The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-18 00:00:00

trwoot. ---- iIyeSTSIC TIII4OItAPH. — At a =Ong of the gegelpoldriardslimaWife. if-Ei mods pep., impromtassts invested emtl patented by =V a l kis brother, is the mods el legesunk= doo m s i s kigegb. Ms istello ses eilegothig if • e in draim; one of the Isaias ran* m at h that any bow ef the *babe* liol be Pebeeled the ewe sip letter at the point et deportees is and this ‘ 1 5 8 6 114 Zy three lies wires. It appalled evident mos Ms ismtios will east fee greener sad ger ow, eke, this have hitherto been womilsofel as do gore& a eiestris biography lave komg. Mr. Hisktes mis tmood, further, that ha Inds adds Se more elestive and s amurais In 'nosy mama ties beg sees elestro impede medium. He drowikad elks es imprelest imperse swat is the sessmustios ef the eirem. Them was • imp Misedenee to beer the bream TSB ROYAL Enilinol.-13ir —Fearing that an ob. eirestiss made by Vio*Cheacolio; Killen ruce, is the MOM of the judgment delivered yeaser, in the Mee of "Ni Soya Hiatus= Pringle Albert v. Strome," may have a kiebnity (however unintentional oa the part of his Homer) to Toy seriously affect say ettuester, unless es, oast, permit sae to beg you will do use the favour le dirt We letter at year very earliest umvesieses. end I stall feel mey ready obliged by year aseedieg to my The View Cheacellor, with referesem te 61 espies emiy l 7l agsbegas Wag printed, sad the typo * leleg after's, Indus up. made the loilowneg raw* : "That he should also have primed 61 wise, sad (sly 61 copies, and tam %yokes op the type !this last tut not being represented as haven taken plus after the eat, or after any reason wrangle), does seem to me a ambulates of circumstances that so man could hear stated without surprise " It would thee In•pear that the type was broken up as coos so the 51 swiss tad been printed off ; but this was not so. As soon so I and Mr. Judge seentained that the contemplate:. exhibitive was distasteful to the feelings of her Majesty end Prince Albert, we immedietely resolved to abandon the proposed arrangement, and it was then that 1 gave orders to have the type of the catalogs* broken up Trusting you will do me the favour to give is union to this 'intonation, the tenth of which I am in • po sition to prove to the very letter,—l am, dtc., WM. areasoa, 21, Paternoster-row, Jan. 17. Tug GAB QUESTIO2I.-Bv,—la your gaper of to day appears a report of the proceedisp of a meeting of the lahabstants ease ward of frarringdse Without ' s& the gm question, at which Kr. Lowe is mead 111 amnia : At Croedem, a place with a rather IBMs/ number el himblisees, the charge fee every thousand cubit Mt of ens sememt ap dispaile street tamps wee has. Cst foe evert their led; ice list mamma Is shops sad private dwellings, Ss. • • • • . o Theme coessuned at the disunion scathe or Be tr e a t W e a n Rau% esell a sheet itotance down the line hole Mat stalls% lint la. VW per thousand cubic feet, and out of test area wee dednd by the mar lestexer, who bed tarred to upply the (try of bastes at Is. Ild..ff es wee propowed the pipes were laid down by the umminkinere a sewers." My object in adilreming you is simply to slate that either Mr. Lowe or your reporter is in error, as I have never made the offer I am thus represented to have made, having sever taken the subject into 'vivo coesideratioe, much less ex pressed an opinion upon it. I think the quotation of the charges for gas at Croydon is also an error; at least, I am sure they were sot what Mr. Lowe quoted when I re signed my aloe of consulting engineer to the Croydon Oss Coattail is November last. Having borne a prominent part is advocating cheap gas, I shall not, I trust, en thus correcting an error, be inspected of hostility to a movement having for its object the legitimate reduction of an exorbitant charge on that which has not only become in large cities an article of the tint necessity to the higher and middle classes, but whielt his also soiree . as influence on the comforts, health, and morals of the poor. Though lam far from saying that the just rights of property should not always be respected, still 'II flank it behoves us to ascertain that the claims made by the few be net extrarsgsnt, and do not interfere with the welfare of the many, and 1(11 can be satiefec.orily shown that gas ma be made and supplied (with a fair profit nn the nevesary outlay) at a lone, price than the present eotelpiniee are able to furnish It at, we shall be driven to the conclusion either that deo economy in its snannfecture is not observed by them, or that they have interest to pay on capital waste fully expended, and mach larger than is necessary for the purpose, sad in either etre claim to a continuance of their monopoly ought not to be supported.—JOHN Cox, Wisest farturse of gas at the Crest Western Railway Company's works at Swindon, Jan. 13. COWSTT (AMATO itiaTlClL—Sir,—ln your paper of Friday there is a letter written by Mr. Hibon, relativo to certain promeoisgs I was under the necessity of taking sgeinst like for a debt incurred by his meets, and which he Mein s•igas eased as imposition, and pleaded that my case was carried through by piirjury and fraud. I feel it • duty to my own character to request your insertion of my defence. Daring the proceedings he swore the coals and fuel were sever on his premises, and in his Liter he states that his servants swore they were never burnt. I clearly and saes hotorily proved the delivery by my servants of the goods upon his premli s. I proved, by the evidence of the party whom Mr. Hibon himself engaged to make up and keep up Mae. that for two months seven fires per day were oustantly kept up. It is true that hi. brother-in-law's wile, whom in his letter to lou he calls his servant, called epos me and paid me the first account, and denied I would send so more until further orders, which request was strictly obeyed until fresh orders came through the foreman of the works, whe had the keys and charge of the premises, and was looked upon, and (as the judge's de eioion proved) was a duly itriteked person. Mr. Hibon should know that the ere was postponed at his own in stance . ho dared me to produce the foreman, or in default claimed a normal. I postponed the case, and the law of coen'y courts compels all plaintiffs to pay the expenses et proceedings previously to the proceedings taking place ; and upon the verdict being gives in the plaintiff hi favour, de fendast has to refund ihe sot of such proceedings. He surely cannot cavil at his own deeds.—Juare TAOO, Coal Merchant, and Waterman to the Queens—East Meuhey, Jan. 14. FRXMI PORK FROM ANIIIRICA. -Th. Niagara, from Bosom, brought this ties.', as part of her serge, ewe hundred mosses of fresh pork from America. They were preserved in lee sad were is fresh and euellent condition. On Thursday they were sold in Liverpool by auction, end brought trom 32a. 6d. to 335. Id. per 120Iba This is the first importation of the kind from the Staten. But; EAT, YEATERDAr. ALLZORD ARROX.—He. 1 lore Mr. W. Pays*, at the Old Sward and Buckler, Ben moadserstireet, into the cause al a fire which broke out on Moakley morales kart is the house of Mr. Wm Snaked, in the above .teat—T. Tate, police•constable, said that on Monday morning Let, at about half-past two o'clock, se be was on duty in Busiondsey•street, he discovered the house, Ns. 16, to be on are. Knowing that there were from 30 to 40 persons. children awl all, living in the house, be entered it by a side &or, which was always kept rpm for the accont• Incitation of the lodging, and having sprung his rattle, and knocked loudly, succeeded In awakening all who lived in the upper port of the house. They came out, and made their e cape in their night deems'. He heard that the landlord and his brother slept in the parlour, and had not bees seen to escape. He knocked at the door, but having no reply, he bunt it open. The parlour was full of smoke, but no one was in the room. The fire was at this time burning in the shop, la &boat two minutes alter he * had knocked et the perkier door he sew Mr. J. Scollard, the brother of the landlord, come frees the beck door out of the yard, with his trowiers, waistcoat, end stockings on, and his coat hanging over his arm. He did sot appear to be acuseerned about the tire •. he went away, and offered so assistant*. There were both smoke sad Ike in the shop, prinsipally at the back, in the wainscot by the staircase. The fire wee soon extinguished. The occupier of the house was Mr. W. Scollard, and the first time he taw him was at about 4 o'clock, after the ire was out. At 3 o'clock witness, accompanied by Mr. Hamilton, engineer, went into the eellar under the shop, gaining minus- Mon through a trap door leading from the back yard. He there saw some wcod, like the staves of butter tube, piled up round a post, which supported the floor of the shop lessee& stay above. There were two similar piles in other parts of the collar, and straw scattered about, but no part was much aright The lire was sour quenched by the engines. As J. Seellud was geisg out of the house through the yard he was searched, and a policy of insurance was knurl on him. J. Se Aka did not make his appearance until a quarter of an hoar after witness had raised the dares.—Elisalieth Hore said that at 10 o'clock the envious night she perceived smoke coming into her room from the shop underneath, and spoke to Mr. &Aka about it, but he said it was only from some wood with which he was lighting the tire.-3. Baldwin, of the fire brigade, gave evidence as to the appearance of the cellar, and said that both fires were separate. There was no connexion between the fire in the shop and that in the cellar. —W. Wilkinson, fireman, said he arrived at the fire at a quarter put three o'clock. There were a number of casks underneath the stairs, and which were partially burnt. When they had extinguished the tire in the shop, and found that smoke issued through the boards from the cotter, they went below, and found what had already been described. — R. Henderson, fireman, corroborated the previous evidence, end added that the shop, which was insured for 3201., con tained very little stock. Indeed, had he net been told by Mr. Stallard that be was a cheeaemonger and egg merchant, he should have returned him es a dueler in empty barrels. All the stock wither found in the shop was three eggs and s Mum abutter, about an inch deep, on the end of • cask.— M. IL Wilson, rierk to the General Insurance Company, said that W. Scollard, the occupier of the hones, was insured in the office for 3201, and since the fire had made a clam for 1751 of which 1 251 . was forbettor. Of course, knowing what they did, the company would not pay the claim—J. Bissell, a lodger in the house, said that immediately the alarm was raised, he went down stairs, and into the parlour occupied by the land lord and his brother, to awaken them, but neither were *here. In five minutes afterwards he saw them both in the yard. The jury returned a verdict that " The house was wilfully set on fire by William and John Soaked." The verdict having been returned, the &WOW asked Kr. Omer ton, the actuary of the office, what step the company in tended to take in the matter.—Mr. Ouhtos : I am not aware that the office will do anything. This inquiry is for the safety of the public. Insurance eompanies do not like ?mutation, but in this cue Ima make no promise.—The Coroner ( with some warmth): I knew what that means, — :hat nothing will be done, and that these MSS will be allowed to escape as in previous cases. If I take the troatie to hold thew investigations, sorely you might amist is puniatiag the auilty parties—Mr. Omikton : We do not like to prosecute, but if an action is rnonOt ageing u for the reeovary of the many, we shell resist, sad Peeve what we know.— The Co ironer: Yes, that's it. As /wag as you have not to pay the money you don't care. I axe sure that by holding these in vestigations I have saved the insurance offices thousands of ivends, and I think it, I will not my disgraceful, but highly reprehensible, that lam not sedated. There is no public prosecutor, and nukes the office doss its duty these men moat esespe.—The inquiry_ then clued, the two men spinet wheat the verdict was hued being left at liberty. IRELAND. THE JUDGMENT ON O'BRIEN AND OTHERS. Dream, .4N. 17. You would never have supposed, from the perfect quiet of our city here, that yesterday the Jadgee of the Queen's Bench were to deliver judgment in the ease of the "Queen against O'Bnen and others." Halts-dome mounted police rode outside on the Q ua opposite the court, and a few constables were about the hall. The Court of Queen's Benc was elemily Wed, the bar mustering very numerously to bear the Judges deliver their decisions seriatim. Whenever in any case of importance Chief Justice Blackburn is to deliver judgment, the court is crowded by the profession, as be has an admirable mode of traversing much ground in little time. Yesterday his judgment was listened to in profound silence, and it was marked by his usual ability. The state prisoners, Messrs. W. S. O'Brien, T. F. Meagher, T. B. *Manus, and Patrick O'Donohoe having been conducted to the side bar, The Chief Justice remarked that in these several causes writs of error had been brought to convictions obtained at a special commission held in the county of Tipperary. He then proceeded to state the grounds upon which those writs of error had been raised, with rupeet to the caption and the appointment of the three judges who presided at the commission, the par ticulars of which have already so often appeared in your columns. He declared that the first objection raised, as to the caption, could not be sustained, and affirmed that be. as the legal depositary of that commission, was bound to say that the judges who presided thre had been rightly and legally appointed to hear and determine, and, therefore, the first objec tion was not valid. The second objection he decided to be *holly insupportable, and he undertook to pronounce his judgment upon the plea of Mr. O'Brien on the question of his right to have notice of trial served ten days before he was called upon to plead, and that copies of the indictment should have been supplied him, with the list of witnesses for the crown endorsed thereon, within the same ten days, before he should be called upon to plead. The laws under which the prisoner in error had been tried were still in force in Ireland, and the acts of 23th of Edward 111., and the acts of 7th and Bth of Wil liam 111., and of Queen Anne, entitled prisoners accused of high treason to have copies of the indict ment ten days before trial ; but these provisions did not apply to Ireland, and the Irish acts, which bore upon the question, enacted that prisoners so charged were entitled to have copies of the indictment only five days before they should be called upon to plead; and therefore on these and several other grounds he declared that the third objection had not been sus tained. The last objection was that named on the oileettteu, as to why the question had not been put to the prisoner why sentence of death and execution should not be pronounced upon him, which the learned judge also declared to be unsustainable. Judgeeramp ton next delivered judgment, and proceeded to review the same grounds gone over by the Chief Justice, on each and all of which he declared himself of the same opinion, and pronounced it as his opinion that the writ of error in all its bearings should be dis allowed. Judges Perrin and Moore followed, agree ing in opinion with the preceding judges. The court were unanimous in overruling the errors as signed, and confirming the judgment of the court below. This is a fair abstract of the proceedings, which I refrain from reporting at length, being .eaured that your readers have heard too much of the matter already to feel any desire to wade through three columns of technical law. Neither does the matter rest here. The cause has yet to come on in the House of Lords on a writ of error. Mr. John O'Connell has, if possible, plunged deeper into the mire. He has now written a most abject apology to the "state prisoners" for the terms of contumely which he applied to them in a recent lengthy letter. lie might rately plead in mitigation, that very few people read his letters, or remember them when read. Dein Coll, the parish priest of Newcastle, has written to Sir Edward Blakeney about the conduct of Mr. Dunbar, an officer who marched the soldiers out of chapel, when Dian Coll made an elaborate harangue against the new coilegee, and what he calls "the proselytising schemes of protestants." ACCIDENT ON THE WATENFOIED, W EXFON.Io, AND WICK-' LoW Ratt.way.—An seckleut took place on DI •nd y which nearly pruned fatal to three of the workmen employed in blaring some of the rocks en this line of railway. It ap pears that at Bray Head there were three holes charged with powder, two only of which . aploded. The unfortunate men thinking all had been discharged returned to their work, when the third hole went off blowing the men in different directions. One pour tallow, the tither of a large family. was blown about seven perches off, anal fell abort thirty feet down the precipios to the brink of the sea. It is not ex pected he can recover. The other men are net seriously injured. SCOTLAND. whim he left his Wiling% about the mast this, sided le the sermat gigi that he would not re test. eaWb ineening. This stench Ae girl as Wag some- I Bing singsler, and the siterwards saantiesed the circus elms to bar MAW • bat Wylie, lints; been rather irregular is his habits of late, it did not wake say particular impression an his Edna. Oa Satur day, however, Mr. Gilchrist celled at Dr. Hopkins's to inquire die his clerk, he that . maning having received a letter, signed " Sossatervill ,e but without a date, intimating hat Ms friend Wylie lad received as sod dent—sprained his ankle, or s o m ething of that kind—os the writer's stair, bet that he would be able to be at the bank on Saturday evening in time to have the busks balanced for the beak ea Monday. The receipt of the letter, combined with the aorrimeit m to Dr. Dookless's servant, whoa Wylie left ea the morning, excited a suspicion that something might wrong, and on Mr. (Maria going to the bank he found that a tin boa, pieced is the sate on Thursday night, had bees rifled of its contents, to the amount of between 7001 sad 800'. The money taken away cosset@ of Bank of Licked sews for 61., 101., and 201. ; sail gold to the amount of 1001. It r also summed that he way have notes with him of the British Lines Company's Bank, and that he may have ere or more associates with hies. Inniscrnou. JAN. 16 The cause of financial reform is quietly but steadily advancing. The questicn could not be fought on better ground than in Scotland, we have no lord lieutenant, or governor, a vessel of war is scarcely ever seen on our coasts ; we have only a handful of artillery and cavalry, and even of infantry, putting all the stations together, we rarely have more than a complete regiment in the whole country. The prac ticability of doing away with many of the expensive establishments complained of by Mr. Cobden and his friends, is, therefore, clearly exemplified, and as we contrive to be peaceable and industrious at little cost, we do not see how other places should not be the same. Mr. *Gregor calculates that of the revenue collected in Scotland, three-fourths finds its way to the imperial exchequer, while only one-fourth is ex pended for purely national. Ireland, he says, costs from ree to four millions more per annum than she is worth to Britain. It is understood that the Lord Advocate intends introducing, next session, a general sanitary measure for Scotland. The ravages of cholera, wherever it has made its appearance, has impressed a wholesome dread, and raised a general opinion here that a good health of towns bill would, it brought on at once, excite little opp. sition ; bat if allowed to lie over for some time, the recollections of the scourge will be so weakened, that clans interests will assert their influ ence as potently as ever. It is also understood that his lordship will introduce a measure for the uniform regulation in Scotland of the hours for public-houses. The clause of the Edinburgh police act, providing for the closing of ale-houses at eleven in the evening, has been attended with good results, and will, in all probability, be made general. Decided symptoms of revived trade are reported from Glasgow and Aberdeen, and bating the preva knee of cholera and typhus, there are general indica tions over the whole country of increased employment and prosperity. At Greenock, the customs for IMO exceeced those of 1847 by 29,9011. In Glasgow, the brandy entered during November and December, 1848, exceeded the quantity of the corresponding months in 1847 by 5,468 gallons. The Anti-Oath Association is pushing its came vigorously in Edinburgh and its neighbourhood. The parliamentary petitions hay , teceived 1,200 signa tures in Edinburgh, and have been very generally signed in Leith, Musselburgh, and Dalkeith. A quantity of base copper money has been issued at Glasgow. The punishment for this currency offence is seven years' transportation, and the authorities are to issue a proclamation intimating the penalty, with a view to deter the vendors from farther roguery. A worth of the illegal coinage costa lls. 6d. Fly. lICNDRED FORMAI 111TOLRA THOM THU UNION BARR, OLAIOOW.-04 Saturday forenoon, • very daring act of theft was perpetrated in the Union Bank. Shortly before that time, it 'ppm, that D. Campbell, the porter of the establishment, bad been sent to the Clydesdale Bank to payment of • bill for 5001., which he received, the mousy consisting of five 1001. notes of the Clydesdale Banking Com pany. Oa returning to the bank with the money, he went into a side•roons, and, after enclosing the notes in a passbook, he wen: into the principal room, and threw the book across the counter to Mr. M'Arthur, an of the tellen,who was at the time natively engaged with some other business ; 10 or 15 minutes an said to have elapsed from tie time of the pus-book being thrown apes the counter until it was taken up by the teller, when, singular to relate, the pun-book eau found to contain no money of any description. It is supposed that the notes mast have been dropped from the pass-book before it was thrown upon the counter, but the porter hu no doubt what ever that they went safely out of his hands. Whether the notes were picked up from the doer, or abstracted from tie book while upon the counter, mast rennin, in the meantime, • gunny. There were • great number of persons in the bank when the money was mimed. BANK CLARK ARSCONDID WITH RETRAIN 7001. AND 9001 —ln the village of Carluke, LanalSibire, there has been for a number of years past a branch of the British Linea Company's Bank. The menage? is Mr. J. Gilchrist, of Oilioet, and for some time past he has had for his assistant and clerk•• yosuag man, named Robert Wlie, from Edin burgh. Wylie lodged in the house of Dr. Baokless, and on THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1849. to will last as hog as the language. But i t= defects of many of these compost ions as phi criticisms, only make them the more abound in that display of individual taste, and that vehemence of personal predilection, the study of which is such an invaluable aid to the historian of literature. The absence of any paramount code Co: sistin, in criti cism or philosophy, gave unlimited scope to the fine fancies, the subtle analysis, the protiond reflections, the over-reined distinctions, instruetive even when pushed to the very verge, or sheer over the precipice of erne., in which Coleridge, Hsslitt, Utah, Wilson, Hunt, and though last, not least, 'Ando', de li g hted to indulge. The criticisms of Jeffrey and Cam pbell are of a soberer, more practical oast; whhhillle those of Macaulay and Carlyle, men of a younger generation, have a cosmopolitan range and rich ness of historical illustration, which comes aptly in to correct the error, abate the local prejudices, and moderate the extreme opinions,to which the logicians of the school of Jeffrey and the idealists of the school of Coleridge had with equal rashness committed them selves. Altogether it would be dillicalt to imagine richer or more suggestive materials for the literary historian than are accumulated in the productions of the writers above-named • and of a few others, per haps, the paucity of whose labours, or the want of individuality in whose speculations, has made their names less familiar to the world. - -- The great difficulty for - the literary historian in such a ease is to use his materials with sufficient moderation ; rather stimulating by their sugges tion. his own powers of appreciation, than adopting whole sale, or apportioning piecemeal, any of their opinions. In this respect, the absence from a library of reference, of which Mr. Shaw complains, and by which he ex cuses some trifling erroes of dates and facts which occur in his work, was possibly on the whole of special service to him. Sufficiently familiar with the best speculations of English and German critics, he has not been overlaid ;by them, or deterred from giving forcible expression to his own tastes and feelings. He has evidently • hearty literary appetite, u well as a discriminating palate ; and be commends his favourite dainties to the taste of his readers with an earnest- ness and a gusto which we do not often meet with in works of such an elementary character. This is obviously a rfreat recommendation in a work in tended as a guide and stimulus to the young in the study and appreciation of a manly literature. We may not always coincide with Mr. Shaw's judgments. We could point out not a few instances in which, in our opinion, he has been hasty and unjust. The fo reign audience, too, for whom his work was com posed, compelled him to notice some writers of tem porary and merely fashionable celebrity, whom writ ing in England and for an English audience, we trust he would have had the good taste and discrimination to over altogether. His partialities lead him Irwin to devote to the praise, rather than to the critical ezamination,of some favourite authors, a space which the narrow limits of Es work can ill afford. But, on the whole, his predi lections are mar ly and wholesome. He is not afraid —as many a mealy-mouthed precision, writing a book in England with the same purpose, would have been —cordially to dilate upon the merits of Fielding and Smollett. Nor is the Held of his sympathies a narrow one : Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, Shakspeare, Hooker, Bacon, Milton, Clarendon, Jeremy Tavlor, Dryden, and Pope, are all dear to him, and their most striking, as well as most opposite merits, set forth with a warmth and sincerity which are calculated to bars the best effects in a work intended for college mm. The principal events of their lives are likewise re counted, and the connexion between their productions aid the general characteristics of the age in which they lived, is not forgotten. So that, on the whole, we are bound to say that the inexperienced reader will find in this volume an intelligent and trust worthy guide to the selection and profitable perusal of the most valuable works of our greatest authors. It is difficult to make selections from a work of this nature containing sufficient novelty to warrant our presenting them to our readers. The following pas sages from Mr. S , aw's character of Ben Jonson will afford a fair specimen of the discriminating spirit, as well as the warm and lively, bat rather florid, style, in which the work is written : The peculiar excelenee of this great writer lay in the re presentation of the weaknesses sad aff. nations of common and domestic life —in the delineation of what were then called the " humours," a word which may be explained to mean those innate and peculiar di toetions and deformities of moral physiognomy with which nature has stamped the cha racter of individual, in every highly artificial and civilised state of society, and which are afterwards exaggerated and reodered inveterate by vanity and affectation. In delineating these obliquities of character, Jonson proceeded philosophi cally, we may even say scientifically: he appears to have carefully end minutely anatomised the follies and foibles of humanity, and to have accumulated in his comic and satiric pictures (tor his comedy is of the satiric kind) every trait end little stroke of the peculiar folly in question, with a most (*newsman skill and industry ; frequently cncentrating in one chancier not only all the moral phenomena which his own vast and accurate observation could supply, aided as that was by a systematic and elaborate classification, but, often exhausting all the touches lift us in the morel portraits of the historians and satirists of antiquity. • • • • The language of this great dramatist is in the highest degree vigorous, picturesque, and lively ; it possesses, it is true, little or none of that sweet and glowing oarmony, that living and transparent grace, which makes the golden verses of our Bhakepear• absolutely superior to the far-famed diction of the Greek poets; but it is an admirably strong and flexible medium for his acne and masterly exhibition of character; and though in general not much elevated above the level of weighty and powerful pram, sometimes rises to a consider able pitch of rhetorical splendour. It must be confessed that Jonson wants that deep sympathy with human nature which is the true source of grace of language, as it is of tenderness of thought ; but there is often to be found in him a gallant bravery of language, a splendour of imagery recalling to us the dusky glow of his great prototype, J I, with whose pains the literary character of bonson has many points of resemblance. Both writers describe the follies of their kind in a contemptuous and sarcastic spirit, and their crimes with a powerful, but somewhat too declamatory invective ; and both appear to have bad less sympathy with virtee than detestation of vice : they were both, too, inclined to treat with indifference, if not with contempt, the virtues and grams of the female character—a sure sign of hardness s 1 Rind. • • • • In spite of his faults, both as a man and as an author— his arrogance, his intemperance, his sanest* and sometimes coarse, humour, his pedantry, and his pride —we must ever hold him to have been a great and a good man •, grateful, generous, valiant, free-spoken, with something of the old Roman spirit in him, a mighty artist, and a man of gigantic and cultivated genius ; and we may reverently echo the beautiful words of the epitaph which long ! remained inscribed upon his grave—" 0 rare Ben Joann. The whole sketch, of which the above are only detached fragments, is highly creditable to Mr. Shaw's abilities. The characters of Chaucer, Spenser, Shak swore, Milton, Hooker, and several others, might be pointed out as written with equal judgment and greater geniality. We are less satisfied with Mr. Shaw's decisions when we come down to more modern writers, some of whom we think he greatly over estimates ; while, as regards others, he has too hastily adopted the prejudices of critics whose authority is less now than it wu twenty years ago. We are also surprised at finding no mention whatever of such a dialogist and critic as Landor, or of such an historian as Thirlwall, rashly indeed, and yet not altogether an warrantably, declared by John Sterling tobe " as greats' Thncydides or Tacitus. Tennyson, too, is barely named, while writers of such unquestionable genius as Carlyle and Robert Browning are not once alluded to. The influence of all these men on their generation has been very considerable ; and it is not the quaint and capri cious form in which some of them have too often embodied their idea, that can justify Mr. Shaw in excluding them altogether from even so cursory a re view of our living writers, as the limits of his volume allowed him to undertake. These, however, are errors and omissions which can be readily repaired is subsequent editions. Meantime, we can cordially recommend the work to all heads of colleges and schools, as well as to parents who are anxious to give a right and healthy direction to the literary tastes of their children. f Sm. MK. STEEL'S EQUOTRLiti STATUE OP THE DIME or WELLINGTON, which ham been rio long in progress, is now, we learn from Edinburgh, in such a state of forward ness, that it may be expected to be set rip on the next Waterloo annireresry. The wort itself does not give pro mise of sock a speedy completion, sad the only thing that gives probability to the on dit is that alterations have been comma n at the Register-office for the reception of the statue; but whether they are premature or not remains to be seen. THE STATUE OF SIR MICHAEL O'IsPrOHLEN) mays oar Dublin correspondent) woe placed on its pedestal on Monday, and obtained much adrairatior,, though it is not exactly what was anticipated. It is a graceful and finely opacity/1d work of art, executed with watch skill and judg ment. The judge is represented in r. sitting posture, and the drapery of his robs falls see* ntly about his person, which is easy in its pose. As a Per.rait the work is not of so much value, as the artist has not acme justice to the intellec tual and loft} brow of Sir Weasel O'Logblen. But then PROVINCIAL ----- ADMIRER TO BOROUOHB ABOUT TO ELECT THEIR RIPPAMITATIVII.—The National Confederation of Liver pool, at their general meeting on Tuesday evening, erne unanimously to the resolution of forwarding adorers to Eloise boroughs who are about to elect their represcuLtivie, sum/noir of the viscosity of electing only those candidates who express desires of introducing reforms int* the present system of government, more especially a change in the pre sent way of raising the revenue of the country. Thor who will favor the principle of direct taxation an regarded by the embalmed= r moot eligible. _ ACCIDENT PROM MAMUMRI Y.—An inquest mut held on Thursday, at Sheffield, on • boy, 14 years old, named John Hague, who on the previous day lost his life by a frightful accident at the Cyclops Works, at which establish ment he was employed. The room is which the deceased worked is the eagusahouse, in which the operations of spring.rolliag and steal-cutting are dirtied on. Tne steal cutting machine is a very pt.werful piece of mechanism, capable of clipping in pieces lengths of steel five-eighths of an inch thick and four inches in breadth. The great power requisite for the operation is gained y means of a multiplicity of cog-wheels. To • person unused to such mac hinery it presents, when in motion, a very formidable aspect. It was by this machine that the unfortunate boy came to his death Oa Wednesday. the deceased and some other boys , taking advantage of the absence of the foreman, gave way to a youthful love of frolic, and in the course of their gambols repeatedly put out the gsalight of one of the workmen named Hawcroft. The man bore the annoyance for a length of time with patience. He was unable to ascertain exactly which of the boys was at fault, but about three o'clock he was informed that llmue, the deceased, was the offender. Hewett* was empl iyed at • punching cambia', which stands opposite to the fatal cutting machine. While sitting on a low seat at the ma chine Hague walked up to him to clear himself from the accusation, and stood between the two machines. Haw croft, b.lieviog H 'gulp to be the delinquent, suddenly sprung up and made a dart at the boy, probab.y is. tending to chastise him. Hague, in his haste to iscaps, stepped backwards, and ran with his heels against some long bars of steel that were lying on the floor in front of the cutting machine. He was tripped up, and fell backwards with his head against the cog-wheels, one of which was re volving at the rate of 120 revolutions in a minute. His head and the upper part of his person were instantly drawn in amongst the cog-wheels. and ground throush a space not more than three or four inches in width. His death must have been instantaneous, for he was not heard to utter the slightest sound. Toe body became so firmly wedged between the wheels, that the whole machine was stopped, and the mangled limbs could not be extricated till the machine was taken to pieces. Several of the workmen were to shocked by the sight as to be unable to render any assistanee.—The jury agreed to a verdict of " Accidental death." I _ _ _ STAITORDSHIRL . THE VACANCY IN THE REPRESENTATION.—Up to last evening no candidate had been announced to succeed Lord Ingest►e in the representation of this county. WARWICKSHIRE. ..... EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY AT But- UlSOKAY.—Teaterday, at the public also at Birmingham, two men, named 'sync Jacobs, a hawker, and Thos. Beech, were brought no under the following circumstances • Mr. F. Webb, jeweller, of Hockley, stated that on the 10th insL he sent his sbopboy, named John Horton, with a case of j. wel lery, consistine. of Feld brooches, shirt-pins, studs, and brace lets, of the value of between 601. and 601, to take to his (Mr Webb's) house, but on arriving home he found the ease had not been delivered.—John Horton, the prosecutor's shopboy, was called, and stated that he had received, on the night in question, a parcel from his muter to take to his house. As he was going aloes the street he was met by a young man near St. Paul's square. The man asked him if he was out of work, and where he worked. He told the man he worked for Mr. Webb, on which the man said, " I know him very well" The man then asked witness he w muck he got from Mr. Webb, and he espied, "Two shillings a week," when the man said. " All the boys at my shop nave 4.. 6d. a week • my shop is in Great Charles street. and if you have a Mind to work for me, I will give you fle. a week, and a pair of shoes every two months for ruooieg errands." Witness asked the man what he worked and he answered that it was guard chain making for watches. and that he would come to witness's mother on the following Sunday, and ask her if she would let him work for him. The man then wished witness to go with him and see the kind of work he bad for hint to do, when they went up an entry, and a. they were going up, the man said to him, " They will he after asking you all m-ans rof questions about the parcel," on which witness asked him if he would take care of the parcel while he went up to see the work in the shop. The man said be would do so, and that he would stay at the bottom of the entry. Witness then gave him the parer!, and he said he would stay there till he came back again. The man told him to ask for a certain pencils in the shop, but when he went to inquire for the person, he was told there was no such person. He then came back, and found the man was gone. The witness identified the prisoner Beech.—Polica• man Tandy, after producing a number of brooches and two pair of bracelvta,stated that on Friday night he apprehended the prisoner Jacobs at the Half-moon Inn, Dudley street. and, on searching him, found upon him a pair of bracelets and a large brooch in a case, those now produced.—The pri soners were committed for trial. LITERATURE. Outlaws of Enyl44 Literature. By Tnostas B. &taw, 8.A., Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum of St. Petersburg. London, 1819. Of all the achievements of the English people, their literature is the one of which, everything considered, they have most reason to be vain. And yet, how much soever they may prize and cherish it at home it is, perhaps, the one whose triumphs abroad they re gard with the greatest indifference. For we are a proud rather than a vain people. Our love of approba tion is less largely developed than our self-will and self-esteem. We care more for power than for eclat, and mo long as we retain a firm grasp of the material mainsprings by which the world is moved, the extent of our purely spiritual influence will be of very little moment to us. The piles of English goods displayed in a foreign warehouse, the bristling of English can non on a Spanish or Italian rock, the puffing of an English locomotive along a French or German rail way, are more flattering to the self-love of ninety nine out of a hundred Englishmen than the greatest of the recorded triumphs which the literature of their country has won in every part of Europe. Entirely in accordance with the nonchalance with which we regard our literary reputation abroad, was the non-existence in our language of any complete and connected history of our vernacular literature, either on an extended or a limited scale. Wanton and Disraeli, than whom no men were ever better qualified for the task, commenced their work too late in life to have had any reasonable prospect of com pleting it. With the exception of the noble frag ments of literary history which they have left us, and the chapters in Mr. Ha ll am's work, in which he treats of English writers, our literature contained until very recently not a single work, good, bad, or indifferent, to which either the curious foreigner, or the inquisitive student at home, coed be re ferred for guidance and information. Of "ele gant extracts " and " specimens," and bril liant detached criticisms there were enough and to spare. But a clear and comprehensive introduction to Ecglish literature was a work which no order of English intellect had felt called on to produce. Al most the first definite attempt to supply this want is the volume now before us; and it is altogether cha racteristic of the national peculiarities to which we have alluded—that its production was reserved for a professor of English literature in the metropolis of Russia. Mr. Shaw's success in a path hitherto nntrodden is highly creditable to him. His book is not only excellent as a first attempt in this direc tion, but even after his example has met with many imitators, may yet retain its rank as a brief and impressive view of the glories of our national literature. Doubtless Mr. Shaw had no ordinary resources to draw upon. The richest mate rials lay matte red at his feet, in the immense quantity of desultory criticism which has been published during the l'Ast forty years. Next to romantic poetry and his* tor'acal fiction, criticism was the sphere in which du, most remarkable writers of the generation now parsing away, most successfully developed their extraordinary powers. The spirit of the age was pre-e, inently critical ; with this disadvantage net.. Was, that it was too much a time of transition fur the great mass of the criticisms produced to have any fled and abiding value as criticism, though, as essays and biographical sketches, some of the writinge alluded is an eau and lightness about the whole Mateo w i t h& to my charming, and the sculptor's genius Yes predated a work tally justifying his high repute. Kr. Wanton is the artist of the O'Loghlen testimonial Tho Mates b o .t o I,:aced in the Hall of Courts, looking towards t h e gi - o - l ' o -- of f oo Ote is the centre of the ball. Only for the depression of the 6maa, • mbeariptio• would be „b i d f„ „ to t" of th e hive ChM( Justice Bubo—mooed to mop of t h e f ootno t e to l o wies of Ireland. The inscrip tion on the O'Loghlen testimonial it not Tor) remarkable for incisive force of language. It ie. however,araPhatiatilY stm via.: " The Bar - of Inds tag to the memory of the Right Honourable Sir likhael o•Logitlen, Bert., Koster of the Rolls. He ems born Oct. 6, 1769. He died Sept. 28, 1842." CLERICAL. sorts. Rev. D. C. Moors, to Neat Walton Ellen C., Norfolk.—&n. G. C. Bailey, to North Peck:mho= C., Nor folk.—Bov. 7. 8. Hall, to Braden= C. Yorkahlro.—Bor. W. H. Haaa, to &moo C., Cornwall.—Bev. T. Mitchell. to Caltddld g. Barka, dfo. Oxf. 100 t. • pat., C. E , Etai.-18er. W. Mader, to ha astral Dona la the Dou'ary —Bor. R. 8. Hold, to Cook. am C, eaurea. VACANCLES.--Botheithauptos, Dorset, dio. Salisbury . ; 461. ; pat., Mr H. IL Noma, Bart.; A. Mom, deo.--GriMu4 musty and die. Took ; 671. ; pat., T. th eme, Pao.; 0. Smith, dec. NAVAL DIVOWPOIM, Jars. 18.—Tbo PAM*, French brig of war, anchored in the row yesterday. It wayward bound from the West Indies, end this morabgralotod the log of as soramander-inatilef end We citadel-7U Growls ealsmander, ].Wes, and Abelian, manned times hem the duityard, are awawal to this port from to form pet of thy Weans swerve. The Brim, fit, Com. Jaitoioa, will eeereepeny them, to take their crews beck to Parts month. ACCIDINT to TX' bilDrak.—The India snail, which left London as the evening of the ado, only reached Manefiles m 1211 i of ha. The mail woo immediately put on bond the Madre. Com. Bathurst. Ms wind blowing strongly from the N.M., the steamer could not pc under weigh bare rea, the wind blowing almost a hurricane. Trying I. round she point of the harbour, the wind saupt the mouser on her how, and prevented her from =mewing herLelm. Pereeiving that she could not weather the point, the ono sunder ordered the mimes to be stopped and the anchors let go. On swinging to the wind, the steamer took the pound shaft. Ihe French mow& immediately mot their baste, and gave every maistance int . :Wier. Owing to • mud pound, the Medina has not injury, and was got oin tem then two hours. ILLLI'fAItY. RBOININTS TOR SERVICE IN INDlA.—ArrericZen eu tt had been made that the 96 th regiment, which left Van 's Lad In July, 1648, foe Calcutta, should relieve the 19th Royal Irialt regiment, which would thus have arrived in this country dorine this yaw . Affairs In loth I have, however, caused this arrangement to be net aside, and therefore the lath ranee be expected in this country before 1630. if even then it can be spared from the Bengal poorer,. —The head-quarters divides of the 61th regiment embarked het with at Cork, an board the Java for Bombay, and the head-quarters ce the 63rd embarked on board the Bombay, tor Bombay, but the weather has been so unfavourable rto delay these ships, ea weD as the others haring on b ard the detachl.enta of these regimente, from nailing for their destinaties.-71te hemd-quartets of the 70th air embarked at Ootk, on board the Earl of Dalhousie, last week, for Bengal. SPORTING. BETTING AT MANCIIITER-TmDAy. DERBT.-9 to 2 Ihtit Fl)ing putehosan (offers to take), 7 to I apt Tadaeor, IS to I apt Hooeycomb (t), X) to I apt Oaterley, 25 to I apt Uric) (V, SO to I apt Stronibow (t), 55 to I agst Nanny kirk (offers to take), 50 to I apt Magician (t). CIiESTEIt CLP.—Serreral offers, but nothing done, .atu JinnMaryut EQUITY COUETS.—YESTERDLY. Delors the Lard Chaeoelke. .. DICKSON T. THE Ql/111IN7 2. PiTITION --• Or DAOHT.—The Lord Chancellor, attt-r takitg his seat, addressing Mr. Dick • son, said he had read his petition and the papers • ant to him with it; but, finding that there is another case pendisg upon a petition of right, he would dispose of them both together . But it might be convenient to Mr. Dickson, being about to return to Dublin, toknow that he (the Lord Chancellor) would not encourage any further proceodings at law or in equity in respect of the sum of 16s. 61d. He thought it right to say so much at present, in order that Mr. Dickson might know the !mule of his ease be.ore his return to Dublin.— Mr. Dickson thanked his lordship. WARM: r. Wisteria —Mr. Stuart supported a new peti tion presented by Mrs. Wards, com:hainolg of the treatment of the younger children who remained in the custody of Mr. Warde. The eldest girl, who was six years of age, had no governess or companion suitab:e to her age and position, but was obliged to associate at meals and in her walks and drives with a young woman who hnd been housemaid at first, but was raised by Mr. Warde to be cook and housekeeper. From some expressions that were heard horn her, and from the lettan of Mr. Warde, his wife w shed it to be inferred that he would go abroad, to avoid the consequences of his lord ship's judgment In the pending petition if it should be against him, and to avoid payment of costa, and that he would take the children out of the jurisdiction. The learned counsel read numerous extrncta from letters and from affidavits in support of the petition.—The Lord Chan cellor said that although he postpone/ his judgment upon the petition heard by him in the private room, in hopes that these parties might come to an arrangement, he never had any doubt of the order he should make. As now there was no prospect of a reconciliation, he would give his judgment en the whole case next Saturday. And now on this petition he would at once make an order to restrain Mr. Warde from taking the children out of the jurisdiction.—[We üb.tain from mention ing the charges contained in the passages read by counsel against Mr. Ward., as he was not represented by counsel, though he was served with the petition last Monday.] LORD BROOKS V. LORD AND LADY WARWICK AND OTISSIS.—WILL CONSTRUCTION —This WY an appeal from • decree of Vice-Chancelfir Knight Bnim, made upon fur ther directions in a suit instituted for administration of the 'stater/ the late Lord Monson. He died in 1841, and by his will made in that year he devised his estates at Hatton, in the county of Surrey, to trustees to the use of his mother, the Countess of Warwick, for life, remainder to We present Lord Monson and his issue, in strict settlement, " nerd and dis charged from all hie debts, annuities, legacies, and bequests." The will contained six consecutive specific bequests of differ ent chattels, including jai eels and ornaments of various kinds, each bequest " freed and discharged, as aforesaid," from debts, annuities, legacies, and other charges. The testator then directed his debts, funeral and testamentary expenses, to be paid out of property and incomes named by him, and after various directions to his trustees and executers, and legacies and annuities to servants and others, the testator gave and bequeathed, " freed and discharged from all his debts and liabilities, and the legacies before bequeathed, and the duties payable on such legacies and annuities, all the rest and resi due of his personal estate whatsoever," to Lord Brooke, his executors and administrators, for his end their absolute use ; and he appointed Lord Brooke and another his execu tors. The portion of the personal estate which was directed to be applied to the payment of the testator's debts and lia bilities was deficient so far on'y as regarded a mortgage on the Getting estates; all other debts and charges being paid. The main object of the suit, which was of a friendly nature, was to ascertain out of what fund the mortgage debt should be paid. The Vice-Chancellor held that the residue should be applied to the payment of it —Mr. Bacon and Mr. Shad well, foe Lord Brooke, the residuary legatee and appellant, ' contended that the residue was, by reason of the words "freed and discharged from all debts," 80., made a specific legacy as much as the six expressly specific legacies which preceded it. The residue did not exceed '3,0001. in value, and the mortgage debt unpaid was 21,5001., so that, if that debt was not to be paid out of the Hatton estatee, on which it was charged, the specific legacies should all be made to contri bute to its payment. According to the Vice-Chancellor's construction, Lord Brooke, ac residuary legatee, would take nothing under the will, altheu‘h the residue was in its terms as specific a gift, though the articles in it were not named, as any of the other specific legacies.—Mr. Koe and Mr. De Hex, for Lord and Lady Warwick, argued to the same effect as the appellant's coons I, although their clients did not join in the appeal, and it would be against their in terest to have the mortgage continued a charge on the Hatton estates or paid out of the specific legacies, some of which were given to Lady Warwick. To an objection taken by Mr. J. Parker to the bearing of Lady Warwick's counsel at all under the circumstances, they cited a cue from 1 P. Wms., 300, and they were heard. — Mr. Parker and Mr. Ores sh for the present Lord Monson and others entitled in remainder to the Gatton estates, sup igrtthe Vice-Chancellor's decree.—Mr. Bacon replied._ ord Chancellor said he would give his judgment in the morning. He did not postpone it from any difficulty that he saw in the case ; but as the will was very long he wished for the greaer caution to read it. PRINCE /ALBERT O. BTRANOE.—THz ROYAL ETCHLNOS —Mr. Bolt applied to have a day fixed for hearing an appeal motion to dissolve the injunction, which has been continued by Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce in this case. (See the judgment in the Ez,press of Jan. 17.) —Thursday, Jas. 25. was appointed. BATTEBHALL O. BISHOP OP WINCHRSTRIL—TiIiS appeal from a decision of the Vice-Chancellor of England, in a ' question respecting the granting of lessee by the defendant, ' was opened, but the parties settled it.—The Lord Chancellor having no other case before him, roes soon after two o'clock. Jas.l6.—Dsbre the ViesChamonix °Malan& SOMME V. BOOTIIIIT.--BILL TO SET ASIDE CONVEY ANCE ON MI GROUND OP FRAUD AND INADEQUACY OP raicn.—This suit wee instituted for the purpose of setting aside a conveyance of a reversionary interest in an estate upon the ground of alleged fraud and inadequacy of price. It appeared that William Blothby by his will, dated the 22d of December, 1821, devised certain property at Kirming ton, in Linoobishire, to his wife for life, and then to his son Christopher for life, and after his death to his children in manner therein mentioned, and in default of such children they to his own right heirs for ever. Upon the death of the testator's wife Christopher Boothby entered into posression of the Witte. Christopher Boothby was a married man, hut had had no children ; his age in June, 1843, was 48, and his wile was 60. At this period an instrument was esecuted by which C. Boothby purchased from his brother Wm. Boothby, who was the next heir to the estate, his reversion therein for the sum of 201., and then devised the estate to his wife, the defendant in the snit. After this W . Boothbv, the brother, died, having, by his will, devised all his property to the plaintiffs, who now endeavoured to set side the convey ance by William to Christepher Boothby. Evidence was produced, on behalf of the plannifis, to show that W. Boothby, at the time of executing such conveyance, was igtio rant of the nature of the deed, that he was in a state of in- tozication at the time, that no professional person was em ployed in transacting the business, that W. Boothby was unable to write without having his hand guided, and that, the sum of 201. was a most inadequate cries for the property. —On the part of the defendant this evidence was entire ly contradicted, and it was shown that W. Beothby was per. featly competent to understand the nature of the instrument, which had bean prepared for the purpose of carrying, out a previous agrtemeat, that the deed was signed by him with his mark at twelve o'clock la the day before he bad drunk any spirits whatever, and that the sum of 201. wu not lees than the Yalu dike intense sold. It wu impossible to compute what would be the value of such an estate. It bed been valued at 7,00 W., but the tenant for life had himself erected houses on the estate to the value of 4001., which he might have pulled down and although he was married to a woman who was not day to hue children, still his wife might ham died before him and he might have married agiun and had children, which would have entirely detested the ht of his brother.—Mr. Bothell and Mr. Heider ap. for the plaintiff and Mr. J. Parker and Mr. Blonley or the defendant.—The Vice-Chancellor said there was no actual evidence to show what was the real value of the re 'anion sold by William to Christopher Boothby. It would have been very difficult to have given any fixed value to such an interest, which depended upon the fact of the tenant for life not having children by his then existing or any future wife. It appeared that certain buildings had been erected by the taunt for life with money which had belonged to his wife, but these buildings were entirely in his power ; and as he was unitneecohable for waste he might have taken them down and carried away the ma terials. It did not appear to him that there was any evi dence to show that William Boothby had been ignorant of what be was about, but, on the contrary, the deed was exe cuted for the purpose of carrying out a previous agreement entered into respecting the sale of the property, and it was fully explained to him. Neither did the evidence prove that he was intoxicated when he signed the deed, although after wards it wu clear that he did take more liquor than was good for him. Under these eircusetancte there was no ground for the court to interfere, and he should therefore dismiss the bill with costs. Bike, ViesChalmette, Knight Brune. ER PARTS ANCIAN, all MONTH OF ENGLAND JOINT STOCK BANKING COIITANY.—CONTRIBUTORT TO COM PANT.—Tbis was an appeal), way of motion from the deci sion of the master, who undet the clauses of the Joint-Stock Companies Winding up Act, had included among " con tributories" the husband of a shareholder, who had purchased shores out of her a pirate estate. The husband had received the dividends out his wife's behalt—Mr. Russell and Mr. Terrell supported the motion, and Mr. Baton, Mr. Lloyd, ' and Mr. HtIISJIMMII, opposed it.—Ths Vice-Chancellor held that 'sibs company knew the nature of the property out of which the purchase was mad*, they could not call on the husband to contribute. Be PARTE HAWTWORN, WI THE SAME MATTEL—This was • similar appeal, the party hand to be • contributory in this cue having ceased to be a shareholder, hut not so long ago as the three years prescribed by the 7 Geo. IV. c. 46, s. 13, for the continuance of the liability of former shareholders.—Mr. Russell and Mr. Bates were for the motion, and Mr. Bacon, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Ileadlam, in support of the master's decision.—The Vice• Chancellor con firmed the finding, holding the late shart-holders to come within the third section of the Joint,Stock Companies Wind ing-up Act, which includes among contributories persons liable to contribute as former members. Ex PART'S AIIMmTHONO, IN THE /AMR MATTER —The ap pellant in this case was an executor who had received divi- aends on his testator's shares, but was not registered in his own name.—Mr. Russell and Mr. Piggott supported the motion, which was opposed by Mr. Bacon, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Readlam. —The Vice-Chancellor held that the executor was not a " contributory." Ex PARTS JOHNSON V. BVLMER.—SURNTT. - This was a petition seeking to have the benefit of a proof, which had been made against the crates of the principal debtors, and the sureties upon bills of •:change. The estate of the sureties had paid a dividend, which with what had been received from the estate of the principal, amounted to 20.. in the pounC.—Mr. Russell and Mr. Pryor supported the petition, and Mr. Wigram and Mr. Cloldemid for the respondents, contended that at all events the petitioners were only entitled to stand in the place of the creditor, as to so much of the amount proved as was equal to the dividend paid by their estate.—The Vice-Chancellor, however, held that they were entitled to receive the dividends until they acre fully repaid the dividends paid by their bankrupt's estate. COURT OF QUERN'S BENCH.—YgorEKDAY. Sinter, in Banco. OSTERMAN T. BATSMAN.—FALSE IMPHISONSOINT.—This was au action tried at the sittings atter last term, bo fore Mr. Justice Erie, for assault and false imprisonment, arising out of en attempt to carry into effect an order made by the Court of Aldermen for stopping up Angel-slier, in Bishorgate street. An obstructive boarding haying been erected near the defendant's property, the plaintiff and some other per sons in the neighbourhood gave notice of their intention to pull it down, and thus vindicate the right of Yoe public to the thoroughfare. They accordingly 'prceeded to carry out their purpose, when the defendant, it was al leged, ordered the plaintiff to be taken into custody, charging him with committing a riot, in COMA,- queuce of which he was imprisoned fur several slays in the absence of bail. Au indictment wee also preferred auinst him at the Central Criminal Court, but was subse quently abandoned. The defence was, that the defendant had had nothing whatever to do with the proceedings, and had not given the plaintiff into custody, the police having taken that step on their own responsibility, and Mr. Alder man Copelend (the alderman of theward) having directed the sub.equent prosecution ; the jury found for the plain tiff—damages 2001.—Mr. Oneney, Q.O , now moved for a rale fur a new trial on the ground of the reception of im proper evidence, a certain statement made by the defendant before the magistrate (elicited by questions from a Mr. John ston, a non-practising barrister who appeared for the pl.oin till) having been admitted in evidence upon the trial. The learned gentleman also contended that there was no evi dence whatever to go to the jury.—Rule granted. SAIL. COURT.—Yaterransv. Sittings in Banco—Before ilr.Juniice Wightman. Several motions were made at the sitting of the enurt, some of which were obliged to be withdrawn. owing to an incorrectnees in the dates of the affidavits upon which thry were moved. It was alto intimated that the court w , ol d . . not in future look at the jurat for the purpose of knowing the date of an atlidavit, unless the date was also properly stated in the other part. - - - Nisi hues. VILLTUIL V. PAINTInt.—A QUESTION - OF MALICE.—Mr. Peter Borthwlek and Mr. Simon appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Holligan was counsel for the defendant. This was an action brought by a cab driver against the defendant, to recover compensation in damages for the latter having given him into custody on the 25th of April, 1848, on a charge of felony, and also en the following day having appeared before the magistrate to ;proaecute the charge.—Mr. Borthwick, in stating the case to the jury, said, that on the 2.5 th of April, last year, the plaintiff hired a cab of a Mr. Humphreys, a cab proprietor, for the purpose of fol lowing his occupation. He took the cab out, but was unfor tunate enough to meet with an accident, by which it became necessary to have a new wheel put upon it. For the purpose of t ffecting that object the plaintiff returned with his horse only to the yard in which Mr. llumphreye resided, and on asking that person's wife what he had better do to get a new wheel, she desired him to harness his horse to a cart which stood in the yard, in order that he might bring the wneel back in it. During the time that the plaintiff was harnessing his horse to the cart, the defendant came into the mews, and demanded of him what he wax doing with the cart, upon which the plaintiff desired the defendant to mind his own business. The defendant then took off his coat for the purpose of fighting the plaintiff, who however, proved the better man of the two, and compelled the defendant to retire from the contest. A third party who war present sub sequen•ly fetched a policeman, and the defendant pave the plaintiff into custody for attempting to steal the cart, which he alb geld was his property. The constable took the plaintiff to the station house, where he was locked up until the fol lowing morning, the charge aot being a bailable one. The neat day the case was investigated (Afore Mr. Broughton, who, on hearing the whole of the facts, discharged the plaintiff. This action was therefore brought to recover com pensation in damages for the injury which the plaiutiff bad sustained at the hands of the defeadant. Evidence was then adduced on behalf of the plaintiff, by which it appeared that he had taken the cart by the direc timi of Mrs. Humphreys, who stated that it was used by various parties in the mews when they required it. The cart actually belonged to a person of the name of Hopton, but was under the care of the defendant. The defendant was told, after he had given the plaintiff ioto custody, that he had taken the cart by the direction of Mrs. Humphreys, but he still persisted in the charge which he made against At the close of the plaintiff's case, Mr. Justice Wightnian observed that he thought there was a reasonable and pro bable cause for the defendant having given the plaintiff into custody. It appeared that at ten o'clock at ni (In the defendant saw a man harnessing a horse to a cart which was under his care, and on demanding of the plaintiff why he did so, he was told that he had no right to ask the question. The defendant was not informed until after he had given the plaintiff into custody that he had taken the cart by Mrs. Humphreys' order. Under these circumstances he (Mr. Justice Wightman) was of opinion that the defendant had a reasonable and probable cause for believing that the plaintiff was about to commit a 'elony. He would ask the jury whether they believed the defendant was actuated by malice in charging the plaintiff with attempting to steel the cart, and if they ',plied in the negative there would be an end of the case. The jury did not return any anawer to this question, but one of them said causedd a verdict for the plaintiff, damages I 01.," which great laughter. Mr. Justice Wightman replied that he did not ask the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiff, but to say whether , they considered there was any malice on the part of the de - I fendant in giving the plaintiff into custody, and in prosecut ing the charge before the magistrate. A great deal of discussion here ensued, during which the counsel for the plaintiff claimed the verdict as having been given in his favour, because, he contended, that the jury had expressed their opinion tha t there was malice by the verdict which they had returned. The Foreman of the jury here said that they had not re turned a verdict, but It was merely the remark of one juror. Mr. Justice Wightman then called upon Mr. Holligan to address the jury on behalf of the defendant, as they had not expressed any opinion as to whether the defendant had been actuated by malice or not. Mr. Halligan very briefly addressed the jury, contending that the defendant had not given the plaintiff into custody front any malicious motive. Mr. Justice Wightman, in summing up, said that for merly in actions for malicious prosecutions it was meal to leave two questions to the jury ; first, whether the defend ant was actuated by malicious motives in giving the plaintiff into custody and, secondly, whether the defendant had any reasonable or probable cause for believing that thitt plaintiff had committed the offence with which be charged him. Now, however, the latter question was opt entir Idle*ttly for the judge. The jury would be goo d enough to an] ~~, . RIVNIPI - .~