The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOND

LONDON :
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1838.

Great complaints are beginning to be made of the
condition of the labourers on the land. Not that

those poor, spiritless, despairing beings do more than
whine and moan over their hard lot, but those who
see the extraordinary privations to which they are
subject, and, deeply affected by them, as well as fearful
that they may lead to social convulsions, step forward,
like Mr. FIELDEN, to draw attention to the condition
of the labourers on the land. They do not connect this
with the Corn-laws, of which some of them are
advocates, but we do ; and in another part of our
paper we make some remarks, in addition to those
we have before made, to show how those laws injure the
farmers, and of course strike at the root of the agricul-
tural labourer's wages. Whether the theory be cor-
rect or not, the fact is, that the farmers have been in
a state of continued distress during the existence of
those laws, and now the proofs again accumulate
upon us, that the agricultural labourers are in a most
deplorable condition. A great, a painful, and in
many districts a most unpopular, alteration in the
Poor-laws was lately made on account of the distress
of the farmers and the degradation of the labourers on
the land ; and now again we are informed that the latter
are as bad off, or worse, than everl

In a letter from Wiltshire, which we insert, it is
said that the average wages of an able-bodied man, in
the south-western counties, is Bs. per week ; and the
following is the picture of the expenditure of a family
forced to subsist on that sum, in this fertile land, over-
flowing with wealth :

Expenditure : —Rent, (say) 93. per week ; fuel, Is. 6d. ;
soap, candles, &c., 9d. ; leaving ss. for food. Now, taking
the family to consist of a man, his wife, and four children, we
lee that it is just 10d. a week for each ; or, allowing them food
three times a day, it will give something less than one half-
penny each meal. Think, Mr. Editor, one moment on the
price of wheat at the present time, 1 Is. 6d. a bushel, or
ls. 51d. a gallon, and you will perceive that the whole amount
of these wages, without allowing one farthing for anything
beside, is not enough to supply a sufficiency of the staff of life.
Under these circumstances, would you be surprised if you
beard of riots, robberies, and burnings ? You ought not.

This state of things is not-confined to Wiltshire.
We can answer for the peasantry in a considerable part
of Kent being in a very little better condition. There
was a meeting at Chelmsford in Essex, too, a few days
ago, at which the following language was held :
Mr. Fiske urged the farmers, now that they were making a
good price for their wheat, to pay their labourers in propor-
tion ; and Mr. Gent added—" The landlords, when times
were bad, went in hand in hand with you, and reduced your
rents—do you in turn assist the labourer. The Poor-law has
clipped his wings, and given an advantage to you farmers in
the rates ; arid as the labourer is essential to the cultivation of
the soil, do not crush and trample on him. If wheat continues
at this price you must increase his wages—therefore do it with
a good grace." These observations were received with cheers of
approbation, which showed that the farmers of the neighbourhood
felt their applicability. They, we are sure (adds the Jour-
nalist), will not disregard the feeling which is abroad on the
subject. Let them talk over the matter at the Vestry meet-
ing or the market table—let them treat it with the liberality
which the exigencies of the times require, and they will find
their reward in the improved conduct and improved appear-
ance of their dependents—while the blessing of the poor shall
rise from a thousand cottages as a thank-offering to that Being
who directs the storm, the pestilence, and mildew, and who
for seasons past has clothed their fields with the full richness
of plenteous harvests.
There is evidence in these passages of two facts,
first, that the condition of the agricultural labourers
in Essex is so bad, as to excite the compassion of the
public ; and next, that the farmers are appealed to not
to disregard the public feeling. They are exposed,
therefore, to two circumstances which, now that the
prices of corn are high, will prevent them from putting
all the profit into their own pockets. The public calls
on them to pay wages, not by the market rate, but by
a higher rate, set by its commisseration for the distress
of the labourers ; and the dread of " riots;robberies, and
bnrnings," operates in the same direction on their own
feelings. On the average of prices, or rather considerably
above it, as continual deductions of rent prove, the
landlord calculates his rack-rent, and squeezes out of
the farmer all that he sucks up from the consumer,
and leaves him, with numerous branches exposed, wi-
thered, sapless, and pithless, to the storms of society.
Tor years past the landlord's rent has been paid out of
the capital of the decaying farmer ; and now, when he
might expect by the rise in prices to recover some of
his losses, he is assailed by the compassion of the public
for his suffering labourers, and by a dread of the mischief
their distress may goad them to commit. By demand-
ing Corn-laws, and promising to pay a large rent if they
be continued, the farmer makes himself the agent of the
landlords, in extorting for their behoof a tax from the
people on their food. If not the actual oppressor, he
appears to be the oppressor of the poor. The condi-
tion of his own labourers, however—the calls of the
public on his generosity—and the dread lie has of riots,
robberies, and burnings, ought by this time to convince
him that he has made a very grievous mistake in de-
grading his very useful and honourable occupation into
that of an extortionate tax-gatherer for idle and worth-
less landowners.

In addition to the letter from Wiltshire, the I
article inserted from the Chronicle is worthy of
public attention. That Journal looks forward to the
approaching winter with apprehension, and we cer-
tainly should not be surprised, from the great privations
of the agricultural labourers, if their anger and despair
were again to blaze forth during the next winter, as in
1830, in many midnight conflagrations.
Since the above remarks were written, the Chelms-
ford Chronicle, published to-day, has reached us, and
in that we find a letter remonstrating against the pe-
remptory call now made on the cultivators of the soil,
"to bear exclusively the burthen of the maintenance
of a surplus population, created by the indiscreet
manner in which the late Poor-law was adminis-
tered." The shoe pinches, therefore ; the farmers
feel the unpleasantness of the public call, and are
unwilling to answer it. Of course, if they can
avoid answering it they will, and they who will not
allow the labourer to buy corn by his labour as cheaply
as he can, would think themselves grievously injured
if they were not allowed to buy labour as cheaply as
possible. In fact, it is a clear condition of the Corn-
laws, without which they would be of no use the
farmer, that the labourer must be restrained, ato
nd he
must be at liberty to buy labour on the lowest terms.
To interfere and compel him to raise the wages of the
labourer, is, for him, a virtual repeal of the Corn-laws.

Two brief notices will be found in our Paper to-
day of meetings of the Chartists, and that at Wolvcr-
bampton is deserving special notice, as the first where
any of the leading Liberal politicians of the place
have attended, and have endeavoured to convince

the people of the greater advantages of repealing
the Corn-laws than agitating for the Charter. If
such conduct had been more general we should
have seen a much brighter prospect before us than
at present ; and there are, we are persuaded,
several staunch advocates of the repeal, the Corn-
law Rhymer for example, who must by this time re-
gret having countenanced a visionary chase instead of
practical improvement. In praising Mr. WYNN
and Mr. BOLTON for their open conduct, which
was duly apreciated by a vote of thanks from the meet-
ing, we must guard ourselves against being impli-
cated in their opinions ; staunch:advocates as we are for
education, we can never for one moment admit that
the working classes of this empire are not at present, by
their knowledge, as fit to exercise Universal Suffrage as
the Bishops and the landlords to make laws. It is
impossible that they could commit greater errors than
these latter, or work more mischief and more iniquity.
We do not object to Universal Suffrage, which, in our
opinion, all men may now practically exercise, but to
the time of seeking to obtain its special influence over
the House of Commons. We do not therefore agree
with Mr. WYNN, though we praise him for boldly

stating his opinions.
We take the opportunity of adding, that we do not
want, to use the language of the Secretary of the
meeting, to quiet the people by filling their bellies,
for there are too many reforms required ; but, by fill-
ing their bellies, to give them strength and spirit to
achieve the great work, which, if they are to be
saved from the condition of the Irish, living on Lumpers,
yet stands before them. The abolition of the Corn-
laws, if they demand it, can be carried with the present
representation ; and, to add to the strength and wealth
of the working-classes, would only enable them the
more easily to obtain all their just ends.

We learn from the Bristol Gazelle of yesterday,
that there exists in that city three separate Societies
which meet annually to commemorate the birth-day of
the pious and benevolent EDWARD COLSTON. He
lived, we are informed, about two centuries ago, and
founded schools and alms-houses in Bristol, and in
various parts of the country ; and there exists in that
city a splendid establishment for the education of
youth, endowed by him at his sole expense, and com-
fortable abodes which he provided for the reception of
the aged and infirm.

To commemorate the virtues of such a man must
be at all times worthy of notice and praise ;
and we rather regret that our limits do not allow
us to make some extracts from the reports of the
meetings : but it is worthy of double approbation when
it is accompanied by an imitation of his good deeds.
The gentlemen of Bristol, in commemorating Mr.
COLSTON'S birth-day, also meet to subscribe money
for charitable purposes, and the amount collected at
the three meetings onTuesday last was 2,126/. As the
Gazette says, though the citizens of Bristol may be
divided in political opinions, they are united in paying
a cheerful and liberal response to the call of charity.
Of the three Societies, we are informed that one is of
decidedly Liberal politics ; a second neutral ; and the
third decidedly Tory. It gratifies us to learn, as the
Tories boast so much of their great wealth, and
their munificence, that the contributions of the
Liberal Society was 7581. ; that of the neutral 7301 ;
and that of the Tory Society 638/. The sub-
scriptions we are informed may be taken as a pretty
good test of the prevalence of political opinions amongst
the inhabitants of the ancient corporate and cathedral
city of Bristol, which we are thus happy to learn are
decidedly favourable to the Liberal cause. At the meet-
ing of the Liberals, comprising many of the great mer-
chants, and most respectable tradesmen of the
town, the health of her Majesty's Ministers was received
with much applause, and responded to by T. B.
HOBnousE, Esq., M.P. for Rochester, in a neat and
forcible speech. He concluded, as we shall conclude,
by expressing a wish, that meetings for such benevo-
lent objects may long flourish in the land, and redeem,
let us add, its character, if possible, from the stigma
lately cast on :t by Ultra-Protestant itinerants, who
have called meetings to teach uncharitableness, nourish
bigotry, and propagate strife.

The ruin of a nation's credit and influence, wherever
her power has been recognised for a quarter of a cen-
tury, must necessarily originate in some error or ne-
glect on the part of her servants or representatives—
in some culpable discrepancy between her first profes-
sions and her subsequent performances. Now, it is
admitted on all hands, that no nation of Western
Europe ever arrived at the degree of moral influence
which England has done in the east ; and yet, it is as
generally apprehended—and, we believe, on very ra-
tional grounds—that without some extraordinary
exertion on our part, our Oriental Empire will become,
at no distant period, as untenable as a rope of sand.
England is no more exempted from the penalty of her
crimes in the Indies, than were any of the Governments
that preceded her in the monopoly of Oriental power
and commerce. When the Portuguese, in the begin-
ning of the sixteeenth century, established their do-
minion in the East, it is almost incredible in how short
a time, they contrived to lay the foundation of a cam-
mercial empire, which appeared as indestructible
as their own nationality. In the space of about sixty
years, they had firmly established themselves in the
small but rich kingdom of Ormuz, commanding the
whole trade of the Persian Gulf ; they had a supreme
Government at Goa, and rich factories at Muscat, Diu,
Damaun, Chaoul, Onor Cananor, Calicut, Cranganor,
Choulan, Nizapatam, Meliapour, and the Malaccas,
besides a rich pearl fishery at Tutocorin. The Em-
perors of JAPAN and CHINA treated them with the
greatest indulgence, the former permitting them to
send as many Missionaries as they pleased to preach
the Gospel in his dominions. During the brief union
of the crowns of Portugal and Spain, the Grand
Council of Castile prohibited the Dutch, then at war
with Spain, from entering the port of Lisbon to pur
chase the cargoes brought from the Indies ; and to
that fatal edict may the Portuguese date the
ruin of their naval power. The real cause, howe-
ver, lay not in this single act of the Home Go-
vernment. The nation had become so puffed up
with an indefinite idea of the immeasurable greatness,
riches, and extent of its foreign territory, that such as
foresaw danger to their commerce in the despairing
efforts of a handful of all but bankrupt Dutch ad-
venturers were made a public laughing-stock. The
united kingdom of Spain and Portugal had the undis-
puted dominion of the seas ; every Power of any in-
fluence in India was either her ally or her tributary ;
consequently, it was argued, the idea of her suffering
in her commercial relations by the Dutch was prepos-
terous. In the mean time the crimes of her Viceroys
and their Courts in the East had raised up a host of
secret enemies, who waited only an opportunity to
declare against her. Debauched by prosperity and the
influence of an enervating climate, equally ignorant
and intollerant, they paid no more respect to the per-
sons of the natives than they did to their civil and re-
ligious prejudices and institutions. The result is well
known. Before the Spaniards and Portuguese could be
made sensible of their danger, their commerce received a
blow from which itnever recovered. The Dutch, before
deemed so contemptible, succeeded them, and before the
Batavia rivalled Goa in
lapse of a qmuaagrtneirficoefnacee.entußriyit
the
Hollanders had not
profitedriches andby
the errors of their predecessors. t
the suavity of the Portuguese, or the courtly dignity

of the Spaniards, they exceeded them in avarice and
cruelty. The detention of the Japanese at For-
mosa, and the butchery of the English at Am-
boyna, proved that in the pursuit of gain the
most atrocious acts were allowable. Evil is ever
short-sighted. The cruelties of the Hollanders threw
the East India trade into the hands of the English,
who, by avoiding the worst enormities of the Portu-
guese, the Spanish, and the Dutch traders, have suc-
ceeded in establishing the most extensive empire ever
governed by an European Sovereign. This is our
present glorious position. Let us inquire what
reasons we have for indulging in an apathetic
conviction that our dominion in the East is more
secure against the incessant intrigues of Russia than
that of the Powers whom we have superseded. This
inquiry will necessarily occupy more than the limits
of one leading article ; but we trust that the great im-
portance of the subject to all classes in this country,
together with the many concurring circumstances which
serve to point out the present as a time peculiarly,
favourable for such an investigation, will not be with-
out their proper influence upon the readers of The Sun.
Captain WESTMACOTT, of the 37th Bengal In-
fantry, now about to rejoin his regiment in India, has
just published a pamphlet on "the Present and Fu-
ture Prospects of our Indian Empire," which will
materially assist us in pointing out those errors
on the part of the Anglo-Indian Government, which,
if not timely amended, must inevitably lead to
the total subversio❑ of our power in the East.-
Though a work of slight pretension and small
compass, Lit will establish the character of the
gallant author as an officer well acquainted with
the actual state of the country in which he serves,
and imbued with an earnest desire to consolidate the
power of the British Crown in India. He states his
travels in Eastern, Western, and Central India, not to
have fallen far short of 8,000 miles—so that with his
habits of analysis and inquiry, he had an ample oppor-
tunity of carefully noting the effect of the British sys-
tem upon the opinions and conduct of the natives. He
assures us that at the present day nothing can be ima-
gined more culpable than the passiveness of the great
body of the British authorities in India. While Rus-
sia is unwearied in her efforts to extend her political
and commercial relations in Central Asia, our
Government in the East has shamefully neg-
lected to avail itself of the offers of the
native Princes to secure the navigation of the Indus,
by building a strong fortress at Mittun, and thus, be-
sides opening a trade with three millions and a half of
people, with whom we now -carry on no traffic, enabling
us to hold the balance between the powerful Chiefs
between the Himalaya Mountains and the western
bank of that River. His other complaints are, that our
physical force in the East is inadequate to the
maintenance of our dominion ; that we have not kept,
and do no not keep, faith with the native Princes ; that
our Missionaries, by the intemperance of their lan-
guage and absurdity of their conduct, bring the Chris-
tian religion into disrepute; and that our laws are
neither adapted to the habits, the genius, the religion,
nor the understanding of the natives. The truth of
these sitatements, and their effect upon our Power in
the East, will be the subjects of future articles.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday, with advices from
Madrid of the 7th, have been received this morning.
For a summary of their contents, which are by no
means important, we refer to another part of The Sun.
Madrid continued tranquil.

IMPORTANt PRIVATE LETTER FROM LORD
Durmast.—The Dumfries Times of Wednesday, in a Second
Edition, says We have been favoured by a kind friend
with an extract from a letter which he has received from his
Lordship, dated Quebec, Oct. 13. The communication is
highly interesting All civil government is now imprac-
ticable here. 1 return home to follow out the objects of my
mission in the House of Lords, where, in truth, the govern-
ment of the Canadas is now conducted. The post of- diffi-
culty—of action—is now in that House, and there I must re-
pair. Trust me, my good friend, I abandon not one iota of
the objects of my mission—on the contrary, I hold to them as
strongly as ever—and I believe, that, contrary to their inten-
tions, my enemies have unconsciously given me better means
to carry them into effect. I hype to be in England by the
middle or end of December.' "
Mr. Joseph Donizetti, brother of the celebrated
composer, is at the head of the military baud of the Sultan at
Constantinople.
Sir Francis and Lady Bordett have arrived in St.
James's-place, from Leicestershire.
The mortal remains of the late Viscount Deerhurst
were removed from Bourton House, Gloucestershire, on Tues-
day evening, for interment in the ancestral vault in Croome
Church. The body lay in state in the principal saloon of
Croome House from sun rise until noon yesterday, and the fn.
neral took place in the latter part of the day.
The Literary Fund Club had its first social meeting
for the year on Wednesday, at the Freemasons' Tavern. The
attendance was greater than for some years past so early in the
season. It was announced by the Chairman that nearly 3001.
had been voted by the present Committee that day to authors
of repute, several of them foreigners.
We learn with p!easure that the health of the
Right Hon. Cutler Ferguson is slightly improved.—Galig_
nani's Messenger.
We are sorry to announce that Mr. Richard
Dyott, the unsuccessful Candidate for the Southern Division
of the county of Stafford, has met with a serious accident in
Ireland. The Hon. Gentleman's horse fell with him, and
broke his thigh in two places. We understand his recovery
is proceeding as favourably as can be expected.—Birmingham
Advertiser.
We understand that our worthy Representative,
Mr. J. Bailey, has presented 501. as a donation to the Wor-
cester branch of the Society for the Employment of Addi-
tional Curates in Populous Places. It affords us much plea-
sure to observe that this Society is gradually obtaining notice
and support.—Worcester Journal.
ASSESSMENT OF COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.
—Ytsterday morning, in accordance with public notice, a
very numerous meeting of the parishioners of St. Paul,
Covent-garden, was held in the Vestry-room of the Church
for the purpose of taking into consideration the recent
decision of the Magistrates at Petty-sessions, directing a
reduction in the assessment of Covent-garden Theatre,
and to determine if any and what steps shall be adopted in
reference thereto. Mr. Clarke was unanimously called on to
preside. Mr. Walker rose to propose " That the Vestry-
clerk, aided by a Committee, be empowered to take legal
proceedings in opposition to the late decision of the Bench
of Magistrates relative to a reduction in the assessment
of the Theatre Royal Covert-garden, at the next quarter
or general session." He contended that the proprietors of
theatret(lleer t
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proprietors in
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allowing
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to am appeal, inasmuch as
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the assessment unequal or not, the rate must be
paid, the proprietors not having taken the advantage of
appealing within the time prescribed by the Statute. Mr.
Bond, in a brief speech, seconded the resolution. C. aptain.
Forbes (a proprietor) and Mr. Robinson (treasurer),
attended on the part of the proprietary to support the decision,
de-
sired th et
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meeting.and
to give
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any information
Captainthata might be
aid t that
rent
Macready, the lessee, paid for the establishment a
7,000/. per annum. To the ground landlord, theDreukte of
Bedford, the proprietors paid a rent of 766/. Formerly
the
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ground-rent was very considerable, but his Grace, upon
appli-
cation of the Committee, and taking into consideration the
great depreciation of theatrical property, had reduced the rent
5001. The Gallant Captain, in conclusion, remarked that
the Vestry might feel assured that the proprietors would not
shrink from meeting the parochial authorities in any Court
of Law to support the decision of the Magistrates. Mr. Da-
'liens considered the assessment, as made by the Committee,
to be an equitable one—( Hear, hear)—for the Haymarket
Theatre, which was but one third the size of Covent-
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Forbes, Cooper, and many other gentlemen took part, the
Ward After,
Chairman submitted the resolution for the approval of the
meeting, and it was carried. After the formation cf the
Committee the meeting separated.
WALSALL. We are glad to learn that the sub-
I scription list in aid of the necessary fund for providing an ex-
tensive increase of church and school accommodation in the
parish of Walsall has been nobly headed by the Earl of Brad-
ford, the patron of the Living, who has munificently placed
the sum of 1,004 at the disposal of the Vicar and the Com.
bArid.s phs e A
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Srri
mittec acting with him; and that leßrd Hatherton has also
most liberally granted an eligible site for the intended ;levy
chunrcohbaetrtthEe
rßriinrcghtiollns.,—ESsqta!
Thomas
Stanley of Cheshire (and who has inherited great wealth from
Mrs. Fitzherbert and her brother), it about to marry the beau-
Oil Mils Macdonald, daughter of Gen. Sir John Macdonald,
Adjutint- kiePprai of her Majesty's army.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, Nov. 15, P. m.—Wind, N. W., light airs.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 15. —Wind E., fine.—Arrived the
Najaden, Spoofe, from Cadiz. Sailed the Eliza Heywood,
Heywood, for Ascension and Mauritius.
. . . .

PLYMOUTH, Nov, 14. —Arrived the Amity, Strinsby, from
Stockholm ; leaky, and lost deck load, &c. ; Syren, from St.
John's, New Brunswick. Sailed the Dash, Killick, fur St.
Vincent's ; Marquis Huntley, Motley, for Cork and Gibraltar ;
Tyne, Dunn, for Honduras.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 14 —Wind, E., strong breezes.—Arrived
the Splendid, Ditson, from St. Petersburgh.
OFF LIVERPOOL, Nov. 15. —Wind, light.—Arrived the
Susquehannah, from Philadelphia. MEMORANDUM—About
fifty thousand pounds sterling was saved from the wreck
of the Lady Charlotte, on the 12th instant. Sailed, Ale-
quis, Gill, for Sydney, New South Wales ; Mary, Walker,
for Smyrna; Superior, Walker, for Rio Janeiro; Black-eyed
Susan, for Constantinople ; yria, Currie, for Bombay ;
Thomas Parsons, M' Kenney, for Africa ; Kerswell, Gover,
for Trieste ; Crescent, Thomas, for Charente ; Spaclan,
Banting, for Philadelphia ; Commercium, Diedrick, for Co-
penhagen; Egidius, Duyts, for Ostend.
DUBLIN, Nov. 13. Arrived the
,Duke of Cambridge
(steamer), from London.
Corm, Nov. 13.—Arrived the Hercules, Morndiff, from St.
John's, New Brunswick.

CLYDE, Nov. 13.—Arrived the Springhill, Auld, Quebec.
HULL, Nov. 14. Arrived the Parridies, Witter, Kiel,
Colmer, Rathricks, and the Henerston, Hansen, from Stock-
holm ; Achilles, Wailer, from Memel ; Helas, Brant, from
Gothenburg.
GENOA, Nov. B.—The Maria, from Cadiz, arrived here
very leaky, and part of cargo thrown overboard, having been
aground on the 14th ult. near the Gulf of Palma.
LERWICK, Nov. 10.—The Robert Gray, Mason, from Onega
to London, arrived here on the 7th inst. leaky,having struck on
Pushlacta Shoal, and proceeded to-day.
RAMSGATE, Nov. 15.—The Ann, Skinner, from Hull to
Sierra Leone, which was on shore near Kingsdown on the
12th inst., has been assisted off into the harbour, leaky,
with loss of anchors and cables.

DOVER, Nov. 15.—Several pieces of wreck, a chest of
good clothes, &c., have been washed on shore at Dunge-
ness, and a paper relating to the Lady Day, James, of Milford.

The Batavia (steamer), from Rotterdam, arrived in the
river last night at 10 o'clock, and brings accounts of the
Attwood (steamer) having sailed before her and put
back again.
The Centurion, Heppenstak, arrived in the river, spoke the
Eagle, bound to Halifax, with troops, 26th ult., lat. 46. lon. 41.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY (T.TIIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The arrivals this morning are the French and Ostend mails.
No flip letters.
A general report prevailed yesterday that the Batavier
Dutch steamer was lost : we are happy to state that she
arrived in the river last night about ten o'clock.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 15.—There has been
a good demand for Cotton to-day, and full prices have been
obtained. The sales-reached 7,000 bags, viz., Pernams BA-d.
a qd. ; Maranhams a Bd. ; Macaio 81d. ; Egyptians
12d. ; Surat! qd. 51d. ; and Americans 6d. to 81d. per lb.
The Philadelphia packet of the 20th ult. has arrived, by
which we have received a Philadelphia Paper of the above
date ; the information it contains has been anticipated by the
late arrivals from New York.

We have received the Journal of Commerce of Antwerp, of
yesterday's date, by which we have the Dutch prices of last
Tuesday's date, Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 53 9-16; Five
per Cents. 101 5 16; Spanish, 16 15-16.
We have no arrivals this morning of any consequence, and
speculations in the various funds are very inactive at present.
In Madrid a number of new arrests have taken place, and
amongst them persons of distinction.

THE FUNDS.
Consols opened this morning, both for Money and Account,
at 94k, with nothing doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 68 to
70 prem. ; India Bonds, 63 to 65 ; Bank Stock 203 3- ; India
Stock, 261 to 262 ; Spanish, as they closed, 171 to f ; Por-
tuguese, same, 311 ; Three per Cents 201 i ; Brazilian,
78} to 79; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 54ki ; Five
per Cents 10011.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 20.3q I India Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 93i,4% I Ditto Bonds 63 65 pm.
3 per Cent. Cons. 941 4 i South Sea Stock -
3t2 per Cent - Old Annuities -
Ditto Red.
__ 100% N 1 New Ditto -

.. . ,
New 3% per Cent 102% 1% :2% ' 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1731...
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500 7O 69 pm.
Jan. 5, 1860 l4 15-16 15 Ditto Small 7O 68 pm
Oct. 10,1859 — Ditto Commercial pm.
Jan. 5, 1860 15% Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, 1881 , Bank Stock for Account —
Aprils, 1880 — India Stock for Account —
I
Jan. 5, 1870 — Consols for Account ...... ...... 94%
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bond s
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account —

Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds

Portuguese Bonds
Ditto New Bonds
Ditto Accoun`
Ditto, 3 per Cent. 00j4%
Ditto Account
Prussian Bonds

lYtto Account
Columbian Bonds

Russian Bonds, 1822
i Ditto Account

Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824 24% \ Spanish Bonds
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account — Ditto Account. l7%lAf,
Greek Bonds —l French, 5 per cent. f. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent.
Ditto Account — 3 per cent.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent.... , ---r— Exchange. —f. —c.

Ditto Account -
Ditto, 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Neapolitan

--
Dutch, 2,4 per cent. 51%Mi
- Ditto Account
Ditto, 5 per 100 X,
1 Ditto Account

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Paid. Per Share,
Great Western Railway Company 65 785 i
Brighton Railway
ii ontion and Rim kwall Railway 9 7k(
_ __

.... -.. -.. , •
London and Southampton (New) Railway 2O
61 .nchestor and Birmingham Railway lO
Northern and Eastern Railway Company ...
Colonial Bank
Ditto Scrip ...
London Joint Stock Bank, lO
Union Bank of Australai

40
8 94
27'414
13t4N
us,

BELGIAN kUNDS—Baussa.s, Nov. 14
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lO2
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 92%
--. 3 per Cent. 6SX,
Loan of ('itv, 1832,4 per Cent 97
Society of Commerce, 4Yi per Cent 146
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent
National Society .
—Brussels Papers, Nov. 14.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS....-VIENNA, Nov. 6.
Five per Cents. Metalliques 107%
Fos per Cents,
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1174
—Allgemeine Zeitung, Nov. 11.

• HALF-PAST ONE.
The Dutch mail has not as yet arrived.
A report prevails that our most gracious Queen has chosen
one of the Princes of Coburg as her husband.
The Commissioners purchased this morning about 5,000
Reduced, at 933.
Money continues plentiful, and discount easy. Consols,
94i, for Account, Money, 94 ; Exchequer Bills, 70 68 prent ;
India Bonds, 63 65; Bank Stock, 2031; India,26l ; Spanish
Active, 17A-; Portuguese, 311; Three per Cents., 201 4 :
Dutch, 541 ; Five per Cents., 100 a.
Little or nothing doing in Shares, Manchester and Birming-
ham, 11 prem.; Great Western, 13} prem.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 94k.

PROGRESS OF THE BRISTOL AND EXETER
RAILWAY.-The public will be pleased to hear that this un-
dertaking is fast progressing from Bristol to Bridgewater, and
will, it is expected, be completed to the latter town by Christ-
mas, 1839. The line will form one of the most interesting in
the kingdom, the land being nearly level the whole way, and
consequently will have no high embankments, or deep cuttings
to contend with, which are so unsightly on most of the rail-
roads. We are credibly informed that the lane throughout
the extensive manor of Banwell, over which the line passes, has
been all agreed for, and so judiciously arranged by those who
were entrusted with the management on the part of the Com-
pany, that no objection hasbeen raised by the landowners,.who
left the entire management on their parts in the hand of an in-
fluential gentleman in the neighbourhood, who has so studied
their respective convenience in the severance of their estates,
that not a single piece of land is left unappropriated, but which
is either sold to, or exchanged with, those landowners whose
property it adjoins. If this principle were followed up in other
parishes, we should hear of little dissatisfaction, or witness so
may small plots and corners of valuable fields left as if they
were disowned or valueless, which is too apparent on other
lines over which we have travelled.—Bristol Gazette.

Yesterday the mate of the brig Ellen, now lying in
the Pool, in attempting to get on board while in a state of in-
toxication, missed his footing and was drowned.
On Tuesday afternoon a man threw himself from
the summit of the southern tower of Notre Dame, and was
almost dashed to pieces on the pavement at its foot. An im-
mense crowd was soon collected by the accident, and accom-
panied the body to the Morgue, but we have not yet learnt the
name of the individual, nor the cause that prompted him to
take this means of self-destruction.— Galignani.
A gentleman at a musical party where the lady was
very particular not to have the concord of sweet sounds inter-
rupted, was freezing during the performance of a long con-
certed piece, and seeing that the fire was going out, asked a
friend in a whisper how he should stir the fire without inter-
pupting the music ? " Between the bars," replied the friend.
The investigation into the circumstance of the
alleged outrage in the Dover-road was resumed yesterday.
A medical gentleman stated that he could discover no marks
of violence upon any part of complainant's person, and that if
she bad been treated in the brutal manner represented such
marks must have existed. A police inspector proved that
when the girl was in custody on a charge of creating a dis-
turbance she had not said a word as to the alleged outrage.
Under these circumstances the IV.a.bistrates discharged the ac-
cused on the recognizances of her husband. The accused said
she could sot account for the conduct of the girl, except on
the supposition that she was insane, and the medical gentleman
on being asked his opinion, stated that she had spoken to him
so incoherently at times that he was inclined to be of the samo
epioiorip
During the whole of -yesterday morning the me-
tropolis was visited with a thick fog, which rendered it ne-
cessary for all persons employed in offices, shops, manufacto-
ries, &c., to burn gas, oil, or candles, in order to pursue their
several ayopatioN. -
• •

CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS I)AY.)

.ORD KENSINGTON V. THE WEST LONDON AND WESTMINSTER

CEMETERY COMPANY.

The LORD CSIANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case,
the arguments in which were concluded yesterday. The
case came before his Lordship on appeal from the judgment
of his Honour the Vice Chancellor. by which he declared that
the defendants, the West London and Westminster Cemetery
Company, were bound specifically to perform a contract en-
tered into by them to purchase certain property from Lord
Kensington, for the purpose of forming a Cemetery thereon.
The defendants objected to perform the contract on the ground
that Lord Kensington, under his marriage settlement, could not
make a good title to the property. The Noble Plaintiff in this
state of things filed his bill for the purpose of compelling
the defendants to perform the contract ; and, upon the case
coming on before the Vice-Chancellor' his Honour made the
order that was now appealed from. The Lord Chancellor
entertained no doubt whatever as to the propriety of the order
of the Vice-Chancellor, observing that if the Company did
not feel satisfied with the opinion of one Judge being against
them, but must have the judgment of another, they ought to
pay the expense of such a proceeding. The appeal must
therefore be dismissed, with costs.