The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1844,

I.7nfortunatc Spain seems destined to undergo new
consulsions, and, to all appearances; as- fruitless as.
any that have taken place since the first invasion of the
French during the reign of.NAPOLEON. The country
novivhas been for nearly forty years in a constant
state,of turmoil ; any little -trade that existed has
beep- completely destroyed ; the energy of the people
ba4fien turned7--not to the arts of civilisation, or
commerce, or literature—but to plots and conspira-:
cies and -intrigues ; and the most lamentable fact in
this dismal account is,, that not one man of energy,
coMbining honesty and patriotism, has sprung up
during that long period. In the revolutions
which have broken out in England and
France, aP.ine bright genius—some man sur-
passing lilt his competitors, great as they were--
carnit forth to vindicate the honour of his country,
and- lay the foundation of a syste:n of liberty, or, at ,
all event, of stable gevernment. England and
Trance never appeared to such advantage; or were
more respected and dreaded by foreign countries, than
when they were torn by civil dissensions, and ap-
peared almost helpless against foreign aggression.
What saved them ? The patriotism of 'the people—
that • love of country which surpasses all other
passions in energy and enthusiasm, and that noble
spirit of independence which will brook no
interference of strangers. CROMWELL vindicated the
maje?cv of the English nation, and though regarded
ai an usurper, was courted by every Sovereign, even
the most absolute, in the civilised world. For years
-before BONAPARTE distinguished himself; the French
bad set all their enemies at defiance; raw troops, in-
spired with the love of country, marched almost to
certain death—nothing was thought of but the inde-

pendence of their country ; and, to their immortal
honour, they not only expelled their worthless nobi-
lity anti clergy, but male inroads on their meddling
neighbours, and magnanimously asserted the inde-
pendence of the French nation. What glorious
struggles, too, the people of the Nether-
lands made against the whole power of
Spain ! They fought to the death against
slavery, and were finally victorious, and the house of
A.witria strove in vain against a handful of patriots
who followed the banners of TELL, and established a
pure-Republic in the midst of despotic States.• What
a contrast, when we turn to Spain—once the most
energetic and powerful kingdom in Europe ! There
line
aril forservice—she
uhbai! no . mercantile navy.
Bankruptcy, dishonour,swindling, conspira-
cies, and murders, are the only f
A. e features which distin-
guish this miserable country, Dew constitution,
under the directions of French authotitie
(;' uhn
been, framed, and will be fully
co mplete as
less interrupted by some new conspiracy—som;
new scheme for individual interests at the ex-
pense. of the wretched inhabitants—the victims of
every regenerator and impostor. ZURDANU has raised

the standard of revolt, but what can be expected from
a ruffian of his character, whose only mode of punish-
ment is death, and who for his ow a individual inte-
rests would sacrifice the constitution of 1837, and sell
himself to the f-st bidder. NAaVAEZ is bad enough,
but ZUEBANO would be infinitely worse, and even
Don CARLOS himself, who ought to have some regard
for the people, would be worse than either. His Du-
rango decrees mark his ferocious nature, and altogether
every leader that has yet appeared, with the exception of
ESPARTERO, only exhibits the utter degradation and
corruption of the Spanish nation. We look to the
contest without the slightest hope of consolation; and
every friend of humanity can only lament in despair
the sufferings to which the lower classes, from all
accounts the most remarkable in Europe, are sub-
jected by the worthless aristocracy, the grasping
priesthood, and the mercenary officers and soldiers.
Every year, nay, every month, some new out-
break takes place ; the unfortunate inhabitants
are made the victims, their property is pillaged, they
are shot like bents of prey, and there seems to be
no end to their calamities. If evor any nation had a
claim to the humane consideration of Christian
States, Spain has the best right to demand their aid ;
and France and England, and the other great
Powers, will suffer much in the judgment of pos-
terity, if these horrible scenes are not put down by a
universal combination i❑ the cause of humanity.

A correspondent of a morning Contemporary
notices the following, among other complaints which
are. now being made by the more moderate and ra-
tional party in the Church against certain of the
clergy, chiefly curates, who entertain Tractarian
notions :—First, their doing the service in black
gowns or white gowns ; secondly, their bowing
before the altar; thirdly, their omitting or inter•
polating prayers; fourthly, their turning to the east,
ind often with their backs to the whole congrega-
tion; fifthly, their introducing a prayer in another
part of the church after the sermon, which embraces
scarcely more than has been actually prayed for

three or four times in the Liturgy ; sixthly, their
establishing offertories directed by the curate's own
choice, and even pertaining to other countries ;
-Ind lastly, their refusing marriages and burials,
and even the Holy Sacrament, to persons on
their death-bed, according to their own caprice. We
Agree with our Contemporary's correspondent that
these innovations—which, by the by, have been un-
known for ages—are all frivolous, and some of them
ven ridiculous; and we ask with him, " Can any
one imagine the Solute:we BRING to be conciliated
by such thoroughly insignificant forms and cere-
monies ?" But not only are they absurd in a religious
sense, but they are eminently mischievous in a
worldly point of view, for they are creating dis-
gusts and jealousies and heart-burnings in the
Church, and sowing the seeds of ill-will between the
clergyman and his parishioners, which will be sure
ere long to produ,ce a plentiful harvest, and give a
shock to the Establishment from which it will be
slow to recover. If ever there was a time when
it was necessary for the Church to play
s conciliatory part—when it was absolutely
indispensable to its temporal safety to maintain an
appearance of complete harmony and unity—that
time is the present ; and yet it is precisely at this
critical moment that it is most distracted by internal
feuds and jealousies, and instead of concealing, seems
to take a perverse satisfaction in exhibiting its sui-
cidal differences to the world! And wherefore all
these dissensions in the Church ? What is their
origin—what the object which the Dissentients have in
view ? They originate in a childish passion for spe-
cious forms and ceremonies, and old, obsolete ob-
servances--obsolete, because proved by experience to
be utterly worthless—among men whose imagination is
more remarkable than their understanding; and their ob-
ject is to substitute the show for the substance—the form
for the essence—the dead letter for the living spirit
of religion, with a view to take captive the fancy of
men, and by artful appeals to what exists in them of
sentimentality, to bring them once again under the
insidious domination of priestcraft. Such is the ob-
ject, scarcely concealed now, which the Tractarians
have in view in so sedulously promoting what they
Gall the restoration of the Church to it original purity.
The spirit of free bold inquiry that has been so rife
of late years, and which is rather the ally
than the antagonist of true religion, is abhorent
to these zealots, who, if they possessed the power—
which we can confidently assure them they never
Hill possess—would check the progress of the human
mind in every direction, and put a stop to all legiti-
mate freedom of thought and action, from an appre-
hension, certainly not ill-founded, that it would prove
injurious to their arbitrary and unwarranted pre-
tensions. Plausible as are its professions, lofty as are
its claims, disinterested, to all appearance at least, as
are its motives, and sagacious as are its advocates in
their capacity of Divinity tiophists, Tractarianiana is
neither more nor less than a crusade against common
sense--a dictatorial attempt to check the advance of
the human mind by subjecting it, by slow and artful
degrees, to the uncontrolled, irresponsible dominion
of priestcraft. Surely our Bishops, as men deeply in-
terested in the temporal welfare of the Church, should
at once actively interfere in order to put a atop to
these childish--but, alas! dangerous also—freaks of
the Tractarians! But instead of this, we find them
doing—what ? Actually throwing the weight of
their influence into the scales of Tractarianism! We
do not mean to say that all the Prelates are guilty of
such injudicious conduct, but certainly two of the
cleverest and most active of their number are ob.
noxious to the charge of so acting. We allude, of
course, to the Bishops of LONDON and EXETIIN—
pIr nol ile fratrum t—,one of whom, by his ri-
diculous behaviour -on the subject .of the offer-
tory,. 20 tha....ether his still more ridicu.
lounindgment jn,4l,_case of the Rev. WamEn
Buns; of Helston, hive inflicted a world of mischief
on the best. interests of the. Church Establishment

iVe anticipate avast increase in the ranks of Dissen

from the ill-jud- gtd and ill-timed officiousness of these
twin episcopal', luminaries, who seem to be on the
most &Stant terms, of Acquaintance with common
sense, and to be endowed with the very extraordinary
and peculiar power of moving in no direction but a
wrong one; SIIALSPEA.Rit'S complaint admirably
applies to them

" Man, rain man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high Maven
As make the angels weep 1"

In the Spanish Chamber of Deputies a lengthened
discussion took place on the clause of the Reform
Bill which annuls the hereditary right of the Peers
to seats in the Upper Chamber. The Marquis of
MotiTE VISGEN moved, as an amendment, that the
functions of senators should be hereditary, in certain
aristocratic families. Senor GALIANO opposed the
amendment, on the ground that aristocracy no longer
existed in Spain, and that it could not be revived
by a law in defiance of public opinion. The
Minister of the . Interior also spoke against
the motion, and said the Government in pre-
paring the measure, had not lust sight of the
conspicuous part which the nobility had acted in the
history of Spain, while they, at the same time,
looked to the present state of society, which did not
permit a larger share of power to be given to the
aristocracy than that contained in the Bill. The
amendment was rejected by a majority of 88
against GO.
According to some accounts, ZURBANO had en-

what might have been expected, for the writer evi-
dently had a strong bias against the present occupants,
and made insinuations against them, to say the least,
not very probable. The Constitutionnel, in adverting
to the subject, says, "The letter, which is as odious as
it is ridiculous, can meet with nothing but contempt
from every right feeling mind in France and in Eng-
land." The National refuses to sully its pages by the
insertion of the letter, and perhaps this is the best way
to treat these er parte statements which are often
full of exaggeration, and occasionally not founded on
facts. Some of the journals express regret that
France should ever have taken such useless and dis-
tant settlements under her protection, and throw no
little blame on the Government for its want of fore-
sight. Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, it appears, has
no wish to return to France at present. " A letter
from that officer," says the Preme, " announces that
the news of his disavowal bas reached him, and that
being left at liberty to return to France, either directly
or in about two years, after accomplishing a voyage,
he has determined on adopting the latter course."
The Aloniteur publishes a royal ordinance, autho-
rising the Minister of the Interior to open an extra-
ordinary credit of 240,000 francs (9,6001.), to defray
the expense of the experiment of an electric telegraph
on a railroad of at least 24 leagues (60 miles) in
length. The experiment, it is said, will be made on
the Paris and Rouen line.

The following literary gossip appears in the
Paris Globe :

44
M. Dujarrier, the proprietor of the Presse, has taken
M. Alexander Dumas upon lease at 60,000 f. a year. The
Constitstionne/ announces to-day that it has acquired the
exclusive property of M. Eugene Sue—we know not at
what price, but we believe that he is to have a share in
the property of the paper. The proprietors of the Cour-
tier Francais have offered M. Victor Hugo half the pro.
perty of their journal for his novel entitled Quiquen-
grone.' But it is not only the novel that the daily press,
absorbs, it is also the higher walks of literature and his-
tory. The aforesaid M. Dujarrier has just bought for
80,000 f. in cash, and an annuity of 4,000 f., M. de Cha-
teaubriand's 'Met:noires d'Outre-Tombe.„' Thus that book
which, like a will, was to have appeared but after the
death of the writer of Rene,' and 'Les Martyrs,' will be
published during the life of the testator between a feuil-
!don of fashions and theatricals. This is not all; It is,
at this moment, contemplated publishing M. Thiers
history of the Empire' in the shape offeutlletons in the
Constitutionnel. The bargain is proceeding ; if M.
Thiers do but consider the hopes of a portefeuille as dis
tant, he will assent to the arrangement. From that mo-
ment the bargain may be considered as concluded. Thus
journalism will, ore long, absorb polities, the novel, high
literature, history, and science."
The subjoined letter from Bayonne, dated the
21st instant, appears in the Constitationnel:—
'•News has just been received here that great agita-
tion reigns in Upper Aragon and at Saragossa, and
that two small towns have reared the standard of revolt
and declared against the Government, after having dis-
armed two companies of the Bourbon regiment and a
company of carabineers. We have no positive account:
of Zurbano. Official reports from the authorities and
Consuls intimate that he has crossed the Ebro and got
into Navarre, while from other sources we are assured
that the intrepid guerilla is in Old Castile, marching
upon Lower Aragon, by Morella, where he hopes to
raise some partizans. We are assured that the Basque
provinces are to be put in a state of siege, which will be
a violation of their fueros. The authorities on the film-
tier have been recommended to observe the strictest
surveillance."

tered the town of Serie, %here ho was well received
by the inhabitants, and where he, of course, took
an opportunity of showing his cruel disposition. The
political chief had, according to orders issued, pub•
li,hed a decree by which ZURI3A3IO, on being taken
prisoner and identified, was to be immediately shot.
ZURnANO immediately ordered the unfortunate poll-

Very little business was done in the funds at TOR-
Tom's on Sunday. The Three per Cents. were
quoted at Baf.

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 23.—The President of the
Chamber of Representatives announced that the
general debate on the project of law relative to corn
having been closed, the debate on the articles was to
begin. After a long debate, and the proposal of
several amendments, some of which were agreed to,
the Chamber adopted the several parts of the project
of law, and fixed its duration for two years. This
last was carried by a majority of only one vote.
The Minister of Finance then presented a project of
lavr for alienating some national domains, and for the
acquisition of some parcels of land to be added to the
domain of Tereenren.

The celebrated Berzelius has just been seized with
so violent a congestion of blood that great apprehen-
sions are telt for the result. .
A letter front Berlin says that Tschesh has been
condemned in the second instance to be beheaded.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussate„ Nov. 23.
Aetua Debt. 2}i per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent.........
Lean of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. 28%
Three per
Thirty-seven Milli...ns, ditto 77
....... It 2%
ISM ........ 102%
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent. lO4.
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. 573.
Issue of 1841 ..... .. ... ••••••••••.•••••••••••
—.brussels Papers. Nov. U.
AUSTRIAN te UNDS...ViIawmA) Nor 18
Five per Cents, Metalliques IC
Four par Cents. •••••••••••••••••••••••4•••••••••••••••• ....... ••1005
Three per Cents. ............ ..••••••••••
Rank Shares 1t144
......... ••••••••••••• ...... ••••••••••••• •••••••

Ditto. Mg ... • ................ .....
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand 112%
Gloggnita ••..• ........ ••••••••• • ••• ...... •••• ••••
)11 i I an. ........ ••••••••••••. 1 11%
dllgemeine Zestung,, Nov. 21,

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—Permit me, through your invaluable columns,
to call the attention of the commercial body to a
society that has lately sprung up amongst certain
commercial gentlemen, called ".The Commercial Tra-
vellers' Protection Society," the object of which, so
far as I can learn, it to upset the present state of
things, and to dispense with the social and convivial
mode of meeting in the commercial room, by intro-
ducing a system of teetotalistn. I think it•right, if
any such society is in existence, that it ought to be
known, and not to be a secret society. It seems that
it has for its object the complete upsetting of the pre-
sent usages at ions, thereby laying the foundation for
still greater distress among the already-depressed
landlords, and the ultimate end of which must be
greatly to abridge the comfort of the commercial
room.

tical chief himself to be shot, and the order was car-
ried into execution. Saragossa had been declared in
a state of siege. The Castellano states that at Cadia,
on the 14th, the revolutionists had been tampering
with the garrison of that city, and that General ARAOE,
who was on his way to Cuba, had been arrested and
mprisoned in the fort of St. Catherine. Many other
arrests had been made in the south.

.Respectfully soliciting the insertion of the above
for the information of my fellow-travellers, and with
a view also to ascertain the real state of the proceed-
ings of this so-called society—l remain, Sir, your
obedient servant, ,
AN OLD COMMERCIAL. TRAVELLER.
Bristol, Nov. 25, 1844.

T HE

XTENSiVE'BANK ROBBERY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta.,—We caution the public to the serious result
of the above extensive robbery, and should advise the
propriety of procuring good locks and safes before it
be too late.
We have made and continue to make, for some of
the first banking-houses in England locks and safes
which will guarantee this security. The locks we
apply to our safes and strong rooms are such as will
defy the most ingenious picklocks, or false keys, and
the only locks which will not admit of an impression
being taken from the key in the event of its being left
in the hands of the dishonest—a most important feature
to the security of property, as duplicate keys are the
most dangerous of instruments.
We shall be most happy to show and explain to
principals in what consists the superiority of this
lock and key, as applied tb safes, strong rooms, &c.—
We reo lain, Sir, yours obediently,
S. MORDAN AND CO.
Manufactory, 22, City-road ; or at
'Warehouse, 50, Cheapside.

The :Dulie of Devonshire has contributed 1001. to
he fuirie for Father Mathew' and has written the fol-
owing totter, which is equally honourable to his Grace
and the Apostle of Temperance: —" Hardwick, Nov. 8,
1844.---:My dear Sir—l did not receive your letter of the
Ist inst. until yesterday. I have great pleasure indeed to
aequaitet you that I had already written to my auditor,
Mr. B. 'Currey, concerning my subscription towards the
collectfeen for the deservedly esteemed, and universally
respected, the good and benevolent Father Mathew. My
attenticen was called to it by the•newspapers.—Believe
me, my dear, Sir, to be most sincerely yours,—DzioN-
SHlßE.' Addressed to Rev. Dr. Fogarty, P.P.
SOUTIIAMPTON, Nov. 25.—Tne Oriental Com-
pany'e Meant-ship the Pacha, Captain Bernie, arrived
in the Docks last evening from Gibraltar, and landed
her malls, which were forwarded to Loudon by the two
A. M. mail train, this morning. Her dates are Gibraltar,
Nov. 17. Cadiz 18th, Lisbon 19th, Oporto and Vigo
20th. The Pacha has thirteen passengers and a small
cargo of fruit. The same company's steana-packet the
Tagus, Captain Brookes', left the Docks at two rat.
this day, en route for Constantinople, &c., with a very
'full cargo of bale goods, and twenty-fire passengers.
The Lady Mary 11.r.00d will sail from this port on wed_
'wedgy, for India, vie the Cape.
,he Duchess of Man.
She does not take out
either cargo or Spa isengers.
chester and suite ar rived here this day from London.
Her Grace will embark on Thursday, in the. Gibraltar
out in the Qneen, on the 14th instant, but was .pre-
vented for the 'Mediterranean. She was to have gone
m
vented by sudden and severe illness. Lord Fitzroy So
and his two day ghters, Lord and Lady Canning,
and Sir Willoughby Ga rdon, left here this day, per rail-
wa;-, for the metropolis...
IteneroecemENTsr OIC TUN BAlL—During Michael-
mas Term no less than:'
54 persons were called to the
bar, which at the comm encement of 'term,
as appeared
by publicatiOn of the fa ct, numbered 2,243 individuals.
Of the 54, 15 were call. at Joy the Honourable Society of
Lincoln's Inn, 'eight .b yethe,Honourable Society of .the
Inner Temple; 29 by he Middle Temple, and two by
Gray's Inn.

The Three per Cents. were done at 271 for cash,
and 27 9-16 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 20i at
60 days ;° the Floating Debt at 641, and the Debt
without interest at 6i at 60 days.

Several of theTaris papers publish the letter froth
Otaheite, which appeared in the English journals a
few days since, and express some indignation at the
imputations cast on the French officers. This is only

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESIYAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1844.

MONEY AND CO-ZUM-hlt. CIAL S
CITY, TUESDAY ReIeNING.
The value of ConSels was the same at the close of
business this aftern::on, viz., 1003 3, being firm. Ex-
chequer Bills continued at 60s. to 625. premium ; but
New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents, receded a litt!e,
owing to a sale made, being 102 ; and Bank Stock
dropped to 2053.
Spanish were very dull, but did not vary in price.
The Five per Cents. brought 24 ; • and the Three per
Cents., 33 to k. Portuguese Converted were 55 to 551.
Russian obtained 119 to 1191.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Bristol and Gloucester were 5 ; Churnet
Valley, 1i ; Great South-Western (Ireland), 31 ; Great
North of England, New, 103 ; Birmingham, 1173 to
117 ; London and York, -3 to 1 ; Midland, 7 ; Newcastle
and Darlington, 323 ; York and North Midland, 523 to
533 ; Ditto, Scarborough Branch, 21 ; Boulogne and
Amiens, 2to 3 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 33 ; and Paris
and Orleans, 208 to 21 premium. Direct Northern have
been 3 ; Eastern Counties, 11 ; Brighton, g ; and
Greenwich, 3 discount. Dublin and Galway were at par.
The Foreign Exchanges were exceedingly firm this
afternoon ; and on Amsterdam, Hamburgh, Paris, and
Trieste, bills were taken at rather higher rates.
Tho following is the official return of the exports of
bullion from the port of London- for the week ending
Thursday last :
Silver Coin to Rotterdam
Silver Bars to Hamburgh 15.000 ~
(ff roe The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market had a flat appearance yesterday.
Sales 4,000 bales, viz. 200 Egyptian at 53d. to 64d., 250
Perham at 50. to 514., 250 Surat at qd. to 33d., and
the rest American at 34cf. to sd. per lb,—Shares, except
South Eastern, were firm. Birmingham and Gloucester,
98; Bristol and Gloucester, 343; Churnet Valley, 33;
Eastern Counties, 133; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2, 205.;
Grand Junction, 215 ; Ditto, New, Quarter, 401; Great
North of England, New, 15; London and Birmingham,
217 16; Ditto, 32/.•Shares, 371; Ditto Quarter Shares,
26+; Manchester and Leeds, 114+; Midland Counties,
108; Newcastle and Darlington, 51; Preston and Wyre,
19; South Eastern, 371-; Paris and Orleans, 40; Orleans,
Tours, and Bordeaux, 87s. 6,1. to 88s. 9d.
For obvious reasons the facts connected with the rob-
bery of the banking-house of Messrs. Rogers and Co.
were kept with the greatest possible secrecy until a late
hour yesterday,. and then only through the medium of
the Mansion-house, and an official statement through
the solicitors employed to conduct the inquiry. It was,
indeed, not long before the close of business at the Stock
Exchange that the fullest extent of this enormous
robbery was known. We understand that assistance was
immediately tendered to the firm. The business goes on
as usual. As all that has yet transpired is most
sacredly kept from the public, it would be worse
than useless—nay, dangerous in the extreme, to
give any of the rumours that are current relative
to this extraordinary circumstance. As The Sun
was the only paper that bad full particulars of the
notes, &c., stolen, it was in great request yesterday
afternoon. There is a numerous attendance of persons
at the Mansion•house to-day, in the expectation that
something may have transpired to give the " where-
abouts" of the thif or thieves ; but up to mid-day
nothing whatever had been stated.
There are not any arrivals in the City to-day from
the British Colonies or elsewhere, -of importance. In
fact, the delinquency above referred to, is the almost
sole engrossing topic_ of conversation in monetary and
other circles this Morning, The general opinion is,
that the parties to the robbery made their way imme-
diately after the robbery to the continent. The most
active means have been taken to apprehend the robbers.
Stocks continue 'very firm, but there is very little
doing. Consols are 2003 3 for Money and Time.
Exchequer Bills realise 60.4. to 625, premium, and India
Bonds under 1,000/. 82s, to 84s: premium. Bank Stock
is 206 to 2063, being a further advance. India Stock has
been steady at 2863. The New Three and-a Quarter
per Cents. are 102 to 102+, and the Three per Cents.
at 991 to 994.
The. Foreign Investments share the dullness of our
own Market. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 233
to 243, and the Three per Cents. 35 to 353 ; Portuguese
Cone rted are 541- ; Mexican Bonds are a little firmer,
being 351 to 553 ; lintel' Two-and-a-Half Cents. have
been quoted 63 to 633, and the Four per Cents. 961
to 97.
The Railway Shares have been steady generally, but
there, is only a limited business doing. Some of the new
lines maintain their value, while others have dropped
lately. -
'ILICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .....«....„.• ic
8 per Cent. Consols. Anna
New 3% per:Cent. Annuities .. 102%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1660............ 12
. Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860.......,. 12 5-16
India Stock
India 80nd5,1,C00....,
Ditto under 1,000.
Coneol• for Account
Exchequer Bill,.
1,0001.
5t101.. ,
Ditto rm. 21".....
Ditto Advertised."... .............
PRICES 'OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent „«.,.... „N 3511
nitto for the Account %
Dittd Deferred Stock. lf
Portuguese Bonds. 5 per Cent.
Ditto Conve:ted
Ditto for the Account ..... ....... 54%
Spanish Bonds, Five per Coht
Ditto for the Account.... ..... ............ 23S
Ditto Passive Bonds . ........ 6
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
Dutch 2% per Cent 5................. ........ 63Ni
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates.... ...... 96% 97
Dutch 5 per 99
PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK,
RAILWaYS, Pals. PER-SHAM
Birmingham and GlouCoSter.„.... 100
Bristol and Gloucester 30,... ..... 31% to
Cambridge and Lincoln ............ 2 5... to
Churnet Valley .... 2 ........, 3%
Cornwaq . ......... S
Dias, Becciet, and Yarmouth 214
Eutern Counties 25 13%...... to
Great Southei n and Western"! s
(Ireland)
Shrewsbury, Wolverhainpton,) „,,
anal ki,mingham ........ ......
Great North•of 100
to
Ditto New a
..... l6
to
Great Western.N»..«•N.«•NN,N75 ..... 138%34 to
Lancaster and Car1i51e.....,..-..... 10 12%
London and Birmingham.......... 100
Ditto New Third5........„,„.....2 to
London and ...., ▪ d'al
to
London and 2% ...... 3% to
Manchester and Leeds.. ........ 70 to
"•••• ...... 76
to
Ml;dnldritot.?ndan..d.;..a.u.r.eit.h... .. ......................... 10030 to
Newcastle And DarlingtonJunct 21 •
53
North British.... .......... ..... 5
Norwich and 8rand0.....n ..... 8 ........ is
Ditto New ...............+.......... 1 to
South Eastern and Dover .... 33%
Ditto New
Trent Valley
York and North Midland 50
to
Ditto Scarbore Branch ..... 10 • 313 s •••••• to
Ditto Extension
Boulogne and Am ...... ~. 2
Orleans and Vierion .............. - 1034% to
Orleans and Bourdeaux ......... to --
Parisand 20 310%'•••••• to
MANCHESTER STOCK EICHA.NOR, NOV. 25.—Our
market has not been very active, but prices remain
3ste7ft-dly6.;
liChududrnerestss,eidand Manchester, 31 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield,
4 7-16 ; Kendal
and Windermere, 23 ; Manchester and Leeds, 114 ;
Mmingham, 503 ; Midland, 40/. Shares, 123 premium ;
Sheffield
fliceledstearndan:;inicieudxn,to3no, :986d,.;. Manchester and Mir-
; South-Eaetern, New,-
73 premium; Trent Valley, 7; ; West Yorkshire, 73
CLOSING PRICES.
ex dm 2e51,4
BRITISH FONDS.
Ditto Bonds Xl,OOO
Batik Stock pm
3 per Cent, Red , 96% Ditto under Z 1,000....... 81 Pre
3 per Cent. Cons
as mei Cent. Red' Ditto Old Annuities
New 3% per Cent. lO2 Ditto New Annuities —
New 5 per Cent.— ........ Ex. Bills, 1,000/, pu%
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001
lan. Is6o l2 1-16 Ditto Small ...... ....... 60 pie
Oct. 1850 — Bank Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860 l2 5-16 I Consols for Act. ......... 100%
Indian ... .. 286%1 India Stock for Acct... .
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ........ ,Russian, 5 per Cent ll9
Belgian, 5 per Cent — pitto, Metallic
Brazilian fiends . . ... 5 per Cent., 1840 2l
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent.. Ditto,
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent,..„,. Ditto, l&12
........
Chinon, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1813...„.......«.« —
Colombian, 6 per Cent 184$
Danish, 3 per Cent ..... Ditto, 3 per Cent ......... 35%
Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent.... Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct —
Mexican, 5 per Cent French, 5 per Cent..—. —t c
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct... French. 3 par Cent.... —1
Prussian Bonds, 4 pet Cent. Exchange .... . —c.
Veruvian Bonds, 6. per Dutch, 2% per.. Cent.....
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct IDitto,.s per
SHARES.
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Direct Northern, 2% paid
Dublin and Galway; paid
Eastern Counties (25 paid)
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid 8%
Great North of England. 100 paid
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid)
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Lorelon and Brighton (50 paid) 71
London and Greenwich (ht. 155. 4d. paid)
London and York, '44 paid
Midland (100 paid)
Newcastle and Darlington Junction, *2l paid
• York and North Midland (50 paid) lO3l,
Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid
• ' -Ditto Extension
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 pa
oriouis and Sourdeaux, 1
Partisan?' Orleans (20 paid)
COURSE OF EXCHA]
Amsterdam CF. .12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 63
Antwerp 25 95
Hambnrgh M.B. 13 133
Alton.a l3 133
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto, 3 months 25 90
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maina l2l
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin
Vienna, effee. 11.3 M 953
Trieste, ditto
Madrid • 361
Cadiz • 363
Whs.() 36
Barcelona 36
Sevilla

100%

I%d.

60 62 pm:
60 61 pm.

d • 4 g
. 40%•...•" ....... .....•..• • ••••
GE.—(YESTERDA Y.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice ..—...
Naples 39i
Palermo, per oz llB
Lisbon 55
Oporto 55
Rio Janeiro..
Bahia
Buepos Ayres
Newy-ork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, Paz oz.
Foreign Gold, bars f 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 .5
New Doubloons.-- 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 91
Silver in Bars, 0 4 114

• 13ATUS AT CHEWE.----The Grand Junction Com.
pony have erected baths hear their works, for the use of
their workmen. We highly approve of this, as there is
nothing so conducive to health and comfort as cleanli-
ness of person. Nine-tenths of the diseases to which
Englishmen are at, present subject would " take their
wings and fly away" if our countrymen would only
habituate themselves to a general ablution at least twice
a week. The Grand Junction Company deserves great
credit for baying constructed the baths, which are oppo-
site the doors of their extensive workshops, and we have
no doubt their intelligent workmen will avail themselves
of the convenience. The proverb that places cleanli-
ness next logodlinostia a good One, and would be very
appropriate over every imtrance to a bath. Wo hope
soon to hear that there are no " unwashed" at Crewe.
Litterpooldadox

cot-:Fer cn?cu L Ali .

WINDSOR, TITESDAT.—The Queen having been
pleased to command an Investiture of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath to take place this day,
the Knights Grand Crosses began to arrive at the
Castle about one o'clock.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge isr-
tivt-d from Kew, attended by Baron Knesebeck.
The Duke of' Wellington, Sir Edward Codrington,
Viscount Strangford, Sir George Murray, and other
Knights, arrived soon efter.
At half-past two o'clock the Knights assembled in
the Guard Chamber, and were there. robed in the
splendid mantles and collars of the Order, in which
they afterwards proceeded to St. George's Hall.
The Chapter was held in the Reception-room. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert having entered the apart-
ment, preceded by the Lord Chamberlain and the
Lord Steward, the ceremony commenced.
The Knights Grand Crosses present were—
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, First and
Principal Grand Gross, and acting Great Master of
the Order.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
His Grace the Duke of Wellington.
Viscount Strangford. Sir George Cockburn.
Sir Edward Paget. Sir Edward Codrington.
Sir George Murray. The Earl of Clarendon.
The officers of the Order present were—Alegernon
Greville, Esq., Bath King of Arms; and Albert
William Woods, Esq., Gentleman Usher of the Order.
The procession enterd the presence of the Sovereign
headed by the Gentleman Usher of the Order, fol-
lowed by the Knights in the order of their seniority,
Bath King of Arms following the junior Knights.
The Queen, who wore the Mantle, Collar, and Star
of the Bath, was seated at the head f the table, having
Prince Albert on her right, and the Duke of Cam-
bridge on her left, the Knights Grand Crosses
being seated on each side of the table.
Sir Arthur Aston was then conducted from St.
George's Hall between the two junior Knights
present, the Earl of Clarendon and Sir George Cock-
burn, preceded by, the Gentleman Usher of the Order,
bearing the insignia of the Order on a crimson velvet
cushion. Sir Arthur was ushered to the right hand
of the Sovereign, and, kneeling, the Sword of State
was delivero by the Lord Chamberlain to the senior
Knight of the Cross, who presented it to her Majesty.
The Queen then conferred with it the honour of
knighthood on the new Knight Grand Cross, who, on
rising, had the honour to kiss the Sovereign's hand.
The Riband and Badge presented by Bath King of
Arms were received by Prince Albert and handed
to the Sovereign, who placed the same over the right
shoulder of Sir Arthur, and also presented to him
the Star of a Civil .Knight Grand Cross of the Order.
The new Knight then withdrew.
The Earl of Ellenborough was introduced between
the Earl of Clarendon and Sir George Cockburn,
preceded by the officers of the Order, and had the
honour of Knighthood conferred upon him with the
Sword of State by his Sovereign. The Noble Earl
was then invested by the Queen with the Riband
and Badge of the Order of the Bath, and also re-
ceived from her Majesty the Star of a Civil Knight.
Grand Cross. His Lordship then had the honour to
kiss-her Majesty's hand, and retired from the Royal
presence.
The Knights Grand Crosses were called over, and,
with, the officers of the Order, retired from the pre-
sence of the Sovereign with the usual reverences.
The Court was attended by the Marchioness of
Douro, Lady in Waiting; the Lord Steward, the
Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the
Vice-Chamberlain, the Marquis of Anglesea, Gold
Stick in Waiting; Lord Rivers, Lord in Waiting;
the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, the Comptroller of
the Household; Mr. R Ormsby Gore, Groom in
Waiting : Colonel Richardson Silver Stick in Wait-
ing ; Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher to the
Sword of State ; Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in
`Waiting ; Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert;
Baron Knesebeck, Equerry to the Duke of Cam-
bridge, and the Field Officer in Waiting.
A Guard of Honour of the Foot Guards was on duty
during the ceremony in the Grand Quadrangle of the
Castle.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Saxe COburg and Gotha, and the Duke Ernest of
Wurtemherg, attended by Madame la Baronne de
Wangenheim, left the Castle at half-past nine o'clock
this morning in a carriage and four, for the Slough
station of the Great Western Railway. Captain
Francis Seymour and Captain Vyner followed in an-
other carriage and four,

The illustrious party proceeded from Slough to
Paddington, and from thence to Buckingham Palace.
In the afternoon the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Co-
burg and Duke Ernest visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester house, and
partook of a dejeuner with the Royal Duchess. Their
Royal Highnesses and suite returned to the Castle,
via railway, at six o'clock.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their accus-
tomed early walk this forenoon in the pleasure-grounds
of the Castle. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness
again promenaded in the afternoon.

'The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken walking
and equestrian exercise, both morning and afternoon.
Sir Robert Peel arrived at the Castle this after-
noon, on visit to: the Queen.

• Sir Henry Wheatley left the Castle to-day.
The Queen gave si`grand dinner in the evening, to
which all the Knights Grand Crosses of the Order of
the Bath present at the ceremony were invited. The
banquet was served in the Waterloo Chamber. The
Stateservice of gold plate was used on this occasion.
Down the whole length of the middle-of the table
were a succession of lieautiful specimens of orna-
mental gold-plate. Opposite to her Majesty, in the
centre of the table, was placed the St. George's Can-
delabrum, flanked at -a• little distance by two large
scent-jars 'of the time of Queen Anne, in gold, and
of most curious workmanship; further still were the
beautiful candelatra, designed by Flaxman —the sub-
ject, "The Garden of the Hesperides"—and at each
extremity of the table were the " Venus Icepails,"
designed by Baily. -The interstices in this line of
xnagnificent objects were filled ' with epergnes of
most elegant design, filled with artificial flowers. Down
each side of these, which formed the' centre of the table,
was placed a 'row of gold candelabra, bearing
a profusion ,of wat.lights ; and beyond these, towards
the edge of the table, ware placed the gold dishes of
various descriptions, in which the Viands of the ban-
quet were served. ArOund the room were a succes-
sion of side tables,-on which were displayed shields,
salvers'. and other 'articles of massive chaiacter, in.
gold'pitite. The apartment was also illuminated by,
the five brilliant .chrystal Chandeliera.
Soon after eight o'clock tbe Queen and. Prince
Albert,tonducted'by the. Lord Steward, entered the
banquetting-room; followed by their illustrious.'
visitors and,. distinguished' guests, the hand of the
Royal Horse Gimirds playing "God save the Queen"
on her Majesty's entrance,
The following had the honour of receiving, invite-
tions :—Her Royal Highness the Duehess orKezit;
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, their
Royal Highnesses the Duke -and Duchess of Saxe
Coburg and Gotha, his Royal Highness Duke Ernest
of Wurtemberg, the Duke of Wellington, the Earls
of Liverpool, Delawarr, Jersey, Clarendon,' Beverley,
and Ellenborough, Sir Robert Peel, the Marquis of
Anglesea, Viscount Strarigford, Lord Forester, Lord
Ernest Bruce, the Right Hon. George awson
Darner, Right Hon. Sir George Murray, Sir Edward
Paget, Sir Edward Codrington,pir, George Cockburn,
Sir Arthur Aston, Mr. George Edward and the
Hon: Mrs. Anson, Hon. and Ref. C. L.*Courtenay,
Major General Wemyss, Sir George Couper, Colonel
Richardson, Baron Knesebeck, Lady F. Howard, and
the Countess Wratislaw.

After dinner her Majesty's private band was in at-
tendanee in-the grand Reception room, and performed
the following pieces under the direction of Ur. An.
derson

Overture, "Des Falkners Brant" Marschner.
Cradle :Song, Serenade, and Dance,
"Die Wei‘he der Tone"
Secolid Concerto, Violin, M. Sivori... Sivori.
Hocbzeits March....
Carnovale de Venni., Violin, M
• Sivori
Overture, Seraglio" ..... Mozart.

Mr. Brownrigge, M.P., had an interview with Lord
StanleY yesterday, at' the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a. meeting ,yesterday at their office in Whitehall-
place. The Commissioners present were the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Lord President of the.
Council, the Earl of 'Devon, the Earl of Chichester,
and the Dean of Westminster.

Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-general
to the Commissioners for the reduction of the National
Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday.
Dr. Ryerson had an interview with Lord Stanley
yesterday.

•
The Refuge. for the liouseless Poor, which has
been opened for several years in the City; will be ready
for the reception of objects as soon as the severe weather
shall have set in. • It is the practice of the Committee to
.throw open the doors of three asylums for houseless
poor in the. City of London at the latter end of Novem-
ber. It is but fair to state, that the demands upon the
funds of the. Committee for the last year's expense, in-
curred by th 9 influx of paupers into the City of London,
has reduced their means of. Affording assistance very
considerably.. . -• • - • •
Scuoms roc. ALL.—Monday some schools were
opened in Chequer-alley, Bunhill-row, St. Luke's, for
ibout 300 boys and girls, and which are situated ad-
joining an open space of ground the property of the
Society of Friends. Attached to the school are baths.
Thelcundation-stone.Of thein, Was laid by Lord John
Russell in the course summer.
KIND*LANDLORD.—At the last rent audit Mr.
Byng, M.P., made a reduction of 101., 201., and 30/. per
cent., according to the exigeneies of his tenantry.

LITERATURE.
DIRECTORY TO THE FOREIGN PORE

CHARGES.
This publication will be found of great value to
ship-owners and captains. It gives the port charge
at more than 300 of the chief foreign ports Gusto ).
house fees payable to the surveyor, and pilotage, te",
gether with monetary tables, showing the value 19;
local coins in English money, and the weights Lindd
measures, also reduced to the English stanckaa'
Every harbour is minutely described, the course into
each pointed out, the depth of water, and indeed
every particular given that can be interesting to sea-
faring men. We give the following description 111
Halitax as a specimen :
HAL
The capital of Nova ScotlFiaAX,, on the south-east CO.sst
of that province, lat. 34 36 N., long. 63 28 Vi., i 6
ated on a peninsula on the west side of Chebucto BAY,
and has one of the finest harbours in America. 91g
best mark in sailing for Halifax is Sambro light-house,
on a small island off the cape of the same name, on
west side of the e-ntrance to the harbour, in lat. 44 30
N., long. 63 32 W. The light, which is fixed, is 210
fvet above the level of the sea ; and a detachment of ar:
tilfery, with two 24-pounders, is upon duty at the HO,
house, firing at regular intervals during the continuancv
of the dense fogs with which this part of the coast is very
much infested. The course into the river for larq:
ships, after passing Sambro light, is between the
laud on the west and Macnab's Island on the east. Oa
the spit projecting from the latter a light-house has fe
cently been constructed : and when this is seen, ships
may run without fear. Ships usually anchor abreas
of the town, where the harbour is rather more than
mile in width. After gradually narrowing to about °/::1;
fourth of that width, it suddenly expands into a 12°"d,
sheet of water, called Bedford Basin, completely in,.13„
locked, with deep water throughout, and capable (VII':
commodating the whole navy of Great Britain. IA a
harbour is accessible 'at all times, and is rarely itill'euer.
by ice. There is an extensive royal dockyard at lb I
fax, which, during war, is an important naval stati°•,;:
being particularly well calculated for the shelter, rePs'
and outfit of the fleets cruising on the American Oao
and in the West Indies..
hes
Pilotage—lnwards, vessels under 200 tons, 2L ;
200, 21. 10s.
Light Money—One penny per ton in, and one Pen°l
per ton out.
Ballast may be had at two shillings per ton ; dischorr
ing, per agreement.
IVharfage—Six shillimvs per diem per vessel. i
Money—Accounts are kept in pounds, shilliags,
pence, the same as in England, and the weights and Ine--
sures are also the same.
There is an interesting account of the island
Ichaboe, which lies on the west coast of Africa, a',
°.l.
four or five days' sail from the Cape, is only one Vile'.
in circumference, and is twelve miles from the shi.be
Full particulars.pre also given of the discovery Ol'
island, the mode of shipping guano, and the be
stations for anchorage.
•