The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-01 00:00:00

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Phrittki. have imagined that Wordsworth's e ir- x l i try vas t this time a critical theme well nigh anti "ted ; but not SO thinks Christopher North, ts a ccord i ngly we find in the present Maga, an , O ` 4 3T on the peculiar character of this great V.'s genius, which is manifestly the production cub e.oe who not only understands, but feels, his o .ject• he occa s i ona l a ff ectat i ons o f Words . rth, Wh o i n his " Lyrical Ballads " has not seldom n illis j - aken sheer childishness for manly simplicity, very properly protested against, while jus ile is done to his striking powers of thought, 4118,ettSY, nervous, and unaffected. versification, his Q . the. uniformly healthy and elevated tone of I,s•Philosophy. The critic, however, insists on rpathos:, which is a quality we are strongly 'Posed to deny him. He is a poet too habitually cal m, too severe and profound of reflection, ever ti v u , o e melted i nto ten d erness. He soars above to e ' weakness—f or suc h, we suspect, h e wou ld c o nsider th at tremulous, active sensibility which to uches our he ar t s so d eep l y i n t h e wor k s of h ay 10 °, Byron, and, we ma y a dd, B urns . W e struckbeen.the truth of these re marks with " An obsti na t e h a b it of reflection, cultivated in retirement, w el P l ains what i s pecul i ar both in the faults and merits of tinee ieos rdsworih's p oe t ry. R are l y d e we meet w i th any spon „ " burst of p ass i on ; hi s ve h emence appears co ld an d "tidd . , e waves a wand, does this magician, who has no , r , r except to stiii the tempest. But is not this enough f r " h e i r for one spirit to possess what praise is to . o great N e r "' chose genius makes pure our solitude, and impo:ea r, 4 ) n our perturbed meditations ?" en lhousand a Year" . —whieli bids fair to 4118 thel Encyclopedia Britannica in length—is to zoonth full of the grossest political carica tairle) unredeem e d by th e s li g h tes t h umour or of p. Were it not for the inscrutable character wa,onnon, and the interest with which we 4ce teh the progress of his stealthy, cat-like ma klr" er ings which are hinted at with uncommon l htoess, and will, we anticipate, give rise to thlille impressive scenes—were it not, we say, for v t B , " l iking, mysterious character, which in its is a master-piece, the tale would be perfect as intolerable, for its aristocratic sketches evince ofPierfeet ignorance of the conventional usages K tist ' n gh life; its low life representations are dis m t f to a degree to which we have few parallels aro fiction ; its sentiment is mere twaddle, 11 . 0 ;t8 dialogues are spun out to an extent that sp . 11 'd almost tempt one to believe that the re forcentive parties were talking against each other d e ,Vvager. We subjoin the only amusing inci eff,',"o the pi esent chapter ; but even here, the tal:i e „ t i S sadly overcharged. Mr. Titmouse, after ti i ;;;,V,his seat in the House of Commons, dis er ' ‘ ," ; lB fle4 himself by his clever imitations of the ii r c) ,;;' 11 :; of a cock—which, by the bye, is a Tory deb - `:,. n s.itY—and one night, when an important gi t ., - `e Is going forward, crows so inimitably as to ,vise to the following scene of ‘ :„"k-s-doo, , l e do-o-o-o i" issued, wi'h inimitable fidelity atlie t— ' and manner, from immediately . behind Lord Belfinch, tt tr ,% t arted from his seat as if he had been shot. Every one, and t a l. oi Mr. Vivid recoiled a pace or two from the table— of th,'Lzi a universal peal of laughter echoed from all quarters t "' use, not excepting even the strangers' gallery. The I„,t , -- -or was convu'sed and could not rise to c " order !" tulfinch laughed ' himself almcst into fits; even those Li t I: di ately behind Mr. Vivid were giving way to uncontrolla geir - t '''ter, at so comical and monstrous an issue. He him \r,3 t iled for a moment to join in the laugh, but in vain ; he be o ibly d'seoneerted and confounded. This frightful . and ep,%','tnig incident had done away with the effect of his whole b e _ t o . ; and in twenty-four hours' time, the occurrence would tlo~ citing laughter and derision in every corner of the king , ktdurder! order! order !" cried the Speaker, his face red Viei s c i wu llen with scarce subdued laughter. Several times Mr. teas ed a , tt ernpted to resume, only, however, occasioning re teil,,, — 2:nlghter. S t ill h e rersevered; and, with much pre tieed ntind, made a pointed and witty . allusion to Rome tisel".4 the cacklin g o f a goose. 'T wa s, however, plainly Yield '; and after a mom en t or t wo ' s pause of irresolution, he hi etl to his fate,'rh visible vexation abruptly concluded v W 1 re sult . "' a.tions, gathered hastily together his papers, and ktid t his seat and his hat—a signal for renewe . d laughter 1- 11; u : I nroPhant cheering m the Ministerial side of the . tb,C,' Up then started Alr. O'Squeal—and, despite . his t orte and extravagant gesticulation, and perfectly frightful poi nt ' l "ice, dashed boldly off at one or two of the weakest tthio!,which had peer made by his discomfited adversary, k ,," he dealt with y dexterously ; and then threw up a blase nu of rhetorical fireworks, amidst the glitter and ::::ftirweliich lie sat down, and was enthusiastically cheered. and ply friend Mr. Titmouse that had worked this wonder, changed the fate of the day. Up rose Mr. fali e l ne 'rit eaded opponent—but in vain ;he ,vas quite crest- Ile%;; evid en tl y i n momentary apprehension of rece i v i ng an rat o ption simil ar t o t h a t w hi c h M r . 1. :yid h a d exper i ence d. tno,t-a-, n ervous and fidgety—as well he might he and would littnsuredly have shared the fate of Air. Vivid, but_th4 ras (not without great difficulty) restrained by Lord doe ed ''. on the ground that the desired effet . had been pro ' a nd would be only impaired by a repetity . m. els I ci e "Dourraunee Empire" is a delightful aiti (42Ces.,criptive of Affghanistan and the manners 114 e Affghan tribes, and penned in that spirited colloquial style which never fails to con- Pl e „ at the reader. " A Lounge on the Sea" is a sv e ,7 l ng sort of a prose pastoral, in which, how ls ` far too much praise is lavished on that htersly old d og , I zaac W a lt on , w h ose grea t e tto -ra rY Merits we have never yet been fortunate Ni tt e n h to discover. He wrote some passable lives of iq eot contemporaries, and a book about fish serictT which occur one or two pretty sylvan de -I°ns; and this is the whole amount of his Att t L s''' t 11 Pon the favour of posterity. Hints to sari rs is duller this month than usual. The fi re r s is not well applied—consequently, it misses con A " Fifth Chapter of Turkish History" by;L is uos a clever account of the capture of Cairo luk`ge Turk s , an d t h e massacre o f th e Maine pe-ef",,,01 the y ear 1517. I n " C onserva ti ve P ros -. ( 7 3 - the speedy advent of Sir R. Peel to power ti o ;? a fidently p re di c t e d. We have no apprehen 4812rsoch a visitation. The Tories are stuck slid Zt to to them the opposition benches as if they were NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. ek,"e have little sympathy for Maria Louisa v er neen of France, and can read of her re• tril,,. s ) as duly set forth here in an article de . s ka,,i‘lig her career as " Duchess of Parma," with - '' e llous sang froid, for we cannot forget her 44 -a v rtl e3 , neglect . of Napoleon in the days of his Iva s er sltY, who, despot as he was, to her at least hi s - i ever the most affectionate of husbands. In Rut ter moments the names of his wife and child for,„ er ed on his lips, yet at that very time the tie, was pursuing a reckless career of dissipa h at her C ourt o f P arma , and intriguing with er. ' -Ch amberlain, Count leipperg, without a e without e ven a thought of him who had aq her t o a stat i on in the world's eye, which ra could never have hoped to obtain. Of her Per e . 4l° L l r, and subsequently her husband, Neip e are told that " on his arrival in Parma /4 4 , 1 .,..," 8 , not much above thirty. He had a bright, t ype al countenance, and his left-side face was a the la 0 1 manly beauty. In his early . campaigns his 6kee of a French hussar had deprived him of toN.,,",e3re. That honourable wound was carefully eo o „e i u- with a black band, and there were charms in the eye that remained, to win a weak he tt i a lli's heart. The Count was a man of liberal st li ., ll nents. He was mild, abhorred violent mea ,al4.94and generally upheld the cause of justice t_hei t ,, u tit. He was very popular; his style of Ate t i - llT,as simple ; manners affable and easy. on in 1827." " Fathers and Sons" is carried no • Iv h --- ", vigour, but the present chapter contains Iti v i- h e t 'n,ents worthy of notice. " Might against is a romance of the Tyrolese war o . f 9 '„ / , v nen the patriot Hofer, whose murder is cl iff the darkest stains on 'Napoleon's scut e distinguished himself so highly. The and is a fertile one for the purposes of fiction, i k , w we ha ve often wondered that it has nevertill isheen attempted. Mr. Phipp's romance, nii e %is now only in its commencement, pro little'avourably, but we should be glad to see a At m ore vigour and terseness thrown into it. I,7lhl3Tesent, itis t oo diffus e , a nd the opening dia- AC e is languid. Mrs. Trollope's -" Life and bejtentures of Charles Chesterfield , ' is neither Hess nor worse than usual. There is a hard late„ a nd stiffness of manner in this lady's tiow;,Productions, which act with a repelling l'?,,ithZ„. on the reader. Her humour is nn er good-nature—her sarcasm has no leer edge than a hand-saw. As for ostitirnent, it is positively excruciating. r . e3 g,', l Sporting," by Nimrod, is interesting,. nS w e aallY on account of the sketches it supplies at Ar of Washington's hunting establishment luti e °li nt Vernon, prior to the American Rev() ; the u. In the article headed " French Press,' tri zt j e ader Will find some useful statistical infor ooQ j; )11 r especting the circulation, influence, &c., e, Parisian journals, whose theatrical and 'iv j Ding matters, we are told, " are the most ce rti 3 and witty in Europe." The Charivari is the '-i- I , III Y a gem in its way—but no wonder, for Nd.'rench have ever been remarkable for their Ne t Pc'wers of wit and repartee. This national f a i re , deity may be seen to advantage in Vol kit, 8 t ales, who sneers away a principle by a icZd sarcasm, and demolishes an argument by of 8, e• Th e " Friend in Need" is an imitation an , -er -„ l le's manner. It is aptly enough called " Alit‘-c,xtravaganza," for it is very—very broad. gay. Pacification "is an arch, airy little es the f ." Pellets for Prosers" ip.a quizzical hit, in • prose ° r : lti of an allegory, at the present mania - for op 'II Preference to* poetry. We subjoin the 04 dR stanzas '' • A nd F. when the fetes Oti . Parnissus were ended, Like , th il er 'llon dull f or th e rest of t h e year , W h i t gay tourists, Arollo descended Pe r "lotuus—to visit his votaries here ! T h :, ,, ever the other gods took to amuse them, 4° ; hern litn es they'd Th at found them so learned, or so dull, or so prim, leave them—and sometimes they'd lose to h e ways took Polly to travel with him 1 Having lasso'd two Pegasus-ponies—they bound them With sunbeams for traces—took stars for their scat ; And thus, at each step flinging rainbows around them, They alighted, like sunset, in Marlborough-street ! But there the old Temple they stopped at so often, Was shut in their teeth !—and 'twas only in spite Of orders the strictest, they managed to soften The Porter—and sit in the shop for the night! But Apollo, who cares very little for sleeping, • Tried over some " Chansons" that seemed rather new ; While Momus, who always loved bindings—and peeping . At pictures and Peers—look'd the Annuals through ! And often, when struck by some discord within it, Apollo would fling down his song with sneer ; While Momus cried out with delight ev'ry minute, " What a gent of a Print !—What a lore of a Peer !" So they got through the night ;—and next morning they wander'd Through all the new streets, and new squares they couldfind; And though Momus his whole stock of sympathy squandered, Apollo could scarce find a spot to his mind ! There were altars to Roasen, and temples to Science, But Poeiy's minarets nowhere arose; And go where they would, still a look of defiance Glared on them from some hideous statue of—Prose ! BENTLEY'S MISELLANY. " Guy Fawkes," like Pope's wounded snake, " drags its slow length along" this month in a very wearisome manner. The dialogues are stiff and cold as usual—for Mr. Ainsworth has no no- tion of making his personages talk naturally— and the incidents are in keeping with the dia logues. Nor is Cruikshank's illustration much better. Guy Fawkes looks all legs, like a gi raffe, and the man who is presenting a pistol at him, is as rigid and unbending in figure as if he had been hewn out, of a granite block. George should never attempt either the heroic or the melodramatic, but stick to the humorous, the hmiliar, and the fantastic, where he has no " An Irish Love Adventure" is a whimsical rival. story well told, except as regards the denoue ment, which is lame and impotent. " Merrie England in the Olden Time" trips on at a brisk, ambling pace, and is interspersed with some lively rhymed conceits, which enliven and vary the article. " Hone Ofileanre" is a series of reminiscences connected with Offley's once cele brated—we say, once celebrated, for we be lieve its popularity is now on the wane— supper-rooms near Covent-garden. The most interesting portion of these reminiscences is that which refers to the late Captain Simon Fairfield, who, it seems, was in his day a great frequenter of Ofiley's, and was remarkable for his musical and conversational powers—ac complishments always to be regretted, except when they are under the control of a strong, well-regulated mind; for in nine out of ten cases they drive their popular possessor headlong to the devil. It is astonishing how many men have been utterly ruined by a fine voice, and a power of sprightly repartee ! For steering safely through the quicksands and breakers of life, commend us to good-humoured common-place. " Diary of a Dining-out Man" has one or two smart, piquant paragraphs. The progress of conversation at a large dinner party, from the formal to the familiar, is described with much truth and happiness of expression. " A Classical Ode, with a Free Translation," is a coarse, un meaning version of an exquisitely beautiful Latin epigram by Dr. Jortin, of which the trans lator does not seem to have been aware, for he has evidently mistaken it for the produCtion of one of the classical poets of old Rome. In addi tion to its pot-house vulgarity, the translation is not a translation at all, but simply a loose para phrase. " Modern English Dramatists" is a criticism on Sergeant Talfourd's tragedies. It is penned in a temperate manner, and speaks with becoming respect of a dramatist whose works are models of their sort, strongly con ceived, chastely and forcibly expressed, and con sistently maintained throughout. Mr. Talfourd is an author who has studied deeply in the best and most enduring school ; he is impassioned without being exaggerated, and even in his tenderest scenes, never degenerates into maud lin sentimentality. His notions of the dignity of his art, however, are somewhat too severe, and we think at times he might relax with advan tage. " Ho-Fi of the Yellow Girdle," is, an amusing Story, embellished with a still more amusing plate by Leech, a very promising illus trator of books. " Wanted—a Widow," is from the pen of Mr. Whitehead. It is a tale ingeni ously conceived, and worked out with proportion ate dexterity. " Epistle to Fanny Elssler at New York, from the ' Omnibus' in London," is a lively piece of familiar verse, defaced, however, by one or two desperate Cockney rhymes. As it is of a reasonable length, we quote it entire : .4 Sweet Fanny I the Bus is half frantic To find you so long in a fix • By demurring to cross the Atlantic, You make us as cross as two sticks. No more of this silly delaying— The Western is now under way ; The Yankees grow wild with your staying, And we with your staying away. Each step seems as light as a feather That Congress has taken of late ; Since you and DAN WEBSTER together Concocted the airy debate. But grant us the slightest concession, And our English M.P.-rical fops Shall bring in a bill by neat session • For increasing the duty on hops. Oh ! FANNY, just listen to reason, And stick to LAPORTE for the future; Or who 's to enchant , us next season? Or who 's to attempt the Cachucha? Or whom at her benefit bobbing, Shall our bouquets in thunder-showers cover, Like the Ba' es in the Wood, by Cock-Robin, With leaves smothered over and over. In the Bus, grown as dull as a hearse, We sit, like a legion of mopers, Applauding, for better, for worse, Those terrible long legs of COPERE'S I While we gaze at the steps of Miss Hughes, it's To show us how wilful an elf ye are, • Fou pretend to prefer Massachusetts, And fill with your fame Philadelphia. But beware, lest, when bent on returning, The BUS should oppose its dread veto I • Certain traitors, our motley concern in, Hold up their white kids for CERITO At present, the ladies and lords Are as patient as sawyers at top e'er are ; But in este !--on board for our boards ! Or prepare to be hissed from the orzst ERASERS' MAGAZINE. The " Non-Intrusion" question is resumed in this Number, but we cannot say that it is , very luminously treated, nor is there any force or novelty in the arguments, which are merely such as have been repeated a hundred times within the last twelve months. The allusion to Dr. Chalmers is the most readable part of the paper, and it is perfectly true, that this able but crotchetty Divine, whenever he gets hold of a hobby invariably makes a point of riding it to death. He is aptly enough described as " jog ging on at a ricketty trot, whipping up his worn out Rozinante, and fancying that wind-mills are Church principles, and the echoes of their thun der solid argument." " A Chapter about Faustus and the Devil"—as may be surmised from its title—enters into some particulars respecting the famous old German printer, and the legend of which he is the hero. There islittle interest in the subject, for we are all familiarly acquainted with it, thanks to Marlowe and Gcethe. In " Eminent Soldiers of the Eighteenth Century" we have a Memoir of the Duke of Marlborough ; but it does not evince any very accurate knowledge of the times, for in the first place, the writer doubts whether Anne's desertion of her father, James the Second, was brought about by , the insidious influence of the Duchess, which is a fact esta blished beyond a question and secondly, he as serts of the Duke, that " his great qualities were not of a nature to have lea. him successfully through difficulties in a subordinate rank," which argues but an imperfect acquaintance with his character,which was as subtle,wily, and dexterous, as it was ambitious, and decided, when decision was necessary. Marlborough was a man who would have distinguished himself, no matter how suboidinate the situation from which he sprang. He had all the qualities necessary to achieve re nown, had he even sprung from the loweSt class of peasantry. The Duke's military talents are praised no more than is their due, but it is curious to see a high Tory Journal endeavouring to prove that the Whig Marlborough was a greater com mander than the Tory Wellington. The sub joined anecdotes may perhaps be new to some of our readers : We must conclude our present sketch with two anecdotes relating both to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, and which we think highly characteristic of this singular and highly-gifted couple. None of the Duchess's charms, when they were at their proudest height, had been so fondly prized by the poor Duke, her husband, as her splendid head of hair. 'therefore one day, upon his offending her, by some act of dis obedience to her " sovereign will," the bright thought oc curred, as she sat considering how she could plague him most, hat it would be a hearty vexation to see his favourite tresses cut off. Instantly the deed was done ; she cropped them short, and laid them in an ante-chamber he must pass through to enter her apartment ; but, to her cruel disappointment, he passed, entered, and repassed, calm enough to provoke a saint, neither angry nor sorrowful, seemingly quite unconscious both ~f his crime and his punishment. Concluding he must have overlooked the hair, she ran to secure it. Lo !it had va nished, and she remained in perplexity the rest of the day. The next, as he continued silent, and her looking-glass spoke the change—a rueful one—she began to think she had for once done a foolish thing. Nothing more ever transpired upon the subject until after the Duke's death, when she found her beau tiful ringlets carefully laid up in a cabinet, where he kept whatever he held most precious. We deem this almost affect ing. What an adorable vixen she must have been! The Duchess suruived n her illustrious husband not less than twenty two years, dying at the age of eighty-four, in 1744. The love she had for the Duke may in no small degree be imagined from the following anecdote :—Though in her sixty-second year, she still possessed some attractions, insomuch that she was sought in marriage by Lord Coningsby and the Duke of Somerset. What her answer was to the former is, we be-. lieve, nowhere upon record. That to the Duke of Somerset is highly characteristic, and greatly to be adrAired;,:..." Marriage TB i SUN, LONDON, MONDNY, _MARCH 1, 1841. is very unsuitable at my age ; hut. uC re I only thirty, I would not permit even the emperor of the world to succeed in that heal t which has been, all my life, devoted to John Duke of Marlborough." Those who would desire to get an insight into the character of this extraordinary woman— " Old Sal," as she was called—will find much to answer their purpose in Horace Walpole's Re miniscences. " Macbeth 3 Satan, and Sylla," is an attempt—not very successful—to institute a parallel between these three characters. Speak ing of Milton's Satan, the writer tells us that " there is nothing low, mean, base, or selfish about him." This is not correct. Satan is de voured by envy, which is one of the lowest and most grovelling of the passions ; and cuts a very sorry figure indeed, when represented as burst ing. with hate and envious spleen, at sight of the beauty. and happiness of Eve. We have always th ought this a defect in Milton's otherwise mate► less delineation of the fiend,. for it disturbs that lofty notion, which he sought to impress on us, of the magnificent but fallen archangel, "whose face deep scars of thunder had entrenched." The " Condemned Cells" is a Newgate anecdote, related with simple energy. From the memoirs of that unprincipled courtier, Lord Melcoinb, we quote this ludicrous incident : King George 111., as before observed, made him a Lord, after which exaltation he exhibited himself at the Queen's drawing-room at St. James's Palace. Ho was most superbly attired ; but, at the same time, so trussed in his court suit, that he appeared all prompt to burst ; when, wheeling .round to perform his newly-studied, best lordly bow, the waistband of his tights, which the tailor by order had rendered preter naturally scanty, in bending forward, the whole fabric sud denly became ruptured, when, as the witnesses of his " con fusion worse founded," relate, he stand like the luckless phi losopher who was inflated by swallowing too copious a dose of laughing gas, and retired with his chapeau-bras as a screen before, and his hinder parts turned towards the throne. His Majesty, whose memory was ever retentive of a joke, the next time be saw my Lord Melcomb Regis after the untoward accident, kindly advised the sufferer to bring his action for da mages against h:s tailor. helburne, he seemed to think I was deserving of suspicion. About the last time I was at his licus?, I mentioned something about Count Woronzof, and he fancied I bad been sent by Woronzof to communicate it. Yet there was about him a good deal of sympathy, of intelligent sympathy: a curious mixture, too, of what was natural and what was factitious. He Lad a sort of systematic plan for gaining people. J was quite surprised to find the interest he had shown towards me. The particulars did not immediately occur to my thoughts, nor did I immediately gather up the threads of them till long after wards. He had many projects for marrying me to ladies of his acquaintance. Bentham relates several anecdotes of the younger Pitt, all which prove that he was a man of cold, stem temperament, and impenetrable re serve. How different from his great rival, Fox, the most social, affable, and kindly of beings ! " Rhymes for the Corn Kings " are, we presume, from the pen of Ebenezer Elliott. They are not in his happiest manner. The truth is, he has worn the subject threadbare. " Tories, Whigs, „ . and the Law of Libel” is a fierce assault on Mi nisters for their recent Chartist prosecutions. The writer observes, " the Whigs inherited the law of libel from the Tories; they have carefully preserved it, and rendered it more stringent ; and when they arc turned out of office, as they soon must be, they will restore to the Tories their ori- ginal instrument of torture for political offen ders, much improved for their purposes." This remark has some truth for its basis, but it is too much exaggerated. MESSRS. WRIGHT'S BANK- RUPTCY. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Fee. 27. (Before Mr. Commissioner Hoertoye.) This afternoon, at one o'clock, being fixed for the ad journed examination of Messrs. Biddulph, Wright, and Co., the Court was much crowded with merchants and gentle men who formerly banked with the firm, and who now at tended to prove their debts. Mr. Bacon. the barrister, etteaded on behalf of a credi tor named Henry Burton, a clergyman residing at Atcham, in S slop, and Mr. France, of Bsdford-row, represented a great many parties interese I in large amounts of money in the stocks. Mr. Hamilton, of Ilerniotta-street,Covent ga-den, attended as solicitor to the fiat. A gentleman applied to the Learned Commissioner to know if he could prove a debt against the bankrupt's estate under these circumstances :—He received a check from a person who was a customer of the bankrupts on the Ssturday preceding the Monday when the failure took place. The customer, it turned out, was indebted in a 'arge sum of money to this bankrupts, and the balance re maining in their hands bad subsequently been carried to the account of the customer, and deducted from the debt due from him to the estate. He (the applicant) there fore wished to know if he could prove for the amount of the cheek rec , ivel from the customer befoto the failure. The Learned COMMISSIONER said that thsre were cer. tain cases in which the applicant and the customer might have joined for the purpose of proving the debt ; but under the circumstances stated he was of opinion the proof was inadmissible, for even if the hank had continue I it was questionable if the check - would have been honoured. Mr. Hamilton said that a gentleman named Holmes, re siding in Arundel, Sussex, was anxious to prove for the sum of 3481. o.t. 61. against Mr. Robinson's separate estate. Mr. Holmes was executor under the will of Peter R. Lally, Esq., and a sum of 3931. 4s. 3d. Bank ties was standing in the name of the bankrupt, Robinson, in the books of the Governor and Company of tire Bank cf England. The stock was liable to be Landed over t the assignees, and the question was whether Mr. Holmes was entitled to prove against Mr. Robinson's separate estate, or the joint estates of the bankrupts. Mr. France said it would be much better if the assignees were to let t' .e trust moneys in the stocks alone, and let tire stockholders fight out any dispute that might arise among thems.elves. Mr. Commissioner Houton) said lie was of opinion the actual receipt of the stock by Mr. Robinson, with the knowledge that it was trust money, was equally a breach of trust on his part with the trustees who had parted with it. Mr. Hamilton said that the real estate of the bankrupt was ansee-able in many instances to parties who had not ,et teen di,covered. Mr. France said ho was desirous that the assignees should have the stocks that were unclaimed, as they were perhaps the parties best entitled to them, but he contended they had no right to meddle with finds which clearly be longed to other parties than the bankrupts. A gentleman said that the funds referred to in Mr. Holmes's case originally stood in the name of Mr. Ito bioson's father, in the character of trustee ; and Mr. Henry Robinson having been appointed executor of his father, who was deist, that was the way in which the mo ney had got into Mr. Robinson's name. He was willing, if the procf was ailed:en' against Mr. Henry Robinson's separate estate, t) abandon his right to the stock. Mr. France said he could not object, and the proof was Me Bacon next drew the attend - el o? the Court to the Rev. Mr. Burton's claim of above 20,000/. ; and in doing so, it would be remembered that on a former day this claim and three others were admitted, subject to any in spiry which the assignees might think proper to institute. Mr. Burton appeared in the character of surviving exe cutor of t' c estate of Messrs. Piowden and Bbrun, late of Shropshire, who were executors under the will of the late Mr. Thomas Wright, tie father of the bankrupt, George Anthony Wright Biddulph. The latter bor rowed, it appeared, the sum of 20,0001., under a bond dated the Ist of July, 1822, which sum was to bear inte rest. Me , ser. Plowden and. Blount and he (the Learned Counsel) held the bond cf inc'eemity which - was given upon the occasion, as Messrr. Plowden and Blount had no power under the trust; of the will of the bankrupt's father to make any advance out of ti.e testator's estate. Mr. Hamilton said there was no doubt the advance bad been made, and the only quo: ti in was whether the bond of indemnity was invalidated by the statute of limitafons, it having been executed so long since as 1822. The Learned COMMISSIONER sail that lie had, since the last sitting, looked into the Act of Parliament, and he had found that it required a lapse of 20 years from the ex ecution of an instrument to bar the claim. The proof for 22,850/. was then admitted against the separate estate of Mr. Biddulph. The like proof was next received from the reverend gsntle.nan, and allowed, against the separate estate of Mr. J. _Wright. Mr. Hamilton said he di I not attach much importance to this being done, as Mr. Biddulph's estate would pay 20s. in the pound. The vestry clerk of St. Paul's, Covent garden, was al lowed to join, under the proviii)ns of the local Act of the parish, with one of the c hurchwardens, in the proof of a debt of 91. 4s. 5c1., collected as a Church -rate, and depo sited for security with Messrs. Wright and Co., on behalf of the rector. In answer to a question from the Court, it was stated that Mr. Henry Robinson and Mr. Jerningham, two of the bankrupts, were in setendance, and prepared to pass their examination. The balance sheet of the joint estate was !wax I in, which showed the following results : C.rrdit - ,rs £691,648 5 0 From dead Ledger 2,650 8 10 Creditors on Stack sold ........... 760,663 14 6 Liabilit;c3—And aiio account for which no consideration La; bccu given except in soire cr.ses in the deposit of securities 52,663 17 0 Upon Bills discounted for Custorocrs, and re-diicounted ..------- 69,015 3 7 Total of debits and liabili!ie3 Supposed good assets Deficiency £399,734 18 5 The item under the name of good assets is thus made up : Good debts £276,686 10 0 Deduct 10 per cent 27,608 13 0 £248,837 17 0 Doubtful Dedue 4 85,435 15 5 ----- 60,000 0 0 Property Cash in band 6,966 16 0 Total £429 943 19 8 The total amount of bad debts are stated to Le 5,2671. 9s. 2d. Mr. France then proceed!d to question the ba , tkrup's at some length, and they states that the firm had no claims upon the various stocks of which they bad given an ac court is their balanca-sheet. A separate stock ledger ra al kept for transactions in the funds, and the sale of stocks sold by order of the holders all appeared in that book, but it contained no entry of those effected in the name of the house except by an especi a 1 order. The firm had sometimes inve•tA the moneys of the house in the trust stocks, but rant always. The moneys paid away by the firm wero known to be part of the moneys for which they w ere trustees. Mr. Robinson said he we.; not aware whether all the partners knew the trust moneys were being uscd by the firm. Mr. Jerniagham here :lip:lrked that he never was aware of it. Mr. Robinson sta'ed that Mr. Wrig;:f Biddulph had not been aware of the transactions of the houses for many years past. He was expressly exempted from any participation in the management of the concern by the deed of copart nershie. No intimation of the insolvency of the house was ever given him up to the moment of failure. Hes (Mr. R.) was often going to mention it to him, but Mr. Wright said if Mr. Biddulph knew it, he was such a ner vous man that he would come to town and stop the house at once. Mr. Bidclulph had recently had two paralytic attacks, and the eff.ct of any such communication would have been fatal t 3 him. All the other parties belonging to the house, except Mr. Jerningham, knew that the moneys of the firm were taken from the trust stocks', Mr. Jerningba'n stated that he never was in the habit of investigating the stock ledger. He used to look into it, but never took any particular notice of the sale of stocks. He never knew that the trust stock was disturbed until ten or twelve days before the failure. He was quite correct in what he stated, that no communication was ever made to him, either by Mr. Robinson or Mr. John Wright, that the trust stocks were being improperly sold and converted. Mr. Robinson-11 , 1r. Jerningbam always thought our moneys were the property of the house , that is, the moneys of the partnership. Mr. Jerningham repeated that he was aware stock was purchased and sold, as he usually signed the letters con taining the advice, but he was not aware that any of the moneys standing in the names the firm as trustees were sold, and he also begged to statet bat none of the stock was ever insured or transferral into his name. This concluding the examination of Mr. Robinson and Mr. Jerningham, the Learned Commissioner declared them to have passed their examination. Mr. Hamilton said that Mr. J ►bn Wright would require six weeks longer to make up his accounts, and Mr. Bid dulph was not in a sta'e of health to leave his residence, in consequence of a recent attack of paralysis. An appli cation had been made to the Court of Review to empower the Learned Commissioner to adjourn the examination of these bankrupts from time to time, but he ( Mr. Hamilton) was not aware his Honour, Sir George Rose, had made any order. He likewise had to request that the Learned Commissioner would direct the continuance of the allow ance to Mr. J. Wriglit and Mr. Biddulpb. Ms. Commissioner Honnovn said that was a matter in the first instance for the consideration of the assignee-s— -and it was afterwards discretionary with him to approve or otherwise of the course proposed to be adopted upon appli cation being made thereon. Mr. France said he wished to obtain a public declara tion from the asignees that they either would or would not re=ign thsir claims to the trust funds. Mr. Hamilton said that the assignees would take time to consider the subject. All that they wanted was proper protection ; and they thought that a short petition ought to be presented to the Court of Review, for the purpose of obtaining the direction of the Court in the matter. The assignees did not wish to put Mr. France's Clients to any expense or unnecessary litigation, but wished to act with safety. Mr. France said, that after calling up on them in so pub lie a manner •to abandon their claims to the stocks, he doubted if suits in Chancery were commef they would nced against him, in the event of the' non-compliance, bare to bear all the costs personally. i not s. Mr. Hamiltn defended the c ourse taken by tho assig. neat and after o some f art h er discussion the time way en. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This periodical would be far more popular Clan it is, were it not for the frequency of its essays on subjects so vague and mystical, as to keep the reader in a constant state of perplexity. In the present Number, for instance, we find an article entitled " Foreign. Aids to Self-Intelli gence, designed for an Historical Introduction to the study of Ontological Science, preparatory to a Critique of Pure Being." We have read this article with some attention, but candidly confess that we can make little or nothing of it. There is, here and there, some acute reasoning ia it, but sense is so mixed up with jargon, and there is such an obvious want of a lucid arrange ment of ideas throughout it, that we are com pelled to abandon in despoil - the task of getting at-tite writer's meaning. "On the Date of the Introduction of Painted Glass," informS us—and this is its only nietit—that the " use of painted glass for the ornament of churches Was estab lished in the fifth century," which is a much earlier date than we should have thought of as signing to this ornamental experiment. The " Diplomacy of Society" is an ingenious es say, not wanting in a certain free and easy play of arch humour. " English Wits" is a memoir of Congreve, accompanied by a brief criticism on the works of this witty comic dra matist, which still continue to charm us, de spite the clumsiness of their plots, and the glar ing improbability of all their chief personages. The critic is right when he observes that Sheri dan was a close imitator of Congreve. Had the one never written the " Double Dealer," the other would never have written " The School for Scandal." On the •" Christ Rejected, of West," is a graceful poem by the Rev. Robert Oxlad—a somewhat unmusical name for a singing bird cf Parnassus. "Leaves from the Fragment of a Life" is a prose tale of average merit. THE POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL. The first article of F. Winslow, Esq., " Author of the Anatomy of Suicide," &c., contains some singular facts, illustrating the wonderful changes produced on the animal frame by cold. Indeed, so singular are they, that but for the respectable names by which they are attested, we should have classed them with the tales and lies of the. Munchausen school; and, notwithstanding the authorities, we believe many readers will still be sceptical, so contrary are many of them to the ordinary laws of nature. In short the treatise is interesting, not only in this respect, but for the sound practical advice it affords to persons who, from necessity or choice, remove from one tem perature to another. " The popular practice," says the writer, " of waiting till a degree of cool ness has taken place before quitting a hot room, or before going into a cold bath, is dangerous in the extreme. It is questionable whether any person ever re2eived an injury from cold after leaving a heated assembly, if he left while he continued warm, and either by exercise in the air, or by a warm covering, kept up that warmth in some degree till he arrived at home." On the authority of Dr. Currie, nothing can be more dangerous for persons in a state of perspiration, who wish to bathe, than waiting on the edge of the bath, or at the water side till, they are per fectly cooled. They ought to plunge in at once, to avoid sudden chillness, often of the most ul..lng.e -rous character. The following are a few of tiie most remarkable instances given of the effect of cold: Bomare affirms that on the Andes there are found some of the bodies of the first conque rors of South America, arrested by cold on their passage to Peru in quest of gold. They are still piieserved with all they carried with them, and in the various attitudes in which they were frozen and surprised by death some 300 years ago. Izaak. Walton, on the authority of Gesner, gives an account of some large breams being put into a pond which was frozen next winter into one mass of ice, so that not one could be found, yet they were all swimming about in spring as lively as ever. Captain Franklin saw a carp leap about with great vigour after it had been frozen for thirty-six hours, with others that had been split open with a hatchet like a piece of wood. And, according to Gangiu, quoted by Fletcher in his Physiology, there is a people in Moscovy who die every year, about the 27th of November, and are not restored to life till towards the end of April ! There is a curious article also on the duration of coal in the TJnited Kingdom, from which it ap pears, that in the northern districts of England and in Scotland, there is coal sufficient to supply the current annual draught for a period of 1,727 years, independent of the vast beds in Wales, which would supply all England for 2,000 years more. The present generation may, therefore, rest satisfied that they shall have coal fires at least for the dura`ion of their lives. THE SHAKSPEARE SOCIETY. The first publication, or rather the first work issued by the Shakspeare Society, was delivered on Friday to such members as have paid their subscriptions. It has for title " Memoirs of Edward Alleyn, founder of Dulwich College," a most distinguished and prosperous actor in the reigns of Elizabeth and James 1., and, con sequently, contemporary with Shakspeare, Ben Jon son, Massinger, Marston Dekker, Heyvvood, &c. Re spect:ng these and others the volume contains much new and interesting information. It has been compiled by Mr. J. Payne Collier, from original manuscripts preserved at Dulwich College, of the existence of most of which, until recently, nobody seems to have been aware. They most curiously and authentically illus trate the condition of our stage, and of dramatic poetry, at the period when it reached its utmost perfection, besides affording a number of particulars hitherto en tirely unknown respecting Alleyn himself and his family. Several points of Shakspeare's life are touched upon in the " Memoirs' regarding which the infor mation is entirely new. First he is mentioned in some verses sent to Alleyn, probably about the year 1592, in which Bentley, Knell, Iternpe,' Phillips,, Pope, Bur beige, great- , actors otbur grea,actors of the "slay =are named. Next, it is shown that Shakspearo was acting in Con cert with: Henslow's company, at the very time when the old Hamlet, the old Taming Va Shrew, the old Henry V., &c. (which Shakspeare used in the subse quent composition of his own dramas) were in course of public performance. Thirdly, we have an original letter from Mrs. Alleyn to her husbaud, in which Shakspeare is introduced by name. Fourthly, it is established that Shakspeare was upon the stage at a period considerably subsequent to the usually assigned date ; and in the fifth place, evidence is produced to show that Alleyn was the purchaser of Shakspeare's interest and property in the Blackfriars theatre at the time when the latter retired from London to Stratford upon-Avon. These are matters of much value in relation to the life of our greatest dramatist. Then as to Ben Joeson, besides verses in his hand-writing, we have the fact as certained that be killed Gabriel Spencer, a fellow actor, ;n the year 1758, in the duel he is known to have `ought in Boston-fields. Malone proved that Massin .4er was in pecuniary difficulties in 1613, but docu ments are now before the public (or more strictly speak ng, before the mem bers of the Shaks p eari a n So ciet y) , which afford evidence of that p oet's distr e sse s two y ears Afterwards. Marsto n is shown, un der his own hand, 'o have written a play on the adv en t ures o f Colum -1:eul sa relating and t twoh his original letters from D e kk er t o All e ys circum s tances, and in c l os i ng a paneg y r i c . n ate. Theviverse, areinjtle page ei t.cdien the course of M r . C o lli er ' s nat .. makes no mention of Lodge or Stephen Gosson, but the information relating to these liqinguished literary men is even fuller than that re tarding several others who are rendered more pro mit cut. The w h o l e o f th e p receding inform a ti o n, it will be )bservcd, is independent of any facts connected with the life of Alleyn and his foundation of Dulwich Cul important, even to the remarkable ege. Nearly the whole of these (singulir as it may circumstance of his desire to be knighted in his latter years, with a view perhaps to gratify the vanity of his ,ppear) are new and seconds wife, Constance Donne, the daughter of the celebrated poet and divine. —Morning Chronicle. Po t li li ce e - e office, to show were C Hs summoned A to T gentlemen a S rn . --- b e u t r r e s e l a cause why they refused to pay a rate levied by the parish of St. Leonard's, Bromley. Two of the three, on rcli T gious grounds, refuted to pay, preferring to let the law 4ivit its course' Os ether paid the rate, MONTHLY CHRONICLE. We are glad to meet with, in the " Careless Word," a tale far superior to the general run qj Magazine fictions. It is told - simply and feel ingly, and turns upon a hasty, thoughtless re mark let drop by a young girl, just before her union with a jealous and sensitive youth, who, taking her random observation seriously, breaks off the match, and, as a natural consequence, breaks her heart, which, according to Sam Slick, is the most difficult thing in the world to do, ladies' hearts being generally as tough as India rubber. The tale may be considered as au illus tration of Moore's well-known couplet, " Alas, how slight a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love." In the " Hungarian Daughter"' we find a lengthy notice of a recently published tragedy of that name, in which the author's defects are diligently pointed out, and his merits as diligently insisted on. We hope the following sanguine prediction of the Reviewer may soon be realised, but we must acknowledge that we are somewhat scepti cal on the point. "We feel," he says, " that there is a great dramatic era before us, when the monopoly shall have been broken down, as it must be soon. New poets will then crowd round new theatres, and the age of all the bright galaxy that filled the • reign of Elizabeth with glory-- 7 of all but one—will be, revived in a younger life." There is unquestionably a growing taste for dramatic poems, as must be evident to those who watch the literary signs of the times; but as yet, there are but few indications of a revival of the stirring genius of the Elizabethan age. "National Education" is a shrewdly reasoned essay. How just is this observation :—" It is not from the diffusion of knowledge that danger is to be apprehended, but from the higher orders be ing left behind in the race of improvement. It is not by supercilious looks or by an air of as sumption that the deference of the vulgar is now a-days to be attained. It is intellect and acquire ment, the precious fruits of time and opportunity, which fix upon individuals the stamp of supe riority." " Fragments from Richter" are a col lection of aphorisms in which sense and fantastic absurdity are strangely jumbled together. " Or pheus" is a poem by Mr. Horne: There are some impressive thoughts in it, but there is also far tco much cant about the old Greek mythology, which we had hoped had expired with Johnny Keats. " Sketches of Spanish Generals"—by far the most entertaining series of papers that have yet appeared in this periodical—are devoted this month to the famous Spanish Guerilla General, Mina, whose character is fairly enough pour trayed. We quote an animated account of an ambuscade into which he and his soldiers be- trayed a large body of French soldiers, who were on their road from Madrid:— " They halted at the entrance -of the defile, as well for the purpose of breathing the horses as to take a careful survey of the formidable ground on which they were about to enter. *Af ter a short delay in this spot, the officer who commanded the escort, discovering no apparent cause for alarm, and learning nothing of the movements of Aline, who was supposed to be at that moment in the neighbourhood of Los Arcos, or Niana on Ebro, gave orders that the column should move forward, si lently, steadily, and cautiously. 'I hey advanced deep into the gorge ; yet not a s'gn nor a sound betra)ed the presence of a hidden foe. Not until they had penetrated into that part where four men could scarcely walk abreast, and where they were al most concealed from each other's sight, was that awful silence broken. When the last man of the rear-guard had entered the • mouth of that abyss, then indeed did the echoes of that moun tain solitude leap into life. But one short shrill whistle w.ss heard, when a discharge of more than 3,000 muskets shook the hills as if with an earthquake, and suddenly flung over the sky the darkness of midnight. Again—and again—and again ; from every fissure of the rock, from every crevice, death was vomited amongst the bewildered French, who knew not, and saw not, the enemy that destroyed them. '1 he veterans of the army of Italy were astounded ; and the hearts of those who had braved death in a thousand shapes now failed them for a space. They were armed—but what could arms do against naked rocks ? Three hundred men lay dead after the first discharge : and nearly double that number, mortally wounded, were writhing in anguish, like crushed serpents, beneath the masses of granite which, hurled from their frail resting-places, came rushing and thundering into that valley of death. Waggons and carriages of all descriptions were shivered to atoms, or upset and en tangled amongst the rocks and brushwood. The thunder of the musketry—the screams of the women as they beheld their chil dren slaughtered in their arms—the low moans of feeble old age—the frantic cries of equally helpless youth—the groaning of the wounded, the sick, and the dying—the shouts of impo • tent rage, and the loud execrations uttered by the soldiers t f Napoleon, who were thus massacred by a foe they could nut see —the darkness of the gorge itself, relieved only by the flashing of the muskets, from which streamed the ceaseless tide of death —all flung over this spot the terrors of hell. The demoniacal character of the scene was deepened still more when the pal rilleros, seeing that the work of carnage was thus effectually begun, leaped forth from their hiding-places into the defile, ut tering those yells which vengeance throws forth in its hour cf maddest intoxication. They continued with the cold bayonet that which had been so well commenced with the bullet ; and, in their blind fury, did not even spare the unhappy prisoners,— their own countrymen—who, confounded with the enemy in this terrible melee, called in vain for mercy !" TAITS' MAGAZINE. In his leading article—to speak professionally —on the " Present State of Parties," our Radical friend Tait delivers it as his conviction that " the Administration is verging to its fall." Certes, it is not in the most flourishing condition possible, but as things now are, even its poor majority of five, may be considered as a tolerable working majority. The days of boroughmongering on a comprehensive scale are past for eyer, and with them have gone those overwhelming majorities which—aided by the tactics of Billy Holmes— used to delight the hearts of Ministers. The writer's observations on the political conduct of Sir Robert Peel are founded in justice and we agree with bins that " all the Right Hon. Ba ronet's delays have for their object the getting rid of the assistance of the Orange faction.' This faction are a perfect drag-chain on his movements. They will not advance themselves, and they will not let him advance ; what wonder then that he should be anxiously looking about for the means of extricating himself from their clutches ? The time, we apprehend, is not far distant when the Right Hon. Baronet will fling off his Tory shackles, and start up, an unencumbered Re former. This is the only alternative he has left him, and if he do not hasten to avail himself of it, he will be extinguished as an influential statesman, as surely as to-morrow's sun shall rise. " Violet Hamilton," is the continuation of a story commenced several months ago in this Magazine. There is one piquant sketch in it of the provincial manager of a great London Joint Stock Company. " A Visit to the Mo nastery of La Trappe," is passable. We cannot give it higher praise. " Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham" are replete with reminiscences of pub lic characters, who, having played their parts, have long since passed from the stage of life. Here is a sketch of Lord Shelburne, the friend and contemporary of Burke, in the earlier period of his political career : Lord Shelburne used frequently to say, " Tell me what is right and proper—tell me what a man of virtue would do in this matter." I told him that Balak, the son of Zippor, wanted Balsam to prophesy, who stpwered, " That which the Lord puts into my mouth will I prophesy ;" and that was the answer l diLdio m gmeran a de; d stilia e emin . nad: as filled ll aeynr r erroneously. ryh e ni a :te u omt g u: h plyst t yett h i.ant o i hold of iwssi o f the to Imperfect scrap of an — r e of S y n k vagueaanns mann er was obm a-sometimesti very hiensgin i gm the h p a c o ne o s dn r !I,6eg, were the bottom, when, in fact, there was nothing at all. He askee me what he could do for me-. 4 told hi m , " Nathing"—and he found this so different to the universal Spirit of those about him, as to endear me to him. He was afraid of me, so there was not much intimate communication. I was occupied in writing and reading between breakfast and dinner, while lie took walks with the eldest Miss Vernon (now Mrs. Bauher Smith). I seldom saw him except at dinner, where there was mostly company. Supper I never took, but betook myself to my room. I was of more importance, however, to him, than I could bring myself to believe. I was - cowed by my past humi liation. —I felt like an :outcast in the world.—l had known a few tolerable people, one at a time, but no extensive acquaint ance. That a mast shclabl be born in the great place called " abroad," was a sufficient recommendation. Lord Shelburne had a wifdnes; about him, and conceived groundless suspicions about nothing at all. I remember going to ride out with one of his servants, and being accosted by some man whom. rpoke to out of pure civility; and, on mentioning it to fstad larged for the examination of Mr J. Wright and Mr. addelph, and the Court, with the concurrence cf the es tignecs, sanctioned the continuance of the allowance of Si. per week to each cf the bankruits. The debts prose.' amounted to nearly 100,000/., and among the plincipal creditors were the well-known Mr. Crockford, who pr.ved under a bond dated the 33 of Julle 1839, signed by W. Jerningham and otht.rs, to secure the payment of 38,2501. to H. Grey Wyar and John Hemming Esqrs., and by them assigned to Mr. Crockford in cot.- sideration cf the sum of 33,750/. The Plymouth Com pany of New Zealand proved fir 3,9861. Se. 11d. ; Captain Thomas Gardner, of the 2d Life Guards, 20,754/. 18s. 1(1. ; J. Irving, Esq., a director of the Australian Company, on behalf of the Company, 2,717/. 84. 10.1. ; George Bray, Esq., committie ( f John Bfay, a lunatic, 339/. 183. ; Tr,omas Hamilton, Esq., the solicitor to the fiat 2,526/. 11. ; Mr. Few, of the same office, 254/. 51. ; the receiver cf Lyndon Evelyn's estate, (Juhn . Nixon, Esq.), 1,775/. ; Lord Pare, John Soames, Esq., and William Hutt, Esq., trustees of the New Zealand Company, 972/. 4s. ; the Rigl:t Rev. Dr. M'D.(niell, vicar apostolic of the Isle of Spa:Tr and Bishop of Olympus, 460/. 35. 3d. ; Mr. John Calk, of 22, Bedford-.t eet, proved for deposits of Poor rates of S'. Paul, Coveiit Garde , , 6501 2s. 23. ; and Mr. John Spreck, churchwarden cof the same parish, for two sums of 2151. 2s. Id. and 91. 4s. 81. There were likewise among the cred,tars a number of digai•aries and other clergy cf the Church of Rom", for sums varying in amount up to several hundred pounds. STATEMENT RESPECTING STOCK HELD IN TRUST BY WRIGHT AND CO. For the better part of a century the house had alaays held, in the names of one or mere of the partners, a c )n -sidcrtble amount of stack purchases by order int 3 the names of the firm, and held i s trust for wrlous parties. It is well known in the money market, that while the rate of inter st on Exchequer bills and other floating securities is frequently very high, thet on stock in the three per cent. mauls money may be obtained at an exceediegly low rate of inte est. Indeed, in some instancas, from arc met day to account day, for nothing, and it has happened often, as ewe banks wi I show, that we have received prafit on the loan of stock, instead of paying interest on the loan of mo ney. It was this state of things which probably induced Mr. Wright, about fourteen years ago, to introduce a sy,t , sm of taking up temporary loans on the deposit of this trust stock. In every instance in which these sales were made, up to a recent period, the stock so sold was invariably purchased back for the account. This practice always met with the deciled disapprobation both of Mr. Selby and if my father, whom I have known to withhold his signature for weeks to a power of attorney, from a re luctance to confer tao power of any liberty being taken with the stock so held. As respects myself, I will at once avow, that :hough I could not aeprove of it, yat knowing thee at that period the-e was no possible sista and that we always held Exchequer bills or India bonds to an amount very much more than sufficient to replace the stock at an hour's wa-niiv, I regarded it then as a matter of comparative indifference. Not so, however, for the last two years ; when the dacultiss of the house became apparsot, I felt the deepest anxiety to have the stock re placed, and frequently spoke to Mr. Wright on the sub ject, particulatly when the danger became more immi nent, when I urged him to have this done immediately, even if t' ..e house should be obliged to stop the next day, and Mr. Jerninghorn and l had determined that, haprea what might, to re-purchase the whole deficient capital on the day before the December shutting. Sanguine, how ever to the last, and deceiving us, and probably himself, by the prospects which be held out to us of the successful issee of negotiations for immediate powerfal assistanc-, he allowed the ti:re to pass by, and destruction came upon the house so rapidly in its last moments that it could not be done. I have spoken only of sales made for the use of the house. There were two instances of stocks sold by Mr. Wright and appropriated to hi: own pnrposes, of which I knew nothing for a long time after these transactions oc curred. Subjoined is a statement of salas and purchases of stock made for the use cf the house since the 17th of July. 1830, on which day the whole had been bought back, and stood in the names of one or more ef the firm, with the exception of 10,090/. Consols sold aasin on that day. Subjoined also is a. statement of the claimants of stock, tnd of the amount unsold, and in what names it stands ; and further, of what investment may have been made sub sequent to any sale, or otherwise " ear-marked." It should be observed that stock stood sometimes in the joint names, and sometimes in indivithial names of the firm, and sometimes in the name of the stock-broker for the convenience of transfer, and our books cannot show at what period these changes took place. THREE PER CENT. CONSOLS. PURCHASES. 1839. Stock. X s. August 29 15,000 „ £25,000 SALES. 1829 Stock. £ 8. July 17 Aug. 29 Oct. 15 1840. Sep. 17 ..... ~. ... 15,000 Oct. 14 29 75,000 Sold 25,000 Bought £50,000 No addition to the stock standing in the consols was made subseque.A to the last sale. In the Conscls the Claimant;, as per list below, amount to 63,6991. 13r. 91., against which there remains na g:Ad, In the joist names of .A!,thony George Wright Biddulph and Jahn Wrigl)t £3,111 1 8 In the name of Henry Robinson 136 18 0 And in the name of John Wright There have been sold, an , l the produce of them carried to the credit of the house, as per account annexed There have been sold by Mr. John Wright, at what time is uncertain, as also vbh at became of produce 10,404 8 0 There is an unaccounted for deficit in the Consol Account of £63,699 13 9 CLAIMANTS OF TIMER PER CENT. CONSOLS. Madame L'Espet. £129 16 3 Monsieur Lefebvre Stoneyhurst College William Jerningham's children Eliz. Gerard and others Countess de Chateaubriand 1 ,539 9 11 Mra. Macdonald and others, of Winchester 10,919 13 2 Madame de Heush Si Iney M. Preston Frances Ann PreEt'm M. F. Preston 2OO 0 0 Trustees of Dorothy Jackson George Osborne Teresa Tholozan and others Executors of Oliver Plunkett 152 6 7 B. Slaughter Rev. Chas. M'Donnell and others 3,500 2 0 Mrs. Sturdy lB7 17 4 IC2 4 10 John Doughty Mary Lady Petro 113 5 11 Rev. John Remy, deceased Mrs. Webbe Weston Administrators of Henry Slaughter Hon. Mary Lucy Stourton 879 17 5 Ilenry Havers A. Moyett and others Jos. Lamoureux and others 33 8 7 Thomas Doughty 458 11 5 Alexanler Broadway Teresa M. Duck 550 19 3 Edward L. Preston 196 8 7 --- £63,699 13 9 NEW 31 PER CENTS. 183 g. Stock. Cost. May 31 June 31 July 17 Oct. 22 ..... ..... . 236 17 7 1840. Jan. 10 Feb. 3 .£19,000 0 0 1839. Stock. Produce. May 27 Sep•. 24 Oct. 1 29,000 Snld 19,000 Bought £lO,OOO No addition to the stock standing in the New Three and-a-Hall per Cents. has been made subsequent to re cent private sales made per order of the owners. TLe claimants in the New Three-and-a. Half per Cents., as per amount to 19,882/. 183. 6d. There remain standing in the names of Anthony Geo. Wright Biddulph, and John Wright, conjointly £2,928 6 1 In the name of Henry Robins on 6,866 10 5 Of Thomas Wright, jun., John Wright, Nicholas T. Selby, deceased, and 954 16 11 Henry Robinson, decea5ed............ Of A. G. W. Biddulph, kiln Wright, Nicholas T. Selby, deceased 10,000 0 0 And the deficit of sto ck sold as per state ment 31 15 6 £19,88.1 8 11 N. B. In this fund there appears a small unaccounted for surplus of 1/. la , . sd. New Threc-and-a-Half per Cent:, Claimants of the above pu n Cents., viz., New Throe-and-a. Half r '1,1 9?4 1> 1 1 l Rev. John Dunnt Dißev.tto .......... . Turner ' .. ... : . Abbe de Sauvag es 283 10 0 GReeynr.gse. H T u . g L h a es n , cy 210 0 o deceased Mary Harding.............. : ................... 23 4 6 EXCaltOrS of Eleanor White .................. 1,470 0 0 Execialra of Louis Simon 242 2 0 John Thomas, deceased 230 9 11 Stoneyhurst College Elizabeth Macdonald Dia J 602 5 2 Rev Thomas M. Moltem 420 0 0 Elizabeth Jarrett and others 2,733 12 4 Elizabeth Ilowden 39 12 1 EVENING EDITIO Wm. Berington, as execut.ir of Henrietta Berington.. lO2 2 6 Mary flempson . 2OO 0 0 William Witham, deceased 1,719 1 3 Rev. R. Lythgoe, denased 1,200 0 0 Mary Tray 5O 0 0 Sophia Winter 434 14 9 kiLia Gorman .. Mrs H. M. Bland's Trust 61 9 0 630 0 0 £19,882 18 6 In the statement cf tLese New Three-and-a- Half per Cents., tl - rre are two items which arc very distinctly " car-marked." The first is 954/. 16s. 11d. New Three and-a-Halt per Cent. Stock, in the names of Thomas Wright, jun., and others, which stock represents 9091. 7s. 7d. N...vy F.vc rer Cents., for which a special declaration of trust was given, and which was not trans ferred into the names of Thomas Wright, jur., and others for more than a year after he had left the firm. It forms part of a claim of 2,1001., the residue 1,1451. 3s. Id. Nev Three-and-a-Half per Cents., being a conversion of 1,090/. 12-. s•t. Navy Five per Cents. transferred into tie same names in 1816, and a rpeJial declaration of Unit given, as was also at the same a capital of 1,000/. Navy Fire per Centr., and a declaration of trust given ; but upon the retirement of Thomas Wright, jun., Mr. Anthony Wright's name was introduced in lieu of it. _ The other capital, "ear-marked," retra;ning, is that of 341. 15s. 6.1. bought in the names of A. G. W. Biddulph, John Wright, and Nicholas Tuite Selby, fur Sophia Paris, now Sophia Winter, in which names it still remain!. It forms part of a claim of 4341 14s. New Tbree-and-a-Half per Cents. of the said Sophia Wint-r. 3i PER CENTS REDUCED. None f this stock was ever sold for the use of the house but 1,7501. 31 per Cent. Reduced were sul•l out by Mr. J ,hn Wright without the knowledge by the firm of when it was due, or of shat became of the proceeds. The claimants arc for 5,334/. 5:. Id. There arc i❑ the names cf Anthony George Wright. Bildulph, John Wright, and Honry Robinson, dece.Lied . £721 12 0 Of B:ddulph and Wright . 2,440 1 6 In the name of John Wright ..._..._ For Rght Rcv. Dr. Poldirg, Eubiequ en t to any sale.. Mr. John Wright's deficit as above 400 0 0 1,750 0 0 £5,334 6 3 N.B.—There a little unaccounted f.:r surplus hero too, of lc. CLAIMANTS OF THE ABOVE 3- PER CENTS. REDUCED. M. M‘Donald and others Inbci t Throckmorton 159 4 0 Mons. Lefebvre Ann W. ight lO2 5 8 Ralph Shaw, decease ; Executor, Richard Marsh . Executors of Henry Clifford Stoneyhurst Coil‘..ge Executors of Antbo,y Wr:gLt Dr. M.lacr and others Cameron and (thers Guardians of Thomas Wiight Guardians of William Wtight Mrs. Neve and others Dr. Po'ding 300 0 0 08 0 2 900 0 0 296 3 7 900 0 0 200 0 0 500 0 0 240 0 0 271 10 9 400 0 0 4:5334 5 1 CLAIMANTS OF REDUCED THREE PER CENTS. Person unknown £277 14 0 Executors of Lai) , Mary Eyre 333 6 8 T. Morta (to credit of Gerard and others) 100 0 0 James Laurenson and others (Lythgoe __ and others) • 1,488 7 8 S. L. Angier, deceased Dr. Milner and olllev 333 6 8 Executors Mary liaucliett. . Lard Camoys l7O 12 1 £6,074 6 2 CLAIMANTS OF NEW SOUTH SEA ANNUITIES. E'izabeth Jarrett and others £lO,OOO 0 0 Elizabeth Alilcdcinald and others 4,000 0 0 £14,000 0 0 CLAIMANTS CF OLD SOUTH SEA ANNUITIES. Eliz. 16.-.:dontli and others ..£150 0 0 R.v. Chas. Macdonnell end others 250 0 0 £4OO 0 0 CLAIMANT OF ROTA!. EXCHANGE ASSURANCE. Rev. Chef e 3 Macdonr.ell £792 0 0 These four last-mentioned capitals, v:z., Reduced Three Fer Cents., New South Sia Annuities, Old South Sea Annuities, and Royal Exchaiga Assurance Com pany's Stock, have never been disturbed, and may be tra•isfcr,ed immediately to the respective owners on a dis claimer from the assigne!s, who hive no lien upon them. a Dividends on 2,1001. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are paid to the Rev. John Twiner, Catholic incumbent of Holme, in Yorkshire. t Dividends to Rev. J. Dunn, Catholic incumbent of Dray cott, Staffordshire MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths front all Causes Registered, in the week ending Saturday, the 20th February, 1841." The Table is issued from the Office cf the Registrar-General:-- Weekly Total. Average 1838-9-10. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases l6O 204 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 162 151 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the liea-t and Bloodvessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other CAUSES OF DEATH. . . Organs of Digestion 7B 60 Diseases of the liicin, , ys, &c. Chihibed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c 0 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat Old Age, or Natural Decay 92 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 32 25 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes 1056 - Average Weekly Deaths .. 926 Deaths in the Average Weekly Week. Deaths, 1838-9-40. Western Districts North Districts Central„Dibtricts East Districts 243 ...... 211 South Districts ... ...... 238 233 T0ta1......... 1056 928 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are com prised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of London within and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out parishes within the bills of mortality—and the parishes of St. Marylebone ; St. Pancras ; Kensington ; Fulham ; Hammersmith (Chapeiry) ; St. Luke, Chelsea; Paddington; St. Mary, Stoke New►ngton ; St. Leonard, Bromley ; St. Mary-lc bow ; Camlxirwell ; Greenwich ; St. Nicholas and St. Paul, Deptford; and Woolwich. The population as enu merated in 1831 was 1,594,890. The weekly average for 183°, 1839, 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three )ears by 156. Gcnerd Register-office, Feb. 25, 1841. FLANDERS, DUTCH, AND HAM BURGH MAILS. BRUSSELS, FEE. 25.—The average price of wheat list week was 18'. 79c., that of Rye llf. Sic. The King arrived at Ostend yesterday at half-past one o'clock, and set out for Ghent, where ho was ex pected by the Queen, who had lest Brussels at twelve o'clock. Their Majesties arrived by a special train at six o'clock at the Brussels station of the iron railway, where carriages were ready to convey them and their suite to the Palace. BERLIN, FEB. 19.--Our finances appear to be in a most flourish►ng condition according to the last accounts which are made up every three years. There is an excels of of 10 or 12 millions of dollars above the a mo f un t e 1838. This may be considered as the best proo f of the progress of manufacture in Prussia durinegra which three years, and of the increase of our commerce encourage. the Government endeavour by The benefits and advantages of the , more and which many persons at first doubted,become more manifest - . TIIE HAGUE, FEB. 2.5.—We ill, and confined to Highness the Princess of Orange a i t s ber have had an un tiabaa Customs Union, learn that her Royal entire completion, in her bed. The cold and damp We favourable effect on her healt e hi he work of cutting a t ahne". N l - n t a l e v n e se Deep to Amsterdam in ten W d e n a v r s e e h n a l p y p , y n t f o channel in the sea from s i c of the execution. The first spite of the diffi cultie s a lt have already arrived in our docks ; Live Deep to recover the whole, or sesterday to go to sea, and fifty lighters s of scieral East Indiarnen now ssohnipics stopf rl ill s 1 the2itr4„ yesterday went part, o ly i ng t heT ELO TAN bUNDS—DaussELA, PER. 0 3. A ctual Debt, 2N per Cent. liothehild'b Loan, 5 per Cent Los" of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 99 1 4 '3 89 3 per Cent. _ f :Le cargoes Thirty .5 eve n 00000 0 81 ;t e : c :t inc k to o 3.l' ; ) l Ci i e i(l ig (''i t a t i' n lnB3 n i per Cent, g; p e .............. National Society . Exchange on Condor[ (stunt) —Brussels Papers, Fcb. 26. DUTCH I P LlND3.—Amwriutimet, FEL 26. money. BWe• DA3t., '23<, per Cent .")into, ditto 5 per c en t. Ain tS, ;Idle, 4 per cent B7 87 Ditto, ditto, iN per cent 7l 71 k Commercial Company, per cent 159% L.: n f , Ditto (IF:t5 and :8.37) 5 per cent. ...... Loan lia7, 5 per cent. ........................ 0 " Exchange on London, One mont Two months Dutch Papers, Feb. 27. ARA:tuttfift:rio:s.aftal:rsstA,sisicall.:l.(l.ll;ceLoatin.e.tt.ilt:t;sl.6...e.t. ....................................................................................................... ................................ 1‘ , 1 1 1 01 .02 111 % Y Inscription, Ist Se. iss .. .................. 96% 4N 147, h goods l,ci et 101 18% I D ssiNA l 3,)lo i ;c i nit t it, s ;ivt t wi cS :O ci i rr,c; Cr: eepclitl t: PRUSSIAN Ili NDS...BERLIN FEL 20. Bids. Money, St. Schuld. Sch., ‘1, 2 per cent. 10 3% 103 Pruesi.tn English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 10014 .4 liattiange on London, three months 6 IT* ~.rrussian Elate Onate, Fol). AI. ■ 1