The Express. — London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

m od amities from Mama. Cock and Spaeth wen put in. payed that the mart would put the hoed of the .testis oaths defendant in soros sad afford Sant sesk waist as ' gibe be •theidered itheosahlis aad jun.—The Uwe Cleth lethrestal the mint that the Ileinsasat's arse k ee emelt Iron the list of brokers. &Menem sew 'band the mom to give isekeetiera Si ." t. Mooed typhus the essithe albs , ae bad bees does Si tie ems of renews, ▪ hheacoeicht, who bad then aseeeed of fraud *pea the ec Lesiles.—Toe defendant submitted to Sherman that basked melpaed all his property to the etimplaimants and N adia preen for the benefit of hie endings; that the ing rowing whisk bad take* place malted ben al NON lad other unforeseen wed that i Zr C l te mooned his hclitt that freed keel same then bvi ad. hi giviag a am saeleeptiosable m ot or his to • Mr. Smith, alter the Imosee km bed been terminated to which the petitioner elbelleg.— hihe a cheeklerahle time occupied is the idsesfir of ibe pie, toe coat was cleared, sad upends* thedthiedere of i g e g oads. die Meander mead km lad bees dinebed by the psi II eras dad they bed resolved to take so terthw pus. aw aleri apse tee petition. They deoireti it to be distinctly ga aancond that they did not take that cosine as la en Rea saa approving of the conduct of the defendant. On his pay, the e indi.ct of the defendant had been most leregenr, and at variance with his duty as a broker, and raised grave for empiric's that the imputation of fraudulent ens as not without foundatim, although the mi meo did no' bring ti.ime the charge. The soul hk tlst by dismissing the broker they had prevestod the a mthilily of the recurrence of such nauseating* se lase imputed to him The petitioners hail left thsemalvies gat little right to call upon the securities to pay a realty Me being responcble for the good conduct of a perms whom ibey theeselres had subv.quently described as unexception able. They had condoned his °Soften. They had taken an a l abgement of all his property, and reeearaveaded Ida for ameoyeatrit ins place of trust to a heather searebaat. It was ststei be them that tit. Sr recommeniative ens acmes pealed by advice to Mr. Smith to take security for any pro perty with robb th , y ovi i :ht entrust him; but Mr. Smith aerie/et% that he IN collected no such ob creation, and he wo ad have taken the defendant into his employment if the mantic+ of trade had net interfered. The soon the. adjourned. ClioLlia.—Yesterday only one caw of cholera in Lomita we reported to the Board of health. That cue moored in Bummed' fields, and was fatal. The dismal,. bow ies& mew to have manittsted itself tent, mach Tintless, in &parish of Cheering'', Bucks, where 20 caw and 8 deaths me reported. At Sunderland another fatal dm has occurred. TM Scotland the acconnis specify in Edinburgh 9 new men, 5 deaths ; Leith, 2 cases, I death. Total new raw, SY L In des b& TEE BlitloP LONDON AND INTRA ALUR.tL Ultima —Yesterday a deputation from St. ldartin's-in-the gain par* waited moon th Bishop of London, as his pa. lei, 7a Fulham, respectinc the disgracefully and den. =iferowded Kate of Rosen. court gave.yard.—Mr. explained the situation of the grave-yard, sue meaded is it is with crowded hahitations, and ho lordship jig award then: that he would i sue his monition for the babalate closing of the grav:-yard, unless sufficient cause *die *army be shown. ROCICTY or AM.—Yesterday, the joint ordinary menu ft r the present session of the above Ninety oats field at the society's house, John-street, Adriphi. The chair or taken by J. Walker, Esq., C.E. vice president, and the secretary proceeded to reed tie ad. toe of the council, from which it amend that the navy was promessing, both in subecrihers and grams The ordinary revenue for the year was 1,4001., and the espeniliture somewhat less, including an ample pro vides fir the *towel of the minus! rewards. The privs flu the aiming year ccomined premiums to the amount of nerdy SOW. TN calmed called esisciti attention to the feet OM tee of the subject* foe coospetition'hini barn selected by Pekes &beer, who hail himielf riveted the sad would datribate the prism. Mr. M i ' s! • famsber of the society, had also offered a prise of flit. sabjeet d p.,4 importance as connected with our seararauree of metal and elem. The annual exhibition of bide meaufeetnne would be continued this you, and pre mier um making for the triennial exhibition for which ~.._.at bad promised the quadrang.e of Somerset House, a Ml* WI of insular Jiatensines. The *dress concluded with some technical argils as to the ',taller' of vice-presi d=e. The other badness of the evening inducted the retol d men by Mr Gladstone and by Mr. Roberts, on iron Whiling, and on new elements of annehinery and their WRSTRINSTRR RAGGED SCHOOL.—Lit evening the sense panel mating of the supperters of th i Woe timer Barged SelvAl was held in Westminster Chapel, lemesetrer, Buckingham-ante. The Earl of Radnor took Ye ink, a nd said, though a great amount of wood bad been dmo by ragged schools doing tier brief existence, there wee still in .11, indon a great number of pan children early neg'ected. He would mention an instance of the pee interest the wcrking chines took in the.. schools. A wheel had been built in Lariewth in • very unheelthy spot, M when it was found necessary to go else leen, the operatives by whom the 'shool wee offered gave up their evenings and holidays, and built =dm free eine. The report stated that in the proverbially =adistrict:a which Ike sch 00l was situate,• great many who lived by pureeing aim* had loan instructed band provided with the 1140112 S of living honestly. When they in entered the school they were hardly controllable, MAIM 'infrequently need violena towards the teachers ; but the system of dieci,iline adopters, and the rewards given f oe psi behaviour, had entirely changed their conduct. The avenge attendance of boys was 150, and of girls about 70, all al whom were instructed in reading, writing, elementary withmatie, and the scriptures. The rem ipts of the institu tive during the year amounted to sa. 13s. 2d., and the ex pedite* left a balance in the hands of the treasurer. The resort we ad , red. MAII.LBOROLGII-STREET OCTRAGE.-BiF,--1 have sleep sin eentoed intoxication to be an aggravation of en room, but on reading the remarks of her. Bingham in the &Fru of this morning, respecting the conduct of several pentes of the 3rd benalen of Grenadier Guards, I find that hind, " a very grievous asinult bad been c nnesitted, tut bless owing to drink." Sense time since olden ra were gro aned from earning side-arms when of duty. 1 think it high tine that they should also be deprived of their bete; tali their hands there appear to be pretty efficient weapons, candally when, as in the ow alluded to, the gallant wearers strike people with them " from behind."—A CONIITAIIT lasete.—Wood-street, Nov. 72. CLEAN HABITATIONS FOR THE Pool.—Sir,--The Right Rev. Bishop of London, in his Charge to the clergy, Wens them to movc the charitable to coos ibute among whir things, their mone_y, to cleanest and whitewash the abodes of the poor. Now, my opinion is, that that is the daty of the proprietors of those premier. What right have the public to o.ntribute to pay for whitewashing any man's !weeny The pow people pay in proportion high rents for Mar hotels, and the landlords ought by some strict polies re te be obliged to teats the wells, repair the Mk sad windows, and make roads and drains for the Me, or go without rent. No doubt they often do, het that Rises, in a great meinure, from the un laslthy condition and position of poor people's homes, whisk engenders ill health, reducing the objects to beggary, lei Sling the workhouses, thus throwing on the general tee-payers the expense of supporting a much gr. ater num b& of pee than it their hones woe wholesome and &mole. It would oey laadlores Netter to keep small hone property betermedition than they generally do ; and, in fee, such "etched residences as could he pointed nut at ls. 6d., 24., sad Is. a w ee k, oug h t not to be permitted a day lofter to ent is 'civilised e tunny. Should these views meet your salveral, please insert them in the Deily Arstos.—Yours, at, W. M. SIIAIirPERE DOCEMENTL—It is stated that a few dwaseata ot same interest respecting John Shakopee, the Wu of the pat, and one in which the great dramatist him 'elf is annexed as the purchaser of a pray/rho*, have ion wanly dinnereel among some old papers et Sten:lciest lerAvee, in the possertion of Mr. W. 0. Hunt. The man• stria which one of the meet important was discovered by Oat toilsome is sufficiently curious to be mentioned :—A tide "untie-' of parchment, on which was fastened a eke, matalsing a hie of old declarations of the Court of gessrd war opened, end proved to be a writ respecting 'owls of some property by John Bhelepere in 1579. A CCU FOR SHORT WTJGHT.—The local autho this of Nesylebons have resolved, under the provisions of keirdindet set ef parliament, to publish tie names of any Indegeogi cif the direct who shall have l,een three times 'nee ellen raise or fraudulent weights and messores, wn lessee the nun, residence, end calling, and the dr eamaiss tateadaat co the conviction, to be itsbliey ed. litlard I the principal morning newsp_spers. . 1 111 MASTER Or ST. CROSS HiniFlTAL.—.Bk,—• I'm jut and nano indignation has been &Tinned in this en nil fa aeignbourhood, on account of the shameful and shun of the charity of fit. Cross Hospital. This bee sot been weakened by the occurrence cf the fel _7*litre :—The church of St. Cron, which is large wa art finished with a stove, is at this season of the year 11 1: 1 7 ,1 7 cold and somewnat d a mp. The parishioners „ Id gotitineed the churchwardens to remedy this evil ; churchwarden in tie it tarn, applied to the re iniatitin.""si " 4 His considerate and char - inlet answer to the ores, that "since the parishioners have always I a lt l i nut a rose, th e y say d o w i t h out / one now ." at' awn' up to the mo t. * on hi s eoet•ofearms-- "entrant colauelsars."—Juyn sse.—Wieehester. 11.1rttr FINANCE or TOE " TINIES."—Sir,-1110 Lae , esitur.'ay last contains a leading article in whiter "wil l . ....Ft..: 4 ;oti.showntli a t one military alines are greatly 2,7 , a th , services whisk they render the countny. h o lates i that style of megrim" confidence whial ' 5e.,4. ° 7 11 allwonriate to the nixes, atai is meant es ea 1e 5 .12 .144 "Pi) to a Me. A. C. Stewart, who appean t asidreesed the Fronde Reform Assn:i th --- "nnta this subject. The Tines makes it ma W at t t ba i '"L"'2 , o British union serve their vein ry for sane-' 14 1 072! mong —that is to say, that they contribute i.OaW their lives i s the exchequer in Muni for the honour et between Cowman' and the colonies." oast • !incise, oar joutnaiiet adds : " The arise :• are. imaginvtion venters nix PAM upon eae~j' , myna error the t.11..vin 7 tesh , "on : in C,Too of the r an k and title of - captain one. 3,etoC,_ f al , into the national exchequer Mee ... b w ,.. nLura far which the young gentleman 1ina....7%.? , per annum." He receives considerably neeirtr,al . lowsnees, and all contingent advents fes in tb..n, wr . i I now desire to call your attention to is, ZFleeo!this snug I ncome dow dingo heaths oaid t end that the Ttisses,ht saying se, la either koexing kop e k., I• tns been honed. The 3,0001. g es into I e officer— of him whose enstaimion The sale of a commis:tun by A to B is, so far se it Is a matter of , eatirely betweea the two dd. awe theartelves. As eid eiwr.wW is Z a boil Moeda Ms *Was tea yeemparr IM pas the raeaey—the whom, pee ael a • bat the elohe gym, ise raber warth asse27, seatiaies to yield the pay sad 'newsman. It le etwatlas to we ee rutty coureetp• tam eJee evaaleg tiveugh a whites edema of the Times, freaded ea l. sp N a eseampeioa Fiat the very reverse of the hee.—l.—ov. 2 FIBS AT ST. MATTEILRI CHURCH, CITT-ItOAD.— Os Tuesdsy isonsing this edifies had • very marrow escape of bias sleetroyed by Ire. &twee% 19 mad 1 e'en.* the polies ea duty saw smoke Wein treed the building lieu the tower. Oa die building being entered it was toned that a porting oldie flowriag, souse matting, mud a barn, were on ire. The ibre was extinguished without the engine. being meet far, but ilispriatesideet Oraidwood haring investigated the tests, reports the eases et the to hare beet the lamer of werlussa in dropping sparks trout a lighted ludic The church and the Aram were insured in the Union Fimetioa. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1848. George Weed, the present member for Sheffield and Beornta to the Admiralty. Mr. Ward had just returned from Mexico, to which country he had been sent as plenipotentiary for the acknowledg ment of its republic. He came before the St. Alban s electors a young man, of county influence and connexion, with it wee supposed ample fortune, and by no means an indisposition to spend it liberally He was every thing in fact that they required. Sir Francis Vincent again presented himself. His popularity continued to be great. Unfortunately, however, though the feet was at that time unknown to the electors, his private circumstances had materially altered. The expenses of his first election at Bt.Alban's had been considerable, but they had been nothing to the expenses of his first year upon town. It is said now that everything had gone but the family plate, and that that supplied the means for this contest. The Orimaton family upon this occasion played a skilful game. No member of their own house wan put forward: their influence was not sufficiently recovered for that, nor was it safe to 'hitt another doubtful battle; and doubtful it must be with the new constituency. A Mr. Turner, how-, ever, of Cottesford Hall, near Bicester, was invited to offer himself upon their principles. If he succeeded —well ; the seat would be kept warm for them until the next election: if he lost, he lost—and they were not implicated. Mr. Turner received all the aid that dorhambury could afford him. Mr. Ward, however, had declared from the first that be would not be b. at, and the contest conecquently proved moat severe. By each of the candidates the expenditure was most lavish. The constituency (6.57) was polled up with the exception of 13—a circumstance in itself sufficient to show the inducement and pressure which must have been put upon the voters. At the close there had voted for Vincent, 392; Ward, 373; Turner, 345. ' If a Orimaton had stood we should have got him in," said the tory ' , gents. The enormous expenses of this contest were defrayed with great difficulty. Sir Francis Vincent's ready money had gone only part of the way to rni et his costs; he was unable to raise more, and his bills went unpaid. Mr. Ward bled west freely. Mr. Turner expended all he had, which proved very insufficient : 1,2001. is now said to have been left unliquidated. The next general election was in 1835. Sir Francis Vincent of coarse did not appear. The period was one of great conservative expectation. Toryism, in its new guise, had made a rally, and was putting forward its best energies. The Grimatons reappeared upon the scene. The candidate nominated in Sir Francis Vincent's place was Mr. Edward Harbottle Grimston, the second mono( Lord Verulam, who 'nut at the time fresh from All Souls College, Oxford, where he had just obtained a fellowship. Together with him there came an equally young aspirant for parlia mentary honours in the person of a Captain Beres. ford (son, it is believed, of Lord Decies), of whom nothing was ever heard at St. Alban's before or since. Oa this occasion, in fact, the Oorhambury family made a desperate effort not only to recover their lust ascendancy but to obtain the second seat. The ex penditure on all sides was most lavish. It is said that on the night before the election the thing was so un certain that one of Mr. Ward's most active agents told him he did not see how he could possibly win, and yet he intended to put success beyond a doubt. The Beresford party fought, as they supposed, a winning game. Their money was laid out with that object, and as this was also the case upon the other side, probably this was one of the most expensive contests that ever took place in St. Alban'e. By one o'clock, however, on the day of election (the turning point at St. Alban's is always one o'clock). Mr. Ward's success was as certain as his agent intended. When the poll closed at four, Mr. Grimstun tad polled 360, Ward 281, Bereafurd 237, and the two first were elected. This was the hurt contest Mr. Ward ever wood at St. Alban's. He was destined for a purer constituency and a more honour. able position. He deserved it on more accounts than one, and certainly not least in consideration of the trice he had paid fur his experience. Between 8,0001. and 9,000/. was dropped by the right hon. gentleman during the few years he had the honour to sit in parliament for the borough of St. Alban's. The progress of the narrative may be here inter rupted to mention two names since very celebrated in the annals of this borough. Very materiel assistance was rendered to Mr. Ward in his contests by a Mr. Henry Edwards, who was for some years a clerk in Messrs. Martineau and Story's bank. On the disso lution of that partnership Mr. Edwards left the bank with Mr. Martineau. Shortly after a Mr. Maskett came into the town. He had been a patent varnish manufacturer at Bermondsey, and had made a great deal of money in that trade as well as in other com mercial speculations, such as the upholstery basin( ss and slate mining. A small estate at Rickmansworth which he had purchased brought him into connexion with St. Alban's ; and he fancied that money might be made and reputation won by the establishment of a liberal bank in the borough, which he accordingly started, with Mr. Edwards as his managing clerk. The moneys of Mr. Ward passed through " Mus kett's." The bank became much concerned in the political circumstances of the town, and a personal ac quaintance with the electors and their concerns ren dered Mr. Edwards, the managing clerk, very influ ential in the electoral contests. At the dissolution consequent upon the King's des h in 1837, Mr. Ward left St. Alban's for Sheffield. There was no one exactly fitted to supply hie place. Mr. Muskett, however, presented himself. " A third man" was wanting. but could not readily be found. At last Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell was induced to try his luck. This gentleman has visited one place after another, endeavouring to inoculate constituencies (usually corrupt ones) with his crot chute, and rarely succeeding further than in emptying his pocketa of cash, and getting laughed at. He was regarded by the corrupt at St. Alban's as a weak minded sort of person, very useful as a decoy duck. One of Mr. Cabbell'e crotchets was said to be, that 1,0001 . , and no more, should be the price of a seat in parliament. I,COO/. in St. Alban's, within two yearn after such a contest es that between Warr , and Beresferd, was a mere' joke. However, as the town began rather to stink ' in the nostrils of public men, and as none could be I found willing to incur Mr. ard's or Mr. Beresford's outlay,Mr. Cabbell was brought down. He succeeded exactly to the extent he ueserved for offering 1,0001. The numbers polled were for Grimston 300, and for Muskett 349. Mr. Cabbell polled 220—just enough to induce him to come again and spend 1,0001. on another occasion. "If you had not been so late in the field, sir," said his agents and Mende, " you would have stood much better on the poll" Mr. Cabbell'si vanity was amply gratified, and he was far from re grettent; the tender of "1,0001." This election, upon the whole, was cheaply con ducted. Mr. Muskett, of course, paid for votes, but " there was only a thousand pounds on the other side," so that the " competition," as it is called, in St. Alban's was not great, and suffrages were bought upl l at a very much lower figure than usual. The thing was managed with very little disguise. The voters went into the parlour at Mr. NluArett's bank, where it is evident that they were comp:etely satisfied as tol that gentleman's all for a senator ; for, on leaving it, they all repaired to an inn immediately op posite, in which Mr. Marken himself sat to re-' cave them, and where they wished him joy, and "drank a glass" to his health and prosperity. Mr. Cabhell in the meantime was lecturing a select party in some other quarter of the town on abstruse points, connected with poor-laws and ecclesiastical affairs, firmly believing that he was deeply impressing them with the importance of the principle of the " act of Elizabeth," :And with hie own estrcmely benevolent and pions disposition. But there was " a good time coming" for the boys of St. Alban's. and it aro,.e out of a singular circum stance. In 1841 the livings of Great and Little Hea ney, appropriately situated near Sudbury of all places. tell vacant. They were in the gift of the Earl of Verulam, and great was the consternation of the family. Great and Little Henney, and the fat vicarage of Pebmarsh all lie close together, and united form a tolerably fat ecclesiastical preferment. The " Hon. F r an c is," the youngest son of the family, and, consequently, the proper member thereof to be made a parson, was only 19 when this " untoward event " occurred. The family could rot afford that the livings should go out of it. The " lion. Charles" was in the Guards, and, of course, he could not be expected to doff the scar.tt forthe surplice at a month's notice. There we. nothing for it but that " Harbottle," the second son, should go into the church. Now, the said " Hon. Harbottle " had made some way at college, but had made none whatever in parliament. lie was, more over, about to enter into a contract matrimonial, REPRESENTATION OF WEST YORKSHIRE- RETIREMENT OF MR. FITZWILLIAII. Yesterday considerable excitement prevailed in Leeds, in fionerqsonse of a notification that the Hon. Charles William Wentworth Fitswilliant had determined to retire from his tandidateatip for the reprmentation of the West Riding, in consembeace of the nature of his reception at Leeds on Tuesday. The intimation of the fact was made by the following letter to the ward newspaper offices in Leeds, through T. W. Tottie, E.g., of Leeds, one of the law asents of Earl _ _ " RASIONATION OP Mn. FITZWILLIAII.—Lteds, Nov. 22, 1848.—Dear iiir,-1 have this morning reeeived • letter from Mr. George W. Fitzwilliazo, authorising and ',quest lag me to announce that after the hostility exhibited towards his brother Charles at Leeds, yesterday, he has come to the resolution that it is prudent for him to withdrew from a position which is so likLy to provoke • contest, and that he will thermion discontinue his canvass. I hasten to comae skate this intelligence to you, with the view that you may make it known inneediatrly arid as extensively as poeible.— Yours faithfully, Tun. Wit. Tome." Tun Marne° or DALBOATAS AT NOUSANTON took place yesterday, to consider and determine what further steps should be taken with a view to oppose Mr. Charles Fits willies as a candidate for the representation of the Riding. The interest which would in ordinary reser have ' attached to the proceedings of such • =cede', so imme diately on the eve of the issuing of the writ, was greatly in ' ensued by the fact which had become generally known at Leeds during the morning, that Mr. Fitswilliam had deter mined to retire from the contest, in consequence of the hos tility displayed towards him in the Coloured Cloth Hall at 'Leeds, on Tuesday. Tee attendance of dch gates at the nseetiog was numerous, bet for some time their deliberation took place in private. Alderman Carbutt, of Leeds, again presided. At a quarter to 5 o'clock it was announced that Sir Culling Benin Rerdlay, Bart., Is to be put in Domini, tin for the West Riding. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM. sr. ALBS S'S. Every decent man at St. Alban 's will tell you that that borough is the most corrupt in Eng land ; but few will say much more. "It would be ruin to any of us who told how it is done." It is proposedto explain that " how it is done " in this place in the hope to effect some pod by theexpoeum of so corrupt and demoralising a system. Before the Reform Act, the constituency of St. Al ban's consisted of the mayor, aldermen, and freemen, and the inhabitant householders paying scot and bearing lot. There were about 350 resident electors, and 120 non-resident freemen ; a very considerable constituency for so small a town. One of the seats was occupied, re.most u if by right, by some member (usually the eldest son) of the noble house of Vera lam, whose family estate of Gorhambury is adjacent to the town ; to the other share of the representation • candidate was fur many years nominated by the fa mily of Spencer, who possessed property in and near the borough, and some of whose members were fre quently resident. The constituency, however, was too large to be completely subservient to these late rests, and at most elections a third candidate was brought forward oa what were called independent principles. At this period bribery, in the proper sense of the word, was not practised to a great extent in St. Alban'.. The system thee was head-money and treating. Each candidate opened public-hou.es, and every voter ex pected a payment of 21. 2s. for a plumper or 11. Is. for a split vote, whether the candidate was successful or not. These payments and the cost of bringing up the out-voters rerdered elections expensive. The last election which took place upon this system was that consequent upon the death of George IV., in 1830. Viscount Grimston, who had represented the borough in the previous parliament, stood again upon the Vends= interest, and Lord Althorp brought forward and himself nominated Mr. Henry Gaily Knight, then in the heyday of his popu larity as • radical. The electors, however, re solved as usual to have a third candidate, and Mr. Charles Tennant, a solicitor in Gray's-inn square (of the highly respected firm of Tennant, Harrison, and Tennant) was persuaded to pre sent himself. The race was between Tennant and Knight, and very large expenses were incurred on both aides. The polling lasted two days, and at the close the numbers were: for Lord Grimston, 495 ; Tennant, 311; and Gaily Knight, 280. In this con test Messrs. Tennant and Knight could not have ex ' pended less than 2,0001. a piece. The expenses of the first-mentioned were understood to have been peculi arly heavy. As the opinions of Mr. Tennant and Mr. Knight were not dissimilar, of course nothinT was to be gained in point of principle by the election or rejection of either the one or the other. The object of the electors, however, was fully answered by their contest, for the severe battle which they fought was solely and simply for the advantage of the corrupt. That public feeling entered very little into the matter is shown by the poll list, from which it appears that, whilst the two liberals only divided 54 votes between them, Mr. Tennant split 234 votes with Lord Grim ston the tory, and Mr. Gaily Knight 175. Had only one-half of these votes been split with the other liberal candidate, both Messrs. Tennant and Knight would have been returned by majorities exceeding 100 ! Mr. Tennant did not come a second time to St. Alban's. When parliament was dissolved in 1831, the whip looked about for a candidate, and were recommended by Sir E. B. Lytton to Sir Francis Vincent, a young gentleman of property in Surrey and Essex, whose father had represented the former county in parliament, and who had himself given good promise by a maiden effort in favour of reform at an Essex county meeting. Sir Francis Vincent made himself exceedingly popular in the course of his canvass in St. Alban'e. With frank, affable, and lively manners, he combined great independence of principle and firm adhesion to the cause of reform. ,It was assumed that Lord Grimston, who again offered himself, and Sir Francis Vincent, would be returned without a contest. " A third man " seemed less necessary when so good a second candidate was in the field. About 10 o'clock, how ever, on the night before the nomination, the state of things in St. Alien's took a different tarn. A travelling carriage came into the town and drove at once to the principal hoteL There alighted therefrom a then un known gentleman, who described himself as " Mr. Richard Godson, of the loner Temple Hall staircase," an uncompromising radical. He was accompanied by a circuit friend. Whilst Mr. Godson gathered some electors about him the other gentleman walked down to the " Bank." There he requested cash upon Ex chequer Bills of the velar of 2,0001. The Bank was quite unable to supply so unusual a demand, whereupon he spoke of send , ng a messenger on horse back to London, which, it is presumed, was done, as gold was, a few hours afterwards, plentifully mu vided. Mr. Godson played a different gimme from Mr. Tennant. He aimed directly at the influence of the house of Verulam. He knew the effect of the word " boroughmonger," and he made it felt. The ex cited public opiniod of the day was with him, and when the poll closed at that elec tion Sir Francis Vincent had polled 452, , Mr. Godson 422, and " Lord Viscount Grimston" (who got in with 495 votes only six months pre viously) stood at the bottom of the list, a defeated candidate, with only 308 supporters ! Lord Grim ston, on the hnstingtt, shed bitter team of mortifies din, and stamped his foot with rage. The expenses of this contest were heavy, but by no means so greatly so as on other occasions. Sir Francis 1 lucent spent 1,1201. Mr. Godson is believed to have spent nearly 1,800!. Lord Grimston probably paid somewhat less than either. This was the last election under the old system. I The Reform Act enlarged the boundaries of the borough without increasing the constituency. 862 voters were on the register in 1830, the population of the parishes entitled to vote being 4,782. Under the , Reform Act the 120 eon-resident freemen were dis , franchised. The new borough comprised a popula tion of 6,777, but the electorate numbered only 857. Mr. Godson having been invited to represent the new borough of Kidderminster, a town upon the Oxford circuit, retired from St. Alban's. His place was taken by Mr. Henry and upon the whole it rather rafted him than other-' wise to resign St. Alban's, and accept the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, together with the rectories of Great and Little Homey, with Pelunanh in proem 'ilea. Accordingly, one gloomy morning, very early in February, 1841, there aseed apron the walls of lit- Alban's, far ewell addtees of " the honourable" (henceforth to be "the honourable and reverend") Edward Harbottle Orimston, together with a letter from Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, to the " worthy and independent electors of St. Alban's," earnestly soliciting their votes and 1841 was a year when e thew ' could not afford to lose a seat that could be won at any price. Especially was it important at the commencement of a session to shew, if possible, that "the sense" of the country was with them. Even "the sense" of St. Alban's might do something for them, bad as it was known tote. Accordingly, when two gentlemen from St. Alban's— Dr. Webster, a practising physician, and Mr. Henry Edwards, aforementioned—appeared at the door of the Treasury, Whitehall, they were received by the Under Secretary with open arms. Lori John Russell' was consulted. It was thought desirable to start • safe ministerialist—some one whose MOONS would be identified with the success of the government—whilst, in the event of defer, they would incur little respon sibility. It war suggested that title might carry weight, and that he should occupy some sort of office. The fortunate (or unfortunate) candidate who appeared to combine all these desirabilities was the Earl of Lis ,owel, an Irish nobleman, utterly unknown as a po- litician, but connected with the government by reason of holding the office of a lord-in-waiting to the Queen. It is believed that Lord John Russell himself ex pressed to Lord Listowel the desire of the govern-' ment that he should "go down." The earl, it ie said, was rather averse to the proceeding. The office of lord-in-waiting is not usually supposed to imply subjection to very troublesome duties. Lord Lietowel probably thought that to canvass such atown as St. Alban's in the depth of winter was rather a bore than otherwise. But high influence was brought to bear upon hint. Words are even said to have fallen from exalted lips, indicative of a royal wish that lie should "go down and beat those Grim stem" As foe the bother, the under-secretary begged his lordship not to mind that,—" Coppock would manage all that." The nomination for St. Alban's had been fixed for Monday, the Bth of February. Mr. B. B. Cabbell was in high feather in the early part of the week pre ceding. The whip had no one in the field— " 1,0001." would do it. The object of his ambi tion, a seat in parliamert, long sought for and not obtained, was at last before his eyes. On Thursday, the 4th of February, Mr. Cabbell was in full canvass, when a hand-bill suddenly appeared requesting the electors to withhold their suffrages, as another candidate would be in the town that evening at 6 o'clock. Mr. Cabbell laughed at the idea; his agents smiled also (before him) but among themselves they agreed to try and find out what this meant, for it looked like "business." At 6 o'clock a crowd was collected in the street, when a messenger, " fiery hot with haste," spurred into the town. His object was to deliver a letter, requesting that the leading liberals " might be assembh d at eight, to receive a distin guished nobleman." At ten minutes before eight, just as Mr. B. B. Cabbell had sat down to dinner, a carriage and four passed his window. It was my Lord Listowei, and the deservedly popular 1)r. Web ster. The cheers of the crowd entirely spoilt Mr. Cabbell's appetite. Lord Listowel's friends went to work, and did miracles in a short time. The man, however, had not come yet. It was not until Saturday evening that he arrived. He came after dusk, in a quiet chaise and pair, with the blinds down. He drove up to the whig inn quietly. When he got out he was anxious about his baggage. It was only ono portmanteau ; but l e requested the " boots" to call some assistance, as it was quite fall, and his outs were heavy. It was with great difficulty they got it out. S x stout men staggered under it as they took it into the hall. Eight of them carried it up stairs, one step at a time. Once it slipped a little, and there was a sort of " jar" inside, very unlike shirts and stockings. f ar" " waiter" tipped • wink, and it was evident boots" understood him. It has been since declared that there were 4,000 persuaders in that portmanteau. On the Sunday there was a constant movement about the " George." After dusk people came in in some numbers. All night they continued to drop in there. Monday was the nomination, and every one was engaged thereat, except one gentleman who sat in a room by himself alone. Monday evening and night people of all sorts called to see him. The stair case was very crowded. A strong man kept the door of his room. Hi+ visitors were admitted one at a time. At least 200 had interviews. Some stayed five minutes, some ten, some a quarter of an hour. What passed is, of course, a secret ; but they all came out evidently satisfied. At dawn on the polling day, a person, whose business had kept him up all night was standing at his door when an influential member of the whig committee pa-sed on his way home. " What news ? " said the one. "All right," whis pered the other, very low indeed ; "he's sap." _ _ The " worthy and independent voters of the borough of St. Alban's' elected a burgess to serve in parliament on that Tuesday, the 9th of February, 1841, and on the evening of that day John Horrer Rumball, EFq , the mayor, declared the numbers to be, for the Dui of Listowel, 232 ; for Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., 205; and that the Earl of Listowel was duly elected. Out of the 232 and 205 a liberal calculation has been made that 34 neither directly nor indirectly received bribe, benefit, or reward. There is considerable diffi culty in selecting a 35th. The result appeared in all the London papers on the following morning. Those in the tory interest made no comment; but the *big journals sang a Piton over this " great and glorious victory of prin ciple," this " decided proof of popular opinion," this " evident indication of the public sense of the merits of the ministers." The gentlemen about the fire at the Reform Club chuckled immensely, and those who frequented the Carlton cursed ()Obeli for losing, and giving the whip an oppottnnity of getting up a cry of " reaction." What followed we intend to narrate. IRELAND. Dimwit. Nov. 22. Yesterday, the argument on the writ of error sued out by Mr. B. O'Brien was commenced in the Queen's Bench, in presence of the prisoner and a crowded mart. The case was very ably argued by Mr. Fitz gerald for the prisoner, and Mr. Lynch for the crown, who are to be followed to-day by Mr. Whiteside and the Attorney-General. Mr. O'Brien looked very ill. It is said that he is suffering from lumbago, and another affection, consequent upon close confinement and anxiety of mind. The argument will, in all pro bability, be brought to a close this evening; but the judgment of the court is not expected for two or three days. Of what use are commissions of inquiry ?" has often been asked. Of what use, indeed, since no thing comes of them. We have an instance in the case of our county treasurers. The duty is now almost all performed by the office of civil services, and the commission of inquiry reported that the office should be abolished and the expense saved; yet, as treasurership' become vacant, they are filled up. , Witness at Fermanagh, the other day. The same ' will doubtless now occur in Queen's County, where there is also a vacancy. Thus the affair will go on, and we shall have for another 50 years some 34 use ' less officers, at salaries of 4001. each. Of what use, we may repeat, are commissions of inquiry? The Lords Justices have presented Col. Penne father, commanding Cisnmel garrison, with a sword, value 501., for his conduct in the late affairs in the south There seems an utter absence of political specula tion to-day. But the social 'spent of the country was evinced on Monday in a manner at once deplorable and undeniable. The remaining estates of the Earl of Blessington were put up for stile, and were in every instance withdrawn, because purchasers were unwilling to npproach the values set upon them by the receiver. If the whole had been put up in one lot this would not excite so much surprise., hut it was not so. The eltntes were divided into several portions of about 600 to 800 acres. The lettings of the land are all under the ordnance valuation. They are situate in the best and most improving part of Tyrone, a peace ful northern county, yet in no instance could the small capitalists of those improved districts be induced to offer more than 20 to 21 Tears' purchase on the pre sent rental. This is an evioence of the condition of the country which cannot be misapprehended. SCOTLAND. spiNaraolg, Nov. 21. Complaints are again being preferred in the west against the excessive immigration of the Irish. It is stated that the number that has arrived at Greenock during the last three months amounts to 25,699. It is possible, however, that this may include many who have come over to assist at harvest operations. The Sonatas of King's College Aberdeen, have unanimously re-elected the Earl of Ellesmere as Lord- Rector of the University. The John o'Groat Journal objects to the mode of inquiry instituted at Edinburgh by Mr. Lefevre, rela tive to the efficiency of the fishery board. It says that: The seat of this inquiry has been at a most unsuitable place for the purpose, mad the witnesses examined, although all of them uptight and honourable men, cannot be regarded as exponents of the sentiments of the great body of Scottish fish-curers. As to the place, few will venture to maintain that Edinburgh was a suitable spot. With regard to the witnemes, they were honest, straightforward, and withal intelligent men ; but there are various circumstances which tend greatly to neutralise their evidence. First : They were selected by the officers of that board into whose opera tions the Inquiry is being mate, and who, doubtless, paid their expenses; if not, we hold that a gores mistake has been committed. &mond If their evidence was intended as representing the opinions of the fish-curers at their re spttive stations, they were rot in a position to give it ; fur they were never °thanked, nor their opinions asked ; in fact, the witnesses were smuggled off, and on their way to Edinburgh ere many of the fieh-curers knew of the matter. Thirdly : The extent of the business carried on by the wit nesses is not of such an important character es to warrant them giving testimony on a subject in which tee fishing in terest of Scotland is involved. We believe that the five gen tlemen referred to do not cure the fish of fifty boats, although they are called upon to represent the opinions of the fish curers of at least 1,400 boats. With reference to the fishing, it may be mentioned, that a life-boat has been procured at Wick, and a lighthouse, buoys, ladders, 3c., placed at the harbour. The fishermen, to the number of 1,048, have peti tioned tor the erection of a harbour of i efuge, and also against the management of Pultefteytown harbour. A great deal of irrelevant matter has of late been written about the working of the education scheme in Scotland. Without meddling with controversial points, it is of importance that the actual state of matters should be understood before argument begins. There are two grand classes of educationists—those who would and those who would not have religion taught. The state interferes with neither, but is willing to help both, if they will only take the initia tive themselves, and show their worthiness of state support by raising funds to a certain extent from their own resources, and then going to government for supplementary aid. The general school elesshave in this respect done nothing; the religious class have done something, and have been helped, and hence complaint the first. Complaint the second is that the free church has got more than the established church, which is just as absurd as the objection once made that Scotland received more of the drainage grants than England—the truth in both cases being that religion, politics, or nationality, had nothing to do with one or the other, the rule being to help those only who apply after a given fashion, and who help themselves, elements in which helping are that the parties elevate their standard of education, and put their hands into their own pockets. If therefore reli gious schools get privy council grants it is because their managers have been liberal and active ; and if the free church has been before its rival it is from these causes, and not from favouritism, as the minutes will assert. But it is said—put down sectarian schools. How ? It the state endow non- 1 Ireligious schools, the sectaries will start rival instil n- I dons, and, probably, carry their majorities in schools las they already do in churches. The present system has its defects, but its opponents want discrimination and knowledge in issuing their censures, and be bigotry in Scotland ever so rampant, it is surely better to have bigots who can read, write, and cipher, than those who cannot. The bigots, as they are called, are working, while the philosophers are only grumbling; let the latter borrow a leaf from their oppduenta, and start schools on their own plan. PROVINCIAL. TrIE FORGERY ON grit ' a HEYWOOD AND Co.'s Bang.—M'Cormick, the young man who presented the forged cheque for .5311. on the bank of Sir Benjamin Hey wood and Co., Manchester, h as been discharged from cus tody, in consequence of the strong probability that he was innocent of the knowledge that it was forged, and was a tool in the hands of Lee, his employer. Lee, there is reason to believe, has been living at Bowdon, Cheshire, near the seat of the Earl of Stamford, under the name of Beddome, and has, it is said, been successful in raising money on a number of forged documents at Liverpool. The police got wind of his whereabouts a few days ago, and were hot in pursuit, but he stud. d their vigilance. LIVERPOOL DOCKS.—A map, showing the entire range of the docks, existing and intend e d, has just been published, and affords a magnificent idea of the extent of the commerce of the port. The extreme length of the river wall, which fronts the line of the docks, is within a few yards of four miles. The total water area now available amount. to upwards of 195 acres, end the total quay space to more than fourteen miles. There are in all twenty-one docks in operation, I :elusive of graving docks, half-tide docks, and basins. Of these, Hee ' comprising about thirty-three acres of water area, and nearly two miles of quay srace, have been opened within the last few weeks. Two others and a half t le dock, which will yield together twenty-one acres of water area and one mile of quay space, are in a state of great forwardness, and when all are brought into play, together with the contemplated increase in the neighbourhood of Wapping, the data of which we h ave not at present before us, Liverpool will be possessed of a vast and unrivalled ex tent of dock accommodation, which. nevertheless, gigantic se it may appear, will, we trust, be found at no distant date no,. more than commensurate with the augmented acquire ments of her trace.—Liverpool Courier, Nov, 22. LANCASTER has been reduced, by order of the Board of Customs, to a fifth-class port, by which reduction a saying in salaries of the officers to the amount of 2501. a year will be effected. MANCHESTER.- PURSUIT OF A FORCER.-ESCAPE OF THIS DELINCILTENF.-011 Thursaay evening last, an officer of the Liverpool police, named Lloyd, applied at the Man chester police office, for the asaistsece of one of the Manches ter officers in a search be was making for an individual charged with having committed various forgeries in Liver pool. Lloyd had with him a person who, it was expected, would be able to identify the man, and Inspector M'Mallea was directed to accompany them. It was discovered that a letter had been left at the Spread Eagle Inn, Hanging Ditch, addressed to the individual " wanted," as " Mr. John 8. Bell, Spread Eagle, Manchester," and thither the party proceeded on Friday forenoon, to await his calling for the letter. The person who was to have identified the suspected individual saw him, and said he was not the man who committed the forgery ; and as Lloyd had received explicit in s t ruc ti ons on no account to apprehend the suspected person unless he were identified, the officers did not lay hands upon him, but don tented themselves with following and watching him. He first went to a warehouse in Cannon-street, where he re mak ed some time, and they next dogged him into Deans gate ; but in going through an entry the man disappeared In an instant, and the officers were unable, Lough they con tinued their search, to recover traces of the man. The offi cers at length returned to the police-office, and reported to Mr. Beswick, chief superintendent of police, who gave them some instructions as to their next course. In following these, they discovered that the name of the man who had ree, iced the letter was Beddome, and that he was residing in Sandy-lane, Bowdon, under en assumed name, we be lieve " Dewhurst," the maiden name of his wife. Lloyd then returned to Liverpool for fresh instructions, and he returned on Saturday with a youth, the son of a person in Liverpool, who had paid some money orders to the forger, and who could identify him. Accordingly, Lloyd and M'Mullen, on Saturday afternoon, went over to Bowdon, arcompenied by the youth, end, on reaching that place, put themselves in communication with Mr. Bradford, constable, of that place, who resides nearly opposite to the house occu pied by Beddome, and who knew him very well by sight. Mr. Bradford assured the officers that Beddome was then in the house, and, relying on this information, they entered and searched the house ; but Mr. Beddome was not there. On inquiry, they learned that he had gone to K nutsford, and they accordingly proceeded thither, andsought for him some time, but without success. They then returned to Emden, and thence to Altrincham, and, understanding that Mr. Beddome called occasionally at the Stamford Arms lan, Alt r i nc h am , they went to that house- but he was not there. A sort of cane or stick whie. he usually carried was produced, and, on the youth Keine it, he at once identified it as that carried by the torg r. It is an elastic piece of whalebone, the head or handle being a heavy ball of lead; ro that it would he a dan aerous weapon in the hands of a man intent on mischief. On further inquiry, it was ascertained that Beddome formerly wore me Übtaches, but had shav-d them off; and hence it is supposed that the first person from Liverpool was unable to identify him, as the forger wore moustaches, and their removal greatly altered the appeersece of Mr. Beddome. Here, for a time, all trace of him was lost ; but on Monday afternoon, Mr. &wick succeeded in obtaining the following information : On Sunday night, a cab belonging to a man named Arnold, was engaged by a person corresponding in description to Beddome, to take him to Stockport. The diver noticed that the w c i o th nee ltra h 7 se naift lf. in ff it e had He w w tt al II himal aspdp.mabredportmananximuto, driven over to Stockport, and on reaching that place, he im mediately inquired for a conveyance to take him to Cheadle, Chelford, Wilmslow, or any at :non on the Birmingham rail way. He did not want a gig, but a covered vehicle, and said he did not care what be paid for it, so that he got it without delay. A es:Actin= named Potts, who was present when he made these inquiries, &nerved that when any one approached or passed the spot where he stood, he shrunk back, conceal ing himself behind other persons, so as nut to be seen. In a short time a chide., belonging to a man named Holme, of Stockport, was engaged and got ready, and in this Mr. Bed dome left Stcokpert, about ten minutes after tin o'clock on Sunday night, and was driven to the Commie:lel Inn, Wallow, where the London coaches fcrmerly stopped. He had supper, and stayed there all night, ordering " boos." to all him the following in - ruing at six o'clock. On Monday morning, shortly after eight o'ciceir, he proceeded to the Wilmslow railway station, and there paid hi. fare to Lan don, and proceeded by the morning train. The intonna time ea to Beddome's movements from Manchester to Stockport, and thence to Wilmslow, did nut reach Mr. Ber wick till Monday afternoon, and he instantly derpatched Inspector M`Mullen to the latter place. That officer, on in quiring at the Commercial Inn, was told that the string. is demeanour and manner were so strange, that they suspected all was not right. During supper he kept his kat on, and during breakfast wore a travelling cap. At the railway station, the guards and clerks were also struck by his a pearance and manner, which excited their suspicion. He wore a dark travelling cap, very much over his eyes, so as d ir w h e i re le the ü b u an d d: which he enveloped the trunk beforementioned. k( r the h ogru is iwt e e h in i tgi n o . c°ofn A tehe t eal tt eg ' t i hr lm e T u l p o vePe w rtdr h " e hir p st u Wo re fh ih h i ased hsefria7a a n; horse with present further trace of the man is lost ; but 'here is no doubt whatever that the fugitive is the Mr. BedeLme who wee living at Bowdon under another tame. I- seems that it is the practice of Irish emier et' to America, when in the receipt of good wages, to runt sums of money to their relatives in Ireland or Liverpool, and that the mnt usual mode of doing so is to pay the MAIL to an emigration agent in New Trek, who issues a sort of order or draft on his correspondent in Liverpool, to ;ay the amounts specified to the parties presenting there orders. A number of these orders were seat over to Liverp !. about two months ago, by the packet-ship Resents, in which Bed dome also returned to England; and it is supp-oed that during the parasite he obtained access to a marl bag, in which the letters containing ouch crders were y'.at.t d, and having abstracted many such letters, he broke the seals (in itself a felony of a serious character), and trek out thee orders. He then forged the mays or the persons to whom these orders we re made payable ins Liverpool, pretreated them far payment at the paces indicted—one a bullion office, and another au emigration office—and received the amounts in cash. We have not been able to learn the extent to which this robbery and forgery had bees carried ; but we are inclined to think it is considerable. We understand that on searching Beddome's house at B3wdon, metal of three drafts or orders were found, leaving no doubt of his delin quency In this matter. There is still seethes. &twee im pending over this man. It will be recollected thot a young man named John M'Cormack was brought up at the Borough Court, on Wednesday last, charged with being concerned in the forgery of a cheque for 5311. 13.. on the . back of Sir Benjamin Heywood and Co., purporting to bo signed by Messrs. Du Fay and Co. M'Cormack stated that be had received the cheque from a Mr. Lee, at the Malec Hotel, on whom he had waited in answer to an advertisem. in of his for an assistant book-keeper; and this statement proving to be correct, M'Cormack, who is stated to be a respectable man, was discharged on Monday list. From the description given of Beddome'e personal appearance, M'Conneck says he has KO doubt that it is the idenecal " Mr. Lee," who gave him the cheque to get cashed. We understand that Mrs. Bed dome has been residing in Sandy-lane, Bowdon, for about two years, but that her husband has returned only recently, and has stated that be hid lost a great deal of money by farming in America. He appeared to have a large command of ready case, and at a bazaar held recently at Altrincham, in aid of the funds of the Sunday school connected with the congregational church on the Downs, he made numereue purchases, and appeared quite a zealous promoter of the cause. LINCOLNSIMIE. TUE EARL OF RIPON is about to erect ix Rims houses for poor persons, in order to comuummati the cir cumstance of his eldest son attaining his ninjwity. LIMMX/1. - ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.--At Sunderland. on Tuesday, a echo ncr, the Gironde, belonging to Bordeaux, was brought alotgaide the It rilway-wharf, at the Low Quay. Sev, rat vessels hod previously been moored by the wharf; and the master of the French craft being very anxious to be served first, the foreman of the wharf, Mr. Greenwood, said he must wait for big tun'. This gave rise to an arary alter cation. The mate of the Gironde came on deck with • gun, which the master seized, discharging the contents at Greenwood, who wu wounded in the lace and head. The captain and mato have been armed, and will be examined before the magistrates. " SUFFOLK. GERMAN EMIGRANTS SAVED FROM TUN SKIP BUILOUNDY.—tinder the auspices of the Mayor of Ipswich, 1511. hu been subscribed for tho relief of duce unfortunate persons. The Ipswich Express says: " Among the emigrants who by this sad wreck have been deprived of all they possess,. el, are several individuals of rank ; one of them was ass ofiicrr in the Prussian service. A Lutheran mitister and a Roman Catholic priest are also among the number. The entire number will be brought to Ipswich by the Hirer Queen, the Orwell Company having offered to bring them free of charge. From Ipswich they will proceed by train to London, the East , ern Union and Butem Counties companies having congested to convey them gratuitously. When there, we believe it is in tended to purchase for each of them a small portable bed, and to make other arrangements fur meeting their condition and forwarding them on to their ultimate destinatine."—A correspondent, writing from Colchester, says: ' , An appeal made by the Id yor of Harwich, on behalf of these unfor tunates, has bees resporded to by the inhabitants of that town; collections have been made in the churches and chapels, and up to Monday night aim had been raised for their relief." _Musk. EXETER-natl.—A series of concerts (fifteen in number) hrs been commenced at Exeterhall, under the titleof the "London Wednesday Concerts," at very low rates of admission. The lint took place last evening. There was a small but good instrumental orchestra, under th, direction ' of Mr. Willy; and the list of vocal performers included the names of Mr. Sims Reaves Mr. T. Williams, Mr. Leffler, tha Misses WilliamP, Mrs. Newton, Mies Poole, and the Misses Van Millingen. The programme presentee: an ample bill of fare ' of a very mi•mllaneous description. First, 1 there was a selection from Welter's " Oberon," including the overture and several of the principal airs and concerted 1 pieces. The chorus, " Light at fairy foot can fall," was sung by the solo-aingen only, without any chorus. It had better have been omitted. The grand scene, " °term, tl.ou mighty monster," was exceedingly well sung by Miss A. Williams, though it was rather too much for her physical strength. It almost broke Mies Piston's voice during the run of the opera when first produced, and hardly any shyer is able to get through it without painful exertion. The beautiful mermaid's song, "0 'tie ple.sent to fi nt," sung by Mrs. A. Newton, was converted into a piece at dr..wling p almaely by an egregious mistake in the time. Mr. Sims Retire; sang " 0 'Us a glorious sight " as no other singer, since Walls= has been able to sing it ; but it is nevertheless a vulgar, bois terous song, written by Weber, against his own better judg ment, to please Mr. Brabant, and never admitted into the opera in Germany. The little air, " A lonely Arab maid," was sung by Miss M. Williams with great delicacy and expos aeon ; and the quartet, Over the dark blue waters, re ceived justice from the Misses Wilton, Mr. T.Williann, and Mr. Li leer. After the seleetion from " °berm " AI. Thallierg played his fantasia on subjects from " Lucretia Borgia" with his usual matchless power of tone and brilliancy of finger. His performance was received with reiterated peals of applause, and he repeated the concluding movement of the piece. Lindpaintner's popular song, " The Standard Bearer," was effectively sung by Mr. Leffler; and Mn. Newton received great applause for her neat execution in Bishop's, " Lo, here the gentle lark," a mere string of din. aiona, roulades, and trills, as unmeaning as any solfeggio in a b-ok of exercises. A " grand dramatic scene," called " St. Agnes's Eve," was sung by Mr. Sims Reeves. The bill stated teat this work had been composed by Alary, expressly for Mr. Reeves, and could not be sung i n p u bli c without has permission. Apparently . he will have little trouble in de fending his exclusive privilege ; for it is not likely that any body will be tempted to infringe it. The remainder of the concert consisted of another piam,forte fantasia by l nelterg, and a number of ballads. There were, "0, Num', and "The Bay of Biscay," by Reeve , Thelsdsof te; %dime " by Leffler, and several other things of a similar eeeeription ; all applauded to the echo, and most of them encored. Th e hall was well filled, but by no means so crowded as we ex pected it would have been, considering the quality and the terms of the entertainment. irbe iama. HATMARKET.—Mr. Bourcicault's new c - anedietta, " The Knight of Area," has met with complete success, and not undeservedly, for although there is nothing alto gether original in the plot, its treatment is agreeable enough, while the piece is capitally acted and very hands mely pat on the stage. The hero is a soldier of fortune, who has rea lised more honour than profit in the eervice of Charles of Burgundy, the profit, indeed, wholly resllving itself into anything he may get by the honour of having been named Knight of Area, This chevalier, alike sans pear et sans repeat-he and sans 40141 et saws WWI, tolls in, at an it.n of Catalonia, with the Princess Mariana, the just ace. ded sove reign of that duchy, who is making a royal progress, in com pany with her minister, Don I.neger - Valpone, and her dame of honour, the Baroness Backranutern, who, between them, have hitherto kept the youthful princess in very tight leading strings. Toe IGught of Arvo being a hand some young fellow, and. consequently, attractiog the eye of her highness, is, in the lint instance, orderao. out of the country by the jealous minister, but almost in the same breath entreated to remain on the most issour.,4le terms. The exp:anation of this is, that the knight having just before killed a c.,uple of brigands, who themselves had just before killed • traveller, finds on -he body ot the latter a despatch addressed to Don Diego Valrone, which turns out to be a missive from the King 01 England, authenticating the bearer os Ms confidential agent in the negotiation o' a marrisge between the Prince of W.les and the Princess Mariana. Don Diego, of course, take. the bearer to be a knight, anti the kniglr,who is as mystified et rossib!e by the polite atten tioua at the minister, is quite ready to adopt their practizal results, the first of which is his 'eppoit,tntent as knieht-pro teator of the person to her royal highness, in which capacity the minister requests him to urge his suit, se with the utmxt sit/tam. The Knight of Arva, a lltn t e l &Tot perhaps, hove premised, is a gentleman from Ulster, Soda this place at court particularly to his taste; and the Princess, en her part, naturally enough pleased with his chivalrous bearing,bis handsome person, and hie }Etonian fascia Aims, is well content to hear his suit, which he, all unconscious of a mistake, presses on his own account, and which the lady is well content to receive on that footing. The envoys of France and Austria, who are at the ducal court, for the purpose of soliciting the Prinoess's hand for their re spective master's sous, are also so mystified, that they respectively load the Knight of Arers,-.111r7.7,,, , . titles and grand crosses, in order to secure thirndvansale df ,fr . ",,v" ~'.~ i _ . J. 1- ._~ : 1 '7 ::ii .7