The Sun. — London, England, 1835-12-05 00:00:00

:~L ~0.: ~+. PRICES OF STOCKS THI dank Stock . -.- 13 per Cent Red. S93 Rper Cent Cons shut 3% per Cent. —l Ditto Red %%3i New 314 per Cent New 3 per Cent —l Mank Long Annuiti es to expire ' Jan 5, ~: itio IN 1-16 ' Oct 10, IMO 16 13.16 : Jan. 5, 1660 Jan 5, 1880 April 5, 15.40 Jan. 5. 1870 Cranium pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS .AUstrian Bonds Belgian Bonds 9 9 %% Ditto Account. Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Acpount Chillim Bonds Ditto Account Columb an Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, It% '764 Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds. 1925 Ditto Account 3lexican Bonds. 5 per cent — i Ditto Ac: • ouut Ditto, 6 per cent Ditto Account Neapolitan THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account — Portugueseßonds — Ditto Account B3 Ditto New Bonds — Ditto Account i4N% Ditto, n per cent.; 54 1 4 31q Prussian Bonds .. Russian Bonds, 182* , lO B l4 Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1831,..44 3% 4 31 44 Ditto Account —.44 t,,i :I% 4 3Y4% French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. 4 per cent. —E —c. . S per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —f. —c. Dutch, 9.4 per cent. 543454 Ditto Account 54N Y? Ditto, 5 per cent — Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT Paid. 'Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (issued at 51. pm.) 20 British Iron Company 5O United Mexican (issued at 21. pin.) Great Western Railway Company 5 Brighton Railway Company 5 London and Blackwall Railway 8 London and Birmingham Railway Company 45 National Provincial Bank of England HAMBURG BORSEN Fl A LLE, DEC. 1. FOREIGN FUNDS. Bills. Money. Austrian Metalliryues, 5 per cent. Ditto ditto 4 per cent. Ditto ditto 3 percent. Ditto Rank Shares 1 3 ,14 1362 Russian 5 v.. , 1* cents. Metal lOOl4 103 Anglo-Russian Loan 105% 105% Paper Inscription. 6 per cent --, -- Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., tki and Ith Series Ditto, Certificates Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent O5 Ditto, 3 per cent 55% 54% Dutch 2 1 ,i per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents — Polish Donds, 3 per cents. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 7:i'tl 73 1 , Norwegian Loan of RV!, 4 per cents. Spanish, in piastres, n per Cent. — Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 45% 45% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. DAMRVIIN. DEC. 1.-13 Inm : Iwo months, 13 8%. I.Elpstc, Nov. 27.—Two months, 6 1714. STOCKHOLM. Nov. 21.—Two months. 12 I. BREMEN, Nov. 27 —Tv, o months, 611 H. ST. PETErssattann, Nov. 20—Three months, 10 11-32 5-16. Hamburg Papers,' Di c. 1. 979 COURSE tIF EXCH Amsterdam C.F 12 7 1 4 Ditto, at sight ntt crdain °U. 12 71 , ' .7, ,NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn l7l Genoa 25 1 5 Milan 'll Venice .17 , :aples 4f Palermo per oz. P 2156 Lisbon ris , ; Oporto s 4 li Rio Janeiro . '3B Bahia ... 26 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight 1 lg . Cork l!<, Antwerp l2 7 Ilom'ourg M.B. I 3 14 Altana l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Ditto .............. 9. Us 26 Bordeaux . Port 014 Maine, Ex. M 1:0 1 4 Petered ugh, ruble '1 Us. 10 0 Ikrffti Vienna, effective 11......2 M lO 10 Trie , t, ditto lO 10 Aladrid Cadiz Tiillioa rcvtoua Seville Gibra!,ar PRICE OF BULLION, PCB OZ Portugal Gold, coin .E 0 Forelen Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New MOloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silver, bars, standard J Sii4 it;!i ATER AT LONDON Dr.4E To-moitittm. 44 mintitcc after 2. lrninittrs after 3 THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE THIS EVENING will be performad the New Grand Opera, entitled THE ST,EGE OF ROCHELLE. After which, the new Grand Operatic Drama entitled THE JEWESS. To-morrow, The Siege of Rochelle, and The Jewess. MESSES MATHE WS AN YATES' THEATRE fIOYAL ADELPHI, Ender the ccl.? Managern2nt of Mrs. NIS3ETT, TII:S EVENING will be performe.l the Burletta callei THE DREAM AT SEA. After which—FAMIIS PECULIARITIES. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic Burlesque eatitlei THE JEWESS. Mr. tams, of St. James's-street, is appointed Sole Agcnt for the posat of Private Boxes: HA mittrac, Novr.mtlEn. 17, 1635. lIE TICKETS of the 67th GREAT LOT- T 1:1 of the STATE of HAMBURG, selling meet rapidly, and being neatly cleared off, HEIT. , IE BROTHERS, the CONTRACTORS, Peg to state that no time is to be lost in ordering, if desired to be obtained before a rise in price. To those remitting a 101. note without delay, they will, on executing the order, remit a surplus of by return of post. But to any person remitting 10/. after the establishment of a higher rate than the original price of Si., they will be obliged to return his own remittance, leving the order un executed. To those remitting 201., they will return 41. ; and to those re mitting 30/., they will return 61., provided they be in time for meeting attention. publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at Three o'clock. .4-, : -1" q• --•---- 'nr.:i ~.W '' • , rz ,,v,,..._e . . - . , ~,..... v • ......., .I*,-.,,14.:.• , ,, cr..1„...„‘ . 7". ) „,...c . , ~,,,, ; k ~,..•,_f , .., , t.f. i,..:, ~c,i 1 .4. 4 0,. . ... ._,. , --,...,,. v ..: .•-•••,1-,..`1! , 1',-...%._-,F - ,:,...,,..'4 , -;,--._ke. -----,z4=---=---‘z.....,-, ,e,Hr LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1835. Parliament is to meet for the despatch of business early in February, but the day fixed at the Council yesterday is not yet known, probably the 2d or 9th. Madrid papers to the 26th ult. have been received. The Address of the Proceres or Peers, in answer to the Speech of her Majesty the QUEEN REGENT from the Throne, had been agreed to ; and its publi cation will undoubtedly have a considerable effect in strengthening the bands of the Government. A copy of this Address will be found in another column. It breathes a spirit of co-operation, intelligence, liberality, and enlarged patriotism, for which we were not pre pared. Every reform promised by the Minister is received as a welcome boon, justly expected by the nation ; and others are demanded, which it must be gratifying to M. MENDIZABAL to have the power of granting. There is not the slightest disunion of opinion in any part of it. The Address of the Procuradores or Deputies will not reach London for some days yet. Though the Royal Speech was delivered on the 16th ult., the de bate on the Address of the Deputies was only to open on the 27th, and it was generally supposed that the debate would occupy two or three sittings at .the very least. Every latitude was to have been al lowed to the different orators, in order that their sentiments respecting the present Government as compared with those which preceded it since the commencement of the Regency might be made known to the country. MENDIZABAL is re solved that his Government shall be a Government founded upon public opinion, and resting, upon the expressed conviction of the Constitutional Cortes. He will be entirely guided by the national will, as made known to him through proper and legitimate channels. The accounts from the Basques received in Madrid, were extremely favourable to the QUEEN'S Government. The insurgents had recently suffered severe losses, and were unable to keep their ground on the appearance of the QUEEN'S troops. The whole of the Paris papers papers of Thursday have been received this morning. Their contents, notwith standing the trials going on before the Court of Peers, are less important and less interesting than the public could reasonably be prepared to expect. A war between France and the United States is still talked of, and many look upon it as inevit a bl e . If America pass an Act of Intervention, though no reprisals should be allowed by Congress, France will instantly declare war. The fishing fleet of France will supply her with 15,000 able seamen, besides those which already man the regular war-ships of the Government. This will give France an overwhelming superiority over America, should that power fail in securing the co-operation of any of the European Governments. There is no news of importance from the north of Spain : PARIS, DEC. 3.—A letter from Havre of the 2d of De cember says :—" Mr. Barton, Ambassador of the United States in France, arrived here yesterday from Paris, in tending to embark to-morrow on board the American packet Albany, for New York. Thus the statement of some journals, that Mr. Barton was to go to St. Peters burg, if he left Paris, falls to the ground." The letters from Havre of yesterday say that the sales of DAY AT JNE O'CLOCK. India Stoek shut Ditto Bonds '' 4 pm. South Sea Stock - Old Annuities - New Ditto - :3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... Exch. Bills, £l,OOO l3 14 pm. Ditto 500 l3 14 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial ..... Ditto Advertised . put. Bank Stock for Account — India Stock for Account.. — Consols for Acconnt...9l% 1 li 1 % THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1835 cotton were very brisk. Between seven and eight thousand bales had been sold in four days. The prices had risen. We have a letter from Bayonne, dated Nov. 30th, to the following effect : General Harispe has taken a vigorous step. I stated to you the situation of affairs at the Bridge of Behobia, but the General has taken the shortest way to prevent a con flagration. Yesterday morning he sent his aide-de-camp, M. Bois Lecomte to signify to the Carlist General, in the name of the French Government, that he must immediately demolish the batteries which be had erected against the Christino fort ; and that if he did not, the French troops would save him the trouble. The Carlist officer an swered that he must give an account to His Majesty Don Carlos, and that he could not return an answer till nine o'clock this morning. MeantiMe, the General, to support his intimation, sent last- night all the troops and artillery that could be spared, with every thing necessary to open this little campaign. But the Carlists have been more prudent than there was reason to expect, and ,have withdrawn their cannon. I 'do not know whether, after so striking a proof of good faith, people will continue to spread the report of a pretended connivance of the French Government with the Pretender ; but it is probable that Mr. Villiers will take care that the Christino Journals shall insinuate that this step of France had no other object than to hinder the fine defence which the troops in the fort intended to make. At all events, here is a bare show of intervention, which has had more effect than the whole of the half military, half smuggling English expedition. So true it is, that it is only France that can favour or injure the party of the Queen ; for with respect to the power and resources of England, it would be but sport for the Carlists."—Mes sager, Dec. 3. FRENCH FUNDS.—PAnts, DECEMBER 3. Five per Cents., 1071 ii c. 75c. 80c. 75c, Four per Cents., 09f. Three per Cents., 80f. 30c. 2 - c. 10e. sc. 79f. 05c. Bank Actions, 2,125 f. Rente de Naples, 98f. 80c. Mc. '7sc. 7ec. 65c. Roman Fire per Cents., 101% 101. nova! Spanish Loan, 33%. Rente Perpet. d'Espaytie, Five per Cents., 35. Portuguese Three per Cents. 54%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, t - 25c. s:c. ; money, 25' 50c. Three months, paper, 25r. 40c.; money, 25f. 35c rn f'S Aufl.ergivre: _ Boutin THREE O'CLOCK.—To-day there has been a con siderable fall in the French 3 per Cents. They opened at 80f. 55c., and went down to 80f. for the end of this month. Some bargains have been done at 79f. 95c. It is positively asserted at the Bourse, that Russia will guarantee a loan for Don Carlos. Spanish stock has, however, not been affected much by this assertion, nor by the state of the French market. QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 1081. —c. ; Three per Cents., sof. sc. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, 22 ; Gueb bards, 35!; Differes, 1131 ; New Loan, —; Actives, 45 ; Passives, 13-A ; Ducats, 98 20; Romans, 101 ; Pedros, 821; Belgians, —; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, —f. .—c. ; Miguels, 21+ ; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, —; Con tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, The following letter, upon which we have a few brief observations to make, for the information of the sober-minded, liberal people of England and Scot land, appeared in the Dublin Evening Mail of Wed nesday last : " 15, Merrion-square, Dublin, Nov. 14. " My Lord—Having been professionally employed by a considerable number of the Clergy, and more particularly of the county of Tipperary and King's county, to institute pro ceedings in the Court of _Exchequer for recovery of arrears of Tithe Composition, I have, in several cases, experienced great difficulty, and in some found it impossible to procure persons to undertake the service of law process on the parties, unless protection should be guaranteed to them! whilst employed on that duty. " As - all the Clergy for whom I am professionally con cerned, have resolved, in no case, to proceed by distress, thereby avoiding disagreeable collision with the land occu piers, and have determined to proceed in one (f, the Superior Courts to recover their arrears, I beg leave, on their. part, to request that your Lordship will inform me whether, in cases where an information on oath shall have been previously lodged with a Magistrate, deposing that the informant is apprehensive of personal danger and violence in making the attempt to exe cute or serve law process, the aid of police or military will be afforded to protect the persons, and preserve the lives of those who may be engaged in performing that duty ?—I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's very obedient servant, " WM. SMITH. " To the Right Hon. Lord Morpeth, &c. &c. Dublin Castle." The Rev. Turin HAMILTON, the Rector of two parishes in Ireland, stated in evidence before a Com mittee of the House of Commons, that a law process for tithe in the Court of Exchequer was always at tended with an expense to the defendant of from twenty-five to thirty pounds and upwards I This process may be, and almost always is, entered upon for a tithe demand not exceeding five pounds ; so that it frequently happens that for a few shillings, a poor Roman Catholic is deprived of his whole property by these reverend harpies, and turned adrift on the world to beg or starve. For him there is no mercy—no commiseration. The ecclesiastical tyrant who reaps where he does not sow—who gathers where he has not scattered—might recover his tithe by a summary process at an expense to the defendant of a few shil lings ; but that would not sate his appetite for plun der. Amidst the dangers that threaten them, the Protestant priesthood of Ireland go on in the same same blind, destructive, and Anti-Christian course which they did in the brightest days of Orange ascendancy. They go on—as Churchman ever have went on—regardless of the past, and heedless of the future. Lessons of wisdom, drawn from the experience of the past, are of no avail to them. The Protestant clergy of Ireland, like the Catholic priesthood of France before the first Revolution, cannot be made to see that the old world, in whose knowledge they were such adepts, has passed away, and that they are now surrounded by a new order of things. The term of ecclesiastical domination has expired. Kingdoms can be no longer compelled to pay for what they do not want ; and the proper esti mate of the value of all services must be left to be de termined by those who benefit by them. Either the State must defray the expense of all religious worship, or it must leave all to the voluntary' support of the community. On no principle of justice can the Dis senter or Roman Catholic be charged with the main tenance of a Protestant hierarchy. Mr. SMITH writes to the Lord-Lieutenant, as the system of clerical tyranny which he details was neither new nor unusual in Ireland. All the clergy for whom Mr. SMITH is professionally employed have " deter mined" upon proceeding against their parishioners in the " Superior Courts"—or in other words, in ruining, by law expenses, the Catholic peasantry. Every adhe rent of the old tyrannical system must, as a matter of course, be supported by pittances wrung from the poor tithe-payer. The Orange parson is not content with his share of the plunder, unless some briefless barrister who claims kindred with him, as a relative or a brothe r Orangeman, assists in pocketing whatever remains of the spoil. This scandalous system is particularly preva lent in those counties in Ireland in which there are al most no Protestant residents. Mr. SMITH himself instances two such counties, as districts in which he was employed to ruin the poor people by this infamous mode of tithe collection. And yet a priesthood capable of this enormous— this profligate abuse of power, have the insolence to parade its sufferings before every eye, and in the name of a merciful GOD, to appeal to the Christian compassion of Englishmen I Yes, these vultures who thus claim protection, while preying upon the vitals of the orphan and the widow, have the effrontery to represent themselves as martyrs to the cause of Gospel truth and righteousness I But they will not succeed in their evil courses. They have mocked the British people long enough ; and if, in future, they require support, they must seek it among their beneficed brethren in England, not among the people. Men who will not themselves com passionate the starving poor of Ireland—men who gather wealth sprinkled with the blood of the widow's children, as happened in the case of the poor woman Ryan —men who have the heart to instruct their agent to pray the Government to place at their disposal the certain means of provoking bloodshed, ought to blush at the idea of an appeal to the charity of the noble minded people of England. The request thus made by the Protestant Priesthood j of Ireland to the Government, through their agent Mr. SMITH, has been complied with by the LORD I LIEUTENANT. What, in Heaven's name, can ac count for this ? We certainly know of nothing. The LORD-LIEUTENANT cannot be ignorant of what will be the result of this official act of temerity. There will be another Rathcormac, followed perhaps by another fierce appeal to the passions of the populace for a repeal of the Union. Lord MULGRAVE must rid himself of some of his present advisers if he would not peril the stability of the present Government. The tithe-prosecuting system must be abandoned. The Irish people will lose their lives, rather than be com pelled to pay tithes in the manner in which they have hitherto been collected ; and it is insanity in any Go vernment to oppose them in the fulfilment of a just resolution. We can better afford to sacrifice tithes, than we can to give up Ireland ; and one or the other is inevitable. We call the attention of Lord MEL BOURNE, and his Majesty's Government here, to this very important transaction. Launceston Papers, Van Diemen's Land, to the 3d of July, and Hobart Town Papers, to July 10th, have been received at the North and South American Cof fee House. The information they bring is of a me lancholy nature, as will be seen by the following DREADFUL SHIPWRECK. " The shipwreck almost contiguous to our island (Van Diemen's Land) of the transport ship Neva, Captain Peck, who left Cork on the .18th of Jan. last, bound to Sydney, having on board 150 female prisoners, with 33 of their chil dren, 9 free women, with 22 children, and a crew of 26 persons, (under the charge of Dr. Stevenson—they had pro ceeded prosperously on their voyage till Wednesday, May 13th, last, and being by their reckoning about ninety miles from King's Island, so early as two in the morning the men on the look out discovered land in sight, and about four a reef of rock suddenly appeared right a-head. Orders were instantly given to tack about ; but while yet in stays, the vessel struck and unshipped the rudder, and was driven upon her larboard bow with violence on the rocks. She immediately bilged. The boats were speedily lowered, but had no sooner reached the water than they were upset, and in a few minutes more the vessell parted and fell asunder in four pieces, when, dread ful to relate, with the exception of 22 persons who clung to the fragments, the whole on board perished. After enduring great hardships, the survivors reached King's Island, but seven of the number were so exhausted, that they died soon after wards, leaving only fifteen saved out of the entire complement of 241, namely, 6 of the passengers and 9 of the crew. The Reformers of 'West Gloucester will, we trust, be on the look-out for some trust-worthy competent person to represent their interests in Parliament. The Registration has put quite efficient weapons into their hands, and they have only to wield them with proper energy to be successful in the election which is shortly to take place. We have heard more than one Liberal Candidate spoken of; but no one, s'e believe, is as yet definitely fixed upon. The sooner, however, the West Gloucestershire electors come to a decision on this point, the better. There is nothing like taking time by the fore-lock. They may rely on it that the Tories are on the alert. These men know well the advantage of being first in the field ; and the Reformers cannot do better. than take a leaf out of their book. The distress of the Irish Clergy has been occasioned solely by the Tories. ',That is admitted by every:person who is capable of exercising an unbiasSed thought upon the subject. In perfect accordance with the principle which has ever been the rule of action with that selfish faction—namely, to stick at nothing by which their own interests may be advanced—they re jected the Irish Tithe Bill, a measure which, while it closed the bleeding wounds of Ireland, would have provided a better and more secure maintenance for the working clergy of the Protestant Church there than they have ever yet received ; and what has been the con sequence ? Exactly what the Tories themselves knew and foretold, and intended. The Irish clergy are reduced to a state little better than that of paupers. The only plan by which the tithes could have been rendered available to their support, was that which his Majesty's Ministers proposed, and which the House of Commons sanctioned. This the Tory Peers knew full well, and in order to escape the odium of rejecting such a measure, they had re course to the hypocritical pretence of defending the in terests of the Church—of protecting the revenues of the Church from violation—as if the surplus revenues of the Church could have been appropriated to a better or nobler purpose than the education of the Irish people. However, the Tories carried their point, and they are now endeavouring to turn to account the distress which their own unfeeling conduct has produced. The sufferings of the Irish Clergy are now attempted to be made subservient to the political interests of the party. The "No Popery" cry having failed, is changed into " Protestantism in danger." The words are altered—the meaning is the same. But we have no fear that this deception will be success ful. The charitable will contribute to relieve the wants of the Irish clergy, without being persuaded that Protes tantism is in the least danger from the Reform of its abuses; nor will the benevolence of the English people be stinted, should they see, as we are afraid they will see, that those who have been the most forward in oppos ing the Tithe Bill, and the loudest in lamenting the suf ferings which in so doing they have been the means of inflicting on the Clergy of Ireland, are not the readiest to open their purses. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. _ - The report (a stockjobbing manoeuvre) spread late yesterday afternoon, of a battle in the North of Spain, which lasted for twenty-four hours, and the retreat of the Carlists, had the effect of improving the Spanish Securities ; but this not being confirmed this morning, and the receding of Spanish Bonds at Paris, have caused the Bonds to be exceedingly heavy—Left off at 444, and are at present 434 ; Portuguese, 84 ; Three per cents, 541 ; Mexican, s7i; Colombian, 31i ; Dutch two and a half per cents, 541. e ; Five per cents, 100 k k. Consols which closed at 914 a, opened this morning at 91+ ' • at present, 91k sellers, with a heavy market, owing to the French Funds coming lower ; Omnium, 3 1 prem. ; Ex chequer Bills, 13 15; India Bonds, 2 4; Bank Stock, 210 211. The express from Paris states that a report prevailed on the Bourse that Russia was going to guarantee a loan for Don. Carlos, which eaused the depression—Five per cents. 108 ; Three per cents, 80f. 85c. _ _ _ HALF-PAST ONE. Cape of Good Hope Papers were this day received at the North and South American Coffee House to the 24th of Sep tember. Another attempt is making to establish a Joint Stock Bank at the Cape, and from the number of respectable names attached to the prospectus, little doubt is entertained of its success. The Graham's Town Journal of the 10th of September says--" That his Excellency the Governor having concluded a treaty of peace with the Caffre chiefs of the Gaika tribe, lately at war, hostilities will cease throughout the province of Queen Adelaide, with this tribe. "We have had heavy rains during the past week. We have only a few details from the frontier this week. No principle either of peace or of war has as yet been made public officially." Both the British and Foreign Markets continue very heavy. Consols ari tlhiethmloirnttlie or nothingngprice,9 doing.lkforthe Account, and Reduced,B9 with Omnium, s a t premium. Exchequer Bills, 13 14; Bank Stock, 210 211 ; India Bonds, 2 4 ; India Stock, 255 g. In the Foreign market Spanish Active Bonds, which were in the morning 44k, have receded to 43ii ; Portuguese 83,1-; Three per Cents., 53i ; Mexican 37i ; Colombian 31i ; Dutch 21 per Cents. 544 ; Five per Cents., 1008}. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for the Account, 91k. THE LACE TRADE.—The general state of the lace trade is at present flat. The principal sales of plain net have been from the power machines. The quillings most in demand, are ten and eleven point slack net. Fine quillings are not in demand. In the fancy branch there is more doing, particularly in new patterns, and in Grecian net, both plain and quillings. Some business has been done in cotton blond. At this season of the year, much activity is not expected to prevail. The stock on hands of brown net, is not considered large.—Nottinghanz Review. In the neighbourhood of Richmond ladies may be seen, in their summer attire, driving open carriages ; and, .with the exception of the trees being denuded of leaves, there is little or no appearance of the usual characteristics of December. ROLLS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) MOSCATA AND OTHERS V. INGLEBY AND OTHERS. His Honour, the MASTER of the ROLLS, gave judgment this morning in this case, which came before the Court upon demurrer. The bill was filed by the plaintiffs, who were several of the shareholders of a Mining Company esta blished several years ago, against the defendants, the Di rectors of that Company, for the purpose of compelling them to pay to the bankers of the former a sum of 43,000/., the value of the calls of 8,790 shares. When the Company was first formed, it was agreed that it should consist of 20,000 share holders, and that a call should be made of .5/. a share. The plaintiffs by their bill stated that the defendants, in stead of issuing the whole of the shares to the public (in expectation of their shortly being at a premium), reserved for themselves 8,790 shares. This, the Plaintiffs con tended was a fraud upon them, and they filed their bill for the purpose of obtaining the value of the shares and in terest, together with an injunction, restraining the defend ants from destroying the books of the concern. To this bill the defbndants put in a demurrer, for want of parties, the validity or invalidity of which the Court was now called upon to decide. His Honour, after going through the facts of the case at some length, stated it to be his opinion that the demurrer was good, inasmuch as it would be im possible that a suit, having so many parties, could ever be brought to an effective conclusion. If the plaintiffs were entitled to any relief, it must be very different to that sought by the present bill. The demurrer must, therefore, be allowed. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE CORPORATION OF LIVER. POOL. HIS HONOUR also gave judgment in this case, the short facts of which we gave yesterday. Our readers will recol lect that it was an application for an injunction to restrain the Corporation of Liverpool from lending to the Grand Junction Railway Company a sum of 105,0001. His Ho nour said he had carefully read over the Act of Parliament, incorporating the Railway Company, and as that Company was bound by it to pay off any mortgages, previous to any other incumbrances on their property, he could not but think the investment of the money a secure one ; and such being his opinion, he must refuse the application for the injunction. KINGS BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) THE KING V. DUNCOMBE. Mr. THESIGER (with whom was Mr. CLARKSON), stated the case. It was an indictment at the instance of the So ciety for the Suppression of Vice, against Edward Dun combe, a bookseller, of Middle-row, Holborn, for exposing for sale books and prints of an immoral description. The attention of the Society had been called to the nuisance by the authorities of the parish in which the defendant carried on business, and he trusted the Jury would mark their de testation of the conduct of the defendant, and by their ver dict prevent the repetition of a nuisance which had been productive of the most mischievous and demoralizing effects. John Turner, a person employed by the Society, deposed to having made 'purchases of several books at the shop of the defendant, for one of which he had paid 21. and for another 7s. Andrew Collard, constable of the parish of St. John, Clerkenwell, was formerly employed by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Went to the defendant's shop, in Middle-row, Holborn, on the 7th February last, and pur chased an improper book for 7s. On the 12th February he purchased another, and on the 25th purchased two others from the defendant in person, who gave' him a receipt. John Blaksney, a constable, accompanied the lase witness on three several occasions to the defendant's shop, and saw him make the purchases. William Green, a constable, also made purchases of books at the defendant's shop. The defendant, who had been in Court at the com mencement of the proceedings, and who had made an application for the postponement of the trial, was then called, but did not appear. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty. WATTS V. FRAZER AND ANOTHER.-LIBEL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (with whom was Sir F. POL LOCK and Mr. BAnsToik) stated the case. It was an action for libel, brought by Alaric Alexander Watts, Esq., the proprietor and editor of the Literary Souvenir, against the publisher and printer of Frazer's Magazine. He had the honour to represent Mr. Watts, a gentleman of un blemished character and high literary attainments, who was driven to bring the present action, because, if he were to submit to the imputations cast upon him in the libels com plained of, he would be wholly 'unfit to associate with those who esteem, love, and respect him. He had been compelled to come forward in defence of that property upon which himself and his family depended, and for the attacks made upon his character and property he appealed to a jury of his countrymen for ample compensation. The publica tion of which Mr. Watts was proprietor had gained very considerable celebrity, acquired an extensive circulation, and had been a source of honour and profit to himself. The principle upon which these Annuals were published was to unite- amusement and instruction—literature and the fine arts, by the insertion of poems and tales illustrated by en gravings of the highest character. To conduct a publication of that nature required considerable talent, as it was a con test in which, with fair play, success would always attend upon merit. Hitherto the Annual edited by Mr. Watts had found favour with the public, because he had intro duced to its notice and employed those who were well known for high literary talent, and he had also the assistance of the first artists in the engravings which were introduced in his work. Mr. Watts himself, from time to time,wrote articles in it, which were very much approved of, and some of them met the highest applause of the first literary characters of the day. He had the high honour of being most intimate with Wordsworth, Southey, and all the celebrated writers, with whom he was engaged in honourable competition. The de fendant, J.Fraser,was the proprietor, and the other defendant, Moyes, was the printer of Fraser's Magazine, and of that publication he could say nothing, except from what ap peared in the two Numbers that would be laid before them ; but, judging from them, he would say, that it was one of the most libellous, and one of the most reckless pub lications that had been laid before the public. It had a very extensive circulation, which might probably arise from the characteristics which he had mentioned, and any libels appearing in such a publication were likely to influence an extensive body of readers. In the numbers of this Magazine for Nov. 1834, and June, 1835, they would find two most unfounded and injurious attacks upon the property of Mr. Watts. That in the November number was brought forward under the guise— the artful guise—of a criticism upon the Annuals. The author had, he admitted, an undoubted right to criticise these publications, so that he did so fairly and candidly, and without being actuated by malice, or with a view of doing a personal injury to the individual whose work was criticised. He should be the last person to make any ob servations which Would limit in any degree the power of political or literary discussion. Let public men defend their characters by their public conduct—let their public con duct be canvassed with the greatest severity—let opinion be free, but let all men abstain from private slander, and not impute crime to individuals, which would render them unworthy to associate with men of character and integrity. Criticism also should be free ; but no one should be allowed, under the guise of a criticism, either as an avowed or secret enemy, to attack the property and cha racter of the writer. It would be for the Jury to judge whether the articles in question were not intended to injure the property and character of Mr. Watts, and thereby put an end to the sale of his publications. The first was pub lished in November,lB34, at the time the Annuals for 1835 come out, and the scheme upon which the attack was founded was this—to make pretended extracts from the Literary Souvenir of the dullest, stupidest, and most vapid description, and thus induce the readers of Fraser's Maga zine to believe that they were taken from Mr. Watts' An nual, and that they were publishing a fair criticism upon the contents of the work. Anything more unfair it was impossible to imagine, because, if articles were r ea lly se lected and commented upon with severity, the plaintiff would have had no right to complain. But without ex- , tracting one single line that really appeared in the plain tiff's Annual, there is a series of stupid, vapid, con temptible extracts given, and these are palmed 'upon the public as from the Literary Souvenir, and a fatal blow is thereby given to the reputation of Mr. Watts.—(The Learned Counsel here proceeded to read extracts from the November Number of Fraser's Magazine —th e poetry w i t h a sing-song nasal drone , which excited much laughter.) At that very time the publication of Mr. Watts was just issued ; it contained twenty-five plates, all by the first artists—steel engravings, and the articles were by persons of the highest talent ; some idea of which may be formed from the fact, that to get up this volume requires an expenditure of from two to three thousand pounds. It must, therefore, be in ferred, that the publication in th e defendant's Magazine had a manifest tendency to prevent the sale o f th e Anual, and bring ruin on the plaintiff. It might be said that the article was fair criticism, and that there was nothing of personal abuse against Mr. Watts ; that the defendant adopted the advice of Lord Ellenborough, to abuse the works, but to abstain from personal slander on the indivi dual ; but the June Number was not of this character, for that contained a caricature of the plaintiff, d es i gnated as " A l ar i c Attila Watts, editor of the " Literary Souvenir," and re presented him " with a picture under each arm, and flying down stairs, with caution depicted on his countenance." It also contained some allusions to the wife of the plaintiff, and aspersions upon the character of the plaintiff generally. These libels were of such a nature as to render it necessary for the plaintiff to take notice of them. The liberty of the Press was concerned in its licentiousness being restrained. The plaintiff had proceeded by action for the purpose of giving the defendants an opportunity of justifying these charges, fth ey could. did not bring the action for the pur -1 NE o'CLOC: Per Share. 1127 v, z 11!, 4 8 2114 pose of putting money in his pocket, but for the purpose of vindicating his character, and that could only be done by the Jury showing that they considered he had been most deeply injured, and that he was entitled at their hands to ample compensation. Richard Haines, a medical student, deposed to having purchased the two numbers of Fraser's Magazine, contain ing the articles complained of, at the shop of the defendant, 115, Regent-street. _ George Henshall was directed, in Decembe3, 1832, by the plaintiff, to call upon Mr. Moyes, the printer of Fraser's Magazine, to complain of an article reflecting upon Mrs. Watts. Mr. ERLE, for the defendants,. admitted that Moyes was the publisher of the Magazine. The witness stated that the office of Mr. Watts was at 1, Crane -court, Fleet-street. The United Service Gazette was published there, also the Alfred and Old England news papers, with which, he believed, the plaintiff was connected. The Satirist was never published there, to witness's know ledge ; he never knew that the plaintiff was connected with the Satirist. Several country newspapers are printed at the same machine, and sent down to the country to their respective towns. Among these the witness enumerated the Szirrey Standard, the Dover Telegraph, the Oxford Conservative, the West Devon Standard, the Blackburn Standard, the Worcester Guardian, the Greenwich Guar dian, and the Leicester Herald. John Harman was formerly joint proprietor of the Leeds Intelligenecr. Mr. Watts was connected with it, and deft it of his own accord. Mr. Howe is connected with Whittaker's publishing establishment ; the Literary Souvenir is published there. After the appearance of Fraser's Magazine for November, some orders for the Souvenir were withdrawn. The ex pense of getting up such a work as that of the plaintiff must be between two and three thousand pounds. - Mr. ERLE addressed the Jury for the defendants. The case of the plaintiff had been introduced by all the elo quence of abuse upon the defendants, and he was the more surprised at this, when he recollected that the plaintiff was for many years before the public as a poet, author, and the editor of many newspapers and annuals, and therefore that he could have no right to complain of attacks upon his public character. One of the defendants was the editor of Fraser's Magazine, and the other was a poor industrious man, far removed by his sphere of life from those bickerings and contentions. It had been asserted, on the other side, that if the real author of the article was given up, the pre sent action would not have been brought ; but the fact was, there never was any application to Mr. Fraser on the subject. He admitted that there was an imaginary article on the plaintiff's annual, published by the defendant, but it was no more aimed at his, than any other of these publica tions ; it was not intended to injure its sale, 'but to ridi cule a style in Mr. Watts' publication which the reviewer thought might well be amended. That would be at once perceived by the Jury, on looking at the entire article, which represented a convivial meeting of the well-known writers in Fraser, and a wager as to who should write a critique upon the Annuals, all of which were treated in the same laughable and ridiculous style. The poetry (which the Learned Counsel here read) was mock-heroic, and because it was so, the plaintiff called upon the Jury to give him large damages. When the little prattle of children in domestic life was printed and published and put up in gilding and elegant binding, had not the critic a right to say that was too ridiculous, and should be corrected. They were all aware of the influence 'of re viewers—many saw with their eyes, and when these re viewers thought proper to find fault with particular sorts of style, was Mr. Watts to claim immunity from that criti cism to which all public writers were liable ? There was no proof of any loss sustained by the plaintiff, and the fact was that the critique was published a month before the book itself came out : it did not come out till December 20, 1834, and if there was any falling off, its lateness in coming into the market was the true way of accounting for it. With respect to the second article—the caricature—that, he would prove, was not prepared by the defendant, but by Mr. Hermandel, the lithographist ; and if that was proved, the defendant must be acquitted upon this count. It would be the just penalty which Mr. Watts would pay, for at tempting to mix up a poor man, such as Moyes, with these literary squabbles, and endeavouring to fix upon him the payment of heavy damages. - The case is not likely to terminate till a late hour, the defendant having several witnesses to examine. EXCHEQUER COURT.--(THIS DAY. REDFERN V. BRADLEY. This was an action to recover compensation in damages for an injury done to the plaintiff's eye, by being cut with a whip. Mr. HUMFREY said the plaintiff sought compensation for one of the most wanton and dangerous assaults he had ever heard of. The plaintiff was a coachman. He was on the stand in Piccadilly on the 7th of March, 1834. About seven o'clock a person came along at a most furious rate, in a gig drawn by a grey horse. He was flourishing his whip about on all sides of him, and on coming opposite to the plaintiff, he made a cut at him. The whip caught him in the eye, and inflicted such an injury as for a long time to make it a matter of difficulty to say whether it would ever recover. The person who inflicted the injury drove on at the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour. A person named Prior, who was unacquainted with the plaintiff, seeing the wantonness of the defendant, took a cab and followed him to Newgate-street, but was unsuccessful in his pursuit. On his return, in Newport Market he saw the same vehicle, standing at the door of a cheesemonger. He went in, and on seeing the driver of it, was convinced that he was the same person who had done the injury. Plaintiff now sought to recover the expenses he had been put to during his recovery, and. such other damages as the Jury thought the case entitled him to. Mr. Prior, and Markham, the man who drove the cab to Newgate-street, proved the case as stated. In their cross examination they said they had a very indistinct view of the defendant, as it was rather dark. They found a gig with a grey horse in Newgate-street, but it was , not the one they were in search of. Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS addressed the Jury for the de fendant, who felt very anxious to clear himself from such a charge as was brought against him. He was out in his gig on the day in question, but he was not in Piccadilly, further than crossing the end of it at Regent -street. He was no where near the scene of the assault. Unfortunately he had no one with him, but he would prove that the defendant was perfectly sober on the day in question, and that when he ar rived at Mr. Allwright's shop, where the other witnesses found him, his horse was in a state of coolness, that would convince the Jury it was impossible that it could have been driven at the rate of ten miles an hour as the mis creant who inflicted the injury had been doing. He would further prove that the defendant at once gave his address, and denied that he had done such an action as was imputed to him, or that he had been in that part of Piccadilly at all. Though he was not in a situation to prove the fact of his having come to Newport -street in a different direction, still he hoped he would so far convince the Jury of the impossibility of the defendant having com mitted this assault, that they would at once give him their verdict. Mr. HUMFREY replied. His LORDSHIP summed up, and the Jury found a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the party had not been identified. His LORDSHIP refused to certify that the case was a fit one for special jury. We are grieved to learn that Lord Vernon, at the last accounts received, was suffering so violently from dysen tery as to leave small hopes of his Lordship's recovery: The Emperor of Russia is endeavouring to . expel the Roman Catholic religion from Poland, in favour of the Greek Church. The process, like every process resorted to by the Autocrat, is harsh and tyrannical, and the object is one which can scarcely interest any person but himself and his successors. THE DISOWNED, BY EDWARD LYTTON BUL WER, ESQ.—Like the " Pelham" of the same highly-gifted author, this fascinating novel is now presented to the public by Mr. Colburn, in his " Modern Novelists," at one-fifth of its original cost. It is announced to be comprised in six Numbers (three of which have already appeared), at One Shilling each, with five elegant embellishments by Finden. The " Disowned" contains no exaggerated pictures of human nature, no glaring and meretricious representations of high life, no false gildings of unworthy actions and prin ciples ; but embodies scenes of real life, clothed in that rich and flowing diction, and that classical elegance for which Mr. Bulwer stands unrivalled among st living authors. A short time since as Mr. Ingle, a medical gentle man, of Lynn, was passing along the market, he' casually noticed a stone lying upon a broker's stall, which he pur chased of the broker for nine shillings. Some lapidaries upon seeing it afterwards, thought it seemed to be of more value than its appearance at first denoted, and it was sent for inspection to where the quality and worth of such things are minutely understood ; and report has stated it to be worth several hundred pounds.—NoVolk Chronicle. FATAL ACCIDENT.—In consequence of a defi ciency of water to work Mr. Shoot's paper-mill, at Wat ford, Essex, on Tuesday, four boys and a man were engaged to tread the great wheel (in the manner of the tread mill), when the stream suddenly increased, and flowed in with such force, as to carry them over the wheel. They were got out as ,speedily as possible, but were all se verely hurt and mangled, and one of the boys died in a few hours. The others are likely to recover.—Suffolk Chronicle. SHEERNESS.—The small pox is prevailing to a considerable extent in this place, and very many fatal cases have occurred, chiefly amongst children.—Kentish Gaze* LITERATURE. THE ANGLER'S SOUVENIR. Tilt, London. 1835. The little volume before us is profusely ernbel lished with a variety of engravings relative to that art of which old Isaac Walton, the pastoral Cockney, was so distinguished a professor. is a very elegant trifle, by no means profound in its display of piscatory science; but well worth read' ing, • from the lively style in which. it is written , and the mass of anecdotal matter with which it is di' versified. FINE ARTS. GALLERY OF MODERN BRITISH ARTISTS. Tilt : London, 1835. The idea of this work is excellent, and the excetP tion being not a whit inferior to the conception, we see no reason why it should not meet with such a cis' culation as shall repay the publisher for the expense' and time, and labour it must have cost him to bring i t out. The volume, which is a good sized quarto' splendidly bound in green leather, and possessing very becoming drawing-room exterior, contains sped' mens of many of the best paintings of our modern ar t " ists, engraved, generally speaking, in a style of superior ability, and such as conveys a very vivid idea of, the peculiarities of the originals. We have here Roberts° fine sketch of Melrose Abbey, immortalized in S c ott?, " Lay of the Last Minstrel," and one o f th e finest, if not the finest, monastic ruins in Noah Britain ; Cat' termole's Warwick Castle, which he who has never seen, has a rare treat in store for him ; Nash's Christopher Sly and the Hostess ; Stanfield's well' known St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall ; Bonnington's Bruges, one of that lamented artist's happiest and most characteristic efforts ; Havell's Tivoli ; together with a variety of other engravings, thirty-five in number' which will call up agreeable recollections in the minds of those who have seen the original designs. O f these numerous and well-chosen engravings our favour rite is the view of Broadstairs, which has been exe cuted by Floyd, from an original design furnished by Brandard. The cheerful and sunny effect of this pie" ture, is singularly fclicitolis. The town itself is placed in the back-ground, the fore ground being made 11 1 ) of the tall, winding cliffs by which you approach it from Ramsgate ; and its monotonous aspect being re" lieved by a gracefully disposed group, who are s eated on the heights looking abroad over the world of waters which stretch away into endless expanse, before an d beyond them. A not less picturesque object is the littl e watering-place, with the male and female figure s pacing along its elevated terrace, and its miniature , wooden harbour, where just one small vessel or two are lying at anchor. There is, however, one de' feet in the peice. The cliffs in the fore-ground have not sufficient elevation ; nor are the sands so readily visible from the summits as they are here represented to be. The sketch of Waltham Cross, as thi s fine Gothic monument most probably appeared at tile period of its first erection, forms the subject of .00e of Clarke's most pleasing designs. Its rich, and somewhat florid architecture must have cost the artist much time and trouble ; but he has overcome the di' fficulty, and represented it in all its minuteness. Hurt Castle is a spirited sea-piece, not unworthy of Daniel) by Vickers, and is engraved by Floyd. The water looks as if full of movement, with a deep, cloudy shadow hanging on it, which the engraver has repia sented with considerable skill. We have mentioned some of the ablest of these pictures, and shall merely add, that each is accompanied by .a brief literary ex"planation. FINDEN'S BYRON BEAUTIES. PAirs 12, 13. Tilt, London. 1835. A work on the same principle as the female portraits of the Waverley Novels, and brought out, if we mis take not, by the same indefatigable publisher. The portraits, of course, are all ideal, but they give one s very fair idea of the character of Byron's heroines. To our liking, the best by many degrees in the collection i s Wood's picture of Tereza, for whom Mazeppa formed that disastrous attachment which occasioned his compul sory trip into the Ukraine on the back of a wild horse. The face is one of most exquisite delicacy, the figure_per fect in symmetry, and the attitude full of freedom and elegance. The extreme simplicity of Tereza's a ttire greatly heightens the effect of this agreeable picture. Of Laura, the coquettish heroine of ‘c Beppo," we cannot speak so favourably. She looks less like an arch, sprightly coquette, than one disordered in her intellects. Her hair, too, is dressed after the presen absurd fashion, which is an anachronism, and in v ery bad taste. The work is one which will bind up very well with Murray's octavo editions of Byron's Poems' SWISSERLAND—Parts 16 17. Virtue, London, 1835. Among other choice sketches of Alpine scenery' these parts contain two views, one of Mount Blanc, from the Jura ; and the other of the Castle of Chillon by moonlight, which will impress all who have ever seen the imposing scenes themselves, with a strong sense of their exact resemblance. The first is marked by all the sternest features of solitude and deso' lation. The Sovereign of the Swiss Alps, crowned with eternal snows, rears his head high above the region of the clouds ; and from the elevation at which the spectator is supposed to stand, even that inland sea, the lake of Geneva itself, seems dwarfed into the dimensions of a Hampstead or Clapham pond. The Castle of Chillon is of a milder and more pleasing character, and the sombre shadows thrown by the precipitous mountains across the water are skilfully defined by the engraver. The rest of the sketches hav e no thi ng about them sufficiently m a rked to demand especial notice. THE CONSEQUENCE OF DRIVING THINGS OFF.—Moon. London, 1835. A very clever picture, by Chalon, representing 3 family, consisting of a gentleman, his wife, and two children, shouting and bawling after a stage-coach, which was to have taken them up at a certain spot 01 1 the high road, but which, in consequence of their being ten minutes behind their time, has gone off without them. You just see the coach mounting a hill, in the intermediate distance, which of course adds to the tribulation of the belated family, who are in hopes, by a series of combined shouts, to persuade the coachman to stop ; but in vain, for none are so. deaf as those who will not hear, and honest John is evidently in this last predicament. The attitudes of the family —papa hoisting up his umbrella as a signal of distress ; mama waving her handkerchief above her head with an energy made terrific by desperation ; and her little boy standing on tip-toe, squalling with all his might, as he had been just subjected to the discipline of the birch—the attitudes of these various figures are full of humour, and in strict keeping with the truth of nature. Nor must we omit to mention the boy coining up with the heavy box on his head, and the old gentleman with the portmanteau trailing along the ground, which gives the last finish to one of th e most , spirited paintings of the day. The engraving is by Rolls, who has done ample justice to Chalon's idea. MALVAGNA ; A ROMANCE OF TIIE NINE' TEENTH CENTURY.—This is ,a stirring and dramatic story's founded on the remarkable superstition, entertained in the South (4 Europe, of the baleful effects of being looked u pon by an Evil Eye. It chief interest lies in the details it af fords of the revolutionary movements in Sicily and Naples ;, which have all the appearance of being connected with real, facts. Brigandage, conspiracy, adventure, perils, love, a nd murder, fill the page ; and there is enough of each to c arry every reader of romance along to the finale, with the inte roct necessary to their enjoyment, gbicc Porter ' r ~t :~ r in g effe, tirm thin weri after his the to a