The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1844.

common right of being buried according to the ordi-
dinary forms of the Church, and by a minister of the
Church to whose support they are bound to contri-
bute, has not been explained. If the law has not ex-
cluded them from this ordinary right of Christianity
and humanity, the ministers of the Church will not
surely be degraded by performing the office; on the
contrary, the generality of the clergy will rejoice
that in this last office of Christian charity there is no
sleparation between the Church and their Protestant
Dissenting brethren." Sir Joux NicHoL then goes
on to observe, under an evident impression that the
intimation is a necessary one :—" it is by a lenient
and liberal construction of the laws of disability and
exclusion, and not by a captious and vexatious con-
struction and application of them, that the true in-
terests and true dignity of the Church Establishment
are best supported." Here we find the Bishop and
the Judge directly at variance on the important sub-
ject of the burial of Dissenters by ministers
of the Establishment. The former insists that
that funeral service of the Church ought not
to be read over such schismatics ; while
the latter maintains that the clergy ought to rejoice
that in this last office of Christian charity there is no
separation between Dissent and Orthodoxy. It is
curious that the Bishop, from whom—when we take
into consideration his sacred calling—the greatest
amount of charity and forbearance might be expected,
exhibits precisely the least of these Christian quali-
ties, and adopts the ultra-intolerant view of the
question ; while the Judge, who, as a keen, practised
lawyer and man of the world, might be supposed to
be less encumbered with elevated and catholic impres-
sions, takes that view of the case which is most in ac-
cordance with the beneficent and enlightened spirit
of Christianity ! We trust that the majority of our
readers will be far more readily disposed to side with
Sir Jonx NICHOL than with the Bishop of EXETER,
for though the latter may, perhaps, have the authority
of the Rubric in his favour, the former may plead the
direct sanction of the Gospel, which never fails to
inculcate lessons of charity and toleration, and more
than once alludes to " peace on earth and good will
to men," as being the basis on which the Christian
religion is founded. But ihow can there be either
"peace on earth," or " goodjwill to men," when the
Church, by its intolerant practices, is the first to
scatter abroad the seeds of discord and discontent ?
How can a spirit :of harmony and forbearance be
expected to rprevail in the social circle, when the
Church carries its theological prejudices to so great
an extent, as to refuse to administer the rites of
sepulture to him whose lot through life it was
to dissent, from conscientious motives, from some of
its particular dogmas, though in the ruling principle
of his belief he was a sincere and zealous Christian ?
Surely he is no longer a Dissenter from whose body
the breath of life has departed ! Can the cold, sense-
less mass of clay which lies shrouded in the coffin,
and which Corruption in a few hours will claim as
her own, be justly reproached with its non-adherence
to the Thirty-nine Articles ? Is the Church bound,
as a part of her duty, to war with dust and ashes,
and push her theological animosity beyond the
tomb ? Cannot even Death soften the bitterness
of her feelings, and induce her to offer up a
prayer ;beside the grave of a Dissenter? The
Rubric may authorise her to refuse reading the burial
service over his ashes ; but justice—common sense—
humanity—religion—in a word, all the finer and
nobler instincts of our nature alike revolt at the
idea of such wretched—such preposterous bigotry.

Our attention has been called to a wrathful philip-
pic in the Morning Advertiser, reflecting upon an
article we published, on the 19th instant, relative to
"the affairs of New Zealand." Our Contemporary
is at once so diffuse and so irascible, so angry and so
playful (though Mr. HALLIBURTON will stare at, if
he ever meet with, such a "counterfeit presentment"
of SAM SLICK'S humour), that it is difficult to col-
lect what are the precise charges against us. We
infer that the writer probably means to affirm, first,
that he cannot detect " the two facts" to which we
addressed our former observations. This is no fault
of ours, and proves, at least, that our censor did not
see double when he perused the article in question.
But, since that touched upon two points only—and
no more—(the petition complaining of Governor
FITZROY'S conduct, and the commercial notice of the
improved preparation of New Zealand flax)—our
Contemporary's irritation, in respect of the second,
must have made him quite oblivious of the first.
Secondly, we are accused of "an indirect attcmpt to
whitewash the leading persons connected with the
New Zealand Company," and—of all things in the
world—of ultra-Toryism !1 It may be as unneces-
sary for us to repudiate the imputation of " indirect
attempts" at attaining any given object of legiti-
mate discussion, as those of our being ultra-Tories,
or the apologists of persons really "convicted" of the
"most flagrant fraud and the most heartless cruelty."
We are quite content to pass such self-evident ab-
surdities without further notice than the subjoined
commentary upon one of them. Speaking of her
MAJESTY'S Ministers and the New Zealand Com-
pany, we wrote thus:—
" The course adopted by her MAJESTY'S Ministers
was satisfactory to no party. A large portion of the
public were displeased with what they considered,
on the first announcement of the arrangements con-
cluded, to be an improvident and monopolitical bargain
with a Joint-Stock Company for its special advantage."
" The few previously-settled English
residents or proprietors within the limits of that dis-
tant country considered themselves aggrieved by the
purchases of the Company on the one hand, and the
powers assumed and delegated by the Home Govern-
ment on the other." If this be " whitewashing the
leading persons" of the Company, it must be white-
washing after a very Irish fashion. We never al-
luded to—never pointed at—the "leading persons,"
but spoke generally of the "managing direction, of
the Company." Thirdly, we plead guilty, without
hesitation, to the charge of not having consigned the
directors "to the dark and dreary mines of Siberia"
(as our Contemporary says he would have done) ;
and indeed the whole of his apostrophe about the
" firmament " and the " eclipse"—" the Times and
the Sun-flowers—is conceived in a strain of varie-
gated eloquence, utterly above our comprehension.
Fourthly, he rebukes us for congratulating the
colony and this country on the rapid improvements
now " effecting in the culture, preparation, and
manufacture of the New Zealand flax." We con-
gratulate them, again. Our Contemporary may enjoy
his own notions of the trivial importance of this ele-
ment in the establishment of a colony's prosperity.
We persuade ourselves—on the results of carefully
pursued inquiries and experiments, instituted (we
state the fact for his information) many years before
the New Zealand Company was thought of, in respect
of the produce of "some extent of soil" in that
country—results submitted, here, to the highest
scientific and practical authorities—that our anticipa-
tions are fully warranted ; and there, we leave them.
If we did not know how prone men are, when pre-
occupied by one idea, to jump at all kinds of absurd
and inconsequent conclusions, we might marvel at
our censor's gratuitous assumptions. We strongly
reprobate, and have never vindicated, the New Zea-
land Company's past proceedings ; but we also blame
severely the conduct of the present Government and
its predecessor towards New Zealand. This is not
enough for our Contemporary. We don't follow in
the wake of his one idea; therefore wA
.re ultra-
Tories. We don't turn onf.,
been waging to join the war he has
l'ne directors, &c., of the New Zea-
Zompany ; therefore we are "converting New
Zealand into a paradise," just as he himself is for '
transforming the offices of the Company in New
Broad-street into lodgings in the mines of Siberia.
We, he remarks, have written " a long, a very long
article on New Zealand ;" therefore he assails us
with a still longer critique upon our article. We can

only trace these remarkable prepossessions of a fancy
which seems unconscious of facts, to the influence

exercised upon it by a recent onslaught made by the
Times on a bubble Company. He recurs to the con-

duct of that eminent journal with great unction, and

is so emulous of similar distinction, that, in rushing

at the New Zealand directors, he is for overthrowing

all who come across him in his way. Don QUIXOTE
would decimate the Moors, though he had to cut
through half-a-dozen well-filled goat-skins to get at
them. ‘‘ Young ambition" may be commended even
in its most hopeless aspirations ; and, probably, that
may be all the praise our Contemporary will realise
from his emulation. But, on future occasions, we
would recommend him to look more than once at his

facts, before he enlists them in the cause of the one
prejudice which may happen to be paramount with him.

Accounts from Madrid of the 14th state that the
trial of General PRIM was resumed at ten o'clock on
that day, in the presence of great crowds of spec-
tators, consisting chiefly of military men and fo-
reigners. RIBEIRA presided. The proceedings com-
menced with reading the act of accusation, the
written evidence, and all the other papers connected
with the affair from the beginning, which occupied
the Court till four o'clock, when the counsel for the
defence were asked if they had anything to say.
General SCHELLT demanded time to consider the
additional evidence produced, but he was allowed
only an hour and a half. At the meeting of the
Court the counsel for each made speeches, but they
were listened to with little interest, and the scene
was monotonous till General PRIM himself appeared.
An eye• witness thus describes the scene and the lip.-
pearance of the accused :

" General Prim is a very young, and still younger
looking, man, his age being only 32 years. He possesses
a handsome person, with a peculiarly prepossessing face.
He was dressed on this occasion in a plain black dress,
and the only thing military about him was his general's
scarf, which was sent to him last year by General Ser-
rano after a victory gained over Amettler at Maturo.
He was escorted into the middle of the hall by five sol-
diers. His appearance before the tribunal, his proud
carriage, the disdainful glance with which he regarded
his accusers, his firm and unembarrassed voice, and
his sang froid, produced a deep effect both on the judges
and on the public. He commenced by saying that had
he been accused simply of conspiracy against the
Government, he would not have appeared, but as people
had chosen to suppose him guilty( of a foul and
cowardly conspiracy, his honour required him to protest
with all his force against so abominable a calumny.
He went over the history of his principal accuser, Al-
berni, who at one time was dismissed from the army.
He denied in the most solemn and positive manner the
assertions made by (Alberni, and also protested against
the evidence given by the other accusers associated with
Alberni. The act of accusation, as drawn up by the Pro-
curator Fiscal, was also commented upon by the General
with great indignation and force. He complained that,
with regard to the trabucos, no proper investigation
had been made to discover the truth of that part of
the investigation, and he especially complained that
the superior officer to whom the trabucos were sent
during his absence, had not at all been interrogated.
He also complained in a very dignified but indignant
style of the unworthy manner in which he had
been treated in prison ; not having been allowed for
a long time even a chair on which to sit, and being
prevented from holding the slightest communication
with any one, not excepting even his advocates, whom
he was not allowed to see till he had been subjected to
the most minute examination. He went on to say that
the Procurator-Fiscal did not endeavour to prove his
case by the evidence given in the depositions, but endea-
voured to make out a case by picking out such portions
as suited his purpose, without reference to the whole
tendency of that evidence ; and he finished his speech
with the following words ;--‘ Either the Procurator-
Fiscal has had the way he is to take laid down for him,
or if he acts of his own accord, he thirsts for blood.'
The speech of General Prim, which was spoken in a
bold and off-hand manner, produced a great effect upon
the audience. After General Prim had finished, three
more of the accused were introduced, but they contented
themselves with simply protesting against the manner
in which the act of accusation was drawn up. The Pre-
sident then declared that the defence was at an end, and
the public were excluded."

The proceedings were brought to a close at nine
o'clock, but the judgment is not known, as it must be
submitted first to the Supreme Military Tribunal.
The discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, on the
Reform Bill, was continued, and every amendment
rejected. The abolition of trial by jury, in matters
connected with the press, was put to the vote, and
carried by 127 against 22.
The Three per Cents. were done at 271 for
cash, and 27 11-16 at 60 days; and the Five per
Cents. at 20 9-16 at 60 days.

The Paris papers contain a variety of articles on
various subjects, and of considerable interest. The
Constitutionnel attacks the Government for the de-
fective state of the steam navy. The Commerce
follows in the same strain on the neglected state of
the mercantile navy ; and the Journal des Debats has
a very long article :on the necesssty of establishing a
better observatory at Paris, and calls upon the Go-
vernment to propose a vote in the Chamber for that
purpose. Lord Ross E's gigantic telescope seems to
have led the writer to the subject, who certainly puts
forth some amusing statements. Among others the
following :—" The moon herself, which, astronomically
speaking, is quite close to us (95,000 leagues, or
thirty times the diameter of the earth)—the moon,
with her 'gigantic mountains and her extinguished
volcanoes, is the heavenly body with which we are
the least acquainted. All that we know of her has
been obtained with glasses which magnify two hun-
dred times. Thp nPw apparatus that is proposed will
magnify six thousand times, so that we shall be able
to perceive the mountains of our satellite as from
Geneva we see Mont Blanc."
The National contains Communications from its
Madrid correspondent relative to the trial of General
PRIM and the state of the country, with an article
denouncing in strong terms the CIIRISTINO Cabinet,
and the arbitrary acts of NARVAEZ. No certain in-
telligence bad reached Paris respecting the plans or
movements of ZURBANO. The following particulars,
however, appear in the Phare de Bayonne :--
" Some days back Zurbano, who since his return to
Spain has been residing on his property in the neighbour-
hood of Logrono, received an order from the Spanish
Government to proceed to Santander. It appears that,
in place of conforming to this order, he retired in the
direction of the Sierra des Cameros, mountains sepa-
rating the province of Soria from that of Logrono.
There, getting together some soldiers who had served
under him during the civil war, he placed himself at
their head, and penetrated unexpectedly into the town
of Najera, six leagues distant from Logrono. The
number of soldiers that accompanied him is not exactly
known. One version gives him 50 horsemen, another
raises the number to 80, and finally, a third states that
he had with him 50 horsemen and 80 foot soldiers,
when he appeared before Najera on the evening of the
13th. As to the political standard which he has dis-
played, nothing has come to our knowledge on that
point, although, for our own part, we are inclined to be-
lieve that he intends acting in favour of Espartero under
the banner of the Constitution of 1837, or rather that of
1812, according to which the Queen could be declared
appointed :for four years.
acquaintede with the ferocity of
Theunde r p
er age,so n
s and
who a
are regency e ny
Zurbano will not be astonished that his first act at Na-
jera was to have an unfortunate celador, who fell into his
power, shot. He had been so long deprived of the
pleasure of shooting somebody ! It is said that he has
acted in a similar manner with respect to three other
individuals, which does not in the least degree sur-
prise us, but we ought at the same time to add that up
to the present time, we have learnt nothing with any cer•
tainty relative to these facts. Immediately after his
entry into Najera, Zurbano convoked the Municipal
Council, and had all the arms and horses fit for service in
the town delivered up to him. He published an appeal
to all the Progressiats in the country, and particularly
to such soldiers as served under his orders during the
civil war. The Commandant-General of the province
of Logrono hastened to dispatch extraordinary couriers
to the Captains-General of Burgos, Navarre, and the
Basque provinces, with the news of Zurbano's rising.
The Captain-General of Burgos immediately directed
two battalions composing the garrison of the place on
La Rioja. On his side, the Captain-General of the
Basque provinces dispatched the day before yesterday all
the troops that could be disposed of at Vittoria, with
General Jauregui, the second in command. It is proba-
ble that the Captain-General of Navarre, from which
place we have not yet received any news, will also have
sent from Pampeluna forces in the direction of Viana
and Logrono. General Concha, the new Captain-
General of the Basque provinces, who left Madrid in the
night of the 13th, was proceeding to his command by
the malle-poste, but, on his arrival at Burgos, having
learnt the rising of Zurbano, he determined to remain
in that city until he could proceed with an escort, for it
was rumoured that some horsemen, who were said to
belong to Zurbano, had appeared on the high road."
The following is the article in the Constitutionnel
on the steam navy of France :
Acostecamrdnianygyto
was a decision se ino
consist
of
e tfhe4o4tvheossfeMls_aryichz, 84„1502f,
our
640-laorse power, 15 of 450, 20 of from 220 to 320, and

30 of 160 and under ; assuming for the vessels of from
220 to 320 an average of 270, and those of 160 and under
an average of 150, the total would represent a power of
19,350 horses. instead of these 70 vessels we had, on
the Ist of January, 1844, only 47, and most of them of
the smaller size, representing on the whole only 8,240
horses—viz., one frigate of 540, three of 450, one of 320,
seven vessels of 220, 21 of 160, 1 of 150, 2 of 120, 1 of
400, sof 80, 3of 60, and 2 of 30. Thus, instead of a
maritime force of about 20,000 horse-power, we had only
about 8,000, and most of the vessels too weak and light
to be of any use in the event of a war. This blank in
our maritime armaments will probably attract the notice
of the Chambers. The Minister of Marine hopes to fill
up the blank by putting his hand on the transatlantic
steamers. We will not examine this question at the
present moment, but we must observe that, even if it be
intended to appropriate to the royal navy the force of
7,000 horses represented by these packets, it is doubtful
whether the strength of our steam navy would be aug.
mented otherwise than in appearance, as it is by no
means certain that these vessels, which have been con-
structed with a different object in view, would be real
vessels of war."

The court-martial on M. BESSON met again on the
16th at Toulon. After hearing the remainder of the
evidence, and the defence of Lieut. BESSON, the
judges retired to deliberate, and at the end of about

an hour returned into Court, and stated that, on the

first question, " Had Lieut. BESSON voluntarily caused

the loss of the Groenland?" the answer was unani-
mously in the negative. On the second question,
" Had she been lost through want of precaution and
care ?" the answer was four in the affirmative, andfour
in the negative. The defendant having the benefit
of the equality, the President pronounced his ac-
quittal.

The Prince DE JOINVILLE and the Duke D'AUMALE
arrived at Toulon early in the morning of the 16th,
accompanied by General DUEOSNEL and the other
persons of distinction with, whom they left Paris.
The Princes, in the course of the day, visited the
Arsenal, and were present at the launch of the Pour-
suivante frigate. Their reception at Toulon was en-
thusiastic in the highest degree. In the evening,
there was a grand dinner at the Hotel of the Mari-
, time Prefecture where the Princes had fixed their
residence, and the town was illuminated.
THE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20.
First Highest Lowest Last
ce. ce. ce. rice.
French Five perCsnts— •• 1 Pl 9 ri
35 .. 119 35 .. 119Pri 30 .. 119 35
Fours. • 106 75 .. 106 75 .. 106 75 .. 106 75
Three per Cents,. 83 10 .. 83 15 .. 83 5.. 83 10
Bank of France 3127 50 .•3130 —3120 ..3130
Laflitte Bank, I,ooof. SharesloBo ..1080 ..1080 ..1080
Belgian Bank
5,000 f. Sharesso2763s 50 —5027 50 ..5027 50 ••5027 50
.. 635 .. 635 .. 635
Belgian Fives, 11140 •••• • • • • 104 • • 104 • • 104 • • 104
1842 lO7 .. 107 •• 107 .• 107
Two-and-a-Half— •• 61 75 .. 61 75 .. 61 60 61 70
Spanish Active ••• • • 32f • • 32 .. 321 .. 32!
Threes.. •• •••• •• 35f .. 341 .. 351 •• 35i
Passive 6 .. 6 .. 6 .• 6
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 53 .. 53 • • 53 .. 53
Neapolitan•••••••••••• •.. 97 60 .. 98 .. 97 60 .. 98
Roman ....

RAILWAY SHARES.
Yersailles,R.B... •••••••• •• 435 •• 437 50 .. 432 50 .. 432 50
L.B.•••••••••••• 312 50 .. 312 50 .. 310 .. 310
R0nen............... . lOOO . 1000 .. 997 50 .. 997 5e
Rouen to Hayre•• 7Bl 25 .. 781 85 •• 780 .. 781 25
Orleans ..•.
Strasbarg.to Bale•• —..•• .. 278 75 .. 278 75 .. 276 25 . 276 25
Mignon to Marseilles.— •• 875 . 877 50 .. 875 .. 875

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, A ov. 30.
St. Germain..... •.• • • 940 • • 940 .. 940 .. 940
Versailles, R. 8....... ••• • .. 435 .. 437 50 .. 433 75 .. 433 75
L. 8... ..... 315 .. 315 .. 310 .. 310
Rouen ••••• • • • .. 995 • • 997 50 . • 995 .. 995
Rouen to Havre. ...... 780 .. 781 25 .. 780 .. 780"
Orleans ......... •• • . • • • • ..1017 50 . • 1018 75 ..1016 25 ..1017 50
Strasburg to Bale.• • • 277 50 .. 277 50 .. 276 25 .. 276 25
Avignon to Marseilles.... • • 875 .. 880 .. 875 .. 876 25

A county meeting was held at Edinburgh on
Tuesday, when an interesting discussion took place
on certain resolutions moved by Sir James Gibson
Craig at a late meeting, and referred to a committee.
The object of these resolutions was to maintain the
present system of banking in Scotland. Lord Mel-
ville and Lord Dunfermline spoke against the resolu-
tions, the former, however, being in favour of one-
pound notes. Lord Rosebery lnd Sir J. G. Craig
spoke on the other side ; and on a division, 13 voted
for the resolutions, and 13 against them. Sir John
Hope, the Chairman, gave the casting vote in favour
of the resolutions.

THIS DAY'S NEWS

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL S E S
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A considerable degree of languor pervaded the Cotton
Market at Liverpool yesterday, although the demand
from the trade continued fair. Sales 7,000 bales, of
which speculators took 2,000 bales.—The Rail-
way Shares were rather more dealt in. Bristol
and Gloucester, 344 ; Caledonian, 4 ; Chester and
Birkenhead, New, 23i ; Dublin and Cashel, 84 ;
Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2,20 s. ; Churnet
Valley, 3i ; Grand Junction, 215 ; Ditto, Half Shares,
1071 ; Great North of England, 30L Shares, 64 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, New, 34i ; London and Bir-
mingham 321. Shares, 38; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 264 i;
London and South Western, 754 ; Direct Northern,
48s. 9d.; Manchester and Birmingham, 51 ; Manchester
and Leeds, 1131 114 ; Midland Counties, 108 ; North
Union, 140 ; Sheffield and Manchester,: 97 96k;
South Eastern, 38i ; Ditto, New, 71 ; Lyons and
Avignon, 211 ; Paris and Lyons, 34- ; Paris and Rouen,
38 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 86s. 85s. ; Sambre
and Meuse, 24 ; Central of France, 10.
There are accounts from the Mauritius this morning
to the 4th September. There is not much of importance
in the letters or papers, money was extremely scarce,
the payments into the Treasury having been very large.
The state of the crops is scarcely alluded to in the ad-
vices that have come to hand to-day. Bills on England
were at from 9 to 10 per cent. discount.
There are no arrivals from other quarters of im-
portance this morning.
The transactions in the public securities have not been
to any extent this morning. The purchases of stock by
the Government brokers have been reduced within the
last day or two, from about 30,0001. to 15,0001. The in-
vestments were made to-day at 1024- in the New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. Consols for Money and the
Account have been sold at 1001 ; India Bonds at 83s.
premium ; and Exchequer-bills at 60s. to 61s. premium.
Bank Stock has advanced within the last few days ; it is
now at 206.

A very few bargains have been made in the Foreign
Funds to-day. Spanish Three per Cents. have been at
35k. Russian Bonds were at 1191; the Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents, at 63; and Colombian at 131. In the
other Foreign Stocks little business has been done this
morning.
The Share Market is flat, especially for the railways.
Quotations are rather lower for most of the lines.

' BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Et0ck............ „.........•„• ....„ BO6
9 per Cent. Reduced Annuities...
3 per Cent. Consols. Anne.'loNi 4%
New 3% per Cent. Annuities........„
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 12
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 ......
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 5-16%
India Bonds,l,ooo___... •••••„•...........................„ B3
Ditto under 1,U20..........„....... ....... ••••••••••••• SO
Console for Account .„.„,.............„ 100%%
Exchequer Bills. Ilid. 1%41
• .............. •••••••••••• 61 60 pm.
5004., r......•„......„ -- „........„ 61 60 pm. Ditto Za..... •••••• ....„.„.«.. 63 60 pm.
Ditto Advertisa.••........ -- ••.........•
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds. .....•• " •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 13%
Mexican Bonds, 1937,5 per Cent...„.„.„ —
Ditto for the Account ...........„............
Ditto Deferred 5t0ck......,... ................ ...• 16%
Russian Bonds, 1822,5 per C..ent.. .............. 112%
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840.............„
Ditto Passive Bonds ..„ ....... ..... ...... ........„ 6 6
Ditto Deferred ' 15
Ditto Three per Cent. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •'•
Ditto for the Account 35% li
Dutch 2% per Centa ...... „..........„ ....... .....
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates g6 77
Dutch 5 per Cenell...«••••••••rner«•••,••••••••.....” 99
PRICES OF SHARES 11118 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWaYS. Patti. PER:SMARR.
Birmingham and Gloucester..„.. 100 ......... 1,9
Bristol and Gloucester
30 „.•••• 35
Bristol and Exeter 1 ... . ... „........ 70 ..... 70 69% to 69
Cambridge and Lincoln
....... 234%.„ to
Chichester and Brighton 5 .11611100•11 3 1111,.,.., to --
Chumet Valley ... ..... ........ ........ 2 ..... „.. 3% ...... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ..... .... 5834% ... to
Great North of England. lOO llß%
Ditto New ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 5 ..... .... 15
Great Western •••••••••••••••••••••••• 75
Ditto Fifth 5..........„. ....... ••••••• 12 ••••••••• 25% •••••• to --
London and Birmingham. lOO - "loos.. to
Ditto New Thirds ...... ..„••••...• 2 ...
London and Brighton .........•„.. 50 •••••••• 47%
London and York. ..... .„.....„.•..••
i 2,,,,
.... ........ .. 2% •••••• to 3
%
Midland
Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 ...H... 4914 to
North British 5
WU
5% to
South Devon lO .... ..... 10 ... „to 11%
York and North Midland ..„.«., SO ..„,„,.103
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Ditto Extension —
Boulogne and Amiens ..... „......„ 2
Orleans and Vlerzon
2
Paris and Orleans 2O .....„.. 40 39%... to 40
Rouen and Havre.
MANCHESTER STOCK. EXCHANGE, NOV. 21.—Our
market continues firm, there has been more inquiry for
the heavier stocks, and a considerable business has been
done. Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, 6i i ; Ac-
cringtons, 3 2i ; Darwen and Bolton, 2f ; Wigan and
Liverpool, 4i; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2i 9-16 ; Chur-
nets, 3 11-16 i ; London and York, 3 1-16; Manchester
and Leeds, 113 - ; Ditto, Half Shares, 48i ; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, loi ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 11 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 51 504 ; Southport and Bux-
ton, 21 ; West Yorkshire, 7i si ; Preston and Wyre,
174 ; South-Eastern; No. 2,7 i premium.

DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDEN T
AND LOSS OF LIFE.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
NOTTINGHAM, THURSDAY EVENING.--I have just
received authentic intelligence, of an alarmiag ac-
cident on the Midland line, which occurred this
afternoon at Beeston, about four miles from this town.
At ten minutes to three o'clock, the London train
came into collision with a Derby train, and the
result was awful. The stoker of the London train,
and four passengers, are reported dead ; and many
others severely wounded. The confusion, the
dismantled engines, the broken carriages, but above
all, the cries and groans of the unfortunate sufferers
are represented to me, as being most appalling.

A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street, this afternoon at two o'clock. The
greater part of the Ministers were present.
Lord Aberdeen arrived in town this morning from
Windsor Castle.

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—
We have been informed that a serious and fatal accident
occurred yesterday morning on this railway. It appears
that two men were engaged working upon the line be-
yond West Drayton, during the intense fog which pre-
vailed around London in the early part of the day.
From this circumstance they did not perceive the ap-
proach of the down train, and although the engineer
blew the whistle, this was not heard. The consequence,
as we are informed, was, that both men were swept from
the line, the train passing on without the conductors
having the slightest knowledge of the accident. On
arriving at Slough, however, the front part of the engine
was discovered to be marked with blood, and on another
engine being sent slowly back towards West Drayton,
the mutilated bodies were discovered. It would appear
that no blame can attach to any one engaged in con-
ducting the train. We give the fact as it has reached
us, without having any further particulars of the ac-
cident.

POLICE. PROMOTION.-Mr. Inspector Shackell, for-
merly one of the old Bow-street officers, but latterly in-
spector of police in the G or Clerkenwell division, has
been promoted by the Commissioners to the detective
force.