The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-17 00:00:00

Np• , of By LADY STEPNEY. Bichard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ,lied Jodi' of Is ro thLs It the can" - C ieil ce ' Were To conclude with THE LADYE OF LAMBYTHE Was CC for ot ice, there EVENiNG EDITION: NEW ROMANCE OF MILITARY LIFE. NO W ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Svo., TE CONSPIRATORS; Or, The ROMANCE of MILITARY LIFE. By EDWARD QUILLINAN, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Alarlborough-street. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Svo., with 19 Illustrations, 21s. bound, AJOR NAPIER'S SCENES AND SPORTS IN FOREIGN LANDS. A work f u ll o f won d er and startling incidents. We ima - Me many a s p or t sman o f th e wes t will be inclined to envy ajor Napier and his companions their searches after the Man :at,er, and the capital Sheekar to be had in India . The increas e are illustrated by a series of drawings which greatly Increase the interest of the reader who follows the adventurous sportsman through jungle and over rocks, amongst tigers, bears, and alligators, into wild and strange places, the resort of the enormous eagle, the elk, and the elephant, pausing with him to take his tiffin in the ruins of some pagoda, or amongst the fallen fragments of the tombs of the Shahs. Major Napier's narrative of adventures is told in a very spirited and lively manner, and the picture of Indian habits and manners is mast fa ithfully delineated."—Morning Herald. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready, in 3 Tols. post Bvo., HE 'THEE PEEIt S. A NOVEL. in THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. uNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, NOV. 17. Will be presented Sheridan's Dramatic Piece of THE CRITIC ; OR, A TRAGEDY REHEARSED. Sir Fretful Plagiary, Mr. W. Farren; I'uff, Mr. Charles Mat hews ; Sneer, Mr. Cooper ; Don Ferolo Whiskerandos, Mr. II rrley ; Tilburina, Mrs. Orger. 'ldler which will be repeated the New Petite Comedy, entitled FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Sir Thomas Oldton, Mr. W. Farren ; Nix, Mr. Chas. Ma- Captain Maitland, Mr. J. Vining; Dav i d Sureman, Bartley ; Mrs Maitland, Madame Vestrie; Mrs. Doro thy More, Mrs. Humby. To conclude witn THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Alacheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W. !farre n ; Loekit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Peachum, Mrs. C. Jones; Polly Peachum, Miss Rainforth; Ley Lockit, Madame Vestris. To-m orrow , Th e Alid summ r Night's Dream, with Two in the Mornin and Fashionable Arrivals. tress Boxes, is • Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Cir ees ss. ; Second Price, 3s. bd. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price, =a.; Gallery, Is. Boors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to 2)ll trience at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxcl to be taken of Mr. Grogan ~t the Box-office, from Ten till Four , where Season Tickets 'flaN tie had upon application. priv a t e B oxes t o be had so'ely of Mr. Andrews , bookseller 167 , New Bond-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Mr. BUTLER. THIS EVENING, NOV. 17, The entertainments will commence with HOW TO RULE A WIFE! Dyke Aranza, Mr. Butler ; Juliana, Mr. H. Beverly. After which, a laughable Piece, taken from MODERN ANTIQUES ! yC 4 ockletop, Mr. Brookes; Frank, Mr. St. John Horton ; 1 . H. Bererlev. p To conclude with the New Drama, entitled MIL THE BRAZIER; or, the .. IIEIGN of TERROR. --- Paul, Mr. Balls. D ress Boxes, 4s.—Olympian Boxes, 3s.—Pit, 2.t —Gallery, Is. p i Ha i lf:price—Dress Circle, 2s. ; Olympian Boxes, is. 6d ; THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. r • ELIASON begs leave most respectfully to announce that the above Theatre is now OPEN EVERY EVENING With the Grand Musical Entertainments, entitled TIIE CONCERTS D'HIVER. Lead er, Mons. NADAUD—Conductor, Mons. AIUSARD 11 ROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING, NOV. 17. 2 PART FIRST. ~Y ertu re—Gustavus—Auber. 1 - ‘ _ ll "s g ' -Les F s.es Volantes—Strauss. erture Fantastigne—Des Frangs Juges—Berlioz. Quadrill e —v tla drill e —Z anetta— M usar d . ur altd boo from Guillaume Tell—Dove Vai—Tiombone Alto .!nd ( ./phicleide, by Herr Koenig and M. Pospere—Rossini. 10 Violin by Mons. De Loffre. 1-ocke's celebrated Music in Macbeth. FART sEcortn• Grand overture to a M. S. Opera, the composition of his Royal N Highness Prince Albert. Fantasia Quadrille—Rendezvous de Chasse—Musard. ..nta,..ia Cl ar i net b y M r . L azarus . r irlt Grand Fantasia from Les Hugenots—Sole Oboe, Mr. Basset Solo, Cornet a Pistons, Herr Koenig. n e w Quadrille—L'Angleterre—Musard. Pric es of Admission :—To the Promenade, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. tid. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. Visitors t. the Boxes have the privilege of passing to and from the Promenade. 1 - 4-1. Mr. Eliason, in compliance with numerous applications, 'Ns leave to announce that the Lower Gallery will fer the fu ture be opened at the admission of Is. to each person. Doors .pen at half-past Seven o'Cleck, to commence at Eight precisely. Private Boxes can only be procured of Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, No. 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre. Prices, lOs. 6d., 11. Is., and 11. I Is. 6d. _Boxes and Places in the Dress and Upper Circles may be secured on 'pplication to Mr. Parsons, at the Box-office, daily, from T en t;l1 Four o'Clock, and those in the Dress Circle will be kept tho whole of the evening, if required. T hi PItINCE,SSI THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. splendid Theatre is OPEN EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. o, e TIII EVENING, NOV. 17.—PROGRAMME. rturesS —Fidelio, La Fiancee. e niel's Fantasia introducing Solos for the principal Instru - Mints ' Sole t • e j.tou from the Mountain Sylph, introducing the Bridal ti — e u e . n r e ", Farevrell to the Mountain, and the Fortune-telling So S o l wn t ne Trombone by Mr. Holt. a r.' the Horn by Mr. Hardy. wotz r . illec—Jack Sheppard, Astoria. T -I—Themis Strahlen, Iris. whi c a L conclude with Beethoven's Grand Battle Symphony, for ern e " an addition has been made to the already numerous and pieta Orchestra. pr°lberiade, Is.—Dress Circle, 2s.—Uer Boxes Is. 6d. t oz ri Te Dozes, 1/. Is. and 10s. 6d. each , e be , had at the and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street. RYAL SUREY RE. Ijn p l ece.dented O NoTalty—An ß THEAT other New Pi ec e—Continuation ofi The Wreck of the Royal George"—Re-engagemen t of tj h N e egro Melodists, and Revival of " The Ladye of Lam- THIS EVENING, NOV. 17, Will be acted , a Caledonian Romance, entitled • "IL I I EIVER'S RANSOM; OR, GILDEROY THE BONNY BOY. After which, • THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE ; Pr e OR, THE SEAMAN'S CHEST. le nt ; ceded by a Grand Pictorial and Scenic Induction, repre .. l ativ T a Cruise round the Coast, and depicting the awful ca- TO"3g '. With the sinking of the Vessel, 84c. be followed by the astonishing Negro Melodist, Yankee Smith, in a celebrated Extravaganza, called • I° l , • JINI ALONG JOSEY, w "ich he will introduce his " Long Island Break Down," and also t'au Mississippi Melody, " Zip Coon." ',i nn k T this part of th e p er formance, the extraordinary Picea v in , Y, Colman, will appear in the Old Kentuckian Grape e wist. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. T hi Under her Majesty's I m m e di a t e P a t ronage . highly popular and interesting resort is OPEN DAILY from Ten till Dusk. T he Menagerie, which is unequalled in the number, variety, t oil beauty of the specimens it contains, occupies several spa cious and elegant buildings comfortably heated, and arranged 'With the nearest possible assimilation to the natural habits of the animals. The most important additions recently received Are the rare and beautiful black Leopard, le Mignon Elephant, apair id the scarce Curassows, called Cushew Birds, the Sacred _lbis, the Bush Cow (the only specimen in Europe), a pair of Cossowaries, the Monster Boa (the largest ever seen in confine ment), Ste. The splendid collection of Carnivora are fed at Four o'Clock, at which time the ferocious attributes and amazing muscular powers of enese forest monarchs are displayed to the utmost ad vintage. Admission, One Shilling, Several paragraphs have appeared in our con temporaries respecting the contemplated improvement in the ground now used as a kitchen garden at Kensington. "Withr,ut noticing the different statements which have ap ll'or'ed on this matter, we think we may say with confidence tkkett the following particulars will be found to be correct. We Xnden.tand that the subject of the expenses attending the 11 , 11 Pplv of f ru it, vegeta bl es, & c., f or t h e roya l h ouseho l d had engaged the attention of Government in the course of u l ast year, and that the result of the i nqu i r y th en insti thtted had suggested arrangements for wholly remodelling e Present s y stem , an d c i rcumscr ibi ng an d consol i dat i ng e royal kitchen gardens. One of these arrangements Ir t ercplated the aband on ment of the kitchen ga rden a t b tk e nsington, comprising a space of many acres ; and as "'le whole would necessarily. at the outset of the pro eteedings, in vo l ve some expen di ture , it h a d b een prop e osed for tl ° make th e ground thus to be re li nqu i s h e d available e Purpos e , b y letting it off for building sites for villas, P ln the sc a l e an d of the description of those erected b e n the area o f the Regent's Park. To do this it will oe cessary to apply t o Parliament in the course of the -tV tli "g Session f or aut h or i ty to b r i ng t hi s groun d w ithin e Powers of the Acts f or t h e managemen t of the land f!, Ven ue, out of which, in the first instance, the necessary s' ll ds would be advanced for effecting the improvements I cAnir e d i n the general embellishment of the Royal gar a:4, and i nto which, on the other hand, those rents to be he Paid fro m t h e l ett i ng of the ground at Kensington will rep Paid as part of the l an d revenues f or ever. Th e l an d a t ."ington, it should be observed, forms at present no to of the l an d revenue ; the object of any applica . ion th_"rliament w ill b e, of course, to make it so, to specify tiled extent to which that revenue shall be charged, t h._ to provid e t h at no more shall be taken from it r.r . o o d it strict equ i va l ent i n present tenantcy for the annusl of ' i ce, to be d er i ve d to t h e pu bli c hereafter in she shape theß:ound-rents. Plans have been prepared for carrying te.:_ hi ghly -beneficial arrangements at Kensington into Pro ceeding s but nothing is yet mentioned as to them, and no re eri cee dings can be taken before the meeting of Parlia !•• The principle of the arrangements, however, is so `r, decided upon that ample space will be left for the cir 31(illation of air, and the great improvement of that part of i od n sington, in whatever plan may be ultimately adopted ; ero ee d , if w aare correctly informed, the houses to be 'od will occupy, one with another, not much less than , ere d e . of ground each ; and, what is at present so much the% ible, a hand some thoroughfare will be opened bet ween Bale and Kensington roads. —Observer. T HE ti ke `FEATHER.—The difference between the rmometer on Sunday and yesterday mornings was .egrees, being 011 Sunday 34 and yesterday morning 4.greeg, MAP OF CHINA. AT WAR WITH CHINA-WHERE IS CHINA ? VERY FEW CAN TELL. The Sun Newspaper will soon answer the question by publishing a Beautiful, Large, and llighly Correct MAP of CHINA, with a Complete History of that Extensive Empire, and its Singular People. THE MAP will nearly occupy a page of The Sun. It is got up under the special Superintendence of the celebrated Mr. JAMES WYLD, Geographer to her MAJESTY the QUEEN. It comprehends also a large pottion of India, from the Mouths of the Ganges--the Islands in the Bay of Bengal— B irmah —Assam Thibct Nepaul Cochin China—Canton, and the immense Islands and Bays along the coast of China to PEKIN, situated One Hundred and Twenty Miles inland from the confines of the Yellow Sea. The next News from China is expected to be ex ceedingly interesting and decisive. The Island of CHUSAN, the first point of attack by the Expedition, commands the great Bay of Nankin, from which the Imperial Canal communicates with Pekin, the Capital of the Empire. Chusan is about half way between Canton and Pekin. S be !Itch fill- he r of the ecie s a s i vet thie ) 1 ' 55 arac ly ORDERS FOR " THE CHINA SUN " May be given to all News-agents, or sent direct to the Sun Office, 112, Strand, London, where prompt attention will be paid to each communi cation in the order it h received, and the Paper duly forwarded. Parties sending Orders should write their Ad dresses distinctly, to prevent mistake. On former occasions several letters had been received with- out either Name or Address. The Price of the CHINA SUN will only be SIXPENCE, which can be sent by post FREE. N.B.—No EXTRA Charge to Regular Sub scribers, who will receive their Papers in the usual course. Sun Office, 112., Strand, London, Nov. 11, 1840. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning 8 minutes after 9. Evening 37 minutes after 9. The Publication of t e Evening Edition of Tits Sur( com menced at '2O minutes after Three. ' ' _ nu* Zin LONDON: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1840. We are glad to see that discussions on the Corn laws, provoked by the distress and misery of the people are again reviving. The apprehensions o f war are passing away, and the people can now at_ tend to their own interests. With Cambridge Elections, African Slavery Abolition, and Dio- cesan School and Education Societies, Church Ex- tension, &c., &c., the bulk of the people have no thing to do. Let then) stick to the abolition of the bread tax—let them insist on first being relieved from the enormous grievance—that gigantic legisla tive fraud—and all other desirable things, an extension of the franchise, a diminution of the arrogance and powcr of the priesthood, a snubbing of the aristocracy, an increase of morality, power, and happiness amongst the peaple, will infallibly fol low. Mr. COBDEN, at the late meeting at 1301- ton, to which we yesterday alluded, made some ob servations which we quote, in order to show the lower classes the right feeling which prevails amongst some of the middle classes : " The last speaker had told them of tht lumber of empty houses in Bolton, through the badnes, of trade, but who could tell the amount of misery which must have been endured before those thousand homes were emptied of their inhabitants ? What sorrow, and care, and hunger, and disease, before all that amount of deso- , lation could have taken place ! Where were the in mates of that thousand homes now ? Many of them were no doubt at rest from all their troubles, and of those still alive what was their existence but a living death, c rammed—potted, he might almost say, in the damp, miserable, close, and unwholesome dwellings, in which they had been forced to take refuge.—(Cheers.) If such was the state of things in Bolton, let them not imagine that they were worse off there than in other ma , nutacturing towns. In Manchester, Stockport, ani Oldham, the same misery existed ; and if the labouring class were exposed to such privations, was it not plain that the middle class must be suffering also ? Where there were a thousand empty houses, there must be dif ficulty in collecting rents." Tbere is under the Corn-laws, then, a process going on of starving out the manufacturers, of dooming them to slow and lingering death, by hunger, while the landowners are elevated. To preserve the superiority of the latter, overshadowed by the new arts and new wealth of the industrious manufacturers, is the design of the Corn-laws. Yes, we boldly and openly state that those who made and those who uphold the Corn-laws, particularly the priesthood, deign to starve out of existence the manufacturing population. Here is one proof of it which may be added to the many before adduced in this Journal. The same writer in the Quarterly Review who proposed to raze half our towns, has also the following passage, which derives half its force for our argument from the circumstance that it is quoted and praised by the Morning Post, a Journal which defends the plunder of the people by the landlords : What was it that converted a plain, unlettered, but not unhappy or unrighteous peasantry into the fermenting poisoned masses of Manchester and Birmingham ? What has hurried on society into this downward fearful career of degradation, and brought upon us this appalling curse of a demoralised, licentious, unchristian, Socialist, Char tist, Thti gg ist, manzVacluring population, swelling Elie a wen every day, and eating like a cancer into the heart of this great country ? The manufacturing population then, is a cancer, a wen, and must be extirpated, which is to be effected by the laws which starve the people. Surely it is as effectual, though it be a less merciful way to get rid of our manufacturing population, to refuse them food, as to guillotine them, or to cut them down by grape shot or yeomanry. To starve them, and to starve them out by all that misery which Mr. COBDEN describes, is the nefarious ob ject and design of the Corn-laws. And what have the fermenting and poisoned masses of Manchester and Birmingham done? Of what have time manufac turing population been guilty ? Swelled the power and the resources of Great Britain incomparably beyond those of any other State. Increased the wealth of the landlords, till land is sold in the manufacturing districts—not by acres, but by so many guineas the square foot. Added enormous! ) to the wealth of the priesthood, whose tithes and r e venues have been multiplied ten-fold beyond the when only plain unlettered pea ssuanmtrg' y i' e w ere nt okttilmowwn in the land ! For these services the gratitude of the priesthood and the landlords to starve them out of exist is shown by attempting ence. They have, however, been guilty of one enormous offence. It is described by the Qr tar t er i g Reviewer, who thus accounts for the growth of the poisoned masses of Manchester and Birmingham : It was, first of all, the spirit of Dissent. Long in; fore Dissent assumed its name—a name which Chris tians of old, even the most free and most presumptuous, would have denounced as self-condemnation, the spirit was working within the Church. It made men slight antiquity, fight against the authority of the civil power, trifle with poitive institutions, trust to themselves, to their own arm, and their own understanding. It pro fessed to explain every thing. It allowed of no mys teries. It thought more of rousing men's feelings, and governing their mi n d s , th an o f s imply enunciating truth committed to th e i r k ee pi ng by God. It engendered factions, brought t oge th er t ur bulent men in different countries, and form e d eve ry w here a nucleus of rebellion against lawful sovereigns. It taught men to fight against law under pretence of religion and conscience, in order to save their money—to revenge themselves against forced insult—to shake off, as they call it, a do minant power, and establish their own power instead. That is the sin of sins. The manufacturing popu lation do not hearken to priestcraft—they question the authority of psuedo holy men—they inquire into the meaning of their assertions—they prefer the dictates of their own senses to the assertions of the priests—they are disobedient. They do not honour the landlord, nor worship the priest. This is the sum of their offence, and for this they arc to be starved out till they are so weak, and the allied landed and priest interest is so strong, that no man will dare to question the Divine power which is claimed by the priesthood. Well might Mr. BROOKS say at Bolton— " Let men first do justice to themselves and their country at home, and then begin to look for suffering and slavery abroad.—(Cheers.)" Yes, we must have justice at home before we go out a knight-crranting against the lesser crimes of other people. When the Corn-laws arc considered as an avowed means to starve out of existence those manufacturing classes who have so largely contri buted to their country's greatness, a more diabolical enactment, a more diabolical slavery, does not exist on the face of the globe, and it becomes us to direct all our energies first to get rid of that terrible social crime. The Standard of last night, has some sensible observations on the political aspect of Europe, some of which will be found amongst our extracts from the Evening Papers, and to which we arc well pleased to give additional currency. Our Contem porary sets forth the aggrandisement of the popu lar influence, and praises the change, which is the fruit, of the discussion of national questions. In the following further brief extract, he pursues the subject, and bids us hope f►om the popular in fluence a permanent cessation of war : The change is remarkable ; and as it involves conse quences greatly beyond the sphere of curious specula tion, us optimists, by conviction and by habit, we look to those consequences with sanguine hope. War never was, never can be, the interest of a nation, though war• has been too often the passion of tyrant monarchs, tyrant oligarchies, and tyrant democracies—all and each agents perfectly distinct from what can properly be called " a people." The restoration of the paramount influence in government to the several " peoples" of the civilized world, therefore, seems to be a commencement of the trial of the great problem whether the world may not remain permanently at peace. In our estimation that is right thinking. War .s not for the interest of the people. Aggrandise ,he " people's" influence, therefore, and you en- sure peace, is now the doctrine of the Standard, and it is also the doctrine of the Radicals and the Chartists. Not now for the first time, nor for the hundredth time, have the Liberal Journals main tained that there would be no war but for the si- nister interests and power, unworthily exercised, of monarchs and aristocrats. Not only now, but months and years ago, have the Radical papers nsisted that the best and surest way to preserve peace was to extend the power of the people, to .elease them from restraint, and let them follow out the love of commercial enterprise and commercial gain, which GOD has implanted in their hearts, and which peers and kings, fancying them selves wiser than GOD, have supposed that they could control and regulate better than the AL MIGH TY. The atheistical lovers of Corn•laws have hitherto found an advocate in the Standard, which it must cease to be since it has become so sensible of the virtue of popular influence. There is another deduction from this doctrine, novel for the Standard, which we must impress on our readers, and which perhaps may be thought worthy of notice by the Standard. Peace, as opposed to war, is a condition of virtue and happiness ; war is a condition of misery and crime. But peace, ac cording to the Standard, in which we fully agree, is promoted and preserved by the influence of the people, of the multitude as opposed to indi viduals ; whence it follows that the influence of the multitude, or, as the Standard calls it, '' popular influence," promotes virtue and happiness. We thank the Standard heartily for the Tory testimony in favour of the many against the few, in favour of the democracy and against the aristocracy. Of course the logical Standard will also accept the religious consequences of its doctrines. The priests, of whom it is generally supposed the Stan dard is a worshipper, proclaim aloud the sinfulness of man, and jump to the conclusion, in which they have too many followers, that as men increase sin must necessarily increase. Hence, in thorough and complete contradiction to the facts, the incessant diatribes poured out by the parsons and their fol lowers about the wickedness of great towns. The increase of the European population for the last three centuries has been chiefly in town population with that increase morals have been improved, crimes of violence have diminished, and civilization has gone hand in band. At the same time, pro ceeding on the dogma of the sinfulness of man, the priest patty has never ceased to pour out its anathemas against the increasing vice of the age, caused by the increase of the people. Their doctrines, taken in conjunction with the des tined inci ease of population, present so shocking a futurity for the human race, that, independently of being contradicted by facts, they so impeach the goodness of the ALMIGHTY, that people shrink back from them with abhorrence. In opposing such monstrous doctrines, henceforth we shall find a powerful auxiliary in the Standard, who is sud denly awakened to the truth, that to increase the people, and to increase the popular influence, is to secure peace and virtue. It will not, we hope, when the purposes of :the priesthood arc to be served, turn round, and denounce the influence of the multitude, or popular influence, as the source of war and crimes. The plain consequences of the new doctrines of the Standard make us quote them with pleasure, and we are especially willing to use them to en force some observations we made a few days ago. On Wednesday and Thursday we advetted to some capital errors, we think, in the policy of Louis PHILIPPE ; we pointed out the particular circum stances which make France dangerous to the rest of Europe, and we insisted on its being the duty of European statesmen to find some more hunnAne and efficient means to lessen that dange r than armies and military blockades. We insisted on the propriety of Louis PII IL IPPE concrli ming his people, or governing them on popular instead of imperial principles, and on other rulers inviting France to extend her commerce, and so amalga mate her people with the rest of Europe. Rut all these arguments receive additional stren g th if we regard Europe a eass a commonwealth o f nat i ons, in w lmuch bound by fri en dl y means to each u promote the interest and well-being of every other, as the separate States of the Commonwealth of North America. Kings and Ministers may still be enemies, may still be jealous of each other's glory, may still have personal dislikes, and personal quarrels, but the people have no such feelings, and no interest in checking the growth of. each other in commerce and qiui H4] su - N, LONDON, TUESDAI, NOVEMBER 17 1810. prosperity. The interest of the " people" must ere long become the interest of their rulers, as to promote it is at all times their duty. Thus the growing iniuence of the people, and their love of peace, will compel statesman to follow a new line of policy. To this great principle of reform growing out of the influence of the people, we are w e ll pleased to have the sanction of the Standard, though it seldom agrees with us in approving of reform under any aspect. By the arrival of the Braganza steamer at Fal mouth on Sunday we have received Lisbon papers of the 9th inst., with a file of the Gibraltar Ga zette to the sth list, inclusive. The Braganza sailed from Gibraltar on the evening of the sth, Cadiz the Gth, Lisbon the Oth, and Vigo the 11th instant. The rising of the bar of Oporto prevented her from touching at that port. The news from Portugal is of no great political interest. The question of the navigation of the Douro was still under discussion. A rather trifling affair of eti quette had nearly upset the Portuguese Cabinet. It appears that on the 31st ult., Mr. DRUMMOND, the Brazilian Minister, went to the Palace to see the RING, and was refused admittance under the plea that his MAJESTY was indisposed. He was retiring when anoth e r gentleman demanded admit tance, and was instantly ushered into the royal ap partmcnts. Nettled at what appeared an insu't, the Brazilian Minister demanded an audience of the QUEEN, which her MAJESTY refused under the same pretext as her husband. This was more than the Brazilian Minister could stomach, and a Member of the Cabinet coming in at the moment, he told him that unless the KING received him in stantly, he would demand his passports. M. MAGALIIAES, the Minister in question, represented this in energetic terms to the KING and QUEEN, but their MAJESTIES were inexorable. The nistty then went in a body to the Palace, and ten dered their resignations. This cooled the KING'S courage, who at once consented to receive Mr, DRUMMOND. But the Brazilian Minister was not so easily appeased. He refused to wait upon the KING unless he received an apology for the insult offered him. What followed was not known, as the Government sought to keep the whole affair as se cret as possible. It was only certain that the Mi nistry had not resigned on the Sth instant, as they all attended the QUEEN in state to the Cathedral on that day, where a Deunt was sung in thanks_ giving for her MAJESTY'S happy recovery. The following is a summary of the general news brought by the Braganza from Lisbon : The subject of the general customs' tariff is about to be laid before the Chamber of Senators, where, it is believed it will undergo considerable modifications. At the Deput:es the item of " general charges" in the Finance Minister's budget has been under consideration this week. Under this head arc included the Civil List, and the interest on the foreign debt. The following sums have already been voted, viz. The Queen's allowance for the year, 365 Contos. The King's ditto lOO The Empress's ditto • •••• 40 „ The Infanta Donna Isabella 'Maria 35 The Infanta Donna Anna de Jesus ]5 The Infanta Donna ..... 4.800 559,800 or aboutl3o,oool. The guerillas in the Algarve continue to swell their numbers, and so great is the terror they, from their late malevolent and predatory acts, have instilled, that indivi duals who have business in the southern provinces have adopted, for the safety of th"ir persons and security of their property, a plan to travel by caravans of not less than 20, well armed. The loan for 500 contos de reis has been contracted for. Arrived on the Bth instant, the Braganza steam packet frem Gibraltar and Cadiz. The Alexandria mail had been five days over due when the vessel left Gibraltar on Thursday night last. The Rose steamer, 16 days from London, and 11 from Plymouth, bound to Sydney, short of water and coals. On the 9th, at 11 a.m. (this morn ing), the Montrose steam-packet, from London to Falmouth, with the mail of the 31st ult. A violent gale of wind prevailed on the 2d instant at Gibraltar, during which the American barque Julia, W. Rca, master, drove from her anchors, and went on shore off Fort San Felisse ; she was from Norfolk, stave laden. Several other vessels had drifted, but did not sustain mate rial damage. The Spanish revenue boat, lately taken by her Majesty's brig Jasscur, has been restored, by order of his Excellency the Governor. Illicit traffic at Gibraltar was greatly on the i ncrease. All was quiet both at Cadiz and at Vigo. The Montrose steamer was passed in the Tagus on Monday, with the mails, bound southward. The Braganza was overtaken in the bay by a severe hurricane, in which she met with great damage. The British steam vessel Rose, bound from Plymouth to Sydney, New South Wales, put into this port yesterday (Bth inst.) for a supply of coals, and has been subjected to a quarantine of five days for not having a bill of health. It would be well for all vessels leaving England for any of the British colonies to be provided with bills of health, the absence of which subjects them to quarantine in any foreign port they may be obliged to enter on their way. Some interesting news from Alexandria, Syria, Smyrna, and Constantinople, received by express from Marseilles, will be found in another part of The Sun. The substance, however, of this intel ligence has, in a great measure, been anticipated by the news from Syria, published in The Sun of yes terday. The Semaphore of Marseilles states that Commodore NAPIER, at the head of 5,000 Turks, 4,000 Syrians, commanded by the young EMIR BECIIIR, and 1,500 English Marines, in all 10,500 men, had marched to give battle to IBRA PACIIA, in the plains, at some distance from Beyrout, , Nhcre he was encamped with an army of 15,000 Egyptians, forming the elite of his army. It was the prevailin g impression that a second de feat would destroy the moral influence of IBRAHIM PACIIA in Syria. We copy into the Sun of this day, from the first newspaper ever published in New Zealand, the first formal step taken by the Colonists there settled to give a Constitution to the infant State which they are so laudably desirous of more inti mately connecting with the British Crown. I t i s impossible for any person of feeling or refl ect i on not to regard with more than ordinary interest the pro ceedings of a handful of emigrants in the act of arts, English all their strength and E a p i o n i( s g l t l e c i r s x i i c t i ) e , l l l NN l C a , n i n i c a le e t forming, in all likelihood, the 'indents ongflaishairaena.t and ghua ab lan guage, tes,a iflourishingEnglish,if feelings, el is: e pi, gi m aElsl p i 311,,t empire, literature, el : 11171,7seand the Rome of may prevail in the when Athens CIcERo arc to the classical tourists of our own day —an immense ruin which not the columns of temples, but the sewers under our streets will aid the traveller from another hemisphere in exploring*. Even a time may come when , a copy o f t h e very number of the New Zealand Gazelle, now su b m i tted to our ruthless editorial scissors, will form one o f t h e ra rest curiosities in the Libraries of Nations ; and when Th e Sun, which contains the subjoined ad dress, from the Committee o• 0 Colonists, on their We . can readily imagine, however, promulgation of their earliest attempt at legislation, will be sought with the avidity of a lost manuscript such imaginations may appear to many 'arts and sciences arc yet in their team, of magnetism, and ti l : elec. devclopcd—and that a period not one-thousandth part of the knowledge, as our ancestors at the trioity o itipill f ilolk a aiNt), n irei t cro i syt q ii i acaob i rtftlycierms infancy—that e t when will arrive we . shall appear, to poste rity, as little advanced Ir. the scale of true civilirta kt the society of New Zealand advanc e in civili zationrapidly . as it may, i t as can never cease to I p lion period ri od and look back w i t h pride ~ to this first page in the his tory of its origin. Wi hatever greatness and perfec• of o the 1 real ie N tion it may achieve it will have no parental sins to expiate by the sufferings of future generations —no blood of savage brethren in ruthlessly exterminated, crying aloud for vengeance upon the posterity of * V te ex in is f t a s llible way o f ascertaining the the s ewers o f L ondon will extent of the British capital, th oug h not one stone above preserve ground of all our squares, str eets , and public buildings stood upon the top of another. N p h - o : te W: i o t r y l d an their more civilized murderers. The New Zealand Gazette, from which the subjoined Address of the " Committee of Colonists" is copied, is dated, Sunday, April 18, and the documents to which it refers will be found at length in another part of The Sun : ADDRESS FROM THE COMMITTEE OF CO LONISTS. The President and Council of the Colony take this opportunity of calling the attention of the Colonists to two documents published in this day's Gazette —one, the agreement or contract of Government, signed in London by the majority of the emigrants ; and the other, a ratiLation of that agreement, subject to cer tain modifications, by the Sovereign Chiefs of the dis trict. The first and most important duty of the Council, n their re-assembling in the Colony, was to take asures for the preservation of order and the mainte nance of law. Although they had witnessed with much satisfaction the peaceful and orderly demeanour of nearly the whole of the Colonists, yet there had been some disorders which required an exercise of authority, and some differences which needed an appeal to a Court of Law. To secure the person and property of each inhabi tant of the Colony ag ainst violence, and to establish a Court of Law for th adjustment of conflicting claims, were matters which admitted of no unnecessary delay. Besides these first and most pressing duties, many other points of deep interest to the Colony required early at tention. It was needful to devise and give effect to measures which, by means of the combined powers of the community, might overcome the obstacles to civi lization, arising out of the very circumstances of an in fant colony ;—to provide for the construction of roads and other public works useful to the whole community, and therefore to be constructed by general contribu tions ;—to frame regulations adapted to unforeseen or temporary exigencies ;—in short, to give to the Colo nists laws and institutions suited to their new position. In doing this, it, behoved the Council to weigh carefully the nature and extent of their powers, and where these appeared imperfect or inadequate, to tako the proper measures to render them complete and effectual. 'file Council therefore proceeded to consider the situa• Lion of the Colonists, in relation to the question of Sove reignty. Although willing to admit in the fullest ex tent the power and the right of the English Govern ment to exercise Sovereignty within the Islands of New Zealand, whenever it may please the Legislature of England to assert that right, yet it appeared to the Council, that under the recent proclamations of the Governor of New South Wales, the English Govern ment had formally disclaimed the existence of any right of Sovereignty in the Crown of England, and had in the amplest manner recognised the independent Sove reignty of the Native Chiefs of the Island. As that proclamation contains a reference to the acquisition by purchase of the sovereign rights of the Chiefs, the Council believe and hope, that, ere long, the autho rity of the English Crown will be established in this place. That authority does not, hoe ever, exist at the present moment. On the con trary, the Government of England has recognised every petty tribe in New Zealand as an independent foreign power, and has by implication asserted the right of the Chiefs to exercise authority over every person residing within their territories, according to the laws, or rather customs, of the tribe. Every act of govern. , ment, therefore, within the Colony, whether legislative or executive, must derive its validity from the assent, expressed or implied, of the principal Chiefs of the dis trict. And every act of government thus sanctioned, must be recognised as valid by the Government of England and every civilized Government. The Council, being satisfied of the correctness of this view, deemed it their first duty to obtain from the Chiefs of this district, a ratification of the contract of government, signed in England by the Colonists. And as that contract was of necessity incom plete, inasmuch as its framers were unab:c to foresee the precise circumstances in which the Colo nists would be placed in New Zealand, it was need ful that the ratification should enlarge and modify the powers conferred by the original instrument. It further appeared incumbent upon the Council to secure to the Colonists the enjoyment of the laws of England, and that self government by means of representatives chosen by the people, which is the birthright of every Englishman. So that whenever Great Britain shall acknowledge this Colony as one of its dependencies, there may be nothing which requires alteration ; and in the mean time the Colonists may enjoy the laws to which they have been accustomed, and the liberties to which as Englishmen they are entitled, and may provide by their representatives for the peace, order, and pros• perity of the community. In the modifications introduced into the original contract of government, the Council have endeavoured to secure the responsibility of the Government to the body of the Colonists, by making the Council subject to re-election at an early period ; to secure to the na tives fair and equal treatment, by investing them with the same rights as the other inhabitants of the Colony, with the single exception of the right of voting at elections,—which has been deferred fa a period suffi ciently long to fit them for its exercise ; to guard against any improper use of the sovereignty recognised by the English -Government as existing in the Chiefs, :either from ignorance, or from the incitement of designing or turbulent Europeans, by providing that they shall not perform any act of sovereignty except through the in strumentality of the Council ; and to obtain for the colonists the amplest powers of administering their own affairs, by investing the President and the Council with full legislative and executive powers. To the proposed ratification the principal chiefs of the district have given their fullest assent, and it now consequently forms the law of the Colony. It will re main such at least until this Colony shall be united with the British empire ; and the Council trust that even then it will continue to exist, subject only to the neces sary alterations t;hich such an union would involve. The Council, therefore, in submitting it to the Colony, confidently rely upon the concurrence and support of the Colonists. It has always been the boast of English men, that their habits of obedience to the law, and re spect for the rights of others, qualify them for the en joyment of free institutions. Those habits have been, with very few exceptions, signally displayed in the short period that has elapsed since the foundation of the Colony, and the Council doubt not that they will con tinue to be manifested. By order of the Council, SAMUEL RE VANS, Secretary. A ball, as we gather from the advertisements, is to take place at Guildhall to-night for the benefit of the Polish patriots, who are now living among us in a state little short of absolute destitution.:When we bear in mind the sacrifices that these brave men h ive made in the eau se of freedom ; the heroic stand they made for nearly two years against the overwhelming power of Russia ; their moderation in the hour of victory, as when they routed the trained legions of Diebitsch ; and the high moral courage with which they bore up. and still continue to bear up, against the most deplorable reverses ; above all, when we remember who is their oppressor, and what is the nature of their oppression ; that they arc men without a home, without station, without kindred, their present fortunes wretched, their future with scarce a hope—when wo bear these things in mind, we feel that we cannot speak too warmly in praise of the Poles, or of the charitable scheme by which it is intended that they should benefit. Let all who wish well to th august cause of frndom, best show their faith by their works—that 1s to say, by making their appearance to night at Guildhall, and the ball-rooms will be crowded to suffocation f and would be so, were they even thrice the site that they now are. Of all people in the world, the Poles have perhaps the strongest claims on o ur s) mpathy ; for they have fa ll e n in their high-minded efforts to secure that very freedo m, on which we our selves have ever laid so much stress. ACON T RA ST.--W bile Mr. Sidney Smith's lectures in Devizes, against the Corn-laws, were, en a few hours' notice to the public, attended by overflowing audiences of I'M or 600 persons, those of Mr. Justine, in favour of the Bread-tax, although aided by ample, notice, the prestige_ of the great landed interest, the market day and hour, and the vicinity of all the farmers, could not reckon more than 50 or (30 stragglers, whose yawns and stretchings bespoke the extent of the interest they took in the lecturer's exposition,— Wiltshire Independent. BROMHANI.--- , On the evening of the day on which the absentee do-nothing Rector of this village was colleeting 1,5001. of tithe, dS d sett of fee far his absence from the parish, Mr. Sidney Smith delivered a lecture against the Corn-laws, in the club•room at Mr. Orchard's. Notwithstanding that his llertrenee, the Rector of the Poor Man's Church," gate All the large tithe-payers their " dinner and drink," and the small fry a shilling to get beer, the Club room was filled, and an outer room was also crammed, besides that every step of the stairs was oc cupied, and many Went away Unable to obtain admittance. The lecture has ereated tt rent sensation herr, and much ittimety is expressed for the delivery of another; the people, one and all, declaring, that their condit!env '?s in finitely worse now that bread is dear then when ii was cheap, haring learnt by painful experience that wages cid not rise with the price of bread. At this meeting, a very slt - ona feeling OfP4 liin,hireEiVd a gainst the landowners, and clergy, who had endeavoured to delude the poor with the fallacy that dear bread is advantageous the labourer. — Wiltshire independfq ! •r I)llyiscian-ac- COURT GOSSIP. Tile M.. - the va couctier is still busy in arranging and deciding rious claims of the formidable array h f onour and profit of nursing the Royal babe s and its many of canclidates for .thc othese arc backed by recommendations of the* influence, it ' greatest no easy task. Let it not be sen t it .- however, that the nursing of the Royal infant will lie gethe . r . a very ea s y or a very com f o rtable office. From the chief superintendent down to the sub-deputy-assiFtant. supernumerary nurse, all and every one are to be forbidden, under any circumstances or pretext whatever, to " kiss th e child ;" so that let his Royal bahyship squall ever So loudly the usual nursery en d earm ents are forbidd sa' the y may pacify and q uiet as they west 11 tenharn Looker-on. The Duke of Devonshire arrived in Dublin on Friday last, from a visit to Lady Dover, at Gocrran Kilkenny, Hia Graco is expectedat Chstmorth this wick. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam bridge visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. The Lady Adelaide Paget bad the honour of joining the Royal Circle at Buckingham Palace at dinner last evening. The Band of the Second Regiment of Life Guards was in attendance during dinner in the evening,. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Co lonel Wylde, rode out on horseback yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service on Sunday afternoon, in the chapel at Hampton Court. His Royal Highness, attended by Baron Knesebeck, honoured Mr. Cullen Smith with his company at dinner in the evening. His Royal Highness returned to town yesterday morning from Richmond. Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, paid visits yesterday afternoon to several of the Cabinet- Ministers. Mr. Bradburn had an interview with Viscount Pal merston at the Foreign Office, yesterday, on the subject of British claims on Spain and Portugal. The Military Secretary to the Commander of the Forces, Mr. Power, and Mr. Macdougall, had interviews with Lord J. Russell yesterday, at the Colonial Office. Sir George Grey had an interview with Lord Mel bourne yesterday, in Downing-street. The Marquis of Lansdowne has left town for his scat Bowood Park, Wilts. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office, from Lord Sydenham, Governor of till Canadas, and also from the Governors of New South Wales and South Australia. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Consent petitions and short causes ceLupicd the Court the greater part of the morning. The Court afterwards proccedei with the cause paper. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Bar co.) DOE DEM EVANS V. WILLIAMS. Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this case, in which the plaintiff Evans was the purchaser of certain property from Mrs. Allen, who was devisee under a will of her uncle. The will contained clauses of non-alienation and non-an ticipation. Mrs. Allen being seised of the freehold for life, with remainder under certain contingencies, levied a fine and sold the property. Certain late cases in Chan cery had been relied on, but the Court had looked fully into them, and could not think that the doctrine therein laid down could apply to a Court of Law, the Equity Judges themselves having drawn the distinction. There was no ground, therefore, for the application for a new trial, and the rule must be discharged. EVE IN ING E HAWKER V. MARSHALL. The COURT also gave judgment in this case, in which a motien had been made for an arrest of judgment. One ground on which the application had been founded was misdirection, the Judge (Lord Denman) having told the Jury that it was not necessary to prove the delivery of the writ to the officer. That point, however, had never been made at the trial, and there was no doubt that it would have been proved if made. Oa the ground, however, of the writ of capias having been issued after the 2d and 3d of Victoria had come into operation, the rule for an arrest of judgment must be made absolute. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) THE QUEEN V. 110LROYD. Mr. BAINES applied to the Court to remove the pro. ceedings against the defendant in this case from the Court of Quarter Sessions in Yorkshire into the Court of Queen's Bench. The proceedings had been instituted against the defendant under Lord Seymour's ( Railway) Act for placing an obstruction on the line of the Manchester and Leeds Railway. The section of the Act alluded to enacted that every railway should be considered as a railway within the meaning of the Act which had been formed under an Act of Parliament. Nov, the pro- secutors, on whose behalf this application was made bad good reason to imagine that the defence which would be set up would be, that the portion of the railway in question was not formed under any Act of Par liament, but was a deviation from the original line ; in which case the Court would have to determine the con struction to be placed upon the enactments of no less than three Acts of Parliament; and that, therefore, it was ex tremely desirable that the cause should be tried in one of the Superior Courts. Mr. Justice PATTESON granted the application. NON-ATTENDANCE OF COUNSEL. The COURT after hearing motions, proceeded to heir the cases in the peremptory paper Case after case was put off in consequence of the Counsel engaged in this being engaged in other Courts, until at length, Mr. Justice PATTESON.—The public is constantly COM. planing of the delays which take place in the administra tion of justice, and here have I been sitting nearly an hour doing nothing because Counsel are engaged elsewhere. I will go through the paper regularly to-morrow, and I will strike out all cases in which Counsel do not appear. It is the only was to enforce attention to the business of the Court. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY J (Sittings in Banco.) THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE DANK CF ENGLAND V. RILED. Sir F. POLLOCK showed cause against a rule obtaine d for the defendants for the purpose of setting aside an out lawry obtained by the plaintiffs upon entering a common appearance. They offered no other terms, and he was astonished that such a motion should have been made to the Court. The rule had been obtained upon the affidavit of one of the defendants, from which it appeared that the Messrs. Reed had carried on business in America during the last seven years. That in the disastrous state of the commercial affairs of that nation during the years 1836 and 1837, they were under the necessity of suspend ing payments, and that John Reed, in the August of 1886, came to England for the purpose of laying a state of his affairs before their creditors. He re turned to America in September, and remained there till August, 1839, when he again came to England, and stopped one month, he then returned to America—that a writ of exigeant was issued against them in the month of February, 1838, under which a considerable sum of money had been taken. Mr. Baron PARKE—Is there any objection to pay the costs? Mr. CRESSWELL—CertainIy. He would show that the whole of the proceedings were erroneous. Sir F. PoLLocK—The action was brought to recover 7,4451. upon ten bills of exchange, of which the defendants were the drawers, and which bad been deposited with the Bank upon advances made by them to Wilson and Co. The action was Commenced by writ of capias on the 23d of December, 1837, mid their own affidavit showed that they had been in England ,e 1839, and both of the defen dants must have been again in England in 1840, for both had sworn to the affidavit, and at that time it was proposed to go before a Judge at Chambers, but that would have been inconvenient because, had the re t lief been given even upon the defendants own affidavits, OW Judge would have called urn them to put in special bail, 1 t was therefore delayed till the last week in term, slim the parties had no doubt left the country. if such proceeding were sanctioned no justice whatever could be enforced against foreigners. The CoueT—There is no doubt that the defendants have no right to apply to the consideration of the Court, with out paying the costs and putting in special bail; Mr. CRESSWELL hoped the Court would hear a few words he had to offer upon the subject. In the first piliee the affidavit of debt was defective, and if it was so much so that a party would be entitled to his discharge upon catering a common appearance, surely it would not support proceed ings to outlawry. It was defective, inasmuch as it did not al lege that any of the bills were overdue at the time the affidavit was made. That was an objection which, accord ing to many authorities, was fatal. There could be no doubt that the outlawry was irregular, and might be set aside by writ of error. Mr. Baron PARKE—Undoubtedly ; but when you apply to the discretion of the Court by motion, you must pay costa, and eomply with such equitable terms as the Court pleases to impose. The Bank must keep the money in their hands under the outlawry. Mr. CRESSWELL hoped not, for that would be going far beyond any of the modern cases. The case of Hardy v. O'Mera, in 7th Dowling, was a case exactly in:point,and in i:, the circumstances being the same, Mr. Justice Coleridge granted the motion as it was now prayed. Lord ABINGER was clearly of opinion that the rule ought to be made absolute upon payment of costs by the defend ant, and the Bank allowed to retain the money now in their hands to abide the event of the action. It would be unjust to call upon the Bank to tugretrn the were,oney and the more ni on thatespeciallythe dan t de f a e s n the s m a w j o e r r i e t y not f h called Court upon t opfuotpiin special bail. For himself he thought they ought to be so called upon, and he thought there were spe • cial circumstances in the case to justify it. The parties bad been in England after the outlawry on two occasions, and that without attempting to reverse it. He had no doubt it had been delayed until the defendants had again got out of the oountry. The other Judges were of opinion that the defendant must pay the costs, and that the money in the hands of the Bank should abide the event of the action ; but they did not think the circumstances justified them in holding the defendants to special bail. It was arranged that, unless the rule so pronounced bills,uneed were drawn up with in a week, it should be dischar ged , and that the Bank should invest the money in Exchequer and lodge them with the officer of the Court. fIOMNION PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) NTOLLASJON V. HAKEWELL. It was an action for breach of covenants in a lease, and was tried before the Lord Chief Juqiec TINDAL, about two years ago, when a verdict was given for the plaintiff. hi t h e ' . 1757, Lord Southampton granted a lease of certain pr nnises to a person named llaygarth, for a term ,f 99 years: The term ultimately became vested in a person name.i Hakewell, and the reversion of the premises in the plaintitT. Hakewell died in possession of the term, having first made his will, and appointed his wife, the de eendant, his ezerutrix, and soon after his death the act i on brought P.Che defendant subsequently obtaient as chow . cause why the verdict should not bo s uit entered. p 'iy, a ents in t n h d i this resumed w m e ute of public interest.edteor..edanyrt h ea rd on Sa ly rule to , and a nom, The argun., WidaY 4nd Mco- Th 9 c a se Lord Hill arri , , , ?d Srewsliury t last week, arti of hiencis since his arrivali, qt Hardwieke Hall, near • been catettaining a party THE MARKETS.---(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET_ The demand for Produce was dull, and prices of most articles on the decline, but with no great quantity of any article pressing for sale. British Plantation Sugar went off very slowly, but not at lower prices than last week. Refined Sugar met a very dull sale, and. in some few in stances lower prices were taken. Coffee in very limited request, and to force sales lower prices must be accepted, this the merchants do not seem willing to do, and scarcely anything has been done. Rice in_ good request, and prices looking up, with little offering. TEA MARKET. There was a limited demand for Free Trade, but in prices little variation occurred at the public sale. The :market was flat for Company's Congou at 23 4d , cash. Large sales bale been declared. '',,. ' -.77--- _'r, - ,.. -"N ) t ' te l4 7 14 ,•,. '' i-:" - >. C y. ..,', \_., \ , -, ';' - {1 . „: - ::: * 4: ki 4 c , _-...\ ‘ - ',".- - D . 2._....,,, -- "•:--.) :4. s , ..„...._.„) ‘,„,....; .\-_,,,,,.../ _ j •_ • . 7, rYITI ON,`, TALLOW MARKET. Prices for Russian were supported, but there was only a limited business done either on the spot or to arrive ; 48s. was the value for the former purpose. The stock is larger than last year. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. The supply was moderate, and the demand pretty good. Clover at .31. 10s. to 5/. 12s. ; Meadow Hay at 31. to 41. 12s. ; and Straw at 1/. ,Ss. to 1/ 12s. per load. LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. 17.—Wind this day at noon, moderate S. Westerly breeze, at the same time foggy. DRAL, Nov. 16.—Wind W. S. W., strong breezes and squally.—Arrived the Anna, Robertson, from India. Put back the London, Kent, for Jamaica, and Trinidad packet, Westward, and remain with the outward bound. MARGATE, Nov. 16.—Off port the Marquis of Huntley, from Quebec. LivEarooL, Nov. 16.—Wind W., fresh breeze.—Ar rived the Maypo, Mann, from Liana, sailed 19th August ; William Russell, Bruce, Bahia, sailed Ist ult.; Paken ' ham, Lloyd, Paraiba, sailed 13th ult. ; Joseph Cunard, Qtebec • Coronet, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; and Grua Liverpool steamer, Ingledove, Alexandria, &c. Off port the Josephine, from St. J tgo de Cuba. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 16.—Wind W. S. W. squally. It blew a heavy gale last night from S. S. E. to S. W., and this morning veered to W. S. W. 4 P.M. More moderate. The Pomona, Bunday, from London to Southampton, w iich was on shore near Soutbsea Castle, went to pit ces last night ; about half of cargo saved in a damaged state. HARWICH, Nov. 16.—The DetianCe, Watts, from New castle to Plymouth, went on the Long Island this morning during the gale, and filled ; crew saved. The Theodore, Heinrick, Penelsen, trom Odessa to London, was assisted into the harbour this morning very :leaky, with cargo bested, and loss of anchors and cables. RAMSGATE, Nov. 16.—The Ocean, Hog"art, for Gam bia, parted her anchors at Deal, and ran for this port ; has been in contact with a vessel. The Enyo, late Slater, from Dantzic, bound for Jersey, has been assisted in here in a sinking state, and must discharge ; the master and two of crew washed overboard. SALCOMBE, Nov. 15.—Arrived cff, the Forrester, Thompson, from Dalhousie. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 16.—Wind S.E. to S.W., strong gales —Arrived the Justitia, Tidman, Rio Janeiro ; a small schooner, supposed to be the Comet, of liarnAlple, is sunk inside the breakwater ; crew drowned. FALMOUTH, NOV. 15.—Wind S. S. E. to S. W., strong breezes and squally.—Arrived the Braganza (steamer), Gibraltar, left on the sth inst., Cadiz 6th, Lisbon 9th, and Vigo 11th, with boats stove and wheel damaled ; Stephen, Henzell, Pictou ; Colonist, Jones, Wallace Nova Scotia; Frederick, Newfoundland, with loss of rudder, be un 1 to Fecamp ; Dauntless, Stewart, Taganrog, Pat back tle Packet, Shirling, Cape of Good II ope. GUERNSEY, Nov I•2.—Ssilcd, Joseph, Lowe, Havana. BRISTOL, Nov. 16 —Arrived, the George Guildford, Reid, from Quebec. MILFORD, Nov. 15.—Arrived, the Friends, Richards, from Cardiff, with loss of boats, bulwarks, sails, &c., bound to Waterford. Sailed, Betsy Black, Jones, River Gambia. It blew a heavy gale from the eastward all last night. CLYDE, Nov. 14.—Sailed, the Jane, Suttie, for Deme rara ; Gleaner, Gothree, Savannah. MONTROSE, Nov. 14.—1 t blew a hurricane last dglit from S. E. to E. S. E., and continued throughout the day. GFIMSBY, Nov. 15 —The sloop Perseverance, hound to Lynn, is wrecked on the Rose sands—crew drowned. LOWESTOFFE. Nov. 16.—1 t has blown a gate at S. W. the whole of the morning. Two boats have been washed ashore. One is marked " Hope, of Sunderland," also a leaf of a cargo-boat, marked " Brig Hope, of Sunderland, Charles Taylor." ABERDEEN, Nov. 14.—The Rose, from Wick to Lon don, in attempting this harbour yesterday during a heavy gale from the eastward, went on shore on the beach, but does not appear to have received much damage. bRIDLISGTON, Nov. 16.—1 t blew a strong gale yester day at N. W., and continues to-day at SS. E. About fifty sail have brought up in' the Bay. The England's Queen, Tulloch, is riding very heavily in the Bay, and should the gale increase will probably drive on shore. HULL., Nov. 16. —Wind W. S. W.—The Hope, Graham, from Glasgow to London, has put in be -with loss of foremast, &c. The Hand of Providenco,'from Stockton to London, is on shore on the Trinity Sand, and is es - pected to become a total wreck. 'lt blew very heavy at S. S. E. this morning till 10 a.m., when it veered to the westward and moderated. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MAhIET, MONDAT.—We have no change in prices to note, the market however is steady. Sales 2,600 bags, chiefly American descriptions. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST. Nov. M.—Eastern Counties dcbs., 4A ; Grand Junction, 212 ; Groat Western, 84i ; Half-shares, 47/ 4S, 47a 48; Fifths, 81 1; Brighton United Company, 27 ; South Western, 54k; North Midland, 74 ; North Union, 734 ; Bank of Liverpool, 184. A Lisbon mail has arrived by the Braganzs, sailed the 9th Nov., Vigo, 11th, Cadiz, Gth, and Gibraltar, sth. We have received Rio Janeiro papers to the 3th of September : Exchange on London, 30 to 304 ; Stock, 72. Good Coffee was still scarce, and the supplies unequal to the demand. There was nothing late from Rio Grande or La Piata. Freights were dull, no vessel should ever be sent here from the United States, expecting freight. We do not hear as yet of the arrival of the Presil nt ;rc,m New York, which we may expect hourly. TIIE FUNDS. The settling of the foreign Account went off well yes terday, without any mischief having occurred. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday„ 89 to 89- t i- for Money, but rather better for the Account, 89,1- I, with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, par, 2 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1596 160 ; India Stock, 239 240. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active left off 23 I, at p res ent 241 ; Deferred 11:1 12 ; Passive, 51;4 ; Portu guese left off 36A, at present 361 Three per Cents., 221- 231; Brazilian, 74 75 ; Colombian, 261 a ; Mexican, 291; 30 ; Belgian, 98 100 ; Chiiian, 58 60 ; DutchTwo and-a- Half per Cents. 50-, 7 - 51h ; Five per Cents. 974 98. SII ARF.S—Great Western Railway, 173 . 18!, prem. ; Lon don and Brighton, 13 124 dis. ; Blackwall, dis.; Birmingham, 74 76 prem. ; Southampton, 52 53 per share; Croydon, 111 a per share; Greenwich, 6 7 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham. 13 11 dis. PRICES OF SHARES:THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share, Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures Great Western .. Ditto Fifths London and Brighton 11anchester and I3irmingham 35 North Midland Di t t o Shares JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of London ILA LF-PAST ONE. In general towards Christmas we have a nualbcr of failures among the commercial co mmunity. in consequence of which the Bank, no doubt, aro taking precautions, and putting on the screw, which causes money to be tight. In the British Market it is at the rate of six to seven per cent. Exchequer Bills, and on Reduocd from five to six per een.7.. Consols are rather better than they were in the early part of the morning , and at present may be quoted $t for the Account, Mone Bonds, 13 dis. ; Bank 89. Exchequer Stock, lls, 160. prem., 1 dis., par ; India In the Foreign Market Spanish Active are a shade better, 241, Deferred 12, Passive 51 ; Colombian, 9 14 ; Mexican, 304 ; Portuguese not quite co good, 361 ; Three per Cents. 23i ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents. 5 ; Five per Cents. 97%. In the Share Market little doing. Great Wegern, lower, 83, 82; Fifths, 8; London and Brighton, ',27 1 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 23 ; Midland C , _,untits% Sl : t \ a h \ r ' e e s. hear . Governmentthat thoew Chinaing to t Aso h s ed c e l l a a t 3 l . ot o l f have th m e from here to India. overland re °nstr a m ! e a il No arrival, as vet, of the Poesident from the United States. ylucial;vsia rd completed w THE VACANT GowN.—Several persons er a already spoken of for the vacant gown just thrown nff b 3 Mr. Alderman Harmer; among the number may bciTenr tioned the names of Mr. Esans (late sheriff.), Mr. .en no y Butterworth, Sir .1. Duke, and Sir J. Wilbains,but inept shoula Officers mho have claims for ad one has yet publicly declared himself a candidate. proper authorities, as we have reason heard, the fervent prayers of the n ation h bte'licre. that should and a Prince of lose no time in bringing them undteorv3ll):Lnotice of the in honour of such a joyful event. We arc now enabled tonian:inounce that the period, anders of Coast-Guard is Wales b e b o rn, a very extensive promotion will take place of service of Inspecting as souk as the neees ill be mace now n promulgation w Acted at the Treasury. The regula slry forms are corn} all Commanders now serving. and whose extended from three to fi . C v ° e k years, and that te official lion perio‘dviloifTnlVio:iitiotment will therefore be extended to five P s is another of the measures we have success fully has returned from Germany, having advocated.—Naral and Military Gazette. ith Herr Schumann the moat extensive ar rangements for the performance of the German opera in the ensuing season. There is not an artiste of any repu tation who will not appear in succession. like a ring ?" said a , 6 Why is the letter 1) young lady to her accepted one day. The gentleman, like the generality of his sex in such a situation, was as dull as a hammer. " Because," added the lady, w ith a very modest look at the picture at the other er.d of the roo m, " because we can't be wed without it." The Earl of Darlington, :M.P., has arrived at Shrewsbury, on a visi t to L ord Berwick, from Scotland. Allingham ll3use, near .