The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 184 t.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 30,
Will be repeated a Grand Opera 'Feria, called THE DAUGHTER
OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Corner., Mr.
Borrani ; Moncemgo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe tie Courcy, M. W.
Harristm ; c atarina Cornaro, Ratnforth
To conclude with the celebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Achmet,
NI. Desplaces; The Peri, 3ldlle. Plunkett; Nourmahal, MdLe.
O'Bryan ; Aysha, Mrs. Payne.
The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six
In the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places,
and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John
Parsons

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS , NOVEMBER 30 ,
Will be ;perform- d a NewEVENING and Original Comedy, in Five Acts
called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS, Colonel Rocket
Mr. S. rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe • s : Tom Ceke
Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ;
he Count...as of I Givpion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthori, Mamie Vestis; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennet.
To to tblicraved by ct New and Original Farce' called YOUNG
ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. scrickland; Mr. John James
Psoleteyr ,
whi Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Pcolev Mrs. Humby.
Alch, the Farce of TEDDY THE TILER. Thady Mul-
lowny (the Tiler), Mr. Collins.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office,
Prom Ten till rite crClock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the threction of ibfadame CELESTE.
THIS, EVENING, NOVEMBER 30,
Will be repoated a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS
STRANGER Count Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count
Vanille, Mr. Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame
Celeste ;
Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith.
Atter which, THE WRECK AHORE. Milesßertram Mr. Hudson ; Marmaduke Magog, Mr.S Wright ; Alice,B
Mrs. Y Mrs. ates; Bella, Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
I o conclude with CUPID, in which Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright
Paul Bedford, and Miss Woolgar, perform.
Prom Ater, Mr. °allot ; Principal Painter, wlr Pitt ; Leader of the
Rand, D4r. Mellon.—Box—edice open from Eleven till Four. Private
Bozos to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STHELT.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS , NOV EE 30,
WV! be repeated a NewEVENING Comic Opera, entiMß leR td THE CASTLE
OF AYMON •' or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanoir,
Mr. Walton; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn, Jun. ;
Riotiard, Him° ; Renaud, Mr. Mattacks;• Ivon, Mr. Utter ;
Hermine, Mdlle, Helen Condell ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke.
To conclude with THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood Mr. Wallack ; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling.
Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Di ector, Mr. Emden.
Machinist Mr. Edmund BradwelL
Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4e. ; Pit, 25.; Galls Is. Half.price at
Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, 641.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and s.Half ; Prose's.
allure Boxes, Two eliiineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half.
past Six, and the Performances to commence at Se ven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massinghani.
'Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Reason to be had at the
Theatre.

ZHEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 30,
Will be repeated an Original Drama, entitled HOME AGAIN;
or, The Lieutenant's Daughters. Characters by Messrs. F. Vining,
I F. Mathews, Craven, and Keeley, Miss Fortescue and Mrs. Keeley.
To be followed by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINGEN
'Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold,
Turner, Stoker. and Ke ley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley.
In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which
Jull,en's Mazurka and Cellanus Valse will be danced by aldlles.
:..Louise and Adele, Miss James, and Mi s Fairhrother.
To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS.ONS
"With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal
'Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr.
'Craven, and Mr. Keeley; Mist Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli ige, Mrs.
_A. Wigan, Miss Tumor, Mtge James, Miss Artless, Miss Grove, and
.Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF ADAIISSION._BaIcony Poxes. 41.; Upper
.Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2e. ;
Vp(er Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, is. Private Boxes en the tiAlcony 'Fier
41olding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
er (holding eitsht persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private
Mores on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea.
The Pos...dlice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc-
!.:k n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent garden Theatre.

STRAND THEATR'.
Lessee, Mr. ROBERTS.
EVENING, NOVEMBER 30,
Will be repeatedTHlS Dough' Jerrold's NELL GWYN NE. Nell
wynne, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Orange Moll, Mr. H. Hall.
After which, THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE, in which
r. H. Hall, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. Montgomerie, Mrs. C. Pope,
and Miss Bromley will perform.
To conclude with LA CATARIN 4, in which Messrs. Roberts,
Searle, Howard, Ayliffb, and Mrs. Coleman Pope will perform.

Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This
Eveni, at
ASTLFY'S ROYAL AMPngHiTHEATRB OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER
Will be repeated a New Spe.;tacle, entitled TIIE ROYAL FOX
HUNT; or, The Race_ Horse and Life's Course •f Man and Steed ;
introducing unequalled Natioual Fete,. Beal Fox-chase on the Stage
bJy Mr. And in the Circle by living Fe t and real Pack of Hounds, purchased
Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production.
om Races and other Sporting Features.
ew Scenes of the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To corciude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Three
Conscripts.
Awing and stage-rasnager, Mr. W O. Broadtoot.
Box-otilce open from Eleven till five. Lessons in the Art of Riding
Iy Mr. It. Smith daily.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE,
THIS G PO,
Will he !created a NewEVENIN i.rama,, entitIedNOVENIBER TFIE SEA LED SEN.
'PENCE, supported by s'cssrs. Hughes, N. T Hicks, Vale, Johnson,
21Iorrison, Mrs. R Homier, M.l. Lewis, &c.
Ater which, a New Farce, entited A NIGHT OF HORRORS.
Charactersky Messrs. Va e, Lewis, Johnson, Heslop, Mrs. Daly, Miss
Terrey, &c.
An Ethiopian En'ertninvicat by the REAL AMERICAN
SOU I HERN MINSTMELS.
To :occlude with MARTHA WILLIS, THE MAID SER-
VANT. Supported by Masses Hicks, Neville, Vale, Morrison,
Lewis, Johnson, Mrs. H. Vining, Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. W. Daly, Sic.
Places and Priv atu Boxes to or had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
ether, fro Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER SO,
he repe.ted THE STRANGE INTRUDF:R, in which
Me, srs. Seaman, Higgie, Herhe! t, and Miss Vintere will perform After which, THE two PAGES OF FREDERICK I'Hl,
GREAT. Frederick the Great, Mr. W H. Maddock,; Augustus,
Mies Hamilton; I heodore, Miss Louisa ',rens.
To conclude with ALIVE, OR DEAD. Rudolph, Mr. W. H.
Maddeciss; Agnes Ilanbe-, Mrs. W. West.
Private Family Boxes, .£1 ls. Od. and LI Hs. eel.

TII f 4; IVEATELER,.—ST:s OFFICE, N6v. 30.
Tazradoxsrart, Lowest, 36; Eiightdt„ 40; Noon. 37
BARONIETPR, N.E.
ntrnber 32 on the Thermometer derr,:rtel
tr.'f...aing point, and 55 tsmperate. In Ba7o-n,nterA fair
is
u ually placed opposite 30. and rain at 29
REMEMPIWIermw.••••

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Nonang ... 46 minutes after 4i Evening ... 4 minut!s after 5
faiPelit

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mination to resist and defeat his machinations. Fore-
warned is forearmed." This recommendation of our
Contemporary is nearly it not quite su erfluous, for
who can doubt that the Irish Tories w 1 muster all
their forces—combine all their energi s—and make
every strenuous effort in their power t defeat a mea-
sure which has for its avowed object t e introduction
into the sister country of a more enlarged and
enlightened system of education ? Who, we say, can
doubt, that they will thus act? Moreover, who can
doubt that they will be defeated—signally defeated ?
Sir ROBERT PEEL—the wariest of Ministers—would
never have expressed himself, as he did last session,
had he felt that he had any very dangerous opposition
to encounter from Irish Toryism. He is one of those
cautious characters who—to quote the words of the
old adage—" always look before they leap," and never
would he have taken his " leap," had he thought that
it would have landed him in the midst of a bog or a
quick -set hedge.

In the " Money Articles" of all the London news-
papers it will be found that the very high price ob-
tained by Consols is a subject of astonishment to
some, of congratulation to others. In the former
feeling we should certainly participate, were it not
for the very peculiar condition of circumstances
which now affects the investment of capital. In the
latter we should concur, did not our apprehensions
for the future greatly outweigh any reasons we can
discern for satisfaction with the present. Between
the extravagant and perilous enterprises which are
on all hands now soliciting investments, with pro-
mises of tempting returns, indeed, but these founded
on bases of seeurity almost as flimsy and as worth-
less as the sheet of paper on which they are set
forth—between these and the legitimate channels, as
they are called, of the public securities, there are
few left to choose from. The great established cor-
porate stocks of the elder public companies are seldom
brought into the market, and, when they are, soon
disappear, from the avidity with which they are
sought after by capitalists who prefer, and can
afford, a moderate, but certain and unfluctuating
return for their money, to precarious dividends,
ranging this week between an unit and a thousand—
the next, descending from a thousand to an unit.
The Government securities, from this cause, and
others of the same nature, become in demand. The
operations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in re-
ducing a large portion of the Three-and-a-Half per
Cents., and the considerable sums of money thrown
back on the hands of small annuitants, to whom
many provincial banking establishments decline to
allow the rate of interest they formerly paid on such
deposits, on account of the increased liabilities they
are placed under by the last Joint-Stock Banks' Re-
gulation Act, may have contributed their influence
to produce this action in favour of one of the most
favourite stocks, notwithstanding the obvious dis-
advantage at which the new funders must invest at
such a price as 100 and a fraction. But what is the
reason of a fact we learn from the concurrent autho-
rity of the same articles, namely, that, notwithstand-
ing a high price of Consols thus unfavourable to the
general operation and object of present investments,
and notwithstanding the release and diffusion of so
many broken masses of money no longer employed,
and, moreover, the enormous aggregate of ready
capital procurable on Government paper and first-
rate bills at from two to two and a fraction per cent
—discounts, on any other bills, however unexception-
able, are procurable only with the great degree of
difficulty they speak of? Five per cent., and from
half as much more to as much again, would be given,
but these rates will not fetch out the dormant cash.
Phis is surely an anomalous and a mischievous state
of things. When it prevails, money accumulates to
en enormous extent in a few hands, but is withheld
from the many. The operations and energy of the
many are more or less paralysed by the torpid action
awl dead weight of the few. Property, in its repro-
.ented form, ceases to circulate, because the means of
circulation are absorbed by a few isolated points of
the general machine. To give multiplication and
expansion to thee means would surely be the first ob-
ject of wise legislation. The legislation of Sir ROBERT
PEEL establishes a more direct principle of absorp-
tion, contracts the number of points, puts additional
checks on the circulation, and keeps down the natu-
ral tendency of representation and expansion by the
Nigh-pressure power of a metallic currency, whiel•.
ae greatly fear will one day involve in its
credit, as it has already effectually sapped the
foundations of our commercial prosperity. This fatal
interference n•ifh our monetary system has proceeded
ion the normal solecism of attempting to make gold
at once a stand ad of value at a fixed price, whilst he
ass permitted arid recognised the trade in that metal
as a commodity or merchandise, subject, like any
other, to all the flactuations of value in the market,
which are produced by the varying amount of demand
Ind supply. He compels the Bank of England, and
ill other issuers of paper in this part of the kingdom,
et) pay their notes on demand in gold, at the Mint
price of 31. 17s. 100.—a price so cheap as to have
repeatedly been, since the enactment of 1819, less
than the price of gold of the same fineness in the
market. All issuers of bank notes—the Bank of
England " first and foremost"—have been compelled
to limit their issues, not according to the simple re-
quisitions of the wants of trade, the exigencies of the
demand, the amount of property of all kinds in the
market awaiting conversion into money capital, but
by the chances of their ability at any future period,
proximate or distant, to procure gold in sufficient
abundance to meet all notes of their issue which may
be presented for payment. Had the principle of con
vertibility been limited to gold "at the market price"
—if the current payment, instead of being enforced
at the fixed and almost universally cheap price of
31. 17s. 100. per ounce. this grievous cause of
currency contraction—of a heavy per centage
loss to banks of issue —and of exhausting
weakness, hazard, and decay, throughout the
whole operation of our commercial system and
our domestic economy—would have been, if
not utterly extinguished, at least infinitely modi-
tied So as to be ioine of comparatively innoxious ef-
fect. tinder the system as it actually exists and
works, the employer of industrial labour is as much
acted on in an innumerable class of cases by this ex-
traneous pressure as the banker. To compensate him
for the risk he runs of having to take up gold at pe-
riods when it is dear in the market, and the fluctua-
tion of prices he must meet when it is plentiful, he
impinges on the wages of labour. He no longer gives
a " fair day's wage for a fair day's labour"—that
righteous equivalent which Lord Jome ItussErd. has
so ably and so eloquently advocated. In what events
these fearful anomalies of our monetary and social
condition are pretty certain to determine, we shall en-
deavour to show in an early notice of the " First Re-
port of the Committee of the Society for the Emanci-
pation of Industry," and of the " Three Letters on
the Scottish Currency Question," by " SCOTUS." To
the former of these tracts we shall direct the especial
attention of our readers.
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We have received Madrid papers of the 22d, but
they contain no intelligence respecting the flight of
Zuanerio, though it was believed that he would be
able to make his escape, either into Portugal or
France. The Chamber adopted several clauses of
the Reform Bill, almost Without opposition.
The Three per Cents. closed at 28i for cash, and
28 13-16 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 201
at 60 days.

any maritime war the advantage will be with us if
we have the United States on our side. Let us defend
our commercial interests with firmness, but let us not
confound our affairs with those of Great Britain in
the question of Texas, or even in that of the tariff.
Let us never forget that in every naval or continental
war the English have been our enemies, and the Ame-
ricans our friends."
The National writes in the same strain. " The
questions," it says, " pending between the two coun-
tries will be solved in a sense unfavourable for our
neighbours. The hope of seeing a moderated tariff
granted to English manufactures, thereby increasing
their market, will not counterbalance the uneasiness
I excited in England, with regard to Texas and the
Oregon. For ourselves, we have never had any other
wish than to see the United States, under the empire
of their institutions, increasing their prosperity at
home, and drawing still closer the bonds of alliance
with France, in conformity with the interests of the
two nations; and, therefore, we hail with joy the ac-
cession of Mr. POLK."
The Constitutionnel sees affairs in a very different
light, and says the reduction of the tariff would be
much more advantageous to England than to France,
and it is not at all probable that the foreign policy of
the Union will undergo any change. The Southern
ates, determined on lowering the tariff, will de-
mand a reduction of the land and sea forces, and a
state that disarms is not likely to provoke a war
with England. In short, adds that journal, affairs
will remain in the same state.
Mr. Pouc is but the nominal chief of the Go-
vernment. It is Congress that governs. The Jour-
nal de Debats takes a gloomy view of the election,
not at all warranted by circumstances :
"If the last accounts from the United States are con-
firmed, the election of Mr. Polk is secured, and in that
case we shall see the direction of public affairs, at a pe-
riod when it requires the most consummate experience,
escape from the most capable hands to fall into those of
a candidate chosen without reflection, of whom the best
that can be said is, that he is of more than ordinary me-
diocrity. The result of this election will be to give the
ascendancy to the Radical party, that is to say, to give it
to a party whose very essence renders it unfit for the re-
establishment of order, and the consolidation of a society
shaken to its very foundation. We must deplore this
conclusion, not only on account of the confederacy of
North America, but likewise for the sake of universal
civilization, which is interested in the direction taken by
a nation so highly placed."
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
papers :
The France says :—"We can' announce from certain
information that the projected marriage between Prince
George of Cambridge and the Grand Duchess Olga of
Russia is by no means abandoned."
" MM. de Cormenin, Garnier-Pagaes, and de Lan-
juinais, arrived at Toledo on the 17th. They were pre-
sent at the religious ceremony of giving the benediction
to the colours of the reserve battalion of Tarragona."
The Journal de la Haye contains the following :
" A Flemish journal published in Brussels, under the
title of Vlaemsche Belgen, appears to doubt the truth of
our assertion, that General Espartero was at Brussels
when the English journals declared him to be ill in
London. We maintain what we have already asserted
on this subject. The ex-Regent passed eighteen hours
in Brussels ; and we could, if necessary, name the house
where he spent the night, and the persons whom he saw."
The States of Denmark having, by a large majority,
adopted a motion for a petition to the KING, as Duke of
Holstein and Schleswig, praying him to incorporate
those States with the kingdom of Denmark, several
towns of the Duchy of Holstein, forming part of the Ger-
manic Confederation, have sent addresses to the States
of Holstein, entreating them to resist this proposition.
THE BOURSE--TimasDAT, Nov. 28.
First Highest Lowest Last
Prim Price. Price. Price.
French F:7O per Cents.....• 119 .• 119 10 .. 118 90 .. 118 90
Fours
Three per Cents..... 83 55 .. 83 65 .. 83 40 .. 83 40
Bank of France ..... •• •••••314; ••3150 .• 3145 ..3145
' alitte Bank, 5,000 f. Sharesso2o —5020 ..5020 —5020
Belgian Bank •• •••• 590 •
.. 590 .. 580 .. 585
Spanish Threes.. •• •• •• 35. i •• 35f .. 351. .. 3.5 f
Por,uguesc Five per Cents— 11 • • 54/ •• 641
Dutch Two and-a-Half ....• 63
.• 63 .. 63 . 63
• • 54i
•• .• .• • • 96 •• 96 10 96 .• 96
Roman •• • '7ll .. 104/10
.. 104 .. 104
RAILWAY' iiIIARES.
St. Germain. •. ••• 940 Versailles,.• 940 .• 935 .• 35
R. 13.— •• •••• 417 50 .• 447 60 .. 442 50 .. 442 50
L•B••••••••••••• 320 .• 322 •
50 .. 317 50 .. 317 50
Rouen• ••••••••••• •• •• •• ••1010 • 1010 ..1007 80 ..1007 56
Rouen to Havre....
••• —lO5O —IOAO ..1047 50 .•1047
•Atra•siptrig to Rale— •••• •• •• 274 25 .• 277 50 •• 276 25 . 277 5,)
1.
Avignon to Marseilles.... •• 997 50 .. 920 • 907 50 .. 912 50
RAILWAYS FOE THE ACCOUNT, Doc 3.
Versailles, R. 8....... •• •• 417 50 .• 447 50 .. 448 .. 4.4
L. 8..... •••• •• 322 50 .• 322 50 .. 315 .. 2155
Rouen to Havre.... ... •• • 787 50 - • 787 50 . • 785 • • 785
Orleana ......... •• • ••• •.1052 50 -1055 ..1046 25 —11.46 25
3trasburg, to Bale-- •• •• 277 50 .. 277 50 .. 277 50 .• 277 50
'lvignon to Mars,'llles.... • • 905 •• 920 .. 905 .. 915

ORLEANS, TOURS, and BORDEAUX
RAILWAY.
, , uy tue cu iii~Grli
of the Company, have just completed a tour of inspec-
tion over the section of this line between Orleans and
Tours, preparatory to the delivery to the Company by
the Government.
Of the 114 kilometres (72 miles) comprised in this
distance, there are 94 kilometres ready for the imme-
diate commencement of the ballasting and laying the
rails. The remaining 20 kilometres are in an ahaost
..qual state of forwardness, except in the immediate
vicinity of the city of Tours, where the earthwork is
very light.
The stupendous bridge over the Loire, at Mont Louis,
had the last arch keyed-in in the presence of these gen-
tlemen. It is a noble structure of 12 arches, each 25
metres span (82 feet English), and is built with the
beautiful stone of the country. It reflects the highest
credit, as indeed do all the works on the line, upon the
Government engineers, MM. Foulon and Moraudiere,
upon the latter of whom, more especially, has devolved
the direction of the lower part of the line.
Not only the masonry, but the.earthwork also is com-
pleted, with the exquisite finish which characterises all
the work of the French engineers. The embankments
are constructed in successive layers of from half a metre
(20 inches) to a metre in thickness, laid in from barrows
or carts. The slopes are dressed off with the most care-
ful precision, and the cuttings are faced with stone
pitching almest to the very top ! This mode of con.
struction is much more expensive than is usual in our
k:-

.away works in this country ; but we are not quite
sure that it is not cheaper in the end. At all events the
Company, who have to;work and maintain the line, have
abundant cause to rejoice at the carefulness and solidity
of the construction throughout.
After much deliberation and considerable difficulty
with the department of Public Works, the joint station
at Tours for this and the line to Nantes is definitively
fixed to be at the very gates of the city, which will be an,
immense convenience to the public, and no small advan-
tage to the city itself. The plans are approved, and the
erection of the buildings will be commenced forthwith.
The Company will have an independent station at Or-
leans also, communicating, if needs be, with that of the
Paris and Orleans Company. The other stations will be
commenced without delay, and have been defer-Q(1
hitherto only that the wishes of the Company might
consulted as to the sites and general disposition of tilt,
buildings.
About 100,000 metres cube of coarse sand and gra% el,
for ballast, extracted from the bed of the Loire, during
the summer months, is already carted on the line ready
for use, and excellent material is at hand for forming
the bottom layer, to bed the sleepers on. We hope,
probably in our next, to be able to announce the ratifi-
cation of a formal contract with Messrs. Mackenzie and
Brassey, for the completion and stocking of the whole
line to Bordeaux, leaving ?till a good margin on the
capital of the Company. This would, indeed, be the
crowning act of the prudence and good management
that have characterised all the operations of this Com-
pany, if, in the face of seventy millions, estimated by
the Government engineers as the requisite capital for
completing and working this line, and of seventy-five
millions, estimated by more than one of the competing
Companies, the Directors can accomplish it for less than
sixty-five millions of francs, of which their capital is
composed, they will have earned the lasting gratitude of
the shareholders. It will be a novel feature in the history
of railways for the shareholders to have a guarantee, at
least six years beforehand, that the capital is sufficient--
that there will be extra bills to be paid, and no loans
raised or shares created to provide means of payment.
We use the word "guarantee" advisedly, because the
well-known wealth, as well as skill and experience, of
the firm in question, can leave no doubt that they will
accomplish, and in the least possible time too, whatever
they undertake. It is confidently expected that the
section to Tours will be opened in the month of August
next year.

THIS DAY'S NEWS

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OTHERS. _
Their Lordships in this case gave judgment, remit-
ting the case to the Court of Sudder Adawlut.
HOSANNA KIRABOOSE V. SERLE.
The further arguments in this part-heard appeal were
resumed to-day. The case came before their Lordships
upon an appeal from an order made on the equity side of
the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras,;by which the
Court on the petition of the respondent, the Registrar
of the Supreme Court, obtained leave to file a bill as the
next friend of, and on behalf of, the infant children of a
person named Arathoon Kirakoose, an Armenian, who
died intestate. In consequence of this order a bill had
been Sled in the Supreme Court at Madras against the
present appellant, by the respondent, as the next friend
of the infants ; anti from that decision the present ap-
peal was brought.
The further arguments occupied their Lordships the
whole day.
CHARGE AGAINST THE GOVERNOR OF GUERNSEY.
Their Lordships have specially appointed the 2d and
10th of next month for the hearing of the charges
brought against the Governor of Guernsey by the inha-
bitants of that island.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and a
Middlesex Special Jury.)
HILL V. STRATFORD.
This was an action to recover the amount of a pro-
missory note, drawn by defendant, of which the plaintiff
is holder ; and the defence was that the mote had not
been given for a legal consideration, but for a gambling
debt. The defendant, Mr. Hugh Stratford Stratford, is the
young gentleman whose name has of late been so fre-
quently before the public in connexion with certain alleged
gambling transactions, out of which the present action
has arisen, and which have already formed the subject
of trial before every metropolitan court of record, from
the High Court of Chancery down to the Court of the
Bankruptcy Commissioners. Various witnesses having
deposed to the fact that it was a gambling transaction,
the jury, without retiring, found a verdict for the de-
fendant.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius.)
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
GARDNER V. ALLEN.
This was an action to recover compensation and
damages for the alleged unlawful detention of a horse
and cart. The case was of no interest whatever, except
to the parties concerned.—Verdict for the defendant.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice MAULS and Mr. Commissioner
BULLOCK, &c.)
MANSLAUGHTER ON THE RIVER.—A young man,
named Samuel Simms, was indicted for having, while in
command of the Waterman steamer, No. 6, improperly
run down a small boat, rowed by Edward Everett, a
licensed Waterman, and containing four passengers, by
which the said Edward Everett and another person were
drowned. The body of the first-named person was af-
terwards found, and these proceedings were instituted in
consequence.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Wilde were for the prosecu-
tion ;
.Mr. Clarkson and Sir John Bayley for the de-
fence.
Mr. BALLANTINE having stated the case to the jury,
proceeded to call witnesses.
John Fryar, a labourer, proved the finding of the body
on the 22d November.
Edward Everett, inspector of Thames Police, saw his
father (the deceased) leave the stairs On the Rotherhithe
side of the river. He bad with him four passengers. He
was 66 years of age, and had for many years been a
Waterman. There was no obstruction on the water then.
The steamer was making her way across in the wake of
the skiff. Her speed was seven or eight miles an hour.
The proper rate in the pool is only five miles. Just
before the occurrence the steamer had not in any way
s'ackened her speed.
John Savory, a seaman, was in the skiff with the de-
ceased on the 25th of October. He did see a person on
the paddle box, of the steamer, Waterman No. 6, when
she was coming up In their wake. Witness made a sign
to draw off m ore into mid•chanuel, but it was unattended
to. The deceased then pulled to the larboard side, in
order to save his boat from being cut in two by the bow
of the steamer. The paddles, however, caught her, and
she was capsized. The steamer was going at the rate of
ten miles an hour. She did not slacken her speed.
John Taylor, another seaman, who was also in the
skiff, gave similar evidence, as did two other witnesses.
John Chambers, examined by Mr. CLARKSON--Is
master of the schooner Ann, moored off the Tunnel pier.
There was a strong eddy occasioned by the schooner,
from the position in which she lay athwart the stream.
Were it not for that eddy the small boat could have
made the stairs easy enough. To a steamer coming up
the river the eddy would not be perceptible. Be thought
the cw----,pl, of the steamer could not have avoided the
arpi deli—
By M LANTINE--He could not have avoided thy

accident, from the position in which the steamer was a,
the time I first saw them. There was no time for the
steamer to have backed, as she was just in the act of
striking the skiff.
Richard Field, a waterman, ascribed the fatal occur-
rence to the rate at which the steamer was going.
Mr. CLARKSON contended, that before the prisoner
could be held accountable in such a ease as this he must
be proved guilty of some personal act ; and he cited the
law from Carrington arid Payne in support of his posi-
tion. Sir John Bayley followed on the same side.
-Mr. Justice MAULE said that the whole evidence
proved that the direction of the steamer at the time of
the occurrence, and for some short time before, had been
wholly under the control of the prisoner, and therefore
he thought that the cases cited by the Learned Gentle-
man for the defence did not apply in the present instance.
Mr. CLA.RKSON then addressed the jury. He regretted
the decision to which his Lordship had just come, for,
convinced as he was, of the prejudice that existed in the
minds of the jury against the rate at which steamers
were said to proceed upon the river, he would have had
the matter rather dealt with as a matter of law than one
of fact. The Learned Counsel then adverted to the facts,
as sworn to by the different witnesses, and asserted that,
under the circumstances of the case, the prisoner could
not have otherwise acted.

Witnesses were then called for the defence.
The jury, not being able to agree upon a verdict, were
-ocked up.

NEW co(RT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
A DANGEROUS " SPREE."----A respectable-looking
young man, named Alexander Webb, was indicted for
stealing a coat and waistcoat, the property of William
Dickson, under the following circumstances :
It appeared that the prosecutor and the prisoner had
been drinking together during the whole of the evening,
when, both parties being drunk, the former about twelve
o'clock invited the prisoner home, upon reaching which
the prisoner, as he alleged in his defence, for a " spree,"
put on the articles named in the indictment, with which
he walked out of the door. Ile was, however, followed
'by some friends of the prosecutor, who gave him into
custody.
The Leerned RECORDER, in summing up, said it was
entirely for the jury to decide whether the property was
taken in a drunken frolic, or with a felonious intention.
The jury, after a lengthened consultation, returned a
verdict ,:f Not Guilty.
The prisoner, who seemed to be deeply affected dur-
ing the trial, then walked from the bar.
John Belton, a cab-driver, was indicted for stealing a
coat and other articles, the property of John Donald,
and Henry Belton, his brother, was indicted for feloni-
ously receiving the same, well knowing them to be
stolen.
The evidence showed that the prisoner,:lienry Belton,
had a coat very similar in appearance to that named in
the indictment, and having been discharged from the
prosecutor's service, he sent his brother for his clothes,
and some other trifling articles, to the prosecutor's
stables, when the coat was taken.
The jury at once Acquitted the prisoner.
Henry King and Richard Allen were indicted for
stealing a quantity of metal, the property of James
Wilson Edwards.
The prisoners had been in the prosecutor's employ-
ment, and, taking advantage of the facilities thus afforded
them, committed the theft.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Court
sentenced them to six months' imprisonment.
Edward Warren, Philip Roberts, and George Bowers,
were indicted for stealing one hogshead of sugar, the
property of the London Dock Company. In another
indictment the sugar was described as the property of
Thomas Drake. The prisoner Warren pleaded guilty
to the indictment.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Baldwin appeared for the pro-
secution, and Mr. Clarkson, with whom was Mr. Doane,
defended the prisoners Roberts and Bowers.
The facts of the case have been already fully laid be-
fore the public in our police reports.
Evidence having been adduced at great length in sup-
port of the prosecution,
Mr. CLARKSON took 'a
technical objection to the in-
dictment, which having been allowed by the Learned
Recorder,
The jury, by the direction of the Court, acquitted the
prisoners Roberts and Bower.
Edmund Warren was then placed at the bar forjudg-
meat, and sentenced to be transported for seven years.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT NOTTINGHAM,
The inquest on the body of Dean was brought to a
conclusion last evening, 'when the jury returned a
verdict of " Manslaughter against
.the Nottingham
Station-house-keeper."

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OXFORD, soy. 29.—The Hebdomadal Board has
received tho report of the committee on Mr. Ward',3
, publication, and are now engaged in devising some pry.
I tical measure of censure. It is not, however, anticipated i
1 that the tratter can be brought before the Convocation
during the present term. The proposition of the Rev. i
Mr. Bricknell's pamphlet for including the origo mall I,
Tract 90 in an authoritative condemnation finds favour 1
in some quarters, and yet may be good on.
I

PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THISDAY.)
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-
day in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords
present were the Master of the Rolls, Lord Campbell,
Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of the Admiralty, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Sir E. East, Sir
A. Johnston, and Sir E. Ryan.
JUVEER BHAEE AND OTHERS V. VURITJ BHAEE AND

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