The Sun. — London, England, 1858-11-12 00:00:00

WINTER , , i --- . NO ii CH . :,NT F EMAN f during the enters the H ouse of C mmons, and there listens to a debate within its walls upon the Indian mutiny— MACDOUGALL'S NANO US HIGHLAND CLOAKS, Univt'r , 'allY .ackilowldged to be the most com f o rtable, a discussion upon the Sepoy revolt , under the use ful, and ~ 2 , entlernanlv upper Garment now in use, either for Town wear, or the - Rail, flu' Coach, Riding, Driving, and rooftree of the Britifth Parliament. His whole Walking. They arc made of Scotch Tweeds, in every variety of Plain Colours' and very pre tty 3lixtures : also in d ark soul kindles with aelmiration. It is the war (;Grey and Illack,.for;,Cerg,ym len's wear. -• horse stirred by the sound of the trumpet. A. lON "ties from. 265. to 36g, Good useful plant The best do. do. .• .. 3Ss. to 50s. Tile Height and Size round . Sltomiders is sufficient measure. Patterns and price pe." post, free. Any number o 1 Cloaks forwarded la four days from date of : .• order, free to London. - D. MACDOUGALL, THE ROYAL TARTAN WAREHOUSE. INVERNESS. 11HEATRY,ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W in,: - EVENING,Ife's ROSE OF CASTILLE : Miss Louisa Fyne, Miss Susan Tyne, Miss M. Prescott; Mr. Fer dinand Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Bartleman, and Mr. W. Ilarrison. • Conductor—Mr. Alfred 3fellon. To conclude with-a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR D•AMOUR : 3lesdlles. L. Hichelet, 31orlacchi, and Pasquale. OYAL . rRINCESS'S THEATRE. _VS) Vodur the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. vrtS EVENING will he presented Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBET H. 1\ taebeth, Mr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean, l're ceded by the Farce of AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. lIHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING' will be performed (fourth time), THE TALE OF A COAT. Mr. Charles Mathews. After which, THE DOWAGER. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. • Followed by THE ETON BOY. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, &e. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. R OYAL STRAND THEATRE. _LW Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN : :Messrs. Selby, Parselle, and Miss Swan boron. '4 ll . After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. Fori owed by THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS: Messrs. C. s e p 3 y, J. Bland, J. Clarke, &c. A n d BONNIE FISH WIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. A A' STLY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. • Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. Astound is 'g and Expensive Parisian Engagement. THIS EVENVNG, and during the week, will be presented THE WOODMA_N'S HORSE, introducing a treble company of equestrians and the finest Stud of Horses in the world. Characters by Me.iws. Holloway, W. Cooke, Anson, Francis, Mark Howard, Anclevson.. Followed by the inimitable SCENES OF THE ARENA, in which Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Cooke, and Madlle. Blanche will al Tear. After which, Madame . Nmile Maurice, from Paris, will make her Terrific Ascent frone the Stage to the backof the Galleries. Mons. Maurice will also have the honour to introduce Isis extraordinary Dogs. • To conclude with A MISTAKEN STORY. Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. • Galleries, 6d. Private Boxes from £1 1.8. to £2 2s. and upwards. Stage Manager, Jlr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— Proprietor—C. MoRTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE A R TS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW o ,?.EN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o ' c iock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters, and is also devotk 'd to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he nta.v confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist 73outsic Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added A knte-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as rega. As the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, Nv. ill be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom- The Mus 'MAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'cro,Nk• THE IV .EATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 12. TITY,RMSMETER, TN THE SHADE. 49—highest .s,:nce noon yesterday. 38—lowest this: morning and during the night. 45—this day at; voon. PARomETER-30 . 08. Easte, - ly ; light, with fine weather. , • `'"‘ • " r• .a\:4lig .„0 1 \ ; 1 -1 .44 ^fit bin?, •m 8 • M" ' •••••••• • THE SUN. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1858. M. DE MONTALEMBERT has never given more signal evide.nec of his genius, of his piety, of his eloquence, than that abundantly afforded in the remarkable publication for which he is about to undergo in France the glory of a State prosecution. And the genius, piety, and eloquence of M. DE MONTALEMBERT WCYC already cordially recognised all over Christendom. his reputation is not of yesterday. _ He has long assumed high rank among the.chiefs Of his generation. Though but now in • its meridian, his fair fame dates back to its origin more than a quarter of a century ago, when he had but just emerged from being a stripling. During this interval of five-and twenty years he has risen to the importance of one of the most honoured of the-intellectual notabilities of his time and coun try. Beyond this he has assumed to himself a far higher dignity, that befitting ene exercising a great moral influence over his contemporaries. The light of his knowledge has been kindled from the lamp of the sanctuary. His religious zeal is pro found and intense, but it has none of the animus of fanaticism. Without the smallest particle of bigotry in his nature, he is one of the staunchest of the great living lay champions of Roman Catho licism. Since the demise of CHATEAUBRIAND, since the secession of LAMMENNAIS—France, " the eldest daughter" of that Church, has had no son - whose fervour and whose resplendent abilities have shed more lustre in these times upon the cause of the Pon tificate. And neiv, after the protracted silence of nearly one entire decade—a silence consequent upon, the overthrow of the parliamentary tribune, and the restrictions imposed upon the public press in his native land M. DE MONTALEMBEItt has raised his voice once more in ringing and trumpet-like reverberations in this famous argument of his in the Correspondant. For this manly utter ance he is about to be arraigned at the bar of France. The charge against him, of course, is nothing less than that of leze majeste. His guilt, accordingly as we may view it, is something more or less than misprision of treason. And certainly, as he advances to his trial, we may say of him what Lord MAcAtLAv has said of WARREN HASTINGS, the Proconsul—he looks like a great and not like a bad man. The judicial examination in France of this latest of the literary effusions of MONTALEM BERT is now upon the eve of its. commencement. Meanwhile the publiratieti" itself is carefully Sup pressed upon the other side of the Channel. It will be read there none the less eagerly—it will, rather than that; be devoured far and wide with all the more .avidity. by the more intelligent of the population:The official taboo under which it is placed gives it more authority with the masses than could possibly have been imparted to it. by the timbre of the esta blished Government. Stolen apples are proverbially the sweetest.. No works are more greedily sought after than those numbered in the index expurga toritts. If you want even an indifferent drama to be enormously.successful, get it denied the chance of being damnedby a formal prohibition under the hand of the Licenser. _ Meantime, at Brussels and at London, b e pa mphlet, by M. de Alois'. sure this suppressed TALEMBERT, is running by thousands through the webwork of the tape . s and cylinders of the printing press. Read it—and what do you find in this per nicious and dangerous publication ? What but a glowing and rhetorical panegyric upon our Eng lish institutions! A statesmanlike tribute from one of the most gifted and pure-minded of all living Catholic laymen—an earnest, manly, genial tribute to the organisation and the influences of our free and enlightened Government. M. de MONTALEM BERT is an orator whose lips are padlocked. He crones the Channel, He lands on our shores. He TALEMBERT—denied, the possibility of speaking— writes. His language, not unnaturally under the circumstances, is the language of enthusiasm. He remembers, doubtless, how many great orators are dumb, prematurely, besides himself—dumb, though still living : how many lips are denied the privilege of their old golden utterance—the lips of TIMERS, of GUIZOT, of HUGO, of LAMARTINE. He thinks possibly of CORMENIN with the blank page before him—the pencil of TIMON useless in his hand—no more eloquent contemporaries to delineate. He contrasts the free outspcaking to which he has just listened down at Westminster with the ominous and oppressive silence to which he is returning. Pens, ink, paper, lying within his reach as he me ditates, he writes accordingly. And for so writing the dumb orator is now about to be impeached as treasonous. He has been caught in the act of strewing flowers, not upon the tomb of NERO, but upon the grave of Parliamentary freedom. Monstrous ! Down with him! Who among all those 36,000,000 of Frenchmen has not a stone to hurl at the traitorous head of MONTALEMBERT The BRIGHT view of war is certainly not the bright side of it. Indeed, na one can 'doubt that, dark as its natural colours are, Mr. BRIGHT makes them darker than those of nature. The great orator of the people is, unfortunately, a special pleader, not a philosopher. We have sometimes thought what a fine pair of orators might be compounded out of him and Mr. GLADSTONE. If some MEDEA could take them to pieces, put them into her en chantress's cauldron, and bring them forth again —Mr. BRIGHT endued with a portion of Mr. GLAD STONE'S over-sublety in distinction, which keeps him for ever hesitating and doubting, Mr. GLAD STONE with a portion of the sturdy Quaker's un doubting confidence in his own conclusions, leaving to each their peculiar modes of illustration and ex pression, they might both of them tickle our ears as well as they now do, and might still relieve the tedium of senatorial debates, but they would speak much more to the purpose. We all of us, taking them as they are, are glad enough to enjoy a little of the sparkling and power of their genius, but what a gain would it be could we also trust to their judgment. On the whole, and for Statesmen, they are both, we believe, remarkably honest men ; but pre-eminent subtlety of thought too often misleads one, and overweening self-confidence the ether, till we are compelled, when they sit down, to ask whether or not we have been yielding to an illusion. As to the succession duty calculation, or miscal culation, be it which it may, we confess we cannot find much fault with our Brummagem orator. Mr. GLADSTONE devised the arrangement, and we have little doubt it would puzzle all the actuaries in England to do it justice. But his statement of the cost of our wars was the most reckless we have seen. Our orator himself acknowledged that he, with his broad shoulders, succumbed beneath the attempt to imagine the total, as well he might. £2,ooo,ooo,ooo—why none of us ever did or could conceive of a single million, and that sum multiplied two thousand times must be left to calculators only, for no imagination can reach it. Now we shall not attempt to verify Mr. BRIGHT'S calculation on this point any more than on the other. He may make it, if he pleases, ten or twenty times the amount. He may compute the amount actually disbursed only, he may add single interest or compound in terest, just as he likes, but we must leave him and his calculations to their fate. No one would read them, and we therefore may comfortably f eel ab solved from the inquiry—How did he go to work to make it so much ? What all our readers know is, that some enor mous fallacy lurks under such computations. They may not see where exactly, yet they are sure of it. They perhaps can no more detect the trick played off on their ears than spectators can detect Herr FRIKELL'S illusion of another sense, yet that there is illusion they arc quite confident. Not to go back to the great wars at the close of last century and the beginning of this, which so few of our readers can now remember, but which, on Mr. BRIGHT'S theory, ought to have left the nation in beg gary, the illusion will vanish if we do but steadily look at the broad facts of the late ivar. We spent, say, in round numbers, eighty or a hundred millions on it. Was all this, as some declaimers tell us, as good as thrown into the sea ? The enormous waste, through mismanagement, we as well as others exposed at the time. A waste which seems inseparable from all Government management, -whether in peace or in war--insepar able, Perhaps, even from all things managed by boards and' committees, and in which the disbur sers of large amounts have not a personal interest in the administration of them. But was the nation poorer at the conclusion of the war ? Speculators raised the prices of many things to reap their merited reward; bad harvests in our own or in other countries raised the price of food, but not in this country only, for America—which was far enough removed from the seat of war—suffered as much as we on that score ; but all the time of the war our exports, even exclusive of military supplies, went on increasing. Our trade suffered no injury, to all appearance, from the war, but augmented regularly till the great panic at the close of last year. Now to whatever cause we attribute that panic, whether to bad currency arrangements, or to reckless bank ing, or to over-speculation, or, as is most correct, to all, no one attributes it to the war. But look more closely at the'. ' e war expen• diture. Where was it chiefly ma ? A small proportion of it on purchasing supplies in the East, but by very- far the greater portion of it in employ ing labour at home. Even what was spent in the East returned in part to us, through the natives purchasing our manufactures with our own money, so that ultimately we gave them, cotton or Bir mingham goods for their bullocks, horses, vege tables, and labour ; but the enormous amounts disbursed in army clothing and equipments, in our dockyards, in our arsenals, in supplies of all kinds, were all spent in employing English labour. Our mechanics, our textile fabric manufacturers, our very farmers and millers and bakers pocketed most of the money. True, we many of us grumbled under a heavy, because iniquitously adjusted income tax ; still though we were the poorer for parting with the money, the nation was not the poorer. There is a vast difference between money changing hands in the nation, and capital going out of the nation. In the case of railways what immense sus ra i t n e r a 3 hsave. been sunk—sunk we ca ll it— we s h ou ld h circulated. It went into the hands of navvies, iron manufacturers, engine-makers, and a pretty good share into the hands of land-owners and lawyers. But none of these parties hid it in a napkin. Most of it was purchasing immediately all kinds of commodities imported by our merchants, or made by native industry. Individuals suffered sadly, but the nation gained the railways certainly, and gained a larger consumption of articles used by the million. Mr. BRIGHT will of course deny that, it' we gained a little circulation of money through the 'LATEST NEW 8. hands of the working classes, we gained anything by the Russian war equivalent to railways. That must, however, be matter of opinion. The present position of Russia in the East, compared with what it was when NICHOLAS bullied at Constan tinople, and when Sebastopol yet nursed beneath her batteries the brutal and coward navy which could Perpetrate the bloody treachery of Sinope, but skulk from British broadsides—the difference may seem to him trifling gain or none at all. We beg to differ from him ; and but for the leanings of LOUIS NAPOLEON and WALEWSKI to the Russian brother despot, and the trimming of Lord PALMER STON, we might have demanded successfully the whole of Bessarabia, and the freedom of the whole Circassian coast. The comparatively miserable concessions obtained by our Government are, how ever, something worth having, * especially since, as we believe, the nation is not sensibly the poorer for getting them. We have gained, therefore, the improved position in the East, and the nation has not lost the money spent in employing labour a home. The codification of the laws of England may, as the Lord Chancellor intimated at the Mansion- House Banquet, on the Lord Mayor's Day, baffle the combined ingenuity of our legislators and our jurisconsults. The fabrication of a code may, in fact, be only really practicable under a despotic system, as in modern France or in ancient Rome—and even then require the guiding genius of a NAPOLEON or a JUSTINIAN. But, at any rate, there yet remain for us one or two great and obvious legal improve ments—capable of being effected without the neces sity of requiring for their accomplishment the apfsa rition of one of the world's great men—capable of harmonious creation even under our Constitutional Government. We may hope—if not that our laws may be compressed and systematised into a code, at any rate that they may be cheapened. We may hope, again, that the Criminal Law, generally, may be revised and reorganised. We may hope that some thing practically beneficial may be effected in the way of a digest of many hundreds and thousands of Acts of Parliament. How much, in truth, have we not seen done of late years in the way of legal reform and innovation ? Yet, in spite of the hercu lean labours of a law reformer like the ex-Chan , cellor Lord BROUGHAM, such was the wilderness that great and resolute intellect undertook to •' clear" and " cultivate " that in its regard we are only now at the very commencement. Descending to particulars in another direction, there is a legal reform of a very different character yet to be entered -upon—one often talked of but never seriously attempted. It is a change of a very substantial description. It is an innovation that would be of the greatest advantage to the public and to the profession. It would, in an extraordi nary manner, tend to economise time. It would eventually, we believe, prove economical in a , pecuniary point of view. It would beautify the metropolis in two opposite directions—here at the border of the City of London—there in the heart of the City of Westminster. It must be apparent to every one that the change we allude to is no other than the concentration upon one given spot of the hitherto scattered law courts. Nothing in the way of a splendid metropolitan improvement on the one hand, and of a wholesome and rational legal innovation on the other, could secure at once such a manifest combination of advantages as the precise change we would here particularise. And, according to Sir CHARLES BARRY, the whole could be effected for very little more than £650,000. True, that that eminent architect has hitherto shown himself to be no very safe or reli able guide in these kind of anticipated calcu lations. But, even supposing for that reason that Sir CHARLES is here once more egregiously understating the probable amount—supposing that instead of £650,000 the suggested alteration neces sitated an expenditure of £BOO,OOO, or even we will say, of the aggregate of £l,ooo,ooosterling, we still conceive that the benefits certain to accrue from it would justify double or treble the disbursement. The site originally suggested some years ago is again in favour—namely, some seven acres of ground, bounded on the east by Chancery-lane, on the west by Wych-street, on the north by Carey street, and on the south by the Strand, a locality central to all the legal quarters—Lincoln's-inn, Gray's -inn, and the Temple. It is a spot, more over, which in its present condition is utterly abo minable, disreputable, and for the most part dilapi dated. It is, comparatively speaking, waste land. It is literally an eyesore. It is notoriously, in many holes and corners, a den of filth and profligacy. Sweep all these miserable-looking houses away—erect in their place a noble pile of buildings—collect together within them the now scattered law courts of all de nominations—Equity and Common Law, Queen s Bench and Chancery, Vice-Chancery and Exchequer, Common Pleas and Rolls, Regis trars' Offices, Judges' Chambers, and the Courts of Bankruptcy and Insolvency—assemble in that one appropriate home all the dignitaries now•distributed over the capital, in the purlieus of Westminster Hall, in the vicinity of Chancery lane, in the precincts of Lincoln's-inn, in I3asing hall-street, in Rolls-yard, in Staples'-inn, in Ser geants'-inn, here, there, and every where—effect all this by one move, and yon will do what will be certainly worth a round £1,000,000. It is an old project revived, really and seriously worthy of being taken into consideration. The following telegrams have been received a t Mr. Reuter's office, Nov. 11 : MARSEILLES, Tirum 3DAY. The following advices have been receiv ed from Hong Kong to Sept. 28. The Russian ambassador has arrived, b ringing an advantageous treaty concluded with Sap an. The Chinese commissioners have not yet arrived. Hopes are entertained that the negotiations for arranging the tariff, &c., will recommence in Oc tober. The official Gazette of Pekin announci;s a project for fortifying Pei-Ho for the purpose of stopping the further advance of the barbarians, Details have been received of the taking of Touron. The gunboats destroyed five forts in half an hour. The allied troops occupied the town, and have thrown out reconnoitring parties into the peninsula. Touron has been declared French territory. The expedition will advance to attack the metropolis at the end of September. ST. PETERSBURG, WEDNESDAY. The Northern Bee of to-dappublishes an account of the re-establishment of the relations between the Russians and Chinese, on the 26th of August, at Schougoutschaken, Kouldga, in Western China, and the solemn inauguration of the consular factory. The Gazette of the Senate contains the regula tions of a company, established for the purpose of supplying Petersburg with water. The capital is 1,200,400 silver rubles, and the municipality of 3t. Petersburg guarantees 4 per cent. The navigation is still open. The quantity of tallow exported is 112,000 casks, FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Moniteur publishes the following note : " After the last conflicts which took place between the Turkish troops and the Montenegrins, the Porte had engaged to maintain the state of possession as it existed in 1856. In order to settle the respective rights resulting from this agreement, commissioners were sent to the spot, and the representatives at Constantinople of France, Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, adopted, in concert with the Ottoman Government, the delimitation proposed by the majority of the Commission. A protocol was signed on the Bth inst, at Constantinople, which ratifies the understanding come to between the parties, and will have for effect to henceforward prevent a recurrence of those much to be regretted complications to which it had become a matter of urgency to put an end, in the interest of humanity and of general peace." BOURSE, Nov. 11.—The market continues buoy ant. It is reported that the syndicate of bankers will devote 75 millions of francs to take titles from the market at the next liquidation. Threes have been done from 741. Sc., to 74f. 20c. ; Mobilier, 987 f. 50c. to 995 f. ; Austrian, 658 f. 75c. to 661 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,385 E to 1,392 f. 50c. ; Northern, 997 E• 50c. to 1,002 f. ; and Southern, 580 f. to 585 f. The following are the last quotations : Per Cents. 96 25 Do. end month 3 per Cents 73 90 Do. end 74 5 Bank Shares 3155 Credit Mobilier Do. Account Credit Foncier Belgian 4f . 9O 75 Piedmontese (5) 93 5 0 Roman 95 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 42 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto 842 60 842 50 Lyons and Mediterranean BBO .. 875 New ditto - - • • 640 -- Geneva . Midi — - Southern Western 620 .. 620 Eastern Grand Central — Sardinifta Austrian Exchange on London, et eight, peper ' 25f. 10c.; money , 25f 71e.; three- months, pap e r, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 921 e. DESECRATION OF THE DEAD AT CAMDEN TOWN. Whilst the indignant at the dis gracefulinc publiciden incidents attendant justly inst upon the wholesale removal of bodies from the St. Martin's burial ground, at Camden-town, the fact appears to be overlooked that this occurrence is but a sample, upon a comparatively small scale, of what must tak e place in almost every district around the metrop o li s , Whenever the existing so-called Suburban resortedCeme w teries,to. In the yea r 1850 the General Board of Health reported to burial teries, filled to repletion , shall imperatively come to e accommo dation b e b d e ea n it ece w ss i a th ri , i; nd - Government, " that the exiting cemeteries cannot be used permanently for ,burial, not one of them possessing the conditions essential to places of sepulture ; that the soil is unsuitable in all but one; that the chapel accommodation is wholly inadequate that the position of six out of the eight is urban rather than suburban, and that the remaining two have an increasing population surrounding them; and that they must all be closed." This sweeping condemnation, however, it should be observed, does not , apply to the London Necropolis or Woking Cemetery, which was established subse quently to the date of that report, and which, situated within an easy railway distance of the metropolis, is of such extent (2,000 acres area) that overcrowding, or desecration of the dead by after-removal cannot possibly take place in it. Indeed it is amongst the provisions of the special act of Parliament under which this cemetery was established (and one well worthy of imitation in any future legislation on the subject), that a separate grave shall be provided for each interment, and that it shall not be re-opened, except at the request of the friends of the deceased, for the recep tion of the remains of another member of the family. The subject is one deserving of serious attention at the present moment. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 11. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yester day. The Queen, with Prince Arthur and Princess Louisa, walked in the grounds of the Castle this morning. LAMARTINE AND THE FREEMASONS. —His Royal Highness tht - Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, went to London, attended by Colonel the Hon. Sir C. Phipps and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. The Prince travelled by the Great Western Railway, trans acted business at the Duchy of Cornwall-office, and re turned to the Castle in the afternoon. ' The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli have arrived in London from Hughenden Manor, Bucks. His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has left Claridge's Hotel for Windsor, on a visit to her Majesty. Baron Stutterheim has left Fenton's Hotel for Germany. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disrali have arrived in London, from Hughenden Manor, Bucks. Mr. and Mrs. William Baird (of Elie) have arrived at Fendon's Hotel from Scotland. Mr. James Baird (of Carobusdon) has arrived at Fenton's Hotel from Ayr shire. The Lincolnshire, with £422,448 from Australia, is still of the coast, and her gold will not come to hand for some days. The following are the gold ships known to be on their way to England :—The Agincourt, 110 days out, with £283,120; Dover Castle, 75 days out, with £338.900; Malec. Polo, with £187,524, 44 days out; and the Teviot steamer with the £169,500 (brought by the European to Suez), which is daily expected. The lengthened passage of the Agincourt is attributed to contrary winds, and little uneasiness is caused by her non-arrival. MAILS FOR THE UNITED STATES BY CANADIAN MAIL PACKETS.—GENERAL POST-OPFICE, Nov. 11.— Mails for the United States will in future be made up at Liverpool, to be forwarded by each of the Canadian mail packets during the winter season, when those packets pro ceed to Portland instead of Quebec. Letters for the United States, intended to be forwarded in these mails, must be specially directed "Per Canadian Mail Packet." Letters, newspapers, &c., addressed to the United States, and de spatched by the Canadian mail packets, will be chargeable with the same rate of postage as when forwarded by the Britiall or United States mail packets. M. de Lamartine has addressed the following letter to the Freemasons' Lodge of Macon : " I have the honour to return you the list (so honourable both to you and to me) of sub scribers from French and foreign masonic lodges. Pray assure all your brethren of my gratitude. I do not speak the language, and am unacquainted with the rites of our fraternal in stitution, but through you I know its heart and its works. I see only in the secret of the lodges a veil of modesty thrown upon truth and charity to heighten their beauty in the eyes of God and man. But for this modesty yon would not conceal from men the secret which your actions reveal.. You are, in my opinion, the great eclectics of the modern world. You cull from all time, all countries, all systems, all philosophies, the evident, eternal, and immutable principles of universal morality, and you blend them into an infallible and unanimously accepted dogma of fraternity. You reject everything that divides minds, and profess everything that unites hearts ; you arc the manufacturers of concord. With your trowels you spread the cement of virtue about the foundations of society. Your symbols are but figures. If I am not mistaken in this interpretation of your dogmas, the curtain of your mysteries might be drawn without the fear of re vealing anything but services rendered to humanity. The tribute of esteem and sympathy which the Masonic lodges of France and foreign countries have been kind enough to send to me through you, give me a right of confraternity with them. I did not ' require this right to esteem them ; but this honorary confraternity now entitles me to love them as brothers. • Receive and convey to your honourable correspondents of all countries the assurance of my gratitude and respectful conside ration.. LUIADTINE." LAW INTELLIGEWCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood.) JUDGMENT-BARCLAY V. MACKLEYNE. The contention in this case arose on the true construction of the bequests contained in the will of the late Mr. Kelso, dated April 5, 1851. The defendant alleged that the be quests were void from uncertainty. His Honour, the Vice-Chancellor, was of opinion that the bequest in favour of poor persons to enable them to emigrate to the colonies by the commissioners of colonial emigration was a good charitable bequest, and directed a scheme to be prepared to carry it into effect. His Honour also made several declarationsrespecting other legacies, and the residue of the testator's property to be spoke to on the minutes this day week. ROLLS' COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.) :RAMSBOTIIAM V. MABONS-JUDGMENT. His Honour, in deliverikg judgment in this case, was of opinion that the plaintiff had failed to establish a lien on the title deeds or a mortgage over the testator's property. The state of the case was this : James Aitchison, by a deed in 1816, left his wife as his executor, and four ether persons as trustees of his estates, as tenants for life. He died in 1823. Various transactions took place between him and Mr. Mabon, and on his death they were continued by his widow. The title deeds were deposited in plaintiff's hands as security for any money that might become due to him. His Honour considered that as it did n•t appear that any specific sum was due at the death of the testator, and as the testator did not give his widow or trustees any power to burden his estates with any debts which might be con tracted by them, the plaintiff had no lien over the title deeds or mortgage on his estates. He said that it could not now be ascertained what was the amount of the dAt due by the testator ; and suppose it could, the claim was barred by the statute of limitations, and by prescription of forty years. His Honour dismissed the plaintiff's bill with costs. EXCHEQUER COURT. (Sittings at Guildhall—Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Common Jury.) RUSTOMIEE V. GOURLEY. Mr. ROMn srm appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hawkin for the defendant. Mr. Robinson said this .was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover the sum of £lOO, the value of a bill of exchange, which the plaintiff alleged he had accepted for the defendant's accommodation, for which he had received no consideration. He thought the evidence of the plaintiff, who was a Parsee xiilrchaiit, would be sufficient to secure him a verdict. Mr. Rustomjee came to this country in 1856. I lived at Paddington. I first saw Mr. Gourley in the same year. His first visit to me was to inquire for a former re sident of the house I occupied. He called on me the next day, and said he hact.'been in a foreign country, and he wished to give me any information, if I required any. He first called once, then twice, and then three and five times a day. (Laughter.) I never could get rid of him. (Laughter.) In July he came to me and begged me very hard to lend him £100,,0r he would be ruined. He nearly went on his knees to me. He has also borrowed my spoons. (Laughter.) I had a great deal of trouble to get them back. He also borrowed my watch. (Laughter.) He came to me one day and said he had forgotten his watch, and as it looked very bad for a professional man to appear without one, he asked me to lend him mine for half-an-hour. (Laughter.)' I got back the watch after a great deal of trouble. It was only borrowed for a short time, and it was 17 days before I received it. (Laughter.) In July, 1857, I gave my acceptance to him for his accom modation for £lOO. Four or five days before the bill became due I wrote to him, telling him the bill was nearly due, but he said he could not pay. (Laughter.) There were some other bill accommodations in the way of renewals, but it resulted in my having to pay the £lOO. I was sued for the amount by Mr. Cator. Mr. Hawkins—ls the bill in your handwriting ? Witness—The signature only. Mr. Hawkins—What are you ? Witness—l am a merchant from China. Mr. Hawkins—Ah ; but what are you now ? THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1858. Witness—l have established myself as a merchant. Mr. Hawkins—Pid you not come from China to prose cute a large claim against the Government for something like £lBO,OOO ? Witness—No, sir. If you want to know about the claim, I'll tell you. The Government after the first war with China received a large sum to compensate the losses of the merchants, and I considered I had a claim, and I made it. (Laughter.) Mr. Hawkins—What is the amount of your claim ? Witness—Fity-two thousand dollars. Mr. Hawkins—Did you ever consult Mr. Gourley pro fessionally as a medical man ? Witness—Never. Mr. Hawkins—Never I Was there not a member of your household—l need not mention her name—that required a little medical attendance ? (Laughter.) Witness—Yes. (Laughter.) Mr. Hawkins—When that attendance ceased was there not another member of the fatally ? (Laughter.) W itness— Yes. Mr. Hawkins—A little baby was born there? Witness—Yes. Mr. Hawkins—Did you not ask Mr. Gourley to give the lady medicine ? Witness—He may have given her something for the bowel complaint. (Laughter.) Mr. Hawkins—Yes, but after the baby was born the bowel complaint ceased, did it not ? (Laughter.) Witness—Yes. (Loud laughter.) Mr. Hawkins—You got your spoons back, did you not ? Witness—Yes. (Laughter.) Mr. Hawkins—Andyour watch too ? Witness—Yes, after 17 days. Mr. Hawkins—Did you not press the defendant for in troductions to influential parties ? Witness—l never asked him to introduce me to any members of the Government. He said he had got friends in high quarters, from the Duke of Cambridge downwards, and that Lord Derby was his relation. (Laughter.) I was a stranger in the country, and I thought he was one of the great men of the land. (Laughter.) Mr. Robinson—Did you know that the defendant was a medical man? Witness—No. Mr. Robinsbn—Who attended the lady on the occasion of her confinement ? Witness—Mr. Gardener—Here's his bill and I paid it. ;Laughter.) Mr. F. Cator said he obtained the payment of the bill from the plaintiff by process of law. Mr. Hawkins then addressed the jury for the defendant in a very humorous speech, and concluded by calling Mr. Gourley, who said—l am a consulting surgeon, and reside at St. John's-wood. I first knew the plaintiff in 1856. I called at the house where he resided first for the purpose of inquiring for a friend of mine who formerly lived there. He told me he did not know where he had gone, but he would endeavour to find out for me if I called again. He then invited me into his drawing-room. A friendship ensued, and he told me he had 'a claim on the Government for £lBO,OOO. In October, 1856, he asked me to see his man-servant professionally. I attended. He then wrote to me stating that there was something the matter with his maidservant, and wished me to attend her. I attended her up to her confinement. (Laughter.) I attended her afterward s for about 9or 10 months. She lived in Rustomjee's house. My house was two miles from plaintiff's house. He used to press me to visit him. He said I did not come often enough—that the house was hell fire :when I was not there. He could only get peace when I was there. (Laughter,) I procured him an introduction to the Earl of Clarendon. I was acquainted with the Duke of Cambridge, and through my exertions he obtained interviews with some of the other Cabinet Ministers. We had some talk on money matters, and he said when he got his claim settled I should have 1500. When the bill was drawn it was for mutual accommodation, as the plaintiff was in want of funds. The witness then explained the circumstances attending the drawing of the bill. Touching the spoons, I happened to have a few friends to see me then, and I borrowed the spoons ; but there is not the slightest founds tion for the supposition that a relative of mine ever had them. (Laughter.) With respect to his watch, I did borrow it, but it was because I had had an accident with my own. I have four watches. (Laughter.) One of the watches • was given to my grandmother by a relative of Lord Derby's. (Laughter.) • Mr. Robinson—Then the watch, And not yourself, is the relative of Lord Derby. (Laughter.) Counsel for both parties having addressed the jury, The Learned Judge summed up the evidence. and The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE C. J. ROWS. This bankrupt was described as a hotel-keeper, of the White Horse Inn, Uxbridge, and to-day was appointed for his last examination. The balance-sheet, by Mr. March, Basinghall-street, shows a surplus, July, 1856, £221 14s. Debtor to unsecured creditors, £3,153 10s. ; to ditto holding security, £2,287. Profit, £682. Creditor by debtors, good, £62; doubtful, £34 10s. Property, £366 ; property held by creditors, £3,000. Losses, £1,352. Trade expenses, £941. The bankrupt passed—Mr. Pook, for the assignees, not opposing. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE ROOK. This bankrupt was described as of Gibraltar-walk, Bethnal-green, and to-day was appointed for consideration of his certificate. Mr. Pook, from the office of Mr. Riches, Coleman-street, appeared for the assignees, and said that the bankrupt had been in confinement since June last on a creditor's debt, and had not been able to assist the creditors in getting in his estate, and he was anxious for an adjournment to enable him to do so. His Honour said that it was not only the bankrupt's duty towards his creditors, but to his owu advantage, for hiut to do so ; but as it was with the consent of the bankrupt and not opposed by the assignees, an adjournment might be taken. IN RE DUNHAM. This bankrupt was described as of the Doctor Johnson Tavern, Fleet-street, and came up for his certificate. There was no opposition. His Honour remarked that the bankrupt was before the Court in 1856, when he owed £1,500, and no dividend had been paid. On that occasion the certificate had been sus pended for twelve months. He now came before the Court owing £1,606, and, in this instance also, there would be no dividend. Mr. Lucas said there had been a severe loss, as the bankrupt had expended £1,400 on the premises and he could only obtain £4OO or £.500. His Honour said the bankrupt, after his first failure, began with a deficiency of £l9, and incurred his present debts in seven months. There could be no pretence for his entering into such a speculation ; and had there been any opposition he would not have granted protection. He (his Honour) was of opinion that it was a fraud on the credi tors, and very disgraceful. The certificate—third class— would be suspended for 12 months from July, with pro tection. JUDGMENTS ADJOURNED. In the cases of J. Levy, merchant at various places in England and abroad, and in that of G. Thomas, of Mont pelier-street, Walworth, the judgments were adjourned. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.) _ . AUCTION SALES , -IMPORTANT TO WINE MERCHANTS.' LINTOTT V. NORRIS. In this case plaintiff is a wine merchant, and defendant is an auctioneer and wine and spirit broker of the City. Plaintiff sought to recover a sum of £2 15s. 9d. for damages sustained under the following circumstances : Having attended a public sale of some case wines—i.e, foreign bottled wines in bond, at which defendant pre sided, plaintiff purchased three lots, the cases being sold by the auctioneer as each containing three dozen of wine. Plaintiff purchased the wine at so much per dozen, and paid for the same. In one case he discovered 29 bottles short. He now claimed the value of the wine and the duty he had paid upon it. His Honour could hardly see how plaintiff claimed the duty. He should not liave paid it. •Plaintiff—lt is imperative. The Customs compel us to pay the duty upon the quantity actually landed, without reference to what may be in the case at the time of delivery out of bond. • His Honour—But, surely, you had an opportunity to examine the lots before buying? Plaintiff—No. That is unusual with cased wines. A sample bottle is produced at the sale, from which, after tasting, we buy. I called upon Mr. Norris and stated my complaint to him, and he said that he had sold the wine for a person abroad, and that I had better summon the wharfinger. For the 'defence it was urged that plaintiff had purchased upon the terms in the catalogue, at all risks. The catalogue was produced, and the cases were entered therein as five dozen. Again, defendant was merely an agent, and his principals were Messrs. Fowes and Edwards, of Mincing lane. Plaintiff—Had Mr. Norris told me that, I should have called upon those gentlemen, who were highly respectable, and would have done me instant justice. His Honour said, upon one point plaintiff could recover, as he had sworn that defendant did not disclose his princi pal, and was therefore responsible. - Defendant thought plaintiff had allowed a considerable time to elapse before he made his claim. He should have examined his bargain, and laidhis complaint within a week. Plaintiff—l did not clear the goods till some time after wards. Evidence was then given of the fact that the deficiency was as stated by plaintiff. His Honour was of opinion that plaintiff was clearly en titled to recover. A moderate deficiency would not perhaps have been objected to. But hero there was a vacuum of more than two dozen. Perhaps plaintiff should have ex amined his bargain sooner, but the defendant should have known that the cases described in his catalogue as contain ing three dozen actually were full. IMPORTANT QUESTION UNDER THE CARRIERS' ACT.- FARDELL V. MOSS. This was an action to recover freight and charges upon a case of glass. Defendant pleaded that he should not be called upon to pay until plaintiff had settled a claim he had against him for damages sustained through the breakage of some of the glass by plaintiffs' servants. Plaintiff insisted that his claim should be paid in full. His Honour said it was a very important question, but defendant had not pleaded a set-off, and consequently the verdict would be for plaintiff for the full amount. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CHARGE OF PICKING 0 CKETB .—J ohn Carter was chraged with attempting to pick the pocket of a person unknown, under the following circumstances:— Charles Robson, a porter in the employ of Messrs. Fetter and Galpin, printers, of Ludgate-hill, said that about eleven o'clock OIL the previous night he wtis in Leicester-square, .when he saw the prisoner in company with two females and a drunken gentleman, the latter of whom the prisoner had got against the wall and was fumbling his pockets about. Suspecting that his intention was to rob the gen tleman, he watched him for a few minutes, and saw the prisoner leave hastily, putting something into his pocket as he did so, and he then started off as fast as he could through a court. He called 114 F, and gave him into his custody. He saw him searched and two handkerchiefs found on him. Pigott, 114 F, confirmed a part of the above evidence. Prisoner said it was all a mistake. He always carried two handkerchiefs ; one for use, the other, a white one, for ornament. The prisoner's father here stepped forward, and said he was in business as a dyer, and that his son had worked with him up to eight in the evening. Mr. Bingham said he would have him suggest to his son not to be so incautious as to be again in the company of females, and to be seen fumbling the pockets of a drunken gentleman and then to run away. He would also advise him for the future to carry only one handkerchief. He should remand him for a week, but would take the father's bail in the sum of VO for his being forthcoming if anything should be heard relating to the handkerchiefs. THIS DAYS MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. During the present week the arrivals of English wheat, coastwise, have been only 1,520 quarters. Fresh up, to day, by land carriage, the receipts were limited, conse quently the show of samples was small. For most kinds, however, the demand was in a sluggish state, at Monday's currency. Foreign wheat—the imports of which are 5,070 quarters —changed hands slowly, but we have no alteration to notice n prices. Floating cargoes of grain supported last week's quota. tions. There was a good demand for malting barley, at full quotations, but other kinds mot a dull inquiry. Malt realised former terms, with a moderate inquiry. The oat trade ruled somewhat heavy, and damp parcels were rather lower. Beans, peas, and flour sold at full prices. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley Malt. Oats. Flour English 1,520 I 1,990 I 1,390 ' 210 740 Irish Foreign 5,070 8,580 52,730 } 430skv. 1 1,080 bls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Our markets continue to be extensively, supplied with each kind of meat, and the trade rules heavy, as follows : Per 81bs. by the Carcass. • s. d. s. d. Inferior Beef 2 6to 2 10 Mid. d 0..: .. 3 oto 3 4 Pra.larg.edo. 3 6 to, 3 10 Do. sxna4l do. 4 oto 4 4 Large pork.. 2 6to 3 4 d. s. d. Infr. Mutton.,2 Bto 3 2 Mid. do 3 4to 3 8 Prime do. 3 10 to 4 4 Veal 3 4to 4 2 Small pork BOROUGH HOP. There is a moderate, but by no no means active, demand for good and fine new hops, and last week's prices are well supported. All other kinds of hops are dull, at barely late rates. Mid and East Kent pockets 7os to 120 s per cwt. Weald of Kent do s2s to 68s „ Sussex do 46s to 60s „ COLONIAL. TEA.-At the public sale of this article, about 2,000 packages of Assam sold at full values. The China teas were offered without reserve, and prices ruled about ld. per lb. less 'than previously current rates. SUGAR.—This market has been dull. The finer descrip tions have maintained their value, but all inferior sorts may be quoted about 6d. to ls. per cwt. lower. In the Refined Market a very limited business has been transacted at about previous quotations. Corrr.E.—There is little alteration to report in prices, and the demand for all qualities is very inactive. RlCE.—Privately very few transactions hgve been entered into, and the market has been very inactive. At public sale a few lots of Bengal sold at slight reduction on former quotations. FRUIT.--There has been a fair enquiry on the part of the trade for both new currants and Valentia raisins, and pre. viols prices are fully supported. SPlCES.—Pepper, pimento, and ginger have met a fair enquiry, and fully l a t e ra t es were realised at public sale. SALTPETRE.—There has been a good demand for most qualities, and prices have shown a further improvement. WooL.—The public sales of foreign and colonial wool are proceeding with considerable Animation, and the rates rea lised are quite equal to those current at the commencement of the sales. T A 1170 W: --The market continues firm, and since the ad vices from St. Petersburg, annou ncing the stoppage of the navigation, prices have had an upward tendency. P.Y.C. on the spot, .50s. 3d. to 50s. 6d. ; and 50r$. 6d. to 50$. 9d, for spring delivery, LITERATURE. The Laird of Norlaw : a Scottish Story. By the author of " Margaret Maitland," " &c. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. Among the various writers of fiction of the pre sent day, there is none whose novels possess a greater charm, from their simplicity, freshness, and purity, than the author of the present volumes. This story is superior in many points to the last production, although it does not equal in merit some of the earlier novels, which attracted so much attention at the time of their publication. " Adam Grwme" and " Harry Muir" are unquestionably the standard achievements of their author, which, in brilliancy, originality, and elevated tone, it would be difficult to equal, far less surpass. " The Laird of Norlaw" presents various characters to our notice, some of which are excellent in their delinea tion. The contrast between the two widowed mothers, Mary of Melmar and the Mistress, is very effective in its striking description. By the com bination of skill in design, and delicacy in execu tion, this record of some passages in the lives of two families, in a remote village, is invested with a romantic charm, and imbued with a lively interest. The varying shades of character, the differing points of disposition, and the separate traits of temper, exhibit a delicacy of definition that is rarely en countered. The three young Livingstones of the house of Norlaw are not more distinct natures than are often met with in the members of the same family, but there is no exaggeration, no extrava gance in detail, such as too often mars the effect of some eloquent descriptions in novels. It is a very interesting passage in which Cosmo meets the object of his weary search, the heroine oflis youth ful dreams, the fair lady-, the memory of whose beauty and grace, had lingered in the minds of all who had known her. Mary of Melmar had been the magic name which had inspired Cosmo's father through life. He had wandered far and wide to seek her, and convey to her the glad news that her father had at last reinstated her in her rights. He had been unsuccessful in his search ; it was re served for his youngest son, who inherited his re fined tastes, his sensitive nature, and his love for the chivalric and romantic, to fulfil the unrealised dream of a life, in the restoration of her whose name had been the last words he uttered on the bed of death. Madame Roche, as the long-lost heiress Was then called, was very different in her widowed age from the fair maiden who had left her native village its far-famed ornament ; but the beauty which glorified her youth spared some choice rem nants to grace her age, and the friends who beheld her after the lapse of a generation had no difficulty in recognising her. It is only natural and true to life that the " Mistress" should have looked with anything but complacency on her rival, as she had long years ago discovered her to have been, not only suddenly reappearing on the scene to put aside the claims of her eldest son—(for after Mary the Livingstones were to succeed to Melmar)—but, as it were supplanting her in the affections of her youngest child, her favourite Cosmo. He was his mother's pride, and it grieved her to find him dwelling so constantly on the merits and misfor tunes of her enemy. Cosmo loved his mother, but as he grew older and his feelings changed from those of the boy, he naturally dwelt on the higher and nobler sentiments which animated his soul—he recognised congenial tastes and kindred spirits. His mother was far below the level of Madame Roche, however worthy might be her native dis position •, she wanted refinement, feeling, and a thousand nameless qualifications before she could be fitted to become, as she desired, the confidante and companion of her gifted son. Desiree, the youngest daughter of Madame Roche, is a graceful young girl, full of the esprit and fascination of her native land, joined with deeper and truer feelings which take root in the sterner country that gave her mother birth. The circumstances of Cosmo's first meeting with her are very interesting, and their various rencounters are ingeniously arrayed. He did not discover his lost treasure when he saw the daughter in Edinburgh, however ; he had to wait long, and wander far, be fore he was made aware that the old lady he had admired at a distance in her humble sphere, when he was located in a small town of France, was the missing heiress of Melmar. The author has truly sketched the years succeeding this grand discovery as anything but happy. It is rarely the case in actual existence, that when one has realised some dream, or fulfilled some desire, peace and prosperity reign in the home, and happiness is complete and unsullied. Vanity and vexation of spirit are far more likely guests in the abode of those who make earthly idols, and imagine human perfectability. Such was pre-eminently the state of things at Mel mar andNorlaw, and when Huntley returned from his distant wanderings on the other side of the world, he was dismayed and horrified at the changes. He was too honourable to begrude to the widow and orphans their rights, though they debarred him from being the pessessor of a smiling domain ; but he grieved over the estrangement that reigned at home. Fortunately for the present peace and future welfare of all concerned, Huntley possessed a brave spirit and a generous heart. He would not be daunted, he would not take offence, and he thus contrived to be the mediator in disputes, the mana ger of difficulties, and the harbinger of happiness. He had been constant to his early love, Katie Logan, the minister's daughter, a sweet, gentle maiden, whose presence seems to shed a light over the pages in which she appears. There is something peculiarly attractive and agreeable to the tastes of the reader in her patience in trial, in her sweetness of disposition, and her unfailing ex ertions to serve her young brothers and sisters. It was the idea of Madame Roche, who was still somewhat visionary, to render poetic justice to Huntley, by arranging a marriage between him and her daughter Desiree; this project, to which she obstinately adhered, occasioned universal dis may, and it was a common cause of rejoicing when the young Laird of Norlaw resolutely declined the proposal, and announced his intention of remaining constant to his father's name, and true to the love of his youth. After the death of Marie, the ill fated eldest child of Madame Roche, Cosmo and Desiree were united—f a t e , w hi c h h a d seemed at first so propitious to their hopes, had frowned darkly for some time, and young and inexperienced as they appeared to strangers, they had both been inured in some degree to suffering. There are some characters met with who are worthy of remark. Cameron, the stern Highlander, who was regarded as cold and callous by the careless looker-on, but who was possessed of deep feelings and romantic sentiment; there is som e thi ng touching and singu larly melancholy in this grave and austere man being roused from his indifference, to awaken to a soft and holy influence, only to be sunk anew into a lonelier and darker isolation. Another person of a totally distinct nature, who is ably depicted, is Margaret, the old servant of the Mistress of Norlaw. She is the very type and image of a faithful depen dant. Rude and uncultured as she was, she presents a picture in her devotion, and attachment in suffer ing and sorrow that courts and cities might find it difficult to equal. Patrick, the second son of the Livingstones, is inferior to his brothers, but a fair specimen of an average class among his country men. Altogether many may find reason to be pleased with this work. It has the merit of truth fulness, and may lay claim to much interest in its narrative. Those works must ever be the most successful which seem to respond to the genuine feelings of human nature, which. are lofty in their aim, pure in their purpose, and sincere in their spirit. If they do not shine with the splendour of a sublime genius, they cannot fail to be attractive from their beautiful simplicity.; and it is for these excellent qualities that the productions of this au - thor are peculiarly celebrated. In " The Laird of Norlaw" first-rate talent, exquisite taste, and con siderable knowledge of character combine to create a charming novel. THIS DAI'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 12.—Wind this day at noon, E. ; strong breeze and fine. Cam, Nov 11.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Britannia, for Trinidad. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 10.—Wind E.—Arrived—Childa, from Sierra Leone. CARDIFF, Nov. 10.—Wind N.E.—Sailed---Bosphorus, for Monte Video. PORTSMOUTH, Nov.ll.—Arrived—Nithroy, from Roche fort for Lerwick. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 11.—Wind E—Arrived—Herald, from Callao. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Wind, E. Arrived—Duke of Cornwall,. steamer, from Loudon South-Western, steamer, from Havre ; I'Etoile, from Carentan. Sailed—Comet, for Madeira. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind, S.E. Off—Devon, from Bombay. Arrived—Louise Eugenie, from Nantes. Arrived, Nov. 11— Maid of Athens, from Valparaiso ; Shark, from Para ; Afazeppa, from Charense ; N Union, f rom m or icq ; Villa, from Alexandria; Mutlah, from 'Cal cutta. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPHe) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Wind E., tide four hour's ebb, fine. Arrived, Nov. 11—Johd Celma, from Gravelines ; Humi lity, from Guernsey. , Arrived, Nov. 1 2—Margareta, and Hello Ronde, from Dantsie; Amble, from Aarhus. Sailed, Nov. 12—Albion, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Friday Morning. Wind S.S.E., fresh. Passed—lNTipsguit, from Callao, for London'; Ann Best, from Buenos Ayres, for Hull.