The Sun. — London, England, 1848-12-13 00:00:00

;LOCK 23 /.i iy .. 27 Ditto Ilalvea, - 8 1 4... . . Ditto, Oswestry — Ditto ,New . COURSE OF EXCHANGE. ArasteiMam .......... 1 1 22 ) Z .., bit, iat sight ••• • 2 ( netter.Am .......... 12 2 tintwerp.............. 25 85 ,, 4 -Iton s ambi irgh .. mat. 13 12,5 4 , .. • 'Ewa. 3(1•a•y•s• •• • ';;lg — h • t •:. • 27 •` 72 % liTiobarsaritel)ll:4:()l.l.ti.s...: ••••• 222555 77777711 7 _ _ 121 X Berlia... Petertibur 4 Maine.... 34 k .-- la. 811. itble.. ~._Th .an a •a•ff••• .0 • —•• • • 11 h 4 'neat !, ditto . .. - :::::: Radii I ...... 11 4724 % C adiz ••• .. •••. • • • • 48% riarce Bona •••• • • " LL_ Do. 101. .. M. anal 1. (v;.) 9 D. 101. a. and ii. lam,) I •-• London an IS. We , itern.-.... 50 -• 1):.t.t.0. New Tit...—. 42 r: • • • Ditto. N 3 ; Do. Tenths (Conso!idate4) 'renthn (Consolidated) 1) Ditto, ...... .1:31. 63.8.1 Do., New S cr ip. 18-1 , 3, Pref. 7 per Ct. on Di‘p:).,it and 5 per Cr. on Cal 1.3 ....1/. 13g. 4a to 1.,,q010a, ti4.3bury, &Yeovil 1 , 4 Londonderry and Coleraine... 2 ei Londonderry and Enniskilion 274' 2 L -, Are..stott (guar. 4 per cent.) 20 .. to -- . to to ...-- Ditto (quar. I; per cent. ... 1.1 ...... Manch. Buxton. & Nlatlo(.11 4 '!.:i %, t ' ' Slanchr, Shell - jell, and Linc.100 Ditto 1 i Shares( No. 1) ... 1S Ditto, ditto (No. 2) Ditto, , 4 4 Sharer (No. !•1 )... 10 Do., New 10.. Preference.. 10 Ditto Grimsbv Ditto, ditto. .....-.. ......... 13 Ditto, ditto Ditto Sheffield and Liuc. 15 ...... Ditto, Grimsby . Dock Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41. 25.... Midland....... • ..... ...... .. ...lf )11 Ditto, Consol. Preference...100 Ditto, 501. Shares..... ...... 29 Midland. Birm., and Derby...JO° ... Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birminetam. 6 per cent.... 100 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 38 ... Ditto ditto IV. 185... - Midland, Leices. and Swan- tO nington (S per ct. gua.)....100 .... . Midld. Great Western (Irish) 45 11 iddlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar...... . .. , 50 Newcastle and Car Eel. lOO ...... Ditto Quarter Shares , .... 25 ..... Newmarket ........ . ......,. . 20 Ditto Extension Scrip... 2/ '2s. — Newport Abergy., and lieret. o Newry and Enniskillen ...... .. Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor ..... .........,.... 20 Norfolk' .• .•. Ditto New 201. Ditto Guaranteed 5 per et. 20 Do. Do. 51/, per cent Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Northern Counties Union ... 4 North British Ditto Half Shares .......... 12 1 4 — ~(~ .6 ii i , - Do. Quarters .. Ditto, Extension Ditto Thirds .... ....... ........ 814 North and South-Western... 2 North Staffordshire... North Wales North Western lO ..... .... to Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton ... . 50 Reading,Guildid., Sc Reigate 10 ...... Royston and Ilitchin ..... .. 2 ...... Scottish Central Scottish Midland . Ditt0,New......... Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole 7 l /2 ...... ...... to Do. do. , South Div.) 4 Shrewsbury and Birminglasm 9 ... - ' Ditto. - ditto, Clair B. 5 Ditto, New Guaranteed 6 Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 2 bhrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Ilin.) .. to ~ to .. to Ditto S per Cent. Pref....... 10 Shropshire Union. South Devon ... 5O .. .. Ditto, Preference South Stailordslare .. South Eastern Ditto, No. I. Ditto, No. 2...--- 22 to Ditto, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4. Thirds 10 South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ..... .... . 6 - to Taw Vale Extension Thames Haven Dock and Railway 1 7 14 — Vale of heath Waterford and Kilkenny 1 7 1 , 2...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. 47%..... Waterford, Wexford,Wicklw, _ and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... .... 50 ...... Do. do. do. Do. do. do. ...... .. 10 ... West Cornwall West London Ditto, First Class Ditto, Second Class 2O ...... ...... to Whitehaven and Furness l4 ... .. ..... to Windsor, Staines, and South Western...... Wilts, Somerset,&Weymouth 40 ...... .. to York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 Do. Exley. No. 1 (Y. &N.) 15 Do. do. No. 2, New SL,B. 15 Do. G. N. E.Tur. or Pref. 8 York and Nortit'Midland .. 50 ...... 504 to Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Attstrian Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... OA to Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) ... ' to Ceylon ........ /2 Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. ..... Dutch Rhenish .•..•. 7 1 4 — East Indian Great Indian Peninsular l4 Louvain :1 la Sambre ~.. ..... 7% — to Luxembourg ....„ 14 to Ditto Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege ...... 20 ...... Northern ot France l2 Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 7 2 to Paris and Lyons Do. Do. Paris and Orleans... Paris and Rouen Paris & Strasbour; ..... 9 --- to Rouen and I.lavre Sambre 'and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 Tours eNantes ... .......... 9 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt ... .. 2O ...... ...... to West Flanders B 3/ — to JOINT STOCK RAN KS. Australasia • - Britith North American .... 59 Coloni a l .... .. .. ..... ortarnercial or London .• ,( ;'oodon Joint Stock ~... ..... 10 Woudon and Westminster. .. 20 ...National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, New .... ...... itional ot Ireland - . P rovincial of Ireland ... 25 Ditto, Nev: union. of Australia Ditto, New 2% Union of London .. 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Piexican lOO •••••• Asturian Dinning Company... 14 ...... lust ralian - to Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 Bolin tos Scrio Britith Iron . l2 Brazil ran Imparial ...,. .. ... 241,ci Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 Ditto Copper Cobre Ileneral Mining ......... eal del Monte. Unrealstered ... .. D. Black Debentures — . Red Debentures .. Santivro de Cuba. .... - t • '' 111 te d Mexican ....... 28% 3 14... .. to .„ Errstum in yesterday's List—read, York, Newcastle, and - " e rwi , :.,k 26, instead ot Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth. Gibraltar.. • • .......... Leghorn • ... • 32 0 Genoa ................ 26 20 Venice.... _ Naples 40 l'alerino, perm.— ..„ 1174 Messina ' 52 Oporto.• .. • • _ 52 ttlo Janeiro Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days'sight Philadelphia •• OF BULLION, PEE 011 Foreign Gold in bars...X3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars • • • • 0 4 Silver in bars •• 0 4 11% -,t[ YD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 13.—Wind S., light pleasant breeze and fine clear weather. Dt wr., DEC. 1 9 .—Wind S.W. by W. to , arrd.. J ane Catherine, Hewett, Sydney. New South `Pales` Honduras, Cayzer, ditto; W. and M. Brown, ius, New 33ain';on, Ceylon; John Willia, Nagg, Demerara; Sin, York, and sld. for Gorthenburg. Arrd . from the River, Mary Catherine, Warner, New Zealand, J a t ir Q u e"n. Doyle Al•ioa Bay; Perthshire, Tait, St. - "Ws. New Brun swick; 'Mary Ann Henderson, Evans, Jam aica. Arrd.,from the rive: and ald.Rarnilies, NPLeatt, Adelaide, S outh Australia. Sid. Beulah, ditto; Sydney, Nevt• So ut h Wales; Midlothian, ditto; Taglioni, Lady Fl ora, Cane and Madras; Greyhound, Hutchison, BCeylon wn; Blanch e , Abrahams, Demerara; Christiana, ro, Ne w Y or k ; Alexander. Walker, Baltimore, put bacdc; Midlothian, Sydtuy, N, , w South Wales. 11. Tb.e Brothers, Baxter, CeYlon, which was on shore 3es ter day on the Main near Walther Castle, sustained no ap parent damage. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 12.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Jealous, Wilson, Port Adelaide; Black Prince, M‘Phearson, Cal cutta; Isabella Harnett, Cockcroft, ditto; Mary, Rio 13 ento ; aYPO, Mitchel!, Bonny; Dumbarto n , P en dl e t on , Nr.w Orleans ; John Ravi..rell, Wernhemie, Chatloston; W am Horati o , B ruce, Newfoundland. Sld. Enter. P rise, Singapore; Ma r aiso; B ess y, Af r i ca; Chi m borag e , Valpa , Gra:A, Buenos Ayres; Mars, ditto; Luck now, Demerara; Berhice, B...r;,i ce; Maria in Gracia, Havan nah ; Brazil P ac k et, La Guayra; Royal Exchange, Vera 'Cruz; pastow, ditto; Express, New Orleans ; Margaret, ditto ; Cltnpostor, Mobil e; I saac Allerton. ditto; Europe, Char.eston; Jane H ammond, St. John ' s, New Bruns ick ; Dusty Miller, Beyreut; Gem, ditto. Put back, 12, C eylon, for Jamaica. ttlier ares Liner oted pre ' the ) that tango Upon iney, com yoodg 5 ports, f the Table 'port. :cited large vhich liked the lected ,onse bold n 881 3 pre ls are Deed. 3 22/ dutch nd at 87% 8714 CIL THE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1848, criticisms on the works referred to in the eatologue, which were of the most flattering nature. Nay more, on the title-page appeared these lines from Shalt§peare, which showed the motives by which the defendant was aetultel— " your deserts speak loud; and I should wrong it Ti lock it in the wants of covert bosom, When it deserves, in characters of brass, A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razuro of oblivion." Nay more, early proof copies of the catologue were sent, in the first instance, to the Queen, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, and other members of the Royal Family. Then at the bottom of the page it was stated that each purchaser of the catalogue will be presented (by permission) with a fac-simile of the autograph of either her Majesty or of the Prince Consort, engraved from the original,.the selection being left to the pur chaser." "By permission"—let th e Court bear that in mind. His HONOUR inquired what the statement with respect to the signature met.nt ? _. Mr. WARREN replied that it related to an ordinary signature of the Queen or the Prince. When Mr. Strange was first applied to on the matter, he offered to give the whole of the catalogues up, intimating, at the same time, that unless he did so entirely, without preju dice, he should be prepared to contest his right. After some further observations, the Learned Counsel concluded by expressing an earnest hope that his Honour would decide the matter as if it were a mere ordinary question of law between two of the humblest persons in the realm. He wished to add that by the Act passed at the marriage of the Queen, the Prince could not possess any property which might be acquired by the Queen. Mr. J. SYDNEY SMITH followed on the same side, and contended that Mr. Strange had fully and satisfac torily replied to the bill, and that he ought not to be kept longer before the Court. The position of Mr. Judge, as a gentleman, destroyed any suspicion that might be entertained that he obtained the etchings in an improper manner. His HoNouß—What is his position ? I have not heard it stated. What is it? Mr. SMITH—He is an author. He writes for the news papers. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—He was formerly editor of a Cheltenham paper. ( The case was proceeding when our report left) SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.) IN RE EITWELL, BART., AND OTHERS V. HALL. This was an action to recover the value of timber sold by the plaintiffs, the trustees of certain estates in the county of Salop. The defendant did not plead, and it was shown that he had agreed to purchase and fell the timber at ls. per foot. The value amounted to 5171. 18s., but as defendant was to have credit for one half till January next, the jury only gave a verdict for one half the above amount. TAYLOR V. JENKINS. The plaintiff in the action is i an advertising agent, i n Nicholas-lane, and defendant s a licensed v i c t ua ll er i n the Commercial-road, and it was sought to recover 5/. ss. for writi n g a paragraph, and causing it to b e in serted in a newspaper, respecting an invention of a pa tent windlass, it being contended that defendant was a promoter of a company to carry out the patent. Tho case was likely to last all the afternoon. CLERKEN WELL.-(THIS DAY.) Thomas Larkin and Robert Mitchell, the former a butcher and skin-dealer, living in Cow-cross, Smithfield, and the latter a jeweller, residing in the same locality, were charged before Mr. Combo with stealing six hundred bladders, of the value of 161., the property of Richard Hargreaves, of Grennell's-rents, Cow-cross, bladder and skin-dealer. _ _ It appeared that on Sunday night the prosecutor, on going into the part of the premises where the bladders were stored, observed that the lot of bladders in ques tion, and a great quantity of other property, had been removed within the previous hour. He went to the prisoner Larkin, who lived close by, and was frequently on his premises, and communicated to him his loss, when they agreed to go to gether next day to all the lard manufacturers they knew of, in search of the bladders, which were the most readily disposed-of parcel in the stolen property. They did so, and in consequence of their description of the bladders, three of which were so remarkable that they could be identified on oath, William Pultin, of Hollywell lane, Shoreditch, a poulterer, and one of his men, were detained yesterday, and given into custody by Mr. Fitt, of Suffolk street, Hackney-road, an exten sive lard manufacturer, to whom they offered the blad ders for sale, and who recognised them by the dvserip tion he had received. Pultin immediately stated that he had bought them on Monday from Mitchell, who was well known to him, and the latter was sought after. In thecourse of the evening Mr. Farey, of the Ram Inn, Smithfield, met Mitchell, and gave him into custody. Mitchell stated that the property was given to him to dispose of by a person whose name he did not know, but who lived somewhere about Cow-cross. However, he gave such a description of the unknown as caused suspicion to fall upon Larkin, and he was arrested. However, the other prisoner did not pretend to recognise him, and he for his part disclaimed all knowledge of Mitchell. It ap peared also that he had accompanied Hargreaves to the lard dealers, and that he even took him to Mr. Fitt's, where the bladders were subsequently stopped. He re ceived also a good character from friends of the prose cutor who were in court, and he was discharged. Mitchell was remanded to Monday. Tk.:NBY, Drc. 11. The Acorn. George, from Cardiff 1 ,, .s aasislo.l into Card:if hoods this 01,37-ri,tq A, and with loi:;• 51114. DEc. 11 .0.)E(2. 12.—Wind S.—Arrd. snn, N,rwloundland. Sid. Pcckingham, Adelaide, South —Orion, - _%1" ,- Kr, More; 12, Prince .F.II,MOTITH, DEC.I 2._ofr onrt, Conqueror. Ana'fsstura. (;LoT.TeEsTER, DEc. 1°.2.-....!Viad S. W.—Sld. Mea!tins, tVomt Indies. _ . _ MILFORD, DEC. 11 . Wind S. W.—Arrd. Ellen, P,rnarnhtioo, for Loncl , n. SourFaAmPToN, DEc. 12. llQrmann (s.), New York-. POUTS3I g.:711, DEC. 12.—Wind W. to S.W.—Sld. sew York. !)Ec, I I.—The Sarah Jackson. Byard, .NeN York, lying here, torts fire last night, when the cable :old crossbeams wera nau , di injured, and the mil-nom:vs were obliged to be cut away. %V :HT MAVEN; DEC. 11.—The Osprey, Phillip, which was driven on shore near this port, on the sth last lot, has got off, and has been brought into harbour, making but little water. BowmottE, IstAY, DEC. B.—The John and Eliza, of fr,mti Glasgow, in leavimr, Lochindaul, on the sth inqant, struck on the Island of Oversey, carried away her rudder, and afterwards sunk in deep water; crew saved. _ _ _ MILFORD, DEC. 11.—About 1,600 deals, in a tolerable condition, have been sav,d from the wreck of the Dis patch. t,esides several others broken. Hum., Dec. 12.—The Elizibeth, which was on shore at .An:b has been trot off and brought in here. YARMOUTU, DEC. 12.—The Pomona, of and from Stettin to London, has put in here leaky, and with pumps choked. PLYM,UTIT, DEC. 12.—Wind S.—Arrd. Panda, liai son, Newfoundland. Std. Peckinghaw, Adelaide, South Australia. NEATIT, DEC. 10. - Arrd. Demetrius, Winnicot, Prince El , ,vard's Island. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY The arrivals of English Wheat fresh up for our market since Mond ty have been somewhat on the increase, and of middling quality. The show of samples in to-day's cnark.A was small. Although the attendance of buyers was trifling the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was steady at fully last week's quotations. The imports of Foreign Wheat this week have been only 2.930 quarters. This morning there was a slightly im proved inquiry for most descriptions, but we have no advance to notice in the currencies. The finest malting Barley, the supply of which was small, sold steadily; other kinds of Barley slowly, at late rates. Scarcely auy business was doing in Malt, the value of which was almost nominal. The best sound Oats were in steady request ut full prices; otherwise the Oat trade was in a sluggish state. Beans, Peas, and all other articles, in cluding Flour, were dull in the extreme. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. En: fish • . Irih. • . • • •• • • Fore Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Flour. 1,260 qrs. 1,650 gra. 2,2t30 qrs. I 4,380 sky 2779-0 2,00 3,310 Malt, 1,410 ars. 4i HOP 74.8.7LMET. The finest parcels of the present year's growth were in steady. though by no raz , ans active, demand, at full priee;. Iu all other kinds exceedingly little business was doing, at barely late rates. Present prices as fol low:,:—Sussex pockets, 215 s to 21 18s; Weald of Kent ditto, 218 s to 3155; Mid and East Kent ditto, 21 12s to 51 his per cwt. VTI-lITZCHAPEL. The supplies of Mpat on sale somewhat exceeded the wants of the huteh ,, rs; henc.e the demand was in a sluggish state, at barely stationary prices. —Beef, from 9s 6 to 3s 6 , 1 ; Mutton, 3s 4,1 to 4s 6d; Veal. 3s 4d to 4s 4‘l; and Pork, 3:; 8d to 4s 8d per Blbs by the carcase. lIER MAJESTY'S AND PRINCE ALBERT'S ETCHINGS AND DRAWINGS.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT v. STRANGE, JUDGE, AND OTHERS. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT Bence.) Our readers cannot fail to recollect that in the course of the last long vacation an application was made on behalf of her Majesty and Prince Albert to the Vice- Chancellor Knight Bruce for an ex-parte injunction, to restrain Mr. Strange, the publisher, of Paternoster row, from punshing a catalogue, or exhibiting, or dis posing of certain copies of etchings, executed by her Majesty and Prince Albert. The application for the injunction ex parte was supported by the affidavits of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Mr. George Edward Anson, Mr. J. P. Lawrence, and others, and his Honour having read the affidavits, •„ at once granted the injunction. On the 6th of last month an application was made to the same Learned Judge to extend the injunction already granted to other parties who had since been made defendants, among whom was Mr. Jasper Toinsett Judge and Mr. J. A. F. Judge. l'he amended bill, making other parties than Strange de fendants, stated, for the purpose of obtaining au extended • injunction, that her Majesty and her Royal Consort had for their amusement occasionally made drawings and etchings, principally of subjects of private and domestic interest to themselves, and of which etchings they had made impressions for their own use, and not for publi cation. For greater privacy such impressions had, for the most part, been made by means of a private press, and that the plates themselves had been ordinarily kept by her Majesty under lock, and the impressions placed in some of the private apartments only at Windsor; that the defeedent Strange, and Mr. Jasper Tomsett Judge, and Mr. J. A. F. Judge, in some manner obtained some impressions surreptitiously taken from the plates, whereby they have been enabled to form a gallery or collection of such etc hin g s, of which they intended to make an exhibition , without the permission either of her Majesty or Prince Albert. With this view a cata logue had been published, entitled " A Descriptive Catalogue of the Royal Victoria and Albert Gal lery of Etchings," and which had been compiled, pre pared, and published, without the consent of her Ma jesty and the Prince. ll* this work it was stated that "every purchaser of the catalogue would be presented (by permission) with a fac simile of the autograph of either her Majesty or of the Prince Consort, engraved from the original, the selection being left to the pur chaser." After an introduction written in praise of the execution of the several works of art, the catalogue set out a list, with descriptions of 63 several etchings, some of them alleged to represent scenes in the royal nursery, copies of ancient engravings:, original compositions of animals, &c.; in fact, amongst the etchings there ap pear to be portraits of the Prince Consort, the Prince of \Vales, the Princess Royal, of the other members of the Royal Family, and th e p ersona l f r i e nds of her Majesty. many of which w ere d rawn b y h er Ma jesty from lite, and afterwards transferred to copper, and etched by her Majesty and P r i nce Alb ert, and amp dogs, take. etchings portraits of their f avour it e does taken by them from life, and etchings f rom o ld and rare engra vings in the possession of her Majesty, and several from such original designs as stated in the catalougue. The ca talogue, it was sworn, could not have been made nor coahl the description and other remarks have been compiled, except by means of the possession of impressions of the etchings surreptitiously obtained; that such im pressions were intended to be for the private use of her Majesty and the Prince, and although some copies had bean occasionally and rarely given to some of their private friends, no such collection as advertised for exhi bition by the defendants was ever given away by them, and it would appear that the impressions had been sure rep•itiously obtained. The bill prayed that the de ieutlatits might be ordered to deliver up to her Majesty all impressions and copies of the etchings, and be re strained from exhibiting the collection, and from making or permitting to be made any engravings or copies of the same, and from in any manner publishing, the same, and also an injunction restrain brg the publication and sale of the catalogue. These statements in the bill were supported by the affi davits of several persons, among whom was Mr. J. B. Brown, of Windsor, who stated that he was entrusted by her Majesty end the Prince Consort with the print ing of impressions from plates which had been engraved by them, and was so employed from October, 1840, to November, 1847, and that he faithfully sent all the per fect, impressions to Windsor Castle. In this work Mr. Brown employed a journeyman, in whom he had milli ! di nee, as pressman, who Mr. Brown swore he believed, as he had been informed, had secretly made impressions of the plates; which impressions he retained without the consent or knowledge of Mr. Brown, and which was in vioiation of his duty and of the confidence reposed in him by his master. A man named Whittington, for merly in the employ of Mr. Brown, swore that he re collected the taking eff the impressions by command of her Mjesty, and that although the journeyman em ployed always returned to Mr. Brown all the print paper delivered out, yet he habitually took off copies for himself on card or common paper. The deponent also s.vore that he had about thirteen of such im pressions, which the journeyman gave him, and that about a year and a half ago Jasper Tomsett Judge met him in the street and told him that he (Judge) could make it worth his while if he wished to dispose of the prints. Mr. J. F. Laurence, of Windsor, deposed that ho knew Mr. J. T. Judge, and recollected hearing a rumour four or five months ago that Judge had a col lection of prints and etchings made by her Majesty and • Prince Albert, and afterwards met Judge, and said to him, " I underetand you have some drawings of the Queen's end Prince Alberts;" to which Judge replied, Ob I pet are quite welcome to see them;" that about a month after such conversation, and not more than three or four months ago, he called at Judge's house, who then produced a portfolio with about eighty prints in it, and said that ihay had been engraved by the Prince and the Qneen; that he observed the names of the Queen aid Prince Albert on them, and noticed that on some of them the signatures or names aepeased reversed, as they would be supposing the names had been engraved on the plates Rs the signatures would be usually written; and that Life se prints were on separate sheets of paper, ! some of which :appeared to him to be card-board river, and ono or two gl zed foolscap paper. Upon these affidavits and the statements in the i bill, his Hononr extended the injunction to the other parties who had been made defendants. The defendants havine , pet in their answer tit the bill, a notice was given to her Majesty and the Prince that it was t he intention of the defen,toit Strange to move to dissolve the injunc tion, and Saturday last east appointed as the day on • which that motion was to be made. At the sitting of the Court on that day, in consequence of the filing of addi tional affidavits, the motion, by the consent of all par ties, was directed to stand over till to-day, his Honour having piistiTuied all other business for the purpose of hearing it specially. In consequence of its being gene r.thy kiwwn tint the ease was to come on to-fly, long before ion o'clock hundreds, iinxious to here the ease, throngs d the avenues to the court; and upon the odeniiig of the doors every place was secured, and the solicitors in the case had the utmost difficulty to obtain places, His Honour took his scat shortly after ten o'clock. After a low unimportant motions were disposed of, Mr. J. RUSSELL said that the Court had kindly ap pointed to-day to hear a motion for the dissolution of an injunction, which his Honour had granted in the long vacation, and extended a short time since, in a suit in which his Royal Highness Prince Albert was the plaintiff, and Mr. Strange, the eminent publisher of Paternoster-row, was the defendant. He had now to move in the case in which his Royal Highness Prince Albert was the plaintiff, and Mr. Strange was the de fendant, to dissolve the injunction that had been granted so far as it sought to restrain Mr. Strange from publish ing the catalogue he had advertised be should publish of the Royal drawings and etchings. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—I see this is a limited ap plication to dissolve the injunction. If I recollect rightly, this application is made upon that part of the case upon which I expressed cons►derable doubt and difficulty at the time the application was made to me for the injunction. Mr. J. RUSSELL said that the injunction restrained his client, Mr. Strange, from doing that which he had nothing whatever to do with, and the only question the defendant raised was the right of his Royal Highness Prince Albert to restrain him from printing, selling, or publishing the catalogue; and the only objection he could see to that publication was, that in the catalogue the flattery was not sufficiently tempered. There was nothing in it contrary to public morals or decency, and the only fault the defendant seemed to have committed was flattering too much. The Learned Gentleman having read the principal allegations in the bill, and the affidavits in its support, observed that the Court could not fail to see that whatever the merits of the case, he (Mr. Strange) was presented by the bill to the world in a most questionable light. He was charged with obtain ing a copy of the etchings surreptitiously. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—Does Mr. Strange print the work for himself or for others? Mr. RUSSELL—Mr. Strange has printed it at his own expense. It was originally a joint speculation between him and. others, but it has since been abandoned. Mr. Strange, by his answer, denied it to be true that he had in any manner either surreptitiously or otherwise ob tained the impressions; that he believed Judge had ob tained them from, a person of the name of Middleton by purchase, and that one, and only one, of such impressions was sent to him for the purpose of being mounted. That about the end of August in the present year, Judge called upon him, and having told him that he had in his possession impressions from etchings done by her Majesty and Prince Albert, and that in Septem• ber Judge showed him those impressions, and proposed to enter into an arrangement with him to exhibit them, provided there was not the slightest objection on the part of her Majesty the Queen and Prince Albert. That it was then arranged between him and Judge that they should join together to exhibit the impressions at the Egyptian Hall, or some other institution of equal re spectability, and that the defendant should advance the necessary funds for that purpose. That Judge should participate equally in the profits. The defendant also stated that he did not believe that the impressions had come improperly into the hands of Judge, but that they had been fairly, honestly, and regularly obtained by him. The answer also stated that after the interview of the defendant with Judge, Judge wrote a descriptive cata logue of the impressions which was printed by the de -1 relent, and fifty-one copies and no more were struck off, an d the type was then broken up. That general in quiries were made by the defendant and Judge with reference to the expense of a room in which the etchings might be exhibited, but that no other steps were taken on the subject except that Judge wrote to a Berkshire piper an article relating to them. That on the 9th of October, 1848, Judge, with a view of bringing the sub ject of the exhibitions to the notice of her Majesty and Prince Albert, and for the purpose of ascertaining whe ther such an exhibition would be objected to by them, sent copies to them of the catalogues through the Lord in-Waiting, and also to the lion. Colonel Phipp-, the Duchess of Kent, Sir George Cowper, the Barones de Speth, the King and Queen of the Belgians, Earl Delawarr and the Duchess of Sutherland. The defend ant also by his answer, stated that the catalogue had never been published or sold, or exposed for sale i and that of the fifty-one copies, with the exception of one given away by Judge, and those sent to her Majesty and other persons, all the rest were at the present time in his hands. That in October, 1848, the defend ant left London for Barnsley, in Yorkshire, for the benefit of his health, and did not return till late in the evening of the 27th of the same month. That on the 18th of October, when the defendant was in Barns ley, he received a letter from his son, in forming him that a gentleman, named White, had called on the behalf of her Majesty and Prince Albert, to express their disapprobation of the contemplated exhibition, that this was the first intima tion that the defendant received—that such exhibition was disapproved of by her Majesty and her Royal Con sort, and that until such intimation he had no reason to believe that it would be objected to either by her Ma jesty or Prince Albert. That upon becoming aware that such exhibition was disapproved of by her Majesty and Prince Albert, the defendant acting in accordance with the terms upon which alone he had entered into the arrangement for the exhibition, at once,:and immedi ately determined not to take any further steps to exhibit the drawings, and wholly abandoned it; and the defendant further stated by his answer, that it had been his anxious wish since he had received the communication from Mr. White, as a dutiful and loyal subject, in every respect to comply with the wishes of her Majesty, not only by abandoning the exhibition, but by delivering up every copy of the catalogue in his possession, and also giving an assurance that he would neither sanction or be a party to any exhibition of the etchings, or to the publication or circulation of the catalogue. That the defendant, being anxious and desirous to vindicate his character in the eyes of her Majesty and her Royal Con sort, and also in those of his fellow sub jects from the aspersions cast upon it by the statements on the bill, instructed his solicitor, Mr. W. H. Smith, to communicate with Mr. White. In conse quence of that, Mr. Smith the defendant's solicitor, wrote to Mr. White, stating his astonishment and con cern at the proceedings that had been taken against him by her Majesty and Prince Albert, and asserting most emphatically that he had done nothing but what he be lieved to be in the ordinary course of business, and never imagined for a single moment that he was doing anything infringing on the right, or offensive, or disa greeable to the feelings of her Majesty or her Royal Consort, or, above all, calculated to lead to the belief that ho was not a most, loyal, and; devoted subject, and prepared to do anything, and make any sacrifice of present interest to show that loyalty; that he felt deeply aggrieved by the supposition that he could, under any fi ci circumstances, that ns Sovereignh ve a a c n t edd herot h e august ug wise, us t a e nd un w s o a r s t s m a t u is s - t have received inaccurate impressions on the subject of hie proceedings. The Learned Couhsel, after adverting to several other parts of the answer, stated, in conclu-ion, that Mr. Strange was anxious and sought in for t order to relieve i hirn do s is e s lf T r t o i m on tho of the injunction, aspersonsthat had been made against him, and on behalf of that gentleman he could assure his Honour that if he dissolved the in junction he might rest satisfied that Mr. Strange would do nothing which her Majesty or her Royal Consort had the least dislike to. Mr. WARREN followed on the same side. He wished, in the outset, to state that Mr. Strange was not insen sible to those feelings of loyalty(which actuated most men. Let the Court bear in mind that the defendant had not published an immoral or noxious work. It seemed to him that much undue haste had been • used in coinmenceing these proceedings; in fact, be might characterise . them as approaching nearly to des potism. Mr. Strange, therefore, had much reason to complain of the injury which he had sustained at the hands of this prosecution. His Honour might look through the bill in vain for an assertion of title or pro perty in the engravings ; and he conceived that the Court could not deal with an application of this kind, since the bill did not, for some reason or other, claim any property in the etchings. It mereky spoke of the impressions. It said that Mr. Strange had surreptitiously obtained copies of the etch ings. There was no evidence of that. For ought they knew to the contrary, the defendant might have ob tained them by the fairest means. The bill said that copies were kept in the'private apartments in Windsor Castle, but that some copies had been given to private friends. Might not Mr. Strange have ob tained copies from those private friends from some foreign potentate for instance ? In that case he would have obtained them fairly, and might use them as he thought proper. He contended, if the Queen and the Prince did not base their title to the engravings on the right of property, that the injunction must be quashed; at any rate the right sought to be exercised was of the most arbitrary nature, and if laid down as a prece dent would tend to interfere with the rights of the subject—the right of the press—the right of the expres sion of public opinion. Surely, if a person saw a picture or a work of art, or heard a description of it, might he not express his opi n i on o f i t e i ther i n wor d s or i n pr i n t. Suppose a person went through the picture-gallery of some foreign potentate, in which the etchings of the Queen and Prince Albert were hung up, having been presented to that p o t entate , m i g h t h e not note d own a list of them, putting down " this is the drawing of an animal," " this i s a d raw i ng o f Wi n d sor C ast l e, " an d this is the " portrait of a favourite dog;" and feeling delighted that we had so accomplished a Sovereign, might he not transmit an account of his visit and a de scription of the drawings to a friend in this country ? Would a person e x hibi t i ng or pu bli s hi ng suc h a l etter lay himself open to an injunction? Again, suppose a beautiful picture we r e s t o l en by B f rom A, would A, if he saw it many years after, be amen able to punishment if he enlarged upon its beauty, and declared that it should be placed in one of the national depositaries of art in this country ? Where then was the line to be drawn? Mr. Strange was not charged with any criminal offence. He had stated in his affidavit that he had seen the etchings but onc: , , and that when they w o r e su b m itt e d t o hi m on th a t occasion, by Mr. Judge, he had not the slightest reason to believe that they were obtained otherwise than honourably and fairly. This avowal of Mr. Strange annihilated at onc e th e fi rst part o f t h e prayer. A s t h e claim was not based upon property, the whole super structure of the bill, he contended, fell to the ground. Then the catalogue, instead of being a work of an ob jectionable character, was one of the most commendable nature, and published with the very best motives towards the Queen and her illustrious Consort. The Learned Counsel then read some of the RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND STOUR VAL LEY RAILWAY. — BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY.—At an ad journed special gene ra l meet i ng o f the s h are h o ld ers in this railway, held at Dee's Royal Hotel to-day, the lease of the line to the London and North-Western was con firmed, and the seal of the company affixed thereto. The lease is for 1,000 years, and;the terms are two-thirds of the London and North western dividend. The shares are to come into this dividend on the first of January, 1850, the first payment being on the 15th of September in that year, and in future halt-yearly on that day and the 15th of March. Until the time just specified, the shareholders will continue to receive four per teat., as at present. This company is to pay the expense of keeping itself together as a company out of the dividend received from the lessees. In the event of a new stock being created by the London and North-Western Com pany, the proprietors of the Stour Valley Company are to receive a share in proportion to the two-thirds capital on which they receive dividend. There are to be no further calls on these shareholders, the London and North-Western Company engaging to find the remainder of the capital required, f o r w hi ch purpose the borrowing powers of the Stow Vall e y C ompany may be used. LEASE OF THE EAST LIN COLNSHIRE TO THE GREAT NORTHERN.—The necessary instruments, after consider able delay, are now being prepared for the transfer of the line, about fifty miles in length, and which runs from the Great Grimsby and Boston to the Great Northern, which will commence paying on it the six per cent. divi dend from the Ist of November last. Captain Laws, who lately resigned the management of the Great Northern, has been re-appointed managing director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire, which he left to join the Great Northern, at a salary of 1,500/. per ann. ORLEANS AND VlEnzoN.._.lhe following is a roturn of the receipts on the Vierzon Railway, for the week ending the 4th of December, 1848:—Passengers, 29,071 f. 65e.; luggage, parcels, &c., 4,9 9 5 f. 35c.; goods, 13,723 f. 14c.; carriages and horses, 2,578 f. 30c.; cattle, 2,440 f. 45c. Total for the week, 52,739 f. 30c. For the corresponding week of 1847, 70,279 f. 41c; total re ceipts since Ist January, 1848, 2,627,378 f. 78c. P I rtYHOLINE SS ee T o ri f E h P is o h cE ol .— ine P ss ra p y o e p r e s - -- e are being offered up, thr oug h out the entire of Catholic Pius the Ninth from all enemies.—Cork Examiner. Ireari l d,fo lt r s the T OR spee llls dy BATTERSEA NEW PAR • X.—Active operations for the formation of the new park at Battersea are now in progress, and the inhabitants of the metropolis may hope, in the course of a year or two, to be in undis puted enjoyment of a most delightful suburban retreat. The site chosen for the park extends from the Red House nearly to Battersea Bridge, is remarkably level, smooth as a bowling-g reen , an d capable of producing shrubs, trees, or flowers, in the greatest luxuriance. At the present time it is cropped to the very verge by its industrious occupiers, the agriculturists and market gardeners of the neighbourhood. The frontage next the Thames is cut up into numerous small properties, and for years has been put to no productive purpose. When the tides run high, the water overflows the adja cent lauds. This contingency her Commissioners of Woods and Forests propose to provide for by the pur chase of the frontage property, and the conversion of it into a noble marine terrace, but the difficulty of com pleting the various negotiations has hitherto prevented the commencement of the works. As in many other cases, private enterprise steps in, and nnticipates the tardy movements of the executive. Messrs. Cubitt, Chabot, Payne, Procter, and others, are embanking their respective frontages. For more than two months past about three barges have been daily employed in conveying the sweepings of the streets of the metro polis to Battersea, where several men are employed in conveying it from the vessels an d depositin g it on the e mbankment. Mr. Chabot, in like manner, draws his supplies Dock s. from the London The s oil is particu larly soft and slushy whe n firs t deposited, but soon con solidates, and forms a fine, firm, substantial stratum. The embakment, which is about five feet above high water mark, and is about seventy or eighty yards in width, starts from near the British Flag, an d is car ried on regularly to the chemical works near Battersea Bridge. THE LATE MR. CALLAWAY.—It is stated that this gentlemen has left to each of his four children 10,0001., and 7001. to his widow ; altogether, the property left by the deceased is upwards of 60,0001.—Lancee THE NEW CATTLE•MARKET AT ISLINGTON.—We are given to understand that a great number of farmers visited the Islington Cattle market last week, all of whom were astonished at the extent and excellence of the ac commodation. The market is capable of accommodating conveniently within the walls 8,000 head of cattle and 50,000 sheep, besides horses, pigs, &c. A junction rail. way, which is now in the course of formation, passes within 380 yards of the market, and from which a tram road will be laid into the market. This railway runs from Blackwell, and will unite the Northern and Eastern, VIP Eastern Counties, the Great Northern, the North- Western, and the Great Western Railways, and will hereafter be extended over the Thames to ;the South- Western, thus rendering it unnecessary for any animals to pass through the streets of the metropolis to arrive at the market, it being ascertained that seven-eighths of all the cattle brought to London arrive by the Northern and Eastern lines. We are informed that a committee for carrying out the arrangements of the Islington Market is in course of formation.—Mark-lane Express. LITERATURE. THE F.iD7 FAX CO IZZIESPOADENCE.— 31e lixirs of tlie 'fin of Clt , trles• i. Eel;l',l by G. TV. Johnson, I;arri,ter-at-Law. 2 Vols. Bentley, IVew Burlington arect. The publication of this correspondence comes very opportunely at the present period when the Young Englanders are endeavouring to revive the political system ofiCharlcs 1., and the Puseyites the ecclesi astical polity of Laud. The correspondence, which consists of letters written by different members of the Fairfax family, who were all prominent actors in the stirring scenes of the great civil war, embraces the whole period from the accession of Charles I. to the Restoration, and we see the actors in that great tragedy, behind the scenes in undress, as they ap peared to their contemporaries. My Lord John Man ners would scarcely have exclaimed— " Let laws awl learning, wealth and commerce die, But give us still our own nobility," had he, before writing that celebrated couplet, had an opportunity of perusing the Fairfax Correspondence, and of ascertaining from such perusal the exact method in which that idol, " Old Nobility," which he calls upon all mankind to fall down and worship, was originally manufactured. It appears from this correspondence, that in the reign of Charles I. peer sges were matters of regular bargain and sale. The King kept a peerage shop, and whoever chose might become the purchaser, provided buyer and seller could agree upon the price to be paid. In this manner Sir Thomas Fairfax, the grandfather of the Parliamentary General, purchased of King Charles 1., in the year 1628, the Scottish peerage of Fairfax for the sum of 1,5001., stipulating that he should be exempt from all ether charges in the way of fees, but when the money was paid over an attempt was made to extort further sums from him under various pretences, of which at tempt he complains in the following letters, and com plains very justly, too, considering that accorling to his own account he had been offered a better title for the same sum. " THOMAS, LORD FAIRFAX, TO LORD COLVILLE. - - "My very good Lord,—l did, about six weeks since, write to your Lordship by the postmaster of Borow bridge, in answer of letters which I received from Mr. James Colville, your kinsman, who did signify unto me that the fees for my patent were undischarged; and that his Majesty's officers did expect them from me, which is directly against my agreement, both as I did signify to your Lordship in my letters from Stilton, and to Mr. Colville himself, when he came by my house in his journey towards London. At which time he seemed to more require a gelding of me than the 1,5001. promised towards the charges of the patent. Whereunto I answered that if the patent were not freely delivered into my hand without one penny charges more for fees, soliciting, or whatsoever, I would refuse it, for I was then offered a better title for the same sum; yet because of the noble respect which I have long time borne to your Lordship, I would perform my word with you, which Mr. Colville undertook on your Lordship's behalf; desiring that I would advance the second payment a little sooner, which was the 500/. promised by my letters to your Lordship, within six months after 1,000/. were paid. I told him I had some moneys, which, if I might spare, I would pay with the first payment. Coming from London, he did show me the bill assigned. After wards he and a worthy gentleman, one Mr. Calunder, brought me the patent; upon receipt of which I did deliver unto them to your Lordship 1,5001, for which I have their acquittances. I did accommodate them with bags and other com modities to pack the moneys in. I sent my horses and servants to Borowbride to carry the money and attend them, for which Mr. Colville promised me some remem brances of pistols, and other things which I am careless to mention. " The next news which I heard from Mr. Colville after his arrival in Scotland, was a letter that I must be made deniz Al of that kingdom, also that I must contri bute towards the plar.tation of New Scotland in America, and that his Majesty's officers and servants had put me in the senate for the fees of my patent, but he had taken course to stay proceedings until I were advertised. Truly, my Lord, I dare adventure my life that your Lord ship is not acquainted with these things ; and I assure myself that the letter which I did lately write unto you was not delivered, though I think it came to Mr. Col ville's hands. But having now sent my servant for a cer tain messenger, I doubt not but your Lordship is so noble as to take that care for discharge of these fees as I would do in the like if it did concern you. Thus kissing your Lordship's hands, I take leave. " Your Lordship's humble servant, " Denton, 12th April, 1628." " T. FAIRFAX. " THOMAS, LORD FAIRFAX, TO LORD COLVILLE. " My very good Lord,—Some letters which I received from Mr. James Colville is the cause of my now sending to your Lordship. The contents of one was, first, that I must be made denizen of that kingdom; secondly, that I must contribute to the plantation of New Scotland; thirdly, that I must pay fees to his Majesty's officers for my patent. To the first, I answer, the patent enables me; for the second, my dwelling exempts me from the necessity; and the third is directly against my covenant; for your Lordship knows, and none better than Mr. Col ville, that I did refuse, if I might not have it freely do livered upon payment of the sum agreed upon. " My letter from Stilton did intimate so much to your Lordship (u copy of which I have) : my speeches with Mr. Colville, when he went for the bill assigned, ex pressed the ;same. How I have performed, both Mr. Colville, and that worthy gentleman, Mr. Cullender, do know, and their acquittances will show. I did, not long since, write to your Lordship, from my house at York, but I have received no answer ; so, as I think, the let ters have miscarried, and also I do assure myself that your Lordship doth not know of these letters of Mr. Colville's. I know you are too noble not to perform with any man, much more with an old friend, who, if he had hearkened to another's motion, might have had better pennyworths. Thus, not doubting to find you as you have ever been—truly noble—l take leave. Resting, " Your Lordship's brother and humble servant, " T. FAIRFAX. " Denton, this 16th of April, 1628." " I pray your Lordship let my servant bring some testimony that the officers be satisfied, because Mr. Col ville writes that they have put me in suit for the fees. I forbear to write of some tokens which Mr. Colville did promise to send me from your Lordship and himself, in regard of some accommodation which he had of me, be sides the advancing of the payment before the time agreed upon." These letters let us completely into the art and mys tery of the manufacture of the idol " Old Nobility" in the palmy days of the " Martyr Monarch." fa x " m o F l a i a m imuii t tl r ye u : n : c e u p s e c r u : . fic p lu e l n u u s s i , n inutile o gnum ; tlovreic: C all u e m aarnn fa d be f r ro i w n m certus scamnum faceretne Priapum, Biographical s gvgiven o admirablymb Memoir r w wo r af i y tten t o h f e " F li ai i r s - intro duction to these volumes, an 1 which may be cited as a model for all future writers of family history, that the family of the Fairfaxes derived their blood from a Saxon stock, and were seated at Tow cester at or before the Conquest. The family seem always to have preserved with extraordinary care any MSS. relating to the history of the house, and among these MSS. there was discovered a paper in the hand writing of the first Lord Fairfax, in which the line is traced hack to the Conquest. The " Analectica Fairfaxiana," compiled by Air. Charles Fairfax, one of the younger children of the first Lord Fairfax, and uncle of the Parliamentary General, contain several interesting particulars of the family, and are illustrated by portraits of the third Lord Fairfax (the Parliamentary General) and his lady, by Gerard Zoust, engravings of which illustrate the volumes now under review. The first Lord Fairfax had seve ral children besides Sir Ferdinando Fairfax, who suc ceeded him in the title. Among these were two sons, John and William, who took part with the Elector Palatine in the war which he was carrying on to gain the kingdom of Bohemia, and who were both killed at the defence of Frankenthal. Their portraits were in the family mansion at Denton, and when Prince Rupert " lay" at Denton, in his march to York, Anno 1644, he saw the pictures, and com manded that the house should not be injured for their sakes. After the execution of Charles 1., of which General Fairfax loudly expressed his disapproval, Fair fax retired to Denton and Appleton, where he spent the remainder of his life. lie was visited there by General Monk, on his road from Scotland to London, after the death of Cromwell, and during this visit the restoration of Charles 11. was planned by Fairfax and Monk. This trans action is thus described by Brian Fairfax : "Declaring for General Monk, then in Scotland, at his earnest request, against Lambert's army, which pressed hard upon him as he lay at Coldstream, whither amyveLrboarldaFnasiwrefarxtosenhtismelehtitserc,oubsrinou, gßhrtiabnyFsaiir Thomasrfax,with Clargis, that he would appear at the head of what forces he could raise in Yorkshire the Ist of January, 1659, which he did to so good effect, that in three days' time (the report of my Lord Fairfax opposing them ) de t s h er e te l d rish hi b m r , iga a d n e d sent to offer their service t o m y Lord Fairfax,* and, c b o e n in s g isti s n p g re o a f d t a w b e o l u v t e L h a u m nd b r e e r d es ho a r r s m e y , several foot regiments at the same time declared for their old general, Fairfax; and in five days Lambert himself, with ten men, stole away from his own army. "Then General Monk marched into England, and offered the command of the army to my Lord Fairfax, but he refused it, only advised him (at his house at Ap pleton, where Monk gave him a visit) to consider there would be no peace in England till the nation was settled upon the old foundation of monarchy, and King Charles the Second restored ; in the meantime, to call the old secluded members to Parliament which had now got into their places again. The General was more reserved than he needed to be upon this free discourse of my Lord Fairfax, being alone with him in his study, which gav e my Lord occasion to suspect him ever after, till he de clared himself the spring following to be of the same mind, having received another letter at London from my Lord Fairfax (delivered by the same hand, B. F.), and ac companied with the address of all the gentloment of York shire fora free Parliament, and that they would pay no taxes till it met. " King Charles himself did often acknowledge these * "My Lord Fairfax was then at Arthington with about one hundred men, when an officer of the brigade came and inquired for Mr. Brian Fairfax to bring him to my Lord with this kind and seasonable offer of their assistance.--B. F." " At their desire my Lord writ a particular letter to General Monk." services, not only by granting him a general pardon, bit upon all occasions speaking kindly of him, and praising his courage, his ni , )disV, his honesty," &c. He died in Novemb?r, 1671, leaving an only child, Mary, who was married to the wild and witty Duke of Buckingham of Charles ll.'s rei g n, and who appears to have been cruelly treated by her reprobate husband. Fairfax had cut off the entail of the landed property, and had settled all he could of it on his daughter ; the title, at his death, descended to a collateral branch, but without the estates. The suc ceeding Peers appear to have become constantly poorer, until at length the title descended to a Fairfax 'who had settled in Maryland, and who had become possessed of vast estates there. It is still in the de scendants of his family, and the present Lord Fairfax is a citizen of the United States of America, and re sides at Woodburn, in Maryland. The history of this discovery of the MSS. is most curious. Among the possessions of the family was Leeds Castle, which ultimately became the property of Mr. Fiennes Wykeham Martin, its present possessor. "It was in Leeds Castle that the vast mass of corre spondence was discovered, from which the succeeding volumes have been compiled. Mr. Martin having occa sion to make some alterations in the castle in the spring of the year 1822, set apart for sale a quantity of useless furniture; and amongst the lumber which was thus to be swept away was an old oaken chest, filled apparently with Dutch tiles. It was purchased for a few shillings by Mr. Gooding, a shoemaker, in the neighbouring vil lage of Lenham. Upon the inspection of its contents, expecting, perhaps, to light upon treasures of another kind, Mr. Gooding found an enormous quantity of MSS., carefully arranged and deposited beneath the Dutch tiles which were piled up to the lid of the box. Mr. Gooding, not attaching any special value to treasures of this description, consigned the papers to a cellar to be destroyed, as occasion served, for waste paper. " It was fortunately suggested to Mr. Gooding to offer the MSS. to Mr. Newington Hughes, a banker at Maidstone, and well known as a collect or o f antiquities. By this lucky accident the whole collection was pre served, Mr. Hughes becoming their purchaser. But in the mean while some havoc had been committed amongst them. ' Some of the parchments,' says Mr. Johnson, under whose editorship the first two volumes of the Cor respondence are 'now issued, ' had been cut into strips for shoemakers' measures ; and a fragment of one, a grant of lands to Sir Anthony Saint Leger, is now before me in the form of a child's drum pelt. Some of the letters Mr. Hughes recovered from the thread-papers of the vil lage mantua-makers ; others had been taken by a gen tleman's servant, and had found their way into the col lections of Mr. Jadis, of the Board of Green Cloth, and of Mr. Upcot, the well•known collector of autographs. These were nearly all recovered • and the whole form that valuable and richly illustrated series of manuscripts from which this work has been prepared.' " The correspondence, which extends over two cen turies, chiefly concerns the affairs of the Civil War and the period of the Restoration. It embraces all the great events intervening between the accession of the Stuarts and that of the house of Hanover; and touches, in greater or lesser detail, upon the actions of the principal persons who were engaged in them. The confidential character of these voluminous papers enhances the in terest and importance of their disclosures. " From the careful manner in which they appear to have been preserved, it may be inferred that the family were at some pains to conceal the treasures they pos sessed, under a justifiable apprehension perhaps that the knowledge of the existence of such documents might have led to dangerous consequences. The papers of the family were originally deposited in Yorkshire, and were no doubt removed to Leeds Castle, upon the marriage of the fifth Lord Fairfax with the daughter of Lord Cul pepper." In presenting the first two volumes of these MSS. to the public, the editor, Mr. G. W. Johnson, has made them almost subsidiary to his own labours. He has presented us with a well-written history of the reign of Charles 1., from his accession to the commence ment of the civil war. We shall not follow Mr. Johnson in his history, but shall confine our attention to the correspondence and to those portions of it more particularly which bear on any historical fact, or which illustrate the social usages of the period. We have already given the letters of Lord Fairfax on the subject of his purchase of a peerage. These are fol lowed by a long correspondence between Lord Fairfax and his son, Sir Ferdinando Fairfax, who represented Boroughbridge in the Parliament which sat in 1626, and which resisted the attempts of the King to collect money by Privy Seal. Sir Ferdinando Fairfax describes the King as being "in his own nature extremely stiff," and as willing rather "to refuse his moneys than satisfy our expectations in the Duke"— meaning the Duke of Buckingham, whose flagrant corruption and proved incompetency had then exaspe rated all classes against him. The eldest son of Ferdinando Fairfax, who was afterwards the Parlia mentary General, was at this time studying at Cam bridge, and old Lord Fairfax, who declared Ferdinando was fit for nothing but a country justice, but that Ferdinando's son Tom would make a soldier, was, it appears, exceedingly anxious that Tom should be sent abroad to learn the art of war. Sir Ferdi nando, writing on this subject to his father, in 1629, says— "My Lord of Clare adviseth to send my son to my Lord Vere's company, at Dort; he saith he may there practise arms, fencing, dancing, and study the mathe matics; and my Lord Houghton promiseth his best care over him whilst he is there. He goes over about six weeks hence, and all the companies have order to be ready the Ist of April. I could not resolve anything herein until I knew your Lordship's pleasure, and there fore what you shall be pleased to command, I shall care fully observe to my best understanding of your direc tions; and with my prayers for your happiness, will ever remain, your Lordship's humble and obedient son, " FER. FAIRFAX." This proposal was adopted, and under Lord Vere, in the Low Countries, this celebrated General learned the art of war. On his return he was mar ried to Lady Anne Vere, the daughter of his Ge neral, and from the letters published in this corre spondence it appears that in those days wives were as completely a matter of bargain and sale as peerages. The negotiation was entered upon shortly after the death of Lord Vere, which happened in 1635, and was commenced by Sir W. Constable, the brother in-law of Sir Ferdinando Fairfax, at his request. Sir William thus reports to Sir Ferdinando— "TO SIR FERDINANDO FAIRFAX. " Sir,—l received your letter about three weeks since, and I would gladly, before this time, have given you some account of the business, if besides my own being unsettled and more full-handed than I have activeness for, there had not also been so much in your instructions as could not admit a sudden dispatch. For the first point, I cannot perceive that Mr. White hath any such interests in those persons that I could know much by him ; but I used Dr. Gouge who (without naming any person as occasioning the question) asked the lady (Vere) herself what portions are intended to her daugh ters who are yet unmarried. her answer is that she intends to each of them 3,0001. or 4,0001., according as she shall like the party ; and that there is no haste on her part of having them bestowed, since the longer they stay, the better she shall be able to do for them, my Lord having left her indebted. Yet she hopes, by means of some moneys duo to her from the King, to better her daughters' portions, in some reasonable time. " The second thing which I desired to do was, that my wife or myself, or both of us, might have had a sight of these two young gentlewomen; but my lady having been out of town, and daily expected, is not yet come, except it be this very night." That fathers and mothers should so act may not, perhaps, be considered matter of surprise, but what shall we think of a suitor who could thus write of his ladye-love ? " TO THE HONOURABLE MY VERY GOOD FATHER, FER DINAND° FAIRFAX, KNIGHT, KNARESBOROUGH, THIS PRESENT. " Sir,—Since my coming to London I have studied to do my best in effecting the business I came up about; but whether my Lady Vero disliked me, the conditions, or us both, I cannot tell; but she put me off with an un willingness to marry her daughter in a time of such per plexity as she pretends to be in. The money the King owes her is hard to get, and she is loth to impoverish herself by parting with anything that she hath now; whether I should proceed farther in this business or no, I refer it to you. I waited on my Lord Mulgrave once or twice; he was desirous to know my business here; I told him all that my Lord had given me in charge, he approved well of it, yet his wishes for my good were more hearty than his assistance powerful to direct me to that end. They are all well in that house. The report that Mr. James Chaloner was married is not so, for he was never more earnest in that suit than now, for the :other day he had almost got my cousin's portion out of my Lord Molesworth's hands, had he stood to his word. Sir, I paid to my brother Widdring ton 25/.; he will give you account of it himself. The other 25/. I paid to the tailor, and h ere i s his acquittance e for it ; but the odd money I could not get him to abate it. Sir, I humbly desire your blessing, so I rest " Your obedient son, " February G. THO. FAIRFAX " I lie at the Three Bl ac k Bi rds, in Fleet-street." • Yet this marriage, thus neg o ti ate d , turne d out mos t happily. Lady Ann Vere proved a most exemplary wife, and Sir Thomas Fairfax an excellent husband. The result, in this instance, certainly affords a strong argument in 3 favour: of marriages de l'argent. The Long Parliament met in 16401; in that Parliament Sir Ferdinando Fairfax represented the county of York, and in the passing of all those great measures which consolidated the liberties of the people, such, for instance, as the Act for Triennial Parliaments, the proposal for making the j udges independent of thecrown, by appointing the quamdiu bane se gesserint instead of " during pleasure," Sir Ferdinando took an active part. He was also actively engaged in Yorkshire during the time of the invasion by the Scotch army in 1640. During this time he was in constant cor respondence with his agent, Thomas Stockdale, whose letters are perhaps some of the most interesting of the collection. His management of the Knares borough election, by which he secured the return of Sir IV. Constable for that place on petition, would have done credit to the late Mr. Joseph Croucher himself, and in his management of the billetting the troops he showed himself a consummate tactician. Sir Ferdinando (now become, by the death of his father, Lord Fairfax) was one of the deputation sent from the Parliament to the King, when the latter was S IT N S at York, evidently preparing to commence . ~. f,agkilit . the Parliament. The King at first imag A :thiaThe; , ::: ,'' Yorkshire gentry would declare in ',',,,f3t - ou . and had intended raising his st ' ayl \ - .42-, York, but a petition representing t "inotl*- venience of his remaining in Yorkshi , d ; A ...; Al Si beseeching him to refrain from all warlike .1 d'Ota lions, and to return to an amicable course with his Parliament, which was signed by a large majority of the freeholders of the county, soon convinced him of his error. This petition the King at first refused to receive, but at a public meeting of the freeholders of the county, held on the 3d of June, 1642, on Hey worth Common, summoned by the King himself, and at which from 80,000 to 100,000 freeholders attended, Sir Thomas Fairfax, " in the presence of that assem blage of the county, pressed so closely upon the King that at last he tendered the petition on the pommel of his saddle." The King shortly after unfurled his standard at Nottingham, but before he left York shire he gave orders for the arrest of Lord Fairfax, orders which were never carried into effect, but which were most unfortunate for the King, inasmuch as they compelled Sir Thomas Fairfax at once, in self-defence, to take an active part in the contest, and to commence that series of victories which ended in the total de struction of the Royalist cause. The circumstance is thus related in a MS. by Sir Thomas Fairfax, en titled " A short Memorial of some things to be cleared during my command in the Army " : " Now the Lord is visiting the nation for the trans gression of their ways, as formerly he did to one sort of men, so doth he it to another sort, so that all may see their errors, and his justice; and as we have cause to implore his mercy, having sinned against him so much, we still vindicate his justice, who is always there when he judgeth. " Now, therefore, by his grace and assistance, I shall truly set down the grounds that my actions moved upon during that unhappy war, and those actions that seemed to the world most questionable in my steering through the turbulent and perilous seas of that time. The first embarking in the sad calamities of war was about the year 1641, when the general distemper of the three kingdoms had kindled such a flame in the earth; I mean the ,difference between the King and Parliament; as every one sought to quench his own house by the autho rity of both these; but the different judgments and ways were so contrary, that before the remedy could be found out, almost all was consumed to ashes. " I must needs say, my judgment was for the Parlia ment, as the King and kingdom's safest council, as others were for the King and averse to Parliaments, as if it could not go high enough for the prerogative. Upon which division, different parties were set up, viz., the commission of array for the King, and the militia for the Parliament; but that of the array so exceeded their commission, by oppressing many honest people, whom by way of reproach they called Roundheads, being for religiun, estates, and interest, a very considerable part of the country, that it occasioned them to take up arms in their own defence, which was afterwards confirmed by Parliamentary authority. " Now, my father being yet at his own house at Den ton, where I then waited on him, though he had notice from his friends that it was resolved that he should be sent for as a prisoner to York, yet he resolved not to stir from his own house, not knowing anything in himself to deserve it; but the country suffering daily more and more, many were forced to come and entreat him to join with them in defence of themselves, and country, which were sorely oppressed by those of the array, which after wards had the name of Cavaliers; and being much im portuned by those who were about him, he resolved, seeing his country in this great distress, to run the same hazard with them in the preservation of it." The portion of the correspondence contained in these volumes only extends to the year 1642, the commencement of the civil war. The next portion will be of deep interest, and of immense historical importance. These volumes are illustrated with portraits of Sir Thomas Fairfax and his lady, of Pym, and of Strafford. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WOLVERHAMPTON GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLE CHASES.—TUESDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 soya, each, h ft; the second to save his stake. Four miles. (17 subs.) Mr. T. Eskrett na Prince George, lOst 81b...(Oliver) 1 Mr. Moseley's Richard the First, lOst Mb ... 2 Mr. J. Storey's The Victim, list 3 The following also started, but were not placed:— Captain Peel na Proceed, 12st 81b—Mr. T. Wesley na Peter Simple, lOst 91b—Mr. Buchanan's Alfred, lOst 91b —Mr. W. Wallace na Equinox, lOst 71b—Mr. Daven port's Thurgarton, lOst Mb—Mr. Tilbury's Khondooz, lOst 51b—Mr. Moseley's Jerry, lOst 31b—Mr. Harrison's Venom, lOst—Mr. J. Hoof na Profligate, 9 s t 121b—M r . W. Holman's Verax, 9st 81b. Betting-3 and 4to 1 agat Richard the First, 4to 1 agat Prince George, 4 to 1 agst Victim, 5 to 1 agst Equinox, and 7to 1 agst Alfred. Won easy by three parts of a length. Proceed only run half the distance. The Selling Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 25 added. Four miles. (11 subs.) Mr. T. Maltby's Little Fanny, lOst 71b ...(Boxall) 1 Mr. Laud's The Painter, l lst 2 Forest Boy, lOst 71b—The Rover, list—and Water loo, lOst 71b, also ran. Betting-5 to 4 agst Painter, 2to 1 agst Forest Boy, and 7to 2 agst Waterloo. Little Fanny made all the running, and won by nearly half a distance ; she was sold for 1701 The Free Handicap Hurdle Race Sweepstakes of 5 sm. each, and 40 added. Twice round and a dis. (13 Subs.) Mr. W. Archer's Teresa, lOst 91b ... (Archer) 1 Mr. Frost's Yard-arm, 9st 91b... ••• 2 Mr. W. Shirley's Novelist, lOst 121b—Mr. J. Phil lips's Tally-ho, lOst 91b—Mr. Sandbach's Hieover, lOst 81b—Mr. Drew's Widred, lOst 71b—Mr. J. Hargrave's Rochester, lOst 61b—Mr. Middleton's The Young'un, lOst—Mr. W. Mytton's Mind - your-own-Business, 10st —Mr. Brown's Vent Rien, 9st 71b—Mr. Well's Cynthia, 9st 61b—and Mr. Wildman's Megara, 9st 51b also started. Betting-2 to 1 agst Teresa, 4to 1 agst Novelist, and sto 1 agst Widred. Won easily by two lengths. A d, it 'o CHESTER CUP BETTING. 40 to 1 agst Tartar 1,000 to 15 agst Canezou 2,000 to 30 Ballinafad (offers to take) 3,000 to 45 Glutton 3,000 to 30 Melody 2,000 to 30 King of 1,000 to 10 The Hero Kildare 1,000 to 10 Ferryhill 2,000 to 30 Dough MANCHESTE Not a bet made on any e hampton Steeple Chase. a - T UE S D AY. vent, except the Wolver- PUGILISM. JAMES GRANT AND GEORGE MADDEN 'OR 251. A SIDE.—The encounter between these rival aspirants for fistic fame, took place yesterday on 'Woking-common, in presence of a numerous gathering of the admirers of the art offensive and defensive. At twenty-five minutes past eleven, a referee having been agreed on, the men stood up, Madden's corner being taken care of by Bob Fuller, the pedestrian; and Alexander Keene; that of Grant, by Turner and the well-known Jemmy Welsh. As the battle, the longest on record in the annals of the ring, proved a drawn one, we shall devote little space to its description. The men were nearly on a par as to weight and age, each drawing close upon the stipulated weight 9st. 101 b., Grant being about a pound the lighter man, and a year or two the elder. Per the first hour Grant had the advantage in the throws, Madden getting severely home on his opponent's body, and having the best of the hitting. About this time Grant hurt his right hand, and the hitting of Madden tell off almost simul taneously. The betting, which had been 6 and 7to 4 on Grant, now dropped to sto 4 and evens. The con test went on with various fluctuations, until daylight failed, when at five minutes past five o'clock, the battle having lasted the unprecedented time of five hours and forty minutes, the referee put a stop to it. The punish. ment was pretty evenly balanced; Grant having the superiority in throwing, and the least damage on the frontispiece, while Madden severely visited his adver sary's body. All bets are of course drawn with the battle, the future day for which, without doubt a distant one, if ever, will be named by the stakeholder, on conference with the pa ey r t a i ci e hh s a . atb ItTen,heweehunauutrmeavgbeeerr andmo a f y rounds a w a op s f nb l 4 ioo s tuh . a ns W et n e o were need unimpeachable, our o their lack of rapidity and effectiveness. TROTTING. NELL AND FANNY, FIVE MILES, YOB 25 SOVS. ASIDE.—The match between the above -named nags, the former going in harness, the latter in saddle, was decided yesterday, over five miles of turnpike on the western road, starting from the 15th mile on the Slough road, and trotting homewards towards London, to the tenth stone, near the Red lion, Hounslow. The grey having the option of saddle, her owner availed himself of the privilege, and put ep a jockey whose name we did not learn. Nell, who went in a light trap, was tooled by Bartley. A t f our o ' clock the word was g i ven and o ff they went , Fanny soon having a lead, which s h e con trived to k ee p. N ear home an elderly personage on of s clipped d un p o ny, took his place nearly ho in was f ro nt then Bartley, and a little in rear of the g rey, of le the driver ading ofthe some 30 yar d hindmostand despit eh horse s t e he end i et w cries e and clamour spectators, held his position till about 300 yard s fr om from the goal, hiso.al,when he pulled up short, to the immine nt d ang e r c own person and that of the mare in the match cart , w h o broke momentarily, but resumed her stride, Fanny going in a winner by 20 yards. The betting was 5t04 on the loser. DOVER.—ENCROACIMENTS Or THE SEA.—Within the last few weeks the sea has made considerable inroads on the land in front of the Esplanade and the Ord nance ground here ; and it appears to us that if we have a continuance of tides, still greater encroachments may be anticipated ; unless, indeed, the active operations now being employed by the harbour workmen in the construction of groins, and other barricades, shall be sufficient to arrest the progress of Davy Jones. Al ready half the newly formed walk at the place of which we are speaking has been washed away, and the remaining portion stands in imminent danger of sharing the same fate at every flow of the tide.—South- Eastern Gazette. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY roa JANUAE will be published on SATURDAY, the 30th instant, with a fine portrait of the Rajah Sir James Brooke, and a narrative of his reception on his return to Sarawak, and subse quent proceedings, by an officer in his suite : a new story, by a popular Author, illustrated by Leech ; a continuation of the Memoirs of Chateaubriand, written by himself and contributions by the most distin guished writers of the day.—Advertisements should be forwarded by the 23d, and bills by the 26th instant. —New Burlington-street, Dec. 13, 1848. We have authority to contradict the report that Lord Seymour is to succeed the late Mr. Charles Buller as Chief Commissioner of the Poor• laws.