The Sun. — London, England, 1852-01-26 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 26. —Wind this day at noon Southerly arla Fine. QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 23.—Wind W.; 24th, W.S.W., strong. Arrd. Grampian, Graham, Callao; Mona, Mor ris, Mauritius; Lord Gough, Turner, Callao. WHITBY, JAN, 25. Joseph Turton, of this port, whilst crossing Sherranghsm, on the 23.3, struck on a Wreck, and immediately sank; crew saved. AILRHUUS, JAN. 14.—The yacht Skjoll was stranded near Grease during a gale 10th January, and has gone to pieces; part of cargo (brandy) washed on shore. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 24.—Wind S.W. fresh; 25th, S.W. moderate.---Arrd. Robert Stephenson, Pearce, Laguna; Lord Hardinge, Cowie, China; Isabella Thomson and Thomas and William, Demerara; Everton, Mauritius; Africa steamer, Harrison, New York; Industry , St. John's, New Brunswick; Buurtpore, and Catherine. Off port, Herald, Calcutta; Atheistan. Sld. Maranham ; Christina, Florida; Europa steamer, Boston; Anna Dorothea, Savannah. Put back, Mary Cawline, Mobile. 26th, per the Electric Telegraph, the Leeds steamer, from Dublin, was fallen in with in a sinking state, and the crew and passengers taken off by the Em pire State, arrived here yesterday. The Speculation, from Wicklow to Runcorn, was abandoned off Point Lynas to-day, with loss of fore- Mast, having previously been brought to anchor; crow taken off by the Prince steamer, arrived here. The Leavitt, from New Orleans to this port, was ashore and bilged, on the bar of the S.W. Pass of the Mississippi, previous to 14th January; assistance had been sent down to her. MILFORD, JAN. 24. Wind W. Arrd. George, MiKie, Alexandria; Vesper, Churton, Ismail. CLYDE, JAN. 24.—Arrd. Naomi, China; Chevalier, 3 1 . 1iinnon, Demerara. DOVER, JAN. 24.—Wild W. fresh; P.M. S.W. strong; 25th, W.—Off port, New Hampshire, New York. Cowne, JAN. 25 —Wind S.W., a hard gale.—Arrd. Caledonia, M'Farlane, Batavia; Mausa, Martens, Rio Janeiro; 8010, Odessa. DEAL, JAN. 24.—Wind W.S.W; P.M. S.W. a heavy gale. 25th, W.S.W. moderate; P.M. S.W. fresh.—Arrd. Brothers, Wilson, Calcutta; atharine, Honduras; At lanta, Cuba; Diana, Luke, from the River for Port Philip; Puha, Key, Ceylon; Alexandria, Falconer, Algoa Bay; Barrack, Buffalo River; Highbury, Digby, Trinidad; Camolera, Young, Jamaica; Ellen. Thorp, Cayenne ; Patrick Henry, Hubbard, New York; Ipswich Lass, James, St. Michael's. Sld. Oronoco steamer. Put back, Oriental, Hong-Kong; Beacon, River Gambia; Ma deira, Dolphin, Nonpariel, and Prospero, St Michael's; Apollo, Grenada; Christiania, New York. ToansY, JA N . 25.—Wind W. by S.—Arrd. Helen, Paddon, Newfoundland. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Wind S.W., a gale.—Arrd. Selin, Leith, Rio Janeiro. FALMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Wind W.S.W. to W., strong gales and squally ; 24th. W.S.W., moderate breezes.— Arrd. Tay, Sweetman, Callao; Charlotte, Grossen von Essen, Ibraila; Captain Cook, Bennett, Galatz. BRIDGEWATER, JAN. 24.—Wind S.W., strong.—Arrd. Enytricha, Babalas, Varna. BRISTOL, JAN. 24.—Wind strong.—Arrd. Hereford shire, Honey, Galata. KINGROAD, JAN. 24.—Arrd. Syron, Dinne , Odessa; b iristol, Alexander, Trieste. SWANSEA, JAN. 25.—Wind W.—Sld. Touch-me-not, Zarbadoes. BALLYCOTTON, JAN. 23.—Arrd. Sea Bird, Ibraila. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) I ° CORN EXCHANGE.-MONDAY. Notwithstanding that the supplies of English Wheat nn offer in most of the country markets held on Satur day were tolerably extensive, the demand for all kinds ruled steady at a further advance in the quotations of from is to, in some instances, 2s per quarter. At the large outports, fine foreign qualities were held at a much greater improvement. The Barley trade was brisk at is to 2 8 per quarter more money, whilst Malt was decidedly higher. Oats were 6d higher, and most other articles, especially fine flour, had an upward tendency. Later advices from New York state that very little rite doing in Flour for shipment to the United Kingdom. 0 1 the Baltic ports the trade for Wheat has continued kin at improved currencies. The Freuch and Dutch Markets have been steady at the late advance. Up to our market last week coastwise, the receipts of Grain and Flour were very moderate. From abroad we received 4,603 quarters of Wheat, 7,300 Barley, 1,661 Oats, 3,140 B eans , 109 P eas , 1,030 Tares, 11 , 045 Lin seed, 2,428 Rapeseed, 1,258 sacks and 5 , 067 barrels of Flour. The supply of Wheat received fresh up to this morn thlee market, coastwise, from Essex was but moderate, Cud out of condition, owing to the prevailing damp Weather. From Kent, the supply was comparatively 'mall and much weathered. By land carriage from the Midland counties, as well as from Norfolk and Suffolk, the receipts were by no means extensive. The show of samples of both red and white being small, and the attendance of both town and country millers on the in crease, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home Produce was somewhat brisk, at an advance in the quota tions obtained on Monday last of 2s per quarter, and a good clearance was speedily effected. Additional firmness Was given to the trade from the fact that numerous orders for the purchase of low foreign Wheats have been received from Holland, Belgium, and even France. There was more inq u i ry for forward delivery offers, and about 2,000 quarters of Wheat sold for the next fortnight at 2s per quarter advance. Very little really fine Foreign Wheat was brought forward, but the show of middling and inferior parcels was tolerably good. Selected samples of Dantzic re alised 2s, other kinds is per quarter more money, at Which holders were very firm. In floating cargoes, the arrivals of which off Falmouth are small, very little was d oing, owing to the high pretensions of the merchants. The total supply of Barley was moderately good, n evertheless the trade ruled active, at a further im provement in value of from Is to 2s per quarter. Che valier parcels were unusually scarce. Malt, the arrival of which was very moderate, was the turn in favour of sellers. With Oats, both English and Foreign, we were scan tily supplied; whilst the trade ruled steady, at 6d per (planer more money. Beans were in fair request, and quite as dear as last eek. Most kinds of Peas sold slowly, yet prices were well supported. Indian Corn afloat was is per quarter dearer, 29s 6d having been paid fer Galatz afloat. Flour was in good request, and the majority of the killers refused to sell except at an advance of 2s per ‘ ,.. 114 ek. Both American and French were held for more money. CITRRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. "Qeat—Essex 83 Kent, _ iMalt—Chevalier...... 573 to 583 it - ed --- . -- .. .• .. '4OB to 458 Oats —lTClkatfie and d - • - - - - Ditto,White, New 42s 538 Lincolnsh., Feed. 17s 208 Norfolk and Lin- Potato ...... .... 193 258 coin, Red.— .• 401 458 Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • .. 42a 498 Black ....... 16s 198 Irish, Red • • • • • • • • —5 —s Cork, White..... 178 218 b Ditto,White ••• • • • --s — s Scotch, Feed..... 20 s 25 s 'Yo—Old ............ 26s 286 Beans—Tick ... • • .... 258 308 „ ey--ewG............ 268 2 8 3 ortrlrinding. •. re •.. 25s 288 Peas—Gy ..• •. ••• • • • 278 318 Malting ......... 298 32s Maple ....... ~ .. 28 8 32 6 , Chevalier .. • • ... 348 368 White. ••••• • • • • • 268 29 8 'l44—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••• • • • • 30s 348 1 folk .. ...... .... 455 545 Flour—Town-made... 39s 42s Brown ........... 438 488 Suffolk ••••• • • • • • 29 8 348 S Xingston and Ware 518 56 s tocktn & Norfolk 298 348 SEEDS. The supplies of Linseed continue to find buyers on ar rival, notwithstanding the immense quantities still on Passage. Cakes are not quite so active as of late, yet prices are well supported. In other articles very little is doing. lurnlp,white, per bush. 6s to lOs Carraway •••••• • • • • • • 3 !, g , 3 1 3 1 8 8 Red wad Careen.. .• 8s lis Coriander ••••• • • • • • . 5 6 Mustard, Brown.. ... d 8 8 9 s H em see d, per quarter 32s 0 , ~,, White, new .... .. 6 5 Od 7 s od Linseed, Eng. Sowing.. 605 65: L aree•Willter •• •.•.• • 35 6d 4 8 0 d C rus hing •••• • • • • 46s 52 Old 311 9d Os Od Baltic •• • • •• • • 40s 46s 1 Canary, per quarter • • 3 66 39s Odessa • • 448 50' aye grass ••••••• • • • • • 248 308 Linseed Cake r. 1,000— Clover,RedEng. (cwt.) 358 White .........„ ass 4 4 La F English 'l) .. . 81 lOs 101 Os r ton 615 s 81 Os Foreign Red .. •• .. 368 44s Ran gi e k ig e n s, P p e r ton 412$ 41 48 White.... 388 448 Rap - e e seed, New, pr Ist 2110 s 23108 Trefoil .. • • •• • • • • • • ••_ l2 s _ 228 satimiirssran Owing to the prevailing strong gales of wind, the im , ports of foreign stock into Lond on l ast week were corn 'untimely small, the total arrival having been confined to 1,508 head. Daring the corresponding period in 1851 we received 2,668; in 1850, 1,077 ; in 1849, 854; and in 1848, 407 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST WEER. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Rotterdam '2B9 ... 337 ••• 213 • Antwerp Ostend Pigs. Total The yearly comparison of the weekly arrivals is as tinder:— Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1851 4lO ... 1,918 297 • ... 53 1850 231 ... 676 170 .- 1849.... 159 ... 616 ... 79 -.- 1848 l2O 211 76 To.day's market was tolerably well, but not to say exten sively supplied with home-fed Beasts, ns to Lumber, Whilst their general quality exhibited a deficiency com pared with litionday last. The show of foreign stock was steelier than for some weeks past. Owing to the large quantities of meat on offer in Newgate and Leadenhall, and the prevailing wet weather, the demand fur all breeds of Beasts was somewhat inactive. However, a fair clearance of the best Scots, Herefords, and short-horns r s as effected at last week's prices — the top figure for .13 W being 211 10d per Slbs—but all low and middling qualities ruled the turn in favour of buyers. From Nor folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,400 Scots and short-horns, with a few Herefords; from the northern grazing districts 800 short-horns, and from Scotland chiefly per railway, 360 horned a nd p olled Scots. 1 ) , 1 1 the whole the supply of Sheep was sea sonabl y g ood. Prime old Downs and half-breds were in fair request at Previous currencies. Most ether Sheep moved off slowly at unaltered quota ti ons . V e ry few Calves were br ou g ht forward; nevertheless, the demand for them was heavy, at barely stationary prices. In Pigs, the number of which was very moderate, ne xt to nothing was do in g; bu t we have no chan ge t o notice is their value. There Were about 1,000 shorn Sheep in the market. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. Interior Beasts I. d. to 5. d. s. d. to s. d Second •'• • • 2 2 8 Inferior Sheer ••,• 2 10 8 0 mime largequalltY •••• 2 10 3 2 Second gnat. Sheep 3 2 3 8 0 p ita : ls Oxen.. 3 4 3 6 coarse-woolledditto3 10 4 4 large coarse Calved I 8 310 southdown Wether . 4 2 4 0 0 Prime sraall ditto .. a : Buckling Calves .. ig 0 .1 10 3 6 Ditto out of the wool 2 t6i 8 6 Large Hogs ••• • • • N Lambs .......... 0 0 " 0 Small Porkers •• ••..... 8 310 TOTAL .2 0 Quarter old Pigs •• 16 0 19 0 PLY AT MARKET. B nets. l F 8 . r 28hOlce215:0I:IN S t p :L al Y l7v . le3' I 3Pilgos. 833 i i la a 1, 010 Calves. Pigs. l A Statement and C om p ar i son of the 139 9 pplies and Prices — of and • sold ' Fat Stock ezhibited 14 Smithfield Cattle Alarket, tieuts. 3,852 THE SUN, on Monday, January 27, 1851, and this d January 26,1852. - Per 81bs., to sink the offals. Jan. 27, 1851. Lay, Monday, 11 - an. 26, 1852. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts ... 2 6to 2 8 Second quality ditto ... ... 210 3 0 Prime large Oxen .. 3 2 3 4 Prime Scots, hc. 3 6 3 8 Coarse and inferior Sheep... ... 3 4 3 8 Second quality ditto ... 3 8 310 Prime coarse-woolled ditto 4 0 4 2 Prime Southdown ditto ... 4 2 4 4 Lambs... ... ... 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves ... 3 0 3 6' Prime small ditto ... 3 8 310 Large Hogs .. 210 3 6 Small Porkers 3 8 4 0 s. d. s. d. 2 6to 2 8 2 10 3 2 34 3 6 3 8 3 10 2 10 3 0 1 3 2 3 8 310 4 0 42 4 4 00 0 0 30 3 6 3 8 310 26 3 6 3 8 310 Beasts ... ... .„.. ... 3,90 3,852 Sheep and Lambs .. ... 20,640 21,250 Calves ... .. ... ... ... 145 171 Pigs .. .., .. . . .. 280 320 SUPPLIES ON SALE, JAN. 28, 1850. Beasts, 3,524; Sheep and Lambs, 1+1,850; Calves, 85; Pigs, 210. JAN. 29, 1849. Beasts, 3,334; Sheep and Lambs, 17,280; Calves, 155 ; Pigs, 140. NEWGATE .11. ND LEADENHALL. Since our last report these markets have been very scantily supplied with Meat kllled in the metropolis; but the arrivals from the provinces have been on a liberal stole. On the whole, a full average business has been transacted, at but little alteration in prices. At per stone t.y the Carcase., 8. d. to a. d. a. d. to s. j. Beef, inforlor•..... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 6 210 - middling .... 2 6 '2 8 middling.. 3 0 3 6 - primeiarge .. 210 3 0 prime .... 3 8 310 - prime small 3 2 3 4 Pork, 1arge........ 2 6 3 6 V,c,l•• •••••-• • • • • • 3 0 310 - small •• • • • 3 8 310 BOROUGH AND SPITA.LFIELDS. - • The fresh arrivals of Potatoes, coast ;vise and by land-carriage, have been on a very moderate scale since Monday last; nevertheless, the supplies on sale here are seasonably large. Selected qualities are in lair re quest, at full prices. Otherwise, the demand is in a sluggish state. _ _ Per Ton. Yorksh. Regents. 65s to 80s Wisbeach & Cam- Per Ton Ditto Shawi.. —sto - sl bridge Lincoln. Regents 60s to 70s Kent Regents 6os to 75s Scotch Regents.. 60s to 70s Essex Regents 6os to 755 Ditto Cups Ditto Blues Ditto Dahlias ... —s to s,Kent & Essx. Mid. —s to —s Common Whites. —s to —s; French —s to s N eweastle & Ber- German ditto ... —s to 8 wick Regents.. 60s to 70s;Dutch Whites... —s to — 5 Kentish Red Kid. —s to s;Chats BOROUGH HOP MARKET. _ The market is very moderately supplied with all new Hops, for which the demand is steady, at fully last week's prices. Yearlings are in lair request, at ex. treme quotations, Sussex pockets, per cwt., 112 s to 1265; Weald of Kent, 126 s to 140 s; Mid and East Kent, 140 s to 2505. LONDON, 2d Vic, chap. 105, which was passed to remove doubts as to the validity of certain oaths which were general io their character. The Learned Sergeant had not con cluded his address when our report left. Alderman Salomons was present in the court, and the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M P., occupied a seat upon the bench. The court was more than usually crowded. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) PRESTON V. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE- UPON TYNE JUNCTIJN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Blass, Q.C., applied to the Court for a man damus, calling upou the directors of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Rail way Company to register the transfer of five of the shares which Mr. Preston had purchased in the market. The directors refused to register the shares, because Mr. Preston wanted to use his influence, as a share holder, to make the company pay a large demand which his father had upon them. It would seem that in its early days the promoter agreed to pay Mr. Preston's father 5,000/. to withdraw his opposition, as a landowner, to the proposed line ; and they ultimately found no di fficulty in obtaining their Act. When, however, the panic came, they determined to abandon the scheme alrogether, and to divide the remainder of the deposits, amounting to 10s. per share, amongst the shareholders ; but this had not been done, under the Winding•up Act, and Mr. Preston having become possessed of five of the shares, he wished to be placed on the register, but the directors refused to allow that, for the reasons already stated.—Application granted. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.) The January adjourned sessions were opened this morning at Clerkenwell. The number of names in the calendar is 74. John Whittle, a teacher of the violin, and dealer in musical instruments, harp and violin strings, who lately had a school for the teaching of the violin in Cheapside, under the name of Signor Giovanni Betelli, was convicted at the general sessions for obtaining under false pre tences goods to the amount of about 401., the property of his aunt, a manufacturer of harp and violin strings. On that occasion the question reserved for the consi deration of the Court, at the request of Mr. Giffard, the prisoner's counsel was, whether it was not incumbent on the prosecution to prove that the pretence upon which the goods were obtained was false, and, therefore, that as the indictment stated the false pretence to be that the pri soner said he was engaged to purchase the goods in ques tion for a firm, declining at the time to give the name of that firm, the Learned Gentleman then contended that the prosecution was required in law to prove that there existed no such firm as alleged or pretended. The ASSISTANT-JUDGE had had no doubt whatever on the subject when he reserved the point. But he had since taken further opinion on the question, and found, as he expected, his own view entirely confirmed. It was made out in the evidence that the pretence was false, and it would have been for the prisoner to show that there really was a firm connected with the transaction, had such been the case. The jury had properly found him guilty, and the Court considered the fraud upon the pri soner's widowed and struggling aunt to be one of a very heartless nature. The sentence was that ho be impri soned and kept to hard labour for six months in the House of Correction. ARLBR(Y-STREET—(THIS DAY.) INTERFERING WITH A POLICE INSPECTOR. Mr. Richard Streether, a surveyor, residing at No. 2, Wye ham-terrace, Brighton, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with being drunk and interfering with Inspector Whall, C division, while in the execution of his duty. The Inspector stated that about two o'clock yesterday morning he was passing along Coventry-street, when he saw the defendant and another gentleman in conversa tion with the constable on duty. Witness went up to the constable and asked him what the gentleman were talking about. The defendant, who was very tipsy, said, " What business is that of yours?" and asked him who he was. Complainant told him he was an inspector of police, and desired him to go about his business, which he refused to do, and gave witness a slight push. The other gentleman walked quietly away, and as the defendant persisted in remaining where he was, com plainant took him to the station. The inspector added that since the defendant had recovered from his drunken fit, he had expressed his contrition for his conduct. He, therefore, did not wish to press the charge of assault. Mr. BINGHAM inflicted the drunkard's fine of 55., which the defendant at once paid. PREPARING FOR A RAINY DAY.—Eliza Morris was charged with stealing a silk umbrella, the property of James Miller, who deposed that on Saturday afternoon he went into a shop in Compton-street on business, and placed his umbrella by the door, close to where the pri soner was standing. On leaving the shop he missed the property in question, and suspecting the prisoner had stolen it, he went in pursuit of her, and caught her coming out of a wardrobe shop, where she had been to sell the umbrella. He then gave her in charge. Ann Pollock proved purchasing the umbrella from the prisoner for is. 6d. The prisoner denied stealing the umbrella, and was fully committed fer trial. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—Henry Newport, clerk, 112, Fleet-Areet, was placed at the bar before Mr, Bingham, charged with being drunk and furiously driving a horse and gig, and running over Clara Midburst, whereby her life was placed in considerable danger. Miller, 145 C, stated that about a quarter past eleven on the previous night he was on duty in Coventry-street, when he saw the prisoner driving a horse and gig at a furious rate up the Haymarket. On crossing from the latter place to Windmill-street the horse ran against a young woman and knocked her down on her back, the the wheels of the gig passing over her in a longitudinal direction. Witness ran forward and stoppe d horse, and observing that the defendant was very drunk he directed another constable to convey him to the station, while witness removed the female to a surgeon's, where it was ascertained that she bas miraculously escaped any serious injury beyond a fe w severe contusions on the breast. Her clothes were also much damaged and torn. Clara Medhurst said she was crossing the end of Windmill-street when the prisoner drove against her and knocked her down. Sh e reco ll ec t e d nothing else, as she became insensible. She was much bruised, and her clothes were torn to pieces. The defendant expressed his sorrow for what had oc curred, and said the horse ran away. Mr. BINGHAM said it had been proved that the de fendant was drunk, and fined him 405. for furious driving, and 3/. for the damage dor.o to the woman. The money was paid. ADMIRAL DUNDAS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICH.—AdmiraI Dundas on Saturday issued his fare well address to the electors of Greenwich. He says :—" Her Majesty having been pleased to confer on me the command of the Mediterranean Squadron, it becomes my duty to in form you that early in the next session of Parliament it is my intention to resign into your hands the trust you have for so many years been pleased to honour me with, that of b e ing your representative in Parliament." The Gallant Ad miral proceeds to say, " Great have be en th e r et r enchments an d reductions in England and Ireland since you have had the Parliamentary franchise, and liberal principles became so well rooted in the public mind, that the late Sir Robert Peel was enabled to carry measures having for their object a cheap and steady price for the food of the people, a law so sensible and just that I trust it may never again be taken from them. Peace also has been preserved—public credit maintained —slavery abolished—and most of those fervent hopes we formed together at my first selection in 1832, have been gradually realized." Ile then concludes, " From all of you I have ever had a kind and hearty reception; to me, Greenwich has indeed been a ' Sailor's Home,' and my feelings of regard for you can never be effaced. Accept, then, my best and warmest wishes for the future welfare and prosperity of the inhabitants of Greenwich, Woolwich, and Deptford." ROBBERY OF CHURCH PLATE.—EarIy on Friday morning the parish church of Knowstone, Devon, was sacri legiously entered and plundered of the whole of the ancient sacramental plate. Amongst the articles is a massive paten, the gift of Queen Elizabeth, date 1576; another of William 111., date 1695. The value of the articles is upwards of 3001. A large reward is offered for the discovery of the per petrators of this sacrilege. SERIOUS CAB ACCIDENT.—Last evening, shortly before ten o'clock, as the driver of a cab was letting out a fare at the corner of Duke-street, Oxford-street, the horse suddenly darted off at full galop across the road, when it came into collision with an omnibus, and so violent was the shock that the horse fell down dead on the spot, and the cab made a complete summerset, with its wheels upwards. The omnibus, which was one of Crawford's cheap Padding- ton vehicles, had several passengers both inside and outside, and we regret to say that the violence of the concussion completely stove in a portion of the offside of the omnibus, and as we heard, dangerously wounded a female sitting in side. The railing at the top of the omnibus for the conve nience of the outside passengers was completely broken off by the shock, and six or s even persons, principally boys, were thrown with great violence to the ground, and three of them, as we are informed, seriously hurt. An immense mob immediately congregated, and several policemen were quickly on the spot, to whom great credit is due for their praiseworthy exertions in removing the injured parties to a neighbouring surgeon's with the greatest possible promp titude. GAROTTE ROBBERY IN LONDON..-011 Friday morning, at the early hour of near one o'clock, the following gross outrage and robbery was committed upon the person of Mr. Huckle, of No. 24, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square. Mr. Huckle, who is advanced in years, and greatly afflicted with rheumatism, was returning home through the above-named square at a slow pace, having a roll of music in one hand and an umbrella in the other, when, near the corner of Charlotte-street, he was suddenly poUnced upon by three men, two of whom having secured his arms and drawn his head back by means of gripping his throat, prevented his giving any alarm by placing something over his mouth, while the third proceeded to rifle his pockets. Fortunately Mr. Huckle only had ss. 9d., which they took, as also the silver spectacles he wore ; but on looking at the roll of paper, and finding it music, one of them exclaimed " Let the old buffer keep that and his umbrella." They then started off. It was some time before Mr. Huckle recovered from the vio lence to which he had been subjected, when finding he was very near home he made the best of his way thither. Mr. Huckle feels confident he could recognise the man who ac actually plundered him, and describes all three to have been dressed in the garb of stablemen. SPANISH NAMES.--A Spanish journal gives the following singular names as those of two employes in the Finance department at Madrid :—Don Epifanio Mirurzu rurdundua y Zengotita, and Don Juan Nepomuceno de Burionagonatotorecagogeazcoecha. The journal, in quoting the name of the latter of these hon. gentlemen, would have done well to have given some directions as to the pro nunciation. FAILURES.—The failure of Messrs. Donald Mackey, Ha d o w, and Co., East India merchants, has been announced. The firm have two houses in India, one at Calcutta and the other at Moulmein ; but they express a hope that these may Their liabilities are small. Messrs. Dow, Wilson, stand. and Herriman, wholesale grocers, have suspended at New York; And a Dlr. Crlendie Brook at New Orleans. WOOL. Since this day se'nnight,Tie imports of Wool into London have amounted to 4 bales from Leghorn, 117 from Havre, 8 from Madras, 305 from Alexandria, 624 from Taganrog, 639 from Hobart Town, 679 from Syd ney, and 8 baps from Hamburgh. For both English and Colonial Wools, the demand by private contract is steady, but all foreign qualities are much neglected. TALLOW. Our market still continues exceedingly heavy, at a rurther reduction in the quotations. To-day, new P. Y. C. on the spot is selling at 36s to 365 3d; and Id 35s 6d to 35s 9d per cwt. Town Tallow, 365 6(1 to 36s Oct per cwt, net cash; Rough Fat, 2s ld per 81bs. The imports aro on a liberal scale for the time of year, but they are chiefly derived from our colonies. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. Stack this day .• ...! Price of Y. C. •• [ 16,380 47s 6d 36,867 42,145 40s Od 39s Od to 40s 6d to 398 6d 1,906 2,363 70,330 i 65,888 _ to 47s 9cl Deliverylast week • • 3,221 Ditto from June 1.... 73,580 Arrivals last week • Ditto from June 1 ... 81,9 C 9 Price of Town ...... 52s Od 851 2,066 f 99,385 82,560 43s Od 41s Od 1852. 49,632 59,244 37s 6d to 36s Od 37s 9d to36s ad 2,403 '2,643 65,652 73,056 4 1,355 89,766 95,766 39s 6d 39a 6d QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) QUEEN V. HAMMOND. In this case a quo warranto had been obtained, calling upon the defendant to show by what right he held the office of town-councillor for the borough of Yarmouth, and the question was argued at great length some time ago. It was obje c t e d th a t several of the voting papers, which were delivered in at the election in favour of the defendant were bad, inasmuch as they did not spec if y the place of residence of the candidate, but merely gave his place of business.' This objection, however, was met by a statement that the defendant was better known by his place of busin ess th an by hi s place of abode; but the Municipal Corporation Act expressly provides that the place of residence shall bek‘tiven, and as the Court thought it would lead to great confusion if they allowed the place of business to be indiscriminately used as the place of abode, they were constrained to construe the Act of Parliament strictly, and therefore to pronounce judgment against the defendant. Rule absolute accordingly. KEEN V. STUART. Sir F. TirEsionn said this was an action of debt tried at the last sittings in Westminster, before Lord Camp bell, when a verdict was given for the plaintiff, with 2001. damages, and he had now to move for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial had, or why the damages should not be increased to 5591. The plaintiff was an attorney-at-law, and the defendant a gentleman of property, residing in Scotland. The defendant, it appeared, was one of the provisional committeemen of the defunct Canterbury and Herne Bay Railway Company, and ho was sued in that capacity. He was sued by several of the al lottees. These actions were defended by Keen, and after they were disposed of his bill of costs was taxed at 5591., but the defendant now disputed his liability, and contended that the costs ought $o be paid out of the funds of the company. It unfortunately happened, however, that there were no funds, and the plaintiff had, therefore, no alternative but to bring the present action, and at the trial it was agreed that the matter of fact to be determined by the jury should be the de fendant's liability. The jury decided this question in the plaintiff's favour, but instead of stopping there, they went further, and reduced the amount of his claim from 5591. to 2001., which it was contended they had no autho rity to do.—Rule nisi granted. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) MILLER V. ALDERMAN SALOMONS, N P. This case came before the court, upon a special ver dict. It will be recollected that the action was instituted against Mr. Alderman Salomons, M.P. for Greenwich, to recover three several penalties of 500/, for having voted thrice in the House of Commons without having taken or subscribed to the oath of abjuration, in the form required by the statute. The defendant pleaded that be did not owe the debt. Issue having been joined, the action came to trial before Mr. Baron Martin, when the jury found a special verdict, setting forth all the main facts which had been proved before them. Mr. Sergeant Channell and Mr. Macnamara now ap peared for the plaintiff; and Sir Fitzroy Kelly and Mr. A. Goldsmidt for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL, after reading in detail the questions reserved for the opinion of the Court, said he should contend, in the course of his arguments, that the plaintiff was entitled to recover the penalties he had sued for. The main question for the decision of the Court was whether the defendant, before he voted, had taken the oath of abjuration as required by law. It was impossible not to see that the subject involved considerations of great public importance and interest, but he thought he should best discharge his duty to his client and their Lordships by treating the matter in dispute simply as a question of law. Whether the statute was conformable to the spirit of the times or not was a matter they had nothing to do with; they had only to ascertain what the law was, and whether on the one band it had been respected and obeyed, or on the other evaded or defeated. He submitted that one thing was quite clear, viz., that an infringement of the law was protected by statutes, which imposed penalties that might be sued for as a debt in any of the superior courts of law; therefore the power was not only con ferred upon their Lordships of determining the present question, but they could impose a penalty. It could scarcely be disputed t hat the statutes which imposed the oath of abjurat ion were still in force, or that the defendant was not by reason of his being a Jew exempted from the necessity of taking it in the same form and shape as prescribed. Whatever might have passed elsewhere, this point was too free from doubt to warrant his entering on any lengthened argument upon it. The two great and important questions for their Lordships would be as follows:—First, whether, a ssuming that the defendant as a Jew was bound in one shap e .or oth er t o t a k e th e oa th o f a bjuration, that oath could be p ro p er l y sworn on th e Old T es tament. He submitted th a t w h atever r i g h t t h e J ew h a d t o b e s w o rn as a wit ness or oath of abjuration a juror on the Old Testament, the abjurat'on was a Christian oath, and could not be sworn t o on the next e Old Testament on the ground of his being a Je w . T question was, assuming that the defendant had b een properlyu sworn on the Old Testa ment, so as to raise ihoteenbjection to the form of swear ing, whether, having certain words—" On the true u tt ei l. fa i ii h of a Christian"—he and purposely omitted had really taken the oath heat had not taken the oath in He (Mr. Sergeant Chan - thate inferred that hehadomitted to itsne 1 l e ) n t irety contended iit must n of statutes which take it at all. These two questions depended the he construction of a great number should bring under the review of the Court. The, assisted by auth or i t i es and re to some extent,_ b e h nt_ atd mentioned. Af ter hose questions w ou ld Courtp mainly mightcrest son the statutes poss ibly be h som e consideration he had deemed statutes before their Lordships previous to pr ocee di ng the duty on with his argument. He would divide them i nto two classes. First, statutes which imposed Members of Parliament, an d the public generally, o f taking the oath of abjuration an d other oaths. These he should c a ll o bli ga tory statutes. T he next were those of an exemptory character, and which as regarded some purposes and some p of taking the oa th s at all, or of taking them cer tain circumstances which were otherwise obligatory. He should term these dispensing or exempting statutes. This last class he would subdivide into sta tutes particularly affecting Jews themselves; and in the ne xt place, those whi c h re li eved qua k ers an d Moravians from swearing at all, or of a ff irm i ng to the words of the oath. Some Acts relating to Quak e rs a nd Moravians, ap plied equally to Jews, and when th a t w as so be would in clude them under the head of Jews. The Learned Coun sel then gave an elaborate summary in the above order, of the various statutes which had been passed, commencing with the Ist of Elizabeth, chap. 1, which restored to the Crown its ancient jurisdiction over the State, ecclesi astical and spiritual, abolished all foreign power relating to the same, and compelled certain persons to take the oath of supremacy, and ending with the 10th of George IV., which emancipated Boman Catholics, and Ist and MONDAY EVENING, LOSS OF THE AMAZON. OFFICIAL INQUIRY—(THIS DAY.) An official inquiry into the loss of the Royal Mail steam-packet the Amazon, by the Board of Trade, was commenced this morning at the Privy Council Office, in Downing-street. The inquiry was conducted by Captain Beechy and Captain Walker.; The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings made a few preliminary observations with respect to the dreadful nature of the loss, in the course of which he observed that the present inquiry would be entirely public and would be conducted in the fairest possible manner. He also stated that, in consequence of several important witnesses being absent in Scotland, that part of the inquiry relating to the construction of the boilers and vessel, end the general efficiency of the crew, would not be proceeded with today. Captain (Jerrie, the:Admiralty inspector of mail packets at Southampton, Wil9 first examined and he described the construction of the vessel and boilers, which he consi dered to be perfect. Augustus M•Guinnes, the storekeeper on board the Amazon, gave similar evidence to that already placed before the public. Isaac Roberts, boilerman, the next witness, deposed to the sudden outbreak of the fire, and the utter impossibility of getting it under. He said, that as far as his observation extended every effort was made to arrest its progres3. His opinion of the cause of the fire was that there was no metal cover ing between the bulkhead and the boiler. The bulk head bad become so heated and dry that if a red-hot pricker had come against it it would have ignited. With regard to the ship which passed near the burning wreck, he stated that when he saw it it was about half v,eY between the life-boat in which he was and the wreck. That was about a mile or a mile and a half. They shouted to the ship, but no an swer was made, and she did not show any light. There was nothing in the boiler chimneys which induced him to think they were unusually hot. He was not aware of there being any more than an ordinary degree of heat at the bottom of the funnel near the deck. He never heard any one remark that the chimneys were very hot. William Nutter, water-tender, w h o had b een f our years in the company's service, said, when he first saw the fire it was coming from between the boiler and the deck, where the coal-sacks were:kept. He was at this time in the engine-room; the heat became so great that in a fear minutes afterwards he Was obliged to leave. He was the last person who left the examination of this witness was p roce edi ng w hen .I, engine-room. [The our report left.] REATRE. DRURY-LANE T On Saturday the great English tenor, Mr. Sims Reeves, made his first appearance, for the season, in Fra Diavolo, and never has the bandit chief been re presented, either vocally or histrionically, with such skill, dash, versatility, and effect. The beautiful serenade, " Young Agnes," was deli vered w i th such exquisite tenderness, and such delicate expression, as to take the house by surprise ; the audience were en tranced into that ecstatic silence whieh proves more the powers of a singer than would do the most vehement applause, until the conclusi▪ on of the serena d e , and then uprose from thousands of voices one shout of encore, followed by applause the most, e nthusiastic. The other great song of the part is of a different charac ter, but it was rendered by Mr. Sims Reeves with equally just appreciation of its requi▪ rement s with great energy and with infinite gusto. Never have we heard the far-fam e d " P r o u dly and wide my standard flies" more effectively r e ndered than it was on Saturday by Mr. Sims Reeves. The part of Zerlina was sustained for the first time by Mrs. Sims Reeves, (late Miss Emma Lucombe), and she achieved a perfect success, more:than realising the very favourable anticipa tions which bad been formed of her from her per formance in flaydee at Covent garden some two years since. "O n yonder rock reclining," was ad mirably sung, and the celebrated dressing scene was a perfect gem. Mr. Whitworth made an ex cellent Lord Allcash, and Miss P. Horton is far and away the best Lady Allcash who has yet appeared. Mr. Ma nvers , as Lorenzo, sa ng the music all otte d to him with m uc h sweetness . The performance w as com pletely successful. At the fall of the curtain there was a loud call for Mr. Sims Reeves, who came forward and bowed his acknowledgments; on his retreat the call was renewed, and he re-appeared with Mrs. Sims Reeves, Miss P. Horton and Mr. Whi tw orth, and then there w as a loud c a ll f or Mr. Bunu, who appeared and acknow ledged the compliment. The theatre was crowded. THE DOOMED DESPOT. The saying of the ancients, that "the gods strike those with madness whom they doom to death , " seems singu larly applicabl e to Louis Napoleon, whose mad career becomes daily more desperate. Where it will end, or to what new acts of outrage he may be impelled by the success that has up to the present time attended his lawless deeds, time and Providence alone can tell. It is, however, supposing the French nation to be the veriest slaves on the face of the earth if they suffer much longer the frightful tyranny of this maniac despot. The intel ligence of his proceedings to which we refer our readers is a fissile of flagrant acts of violence, of the negation of every social right, and of the total subversion of all law, save the absolute will of a dictator, enforced by the bayonets of an omnipotent soldiery, by whose hands the liberties of France have been drowned in the blood of her children. The President knows that his despotism can only be maintained by the troops, who aro to France what the Praetorian Guards were to the Roman empire, and he hopes by bribing largely to retain his popularity with them. For this purpose he has robbed the Orleans family, and will go on robbing and rifling all who come within his grasp, to pay his brigands, until his career shall be cut short by the indignation of his country, or no longer able to bribe them , sacrifice him to their fury. —s nda P a p e r . he yr n u o n him, and ESTORATION OF LAMBETH CllURCH.—Arrange ments have been made for re-opening the parish church of St. Mary, Lambeth, which has for some months past been undergoing a thorough restoration, on Tuesday, the 3d of February. The Bishop o f Winchester has un dertaken to officiate in the morning, an d the Venerable Archdea con R o binson, D.D., M as t er of the Temple in the evening. There will also be a se r i es of services during the remai nder of the week, which will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London the Archdeacon of S u rrey, the Rev. Cano n Wordsworth D v . D„ the Rev. Dr. Jelf, the Rev. F. G. B lomfield, th e Re. D. Jackson, and the Rev. H. D. James. ANOTHER CENTENARIAN. --Died on the I ith inst., at his farm at Greanan, upon the estate of Glenfintaig, Mr. Alexander Cameron, at the great age of 100 years. He never had any sickness during this long life, was in full possession of his faculties, and went about until within a day or two of his death. He --. 4 3 was, we believe, a descendant of the original familey of Letterfinlay • and he and his fore fathers have held the farm, in possession of which he died, for probably eight centuries.—lncerness Courier. THE MusistY.---The Council of the Society of Antiquarians of London having appointed a committee of four of the fellows of the society to examine the remains of the ecelesiastic found in the chapel of St. Stephen, the mem bers of the committee attended on Firday, under an idea that t would be permitted to ma k e a fu ll an d proper ex y ahemination. The order, however, given them by Mr. Barry, was merely such as has for soma days been supplied to the public, and did not em S p o wer them t o unwra p the body. It was s t a ted that Lord e ymour must give his consent ere any f u rther research c ould be ma d e . The committee, therefore, could do no more at present than secure for the a correct drawin g of the remains as they were dis scoocvieerteyd ~. K ORN. FOR THE N hort . . -- -The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury h t o desire the Commissione rs eale caused Mr. Cornewall Lewis Customs to give the necessary direc ti o ns for permittin g th e ° salted elivery, free of duty, of 213 barrels and 27 tierces of salt the ship Fairy, from St. maio pork, which have arrived by ? into her Majesty's victualling stores, at Deptford, the s ame of the naval department, being intended for the service S UP POSED SUICIDE. cl Baker held an injuest at the ` - ',,a Saturday night, Mr. on view of the body of Hannah Horse, Kingsland-road, woma n, who was found on V o ll Tollury, aged 23, a single Thursday afternoon last, in the Regent's Canal, near was tii ore-bridge, Hoxton. It ap peared that the deceased e daughter of a tradesman in Stratford, and that she had formed the acquaintance of a man of some respectability, who succee ded in her , under a promise of marriage, 8 ; 1 1 she became a mother. The c hild was not affiliated , and was l e ft its sole support. She was under the necessity of e suddeng into service, when she got a situation. She left it h y on the 6th instant, and was not heard of again till her gent's Canal. For several days°4 was found in the Re erPyevious to leaving her ser. vice she was frequently heard being asked the reason, she Statta ng in her room, handle on r etiandaetr e i t d was her the e lan t ho l y s s . conduct of her seducer which had Verdict, " Emend Dead." Lord Brooke, M.P., has arri ved Warwick's Carlton -gardens, from at the Earl of , En the Noble Earl is staying. Hi s Warwick Castle, where Miss Charteris, daughter of Lord Ek r h d e sb i.P's marriage with place in town the second week in th e en , ls expected to take The German journals announ ce'ing month. Frederick Samuel von Silverstolpe, a s the death of M. wedish diplomatist, who, also, for some twenty years, direct the Theatre Royal at Stockholm. The musical library left is said to be interesting and valuable t by this gentleman other items, many manuscript comp osit f et omprising, among PAUPERISM IN THE PEERAGE.,_. 8 by Haydn. tain Noble Lord i closely con nect e d n dit that a cer about to apply n forma pauperis for the_ nnnal allowance to with a ducal house, is a which decayed Peers are entitled, from rted by themselves, to he in existence, and exclusively aupp ' e common fund, said though an application of the present n ature h as no t been m ade in the memory of the oldest Advertiser. ‘P °l itical) inhabitant.— SUDDEN DEATH OF Ma. CLEm ENT the rmation was for seßvEß" NEWSPAPER.—On Saturday ineo OF THE " OB warded to Mr. Baker, the coroner, of newspaper, sudden death of Mr. Clement, proprietor of the Observ er who m. necessary. It circumstances which render a coroner's i ncite , under appears, upon inquiry, that the deceased a widower, of advanced age, very Corpulent, and f °- sanguin e wa ment, walked home to his residence i n Hackney, on Friday night, apparently in Lo ndon-terrace.g supped as usual, but was taken ill i n the night,ood health, and and about five o'clock in the morning he was found lying dead upon the floor of his room. Dr. Wallis was sent . resulted to render effectual aid, death having, i t is supposed,l°r but too late from apoplexy. Mr. Baker has appointed day) evening for the holding of his inquest. day (Mon was a most benevolent man, and has left • The deceased friends, who knew his worth and deplore his loss. sincere REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.--A ver superstition exists among sailors against sailing common to which the loss of the Amazon will, to believerson Friday, and unlucky days, afford confirmation strong in lucky as that ill-fated vessel put to sea ___ gas holy writ, on Friday, the 2d of January. The batons of the Marshals of so much envied, are formed of a round Pieceofdeal, cen timetres in length, and fro m four to five 3O ce diameter, covered with velv et, with gold stare, and a gol n ornament at each end, on w hich are engraved the words, d " Terror belli decus pacis." Accordi ng to the ordonnance of Aug. 10, 1836, the marshals carry no other arms but this baton as a sign of their superior command , brace of pistols. a sword, and a JANUARY 26, 1852. LITERATURE. THE LIFE OF JOHN, DUKE OF MARL BOROUGH. 2 Vols.. By Archibald Alison. Second Edition. William Blackwood and Son. Archdeacon Coxe had already written a very ad mirablemsnagngdeiant go li fe a at his os itself fist Marlborough, h Aan.t rd .s Aal Alison any before no ro t a h e subject had w te o e rt lu h c y id o a f ti d o e n. Ledyard had in like manner given to the world a biography of the same conqueror, not without ren dering his work in many respects singularly merito rious. Gleig had, moreover, introduced an excellent narrative of th e career of the victor of Blenheim in the course of his well-known memoirs of Military Commanders. Besides these volumes, a variety of others had long bef ore thrown light upon that portion of our history ; insomuch that the majority of readers might somewhat reasonably have regarded a composition like the one before us as, to say the least of it, uncalled for and superfluous. There was the Dutch account of the War of Suc cess i on , for example in the splendid work of Rousset. Th e r e were the let ters and dispatches relating to the subject collected together by Pelot. There was the summary of the more remarkable battles in the campaigns of that ever-memorable contest as presented to us in the mag nificent atlas of Kauslar. Added to all which there was the masterly life of Churchill, compiled in 1807 by command of the Emperor Napoleon, a life which the present biographer of the hero has not hesitated to pronounce "the best military narrative" yet pub lished of the exploits of Marlborough! Yet there still remained ample reasons for the undertaking upon which the historian of Europe ultimately ad ventured. In the October of 1842, as is by this time matter of celebrity, there had been discovered in the record room of Hensington, near Woodstock, no less than eighteen manuscript volumes, comprising, among other things, the whole of the dispatches of the Great Duke himself, a journal kept by Dr. Hale, his Grace's chaplain, afterwards Bishop of Chichester, and a va riety of important letters in the handwriting of Mr. Cardonnel, his private secretary. These remarkable documents were soon afterwards laid before the public, edited, arranged and collected by Sir George Murray. The discovery was not less extraordinary than might have been that of one of the lost books of Livy in the blurred and mouldering scroll of some palimpsest manuscript. It was scarcely a jot less curious than that of the short-hand diary of Pepys, edited by Lord Braybrooke. It tended not less sin gularly to render the history of John Churchill com prehensible, than did the mouldy old papers raked up by Mr. Carlyle at the British Museum, in reference to the personal and political history of Oliver Crom well. That the volumes in question had remained so long overlooked at Hensington was, of course, a cir cumstance provocative of astonishment. Nut re deemed from obscurity, they were at last most fortu nately—and the students in military biographies were, as we have observed, before long gratified by their publication. Thereupon Mr. Alison was incited to sit down, himself, and write a new account of the career and exploits of Marlborough. He at once per ceived that there was room for such a composition. He comprehended, moreover, that there was cause for it, inasmuch as new lights had been admitted into the more dark and questionable recesses of a career hitherto very grievously misapprehended. Added to all which considerations, it was undeniable that Ledyard's Life was not sufficiently impartial, that Gleig's was not sufficiently well authenticated, and that Coxe's was, for the general public, both too costly and too voluminous. Therefore—the original bio graphy in one volume, offered by Mr. Alison as a tribute to the memory of Marlborough. Encouraged by the success of that volume, our accomplished and indefatigable author has now produced another edi tion of the work, so materially augmented in every particular as to render it something much more remarkable than a mere re-publica tion. Extended to two volumes, "The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough," by Archibald Alison, must in its present form be at once ranked, as it will in the end become inevitably established, among the most standard military biographies in our literature. Referring to the style of the narrative, it will be found everywhere remarkable for the luminous ability dis played by the historian throughout that more ex tended production, which still, of course, remains his masterpiece. With the graces of a flowing and so norous eloquence are blended, in the successive chap ters, the caution of a minute and scrupulous exacti tude. Every paragraph in the two volumes, as was conspicuously the case in the " History of Europe," is closed with a marginal reference to the authorities upon which its particular statements are advanced. By this means a confidence is justly established in the correctness and authenticity of the narrative, and the reader is enabled at pleasure to test the accuracy of the biographer. . . . That a memorial account of the great Duke of Marlborough must at all times secure the attention and arouse the interest of every well-educated Englishman cannot require anything at all approaching to a deliberate or argumentative demonstration. His glory is a portion, and a che rished portion, of our national heritage. His genius as a captain has tended to extend and to elevate the power of the British empire, and not only its power but its reputation. As one of the moat illustrious heroes of our race his fame must remain imperishable, or perishable only with our language. Together with the celebrity of the venerable conqueror still living, his name will descend to posterity as that of a commander in-the• field who was never once vanquished. The Duke of Marlborough and the Duke of Wellington will participate in that high and enviable renown, being the two most memorable among the military captains of England —men the recollection of whose achievements must always excite a noble feeling of emulation in the hearts of their compatriots. The ce e alembrointyg theof M h w a i s historical scornful os b era o wni toip o hat u hula g c lsnmi h uoaoess h mattm a inco s i adnr b i a c edtdd c amhee o oegp m i frrr admirers rohce s sui o i oaarof m t sffioeen u ri dyol c f h rgwa. a n -a f o a t oi v ou o nn u tt r rh i y t men, that it;a l e i thevs e t en victorn e t d h e t omohof i t l A h hi l e s a s i c o e a n c u o s l n a t y d o volume of his " History of England"—allusions breathing in every syllable the bitterness of a blind and obdurate prejudice, and altogether as undeserved in their uncompromising severity as the brilliant but exaggerated verse in which the poet designated Lord Verulam—" the wisest, brightest, meanest of man kind." Already we have referred to the magnificent tribute paid to the glory of Marlborough by the most wonderful hero of modern times—in mentioning the circumstance of the history of his career caused to be written, in 1807, by the Emperor Napoleon. Con scious of the value of such incidents, Mr. Alison him self takes occasion to remind his reader before the commencement of the present biography, that " Napo leon hummed the well-known air Marlbrook s'en va-t en guerre, when he crossed the Niemen," to commence that wonderful campaign into Russia, the most won derful and successful of all his campaigns, according to the opinion of Lord Brougham. Precisely in the same spirit, also, our author calls to mind in his Preface the fact that " the French nurses frightened their children with stories of Marlbrook, as the ori entals, when their horses start, say they see the shadow of Richard Cceur de Lion crossing their path." Marlbrook, in fact, was to the French children in those days, what Boney was to the English children of the last generation. Mr. Alison passes rapidly over the early portion of the life of his hero, scarcely pausing for a mo ment in his manner, until he comes to the period when John Churchill first participated in the affairs of Govern ment. Hence, we hear from his present biographer little more in reference to the birth and parentage of the great Captain, than the record of the facts that be was born on the sth of July, 1650, at Ash, in Devon shire, being the son of Sir Winston Churchill, a distinguished cavalier, who fought for Charles 1., being subsequently driven into exile by Cromwell. This succinctness, however, will not be matter of surprise to those who recognise how en tirely and sedulously the writer dedicates his energies to the recounting of events of importance, such as everything here relating particularly to the War of Succession. Having Mr. Alison recormdeendtitohnes c t i h r e cu fi m r s a t t an ap ce p s ea o r ! his ance of Marlborough at Court and his early promotion there, not forgetting, of course, his curious intrigue with the Countess of Castlemaine. Afterwards we _. come to the account of his services und er Louis X.:Ye and Turenne in Flanders. Then follow his marrrigce; his journey into Scotland, and , his memorable s.ev_ on the occasion of Monmouth's rebellion. 1118 ared bythe cannot but think inappropriately COMP. mate desertion of James 11. is rather o ddly, and we between t hose there being no sufficient parallel biographer with Ney's desertion of Louis , : s ubject P Napoleon, e occur soldier, the rences, seeing that Ney had been . friend, the favourite, and the tstisbing how far the honours, titles, and wealth atet VVhereas it was Emperor had been his b enefactor. i „ te nce—the Prince of After the attainment powerful claims upon the entirely cora ng e different h aving n i n o the asuch h other b h y the Du . tchm . an, we future Duke of Marlboroug .b ort campaign in 1690 C t h b u r r o o n h e ill o of w he in Ireland, and throng h his services in 1691 in m mencement of Flanders. Prior to the co Mr. Alison t k is account of the War of Succession, a es occasion characters of Louis XIV., of William to pourtray the a —a portion of the work before fthrEouegghlaehdis s 111., and of James , would seriously direct the attention us to which we e influenced by the partizan• • of those who are prejudices of Mr. Macaulay The character of Louis XIV. sl compared with that ' of Napoleon. T here iogeniou Y William in- The character of 111. is drawn with le oldns and qualities and while the writer COMpa.ra to its heroic does J ustice he does not over look its many most undeniable failings, and thus sink from the dignity of an annalist to the depth of a most slavish admiration. The character of James 11., • is defined with a gain, • singular ability, our author d o ing full justice to the goodness and heroism of his nature, to his renowned battles against Holland, and his noble and patriotic labours in restoring the navy of Great Britain —truths which are altogether and wilfully overlooked by Mr. Macaulay in his perverse determination . to falsify hitory and to distort the memory of this unfortunate sovereign into that of a very monster of meanness and brut a lity. Th ereu p on we come to the beginning of the war between Louis and William, by the campaign of 1702, remarkable for the siege and fall successively of Venloo and Liege. Marlborough next appears before us in the splendour of the great campaigns of 1703 and 1704, rendered for ever remarkable by the victory of Blen heim. The campaigns of 1705 and 1706 develope the narrative of those times through the medium of the battle of Ramilies and the conquest of Flanders. Simultaneously with the account of the campaign of 1707, distinguished by the failure before Toul on an d the battle of Alm anza , comes the first inkling of the commencement of the intrigues against Marlborough. Notwithstanding w hi c h i n trigues he contrives to win new renown with his flaming sword in the campaign of 1708, where, after the surprise of Ghent and Bruges by the French, he fights the great battle of Oudenarde. During that campaign, moreover, occurs the siege and fall of Lille, together with the recovery of Ghent and Bruges by Marlborough. Matters becoming after that more complicated, the biographer, we might rather say, perhaps, more correctly, the historian, leads us through the other events connected with the war in 1708, the conference of the Hague , the sie ge o f Tournay, the battle of Malplaquet, and the fall of M ons . A rr i v i ng at t h e i nvas i on o f R us sia by Charles XII., we watch successively his defeat at Paltowa by the Czar Peter, and the well remembered events of the campaigns of 1709 and 1710, th e first in Savoy and Spain, and the second in Flanders. After the former occur the conferences at Gertruydenberg, leading to the latter. Here Marlborough passes the lines of Villars, and shortly afterwards Douai, Be thune, St. Venant, and Ai re , are, in turn, besieged. Meanwhile political change s o f importance are trans piring at home. Harley's influence increases and of course the influence also of Toryism. Thereupon follow the dismissal of Godolphin, the change of the Ministry, and the consequent increase of entangle ment in the situation of Marlborough. The campaign in Spain, in 1710, is then described down to the battle of Villa Viciosa : and, having turned our glance for an instant towards Germany, on the death of Joseph and the accession of Charles VI. as Emperor, we watch the landing of Marlborough in Holland, and the inauguration of the campaign of 1711, the cam paign marked by the famous ,seige and fall of Bou chain. After se ve ral a dditi on al disasters in Spain, and some secret negotiations between Louis XIV. and the English Ministry, comes Oxford's very memorable dismissal of Marlborough. His condemnation of the treaty of "Utrecht brings do w n u p o n him a shameless andinvidious persecution : the disasters in Flanders lead to the treaty of Rastadt, an d th e i ngra tit u d e w ith which the discomfited victor in so many battles is treated in his own country drives him back to the continent, where he is honoured with a most brilliant reception. The lucidity with which these involved events are recounted by Mr. Alison is not the least conspicuous merit of the performance under our con sideration. His narrative from that critical epoch in the life of his hero flows on, with unabated eloquence, describing his loss of the principality of Min desheim, and his ultimate appointment as com mander-in-chief by George 1., in consideration of his powerful and effectual advocacy of the Hano verian succession in opposition to the scheme for re storing the Stuarts adopted by Bolingbroke. The wise measures suggested by Marlborough for the defeat of the invaders in 1715 were the last evidences of his genius as a military commander, for soon after wards he was stricken with the palsy and thereby driven into the necessity of retirement. On the 16th of June, 1722, i n th e seven t y - secon d year of his age he expired, and a few days afterwards the funeral obsequies of the illustrious conqueror were celebrated with uncommon magnificence. The summing up of the character of the Duke of Marlborough, is, as might have been expected, one among the most mas terly passages in these volumes. The biographer having there brought his record of the hero to a con clusion, pauses first in consideration of the treaty of Utrecht, and subsequently in a series of splendid parallels between the great captains of modern times, adopting the ingenious example of Plutarch, and delineating the respective merits and demerits of such military commanders as Marlborough, Eugene, Frederick, Napoleon, and Wellington. It would be unfair, before closing our notice of this very splendid production, to omit any allusion to the peculiarities of its form of publication. Besides some admirable charts of the battles " bound-in " with the work, and adroitly connected with its cover, each of the two volumes is embellished with a beautifully engraved frontispiece, one a likeness of Louis XIV., the other one of Marlborough. Altogether the typography of the work is as creditable to the publishers as its con tents are honourable to the biographer. ESSAYS POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS. 3 Vols. By Archibald Alison. William Blackwood and Sons. During the last twenty years, in addition to his other literary occupations, Mr. Alison has been in dustriously contributing, month after month, a va riety of papers, of a most diversified character, to the pages of Blackwood's Magazine. These, in accordance with a custom long since pursued in regard to the more remarkable articles in the Edinburgh, have been col lected together, and issued again in the form of a separate and most substantial publication. Having, upon the occasion of their original appearance in the old, fami liar, two-columned pages of Maga, been separately, and sometimes at no inconsiderable length, referred to in this journal, the Essays of Mr. Alison cannot here, without something like an appearance of tediousness and supererogation, be spoken of otherwise than in a way at once the most cursory and comprehensive. But for this consideration, it would be agreeable to expatiate upon contributions so discursive in theme, and very often so elevating in tendency. Among the Political Essays are several relating respectively to the Parliamentary Reform Bill, to the Navigation laws, to Free Trade, to the Colonial System, to Changes in the Currency, to Negro Emancipation, to the increase of Crime and Transportation—in short, to most of those important questions which, during the last twenty years, have agitated the public mind of England, and very materially af fected the development of its system of administra tion. Besides these, the first volume, dedicated ex clusively to the Political Essays, comprises papers written at the time on the French Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, on the memorable battles of the three days, the first of which elevated on the barricades the Orleans dynasty, and the second the Provisional Government. Among the Historical Essays there are perceptible still greater variety and discursiveness. Montesquieu is considered in his life, death, and character, that Montesquieu who has been happily designated by Mr. Alison, "the founder of the philo sophy of history," and as such, one who has discovered in him an appropriate celebrant. Mirabeau, in his and his errors, in his eloquence and his prollige_ch,T genius his daring and his weakness, has been analysed judgmentw scrupulous attention by the essayist. has in like manner passed under review Hannibal Del a ineating in Hisannibal and Napoleon, Bruce and Lamartine. he has one contribution " The Roman Republi c," , _ e _ ocracy „ described in another "The Athenzav He has an eye now to " The Tyro l" and now to " The Crusades." In looking at the progress of ev ents in Spain, be can pr onounce upon the Carlis t strugg le, and can muse over t he decline of Turkey when turning . his regard to Constantinople. The p oe t will find interest in his criticisms oa the Greek Drama, while t he artist will turn with curiosity of Paintin g. to his 0 s disss b e e r y t i a ng, tio OD the B r i t i s h School n it would seem, the fitful and unaccountable promptings of the moment, he appears to have touched upon the most strongly contraste d subjects with equal f ac ili ty, commenting a t one period on the Affghanistan Expedition, and at ano ther,on the peculiarities of the Old Scottish' Par liament. Not the least interesting paper preserved t o us in the second volume —the volume devoted en tirely to the Historical Essays —is that in which the su blime intellects o f H omer, Dante, and Michael Angelo are brought into comparison. Among the miscellaneous essays are numbered reviews upon the writings of Chateaubriand, upon the annals of Macaulay, upon the travels of Humboldt, upon the opinions of Wellington, upon the studies of Sismondi, upon the lectures of Guizot, upon the genius of De Steel, and upon the talents of De Tocqueville. Again , as in the preceding volume, one of the most delight ful papers in the third—the volume restricted to the Miscellaneous Essay s —i s one presenting to us an in genious comparison, this time, however, between Virgil, Tasso, and Raphael. Historical publications have not failed of course to attract the especial scrutiny of the annalist of Europe, and therefore it its we find him in one instance passin g under review the France of M. Michelet, and at another the Russia of Karamsin. Two contributions in particular will be found ol value to those interested in the histrionic profession, now unhappily in its decadence, one relating to it more peculiarly in its intellectual phase, and another referring to it especially in its character as an ar t—th e first an essay on the Romantic Drama, and the second a paper upon the British Theatre, and its present con dition. From what we have already observed, it must be apparent at a glance that the c o ll ec t e d wr iti n gs of Mr. Alison a s a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine are of a kind sufficiently various, and of a character sufficiently popular to command for them the atten tion of the most dissimilar tastes and of the most con tradictory predilections. They cannot fail to form an agree able and entert a i n i ng , b ecause always readable _ an d instructive, additi on even t o the mos t valuable and fastidiously -select e d library. cowing, moreover,l in the name of a wr it er so accomplished and so just y celebrated as M r . Ali son , they W ill not fail to corn mind their own deserved share of admiration. SONNETS ON THE MONTH BY E. E. m. • (From the Illustrated London Al manack for 162.) JANUARY. Spirit of storms and melancholy hours, Stern January! must we front thy rage, And at thy beck prepare our choicest flowers To feed thy graveyards, and thy wrath t' assuage?: Through driving snows and sleety rains we hear His coming—spoiler of our homes! 'T is one To him, the golden locks, or those the young revere Pauper or prince, so be the deed but done! Seer-like, unmoved, and with an aspect drear, In frosted garments stiffening through the night, He views the pageant of the early bier, Or cheerless mutters with the stars in sight! Morn from her lattice strews dark blpsoms now,* Day comes in tears, and eve with troffbled brow. * The " rosemary" flowers in January, and is dedicated to " the dead." FEBRUARY. Pillowed on clouds that shine phosphoric 'round, Lo! February pale thought-wrapt sinears, Like some proud youth whose sleeping fancies bound With dull forebodings, all " the future" wears. Anon young Hope renewing life bestows, Fans bis cold temples, plants the infant rose; With magic finger melts the frozen sky To showery rainbows, at whose lucent fall Spring-bowers prepare their greenling tracery, And snow-drops hold the virgin festival. Loud from the farm bold chanticleer is heard, Soft at our window sings the sacred bird; While hill-tops, crown'd with snows and shrouding mists At ruddy dawn are tipped with amethysts. Ate acs. Blown by rude gusts, and rolling scuds t aloft March fills the noon; while, lo ose d in g rief , full I ft The winds bewail or roar in thunders b y: Yonder the forest at the sound inclines Its hoary boughs, that with the movement shed Jewels around; and, see! amidst them shines The daring crocus, with defiant head, Silver'd with snows, yet opening to , the sky. Strange are his moods: for now t is splendour all, Now sullen gloom, now calm, now pregnant shade, Sunshine and storm; now wakes the waterfall, Now brookleta flow, and now in ice are stay'd. Yet, budding out, despite each fickle hour, Green tints the bank, and promise shapes the flower. APRIL. April returns; her blue voluptuous eye, Now steeped in light, now charged with sudden tears, Potent as spells enchantress' arts apply. Lo! at her beck each sapling bloom appears; Violets whose breath the curious winds endow Lavish with sweets; anemones; and, more, Those cups profuse, like drops o f gold that blow, The gaudy wort and yellow hellebore. Now waters lift their silvery arms, to greet The green moss thickening rich in noonday sun; Pastures and lawns and wood-nymphs quaint retreat, Kindling with sprouts, by thousand dews are spun. From clasping earth sweet herbs and grasses rise, Load the fresh gale, and mix congenial sighs. MAY. Sweet May is ours! the fresh sun-mantled May, Blushing and spotless as a bride should be, With all her lily train of handmaids. See! Now finger-link'd they come, where smiles the day In rosy warmth! The modest iris, pure And dazzling as the dawn of early love; Pale hyacinths, whose honied lips insure Caresses frequent as those sighs to allure They breathe o'erpowering on the gales above. Nor aught forgotten seeks the bridal queen Tier showering Daphne, jonquils, or the lair Snow-hillocks of virginia-stock, whose sheen Her pathway lights; while earth, and sky, and air, Rejoicing, each a nuptial aspect wear. JUNE. Reeking with spice, by handmaid gales distill'd, What time the heats in solar conclave meet, Bright June arrives—her earliest task fulfill'd, The Earth, rose-clad, lies blushing at her feet. To gilded fruits the milky germ gives place ; She breathes, and forth spontaneous 'mong the boughs A. pageant burns reflected from her face; While all the land a kindling bloom endows. Pendent the bell; and where fresh waters leap, Her rainbow-colour'd stars gay Flora opes: On scorching heaths the unctuous vipers creep; Below, sweet smell the wolds and new-mown elopes. And now, while glades with cushat songs invite, Summer exults in all her warm delight. JULY. 'Mid beams and rains alternate flashing now, July, the ripe, luxuriant month, we haill Queen of the season, by each jewell'd bough That yields for her its riches to the gale: Cherries the sweetest, currants crystal red, Or moon-light hued, or ebon black display'd. We know her come by all the tokens spread:— The swelling apple, and the fig tree's shade; By poppies burning 'midst the fields of grain; The fox-glove's purple, and the pale wan flower That smiles unto the stars, and shuts again Ere morn; and by the gold of noontide hour; By all the rills that tinkled songs to May; And now for flowers can scarce sLe night from day! AUGUST. 'Tis mellow August, crown'd with blushing fruits:— The tawny apricot, the damson's gloom; While pods droop seed•full—while the mushroom shoots, And corn flags glitter through the harvest's bloom. 'Tis merry August, that, with gipsy grace, In gipsy garments, and with wanton face, Goes laughing by. Ay: follow, old and young, Into the woods, and hear her charmed tongue Lisping light music through the gloaming grey, Till eve's rich hour, when ruddy sunbeams roll: Now by dun mosses, where the harebells play; Now where sound flies, like some enfranchised soul, Through forest aisles; or seek her libtruing where The clamorous martins cloud the glowing air. SEPTEMBER. With staitai mouth and loose luxuriant cTtess, September comes! A reveller, sure, is ha And dryads' sport; for see! in mirthfulnes s They tempt h i m still with gourd and m a ib t irry. Y on der the wain, rich freighted, ploughs the A ward, And yonder still the sunburnt reapers toil; There champs the mill, and there the garner 'fr stored, And there profuse the fowler's feathery spoil. At eve now pou the yellow harvest moon Her beams, which lend enc hantment to the hoMrs: So dews are plentiful, and at her noon Crown as with coronals the wakeful flowers; From hedgeway bowers the trailing h ops are torn, O rc hards are thinn'd, and purple paints the morn. OCTOBER. 'Mid trees that rain they lavish g.oldarou. around , October smiles: on eithe r hand a vat, F res h bubbling with the vineyard's juice ; her fr om the tomb. N o w fields look blea c h 'd , and Su mmer r M e anwhile budd in g chrysanthemums , th e ground whereat Pale Flora we e p s, for these foretell he r doom_ A stern imprisonment, till rosy S pri ng Laughs o'er h er chains, and lif ts O'er all th e woods a hectic verduremer swift takes wi ' l3ll; F a l s e as the flush on sad C reigns, Consumption's Wh il e bitter portents moan olsumption's cheek; a And distant mountains we ar ong the plains, an aspe c t bl ea k. me I n every gale we hear s o A n d red leaves murmur farewell sigh, as they fall, " We die!" NOVEMBER. Sullen by fits, unloved of all the year, Forlorn November glooms upon the world, Wraps his chill feet among the leaflets sere, And hails aloft the banner'd clouds unfurl'd! No more the sun with Midas'* power supreme, Holds a proud court o'er Autumn's yellow vales— Denuded lands now crave each scanty gleam; Hush'd are the rills, and hush'd the nightingales! Dumb, as in fear, the old earth's tuneful bands — Dead the sweet flowers!—aad dying day by day Glad Nature's smile! Like Niobe she stands, Her warm life ebbing in a mist of sighs, Her tears congealing in her rueful eyes, Her garments blanch'd, and in her hear t ,h is.dtoeuccua.9,l, "turned * Scholars need not be reminded that , everything into gold." DECEMBER. Welcome, old month of noisy feast and mi me ,” Jovial December! How we bless thy reign! What though thy locks be strewn with winter's rims, Though o'er thy path pinchi ng gales complaint— Here way is thy home; her e at each , household hearth, Where foaming cup are draind in love to thee! When "festal boards', s shall" groan" thy praises fortb, And " jest," and `` game, " and " dance "" go merrilie" Bright shines the holly in the " homestead's" blass• D . ruid plant" g l ance b r i g hter ray , l Sweet flows the " junket " at their peasant meal; But , neath thy " An d s weeter still " the kiss" some deftly steal! Chime on , glad bells! foam on , r i c h cu p s around! Blessings are ours, and joyful hearts abound! A pir; OR, Tam M E . ELIOT WARBURTON'S " D AB y l i r - ar bbrt,ea's best MERCHANT PRINCE."—" Darien" is Mr•_, ,„ we r. Written work. It displays all the author's habitu a l 1— : d d e scribes events at in a brilliant style, it paints scenes a once original and picturesque, and ivea u y in e e interest. " Darien" which possesses a continuous and yen t • individual charactm, but s them into A story , is remarkable for its delineation d it is chiefly to be praised as tl! n a novelty and full of mans m° irably-told story ot' ex citing adventures, abounding e i s Tit:floe/mall amount of historical ti o , interest whaniledthveaiwueh._olesp,lissagess . We THE WINDSOR a GAsTLE DRAMATIC PERpogu. alicie f en th li e vened u the Christmas dra matic performances, which of Windsor Castl e , h er M a j es ty honoured Divande Mrs. Kean with a private i n t erv iew, a s understawnhd ich tha t t hia on year thear as conclusionlast, hv o f u f . i d regard which tbe lady and gentleman ill mark of the ) K°3 ` e!' and honourably earned, not only by have a bility and long and brilliant dramatic career, constant and most praiseworthy efforts to raise but by their and moral status of aprofession too long de' , , the socialnd generally undervalued. pressed a questiontheir artistic DAT:r a y-LANE THEATRE.— The younger branches o f the commun it y have one more opportunity, we perceive. fixedof b e ing entertained here, the l as t j uven il e n ight being for to-morrow evening. Th e y w ill h ave th e return of the . ~, B a t e man children for thi s occasion, and t h e pantomuno will be , played at an early bour. I OUTRAGEOUS ATTAC K UPON :A MAN I On Wednesday last a ruffianly-looldng fellow , nara magi*. King, was committed to Kirkdale gaol by the countyiMr. Robert trates, charged with a dastardly attack 2, Bailey, who is 80 years of age, and agent Little dale, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool. Mr down near Highfield, and robbed of a t u o P ihomas Little or EIG ed IIT O Tz Bailey was knockei gold watch and about _ 30s. in silver. Kin g was a ppreh( aided while, in the cases of the watch in pledge at a p a wnbrolLet a In Lwerpool. , ~r 1