The Sun. — London, England, 1846-11-21 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENTS (for 0 the application of certain RaL^s towards the improve meats authorised by the Westminster Improvement Act, 1845, and to extend the improvements). Notice Is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensulag Session .or an Act or Acts to alter, amend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act passed in the 9th year of her present Malesty, intituled "An Act for Improving parts of the city of Westminster." And it is proposed in or by the said Act or Acts to confer further and adc;itional powers o 1 the Commissioners appointed cr hereafter to be appointed, under the authority of the said Act, for the purpose of enabling them more effectually to carry out the improvements thereby authorised, and for extending the same; stild it is finther proposed to authorise and empower the said Commissioners to take down and remove a certain house and buildings situate in the Broad Sanctuary, between West minster Abbey and Flood-street, and at present occupied by Mr. Dean, and also that part of the north aide of Tothill-street, from the east end thereof to, and inclusive of number 55 in that street, with the gateway adjoining thereon westward, and the lands, stabling. and tenements, in the rear of Tothill-street aforesaid ; and also to take down, remove, and temporarily or permanently shut up Flood-street, Great Smith-street, Princes-street, Princes-place,Dean-street,Orchard street, St. Ann-street, Old Pye-street, New Pye-street, Pear-street, Cottage-court, Union-court, New square, George-court, and James court, and all houses, yards, lands, courts, buildings, and premises which are bounded on the north by Orchard-street, on the south by Great Peter-street, on the east by Great Smith-street, and on the west by Strutton Ground, all in the several parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist, in the City and Liberties of West minster, in the county of Middlesex, or one of them ; and also to divert, alter, stop up, or enclose, or widen and improve such parts of the present streets, courts, alleys, ways, or passages, and void ground as will form entrances to or will communicate with the intended new street or streets authorised to be made by the Westminster Improvement Act, 1845, or as shall be necessary to be stopped up and enclosed or widened and improved for the purposes of the said Act or Acts ; and also to raise or lower the ground of any streets or ways or subways which shall communicate with the said intended street or streets, or as shall be necessary to be raised or lowered for the paiposes of the said Act or Acts, and to make such alterations in the levels, drains, and sewerage, subways, roads, footways, and pavements of such streets as may require such alterations ; and also to empower the said Commissioners to treat, contract, and agree with the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, the Governors of the Grey Coat Hospital, in Tothill-fields, of the royal founds • tion of Queen Anne, the governors or trustees of the hospital of Saint Margaret's, in the city of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, of the foundation of King Charles, the master and fel lows of Corpus Christi or Bennett's College, Cambridge, and the governors or trustees of Emanuel Hospital, or Lord and Lady Deere's charity estate, the governor or trustees of Emery Hill's almshouses, the trustees of Palmer's:Charity, the governors or tams tees of the Blue Coat School, or other governors or trustees of any charity estate or other incapacitated persons, whose lands or pro perty may be required for the said intended street or streets, or other improvements connected therewith, or contemplated by the said Act or Acts for the sale to or the settlement upon them of new houses or buildings upon the proposed line of the said streets or either of them, in lieu of all or any of the land'', houses, or property intended to be taken from them by the said Commissioners for the purposes of the said Act or Acts, . .. . THE WEATHER.--SuN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 20. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48; Highest. 55 ; Noon, 52. BAROXETER, 29.33. And It is further intended by the said Act or Acts to obtain powers for the purchase of lands and houses, either by compulsion or agree ment, through or into which the said proposed improvements will be made or carried. And also such lands and houses within the said parishes aforesaid, and to such extent as may be necessary for carry ing out the before-mentioned improvements and all other improve ments contemplated by the said Act or Acts. And it is also intended to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges in any manner connected with or incident to such lands and bosses which would in any manner impede or interfere with the objects aforesaid, and to confer other rights and privileges. And it is further proposed, in or by the said Act or Acts, to take powers to authorise the levying, collecting, and appropriation or application of any rates or increased rates, or of any annual or other sum or sums of :money :out of, or in addition to, the rates levied and collected, or hereafter to be levied and collected, under and by virtue of the powers and provisions of an Act made and passed in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George 11., intituled "An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor in the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evan gelist, in the city of Westminster, and for cleansing the streets and repairing the highways within the said parishes," or otherwise, and to apply the same towards the improvements authorised by the said Westminster Improvement Act, 1845. And also, so far as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, to repeal, alter, amend, or extend the powers and prouisions of the last recited Act of 25 George 11., and to confer, vary, or extinguish other rights and pri vileges. Dated this tenth day of November, 1846. BRIDGES, MASON, and BRIDGES, Red Lion-square, Solicitors for the Bill. J. PARSES, Parliamentary Agent, 21, Great George-street, Westminster. IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS. Now ready, in 2 vols., price 21s. bound, CANADA and the CANADIANS in 1846 By Lieut.-Colonel Sir RICHARD BONNYCASTLE. There is excellent advice, as well as information of a practical kind, which ought to be treasured up by tho intending emigrant, to whom we recommend a perusal of Sir Richard's book, as giving graphic views of the present toil for future independence, which all must encounter."—Morning Chronicle. Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK BY MRS. lIOFLAND. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., DANIEL DENNISON AND THE CUMBERLAND STATESMAN. By Mrs. 110FLAND. " We do not remember one of Mrs. Hofland'a productions from which we have received so much pleasure as from these posthumous volumes. They are full of interest, and whilst they are marked by the same plain good sense and cheerful practical piety of her former works, they are written with more power both of humour and cha racter."—Britannia. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., - RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Raul of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favou , s, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instrLctions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Lavenu's new Opera, entitled LORETTA ; A Tale of Seville. Don Carlos, Mr. Harrison ; Ferdinand, Mr. Ring ; Philippe., Mr. Borrani ; Provost Marshal, Mr. Howell ; Don Juanito, Mr. WsMile; Loretta, Madame Anna Bishop ; Florinda, Miss Poole ; Oaetana, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. To conclude with DER EREISCHUTZ. Adolph, Mr. D. W. King ; Caspar, Mr. Stretton ; Zamiel, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Linda, Miss Rainforth ; Rose, Miss Poole. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed , an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W. 0, • Farren ; 11Ir. lashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De Vere, Mr. Holl ; Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howe ; Mr. Hardman, Mr. Rogers ; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster; Tom Tilley, Mr. Ituckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Glover ; Clarioel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; Mary Oddington, Miss P. Hot ;.on ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julla Bennett. After wbich a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Roll; Sir Arthur Lovel, 11Ir. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. During the evening the Band will perform three Polkas—" Caro !intim," " Juris," and " Marten ;" " Esterhazy" (Walzer) ; "Les Travesllsseniens" (Overture) ; and " La Sonnambula." To conclude with the Farce of HIS LAST LEGS. Characters by Messrs. Hudson, 8011, Tilbury, Mrs. Clifford, &c. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. • On MONDAY EVENING, Nov. 23, Will be performed Le Brun's Petite Comedie of LES RIVAUX D'EUX MEMES. Dorval, M. Rhozevil ; Folleville, M. Langeval ; Dupont, M. Durnery ; Lise, Aldlia. Brohan. After which, LE COMEDIEN D'ETAMPES. Dorival, M. Per let ; Madeleine, Mdlle. A. Kkin. To conclude with Regnard's admired Play of LES FOLIES AMOUREUSES. Albert, 31. Cartigny ; Eraste, M. Felix ; Crispin, 31. Lucien ; Agathe, Mdlle. C. Vallee ; Lisette, Mdlle. Brohan. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, as. Eal. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the pertbrmanee commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER TILE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which, the popular Musical Comedy of SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. Admiral Franklin, Mr. Lambert; Charles Franklin, Mr. Selby ; Billy Lackaday, Mr. Wright; Sandford, Mr. Worrell ; Curtis, Mr. Cullenford ; Mrs. Bell, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Eugenia, Mrs. Yates ; Laura, Miss Woolgar ; Susan, Miss Brooks. To conclude with r. Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS. GAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs. Culleritord, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss M. Taylor, and Miss Ellen Chaplin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, In three parts, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of .‘ Giselle." The principal characters personified by Miss Cieorgiana Smithson, Madame Albertazzl, Miss Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Runner, Peren, &c. After which a new farce, entitled KEEPING A PLACE. Major Spikespur, Mr. Granby; Crocus, Mr. Compton ; Miss Dorothea Danzers. Mrs. Fosbroke ; Tidy, Miss Laporte. To conclude with the - Musical Entertainment of THE QUAKER. In which Messrs. Barker, Leffler, Homier, Compton, Miss Grant, Mrs. Fosbroke, &c. will perform. OLYMPIC TIIEATItE. Mr. George Bolton, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be produced an entirely New • and Original Comedy, in five acts, entitled LIFE. Mr. Orstan, Mr. Archer ; Frank Orstan, Mr. Leigh Murray; Sir Thomas Menton, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Sir Jacob Smaliwit, Mr. George Bolton; Sir Robert Folair, Mr. J. Cowell ; Cancara, Mr. Wilkinson ; Lady Bait, Mrs. C. Jones ; Fanny Archer, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Emily Orstan, Mrs. Gordon. To conclude with a new grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. In rehearsal, and shortly to he produced, Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedy of TIIE WILD GOOSE CHASE. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Brilliant reception, and triumphant success. Mr. BAYNTUN ROLT'S first appearance on THURSDAY Evening last, in the character of " Macbeth," having elicited the most enthusiastic cheers from an exceedingly crowded and fashionable audience, he will repeat the part Tnis Evxaxao and on TUESDAY Next. Private Boxes, 11. I is. 6d. ; to be had at Mitchell's Royal Library, OM Bond-street, and at the Theatre. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Baynttin Rolt ; Macdntf, Mr. Jphimon ; Banquo, Mr. Frede ricks ; Hecate, Mr. Neville ; Witelcs, Messrs. Webb, Lewis, and Mrs. Daly; Lady Macbeth, Miss Richardson ; Principal Singing Witches, Miss Louisa Lyons and Miss Terrey. After which, the popular Barlett? of THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Peter Spyk, Mr. Webb; Gertrude (with Songs), Miss Louisa Lyons (from the Theatre Royal Covent Garden.) To conclude with a Ballet of Action, entitled DER CHAMOIS YAGER; or, The Fiend of Earth. The characters by the Deulin N ORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COM PANY. Established in 1809, and Incorporated by Royal Charter. Loudon Offices-4, New Bank-buildings, City, and 10, Pall-mall East Chief Office-64, Princes-street, Edinburgh. Capital, One Million, Hilly subscribed. PRESIDENT—HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G. LONDON BOARD. SIR pyrER LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman. FRANCIS WARDEN, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Alexander Cockburn, Esq. I Charles Hertslet, Esq. John Connell, Esq. Isaac Sewell, Esq. William Petrie Craufard, Esq. I Walt. A. Urquhart, Esq. John Irving Glennie, Esq. George Webster, Esq. BEN.f A3ILN" BOYD, Esq. I Resident. MARK BOYD, Esq. Prospectuses, with Tables of BatQs, and full particulars may be obtained of the Secret v, tar 4. New Bank-buildings, and of the , Actuary, John King, Esq., 10, Pall-mall East. HENRY T. THOMSON, Secretary. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Pi oprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Qneen, Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Immense attraction. The Champion Vaulters. Herr Amidlo Neuperte, the great Dutch Bottle Equi librist. Second Week of the grand successful Magical Spectacle, introducing the Syrian Camels and Deer. THIS EYE ICING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en itlt d THE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. In which will be introduced a Wild Stag-Hunt, by living Deer, and numerous attractive scenic effects. Entire change in the Scenes o' the CIRCLE. To conclude with a favourite AFfERPIECE. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six au 1 commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. WIND S.W., morning, rain and stormy: afternoon, fine HIGH W &TER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. honing .. 5 minutes after 3. I Evening .. 23 minutes aLer S. PATENT ELASTIC BANDS. OR umvirtptor&WATmcEDsNer TO BE AFFECTED BY TIIE COLD OR CLIMATE. These Rings or Bands itt B 4 , N e - d instead of Tape or String, for holding Papers anti Parcels of every .I, ycrilition. One of tliese Ring instantlyBr:eace round a Packet of Papers, a Roll of Maps, Prints, musk securely, saving the time and,troul7le holding the same firmly and great addition or reduction without an° loss Yet allowing of very They are 'well adapted for Garters, y(a°"sizoer ecimPaaestZ:est7ea which requires little stretching) : also for the Waist e b r e l in- - ---- ""'"" the body; Surgical Bandages , and fora varietyd different tarts of Manufacturing purposes. of aurgleal and In addition to the above, there is a great variety of uses, too h o me roux to mention, for which these bands may b e applied with ad -- ?Age, and new applications will constantly sugge s t themselves ;liana; In use. They may be had of two thicknesses, and are sold in boxes or six dozen each. of warted sizes, price 6d. per box and upw ar d s. Bands may be had to order of various widths and and thicknesses. ss,„. The above articles are sold by all Stationers and Dealers in Metalic Pens. Wholesale and for Exportation by Perry and Co.. at 37, Red Lion-square, London; and also by Charles ZdAciuto3ll and CO., manuficturer,s, Manchester and Birmingham. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21 9 1846 PHILIPS will have the satisfaction of reflecting that, during the long period he has represented Manches ter, and which has been one of stirring national in terest, that he has discharged the onerous trust im posed upon him, and repeatedly renewed by the con fidence and esteem of his fellow-townsmen, with un flinching fidelity, great public spirit, and unassailable integrity. Few can be aware, none, completely so, short of actual experience, of the severity of the duties which attach to the membership of so vast a seat of commerce as Manchester. They admit of scarcely any relaxation, and the nature of the questions which have of late so prominently occupied the attention of the Legislature, has considerably enhanced the labour incidental to the representation of the great commercial and manufacturing cities of the empire. It was from a liberal sense of the incessant fatigue and domestic interruption to which their re presentatives were subjected, that, years ago, Liver pool was induced to be at the expense of maintaining an office in London, with secretaries, with the ex press view of lightening the Parliamentary duties of their Members. Our readers know that the consti tuency of Manchester were very desirous to return Mr. COBDEN at the next election. The desire was a most natural one, and equally honourable to them selves and the object of their wishes. Theirs was the city which generated the monster League, whose his • tory and triumphant peaceful policy are in delibly incorporated in the annals of our country, to be ever the theme of admiration with the present and future ages ; theirs was the city where thou sands thronged around the master mind which cham pioned the great cause of free trade with all the world. Nothing, therefore, could better have evinced their feelings of gratitude, and laudable aspiration for public distinction, than that the people of Manchester, at the first fitting opportunity, shouldhave shown them selves ambitious of returning RICHARD COBDEN to St Stephen's. And it is not improbable that, had the League up to this time failed, instead of accomplish ing its object, RICHARD COBDEN would not have declined the invitation which the electors of Manchester made to him; since, as Member for that celebrated focus of commercial energy, the greatest public weight would have been imparted to his powerful crusade against the forces of monopoly. But the cause, for which RICHARD COBDEN so nobly fought, needed not the aid of such a demonstration, Its own rectitude, when elucidated by the convincing reasonings of the Member for Stockport and his chosen band, proved amply sufficient to turn the enemy's flank, and win the victory. We are, there fore, glad that Mr. COBDEN, whose health was much impaired by the struggle in which he was engaged, and whose absence from the House of Commons we should esteem a national loss, has decided to remain Member for Stockport, in which public relation his chances of convalescence are certainly greater than they would be, were he to be elected for Manchester. This city has, however, done the next best thing, and has manifested, by the adoption of the resolution at the meeting we have adverted to, its keen apprecia tion of the virtues and services of public men. The resolution was grounded upon their " grateful ac knowledgment of the distinguished services of JoHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., in the recent struggle for com mercial freedom, and the hig►h sense which they entertain of his talents and public conduct." This eulogium has been deservedly gained. A committee was constituted to carry their intentions into effect ; the list of the committee contained 340 names. Mr.BaionT must feel certain of success. Mr. GEORGE WILSON, who was in the chair, observed, " that though he had some experience of election and other committees, niver in his life had he met with one possessing the like strength and influence." Mr. BRIGHT made a long speech which was most favour ably received. Alluding to popular representation, the Hon. Member said : a minute account of the former history of the deranged person," and if the "skilful person" certifying, declares that in his opinion the party i 3 " kb, wring under mental delusions," that is quite sufLicet, without setting forth those delusions in the certificate. It is not necessary to set forth delusions, be cause, says my Lord DENMAN, " many things may be considered by some persons as delusions, to which ;others would not give the same character. That would depend on mere difference of opinion." Such being the state of the law, what is to prevent the incarceration of the judge himself? Two bold bad " skilful persons" travel down in the same train with my Lord DENMAN, who, going a circuit, is about to try a case in which they are interested. They stop the train at some intermediate station " convenient" to a madhouse ; they certify that their fellow traveller is labouring under " certain delusions." According to my Lord DENMAN'S own showing, it would be "monstrous to expect that all the par ticulars of these delusions" should be set forth in the certificate, and the judge is himself incarcerated as a madman, and if he sues out his habeas corpus, he cannot be discharged, for in the case of Mrs. SHUTTLEWORTH the Court of Queen's Bench has decided that such certificate is sufficient. Let it not be supposed that such is a mere extreme case. In the case of a judge, parties, most probably, would not proceed to such extremities, although in the case of an important witness they, no doubt, would, and, if the law continues in its present state, will. There is this great fallacy running through the whole of the judgment of Lord DEN MAN. He assumes that the "skilful persons" are also " honest persons." Now let us look to facts. Mr. FLETCHER, the will-forger, was one of Lord DENMAN'S " skilful persons." Would not Mr. FLETCHER, for a consideration, have certified that any person, one, for instance, who thought him dis honest, was labouring under mental delusions ? Is it stretching the truth to imagine that, among the whole host of physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, Mr. FLETCHER might have found his double ? If so, those two might have incarcerated any sane person they chose, without any hope of release. It is true, my Lord DENMAN says that these certificates are not final, that the object of all of them is only to put matters in a train of in quiry. The inquiry to which his Lordship alludes, is the inquiry instituted by the visitors of lunatic asylums, but that inquiry is, to use his Lordship's own words on another occasion, "a mockery, a delusion, and a snare." To show the nature of this inquiry, we refer to an article copied from the Lancet, which will be found in another column, and which is entitled, " Experience in a Private Lunatic Asylum," and there we find that the visitors " came into the ward, accompanied by the house-surgeon and two keepers ; that they 'passed through the ward, in which were twelve patients, without speaking a word, or making an attempt to ascertain whether any of the patients were in a fit state to have their liberty." It stands to reason that such must always be the case. Censidering the immensenumber of patients in every lunatic asylum, and the small number of visitors, it is physically impossible that if the visitors - in the country districts, and Commis= sioners of Lunacy in the metropolitan dis tricts, were to devote twelve hours a day for 365 days in the year to the investigation of individual cases of lunacy within their districts they could pro perly investigate one half of the cases in which, ac cording to Lord DENMAN, it is their duty to put things in . a train of inquiry. The records of our courts of law give us proof of this. There was the case of Mrs. CvairlNG. The "skilful persons " cer tified to her luriacy ; Dr. MILLINGEN received and in carcerated her. The Commissioners during their visits never dreamed that she was not insane, a commission de lunatico was issued against her, and yet so soon as she consented to make a disposition of her property in favour of those who had set the " skilful persons "in motion, the certificate of the " skilful persons " was thrown to the winds. Dr. MILLINGEN was content to accept the guarantee of Master BARLOW, and Mrs. CUMMING, who, according to the " skilful persons" was labouring under delusions was at once set at liberty. How comes it that the ' visitors did not discover the error into which the " skilful persons" had fallen ? How was it that Dr. MILLINGEN, one of the " skilful persons " in Mrs. SHUTTLEWORTH'S case, became so suddenly enlight ened ? Again, there was the case of Mr. CAMPBELL. For fourteen years he was incarcerated as a lunatic upon the certificate of two " skilful persons." At the end of that time he comes into the possession of property, and a commission de lunatico inquirendo is rendered necessary. It is positively an unopposed commission. Mr. CAMPBELL appears before the jury as a matter of course, and on the mere examination of the supposed lunatic so convinced are the jury of the error of the two " skilful persons " that they de clare Mr. CAMPBELL sane and fit to be trusted with the management of his own affairs, and he has now been a free agent for two years, and yet no " skilful persons" have been found willing to run the risk of again testifying to his insanity. Then, again, there is the case of Mr. PATERNOSTER. He was a man of courage and firmness, he battled the watch with the " skilful persons," and beat them. He afterwards entered as a student of the Middle Temple, was called to the bar, and is at this moment a member of Lord DENMAN'S own pro fession. We merely adduce these facts to show the necessity of an alteration in the law of lunacy. We accept the law as it at present stands from the mouth of Lord DENMAN, but we contend that the law re quires alteration—that the principle of that alteration should be that no one should be incarcerated as a lunatic without the institution of some public pre liminary inquiry; and we suggest that the most satisfactory public preliminary inquiry that can be instituted is an inquiry to be instituted by the coroner and his jury, and that the warrant of the coroner should be the only document which should authorise the detention in an asylum of• any alleged lunatic. " The subject of popular representation is one on which I have long and deeply reflected. It has appeared to me that the prosperity of a country does and must always depend, to a great extent, upon the intelligence, and purity, and honesty, of its Government. Ido not agree with some poet who has exclaimed— ' How few of all the ills that men endure, Are those which kings or laws can cure!' I believe, if there is corruption, dishonesty, wickedness, amongst those in high places and those who rule a coun try, it is absolutely impossible that the prosperity of that country can for any long period be preserved. Our Government is what the constituency of the empire makes it ; we have something which approaches at any rate to a popular representation, and I need not tell this meeting that a popular representation may be an instru ment of supreme good to a nation, or it may be an in strument of the foulest and most intolerable tyranny — an instrument of supreme good if it be wielded by an honest intelligent people—an instrument of the foulest tyranny if it be wielded by electors and constituencies depraved and corrupted." With the spirit of these observations our senti ments are in unison. It should not be forgotten, how ever, that, with the representation which we now enjoy, vast reformatory changes have been wrought during the last fifteen years. That it still has its blots and blemishes is unquestion able ; the system of registration is one—but this and others are rather matters of detail than principle, and such as we think there is a sufficiency of popular vigour is the House of Commons to secure the im provement of. No doubt, .hereafter, as wealth and intelligence become more equally and generally diffused, it will be found desirable to enlarge the franchise ; but the English are not given to favour a rapid succession of fundamental changes in the con stitution, particularly without a strong apparent necessity. Moreover, before we set about extending our own franchises of what kind soever, we should place the Irish upon an equality with our selves in these respects. Let Ireland be, in the first instance, invested with the like privileges, Parliamentary and municipal, that are enjoyed by England and Scotland. We can then judge how the mikohine of Government will work with this fresh fusion of popularity in the Legislature, and shall be better enabled to decide both as to the time and the extent to which it may be safe and expedient to widen the base of popular representation. The decision of the Court of Queen's Bench- in the case of Mrs. SMETTLEWORTII is, as affecting the liberty of the subject, one of the most important that has ever been delivered. Lord DENMAN has declared o the law of lunacy to be this, that if any me di ca l man, that medical man being the prop r i e t or o f a lunatic in the incarceration asylum, of therefore any p having su a s e p d direct in terestlunatic, declares that such supposed lunatic is required to be put under the care of some one because such sup posed lunatic labours under mental delusions, a cer• tificate from the medical man to that effect, even if such certificate does not set forth such delusions, is sufficient to authorise the detention' of such lunatic ; and that if that certificate is backed by the certificate of another medical man, stating the person so incar cerated is lunatic, these two certificates are sufficient to authorise the detention, for an indefinite period, of such [supposed lunatic. Far be it from us to dispute the law, as laid down by the Lord Chief Justice of England. Such is the law, and so long as it continues to be the law, it must be obeyed. But then we come back to the public declaration made by Mr. LUSE JAMES HAN SARD, the President of the Society for the Protection of Alleged Lunatics, at the anniversary meeting of the society, in the month of June last, which public declaration was corroborated by Mr. BEN/AMIN BOND CADDELL, M.P., who was present when it was made, and who testified to the truth of it—that those certi ficates of lunacy can be purchased in the market, from medical men, at the rate of ss. each, and from these data we conclude that it is perfectly open to any rascal to get any individual put " out of the way" at the cost of 10s. We will put a case. A cause is entered for trial on a certain day. There is one person whose evidence will determine that cause one way or the other. One of the parties to that cause, on the evening of the day before that on which the trial is to come on, purchases two of these medical certifi cates, and on the morning of the trial arrests and incarcerates the principal witness of his opponent as a lunatic. What is to prevent it ? The certificate merely sets forth that the alleged lunatic is labouring under delusions, without descending into particulars. The cause may be a trial of right of way, the witness may be a very old man. How is it possible to declare that an old man may not be labouring under delusions and that old man may be perfectly sane ? The cer tifier may well declare that he cannot enter into a minute statement, because, to quote the words of Lord DENMAN, " it is impossible to suppose that in all cases whatever, a third party should be able to give It has already been announced that the Pontifical Government had appointed several Commissions, charged with preparing important projects of reform. In maintaining the Commission already appointed by his predecessor, GREGORY XVI., for the amelio ration of the penal and criminal codes, the POPE has added M. Alberghini, Auditor of Rota ; M. Bertoli, Advocate-General of Taxes ; M. Cigog nani, Consistorial Advocate; the Advocates Silvani, of Bologna; M. Pagani, of Imola ; M. Guiliani, of Malrata ; M. Leoncilli of Spoleta ; M. Dionsi, Public Defender ; M. Pagnoncelli, Substitute of the Cham ber, and M. Borghi, Doctor of Laws. The Com mission instituted ad referenda:: to propose ameliorations in provincial and communal govern ment, is composed of M. M. Quaglia, Auditor of Rota; Savelli, Clerk of the Chamber ; Ilertel, Lieute nant of Tribunal ; Pellegrini, Assessor of Tribunal the Marquis Potengiani, President of the Chamber of Commerce ; Count Carleschi, Member of the Congre gation of Revision ; Aldrobandini, Odescalchi, and Torlonia. Nearly all the persons in these Commis sions belong to the moderate party, and occupy by their well-known talents a distinguished place in public estimation. One of them, M. Silvani, formed part of the provisional Government of Bologna in 1831. Madrid papers of the 12th ha ve b een received, but those of the 13th have not yet arrived. They contain I very little news. It appears, ho wever, that the Spanish papers have hit upon a most amusing way of revenging themselves on Count BRESSON for his demand of the interference of the Spanish Court against the Tiempo. The Clamor Publico publishes an address from several loyal Spaniards to the QUEEN, beseeching her MAJESTY to demand satisfaction from the French Government for the many attacks which have been made upon her in the Charivari and other French journals, A letter from Barcelona states that M. GAMINDES, formerly aide-de-camp to General PRIM, and several other Progressists of note, with a Carlist Colonel, named Amax, have taken advantage of the amnesty, and returned to Spain. From I3erga, it is stated, that JUAN TRISTANY, brother of the celebrated chief MOSEN BENITO TRISTANY, has also availed himself of the amnesty. The Progressistas were very active preparing for the approaching elections. The British ship-of-war Vanguard arrived on the 7th from Malaga at Carthagena, where an English corvette and a war-steamer had been lying for some time. A few hours afterwards the Virago came An from Gibraltar, and, the captain having had en in terview with the commander of the Vanguard, left for Malaga. MADamLsA, Nov. 12.—The Three per Cents. were done at 334 ; the Four per Cents. at 211 ; the Five per Cents. at 211 ; the Coupons at 20 ; the Vales at 84 ; and the Debt without Interest at 61. England, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, sa ? l even Algeria, to meet thus, through t he medium written ideas. The same faith, the same hopes in thee. c..)untry, , A, ere rc:A), :ti in tlicii. .1.12.1.ie!':1i Lorgee. , which permitted them to enjoy her soil and to breathet her air, did not forbid them the liberty of speech. Tba continued more than ten years, a nd there was equ al tole ration for all. The partizans of Prince Czartoriski had their organ in the Third May; the Poles who were ocetr. pied with religious questions published the Nationql, the Democratic Society patronised the Democracie Polo naise. Those journals, illegible for us ignorant persolit_a, and assuredly perfectly inoffensive to the peace of t i country, were addressed exclusively to those scattere members of a numerous emigration, to whom tiry spoke of Poland! Whilst Nicholas is endeavouring to denationalize the duchy of Warsaw—whilst he forbids the use of the native language—whim' Austria brutalizes the Galicians , and causes their nobility to be murdered—the Polish language was cultivated in this country, and those differecriritffjeort.un.r-t nals, united as to one object, although using means, incessantly called to mind the rights of the Polisl; nation. Did any one, or even M. Guizot himself, slue_ his accession to the Ministry, think of interfering with them? No; but now on a sudden he finds them danger; ous, and he for the first time recollects that those jou_i nals treat of political questions, and that editorshad live deposited any money as security, and three ar, cited for Fri lay next before the Court of CorrectioUti Police! Guizot to the destruction Sueh o i f s C t r h a e co e w il l erg S e u ti c ch tection against the violation of the treaty of Viel 3 P!, Oh the noble heart, how easy it is to recognize 111ot; He lived ten years on the alms of England, sn a i l:is know how he gained them! Ho must now live, !I ~. reisplisofproiN. can, by the grace of Russia and of Austria! ell, 1 ; us suffer the free city to be absorbed —let us deliverr tr. what remains of Poland, and let us deprive the unfotte nate Polish exiles of the only consolation which I _ ll l 7 , possess—the liberty of speech. .• • Those jeurr: _. might escape the severe Custom-house authoritte.,el; Posen, Tarnow, or Warsaw, let us crush them in "°,„ cradle! Behold now the matrimonial advantages We beginning to develop themselves in the broad day I _ b ,o were told that it was a great dynastic success; ive .f.„,,,, see more and more that it is a great national ann.- tage !" On this subjeet men of all parties in Fra nce BP. pear to be united. The Legitimatist Univers i s t it : in accordance with the Republican National is.. :the ferring to the annexation of Cracow to Ailetr Univers says-- it we have often cited the articles of the Tr e o il e t f, tof o Vienna, which guarantee d a s h a d o w of indepelt h i, last Poland, and it is now useless to repeat them. ; / from violation of the treaty derives additional greloreigo the declaration made by the Minister for ~, t he Affairs, during the last session, who pretested, I d b e name of France, that the Republic of Cracow a h a V e hita respected. We trust that nu eventuality ev l , ll3 ,„nigee ee given by the Augsburgh G'azefe forget that engagement. The important in , b e re" may. perhel rr iges. garded as a new consequence of the Spauls h ,r n ee se a The rupture of the entente cordiale between rr e- p ets to England might have induced the Northern l' e , the 7 believe that they might now d e al with Poland al gt i a n 1 0 thought proper. Engl a nd, h owe ver, on that clue as much engaged and interested as we are. A w ill ti t ' The Univers may rely on it that B u g len" even' her ev duty in this occasio n , and we trust that ne Fo r rm" ~n tuality will make the French Minister for dte the Affairs forget his en gagemen t, althoug h - op ieo' , manner in which M. GUIZOT has found it con ` , es to forget his engagement at Eu, we rolni t : jo s of that we entertain no ve ry sang uine exPeet3bers. his remembering his enga gem ent to the Chen 3 0 ° The P resse has an arti c l e o n the affairs of t he f 1381 ' de la Plate, condemnatory of the con duct e oduct DEFFAUDIS in seeking to thwart Mr. o°o°'deby the which, it intimates, will not be san ctione d 0 4 French Government ; a n d it c oncludes hi e vv in 0 0/ that it will be found that Mr. Hoop's mission have failed. at w hich A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesdei9 Marshal SOULT was present. , 10, 4 61' According to the Univers ADD-EL - N -0 : ot : c osi'i n i tered the province of Oran, at the bead 0 1 `-'-',° e tioo; The Bey of Turns has announced his 111 ". e a - tead e : not visiting England, as he had original l Y l iti tiott: The reason for this alteration in his resc 1211cr stated to be his objection to be presented to VICTORIA by the Turkish Ambassador• i. obit The Moniteur ann ounces that the Bri tis '... of the having recognised th e c l a i ms of the ovveero'"o dol French brig Charles Auguste, which W aS 0 11 on the coast of Sicily, on the morning o f tot 00116 July, 1845, by the British steam-vessel ro ltobl Commander Spark, which claims wer e 511P rudO n ai ll e the French Government, have allowed 11 , 11 ;0 bi' -- of 57,0001., to be divided between the sul'e accident. n ul Is. rel c ; The liberality of the Duke of 13°1 '": 1 esce ss " ' ducing its effects. He is beconnillp, : e Count de Chat ° The popular in Paris. The Quot ' c i• e ssY s • ,---„, 00w ° ' "The marriage of the z zenn bora" dapses 1 la Halle have been rea w li a y rm the character of a I popular im r e e v s e i n ed t• withhtihttee bittern • an event which may mix sweets with with the - „ t at r y exile. These worthy women, always pretax coabi, works, have felt in their hearts the admirable,oo.ooof tion of charity which the noble Prince has gl te ot o p marriage. They have wished to offer him is c yst of that faithful affection they vowed him in hi st ' b ichl o f the 29th of September, 1820. A letter, in e eetlii: reminiscence is recalled in the most touciliegifeeri r e. the heart, will show to the descendant of o p to . bead yse nifie that the people of Paris never fore. bieet member them. To this letter, which is a,, 0 84 " its destination, is added a magnificent he,e;: we are assured, will be preciously preset res t i 011 ::: That the m a r r i age i s co nsidered se ti t D oing tent political ev en t, i s pr o ved by th e ''° tte ° tract from the France : riot's ittla 1 : f °1 •6 9 1 " All the provincial and foreign .I° n- ,„ - A rriO n oteltg testify the importance attached to they `7 1 , 8 A .- . 0 1. PP", - Count de Chambord. It is in vain fe he 'i / ree;;;doehl journals to attempt to persuade any e f t. , 0 0, ° Con° rat , politics have nothing to do with this, tl e " The An e`te - ,; able in the eyes of the ultra-dynastiega;oiple.i. incare,,,; Chambord is the representative of a Pr„',.l".aelf",g all l . which ensures the perpetuity of this r o i l arac te- ' e lro e u o se uor o f f Bourbon, has al l t he - ere flir i proportions n l t h The ri a e p r ol d it u ica act."avr ano ll , nces ll ' e °lldl r if ili s : thority of letters received from P' e AG stes m a " te via Bahia, that Rear-Admiral station' 11-10 ROQUE, commanding on the Afric a° 6 crew s - Th e ceived orders to return to Toulon. bee ltbi' : 1.4: 1 vessels on the statio n a r e said to b e 11° f . capti l f o f P i It is stated that the departu re ° ae eellP VAUD for Otaheite is adjourned ell health. Filfe. Pet ; : tb e of. , m .; The Three per Cents. closed at 82i: r e ;A 1 ' 2 27f. g 7O - I ► Cents., 117 f. 35c.; the Orleans Railroad •-il heo , 6 0 ~-,7 0 Rouen, 875 f. •, Havre, 670 f ; Great N port h o nk' '66; Avignon, 860 f. ; Vierzon,l 5621. 50c• ; d stritsw 4 96f. 2 o po Basle, 2151. ; Dieppe, 352 f. 50c. • Pari s r c if,Ven g 'lo:l 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 4851.-; Paris an, Letter - - 6 4 6 041 Lyons and Avignon, 485 f.; Bordeaux an" De ppitic - ~0 1 2 on, OP nish Three per Cents., 38 ; p 4 anish pnr l 2". en' LYONS, Nov. 16.—Paris and R ou en, So*: ' . lort , 4 0 Marseilles, 867 f. 50c. ; Vierzon , 566 f. 3. 4 °' AT Tb- Dotesoc.; Paris and Lyons, 501 f. 25c. _ , s vi.AA, ro l BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN •"'',4, T0 0 1 - 5 , 2 - k-,,S LONDON STOCK EXCHANGg'„,erara• " job 'l,i< Boulogne and Amiens, 13A _ex d•—"e7,-,,d Anf o urg!, o te Rhenish, 4i,4—East Indian, 'Ns—lt alian I.4'uo je CoPed i' Jamaica South Midland Junction, Ili vo ice 0/3 0 vv - Namur and Liege, 314 —Northern 0 o d Li 934—Orleans and Bordeaux , 7 %—Fe ris LI) tuted, 4%—Sambre ai le u n Z: i v --- irfav le r v Ig ' „,,- p 0 9A' iis INSURRECTION I N , aite'r e d . oLen nen . , le, , FALMOUTH, Nov. 19, ri. ail se tt t t ! The smack Marys, Captain ha ying f o rtii it this port last night from Lisbon/ groin ir o lo o fe j Tagus on the 11th inst., at 3 r' 31 n ' no , it lion 011., tion procured from Captain IVUL e _ 14 0 0 0 4 pear that Lisbon was in a state of gre _ ere ge _ a pt 's P . ' nI excitement when she sailed, and fe ars n v' o eeu h el - the ' a reis e rts entertained that the success of _, s h oe was very doubtful, although no n ta e u vv e ' n u plac e e ; t its te .4ll any decisive engagement havi n g n. The for for 0 Saldanha and the popular factio _ too tle 4 , he Qu een ‘ ..- 1 od e°. 2 0 squadron was in a state of instant Pr'r. n a lam: The , ceiving and notoecting t ha d 0 ar ines r to op necessary, and sailors or In had , f o r OP ° o poli beg o American frigate which had s uea _ re ,i , • — a stu.d, ,„,r od, only not allowed to enter, bu p t ort., 7,l l : o a t 9:01:000 the batteries and totally di i srbetn . towed into a neighbourinegnnen did not t he lett , had occurred Captain WI. Business was completely at a t :_ bt 11 , Marys left. The Marys bits . b ._ 1. 0 . u ....- 16 O nes ' 0 11 , informatto set 1 el whereby to gain detailed t s he d e j o -----met with fromha vsboe,ho oo [The American frigate .. e . be 00 Her commander, when he sainJdather eibre 0 0 ° to that Oporto was blockaded, a force a block ed°. 00 ci°' 0 0 y or an a kee co uld e il e at ioo o r e right to attempt to mere Br agg g t 0 11 .1 e w st e ea n lYs u t 7 : a g s es : f irit c t i : e 4.l ‘ d ig s is ra ci t :• re be i f . s h h a o v w e gone either eit eo h rf e e r ip a i laws, customs, and sn y, lb 0 w ine d ag ' defiance. If h gretted that he escaped w w i e th_ s . ° rino t but n t . d e e th ree went as a braggadocio, et e° w ith the ° h u e rata 0 at seeing the bully mde w_el_ i4 l 131 . ____-1 .40ec 1 5 t e e v ,: fie c o o r p li i n istere d 1:1 t i o stal ie :sooJ which it seemed was a ra t h e pr esent , . 0 ,, , a __,, i n . , on : ---)d - : • I f. to "Brother Jonathan and ---- ------ A D MA this diot. Wit 4.1 0 ishoP ° f see 0. t pee lie new J. Griffith is to be . pr. , Short to °leo won waTsir"EriSchElny odreseSr: deserved, by the translation A_ 0 ,_,:orae o f y By the last returns, th 1 0 2,000/. per annum. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday, from which it appears that M. GUIZOT bids high to secure the approbation of the northern Powers for the Montpensier marriage. Poland is the price which M. GuizoT is prepared to pay for their support of his policy. Already has he joined the spoliators of Poland in their crusade against the Polish language and has suppressed three journals which have appeared in that language in Paris regularly for some years past. The Constitutionnel thus remarks upon this miserable piece of tyranny, as petty and pitiful as it is odious : "A puerile and odious persecution has just been directed against some journals of Paris, which are written in the Polish language. The responsible editors of the Polish prints, entitled Le Trois Mai, Le Nation Polonaise, and Le DEntocrate Polonaise, were on Monday summoned to appear on Friday before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, to answer for the non-accom plishment of the formalities imposed on political publications—that is, for not having lodged with the Treasury a caution-money of fifty thousand francs. It is evident that the object aimed at is the suppression of the three journals. One would imagine, on hearing of this summons, that the journals in question had only just been started, and that their existence has for the first time come to the knowledge of the police. But these are the facts. The Trois Mai, a journal not appearing periodically, but three or four times a month, has existed for six or seven years, and replaced another journal called the Chronique, which commenced in 1834, with the perfect knowledge of the police and of the law authorities. The Nation Polonaise has been published these six years, and ap pears once a week. Finally, the Democrate Polonaise, founded in 1837, has never interrupted the course of its publication since that time. The Government was fully aware not only of the existence of this journal, but also of that of the society of which it is the organ; it knew that, being devoted exclusively to Polish affairs, and studies on the social state of Poland, it has never made an excursion on the ground of the domestic policy of France. The other journals summoned have confined themselves within the same limits; so that, by a constant tolerance of all Ministries, paragraph 4 of Art. 3 of the Act of July, 1828, exempting from caution-money journals not written in French, and avoiding political matters, has been applied to them. How comes it to pass that, after twelve years of a tolerance of which no one in France ever complained, the Ministry sends the editors of these publications before the Correctional Police? Why de mand 50,000 f. caution-money, which the Government knows well these poor refugees cannot pay? Have these prints passed the jimits within which they were origi nally started? Certainly not. The only question refers to the pecuniary conditions of publicity. This persecu tion, therefore, has no plausible pretext. It is evidently to please the journals which oppress Poland that these journals, written in their language, this common bond of exile, this last image of their absent country, have been taken away from the resonant of a generous and proscribed nation. By suppressieg here this vestige of Polish nationality, our Government endeavours to give a first pledge of entente cordiale to the absolutist powers. It will be seen that, sooner or later, the Poles will pay for the Spanish marriage!" The National goes at great length into the subject, and in the following article gives expression to the honest indignation which all honourable and high minded men of every nation, of every shade of poli tical opinion, must feel against those who without the excuse which the Northern Powers have for their conduct, aid, assist, and abet them in extinguishing the last remains of Polish nationality, and in cold blood, with malice aforethought, for their own mere private and pecuniary advantage, become accessories before the fact to the murder of a nation. The Na tional says— " The three Northern Powers have decreed the de struction of the independent republic of Cracow, and this is announced as a fact accomplished. Well, then ! what is accomplished is a most flagrant violation of a formal treaty—it is a violation of a most solemn promise renewed in the month of March last, and repeated pnb licly by DE Guizot in the Chamber of Peers. The treaty which we are obliged to invoke at present, is that of 1815. France and England are parties to it, together with Russia, Austria, and Prussia. Now, the 7th article of that treaty guarantees in the most express manner the independence of the republic of Cracow. Where, then, are the subsequent conventions which rescinded that en gagement contracted by the five powers ? Have Russia, Austria, and Prussia a right to dispose according to their pleasure of the fate of a city placed under the protec tion of the five Powers who signed the treaty ? To read the Augsburg Gazelle it would appear that England and France are not concerned in this affair. But let us inquire what occurred at the period of the late insur rection ? At the moment when the troops of the three Powers invaded Cracow, a report was raised that it was intended to destroy that republic, and to incorporate it with Austria. Public opinion was strongly excited, and M. Villemain, in the Chamber of Peers, having referred to the existing treaties, M. Guizot replied—' The re servations made by these treaties, the guarantees which are inscribed in their articles, the honourable M. Ville main may be well assured have never been forgotten or abandoned, either at present or fifteen years since. All the reservations, protests, or precautions which legiti matelybelong to the King's Government have been made at different epochs, and have not been, nor will be, for gotten—(Applause)—the only thing that the Hon. M. Montalembert demanded has been effected.' The fol lowing day he was still more explicit :—' As to the re public of Cracow, we have maintained our reservations, and our protests which we made ten years since, we have renewed, and strengthed them. M. Vil lemain may be assured that the rights stipu latee for by us in the year 1815 will not be either forgotten or abandoned by us. As I have already stated so much, I will now state further, that I have already received the assurance that those rights shall not be for gotten or abandoned by any party.' This occurred on the 20th of March, and those rights which were not to be forgotten by any party, according to the solemn as surance given by M. Guizot, are now trampled under foot. Is there any doubt as to the text of the treaty? We do not wish to fatigue our readers with citations, but we wish to enable them to judge the question. Read merely the two following articles of the treaty of Vienna:— " ' Article 6. The city of Cracow, with its territory, is declared in perpetuity a free, independent, and strictly neutral city, under the protection of Russia, Prussia, and Austria.' " ' Article 9. The Courts of Russia, Austria, and Prussia engage to respect, and to cause to be respected for ever, the neutrality of the free city of Cracow and of its entire territory. No armed force can ever beintro duced into it, under any pretence whatsoever.' " In the presence of such precise language, do you not admire the audacity of the Augsburg Gazette, which represents this independence of the free city as a trial made by the three Northern Courts ? They had deigned to allow a shadow of Palish nationality to remain in a corner I A shadow was too much. It became neces sary to annihilate that'shadow ! And this feat is exe cuted under the eyes of the other Powers of Europe, sunk in their materialism, under the eyes of France, which assists, like a body possessing neither muscles, brains, nor blood, at this last act of despotic violence. Well ! be it so ; let us confe ss th a t we are exhausted and about to die ; the voice of nations has no longer any echo ; French society is become a species of herd which feeds and fattens. Is that what you wished, noble citizens, overfed onopolizers, s overe i gns f or t h e m e moment ! But yo e still the pr e t ens i on to pos sess a machine a Government ; y ou spea k st i ll of laws, treaties egular relations, but you possess no life. What signify laws, if they are to be out raged ? What the utility of treaties, if they are to be torn to shreds when they interfere with our pro jects ? What b ecomes o f i nternational law, if stipu lations guaranteed by five Powers are to be violated by three ? Is it brut e f orce th a t you proc l a i m ? S ay so, and proclaim it loudly ; we will repeat it in a still louder tone, and until the nations hear us 1 But if conven tions or treaties have any meaning or possess any value, why are they abandoned to the caprice of Government ? M. Guiaot pretends that he had received the assurance that the rights of the free city of Cracow should be respected by all parties. Ile said so publicly at the tri bune. His language was therefore false, or, if he was sincere, an act of unworthy violence was being prepared under the mask of the most contemptuous mockery. Every one knows that the opinion of the Chambers is not doubtful on that question ; and it is still better known with what unanimous emotion all France protects with her most profound sympathy the sacred cause of Poland. They have mocked the Chambers and railed !I France in her chains. But this Government—in fine, this Government, on whom the Northern Powers smile since England has become cold—this Government, which re ceived assurances,and which renewed and strengthened her protests—this Government, which, pressed by the irre sistible force of public opinion, announced a short time since that it would secure for the unfortunate Poles a sure asylum and a benevolent hospitality—what has this Government done, and what will it do ? Ah ! we can guess, for it is no secret. The Chambers are absent; politics appear to be smothered ; the alliance with England is broken ; we must beg from others, and we must beg with bowed head, and pay the price beforehand. But, do you know what is passing? At the moment that we learn e d th e attack of three Powers on the free city of Cracow w e likewise learned that the most incredible persecution was recommencing in France against the proscribed Poles. Eight days since a Commissary of Police entered the apartment of a refugee Pole connected with a Polish de mocratic society, and seised all his papers. They were transferred to the Prefect of Police, thence to the Mi nister for Foreign Affairs, and by him they were handed to the Austrian Ambassador. Spies are multiplied round the refugees, who, it is supposed, are naturally labouring for the resurrection of their country. This incessant, but concealed, action was not sufficient fur Austria and Russia ; they wished for a public act which might demonstrate the zeal of M. Guizot. This act is being executed, and you will see whether silly persecution could be carried further. During more than ten years the different fractions of the Polish emigrants published journals in the Polish language, which was the sole mode by which they could communi cate. It may easily be conceived that it was a consola ti9 to tae wrecks of that noble nation, scattered through -:.. ~... ~ ;,.;:x.,, • ~•'"--: •.,'. ' 4:,/,: . 4:47.-..:1, , -11...m, , ,A5i5 t - ~ ; Pitc__ 4,1101i1, ..i..,v,A,• • v,:=0, , ,,;. -7,016 b. ~..4 4 . t ...z..,,,-, 4... ir.::: j t , -4 ,,e, '4llltruiti,l ' ...-...: . m,...2.%•z=4„..._'' SALES BY AUCTION. SALE DELAYED UNTIL MONDAY, NOV. 23. THE VALUABLE AND IMPORTANT ESTATES OF THE LATE WM. CROWDY, ESQ., OF lIIGIIWORTII, WILTS, COMPRISING THE MUCH ADMIRED RESIDENCE, WEST ROP HOUSE, AND LANDS AROUND THE TOWN ; ALSO FARMS AND LANDS AT STRATTON, CLOSE TO THE SWINDON STATION, SOUTH MARSTON, SIIRIVENHAM , LETCOMBE, LECMLADE, HAMPTON AND HA.NNLNGTON ; ALL MOST ELIGIBLE FOR INVESTMENT. MR. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed by the Executors to announce for SALE by AUCTION, at the GODDARD ARMS, SWINDON, on Mounat next, Nov. 23, at Twelve for One o'clock, in Thirty-five Lf the late William Crowdy , ots, The important Freehold Property o Esq., of Highworth, Wilts. COMPRISING NEARLY 400 ACRES OF TW BEST LAND IN THE VICINITY OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, OFFERING MANY TEMPTING INVESTMENTS, Including Westrop House, the family Residence, built of stone, of handsome exterior, and upon which no expense has been spared to secure every comfort ; the internal arrangement so complete as to leave nothing to be desired. The principal Rooms are of good pro portions, and the Reception Rooms and Saloon opening one with another and, LOOKING UPON THE LAWN AND PLEASURE GARDEN, WHICH EXTEND TO FIVE ACRES, form'a most agreeable scene. A shrubbery walk, of singular beauty, winds a considerable distance through the grounds, which present a c h a rming specimen of landscape gardening; the offices are quite perfect, and, as four packs of hoands hunt the immediate neigh bourhood, A MOST DELIGHTFUL HUNTING SEAT may be secured, which from its many advantages only requires to be known to be appreciated by a sporting gentleman. Also immediately opposite are 26 ACRES OF ORNAMENTAL LAND, With extensive frontages to two roads, forming a most valuable ap pendage to the residence, and in the town, two Freehold Houses, facing the High-street, occupied by Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Howse, With gardens, and several cottages. Also, AT EASTROP, IN HIGH WORTH, a house occupied by Mr. Lavington, with two closes of extremely rich land, with frontage to the high road; two other Closes, known as Fennell's Closes, and another as THE TRINITY CLOSE, WITH FISH-POND AND PLANTATION, a romantic spot of extreme beauty, and its proximity to the town offers a tempting purehase. Two acres of meadow land, at Hampton, let to Mr. Robert Litten ; three acres at Hanaington, let to Mr. Richard Herbert ; thirty acres, known as the Goslakes, with frontage to the Lechlade road ; 37 ACRES OF RICH MEADOW AND ARABLE LAND AT STRATTON, divided into five closes, two of them abutting upon the railroad at Swindon, And close to the station, let to Mr. Greenaway, Mr. Law rence, and Mr. Bailey. A SNUG FARM OF FIRST-RATE PASTURE LAND kT SOUTH MARSTON, comprising 58 acres, with homestead and buildings, let to Mr. Love ; and 9 acres, let to Mr. Hughes, Mr. Fisher, end Mr. T.itt , n. 5 ACRES OF CAPITAL MEADOW LAND AT SHRIVENIIAM. in two Closes, one with frontage to the Wilts and Berks Canal, let to Mr. Streat, and the other on the Read to llighworth, let to Mr. Po cock. Three Cottages at Watehfleld, let to Mr. Addison and others. A CAPITAL PASTURE AND ARABLE FARM AT LETCOMBE, with a comfortable Farm House and suitable Buildings, a portion of the Land of superior quality around the House, the remainder Down Land about a mile distant, forming together a desirable Farm, in the occupation of Mr. Bunce, also an allotment of three and a half acres at Letcombe Regis, let to Thomas Goodlake, Esq., and four and a half acres (:.'rich Meadow Land at Letcombe Basset. AN UNDIVIDED MOIETY OF A SMALL FARM OF EXCEL• LENT ARABLE AND MEADOW LAND AT LECHLADE, 46 acres being close to the Town, with Farm-yard and Buildings, and frontage to the High-road, let to Mr. Hunter, 10 acres of Water Meadow on the Road leading to Welford, in the same occupation, asd an undivided moiety of a small Close of three acres, being the second from the Road leading from Farringdon to Lechiade, in the occu pation of Mr. Phipp. The various Properties may be viewed, by permission of the tenants, and full particulars will be published 21 days prior to the Sale, to be had at the Goddard Arms, Swindon ; Barrington Arms, Shrivenham ; Bear, Wantage; New Inn, Lechlade ; White Horse, Cricklade ; Crown, Farringdon ; of Henry C. Crowdy, Esq., Solicitor, Highworth, and at the King and Queen, Highworth ; of Messrs. Barnes, Winter, and Bernard. Solicitors, No. 2, Great Win chester-street, Broad-street ; and at Mr. George Robins's Oftlees, Covent-garden. IN DORSETSHIRE, CLOSE .... T0 THE BOROUGH TOWN OF E HAM, A MOST ELIGIBLE PROPERTY, EITHER FOR OCCUPATION OR - fi - VESTMENT, COMPRISING A PLEASANT MODERN RESIDENCE, EXCELLENT FA RAI BUILDINGS, AND 295 ACRES OF SUPERIOR ARABLE AITD DAIRY LAND, FREE FROM LAND-TAX AND GREAT TITHE. MR. GEORGE ROBINS is instru c ted by the Devisees in Trust 'Di' the late Harry Hammond, Esq., to submit to PUBLIC COMPETITION, et the Auction Mart, London, on TumitsDAY, December 3d, at Twelve, in One Lot, A truly desirable FREEHOLD PROPERTY, presenting to the capitalist an investment free from the slightest doubt or risk. It is in the parish of East Stoke, yet within the limits of THE BOROUGH TOWN OF WAREIIAM, a matter of no small importance to a proprietor, and for a tenant at all times ensuring tr e readiest sale for the produce, while the markets of Pools and Dorchester are easily commanded, and shortly the railway from Southampton to Dorchester will lend its powerful aid to give fresh impetus to this district, by rendering the London market accessible. It is known as THE BESTIVALL AND SWINEHAAI FARMS, OF 295 ACRES OF RICH DAIRY AND ARABLE LAND, and it will be in the recollection of those acquainted with the county that they were for many years the pet farms, nr better known as THE MODEL FARMS OF THE LATE 5111 CLAUDE SCOTT, BART., by whose untiring energy, skill, and outlay, they were not only brought to a high state of cultivation, but by the formation of an embankment of vast extent, with a most perfect system of draining and irrigation, some of the richest dairy and corn land in the county was secured, as well as a constant supply of manure from the deposit from the river. The late proprietor, at very considerable cost, erected A GENTLEM A NLY ABODE, offering excellent accommodation for a family, approached by a lodge entrance, tkrough a most luxui:ant shrubbery walk, adorned with an infinity of choice flow , _ , ,ring plants, to the lawn and pleasure garden, from whence a view of singular magnificence is obtained, in cluding tho long range of THE DORSETSHIRE HILLS, THE MAJESTIC RUINS OF CORFE CASTLE being a prominent object ; whilst the home view commands Lord Rivers' estate of Redcliff and the Wareham River, which yields a never-failing supply of fish, and in the season wild fowl is abundance —irresistible attractions to a sporting man—to whom it should be known that there are frequent meetings of Mr. Farquharson and Mr. Drax's hounds. There are two farm-houses, with most com plete agricultural buildings ; and an excellent - gravelled road runs through the estate, communicating with each field. Several cottages and every essential for conducting an extensive dairy farm with ad vantage ; and if at any time desired, the estate can be divided into tWo farms. Early possession may be had. The estate may be viewed by applying to Mr. House, at the resi dence, and particulars,' with a plan, obtained ; also of R. D. Marsh field, Esq., solicitor, and the Red Lion. Wareham ; New Inn, Wins borne; Crown, Blandford ; Antelope, Poole; Antelope, Sherborne ; King's Arms, Dorchester; Matcham's Hotel, Southampton ; of Henry Compigne, Esq., solicitor, 24, Bucklersbury ; at the Mart; and at Mr. George Robins's Offices, Covent-garden. KEMP TOWN BRIGHTON. THE most distinguished MARINE VILLA in Kemp Town (for its size) is just completed, and the Uphol sterer, Mr. Martin, has acquired the name of " The Gillow " of this eelebrated town ; now that it is finished and furnished, it really presents an abode with a mixture of elegance and comfort not to be found elsewhere, and the rent is considered a moderate one, The views exceed in beauty anything in this favoured spot ; and there really appears no limit to their extent. The Duke of Devonshire's (vis-d-vio) must necessarily give way to its contemporary. Apply to Mr. George Robins, Govent-garden; and Mr. Martin, Upholsterer, East-street, Brighton. ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK. EMPOWERED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT. THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq.. Alderman, Chairman. WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Richard E. Arden, Esq. John Humphery Esq., Alderman William Banbury, Esq. Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman. Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Filcher, Esq. 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We believe that the meeting of Parliament for the dispatch of business will not be delayed more than a week beyond the time to which it is prorogued. The 19th of January is said to be the day fixed for the open ing_of Parliament .— Times. PROIECTIED ItA.lLWATs.—Another oat= number of the London Gazette was publiab.ed on Thursday night: It contained twenty-five notices of intended applica tions fa railway Bills next session. ffirmitint LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1846. The agricultural statistics of England, from their paramount importance to ourselves, have generally monopolised our consideration. They have not, how ever, so far monopolised that consideration as to ex clude from our notice the agricultural statistics of foreign countries ; they have only rendered these latter in a peculiar degree subordinate. It is, never theless, from the comparisons drawn between the cal culated resources of our own and surrounding territories, that we can arrive at an adequate esti mate of the supplies afforded for the sustentation of our community. It is only by analysing the provisional tables of the continental agriculturists that we can form any adequate deduction as to our relative position, as to our advancement or retrogression as cultivators of the earth, and especially as to the mar kets to which it would be advisable for us to make the first application in the periods of national priva tion. From these extraordinary estimates, moreover, we may by analogy form some accurate conception of the physical advantages possessed by the population under other Governments, of their social condition, of their facilities for satisfying the primary wants of our common nature, by clothing themselves with appro priate raiments, by feeding themselves with nutri tious food, and by residing in houses proportioned to their several ranks, and suited to their average necessities. From these inquiries into the movements of various countries in the arts of husbandry each nation would receive a wonderful encitement to still greater exertion. We should thereupon strive to emulate each other in extracting the utmost amount of nourishment from the soil, and in effecting a consequent improvement in the condi tion of our fellow-citizens. A very remarkable document was forwarded on the 16th inst. to the different prefets throughout France, by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. The document to which we allude was a circular upon the actual state of the provision supply in that kingdom. A more interesting moment could scarcely have been selected for its remittal and subsequent publication; for it is precisely at this moment that an unprecedented dread of scarcity is acting most prejudicially upon many of the principal markets of this hemisphere ; .it is precisely at this moment that an unprecedented failure has really occurred in cer tain directions; it is precisely at this moment that an unprecedented abundance of corn and other produc tions has inundated to overflowing some of the most important granaries in the new and the old world. We are induced to make this particular allusion to the circular issued by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, not so much, however, for the purpose of analysing the mercantile incongruities of France, as to direct the attention of the so-called Protectionists to some of the deductions which must necessarily be drawn from the facts therein contained. Among the different objections raised against the salutary doctrines of free trade, the most incessant and the most specious was to the effect, that by re moving the barriers hitherto raised against the im portation of provisions, the markets would be speedily glutted with foreign: produce ; that the interests of our native growers of corn and fatteners of cattle would be utterly destroyed ; that, in short, the farmers of Great Britain would be ruined by this disproportioned competition of the husbandmen of a single country against the agriculturists of the rest of the world combined. We say that this was about the most specious of the numberless objections raised against the measures of Sir ROBERT PEEL by the cavillers of New Bond-street. It was only spe cious, however, to those whose ignorance rendered them gullible enough to swallow any dismal pro phecy, providing it were only advanced with so lemnity and uttered with emphasis; such !individuals as would have brandished their carving-knives among the ragged regiment of the fanatic Tuom, vr would, if that were possible, have rocked the cradle of JOANNA SOUTHCOTT to all eternity. tinder the scrutiny of common sense and an unbiassed judg ment that most frivolous objection " melted into thin air," like the reprobate old ghost in the white waist coat, as seen by EBENEZER SCROOGE. If anything were wanting to demonstrate the shallowness of this Protectionist argume at, the cir cular of the Minister of Agriculture and ,Commerce would be amply sufficient. From that elaborate official document it would appear that a harvest of the most astonishing abundance has been gathered in the ancient provinces of Poland and New Russia ; that from Odessa may be readily ex ported, 6,000,000 hectolitres of grain; that a supply of 1,500,000 hectolitres is derivable, on eraergency, from the sea of Asof ; that 1,800,000 hectolitres might be drawn immediately from the stores of Egypt; that 49,280,000 hectolitres of wheat, and. 24,640,000 quintals of flour can be exported for Eu ropean consumption from the granari,n of the United States. Here, therefore, is that en Mcmous and accumulated peril which was foretold! Here is something infinitely worse than the legen ditty sword of DAMOCLES ! Here are prodigious qua ntities of foreign grain, and vast bundles of foreign flour ready to tumble down upon the devoted agric ul turists of England and smother them with the cereal_ .calamities of free trade ! Surely with these gigalati c terrors hanging about their ears, our.tenant-farmt trs are pre paring to appraise their stock and to dispose 3 of their implements and other appurtenances by- auction Surely our landowners will have to disch a cge their estate-agents forthwith ! Surely those tracks of arable land, which have hitherto nurtured the roots of rye and barley, will henceforth be prolific of dar nels and thistles ! Those would be the on ly conse quences in accordance with the prediction 123 of the protectionists. But let us ask seriously is hat are the effects produced upon our native agricui ture by this pending torrent of foreign produce. Are our farmers dwindling into a state of irreparal a a bank ruptcy ? Are rents diminishing with a rub z.ous ra pidity ? Are prices falling to such a miseral plzr unre munerative point that the cost of seed and cu It ivation is not repaid? The contrary of all this *; noto rious. Rents, instead of sinking, are m ardfestly rising; leases are being renewed incessant ly at an amount sometimes double, sometimes trel ble, that stipulated in the preceding arrangement. P, cic es are sustained to a point which must afford the me )st, satis factory profits; and the tenant-farmers, not :merely upon the estates of the Marquis of I .O:NDON DERRY, but elsewhere throughout the island, are in a more flourishing condition th at t can be remembered. Nay, our agriculturists them selves show that they are fully aware of their safety by actually retaining large quantities o f grain from the markets, notwithstanding this threw itened competition from abroad. They are concl ms of their superior advantages over the agriculttre ists of foreign countries; they are concious that; they themselves are not compelled to suppce t the expenses of freightage; that their wheat and. cattle are within the immediate reach of the consun at ;r, in stead of being beyond oceans and mountains. They are satisfied of their local and scientific sup er iority over the corn-growers of distant territories, a ii that, notwithstanding the virtual orration of free trl .ode at this moment, they are still protected from the d anger of a superabundance of proviiions. Experie tie a will in time change the protectionists into free-trade rs. In the Free-Trade Hall of Manchester ( to Wed- nesday last, a great mooing of the Liberal electors, specially convened, pledged itself to take all requisite steps for returning Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., as the' it repre sentative whenever a vacancy should occur, Wier by a general election, or the resignation of his seat by Mr. MARK PHILIPS, whose health has, f isr some time past, rendered hi m d es i rous o f rail.' log from public life. Retire when he may, M r. MARE Age.