The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-24 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1853.

tional insult ihas been offered in the latest
manifesto proceeding from St. Petersburg—
insult to which no nation desirous of retaining
its position among the great Powers could
submit. If so, war is inevitable, and that
war is owing to the timidity of that
excellent ABERDEEN and the ridiculous absurdities
of the Peace Congress. Let every English-
man remember that fact. Let every Voter
when called upon to exercise his fran-
chise be mindful of this additional and most
cogent reason why England should not submit to
be governed by a Coalition. Why the representa-
tives of the people should not abandon their constitu-
tional functions or permit the most important mat-
ters that could be brought under the notice of a
Legislative Assembly to be kept from publi-
cation, and decided by men in whom confi-
dence could not justly be reposed. " Eng-
land can wage no little war." If she is
forced into one, she must act in a manner be-
coming her ancient reputation, and pare the claws
of the Bear, so as to prevent a speedy repetition
of such unjustifiable procee dings. In cordia
co-operation with France we can sweep her
flag from the seas, and annihilate the commerce
of Russia. The policy of aggression is at length
exhibited in its true colours, and we can only
obviate it by driving back the intended spoiler
within his ancient limits, and depriving him
of the power of carrying out his nefarious
projects, and gratifying his boundless ambiticn.
We cannot doubt as to the results of a contest
between the
of constitutional government principles
el
ni liberty rty a
nd andaut
autocracy.
despotism
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tribute to the funds of, any union, or society, or
for the support of "turn-outs," against their mas-
ters. These conditions they will, by steadiness and
determination, be enabled to enforce, and they
would be unwise if they opened their factories on
any other terms. As they are no longer protected
by law they must resort to every legal measure for
their own protection, and for the suppression of
the intolerable nuisance that has led to so much
mischief, such serious losses to masters, and pri-
vations to workmen and their innocent families.
If that be not sufficient to remedy the gigantic
evil, the whole matter must come under the con-
sideration of Parliament to avert the danger that
threatens all classes, the men far more than their
employers.

VISIT OF THE EMPEROR
AND EMPRESS OF FRANCE
TO ENGLAND.

It is rumoured that the Emperor and Empress
of France will visit London next month, and pre-
parations are stated to be making in official quar-
ters for their reception, which will no doubt be
unusually splendid, as far as the City is con-
cerned.

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.—(Criterion Course).

Guy Mannering
Jack the Giant Killer

Seven ran.

SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. D.M.

The unfortunate differences between the masters
and workmen still continue in full force in the
manufacturing districts, and we regret to say that
any indications of returning sense have not as yet
been perceptible on the part of the misguided ope-
ratives. They still permit their affairs to be
managed, or rather mismanaged, by a set of selfish
and turbulent agitators, who care little for the
sufferings endured by their miserable dupes so
long as they themselves achieve a tempo-
rary notoriety, and are enabled to live in

Coleraine..

Five ran.

1

ARRIVED.-Mr. Sykes and Winter.

SPORTING NO TES.

THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE.-CHOPS AND
CHANGES.

The progress of speculation is still slow and uninterest-
ing. With one general exception, it has been marked
with no incident of importance ; some slight changes
have taken place in the relative positions of the leading
favourites, and some insignificant additions have been
made to the outside division.

, luxurious idleness on the contributions wrung
from sympathisers who are permitted still
to work, to keep up supplies to the committee-
men and delegates. Those who behold their
children already crying for bread—who see the
various articles, accumulated during happier
times, vanishing by degrees—who are not only
totally deprived of the comforts, but are scarcely
enabled to provide a scanty supply of the bare
necessaries of life—may be well assured that those
who have arrogated to themselves the titles of po-
sition of leaders of the movement are undergoing no
such privations, but that, on the contrary, they are
living on the fat of the land, in th e enjoyment of all the
creature comforts that can be provided at the va-
rious committee rooms. Those persons are not
desirous of bringing the dispute to an early ter-
mination. They are not anxious to lay down
their temporary authority, and to once more earn
their daily bread by their daily labour. Anything
would be better than that. They are too well
aware that when the delusion is dispelled, and
the gross humbug of their inordinate va-
pourings is revealed, they will become ob-
jects of execration to their victims they
will be expelled with disgrace and ignominy
from the power which they have so scandalously
abused, and that, as Mr. SAM WELLER might re-
mark, " its every little cold swerry as ever
they'll be troubled with agin," at the expense of
their fellow-workmen. These pethouse legislators
arc then making a last desperate exertion to ren-
der the breach still wider, and to prevent the
possibility of an amicable arrangement between
those whose interests are one and indivisible,
neither of whom could possibly be prosperous at
the expense of the other.
If the working classes could understand the
true state of the case, there would be no possi-
bility of these unfortunate and deplorable collisions,
nor would they so grossly abuse the liberty be-
stowed by Parliament in 1826. Before that
year every person engaged in these untoward pro-
ceedings would have been guilty of a high crime
and misdemeanour, rendering him liable to severe
punishment. Up to that period all combinations
to increase the rate of wages, or regulate the
hours of labour were prohibited under very
stringent penalties. From the time of ED-
WARD the First down to the preceding
year there had been a series of enactments, all
tending to prohibit combinations, and pro-
viding a means by which all differences between
masters and workmen might be arranged, gene-
rally speaking, by the intervention of the
local magistrates, who should either act as arbi-
trators themselves, or nominate a list of persons
from whom the disputants might select one on
each side. In that year, however, the principle
that labour was a commodity, the price of which
should be determined by free competition between
masters and workmen, for the first time obtained
a legislative recognition. The whole of the enact-
ments, from the 33d EDWARD I. to the sth
GEORGE IV., were accordingly repealed, so
far as they referred to combinations for regu-
lating labour. Additional Legislative gua-
rantees were, however, afforded for the protection
of those who did not choose to join in the con-
federacy. Stringent provisions were, therefore,
made to prevent undue interference with those
who were willing to remain at work, and who re-
fused to submit to the dictation of self-constituted
bodies. It was, therefore, enacted that, " if any
person by violence, threats, molesting, or obstruc-1
tion, endeavour to force any workman to leave
his employer, or to prevent him from being
employed, or to induce him to belong to
any Club, or to contribute to any fund,
or to alter the mode of carrying on, any
manufacture, or to limit the number of ap-
prentices, every person so offending, or aiding
or assisting them, shall be imprisoned, with or
without hard labour, for any time not exceeding
three calendar months." The like privileges were
thus extended to both workmen and employers,
for the union of persons of either class for the
purpose of injurying the other was alike pro-
hibited by the old code. There are now, then,
"
perhaps, as many cases of lock-outs" as of "turn-
outs." The workmen having so grossly abused their
privileges, it was necessary that the masters should
cordially co-operate for the same purpose. They
had been forced into a corner, driven to combine

My notes of Saturday were scarcely in type, when
these "incidents of speculation" occurred. My com-
munications will show that I had anticipated them, and
they confirmed the opinions which were expressed in the
Sun of the 15th, 20th, and 22d. After a determined and
formidable display of opposition, Orestes is gradually
regaining the confidence of his partisans. His retro-
gression in the betting has been attributed to many causes
the staple subject of the adverse reports being shortness
of work or wildness of temper. My information, however,
contradicts the plausible rumours, and states that at
the beginning of the past week Orestes was found
" cast" in his stable. He took walking exercise on one
day only, a circumstance scarcely sufficient to retard his
preparation. He galloped long and steadily this morn-
ing, and evinced none of that viciousness for which he
is notorious. The most important movement in the turf
market, however, was that which occasioned the return
of The General to a prominent position in the list of
quotations. Soon after the publication of the accept.
ances this horse figured conspicuously in the betting,
but his performance at Doncaster seemingly discou-
raged his supporters, and his name for a time was
seldom mentioned. Two stable companions, The
Hatchet and Bit of Blue, then came under notice, but
The Hatchet soon cut it, and the Bit of Blue was not
found true-blue. The General, therefore, is now to do
battle for the " Dawson division," which comprises
many shrewd and experienced turf tactitians. The
party is said to be in earnest, and calculate with
much confidence on success ; I, however, am not
a sharer in their sanguine expectations. Sea-
horse attracts an increasing number of admirers ;
it is reported that he has been most satisfactorily
tried with Invasion, whose party have undertaken the
management of him. This rumour seemingly explains the
eause of his advance in the betting and the retrogression
of Invasion. Should, however, my information be cor-
rect, Seahorse has had a " rough spin" only and not
an actual trial. He will, it is said, be ridden by the
elder Steggles. King Pepin has not arrived ; his stable
therefore will perhaps be represented by Rataplan.
Some uncertainty exists respecting the "intentions" of
the owner of Nabob and Grey Tommy. Both his horses
are here, and it would be in 'accordance with his tactics
to select Grey Tommy to carry his money. Although
in turf affairs nothing is improbable, yet this supposi-
tion appears to be too preposterous to be realised. I
believe the first public announcement of the probability
of Grey Tommy's running was made in The Sun of the
15th inst., when I included him among the " note-
worthy names" in the list of acceptances. The partiality
for Haco increases. He galloped this morning to the
evident satisfaction of his backers.

The "chops and changes " in the betting are not
calculated to induce me to alter the conclusion at which
I have already arrived respecting the probable result of
the race. I shall, therefore, reiterate, with one imma-
terial alteration, the remarks which I made on Saturday,
viz , "Taking the Cesarewitch running as a criterion, I
shall anticipate again seeing limo and Nabob occupy
the foremost places in the encounter. To them I shall
add Mistletoe and Orestes as animals of equal title to
support. Should an outsider be destined to achieve
success, it will, perhaps, be Rataplan."
Strange hints are dropped respecting Little David,
who it is said, could at one time, when they were
trained together "run over Haco !" I shall couple him
with Hervine for a " cockboat."

I have endeavoured to compile a list of probable
starters, a task of no little difficulty. I have included
in it many horses belonging to one stable, which will,
perhaps, on the day be represented by one, or perhaps two
only. The most doubtful starters are printed in italics.
The list, I believe, comprises the names of the animals
most likely to muster at the starting post. I give it
with all its imperfections on its head :
Mountain Deer Black Swan
Lady Evelyn Invasion
King of Trumps Cheddar
Nabob Master Slender
Indian Warrior Diomedia
Grey Tommy Begum colt
Rataplan Charley
The Reiver Seahorse
Hervine Nutpecker
Barbatus Diamond
Balrownie Peacock
Deformed Corybantes
Snowdon Dunhill Anteverta
Eulogist Placid
Orestes Mistletoe
Maid of Team Valley Haco
lanthe Miss Agnes
Talfourd Little David
Ilex Winter
Boarding School Miss f The Dandy
Hunca-Munca The General
Middlesex is coughing. He was therefore declared
not to start for the Criterion to-night.
The unjust manner in which Mr. Drinkald's horses
have been handicapped for their engagements at Epsom
is exciting much attention. They have been most un-
fairly weighted ; their imposts are preposterous, and in
fixing them the handicapper must have deliberately in-
tended to offend and disgust one of the most liberal sup-
porters of the Epsom meetings.

Peace or war ? That is the momentous ques-
tion that now must be determined ; and the deci_
sion rests upon the mere volition of a single man
—a man intoxicated with absolute power,
reckless of the misery his conduct may inflict,
not only on his immediate followers, but on hu-
manity in general. It is a fearful responsibility
that now rests on the shoulders of the Northern
Despot, and should he, in carrying out his
policy of aggrandisement, or through a silly
yielding to pride, let loose the horrors of war
throughout, fearful must be the retribution that
will fall, not only on himself, but on all by whom
he is aided and abetted in his nefarious projects.
This day, the time allowed for the evacuation
of the Principalities expires. This day the Otto-
man will employ _
forceable means to expel the
audacious invader from his dominions ; and who
can censure the determination so tardily aimed at ?
ABDEtrirMEnam has indeed evinced a patient
forbearance, deserving of the highest praise. He
has literally exhausted all
the means
he for
the preservation of peace before
so insolently flung
the gage of battle,
before
him. His patience and long-suff • ering chiefly,
his if not altogether, may be attributed to reli-
ance on the promises of support freely tend-
ered by the Representatives of the Western
Powers. He listened to their d •
a Vice even
at the risk of alienating the affections of his
and that implicit confidence
people, cannot
be deceived. The faith and honour of
England and France cannot now be sacri-
ficed to gratify the crotchets of any Minis-
ter. The eyes of Europe—of the civilized
world now rest on the Coalition Ministry—and
woe betide them if they are unecinal to the
emergency, if they sacrifice the trifling remnant
of character that still remains to their country.
Diplomacy has totally and unequivocally failed.
The negotiations that were so long persisted
in have only widened the breach, and it now be-
comes us to abandon the vacillating and tem-
porising policy that has
already heaped so much
ascredit on our name. It is said that addi-

A FRESH MAN.
Newmarket, October 23, 11 o'clock p.m.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

HORSES ARRIVED SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.—
Haco, Mouser, Michaelmas Maid, Tobolski, Diamond,
Mistletoe, Janina, Corybantes, Master Slender, Strea-
tham Fairy, Moresca, Snowden Dunhill, William,
Ortolano, Tadcaster, Rataplan, Catspaw, Eulogist,
Mayfair, Balrownie, Braxey, Dagobert, Sextus, William
Rufus, Little Gerard, Merry Maid, Jessamine. Night-
ingale, Sister; of Mercy, Lady Napier, Billy Richard-
son, Little Davie, The Reiver, Lady Audrey, Nabob,
Grey Tommy.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE SCRATCHINGS.—Adine, Landgrave,
Frantic, Harbinger, Pelion, Glenluce, Pharold, Friar,
Coalition, Charity, and Black Bess.

in self-defence, if they would not see themselves
conquered in detail, and coerced by the most ar-
rogant and dictatorial ukases of those who, though
nominally their servants, were really masters—and
Very despotic and unreasonable masters too. It is
absurd therefore to listen to the whining resolu-
tions of those who, defeated in their nefarious pro
jects, endeavour to shift the onus of the suf-
ferings that must be endured on the masters,
who are simply acting in self-defence fr r
mutual protection, and who, having once
been forced into action, will not relinquish their
1! exertions until they have broken the neck of the
co against employers, and compelled every
personns y
Pi Tracy
employment to sign a solemn decla-
ration that he will not, so long as his engagement
continues, be connected with, or in any way con-

ARRIVAL OF THE CHSRLOTTE JANE FROM ADELAIDE.
—The Charlotte Jane, Captain Lawrence, of London'
from Port Adelaide, passed Portsmouth on Saturday
morning, and sent ashore a mail, consisting of 18 bags.
Four passengers also landed, and proceeded to London
by train. Reported all well on board.
LETTER-RECEIVING BOXES have been furnished to all
the stations situated in towns on the South-Western
Railway. They are fixed in the most conspicuous parts,
against the walls of the platforms of the various stations.
This will be a very great accommodation to the public.
DUTY ON CANDLES AND TALLOW.—It appears that
last year the duty on candles and tallow yielded to the
revenue the sum of 77,633(.
CORN.—From a Parliamentary paper it appears that
income
from the year ended the sth January the public
from corn amounted to 404,3851.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.—It seems, by a return to Parlia-
ment, that in the year ended the sth January the in-
terest on the permanent public debt was 23,637,0961.
BILLS OF EXCHANGE.—Acccrding to a return to the
House of Commons, lately issued, the revenue derived
from stamps on hills of exchange and bankers' notes in
the walk ended th. sth of January was 570,0871.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 243 1852.

MONEY MARKET

AND
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday
were estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,500 Ame-
rican were taken for export and on speculation.
The market was quiet, but steady, without altera-
tion in prices. The sales comprised about 5,000
American, 280 Pernam and Maranham, at 6-ad. to
614:1.; 100 Egyptian, at cid. to 81d.; and 300
Surat, at 3d. to 41d. per lb. Railway Shares were
very fiat, at lower prices.
The wheat trade is brisk, and prices are 3s. to
to 4s. higher than last Monday.
The accounts by the America, from New York,
represent the stock market as having sustained a
considerable fall. The money market was tight.
The specie bad been drained from the banks for
payment into the sub-treasury, and also for ship-
ment. First-class commercial paper bad been sold
at one per cent. for one month, and call loans were
easily negotiable at 7 per cent. There had been
one or two failures, and others were expected, un-
less some relief speedily took place. Money, It was
thought, would command still higher rates. The
exports of specie during the week ending Oct. 8
amounted to 1,325,814 dols., 60 cents., making the
total for the year to that date, 17,517,316 dols., 80
cents. The coal trade was exceedingly active.
Foreign dry goods were in fair demand, at steady
prices, and novelties were inquired for briskly.
The weekly returns of the City banks showed a
decrease in discounts and specie, and an increase
in deposits and circulation.
The Illinois, from California, had arrived at
New York with 1,218,811 dollars on board. The
state of the produce markets was discouraging ;
flour was at low rates. It was estimated that the
yield of flour this year would be about 200,000 bls.
The mining intelligence was considered favourable.
The advices from Melbourne are satisfactory with
respect to the gold field, but unfavourable as regards
the markets. The supply of goods had increased
enormously, and many articles had been re-shipped
to England. Vessels were being converted into
bonded warehouses at Melbourne, and every exer-
tion was making by the Customs authorities to
'meet the extraordinary demand upon them. The
flour, rice, and spirits coming back will arrive to
an excellent market. The diggings are most fa-
vourably spoken of, but the roads were bad.
Private accounts from St. Petersburgh state that
a deputation of British merchants had waited upon
the Finance Minister there, and received an as-
surance that British property would be respected
in the improbable event of war, provided England
acts in the same way. There is a rumour that the
British Ambassador was preparing to leave.

At Amsterdam the stock -market became more
sensitive towards the close of last week. Dutch 2i
per Cents. were on Saturday quoted at 60 to 601,
and Spanish 3 per Cents. at 39i.
The railway meetings announced are the fol-
lowing- :

COMPANY.
Aberdeen..

DATE. PLACE, &c.
Oct. 28, Aberdeen.

Charleroi and Erquelines Oct. 12, Charleroi.
Demerara

Great Indian Peninsular Oct. 31, Office.

The Stock Market has been firmer this morning,
but there has been very little doing. Since it
became known that the corn market was higher,
prices have not been so buoyant, though great
efforts will no doubt be made to prevent Consols
falling so as to allow the " puts" which should
come off to-day, being made available. There has
been a bargain for money at 91, but the quotation
since is 91i For time, the prices have been 914
to The New 3,1 per Cents. have realised 94 to
and the 3 per Cents. 90 to 4. Bank Stock is
firm at 213. Exchequer Bills are par to 4s preen.
In Foreign Securities there has been more specu-
lative dealing. Spanish Three per Cents. are
worth 44 to 441, and the New Deferred 21g. Pe-
ruvian Bonds have been quoted 70i to 714. Mexi-
can Stock is at 231. Equador Bonds are worth 5
only. Grenada have been 19i for the active, and
7i to 4 for the Deferred Bonds. Brazilian Old
Stock is at 97, and the small at 97 to 98. Russian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. keep steady at 96g.
Venezuela Bonds have been at 30.

The Railway Share Market is inactive, but not
generally lower. Brighton, Midland, South-
Eastern, and Great Western have been the only
lines dealt in. The French lices are well supported,
but there is no large dealing in them.
Gold Mine Shares are dull, and the Land Com-
panies' have receded a little.
The shares of the Australian Joint Stock Banks
have been mostly nominal.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock ................ ........ 213 15
:3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l.g
New 34 per Cent. Annuities 924 Ig I
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 5 3-164
Dittc 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 -16
India Stock
South Sea New Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 2(1.
£IOOO
1;500 .................................. . ....... par 4 p
Small ......................................... par 4 p

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

The October Sessions of the Central Criminal Court,
being the twelfth and last of the present mayoralty,
were opened this morning before the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Musgrove,
Lawrence, Moon, and Carden, and the new sheriffs, Ald-
erman Wise and Mr. Walks.
The first edition of the calendar contains the names
of 89 prisoners, being 25 from London, 42 from Mid-
dlesex, 1 from Essex, 2 from the Admiralty, 6 from Kent
and 13 from Surrey.
The grand jury having been sworn and empannelled,
The Recorder proceeded to deliver his charge, which
was somewhat more:lengthy than usual. He said he
regretted that he could not address the grand
jury in terms of congratulation upon the lightness of the
business this session, for although in point of numbers
the calendar was, comparatively speaking, light, there
were yet cases of great length and importance to be dis-
posed of, which be was afraid would render the labours
of the Court and the grand jury exceedingly heavy.
There were two charges of murder, besides other cases
of less magnitude, which he felt it to be Iris duty to
touch upon with the view of explaining the law that
bore upon them. The first case of murder was not one
of an unusual or extraordinary character, inasmuch
as it was a case of child murder, which, Le was sorry to
s ty, was not a rare occurrence in this court. The case
depended a great deal upon the medical evidence, as the
child was alleged to have died whernobody was pre-
sent but the mother, and it would be the duty of the
grand jury to determine whether the medical testi-
mony, as disclosed in the depositions, was sufficient to
justify their returning a true bill for the capital of-
fence. The second case of murder was rather of a
complicated nature. It was a charge against the
captain and mate of the Queen of the Tyne, who
were accused of having murdered four Malay seamen
upon the high seas. At the examination before the
magistrate, there seemed reason to suppose that at the
time the offence was supposed to have been committed,
the crew were in open mutiny, and accordingly three of
the crew who survived the revolt had been committed
for attempting to stab the captain and mate. Now if
it should turn out upon investigation that the violence
which resulted in the death of the four Malays was called
forth by their own mutinous acts, the grand jury would
not he justified in finding a true bill; but if, on the other
hand, it should appear that no mutiny was contemplated or
attempted, the grand jury would have no alternative but
to return a true bill for the capital charge, as it was at
all times desirable to protect the lives and persons of
sailors from the unnecessary violence of those who were
placed in command over them. There were several
other cases involving the destruction of human life, but
fortunately none of them amounted to the crime of
murder. One of these cases was rather of a peculiar
character. Two omnibus drivers were charged with
having caused the death of an old man by driving upon
bimandforcinghim againsta post in the street. It appeared
by the evidence that the prisoners were racing their two
omnibuses, and on turning round the corner of a street,
the inner omnibus, in order to prevent a collision, was
compelled to go so close in upon the pavement, that the
vehicle struck the deceased, and, dashing him against a
post, caused his death almost upon the very spot. The
grand jury, in deciding upon this case, would have to
determine whether the inner omnibus was forced in by
the conduct of the second or outer driver, but if it should
transpire that each was designedly racing against
the other, then both would be liable for the
offence. Another peculiar, case was that of a charge of
manslaughter, which would be preferred upon the ver-
dict of a coroner's inquisition, against a person named
Abrahams, a surveyor, in considerable practice. This
gentleman had been concerned in the building of a house
in the Strand, where a lamentable accident, involving
the death of more than one person, recently occurred ;
but, in order to found a charge of manslaughter, it must
be distinctly shown that the accused party had been
guilty of some act of commission. The mere
failure to do something was not sufficient to
maintain the charge unless the failure was in an act
which the law imposed upon the party, and unless this
unfortunate accident could be traced to the express di-
rections of Mr. Abrahams, who was not present at the
time, the grand jury would hardly be justified in re-
turning a true bill against him. The only remaining
case which called for any remark from him was of very
great importance indeed. It was a charge of conspiracy
against a body of printers to prevent their master from
employing a person named Spence. Formerly it was
considered illegal to combine for the purpose of
raising or depressing wages, but the Legislature,
believing this to be an unjust and unsatisfactory
state of the law, an act of Parliament was passed
in 1826 which enabled either masters or men to
combine together for the purpose of raising or lowering
wages, and at the present time when "strikes " were so
rife, it was of the greatest importance that this act should
be thoroughly understood. It allowed the men to com-
bine and agree not to work, or the masters not to employ
men except at certain wages, and on certain conditions,
but it did not authorise either the masters or the men to
interfere or resort to any violence, threat, or molestation
of any kind for the purpose of preventing the employment
of any class of men in particular, or to prevent any
individual from taking employment at less wages than
they chose to accept themselves. Now in this case a
person named Spence, who had been in the employ of
Messrs. Talks, the printers, entered the service of a Mr.
Jackson, another printer, but he had scarcely been in
this new service a week before the other workmen held
what was called a " Chapel," and came to the resolution,
which they communicated to the foreman, not to asso-
ciate with Spence, if he was allowed to remain on the
establishment. This was the conspiracy charged against
the defendants. It was erroneously supposed by the
workmen that so long as they abstained from personal
violence in their combinations they committed no offence
against the law, but the fact was, if they conspired to-
gether in any way, no matter what, to prevent another
from being employed, they were guilty of a misde-
meanour. These were all the cases that called for any
remark.
The grand jury then retired.

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent• •••• 97
Ditto Small ....... .. .............. . ........
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, Ex. Dec., 1849, Coupon l9
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Mexican. 3 per Cent.s 23i i 4i g
Peruvian Bonds, 43 per Cent... 704 li
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent 4oi
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St llll
Ditto 4i per Cent 960 6
Spanish Bonds, 3 perr,Cent 44 i
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 2li 1
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 44 p c
Venezuela Bonds, 3i per Cent.
Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent l2

Dividends on the above payable-in London.
Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Guil —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates ,

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols . . . ......
Ditto October Account 914

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 22.

The King of the Belgians, with the Duchess of Bra-
bant, the Duke of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, and
the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, attended by their
suite, arrived at the Castle at 8 o'clock last evening.
The Duke of Wellington and the Belgian Minister
also arrived at the Castle.

The Duchess of Wellington, the Earl of Aberdeen, and
the Hon. Charles Gore arrived to-day.
The Queen and Prince, with the King of the Belgians
and royal visitors, walked in the grounds adjoining the
Castle this morning, and visited the gardens at Frog-
more.

Col. Wylde has succeeded Lieut.-Col. Francis Sey-
mour as Groom in Waiting to Prince Albert.
The Queen and Prince, with the Duke and Duchess
of Brabant, and the Count of Flanders, drove out in the
afternoon, attended by Viscountess Canning and the
Count and Countess Gustave de Lannoy. Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey Land Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. R.
Boyle were in attendance on horseback.
The royal dinner party this day included the King of
the Belgians, the Duchess of Brabant, the Duchess of
Kent, the Duke of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, the
Countess Gustave de Lannoy (the Lady in Waiting to
the Duchess of Kent) Baroness de Speth, the Duko and
Duchess of Wellington, the Belgian Minister, the Earl
of Aberdeen, the Hon. Charles Gore, Sir James Clark,
the Count Gustave de Lannoy, Colonel de Moerkerke,
Baron Prisse, and Monsieur Rieken.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner. The Queen's private band after-
wards attended in the Castle, and played the following
pieces :

Overture—" Die lustigen Weiber von Wind-
sor" Otto Nicolai.
Chow= d'Eusemble—" Le Pre aux Clercs" Herold.

March —" Occasional Oratorio "-.........-- ••• ---
Handel.
Trio Bouffe- -" Le Prophete "
Finale—" Zauberflote ' Mozart.
OCT. 23.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales,
the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, the King of th•
Belgians, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and
Gentlemen in attendance on his Majesty ; also the Do-
mestic Household, attended Divine Service this morn-
ing in the Private Chapel of the Castle. The Duchess
of Kent was likewise present at the Service. The Hon
and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated.

The Duke and Duchess of Brabant, the Count of
Flanders, and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, with
their suite, went to the Catholic Chapel at Clewer.

The Earl of Aberdeen left town on Saturday afternoon
for Windsor Castle.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yes-
terday from the Governors of Victoria, the Gold Coast,
the Gambia, and Sierra Leone.

ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH.—A number of boys
were entered on Tuesday last for the Royal Laboratory
department, owing to the increased demand for stores
and ammunition for foreign service.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

The rumour of the arrival of the manifesto pro-
ceeds from a mistake. The document which has
reached the French Government is not the mani-
festo of the Czar, but the answer of his Imperial
Majesty to the last collective note addressed to him
by the French and English Governments, and is
expressed in terms of considerable bitterness as re-
gards the interferance of France and England in
the Turkish quarrel, and that, after alluding
in terms of disappointment to
.the failure of
the attempts at conciliation—attempts for Which
it gives Russia alone the credit, but which, instead
of tending to an arrangement, have only served to
widen the breach between Russia and Turkey—it
reiterates the hope formerly expressed that Eng-
land and France will cease to interfere in a quarrel
which does not concern them • and concludes by
declaring that, as regards the Czar himself, he has
a sacred duty to perform, which he is bound to
carry out to the end.
In Russian circles it is rumoured that the reply
of the Emperor Nicholas to the war manifesto of
the Porte, which may be expected in a few days,
will not be of a very pacific description. It
is understood from undoubted authority that not
only has Prussia offered to be the mediator, but
that England, France, and Austria, have agreed to
_ _

accept the mediation of that power. If, therefore,
the Prussian mediation should be accepted by Rus-
sia—of which there can be no doubt, as delay is the
great object Russia wants—the negotiations will be
resumed, not at Vienna, but at Berlin.
The residence of the Emperor and Empress at
Compiegne is an uninterrupted series of fetes. The
Emperor and Empress enjoy excellent health, but
the weather since their arrival has not been fa-
Yourable to hunting parties. They have, however,
frequently taken exercise in the archery ground,
and the Empress is said to have displayed great
skill in this, recreation. On Friday there was a
stag hunt in the forest, at which a serious acci-
dent occurred to a lady of the Imperial party,
Madame Amedee Thayer. The horse on which
she was riding reared and fell back, by which Ma-
dame Thayer had a leg fractured. She was con-
veyed to the palace, and is going on favourably. It is
remarked that the number of persons composing
the court is continually increasing, and the regu-
lations relative to the etiquette to be, observed are
becoming more and more stringent. General of
Division Baugenal has just been appointed to the
post of chevalier of honour, and the Baroness de
Serlay to the functions of lady of honour to the
Princess Mathilde ; M. Charles Thelin, first valet
de chambre to the Emperor, who was not long since
made knight of the Legion of Honour, has been
authorized to assume the title of baron. This last
circumstance is the more remarkable that the Em-
peror has refrained hitherto from bestowing any
titles of nobility.
A decree of the Minister of Finance fixes the in-
terest on Treasury Bonds at 31 per cent. per annum
for the bonds of from three to five months, at 4
per cent. for the bonds of from six to eleven
months, and at 4,1 per cent. for the bonds of twelve
months. This rate of interest is to commence on
the 24th inst.

Brest papers state that the steam-frigates Ulloa,
Darien, and Canada are being armed with the
greatest expedition.
The ocean squadron was expected at Brest. Be-
fore leaving Cherbourg, however, that squadron
received counter orders.

The Bourse was again heavy on Saturday, with-
out much business. The Three per Cents. opened
at 72f. 20c., and closed at 71f. 90c. for the end
of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
98f. 75c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,130 f.;
Rouen, 990 f. ; Havre, 47.5 f. 50c. ; Great Nor-
thern, 827 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 886 f. 50c.
Paris and Lyons, 882 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the
Mediterranean, 715 f. ; Western of France, 687 f.
50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 580 f. ; Great Central,
512 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Geneva, 497 f. 50c. ; Shares
of the Ban of Credit Mobilier, 683 f. 75c.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Arrival of the combined fleets in the Dardanelles.

The following has been received this morning
from Vienna, through the Submarine and European
telegraph. It is dated Constantinople, Oct. 17 :
The combined fleets have passed through the
Dardanelles ; they will proceed up to Constauti-
nople,lone by one. Hostilities are to commence
forthwith.

News received by the same medium from
Bucharest, Oct. 15, are to the effect that, Omer
Paella was preparing to cross the Danube near
Ibraila and Widdin.

There were large numbers of pontoons and boats
at Widdin. The bridge between the fortress and
the small islands of the Danube is completed. One
of these islands has been occupied and fortified by
the Turks.

Large bodies of Russian troops are being con
centrated in and around Kalafat.
Omer Pasha is at Widdin.

According to advices from St. Petersburg of the
15th inst., the Minister of Finance, by command
of the Emperor, had assured the leading British
firms that British property, as well as their per-
sons would be protected, notwithstanding the un-
toward aspect of the Eastern question. The inter-
view of the merchants with the Minister of Finance
lasted half an hour, and terminated with an assur-
ance that there was no risk for goods or ships during
the remainder of the present season.
The same parties, on the 17th instant, write as
follows :

" The Minister of Finance has again requested
the attendance of the same firms this morning, and
informed them that he had submitted the question
as to the safety of vessels to his Majesty, who
had desired the Minister to say that he repeated
his assurances of protection to the persons and pro-
perty of British subjects, and that itiwas not his in-
tention, in the event of hostilities, to detain British
vessels in his ports, provided, of course, that the
British Government did the same by Russian
vessels."

Letters from Bucharest, in the Gazette de Cologne,
say that the declaration of war has produced a great
sensation in Wallachia. There is a great movement
in the Russian army—a camp of 50,000 men is now
established on the banks of the Danube, where
patrols of Cossacks are constantly on the move.
180 carriages, with pontooning materials, have
arrived at the camp.
The Turks are still at Roustchouk. Provisions
are increasing in price.
From Constantinople, Oct. 10, we learn that
about 1,700 troops were just embarking for Trebi-
zond. A steamer is now at Varna waiting for the
answer of General Gortschakoff to the summons he
has received to quit the Ottoman territory. In
the event of the answer being negative, the captain
has instructions to proceed at once to Batoum, to
order the commencement of hostilities. Six fri-
grates are sent to defend the latter port. About
the 25th of this month the term given to General
Gortschakoff expires.

It is said that the Turks are about to or have
already applied for a loan in London of 500,000
purses, or 2,500,0001. sterling, at the enormous
interest of ten per cent. The late affair of the
loan has given a bad name to Ottoman credit, and
undeservedly so, since all claims connected with
the late affair have been honestly paid.
Accounts from Bucharest speak of the frightful
mortality of the Russian troops from typhus fever.
The houses used as hospitals are being constantly
changed in order to mitigate the infection, from
which about ten per cent. fall victims. This has
always been the scourge of an invading Russian
army in Turkey, and may be traced to the bad
clothing and food of these wretched troops, joined
to the fatigue they are so ill able to support, with,
perhaps, the change of climate.
The National Gazette of Berlin, under date of
Vienna 18th, says :—" Lord Westmoreland has
sent off in great haste a dispatch, by order of the
Earl of Clarendon, to Lord Stratford de Radcliffe,
at Constantinople. In this dispatch, he receives
an order to prevent, if possible, the breaking out
of hostilities in order that a means of arrangement
may be found, consisting of a new note."
A letter from Bucharest of the 10th, states that
the Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia have
been dismissed by a decree of the Sublime Porte.
The The Austrian Correspondence of Vienna,
18th, contradicts the above statement.