The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-26 00:00:00

T II E

JACK O'LANTERN
(LE FEU FOLLET);
OR, THE PRIVATEER,
A Story of the Sea.
By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq.
Riehard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

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to £72,170 sterling.
Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH-
OUT DELAY, to
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Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, NOV. 26,
Will be repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin-
cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly,
Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P.
Grattan, Miss Fancit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c.
After which, a New Comic Barletta, called AN I ONY and
CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss
urray.
To be followed by a Grand Barletta Spectacle, entitled
ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford,
Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche
Ginbilei.
To conclude with THE SECRET. Thomas, Mr. H. Beverly.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past
six, commence at seven o'clock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Unparalleled success and, extraordinary attraction.
T. P. Cooke in two pieces. _
THIS EVENING. NO V. 26,

Will be repeated an entirely New Nautical Drama, en-
titled THE UNION JACK; or, the SAILOR and the
SETTLER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. I'. P.
Cooke, who will be supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville,
Smith, Heslop, Mrs. R. Honner, and the entire Company.
New scenery and splendid nautical effects never before attempted.
After which, for six nights only, THE MONSTER ; or,
THE FATE OF FRANKINSTEIN. Frankinstein, Mr.
H. Hughes; The Monster, by Mr. T. P. Cooke, as acted by
him upwards of 100 nights in Paris.
To conclude with Mr. Barber's new Drama, en-
titled THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, the
FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zamba, the Slave, by Mrs. H. Vining.
The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W.
Smith, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Terry, who will sing Miss
Eliza Cook's Song of the " Red Indian," composed by Mr. G.
Stansbury.
Thousands of Blue Jackets are attracted by the last scene of
Union Jack—the destruction of the Pirate's vessel by fire—
appalling effects.
Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at
the Box -office, from eleven to four.

HI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
minutes after 7. Evening 15 mimite.,rr,..

NEW CHINA SUN,

WITH A

MAP OF CHINA.

ON WEDNESDAY NEXT, THE 30th INST.,
• WILL BE PUBLISHED,
A NEW CHINA SUN,
CONTAINING
EVERYTHING INTERESTING
WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND
A DESCRIPTION OF THE
FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF
CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO,
• NINGPO, AND sHANGHAE ;
TOGETHER WITH ALL THE GLORIOUS
AND DIPOR,TANT EVENTS OF THE
LATE WAR IN THAT COUNTRY.

Orders received at the SUN-OFFICE, 112, Strand,
and of all News-Agents.

officers who commanded the expedition were ap •
-
pointed by the late Government, and though the
movement up the Yang-tse-Kiang, which
brought the war to a speedy conclusion, had been
suggested by their successors, it was undertaken
by ►Sir WILLIAM PARKER and Sir HUGH GOUGH
before the instructions arrived. So much for the
honesty and gratitule of that party who have
reaped the fruits of a victory planned and
executed by the very agents of those public men
whom they abuse and calumniate. Had the ad-
vice of certain Tories been followed, leading men
too, in both Houses of Parliament, the gallant
SALE and his brave companions would, in place
of gloriously_ planting the British standard on the
Bala Hissar, by this time have fled for shelter to
India, British merchants in China would have
been robbed with impunity, and the :name of
England disgraced and despised in every region
of Asia. -

We see with pleasure that the summary punish-
ments inflicted by the Magistrates are attracting
more and more the attention of the Press.

Among the cases of " Justice law," (said the Times
yesterday) which have lately come under our obssr-
votion, two are so particularly scandalous, so revolting,
to every feeling of political expediency, morality, and
reason, that a free Press would be useless if they were
not exposed. One of them belongs to the province
of our old acquaintances the Gloucestershire incor-
rigibles. We have lately seen how these gentlemen
treat the unhappy poor whom they have once got
within the walls of their prison at Northleach; and
now we see for what sort of offences the same func-
tionaries send their fellow-citizens to that gaol.
Our Contemporary then quoted a remarkable
case, which has already appeared in The Sun,
and added—

A gentleman (an educated man, it is to be presumed,
probably himself the owner of farm-houses in which
it has been forgotten to make provision for the decent
and modest separation of the sleeping apartments of
male and female servants)—an English gentleman—
in the name of the law of England, has consigned a
virtuous young English woman for a fortnight to the
contamination and severities of a gaol—of Northleach
gaol—for declining to remain in a situation where the
preservation of her chastity would have been morally
impossible ! If, indeed, it is an offence against the law
of England for a poor servant girl to be scrupulously
careful of her honour, this Magistrate must be admit-
ted to have sent her to a place where she will be likely
to unlearn that weakness for the future. But if such
an allegation be a foul libel on our law, it would be
no more than justice to make this Magistrate take the
servant maid's place in prison. _ _

blandest smiles, the sleekest skin, the best s
brushed coat, the most orderly decorum, 1

the men who pass laws to keep food
from the people also consign them to
gaol for entrapping a wild animal. They do not
think that wrong, and have no more a feeling of
shame at their conduct than had those wor-

thies who recently rushed into a court of
law and solicited the public gaze for the
most hideous profligacy. At present the
public morality, and the private conduct
of our aristocratic rulers, shed a bright
and clear light one on the other, and the under-
standing of the people mist be obtuse indeed if
they do not soon attain the conviction that
country gentlemen, who both make and adminis-
ter laws, have been much too long entrusted
with irresponsible power.

The Manchester Guardian contains the report
of a speech delivered at the meeting on Tuesday,
which want of room excluded from our report,
but which is worth preserving. Here it is
:
Mr. E. Grundy of Parkshill, Bury, said,--Nothing
had been farther from his thoughts, when he came tob
that meeting, than the idea of taking any part in the
proceedings ; nor would he ever have consented to do
so, but that his refusal might have led people to say
that he was afraid to identify himself with the Anti-
Corn-law League.—(Cheers.) Having made this
preliminary remark, he would just say, that he com-
pletely concurred in all that had fallen from the
Chairman respecting. the present depressed condition
and the no less ruinous prospects of our home and
foreign trade. On that subject he felt assured that
there could be no difference of opinion among mer-
chants and manufacturers.—(Hear.) All must agree,
that unless something were done, and that speedily,
the whole country would be involved in ruin. But,
though the statements they had heard of distress and
bad trade were most appalling, he for one rejoiced to
witness the present aspect of events, because he
thought good would come out of it.—(Cheers.)
After having, for the last thirty years, held the doc-
trine, that a change of the system must take place, or
else he country must be ruined, he rejoiced to find
that so many had come to be of the same way of
thinking. During a long portion of that thirty years
the suffering had been chiefly borne by the labouring
classes, but now it had reached the middle class also.
So long as those who were in comfortable circum-
stances could shift the burden from their own shoul-
ders to the shoulders of those beneath them, it was
impossible to obtain any change of the laws which
produced the distress.—(Cheers.) He did not
come there to flatter any class. He had always been
of opinion that the community at large were deeply
worthy of blame for the apathy with which they had
looked on the suffering of the operatives. He blamed
the Government as the originators of the distress
which prevailed on all sides ; but he also blamed the
people for permitting Government to maintain that
system of monopoly which threatened to ruin the best
interests of the country. He would not enlarge on
this topic, as he had no doubt most of them were im-
patient to get away. " The lowing of oxen was in
their ears. They were Manchester men, and their
thoughts were on the Exchange.—(Laughter and
cheers.) He would not, then, detain them any longer,
except merely to say, that he went most heartily along
with the Anti-Corn-law League in all its proceedings.
—(Cheers.) It was said that the League was neither
more nor less than a conspiracy ; if so, he would join
that conspiracy.—(Cheers.) If they were conspira-
tors, he was one also.—(Renewed cheers.) In what-
ever way his services might be of use, he would al-
ways be ready to do his best in furthering the objects
of the League, because he felt convinced that, in so
doing, lie would most effectually aid in frustrating the
mischievous policy of a corrupt and tyrannical Go-
vernment.

Our Contemporary does not fall into the very
common inconsistency of praising the system of
which such acts are the necessary results, for he
blames the system itself:—
Having (he says) long observed the incompetent,
inconsiderate, and too often oppressive manner in
which many of these functionaries (the county
Magistracy) administer the law, we are continually
urging that, far from giving them (as some propose)
new and more extensive powers, they should be re-
lieved from part of the duties and responsibilities at
present cast upon them. Good laws ill-administered
are useless ; bad laws harshly administered are worse
than no laws at all. We do not blame the Magis-
trates, because, when ignorant of law, they misin-
terpret the laws; or because, when occupied with
their own private business, hey dispatch cases in-
volving the good fame and liberty of their fellow-
subjects with reckless precipitancy; or because,
under circumstances which necessarily give them
the bias of interested persons, they act under that
bias. What we do complain of is, that men whom so
many causes combine to disqualify for the exercise of
judicial power, should be burdened with it at all.
That they are disqualified by education, by
habits, by self-interest, for administering laws
which are notoriously bad, was shown with great
power and great perseverance by Mr. BLACK in
the Chronicle several years ago, who deserves to
be held in lasting honour for a masterly expo-
sure of the vices of our irresponsible Magistracy,
when no other writer thought on the subject at
all or dared to speak against that powerful body.
Far from having learned any diffidence in their
own virtues from that exposure, they have gone
on, year after year, adding to their own power,
and they now annually inflict on the people, by
their own will and pleasure, an amount of torture-
in the shape of imprisonment, for what they call
offences, which we believe is unparalleled in any
other country. The case of this young woman,
and of WM. BARTLETT, who was sent to Oxford
Gaol for a fortnight for attempting to kill a
rabbit on a turnpike-road, already published in
The Sun, are in point.. As a further illustration
we quote the following from the Wiltshire Inde-
pendent :
COMMITTED. TO THE NEW PRISON, DEVIZES.—
Elijah Shelley and William Futcheg, for two months
each, for having assaulted and beat- Henry Bone, at
Downton • John Natt, for two months, for maliciousy
breaking ihe windows of the dwelling-house of John
Ponting' at Malmesbury ; Robert Hantley, for three
weeks, for refusing to work in the workhouse at Brad-
ford; Jeremiah Bait, for six months, unless he sooner
find sureties for six months, for misconduct towards
James Batt, at Sidghill; Henry Allies, for three
months, for leaving the workhouse at Mere, with the
union clothing ; Henry Gray and James Singleton, for
six weeks each, for a breach of the game laws at Don-
head St. Andrew ; Charles Slade, for three months,
for leaving his family chargeable to the parish of
Hilperton •' William Overton and James Bigwood, for
one month each, and to find sureties for one year, for
night poaching at Steeple Ashton ; William Bevis,
for one month, for destroying game at the Tything of
Hipperscomb ; Isaac Coster, for two months, for
leaving his family chargeable to the parish of Col-
lingbourn Kingston ; Henry Box, for two months,
for wilful damage in the workhouse at Bradford;
Jeffery Dowse, for two months, for poaching at En-
ford ; John Ferris, for seven days, for stealing a
quantity of carrots, the property of William Wroughton
Salmon, Esq., at the Chapelry of Saint James, in the
parish of Bishop Cannings ; Abraham Rivers, for
three months, for poaching at Avon ; and William
Cook, for two months, for a breach of the Game-laws
at Hipperscoinb.

This speech is another example of the manner
in which the gentlemen of Manchester and , its
neighbourhood are beginning to speak out. It
does not spare the Manchester gentlemen them-
selves any more than the Government. It
plainly tells them that it is their own fault that
they have been so long cursed with a ruinous
system. It justly reproaches them with not
standing forward to protect the humbler classes
as long as they could shift the burden on the
other's shoulders. They were contented to be the
tax gatherers for the landed aristocracy, till the
payments involved themselves in difficulties and
ruin. We welcome such severe but just remarks
for their healing effects. They will serve to
convince the master manufacturers that they
have not done justice through a long series of
years to their own skilful workmen, the sinews
of their wealth and greatness. They will be re-
garded by the labourers of every part of the
empire as an acknowledgment of error; aad cot:-
fidence and bright hopes will take fhe place of
distrust and despair. They may be the germs of
a union which the aristocracy will be unable to
resist.

If a kind of family compact between masters
and workmen—and well does their relationship
deserve that hallowed name—were to be the re-
sult of their present sufferings; if the men
should cease to look on the masters as extor-
tioners, and the masters shonld cease to look on
the men as merely instruments for producing
them as, much wealth as possible, we should con-
clude that even the Corn-laws had not existed in
vain. An important lesson has been taught, and
if the remembrances of the present suffering
should, in future prosperity, inspire ail classes
with moderation, the Corn-laws may hereafter
be quoted as another example of GOD bringing
good out of man's evil devices.

The Paris papers, which had been detained by
the boisterous weather in the Channel, arrived
in the course of yesterday. The origin of the in-
surrection at Barcelona still remains a mystery,
though a Correspondent of the Phare des Pyre-
nees would attribute it to the determined oppo-
sition of the manufacturers of Catalonia to a
commercial treaty with England. " Our Cor-
respondent," says that journal, "on the fron-
tiers of Catalonia, transmits to us, under the
dates of the 16th and 17th, accounts from Bar-
celona, which are of an edxtremely serious nature.
They do not enable us fully to appreciate the
motives which have served as the cause, or
pretext, of the movement at Barcelona. We
must however add, that the news of negotiations
at Madrid for the conclusion of a treaty of coin-
merce with England, had reached Barcelona on
the. 22d, and had produced a great sensation
among the manufacturers."
The journals still continue their comments on
the Treaty with China, rather for the purpose
of attacking the French Government than
blaming the English. The following is the
lamentation put forth by the Univers:—

Now, we ask any man of common humanity
whether six weeks' imprisonment for a breach of
the Game-laws, three months' imprisonment for
leaving a wife chargeable to a parish, one month
for night poaching, one month for destroying
ba game,
e ,e t I ti
rweoe nmoonnt ths for r
ileavingoa e.poaching
familyg at
A charge-
able,
o int a, rag, - d
two months for a breach of the Game-laws, while
seven days is the punishment for stealing a quan-
tity of carrots, are not greater crimes committed
against the person punished than they committed?
As we have before observed, men do not forfeit
their rights by committing offences; if they did,
we must all pray for help ; and we must assert,
therefore, thst such terrible punishments for
what country gentlemen please to make offences
are gross and scandalous violations of the rights
of the persons punished. Unfortunately, gentle-
men in the Commission of the Peace, or sport-
ingplosb
a
gentlemen when they make
vp as about
if
game, invariably treat the common laws
le
they had no rights at all, but held life and
liberty at their good pleasure. Hence it has
come to pass that there are annually an immense
number of punishments inflicted on the people by
them for their purposes, and at their pleasure,
which amounts to a great system of slow torture.
We read of Mandarins ordering the Chinese to
be beaten with bamboos, and of Turkish Paellas
administering the bastinado ad libitum ; but who
can compare for a moment the beating with a
bamboo, or a thrashing over the feet with green
switches, to being shut up in Northleach, or con-
denuaed to solitary confinement and hard labour
in the new prison of Devizes, for one, two, or
three months? If that were not hidden from our
view, we should instantly arrest the hand of the
executioners. The walls which secure the pri-
soners, also hide from the public eye the crimes
which are committed in them; and there is nei-
ther redress, sympathy, nor help, for the unfor-
tunate victims of sporting country Magistrates.
This system has been tried for many years, and
found, as we might expect from its nature, to be
a complete failure. It nourishes crime. Its most
palpable effect is to brutalize both those who in-
flict and those who suffer it. The degradation
of the great mass who are its victims, is. alas ! too
well-known, but we doubt whether the moral
degradation of the class who inflict it be
not equal. What with
Corn-laws as the
symbol of their public acts, and the conduct
e
of a HERTFORD and his executors as an epi-
nifeelingyor so h
oet shamey s, toc of their privateany act
oli f cruelty
lives,
at committing
which they can legalise, or of exposing to public
view any kind of profligacy which happens to be
in fashion, they seem to be as much morally de-
graded as the unhappy people they consign to
the tread-mill for killing a pheasant. With the

" England has consolidated her Empire in the
Indies, has gained China over to her commerce and
to the civilisation of the West. England predomi-
nates over our influence in Spain and Portugal.
Russia and Austria have superseded us in our protec-
torate of the East. Prussia extends her authority
and her commerce over all Germany. And France—
what is she doing? What is become of her ? The
Four Great Powers are promoting the advancement
of their political views, and causing them to be trium-
phant What is the policy of France ? Has she, in
truth, any policy at all ? France is at this time only
the fifth Power in Europe."

The France follows in the saute strain t--
" How different has been the conduct of us French-
men! When the project of conquering Algeria—that,
country which requires only to be touched to become
productive—was in preparation, Frenchmen were
found capable of blaming this glorious expedition, of
exploring the coast, and of pointing out to the Dey
the points at which he ought to post his troops, in
order that they might make the greater ravage among
our soldiers. It is with great grief, but with a deep
conviction, we therefore declare, that, in spirit of na-
tionality, we stand very low when placed by the side of
the English."
Tuß BOURSE, WEDNESDAY.—Three per Cents.
80f. 60c.

INCOME Tax.—The Court in Basinghall-street
was occupied during the entire of Thursday in dis-
posing of cases which had been allowed to remain
over from Monday last. Upwards of one
hundred were disposed o, but there still remains a
considerable balance. Many persons who had been as-
sessed, although having returned themselves under the
amount mentioned in the Act, were, on giving satis-
factory proof of their statement, discharged without
the trouble of further appeal. The Commissioners
expect to have the district with which they are at
present engaged disposed of in about ten days, and to
be C6in collection" generally throughout the City in
about three weeks.

The pension granted by the East India Company,
of 801. a year between the four daughters of the late
Colonel Dennie, is in addition to the pension given
to the same ladies by the Crown, and is also the first
instance in which the East India Company has granted
a pension in consideration of services rendered by
officers not in their own service. It may not be
known, perhaps, that the East India Company pay an
annual sum of 60,0001. to the Home Government to
meet such casualties as happen to the Queen's troops
serving in India.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY IVIORNING, NOTEMBER Q 6, 1842

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
The Enes'i funds were subjected to a slight de-
cline tlos aftercoon, money being in more request
For present transfer Consols left off at 941 I, and
for the opening, 95i to 95. Exchequer Bills brought
56 to 58 premium' and India Bonds 51 to 53 prem.
Bank Stock was firm at 1711 to -174 and India
Stock improved to 266. The New Three and a Half
per Cents. brought 1011 ; and the Three per
Cents. 941 to 94.
The Foreign Market was generally flat. Mexican
Stock was done as low as 294 and 284, but closed at
30 to 3cii. Spanish Bonds were heavy again • the
Five per Cents. at 17i -a, but the Three per dents.
were at 21i to 22*. Portuguese New Five per
Cents. were heavy, at 37 to 364, and the Converted
at 30i to 31. Belgian Bonds brought 1021. French
Five per Cents. 118 f. 50c.; and Dutch Five per Cents.
101 to 1011, being all steady.
In Railway Shares there was some firmness ex-
hibited.

Bills were taken on the Continental cities at full
rates. On Paris at 25f. 80c. to 85c.; Antwerp at 12 5 ;
Frankfort at 1511 ; AnWerdarn at .12 5:1 to 6 ;
and on Trieste at 9 5n to ,9 58.

The Coffee trade intends to memorialise Govern-
ment only to charge duty upon the actual quantity
which comes out of the Dock warehouses. _

The Wool trade held a meeting to-day on the sub-
ject of the fraudulent packages sent over from Aus-
tralia, and the brokers have been compelled to gua-
rantee the fairness of all the bales sold. This fixes the
stigma on some of the Australian growers, or ship-
pers; stones, &c., being found, together with bad
wool, in the middle of the parcels invoiced as fine.
The answer of the Mexican agents, Messrs. Li-
zardi, to the South American Committee, is not con-
sidered satisfactory. They give the number of each
series of Bomb that can be issued, as follows :-
1 to 10,300 at £lOO £1,030,000
Ito 4,800 at 150 720,000
Ito 4,800 at 250 1,200,000
Ito 4,900 at 500 2,450,000

£5,400,000
The amount at present in circulation is 5,254,5001
of Active Stock.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The accounts from the Liverpool Cotton Market
continue satisfactory, a good business having been
done, and although prices were not bigher, the staple
was offered less freely. About 10,000 bales changed
hands, including 2,000 bales of American, and 2,000
Surat, on speculation.—ln the Railway Share Mar-
ket a fair business was done, but the Railways were
not so firm. Eastern Counties New, brought 101 ;
Great Western, Half, 6+; Liverpool and Manchester,
182 ; Birmingham, Thirds, 62+; Brighton, 35-4- ; South
Western, 60+; Paris and Rouen, 231; and South
Eastern, New, 181.
The prevalence of contrary winds has prevented the
arrival of the usual Continental mails.

It may be useful to observe, in reference to the re-
duction of duty upon carpets imported into Austria,
that the concession extends only to such States as are
comprised within the German League, and that, con-
sequently, English fabrics will continue to pay the
high, and now unequal, duty hitherto charged.
The disposition to speculate is evidently reviving
in Mincing-lane, and there are advanced prices pay-
ing for many staple articles of consumption by oar
manufacturers, the :present low value and the great
abundance of money being favourable to operations of
this kind.

The hitch, concerning Mexican Bonds is very cur-
rently spoken of in the CUT, and there is much diver-
sity of opinion on the subject. Some parties think
that Messrs. Lizardi ought to publish a statement of
the bonds in circulation, and others, that they are not
called upon to do so unless with the sanction of their
Government.
Stocks continue firm, with a fair business doing,
but there is still an idea of money being absorbed by
speculations in produce, or employment in trading
pursuits. Consols for immediate transfer have rea-
lised 941 to 94k, and for the opening 951 to 951.
Exchequer Bills have been steady at 565. to 58s.
premium; and East India Bonds at 51s. to 533.
premium. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have
not been quoted higher than 1011 to lbli; and the
Reduced Three per Cents. have been done at 94 to
944-; Bank Stock is .worth 1711 to 1721, a further
improvement ; and East India Stock has risen to
266. About 5,000/. were again invested in Consols
for the Savings Banks.
The dealings in the Foreign Market have been al-
most entirely confined to Mexican Stock, which is again
lower, the Actives having been down to 291 L and
the Deferred to 8 and 81. Portuguese Bonds are
also drooping ; the Old Five per Cents. have been
marked 62, and the Converted 30i- 31. Spanish Three
per Cents. are quiet at 21i to 22 ; in the Actives
there has not yet been any actual business. Dutch
Five per Cents. have realised 101 to 1014.
The Railway Shares 'are well supported, although
very little is doing. Brighton are 141 discount;
North Midland, 38 dis. ; and Eastern Counties, 134
dis. ; Birmingham Thirds are 31 ; and Great Western
204 premium. London and Westminster Bank are
21 premium.
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Colonial ...
. . _

London and Westminster . 20 -
MANCHESTER. STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV. 24.—We
have again experienced a scarcity of stock, otherwise
business to a considerable amount would have been
19 to 188 ; Eastern
New,
Manchester and Birming-
hcdoaonmue7.--tlie9sSiotNuoteh2l;,E;lasoioetnrodnoinl;
and Birmingham, 185 to
186 ; Great Western, 84 to 85 ; Union Bank of Man•
chester, 7 7-16.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock .............. 1714 (India Stock
3 per Cent. Red. ........ 94 Ditto Bonds
.... pm
3 per Cent. C0n5......... 941 Ditto Old Annuities ...
34 per Cent. Red... ...... 100 i Ditto New Annuities...
Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 58 pm
Ditto 500/...... 58 pm
AnnuitiesNLNo,,en:4s34peprerc Ce ne,7tto. .. ..
expire... . 10_1i
Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ... ...... 124 Bank Stock for Acct. 1724
Oct. 1859 ......... India Stock for Acct... --'
Jan. 1260 ...... 124 Consols for Opg.
FOREIGN FUNDS. .
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 62
Belgian, 5 per cent 1024 Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres6 per cent. 214 Russian, 5 pes cent. ....
',Milan, 6 per cent. — Ditto, Metallic • •••• —,
-solombian,:6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent...... 17d
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... •
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79 French, 5 per cent.llBf. 50e..
Danish, 3 per .ent 834 Exchange f. —c
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent --f. —e.
Mexican, 5 per cent 3O Dutch, 24 per cent. 524
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 Ditto, 5 per cent. ~ ..„ 104
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et.
SHA'
Eastern Counties (23 r 9%
Ditto New (—paid) ll
Ditto Debentures ( paid) _ ll
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid)
......
.....
....
London and Brighton (50 paid) .. ...........
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) .. •• 10i
London and Birmingham (90)
.• • ••
Ditto Thirds (32 paid)
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 604
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ..... 69
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ..... . 62
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) 94
North Midland Railway (100.
)
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)....•••••
Ditto Scrip (20 paid)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 84 Gibraltar ... .. 46
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 9 Genoa
Antwerp ......... 12 8 Milan
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice
Altona ......... 14 144 Naples
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months ..... . ... 25 95 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 234
Frankfort on Maine ...1514 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 37'
• ...... 7 New York, 21days sight 464
Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 10 1 Philadelphia 4i
Trieste, ditto ........ ... 10 2 ratcas OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Madrid ...... 36% Foreign Gold, bars X 3 17 9
Cadiz Buenos Ayres
Berlin ..
...... 364 Portugal Gold C0in...3 17 6
Bilbao ... 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona .............. .36 New Dollars... 0 4 91,
Seville ••• 36 Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 11i

,RES.
'id)

PROMISSORY NOTES.
( From Last Night's Gazette.)
An account of the average aggregate amount of Promissory
Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been in circula-
tion in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those circulated by
the Bank of England, by Private Banks, and by Joint Stock
Banks, in England and Wales, by the Banks in Scotland, by
the Bank of Ireland, and by all other Banks in Ireland, and of
the Average Amount of Bullion in the Bank of England, during
the four weeks ending the I 2th day of November, 11.342, pursuant
to the Act of 4th and 6th Victoria, cap. 50:—

ENGLAND.

Bank of England ....................... . ...... X 20,104,000
Private Banks ..................
......... 5,434,822
Joint Stock Banks •3,196,964
SCOTLAND
Chartered and Private Joint ' Stock Banks 2,891,865
IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland
- 3,162,200
Private and Joint Stock Bank 4... ...... 2,126,829

T0ta1.,,,,, £36,916,680
47.9 007 000
M
Bullion in the Bank of England .... . ••
L. •W
'
-HEN ICKHA.
Stamps and Taxes, Nov. 25, 1842.

---
Friday l t one of
AfELANCIIOLY ACCIDENT.—During the night of
as
out trawling in the roads, and unfortunately
showed no lights, was run down by a steamer.
the Hastings boats, which was
The boat, with all the tackle, was lost ; and one
man named
Apps was drowned. The other two
men, named Coleman and Clox, were picked up by
the steamer and carr;ed into Portsmouth, whence they
have written to their friends here, detailing the above
circumstances. The boat belonged to Messrs Thwaitea
and Winter.—Brighton Gazettc

THE VICTORIES IN CHINA

AND

AFFGHANISTAN.

The Gazette of Thursday contains dispatches
from the official authorities in China, India, and
Affghanistan. Those from China we publish
this day at full length. They contain the cor-
respondenze between the Chinese Commis-
sioners and Sir HENRY POTTINdER, Admiral
PARKER, and Sir HUGH GOUGH, on negotiating
the treaty of peace, together with ample details
of the operations at Woosung and Shanghae,
the storming of Kinshan and Chin-kean-foo, and
the assembling of the land and sea forces before
Nankin.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
DOWNING•STRER'I; Nov. 23, 1842.

Copies of dispatches addressed by Lieutenant-Ge-
neral Sir Hugh Gough, 1Z.G.C.8., to Lord Stanley, one
of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, of which
the following are copies, have been this day received
from the Governor-General of India in Council:—
THE OPERATIONS Ar WOOSUNG AND
SHANGSHAE.

TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD STANLEY, PRINCIPAL SE-
CRETARY OF STATE, COLONIAL DEPARTMENT.

My Lord,—l have the honour to apprise your Lord-
ship, that the fleet, from various naval causes, which I
am persuaded were unavoidable, only reached the an-
chorage cf Woosung, within the bar of the Yang-tee-
Keang, on the evening of the 13th inst.

The following• morning I proceeded with his Excel-
lency the Naval Commander-in-Chief to reconnoitre the
long line of defences on both sides of the Woosung river,
those on the left bank extending from five to six miles of
the Yang-tse-Keang, while the defences on the right
bank consisted of a tower, with flanking batteries on a
tongue of land formed by the bend of the river, which
here runs from two to three miles parallel to the course
of the Yang-tse-Keang. The main object, therefort,
was the occupation of the left bank with its defences, at
the southern extremity of which the village of Woosung
is situated, while the walls of Paonshaw appear a short
distance in rear of the embankments, on which the em-
brasures are constructed, about two miles from its term'-
nation to the north-west.

We had failed to obtain satisfactory information as to
the points of debarkation ; one of the principal objects,
therefore, of this reconnaissance, was to establish the
practicability of landing, so as to turn the defenses ; one
point alone seemed adapted for this purpose, about half-
way between l'aonshaw and Woosung, unless We were
to effect a landing some miles up the Yang-tse-Keang,
in which case it would be necessary to take Pacmshaw
before we could co-operate with the navy. It was, there-
fore, determined that this supposed landing place should
be examined during the night, and that if not found
practicable, the ships of war should silence the batteries
that covered the regular landing place near the village of
Woosung, when the troops should land from the steamers,
which, after towing in the ships of war, were to return
for them to the transports.
During the night Commanders Kellet and Collinson
sounded along the shore, and reported that the water
shoaled to three feet about 200 yards from the banks,
and that boats could nct approach to land troops any-
where near the spot proposed.
It was then decided to resort to the alternative already
mentioned.

The 15th was employed in examining and _sounding
the entrances into the Woosung river, and six o'clock on
the-morning of the 15th the ships of war were towed in
shore by the steamers, under a heavy, and, for the Chi-
nese, a well-directed fire, not returning a shot until each
ship had taken her appointed station, when they opened
a fire that must have appalled the enemy (though he
was not entirely silenced for a considerable time). The
details of this very animating scene will no doubt be
.fully reported by his Excellency Sir William Parker,
together with the deviation from our preconcerted plan
of operation, occasioned by the steamers having all
grounded, except the small steamer Medusa. The troops
were thus prevented from participating with their gal-
lant comrades of the navy in occupying the river line of
batteries, which were, by half-past seven o'clock, in pos-
session of the naval force.
The troops were not landed until twelve o'clock, when
having understood that a portion of the enemy, said to
be about 1,500 men, had retreated on Paonshaw, I im-
mediately moved on that town in two columns, having
directed Major-General Schoedde to move his brigade ht
rear of the place, so as to intercept the Governor of the
province, who was reported to be in that town. Upon
reaching it by the sea-line I found it was in possession
of Major-General Schoedde's brigade, who had entered
it without opposition from the rear, the Chinese troops
and the greater part of the population having fled when
they found their retreat likely to be cut off; leaving
everything behind them, with about 50 guns, 17 of which
were brass.
The enemy's force consisted of. 4,000 to 5,000 men,
under Admiral Chin, who fell in the batteries, in which
from forty to fifty dead bodies.were found. A portion of
this force is stated to have fallen back upon a city within
ten miles of Paonshaw, and disbanded themselves ; the
remainder, with the Governor, had fled to Soochoo. We
have taken altogether, at Woosung and Paonsliaw about
250 guns, with quantities of powder, shot, gine-els; and
other munitions of war, all of which have been destroyed,
with the exception of the brass guns.
Woosung is a wretched village, and Paonshaw, al-
though surrounded by a wall and rampart in good re-
pair, is a poor place, and the country.around it by no
means so populous or so fertile as we have hitherto found
in China. The Yang-tse-Keang is a magnificent river.
Having arranged' with the Admiral to proceed to
Shanghae, a large commercial town, about sixteen miles
up the Woosung river, Sir William Parker, pushed on
the light ships of war on the 17th instant. Captain.
Watson, who was in command, finding the batteries six
miles up the river deserted, occupied them, destroying
the iron and embarking the brass guns. I propose that
one column shall move along the left bank of the Woo-
sung, while I proceed myself in the steamers-with the
remainder of the force.

The 2d Madras Native Infantry, and detachments of
artillery and sappers and miners, from that Presidency,
joined the fleet on the 17th ; they will accompany the
force to Shanghai.
lam most thankful to be able to inform your Lord-
ship that 16 of our kidnapped men, seven of whom are
Eur ipeans, have been restored to us by Elepoo, or whose
letter* in reply to the one addressed to him by the Ad-
miral and myself, I beg to enclose a translation. This
act of reciprocal good feeling portends well. I have,
&c., 11. GOUGH, Lieut.-General,
Commanding Expeditionary Land Force.
Head-quarters, Woosung, June 18, 1842.
(True Copy.)
H. COUGH. Lieut.-General.

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