The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-08-14 00:00:00

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He really believed that the imposition often was practised ; the rook was sent to town in his snit of blark, there he was picked, pondered, and puffed: and, perbal a. the cockney's sagacity was u able to detect the fraud. He saw no main of c.l u'ating the value of these rooks. however, evert time were, practicable, he trusted that, this being evidently a litigious and vexatious suit, they would give a verdict fur the defendant. Mr. Bayou flea/Mr, in summing op, told the jury it wa a question be believed yet to be decided, whether a rookery could be considered as actionable property. It was for them to eatirnate what damages the plaintiff had sustained Iv having eiiher Isis pleasure or profit abridged by the - act • a the defendant. It was a matter of regret to bins, that a came of this kind had been brought there at a large expense and that gentlemen of their description should have bee% callel from their homes. to decide sack a. qt • i rn. Un qurstfonahlr, a marked motive of malignity was manifest in, then n lint which had been pursued by the defendant; it was unneigulmarly and Improper : bet still the action ap 'peered frivolous, for they errs bad pia grounds given titres whereby to estimate the quantum of lirmagrs. One mode of forming au estimate bad been offered to them—namely, the sale of - young rooks to make pies. It was the first dui he had heard of such a practice; he believed it solociints happened that rooks' eggs were intermixed wit!' plovers' eggs, and sold as at the latter description. Those palates could rot be very delicate, he tiMught, that could eat a rook-pie, under the notion that they were partaking of a pi• g on•pie; it was only a strong stomach: he fancied that would be disposed to encounter such a repast. The only way they could calculate the damages, if they thought it a correct one, would be by considering the number of rooks which had been killed, and then giving the plaint 1f al e ,t it lied been proved the poulterers paid fur them, viz. four shillings per dozen. It was for them, however, to consider if such a mode of estimating the damage was pto per or not. Mr. April/Mt:H.—One witness has prove I that there were 100 nests less this year than 1.1 t; snpro•ing Vier• to l e four young rooks produced from each nest, that would t e 400, at 4s. per dozen. r. WA LFAJ I). —3ly Lord, my friend Mr. Adolphus mali• NO allowance for rotten eggs. The Jury consulted for a few minutes, and then found a valet for the plaintiff—Dan/ages ilia. SAMUEL WOLLASTON, WINE.M , 119; ltitirentpetreot, soar Vito-Tine, has on SACK the goal Old Port, Me. per doses Superior sherry, M. p er oases vread Cape Madeira. (aneqsalled), 16s. per doz. Ono dazes Port, one down Sherry, mod one dozen Cap* Mk deka, bottles and packages Jecinded, will be forwardektt say part of the kingdom on tide receipt of ZA. Also 014 East Tadia Madeira 665. per dozen ; West .India gem. per doz.; ' Tenerife, Mts. per dozen; Bindles. 435. per dee.; Liebda and Mountain, 4.ts. per alozen ; Champagnes of the lineal quality. four guineas per dozen; Claret., St., Julies, 635. per dozen; Gallus sod lAtateau Margeaux., four guineas; Sauterne. Barsac. &c. 795. per dozen ; bolded Ales, 10s. ter doz. All letters post be post paid, and ne credit. Old Crusted Port (warranted, 3 years in bottle) 345. per dozen. battles included. EtsMptesef the above Wises may be bed.—Port, Ss. per bottle ; Sherry. is.; Cape, h. 6d. IMPORTANT LOTTERY INTELLIGENCE. T"N present liaverannent Lottery is for Two Hundred', Thowand Prise. Movey,--eontsins Three 20,11904, Prizes. Two 10.0001. Prizes, 114 other Capitals of various de nominations. and more Prises thao Blanks.—lt is to be drawn on the old regular end approved system, every Ticket singly,' etch deciding its own' fate and no other. Thefirst Prise drawn oil of the Wheel will receive 10,0001. extra.; all the Tickets are on sale in the open Stock Market, not locked' ap in the bend , of Contractors as heretoiore,and are liable to fluctuation the SUMO as env of the other Government Funds or Securities, of course the Price 14 influenced by the demand, snit as the Sete Is greet beyond precedent.—A considerable Advance Is likely soon to take place. An Immediate Purchase is therefore recommended at NISH'S Olkes. 4. Comb'll. and 9. Ch.ring•eross. Where 23 Capitals were, Sold in the Last Lottery alone. PUHLLV NOTICIL—ROBERT W.. 11 KREN, ing Maitufsetarer, 30, SCILAND, begs to caution the Pcblle against a spu►ious composition being sold under his name, by mew of imitation labels. These may easily be detected by observing that the genuine has Ron?. Waltman signed on each others ore counterfeit ; ■iny of wbieh ate littera** Jig-vary -0•611 dastraotett. vain a ellihrtAt. *doves! between the " No. SO," end the word "Strand." RoaT. W also begs to add, that his sole Manufactory is at SO, STRAND ; nor bee he any connexion with those pretended Warehouses professing to be brat el establishments of his. All persons gtving orders for Waft neves BLACKING are particularly requested to take notice that the real Menefseterer Is BORT. WARREN, SO, STRAND. It is strongly recommended to shopkeepers and others who are deceived by such vile impostors, to return the trash to the parties from whom it came, as being a punishment suit able to base fabricstors .1( an article so essentially necessary to the fashionable world. This genuine and stirpassingly brilliant Blacking stands unrivalled for its peculiar excellence in keeping the feet per fectly free from damp in Wet Weather, preserving the lea ther soft and pliable, and producing the most elegstit polish everheheld, retaining its pristine videos in any climate. Is sold by every respectable vender in Town end Country, in Bottles, at dl. 10d. s2d. and Isd. each. A ROWLAND and SON, Sole Proprietors of the 111,• ORJUINAL MACASSAR OIL, for the Growth of Hair, respectfu'ly inform the Nobility. Gentry, end Pub lic at large, they bare RESIOVRD to No. 90, Hatton-Garden ; and also beg to Catmorr. That Flagrant Impostors are Vending a spa tiae. Article ender this name ; they purchase the empty bottles, and attempt to deceive te Public with spurious Ma e:ism Oil, composed of injurious ingredients, calling it the genuine, end offering it for sale at a lower price, and with est the label, and others sign "Rowlandson." imitating the nanstare„ which renders it necessary on purchasing, to ask for ROWLAND'f4 MACASSAR OIL, and strictly to ob terse that none are genuine without the little book inside the wrapper ; sod the label is sinned on the outside, in Red, "A. ROW LA ND and SON."—The prices are Ss. 68.-71. En. 61 and 21s. per bottle. All other prices are imposi tions.—Tbe genuine lies the address on the label, " No. 20, Hatton Qarien." Also, RID WHISKERS, GRIST WHISKERS, Eva-Bnows, Ryon the Head, etTertually chancre() to Brown or Black, by the use of ROW LAND'S ESSENCE of TYRE: by merely yeti: g the Hair, it immediately prodnees a perfect change. Price 45.-7 s. did. end 103.6 d. per bottle. Sold by the Sole Proprietors, A. Rowland and Son, No. ,90. Hatton Garden. Holborn, L ondon; and by appointment, by 31 Titcnbourne-street ; Smyth, 117, Oat tie and Pierce. 37, D. Riggr, b 5, New Bond-street ; Bayley and Blew, Cockspur-street; Sanger. 130, Oxford-stree44 !terry and Co. 17. Greek-street; Butlers, 4, Cheepside, tad 226, lirgenl , ,treet ; Rowney. 106, Hatton Garden; J. T. Rigge, 03, Cneapside; Tithe. 41. Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; Neiberry, 44. Edwards, 6d, St. Paul's Church-yard; Sut- Lin, how Church-yard; Burgess, 63, Holborn-hill ; Low, 336, Prout, 229, Strand; Barclay and Sons. 93. Fleet market; Ford. Feachureb-street ; Colley, 23, Wharton, Bishopsgate-street ; Bartlett, Hatton-garden ; Swift, 22, High Holborn; Gibbins, Fleet-market; Swift, Holborn; Graves, Oxfard-street ; Woodman, Piccadilly ; and Nix, Royal Exchange; and by most Perfumers and Medicine Venders. Ask for " Rowland's Oil," or " Rowland's Dye," and observe the signature, " A. ROWL %ND and SON.' Yesterday evening an inquest was held at Guy's Hospital oa the body of Eleanar Seedy, a child two years old, scalded to death. Hridiet Sullivan, aunt tone child, said that otti Fri day lest, la the morning, the deceased %Min her room. belling, been left there by its mother, who was gone for hand-bills de- , a-ribin; 'mother of her children, that had strayed or been taken, 'away ; that on a sudden she heard the child screen', and turn. tee rotnsd , saw she had barn into a small tub containing abort three pints of water, which had beet drained from amen boiled potatoes ; there was no one near the child at the time. 'Her husband nn and took it oat and carried it the hospital.—j bir.Cleitin Harcourt. surceon, saw the &nil on Friday, it wee stabled oa various parts of the body anti limbs, but not as' , terely, and did not then appear in a dangerous stale; it • died• however, yesterday moruhig.—Yerdict—" AccEcital Death." - ~_, 1 i ft MAIDSTONE, Tvaenye t AMC= 12. thought that was then* use matte of them. -He might, , 1 rid • --. 11101." with propriety ask his learned friend, Ur. Gurney, irbe '' HANN A . v. mocanTr. had ever-neon a young rook pie? , ii. Mt. HARRTAT statedthelise to the jay. The plaintiff --some-- • „vas a gentleman, residing at limusston-botist, in the perish NORTHERN CIRCUIT. • i of St.. Peter, in tbe, late of Thanet. The deferulaot was a 'WESTMORELAND ASSlZES.—Aerasey, Ammo It. farmer, who occupied a field immediately adjoining Mr. Joh* Hargrave: was put on WOW. ehoesed with maim •Hannam's rookery. for disturbing which the presetit action 'slanghter, for having killed Ralph Omit la a mend was brought. The defendant ,justified his conduct, Oleg- combat on the 30th of May last. inn that the rooks entered his field, and were the means of After evidence wasaddeced to eatalslish the ease, In volialt doing great niischief to his canary crop; hnt it would ap- were several mitigating circamatesosa,-aad witnesses were pear the defendant•wal actoated by a malicious motive, to called who spoke tolls oxcellence of the prisoner's thane-' consequenre of some recent parish disputes. The plaintiff ter for in , luotry, sobriety, and attention. also complained of a bean-boy or a scare crow, winch had Mr. Justice 110LROTD, in charging the Jury, said that been placed on a tree In the defendant's field, near the if they were of opinion that the death of the deceased plaintiff's grounds, with the pretended siew of frightening was caused by a blow from the prisoner, they would find the rooks Irons the field; bat there were some election him guilty of manslaughter, for the nature of the crime stances connected with it which induced him to believe that was not altered, though the parties met and fought voles& it was intended as an effigy to represent the plaiotiff. It tinily. inasmuch as a voluntary fight insets illegal act. would appear, however, the( the defendant could have no The Jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict of replan for any apprehension that his crop was in danger, Guilty of Manslaughter. inasmuch as it was known as a fact that that seed was too His Lordship thee addressed the prisoner, and said, that innall and too hard to be Subject to the depredations of these in consent ere of hie reluctance to enter the fsgbt, *blrals..; . . t Wel:drone and litiamelty during the stkrtlat Ud . - r-' Thomas Wall, examined by Mr. Ounincv.—l am master wards, when he fonod the deceased la a state of lastest- - lof the workhouse of St. Peter's, and receive the' profit bility from the effect of his blow, as appeared from the ilpf he hhouis of the poor. In Mitch last year, a pauper of evidence, he considered that the rode of justice would be tbp name of Sooates was,employed by the defendant to keep satisfied by the imprisonment of two months which he hail iwayffie rooks from his field; he bail a gun and some already suffered for the offence, and lie would therefore ' poWder and shot give Min, while he was there. Plainfilrs order him to he discharged, after paying a Sew of ie. 'mad defendant's land is only separated by a road. I went The prisoner paid the fine, and was immediately die ,nn- the spot onemarons„ and observed Scoates firing at the charged. • • rooks, though I did not see a pint in the field. lie stood George Shaw, Jane Shaw, his wife, and Thome Peree cloie in the corner of Morkett's field. val. were put to the bar, charged with gunfire the escape Cross-examined.-1 diffoot set him load with shot: he of Hewetson, a • felon confined in the gaol of Appleby, by •bid 51 , 01 will 13i,b; • • causing to be conveyed into his cell a walling hammer, Josh. ,ifirlip.ell esa ln ined •by Mr. AooLnitcs.—l was several fi les and nail prods. servant 'tdiplainli'd last Match. A bean-boy was pot op in Mr. WILLIAMS stated the case for the prosecution. He . A tees in defendant's field, and a stage or platform was Oil a man named llewetaon was convicted of a capital fe erected below it, for Serrates to fire from. He used to be lony at the last assizes, and sentenced to death. This sett , there as soon as it was light in the morning, and stayed tenets was afterwards transmuted to transportation, and . there anti! it oas dark. He used to fire from the stage Hewetson was, en the 81st of March last, the day upon 'or platform, anti when he was tired of that, tee came which the attempt to escape was discovered by Mr. Brew. Own into the Orld. shard, the gaoler, still confined in Appleby gaol. The . Mr.'Anounit.'s.--He quitted the stage, and went into three prisoners, of whom O. Shaw was confined in the same, the tektite/wool: ' gaol as a debtor, it•wwilit he proved were aiding and abet .: .Estaminstiodenetinued,—As soon as the rocks came ting the escape of this felon. The Learned Gentleman into illi rookery, be.Ared at thefts. The platform was 1311 then went on to detail the circumstances, as will be found I yards from W•pliitrellfs home, and Close to the rookeiy. in toe evidence. There have been 100 nests less this year than there were Christopher Newsted, Esq the proper officer for filing hat year, records, prodpeed the record of the conviction of Hewetson, , . • • Cross-examined.-1 have been in the plaintiff's fatuity 311 which was made up from the indictment, the minutia with years. I have lived in the honse 7 years. The plaintiff has him, and the order of the Court fur transportation. very much increased the number of .rooks. I think there Mr. James Brewsliaril was then called and examined by are many more rooks now than ever had been before. The Mr. Wittman —Am the keeper of the gaol at Appleby— hean-bov was done'over ails brimstone. Know John Hewetsoo, who was in custody before the last Mr. AARIITAT..—It may be proper to observe, Mr. Haw Spring Assizes. Recollect Isis being brought up to Conn nasn's mansionehouse is called Brampton Hall. for trial. He was remanded, and put Into the strongest Robert Tomlin, exstained by Mr. G.:tixev. —ln the rom in the gaol, where he was kept till the attempt at spring of 1322, the defendant called at my hoose, and • said escape. On the 31st of March, I received information the plaintiff had been very trona some, and his rooks from one, of the prisoners, which put me on my guard.— eqoally also, end it was his intention to destroy them. He Shaw, one of the prisoners at the bar, was then a prisoner in said he shoehl soak peas In arsenic, and scatter them on the the gaol in the debtor's division. His wife was with him, land, and the rooks would drop from the trees by dozens but not as a prisoner. On that night I took souse persons in the eight. I remonstrated with him, and told him it to my assistance and went towards the place where thswet would be discovered. lie said then he would obviate that, son was confined, about twelve o'clock on the night of the ' ' by soaking tares, which were of the • same colour es the 31st of March. As I approached,his room, I beard a loud land, and they would not be seen. lie came again to me noise like a knocking. 1 unlocked his cell door, when we last Spring, and said the rook Il t ilt had began this year, got isp and perceived it was full of smoke or dust arising - anshhe would_de fur the plaintil l -Mc i lfgrrNienlr . l a . • " ' : 'rig something. Herretsen had; thrown himself I and my father becupy a good des o nil, on which I grow IP O r ;he bed with his Clothes on, lie appeared much agi some canary seed. 1 do not consider that the rooks do any tated and out of breath. I observed sand and lumps of stooe harm; I think they do good. t by the door, inside, near the wall. Oa examining the irons Several other witnesses were called, who proved the on his legs they appeared to be nearly cut through by a file. the defendant was ih the constant habit of firing at the I found tiles in the room, some in the rubbish and some in plaintiff's rookery, and that rooks did no injury whatever his bed, and also a hammer with a pick end. The bores to canary seed, bin were of advantage to the fields by de. sion in the stone, near the bolt corresponded with the pick straying the vermin. end of the hammer. The effect of working in this way would A witness was called, who stated that he had sent thou- be to loose the bolt. sands of young rooks to London, fur which he received 4s. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Caoss —I got the in • per doyen. formation about 7 o'clock in the evening in question. I bad Hr. WALFORD, with whom was Mr. CHITTY, submit. a deputy keeper, named Cuthbert Nesbitt. He is not here ted to his Lordship, whether such an action as the present now. He is on service in the country. was maintainable: Here there was no proof that this was The tinder Sheriff of the County examined.—Went on an ancient rookery. the Wednesday after with the Magistrates to examine the Two or three witnesses were callad back, who stated that gaol, and found five iron nails under a stone near the pump. roks had been in the habit of building their nests in the In the day-room of Cie felons' cell I also found a file con trees in question for upwards of 30 years ; there had, how- cealed between two flags. ever, been some years when there was none. One of the Cross-examined.—l found nothing in Hewetson's cell; witnesses said he considered the plaintiff's as a very hand- and what I did find was pointed oat to me by a prisoner. I some rookery. know the prisoner Perceval, and have known him from his Mr. Baron GRAHAM asked the defendant's counsel, if it boyhood. lie is the son of an innkeeper not living far from could be shown by any authority that rooks were terse nu- the gaol. He acts as a servant to Isis father, who sends out tune, and protected by law ? and whether it had ever been ale to the gaol. As to his character—never heard any thing held that an action was maintainable for disturbing the but well of him in Isis life. place of their resort ? He did not recollect any instance of It was here objected that the allegation in the indictment an action being h • roaght for disturbing a rookery, though of the felon Hewetson having been pardoned, was not sup he was aware heronries were protected, they bring cow& ported, inasmuch as the only proof was the record, which it tiered as constituting a part of country sports, was contended was not sufficient without the production of Mr. %%mom) quoted part of an Act of Parliament, pass- the sign manual, but this objection was overruled by the ed in the reign of Henry VIII. which recited, that," where- Learned Judge. as an innumerable quantity of rooks, choughs, &c., destroy John Johnson examined—Was confined in the debtor's awl consume a wonderful and marvellous quantity of corn side of the gaol on the 31st March last with Shaw. Shaw dell kinds, as well in the sowing as in the r aping of the told me that if Hewetson wished to get our, he would get • same, and also cause a /marvellous decay of the roofs of him any thing that was necessary to assist him. He sent barns, stacks, &c "it was therefore enacted, " that every for Thom is Perceral. I wrote a letter which was dictated one should do his best to destroy them under pails of by Shaw, but do not know what became of it. After this ausercement, and the taker thereof should be paid twopence I saw Shaw's wife in the gaol with him, and heard him tell per dozen. her to go and fetch Thomas Perceval to the gaol. Perceval Mr. hivittne intimated that the statute referred to bad came and there were five of us together, who had a pint of been repealed by the 13th of Elizabeth. The act which ale each. Shaw asked Lim if he would get him &couple of had been quoted, and the subsequent one by which it had files, four or five prods and a walling hammer. Perceval been repealed, were similar to an act of Elizabeth, which asked fur whom lie wanted them, and he said for Hewetson. was passed to restrain the excessive snaking of malt and Perceral observed it was a dangerous piece of business, and another, the object of which was to restrain the growth of he did not like to take it in hand; but Shaw persuaded him that pernicious plant called hops ; both these acts were to to consent to get them. Shaw then sent I sis wife to Per im found in the same volume. 1 coral for them, and she was very unwilling to go. How- The objection was not allowed. ever she went and brought in five prods and two files. She Mr. WALYORD addressed the Jury on the part of the de. did not bring the hammer because it would not be ready fendant. The present action, he said, was one which yeti- till Monday. fled the adage, that " the play was hardly worth the can- Cross-examined—No promise of forgiveness has been die." It was one originating sn a vindictive feeling against given to me, if the prisoners he convicted. f• broke. out the defendant, Mr. Hannarn's poorer neighbour. What of gaol on the Saturday night the prods were brought in, the defendant had done had been only in 4.V-defence; for and was retaken io about a fortnight after, when it appeared the plaintiffs rooks came to breakfast, John Steward examined—Was confined in Appleby dine, tea, and sap in alo.kett's held, and made their exit gaol in March last, and was at the same side with Shaw. in the eveeing, without paying the rei honing, I;e did con. Shortly before the 31st of March I saw Shaw's wife bring crive the defendant was fully jut-Wird in taking such steps in a walling hammer:. Shaw tied up an old steel file, a as would fur the future prevent their onweleiour rt. ita. It flint, some tinder, four pieces of candle, and a walling the notion was correct that these birds old no harm to the hammer, and asked me to throw them over the wall for farmer's fields, but on the contrary much good, how slid it Ilewelson. I refused to do it, ant he did it himself. happen that in their rambles am seed time and harvest, they Several other witnesses were called, who corroborated stir in almost every field a lad designated the crow-boy?— this testimony. Another question was, by what me.liurn wire they to esti.' His 1.4111)51rue, in summing up, left it to the Jury 1p mate the damages ? How were they to ascertain the SAW consider if Jane Shaw was out acting under the haloes", of the ro..ks ? lthati been said, ths. the young rooks were of het husband, for if so they would acquit her. • i 'seat to the pi ulteren in /lime's. It - was true, lie believed,! The Jury found George Shaw end" Thomas Percesrali that it sometimes happened, the unwary corkney had Deny: Guilty, bat acquitted Jane Shaw. . . and then ate a rook in hie pie, whilst i.e fancied be wse The Court adjourned till fine o'clock to-morrow. .I I eating a pigeon. It W.lll tune first lime in his life he isa I ' • TVIISDST, Avu. 12. ever heard ail rook.pie ibe certainly felt no great inclie This Morning Mr. Justice llohacten appeased itscsort n ition to taste one. He had; in his walks now kid -then to pass sentence on the two men found guilty . yesterday through the fields, met a stray rascal gibbeted ow a pole, iof aiding Lod abetting the escape of the felon frau) plain: as an example to his thievish eenspanions, and he astray; I The sentence on both: was serrn‘yearetransperts.ime. , e• . • .. _..,. - -. ~ ..1.u.:. ANCIENT RECORDS.-HANIiS' WRITING. From the Parliamentary Report of Evidence del:ve:el before a Select Committee, in July last. uto tilt prese..t mode of " engrossing" Bills, Sze. : FR A Nets Coulter, Enna , examined. Yoe are a deputy comh6Aioner for records'?—! am. What records ?—I am appoieted sub.rotomiuioner f r the publication of the Parliamentary Will you state what kind of writing rod'' Altd ad a num ber of years, going two or three centuries back, the eas;e... read and the best ?s—lt always happened that legal hands have been somewhat older than the hands of the time what we call the ancient Gothic hands, in which the r.- • cords are written with various abbreviations, is in (act de rived from the Roman notarial hand, and is much older.. in point of origin, than the records themselves ; and there is always a marked distinction between legal bands en•l what may be called monastic hands. There may he some • coufusiou now and then, for many of the churchmen were lawyers, but still there Is always a distinction between re cords and documents which may be supposed to have beets - written in a tnooastery for common readers. Lawyers ac customing themselves to precedent, copy the farms ituma diately before them, rather than come down into their (twit time ; but there is a certain degree of advadatage resulting- - from this practice; a very slight degree of difficulty w :t indispose the lawyer to consult the record itself,eonsequent ly every habit which tends to make him acquainted with, the handwriting of preceding times, will facilitate his re ference.to the records of preceding times. You recommend one hand to be constantly kept for re• cords ?—Certainly 1 should. What hands do you consider the bed; is it that In wkc't the records of Parliament are kept in the Rolls Other, or is it the engrossing hand ?-1 have never seen the moderis enrolments in the Rolls Office, but I >heuld concur in the opitian Mr. Bailey has given with regard to a It .b hvitin.e approximating to the handwriting introduced in the reign et Edward IV., and which is very distinct from any pre ceding hand, or any in the subsequent times; the only ul O dam rolls I have seen are, the close and patent rolls its Chancery, which are engrossed in the common engrossing. hand; but with regard to the Pipe rolls, which are int,!tt Itp . now pretty nearly in the same form they were in the reign of King Stephen, there is a very peculiar hand used in the heading of them, which is a kind of bastard wart band ; it is a very distinct hand. It is what is called theold court-hand ?-1 believe it has a degree of resemblance to it, but is more like what is called Set Chancery. Do you conceive that it would be improper to intro Inca the present English current band in any of our records ?—t should think that, on the whole, the disadvantages would he greater than the advantages. Do you agree with Mr. Bailey, in the opinion of the an periur security of having long rolls for records ; or should. you prefer the having records in books?-1 should certainly agree with Mr. Bailey; sad on the whole, although a roll is inconvenient to consult, yet it preserves the frailest Ma terials. I may instance the papyri, such as the fragment of the Iliad, which will be soon in the possession of alr- Bankes. This has been rolled up; and thou,o funned o:' the frailest possible material, hardly stronger then straw, its form preset ved It far a great length of time. What is the oldest book?—The Altrandliwe ifaaa script • in the Museum is probably the oldest; that being• intended for the church service, was naturally *rated la the shape of a book; and there are other books of gist period. Have you heard the evidence of Mr. Hewle:t and Mr. Bail-y, with respect to the ink and the parchment ?-1 have; I should think the fault was more la the parchment than in the ink. In that case, would you prefer a good paper ?—Certainly not. I think the fault arises from their putting too Bach calcareous matter on the parchment, in order to give is what they call a good face ; and 1 have observed in modern books, printed on vellum, that in order to make them Itso handsome, they put some kind of preparation of little on the skin, which makes the ink look very black at first, ha; after a time it scales off. Bat bad ass the parchment is, you would prefer it to the bust .paper?—Unquestionably 1 would. ,Att what period do you observe that the ink begins very much to fail :—1 can hardly tell ; I should sty, perhaps, about the time of Charles the seeond, and thety perhips, it may be accounted for. In the time of the Consomme-Wit I rthey abolished the court 'hand •in making sap records, Hatt Iraq:Rigged the common secretary hand; and on the ,A - toratitin, the old mode was re-irrro lame I; but 1 shri,l l l think rouse degree of slovenliness nosained in the of ett. ..Dnes os.t ,the common hand vary periodieally • a i p l y • - iVid you can distinguish the ordinary hs-Ideritil - 2 7 43'0 , -7 CHARLES WRJGHT, Mel Merchant to his Royal -Higbee's tote Dad of Clarence. next to the King's end fatting the Haymarket Theatre. Opera Colonnade. Hay. starlet. Leaden. Sea oe SALE the &nowt OLD PORT. 116.. per doses; superior PIHERRY, 365. per dozen; CAPE WADEIRA. unequalled In Europe, at 16s. per dozes. A, hamper of one dosen of each of the above Wines, bottles, lockage. &h. bieleded, will be forwarded on reeelpt of ; or two &mew tape Madeira, bottles, &e. for M. ; Madeira, Vidoele •Lisbes, Mountain. &e. 4f. per dozen.— The Tra de strpplled.—Presit tespied Wise Pipes.always of sett. lie. tech.. Old Cogismillbiltody, Ik3s. Od. per Kai& old ;zealot ;Remo HS. ild. oat gaIIoo.—WIAMPAIDIZI4^ jest Seinissi, bins, per dams . • ; , • Obieriles *melee of Ohs mr‘i "soy, be eII MM A.. • Pert.36..p4 bottle; Sherry. 3s l ; cape. M Postage to be geld.—No Credit, . • Flee Direst Devonshire Cider, Is tap .6d. pee &vetoed' sp. by two dozen, ' . •