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

SUN, LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—( THIS DA Y.) ,27, 1851, and this day, Monday, LONDON, JAN. 26.—Wind this day at noon Southerly January 26,1852. ' _ * on Monday, January Per Blbs., to sink the offals. and fine. Jan. 27, 1851. Jan. 26,1852. QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 23.—Wind W.; 24th, W.S.W., .., • s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d strong. Arrd. Grampian, Gr a h am , Callao ; M ona , M ar - Coarse and i n f er i or B eas t s ... ... 2 , 6to 2 8 2 6 t 2 8 . o ris, Mauritius ; Lord G oug h, T urner , C a ll ao . Secon d qua lit y di t t o ... ...... 2 10 3 0 2 10 - 3 2 WHITBY, Jeer, 25. Joseph Turtou, of this port, Prime large Oxen .. ... ... 3 2 34 3 4 3 6 Whilst crossing Sherrangham, on the 23.3, struck on a Prime Scots, &c.... ... ... ... 3 6 3 8 3 8 310 wreck, and immediately sank ; crew s ave d. Coarse and inferior Sheaja.. ... 3 4 3 82 10 3 0 Second quality ditto ... ... ... 3 8 310 3 2 3 8 AARHUUS,, JAN. 14.—The yacht Skjoll was s tranded Prime coarse-woolled ditto ... 4 0 4 23 10 4 0 near Grenaa during a g a le 10th J anuar y, an d h as g one Prime Southdown ditto ... ... 4 2 4 4 4 2 4 4 to pieces; part of cargo (brandy) wash e d o n s hore. Lambs... ... 0000 0 0 0 0 LIVERPOOL, JAN. 24.—Wind S.W. fresh; 25th, S.W. Large coarse Cals7e; ."..• ::. ....: 3 0 3' 6 3 0 3 6 Moderate.—Arrd. Robert Stephenson, Pearce, Laguna ? ' Prime small ditto . ... 383103 8 3 10 Lord .Flardinge, Cowie, Chin a; I sa b e ll a Thomson and L arge Hogs . Thomas and William, Demerara; Everton, Mauritius; Small P o rkers' '" -- —• • ., 2 10 3 62 . 6 3' 6 ... .... 3 8 4 0 3 8 310 Africa steamer, Harrison, N ew Yo r k ; Industry, St. ... ... . Beasts ... • .., .. ~. „,„ 3,90 3,852 John's, New Brunswick ; Bhurtpore. and Catherine. Sheep and Lambs .. ... 20,640 21,250 Off port, Herald, Calcutta; Athelstan. Sid. Gem, Calves ... 171 . . ... 145 Atarauham ; Christina, Florida; Europa steamer, Boston; Pigs .. .. . .„ „ . . .. 280 320 . Anna Doreshea, Savannah. Put back, Mary Cawline, SUPPLIES ON SALE, •JAN. 28, 1850.—Beasts, 3,524; 1 Mobile. 26th, per the Electrio Telegraph, the 'Leeds Sheep and Lambs, 1e,850; Calves, 85; Pigs, 210. JAN. 29 149. steamer, from Dublin, was fallen in with in a sickieg Calves, 155; ,8 Pigs, 140—Beasts, 3,334; Sheep and Lambs, l7 , 2Bo ; . . State, and the crew and passengers taken off by the Ern- N*UGAT'I3 AND 361EADENIIAX , X.. pine State, arrived here yesterday. The Speculation, from Wicklow to Runcorn, Rag " Since our last report these markets have been very abandoned off Point Lynas to-day, with loss of fore- butsctt ntily supplied with Meat killed in the metropolis; mast, having previously been brought to anchor ; crew th e arrivals from t h e rov inces have been on a liberal taken off by the Price,. steamer. arrived here. scale. On the whole, a full average business has been The Leavitt, from New Orleans to this port, was transacted, at but little alteration in prices. At par atone oy the Larease. ashore and bilged. on the bar of the S.W. Pass of the s. d. to a. d. 1 O. d. to e. s. Mississippi, previous to 14th January; assistance had Beef, I nfer i or" "" 2 2 2 4 Mutton,inferior .. 2 6 210 been sett do w n to her. ---middling ••.. 2 6 2 8 middling.. 3 0 3 6 --- primalarge •• 210 ' 3 0 prime •... 3 8 310 MILFORD. JAN. 24. Wind W. Arrd. George, —. prime small .• 3 2 3 4 Pork, largo— .... 2 6 8 6 Mitie, Alexandria; Vesper, Churton, Ismail. : Veal•• •• •• -• •• —• • 3 0 310 --- small .. . . ... . 3 8 310 CLYDE, JAN. 24.—Arrd. Naomi, China; Chevalier, BOROUGH T AND SPITALFELDS. Atiliinnon, Demerar a . The fresh arrivals of Potatoes, Coastwise and by land-carriage, have `been on a very moderate scale sinc e DOVER, JAN. 24.—Wind W. freab ; P.M. S.W. strong; 25th, W.—Oti p ort , N ew H amps hi re, N ew Y or k. Monday last; nevertheless, the suppli es on sa l e here COWES, JAN. 25 —Wi n d S. W., a h ar d gale.—Arrd. are seasonably large. Selected qu a l i ti es are i u fa i r re- Rio quest, at full prices. o; , hertvise, the dema n d i s i n a Caledonia, M:F ar k ne Batavia Hausa, lih Martens, 1 s l ugg i s h state). Janeiro ; Eol o , Od e s sa . ; • DEAL, JAN. 24.—Wind W.S.W; P.M. S.W. a heat) , gale. 25th, W.S.W. moderate; P.M. S.W. frosh.—Arrd. Brothers, Wilson, Calcutta; Catharine, Honduras; At lanta, Cuba; Diana, Luke, from the River for Port Philip; Pacha, Key, Ceylon; Alexandria, Falconer, Algoa Bay; Barrack, Buffalo River; flighbury, Digby, Trinidad; Camolera, Young, Jamaica; Ellen, Thorp, Cayenne; Patrick Henry, Hubbard, New York; Ipswich Lass, James, St. Michael's. Ski. Orouoco steamer. Put back, Oriental, Hong-Kong; Beacon, River Gambia; Ma deira. Dolphin, Nonpariel, and Prospero, St Michael's; Apollo, Grenada; Christiania, New York. _ TORBAY; JAN. 25.—Wind W. by S.—Arrd. Helen, Padden, Newfoundland. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Wind S.W., a gale.—Arrd. Selin, Leith, Rio Janeiro. FALMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Wind W.S.W. to W., strong gales and squally ; 24th. W.S.W., moderate breezes.— Arrd. Tay, Sweetman, Callao; Charlotte, Grossen von Essen, Ibraila; Captain Cook, Bennett, Galatz. ,_ BE IDOEWATER, JAN. 24.—Wind S.W., strong.—Arrd. E' Babalas, Varna. Balsam, JAN. 24.—Wind strong.—Arrd. Hereford- Shire, Honey, Galatz. • CINCIROAD, JAN. 24.—Arrd. Syron, Dinne, Odessa; :uristol Alexander, Trieste. ~, SWANSEA, JAN. 25.—Wind W.—Sld. Touch-me-no 43 lab ad o es . BALLYCOTTON, JAN. 23.—Arrd. Sea Bird, Ibraila. Per Ton. Per Tbn Yorksh. Regents. 6 - s to 80s Wisbeach & Cam- Ditto Shaws —8 to - s bridge Lincoln. Regents 608 to 70s Kent Regents 6os to 7.5 s Scotch Regents.. 60s to 70s Essex Regents 6os to 7os Ditto Cups Ditto Blues Ditto Dahlias .., —s to s Kent & Essz. Mid. —s to —s Common Whites. —s to —s French . —s to —3 ewea.stle & I3er- German ditto.... —s to wick Regents.. 60s to 70s Dutch Whites —s to Kentish Red Kid. —s to —s Chats ... —s to a BOROUGH HOP ITICARIECET. The market is very moderately supplied with all new Hops, for which the demand is steady, at fully last week's prices. Yearlings are in fair request, at ex treme quotations, Sussex pockets, per cwt., 112 s to 1265; Weald of Kent, 126 s to 140 s; Mid and East Kont, 140 s to 2503. WOOL. Since -this this day ea'anight; the imports of Wool into London have amounted to 4 bales from Leghorn, .117 from Havre, 8 from Madras, 305. from Alexandria, 624 from Taganrog, 639 from obart Town, 679 from Syd ney, and 8 baps from Hamburgb. For both English And Colonial Wools, the demand by private contract is steady, but all foreign qualities are much neglected. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE.—MONDAY. Notwithstanding that the supplies of English Wheat 0 11 offer - in meat of the country markets held on Satur % were tolerably extensive, the demand for all kinds fm at a further advanc e i n th e quotat i ons of ntn is to, in some instances, 2s per quarter. At the l erge•outports, fine foreign qualities were held at a much greater improvement. The Barley trade was brisk at is to 2s per quarter more money, whilst Malt was decidedly higher. Oats were 6d higher, and most other articles, especi a lly , fine flour, had an upward tendency. Later advices fioni New York state that very little was doing in Flour for shipment to the United Kingdom. 4 4 the Baltic ports the trade for Wheat has continued 41111 . at improved currencies. The French and Dutch i narkets have been steady at the late advance. ,trp to our market last week coastwise, the receipts of \I rani and Flour were very moderate. From abroad we r eceived 4,603 quarters of Wheat, 7,300 Barley, 1,661 O ats, 3,140 Beans, 109 Peas, 1,030 Taros, 11,045 Lin ttd, 2,428 R apeseed, 1,258 sac k s an d 5,067 b arrels of eur. Thesupply of Wheat received fresh up to this morn 411rs. market, coastwise, from Essex was but moderate, a nd, out of condition, owing to. the prevailing damp Weather. From Kent, the supply was comparatively "WI and m uc h weathered. By tend- carriage from the midland counties, es well as from Norfolk and Suffolk, the receipt s were by no means extensive. The show of s amples of both red and white being small, and the attendance of both town and country millers on the in crease, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home Produce was somewhat brisk, at an advance-in the quota tions obtained on Monday last of 2s per quarter, and a good clearance was speedily effected. Additional firmness Asa given to the trade from the fact that numerous orders for the purchase of low foreign Wheats have been received from Holland, Belgium, and even France. There was more inqui ry for forward delivery offers, and about 2,000 quarters of Wh ea t so ld f or t h e next fortnight at 2s per quarter advance. Very li tt l e really - fine Foreign -Wheat was brought forward,was but the show of middling and inferior parcels tolerably good. Selected samples of Dantzic re :alised 2s, Other kinds is per quarter more money, at Web holder s were very f i rm. In floating cargoes, the ivals of whi c h o ff F a l mouth are small, very little was doing, °wing to the high pretensions of the merchants. The total supply of Barley was mod erate l y good, t ne vertheless the trade ruled active, at a further im r°2eMent, in value of from la to 2s per quarter. Che ',Ler- parcels were unusually scar ce . $1 4 4 1 t, the. arri v al of which was very moderate, was e turn in favour of sellers. taWith Oats,," both English and Foreign, we were scan- I Itte atlPplied; whilst the trade ruled stea d y, at 6d per (Ner snore money. ' l eans were f • request, and quite as dear as l ast 1 0 e in fair „. 1 4.8t kinds-of -Pea s so ld s l ow ly, y e t p r i ces were well Mk 3 Ported. h ii t n dian-Corn afloat was is per quarter dearer, 29s 6d ing been paid for Galatz afloat. i ictir,was i n goo d request, and the ma j or i ty of the Iltiet t ers Ts r efilefid to sell except at an advance of 2s pe r b ou ,447.zeth• American and Fren c h were h e ld f or more 1114 1 „ i cußitErreir PEE IMPF:RrAt, 2LEAsuRE. '• .-- Essex &, Kent, Malt—Chevalier— •• 57s to bBs h . ....... 40s to 45s O a t s— Yorkshire and ~,,-44orfolk a ,Whi . te, New 428 535 Lineolnsh., Feed. 17s 20 s .w nd Lin- Potato •• • • 193 2be coin Red.— 405 455 Youghal and Cork, Dit to. 7 %idl e .....• 425 493 Black . .• • • 16s 19s - mit, Red........ —s —s Cork, White • .... 17$ 21s ~White.. ••" —s Scotch, Feed. .• • • 205 25a 265 28s Beans—Tick •• .. 25s 30s 26s 293 Pigeons 275 33s ringing. •• • • 25s 288 Feas—GreY ••••• • • • •• 27s 318 0 ting •" " • 295 32s Maple. •••••• •• • • 285 328 k41k4111 evalier 348 369 White... •• •• •• •• 268 29s " -- Suffolk and Nor- Boilers -• •••• •• 30s 345 Flo Su 398 428 ... 43s 48s Suffolk ••••• • • • • 29s 348 ti ngston and * Niue 518 565 , Stoats & Norfolk 29s 34s SEEDS. Tho supplies of Linseed c qitinue to find buyers cn : 11 f! immense quantities still on pricee.; ,L,„ "age. Into so active as of late, yet * are well supp or t e d. In other articles very little lu-r4l„ doing P;White per bush. Oa to 10, ttus. wad Green.. . • 8 5 11 , -Lra Brown.. • • 85 9, tare9White new , 3 ••..6 Od 7 Od .Winicr •-356 d 4:od, can Ol d •• • •••••••••• •• 3 s 9d O a Od /t.,,,_arY, per quarter .. 3,s 39s Clo • • 4 •• •• • ' ••• 2 3 305 Te Z r, a. Red Eni. (cwt.) 31 4 . 44a White .• •• • • 39. 45s Foreign Red.. •• .• 3 , 13 44s T rvo.. White •• • • 39s 44 . •• •• •• •• 193 22 3 - - Owingaixrriazirczma. to the prevailing strong gal es of wind, the im- Ports of foreign stock into London last week were corn- Paratively small, the total arrival having been confined to 1,508 head. During the corresponding period in 1851 we received 2,668; in 1850, 1,077. • and in 1848, 407 head. , in 1849, 854• ; IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN TH E PAST ,arEux From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. . pi Rotterdam ... 289 ... 337 ... —• 213 Antwerp Ostend Carraway....•••••••• 31s 33 8 Coriander •... 93 11 8 Hempseed, per quarter 32$ 35 8 Linseed, Eng. Sowing • • 60s 65 8 Crushing 46s 52 8 Baltic 4os 46 8 Odessa 4 48 50' Linseed Cako,pr.l,ooo- 7 _ _ _ English 81 lOs 101 Os 1 Foreign, per ton 61 bs 81 Os Izapc Cakes, pr ion 41 23 41 43 RaPeseed,liew, prlst 2110 s 23103 ••• ...... Total The yearly comparison of the weekly arrivals is as Under: Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 185 1......... 410 ... 1,918 ... ... 297 ... 53 1850 ........ 231 ... 676 ... 170 -- 184 9-- .. 159 ... 616 7 9 ••• ........ l2O 211 .. 76 .. To -day's mar k et was to l erably well, but not to say esters elf supplied with home-fed Beasts, as to number, Whilst their general quality exhibited a deficiency cora itared wi t h !donde), last. The s h ow o f f ore i gn stoc k wa s %alter than for some weeks past. Owing to the large o qua ctities of meat on offer in Neivgate and Leadenhall, fd the prevailing wet weather, the demand for all breeds Beasts was somewhat inactive. However, a fair wiearance of the best Scuts, Herefords, and short.borns 11 48 e „ r e ,"° 1 ed, at last week's prices —the top figure for ueing 2s 101 per 81bs—but all low and middling ctlll,l%lities ruled the turn in favour of buyers. From Nor lelk. Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received te oo Scots and short-horns, with a few Herefords; from Ei4ce n orthern graz i ng di str i cts 800 s hort-horns, and f rom () °til l: l dt chiefly per railway, 360 horned and polled Scots. ]prrt, veldole the supply of Sheep was seasonably good. Inle Downs and half-breds were in fair request at Prey. at le as currencies. Most ether Sheep moved off slowly forivuaitered quotations. Very few Calves were brought at ar d ; nevertheless, the demand for them was heavy, barely Stationery prices. In Pigs, .the number of b ut was very moderate, next to nothing was doing; Were about 1,000 shor n Sheep in the market. Per Bibs. to Maths offal. s. d. to s. d l 'at ri.,... I. d. to s. d. 114:14-;,-,,. zessts..... 2 6 2 8 Inferior Sheep • • ''' 210 3 0 1'1.4 4 -- • , lrlality .. •. 210 3 2 second goal. Sheep 3 2 3 . 0 I'l, a ° large Oxen.. 3 4 3 6 C)arse•woolledditto3 10 . 4 Ln t . ! Seol4 ...... 3 8 310 Southdown 4 2 4 11.41.1_aoarse Calves 3 0 3 6 Ditto outof the wool 0: 0 3 u 6 1 14,,,,l a ulallditto .• 3 S 310 Largo Hogs • ' '''' 2 210 . 1 , 8 I„A.,'ag Calves • •18 0 21 0 A 11 Porkers ••° • • "46 .......... 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT 111ARKET. Quarter old rigs •• 16 0 19 0 i 81 '"P• 21,250 Calves. I FOREIGN duppi,l7l 383 11 pats, I sheep. 1,0.0 Calve3. ; _ 119 Stitt b thlelLlt and Comparison. of th e pplies and Prices of 414 S tock ozhibited and old ill 6rult Suureid cAttle Market, I l eaats. 8,852 ! Pigs. I 3to I Pigs. 'I`II,ZLOVT. Our market still continues exceedingly heavy, at a further reduction ins. - the quotations. To-day, new P, Y. C. on the , spot is selling at 363 to 36s 3d; and old 35s 6d to 35s 9d" per cwt. Town Tallow, 36s 6d to 36s 9d'per cwt, net. cash; Rough Fat, 2s 1d per 81bs. The imports are on a liberal scale for the time of year, but they are chiefly derived from our colonies. 1848 Steck this day .... • . Price of Y. C. .... t0474875t Delivery last week .. 3,221 Ditto from June 1.... 73,580 Arrivals last week - Ditto from June C... I 81,S C 9 Price of Town ......1 52s Od 1849. 1850. 36;867 42,145 405 Oct 39s Oct to 40s 6c1t039s 6d 1,996 2,363 70,330 65,838 8M i 2,066 99,385 82,560 438 Od 418 Od 1851. 49,632 59,244 37s 6rl to 86s Od 37s 9d t 0363 3d 2,403 2,643 65,652 73,056 4 1,355 89,766 95,766 39s 6d 1 39s 6d QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) QUEEN V. 'HAMMOND. In this case a quo warranto had been obtained, calling upon the defendant to show by what right he held the office of town-councillor for the borough of Yarmouth, and the question was argued at great length some time ago. It was objected that .several of the voting papers, which were delivered in at the election in favour of the defendant were bad, i nasmuc h as they did not specify the place of residence of the candidate, but merelygave his place of business. This objection, however, was met by a statement that the defendant was better known by his place of business than by his place of abode; but the Municipal Corporation Act expressly provides that the place of residence shall be given; and as the Court thought it would lead to great confusion if they allowed the place of business to be indiscriminately used as the place of abode, they were constrained to construe the Act of Parliament strictly, and therefore to pronounce judgment against the defendant. Rule absolute accordingly. KEEN V. 'STUART. Sir F. THESICER said this was an action of debt tried at the last sittings in Westminster, before Lord Camp bell, when a verdict was given for the plaintiff, with 2001. damages, and he had now to move for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial had, or why the damages should not be increased to 5591. The plaintiff was an attorney-at-late, and the defendant a gentleman of property, residing in Scotland. The defendant, it appeared, was one of the provisional committeemen of the defunct Canterbury and Herne Bay Bailway Company, and he was Sued in that capacity. He was sued by several of the al lottees. These actions were defended by Keen, and after they were disposed of his bill of costs was taxed at 559/., but the defendant now disputed his liability, and contended that the goats ought to be paid out , of the funds of the company. I t unfortunately happened, however, that there were 'no funds, , and tho plaintiff had, therefore, no alternative but to bring the present action, and at the trial it Was agreed that the matter of fact to bo determined by the jury should be the de fondant's liability. The jury decided this question in the plaintiff's favour, but instead of stopping there, they went further, and reduced the amount of his claim from 559/. to 2001., which it was contended they had no autho rity to do.—aule nisi granted. EXCHEQUER.—(TUIS DAY.) MILLER V. ALDERMAN SALOXONS, M P. This case came before the court, upon a special ver dict. It will be recollected that the action was instituted against Mr. Alderman Salomons, M.P. for Greenwich, to recover three several penalties of 5001, for having voted thrice in the House of Commons .without having taken or subscribed, to the oath of abjuration, in the form required: by the statute. The defendant pleaded that he did not Owe the debt. Issue baying been joined, the action came to trial before Mr. Baron Martin, when the jury found a special verdict, setting forth all the main facts which had been proved before them. Mr. Sergeant Channel! and Mr. Macnams.ra now ap peared for the plaintiff; and Sir Fitzroy.Relly and Mr. A. Goldsmith for thO defendant. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL, after reading in detail the questions reserved tor the opinion of the Court, said he should contend, in the course of his arguments, that the plaintiff was entitled to recover the penalties he had sued for. Tee main question for the decision of the Court was whether the defendant, before he voted, had taken the oath of abjuration as required by law. It was impossible not to see that the subject involved considerations of great public importance and interest, but he thought he should best discharge his duty to his client and their Lordships by treating the matter in dispute simply as a question of law. Whether the statute was conformable to the spirit of the times or not was a matter they had nothing to do with; they bad only to ascertain what the law was, and whether on the one hand it had been respected and obeyed, or on the other evaded or defeated. He submitted that one thing was quite clear, viz., that an infringement of the law was protected by statutes, which imposed penalties that might he sued for as a debt in any of the superior courts of law; therefore the power was not only con-. ferred upon their Lordships of determining the present question, but they could impose a penalty. It could scarcely be disputed that the statutes which imposed the oath of abjuration were still in force, or that the defendant was not by reason of his being a Jew exempted from the necessity of taking it in the same form and shape as prescribed. Whatever might have passed elsewhere, this point was too free from doubt to warrant his entering on any leugthened argument upon it. The two great and important questions for their L or d s hi ps wou ld b e as f o ll ows: —Fir s t, whether, assuming could that the defendant as a Jew was bound in one s a shape o r ot h er to take the oath of abjuration, that oat h be properly sworn on th e Old T estamen t. He abjurationt was a Christian c O a l t d h submitted th at whatever right the Jew had to be sworn w itness or as a juror on the defendant had been nextpr properly p q e u r e l y s t i s e w n , T Testament, m coulden t not , the oath of be sw orn to on The e Old Testament on th e groun d o f his being a J ew . ingthTatesttlaie owrnas'onassuthme Old ment, so as to raise whether, ha v i ng i n n o t objection to the form of swear ing,catain wor d s —a on tottionally and purposely omitted had really taken the oath atruaell. faith of a Christian"—he n ell) contended that a s h a had Ele (Mr Sergeant Chan its entirety it must be inferred thnaott: , aken the oath in take it le, all. These two questions dependedhad omitted to construction of at great number o f statutes upon the should bring under the review of the ej nn w r h t which be e Court might possibly be assisted by authorities and re ported cases to some extentibut tho se questions would mainly rest on the statutes he had mentioned. Af ter some consideration he had deemed it best to bring those statutes before their Lordships previous to proceeding with his argument. He would divide them into two classes. First, statutes which imposed the duty on Members of Parliament, and the public generally, o f taking the oath of abjuration end other oaths. These he should call obligatory statutes. The next were those of an exemptory character, and which as regarded some purposes and so me p ersons dispensed with the necessity of taking &the oaths at all, or of taking them under cer l i - tain circumstances which were otherwise obligatory. He should o r exempting term these dispensing statutes. This last class ho would subdivide into sta tutes particularly affecting; Jews themselves; and in the ne xt place, those which relieved quakers and Illorasi 2lin from swearing at all, or of affirming to the words of the oath. Some Acts relating to Quakers and Moravianc, aP plied equally to Jews, and when that was so he would in clude them under the head of Jews. The Learned Coun sel then gave an elaborate summary in the above order, of the various statutes which had been passed, commencing with the Ist of Elizabeth, chap. 1 , which restored to the Crown its ancient jurisdiction over the State, ecclesi astical and spiritual, abolished all foreign power relating to the same, and compelled certain persons to take the oath of supremacy, and ending with the 10th of George IV., which emancipated Boma Catholics,- and I s t and T 14: LON DON, 2d Vie., chap. 105, which waspassed to remove doubts as to the validity of certain oaths which were general iu their character. The Learned Sergeant had not con cluded his address when our report left. _ _ Alderman Salomons was present in the court, and the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, MR, o ccu pi e d a sea t upon the bench. The court was more th an usua lly crowded. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY. PRESTON V. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE. UPON TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Blass, Q.C., applied to the Court for a man damus, upon the directors of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Rail way Company to register the transfer of five of the shares which Mr. Preston had purchased in the market. The directors refused to register the shares, because Mr. Preston wanted to use his influence, as a share holder, to make the company pay a large demand which his father had u p on t h em. I t would seem that in its early days the promoter agreed to pay Mr. Preston's f Ither 5,000/, to withdraw his opposition, as a landowner, to the proposed line ; and they ultimately found no di fficulty in obtaiLieg their Act. When, however, the panic came, they determined to abandon the scheme alrogether, and to divide the remainder of the deposits, amounting to 103. per share, amongst the shareholders ; but this had not been done, under the Winding-up Act, and Mr. Preston having become possessed of five of the shares, he wished to be placed on the register, but the directors refused to allow that, for the reasons already stated.--Application granted. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.) The January acjourned sessions were opened this morriieg ut Cferken well. The number of names in the calendar is 74. John ll'hilde, a teacher of the violin, and dealer in musical instruments, harp and violin strings, who lately had a school for the teaching of the violin in Cheapside, under the name of Signor Giovanni Bctelli, was convicted at the vacral sessions for obtaining under false pre tences goods to the amount of about 401., the property of his aunt, a manufacturer of harp and violin strings. On that occasion the question reserved for the consi deration of the Court, at the request of Mr. Gifford; the prisoner's counsel was, whether it was not incumbent on the prosecution to prove that the pretence upon which the goods were obtained was false, and, therefore, that as the indictment stated the false pretence to be that the pri- . soner said he was engeged to purchase the goods in ques tioll for n firm, declining at the time to give ttre name of that firm, the Learned Gentleman then contended that the proseeution was required in law to prove that there existed no such 6rm as alleged or pretended. The ASSISTANT-JUDGE had had no doubt whatever on tho subject when he reserved the point. But he had since taken - further opinion on the question, and found, as he expected, his own view entirely confirmed. It was made out in the evidence that the pretence - was false, and it would have been for the prisoner to show that there really was a firm connected with the transaction, had such been the case. The jury had properly found him guilty, and the Court considered the fraud upon the pri soner's widowed and struggling aunt to be one of a very heartless nature. The sentence was that he be impri soned and kept to hard labour for six months in the House of Correction. MkUtL B R 0 1 -S T REE r —( THIS DAY.) INTERFERING WITH A POLICE INbrECTOR. M r. Richard Streether, a surveyor, residing at No. 2, Wye ham-terrace, Brighten, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with being drunk and interfering with Inspector What), C division, while in thp execution of his duty. The Inspector stated that about two o'clock yesterday morning he was passine , along Coventry-street, when he saw the defendant andr another gentleman in conversa tion with the constable on duty. Witness went up to the constable and asked him what the gentleman were talking, about. The defendant, who was very tipsy, said, " What business is that of yours?" and asked him who he was. Complainant told him be was an inspector of police, and desired him to go about his business, which he refused to do, and gave witness a slight push. The other gentlemen walked quietly away, and as the defendant persisted in remaining where he was, com plainant took him to the station. The inspector added that. since the defendant had recovered from his drunken fit, he had expressed his contrition for his conduct. He, therefore, did not wish to press the charge of assault. Mr.,BDIGHAst inflicted the drunkard's fine of 55., which the defendant at once paid. PREPARING FOR A RAINY DAY.—Eliza Morris was charged with stealing a silk umbrella, the property of James Miller, who deposed that on Saturday afternoon he went into a shop in Compton-street on business, and placed his umbrella by the door, close to where the pri soner was standing. On leaving the shop he missed the property in 'question, and suspecting the prisoner had stolen it, he went in pursuit of her, and caught her coming out of a wardrobe shop, where she had been to sell the umbrella. He then gave her in charge. Ann .Pollock proved purchasing the umbrella from the prisoner for ls. 6d. The prisoner denied stealing the umbrella, and was fully committed for trial. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—Henry Newport, clerk, 112, Fleet-street, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with being drunk and furiously driving a horse and gig, and running over Clara Midhurst, whereby her life was placed in considerable danger. Miller, 145 C, stated that about a quarter past eleven on the previous night he was on duty in Coventry-street, when he saw the prisoner driving a horse and gig at a furious rate up the Haymarket. On crossing from the latter place to Windmill-street the horse ran against a young woman and knocked her down on her back, the wheels gig passing over h er in a longitudinal directi of theon. Witness ran forward and stopped the horse, and observing that the defendant was very drunk he directed another constable to convey him to the station, while witness removed the female te a surgeon's, where it was ascertained : that she had Miraculously escaped any serious-injury beyond a few severe contusions on the breast. Her clothes were also much damaged and torn. Clara Medhurst said she was crossing the end of. Windmill-street when the prisoner drove against her and knocked her dowu. She recollected nothing else, as she became insensible. She was much bruised, and her clothes were torn to pieces. The defendant expressed his sorrow for what had oc curred, and said the horse ran away. Mr. BINGHAM said it had been proved that the- de- fendaut was drunk, and fined him 40s. for furious driving, and 3/. for the damage done to the,wornan. The money was paid. ADMIRAL DUNDAS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF GICEENIVICIL — AdmiraI Dundas on Saturday issued his fare well address to the electors of Greenwich. He says:—" Her Majesty having been pleased to confer on me the command of the Mediterranean Squadron, it becomes my duty to in form you that early in the next session of Parliament it is my intention to resign into your hands the trust you have for so many years been pleased to honour me with, that of being your representative in Parliament" The Gallant Ad miral proceeds to say, " Great have been the retrenchments and reductions in England and Ireland since you have had the Parliamentary franchise, and liberal principles became so well rooted in the public mind, that the late Sir Robert Peel was enabled to carry measures having for their object a cheap and steady price for the food of the people, a law so sensible and just that I trust it may never again be taken from them. Peace also has been preserved—public credit mairitained—slavery abolished—and most of those fervent hopes we formed together at my first selection in 1832, have been gradually realized." He then concludes, " From all of you I have ever had a kind and hearty reception; to me, Greenwich has indeed been a Sailor's Home,' and my feelings of regard for you can never be effaced. Accept, then, my best and warmest wishes for the future welfare and prosperity of the inhabitants of Greenwich, Woolwich, and Deptford. " - ROBBEEY or CHURCH PLATE.—EarIy on Friday morning the parish church of Knowstone, Devon, was sacri legiously entered and plundered of the whole of the ancient sacramental plate. Amongst the articles is a massive paten, the gift of Queen Elizabeth, date 1576; another of William 111., date 1695. The value of the articles is upwards of 300/. A large reward is offered for the discovery of the per petrators of this sacrilege. SERIOUS CAB ACCIDENT.—Last evening, shortly before ten o'clock, as the driver of a cab was letting out a fare at the corner of Duke-street, Oxford-street, the horse suddenly darted off at full galop across the road, when it came into collision with an omnibus, and so violent was the shock that the horse fell down dead on the spot, and the cab made a complete summerset, with its wheels upwards. The omnibus, which was one of Crawford's cheap Padding. ton vehicles, had several passengers both inside and outside, and we regret to say that the violence of the concussion completely stove in a portion of the offside of the omnibus, and as we heard, dangerously wounded a female sitting in caiupdalltyhrbeoeyosf, side. `The conve nienceprin of the outside passengers was com p letel y bro ken off railing at the top of the omn i b us for the An immense mob t w b u y 'e e r m t e h , t e h a r s s o h w w o k e am , r,ei t a hi n n immediately congregated, and several p olicemen were six(l f tr r e m a te informed, l e s e r e n i N o c ' e u e n s t l y o p the ground, r s o , quickly An the spot, to whom great credit is due for their praiseworthy exertions in removing the injured parties to a neighbouring surgeon's with the greatest possible promp titude. GAROTTE ROBBERY IN LOND, clock, the follow i ON. —On Friday n gross outrage and robbery was committed upon the person of Mr. Hackle, of No. 24, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square. Mr. _ morning, at the early hour of near one oclock, g r H h u e c u l m ile a , ti N s v m ho i N s ve a s d r v e a t n u c ro ed m i g n h y o e m ar e s, t a h n ro d u g g r h ea t t h ly e ab square at a slow pace, having a roll of music in o n e hand and an umbrella in the other, when, n ear th e c o rner o f affl o i v c e te -n d Charlotte -street, he was suddenly p ounce d. u p on by. three men, two of whom having secured hi s arms an d drawn his head back by means of gripping his throat, p r e ven t e d hi s awmitebid giving any alarm by placing something over his mouth, while the third proceeded to rifle his pockets. Fortunately Mr. Iluckle only bad ss. 91, which they took, as also the silver spectacles he wore ; but on looking at the r o ll o f p aper , and finding it music, o no of them exclaimed " Let the old butler keep that and his umbrella." They then started off. It was some time before Mr. Eluekle recovered from the vio lencetheeoubidestreocofghniiseewtahyetmhietuhelry.hobeler: confidentvueuryckniceuzehlsoniehe to w hi c h h e h ad b een subjected, when finding be was laa d h e e actually plundered him, and describes all three to have been dressed in the garb of stablemen. SPANISH NAMES.--A Spanish journal give following singular names as those of two 071p/oyes i s the n th Finance department at Madrid :—Don Epifanio Mirurzu e rurduudua y Zengotita and Don Juan N e p omuceno de Burionagonatotorecagogeazeoecha. The journal, in quoting the name of the latter of these hon. gentlemen, would have done well to have given some directions as to the pro nunciation. FAILUIZES.—The failure of Messrs. Donald Mackey, lladow, and Co., East India merchants, has been announced. The fi r m have two houses in India, one at Calcutta and the buta arethey express a h ope t h a t t h ese may stand. small. M essrs. D ow, Wil son, and. Herriraan, wholesale _g r ocers, have s us p en d e d a t N ew 'York; and a Ur, Cileadie , urt79k At Orleans. other at Mou l e i n bi ; l Their LOSS OF THE AMAZON. OFFICIAL INQUIRY—(THIS DAY.) An official inquiry into the iosi of the Royal Mail steam-pncke,t the Arnezrin, by the Board of 'iirade. was commenced this morning at the Privy Coup cil Office, in Downing-street. The inquiry was ,conducted by Captain Be echy and Captain Waikent The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceeding; made a few preliminary observations with reepe't l to tho dreadful nature of the loss, in the course of which ho observed that the present inquiry would be , entirely public and would bo conducted in the fairest possible manner. He also stated that, in consequence of several important witnesses being absent in Scotland, that part of the inquiry relating to the construction of the boilers and vossel, and the general efficiency not be proceeded with t o d ay , of the CLVVY, would Captain Corrie, the:Admiralty inspector of mail packs is at Southampton, was first exarninQd and ho desc ribed the construction of the vessel and boilers, which no consi dered to be perfect. AugustusM‘Guinnes, the storekeeper on hoard the Amazon, gave similar evidence to that alrealy placed before the public. Isaac Roberts, boilerman, the next witness, deposed to the sudden outbreak of the fire, a, - id the utter impossibility of t g e tting it under. ir, - .4) said, that as far as nis observation extended every effort was made to a rrest its progress. His opi,lion of the cause of the fire was that there was no metai: cover ing between the bulkhead end the boiler. The bulk head had become so heated and dry that if a red-hot pricker had come rgainst it it would have ignited. With regard to the ship which passe'd ner;•,r the burning wreck, he stated that when het saw it it was about half waY between the life-b:At in which he was and the wreck. That was about a mile or a tulle and a 'nalf. They shouted to the•ship, but no an swer was made, and she did not show any light. There was nothing in the boiler chimneys which induced him to think they were unusually hot. He was not aware of there being any more than en ordinary dogrel: of heat eat the bottom of the funnel near the deck. Es never heard any one remark that the chimneys were very hot. wiiii, m Nutter, water-tender, who had been four years in the company s fervice, said, when he to tat saw the fire it was coming from between the boiler and the deck, where the coal-sacks were kept. He was at this time in the engine-room; the heat b ecame so g e a t that in a fe,v minutes afterwards ho Was obliged to leave. • He was the last person who lett the engine-rooni. [The examination of this witness Was proceeds nz when our report left.] DRURY-LANE On Saturday the great English tenor, Mr. Sims Reeves, made his first appearance, for the season, in Fra Diavolo, and never has the bandit chief houn re presented, either vocally or h istrionically, with such skill, dash, versatility, and effect. The be wailful serenade, "Young Agnes," was delive re d w i t h suc h exquisite tenderness, and such delicate expression,, as to take the house by surprise ; the audience were, en tranced into that ecstatic silence which proves more the powers of a singer than would do the most vehement applause, until the conclusion of the seronade, and then uprose from thousands of voices one sh ant of encore, followed by applause the most, e nthusiastic. The other great tong of the part is of a different charac ter, bat it was rendered by Mr. Sims Reeves with equally just appreciation of its requirements with great energy and with infinite gusto. Never have we heard the far-famed "Proudly and wide my standard flies" more effectively rendered than it was on Saturd: ty by Mr. Sims Reeves. The part of Z^.rlina was suit ;ained for toe first time by Mrs. Sims R Deves, (late Miss Emma LI/combo), and she achieved a p e.rfect success, more' realising the very favour a bl e ant itipa than tions which had been formed of her from her per formance in lia ydee at Covent -garden some two years since. "On yonder rock reclining," Iva ad mirably sung, and the celebrated dressing scene was a perfect gem. M r . Whitworth made an. ex cellent Lord Allcash, and Miss P. Horton is far. and away the best Lady Allcash who has yet app eared. Mr. Manvers as Lorenzo, sang the music a ll ottvad to , him with much sweetness. The performance was ,com pletely successful. At the fall of the curtain there was a loud call for Mr. Sims Reeves, who came forward and bowed his acknowledgments; on his retreat the call was renewed, and he re-appeared with Mrs. Sims Peeves, Miss P. Horton and Mr. Whitworth, and then thf Ire was a loud call for Mr. Bunn, who appeared and atAnow 'edged the compliment. The theatre was crowded. THE DOOMED DESPOT. The saying of the ancients, that , e the gods strike, those with madness whom they doom to death," seems singu larly appli cable to Louis Napoleon, whose mad career becomes daily more desperate. Where it will end, or to what new acts of outrage he may be impelled, by the success that has up to the present time attended his lawless deeds, time and Providence alone can ;tell. It is, however, supposing the French nation to be the veriest slaves on the Lee of the earth if they suffer much longer the frightful tyranny of this maniac despot. Th e intel ligence of his proceedings to which w© refer our readers is a tissue of flagrant acts of violence, of the no/ ption of every social right, and of the total subversion of. all law, save the absolute will of a dictator, enforced by the bayonets of an omnipotent soldiery, by whose h clads the liberties of France have been dro'ncd in the 'blood of her children. The President knows that his despotism can only be maintained by the troops, who are t o France what the Prastorian Guards were to the Roman, empire, and he hopes by bribing largely to retain his popularity with them. For this purpose he has robbed th a Orleans family, and will go on robbing and rifling all who come within his grasp, to pay his brigands, until his career shall be cut short by the indignation of his c ountry, or no longer able to bribe them, they turn upon :him, and sacrifice him to their fury.— Sunday Paper. _ESTORATION OF LAMBETH CHURCH. — Arrange ments have been made for re-opening the parish church of St. Mary, Lambeth, which has for some months; past been undergoing a thorough restoration, on Tuesday,, the 3d of February. The Bishop of officiate in the mor n i ng , and Winchester has um jertaken to the V enera bl e A r chdeacon Robinson, D.D., Blaster of the Temple, in the evening. There will also be a series o f services during the remainder of the week, which will be conducted b y t h e A r clibishop of Canterbury, the Bishopef London, th e An thdeacon of Wordsworth, Surrey, the Rev. Canon D. D,, am Rev. Dr. Jell, the Rev. F. G. tilemfield the Rev. R. D. James. , the R ev . J o h n J a c kson, and ANOTHER CENTENARIAN. —Died on the I Ith inst., at his farm at Greanan, upon the estate of Gler ifintaig, Mr. Alexander Cameron, at the great age of 100 years . H e never had any sickness during this long life, w within a as in full posses sion of his faculti es, and went about un , ti: day or two of his death. H e was, we believe, a descendant I of the original familey of Letterfinlay ; and he an d his fore fathers have held the farm, i n Possession of which ho died, for probably eight centuries.— Inverness Courier. T u g MUMMY.—The Council of the Bociety of A nt i qua rians of Londo n h aving appointed a committee of four of the fellows of the society t o the ecelesiastic found in the chapel of St. Stephen., the mem examine the ::remains of bers of the committee attended on Firday, under an idea that they would be permitted to make a full and pEoper ex amination. The order, however, given them by 'Dlr. Barry, was merely such as has for some days been supplied to the public, and did not enipower them to unwrap the body. It - stated that Lord Seymour was y further research could b e mademustgive his consent ere. The committee, g . a th n erefore , could do no more at present than seczure for the covere society d. a correct drawing of th e remains as they were dis- PORK FOR THE NA VT - T he L of her Majesty's Treasury have caused o r Mr. Corn ewall Lewis .— ds Corn raissioners to desire the Commissioners. of Customs to give the necessary directions for permitting the delivery, free of thity, of 213 barrels and 27 tierces of salted Pork, which have arrived by the ship Fairy, from St. Malo, into her Majesty's. victualling Deptford, the same stores, at of the naval department. be ing intended for the service SUPPOSED SUICIDE.--0 a Saturday niig tit, Mr. Baker held an injuest at the Black Horse, Kingsland-road, en view of the body ot Hannah Tollury, aged ..:3, a single woman, who was found on Thursday afternoon last, in the Canal, near dWhitmore-bridge, Hoxin. It ap e peered that the decease• _was the daughter of a tysidesman in Stratford, and that she .thad formed the acquaintance of a Y . , who, under a promise odmarriage, man of some respectability, succeeded in her seduction,_ wh ens she became a m other. The child was not affiliated, and i, - a was left its sole support. She was under the necessity of 4 ggin into service, when she got a situation. She left it sudd enl y heard o f again till her body W as on the 6th instant, and was not found in the Re gent's Canal. For several day s vice she was frequent 3 h l r heard cr ' i previous to leaving her ser- Y i n n her room, and on being asked the reason, sh.echstated g it was the heartless conduct of her seducer w ,, i had rendered her melancholy. Verdict, " Feand Dead ha . s arrived at th e E ar l o f H Lord Brooke, M.P.,. _l_riosinLlVarck C ast l e, where Warwick's Carlton-gardens, f the Noble Earl is staying. Lord El°clhdBhiwiP's place i with Miss harteris, daughter o the e°' 14 "PeCted marriage to take C n town the second week in n su i n g month. The German journals . ,announce the d ea th o f M . Swedish diplomatist, Frederick Samuel von Silversto pe, a who, also, for some twenty years, directed the Theatre Royal by this gentleman at Stockholm. The musical library left is said to be interesting and valu . P -., CO/11nri s , _ other items, many manuscript compositio ns 14. - n i a u y g dn a . moug PAUPERISM IN THE PERRAGE.--072 dit that a cer tain Noble Lord, closely connected er wi th a ducal house, is about to apply in forma pauperis f the ann ual allowance to which decayed Pe ers are entitled, fr om a couponfund, said to be in existence,-and exclusively senerted by themselves, though an application of th e present nature has not been made in the memory of th e o ldest (politi cal) hiliabitant._ Advertiser. . SUD" N DEN DE P A A PERTH OF Ma. CLEMENT, OF Tu— n " OB SERVEREOn Saturday falfOrplation. was for wa rded to Mr. Baker, the coroner , of the sudden death of - Mr. Clement, proprietor of tbe Obserr nAt sPape r , un d er c i rcu mstances which render a c oroner's_in er qn-e-8"t necessar. It Wid o wer, appears, upon inquiry, that the deceased, who was a ulna tempera of advanced age, very corpulent, and of . san g ment, walked home to his residence in r „ 4 v (Jou-terrace, Hackney, on Friday night, appar l e i n n ITh i n good health, and supped as usual, but was taken ill be was tound lying e ni ght, and about safer' but too late five o'clock in the morning it is I.lPposecl, resulted 6 . dead upon the floor of his room. Dr. Wallis wassent to rer.der effectual aid, death baying, from apoplexy. Mr. Baker has appointed th; -s day (Mon- The deceased day) evening for the holding of his inquest. was a most benevolent man, and has !eft Many sin cere friends, who knew his worth and deplore his loss. REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE. - 7 A- Very common superstition exists among sailors against sailing on Frid a y, to which the loss of the Amazon will, to believers in lucky and unlucky days, afford confirmation strong es ho , y i writ, as that ill-fated vessel put to sea on Pri day, the 2d of January. . The batons of the Marshals of France, Whi c h are so much envied, are fo r med of a round piece of de a l , 30 cell _ tirnetres in length, and from four to tive centimet res i n diameter, covered with velvet, with gold stars, and a gold ornament at each ecd, on which are engraved the words, Terror belli decus pacis." According to the ordonnance ,of Aug. 10, 1836, the marshals carry no other arms but this I baton as a sign of their bumior 6.9 aim a Ell 4 sword,and a brace of pistols. , -41 J V 11 0 N I A JAN UAi, LITERATURE. THE LIF 1? OF , DUKE OF MARL BOROUGH. 2 Vols. By Archibald Alison. Second Edition. William Blackwood and Son. Archdeacon Coxe had already written a very ad mirable life of Marlborough, before. the subject had suggested itself to Mr. Alison as one worthy of de manding at his hands any elaborate elucidation. Ledyard had in like manner given to the world a biography of the same conqueror, not without ren dering his work in many respects singularly merito rious. Gleig had, moreover, introduced an excellent narrative of the career of the victor of Blenheim in the course of his well-known memoirs of Military Commander& Besides these volumes, a variety of others had long before thrown light upon that portion of our history ; insomuch that the majority of readers might somewhat reasonably have regarded a t e , f it, o p os u i n t iccanll uncalled like o t h er and superfluous, on e beforeu hr as, os e ay e t w h a e sh least te Dutch account of the War of Succession, for example in the splendid work of Rousset. There were the let ters and dispatches relating to the subject collected together by Pelot. There was the summary' of the more remarkable battles in the campaigns of that ever-memorable contest as presented to us in the mug. nificent e this of Kausler. Added to all which there was the masterly life of Churchill, compiled in 1807 by command of the Emperor Napoleon, a life which the present biographer of the hero has not hesitated to pronounce "the best military narrative" yet pub lished of the exploits of Marlborough! Yet there still r rnained ample reasons for the undertaking upon which the historian of Europe ultimately ad ventured. In the October of 1842, as is by this time matter of celebrity, there had been discovered in the record room of Hensington, near Woodstock, no less than eighteen manuscript volumes, comprising, among other thinTs, the whole of the dispatches of the Greet Duke himself, a journal kept by Dr. Hale, his Grace's chaplain, afterwards Bishop of Chichester, and a va riPty of important letters in the handwriting of Mr. Cardonnel, his private secretary. These remarkable documents were soon afterwards laid before the public, edited, arranged and collected by Sir George Murray. The discovery was not lets extraordinary than might have been that of one of the lost books of Livy in the blurred and mouldering scroll of some palimpsest manuscript. It was scarcely a jot less curious than that of the.sbort-hand diary of Pepys, edited by ; Lord Braybreoke. It tended not less sin galarly to render the history of John Churchill com prehensible, than did the mouldy old papers raked up by Mr. Carlyle at the British Museum, in reference to the personal and political hist or y o f Oliver Crom well. That the volumes in question had remained so lohg overlooked at Hensington was, of course . a cir ctinistance provocative of astonishment. Nut re deemed from obscurity, they were at last most fortu nately—and the students in military biographies were, as we have observed, before long gratified by their publication. Thereupon Mr. Alison was incited to sit down, himself, and write a new account of the career and exploits of Marlborough. He at once per ceived that there was room for such a composition: He comprehended, moreover, that there was cause for it, inasmuch as new lights bad been admitted into the more dark and questionable recesses of a career hitherto very grievously misapprehended. Added to all which considerations, it was undeniable that Ledyard's Life was not sufficiently impartial, that Gleig's was not sufficiently well authenticated, and that Coxe's was, for the general public, both too costly and too voluminous. Therefore—the original bio graphy in one volume, offered by Mr. Alison as a tribute to the memory of Marlborough. Encouraged by the success of that volume, our accomplished and indefatigable author has now produced another edi tion of the work, so materially augmented in every particular as to render it something much more remarkable than a mere re-publica tion. Extended to two volumes, "The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough," by Archibald Alison, must in its present form be at once ranked, as it will in the end become inevitably established, among the most standard military biographies in our literature. Referring to the style of the narrative, it will be found everywhere remarkable for the luminous ability dis played by the historian throughout that more ex tended production, which still, of course, remains his masterpiece. With the graces of a flowing and so norous eloquence are blended, in the successive chap ters, the caution of a minute and scrupulous exacti tude. Every paragraph in the two volumes, as was conspicuously the case in the " History of Europe," is closed with a marginal reference to the authorities upon which its particular statements are advanced. By, this means a confidence is justly established in the correctness and authenticity of the narrative, and the reader is, enabled at pleasure to test the accuracy of the biographer. . . . That a memorial account of the great Duke of Marlborough must at all times secure the attention and arouse the interest of every well-educated Englishman cannot require anything at all approaching to a deliberate or argumentative demonstration. His glory is a portion, and a che rished portion, of our national heritage. His genius as a captain has tended to extend and to elevate the power of the British empire, and not only its power but its reputation. As one of the most illustrious heroes of our race his fame must remain imperishable, or perishable only with our language. Together with the celebrity of the venerableconqueror still living, his name will descend to posterity as that of a commander in-the-field who was never once vanquished. The Duke of Marlborough and the Duke of Wellington will participate in that high and enviable renown, being the two most memorable among the military captains of England —me n the recollection of whose achievements must always excite a noble feeling of emulation in the hearts of their compatriots. The ce lebrity of Marlborough has become so much a favourite among the historical memories of his fellow-country men, that it:was with no small degree of indignation that even the most enthusiastic admirers of Mr. Macaulay listened to his scornful and depreciatory allusions to the victor of Malplaquet in the course of the second volume of his " History -of England "—allusions breathing in every syll a bl e t h e bitterness of a blind and obdurate prejudice, and altogether as undeserved in their uncompromising severity as the brilliant but exaggerated verse in which the poet designated Lord Verulam—" the wisest, brightest, meanest of man kind." Already we have referred to the magnificent tribute paid to the glory of Marlborough by the most wonderful hero of modern times—in mentioning the circumstance of the history of his career caused to be written, in 1807, by the Emperor Napoleon. Con scious of the value of such incidents, Mr. Alison him self takes occasion to remind his reader before the commencement of the present biography, that " Napo leon hummed the well-known air Mar/brook s'en va-t en guerre, when he crossed the Niemen," to commence that wonderful campaign into Russia, the most won derful and successful of all his campaigns, according to the opinion of Lord Brougham. Precisely in the same spirit, also, our author calls to mind in his Preface the fact that "the French nurses frightened their children with stories of Marlbrook, as the ori entals, when their horses start, say they see the shadow of Richard Coeur de Lion crossing their path." Marlbrook, in fact, was to the French children in those days, what Boney was to the English children of the last generation. Mr. Alison passes rapidly over the early portion of the life of his hero, scarcely pausing for a mo ment in his manner, until he comes to the period when John Churchill first participated in the affairs of Govern.. ment. Hence, we hear from his present biographer little more in reference to the birth and parentage of the great Captain, than the record of the facts that he was born on the sth of July, 1650, at Ash, in Devon shire, being the son of Sir Winston Churchill, a distinguished cavalier, who fought for Charles 1., being subsequently driven into exile by Cromwell. This succinctness, however, will not be matter of surprise to those who recognise how en tirely and sedulously the writer dedicates his energies to the recounting of events of importance, such as everything here relating particularly to the War of Succession. Having recorded the circumstances of his education, Mr. Alison mentions the first appear ance of Marlborough at Court and his early promotion there, not forgetting, of course, his curious intrigue with the Countess of Castlemaine. Afterwards we come to the account of his services under Louis XIV. and Turenne in Flanders. Then follow his marriage, his journey into Scotland, and,his memorable services on the occasion of Monmouth's rebellion. His _ weulti mate desertion of James IL is rather oddly, an d b the cannot but think inappropriately com pared z biographer with Ney's desertion of Louis XVIII. — there being no sufficient parallel between those occur rences, seeing that Ney bad been the s the friend, the favourite, and the subject of far the honours, titles, and wealth attesting bow Emperor had been his benefactor. —the Prince of entirely different in the other instance—the c claims upon the e hereas it was Orange having no such p future Duke of Marlborough. - the Dutchman, we ow b er A u fter the attainment campaign in 1690 William of the throne of England Y follow Churchill through his shortservices in 1691 in Ireland, and through hi s • in • Me. Alison XIV., takes occasion of the War of Succession,. Flanders. Prior to the commencement orflls account L9ul d s irect the attention of • to pourtray the characters 111., and of James IL—a portion the work before influenced by the partizan prejudices of of us to which we would seriously t c h te t r ha o t f ,o L f oui s )(Iv. . w Napoleon.ith in comparable 111, is drawn of those who are of Mr. Macaulay. boldness and vigour, and while the is here ingeniously compared Ihecha w ra i The character of William heroic qualities he does not writerover look of an annalist to the depth of a does jusacetoits most undeniable failings, and thus sink Duration. The character of James 11., its many most from the slavish admiration. with singular ability, our author moat sl again, . doing full justice to the goodness a n d h ero i sm o f hi s nd patriotic l a b ours in restoring the navy na t ur e, to his renowned battles aga i nst Holland, an d are altogether and his Great noble a l3ritain—truths which 185 9 wilfully overlooked by Mr. Macaulay in his perverse determination to falsify history and to distort the memory of this unfortunate sovereign into that of a very monster of meanness and brutality. Thereupon we come to the beginnin g of the war between Louis and William, by the campaign of 1702, remarkable for the siege and fall successively of Venloo and Liege. Marlborough next appears before us in the splendour of the great campaigns of 1703 and 1704, rendered for ever remarkable by the victory of Blen heim. The campaigns of 1705 and 1706 develope the narrative of those times through the medium of the battle of Ramifies and the conquest of Flanders. Simultaneously with the account of the campaign of 1707, distinguished by the failure before Toulon and the battle of Altnanza, comes the first inkling of the commencement of the intrigues against Marlborough. Notwithstanding which intrigues he contrives to win new renown with his flaming sword in the campai gn of 1708, where, after the surprise of Ghent arid Bruges by the French, he fights the great battle of Oudenarde. During that campaign, moreover, occurs the siege and fall of Lille, together with the recovery of Gheat and Bruges by Marlborough. Matters becoming after that more complicated, the biographer, we might rather say, perhaps, more correctly, the historian, leads us through the other events connected with the war in 1708, thee conference of the Hague, the siege of Tourney, the battle of Malplaquet, and the fall of Mons. Arriving at the invasion of Russia by Charles XII., we watch successively his defeat at Paltowa by the Czar Peter, and the well renmenabered events of the campaigns of 1709 and 1710, the first in Savoy and Spain, and the second in Flanders. After the former occur the conferences at Gertruydenberg, leading to the latter. Here Marlborough passes the lines of Villars, and shortly afeerwards Douai, Be thune, St. Venant, and Aire, are, in turn, besieged. Meanwhile political changes of importance are trans piring at home. Harley's iefitience increases and of course the influence also of Toryiarn. 'i hereupon follow the disini:sal of Godolphin, the chang e of the Ministry, and the consequent increase of entangle ment in the situation of Marlborough. The campaign in Spain. in 1710, is then described down to the battle of Villa Viciosa : and, having turned our glance for an instant towards Germany, on the death of Joseph and the accession o f Ch ar l es VI. as Emperor, we watch the landing of Marlborough in Holland, and the inauguration of the campaign of 1711, the cam paign marked by the famous seige and fall of Boa chain. After several additional disasters in Spain, and some secret negotiations between Louis XIV. and the English Ministry, comes Oxford's very memorable dismissal of Marlborough. His condemnation of the treaty of - Utrecht brings down upon him a shameless and invidious persecution : the disasters in Flanders lead to the treaty of Rastadt, and the ingratitude with which the discomfited victor in so many battles is treated in his own country drives him back to the continent, where he is honoured with a most brilliant reception. The lucidity with which these involved events are recounted by Mr. Alison is not the least conspicuous merit of the performance under our con sideration. His narrative from that critical epoch in the life of his hero flows on, with unabated eloquence, describing his loss of the principality of Min desheim, and his ultimate appointment as com mander-in-chief by George 1., in consideration of his powerful and effectual advocacy of the Han° verian succession in opposition to the - scheme for re storing the Stuarts adopted by Bolingbroke. The wise measures suggested by Marlborough for the defeat of the invaders in 1715 were the last evidences of his genius as a military commander, for soon after wards he was stricken with the palsy and thereby driven into the necessity of retirement. On the 16th of June, 1722, i n t h e seventy-second year of his age he expired, and a few days afterwards the funeral obsequies of the illustrious conqueror were celebrated ' with uncommon magnificence. The summing up of the character of the Duke of Marlborough, is, as might have been expected, one among the most mas terly passages in these volumes. 'De biographer having ther e b roug h t h i s record of the hero. to a con clusion, pauses first in consideration of the treaty of Utrecht, and subsequently in a series of splendid parallels between the great captains of modern times, adopting the ingenious example of Plutarch, and delineating the respective merits and demerits of such military commanders as Marlborough, Eugene, Frederick, Napoleon, and Wellington. It would be unfair, before closing our notice of this very splendid production, to omit any allusion to the peculiarities of its form of publication. Besides some admirable charts of the battles " bound-in " with the work, and adroitly connected with its cover, each of the two volumes is embellished with a beautifully engraved frontispiece, one a likeness of Louis XIV., the other one of Marlborough. Altogether the typography of the work is as creditable to the publishers as its con tents are honourable to the biographer. ESSAYS POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS. 3 Vols. By Archibald Alison. William Blackwood and Sons. During the last twenty years, in addition to his other literary occupations, Mr. Alison has been in dustriously contributing, month after month, a va riety of papers, of a most diversified character, to the pages of Blackwood's Magazine. These, in accordance with a custom long since pursued in regard to the more remarkable articles in the Edinburgh, have been col lected together, and issued again in the form of a separate and most substantial publication. Having, upon the occasion of their original appearance in the old, fami liar, two-columned pages of Maga, been separately, and sometimes at no inconsiderable length, referred to in this journal, the Essays of Mr. Alison cannot here, without something like an appearance of tediousness and supererogation, be spoken of otherwise than in a way at once the most cursory and comprehensive. But for this consideration, it would be agreeable to expatiate upon contributions so discursive in theme, and very often so elevating in tendency. Among the Political Essays are several relating respectively to the Parliamentary Reform Bill, to the Navigation laws, to Free Trade, to the Colonial System, to Changes in the Currency, to Negro Emancipation, to the increase of Crime and Transportation—in short, to most of those important questions which, during the last twenty years, have agitated the public mind of England, and very materially af fected the development of its system of administra tion. Besides these, the first volume, dedicated ex clusively to the Political Essays, comprises papers written at the time on the French Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, on the memorable battles of the three days, the first of which elevated on the barricades the Orleans dynasty, and the second the Provisional Government. Among the Historical Essays there are perceptible still greater variety and discursiveness. Monteequieu is considered in his life, death, and character, that Montesquieu who has been happily designated by Mr. Alison, "the founder of the philo sophy of history," and as such, one who has discovered in him an appropriate celebrant. Mirabeau, in his genius and his errors, in his eloquence and his profligacy, in his daring and his weakness, has been analysed with scrupulous attention by the e ssa yist. His judg ment and has in like manner passed under review Hanni b a l Napoleon, Bruce and Lamartine. Delineatinghin a. one contribution " The Roman Republic," h e described in another "The Athenian Democracy." He He has an eye now to " The Tyrol," a u d " Th e C rusa d es ." In looking at the progress of events in Spain, he can pronounce upon th_e_Carlist struggle, and can muse over the decline Tofurkey when turning his,regard to Constantinop l e. The poet will find interest in his criticisms on the Greek Drama, while the artist will turn with curiosity to his disssertation on. the Er momenteem, the , the moat strongly o f ul t d he fi S t c f h u o l o a l nd of un P a a c i c n o t u in n g t . able oh p e r y o i m ng p , tin it ge w he appears to have tounhed upon commenting ghanistan Expedition, and at contrasted subjects with _equal facility, at one period on the . another,on the peculiarities of the Old Not the least interesti n g paper Par liament. to us in the seco nd v olume --the volume devoted en tirely to the Historical Essay that E ss a y s—is in which the • sublime intellects of Homer, Dante and Michael Angelo are brought into comparison. m iscellaneous essay s Among the are numbered reviews upon the writings of Chateaubriand, upon the annals of Macaulay, upon the travels of Humboldt, upon the opinions of Wellington, upon the studies of Sismondi, upon the lectures• f G uizot, upon the gen i us o f De Stael, and upon the talents of De Tocque v ill e . Again, as in the preceding papers in volume, one o f t h e most thedelight ful third—the volume restricted to the Miscellane ous E ssays—is ' one presenting to us anin genious Virgil, comparison t this time however, between T asso and Raphael. Historical publications have not failed of course to attract the especial Scrutiny of the annalist of Europe, and therefore it is we find him in one instance passing under review the France of M. Michelet, and at another the Russia of Karamsin. Two contributions in particular will be found of value to those interested in the histrionic profession, now unhappily in its decadence, one relating to it more peculiarly in its intellectual phase, and another referring to it especially in its character as an art—the first an essay on the Romantic Drama, and the second a paper upon the British Theatre, and its pr esen t con dition. From what we have already observed, it must be apparent at a glance that the collected writings of Mr. Alison as a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine are of a kind sufficiently various, and of a character sufficiently popular to command for them the atten tion of the most dissimilar tastes and of the most con tradictory predilections. They cannot fail to form an agreeable and entertaining, because always readable e and instructive , addition even t o th e m ost valuable and fastidiously-selected lib rar y. C om i n g, moreover , in the name of a writ er so accomp lished end so, justly celebrated as Mr. Ali son, they will not fail to com mand their own deserved share of admiration. SONNETS ON THE M ONTHS. BY E. E. NI. K. (From the Iductraied London- Armi' attack for 1852.) JANUARY. Spirit of storms and melancholy hour s , Stern January! must we front thy rage, And at thy beck prepare our choicest flowersTo feed thy graveyards, and. thy wrath t' a ssuage ! Through driving snows and sleety rains we hear His coming—spoiler of our homes! 'T i s one To him, the golden locks, or these the young rever e Pauper or prince, so be the deed but done! Seer-like, unmoved, and with an aspect drear, In frosted garments stiffening through the. night, He views the pageant of the early bier, Or cheerless mutters with the stars in sight! Morn from her lattice strews dark blossoms now,* Day comts in tears, and eve with troubled brow. * The " rosemary" flowers in January, and is dedicated to " the dead." FEBRUARY. Pillowel on cl, - :uds that rbine pliosphoric 'round, Lo! Fekuary pale thought-wraps appears, Like some proud youth whose sleeping fancies bound With dull forebodings, all " the future" wears. Anon young Hope renewing life bestows, Fans his c , ,!cl temples, plants the infant rose; With magic finger melts ti e frozen sky To showery rainbows, a: whose lucent fall Spring. bowers prepare their greenling tracery, And snow-drops bold the virgin festival. Lund from ilin farm bold chanticleer is heard, Sof: at our window sings the sacred bird; While hill -tops, crown') wi►h now and shrouding mists At ruddy dawn are tipped with amethyst:. • MA RCE. .Born by rueo gusts, and roiling saud,i aloft, DlAtch tips the noou; loo,ed in grief, full o ft The winds or roar in thunders hv; Yonder the iureEt at the sound i nc li nes - It-, hoary heughs, that with the inovert-,,nt shed Jewcir; 'and, see: amidst them shines (Cht-, daring crcetts, with detiant head,. Silvet'd with snow, ytt opening to the sity, Stratte are his alt - A:ds: for new 't is splendour en, Now sullen gloom, now cArt, now pregnant s h ade, Sunshine and storm; now wakes the wate r f a ll , Now Im - uplift ts fL)w, and now in icy are stay'd. Yet, budding out, despite rsch tickle hour, Green tints. the bilr,k, and promise shapes the flower. APL IL. April returns; her blue voluptuous eye, Now steeped in light, now charged with sudden kars. Potent as spells enchantress' arts apply. La! at her beck each sapling bloom appears; Violets whose breath the curious winds endow Lavish with sweets; anemones; and, more, Those cups profuse, lik e d rops of gold that blow, The gaudy wort and yellow hellebore. Now waters lift their silvery arms, to greet The green moss thickening rich in noonday sun; Pastures and lawns and wood-nymphs quaint retreat, Kindling with sprouts, by thousand dews are spun. From clasping earth sweet herbs and grasses ris e , Load the fresh gale, and mix congenial sighs. MAY. Sweet May is ours! the fresh sun-mantled May, Blushing and spotless as a bride should be, With all her lily train of handmaids. See! Now finger-link'd they come, where smiles the day In rosy warmt h! The modest iris, pure And dazzling as the dawn of early love; 1),21e hyacinths, whose honied lips insure Caresses frequent as those sighs to allure They breath© o'erpowering en the gales above. Nor aught forgotten setks the bridal queen Her showering Diphne, jonquils, or the fair Snow-hillocks of virginia-stock, whose sheen Her pathway lights; while earth, and sky, and air, Rejoicing, each a nuptial aspect wear. JUNE. Reeking with spice, by handmaid gales distill'd, What time the heats in solar conclave meet, Bright June arrives—her earliest task fulfill'd, The Earth, rose-clad, lies blushing at her feet. To gilded fruits the milky germ gives place; She breathes, and forth spontaneous 'mong the bough s A pageant burns reflected from her face; While all the land a kindling bloom endows. Pendent the bell; and where fresh waters leap, Her rainbow-colour'd stars gay Flora open: On scorching heaths the unctuous vipers creep; Below, sweet smell the wo/ds and new-mown slopes, And now, while glades with cushut songs invite, Summer exults in all her warm delight. JULY. 'Mid beams and rains alternate flashing now, July, the ripe, luxuriant month, we hail!— Queen of the season, by each jewell'd bough That yields for her its riches to the gale: Cherries the sweetest, currants crystal red, Or moon-light hued, or ebon black display'd. We know her come by all the tokens spread:— The swelling apple, and the fig tree's shade; By poppies burning 'midst the fields of grain; The fox-glove's purple, and the pale wan flower That smiles unto the stars, and shuts again Ere morn; and by the gold of noontide hour; By all the rids that tinkled songs to May; And now for flowers can scarce ace night from day! AUGUST. 'Tis mellow August, crown'd with blushing fruits : The tawny apricot, the damson's gloom; While pods droop seed-full—while the mushroom shoots, And corn• flags glitter through the harvest's bloom. 'Tis merry August, that, with gipsy grace, In gipsy garments, and with wanton face, Goes laughing by. Ay! follow, old and young, Into the woods, and hear her charmed tonguo Lisping light music through the gloaming grey, Till eve's rich hour, when ruddy sunbeams roll: Now by dun mosses, where the harebells play; Now where sound flies, like some enfranchised soul, Through forest aisle s; or seek h er li st ' n i ng t h ere The clamorous martins cloud the glowing sir. SEPTEMBER. With stair a 3. mouth and loo6e luxuriant dress, September comes! , A reveller, sure, i s h e , And dryads' sport; for see! in mirthfulne ss They tempt him still with gourd and m u lb erry . Yonder the wain, rich-freighted, ploughs the sward, And yonder still tho sunburnt reapers toil ; There champs the mill, and there the garner 's stored, And there profuse the fowler's feathery spoil. At eve now pours the yellow harvest moon Her beams, which lend enchantment to the hours: So dews are plentiful, and at her noon Crown as with coronals the wakeful flowers: From hedgeway bowers the trailing hops are torn, Orchards are thinn'd, and purple paints th© morn. Sommer rsswift takes win; groundto m b. the t omb. OCTOBER. Meanwhile budding chrysanntt:suuehmmmerp 'Mid trees that rain their lavish gold around, ztivoothhe October smiles: on ei th er hand a vat, Fresh bubbling juice; the with the vineyard's tdijeavnedrdure reigns, Pale Flora weeps, for these foretell her A stern imprisonment, till rosy Spri ng al-- ti r o: m-9 s cheek; Laughs o'er her chains, and li e f o,e : r Now all t fi eld s he l Foodso ok bleach ' False as the flush on sad C While bitter portents moan a long An d distant mountai ns We the pl a i ns , I n every gale we hear som e ar an asp ec t bl ea k . farewell sigh A n d red leaves murm ur , as they fall, " We die!" Sullen by fits, unloved of all the NOVEMBER year, Forlorn November glooms upon the world, Wraps his chill feet among the leaflets sere, And hails aloft the banner'd clouds unfurl'd! No more the sun, with Midas'* power supreme, Holds a proud court o'er Autumn's yellow vales— Denuded lands now crave each scanty gleam; Hush'd are the rills, and hush'd the nightingales! Darab, as in fear, the old earth's tuneful bands— Dead the sweet flowers!—and dying day by day Glad Nature's smile! Like Niobe she stands, Her warm life ebbing in a mist of sighs, Her tears congealing in her rueful eyes, Her ga rmen t s bl anc h'd, an d i n h er hear t d ecay! eve*r y S t e h h i o n l g a7 nt n o ee g d ol n d. oL , his be reminded that s touch" " turned, DECEMBER. Welcome, old month of noisy feast and "mime," Jovial December! How we bless thy reign! What though thy locks be strewn with winter's rime, Though o'er thy pathway pinching gales complaint-- Here is thy home; here at each household hearth. Where foaming cups are drain'd in love to thee! When " festal boards" shall" groan" thy pra i ses f orth, A Sweet flows the "junket" at their peas a nt meal ; nd shines "jest," thaendhollglyam in e the " homestead's blaze, and " dan ce ' " merr il te "! Bright But 'neath thy "Druid plant" glance brighter rays. A n d sweeter still " the kiss" some deftly steal! Chime on, glad bells! foam on, rich cu p s around! Blessings aro ours, and joyful hearts abound! on, Tim M s . ELIOT WARBURTON'S " DARIRIC L, B best Munctuarr PRINCE."—" Darien" is Mr. Warbu rto n Written " Darien" work. It displays all the author's habitual 1vi 1 .,;„ events et i n a brilliant style, it paints scenes and d t e bl r e ; into a story once original and picturesque, and weaves them which possesses a continuous and genuine lu IA told story of ex. it is chiefly to be praised as an admira bly - to ld and fait of anima. is remarkable for its delineation of indivi dual character, but all amount of histori cal citing adventures, abounding in nove lty tion, while the whole possesses no small interest and value.—Sunday Times. „ C18;t - e - n the conclusion of the dra ..,, DoemATic -rEitroilLui year as last, have enlivened THE WINDSOR AN T We understand matic performances, whi ch th is of Windsor Castle, her DI Nasty the Christmas festivittesicean with a private ' interview, el honoured Mr. and g e rs ird which the lady and gentleman in mark of the Roya e l_r a g _ and honourably earned, not only by question have bi w o u , b and long and brilliant dramatic career, their artistic a but by their stant and most p rais eworthy efforts to raise 0 c d n m oral status ot a profession t oo l ong de pressedthe social and undervalued. an g n HEATRE --T1 Dituar-LAN- T • le Younger branches o f the community have one m ore opportunity, we perceive, o f be i n g, e ntertained here, th e l ast juvenile night being fixed f o r to-mor ro w evening. Th e y w i ll have thereturn of the B a teman children for this occasion, and the pantomime Will b e played at an early bour. OUTRAGEOUS ATTACIC UPON`A. MAN OP EIGHTT.--• On Wednesday last a ruf fianly -looking fellow, named Owen King, was committed to Kirkdale gaol by the county Magill" trates, charged with a dastardly attack upon Mr. Robert Bailey, who is 80 years of age, and agent to Thomas Little_ dale, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool. Mr. Bailey was knocked down near Highfield, and robbed of a gold watch and about 30s. in silver. King was apprehended while offering th e cases of the watch in pledge at a pawnbroker's_ in LiverpOOL ) n