The Sun. — London, England, 1835-12-25 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Papers of Wednesday.) At a late hour on Tuesday night the French Govern ment received a despatch from Toulon, announcing that the Dake of Orleans had arrived in that roadstead on the 19th instant, on board the Montebello. The vessels that brought the Prince and his suite, left Mostaganem on the 14th. He wall perform a quarantine of six days, but will reach Paris by New Year's clay. The Prince was indisposed at Mostaganem, from fatigue and the bad weather, but is com pletely restored. Marshal Clausel published the following Order of the Day on the 7th instant, at Mascara :-- "Soldiers,—You have fully justified the confidence I have placed in you. Within a few days you have more than attained the object which we had in view. On the first instant you fought valiantly on reconnoitering the defiles of the Sig ; and, in your ardour, you cap tured the enemy's camp, when we merely approached it in order to form an opinion of its position and the num ber of troops it might contain. On the 3d you carried the camp of the Emir, who fled before you, and who, notwithstanding his personal valour, could not prevent his troops from dispersing in the mountains. On the same day, at Sidi-Emlntruk, when you were surrounded by a nu merous cavalry, and were exposed to the fire of Ab del Ka der's artillery, you beheld the flight of his troops, who were in ambuscade Behind a natural object that you had scarcely time to perceive. On the same evening you were carried forward by a noble ambition, and were established on the 1-labruss. On the•l4th you attacked the infantry of the ;Emir, near the counterforts of the Atlas ; at Ouled Sidi- Ibr shim yoar presence was sufficient to put the enemy to ,light. On the .sth you rapidly carried a strong position occupied by a great number of the enemy, who experienced a considerable loss. On the 6th you entered, as con querors, into Mascara, which the Emir, who was aban doned and insulted by his troops, dared not to defend. Thus, in a few days, has vanished before you that power which was represented as formidable, but the weakness of which your valour has demonstrated. Soldiers, you have combated under the eyes of the Prince Royal ; be will join your General in relating to the King your brilliant achieve ments. France and the King will be ' satisfied, and will award you the.recompense you have merited. (Signed) " CLAUSEL." - - Od the 2d inst. a funeral service in honour of Bellini was p er :Coriped in the church of the Conservatory of Naples. The mass of the dead was executed by 120 voices, and an orci.estra co .roposed of 200 musicians. The music, com posed by Zinga:elli, was directed by that celebrated maestro, now in the 85th year of his age. The Council Genar.3 l of Commerce, Industry, and Agri culture is to meet on tlie sth of January. It consists of 51 members, returned by the Chambers of Commerce of Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux, Marseilles, Rouen, Nantes, Havre, and other commercial towns. Among the subjects to be submitted to the deliberations of that Assembly, will be the important question of the conversion of the rentes ; the sugar question; that relative to the tobacco monopoly ; and the Customs reform, &c. MADRID. CHAMBER OF PROCURADORES, SIT TINGOV DEC. 11., (Senor ISTURIZ President.) The House met at half-past twelve, and the minutes of the preceding sitting' having been read, communications were also read from Don Sebastian Cuesta, Deputy for Pontevedra, and from El Sonde de Villemena, Deputy for Granada,- and Don Marcus Fernandez Blanco, Deputy for Leon, begging to be allowed to resign on account of ill health. Referred to the Commission of Qualifications. After some other business relative to the qualifications of Deputies, The President of the Council read from the tribune an additional project of law concerning the National 'Guard. He also read the Report made to her Majesty in virtue whereof the decree of the 28th of September last was issued; changing the name of Urban Militia to th at of National Guard and in conclusion he proposed that the new project should be referred to a Commission composed of Don Antonio Gonzalez, Senor Aranda, Don Rufino Carrasco, the Marquis de Espirardo, Senors Parijo, Vicido, ChacOn, De Pedro Cano Manuel y Chacos. Thiidditional project consists of seven articles, which are as follow : Art. 1. It not being possible at present to arm all the individuals comprised in the general enlistment ordered to be formed by article 2 of the law of the 23d March, last, the Ayuntamientos of the respective towns, &c., are authorised to inscribe, with preference, on the lists of the National Guard, in proportion as they shall obtain the needful armament, all' persons who possessed the qualifications prescribed by the said law, and who may offer the best guarantees to society by their property, their high qualities, their occupations, morality, and, above all, by their well known adhesion to the legitimate throne of Isabel 11. Art. 2. In order to remove all obstacles which might be opposed to the dispositions of the preceding article, the consent. of parents shall not be indispensable, in order that the sons who are 25 years of age shall be inscribed among the National Guard; neither that the chiefs of manufac tories, warehouses, or counting-houses, shall be held re sponsible for the conduct of those under them. Art. 3. The following persons may be inscribed in the National Guard, being of the age required, although they may not pay.any direct contribution :- Ist, Peers and Procuradores of the kingdom. 2d, The Ministers and legal officers of all the tribunals. 3d, All persons employed by royal nomination, and who receive pay from the Treasury. 4th, The rectors, directors, and cate dratkos of the universities, colleges, and establishments for public instruction. sth, Masters of primary education. The individuals comprised in this article shall not be ob liged to perform any service beyond the limits of the places of their residence ; they may mount guard and perform the other garrison duties by means of substitutes belonging to the same battalion or company, who may voluntarily offer to do so ; but they will be held to present themselves in their respective companies whenever they shall be formed, in case of alarm. Art. 4. Relates to the distribution and division of bat talions. Art. 5. The captains, lieutenants, sub-lieutenants, and ensigns of the National Guard shall be nominated by the Civil Governor on the proposition made by the plurality of votes from all individuals of the respective companies.- For those employments may be proposed, although not belong in.- to the National Guard, retired or supernumerary officers of army, navy, or provincial militia, who cannot refuse to serve if they receive any pay or emolument from the State ; the sergeants and corporals are to be elected by the captain and subalterns of companies ; also by absolute ma jority of votes ; the captain to give the casting vote in case the numbers should be equal. Art. 6. The individuals of the National Guard who may become disabled from wounds received in the course of their service, and the families of those who may (lie from their effects, shall be entitled to the same premiums, ho nours, and recompenses, as those belonging to the same class in the regular army. The property and interests of the rebel Don Carlos de Bourbon ; those of the traitors who follow, or may hereafter follow, his standard ; and those of all persons who may be sentenced to infamous penalties for having favoured his cause, shall remain responsible, and shall be specially ap plied to meeting those expenses, which are not to be paid out of the Treasury, excepting when the aforesaid property may be insufficient for the purpose. Art. 7. The Ayuntamientos arc authorised to apply to the purchase of the arming and equipment of the National Guard, the surplus of the funds of their districts, and the product of the local contributions which will be established for this object, with the previous approbation of the pro vincial deputations ; who after examining not only the-pro duct of these c ontributions, but also as to the expediency of confiding arms -to the places and persons proposed, shall make the corresponding application to Government, who will facilitate the supplies at prime cost. (Signed) MENDIZABAL. ALVARO GOMEZ. MARTIN DE LOS HERDS. Madrid, December 11. FRENCH FUNDS.—FAnts, DECEMBER '23. Five per Cents., 108 f. Sec. 35e 4Cc. Four per Cents., S9l. 50c. Three per Cents. 191. 90c. SOc. 75c. B an k Actions, 2,15 ff. Rente de Naples, 07f. 50c. 40c. Roman Five per Cents., 101%. Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents,. r,6%1,4. Belgian Loan, live per Cents 101 X., Port u guese Loan, Five per Cents., £5. Dotch Two and a half per Cents , 56f. 25c. 40c. H a y,:; 4 an Loan, 400 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. ale month, Paper, 250 . 55 e. ; money, 25r. Three mouthW, paper, 251.40 c. ; money, 25f. 37%c —timrs Autbra:Oue. BOURSE THREE O'CLOCK. —At Tortoni's the jobbers had carried the price of the Rentes, Three per Cents. to 80f. 10c., buyers : but, from the opening of the Bourse, several brokers endeavoured to sell, so that the first price was 80f. ; they rallied, however, to 80f. 5c., but have since gradually declined to 79f. 80c., with scarcely , any fluctuation. The realizing of profits on previous transactions is said to be the cause of this reaction. The Spanish buyers bad overreached their strength yester day, and in trying to realize to-day they occasioned a fall of about 1 per cent. QUARTER TO Foun.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 79f. .70c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, Coupons, 251- ; Gueb. bards, —; pifferes, 174; New Loan, —; Actives, 48-; Passives, 14i; Ducats, 97 60; Romans , 104 ; Pedros, 85 ; Belgians, 1011 ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 440 f. ; Miguels, 21 ; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 14 ; Con , tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, ; Five per Cent. Peipc tuelles, oration of ion, it line fication bf to feelings . A defi ,ition, and d tl:,e or- ClPtermi. the cha ;naent and tree; , make AO of tbo s function res a sense ighest jin n of 'other ie of vole- Iseientious- are pro icability of very thing of beauty se operates se. In the ercast, ais- a at some olonce. it it in being ernaturol-- le incident. m. Mode history and ►nd on the .cu l .ty gives .nspires no to the poet, ated on the friction will combative disposition inoffensive amusing. rolence. It erally active of life, it is !n it is large, tcter. tated in the en large, it ows inimeat. ;kg between Ldvardtage 10 ►ated by the es. It con' , by giving a s the faculty 2t. Thus It hick enables he resistance large dee' ched appor; ;he faculty 0 ' the want ° f 1 masters. individuality d. The eiv 11 by obsery at facility t° bservation be convinnea ight, he w 5 h subsequent bserves, it i 9 xternal angle rance of de' Nation of its Iputing wit h ge in persons Lumbers. angle of the es a love of asioniand :head, imme' lly gave this Where it is quickness of ,eral practical ed. ates, and 01 3- Ferent separate fr centre of the s contiguous t of the a rch ncreases the Dund it yell ;an is irntne. _ stands pro , l outwards an. and, wbe n the love t act of speak' the remark. TLTIES. upperp ar upper d, has We e endowmen t 7eserublance!; style is florw developme ° y be the re' ency of bear fine invidiou s • In arga c i kparisons a° necessary j' r f or person ° is situated 0° ) inspire th e e and where" s addicted t° tract specula' Lnd incapabl e Ideneies an d ency .to to one o f big way so easill tve only on e° with the sae d youis ?" )AY.) 1 the trade w° FFAL" J• S. d to 9 . 24 2 6 210 3 0 3 6 2 . 6 s 4 2 : 1 6 210 1 4 . . ch, 10 0 140 r. Pies :0 ........„/ s d. Os ..... 4 2 0 ... . . 2 8 '1 4 0 0 210 0 4 ..... 4 2 4 BY.--Di ed ' own, count); onby, wife °J f Idest son ° A on, the Lo ier of Wood s 16th of d' ghter of Of Petersburg" T )), hi s Lo r d' ady F. PI d personifie human era' the most es' who had ae" ler manner!' Dep and O r sorrow over been but se' an insidio gs toms, with: spoiler, vb. in disPO SY I Charitable. es of Derd e .y) with tb K ETS. LIGHTHOUSES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - SlR,—The letter on "Lighthonses," by Magnet, toge ther with your own remarks, which appeared in The Son, November 26, have been very generally read, and approved of, by the shipping interest of this port ; and it has been long a matter of astonishment to us that the most dange rous sand-banks on the coast, and on which so many' ships are continually wrecked, should still be left unguarded. . Some years ago an application was made by a portion of the .shipping trade to the Corporation of the Trinity House on this subject. I never could, hoWeVer, rightly understand the answer given to that application, whether dictated by apathy, indifference, or poverty—" they had no funds." This reply may have been correct ; but, with all due sub mission, I humbly think that charity ought to begin at home ; and that public grievances should be redressed, be fore private charities to the amount of 28,0001. should an nually be paid away indiscriminately. The Corporation of the Elder Brethren of Trinity House, London, have 55 lights under their management, which, in 1834, yielded a gross revenue of 83,041/. ; the com mission for collecting this sum was 6;670/., and the charge of rent and maintenance 35,904/., leaving a net surplus of 40,244/. There are, besides these 55 lights, 14 other lights in the hands of private individuals ; which, in 1832, yielded the enormous sum of 79,676/. ; the collection amounted to 10,2441., and the expense of maintenance was only 9,1091., leaving a net surplus of 60,3221. The Commissioners of Northern Lights (Scotland) in 1834, taxed the shipping interest for 25 lights under their management, 35,5261. ; charges of collection 3,2611. ; expense of maintenance 11,314/., leaving a net surplus of 20,051/. The Commissioners of Ballast Board (Ireland) have 40 lights under their management ; which, in 1834, yielded 42,0611. ; charges of collection 1,9601. ; expense of main tenance 18,5051., leaving a net surplus of 21,596/. ;. so that, according to these returns on 134 lights, the shipping interest paid, in 1834, 240,304/., of which 96,967/. was paid for collection and maintenance, leaving a net surplus of 142,436/. to be accounted for. But in order to show the gross jobbing that has existed, and does still exist, amongst the lessees of some of the pri vate lights, I will refer more minutely to the Parliamentary Reports. Mr. Coke, of Holkham, lessee of Dungeness Light-house, received, from 1823 to 1825 inclusive, the gross amount, as dues paid for that light, 44,190/. 3s. 6d., while the expense for maintenance, during the same period, was only 5,571/. 10s. Bd., leaving a clear net balance for his share of the public money of no less . than 38,619/. 12s. 10d. On the 13th of. March, 1829, the lease was renewed for 21 years, on condition of a moiety to the Crown of the net surplus of light dues received ; and, therefore, from 1828 to 1831, Government received of the spoil 9,047/. 16s. 6d.; while Mr. Coke pocketed 12,874/. 14s. 4d. From Christmas 1817 to the 16th of October 1827, there was received for Harwich Light dues net 53,0281., which, after deducting 8,547/. for new Light-house and repairs, was divided-26,688/. to the Woods and Forests, and 17,792/. to the lessee, General Rebow ; and, by the accounts for 1832, the gross collection was 9,273/. for light dues ; of which 4,594/. was paid to the Crown, and 3,060/. to the lessee, while the whole cost for collection and main tenance was only 579/. 9s. 11d. Next comes my Lord Braybrooke, lesiee of Winterton arn.l Orfordness Light-houses. From the proceedings of Parlialent, it appears that the lease of these lights was re newed on the lit June, 1828, for 21 years, to Lord Bray brooke, the old lessee. The old lease expired on the 13th of April, 1826, during which period, under authority of the Lords of the Treasury, his Lordship continued to levy tolls to the amount of 23,754/. ; of which sum 11,877/. was paid over to the Crown. In the three years, 1823,1824, and 1825, Lord Braybrooke received a net income of 40,184/. from these lights. In the next three years, the gross col lection of dues was 47,9221., of which Lord Braybrooke re ceived 20,9851., and the Woods and Forests received 17,839/. In the nine years up to December, 1831, the gross collection was 124,5051. for these lights, and the clear sum received by Lord Braybrooke was 72,106/. So much for Lord Braybrooke. In the year 1832, the Spurn light• houses, in the hands of Mr. Benedict .Thlin Angel Angel, and Mr. G. L. Thomson, yielded the gross amount of 12,863/., charge for collection 1,626/., maintenance 2,279/., leaving a clear surplus in the year, to Mr. Benedict John Angel Angel and Co., of 8,958/. , Yet, as if this sum was not sufficient, they seem to have demanded, and were paid, 1,276/. from the Conso lidated Customs under the Reciprocity Act. But Mr. Sutton Morgan, lessee of the Skerries, appears, from refusing at first to comply with the Order of the Com mittee, to have supposed himself above alllaw, and at liberty to act with regard to these lights just as he pleased. Mr. Sutton Morgan did think proper to furnish the Committee with seven years' accounts, %Odell show that the gross col lection of light dues, from the year. 1827 to 1833, was 102,595/. ; that after paying 11,229/. for commission on collection, and the expense of maintenance, Mr. Sutton Morgan, received the net surplus of 87,673/. Yet, like our friends, Mr. Benedict John Angel Angel and Co., Mr. Sutton Morgan seems also to be unsatisfied with this share mulcted from .the public ; for we find him likewise paid 1,711/. out of the Consolidated Customs, under the Reci procity Act. Lieutenant Henry Smith, lessee of.the Longships Light house, out of the gross collection, 7,3931. for the year 1831, pockets the net sum of .5,036/. ; and Mr. John Phillips, lessee of the Smalls Light-house, appears to have pocketed out of the gross sum paid in two years, 1831 and 1832, 28,9431., no less than 21,0211. But Mr. John Phillips, like our other worthies, was not satisfied, and he also received, out of the Consolidated Customs' Fund, 1,566/. . Really the heart sickens while recording those atrocious proceedings ; but the exposition of them, chiefly extracted from the evidence taken before a Committee of the House of Commons, therefore incontrovertible, will, I trust, arouse the shipping interest of Great Britain, not only to a sense of their long accumulated wrongs, but, in the ensuing Par liament, to render Mr. Hume every assistance towards establishing aeCentral Board of Management for the Lights of the three kingdoms, whereby every public abuse of this nature may be corrected ; and, if possible, to make Mr. Cote, Lord Braybrooke, General Rebow, and others of this stamp, who have so long.preyed on public industry, disgorge part of those immense sums wrung from the most merito rious, yet despised class of society. I must, however, admit, that the Corporation of Trinity Honse, London, as appears from the evidence of Mr. He bert, have acted, on recent occasions, a disinterested part—ever anxious to serve the public, with a due regard towards benevolence enjoined 'by Act of Parliament. Still, as before observed, if other lights on the coast are required, or those complained of rendered more serviceable for the greater safety of navigation, it then becomes the duty of the Corporation to establish such as are wanted ; and, if unable to maintain them according to the present dues levied, to call on Government or the House of Commons for support. Independently of the immense number of ships continually passing up the Channels from the North, about 5,000 tots of steam shipping, valued at 220,0001., from Scotland, pass, generally in night time, weekly ; and pay light dues annu ally about 5,0001.. When, therefore, in addition to the value of the ships, their cargoes, and lives of the passengers are considered, I think I am not asking too much that every public facility ought to be provided for their safety. Dundee, Dec. 21, 1835. - D. Wentworth House, which used to be the scat of un bounded hospitality, particularly at this festive season, is not so at present, in consequence of the lamented death of the late Lord Milton. Earl Fitzwilliam and his family are residing at his Lordship's housi, Grosvenor-square. An old miser named Coleman dropped dead a few days ago in Fermoy, while in conversation. The subject of conversation (which Coleman introduced) was the most economical way of living. The wretched man, although he denied himself the common necessaries of life, had two Savings' Bank books, containing entries for deposits of 701. —Limerick Chronicle. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT NOTTING-HILL. — Wednesday, afternoon, between one and two o'clock, the fol lowing dreadful accident occurred to James Taylor, Esq., a gentleman of fortune, residing in Connaught-terrace, Edge ware-road. It appears from the statement of several per sons who witnessed the melancholy accident, that Mr. Taylor was proceeding down Notting-hill, on the Uxbridge road, mounted on a high-couraged horse, when one drawing a cart came along the road at a furious rate (having taken fright), and before the unfortunate gentleman had time to ride on one side of the road, came in violent contact with him, and dashed him from his horse with tremendous vio lence. Surgical assistance was promptly procured, and on examining the injuries he had sustained, it was • disco % ered that he bad received a severe fracture of the skull, besides a compound fracture of the right arm. The cart was overset, and the horse belonging to it killed on the spot, from the violence of the fall. The Marquis de Saint Paer was formerly the pos sessor of the fine domain near Andely, in Normandy, from which lie took his title, and which now belongs to the Vis count d'Arlingcourt, in consequence of his wanton ex travagance, he was obliged to part with the whole of his estates, and at length became reduced to the utmost de gree of want, receiving charity from those upon whom in his prosperity he had bestowed it. still he could not leave the scenes of his former splendour, and lived for twenty years in a low thatched hut, in the confines of his Ancient chateau. On the 19th inapt he was found dead, from - -404 4nd hunger, under a, hedge .not. fig from its walls 1.-oa/iignani, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, iMS. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX :kIAGIS- TRATES. Yesterday the MagiArates met for the dispatch of public business. Dr. RoniNsotv took the Chair. The minutes of the last Court having been read," Mr. Allen, the Clerk of the Peace, said he was requested to read th 2 following letter, addressed to him from Benjamin Rotch, Esq. : RESIGNATION OF MR. ROTCH AS CHAIRMAN. " Lowlands, Dec. 21, 1835. " Dear Sir,—Fully aware that, however great I may have considered the provocation which occasioned my sending a hostile message to the Lord Mayor, resort having been had to the Court of King's Bench, nothing could be there con sidered as justifying such a proceeding on my part, I immedi ately determined to relieve my brother Magistrates from any embarsassment arising from the position in which I had placed myself, by resigning the Chair of the Middlesex Sessions at the earliest proper occasion ; and now beg that you will communicate my determination to the Bench on Thursday next, being the first County Court since the transaction allu ded to took place. " I beg to assure the Court that I shall always remember with pride and gratitude the handsome manner in which I was called to the Chair, and have been continued through it in a series of subsequent elections, more particularly on the last occasion, when the Court's favourable opinion of my serv i ces (my best and only reward) was recorded and presented to me in a manner so highly gratifying to my feelings. " After the cordial manner hi which my statement on the last county day was received by the Court, I think it right my brother Magistrates should be informed of what has since taken place with reference to that subject. At the com mencement of the last term, the Lord Mayor obtained a rule, for a criminal information, and immediately after Mr. Car penter, unknown to me, waited upon the City Solicitor, when it was mutually suggested that if a meeting of friends of both parties took place, some mode of amicably adjusting all dif ferences might be agreed upon. A communication was then made 'to me by Mr. Carpenter, and I expressed my perfect willingness, if such a meeting took place, when the matter should be thoroughly understood on each side, to abide entirely by the decision of my friends as to what ought to be done under the circumstances. I knew they would not compromise my honour nor my position as a gentleman; and any thing short of that which they might have required, I should not have for a moment withheld. Sir C. Forbes, Bart., Mr. Ballantine, and Mr. Carpenter, kindly undertook to act as my friends on the oc casion ;_ and the Recorder, the City Solicitor, and a member of the Court of Aldermen were at first proposed on the part of the Lord Mayor ; but a suggestion having been made that the Recorder and the City Solicitor, having already acted as counsel and attorney for the Lord Mayor in the matter, it might as well be that Sir Claudius Hunter, Mr. Alderman Matthew Wood, and Alderman Scholey were named as friends of the Lord Mayor, and an appointment made to meet at the Guildhall, at a certain hour. My friends attended at the ap pointed time, and having been kept waiting for upwards of an hour were informed by the City Solicitor that the interview was declined. I regret the failure of that attempt at accommodation—the more because from what I have since learned, I am inclined to think that, if that meeting had taken place, the Court of Alderman would have seen reason to believe that I was not actuated by any feeling but a sense of duty in mak ing the return to the House of Lords which has been com plained of, and that although my opinions on that subject re main the same, nevertheless I regret that the return should have been worded in terms which the Court of Aldermen ap pear to have construed as to be personally offensive, and which was certainly not intended by me; while, on the other band, I am satisfied the friends of the Lord Mayor must have admitted that the language used towards me in the Court of Aldermen, and which I conceived was intended to be sanc tioned by the observations of the Lord Mayor, added to the manner in which my first letter to him was treated, and his repeated refusal to give . any answer to it, could not be justi fied, and was calculated to rouse the indignation of any ho nourable mind. _ _ _ " If the proposed meeting had taken place, and any friend of the Lord Mayor had said on his part that which he subse quently swore himself on making his application to the Court of King's Bench—namely, That in making the observations he did in the Court of Aldermen, he was wholly uninfluenced by any personal or vindictive feeling towards me,' it would have terminated the affair ; but the refusal on the part of the Lord Mayor to see my friends after the agreement made for such meeting, put all further attempts at accommodation out of my power, and left me no alternative but to show cause against the Rule which had been obtained 3 Having done this it was not my intention to be the means of introducing the matter farther before the public, and I therefore allowed judg ment to go by default, in which position the affair at present stands. " With reference to my first letter to the Lord Mayor, I must ever feel that the usages of gentlemanly society required that I should give him an opportunity of saying whether he had used the offensive expressions or not before I observed upon them at Clerkenwell, anci the said usages led me to an ticipate that that letter would have been answered. It will be in the recollection of every one, that a precisely similar course was • pursued quite lately, even by a Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, as such, a Judge of one of the Courts of Westminster Hall—Sir Robert Peel, to an Ecclesiastical Judge, Dr. Lushington. The latter replied by letter in the case I am alluding to, and in words very similar to those sworn by the Lord Mayor in the Court of King's Bench in my case. This reply put an end to the matter, as it would of course, if a similar line of conduct had been pursued by the Lord Mayor. Sincerely do I regret that it was not, since the adoption by him of a different course induted me, in a moment of irritation, to do that which, however we are accustomed to consider it sanctioned by the usages of society, cannot be justified by law, and makes it inconsistent with my own feelings of propriety to hold that prominent station in the Magistracy of the County which I now fill, while subject to the judgment of the Court of King's Bench. " I have considered it due equally to my brother Magis trates and myself, to offer this full explanation of my conduct, and the motives and feelings by which it has been influenced, and in taking leave of the Chair, have much pleasure in avail ing myself of the opportunity to acknowledge the great ad vantages I have always derived in the discharge of my ardu ous public duties from your very able and, zealous assistance, while I have not failed to mark the many acts of liberality and benevolence which those suitors of the Court whose ne; cessities plead for them are constantly receiving from you. " I am, Dear Sir, " Yours very faithfully, " J. P. Allen, Esq. - " BENJ. ROTCH." The reading of the above was listened to with profound attention, and nearly all the . Magistrates, including those more generally opposed to Mr. Rotch, expressed their ad miration of his conduct as Chairman, and his honourable bearing in the late transaction. They also lamented his retirement, and some conversation took place on this head, when it was eventually carried upon motion unanimously, that the letter should be received, and the tender of resig nation be considered at the next Court. _ _ _ Mr. PYLER, in a long speech, moved that 3001. be al lowed out of the county-rate for erecting a mill in the House of Correction, to be worked by the prisoners, to grind flour to make bread for the inmates. A MAGISTRATE—A bread-mill instead of a tread-mill. After a protracted discussion there appeared an equal number of votes, when the Chairman gave his casting vote in favour of the motion, and it was carried. Sir PETER LAURIE instantly gave notice of motion to rescind the vote at the next session. The prisons were declared all well, and the number of prisoners much below the usual average. EDMUND HALSWELL, Esq., moved " That at every Quarter Sessions four of the Visiting Justices for the pri sons shall go out ; 'such Visiting Justices to be selected from those who have attended the fewest times during the pre ceding quarter ; and that in future there be added to the Reports of all Committees the number of attendances of each member."—Agreed to. Report of the Committee appointed to form a rota for the attendance of those Justices who consented to have their names placed on the list for the year 1836.—Re ceived and agreed to. The County Treasurer laid before the Court for exa mination the returns required by Lord John Russell's letter of the 12th of October last, as to the expenses of criminal prosecutions and the conveyance of prisoners sentenced to transportation, between the Ist of July and 30th of Sep tember last.—Received, agreed to, and the Clerk of the Peace to return an answer to Lord John Russell. A memorial of the Vestry of St. Pancras, complaining of Mr. James Bradshaw, High Constable of Holborn Di vision, in the execution of some warrants, was ordered to -tic on the table, the Court ruling they had no jurisdiction in the case. The usual passing of accounts and routine business having been disposed of the Court, adjourned at five o'clock. ROBBERY.—On Wednesday a number of cattle dealers from this part of the country slept at Bender, an Inn near Wooler, in returning from the Morpeth market of that day. Among the rest was a person of the name of Andrew Rutherford, a jobber, living in or near Dunse, who had a sum of money in his possession amounting to upwards of 300!. On retiring to bed, which he shared with another man, of the name of Laidlaw, a salesman, he put his vest, in the pocket of which was his pocket-book containing the money, under his pillow—his companion depositing his money under the bed on which they were sleeping. A third person occupied another bed in the same room. On arising next morning, Rutherf or d di sc overed that his waistcoat and money had been removed during the night from below his pillow. The waistcoat was found lying on the floor of the room in which he had slept, but the pocket-book and money were gone. After a short search, his pocket-bOok was dis , covered lying on the road immediately under the window of his bed-room, with all the money taken out of it except eleven .5/. notes. During the following day, the circum stances attending this daring act of robbery underwent a strict judicial investigation, and Laidlaw, the bed-fellow of Rutherford, perceiving that be could not expect to escape detection, acknowledged himself to be the thief. In the course of Friday Laidlaw was removed to Morpcth gaol, there to await his trial for the Offence.—lfeho Mail, of Monday' LITERARY ASSIGNMENTS. We yesterday gave a short account of a sale of a collection of Autographs by Evans : of on Tuesday, which produced much to interest the antiquarian and historian. We now subjoin some further particulars. Among those Autographs were the original assignments of literary property from their respective authors to the Dodsleys, which elicited, for the fiist time, the names of the writers of several works published anonymously, but now of established repute. Jan. 16, 1740-41, William Whithead received ten guineas i❑ full for a poem entitled, The Dangers of Writing Verse. William Guthrie, the historian, agreed to translate Riccioboni on the Theatres, Index, and all complete, for 101. 16s. Dr. Edward Young received, Nov. 24, 1753, fifty guineas, which, with 110 guineas before, was in full for the five first parts, or nights, of a poem en titled Night Thoughts. For the sixth,. called The Infidel i'eclaitned, the author received, Jan. 26, 1744-5, fifty guineas ; and on Feb. 10, 1755, he assigned his Centaur' not Fabulous, with the plate used as a frontespiece, for 2001., which Dodsley was to pay six months after date. John Wesley, the founder of the .Methodists, ac knov.dedged to having pirated the copy-right of some portions of the Night Thoughts, and some produc tions of Mrs. Rowe, in his Collection of Ppeji l , and made restitution by agreeing to pay 501., Feb. 8, 1744. Nov. 25,•1748, Dr. Johnson assigned his. transla tion of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal for' fifty guineas, the author reserving to himself the right of printing,an addition. This document produced -seven guineas. Dr. Johnson's Autograph Account of his Tour in France, presented to his biographer, James Boswell, the elder, by Malone, July 21, 1787, sold for 201. ; it was purchased at the sale of the library of James Boswell, the younger, for ten guineas, a few years since. Robert Patlock, of Clement's-inn, assigned the manuscript of the Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornishman, to Dodslcy, Jan. 11, 1749, for twenty guineas, twelve copies, and the cuts (or coppers used for the plates) of the first impression. The author of this work is now, for the first time, discovered. Thomas Warton, Jan. 21, 1752, agreed to trans late the ..krgOnautics of Appollonius Rhodius for 801; and at a subsequent date, his brother, Dr. Joseph Warton, assigned his ESsay' on the Life and Writings of Pope,- in two volumes, octavo, for 2001. Colley Cibber, assigned his Apology, March 24, 1749-50, for fifty guineas. Susanna Cibber, April 1, - 1752, the Comedy of the Oracle, in one act, for thirty guineas; and Mrs. Kitty Clive, March 24, 175, her Rehearsal or Boys in Petticoats, for twenty guineas. John Collet, the artist, whose humerous produc . . tions are usually assigned to the inimitable Hogarth, assigned his work entitled Chit Chat, Nov. 6, 1745, for twenty guineas. William Melmoth, April ..30, 1755, for his Trans lation of Cicero's Familiar Letters, 6001; and for the thinner volume entitled La3llus, _lOO/. Hampton, this year, received for his translation of Polybius, two hundred and fifty guineas. Mason, the biographer of Gray, has asserted that the poet never received any 'emolument for his writings,. but this is false,;„ Gray, June 29, 1757, assigned his two odes, the Power of Poetry and the Bard for forty guineas, reserving the right to reprint them in any edition of his workS. This document produced eight guineas. A• receipt for six guineas for Burke's first published production; excited much notice ; it professed to be for the use of the author of Natural Society Vindicated, and was written in Lord Bolingbroke's style, to evince his aptitude at the manner, deemed difficult, of that illustrious statesman. Only five hundred were to be printed of the first edition ; if it reached a second, the author was to receive six guineas more. A point frequently controverted, as Burke had himself omitted it in the collection of his works, was here set at rest. Burke assigned his History of the European settlements in America, to Dodsley, Jan. 5, 1757. This was, with many of the more choice ar ticles, purchased by- - Mr. Wilks, -the • - Member for Boston. Burke, April 24, 1758, contracted with Dodsley, to write the Annual Register, or .a Retrospect of Men and Things, in the manner of Millar's Kaleudar, in octavo, each volume for every year not to contain less than thirty sheks, nor more than thirty-four, for 100/. per volume, and to have all books and pamphlets found him : Dodsley, if dissatisfied, was to give three months' notice. This document produced six guineas. There was also a receipt in full, for fifty guineas to Burke; for the volume for 1762, when probably he ceased to write for the work. The Annual Register was con ducted by Thomas English, for Dodsley, from 1768, onwards, and the receipts show that be received 140/. for each year. As a unique in literature was Burke's receipt, dated May 26, 1791, for 1,000/., the profits of his Reflec tions on the Revolution in France, published as a ss. volume. No author ever received so much on the sale of any work ! Walker King received also 3001., Nov. 25, 1791, for the copyright of Burke's Letter to:a Member of the . National Assembly ; and his Appeal from the --New to the Old Whigs, on his secession from Fox's party. There were several autographs -of Bishop Percy, and it is surprising that Dodsley, who had given such large sums for works of an inferior character, Or not at all_ comparable for extent, should have ob tained the first edition of Percy's Ancient. English Ballads, in three, volumes, for one, hundred guineas. The original agreement, dated May 22, 1761, stated the sum as the remuneration - for three volumes in duodecimo, " to contain all I shall ever print of this work." It appears, however, that only two volumes were then ready, for these he was to have 70/. ; and if a third volume was afterwards completed, the purehast , , money for that volume was to be 35/. ; " and in case any accident should prevent my compleating the said work, after I have received any part of the aforesaid sum, I hereby declare that my folio manuscript, from which most of the said ballads are extracted, does in that case become the property. of the said J. Dodsley, or his executors, to indemnify him for such disburse meiit." March 25, 1763, Percy received 100/. 3s. 101 d. in part of the one hundred guineas for the copy right of the Ancient Songs and Ballads ; and on March 26, 1765, 4/. 15s. 12d., the residue, in completion of the above contract. Percy received, June 10, 1761, 501. in full for his Chinese History, entitled HankiOn Choaan ; on the same day, ten guineas, for his Chinese Proverbs, Chinese Poetry, and Argument of the Chinese Play; and ten guineas for the first impression of his version of Solomon's Song. March 25, 1763, he received ten guineas, as a first payment for his Runic Poetry ; and on the same day, twenty guineas for his Miscel laneous Pieces relating to the Chinese, in two volumes duodecimo, contracted for May 23, 1761. - In 1775 Percy's Reliques reached a third edition ; and March 7, in that year, Dodsley agreed to pay him 401. at the end of five years, from the time Percy should complete the work at press, and Dodsley deliver up to Percy, as his property, all the plates belonging to•it, for allowing the publisher to print off 500 copies above the thousand formerly agreed for. Percy not to re-publish the work till all the 1,500 capies'were sold. Dodsley also waived the original restriction, that Percy was not to compile or print a fourth volume. Nov. 'l9, 1760. Dodsley paid Sterile for the first two volumes of his Tristram Shandy, and the first two volumes of the Sermons'of Mr. Yorick, 4501. An astonishing sum, when it is recollected that Sterne proffered the first volume of Tristram Shandy for 501. On the same day Dodsley contracted to pay Sterne, six months after the work was completed at press, 3801. for the third and fourth volumes. These two documents produced seven guineas. There was also a curious letter of J. Hall Stevenson, Sterne's Euge: nius, author of Crazy Tales, proffering to Dodsley the second part of his Fables gratis, as he had formerly given the first. Oct. 31, 1764. • Goldsmith, then residing at cham bers in the Inner Temple, on the Library staircase, assigned to Dods!ey and Newberry, 11i OfatPrio of. OP Captivity, for tyn uiuets, Thi s A rama I,oli:wined unpublished till a foul, copy in Mr. Heber 's library was • forwarded to Washington Irving, ; for his Paris edition of the poet's works. The present was a clear transcript, and evinced in almost every line the sedu l‘ous care of Goldsmith's amendments. The maim script produced 251. 103. March 31, 1763, contracted with Dodsley to write a Chronological History of the Lives of Eminent Per sons of Great Britain and Ireland, in octavo volumes, Co range with the' Universal History, each volume to comprise thirty-five sheets, at three guineas per sheet. Goldsmith this year resided at Canonbury - Tower, Islington, perhaps for seclusion, to compile this work, - whieh from some cause was abandoned. This con tract produced 71. 10s. In 1774, Goldsmith received tire guineas for improving the second edition of his Essay on Polite Learning, and for prefixing his name to the same ; a receipt of three lines in Goldsmith's Auto,.,oraph, and sold for 0/. ss. Aug. 4, 1764. Chr. Smart. received for his Trans lation of Phadras, ten guineas. Nov. 7, 1766, Tho mas Sheridan, for his Lectures on Elocution, forty . guineas. Horace Walpole, afterwards Lord Orford, Jan. 23, 1768, for . his Historic Doubts respecting Richard the Third, 100/., and the Rev. Jos. Spence, whom Walpole ::designated " a neat silver penny in literature," . received for his celebrated Polvirugis 2001. Charlotte Lenox received Feb. 1'74, for her Translation of Mad. La Valiere's Meditations, 25/. Dr. John Berkenhout, Sept. 26, 1776, for the first volume of his Biographia Literaria, in quarto, 2001. ; and in the following year, Soame Jenyns, for his puerile work, entitled Evidence: of Christianity, received the enormous sum of 250/. Jan. 2, 1779, Rev. Richard Graves, of Claverton, received for his translation of Coltimella, 201.; and for The Sorrows of Werter, the author of which has not till now been discovered, he received, June 20, 1780, 401. • Dodslev's note adds, that though this sum was in full, yet Air. Graves afterwards received as much more as made it 2001. Isaac Reed was the compiler of the four volumes of Poems known as Pearch's Collection ; Pearch being the publisher, the copy-right was afterwards assigned to Dodsley. Reed, April 1, 1780, -received the last portion of 1001., for which he contracted and completed the editing of the twelve volumes of Old Plays, pub lished in that' year. And on Nov. 13, in the following year, Dodsley paid him 50/., for his notes to Robert Dodslev's Collection' of Poems, which were then re published. Sept. 8, 1782, Reed received twenty gui neas, for re-editing Pearch'sCollection. Joseph Gilbert Cooper received for his Letters con cerning Taste, 201. -in books, &c. Blackwell, for the first two volumes of his Court of Augustus, quarto, 500/. Professor Duncan agreed for a' Translation of Plutarch's Lives, for GOO/. Chr. Anstey, for his New Bath Guide, a humourous poem, 250/. ; and C. Horne, July 4, 1791, for his Chronological Abridgment of the History of England, a single vo lume octavo, 1501. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. No change in the odds. CRAVEN MEETING, 1836. TIMASDAY. Acceptances for the Newmarket Free Handicaps:— Sweepstakes of 50 sovs., h. ft. D.M. Alfred, 7st. 121 b; Calmuck, 7st. 51b; Elfrid filly, 6st. 1211 i. SPIRIT OF Tilt PUBLIC The elections of the new Town Councils or the Incorporated Towns of England and Wales will take place to-morrow, all the preliminary arrangements di.. rested by the Municipal Reform Act being now per fected. The electoral body havi ng been ascertainedin every borou g h, and it s division into separate ward constituencies completed, it now only remains td - 'the electors to use their , power honestly and wisely,r*:,ted ao ii ns t do not doubt that, i n the great majority o f i nStan - community by they will disprove th e b ase ca l umn i es the middle and hu m bl er c l asses o f the Tories, who repre sen t " Ten 7 :- ourn i crs ” an d the Municipal Constituencies as the canaille of society, For several weeks the 'lust active local preparations for the exercise Or_ 'their new and invaluable trust have been l'''_eorded in the Provincial Press. We do not doubt the result. ilowever defective the na ture of a first legislative measure of " organic charige,"and, notwithstanding, many ward divisions may have been partial, or may ; from accidental circum stances, contain limited numbers of electors, We have full confidence that, the Act of Municipal Reform will Completely emancipate the incorporated towns from aristocratic domination, and the sinister rule of the Self-Elect. Doubtless,' in some cities and bo roughs, the Reformers will not obtain, at the first election, a predoMinance in the Town Councils of municipal representatives professing liberal political principles ; but in all the towns they must carry a oonsikrable - portion of the governing body, and in likewise, they will in effect secure every desired municipal object of Corporate Reform. We have too often exposed the scandalous abuses of the ex piring system to render it necessary for us to supply any further illustration of Corporate abuses. One sample more, however, we must give—by which it appears that the members of the notorious Corpora tion of Leicester are resolved to perish as they have lived—distinguished above all their compeers for mu nicipal misgovernment. We have recently seen in a Provincial Journal the intimation, that an east country Corporation has expended all its remaining borough funds in services - of plate for its retiring mem bers. We have heard of the removing of plate, of the carting away the contents of wine-cellars, and of the carrying off by night the portraits of Noble Recorders and Tory Premiers, previous to the surrender of the Town Halls ; and that a corporator of Ludlow has openly boasted at a public dinner that the borough chest will be found empty by its new Town Council. But Lei cester--Leicester, with the incomparable Town Clerk, Thomas Burbidge, puts all other places to the blush— if the following local hand-bill circulated in that Cor poration-ridden borough on Wednesday last is entitled to credit, which we•are assured it is :-- 46 TRANSACTIONS or THE OLD CORPORATION AT A COM- MON HALL HELD YESTERDAY, DEC. 99. " The attention of the burgesses under the new Muni cipal Act is earnestly requested to the following statement, the correctness of which niLy be fully relied on _"At a Common-hall, held at the Town-hall, yesterday, the following sums were voted out of the town purse : To Mr. Alderman Firrnadge, a piece of plate, value guineas To Mr. Alderman James Rawson, a piece of plate, value To Mr. Thomas Burbidge, town-clerk, a piece of plate, - value To Richard Rawson, Esq., mayor, a year's additional salary To Mr. John Hester, mace-bearer, per year, for his life (present salary)' To Mr. William Parsons, steward and surveyor, per year, for his life (present salary) To all the 'Town Servants, per year each, for their lives " Electors ! The above transactions have taken place in the immediate prospect of an election, which is either to confirm them,. or to render them unavailing. They have taken place, as if to try bow. far the servility of supporters can be commanded, or the indignation of opponents braved ; as if to try, - in short, how Isar the public feeling of the in habitants of Leicester can be insulted with impunity. " Electors! • There are two parties anxiously soliciting your suffrages for Members for the new Council. By one of these parties corporation property is held to be public property, intended for the benefit of the town at large, to alleviate the pressure of the public expenditure, or to con tribute to the pubic advantage and improvement. " If this party form a majority of the new Council, they will endeavour to regain for you the money thus voted away without your consent, and exercise a severe scrutiny into all similar transactions. " By the oppcsing party, corporate property is consi dered as belonging, - not to the inhabitants of the town, but to the self-elected body, who claim it as theirs, and who assert that they have a right ' to do as they will with their own.' " Electors! From one or other of these parties you must choose those who are -to represent you in the new Council. Besides the money voted away yesterday, large sales qf land and real eroperty have very recently been made, on the validity and expediency of which the first Council will have to decide. - " Depend upon it the balance of the town account will l!;,! wonderfully affected by the balance of poWer in the Town Council, and Cant a. majority of even one on the wrong side will cot vou dear. " The first Council will have to decide on the salaries to be given to all the public functionaries ; and the amount of compensation to be made to such as may be dis Missed, or retire.- " Whatever compensation is awarded by the Council, you will have to pay in the shape of borougl.rates. Re member whit those rates have been. Recollect that but fbr the interference of a public spirited individual you would at this time be paying an unnecessary borough-rate, though there are two quarters still in hand. Take,care of yourselves, therefore, while the power is yet in your - hands ; and remember, that no future Council can recal the'money which the first may vote away " Leices&r, Dec. 23. “. A BURGESS.” This is indeed the " ruling passion strong in death." With this curious document there was sent us a lithographed copy of the Treasury Minute, which the Town Clerks it appears have circulated among their. caste as the standard of their com pensation if displaced from office, and which we publish in another column. By this Minute it appears that . the Lerds of the Treasury have effectually, secured the Tories against all acts of depredation subsequent to the passing of the Corpora tion Bill, by fixing the principle according to which the compensations are 'to be calculated, namely, an avetage offive years' emoluments. The stolen pro perty, therefore, under this Minute, and the Clauses of the Act (which subject such proceedings to revision and repeal) will be of no avail to the cunning Corpo rators and their ingenious officers. TO-morrow will be their day of humiliation and sack-cloth and ashes. The most respectable and trustworthy of the old class of Corporators throughout England and Wales will be re-instated in power, with better company, and under the restraint of responsibility and security. On the eve" of this great .Municipal Reforma tion, we will now only call the particular attention of the Liberals to the :32d section of the Act, which directs the mode of voting. No speccific form for the Voting Paper appears to be provided by the Act, but the directions in that section must be strictly ob observed. Every Elector must see that " the Chris tian and surnames and respective places of abode and description" of the Candidates he votes for are cor reedy written or printed on one Voting Paper : each Elector must sign his own na me (at full for safety) a t the foot of the Voting Paper, and to his name must be added " the name of the street, lane, or other place, in which the property ,for which he appears to be rated on the burgess-roll is situated." These are the essentials to a legal vote in favour of candidates for the office. of Town Councillor ; and the voting. papers must be delivered to the presiding officers, who, under the directions of the Act, are authorised to ta';•e the poll. So much for the business of to-mczrow (Saturday). 'We shall hereafter detail the immediate duties of the Town Councils—what they can do, and what undo. They must turn over a new leaf with the new year.—Morning Chronicle. Having been appropriately engaged at • this festive season in dissecting Lord John Russell's declaration touching the acknowledged duty and determination of Government ic to uphold the Church Establishment in Scotland," we must still insist on - doing ourselves the pleasure of helping his Lordship to a little more on the same subject. To what exte n t O'Connell coerced the Home-office to acer;: v e t h e General Assembly's deputation * first, -by •promising that none but impar , tigi and exp-- n should be put on the coin 'll4sin-. of inquiry,• and then by nominating as the ► of -oy••• of a •pliant majority • h working members there : teiiced m 6 FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1836. MONDAY. TUESDAY. Sweepstakes of 100 sots. h. ft. T.M.M. Uncle Toby, Bst; Rioter, 7st. - 61d ; Amesbury, 7st. llb ; Nell Gwynnc, 6st. 111 b. In the course of the present year an immense number, of race horses have been sent to France, Germany, and America, by Messrs. Tattersall : so many, indeed, that if the purchasers con tinue so particular as they have hitherto been, they will find it dif ficult to supply themselves. In our next we shall be enabled to giie a list of the horses exported. COURSING. WORKINGTON ANNUAL MEETING. This meeting commenced on Tuesday at 'the Flag-staff, near Harrington, on the estate of Henry Curwen, Esq., of Workington Hall, and was very numerous, both horsemen and pedestrians mus tering strong. Hares were plentiful, and notwithstanding a pretty sharp frost, the sport was good, and. few hares escaped. As the competition for the Cup is the ycir more open, th subscribers being at liberty to run any dogs whatever, no matter whether bona tide their own or not, and as several known good dogs were entered, good sport was expected, nor was the expectation disappointed. First Tics. Mr. Knubley's Flash beat Mr. Dickinson's Captain Ross. Mr. Salkeld's Hector beat Mr. Johnston's Scotia. Mr. Jefferson's Snowball beat Mr. Christian's Unerigg. Mr. Heywood's Sparkler beat Mr. Rogers's Countess. Mr. Harris's Bravo beat Mr. Brown's Syntax. Mr. Jefferson's Glory beat Mr. Falcon's Dement. Mr. Borradaile's Gordon beat Mr. Dickson's Marquis. Mr. Benn's Sherwsod beat Mr. Thomikon's Preserve.. Second Ties.- Flash beat Hector, Sparkler beat Snowball, Glory beat Bravo, and Gordon beat Sherwood, Sparkler the favourite. Johnston, slipper ; HudSon Tryer. Sweepstakes. Mraghris!ian's Touchstone beat Mr. W.*llo , ters's Tinker. Mr. Jefferson's Grace beat Mr. Johnston's Boss. Touchstone beat Grace, and won the stakes. The meeting of Wednesday decided the fate of the Cup, and also several sweepstakes and mathes. TIUN TIN G APPO IN LENTS.TA Mr. B. Fretweil's Hounds on Thursday at 13eckford Irn ; Satur day, at Swindon—at 11. majority of the farmers near Cheltenham say, that one pack of harriers is enough to hunt over their respective farms, and as Mr: Fretwell, through their wish ; hunted the country last season with general satisfaction; they give him leave to continue to do so, being the oldest sportsman in Glnueettershire. Mr. Fretwell begs to contradict the report of his having drawn any fox cover in the hunt, and has given his huntsman particular orders to stop the hounds it by accident they get upon the scent of a fox. The Slaley.,linunds on Saturday at Rowley Head—half-past 8. The Ilaydon Hounds on Saturday at Judas Crogg— at 9. The Morpeth Harriers on Saturday at Cotting Wood—at 10. Mr. H. Villebois's Harrierson Saturday, at Whittington Hill-11. 11r. Errington's Hounds on Saturday, at Rolleeton—qr. to 11. Mr. S. Owen' s Hounds on Saturday at Acton Burnell ; Monday, Dec. 23, at Loton Park ; Wednesday, at Plealey Village ; Friday, at Nesseliff—hf-p. 10. _ _ Sir R. Hill's Hounds on Saturday, at Twemlows—.half-past 10. Mr. Wicksted's Hounds on Saturday, at Stapleford Bridge-10. The Albrighton Hounds on Saturday at Somerford—ht-p.lO. Mr. Vyner s Hounds on Saturday at Stone Bridge—half -past 10. The Ludlow Hounds on Saturday at Wigmore Rolls-10. .Mr. Foljambe's Fox Hounds on Saturday at Shireoaks—hf-p 10. The Badsworth Fox Hounds on Saturday at Felkirk—hf-past 10. The Easton Hounds on Saturday at Docklow—at 10. The East Essex Hounds on. Saturday, at Mark's Hall—hf-p. 10. The BorOughbridgo Harriers on Friday at Great Ouscburn-10: 4%1r.-1-leanley's Hounds on Thursday at Thoresby Village-11. The Heythrop Hounds on Saturday at Ditchley—hf-past 10. The Essex and Suffolk Hounds on Saturday at Bradfield-street —half-past 10. ' The Somerset Hounds on Saturday at Crowcon Heathfield-10. The Burton Vale Hounds on Saturday at Pulham Cross Roads. Sir T. Stanley's Hounds on Tuesday at Brombro New Lodge-10. The Brookside Harriers on Mondays at Newmarket Hill ; Wed nesdays, at Lewes Race Course ; Fridays, at Tolscombe Tye—half past 10. The Brighton Harriers meet every Monday at Pateham ; Wed nesdays, at the Race Course; Fridays, at the Dyke. The Thanet Harriers meet on Monday at Monkton Sea Mark ; Wednesday, at Minster Mills ; Friday, at Nash Court Hill—at 10: The Knapton harriers on Saturday at Swafield—l 1. The Norfolk Fox Hounds on Monday, t2Sth, at 13risley Green ; Wednesday, at Rainham Hall ; Friday, Jan. 1, at Guist Post-office —hf-p. 10. Mr. Giles (Mathon and Colwall) intends hunting the Gloucester country on Thursdays; the home country he will hunt on Fridays, as usual, for the remainder of the season. The Sandbeck Hounds on Saturday, atStainton-Thalf-pastp. Mr. Morgan's Hounds on Saturday at 13assaleg Garth- a —at 11. The Llanblithian Harriers on Saturday at Broughton--at 10. The Cheltenham Harriers on Saturday at Cleeve Village-11. The Craven Harriers 'on Saturday at B roug ht on Fields-11. Mr. Codringt on's Hounds on Saturday at Grovely West End-10. The Eddlethorp Hounds on Saturdayat Castle Howard ln p. 10 The Hurworth Hounds on Saturdayat Mea.sham—at 10. The Sinnington Houndeon Saturday at Wrelton—at 9. The Tivyside Hounds on Saturday at (he Kennel—half-past 10. Sir J. Cope's Hounds 'on Saturday at Ewshot—half-past 10. The East Sussex Hounds on Monday at Horsted fond; Wednes day, at the King's Head, Chailey •, Thursday at Ashdown Common; Saturday, at Ditchling Common ; Montl.v, at Torton Top—qr. to 11. The Cheshire Hounds on Monday at Salterford Bridge ; Wednes day; at Tarporley Town End; Thursday, at Barr Bridge; Saturday, Jan. 2, at Bradfield Green—half-p. 10. The Puckeridge (Mr. Dalyell's) Fox Hounds en Monday at Wat ton—hal f-past 10. The Wynnstay Hounds on Monday at Brynkenal ; Friday, Jan. 1, at Alan Sadlcr's—at 11. Mr. Leche's Hounds on Tuesday at Shocklach The Herefordshire Hounds on - Tuesday at Dinedor Mill—at 10. Lord Sean rave's Hounds have returned to the Berkeley country. Mr. Portman's Hounds onMooday at Milton Abbey—at 11. The C. H. on Tuesday - at Ansford Park ; Friday, at East Hill ; Wednesday, the 6th, at North Barrows; Saturday, at Lye Comm on . The Mere Down Harriers on Tuesday at Keysley Penning— half-paA 10. The Langport Harriers on Monday at White Hill ; Friday, Jan. 1, at Path Bridge ; 31onday, at High Ham ; Friday, at Sandpits Hill—at 10. _ _ . ___• _ The Holdernesa Hounds on Monday at Woodhall ; Tuesday, at Deeringham ; Thursday, at Howard Winn; Saturday, atßrawing ham Thorpe-11. Lord Yarborough's Hounds on Monday at Kingerby WOod; Wednesday, at Thornton College ; Friday, at Redbourne House ; Saturday, at Hell Furze—at 11. Sir C. Constable's Stag Hounds on W e d nes d ay a t Ila4hata-11. The Cambridgeshire Hounds on Monday at White Hall; Friday, at Potton Wood—half-past 19. - Mr: Mure's • lioup3l4 QA . ) Paosday at Iliddlesworth Hall ; ThurS -44).t.; 10. 11,1 r, Mardi s Hounds an Monday at the Spread Eagle ; day, at Ednaston Lodge; Saturday, at Loxley Park—W:l4st ' W, Mr. A. Smlthe's Hounds on Mandl at cKWI.tO,OO,