The Sun. — London, England, 1835-12-18 00:00:00

...........' ..... ,-,11.PM,M0V11. 7.- . PRICES OF rrocKs THIS DAY Al' Bank Stock . 2111 India Stock shut 3 per Cent Red. 0 ,,p4 1; 1 4;1 Ditto Bonds 5 pm. per Cent Cons shuti South Sea Stock ... 34 per Cent —. Old Annnities ..... Ditto red "9' New Ditto ..... •••• ••• m.::, New per Cent .., , New n per Cent — Exch. Bills, .E. 1 , 000 16 11 16 pm. Bank LongAnnuitics to expire . -Ditto 501 l6 11 16 pm. Jan 5, :5 , 4i1i l6 3-16 Ditto Small l6 14 16 pm Oct.; 10, KV — Ditto Commercial l6 IS pm. .Jan. 5, 1310 - Ditto Advertised pm. Jan. 5, 14! —' Bank Stock far Account — April 5, IST` . India Stock for Account — Jan. 5. 1870 — Consols for Acconnt , 91K, % 1 ,4. Cranium. pm.. JICE O'CI.()CK. 8 % PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — i Peruvian Bonds . Belgian Bonds 9974 ' Ditto 'Account — Ditto Account . Brazilian Bonds SI% Ditto Account B3 Ditto Account .-- Ditto New Bonds 83% Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account 8413i4 4 Ditto Account — Ditto, 3 per cent. 5 5% 5 Vg I Chilli in Bonds — Prussian Bonds — Ditto Account 45 44 i Russian Bonds, 18:r — col , i - nt3'an'lloneis ' Ditto Account... Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 16124 32 14 Spanish Bonds — ~Ditto Account — Ditto Account D— anish Bonds.. 75% Ditto Bonds. IKI4 47 6% 7 1 4 Ditto Account Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent.... —l. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1525 — ---- 4 percent. —f. —c. Ditto Account ,-- I per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — '-- Exchange —f. --r. Ditto Account — Dutch, 9.4 per cent. 551,4 5 Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account • Ditto, 5 per cent — Neapolitan .. . Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Pad. Per Share Alliance Assurance Company lO 11 3 4 Great Western Railway Company 5 12 1 ,3; Danube and Mayne Company ... 5 414 Australasia Bank - -• • sfi 7 Van I)leman's Land Agricultural Company l6'4 'PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DECEMBER 15. 3 per Cent. Consoii 89% Grand Canal Deb.. 6 per cent. P• 6% Ditto Reduced - Ditto, per cent 3% per Cent. Stock 57% Hibernian Bank Ditto New, 1830 Ski per Cent. Debentures Bank Stock 218i4 City Debentures, 4 per cent... 78 __... __ . Royal Canal Stock 36'4 Grand Canal Stock Ballast Office ljebenturcs, 4 per cent _ .._ DUTCIIFUNDS-:AmsTravAm, Dvc. 15. Money. Bile. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 5 4 14 54% Loan (1S30) 5 per cent. A tnort Syndic, 4 ;‘; per cent 94 f'4! Ditto, ditto, l% per cent 7B 79'4 Commercial Company, 4% per cont 122% 123 N Ditto (11,32 and IS%) 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 17%. Two months —Ditch Papers, Dec. Ir. HAMBURG BORSEN HAI,LE, Dm. 12. FOREIGN FUNDS. isiPs. Money. Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent. Ditto ditto 4 per cent. 9814 £ll Ditto ditto 3 percent. Ditto Rank Shares 1360 1358 Russian 5 per cents. Metal. Anglo_Russian Loan lO5 Paper Inscription, 6 per cent. — Russian Inscription, Dope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 82% 82 Ditto. 3 per cent 52 -- Dutch •.!. per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents Polish Bonds, 3 per rants. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 73!4, 734 Norwegian Loan of lEt34, 4 per cents. Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents — Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent Greek 4 per cents. 1333, guaranteed by France """'"PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, DEC. 11. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cvnt. lOl% 101 14 l'ru , sian English Loan, IRV, 4 per cent 100!4 99 % —Prwsian Slate Gazette. Dec. 11 MAILS. Arrived Du Arrived. Due Arrived. Due. 0 America.... 0 1 France 0 0 1.181,011 0 Brazil ft Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 0 n cartbBgena. 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 1 FlanderB 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Watercord 0 111(411 NV ATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE 't (L minutes after 1. f Ereeing 5l minutes after 2 THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed the New Grand Opera, entitled THE SIEGE OF ROCHELLE. Count de lios:mber;, Mr. Seguin; Marquis de Valmour, Mr. Templeton; Montalban, Mr. Giubelei ; Michel, Mr. H. Phillips. Clara, Miss Shirred'; Marcella, MifS F. Healy. After which, the new Grand Operatic Drama entitled THE JEWESS. Circlinal de Brogny, Mr. 'Wavle; Prince Leopold, Mr Cooper; The Grand Provost of Constance, Mr., Giubelei; The Bishop of Constance, Mr. S..guin ; Eleazar, Mr. Vznden!loff. Rachel, Miss E. Tree ; the Princess Eudocia, Mirs Forde. Stage Manager, Mr. Cooper—Acting Manager, Mr. Yates. The Box-oflice is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Parsons, of whom Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be obtained. B , xes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Calor!, 23. ; Second Price, Is.—Upper Gallery, Is. ; Second Price, CA To-mOrrow, The Siege of Rochelle, and The Jewess. _DUTCH LOAN of 1831 for £500,000 at Two anti-a-Half per Cent. Certificates by Mr. N. M. ROTHS CHILD. The Dividend on this Loan, which becomes due on FRIDAY, the Ist of January next, will be paid. on every succeeding illoslay, Weduesdiy, and Thursday, between the hours of Eleven and Two. PORTUGUESE THREE PER CENT. CONSOLIDATED STOCK. The 'Dividend on this Stock, which becomes cup on FRIDAY,';' t Ist of January pcxt, will be paidby Mr. N. 3r. ROTHSCHILD . every succ"edin Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, between th — c hours of Eleven and Two. NEAPOLITAN LOAN of 1324, at Fiye per Cant., contracte by Mr. N. M.-ft-ofll-S6lif.D. The Dividend on this Loan which becomes due on Mosnay, the Ist of Febaulry next, will be paid on that day, and on every sue cording Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, between the hours of Eleven ard Two. Printed forms are to be previously called for at the counting-house of Mr. N. M. Rothschild, 2, New-Court, - St. Swithin's-lane, and the Coupons arc to bo left for examination. HAmnuttc, NovEmura 17, 1835. THE TICKETS of the 67th GREAT LOT TERY . of the STATE of HAMBURG, felling most rapidly, really cleercd off, • HEINE - BROTHERS, the CONTRACTORS, 13cg to state that NO TIME IS TO BE LOST in ordering, if desired to be obtained before a 'RISE IN PRICE. To those remitting a 101. note without delay, they will, on execut ing the order, remit a,surplus of by return of post. But to any person remitting IC/. after the establishment of a higher rate than the original price of 81., they will be obliged to return his own re mittance learinl-, the order imexecuted. To th3se renating 201., they will return 41. ; and to thoso re-. mittiog 391., they will return 61, prcvidcd they be in time for meeting attention. The Publication TIM Sus NnwsrArEß commenced this day at 15 minutes past Three o' Cloch. ji: -.. gk -- )03 ). ,_, _,24.- .. 44, ,7,1:t*,....v1‹,) .. , 4'.. : 1 - . ,,- t ...,. ,A, ,1.1.A1'.,- fr. l 4 - -44-AN. -, , 4 , ~.4 1 , -, , ,N. . .. .2.,r4.-. ~t1.::,4„...,:,,,..., _ . ,„„„..,4÷,...5,47--,--,11. , ..:-.37,:_i.:„......,5--,,,,,,,--a.---, (717 , K ,1T. I ; ,\ t'n LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1835. The conclusion of the " Memoir on the State and Prospect of Germany, drawn up under the direction of a Minister of St. Petersburg, and confidently communi cated to several of the German Governments," is given in the third Number of the Portfolio, published by RIDG wA Y. The readers of The Sun will not have for gotten that when the first part of this State document appeared, we made some passing observations upon it; but as we had some doubts of its authenticity, we declined entering minutely into the subject. Since then we have made the necessary inquiries, and can now assert on high and unquestionable authority, that the publication alluded to is a faithful trans lation of the state-paper, officially transmitted by the Russian Cabinet to such of the German Princes as the AUTOCRAT deemed worthy of his Imperial confidence. When delivered, it was accom panied by an injunction that its contents should, under DO circumstances whatever, be communicated to Prussia or Austria. Notwithstanding this precaution on the part of the Cabinet of St. Peterburgh, and the ter ror of the German Princes lest by some indiscretion on the part of their Ministers, they might be exposed to the vengeance of the Czar; incurred by a breach of an unsolicited confidence—a copy of the Memoir reached Berlin, and from thence found its way to London. By what means, and through what channel, this was accomplished, is of no public importance ; neither are we at liberty to state more than that such is the fact. This Memoir bears internal evidence that it was drawn up, and communicated to the German Governments early in 1832 ; so that Prussia had no sooner promul gated the'project of a Commercial League, than the Nero. of the North devised a scheme by which that league might be converted into an engine for the de struction of the external influence of Austria, England, and France. The plot was deeply laid, and would hardly have miscarried had not . the secret of it oozed out before events were ripe for an explosion. At the very instant that Russia was giving her sanction to the commercial union—at the moment in which she was endeavouring to weaken the attachment of the Ger man Diet to the Imperial Throne of Austria, by im pressing it with ideas of the wise policy, great power, and growing prosperity of Prussia—was she whisper ing doubts of Prussian good faith in the cars of such members as she supposed too timid or too dishonest to betray her confidence. What was the purport of her language to the Diet ? It was this :—You are a powerful Confederation of wise and illustrious Princes. You are too potent to remain the tributa ries, or to require the protection, of Austria or Prussia. My wish is that you should combine together, and de clare yourselves an independent State. And now mark the consequence. .In the first place you will excite the jealousy of both Austria and Prussia; and both will mutually assist each other in encroaching upon your territory. Against one of them you might be able to defend yourselves ; but to resist the united power of both would be morally impossible. Where, then, will you look for external succour ? • There are three great Powers to whom you might apply for protection — France, England, and Russia. Now, you cannot ad dress yourselves to France, because the KING, Ca binet, and People, are a mere horde of faithless - Revolutionists, whose protection of you would con sist in forcing you to abdicate your Thrones. What France did from 1804 to 1810, France would do again in 1835, or later, if she had an op portunity. You know her to be faithless, you know her to be revolutionary—you yourselves are wise, and therefore you cannot appeal to her. Now, England, though not so bad as France, is very little better. The Whigs have ruined her by their liberalism ; nor have they the confidence_of the country, even were they to adopt your views. The Tories are well disposed, but they are now a discomfited faction, and therefore utterly powerless. A Prince of the House of Bruns wick would doubtless protect you were he capable of so doing ; but you sec yourselves that England cannot move in consequence of the load of debt that oppresses her; and even if she could, yet being a maritime Power, she could not co-operate with you - on every occasion. Whom then have you to look to as a faithful and potent friend and ally in distress ? The answer is obvious enough ; but lest you should mis take it I shall tell you in the plainest terms. You have me—Russia—ever willing to maintain your prin ciples, and always able to assert your just rights. You can have no fears that I will open the sluices of re volutionary zeal, and inundate you with the polluted levelling stream of public opinion. I am, like your selves, the champion of the Divine right of all Rulers, to rule according to the dictates of their own sovereign will. And as to other . advantages,- it is impos sible that you could know so little of me as to sus pect that I seek any. The libelling Liberal Press may say what it pleases with respect to Poland but it is right that you should know that the Poles sought my protection—that I extend to them all the liberty enjoyed by the Russians themselves. Moreover, you should bear in mind that the abolition of Polish nationality was necessary to your protection as absolute Governments. Had Poland stobd, you must have fallen. Thus I protected you when you were unacquainted with my sympathy for you ; judge then whether I shall fail to succour you, when you are driven to seek my assistance. Such, in plain language, is the entire purport of the Russian address to the German States. But the dis covery of it will be fatal to the policy of the CZAR. Prussia now sees her danger ; Austria begins to per ceive her position, in the event of Russia's scheme be ing successful ; and the consequence is,. that Prussia invites the whole of Western Europe to join the Com mercial League. By this means the encroachmentz of Russia may be laughed at by Western Europe. The whole of the Paris Journals of Wednesday tare been received. They are unimportant, with the exception of the following extracts : PARIS, DEC. 16.—The siege of St., Sebastian was raised on the oth, in consequence of the movements of the Queen's troops, which alarmed General Eguia. Since the last accounts, the Carlists, to the number of 18,000, occupy the line from Arroniz to Estella, and from that town to Maneru, the battalions of Guipuscoa, Castilic and Alava, were posted from Lecumberri to St. Sebastian. On the all, the Queen's army occupied the towns of Puente la Reyna, Larraga, and Lerin ; its force at those points is estimated at 16,000 men, 1,200 horses, and a com plete train of artillery. A letter from Saragossa states, that Quilez Cabrera, and Le Gcrrador, closely pursued by the columns of Generals Palarca - and Nagares, haVe been forced to the province of Valencia, where they will be met by the militia. More operations are combined with those of Arragon. Several Journals give this morninc , the following letter, dated Barcelona, Dec. 8:—" General Mina, passing through Esparraguina, caused more birds of ill omen to be arrested. This expression, used by the Vapor of the Bth, is meant to designate- some members of a Carlist junta, among whom arc priests, who have been shot by order of the Captain-General. Mina's object seems to be intimida tion, by which he hopes to produce a happy effect on the conduct of his troops. Thus at Manresa, ha .caused an officer, subaltern, and two volunteers, to be shot, who bad basely surrendered their arms to the enemy. These acts of rigour announce to the soldiers that there is no more pardon for deserters than for the enemy. Several Carlist officers were shot, after a pretty smart action which took place near Gasaca, between Colonel Niwbo, and the Carlist band commanded by Vidal de Mora. Seventy-six Carlists were killed in this action." Almost all the Deputies have arrived at Paris ; 379 have sent their addresses to the Questors.—Messager, Dec. 16. The Sun of yesterday contained an article from Berlin, dated the . 6th inst., to the effect that the Czar of MUSCOVY is about to make a diligent inquiry to discover the person or persoris who took notes of his speech to the Municipality at Warsaw, and afterwards communicated their contents to the French journals. It is very possible—nay; probable—that the inha bitants of Warsaw will pay dearly for this publicity of the will of the Autocrat, unless the person or persons privy to the reporting of the speech openly declare all the particulars and purposes of its accomplishment. The blame, we observe by this article, is generally attributed to M. DURAND, the French Consul at Warsaw. This gentleman was no advocate of Polish independence, and if rumour is worth anything, Russian gold procured from him a denouncement of the Polish struggle in 1830. Now it may be asked what object can the EMPEROR have in making this inquiry, after having given a Petersburgh version of the speech five times worse than that published first in the Journal des Debats This question would puzzle any one not acquainted with the policy of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. Was it because the EMPEROR did not wish his speech to be reported ? Not at all : that it should be reported was his most earnest wish. Was it because the report of the speech which appeared in the French Papers was essentially incorrect ? By no means : the Paris ver sion was much milder than that which appeared with the Imperial sanction at St. Petersburgh. Why then the inquiry ? Simply that M. DURAND, the French Consul at Warsaw, might, declare himself the reporter of the speech, and so afford the CZAR a plausible pre text for abolishing all the foreign Consulates in every part of Poland. This is the real object of the Imperial barbarian' s inquiry. He wishes to have no witness of his paternal tenderness towards his Polish subjects. Will England submit to this ? Shall we . too obey an Ukase issued by the NERO of the North—the blood-stained ferocious butcher who dared to proclaim to Europe the non-existence of Poland as a nation ? We have received letters from Lisbon of the sth inst., brought by the packet Pantaloon. Up to that date nothing worthy of attention had occurred, though some feelings of discontent prevailed on account . of the unsettled position of the Ministry, and the poor 99 3 4 10434 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1835 state of the Treasury. It is asserted in these letters that bills for 87,0001., drawn by the agents in London upon the Minister, of Finance, .have been presented for ac ceptance ; which Bills have been drawn on account of money raised in London, for the payment of the divi dends on the sth, and that though nobody doubts but the Bills will be protected, Mr. CAMPOS has not approved altogether of this operation ; for it is said that the money was raised privately in London, on very disadvantageous terms. The late Ministers, CARVALHO, RODRIGO, MA GALHAENS, and M. GOMEz de CASTRO, late Secre tary and Lord of the Treasury, have been elected Members of the Cortes for the province of Minho. Great discontent prevailed among the employ6s in Lisbon, on account of the reduction of salaries, and other economical measures adopted by the present Administration. Madrid Journals to the 11th instant have been re ceived. Their contents arc favourable. Some ex tracts from them arc given in another column. We call upon every admirer of the British Navy to come forward in support of the object of the resolu tions adopted at a public meeting held in the Mariner's Church yesterday, namely, the erection of an Hospital for British Seamen in the Merchant Service. The report of this meeting will be found in another part of The Sun ; and to it we refer our readers for the speeches, resolutions, &c. At the same time we must observe, that the Merchant Service is the great bulwark of our naval strength ; and we are only sur prised that the Government and the country should have so long remained indifferent to the sufferings of a body of men who contribute so much to the naval va lour and glory of England. As this subject is of great iuiportance, we shall return to it the first fitting op portunity. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Pantaloon has arrived from Lisbon, sailed on the 6th inst. She does not bring any news of importance ; but a freight of thirty thousand pounds—most part of which is for Mr. Rothschild. The private information states that intrigues were still carrying on there to a great extent, and that the present Government was by no means firmly established. THE FUNDS. Consols opened at the leaving-off price of yesterday, 911 for the Account, and are stationary at the above quotation. Reduced, 90 #. Exchequer Bills, 15 17 ; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock, 211 212 ; India Stock, 2561 2571. In the Foreign Market, although the Spanish prices come 1 per cent. higher from Paris this morning, and the accounts being of a favourable description from Madrid, they have not had much effect on the Spanish Active Bonds in our market, which closed at 461 47, and reached 47f ; at present they are 47. The information from Lisbon being rather of a sombre ap pearance respecting the stability of the present Ministers, has prevented an improvement in the Portuguese Stocks, and they may he quoted at the closink prices of yesterday, 841 ; 3 per Cents., 551 1; Colombian, 32i ; Mexican, 37 38; Dutch 24 per Cents.. 54i 55i; 5 per Cents.. loot 101. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols, which had a firm appearance in the early part - of the morning, on a sudden gave way, and declined from 911 to 913 ; since which they have improved to 91 -8-, at which price they continue at present. Reduced, 901; Ex chequer Bills, 16 ; India Bonds, 5 ; Bank Stock, 2111 ; India Stock, 2561. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Bonds, which reached 47+, rrceLled to 4613, since which they have improved to 47+ ; Portuguese, 83 4 84 ; Three per Cents., 551-; Mexi can,-37 ; Colurobian, 311 ; Dutch 24 per Cents., 541 551. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for the Account, 911 I. PROOF or GOOD TRADE.—The receipts at the Savings' Think, Sheffield, during the past week, amounted to one thousand three hundred and twenty-seven pounds, being the largest amount received, since the opening of the bank, in any two days of business, and notwithStanding the restriction which limits the amount to be received from any depositor to '3Ol. in the year.—Sheffield Iris. INSANITY.--A French physician, in a recent work upon the moral and physical causes of insanity, noticing the influence of professions in promoting this affliction, brings forward a curious table, showing the relative propor tion of different professions in a mass of 164 lunatics. It runs thus :—Merchants, 50 ; military men, 33 ; students, 25 ; administrateurs et employes, 21 ; advocates, notaries, and men cf business, 10 ; artists, 8 ; chemists, 4 ; sailors, 3 ; enginaers, 2.—Total, 164. DnEADFUL SUICIDE.—On Monday evening last an inquest was held at Lincoln, on the body of W. T. Thom son, Esq. (formerly a banker at Doncaster), who, on the pre vious evening, destroyed himself in a bed-room at the Sara cen's Head Inn. The Jury proceeded to view the body, which was lying in the place where it was found; Death had evidently been caused by strangulation, the face and neck being exceedingly black ; on the bed was a towel, which had been twisted apparently to assist in the work of destruction, and a piece of the tester was lying on the bed, which would seem to have been broken off in a first but unsuccessful attempt to hang himself. There was besides a razor, three twists of small cord, and a letter with a black seal, addressed to " Mr. C. Bell, druggist, Whitefriargate, Hull." It was impossible correctly to say whether the de ceased bad suspended himself from the tester of the bed stead by the tail of his shirt, and which (if so) must after wards have slipped from the knot and let him down, or whether he had destroyed himself by strangulation without suspension. The Jury, after hearing evidence, returned a verdict that the deceased destroyed himself by strangula tion, being at the time in an unsound state of mind.— [We (the Lincoln Gazette) have been informed by a gen tleman, on whom we can place the greatest reliance, that this unhappy %ictim to constitutional melancholy was one of the most amiable and respectable of the inhabitants of Hull. He had for some time resided with Mr. Curtis, at the Minerva Hotel, by whom we are assured that his conduct was most exemplary. His highly respectable bro ther was entertaining Captain Ross, and a large party en gaged in rescuing the ice-bound sailors, at the moment the intelligence of this dreadful affair arrived.] FUDGE I—The answer of the Duke of Cumberland to the Address of the Grand Lodge of Longford,_ is a noble and spirit-stirring document, breathing in every line the fearlessness, the integrity, the high honour of the House of Brunswick. The Royal Duke, when he speaks the principles instilled into his youthful mind by his venerable and ever-to-be-lamented Father, George 111., has struck upon a string which will produce a deep vibration on the chords of every lOyal heart in Ireland. The memory of this good and great monarch is cherished here with feelings of the loftiest veneration—and the prayer of every loyal mouth is—that all his successors may inherit the virtues and the principles of George the Third, together with his sceptre.—Dublin Mail. A RIVAL TO THE KILLARNEY Ecrro.—" On our passing the Lurlei, near Oberwese], where there is a remarkably distinct echo, I was told that those joyous youths, the Burschen, who frequently go up and down the river by the steam-boats, having made it a rule, on ap proaching the Lurlei, to roar out, Who is the Burgo master of Oberwesel,' the echo, true to the last sound, repeated, Esel,' i.e., ass.' This so annoyed the worthy magistrate, that he petitioned the King of Prussia, I know not with what success, on the subject."—My Note Book, by Mr. Macgregor. JUSTICES' WAGES.—Sir J. S. Lillie is to bring for Ward at the next meeting of the magistrates, the subject of the manner in which the pittance allowed by the Trea sury under the above denomination is at present applied, and to move a rescinding of the former resolution on the subject. We regret to find that the peasantry of the barony' of Ennishowen in this county, are now manifesting a spirit of insubordination, which we hoped had been eradicated from that hitherto disturbed district. Nightly meetings are held, and resolutions adopted, which are speedily car ried into execution.—Ballysbannon Herald. A large turnip, of the white Swede species, was lately produced at Stonegrave. Divested of the root and greater part of the top, which was small, it weighed thir teen pounds-; and it measured 2 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 4 inches in circumference. NATURAL CURIOSITY.—WhiIe two sawyers in Messrs. Garland and Horsburgh's shipbuilding-yard, Dun dee, were employed in cutting up an oak log into planks, they discovered a neatly-built wren's nest with an egg in it, firmly embedded in the heart of the wood, which situation, considering the age of the tree, it may have occupied for a period of more than half a century.—Dun fries Courier. The inhabitants of Halifax and Hudderfield are stirring themselves for the establishment of a direct mail coach from the former place to the metropolis. It will pa s s through Sheffield about 12 o'clock at noon, which would ef fect the saving of an entire post in replying to a Londo n letter. Surely this is worth an effort, and we hope the merchants and manufacturers of this town and neighbour hood will unite with those of Halifax and Huddersfield in carrying it into effect. Not a moment should be lost" in memorializing the post-master-general on the subject.— Sheffield Iris. ROLLS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) SAYRES V. SAYRES. Mr. LOVATT applied in this case for an order upon the Commissioners.of the West India Compensation Fund, to pay the sum of 3,0001. odd into Court. FrOm the state ments of the Learned Counsel, it appeared the plaintiff was entitled to the amount in question for the compensation of certain slaves ; and the Act of Parliament directed, in cases where infants were entitled to compensation, that the money should be paid into Court, to be invested in the 3 per Cents. The COURT immediately made the order. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) MILLER V, CROFT. Mr. Punvis applied this morning ex parte for a special injunction to restrain the defendant from drawing or ac cepting bills in the name of the partnership, or from using the name of the plaintiff. A partnership was entered into between the plaintiff and defendant, in 1834, to carry on a coffee-house in Bucklersbury. Articles were drawn up, but never signed ; and some of these articles stipu lated that the defendant was not to draw or accept any bills ; but the plaintiff, who also carried on the business of a stationer, was to draw any bills that might be required. The parties began to quarrel in 1835, and ultimately dissolved partnership in August last. On the 7th of the present month the plaintiff discovered that the defendant had drawn four bills m the name of the partnership for 250/. each. The plaintiff by his affidavit swore that no consideration had been given for the bills, and he believed that the defendant had drawn the bills for the purpose of making the plaintiff liable. His HONOUR immediately granted the injunction. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. FAKERY. Mr. KNIGHT applied in this case for a special injunction to restrain the defendant, who is the landlord of the Crown Inn, Harrowgate, from sinking a well on his premises. The short facts of the case were these :—Some years back an Act was passed called the Knaresborough Forest Act, by one of the clauses of which two hundred acres of land, and a certain spring upon them, wag' directed to be set apart, and to be continually kept open for the benefit of the public, and it was declared to be unlawful for any person, after the passing of the Act, to dig or sink any pits or wells within a cer tain distance of the 200 acres so set apart. Notwithstanding this the landlord of the house in question had actually dug a well on part of his premises abutting upon the 200 acres, and upon being remonstrated with by some of the inhabit ants of the place, he shut up the building and would not allow any person to go upon the premises. The relators swore that the well which had been in part dug would ma terially injure the spring upon the 200 acres, and they there fore applied for the present injunction. His HoNoun, thought the case was one calling for the interposition of the Court, at least no harm would be e done by having the matter explained. Mr. KNIGHT said that notice should be immediately given to the defendant. SITTINGS. His HONOUR in the couse of the morning enquired into the state of the motions ; his object in doing so was for the purpose of governing his sittings after Christmas. Mr. KNIGHT said that there was quite a sufficiency of motions to last three days. It certainly would be great thing for the suitors if his Honour would sit after Christmas, but how that would effect some of the Gentlemen of the Bar he did not know. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said that he believed he had heard all the Appeals he could hear as Lord Commissioner, but the Master of the Rolls and Mr. Justice Bosanquet would sit the whole of the week after Christmas to hear ap peals; the greater part of the Bar, therefore, would necessa rily be in town. _ _ After some further discussion it was_ arranged that his Honour should sit to hear motions and petitions on Tues day, January 5, 1836. s CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Robert Balls, Thomas Harris, and Marcus Warshaw, alias Mordecai Moses, were indicted for unlawfully forging and engraving orders for the payment of money, upon cer tain pieces of brass-plate, with intent to defraud a body corporate belonging to the kingdom of Poland, of which Nicholas is King, and is reennised by the Crown of Eng land as King of Poland. There were no less than 389 counts in the indictment. The Attorney-General, Mr. Platt, Mr. Adolphus, jun., and Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution ; and Messrs. Clarkson, Payne, and Jones, for the defence. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in stating the case, said the prosecution was founded on an Act of Parliament, - passed in the first year of this present Majesty, for the prosecution of persons committing forgeries on foreign States i in this co untry. The case was then gime into ; but as the case is not likely to conclude until night, we reserve the evidence until to-morrow. NEW COURT. Christopher Mudie was indicted for having feloniously received from some evil-disposed persons, on the Ist of No vember last, 19 printed books, of the vaiue of 141. 12s. ; 76 numbers of a publication called the British Herbalist, value 121. 10s. ; 12 numbers of Edwards's Botanical Regis ter, value 31. Bs. ; 302 printed sheets, value 61. ; and other works, the property of James H. Ridgway, knowing the same to have been stolen. The witnesses on both sides having been ordered out of Court, Mr. C. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury. The case was one of such importance that he would bespeak their earnest attention to it, while be endeavoured, by a simple narrative of the circumstances, to put them in possession of the facts, so as more clearly to guide them in weighing the evidence which he should produce. The prisoner at the bar was charged with having received certain property, with a guilty knowledge of its having been previously stolen, and it was a case which certainly called for their patient and undivided attention. The prosecutors, Messrs. Ridgway, were . emi nent booksellers and publishers, carrying on business in Piccadilly, and their names must be well known to the Jury and the public. It was their misfortune to have in their employment a person named Holland, whom he should he obliged to present to them to-day, upon his own confession, as the plunderer of most:excellent masters. Unless, therefore, they found his testimony corroborated by other witnesses, he would not ask them to convict the prisoner, although the Learned Judge would tell them that by law they would be justified in so doing. However, he (Mr. Phillips) feared they would find his testimony so abun dantly corroborated by others, that it would leave little doubt upon their minds. In consequence of suspicions and certain information, which it was not necessary to allude to here, Mr. Ridgway went to the shop of the prisoner in Prince's-street, Leicester-square, and took with him two police officers and a search warrant. He asked the pri soner if he had purchased any of Messrs. Ridgways' publi cations, and the answer was that he had. Of that there could be no doubt, and the question was, whether he had purchased them under circumstances which should have convinced him that they had been dishonestly come by. Mr. Ridgway then told him that he had a search warrant ; and a search was made, he believed (and it was but fair to the prisoner to state), without any great difficulty or im pediment being thrown in the way, and thirty volumes of different publications were found. This was on the 28th of November, and it was of importance here to state that all the works were of the Messrs. Ridgways' publication, and that the selling price was stamped on the backs of the covers. It was also important that they should know what Mr. Ridgway would state to them, that it had never been the custom of his house when the market got dull, and that they had a stock on hand, to undersell at what was called " waste price." The prosecutors published only what they considered valuable, and if they did not sell, they re tained the work in their own hands, waiting for a favour able turn in the market. The prisoner was asked where he had got the works, and he said from a man who represented himself as a binder in Mr. Ridgway's employment. Mr. Ridg way inquired how he came to take new publications from him, if he was only a binder? and the answer w as , th a t t h e man h a d represented himself as having received the books in question from Mr. Ridgway in lieu of wages. Th at s t a t emen t he would be able to contradict on the testimony of the man himself ; and the accusation against the prisoner was, even if such a story had been told him, it was his duty to have enquired into the facts; and therefore he (Mr. Phillips) dis believed that any representation of the kind had been made to him. The matter, however, did not rest there, for on the 30th of the same month, two days afterwards, Mr. Ridgway Mudie, and then a num ber to er e the produced of which M r . Rid gw ay had not been able to get the first time he went. Some excuse of othe againr books went w was offered that he was about to send them to the prose cutor, and it might have been so. On the last occasion there were 86 Numbers of a new botanical work, and strange to say, no Number of it had at the time been pub lished by Mr. Ridgway. It was clear from these circum stances that they had been obtained from H o ll an d, th e thi e f, (for it was right to give him his proper designation), although he had afterwards expressed deep contrition, and offered to give every information in his power. The story Holland would tell them was, that some time before he got into Mr. Ridgway's employment he was passing by the shop of the prisoner with a bundle of waste paper under his arm, when he was asked by the prosecutor if he had got any books to sell, and that he would give hi m a goo d p r i ce for them. That sometime afterwards he went into the employment of Mr. Ridgway, and being tempted by that unfortunate and unhappy proposal, he brought him first a copy of the Ladies' Botany, and afterwards other works, which were purchased by the prisoner, no questions having been asked. They bore the impress of Ridgway's publication, and were sold at half, and less than half their value. After having sold some copies of the bota nical work at a gross undervalue, the witness will tell tell you that he brought the speeches of two very cele brated men, Lord Erskine and Mr. Canning, the pages of which were uncut and perfectly new, and sold these also at a low price. That he then brought him a variety of other publications, and Mr. Mudie bad accounted for his taking all these by saying that the man was a binder, and that_ he had received them in lieu of wages. Holland would tell them that so far from that being the case, he said to the prisoner on one occasion " You know how I get these books?" To which the pri soner replied, " Very well, or else you never would be able to sell them at the prices you do." It would be proved to them, that on that as well as every other occasion, the pri soner knew that Holland was in Mr. Ridgway's employ tient. Every one of the books purporte.d to be published by Ridgway—every one of them was new and uncut, and some were actually sold in sheets. Under these circum stances, there were two points which bore very strongly against the prisoner—one was the gross undervalue at which the works were sold, and which the Learned Judge would tell them was always of much importance as show ing a guilty knowledge ; and the other was, that it was the bounden duty of the prisoner, as an honest tradesman, finding that time after time the servant of a fellow-book seller was coming to him with new uncut publications—it was, he repeated, his duty, if he meant to act as an honest man, to have gone to Air. Ridgway, and inquire if Holland's account was true ; and his not having done so, entitled them fairly to charge the prisoner with dishonesty. If they be lieved the statement which the witnesses would make, they would be bound to return a verdict of guilty—if on the contrary, they had any doubt on their minds, they would give the prisoner the benefit of it ; and no person would rejoice more at his acquittal, if found innocent, than the Messrs. Ridgway. James H. Ridgway—l am a bookseller and publisher, carrying on business at 169, Piccadilly. I have one part ner. I had a person named Denis Holland, lately in my employment as foreman. In consequence of information I procured a search warrant, and went accompanied by two police officers, Clements and Davies, to the premises of the prisoner in Princes -street, St. James's. I sawtho prisoner and told him that I had a search warrant, in consequence of information that some of our books had been stolen. I asked if he had purchased any books with our name on the covers, and he said he had. I requested to see them, and he took two or three volumes from a corner of the shop on the floor, which I identified as our property. I then enquired if he had any others, and he produced t;a•o or three more. I asked for more, and he looked about the shop and produced a few. He then assured me he bad no more on the premises. I asked him if he had ventured to buy these books ? We had previously searched up stairs and found no others. It was last Saturday three weeks I made the first search, and on the Monday following I went again. When I asked on the first occasion if he had ventured to buy these books of a stranger, without inquiry, he stated that he had not—that he had purchased them of Denis Holland, who said he was a binder in our employ, and that we had paid him with these books for his labour in lieu of money. I then said it was an improbable story, and we went to the Police-office. On the second visit I saw Peter Mudie, the prisoner's brother. There were 76 numbers of " Sweet's Flower Garden," our property then produced, and 10 numbers of the " Botanical Regis ter." They were on the table, all tied up in one parcel. On the first occasion I found a set of " Canning's Speeches" in boards, perfectly new and uncut. The selling price for the six volumes is 31. 12s. " Sweet's Hortus Botanniens" he said he paid Bs. for, the selling price is a guinea. " Sweet's Manual" he paid 65., the selling price is 16s. The " Ladies' Botany" (uncoloured) he said he bought for 65., the selling price is 16s. 'rhe sellinc , price of the lot I found on Monday is 141. They were all perfectly new, and the boarded ones uncut. Our house never undersells when a work lies on our hands. It is perfectly well known to the trade that we never do undersell. Mr. ADOLPHUS objected to that question. He was un w►lling to interrupt, as his Learned Friend was conducting the case with great candour. Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS—I served my time to Mr. Simmonds, of Paternoster•row. It was a very common thing in the trade to find• books in the market much lower than the prices at which they were originally published. They were often sold in sheets and quires, and for a third, fourth, or fifth of the first price. Booksellers frequently purchase large stocks at sales, and afterwards, when in want of money, sell them at a sacrifice ; in this way books may get cheap into the market, but I should say not very cheap. 'The trade price of a book sold for 21. 2s. is 1/. 14s. Ido not know that Lord Orford's works, published at 10 guineas, can be had at half price. We are not in that line to know what these books can be ob tained for. Ido not know that Canning's and Erskine's Speeches can be had very low at present. I never heard of it. I don't know that " Fox's Speeches" are now very high. Every thing produced by the prisoner was in the shop ; some of the books were on the floor ; that is a com mon thing in a bookseller's shop. It was from Mudie that I learned that Holland had sold the works. I had pre viously taxed Holland with being the thief, who imme diately ran away without his coat and hat. By a Juror—l never disposed of books at public auction, but it is a common thing in the trade to do so. By Mr. PHILLIPS—Mudie 'Aaid he did not know the exalt house Holland lived in. He pointed out the next door or the next but one. Had made enquiries previously at the Police office of Mudie as to where Holland lived. He said he had merely seen him get out of a cab, and go into a house in King-street. The prisoner's shop is seven or eight minutes walk from ours. By the RECORDER.-Our custom is to return books that do not sell, but other publishers are in the habit of selling off a dull stock at a sacrifice., The books thus sold are published perhaps a year or two. It is sometimes the prac tice of a bookseller to speculate by buying up the whole of a publication at a low price. Thomas Clements—l am an officer of Marlborough-street police-office. I accompanied the last witness to prisoner's house, and found there the books now produced. Mr. Ridgway re-called by the RECORDER—The pri soner's is an old book-shop for the sale and purchase of se cond-hand books. There is no stall, but. an open window. [Witness here identified the books produced by the officer as his property.] Books which have cost a great sum in getting up with engravings, have been frequently sold at a qharter the original selling price. Mr. ADOLPHUS—For instance, there is Moore's " Life of Lord Byron," with illustrations by Finden, now selling at less than half-price. Witness—l really do not know where I could get a copy at that. I would willingly give'the trade price. Mr. ADOLPIIUS—Then, if you look into Chedley's Ca talogue, you will find it as I have stated. Denis Holland—l was in the employment of the prose cutor some time ago. About two months before I went into his employment, I was passing by the prisoner's shop with a bundle of waste paper. He asked what I had got, and I replied cancelled sheets. Mudie said if it was books, I would give you a good price. After I had got into Mr. Ridgway's employment, the prisoner saw a volume of Lind ley's " Ladies' Botanist," which I had under my arm, and asked me if it was for sale. I said it was not, and he asked me if I could get him one. I said I would try and get one for him. He inquired how much I would ask for it, and I replied 12s. He said he would give me 10s., but afterwards said, " Well, bring me the book, and I dare say we will settle about the price." I brought him the book that same day or next morn ing, and he paid me l ls. The plates were coloured, and he asked me if I could get him a plain one, which I brought him. They were marked " Published by Ridgway," and the price was printed on the backs. He then said, he had got a customer for one of each kind, and asked if I had any more. I accordingly brought him another plain and another coloured. He did not pay me the full price we had agreed upon. He asked me then, if I could get him any of Canning's, Erskine's, Fox's, or Wyndham's speeches, as they were all valuable, and if I would get them, he would give me a good price for them. I brought him some. He also asked me to procure him some botanical works. I received 18s. from him for 5 vols. of " Erskine's Speeches," in quires. He did not pay all at once, but kept a running account with me. The last transacted was a few days before I left Mr. Ridgway. Sometimes went there three times a-day. Sold the prisoner books to the amount of 201., and expended upwards of that sum for brandy and water. After he.had been with the prisoner. three or four times, he asked him how he got the books—whether in part pay ment for wages ? to which he answered, No. • The second time he brought the prisoner Canning's Speeches, he asked how I came by them. Told him I dare say he knew how I came by them ; to which the prisoner replied, " Yes, I can partly tell, or you would not be able to sell them at this price." Remembers taking him 75 numbers of " Sweet's Flower Garden." The prisoner never paid me for them, but his brother did. He said he could not give me more for them than 41. 55.--not so much as half price. Took 12 numbers of the " Botanical Register" to the pri soner, who gave me 15s. for them. Drank the brandy and-water with the prisoner at a public-house at the end of Great Pulteney-street. Sometimes spent ls. 6d. and 2s. Went about six times there. Cross-examined by Mr. DOANE—Said before that he had drank brandy and water with the prisoner, but had not said that he spent great part .of the money he re ceived in brandy and water: Would swear that he had told the Solicitor for the prosecutor of it. Went into the 'employ of Messrs. Ridgway about nine months ago. Met the prisoner, in January, with some waste paper. Was taken into custody about a fortnight ago. When he was asked about the deficiencies, ho did not give his master .an account, because he was frightened. Had not said a word about Mudie, till he was taken up. Last Thursday fortnight, had made the statement about Mudie. Mudie at that time had given information on the subject in the public papers ; witness had read it. Did not go into the prisoner's shop ; some part of the information took place in the street. Was in the employ of Mr. Jones, a bookbinder, in January last ; ran away when be was given in charge, because he was frightened, without his coat and hat. By the RECORDER—Lived with Mr._JOncs about two years and a half or three years. Had Bs. a week from biro and his board. Never received any books from Jones, ex cept those he had to give to. Mr. Ridgway. Did not tell the prisoner he was a bookbinder, although,he had been so two years and a half. Had 18s. a week from Mr. Ridg-_ way. The books witness stole were some of these kept at the shop and some at the warehouse. Sometimes went into. the prisoner's shop to get money from him. IsT'ever told the prisoner what he was, or where . he got the books from. Cannot bind books—can only put them in boards. I\ 'Jiver told the prisoner he was a porter of Mr. Ridgway's. By a Juror—Had never been told his offence would be.. looked over if he came forward and gave evidence. This was the case for the prosecution. The prisoner, in his defence, said that from the price he gave for the books, he did not think they had been stolen. He had sold them at a profit of 25 per cent. only. Several booksellers stated that there was a great depre ciation in the price of certain books, and that, in their opinion, the prisoner had given a fair price for the books be - had purchased. " Hortus Botannica," which was publishe at 1/. 16s. by Mr. Ridgway; bad been sold for 12s. The:, , believed the prisoner to be a respectable tradesman. Mr. Mason, a bookseller, on his cross-examination, stated that he should not yurcha.se from a stranger, unless he had been to his residence. By the RECORDER—Never attempted to get a book at a cheap rate from the . publisher. If a book was offered at a cheap rate, that would be no reason to induce the party to whom it was offered to suppose it came from the publisher. By Mr. PHlLLlPS—Gentlemen never put works for sale in sheets ; sometimes authors did. By Mr. ADO•LPHIIS-It often happened that persons. who had bought largely sold at very reduced prices. The RECORDER said that the great point in the case was, the statement which the prisoner had made to Mr. Ridg way, that Holland told him he had received the books for wages. The suspicion of the prisoner ought then to have been aroused. Several respectable witnesses gave the prisoner a most excellent character. The RECORDER summed up. The question for _ the Jury was, whether they believed the evidence of Holland. There certainly was an appearance in his behalf of endea vouring to press against the prisoner ; although Holland had behaved in so rascally a manner towards his employers, the Messrs. Ridgways, yet be appeared to have had no incli nation; till he was apprehended, to give them any informa tion on the subject. The fact with respect to the brandy and water, which was not asked for .by the Learned Coun sel for the prosecution, showed an eagerness to press against the prisoner. The fact which pressed against the pri soner most strongly was the great quantity of property which he bad purchased from Holland in so short a period, Holland having told him at the time that he had received them for wages. The jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly recommended him to mercy. The RECORDER said that the recommendation of the jury should be attended to. T HEATRES. ENGLISH OPERA-HO USE. This Theatre, the management of which, for the re mainder .1 of the present season, has, we understand, devolved upon Mr. Rayner, was open last night, commencing with the extraordinary performances of the Swiss Brothers, whose feats of equilibrism .are indeed astonishing ; to these suc ceeded a• petite operatic piece, called A Day at an Inn, compressed into one act, from Hook's amusing farce of • Killing no Murder.' In this Mr. Wild personated the cha racter of Buskin (which poor Mathews rendered so cele'- - brated) with a good deal of bustle, and his song of " The . Country Fair," he gave much after the manner of that la mented comedian, though his general style of acting more closely resembles that of John Reeve. To this succeeded another set of posturers, from Franconi's Circus, Paris, called the Japanese Brothers, whose elasticity and strength' of limb were equally surprising, with a variety of other en , tertainments of a like character, including the rifle shooting of Signor Givaldi, and the graceful rope-dancing.of the in fant prodigy La petite Pauline La Fayette ; these, with the drama of Love's Frailties, in which Mr. Rayner enacts the principal part, and the farce of The Rendezvous, wherein Mr. Oxberry luxuriates in Simon, concluded the evening's: performance. OLYMPIC. Madame. Vcstris made her appearance here last night, having recovered from a severe and tedious illness.. Her • reception was cordial and gratifying, but not more so than was deserved by an actress who contributes so efficiently to the amusement of the public. She played llirs. 11lit/grave in the drama of Love in a cottage. Her acting of this part is entitled to unqualified praise, displaying, as it does, remarkable finish and neatness of execution, with a versa tiiity of talent which no other living actress possesses *La anything like a comparable degree. She introduces in this part of the performance a song called " Rory O'More," written by Mr. Lover, which has the merit of being essen tially dramatic, and of giving the history of an Irish court ship with great truth and ingenuity. In the composition of these songs Mr. Lover is without a rival, and scarcely any of those which have been made public deserve higher com mendation than this. The house was well filled, and the applause bestowed upon Madame Vestris universal and fully merited. ADELPHL Last night, after The Dream at Sea (which continues to run with undiminished applause), a new burletta, called The Widow's Victim, was brought out. It is a pleasant trifle, rendered exceedingly amusing by the admirable man ner in which it was acted. Its subject is the punishment inflicted by Mrs. Rattleton, a gay young widow (Mrs. Honey), on Mr. Byron Tremayne Pelham Podge, a foolish coxcomb (Mr. Buckstone), who, though a perfect stranger, has paid his addresses to her. With the assistance of her maid, Janc Chatterlcy (Miss Murray), and her sweetheart, Jeremiah Clip,:;.l' journeyman barber and amateur of private theatricals (Mr. Wrench), the widow determines to mystify and annoy her suitor to his heart's content. When he pays his first visit (having previously announced himself by a clra racteristic epistle), he is shown into the drawing-room ; after some time, the barber-actor, disguised as a strapping footman, enters, and after scrutinizing Mr. Podge's person, proceeds by stealth, us it were, to slip the loose articles of value o ut of the room. The visitor begins to find that he is taken for a thief, and wants to escape, but is- intercepted by the aforesaid footman, and an army of housemaids, armed with broomsticks and other similar weapons. In the middle of the confusion the lady herself appears, and snakes him give an account of himself. Hearing that he is her unknown admirer, she pretends to listen to his addresses, examines him, sans phrase, as to his circumstances and qua lifications, and makes him exhibit some of his accomplish ments. Expressing herself satisfied with his pretensions, 'she tells him she accepts him as a husband on one condi tion only—that he shall dispose of two other lovers of hers, who must be put out of the way, and offers him for that purpose a pair of excellent Mantons, which she says she always keeps by her for such purposes. His apprehen sions are raised to the highest pitch by the appearance of a ferocious-looking mustachio'd foreigner (Wrench, of course), who insists on fighting him, and puts him in im minent fear of instant death. After being frightened o ut of his wits, he receives a lecture on his conduct from the fair widow, and is allowed to go about 11;s business. These scenes are excellently carried off by Mrs. Honey's playful liveliness, Buckstone's grotesque assumption of folly, and Wrench's versatility. Mrs. Honey introduced Horn's pretty ballad, " Through the wood," which s?u? sang very sweetly ; and her imitation (not caricature) ei Taglioni was beautiful. The piece produced much laugl ter, and was greatly applauded at the conclusion. MURDER.—Mr. Hasty, Coroner for the county of Galway, held an inquest on the body of a young man named John Beatty, on the 3d inst., at Kilbegnet. The verdict returned was—" That John Beatty came by his death from the effects of a beating which he received, two deadly wounds being inflicted upon him, and a fracture in the skid/ • being the consequence ; and that Martin Curly, aided and assisted by others, caused the said John Beatty's death.' A LIBERAL DAY'S SHOOTING. —lt is well known that a fancy for protecting game, entertained by some of the Conservatives of Perthshire, was made a sub ject of clamour during the recent elections, and had in rea lity some share in losing Sir George Murray his seat for the county. A liberal nobleman in the county, who takes as good care of his pheasants as anv man in it, lately gave his tenants a day's shooting. But his Lordship had resolved that it should be a day's shooting, a whole day's shooting. and nothing but a day's shooting. A cart and a couple of attendants dogged the heels of the sportsmen, as they be- • licved, to assist them home with their game. No such thing—as soon as the last shot was fired, away drives the cart to the poulterers of the nearest market town, and there exposed for sale, for the behoof of his Lordship, the slaugh tered subjects of the day !—Perth Paper. 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