The Sun. — London, England, 1835-02-12 00:00:00

THE SPANISH NUN AND MARSHAL DUROC. As soon as I was installed in my habitation above described, the nuns came two by two and three by three to talk to me, and, as they expressed it, to keep me in good spirits. At first they amused me, but after a time I found their visits tiresome. One of them, who was exceedingly pretty, was less obtrusive than her compa nions, though she appeared very desirous to talk with me. I asked her to come and pay me a visit in my I apartment ; but when she came discovered that our conversation was likely to be brief. The pretty sister did not speak a word of French, and I knew only enough of Spanish to give utterance to a few sentences, At first she was very reserved ; but one evening when she came to see me, she seemed to pluck up courage, and she pronounced a name which almost made me leap from my chair with astonishment ; I could not guess by what chance that name happened to be known in the interior of a convent. I looked at the little nun, who was called Santa-Maria da Gracia, a name which she truly deserved, for she was a beautiful and graceful girl. When I fixed my eyes on her, she was as red as a rose, and the blush was the more becoming to her, inasmuch as she, like all the Spanish women, was naturally pale. But still the blush, pretty as it made her look, did not explain her question. I thought I might have misunderstood her, and I asked her what she said. She repeated it ; and this time distinctly said : " Donde esta ahora el General Duroc ?" (Where is General Duroc ?) " Why do you ask, sister ?" I exclaimed, not a little surprised and amused at the question. The nun put her finger on her lip, smiled, and showed me thirty-two beautiful pearls. Then she said in a whisper, and with a charming expression of confi dence which showed that she saw I had understood her: " Esta Bien ?' (Is lie well ?) " Ola ! muy Bien—muy lien," (Oh ! . very well, very well,) replied I. And taking her hand, I added : "Es my amigo el General Duroc." (General Duroc is a friend of mine.) The nun's pretty face was immediately lighted up with a charming expression of joy. Her eyes became more brilliant, and a bright smile played on her lips. She clasped her hands, and, half raising them, came and stood before me, as if to get a better view of me. I was another being to her as soon as she learned I was the friend of thii man she loved. And yet, for aught she knew, I might have been her rival ; I might have been Duroc's wife. But in the first moment of her joy, no such thought occurred to the warm-hearted Spaniard. I learned no more fr'im the little nun, but one of her companions afterwards informed me that he had made her profession only two months previously. She be longed to a good family, in one of the provinces, and, from her infancy, had been destined for the cloister. On the following day, when I again saw the nun, I asked whether she was aware that General Duroc was married. She nodded her head affirmatively,and with out any appearanee of chagrin. "Su flinger Espanola," (His wife is a Spanish lady,) added I. At this informatin she seemed very much surprised. She several times rai'6ed her hands in token of asto nishment, but still without any sign of vexation. When I left the convent, she gave me a little relic, which I carefully conveyed to France, and delivered to the per son for whom it was intended. When I mentionud this little adventure to Duroc, it was a long time before he could understand it ; and no wonder, for my Santa-Maria da Gracia, in her mo nastic habit, did nut bring to his recollection a pretty little Spanish girl dressed in a fringed basquina, and a pink bodice embroidered with silver. However, by my description, and the mention of her native place, he soon discovered her identity. I was much amused at the embarrassment which this little affair caused him. I promised him that I would be discreet, and I kept my promise. " It is not for my own sake, that I am afraid," said he. " For whom, then ?" inquired I. " I will not tell you," said he. " Well, the►►, if you will not honestly tell me all, I promise you that I will torment you about the little nun whenever we meet." " For Heaven s sake do not," he exclaimed, " I will never forgive von, " Then tell mc what I wish to know." " I can not ; for it does not concern myself alone." " Well, but since i have your secret, and have pro mised to keep it, surely I may be trusted with the secret of another. To a woman two secrets are no heavier than► one. When once the effort of discretion is ac complished one may carry it to any length." He laughed, and bade me farewell. But I executed my threat. Whenever we met, I whispered a word and made a sign which reminded him of Maria da Garcia. He was almost mad. At length he said to me one day, " Madame Junot, how unmerciful you are ! What have I done to deserve this persecution at your hands ? But, tell me, did not Maria da Garcia make ally inquiry about the Emperor ?" "Ah at length I understand you." said I. I suspect that the year 1811 was very fertile in events of this kind. There was at Salamanca a cer tain convent of Augustine nuns, from whose nzirador were received many signals of intelligence. There was also another at Valladolid, near Campo-Grande. THE TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT TOM PATTEN'S EXPLOIT.—About the middle of January when the Grenadiers, the Twenty-eighth, were on this duty, a daring fellow, an Irishman, named Tom Patten, performed a singular feat. At the barrier there was a rivulet, along which our line of sentries was posted. To the right was a thick, low wood, and during the cessation of hostilities our officers had again become intimate with those of the French, and the sol diers had actually established a traffic in tobacco and trandy, in the following ingenious manner. A large stone was placed in that part of the rivulet screened by the wood, opposite to a French sentry, on which our people used to put a canteen with a quarter dollar, for which it was- very soon filled with brandy. One afternoon, about dusk, Patten had put down his canteen with the usual money in it, and re tired ; but though he returned several times, no canteen was there. He waited till the moon rose, but still he found nothing on the stone, When it was near morning, Tom thought he saw the same sentry there who was there when he put his canteen down ; so he sprang across the stream, seized the un fortunate Frenchman, wrested his firelock from him, and actually shaking him out of his accoutrements, re crossed, vowing he would keep them until he got his canteen of brandy, and brought them to the picquet house. Two or three hours afterwards, just as we were about to fall in, an hour before day-break, the sergeant came to me to say that a flag of truce was at the barrier. I instantly went down, when I found the officer of the French picquet in a state of great alarm, saying that a most extraordinary circumstance had occurred (relating the adventure), and stating that, if the sentry's arms and accoutrements were not given back, his own commission would be forfeited, as well as the life of the poor sent - ry. A serjeant was in stantly sent to see if t}, - ,ey were in the picquet-house, when Patten came up, scratching his head, saying, " He had them in pawn for a canteen of brandy and a quartcr-dollar, and told us the story in his own way, 'whereupon the things were immediately given over to the French captain, who, stepping behind, put two five-franc pieces into Patten's band. Tom, how ever, was not to be bribed by an enemy ; but generously handed the money to his officer, requesting that he would insist on the French Captain taking the money back. Tha Frenchman was delighted to get the firelock and accoutrements back : and the joy of the poor fellow who was stripped of them may be con ceived, as, if it had been reported, he would certainly have been shot by sentence of court-martial in less than forty-eight hours. Patten, however, was confined, and reported to Sir Rowland, and in a few days after he was tried, and sentenced by a court martial to ceive three hundred lashes. 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The publication of TIIE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 5 minules vast 3 o'clock. .1 „ r eit • 4 , 410, =fie ° e y LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 15135. It is truly amusing to observe the miserable shifts to which the Tories are reduced in their factious at tempt to palm Sir CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON on the new House of Commons as its Speaker. Their stock of arguments, (if we may use that word in such a sense, without abusing it,) was soon exhausted —web after web of sophistry have they woven, only to be destroyed. After all their dirty work, they now find that they are further from their purpose than when they began. All their efforts have ended in satisfying the country that the chair of the House of Commons ought not to be filled by Sir C. M. SUT TON. This is very far from the result which they an ticipated. They are, of course, dreadfully disappointed, sorely vexed and galled at the unsuccessful upshot of their (as they fancied) well-laid scheme to entrap the Repre sentatives of the people into a tacit approval of the pre sent administration audits unconstitutional proceedings. So deeply does vexation seem to have preyed upon some of the more sanguine of the Ministerial advo cates, that their mental faculties have evidently been impaired by the shock. How else shall we (chari tably) account for the antipodal contrast which ap pears between the opinions uttered yesterday and those promulgated to-day by a " leading" journalist ? This thick-and-thin supporter of the " backbone" Adminis tration told its readers yesterday that the Whigs were nothing wiser than " shallow greenhorns" if they sup posed that Mr. ABERCROMBY'S elevation to the Chair, or even a " dozen" such votes, would have the least effect upon the position of the present Ministry. But how altered the tone to-day We are this morning gravely informed that the welfare of the empire depends upon Mr. ABERCROMBY'S defeat— that if an Anti-reformer be not seated in the Chair o a House of Commons, the majority of whose members are Reformers, we may bid good bye to the integrity of the British Empire. The terrific O ' CoNNELL, with one sweep of his tail will sever Ireland from England ! Is not this something like blowing hot and cold with the same breath ? We are glad set., t it—it shows the streights to whi c h th e, party are reduced, and thelhope. lessness with wh;-' ..;t1 they look upon their own cause. Le these eire fo- ...inlsta"",v-s De turned to account by the e —niers, Th ere i s no time so advantageous for presßs - Ong up on an enemy, as the moment whcn he h,tgins to • , .:.. .:. I. give W a y, 14 the Reprsen.', - itiVe- S y' the Pea ale theil remenz .. . ber that the election 91 the. ,S'peakei...",4,,.. Tur. , ' .'" - .' . ' THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1835. INSTANT ; and that they are not required to take the oaths BEFORE THE ELECTION. We have received the whole of the Paris papeis of Tuesday, with intelligence from Bayonne of the 6th inst. The somewhat disorganized state of the French Government—the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the recent petitions for electoral reform (of which we shall treat at proper length to-morrow) —and the proceedings, respecting the claims of the United States of America, furnish topics for various comments Ln these journals : but the only really important sub- jects discussed in them, is the strange appearances which public affairs begin to assume in the East, and the part which the Northern Powers may be pre sumed to take, in imparting to them their present aspect. The conduct of the British Government, in ordering our fleet to leave the Dardanelles, for Malta, on the morning of the Bth ultimo, has cleared the coast for Russia, and afforded to the CZAR an opportunity of making further encroachments on the dominions of the SULTAN, which he is very likely to turn to some profitable account. Something very extraordinary must be at the bottom of our foreign policy. No nation in the civilized world, with every means of making herself respected by her friends and feared by her foes, has succeeded so strangely in ob taining the derision of the one, and the contempt of the other, to half the extent that England has done within the last three quarters of a century. During the long reign of GEORGE 111. we were continually at war with two or more foreign Powers—not to augment our territory by conquests—fill our coffers with treasures — relieve bondsmen from the yoke of tyrants—or to esta blish liberal institutions in countries trodden under the ho-ives of despotism. We gave our wealth to the winds and waves—our liberties to the guardianship of a shackled press and a corrupt Parliament—our blood and the blood of the bravest in the land to saturate the fields of Spain, and dye the shores of Egypt, for no earthly or heavenly purpose, other than to gratify the ambition, and soothe the indomitable pride of a stripling statesman ! As to fighting for any par ticular object, that was a question which the belligerents of Great Britain never once asked them selves. They neither knew nor cared what they fought for—it was enough that they made war on France. Never were warriors more disinterested ; and never was nation more easily persuaded to gratify the whims o her children, than was England during that eventfu period. Our campaigns were conducted on the true Hibernian principle—we fought for fun ; and if we had an ulterior object in view, it could only be pre sumed to be a desire to render the country prosperous by increasing the public debt. Having wearied ourselves out with fighting, and obliged all our acquaintances to confess that we could stand as firmly to be shot at as rocks, or any other description of fixed inanimate ob jects, we sheathed our swords ; and to show that our generosity was only surpassed by our valour, we re turned what little spoils we had gained, protesting that we loved to bear our own charges when fighting for our friends : and to prove that we were in earnest, in the fulness of our joy, granted pensions to every foreign pauper whose fences had been broken down by the march of our conquering hosts. Men who have no fixed principles for the regulation of their conduct al ways ruin themselves by running from one ex treme to another i❑ the opposite direction ; and this proposition is equally true with respect to nations. From being the Nee-Mee-Nam-Qua►n, or Thunder and Lightning of the Battle-field, England all at once assumed a look and demeanour as pacific as if our armies had doffed their scarlet and blue uniforms, and exchanged their martial accoutrements for the sober brown habiliments and formidable um brellas of the Society of Friends. From being the arbiters of nations in the field, the British Cabinet commenced the more diff►ult task of arranging all dif ferences by superior diplomatic movements. Maids of Honour, and men whom nature seemed not to have de signed.for the fulfilment of offices more important than are supplied by the superintendence of a royal kitchen, or dog-kennel, superseded our armies and our fleets in the pacification of mankind. The only trait in our character which we carefully preserved under all extremes of action, was never to be found idle ; no matter with whose af fairs we might be forced to meddle, when our own ceased to supply us with any thing to do. Bake who might, we were sure to have a finger in the pie. Having established a reputation for valour, at no greater cost than a few hundreds of thousands of mil lions of debt—the corruption of our legislative assem blies—the ruin of some of our most valuable in stitutions—and a large influx of crime, which might be considered in the light of a new species of floating capital—our sagacious Government began to consider that nothing was wanted to complete the glory of Great Britain, but to manifest to the wondering nations of the earth, that her heroic progeny were as inscrutably wise in the council as they were known to be invincible in the field. This noble resolution taken we assumed mysterious airs, shook our heads when there was nothing in them, looked excessively grave at a pleasantry, and now and then dropped significant hints about the strange movements of certain illustrious personages in the confidence of the Chan of Tartary, or some other such powerful Prince. In the mean time we were the laughing-stock of half the Courts in Europe. Nature intended us for a brave, generous, manly people, above subterfuge, and abhorring deceit ; and the moment we departed from her laws, by becom ing braggarts on the one hand, and schemers on the other, we betrayed an imbecility of mind, which ren dered us contemptible in the eyes of all Europe. Taking into consideration the consequences of our two-fold madness, it is hardly possible to determine whether our excessive fondness for war, or our no less excessive admiration of peace, has been most injuri ous to the liberties of mankind. Europe reeled under the vigour of our arm ; and now Asia perishes, be cause we refuse to raise it in behalf of her rights. The Northern Powers have twisted our ablest states men round their fingers, as if they were the shreds of the red ribbons which adorned their persons ; and evhile befooling them with notes and protocols in praise of the Eight Beatitudes, have seized with iron talons on the unhappy subjects of our di plomatic commisseration whether princes or prin cipalities. Russia, especially, has played ns som• strange tricks in this way. In 1809, we en tered into a solemn treaty with the Porte, that the Dardanelles should be closed equally against all - — 4 *he Porte Powers in ti me o f war ; shortly atterwa ,, .—_ was collst r4 ip e d enter into a treaty with Russia, 3110 as a sijie q ua was compelled to guarantee the of. the`barciaiteltes to the Russian fleet, when: ` ; 'sum was Mt: 'pleasure . of tqe The ..„ .irtnn his Highness as if he were the serf of Russia—and to ' complete the ignominy of the Porte—compel the SULTAN to declare in the hearing of England that all that was wrested from him was a voluntary offering on his part. In this way Russia possessed herself of Wallachia, &c. ; and now claims possession of Silis tria as a bond for a debt never due to her. Every day beholds the accession of some new division of territory on the part of the CZAR. His armies march whither they will throughout every part of the SULTAN'S dominions—England looking coolly on, or remonstrating by means of huge paper missives, with which the Russian Minister lights his pipe. A curse seems to hang over all our foreign policy ; and the leaving the Dardanelles in the posses sion of Russia appears a proof of it. There was time when we commanded respect abroad, but that time appears to have passed for ever. In Constantinople we must on all occasions yield precedence to Russia, and even the meanest subjects of that Power are more respected in public than our diplomatic agents. This state of things, which we so often complained of during the Government of the Whigs, is now, we are assured, about to be perpetuated under the Tories. The Duke of WELLINGTON has already shaken hands in cordial good fellowship with NICHOLAS, and as far as Eng land may be presumed to possess the power, has con stituted the EMPEROR the parental guardian of the interests . of the Sublime Porte. We have now no hope but from the representatives of the people, and to them, as the last resource, we appeal with confidence. Let England once more assume her majestic part among the nations of Europe, and give up the systems of indiscriminate warfare, and craven protocolling. They are alike unworthy the dignity of a great and free nation. The domestic intelligence contained in the French Papers, are given in our extracts from these journals. In the February number of the Medical and Sur. gical Gazette, among various articles on professional subjects, we find some of considerable interest to the general reader. From the report of Dr. GRAVES' (of Dublin) Ninth Lecture on the Institutes of Me dicine, we select the following passages, which, if they make the hair of the Malthusians stand on end, ought to reconcile our two querulous countrymen to their cloudy skies and humid atmosphere. An occasional excursion to France or Italy is pleasant enough, but we must live at home if we want to live long : " In England the rate of annual mortality has considerably diminished within the last seventy or eighty years. In 1780 it was calculated that one person out of forty died in the year ; in 1790 only one in forty-five died, and in 1821, the mortality became so low as one in fifty-eight. Here we have a cause capable of producing an amazing difference in the state of the population. With respect to the European states, the follow ing is a comparative estimate of the rate of mortality :—One in twenty-eight in the Roman and Venetian states ; one in thirty in Italy in general; one in thirty in Greece and Tur key ; one in thirty-nine in the Netherlands, France, and Prussia ; one in forty in Switzerland, Austria, Spain, and Por tugal ; one in forty-four in European Russia and Poland ; one in forty-five in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden ; one in forty-eight in Norway ; one in fifty-three in Ireland ; one in fifty-eight in England; one in fifty- nine in Scotland and Ice land ; so that you perceive the duration of life in this country is very great when compared with others, and that whatever foreigners may say about our dull and foggy climate, it is a fact that we live much longer than those who dwell in the sunny climes of southern Europe. The boasted climate of Italy, with its soft vernal breezes and cloudless skies, gives a mor tality of one in thirty, whereas among our Irish bogs it is only one in fifty-three, while in the Roman and Venetian states, more than twice as many out of a given number die as among, the bleak districts of the Scotch Highlands. It is then per fectly well ascertained that in England, Ireland, and Scotland, the mortality is much lower than in the poetic " lands of the sun," Italy and Greece. But we are not to attribute the su periority of any country in this respect, either to its soil or cli mate, for there is no doubt that if civilization, the blessings of a free government, and the enjoyment of the comforts of life were as extensively diffused among the Greeks and Italians as they are among the inhabitants of the British Islands, the rate of longcvlty in these countries would be remarkably increased. " In order to give you some idea of the vast quantity of human lives saved by the introduction of vaccinnation, I shall call your attention to a brief statement of some facts bearing on this interesting question. In 1790, one out of every eight children born died of the small-pox ;in 1820, only one of 2,066 ; that is, out of this number there are now saved 250, who forty years ago would have died of small-pox. In 1779, the small-pox destroyed in Sweden 15,000 persons ;in 1784, 12,000 ; in 1800, 13,000; in 1822, eleven." The admirers of JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU'S ravings about the superiority of savage over civilized life, and those poetically disposed persons who fancy that primeval happiness, and antediluvian longe vity, are the natural accompaniments of poverty and filth, should listen to what Dr. GRAVES has to say upon these points : " I have told you, gentlemen, that the average duration of human life has proceeded, pari passu, with civilization and an improved state of living, and that men are generally much longer lived at present than they were during the middle ages. Yet some persons, more poetical than discriminating, believe that poverty and barbarism are the promoters of health, and that longevity is only to be found in the hut of the savage. The savage, it is true, displays great vigour and activity of body, and an astonishing endurance of hunger, fatigue, and Pain ; but it has been fully established that the mean duration of life among them is far below that of civilized man ; whole tribes of them are frequently swept off by epidemics, and the mortality among their children is enormous. Poets have taken a particular pleasure in singing the praises of him who derives food, clothing, and health from the chase, who quenches his thirst in the cool spring, and makes his bed beneath the canopy of heaven, and they have given to poverty the reward of health, peace, and longevity ; but unfortunately statistical inquiries have, by the dull realities of facts, destroyed all these beautiful illusions, and have stripped poverty of all its charms, by prov ing that the liability to disease is increased, and the duration of life diminished, in proportion to the privations man is doomed to undergo. If you take thirty or forty persons in the middle class of life, and compare them with the poor of the Liberty in Dublin, or St. Giles's in London, you will find that the annual mortality among the latter is much greater, and that the term of life diminishes in proportion to the extent of their poverty. " It appears from a very interesting essay by M. Villerme, on the comparative mortality among the indigent and those in easy circumstances, both in the capital and in the departments of France, that there is a striking and remarkable difference. Througkout the departments, he states, the mortality is one in fifty among those who are in good circumstances, while among the poor it is one in twenty-four. " A similar difference, be stales, exists between the mor tality of the poorer and more opulent parishes of Paris. The denstty of the population, narrowness of the streets, and other local circumstances, generally supposed to very influential on the public health, were proved to be very unimportant when compared with the single element, the general state of the people as to the possession or wants of the comforts of life." In the conclusion of his lecture, Dr. GRAVES, after stating the extraordinary fact that the Irish peasantry ( ow i n g, no doubt, to their extreme poverty) are almost as subject to the attacks of epidemic disease as the in habitants of the towns, thus feelingly alludes to the state of his unhappy country : , c To explain the origin of that poverty, which excites the s ympathy of even strangers,—to account for a scarcity of pro visions in a country whose ports are crowded with shipping em ployed in carrying away corn and cattle,—to investigate the sources of that pollution which has demoralized a people natu rally open, frank, and generous, and has rendered excessive intemperance and improvidence the most venial parts of the national character,—belongs not to statistical medicine ; the duty of the physician extends not to these subjects ; his em ployment is to alleviate the effects without discussing the causes of misery and vice : but he owes it to his society—he owes it to his country—to proclaim aloud the existence of the evil." The report of Dr. FARADAY'S lecture at the Royal Institution on the 23d January, is extremely interest ing. The subject is " Radiant Heat," and the Doctor gives a lucid explanation of some important discoveries in this branch of natural philosophy, by M. MELLONI, a young Italian, residing in Paris. M. MELLONI "-A to make these contributions to science real instrument, has been en...— by means of a very ingenious thereto,...,.._-- of his own invention. At the meeting of the London Medical Society he , held on the *1 iinst., th e subject discussed was t to have I:_l,t epems of which he had been guilty, justly observing that the consequences of his imprudence might have cost the lives of thousands ; but the General, being informed of his gallantry on many occasions from the passage of the Douro and Talavera, was pleased to remit the sentence, to the great delight of every one present. Paddy, on his return to his quarters, got three cheers from the company for his good fortune. 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Jan. 5, 1870 l(7onso'y for Accou.. t 1)21,‘ PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Bel Bonds Dit o Accouni Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds 9210.P04 Ditto Account 92 %Mi% rrussian Bonds Ditto lionds,lB2' MICSI2II Bonds, 182:2 lO9 Ditto At-count Ditto :%letaliic IFpanish Bonds 5` 1 7-i,:ti 7 674, Ditto Account 57 fly 7 1 4 • Ditto Bonds, 1'.=3,1 Ditto Account French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. 4 per cent —f --c. -- 3 per cent. Exchange —f. Dutch, 2!•:, per cent. 55% Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent lO2 tA Ditto Account THIS DAI AT ONE O'CLOCK. reruvian Bonds ......... ;clgian . ends Ditto Account Bcazilian Bonds S . Ali Ditto :Account ..... ...... Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chillian Bonds 43'h 4 Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bends, Mt 3514 1 4 t Ditto Account Danish Bonds )itto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1525 rhtto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 3l Ditto Account Dit•ri. f per cent Ditt, Account Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. rer share. British Iron Company Red del Monte Mining Co., Registered ''l ig)s. C.d. 30!i Ditto Unregistered :TN ~t , 4 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB 9 3 per Cont. Consols Oll4 Grand Canal Dcb, 8 per cent. 402 ti Ditto Reduced 3!.; per Cent. Stock ci3 4i Hibernim Pank .. Ditto New, 183 , 1 3',.' per Cent. Debentures 9l ti National Insurance Company ..!6N Bank Stock 2.221.i City Debentures, 4 per cent... 12 Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock HIGIS WATER AT LONDON 'MIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 20 minutes niter 2. I Evenin7 43 minutes after 2 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed Knowles's Play of THE WIFE. Julian St. Pierre, Mr. Wallack ; Leonardo Gonzaga, Mr. Cooper; Ferrara Gonzaga, Mr. Wade; Antonio, Mr. G. Beznett. Mariana, Miss E. Tree ; Floribel, Miss Lee. To conclude with the New Grand Chivalric Entertainment, callesl RING ARTHUR and the KNIGHTS of the ROUND TABLE. In which Mr. Ducrew's magniticmt Stud of Horses will be introduced' THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS ILWRNING will be performed the Comic Opera of CINDERELLA; Olt, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. Felix, Mr. Wilson ; Baron Pompolin9, Mr. Giubelei ; Dandini, Mr. 'Seguin ; Pedro, Mr. Meadows. Cinderella, Miss Rnm,r ; Clorincla, Miss Betts; Thisbe, Mrs. Crouch; Fairy Queen, Miss H. Cawse. - _ To conclude with the New Grand Comic Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND QUEEN .. )IA . I3 ; OR, THE THREE GLASS DISTA I , FS. Harlequin, Mr. Ellar ; Pantaloon, Mr. F. Sutton ; Clown, Mr. T, Matthews; Whirligig, Mr. W. 11. Payn^. Columbine, Miss C. Reekie elicited by the collision of a considerable number of medical heads. The law is proverbial for its uncer- ;ainty, but it appears from the subjoined extract that he Medical Faculty have not yet entirely made up their minds as to the modus operandi of certain pharmaceu- tical compounds : " He (Dr. Whiting) would suggest small doses of the anti monium tartarisatum, therefore, in these cases, about one. twelfth to one-twentieth of a grain. He had given it in this manner some years to a child, and he found it improve the appetite and increase the strength of the patient, and he had since employed it as a tonic, and considered it one of the best we possess. " Dr. Negri confirmed the statements of Dr. Whiting as to the efficacy of antimonium tartarisatum in small doses in hoop ing-cough, but denied, most positively, its e f ficacy as a tonic ; on the contrary, he believed it to be one of the most debilitant medicines we possess, and it could only be considered a tonic in the same way that bleeding, by lessening congestion, would relieve the circulation. Dr. Whiting explained that he only considered it a tonic in the small doses he had mentioned, but Dr. Negri declared he believed it to act as a debilitant in all doses." We have now little room to spare, but we cannot resist the temptation of extracting a short passage or two from a paper headed " Remarks, on the Paper read by Sir HENRY HALFORD at the College of Phy- sicians. The learned President of the College of Physicians had chosen for the subject of that and the previous lecture, certain details respecting the death of sundry distinguished individuals, and there can be no doubt that his audience were satisfied that greatness affords no exemption from the common lot of mortality. Bluff King Hal with his dropsy, WOLSEY with his dy sentery, persecuting MARY and her double entendre, &c. &c. are duly paraded before the members of the College Physicians, and their Right Reverend, Noble, and Right Honourable and Honourable visitors. The late Duke of GLOUCESTER'S disease closes the tedious catalogue ; and Sir HENRY did not let slip the oppor tunity of pronouncing a funeral oration over his Royal Highness ; upon which the reviewer justly remarks : " His post-obit praises of the late Duke sounded like flat tery, were in bad taste, and should, at all events, have been confined to that portion of his character, of which Sir Henry had had doubtless better opportunity of judging than many of his hearers. The public character of the Duke the public knows without any flourish of trumpets from the College of Physicians." The Reviewer then proceeds thus : " Of such materials, then, was the learned President's paper composed, and were Sir Henry a man of mediocre attainments, and driven for lack of genius to make his bill of fare a bill of mortality we should not quarrel with his taste, or condemn his spectral cavalcades of post-mortems, however we might deem their exhibition fitter for the bone-house than for the arena on which they figured. We should have regarded this propen sity for parading before our eyes the phantoms of the dead, each with his scroll of evil under his arm, as a matter not amenable to our criticism, had such propensity been fraught with no evil, nor lessened the utility of the man. But know ing as we do that Sir Henry possesses a highly cultivated mind, and talent of no ordinary stamp, we feel called upon to say, that his late lecture was not the homage science ex pected from him, more especially as she had lifted him to proud pre-eminence, and fixed him on a pedestal, whence he looks down on his humbler brethren. Such a lecture, we re peat, was not the offering she expected, and Sir Henry would do well to reflect, ere he delivers another, on the claim which the public has on those blessed with the power and opportu nity to benefit it. Sir Henry well knows that the business of science, as well as of life, is to move forward, and must be aware that it would be more in keeping with the scientific dig nity belonging to his order, to dilate upon some topic of more general interest and advantage than the one chosen. Were our humble advice to be received, we would counsel the learned President to abandon to the gravedigger the musty carcases of olden time, which he has now, for the second time, raised from their rest, and ponder, as Sir H. Davy and a host of other illustrious benefactors to science have pondered, on what is truly great and useful. " If, as we have heard reported, Sir Henry, sometime ago, proposed some scheme of medical reform to his brethren of the College, which they scouted, might not such a theme be advantageously considered on the next occasion? It would be, if not quite so grateful to the ears of his auditory, as the history of men whose brains are out,' more instructive, and the moment chosen for its exposition would give it additional effect. " We conclude by assuring the learned President, that the silky tissue of his eloquence, more particularly when applied to the superfluous elucidation of what is already sufficiently clear, is not, in these times, the peg on which to hang either popular applause or the respect of the profession. Something more solid, more beneficial to the age in which he lives, is expected from his acknowledged talent; and if such good be incompatible with the empty tinkling of sounding sentences and nicely balanced period, it should supersede them." There may, perhaps, be a little causticity in these remarks, but they are just, and every one who has the interest and the reputation of the College of Phy sicians at heart, must acquiesce in their propriety, Brussels and German Papers have been received, with intelligence from Madrid to the Ist inst. Their contents are important, and will be found in another column. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGIS TRATES.-(THIS DAY.) Upon the motion of Sir P. LAURIE, Sir. W. CURTIS took the Chair. ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN FOR THE SEPTEMBER SESSIONS. Mr. W. LAURIE moved that Mr. Rotch be elected. His conduct whilst in the Chair was such as to entitle him to be re-elected. Mr. ORME seconded the motion, which, after a few words from Mr. M‘WILLIAat, was carried unanimously. HANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM. The CHAIRMAN said that the Court had received a printed paper from the Vestry of St. George's Hanover square, praying them to inquire into the expenditure of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum.—Referred to the Committee of the Asylum. COUNTY RATES. A letter was read by the Clerk from the Vestry Clerk of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, stating that the Vestry were of opinion, that there was no necessity for the current rate imposed by the Magistrates of the County, as there was a balance of upwards of 10,0001. in hand, and that the parish, therefore, declined to pay the rate. They further required that some inquiry should be made into the expenditure of the County, to see whether the rates could not be lessened. The letter concluded by stating, that in order that they might not impede the business of the County, they would, if required, pay the rate, but enter a protest against it as unnecessary. After a few observations from Mr. M‘WILLIAm, Mr. GARFORD, and Sir PETER LAURIE, the letter was laid on the table. (Left Sitting.) THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. It is rather surprising that we have no further information respecting Don Miguel's departure from Rome, or his destina tion, although two French expresses have arrived since the first report. THE FUNDS. The transactions in the British Funds during yesterday, were of a trifling description. In the early part of the morn ing, Consols appeared heavy at 921 for the Account, but to wards the close of business they improved, and left off at 921 4 for the Account ; to-day they opened at the same. Money continues plentiful, particularly for good bills for com mercial purposes. Exchequer Bills, 39 40 ; India Bonds, 20 22 ; Bank Stock, 2234 2244 ; India Stock, 258 259. In the Foreign Market, Columbian Stock improved to 354 4, in consequence of the Commissioners from New Gra nada and Venezuela having agreed upon the division of the debt as follows :-50 per cent. for Grenada, 284 for Vene zuela, and 211 for Equador. The following are the opening prices of the Foreign Funds this morning :—Spanish, 564 ; Scrip, 34 4 ; Portuguese, 924 4 ; Dutch, 55 ; Columbian, 354 4. Our arrivals this morning are exceedingly few. Two French mails ; one Hol land, with the express from Paris. The contents will be found in another part of the paper. It was reported at the Bourse of Paris that dispatches had been sent to the Duke of Palmella, suggesting the necessity of acknowledging Don Miguel's loan as a measure to consolidate Donna Maria's Throne. The French Rentes have been done at 79 5, but recovered at 79 25 ; left off at 79 francs ; 5 per Cents., 108 90 ; Cortes, 231 ; Coupons, 244. HALF-PAST ONE. The uncertainty which still prevails of the election of the Speaker of the House of Commons, hangs rather heavy on the funds. Consols may be quoted at present at 924 4 for the Account, with little doing. Exchequer :Bills, 39 40 ; India Bonds, 20 22 ; India Stock, 258 259. In the Foreign Market no transactions of consequence have taken place during the morning, or is there scarce any altera the nrices. Spanish, 56--7 ; Scrip, 31-4 prem. ; and " --rivals or politica Portuguese; 92i t. Up to the present hour we have to fresh r•• news, THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account 92i I• CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY)• The LORD CHANCELLOR sat to-day in Lincoln's-inn Hall. Upon Mr. Kindersley asking his Lordship to ap point an early day for hearing a case of Sherratt v. Bent ley, his Lordship said it would be extremely difficult for him to fix anything under the particular circumstances in which he was placed just now ; he might be called else where at a moment's notice. The Court was occupied the rest of the day with a mo tion for a new trial, in the case of Anderson v. Moors, the question in which related to the legitimacy of a young lady. The facts of the case were fully detailed to the public when the case was before his honor the 'Vice-Chancellor, from whose decision, respecting the new trial, the present motion was an appeal. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) LENNARD V. FLIGHT. The case came before the Court upon demurrer. The bill was filed by the plaintiffs, claiming to be the next of kin of a gentleman of the name of Chapman, under whose will, in the event that had happened, they were entitled to considerable benefit. Mr. Chapman, the testator, had only one daughter, to whom he left a legacy of 2,000/., and the residue of his property, after the payment of other legacies, was to be invested, the income to be paid to his daughter, during her life ; after her death, the income was to g o to her children ; but in case the daughter did not attain the age of twenty-one, and died without children, then the resi due was to go to the testator's next of kin. The plaintiffs, by their bill, contended that the meaning of the testator was, that in case his daughter died without children, no matter whatever her age might be, provided she was more than twenty-one, that his next of kin should become en titled to the residue. The daughter died when she wag about twenty-six years of age, but unmarried ; the defen dants, the representatives of the daughter contended in that event, the true construction of the will was, that the parties entitled in remainder, took only in the event of the daughter dying without issue, and under twenty-one year' of age ; and upon that ground they filed a demurrer to the plaintiff's bill. His HONOUR, after the case had been argued at some length, gave judgment, allowing the demurrer. EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY• ; GOODCHILD V. GRAVES. Mr. PLATT (with whom was Mr. ComvN) s t a ted tha t this action was brought to recover the double value of 3 quarter's occupation of a house in Hoxton. The plaintiff was landlord of the house, and wanted to raise the rent from 19/. 19s. to 24/. He gave notice to the defendan t that he would resume possession of his premises at the end of a quarter, according to agreement. The defendant kept the premises after the notice had expired, and the action was brought in order to recover the double value of the adverse occupation. Formal proof was given of the tenantry and the serving of the notice. Mr. EARLE, for the defendant, characterised the action as one of great hardship and oppression—he howeve r had no fear for the result, because he was in a situa tion to show that the notice had been a bandoned by the plaintiff himself. At the quarter day, when it aIY peered he went to demand possession, he found the de: fendant's wife very ill in bed, when he said he w ould n o t disturb them then—they might stop for another quar ter 3 the old rate. Witnesses having proved that case, Mr. PLATT rose to reply, when the Jury intimated that they were satisfied the notice had been waived. His LORDSHIP said he was much of the same opilli° o ' but Mr. Platt had a right to be beard. Mr. PLATT said he should take the hint—both Jude and Jury being against him, he would not take up their time unnecessarily. The plaintiff was then nonsuited. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) O'GORMAN MAHON. About half-past one o'clock this afternoon, Mr. O'G nr : s man Mahon was brought to Bow-street from the King Bench prison, where he had been confined for three daYst: by order of Mr. Justice Coleridge, for contempt of Cu"rit to answer to a warrant obtained yesterday for the assn w on Mr. Wigley, attorney, of Pickett-place, Strand. , fr , Mr. MILLER appeared for the prosecutor, mid CLARKSON for the defence. Sir F. ROE and Mr. MINSIIULL were the presiding To gistrates. Mr. MILLER addressed the Bench, and observed it WI unnecessary to detail the assault, and he therefore propos e te calling a surgeon to show its effects, and the present 5 0 of the por. Sir F rosecut . ROE said it certainly was necessary, in the 4 .-It instance, to show that the prosecntor was unable to aPP e f' . Mr. Nicholas M'Cann, surgeon, of Parliament-stree t,u , e ; posed to having seen Mr. Wigley on Monday, first in t “. King's Bench, and afterwards at his own house. The c el f ": poral arch of the temporal bone was broken. He sz - .4W i p "' Wigley this morning, and considered him better, and 0' present danger, but still it would be unsafe for him to 01 ' ture out of doors. Sir F. ROE said this was enough, and all that 1.011131 . n el was to prove the fact of the assault. Mr. CLARKSON said he would admit that a blow It o struck, and be was prepared to put in bail, unless the 01: gistrates were disposed to proceed to a summary judgo e °,, e Mr. O'Gorman Mahon advanced, and expressed a deslis to be heard, in reply to the partial and prejudicial accou P that had been published in the newspapers. gr, Mr. CLARKSON and Sir F. ROE both advised O'Gorman Mahon to abstain from saying any thing. Mr. CLARKSON said he had a copy of the judges' o°':'o from which it appeared the greatest possible provo coti " was first given to Mr. O'Gorman Mahon. tbo Mr. MILLER, on the contrary, was instructed that 0 published accounts were not so favourable to his 6° 3 ; p were the facts. His client was, however, willing to u'lo all proceedings, if Mr. O'Gorman Mahon would c onsen t ijo make an ample apology, and pay a sum of money to a Prbe charity. Gain was not the object of his client, nor had any vindictiveness of feeling. 10' O'Gorman Mahon said he would never consent to ar ee gize or to pay any sum of money. He was prepared to 01 o f Wigley and his party here or elsewhere, in any shorio way. Those who knew him best knew he would n ot 1.3 0 his hand against another unless under the most outrage provocation. He only regretted he had not punished ley Sir more. ti'l ° F. RoE here stopped him, and ordered him to fin d oo sureties in 1001. each, and enter into his own recogniz al3 in 2001. to appear at the sessions. MIDDLESEX DISPENSARY ANNUAL BALL. 1 0 A ball of unusual splendour was given last lid'nig` Willis's Room, King-street, St. James's, in aid of the &sex Dispensary and General Lying-in Charity , vj 'bli was attended by upwards of 600 of the most fasbioo.l,B attired and respectable society in the metropolis. iid t , rooms were brilliantly lighted up, and the band was ocee;itil Dancing began at a quarter past nine, and was kept up te a; great spirit till twelve, when the party withdrew t° to o coffee, &c. Soon afterwards " the light fantastic or was again displayed on the pliant boards, and the e lj t he fulness of the night continued for some time long 0", utmost harmony. Great credit is due to the 141, 0' spectable stewards, (and more especially to Dr. Jewel the Sackville-street, Piccadilly, physician and accouche r w t helt Institution) for the great trouble they took, and fo r ec' inordinate exertions to render the assemblage large, OP table, and satisfactory, and who undoubtedly mus t 0:1 felt in a measure rewarded on the occasion, from obser • the highly gratifying manner in which the whole Wel /t ,j Unparalleled as are the extent of benefits conf e r",oP' the munificent charities with which this great mets'por abounds, there are few that deserve more general s°P f than the " Middlesex Dispensary," from the nature lorb objects, and more especially as those objects are pee 004 directed to the relief of suffering infants, and the 00 1 tender portion of our race. The charity affords P r 0 and the most able aid in all cases of medicine, surg rl ; midwifery, without regard to locality. Accidents Arit,ll° tended to, without letters of recommendation , ft : tf, observance that fatal consequences have on e " curred, owing to delay occasioned by procurilifeili commendations. Assistance is given to the 01 1 ,'• children, and other branches of all families 011,°,barit,t; have the misfortune to be rendered proper objects 0' ' a t V e able relief; and vaccination of infants is perfortneathot Institution daily. One highly praiseworthy rule is4 s e 4 member of the Committee can be employed in anY "400% relative to the charity for which he can receive P e fitied compensation ; and although midwives attend the t it hamber, no midwife is allowed to attend a patient,unoylecil she has passed an examination in her obstetric k° l3 ° o ,-0 1 : i v and been found qualified to practise by Dr. Jewel , s' i „„;e o A in this branch of the healing art requires no en": retl e o e tion. On the whole, this is a charity that nn ts ' o d honor on all who contribute towards its support, l'aisoir that well deserves the exertions of the humane , t ° . G O. nate a knowledge of its nature and meritorio us obie e 00 0 The Throne was on Tuesday affixed in thee of Lords ; it is that which was formed for Geo , Carlton House. The embroidered letters remain me. eta sufficing for the Latinity of his present Majesty'snarike?fhot IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.-- A- 1 38 tio 0 1J ° not one hundred miles from Ladford , lately gave n° t hose no one should be buried in the church yard, WO' were living in the parish." , PRE S] te sterday elected Pr, of Alder the GovelTi SOUTI ,L rureY and Ivith their t c lur nPh of 1 1 . 3 ace at tt t ill' the citi es ex, th E ,!ts, 4tid beauclek, to atteuti. Mr,/ Hertford cf r n t he Co ° Mr. ), „ sequenc ° age; bu dohs at itv fr: Th e e , 64 ' 0 4 ris e tt Si n half gular cent 'ng th e nntie r h is t hirsty. 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