The Sun. — London, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

► LIE WEATHER.—SuII OFFICE, Nov. 23. THERM lIIETER, Lowest, 42; Highest. 51 ; Noon, 44. IlutoisirrErt, 29.67.—Wnin W.S.W.; rain. To be had of all Booksellers. MR. COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. I. BITRKE'R PEERAGE and BARONETAGE for 1847, corrected hroughout by the Nobility. 1 Vol., 1,500 Engravings. 38S. BURKE'S HISTORY of the LANDED GENTRY of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND. 2 Vols. 21. 10s. ILL Tol. XI. of LIVES of the QtrEEN3 of ENGLAND. By AGNES STRICKLAND. YU, *IR GEORGE SIMPSON'S OVERLAND JOURNAL ROUND the WORLD. 2 Vols., with Map, &c. 311. 6d. LORD CASTIIICREAGn'S JOURNEY to DAMASCUS. 2 vols., with numerous Illustrations. 245. HORACE WALPOLE'S MEMOIRS of the REIGN of GEORGE 'II. Second Xilition, revised in 3 Vols. 8 , r0., with Portraits. 365. VII. HOCIIELEGA ; or, England In the New World. Edited by ELIOT WARBURTON, Esq. Third Edition. 2 Vols., 21s. VIII. M. TITTERS' lIISTORY of the CONSULATE and EMPI—E. Trans'ated by D. 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Pile:: 16s. bound. _ *** To prevent disappointment, in the early delivery of the work ordere should be immediately forwarded to the various Booksellers., 8, New Burlington-street, Nov- 23. THEATRE ROYAL, HAI MARKET. Under the Management at Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be produced a new and original Comedy, called F.% MILY PRIDE. Mr. Chapman, Mr. Tilbury ; Doctor Dodge, Mr. Farrell ; Arthur Courtnay, Mr. Henry Farren ; Captain Shangenah, Mr. Hud son; Blandish, Mr. Brind ; Mrs. Willoughby Courtnay, Mrs. W. Clifford; Sophia Chapman, Mrs. Nisbett ; Letitia Bradley, Miss Reynolds ; Grace, Mrs. Llumby. After which, an entirely new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, H. Vanden- Koff ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a new and original Farce, called WHO'S MY HUSBAND ? Doctor Mull, Mr. Tilbury; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L. 8. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. Plumby. Stage Manager, Mr. Fanen ; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 31. ; Gallery, 2s. ; tipper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new and original Drama, called GABRIELLI ; or, the Beqaeathed Heart. Fitzgerald O'Carrol, Mr. Boyce ; Major Dunmore, Mr. Worrell; Marques di Mincio, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Bal thazar Yaldarno, Mr. 0. Smith ; Bob Bit, Mr. Wright ; Gabrielli, Maclaine Celeste ; Signora D'Ossuna, Miss Bro,lis. After which, a New Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD (the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha racters by Messrs. Wright, Callenford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed ford, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. To be followed by the original farce, called HOW TO SETTLE 4.CCOUS TS WITH YOUR. LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts, air. Wright; Jack Brown, Mr. Manyard; Squibb, Mr. Redmond ktyan ; Mary Wbite, Miss Woolgar ; _Mlle. Cherry Bounce, Miss knirna Harding. To conclude with. th, Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Miss Cheolin will perform. Boxes, 43.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Tnors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Yestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. TILL; EVENING, Will be performed PATTER versus CLATTER. To be followed by the Com:c Drains, entitled THE PRIDE OF THE MARKET. Principal characters by 3lessrs. Buck.stone, Leigh Murray, Granby, and Parselle ; Miss 11. Gilbert, Mrs. C. Jones, and Madame tiestris. After which a new Conic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac lamara. _ . . . . The Int , lior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. _ Dress Boxes, 55. ; Lipper Boxes, is. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No hall-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington•street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten to six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Engagement a Mr. MACREADY and MISS CUSHMAN, THIS EVENING Will be performed the Opera of GUY MANNERING. Colonel Mannering, Mr. Conway ; Henry Bertram, Mr. Barker ; Dominic Sampson, Mr. Compton ; Dandie Dinmont, Mr. Neville ; Lucy Ber tram. Miss Ann Renter ; Meg Merrilies, Miss Cushman. After which the Farce entitled A TRIP TO HAMPTON. Principal characters by Messrs. S. Cowell, Neville, Howald, Harris, Mrs. idelby, and Miss Villars. Dress Circle, as.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, Yo. t, D:Lvidge-terrace,Kensidgtou-road, Surrey. Last Week of the Opera Company. TNIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera o: TIIE BOHEMIAN GIRL. n which Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Eorrani, 3liss 11. Isaacs, and Miss Romer will appear. To be followed by a new Divertissement called UNE KEIt3IES. To conclude with a new and original Drama, entitled THE TRA YELLER'S ROOM. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Vining, IL Hughes, T. Fredericks, Lewis, Oxberry, and Mrs. W. West. A distlict entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-Wed). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the trincipal Librarians ; and at the Box, tfize of the Theatre, which is spell daily front Ten until Four. Boxes, 23. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, CO. OTLEY'S ROYAL A.SigilluilEA.TitE, Mr. Batty's perferming Elephants. ifils EVENING The Grand Srectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented .Arthtes of the L..statillahment, in the various modes of equestration. To conclude with the Ballet called LOVE and FOLLY. Box-office open from 11 till 5 Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. MEETING oF PA RL lAMEN]' THE THIRD EDITIONS OF " THE SUN" WILL CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. *,,* Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun-office, 112, Strand. I.IIOH WATER AT LONDON-BRUME TIUS DAY. Morning.. 59 minutes after 1. Evening .. 20 minutes Alter 2, trieultilff ..7-11111"0 LONDON, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1847. After the Speech from the Throne has been de livered Parliament will have to bestir itself imme diately to comply in some measure with its more important recommendations. Of these recommenda tions none are assuredly more entitled to the atten tion of the Legislature than those made in reference to the monetary distresses of the United Kingdom, and to the deplorable state of want and insubordi nation in which the Irish peasantry are still involved. Temporary measures of alleviation cannot by pos sibility dissipate either of these enormous evils. The agrarian assassins of the sister country will not, for example, be deprived of the temptation to shoot or bludgeon any obnoxious proprietor by the an nouncement of a coercive enactment. Confidence, again, will not be restored to the money market by mere half-and-half concession from the Chancellor ef the Exchequer. Sir lIARL ES WOOD cannot vihisper away so C conveniently the anxieties of our capitali s t s . sir WILLIA M SOMERVIL LE cannot by a few intermittent th r eats and obstructions prevent the recurrence oferi: baneoder the conti nuance o f pr i vat i on in Ireland. Red-handed murder must still wield its devilish scept re over bed rn fruitful pastures of Tippe rary, unless the Executive grapple boldly, in stantaneously, and determinedly with the difficulties n each other th e which have so long m ars h a l led against landlord and tenant interests. i cr ipple the enterprize of our manufactaunriee must still rs,unless the blunders of the present system of currency be effec tually rectified. So engrossing are the two matters of legislation to which we have re ferred, that we can not just now rea sonably anticipate:anything cf a decisive character from the Government in relation to sanitary and educational improvements. We cannot at least anticipate any _ thing of the kind before the adjournment for the vacation of Christmas. The mortality o f the empire must continue to increase, and that not only proportionately with the increase of the population. Ignorance must still remain pre dominant over the intellect of the children of the labouring classes, excepting in those instances where private munificence has erected a haven of refuge for the offspring of the impoverished in the shape of • IP 4.1 ~, • ' , i ~'''' :', i , • 4 - 'it,-,,,"•' 5 d ."--, 7 -_,.."1,;;;;;.'' '' . 4 ,,,,.., . i ,t,..; 14,4 .rAVY , \ Ili"' ^-"' '6) 7 '( ~ 1 , 11,A111 ~ 4 ' . t.t , 401.....":. 1- ' - ''' , J , • , e' 4 . *, --►. -it" -gr.. • ......- ...: .p. , - ...., 4.... n ,. . - , ...,, '. Pit u ...:, ,tir.A., - .. , " „:',. ~,,. • .. ::::',. , ! vat,— l~ fi ~7 L~ lr ~ Ragged Schools or Industrizil Institutions. As yet the Sanitary Commissioners must continue compara tively inactive ; and the Education Committee prove comparatively a sinecure. These extraordinary mea sures of reform are however only in abeyance. The Administration is pledged to their introduction. The Prime Minister has more than once promised their realisation to the citizens of London from the hust ings of Guildhall. Upon the passing of Bills for in suring to the community the blessings of cleanliness, knowledge, and security in mercantile transactions, the very existence of the Government is dependent. The Cabinet crumbles to pieces with the act of failure in any one of these particulars. Eng land possesses, indeed, the most superb guerdon which could be tendered to its Reformers— Power. It retains a security, for the fulfilment of their engagements, better (than hostages — the capacity to select its rulers. This double defence against maladministration arises from the omnipo tence of public opinion in Great Britain. It enables the people to fashion their statesmen to their own advantage, to incite the tardy, to restrain the over zealous, and to confine within the:limits of reason and prudence those who would outstrip the age by the diffusion of the precocious liberty resulting from pre mature innovations. Solicitous as we are to obtain the benefits of the different reforms we have enumerated—together with others of a more comprehensive character—we are yet sufficiently impressed with the peril of precipi tation in everything relating to the Government of a great empire, that we are willing to acknowledge the advisability of procrastinating yet awhile the settlement of the legislative problems of sanitary and educational improvement. Not that we do not conceive them to be of supreme and imminent con sequence to the multitude. GOD knows that the existence and morality of the people are fearfully jeopardized, as things are at present situated ; and that disease and iniquity are flourishing in awful exuberance where the most simple pre cautionary movement would lead inevitably to their eradication. Yet, satisfied that such is unquestion ably the case, we are yet prepared to reiterate our assertion that further delays are for certain reasons justifiable. Those reasons are the alarming condi tion of the money market and of Ireland. Occur ring as these miseries do, moreover, amidst all the depressing influences of winter it becomes doubly in cumbent upon the Legislature to contrive some speedy and efficacious means of alleviation. Both these causes of affliction and embarrassment have been grow ing to their present vastness and virulence during a very protracted period; both, therefore, demand the most serious investigation, the most patient deliberation, the most active interference of the State, and the most cordial co-operation among all classes of politicians The question of the Currency is not a Whig question, or a Tory question, or a Free Trade question, or a Protectionist question, or a Conservative question, or a Radical question. Or, if it can be designated as any one of these, it can only be termed such a free trade question as is comprehensive even to the Protectionist mind of ARCHIBALD ALlSON—involving a free trade in gold, such as is alone compa•.ible with a free trade in articles of con sumption. Both Ireland and the Currency are sub jects exclusively of so much national consideration as to render the predilections of party, matters of subordi nate moment. Let these reflections carry their due weight in the judgments of the Legislators, and Eng land will be speedily extricated from its sorrows and involvements. The Bank of England have at length made a move ment. Notice was yesterday given that the minimum rate of interest would be 7 per cent. until further notice. Even this reduction, trifling as it is, will ope rate as a very considerable boon to the mercantile and manufacturing interests, if the Bank should be dis posed to act liberally, and to discount freely at that rate, there cannot now be any necessity for that undue stringency which has hitherto been manifested. The tide of bullion has been steadily flowing inwards, it appearing from the returns to the 13th instant, pub lished in The Sun of Saturday, that the bullion on that day amounted to no less than 9,258,520/. ; and, as considerable amounts have since been received from various quarters, we may venture to assert that there cannot be less than 10,000,0001. sterling in specie now in its coffers. Concurrently with this addition 'to its resources, we find a considerable indicate the degree of accommodation afforded to the commercial interests, a decrease under that head having taken place within the week of no less than 359,447/, following a still greater reduction of 489,0001., which had taken place during the preceding week. There is thus, within a fortnight, a falling off of no less than 848,4471., and that at a period of the year when the tendency, generally speaking, is the other way, and also after the recommendation contained in the memo rable letter of the Premier and the 'Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the 25th of October last, " that they should advance liberally, in order to the restoration of public confidence, and the promise that, in the event of any violation of the law being thereby occasioned, the Government would bring in an Act for the purpose of indemnifying the directors therefrom. If such a violation of the law has not already taken place, there is now little prospect thereof; although the Bank should reduce their terms to the ordinary rate. 'We believe that it will appear, from the several returns that have been made since that period, that the limit assigned by the Act of 1844 has never been transgressed, and that there will be no necessity for any applica tion to the Legislature for an indemnity to the directors. If this be so, there could be no reason whatsoever that so exorbitant a rate of interest, one so injurious, we may say destructive, to our trade, commerce, and manufactures, should still be maintained. If the directors felt themselves autho• rised to abandon the 8 per cent. fixed by the Minis terial missive, they were surely equally competent to name a rate more suited to the requirements of the country, one which would not operate as a bar to production, but would enable the mill• owners again to give employment to the operatives, and to execute the numerous foreign orders that have hitherto been suspended from want of the usual facilities. The reduction has either been sanctioned by the Government, or been adopted by the directors on their own responsibility, from feeling that they are again in a condition to act according to their own discretion, and without being fettered by the restric tion on the rate of interest. We have already shown that in such a case the reduction should be to 5 or 6 per cent., at the outside; indeed either rate would be much higher than could permanently be retained, or than has usually been demanded, when the affairs of the Bank presented so favourable an appearance as they do at the present moment. Neither would the change have been made on the very day preceding the Quzzres Speech to Parliament. The directors would naturally have waited until the nature of the recommendations contained therein, together with the: feeling of the different parties in the House were known. They, at least, had an apology for the course they had adopted and for a persistence therein, until the Legislature bad been consulted ; more particu larly as such changes in the rate of interest are not usually announced on Mondays, and they might very properly have waited until the Thursday before making any alteration. It is, therefore, most pro bable that it was in pursuance of some expressed wish on the part of the Government that the reduction has been made. We trust that no arguments may be grounded on this fact in favour of the sufficiency of the present system, or in opposition to an imme diate revision of our monetary code ; that it may not be significant of the determination of the Govern ment still to support the fatal system that has ocea rioned suc h distress and destitution throughout all parts of the country. Colonel RILLIET, the commander of the garrison of Priburg, has declared that city in a state of siege in consequence of the murder of two of the Federalist sentinels during the night the Fede ra li st soldiers of the 16 t h . Several of have been assassinated. Two of the fanatics engaged in these abom,inabl e assassc nations were s e i ze d on the 16th and - tried by a martial, and shot th e next day. The Federal ourt i- Com missioners have arrived, and, havin g its„mbl e d the people, called upon them to el ec t a new Government The following are the names of the m em b ers elected, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN! NG, NOTEMBER 23 3 1847. MM. PILLET, ROBARDEY, KAISER, BEOGL, Colonel VITRI, and two refugees from Berne, MM. JULIEN SCHALLER and CHATTONNAY. There is no intelligence from Lucerne. Mr. CHARLES VOELKER, one of the Members of the canton of St. Gall, has addressed a letter to the papers defending the Federalists from the calumniese that have been heaped upon them by the French and Austrian Ministerialists. He says : "Without the promise of aid and assistance from foreign powers, such as Austria and France, the Sonderbund would scarce have ventured upon their hazardous undertaking. And if we now ask what is the chief end and aim of the Conservative leaders, I answer (and of this all the Liberals are as convinced as of their own existence) that their end and aim is no other than to sever Switzerland into two political parts—into a Catholic and a Protestant league ; to preserve in the Catholic cantons the mock democracy, where certain patrician families have since time un known wielded the sword of power and the sceptre, and to restore in the Protestant cantons the power and privileges of the aristocracy, and upset the true democratic Governments of the Protestant cantons. Hence the close though apparently unnatural alliance of the Protestant aristocracy with ultramontane and Jesuitical clergy, and hence the promised support of the foreign despotic Governments. In a late article of the Alicenzeine Augsburg Zeitung it has even been asserted that the Conservative leaders of the Catholic cantons had entered into a plan which France and Austria had formed for dividing Switzerland as Poland has been divided—viz., France to take the whole of the French portion of Switzerland, together with Bale and Soleure, and Austria to take the Italian and eastern portions, and then to leave the little cantons, Uri, Schwyzt, Un terwalden, Lucerne, &c., as the Swiss confederacy under the protection of France. That either of those treacherous plans for the splitting or the dividing Switzerland was and is to this moment the object of the Sonderbund there is not the least doubt in the minds of the immense mass of the liberal population. Hence the enthusiasm, the energy of the Liberals— hence the resolve to stake life and property in this contest—and hence the vanquished reluctance to fight against fellow•citizens, which was the only motive that so long delayed the resolve for the use of arms. But now, after all other means have failed to convince the Conservative population of the purity and disin terestedness of our intentions—after the possibility has been denied us to explain to them the actual state of matters, and while we are convinced that our country and our true democratic liberty, all the pro gress and advance that we have made and obtained with great exertions and sacrifices—in fact, that everything that is dear and sacred to a free citizen and an enlightened,disinterested, benevolent, and Christian mind is at stake, or rather is undoubtedly advancing towards its ruin and destruction, we have ventured on the decision by arms. God will assist those who are in the right, who have the purest intentions. I feel myself clear of any malice, and of every wrong. I consider the struggle as one for the highest and holiest objects of humanity, and have therefore re solved to partake in it. I value my life very high, I do not like dying in the vigour of my life, but I value the goods for which I stake my life higher than this life. Wort and That dery Vaterland' is the motto of every true republican, and I will not desert from it." It is said that the question of the occupation of Ferrara has been settled. The Austrians are to re tain possession of the citadel, and the town is to be given up to the POPE. The Madrid mail had not arrived at the time the post left Paris. Letters from Barcelona stated that the army of Ca talonia is much discontented in consequence of the removal of General AIANUEL CONCHA from the com mand. They con , i.'er that this removal is not the spontaneous act of the QUEEN, who, they scruple not to proclaim, is a prisoner in her own palace. HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Her Majesty has ordered us to declare to you the causes which have induced her to call Parliament together at the present time. Her Majesty has seen with great concern the distress which has for some time prevailed among the commercial classes. The embarrassments of trade were at one period aggravated by so general a feeling of distrust and of alarm, that her Majesty, for the purpose of restoring con fidence, authorised her Ministers to recommend to the directors of the Bank of England a course of proceeding suited to such an emergency. This course might have led to an infringement of the law. Her Majesty has great satisfaction in being able to inform you that the law has not been infringed ; that the alarm has subsided, and that the pressure on the banking and commercial interests has been miti gated. The abundant harvest with which this country has been blessed, has alleviated the evils which always accompany a want of employment in the manufac turing districts. Her Majesty has, however, to lament the recur rence of severe distress in Ireland, owing to the scarcity of the usual food of the people. Her Majesty trusts that this distress will be materially relieved by the exertions which have been made to carry into effect the kw of last session for the support of the destitute poor. Her Majesty has learnt with satisfaction that lauded proprietors have taken advantage of the means placed at their dis posal, by the liberality of Parliament, for the im provement of land. Her Majesty laments that in some counties of Ireland atrocious crimes have been committed, and a spirit of insubordination has manifested itself leading to an organized resistance to legal rights. The Lord Lieutenant has employed with vigour and energy the means which the law places at his disposal to detect offenders, and to prevent the repetition of offences. Her Majesty feels it, however, to be her duty to her peace able and well-disposed subjects to ask the assistance of Parliament in taking farther precau tions against the perpetration of crime in certain counties and districts of Ireland. Her Majesty views with the deepest anxiety and interest the present condition of Ireland, and she recommends to the consideration of Parliament measures, which, with due regard to the rights of property, may advance the social condition of the people, and tend to the permanent improvement of that part of the United Kingdom. Her Majesty has seen with great concern the breaking out of civil war in Switzerland. Her Majesty is in communication with her allies on this subject, and has expressed her readi ness to use, in concert with them, her friendly in fluence for the purpose of restoring to the Swiss Confederation the blessings of peace. Her Majesty looks with confidence to the maintenance of the general peace of Europe. Her Majesty has concluded with the Republic of the Equator a Treaty for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Her Majesty has given directions that this treaty should be laid before you."' GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE or ,Cossatoiss, Her Majesty has given directions that the Esti mates for the next year should be prepared for the purpose of being laid before you. They will be framed with a careful regard to the exigencies of the public service. NIT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Her Majesty recommends to the consideration ~r laws which regulate the naviga tion of the United Kingdom, with a view to ascertain whether any changes can be adopted which, without danger to our maritime strength, may promote the commercial and colonial interests of the empire. Her Majesty has thought proper to appoint a Commission to report on the best means of improving the health of the metropolis, and her Majesty re commends to your earnest attention such measures as will be laid before you relating to the public health. Her Majesty has deeply sympathised with the sufferings which afflict the labouring classes in the manufacturing districts of Great Britain, and in many parts of Ireland ; and her Majesty has observed with admiration the patience with which these sufferings have been generally borne. The distress which has prevailed among the commercial classes has affected many important branches of the revenue. But' her Majesty trusts that the time is not distant when, under the blessing of Divine Providence, the commerce and industry of the United Kingdom will have resumed their wonted activity. LLOYD'S SII I PPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. 23.—Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze, and hazy, with rain. DEAL,. Nov; 22 . - -Wind S.S.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Wilson, Sierra Leone: Arrd. from the river Ceasar, Berbice; Champion, Porto Rico; Princess Royal, Ber muda. Arrd.% from the river and sailed Viscountess Canning, cape Coast Castle. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 2 2.—Wind W.S.W. to N.W.— Off port Mary Ann, Darke, Madras; Comet, Madeira. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 22.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W.— Arrd. Earl of Durham, Bombay; Pakenham, Bourne, Porto Cabello; Borderer, Willis, Demerara; Moun taineer, Smith, ditto; Richard Anderson, Barnett, Vir ginia; Ocean Monarch, Boston; Adriana, Jackson, Rio Bento; Mary Ann, Newfoundland. The Fanny, from Alexandria, is on shore near Crosby Point; crew saved. The schooner Jane, from Glando r e, sun k ne ar Spencer's Spit this morning; crew saved. His Serene Highness Prince Alexandre di Gon zaga-Mantua has just arrived in London from Home, having received most cordial and flattering testimonies of respect and sympathy from the Italian people. HEALTH OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR. — We have much pleasure in stating that this much-respected nobleman is steadily improving. His Lordship was yes terday visited by Dr. Chambers, who at twelve o'clock issued the following statement:—" The Lord Chancellor has passed a better night, and is progressing satisfac torily." Loss OF THE LADY KENNAWAY.—The fine new East Indiaman Lady Kennaway, belonging to the repre sentative (an only daughter) of the late Thomas Ward, Esq., of London, was totally abandoned by her crew in the Bay of Biscay, in a sinking condition, last week. She left Bombay on the 21st of June, bound to London, laden with a cargo valued at 210,0001., consisting of Indian silk, crapes, Cashmere shawls, gums, spices, rice, &c. The Lady Kennaway spoke the East Indiaman Stebon heath off the Cape of Good Hope, in distress, having suffered in a gale. Tho Stebonheath belonged to the same owner. The Lady Kennaway had only made two voyages, and the Stebonheath six.—Cork Constitution. SHIrWItSCK AND Loss OF LlFE. — Yestefflay intelligence reached Lloyd's that the French brig Ca melia, of St. Malo, laden with Indian corn, had been totally lost in Bullenkillig Bay. county Kerry, Ireland, the master and crew, except a boy, being drowned. We regret to announce the death, among the victims to the yellow fever on the West India station, of the Rev. George W. Garrow, 8.A., chaplain of the Imaum, 72, which took place at Port Royal, Jamaica, a day or two before the mail left. TnE POLISH PROCESS.—BERLIN, Nov. 17.—This was a solemn day in Court. At one o'clock the Presi dent rose, and, addressing the counsel for the Polish de fendants, inquired whether they had any further defence to make; the counsel unanimously replied in the nega tive, upon which the President said, " The proceedings are herewith closed. The day for pronouncing the sen tence cannot yet be named." This will probably not take place for a fortnight or three weeks, and the read ing will probably occupy two or three days, it will be given in German, and only the tenour will be translated into Polish. SANITARY MEASURES.—We understand that the magistrates of Canongatu are actively engaged in causing the whole closes and wynds of that ancient burgh to be thoroughly whitewashed and fumigated. They are als,o ett,min2; the t 'Oe (!! - T.,n in all tiro tilt; pow' given Scotsman. Mr. Cobden, M,F., is expected to arrive in town his day. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool was firmer again yesterday. Sales 4,000 to 5,000 bales. American sorts were scarcer; 3,500 bales sod at sitl. to 6/d. per lb.—Railway Shares were quiet, and sales were not pressed. The ship Mary Ann, Darke, brings intelligence of Sept. 18 from the Cape of Good Hope. The Katirs continued their petty, but exceedingly vexatious, depre dations, though the day of retribution seemed at hand. The Governor vs as collecting his forces, and would have a much better array than his predecessors, or rather his troops would be in better condition. Ample supplies were provided of the munitions of war, and the great aim, it is hoped, will be to keep the rear of the colony well protected, in the event of the army advancing far into Kafirland. The intended withdrawal of Sir 11. E. F. Young, the Licutenant-Governor of the Eastern Province, had excited much dissatisfaction, as his Excellency was much liked. The public a!tention is very much directed here to the probable contents of the Speech of the Queen on the opening of Parliament. It is naturally supposed that the version given of it in the columns of " the leading" ino:ning journal is substantially correct. If the prin cipal points, except Ireland, be realised, this Speech, it is considered, is favourable on the whole. It was announced, yesterday afternoon, under this ad, that the Court of Directors of the Bank of England had reduced the rate of interest upon loans on the security of Bills of Exchange, Exchequer•bills, and Stock, to seven per cent. This has produced quite a movement in public confidence, and the Funds have risen to 851. The Market is extremely firm, with a good deal of business doing. Exchequer-bills are firmer. In the Foreign Stock there is a tendency to improve, and the same may be said of Railway Shares. CITY, THREE O'CLOCK. The Market for Consols has further improved since our first remarks were written. The price for the Ac count has touched 85k. The value has since receded, as several of the Bulls have realised. ONE CLOSING ItICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FRICES Bank Stock lB7 188 187 187 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 83% 84 83% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.. 84 3 % 85% 85 85% % 85 1 / g New 3 , 14, per Cent. Anns 84% 85% 85 1 / 2 Long Anus. to expire J an. 1860 Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859 ..... Ditto 30_ years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 8% India Stock 233 235 235 India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001. .. ...... .- 2O dis 20 dis South Sca Stock Consols for Account B5 84% 85% 3 4 85 Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,0001. 5001 Small .. .. 3 p par 4 p 4 p ONE CLOSI\ti O'CLOCK PRICES Manchest. & Southampt. 2 1 4...... - lbWand ..104, llO ...E 110 Do. Consolidated Pref.100 Do. 40/. Shares Do. 501. Shares .. . 10 Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midland Consul. Brist. & Binning., 6 per cent.loo ......118',4 ll B l /2 Alidlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 Ditto, ditto 71 .9 5..,.... Leicest. & Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish NewcastleandCarliele...loo Do. Quarters 5O Newmrket& Chesterford 13% Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 - Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Norfolk ... ......... —IOO Do. New 20/. Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norib1k... Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 North British „. ..... ... 25 Do. half Shares 12 V 2...... 12 / xi ....... 12 1 4: 2 xi Do. Quarters 4 j 4 ,h;-54 xi 4*lxi Do. Extension ... Ditt )'Thirds 1 2 ... ........ ... 2 Norte Staffordshire... •.. 7i(l 7 14 1 / 2 7 A No. , ..n Wales ... 3 1 / 2 — , .• North Western. Oxford, Worcester, and _ Wolverlhunpton ...,.. 35 ... .. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Ilitchin ... Zia — .. Scottish Central Scottish Midland 1 7 14 — . Ditto, New lO - ........ ••• •• Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole - .. Shrewsbury and Birm... 6 Ditto ditto. Class 13. 3 hrewsbury & Chester ( Nor. IV : Min.) Ditto Hale es ... ditto 8 ...... .. ... ......... Ditto Uswestry ... .. 12 - Ditto New Shrewsbury and klerefil 2 Shropshire Union South Devon.. 4O - ...... ••••••• . Do. Preference South Staffordshire 4 south Easttru & Dover. 33% 29% Do., No. 1 20 Do~ Nc. 2. Do , No. 3 .. ..... ...... :5 ...... - ••• Do., No. 4 South Wales South Yorkshire,' Don caster, and Boole 2 Swans. & Loughor & Ca- meron's Stni. Coal. ... 4 ••• ...... • . Taw Vale Extension ... 4 Thames haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath . .. 4 Waterford and Kilkenny 13 1 / 2 — Waterford and Linier!ek 3i W aterfd,Wxtrd,Wieklw, 22z5i - 29!4 0:!, 1 9 18 4 Vs and Dublin West Cornwall ...... 4 11 bitehaven Furness 11 Windsor, Staines, and South Western........ 525. Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick. Do. Original New and Berwick .. Do. North Shields Pur. 25 Do. Extensioy. No. 1. 10 Do. do. No. 2. ..... 10 Do. U.N. P.:.Prelerence 8 ...... 9 . York and North Midland 50 . 75 4 76 75% 2 Ditto, Preference DJ. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILW A Ys. Anglo• Belgian.... 4 Bar b ado es .. 1 Boulogne and Amiens... 20 15 1 m xi ..... l 5 l /4 x Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 Central of Spain ..... ... 2 Ceylon Demerara 5 Dendre Valley ...... .. 4 Direct Bombay and _ Madras Dutch Rhenish 7 . — East Indian :.• 1 1 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Southern of Madras ss. Great Western Bengal... 5s Great Western Canada.— 314 Italian and Austrian.... 4 ... Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... • Luxembourg.— ..... 6 Lyons and Avignon 5 Madras Madras. Nellore, and Arcot % Madrid and Valentia.... 2 .. Namur and Liege Northern of France. lO ..... 12% Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris and Lyons ... 10 ...... Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg 8 Rouen and Havre 2O Sambre and Meuse ...... 18 7 Strasbourg and Bale 14 Tours and Nantes ...... 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and 11a.55e1t....... 16 Trinidad West Flanders ...... 8 JOINT STOCK: BANKS. Australasia London Joint Stock lO British North American 50 Colonial 25 Commercial of London 20 Union of London.... lO Union of Madrid 4O London & Westminster. 20 Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Ditto, New Ditto New._ ..... 13 •. ••.......... National Prov. England. 35 Ditto, New lO National of Ireland 22% — ......... Union of Australia. Ditto,New... ........ 2% MINES. Anglo Mexican Galvanized Iron Real Del Monte, Unreg. . 33 1/.'2 13L/ 2 12(4 7 6 i/., 28LA 4N 12% 5% 351/ 2 .4% ...... 6 ;1~ ..... 314 MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MAHHETS. - - SMITHFIELD.— M eadow Hay, 21 103 to 31 lOs ; Clover ditto, 3/ 105 to 4/ 105; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 8s per load. Trade very dull, at barely stationary prices. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2112 a to 31 12s ; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41 8s ; and Straw, 11 55 to 11 9s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, and the quotations had a downward tendency. — VNITEctiAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 10s to 3/ 105 ; Clovet;slitto, 3/ lOs to 41 14s; and Straw, 113 s to 11 per load. Supply good, and trade ult. COAL MARKET. —YESTEIDA.T. Adair's Main ... 16s 6d Hedley's llartley Hasting's llartley lBs Od llolywell Main ........ 18s 9d New Tanfield l6s 6d North Pontop Original Tanfield l6s Od Tanfield Moor 17s 9d Tanfield Moor Butes l6s 9d West Wylam Walbottle Ilartley Wylam Wall's End, &c Acorn Close 28 arrival Bewicke and Co 2os 6d Killingworth 2os 6d Belmont 2ls Od Haswell 2ls 3d Hetton . Lambton Denison Tees West Pease Cowpen Hartley W. llartley Netherton 19s Od 'Sidney's Hartley Elgin lB3 9d .20 sold. OVER-SHOE FOR LADIES.—We have great pleasure in recording our approval of a patent lately taken out by Godfrey and Co., of 3, Conduit-street, shoemakers to the Queen. She invention consists of a sock or slipper to wear over a lady's boot or shoe in wet weather. The material is a peculiar kind of India-rubber, which, being waterproof and extremely light, does not disfigure the foot, which is a great desideratum both to the comfort and appearance. The majority of over-shoes are very unsightly, but such is not the case with the patent abovementioned. We feel certain they require only to be worn once to meet with due appreciation.—Observer. Oct. 18, 1847. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH AT THE ORIENTAL CLUB.—An inquest was held on Saturday, at No. ss, Tenterden-street, Hanover-square (in connexion with the Oriental Club), on the body of George William Trail!, Esq., aged 54, late of the East India Company's Civil Service.—Sir T. E. Colbrooke, Bart., stated that the deceased was his cousin, and that he was in a very delicate state of health, though not sufficiently ill as is require medical advice.—James Dowes, drawing-room waiter at the Oriental Club, said that the deceased was a member of the club. On Thursday afternoon he had dined there, and shortly after eight o'clock he took some warm milk and water to the deceased in the drawing room, and soon after he missed him, but took no notice of the circumstanee, as deceased usually left about that time. On the following morning he (witness) was in formed that a gentleman was lying dead in a water closet on the drawing-room floor, and on going there he recognised the deceased. A policeman and a surgeon were instantly called.—Mr. W. White Cooper, No. 2, Tentorden-street, surgeon, said that he found the bed) in the position already described. It was quite cold, and the joints perfectly rigid, showing that death bad occurred some hours previous. There was no smell of poison, nor was there any bottle or paper found. He had since opened end examined the body of the do ceased. On opening the chest he found some old ad hesions of long standing; the heart was four times its natural size, and (.n opening the head he found the brain congested, but showing no appearance of any apoplectic attack. In the absence of any appearance of poison in the stomach, he was of opinion that the deceased died from disease of the heart. Verdict—'• Natural death. from disease of the heart." ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING -YARD.— Shipments of bread auffs continue to be made from this establish for tile vre;.4l, cos33t of Irelas_d. vessels have been already dispatched, and several more are now loading. The Rhadamanthus and Birkenhead steamers, are also to convey meal to Haulbowline.— Plymouth Journal. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The Presse gives the text of the letter addressed by M. Bois LE COMTE to General DUFOUR, announc ing his intention of withdrawing from Berne, in con• sequence of a safe conduct to Lucerne having been refused to one of his attaches. The Debuts attempts to justify this conduct of M. Boss LE COMTE, by say ing that he was accredited not to the Federation, but to each of the twenty-two sovereign cantons. This doctrine is certainly a novel one, and it behoves all federal republics to come to some understanding with France on the subject. The Ambassador to the United States, for instance—is he accredited to the Federation, or to each of the States separately ? The fact is that M. Bois LE COMTE, in obedience to the orders of M. GutzoT, abused the sacred cha racter of an ambassador, by acting the part of a spy, and communicating to the rebels of Lucerne every thing that was going on in the camp of the Federation. In proof of this we quote the following from the Constitutionnel "We cannot, in fact comprehend the conduct which M. Bois Le Comte is made to exhibit in Switzerland. What had he to do with a Govern ment which the organs of our Ministry do not cease to load with the grossest insults and the most odious calumnies ? What relations was he keeping up with the Vorort and the Diet, since M. Guizot, violating the law of nations, fraudulently introduced arms and ammunition into the canton Friburg, when in revolt against the Vorort and the Diet ? What attitude could M. Bois-le-Comte assume in a country into which the French Government has just flung civil war, by a support given to a powerless and rebellious minority? In order to be consistent, it was to Lu cerne that our Ministry ought to have sent an ambas sador, in place of keeping him at Berne. We know well that that the cannon were furnished to Friburg in order to please Austria, and that M. Bois-le-Comte was kept at Berne in order not to offend too much the opinion of the Chambers. But what was the ap pearance which the double game of his Government gave to M. Bois-le-Comte ? He appeared to be a spy in the enemy's camp, an agent of division and discord in the midst of an independent nation, a foreign conspirator invested with inviolability. Be sides, is not the avowed cause of his withdrawal a truly extraordinary one ? He, the ambassador of the Government which sent muskets to Friburg, wanted to send a secretary of embassy to Lucerne ! General Dufour, a very moderate Liberal, but an honest man antisdevoted to his duty and his country, found the proceeding suspicious, and refused' the .safe conduct dernatide'd. We ask, what man of common sense, what French general in his place would have acted otherwise ? Was it not the duty of our ambas sador, since he remained at Berne, to abstain abso lutely from any step that might compromise him, and to await the tertnination of the civil war in the most complete neutrality ? We may add, the cause al leged for the refusal was not the only one. \Ve believe that we are perfectly well informed, when we say that amongst the letters seized by the agents of the Government of Berne on the agents of the Son derbund, there were several which proved the dis loyalty of the French Minister towards Switzerland, or which at least gravely compromised the legation ; and this was precisely the reason given by General Dufour to M. Bois-le-Comte as a motive for refusing the safe conduct. The Vorort certainly has not failed to complain to the French Ministry of the proceedings of the Government and embassy of France towards Switzerland. There was, therefore, in the situation of Bois-le-Comte every possible mo tive for his withdrawing. Thus we have maitt3wo parts of the Swiss cantons ; we have ,urged":opAte one part, consisting of those which are the stasilfch friends of the Powers hostile to France, to revolt and subsequent defeat ; and we have separated ourselves for a long time to come from the others, who were our natural friends and the defenders of our frontiers. Such is the patriotic and intelligent work which M. Guizot has just concluded." It was rumoured in Paris that Lord PALMERSTON had proposed that a congress of the representatives of the five great Powers should be held in London (instead of at Baden, as proposed by M. GUIZOT), on the subject of the affairs of Switzerland, to which the Federalists and the Sonderbund should each send two Deputies. This proposition has, it is said, been favourably entertained by the French Government. The following are the particulars of the accident on the Orleans Railway, the occurrence of which we mentioned in The Sun of yesterday : " The train, which had left Paris late on Friday night, had arrived at the Pont de la Bourie, the point of junction of the line with that of Bordeaux and Vierzon, and was taking in passengers, when a loco motive, which had been employed in pushing on a heavy train from Orleans to Paris, returned at full speed, and, without perceiving the signal displayed that a train was stopping at the station, dashed on, and came with the utmost force against the carriages lying last. The passengers were dreadfully hurt to the number of sixteen, and three so badly as not to hold out much hope of ultimate recovery. The num ber of passengers in the train was about 150, but fortunately only three of the carriages were crushed, the rest yielding to the shock, and running on along the line. The men who were on the locomotive suf feredaeiTt n u o tF i injury, but on e o f th em , it i s sa id , h as l ost his re ason. A n i nvest i vation into the cause of the e Passage l e e b n i c ‘ b o h ee pr o h a r r d ee er p ed er ." Cents. w ere d one i n th e on Sunday at 76f. 90c. niCES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds ltussian Bonds .........• 106 106% 106% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.. Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent — Ditto, Account Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent — Ditto Deferred Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4 1 / 2 per Cent — 90 1 ,4 Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 54% 54% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 83 83% PRICES OF PAID BUSINESS DONE CLOSING . RAILWAY . SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Amber.. tiott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... -- Ayrshire arid Galloway.. 2% Pclfast & County Down 10 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 14 Birming.,Wolverlepton, and Stour Valley... .. 8 ...... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 7% Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter Ditto, Thirds - Buckinghamshire 10/. 4s 3 dis. 3 dis Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares-- 3 3 / 4 Ditto, Clydesdale June 50 ...... Chester and Holyhead... 37% Ditto, Preference .. 8 Clarence 78% Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, . , 4 per Cent. Dublin and Belfast June. 20 Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 ... East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D. ...... 25 ...... ` r Do., 181., E. & 11.... 18 Do., 3/.105., E. &H. 1 Eastern Counties 20 16 1 / k 16 16% 16% Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d... IA dis 1.4 dis Ditto ditto, N 0.2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 10 ...... 8 8% B% Do., North. & Eastern 50 ...... ••• Do., Q.-t0...4..1ra Do., New 23 Eastern Union 5O .. ••• ••• ...... in n 4. .".-. Ditto, Quarter Shares 12V Ditto, Thirds ... l3s. 4d Do., (guar. 6 percent) `l2vst Lancashire.' 25 Ditto, New Litto, New Quarters... 3 3 / 4 , 'ast Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 47 1 / 4 47% Ditto Half Shares ... 15 - Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 ,4 ...... Edinburgh & Northern.. 22 1 4 ..— Ditto, New 1,. . _ Ditto, Newport ..... ... li}is ...... Ditto, ditto, New . .... 24 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% Ditto, New . Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle 81. 65. 8d Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New Do. Preference Consol. 12%...... Great Nortkern ..... 8 Do., London and York 24.. ... ... ..... Great South. and West. (Ireland) ;reatNorth of England..loo Ditto, New 40/. Ditto, New 30/. Ditto_, New 151 l l / Q, 17 Great Western B5 lOO 101 lOl Ditto, % Shares .. 50 Ditto, m Shares Ditto, Fifths Ditto, New 17/ Huddersfield & Manches. 22 Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby 5O .. ... 98 ........ .....• 98 Ditto, Half Shares 25 Ditto, 14 Shares....... 12% — ... — Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 15 , Do., do., aid Norwich 15 Po., d0.,-Extens.Scrip (late Camb. & Ely) 2%...••• . Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds lO Lancashirt. & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto I. Shares . ... 38 Do. Quarter Shares.... 14% Do. Fifths 6 l / 2. ... Do. Sixteenths 6 14 Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10/. 4s. ... 5% 1 / 2 dis 5% dis. Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 - •.•• •••• ..... Ditto % (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 33 Do.( Wakefield, Ponte fract. & Goole - 1)o. (W. Riding Union) 4/. 2s 2 3 /4 dis 2% dis. 1)o.(1"feston & Wyre) 25 "D. % Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto (B) ... 1 Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford... 165....... ....• Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37 1 ,E — . ..... ......... ' Do. Branch 1 / 2 Shares 121$ — Do. New Branch( blue) 2% — ......... ...... Do. Extension (green) 2 1 ,4 — Do.NewExten. (pink) 2% — Leeds and Thirsk 36 ...... Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% — ... ..... ..... ..... Liverpool, Crosby and Southport .... .... Liverp., Mnchstr& New castle Junction 2%.... London and Blackwall..l6/. 13s. 4d. Do. New, No. 1 •••• ••• Do. New, No. 2 .. 4/. 13s. 4d.... ......... Do. Extension London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. Consol. Eighths.. 30 Do. Guarant. 5 per et. 9 Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d Ditto, Preference ... 18/17s 2d... - tendon and N. Western 100 156 154% 155... 155 Do., Quarters L. & B. 17 Do., do., New Ditto Fifths Do. 1 4 Shares (G. J.) 25 Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 — Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 101. (M- & B.) A. 7% ••• •• — Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 7%...... 11% ll% Do. 101. 11t. & B.) C. 1 Lond. & S.Western 41/. 6s. 8d 55 55% Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 Do. New 50/. ... ..... 32 1 ,4.. .. 28 3 / 4 29 Do. New 40/. . 26 Do. Tenths (Consul.) 50 - •• •••• ..... ••• Ditto ditto ~, .... .... 40 Ditto, Thirds 61. 13s. 4d.... :N. dis. . 3 / 4 d London, Salisbury, and . Yeovil Londonderry&Cileraine 27%...... «............. Londonderry and Ennis killen 2 3 3 / 4....„ ••• ..... •••• mem Manchester.Buxton,and Matlock... ......... . Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire IOO Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 - Ditto ditto (No. 3`.,. 71,6 —1);1 ', , If' 1 (3rul, ~}. -' ‘ - „...„, „ •••, Ditto uitto . ........ 7 Ditto ditto .. 4% Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 71 A. •-• WOW III AN TI-CURN-LAW- ANTI-GOLD- LAW. TO TIIE EDITOR LT THE SUN. What tho' a little war have ruaeli'd Mark hole, And great diicour.gtinrnt to st.obs in grain ? Tlibile nothing done (cries Hannibal) until The rogues in gold ar , ehasse'd from Corn-hill, 'Till common sense and common justice meet, Aud all be mine about Threadneedle street ! JUVENAL SlR,—The present times remind me of a children's puppet show, exhibited at Paris thirty years ago. The spokesman was stationed with certain lamps be hind an oiled paper screen, raising and pulling down his pasteboard monsters in chiaroscuro. Parausa a mon commandement a sack of corn—then a miller — then a certain gentleman in black, &c.—disparals !— , (Applause from the infantry.) Again—parazsse a mon commandement a heap of gold—paraisse a mon ,, commandement two dozen griffins, " bent on gold, sacking the heap—tigers—monsters, no end —dis p arass, 800 !--(Shouts and clapping of little hands.) Eveen so, the minor humbug of corn her Majes t y has pulld down with a simple disparais I but to the grand monopoly of gold let her say more imperatively-- Disparais 1 boo 1 Vains fantornes d'etat, evanouissez-vows! Is it not monstrous that our Sovereign, out of neat fifty millions of taxation, should receive only half million for expenses of her court and state, including the judges ; while Spain, the poorest of nations, gives its Monarch many times that sum ? Every one nog sees the reason. It is because the thirty millions . , or thereabouts, payable to stockholders are paid In medium which, from its extreme scarcity, or penurY:l and consequently its purchase power or money worth, eats up army, navy, people, and monarchy itself. The Royal Family is crushed between .two rocks : on one hand the incalculable, p a on radoxical, hydrostatical pressure of stockholders' taxa tion ; the other, the sneers of purse-proud England at $ Court whose utmost economy can never relieve the people's distress. But why are we talking a.bou! standards, when a safe medium, a practical national cash, is easy with any standard? Why sacrifice market-money to money-market ? Why is money„ . market " glutted with temporary and secure loans', involving no real business and return except repudiation— while bread-and-cheese market 1 ,1„ shut, and weavers found dead at their looms! Great Baring draws on great Rothschild, and v.zcs versa, sending gold to America and Spain, According to , Lord Palmerston, 150 millions are now due to England; according to the Times, Spain alone o . wes us 70 millions. Lord Liverpool, perhaps in PkeZ said the most precious country should have the mos precious standard; Lord Goderich, of parochial fame, offers every poor man a bit of gold in h is pocket.---: grim parody on Henry IV., and his benevolent wisn that every peasant should have his boil ed fowl 0Y 0 Sundays. The same gold is at once to be in ever, man's (or woman's) pocket, and in dir ecto r s griffin paws, and purchasing Lousyana bonds for Sidney - Smith. " It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, Let me net name it to you, ye sweet power s, It is the cause" in which poor Sidney—bled , England is to be saturated with gold that Generlp i Jackson may get it. L'or anglais p er p etuabf drifting home because we work faster than we c: get paid in goods, is gone to supply the lacuna caus ed by the American specie order of 1836. The 1-TnitetrY ct States Bank being, like our joint-stock a nd con banks, the friend of industry, and not, lik e our ba36 nk , of England, the friend of usurers, Jacks on in 18 took away all the Government deposits, re f us ed the notes, veto-ed their charter, and wrote them dew in all the papers by his speech-pamphle ts, avo(vreig because the bank men had voted against him son). Such is "the dangerous hostility of profligate' power." To combat this bad principle , Mr. O'Cor; es in nell said, " I divided the House 43 or 44 tins of ot 1838 against renewing the charter of the Bank Ireland," which emulates that of England in ea li r s paigning against trade and industry. The Goot whichs, military exploit was congenial to Tory policy, attributed the panic of 1825 to English countrl banks, whose circulation they demolished accordinglY, (Sir P. Pule and Sir T. Esdaile, London bankers of most country banks, being also cleverly droppe; in spite of Mr. T. Attwood's intrepid remonstrate; the " Letters of a Scotch Banker," 1826. The 551 2i r attempt was made in Scotland, but defeated by Walter Scott, in the "Letters of M. Malagrowthert 1828, backed by forty Scots, MM.PP. Now, in 1847, the rate of discount is 81840) cent' According to M. Thiers (Times, Oct. 23, the Bank of France has kept to 4 per cent. during twenty years. They were right. Mr. Page (Hardcastle2 deposed before the Committee, 1840, " The Baul‘ renews quarterly advances, not generally, but tonces dividuals ;" and Mr. Norman, " Quarterly adva are at lower rates than discounts." Can any advances are on approved bills only ! Can BO' ° your readers say whether they are to pay 8 p er cen e t. now ? Or could Sir Robert be thinking of thong particular particular quarterlies when he complained not long ago "of the Bank maintaining an arbitrary P refe t rence for such bills ?" Besides, if the bankers nie needs step over the way, and ask charity four 6010 a year, what is become of those balances retaine d 1 :„„ 4 centuries without interest ? Suppose inspectors app pointed for joint-stock banks (which almost in °l , ' mory of man were liable to a premunire, u nder 6a- Geo. I.) to overhaul their renewed bills, their past due and all their misdemeanours —suppose , fr° l sudden change of Ministry, the same inspectors WI to ransack the Bank of England on the setae principle, they would report " Wr on g side--no,. effects—we find this establishment has branches abou : Temple-bar, and even as far as Bond -street —w'° find many repudiation bills, man,. securities date from the Duke of York and Mr s. ch, Clarke. Mes • Hammersley's branch was set up at that epo pa y debt s l well known, not to invest cap ital, but to an for, as Sir R. Peel said, 20th May, 1844, •Dee entire secrecy is necessary, absolutely; in all trail.: actions relating to money. • . I have no objection to the transfer and sale of banks.' There are . . _ r means for the public to know whether any et n i' v , o branches are in a better state, and if so, no reaso. suppose they would gratuitously bring therns_eive,. into a better state. The whole concern would pot pay ss. in the pound—it would be well to pu rn .r sceptre in commission, or appoint the two enviers official assignees." Some such report they could e in the case suose, elp king. Here, toiling on d a h patch ma of clay-farm, I contem - plate all this with a sort of anguish— " Till half a patriot, half a coward grown, I fly from petty tyrants to the throne"-- r trembling lest the malformation of our of sfier tern should bring a dangerous flush of pooranger to Majesty's brow, and make her the enemY des' else People. It is so difficult to set music to one might compare Queen Victoria's cwhi°lrdheo;odovr. some melody on the pastoral hautboy, wrhohse t _ , l h o e se r drawn cantabile silences for a moment tenants of the orchestra, and the unison of s w w _ et ., every vibration generates a piercing, ness too beautiful to last. 'The voice of lin. 2 o f d sir s hope, of youth, begins to evoke the sobs an memory— E trarne un suon the flebile concento Par d'utnani sospiri e di singulti... perfec inee of Strana armoniA, di canto c di querelc. The ad agio ends—begins the crescendo eruences, tato—ere long discords predominate, baulk cadences, chromatic or superfluous chords suspend amid a chopping sea of sounds. Double, douhe con" and trouble. Music submits to Fate, and the of of cert ends for a time in the crude irnbrog general tattoo. que . s_t s ir i s : the c And all these calamities, a currency You, Sir, are one of the few that know it is jus t so. Loyalty cannot co-exist with falling labourers defrauded of hire, of keep. Mattl?lesTreot wood, a high authority, has asked, " What 1 . 5 ,- rot hiag priee! , _ A tt . by alternations of prosperity and distress ? l ow , o r more than a high or low rate of money, a id that high rate of commodities." If people tare kill royalty is essential to their well-being, theY Nv iv ig the turally believe it so to their ill -being--" 1. plutocracy be in a hurry to undeceive them. I have the honour to be Sce f a lsll. C. AO SUSPICIOUS DEATH Or A SAILOR.-- On '-" --1:1 ca rcloY fe s " evening, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the LontlV, 30 pital, on view of the body of Charles VVillard, a'f - ii sv years of age, whose death took place under the ' ° ",„ s -(7 0:1 i r n e gsu i spicious circumatances:—lt appeared the deeeh-ov ship,turied to this country a few days ago, in $ in h e a re vient from Quebec. On Thursday morning last ,; I t 61, tol captain's for his money, amounting to sw - a piea whic e h was paid him. He was at the time seee z " , w ith by a female, one of the class of the " unfortunates,' g whom he was drinking the greater part 0f the 10 . r o n t i o n i_ . In the afternoon he was led by some wom en 1 in $ house, fian No. 34, New Gravel-lane, being aPPtel3tlYfrota Cher© d in insensible. He was soon after removed ere a cab to the London Hospital. dean he d th ie e d n employed to recover him, but without effel' an that institution about two hours after ins " e sion. The Coroner, under the circumstances e f the nli ° ' directe . .d that a post mortem examination of the 13°431' f the and, if necessary, an analysis of the content° ° stomachAd should take place; when the intle ir Y Was , journed for that purpose to Wednesday, next. been it" However valuable this document might a" i ince the time of capture, the period which has eisP se " • fi s for tmhen., will render it probably of no service, seen if correct, of which, however, we ha:: at erie- e s d enill n usn othing in the London journals, will have str i o l f sr. the OF _Goocivahl,.eGshoaotnrhineeesrltn.O.Ll.7Ah7froeffhbeoirmdpaivipseeiwrnss.jfne3apinossiensstihe: iiandS THE HERRING FISHERIES Th --- n t Mr.• lifts Ot be en for many years so prolific a season."— for these fi s herie s ° 1/5 . the present, on this coast. Our markets have been 1 : 1 43 the glutted for some weeks back ; and so Ple?„ ti n fu for a i fi , sh that they have been retailed as low as ;"'"liih :lo,f2:. 7:1,1„ 1,, , ,fronloci zi, ~00.1 substitute ' or i d;at an d pro i v ty of priced butcher's meat during the season, salting are availing themselves of the oPPeittlillyitor. ....Dtinogverdocw Chronicle. o a n n i c d i smoking e . . . . A.