The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-08 00:00:00

HAYNIARK.ET THEATRE.

Miss Reyni Ids, a young lady from the American thea-
tres, but who is, we believe (and we rejoice in the belief,
for Fhe is a girl of genius, and will be a credit to her
country). an English woman born and bred, made her
debut here last evening in the character of Kate O'Brien,
the Lady of Munster, in poor Haynes Bayley's:admirable
petite Comedy of Perfection. Miss Reynolds possesses every
requisite for the stage ; her features are expressive and
agreeable; her form is faultless; Ikr voice is clear and sil-
very, and she sings delightfully, rich, clearly, expressively,
and always in tune. The character of Kate O'Brien was
written expressly for Vestris, and most wickedly and
witchingly did she act it, but with all our prepossessions
in favour of Vestris and her version of the character, we
are bound to confess that Miss Reynolds was more truly
the lady of Munster, though, perhaps, less espiegle, sbe
was more lady-like, more graceful, more the daughter
of General O'Brien, more high-bred, in a word, than
Vestris. Her songs were beautifully given. She
was encored in all of them, and there was
a bewi ching archness about her in giving the
delicious ballad " Not I," that was perfectly fascinating.
From that moment the ?udience was with her, and,
scene by scene, as the drama progressed, she increased
the favourable impression she had made. In fact, to-
wards the conclusion it appeared as though an old
favourite, who had secured a high position, and might
even venture to take liberties with the audience, were
acting the part, instead of a debutante. Her success was
complete; she was called for at the fall of the curtain and
received most enthusi stically. Her versatility alone
would secure her a high degree of success. When we
add, that whatever she does, she does excellently well,
there can be no doubt but that Miss Reynolds will attain
the highest degree in her profession. We congratulate
Mr. Webster having secured such an acquisition to
the Haymarket corps.

LITERATURE.
LUCRETM; or THE CHILDREN OF NIGHT.
3 Vols. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.
On the publication of his romance entitled "The
last of the Barons," Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
announced his intention of therewith terminating his
career as a novelist. That determination he has now
relinquished ; he has yielded again to the dominant
influence of his imagination ; as he himself humour-
ously
observes in his apologetic preface, " bad habitsare stronger than good intentions. ' Never, we will
undertake to say, has a half-promise been broken in
a manner more to the satisfaction of the lovers of
literature. 'We should, indeed, have had sufficient
cause to grieve in the event of such a man proving
obdurate in such a resolution. We should have
grieved that a mind so eminently distinguished for its
capacities, a mind co peculiarly creative and sympa- '
thetic, a mind so essentially aesthetical in its character,
so 'prone to the adoration of the beautiful and good,
could have lapsed into a mute and inglorious indo-
lence. We should have grieved that that imagination
remained idle, or incommunicative, which had so
vividly revived to our imaginations the domestic in-
terests and civic pomps of Herculaneum, the strug-
gles of the last Tribune for Roman liberty, the solemn
and pathetic mysteries of the Rosecrutians, the brilliant
but ominous youth of our third Richard. It was not
conceivable to us, however, that an intellect which
had hitherto evinced such an inexhaustible fertility,
and such an assiduous inventiveness, could remain
altogether unoccupied. We felt assured that from
its germination of thought (a germination which was
as spontaneous as it was prodigal, and as mobile as it
was spontaneous), that mind would continue to re-
quire some medium for its effusion ; that if the old
channel were dammed up, a new one would be
opened ; that there would be an increase of im-
petuosity in consequence of that temporary retention.
Sir Edward Bulwer almost acknowledges so much in
the observations prefixed to his present production.
Ile confesses that in resigning the costume of the
romancist, he aspired to the wand of the dramatist.
He was sated with the triumphs of a Boccaccio, and
yearned for the popularity of a Terence. After
various " unpublished and imperfect attempts," Sir
Edward abandoned his new ambition. I found, he
says, that my conceptions were too wide, or that I
wanted the faculty of concentration. These candid
avowals remind us somewhat of that pleasant intro-
duction written by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, either to
his tragedy of lon or of the Athenian Captive, where
that master-poet shrives himself to the public on the
score of his futile attempts as a school-boy rhymster,
With Sir Edward Bulwer, however, the failure must
have arisen more from fastidiousness than incapacity.
Of this his admirable contributions to our national
drama are a sufficient testimony. Nevertheless, he
avouches his dissatisfaction with his recent labours as
a playwright, and his final determination to embody
his ideas in " that species of composition to which he
was familiar." When we remember the eloquent and
impassioned pastry of his Richelieu, we should; be
almost inclined to regret this ultimate resolution, but
for our remembrance of the more eloquent and more
impassioned prose of his " Last Days of Pompeii," and
" Rienzi." We should regret his relinquishment of
the stage for the publishing-office, if, while we re-
membered the grace and tenderness of The Lady of
Lyons, we did not remember likewise the pathos of
"Night and Morning ;" the melancholy of " Maltra-
vers," and the charming discursiveness of the " Dis-
owned." We should scarcely feel compensated for
the loss of another play like Money, but that we
have not forgotten the wit of " Pelham," the solemn
energy of " Eugene Aram," and the less dismal vil-
lanies of "Paul Clifford." We could give to the flames
a million dramas: Like; the Sea Captain, instead of
one volume of such a work as " Zanoni"—the most
exquisite romance of modern times. Altogether,
therefore, we are rejoiced at the final decision of Sir
Bulwer Lytton, and we gladly receive the present
fiction as a guarantee of his sincerity. " Lucretia"
is a most loathsome and repulsive story—it is perhaps
the most loathsome and repulsive story we ever met
with; but it is inculcative of the holiest truth, it is
illustrative of the angelic whiteness of virtue, it is
dictated by a love of the purest morality and the most
genial benevolence. We are not among those who
conceive that the portrayal of vice and infamy are
wholly prejudicial, and who regard the most straight-
laced heroes and heroines, Lord Orvilles and Clarissa
Harlowes, as the only fit subject for our contempla-
tion. We cannot induce ourselves to think that
virtue requires to be puffed like a quack pill or a
charlatanical ointment. It is, if we remember rightly,
Mr. Dickens who, in his preface to the third edition
of " Oliver Twist," impugns these cavillers against
the representation of criminals as hypocrites and Phari-
sees. Why—not to speak it irreverently—if the mention
of sin and depravity were to be regarded as reprehen-
sible, the holiest book would be discarded! If the
narration of enormities were to render a work exe-
.crable., all history, ancient and modern, would be
comprised in the " expurgatory index." If the fail-
ings and atrccities of mankind were never to be de-
picted, our views of life would be partial and one-
sided, we should be liable to endless disappointment,
there would be no salutary warnings against tempta-
tion. It can never be repeated too frequently that
the danger of such productions exists—in the manner
not in the matter, in the deductions not in the data,
in the clothing of the vice, not in the vice itself. As
Sir Edward has beautifully said, paraphrasing a
couplet of Fletcher's, "Every human act, good or ill,
is an angel to guide or to warn ; and the deeds of the
worst have messages from heaven to the listening hearts
of the best." It is because they have clothed sin with
an aspect of fascination, and painted ruffianism as
heroical, that the French novelists have perverted
their high capacity, and rendered their writings more
dangerous than panders and procuresses. It is the levity
of Charles Paul de Kock which invests his brilliant and
inventive genius with an air so peculiarly pernicious. It
is because profligacy is rouged and padded with such
consummate art by George Sand, that its cadaverous
and distorted hideousness is forgotten by her readers.
No more striking example of the extent to which this
Nile deception may be carried can be adduced than
the vicious but eloquent description of the death of
Adrien Cardoville and Prince Djalma in the " Juif
Errant." In that scene Eugene Sue has exalted sin
into a shape of infinite and seductive beauty ; just as
St. Jerome is said to have been tempted by demons
in the form of beautiful women. While, however, we
maintain that it is well for us to contemplate ourselves
as surrounded, not only by goodness and virtue, but
also by evil and crime, we cannot hut acknowledge
that there are deeds of such enormous and almost in-
conceivable atrocity, that the mere possibility of their
perpetration should never be even hinted at. Such a
deed is the incestuous act mentioned towards the
conclusion of " Tom Jones," and the utter-
ance of which is a lasting disgrace to the
immortal memory of Fielding. Upon the
verge of such another enormity did the imagination
of Sir Edward B. Lytton hover when, to the best of
our recollection, he hinted at a similar occurrence in
" Alice." By avoiding such pitfalls, and by faith-
fully depicting society as variously composed of saints
and criminals through all the intermediate gradations,
the novelist may best fulfil his mission ; he may then
hope to add his own adornments to that light litera-
ture which our eminent author has apostrophised in
this work as—" that grace and flower of httman cul-
ture, that best philosophy of all, humanising us with
gentle art, making us wise through the
humorus, elevated through the passions, ten-
der in the affections of our kind !" (Vol. ii. 29.) By
acting thus, morever, they are merely transcribing
faithfully from the book of Nature, for be that ex-
quisite saying never forgotten (vol. iii. 284), " Evil
is the shadow of good !" In " Lucretia" the author
has endeavoured to exemplify the infamy of crime,
the divine excellence of virtue, and the folly of what
he has designated " the principal vice" of our own
generation—impatience. " I hold," he says, " that
the greatest friend to man is labour ; that
knowledge -without toil, if possible, were
worthless ; that toil in pursuit of knowledge
is the best knowledge we can attain ; that the con-
tinuous effort for fame is nobler than fame itself;
that it is not wealth suddenly acquired which is de-
serving of homage, but the virtues which a. man
exercises in the slow pursuit of wealth—the abilities
so called forth, the self-denials so imposed : in a
word, that Labour and Patience are the true school-
masters on earth." There is a profound wisdom in
those saitences, and it is well that in this ambitious
age there is one mind adventurous enough to avouch
those unwelcome truths. The necessity which really
exists for toil and patience is most forcibly evidenced
in this fiction, but it is evidenced through materials
more repulsive and more monstrous than the most
morbid imagination could well conceive. Mrs. Rad-
cliff never delineated characters so extravagantly vil-
lainous, M( nk Lew is never described deeds of a more
odious darkness, than the characters and deeds which
are contained in "Lucretia." We should have dis-

THE

spectacle. The wife of Sawney Bean was not a
' more diabolical being. And yet, after the catastrophe
of the tale, when she is confined in a mad-house as
an incurable maniac, Sir Edward Bulwer asserts that
he has seen Lucretia in that horrible captivity, " a
grisly, squalid, ferocious mockery of a human being;
more appalling and more fallen, than Dante ever
fabled in his Spectres, than Swift ever scoffed in his
Ya-hoos !" He declares, moreover, that his novel is
compiled from the biographies of two criminals of
recent times. One of these criminals, Gabriel Varney
(a character having rather an affinity for the Richard
Varley of Scott, than for the Gabriel Vardon of
Dickens), is as astute and almost as plausible
a villain as the notorious Quaker-murderer
Tawell. The other criminal, the chief one
indeed, Lucretia Clavering, is nothing less
than a Madame Laffarge on wholesale. The destruc-
tion of life to her is a pastime ; cruelty is her only
source of pleasure:; she wanders about the staircases
at midnight clothed in black, creeping into chambers,
infusing poison into the medicinal draughts of the
sleepers, and rendering the young, the innocent, the
beautiful equally her victims. She marries Dalibard,
and Dalibard is assassinated at her instigation. She
marries Braddell, and Braddell is poisoned by her
hands. She calculates with a hideous glee upon the
death of her uncle. She murders her son and her
neice. Her crimes are the most systematic, the most
incessant, the most unsparing. Beyond all this, she
kills, and beggars, and satisfies her thirst for blood,
for money, and for revenge with the secresy of coward-
ice; but then, as the writer observes, "treachery and
murder hatch their brood amidst the folds of a hypo-
crite's cowardice." Here is the picture of Lucretia,
painted with infinite art.
" Lucretia Clavering was tall—tall beyond what is
admitted to be tall in woman; but in her height there
was nothing either awkward or masculine—a figure
more perfect never served for model to a sculptor. The
dress at that day, unbecoming as we now deem it, was
not to her—at least, on the whole—disadvantageous.
The short waist gave greater sweep to her majestic
length of limb, while the classic thinness of the drapery
betrayed the exact proportion and the exquisite contour.
The arms theft were worn bare almost to the shoulder,
and Lucretia's arms were not snore faultless in shape
than dazzling in their snowy colour—the stately neck,
the falling shoulders, the firm, slight, yet rounded bust
—all would have charmed equally the artist and the sen-
sualist. Fortunately, the sole defect of her form was not
apparent at a distance: that defect was in the hand; it
had not the usual faults of female youthfulness—the
superfluity of flesh, the too rosy healthfulness of colour;
on the contrary, it was small and thin, but it was, never-
theless, more the hand of a man than a woman; the
shape had a man's nervous distinctness, the veins swelled
like sinews, the joints of the fingers were marked and
prominent. In that hand, it almost seemed as if the
iron force of the character betrayed itself. But as we
have said, this slight defect which few, if seen, would
hypercritically notice, could not of course be perceptible
as she moved slowly up the room; and Vernon's eye,
glancing over the noble figure rested upon the face.
Was it handsome?—was it repelling? Strange that in
feature it had pretensions to the highest order of beauty,
and yet, even that experienced connoisseur in female
charms was almost puzzled what sentence to pronounce.
The hair, as was the fashion of the day, clustered in
profuse curls over the forehead, but could not conceal a
slight fine or wrinkle between the brows; and this line,
rare in women at any age, rare even in men at her's, gave
an expression at once of thought and:sternness to the whole
face. The eyebrows themselves were straight, and not
strongly marked,—a shade or two perhaps too light, a
fault still more apparent- in the lashes; the eyes were
large, full, and, though bright, astonishngly calm and
deep, at least in ordinary moments; yet withal, they
wanted the charm of that steadfast and open look, which
goes at once to the heart, and invites its trust; their ex-
pression was rather vague and abstracted. She usually
looked aslant while she spoke, and this, which with
some appears but shyness, in one so self-collected, had
an air of falsehood. But when, at times, if earnest, and
bent rather on examining those she addressed than
on guarding herself from penetration, she fixed those
eyes upon you with sudden and direct scrutiny, the gaze
impressed you powerfully, and haunted you with a
strange spell. The eye itself was of a peculiar and dis-
pleasing colour—not blue, nor grey, nor black, nor hazel,
but rather of that cat-like green, which is drowsy in the
light, and vivid in the shade. The profile was purely
Greek, and so seen, Lucretia's beauty seemed incontes-
table; but in front face, and still more when inclined be-
tween the two, all the features took a sharpness, that,
however regular, had something chilling and severe; the
mouth was small, but the lips were thin and pale, and
had an expression of effort and contraction, which added
to the distrust which her sidelong glance was calculated
to inspire. The teeth were dazzlingly white, but sharp
and thin, and the eye-teeth were much lor,ger than the
rest. The complexion was pale, but without much deli-
cacy; the paleness seemed not natural to it, but rather
that hue which study and late vigils give to men; so
that she wanted the freshness and the bloom of youth,and
looked older than she was—an effect confirmed by an
absence of roundness in the cheek, not noticeable in the
profile, but rendering the front face somewhat harsh as
well as sharp. In a word, the face and figure were not
in harmony; the figure prevented you from pronouncing
her to be masculine—the face took from the figure the
charm of feminacy. It wti.= the head of the young
Augustus upon the form of Agrippina. One touch more,
end we close a description, which already perhaps the
testier may consider frivolously minute. If you had
placed before the mouth and lowerpart of the face a mask
or bandage, the whole character of the upper face would
have changed at once; the eye lost its glittering false-
ness, the brow its sinister contraction; you would at
once have pronounced the face not only beautiful, but
sweet and womanly. Take that bandage suddenly away,
and the change wculd have startled you, and startled
you the more, because you could detect no sufficient de-
fect or disproportion in the lower part of the counte-
nance to explain it. It was as if the mouth was the key
to the whole: the key nothing without the text, the text
uncomprehended without the key."
It is absolutely impossible to conceive the abhor-
rence excited by the villanies of this monster without
reading the novel from the title-page to the printer's
name. To afford some feeble conception of
the astonishing vigour with which her demo-
niacal nature is delineated by Sir Edward Bulwer,
we transcribe a single sentence, which condenses, as
it were, a world of infamy, of despair, and of woe.
" If," says he, " amidst the punishments with which
the sombre imagination of poets has diversified the
Realm of the tortured Shadows it had depicted some
soul condemned to look evermore down into an
abyss—all change to its gaze forbidden—chasm upon
chasm, yawning deeper and deeper, darker and
darker, endless and infinite—so that, eternally gazing,
the soul became, as it were, a part of the abyss,
such an image would symbol forth the state
of Lucretia's mind." One gleam of redemption,
however, was left her, one means of re-
clamation to humanity—the love of William
Alain waring. This solitary gleam is extin-
guished, this single means is debarred her, and then—
" lone again in the universe rose the eternal I." Not
eves the potent influence of ancestry could redeem
her from the sins of degradation ; and the author
beautifully says that our fathers " are made by death
our household gods," and that " pride of family is the
guardian angel of its heirs." Besides her own innate
tendency to evil, Lucretia is fostered into an infidel
and a murderer by Olivier Dalibard, to whom
" goad or evil ss ere but subordinate genii, at
the command of mind; they were the slaves
of the lamp." This Dalibard—quite a Caesar
Borgia at heart—is most powerfully conceived. He
reminds us of Arbaces in the " Last Days of Pom-
peii," but is, if possible, more of the fiend and less
of the voluptuary. Gabriel Varney, again, has a cer-
tain resemblence to Lumley Ferrers in " Maltravers"
and " Alice," a seeker of bodily enjoyment at all
hazard. The difference existing between these three
wretched and depraved mortals is given in a few
words where the romancist is speaking of their pur-
suit of wealth through bloodshed. "To Gabriel's
sensual vision," he says, " the image presented itself
in the shape of unlimited pleasure and prodigal
riot; to Lucretia it wore the solemn majesty of
power ; to Dalibard it was but the Eureka of a cal-
culation—the palpable reward of wile, and scheme,
and dexterous combinations." Among the other and
gentler characters of the book the most original, and,
indeed, the most admirable, is Beck, the crossing-
sweeper. After telling us that " all education was
unknown to Beck, so was all love," and that the
poor sweeper's character was "as austere as Charles
the Twelfth's," the writer exclaims—" Through the
heavy clod which man's care had not moulded, nor books
enlightened,
fnorrumthethe greatpriest's
parentsolemn u
lore informed,
of Deity still
struggled, fitful and dim." In Beck as here delineated
poetry has been extracted from the ragged outcast
guarding with his broom " an isthmus of the kennel."
Sir Miles St. John is the very prototype of what an
old English gentleman should be—generous, benevo-
lent, kindly, hearty, refined, and thoroughly 'domestic.
Charles Vernon (with his "adorable impertinence ")
is a noble character, and this would scarcely be antici-
pated from the first description of him, to the effect
that " his whole dress and air was not what could
properly be called foppish—it was rather what at that
time was called rakish." Walter Ardworth com-

carded the hook as a detestable caricature of humanity pletely divulges his disposition where he chuckles
but that Sir Edward solemnly assures us in the over a verdant landscape; "in this green banquet of
preface that the crimes therein related " took place nature," he exclaims, "no man sits below the salt-
within the last seventeen years." So vast is the cellar : the birds are an older family than the St.
infamy of the chief personages in the story that we John's, but they don't throw their pedigree in our
conclude its perusal with a shudder for our species. teeth." John Ard worth, on the contrary, is given to
In tracking the hideous careers of these Children of no such bucolic reflections ,• he is a splendid model of
Night we are baffled at the total and unredeemed what may be gained by toil and patience. Although
of their natures ;we cannot discern, as his narrator remarks that Ardworth " did
tmheoinrs:e historian
vanishedstorian himself remarks where " the i not flirt with the muses, and that on the
phenomena into the mortal, , ortal, and the granite of his mind few flowers could
that seemed aberrations from nature . spring," still he was endowed with reverie and
were explained:* If the circumstances, which sympathy, " the two wings of that spirit which we
are narrated in this romance be founded uon realityauthor's . nag genius." His whole life is modelled upon a doe-
actually the case we can p
wgarantee that such is trine which he himself utters :—°' What men want is,
--
mark which he has elsewhere utter that re- not talent, it is purpose ; in other words, not the
never quits the world—it surrounds zd that "Tragedy power to aohieve, but the will to labour." And by
The heroine, herself, Lucretia Clavers "Frywhere. this doctrine he is sustained in publishing his first
a demon in the form of a woman thainnglinizitiill).re like , work, or in editing a daily newspaper, or in entering
heliturvsiuvia &Meth has the purityYof nagsl" ' Parliament as a representative. Percival St. John
ariAge
_scaxamegret a seraph, in comparison. al
' and Helen Mainwaring are, perhaps, the most exqui-
iuld not be a more develish 1 site characters Sir Edward Bulwer has ever imagined.
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compassed their hearts are animated with a solemn
and affecting holiness. " Lucretia," is adorned, in-
deed, with several charming contrasts of this descrip-
tion. For example, the first indication of depravity
in the heroine is preceded by this beautiful and fan-
tastic fancy :—" The lights were out, all save the
lights of heaven, and they came bright and still
through the casements. Moonbeam and Starbeam,
they seemed now to have the old house to themselves.
In came the rays, brighter, and longer, and bolder
—like fairies that march, rank upon rank, into their
kingdom of solitude. Down the oak stairs, from the
casements, blazoned with heraldry, moved the rays,
creepingly, fearfully. On the armour in the
hall clustered the rays boldly and brightly,
till the steel shone out like a mirror. In the
library, long and low, they just entered, stopped short
—it was no place for their play. In the drawing-
room, now deserted, they were more curious and ad-
venturous. Through the large window, still open,
they came in freely and archly, as if to spy what had
caused such disorder, the stiff chairs out of place,
the smooth floor despoiled of its carpet—that flower
dropped on the ground—that scarf forgotten on the
table—the rays lingered, upon them all. Up and
down, through the house, from the base to the roof,
roved the children of the air." They are followed by
the imagination of the writer to the chamber of Lu-
cretia—" Moon and starbeam, ye love what lovers
read by the lamp in the loneliness ;" to the chamber
of Varney—" Moon and starbeam, ye love the slum-
bers of the child ;" to the chamber of Dalibard—
" Moon and starbeam, ye love the midnight solitude of
the scholar." In a very different scene, namely, in
that incident where Tom Varney, the penniless artist,
is elated on being invested with " the novel grandeur
of the man sponged upon," Sir Edward has, unwit-
tingly, been guilty of a plagiarism. The exhibition
of cruelty, in trying to put out the eyes of a
canary with a red-hot tobacco-pipe, is plagiarised
from one of Hogarth's powerful, but terrible paintings
of the " Four Stages of Cruelty." As an expression
of the author's yearning for the advancement and
improvement of his fellow-men " Lucretia" must be
regarded as successful. It is a lesson to society, but
a very fearful one. It is fraught with evidences of
how the man can be degraded to the fiend, but it also
shows how he may be elevated to the angel. It is
commemorative of the gloom of sin, but it is likewise
inculcative of the effulgence of virtue. For that great
people, which he has expressively termed " the
shadow of an everlasting audience," Sir Edward Bul-
wer Lytton has written " Lucretia"—if read rightly,
it will not have been written in vain.

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STOCKHOLM, Nov. 27.—Yesterday at noon an ill-
dressed young man appeared at the Palace, and with
violent gesticulation, required Colonel Peyron, his
Majesty's Chamberlain on duty, to procure him audience
of the King. The Chamberlain declining to do so, he
threatened the Colonel with a pistol, which he drew
from his pocket, and soon afterwards aimed a secomd
pistol at Count Horn, Governor of the Palace, who had
hastened with some men from the guard-house to arrest
him. The pistol was discharged, happily without in
juring any one. From the examination of the prisoner,
which immediately took place in the police-office, it
appears that his name is Platen, and that he was quarter-
master in the regiment of Dalecarlia ; that he has been
for a year in the lunatic asylum of Danviken, from
which he was discharged as cured on the 20th of May,
1845, when he was sent back to his relations, and had
only been two days in Stockholm.
The two pistols were fully loaded with iron shot of
different sizes. The reports of the physicians who have
examined him state that he is completely insane ; and he
will, therefore, be sent again to the hospital at Danviken.
There is reason to believe that the intentions of this unfor-
tunate man were not so criminal as they at first appear.
In consequence of the danger which threatened the King
yesterday, the audience at the theatre called for the
national hymn, which was sung amidst the loudest ap-
plause. The Post och Inrihes Tidninger gave what has
been found the most authentic of the reports in circula-
tion. The so-called Colonel Van Platen, when he
required the captain of the guard to introduce him to
Colonel Peyron, was extremely dirty and ill-dressed,
that when he announced his desire to have an audience
of the King, the latter gave him an evasive answer, and
desired him to leave the palace, and to come another
day. lie then repeated his refusal; upon which the man
declined to state any particulars of what he desired of
the King, and immediately drew out a pistol, and held
it to the breast cf the Chamberlain, exclaiming, " An-
nounce me, or I will fire!" The Chamberlain turned aside
the muzzle, and got possession of the pistol, sent to the
guard• house and to the police-office, all which the assassin
observed, but remained still, with his hand in his pocket.
About an hour afterwards Count Von Horn, the Gover-
nor of the Palace, came from the guard-house, and
ordered his men to arrest Platen, who stood behind a
screen, and drew out a second pistol, and fired at the
Count, whose cheek and temples were grazed by the
shot, so that his hair was singed, and the bullet entered
the wall.

Will be performed Lavenu's new Opera, entitled LORETTA ;
A Tale of Seville. Don Carlos, Mr. Rafter ; Ferdinand, Mr.
King ; Philippo, Mr. Borrani ; Provost Marshal, Mr. Howell ; Don
Joanne., Mr. Weiss ; Loretta, Madame Anna Bishop ; Florinda,
Miss Poole Gaetana, Miss Rebecca Isaacs.
After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet, called
THE WAGS OF WAPPING (performed at the Academie Royale`
Paris, under the title of " Betty.") In which will appear Mdllcs.
Sophie Fuoce, Louise, Benart, .Madame Giubilei ; MM. Huguet,
Adrion, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, Scc.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING

Will be revived the Comedy of SECRETS WORTH KNOWING.
The characters will be supported by Messrs. Howe, Rogers. Stuart,
Lester, Buckstone, Tilbury, Farren; Urs. E. Yarnok', Miss Julia
Bennett, Mrs. Glover, &c.
After which, a new Farce, entitled STORY TELLING; or, Novel
Effects. Dr. Ilardenber, Mr. Farren; Raps, Mr. Buckstone ; Grab,
During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, "Pre
Mr. Rogers ; Rose, Mrs. Ilumby.
aux Clercs," " Clementinen" (Mazourka); " Camellion " (Galop) ;
the " Esterhazy" (Walzer); a New Overture; and a Fantasia by
Mr. F. Reed, " La Sonnambula."
To be followed by the Drama of SUZANNE. Mr. Brinsly
Bounceby, Mr. Webster; Simon Swallow, Mr. Buckstone ; Suzanne,
Madame Celeste.

To conclude with a New Operatic Drama, called THE YOUNG
PRETENDER. Captain O'Neal, Mr. Hudson ; Captain Cocker,
Mr. Buckstone ; Chevalier Charles Edward Stuart, Mr. Braid ; Mrs.
Craggie, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Armadale Miss P. Herten.
Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of
Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
THIS EVENING
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Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet
of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the
Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford.
Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor,
Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws.
After which the popular Musical Comedy, in two acts, of SWEET-
HEARTS AND WIVES. Characters by Messrs. Lambert, Selby,
Wright, Worrell, Cullenford; Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. Yates, Miss
Woolgar, and Miss Brooks.
To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS.
GAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs.
Cullenford, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss M. Taylor,
and Miss Ellen Chaplin.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts,
entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of
" Giselle." The principal characters personified by Miss Georgians
Smithson, Miss Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses
Marshall; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Honner,
l'eren, &c.

After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO
RAINBOWS. •

In the course of the Evening the Band will perform " The Perlen
Waltzes."

To conclude with Goldsmith's Comedy of SIIE STOOPS TO
CONQUER. Sir Charles Marlow, Mr.:Wynn ; Young Marlow, Mr.
Vluing; Hardcastle, Mr. Granby ; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Compton ;
Ilastings, Mr. Roxby ; Diggory, Mr. Cowell ; Miss llardcastle, Mrs.
Stirling; Miss Neville, Mrs. Hughes ; Mrs. Ilardcastle, Mrs. roabroke.

Platen was seized without much resistance, and taken
to the police-office, where during his examination he
spoke very boldly, threatened the officers, the French
Ministers, &e. On examination he was found to have a
large knife, a watch with a metal case, some printed
placards in bad Swedish, which were to prove that his
proper name was the Duke of Bourbon ; a bundle of
papers,.but not a penny in money. On being questioned,
he stated that it was his intention to demand the punish-
ment of those who in the year 1844 bad placed him in
the lunatic asylum at Danviken. Being asked why he
went armed, he said that a Duke of Bourbon never went
unarmed. In less than an hour he seemed to have for-
gotten everything that had passed in the forenoon. The
physicians declared him to be insane in the highest de-
gree. Yesterday afternoon he was again coaveyed to
the lunatic asylum. He is a young man, between twenty-
three and twenty-six years of age, and has suffered
mental aberration for many years, but without showing
any violence.

According to the Afton Blad, his name is A. G. G.
Von Platen, born 1822, son of Captain C. A. Von Platen,
and has served as quartermaster in the regiment of
Delecarlia.

GRATUITOUS MARRIAGES AT ST. JOHN'S
CLERKENWELL.—Yesterday morning, pursuant to a
notice, some week since issued by the Rev. Hugh
Hughes, the rector of St. John's, Clerkenwell, that mar-
riages would be celebrated by him gratuitously between
parties who were too poor to pay the marriage fees, the
Rev. Gentleman attended to perform the ceremony. In
the district Of St. John's, Clerkenwell, comprising a
population of above 9,000 inhabitants, the majority are
of the lowest class, numbers of whom cohabit together
without the performance of the marriage ceremony, in
extenuation of which they almost invariably plead that
they are too poor to pay the marriage fees. With a
view of remedying this moral evil, the rector published
notice that he mould twice a year, viz., on the first Mon-
day in December, and on the first Monday in May,
marry such parties free of charge, and that the clerk
should give notice of such banns without fee. Yesterday
morning only two couples availed themselves of the
benefit thus offered. The rector has further given notice
that the children of the parish will be christened and
registered twithout fee on Advent Sunday and Whit-
Sunday in each year.
SUICIDE OF A FEMALE IN THE PRESENCE OF HER
ClllLDREN.—Yesterday, Mr. William Carter held an
inquest at the Cannon, West Moulsey, on the body of
Mary Anne Watford, aged twenty-four, the wife of a
ballast gatherer. On the evening of Friday last, a
person in whose house the deceased lodged was asto-
nished at hearing screams of children proceeding from
the deceased's apartment. The children of the de-
ceased were found on the bed, and screaming most
violently, and theit mother was discovered hanging to
the bedpost. The deceased was cut down, and a mes
senger was sent to Hampton Court for medical assist
ance, but by the time the surgeon arrived life was found
to be extinct. It was proved that the deceased had been
for some time in a low and desponding state of mind,
arising from ill health. The jury returned a verdict,
" That the deceased destroyed her life whilst of unsound
mind."

SUICIDE IN THE STRAND UNION WORKHOUSE.—
Yesterday information was forwarded to the coroner's
office, of the death of Charles Fisher, aged 38, an inmate
of the Strand Union Workhouse, Cleveland street, St.
Pancras, who committed suicide under the following
circumstances :—The deceased (a baker) had been re-
siding with his brother, of the same business, in Mott.-
street, Seven Dials. In consequence of his exhibition
of mental derangement, it was resolved by his friends
that he should be placed under some restraint, lest he
should lay violent hands on himself. On Thursday week
he was removed to the above institution in a state of in-
sanity, where he was attended by Mr. Jones, the house-
surgeon. That gentleman not considering his case
sufficiently bad for immediate confinement, the deceased
was placed in the accident ward of the infirmary, on the
fourth floor. The unfortunate man continued until nine
the same evening giving vent to all kinds of incoherent
expressions, when he suddenly arose, and proceeded to
an adjoining closet, opened the window, and precipitated
himself therefrom. An alarm was immediately given,
and on being picked up he seemed comparatively unhurt;
but on a medical examination it was proved that he had
received severe internal injuries. He continued to linger
until Saturday evening last, when death put a period to
his sufferings.
THE STOCK OF THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
COMPANY.—We understand that the directors of the
above company, in consequence of the recent amalgama-
tion of the various companies in their interest, have re-
solved upon valuing the whole of their stock of locomo-
tive power, &c., and for this purpose have appointed Mr.
APConnell, locomotive engineer of the Bristol and Bir-
mingham Company, in conjunction with two other
gentlemen, to examine and value the engines, tools, &c.
The inspection and valuation of the stock will commence
to-day, at Crewe, where a towu has sprung up, since the
Grand Junction Company commenced the making of the
engines, carriages, &c., used upon their line. A few
months ago we gave a description of this important ma-
nufactory, its various departments, extensive works, &C.,
and if access can be had to the details of this vast
stock, we shall again revert to the subject. Anything
like a rough estimate of the stock would be little short of
conjecture.

bony or A. CHILD FOUND.—The dead body of a
new-born child, wrapped up in a handkerchief, was dis-
covered yesterday morning, shortly before eight o'clock,
by a boy within the enclosure surrounding the parish
church of St. Marylebone. It was conveyed by a
policeman to the workhouse, where it awaits the coro-
ner's inquest.

FRENCH PLAYS.— ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell.
THIS EVENING
TO-MORROW EVENING
Will be performed LE CODE DES FEMMES. Paul Fauvel, M.
Rhozevil ; Mignonet, M. Cartigny ; ltomain, M. Pagenier ; Louchon,
M. l'riston ; Emma, Madame Angele ; Femme de Chambre, ➢ldlle.
Leyden.
After which, Moliere's celebrated Comedy of LE BOURGEOIS
G ENTILHOM ME. M. Jourdain, M. Perlet ; Nicole, Mdlle. Brohan.
To conclude with LE MARI ET L'A MANT. Col. Saint Leger,
M. Langeval ; Ernest, M. Berou ; Frontin, M. Dumery ; M. Motes,
M. Tourtilh'n; Madame Saint Leger, Madame Adele Deluc ; Lisette,
Mdlie. Brohan.
Itoxes, Gs. ; Pit, 3s. Gd. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at
half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight.

DAVIDGE'fi ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge.
Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE
THIRD. Duke of Gloucester, Mr. J. R. Scott ; Earl of Richmond,
Mr. E. F. ; King Henry, Mr. Heslop ; Duke of Buckingham,
Mr. Fredericks ; Tressel, Mr. Johnson ; Queen, Miss Richardson ;
Lady Anne, Mrs. Saville.
After which a grand Military Ballet of Action, entitled LE REVE
DU SOLDAT. The characters supported by Mdlle. Theodore and
the Deulin Family.
To conclude with the New Drama, called PASSION'S SLAVE ;
The Outcast Son. Supported by the principal talent of the
'ompany.

AST LEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. IV. Batty.
Vafronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, nines
Alb rt, and Royal Family.
Notwithstanding the present concentration of novelties, and the ex-
pensive engagements entered into with the moat emineat British
and Foreign Artistes for the Christmas Holidays, Mr. BATTY has
purchased the whole of Mr. White's trained Lions, Tigers, Leo-
pards, &c. Likewise in preparation, a splendid Comic FAIRY
PANTOMIME, with other Gymnastic and Equestrian novelties.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en-
titled THE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the
Charmed Bit.
New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE.
To conclude with the grand Military Spectacle of THE BATTLE
OF WATERLOO. Napoleon, Mr. Gomersal.
Roe-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six
an I c,mmence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W.
itroadfoot.

ITESDAY EVENING, DECEMBF,'R 8, 1846

on the part of the people, and that there are nume-
rous excuses for the young and inexperienced QUEEN.
It is indisputable that the liberties of the community
have been shamefully trifled with, that the existing
Administration has been illegally forced upon the
nation, that the Government has evinced a
grievous subserviency to the pleasure of a foreign
Cabinet. It is equally indisputable that MARIA DA
GLORIA has been exposed to a variety of potent temp-
tations, which her youth, and the bankrupt condition
of the exchequer, only tended to render more power-
ful. The iwilAmonarch of France, whose faculties
of persuasion are becoming proverbial, has
exercised his abilities with the utmost assi-
duity in Lisbon as well as Madrid, through
DIETZ as well as BRESSON, upon Queen MARIA as
well as upon Queen ISABELLA. By his machinations
in Spain the friendship between England and France
has been dissevered ; by his machinations in Por-
tugal the peace of that unfortunate kingdom has been
destroyed. So much astuteness may be regarded as
a partial apology for the recent proceedings in
the palace at Lisbon. It has been insinuated that
the leaders of the insurrection have been actuated by
selfish and interested motives, and that their fi.llowers
have been coerced into their service. Both accusations
are preposterously foolish. The popular chieftains
have evinced in the most signal manner their inte-
grity and their forgetfulness of all personal advan-
tages. Men do not usually conceive it to be their
interest to act in such a manner that their properties
are confiscated, their titles forfeited, their lives most
imminently perilled. Selfishness forsooth ! It would
be the selfishness of zanies and mooncalves. As to
the forcible detention of entire regiments under their
banners, the notion is a monstrous absurdity. It is
certainly very probable that well-armed troops should
be compelled by a body of rude peasantry to fight
against the forces of the Sovereign ! Supposing such
were literally the case, then are the soldiers of Por-
tugal the veriest poltroons that ever burnished a
bayonet. PAROLLES would be a SALADIN to them.

There is undoubted testimony, therefore, before
us that the present insurrections in Portugal have
originated in the unconstitutional employment of the
sovereign authority. It cannot be denied that the
population has been driven to this outbreak by the in-
tolerable intrigues of the Court faction ; that if the
QUEEN is surrounded with difficulties and dangers
she owes them to herself; that the noblemen who
are styled the " rebel chieftans" have risen because they
concientiously believed some interference with the acts
of the unpopular Government to be necessary.
These facts cannot be concealed by garbled statements
or distorted by specious quibbles. As a specimen
of how repeatedly statements are garbled and quibbles
employed, we may allude to the dispatches from Lis-
bon which have just been paraded with so much
ostentation by some of our Contemporaries
—dispatches which are merely the exaggerated
revivals of news which was stale ten days
ago. The defeat of SA DA BANDEIRA
at Chaves, on the 16th November, and his subsequent
flight to Oporto, was fully commented upon in The
Sun of the 27th ultimo. Nsthing of particular
importance has subsequently transpired in that portion
of the Peninsula, saving the continued investment of
Conde DAS ANTAS in Santarem by the royal forces,
under SCHWALBACII and the hero of Almoster.
Matters cannot continue much longer in this state of
suspense. All differences may be definitively settled,
but the QUEEN must be true to herself, and the people
must be true to themselves.

It was with feelings of regret that during the
current year we have, more than once, felt ourselves
constrained to notice the conduct of the authorities of
Alma Mater. The disgraceful consequences inci-
dental to a " town and gown" row, by which life was
seriously endangered, and, subsequently, the extreme
moral delinquency of a clergyman of the Established
Church, as proved in another court of justice, neces-
sarily called forth some reflecting observations
upon the luckless system of education pursued at our
twin Universities. It is wonderful and lamentable to
reflect how slow are these clerical bodies—for such
they define themselves to be—voluntarily to under-
take any reformation, how great soever the enlight-
enment of the age might seem to warrant any altera-
tion in either their peculiar laws, or in their adminis-
tration of the same. Unless some striking event
should occur, by which public indignation is aroused,
-aril an obvious change for the better be loudly de-
manded, these comfortable patentees of the surplice
sleep on at their posts, reckless of the continuous
violence which, under their auspices, is offered to the
feelings of humanity and the cause of civilization.
And even when the eciczircissement is rendered,
to their prejudice, familiar to the public
mind, it is most unsatisfactory to witness
the dogged resistance, or, at any rate, the sullen
spirit in which they oppose themselves to any revi-
sion, which would mould their statutes in con-
formity with the acknowledged principles of the con-
stitution.

In our publication of yesterday we reported an
inquest which was held at Cambridge, on Friday last,
upon the body of a girl, ELIZABETH HOWE, of loose
habits. The facts are shortly these :—one night, last
month, between eight and nine o'clock, one of the
University proctors, the Rev. Mr. KINGSLEY, ac-
companied by two constables of his own, who, it
seems, are, appropriately enough, styled " bull-dogs,"
undertook, at the instigation of one or both of his
redoubtable companions, who informed him she was
a person of ill condition, to arrest the unfortunate
deceased, and to convey her to a black-hole of a
prison, called " the Spinning-house." She was con•
fined an entire night, in a miserable cell, with a
broken window, and without fire, a comfort for which
she, and another female prisoner, pleaded in vain with
the keeper. The victim here laid down on a damp
bed, " on the head of which there came a great
draught ;" she was discharged in the morning,
severely smitten with illness, after which Mr. NEWBY,
the surgeon, attended her and "found her unable to
move," from rheumatic fever, which speedily termi-
nated in death. The Rev. Mr. KINGSLEY admitted that
she was conducting herself with no impropriety when
he undertook to deprive her of her liberty ; in fact,
that she went so "quietly," that he recommended the
Vice-Chancellor to release her in the morning. Our
readers should know that the cells of the Spinning-
house are described by the Coroner as "pests and nui-
sances," and that in the view of the jury they are " unfit
for the worst of felons." Thus, in this arbitrary manner,
without warrant, but by virtue of a charter nearly
300 years old, which Mr. KINGSLEY conceded he
had never read, and which, for the honour
of the University, should have long ago become
obsolete—without any knowledge of his own—
but, acting upon the simple ipse dixit of one or both
of the bull-dogs (who might have had no more aecuh-
rate acquaintance with the party than . hadh have
e
clerical inspector himself; or, if they had,. lmtigd might
been actuated by malice, or merely stthimeiur
aey an
overwrought zeal for the discharge of functions),
that ELIZABETH HowE belonged to an unfortunate
class,—in this tyrannical manner, so repulsive to a
sense of justice, so at variance with the common law
of the land, was this wretched creature prematurely
hurried into eternity 1 Let us glance for a moment
at the reproachful mode in which Mr. EDWARD WIT,
SON and the Rev. Mr. KINGSLEY tendered their evi-
dence in this truly melancholy business. The former
alleged that the single square of glass in the
window was not broken the night deceased came in
It was extracted from the latter, through the exami-
nation of a juror, that the glass was broken the last
time he saw the cell. Perhaps the keeper wanted
anything in the shape of an excuse for having refused
the poor girls a fire during a cold November night.
If the pane was broken subsequently, some proof of it
might have been offered. The keeper believed there
was no fire on the 6th of November. Why, Emze
WRIGHT swore that they both asked him for one, when
he replied, he would not have a fire for two girls !
Again, WiLsom deposed that the cell was well pro-
tected from the weather. ELIZA WRIGHT de-
clared she laid down with her clothes on,
that the bed-clothes were very damp, that she
was not ill when taken to the Spinning-house, but,
when there was taken ill with a bad cold and pains
in her bones. The Rev. Mr. KINGSLEY, who was
properly compelled by the Coroner to answer a ques-
tion which he had at first refused to answer, said, the
Spinning-house appeared to him a proper place to con-
fine females ! He admitted afterwards that he did
not know how females are accommodated in gaols.
$o that, really, if we were to rest satisfied with the

evidence of the keeper, and the humane Mr. KINGS..
LEY, we should be drawn into the opinion that the
Spinning-house was a most comfortable, weather-
proof receptacle for prisoners ; and yet it is as clear
as noonday, and the jury so found it, that
ELIZABETH HOWE died of rheumatic fever, occasioned
by her incarceration in a cold and damp cell, unfit
for the worst of felons ! Bad enough, assuredly, for
the keeper, but is it not monstrous that a clergyman,
who had the use of his senses, and had actually
visited the cell, should bring himself to give such
mincing testimony as the above ? For what pur-
pose ? To blind the ends of justice, and perpetuate
an odious power, which has ended thus fatally,
Looking to the manner in which the Coroner ex-
torted a portion of his evidence, and jurors drew
out from him the remainder, we can easily
conceive that his Reverence's hands would be
ready enough, without the least provocation, to de-
prive a fellow- creature of the hallowed privilege of
liberty. The jury have, rightly enough, taken care
that the whole of the proceedings shall be forwarded
to the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
We feel, therefore, assured that the earliest means
will be adopted for preventing the public being
chagrined by a repetition of such horrible conduct.
There can be no doubt that this obnoxious power,
which has sunk ELIZABETH HowE into her grave,
will be promptly wrested from the hands of the
University. We shall close our remarks by giving
an extract from a letter of a civilian in Cambridge,
which has appeared in public, demonstrative of the
cruel consequences that flow from the exercise of a
privilege so obstructive of natural liberty ;
" A young lady of the highest respectability was
quitting a friend's house in the company of a male re-
lation; the latter returned, after passing the gate, in
search of a forgotten umbrella, leaving his fair compa-
nion for an instant unprotected; and, to his astonish-
ment, on hastening to rejoin her, found that she had
disappeared. The young lady, in spite of her appear-
ance and protestations, had actually been conveyed to
the Spinning-house by the loathsome satellites cf a
proctor, whom I hereby invite to publish his own name
if he dare, and to disprove the above statement if
he can.

" I have simply adduced the above instance to show
that a girl need not even he known to these gentlemen,
far less misconduct herself in their presence, to insure
an introduction to their pestilentis! establishment. The
merest accident may place a modest and virtuous young
woman in the immediate society of the most abandoned
of her sex."
This relation needs no comment.

The Austrian Observer, of the Ist of December,
announces, from authority, that no secret treaty on
the subject of Cracow has ever been entered into by
Russia, Austria, and Prussia.

We have received the Moniteur Grec of the 20th
of November.

On the 19th the Chambers were opened for the
third Parliamentary session, by the KING in person.
The speech from the Throne recommends the Legis-
lature to occupy itself seriously with the amelioration
of the financial system. The budget, it states, will
be immediately submitted to them, and henceforth
the Government will not be under the necessity of
asking for provisional credits. His MAJESTY states the
agriculture and the commerce of Greece to be in a
flourishing condition.
M. COLETTI had been dangerously ill from inflam-
ation of the kidneys, but was getting better. lip
to the 17th of November the state of his health
caused the greatest alarm.
Upwards of 40 vessels were wrecked in the Black
Sea during the late storm.
The Journal de Constantinople states that the cho-
lera broke out at Tabriz on the 11th of October, and
at Diarbakir on the 10th.

MONEY and and COMMERCIAL NEWS•
CITY, QUARTER TO VIREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was in an
exceedingly excited sti.te, and an immense business was
done at an advance of *d. to id. per lb. About 30,000
he
bales were sold, including 14,000 on speculation. The
sales included 1,500 l'( moms and Maranhani at speculation.
to Bd.,
1,600 Bahia at 7d. to 70., 500 Egyptian at 70. to 9d.,
4,000 Surat at 4d. to 5d., 40 Sea Island at Is.
2d. to
ls. 7d., and 22,000 American at sd. to 70. Per lb.
Shares had been again rather dull.
Much disappointment has been felt in the City at the
non-arrival of the 'Pest India Mail steam-ship, now
over-due. That she has been impeded by boisterous
weather does not admit of a doubt, as there are
raltal
other vessels from other quarters after date.
The intelligence received from Lisbon by exrress this
morning of the signal defeat of the insurgents V Von,
Queen's troops, has given much satisfaction to those elat
netted in this community or provinciall, With tie,
country. With a tranquil administration of but a ~
years, there is not a doubt but this fine country ivotw,
be brought round to a state of sound prosperity. ~ I,
By the paragraph which is at the head a this o.aler.
article it will be seen that the sales of Cotton at 1•::T000
pool yesterday amounted to 30,000 bales, of which I 'tog
were for speculation. It is very much deploed, !On.
_e
mercantile members: connected with exportatodlinv;
manufactured fabrics, that the rage for " time" b,shre in-
in the staple ..hould be so greatly carried on, as " t the
evitable result must be to raise prices, and preSited
completion of the orders lately received from thr .. A,
States for goods, at the limits given in the
men of
positive necessity will therefore arise fur the iver''llr be
short hours, and the loss to masters and men Wi
gr, at indeed.
A considerable amount of business has been translda
in the English Stock Market to-day. Prices teslabsei; for
to be firm. Consols have been done at 95i An" -.whoa;
money at 95-1 i ; Exchequer- bills at 7s. to 10s. Pr' Dolt
and India Bonds under 1,000/. at 21$. preEnillal„4,, NO
Stock has fluctuated from 206 k to 2071. ,""
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. command 961. .00 gl
The intelligence received from Lisboa 110 given
degree of animation to the market d fro
tuguese Four per Cents., which have iroProle, The
39i to 40e for the Account, and to 391 for Dinflei.st 371
aSnpdan3i7sli
;Three per Cents. have been done oil. le
Mexican, at 22i I; and Brazilian, at 86 woe
the other Foreign Stocks there has not been all
transacted this morning. d Serir ben
The market for the Railwa Shares an uotig/
y been rather firm, but without any considerable q
of business being in progress. nci3OCt•
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONIi •• "-
(From the Official List.) vi 206%
Bank Stock 20614 20 744
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. • 9,111
3 per Cent. Consols Anne ... . ... 91
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 •••• 9/14
New 314 per Cont. Anuities ... 9,,,„ )5-16
Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 r-;§ 0
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, MO..- io '-
India Bonds 1,001 .. . ;
Ditto under 1.000/ .....
" .......... .. 2- P
South Sea Stock ............................ -"'44
Ditto New Annuities ................... 9 ---%
Consols for Account ...................... 95
Exchequer Bills. .... **
....
14 `", A - Plll4
1,0001.
500/. ... lO 7 12 --,
110.
..... -
Ditto Small ......................
I-RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT 00 °C
Brazilian
Ditto NeBw
Bonds, 1829 and 1839 82
u
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent.
h''
Ditto for the Account •'"•3s/ II
Portuguese 4 per Cents " ..• 4v ,91 40A9%
Ditto for the Account ............
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840... "7„ qh
Ditto 3 per Cent... .................. 07$,
Ditto for the Account ..... ......... ,30 0.6,00
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SIIARES A' -11
res SitAltse* ,-
RAILWAYS. PAID.
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c 2% 275• '" to '
BelArmagh,Belfast
and
e Coleraine,
c u n&DoPiovrntru.s.ll
41t. ..
...... ....... :::
............
ttoo
.....'"
Birmingham and Dudley - ..... W""
Birmingham irmingham and Gloucester 100 ..... "*"" ....s. t° .....
Do. New (ins. at 71 din.). IVA ...... ---c ' ..... to
Birmingham
Birkenhead, LScaOnileasohrdireJunen.d 2 ...... 8/. .....
, to
BoCsthoens,hsirteaJmufn,catioßnirm;nza
...„-eL ........... to t° 5-7 A
Bristol and Exeter -** 7l 225. ....... 7. /. ...... to .1
Bristol 8 ...... to
NanedwGloucest.e.r... ..
..
...
540 .......... .---
......... I:
...1.-
Bristol and Liverpool June...
82452:A.
...............
r___--„,
...........
....,
Buckinghamshire to
Shares
CCaaDmieidbtotronia'itallinaanlfd
Chester and Holy
Churnet and Blythe.. ...... .. 2
Holyhead... 27
4222701/2%............... -• ...... .. ttt:e ---
CChheelstteenrhaanind ...... --- '''. ,to
and Oxford Oxford
;Manchester 42s. ...... ..."" "... .to •"'"
2 ...... --- ...... to
Clydesdale Junction 2O ...... '' ..... to
Cork, Blackrock, & Passages 225. --- "'" .. to ---
Cork and Killarney - ...... to "..
Cork and Waterford ll/2•••••• . . to '
Cornwall
Cornwall Ditto
.Halfnd CentralSh ar e I - ...... to '''.
Direct Lincoln, East Retford,pevon 22%4 ............
-----
.....
. to.
and Sheffield Junction 254 ..— ..... 0,.
~ to
9% ..,

Direct Northern .... 21A•••••• •—***** ,tO ''''
Direct Norwich 1
Dublin and Bell'..st Junction.. 12% ...... t ....
Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2% to✓
üblin and Galway ...... ...... 4 „,,„ —
... to
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10 ... to ✓
*".
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s
Do. New l2/. 16e 272%th
14.. . .
P. 1:0
~..„..
Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 138.4 d — ... •• ,*; --•
Do., do. N 0.2, 61. 138. 4d IA p...; ✓
...
Do., York Extension ...... 2
. t•
East Dereham and Norwich 1
Eastern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares - ...... to --
Do. Extension to Harwich 1% -- ...... to '....
Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2% - .... to
East Lancashire - ." to '....
Ditto, New 5 ...... --- ....... to •'"
Do. (late Preston & Omsk ) 5 ••• •• --- ;I.; .. ,to '...•
East Lincolnshire ... 14...... 2A; ... :: .to '''_
East and West of England... 1% ...... --•
. to ...."
Edinburgh and Glasgow
.....!
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 1120%
....... ..
.. O.?,
..
..
...
....
tote
......„
' to
Edinburgh and Northern - ......• ...- '
Edinburgh and Perth
...... -- ,
...... o _
Ely and Huntingdon ... 12% ...... 13%...... to 7.....
Enniskillen and Sligo ...... -
••"" to
Exeter Yeovil, & Dorchester 54 ...... _ ...... to •••••
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ••••" ,- ••••*. to
Ditto, New New
......
~..
G IDo
uoc. to
Grand
oroaofnl ed,. •-• 'A.. to --"
1% ...
...... ....
tom
ans(tNere,Stth.eaffiLd.y,
nicnc). 42;?,4 ............ --..... •.::... too
Wales'll•DuAoSnbnhiecoraYr es
st
w( 54 phe, ra cntd. gun.)cen 12 % ... .
Great Eastern and Western 2ht ..... ...• "*".. to
GGG
Great
aaStto South.
tt
Eessnct
o.:l(lalarnneddl an d ) 27'1/2 ...
Great Grimsby and Sheffield 10, , ...... -- ..... to •'"
-- ...... to „,•
Great Munster - ...... to 2`"
ha: ool:
Ditto, New •
....
5 ...... .
...
......
•-• • to
Ditto, New ...... 15_ ''' .. ...... •• ''. to '''.
Ditto, New 1 1/4"u ••••"334 ...... to ••••
100 •••••• ...... to .....,
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares 5O ...... ,au ...... to ...,,
Ditto, Quarter Shares
......"'' ...... tc) ......
Ditto, Fifths 2O ...... 74.. ••• to •-•,..0
Do. New ........ ......
Huddersfield and Manchester 13 •••••• 4% ..... 0 ••-'
Dittc, Extension
~,,
... .• ,„ /
H rull and Selby 5O ...... lifi ••• " ••• to
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ......
..... •••••• to "'
Ditto, Half Shares
..-
Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 11% ...... 3 ...... to •••••
Do. do. and Norwich
Lancaster and Carlisle 5O ......
....."-- ...... to •••••
Do. New 5 ..... to '.
Leeds and Bradford 3O ..... --- ...... ...,
..... . to
Leeds and Carlisle
..., ...... to -•"'
Leicester and Birmingham 225. ......
......
.., .. /
Leicester and Bedford
33
...... to ••••
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchus 22% ...... oh.. ••• to ..,' iL
Ditto, Branch (Blue)
_- .. to
Ditto, Extension (Green) 2%...••. ,
~ " nva ...... to ••••
Leeds and Thirsk
Ditto, New
Liverpool, Manchester, and 2% ... to
Newcastle Junction ......... . 2% ...... ......
.••••. _ .0.
Liverpool and Bury ......... .. 24 ............ r_ ~..
London iti; Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d.•••••• ••••
...... , „.•
Do. New . ......... 3 ......
.......
..... two ~..
Do. Extension ...... 7lh ....... 583 1/4''' to '
Load., Bright., & South Coast 50 . .......... .....0
Do. Fifths 4O ...... --'
...... r....„
--
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 - •••• ...... to ....
London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d••• ......-7
...... , ....-
Ditto Preference ...... ...18/ 17s 2d..•
...... „,... 'to .....
London,Hounslow.&Westorn 2 • •••• •...... •to ••••
London and North Western 100 •••••• ...... . ~..
Do. Quarter Shares .........2
......
1,3
...... :" „ ....
Do. do. New ................2 ......
..... ...... to ....
Do. do. Fifths
Do. Quarters
.--
Do. 40/. Shares L. &M. 8 ......
741 .. ,*".. to ''..
Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 •••••• 12; A**• to ***.
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 • •••• ,2 h ...... .0 ....
Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (13.) 5 ...... ^ ''.....• ;„ ••••
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (C.) 1 ......
~-,_ xi, r: -
London and S. Western.... 411.6 s 10
...."23::-. ... 5,"_
Do. New consolidated Bthe.. 40 ......
......
...... ro „.
Ditto New
__ ...... _ ....
Do. New ..... .. .. 18 ...... si, 1i... to
.....
Ditto Tenths 5 .....• •-•24 ..... tO .....
Ditto Tenths 4 ...... ~, 5/...
to „...
Ditto Scrip 5 ...... 070
... ....
Ditto ditto ...
4 ..... "-- .8° ...
London and Y0rk......." ...••• 2% ......
......--
........... to
2%.
...„
Ditto Extension
.... ...... ti'uo ••••
London and Windsor ......
to
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2%•••••• ......-- ........ -
Londonderry and Coleraine l5 ......
.......
...... _
Londonderry and Enniskillen 15 ....... 1810". tow '''
Lynn and Ely
...... •• •• •
.. 0 "...
Lynn and Dereham
......
..... _
....
Manchester and Lee&
._
.„.
Ditto Half Shares .....
tow ..„
Ditto Quarters
5 .....
Ditto Fifths
__ ....... to ..,
Ditto Sixteenths .......•
_6_:e. • 11/4 P" to ''.
Do. Extension
4S. ............ 28S • ... to
''''
Do. Liverpool and Bury••• 2,
...... -- ...... ~„ ...-
Do., do., Fifths ....
...'
to
Manchester,Birmingham, and
...... __ ....... to „...,14
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 423. .....
MouldJunction -
2 ...... --- ,',.6. ..
to 1%1 7,
Manchester and Southampton 127 128 A- to •"".
.... ' ~...
Ditto Fifths
24 ..... 6, / •••••
Midland loo_
......
......
......
..
.......
Ditto, New . ............... 2 ...... 72
.. to
Ditto, New ........... .. ..... _
__
.....104 ....•. to ...•
Midland, Birm., and Derby.. lou
0% ... -- "*" tO ''''..t
Midland and Eastern Cotuaties
_••• .... ..... ... ;.. 347,
20 ......
.....
....
Newcastle and Berwick
_5
.....
--•. to
....,
Alidld. Great Western(lrish) ID ... 34 3371 to ....
Do North Shields•••••• ,;() „„..113,, .... 0
Newcastle and Carlisle ... , ' 5 ...... svs ........... to
....Newmarket and Chesterfora
_. ,
......
___ ......
to
Newport and Abergavenny. • ri
......
...„
Newry and Enniakillen ...•••