The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Increasing SUCCe39 of Din Cmiar de Bazan—First Week of another
New Drama.
THIS EVENING, NO ,PEMBER 4,
Will E:e 1 erformed a New Drama, enti led DON CESAR DE
BAZ AN, sit;ported by the entire Company.
After an entirely New Drama, THE SISTER' OF CH A-
TILLON, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, It. Shephard, Vale,
Johnson. M:s. R. Homer, Miss Terrey, Mrs. H. Vining, &c.,
will perform.
I', conclude with MY HUSBAND'S DOUBLE
Plaets 2.nd Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
cthce, from Eleven so Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 5,
W ill be performed LIFE'S A LOTTERY ; • r, Jolly Dick the
La:nplighter. Mr. G. Wi d; Bessie Blossom, Miss
Lyoni.
Atte which, DON CiESAR DE BAZAN. Principal lharacters
1,,y Messrs. stadiston. Dale, Herbert, and Miss Vincent.
To to Mitre with THE Alt I FUL DODGE, in whic t Mr. G.
Wild aid Mi is Hampton will appear.
Private Family Boxes, .£1 Is. Od. and .£1 Ili.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, Nov. 5.
Tnxintoy-a-rFR, Lowest, 36; Highest, 45; Noon, 42
BARONIECER, 29.25.--WIND, N.

Yons.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing; point. and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
u;ually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Mormng 46 minutes atter S I Evening... 24 minutes after 9.

knows how many churches and chapels in
this insulted country ! When th 3 dolorous
parson STOWELL had sufficiently afflicted his
hearers by this budget of grievances, he suddenly
changed his tone, and bade them be of good cheer,
for, after all, things were by no means so bad as they
appeared to be. What, if numbers of their friends
had deserted them, the truest and soundest still re-
mained to comfort them by their presence, and spur
them on to fresh triumphs in the righteous cause of
Protestant bigotry ! What, if many of the
clergy regarded them as a pack of fools,
this fact only proved that the " spirit which animated
CHRIST and his Apostles had descended to them
in its purity and integrity !" What, if their pro-
ceedings were discountenanced by the Legislature,
Lord ASHLEY and Mr. PLUMPTRE were still their
friends, and while these enlightened senators stuck
as tight as barnacles to their cause, what could pre-
vent that cause from achieving a glorious triumph ?
What, though Rome was building churches and
chapels and school-houses in all directions, Pro-
testantism was beating Popery in the number
of her new ecclesiastical edifices by at least
ten to one ! On the whole, therefore, Parson
STOWELL was of opinion that his hearers had much
more cause for hope than despair, and as he had com-
menced by afflicting their sensibilities, so he con-
cluded by cheering them—just as if an apothecary
should first give his patient a poisonous draught, and
then administer the stomach-pump by way of counter-
acting its noxious effects ! We have seldom if ever read
speeches with more ineffable disgust than those de-
livered by the two parsons rejoicing in the names of
THELWALL and STOWELL. They are as strong in
intolerance as they are weak in argument, and supply
by noisy bluster what they want in calm, methodical
good sense.

The whole range of the British proverbs—those
axioms of the concentrated wisdom of a nation—does
not include one more profoundly true than this—
" What should be everybody's business is nobody's."
We have never heard or read the frequent complaints
that are made of the discouragement and gradual
decline of our shipping trade, without being strongly
reminded of the practical truth of this adage. We
are, essentially, a maritime nation. That we should
be so is as indispensable a condition of our political
existence as it is an incident of our geographical
position. But upon the same fact is based the
peculiar fabric of our social system, with its large
command of all the habits, and its enormous con-
sumption of all the products, of those regions of the
civilised world that trade with us. And it may be
fairly contended, that to the moral operation of the
same cause are attributable many of those tendencies
of our manners, tastes, pursuits, prejudices, and pre-
possessions which, be their combined effect what it
may in other particulars, imbue at least two-thirds
of the entire population of the empire with what we
must call, for want of a more significant designation,
" the spirit of seamanship." An Englishman gene-
rally carries about him some sort of vague impres-
sion, that in reality his " march is o'er the ocean
wave," and that, in very truth, his " home is on the
deep." Nay, this spirit is of so overmastering a cha-
racter, that it is the culminating ambition of even his
proverbial love of sport. An old sea captain, or a
weather-beaten admiral, does not so tire of his pro-
fessional career as to take to the turf for want of ex-
citement ; but nothing is more common than for a
veteran of the betting ring—an owner of running
horses, or a master of fox-hounds—to subside into a
bold and active member of the Royal Yacht Club.
How, then, can the public at large look on, and,
year after year, witness, apathetically, the decay or
disparagement of that invaluable interest whose capi-
tal, talent, energy, and enterprise, are devoted to the
noble occupation of ship-building, or the various and
important dealings connected with the shipping
trade ? How can the other great classes of the com-
munity look on without the most serious apprehen-
sion at the growing deterioration of this immense
proportion of the floating capital (not to play upon
the phrase) of the empire ? How can the statesman,
the politician, or the economist, bring himself to
regard, with indifference, the downhill progress of a
depreciation which has attacked the present material
value, and impaired the future prospects, of that com-
mercial marine in whose prosperity or decline is in-
volved the ultimate fate of all the governing princi-
ples that now give to the British character its
peculiar force, constancy, and power ? Simply—
because " what should be everybody's business is

nobody's."
The Report from the " Select Committee on British
Shipping," appointed by the House of Commons,
and which Report (ordered to be printed on the 25th
of July last) has just been issued from the Vote-
office, is a document well calculated to awaken a
wholesome and a very active curiosity throughout a
most extensive body of readers, as to details con-
nected with this interesting subject. We ought
rather to have spoken, indeed, of the " Minutes of

Evidence," and the documentary tables and papers

attached to them, than of the " Report" itself,
which is a mere declaratory statement of seven

lines, suggesting no remedies for the evils deposed to

by the witnesses, and offering no opinions upon the
effect of those depositions. Owing to that baneful
practice of postponing important public business,
which we have so often deprecated as a signal defect
in the administrative management of business before
the House of Commons—" the late period of the
session" at which " their appointment took place,"
this Committee " have not found it possible to com-
plete their investigation, so as to enable them to
come to a satisfactory report." They therefore lay
before the llouse what "evidence they have already
received, and trust that the reappointment of the
Committee may take place at an early period of the
next session." So do we ; for to a more important
end their labours could not be addressed. Neverthe-

less, we have but little faith in such prospects, whilst
the present habits of conducting business in House of
Commons' Committees are to continue. The enor-
mous value of British commercial shipping engaged
in the trade between "foreign countries" and (great
Britain may be appreciated from certain papers gicen
in by Mr. G. F. YOUNG, the eminent ship-builder and
owner, formerly Member for Tynemouth. In 1824,
the aggregate was 609,164—the foreign tonnage en-
tered inwards, for the same year, being 308,951. In
1841, the British tonnage had increased to 1,134,560

tons; the foreign to 530,161. But from a State-
ment of British Tonnage entered inwards in the
United Kingdom from the "British Possessions and
Colonies," in the years 1824 to 1841 respectively,
we find that the enormous aggregate of

tonnage, including the entire British colonial trade,
coasting ditto, fisheries and steamers, was 3,361,211
tons! Of this vast amount, 319,546 should be put
down as " unemployed tonnage." The result would
be, that in 1841 we had actually afloat and employed
3,041,665 tons in our own commercial marine ; a
tonnage utterly without parallel in the history of any
other State in the world, and representing a, capital
as afloat, which, taking a very low figure between the
extreme ones for the cost of building an inferior
American craft at 61. a ton, and a first class Thames-
built vessel at 201. a ton, we suppose we may safely
estimate it, say at 91.—at 27,374,9851.—exc1u5ive of
the 319,546 tons unemployed. But we fear that the
year 1841 must be regarded as the last term (it was
also the highest) of prosperity attained by our ship-
ping trade. Mr. G. F. YOUNG (and no more compe-
tent or respectable authority can be quoted) is of opi-
nion that during the last three years the shipping
interest has been in a greater, and longer continued
state of depression, than he can remember it to have
suffered under at any former period. Mr. SOMES,
the eminent shipowner, of London, concurs in this
opinion, and so does Mr. SMALES, of Whitby. Mr.
TANNER, of Sunderland, confirms it, with the pleasing
qualification that in the present year the trade is ex-
hibiting strong indications of improvement, as com-
pared with the last. Mr. ANDERSON, of South
Shields, considers its depression at this moment to be
greater than it has experienced during the last forty
years ; and Mr. S. HULL, of London, thinks that de-
pression has been progressive since the year 1815,
and that what little improvement may just now have
shown itself is local only, and attributable to the new
trade in guano. The same witnesses speak to the
amount of this depression in shipping property and
the rate of freights, as having reached, within
these few years, from 25 to 50 per cent. As may be
imagined, the witnesses assign various grounds for
this
depression. Some attribute it to the general de-
pression which they consider as pervading trade in ,
general. Others refer it to the over-building of ship

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVigNII4G.

in 1839, 1840, and 1841, especially of inferior de-
scriptions, whilst the quality and building of foreign i
shipping has been carefully improved. Mr. lIUSKiS-
SON'S reciprocity treaties are largely challenged as a
main cause of the depression, owing to the very great
disadvantages under which British shipping enter
he ports of certain foreign Powers, as compared with
those which we extend to shipping of those foreign
flags. The cost of provisions, the heavy charge of
light dues, the Trinity House pilotage, and other
regulations, and some causes still more remarkable,
are given among those which have worked to the
shipowners the serious amount of injury'complainecl
of. But as these are matters at once too complicated
and too grave to be summarily disposed of, we shall
return to the subject on a future occasion.

DAY'S NEWS,

QUEEN'S BENCH.---(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
LAKE V. THE DUKE OP ARGYLE.

This was an action brought by a printer, to recover a
debt due to him from the British American Association,
of which the Duke was President. The case came on
for trial, and the jury found for the plaintiff.
Mr. KELLY DOW applied for a rule to enter a nonsuit,
and for a new trial, on the ground that there was no suf-
ficient evidence produced at the trial to fix the defendant
with the liability, and contended that the case was per-
fectly different from the case of a commercial and trading
firm.
Lord DENMAN read through his notes of the evidence
as adduced at the trial, from which it appeared that the
plaintiff had ben employed by the Association before
the Duke became President.
The COURT took time to consider their judgment.
THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF DOVER.
Mr. HILL applied for leave to amend a rule which had
been obtained last term, to bring up certain orders for
the payment of money made by the defendant:, in order
to their being quashed.
Mr. KELLY, who was in Court, prepared on the part
of the defendants to show cause against the rule, opposed
the application, which was refused, with costs.

The debate in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies
on the address commenced on the 28th ult., and was
expected to continue for some days. The discussion
on the first day appears to have been favourable to the
views of the Government. Previous to the opening
the debate some questions were put to NARVAEZ re-
specting the attempt on his life, and the arrests at
Madrid and Barcelo :a. He stated generally that
the enemies of the Government were getting up con-
spiracies both in foreign countries and in the interior,
against the peace of Spain ; but that the Government
was strong enough to resist, and if the enemies of the
Government depended upon the army, it would be
much disappointed. With regard to the attempt on
his own life, he said the subject would come before
the tribunals. He denounced Revolutionists, and
declared that the Government wanted neither the means
nor the courage to put them down. In conclusion,
he added :—" The Government is in possession of all
their plans, and the delinquents now in the hands of
justice will be speedily visited with the rigour of the
law. The cause of order is in no danger, for the Go-
vernment has both the wish and the power of main-
taining it. As for me, nothing can induce me to
swerve from the path of duty, and from the defence of
the QUEEN and the liberty of my country. Paovr-
DENCE has hitherto protected me, because it knows
the rectitude of my intentions ; but if I am doomed to
fall by the hands of my enemies, I shall die contented,
for my conscience will tell me that I have done every-
thing in my power to uphold the throne and the insti-
tutions of my country. The banner of the Govern-
ment is, the law and the constitution.' Those who
are anxious for their preservation must rally round it."
This speech produced considerable effect, for it was
cheered from the galleries as well as from the body
of the House, and General CONCHA, though opposed
to the Reform scheme, announced his intention of
supporting the Government against every attempt at
revolution.

Barcelona journals of the 29th ult. state that thirty
individuals had been arrested, and a Council of War
was immediately summoned to try the criminals.
Six of them had been ordered for execution.

On the Madrid Bourse (28th ult.) the Three per
Cents. were done at 27i at 60 days, and 27 1-16 for
cash; the Five per Cents. at 204-; and the Floating
Debt at 63i at 60 days.

The Paris papers are chiefly filled with the report
of Marshal SOULT on the Polytechnic School, and
comments on the affairs of Spain. The report of the
Marshal in the Journal des Debats extends to five
columns, and appears to be drawn up with great care
and judgment. The remarks on the newly-disco-
vered plots at Madrid and Barcelona possess little
interest. Several of the Opposition journals, and
among others the National, assert that the affair has
been got up to answer present purposes. The Journal
des Debats pretends to believe in the conspiracy, yet
it is curious to see how tke writer, in his narration of
events, now and then throws doubt on it by the
words—" If we can believe the intelligence." The
following is the account given by that journal of what
occurred at Madrid and Barcelona, and a very lame
account it is :

" The news received to-day from Spain is of great im-
portance. The conspiracy, the existence of which was
announced by infallible symptoms, has exploded and
failed. Our readers have not forgotten the manifesto of
Espartero, in which the Dictator seemed to place him-
self at the order of future revolutions. They have like-
wise not forgotten that at this signal a great number of
refugees belonging to the Anarchist party, among others
General Ametler, who was so prominent in the last
troubles of Catalonia left, secretly, the places of resi-
dence assigned them. Fortunately, the French police
watched closely the frontier, and the greater part were
arrested at the moment of their attempt to enter Spain.
The plot, nevertheless, went on—but it seems that the
Anarchist party felt itself how much influence it had
lost in Spain, by the progress of public opinion—for
this time it is not by insurrection or by pronuncia-
mentos it has been attempted to act, but by assassina-
tion—and if we can believe the intelligence that has
reached us, a plan of assassination, a kind of St. Bartho-
loew, which should include Ministers, Captain-Gene-
rals, and principal functionaries of Government, was or-
ganised. It was at Barcelona that the first essay of this
new attempt at revolution took placet. on the evening of
the 27th. The moment the Captain-General of the
province, Baron de Meer, left the theatre, two
wretches fell on him. The assassins failed in their
attempt, and they were instantly arrested. But as an
escort were taking them to the Mazanares, a mob of
500 persons came to their rescue, and succeeded in car-
rying them off. This mob were not there by chance,
and if the Baron de Meer fell, no doubt they would have
been prompted by the confusion which the death of the
General must have caused among the garrison and au-
thorities, to get possession of the city of Barcelona and
give it up to all the horrors of anarchy. Several of
these fellows were arrested. The movement was limited
to the acts of these 500 bandits, as the mass of the popu-
lation took no part, and the town of Barcelona remained
perfectly tranquil. At Madrid it was, on the evening of
the 29th ult., th coaspirators were to act. The pro
posed victim was Galeral Narvaez. The General was
to dine that day at flea French Embassy, and at the mo-
ment of the arrival a h:s carriage six men armed were
to start forth, stopthe carriage, and while some were to
fire on the coachman and servants, others were to mas-
sacre the General. Providence did not permit the ac-
complishment of this dreadful crime. Among the as-
sassins there was an officer, put on half-pay by General
Narvaez. This man, touched by remorse, and probably
affected by the extent of the crime he was about to com-
mit, or, according to another version, having changed his
mind on hearing the speech pronounced by Narvaez in
the Senate, persuaded his companions to postpone for
another day the execution of their plan. Other reports
say that the General was saved by a fortunate accident.
His watch was too fast, and when his carriage arrived
the assassins were not at their post. It appears that the
officer in question, on the same night, made the fullest
revelations, and on the following day, at the mo-
ment the assassins were waiting for their victim,
tNey were surprised by the police and two
seiz.ld with arms concealed under their cloaks. An
examination at once took place, and the informations
given by the officer alluded to were confirmed. Among
the persons implicated was Colonel Prim, who, it will-1w
recollected, played a prominent part in the insurrection
against Espurtero in Catalonia. Shut up in the town of
Reuss, he defended it with courage against the Espar-
terists, and the Government of the Queen complimented
him by making him General and Count de Reuss. Not-
withstanding these favours Prim was the soul and head
of this conspiracy. He was arrested, and the man who
furnished the arms found on the assassin, says, it was
with him he dealt. We give this news with the greatest
pain, and it is shocking to think that an officer distin-
guished by his courage, and elevated so high by the Go-
vernment of his country, could be so criminal as to take
part in a plan of assassination. It is further said that
the plot has many branches, particularly at Valencia,
under General lioncali; but what has taken place at
Madrid and Barcelona is sufficient to inspire all honest
men; with horror, and we trust that the divisions which
were about to break out among the Moderados will cease.
The discovery of these plots will make the position of
Government much stronger, and Spain, it is to be hoped,
will acquire sufficient strength to put down faction.
Madrid was tranquil when the last accounts came away."
At Togroiefs, on Sunday, the French Three per
Cents. were quoted at 82f.

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Lions for the widows and orphans of four men killed
during the progress of the works, amounted to 93/. Os. 31d.,
which was received in the following coins :—four sove-
reigns, one half-sovereign, one crown piece, 88 half-
crowns, 992 shillings, 842 sixpences, 142 fourpenny
pieces, 5 threepenny pieces, 665 penny pieces, 667 half-
penny pieces, and 25 farthings.
The Sacred Harmonic Society's Concerts re-com-
mence on the 6th inst., with the performance of Handel's
Oratorio Israel in Egypt.
INFLUX OF SHIPPING.—So many vessels have ar-
rived in the port of London from all parts of the world
during the past week, that it has been found impossible
to provide a sufficient number of officers of the Customs,
by whom the vessels are boarded at Gravesend, and who
never leave them until the whole of the cargo has been
delivered, to meet the emergency, and several vessels, in
consequence, have of necessity been for a time left un-
guarded. This is of very rare occurrence, and is partly
owing to several of the tidewaiters having been taken
from their regular duties to assist in the landing depart-
ment,
in order to facilitate the discharge of the vessels,
and the landing and housing of their cargoes.

brother Commissioners upon the point, whether the
Court of Bankruptcy was a Court of Appeal from the
Insolvent Court; but he would consult them, and let
the parties in this matter know his decision upon Mon-
day next.
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS
(THIS DAY.)
The criminal business for the Novvinber Sessions com-
menced this day before the Assistait Judge and a full
bench of Magistrates, at the Court-house, Clerkenwell-
green. The names of 78 prisoners appeared in the calen-
der, of which 63 were charged with felony, the remain-
der being misdemeanour. Most of the cases were of the
ordinary description.
The Learned ASSISTANT JUDGE in addressing the
grand jury,alluded to the recent alteration which had been
made in the criminal law, inconsequence of which he now
appeared before them in a different capacity from that in
which he had the honour of last addressing them. This
alteration would lighten the mass of business at the Old
Bailey, to the great saving of time to the prosecutors
and witnesses. He trusted it would also put an end to
the evening sittings, which were attended not only v, ith
the greatest inconvenience, but also were much to-be re-
probated in a moral point of view. In speaking of the
building of the New Prison, the Learned Judge depre-
cated strongly any attempt to introduce a general system
of solitary confinement in that gaol. In his opinion nothing
could tend more to brutalise a man than when
turning the key of the prison upon him he was never to
see the face of a fellow-creature. Such a course would
debar all chance of reformation. The solitary syst( m
had been strongly and successfully protested against by
the magistrates of this county, and its injurious effects
had been made manifest by Mr. Kilsby, the Governor t. f
the New Prison, so that the public need be under no ap-
prehension of this inhuman system being introduced.
The Learned Judge then briefly referred to their duties,
and remitted the grand jury to their room.
POLICE TESTIBIONY.—EmiIy Mills was indicted for
stealing one sovereign, the property of John Brown.
The prosecutor, who was a man of colour, and cut a
most ludicrous figure in the witness-box, stated that he
was a seaman, and being paid off met the prisoner, who
eventually robbed him of the sovereign.
A constable of the K division, who took the prisoner
into custody, told a quite different story to day in Court
from that which he stated before the magistrate. In
fact, there was not the slightest similarity between the
two statements, which he made upon his oath, against
the unfortunate prisoner.
The Learned ASSISTANT JUDGE strongly denouniied
the conduct of the constable, and said, that while he
would always protect the police when right, he should
also condenen them when wrong. He should take care
and let the inspector know and hear his (the police-
man's) evidence.—The jury acquitted the prisoner.
A KIND MASTER.—Murtha Money, aged 17, was in-
dicted for stealing several napkins and other articles,
the property of her master, Henry Hugh Campbell.
She was also indicted for stealing other articles from
John Anderson, her previous master.
The prosecutor, Mr. Campbell, stated that be received
an excellent character with the prisoner, but suspicion
having been excited, her boxes were searched, and all
the articles named in both indictments found. He
wished at the same titre, considering her previous good
conduct and her youth, to recommend her to the mercy
of the court.
The prisoner, in her ch fe.nce, denied taking the arti-
cles, and attempted to insinuate that the reason her
master gave her into custody was, because she resisted
some improper overtures made to her.
This the prosecutor indignantly denied.
A verdict of Guilty having been returned,
The Learned ASSISTANT JUDGE said that in conse-
quence of the kind recommendation of her master
(which, indeed, she scarcely merited) he should inflict a
light sentence, which was, that she be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for three months.
A number of prisoners were convicted and sentenced
to terms of imprisonment varying from three to nine
months for picking-pockets on the occasion of her Ma-
jesty late visit to the City to open the Royal Exchange.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
A lad named Brown was charged with the following
-4.,.itipt at rob Ling the house of Mr. W. Essex, a gentle-
- "'fly. at 3, Gordon-street, Gordon-square.
man rest,... '-"oclicd at the door of Mr. Essex's
The prisoner h..
on the previous night,
house between ten and eit Mrs. Essex. He
and said he had a sealed letter for - the
handed the letter to the servant, and came
door. The servant was going to deliver the letter to her
mistress, when fortunately Mr. Essex came down, and
having opened the letter, found it contained nothing but
a dirty scrap of paper. Mr. Essex's house was robbed a
short time ago of a great deal of valuable property by a
similar device.

The prisoner said he was sent with the letter by Mrs.
Al!sop, of Regent-street, and afterwards told a different
story.—He was remanded.

UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.)
William Thornton, a young man, was charged beford
Mr. Traill with letting off fireworks.
A policeman stated that on the preceding night while
on duty he saw the defendant come out of a baker's shop
neatly opposite to this court, and placing a cracker on
the pavement, then ignited it, and it soon exploded. He
was about to let off a second, when he (the policeman)
secured him, and he made a most violent resistance.
The father of the defendant complained loudly that his
son should have been taken into custody for merely let-
ting'off a squib, and that he (the father) was determined
on indicting the policeman at the sessions.
Mr. TRAILL said that accidents of the most frightful
nature were caused by the practice of letting off fire-
works in the public thoroughfares, and that it was a por
tion of the policeman's duty to see, particularly at this
period, that it was not allowed. The Magistrate then
inflicted a mitigated penalty on the defendant, and told
him at the same time, if he had any complaint to make
against the policeman, he must apply to the Commis-
sioners, and if they found he had just grounds, they.
ould then have the case investigated at the Court. The
police have had particular directions to take all persons
into custody found letting off fire-works this day.

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, Nov. 2.—lt has long been in contem-
plation to improve the course of the river Meuse.
We now find in a journal of Liege: a letter which, to
demonstrate the necessity of these ameliorations,
mentions three more accidents which have lately oc-
curred at Liege, on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of Oc-
tober, by boats striking the piles of the bridge.
These accidents (says the letter) are only the repeti-
tion of those which, during the last twenty years,
have taken place every winter on the Meuse, in con-
sequence of the defective course of the river to the
commune of Liege; which has already cost the lives
of many persons, and ruined many others.
The Impartial qf Bruges says—" The conductor of
Messrs. Van Guid and Cc., who was arrested in Eng-
land, has been set at liberty, after giving up the
35,000 francs which he had stolen, and made good
all the expenses which have been incurred on this
occasion. The money was sent to Brussels yesterday.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Nov. 2.
Actua Debt, 2% per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. . ...
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per
Three per
Thirty-seven ns, ditto
(1840) 103%
1844.. 10236
Loan of City, 1813, .i''our per
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 60%
Issue of 1841 . . .. ....«• ... alb*" ••••••••••••••••••••• •
—Brussels—Papers, -Nov. 3..
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, Ocr 28.
Five per Cents. Metalliques- 109%
Four par Cents. lOO%
Three per Cents. 7SX
Bank Shares . ... ... " .
41Ugemeine Zeitung, ..... 31.
kIAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, NW 1.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares....* ...... .......... . .... 1635 1630
Anglo-Russian Loan
Russian 5 per Cent., lst series, Certificate...." 105 105
Inscription, Ist series ILS3(
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates .... 99%
New 4 per Cent. (1840) . . .... ....... ...... . ........ 91%
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... 6 % 61%
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 86% 86%
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. • 18%
Polish Bonds —
New Tickets
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BaULIN, Om 29.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 3% per cent.
Prussian English Bonds, 1830, 4 per cent.
Exchange on London 6 22%
Prussian State Gazette, Oct. 30.

THE GAME MANIA.----The most mean and coreemp-
tible part of the game mania is, gentlemen (?) getting
permission (as many do) to sport over the property of
others and selling the game they kill upon it, even though
they have surplus game on their own estates. This is
mean and disgraceful in the extreme.—From a Corre-
spondent.

QUICK PASSAGE.—The _General Steam Navigation
Company's steam-ship Trident, so celebrated for quick
passages, left the Company's wharf, Poplar, last Wed-
nesday night, and arrived at the Duke of Buccleuch's
Granton Pier, after an unprecedented short passage of
thirty-seven hours only.
WILD PowL.—(From a Hampshire Correspondent.)
—Within the last few days, since the wind has prevailed
from the eastward, several large flights of geese, wid-
geon, and other sea fowl, have visited our coast. The
early appearance of these migratory visitors is looked
upon, in these parts, as prognostic of an early winter ;
as the former are never known to quit the more northern
latitudes, where they breed, unless they are instinctively
operated upon by climaterial influence The long gun
punters are busily occupied in training up their frail
skiffs for their adventurous and hardy pursuits, to meet
the approaching full moon ; and it is to be hoped that
they will prove more successful in their undertakings
during the forthcoming than they were throughout the
last winter, which proved so unusually mild that the ma-
jority of these toiling punters did not, from their labori-
ous nocturnal excursions, pick up birds sufficient in num-
ber to ri compense them for their expenses attendant on
their outfit for the season.

The number of passengers during the week end-
ing 31st of October, through Boulogne, amounted to
1,241 ; through Calais, 271. Of the 1,241 passengers
through Boulogne, the number from Folkestone
amounted to 205 ; from Dover, 174 ; from London, 122
—5Ol. To Folkestone, 342 ; to Dover, 222 ; to Rams-
gate, 'l6 ; to London, 160-740 Total, 1.241.
At a wardmote held in Broad-street Ward yes-
terday, Mr. Henry Marriott was elected to the Common
Council in the room of Mr. Moon, lately elected Alder-
man of the ward of Portsoken.

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