The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-16 00:00:00

EVENING SUN NEW BOOK OF TRAVELS, at ALL the LIBRARIES.: NOTES of a HALF-PAY in SEARCH of HEALTH ; or, RUSSIA, CIRCASSIA, and the CRIMEA, in 1839-40. By CAPTAIN W. JESSE, Unattached. J. Madden and Co., 8, Leadenhall-street ; Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh ; Cumming, Dublin. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, Xis MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEEDNeveraI DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain 'ng LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Ore now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS FRIBU TION& Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions say receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NF J PET AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains Dl TIDENDS of £23,000 £6OO 5,000 400 1,500 200 1,000 150 • 800 120 HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,000/, 18,0001., 9.0001, 5,0001., 3,6001., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,600/., 8001., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,600/. to Beverley; 3,6001. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,2001. to Portleaven Harbour ; 9001.. 7001. and 600/. to Li verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 9001. and 6001. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford; 6001. to Cork ; 6001. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direst for Prospectus and ParticUlars, without delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 16, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollie, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White Oroveso, Mr. Lain.; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss rant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which, CHARLES THE TWELFTH.—CharIes the Twelfth, Mr. W. Farren ; Adam Brock, Mr. Bartley ; Bediga, Madame Testris. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second. Price. 23. • Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grog an at the Box-o ffi ce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tick ets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Alr. Andress, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, the New Comedy, entitled Court and City, with United Service, and Wooden Leg. iIOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Brilliant success of Shakspere's Tragedies, powerfully cast— Mr. Gt limn, Mr. Phelps, 11r. Hughes, and the whole ta- lent of the Company. - THIS EVENING, DEC. 16, Will be acted Shakspere'; Tragedy of JULIUS CiESAR.— Marcus Brutus. Mr. Graham ; Caiue Cassius, Mr. Phelps ; Marc Antlion, Mr. H. Hughes ; Portia, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivetting situations and intense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, OR POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSfiALDISTON. Concentration of talent for this Night only.—Mr. Oshaldiston and Mr. E. F. Saville in " William Tell," and Miss Vin cent in " Nattre and Art." THIS EVENING, DEC. 16, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MASONS, Will be acted WILLIAM TELL.— William Tell, Mr. Os baldiston ; Michael, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Gesler, Mr. Dale ; Brawn, Mr. Gardner; .Albert, Mrs. Howard; Emma, Mrs. Lee. After which, NATURE AND ART.—Gabbleteu, Mr. Gardner; Eliza Proscenia Ardent, Miss Vincent. To conclude with The TWO LONDON LOCKSMITHS; or,the BANKER, the THIEF, and the WlLL.—George Davis, Mr. E.' F. Sa ville ; Murray, Mr. Dale; Burl, Mr. Seaman , Tom' Lively, Mr. Gardner; Barny Cly, Mr. Paul; Emily, Mrs. Lee. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To-morrow, The Locksmiths, with The Wonder, and Black Eyed Susan. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TUE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, , ft , PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 16, 1841. CORRESPONDENTS. Tho letter from J. 5.," Bayswater, is under consideration. THE WEATHER.—NooN, DECEMBER 16. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer...' 41 'Highest 46 jLowest ‘37 Barometer 29.13.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. HIGH . WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW Morrime: ..... minutes altar 3 I Evening ......37 minutes after 4. The Publication of the Evening. Edition of Tnz SUN corn- menced at 10 Inigictes after Three. ~., ,• , t it SI II !"1, i teSi , • . .c. "" ', -. 0 \ o . 4 . r , 4 , - .....,-,-, r L••• -r • , ' fo', ~ - s s, ' , I .• - -,-- ~ , 1. ..r-, - ,„: b i -!? .. ' „.1 L - .;,i: it* m4- - writz . &I ,' , , • .. '"lt, = Vbit Atn. - - - Vet* t ; `: =a ' ' '' '.LONDON: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1841. la Lan *a Of Jft "'la 'another Dirt of our Paper will be found an abridged report of the proceedings at Leeds of tho,Coriference of the manufacturers of the West Riding of Yorkshire, which supplies additional evidence of the distress of the people, and of the decay •of manufactures. We must, however, own that we are not disposed to dWell much on such circumstances as reasons for repealing the Corn-laws, independently of the facts, that many circumstances may make partictear branches of traffic decay besides an extravagant price for bread, such as changes in fashion, which have heretofore annihilated the buckle manufacture ; and that the bulk of the labouring classes in the majority of cases have generally been on the verge of destitution, we begin to be very much afraid, from the conduct of the landowners, as in Berwickshire, and from the doctrines put forth by their orcrans, such as that the half of our towns might be destroyed, that they wish to check the growth of manufactures, and keep down the democracy, and that consequently every instance of decay and distres s i s a proof of the efficacy of their system, and rather an encouragement to continue, than an inducement to abandon it. This is a bard suspicion, which, we do not embody in this serious statement without due consideration, no r without being prepared to state some reas o ns for our belief. At the same time, as the Govern ment of the country, is now completely in the hands of the landowners, it bodes, if at all well ismal futurity f or t h e menu founded, thc,most d fac t u rem, for the.democrae y and for th e whole society. We quoted yesterday a clear and decisive pro o f from the Berwick Advertiser of a determination to keep manufactures out of that county. p oi . months past the Tory press has poured forth diatribes against the manufacturing system. Landlords and aristocrats who never felt for the cause of the people or of liberty till they could attack through them the wealthy millowners— of whom the landed aristocracy are notoriously envious—have eagerly pressed forward to expose the evils of the factory system. The gross im morality and vice of our manufacting towns have been favourite topics of declamation, both for the landlords in Parliament and the clergy in the pulpit, and both have sounded the praises of rural life as replete with virtue. It is quite im possible, from the nature of the human mind, that the landlords, and clergy who influence the land lords, should:entertain such opinions without en deavouring to give effect to them by actions, and Prevent to the iitmust of their power the increase °f thqse manullctures which they d Clare to be Pregnant with vice and niiserv. The satne train of argument applies to the de mocracy. The Tory and landlord Journals in variably treat the bulk of the people with su preme contempt. They are incorrigible scoun drels; 'canaille," " the swinish multitude ;" not worthy to be trusted with their own affairs; a " rabble democracy." For them sharp and stringent laws are made, which never reetch the aristocracy, The New Poor-law was enacted, as the Times, Standard, and Herald will testify, on purpose to beat down their wages, and degrade their condition: They are first turned out to starve, and then imprisoned asyagrants. The whole stream of the policy and legislation of the andlords, runs to drown the democracy who con stitute the working classes. To attain this end they have plunged the country in war, andhave never hesitated to decree the most unjust enactments. Of late years the democracy has made great progress, and when the Reform Act was passed, it gave the aristocracy a fright which has never been forgotten nor forgiven. Now, the aristo cracy exult in their power to punish the demo cracy for their presumption; and every tale of distress, every instance of decay, is music to their ears. In former cases of national distress, some at tempts were Made to relieve it. Loans were granted or Exchequer bills issued, and at least inquiries were immediately instituted but on the present occasion all relief has been denied, all inquiry postponed, and the decay and suffer ings of the manufacturing classes have been rather mocked at than otherwise by the journals of the landlords. They have been told the em pire could do without them, which is tantamount to saying "Go and perish." The evidence of their distress has been denied. Proofs of un timely deaths have been disregarded. The meet ing of Parliament has been unnecessarily put off as long as possible. Everything which could tend to succour the distressed artisans and give hope to the master-manufacturers, has been de ferred, in order to consolidate the power of the Tory aristocracy. . Finally they are preparing to transport the people, whom they cannot subdue, and will not allow to live in the land of their fathers. They mean, it has been pithily said, "to commute into transporfation for life, the sentence of death which their restrictive legislation has passed on the operative classes." In these and similar cir cumstances we see conclusive evidence of the determination of the aristocracy to retain thei r own superiority at all hazards. As that is in compatible with the growth of the democracy, and the increase of manufactures, it seems useless or even absurd to press on the aristocracy the evidence of the distress of the democracy, and the decay of manufactures, as reasons for altering their conduct. Belgian and German Papers of the latest dates have been received this morning. We give the following extracts from them : BRUSSELS, DEC. 12.---The Monitenr Belge of this morning publishes five conventions concluded and signed at Berlin on the 19th of May, at Hamburgh on the 25th of June, at Brunswick and Berlin on the 15th and 17th of July, and at Wiesbaden on the 16th of September, 1841, between Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Saxe Weimer, the city of Hamburgh, the Duchy of Bruns wick, and the Duchy of Nassau. These conventions re gulate, by formal stipulations, the rights of the inhabit:- ants of the respective countries in regard to the trans mission of property. BRUSSELS, DEC. 14.—Several Belgian journals have spread a report of purchase of arms and powder, and of the enlisting of men, stated to have takenplace at Eisohe, in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and which was con nected with the plot at Brussels. It appears from pri vate accounts and indubitable information that there have never been at Eisohe either muskets or ammunition or enlisting of men, except in the brains of the individuals who announced this news in a letter addressed to a per. son in the Belgian army, who was already udder arrest. The Moniteur publishes a commercial convention be tween Belgium and Denmark, concluded at Copenhagen on the 13th of June last. The Chamber has voted to-day the budget of tke Marine department, amounting to 960,849 francs. The Chamber of Commerce of Maestricht has sent a petition to the King of Holland, not to renew the convention concluded with Luxemburg on the 31st of Dec., 1840, which expires on Jan. Ist next. The French Journals of Tuesday continue to report at much length the proceedings of the Court of Peers, which has not yet done with the QUENISSET affair. It is labour lost. Nobody in France seems to care half a farthing about the trial, or what becomes of the vagabond QUE NISSET. Were DUPOTY discharged, as he ought to be, the Court might sit hearing the ridi culous rhapsodies of that pliant tool of tyranny, M. HERBERT, the Procureur-General, till the evening of doomsday, without provoking an in quiry out of doors. We confess we are surprised to find the Oppo- sition Journals rather satisfied than otherwise with the reduction of the French army. The Go vernment, we suppose in anticipation of a storm of dissent, published on Tuesday a Royal Ordinance for increasing the Native Auxiliary troops in French Africa. The new corps is to consist of .20 squadrons of cavalry and three battalions of in fantry. These battalions are to be kept up on such a scale as to allow of the admission of any of the infantry of the three colonies who may choose to join them. Of political gossip, we find nothing of any in terest in these Journals. Even the reported no mination of M. DE LAMARTINE to the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies seems half forgotten already : M. de Monicault, Prefect of the Eure, is appointed Prefect of the Seine-et-Marne, in the room of the Vicomte de Germiny, and is succeeded by M. Zede, Master of Requests. A Toulon correspondent writes :—" The steam-boat Tenare, which went ont with sealed orders, and was be lieved to be bound for Tunis, has returned, and, as we now learn, has been to Monaco. It appears that the demonstrations of the people of the principality were so serious, that the Prince of Monaco called to the frontiers a body of Piedmo se carbineers, in virtue of the trea ties of 1815, by wh the principality was placed under the protection of Saitlinia. What was the object of the French Government in sending the Tenare, we cannot tell. It is said that an interposition was to have been made between the Prince and his people, if they had come to a collision ; but this is scarcely credible." A letter from Vienna, in the Swabian Mercury, says:— " Th© reduction of our artillery does not go to the ex tent of 16 batteries. It is to be only 11 for Italy, Galli cia, Hungary, Transylvania, Upper Austria. and the Tyrol. In Austria two batteries of foot and one of horse artillery are being suppressed. In Moravia, the reduc tion is one foot and one horse battery; in Lower Austria, the same reduction is to be made." A correspondent at Hanover :writes to the Borsenhalle of Hamburgh :—" We learn the motive which decided M. Christiani and other Opposition Members to with draw from the Second Chamber of the States was, that on their arrival, which was duly announced to the Count de Nyphausen, Vice-Marshal of the kingdom, that officer replied that, as he had not received the ne cessary powers from the Cabinet, he could not allow them to take their seats. When the Chamber was about to proceed to the election of the candidates for the Pre sidency and Vice-Presidency, a member moved for a suspension of the operation until the absent Deputies could take their seats. His motion was negatived, upon which the mover and twenty other members seceded." A letter from Christiana, in Norway, states that the Storthing was again, for the third time, about to take into consideration the question of granting to the Roman Catholics of Norway the free exercise of their religion within the kingdom. If the Storthing again votes for this liberty of conscience, the King, who has twice re jected it, will, according to the terms of the Constitution, be obliged to sanction it. Advices from Athens of the 27th ult., quoted by the Augsburg Gazette, state that on the 25th a general meet ing of Shareholders of the National Batik was held under the presidency of the Ministers. The Minister Petralis delivered a speech, in which he enlarged on the import ance of the Bank in promoting the prosperity of Greece. A Provisional Directory was then named, with M.Bromes, an Hungarian, at its head. The Bank will commence its operations on the 13th January, and a circular letter has been addressed to tho Shareholders, calling upon them to pay up their shares before that day. THE MARKETS. —( THIS m m e el t y ra a d im e, ited. COLONIAL MARKET. DAY.) Prices were st e a dy, i3e a t i a fair business was transacted t r i; i e2Tortation the operations , r w o e r re th e e x t h r o e 4 Raw Sugar stationary, j imports were fair. Prices ,vere few buyers. Price .of Spicesoyee held firmly, but there (lull, but not cheaper. In on the decline. Rice rates. Rum not cheaper, but f i c: er sold slowly, at lower TEA MARKET. Little were few buyers. Little business done in Free Trade w ere firm and low. Co n gou could Tea, but p r i ces Is. 9d . per lb. not be h a d un d er TALLOW MARKET. The market firm, with a fair demand. P. Y. on the spot 48 s. ad ., and 48s. for deliver y try . Candle to of the year. the end WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET. The supply of Hay and Clover was good, the best , tualities sold quickly, the middling and ordinary sorts :wavy on hand. The supply of Straw was but middling, the demand good, with an advance of full Is. per load, glover, 3/ to 51. 13s. ; Hay, 21. to 4/. Bs. ; Straw, IL g s . to lt 13s. ____-......m.... CORONER'S INQUEST.—At the inquest on the body of Peter Dolan, murdered at Drogheda, the evi lence against Patrick Hamill, who endeavoured to prove in alibi, and whose shoe-tracks had been distinctly traced in deceased's garden, the Jury returned a verdict, "That , leceased came to his death in consequence of wounds inflicted on his head by some person or persons unknown; tit that from circumstances which have transpired dur ing the investigation, the Jury are of opinion that Pa trick Hamill was c oncerned in the transaction." Hamill has been committed to prison on the Coroner's warrant. lie is about 25, stoutly made. and about 5 feet 7 inches in height. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1841 actively bestir itself in the question of Puseyism. is obvious enough ; it is afraid to take a strong decided part, lest it should betray its inherent weakness, and the distrusts and jealousies that rage within the sacred pale. The very audacity of the Puseyites, who are daily more and more unmasking their batteries, and revealing their ulterior views, are the best proofs of the inherent weak ness of their orthodox opponents. The Advertiser, in an article on the Corn-laws, and the demoralising effects produced by this impost, makes the following remarks:—" With the fearful commercial disasters, and the incalculable amount of individual mi sery produced by the corn monopoly, staring him in the face, Sir Robert Peel not only gives no intimation of his intention to bring forward any measure for abolish ing that monopoly, but even persists in his determination not to summon Parliament together, to devise measures for administering temporary reli e f, b e f ore th e usual pe- , riod. The conduct of the Premier, in adopting this course, is as perilous as it is heartless. What may occur before the 3d of February, in the present dreadful com mercial crisis, and with so many of the elements of poli tical dissatisfaction in full operation, it is impossible to foretell. It is to be hoped that there may be more virtue in the ruled, than there is humanity in the rulers."— Sir Robert Peel may twist and wriggle, and make wry faces, but, despite his reluctance, he must alter the Corn-laws, or bid a long adieu to office and its sweets. He has no alternative left him. The question is now come to that pass, that to stop is madness, to go back to hazard the whole frame-work of society. The Worcester Herald thus refers to the late Derby Conference:—" The large assembly of manufacturers, held the other day at Derby, for the purpose of receiving and comparing evidence against the Corn-laws, is an event pregnant with importance. It is impossible too highly to appreciate the value of the statistical facts which were published at that meeting." The Dublin Evening Post makes the following obser vations on the subject of the present manufacturing dis tress :—" The struggle between the manufacturing population and the Corn.law monopolists is assuming a very formidable aspect. The distress of the manufacturers has become so general and so overwhelming that all seem to feel the necessity of a determined and persevering exer tion, as the only means of averting actual ruin. The movement now in progress throughout Great Britain embraces all descriptions of trade. The statements put forth at the various meetings prove that I the pressure is universal ; and, by all, the Corn-laws are regarded as the main cause of the paralysis which has fallen upon the national industry." Speaking of the great falling-off in the sale of cheap publications, the Cheltenham Examiner says :—" This is but a natural consequence of the growing dis tress ; with work scarce, food dear, and wages depre ciating, the working man cannot spare even the few pence he used to devote to his mental improvement ; consequently, the spread of knowledge, that bugbear to tyranny and bigotry, is effectually checked, and the people remain in ignorance. This may be all very good policy for those who benefit by ignorance, who are no doubt ' wise in their generation,' and yet it may not an swer their purpose as well as they imagine. In their crusade against knOWledge they may be only laying one evil spirit to conjure up another more formidable in its stead. The York Courant remarks, in allusion to the late Derby Conference :—" Surely the startling mass of evi dence which is collecting—the intelligence and the re spectability of the authority upon which it is established —will impress upon the Legislature and the Govern ment the awful precipice, upon the very verge of which the dearest—nay, even the very vital interests of the country tremble—and arouse them to immediate, and useful, and honest exertion." SUMMARY OF NEWS AND public eptittoit. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The French Journals of Tuesday, contrary to our ex pectation, for the most part approve of the reduction of the French army. The Moniteur of Tuesday publishes a Royal Ordinance for the better organization of the auxiliary native troops of French Africa. That force now consists of 6,500 men, 4,000 of whom are cavalry. This force is to be increased to 9,352, under the general name of Spahis. The native costume is to be worn by the men, but the European uniform by all the officers of this corps. The last accounts from Bayonne, says the Moniteur Purisien, state that the state of siege has been raised in the Basque provinces, that the military commissions have been dissolved, the collection of the rest of the war fine is interdicted, and the sequestrations taken off. His Excellency Lord Burghersh, British Ambassador at the Court of Berlin, had his first audience of the King of Prussia on the Bth inst., and delivered his credentials. Advices from Hanover state that a seizure of a collec tion of political songs, termed Songs of a Cosmopolite, have just been made in the capital by order of Govern ment. The town of Hamden having elected M. Chris tiani, an opposition member of the Second Chamber, Go vernment has withdrawn the garrison, by whom a good deal of money was spent there. A new theatre, fitted up in the style of the Renais sance, has just been opened at Dresden. 'On this occa sion the plan of attaching a saloon to the theatre for the company to walk in between the acts, and which is new to Germany, has been adopted. A splendid new theatre, with a saloon, and with a cafe and restaurant a la Fran caise, has been also opened at Breslau, the' capital of Silesia. At Semarang, the second town in the Island of Java, there exists a species of matrimonial lottery, which giies rise to many singular speculations. Or phan children, rich as well as poor, are all brought up in a public establishment. The most profound silence as to the fortunes of these children is enjoined to every person employed in or about the insti tution. These fortunes are placed under the management of persons at Batavia, on whom a similar injunction of secresy is imposed. The female orphans are kept in the establishment until their marriage. Every man possess ing an annual income of 730 florins, or two florins a day, is at liberty to choose a wife from amongst them, but the amount of her fortune is not made known to him till several days after the marriage. A servant of the mili tary hospital at Samarang lately selected one of these damsels with a fortune of 65,000 florins. Since his good luck, the application for wives from the asylum have become very urgent; for a report has got abroad that there is a marriageable girl still left, who will bring with her a prize of 200,000 florins. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times gives the following sketch of Mr. Cave's case, and his Cornish mining speculations :—" Mr. Thomas Saunders Cave was originally a clerk in a public office. What were the leading features of his earlier career, and what combination of circumstances even tually rendered him such a distinguished proficient in the art of bubble projectorship, :we do not care to inquire. Our knowledge of him begins with his first attempt to set himself up as an extensive dealer in mine shares ; and it appears that about seven years ago, having arranged his plans with consummate address, he suddenly presented himself as the principal owner of the Rospeath and Wheal-Bolton mines—two in valuable possessions in Cornwall, for the profitable work ing of which it was said to be necessary that his own resources should be extensively assisted by a large acces sion of co-proprietors. To obtain this new proprietary, and their corresponding advance of capital, Mr. Thomas Saunders Cave betook himself to a series of artful expe dients, unprecedented, if we mistake not, both in the audacity of their character, and especially in their seductive influence upon many infatuated dupes. By means of the most fraudulent representations as to the productiveness and profits of the mines—representa tions which no prudent capitalists could have been expected to confide in, without satisfactory inquiry —the indefatigable share-seller succeeded very speedily in inducing 54 persons of talent, credit, and respectability to subscribe no less a sum than 368,0001.' The respective amounts invested by these subscribers varied from 5,0001. to 20,000/. Printed cir culars, embodying the most glowing lures, such as arc often resorted to by colonial land companies, were exten sively disseminated by Mr. Cave's hired canvassers. Pipes of wine, outfits to India, costly velvet dresses, money accommodations, and all sorts of acceptable pre sents were profusely given by him as baits to his in tended 'victims. Nay, the enterprising mine-owner even employed a foreign traveller whose peregrinations in hawking his glittering ware, actually extended as far as Algiers. Ten per cent., at the lowest fraction, was the promised profit. Respectable people, in temporary straits, were drawn into his net by pecuniary loans. One particular friend of his mortgaged a very considerable property for the sake of being admitted to a participa tion in the promised spoil. Meanwhile, in the absence of any actual dividend, his credulous co-partners were assured, even when Mr. Cave knew his bubbles were on the eve of bursting, that these 4 magnificent interests' yielded a lar ,, e remunerative return, which would soon be realized, and might be stated in round numbers to be worth from two or three millions of money. Of course, after what we have mentioned, the signal failnre of these projects will occasion no surprise; but our readers will hardly expect to learn, what was distinctly announced by Sir Charles Williams, that when the bankrupt's splendid chimeras hal ended, his whole balance was, in one case, 1/. 45., and in another, about 4/. and a fraction ! The consequence is, that a large number of respectable persons, whose avarice outwitted their prudence, are either reduced to comparative poverty, or irretrievably ruined. Now, this extraocdinary affair, which certainly administers an instructive lesson to our countrymen, is in truth only one of a numerous class, exhibiting, more or less, precisely the same characteris tics. To comment upon particular instances of a similar kind, still in progress and not yet blown up, might be both invidious and dangerous. Suffice it to ob serve in general, that there are, at present, innume rable schemes afloat, partly referring to emigration, and partly to home investments, which, like Mr. Cave's Cornish mines and the West Middlesex In surance Company, and sundry more specious adventures that might be mentioned, habitually parade the most inveigling snares, but cannot furnish a bit better security for success, than the wretched imposture which Sir Charles Williams has so powerfully and seasonably ex posed. As long as monied men or intended emigrants can be found so wholly devoid of ordinary foresight as to peril their funds in such crazy speculations as these, it is absurd to complain of the extensive want of confi dence now subsisting in the mercantile world. Incau tious investers, whose lamentations upon this point are always loudest, are themselves the chief cause of the evil they deplore. Let them learn wisdom by ex perience ; and then the existing facilities for swind ling, so injurious to sound commerce, will be soon superseded by a more healthful state of things."— This singular case is another instance of how much may be done by a clever, scheming projector, who falls in with the world's notions of respectability. Mr. Cave took care to cultivate a-well-to-do air ; hence his success. From appearing to want nothing, he gained every thing. It was not so much the plausibility of his project that enabled him to turn it to account, as the conviction on the part of those who had faith in him, that he was a man of substance—one who stood well in the Money-market. His pictures—his wines—his good dinners—and seasonable presents—were so many vouchers for his respectability. Who could doubt the character or capabilities of a man who could give his four or five courses, and exhibit an imposing ser vice of plate? We draw from Mr. Cave's case this in ference, namely, that wealth, or the appearance of it, which is much the same thing, is, in the world's estima tion, virtue, integrity, station, talent, and sagacity. How different would have been this gentleman's luck had he sceemed or speculated in a coat out of the elbows ! Though his projects might have been twice as plausible, they would then have been universally cried down as preposterous. We honestly confess that we have not the slightest sympathy for those who have lost by him. They provoked, and have deserved their fate. The Post, still harping on the Derby Conference, says :—" Some mortified political flatterers of the worthy dealers in cotton and woollen hosen who conferred' the other day at Derby, appear to be excessively sore at what we have taken the liberty of saying about the said Conference. We always suspect people who are annoyed when plain truth is spoken in a plain but not discourteous manner. We thought that the manufacturers assembled at Derby entirely mistook their vocation, and we said so. But we said nothing harshly or unkindly of those persons. We have no angry feeling towards them. We believe they are very unwise to fret them selves about matters they do not understand, and to lose time in attending to the business of legislators which might well be employed in attending to their own business of stocking and glove makers."— As the Post is so bent on giving advice to the delegates at the Derby Conference, we will in return give our Con temporary a little advice. Let him cease to discuss questions of political economy; of which he has not the slightest knowledge, and confine himself instead to mat ters more congenial to his nature, such as chronicling fashionable arrivals and departures, and giving the earliest and most authentic information of the proceed ings at the last party at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle. Here he is quite at home, and displays a tact and industry infinitely to his credit. But as to matters of trade or finance, he has as much acquaintance with them as a lady's maid has with the doctrines of the Puseyites. The Herald says :—" Could we have conscientiously announced an opinion that the mischievous folly or pre sumption of Puseyism, was on the decline,—that the infected places of Oxford were becoming once more pure and healthful,—and that the Protestant reformed religion of our Establishment was once more supreme in her own venerable metropolis ; her antiquity and purity unchal lenged—her authority unimpeached,—we should not have felt ourselves justified in again pressing upon the, public attention a subject so distressing ; a discussion so protracted. But the evil has become, like an un extinguished though retarded fire, only the more virulent and dangerous from the inadequate checks which, as yet, have been applied to it. Our path must still be trodden over cineres dolo sos,' until the ,sense of the Prelates of the Church, of our Protestant Universities, and of the vast majority of the British public which has hitherto remained within the pale of that Church, (satisfied with and confident in its protection)—shall have been manifested in some mode sufficiently emphatic and decided to quench the last sparks of the schism which has been so perversely lighted up."—The reason that the Church does not MONEY-TRADE-VOMMEXCE. At a meeting of the principal rate-payers, held yes terday at Birmingham, to consider the causes of the ex cessive taxation on the town, and means of their removal, it was stated that for the maintenanee of the Corporation, the new police and poor, no less than 42,0001. per annum was requisite, and that the taxation amounted to at least 55 per cent. on the entire rentals of the population. The silk culture, commenced in the - Deccan, is pro gressing well. Last July, 8,548 mulberry trees, and 13,560 feet of hedges were planted there by 71 ryots, principally of the Melee and Koombee castes, and a few Brahmins and Banyans. These are watered by wells, bhunds, and running streams. Mr. Mutti, the chief cultivator, has sent cocoons and eggs from there to Bom bay, Mahini, Poona, Nuggur, Kuaneir, Kaira, Madras, and Bengal. COMMERCIAL REFORM. The Kendal Anti-Corn-law Association have just published an address (sold at one penny, and consisting of 24 closely printed pages), to the inhabitants of Kendal, on the present state of the borough in connection with the Corn-laws. Sir Edward Coke's intrinsic and autho ritative words form its motto, " Freedom of trade is the life of trade ; and all monopolies and restrictions of trade do overthrow trade." .A.GRICITIMITRAL. As many as thirteen silver cups have been awarded as prizes this winter by Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., for en couragement to agriculture in the Principality. . LAW AND POLICE. Samuel Bundy Williams who had been repeatedly brought up for examination at Bow-street, on the charge of stealing plate from the Rev. J. A. Giles ' of Windlesham Hall, was convicted of stealing, at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to be transported for seven yeaas. At the Admiralty Court, Dr. Lushington awarded 7501. to the owners of the pilot-boat Flora, for the sal vage of the Courrier Basque, a French lugger, off the Isle of Wight, on the 21st of July last. The lugger ran foul of the Brockenmoor, and the captain and . crew fearing she would soon go to the bottom, got on board the other vessel, and were landed at Cowes. The pilot boat coming up with the derelict next morning, carried her safely into the same place. The value of the pro perty salved was 3,2501. Al Worship-street a boy, ten years of age, was charged with stealing a shoulder of bacon. He told a very piteous tale, which the Magistrate, Mr. Broughton, believed to be correct. His father, he said, had died three years ago, and his mother about twelve months afterwards. His grandmother, who, until lately, gavo him a scanty support, had been compelled to go into the Leytonstone workhouse. lie had begged his way up to London, where he had procured bread by holding horses in the street, but not being able to gain a subsistence by the trade, he was compelled, from hunger, to steal. The Manistrate sent him to the House of Correction, not for punishment, and expressed a hope that the boy would be admitted into the House of Refuge. T.XNE ARTS. The recent restoration of the eErter-house Hall, and the Governor's Room, furnishes one of the finest specimens of internal Elizabethan decoration to be found in London. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The Council of the Zoological Society, at their meet ing held yesterday, in lamenting the death of the late Sir Francis Chantrey, passed a high eulogium on him for the characteristic ardour with which that great artist had devoted his powers to the improvements and arrange ments of their gardens and Society. The Christmas Waits in their origin are derived from those choirs of angels that attended the birth of Christ, and in imitation of whom the Calabrian Shepherds usher in Christmas with pastorali and rural music. Some Cor porations in England still keep the Waits in pay. TIEMATRICA.L. Rubini is feted in Spain beyond all precedent. His singing in the last act of Lucia di Lammermoor excites acclamations such as never were heard within the walls of a Madrid theatre. He is now the guest of the Duke d'Ossuna, one of the richest Dukes in Europe, not for getting their Graces of Bedford and Northumberland. COURT — FASHIONABLE. The French Ambassador leaves town at the end of the week, on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne, at Bowood. Lord Lovaine arrived in Portman-square on Tuesday, from a visit to Lord Redesd a l e i n Gloucestershire. The Marquis of Winchester has derived great benefit from his residence at Leamington Spa. Count Matuzevic has arrived at Badminton, Glouces tershire, on a visit to the Duke of Beaufort. The Earl of YarborouglicametOi•Whiitst week from Brocklesby, Lincolnshire. The HOU. Miss Octavia Afacdonald, sister of the pre sent Lord Macdonald, was married on Tuesday week, to Mr. J. Hope Johnstone, of Annandale. Viscount St. Vincent and the Hon. W. Yates Peel, brother of Sir R. Peel, have presented fifty pounds each to the fund for Church Extension, in the diocese of Lichfield. MISCELLANEOUS. It is stated in an American pa that in the progress of cutting the Delaware canal, four kegs of gunpowder, containing about 100 pounds, were used for a single blast, and had had the effect of rending in pieces more than 400 cubic yards of rock. " This," it is added, "is the largest blast ever made in the United States." The net proceeds of the Polish Ball and Concert, ac cording to the report of the Committee, whose meeting was held on Saturday last at Guildhall, amount to the sum of 7521. 2s. 2d. Lady-duellists have frequently avenged their own wrongs. Henriette Sylvie of Molera, fought with an other woman in male habits. A lady of Beaucaire, and a young lady of rank, fought with swords in their gar den almost to death. Mademoiselle Durieux fought in the open street with her lover Antinotti, who had of fended her. But Maupin, a performer at the Opera, was the most renowned female duellist, and killed many op ponents. Like instances have occurred as late as 1826. The annual dinner of the Charterhouse took place on Monday last •, 100 sat down to dinner, and 1001. were collected for the orator. Of some of Runjeet Singh's swords, the blades alone were valued at 1,000/., and the gold and jewels on their hilts and scabb ar d s at five times that sum. The greatest treasure he had was the great diamond called the Kohee noor, or " Mountain of Light." It is badly cut, set plainly in gold, but valued at three millions and a half of money. The claim on the fire-offices for the amount of the pro perty destroyed by fire at the Exeter Railway station has been settled, and the sum of 11,550/. has been ob obtained as a compensation for the loss. On this day, in 1653, Cromwell was declared Protector. The great and laborious Selden was also born on this day, in 1584. A Morning Contemporary says, that " Crockford's Club-house was, on Saturday last. in imminent danger of being burned." We can readily believe this, for what more natural than that a Hell should be on fire ? Ruraouns Or TEED DAY. The Pope is so delighted with the turn religious affairs have taken in England, that he is about to send a Nuncio Apostolical to Oxford, to consult with Pusey and Newman as to the most fitting time for receiving them and all other good repentant Protestants into the bosom of old Mother Church. The Duke of Sussex, it is said, is to be omitted from the list of sponsors at the approaching christening of the Prince of Wales. We regret to hear that Charles Day, Esq., the eminent surgeon and one of the leading Reformers of the Isle of Wight, lies so dangerously ill at his house at Cowes, that his life is despaired of FINE ARTS. HULLMANDEL'S LITHOTINT ILLUSTRA- TIONS.-[SECOND NOTICE.] We noticed these admirable illustrations some 1 weeks since in The Sun, and at the same time took occasion to speak of the important improve ment which Mr. Hullmandel, after many years of unwearied perseverance, had succeeded in effecting in lithography. As we anticipated, this improvement has excited the attention of artists in no ordinary degree, and bids fair, at no distant period, to make the humbler classes of society as familiar with the chefs d'oeuvre of the great masters of Art, as the wealth and aristocratic connoisseurs and amateurs now are. Nothing more effectually contributes to elevate and refine the mind of a nation than the spread of a taste of this sort; pictures are nearly, if not quite, as serviceable public teachers, as books; and, thanks to Mr. Hullmandel's valuable discovery, the day is not far remote when the cottages of our peasants and artisans may be embellished with cheap and first-rate engravings from the master-pieces of Raphael, Titian, Rubens, Claude, and those other gifted spirits who have done so much to instruct and delight huma nity. And here, before we commence our notice of the handsome Lithotint Illustrations now lying before us, we will take the oppOrtunity of correcting a mistake which appeared in our for mer criticism. In alluding to Mr. Hullmandel, we spoke of him as a " German artist," whereas, it seems he is an Englishman ; and we may add, too, that he has shown by his twenty years' strenuous devotion to Art, that he is not sparingly endowed with those well-wearing qua lities of courage, patience, and perseverance, for which John Bull has always been remarkable Such being the case, time only is needed to give all the effect he could desire to his present im provements in the art of Lithography. Let him go on then with unabated zeal, for assuredly he will soon reap the full reward of all his labours. And now to the Illustrations before us. An In dian Scene is in every respect a characteristic one. In the foreground we see two native Indians broil ing the day's meal before a wood fire, just at the edge of a thick jungle, and in the immediate neighbourhood of a small tank or stream ; and behind them rises the tall, graceful palm-tree, apparently motionless, for from the dull, sultry look of the fixed clouds, one may easily see that there is not wind enough to stir even a leaf. The artist, with consummate skill, has contrived to impart a thoroughly oriental aspect to his landscape. One almost expects to see a tiger crouching among the tangled underwood of the jungle, and prepar kg for a deadly spring on the unsuspecting In dians. A Mountain Village is a sketch of a totally different complexion. The little hamlet, with its quaint, old-fashioned, patriarchal look ing tenements, is nestling at the foot of a lofty precipitous crag, and under the shelter of a castle which crowns the summit of the precipice. In the distance, huge mountains rear their ridgy backs to the sky; and right in front, a turbulent mountain stream dashes in its headlong course, with one or two cottage-gardens shelving gently down to it. Nothing can be more peaceful than the character of this picturesque landscape. It is the very emblem of repose and contentment. The broken shadows of the dark crag in th restless waters of the streamlet are handled with masterly adroitness. A Groupe in an old. English Baronial Hall, reminds us of one of Leslie's clever pictures. An elderly man in the Court dress, apparently of the days of Charles the Second, is dragging forward by the arm a reluctant youngster into the presence of an arch-looking dame of quality, who laughs at the fellow's evident bashfulness—and well she may, for he looks as if he would rather face a cannon than the bright, perilous black eyes of the lady. Nothing can be more humourous, or truer to character, than the constrained And awkward position of the embarrassed stripling. Instinct would prompt him to go up and address the laughing dame ; but his nervous sensibilities are too strong for the promptings of impulse ; so he hangs back, perfectly convinced that to go for ward, will be—to quote Falstaff's expression— "to write himself down an ass." The great merit of this sketch is its happiness and appro priateness of expression. Dalgetty feeding his favourite war-horse, Gustavus, will instantly re mind the spectator of one of the most entertain ing incidents in Sir Walter Scott's " Legends of Montrose !" The shrewd, worldly, veteran trooper, whose days of romance and sensibility are for ever gone by, and who draws his sword for that party only who offer him the greatest amount of pay, is pourtrayed with great tact, and fully works out the novelist's conception. The ex pression, in particular, of the sly, small, twinkling eye is capital: A. Scene in a Cathedral represents a female in deep mourning attire, with a long veil floating behind her, moving towards a hand some mausoleum, on which reclines, at full length, the effigy of a mailed warrior, with the banner of his house suspended above his tomb. The attitude and half -averted countenance of the solitary mourning lady, have a very touching character, and realize the idea intended to be conveyed by the artist. We here conclude our brief; imperfect sketch of these admirable thus'. trations, which must be seen and examined with attention, before they can be truly appreciated. They have little in common with the old litho graphic engravings, for the lights and shades are defined with extraordinary beauty and distinct ness, and the perspectives, some of them of a very difficult character, are managed with an ease and a propriety, of which few would sup pose lithography was capable. Viewed at a dis tance, they might pass for the best seppia or In dian ink sketches, and, when framed, would show to as much advantage as paintings. We hope shortly to see the master-pieces of our great painters engraved by Mr. Hullmandel, who, by means of his improved system, can copy the originals with the closez,t fidelity, and mul tiply his copies almost ad infinitum. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 15.—We have had rather a dull market to day, the sales comprising about 3,000 bales, wholly to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 15.—A limited business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange to day ; Grand Junction, 198 ; Eastern Counties, 8 ; North Midland, 70i. In Bank or miscellaneous Stock nothing doing. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 15.—There is much animation in the Share Market, and prices are progressively advancing. The sales are, London and Brighton, 36i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28 ; South Eastern and Dover, 18 184- ; ditto, New, 30s. prem. ; North Midland Thirds, 15i ; Union B an k o f Manchster, 61. 11 s. 3d. By the arrival of the packet•ship Hendrick Hudson at Portsmouth, and the Roscius at Liverpool, papers from New York to the 28th ultimo have been received, being four days later than the last advices. The papers do not contain any political news of the least interest. Exchange on England is last quoted at 91 10. United States Bank Shares are not quoted at New York, but at Philadelphia they arc quoted at 4* per share. _ THE FUNDS. A further advance of per cent. has taken place in Consols this morning ; they are now quoted at 89i f, for the Account ; Three Der Cents. Reduced have also im proved to 841. Spanish Active Stock is now quoted at 24,k ; Portuguese Five per Cents.. 321 33. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto Fifths Loudon and Brighton 5O ...... .. to 37} London and Blackwall Ditto New 4/. 6s. 8d....... 5/. 161. 8d London and South Western 3B& s7i to North Midland Ditto Thirds PRIGS OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 1r ... 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 973 /Grand Canal Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New 1830 9B;' Ditto 4 per cent • 3i per Cent. Debs. 90i ißoyal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE. The advance which took place in the English Securi ties is fully maintained, Consols being still quoted at 89k 8 94 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89 891 ; Bank Stock, 1661 1651 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 ; India Bonds, 1 premium. There has been but little doing in the Foreign Market. The brokers being principally engaged in settling the half monthly account, which is going on without any difficulty. Spanish Active Stock is now quoted at 24; Portuguese Five per Cents., 328 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 51,1. Very little doing in Shares. London and Brighton has advanced to 371; London and South Western are 578; Great Western, 84 7 }. • QUARTER TO THREE. Consols, 891 *; Mexican, 268 ; Spanish, 24k. LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHANCERY COCRT.—(THIS DAY). This being the third seal after Michaelmas Term, the Court took motions to-day. IN RE AMIOT. This case came before the Court upon motion to dis solve an injunction which had been granted by his Lord ship a short time since, upon petition, under the fourth clause of the Administration of Justice Amendment Act, which provided, that in all cases where the Equity Ex chequer (which was abolished by the Act) had hitherto granted distringas upon stock, the Court should have the power to grant injunctions upon petition, without the filing of a bill. Th e fifth clause of the same Act was rather inconsistent with the 4th, and under that clause it was contended that the Court could not grant the injunction in the way it had been done in the present instance. Mr. Wilbraham appeared on behalf of the application to dissolve the injunction, and Mr. Wakefield and Mr. Beale were in support of it. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought this a case in which it was necessary that he should consult with the other Judges of the Court as to the practice to be adopted under these clauses. His Lordship did not think the parties who had conducted the bill through the House were at all aware of the nature of those two clauses. From what he had heard, the second of those clauses was intended as a substitute for the first. They must however, take the law as they found it, and the Judges of the Court must consult together as to how it should be carried into effect. JONES V. SQUIRE. This was a motion to discharge an order of the Vice- Chancellor of England, and that the plaintiff's bill might be dismissed out of Court. The arguments were proceeding when we went to press. ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) The Master of the. Rolls was occupied up to the time of our going to press with motions of little public in terest. VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) DIUUTZ V. VIVIAN. This was an application for an injunction to restrain the defendant from making use of, or counterfeiting, a certain manufacture of metal-plates, applied to the sheathing of the bottoms of ships, and for which the plaintiff, Mr. Muntz, th e M em b er for Birmingham, had taken out a patent in the month of October, 1822. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Bethell, who opened the case for the plaintiffs, that the plates, which were now extensively in use, consisted of an alloy of cop per and zinc, mixed in the proporti ons o f 60 p er cen t. o f copper, and 40 per cent. of zinc. The great value of the composition arose from its durability, and from its oxidating with salt water, which kept it always clean. The plaintiff had enjoyed the sole and undisputed possession of the patent until the year 1839, when the defendant, who is the principal partner in a foundery at Bristol, manufactured a similar composition for the same purpose, which he still continued to do. The defendant, however, rolled the metal cold, while plaintiff rolled it hot, this last process being stated by the plain tiff to be less expensive and more expeditious. Various affidavits were put in, for the purpose of showing that the invention of Mr. Muntz had completely succeeded, and had attained the objects set forth in the patent. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAH.) DIEU% V. BELL. His Hormun gave judgmeniTiTihis cause. The sub ject of this interpleading suit was a bond dated July 5, 1824, by which certain persons, including Thomas Star ling Benson, became jointly and severally bound to Mary Jeffries, now Mary Jordan, in the penal sum of 16,0001., with a condition for making the bond void on the pay ment of 8,0001., with interest. On the marriage of Mrs. Jordan the bond was assigned to trustees, in trust for the benefit of herself and children, and after her death for the benefit of her husband, so long as he remained a widower. The bond, by means which did not appear, came into the possession ,of Henry Jordan ; and in the year 1832 the defendant, Mr. Bell, advanced 7,0001. to Jordan, upon the security, amongst other property, of the bond in question, upon the faith of a representation made by Jordan to Mr. Bell, that his wife's real estate had been settled upon her and her children, and that the :bond had become his property. In support of this statement Henry Jordan produced to Mr. Bell a settlement, which he alleged to be the only settlement upon the marriage, and from which it ap peared, contrary to the fact, that he was in legal posses sion of the bond. Mr. Bell made no inquiry whatever of the obligors of the bond before he advanced the money. In March, 1833, Mr. Bell, by his solicitor, gave notice of this security to the obligors of the bond. The question, therefore, to be decided was whether Mrs. Jordan and her children, or the defendant, Mr. Bell, had the best equity upon the money secured by the bond. The sole question was, whether at the time when Mr. Bell gave notice of this incumbrance to the obligors of the bond, such notice of the marriage settlement of Mrs. Jordan had been given to the obligors, or any of them as would deprive Mr. Bell of the benefit of the rule of law. Thomas Starling Benson, one of the obligors of the bond, deposed that he had no tice at the time of Mary Jordan's marriage that the bond was settled on her and her children. That testi mony was not contradicted. If it were necessary to'fix the other obligors of the bond with notice, he would have great difficulty in acting upon the Master's Re port. But it had been decided in the case of Smith v. Smith, in a full Court of Exchequer, that notice to one trustee was sufficient to bind the rest during his life ; and the case of Tenison v. Ramsbottom, before the Mas ter of the Rolls, had confirmed that decision. In both these cases the question of sufficiency of notice was treated by the Court as a question of substance, and he entirely concurred in that principle. The judgment in this cause must therefore be in favour of Mrs. Jordan and her children. If Henry Jordan were in Court, there could be no question as to who should bear the costs oc casioned by his iniquities. He could not give Mr. Bell his costs, because if he had made proper inquiry he would have escaped that loss to which the judgment of the Court would subject him. He could not acquit the trustees of all blame in the transaction, for if they had used proper caution the bond never would have come into the possession of Henry Jordan. He could give 'no costs against the co-defendants ; the plaintiffs must have their costs out of the fund. Considerable discussion having arisen at the bar in reference to the situation and rights of the several parties to the suit, his Honour made the following addition to his decree:—" Declare that Bell is entitled to stand in the place of Henry Jordan during his life (provided he remains a widower) in the event of his surviving his wife, and declare that he is entitled to a lien on the fund to that extent. Declare that the fund subject to the inter est of Bell, belongs to the trustees of the settlement made on Mrs. Jordan's marriage upon the trusts of that settle ment. Let the fund be transferred to the trustees of that settlement, and let the cash in Court, or stock, arising from dividends invested, be paid to Mrs. Jordan, and if necessary, let the Master ascertain how much of the fund in Court has arisen from dividends accrued since the fund was transferred into Court. Declare that this order is without prejudice to the claim of the trustees to be re imbursed their costs out of the trust fund." QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord DEN➢IAN and a Special Jury.) CRAIG, BART., AND OTHERS V. FENN AND OTHERS. Mr. KELLY stated the case. It was an action brought by the plaintiffs, Directors of the Northern Reversionary Company, against the Asylum Life Insurance Office of London, to recover a sum of 2,0001., being the amount of a policy of insurance effected upon the life of the Hon. George Talbot, brother to the Earl of Shrewsbury. It appeared that Mr. Talbot was desirous of raising a sum of 15,000/., and the contract for repayment depended en tirely upon his succeeding to the Earldom and estates — if he failed to succeed nothing at all was to be paid. A sum of 2,5001. was advanced in hard cash by the plaintiffs, and to cover the risk which they ran, as in the event of his dying before the Earl of Shrewsbury, they would receive nothing, they ef fected an insurance on Mr. Talbot's life for such a sum as they thought would cover their risk. They insured in several Scotch offices, and in one London office, the Asylum. The Scotch offices paid the sums in which insurances were effected, but the Asylum office had thought proper to refuse. The result was, that they thought it proper to file a bill in Chancery against the plaintiffs, and extorted from them, upon their oaths, an swers regarding every fact that could affect the case, and furnish them with the means of defence, and which they could now make use of if they thought proper. He would establish the fact that at the time when the loan and insurance were effected, Mr. Talbot was in good health and of temperate habits, and when he had done that, he was really at a loss to know what defence could be made with any shadow of justice to the present action. The only question for the jury being, whether he was not of intemperate habits in the month of August, 1837, when the insurance was effected. George Caulfield—l am a solicitor, carrying on busi ness in Harloy-street. I was acquainted with the late Mr. George Talbot, who was brother to the Earl of Shrewsbury. I acted as his solicitor from 1836 down to the time of his death, which occurred on the 11th of June, 1839. I was in the habit of seeing him almost every day when in town, and I frequently lunched and dined with him. He was living at Broadstairs, and came up to London occasionally. I scarcely ever saw him drink anything. I negotiated the loan for him with the Northern Reversion Company, and by desire of one of the Company I made arrangements for insuring his life. The Company carry on their business in Edinburgh. I made a proposal on their behalf to the Asylum Life Office in London, the 28th July, 1837. [The proposal to effect an insurance on the life of Mr. Talbot, for the sum of 2,000/. was then put in and read. On the margin was a note " 4/. ls. for former intemperance."] The ordinary premium according to their scale would be 21. 15s. per cent. and the increased premium of 41. ls. was for former intemperance. My c ommunications were with Mr. Farren, the resident director. The policy was effected on the 11th August, 1837. I thought Mr. Talbot was at that time leading a moderate and tem perate life so far as I knew it. I saw him re p eatedl y during the re mainder of the y e a r 1837, and his ha bits were the same I have seen him;fake as much as fi ve or six glasses bottle of sherry after din ner, and there w as sometimes a of claret afterwards which he did not partake o f. Er o t — ;h l e first st C ros s-examined by the ATTORNEY GNE sa w him on the business of the insuran ce a or 2d August, 1837. I had seen him previously in April or May. The business I saw him about on the Ist or 2d August was another loan. I saw him every day till the 4th or sth, n October, and sometimes easlstOvJicae a day. I recollect see in~ him for effecting tee . insurance . Mr.nuary, 1838. My share of 2,5001. was nothinFarren o paid a coursei d me a I com missionwa also paid for my trouble and loss ottime. I dined once EVENING StiN ' at Hatchard's hotel with Mr. Talbot. I think George') ra Pine, a mate in the navy, dined with us. Thomas Davis—l am a surgeon residing at Georg street, Hanover-square. I knew the J-lon. Gee. Hee r f Talbot for 25 or 26 years. Was his professional tato: dant down to February, 1838, when he resided at Th?,:l tle-grove, Old Brompton. Was well acquainted v'n'ci him, and saw him frequently. I saw him in JOY 111 { / . August, 1837, and he was then in very good health. I is t general health was good. I don't know perhaps his usual habits of life were, but I believe he play. very much and sat up at night, but I don't think 113, any other bad habits. I saw him many times in 18561 but I cannot recollect the months. I don't know wb . ' his habits of life then wcra, but his health was v er y gw"' I often saw him as early as nine in the morning, and late as five or six in the afternoon. He never exhibi d t:, any symptoms of intemperance when I saw him. Be b . : a florid eruption on his face like the late Earl of Shrew bury. That certainly was not preduced by intemperate habits, beeause he had it when a boy. boa CrosE-examined by Hr. THESIGER—I cannot sq.* the I saw Mr. Talbot before August, 1837. I saw 11 k i j in sa u beginning of the year. On one occasion he oniwu OA ` be to fill up a letter to an Insurance-office. tlw p g sro i was of temperate habits, and I have never expre ess ,, different opinion. [A letter was put into wit . g r , hands, which he said was in, his hand -writing. Thesiger beg read the letter, which was dated Itirch, 18 '" j a addressed to the Asylum-office, and in which it was s e ', that Mr. Talbot's former habits were not tempvs.— A f e . that he believed he now led a sober and temPe ll4 2 Witness said that referred to an early period of P fetter, when he was in the 9th Lancers.) In another ~rjd dated March 9, 1836, addressed to the same offiee, that although his face bore marks of irregular ba`,.lll.red believed him to possess a sound constitution. Ire'e • , tr ite to the marks he had had since a boy. I gav e T i e ] icsi opinion to the office. lam a Director of the L'i,,,roor and Medical Life Insurance Company, and I I.'" mended Mr. Talbot to that office. te Horatio Cleggett—l was acquainted with th e - a d i re * George Talbot. I knew him about 22 years , 411 j mately for the last three or four years of his life. , sociated with him a good deal when in London , aa° w ig frequently with him. He was not on good teral!-,0,, his brother's family during the latter period of r:o.ver I was in London in the year 1837. I saw hini? b ,j ui rtis , he was in London. He always stopped at 0 01 7, 0 Ass Piccadilly. I saw him in May nearly every dal. u n . w ith in London, and often dined and passed the .ever un t '' p ott . him. He used to take wine pretty freely, but 11°. cularly, not more than myself life is not insure . a gr. Mr. KELLY—I hope your 'flice s . Cleggett ? Witness—Yes it is, in a numb er of 9 wine• —(Laughter.) I never saw him drink a bottle e t , the He drank beer at dinner. He drank less w ine 00$ others generally. He drank, on the average, lesth s: juoll, bottle. I have seen him take a glass of beer,3l: w ore. At an earlier period of his life he used to drip c law° His habits were much the same as I have state . n 010 to the month of August. I dined with hire I / nev er month ; his health was very good in that y e ar. mo re heard him complain. I should say no person "Tvi,ite4 intimate with him about that time than mYse lf ' him after he went to Thistle-grove, Old BrT o f 14' 1838. He had then a cough. It was in the e ‘ n , e d to the and beginning of 1838. He afterwards reel ° t he via s Hampstead-road. There was a dampness ° die Gro ve ' of the first bed-room in which he slept a t The whole house was damp. I 1 0l ew Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-'GENEI Ila t7 t Mr. Talbot 'when he was in the 9th Lancers' say tha seen him exceed sometimes, but I should . n° t teelPe too 4 e his habits were intemperate. He became O r d e j 1 101 rate within the last few years. Dr. Paris attn June ith in his last illness. I think I saw Mr. Talb ot dined July, 1837, but I cannot speak positively. I "'petalll ° him at Hatchard's in August. His dinner was Lo I five and six. I understood he had come t ° : a r aan. fi . the subject of an insurance. I am a nlar r L., e ;At. 7 1r . generally left him about half-past 10 or 11 at ,':; w ife Talbot was married, and was separated frail' s g irl• some time before 1837. He had a boy 037' is was two days with him at Broadstairs in gaY' Ll oolor t Thomas Thomas—l am proprietor of i "" st ,yeo Hotel. I knew Mr. Geo. Talbot, who frequentif,, vo ldai my house. He was there from the Ist Jan. 183'0, try the 15t,1837. Here was there from July 3 t ° kteq l : August 1 to 4, and from August 23 to 26; frlntoberl" ber 20 to 25, from October 3 to 12, and Nil' en to a le ; to January 2, 1838. He frequently bad gentlehim° had D Der, and the whole bill was put down to ' for opportunity of observing his habits. rlie e e Elizabeth Glover—l was in Mr. Talbot' I w . a s be eight years, and had the care of his child. t 5 fte rarsr u i the separation, which occurred ten mon ths °nth_ °, He was living at Broadstairs in 163711 th d the c .. o e. n ' le bl e ' October. He frequently dined with myself litt l e * 1 te• ' l l r e He drank sometimes beer, and sometimes Sometimes he was temperate and sometim" sl b e er b e ` ° 5 I have known him sometimes take a little, tea o rde oc a_ dinner. I have known him go to St. Pet!! ' ll e ot tha t e h and return affected by drink. I don't ruf br i n k 0 113 . 11 51 curring in the year 1837. He did not gri d rem l' latterly. We went, in June 1837, to ' a ftersPar i even there a month. I have seldom seen r we re tel:aP d the evening, but his habits up to that - -e n d elciferh e a t n to rate. He used to go to bed between we wl l ,: t er rise about half-past eight or nine. V , the „v Thistle-grove, he slept in a very damp renn l i i a nd 1 ; " ; ran down the walls. He caught a very bad C° l " l ' fine " I`,fe tured a blood-vessel in April 1838. He died in Cross-examined by the ArronNET.GE:4o',bice ' 1 went to Broadstairs in 1835, and that was his file nAi residence till October, 1837. I heard him ssi e re. ; disgusted with St. Peter's, and left off going t 'l have seen him intoxicated, but not frequentlYe.,s tog' known him to be perfectly sober for three we,,: ii rd ther, but I cannot fix any particular date. say that he detested wine and would take has 6 Sometimes he has taken it again soon after, a O O e , drunk at times. Sometimes he has not b e r e dont „ r e ic walk steadily up stairs, but not frequentlY. sor a t , collect his being drunk for two or three l e d at ni g h together. I could always hear him go tu • he ul ' s. any I could tell by his footstep in what oeo l A it ,. l , o o k flf t r i os, cannot swear that he was or was not - " or ate a", - his nights one after another. He was reco ilee. ether , and often intemperate. I don t p e ks the being sober longer than three w li c bon . s e a l 'it t ite I never knew that he used to go to a rub ooce I n s si% neighbourhood. I never saw him the „ e h e Chil d :1 bi s of intoxication he struck me. ][ni°l".'.l"w-Tlie Stairs or seven years old. I, kept the child 11 1 ) - 1 . g all; l oft father was in a state of intoxicatio n, wise child has generally been in bed at these times, 5t our - re or George Fox, fly. driver. Be has beelltiroic th e m or. sometimes. I don't know whether he b a 7 rd ibot not. He sometimes stayed with Mr. - 1 -," 1 „ but' Oa There' may have been chink on the table, i e ill s gr. say. Fox has brought him home, IYh e n t imes. of worse for drink, not so often as five or atOttree Talbot was once ill at Broadstairs. In e b ",. A bote, hat e 1837, in August or September, he WO t ° : wi z ?" weeks very temperate. Before that he 5 104 been at times intemperate. Re-examined—l have known him severanitiTleastefill:ol as three weeks quite sober. We were do put t . ‘ ,4.5 from 3d October till the 2d January, an d -L time' % e el °f lea seeing him intoxicated during that,tie 01 ( 1 of not intoxicated, to my knowledge, durin, be i r l jolt September, 1837. Ido not recollect big , t h e' 00' time intoxicated in August, nor in the In ° ‘ ';:, s I think the time Fox brought him home le ft itbe I should say for a twelvemonth before "' O e, or stairs he used to drink less. It was in 18 g ia struck me. ro Ct or Dr. Beamish—l am a physician all e Ts, .- Ramsgate in 1837. I knew the Hon. Ge orge ;in about three ears. I saw him occasiono,lY;siaalV in once with him. I never attended him Pre ie cor tif o ll . fact I never knew him to be ill. I gave a : oe, July, 1837, and on that occasion I exturu e- , ;Obi I applied the slethoscope, and in my bn t le j s on e ''' his lungs and every . part of him were clu l e . 0 6 1 cl/ ire never saw him intoxicated. Cross-examined b Mr. T with him Colonel, Mrs., dined.l thoughtthe rednes . s on iss his face ' 6. ' f a s co P ,,, illt e-nr and Miss Ind 'r(')c lticej by constitutional causes, but it is sometimes , r al perate habits. for °''. , ( l lungs.y _ e_m aa D yr o s, -: a t e r n i sd—e attendeddl h k i n m knew the till Mr.h Ti s l aacit:ehe death. ttl IMr.prof r 0 Talbot o a l e l s b ia t: 1 0 { 0 l oo b t °; :: 3, 0 ..; firstet l o B: r 3 a B i . It was a rupture of a bloodcele f t be : cular consumption. Ha had a predisposition ' he O i l e h as ay e e . di l e f d h e e f e w e a n s sa of mp tli ti e en most temperate m p e rat e e ra b te a b b it o,io l' e ' il ti a ti e t cl it ; but intemp 1 rec oo lo ,tar, excite morbid action • him to lie ln a wea k °rg an ' . d A te O n ' generally dinner.Teanlebroat l 1 1 f v yr a ,rw s ql temperate, but saw nothing to in le ..Nlr. habits. • %f , I. f Israel Stcne—l am a waiter ' at Ilatchard's -r -te iB3 7, n entlemen frequently came to dine, ands onit Talbot somet i m e s h i y an d e e si . et at r nwe i r e ydt e i : k ni i )on u r a. e a ng r m l e n i. . but never saw him excessivel n in o t t te sP i. ePa i I :t i . :l )l..tW°e i tinued to dieohlstrhdiam.enhrk.iespawnuftridniigiffaedreiasnmpt rtiifinaTet sea lb ' rntooo,,; izitlt fortnight. k g . i h n t . have seen r...,: -„ 5 .C1 5 4 ti y run • so fre e T and the early part of 1837. g I have seen hiln ti r to' t b or three times in s al , as ,t hate Cross-examined by n Mr. THESIGt;It—W month of July. H e d .- py clare •-, rank prinetpa 0)0 , never known him dri •kin a mornietnhagen• etdhoicdisihak. rLeadb:s temontle:e:3l fir,i negiti,! and: was in the much of u ►, hs coffee-room I • did n ot see so , Ta lbot' e el generally • went to bed at one or two. 30. 11.1 , s h often hi been out after I went to bed. I ;isol'ls be has what might be termed drunk. On these occi , fe ot . half. At nighthe drank • • generally gone out and not returned till a 10 )15 bed s . George Fox came with him at one till.i)jeolf and Talbot generall lunched, k beer or 1 and too -",. Lift). 3 t freq tlent I V ° spirits, but no ir. I le might have gone out at night twice in a we v eD .b o p,s u ~,1 not known him two or three weeks sober. I ° o be P - 1 was . tipsy once in a Week. It was generally wb e r I l ls. , e friends. I never saw Fox as a conipanion 4 ." be e don't think liquor W 1 I ever saw him affected with was alone. 11° V I sometimes let Mr. Talbot in two or three tinae?_,fies see:, Henry Horton—Jam night porter at Tlatchara'!weel,,' Very few weeks I had not to do it. I have at tou t fre, 6 ,, him in liquor. Not in a beastly state, but jo boc i),', e ` The worse for liquor. He never required an.Y., es ao,',,, go to his room with him. He always took 1 11 % P i : , himself. He was generally in that state he'Leloc" him in. It was sometimes one, and sometime two I was on duty every a l t ernate week. to 1' 11553 wen (The case was proceedin e ,c , when we t - _...-_........ee!e .e. at?, COMMONPLEAS.—(THI_,S P I : - And P (Sittings in London befbre Mr. Justice Etri3ol4'' Special Jury.) 1 00 01 " BORRODAILE V. HUNTER. This is an action on a policy of insurance fo r 6 ' o o ll, w ari ds , .. a ji , upon the life of the Rev . Mr.Borodaile, whose body was found in the Thames in Septewher:l:o, and who was alleged to have destroyed helt IVefeo. ing into the river from Vauxhall -bridge, Tbe' Th 9 t_6 cl,, r ac 1)4 11 C, It hl,