The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MON'DAT MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, IM4,

nutted members of the University of Oxford—men
paid by the Protestant establishment—to denounce
the Reformation as a great crime, and to advocate
all the most obnoxious doctrines of a religion
which he professes to abhor. These meek church-
men are the most dangerous characters in a com-
munity. While they pretend to be passive, they
are secretly encouraging egregious encroachments on
religion !sea liberty, and always find tools to carry
their baneful purposes into effect. To the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY, with all his meekness, we
attribute the entire blame of this lamentable divi-
sion in the Protestant Church. Of what use are
archbishops and bishops, if not to keep their clergy
in order ? Yet the Church is divided against
itself, and these superintendents, whenever
they interfere, only add fuel to the flame.
The only safeguard of Protestantism rests
with the people themselves. The Church is
bent on a march to Rome. The Puritans who
opposed LAUD, justly sacrificed on the scaffold, have
been scoffed at by all churchmen, but they manfully
opposed the encroachment of the clergy, and to them
the people of this country owe the glorious consti-
tution which they now enjoy. They denounced such
men as PLISEY, and BLOMFIELD, and PHILPOT, and
HowLEy, and it remains for the laity of England
to imitate their example, and resist all perjured
churchmen who receive pay as Protestants, yet are
doing everything in their power to undermine the
Establishment, and bring the people back to the most
insufferable state of slavery.

in accordance with the plans prepared in Greece. Con-
siderable sums have been sent to the frontier provinces,
and as much as several hundred thousand drachmas have
been spoken of. In Epirus and Thessaly a considerable
sum of money has been collected. The reluction of the
Greek army favours this project, for many brave officers
have been thrown on their own resources, and they turn
their eyes to the frontiers of Turkey.'
‘• The Augsburg Gazette states that the Porte, after
having promised M. de Bourqueney to have the Domi-
nican convent at blossul re-established, has sent word to
Sheriff Pacha to have the house rebuilt, such as it was,
that is, a storey and a half high, but to go no further.
The Porte has also formally forbidden the Rajas to pur-
chase the land round the Catholic churches whether at
Mosaul or in other places, in order to giveit afterwards to
the churches, as that would place it under the protection
of France. Such a measure,' remarks the above jour-
nal, is evidently hostile to the interests of Catholicism
in the East as well as to France. Mde Bourqueney took
his departure without having settled this difficulty.' "

THE BOURSE--Tuußsnay, Nov. 21.

First Highest Lowest

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Centa•• •• 119 50 .. 119 55 .. 119 45 119 55
Three per Cents..•.. 82 90 .. 83 10 .. 82 90 .. 83 10
Bank of France
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. BharesloBo ..1085 ..1080 ..1085
5,0001. Shareeso2s —BO3O ..5022 50 ..5030
Belgian Bank .. • • • • • • • • •• • • 625 .. 625 .. 615 .. 615

Belgian Fives 1831.

1840 ........ 1031 .. 1031 .. 1021 .. 1031
1842 ...... 1061 .. 1061 .. 1061 .. 1061
Two-and-a-Half.... 61 65 .. 61 65 .. 81 65 .. 61 65
Spanish Passive: . .. 6 .. 6 .. 6 .. 6

Portuguese Fire, per Cents— an

.. 54

.. 53j

.. i 4

Neapaitan•••:.:.....• • .. 97 90 .. 98 15 .. 97 90 .. 98 15
Bosun .... 105 .. 105 .. 105 .. 105

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain ....... ..... .. 930 .. 930

.. 930

.. 930

Venalilea, R. 8..• ..... ..... 427 50 .. 430
L. 8.•• •• —.. .. 302 50 .. 210
R0n0n..........
Rouen to Havre•••• 7BO .. 780

.. 427 50 .. 430
.. 302 50 .. 308 75
.. 996 25 .. 998 75
.. 780 .. 780

Orleans -lOW 75 ..1025 ..1018 78 —1025
Strasburg to 8a1e••....•... 276 25 .. 276 25 .. 276 25 . 276 25
Avignon to Marseilles...... 875 .. 875 . 872 10 .. 872 50
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, DEC. 3.
St. Germain ••• • • • 930 .. 930 .. 930

Another great meeting of the Anti-Corn-law

League took place on Wednesday night, in the New
Hall, at Rochdale. The organs of monopoly must
be grievously perplexed by this additional proof of
the vitality of the League, for according to their
accounts it was in a state of fearful decrepitude full
three months since, and there was not the slightest
probability of its ever again disturbing the slumber
of the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, or giving occasion for
any further manifestations of eloquence on the part of
Mr. BANKES, whose description of his Dorsetshire
Arcadia caused, it may be remembered, a very
considerable sensation in the House of Commons last
session, if not by its matter-of-fact accuracy, at any
rate by the brilliant inventive genius by which it
was characterised. The Post, the Standard, and the
Herald, having already pronounced the Anti-Corn-
law League to be all but in articulo mortis, and
Messrs. COBDEN and Buiairr engaged in busy pre-
parations for officiating as chief mourners at its
funeral, it must be a great act of presumption in this
contumacious Confederacy now to come publicly for-
ward and declare, that so far from being in ill-health,
it never was in a more thriving condition in its life,
and as for dying, it never had the slightest intention
of giving up the ghost ! We remember a remark-

.. 930

Versailles, R. 8...
iL.I3
Rouen....

Rouen to Havre•• .. •• •• .. .• 777 50 •. 778 75 .. 777 50 .. 778 75
Orleans ......... •• .. —.1017 50 •.1027 50 ..1017 50 ..1027 50
Strasburg to 8a1e••........ 276 25 .. 277 50 .. 276 25 .. 277 58
Avignon to Marseilles•• • • •.:872 50 .• 876 25 .. 870 .. 873 75

AMERICAN EVE'S.

ably robust and vigorous gentleman, with a
face like a full-moon, and a chest like that
of Hercules in the Elgin marbles, and who
never in his life knew what it was to have
a headache, modestly observing in reply to some
common-place interogatory of a friend, that, thank
Gon, he enjoyed excellent health, though he looked

delicate; and so may the League reply ;—it enjoys
excellent health, tho►igh it looks delicate—at least in
the estimation of our Tory Contemporaries, who
never will be persuaded but that it must very shortly
go off in a galloping consumption. Those, however,
whose judgment is not wholly eclipsed by their pre+
judices, take a very different view of the case, and
consider that at the present moment the Anti-
Corn-law League exercises a greater moral influence
over the public mind than it has done at any time
since its first establishment. Were it not so, we
should not find it effecting such searching reforms
in the Register as it has recently done—reforms
which, at the peat election, will illuminate Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL'S mind in a very effectual manner, and go
far to convert a majority against the Corn-laws in the
House of Commons, into a majority in their favour.
Mr. COBDEN gave his Rochdale hearers some sound
advice on this important subject of the Registration.
" Hitherto," he said, " we have been an Anti-Corn-
law League instructing the people, and agitating
them about Free-trade ; now I really think we are
going to take my friend SHAMAN CRA.WFORD'S busi-
ness out of his hands, and advocate an extension
of the suffrage. We want to persuade our fellow-
countrymen to buy the property that will qualify

them to vote ; and I most sincerely wish that every
head of a family in this country was worth the money
necessary to buy that vote. But that is much easier
done than many people suppose. Another meridian
has dawned upon us within the last few months.
We pledged ourselves some time ago to contest the

boroughs and try what we could do to gain them ;
but it never occurred to us that we could win
counties in this country. And yet with 252 county
Members in the House, and not six of them voting
for Free-trade, it has occurred to us that unless we
can make some change there, we shall not be likely
to get a majority in that House. Now, 1 believe the
counties may be won in many instances, as I have be-
fore said, much easier than the little pocket boroughs."
If the League, following the advice given some years
since by Sir ROBERT PEEL to the Conservatives,
sticks to its present determination of fighting the
battles of Free-trade in the Registration Courts, we
cannot for a single instant permit ourselves to doubt
of its success. It has a vast majority of the middle
classes in its favour, but unfortunately not a few
members of this class, however well disposed to wards
the cause of Free•trade, are apt to be sluggish and
inactive in the discharge of their duties as electors,
and to neglect to qualify themselves at the proper
time and in the proper manner. Now, by the exer-
cise of a little tact and perseverance the League may
easily manage to rouse the dormant zeal of these
lethargic but well-intentioned folks, and will reap
the benefit of its exertions in a vast increase of the
numbers of its supporters at the next election.

Madrid journals, of the lith, announce the con-
viction and sentence on General PRIM and the other
prisoners. Previous accounts stated that the process
was brought to a conclusion on the evening of the
14th at nine o'clock, and that the Court was cleared.
The members, it appears, had no little difficulty in
agreeing on the judgment and sentence, for they sat
all night, and only a little before six in the morning
the sentence was pronounced. By this PRIM is con-
demned to six years' imprisonment in a fortress, but
was to retain his rank and decorations. His fellow-
prisoners had
_been condemned, some to two, and
others to three years' imprisonment, on similar
terms. The Supreme Military Tribunal was ulti-
mately to decide on the fate of the prisoners, and
point out the places of their imprisonment. The
discussions on the Reform Bill were continued, and
occasional amendments made, which, of course, were
rejected. The public take no interest whatever in
the affair.

The Bourse was closed on the 15th, being the feast
If ST. EUGENIUS.

The Paris papers contain little interesting to the
English reader. The Moniteur officially announces
the convocation of the Chambers for Thursday, the
2Gth of December, as previously stated in The Sun.
The Journal des Debats has an article on electric
telegraphs, and urges the Government, as a matter
of economy as well as State convenience, to establish
them on all the new lines of railway. " The present
defective system," it says, " costs the State .500 francs
per mile, so that a vast saving might easily be
affected. The same journal contains a letter from
its Madrid correspondent, giving details of the pro-
ceedings which took place on the 14th, at the trial
of General PRIM ; but they add nothing to the
previous intelligence. The writer denounces the un-
fair mode of trial, and says "the precipitation with
shich the affair has been proceeded with and judged,
the want of proper formality, and the indifference of
the public, have confirmed me in my first impression.
Judicial proceedings, above all, demand reform in
Spain. An oral defence, public examinations, more
respect for the judges, more liberty to the advocates,
are the most urgent and useful ameliorations."
These papers contain no further particulars respecting
the movements of ZURITANO, and merely publish the
extract from the Phare de Bayonne, which has
already appeared in this journal. As far as can be
ascertained from the various accounts, the affair has
been much magnified, and probably will end in smoke.
The following are miscellaneous extracts:—
Prussia
tea
A Berlin letter of the 15th states that the King of
siahas accepted from the King of Hanover an invi-
tation grand hunt, which is to take place in the forest
of
Gcerde.
We read in a German journal . .
" ' A secret agitation is at work, and will soon explode?

•~ •..

the most vital importance, and insures to her creditors
the regular payment of their dividends.

SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
$17,000 Ohio Sixes, '6O
5,000 Illinois special Bonds
10,000 Indiana Bonds
10,000 Pcnn'a Fives slo 71
25 Sh. Bank Corn. Scrip 99
100 Farmers' Trust blO 39
50 Illinois Bank

50 Manhattan Gas
50 Canton Co.
120 Erie RR.
50 Mohawk, RR. .................... .......
250 Reading RR.
100 Harlem, RR ... .... .... ~. s 60 67
100 East Boston Co.
150 Long Island RR . 74i
120 Morris Canal 3l
50 New Jersey RR 95
150 Stonington RR s3O 45
25 Housatonic RR.
1,000 Nor. and Wor. RR 73
COTTON TRADE.—There has been a good inquiry,
both from shippers and pinners, and to-day about
1,200 bales were taken at steady rates. The southern
markets are very dull, with very large receipts and
limited sales.

CORN TRADE.—The corn traie was very inactive.
Speaking of this the New York Herald says :—" The
decrease in the shipment to Canada has been pro-
duced by the abundant crops in England, and no de-
mand, in consequence, coming from that quarter.

HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAILS
PRAGUE, Nov. 11.—The Duke of Bordeaux has been
here for the last week, and will make a considerable
stay in Bohemia to join the hunting parties on the
estates of the Prince of Rohan, and other great land-
owners. The Prince has been making such minute in-
quiries respecting the management and produce of land,
that it seems certain be intends to settle in Bohemia.
HswovEg, Nov. 16.—1 t is mentioned that the post of
Cabinet Minister has been offered to Count Kielmansegge
the Hanoverian Minister in London. We believe the
Count has not accepted this post.
STocHoLm, Nov. 12.—The Estates of the Kingdom
were summoned on the 9th, to meet in Pleno Plenorum,
' when they were informed that his Majesty had given
his sanction to all the changes in the Constitution, which
had been agreed to by the Estates on this Diet, among
which are the following:—Thatthe Diet shall meet every
third year; that the King has the right to accept or reject
the projects of law presented by the Estates during the
Diet ; the abolition of the differences between the
Noble and not Noble Members of the supreme tribunal;
the abolition of the right to suppress newspapers.
COLOGNE, Nov. 14.—The sale of the third number of
the quarterly journal published by Wejand, at Leipsic,
is prohibited. We hear that it is on account of an
article respecting the Jesuits, by Kopp, at Heidelberg.
BERLIN, Nov. 13.—The well-known painter, Pro-
fessor Monger, set out yesterday, for St. Petersburgh,
being invited to paint the portraits of the Emperor and
Empress, which are intended as presents to the Queen of
Great Britain.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 20.—The Chamber decided to-day
that the debate on the budget of ways and means shall
take place on Tuesday next.
BELGIAN FUND3.—BausszLe, Nov.
Actua Debt, 2% per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent.
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. ......NN --
Three per
Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
1/0441
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Fent, . 102%
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cont.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent... .......... 59
Issue of ......

.....
—Brussels Papers, Nov. 21.
AUSTRIAN FU NDS.—Vmsxzsa. Nov 13
}lye per Cents. Metalliques ....... 110
Four per Conte• •••••••••••••••• ..... ••••••••••••••«••••••••••• 10034
Threelaer Cents. 75%
Bank Shares ..... 160*
Lean 1834
Ditto, 1839
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand l6O
Gloggnits
Milan ll9
.411genteine Zeitung, Nov. 17.
HAMBURGH RORSENHALLE, Nov. 19,
Moncy.
Austrian 5 per Cents. ....... ..... 113
Bank Shares.. ....... ....... •••••••••••••••••••• ..... 1640 ww•
Angle-Russian ann. .. . ......... ....... 11434 ._
Russian 5 per Cent., let series, Certificate.... 105 q 105
Inscription, Ist series — 1053(
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series ...... . .... •••••••••••• ........ ....... 90%
Ditto In Certificates ..... ............. 9954
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 9114
Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. . ........ 6174 60%
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Angla.Danish Loan, S per
Spanish, New 4 per Cents. ..... 19 18%
Polish Bonds
New ..... ........

Co*sol

I%d. I%d. - -
......... 62 60 pm.
Ditto SmalL....
_ _•• ••...».,...••...».,... 62 60 Ind
•••••• ....• •••••••••••• 60 62 pm.
Ditto Advertised:"... ..».«...,.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent...,..„„.._....,..„ 88 89
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ....... ..... a 36
Ditto for the Account •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 361
Ditto Deferred Stock, 16%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ........
Ditto C0nverted......................... .......
Ditto for the Account .
Spanish Bonds, Fire per.Cen....t 184.0 —
Ditto Three per Cent. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• --
Ditto for the Acoount 35%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred .... ...... ."......... ........... 12%
Dutch 2% per Cents...." •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 63
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Dutch 5 per Cents 99
PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PEIrSHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ....... 98 to 97%
Ditto New . ..... ••••••••••••• ........ 17% 24 . to
Bristol and Exeter 1... ... .......... 70 ........ 69%. to
Bristol and G10uce5ter..„.......... 30 ... ..... 35%
Chester and H01yhead............... 5 ......... 61...• to &A
Churnet Valley ... .... ......... ..... 2
Eastern Counties ••••••••••••••••••••• 25 ••••••••• 13% to ..
Eastern Union
Great North of England. lOO ll/4;
Great Western •••••••••••••••••.•••••• 75
Ditto 4 Shares .................... 50 ........ 86%
Ditto kifths..... 4..." •••••••••••••• 12 ........ 26 ....see to ....a
London and 81ack.wa11............. 16%....... 6%
London and Brighton .... ........ 50 .... 47%
London and Greenwich........... 12% ... "...
.. 9% ..« to
London and South Western ..... 41% ...... 75%
London and Croydon .............. 13% of«.. 16% % ,to
.. Midland ..... ........ ...• 100 ...»„..I€B%les% to 107%
Birmingham and- Derby........... 100 ..... ... 79
Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 ........ 503 s ..... to
Norwich and Brandon .......... 8 ..... .... 12%
Sheffield and Lincoln ...... ......... 1%
South Eastern and Dover ......... 33%
Trent Valley!
2 ........ 8 .....• to
York and North Midland
Ditto Scarbore' Branch ......... 10 ..,. 32
Ditto Extension
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bourdeaux
Paris and Lyons 2 1%... to -.
Paris and Orleans ..... •••••••••••••••• 20 .....«.. 40% ..... to 40
Parisand Rouse ..... ••••••••••••••••••• 90 ••••••••• 38% .•.•• to
Paris and Strasbourg
2 ......... 2%
JOINT STOCK RANKS.
London and Westminster 2O 26%% ... to ....

100%

Exchequer Bills.
1 0001. ••••••••

THEATRE ROYAL DRERY-LANE.---NOthing is now
talked of but the forthcoming opera, on Wednesday
next, at this theatre, of The Daughter of St Mark, of
which Mr. Balfe has composed the music, and Mr. Bunn
written the libretto, as in the instance of The Bohemian
Girl We hear, on all sides, that, in addition to the
character of the music being of a much higher order
than any Balfe has yet composed, there are some beau-
tiful melodies in it, peculiar to this gifted artiste. Mdlle.
Dumilatre's last performances are to. night and to-
morrow.
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—At a Committee of
the Court of Aldermen, held on Saturday, the proposi-
tion of Alderman Wood, to abolish the evening sittings
of the Central Criminal Court for the trial of prisoners at
the Old Bailey, was taken into consideration, and it was
unanimously resolved that the experiment should be
tried, commencing with the sittings in the month of
December next. The consideration of the second part
Alderman Wood's proposition, as to having a third court
for the greater dispatch of business and the accommoda-
tion of the public, was reserved until the result of the
experiment of abolishing the evening sittings should be
ascertained.
THE STEAM-BOAT AND THE LOCOMOTIVE—NIN•
DERMERE.—A very elegant steam-boat is building f r
Windermere, to ply round the lake with pleasure parties.
This is not in connexion with the railway, but rather in
consequence of it ; and the " true romance" of the story
is, that the gentry who have expressed such dislike to
the locomotive steam-engine are giving every encour-
agement to the aquatic steamer. The time will come
when they will recognise and acknowledge the conveni-
ences of both.—Railway Record.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 22.—We
have had a quiet market to-day, without much change
in prices. Bristol and Gloucester, 351 ; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 2i ; London and Birmingham, 26 ; Midland,
40/. Shares, 2 prem. ; Preston and Wyre, 18 ; South-
Eastern, new creation, 7.1 ' • Southport and Euxton, 24 ;
West Yorkshire, 6i to ; Liverpool and Ormskirk, 2.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bask 5t0ck"........ex div
per Cent Red 99X
per Cent. Cons. 101.1%
3% per Cent. Red
New 3U per Cent • 1023(
New 6 per Cent..„.„ —
Long Annuities to expire
Jas. 1860...•••••••••••
Oct. 1659.............. 11 13-16
Jan. 1id0.........
Indian .......
FOREIG P
Austria', 5 per Cent .......
Belgian, 5 per Cent lOl%
Brazilian Bonds 69
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent -
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent..."
Chlllan, 6 per Cent
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent" —
51exican,5 per Cent .....„ 9,1(
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct —
Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent —
Peruvian Bonds. 6 per Ct —
Portuguese Bonds,* per Ct

Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 93 pm.
Ditto under 41,000 — pm.
South Sea Stock
Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Bills, 1,000/. I%d ." 60 pm.
Ditto 5004
Ditto Small 62 pm.
Bank Stock for Acct —
Consols for Act loo}
India Stock for Acct —
N FUNDS.
Russian 5 per Cent............
M Ditto,Metallic
ipanish, 5 per Cent., 1840... 241 i
i)itto, 1841
Ditto, 1642 ............
Ditto, 1843.
Ditto, 1841 ..... ••••••••••• 00000
Ditto, 3 per Cent ••••••••••••••• 353
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per et...
Freech, 5 per Cent., —t. —C.
French, 3 per Cent...— —c.
Exchange ....... —c.
Dutch, 2% per Cent .. 63
Ditto,:s per Cent

SHARES.

Birmingham and Glouteiiii(loopaid).. ...... 07%
Ditto New shares, 173{, ptid 24
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 7O
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Churnet Valley, 2 paid ... 3%
Dias, Beecles. and Yarmouth, 1% paid. ......
Dublin and Galway, 23 paid ..•,«. ••.111 2
Eastern Counties (25 paid) .... ..... ............. ........ 13
Great North of England, 100 paid
Great Western (75 paid) ... . . ........... ....... .. ......
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Blactwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 6%
London and Brighton (so paid)
London and Greenwich (121. IS.. 4d. paid)
London and South Western (411.65. 10d. paid) 74
London and Croydon
London and York, 23% paid 9
Midland (100 paid) . 10734
Birmingham and Derby, #lOO paid.... ....... . .....
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid Si
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid . ..... .... 12
Sheffield and Lincoln hire, 13( paid •
1%
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ..... .... 33
Trent Valley, 2 paid
9
York and North Midland (50 paid) 103%
Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid
... 31%
Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 68%
Ditto Extension
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid ...... ........ ....
...... A
Orleans and Vierzon, 2 prid lO%
Orleans and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ...... .... .......
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid ................. .................... 381
Paris and Strasbourg, 2% paid 2%

The high price of the funds naturally causes the
value of all eligible securities for tho purpose of invest-
ment to fetch proportionably high sums. This fact was
fully exemplified last week at Mr. George Robins's sale
of ground rents at Lisson-grove, which, being freehold,
may certainly be deemed the next best security to the
funds, but, when the expenses of transfer and other con-
tingencies be considered, cannot, in our opinion, be pro-
nounced equally eligible; yet Mr. Robins was enabled
to obtain thirty-one years' purchase, thus yielding a pur-
chaser less than 3 per cent.; for, although he becomes
entitled to a reversionary interest, yet, at the remote
period of 76 years, no calculation could at present be
made for this expected advantage. The ground-rents
sring
amounted to 2401. a year, and sold for 7.500/. A re-
markable fact attends this sale—viz., one of the lots, the
mu
Hope and Anchor public-house, which for 76 years pro-
duucedd simplya peppercorn, fetched 100 guineas ; this
the peried before any rent can be received
will, at compound interest, amount to the enormous
price of 4,6001., and certainly double the value of the
property.—Advertiser.
LOVE'S DESPERATION.—On Wednesday last, some
excitement was created in Ulverston, by a respectably
attired female casting herself out of the window of a
room in the Queen's Arms Inn there. She tied a hand-
kerchief round her face, then slipped it Up over her eyes
thus becoming " blind" to all danger, and putting up the
sash of the window, got out backwards,C and after hang-
ing by her hands for a short time, dropped down. She
alighted on her feet on the pavement, but losing her ba-
lance she fell backwards, her head coming in contact
with the stones. She was immediately taken up in a
state of insensibility, and carried into the inn. From
inquiries, it appears that the female is the daughter of
a respectable tradesman in Kendal, and is about nineteen
years of age; that she has become enamoured of a young
man about the same age, who is connected with a com-
pany of itinerant players which were at Kendal last
week, and removed from that place to Ulverston, where
she also proceeded on the wings of love, in pursuit of the
" cushla ma chree." She was, however, followed by a
r. lative, who took her to the Queen's Arms, where she
had her under restraint, when the incident above related
took place.
DEATH OP TILE HON. GENERAL PREDERICY ST
JoEN.—We have to record the demise of this venerable
general officer, who expired at Chailey on Tuesday last,
somewhat suddekly, fur the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman
was take n unwell about four hours before he expired.
The deceased was second son of Frederick, second Vis-
count Bolingbroke, and brother of the late Viscount,
and consequently uncle to the present peer. He was
born Dec. 20, 1765, and was three times married—
namely, first, the Bth December, 1788, to Lady Mary
Kerr, third daughter of William, fifth Marquis of
Lothian, who died in childbed, Feb. 6, 1791 ; secondly,
April 6, 1793, the Hon. Arabella Craven, third daughter
of William, sixth Lord Craven, who died June 9, 1819 ;
and, thirdly, Nov. 14, 1821, Caroline Elisabeth, youngest
daughter of the late Mr. J. Parsons. The deceased
General had families by each marriage. The Hon.
General enured the army in August, 1779, and with the
single exception of Sir George Nugent, Bart., was the
senior General in the army, his commission being dated
as far back as June, 1814. In 1798 the Hon. and Gal-
lant deceased, then Colonel St. John, served throughout
the rebellion in Ireland. He served with distinction in
India, under Lord Lake, and b the two campaigns
against the Mahrattas, being second in command ; was
engaged in seven sieges, and two general actions, besides
engagements of minor importance. His commissions
were dated as follows :—Ensign, August 31, 1799 ;
Lieutenant, Feb. 7, 1780 ; Captain, Dec. 12, 1780 •
Major, April 8, 1783 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, Feb. 23,
1791 ; Colonel, August 21, 1795 ; Major-General, June
18, 1798 ; Lieutenant-General, Oct. 30, 1805 ; and
General, June 4, 1814.

PROMISSORY NOTES.
The Bank Returns for Scotland and Ireland exhibit
for the four weeks to Nov. 9, a general increase in the
circulation as follows :

SCOTLAND.
Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks,
Now
Last time

3,284,295
2,987,665

Increase

276,630

IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland, Nov 3,896,750
Last time

Increase 298,900
Private and Joint-Stock Banks, Now 2,832,397
Last time 2,456,261

Increase

376,136

NEW LIFE-BoAr.---A life •bout, built of India
rubber and cork planking, has recently been constructed
under the direction of Lieutenant G. Walker, R.M.,
which promises to be of great service in cases of ship-
wreck. The objects to be attained are to combine light-
ness with strength. so that the boat may be readily
; launched, be able to resist the waves and collisions with
rocks, and at the same time be incapable of sinking. The
former requisites are attained by constructing the boat
of courses of planking, composed of ground cork and
India rubber, which may be made into planks of almost
any length and thickness, and the prevention from sink-
ing is attained by air-boxes placed under the flooring.
The boat that has been constructed on this principle is
thirty-four feet long, and eleven and a half wide from the
outside, and it is calculated to be capable of taking 100
persons at a time from a wreck in safety. With twenty-
five persons on board it draws only fifteen inches of water.
WHOLESALE WRECKING.—The Courrier du Havre
of Monday contains the following narrative, which re-
minds us somewhat of the wreckers in Cornwall. About
nine o'clock on Saturday night about 100 people with
baskets, sacks, bags, and shovels, assembled on the Place
de l'Eure, and gathered up the coffee scattered along the
shore from the wreck of the Deux Paulines, and even
took possession of fragments of the vessel. Two officers
of the customs endeavoured to stop the plunder, but were
soon overpowered by numbers and beaten off. They
would have fared much worse but for their own prudence
in making a timely retreat. The pillage was continued
throughout the night, and in the morning the predatory
band was increased. One man took away, on a horse
which he brought for the purpose, 1,20016. of coffee, but
of this quantity 7001 b. was found in his house, and taken
away and lodged in a warehouse. The officers on duty
at the citadel compelled all who entered through it into
the town to deposit their loads under the vault of the
Porte de Secours, where they still remain.— Galignani's
Messenger.
PECULIAR SITUATION.—In the county of Chester
there is a residence called Hardingwood House, in the
parish of Lawton, from which the inhabitants, every time
they go to church, pass out of the province of Canter-
bury into that of York ; go through two counties, Staf-
fordshire and Cheshire ; three parishes, Wolstanton,
Andley, and Lawton ; three constabularies, Tunstell,
Chell, and Nantwich, and the two dioceses of Lichfield
and Chester.

THE VALUE or PROPRETT.—The small return now
obtained for money on solid security was made manifest
last week at the Auction Mart, on the occasion of Mr.
George Robins having to sell freehold ground-rents
amounting to 240/. a year. A reversionary interest was
appended to this sale, at the expiration of 77 years, but
11)4 reversion, at such a distant period, was worth no-
thing, and yet the ground•rents averaged more than 31
years' purchase ; and a peppercorn rent for 77 years,
(when the fee simple will be possessed), of the Hope and
Anchor public•bouse, estimated at 100/. a-year, actually
produced 100 guineas. The interest upon this sum, with
the compound interest for 77 years, will amount to 4,600/.
which is consequently the enormous value the pepper-
corn produced.—Morning

"BETTER TO BE BORN FORTUNATE THAN RICH."--
It is currently reported at Sleaford, and we believe cor-
rectly so, that a well-known millwright (a working man)
of that place, by a recent decision in the High Court of
Chancery, immediately comes into the possession of a
large estate near London of the annual value of 13,0001.,
as well as arrears of rent for the same for the last
twenty years, amounting, of course, to the sum of
260,000L—Lincolnahire Chronicle,

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS I COURT CIRCULAR.
(From The Sun of Ssturday Evening.) . WINDSOR, FElDAY.—Yesterday, the Queen, accom-
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were only panied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Saxe
3,000 bales, but at previous rates.—A good business was Coburg and Gotha, took a carriage airing attended by
done in Shares, and the Market closed firmly :—Chester the Marchioness of Douro, Madame la Baronne de
and Birkenhead, 318 ; Churnet Valley, 4 34 ; Direct Wangenheim, and the Hon. Miss Hamilton ; Colonel
Northern, 28 ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2,
19s. 61. ; Ely and Bedford, li ; Grand Junction, 215 ;
!Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, attending on
Ditto, Half shares, 107 ; Kendal and Windermere, 3i ; horseback.
Lancaster and Preston, 461 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Prince Albert, accompanied by his Royal Highness
204 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 102 ; London and Birmingham, the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, his Royal High-
-218 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 38; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 26 ; ness the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, and the Mar-
London and York, 60s. 61s.;'North Wales Mineral, with quis of Granby, and attended by Mr. George Edward
new, 9/ ; Manchester and Leeds, 114 ; Ditto. Half Anson and Col. Wylde, left the Castle before elevc
Shares, 48 ; Midland Counties, 1074 8 ; Newcastle and o'clock yesterday morning, to hunt with his Roya.
Darlington, 484 ; South Eastern, 374 ; Ditto, New, 7t ; Highness's harriers. The meet took place on Mr.
Paris and Lyons, 31. Is. 6d. ; Paris and Rosen, 384 ; Nash's farm, near King's Langley. The illustrious
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 41. li. 6d. ; Boulogne party afterwards returned to the Castle.
and Amiens, 4.
The Bank of England weekly return shows an aug-
-„,rincess Alice, The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess mentation of 106,800/. in the circulation and bullion to
the Issue Department; of 8,823/. in the bullion to the
ercise in the pleasure-grounds adjacent to the Castle
Banking Department; of 225,565/. in the public de- yesterday morning. Prince Alfred was afterwards
posits; of 667,063/. in the general securities; and a de- taken out for some time.
, crease of 310,510/. in the other deposits. The Earl of Aberdeen took his departure yesterday.
Stocks are very quiet to-day, but exceedingly firm, The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby ar-
Consols having been again marked 1001 to 100. Ex- rived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit to her Ma-
chequer Bills keep at 603. to 625. premium. East India jesty.
Stock is steady at the improvement to 288. The:New Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 102* -1, and the Fanny Howard, the Countess Wratislaw, Catain Three per Cents. 99i 8. East India Bonds are 83s. Francis Seymour p
and Sir James Clark , joined
premium. ,
The Foreign Investments have been dull also, but the royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday.
Spanish Bonds are firmer, owing to the satisfactory cor- The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in
respondence between the Committee of Bondholders and attendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private
Messrs. Reid, Irving, and Co., inserted in another part band afterwards attended in the evening.
of The Sun. The Three per Cents. are 35i i. The This morning their Royal Highnesses Prince
Actives are nominal. Portuguese Converted realize 35* Albert, the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and
to 34j Mexican are supported at 36* to 354 ; and Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, walked for some time
Brazilian at 88.1 to 89. Dutch Twoasnd-a-Half per before chapel.
Cents are at 63.
The Queen, Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess
The Railway Shares have been somewhat feebler in a of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, the Duke Ernest of
few instances, but the aggregate business is not of im-
Wurtemberg, all the Court, and the Domestic House-
portance. The new lines have been those chiefly dealt in.
PRICES OF BRITISH k UNDS AT ONE O'CLOOK. hold, attended Divine Service this morning in the
(From the Official List) private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ............... 92% N. Charles Leslie Courtenay officiated.
100% li
laT ginpt.ercreion:...AAnnnuntties
102 %IA Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 ) the afternoon service in the private chapel. Lady
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
India Stock
India Rom:141,1,000... .. ...........«......" B3 Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Ditto under 1,000.....--- Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken
their accustomed airing in the forenoon.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
arrived at Yetworth House, to honour Colonel Wynd-
ham with a visit, from Arundel Castle Sussex, the seat
of the Duke of Norfolk.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of
Mecklenburg Strelitz, visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester
House.

Mr. Roebuck, M.P., had an interview with Lord
Stanley on Saturday, at the Colonial office.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town on Satur-
day, from a visit to her Majestey, at Windsor Castle.
Mr. Joseph Armitage, chairman, and a deputation
from the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway,
had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie on
Friday, at the Board of Trade.
Sir Robert Peel had a dinner party en Saturday,
at his residence in Whitehall-gardens.
Dispatches from the Governor of Cape Coast were
reeeired on Saturday at the Colonial-office.

I'l-1E LAW OF GAMING.
IMPORTANT LEGAL OPINION.
BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY EVENING.—For many years
past the magistrates of this borough have been in the
habit of convicting licensed victuallers for allowing card-
playing in their houses, the act of playing having been
hitherto held as an unlawful act. A few days ago several
respectable licensed victuallers were summoned before
the magistrates, charged on the evidence of the police,
with having allowed card-playing in their houses. Mr.
Harding, solicitor, rigidly cross-examined the witnesses,
when they admitted that they did not hear or see any-
thing which warranted them in swearing that the parties
were playing for money or any other consideration.
Mr. Harding then submitted that the mere playing at
cards in a public-house did not constitute an offence, and
that unless it could be proved that the parties played for
money or some other consideration, no conviction could
take place. In this view of the case he was followed by
Mr. Edmonds, who contended also that it was requisite
to specify the precise nature of the game in the informa-
tion. Messrs. Gen and Barlow, magistrates' clerks, ad-
mitted that the arguments required consideration, aad
agreed to prepare the points for the consideration of
counsel. They accordingly submitted the case to Mr.
Archbold, to which is now appended that gentleman's
reply:—
" In the Licensed Victuallers' Act, the 9th Geo. IV.,
cap. 6, the forms of the licence provide that the person
licensed shall not knowingly suffer aay unlawful games,
or any gaming whatever, in his house. Under this Act
an information is laid before Justices against AB, li-
censed victualler, for knowingly suffering gaming with
cards in his house. and the evidence proves that, with the
knowledge of A B, persons were playing with cards in
his house at the game of All-Fours,' but it is not proved
that they were playing f„r any stake. Under these cir-
cumstances, it is objected that no conviction can be made,
for the following reasons :
First, that no stake is proved to be played for ; and,
secondly, that the game is not named in the information.
The opinion of Mr. Archbold is requested, Ist, whether
it is necessary to prove that a stake was played for ?
2dly, whether it is necessary to specify in the infro ma-
tion the particular game at cards which was played ;
and whether a statement of the name of the game is suf-
ficient, without stating the mode of playing it ?
" A similar information is laid in the same words
against C D, and other licensed victuallers, but in that
case, although the evidence shows that parties were play -
ing at cards with the landlord's knowledge, it does not
appear what game was played. In addition, therefore,
to the objection which exists in the other case, it cannot
be proved in this what specific game was played.
" Mr. Archbold is requested therefore to advise
whether a conviction can properly take place against
CD. The principal question upon which Mr. Arch-
bold's opinion is asked, is whether a licensed victualler
can be convicted of an offence against the tenor of his
license for allowing persons to play at cards in his house
for recreation only, and his attention is directed to the
statute 33d Henry VIII., cap. 9, the eleventh section of
which will not apply, unless some gain is to accrue to the
landlord; but by the 16th section, playing at cards by
any manner of artificer or craftsman of any handicraft
or occupation, husbandman, apprentice, labourer, servant
to husbandry, journeyman, and other persons therein
named, is prohibited, except at Christmas, and then only
in their master's house and presence.
" Are not games at cards, therefore, by such persons
at other times than Christmas, and then out of their
masters' houses and presence, unlawful games, and may
not a licensed victualler, in such case, be convicted of
knowingly suffering unlawful games in his house, with-
out any proof that a stake was played for ? If Mr. Arch-
bold should be of opinion that a licensed victualler is so
liable to be convicted, he is further requested to advise
as to the form of the information, so far as regards the
statement of the offence, and state what facts are neces-
sary to justify a conviction."