The Sun. — London, England, 1847-11-27 00:00:00

I t 4 BREAD. BIDE MARKET. i r~ MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-wait . Potatoes, 5s to 7s per cw..; Apples, Is 3d to 25 9d; and Pears, 2s 6d to 6s per hall-sieve ; Walnuts, 8d to is ptr hundred; Greens, is Gd to 2 Gd ; Turnips, 2s to 3s; Lceks, is ad to is 9d ; Onions, Is 6d to 23 6d; and Carrots, 3s 3d to 55 per dozen bunches ; Red Cabbages, 2s 6d to 5s 6d; SAvoy ditto, BLI to Is ; and Cauliflowers, 2s to 3s per dozen; Pine Apples, 6s to 9s etch; Celery, Btl to is 3d; Horse-radish, Is 9d to 4s ; and Brocoli 9d to is 31 per bundle; Mush rooms, 9d to is 6d per basket; Hothouse Grapes, 2s Gil to 4s; Filberts, 4d to Bd, and Cob -nuts, 6d to 8d per lb ; Spinach, 2s 4d to 3s 6d per sieve. HITN . GEItr ORD. Our market, to-day, was fairly suppplied with bah articles. Generally speaking, the demand was homy, and prices l ad a downward to ndency. NRIVTGATB: AND LEADENHALL. For tat kinds of Meat we had a very slow inquiry, on the following terms:—Beef, from 2i 8d to 4s; Mutton, 3 3 4d to 4s 6d; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 10d t° 5s 2d per Blbs by the carcase. Geese, 4s Ed to 7s 6d; Fowls, 2s to 4s 6d ; Chickens, is 9d to 2s 6d; Ducks, Is 6d to 2s 3d; Rabbits, 8d to is 2d; Leverets, 2s 6d to ls 6d; Grouse, Is to is 6d; Partridges, is 3d to is 9d; heasants, 3s to 4s ; and Pigeons, 8d to 10d each. Fresh Butter, lld to is 4d per lb. Yell, NZWPORT. from 24 10 , d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 83 to 49 8d ; Yell, 3s 10.1 to 4s 10d; and Pork, 49 to 5s 2d per Sibs. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s ;IMutton, 3s 6d to 45 6d; Veal, 35 10d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 44 to 5s per Blbs. BILLINGSGATE. Our market was well applied with fish to-day; and Which met a steady sale, at about last week's prices. The prices of Wheaten Tcerci in the metropolis are from 7d to 7id; of Household ditto, sid to GP per 4lbs loaf. Market Hides, :Alb to 641 b, 3d per lb; ditto, 641 h to 721 b, 3d to aid; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 34d to Sid; ditto, SOlb to 881 b, 3id to 4d; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 41d to .11e1 ; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 4id to sd; Calf Skins (each), 4s 6d to Cs 6d; Horn Hides, 13s; Polled Sheep, 4s 2d to rent and Half-breds, 4s to 4s 8d ; Downs, 2s 8d to a s sd, Ma 1r riorz.xx,ETs. SIIITEIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 10s to 31 12s ; Clover, ditto, 31 lOs to 41 15s ; and Straw, 114 s to 11 9s; per load. A moderate supply, and a dull trade. ClatlitEßLAND.—Aleadow Hay, 2/ 12s to 31. 153 ; Clover ditto, 31 12s to 411 9 s ; and Straw, 115 s to 1/ 10b Per load. Trade dull, at full prices. WIIIT ECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 10s to 3/ 12. ; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 4/ 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 9 s per load. Trade heavy, yet prices were mostly !supported. ,QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sitting s at Nisi Fritts, before Mr. Justice ERLE, and a Common Jury.) SThis was an action for an assault. Mr. Chambers, C., and M r . Mill er appeare d f or t h e p l a i nt i ff, an d M r. rgetnt Allan f or th e d e f en d an t. The plaintiff and defendant were conductors of rival "Minibuses, running between Hungerford Market and the E dgeware-road, which serve to this day to'keep the 11 ; e ighbourh oo d o f P a ddi ngton an d H unger f or d Mar k et il l a continual state of feverish excitement. In the Ine int , of Nov em b e r, 1846, it so h a pp ene d th a t th e Plaintiff and defendant accidentally met at the counter tithe .Pine-apple public-house in Hungerford-market, -n the latter invited the former to partake of . "; ease of sherry, but the plaintiff declined the invik el,tinn. The plaintiff feeling indignant at this refusal took t r i , a ,_ glass whic had just been filled with sherry, an euoeratel threw its contents into the face of the plain who Y f e .. , quietly remonstrated with . ; when the de ts'uant having treated the plaintiff to a second , glass_ of_ a e g n er rY, fell too and abused him in the grossest lan assaults It was to recover con - pensation for these to o that the present action had been brought. %Mr. Sergeant ALLEN, for the defendant, designated th e ; a ffair as a p a l try p u bli c -h ouse quarre l, an d h o p e d te,.,,,JerY would e s ti m ate it at its proper value, by re *":ng a verdict for a farthing damages. tn e 7 e JUDG E summed up, and the jury, after a short -"a ge ultation, ret urne d a ver di c t f or th e pl a intiff, da 20L "jry,II4IVIINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) efore Mr. Justice COLTMAN and Alderman Sir JAMES DUKE.) Gees p • Vats • 9 . e hyps, aged 47, described as a harness maker, adicted for forging a dividend warrant, and thereby Ee r i tu ding the Governor and Company of the Bank of kand of the sum of 42/. 9s. 11d. Sir Jo prosecution was conducted by Mr. Clarkson and / t " e ha Bailey ; the prisoner defended himself. 14,, a PPeared that the prisoner married the daughter of destj; l ', Griffiths, of Chelmsford, Essex, who, at her th e A ! 'eft the sum of 4,000/. in the Three per Cents., Tho'lvidends, by her will, to be paid to her brothers, etit o ll3 r . 4B and John Rance, whom she appointed her exe hip; and to the prisoner's wife. The executors . gave the m 1 , 4 Power of attorney to receive the dividends for 1 841 ) 4 7, 11 t, in 1 837, that power was withdrawn, and, in i n idle tftk beone-inr , to Mrs. Phipps, and amount ,„e to 3 8 p 'eat 4 15 5. 9d. was sold out. The prisoner, since bezi • In le, was in embarrassed circumstances, and had wi fe .Insolvent, and all remaining interest claimed by his sa e the 4,00 0 / . stock was transferred to his assignee. ,`L'e 21st ctober last, a erson representing himself „ h L o n s l Mr. T h O omas Rance, the surviving executor, in *to ed ° name the rema i n d er o f Mrs. Griffith's stock r i yin • obtained the warrant for the dividend then ar- Ittseu 0!, and in th e usual course, the money for that in ellt• He sig ne d t h e name of Thomas Rance. The t I!)3er was not id e ntifi e d b y any of the clerks from ut he as as the person who so obtained the warrant, the of, was suspected, and by the e xer ti ons o f F orres t er , of t h`"ear, a 54 Bauk of England note, which was part Pok te : r floney paid on the warrant, was traced to his 014:" ) n. The prisoner paid away that note to Mr. 2 181 40 - D t Shoe maker, in Norton Folgate, and wrote the list he " Wilson, Enfield" upon it. It was also found • awl e Paid 31. on the 2d of Oct. to a baker at Enfield, th e :quested the latter not to mention anything about or o e tcaYmen t to his (the prisoner's) wife. On the 26th cme uob er xr r. and Rancepresented himself at the warrant forgery was discovered. On the 29th I' th c Z t re ' l l% te; b tu e had traced the note to Oliver, accompanied a lner Per2ell to Enfield, to confrout him with the pri °thes " e tn he took into custody. Miss Rance and Thowitneases swore to their belief that the signature, th e hand R ante," on the warrant and receipt were in bThe -riling of Phipps. ury, ,Prisoner made -a long rambling address to the hjue abject of which' seemed to be to suggest that th, pro ctill au interest through his wife and children in P e rcy in th e funds; he had some sort of title to t hat e h e the dividends but at the Battle time he denied e The L earn e person who personated Rance. e4d tved JUDGE having summed up, the jury lastev......una prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to eatenee deferred. k 4 / RAMES.—(THIS DAY.) of , 'eander Campbell, a ,watchman in the employ a . t0,844e5• Parry, Brothers, sugar refiners, Commercil 14 6 t ay.-, was placed in ' the dock, charged with robbing 4 0 4 41 " a quantity of staves of sugar hogsheads. tkit tt 11 L 3 quantity foreman to Messrs. Parry, stated watch th4r`ue prisoner had been some time engaged to NAlkdrernises, and the most implicit confidence wa s ttu,' ill him. This morning, about ten o'clock, as 4, ,ss entered the yard of the sugar bakery, phte"userved a quantity of staves tied together and tapped neXt the gate door, as if for the purpose of re ii4 • This excited his suspicion, and from one of the N r ews he kept watch. About half an hour after theta he observed the prisoner in the act of taking 11 t0pi,,,, W , 4 3% Ile had removed three bundles, and witness 44 1 `,Z,nitu in the act of taking the fourth. When Goeuell saw he was discovered he exclaimed, "For 1 % 4 1 ,', l ake, say nothing about it, or I am a ruined 6 1) o , When as k e d what he had to say, the prisoner A c ' c 't his head despondingly., and sa id , " I am guilty. " te,:t. BALLANTINE committed hi m f or trial. He was "40'ved lobbing bitterly. It RAILWAY RETURNS I±tcwAy Taarric.—The following are the Total Receipts of Ra 1- teafor the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the N Z e pve returns are m a d e, t ogether with the receipts of the same previous year : ------- IV ' tek •es e -4 44 g A , 0 . • NAME OF RAILWAY, Last a. „., week. T _..;,,' •%%........ t ''- c, to •eto,p , ...... 4 Arni 20 Arm —•ens and Boulogne .••••••• • •• • • • • —l9 ,oath and Fortar •••••—• • • • • • •• 168 193 18 ',heater and Birkenhead .••••• • • • • • " 6ls 516 21 "As u blht and Drogheda ••• • • * •• 716 671 683 621 20 t!ublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • 695 269 26 Dublin and Perth, and Aberdeen • • • • • • • • 20 t dinb urgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 3 ' 382 3 ' 295 121 •••.inburgh and Yorthern.. ••••• • " • • 613 20 "terrt Counti d North Eastern • • 10,391 8,052 20 Bastern U"nionr•e• •••• :: •••• •••• •••• : : • • • • • • • • 14 1.7 ' ast La n , h , " an "*" .. .. .... 857 766 1,102 423 2 0 al 2 0 ( , I , l " ,.., g g° o 7 v . a ird na lm G arnock, and Ayr • .• : •••• 2 1: 4 0 2 5 2 3 2,= reenoek •••• • • • * . 1,320 843 21 ''' re at South 2 0 Gre at ern and Western • • .... 20 Gre a t Western, &c .. .. .... .... 16,8 8 0 9 7 15,588 19 and Windermere. • ••• • • ' • ', anew. e and Y0rk5hire............ kV . 10 8'637 1,364 ''''',.: Loud o „,, e r and Carlisle.. : d ! ,LoLonhddoonn-••••aaerg and E.m.iskillen •••• • • • • North Western, &c• .... 654 ,35 2 1 L.30 ( 1 00 ' 8iaekwa11........ •••• • • 38,209 36,..222 20 London and Brighton ............... 7,408 6,7 18 sSouth Western . ........ , n an d 21 Zanelleeter LI tialaannul,ti.iasdtti:NeCilivi,arelilds 20 ~ ,l'a r SPort a' 517 621 1 e at1:1 . L111e,o11711ir 7 2, 1 1 5 035 r 1 ), e a s n t d e i. 1 .1 i r ( t l n r i i n s h g 1 ) i a I . n . .. .. .... 18,488 17,354 X 840 21 ," Y eastle a. 20 - 0 0rf01k... -- " 1 Carlisle .........• •• • . 2,014 2,001 2cl ..ortli Briti sh • •::••••••••• • • • • • • • • • •• 1,9h9 1,306 19 touen and 11:t e v il . • ...... . • • • • • • • • • . 20 .. a rle and 1t,., i —'•"••••• • • • • • • • • • 23 - '65 1,143 6,863 5,904 20 South bury a nd re *• ',' ••••••• • • • • • • • 2,739 10 uth astern Chester •......, „, „ 514 evon , u and Branches ........ 7,820 6.678 20 50,,, uttk b 21 A ster Vale . ******** '••—• • • • •• •••• 10,58 56 0 21 'ieter 20 Willteh a :•••• • • • • • ..... 739 777 Yo r k 'en Junction 20 -. and Newcastle- •••••••• • • • •• • • 223 —1,,,„, . ... 10,923 5,714 -.. and North Midi •••••• • • • • • ------------------------- 7,142 5,74 9 14 1, ° h eir•l T ft () -4 4 i 1•• • oP FISIL—Air. Lister Smith. of 11,1,1,.. t.,_ k i th., 1 1 . his fishn.Th .1 __ • titi)°helLlTY 71".7r774,- Smith, of Bock fr6,4) -.411 in his'afishplosnidi.sevtrra.l pe rch 3 which were angled i ee t i., l t hl 3 river in the spring time, and which he has suc- Q Y 4; 4 , 1 . 4 nlaking so tame that they will come when called 4 41 1 , 8 44 'P and eat from the hands of the children; and ' 3 4 or ' the voracity with which they devour w orms . that_ ew day, ii; t heta took from the hand of Mr. Smith, a _ f an. fitietk'tlea, thirty-one at one gorge ! After this . b 4,treici not appear for ten or twelve days, and it was Pier he ld had o er-gorged himself and died from re sititl2, but he has since come to . be fed, but eats more 444 ti : 1 1 ::, gener al ly contenting himself w ith five or six AMEItICAN NEWTS. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, lIALF- PAST 4, P.M. By the New Red-star line of packet-ship Ivanhoe, Captain Edwards, we have advices from New York to the 9th inst. The Ivanhoe has thus completed her first voyage in less than seventeen days. The Genius of Liberty has files of papers from the city of Mexico to the 7th ult., but had only time to say that the most profound tranquillity reigned in the capital. As soon as the new Government was organized, the fact was officially announced to the re presentatives of friendly nations. Her Britannic Majesty's ➢Minister at once replied, says a supplement to the Diario, in terms most satisfactory and honour able for their Excellencies the President and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The semblance of the Mexican Government met, according to appointment, at Queretaro, on the sth, but there not being anything like a quorum present, nothing was done. Peace is said to be as far off as ever; the feelings of the people are said to be most strenuously opposed to any compromise with the North Americans ; in fact, the hostility which exists against them in the interior towns, cities, and villages is reported to be of the most bitter kind. The other leading men and Generals have gone, for the most part, to Cuernavaca, in the tierra caliente. Cuernavaca is a town seventeen leagues south of the city of Mexico, on the road to Acapulco. The decree appointing Pena y Pena President had been revoked ; and Santa A nna was aga i n e l ec t e d President. General Paredes was a t T u l anc i ngo, en d eavour i ng to establish A mmarchy, and making important con verts. General Valencia was quiet, at his hacienda. General Bravo was on his parole at the capital. Accounts received from Guatamalta state that Santa Anna being at that place, General Lane en tered so suddenly that Santa Anna barely escaped. The Americans captured General La Vega, and took several pieces of cannon. Santa Anna at Guatamalta had 1,000 horse, and was soon reinforced by General Regis with 1,500 men. Both remained near till Lane defeated them again, and followed them up, killing seventy, and taking twenty prisoners. General Rea had left Puebla with a large force, for the purpose of cutting off the United States troops under General Lane, who were advancing to reinforce General Scott at the capital. E SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1847. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The following extracts show the result of the European news upon the American markets : Thursday night, Nov. 4.—The impression produced on the public mind by the news per French steamer, are, upon the whole, encouraging as to the state of affairs on the other side; yet there were not many letters from London, which is the point whence good or evil is anti cipated. We think the worst has paved, as we have more than once said in these columns, and we are glad to have our own opinions confirmed by a letter from a very reliable source in London of the 7th ult., received by the Phila delphia steamer, which expresses the same views, and adds, that the Peel Act, restricting the banks, is consi dered to have worked well, and would be sustained. In point of fact, few of the houses that have failed could have been properly or effectually aided by the Bank, even if that institution had been unfettered. Few sol vent houses had really yielded to the pressure, and no new failures in London had been announced in the two days intervening between our accounts by the Cambria, to the sth of October, and this letter of the 7th. Our conclusion, therefore, is, that the Caledonia, now near 2.t hand, if not arrived, will bring us intelligence of a more tranquil and settled state of the money market. The non-arrival of the Caledonia produces im patience. She is, however, not behind her time of last November, when she did not arrive till the 7th. At this season, thick fogs prevail on the coast of Nova Scotia and New England, which interferes with a steamer's speed considerably. Friday Night, Nov. s.—The Stock Board was in better spirits on the whole to-day, although no tidings had then reached here of the arrival of the Caledonia. Treasury notes got back to the old noted rate of 101 ; Ohio Sixes fell off about * per cent. from yesterday's prices, and were done at 981 ; United States of '67 brought 103 ; Pennsylvania Fives, 73i ; Reading Railway advanced nearly 11 per cent., and sold at 57*. At about half-past twelve o clock the telegraph gave information that the Caledonia was in the offing, but that she would not reach the wharf before three o'clock. Of course little or no business was transacted at the Exchange, all being on the alert for the Foreign news. Our columns contain all we have received by telegraph, and it will be seen prices for American pro duce were heavy, and the Money-market still very tight. The following comparative table shows a large increase in the supplies of breadstuffs for the last week in October over the like period of last year's, and gives other interesting details:— Flour and Grain—The quantity of flour, wheat, corn, and barley, left at tide water during the fourth week in Oct., in the years 1846 and 1847, is as follows: Flour, bbls. Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. Barley, bu. 1847 1846 Increase... 84,314 34,960 112,980 7,553 The aggregate quantity of the same articles left at tide water from the commencement of navigation to the 31st of Oct. inclusive is as follows: Flour, bbls. Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. Barley, bu. 1847 3,173,715 3,225,016 5,699,387 958,468 1846 2,243,942 2,104,155 1,403,255 1,012,728 Increase... 929,773 1,120,861 4,283,132 dec. 84,260 By reducing the wheat to flour, the quantity of it left at tide water this year, compared with the correspond ing period of last year, shows an excess equal to 1,153,945 barrels of flour, and an increase of excess since our statement of last week of 91,396 barrels of flour. The receipts of corn thus far exceed by 4,089,238 bushels the entire receipts of 1846. The receipts of barley up to the fourth week in October during the pre sent year, compared with the corresponding period of 1846, show a decrease of 84,200 bushels; and from the Ist of September to the 31st of October, inclusive, com pared with the same period in 1846, show a decrease of 15,216 bushels. Saturday Night, Nov. 6.—The letters and papers received by the mail from the Caledonia present a more gloomy 'aspect than, from the advices by the French steamer, we were quite prepared for; yet, gloomy as is the aspect for England, there is in it little or nothing that should cause uneasiness, or will produce loss here. The English funds have fallen almost 3 per cent. from the previous rates, the last quotations being 831 to 81, and confilence was sadly shaken. This, indeed, seems the great evil, and produces, or at any rate, largely aggravates, the scarcity of money, which is the great complaint. The prophecy, however, so heedlessly made by Mr. Horsley Palmer, and so unwisely blazoned to the public here, of as impending crash that was to shake commercial credit throughout the kingdom, had not occurred, and was not, so tar as could be judged, likely to occur. In all the list of failures brought by this packet, that of Barclay and Co. is the only consi derable one, and that touches very little this country, and is not of a calibre to shake the commercial credit of England. But more so is that of the Royal Bank of Liverpool, of which the whole capital almost—l,ooo,oool. —were said to be lent to three houses. When this state of facts was made known to the Bank of England, that institution very naturally and properly refused to inter fere,and the Liverpool Bank was obliged to stop. But no ultimate loss will result to the public, as the stockholders, who are personally liable, are able to make good all its engagements. There was a rumour by the French steamer that Mr. Baring had been to Paris to endeavour to ne gotiate a loan of 11,000,060 francs for a relief of the London money- market. This appears to be a mere rumour, without any founlation in fact,—as unfounded as the story told by a previous packet, in some Eng lish letter or paragraph, that the house of Baring Bro thers and Co. had been aided by Lord Ashburton to the extent of 500,0001. sterling, who was said to have sold out Consols to that amount. The whole is mere inven tion, that eminent house neither needing nor receiving any help ; but, on the contrary, using its own great means and unembarrassed position to help those less at ease. From the deputation which has gone from Liver pool to see the Chancellor of the Exchequer with a view of inducing some relaxation in the Bank restriction, aid was expected, as Sir Robert Peel had been with the Mayor (one of the deputation) for a week preceding the mission of the deputation, and it was thence inferred that Sir Robert's assent to some modifications in the Act which bears his name might be anticipated. The form in which Government may authorise relaxation will be, if at all, probably in granting the Bank permission to issue one pound notes. Such an issue, however, will discount,iss ue wouldse as b only be p erm i tte d for a limited period—any one year —and to discourage o new by undertakings the arise Under all the ci rcumstances, the chief interest still which rates of the . this country has in the condition of the English money market is the indirect one—though very near worthless —of the prices of our chief staples in the English markets. While the money pressure continues here, wheat, flour, cotton, &c., will continue low—and as the value will be regulated measurably by the value abroad, prices here, too, must be low. But of returned bills of exchange—except upon banks or other incorporated institutions—there will be few or none ; and those re turned upon such institutions are forthwith paid with damages. The French Government have issued propo sals for a loan of 250,000,000 f., about 50,000,000 dolls., to be paid in twenty-five monthly instalments of, on an average, of 10,000,000 f. per month. The French funds rose, in the face of this announ cement of a new lo an issue, of which the apprehension had long hung over the market as an indefi n ite contingency. As soon as the n k owia, the market was re facts and conditions were loan for a three per cent. issue lieved. It is believed the could be negotiated at about 77. Nothing was done in foreign exchanges. Cotton—The market ha s been completely unsettled by taken by the foreign news. A few hundred ba les were spinners at a decline of one-half cent per pound from our last quotations. Flour, &c.—There was but little animatio n in the market, and prices had a downward tendency. 1 , 000 barrels Michigan and 1,000 barrels of Oswego sol d at 6 dolls. 431 c.• sales of Genessee wer e made at 6 dolls. 50c., alth oug h some holders continued to ask former prices. 150 b a rr e l s o f rye flour sold at 5 dolls. 12 e • which is a decline. Southern flour is dull. Corn de clined, and was dull of sale; a few thousand bushels, mixed and yellow, sold at from 73c. to 76c. Wheat was Provisions wera inactive. Prices remain without alteration. Ashes continue firm. A sale of pearls vl as made at 8 dolls. 87P.; pots at from 6 dolls. to 6 dolls. 62p. LATEST. MONDAY NIGHT, Nov. B.—Our business people like to be frightened—at least so it would seem—tor the) lose no opportunity, when bad news of any sort is re ceived, to make the most of it—and the %omit of it. Hence, at the Stock Board to day there was a general decline, and Treasury notes went down to per cent., and the fancies fell mil more—Norwich and Worcester and Har!em fell 21, Reading and Long Island What connexion there is between the value of our stocks and a money pressure in London, and the failure there of East India houses or Russia houses, or houses in general business, is not easy to perceive; yet we choose to b frightened about it, and so prices of our undoubted securities went down. In the street there is a vague uneasiness —which, however, cannot stand before in quiry. The general result, however, is a certain stag nation in business. Cotton is falling still—the decline in the last sixty days amounting to something like 4c. a pound. Cotton—The market is unsettled, and prices uneven; 1,000 bales were sold today, princip2lly at half a cent decline from the prices current before the arrival of the steamer. _ _ Flour, &c.—All descriptions are dull; Michigan, Os wego, &c., are freely offered at 6 dollars 25 cents; Ge nessee, 6 dolls. 371 c. Southern flour is held nomibally at 6 dolls. 621 c. 140 barrels Jersey corn meal sold at 3 dolls. 50c.; 150 barrels state ditto, 3 dolls. 371 c. Wheat is plenty, without finding buyers at asking rates. Corn is dull at 72e. to 75c.; 10,000 bushels sold deliverable to sellers' option, 60 days, at 65c. Ashes are firm. 100 barrels pots sold at 7 dollars. Pearls bring 8 dollurs 871 cents. Whisky has fallen off. Sales of states prison barrels have been made at 30 cents. _ _ Provisions remain inactive, with a downward tendency n prices. Mess pork has been sold at 14 dollars 311 cents. The receipts of flour to-day are 21,62 g barrels. Capitalists refused to advance on commercial paper for short dates at less than 1 per cent. per month, and the principal drawers on London advanced the rates to 110 for GO days' bills. Insurances had been effected on a large amount of specie to go out by the Caledonia packet of the 16th inst. One company refused to open any mere policies on specie by that vessel. Bovereigas were bought by the brokers at 4 dollars 84 cents. In largo sums they commanded as much as 4 dollars 87 cents. Exchange, 1091 to 110. Freights.—Corn was offering at 6d, per bushel, and cotton at -id. per lb. CINCINNATI, Nov. B—P.M. Flour—The Caledonia's news has had the effect of checking operations, dealers being disposed to wait for private correspondence by mail before moving to any considerable extent. Sales of all kinds, within a day or two, reached from 3,000 barrels to 4,000 barrels on the average, at about 4 dollars 50 cents to 4 dollars 75 cents. To-day 200 barrels sold at 4 dollars 25 cents. Lard—Sales of 1,000 packages were made on terms not understood. Hogs of 1,000 head were made at 4 dollars 26 cents. Whisky at 18! cents. Wheat—Sales of 10,000 bushels (Ohio) were made at 85 cents. NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 31. Cotton—The market continued dull. The sales amounted to about 7,000 bales within a day or two, at the decline previously noticed. The market closed on terms in favour of buyers. Flour exhibited no change, and small sales Illinois and Ohio were made at 4 dollars 75 cents, and St. Louis City Mills were held at 5 dollars to 5 dollars 25 cents. Wheat—No sales were reported. Corn—Sales of 10,000 bushels were made, consisting of new Western mixed at 41 cents to 46 cents. Bye.—No sales were making. Oats wero dull at 34 cents. Tobacco continued dull; about 50 hogsheads Kentucky leaf sold on terms not understood. Sugar was dull at 5/ for common to 6* for prime. Mo lasses steady at 21 cents. Whiskey.—Sales at 20 cents. Nothing of moment in freights. Sterling bills 41 cents to 5} cents; sight ditto on New York, 1 to 1 discount. Treasury notes par. HAVANNAH, OCT. 19. The imports of rice since the Bth have been—The Lucy Blake, from Charleston, 295 casks; the Rapid, from New York, 151 ditto; C. Colon, ditto, 204 ditto and 500 bags; Merchant, from Charleston, 230 ditto, Orleans, Savannah, 400 ditto; from Campeachy, 573 bags; Cadiz, 300 bags, all of which remain unsold. The dealers offer 9 reals for the parcel from Campeachy, and but 111 for all the rest; there is little or no demand. Sugars are very firm, alkd an advance of real has been obtained. Stock of lard, 1,900 kegs, and we quote 17 to 17+. A cargo of lumber, from Mobile, is placed at 33 dollars. Flour dull; last sales 14 dollars tor Ame rican, and 1,100 barrels Spanish at 13i- dollars. Mo lasses firm at 3 reels. Exchange on the north, 1 to 1+ per cent. premium; on London, 12 per cent. premium. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin, —Observing in your City article of yesterday that " Whitmore and Son" were among the failures announced on the Stock Exchange, and we being known by that description, beg to inform yon that the statement is in correct ; and we shall be obliged by your inserting this communication in your paper. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, EDWARD and ALFRED WHITMORE. 17, Change-alley, Nov. 26, 1847. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.—The fashionable watering place Weston-super Mare, Somersetshire, has been thrown into a state of unusual excitement and alarm, in consequence of an attempt by a man named Cann to murder Mr. Hill, the active and intelligent superintendent of police, by stab bing him with a knife in two different places. Cann is supposed to have formed one of a number of idle and dissolute persons of both sexes, who had latterly occa sioned much annoyance to the inhabitants of the place, and some of whom, through the diligence of the super intendent, had been apprehended, conveyed before the magistrates, and by them sent to prison, on whi c h ac count it is believed that Hill had become very obnoxious to them. Cann and another man had been creating a disturbance; they continued their row, and some of the inhabitants being disturbed, sent for Hill, who was in bed at the time, to assist in preserving the peace. The fellows refused to comply with the superintendent's directions, and go home quietly, and resisted his autho rity with so much violence, that being powerful fellows, he was obliged to strike them with his staff twice. Cann used violent threats, and swore that if he touched them again, he would stablthe constable, and a further scuffle ensued, in the course of which Cann stabbed Hill twice. The poor fellow was picked up in a faint and bleeding state, and was conveyed to his home, where he lies in considerable peril. Cann was afterwards apprehended on the capital charge. FIELD-LANE RAGGED ScHooL.—Last evening the sixth anniversary meeting of the friends and supporters of this school was held, at the Farringdon hall, King street, Snow-hill. Lieut. Blackmore having taken the chair the secretary read the report. It stated that the district in which the school was situate had long been known as the most depraved in the metropolis, and the character of the children attending it might therefore be judged. The school was now open every day in the week, the average attendance being 70, and the instruc tion given entirely free. The committee, after much consideration, suggested that food should be given to the children, many of them, dependent as they were upon what they casually picked up in the streets, and turned out by their parents to shift for themselves, often tasted nothing from morning to night. It could not be expected that these children could be improved in mind while they felt the pangs of hunger. The committee also suggested that the boys should be taught some trade, the knowledge of which might enable them to earn their living in an honest and industrious manner. The receipts for the support of the school amounted to 871., and the expenditure to 701., leaving a balance not equal to the liabilities. . . . MONUMENT TO DAVY.— We notice with pleasure a tolerably wide-spread movement in the mining world, for the erection of a monument to the memory of the late zsir H. Davy. Let there bo a monument by all means; next to Newton, no man of science of this country ever deserved one more. But do nut let any error, in point of fact, be mixed up with the grounds on which his me mory is cherished. The safety lamp was, indeed, one of the greatest triumphs of his genius; but it is an histo rical untruth to say that it has " economised human lite." On the contrary, the loss of life from explosion of fire-damphas been much greater since the introduction of the Davy than before it. And this is reasonably enough accounted for in two ways—first, by the neglect which the use of the Davy has induced of ventillation, which is a much surer means of ,preventing such accidents than any mode of lighting whatever; and, second, by its having enabled coal-owners to work mines so danger ously foul, that but for the Davy they could not, and would not, have been worked at all. So largely, indeed, are the former its debtors, that were they alone to de fray the cost of the proposed monument they would be but performing a very ordinary act of gratitude. All this, however, detracts nothing from the merit of the invention itself'. Employed in subordination to the in terests of humanity, it was of a nature to confer incal culable good; and it is no fault of the inventor that it has been prostituted to the purposes of a base and ruth less cupidity.—Mechanics' Magazine. THE LATE ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—It will, no doubt, be in the recollection of our readers that William Ashcroft was convicted at the last Central Criminal Court sessions, for having, on the 25th of last month, placed large blocks of granite upon the rails on the Eastern Counties Railway, near the Lea bridge station, just before a down-train was due. The passengers were so much pleased with the presence of mind and judgment displayed by the engine-d r i ver , William Young, in stopping the train, and by the sub sequent exertions of the firemen and guards in capturing Ashcroft, that they raised a subscription, amounting to 81 83. 6d., and requested the directors. to divide it in such proportions as they might think fit. The money was accompanied by a very flattering letter in praise not only of the men, but of the improved and now efficient general management of the line. The men attended the board on Thursday last, when, after a suitable address from Mr. Waddington, M.P., the chairman on that day, Young was presented with 51., being the directors' addi tion to the subscription, and the 81. Bs. 6d. was divided equally among the three other men. It may, perhaps, be mentioned that Young was the man selected by the directors to drive the train that conveyed her Majesty and Prince Albert to and from the Cambridge installation in July last. He is ono of the oldest engine-diivers in the Eastern Counties service, and one of their most valuable servants. THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL. This Journal, which is published in Edinburgh, is, after an existence of twenty years to be given up, not being sufficiently patronised. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Lord Stradhroke's Lynceus died, a few days ago, at Henham, and Mr. Wigram's Pitting. engaged in the Derby, 1848, on Friday last, at Newmarket. BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.—FRIDAY. 11 to 1 agst Surplice, 11 to 1 apt Glen dower, 16 to 1 apt Springy Jack, IS to 1 ag-tAssault, 20 to 1 agst Stinger 33 to 1 agst Backbiter (t), 40 to 1 agst Rosalyn, 50 to 1 agst The Fowler. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Brighton Harra., Mon., Patcham ; Wed., Thunders Barrow; Fri., Dyke, I to 11. Brookside Harrs., Mon., Newmarket•hill ; Thurs., Telacombe Tye, loi. Mr. Napper's Hds.. Tues., Parham Park ; Thurs., Wappingthorn; Sat., Washington Common, 11. Crawley and Horsham Hds., Mon., Crabbett Park; Wed., The Cock, Southwater ; Fri , Warmingfield Vil lage: Glyndbourne Hari's., Mon., Newhaven Barn ; Fri., Berwick Common, 11. - -- Worcestershire Hds., Tues., Oldington Common, near Stourport; Fri., Brockridge Common, 10i. Mr. Giles's lids , Mon., Feathers Inn, Staunton; Wed., Aston, Ingham; Fri., The Wytche, Wk. Herefordshire lids., Tues., Englond's Gate ; Fri., Holme Lacy, 101. Ludlow lids., Tues., Brampton Bryne ; Fri., Hope Baggott, 10. Sir. Farquharson'B Ms., Mon., Combe Coppice; Tues., Upcerne Wood; Wed., Yellowh am ' • Sat., Clifton Wood. B. V. H., Tues., T oomer F arm ; Sat., Fulham Cross Roads. Cheshire Hds., Mon., Twemlow Hall; Wed., Tilstone; Fri., Stamford Bridge, 101. Donington Hds., Mon., Plumtree Village ; Wed., Morley Village; Sat., Stainton Harold Park, / to 11. Sherwood Harrs., Tues., King'; Mill; Fri., Lyndhurst Farm, 11. Mr. Meynell's Hds., Mon., Loxley ; Thurs., Shirley Park; Sat., New Lodge, to 11. Sir R. Sutton's lids., Mon., Stanton Wyville ; Tues., Beaumanor ; Wed., Bunny Park •, Thurs., Brooksby ; Fri., Bardon Hall; Sat., Ashfordby, 11. Mr. Breary's Beagles, Mon., Barrow-upon-Trent , 11 . her Majesty's Stag hda., Tues., Theme; Wed., Hey throp; Sat., New Lodge, Winkfield-11. _ A iherstone hds., Mon., Barton in the Beans; Wed., Anstey Hall; Fri., Shuttington.bridge; Sat.,Combe--11. Essex Union hds., Wed., Moor-gardens ; Sat., Al thorne-street-10i. East Essex hds., Tues., Helions, Bumpstead ; Sat., Mark's Ha 11-10 f. South Essex has , Tues., White's-bridge; Sat., Dog and Partridge, Stifford— Cottesmo - ie hds. Mon., arentham Inn ; T ues ., Edith weston • Thurs., hds., Sat., Brook Hall-10i. Earl Fitzwilliam ' s hds., Mon., Kennel; Wed., Wey bridge-wood ; Fri., Ashton Wold-10. Mr. Hellier's hds., Mon., Brackenboro' Bar; Tues , Wood Enderby; Fri., Hainton; Sat., Haugh-10i. Mr. A. Smith's hds., Mon., Stoddesdon Gate; Tues., Oare Hill; Wed., Wherwell Wood; Thurs., Wilster Wood; Fri., South Grove; Sat., Athmansworth-11. Mr. Horlock's hds., Tues., Norwood -11. Duke of Beaufort's hds., Mon., Shepton Moyne; Wed., North Wrexall; Thurs., Stanton Park ; Sat., Chaven age Green. Suffolk hds., Mon., Chippenham Park; Thurs., Nor ton Dogs-102. Sir W. Wynn's hds., Mon., Choriton Hall; Wed., Wynnstay;;Fri.,Halston Gates; Sat., Penley North Staffordshire hds., Mon., Siddington Toll-bar; Wed. Dilhorn; Fri., Adderley-102. J3adsworth hds., Tues., Hat Green; Thurs , Went bridge; Sat., Ringston Chetenham stag hds., will meet, Fri., Kilkenny -12. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. RAILWAY EXPRESSES.-THE NARROW GAUGE. The following details of the rate of travelling by ex press on the London and North-Western, and other railways to the North, may be of interest to our readers. The occasion was the " expressing" of the debate on the Queen's Speech; and the party who performed the journey was Mr. Smith, jun., of the well-known firm of Messrs. W. 11. Smith and Son, news agents, of the Strand : Miles from h. m. London. We left London, with the morning papers, on Wednesday, at 5 3 Arrived at Rugby at Left Rugby, 7 h. 40 m. Arrived at Stafford B5O 132 Arrived at Crewe 9 20 157 (Special eng ine from Crewe arrived at Manchster at 10, 188 miles). Left Crewe, 9 h. 25 m. Arrived at Warrington 955 181 (Special engine from Warrington, ar rived at Liverpool at 10 h. 30 in., 201 miles). Left Warrington at 10. Arrived at Preston Left Preston, 10 h. 42 in. Arrived at Kendal Arrived at Carlisle Left Carlisle at 1 h. 13 m. Arrived at Beattock Left Beattock at 2 h. 18 in., and Arrived at Glasgow, by post horses, _ at 8 398 " Stopped at Tring, Wolverton, Tamworth, Stafford, Crewe, Wigan, Lancaster, and Kencl9.l, for water; changed engine at Rugby, Warrington, Preston, and Carlisle. Mr. Worthington drove from Lancaster to Carlisle, and Mr. Addison from Carlisle to Beattock." We learn from IMr. Smith that he arrived in town on Thursday night, having travelled the entire distance from London to Glasgow and Edinburgh, and back (up ward of 900 miles), in 40 hours—nine of which were spent in Edinburgh and Glasgow !—Railway Record, this day. IMPORTATION OF APPLES.--A vessel arrived from Jersey has brought 5,000 bushels, being an entire cargo, of apples, the produce of that island. The arrivals of this fruit of the Channel Islands have lately been numerous and extensive, but we do not think that any supply hitherto has nearly equalled that in the present instance. It is rumoured, in quarters likely to be well in formed, that Lady Blanche Somerset, third daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, will shortly be allied to the eldest son of a noble Scotch family. The nobleman referred to is Viscount Dupplin, eldest son of the Earl of Kin noull, and the marriage, it is said, will take place as soon as Lord Dupplin comes of age. His Lordship was born on the 16th July, 1827, and consequently is now is his 21st year. Lady Blanche Somerset will complete her 20th year on the 26th of January next. FOSSIL REMAINS.—A short time ago, while a man, named Thomas Heatly, was working in Ballygroobeny bog, about half a mile from Hamiltonsbawn, he disco vered the fossil remains of an animal of the ancient Irish elk species. The head was in tolerably safe pre servation, and has two main antlers upwards of seven feet apart, from each of which are twelve branches. The bones are much larger than those of a cart horse. — Armagh Guardian. FIRE IN CHRISTOPHER-SQUARE.--YeSterday morn ing, shortly before six o'clock, a fire broke out upon the manufacturing premises belonging to Mr. Alfred Web ster, a bedstead-maker and japanner, situate No. 21, Christopher-square, Sun-street, 13ishopsgate. The flames originated in the factory, which was surrounded on either side by workshops and private houses, and in the course of a few minutes after, not only were Mr. Web ster's buildings in a blaze, but two or three private houses in the same square, and also a couple more in Crown-court. It was not until a late hour that the fire was extinguished, and not until a serious destruction of property had taken place. UNLICENSED VENDORS OF MEDlClNE.—Yesterday the Apothecaries' Company issued notices to the licen tiates of that company, requesting to be informed of any unqualified medicine vendor residing in their district, in order to their criminal prosecution; the company, in consequence of the numerous fatal occurrences resulting from the indiscriminate sale of poisons, &c., by such persons, being resolved to put the law in force in all cases of vending and prescribing by unlicensed persons. A farmer's wife in New Connecticut, Ohio, is preparing a cheese for a present to Queen Victoria, which will beat Parson Leland's Jefferson monster all hollow. By joining (as they say) with some few of her neighbours, she has prepared the milk of 500 cows for one day. The production is a cheese weighing six hundred pounds. AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.—On Wednesday morn ing week, a fox paid a visit to Mr. Bramley's poultry, at Sutton Bonnington, and after robbing the roost of several young fowls, killed several fine game fowls and three young turkeys, which he quietly deposited in an adjoin ing garden, where they were found by Mr. Bramley and the policeman, whilst in search of the sly thief.— Northampton Journal. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Iberia brings advices to the following dates:—Gibraltar, Nov. 17; Cadiz, 18th ; Lisbon, 21st; Oporto, 22d; Vigo, 23d. The Iberia brings eighteen packages of specie, and a general cargo of oranges, wine, lemons, other fruits, and sundries. Stations of her Majesty's ships—Nov. 17, at Gibraltar, Polyphemus; at Lisbon, 21st, St. Vincent, 120; Howe, 120; Queen, 120; Caledonia, 120; Canopus, 84; Am phion steam-frigate, Dragon steam-frigate, Scourge steam frigate, Avenger steam-frigate. At Oporto, Jackall steam-schooner. At Lisbon, 21st, entering the port as we left, her Majesty's steam-schooner Comet, four days from Plymonth. EAST I NDIA H OUSE .—Yesterday the 'directors appointed the Transfer-books of the East India Com pany's Stock to be shut on Thursday, the 2d of Dec., at three o'clock, and to he opened again on the 15th of January, 1848. The dividends to be paid on the 6th of January. THB LATE ALEXANDER GALLOWAY.—Tuesday the mortal remains of Mr. Alexander Galloway were deposited in Kensal-green Cemetery, in a vault, alongside his wife and son, the Bey, who are buried there. The funeral was strictly private, and confined to his two sons and grandson, and a few intimate friends who appeared as mourners. FEMALEBAILIFF.—The Limerick Chronicle states that a gentleman, who was unable to get writs served, dressed up a bailiff in female attire, and thus effected his object, for the seeming woman was admitted, while the bailiff, in propria persona, had found that there was "no use knockin g a t t h e d oor. " JERSEY Ortnoms.--An importation of seven tons weight, 10 sacks, and 15 bags of onions, have taken place by a vessel arrived in the river, from Jersey, the produce of the island, in addition to other articles of general merchandise. Although such large supplies of onions take place from the southern and other states of Europe, we have not been accustomed to look for them from the Channel Islands in such large quantities, COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at tended by Major Stephens, returned to his residence at Kew, yesterday, from honouring Mr. William and Lady Gertrude Sloane Stanley with a visit at their seat, Paultons, Hants. A deputation, headed by the Hon. F. H. Fitzhar dinge Berkeley, had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. The Right Hon. Sir William Somerville, Chief Se cretary for Ireland, the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General for Ireland, had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office. The Rev. Mr. Lloyd had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Chadwick had an interview with the Chan. cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official re sidence in Downing -street. Mr. Maurice O'Connell had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. • Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colo nial-office, from the Govern nor of the Gold Coast. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office, iJr the Governor of Gibraltar. THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Lord Ashburton has well remarked in his pamphlet, published last summer, that every pressure in the money market has originated in some cause peculiar to the period, therefore requiring that the treatment should be adapted to the nature of the complaint, in stead of being treated according to the Sangrado system of depletion and hot water, enforced by Sir R. Peel's Bill of 1844. Lord A. states that the panic of 1825 was allayed by the issue of five or six millions of one pound notes, at a time when the Bank coffers were entirely exhausted, and when, had the ',principle of the Bill of 1844 been then in operation, an extremely opposite system must have been pursued, and thus the evils of panic and bank ruptcy have been incalculably extended. Whereas then, as now, all that was really requisite was some measure tending to restore confidence and supply the vacuum in the circulation, caused by the hoarding of notes as well as bullion. Lord Ashburton very hap pily designates the restrictive clause of Sir R. Peel's Bill as an attempt to regulate the currency of the country by an arbitrary piece of mechanism, instead of by human intelligence, cognizant of all the peculiari ties of the disease, and adapting its remedies to them. Such legislation is unworthy the age we live in, for if the Bank of England be bound to pay its notes in gold, it surely ought to be left at liberty to decide in what manner it is most expedient to secure the means of its doing i, s a s e o ; ; and wh e w r e h a e s n t t h o e e A m e t t e nd, and when of 1844 deprives to i d t i diminish of iasil power of accommodation at the very moment when it is most essential for the public benefit. But it should possess a more than usually liberal discretion. The history of all the panics, from which the country has of late suffered sufficiently proves this, and even in 1839, when the stock of bullion was reduced to about two millions and a half, there was very little feeling of panic as compared with that which has lately been experienced, while the Bank held above eight millions in its coffers. All this difference of intensity of suffer ing under circumstances so much more favourable, the country, therefore, evidently owes to the restrictive clause of Sir Robert Peel's Bill. During, also, what is known as the American panic of 1837, the Bank di rectors being then quite unfettered in regard to their issues, and acting on their own discretion, without either a high rate of interest, or any great pressure, suc ceeded in. bringing back into the country so much gold, that, during the following year, they saw fit to export to New York to the extent of one million for sale, feeling themselves labouring under an " embarras des richesses,' and such will, in all probability, again be the case during the ensuing year. That it will be necessary to limit the railway expendi ture of the country, and extend these works over an increased number of years, is now admitted on all hands, and the only question for solution is, as to the best manner of doing so, namely, whether by the volun tary resolves of the companies, or by a restrictive Act of Parliament. A high rate of interest might no doubt produce much of the effect that is desired, but it does so at the cost, and to the injury, of regular commerce, and is, therefore, not a tenable proposition as a perma nent arrangement. As constitutional objections might exist in regard to abridging the powers cf railway Acts which have al ready been granted, it is desirable that the companies should be induced, for the benefit of the community, as well, perhaps, as themselves, to delay proceeding with their works, and thus prevent future derangement of the money market. If this is felt to be an object of impor tance, Government might, no doubt, procure the co operation of many of the new undertakings, by offering that such of them as should delay proceeding with their works for three, four, or five years, should be exempted for a like period after the opening of their respective lines from the mileage tax on passengers. This boon, though small, would serve as an excuse for delay, and would occasion little or no loss to the public revenue, as it is possible that, under such an arrangement, a greater extent of railway would be completed at the end of ten years than were they all to be proceeded with simulta neously, and, perhaps, after again occasioning distress in the money market, become ultimately stopped from the want of funds.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., Brighton, Nov. 24, 1847. R. C. -- ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Frederick of Hesse, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and Duchess of Nor folk, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duke of Manchester, the Duke of Leeds, the Duke of Stackpool, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Downshire, the Dow ager Marchioness of Downshire, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford, the Earl of Auckland, the Earl of Cardigan, Earl Fitz hardinge, the Earl of Munster, the Countess of Guild ford, Earl Shelburne, the Earl and Countess of Har rington, Viscount Cantilupe, Viscount Anson, Viscount Morpeth, Lord S u ffi e ld, Lord Clinton, Baron Platt, Lady Mary Howard, Lady Crossley, Lady Adelina Howard, Lord Gardner, Lord and Lady Charington, Lord Burleigh, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord Willoughby, Lord Compton, Lord Alford, Lady Trol lope, Lord Henry Lennox, Lord William Lennox, Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley, Sir Bellingham Graham, Sir Charles Shakerly, Sir Ralph Howard, Sir C. Mar shall, Sir William and Lady Clay, Sir Charles Kent, Sir Henry Webster, Hon. Mrs. Anson, Mr. Baring, the Hon. Cecil Forester, Col. and Mrs. Griffiths, Admiral Elliot, Mr. E. Mildmay, Mrs. Milner Gibson, Admiral Sykes, Capt. and L a dy Ad e l a Ibb otson, A . K . Oom, Esq., Capt. de Bathe, &c., having lately honoured the above theatre with their patronage. THE BURY THEATRE.—Mr. Davenport has closed the season at Bury—the most successful one for years. The performances of the last night were for the mana ger's benefit; " La Sonnarnbula," being produced for the first time. Miss Davenport's Amino and Mr. Thornley's Elvino„ appear to have been extremely good perso nations of those characters; a contemporary says:— " From the opening chorus to the splendid finale of this most glorious work, the house was in a perfect tumult of delight." Both the above performers were called for at the close of the curtain.—Norfolk Chronicle. MR. HOWITT'S NEW Woax.—We are requested to state, that " The Hall and the Hamlet," by William Howit, author of " The Book of the Seasons," " Rural Life in England," - & - C -. ., in 2 vols., will be published by Mr. Colburn, with the magazines on the 30th of No vember. Also now ready at all the libraries, " Town and Country," a novel, by Mrs. Trollope, author of " Father Eustace," " The Three Cousins," &c., 3 vols. Yesterday the owner of a beer-shop, in Baldwin's gardens, named Simon Hore, appeared before Mr. Tyr whitt, at the Clerkenwell Police-court, charged by Thos. Murphy, a private belonging to the 30th Regiment of foot, with having refused to billet him, contrary to the provisions of the Mutiny Act, which subjected him to a penalty not exceeding 51., or not less than 40s. The complainant deposed that he had been at Cambridge on a recruiting party, and came to London on Thursday on his route to Newcastle•upon-Tyne. He obtained a billet to be lodged in defendant's house, and on presenting it, the defendant refused to receive him, and he was obliged to seek other accommodation for himself and another soldier. Mr. Tyrwhitt asked defendant what he had to say? He replied that he had only been in the house a fortnight, he had paid for his license, but he had not yet received it, and if he had erred it was through ignorance, as he was not aware of the consequence of his refusal. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had been guilty of a very serious offence. The ground of his license was to compel him to billet soldiers when required to do so, and he read to him that part of the Mutiny Act in reference to the offence, which inflicted the penalty not exceeding 51., nor less than 40s. The Mutiny Act was passed every year, but there was another Act, which gave the magis trate a discretionary power to mitigate the penalty. He had his doubts upon the subject, and he hoped he should not be doing wrong in adopting that course. The Mutiny Act was very distinct, and it was important that its provisions should be carried out. Soldiers might be in Ireland, Scotland, and other remote and wild places, where they could obtain no accommodation if' they were refused to be billeted, and rendered unfit for their duty. He would fine the defendant in the mitigated penalty of 20s. Owing to certain circumstances, Mr. Tyrwhitt said:he was inclined to allow defendant to speak privately with Murphy, in order to make some compensation. They consulted together and defendant eventually agreed to give Murphy Bs., and the case was dismi s s e d. NEW COAL EXCHANGE, LOWER THAMES•STREET. —The building now being erected from the designs of Mr. Bunning, the architect to the corporation, is ar ranged so as to give an increased width to the thorough fare of St. Mary-at-Hill and Lower Thames street, and presents two distinct elevations, connected by a circular tower, 100 feet high, within the re-enteringiangle formed by the two fronts. The front of the wholo is to be faced with Portland stone. The building will contain on the ground-floor, in addition to suites of offices, an area of upwards of 4,000 superficial feet for the meet ing of the merchants, including a circle 60 feet in dia meter. the whole height of the building, covered with a glazed dome of cast-iron ribs, supported on each storey by ornamental cast-iron stauncheons. This, from its magnitude and novelty of design, will form a prominent feature of the building. The height from the floor to the top of the dome will be about seventy feet. There are likewise provided suites of spacious, well-lighted offices and committee-rooms, occu optyitnhge four of f o a f e t t h or e s b , u a i n l d din m g e , tfeorrsth; etaheecoamemceosdseastiotno them being by projecting galleries of fire-proof eon wl d i i t n h g i n willt h e circle b eab wto lkn etr d ke e 3r, r 6ev v,co t ht h oi io e oenhl. d oi o sf m tmto e h . rie b T eNxuv h iei e leldlu c ii na o t egm s d t , s o t f ru t h e e t i o b n u , T e x r e c e g p o t i i n s g th fo e r o t o h n e tr f a o o u t n o d r e f r o s r , by Messrs. Dower, of Old-street,—The wilder, birb Mbitton EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) REVENUE CASE.-ATTORNEY GENERAL V. LABRON. In this case a verdict was taken by consent for the Crown, for the sum of 3,0002 (Before a Common Jury.) SIMMONDS V. PAYNE. In this case Mr. Chambers anti Mr. Piggott appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Martin for the defence. This was an action brought for the purpose of reco vering 261. 16v. upon a bill of exchange drawn by the plaintiff upon the defendant. The defendant pleaded a set-off for goods supplied to the amount of 20/. 18s. Id., and that the balance of the bill was included'in another bill of 461., which was sub sequently paid by the defendant. It appeared, however, that consideration was given for the second of the bills previous to the one becoming due upon which the action was now brought. The verdict was accordingly given for the plaintiff for the sum of 261. 165., with interest thereon. STADMAN V. NOORTS. This was au action brought to recover compensation in damages for a false imprisonment on a charge of felony by the defendant. Mr. Knowles and Mr. Taylor appeared for the plaintiff. It appeared, from the evidence, that the plaintiff car• ried on business as a smith in the neighbourhood of the Mile-end-road. Having occasion to raise some money, he mortgaged the lease of the premises which he occupied to a person, who advanced a considerable sum on the same. Having occasion to enlarge his premises he obtained a further sum of money on the mortgage. The enlargements which he made consisted of a wooden out-house, with a tiled roof, but no mortar was used in the erection of the building. The plaintiff having been brought into difficulties, the sheriff was put in formal possession of the premises by the mortgagee, the plaintiff receiving permission to remove the buildings which he had previously erected. Upon his proceeding, however, to do so, he was given in charge by the defendant, clerk to Messrs. Maurice and Co., solicitors. Having entered the charge in the book, the defendant refused to sign it, whereupon the plaintiff was at once discharged from custody. The present action was in consequence brought to recover compensation for false imprisonment. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 251. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. (THIS DAY.) (Before the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Com mon Pleas, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Maule, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Baron Platt, and Mr. Justice Williams.) THE BARON DR BODE V. THE QUEEN. The Attorney-General having obtained a rule, calling on the plaintiff in error to show cause why the writ he had brought in this case should not be quashed, Mr. Sergeant MANNING now showed cause. The writ had been brought by the present Baron de Bode, as administrator to his deceased father, and was objected to by the Attorney General on several distinct grounds, the chief of which were that an administrator could not have a writ of error, because he was not a party to the record in the court below ; or if he could it would be necessary to have a stirs facias, in the first instance, to apprize the Crown that a judgment had been re corded, but that the fruits of it had not been en joyed ; and that being necessary, a seire facies could not be maintained against the Crown. The Learned Sergeant answered the several objections on the autho rity of cases in the older books, and on that of several recent Acts of Parliament. Mr. M. D. HILL followed on the same side. The Attorney-General, with whom was Mr. Wadding ton, appeared for the Crown. The arguments were not concluded when the Court rose. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.) THOMSON V. WEB% The trial of this railway case, which occupied the Court nearly the whole of yesterday, was resumed to-day. The defence was that the plaintiff had already been overpaid for mapping the line, and that the plans and sections deposited with the Board of Trade and clerks of the peace, were so imperfect and incorrect that the line was thrown out by the Standing Orders' Com mittee. It appeared that great objections were placed in the way of the surveyors by the opposing landowners, and that the survey could only be carried on by stealth. A verdict was found for the plaintiff for the full amount. PORTUGAL. The following is the order of the day concerning the interference of the military in elections, issued by the King of Portugal, as Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese army, and to which allusion is made in our Lisbon correspondence. It is a most important document, as it proves the frauds had recourse to by the Cabralista party in the recent municipal elections Our Correspondent says that the Cabralists are most severe in their animadversions on it, and the Estan darte (Cabral's organ), denies the right of the King to issue such a document : " Head-quarters, Palace of the Necessidades, Nov. 14. " Order of the Day. " It having reached the knowledge of his Majesty the King, Commander-in-Chief of the army, that certain soldiers, forgetful of their rigorous duty, and overstepping the strict limits defined by the rules of discipline, have in some parts of the kingdom rashly committed excesses upon the occasion of the late municipal elections, threatening and creating terror amongst the electors, with the object of drawing them from the polling booth ; his Ma jesty is pained to find himself under a necessity of severely reprobating these attempts to impede the free exercise of the most important prerogative of a citizen's political rights, and therefore orders it to be made known to the generals of the army, comman ders of divisions, of corps, and of detachments, and to the various military authorities throughout the king dom, that in the approaching elections for Deputies that their duty will be to exert the full force of their authority to prevent the repetition of similar ex cesses, they will intimate to their subordinates that though any one of them has the indisputable right of presenting himself at the electoral urn, and freely voting in his quality of citizen, yet ought not, as forming part of the public force, to interfere in any way whatever with his fellow-citizen, tending to impede him in the exercise of the same right in the freest and fairest manner. " His Majesty, therefore, ordains most positively, that the military force should abstain from all and any interference with the electoral proceedings, and that only as an aid, demanded in a competent manner by the civil power, should they make their appear ance to re-establish tranquillity and order, if by any chance it should happen to be interrupted ; at thy same time exercising the utmost prudence and mode ration, as is necessary on similar occasions. " His Majesty expects that this order will be rigor ously observed, but, if contrary to his wishes, any military man, whatever his rank or station may he, should, forgetful of his duties, transgress it, his Majesty is determined to make a severe example, and to inflict a chastisement, which, while vindicating offended discipline, may serve as a warning for the future, and the King chrrges all generals, military commanders, and other authorities, to pay rigid attention to its exact fulfilment, and for which they will be held seriously responsible." The new French Minister, the Duke of Glucks berg, who supersedes the Baron de Yarennes, and Senor Ros de Olano, who also supersedes M. d'Aylon, Spanish Minister, are expected from Madrid during the ensuing week. SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) A special general meeting of this company was held at the station, Nine Elms, this day, at one o'clock, Mr. W. J. Chaplin in the chair, to consider a report to be submitted by the directors upon the following subjects, and to decide upon the measures to be adopted with reference to them : " The re-introduction into Parliament in the en suing session of the Salisbury and Yeovil Extension, Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, Blandford Branch, and Taw Vale Railway Leasi n g Bills , all which Bills were suspended in the last session, under the resolu tions of Parliament, passed on the 10th of June last, and are privileged to be re-introduced in the next • a session, on the terms of these resol u ti ons " The making by this company subscription towards the making of railways from the Windsor, Staines, and South - Western Rail\a to Slou g h, w i t h v a deviation in th e same li ne near Staines, from Wim bledon to Epsom, an d from the propos e d t erminus of rdo ß n the Exeter, Yeovil, an d Dorchester Exeter, to joi n th e E xeter and ceit near Cowley Bridg e , E xeter. L " The makin g o f f urther arrangements with the undon, B r i g ht on, and South Coast, and Di rec t London and Portsmouth Railway Comp an i es . The acquiring of powers by this company to subscribe towards, and lease or purchase the Exeter and Crediton and Taw Vale Railways; to become amalgamated with, or complete plete . the purchase of the Southampton and Dorchester enin com ßail 7 y and Branches and with reference to this navigation." interest and pro ceedings as regards steam navira n t The report, which was a voluminous one, stated, amongst other matters, that the capital for the line between Salisbury and Exeter had been considerably reduced by the withdrawal of branches, would not exceed 2 ,500,0001. The directors recommended the prosecution of this line, and also the creation of 161. 13s. 4d. in respect of each sum of 50/., which would raise the necessary capital. On the present payment of 11. 13s. 4d. per share, they proposed, in conse quence of the pressure, a payment of 7 per cent., to be guaranteed as a preferential dividend, the entire amount of such dividends to be returned without de duction, and with interest at the same rate, in case the directors should not acquire, in the year 1848, power to raise any further capital. No call beyond the deposit to be made on the Ist July, 1849, by which time they anti cipated the money market would have recovered its ordinary condition. Therefore the rate of interest would not apply beyond the first sum. The CHIIiMAN addressed the meeting. He said the proposition made by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer last night left the shareholders the option of either abandoning or proceeding with the Salisbury and Exeter, and other Bill only partially proceeded with. The subjects of which Bills should proceed and those which should not would be referred to the Committee of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he trusted they would be enaqled, by show ing themselves ready to proceed, to in duce that tribunal to report favourably of their projects. Unless they proceeded in the present session they would lose all the money they bad expended on their incomplete projects, they would be wanting in moral courage if they did not do so.—(Hear.) They had already 180 miles of railway, and. unlike many other companies, they had no guarantees to meet, save what might arise out of their earnings ; and then their expenditure was moderate. He was happy to inform them that the line to the York-road would be opened before June. The: Windsor and Staines, the Chertsey, and the Salisbury and Brighton lines, would be opened about the same time. To show that their new lines were remunerative, he had only to quote the recent re ceipts. They had expended 255,1071. on the Dorset line ; the returns for the six months ending the 30th of October were 16,4651. Taking the working ex penses at forty per cent., the return to the share holders would be 54 16s. per cent., the Southamp ton and Dorchester 41. 55., and the Richmond, Si. 4s. On the motion that the report be received, Mr. A. HOYLE moved an amendment, to the effect that looking at the present depression, the Bills re ferred to shall not be proceeded with, especially as the towns between Salisbury and Exeter were either now accommodated by existing lines, or by those about to be made.. This led to a prolonged and animated discussion— a few gentlemen urging that the company would entail certain ruin upon itself if it extended itself into a territory now occupied, and from which they could not anticipate much profit; whilst, on the other hand, a vast number of the speakers contended that the line to Exeter could not fail to prove remu nerative, and besides that, it would be folly now, when the Bill was actually in the House of Lords, to lose courage ; the more espe cially as their success was almost certain. If they were to defer proceeding they would lose all they had expended, and render it very doubtful whether they would be enabled at any future time to obtain the consent of Parliament to such a measure. Let the South-Western deserve the name it bore, urged one proprietor, and stop not until it stretched its way to the extreme of Cornwall on one hand and Dover on the other. Six voted for the amendment, and against it a sea of hands were held up. The report was consequently received. Power was conferred to carry out the other matters mentioned above, and a vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman and directors, the meeting separated at four o'clock. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, NOV. 26.--The busi ness of the week has been limited, chiefly owing to the poor assortment at market, as the demand continues very good. The refined market is very steady.—Bristol Mercury, INCREASE OF PAUPERISMIN MARYLEBONE. Yesterday a very numerous meeting of the board of directors and guardians of St. Marylebone, was occupied in considering the extraordinary measures of relief ne cessary to meet the unprecedented amount of distress and pauperism. Mr. Jacob Bell having been called to the chair, Mr. MESSER, the relieving officer, reported that the number of persons receiving relief during the present week, was 9,100. Mr. JoNES, the master of the workhouse, reported that the house was at that moment so overcrowded as to be in an unhealthy condition. Mr. ALLEN, one of the surgeons of the Workhouse Infirmary, reported to the board that the amount of sickness prevailing amongst the poor was so great that it exceeded the usual number twofold, that the appoint ment of two additional assistant visiting surgeons was absolutely necessary. An order for such an appointment was immediately given by the board. Sir J. HAMILTON said, he would move, " That the attention of the board be at once specially directed to the crowded state of the house, and to the alarming increase of applications for outdoor relief, with a view to adopt such measures as may be practicable to meet, and, if possible, to mitigate the increasing desti tution." Mr. A. DANIELL seconded the motion. This resolution having been adopted, the board re solved itself into a committee of the whole board. Counsel's opinion was read as to the power of the board to erect additional buildings out of the parish, or anywhere except on the site of the present workhouse, for the pauper children. The opinion was, that under the Local Act they had no such power, but that the vestry had. Mr. G. S. SMITH said, they were in a sad predica ment. Only yesterday, Mr. Allen, the surgeon of the infirmary, had to take one sick patient out of his bed to make room for another, who had returned after an opera tion from the Free Hospital. Mr. CARR moved, with regard to outdoor relief, " That four inspectors of the poor be forthwith em ployed to assist the relieving overseer in affording relief; and that Mr. blesser be empowered to employ additional officers to supply the place of the inspectors." This was seconded and carried. Sir W. STIRLING said this was a gigantic evil, a per manent increase of workhouse accommodation was therefore absolutely necessary.—(Hear, hear.) After Some discussion it was resolved— " That the master be requested to report specially as to the amount of room available in the workhouse, and the number of persons possible to be got rid of out of those inmates under 30 years of age." Mr. CARR said he held in his hand the South Austra lian Gazette of the Gth of March last, which had been addressed to the board, and from which it appeared that whilst there was so much distress and want of employ ment here there was abundance of it in the colony of South Australia. The paper stated, " The want of labour in the colony is daily becoming more pressing. Every available pair of hands are employed, and enter prise in all directions, pastoral, agricultural, and mineral, is cribbed and confined by the impossibility of obtaining a sufficiency of working power to carry on the legitimate operations of the coloni,ts. The landed proprietors of the colony had presented a memorial to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject; and had prepared ships to carry over emigrants. Carpenters, masons, and smiths obtained constant employ at Gs. to 7s. Gd. per day, and labourers from 2.15. to 30s. per week." He felt assured there were hundreds of poor fellows who would. avail themselves of this rather teen come to that work house for relief. He moved— " That the secretary communicate with the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners for information on the subject." Mr. Mc= seconded the motion, and it was carried cent con. motio e r st s ate of t o O h n e t s h p e e n s u m of m o i‘ n i r e . d S° t oDEa s to the increased distress and destitution and r sr e , c t e h i v e e bo t a h r e d r w tr as ordered the workhouse. The bcard then broke up. pe Y rs o o a n it s . 0 n MONUMENT the 19thof lastT TO I m V on s t i rth G i r r ° ty N th A o T usa N n E d w as sembled to witness the ceremony of laying the first stone of en enormous monument to Washington, in New York. The members of Congress, ministers cf state birds formed in ed of an parwhite foreign ambassadors , an d a trium phal ear, drawn is by ' ; to repre sent horses, containing a bust of the American hero x , young sse u n r t ro i n k n e de t d hir b t 3 e - en thi o r r t i e g e i n na states, g im mense procession to the site. The com menced on elevated ground, and beingm.onument is as a landmark for ships at sea, is intended to serve considerable height. A N , proposed to be of very Yo . rk view of it, showing it to be a tower New paper gives a small decreasing in size, and separated in six stories, gradually lines, after the fashion of whatlpara.ted by hard horizontal the arrangement of the T is believed to have been opera-glass pulled out to its of Babel, or a monstrous says, that when th its furthest extent. Our au thorityshower of money and bouquets e coffer . had been deposited, a spectators, each h quets rained in from the sur roundingto the memory of Wash• anxious to make his offering LOSSES or THE FR ington.- , - The Builder. gives the following 'LI'AYI..—A French con temporaryowing as . a . correct statement of the losses of the French navy within the last two years: —" The state has lost th Berceau, eo cor f v it ette of 3 a o d g r i i ui ce g. which went down at sea; the advice boat, which like the Berc eau was oren of g ß u o n u s t l bon sta tion,. and was also lost at sea; the Doris schooner of six 18-pound carronades which sunk in sight of Brest; the Levrette cutter of 6 guns, wrecked on the coast of America; the Seine sloop of war of 24 guns, which was driven on shore at New Zealand; the Gloire frigate of 54, and the Victorieuse of 24 guns, wrt-cke , i on the coast of Goree; the Greenland steam-frigate of 450- horse power, run on shore on the coast of Africa as she was returning from the expedition against Mogador; the Caraibe, of 450 horse power, lost at Senegal; the Pepin steam-sloop of 160-horse power; the Sphynx, also of the same power; and the Er• , icl...n of 60-horse power, wrecked at Guyana." WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. FRIDAT.—This week there is a pretty good arrival of wheat, ,for which we have a steady demand at last week's prices. Barley is offered at a reduction of ls. per quarterto without leading to much business. No change note . in the value of oats and shelling. Beaus sel quite in retail tat rather lower rates.