towns, and the peasantry, against the new order of things, and that the provinces were in a state of great ferment. The prudence and determi nation of the QUEEN REGENT, in removing the suspicious functionaries throughout the king dom, would, it was supposed, obviate all danger. We find by the latest accounts from Madrid ,hat the health of the KING continued to improve. Don F. A CANSERO had been named In tendant General of the Army. A Carmelite Monk named Father PERIZ MARTIN had been arrested on the 31st of October near Madrid, for preaching discourses inciting the peasants to revolt. He had been conducted to Madrid and thrown into prison, and would speedily be put on trial. The QUEEN appeared to be steadily and vigorously pursuing the renovation of the Government. The Spa nish Ambassador at Paris, the Count d'OFALIA, had issued a public notice, informing the emi grants who wish to avail themselves of the recent amnesty, how they might obtain passports and return to their country. We hear that the Spa nish Ambassador at our Court will shortly make a similar notification. We stated at the beginning of the month, that Mr. WEBB HALL had published in the Farmer's Magazine, what he is pleased to call " A Letter to Lord Milton on the Corn Laws." We were in hopes, from its tide, and by its commencing with a notice of the pamphlet lately published by the Noble Lord on the same subject, that Mr. HALL—counted one of the principal writing advocates of the restrictionists, because able to write good grammar—was about to attempt an answer to the arguments advanced by his Lordship for the abolition of our present short-sighted system. We admit that the hope was silly, for Lord MILTON dealt in facts which it was impossible to controvert, and which had the greater weight as coming from one who has so deep an interest in the preservation of the existing system ; that is, assuming, as the corn monopo- lists do, that it can be the interest of any one to appropriate to himself the goods of his neigh bours. By the way we do not think that suffi cient importance has hitherto been attached to the secessions from their own body which the landholders are continually doomed to witness. All must admit that men are partial judges in a cause in which they fancy their interest to be involved. The landlords imagine they have an interest in maintaining the corn laws, and must acknowledge that they are, therefore, partial judges of the rights of the rest of the commu nity. Let them reflect, then, how clear those rights must be, when some of the most en lightened and deeply interested members of their own body find themselves obliged to acknowledge them. There are many men, and, we thankGon,that England produces such, who, being producers of corn, admit that they have no right to oblige their fellow-citizens to purchase it of them ; but we fancy Mr. HALL may look about for a long time before finding half a dozen manufacturers who will support his side of the argument. One man, speaking against what he believes to be his own immediate interest, is more likely to speak the truth than a thousand tongues uttering the language of selfishness. How ill poor human nature is able to see the fallacy of reasoning, which flatters our own prejudices or interests, was never more forcibly exemplified than it has been in the course of the controversy on the corn laws. For instance, Mr. WEBB HALL thinks the Corn Laws, " in the circumstances in which we are placed, essential to the exten sive interest which is primarily involved—that they tend to provide the best and least fluctuating supply of corn for the nation at large, and pro vide employment for thousands who would otherwise be precluded from earning their honest maintenance, by that pursuit alone which is practicable to their long-formed habits." What a mass of errors are included in these few lines! In the first place the landlords are not primarily involved in the maintenance of the corn laws, except upon the same principle that the Arabs are primarily involved in the maintenance of robbery. The public is primarily con cerned in having all labour free, just as the nations upon whom the Arabs levy contribu tions are concerned in the reign of honesty and the protection of their industry. We hardly know what to understand by the phrase " best supply of corn," but if it mean, most abundant, to impose a high duty upon foreign corn with the view of excluding it, is certainly a curious mode of attaining that object. By " least fluc tuating" we understand just such a supply short of bringing on a starvation price, which the people will put up with. With respect to the last position we have quoted, it may be an swered in several ways. In the first place the corn laws do not provide employment for thousands who would otherwise be without any means of earning a subsistence. Agri cultural thousands are here meant, and we fearlessly assert that the corn laws have so operated as to throw thousands of agricultural labourers upon the poor-rates. Mr. HALL admits that our importation of foreign grain has amounted to a month's supply ; bu t he has omitted to state, that before the passing of the Corn Laws our importation did not amount to more than a week's supply, a fact which proves that those laws have been inoperative as far as the protection of the agricultural labourer is con cerned. To have attained that object, the duty ought to have been prohibitory, and all the argu ments advanced for a protecting duty are of equal intrinsic validity in favour of the total exclusion of foreign grain ; or, if anything, are stronger, because prohibition would more effec tually attain the proposed end. What a pity it is that certain other thousands, not agri cultural labourers, thought that they, too, had some small title to a chance of obtaining a livelihood by their labour. Mr. HALL has not fairly stated the claims of the two thirds of the population not engaged in agriculture, for he says, " The argument for the repeal of the corn laws rests upon the claim of the manufac turers to their being entitled to precedency." The argument of the nation, Mr. HALL, or of the manufacturers as you call all not agricultu ralists, rests upon no such claim. The argu ment of the manufacturers (if we may select one from hundreds equally unanswerable) is that all men have a right to give their labour to those who will pay them best for it. The argument of the corn monopolists is,that the manufacturer shall not sell his piece of cloth to a foreigner, who will give him enough bread to support a family of ten children, but shall be obliged to sell it, if at all, to another person, who will not give him enough in return to feed even himself. The ground upon which this argument rests is, that it would be bad for the manufacturers to ac custom themselves to a whole loaf, because they may some day be reduced to half allowance ; or, as Mr. HALL puts it, " under the most- fa voured supposition this is an investment of ca pital and industry (foreign trade) which is de pendent for its duration, and even existence, upon the enactments of other countries, liable t o all the derangements of their fashions and caprice." Good-natured man ! his only object is to prevent his silly manufacturing countrymen from investing their money in a trade which de- pends upon the caprice of others. What an admirer he must be of the French police regu lations, which forbid people bathing in rivers when the ice is in them, or attending a horse race when it rains. The French police of course calculates upon mankind being partial to death brought on by colds, just as Mr. HALL does upon merchants being fond of bankruptcy brought on by unprofitable commerce. Take his own words:—" When a foreign trade is carried on to diminish, and to more than mo derate a similar one at home, no real advantage ca❑ accrue." No doubt that ff a man changes a shilling for eightpence or sixpence, he loses, but men do not usually trade in that manner, and Mr. HALL may be assured that our mer chants can take care of themselves without his protecting aid. As we have already hinted, Mr. HALL takes special care to avoid grappling with Lord MIL TON'S arguments. Indeed, feeling the impos sibility of overturning them, he admits their correctness, but says they only embrace a partial view of the subject. What Mr. HALL may have to advance in the next number of the Farmer's Magazine, we know not, but in the present we find nothing but such oft-repeated common places as we have quoted, buried in rather more than a usual quantity of verbosity and mystification, any of which our respect for our readers' patience prevents us from extracting. It is remarked as a curious circumstance that M. JoLy, the Commissary of Police, who was the prin cipal agent in the arrest of the Duchess of BERRY, and who guarded her the whole time ehe remained at the Castle of Nantes, is the same who was on duty at the Opera house on the night when the Duke of BERRY was assas sinated.— Galignani's Messenger. S. HIBBERT, gamekeeper to J. W. COKE, Ecq. lately shot in Holkham.park that extremely rare bird the chattering roller. WHOLESALE REJECTION.—Four parishes objected to were disallowed by the revising barristers at Dow nend on account of their being improperly signed ! ! Bath Chronicle. MIDDLESEX ELECTION.—In the report o Mr. HumE's speech in yesterday's Chronicle (which was sent to us for insertion by an occasional reporter), there are two inaccuracies, which that gentleman wishes to have corrected. In the first place, Mr. ITuatE did not say he attended church regularly once, and mostly twice on the Sunday ; but he said he attended regularly once and sometimes twice. In the next, the sentence beginning, " They (the Ministry) owed more to him than to any other man," ought to have been, " they owed as much to him as to any other man in the House of Commons." Mr. Hymn also wishes that publicity might be given to a sentence which, in abridging the report, was omitted. It was, that he hoped to be able to continue his support to the present Ministry, and that he did not desire to see a severance between the Whigs and the Radicals, but that they should go hand in hand in carrying into effect the great objects of the Reform Bill. —.Morning Chronicle. The Lady's Magazine and Museum for the present month, in a memoir of Sir WALTER SCOTT, gives the following touching description of that great man's con duct under misfortune :—For a short' time prior to the stoppage of the house, Sir WALTER. had observed one or two circumstances to occasion suspicion and anxiety. He, however, kept them to himself, indulging in the hope that those circumstances were merely:the effect of the general " panic ;" and that, in a few days, all would again be well. On the 16th January, 1826, a confidential friend com municated to him the afflicting news. For some minutes Sit' WALTER, who was sitting in an arm-chair by the table in the library, continued resting his brow on time back of his hands, which were both placed upon the old oaken stick between his knees, without uttering a word. At length, gradually raising his head, he asked in a low, unshaken tone of voice, " Well, Sir, what is to be done?" His friend suggested several expediencies; and, at last, cautiously hinted that a bankruptcy would readily clear him of debts which he had no hand in contracting. Never ! Sir !" vehemently rejoined the author of Waverley." " God has bestowed on me both physical and intellectual strength ; and it shall never be said that I compromised a debt while (pointing to his forehead) 1 possessed the power to discharge it in full—Homo doctrines in se semper divitias habet." OF FOREIGN FUNDS 1 1 Bonds B9 Bonds Account. B Bonds 47%1' Account 47 Ayres Bonds 22 ACcount Bonds Account 16;4 fia n Bonds ...-.. to Account ,.,. L .O Bonds, 1524 to Account — 'h., Bonds 6B Lo Account — tßonds 22 to Bonds, 1825. to Account — tan Bonds, t... . Account 6 per cent. — bAccount....„ 27 utan S DAY AT ON O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock ... Ditto Bonds l4 13 pm. South Sea Stock 9 31 Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2l 25 pm. Ditto 500...... 20 25 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. I Ditto Advertised — mn. Bank for Account India for Account. Cons. for N0v............ ........ THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds lO4 Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds 4 3 ,/, Ditto Account. .......... . ....... Regency Scrip ...... 4 31; 3 dis. Ditto Account... 31 4 n dis. Prussian Bonds ............. lON Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1822 lOO Russian Bonds, 1822 98% Ditto Account 9B New Loan (13% Spanish Bonds, 1821 16%% ' Ditto Account 16 5 4% Ditto Bonds, 1823 15% Ditto Account l5 14% French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Exchange —f —c. -a per cent —f. —c. Exchange —f —c. Dutch Scrip 40% 1 Ditto Account... 41 40% 1% Frznch Scrip 2 pm. ?RICKS OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONI O'CLOCK._ Paid. 6 Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at Si. pm.) £lOO ' I I. O S Mining Company £l5O ~.I s n Imp. Min. Co. (i ss. at 5/. pm.) £2O .` , O National. 17% ..`'e St. John Del Rey .. 4 0 Cocaes 5 44 Iron Mining Company £5O ii. .kblan Mining Co. (iss. at 5L pm.) 48% n Mining Company 1234 `RI. Mining Association ll : 4 51 Monte Mining C 0...., — mMex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 New Snip. 2 Mee Fire Insurance Comp ... 10 .._' - ' O Gr Insurance Comp. „'Aiian Co 24 24 Company ..... 17 Z ll Steam Navigation Co. l3 .Tvial Bank of Ireland 25 PRICES OF IRISH STOC stock 199% ... 89 % 3 Der cent '.tock, 3% per cent % 1 pOew 9O Per Share. 8 160 484 17M cent. tieb. 3}6 percent.... 531.4 , 4 Canal Stock ..«.....Canal Stock ...... - Zeb. 4 per cent. n Office Deb. 4p. c. - Its: r ed. Due. America 0 Brazil Buenos Ayres 1 Carthagena 0 Dublin 0 Flanders 0 France 0 Guernsey &Jersey 0 "6 514 143 i 6 5 £1 5 0 3% 42% :KS, DUBLIN, NOV. 13. [St. Patrick Insur. (per Share) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto I Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine [ lmperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland [Commercial Buildings ,Arrived. Due. 0 Hamburg 0 1 Holland 0 Jamaica 0 0 Leeward Islands 2 Lisbon 0 Malta ... 0 0 0 Sweden 0 1 Waterford 0 NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 401 E... 47 minutes after 9. 1 Evening...2o minutes after 10. RAMADGE v. RYAN. IRE RULE for a NEW TRIAL in this , Cause has been DISCHARGED, or set aside, and 'RYAN is now solely responsible for the Damages— Hundred Pounds, with Costs, which must be paid three or four days. The Committee of the Profession k'lal to every class of their Brethren to aid in exonera '°l a fellow Member, who, in defending the Character of Faculty, has incurred this enormous expense, while liler Jury gave a Farthing Damages for the same offence. JOHN FOOTE, Jun., Secretary to the Committee. 4 bseriptions received by Messrs. Renshaw and Rush, iltishers of the " Medical and Surgical Journal," 356, Amount already received L ...£125. (. -- v-n *tut SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. ...- DEAL, Nov. 15.—Wind E.N.E. moderate.--The combined English and French squadron remains. The Netherlands brig, Diana, Captain Wente, from Berbice to Amsterdam, has been detained by his Majesty's ship Sa tellite, and is proceeding to Ramsgate. Captain W. and nine of his crew have been taken out of the vessel, and are on board his Majesty's ship Satellite, cruising off Dungeness. Arrived the Grecian, Smith, from Swan River--sailed June 27, and from the Mauritius, Aug. 6 ; the Perseverance, Shields, from Teneriffe. Sailed the Test, for the Cape of Good Hope ; and the Mexican, from 1 the Mauritius. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 15.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Spartiate and Revenge, for the Downs ; and the Hope, transport, for Plymouth. The Geesiener, Captain Cramer, from Dantzic to Guernsey, put •in here, and has been detained by the Roebuck cutter. Arrived the Isabella, Kurtz, from Philadelphia. FALMOUTH, Nov. 14.—Wind variable, light breezes. —Arrived his Majesty's ship Pike, from Lisbon—sailed 7th inst., and from Oporto, 10th ; his Majesty's ship Pantaloon, from do. sailed 9th inst. and from Oporto, 10th ; the Rapid, Rosenwall, for the coast of Troy. Sailed the Stanmer packet, for the Brazils. GREENOCK, Nov. 13.—Arrived the Calypso, Melville, from Demerara; the Galnere, George, from Newfound- land ; and the William, from Bordeaux. Duimix, Nov. 14.—Arrived the Lord Gambier,Gow land, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. _ DOVER, Nov. 15.—Arrived and put off the Hero, Thomson, from Bombay—sailed July 18, and from St. Helena Sept. 28. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 14.—Arrived the Ann, from Bahia ; William Salthouse, from the Mauritius, sailed the 9th of August; the Elizabeth, from Demerara; and tbe Berbice, from Berbice. Passed, inward-bound, the James and Thomas, from Maranham ; the Valiant, from Quebec ; and the William, from Philadelphia. Coax, Nov. 13.—Arrived the Criterian, Barnbam, from Bristol, leaky. The Alonzo, Headbury, from London, bound to Bor deaux, has put into Portsmouth, very leaky. The Herstelling, De Long, from Fredreekabam to Mid dleburg, has been detained and sent into Margate. The Wellington, Batty, from Lynn to Goole, and the Guardian, from Yarmouth to Gainsborough, struck on Whetton Sand, and capsized, the former on the 10th, and the latter on the 13th instant—crew saved. Upon an application being made at the Treasury, yes terday, by the parties interested in the Austrian ship, Re dentore, from Sinyrna to Amsterdam, detained and sent into Penzance, by one of his Majesty's cruisers, an order was immediately given for her release. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. The betting yesterday was confined to the outsiders, and was not to a heavy amount. ____ DERBY, 1833. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Glaucus 19 to 2 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge 13 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Prince Llewellyn 14 to 1 agst Captain Hunter's Forester (taken) 14 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Muley colt 17 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Moses's dam c. 25 to 1 agst Duke of Gra ton's Divan 25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Marinella colt 25 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ishmael 27 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Boscobel 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Y. Petnaria colt (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Gratwick's Sister to Frederick 1500 to 100 agst Boscobel and Y. Petnaria colt (taken) to 400 on Lord Exeter's four agst Lord Jersey's three (taken THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all kinds of Grain this week are moderate, and of Flour the return is short. The Wheat trade is rather dearer than on Monday, as there is so little new at market. Fine Barley also obtains rather more money. Beans and Pease are unaltered. Oats are firm at Monday's prices. Flour commands a free sale at last quotations. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. English 4,380 qrs. I '2.,780 qrs. Irish - - Foreign 4,100 - Oats. I Flour. 7: 34 4'20 In. 1 3_,750 sacks - - brls. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) IMPORTANT TO STOCK-BROKERS. -CLARK V. POWELL. This was an action, brought by the Chamberlain of the city of London, to recover a penalty of 1001. from the de fendant, for having exercised the business of a broker in the city, without being admitted and sworn in by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen. It was made into a special ease as to the construction of various Acts of Parliament respecting brokers, and to-day came on for argument. Mr. FOLLETT addressed the Court for the plaintiff, and hoped to show that a stock-broker, which the defendant we', was a broker within the meaning of the statutes, and according to former decisions. By Bth and 9th of Wm. 111., which was an Act to restrain the number and practice of brokers and stock-jobbers, it was provided that if any person in the City of London acted as a broker for mer chants in bargaining for contracts or bills of credit, or tickets payable by the Exchequer, or in Bank of England Stock, such person must be licensed by the City of London ; and any person so acting without such license must forfeit 500/, That Act was re-enacted by the 10th of Anne, ch. 19. Then came the let of Geo. 1., ch. 18, which created public stock, and imposed a penalty on per sans acting as stock-jobbers, without being admitted by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. The 7th of George 111., chap. 8, which was an Act to restrain the infamous prac tice of stock-jobbing, imposed a penalty on persons deal ing in stock when they were not possessed of any. After the latter Act bad passed, a case was tried in this Court, in which it was held that a person acting as a stock-bro ker was bound to be licensed by the Lord Mayor and Al dermen, and that a stock-broker was a broker within the meaning of the several Acts. Upon those authorities the Learned Counsel submitted that judgment should be en tered for the plaintiff. Mr. CAMPBELL, for the defendant, said, as the statutes were of a penal nature, the Court was bound to construe them strictly, and in doing so he would contend that a stock-broker was not a broker, contemplated by them. The case was of great importance in the City, as, although some stock-brokers were admitted, a great many were not. The 7th of George H. referred to persons acting as brokers in being employed by other. in the sale and purchase of stock and other securities. The public were by that Act sufficiently protected against fraud without the necessity of swelling the City purse by such actions as this. That Act was originally chiefly drawn in order to repeal the Ist of James 1., but in its progress through the House of Commons a petition was presented by Mr. W. Stewart, who held an office (Gauger of Spices) which was to be destroyed by it for compensation, and then the Act was extended to allow him 9671., and to impose a tax upon brokers on their admission of 405., and a further yearly payment of 40s. Neither by the statute of Anne, nor of the 57th Geo. 111., was the business of a broker defined. The 57th Geo. 111. took away the office of guager of spices, and, as in the former case upon petition, a further duty of N. upon the admission of brokers, and 13/. a year was levied ; and the penalty for persons acting as brokers without license was made 100/. Now, as none of the Acts subsequent to thatof Anne defined the word " bro ker," it was necessary to see who were then usually known as such. The Court could not take the word in its popular or vulgar acceptation ; for dealers in old furniture were called "brokers," and Shakapeare had called a pimp a " broker." It must mean a person employed as a middle man by the buyer and seller. This defendant was em ployed by one Johnson to buy 50/. stock for him ; but it was proved that he was employed by the seller. It had been decided that a ship-broker was not within the mean ing of the Act, nor was an insurance-broker, although he was employed by buyer and seller to contract for a com modity called " indemnity." An attorney was not a broker, although he was employed to negotiate annuities and transfers of annuities. The CouxT ordered the special case to be amended, and afterwards to be brought again under its notice. IN RE BATTY. Mr. Fouzzr applied for a rule to prohibit an order of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors' Court being acted upon. The case was this :—Dr. Batty, who was many years ago King's Advocate, was a few days sim e discharged by the Insolvent Debtors' Court, whose Com• missioners ordered 180/. a year to be paid out of his pension for the benefit of his creditors, which order had been lodged at the Admiralty, where the pension was p►yable. Mr. Follett submitted that, under the circumstances of the case, the Court had no power to make such an order. Dr. Batty was dismissed from his situation in 1819 without a pension ; but, on petitioning his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, a pension was granted him out of the Ad. miralty Fund. The In , olvent Debtors' Court had power over half-pny officers of the army and navy, and over pensions for services performed ; hut this pension being granted as a mere matter of grace and favour by the Prince Regent, that Court, Mr. Follett submitted, had no power over it at all. Mr. Justice TAUNTON—Did the petition to the Prince Regent pray for a pension for past services ? ' Mr. FOLLETT admitted it did, but the grant said nothing of past services ; it was a mere act of grace, and the con tinuance of the pension was solely iu the discretion of his Majesty. The COURT granted a Rule Nisi for a prohibition to prevent the order being complied with, and directed the Rule to be served on the assignees. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER.-(THIS DAY. CREW AND OTHERS V. BRANT. This action was brought to recover damages for the di. lapidation done to a house while in the tenantey of the defendant. Mr. GODSON stated the case. He said the defendant in 1828 took the house 24, Ecclestone-buildings, Pimlico, from the plaintiffs for a term of three years. He, being a water-gilder, carried on his business in the premises, by which they were much damaged. The paint and parer, when he left, was very much dirtied, as also the floors ; the roof admitted water, and altogether the house was in such a state that no tenant could be got to inhabit it before it was repaired. The plaintiffs had called upon the defendant to do so, or pay them 101. which bad been agreed upon, but afterwards be declined, and would do nothing. The plaintiffs therefore sent in men, and the house was repaired at an expense of 251., which they now sought to recover. The Learned Gentleman called witnesses, who proved that when the defendant left the premises in question, the roof leaked, the paint and paper were totally spoiled, and from neglect of the cesspool the kitchen required a ❑ew floor. Also, the tradesmen who had done the work, who corroborated the other witnesses. Mr. EARLE, for the defendant, submitted to the Learned Baron that the plaintiff had not made out a case which ought to go to the Jury. His Loausinr was of opinion that though the plaintiff had not made so clear a case as he might, still he was en titled to some damages upon what he had proved. The Learned Gentleman then addressed the Jury, and contended that in law the defendant was not liable, as it had been laid down by no less an authority than Chief Justice Gibbs, that a tenant at will, or one holding only for a short term of three years, was not liable for dilapida tians occasioned by the lapse of time ; besides, he would prove that the defendant, when ofte❑ applied to by the plaintiffs, actually sent in a man who put the house in repair. The Learned Counsel called this witness, who deposed that be at one time, by the orders of Mr. Brant, went and put on some tiles on the house in question, but could not by any possibility remember at what time, or even in what year it was. The Learned Baron then summed up, and the Jury im mediately returned a verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages 10/. THE UNIVERSITY.—We never performed a duty with greater pleasure than that which calls upon us to give insertion to the f Mowing paragraph. The an nouncement will be received with pleasure and satisfaction by every Protestant in Ireland :—" We have authority to state that Mr. GORDON, in compliance with a commu nication addressed to him by his arbitrators, has consented to relinquish his intentions of standing for the representa tion of the College..—Dublin Evening Mail. TITHES ! ! THE REV.MARTIN DOYLE IN GAOL ! ! !--A great sensation was excited in this city on Monday evening by witnessing the patriotic and spirited parish Priest of Graig guarded in as a prisoner by a troop of dragoons, and lodged in the county gaol, under an at tachment for 3/. 10s. Id., for tithe alleged to be due of him for 1831. He remained in gaol that night, and yesterday was waited on by two or three gentlemen who, on the part of the citizens, said the sum would be at once raised by a halfpenny subscription, to mark the intensity of public feeling. This Mr. DOYLE would not allow of, as he could stop the amount of his tithe out of the rent of Mr. R. DEVINE, his landlord, whose debts he could not consent to have paid by the people of Kilkenny. Mr. DOYLE was liberated yesterday evening ; and returned to his parish, after affording the curious spectacle of the teacher of one religion being incarcerated, for declaring against the injustice of being forced to support another, in the tenets of which he did not believe.—Kilkenny.fournal. SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply of Beasts and Milch Cows was rather nume rous, but chiefly of inferior quality ' • of Sheep, Galves, and Porkers, but limited. The trade with each kind of prime meat was somewhat brisk, at an advance of about '2d. per stone ' • with inferior kinds very dull, at Monday's prices. Good Mulch Cows were in increased demand, at improved prices, an useful short horns, with her small calf, producing from 201. to 22/. each. PRICES PER STONE OF IGLUS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d, IO S. d. s. d. ton. d. Inferior Beasts 2 0 0 0 Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 second quality ditto 2 2 2 6 s Prime small ditto... 0 0 0 0 Prime largo Oxen... 3 2 3 8:, Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 4 Prime Scots, 5ec..... 310 4 2 Prime small ditto 4 2 4 8 Inferior Sheep 2 0 2 4 Large Hogs Second quality ditto 2 8 3 4 Small Porkers 4lO 5 4 Coarse-woolledditto 3 8 4 0 Suckling Calves 12s. to32s. each. S,uthdownWethers 4 2 410 Quarter old Pigs 1 2s. to 18s. each. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 434 3,310 199 190 NEWGATE AND LEADENH ALL MARKETS. At per stone. by the Carcass. 5. d. to s. d. s. d.tos. d. Beef, inferior - middling 2 2 2 4 -- middling.. 2 6 210 - prime large 2 4 2 f prime 3 4 3 - prime small... 210 3 0 Pork,large. 3 8 4 0 Veal 3 0 4 4 -small 4 2 5 0 CHOLERA NIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY:) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. New Cases. Deaths. Recoveries. England and Wales 3O 21 20 Scotland l5 • 5 7 45 26 27 (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL YE 0' CLOCK. Great expectations were anticipated the whole of yes terday morning, that, on the arrival of the Dutch steamer, we should have received some important information from Holland: in this the public have been greatly disappointed. From our prior information in the early part of the morn ing, by an express through Antwerp, from Amsterdam, of the Dutch Funds having receded 1 per cent., we were enabled to anticipate the information which the steamer conveyed. Accounts from Antwerp state that the emigration con tinues from that city, and that not more than 4,000 per sons remain there—it is almost deserted. The head•quarters of the French Princes, and the Marshal who commands the French army, are to be esta blished at Walbeirn. A Lisbon Mail has arrived this morning—sailed the 9th of November. The inform ition it conveys is already pub lished in the Morning Journals. We hear that the general opinion at the west end of the town is that General Chasse will evacuate Antwerp ; previous to which he will blow up the citadel, that it shall not in future be of any service to the Belgians. The Austrian vessel, captured coming from Smyrna, and sent into Penzance, we learn, was, on application:yes terday afternoon to the Treasury, immediately released. The estafette from Paris this morning does not bring any news of importance, The French Funds rather lower, 67f. 35c. We have also information from Oporto of the 10th inst., by which it appears that the 11liguelites have erected bat teries on the south side of the river, and were bombarding Oporto. Consols opened as they left off yesterday, 831 for the Account, with nothing doing. HALF-PAST ONE. The private letters from Holland have been delivered this morning, and we have been favoured with the perusal of several. They all agree in stating that the Dutch conti nue to he of the same obstinate disposition, and are deter mined to resist, for which they are making every defensive preparation to meet the combined attacks, but in all pro bability, on the arrival of the French army before Antwerp, their obstinate spirit will slacken when they are certain of the pending danger that will await them. Another rich Dutch vessel has been captured coming from Berbice, laden with coffee, bound to Holland. Consols have been done at S3l for the Account : at present they are 834. Portuguese Scrip has improved 1 per cent. and done at 3 Per cent. discount, owing to some favourable information from Oporto. A sortie was to be made on the 10th or llth instant, and it is supposed it has been successful. T IIREE O'CLOCK Consols for Account, 83. CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for A ccoun t 831 / 8 Greek ...............2712 Brazili an B on d s 4 7 1 Mexican •• • 2 71 Buenos Ayres... 4 Peruvian .••,•... Chilian Ditto.... Russian..• •.• . — C)lumbian 1824 Spanisb .• • A bird fancier in this city has two canaries which were hatched on the let of the present month. They are likely to be fine healthy birds.—Hereford Times. LITERATURE. GERALDINE HAMIL . TON, A NOVEL. TWO VOLS. rosr tiro. R. BENTLEY.. We have been much struck by the rare beauty and tenderness of this story, which, we think can hardly fail to find its way to the hearts of readers in general, more especially to those of the softer sex, to whom the interest particularly addresses itself. The subject consists chiefly of the progress through life, of a young lady under circumstances of no ordinary trial, and even temptation, all of which are rendered more per plexing by the harshness of a brutal father. There are few things, we think, in what may be called the romance of pathos, more touching than the various scenes wherein the heroine's mind, at once firm and gentle, is put to severe tests; and it is impossible to peruse such details without entertaining a high respect for the talents and the heart of the authoress. Whether we contemplate Geraldine in her happy infancy, or in her melancholy seclusion in Ire land, or as a disguised fugitive in Portugal, or as a humble dependant bowed down by sorrow, and forced to assume a feigned name, or, in short, in any of the trying situations of her event ful life, she is uniformly an example for her sex, winning at once our sympathy and regard. The episode of the idiot-heiress has all the appear ance of being a fact pressed into the service of fiction. " Geraldine Hamilton " may boast a lofty origin. When our patrician authoresses write thus, they do a service to letters and to pure morals. Sunday night Vice-Admiral the Count DE RossE MESROS, one of the oldest and most distinguished officers of the French navy, died suddenly of an attack of apoplexy, in the 85th year of his age. He entered the service at the age of 15, and was constantly in active em 4 ployment.—French Paper. The celebrated ANTONIO ScARPA, who be came Professor of Anatomy at the age of 22, and to whom that science is greatly indebted, died at Pavia on the 81st ult., of a disease of the bladder, notwithstanding he re ceived the most anxious care and assistance from his flume rous medical friends, many of whom were formerly bia pupils. He has attained his 85th year. WILLIAM the Third having one day asked the CZAR PETER the Great, when in this country, how he liked his hospital for decayed seamen (Greenwich), the Czar answered, " If I were the adviser of your MA JESTY, I should counsel you to remove your Court to Greenwich, and convert St. James's into an hospital." _ _ _ Yesterday the Lusitania sailed from the Broomielaw, having on hoard 172 men for Oporto, to j.dn the forces under Don PEDRO. In the course of th! present week another vessel, the Rival, will sail from the. Broomielaw, having on board 472 men, destined for the same port and service.— Glasyow Chronicle of Monday-.. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.—" We wit nessed a few evenings since at a private rehearsal, the per formance of Miss TUCKER (the young lady who made so successful a debut at Kean's Theatre some titne back, as Helen 111' Gregor) in the character of Lady Macbeth, With a fine conception of nature, Miss TUCKER unites many advantage of art,—a knowledge of stage propriety and effect, which she displays with that natural ease that shows it to be the result of genius, rather then of study. Liss TUCKER is ayoung lady of considerable personal attrac tions, and possesses a voice of peculiar meloJy, with a most judicious emphasis." EXTRAORDINARY NERVE.--A shopkeeper in Edinburgh had in his cellar a barrel of gunpowder ; in the same vault he bad some mral, &c. His sister went, one night last week, to get some of the latter article, and, not knowing which barrel it was in, opened the gunpowder first, and did not re-cover it. She presently alter re-as cended. " 'Where is the candle?" said the brother. "I have left it sticking up in that black sand," was the reply. He instantly descended, and, putting his bands together like a funnel, he placed them round the candle, and thus extracted it from the barrel of gunpowder ! 'When he came up stairs he fainted. DEATH.—On the 2d instant, at Mansfield, aged 41, Mr. JAMES BOADMAN, a dwarf about three feet in height, who travelled in a caravan, as a spectacle for the curious, and was exhibited at Mansfield statutes. On the Saturday, the body was very respectably interred in the church-yard, by the proprietor of the caravan, and his place on the earth would have soon been forgotten, had not the sexton discovered, on Wednesday, that the grave in which they had laid him had been disturbed. An investigation took place, and the coffin was found empty, except containing the shirt in which he had been buried. —Derby Reporter. The great importance of steam vessels to ship ping in the port of London was perhaps never more strik ingly exemplified than in the case of the Severn, a large East Indiaman, on her way up the river to the St. Katha rine's Dock, on Saturday last. When near her journey's end, she let go her anchor, which from the softness of the bottom could not hold her, and she ran aground. A steam-boat belonging to the Irish Steam Navigation Com pany went to her a sistance, and drew off by main force tt,is fine ship, which otherwise must have been lost, as the tide had just turned. In all probability, from 8,0001. to 10,0001. was saved by steam in this single invance—and there have been many of a similar kind. _ _ _ The independent electors of Drogheda have nominated a candidate pledged to support Repeal, and we believe the example they have shown will be considered deserving of general imitatias throughout Ireland.—Dub lin Morning Register. EXPENSE OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY.—The expense of supporting the Russian navy scarcely ever ex ceeds 25 millions of rubles. The pay of the officers is so extremely low that the Government make them a hand some allowance in the shape of table-n:oney. The pay of the sailor is about half-a-crown a month, and their rations are on a most economical scale; when afloat, they receive daily a pound and a half of biscuit and a glass of brandy. They reeeiof b receive fuutrttehre,r,3o poundsnce am o o month, p tb e , a l s poundsl2pound s of s a o l i t . o x a e t f : 5 pounds me il, and 1 pounds of salt, and their ordinary beverage is a fermented liquor called quass.—.Nautical Magazine. SAGACITY OF A PONY.—On Saturday se'nnight Mr. JONATHAN GAIN, of Lumpsfartn, in this island, sold a pony of the Shetland breed, which he had had in his possession about seven years, to Mr. WILLIAM PAnwlcx, of Hayling Island, who immediately took him home. On Mr. GAIN going out of his house on Wed nesday morning he found the pony at his gate, having made his escape from his new toaster, swam across Ilayling har bour, and returned without leave or license to his old quar ters. The animal whilst crossing the harbour was seen by the Preventive men, who, mistaking his cranium for a cask of spirits, immediately made after him, when to their as tonishment the supposed cask on a sudden landed on the opposite shore, and galloped off without further molesta tion.—Portsmouth Paper. LIMERICK (CITY) ELECTION.--The people are alive and patriotic in old Limerick. Too much credit cannot be given to the Political Union of LACYvpI ewith ,av these they t e plea sure that city for the bold and nat i o nal p ar t it has taken. With corporate thraldom, they have flung off SPRING le toelaim not citizenship shi v and, in his place, have determined on returni ng 'F ii oa it a no A a s be Moo could o l —the newE A N s representation . A better e not selection will patriotichu man con fer on Colonel people; but as an Irishman, we exult in the glorious pro ject they have in hand. And our admiration is not diminished by the knowledge of the intention of the citi zens of Limerick to give MooRE, as a colleague, Colonel Dc LACY EvANs —as brave a soldier as ever drew sword, avowed and as sta unc h to t h e popu l ar i n t e rest in Parliament as he was to hi s c o l ours in the field. What heightens pleasure dRe friends g i i , st . 1 i a . th o SUDDENEATII.—Yesterday evening an in. D t t boththe repeale e s a e l objectsofu n o o n p . t_i I r r p Morning choice are our quest was held at the Yorkshire Stin g o, on the body of RGESr Gloucester-place, a Proctor of D oc t ors ' C ommons. residedHe ter-place, and was taken very ill on Tuesday evening, after returning from the house of Mr. ADAMS, of York-place, with whom he had been dining. Ir a went to bed, and his housemaid ran for a doctor, and on her return found her master had expired.— Mr. Cox, of Montagu-square, surgeon, said that he bad known at. deceased for several years, and he had suffered froin emu.. I paints in the head. Water on the brain was the caost , of his death. Verdict--Died by the visitation of Gud.