The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-12 00:00:00

4 it - e; o 7 ° a• The case was tried before Mr. Justice kiltrj; at Briseol. I t was an action taken by the sp oil a i the plaintiff for the recovery of a • ttto the .. )( 'lieY of insurance. The defendant, the . 4415; Insurance Company, alleged that the plain 're hi s Is a , 4l e a -bankrupt, but had assigned the policy , a uankrupt cy, of which defendant had not been . ; n d therefore resisted the claim, as notice rkit,. ir g lY ee; but it was contended that the notice was V e e that was not sufficient in law, and that such I,,,,atlllait,stiou left to the jury, which, being a question 4 : 4 4 1:1,4 of filet, Counsel contended should not ' Itft t , t ' i t l to the jury; and that it should not have ei,A o I e jury to find whether the notice that had i tt, ; N s a p.erson named Leu,more, an insurance nd,o, sufficient notice to the Insurance Company. .41,,, eat deferred, 1 . .` (14 4 on t h b- THE CORPORATION OF MANCHESTER. Nip r, , e application of the Solicitor-General, the sot t h i s case was fixed f or M on d ay next. ilte- " Il lig Nh„ IRE V DOUGLA' of this ease has been fix e d for Thursday c 044 -------- i ,ir /:, ~,N P LEAS. —(THIS DAY) e • Nri.P'"iPs did not sit till One o'clock. ttiqge and Williams were calied within the le 1,30,Ye1l admitted as sergeants. 'titt l y ," 19 ,n8 were dis tised of, none of which pos .' eualic interest IiNUER.(THIS DAY.) • t,,,,d,,,. (6ittings in 13anco.) I,ltaiiisdrlef Baron of the Court of Excheqaer, v. 11 , 1, Y Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Alderson, f• thiV,Platt, took his seat upon the bench at 7,Coortv.estniinster Hall shortly after ten o'clock, titithiailleltolediatcly proceeded to hear an . d ee d s . -- t. Prese,t2 motions, which, being moti i . "`" no features of public interest. aZwas COLLIN S v. RODWAY. Zai tt a t : 4 ll ,: tt : r n ne e y n the case brought by the plain '3 clerk, to recover damages from t hj0„ 1 ,, 4 injuries done to a couple of horses iheo•:a e ntrusted to the defendant for being :ket slain as tried before ti e Lord Chief Baron - ',„ 11 10 pi v. L i t ri i .rls, when evidence was . adduced on the tt3 1 01 5 ''''', to prove that defendant had been hatitt liegiltYenee in shoeing two valuable horses i h o ' and that considerable injury was inflicted . l ip le ,: by such want of care and attention. L'leri:lB"lll,jury found a verdict for the defendant, at'Yertlior Leing against evidence should . not 1,, , alj ~t i- s' a new trial had. Their Lordships, -1 4 yft,„"cheurred in the opinion that the verdict 114Ites,',,alice with the evidence, in so far as some . r vi tt4t Pretested that ]he injuries did not arise hk't°l/14 are and attention in the shoeing, Off er; -.;se of long-standing from which they ' l ttd o ,"„ al g before they came into the possession -"" The rulesva e s a t t herefore refused. N S af ,„ nEVrox v TIEMS. 4 I ) -- ' °rl of debt % . •had and received, t o , folios, bymoney the plaintiff, a gentleman of e fo_ e r - - 11,1440 Wiself a sum of money paid t e o f t e h ert d ain t )top e ,,, an . auctioneer, in respect it isl e , 1 ',', 3 ! Which the plaintiff hadpurcha i s h ed m a i ! :li: tid t e r rii r ' ll na e y as i e n was tried at sittingsthe be -t Propertyhpu it was proved that the defend il,,,,ln to , eh o question on behalf of Messrs. V 441; h„ Purchased it some time ago from - tv—l n it h d be n f iffeited for some de . toot * tax coil a e .1 ( Nichols, lwho subse- No, ' , fi lo , b - ector name,, i tOtttr d - i k ,nefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act, ' t i „,, tt 'l i:;, - is kt , his 11 property to his creditors. 7at`4ta_bstracet' of title to the plaintiff it was t' , )tr th e ~ Property had not been properly . stir ",„,,,Nr 3 .‘ 413 wn, and instead of being the pro- f 'kit o 'aito B ; "hi) it was is law, the property o 4i,1, 1 , 8 , and the plaintiff; in consequence of jght ‘'"e titi 'go t , La e hi , e, refused. o complete Nqh, giret action to recover back the de foriitired no.. Paid at the sale, which amounted to li t '4 pi a . ` 44 fls• The jury on the trial . found_ a 4,,tttiotifrfor the full amount claimed. Vtld th n °w moved to set this verdict aside, " • d ' , a of ati. Nichols had made a valid surrender c ati! f aie ti n t " Property to escape imprisonment, ' et •l st ft t r -al s of Property he had been guilty. It "1144 o,,ender was not upon a stamp, but as the ti, ay, '''' , e for the benefit of the Crown, it did Got th,, But there was another and a stronger tctitglookTrisd.ict should be set aside.. The plain t% fed in 48 objections to the title within the NI - :144 e the c onditions of sale, and the d r fore he 414 0 : ba d ue purchase upon the title delivered, ' i ltr i b e 8 l-, it, 4 46 IrPi B ARON said the Learned Counsel 1 4at i ° , 1 ; to set 4 4e to set aside the verdict,. and enter a orYtt e4t a side the verdict with a view to a new ~ ti,, aeon of osts. ttitk4 dir 7'Zisl W ELL.— ( r HIS DAY.) i wthcktrle•; a ged about 17, was charged with the 1 (1 4 8 --(31: " c onduct to Mr. Petch, superinten- Pk,'!ltolitetet.4e(l School, in Lamb and Flag-court, Iheb,4l.o!Tejlt into the school on Sunday and used flo;; I ktie r "? master told him to leave, where -0044 4 ,‘, 1•11 ek him so violently as to make the ap e oe,s4ris nose and break his spectacles. Nti'kud gall aion ensued, and police-constable osk.l4ll.ested the prisoner, who was followed Q:a k alt e 4 e .,_ )3 Y a crowd of bad characters, some t tk llvo eT , lo Police, i t t i ' L attc t , s s 9tenced the prisoner to pay a fine j ii ii.4, tr ,_ ..s. _ . ,2.o2_ment. • 441e801z -STREET.—(THIS DAY.) , a ~„ •k g "45 or li ag good-looking female, r”pect ' c kt a rged with wilfully and maliciously t t hat e l at 1 t o 4, P -ate-glass of the value of 41. It i tlt , lit elove last night the de ,Of ~ ~u th,, , n o'clock 1 1• l e 4 d une i onse of Mr. James Wright, the y elo th , k ad r on e4 a }lead, Great Titchfield-street, ',ttetthapuested to see a young man who was 0,,Ak, 611 ; t th P n ers ° ll , however, refused to come out c_ le'a-att 6 „ e , - * b ecame extremely violent and ex- N,, ,, v , t Zi i ,, - -‘ of the house she struck her fist 1 , , is': ( l ia - a e hs B against the parlour window, and %:, 4 4 1 ; c4 ht 0, - " 1 1, 1141 ing in the square of glass in kmk k t(t o 'eh she severely cut her hand. 1.. .1ti0 t I ? 1 . ) the d efendant)—Are you able to pay 'tli 4 t , th e e l . fe ll ; dant—l did not do it wilfully. I t%k itio P a ait iou r •• : n tiow to induce a young man who kuhe to the' ') come out to me. Mr. Wright t .' 01 144 house at all hours and times. I t 4 . 4 i l tr lal , r tied to him on Thursday last, but qi ' ritght's instead of going to church 4 da,,Rht ati. , I, sh e tq, that after the defendant had broken hreatened to smash every thing in the N la '4ll L l / 4 14 4 8411 ed if she k toy ik - said s ,_ e - was intoxicated.. .ir o , tit B ald g,' had been drinking. . "ti t ro , that if she was allowed until three t,l 4 4l, R , t h il t ei t Z 1 1 1 e would procure the 41. Nt 41 . 1 ' ki d e would not take her word. ii It of t hat she must pay the money by ,r tioo D o e Nci, t n, or stand committed for one Ilt ' la t tkt t , tili, e ars, was led by the gaoler to the t teci 24, 4 , ',l i N a4 'i t h St e ' "lPt.i . man of respectable appearance, ' Y) qt han allr :ig a bracket clock , ofthe value l e nt No. k Of the house of Mrs. Mary lil 1. 4 44 14 1, Charles-street, I.'ortlaand- poi a i c c e e . Iti,.AR 1;22 ,ea o'clock last eventng, s . lqter u l , , e,vo h ° s l h t ; ll .. e D division, was proceeding on hot,oh thetre•street, Portland-place, he met t. t: 11 ' t C lock under his arm. Suspecting 'then it 1,3 e stopped him, and . inquired ~44,44,, 't• The prisoner said a man NI . 'lat 4b ; 'lad given it him to carry to Lisson- Eat he Le told' am Ow „the him he must go to the station kioh't th,' Fro s aid, " I took the clock from 52, it, ‘ti o :t th e Val that information the constable % .1 1 14 'evi ea° e was stolen from No 51 but a 4 i °4437 to b • .t to rit o t e prisoner s eing stopped Ike k ltd had g o ()ti t lil t y 104 one the with a blank note, I, . fre r ,,P st o i,, ging in the house ; and while the t.' 4 14 ' 40 14 With it, the prisoner wrenched 4 4 k st re „ ll , l :gs, and decamped. A . large k . 14 , L door keys, were found in his oil 0 1 )t 41 . iti t 44l .-i! h ha ' Z i t i f the prisoner was known ?—The la 0 a t k • . 1 , 1 ' 4 d efei V s the prisoner if ha wished to ...ay Ott,. 'a ? Prisoner—No ; I have nothing ttl,,N,„ h‘.;o4,'cilrait t fed to take his trial at the Central %,,, N X,% 1 ., - ,:---___ t t' a k(l v t P i tp, 4ia• - O RGERY AT HULL. 91 It N.. 10 e of' 1 , 4 teg,' th e ' the fold Packet of Friday con -1 it -4 4, -11, at the e3.,.„arnination of Edwin and Ben !to,,,tiot4lrs. tonell P olice -court, on a charge of ltip , N „el 2,3791a10vv, Pearson, Yre " Alo 53 • The prisoners,who were and Co., of Hull, rlto o , ria lto hd a) , h • . xa. tt„, I ll tl „ med, „„1, ad been, after a private e \i k,. 4 of' 6 13 e ,7" were brought up again on I' 111,14 age and l'ni_n Adamson is a man e about p u r. 11)1,5wtac1:40.4:41. been7ePrsvTotuavernie, called employ of t at o ,: ag o, htle ether prisoner, who is nine -15 544 4 Itild CO, 4 (1 a clerk in the house I , b,, 4 , for five I trt4, p dr a °L aa • years. The for 'oo ,t i qk _ WA , rlea of cheq ues purport sk„e au ••,•.`',Y 13rownlow and Pearson, o t tl % o a t Iti u , t i i to Pcokti.dell, their bankers, for amounts th,IN N , th at The date of the first forgery th tc o ~t th o . 0 f the last 9, 1845. The m ix , t, 4t til tL asio I%l ' ol ler B • • Oct. ' ri s , ey tt t _ _ e . njar . nin was very . slight, i el 4 _ aotb,h„ cYanunationihe Magistrates lll l 4 tthi 6 ' " Was sufficient to warrant his iv Lt. t h 11,,, 4° llet. ill. ' 1:411e;,131. t he ttP A P r e'r . e d Very powerfully affected 1; 14 111 0 0 4* t o t aid irl'Zato,lstres, and turning round ip 1' hat of joil sei , "g of great agony, " Edwin, to kl 11 Y ou - tile suffer for what ' you know ,4, 0 iit :,.'thi t , . know as - I `"l' l ad • '''ntit' ''') 4 0 with well as Ido that 01eti l'r,to re th ohl the cheques, but never 1 11 tI O Na • xou know as well as Ido • ) t ja t - bu t Of those three 0 4 lir t rl 1 y our , , , cheques are not L I. ok , ed t(I R ar l d . ,, ~ and that I can prove in t ho la g t he b Th e Youn er • - torlth,-r haslth i etch . g prisoner imme t • , and i tone carrying con 'lkN44ll4, aajd I Bald ‘‘ Indeed, p et, "it 1 1 „, - ' Is quite gentlemen, what t t, Con Wa s _ , e tru o . Ile knew nothing of t tt ti e y thl,lerati:Pprehended, and he never had lil t , I I 4 q1 4e ,, 4 t g th u I? , the whole transactions. I „; 14 to ) , 'Os whiehgu,lt, for I wrote the whole ) t r oy r e l ,, t, ,brother '-',„ ave been sworn to have been f o l k , 4 ber l l, till-4 r ,i i e 'ball not suffer for my Al 14 . _ bot tks , Ili not IVran is one filet I. t ak m `ralo ves (. 7 other," ( VitiltilitadktelY "lee ' Doran is a junk); C 't4 4 l* 1 1 P li P e relle ,..nded, and with the other 4ktimago 13(4,0e-officers have been in L):4° :-Palk kit eke . . . IV* TILE SUN, LONDON, M0.7%, 1 / I AV EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1846. L[TERATURE. THE FOREIGN Q UARTERL I' REVIEW. LXXIL This number contains several article 3 of a first-rate character. Indeed we have rarely seen the Fereign Quarterly display so much ability, or furnish so many papers of general and deep interest. There are two, however, on the affairs of France that require par ticular notice—that on " Capefigue's Europe since the Accession of Louis Philippe," and the other on the " French Revolution," as described by Dahlmann and Niebuhr. It is to be regretted that the writer of the first has displayed so much nationality, in some instances not very impartial, that he has occasionally maligued the French, and that one of his great ob jects is to prove, what he calls " the cardinal fact," that Louis Philippe ' both before and alter the revolu tion of July, played the part of a consummate hypo crite. We are not the apologists of the Ring, and are ready to admit that after he mounted the throne the acts of his Government materially differed from his recorded professions, both at that period and for some short time afterwards; but still it is only fair to inquire whether he could safely have acted otherwise, and whether a man, on being convinced of the danger of carrying out certain political doctrines which he once admitted, is to be consistent at the risk, nay, with the certainty, of committing greater faults or crimes. One of the principal objects of Louis Phi lippe was the maintenance of peace in Europe, and, to the wonder a n d a d m i ra ti on o f t h e wor ld , he has, for fifteen years, been eminently successful. Some of these professions certainly led the French to believe that the Kieg was favourable to democratic institu tions, and that his reign would exemplify all that was implied in the epithet " Citizen Ring," but even the accuser of this extraordinary man admits that the French are not adapted for democratic institutions, and that they must submit to servitude under some form or other till they have a national religion. "The French," says he, " perceive no absurdity in prating from time to time about democratic institutions as though it were practicable to reconcile such things with the charac ter of a people, a moiety of whom, by their own show ing, live in habitual disregard of the fundamental duties of society, With these data before him any one may foresee what is to be the future destiny of France. It must submit to servitude under some form or other until it can resolve to have a national religion ; Catholicism, if it can discover nothing better. There is no freedom without faith." An impartial writer would not have allowed the oppor tunity to escape of doing justice to Louis Philippe on both these points, He has done more to restore a sense of religious duty in France than ever was done by any monarch, and what ruler, nay what private individual, ever showed more regard to the "funda mental duties of society ?" If the example of a Court has any effect in encouraging morality in cherishing domestic affections and forming the cha racter of a people, Louis Philippe is surpassed by none in that respect. It is admitted by all parties— by even the most bitter enemies of the present dy nasty and of all dynasties—that his conduct in his family is not only unexceptionable, but merits the highest praise. Religion and morality being abso lutely necessary, according to this writer, for the es tablishment of free institutions, and without which there can be nothing but servitude, the highest praise should have been bestowed on the Sovereign who is thus paving the way for good government on the very principles recommended by the person who heaps upon him abuse. Notwithstanding these de fects, however, much useful information and interest ing details are given respecting the state of France since the July revolution. It may be necessary, however, to make another remark with regard to the party who overthrew Charles X. The writer says it was the intimate friends of Louis Philippe, men with whom he was in daily and nightly habits of in tercourse, between whom and him there were no secrets, that did it all. " Few men," he adds, " knew exactly that the ordinances were coming, but most persons anticipated some foolish act of power, by which the throne would be endangered or lost ; and the probability is, that among the keenest haruspices in France, his present Majesty Louis Phillippe was the chief." This only does honour to his sagacity, if the word can be applied in reference to events the effects of which were pal pable to all :careful observers. In this country, every newspaper conducted with ordinary ability prophecied what took place, and repeatedly warned the Polignac party that they were taking every pos sible step to complete the parallel between the Eng lish and French Restorations. Could a clear-headed man, like the Duke of Orleans, fail to see things in the same light ? and is any blame to be attached to him that he prepared for the consequences ? The other article alluded to, that on the French Revolution, brief though it is, contains much, and merits the highest praise, not only for the excellent language in which the writer expresses his sentiments, but for the comprehensive views he takes of the great events and the leading men that distinguished that remarkable event. There is nothing vague, or na- tional, or sectarian in his remarks they are appa rently the candid expressions of an impartial observer, and are entirely uninfluenced by the prevailing opinions respecting the conduct of such men as Robespierre, and Mirabeau, and Brissot. We only regret that he adverts to so few of the leading cha racters. He does full justice to Mirabeau, and even ventures to praise Robespierre ; and shows, in the fol lowing extract what alone was wanting to make the revolution produce good fruits : " In this universal enthusiasm of the nation was to be found, not only the living principle of the revolution ; but the explanation of the circumstance that few of its leaders were great men, and that the greatest of them accomplished but little. The multitude was, probably, at first neither better nor worse than the mass of a popu lation might be expected to be found, when exposed to the effects of ignorance and poverty. In its excitement, ,t became like an intoxicated man, more fearless and forgetful of self, and at the same time more ferocious and reckles- . But, the leader of an infuriated mob is almost necessarily weak or wicked. Only a blood thirsty maniac, like Murat, could keep pace with the violence of the people, without a deliberate conscious ness of guilt. The only field for great qualities was in resistance ; only Mirabeau was powerful enough to stem the current for a time, and before it had reached the height of flood, he was removed from the conflict by death. One indispensable requisite of greatness consists in a business-like instinct, which can discriminate be Neen definite practicable objects and empty systems of words. Great men would not have wasted time like the Constituent Assembly, and the Girondists, in discussing the merits of constitutions, till they had first secured the means of enforcing obedience to them. They would have provided a moving force, before they adjusted the machinery. Robespierre, almost alone, relied on the extreme revolutionary spirit as the support of his power ; but, he also was filled with impracticable dreams of a future reign of fraternity and benevolence, in which his only instrument of government, the guillo tine, should be laid aside. His method could not be last ing, and he had provided no alternative to succeed it. It is more possible, however, to attribute greatness to Robespierre than to Roland or Brissot." The history of Abelard and Heloise will be read with interest by many, but we think too much has been made of such a revolting subject. Neither of the parties display one quality useful in society. They both acted the part of hypocrites. The hero was a hard-hearted, designing, and merciless villain, and the fate of his v i c ti m , no t w ithstanding the pane gyrics heaped upon her by the writer, ought to be held up as a warning to all virtuous women. Ac cording to hFt- own admissi on , s h e d evo t e d h erse lf t o a religious life without one quality compatible with its duties ; she acted the part of a hypocrite from some wayward fancies ; and, even in the most solemn scenes of the cloister, seemed to forget every virtuous sentiment. Pope's description of her is not a whit overcharged, and he might well make her say:— " Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame; Augustßefore trueher deed and passion a Fame, wealth, and honour, what are you to love?" l sacred thes e b views her remove; fame; THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXVII, Already, in another department of The Sun, we have discussed the particular merits and demerits of decidedly the most sensible, the most valuable, and the most sagacious review in this number of the Edinburgh, relating to " Legislation for the Working Classes." And we have there specified the several inaccuracies which tarnish what would otherwise have been a very candid exposition of a very compli cated theme. The reviewer indeed takes a capacious survey of the measures by which English statesmen have endeavoured to assuage that thirst for better things with which the populace have been so harassed ever since the abolition of feudalism; still there is an ostensible obliquity in his vision—the obliquity arising rather from the medium through which he gazes than from any inherent propensity to misrepresent. The medium in question is evidently a straggling, insufficient, and desultory book-reading. It is from this blemish—this spattering about of odd and incongruous facts—in the article particularised, that we turn with more relish to the other topics. A pleasant and rapid glance is taken at the gradual insinuation of Shakspere upon French popularity in the paper christened " Shakspere in Paris." This insinuation of genius upon the mind and heart of a nation has been advancing, though in sluggish and spasmodic jerks, ever since Voltaire endeavoured to disabuse his countrymen of the notion that our mightiest of poets was a sort of literary monstrosity-- a barbarian jangling the harp of Apollo without any knowledge of his art, with accidental chords of melody, though more frequently with harsh and rugged discords. Not, however, until 1821, was this declaration publicly backed by the accordance of any influential critic, when M. Guizot in that year boldly asserted in the teeth of all his predecessors that the glory and the geaius of Shakspere were no longer discussed, that no one retained the hardihood to contest the point, but that another and a greater question hnd arisen, a question as to " whether the dramatic system of Shakspere was not better than that of Voltaire." Here then the latter had dug a ' pitfall for his own footsteps, and time after time that pitfall has been deepened and enlarged on every hand ; after Guizot by Victor Hugo, then by Count Alfred de Vigny, then by Anthony Deschamps, then by Leon de Wanly, then by Augustus Barbier, and malty by the migration of a company of English tragedians into the French capital during the winter of 18444. - What the influence of criticism, or the mellifluousness of translation bad failed to accomplish, was achieved by the severe, but startling mannerisms of 111tiereaiy and the tender and irresistible pathos of Mies _Helen Faucit. Those among the Parisian audiences who were euffleiently acquainted with the language of the dramatist, received, through the medium of their passions, and their idea-drinking hearts, some gli mmer o f t h at b r i g h tness wh i c h f a ll s, as , w . ith a sunbur s t, upon a ll w h o can apprec i ate t h e dform and c om p ass o f our m i g h ty b ar d. T o stand with Lear upon the heath and hear, amidst the rain, the babbling of that old, mad king—to weep with Hamlet over the jester's skull, • and catch be tween whiles the mocking carol of the gravedigger, " A pick- axe and a spade, a spade, And 0 for a winding-sheet !" To sigh out one's whole sou l f rom very excess o f happiness with Jessica in the moonlight showered down among the pine -leaves in the garden—to watch with Richard the grey dawning of his death-day through the tent-loops at Bosworth—to stand breath lessly by the Thane of Cawdor, in the silent galleries at midnight, or on the moor amidst the tempest—to do all this, and feel the pulses of a man dead more than two hundred years ago beating with all the strength and glow and energy of life in every line— was indeed something worthy of being rendered palpable to a great and civilised nation like our neighbours across the Channel. Still from the tem perament, the habits, and the whole intellectual ens of Frenchmen, we assert the utter impossibility of so filling their imaginations with the copiousness and philosophic infinitude of Shakspere as to render their admiration either staunch in its duration, or propor tionate to the merits of the subject. Before these things can possibly come to pass, the entire fabric and animus of Gallic thought, must undergo a per fect transformation; and it is in this particular that we dissent so entirely from the spirit of the re viewer. Speaking of the various exertions of the translator already enumerated, he exclaims, "A few more such generous efforts, generously hailed, and we may be spared the humiliating spectacle of science, letters, and art, bowing before senseless clamour." Multiply these efforts, say we, usque ad nauseam, and France will remain as incapable as ever of compre hending the daring sword-cuts and subtle allusions of Shakspere. Among the students of foreign litera ture some must always, according to the impulses of nature, entertain for him a feeling of idolatry ; but the mob, the Boileau-loving, Racine-spirited mob can never persuade themselves into anything like genuine affection for the insular poet. He is essentially too untrammelled, too vast, too universal, and too deter minate a thinker to arouse the sympathies or elicit the applause of a people notorious for the daintiness and mincing precision of their drama. Besides this the impossibility of rendering Shakspere into French couplets, and at the same time sustaining his creations in their original elevation, forms another obatacle to his popularisation in Paris : Achilles in a " taglioni" could never excite in us sentiments of awe or admira tion. What is there in the following version of Hamlet's soliloquy—however elegant, or literal, or, ingenious the verson may be in itself —to fill our souls with the solemn and pathetic reverie always roused within us by the original ? "Etre ou ne pas etre ; oui, voila la question:— Lequel vaut naieux? S'armer de resignation Sous les traits outrageants du sort toujours contraire; On Bien se revolter, et, d'un coup, s'y soustraire? Mourir,—dormir,—c'est tout," &c. Surely this is the degeneration of grandeur into prettiness ! It is a modern dandy beside Jupiter Tonans ! Hence it is that we dissent from the re viewer's position, that by a repetition of such attempts as the one just quoted, we shall be " spared the hu miliating spectacle of nations shuttering their eyes to light, closing their ears to truth and knowledge, and refusing to listen to the voice of melody, if transmitted across a frontier line, or a few leagues of salt water." Until the French are more approximated to us in spirit, until their idiom possesses a closer affinity to the idiom of Albion, they cannot entertain any genuine, natural, unaffected regard for the mightiest of our national genius—William Shakspere. There is an enlightened and detailed bird's-eye view of the " Political State of Prussia" in this num ber, the gist of which is condensed in the sentence — "Royal authority is no longer an object of reverence; and the laws themselves, being considered in no higher light than as the expression of the royal will, are gra dually losing their salutary influence." In addition to this there are some sagacious impressions respect ing the " German Catholic Church," and a sensible commentary upon " Charles Lyell's Travels in North America." We shall, however, content ourselves with giving the subjoined estimates of the " Earls Spencer and Grey:"— "Lord Grey was a man of lofty integrity—of un blemished honour—the object of affectionate attachment to his friends—of respect and admiration to all his countrymen. He never swerved an instant from that line of public duty which appeared to him the most direct. Office accompanied by the desertion of a friend, or the abandonment of a principle, was in his eyes in famy.* For years he confronted obloquy, and defied an adverse Court. His perceptions were too clear to allow him to adopt what was vague or obscure ; his heart was too upright to allow him to sanction what was mean or dastardly. He could not stoop to flatter a prince ; he could not play tricks to please a rabble. ' His public speaking reflected the character of the man. His lan guage was admirably adapted to convey his meaning, neither sinking too near the ground nor rising out of sight—clear, genuine, unadulterated English. Although no one could see Lord Grey without marking in him a certain dignity of bearing and highbred courtesy of manner, his ordinary life was entirely without formality or pomp." " Lord Spencer was eighteen years younger than Lord Grey. His diligence was indefatigable, his sagacity quick, his judgment seldom at fault. His views were large and comprehensive, embracing the whole compass of improvement in our laws, our commerce, and our constitution. His tongue was far from eloquent ; and although his arguments were sound and comprehensive, he . 'was so often wanting in words as to he obscure, and unable :to convey, adequately his meaning. But the Confidence of his friends, his party, and the country, supplied all deficiencies, and gave to his few and simple expressions as much influence over his audience as had ever been obtained by the most admired eloquence of our greatest orators. He was plain in manner and in dress, but a short intercourse disclosed the scholar, the gentleman, and the statesman. " Men may differ about the wisdom of their Parlia mentary measures, or the ability of their civil adminis tration ; but the noble, exalted, stainless spirit of these two men must always be venerated as long as public virtue is admired, and the name of England has its place in history." This eulogium comes with peculiar force and appo siteness immediately upon the close of the year (1845) in which both these celebrated noblemen expired— " the one full of years, sin king gradually into the grave ; the other in the fu 11 possession of bodily vigour and mental activity, swept away by a sudden inroad of disease,"—men wit h great earnestness of purpose and great force of chr. iracter. * How far this sentence is applicable to Lord John Russell, with reference to Lord Palrnerst( in and the abolition of the corn-laws, upon the occasion of h.is late resignation, we leave it to'common sense to decide. THE NE TV TIMON. A Romance of London. Part IL Already, in our notice of th e fir s t p o rtion of this satirical poem, we have partitaularised the peculiar merits of the writer,—his com;pleteness of metre, his terseness of idea, his appositeness of illustration, and his capacity for sketching character. The present continuation of his romance however opens in a most ungrateful and unwelcome n miner. There is an un pleasant egotism in the yes first line, "London, I take thee to a poet' s heard"- —an anonymous audacity which rather inclines the reader to gainsay the author's pretensions to so lo fty a title : and where he afterwards utters the vaunting ejaculation, " 11 e life hath skill'd !" our distaste is even redoubled. But what we more peculiarly o bject to in this second part of the "New Timon" is a N , ery sickly and ungenerous attack upon Alfred Tennyson. Alfred Tennyson ! the most true, the most gel mine, the most spontaneous of the poets of the day ;--Alfred Tennyson ! the veritable and acknowled gad representative of our young bards. No more d(iiicate or delicious verse has issued from the press of I Ate years than his " Sleeping Beauty ;" no more origh ial conception than his " Lotos Eaters." In venting his 'spleen, or possibly his jealousy, upon a mind so sensitive and charming as Tennyson's, the author of the "Modern Timon" has acted without either delicacy or judgment : he has acted with ou t delicazy in thus arrogantly raising his pretensions to popularity, while he endeavours to crush one of the most subtle-minded and gentle-hearted of his contem poraries he has acted without judgment in selecting as a target for his ridicule perhaps the most excellent of Tennyson's productions, " Mariana in the Moated Grange"—a piece which for its desolate and artless beauty is enshrined araung our ballad literature. As for his Creative power, what can be more new and ex quisite than his Sin," or that "Miller's Day ghter ?" As for his attempts to propagate a hu J uan izing spirit among his fellow-men, what can tend more strongly to that pur pose than his picture of t "Palace of noble curiosity about "St Simeon . Stalytes," in 7which pen a sarcasm on the he displays the dark and G o d -despised folly of fanati cism ? As to his delving- 4 iv to the human heart, what can be more truthful or Ix ,neitrant than . his lamenta tionm an e o e f e ‘ f. ' ° L r o i r an id a on ?: " Ro golden intellect of Alfred Tennyson, he should show, what he has never yet sho w n, that one entire canto de ß se d e o r i i • d e s theto writer of this of his composition is of e qual value with a single stanza of Tennyson's. athors, but particularly poets, are so seldom the 3 cipients of any pecuniary recompense for their geni' as in this country, that a direct remonstrance wit j the Government upon a trifling pension to a man )ilc, e the one in question, is ill-timed, ungenerous, and absolutely harsh. We ourselves know Tennyson only from his books, but for the sake of those books—few and small though they be—we esteem him as a poet, and love him for his soul-sympathies. He possesses capabilities for higher flights and and loftier themes than he has hitherto essayed —and we have only to accuse him of hot taxing those capabilities to their real bent. As to his deserving contumely for never having as yet " moved thousands" by his poetry, we would simply remark that Milton failed in arousing the attention of the multitude in his generation; and surely, on this account, he is not to be regarded with indifference ! No, we honour Sir Robert Peel for—that gilding for the bay-garland—the pension of two hundred pounds which has so stirred up the bile of our " New Timon" satirist. But to return to this second portion of the romance : its preliminary lines, when speaking of the metropolis, are admirable : " Let schoolboy Strephons bleat of flocks and fields, Each street of thine a loftier Idyl yields ; Fed by all life, and fann'd by every wind, There burns the quenchless poetry—mankind !" Both the heroines, mentioned in our previous notice, are in Part 11. entirely deserted, whereas a new actor appears upon the arena of the story, in the person of Lord Arden ; and a narrative of his vicissi tudes forms a very agreeable episode to the poem, being introduced in a dialogue between himself and the Timonic Morvale. One passage uttered by the former contains great store of earthly wisdom ; and, as such, we extract it for the perusal of all searchers after the true philosopher's stone—experience : " In truth, See how the grey world grafts its age on youth ; See how we learn to prize the bullion vice, Coin'd in all shapes, yet still but avarice ; The stamp may vary—you the coin may call ;Ambition,' Power," Success,'—but gold is all. Mine is the memoir of a selfish age— Turn every leaf—slight difference in the page— Through each, the same fierce struggle to secure Earth's one great end—distinction from the Poor; All our true wealth, like alchemists of old, Fused in the furnace—for a grain of gold." There is much that is picturesque and touching in the description of Lord Arden's viewing his young bride through the cottage lattice : " Alone!—that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly beard;" And also in the old man's sudden death, which comes directly afterwards. Indeed, the whole of this nar rative is drawn with a delicate and tender pencil. Several blemishes of style, however, obtrude them selves here and there ; for instance where the principle character exclaims, "Mine one dark deed," &c., an affectatation in the pronoun, essentially rugged and inelegant; and again, where he observes that " the curse of stapwr settles on the universe," an expres sion for which the author appears to have a terrible fondness. Besides these two specimens of careless ness, there is one of a meaner and yet more incor rigible nature, namely, the selection of a most inap propriate and inexpressive adjective—the lowest but least exeusabi.e fault in poetry. By this single word a very fair, though somewhat trite, metaphor is ruined : " 0! whet delight to struggle side by side With one loved sootherl—up the steep to guide Her faithful steps—unshrinkimg from the thorn; And front with manly breast, - the biting winds of scorn! And when stout will and gallant heart had won, The hill-top opening to the steadfast sum," &c. Here the epithet applied to the wind totally dispels the illusion of its rushing down the acclivity in the face of the one clambering to its summit. Altogether this part of the "New Timon" is greatly inferior to its predecessor, though it is interlarded with the same caustic and epigramatic points which we have already particularised as the chief merit of Part I. THE AGE .OF PITT AND FOX. By the author of " Ireland and its Rulers." Vol. 1., Bvo. The subject of this work is of infinite importance, not only from its historical interc;st, but because it has intimate relation with the gret a science of Poli tics. For nearly five-and-twenty 3rears Pitt and Fox battled for supremacy. Theirs was. mo common con test. The noblest and the best we se arrayed on one side or on the other, for it was con sidered honourable to serve under such mighty lea ievs. They have passed away, .but it was fitting that some memorial of their long struggle should exist, mid the time has now arrived when the truth may be spoken of these illustrious dead without any fear of ;in juring the inte rests or wounding the feelings of the The goeular and clever author of " Ireland and. its Rulers" • has undertaken to write an ac count of what happened in this. country from the termination of the America a war to the death of Charles James Fox. In other words, to sketch the political history of GI !e at Britain and Ireland, from 1782 to 1806. Duni its the whole of that period the Government of this c o-antry was in the hands of Pitt or Fox. Hence, a w or:k tracing their career must give the history of pul olio affairs. We may say, at once, that this design, although of great magnitude, is neither too large nor =manageable for the writer before us. The first - yob line of his work, embracing a history of the coalition ministry, and of Pitt's administration to the close of 1784, exhi bits great industry, much eloquei ici considerable skill in arranging and condensing facts, and the highest impartiality in commenting tipon them. Every accessible source of information appears to have been visited, and while we have greater accuracy than Wraxall possessed, we have a pliii'osophical exa mination of the springs of action whic was far be yond him. The style is remarkably fr ee and flowing, reminding us of Lord Brougham's b esi t manner. The author commences with the do wnfall of Lord North's Government, in 1782. 'rh e Rockingham Ministry succeeded, but was persoi rally distasteful to George the Third, inasmuch as he believed that the party is office wished to make the sovereign a mere cyphers-to reduce, him to the n( )mi.nal power of a doge—possessing.. the highest app are nt station, and the smallest actual power. That Caibinet broke up by the death of Lord Rockingham, its nominal head. Then ensued a struggle between F. )x and Lord Shel burne, which ended in the defeat of Ski elburne, and the well-known coalition between Lol rd North and Fox —* sacrifice, indeed, of principle: to power. The Coalition Ministry terminated in, the discomfiture of all 'connected with it; Fox a India Bill being the . ostensible cause of the dismissal of the Ministry. Then followed the Premiership of Pitt, and the Parliamentary contest between that able and fearless Minis ter and the great Fox party. The course and termination of that strife is relatedwith force and clet ar.ess, and the con clusion of the volume is occupied. ,with the very best account we have ever seen of the g) eat victory which was gained in 1782 by the Irish learliament—a vic tory which obtained for that L egislature the inde pendendence it required—a vi: :tyry which, badly used, became as ruinous as a deem tt. Mingled with the narrative are brief sketches, pm -sonar and charac teristic, of the principal Irish l ea ders of that time. All are brought before us—Gra tt m, Flood, Charle mont, Fitzgibbon, and the minor s rs composing that galaxy of ability and patriotism. The mention of these sketches - reminds us of the peculiar merit of this author i m pen-portraiture. His sketches of eminent ind ividuals, scattered through the volume, and illu .strated with anec dotes, seem to us the best thi ngs in it. He ex cels in this, and scarcely e , ter names a public man without sketching him, a fu 11 length, in pen and ink. Among the personages in this portrait gallery are George the Third, the Prince of Wales, Lord Chatham and William Pitt, 11.ord Holland and Charles James Fox, Burke, Shei idan, Lord North, Lord Thurlow, Dundas, Lord no,;.:kingham, Lord Townshend, Wilkes, Horne Tool re, Canning, Flood, Grattan, Lord Charlemont, Lord. Avonmore, the Bishop of Derry, Lord Karnes, Adam Smith, and many more. These personal eketohes give a great value to the work, and their imp: arti; ility greatly en hance it. We shall look forward - , with pleasurable anxiety for the other volumes. -- COURT CIRCULAR. Sir Robert Peel arrived at Cla rem .ont on Saturday afternoon, and had the honour ofjqint ng the royal circle at dinner. The Right Hon. Baronet remains on a visit to her Majesty. The Bishop of Oxford arrived at *Claremont on Satur day, on a visit to the Queen. ennt their ark accus . Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner , an d the Misses Gar diner, had the honour of joining th e R o y al Dinner Circle on Friday evening. tom ir e e d st The Queen and Prince A lbert , and the Ladies and ti er ir d i a n y gs th in i h t e e t oy fn a r lenFnanmn ily in w C e l re , Gentlemen of the Court , attend ed Divine service at Claremont, yesterday morning. Ile Bishop of O x f or d lare ta m k o officiated. Her Majesty and her Royal C( msort walked out yes terday afternoon. The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Jairies Graham, the Earl of Leicester, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, visited Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. The B ight Hon. Baronet left his residence in Whitehall-gardier s, in the afternoon, for Claremont. His Excellency the Portuguese 'Minister transacted business at the Foreign office, on S aturday. The Bishop of Jamaica had s u interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, on' ;aturday, at the Colo nial-office. The Earl of Aberdeen left town o n Saturday afternoon. Sir Robert Peel has issued invitations to a full dress Parliamentary dinner party on Wednesday, the 21st inst., at_ his residence in Whitehall-gardens. The Queen's_ipeech, on opening the si !salons of Parliament, will be read by the Right Hon. Blv ronet to his numerous guests. Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial office for the Governer of South Australia. At the Chapel, SL James's, yesterday, the Lessons were read by the Rev. J. C. Haden. The sermon was preacho by thd Rev. Dr. Irwin, Tk to anthem was " I have . set God." Mr. Turle presided a t the organ. Lord. and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord Colville, and Lord G. Paulet, were among the nobility Fs lent. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PoiirsMOUTil, TAN. 11.- —Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Commander-in Chief at this port, another magni ficent ieitettaiurnent at the Admiralty-house on .rri....„ v evening, surpassing in splendour and hospitality even the two former. It was brilliantly attended, all, or nearly all, the rank of both services at the port and the elite of the neighbouring gentry being present. The Rodney, 92, Captain Collier, will be docked to morrow, to have her copper repaired, and, it is reported, to be altered iu her gripe, keel, and stern-post, and her midship-magazine done away with. The Scourge steam bomb-vessel, Commander Coffin, was undocked on Thursday, her copper having been cleaned, and some necessary alterations made in the pipes connected with the engines under water. The Rattler steam (screw) sloop, Commander Smith, was imme diately taken into the dock vacated by the Scourge, the contemplated alterations in her screw propeller not having been completed when she was last docked. By these alterations she will be enabled to ship or unship her screw at any time without difficulty, or raise it suffi ciently to be clear of the water, if it should be desirable to get the vessel under canvass. This (which, for want of a hatchway through from the quarter-deck to the screw, such as has recently been made, could not be done before, without going into dock) can be accomplished at sea in a gale with ease. The Bittern, 16, Commander Hope, is repairing de fects with all dispatch in the harbour, and will be ready for sea in a few days, excepting as regards men, of whom she is short. The Alhan steam troop-ship, Master-Commander Aylen, will be ready for sea to-morrow, when she will leave for Plymouth and Cork, taking Royal Marines and supernumeraries. The Curlew, 10, at this port is ordered to be strength ened and fitted for the trial of a 13-inch MG:tar on board her. An experiment will be tried next week of firing from the Excellent gunnery-ship shot and shell at an old steam funnel, to ascertain what effect the firing may have on it. The funnel will be fixed on a floating stage, and secured by chains, as in the usual way on board steam-vessels, and placed at a regulated distance from the ship. We believe this trial has been ordered at the suggestion of Captain Chads. In an important trial, as this will he, we think a new funnel might have been granted, as it is scarcely probable an old will present such resistance, after having been weakened by wear, as one new from the foundry. The Cormorant steam-sloop, Commander Gordon, was at Callao, on the Ist of November. A private letter says —" One of our boats capsized on the 20th of October, and Dr. Thompson, the assistant-surgeon, and three seamen (Benjamin Serjeant, George Emery, and John Batten) were drowned. We had been at Callao since the Ist of August doing nothing ; the Admiral is down among the island with the Modeste and Salamander, at Otaheite, and has been there for the last twelve months. The America, 50, after leaving the Sandwich Islands, expected to go to the Columbia River; and report also says that the Admiral goes there in the Collingwood, after having been the round of the islands." The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Young, was at Ascension on the 25th of November, undergoing repairs, and not expected to leave for England until February. The Cacique steam-sloop, late y captured by the Pene lope, having taken in a cargo of provisions for the squadron in the Bight of Benin, sailed from Ascension on the 25th of November, Lieutenant H. B. Gray, of the Hydra, having been appointed by Commodore Jones to command her. The Action, 26, Captain Manse], was at St. llelena on the 21st of November. The Frolic, 16, Commander Hamilton, was at St. Blas, from the Sandwich Islands, on the 16th of Novem ber, collecting freight for England—all well. The Amazon, 19, Captain Stopford, was at Genoa, on the Ist inst., last from Barcelona. ... The Persian, 16, Commander Cur} ton, was at Sacri ficios, on the sth ult. The Rhadamanthus steam-troop-ship, Master Com mander Laen, is ordered from the Irish station to the Mediterranean, to join the squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker. The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander W. Pretyman, returned on Friday from the Thames, whither she had attended the Centaur new steam-frigate to get her engines and machinery. The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly, on the Cape of Good Hope station, may be expected home in April, according to private letters received recently. It is reported that the 100 senior captains of the navy have been promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, thus embracing those of 1808 down to those of 1813, as far as Sir Watkin Pell, inclusive. It is also stated that the following alteration has been made in the naval uniform —viz., Captains to wear the star, crown, and anchor; Commanders, crown and anchor; and Lieutenants, the anchor, on their epaulets; and all officers of wardroom rank, to wear two epaulets. FLANDERS MAIL. " BRUSSELS, JAN. 9. " DEPARTMENTS OF FINANCE AND FO- REIGN AFFAIRS.. " Leopold, King of the Belgians, to all present and to come greeting. " Considering that by the final enactment of the 3d article of the law of July 21, 1844, the duties granted by that article, by way of exception, shall cease to have effect, with respect to the countries in favour of which they were granted, if there should intervene in those countries changes in the tariff; or other measures preju dicial to the commerce or manufactures of Belgium; con sidering that the Government of the Netherlands, by a decree of Jan. 5 instant, has made changes in its tariff of customs prejudicial to the commerce and manufactures of Belgium; " In execution of the above-quoted enactment of the law, and desiring to prevent the immediate importation, at the reduced duties, of the tobacco and coffee fixed by our decree of Dec. 29, 1845; On the proposals of our Ministers of Finance and Foreign Affairs, and with the advice of our Council of Ministers, " We have decreed, and decree : " Art. 1. Our decree of the 29th of December is re voked. Coffee, the produce of the Dutch East Indian colonies, and tobacco, imported from the Netherlands into Belgium, are provisionally liable to the general duties of the tariff. " Art. 2. The present decree shall take effect on the day of its promulgation. " Our Minister of Finance is charged with its exe cution. " Jan. Bth, 1846. General ARDENNE, " By the King, LEOPOLD. " The Minister of Finance—J. AIALON. " The Minister of Foreign Affairs—A. DECHAMPS." The Courrier Beige has a very long article on the measure of the Dutch Government, and to an elaborate statement of the Journal de la Have, it declares that the consequence of this measure will be that the prin cipal branches of exportation from Belgium will have to pay three, four, five, and even six times as high duties as the same articles coming from England or Germany. BRUSSELS, JAN. 10.—The Courrier Beige of this day contains the royal decree published in the Momiteur yes terday, and another long article on the trade with Holland. The colossal statue of Prince Charles of Lorraine, which the Government has commissioned M. Ichotle to execute, will be cast in bronze in this city. BELGIAN FTJND3.--8n.r..., JAil. 10. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Itothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........ Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent • ... Ditto Three per Cent •.••.• • • • • .. Ditto Thirty-seven Minions, ditto . Ditto, ditto, 1840 .••••••••• • • • • • • . • • • 100% Ditto, ditto,lB42 • Ditto, 1844. •••••••••.. • • • • • • • • • • •• • 97% Ditto, 1436.. ••..••••••••• • . • • • • • • • • . Ditto, 1838 ••..•••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • .. 75 Ditto of the City, 1832 102% Ditto, 1843 .. •••••••••• • • • • - • • • • • • • 100% Bank ofßelgium •.. • •••• • •• •••• .• .. 772 —Brussels Papers, Jan. 10. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—TIENKA, JAN. 1. 5 per Cent. Metaßives.... • • • • • ......... 111 IA 4 per Cent. ditto• • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3 per Cent. ditto• • • • • • •• • • ••• • Loan, 1834 •• •• • • ••.• • • 101 ••• • • • • • 160% Ditto, 1839 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • ••• • Esterhazy's Loan ........ . .. RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand • • . • ••• • • • • • 190% Gloggnitz • • •• • • •,• • • • • •• • • .... • • • • • 141 Vienna—Milan ......... • • • • • • .• • • • • 1241 A Sienna •• • ............. • • • 100 Grosetto ......... . Oldenburg —Ailgemeine Zeitang, Jan. 5. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, JAN. B.—The bulletin of the laws publishes the following royal decree of the 7th Jan. " We, William, &c., " Seeing the report of our Minister of Finance, and Foreign Affairs, of the Ist of January, 1846, of the duties of importation and exportation; " Considering that the Imperialßussian Government, by an ukase of the 11th of July, 1845, has decreed an augmentation of the tonnage duty on ships, under foreign flags, and likewise an augmentation of 50 per cent. on the import and export duties upon goods im ported and exported in ships under foreign flags ; but that this measure regards only the ships of those nations by which the Russian flag is treated on the same foot ing as the national flag is in that of the most favoured nations; " Considering that Russian ships are treated in the Netherlands on the same footing as the national ves sels, as far as concerns the tonnage, port, pilot, and light house duties, that the goods imported in Russian ships do not yet enjoy the same advantages as we granted to the ships of other nations with which the Netherlands have concluded treaties of commerce; " Desiring, while the negotiations which have been entered into with the Russian Government are still pending, to obviate the prejudicial effects on the flag of the Netherlands which might result from the temporary ap plication of the measures contained in the said ukase; " Seeing Art. 2. of the law of the 19th of June, 1845; " By the advice of the Councils of States, I have de creed and decree: " Ships sailing under the Russian flag, which enter and depart from the port of the kingdom of the Nether lands, shall enjoy from this day the same advantages for goods which they import and export, as are granted, or shall hereafter be granted, to the most favoured nations. " Our Minister of Finance is charged with the exe cution of the present decree, which shall be inserted in the bulletin of the laws, and a copy transmitted to the .Minister for Foreign Affairs." VIENNA, JAN. 3.--Ilis Majesty the Emperor Nicholas left Vienna this morning, at eight o'clock, by the rail way, to Olmutz, to return to his dominions. DUTCH FUNDS.—AIiSTERDAM, JAN. 9. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 23Q per Cent •• . • ...• •• . 61 36 61% Ditto, 3 per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 74 74% Ditto, 4 per ......96•••••••• Amort Syndic, 416 per Cent .......... 99% 100% Ditto, 336 per Cent •• Commercial Company, 436 per Cent .. 164 164% East India Loan, 4 per Cent.. •• • • Exchange on London, at sight ........ 12 21 Two m0nth5............... 12 15 On Hamburgb, at sight .... 35 75 Two months... On Paris ........ .. Tw0m0nth5............... —Dutch Papers, Jan. 10. DETERMINED SUICIDE AT GUY'S HOSPITAL.— On Saturday night an inquest was taken at Guy's Hos pital, before Mr. Payne, the City coroner, on view of the body of Mr. William Dye, aged 36, assistant-surgeon to Mr. Ryan, Bermondsey-street. Mary Davis, nurse, said that the deceased was admitted on the 7th January. He was under the care of Dr. Babbington. On the following day (Thursday) he got out of bed and screamed violently. As he appeared deranged a strait jacket was put on. The same evening wit ness was called by a patient, who stated that something had happened to him. She went to him and found blood streaming under the waistcoat. Mr. Hill, one of the surgeons, was fetched, who discovered a wound in his throat, and a clasp knife was taken from the bed by Mr. Hill. The jacket was put on by Mr. Cooker, and deceased was fastened to the bed. Fanny Gurger, sister of Job ward, said that, shortly before the act of the de ceased, he a s k e d t o h ave th e cur t a i ns o f hi s b e d c l ose d. The clasp-knife deceased must have brought with him. A great number of pawnbrokers' duplicates of wearing apparel pledged were produced by the witness, that were taken out of deceased's pocket. Mr. Paxon Hicks, house surgeon, stated that deceased had inflicted a large incision in the throat. He died about two o'clock on Friday morn ing. Harriett Brown, housekeeper to Mr. Ryan, stated that deceased had formerly' been in business. That day fortnight he was taken suddenly ill, when he requested that he should be taken to this institution. His mind had been much affected for some time in consequence of the change in his circumstances. He was to have en tered into business with his brother on New Year's Day, when the deed of partnership would have been signed. It is through his own folly that he became reduced. Verdict, " Temporary Insanity." Iwo BODIES FOUND IN THE THAMES.—Yesterday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the body of amiddle aged man was found floating in the river, off hotherhithe, by some bargemen, and was conveyed on shore to the bone house, to await a Coroner's inquest. In about an hour afterwards, another body, of a young man, was picked up in Limehouse-reach, which is supposed to be that of Mr. George Gibson, a lighterman, who fell overboard the George sand-barge, a week since, when entering the Regent's-canal. FIRE IN DguRY-LANE.—Yesterday afternoon, be tween four and five o'clock, a fire broke out in the work shop belonging to Mr. Gray, carver and gilder, No. 90, Drury-lane. It was caused by some defect in one of the flues, and when first discovered the flames had obtained hold of the bond timbers. The parish engine was early at the scene, and was got to work. The different brigade and West of England engines followed in rapid succes sion, and the firemen soon succeeded in extinguishing the fire. The damage done was inconsiderable. The mortal remains of the late lamented Earl Granville will be interred in the family mausoleum, at Trentham, Staffordshire. The King of Hanover has been slightly indisposed, in consequence of which the annual New Year's-day Ball at the Palace was postponed. The Cro w n Prince is so far recovered from the recent operation he has under gone as to be enabled to take his usual exercise ; but his Royal Highness has not yet quitted the royal residence. A very serious accident occurred last week to J. Jones, jun., Eq., the heir of Llanarth. While on a hunting party at Tredegar- park, with Sir Charles Morgan, he attempted to take his horse over a hurdle gate, when the animal unfortunately struck the gate with his knees, and came with the rider to the ground. Mr. Jones's head sunk considerably in the mud, and his life was for a considerable time despaired of, but with the aid of Mr. Liston, of London, and other eminent surgeons, he was so far restored, that a favourable termination was expected. ARCHDEACONRY OF ST. ALBANS. —Sunday after noon the Rev. Anthony Grant, D.C.L., vicar of Rom ford, Essex, who has been presented by the Bishop of London to the Archdeaconry of St. Albans, read himself in at St. Paul's Cathedral, and made the usual declara tions. IRISH POOR-LAW.--The Limerick Chronicle says, " It is the intention of Lord Clancarty, at the opening of the session of Parliament, to move in the House of Lords for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the working of the poor-law, and of the laws for support of medical charities in Ir.iand, to which the Government will make no objection." BEMBRIDGE, JAN. 6.—Picked up inside the Wight, a stein of a boat, with the words, " Norfolk, of London," carved in wood.—Rampshir e Independent. PROMOTIONS. Commanders—Joseph Pearse (1841), who was a mid shipman in Hotham's action in the Northumberland at St. Domingo, made a lieutenant in ISI3 ; was senior lieutenant of the Blenheim, at the taking of the forts of the Bocca Tigris, at the operations against Canton, and subsequent capture of that city, in 1841, and made a commander for his services there—to the rank of cap tain. Charles Walcot (1834), who was midshipman of the Hebrus at the forcing of the passage of the Gironde, and at Algiers ; was made a lieutenant in 1819, and served as second lieutenant of the Asia, 84, at Lisbon, under the flag of Admiral Sir W. Parker, and was appointed in specting commander in the coastguard service in 1838 — to the rank of captain. Lieutenants—Stephen Hodge (1813), who was mid shipman of the Autumn, in her gallant actions with the Boulogne flotilla in 1805, and in the Grasshopper in her actions off Cadiz, and in the Mediterranean, in 1807-8, acting lieutenant of the Druid at the sieges of Cadiz and Tariffa in 1811, and appointed to the coastguard service in 1823 ; James Stuart (a 1814), and Henry Randall (1815),all of the coastguard—to the rank of com mander. Mates—W. 11. 'Walters (1831), and T. D. Sullivan, of the coastguard ; A. R. B. Carter (1836), late of the Daring ; C. F. Coles (1838), of the Virago ; W. C. Geary (1839), of the Beacon, J. B. Field (1839), of the Seaflower ; E. Birstall (1840), of the Porcupine A. W. A. Hood (1843), of the President—to the rank of lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS. Commanders—W. Loring (1841), to the Scout ; It. S. Hewlett, to the Excellent. Lieutenants—J. H. Norcock, to the Canopus ; G. Western, from the Firefly to the Gladiator ; R. D. Stu part, to the Bittern ; R. W. 11. Alcock, from the Canopus to the Scout ; R. B. It. M'Leod, to the Calypso ; R. Buchanan, to the Styx ; J. J. Dornford, to the Scout ; R, B. Creyke, to the Shearwater. Master—J. Matthews, to the Scout. Surgeons—E. Heath, to the Rapid ; W. Wood, to the Scout. Chaplain—The Rev. W. Onslow, to the Carysfort. Second Masters—J. 11. T. Norris, to take charge of the Plymouth buoy-boat, vice Balliston, promoted and appointed to the Rapid ; A. Messum, to the Viper ; G. R. Morrison, to the Alban. Assistant-Surgeons—J. Campbell (additional acting), to the Caledonia ; W. llobbs, to the Resistance ; H. Ar nott (additional acting), to the Victory ; R. Galvrie, to the Phcenix ; J. Gordon, to the Scout. Mates—A. Sugden, to the Eagle ; W. F. G. Fead, to the Nimrod. Midshipmen—F. S. Grey, to the Scourge ; E. W. Shaw and C. J. Lawson, to the Rodney ; W. Babington, to the Excellent ; F. J. Lloyd, to the Rodney ; C. Dickson, to the Excellent. Naval Cadet—H. W. Fox, to the Superb. Gunner—C. Keys, to the Terrible. Masters' Assistants—W. H. Burke, to the Alban; W. Parker, to the Bittern. COAST GUARD. APPOINTMENTS. Commanders—H. 11. Bingham (1837), to be Inspect ing Commander ; S. C. Umfreville (1838), Inspecting Commander of Greenhithe district, whose term of ser vice expired on the sth instant, re-appointed for a fur ther period of two years ; F. Blair (1841), to be Inspect ing Commander of Penzance district, vice Taylor, re moved to Plymouth, vice Walcott, promoted. Lieutenants—B. Jeffery (1837), to be chief officer of Crowlink station, in the Rottingd ean district, vice Davies, appointed to the Daring, 12. REMOVALS. Commanders—lL G. Welch, Inspecting Commander of Wells, to Lymington district, vice Madden, period of service expired ; W. N. Taylor, Inspecting Commander of Penzance district, to Plymouth district, vice Walcott, promoted. Lieutenant—Charles Shaw, Inspecting Lieutenant Burghead district, to Elie, Fife district, vice Randall, promoted. PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO MRS. GLOVER — On Thursday last the above popular actress attained the anniversary of the sixty-sixth year of her age, on which occasion all the members of the Haymarket company assembled, by Mr. Webster's request, in the green-roam of the theatre, for the purpose of drinking a glass of wine to the health of the " Mother of the Stage." Mr. Web ster then proposed the lady's health in an appropriate and feeling terms, alluding to her long and honourable career on the stage, and pointing to her as an example of artistic excellence worthy of being imitated by the younger members of the profession in their struggles for theatrical fame. At the conclusion of his address a very handsome silver tankard was produced, which Mr. Webster presented to Mrs. Glover, with renewed wishes for her health and prosperity, in which he was heartily joined by every individual present. The recipient of the unexpected gift, being taken by surprise, was much over come by her feelings ; she, however, expressed her thanks briefly, but warmly ; after which the tankard was filled and sent round for inspection and examina tion of its workmanship and contents. The following inscription was engraven upon the tankard :—" Pre sented to Mrs. Glover, the Mother of the Stage, on her attaining her 66th year, Bth January, 1846, by her de voted admirer, Benjamin Webster, lessee of the Hay market Theatre." INCOME TAX.—The utmost annoyance has been experienced by sharebrokers and other parties in this town, during the last fortnight, in having to appear before the Pro perty-tax Commissioners, and spend a great deal of time in replying to the surcharges of the officials. We understand the sharebrokers are grossly overrated, some being set down as hav ing incomes of 20,0001. a year, and similar exaggerations arid calculations are made in reference to other tradesmen. In nearly every case where these monstrous overcharges have been made, the party appealing has maintained his ground. The odiousness of the income-tax has been strikingly exhibited within the last few weeks by the arbitrary exactions attempted to be made. Overcharges have been made by wholesale without any reason whatever; and the parties overcharged have been exposed to an inquisition of their whole concerns.— 6 Mercury. We hoar, from a friend in the enemy' s camp el in that Lord Ay. Herve will certainly support Sir R. e his anticipated alterations in the eorn•laws.—Brighton Herald. S U RAILWAY INTELLI THE BROAD GAUG. On Saturday morning two experim, ma ce on the broad gauge (the Western presence Oi Ihe Gauge Commissioners ; rather unfavourahlo, the morning being dull and damp, and very little wind stirring until the afternoon. The Hercules was again selected for the purpose ; it is a powerful engine, hating connected wheels 5 feet in dia meter, cylinder 16 inches, stroke 18 inches, and weighs 22 tons. At 7h. 52m. 245, she started from the one mile post, Paddington, with a train of 13 trucks, coal laden, an additional tender, and s. first-class carriage, which was occupied by Sir F. Smith, Professor Barlow, Mr, Watson, Mr. Saunders, Secretary to the company ; Mr. Harmer, and Mr. Gibson ; on the engine vere Mr. Brunel, engineer of the line, and Mr.• Gooch, superin tendent of the locomotive department. This experi mental train was driven from Paddington to Pidcot.,. a distance of 52:1miles, when , it arrived at 10h. 19m. 235.,, having made stoppages at Ealing, Southall, West Dray .- - ton, Slough, Maideashead, Twyford, and Goring. For the exact time of arrival and departure from the several stations the reporter has been indebted to Mr. Seymour Clarke, the principal superintendent of the line, and it is as follows Miles from • Padding- Arrh,;al. Departure. Stoppage. ton. h. in. s. i:• m. s. 11. in. b. Paddington - - 7 52 24 5% Ealing 8 4 53 8 7 42 0 2 49 7 h Hanwell -- - 8 12 36 9 Southall -- - - 8 16 52 8 20 41 0 3 49 13 West Drayton - 8 35 25 8 40 33 0 5 8 18 Slough -- - - 8 51 38 8 55 43 0 4 5 22% Maidenhead 30% Twyford- -- - 9 28 33 9 33 44 0' 5 11 35% Reading -- - - 9 44 42 --• 414 Pangbourne - - 9 54 8 -- 4444 Goring lO 0 8 10 2 0 0 1 52 4ili Wallingford-road 10 9 30 52A Didcot lO 19 38 i Total stoppage 026 5 The distance was accomplished in 2h. 27m. 145., or at a rate of 26.75 miles an hour. Ile weight of train pro pelled, exclusive of the engine, was .204 . tons 18ewt. lqr. 31b. Soon after th e a rrival of this ti at Didcot, the Ixion, a powerful passenger engine, Laving driving wheels 7 feet in diameter, came up with a train on 15 trucks, laden with coal, to be attached to the train of the Hercules, making in all 28 trucks and one first ciao carriage. After all matters w e re arrang e d this levia-0 thian train proceeded on its journey ; its weight, length, and the time it passed the different stations, are givers from the same authority as that of the down trip : eight, tons 3 cwt. lqr.lolb. ; length of train, 232 yards. From Paddington Started from Dideot Wallingford-road - - - - Goring Pangbeurne - - - Reading Twyford Maidenhead - - Slough - - - - West Drayton - - - - Southall Ilanwell Miles, 53 47 44 41 4 35 , 4 30% 22 11. m. B. 1 22 15 1 38 0 1 49 0 1 57 0 2 8 30 2 22 15 2 41 0 2 51 0 , 3 7 0 3 23 0 3 25 0 3 29 0 3 39 0 Ealing Arriving at the 1 4 mile-poi - 5f from} Paddington Pertbrming the journey in 2h. 16m. 455., at a.n average rate of speed of 23 miles an hour. The rate of the gauges now stand thus : Bread gauge train of 400 tons.. 23 miles per hour. Narrow gauge ditto Excess of speed for broad gauge 4 miles per hour. IRELAND. RESIGNATION OF CHIEF JUSTICE PENNEFATHER. The Mercantile Advertiser published the following yesterday afternoon:—`• We are now enabled to an nounce that Chief Justice Pennefather has resigned. The appointments consequent on the retirement of Mr. Pennefather have not yet been fully arranged. If Mr Blackburne should be transferred to the Queen's Bench, Mr. T. B. Smith, the Attorney-General, will go to the Rolls Court. If this arrangement should not be adopted the Attorney-General will get the Chief Justiceship. In any event Mr. Greene advances to the Attorney- Generalship ; and it is said Mr. Sergeant Warren will be the new Solicitor. a9neral , For that offi ce other names are mentioned ; but on point all at present is mere speculation." The most contradictory rumours are afloat as to some of the changes rendered necessary by the resigna:..2ol: of Mr. Pennefather. The latest version is that Mr. Smite. the Attorney-General, will get the Chief Justices hip of the Queen's Bench, the scene of his extraordinary en counter with Mr. Fitzgibbon during the state trials ; that Mr. Wilson Greene advances to the Attorney- Generalship, to be succeeded as Solicitor by Mr. Brews ter ; and that Mr. Corballis, a Roman Catholic Queen's Counsel, is to take the place of Mr. Brewster as advising counsel to the Irish Government. The Attorney-General being made a Judge must vacate the pocket borough if Ripon ; and if Lord de Grey be consenting party, Mr. Gladstone can thus find another opening into the House of Commons. Perhaps, after all, this was one of the causes of the well-timed resignation of Chief Justice Pennefather. PROSECUTION AGAINST THE " NATION " NEWSPAPER. The Freeman's Journal says, " Notwithstanding all the counsel learned in the law whose services the Crown have an official right to command, the Attorney-Ge neral did not deem himself secure in entering upon his presecution against the Nation, without retaining Mr. Henn, Q.C., one of the principal defenders of the state traverscrs in the memorable trials of 1844. Mr. Duffy having been served with notice that informations had been received against him, on the same day on which they were sworn wrote by that night's post, through his solicitor, to retain Mr. Henn, who was then at Lifford, in Donegal, presiding at Quarter Sessions. Mr. Henn's reply was, that he had been already retained by the Crown ! This was sharp practice on Mr. Duffy, for the retainer to that gentleman must have been given be fore informations had been sworn. t w o . , ~.....c. " .-••,. ."...... M I ri .7 .. , ;5 - - :1 , ,,r ~::‘ `,.':,.... GENCi . T .:L..c - 41... ,1 iE. VA-- - \,.<;*"' : ' .4.1)',1 \ .,4t,.... nental trips .-- . -.....j .: _, , ,,__ n Railway) in (- -kraS It, ; the weather STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Mr. Sergeant HowLEY, chairman of Tipperary, in ad dressing the quarter sessions grand jury, at Cashel, on Wednesday, said, "It is most gratifying to me to see so numerous and so respectable an attendance. lam glad to tell you that the cases are not very numerous nor aggravated. There are sixty cases in all, in which eighty persons are charged, but they are not of a serious nature, with the exception of one case of assault, where there was no great injury done. The use of fire-arms is on the decline. Gentlemen, take care to call the several witnesses, and do not be absent when they appear?' Mr. NEWEL BARRON, chairman of the King's County, thus addressed the quarter sessions grand jury, at Philips town, on Tuesday:—"l have to congratulate you on tho continuance of the peaceable and quite state of this part of the King's Country—free, I may say, from agrarian disturbance. The calendar of crime, being of a light character, requires from me but few observations. It presents only one case of petty larceny, and four for assault. I shall detain you for a short time while refer ring to an important topic. The deplorable and calamit ous disease which has taken place this season in the potato crop, and which threatened this island with a dearth of provisions, if not a famine, imperatively de mands from men of your station unceasing exertion, and assistance as far as your means permit. G en tlemen, for the sake of the suffering poor, you will give ad d i tional te employment, which will be an aid towards arres t ing , the progress of distress, and tend to alle viate want other persons, SERIOUS CAB ACCIDENT . —On Saturda y afternoon, b e t w een one and two o'cl ock , ieca a b, s a e n ri d ou n s acc ident u c m ab erous by which the driver of a heir is , es l • ' . I had a narrow escap e of t t appeared that a cab was passing down Waterloo-place, at a rapid rate, when the horse took fright, and set off in a furious gallop towards the Duke of York's column. The driver endeavoured to arres t the progress of the animal, b u t w i t h out effect d h down the steps leading into the, Park th ,an , das ing and the driver th rown ben eat h ' , e cab was overturned, it. At the moment there were upwards of thirtypersona on the spot, who all fortu nately escaped injury, as did the sentry, who had a narrow escape, his firelock being knocked out of his hand by one of the wheels. The horse broke away with the front part of the cab and the shafts, and galloped on through the Park, in the direction of Storey's-gate, till he arrived at the railings ending the gravel walk, against which he rushed violently, and fell, when he was secured by some bystanders. The driver was extricated, having sustained only a few slight bruises. THE LATE SIR LAWRENCE J•NES, BART.—FuII and satisfactory confirmation of the untimely death of this young Baronet having reached this country, his executor has duly recorded his will in the proper Court. It was made by him in London jest twelve months before his death, and entirely in his own handwriting, witnessed by Messrs. T. S. Cocks, jun., and C. Biddulph, of Charing-cross, by which he has left his property, real and personal—the latter, valued at 35,0001.—t0 his brother Willoughby, now Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart., subject to the payment of the following annui ties and bequests :—To T. A. Jones, a cousin of his late father, 401. per annum. To Mrs. Margaret Coote, 201. per annum. To his uncle, E. B. Lawrence, the print of Bolton Abbey, and 50/. to purchase a more lasting memorial of his regard. He appointed his brother, the present baronet, sole executer, who will inherit the estate of Cranmer Hall, Norfolk, the deceased's late residence. The deceased baronet was in his 29th year; and whilst travelling in Turkey, in company, on the 7th Novem ber last, in the middle of the day, was waylaid and mur dered by robbers. When near Dullamarry, a short distance from Macri on passing a rock, a discharge of musketry in their rear from this banditti, who were concealed in crevices, killed Sir Lawrence and one other of his party, six in num ber, and seriously wounded his friend, Captain Twopenny, who fell from his horse from loss of blood. The ruffians in an instant sprang from their hidieg-place, robbed them of their money and arms, ransacked their baggage, and n until they had plundered them of all they could convenientlycon. lay their hands upon, would they allow the survivors dist to ance of tinue their journey. They had then to traveln cus the evening, twenty-three miles, and reached Macri late me i n in a boat to when they immediately dispatched the some had left near the search for the dead bodies, which .o _ they back, and had coast, and which they succeeded in bon in the cemetery belong them buried, with decent obsequies, ing to the Greeks. —Post. I SIR 1 PEEL.—A memorial to the MEMORIAL TO ...,Ht U. from the merchants, manufacturers, Bight lion. Baronet, . • •pal inhabitants of the town and - parish of and prim' I • to umintroduce such measures in raying Koighloy , P . ss ion as shall t h e coming se abolish all restriction on the free importation of corn and provisions of every descrip tion, and to remove all taxes on every article which tends to cramp and paralyse manufactures, has received no less than 2,000 signatures, a circumstance which, a few years ago, could not have been accomplished by any means. So much for the change of men's opinions in the favour of the free-trade question.—Leeds Mercury. Lord F. 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