The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN'ING, NOVEIVHiIit 6, t S 62,,

JAMES. And so the Lord Viscount MAIDSTONE puts
spurs to his hobbihorsical fury, and endeavours to
administer what ALLAN RAMSAY calls a " lounder-
ing lick," in one of the scenes of his " Gentle Shep-
herd." No gentle shepherd, howbeit, is this—what
though be profanely insinuates a resemblance between
himself and DAVID, the Royal Prophet. He speaks to
T. B. MACAULAY, Esquire, as one who has recently
addressed his "Philistines at Edinburgb,"—thereby
drawing a comparison between his antagonist and
GOLIATH. Instead, however, of collecting pebbles in
the Terybinthine valley, the DAVID of 71, South Aud-
ley- s treet, appears to have picked up a few potsherds and
perhaps a little mud with them, out of the pellucid
current of Fleet-ditch, and to have slung them under-
handed at the form of his giant opponent. In his
very remarkable communication, Viscount MAID-
STONE talks of taking a hint from the clown at
Drury-lane Theatre. Perhaps it may so happen that
he may, on the contrary, give a hint to Master
MOTLEY for the purposes of the forthcoming panto-
mime. And thus the fabrication of hexameters, and
the compiling of an Arabian epic, and the scribbling
of scolding epistles, may be altogether eclipsed by the
circumstance of the patrician pen-mender throwing
out some valuable suggestions to enhance the fun of
a harlequinade.
A patrician can it be, whose letter we have been
perusing ? Rather is not this the manner of one
familiar with the phraseology of the counter and the
dialect of the shopocracy ? Listen ! " Give your
orders, Mr. MACAULAY ! They shall be punctually
attended to !" Oar dear friend, RICHARD SWIVELLER,
spoke somewhat after the same fashion, but it was
while showering blows innumerable upon the devoted
head and shoulders of Mr. DANIEL QUILP, of
Tower-wharf. It was then Dicx inquired—
" Will you have any more ?"—capering round
his victim in a kind of a war-dance invented
for the occasion adding, " Don't say ' No,'
if you'd rather not. A large assortment always on
hand. Country orders attended to with punctuality
and dispatch." Not thus does Viscount Maidstone
address his assailant, the representative of the City
of Edinburgh. Accepting for the sake of argument
the correctness of the Emperor NAPOLEON'S sneer at us
that we were little better than a nation of shopkeepers,
we can't feel much surprised when we hear even a
nobleman talking so much in the tones of TITMOUSE,
and in the style of a linendraper—saying, " Give your
orders, Mr. MACAULAY ! They shall be punctually
attended to." The phrase might be redeemed by its
having the faintest pretension to drollery. But not
so—there is not a quiver of the lip except of rage, not
a sparkle of the eye except of malignity. The truth
is Lord MAIDSTONE was in too much of a passion to
be witty. Instead of poking fun he could only snort
blaster. "In the meantime," saith he—with the
stride of BOBADIL, and the swagging strut of Bona-
BASTES—" Gare a qui me touche." The motto is
that inscribed upon the iron crown of
CHARLEMAGNE, and is adopted now, we presume, as
the crowning irony of Lord MAIDSTONE. Surely
Mr. MACAULAY is tolerably well qualified to retort
by his own national motto—that of the thistle browsed
upon by asinus—" Nemo me impune lacessit." We
have a faint recollection of his having once stretched
an " epic poet" on the wrack of criticism in the
Edinburgh. We rather fancy acuter agony was never
inflicted by the thumbscrew, the scavenger's daugh-
ter, the wheel, the weights, the garotte, the bow-
string, or the bastinado. If we remember rightly he
pilloried one school of verse as " the Turkey-carpet
style of poetry." If we are not much mistaken he
ventured even to brand the tenderer passages of
SOUTHEy—some with indelible disgust, and some with
inextinguishable ridicule—by complaining that all
his heroes loved " like seraphim or like cattle"—not
like human creatures. He has done terrible things
with other men before now in his capacity as the most
remorseless of reviewers—dealing about him right
and left with a classical bowie-knife and a
scholarly tomahawk. There are author's now living
of whom it may be said in a literary sense, that he
has slit their noses, and cut off their ears, and branded
their cheeks, and bored through their tongues. Yet
the writer of " hexameters," the Lord Viscount
MAIDSTONE, rises valiantly as becomes a descendant
of Jamas GRAHAM, of Dundee, and solemnly ad-
dresses this warning to the Right Hon. THOMAS
BABINGTON MACAULAY :—" Recollect !" he exclaims,
" this is not the first occar:on upon which Scotchmen of
your station awl pretensions have had cause to regret
an unprovoked Onslaught Upon Englishmen of minc."
Now, either this means nothing at all, or it means
that Lord MAIDSTONE likens himself to Lord BYRON.
A-hem ! There is a refrain somewhere to one of the
songs of BERANGER—

" Co•co-cockerico I
France remet ton schako—
Cockerico ! Cockerico !"
It means simply a cry we may often hear at the
dawning of day, but not very often (fortunately) at
the dawning of a career—a cry represented by our
lexicographers by an ingenious word of five syllables—
" Cock-a-doodle-doo I"

And so Lord MAIDSTONE likens himself to Lord
BXRoN—looking (like the moon) "so modest all the
while." And so closes a magnificent fanfaronzde
with the sublime " Gare a qui me touche 1' And so
endeth this "bout"—not, remember, between the
big•endians and the little•endians, but of MAID-
STONE versus MACAULAY L illiput against I3re.b-
dignag.

We can scarcely conceive the constitution of a
public company possessing stronger claims for public
support, or more deserving of encouragement, than
that of " Tull WANDLE WATER AND SaWERA.GE
COMPANY," whether considered in reference to the
' vast advantages which it offers to the inhabitants of
South London, or as a merely commercial speculation
of ample remunerative promise. Its objects, whi:ch
' are the complete purification of a river, even in fits
present state, purer than any other tributary to Me
Thames, by a system of drainage and sewerage, re-
productive in itself, and the cheap, abundant, and um-
ceaging supply of water, at high service, throughout
the southern districts of London, are at once most
legitimate and praiseworthy. Every disinterested
person must now be convinced of the utter impossi-
bility of rendering the water of the Thames benefi-
cially available for general domestic purposes or fiat
the support of human life. It may, however, not be
uninteresting to consider the causes of the extraordi-
dary deterioration of a river, once deemed as pure Its
any on the banks of which an important city was
erected.
When, in the latter end of the sixteenth century, ,
the first works for the supply of the metropolis w',th
water were erected at London Bridge, the stre nn

from above was comparatively limpid and wholesoi ne,

whilst below the "Pool" was a vast lake, that, at :the
ebb tide, became almost as pregnant with life- best° w-
ing influences as the downward flow of " the silvi
winding Thames," that then replaced the part ial
eflilax of the receding sea. But, in the course of 1,70
years, the entire'character of the original element h is
been changed. In specific gravity, once among tb e
highest of moving waters, the water of the Thal/RN;
is now perhaps more ponderous than any other th titt
could be produced. It was the most pellucid a; ad
pure ;it is the most opaque and polluted—t he
dirtiest, darkest, muddiest. For ages it mas
the healthiest of Nature's bounteous gifts; b at
thoughtless, if not ungrateful, man has grad ;z-
-any, generation after, generation, converted t: he
sanitary blessing into an infectious curse. Dow, a-
wards to its confluence with the ocean, and upw; try is
to its sources, the virulence extends—every yes r
adding to the baneful evils to which the Thames ;
subjected, heightening their intensity, and multiply-
ing their destructive effects.

L purity of the
stream could be preserved ?
for a moment hope that the
originalden with the filthy
But how could it be otherwise? How could evE
to wallow in
vil-
lages, the Thames comes reeking along, t 0
_5.
refuse of twenty-two towns and some score of
the yet more odious pollutions of the me rop Ii
There descends the Cog--r.f...r-d smoke from hundreds
of thousands of chimneys, whence are almost inc,2s-
Rawly emitted myriads upon myriads of " London .
blacks:' There the waste compounds of innumerable
manufactories are discharged, comprising every
variety of animal and vegetable decomposition and
mineral poison. There streets courts, and mews, and alleys, lanes, and
the scavengers' leavi
send) mingled with the rain-water,
ngs fol: inky, and putrid.
There, hourly, are poured irho it the offals of the i
acourings of the, ;,_.
food, the rincings of tho raiment, the

habitations, the cleansings of the hospitals, and the
still more disgusting waste of more than two millions
of human beings. There, comes with the turn of the
tide, the renewed visitations of these sickening inflic-
tions, rendered more pestilential by the bilge-water
and other abominations of whole fleets of foreigners,
Indiamen, fruit vessels, coasters, colliers, convict-
hulks, fishing-boats, and dung-barges I Besides all
this, we have countless steamers of all classes com-
pleting the horrible mixture, more deadly than ever
compounded in the witch's cauldron, working up the
fever-feedings and death-draughts, dashing hither and
thither, washing abroad the floating putridities at
high water, and stirring up the fetid mass at low,
and thus finally accomplishing the modern application
of the “ ancient crystal stream," by actually con-
verting it into the common sewerage of London—
making it the "cloaca maxima" of the metropolis of
the world.

Nor can any efforts of human ingenuity restore the
Thames to its pristine putrity. Something might be
accomplished by the expenditure of many millions of
money, and the unceasing devotion of some 20 or 30
years to the Augean labour. The only effective plan
would be, the interception, by a judicious and well-
devised system of drains and sewers, of every contri-
butive impurity up to the very springs from which
it flows ; with the consequent discharge of the aggre-
gated sewerage below any existing outlet of the kind,
and the reconstruction of every local system of sewers,
from the smallest township on the banks of the river,
to the great emporium of commerce included.
This is the very principle proposed to be adopted
with reference to the river Wandle, by the New
Company. From Croydon, Carshalton, and where-
ever else the springs constituting the sources of that
river rise, down to Wandsworth, and the confluence
of the Wandle with the Thames, it is intended to con-
struct an entirely new system of drainage and sewer-
age—to collect the proceeds at various eligible points,
to be disposed of for agricultural and horticultural
purposes, and, having thus benefited the inhabitants of
each town in its course, by providing them with the
sanitary means demanded at their hands by the Board
of Health, and brought along a pure and perfectly
healthy stream to Wandsworth, participated in by all
in its passage thither—to convey it in an unpolluted
state to reservoirs at different levels, rendering the alti-
tude of 300 feet above Trinity high-water mark, and
thence to distribute it, at constant high service,
throughout the entire district of South London,
affording an unlimited supply to the topmost floor of
any building in the locality. In other words, at the
most moderate charges, and in the mode above de-
scribed, to supply abundantly with water—and that
the best by any means attainable, as is testified on the
highest and most disinterested authorities—a commu-
nity comprising in round numbers the occupiers of
85,000 houses,of which scarcely more than one-half are
now intermittingly, sparingly, and imperfectly served,
at very high rates, with compound extracts of the
Thames in various stages of impurity, from the de.
ceptively clear to the more palpably thickened mix-
ture of a repulsive liquid, abounding with living ani-
malcules and the graduated decompositions of the dead
of all descriptions.
We might multiply proofs in favour of the propo-
sition almost without end. We might illustrate in
detail the natural causes of the superiority of the wa-
ter—the manifest advantages of constant supply at
high service—the beneficial results, in every respect,
that must accrue to the inhabitants throughout the
whole course of operations, whether of conservation
or distribution—and the moral as well as social im-
provement that must ensue ; but neither time nor
space will permit. We may, however, adduce some
tangible evidence of the highly remunerative nature
of such undertakings, assuming that, if the worst and
most inadequately suppled article is extremely profit-
able, much more so should be the best of its kind,
furnished in almost unlimited quantities.

The following, then, is the nearest approximation
to the truth attainable by the public of the gains made
by the existing companies in the Southern District.
Their gross annual rental for the impure and restricted
supply exceeds 78,000/, by far the greater portion
whereof may be set down as clear gain ; and this,
be it remembered, on a capital of about 160,0001.
On the north side, we find that the original stock
of the New River Company was about 200,0001.,
which, by the yearly investment of a portion of the
dividends, has been increased to the present fixed
capital of 1,600,000/.!! The original 1001 share,
therefore, now represents 7501—and a single share
was recently sold for 17,000/. !
Such results must prove sufficiently enceuraging to
those making investments in the Wandle Water and
Sewerage Company. It is true that such inordinate
profits as those above referred to are not contemplated
by the Company—but there is every reason to be-
lieve that the maximum dividend now sanctioned by
the Legislature—namely, TEN PEE CENT. (!) will
speedily be attained. We, therefore, now cordially
congratulate the promoters and shareholders on these
auspicious prospects, and also the community on the
speedy prospect of obtaining so great a boon, which
must be regarded as of immense local, if not of
national, importance ; and, in conclusion, unhesitat-
ingly and unequivocally express our thorough confi-
dence in the ultimate and complete success of the
undertaking.

The Irish Religious Equality meeting came off d*
on the 28th, in the Rotunda, at Dublin, and all things
considered, it was certainly much better than pro-
mise. The resolutions were at least quite as mode-
rate as Protestants would have adopted under similar
circumstances. Indeed, we should say they might
be compared advantageously with many which Pro-
testant
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settling
tdthheeel sole
only
syhhe
mrce
associations and alliances have passed in
ity,
e.haunrTsc hhwe
cyaehss
question
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nt
coulde on
ntohtreh
enwould
-s
produce content; that the Irish Church Establishment
was a badge of conquest, a legalized robbery of
Catholics, and that it led the Catholics to
view the
Government which upheld it as hostile to the peace
and prosperity of the kingdom; the laws which pro-
hibit ecclesiastical titles (that was the meaning),
which require peculiar oaths and tests, or which ex-
clude from public offices on the ground of religious
faith, ought to be repealed at once. Such was the
substance of the manifesto voted at the meeting;
and it would certainly be difficult for any
with
old
- going English Liberal to • -
old
his assent from such reasonable propositions.
Moreover, the speaking was for the most
part quite in harmony with the fairness of the resolu-
tions. The Chairman, Mr. G. H. MOORE, M.P., in
opening the discussion, totally repudiated " the impu-
tation that they desired ascendancy," and those who
followed him, even the Rev. Mr. QtrADE, P.P., did
the same. Mr. Sergeant Sum adverted to the case
of the Mamie's, and denounced in strong language
the conduct of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. "If it
was true that this Prince had caused a man and a
woman to be imprisoned for two years for reading
the Bible in private, he would say, as a Roman
Catholic, that none of his co-religionists could justify
such a proceeding. (Cheers.) As a Catholic, by
birth and education, he would declare that the allega-
tion of the English press, that the conduct of this
contemptible despot was consonant with the senti-
ments of the Catholics of Ireland, was a foul
calumny. (Hear, hear.) If after the efforts of
illustrious Protestants in the cause of civil and re.
in that Conference
ligious liberty, no man stood up
of the Catholics of Ireland to denounce the conduct
of the Duke of Tuscany, they would be deeply dis-
graced. (Hear, hear.)" We heartily rejoice that
Catholics are found to assert such sentiments,and prove
themselves British freemen, in an assembly of
Catholics ; still more at the cordial way in which the
Sergeant's remarks were received ; and yet more at
the awkward manner in which Mr. LUCAS, M.P., who
in his paper, the Tablet, had openly defended the
Duke, was virtually compelled to apologize. He
could only affect to deny the facts, which, however,
the Duke himself does not deny. Perhaps it will be
said that all this moderation and liberality was
forced upon them by the discussions and animadver-
sions of the Press on their proposed meeting. It is,
however, hardly fair to impugn the motives of public
speakers. But be it so, grant that Irish Catholics can
learn prudence by what they see and hear. We do
net know that that is exactly the thing to throw in
their teeth ; the contrary accusation has been the
most common.

But Dr. MAC HALE commending Mr. 13niciuT,

what will the Times say to that ? The " Lion of
Judah" has actually owned the Quaker's remedy.
Yes, Dr. MacHatz writes to the meeting : " The
elaborate 6letter of the able member for Manchester
shows that a strong ray of light has broken in on the
English mind, relative to the source of our social
disorders, as well as the practical remedy, which, if
the country is to be saved must be strongly applied."
So, Mr. EDITOR, ilisOp's ass (we thank you heartily,
however, for the fun you made us) .son's ass has
pitched you a second time over his head. We ran
with you laughing as you bestrode him through
your merry article,lbut laughed most when, after all,
we saw you flung head foremost upon the hard:ground
of the solid common sense of Mr. BRIGHT'S equit-
able proposals. We saw you remount, however,
nothing daunted, and off again towards Dr. MAC-
HALE, who, with his infallible:, " would submit to
no arbitration." But, alas ! another fling up of the
heels, and away you went Mr. Editor, head over
heels, and MACHALE and the Quaker stand laughing
to see you. " Yes, for my part," says Jona TUAM—
" give us each the million offered by the able Man-
chester Member, and I'm content." Well done
Archbishop ! Stick to that ! Back him Dr.
CULLEN! Back him Irish Brigade ! The days of
common sense for Ireland may then be nearer than
any of us had thought. Our statesmen would be
but too glad to accede to some plan approaching
to reasonableness. The Liberal M.P.'s would gather
round it ; public opinion would form rapidly in Eng-
land in its favour: this country would be but too glad
to heal the plaguy disease which has made Ireland so
troublesome a member of the British family. Yes,
consent to real equality, and it may not be long before
you get it. Meantime, since Dr MACHALE has be-
gun concession to reason, we hand over the Irish
Episcopalians and Presbyterians to the lashing or
lampooning of the Times. Who knows but that Dr.
COOKE or the Archbishop of Armagh may soon gallop,
Times. If they do stand in the way of a fair compro-
amd
iosreni with long ears, through the leaders of the
fit
should
come to this, that their horror of
"endowing idolatry" does hinder or prevent a fair
settlement for Ireland—let them know that the next
proposition may be that the British Lion shall claim
everything for the British people, and leave the bigots
to their own resources.

CUSTOMS PROMOTIONS..--.if is said that the vacancy
caused by the retirement of Mr. Ross, many years Surveyor-
General, is to be filled by the promotion of Mr. St. John, at
present Inspector-General of Liverpool, and that he is to be
replaced by Mr. Rolls, Landing Surveyor in London. Both
are young in the service, compared to many that they thus
precede. The latter is an excellent practical officer, and the
traders of Liverpool will not sutler by the exchange. Lie
was the chief officer selected by the Commissioners of Customs
to superintend that department in the Crystal Palace in
Hyde-park, for the satisfactory discharge of which he received
the thanks of the Royal Commissioners, and also a token of
some Tama&
Tii Du 's FUNERAL.—The procession, it is ex-
pected, will be two miles long. The vergers of St. Paul's
1 the occasion of Nelson's funeral, netted upwards of

EXTENSION
OF THE INCOME-TAX TO IRELAND.—
It may be stated, on highly competent authority, that a
semi-official communication has reached Dublin, conveying
the comforting assurance that her Majesty's present advisers
mean to submit a proposition, on the opening of the present
session, for the extension of the Income-tax to Ireland. Ac-
cording to the plan in contemplation, it is intended that the
tax shall be levied at the rate of five per cent. on incomes
from 501. a year and upwards; the imposition, however,
not to be extended to incomes derivable from profits in
trades or manufactures.
Tee TORY Rumbold, the member
for Yarmouth, received one of the official circulars issued by
Mr. Disraeli to the protectionist and Derbyite members of the
new Parliament. Two Tory votes are thus to be reckoned
for that borough.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT LEEDS.—The ex-Premier
has acceded to the request of the committee of the Leeds
Mechanics' Institute and Literary Society to preside at the
next soirée, which, in conpliance with his lordship's request,
has been fixed to take place on the 2d of December.
BUGHTON RAILWAY.—MY. Samuel Laing, M.P.,
has, it is understood, resigned the chair of the board of this
company; remaining, however, in the direction. Mr. Laing
was, it will be recollected, a salaried chairman; and now
that ae is no longer able to give his undivided attention to
the Oahe of the company, he has very properly relinquished
the salary given with that view.
S4I3IIII•EASTERN AND BRIGHTON COMPANIES.—
The amalgamation between these two companies is now con-
fidently spoken of as being in process of negotiation and
nearly concluded.
GUY FAWKES Dix.—Yesterday being the sth of
November, the usual search was made in the parliamentary
cellars to discover the shade of Guy, and prevent the blowing
up of the Parliament. This serious operation took place
shortly after eleven o'clock in the morning by several of the
officers of the two Houses of Parliament. Every nook and
corner was examined for the discovery of combustible ma-
terials calculated to blow up the New Palace of Westminster
and the Peers and Commoners of the land, hut none were
found.

ELECTION PETITIONS.—A petition is about to be
presented against the sitting member for the borough of
Briknortb. It is confidently anticipated that there will be
no difficulty in establishing a successful case against him.
Bribery and intimidation are the grounds intended to be
relied on.
DECORATION Or EXETER HALL.—The alterations
made in Exeter Hall last year left the ceiling, although
curved, perfectly plain, with the exception of openings for
ventilation, which in themselves were simple voids, and more
useful than ornamental. The directors have given their
assistance in the promotion of the public taste by authorizing
a large outlay in the decoration of this noble apartment, en-
tirely by means of colour. To the seven ventilating circles
in the hipped hyperboloid ceiling, two more have been added,
which give points d'appuijor a geometrical arrangement, and
become essential features of the design, which consists of
panelling formed by broad margins. The panels hold a
white ornament on a blue ground, and are inserted into a
general cream-coloured margin, which is, in fact, the ceiling,
and this is elegantly subdivided by a fawn-coloured band of
a deep shade, relieved by a vermillion ornament between
brad bands, which will appear little more than a line. The
great central design thus described is confined by a very
ornamental border of panels, recalling those in the ceiling,
and completed by fleurons at the corners, The spectator
will learn somewhat of the difficulty of the design, when in-
formed that, small as it looks from the floor, the outer mar-
gin is twelve feet wide.
Handers Oratorio of the Messiah was given at the
Hackney Road Chapel, last night, for the benefit of the Trust
Fund. The artists were Misses Stabbed' and Lascelles,
Messrs. George Tedder and Lawler, who acquitted themselves
persons : organist, Mr.
first rate. The band, under the able direction of Herr
meeting,
ett3ianSi
131 g. g, O,
the
Anechuez, consisted of the first musicians of the clay. The
GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT ibuansdkianns.d chorus numbered above 150
INSTITUTION.—Yes-
terday a general court of the subscribers at this excellent
institution was held at the Hanover-equare Rooms for the
past year the large
election of three annuitants of 201. from a list of no fewer than
119 candidates. In the absence of the Earl of llarrowbY,
who was to have !presided, the chair was taken by the Rev.
number of K in2g,s.3slgnotvheernceosusestsereoafpetdhein various ways the
benefits of the institution. The total receipts in the benevo-
lent account were 15,8831. 10s. 3d., and the expenditure
51, 21,4471. 16s. ld., and 690/. 4s. The Rev.
15,7241. 159. 4d., leaving in hand a balance of 158/. 143. 11d.
Inthe provident account the same items were severally
Os.
Sec., having read the minutes of the last
poll was opened and continued so for two hours.
Scrutineers were then appointed, upon whose report the
names of the successful candidates were declared. A vote of
thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings.
the committee to take
SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.--A special general court of
nfo desirable in defence of
this corporation was held yesterday in the hall of the hospi-
tal, Crane-court, to consider a report by the committee in
reference to some threatened deterioration of the property of
the corporation, in consequence of the erection of new build-
ings by a Mr. Ireland, in Fleur-de-lis-court, Fetter.lane,
where the Scottish corporation possess some freehold houses.
Resolutions
their interests; and a deputation was appointed to wait upon
alluotironssucwheoreopeasr
sateedpsauasthomriasiy
and remonstrate with the Commissioners of Sewers, who in
this instance do not appear to be so careful as might be sup-
posed of the sanatory condition of one of the narrowest and
darkest courts in London.
lONIAN ISLANDS.—Letters received from Corfu
yesterday, dated 29th October, state that the fleet left that
island on the preceding day for Malta. The sickness, which
had been confined to the natives, had diminished, the wea-
ther was still very warm ; but as rain had commenced, a bene-
ficial change was looked for.
VEGETABLES FOR THE TROOPS AT THE CAPE.--
We hear from good authority, that Edwards' patent.preserved
potato, sent out last year by the commissariat for the service
of the army engaged in the Kafir war, has been so highly
appreciated by the soldiers, that it has been recently deter-
mined that another large supply of this vegetable diet shall
be forthwith dispatched for the use of ow brave fellows
engaged in this arduous service. No less than 50,0001b5.
have been ordered by the Comptroller of Victualling at the
Admiralty, to be shipped in the General Screw Company.,
ship Mauritius.
WINDSOR ROYAL ASSOCIATION.—The annual meet-
ing of the subscribers to this association, was held yesterday,
at the Town Hall, Windsor. The chair was taken by Lieu.
tenant-Colonel y. a Seymour. Mr. Leslie Melville (the
treasurer) read the balance-sheet, from which it appeared
that there had been received during the current year the
sum of 37/. in donations, 168/. 14s. in annual subscriptions,
and 25/. Bs. 6d. for admissions to the enclosure at the recent
exhibition at the Home Park. The disbursements during
the same period (including 133/. ss. distributed as prizes to
deserving labourers and others) amounted ,
s account, in
to 1971. 4s. 2d. ;
leaving a balance of 33/. 18s. 4d. on the year
addition to the sum of 87/. 4s. 6d. invested in the ravings'
bank at the close of the year 18M. The report was adopted,
and the committee for the ensuing year appointed.

LeE Domes FUNERAL.—The preparations at Chel-
sea Hospital are being vigorously carried on. The ceiling
of the Hall (covered with black cloth crossed diagonally by
white cords) is finished, and the walls are in progreS. A
platform is formed at the end to receive the body and
mourners. The lights (gas) will be disposed behind hollow
semi-columns fitted with reflectors. The hall is floored with
open battens, and so is the covered way (IS feet wiie), which
has been formed from the Queen's-road. It will be necessary
to make arrangements for a queue of considerable length, or
there will be much mischief done. Some dissatisfaction as
been expressed by orrespondents at the fact that the de-
sign for the car was intrusted to Professor Semper, tie
Berlin architect. It will require the united efforts of manr
establishments to carry out the design in time. We ars
glad to find that the objection we raised to the proposed
position
of the Duke's tomb is becoming generally recog-
nized. It is to be hoped the determination Will 1)0 ellangod.
..-77te Builder.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tara DAY.

The Speaker took the chair at 12 o'clock.
The swearing in of members was proceeded with n
the same order as yesterday, commencing with the
county of Lancaster. In the first batch sworn we
noticed were the Right Hon. Mr. Herries, the Right
Hon. Mr. Henley, the Attorney-General, Sir R.
Inglis, Mr. Gladstone, Sir W. P. Wood, Mr. Bro-
therton, Mr. J. W. Cobbett, Mr. F. Peel, and Col.
Sibthorp. The only metropolitan members who an-
swered to their names were Mr. T. S. Duncombe,
Sir T. Shelley, and Mr. Masterman, Mr. A. W. 'Wil-
kinson, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Pellatt. The swearing-
in continued till the House rose.

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

QUEEN'S BENCH.
BREFFET V. WINTERBOTTOM.

Mr. Knowles, Q.C., applied for a rule to show cause
why the verdict in this case, which was given for the
plaintiff at the last Liverpool Assizes, should not be set
aside, and a new trial had, on the ground of misdirection.
The cause of action arose out of a dispute relative to
a patent for applying an elastic stopper to a glass bottle,
and it was contended for the defendant, that, inasmuch
that the principle was old, any one could avail himself
of its application. The learned Judge, Mr. Justice
Wightman, who tried the cause, held differently, and
the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Their Lord-
ships this morning coincided with the view of the Judge,
and refused the rule.

Rest

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday
amounted to 10,000 bales, about 5,000 of which were
taken on speculation and for export. The market
steadier. Railway shares were quiet, and prices de-
clined slightly.

There are several indications in the Bank of Eng-
land statement to the 30th ultimo of an increased de-
mand for money, and, despite the imports of bullion,
it appears that the shipments were in excess, or, what
is more probable, that there was a greater sum taken
into the home circulation. The loans and discounts
were augmented, and the notes out were increased
considerably. The public deposits were augmented
515,5241., and will rise gradually with the advance of
the quarter, but the withdrawal of private balances is
e corroboration of the view above taken, that cash
finds readier employment. Compared with the pre-
vious week, the following changes have occurred:—
Notes issued £34,767,270
Increase3l,o4o
3,100,802
Increasel,9os
Public Deposits
Increase 215,254
Other Deposits
Decrease
7 Day and other Bills
Increase...
Government Securities
Other Securities
Increase 116,635
Notes 10,954,215
Decrease
Bullion
Decrease
Active Circulation
Increase 652,840
The quotation for bills of exchange yesterday after-
noon was rather lower on Amsterdam, 90 days' paper
being taken at 11 18% to h, and barely so high on
llamburgh, viz., 13 frit to ' ; Trieste was at 11 42 to
46; and Paris at 25 371 to 40.
The exports of silver from London during the
week to Thursday last wore 40,270 ounces of gold,
and 88,000 ounces of silver, all to the Continent.
The English stocks have been steady this morning,
but there has been less doing. Consols are 100',3,
for money, and 100, to a for Dec. 9. Bank Stock
is firm at 224. Exchequer Bills are 745., and India
Bonds 87s. premium.
Mexican Bonds look up still, being 25 to 1.
Spanish Deferred are supported at 254 to Peru-
vian have been in demand at 62 to 63.
Railway Shares are dull, but mostly at full rates
to a slight advance.
French Shares are quieter.
Mines are steady.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)
Business done.
Rank Stock ... 224
3 oor Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent Consols Anne. lOO4 b
Now 314 per Cent. Anus lO3 ,t'.'
India Stock —
Do. Bonds, 10001 B7 4
Exchequer Bills. I lid. March June.
1.0001......
500/.
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. look
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent.... . B2
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent losk
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Mexican 3 per Cent ..... 2511; 5
Ditto for the Account, Nov. 16 25%
Peruvian Bonds. 1849, 6 nor Cent., ......
Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent. ..... - 2
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent llBl4
Ditto 41/2 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent.
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive (Converted)
Swedish Loan
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 2} 2 i 1 i p.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent.
Belgian Bonds, 41,i per Cent
Dutch Excha., 2j per Cent., 12 Gull.— 65
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

Consols ,•• •• •••
Ditto Account. Nov. 11 ...

THREE O'CLOCK.
... 100% 14a
.. 100% 'A

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.
We had a steady demand for most kinds of vegetables ; but
the sale for fruit was very inactive. In the general quota-
tions no change took place.
FRUIT. —Pine Apples, 3s 6d to Gs Od ; Hot-house Grapes,
2s Od to 6s; Hamburghditto, 2s Od to 2s 6d per lb; Peaches,
les 03 to 15s 03; Nectarines, 3s 03 to 8s 03; Figs, Is 6d to
2s 6d per dozen; Apples, dessert, 48 Od to 7s 03 ; Cooking
ditto, 3s 03 to 6e Od per bushel • Pears, 2s Od to 8s Od per
sieve; Melons, 2s Od to 5s 03 each; Lemons, is 0(1 to 2s 0:1;
new Oranges, is 6d to 2s 03 per dozen; Filberts, 8d to Is Od
per lb; Cobnuts, 75s to 803 per 1001bs.
-catmages, ea L. .ta per doz. ; French
Beans, 2s 03 to 2s 6d; Brussels Sprouts, is 64 to' s per half
sieve; Cauliflowers, 6d to 2s Gd per dozen; Greens, Is Od to
2s ed per dozen bunches; Tomatoes, 4s Od to 5s Od per half
sieve; Potatoes, 70s 03 to 130 s per ton; Turnips, 2s Od to
2s Gd' Carrots, 2s Gd to 4s per dozen bunches; Cucumbers,
2d to Gd each ; Vegetable Marrow, 6d to is Od per dozen ;
Celery, 9d to is 3d per bundle; Spinach, is Od to 2s per
sieve; Onions, 2s to 4s Od per bunch; Beet, Is Od to is 6d
per dozen ; Leeks, Id to 2d per bunch ' • Shallots, Gd to 83 ;
Garlic, 6d to 8d per lb; Endive, is to is Gd per score; Small
Salad, 23 to 3d per punnet; Horseradish, is to 3s per bundle;
Mushrooms, 9d to is 3d per pottle ; Artichokes, 4s Od to Gs
per do7.en , Parsley, 2s to 3s Od per dozen bunches.
NEWUATE AND LELDENIIALL,
Geese, 3s 6d to 6s 03; Turkeys, 38 to 7s each; Ducks,
Is 63 to 2s Gd; tame Rabbits, 123 to is 6d; wild
ditto. 83 to ls ; Pigeons, 4d to 83 each; roasting Pigs,
43 6(1 to 7s each; Surrey Fowls, 4s 6d to 8s Od; ditto
Chickens, 3s Od to 4s 03; barn-door Fowls, 2s 6d to 5s Od
per couple; Pheasants, 3s 03 to 4s 03; Partridges, is Od to
ls ed ; Hares, 2s 3d to 2s 9d ; Leverets, 2s 03 to 3s 03 ;
Woodcocks, 2a Od to 3s 03; Grouse, 2s Od to 2s 63;
Snipes, 9d to Is ; Teal, Gd to 103; wild Ducks, is 3d to
Is 9d ; Widgeons, Pa to is 3d ; and Plovers, 4d to 9d each.
Enelish Eggs, 9s 03 to 108 Od; French ditto, 7s Od to
8s Od per 120; Fresh Butter, 10d to is 13 per lb.
NEWPORT.
Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d ; mutton, 3s to 4s 23 ; veal, 3s to
3s 10d ; I ork, 33 to 4s per 814

IVIII TECIIATEL.
Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2e 10d to 4s Od
Veal, 2s Wd to 38 10d; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 10d per Blbs.

EILLINGSJATE.
Turbots, 3s 03 to 8s Od; Brills, Is 03 to 5s 03; Cod Fish,
3s Od to 7s Od each; Soles, 63 to 2s 3d per pair; Eels, 8d
to 10d per ib ; Lobsters, 6d to 2s 3d ; Crabs, 83 to 2s 03 ;
Whitings, 2s 6d to bs 03 per dozen ; Haddocks, 6d to 1 s Od ;
Doreys, is Gd to Cs Od; Mullets, 63 to Is each; Common
Oysters, 8s Od to 16s 03 ; Natives, 30s Od to 40s Od per
bushel; Mackerel, 103 each; Smelts, is 03 per dozen;
Scats, 4d to Gd per lb; Shrimps, is 6d to 2s 3d per gallon;
Bloaters, is Od to is 4d per dozen; fresh herrings, Is Gd to
21 per dozen.

BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis aro from
G dto 7d; of Household ditto, 5d to 6d per 41b leaf.
HIDE.
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to 2d ; ditto, 641 b to Mt)
lid to 2d; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to 2id ; ditto, 801 b to
SBlb, 21d to 3d; ditto, 881 b to 961b,3d to aid; ditto, 961 b to
1011 b, 3id to 4d; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, 4d to 4id. Calf
Skins, light, is Gd to 2s Gd; ditto, full, 3s Od to 5s Od;
Horn hides, 5s Cd to Os Od ; Polled Sheep, 53 Od to Os Od ;
Kents, 4s Od to 4s 9d ; Hall-breds, 4s Od to 4s 9d ; Downs
3s Od to 4s Od ; Shearlings Os Od to Os Od ; Lamb Skins, 2s Gd
to 4s Od each.