The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

THE EXPREt3B, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1857. 05,...'"''..........—.-- LIII DAILY sums I LONDOII MOBNII4O West Ind:sm—witere, we are told, the climate enables ~.....,==tmatialralo• ... m id them to dispenre with the refinements of shelter ce einsassiaa appar el, and the soil provides them with sustenance ts as moms me arm et 11=X: - . 1 .....==6. 4 al M .4.....1, ft Oa mad .... --tweely there lo less reasonable expectation that ,T = i ''''' 6 •" . " . ' " mu " wiam-.8. ...,.._"" 1- —or sely imported A Means, • tof all inducements I TS l ' ° " al" la a rejelid t o work, will toil voluntarily under similar circum assmeemw ewer el 'm ""'"Rallit 1 . a•pm. ItaDOIL There seams to be • hitch here, a sort of —,ra Aztvreams._, hiatus in the West Indian argument, which can :it. uni nisT' s only be repaired or filled up by • proposal to Ear. eg • Vin aa all N aas ‘. 4 reduce the African immigrants to slavery of some es sseersie st esseassam i tms Imam elm sort or other. ..."1....F=4151...,& .f.- e l Ur l a It might be supposed from the manner in -- - Thisiese hit tes - Keneweem Pm* which the Times writes that a prohibition of all f= area . emigration from India to the West India was in force. The very reverse is the ease. India is jog as open to the West Indies as to the Mauritius ; and if the Times will refer to this year's Report of ths Emigration Commissioners, under the head of the Weal Indies, it will find the first paragraph com mencing thus: eV Oxasreoo. TO 00111131TOODMITIL ifiguirmsor ismali oar ...assas"...Mair BMW papa. MI lON ei alb% 14.16.61411 1 0. V leilMilla In 00 0.419.1111.111.. 4M Rr «4 CYrdr filimemit [le 11•4041 elne linm aia 77112111PINAIIUTTW• WoOD MA ; it.IMOD Pam Now. olff a trim; mi• twos 'mem •• 7. The umber of Coolies ordered for the West !alias for the 8061011 15364 was 4,300 for Britiah Guiana, 3,000 for Trinidad, and a ship load for each of the Wends of St. Lucia amid Onsada In consequence of this " order " from the West Indies there were actually despatched to British Guiana 2,987 Indians, of whom only 664 were females; 1,642 to Trinidad, of whom 414 were women ; and 376 to Granada, of whom but 68 were females. Yet we have the Times exclaiming in December, 1867, " Can nothing of this sort be done " for the West Indies ? " The troth is, that from 1847 to 1856 a very con siderable addition has been made to the labouring population of the West Indies. Sierra Leone has sent them 6,643 free Africans; St. Helena has furnished them with 7,096 liberated alarm; Madeira has given them 9,366 of its distressed labourers; China has furnished 2,000 of its people ; and India, which the Times treats as closed to them, has sent 20,229 Coolies. In these ten yews the total extent of West Indian immigration has reached nearly 60,000 labourers of all claws. Tim Imes 1117.40 t r ATS C ArIi CIPOOWD. Mr.O. Ad ly irairarhed WHITS CAT; we. TM Petrov, es./ ear Win Hems Cams*. Helm bad ITel; Mina A r& Wm Leis . st pit & Taw hem. L.5..1 I.lllMis. Ildinklasi T Sear le 11. • W•ains.tiabrakra as f. 11110E111 raTMAsi as Minims einiq pow whirl la j 1" M" IhaVart!=r 2 = lo.l4 saliary. NM • si WHY G. MGR WATER AT LONDON EAMON. Mari= tft::::::::Att Ai = 1 L. - Lea LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30. Tut West Indian negro peasant is, according to the Times of yesterday, "as much like a beast as ever ;" he won't work, he won't cover his preen, or shelter himself or his family; he is Taoist and indolent to the last degree. Consequently, argues Than we see bow very little this great advocate of the West Indies really knows of West Indian affairs— how perfectly unconscious it is of the radical via of West Indian political asonomy—how inconsistent with its libel of the black peasantry is its proposal to import more Africans—how it underrates the advan tages which the Mauritius pommies for Indian im migration ; and how profoundly ignorant it is that the suggestion it makes has already been actually in operation for the lest ten years. It is, 112 the ease of the Tunes and the West India planters, "the blind leading the blind.* our contemporary, Weal Lldia planters must be allowed to commit felony by buying Africans, or, at all events, to import Indians, as French restau- tarots supply bread, a dieerslims. This description of the emancipated peasant of the British West Indies is not only, as regards its objecta,• foul, but—in the interests of the planters— a very injudicious libel; for it is by exaggerations and untruths of this kind that passions an roamed, and prejudices cultivated and extended, antagonism established, and all confidence dastroyeL The West Indian planters will gain nothing by inch falsehoods; they will only render their came more Tun Fultcn SLAVS Tuna—The Paris Coma itstiosfeel of Monday, in an article signed " P. Dubois," throws off the mask on this subject ; boldly defends the system which the French government have adopted of purchasing negroea on the coast of Africa and carrying them to compulsory service in the French Antilles; argues that in no other manner can prosperity be restored to them; and ridicules the apposition of the English philanthropists. From this manifestation on the part of the leading govern ment print of France, the deplorable inference is that Lord Clarendon's remonstrances have utterly Med, and that the revival of the African slave trade by the Emperor of the French will be persevered in. What will Lord Palmerston say now? odious than it is, and create an opposition to their j views and projects that will frustrate and defeat them, even when they may be unobjectionable. That the West Indian peasant can work well and profitably fur his employer in the sugar field the history of slavery shows. Why, then, does he not I work there now steadily end continuously ? His in,- knots, his prospects, his improvement, are more or lees dependent on sager production, which is the 1 , staple wealth of the West Indies ; why then dose he not by his labour maintain and largely augment the production of that staple ? Surely the chief reason is plain and simple enough. Yon cannot cast your ryes over a book of West Indian statistics but it stares you in the face. Taro, for example, to the tables relating to our Colonial possessions for IBM, lately presented to both Hovers of Parliament by the clocca's command, and then be who runs may read the cause. The reason is the low rate of wages given fur work in a country in which labour is not redundant, and where there are many temptations not to work for ware at all. In St. Kits the average rate of wages was in 1835 rid. to 13d. a day, in Nevis it was 7d., in Antigua to Is, in Montserrat bad., in Dominica 7d., in St. Laois le., is Barbados* 10d., in Grenada 2s. eld. to be. a week of five days, in Tobago 10d. a day, in Trinidad Is. 3d., in British Guiana la. 4d. Now it is to be remarked that the coat of many of the leading articles of provisions, nearly all of which are im ported—the cost of clothing, in which the emanci pated peasant, or " beast," se the Times calls him, is vain and expensive—and the taxation of all these coloo ies, are very high. Field work is the lowest kind of labour, and while it is thus miserably underpaid, skilled labour in these colonies is very highly remu nerated. In St. Kite, for example, the avenge were of tradesmen are Is. II& to 2s. Id. a day, in Nevi Is. 6d., in Antigua 2a, in Multiunit Is. to 35., in Dominica 2a, in St. Lucia 2s. 6d., in Barberton la Bd., in Tobago Is. 6d., in Trinidad 4s. 241., in British Guiana 41. These statistics establish two things: first, that the wages given fur cultivating sow alfixd no adequate inducement for the pea santry to cultivate it steadily and continuously, and that the profits of skilled labour are large enough to divert every predial labourer worth his salt to the prosecution of higher clue work. It is further apparent from these tables that it is exactly in those colonies wherein wages for predial labour are highest that production is increasing. In British Guiana wages fur field work are Is. 4d. a-day, and its exports were valued in 1833 at 1,014,94 41. ; in 1&54 they use to 1,403,3321., and in 1833 were worth 1,331,3711. So also in Jamaica, where labour bears • higher rate than in the smaller colonies ; the value of Jamaica produce ex ported rose from 729,9361. in 113.13 to 958,1241. in 1835. To some extent this rise in value may have bees clamed by a higher price of sager ; in that we, however, the profits of cultivation must also have increased, and the planters can have had no excuse is want of pecuniary means for not drawing steady and continuous field labour out of the pea sentry by good and adequate wages. The true policy of the West India planter is to purchase at its proper market value the labour he allows to he wasting for sugar purposes around him. But the real object of the West India planter is the very reverse of his true policy—it is to lower the rate of wag,. for field work by immigration. The emancipated le asantry can liee without the planters, and their ls'osr is only to be bad for substantial wages ; those wages the planters, we have seen, will not pay ; and then, because the peasantry will not work for load' quate remuneration, they are insulted by being told that " they are as much like beasts " as rear as if at any time or under any eircum stanees,causeii ut iota, serious, and temperately minded men could or would apply such a term or use such language to describe any of the human race, " heirs " to immoreeity," however low in the scale of eiviliaation. But lithe ee.azie. pated peuantryare, in West Indian estimation, like " besets," it is obviously because of their African origin and of their Negro character. Then surely it is the grossest inconsistency to ask for more Africans, more Negroes, and more " besets," unless indeed it is intended to subject the now arrivals, purchased in Africa, to that compulsory servitude in the West Indies which the Brill people paid the planters twenty millions sterling W free the " ben-'e " they already possessed from. If Creole Negroes in • state of freedom won't work la dr LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.' The Peninsular and Oriental Company have es ceived the following message from Marseilles this morning : "The steam-ship Vectis, with tho Calcutta and China mails, arrived at Marseilles list night. " The mails left for London at ten this morning." THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE AND THE ASSEMBLY OF SCANDINAVIAN PASTORS. COPENHAGEN, 1857. The movement towards Scandinavian union, of which Europe bee heard so much of late end taken so little had, has put forth some of Its first fruits in this capital during last summer, in a meeting of pastors representing the Mochas of Norway, Bwoden, end Denmark, and amembled to discus, the means of promoting the growth of religion in the three countries, and of assimilating as far as pomitele the three Churches, which, though one in their origin, have, IS the course of centuries, developed some internal differences. The meetings, which took place on the 15th, 16th, and 17th of July, were attended by about 100 Danish, 40 Etwedlah. end 20 Norwegian clergymen, besides a great number of candidates for the church and laymen. The proceedings, which were opened with Divine service performed by the Danish pastor MAO, and concluded by a sermon preached by Thomazuler, Bishop of Lund, in Sweden, were character ilea by a unanimous tendency in the Swedish and Norwegian divines to adopt as their future principle of action, end as the goal of their efforts, that perfect religious freedom which Denmark has enjoyed Sillce the introduction of the con stitutional ?flame, but which Norway, and more particularly Sweden, me ;till lar from passaging; Here thanes have already a proof that a Scandinavian union would tend to strengthen political and religions liberty In Europe; but the details of the proceedings having had reference to matters in which the British public do not take a Wildest Interest to justify my touching mica them, I shall limit my remarks to an incident which created • very *rand mastfon hare. During the third meeting, Dr. F. Emmerich, the president, read to the assembly a letter jut received from the British branch c f the Evangelical Alliance, in which Sir Culling Bardley Eardley and few sr five other gentlemen, on behalf of that association, expressed their interest in the objests of their Scandinavian brethren ; their regret at not having been informed In time of the pros jetted assembly, so as to have been able to send a deputation le attend 16; their hope that they should meet representative§ of the Scandinavian churches at the impeding great even gelkal meeting in Berlin ; their determination, at all events to send a deputation to attend the next assembly of this; churches, appointed to be held at Lund, in Sweden, in 1869; and, finally, proceeded to give utterance to the real object of the letter in the following paragraph, : "We cannot prevail on ourselves to clam this brotherly communication without making you acquainted with the deep concern which is felt by us, and we may Indeed my by Britiah Christians generally, on account of the sugaring endured by many of your brethren and ours on religious grounds in some parts of the countries in which you dwell; and without adding at the wee time how fervently we dean that your brambly may be so honoured as to make known its sentiments respecting those sufferings in a manner that Mall leaden their being materially lightened, if not altogether removed. . _ _ "On use political questions relative to the Duchies of Schleswig ad Holstein, which may be complicated with this subject, we express no opinion, but preserve, sit is hems- In( and proper that we should, a total and respectful Wanes; but we must not refrain from eying, for Chilies commas& Went of brotherly love requires it of us, that we are grieved when we hear of penal fines, and imprisonment, and exile inflicted upon peaceful Christiana, and above all, upon the ministers of Christ. . " Let as indulge the hope that Scandinavia's piston, men of enlightened minds end loving hearts, and enjoying the hallowed pleasures of a happy home, will feel for their fellow believer' in tribulation, and especially take thought for their brethren of the German race, who are now exiled from their former congregations, and from the land of their hirtb. The Lord, who is the hearer of prayer, may In •rwee to united supplieetions, and by method. which He knows bow to supply, being about the solution of di/Baubles which se too hard to Le settled by human skill. "And we trust that we shall not overstep those limits within which we are desired to restrain our remarks, if we specifically advert to what appears to us a mentos of wholly Mescundlo temerity, the deprivation of many thousands of Christian people of their worship, their public prayers sad praises, and the preaching of the word, by appointing the Garnets of the Lord's house to be conducted in what, to them, is a foreign tongue. This measure has Leen trJorced is this Duchy of Schhawig, and we venture, with great reverend, to suggest whether this is not a grievance which each ea assembly am we now address might well represent to the Danish government, with a petition for its removal. " We leave this matter, however,entirely in your hood', and we also commend to your active sympathy all the members of the Christian brotherhood, who in any pert of your sward countries have to contend with intolerance snot to avow their religions convictions at theperil of incurring legal penalties." Now it will, no doubt, be in the recollection of many of your readers that during the Schleswig- Holstein rebellion at 1110-60, • great number of the German pastors in Schleswig, with the Geseral-Suterinundent at their head, took an open part in the rebellion, exhorted their docks to throw off their sileglance to their lawful sovereign, tent up public prayers In the churches for the destruction of his sans, and sent their eons to swell the army of the insurgents. On these grounds, end on no other, were some few Schleswig peetore• sub ' iocted to the" penal WO, imprisonment, end exile" (the number of the latter is not above doe) to which the members of the Erangelioal Albinos eo pathetically alluded ; and mit is utterly untrue that any clergyman in the Duchy of Schleswig has within the last nine years been prosecuted on reli gion. grounds, you rosy judge of the painful mama= which was crested hare in consequence of the evidence which title letter affords that the British branch of the Been gigielicalw o Allian . ce D:ichts eU to ibe;mk f m It bows the an here that • Dr. Baumgartner—en. of th e Schleswig clergy- own who broke their oath of allegiance to their }flag, ;id who was in catiaequence ejected from him living—had some few months parlous to the mooting, to one of whose incidents I em now adverting, admitted a letter to the Earl of Shafts. buty, wherein he depicts the state of the Church in Schlftwig in the darkest who're, and there can be no doubt that it is on this ez part. statement of the cam that Sir C. Bordley and his associates formed their judgment, end hare unwit tingly been led into doing the very thing which they depre cate, viz., interfering in matters purely political. By the same misrepresentations most likely these gentlemen were induced into the equal) grieve error which they commit in reference to what they terra " a measure of wholly Mel cusalde severity, the deprivation of many thoueends of Christie& people of their worahip, hu,' and which they maintained had been enforced in Schleswig. The true state of thing. in this :—ln oreaseqemee of a Gem men Immigration continued for centuries+ the southern Fart of the Duchy of Schleswig has income quite German, while the northern part has remained se purely Daniel. In the middle trade, however, the two populations have met, and have become intermixed, and in consequence of the German Influences that prersiled in the duchy up to a very recent period the German language wu not only the judicial and governmental language throughout the province, and the language of the thumb in the purely German districts, but it wee also need exclusively in the churches in the mined periehm. The Schleswig-Holstein wee wee lnc greet mea sure mused by the rerietanco of the Danes (who had at length been aroused to a setae of the dangers that threatened these) to thew encroachments of German upon Danish nationality. It followed, therefore, sa a matter of sense, that after having eriLdued the rebellion, and regained its as cendancy in the province, the Daniell government at once proceeded to reinstate the Danish language in its rights there ; but so far was it front acting with un scrupulous severity whet the German population, that not only has no attempt been made to force the Danish lengunge Un the purely German dietrime, but even in the mixed pwriehen and in such where the Daniel, population greatly prepondristes, German is sued in the churches alternately with Durish ; and thus falls to the ground the melancholy story of " many thousand Christian people - deprived of their womhip, &c. tiring end riot quite ummemsful et trio were mede during the Schrewig.Holetein rebellion to represent thin insurrection ' as hariag been got up in defence of hearty and nationality, I in order thee to SKOV* the sympathy of revolutionary Ger many end free England, while the support of the Gentian ' governments wee ensured by other mans. The liberal mu + mirution which the Danes at the very time gave themeless and extended to Schleawig, and the meaner In which' rim rinstitution is gradually being recrillavel to the esl gencia of the German decilitre, which, se members of I the Germania Confederciou, cannot be allowed to form part e en liberal a system, has sufficiently expoeed the hot ' lowness of the pretence of liberty and the exceeding yonde r ration and impartiality with which the constitutional Danish goverment proceeded in reinstating the Danish language end tie Danish elements in Schleswig to their rights, have equally proved how fur the Donee were from entertaining any detigue against the nationality of their German fellow enhjous. The grounds upon winch English support sod sympathy ere sought are thereto, now ehitted, end religion is node to my, the purposes of political agitation. • A great mazy were lett in (inlet enjoyment of their liriaxe who, had they beta the eubjeoe of Germs primes, will mow be ozgatiag their yobtiaal zeiadeede tailing's& TSB EAR . THQUALE IN NAPLES. The Ojk-ial Journal of the 22nd says :—" The mind shudders at the details of the calamities which now absorb our attention, and so much the more that they far exceed all that has yet been published. A despatch from the Intendents of Salerno, who has been to Polls, says that the number of bodies already disinterred amounted to upwards of 2,000 in that place alone, and that they were still taking them out. After Pella, Pertosa, Atena, and Anletta suffered the most. All these are entirely destroyed, excepting Auletta, which is nearly so. Padilla and St. Pietro come next, and then Sala, Diane, Sassano, Monte Santo, Arsenio, and Sapri. The number of the dead in these communes is 2,000. In the Basilicata, we have the names of six places where houses and churches had falllen, and people been killed; the same misfortunes have befallen many places in the Principerto Citeriore, as also in the province of Bari. Canosa also has suffered deplorable losses of property and life. In the provinces of Principato Ulterior, of Abram Ulterior Secundo, of Capitanata, Molise, and the three Calabria, es also in the dis trict of Taranto the earthquake was felt less violently, and occasioned only slight damage to the houses and the churches." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY CABE OF PRIVATE VENGEANCE. cram ova OWN COZZAMPONDII3II4 PARIS, TURSIM,T EVSNINO. A remarkable instance of the length to which the doctrine of private vengeance, sanctioned as it has so often been by French juries, is likely to be carried out in practice, has just occurred at Briey, in the department of the Moeelle. The facts remind one forcibly of the Jenfosse case. In the present instance the person who set the example of taking the law into his own hands was the mayor of the commune. He, however, like Madame de Jeufosse, acted by deputy. Instead of an old and faithful servant, Ms own son, acting under his orders, laid in wait to tab a fellow-creature'. life. The name of the mayor is only indicated by an initial in the Droit, which reports the case as follows :—" A young man named Basset, alias Faufan, one day met Mdlle. P—, the daughter of the Mayor of Al], walking In a wood. He induced her to talk with him, made love to her, and succeeded in obtaining a promise of another meeting. The interviews, inno cent at first, went on till they wise guilty. For three whole months the maples daughter secretly received Basset in her bed-rasa at night. His habit was to get over a low wall which sepusted the mayor's garden from the street, to use as a ladder the bars of the blinds of the ground-floor windows, and thus to get to the window-sill of the young lady's chamber on the first-floor. Neither the mayor nor his family knew anything of these clandestine meetings till two cousins, of the female sex, ferreted out the affair, and told M. P— of it. On the 22nd of December last, just as the family was going to bed, M. P— ordered his daughter to sleep on the ground•floor instead of her own bed-room. In that bed-room he placed her brother, his son—he put into his hand a loaded double-barrelled gun, and told him to shoot a man whom be would probably see getting in at the window. The young man drew a chair towards the window, sat down upon it, kept his gun cocked in his hand, and remained ready to exe cute his father's orders. At a quartos past nine o'clock be saw a man's head through the window. Basset, as usual, was at the top of the first blind, expecting to be let in. The mayor's eon rose from his chair, went to the window, opened it, and fired both his barrels at Barnet, who fell dead on the spot. The mayor when the deed was done sent for the gendarmerie to tell them of it, and he was lost in astonishment when they said it was their duty to arrest him on a charge of murder. He bad doubtless read M. Berryer's speech at Emu:, and drawn from the conclusion (which, the premises being admitted, is entirely logical) that be cause the law excuses homicide upon the person of a man found breaking into a house in the night time, ea the ground that he must be presumed to cone with the intention to rob or murder, therefore it is justifiable to lie in wait to kill a particular individual who is known to come secretly indeed, bat with the sanction of one of the inmates of the dwelling, and with no felonious intention. The Mayor of Ail thought it a matter of course to avenge his daughter's easy virtue by assassinating her favoured lover. He and his son arc in prison, and meat undergo the form of a trial for murder; but if modern doctrines on the veniality of examination are to prevail, they will be acquitted with flying colours." THE 7.4813101 i TO BE POOR. The Paris Bieck contains the following amusing remark, The weathercock has veered round lAt thin earns period kg year nothing was to be met with but mil lionaires. The goddess Fortune wont through every street diepeneing her favours. When by chance a man wee met who was modest ennugh to avow that he had not yet depo sited ermiliion in the Bank of France, he had the air of excusing himself, like a man asking for credit. Give me only two or throe months more,' he said., ' and my after will be terminated. I have In hand five or ail superb operations. lam orgamnnC Le Credit Ideditenuneen, I am founding the European Bane, and I am on the eve of obtaining throe railway concessions in America. You know lam not an ambitions man I only want to get three millions from all these enterprise., and I shall than retire from banner'', and live q u iet ly iged by my own fireside.' But thin gs have all In twelve months. Now, it is the fashion eel to to rich. Adieu to credits, banks, con (*Mona, and met like gilded illosiona, nothing is at prment to be seen but man completely ruined I You are aware of my sad position,' Nays one. 'No—what hap yaned our y 'I am completely ruined—False/pecula tion. I I went for the rise and there has been a constant fall for the kat fifteen months. I lose 1,200,0006.' No sooner is this unfortunate man gone, than you meet another whom you never knew to have a eon at his command, and who exclaims that he also has bean ruined by speculation, and a third follows with the mme catalogue of disasters. This new comedy appears' quite ma amusing as the former. Loot year every one waited to appear rich, now every one seek, to be thought poor, and yet in reality no change has taken place. Perhaps the object of this general &anonym s's& of ruin is to make Kane reforms in the domestic bud get, Is reduce the wild luxury of furniture and deem, and to cat sheet the enormous outlay of the toilette. No one can undemeand how the wife of a ruined man can wear a walk ing dress worth 1,2006. Since poverty in words has every where succeeded to riches In shams, let us not imitate the wife of a ruined beaker, who, a short time since made her ce in a ball-room with 100,000 crowns worth of appearance in a ball-room with 100,000 crown. worth of diamond. on her shoulder'', ' Yonr husband is not then ruined, as he represents himself,' observed a friend. ' lie is as much rained as a man can ba,' was the reply, 'only it has been impoosible for us to get rid of these &monde, as they are heir-looms In the y."'&ma LECTURES ,AT THE INNS OF COVEY. The following is s prospectus of the lectures to be delivered during the ensuing educational term by the several Reader* appointed by.the Inns of Court " CIXSTITI:TH;NAL LAW AND LIOAL HISTORY. The public lectures to be delivered by the Rear on Conatitutional Law and Legal Riator' wW competes the following subjects : " The Reign of George 11., the Progress of our Jarisßrn deuce, the Stets Trials and Debates in Parliament. The Reader will then trace the Origin and Progress of our Con stitution through the Reigns of the Plantagenet% the Tudors, and the Stuarts. 111;1; prate clams, the Reader will follow the same coons. " Books.—Titidal or Belaluim's History of George the Second; Blarkstonee Commentaries, by Herrorile, 1 and 4 ; Political Register and Annual Restelsr daring the Period; Parliamentary History, ROAM'S Cmtatitntforial , Statute lioolr, Preface to Gilbert on Uses, by Sus dijaindlracton's Treatise, Matthew Paris, Reeve's History of the English Law, Sullivan's Lectures, Forteseas de Laudibus Leg= Anglin (Amoes edition), Millar's History of the Constitution, Creasy on the ConstitutMn. " EQUITY. " The Reader on Equity Former+ to deliver daring the ensuing educational Term • counie of nine lectures on the following emblems • .• 1. On the Oatmeal Principles adopted by_Courts of Equity with ribranee to Tenets and to Equitable Encambrances ow Real and Personal Estate. . . 2, On Notice and Reentrance]. " 8. On the Relief afforded in Equity against Penalties and Forfeitures. . . i. — Oictie — Ratire of Ligel Ilostgeges. 6. On the Nquitable Rights end Reetediee of Mort, ga ir .8 and treorirg.c.tion of the Coact over Charities. The 1:4;le; vNrecain - 67 it; Vs ;NWT siiijvidar dares the general worms of equity she* exerneamd. He win also continue in the senior elms sad eminent* In the junior to explain the !setting ruler of pleading In equity from the work of Lord Redsidale. . 6 THZ LAM 01 , kIAL TIOPIIITY. " The Iteade;onthe Lw of It.al Property proposes to deliver in the matting wimeational term a mourn of nine public lectua on the following subjects " I. The Insolvent,' Acts, se far as they affect the Law of Rad Property. " 2. Om Conditions of Sale. " 3. A Comparison between the Old and New Law with respect to Wills. tt 4. The &Mates Ist of Victoria, cap. 26, end 15th •ad 16th of Victoria, cap. 24. " 5. The Decisions upon those Statutes. " la his private dames the Reader ea the Law of Real Property will refer more particularly to the cum cited in the public lectures. He will mho endeavour to go through • complete mune of Real Property Law, using the work of Hr. lcalma Williams aa • teat-book. JCIIIIrIVDENCI AND TUN CIVIL LAW. The Reader en Jurisprudence end the Civil lAw pro poses to deliver in the coarse of the ensuing edsicaUtinel terse nine public lectures on the following subjects: "1. The influence of certain Theories of the Roman Jule conealt. en Intrinetional Law and the Existing Relations of Sovereign States to tech other. " 2. Crimes end Deliceta. 9: AiiTentEOdea7th7ir Nature and Inflame. 4. The conception of Equity, and the Porno it boa mid is vanuua aysteeliid Juriaprulescia. " 3. The development of the Roden Law. " With his private clam the Reeder .111 proceed through the principal departments of Roman Law ? using as his text book the "Systems Avis Romani Hodes I:sitati," Latin edition of hiselteldfly (beginning at pegs 132). " The Render will endeavour to farm a second class for the study of the Elements of Roman Law. This latter class is intended for gentlemen who hare no previous acquaint ance with thr Roman jurispradence. It will reed the ' Institutes of Justinian,' beginning at their commencement. e- e "concur Law. "The Reader on Common Law prop... to deliver during the ensuing oluestional term nine public lectures • the firm Ma of which will be on the Law of Contracts, and tlu three rommning lecture* on the Lew of Bailments, as under : " TOO LAW OF CONTRACTS. "Lecture I.—On Contract. generally; their Nature and Claesidoation. " Lecture 2.—On Bimetal Contract.. "Lecture 3.—On Contracts between Landlord and Tenant, and the Remtdim incident thereto. " Lecture 4.—Of Simple Contracts and the Ingredients in • Right of Action ex-Contractu. " Lecture 5 will be devoted to an inquiry respecting the Nature of Implied Promises. "Lecture 6.—A general view will in this lecture be taken of Mercantile Contracts and Remedies. "TRU LAW OF pAILIIINTS, " Lecture 6.—The nature and classiticetien of bailments, with eapeeial reference to the cue of 'Coggs v. Bernard; Load Raym , 909, will be considered. " Lectures 8 and 9 will be devoted to an examination of the law applicable to various clues* of bailees, common carrier*, ineksepws, and others. " With his private class the Reader will consider the law of contracts end of Winton aecording to the plan above indicated, Mutitrating the subjects treated of by reference to recent CAW, and to tee following work...—. Smith's Mercan tile Law' (ad- by Dowdeswell) end Leading Caw' (4th ed.), ' Story on Bailments ' (6th ed.), Broom's Cowmen taxies on the Common Law.' " By order of the Council, .‘ RICHARD BETIILLL, Clubman, " Council Chamber, Lincolee-ien, Dec. 18." "The following are the days and hours for the delivery of the public lecture* by the Headers appointed by the Lane of Court, and for the attendance of the private cisme : "The Reeder on Constitutional Law and 1.1 History, at Linooln's-inn Hall. Public lecture*, We dnesdays, 2 p.m. ; tied lecture, the 20th of January. Private lecture*. Tee days, Thursdays, and Seturdaye, at half-put 9 to half-pest Ii a.m. First clan merle on the 21st of January. Classes meet in the Beechen' Reading-room. . . The Reader on quit', at ncole s.ints Uf. Public lectures, Thursday, at 2 p.m. • first lecture, January 21. Private lectures , Mondays, Wsdl esdays, and Fridays, at • quarter toast 3 and a quarter past 4 p ro. First class meets on tho 22nd of January. Classes meet an the Bentham' Reading- "The Reader on the Lew of Reel Property, fie., at Gray's inn Han. Public lectures, Fridayo, at 2 p.m. ; first keture, January 15. Privets lectures, Mondays, \Yahwism and Fridays, at a quarter to 12 a.m. to a quarter to 2 p.m. Pint Clam meets on the 18th of January. Classes meet in the North Library. The Realer on Jurisprudence sad Civil Law, at the Middle Temple-hell. Public lectures, Tosedays, at 2 p.m.; first lecture, on the lath of January. Private claseete, Tam days, Thursday., end Saturday., eta quarter to 4 p.m. Pint CiSPO meets on the 2let of January. Chases meet at No. 4, Garden-, curt, Temple. "The Router on Common Law, at the Inner Temple iall. Public lecturers, Mondays, at 2 p.m.; fast leeturo. the 18th of January. Privets chasm, Tuesdaya, Thursdays, and Riturdays, Lunt a gamier to 12 a m. to a quarter to 2 p.m. First riOPM OMNI on the 19th of January. Chasm moot at the Liner Temple 11.11. " Note.—The educational term entOMMOIS on the 11th of January, &ad ends on the 30th of Match. " The first meeting of each private clue will take place nn the usual morning or evening of meeting next after the foot public lecture on the game eubjoet." A letter from Jerusalem of the 25th nit., in the. CboutituLarsa, says t—" Ths pilgrims now teen ars very numerous, and the Greek convents are all full. There are not less than 1,800 Greeks end 800 Arestaisas ; what will the number be at Beam ? We hays also some travellers of cliAtinction here; and smug them are the Pillions de Latour d'Auvergire, who iutends to slop here for six months; Count de Labddoyere, Count de Belgiojoso, Prince Lubo- Week two Rued= genera., sad Mgr. Triechst, Bishop of baklkve. Irk Court. WINDSOR, TVIMIDAT. Th. Jody Adeooate-General had an audience of bat Ilaissty, yesterday, to submit the proceedings of somo •111•01111 PW• Ty Peutigner Wainer end Counties de Lanadio arrived eas shwassa en a Melt, sad in the evening dined with bar vuogy. n. piety also included the Duchess of Kent, the Primes Be*. the PASCO of Leiningen, Lady Anna Mark Dmeems, Lady Asepsis Bruce, and Bir George Germ The burl of the Boyd Rom Cards atterbd 6 the Calls &slag dinner, nod pirloneed tin Overtire, Neciose Weber. ' lisleants, Beenimmid• Ordirffie, COUIS of St. Jennie VAPart. esieedsa, " J',4 1. Rd" Aism. Ostep, Exclusion Hs blejesty's private bead played eftereardis In ths deny ing-rue& The Qum rods in the Riding-Im* tide serniag. The Wale Comet, woonpaidel by &e Prince of 1./Wa rm went eat slontsg. She biome sort ...Ikea and &ere in the Rom. perk. 'Pb. Mhos of Wales vent to London, sad attended • Woe se As Royal Institetion. The Dohs of Nemours, with hie family, visited her 11.- *fir. Lai Delwin and that-Colonel W. Frederik Cavendish hoe enteesied Lord Waterpark and Major-General Berkeley Drummond es Lord and Groom in waiting. Despatches were received at the Colonial•ofike yesterday from the Governors of the North American provinces. The following are among the latest arrivals at Beigktea —Sir lams Brooke, Lady Caroline Forbes, Lady Maegragor, Sir Gedfrey Mr. and Mrs. Mama Peel, Lady Wrests:, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, Capt. and Mrs Palk Han. Hobart Monsen, Sir Edward Daring, sag Ur Han. H. - The Counties Amherst distributed her bounties on latms-sse to a tarp amber of dependants on the Knouts mate. The morel of sight fat bullocks, with treaty tow at wait mod 800 faggot; together with warm clothing, blankets, estaaterpases, sad my other articles, were freely Inspired to a large Lumbar of labourers sod their brines. _ - . We regret to hear of the death, on Sunday last, st Uptiekt, near &road, of Edward Bullock, Eut., late Com mon Serjeant of the city of London. Vienna letters state that the Empress of Austria stain in an interesting situation. The young Duke of l'arron, travelling under the seas of the Count de Villefriuses, arrived a few de). sines I st The Emperor is somewhat indisposed, and in consequence a review which was to have been held yesterday in the court of the Tuileries did not take place, and the grand sitting of the Council of State to discus the question of the usury laws is post poned. The meeting of the congress for the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty for settling the boun daries of the Besarabian frontier, which was en maenad for to-day, is put off till 1 hureday. The BOUM has been very firm in consequence of an official notice that the Bank of France has re dosed its discount to 5 per cent. from this day. Tho situation of the Beek is understood to be very fa vourable. Its stock of bullion is now said to amount to 280,000,000. The Rents rose 25c. for cash and 30c. for account, closing at 68fr. Sc. and 08k. 25e. Mobilier rose 17fr. 50e. The railways were even more influenced than the Rents by the financial news. Orleans rose 16fr. 25e.; Northern, 7fr. 50c.; Lyons, Bfr. 75c.; Eastern, 10fr.; and Southern, sfr. I Western fell 7fr. 50c.; and Grand Central, lfr. 250. 1 There was a very brisk market. A report was air eulated that the Bank intends to advance 17,000,000 of francs to the agens de change, to make continu ations (reports) oa the Rents. A ministerial order has been sent to all the agene de change, prohibit (nce rant 'roues careers) ing the transaction of business by their clerks. Watrewatt, Dec. 96.—The Queen has been The Journal de Ganef states that General and pleased I. appoint the Rev. `forma Marko d. tointeeer af the barony pariah of Oliessos, to be on. of her Majesty's chap- madame Lamoricilre are certainly coming to France Tales is erillasq m Scotlawit b the re= of Dr. Dimon before the let of January. They are selling their M.ferien, deceased. furniture at Gand, and intend to live in a country FORLIGN-OFFICL, DEC. 26.—The Queen has been Omani to approve a Mr. William George Leseptisee. house belonging to them near Amiens. Consul et Robert Town to the Free Haoseauc City of HMO* The proprietors of the Press. have some hope burg. ! that M. Nefftzer may be induced to resume his post Caorre•orrice, Dec. 29.—Member returned to as editor of that journal next month, when the the Il sea lant., of suspension pronounced against it will ex serve In the preens Parliament. —County of Buchinghsea,— . Mahe , . GoteTlCsil b.. Charles Cdh th• w asq •pi n • hut in the event of that hope being disap- t s s sL ag = is the room of ua. as Cap - ; .' . s . . pointe d, m. Louis Jourdain, of tie Sieele, will bee Majesty's mem sat Ipssl S the county el Teat 1 perhaps take the efiPeteueept- A despatch from Nlarseilles says :—" The Shah of Persia has invited the various mabaseadon to be premed at the eerunetion of hie sot. The English minister, it is said, bee refused to attend, making a reservation in favour of the rights of another heir to tho throne, now a refugee at BaVial" His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon hat trans mitted to the Committee of Council on Education a very in teresting specimen of Gotelin tapestry, the subject being , t' Amin mesenting the dapper to her husband Poet= after having slabbed hermit" This pace of work woo commenced wider Louie XVI., ems cempleird during the period sf the republic, and received lee border in the early days clam GM empire. It was gine, an his marriage in 1807, to lamer, King of Weetpbalia, by the Emperor, his brother. Prince Jerome Ism just given It to his eon Prince Napoleon in ceder that it might be presented to the Museum of Art at South Haattaatoa, as sours proof of the interest which they both look in that estalAishment. Viewed for its money worth, this specimen most have been valued at above 2,0001. ; but looking to the ruzioas facto of its history, It b‘ of fa higher value as en evidence of the friendly relations which have *rung op between the two countries, not merely in politics, but in the promotion of the arm. Al4NUZACTURE . plf#r44qyla—cullova YSVM ATJONB. A case which came before the County Court in Ipswich Ise week, afforded some curl ousrevelatioes et the manner in which the public are supplied with fictitious biographies. Mr. J. M. Burton, the publisher in Ipswich, about twelve months ago received from Mr. Trenery, author of Leila Ada and other works, a manuscript entitled " The Christian Lady, or Beligion in High Life ; a Memoir for the Tipper Classes ;" which purported to be a genuine and authentic biography of Miss Augusta Howard, who became Lady C. by marriage, 18.53, end died to 1866. The 118. was accompanied by • letter front the author, offering the copyright for 1201. and adding, "Ise Intend to give the profits to her ladyship'm poor, and It is to be an addition to their usual winter'. note." A subsequent interview with Mr. Trenery gave Mr. Barton the Impression that he was intimately acquainted with the subject of hie =mere, and an agreement wee concluded to purchase the copyright for 501. Shortly before Christmas Mr. Trenery wrote to his publisher, urging hi d , to "cesolude the negotiations with all convenient speed," se hedyship's family "were particularly anxious that th e proceeds be joined to their Christme gilts," and the 601. wen paid. Internal and other evidence had .into appeared to prove that the book was not • genuine memoir, ea originally supposed, and an action eras brought by Mr. Balton to recover the 601. i ti. In opening the case, Mr. Riedel), who appeared I for the • tiff, stated that Mr. Burton was satiefiet wish the terms o his contract, and would continue the publication of the work if it could be proved to be an authentic biography. The doubts of the publisher were first raised by an ruiner to a query respecting the singular name "Arsenates," in which the defendant stated that the sister of the Duke of Cambridge was named Augustus Caroline Charlotte ElitebefL, a state ment which a reference to a " Peerage" proved to be incor rect. But a stronger ground for doubt enured. It bad been euggeeted by plaintiff that a portrait of Lady C., and a vignette of her country house, should be prefixed to the work. The letter, in reply to this suggestion, contained the following passage in reference to the memoir:—" 1 look for it to do mu amongst her ladyship's own les. Many of them , I think, like ft; because many of them I know are earnest lovers of our Saviour end desire every help in their heavenward course. I know Saviour, it ft able to do them good, much good. It always soothes my own heart whenever 1 reed a little of it. In reference to the pletwo I have Named idle. • • • My visits to the Lady Howard have been usua lly of • kind when such a subject could not be introduced . " Soon after Mr. Burton received from Mr. Trenery two beautifeßy engraved and coloured portraits, one of which was underwrftAn " The Comte, of —," sad the other • portrait of lady Harriet andlton. The former of these wes he said, to be altered he several particulars, as ft had been badly copied lota the original painting, and the dress was to be reek like that of the accompanying portrait. Shortly after Mr. Burton ti the pretended portrait of Lady C. among rer i a Nd from the Court Aloe's, on the counter of Mr. Bogue, the publisher, In London, but bearing the name of the Countess of Durham. The defendant, when asked for an explanation, refused to reply to "question respecting names which he could not in honour divulge." The plain tiff again wrote, asking for an explanation fir his own sans. faction,and called upon the defendant, if he rould not ex plain atisfactorily, to refund the 601. and the expenses incurred for the part printed, propeiog to plan, the MS. In the hands of a third party. The defendant then wrote at great length, endeavouring to establish that the portrait neat had never been represented to be that of the subject of the work. It was aloe shown that many parts of the MIL which professed to be copied from her ladyebtp's diary had been subsequently altered. Mr. Burton hal addressed a circular to various brandies of the Howard family. but could get ne information of a Miss ll:Award, afterwards Lady C. Mr. Trenery, who conducted his own defence, es. sorted that the MB. was " the genuine biography of • real " whom he knew "pmtty well." He bad not brought person, a riry with him, ea he did not know it would be wanted. He would not tell the reel names. The behind was not a peer, but the sou of a peer, not the eldest. Ile did not think he ought to be made to go there and be laughed at. His Honour then asked defendant to write the real name on a piece of paper, sod no one else should see it, bat this he re fined Ha stated that the bad letters with him from the British Society for the Conversion of the Jews, In commendation of Leda Agile. The book was used to convert the Jews; and he hoped to make the memoirs of Lady C. equally useful to the peerage. The memoir In nutshell we worth 360 L, but he would not pay 601. and take the MS. back, because he preferred to clear Ns character. Among other extraordinary assertions, the de fendant stated that the picture, which had been copied badly, because it hung in a wrong light, could not be moved, be cause her ladyship's dying hand had helped to hang it; and when the artist had finis h ed the copy, he drew his bruit arras.the face and said Thee to the creek of doom." Defendant persisting in refusing evidence of the genuineness of the week, judgment was given for the plaintiff for .501. and costs, to be paid in • forinight.—Berry and Norxcic4 Port. UNLAWFUL CONCEALMENT OF WRECKAGE 87VRZ8. On Saturday, John Bright,. John Simons, Henry sumps, Witham Wadley, manners, appeared before the msgistrates at Cokbastsr, to answer an Information preferred by It. Regret', Esq., Receiver of Customs, for unlawfully secreting wreck of the sea, on the 30th November, at Bright, Mr. W. A. Neck appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Goody for the defence. Mr. Neck having briefly detailed the facts of the teas, called Henry Hawkins, an aloe, of customs, who proved that on the 30th November, between eleven and twelve o'cloe.k, he saw defendants' smack, the Anne Maria, up. preaching the gaud boat, at Brightliageee, and upon hie kelting Whether they had anything on hoard, they "Nothing bat firewood." Not being eatiefied, lee p on hoard to rummage the vessel, and found the firewood 'poke of consisted of a jib-boom of a vowel cut up. He found past of the bed cabin filled with cut riggieg, half wet. Upon further search in other parte, he discovered other rigging concealed, and in the aft bed cabin, part of a ltbt which, he should judge belonged to • weed of from 120 to Ibo tone bombes ; he found the remainder of the jib in the forecastle, and some more wreckage, apparently the jib sheets, under the cable. , Ho asked defendanta where the articles came from. They said they did not know, and he took pcs malice of them. Me. Haggett, Receiver of Wreck, proved receiving the articles into his peeression ' which, he said, were certainly from a wreak, and were too large to be used on lewd doe fondants' ama,ck. Ono of the crew, not present, told hint that he was sorry for what ho had done, and hoped ha would look over it. Me. Goody addressed the court in defence, and contended that his clients had been lawfully engaged in salvaging, and fully intended to have delivered up the wreckage to the receiver. Mr. Gower mid he would tell them, as a nautical man, that defendants were bound to report the wreckage se soon as possible, and if they neglected to do so, it became an illegal pomeesion. Mr. Goody respectfully submitted that the question for the magistrates to deride was not es to reporting, but secret ing, and that secreting referred to parties who had been en gaged in plundering a wrecked 'mewl, and not those in cow session of salvage property, and therefore the present cam must fall to the ground. The cowl wee cleared, and upon its being re-opened, The Chairman mid the bench had come to thu mutation that the defendants were guilty. They were not ruts that in awarding the penalties they had determined to Impose upon them they discharged their duty as they ought to do, bat they considered that there were alleviating circumstances in the case, and that the wreckage goods might Nighty have been picked up instead of plundered trim the They fined John Simons, muter of the marl, 40s. ; Heel Simons, who had before been convicted, 49e. ; and IVardley and Bright 11. each, with 9e. expel:we each. Mr. Goody said, considering that the bench were applying an act for plundering to a cape of salvaging, he hoped they would not think it affinitive. if he took the opportanity of making Chia a special cam of appeal to the Ciuit of Queen's Bench The Chairman said they quip understood Mr. Goody'e argument, and were of opinion that there was nn ground far an appeal, but they would be happy to have thin iota re' considered by • higher tribunal.—Eseez Herald. The English engineers hare now been seven months in their Neapolitan prison. By advicca from Sicily, it appears that the earth quake whit* lately did so much damage to the kingdom ci Naples did not extend to that island. A Naples'eUaets/es that instead of two torrents of burning Lica, which Vesuvius has been hitherto throwing out, there are now three, which continue to run slowly towards Ottajano. The German journals publish a hitherto unprinted poem by Goethe. It him been disooverrd by Proteins Kehlert, of Breslau, in the album of a fellow-student d Goethe, the late Dr. litase, of Strehlon, in Sil The acmea with which the student-poet had loscribet bitueelf . the t' Stambuch" of his friend are characteristic ft the anacreoutic view he took at that time of Infe. They TIM 111 follows Der Reiche. ja, ich bin Mrklick ruicb. ich baba. Doe gottlicho Gerchenk, the Glebe, Mit Wenignm ecrimugt re mein. Min Madchm, wag, mich nu kmuun, Der Frtunde viol, vin rut Gorham, [lnd Mulich eine Mich, Wein. Leipzig, 12 Mel, 1767. "At the Count do Flandre," says the Nord of of Brussels, "was in the afternoon of Chrisiumeoluy in the park opposite tho peisce, a wet kitig nom arming a blouse and wth a cep on his head, atrp t aai up to the piaci and said, ' Sir, will you give the a light ? Thin prince taking his cigar from his lip', offend it to the men, sad the letter quietly lighted his pipe and returned, with an esprimicis d thanks,' the ague of his rol el higluirre. After tile sorb. man had gone a few step • gentleman atoppod hits said if be knew of whom he Led begged a light? ' late *amend the mai. 'lt is the Coant de Flambe, eon of the King: The Count de Flea:tare? exiiiiinott the raw, Well, I atm not Reny to have nude hie acluaiabuszo i ke I • nry Fibs essiimits: " WY 0001 street, t 1 Loudon. "grouted I felt hel thought Le o ne bit Wet bite 1101 The L John the rani nan o wa Lallof3 eleven It spi child, wl of s day . toner en she a w h r e ahe prisoner the ro A. 0 is the 1 street V trey on was at - 1 . 11;4 - 01 The me gave th al witl polio= The charact Thol &erect boarho< tipsy w meted The i the mai there, 8 The 1 the bus poor yoi The mot. Mary M: I Mias MI aix and ifr7i svery prisoner, could be sane era than slid Sneed that be I and dint In dot oho had rho mid lived wit Mt. C b 4eA d %' the Hon wire infl Prism: 'bout to be COMM hate fc AAR 0 bobre l' , l trom a ti ahopkeei the rattl god upoi into the hand in when eh vented Site cell Koch most in ',Wave Jinni ma 16.1 the altos The Police a hrthit The Mr. BM yes Thep Mr. 8 brought ere MD labOOr. twit w~ hie gen, of hi. lir;r4 Yew,