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c'ationa for the promotion of horticulture and agriculture. ' Instead of meeting, and arguing, and planning, and doing, and undoing, like some of the Associations have done and are doing, without arriving at any really useful conclusions,—in stead of becoming the arena for political discussion and angry debate, the Royal Society goes home to the undo standing of the practical man, hails the improvement of any branch of practice with its approbation, and honours the result of in dustry with its rewards. We are glad to learn that, among other measures, the advantages of which are manifest to the meanest capacity, it is intended to distribute its medals among other Associations, whenever the Committee think proper to recommend any particular object for its notice. Is it too much then to hope that the landed gentry will generally approve of it ? We think not. There are exceptions—we were going to say, but it would be unfair—there is one exception, for a ' distinguished Nobleman who was applied to for his patronage, not his money, for of that there is no need, and he is the only one who has declined to sanction it, and this, on the ground that he already belongs to two other Societies. If there were an inclination to follow this example, we should like to know what Nobleman there is who could not refuse his sanction on the same ground ? What man of the least pretension to libe rality or property is there who could not find a similar excuse? We confess that having had the opportunity of seeing the letter containing the extraordinary excuse, we felt something border ing on disgust; something which, in our mind, accounts for half the disloyalty and the dislike of the Aristocracy which prevails ; and we deplore more than we can describe, the enemies which the inconsider,te refusal of some of the higher classes to promote objects which are calculated to do immea surable good, and which cannot by possibility do harm,— whatever may be said in defence of such by the worshippers of the golden calf,—we can trace one half of the antipathy which is entertained by many people to the Aristocracy, to the re pulse of reasonable applicants for their countenance and sup port, to objects calculated to benefit the mass. But this is an unpleasant subject, and we leave it for the brighter side of the picture. The Society boasts of Royal favour, and jt is in contemplation to build a conservatory, exhibition-room, librarb and museum, upon a plan which has been honoured by her Majesty's gracious patronage, signified in the most con descending manner by the Royal signature to an approval. We have reason to know, also, that the Queen Dowager's best wishes for the Institution, arc manifested in a way not to be mistaken. The Duchess of Kent has condescended to give her unqualified sanction ; that the Dukes of Bedford, Beau fort, Marlborough, Sunderland, the Earls Brownlow and Bur lington, Lord and Lady Gordon, Lady Cooper, Baroness Du Rolle, Baron and Baroness Dimsdale, Sir Edward Antrobus, Lord Howe, the Hon. William and Mrs. Ashley, and many ethers, whose judgment and taste are proverbial, were ameng the earliest who lent the sanction of their names to the laud able undertaking." Whatever foundation there may be for this reason ing, there is no ; disputing it and it is of a piece with the general mode of dealing with whatever the Editor of the Journal disapproves. THE DUBLIN uNz . VERSITY MAGAZINE. Simpkin and Morahan. Did this Number contain no article worth reading save the " Authologia Germanica," we should hail it as equal to most of its Contemporaries, solely on account of the superior merit of this one paper. In presenting us with the gems of German poetry in an English dress, the author suffers no part of the rich spirit of the original to evaporate. We select as an example a drinking song, by Sim-Aber : Lank, look this wine is Get man, Therefore streams it fuL and flo.ving, Therefore beams it bold and gloving, Therefore, like a thirsty merman, Quaff the brilli.mt cup divine, Brother, this is German wine I Fill, fill, a bumper goblet ! Fill it high, and toast our olden Fatherland, and them, the golden Maids and men who aye ennoble it ! Fill the purple cup divine, Brother, this is German wine ! Drink, drink, to Ancient page! May their memory greenly flourish Who of yore were first to nourish Flesh and soul, with this and grew sage, Quaffing such immortal wine ; Drink the Fathers of the Vine ; Toast, toast, the resurrection Of our country from her torpor ! We have spurned the French Usurper : Freedom binds us and Affection, Me with thee and mine with thine: Toast our triumph here in wine ! German worth and German wine, German speech and German manners Be the motto on our banners ! None can tremble—none can pine, While he drinks of German wine ! A fragment of another, still more thoroughly German, follows, for which we regret we cannot make room in the present crowded state of our columns. The "Convicts of Lisnatnona" by William Carleton is continued. Many of the incidents are highly dra matic, and the general interest is admirably sustained throughout. The " Confessions of Harry Lorrequer" are likewise continued ; but we do not think the pre sent chapters by any means happy. He does not give us life in a Dublin boarding house, though his per formance is not quite a caricature neither. There is an article on the " State of the Irish Clergy," which demonstrates the truth of a proposition which the writer labours with might and main to controvert— namely, that there will never be lasting tranquillity in Ireland while Catholics are taxed to support a Protes tant priesthood. THE SPORTSMAN. -19, Old Boswell-court. The embellishments for this number are Action, from an engraving by Beckwith, and the Returning Gamekeeper—" a fine jolly-looking, weather-beaten, grey-headed old fellow, his face lit up with good hu mour and the setting sun, on his favourite grey poney, with his faithful spaniels at his side, his saddle well loaded with the spoils he has collected in his evening tour—altogether a most picturesque subject for the pencil." We may add that it is creditably executed, and that the articles are well suited to the tastes of practised sportsmen. THE RAIL WAY MAGAZINE. —Wylde. This very useful publication continues to be con ducted with much care and ability. To extend its utility a number of subjects begin to be introduced not immediately connected with the science of steam loco motion. The articles by the editor are remarkably well written. The following extract from the Rail way notices for the month is the only one for which we can find space in our columns:— GREENWICH RAILWAY.—Before the publication of our present number, we believe Mr. Macintosh will have com menced operations for the arches between the Raverisborne awl Greenwich; so that all doubt will be removed as to its completion into Greenwich. Should the weather remain open during the winter, the works are expected to be finished in the spring. It appears that the Croydon railway will com mence running in May next, which must greatly benefit the Greenwich line. The traffic on this line, notwithstanding the shortness of of the days, the advanced period of the year, and other disad vantages, continues to average about 3,700 passengers daily ; the average daily receipts exceed 841., or 590/. per week. The present length of this railway is 31 miles, which distance it daily traversed by three locomotive engines, making 56 trips between London Bridge to Deptford, and 56 more from Dept ford to London. Each of these engines daily makes 38 journeys, (in this number are included the journey up to Loudon at a quarter to eight in the morning, to take down the first train to Deptford, and the last or return journey from London to Deptford, after ten o'clock at night, without a train,) and consequently runs over 120 miles of rails each day. There has passed along this railway, from the 14th of December, 1836, to the 23d November, 1837, a total of 1,376,589 passengers, and the number of miles travelled by the engines, between the same dates, exceeds 214,400 (no account being here taken of the extra hours of running.) It is a remarkable fact, that not one serious accident has oc curred to any of the passengers during the whole time, now upwards of a year and three-quarters (the carriages first ran for hire on the Bth of February, 1836) that the railway has been open to the public, and during which time but two lives have been lost by accident. Can as much be said of coach travelling ? LOUDON'S GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. A double Number ; and some of the papers are va?uable, especially that by Mr. Thompson—" A Report on the Hardy Fruits of 1837." In the editor's summary view of the progress of gardening, he says : " Every year appears to add to the i n t erest w hi ch i s taken in gardening pursuits in this . country ; an'l f or some depart ments, particularly that of floriculture, the publi c at present may be said to hive a doeided Fasston. The culture of the dahlia. though it has not attained so extravagant a pitch in England as that to which the tolip is said to have arrived in Hol!and, is yet now engaged in, in Britain, by a much greater number of persons than ever were possessed by the tulipo ,mania. The excitement produced by the premiums offered by Societies for excellence ill this flower has been one of the thief sources of income to nurserymen and florists throughout the country for s - mne years past ; and is rather on the increase than otherwise. It it satisfactory to find that it has not alto gether absorbed the attention and the energies of country gentlemen ; and that the planting of the more choice kinds of trees and shrubs, and the forming of pinetums and arboretums, though not yet so general as the culture of dahlias, and the laying out of flower-gardens, is making considerable progress. We should not wish to see the ardour for the dahlia and other flowers in the slightest degree diminished ; and, with respect to flower-gardens, they cannot be too numerous, though we wish we could see them laid out and planted in better taste; but, combined with this ardour for flori culture, we certainly do wish to see country gentlemen and their gardeners more alive to the beauty and interest created by trees and shrubs. To the comparative permanence of that beauty and interest, we have to add the fact of the trees and shrubs requirity , less annual care, in every future stage of their growth, than any description of herbaceous plants. We must refer our readers to what Du Hamel says on the subject. (See vol. xi. p. 614.) A single year's neglect in a collection of dahlias, or of a flower garden, will be at tended with the certain loss of the finer varieties in the one case, and with confusion and disorder in the other; but trees and shrubs, if not planted too closely together, will maintain their beauty and interest for several years, with no other at tention than that of excluding cattle, or other animals that are injurious to them. This may be considered as proved by the collection of trees and shrubs at White Knights, on which no expense has been bestowed in procuring new kinds for the last twelve years, while those remaining are still the admiration of every one. Again, therefore, we recommend the formation of collections of trees and shrubs, of pinetums, of quercetums, salicetums, ulmetums, thornerics, and hardy heatherics, to the possessors of country residences ; and the giving honorary prizes for such collections to horticultural societies." JV " As the influence of societies and of publications is as great in gardening as it is in other human pursuits, the esta blishment of the Gardener's Gazette, in January last, and the commencement of the Central School of Horticulture and Agriculture more rect i ntly, may be recorded as the most conspicuous features of the gardening history of the year 1837. For both the public appear to be indebted to the acti vity and zeal of N!r. George Glenny." The editor also snakes honourable mention of a contemporary labourer, who spares him not occasion ally in notices of his voluminous writings. It is creditable, that notwithstanding the occasional jangling of literary rivals, there is no desire to underrate the services that both have rendered in their vocations. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. All,n and Co. The " Anecdotes of the War with Mysore," affords us some curious glimpses of life in India towards the close of the eighteenth century. But for us they possess not the charm of novelty, though well calcu lated to stimulate the curiosity of the general reader. A good history of India remains to be written, and we know of only one author capable of executing it in a manner worthy of the subject—namely, Mr. Alison, whose History of Europe is now in progress of publi cation. The article on " Steam Communication with India" is clever, but the subject is well nigh ex hausted. It undertakes to demonstrate much that is now self-evident. The " Life of the Fatimit.: Caliph Moezz-Li-Din- Allah," is continued ia this Number, and will be concluded in the next. The st.)le is too dry and matter-of-fact to suit the tastes of genuine lovers of Oriental literature. The " Literary Notices" are very well written, and the mass of " Alonthly Oriental Intelli gence" selected with much care. But upon the whole this Periodical is capable of much improvement. It door not reflect with sufficient truth and power the manners and customs of the inhabitants of Asia ; nor does it analyse with adequate care the causes, religious and philosophical, of those of which it favours us with an outline. It is too English. We point out this defect, because it is one which the conductor may re medy without difficulty. A series of articles descrip tive of India, its population, laws, religions, antiqui ties, towns, with short biographical notices of its native chiefs, would add greatly to the deserved popu larity of this Periodical. TAIT' $ MAGAZINE. Simphin and Marshall. Our friend Tait's politics are as violent this month as last month they were moderate—as hopeless now as they then were sanguine—as Ultra-Radical as they were Ultra-loyally Whiggish. In this we neither see change, nor symptoms of change, in the opinions of our Northern Contemporary. Tait disavowed the au thorship of the article in the November Number, but says not a word of the one which has just appeared— a fact which proves at, once that our Contemporary's confidence in the Whigs is, if possible, less than it ever was. We cannot, however, perceive that the Radicals, as a party, would gain any thing just now by the adoption of the policy which he recommends— the more especially as he would appear to exclude Mr. O'Connell and the Irish Liberal Members from all communion with them. They might form them selves into a knot of demagogues, and make indignant appeals to the patriotism of the nation ; but then comes the question—would the nation respond to such appeals ? In its present temper, we think not. The Whigs must damage themselves more in public opinion than they have yet done before the Radicals can have any chance of making a sus cessful appeal to the majority of the people of Eng land and Scotland. The Review of " Ethel Churchill" gives us, condensed in a few pages, the substance, and almost the spirit of Miss Landon's charming volumes. We find no periodical that can compete with Tait's Magazine in the art of book condensation. " Tytler's History of Scotland" is another Review, written with equal ability as the foregoing. The idea of the work ing man's song beginning with— " I am no gentleman—not I," is evidently taken from &ranger's celebrated song, the burden of which is— " An arrant plebeian am I." " Justice to Ireland" is a good subject cleverly hand led. A lecture on the principle that " poetry is self communion," written by Ebenezer Elliot for the Hull Mechanics' Institute, is given entire in this Number. It will well repay the trouble of an attentive perusal --even by those who, like ourselves, dispute the prin ciple at the outset. Were Mr. Elliott's principle adopted, Thomas el. Kempis would take precedence of Homer and Milton as a poet—now only known as a writer of French devotional exercises. Taken all in all, Tait is excellent this month both as regards se lection and talent. METROPOLITAN. The " British Museum" is an account of the read ing-room of this valuable national establishment, and its numerous motley visitors. "In this room," says the author, " are often to be seen many of the most distinguished literary characters of the day. Campbell and Moore, and the late Mr. Godwin, with others of the most popular authors of the age, have repeat edly met together, without any previous concert, in that interesting locality. There are some of our mo dern Literati who have been unremitting in their at tendance in the reading-room for nearly a quarter of a century. It was stated last year before a Select Com mittee of the House of Commons, that Mr. Hallam, the celebrated author! of the Middle Ages,' had been a regular attel 'dant for nearly that length of time." The " iViad Captain" is another of those naval stories -with which the periodical press now teems to ov:rflowing. We are begin ning to be as sick of these prosy,monotonous yarn s , as ever we were of a fashionable novel. " Leaves from the Journal of a Traveller," contain some vivid Italian sketches. " Wallingford Castle" is a tale founded on the old pop .-ular tradition, that Harold sur vived many years the 1, Iss of his kingdom at the disas trous battle of !Tasting:J. On the who!e, the Number is one of average merit.. LONDON : FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1,-1837. In the House of Loftus yesterday the Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition of great importance from Elgin. The petitioners complained of the detention of their letters at In verness, as well as of an excessive rate of postage. The Noble Duke, in the course of his observations on the subject, expressed his opinion of the impossibility of adopting Mr. ROWLAND HILL'S plan of establishing one uniform rate of postage ; but thought that a reduction in the rate of postage was proper and practicable. The Earl of LICHFIELD said that he was now more convinced than ever that Mr. HILL'S scheme could not be sanctioned by the Government as, in its operation, it would be most injurious to the revenue. The Postmaster-General indulged in some angry comments on th e course the Hon. Member for Greenock had pursued for ob taining a reform of the Post-office, denouncing Mr. WAL LACE'S statements as " most scandalous and infamous libels." Robberies, however, to a certain extent, the Noble Earl ad mitted bad been committed 2 • " but certainly the seals of n o let ters had been broken in the Post-office," said Lord LICHFIELD, " and," added he, " it was a libel to say that the seals had ever been violated." Lord BROUGHAM gave notice of his intention this day to in troduce a Bill on the subject of Education, and for the better administration of Charities. The Commission of the Peace Bill was read a first time, an 1 ordered to be read a second time this day. In the liousE of COMMONS, on the motion of Mr. SLANEY, a Select Committee was appointed to inquire into the condi tion of the labouring classes, with a view to devising some means Gf Nati ona l ° Education. For the speech of the Hon. Member (which exhibits an interesting view of the st-itistics of education), and the debate also that ensued, we refer to our Parliamentary Report ; the perusal will be repaid with in terest. On the motion of Sir H. VERNEy, a Bill to render owners of small tenements liable to the parochial rates was read a first time. COl. PERCEVAL then brought forward his motion for cer tain pape!s detailing the proceedings, finding, and sentence of a Court-martial held in the year 1816 on Lieutenant Richard Blake, of the 55th Regiment, together with the approval ithereof his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT. A t debate ensued, ending in the abandonm en t o f hi s oration by bary the Gallant Colonel, who, it will be seen, re t reate d tosm discomfited and in dismay with his Parliamentary allies, after THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1837 a disastrous :and most unsuccessful attack. The Gallant Colonel however afterwards rallied, moving for a Return of the Irish Constabulary. There again, however, Colonel PER. CEVAL was repulsed : his motion was negatived without a division. Mr. G. KNIGHT obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the Consolidation of the Boards of First Fruits, Tenths, and Queen Anne's Bounty. On the motion of Mr. HUME, Returns were ordered of the number of Electors Registered in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Mr. ELLICE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Act for the Preservation of Salmon Fisheries in Scotland. The Municipal Officers' Declaration Bill was read a second time. The House, then, at half-past Ten o'Clock adjourned. Our readers will be able to form an excellent idea of the moral spirit of Orange Protestantism, by perusing the debate which Colonel PERCEVAL brought on last night in the House of Commons. The Gallant Offi cer holds a high rank among the purists of his party it is therefore doing the inferior ranks no injustice —to say the least—to take his conduct as a test by which to measure their merits. If we find this leading Orangeman not ashamed to stand forward as a per secutor of the worst description—a persecutor from motives of pure revenge, and attempting to give effect to his vindictive feelings, first through the in strumentality of an inferior tribunal, and then by means of the Parliamentary privilege which he so un worthily enjoys—what restraint can we suppose the great body of the party—the Orange canaille—who have no character to lose, will impose upon their malignant passions ? Colonel PERCEVA L brings forward a motion for the production of a copy of the charges, finding, and. sentence of a Court-Martial held upon Lieutenant BLAKE, of the 55th Regiment, upwards of twenty years ago. The professed object of the motion is to show that a gross affront had been put upon the people of Ireland in general, and the inha bitants of the county of Sligo hi particular, by ap pointing to the office of stipendiary magistrate a man who had been dismissed from the army. To achieve by one operation two such exploits as an in culpation of the Government and the gratification of personal malevolence, was an object every way worthy of Colonel PERCEVAL'S generous ambition. He set to it accordingly with, however, more zeal than knowledge, letting out in the course of his speech that there were other grounds of objection in his mind, if not in his public charge, against Mr. BLA KE. That gentleman, it appeared, had on one occasion accom panied the great Agitator to Sligo, and had expressed political hostility to him, the gallant Colonel I The reply of Lord MORPETII was triumphant. It completely overwhelmed the mover, and the few thick and thin partisans who came to his aid. The Noble Lord stated to the House that Mr. BLAKE had been appointed a stipendiary magis trate on the recommendation of Lord ORANMORE, Lord DILLON, and many other persons of the highest respectability ; but that as soon as Lord MULGRAVE found that he had been dismissed from the army, lie cancelled his appointment —that this very Gentleman, who, at the dis tance of twenty-three years from the commission of the offence for which he had been dismissed the army, was deemel unworthy to be a stipendiary magistrate by .the Gallant Colonel and his party, had, after a minute enquiry into all the circumstances of the case, been put into the Commission of the Peace, by an Orange Lord Lieutenant (Lord MANNERS), ten years ago ! The Noble Lord might well say that he thought this dismissal of a man who had du ring ten years proved himself an efficient Ma gistrate, " would have slaked the hostile feel ings of even the Honourable and Gallant Member ;" particularly when it is known, as it could not fail to be by Colonel PERCEVAL, that Mr. BLAKE'S of fence—which was that of striking a brother officer -was committed when he was a very young man, and that he had been recommended to mercy by the Court that found him guilty. It also came out that the complaint made against the Irish Government, of refusing to receive the charges made against Mr. BLAKE by Colonel PERCEVAL, was totally unfounded. The Gallant Colonel gave in his charges, and they were sub mitted to a proper tribunal to be inquired into, as were also those made by the opposite party against his brother Magistrate Major BRowNE. Both investigations were going on simultaneously when in the very middle of the inquiry new charges were brought forward. This the Irish Government, having other no tions of justice than Colonel PERCEVAL, would not suffer, and hence the soreness of the Gallant Officer, who, we hope, will take a lesson of caution and mo deration from the result of his last night's exertions. Poor man, we sincerely pity his orest-fallen state, Orangeman and bigot though he be. The disgrace which has long attached to England, amid all her free institutions, of containing a labouring population more ignorant than the corresponding class in any other civilized country, will, we trust, ere long be wiped away. The people themselves hare taken up the question—more meetings have been held in the course of the summer on the subject of education than for any twenty years previous, and so injurious, the public see, is ignorance not only to the well-being of the work ing classes themselves, but to the community at large, that any Government, independent even of moral ob. ligations, would be compelled to adopt some plan for national education as the best and cheapest of all sys tems of police. These feelings of the people have been responded to by the Government and Legislature. Mr. SLANEY'S motion last night for a Committee on the subject, was approved of by all parties ; and if the Bill which Lord BROUGHAM is to introduce this evening has the same reception from the Lords—if the Bishops will abate their High-Church feelings, and meet the other party half way in the great work of na tional regeneration, we shall look upon the work as completed. The expense forms the slightest difficulty. Indeed it may be taken for granted that when a pro per system is perfected, there would be no additional expense at all ; and that the amount required for maintaining schools throughout the country, would• be counterbalanced by the saving in expences for maintaining an extensive system of police, for prose cuting and transporting offenders, and for building and keeping up gaols, and we may also add work houses. Taking as a criterion the cost of national schools in other countries, the expense in England would be but as a drop in the bucket when weighed against the vast loss which we sustain, and the ex pense which we incur by the ignorance of the work ing classes. When the great body of the people be gin to see (and their eyes are now opened) the vast benefits of sound moral and religious instruction, there will be no difficulty in finding the means. Their R e presentatives in one night voted twenty millions for the abolition of slavery. The people submitted without complaint or murmur ; and when they agreed to p a y such an enormous sum to break the chains of the negro slave, would they grudge half the amount to rescue their unfortunate countrymen from the worst of all slavery—the slavery of ignorance ? The great difficulty will arise from religious, or rather from sectarian, feelings ; but even this will be overcome, if political bigotry is not set at work to excite the more unmanageable bigotry of a certain portion of the com munity. We trust there will be no serious objection i ii any quarter to allow the Holy Scriptures to he read i n the schools without annotations or commentaries peculiar to any creed. On that point England is placed on an entirely different footing from Ireland, and in Scotland the system has been long adopted, without complaints from Dissenters, Catholics, or sec tarians of any description. Another important con dition ought to form a part of the measure—that each scholar, as is the case in the British and Foreign schools, should pay a certain sum for the support of the master. The children educated in charity schools are only a degree removed from those who get no education at all—they are brought up with the badge of charity, and it adheres to them through life. A case occurred at a police-station on Tuesday evening, to which we call the attention of the public, and which we trust will not escape the attention of the Police Commissioners. A little before eleven o'clock a respectable gentleman stopped in New-street, about two doors from his residence, and entered into conversation with a young woman. A policeman shortly afterwards ordered them to move on, or he should be obliged to take them into custody ; and as the parties did not choose to obey the command, they were taken into custody, marched off to the sta tion, and placed before the Inspector in the common dock allotted to characters of the worst description. The policeman gave his evidence in such a way that the accused declared he could not learn what the charge was, and when the evidence had been taken down, and the policeman again muttered over something, a friend of the gentleman called on the accusing party to speak out, and the only notice taken of this by the Inspector was—" If you have anything to say on the subject, you must attend at the Police-office to-morrow morning ;" and forth with the gentleman was locked up in one of the cells. His friend then ascertained from the Inspector that the charge was for obstructing the way and for drunken ness, and in reply to a question about bail said, with great coolness, "It was not usual to take bail for drunkenness." A householder shortly after presented himself to become bail; but for a considerable time the Inspector refused to see him, and even after he was admitted and offered bail, the Inspector kept the party imprisoned in the cell for fully an hour, and he did not obtain his release till about two o'clock in the morning. The case was heard next day before the sitting Magistrate at Bow street, and in a few minutes was dismissed— the Magistrate being convinced that neither of the charges was proven. Now, even admitting that there were grounds for taking the gentleman into custody, his treatment afterwards was grossly illegal, and we have no hesitation in saying, that the Inspector has rendered himself liable to an action for false imprison ment. They were bailable offences, yet after bail was tendered, the officer thought proper to exercise his brief authority, and keep an English subject imprisoned in a dark, cold cell for an hour. The monstrous doctrine, that a person supposed to be in a state of intoxication is not to be handed over to his friends, who are ready to answer for him, cannot be admitted for a moment. We have hitherto supported the new system of police ; but if such a principle is to be acted on, and we are to have petty Star:cham bers scattered all over the metropolis, we can assure Colonel iowAN that his popularity is in danger, and that the public will give credit to all the denuncia tions made against " the new species of armed force" by its most violent opponents. The Paris journals of Wednesday are as barren of intelligence as those received since the beginning of the week. The body of General DA MREMONT reached the French capital on Tuesday, where it was received with military honours. The inhabitants of Algiers have petitioned the Government in favour of the appointment of the Duke DE NEMOURS to the Vice- Regency of French Africa. From Madrid the latest adviccs are of the 21st ult., but they bring no news of _the slightest interest. The following are extracts from the French journals : Our private letters from Bona of the 9th November furnish us this morning with the following news :—" News has this moment been received from Constantine ;it is very good. It is announced that Col. Bernelle has just discovered immense sums in the Palace and in the private houses. We already knew that he intended to search immediately after our depar ture. He has lost no time. Let us hope that all the riches already found, or which may be found hereafter, will find their way into the Treasury ; they would serve to defray part of the enormous expencas of the expedition."—lffessager. In our paper of the 25th of this month we spoke of the disgrace of General Mouraview. The following details are given in a letter from St. Petersburg:--" A highly important event has just taken place in Prussia. Some days after the reviews at Wosnesensk, Lieutenant-General Mouraview, Aid de-camp to the Emperor, commanding the army in Bessara bia, was deprived of his command, and banished to Wolgoda; the same measure has been extended to two Major-Generals in the same army. _ _ " This disgrace was at first ascribed to the caprice of tile Emperor, who seems to take his father for his model; but it was known soon afterwards that Mouravielk had been de nounced to the Emperor as having formed a plan to raise the standard of rebellion at the head of his corps—thus imitating the example of his cousin, Mouraview Apostol, the head of the rebellion in 1826, and of his other cousin, Arteman Moo review, Colonel of Hussars, who was implicated in that affair. "In consequence of the removal of the General, great changes have been made in the army of Bessarabia ; several superior officers have been sent to the garrison of Siberia, or incorporated in the army of the Caucasus ; and the vacancy thus occasioned will be filled up by German officers. " Gen. Mouraview, who is descended from one of the most ancient families of the nobility, has long enjoyed great favour with the Emperor, who confided to him some delicate missions at Constantinople, and also in Moldavia and Wallachia. This affair excites great attention, and is considered as a proof that the Russians desire to have also a little liberty, and are not so submissive to the Autocrat as people would have us believe." —Le Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS.—PAats, Nev. 29. Five per Cents., le7f. 35c. 40c. 25c. Four and a Half per Cents., 104 f. 50c. Four per Cents., 101 f. 60c. Three per Cents., SOf. 60c. 70c. 60c. Bank Actions, 2,54. f. 2,545 f. Rente de Naples, 1. Of. 100 f. 10c. sc. 100 f. Roman Five per Cents., 101 100%3‘. Spanish Actives, 20%,N %. Spanish Passives, 4%. Belgian Loan, 102% 4%. Brussels Society, 1,605 f. Belgian Bank, 1,530 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 20%. Haytian Loan, 365 f. coup r MAGAZINE. The engraving attar: bed to this month's Number is a portrait of Lady Elizabeth Reynell, which bear marks of haste on the p art of the artist. The lights and shades of the countent mce, in particular, are harsh, and ill-defined ; 'and t. Else hair has a stiff, wiry look about it. Of the literary contents of the " Court Magazine," we can merely say that they are neither better nor worse than usual. THE STATISTICAL JOURNAL. Pixley. This is the third Number of a periodical ad mirably adapted to suit the convenience of Politicians, Members of Parliament, Magistrates, and other public functionaries ; and if conducted with care and ability ought very soon to arrive at an extensive circulation. The great study of the editor should be to simplify his tables as much as possible, and carefully to avoid drawing general inferences from isolated facts. By never allowing himself to make statements for the truth of which he cannot produce official documents, his journal will, in a short time, be looked upon by all as an authority. Among the articles in the present Num ber we find one on Prison Discipline and Prisons of Ireland—Parliamentary documents—Excise—on Man and the developement of his faculties—Statistics of France and several other excellent papers. The following extract is from an article on the relative consumption of ardent spirits in England, Ireland, and Scotland. The Scottish distillers may find it their interest to look to it : ' " Thus it appears that the quantity of spirit consumed in England, is 9h pints per head on the population ; in Scotland, two gallons and seven pints per head ; and in Ireland, 1 5-7 gallons per head. Those who are accustomed to refer to the passion for ardent spirits as the fruitful source of disorder and crime, will be startled to find that in Scotland, where the people are, to say the least, as industrious and moral as in any other part of the empire, the consumption of spirit is carried impossible to a point which is absolutely astonishing. It seems to deny that intemperance is the primary cause of many crimes ; every man's experience satisfies him of the fact. To what then are we to attribute the comparative absence of disorder and crime in Scotland ? May it not be, that the evil tendency of habits of drinking is, in a great degree, controlled and counteracted by the strong religious feeling which prevails so universally amongst the people of that country. " If we take into consideration the quantity of spirit dis tilled illicitly and smuggled, the consumption of the article in Scotland and Ireland would appear still greater in proportion to that in England, than it does from the above accounts, because it is notorious that the violation of the revenue laws is carried to a much greater extent both in Scotland and Ireland than in England. The criminal returns for the respective countries suffciently prove this fact. The number of eersonl committed fo: trial, or bailed in England and Wales in 1836, for assembling armed, &c. to aid smugglers was nil; for assaulting and obstructing officers employed to pre ven t smuggling, 3. In Scotland, in the same year, the n um b er o f persons committed for trial, or bailed for the first offence, was nil ; for the second, 8. In Ireland, in 1836, the number of persons committed for trial, or baile 1 for the first offence, was 16 ; for the second, 6 ; for assaulting and obstructing revenue officers, 7 ; and for offences, connected with illicit distilla tion, 586. " It is surprising to observe how little malt whiskey is im ported into England from Scotland; the whole quantity being no more than 347,462 gallons, exceeding by only 37,714 gallons the amount annually consumed of that pernicious com pound " British brandy." This discovery w ill, d ou btl ess , mo rtify many who, like ourselves, imagine that the Islay or Glenievet they . drank was the " pure m a lt" w hi s k ey t h e deelcrs announce it to be. The circumstanc e can b e accounte d for only by supposing . that the English dealer knowingly pur chases the inferior article, and charges his customers the price of the superior one ; or that the Scotch distillers pocket the the price of the superior article, and supply the English dealers with the inferior one. However it may be, it is to be hoped that some spirit dealers will take measures for procuring the best malt whiskey from Scotland ; and if they act honestly, they will have no reason to complain of the want of public patronage." THE ARBORETUM BRITANNICUM, Nos. XLIX. and L. Ridgwaii and Sons. An excellent work, of which only a few Numbers now remain to be published, when the price will be raised to non-subscribers. The plates, plain and coloured, are beautifully executed. THE ARCHITECT Longman URA L MAGAZINE. and Co. to all who take an interest ural science, is conducted is to devote to it consi- The contributors are all i an abstract knowledge of liar. This useful publication, in the progress of architect by Mr. Loudon, who seen durable care and attention. architects, or men to whon the science is perfectly fatn PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Btrik Stoat. 3 ~2r Cent. tied. 9•2%1,', 3 p r Cent. Cons. ' 33 /s 3,4 per Cent-- D tto Red N 0.,/ 3 per Cent lOl 101:14j New 5 per Cent.. Sink LongAnnuitiestoec , ire Jan 5, 1860 l3-16 Oct. 10, 1559 Jan. 5, :860 1.')!,( 3 15 1-15 Jan. 5, 101.1 April 5, 18,9i}„, ..... „„ „ ...... JAIL 5: 187 , Ommitun pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bona; Belgian Bonds Ditto Accotnit...... B•azilian Bon Ditto Account . littenos Ayren Ponds Ditto Account Bonin ........ ........ Ditto Acc.lant . 'n:lnt,ian Bonds ........ 9.2 Ditto Account .......... 414 Ditto Account . 25 Dinish Bonds ..... 73 Ditto Account .......... Greek Ditto Bones, 189.5 Ditto Acccunt Mexican Bon 5, 5 per cent 24 Ditto Account Ditto, 6 pr cent. Ditto . AcZount Naap3;itan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share B •atllyin Inverla' Mining Lo. (issued at 51. pm.) 211 20rs B Tzhton Railway Com,),, Brighton Railway (Rennie's) London and Southampton (New) Railway 5 14% National Bank of Ireland 17% 15 .... Van Dieman's Land Agri( ultural Company l7 MAILS. Arrived. Due Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America.... ..... . 0 0 France ..... 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 1 0 Carthagena...... 0 0 H011and.......... 1 0 Ostend 0 1 0 0 Jamaica ..... 0 0 Sweden NI. Fainders HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning sminutes after 51 Evening 29 minutes after 5. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. -,, 4,... 77,....r 1 "..--,, t , --, ..,1,.. .--itt . ,1 ,, , ,,, , _ , 4: , ~. , r ,,, , , triix ,--,- ..„...„, ;-;,.• -,A,... ...r.,....--,. ~,,.....„, ~... ~..„... . ...„..„.,..., Zln ,ialtax. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. in , !la 5t0ck..... . Oltto Bonds South Sea Sox Old knnnities N, w Ditto — 3 per Cent. Annuities, ilNt — Exch. 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(Before Baron PARKE and Mr. Justice PARKE. ) MURDER OF RANDALL.— William Fisher was indicted for the wilful murder of James Randall, on the 3d of November last, in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, by inflicting upon him, with a knife, a wound in the left side, o f w hi c h h e languished and died. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. BODKIN stated the case for the prosecution, and called the following witness. George Freeman deposed that he was a drayman in the em ployment of Combo and Delafield, the brewers. On Friday, Nov. 3, between one and two o'clock, he was in Davis-street, Mount-street, and saw a man beating another with a short stick. Identifies the prisoner at the bar as the person who had the stick ; observed the stick drop from the prisoner's hand ; he then saw him put his hand in his coat pocket, and draw a knife from it ; he stabbed the man whom he had been beating with it. The deceased walked a little distance, and exclaimed that he was stabbed. Witness went forward with a fellow-servant of his, named Fosberry, to take him into custody. Asked him why he had stabbed the man, and where the knife was. He answered, "In my pocket." Witness then put his hand into his pocket and drew out from it a table-knife. Gave the knife to a constable.—(The knife was here produced, and identified by witness.) When witness saw the parties first, there was a sort of scuffle between them. . Cross-examined by Mr. PHILLIPS.—WhiIe prisoner was beating the deceased with the stick, and when he used the knife, he appeared greatly excited. Henry Fosberry deposed that he was along with Freeman when this occurrence happened. His evidence was in every respect similar to that of the last witness. Mr. Stafford John Berkeley deposed that he was house sur geon at St. George's Hospital. The deceased was brought to the Hospital between two and three o'clock on Friday, Nov. 3. There was a flesh wound on his left side, between the tenth and eleventh ribs. He was fast sinking from loss of blood, and died about a quarter past six in the afternoon of the following day. Was present at the post mortent examination. Described the appearance which the body presented. Has no doubt that the wound in the man's side was the cause of his death. Peter Hay deposed that lie was constable of the parish of St. George, Hanover square. On Friday, Nov. 3, the prisoner was delivered into his charge. He told witness the reason he had stabbed Randall was, that lie had taken unnatural liberties with his son, and that he had only done what a father and an Englishman would have done under similar circum stances. Ile also said that he never saw the deceased until about two minutes before he stabbed him, when he was pointed out to him. Charles Meredyth deposed that he knew the deceased, who to the I st had lodged in his 'Joust, nearly eight month s iletvnas a single of November. He was a valet out of plac e. Hew ces occurred. man, and aged about 40 years. Some eircurnstanitieb excited a short time previous to the Ist of Novembe r W the eight his suspicions with respect to his conduct. During the ha . months he lived with him six or seven youths were ' ll bed -room. bit of calling on him, and they always went to i n the They generally called early in the morning evening. Remembered a youth about 15, with a In copse' coming to him on the evening of the Ist Novembento o bj e ct quence of his suspicions being aroused with respect s :! 1 , art _ of these visits, he proceeded up stairs to the deceased's 5 k d to I ° - ment in order to watch what occurred. AtterliPfiel_A through the key-hole, but found that it was mu i e" Illediatell The door was locked ; heard whispering, and dn3escribe the burst in the door. Witness here proceeded to the details scene which he witnessed in the bedroom, but nine) or rivieartye on him , of his evidence are not fit to meet the public eye. „ m i n e) fell on hi 2 knees, and Legged that he would not take n w o-- custody, saying that if he did not inform on hirn,.: n h e _g u°the give him £lOO. Attemp h ted to seize him , and d ran m scuffle which took place between them, the bo y a nd n in ta t ir h s e . m e a F n o t l i l m o w e e ß d a n quickly c e i e n de o d r i d n e ffe t c o ti ngh is detain e so i apsheir.: securing the boy, he informed him that his na me was rola the and that he was the son of the prisoner at the bar. _ if he next evening the prisoner called on him, and asked him ut io knew any of the family of the deceased. To this q de ,, witness made no reply. The prisoner appeared muc h aie t he jetted, and shed tears abundantly. He saw him agars of next morning, when he asked him if he had seen any 0 d d o Randall since ; and on his replying not, said that he wo thee° everything in his power to apprehend him. During visits he appeared to be in a state of the greatest misery Mr Dyer, the Magistrate, was examined, and he went to St. George's Hospital to take the dying -a of Randall. He was toO weak to sign it. at The declaration was then put in and read. It stated d the object of the boy's visit to the deceased was to get of a disease under which he was then labouring. n Clarg "- Mr. William Mane Tracy, a surgeon, residing 1 _ nor street, deposed, that in consequence of the statement li oun d ing in Randall's declaration, he examined the body, n,__ w as no appearance of the disease under which it was said he labouring. ri f t he p statedd claratie'l Mr. C. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury on behalf sower, and said, that although under ordinary et l cas e stances he felt the law to be imperative, yet i n this seocr lie was prepared to call for the full acquittal of the Pc l ot her at the bar. He appealed to them as fathers, Iv' not , under the horrifying circumstances of this case, there %ca s co . if not a justification, at least a strong palliation of th e fled duct of the unhappy prisoner. It could not be eeeLincdi for a moment that the fatal act was the result of P, re e dbf tation. Frantic at the seduction of his child, overwh eilp t he a sense of shame and disgrace, and unable to appeal T so laws of his country—for let it be remembered that DY t o f doing, he would involve his child in the punislimFf t he a capital offence; he is pointed out the seducer,'" fay street, and in 'a paroxysm of resentment ah u . he in he wreaks upon him his vengeance. The law excuses iiior jured husband who, in a moment of passion, slays the P?_,, e o f of his bed : but what analogy was there between the e h w ha d adultery—serious as it was—and that nameless sin which be been committed in this case? There was no exact limit _ defined by human laws where passion ended and re as Z, as aimed her sway. The Jury must put themselves, a s f a c• possible, in the situation of the prisoner, and judge him ccording to the Christian principle) as they would wis h • judged themselves. alle a Sir George Clerk (the Queen's ple, sician) was the n e the and examined by Mr. Clarkson. Previously, howeve a _ r ! g re prisoner was allowed to retire for a few minutes. On le l e a torn into Court, Sir George stated that the prisoner. had bail, in his service for a year and a half. He had been before j the service of Dr. Goodge, an eminent physician, who vat e a l him very highly. He was much more respectable than 11!d, in persons of his situation in life. He was never intox icate and never lost sight of propriety of conduct. Mr. John Alaudsley, surgeon, had known the prisoner of in the service of Dr. Goodge, and had opportunii ies eh ie, observing his conduct. He was exceedingly respec t and uniformly well conducted in all the relations of rge ; Dr. Ferguson, Dr. Roebuck, Mr. Tracey, Mr. G e %) Ashby, Mr. Newman, (the job contractor of Regent-sue:oer ▪ Mr. C. Walker, and several other witnesses, gave the rie 0 . a most excellent character for kindness of disposition, bum ity, and general respectability and propriety of conduct. : tit yeral of them spoke particularly, to his affectionate CO 'n ' towards his family. Mr. Justice PARK, in summing up, said, he believed th° long this case had never occurred before, in the whole of his , 01 legal experience. And, undoubtedly the law acquitted led of murder, if in the first transport of passion he n u t an adulterer in the act of criminality with his wife. hat then if it was done deliberately, the crime was murder. . 1 • he (Mr. Justice Park) consid ere d th e l aw a ppli c able to tu be case. The strong point was that th e p r i soner did not see u t irc l offence committed, but had acted up on t h e re p o rt of a t" • party. There was certainly great p rovoca ti on in this ear; but it was his opinion, and one in which hi s Learned Bre tu be . concurred, that there was nothing to reduce the offence of prisoner t less than muder. The Jury asked leave r to retire. They were absent ah °l l an hour and a half. On their return into C o urt they retu rne o a verdict of Guilty of Manslaughter, ac co mpanied wit h ,. recommendation to mercy, on the ground of the extreme P t. ' s , vocation the prisoner had received, a n d o f hi s ex cellent e" ratter. The verdict appeared to give great satisfaction to a 'l el crowded Court. NEW COURT. George Bailey was convicted of having s t o l e n four si lce i r , spoons, the property of his master, Mr. S avor y, the we i t o known silversmith. The prosecutor r ecommen ded him mercy, as he had committed the crime under temporary ei" harassment. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLO " The Upper Canada Papers, ju s t rece i ve d, sa y t hat tical feeling in Lower Canada runs high ; both parties 2 „ 1 :, e a state of excitement. The F renc h p arty , un d er Mr. 10 nesu's influence, seems to be int e nt u p on resort i ng to vi° measures. Sir John Colborne is stationing bodies of troopt various points." ber• We have received Mauritius P a pe r s t o t h e 12 t h Septep They give the Exchange on London—Mauritius GovereleA Bills, 30 days' sight, 1 per cent. prem. ; Mauritius P. t , Bills, 90 days, none; Private Bills, 90 days, at 2 Per cell discount. W , e have received the New York Papers to the ar e November, by the packet ship Sampson. The following extracts : ~e d • "-- THE MARKET‘ —No change in Cotton ; Flo& aL ha s half a dollar per barrel. The whole business of the city the been turned upside down, as it were, by the result of elections. 10 11 .-- There was great joy exp resse d a t th e B oar d of r ° at the result of the elections. Stocks were u ncorno• ° ,oo firm ; United States sold at 120. Exchange 15i. Whig majority was 2,887." . n to The Magistrates at Montreal had issued a proclamat%ed prevent the procession of the Sons of Liberty, who bad iss it s a notice, that they intended to march through the streets ! too a tri-coloured flag flying. It was feared that if the proee7o, took place, a collision with the Constitutionalists In Upper C ana d a , a meet i ng had taken lace to 001 op the state of th e L ower P rov i nce, at w hi c h it was resolve" form volu n t eer b r i ga d es, cons i st i ng of artillery an d rifle support the Constitutional cause, if necessary. THE FUNDS. A 4 41 r Consols closed fi rm y ester d ay at 93 i for Money , an d 41, the January Acc oun t, opene d at 94. Exchequer Bills ' 4 07; premium ; I n di a B on d s 28 30 premium ; Bank S to ck ir India Stock 269 270. The settling of the Foreign Account went off ger' day, although a heavy one both in Brazil and Portuffoisti Stocks. At present we do not hear of any defaulters. Sp to' Active closed 20k with Coupons, opened at 19,i 20; 1 ( . 0 0 , guese closed heavy, 29.2- 30, opened same ; Three per ' i d f per 181 19; Mexican 271 281; Dutch Two-and -a-H a ' Cents. 544 54k.; Columbian 9 41 rick - • HALF-PIIST ONE • 00. The accounts received from the United States this 05 ing are unimportant in respect to commercial affairs.hie citizens were principally occupied in their elections, and , elated on the triumph of the Whigs. el well yeueo It i s The news from Canada is of more importance. obi' an unfavourable nature. We have seen a gentlemau_ s i on has come by the pa c k e t s hi p Samson who left Mori!r4 Rat the sth November. H e states as positive that a e'vot ite; will take place in th a t country , if Government does 23 with decision w immediately. ping , Consols ere rather heavy in the early part of t he 113 sine and receded from 94 to 93.4- for the January accounti,s, 45 which they ar e aga i n 94; M oney, 93a Exchequer 131 , 1 ,1 0 , at to 43 46 44 ; I n di a B onds, 24 26; B an k Stock ou , 204; India Stock, 267 269. 2911' Spanish Active, lower, 191 • Portuguese, also lower , 0 4 4 ; Three per Cents., 19; Mexican, 2 1 ; Dutch Two -and-a-Half Cents.,4 l per 4 • OCk o'CL Colombian, •• Consols for th• Account, 031; EIGHT-DAY CL0C„,,,1;,00 to strike the Hours and Half-hours, Five Guineas each. -don s bracket or cases, about 75 inches high, suitable either to s,t,l Sa or mantel-piece, and are Warranted, at T i CG don' V 0 it pamphlet containing drawings . and a detailedelistoL t' at be Working Goldsmith, &c. ticc , "47, Cornhill, L!". _ 1 the prices of Silver Plate, Plated GOods, Watches, Clocks, 8 al plicat►/; 4 had gratis, or will be fore arded in answer to_a_l2.o ------- BIRTHS. , I , e ladf On the 29th ult., in Somerset-street, Portman -square) '- of Dr. Harris Dunsforcl, of a (laughter. f An icer" On the 28th ult., the lady ' of G. S. H a rcourt, Esq ., ° wycke House, oauoliter. 3fuspr st l , On the 28tn f ull a Leicester,• the l ad y of J. M r • Esq , of a daughter: MA II it lED. Fl( O ira n Marylebone, by the Rev. James S. M. Anderson, tb ..0 1 ::,d, to Macdonald, eldest son of Venerable re , , , con . Niacd iey .. G T e h o u r rs gi d n ay a, , ( t i; h g.l 3 , o te t i h . o t i :fo November, la:3girinity C e lnl., rc _ ll ,;. D t' : the A !"' of Upper" .. " . street. Ore° DI D- E iad t y hc of 3 R Ot o h bo u r l t t. n c , toio L gd o la w ro '& T B ay c i r o lce r, ley b : th q s . treet, P" tni3n-sq .)n ithe -Oh ult., Benjamin Gilhat, 01 "f - _ - 7_ --- ------ Lon( ' lon : Printed and Published by MUUDO d i n t r.,. e° 112, Strand, at The Sun O ffi ce, No. 112, Str a° ' of Midilksex.—Friday, December I, 1837 ' Esq., of Horncastle.