The Express. — London, England, 1852-12-25 00:00:00

Vbe Court. WINDSOR, Thc dinner party yesterday ootteisted of the hear, the Vnam of Lriaiairra, the Primmer :• Ilehenlhe, tbo I.arly is Weitimp te the o. go. the buckram de Spetb, mad Calmed the B. lb , %vet) 'e pricAte bead !atm led is tie Castle the evorielt, sold performed the Wowing Weed's— --J.rrtrEi" 1 , 0 , r.. 1 for the Tmerel of MS OM. the IMO We !)0101 0) . ........... . Ng. -3rd Art " I.r Yeeana Omar Herold ••••• • ••••• Lamar s , R.M. 11. laglis, M.P., had as interview with Sir j, h y r ,Istagrea yesterday at the Coloeial office. ~-re rat ysster-ay from the Colonial•ofget to be Governors 1.1 the North American Province,, the (~,amore of l'eslon and Ilong Kong. the Lord High Con ut etv lowan Islands, kind the Governor of Malls ltopsubta rue revetsul yosterdoy from the (lutecium of u.attitur. _ !IL O. CoRmiwALL Lewis has been appointed of the Fdthbategh fierier r. (rum LAST AIIONT . • osaaTeu.) la,voitNt: Of NEXT, DIX% 23.—The Queen ban been iduoil to appoint Captain George Edward Wade to be Custunahotter and Cunt-tun of Team tor the Seychelles Veal., depend. neles 01 the Island of Mauritius; also his pleased to appoint Thomas Kelly, Esq., M.D., to be sA Assistant Magistrate fur the dutrict of Natal, is South Amt I. WAR OFFICE, Dec. 24. rth Regiment of Dragoon Gusida—Captain Jobe Digby Murray, from half-pay Unattached, to be captate. vice Beset Major Abraham Bolton, who exchanges; Lieu t, omit Adolphus William newel Burton to be captain hr perches., vice Murray, who retim ; Cornet Henry Hugh McNeil. to be lieutenant, by purchne, vies Burton ; Coast Richard U. Rumford Bolton, from the lot Dragoon Guards, to be cornet, rice McNeil,. „ad Dragoono—l'aptain William Boyd, front the nth Foot, to be captain, vice Robe rtson, who ezehaegt a. Ilth Light Dragoomi.—Br. rot II our John Douglas to be major, by purchase, vice Jones. promoted in 3rd West Isms Iteariniest ; Lieutenant Arthur Briscoe to be *sp ivs, by purchase. vice Douglas. 7th Rerineent of Foot.—Captaio It :Fined Yonge Shipley, from the Ssth Foot, to be rapt do. rice Verner, who ea rlosoges. bob Foot.—Enoien Henry Henderson to be lieutenant, by purchase, rice Haler, who retires 1:01 root.—Lieutenant William Edward Crofton to he “ptain. without purchase, vice Ilearn, deceased ; Thomas rationed Miller to he lieutensat, without jun haw, me eirent-laseir George Gib son ensign. without purchase, rite Miller. toot —Acting Awistant•Surzeun John Meanie to be nostant-surgem, vice Cole, promoted in the let West Indian gireent. 11th F.•.'.—Captain John Donovan V ' from the 7th to be captain. rice Shipley, who eachanges. 79th loot.—Brevet Coloun lion*. Walpole, from half-pay Jith Foot, to he lieuteuntwolont, vice lion. Lauderdale Haul,. who cachous 's; Major Edmund James Elliot to Ix lieutenant, by porches% eke Walpole, who retiree !Nee Matto John Douglas to he mayor, by purchase, cry Lieutenant Keith Ramsay Maitland to be *loam, by purchase, vice Douglae ; Ensign Henry Hol t T !S•evrown to bet mitenant,by purebaseorice Maitland. loot—Captain Andrew Robertson, from the 2nd Dra gons, to be captain, •ice Boyd. who *schemes. sea loot.—Cantata Tobias Purcell, from half-pay un attached. to be captain (repaying the difference), me Brew. t Major John Moonier, Mann, woo esthetes,.; Lieutenant Tboosa Jame. Mire-dins to be captain, by punka*, vice Farrell, who retires; Emilia Henry Hops te.eleels to be lieutesaat, by purchase, vice Meredith. oith Foot —Meyer James Webber Smith to he lieutessat mlent I, by perches,. vise Walter, who reties; Captain Beery Hem to he major. by purchase, vice smith; LieetenantJanses George Eddington to be septets, by rents**, rice flume. Ensign Frederick James Taylor to he lisatessat, by purchase. vier Eddii.gton. Itt Wird India Regiment.—Assistant Surgeon Robert John Cole, M D from the 20th Fort, to be surgeon, Mee Jobe linoestoes Stewart. M.D.. who retires upon half - Psi. :sit West lodise R. gimat.—Serjeant- Major Milner Bar hub, from the Ist Nest India Regiment, to be twigs, without purchase, vice Thompaon, deceased. 3rd West India Regiment.—Major Inigo Willies Jeers, from the 11th Light Dragoons, to he lieutenant-colonel, by purchase, vire Findlay. who retires. Leto at —Calomel John Dilly Murray, of the sth Dragoon ',oar*, to be major in the army ; Brevet Major John 1,,,,hy Murray. of the sth Dragoon Guards, to be lies t. mateelonel on the army ; Captain Tobias Purcell, of *he ttOth root, to be major in the army; Brevet-major 1: ban Purcell, of the 90th root, to he lieutemetwolosel is the army. 7be Inn mutinied cadets of the East laths Company's essence, t 4) have the local end temporary reek of eneagn. dating the period of their being placed under the am mead of Colonel Harry D. Joan. of the Royal ratio**, at Chatham, for Mid tenement's in the art of lopping and mining : Saluthery Thar nes Trevor, gent. ; George Newmareh, gent. ; Theme Beekley, nat. ; Cuthbert Walter Fisch, gent. ; Jae Lamm Vfatta, gent.; Irwin Meetgenfery (ireig, net.; John Norris Hunter, gent.; Joseph Bealtv, gent. MaXiillettOr u.—The Christian names of Captain Meehan, tithe Ist West India Regiment, are "George Walter,' sad not " Wolter," a previously stated. ADMIRALTY, Dec. 17. The following promotions have this day taken plan come quest ce the death, on the 11th inst., 01 Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas Briggs, fi.o M G.; Vice Admiral John Wight, on the retereed half-ply list, to he admiral on the aims list; TM Admiral William Henry B. Trenton, on the risers's' half-pay list, to be admiral on the same list; Vow Admiral M the Red Sir Samuel Pym, K.O B , to be admiral of the blue: Vin Admiral of the White Thomas Bross to be vice admiral of the red ; Vice Admire/ of the Blue the Hon. doweline Percy, C.B. ' to hl vice admiral if the whit e ; R ear Ad m i ra l of the Red James Whitley lasso Dundee, C 8., to be vice admiral of the Mae; Rear Admiral of the White Barrington Reynolds, C. 8., to be rear admiral of the red ; Rear Admiral of the Blue Irani' Erskine Loch to he rear admiral of the white ; Captain Sir George Richard Brooke Pechell, Bart., to be rear-admiral on reserved half pay; Captain Herbert Brace Powell to be rear admiral on reserved half-pay; Captain the Hoe. Henry John ltous to be rear admiral of the blue. ASil the following Captains on the Retired List to be li:hred Rear-Admirals on the terms proposed in the tosdoe Gimerfe. of lit Sept., 1846, without lacrosse of pip Captain Henry Theodosius Brow Collier, Cop ia,. J.ihn Brection, Captain William Remedios, Captain Beaty Stanhope, Captain John To vetoed Coma, Cap tain Edward Corson, C. 8., Captain &pinatas Arabia. NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS. PansansssMlas George Dunn, Esq., soil Williams Thomas, Esq. Laiteirraaanisia. Sr Frederick William Ileygate, Bert- Miuntarigh. It Newlin Bond Cahbell, E. 1., M.P., Captain Debrille Floyd Duckett, Major Easy, Hoary Morrie Inse tted, E.. 1 . Charles Mills, Ent., Sir John Musgrove, Bart, Lodge Murray Prior, Bp., Jason Roe, Esq., Joeeph %inky, Eq , and Robert Cronk Watford, WINITMOSZLAND. !sass Gaudy, Esq. THE MILITIA. The following commissions have been signed : 111ta Elton Prover, Esq., to be captain, in the Royal W.;ultire Militia. liodeison Wayte, gent to be ensign, in ditto. kuilan Alexander William Adair to be captain in the ht&unersetshire Iteginseat of Milt* vies Jones, resigned. Ike lion. Amiss Poulett to be ensign its ditto, vies Adair, Leetessat Herbert Butler Bitten to be captain in ditto, vet Feed, resigned. Faints Edsraril Clarke to be lieutenant ia ditto, vies Bette, promoted. A WEI.UING 0/1 TIM a beautiful village, !ea males floes Prates. eel shaved far its club day aud ate "ttim." a young eoupfebal reelprocated each other's love F.r 03111, ties., but the (rimiest the fair one bad some (A rm% to the 41/1111, which neither time. nor argument, tier Inmtoo, h.d bee. able to remove. As the prospect of "Wire with parental consent was very remote, it wee aletanamot by tie two most interested that the nuptial knot sbesid be tied lint, sad the forgivesem, instead of the 'most, of the o'd folks should be asked afterward,. hemntifigly. ma Monday tut a license wee procured, sad se neither of the parties admired the mere romance of muses wedding, they determined to plight their troth mar ;their ow% home, at their owe old church, where they hod worship- ell for years, and which was ttdeand to them by so many meoeiatious. The l'Ntaft lady lift home to *prod a short time with a Itsraltsur, from where* she rent word that she would I ' • It Itrottathtoo to speed the night with a fries", and r e t ort , b oo , t o st r op. Whether the latter rot el the journey was sodertakeu we de sot determine, bet hymen o'clork--ortually before daylight—the follow. eiguorvionar, she sod ber loved else obtained admittance the rhumb, and by eight the minister arrived, and I!"' !RI p.rtoat rite wee performed. The pariah tart, it vi NW, sympathisiog with the lovers, and afraid of mrise as imitation to the villagers et amythiatt heat( now, a• nosh, have hems judged by hi. tarrying vestments aa 4 a, he ordinarily does Into the church, placed !htie as • hasher mad canted then ea his head, rif he lore ww• law important burden. The irresolvable yews hhat retailed, the news sum spread through the village el ohs ' bed taliwt Owe, end many mad hearty were the re- Attars denim the day smug the (made of the yeses t Irk . me their taiaton so hold a map eaM mean dna e* ,tt • keplenne Preens Chronic e. 1 " 11 .W.ST Taarrie.—Amordists to the Munn of .t i 41. 17 lospesies which are tulwded is ear must lid, at eei• that the week's tragic eatemete to 206.504 1 . 17 , 4 ; 19 11, 1”. et en. 4s. Id. per mile ; whilst the Menu t.rt•rmitheig week in 1441 went 2046144 ow 11,467 mil ..77. "e 04 .ei N. a mile; sad flawlliO, 1141,91/K. eta ir Vials. Of 311. 11.. 10d. • mile; @Wiwi , . w i•oreal• el 74. ear 1610.—rt ogle pe anent r week one 1161, and of 21. 76. 211.. Railatap IRELAND Die.l4. PROSECUTION OF THE "ANOLO-CELT." CONVICTION OF NE. Z. WALLACE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. The cue of the Queen v. Mr. Z. Visllsos, the pro prietor of the Anglo-Celt, was resumed at the sitting of the court yesterday, cod the interest is the proeeedisgs evinced ow the preceding day was evident/y increased rather them abated. After some discussion on technical matters ' Mr. Fitzgibbon, Q C., sauteed spout this defence of his client. Having undo some introduetoey observatiemik thei Manta counsel said that the Attorney•Ovagral, I. *pals,' the saes to the jury, bad told them that one of his inativer for instituting the prosecution was that he felt it to be his duty to preserve for every man in that county the right of having • fair and impartial trial. That the learned gentleman should imagiae that goy each duty devolved I upon kis shoulders when her Majesty elected him to the office, was just about as rational es it would be is a fly non a coach wheel to cry out that it was Ida duty . to drag the coach at the rate of :0 miles ea hour. Ha ving stated that the jury were the persoas who were to form an opinion as to whether the article wElch had been published in the defendant's newspaper was or was not a malignant and mischievous libel, the learned counsel ob served that it was sixty years since the greatest lawyer of that day declared that he could della' what • libel was, eacept this—that it we. what • jury fiend to be • Lbel; and in eonaideriug the question they should look to the publication in all the circumstances under which it was published, the station in life of the person by whom it bad ben. published, and the CifCll6llltalln a under which it had been pub'asheil. The defendant was not bound to de monstrate that is every sentence the document to which objections hail been taken was quite &cormus and unexcep tionable, but that it did not bear the construction put upon it of being a malicious libel. It was the bounden duty of the Attorney-Heneral to forbear from prosecutions like the present unless they were lou it y ea/led for by some serious 'ulnae:mu, nt of the laws of the land; and any one who was in the habit of reading newspapers could aot fail to see that intemperate language was used from time to time by the advocates of different ponies. And would it not he • monstrous thing if an Anomie y-Heneral should fancy him self placed in such • position as to seise upon the pub lishers, and drag them into a seam of justice to undergo a state prosecatiou ? The learned colonel then 1021 the alleged libel, headed The Sie stas Bridge Tragedy," and commented upon it, ob. *orris' that the writer had not charged the military with wilful and delib rata murder, but merely gave • report of • portion of the evidence brought forward at the trial horn which that conclusion was to be drawu. No one in the community would more sincerely rejoice than he would if each soldier who fired • shut on the day in queatiou and killed a man, would be enabled to establish to the satisfee tom of ajury diet in ao doing he bad done an act fur which he was not criminally responsible ; nor had his client given him instructions Warty anything that would be calculated to prejudge the se:dicta the jury as regarded the guilt or in• aceence of the men who might be on their trials. Having drawn attention to the circumstances of the transaction at Six-mile Briars the learned gentleman intimated to the jury that the defendant had no repine" at the inquest, and that what Lad appeared in his newspaper had been copied from other papers. Did th ry not all lower that every news. paper in the land teemed neat morning with the proceedings which had taken place at the legate', and what evidence was there that any steps bad been taken by the crows to put an end to such articles ? And how could the Attorney 6. neral allow others to act illegally, us he said, for one fortnight, and then presume to come into that court and impute malignant crime to a young ion because he in his paper bad published secondhand report of the inquest— published too in a remote country town situated at more that 100 miles from where the inquest had been held ? Where was the evidence that this libel, which was sup posed to have lad smell the minds of the jury, had been read by a single pews la the neighboutUud in which the inquest had his bell ? Did it appear that anyone of the seventeen janareby wham the eau had been tried had 'see the paper, sad bed ems of them begs peoduced to show that bee wad had been ialkeased by its osatints What peed Ird bees glees (Mt say sae of the military gentle men abate homeaded lbeliegs had begs as much described had seen the smospaper ? Would it ha= become a really public document bet foe the Attorney.fasseral himself i He (Mr. Fitzgibbon) believed that since the year 1817 there had wt been • state prosemitioe for libel. it was • weapon with which every prudent Attorney Deseret would meddle with caution. A state prosecution was an Instrument of torture. He did imagine, seeing that the ease was is some wieuste a military one that • little military diseretioa I would have born es. reiseel, and that all the eloquence, and turbulence, sod even the pathos would have hoes kept for the reply ; but he was sever more disappoiated in his life as soon as he heard the vehemence and the fleeted pathos with which • fact was dragged into the case by the seek and shoulder, whoa he beard it stated that this valiant regiment (the 31st) bid never lost its solemn, be was • little surprised. Who ever 1144 that it hod tut ite valuing ? It might :have bees a mistake, and facings," and not colours, might hive been meant ; sad when was it that these colours were lost i Why, in the year 1823, before any one in the regiment who considered himself aggrieved bed teetered it, The Kent East Indiums took Ore is the Bay of &may, upon which occasion the regiment was rescued from the wreck, but its colours were destroyed. What bad this feat to do with the presen. case? Now let him retain to the publ:- cation, te say if it should be designated • wicked and ma tinees% libel, and whether the jury would sewage his client to be brought up before the Court of Queen's Beach, to be there addressed by hie lordship as a wicked and malignant libeller. Such • prosecution was not tO be endured. Wbea • miserable bookseller was dragged out of • dark lane in Lambdas to stand his trial at the bar of justiec for having wri tea • political parody upon the Lord's Prayer, the ' Creed, sad the Litaay, • jury of Englishmen acquitted him : and twice more was he arraigned upon the same charge before other juries, and also acquitted—not because they did not disapprove of his profane parody, but because the press teemed with such parodies, and they thought it unfair to victimise this poor bookseller, and he was eve. allowed to justify hie act by 'bowing that the Chief Justice who bevel the trial was the sea of a bishop who had pub lished • parody upon the Lord's Prayer. Why in the name of C01:120012 sense—why, in the name of political and party prudence—ha/ the present miserable nee been I dragged before that court at such a time ? They had heard the Attorney-General on the previous day lauding 'the courage of the valiant 31st; bet he wondered when be was so addressing the jury if it oe tarred to his mind that if in Match neat he would continue in office, and it would be his duty to go down to prosecute tho ten oddities for murder, he was placing himself in the position of being suspect ed of a predeter mination to get them acquitted. The dafendeat was no priest's man; he is a plain Presbyterian; his paper was in the north of Irelsad, and ha eensiderevl that he was making a fair and honest commentary upon • shocking treaseetion in which somebody meet be =said/red to be to blame, sod be made his remarks sosordingly. Was there anything wrong is the coucludiag observations of the documeat, that the writer trusted the government would act temperately. Did It suggest • factious Jelling with the case? Did it do more than express • wish that the guilty party, whether dressed In black, red or grey, sad whether he was a clergyman, • soldier, a farmer, and wore a black, • red, or a bless oast, should be punished, hut punished temperately? Was it to be ex pected that there would be • fair trial of the accused by prejudging their cases by sash an ill-timed investigation as the present ? and was his client to be punished for stating that certain evidence led to • certain result, when 1 17 men empanelled on • jury had returned • verdict of wilful murder ? Let the Solicitor -Hengist by and bye, in the plenitude of his imagination, venture to tell them that the publication in question had led to that verdict. Would he believe that they were each galls as to swallow the assertion ? If he intended to resort to each an ergo ' meet he should have produced some of the 17 jurors to prove that they had read the article, and that they had bees I influeaced by it. The Chief Julies said he could not have received any such evidence. . . . --.............—. Mr. Flizsdibon asked, if this were so, upon what founds ties bad the Attoruey.General reaeoneckthat the publication had a tendency to warp the minds of the jury who bad tried the ease at the inquest? But was it to be conceived that a jury who were acting under the obligation of an oath would be influenced by what was said in an ',title ? They were called upon to say in that ease, in the language of the in ' 'Lament, that the defeadant, being a person of wicked mind and dispoitioo, published a scandalous and malicious libel. The learned counsel then went on to comment apes this ease, the frets of which have been &freed, so fully before the public in various fdrms and articles, and then asked the Attorney-O,mM if he had seen in the defen dant's paper, a few days after the pub:it:atlas of the alleged libel, a full apology for the reflections which had been east upon the officers sod privates of th- 31st Regi meat ? Ilia client would sot have published whet had appeared in reference es the fleinblot It he did not be lieve that what be on wawa ans ewe 1 awl he (Mr. F.) would besairprused if • de & geatleenka la the regiment would say that he regarded for a sternest the imputation relative to their fee ings or their having acted as cowards ; ' end if he did nut, why should the money of the state be spent in such a proem taboo ? • The Attorney , General stated that he had never heard o the apology alio& d to by the learned counsel. Mr. liter lb/ on replied that the Attorney.O I sea now 1114 king for himself, and he was gaits sure that if he had heard of the sr ()logy, he would have mentioned it in his opening statement; but it was quite a different thing when he spoke from his brief. Its. learned friend (Mr. 1111'llo sough) had suggested to him that the fact ref the Attorney- Gene eel's not saving heard of the apology was • proof that the eircelation of tl,• newspaper was very small, and it was quite plain that somebody had called hi. attention to the alleged libel; somebody who had not the vaanleese and osecloor to 1.101 out to him what would tend to mitigate what was cowl .erect to be his offence. Having made some further observations on the GM, the learned couseel left the tineetios se to the construction of the document with the Va l. B. J. Mousy was examined, and stated that by yea foOloa be was a reporter, and had furnished the Fr eassait' a Allinsil w it\ a note of the evidence given at the Mit-mile kip Midge ant. In took a coseunent note of the proceed . 4est ttheseldom* as it wee given, in order to WOMMiI It As nue pat, obi taking In al;orth tad the u t ativaleals, er alenesdeseatlemels. Wit.... bed look. d at the polka of the evidesee /*Ma la the Aaelo- rot, sad eeeeklend that it vas s Ws squi of se sea of the peeemalage at the Lease. THE EXPRESS, SA' Credneedeed—Wituess Needed the digitised* beet die epodes,/ the impel wit skis. He hualibid his Mee to dis Framed* ifiewiselkthe evident* is the Aesieseib Ned deem to tee ßh a August. A mss midi Thomas Mors* ties essieleM ee the 7*. TIN Ilelbedaat's sessysl *Odd Net what Ilsgrath said at the bedew was me dams op** their elide. The illitierwerfilsearal sababsid that he had a right to ▪ lif the ripen Is Ilte Col atayserstpe wee a bar de. The Mist .1 odd did that the add dlsbt ask ff Kagrath sad ether widens, had begs ouNdael la *bream to the sehlest nand of the *seq. Tbs deem dated, la dower to farther quatide, that be Wined tee ere ef the saldian bad tot boss sae Wes se die fib ef boss* Cradle !agar Lisesssst Hatted Osepsed IlLasehel. sad *the* had bele mad iced lit the dew* Ise de, ahem The aneadiedieellse of Mr. Creed wee impend is the ibeemedii Jammed It was a tab report. bat apt All. ♦ nweade hell a dead discretion to eureka. mei If he feud the areiewzasisa eon only elicited lee aim beeeight oat es the dime, he would sot report *et whims. Two sew lists were elicited on the craswerammitstios„ aad cal y as* of them was published ia the aspleaft. Is UN defeedaat's newspaper the fast Maid was that one of the soldiers had been " severely *Mei Ow Freeman's Jawed that Le had boos " badly Mr. D. J. Want dogma that ha lad boon a magistrate of the county of Qom H. was dosed at tha impost. its was examined at • titter. He was prima at a tors Lion el the tea.meefss He was Ia the Meter 'Set the firing had camtriatesd. He was promat whet Mr. Coffey applied foe the mow of the soldiers who wore alleged to have fired the 16111111. The soldiers' drawl bevies egad to Ceded Deesbe aed Lieutenant-Camel Ettautos, stated thst the amass meld be bead out from Mr. Cronin. The deemed wee made by Kr. Coffey. It worn intimated in reply that intrattleas sidle be first nested frost the eoesulaadiss Mow se Cruw.mid. d—Wises tiros ezasaised shoot the 4th of August, Use lONIA eV at the *quest. About 40 witamme were slander& sod perhaps ball that number foe the military. Ceded Ads* dresteel that all the sailers who formal the MOM shed/ be prodded at the bpitael, and the sashimi ware ..wiped a short diseases Eros the village. Mr. liMearesh her read al artiale from the deGadaat's papa of the 93rd of September, is wheel', alter stating that apse the general qaestioa of the soldiers having beet guilty of warder, the question would be decided is the Queen's Bench, he withdrew the charge against Um °Moen sod uses of the 31st Regiment of cowardice and losing their lacings, sad ozpreseest regret St having made, through error, such a charge. ' The Solicitor-General spoke to evidesos id the part of tits crown. Tao Chief Justice then proceeded to charge the Jury. Hie duty was to call their attention to the real queliese which they had to comic', roind to retell their *Mums Mat a greet deal ad the desultory observations, which it was however quite fair for C.Uneei to indulge la. neve wen two matters very much dwelt upon by the matagell teethe eceseed—the tint being this, namely, that it was the =elusive right of the jury to decide whether the publication Maipiebed of was libellous or not. He (the Chief Judge) fully coemored Is the statemeat that it was their duty to do so, end he should hot attempt to interfere with think upon Vita point ; bet another topic bad lova dwelt epee most elaborately, in re ference to which he mould not concur with what fell from the defendant's counsel. It was this. flat It wee fur the jury to decide whether the pressed was a proper case is which the Attorney•G I ought to interfere. That would essentially depend upon the preliminary question, whether the article complained of was a mischi and defamatory libel, and the jury were set to begin by oeuidering if the case was a lit one for the Attoreity-General to interfere In. The learned judge bevies read the libel, proceeded to ob serve that the indictiaeud contained four charges, appli cable to four substantive matters, and to every one ofthem the defendant was baud te give an mower. The military that formed part of the escort were messed by the WO& in question of the crime of wilful sad &liberals molder; the military eetborities were charged with le stAle ievestigatkie sod balk the trade ofjuellen I ale Ist Regiment was accused of bevies loat fat Wisp by seem of their cowardice ; sad the am whet were mimeses' at a. traneastion in the village of INAlllllrbridell was. wpm seated as cowardly amemiait. As be the peelkelimsp quettioe, it was not denied that pees/ • petallike had been brought home to the ilahmilleat. Ws chip said that with respect to the Insblicaties of posed. Ines like the present, pendiug as inquiry oat the and before the jury had tome to a eeealueion, Mee= sot be any doubt that, in point • law, sash ea eel Mee • itself illegal. The jury would, however, have le madder the nature of t' se comments is the report peaked is the newspaper, the mode • that patilketim, end die 'tepees under which it appeared, is order to oneble Oboe in judge whether the presumption of law had bees sir firmed or rebutted. As le the sent charge that the le (indent bad described the regiment as bailee lea &de facings, and boon guilty of cowardice. It might be said—why should a procreation be instituted upon bebelf et a sheik , regiment ? If the article pabWMd comaked a mischievous imputation upon beseeasW mea—if it were derogatory as the ehareeter of the reetatate. theuld it be mid that, be• can e they coald net vitsdiCale Ibmwelves by an action • an indictment, public justice ebeuld not interpose to viadi. rate them, and to redeem their honour, which was dear to them as a body as character was dear to any What must have been the feelings of both °Mem and seer. to be to stigmatised, and what incalculable mischief would be done to the public service, if the army were to get the reputation of having cowards asseeget these ? Would the expense of maintaining a military establishment be war rantable if the soldiery weld with be Welshed impsaity impotatiemlif siowirdiee ? His Imdship having laid down the law Wir the jur they retired to their room to con sider their meant, and In about halt arbour returned to their box, whet The Foreuumiatimated to the court that the jury felt a difficulty ea rienrded the word "malicious," which ap• neared in thowarmin in the iadlatimet, and wished to know if it could be irspeard ? The Chief Justice replied that the wood should be re tensed, but whether the act of the 'ceased was or was not malicious was an inferesee of law to be drawn from the eircumeanees of the case. If a n published a libel it must be malicious, and *rained the inflicting of a legal injury. The jury again withdrew, sad soon afterwards returned to their box. The Fortson then heeded dews the verdict, which wet to the effect that they found the defendant guilty upon the use ,nd, third, and fourth senate. They also found that the allegations in the simnel plea of justification were not true, and that it was not for the public goad that t►e several smatters emetioned in t►e indictment should be published at the than The jury could not epee to ell the Ant count; it contained averments about which they disagreed. - - Mr. Hayes, Q.C., said that, ou the par t of the erown, he would consent to a .. molls prosequi being entered upon the first count, and tbse they would get over the difficulty. The j;ary were then discharged. The boisterous weather in the channel causes an irregularity in the arrival of the English mails, which, at thisjuncture of affairs, is particularly in. convenient. The elms* due at Kingstown • little after 10 o'clock last night, did not reach there until half-past one this morning; and this morning's mail is already some hours overdue. The effect of the constant wet in the country has been to retard all agricultural operations, so that fears are already entertained for the consequences in the next har vest. On the complaint of the constabulary against a publican, named John Brady, of Stalfordstown, county Antrim, for entertaining illegal assemblies in his house, his license has been withdrawn by order of the Lord-Lieutenant. Mr. Foy, the United States Consul at Dublin, has been honoured by an interview with his Ex cellency the Lord Lieutenant on behalf of the New York Exhibition of 1833. Mr. Foy was accompanied by Mr. Marshall, the agent of the New York Exhi bition. His Excellency expressed himself most anxi ous to angst in any way the fur:hers/ice of the Ex hibition to be held at New York, without prejudice to the Dublin Exhibition at the same time; and was pleased to say he would contribute something in due time. THE QinEx's CoLLEHEs—BELFAST.—The follow ing gentlemen were reanumasided for Scholarships in ths Faculty of Law, at the recent examination, viz. :—Third icar—John Clarke; second year—David Rom; Ant year— Robert Johnson. OALWAT.—The examination at our col lege terminated yesterday (Tuesday). Ws have not been supplied with ths result up to (megrims to press. EVENING, Dl THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT LM IRELAND. On Tumidity evening, a large and highly roapee ahle meeting of the friends of the anti-slavery movement in Bi last woo held in the Methodist Chapel, Dmegall.place, fir the purism* of considering the propriety of presenting •n address and testimonial to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin." There was a large attendance of clergymen of various d •nominations In the say of the house, beeidea those taking part in the proceed ings of the evening. The chair was occupied by Dr. M'Oee, m..yor sleet. The 1t.,. Dr. Witana, in an eloquent speech, moved the fallowing resolution, which was unanimously adopted; —" That Ibis meeting avows its deep and solemn conviction that the slavery /Meting in the United Stites of America is throughout opposed to the laws of eternal right sod justice, and to the principles and spirit of Christianity ; that it is inimical to the social and moral interests of the nation et large, as well as grossly inconsistent with the great prin. eiples which lie at the basis of the American constitution ; sad, as such. it imperatively demands the condemnation of all the friends of freedom, humanity, sad religion through out the world." . . The &lowing resolution moved by the Bev. Mr. 0' I Tenho, woe else adopted with Reclamation : 'llet this meeting acknowledges with di light the nighty impulse whisk has been given to the anti•davery cum, both ea this sod the ether side of the Atlantic, by the asparellaled oireuletles Untie Tein's Cabin,' sod would take tab opportudiy se tirtityiag 1W nese, Oat salt' 25, of the leamatamle genius yed to that tholuollon, bat , mem especially la the vele* of the great prig girl's which lit *owls, breed's* throngithst the hand both of R and of Anodes." The rouewtns Addams to Mrs. Bucker SWIM VW thin adopted :- 1 We, whose names are subscribed, publicly amovelthel in • Belfast, the capital of Ulster, in Ireland, most eimilially offer you, as author of the work mititled Cade Tern's Cabin,' our sympathy, and adothsllan, and gratketh. In our own name, we thank yea _for the Immo of wisdom we have been taught, sad the Ultra we have felt i • in the use of the downtrodden slave, we thank fee, se his meet nth quid, powerful advocate ; the same - of the whole /010 y of man we thank you, fur peer trimththeet thanes of human dells, est for the *mg with whist' yen bete en girded and ennobled the human name. BIM ehetellelly do we 'elusion our testimese, that by asomplereased Mr pissed, of mete, end inventise, end memo r, end hilioltal. vigour, and command of diatom above ail that usually falls to the lot of mortal, you have made self-denying virtue and heaven-born piety interesting sad inviting, is a work of imagination founded on fact, sad have thus become 011111 theof greatest putrid benefactor of this or of say age. Though separated from you by the broad Atlantic, and , never, perhaps, to me year fare in the Seth, we feel towards you as a dear familiar friend, not merely be cause the acme of Stowe ie known to us, and your own character shines with such sweet "Unction in your ' &mutual' sad ' Uncle Tom,' and ' Sabbath' and ' Aunt Mary,' red other inimitable ' Tales and sketches from real liter but because la the rodeo excellence of the chief character, of Uncle Tom's Cabin,l we have become familiar with your own ; and because, by the con nexion which your name, Beecher Stowe, establishes be tween your maiden arid married tile, we recognise you as a beloved and honoured daughter of the great and good Dr. Lyman Beecher, the father of the Temperance Refor mation, one of America's most eloquent orators, popular authors, and devoted patriots ;—one,who by himself and his family, exalted by talents, acquirements, iinweeried bene volence, and Christian principle, has conferred such benefits on America, and shed on Mr such a glory, that, amid all the infamous slave•owners and wretched slaves who all her mother, it may 0.311•0111 her to have live, birth to • family, who t with the name Beecher will transmit to pos terity a pearlassexample, en ism blade' influence, and a deathless fame. Tot ourself a mour rev. red father may suitably be &MIN the language of Sir Thos. M'lntosb, regarding the great Sir Thomas More and his admirable daughter whose leaning was cekbrated through out Ch and whose remains were found in the grave with beravasderod father's trunkless head lying where *nee bad bees ewe haw:—" It is seldom that literature wears a mete egnemble aspect, than when it becomes a bond of union betwees such • lather and such a daughter." That daughter is now, in the great sphere of human rights and liberty, the woman, in distinction from all others, on whom comes the blessing of him that is ready to perish, end towards whom the eyes of countless multitudes torn, with in interest, fervour, and enthusiasm which hearts can feel, but which tongues cannot tell. She is ruling in the world of mind, with a power, in cowpvuos with which the might of the conquering sword and despot's iron sceptre are but as the toys of infancy ; her benevolent genies, sanctified by the truth, in effecting reformation which can be exceeded only b miracles of divine grace; by her powerful beaignaat inflames, she is "dusting beau liberty, accordies to her own beautiful language, as the sunshine edemas' the Sower tato full and perfect life; and when all that is mortal of her dies to this world, her words sad deeds of unutterable lees will shed a twilight armed her memory, only to fade away in the brightness of heaven. Our main object, however, in thus addressing you, is not to give the tribute of our admiration to genius of the highest order, se to reesed our veneration for Inestimable personal worth. We seem before the world, under our commas bright eneand clear sky, to claim you, in our common mother longue, se a fellow labourer, Jetted, and sister, in the beads W a coma= love *liberty, and detestation of elawery is all its abonsisaMis hew ; and to assure you of ear use dorms sad mania* se operation with you, by ~Roe& sad writhg, sad labelers and prayers, to put down, is America sae everywhere, now and for evermore, that accursed thing, whisk we utt- sly detest, and utterly abhor, bemuse it is an aseaseed Mag. We desire to azurites yew base. awl Oa Mae a/ all friends of the slave, by the expended. ewe km belief that American slavery not only bag M wwwwaseuwat, no apology in the Bibb, but is an Meath the Oed of the Bible, dot an out rage against Nis law—ea estregllhgainst the spirit and pre cepts of Ws law —who, having tide of one blood all us , noes, bids each man love his neighbour as himself—loose the bends of wickedness—break every yoke—and whose own Son ' sonde to save the lost, pro laimed liberty to the captive, and hate the oppressed be free. Looking ta Americo, as we have long looked with ten dered interest, as the adopted home of many of our dear friends—the last refuge sad last hope of multitudes of our evicted, howler. homeless countrymen—the great young kingdom of the West, where the language, and customs, and relieve of England and Ireland will live and spread when we are all gone—we earnestly desire its prosperity, and, therefore, with our whole heart we seek the imam dice, rod otter, and denial extermination of its slavery, because its slavery is the essay of its wealth—compulsory labour being withering red wasting—the enemy of its edu cation, without which no nation an be groat and free—the enemy of marriage, and female virtue, and domestic bliss, without which tin's let now be degradation and misery— the enemy of the Bible and the religion of the Bible, tor, u the despot haunt fell well, by the healthy public senti• sent which the religion of the Bible forms, slavery has 1 beea already basished from many lands, and shall yet be budded from all the world. la the spirit of Christian sympathy and love, we offer you our prayers, oar oestribstros, oar help in every way, curator with the gospel, reusing the slave from the fiends of his manstealirg opprouve lord, being courted that opposition to arbitrary power is striking for liberty, and that the lifiebbed of liberty is the gospel, •bith, wherever felt is power, elevates th e slave from the degra dation a a beast to th e dignity of a man, gives him pro perty and liberty, and rustics, and wife, and children, and home and country all secure, end enables him to feel and act with the independence, salt-respect, and solfuli• ants of a with freebies. Is the exercise of Christie& love to the alaveuraers, as well me to the slaves of America, we ' come With to do hewer to the writer of " Uncle Tom's Cabin," because we heartily concur is her terrific exposures of the ruinous retrace of slavery on the muter as well as the slave. He who knew man's heart pat the prayer in his lip.—" Lead as not into temptatios • " and In who knows his own self will tremble at the Geri& off being placed at the mercy of his own unbridled swiss sad set above the restraint of law. What Mess meld tell the hatred of God and his worship, awl peogie, the oaths and blasphemies, owl seihnstione ef - the Sabbath, the im purities mid stieboeloo, end robberies and warden in their moot egparded and rewiring hems, not among slaves, but 'browsers, whisk Ms See generated by this unjust and cruel, end vile end dessMting scourge? Alai! that • single individual, beat* the some of man, should be sub jected to Use brutalising inflames el a spier, under which conscious lases Ns pewee, the bears Lsts seesibility, and the silketiele Sur temieress ender which, the victim of the system he seepres, made eardld, *GINA, Goon bare baled the wrack of whet loe was, and to all that is purr and Seely, end ef pod report, bids a last farewell. Knowinges we mew de, bluer than ever before, the ills of alarm Steeps • week eireented sad approved beyond all prent, wee ossontbs wish ibellip et inezpremi• ' his bittoonam i libet the mippotons sad delltedere of Atm rissa dama p all its enutteralde horrors, with all its sepia eloping and creel bondage, are net slaveholders rises, mil the legislates mei pigie et the slave sums merely, bet the 01111.11111 end peep* the whole Christian pregle, oaf sepossatatims, of the whole sited LIMN etAnaelle, by peedei and upholding tho unjust, lesoeseliell a r g rre Fugitive filar Law. By the whale , especially . the whole %nails pestle ortre " United Steno of Amara*, we wish ear voice to be heard In this oar address to one who has dons a week foe their country, like tut of • Sagest angel, to deliver them from diagraar sod mere, to saes thus hem the assepseess M Heaven's accumulating wrath, which is gatberies every day that the cry of the appearedbelleviag it eaters into the era 111 ON Gait a &bath. In stead of not far Sob hewer that God bath sold their Gamy Into the bond of • weeny lot them glory la the thought that the Misses of theemelms and their stare gaspers* by no bisedsalned iasarrection, or ser vile war, but by the power of the truth, through woman's guileless Um from woemaa's heart of love ; and that the soap of their eassaggenen may be sere pure sad more sublime by far than that of Deborah sad Barak, when they sing—" Blessed above women shall Jae', the wife of fisher be; blessed shall she be above women." LAUNCH OP Tilt GILNEHJS SCREW STIA3I.IIHIP Anoo.—The Argo, the sixth of the splendid fleet of 1,800 tuns iron screw-ship., built by Mare and Co., for the Gene ral Strew-steam Company, who have the contract for conveying the mails to St. 'Vincent, Ascension, St. Helens, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and Calcutta, was launche r{ from Orchard-yard, Blackwell, on Thursday morning, in gallant style, and for the first time floated on the water, ne beautiful a speetnienof naval architecture as ever swam upon the River Thames, or any other water. The Argo Ls 247 feet long, 39 Teet in breadth, 27 feet 3 Inches In depth. She measures 1,810 toss, and is to have engines nominally 300. horse power. This enterprising company hate now alma, in addition to the smaller ships, including the Harbinger, the following sister ships: Queen of the South, Lady Jocelyn, Indiana, Calcutta, Mauritius, Ilydaspes, and Argo, and we may remark, that confessedly a fitter, more faithfully built, and more handsome and aficient fleet of screw steamers were turned out, as the performances of those now in commission have proved ; and we may fur ther remark that if the Args proves as efficient a ship as the Queen of the South, she will bring that credit to ilr. Mare of whirl.' the best British ship.buidders in Great Britain may Well he proud. The steaming qualities of the second 1,800 ton ship, the Lady Jocelyn, has surpassed any p..dole- wheel ocean steamer that ever started on the total to India ; but the Queen of the South is the Ent screw ship that has made the voyage to and from India ; and we may form some notion of the general qualities of thew ships, when it is known that her peewees, under all the vadat tadmiaatsrally attendant on the fleet voyage of so large a anew steamer, have been most successfully made, and that i especially her salting qualities ere so tar superior as to rival most of the celebrated clippers of the day, Americaai or English. EDINBURGH AND OLASOOW AND BATUOATE RAltel WATIL—The committee appointed upon the matters in die pate between thew comp min hats just r:portird that the terms proposed by the Edinburgh and Glasgow of a Ina rent of 9,5001, from July last are inadequate. without Pie vistas for scream of rant, amounting to 23.7501., being mods. LITERATURE. BOOKS. 'Ma grumblers at times present, and lovers of times put, a race who seem born with eyes in the back of their head, can have but little to say against the modern Englishman's appreciation of Christmas. Our forefathers were not a whit more jolly than we, ' their descendants, at the celebration of the great national festival. Nearly all the old holidays have vanished before the intense earnestness of a world, which from day to day seems to recognise mo e clearly its groat mission of labour; but Christmas stands out as boldly as ever. Like the single prise gooseberry on the bush, which has appropriated to itself the freshness and strength and flavour which was intended to be shared amongst all the rest, Christ mu seems to have grown great upon the ruins of all other festivals. In some respect ,we excel our tomes tors in the preparations which we make for the cele bration of Christmas. la addition to the happy meetings, and the mistletoe, and the podding, and turkey, and beef, and other appliances is which they delighted, we have piles of new Christmas books. Publishers keep back many of their works until this time, or prepare others expressly, sure to meet with appreciation at this season. Next to the sight of the dining table glittering and steaming within a circle of happy faces, is that of the drawing-room or library tab!e, laden with books rejoicing in bindings of crimson and gold, as though they had put on their best looks for the occasion. This is a new feature in the socislities at Christmas, and one which the most bigot ted antiquarian will scarcely complain ot It does net disturb the old feature of the festival, it com pletes it. It is fitting that jolt at a time when we are most fitted for a mental treat we should have a large supply of mental food. At Christmas we begin to breathe after the long labours of the year. We look back with contempt upon whatever annoyances we have experienced during the twelve months that are past. We fling off care, and look upon Christmas day as one oo which all old griefs are to be buried, and thoughts are to be turned hopefully to the future. This is the proper temper for reading. We are able, freed as we are from regret for the post and anxiety for the future, to fling ourselves into the spirit of an author, and look as kindly upon him as upon a Christmas guest. Even if we are critical, wet are good natured, and a stupid book is to us a matter of amusement instead of disgust. It is with feelings, prompted by the near approach of Christmas, that we proceed to notice some of the books which I the season has sent us. Vs. Poets of Me Woods. Teske Pictures of EnydisA Song Birds. Bosworth. This another drawing-room book of an agree able character. The illustrations are printed in colours, and are likely to satisfy the artistic require ments of most purchasers of Christmas books. The letter-press consists of selected pieces of poetry de scriptive of various birds—in some instances more to be admired for accuracy of description than poetic excellence, but there are some beautiful passages,— as, for instance,—Shelley's Ode to the Skylark. Altogether it ta a showy volume, carefully got up, and with good type and elegant binding, forms a very seasonable book for a Christmas offering or a New Year's gift. Chrianinstide ;i4 History, Festioiliee, and Caro.i. John Ruiiell Smith. An admirable and complete account of Christmas. The history of the festival commences in the earliest times, and is carried down to the present. The antiquities of this subject are well woven into the narrative, and display considerable and careful re search. 'fho book is profusely illustrated with lithographs and wood engravings. • The Satestandriac A Poem. B CHARLIS MACILLY. Ingram and Co. Moat gorgeous of the Christmu books is Mackay's Salamandrine, with its gold embossed c seers and graceful illustrations. If it achieved success in its humble guise, surely it will be a welcome Christmas visitor in its gay attire and glory of hot-pressed paper and profuse illustration. The poem in its new shape has all the freshness of novelty, and may fitly be introduced by an extract from the author'. preface, telling the legend upon which it is founded. In the Rosicrucian »mum of the Count de (»belie, or Conversations upon the Secret Sciences," by the Abbd de Villare—a volume to which the world is indebted for the renal personages of.the " Rape of the Lock," as well as fur many graceful fancies is English and Berman literature I —occur the following »meg» : Wl.en you shall be enrolled amount/ the children of the phdos.,phers," as» the Count de Gabalie to his incredulous but inquiring disciple, " you will discover that the elements are inhabited by very holy creatures, whom, in consequence of the on of unhappy Adam, his too unhappy posterity have been forbidden to en or know. The immense 'pace that is between earth and Heaven possesses inhabitants much more nob:e than the birds and gusts merely ; the van oceans have many more dwellers than the dolphins and the whales; the depth of the earth is not nested only tor the moles; and the element of fire, more noble than the other I three, was not made to remain void. of , : h T e h: s air is fi etan f i o ll of an rm, gr in eo n t ur o t o e o ra ro ble o r t u h l o tit oo m i l e e n o m f . cre s s o t i v i r benevolent to the wise, but enemies of the stupid and igno rent. Their wives and their daughters are of told sad meacaline beauty, sash ea painters have »presented the Amazons. " Know also that the seas and the rivers are as fully in habited as the air; the wise ancients have mentioned three populations under the name of Uodines or nymphs. There are few males among thew, but vast numbers of females ; their beauty is extreme, and the daughters of men are not to be compared to them. " The earth is filled nearly to the centre by Gnomes, people of small stature, guardians of the treasures of the mines and quarries. The latter are ingenious, friends of mankind, and easy to command. They furnish the dill siren of the wise with all the money that they esquire, and ask little for their service, except the glory of being com manded. The °notables, their wives, arc small, but very agreeable, and their costume is very curious. " As regards the Salamanders, inhabitants of the region of fire, they serve the philosophers; but they do not wish orseek their company with much eagerness; and their daughters acid their wives rarely allow themselves to be seen. The wives of the Salamanders are beautiful, and in fact more beautiful than all the others, because they me of a purer element. I pass over the description of these people, because, when one of us, you will see them yourself at leisure, and easily aloe have the curiosity. You will see their costumes, their modes of living, their manners, their policy, their admirable laws. You will he charmed with the beauty of the lr minds, even more than with that of the it bodies but you will not be able to refrain from pity when they te ll you that their souls are mortal, and that they have no hope of the eternal enjoyment of divine felicity, in the presence of that Supremeßeingerhom they know, and whom they religiously adore. They will tell you that being rim posed of the purest particles of the element which they in. habit, and having no contrary qualities in them, as they are made of but one element, they do not die till after many centuries: but what is time compared to eternity ? They return at last into eternal nothingni es ; and this thought so laflicts them, that the philosophers have much trouble in consoling them. Our fathers being true philsophers, and speaking to God fare to face, complained to Him of the wretched Tate of these people ; end God, whose mercy is illimitable, re membered Him that it was not impossible to find a remedy for this evil. lie made known to them that in the same manner as man, by the alliance which he has contracted with God, has been made a participator of the divinity ; so the sylphs, the gnomes, the nymph., and the Salamanders, by the alliance which they may contract with man, can he made participators of man's immortality. Thus a nymph or a sylphide becomes immortal, and c u peb!e of the bliss to which we aspire, when she is happy enoegh to wary one of the wise;' and a gnome or a sylph ewes to be mortal from the moment that he marries cue of the daughters of men.' Punch's Pocket Book for 184.1, The Creak Alawartar for 181$ Punch's Pocket Book, although intended to do duty for the year '63, oomes out time enomflt to assist in making the Christmas of '62 as " meme" as an English Christmas ought to be—the unseasonable weather and the dislocation of the ministry notwith standing. Fur the frontispiece we have a bevy of Leech's merriest leases starting off for the " diggins," where they are so much wanted, and casting some wonderful g'ances back at the disconsolate "Jeamee's" l and " Foker's" by whom the jetty is lined. This a'one will raise one" mule" round of laughter, and when it has subsided into a smile, *Connie'', medico% al illus- I trations will fan it again into the broadest of grins. The statistical tableau is frightfully suggestive. l The merely useful portion having been disposed of with a care which is wholly unworthy of genius, the proper business of a comic almanac's opens with a succession of choice Inoreenus, of which the following piece of "good sound advice" is one which may easily be digested along with the Christmas pud ding: 000 - H BOUND •UVICIL7RY 41_8COTCHMAN WHO OAR SETA Never sell any old clothes without putting • farthing in the waistcoat pocktt, ns the Jew fancies then that :t is a sovereign, and, gives you a much better price fur them. Nevi, butts your fingers which you may do, if you marry • woman of property with o ut inquiring w hat her property is first. Never throw a stone at any one until you have looked to see whether there is a window behind, or you may have to pay rather dearly fur your revenge. • Never let your plaW leave you at an ordinary, u there is no.knowing when you way see it back again. Never refuse at an evening party to see a lady to her carriage, as the probebility is you'll wive a cabby her asking you "if she cannot drop you on your way home?" Never leave your hat iu the passage miles" it's a bad one. Never la your own price, but leave it " entirely to the liberality "of the gentleinau, as the ehances are you will get • great deal more by it. Never sit neat to a young lady at dinner, for she only talks, and does not care about eating. Never be executor to a will, as it is all liability, great trouble, and no profit. Never quarrel with your wife, as you will only have to make it up, and to pay for the reconciliation in the shape • of • boa at the Opera, or a dinner at Richmond, or a Cash mere shawl. . . . Never isteatins you have received a legacy, or elm poses impertinent fellow will be asking you to stand a dinner. Never pay to a balloon go up, as you can KC it much better by remaining outside. Never play at cads with young ladies, for they are pro fessedly given to cheating, and, moreover, never pay their Never stand godfather unless the family is exceedingly rich. Never travel without a corkscrew or a lancet, as there's no knowing what you may pain by the civility. Who, in making op a Chriatmu party, would like to have " Mr. Illuffy," the hero of the follow ing tale, as a guest? AAAAA A AAAAA OF A C01440/4 . NUINANCIL. "Hey ! why, bless me, how fat you're getting !" was the salutation usually addres sed to me by Mr. Bluffy. Now I am quite aware of my tendency to corpulence : am disgusted with myself whenever I think of it; have left aril beer, re sorted to early rising. taken violent eaercise and much medi cine in order to subdue it, in vain ; endeavour now not to care about it, and don't want to be reminded of :t ; iu fact, hate nothing so much. Mr. Bluffy himself is round and thick, but that does not vex him; he rather prides himself thereon; is aci tistomed to thump his big drum of a chest, expectorate with an ex plosion, and boast of his stamina. He has never had a day's illness in his life. Not he! Is always in robust—might say rude health. Very rude! Bluffy, rising fifty, marches about the world bolt up right, with a hearty russet face, cro;yred grey heir, and a bamboo cane—of which the upper end has • leather strap in it. In order to give emphasis to his assertions he thumps the ground with the lower. Mr. Bluffy has retired from something—nobody knows what. Some think he has been a purser in the nay). He wears a military looking frock oast, and many people instinctively cull him Major. The greeting by which Mr. Lluffy used to mortify and exasperate me whenever he met me, is a sample of the com pliments which he was in the habit of distributing gene rally. " Aha!" he would exclaim to one man, " why, I declare you are quite bald " u another, " What ? I say, stooping —stooping a little ? Old age creeping on, eh? " Or, " Come, my boy—hallo !—shaky ! band trembles—take care—threateniag of paralysis." Or, perbape, " Why— what—the deuce! What a complexion you've got sines I last saw you! Rosy gills —rosy gills—mind—rather thick necked, you know—predisposed to apoplexy—get cupped if I were you!" He would, in the way o' gallantry, declare to • lady not yet owning to thirty, that she looked ten years younger than when he saw her last. He would ask • poor girl, with ringlets of an unpopular colour, whether she bad heard of the new hair-dye? He has even been known at a ' dinner party, when a laugh was circulating, to take the !soppy opportunity of calling acmes the tab., to some smil ing Lair one, " Hey ! Hey! Young lady ? Young lady ? Hey I—Front teeth Film !" And these remarks he would m ike in the tone of one who is really rather pleased, though, to notice the circumstarce. Perhaps it was the cousciousness of being " sound in ' wind and limb," as he phrased it, that occasionsd Mr. Bluffy to delight in observing other people pisgues and ia firmities—like the nice man who enjoy. the view of • ship wreck, from the beach. As though he should have said, inwardly: " Ha, ha! your hair is falling, bark bending, head shaking , sudden death imminent, teeth are deceyin —and mine not." If Bluffy thought you had mom y in a bank, he would tall you of sonic similar establishment that had just broken. If e believed you to possess landed property, he a ould talk to you ab• ut the inevitable reduction of rent; if be ima gined you were a fundholdcr, he would predict to you the conversion of the Three per Cents. Had yen a brother re siding uu an estate in Ireland, he would inform you how such and such a landlord thereabouts was murdered ; was your son on his way to the Diggings, he would fut you in mind of that emigrant vessel that was burnt. Coventry, these being the peculiarities of his discourse, may seem to have been the place of residence for Mr. Blistly, But, besides his unpleasant habit of telling his friends of their calamities, he had also the habit, not so unpleasant, of telling one of his friends the calamities of othere. He was likewise a general gossip—given to read and repeat the news, saved many people taking in the Times, and got taken in himself instead. Hence it was not uncommon to meet filuffy at as board of hospitality—and have one's _dinner spoilt by his allusion to the consequence of eating. Having on one of these occasions stuffed himself to his ' full content, Mr. Bluffy transferred his attentions from the plate before him to a young lady before that. She had pearly teeth—Bluffy could not say they were going; her blue eyes were clear and lustrous; he was unable to tall her she had a told in them; her hair was flaxen ; he had no pretence fur suggesting mirific tincture; her complexion spotless white and red ; not a pimple cn that pure lace for !Mr. Bluffy to call attention to. Nor could he have the pleasure of congratulating her on being plump as a dab chick. Miss Idildmay's figure was rather slender; Mr. Bluffy thought thin. Sharp weather this!" said Bluffy, cheerily, with his eyes fixed on Miss Mildmay. "Bad for tender chests— knocks 'em down right and left—bright blue eyes, light hair, clear complexion—Eh ? Drop like phemints. All • inged, all touched, with Conoumption !" Mae Mildmay fainted ! Iler two sisters and her maternal aunt had died of a pulmonary complaint. She fainted—aa jumped up in consternation, the table was nearly upset, and Mr. Minify treading on the tail of a dog under it, the dog bit Mr. Bluffy in the leg —to the great delight of the rest of the company when tney came to know it, after his victim had recovered, an I been comforted by an old doctor who was present, into smiles. The dog had made Ms teeth meet in Mr. Bluffy's calf—that was Rome consolation; especially to Tom Heywood, humble admirer sad worshipper, with pure atioo, of the beautifal Mildmay. Tom Heywood alsd admired, and worshipped, with • more familiar deeotins, the pretty barmaid at the Black Swan; whither he wss accustomed to repair for II e purpose of offering his idol incense—by talking nonsense. Mr. Bluffy frequented the same tavern to read the papers. It I was the next evening when they were both siting in the coffee-room ; and to them entered a stringer to Bluffy, but associate and ally of Heywood's—Jack Hawkins. Met your friend Cooper just now," said Jack to Tom. Cooper was the host of the previous day's dinner. " Quite down in the mouth. Lost poor what's his name." •• Who ?" "Oh! no relation exactly. Little Tapp. Obliged to shoot him. Pour dog gone mad !" " Oh!" groaned Mr. Stuffy, jumping up and turning blue -. ;*hat's the matter, sir"' said seemingly astonished Tom. "Eh ? by Jove though, now I remember, this is no coke! Cooper's dog! why it was be that bit you yes terday) !" Mad! mad!" shouted Mr. Buffy frantically. "Mad dog. Bit by a mad dog. Oh ! Oh !! Oh ! ! " he roan d. " Help, he p ! A doctor—a surgeon! Help !" And dash ing at the bell with a shriek he brought the bell-rope down and himself with it, down, plump! on the floor, whereon Mr. Heywood and Mr. Hawkins, echoing his crii a foe me dical assistance, left him kicking. • • • • • • • A year has since elapsed. Bluffs was not attacked with hydrophobia; but he writhed under the dread of it for bait a day. A polite note then informed him that a slight mistake had been made by Mr. Heywood's friend, that Mr. Cooper's terrier was alive and well, and Mr. Hey wood begged to express commiseration for a gentleman who had now known what it was to suffer the misery of being ancomfortable about one's self. It is supposed thnt the story of the mad dog was a ho a x, whi c h c ou ld b e exp l a i ne d by Main. Heywood and Hawkins. The othi r day I had the pleasure of meetirar Mr. Bluffy. " How rematkably a-a-a—resh and well you's e looking," said Bluffy. "Do you think so ? " said I. The fact is I was very bilious. _ _ "Do I ? To be sure ! " he replied. " And, eh ? by Jove ! not hell's* stout as you were." "Much the same, I think," said I. Not you!" returned Blulty. "In fact, I should say you were losing weight too fast Mustn't take quite so much exercise—not be so very abstemious. Bottled stout I should recommend ; eh ? and runipstcds." " Hollow grinder!" said I. eludsine my hesd. " Hollow ! have it stopped, m tn. Well stopped, grinder will last you for years." I had been quito in :a hypochondriacal humour ; hut really Mr. Illuffy's conversation was on hopeful and consolatory, that I derived a wonderful relief from it. I took Lis advice about the steak. and got him to come and help me out with it, and with a bottle of choice old '2O port after it. On this occasion, Mr. Hlutly exhibited slight indications r f hydrophobia—the only symptoms of that dreadful disease he has ever shown since the horror of it taught him so effectual a lesion in good manners. More delicate in tint, more slender in proportions, like the poor relation's slice of the padding, but still not without some plums in it, the Connie .lbsusock comes next, loyally supported by " Brother Brough on the one aide, and by the lay Father Mathew, the apostle of Temperance, commonly known as the " inimitable' . Geo. Cruikshank, on the othtr. Florid is the frontispiece, and moat populous with bellicose dames, and reluctantly submissive husbands, who seem inwardly to lament that Bloomerisni of the mind that is so rapidly diffusing itself amongst the fairest portion of creation. The " Que,tio:i of Questions,' the great pudding question itself, MI me to be held in abeyance. Not one of the ladies die. turbo her strong mind by thinking whether she'll 1" boil" or " bake" this year, but all discuss with 1 feline energy the question of female enfranchisement. The fun is chiefly pictorial, and therefore not trans ferable, but towards the end we find something about Christmas, which, —as ono Christmas t e as r ible to another,—may answer 1 . 7 swath will be general issuing of dime/ btvitations , • •;.• • .r 4 so. id e. "io . ----