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

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THEATRE LOYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING} Will be produced a new and original Comedy, called FAMILY PRIDE. Mr. Chapman, Mr. Tilbury ; Doctor Dodge, Mr. Farren ; Arthur Courtnay, Mr. Henry Farren ; Captain Shangenah, Mr. Hud son ; Blandish, Mr. Briudal ; Mrs. Willoughby Courtnay, Mrs. W. Clifford; Sophia Chapman, Mrs. liisbett; Letitia Bradley, Miss Reynolds ; Grace. Mrs. Humby. After which, an entirely new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, H. Vanden hoff ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Stanley. To sonclude with a new and original Farce, called WHO'S M Y HUSBAND ? Doctor Mull, Mr. Tilbury; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley; Mrs. Smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. Hamby. stage Manager, Mr . . Fan et;; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-130 ek keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance t• aommenCe at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new and original Drama, called GABRIELLI; or, the Beqaeathed Heart. Fitzgerald O'Carrol, Mr. Boyce ; Major Dunmore, Mr. Worrell; Marques di 3lincio, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Bal thazar Valdarno, Mr. 0. Smith ; Bob Bit, Mr. Wright ; Gabrielh, Madame Celeste ; Signora D'Ossuna, Miss Brooks. After which, a New Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD ,the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha racters by Messrs. Wright, Cullexiford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed Lard, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. To be followed by the original farce, called 110 W TO SETTLE ►CCOUNTS WITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts, air. Wright; Jack Brown, Mr. Manyard ; Squibb, Mr. Redmond Ryan; Mary Wbite, Miss Woolgar ; Mille. Cherry Bounce, Miss Limn). Harding. To conclude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Miss Chaplin will perform. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. tenors open at Half-past Six, Performance io commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Yestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed PATTER versus CLATTER. To be followed by the Comic Drama, entitled THE PRIDE OF THE MARKET. Principal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Leigh Murray, Granby, and Faradic ; Miss H. Gilbert, Mrs. C. Jones, and Madame Vestris. After which a new Colcic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac samara. _ _ . The Interior of the House has been entirely re•designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 43. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington•street, is open to the 'Public every day, from Ten to Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Engagement 0' Mr. MACREADY and MISS CITSHMAN. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Opera of GUY MANNERING. Colonel Manneriug, Mr. Conway; Henry Bertram, Mr. Barker; Dominie Sampson, Mr. Compton ; Dandle Dinmont, Mr. Neville ; Lucy Ber tram. Miss Ann Ramer ; Meg Merrilies, Miss Cushman. After which the Faice entitled A TRIP TO HAMPTON. Principal characters by Messrs. S. Cowell, Neville, Howard, Harris, Mrs. Selby, and Miss Villars. Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. kOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davldge, 7N-0:_1",-DT.Ividge--te-rr-a-ce,liensing,ton-road, Surrey. Last Week of the Opera Company. THIS EVENLNG, the per/enhances will commence with the celebrated Opera of TIM BOHEMIAN GIRL. n which Mr. W. Ilanison, Mr. Zoman, Misa R. Isaacs,-and Miss homer will appear. To be followed by a new Divertissement called UNE REMIES. To conclude with a new and original Dranaa, entitled THE TEA YELLER'S ROOM. Principal characters by Messrs. k'. Vining, H. Hughes, T. Fredericks, Lewis, Oxberry, and Mrs. W. West. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which lave been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the Principal Librarians ; and at the Box-stilze of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Gd. AST.LEY'S HO YAL l'roprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING The Grand S'ectacle of TILE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes o the Lstablishment, in the various modes of equestration. To conclude with the Ballet called LOVE and FOLLY. Box-otlice open from 11 till 5 Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W_ West. MEET' iN G OF PAM LAME V 7 THE THIRD EDITIONS OF " THE SUN" WILL CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. * Orders received by a? 1 Newsmen, and at the Sun- office, 112, Strand. :1E WEAT.IIF...P..—Stx OmcE, Nov. 23. THERM ;;lIETER, Lowest, 42; Llighest. 51 ; Noon, 44, BAROMETER, W.S.W.; rain. li4ll WATER AT LONHON-BIZIDGE THIS DA?. Merninl.. 59 mfriateg after I. i Evening .. 20 r.inntrs kF _im-.., ?..• _.„•••___ . •- .. v .2. 4 ‘.. , a I.i ~,, - 5 4 AT akii•flAz. ,c s i l 1i & ' -11142' r • ' 2.,ii_.'.'•'P• ,, ... , (511 - t LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1847. After the Speech from the Throne has been de livered Parliament will have to bestir itself imme diately to comply in some measure with its more important recommendations. Of these recommenda tions none are assuredly more entitled to the atten tion of the Legislature than those made in reference to the monetary distresses of the United Kingdom, and to the deplorable state of want and insubordi nation in w hi c h th e I r i s h peasan t r y are still involved. Temporary measures of alleviation cannot by pos sibility dissipate either of these enormous evils. The agrarian assassins of the sister country will not, for example, be or bludgeon deprived of the temptation to shoot of any a obnoxious pr o p r i e t or by th e an nouncement coercive ena c t men t. C on fid ence , be again, will not restored to the money market by a mere half-and.half' oncession fro m th e Ch ance ll or of the Exchequer. Sir whisper away so conveniently the anxieties of our CHARLES WOOD cannot conven capitalists. Sir Wi cannotlLLE recurrence of crime or the continuance privation obstructions prevent the in Ireland. Red-handed murderprnasutsotifll wield its devilish sceptre over the fruitful rac y , unless the Executive urea of Tippe grapple boldly, in- J in stantaneously, and determinedly with the difficulties which have so long marshalled against each other es the landlord and tenant interests. Panic must stillte cripple the enterprize of our manufacturers, unless the blunders of the present system of currency be effec tually rectified. So engrossing are the two matters of legislation to which we have referred, that we cannot just now rea - sonably anticipata:any thing c fa decisive character from the Government in relation to sanitary and education ti, improvements. We cannot at least anticipate any thing of the kind before the adjournment for the vacation of Christmas. The mortality of the empire must continue to increase, a o n . d that not only proportionately with the increase 7-nnulation. Ignorance must still remain pre dominant over tLe intellect of the children of the laboming classes, excepting in those instances where private. munificence has erected a haven of refuge for the o 'spring of the impoverished in the shape of Ragged Schools or Industrial Institutions. As yet the Sanitary Corirn'Fioni , r4 ron.t continue compara tively inactive ; and the Education Committee prove comparatively a sinecure. These extraordinary mea sures of reform are however only in abeyance. The Administration is pledged to their introduction. The Prime Minister has more than once promised their realisation to the citizens of London from the hust ings of Guildhall. Upon the passing of Bills for in suring to the community the blessings of cleanliness, knowledge, and security in mercantile transactions► the very existence of the Government is dependent. The Cabinet crumbles to pieces with the act of failure in any one of these particulars. Eng land possesses, indeed, the most superb guerdon which could be tendered to its Reformers — Power. It retains a security, for the fulfilment of their engagements, better than hostages — the capacity to select its rulers. This double defence against maladministration arises from the omnipo tence of public opinion in Great Britain. It enables the people to fashion their statesmen to their own advantage, to incite the tardy, to restrain the over zealous, and to confine within the limits of reason and prudence those who would outstrip the age by the diffusion of the precocious liberty resulting from pre mature innovations. Solicitous as we are to obtain the benefits of the different reforms we have enumerated—together with others of a more comprehensive character—we are yet sufficiently impressed with the peril of precipi tation in everything relating to the Government of a great empire, that we are willing to acknowledge the advisability of procrastinating yet awhile the settlement of the legislative problems of sanitary and educational improvement. Not that we do not conceive them to be of supreme and imminent con sequence to the multitude. GOD knows that the existence and morality of the people are fearfully jeopardized, as things are at present situated ; and that disease and iniquity are flourishing in awful exuberance where the most simple pre cautionary movement would lead inevitably to their eradication. Yet, satisfied that such is unquestion ably the case, we are yet prepared to reiterate our assertion that further delays are fur certain reasons justifiable. Those reasons are the alarming condi tion of the money market and of Ireland. Occur ring as these miseries do, moreover, amidst all the depressing influences of winter it becomes doubly in cumbent upon the Legislature to contrive some speedy and efficacious means of alleviation. Both these causes of affliction and embarrassment have been grow ing to their present vastness and virulence during a very protracted period; both, therefore, demand the most serious investigation, the most patient deliberation, the most active interference of the State, and the most cordial co-operation among all classes of politicians The question of the Currency is not a Whig question, or a Tory question, or a Free Trade question, or a Protectionist question, or a Conservative question, or a Radical question. Or, if it can be designated as any one of these, it can only be termed such a free trade question as is comprehensive even to the Protectionist mind of ARCHIBALD Ausox—involving a free trade in gold, such as is alone compatible with a free trade in articles of con sumption. Both Ireland and the Currency are sub jects exclusively of so much national consideration as to render the:predilections of party, matters of subordi nate moment. Let these reflections carry their due weight in the judgments of the Legislators, and Eng land will be speedily 'extricated from its sorrows and involvements. The Bank of England have at length made a move ment. Notice was yesterday given that the minimum rate of interest would be 7 per cent. until further notice. Even this reduction, trifling as it is, will ope rate as a very considerable boon to the mercantile and manufacturing interests, if the Bank should be dis posed to act liberally, and to discount freely at that rate, there cannot now be any necessity for that ur.due stringency which has hitherto been manifested. The tide of bullion has been steadily flowing inwards, it appearing from the returns to the I:3zh instant, pub lished in The Sun of Saturday, thdt the bullion on that day amounted to no leas than 9,258,520/. ; and, as considerable amounts have since been received from various quarters, we may venture to assert that there cannot be less than 10,000,0001. sterling in specie now in its coffers. Concurrently with this addition to its resources, we find a considerable falling off in the amount of "other securities," which indicate the degree of accommodation afforded to the commercial interests, a decrease under that head having taken place within the week of no less than 359,4471., following a still greater reduction of 489,0001., which had taken place during the preceding week. There is thus, within a fortnight, a falling off of no less than 848,4471., and that at a period of the year when the tendency, generally speaking, is the other way, and also after the recommendation contained in the memo rable letter of the Premier and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the 25th of October last, "that they should advance liberally, in order to the restoration of public confidence, and the promise that, in the event c.f any violation of the law being thereby occasioned, the Government would bring in an Act for the purpose of indemnifying the directors therefrom. If such a violation of the law has not already taken place, there is now little prospect thereof; although the Bank should reduce their terms to the ordinery rate. We believe that it will appear, from the several returns that have been made since that period, that the limit assigned by the Act of 1844 Las never been transgressed, and that there will be no necessity for any applica tion to the Legislature for an indemnity to the directors. If this be so, there could be no reason whatsoever that so exorbitant a rate of interest, one so injurious, we may say destructive, to our trade, commerce, and manufactures, should still be maintained. If the directors felt themselves autho rised to abandon the 8 per cent. fixed by the Minis terial missive, they were surely equally competent to name a rate more suited to the requirements of the country, one which would not operate as a bar to production, but would enable the mill• owners again to give employment to the operatives, and to execute the numerous foreign orders that have hitherto Leen suspended from want of the usual facilities. The reduction has either been sanctioned by the Government, or been adopted by the directors on their own responsibility, from feeling that they are again in a condition to act according to their own discretion, and without being fettered by the restric tion on the rate of interest. We have already shown that in such a case the reduction should be to 5 or 6 per cent., at the outside; indeed either rate would be much higher than could permanently be retained, or than has usually been demanded, when the affairs of the Bank presented so favourable an appearance as they do at the present moment. Neither would the change have been made on the very day preceding the QUEEN'S Speech to Parliament. The directors would naturally have waited until the nature of the recommendations contained therein, together with the feeling of the different parties in the House were known. They, at least, had an .apology for the course they had adopted and for a persistance therein, until the Legislature had been consulted; more particu larly as such changes in the rate of interest are not usually announced on Mondays, and they might very properly have waited until the Thursday before making any alteration. It is, therefore, most pro bable that it was in pursuance of some expressed wish on the part of the Government that the reduction has been made. groun d onWtehtirsustfatchtat i n n o a fa rg vo u u m r ent o s f may be sufficiency of the present system, or in opposition to an imme diate revision of our monetary code ; that it may not be significant of the determination of the Govern ment still to Support the fatal system that has occa sioned such distress and destitution throug-bout all parts of the country. , no commander of the garrison i h L a 1 ; 1111: "4."------declared that city in a state of siege 0. f Colonel rr ibu r g 1. , 1, in consequence of the murder of: h tw o of the Federalist ea3lGth.. Several of abominable Two I sentinels during the night of ithe Federalist soldiers have 13,2 en of the fanatics engaged in these abO nations were seized on the 16th and tried by e a assas : i ; martial, and shot the next day. The Federal C °u om -- - missioners have arrived, and, having assembled the people, called upon them to elect a new Gmernment. The following are the names of the members elected : C sill N ON, -- MM. PILLET, ROBARDEY, KAISER, BROGL, Colonel VITRI, and two refugee% from Berne, MM. jULIEN SCHALLER aarl Cii. i£ O ;N. IC. There is no intelligence from Lucerne. Mr. CHARLES VGELKER, one of the Members of the canton of St. Gall, has addressed a letter to the papers defending the Federalists from the calumniese that have been heaped upon them by the French and Austrian Ministerialists. He says : " Without the promise of aid and assistance from foreign powers, such as Austria and France, the Sonderbund would scarce have ventured upon their hazardous undertaking. And if we now ask what is the chief end and aim of the Conservative leaders, I answer (and of this all the Liberals are as convinced as of their own existence) that their end and aim is no other than to sever Switzerland into two political parts—into a Catholic and a Protestant league; to preserve in the Catholic cantons the mock democracy, where certain patrician families have since time un keown wielded the sword of power and the sceptre, and to restore in the Protestant cantons the power and privileges of the aristocracy, and upset the true democratic Governments of the Protestant cantons. Hence the close though apparently unnatural alliance of the Protestant aristocracy with ultramontane and Jesuitical clergy, and hence the promised support of the foreign despotic Governments. In a late article of the Allgemeine Augsburg Zeitung it has even been asserted that the Conservative leaders of the Catholic cantons had entered into a plan which France and Austria had formed for dividing Switzerland as Poland has been divided—viz., France to take the whole of the French portion of Switzerland, together with Bale and Soleure, and Austria to take the Italian and eastern portions, and then to leave the little cantons, Uri, Schwyzt, Un terwalden, Lucerne, Sec., as the Swiss confederacy under the protection of France. That either of those treacherous plans for the splitting or the dividing Switzerland was and is to this moment the object of the Sonderbund there is not the least doubt in the minds of the immense mass of the liberal population. Hence the enthusiasm, the energy of the Liberals— hence the resolve to stake life and property in this contest—and hence the vanquished reluctance to fight against fellow-citizens, which was the only motive that so long delayed the resolve for the use of arms. Burnow, after all other means have failed to convince the Conservative population of the purity and disin terestedness of our intentions—after the possibility has been denied us to explain to them the actual state of matters, and while we are convinced that our country and our true democratic liberty, all the pro gress and advance that we have made and obtained with great exertions and sacrifices—in fact, that everything that is dear and sacred to a free citizen and an enlightened,disinterested, benevolent, and Christian mind is at stake, or rather is undoubtedly advancing towards its ruin and destruction, we have ventured on the decision by arms. God will assist those who are in the right, who have the purest intentions. I feel myself clear of any malice, and of every wrong. I consider the struggle as one for the highest and holiest objects of humanity, and have therefore re solved to partake in it. I value my life very high, I do not like dying in the vigour of my life, but I value the goods for which I stake my life higher than this life. Wort and That dem Vaterland' is the motto of every true republican, and I will not desert from it." It is said that the question of the occupation of Ferrara has been settled. The Austrians are to re tain possession of the citadel, and the town is to be given up to the POPE. The Madrid mail had not arrived at the time the post left Paris. Letters from Barcelona stated that the army of Ca• talonia is much discontented in consequence of the removal of General MANUEL CONCHA from the com mand. They consiC,er that this removal is not the spontaneous act of the QUEEN, who, they scruple not to proclaim, is a prisoner in her ow•n palace. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The Presse gives the text of the letter addressed by M. BOIS LE COMTE to General DUFOUR, announc ing his intention of withdrawing from Berne, in con sequence of a safe conduct to Lucerne having been refused to one of his attaches. The Debuts attempts to justify this conduct of M. Bois LE COMTE, by say ing that he was accredited not to the Federation, but to each of the twenty -two sovereign cantons. This doctrine is certainly a novel one, and it behoves all federal republics to come to some understanding with France on the subject. The Ambassador to the United States, for instance—is he accredited to the Federation, or to each of the States separately ? The fact is that M. BOIS LE COMTE, in obedience to the orders of M. 6' UIZOT, abused the sacred cha racter of an ambassador, by acting the part of a spy, and communicating to the rebels of Lucerne everything that was going on in the camp of the Federation. In proof of this we quote the following from the Constitutionnel : "We cannot, in fact comprehend the conduct which M. Bois Le Comte is made to exhibit in Switzerland. What had he to do with a Govern ment which the organs of our Ministry do not cease to load with the grossest insults and the most odious calumnies ? What relations was he keeping up with the Vorort and the Diet, since M. Guizot, violating the law of nations, fraudulently introduced arms and ammunition into the canton Friburg, when in revolt against the Vorort and the Diet ? What attitude could M. Bois-le-Comte assume in a country into which the French Government has just flung civil war, by a support given to a powerless and rebellious minority? In order to be consistent, it was to Lu• cerne that our Ministry ought to have sent an ambas sador, in place of keeping him at Berne. We know well that that the cannon were furnished to Friburg in order to please Austria, and that M. Bois-le-Comte was kept at Berne in order not to offend too much the opinion of the Chambers. But what was the ap. pearance which the double game of his Government gave to M. Bois-le-Cornte ? lie appeared to be a spy in the enemy's camp, an agent of division and discord in the midst of an independent nation, a foreign conspirator invested with inviolability. Be sides, is not the avowcd cause of his withdrawal a truly extraordinary one ? lie, the ambassador of the Government which sent muskets to Friburg, wanted to send a secretary of embassy to Lucerne 1 General Dufour, a very moderate Liberal, but an honest man and devoted to his duty and his country, found the proceeding suspicious, and refused the safe conduct demanded. We ask, what man of common sense, what French general in his place would have acted otherwise ? Was it not the duty of our ambas.. sador, since he remained at Berne, to abstain abso lutely from any step that might compromise him, and to await the termination of the civil war in the most complete neutrality ? We may add, the cause al leged for the refusal was not the only one. 'W e believe that we are perfectly well informed, when we say that amongst the letters seized by the agents of the Government of Berne on the agents of the Son derbund, there were several which proved the dis loyalty of the French Minister towards Switzerland, or which at least gravely compromised the legation ; and this was precisely the reason given by General Dufour to M. Bois-le-Comte as a motive for refusing the safe conduct. The Vorort certainly has not failed to complain to the French Ministry of the proceedings of the Government and embassy of France towards Switzerland. There was, therefore, in the situation of Bois-le-Comte every possible mo tive for his withdrawing. Thus we have made two parts of the Swiss cantons ; we have :urged on the one part, consisting of those which are the staunch friends of the Powers hostile to France, to revolt and subsequent defeat; and we have separated ourselves for a long time to come from the others, who were our natural friends and the defenders of our frontiers. Such is the patriotic and intelligent work which M. Guizot has just concluded." It was rumoured in Paris that Lord PALMERSTON had proposed that a congress of the representatives of the five great Powers should be held in London (instead of at Baden, as proposed by M. GuizoT), on the subject cf the affairs of Switzerland, to which the Federalists and the Sonderbund should each send two Deputies. This proposition has, it is said, been favourably entertained by the French Government. The following are the particulars of the accident on the Orleans Railway, the occurrence of which we mentioned in The Sun of yesterday : " The train, which had left Paris late on Friday night, had arrived at the Pont de la Bourie, the point of junction of the line with that of Bordeaux and Vierzon, and was taking in passengers, when a loco motive, which had been employed in pushing on a heavy train from Orleans to Paris, returned at full speed, and, valout perceiving the signal displayed that a train was stopping at the station, dashed on, and came with the utmost force against the carriages lying last. The passengers were dreadfully hurt to t ft h ohr e et u n rne u s t t uber of sixteen, a n d th ree so b a dl y as not to hold ou t much hope of ultimate recovery. The num ber of at p ey a l ssengers in the tr a i n was a b out 15 0, b ut only thr ee o f the carriages were crushed yieldin g t o t h e shock , and running on along ' the li ne . The men who were on the locomotive suf feredbeen ordi oaf them, it is said, has lost accident has , ion i n t o t h e cause of the T h en e aos u n rcAy:nbbThree one er .d per Cents. w Passa de r ere done i n th e ge Ofkra on S un d ay at 76f. 90c. TUESDAY EVENING. ER ill UrEc49PlT'q SPEECH. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Her Majesty has ordered us to declare to you the causes which have induced her to call Parliament together at the present time. Her Majesty has seen with great concern the distress which has for some time prevailed among the commercial classes. The embarrassments of trade were at one period aggravated by so general a feeling of distrust and of alarm, that her Majesty, for the purpose of restoring con fidence, authorised her Ministers to recommend to the directors of the Bank of England a course of proceeding suited to such an emergeney. This course might have led to an infringement of the law. Her Majesty has great satisfaction in being able to inform you that the law has not been infringed; that the alarm has subsided, and that the pressure on the banking and commercial interests has been miti gated. The abundant harvest with which this country has been blessed, has alleviated the evils which always accompany a want of employment in the manufac turing districts. Her Majesty has, however, to lament the recur rence of severe distress in Ireland, owing to the scarcity of the usual food of the people. Her Majesty trusts that this distress will be materially relieved by the exertions which have been made to carry into effect the law of last session for the support of the destitute poor. Her Majesty has learnt with satisfaction that landed proprietors have taken advantage of the means placed at their dis posal, by the liberality of Parliament, for the im _provement of land. Her Majesty laments that in some counties of Ireland atrocious crimes have been committed, and a spirit of insubordination has manifested itself leading to an organized resistance to legal rights. The Lord Lieutenant has employed with vigour and energy the means which the law places at his disposal to detect offenders, and to prevent the repetition of offences. Her Majesty feels it, however, to be her duty to her peace able and well-disposed subjects to ask the assistance of Parliament in taking further precau tions against the perpetration of crime in certain counties and districts of Ireland. Her Majesty views with the deepest anxiety and interest the present condition of Ireland, and she recommends to the consideration of Parliament measures, which, with due regard to the rights of property, may advance the social condition of the people, and tend to the permanent improvement of that part of the United Kingdom. Her Majesty has seen with great concern the breaking out of civil war in Switzerland. Her Majesty is in communication with her allies on this subject, and has expressed her readi ness to use, in concert with them, her friendly in fluence for the purpose of restoring to the Swiss Confederation the blessings of peace. Her Majesty looks with confidence to the maintenance of the general peace of Europe. Her Majesty has concluded with the Republic of the Equator a Treaty for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Her Majesty has given directions that this treaty should be laid before you.' GENTLEMEN OF TILE HOUSE OF COMMONS, Her Majesty has given directions that the Esti mates for the next year should be prepared for the purpose of being laid before you. They will be framed with a careful regard to the exigencies of the public service. Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Her Majesty recommends to the consideration of Parliament the laws which regulate the naviga tion of the United Kingdom, with a view to ascertain whether any changes can be adopted which, without danger to our maritime strength, may promote the commercial and colonial interests of the empire. Her Majesty has thought proper to appoint a Commission to report on the best means of improving the health of the metropolis, and her Majesty re commends to your earnest attention such measures as will be laid before you relating to the public health. Her Majesty] has deeply sympathised with the sufferings which afflict the labouring classes in the manufacturing districts of Great Britain, and in many parts of Ireland ; and her Majesty has observed with admiration the patience with which these sufferings have been generally borne. The distress which has prevailed among the commercial classes has affected many important branches of the revenue. But her Majesty trusts that the time is not distant when, under the blessing of Divine Providence, the commerce and industry of the United Kingdom will have resumed their wonted activity. LLOYD'S SIIIPPING—(TIIIS DAY.) LONDON. Nov.. 23.—Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze, and hazy, with rain. DEAL, Nov. 21?...—Wind S.S.W. to W . N . W . —A rr d. Wilson, Sierra - Leone. Arrd. f rom t h e r i ver C aesar , Berbice; Champi'.on, Porto Rico; Princess Royal, Ber muda. Arrd. Nom the river and sailed Viscountess Canning, Cape Coast Castle. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.----Wind to Off port Mary 2.nn, Darke, Madras; Comet, Madeira. LIVERPOOL, 19%0v. 22.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W.— Arrd. Earl of Durham, Bombay; Pakenham, Bourne, Porto Cabello; Borderer, Willis, Demerara; Moun taineer, Smith, di:tto; Richard Anderson, Barnett, Vir ginia; Ocean Monarch, Boston; Adriana, Jackson, Rio Bento; Mary Assn, Newfoundland. The Fanny, from Alexandria, is on shore near Crosby Point; crew saved . The schooner J. to e, from Gland ore , sun k near Spencer 's Spit this morning: ; crew saved. His Serene 1 Lighness Prince Alexandre di Gon.- aaga-Mantua h sa just arrived in London from Rome, having received; ?twist cordial and flattering testimonies of respect and Byrn pcathy from the Italian people. HEALTH OP THE LORD CHANCELLOR. -- We have much pleasure In stating that this much-respected nobleman is steadily improving. His Lordship was yes terday visited by• Dr. Chambers, who at twelve o'clock issued the f o ll ow i rig statement:—" The Lord Chancellor has passed a bettia r night, and is progressing satisfac torily." Loss or ram LADY KENNAWAT.—The fine new East ladiam an I Ally Kennaway, belonging to the repre sentative (an o n ly d aug h ter ) o f t h e l a te Thomas Ward, the 21st of June, bound to London, Esq., of L on d on , was totally abandone d by h e r c re w in the Bay of Bi sc: ty, in a sinking condition , last week. She left Bo m b ay • 'on laden with a carg " va l ue d at 210 , 0001 ., consisting of Indian silk, cr a p es , Cal kalere s h aw l s, The Lady Kenn may spoke the gums, spices, rice, &c. East Indianian Stebon heath off the C s ►l:ie of Good Hope, in distress , having suffered in a gal, N. The Stebonheath belonged to the same owner. T be Lady liennaway had only made two voyages, and the S tebonheath six.— Cork Constitution. Suirwßi6 cK , PiND Loss OF LlrE.—Yesterday intelligence reach, ,d Lloyd's that the French brig Ca melia, of St. M alt . laden with Indian corn, had been totally lost in Eta enkillig Bay. county Kerry, Ireland, the master and el .e w, except a boy, being drowned. We regret t( / announce th e death, am ong th e victims to th e ye Maw fever on the - West India station, of the Rev. Gear ?t , 'W. Garrow, 8.A., chaplain of the Imaum, 72, whi c h took place at Port Royal, Jamaica, a day or two b e f ore . 4he ma il l e f t. THE Yoram P BOCESS.—BERLIN, Nov. 17.—This was a solemn da y in Court. At one o'clock the Presi dent rose, and, a. id ; - ess i ng th e counse l f or th e P o li s h de fendants, 'equine - • whether they had any further defence to make; the coo ill el unanimously replied in the nega tive, upon which th o President said, " The proceedings are herewith clost Kl. . The day for pronouncing the sen tence cannot yet ; be named." This will probably not take place for a f on night or three weeks, and the read ing will prob a bly ofcupy two or three days, it will be given in Germa n , , $u a l on ly the tenour will be translated into Polish. SANITARY M NAJ SURES.—We understand that the magistrates of Ca; iongate are actively engaged in causing the win 31e closes and wynds of that ancient burgh to be th• . on ,uglily whitewashed and fumigated. They are also caul ng the same to be done in all the houses of the poor where permission is given them. — Scotsman. Mr. Cobden, 311 .r., is expected to arrive in town this day. ONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWTS. CI TY. Q 'A e'? 7:71: TO Tli REE. C:ctt,n Niat-;et wag firm , .r yesit,ci . day. 4,000 to ::),000 lilac:b. American Loris were. scarcer; 3,500 bales sold at sid. to 6id. per lb.—Railway Shares were . quiet, and sales were not pressed. The ship Mary Ann, Darke, brings intelligence of Sept. 18 from the Cape of Good Hope. The Kafirs continued their petty, but exceedingly vexatious, depre ciations, though the day of retribution seemed at hand. The Governor .:as collecting his fore , :s, and would have a much better array than Lis predecessors, or rather his troops would be in better condition. Ample supplies wLre provided of the munitions of war, and the great aim, it is hoped, will be to keep the rear of the colony well protected, in the event of the army advancing far into Kafirland. The intended withdrawal of Sir 11. E. F. Young, the Liutenant-Governor of the Eastern Province, had excited much dissatisfaction, as his Excellency was much liked. The public attention is very much directed here to the probable contents of the Speech of the Queen on the opening of Parliament. It is naturally supposed that the version given of it in the columns of " the leading" morning journal is substantially correct. If the prin cipal points, except Ireland, be realised, this Speech, it is considered, is favourable on the whole. It was announced, yesterday afternoon, under this bead, that the Court of Directors of the Bank of England had reduced the rate of interest upon loans on the security of Bills of Exchange, Exchequer•bills, and Stock, to seven per cent. This has produced quite a movement in public confidence, and the Funds have risen to 851. The Market is extremely firm, with a good deal of business doing. Exchequer-bills are firmer. In the Foreign Stock there is a tendency to improve, and the same may be said of Railway Shares. CITY, THREE O'CLOCK. The Market for Consols has further improved since our first remarks were written. The price for the Ac count has touched 851. The value has since receded, as several of the Bulls have realised. ONE CLOSING I:ICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Nile Es tank Stock lB7 ISB% 187 187 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 83 1 4 84 83% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.. 84N 85% 85 85% 1 / 4 85 1 / e New 34 per Cent. Anns 84% 85% 85% LongAnns. to expire Jan.1860 Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859 ..... Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 8% India Stock 233 235 235 India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under LOOM .. ...... .- 2O dis 20 dis South Sea Stock Consols for Account B5 84% 85% 1 / 85 Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,0001. 500/ Small ONE CLOSING RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Brazilian Bonds nussian Bonds .. ..... 106 106% 106 1 4 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent ... .. ...... Ditto, Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 / 4 per Cent — Ditto Deferred l O l /2 10 I/ 2 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4 1 4 per Cent — 90 1 4 Dutch, 2 1 / 4 . per Cent., 12 Guild.... 54% 54 1 / 2 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 83 83 1 A PRICES OP PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING CLILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Amber., Nett., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2.y 3 .. ... -- Ayrshire and Galloway.. 21 / 2 Lelfast & County Down 10 t!.irminghain and Ox f,rrd Junction E!irmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 14 14 limning., Wolverlepton, and Stour Va11ey..... 8 ...... „tdrkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June—. 7 3 / . i 'oston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5 Listol and Exeter Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire 101. 4s 3 dis .. 3 dis Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares..... 3% Ditto, Clydesdale June 50 ...... :Neter and Holyhead... 37 1 4 Ditto, Preference .. 8 781, — 7% Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. lO ..... • ...... -- Dublin and BelfastJunc. 20 Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D. ...... 25 ...... Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 Do., 31.10 x., E. &H. 1 Eastern Counties. 20 - 16 1 4 16 16% 16% , •• Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 61. 13s. 4d... IA dis l-% dis Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... .. — Do., York Extension.. 10 ...... 88 IA B% Do., North. & Eastern 50 Do., Quarters Do., New 23 Eastern Union 5O .. ... Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 / 2 Ditto, Thirds ... l3s. 4d Do., (guar. 6 percent) . ..... . ........ .... East Lancashire,' 25 Ditto, New - Ditto, New Quarters... .3N Nest Lincolnshire - ... dinburgh and Glasgow 50 47 1 4 Ditto _Half Shares ... 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... Edinburgh & Northern.. 22% Ditto, New Ditto, Newport ..... ... 9 1 / 3 Ditto, ditto, New . .... 214 Ex.eter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% Ditto, New . 28...... Glasgow Dumfries, and Carlisle 81.65. 8d ( lasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ... . Ditto, New .. 40 Do. Preference Consol. 12 1 / 2 .-- cl: eat Nortlaern 8 Do., London and York 2 %.• ... Gceb:t South. and West ( Iroland) t.:reat liorth of England-100 Dittv, New 40/ Ditto, New 301. Ditto, New 15/ . 1 1 / — ......... ...., 17 Great \Art:stet n B5 lOO 101 lOl Ditto, 1, Shares ..... ... 50 Ditto, % Shares Ditto, Fifths Ditto, New 171 liudderstield & Manches. 22 Ditto, Thirds Bull and Selby 5O .. .. 98 . 98 Ditto, Half Shares.... 25 Ditto, 14 Shares....... 12% — ... — 11. swich& Bury St. Edna. 15 ... 00., do., and Norwich 15 Do., do., Extens.Scrip (late Camb. & Ely) 2%...... I.^.n.:aster and Carlisle... 50 IN tto, Thirds lO Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto 1:. Shares . ... 38 Do. Quarter Shares.- 14% Do. Fifths 6%..... ... Do. Sixteenths 6 Do. Thirds (Reg.)....101. 42. ... 5%% dis. 5 l /2 dis. Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 Ditto 1 / 2 (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 33 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte fract.& Goole Do. (W. Riding Union) 4/.2s 2% dis 2% dis. Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. 1 / 2 Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto (B) ... 1 1 4 Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford... 16s. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37 1 / 2 , Do., Branch 1 / 2 Shares 12 1 / 2 .. ... Do. New Branch(blue) 2% Do. Extension (green) 2%..... •••• Do.NewExten. (pink) 2 1 / 2 %:,e• ads and Thirsk — :Ditto, New - Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1 / 2 — ... ..... ..... L Tvrpool, Crosby and Ooathport .... .... Liv, vp., tanchstr & New • caot• l e Junction 2 l / 2.., London and Blackwall..l6/. 13s. 4d. Do. Yew, No. 1 •••• ••• ..... Do. li ew, No. 2 .. 41. 13s. 4d.... Do. Fla :tension London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. Conool. Eighths.. 30 Do. Guar ant. f per ct. 9 Do. Pref. C'on. 5 per ct. 50 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d Ditto, Preference ... 18/1;s 2d... London and.'4NT. Western 100 ISG 154% 155... 155 Do., Quarters L. & B. 17 Do., do., New Ditto Fifths Do. 1% Shat es (G. J.) 25 _ ___ Do 4U/. Sh Ares o_.. M.) 15 Do. 40/. (K. &TB.) ..: 40 - 1.)o. 10/. (Mx & B.) A. 71A ••• • '7i 1 1 1, 4/ • 111/4 1)o. 101. .oi. & B.) C. 1 .. . cad. & S.Wostern 41/. 6s. 8d 55 55 1 ,4 Do. New CI cnsol. 8 ths 40 DJ. New 504 ... ..... 32 1 / . . ` ) 8?,/ 1 29 Do. New 40/ Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 - •• ••..•• ...... - Ditto ditto ... .... .... 40 Ditto, Thirels 61. 13s. 4d.... :ji dis. London, Salisbury, and _ . Yeovil ........ ........ 1 1 6...... Londotpierry&Coleraino 271 / Londonderry and Ennis killen ... 23 3 4 ...... ... ..... ..... Dilanchcster•Bu.xton,and Matlock 3 ...... 1 % ••••• ...... %a Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire IOO Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 . — ..., — Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7% Ditto and Grimsby.... 25 Ditto ditto . ........ 7 Ditto ditto . Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7% - IMO NOVEMBER 23, 1847. /dandiest,. & Sout.harnpt. 2 14...... ....... ..,..... -- 111.i1dand ;:‘,. ,:. , :,- , ,",: ,-. ! ' •.,-..:., , - ---.. Do. 50i. 50i. 61 ,,, rt:::, ,V •, ;' 1 . ) 9 Do. Birm., and Derby100 Midland Consol. Brist. & Birming., 6 per cent.loo Midlnd, Bri6t. &Glocstr. 34 Ditto, ditto 7l. 93.. ..... Midlnd, I.eicest. & Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish Neweastleand Carlisle-1ot) 00. t ~,-,r t ,,.., -0 -- •. . ..._ Nwinrieti , .:. _,lie.,tei;or,l l: . , Do. Extension .........21. 125.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, .... _ _ and Rostrevor Norfolk ..,...... ......... -.100 Do. New 201. Do. Extenmon. Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk.. 2 ••• ..... ••••• Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 ...... North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shares 1 2 2...... 121 xi ....... 12//‘;xi Do. Quarters Vi 4l / 21,i x i Do. Extension Ditt , Thirds 1 ...., 2 ... ... ........ 2 Norti Staffordshire 7 l/••• - 71 4 1/ 7 Ni No ~n Wales North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 35 ... Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 1% — . Scottish Central Scottish Midland 17%....,, . ..- Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birm... 6 Ditto ditto. Class B. 3 brewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) l6 Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ...... .. ... Ditto Oswestry ... .. 12 Ditto New Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 ... . Shropshire Union South Devon... 4O Do. Preference South Staffordiliire South Easttrri & Dover. 33 IA 2 9 1 /2 „„ 29!4 Do., No. 1.. D0., Nc, 2. Do., No. 3.. ..... ...... .:.5 ...... Do., No. 4 South Wales South Yorkshire, Don- castor, and Goole 2 Swans. & Loughor & Ca- meron's Strni C0a1.... 4 ••• ..... ••• Taw Vale Extension ... 4 Thames Haven Dock and Railway .... 17 1 / 2 ...... Vale of IN eatn 4 Waterford and Kilkenny 13 1 72 . W aterlord and Limerick 3 - a Waterld,Wxtrd,Wicklw, and Dublin W est Cornwall -.... Whitehaven & Furness I L Windsor, Staines, and South Western..... ... 525. ...... Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth :Tor k, Newcastle, and Berwick. Do. Orgies! New and Berwick Do. North Shields P ur. 25 Do. Extensiox No. 1. 10 Do. do. No. 2. ..... ... 10 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ...... 9 1 ,-' s .. York and North Midland 50 Ditto, Preference Do. East and W isst Bit:l -ing Extension FOREIGN ItAl LW A . 1":-... Anglo- Belgian... Barbadoes ... 1 Boulogne and A mien5... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 Central of Spain ... .... 2 Ceylon Demerara — Dendre Valley 4 Direct Bombay and . Madras Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... ..... .... I % Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Southern of Madras Sc. Great Western Bengal... 53. ...... ... ........ Great W esters Canada... 3!/ ...... Italian and Austrian. ... 4 ... .. Jamaica S.Mid.J unction 1 Louvain ii la Sambre ... 6 ... . .... Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon Madras 1 Madras. Nellore, and Arcot % Madrid and Valcnti9..... 2 .. .. Namur and Liege Northern of France....... 10 .. ... 12% l2 -,v,, Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris and Lyons ...... .. 10 ...... .. — Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg 8 -4 ,, A Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse lB ...... 7 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 Tours and Nantes 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 16 Trinidad West Flanders ...... .... 8 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia London Joint Stock lO British North American 50 Colonial 25 Commercial of London 20 Union of L0nd0n......... 10 Union of Madrid London & Westminster 2O Provincial of Ireland ... 25 - Dit to, New Ditto New... ........... 13 National Prow. England. 35 Ditto, New National of Ireland 2 2 1,4...... Union of Australia Ditto,New... 2%..... . .... MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO — Galvanized Iron Real Del Monte, Unreg. .. 1 EA MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY IVE.A.RICETS. SMITHFIELD. --- Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 31 lOs , Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 4/ 108; and Straw, 11 48 to 1/ 8s per load. Trade very dull, at barely stationary prices. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, 2/12s to 3/ 12s ; Clover ditto, 3/ 10s to 4l 8s ; and Straw, 11 53 to 11 9s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, and the quotations had a downward tendency. : — WHITECILIPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 10% to 3/ lOs ; Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 41 143; and Straw, 1/ 3s to 11 8. per load. Supply good, and tracts d ill. COAL MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Adair's Main l6s 6d l Hedley's Hartley llasting's Hartley lB5 Od! Holywell Main ..... 18s 9(.1 New Tanfield l6s Gd North Pontop Original Tanfield 16s Od Tanfield Moor ..... Tanfield Moor Butes l6s 9d West Wylam Walbottle Hartley Wylam Wall's End, &c Acorn Close 28 arrival Bewicke and Co 2os 6d Killingworth 2os 6,1 Belmont 2ls Od Haswell 2ls 3d Helton .. 2ls 3d Lambton Denison Tees West Pease Cowpsn Hartley W. Hartley _Netherton 19s Od Sidney's Hartley Elgin 5-20 sold. OVER-SHOE FOR LADIES.—We have great pleasure in recording our approval of a patent lately taken out by Godfrey and Co., of 3, Conduit-street, shoemakers to the Queen. She invention consists of a sock or slipper to wear over a lady's boot or shoe in wet weather. The material is a peculiar kind of India rubber, which, being waterproof and extremely light, does not disfigure the foot, which is a great desideratum both to the comfort and appearance. The majority of over- s hoes are very unsightly, but such is not the case with the pateot abovementioned. We feel c ertain they require only to be worn once to meet wit h due appreciation.—Uburver. Oct. 18, 1847. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATII AT TILE ORIENTAL CLUB.—An inquest was held on Saturday, at No. SA, Tenterden-street, Hanover-square (in connexion with the Oriental Club), on the body of George William Trail!, Esq., aged 54, late of the East India Company's Civil Service.—Sir T. E. Colbrooke, Bart., stated that the deceased was his cousin, and that he was in a very delicate state of health, though not sufficiently ill as to require medical advice.—James Dowes, drawing-room waiter at the Oriental Club, said that the deceased was a member of the club. On Thursday afternoon he had dined there, and shortly after eight o'clock he took some warm milk and water to the deceased in the drawing room, and noon after he missed him, but took no notice of the circumstanee, as deceased usually left about that time. On the following morning he (witness) was in. formed that a gentleman was lyin g dead in a water closet on the drawing-room floor, and on going there he recognised the deceased. A policeman and a surgeon were instantly called.—Mr. W. White Cooper, No. 2, Tenterden-street, surgeon, said that he found the body in the position already described. It was quite cold, and the joints perfectly rigid, shelving that death had occurred some hours previous. There was no smell of poison, nor was there any bottle or paper found. lb had since opened and examined the body of the de • ceased. On opening the chest he found some old ad-•j hesions of long standing; the heart was four times its . natural size, and ,n opening the head he found the bra n : congested. but showing no appearance of any apoplectic attack. In the absenc e of an y appearance of poison in the stomach, he was of o p inion t h at the deceased died from disease of the heart. Verdict—" Natural death, from disease of the heart." ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING -YARD.—Shipments of bread stuffs continue to be made from this establish meat for the west coas t of Ireland. Thirty merchant vessels have been already dispatched, and several more are now loading. The Rhadamanthus and Birkenhead steamers, are also to convey meal to Haulbowline.— Plymouth Jou? nal. ANTI-CCP,'S-LA.IV-ANTI-GOTA)- Ti) THE ET; ITO R. GE THE SUN. ;Z'tiit tho' a ht:, war have retieh'd Mark lane, Anil grcat diseour,4gemt-nt to wogs in grain ? Think nothing done (cries Hannibal) until . The rogues in gold are cliasse'd treat Corn-hill, 'fill common sense and common justice meet, And all be mine about Threadneedle street ! JuVEKAL Sin,--The present times remind me of a children's. Puppet show, exhibited at Paris thirty years ago. The ..pokesinan \NW; stationed with certain lamps be hind ao i)!lper :creen, and pulling dew!i iii;usters iii chiaro- seitru. Taraz.w, a mon ewnmandement a sack of corn—then a miller — then a certain gentleman in black, Sc.c.—disparais! — (Applause from the infantry.) Again—paraisse a mon commandenzent a heap of gold—paraisse a 171011 commandment two dozen griffins, " bent on g old,' sacking the heap—tigers—monsters, no end—disparais, Boot--(Shouts and clapping of little hands.) Even so, the minor humbug of corn her Majesty has pulled dawn with a simple disparai s ! but to the grand monopoly of gold let her say more imperatively— • Disparais ! boo Veins ff..mtomes ( - :vanouissez-vows! Is it not monstrous that our Sovereign, out of near fifty millions of taxation, should receive only half million for expenses of her court and state, including the judges ; while Spain, the poorest of nations, gives its Monarch many times that sum ? Every one now sees the reason. It is because the thirty millions, or • thereabouts, payable to stockholders are paid in a medium which, from its extreme scarcity, or penury, and consequently its purchase power or moneys worth, eats up army, navy, people, and monarchy itself. The Royal Family is crushed between two rocks : on one hand the incalculable, paradoxical, hydrostatical pressure of stockholders' taxation ; on the other, the sneers of purse- proud England at a Court whose utmost economy can never relieve the people's distress. But why are we talking about standards, when a safe medium, a practical national cash, is easy with any standard? Why sacrifice market-money to money-market ? Why is m oney; market " glutted with temporary and secure loans, - involving no real business and return except repuliation— while bread-and-cheese market is . shut, and weavers found dead at their looms? Great Baring draws on great Rothschild, and viee • versa, sending gold to America and Spain. Accordiog to Lord Palmerston, 150 millions are now due to England; according to the Times, Spain alone owes us 70 millions. Lord Liverpool, perhaps in joke , said the most precious country should have the most precious standard; Lord Goderich, of parochial fa me, offers every poor man a bit of gold in his pocket-- - grim parody on Henry IV., and his benevolent wish that every peasant should have his boiled fo wl on Sundays. The same gold is at once to be in ever y , man's (or woman's) pocket, and in dir ectors griffin paws, and purchasing Lousyana bonds for Sidney Smith. " It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, Let me not name it to you, ye sweet powers, It is the cause" in which poor Sidney—bled I England is to be saturated with gold that G eneral Jackson ' may get it. L'or anglais perpetually drifting home because we work faster than we can get paid in goods, is gone to supply the lacuna cause by the American specie order of 183 G. The Unit - States Bank being, like our joint-stock and country banks, the friend of industry, and not, like our bank, of England, the friend of usurers, Jackson in 1836 took away all the Government deposits, ref Used their notes, veto-ed their charter, and wrote them do in all the papers by his speech-pamphlets , a vowedly because the bank men had voted against him (Jac i4: son). Such is "the dangerous hostility of profligate power." To combat this bad pr i n ciple, Mr. Cre° ll " ncll said, " I divided the House 43 or 44 times in, 1838 against renewing the charter of th e Bank ot Ireland," which emulates that of England in coin:: paiguing against trade and industry. The GINERAL.s military exploit was congenial to 'gory po lic y , which attributed the panic of 1825 to Engli sh country banks, whose circulation they demolished accordinglY; (Sir P. Pole and Sir T. Esdaile, Lon don banker of most country banks, bein also cleverly dropped)_. in spite of Mr. T. Attwood's g intrepid remons trance. the " Letters of a Scotch Banker," 182 G. The slier attempt was made in Scotland, but defeated by Si,r, Walter Scott, in the "Letters of M. Malagrowther, 1828, backed by forty Scots, INIM.PP. Now, in 1847, the rate of discount is 8 p e4roc etnhte. According to M. Thiers (Times, Oct. 23, 18 Bank of France has kept to 4 per cent. during twenty years. They were right. Mr. Page (H ardcastl deposed before the Committee, 1840, " Die Ban renews quarterly advances, not generally, but to in' dividuals ;" and Mr. Norman, " Quarterly advances are at lower rates than discounts." Note—The re advances are on approved bills only ! Can any of your readers say whether they are to pay 8 per cent. now? Or could Sir Robert be thinking of thes e particular quarterlies when he complained no t long ago "of the Bank maintaining an arbitrary prefe rence for .such bills ?" Besides, if the bankers mu st needs step over the way, and ask charity four times a year, what is become of those balances retained for centuries without interest ? Suppose inspectors ar pointed for joint-stock banks (which almost in G e tli mory of man were liable to a premunire, Geo. I.) to overhaul their renewed bills, their past due bills, and all their misdemeanours—suppose,sfrhs _ sudden change of Ministry, the same inspec_toer samde under to ransack the Bank of England on h "cle—ne principle, 'they would report " Wrong t T o ff e e m c tpsl—e Temple-bar, find n d th establishmenti e s ven as far ahas s v obnrdanschsre;sestabout find from many repudiation okeof York bainllds, Mrs.man ys Clarke.ecur sd.satrte; Hammersley's branch was set up at that epoch, well known, not to invest capital, but to pay debts; for, as Sir R. Peel said, 20th May, 11 t 9 " absolutely, in a ran. entire secrecy is necessary, ... • objection I have no actions relating to money. • • 1844, Deep and to the transfer and sale of banksil' means for the public to know w . _ reason to branches are in a better state, and if so, no e.ve _ would not into a better state. The whole concern t the eth T er he a re be well to pu suppose they would gratuitously bring thews 5 pay ss. in the pound—it would Premiers hey/could not, official assignees." Some such report t sceptre in commission, or appoint the two in the case supposed, help making. , aroethne; plate all this with a sort of anguish— " Till half a patriot, half a coward po ne,, Here, toiling on a patch of clayfarm I contem - I fly from petty tyrants to the throne" — trembling anger to ter tern should bring a dangerous flushhe enemyf of poor trembling lest the malfiffmation of our o .roonetary sys" Majesty's brow, and make her t ia's childhood to one might compare Queen v People. It is so difficult to sF r % c liti o u r s I hautboy, whose long' some melody on the pastorfaor moment the other drawn cantabile silences andic to else the unison of whose tenants of the orchestra,t a The voice of home, of ness too beautiful to last. o f • to evoke the sobs and sighs piercing, perfect sweet every vibration genera es hope, of youth, begins memory — Par d'utnani sospiri e di singuiti... Strana arinoni.l di canto e di quercle. E trarne un suon che flebile concento The ad agio ends—begins the crescendo airtdeneets, tato—ere long discords predominate, baulk h c d e listen toil amid a chopping sea of sound.. chromatic or superfluous chords i s ) u o s u p t, e i n e d , the Co n ' cent trouble. Music submits to Fate,. and cert ends for a time in the crude imbroglio of a general tattoo. uestion ? And all these calamities, a currency q . ust s o, You, Sir, are one of the few that know it . i e s s a dtoub a-- e. Loyalty cannot co-exist with pr . ic ra , a labourers defrauded of hire, of keep. Matthias wood, a high authority, has asked, Nothillg by alternations of prosperity and distress ? or low more than a high or low rate of money, a told that high rate of commodities." If people are .„ 00 .. royalty is essential to their well-being, they the turally believe it so to their ill-being----nor vviii 6 " What is me•-eb plutocracy be in a hurry to undeceive them. I have the honour to be, &C ARGE NT, a C. ------- --_ _ - , , . SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A SAlLOR.—tfil oa.tirdoY evening, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the London 0° 3 5 0 - Otal, on view of the body of Charles Willard , ahe ut years of age, whose death took place under the follow,' deceased ing suspicious circumstances:—lt appeared the de returned to this country a few days ago, in a wer e " ,t ship, from Quebec. On Thursday morning last be w el , to the captain's for his money, amounting to abou% which was paid him. He was at the time acconnri.vah by a female, one of the class of the " unfortunates,' with oreing' whom he was drinking the greater part of the mint In the afternoon he was led by some women ;°,., 0 , house, No. 34, New Gravel-lane, being apparentlY '-,,,,, fit, and insensible. He was soon after removed fr°"; there in a cab to the London Hospital. Mee" W ah l. then employed to recover him, but without effect, 4; 1 - ° died in that institution about two hours after his ° lll-- sion. The Coroner, under the circumstances of thecaSer directed that a post morton examination of the 1 1 0' and, if necessary, an analysis of the contents of t d. io I.li stomach noewdc : vfo s e i ri i . o tv t i l .ai lil ut ap t a bu k lre e p ot p si l ,e a i seteod; document hmdenenensttdhraney;ginhnetqxuht.iaryy e was a he II at In l ti e t n t:,n w i i f ll o r o e r t r ld eo e f r , o it f.l p y r h o i b o a h t:l h y o o Nl i e n v o er s , ervic e, then, time of capture, the period which has elapsed slier°. a s the resent a s t r y i r v e e s , c.i, e i „ seen nothing in the London journals, v ‘ i v i e ll h h a a v v e o the usual channel. The bird i' in the possession of Mr' ,T. Gooch, Gorleston. The papers ' remain in the he ads of Mr. W TT . Sothern.—Norfolit News. Tx E --ERRING FISIIERIES.—There has for many years so prolific a season for those fisheries a, the present, on this coast. Our markets have ll:ec)ent CO glutted for some . weeks back ; and so ft for a the fish that they have been retailed as low as 12 1 ~... shilling. This has afforded a good substitute for T ot priced butcher's meat during the season, and P r°ll e f people are availing themselves -of the opportunityteor. salting down and smoking large supplies for the w in —Dover Chronicle. plentiful are - 31,. A