The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-08 00:00:00

The neat thing I must pay is 131. fur th e court fee, w hich was a tee otiginaliy to the tethers, or some of the officers of the judges, and which, I believe, in all branches atm court, is kept for the officers' use still, and does not go into the fee fund. Then I pay the registrar 2s. ler his sni ggers; 21.105. for the order; I shall have to pay 2s. 6d. for entering it, and I shall have to pay the accountant-general 11. be 6d. for a power of attorney (for he will not pay this no., woman her money upon a letter from her, but a power of attorney musi be executed) pay ly I shall have to pay vi. 01., awl shall have to something for the affida vit of execution of it. Altogether I shall have to py not less, pecbahly, than 81., before I can get that poor woman's 31. a year in course of payment to her.. So that something li ke three years of her InCOnle, if she live so long, will be eaten up in the court procuring fur her this little sum, which she could not help going into court for; for where the court ad ministers the trusts of a thintaor's will, in its great care it takes all thaw legaci-s which are held upon limited interests, and temps them: therefore, this ear* of the court will cost her 81., ix three years of her income, before 11111 cin have a far thine of it; sod if it had been 3,000/. a year she would have paid no more. (The witness banded in a paper.) You, of course, in this do not charge anyth,ng for your trouble ? —No, of coarse nut. I suppgee if I had taken the regular charges the costs would have been 201. altogether. 'Those are lees paid out of your own pocket ?—Yea ; and this dues not include what I shall have to pay the stationers for writing, and twitters of that kind. The third law is like unto the second. No fees are charged in cases where there exist the most ample means of nay;ng them, and where the greatest labour is bestowed by the court. The accountant-general manages the funded and personal property under con trol of the court, while receivers, specially appointed for the purpose, administer real inv ests in the same predicament. The former officer , annually, immense sums, receives the dividends upon them, pays them over to the parti.s entitled,—in a word, does the duty of trustee and trustee's banker. For all this laborious attenti.m, devoted sometimes to trusts extending over 60 or 70 years, nothing what ever is charged. The poor suitor pays for all. All taxation ceases the moment a fund is in the hands of the accountant-general. His salary is paid out of the fee fund, made up from the regular returns of the court. So also the unhappy suitor pays for the admi nistration of the landed property ander Chancery control, unless it fall into the lunacy department,' when a per centage is very rations ly charged to defray the expense's of management. The fourth law is worthy of its predecessor!. Chancery fees are collected in such a way that so check is placed on the persons receiving them. A lilaseer's clerk may have paid to him 6.0001. and hand over only 4,0001. to the proper officer. No ma chinery exists for detecting his peculation. It can only be exposed by a search, which is quite impos sible, into every corner of a ease, and every record of innumerable petty transactions. The whole court would have to be hunted through for every stray shilling of suspected pilfering. Very suspicions cir cumstances in the returns from particular officers, at different times, seem to show that this loose and dis creditable want of system has borne its natural fruits. But, even, if it have not made rogues, it ex poses every man, undefended, to the imputation maue. As the thievish Master's clerk yrog defy ry the world to prove his guilt so the honest one has no means whatever of proving his integrity. Chancery officials talk of the difficulty of devising a system of checks. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. The report suggests half-a dozen, thrown out on the spur of the moment by dif ferent members of the committee. Some such system is practised at every theatre in London, and in every well-conducted retail shop, where money is paid over the coun er. We leave our readers to ponder on theme laws of the Chancery fee system until we have an opportunity of further illustrating it and its working". WE have again to record an influential meeting in Staffordshire on the subject of the crying grievance of copyhold tenure. The principal inhabitants of Bilston met to form a society for promoting the enfranchise ment of copyhold property, and a considerable sub scription was made in furtherance of that national object. The substance of the proceedings at that meeting appeared in our columns, and we shall pre sently advert to same of the instances of wrong in flicted on individual copyholds, which were stated by several of the speakers. Now this question forms a striking illustration of the difficulty with which reformation in the law of real property is effected in England. There is a power in the legislature, strong het etofore in the Commons, and dominant in the Lords, which adheres to the old baronial unwillingness to change the Eng lish laws, with a pertinacity which seems to become intense in proportion as the law sought to be changed is proved to be burdensome and bad. The movement against copyholds is no modern one. It does not originate with the industrious miners and iron-mas ters of Wolverhampton End Bilston. The outcry against copyholds we now hear from Norfolk, Suf folk, and Cambridgeshire, is no part of the recent insurrection of improving agriculturists against their feudal lords. No, the emphatic condemnauort of copy holds dates back for nearly two centuries, and has ever since been maintained by the mere power and passive resistance of the landocracy. Mr. JAMES STEWART, in his able suggestions on " the enfranchisement of copyholds," reminds us that in 1651, during the Com monwealth, a committee of parliament presented a bill " for ascertaining arbitrary fines upon dement and alienation of copyholds of inheritance . What became of that bill does not appear, but in the following year a petition, "signed by thousands," was presented to parliament, praying " that copyholds and the like may be taken away." Nothing, however, was done ; and after the Restoration, when military tenures were destroyed by the act 12 Can. 11., e. 24, copyholds were expressly reserved and left, as a burden and badge of feudalism to posterity. This exception naturally excited much dissatisfaction. ROGER NORTH, in his " Life of the Lord Keeper," says, in reference to copyholds," Mall tenements and pieces of land that have been men's inheritances for divers generations, to say nothing of fines, are detoured by fees ; so that if it were only to relieve the poorest of the landowners of the nation from such extortions and oppressions, without more, there is reason enough to abolish the tenure." Nor has the grievance then com plained of been remedied even at this day. The copy holders of Bilaton still complain, that their small inheritances, "to say nothing of fines, are de voured by fees." The chairman at the Bilston meeting, the Rev. Mr. Fixrcnett, the incumbent of one of the parishes of that place, said : In one instance with which he had been made acquainted, upon a property belonging to a lady, worth 1,000 guineas, the court charges were 871., while in another, the case of three small houses in Smith's-court, worth 931., the court charges amounted to 501. And another gentleman, Mr. Bissau., thus stated his own expenence of the devouring operation of copyhold court-fees : Not many years ago he bought four small houses far 501. It cog the trustees 1//. to surrender, and he had to pay 131. to be admitted. He remonstrated, and wee told to call upon the steward ; he did so, and he got, be thought, 21. returned. Thus the charge was 281. upon a property which had been bought for 601. And again Mr. Bolton adverted to the ease of the house in which they were, on which a mortgagee had paid 1121. be. to be admitted for a mortgage of 3001., although the lord had an other mortgagee a tenant for a mortgage of 6001., and thus the lord, illegally, had two tenants instead of one. If the mortgage bad been for only 501., there would have been about 1001. to pay. So Mr. BEN said, in the instance of a Property only about 150 yards distant, and the case was perhaps known to others present as well as himself. I nn the year 1803 this property paid 3s. charge and 31. relief, the whole fn. ; in 1808, 101. were charged as the surrender fine ; in 1812, 121.; in 1246, 201. ; and, in 1847, 271. Thus, from 1803 to 1847, this Property had Passed through the court and paid fees no lee than are times. Truly may it be said of the copyholders of Bilston, that their inheritances are devoured by fees. And these charges, be it observed, are independent of the lord's fine, which being arbitrary amounts to at least two years' improved value of the property, though per haps four-fifths of that value conaista of outlays of capital just effected by the copyholder. We do not hesitate to affirm that the copyhold system is one of spoliation. Nor are we without warrant and authority for that assertion. In the report made by a committee of the House of Commons, in 1838,0 f which Lord Castesam, then Attorney-General, was chairman, they say : "This tenure is ill adapted to the wants of the pre sent day, and is a blot upon the judicial system of the country. They consider that the peculiarities and in cidents of copyholds (which have their origin in the villeinage of the feudal system) are at once highly in convenient to the owners of the land and prejudicial to the general interests of the state." And they come to the conclusion " that the abolition of this tenure would not only be a great public benefit, but should be made a national object." And the committee ex pressed an opinion " that no plan which merely leaves the option to the parties to enfranchise will meet the exigency of the case." They accordingly recommended THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1847. WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal West India Mail-packet Forth, Captain Chapman, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. Dennehy, R.N., Admiralty agent. The dates brought by the Forth are : Tampico, Oct. 25 ; Vera Cruz, Nov. 1 ; Nassau, Nov. 13 ; Havannah, Nov. 10; Honduras, Oct. 20; Jago de Cuba, Nov. 6 ; Jamaica, Nov. 8; Jacmel, Nov. 10; Puerto Rico, Nov. 14 ; Demerara, Nov. 5; Tobago, Nov. 5 ; Trinidad, Nov. 5 ; Barbadoes, Nov. 8 ; St. Thomas, Nev. 15; Bermuda, Nov. 21. The Forth brings 46 passengers among whom are Capt. Bernie, R.N., late of the Modeste, from the Pacific ; Lieuts. Joyce, Hunt, and Patterson (2nd West India Regt.), and Allan (Ist West India ltegt.), on their way to Africa ; Dr. Cumming, medical staff; Mr. Leake, of the Jamaica police ; and Mr. Reid, English merchant, from Mexico. 'the freight on board consists of 125,810 dollars; silver in bars and gold, valued at 182,509 dollars ; British coin, 6211. ; silver, 108 lba. ; gold, 316 lbs. ; platina, 54 lbs. ; one box pearls ; 40 Berens cochineal; one case tortoise shell ; 3 Berens vanilla, &c. &c. The Forth was obliged to slip from 'Tampico in norther, of which she experienced a succession, till she left for Havanna. On the Ist of December she boarded the Amity, of Liverpool, timber laden, dis muted, water-logged, and abandoned, in let. 43 deg. 15 min. N., and long. 36 deg. S min. W. The Forth's news from Mexico have been antici pated by the later intelligence received rid New York. A Jamaica paper states that the national represent ation of Ecuador has restored the estates of General Flores, confiscated by the Executive, to his family. The mereantil. , intelligencefrom Jamaica is scarcely of so decided a character as was anticipated. The in telligence of the failure of Reed, Irving, and Co. had, as was to be expected, excited a considerable sensa tion, but the market remained much as before. De Cordova's circular of Bth Nov., states that : The market brunet been characterised by any improvement since the date of our last publication; it therefore continues to present the some heavy and inactive appearance as it did at that pi riod ; it any thing, the depression has been enhanced, by the continuance of the s'ricture of the money market bsth here and in England, and the distressing accounts, relative to the state of mercautlle affairs, received by the last mail from Great Britain. From the same source we learn that further re ductions of import duties bad been resolved on by the , House of Assembly : I The subject of the Import Duty Bill having been again discussed io the House of Assembly, the following reductions of the duties on the articles enumerated were agreed to, viz.: on butter, reduced from 12,. to 9s. per cwt ; on lard, re duced from 7s. to 6s. per cwt. ; on salt, reduced from 9.1. to 6d. per cwt. ; on pork and beef, reduced from 20s. to 163. per barrel; on rice, reduced from 4s. to Ss. per cert.; on Cypress shingles, reduced from Bs. to Os. per M. ; on cedar ditto, reduced from 4s. to 3s. per M. ; rock salt is to be ad. witted free of asy duty. The above reductions will not come into operation until April 5. 1848. An attempt was made once more to establish the drawback system, but it termi nated unsuccessfully. Some measures had been introduced by the govern ment, and supported by several of the moat liberal members, which had evidently excited in the majority of the representatives a strong jealousy of a disposi tion to pack the elective legislature, and generally extend the influence of the executive. A clause, declar ing stipendiary magistrates eligible to the House of Assembly, baying been surreptitiously introduced into a bill, to repeal the act of 4th Victoria, which declares seats of members vacated under certain cir cumstances, the bill was thrown out by a majority of 9to 7. A bill to render chairmen of quarter sessions eligible to the offices of vice-chancellor and assistant judges of the supreme court, was thrown out by a majority of 23 to 3. Mr. Barclay's committee for obtaining statistical information, with respect to the comparative state of the colony now and at the time of emancipation, was working vigorously, though it had issued no report. The following minute, for the guidance of witnesses, had been published : Gentlemen who may be call, d upon to appear before this committee of the assembly will do well to bring with them such documentary evidence as may enable them to speak to the following points, which, it is presumed, must engage attention: 1. The present cost of raising sugar and coffee, as proven be the amount of expenditure, and by the crops made, specifying, as far as poemble, hogsheads, and their weights—and account isles? (These must be bums foie details of each estate, and for se many years .is be given, but the names of course not to be pull shed with out the sanction of the witnessee3 2. The extent of cultivr tree and crops on plantations in 1832, and the year last put (1846) T 3. The number of sugar and coffee proper ties that have been broken up since 1632 1 Extent of the freeholds of ouch ? Estimated original cost of the factories on them? If worked by Thewster power, or bow otherwise ? The crops they made in 1832 umber of labourers then attached to them? What use has since been made of the land! 4 The further somber of sugar and coffee ploperties on which cultivation has creed, and the demolition of the factory establiabrnenta t enZ . awfts f the h grh =Lil c o( what I ner growing number of attache dtn suc h fr ee holds, In 1832. " ea above i cal:- tying on their cultivation, and the number now remaining . • Public meetings to petition the imperial legislature and bring the state of the colony before the public of the mother country, continued to be held throughout the island. It is evident that a healthier tone of feeling and sounder views of commercial policy are steadily gaining ground in Jamaica. The old school and the Despatch as their organ are disconsolate at the choice of members of parliament and newspapers to promulgate and enforce these petitions. Lord George Bentinck and the Morning Herald are well enough, though regret is expressed that the Morn. ing Psi and Julio Bull seem generally thrown over board; but horror of horrors! Messrs. Hume and Cobden are entrusted with petitions, and the Eco nomist and the daily liberal papers with the publica tion of resolutions. The Nassau (N.P.) journals state that in the be ginning of November strong refreshing breezes took the place of the sultry south wind, and that the fever which had been lingering in the island was disappear ing under their influence. The American officers wrecked on the Abaco were still at Nassau when the steamer left : their deportment there has conciliated general esteem. Twenty of the emigrant labourers who left the Bahamas some time since for Honduras, returned to their islands on the 9th of November. The emigrants had suffered much from ague in Hon duras. Some approximation had been made rewards a more equitable management of the salt ponds in Turk's Island, and ether outlying islands of the Bahama. The Bermuda papers contain nothing of general interest. [Tot Markets, see lug page.] tr.rbt Court. The Duchess of Kest arrived at Osborne at two o'clock yisterday afternoon, on a visit to the Que ea ' from her residence, Frogmore- horse, near Windsor. Her Royal Highness was attended by her lady in waiting and Sir 0. Coer, Bart. The royal duchess crossed from Gosport in , the Her_ Majesty and her royal consort walked early yesterday in the vicinity of Osborne. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Sophia yesterday, at her residence at Kensington. A deputation from the iron trade of Monmouth shire, consisting of Mr. T. Brown, Ebber Vale Iron Works, Mr. Routh, New British Iron Works, and Mr. J. Brown ; a deputation from the coal trade of Monmouthshire, con misting of Mr. W. 6. Cartwright and Mr. M. Morrison, Mr. W. 8. Woodhouse, solicitor to the above. arid Mr. Coates, vent ; had an interview with the Right lion. E. Strutt on Monday, at the office of the Commissioners of Railways, in the Board of Trade. The Bishop of Cape Town had an interview with Earl Grey on Monday at the Colonial-office. Capt. A. Macdonald had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchett, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Sir Robert A. Ferguson, Bart., M.P., and a depu tation of Irish members of parliament, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at Ins of dal residence in Downing-street. Deepatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Ceylon. Mr. Beresford, M.P., and Mr. Charles Locock Webb, bad an Interview, yesterday, with the Right lion. Edward Struts. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council se yesterday, and resumed the appeal " Logan o. Le Meaurier," .from Canada. The case was adjourned for further hearing until to-morrew (Thursday). [From last night's &netts.) FOREIGN-OITICE, Nov. 27.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Samuel George Bonham, Esq., to be her majesty's plenipotentiary and chief superintendent of British trade en China. WHITKIIALL, DEC. 6.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John Hampden Gurney, M.A., to the diatrict rectory of St. Mary, in St. Mary-le-bone, in the county of Middlesex, and diocese of London, void by the death of Thomas Front' Dibdin, D.D. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 7.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas William Clinton Murdoch, Charles Alexander Wood, and Frederic Rogers, Run., to be commissioners for superintending thistle and settlement of the waste lauds of the Crown in the British colonies, and the conveyance of emigrants thither. IN SPITALVIELDS. lAst night a meeting, attended by nearly 1,000 of the operative silk weavers residing in the neighbourhood of Spitalfialds, was held in the cipacruss school room, Hare street, Bethnal-green, Mr. John Hornsby, an operative, is the chair. The meeting was called for the purpose of adopting a me wand humbly craving her Majesty to take into considera tion the grievances of which the silk weavers consider they have cause to complain. The petition went oar to state that this class of operatives had been subjected to the most severe privations and hardship. during t h e last twelve months, and that thousands of their body are at the present moment out of employ, and wandering about the district in the most wretched condition. Deaths had greatly increased amongst them, which increase was caused by cold and huoger. The memorialists also considered that the Poet law Amendment Act, which was introduced professedly for the purpose of ranking the condition of the working classes, has had in its operations a directly contrary tendency; and condemned the very harsh and cruel terms on which relief can be obtained, the tyrannical conduct of the parochial authorities towards the unfortunate poor who, through want of employment, are compelled w seek temporary relief in the workhouse, the rigorous confinement, the de grading labour, the stinted dietary, the insults, in privations, and death to which the poor, who are made so by ill.advised laws, are subjected, though an early and more fortunate period of their lives they wen supporters of the national revenues and re-ources of the constitutional government of the country. The memorial having been unanimously re ceived, Mr. OURNELT. remarked upon the statements made there in, eapeoielly with reference to the administration of the poor law in the workhouse at St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, where, he contended, the treatment was most severe, and the dietary inferior to that of ether union workhouses. Several other speakers having supported the views con tained in the memorial to the Queen, Mr. OURNELL moved and Mr. FERNANDO seconded a motiou to the elect that five operativis be appointed to transact all business relating to the unemployed, and that such committee report from time to timc to the trade in general ; which committee having been appointed, The Its,. 0. !klaxon, of Friar's Mount Chapel, moved " That an address be presented to the nobility and gentry, requesting their assistance to relieve the great and unparal wled (lists-eel which prevails among the silk weavers of Spitalfields, 13.ittinal-green, and the vicinity, and that they be requested to forward their subeeriptiona to the bankers appointed by the trade to receive the same." - Mr 811ERILARD seconded the resolution, observing, he was gratified at seeing elergtmen coming to their meetings, and he hoped the ezample would be followed. The resolution was earth(' unanimously. It was proposed and seconded that "A memorial be presented to her Maj• sty the Queen Dowager, showing the distress of the trade, and earnestly soliciting the assistance and patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty." The Chairman, in putting the resolution, which wiu agreed to unanimously and with sedan alluded to the benevolence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager on a former occasion, and expressed a hope that the Queen would give less patronage to the importation of foreign silks, and greater encouragement to the English manufactures. Thanks were voted to the gentleman who gave the use of the room, after which a vote of thanks was pained to the chairman, who briefly replied, and the meeting separated. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The following important notice to the public was issued yesterday morning at the Post-office, by command of the Postmaster. General :—" In formation having bent received from the Direetor-General of the French Poet-office, that letters from the:United King dom for Austria would be accelerated, fee some time to come, by being sent through Prussia, Viti Belgium, instead of by way of France, through which country they are now forwarded, the Postmaster Gene. al thinks it necessary to make thi+ intimation to the public, and to give notice, that letters of this description will be forward, d by the route pointed out, provided they be specially addressed." GRAND JUNCTION CANAL COMPANY.—The usual half-yearly meeting of this company was held this day, at the Crown sad Anchor Tavern, the Hon. W. Bouverie in the chair. The report woe read, by which it appeared that since the special meeting held in Jane last the company had become carriers, and that they had made advantageous ar rangements for facilitating their through traffic with the following navigation companies, namely, the Oxford, the Coventry, the Warwick and Napton, the Warwick and Bir mingham, the Grand Union, the Leicester, and the North amptonshire Union ; and that they had commenced Imainees since the let inst. That the tonnage for the half-year end ing 30th June last amounted to 60,2921. 18a. 13d., which was considerably over that of the same period of last year ; the expenditure, 19,6871. 21. 10d. ; leaving a balance of 30,6061. 15s. 10d., out of which a dividend of 21. 10s. per share was to be paid, which would amount to 28,6371. 10e. free of income tax, to be paid on the Bth January, 1818. That the sum received for tonnage for the mouths of July, August. September, October, and November, 1847, amounted to the gross sum of 86,5441. 13a. 7d. The report was unani mously adopted, and the meeting separated. LONDON COFFEE AND EATING HOUSE KEEPERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCULTION.—YFILETday evening a meet ing of the members of the above association was held at the Freemasons' Tavern. The report stated that the institution was established in the year 1837, for the purpose of relieving aged and decayed mem bers of the trade, their widows and orphans. The balance sheet for the year ending July last showed the receipts from all sources to be 2821. 16s. 10d., whilst the expenditure amounted to 2721. 12a. There are at present four pensioners on the funds. The capital of the society amounts to near 2,0001. ANTIQUITY OF THE INFLUENZA.—Of this now ani versally prevailing malady we have (rsys the Glasgow Consli tutional) the following account, in a letter from Randolph, the English ambassador at the court of Nary Queen of Scots, to Cecil (afterwards Lord Burghley), dated Edinburgh, 30th Nov., 1662: " May it please your honour. Immediately upon the Queen's arrival here she (dl acquainted with a new disease that is common in this town called The New Acquaintance, which passed also through her whole court, neither sparing lord, lady, nor damsel, not so much as either French or English. It is a pain in tilt it heads that have it, and a soreness in their stomachs, with • great eoagh : it remaineth with some longer, with others shorter time, as it findeth apt bodies for tne nature of the disease. The Queen kept her bed Fix days: there was no appearance of danger, nor many that die of the disease, except some old folks. My Lord of Murray is now presently in it; and lam ashamed to say that I have been free of it, seeing it seeketh acquaintance at all men's hands." The letter is printed at pp. 105-7 of the " Selections from Unpublished Manu scripts illustrating the Reign of Mary Queen of Scotland," presented to the Maitland Club, in the year 1837, by the late Mr. Kirkman Finlay of Castle Toward.—The last freak of the distemper, according to the Edinburgh Register, was the seizure of the master of the Duddingston mills, near Edin burgh, and at the same time all his millers, and the mill stood still. To complete the adage that misfortunes never come single, the millers' wives were also almost all ill, and unable to nurse their husbands. INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MEHL—Before Mr. Baker, coroner, at the Five Bella, Limehouse, on the body of D. Spade, aged 36 years, who was drowned off Limehouse. On Saturday morning, at 1 o'clork, the deceased and four other men, ballast-getters, obtained a boat to go on board a ballast lighter moored in , the middle of the river, off Limehouse. On reaching the lighter, one of the party rose from his seat, and attempted to step on the gunwale, when he slipped, and was in the act of falling between the boat and the lighter, when three of his companions rose at the same time to catch him. The boat gave a sudden lurch, and the five men were all thrown into the river. They caught hold of each other, and three of them almost immediately sank. Two others were seen clinging to each other a short distance from the lighter, and they also sash before assistance could reach them. Nume rous watermen put off, but were unable to save any of them. The body of deceased, Spale, was recovered on Saturday morning, and the corpse of one of his companions, named Hamer, was taken out of the river, off Poplar, on Monday morning last. The only witness who saw the occurrence was the wife of one of the men, who was on board the lighter, waiting their return, and whose screams caused the watermen on both shores to hasten to the spot. She was not in attendance, and the coroner deeming it advisable that she should give her testimony, adjourned the inquest. . IRELAND. Drum, Die. 6. The following singular advertisement appears in the morning papers : Tam Lamoan's Ts. na Osturswv.—The daffy resisethely ereseeesewet. ot settiodearke that are sow dingrodag the esestry, sad dr sr rasters mottled to troth seer eel &sty the law, ha Wool me le we sereereseel a Broamt dist mot," • tact every omen be pedaled rad asehled M I the Ike of the stesteek awl dot sees oat a step le tee eswerdt, seeded which issi at le mow s Istria Item spread be term sad lou. efees three. the esestry. I lisps le a few days to Lee a spears parseeet cc view at =lf wareroome. The " shot and ball proof" palatot is quite a no velty of its kind, quite as useful as the invention of Roper, which let out no air and let in no water. The Irish landlords are now safe from the bullet of the assassin. The " paletot" stands between them and destruction. But the excellence of this rare contri ' vanes is that the wearer will be enabled to return the fire, and with more deadly effect, for, relying on his invulnerability, he may operate on the assassin with a keener eye and a steadier hand! People are asto nished at this remarkable discovery of sartorial genius, and, to remove all doubts about the matter, the patentee will attend in Regley's shooting gallery, and let a platoon of the Rifles practise on his mar velous paletot. The day of trial, however, is not yet fixed. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. W. S. Hamilton and Co., the eminent West India merchants, who failed lately, the liabilities were ascertained to be 160,0001., and the assets 200,0001., including, however, bad and doubtful debts to the amount of 132,0001. Their bankers, the Metals. la Conde, are creditors for 67,0001., of which 24,0601. an motored. The feeling of all the creditors was in favour et the affairs of the firm being wound up by the pertain, subject to inspection, a course which was subse quently frustrated by the Messrs. Stovall laying on a city attachment on the ship Kingston for dock charges. Another eminent firm, the Mesas. Wiens, woollen manufacturers, are reported in difficulties. Their acceptances were not met last week. The sus pension of a firm, which gave such extensive employ ment, and on such liberal terms, would be severely felt in the present Beason of disaster. The books of the Shannon Navigation Commission have not come oat pore under the hands of the publie accountant. A deficiency in the cash to the amount of 8,0001. is reported, for which it appears the com missioners are liable. Instructions have been received by the Dublin Post-office authorities, from the head office, London, directing that all unpaid and returned letters should be delivered, from the dead letter office, in envelopes of a particular description, containing the reason why the letter was returned. The object is to enforce pos tage from the writer, who, in the event of refusal, will be summoned, and put to the proof that the hand writing was not his, the defence most likely to be made under such circumstances. The regulation will he in force in a fortnight. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. The Wezford Guardian of this day reports that a man named Moran occupied, under a gentleman named Whitney, 20 acres of land. His ancestors occupied the same farm for several srenerstions, and were comfortable and improving fir :people of their claps. The potato blight came, and Moron fell into arrear. In last spring he stinted himself and his family to sow the land with corn and othercrope. In July hat he owed about 341., but previously a second gale having fallen due he was proceeded against, an ejectment was had, and the sheriff came to give possesaion to the landlord. Moran offered to lay out corn to the amount of the rent claimed and costs, and this he could do, as an abundant harvest crowned his sowing, and the corn on the land was worth over 1001. This was refused, for it was not a legal tender, and the landlord would have money or the lend. , Mona offered, when the crops were severed, to carry into the landlord's farm-yard corn so fii cient to cover the claim until he realised money by dhposi og of the remainder in the market. This also was refused, and Moran was evicted. The poor man hovered about the neighbourhood, erecting a hovel with hoards in one of the dykes of his own farm, and he is said to have reaped some of the corn he had sown as food for his own family. The account which I have paraphrased thus concludes He continued about the premises until the Ist ! of September, when the sheriff appeared again: his houses were thrown down, his corn reaped and carried away, valued, it is state.: to us, at from 801. to 1001., and the poor, unfortunate man, his wife and eia children, and an aged father, 85 years old, driven on the world, without a roof to shelter them, without a day's food to sustain life." This a saddening picture, and proves) how much the law of landlord and tenant needs revision. The case is cer tainly an extreme one, but similar cues are by no means so untrequent as you in England would be led to suppoae. Moran was tenant at will, or from year to year ; had he had • lease it would of course have been more troublesome legally to evict him. The Northern Standard of this day states that the Rev. Mr. Mayne, a clergyman of Monaghan, had been fired at; and the Westmeath Guardian records a ease in which a desperate attempt, fortunately unsuccessful, was made upon a bailiff in that county by two men, one of them armed with a sword. The Dean of Elphin, the Rev. E. Hoare, whom works on bilious.' education have bad much celebrity, has had a notice from " Molly Maguire," threatening him with the fate of Major Mahon, for some presumed delinquencies. REPEAL Aasocianow.—Mr. John bay presided st the meeting of this body to-day. The proceedings were notpar. titularly important. The repeal rent nearly reached 301. A letter from Mr. John O'Connell was read, in which he dis cusses the " crime end outrage " bill, which he approves for he confession of the partisanship of the local magistracy. The power of augmenting the police, and the keeping of arms at home under license in disturbed districts, he wi'l not object to ; but the power of search he will oppose, or if per mitted only in the daytime by a stipendiary magistrate.— This is the marrow of the letter. a compulsory enfranchisement. The present copyhold enfranchisement act (4 and 3 ie., c. 33) was the re mit of the recommendations of that committee; and the bill, as originally introduced, contained a provision for the compulsory enfranchisement of all copyholde, after a short interval given for voluntary enfranchisement. The compul sory clause was struck oat in the Lords, and the present effete law and powerless commission were established. Now, this law has rather aggra vated than relieved copyholders, in the cases where relief is moat required—namely, where the fines are arbitrary. Where fines are certain, the tenure, from its liability to heriots—eften the best beast or chattel —and so forth, is extremely vexations and trouble some to the tenant, without being productive of much benefit to the lord, and greatly lessens the market value of the lard. But the difficulty is with copy holds subject to arbitrary fines (and such are the majority,) which form the great source of profit to the lords of manors. Mr. STEWART says, "these [arbitrary fines] aro usually rigorously exacted; more rigorously than ever since the passing of the recent act" for voluntary enfranchisement. A most stringent remedy is required, as we shall have occa sion to show hereafter, in reference to the returns made by the copyhold commissioners. In this matter, however, the copyholders of England must mainly rely upon themselves ; if they speak out loudly and generally, they will perchance enable the commissioners to take heart to tell some truths, not altogether pleasing to the lords of parliament, in rounder phrase than might otherwise be adopted. We have reason to believe that the goy, rnment will not be indisposed to promote a law for complete and compulsory en franchisement. The middle class members, whom the late elections have sent into the House of Com mune, would support so useful a measure to a man, and Sir ROBERT I'EEL is said to be also favourable. In the Commons, therefore, a bill for rt ally enfran chising copyholds is safe. But the Lords ? Why, the House of Lords, no doubt, contains a majority of men who, from ignorance, prejudice, or wilfulness, aro indisposed to a compulsory enfranchisement of copyholds. But the Lords have not of late resisted any clearly expressed demand of the people, backed, as a copyhold enfranchisement bill will be, by a good majority in the Commons ; and there is no reason to suppose, that if the movement, commenced amongst the copyholders of the iron district of Staffordshire, be vigorously followed up, that any serious or per manent obstacle will now be found in the House of Lords. That such will be the case, is probable, for it was suggested at the Bilston meeting, that meet ' ings should be held at Wolverhampton, Wednesbury, Derlaston, Cannock, Tettenhall, West Bromwich, Lapley, Brewood, and other neighbouring places. It was also stated that a meeting at Newcastle (Stafford shire) would be held. Eighteen or nineteen places, in the whole, were named. BAVARIA.—MININTERIAL CHANGIEB.—The Augs burg Gazette of the 2nd inst. confirms the intelligence we have already given, that Prince von Wallenstein and State Councillor Berke are the leading mambas of the new cabinet. RUSSIA. Si'. PETERSBURG, NOV. 19.—THE CIiOLERA.—The official reports respecting the cholera con tain remarks respecting certain observations that have been made relative to the epidemic this year. It was especially observable that the pestilence, in its progress from Astrachan, went forward in the Saratuff government, by the land route; ' 1. invariably against the wind ; 2. as in 1839, it left the 'colony of Sarapta untouched ; 3. on the road from lemma:tin to Saratoff, it likewise, in the first instance, passed over the tint I 'reign colonies, though it afterwards so far appeared there from having been carried thither by persons who came from the infested Saratoff. In these cases, which plainly prove its propagation by infected persons, the incubation lasted four days. From the last reports, it appears that the cholera appeared on the 29th September in the govern ment, and on the 21st of October in the government of Kaluga, where in the first week seven persona were seized with it, and five died; 2ndly, on the Ist of November in the government of Minsk town of Neshiza. From the medical and scientific report of M. Mot echulaky, it results that on its appearance in Charatoff and Tschrigni ff, it especially did not seize acclimatised persons. In the first period, spasmodic symptoms preponderated; in the second, nervous paralysis ; in the first penod, the disease chiefly attacked strong healthy men; in the second, chiefly women and children. M. von MOUChUilky refers the condi. tion of the cholera to the magnetic states of the earth. It is remarkable that the progress of the cholera it invariably from south to north,—never the converse ; generally it has like wise a westerly tendency, where**. other epidemics, likewise coming from the south, travelled either east or west. In the strip of land where the cholera touched the Ukraine military colony on the north, between 600 and 700 persons died from among a population of about 30,000, that 1., about 1-45th. In 1830 180 persona died of the cholera in that same spot, and in 1831 more than 1,500 persons. Among the persons who have this time fallen victims to it, all except 12 belong to the lower orders. The Moscow Gazette states that the cholera is de creasing. The number of sick and dying becomes less and lees, and there is every hope that the epidemic will soon dim appear entirely. Since the appearance of the sicken.' on the 13th November, 2,142 persons have been attacked, of whom 850 recovered, and 1,025 died ; 467 persons are still on the sick list, of whom 149 are in the hosp i tals prepared for the recetion of cholera patients. At St. l'etersburg the disease appears extremely mild, and is rather eporadic than Aaiatic COLONIAL. AUSTRALIA.—FREEEMIGRATION.-^A notice, dated let inst., of the regulations under which fete pongees are to be granted to New South Wales and South Australia, has just been issued. If the new commissioners of emigra tion (gszetted last night) act up to the principles therein aid down, there can be no doubt that both the colony and the emigrants nil be benefited. We could wish that the accredited agent of New South Wales, or some other member, would move for returns illustrative of the kind of emigrants hitherto despatched from Plymouth, in order that it might be seen how far the practice of the late board corresponded with its professions. " The funds by which the emigration is allected," says the new notice, " are furnished by the .sue and are intended, not for the putpose of relief et) prow, its this country, but to supply the colonists with the particle. far description of labourers of whom they stand most its need." Of oourse, industry, sobriety, and skill in their re spective callings are desiderated in the emigrants ; awl it is added—" Persons in the habitual receipt of parish relief are not eligible." We would request our English, Scotch, Leinster (the sea-board), and Ulster countrymen tu note the passages we have quoted. This is no pauper emigre. Lion. Paupers are not to be forwarded The free passages are merely the strong expressions on the part of the colo nists of the need in which they stand of good skilled work men. There is no degradation to oar sturdy yeomanry in accepting them. The emigrants must be in good health. The most eligible candidates are young main couples. No family can be taken with morethan twochildiren under seven or three under ten years of age. The separation of husbands and wives, or of parents and children, le in no case to be permitted. Single men can only be taken in a number not exceeding the number of single women in the same ship. The ages of parents of families ought not to exceed 40. This rule will be relaxed in favour of applicants having adult clul- dren about to emigrate with them. The ages of single per- tons accompanying their parents ought not to be less than 18 nor more than 35. The emigrants must bring their own clothing; the more abundant the stock the better for health and comfort during the voyage. They must also bring 211 x. of stop and a sup ply of towels and sheets. It is desirable that they should take the tools of their trades. Before receiving en order to embark, 11. must be paid for every adult, and 109. for each child under fourteen, towards bedding and mess utensils for the voyage. If the emigrants conduct themselves properly daring the voyage, the bedding and mess utensils are given to them at its termination. During the voyage the emigrants are put under the charge of a surgeon-stiperuitendent. Married couples and their young children are to occupy separate berths in the middle of the vessel. The single men and single women are placed is distinct compartments at opposite ends of the ship. They are victualled in messes of 6 or 8 each, children from 1 to 14, receiving half rations. Ample supplies of medical com forts, &c., are placed under the discretion of the surgeon, First-class vessels: will be despatched every month to Sydney, Port Philip, and Adelaide, from London and Ply mouth, where depots have been fitted up, in which emi grants aseeroblad previous to embarkation are lodged and td free of (harp. Emigrants from Scotland will receive free mow fuse Leith to London. At the termination of the mop aorlirants may remain on board and receive fret Tattoos 14 days to enable them to make arrangements. Tbq are received in the colony bye government officer, tobser dot' it tato give them every assiatanrs, hy inform - Ilell They are free to engage themselves to any- INN, WWI 111 Mae their own bargain for wages. No repay ment at alp part of their passage out is required. The amts of the Australian colonies is remarkably min. Wm. rod well adapted to European constitutions. Wn= altlles *gm of the last deices, were in every we hi *ma Sese c eg i o n ir the same description of labour in this ewantry„ may in general be purchased at a= little fa apses asadl prices in this country. casts 4s. M. par brig ; best bread 2d., and seconds led., per lb. ; dna mat, 2d. per lb, ; salt butter Is., and fresh Is. 2d., per lls.Laltoese, 7d. per lb. ; potatoes, 61. M. per cwt.; tea, 2s. ed. per lb. ; sugar, 40. per lb. Copies of the notice, containing the dietary scale for the voyage, lists of the commissioners' agents in different parts of the country, and other details, may be had on application to the secretary of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commis eioners, at the office, 0, Perk-street, Westminster. Cr STOMS PEOMOTIONS.—Mr. R. Chapman is appointed to be inepector-general, Vial Bovr, promoted ; Mr. Rolls, to be landing surveyor, vim Mr. Chapman ; Mr. F. Bt. Jam to ►a be inspeotor-geaaral at Liverpool ; and Mr. Da to be landing sumo+ at lankal, 'rice Mr et. John. SCOTLAND. EDINBritOIT, DEC. 6. The railway tendencies of the age have been stri kingly manifested at the first meeting for the season of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. Of six papers read, five were connected with railway inventions. One was on the general subject of railway accidents; the second on a new iron railway chair; the third on a new railway switch; and the fourth and fifth were snegestions for railway signals. The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce ban adopted the fol lowing resolutions regarding India b,lla : That, in the opinion of this chamber, the term of ten months after date, or six months after sight, at which bills of exchange are usually drawn from the East Indies and China, SA unnece,arily long for the legitimate purposes of commerce, and gird encouragement to touch d specuLatasn. That a 'mace of ninety days after sighs, or are months after date, you'd, bt the opinion of this chamber, afford sufficient twilit:sea for merchants in the East India and China trade, conducting their business on sound princlolet. That this chamber use all the influence in their power to establish the team of ninety days after sight, or gee months after date, as the regular mane from the riftlotrisiddhd"c and forwarded ; tot e th" 'nrth this view OM of these m re Te country. The Aberdeen Journal completes its hundredth year on the 27th inst., when a public entertainment is to be given to Mr. Chalmers, the proprietor, in whose family the property has been since the commencement of the paper. The Aberdeen Journal is conservative in its politics. It is thethird oldest existing paper in Scotland, the Edinburgh Courant and the Caledonian Mercury being respectively the first and second in point of antiquity. WALES. Loss OF LIFE IN A COLLIERY.—A series of acci dents occurred last week at Bcrw colliery, Anglesey. The night of yesterday tie'nnight two men and a boy had taken their stations in the basket preparatory to being lowered to the working level, the shaft leading to which is 120 yards in depth. The descent had not well commenced when the basket, being insecurely placed on the hook, which is con nected by a rope with the engine, lost its hold, and two ant of three fell to the bottom of the shaft and were dashed to piecee. The preservation of the third (who caught hold by the hook) was miraculous, he having been seized by a man upon the bank, and supported until further aid could be obtained to effect his rescue from so fearful a position. The mischief did not end here. The guiding rods which keep the baskets apart were thrown out of gear by the accidents just related, and the efforts made to disentangle them liberated a portion of the basket which bad got jammed be tween them, and this striking a miner named Parry, who was at the bottom of the abaft, on the nape of the neck, killed him instantly. The night preceding (Mon day) a man named Williams was killed in the act of being lifted from a 'hump" to the level ; having imprudently dispensed with the basket, hie own weight was insufficient to counterbalance the descending power. The cog-wheel per formed its revolutions with a rapidity that brought the un fortunate man's head is contact with the ro 'tot the level with a crashing force. His head was completely flattened. It is right to state (says the North Wales Chronicle) that the whole of these accidents are traceable to a recklessness of their own safety on the part of the colliers themselves, who, being familiarised to danger, do not take the slightest care to guard against it. PROVINCIAL. REPRESENTATION OF LANCASHIRE.—The commit tee of Mr. Alex. Henry now numbers nearly 2,000 names, and there is every probability that he will quieUy take the seat without the shadow of RKSH oppneitiolßE.n. YO WORK FOR THE SCHOOLMASTER. The local papers of the present week report several instances of notable ignorance and superstition. The Leeds Mercury says: "In spite of the cautions from time to time given by tha press of the tricks practised by so-called ' fortune-tellers,' cams still continue to occur, and more victims are added to the Nat of these previously cheated. A few dart ego a IMMO between 30 and 40 years of age, with a child in her saves, sad appea ring to be deaf and dumb, visited Otley fbe the purpose of 'telling fortunes.' A young girl, anxious to OSlOltsin hers, consulted the Sybil. In order to carry oat the idorination given, a sovereign was to be sewn inside the woman's stays; and the money was handed to the =se-teller for that purpose. The work being fin= a strict injunction was given that the money not be looked at for two days, when she would fall again. Not appearing at the time appointed, her dupe searched for the sovereign, and found that a farthing had been substituted. A quantity of wearing apparel was also obtained from the poor dupe. The fortune-teller has not since been seen. The Cheltenham Free Press gives another ease. A married woman in good circum stances, living in Winchcomb, having a daughter subject to fits, consulted a travelling woman, who pretended that she was able to cure her. A saucer containing some fine salt was plated on the table, and in the middle of the salt the mother deposited two shillings. The saucer having been covered with a hat, the old woman knelt down :near it, and pre tended to pray ; she then left the house, giving strict crams against the removal of the hat for one hour. When the hat was removed, the shillings had, of course, vanished.—A third instance appears in the Durham Ch ronicle. In the course of last week a woman, respectably attired, apparently a farmer's wife, entered a poulterer's shop in Sunderland, and requested the shopkeeper, as • particular favour, to est off the combs of some young cocks which were contained in • basket which she earned. The poulterer, with some sur prise, inquired the reason of this novel request ; and wee told by the applicant that " she had a eon who was be witched, and she was sure if the combs were cut off he weld be instantly cured." T heHESII requeDlßst was complied with. C REPRESENTATTON OF STOCKPORT.—This contest is ingested to take place on Monday or Tuesday next, and is ens which must naturally be looked to with much interest from the peculiar position of the candidates. Major edam land to known to have much Influence in the borough, but Mr. Kershaw, being solicited to ear himself • second time before the major was thought et, bee, upon the face at the requisition, the names of ae mead majority of the vet= pledged to support him. The sal, hags, tirefore, of the witeemvative party is in the isKeeste they eta bring to beer agog &portion of the plidgei area to Woos them to hehit teasheir. }ember. At meeting of the libels' elegem heed is ea visg, la_ the Ife Peterßyland, s ilrilgtoe, ero of a Mead of Kr. m observed that argreate were esseergit Mes protectionists, with Lord ettskibliihrWa le Gesige SWIM It at their head, in the hope of ems the eivesset et tree trade by pointing to the Mae ei et the ewe- quenees of tree trade. They dwelt eloquently upon the amount of bullion that had gone out of the country to pur chase eight million quarters of grain, or the food of six mil lions of people ; but he would ask what must have become of those six millions of people but for freedvade and the eight million quarters of grain ? Parting with bullion might have been disagreeable, but parting with six millions of lives would have been far worse. He should like to know, if Lord George Bentinek were cast upon a desolate Wand with a bag containing six million, of bullion, and were without food fur only three days, if he would not be glad to part with his whole hag of bullion fur only one single quarter of grain ? —Mr. Kershaw addressed the meeting at considerable length, not recepitulatiug the articles of his political creed, but dwell ing open the circumstances under which he had come forward, and the new features whirl had begun to characterise the contest in consequence of the attempts that were making to induce hie humbler supporters to break their led. In fact, Mr. Kershaw and his committee sic that th ey have the election in their own hands, if they can only hold up their pledged men to the point. "It was a very largo and very well conducted meeting, and there is the greater hope for the liberal cause," says our correspondent, " an this contest, be cause although brandy and water is pretty freely given by the tories, they have before their eyes the fear of a parlia mentary petition to void the other seat on eimilar grounds, and, therefore, cann ot OU practice treating an openly?' CESTERSHIRE. THE CIRENCESTER AGRICULTURAL MEETING took place on Friday, at Barton Farm, Oakley Park. The show of stork was particularly good. At the runner, which closed the proceedings, the Hun. ?dr. Bathurst said it was not his intention to give them a lecture upon outselling or deep draining, on thin or thick soils, bemuse they would hear a great deal better information from practical farmers. Bat there was one point on which he would teach, because he was anxious for the success of agriculture—it was with regard to the employmi nt of labourers. It was their in terest to employ labourers ; and it was a mistaken eco nomy in the farmer not to employ labourers to the full extent of his means. It had been lately determined that in a sister country the land should support the poor, and even more so should it be the cue in this country. If they did not employ the labourers they must go to the poor houses, and the benefit of their hamar was lost to those who supported them out of the rates. He begged pardon for en forcing this portion upon the attention of the meeting, but he always felt that he was usefully employed when doing so. He thought it a matter for great congratulation that during the great crush which this country bed suetained, agricul ture had stood very strong and firm, and, moreover, by its attire Titrength. Recollect P. had no defence row from the legislature—no protection. Not a single shilling of duty had been taken on the corn imported into this country, and notwithstanding the forearm were in good heart and pros perity. The Agricultural College had been alluded to, and here he must say that there was an individual present who had deserved well of his country. He would not call it the "Cirencester job," for he despised the impuietion which the expression conveyed; but the college had been esta blished not more for the benefit of the farmers of the clis. trict than that of the firmer% is general. The gentleman he had alluded to, had come forward with most liberal assist ance, at a time when it was doubted whether the whole in stitution would n,t tall to the ground ; and he might be con sidered the second f 'wider of the institution. His liberality had, however, put the college, as they had been informed, in a prosperous state, and it was likely to succeed, at least till Christmas, which fur one individual to accocapleth was a great effort. He trwted, however, that the institution would exist prosperously for many years, as it was not In tended to benefit the town or the county, but the country at large. The institution would throw light upon agricul ture, and he looked forward to the time when the &rmer would proudly say he was not indebted for anything to the legislature, and would not consent to run in the giacart of legislation, but d, pending on his own right arm, and aided by his science, experience, and skill, would gain the victory. Int 'Drama. THE SHAKSPEABE NIGIIT.—The dramatic per formance in aid either fund fur the purchase and preserva tion of Shakspeare's house took place, last evening, at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent garden. It had created math public interest, and the theatre was crowded in every part, and presented a brilliant assemblage of faehionable and dis tinguished company, including almost every person eminent in literature and art. All the artangements—those con nected with the entertainments on the stage at well es the accommodation of the audience—were made with great judgment ; but this did not prevent the commencement of the performances front being disagreeably interrupted by loud cries and hooting from a number of people in the upper regions of the house ,who felt themselves, we suppose, incommoded by the crowd and pressure—at least we could discover no other reason for their conduct. Beethoven's overture to " Coriolanus " was rendered quite inaudible by those noises. Mr. Phelps then came forward to speak the prologue, writ:en for the occasion by Mr. Charles Knight. lie had not got be) and the first verse when he was. compelled to stop, and, alter waiting in vein for silence, he retired from the stage. In a little while he returned and recommenced the prologue, but after speaking some twenty lines in the midst of inter ruptions u anno)itg to himself as to the audience, he was again obliged to break off and retire. A performer then came forward, and said that any persons who felt incom moded and desired to leave the theatre should have their money returned. The malcontents then went away or be came quiet, and the entertainments then proceeded. But it was now too late to go on with the prol.nue, which was thus sacrificed by the unseemly conduct of some individnals, who, had they received their deserts, would have been summarily and speedily turned out. The prologue, which does much honour to Mr. Knight's feelings as well an his poetical talent, is as follows : The Macedonian stood within the gates Of the devot. d Thebes. Relentless hates Asked to be loosed in blood-bed and in fire : Spars not —the conqueror cried —Yet 4117 the lyre Of glorious Pindariss le Thebes was strung— Search for his house these toted piles among. Perish the city. down ill every tower, But save, from ruin save the Muses' sacred bower The victor Time has stood on Avon's side, To doom the fall cf many a hone of pride. Rapine o'er Evesham's gilded lone has strode, And gorgeous Kenilworth has paved the road; But time has gently laid his withering hands On one frail house—the boon of Shalspeare stands. Centuries are gone —talc%clouri.capp'd towers in But elbakepeare'. home, his boyhood'. home, is ours. Ye who this night kind greetings bring tocheer The hidrionic groups ...Ambled here, Cherish the task, with reverent love to hold One relic of our draros's age of gold. For there, when Aeon's long•lmmortal wave Lingers in willowy banks by hbskspeare's grave,— The Pilgrims come : Ohio and the Rhine Fend forth their worshippers to Stratford's shrine, — And still theyoome, to hail, from every clime, The Poet of all oountries and " all time." Perchance, in some dark hour, a venal stage May leave to bookworms Shnkspeare's living page, Fit on the buskins to some Relegate gang, And give the coolie mast to drunken slang Then, when no tear shall hill for Juliet's woe, Falstaff be voted MI, end EMMA "slew," — Then, ere new Bettmll and Govieles nes To win the crowd tram ems the gnat desphs,— The lowly roof, which yea are ken to entm From cold asalestee dasmanan'ashame, Ma t = i tte t Mpg eta Boner taste A smiletthedrataa's waste. Yea, what a ter erste shall gather round Ms barer Net rd consecrated ground, had sant WON OA saes snaden glee, Mat kis we,-11tissiod's ownjubliee ; iserrieere. geripe, may turn to this "brief hour," War Oar our bar hours to his power— For Ore sarrliel Maass orar ft rah Our allsimemirefs Mrs I arathr fres quick decay. lathe week Ihniuml—ar lea yet heart grait Mist& Do al taut needs be ere I llellates rearms be at Varipeasfs esh— The Mass' bower fa roved—yous le the pledge kw all. The entertsinnienta enselsted of a selection of scenes from Shakspeare's plays, so varied as to exhibit his genius in its different aspects, and at the same time to bring into action the talents of our most esteemed performers. The first article of the selection, " The Death of Henry 1V.," consist ing of the scene is which the Prince of Wales removed the own from the couch of his dying father, Mr. Mae:ready' Ilinssatation of the aged monarch was in his best fit; and his performance was received with enthusiastic applause. Then followed " The Death of Quash Katharine," from " Henry VIII.," in which Ow Queen was personated with much feeling by Mrs. Butler, But this performance was lees effective than the preceding, partly owing to the re presentation of two dying scenes being placed in immediate succession. The alight comic fragment which followed, the scene between Launce and .S'peed In the " Two Gentlemen of Verona," enacted by Hartey and Buckstone, produced great laughter. Then came " Fgatars Recruits before Justice Shallow." in which Farren's delinea tion of the old dotard, drivelling about his youthful gel lantriee, was a piece of consummate art. Several scenes from " Romeo and Juliet " were then performed ; Miss Helen Faucit being the Juliet and Mrs. Glo ver the Nurse. Both were received with the warmest applause. In the scenes from the "Taming of the Shrew," as it is now performed at the Haymarket, Webster and Mrs. Nisbett, of course, were the Petra chic and Katharine, and Keeley was Orsartio. How these parts are performed by these actors everybody Imowv. There were next some portions of "The Merry Wiles of Windsor," including the scene of the buck-basket, and Slender's courtship of Anne Page. The " two merry wives" were enacted by Madame Vote* and Mrs. Stirling. Mr. Granby was Falstaff, Mr. C. Mathews Slen der, and Mtn Marshall Anne Page. These scenes were exceedingly amusing. Then there were the opening scenes of "The Tempest, ' performed by Mr. Phelps, as Prospero; Mr. Marston, so Ferdinand; Mr. G. Bennett, as Cafibats Miss Addison, as Miranda; and Miss P. Horton, aa This portion of the entertainment was much enhanced by the way in which the beautiful airs in the part of Ariel— " 0 bid your faithful Arid fiy," " Come unto these yellow sands," and " Full fathom five thy father lies, _" were sung by Min Horton. The performances concluded with the statue scene in " The Winter's Tale," in which Mn. Warner appeared as Queen llermione. In the intervals of the dn. matic scenes, a number of pieces of music were played by u large and excellent orchestra, under the direction of Sir Henry Bishop, and led by Mr. T. Cooke. Upon the whole, the entertainmenn of the evening were elegeet and in* , resting; and the proceeds must have largely contributed to the fund for a truly national object—the perpetual presenta tion of the house of our immortal bard. UNIVERSITY AND CL ": I *afc.,. CANIIIIDOIL Die. 7.—At a m- • pimwebal s o a.en held last siiht, the • 2 : ig . dent. te the chair, A. 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