The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-08 00:00:00

*OO O -, - "r: Anti ficateq Oef no . t, Marl, Quenk C. T..k. dr en h.v tiler Nii , ,jks!)'s ship fweed, ciatif , g a „de. at Bu.nos Ayrk-s, previ,kn s t 7 , .i k (3 . ,vd-er, -.111 lki and split eok., ring. r :; ;he kattk , r 1 okt WurrsrAout 1.4 c 7.—A Ipkige is teilomed to be on thr Sakai. iVEXFORD, I)xc 6.—The Gat_dlo o' Lnverpool Derne r.ra to Wkkx!otk,..-,ell, , 1)11k je,( ,- r - a), atter Etc wa'er and v,lll be a wrk-ek. Cargo k-xp-eted to be ay.-d. YARMOUTH. I)Ec. 6.—The \illi,,m and Ibella, Sund.rlind for London, struck on Scroby Sand y ester da:t ; came off leaky, but will pri.ceed with xtra PALPEEiRO, CORNWALL, DEC. 7.—The Snepinerdens, Pau aLg f or London, has c , ane on shore near here, dis abled by severe weather. Clew have all mustered ex Cspt three men, who are sunp , ,sed to be safe. MazonD,DEc 6.—The and Jane, Liverpool to Havre, is on the rocks off liubberstone Point, but lies well; Nill lighten to get off. It is blowing strung at S.W., wi!li heavy squL:lls. BELFAST, DEC. 6.—The Ringer, on shore at Car rickfer4os, has been got off and towed here to repair. MUMBLES, DEc. s.—The C.tublia, of Briclgewaier, and the flop end Mary, of Swansea. drove from their anchors and went on sh , :•re. The former is striking heavily, is leaky and will be beneaped. Tho Hope has received consuitruble damage. SHIELDS. DEC. 5.—A ship's long-boat, marked " Tho mas Dixon " on the stern, Kith salmon coloured bottom and yellow streaks on her side, was passed outside the bar ye derday. LEITH, DEC. 6.—A boat, marked " William and E izibeth," of London, Samuel Baker, was picked up on the Ist inst. off the Dudgeon. • HOLYHEAD, DEC. 7.—Wind S.E. strong.—Arrived Athdle, Friend, Prince Edward's Island. LIMERICK, DEC. 6.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailtd Robert, Shofield, New York; Standard, Nova Scotia. HULL, DEC. 7.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Queen, Clark, Quebec; Wolf 's Cove, Quebec. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN. Inward supplies of Vegetables were on sale to-day. The demand tor them ruled heavy, at cur quotations. In Fruit very little was doing. English Fruits— Pine Apples, 4s to 63 ; Muscat of Alexandria Gripes, 5s to 5s 6d; Black Harnburgh Grapes, 2s 6d.to 3s per lb; Pears, 53 to 10. ; Eating Apples, 23 6d to 3s 6.1 per half-sieve ; Apples tor cooking, 2s to 3s 6d Fer bushel; Filberts, 60s to 6 5s per 100Ibs. Foreign ruits—Black Baniburgh Grapes, 6d to 9d; White ditto, 6d to 81 per lb ; Spanish Nuts, 4s to 6,; Walnuts, 3s to 6s ; Brazil Nuts, 3s to 4s per peck; Oranges, 3is to lOs ; Lemons, 4s to 8s per 100. Vege- tables—Cape Brocoli, 3s to 6s per dozen bunches ; cauliflowers, 21 to 4s per dozen; Turnips, 9d to Is; Carrots, 2s 6d to 43; Greens, is to is 6d per dozen bunches ; Onions, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per bushel ; ditto for pickling, 2s to 2e 6d per half-sieve; Horse-radish, is 6d to 3s and Celery, is to is 3d per bundle; Leeks, ti to Is; Parsley, 9d to is per dozen bunches; White Cabbag es , 6d t o 8d ; S a voy ditto, 6d to 8d; Red ditto, is 3d to is 9d per dozen; Brussels Sprouts, is to Is 61 per half-sieve; Endive, is to Is 3d per score ; Red Beet, Is to Is 6d ; Parsnips, 4d to 8d per dozen ; Tomatoes, 5s to 63 per half-sieve; Mushrooms, SI to Is per pottle; Spinach, Is 31 to is 6d per half sieve; Small Salad, 2s to 2s 6.1 per dozen punnets; Sage, is to Is 61 per dozen bunches; Corn Salad, is 3 d to is 6d per half sieve; Shallots, 213 to 33 per Ib; Potatoes, 803 to 1203 per ton; ditto, 2s 6d to 3s 61 per bushel; Sea Kai', 2s 6d to 3s per punnet. _ _ _ NEvzGATIS AND 1.13/11) EM:ULU POULTltY.—Turkeys, 3s Od to 7s 6d; Geese, 4s 6d to 6s 61 ; Ducks, Is 6d to 2s 61 ; Tame Rabbits, la 0,1 to is 8d; Wild ditto, 61 to lld ; Pigeons, 51 to 91 ; Roasting Pigs, 4s 3d to 7s Oil each ; Surrey Fowls, 6s Od to 9s Od ; ditto Chickens, 3s 6,1 to 5o 01 ; Barndoor Fowls, 2s 8d to 5s 61 per couple ; Fresh Butter, 9s to 133 per dozen lb ; English Eggs, 8s 3d to 103 0.1 ; and French ditto, is 01 to 85 Od per 100 ; Pheasants, 2s 61 to 3s 61 ; Partridges, Is 31 to Is 81 ; Hares, 2s 01 to 3s Od ; Leverets, 2s 01 to 3s Od ; Woodcocks, 2s 31 to 2s 91 , Grouse, Is 9.1 to 2s 6d; Ptarmigans, Is 01 to is 9 . 1 ; Snipes, 91 to h 33 ; Teal, 61 to Is; Wild Ducks, Is 61 to 2s 3d; Wid geons, 91 to Is 61; and Plovers, 61 to is 01 each. NEWPORT. Wei, from 23 8d iL7s - 6710(1ut,0n, 2t 101 to 3s 10d; Veal, 33 2d to 3s 10d; and Pork, 3s Od to 43 2d per 81b3. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 61 to 3s 8d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 10d; and Pork, 2i 8d to 4$ Od per Sibs. XILLINGSGATX. Salmon, lld tols7lptrlbTaTirbots, 4• to 12s; Brills, 26 6d to ss; Cod Fish, 3s Gd to 78 6d; Whitings, 4d to 103; Lobsters, 10d to 2s; Crabs, 4d to is 9d each; Soles, Gd to is 10d per pair; Eels, 4d to Is per lb.; Large Haddocks, 9d to Is ; small ditto, 5d to 7d ench ; Crimped Skate, 7d to 9d; and Prawns, 26 to 28 Gd per lb; Shrimps, Is 3d to 2s 6d per gallon ; Bloaters, is 3d to Is Gd per dozen; Common Oysters, 10s to 15s; Scotch Pearls, 16* to 20s ; and Bast Natives, 42s to 60s per bushel; Flounders, 9d to is per dozen. UEEAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from bid to 7d; of household ditto, 5d to 6d per 4lbs loaf. HIDE MAIIIIET. Market hides, 5611)tO6411,1i1 toild; ditto, 641 b to 72114.2 d to 241; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 211 to 2id; ditto, 801 b to 881 b, 3d to 311; ditto, 881 b to 961 b. 34d to 3i i ; 961 b to 1.041 b, 3i-d to 41; 1041 b to 1121 b, 4d to 40. Calf Skin*, light 2i oti to 3 ; ditto full 5s G,l to 63; Horn Hides, 78 to 7s 6d; Pulled Sheep, 43 3d to 6, 34; Runts and Half breds 33 61 to 4s 6d; Downs, 23 24 to 3s 6d. BAY blaigiLETS. SMITTIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 3/ 10s; Clover ditto, 81 Os to 41 10s; and Straw, 112 s to 1/ 9s per lost A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 86 to 31 121 ; Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 7s •, and Straw, 11 2s to 11 9s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 31 10.1 ; Clover, ditto, 3/ Os to 41 10s; and Straw, 112 s to 1/ 8s per load, Trade dull, at barely late rates. LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in his court in the Old Hall, Lincoln's inn, and heard appeals to-day. TH E ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE CORPORATION CP LONDON—PROPERTY IN THE SOIL AND BED OF THE RIVER THAMES. This case came before his Lordship upon appeal from the judgment of the Master of the Rolls, overruling ex ceptions taken by the Corporation of London to the Master's report, finding that the defendants were bound to make a discovery of their alleged title to the banks of the river names, and ordering an inspection of their Charters and papers. The information was filed in the Year 1844 by her Majesty's then Attorney-General a gainst the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of London, the town clerk, and William Cubitt, Sic Tho- I nAe 'radon, J. 0. Hanson ' W. G. Prescott, Sir Courtenay Boyle, J. P. Reich, and J. Cornelius Park, the last seven as lessees ef portions of the soil and bed of th e Thames, under leases granted by the Corporation of London, whereupon they had erected wharfs and e mbankments, which were stated to be common nuisances and obstructions to the navigation of her Majesty's subjects, and to the low of the river. The information stated that by the royal prerogative the ground and soil of the coasts and shores of the seas, creeks, and navigable rivers in the kingdom, and about it, belonged of right to the Crown; that the river is the King's highway for all subjects; that by pre scription or some grant the corporation had exercised the office of bailiff or conservator, whose duty it was to see to the navigation aid prevent obstructions or nui- Bermes in the river, and to regulate the fishing thereof ; that the corporation thereby acquired no right, or estate, or interest in the ground and soil of the bed or shores of the river between high and low water mark ; that the corporation had, notwithstanding, of late claimed, in addition to the exercise of the right of bailiff, or con servator to be seized or entitled to the freehold of the ground, bed, and soil of the river and of the shores be tween high and low water mark, within the limits of the conservancy of the Thames, assumed the exercise of acts of ownership over it, and had made grants of it to persons having land or wharfs on the banks adjacent thereon, to embank it, and build ou such soil and bed of the river between high and low water mark, at different places -on the river—namely, at the Isle of Dogs, at Dur rand's Wharf, Rotherhithe, and at Battersea Marsh ; that embankments and buildings were, in consequence of these leases, built or building, which would be a common nuisance and prevent the free flow of the river. The information charged the corporation with having re , "bred a considerable sum of money in the way of fines and rents from such lessees; but refuted to give the Crown any account thereof, and the lessees set up a pre tended claim of right to execute such embankments. The information further charged that no charter or letters patent by any of her Majesty's predecessors, King s or Queens, had contained any grant of the soil or bed or shores of the Thames, and charged that the cor poration ought to discover and set forth under and by what charter or letters patent they claimed such freehold in the soil or bed of the river. The Attorney-General denied any immemorial right in this respect as alleged by the corpbration, or that the corporation possessed the freehold under a charter of Henry IV., in the 23d year of his reign, which had no force to pass such freehold; that such charter had been also revoked or annulled; and the information also charged that no sufficient acts • of ownership by the corporation could be shown to e!d"noe an immemorial usage of the right claimed by the corporation—that the corporation had no right to exact or accept money as fi nes or rents for permission thus to b u ild. I t was a l so asser t e d b y th e i n f orma ti o n, that the defendants had in their custody, possession, or power books, ac counts, deeds, instruments, charters, otters patent, leases, maps, plans, and papers, by which the truth of the several matters would, if produced, a ppear; that the town clerk was cognizant of them, and without thei r production the Attorney- General could not have a lull discovery on oath, and that therefore he had made the town clerk a party to the suit. The Attorney ventral prayed that the rights of the Crown and those that the Corporation might be ascertained and declared; Cubitt and the other lessees be restrained ,_ perp•-tusl injuction in respect to works in progr..ss from carrying ith,an on, and that embankments formed Should be rest ore d to theirfortn,r and ancient condition, and that an ac count s h ou ld b e ta k en b y t hi s C o urt of the fi nes , rents, expens e s, and profits arising from granting such li cences to em b an k, rece i ve d by the mayor.o 1 and corporat ion , an d t h e amount b e (It-erect] paid t o her M. sty, after deductihg jjustallow s ; and the rigiit to tr w trechtAci be &creed and established in and to her Majesty. • the Cor poration of Loudon T o this informat ion answer udon put in a -demurrer to part, and a_ u to the residue, in which they denied that •••••••• 1........ .....••• ,• ••••. .• • •N•• .. • 0000 .0 0000000 . 00000 ;••••••••• .......• 00000 •••• .. . ••• •.... • ...... 0 ..... .0 , 000000000 ~•• •.• .....•••• ••• ••• •• 000000 •••• ~.....••• .• • • ..... ~j , .. ...... 14% •• ....• .. ....▪ .. /1i ... 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Tito Corp deicace of tho erections ou ihe op,rii•o,s t f harbour-masters, - water-bailiffi, ;o Captja Baii , )ch, drogr:lph , r to the Ac!aticalty, I:11 , 1er who,3e inspection and approv,l they had been cons'.ructed, al:eging that they improved, or would improve the or the river; denying Ills° that the cirpoteo:i:n Bth , p e el or pr,iend.d they had a right to erect or create, or give licence to erect or create, a comm,n nuisat:co on the Thames, to the injury of the subjects using it as a highway. On the 4th June, 1845, after argument, the Master of the Rolls held the demurrer to be insufficient, and it was overruled. Against that decision the corpo ration appealed, and the House of Lords affirmed the decision of the Master of the Rolls. The subject was referred to the Master to report %hat answers were to he given as to the claim set up by the corporation, which tho iuforwa'ion by the Attorney•Genetal sought to set aside. The Master in consequence investigated the subject and drew up his report, in which he stated the defendants were bound to make discArery of their alleged title. nod ordered inspection of the charters aril pgp,rs. Exceptions were takers to that report by the Corporation of LondLn, and upon those excep• Lions being argued, the Master of the Rolls. after taking time to consider his judgment, ordered them to be over ruled, and leom that decision the Corporaion appealed to this branch of the court. _ _ _ Mr. Bethel', Mr. S.rgeant Mereweather, and Mr. Ran dall appeared as cout,sel for the Corporation and in support of the appeal; and the Solicitor-General, Mr. James, and Mr. Maule were on behalf of the Crown. The arguments appear likely to occupy several days. NriN GS' ii:k_NR.S. The late Pariianieuriary investigation ou tne prac tical working of swings' • banks has elicited tome striking . faccs relative to these institutions, which tht serious consideration of Government. it appears from the evidence taken before the Com mittee that the losses sustained during the previous year by the sale of stock at a reduced price, compared with be rate of purchase, amounted to 270,0001, arid that had the entire of the deposits been withdra wn— a contingency which might ha,.pen—the quantity of Consols force.d on the in.:rket would have lowered the quotations, and the deficit exceed four millions—a liability which the State was pledged to discharge, as sacred obligation, to the poor. A total change in this viscious system is, therefore, indispensable. The separation of savings' bank affairs from the Treasury has long been advocated on political as well as financial grounds. According to the published returns upwacds of twenty-eight millions are in scribed in their name with the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, and it is fairly objected that so large a sum of a tangible nature, and capable of being diverted from its oriOnal destination, should be com mitted to the undefined guardianship of the Exclieqw-r, which may involve the Mmister in trouble and em barrassment at a season of diffieulty and distress. The example just exhibited in France, under similar circumstances, teaches an instructive lesson, and indicates the remedy to be applied. Nor is this the only point in which an amendment is re quired. The failure of several district banks in meeting their engagements, and the abuses that have crept into others, has entailed painful sacrifices on the cre ditors, followed with the usual consequences of distrust in the stability of these institutions. In order to prevent the recurrence of such evils, by supplying safeguards for the future, and to rectify such glaring defects, a scheme is suggested for the constitution of imperial savings' banks, on a sure and solid foundation, organized with modifications for a more extended sphere of usefulness. The provisions embrace four departments, with distinct offices, consisting of one for deposits on Government guarantee ; the second for deposits to be lent out on mortgages secured on landed property ; the third for the negotiation of loans, and the discount cef promissory notes, and the last for conceding provident annuities. 'lie whole to be self supporting, without any cost to the empire. The leading articles of the- project are comprised and embodied in the following resolutions :- 1. That imperial Saving's Banks be established, and a board of Commissioners appointed by the Crown for their direction, control, and administration. 2. That the assets of all existing savings' banks be transferred to the Commissioners in trust, and that the selection of managers, secretaries, clerks, and other officers, be confided to their discretion, as well as the regulation of salaries, and the stipulations of bail. The Attorney and Solicitor- General in each Kingdom to be the standing counsel. 3. That from and after the day of s 1850, and on the first Monday of every subsequent month, the Treasury shall be empowered to grant to the Commissioners, imperial savings bank debentures, specially appropriated for that purpose, and marked " Unalienable;" equal in value to a similar amount of money or stock, received in lieu thereof, and bearing a fixed interest at the rate of 3/. 6s. Bd. a year, and payable on the expiration of twelve months, with the option of renewal, for which notice must be given. 4. That the Commissioners be authorised to issue in return for deposits imperial debentures for sums not less than 11., or more than 201., entitled to in terest at the rate of 7d. per pound a year, and re deemable in twelve months. In case the principal is not demanded, the interest paid to be stamped on the back of the debenture. 5. That deposits miy be accepted by the Commis sioners, for sums not less than 1001, for which pro visional certificates shall be given. The proceeds to be employed in the purchase of old mortgages, or expended in contracting new ones, secured on landed property, at an uniform rate of interest of four per cent. The definitive bonds to be delivered for the different sums subscribed shall be signed and sealed by the president of the Commission, with coupons attached for 3i per cent. dividends, payable halt-yearly. The difference of interest will cover arrears and defray incidental expenses. 6. That the sevesral loan societies be amalgamated, and annexed to the banks established in their respec tive localities, and be placed under the management of the Commissioners. That steps be taken to in crease the means at their disposal ; the surplus profits already accrued, amounting to 354,636/, being ren dered available for that object; and loans to be advanced on the lodgment of debentures, as well as notes discounted. 7. That the Provident Annuity Department be conducted by the Commissioners in accordance with well-digested statutes and revised estimates. Tables containing the rules and terms to be printed and circulated. 8. That an annual report of the proceedings of the Commissioners be presented to Parliament. It is necessary to offer a few observations on the details of the foregoing plan. As the duties of the Commissioners will require assiduous application and undivided attention, the remuneration awarded should be adequate to the labours pc rformed. The members chosen must be endowed with the qualifications of energy, zeal, and capacity. En trusted with an arduous task, and armed with extensive powers in the discharge of their executive functions, they will of course be made amenable to the Legislature for their acts. With respect to the first department, it is well known that the facility of obtaining a safe and eligible investment, for the temporary and permanent deposit of small earnings, encourages honest industry, fosters economical habits, and checks visionary speculation. The financial arrange ments are peculiarly adapted to accomplish these re sults. The substitution of Exchequer-bills for stock, and of debentures for pass-books, which is the main spring of the whole movement, will free the public from risk, and relieve the Government from respon sibility. The payments being spread over successive periods, and due at stated times, can by easily liqui dated by the Commissioners, instead of being suddenly subjected to weighty demands at moments the most inopportune. One, at least, of the disturbing elements will be removed from the Exchange, and a portion of the floating debt withdrawn, influences so sensibly felt during commercial panics and monetary derangements. The debentures created under the new law will represent real capital, and possessing un doubted solvency, which are the primary ingredients of credit can never suffer the least depreciation, and will aid in completing the uses of paper currency in conjunction with a gold standard. Being readily convertible into cash, through the medium of the loan-office, no inconvenience can ever be felt by the depositors. A plain and simple machinery will sup plant a clumsy and complicated apparatus, accompa nied with an interminable series of fractional accounts and an accumulated mass of cumbrous documents. By pursuing the course recommended the number of the banks may be reduced without detriment, and the staff diminished without impairing their effi-iency. Confidence will be restored, the balances regu'arly adjusted, and the national faith maintained inviolate. With regard to the Loan Office, it is generally admitted that a system of the kind, judiciously con ducted, has invariably proved eminently instru mental in developing hidden resources, and stimu• lating individual exertion, which seldom fails in reaping the accustomed fruits of contentment and wealth. But these advantages being chiefly derived from banks, the benefits have hitherto been almost exclusively confined to the affluent ranks, the hum bler portion of the community receiving little ac commodation, except in Scotland, from bodies formed for pecuniary transactions on a large scale. And the same remark applies to Exchequer-bills. It seems advisable, therefore, to abolish restrictions, and to extend this branch, in a mode sanctioned by experience, and conducive to the welfare of the operative classes, by playing within their reach a participation in its beneficial agency. In furtherance of this view, permissiodshould be accorded to discount promissory notes of an approved description for sums not exceeding 201., or at a longer date than twelve months, at five per cent. interest, thereby avoiding all interference with ordi nary banking affairs, and by being enabled to advance loans on the lodgment of debentures, the whole design will be perfected. As to the third department, it is certain that a first charge by mortgage on fee simple estates, held under a clear title, presents the most unexcep tionable species of security. In this instance mutual gain will arise from a reciprocal interchange of be nefits. The burdens of the proprietors will be lightened, and the interests of the tenants become identified with the soil they cultivate, generating harmony, and multiplying those artificial links which bind and strengthen human society. To facilitate the assignment of deeds and the con veyance of indentures, it will be expedient to confer additional powers on the Court of Chancery in questions affecting legal and eq u it a bl e r i g ht s , by which litigation may be prevented and costs avoided. The Incumbered Estates Act passed for Ireland will serve materially to assist the operations in that quarter of her Majesty's dominions. By erecting a cheap tribunal for the judicial decision of disputed claims, searches of registration, and other impediments, will be got rid of, and a final settlement of ownership decreed, a matter hard to be ascertained amid conflicting opinions and reversed judgments. With refe rence to the last department it is needless to dilate on the utility of provident associations, the merits of which are so fusty appreciated whenever tried, holding out as they do inducements, during the vigour of youth, to prepare moderate camforts ; and independence under the infirmities of age; but it is desirable that the direction should be li - ,g4liKoa an ler the mipvrintendence of the eorntnikt ! hioner, in preference to being left to the voluntary care of private persons, however benevolent, prudent, and correct. This brief outline of the distinguishing features in the proposed enactment is submitted for examination, more to attract attention to the inquiry, than from any reliance on its intrinsic worth. It remains for statesmen versed in such matters, to legislate on this import::nt subject. It is impossible to deny that the prosperity of a country mainly depends on the intelligence of its inhabitants and the wis dom of its institutions. An anxiety to better their position in life is an instinctive feeling prevalent among mankind, but the fault usually committed lies in vainly aspiring to grand things which few can attain, and erroneously neglecting minor things which every one may command. For reasons like these, it is essential that the policy of rulers, in the guidance of domestic concerns, should be based on the broad and comprehensive principle of opening equally to all, without exception, sources of suitable occupa tion and channels of reproductive employmeW, strictly to preserve internal order, to spread the arts of civiliz ition and peace; and while the varied grada tions must ever exist and be upheld, to connect and unite its component parts, when broken and scattered, by cementing and moulding them into the prop irtioned shape of a great joint-stock com pany, in which every citizen might hold a share. When the body politic is thus healthy and sound, poverty will decline, dissatisfaction cease, a salutary tone pervade the national character, and that pure patriotism, which is best evinced in genuine devotion to one's native lan I, become universally cherished. Much is expected from the present Cabinet. They fortunately possess both the power and the will to do good. Under circumstances so auspicious a confident hope may be indulged that another session will not be permitted to pass without their devising a matured and well-digestAl measure, calculated to ameliorate the condition of the people, and tending to promote the progressive improvement of the United Kingdom. MICHAEL J. KEATING, Archdeacon of Ardfert. Aug. 1, 1849. WHAT SECURITY has a SAVINGS' BANK DEPOSITOR ? TO THE. EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Since the recent defalcation of the actuary of the Rochdale Savings' Bank, I have been at the pains to peruse carefully the whole of the statutes relating to savings' banks, with the view to ascertain the pre cise position of depositors in those banks, as it respects the nature of the security they possess for the money they have lodged in them ; and I conceive, at this moment, an essential service would be rendered to the industrious orders of the community, more espe cially to such of them as stand in the relation of de positors in savings' banks, by stating clearly what is the legal position of a depositor. This is the more necessary, as a very erroneous notion generally pre vails that the Government is responsible to depositors for any loss they may sustain by the fraud or defal cation of any officer or party connected with the i management of savings' banks. This is a very great mistake, though, as I shall presently show, depositors do possess the security of the Government in a scarcely less important sense. It was shortly after the commencement of the present century that savings' banks dated their rise in this country ; and for some time after their origin they were not the subjects of any legislative enactment. The benevolent individuals in a locality who associated themselves together for the establish ment and management of those laudable institutions, and a ho were usually as efUuent as they were philan thropic, were in the habit, in the first instance, of pledging their own joint and personal security to the depositors. But in the course of time an aggregated sum of money flowed into those savings' banks, far greater in amount than their most sanguine founders could have anticipated, and thence arose the necessity for some more solid security to maintain the confi dence which had been shown towards those institutions; and it was in the year 1817, when there were about ei g hty savings' banks existing in Eng land, that the first Act of Parliament was passed with the view to encourage and protect them. That was the 57 Geo. 111., c. 130, under the authority of which a fund was (inter alia) established in the Office for the Reduction of the National Debt, entitled " The Fund for the Banks for Savings," and to this fund the trustees of savings' banks were bound, from time to time, to transmit the amount of all deposits made with them, when the suns amounted to 501. or more. For the sums so invested the trustees received debentures carrying interest at the rate of 41. 11e. 3d. per cent. per annum, payable half yearly. By a subsequent Act, passed in 1828 (9 Geo. IV., c. 92), that rate of interest was reduced to 31. 16s. per cent. per annum, whilst the interest to be paid to depositors was settled at 31. Ba. sd. per cent. per annum, the difference being allowed to be retained by the trustees to defray the necessary ex penses of carrying on the savings' banks. A still later Act, passed in 1844 (7 and 8 Viet. cap. 23), reduced the interest paid by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to the trustees still further, namely, to 2/. ss. per cent. per annum; and the highest rate of interest to be paid to depositors was settled at Si. Os. 10d. per cent. per annum, the difference, as before, going to defray the current expenses of the bank. I believe the rate of interest which is at present paid by savings' banks is 2/. 17s. 9d., and whatever sum remain', after defraying all charges and outgoings, is allowed to accumulate as a surplus fund. This, then, is the state of the case. The depositors in savings' banks hold the security of the Government for whatever sums the trustees invest in its hands under the terms of the Acts which I have quoted; and those sums will, or ought, in all cases to consist of the whole of the deposits beyond the sum of 501, which is allowed to be kept in hand to answer the exigencies of the bank. It can only be by some gross and culpable negligence on the part of the trustees, as in the case of the Rochdale Bank, that an artful and fraudulent actuary or other officer can be permitted, for a long series of years, to abstract an enormous proportion of the deposits. But even with respect to frauds of that description, the Legislature has by no means left the depositor defenceless or without remedy. The statutes to which I have referred, mid others bearing upon the same subject, provide that every paid officer, such as a treasurer, actuary, cashier, or secretary, shall give good and sufficient security, by bond, for the due performance of his duties, and especially for his right. eously accounting for any funds that may pass through his hands; and in cases of defalcation, the depositors, by their trustees, are not only empowered to sue the sureties of the & flutter, but the statute of Victoria expressly provides that he shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanour. Nor is this all. The trustees themselves, under certain circumstances, are made responsible for defalcations. Section 6of the Act of Victoria, to which I have referred, enacts, " That no trustee or manager of any savings' bank shall be liable to make good any deficiency which may here after arise in the funds of any savings' bank, unless such persons shall have respectively declared by writing, under their hands, and deposited with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, that they are willing so to be answerable; and it shall be lawful for each of such persons, or for such persons collectively, to limit his or their responsibility to such sum as shall be specified in any such instrument. Provided always that the trustee or manager of any such institution shall be and is hereby declared to be personally responsible and liable for all moneys actually received by him on account of, or to and for the use of such institution, and not paid over or dis posed of in the manner directed by the rules of the , said institution." From all this it will be abundantly evident that the depositors in savings' banks have no good or reasonable ground of alarm. I have shown they have an ample and solid security for the surplus earnings :hey may have lodged in those institutions, namely, security of the Government of the country itself, than which none more certain or safe can surely be found ; but, beyond this the Government is in nowise responsible to savings' banks. This, being so, depo sitors may rest contented. Now and then an un• principled actuary may practice fraud on those benevolent institutions, but in general he will never have scope or opportunity for so demeaning himself. In no case of defalcation in the savings' banks in England that I know of have the depositors eventually sustained any loss. In the in stances of both the Nottingham and St. Alban's savings' banks, a few years ago, the deficiency occa sioned by the dishonesty of certain paid officers was made good to the depositors by the trustees, to their lasting honour, out of their own private fortunes, and it remains to be seen whether the trustees of Roch dale will emulate so noVe an example. The popular mistake seems to have been that the Government was responsible for the defalcations of the officers of savings' banks, whereas the truth is, that it is only answerable for the re payment with interest of such sums as the trustees of those institutions shall iLTest in its hands. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, MATTHEW SOULSBY. Dec. 8, 1849. We understand that the funeral of her late Majesty the Queen Dowager will take place on Thursday, the 13th , instead of Tuesday, the 11 th.— Times. THE ETIQUETTE OF MOURNING.—Although the deepest mourning has been ordered by authority, it does not follow that persons attending the reunions of the season are expected to appear in other than halt mourning. This fact may be fully relied upon, the Messrs. Jay, the purveyors to the Court, in Regent street, having been fully instructed upon the subject, and in consequence of which the acknowledged taste and ingenuity of their artists are actively directed to the production of recherche novelties for this express pur pose.—Post. LurtttATLIRE. DAVID COPPERFIE ID. No. CAarles Dickens. VIII. By Decidedly - amongst all the numbers, the current number for December is the very best that has yet appeared of Copperfield. The closing chapter 04), although brief, is perfectly inimitable—alto tner it forms one of the most felicitous pictures yet produced by the magic pencil of " Buz"— none other than Charles Dickens could have de • scribed as truthfully, or with such a miraculous particularity, the effects of a " first dissipation." As a delineation of drunkenness it is actually marvellous, and may rank with the happiest descrip tive passages in the language. It falls out thus : Daisy having been installed by Aunt Betsey in certain furnished apartments in Buckingham-street, Adelphi—chambers consisting of " a little half blind entry where you could see hardly anything, a little stone-blind pantry where you could see. nothing, a sitting-room and a bed rsoni"-- is visited by his friend Steerforth, and thereupon 're solves to have a housewarming; to that end inviting as bis guests the said Steerforth and two of his college friends, Grainger and Markham. The latter personage, who " al ways spoke of himself iadefinitely as a man, and seldom or never in the first person singular," is a slight outline, but one touched off to the life. Mrs. Crupp, who is very great in her garments of nankeen, with a flounce of flannel petticoat, comes out in grand style on the occasion of the banquet, advising her lodger to obtain the aid of a handy young man to wait, and "a young gal" to wash the plates in the pantry; recommending him also to obtain all the pro visions at the pastrycook's except two descriptions of aliment—"leaving tier to 'oncentrate her mind, on the potatoes, asd to serve up the cheese and celery as she could wish to see it done." Among the more im portant features of the dinner are the circumstance of the mock turtle soup proving what Steerforth face• tiously calls "rather a tight fit for four"—Daisy madly taking so much snuff out of Grainger's box, that he was obliged "to go into the pantry and have a private fit of sneezing ten minutes long," and the casualities arising from the inquisitive disposition of the "young gal," who thereby was unable to confine herself to the pantry, was constantly peering in at the festivity, and constantly imagining herself detected, "in which belief she several times retired upon the plates (with which she had carefully paved the floor) and did a great deal of 'destruction." But the account of the rise and progress of the various phases of' intoxication, as evidenced in the person of Daisy, is the best of all. , His declaring passionately, in two words, to his principal guest, on the occasion of proposing his health, " Steerforthyou'retbeguidingstaroftnyexist enee"—his indignantly objecting to the toast of " Woman " in lieu of " The Ladies "—his finding himself smoking with the others, " and trying to sup press a rising tendency to shudder"—his resting his nead against the cool stone parapet outside the bed room window, and remonstrating with himself for smoking, by the name of Copperfield—his seeing the resection of his face in the looking glass, where " his eyes had a vacant appearance, and his hair—only his hair, nothing else—looked drunk "—his turning the lamp , off as they were about to sally into the streets, when, " owing to some confusion in the dark, the door was gone, and he was feeling for it in the window curtains " are all equally felicitous. As the four boon compa nions are going down the stairs, near the bottom somebody fell and rolled down, somebody else saying it was Copperfield. "I was angry at that false report," says Daisy, " until finding myself on my back in the passage, I began to think there might be some foun dation for it." Further on, after being dusted under a lamp-post, and getting his hat put into shape, he observes that Steerforth then said, " You are all right, Copperfield are you not ?' and I told him .Neverberrer.'" His entrance into the theatre, where " the whole building looked as if were learning to swim,"—his recognizing Agnes in the same box, with the exclamation " Lorblessmer,"—his say ing afterwards, " I'mafraidyou'renorwell,"—and his finally wishing her " Goori," (which he intended for " Good night,") and thereupon a stepping at once out of the box-door into his bedroom,"—are only equalled by the account of his subsequent sensations and repent ance in the morning. He remains at home all the next day, when at night Mrs. Crupp, coming in to take away the broth basin, "produced one kidney on a cheese plate, as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and Daisy was really inclined to fall upon her nankeen breast in heartfelt penitence." The last chapter has so monopolized our attention that we have left ourselves scarcely room to mention the two preceding ones, though they are scarcely less excel lent. In the twenty second, entitled, " Some Old Scenes, and some New People," we take leave once more of Yarmouth and the Peggotties; previously, however, making the acquaintance of a knowing little blade of a dwarf, one Miss Mowcher, a vendor of rouge and general renovator of hair and whiskers. Her "Bob Swore" is almost as good as David's Goori." Mr. Littimer is left at Yarmouth by steerrOrth; whO has purchased a boat before his departaxe = preparations,py r iikpay ,mado,towards the Xi; ,twenty-thirdabduction of mo o chapter, Daisy selects his_profession, Auut , Betsey meeting him in London, and conducting him for that purpose to Doctors' Commons, in order that he may learn the duties of a proctor. The sketch of Mr. Spenlow—" Punch again'—is capital ; also the following happy description of the firm under whom Daisy is to be placed : MESSRS. SPENLOW AND JOItKINS. " I was quite dismayed by the idea of this terrible Jorkins. But I found out afterwards that he was a mild man, of a heavy temperament, whose place iu the business was to keep himself in the back-ground, and be constantly exhibited by name as the most obdurate and ruthless of men. It a clerk wanted his salary raised, Mr. Jorkins wouldn't listen to such a proposi tion. If a client were slow to settle his bill of costs, Mr. Jorkins was resolved to have it paid; and however painful these things might be (and always were) to the feelings of kir. Speulow, Mr. Jorkins would have his bond. The heart and hand of the good angel Spenlow would have been always open, but for the restraining demon Jorkins. As I have grown older, I think I have had experience of some other houses doing business on the principle of Spenlow and Jorkins!" llere also is another admirable picture—Dickens's description of the Court in Doctor's Commons : "Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved court yard formed of grave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors' names upon the doors, to be the official abiding-places of the learned advocates of whom Steerforth bad told me; and into a large dull room, not unlike a chapel, to my thinking, on the left hand. The upper part of this room was fenced off from the rest; and there, on the two sides of a raised platform of the horse-shoe form, sitting on easy old-fashioned dining room chairs, were sundry gentlemen in red gowns and grey wigs, whom I found to be the Doctors aforesaid. Blinking over a little desk like a pulpit-desk, in the curve of the horse-shoe, was an old gentleman, whom, if I had seen him in an aviary, Ishould certainly,have taken for an owl, but who I learned was the presiding judge. In the space within the hone-shoe, lower than these, that is to say, oa about the level of the floor, were sundry other gentlemen, of Mr. Spenlow's rank, and dressed like him in black gowns with white fur upon them, sitting at a long green table. Their cravats were in general stiff, I thought, and their looks haughty; but in this last respk ct I presently conceived I had done them an injustice, for when two or three of them had to rise and answer a question of the presiding dignitary, I never saw anything more sheepish. The public, represented by a boy with a comforter, and a shabby-genteel man secretly eating crumbs out of his coat pockets, was vtarrning itself at a stove in the centre of the court. The languid stillness of the place was only broken by the chirping of this fire and by the voice of one of the Doctors, who was wanderieg slowly through a perfect library of evidence, and stopping to put up, from time to time, at little roadside ions of argument on the j _Ra ney. Altogether, I hare never, on any occasion, made one at such a cosuy, dosey, old-fashioned, time-for gotten, sleepy-headed little family-party in all my life; and I felt it would be quite a soothing opiate to belong to it in any character—except perhaps as a suitor." The incident of Aunt Betsey's encounter with an unknown beggar in St. Paul's Churchyard is unac countably mysterious. THE ART JOURNAL. Another volume of this splendidly illustrated pub lication is here competed by the current number for December. From the Vernon Collection we have before us copies by the graver of 11. Beckwith, of the " Low Life" and " High Life " of Edwin Land seer. Everybody is familiar with these admirable paintings, which the engravings will only tend to render yet more popular. Sir R. I'Vestmacott's Distressed Mother " is the statue represented in this the 103 d number. From the editorial address, which celebrates the conclusion of the volume for 1849, we gladly extract the following foot-note : " In a letter written by Mr. Vernon in answer to an address of the artists and engravers who had been em ployed at his house copying and engraving the pictures, Mr. Vernon thus expressed himself—' The engravings are most beautifally executed, and I trust that when they are published in the Art-Journal they will be ap preciated by the public, and by their diffusion at so mo derate a cost, improve and increase the taste for the productions of our native artists."' _ _ The following paragraph likewise from the same address is also worthy of particular consideration : " The Art-Journal is at present almost the only Art- Journal of Europe. In France L'Artiste lingers, but can be hardly said to exist, with a monthly circulation of about three hundred; in Germany the Kunst Blatt, so long the organ and oracle of European art, has ceased to be published; In Italy no publication worthy the name has of late years represented the arts; and we are not aware of the existence in either of the other states of Europe of any work devoted to those ' Arts of Peace' which struggle, oppressed and terror-stricken, amid the turmoil of domestic war. Under such circum stances, therefore, the best talent of the Continent is in a great degree at our disposal; and we quote the words of one of the most eminent and accomplished of German writers, Dr. Waagen, who, in one of the articles with which he has honoured our pages, says, 6 I now look to _ • . Englnnd as the only country in which the tuts tan ba I permanently and securely fostered.' The Art-Jtourna/ altogether is one of the most brilliant and deserving of our perioiicals. I EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. (PRIVATE VIEW—THIS DAY.) ' In the admirable gallery, recently opened by Mr. J. L. Grundy at Na. 130, Regent-street, a copious and charming collection of " Sketches in Oil and Water-Colour Drawings" has just been ' opened. The private view, which we have had the gratification of attending at the very commencement of the exhibition, has afforded us very peculiar pleasure. Considering the variety and multiplicity of the productions with which the walls of the apartments are adorned, we have seldom 1 wiLaessed an exhibition displaying so little to which we could seriously make exception. Having t A .xamille . d i piese paintings and drawings almost before 1 theic o wvA ,:g dFfir i fitive , ly placed in their positions, we hiive,uptlirlut(atelS% . mie,sed the assistance of a cata logue iii" l 6lDiditieiiiing upon the different com positions, and. must 'consequently for the present rest contented with a general reference to their aUlity. George Cattermole, as usual, has been eminently suc cessful, not merely in his mill scenes, but also, and especially in his armorial and ecclesiastical groups — groups, under his hand, law lys rendered strik ingly dramatic. " Columbus explaining his scheme for discovering a new world to the monks assembled in the Spanish convent," and another exquisite draw ing representing the farewell of a knight and his lady love, are admirable examples of his happiest style, the latter being eminently graceful an I effective. Frost in two small composiftins proves, to our thinking, not so successful as is his wont even upon these smaller occasions for the display of his peculiar and indisputable genius. Poole, on the con trary, shows himself as ever marvellously true to nature and loyal to art; his rustic figures are charmingly felicitous, above all the one pourtraying a little girl laughing slyly from under her eyebrows, with all the archness of the little Hebes, who seem to have been somewhat favourites with the great Murillo. In one corner of the principal room we observed a fine and singularly clever specimen of Pyne, while on an opposite wall hang three glorious little drawings from the easle of Clarkson Stanfield. Tile centre one forms a perfect I4ou of coast scenery. The principal feature of the exhibition, however, remains yet altogether unnoticed, namely, the screen fronting the chief window of the gallery. On this screen are arranged, besides three extraordinary drawings by Edwin Landseer, the most conspicuous production in the apartments— namely, a very admirable and brilliant painting by Topham, In this work he has been eminently successful, whether in regard to colouring, grouping, manipula tion, sentiment, or character. The story is told in a word, as it is recognized at a gllnce. A poor Irish family, a young man and his young wife, are seated by a " holy well," the mother is administering a portion of the miraculous water to her sick infant, the father looking on with a listless indifference singularly expressive and characteristic. In every respect the painting will tend to raise the reputation of Mr. Topham, and cannot fail to prove one of the main attractions in the present very interesting and must diversified exhi bition. INDIA. NORTH-WEST PROVINCES. We copy from the.Mofussilile of the 18th inst., the following programme of the intended movements of Sir C. Napier during the period he has to remain in India, which, we dare say, will be found correct, should nothing turn up in the meantime to cause a change in the arrangements resolved on. The state ment that Sir Charles is to be succeeded by Sir W. Gomm may be doubted. It is towards Bombay the present sojourner in Ceylon looks as the place on which to rest the soles of his feet. " We are at length enabled to announce that his excel lency the Commander-in-Chief leaves Simla on the morn ing of the 20th instant, and proceeds on his tour to Agra and Delhi. His Excellency's camp starts from 'Wks on the sth proximo, for Loodianah, where Sir Charles overtakes it by dauk. He crosses the Stitl..j at Phillour, traverses the Jullundhur Doab, and visits Lahore. He afterwards inspects the several military stations and posts between the Itavee and Indus, and proceeds as far as Peshawur. From thence he returns by a cross route to Moulton, where his Excellency dispenses with the further atkniance of head-quarters staff, who returns to the provinces, whilst Sir Charles pursues his journey to lihawulpore, and goes down the Indus to the point whore he crosses to Kurrechee. A steamer will be in attend ance there to convey Sir Charles to Bombay, and there he takes his leave of the army in India, and embarks for England in March next. Sir William Gomm, w© be lieve, will be Sir Charles Napier's successor." BY lUS EXCELLENCY THE COMEANDEIt•IN CIIIET IN INDIA. Head• Quarters, Simla, Oct. 16, IS-19. With the sanction of the Most Noble the Governor- General, his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief is pleased to direct the following movements and changes of quarters of corps of the army, to be carried into effect in the order specified : ARTILLE RY. —lst Brigade. -Ist Troop, from Jullundur Wuzeraba.l, to move when relieved by the 31 Troop 2l Brigade. 2d - Brigade, from Hoiheyarpore to Peshawur, to move on the 15th November. 4th Brigade, from Wuz!erabad to Hoshiarpore, to move when relieved by Ist Troop Ist Brigade. sth Brigade, from Aluttra to ltawul Pindee, to move on the 15th November. 2d Brigade, 3d Troop, Ferozepore to Jullundur, to move on the 15th Novembcr. 4th Brigade, from It tieul Pindee to Ferozqwre, to move when relieved by the sth Troop Ist Brigade. 3d Brigade 4th Troop, from Wuzeerabad to . Sluttra, to move on the 15th November. 13t Battalion, 2d Company, and No. 14 camel battery, from Nusseerabad to Mouatm, to move when relieved from Bombay. 4th Company, and No. 8, bullock battery, :from Nihow to Agra, to move when relieved from Madras. 2d Battalion, Bead-qaarters, from Cawnpore to La hore, to move on the 221 October, as already ordered. 6th Battalion, 2d Company, and No. 9 horse battery, from Agra to Jullundur, to move on the 15th November. 4th Company and No. 10 horse battery, from Boodee Pind to Peshawur, to move on the 15th November; to halt at Jullundur, until the arrival there of 2d Company 6th Battalion and No. 9 horse battery. ith Battalion-Ist Company, from Almorah to At tock, to move on the 3d of December. 2d Company and No. 6 horse battery, from Jhelum to Boodee Pind, to move on, being relieved by the sth Com pany, 7th Battalion, and No. 13 horse battery. 3d Company and No. 5 horse battery, from Wurzeera bad to Bureilly, to move on the 15th November; two guns of this battery to be posted at Moradabad. 4th Company and No. 1 horse battery, from Bareilly to Wuwerabad, to move on, being relieved by 3d Com pany, 7th Battalion, and No. 5 horse battery. sth Company and No. 13 horse battery, from Delhi to Jhelum, to move on being relieved by 6th Company, Bth battalion, and No. 15 horse battery. 6.h Company, from Attock to Meerut, to move when raievt d by 15t Company, 7th Battalion, Bth Battalion.-21 Company, and No. 2 bullock bat tery, from Neemuch to Lahore, when relieved from Bombay. 3d Company, from Cawnpore to Govindghur, to move on tbe 15th November. 4th Company, from Govindgliur to Almorah, to move on being relieved by the 3d Company, Bth battalion. ith Company, from Saugor to Cawnpore, to move when relieved from Madras. 6th Company, and No. 15 horse battery, from Lahoro Delhi, to move on the 15th of November. LIGHT CAVALRY.-ISt Regiment, from Peshawur to Cawnpore, to move when relieved by the 7th Regiment. 3d Regiment, from Muttra.to Nowr,ong, to move on the 20th November. 4th Regiment (Lancers), from Cawnpore to Wuznra bad, to move on the 20th November. sth Regiment, from Wuzeerabad to Nakodah, to more when relieved by the 4th Regiment. 7th Regiment, from Jullundur to Peshawur, to move on the 15th November. 9th Regiment, from Miaow to Muttra, to more when relieved from Madras. IRREGULAR CAVALRY.-I,t Regiment, from Nee much to Lahore, to more on the 15th November. If in dispensable, the duty of detachments from the corps to be taken by the cavalry of the Mulwah eontigent, until relieved from Bombay. 2d Regiment, from Iloshearpore to Jhelum, head quarters and right wing to move on the 15th November; left when relieved by right wing of 7th Regiment. 3d Regiment, from Jhelum to Bareilly, to more when relieved by head-quarters and right wing of the 2d Re giment. _ _ 4th Regiment, from Segowlee to Jhansi (for civil duties), head-quarters and right wing to move on 20th November ; left wing when relieved by right wing of 10th Regiment. sth Regiment, from 13areilly to Moultan ; left wing to move 15th November ; head quarters and right wing when relieved by 3d Regiment. 6th Regiment, from Saugor to Wuzaerabad, to move when relieved from Madras. 7th Regiment, from Wuze?rabad to Hoshearpore, head quarters and right wing to move 15th November ; left wing when relieved by 6th Regiment. 9th Regiment, from Loodinah to Pesh awur . O ne wing of this regiment will join the escort with the Governor-General's camp, and be relieved at Lahore by a wing of the 17th Regiment; and one ressalah will join the escort with the Commander-in-Chief's camp, and be relieved at Peshawur; the head-quarters and remainder of the corps to march on 20th November. 10th Regiment, from Jhansi to Segowlie; head quarters and right wing to move on 15th November; left wing when relieved by right wing 4th Regiment. 12th Regiment, from Rawnl Pindee to Jullundur; head-quarters and right wing to move on 15th No vember; left wing when relieved by right wing 16th Regiment. 13th Regiment, from Pesbawur to Moiterian, to move when relieved by the 15th Regiment. 14th Regiment, from Lahore to Hoshearpore (for civil duties); head coarter3 and right wing to move on 18th of November; left wing on arrival at Lahore of let Regiment. Itth t 6 4ri-;41. 1 bead-quarters and right wing to move when relieved by right wing 14th Regiment; and left wing when relieved by left wing 14th Regiment. 17th Regiment, from L'thore to Loodianah; one wing of this regiment wlll juin th?, Govcrncr General's camp at Lahore; the oth .r wi:•g will match on the arrival of the Ist Regiment at Lahore. 18th Regiment, from slhow to Lahore, to move on the 2 ith of Novea:bi.r, or as soon as relieved from Madras. EUROPEAN INFANTRY.—IIer Majesty's 9th Regiment from Lahore to Pcshawur, to move on the 20th of November. Ho r. Companye Ist Fusiliers, from Agra to Lahore, to move on the 22d of November. .thi Regiment from LahoreToAgra, to MOTC when re lieved by the Ist Fusiliers. NATIVE INFANTRY. ht Regiment, from Lahore to Julluadur, to more on the I2th of November. 23 lt4ment (Grenadiers) from Umballnh to Rlsrul Pindee, to move on the 12th tel .November.. 31 Regiment, from Hoshearpore to Jhtlum, to move on the 1t January, 1850. 4th Regiment, from Jullundur to Rawul P;nilee, to more on arrival of the Ist Regiment at Jul!andur. 5.h Regiment, from Dinapore tuLore, to move on 15th of November. 6.b R9gimi nt, from Nus,eetahud to Agra, to umves when relic ved from Bombay. 9:h Regiment, from Umballah to Lahore, to wort the Governor-General's camp to Lahore, and be relieved there by the 56th Regiment. 11111 Regiment, from Bareilly to B trrsekpore, to move on urrival at Bareilly of the 72,1 Regiment. 12th Regiment, from Allygurh to Muultan, t 1 move OD being relieved by the 30th Regiment. 13th Regiment, from Rawul Pindce to Delhi, to move on arrival at Rawul I'indee of the 21 Regiment. 14th R•girinent, from Berhumpore to D.napore ; left wing to move on the 15th November ' • head-qusrltri and right wing when r e li eve d by th e 59th Regiment. 15th Regiment, from We,:z erabad to Umballah, to move on arrival of the 32d Regiment at Wuzeerabid. 16th Regiment (Grenadiers), from Barrackpore to Benares, to move on arrival at Barrackpore of the 54:h Regiment. _ _ 17th Regiment, from Lahore to Hoshearpore, to more on arrival at Lahore of the 9,h Regiment. 19th Regiment, from Lahore to Boodee Find, to more on arrival at Lahore of the 57,1 Regiment. 20th Regiment, from Jhelum to Noorpoor, to more on arrival at Jhelum of the 37th Regiment. 21st Regiment, from Bandah to Wuzeerabad, to move when relieved by the head-quarters and right wing of the 48th Regiment. 22d Regiment, from Rawul Pindee to Fercisepore, to move on arrival at Rawul Pindee of the 2d Regiment. 23J Regiment, from Phillour to Peahawur, to Nicola the Commander-in-Chiers camp to Peshawar, and be relieved there by the 70ib Regiment. 25:h Regiment, trim Wuaeerabad to Hajeepore, to move on arrival of the 32d Regime nt at Wuz. , erabed. 26th Regiment (Light Infantry) from 13arrackpore to Dinap,)re, to move on the 20th of November. 27th R giment, from Barraekpore to Benares, to more on the arrival of the 44th Regiment. 28th Regiment, from Hosheytrpore and Kangra to Peihawur, to move on being relieved by the 17th Re giment. 29th Regiment, from Nonrpoor to Pe!hawur, to move when relieved by the 20th Regiment. 30th Regiment, from Meerut to Allyguhr, tomc)vo on . the 12th November. 31st It , giment, from Peihawur to Jullundur, to movo on being relieved by the 29th Regina( nt. 32d I.egitnent, from Ferozeporo to Wozetrabad, to move 12th of November. 33d Regiment, from Neemuch to Benares, to move on being relieved from Bombay. 34:h Regiment, from Hejeepore to Wuzaerabad, to move when relieved by the 24th Regiment. 35th Regiment (Light Infantry), from Barrackpore to Lucknow, to move when relieved by the 42A 114 , gi- Ment. 37th Regiment, from Jullundur to Jhelum, on arrival at Jullundur of the let Regiment. 38th Regiment (Light Infantry), from Lucknow to Barrackpore, to move on the 12th of November. 39th Regiment, from Dinapore to Lahore, to move on arrival of the 60th Regiment from Cawnpore. 40. h Regiment, from Barrackbore to Allahbbsd, to move on arrival of the 11th Regiment. ' 41st R-giment, from Delhi to Moulton, to move on arrival of the 68th Regiment from Meerut. 42d Regiment (Light Infantry), from Delhi to Bar rackpore, to move on the 12 , h of November. 44th Regiment, from Allahebad to Bsrrackpore, to move by water as soJn after receipt of order as tonnage can possibly can be procured. 45th Regiment, from Umballah toßareilly, to move on arrival of the 15th Regiment at Umballah. 48. h Regiment, from Senores to Bandah; head quar ter.; and right wing to more on the 12th of November ; left wing when relieved by the 16th Regiment. 49th Regiment, from Nakodab to Phillour, to move 12th November. 53d Regiment, from Wuzeerabad to Delhi, to more on arrival at Wuzeerabad of th© 21st Regiment. 54th Regiment, from Agra to Barrackpore, to move 12th November.. 55th Regiment (right wing), from Nagode to Now gong, to move to rejoin the head quarters of the regi ment, when a wing of the corps will be detached to Jhansi, to relieve the detachment of infantry from the Gwalior contingent now there. 56th Regiment, from L.thore to Umballah, to move with the Governor-General's camp. 57th Regiment, from Dinapore to Lahore, to move on arrival of the 26th Regiment from Barrackpore. sSth Regiment, from Lahore to BoDsheyarpore, to move on arrival of the sth Regiment from Dinapore. .59th Rvg,itnent, from BaroiLy to Berhampore, to move 12th November. 60th Regiment, from Wuzeerabsd to Cawnpere,t move Ist February, 1100. 61st Regiment, from Govindguhr to Lucknow, to move when relieved by the 66th Regiment. 63d Regiment, from Agra to Wuverabad, to move when relieved by the 66th Regiment. 65th Regiment, from Ronan s to Lahore, to move when relieved by the 27th Regiment. 66th Regiment, from Lucknow to Govindguhr, to move on being relieved by one of the regiments of Oudo local infantry, to be ordered to march so as to allow the 66tk to move from Lucknow cn the 12th of November. 67th Regiment, from Cawnpore to Dinapore, to move by water as soon as tonnage can possible be procured. 68th Regiment, from Be rut to to move on the Bth of November for temporcry duty until the arrival of the 13th Regiment at Delhi, when the corps will return to Meerut. 69. h Regiment, from Jhelum to Agra, to move on the arrival of the 37th Regiment. 70th Regiment, from Pe3hawur to Umballah, to move from Peshawur with the Commander•in-Chiet's camp in relief of the 2.3 d Regimen*. 71st Regiment, from Boodee Find to Polley/or, to move on the 12th of November. 72d Regiment. from Ferca .pore to Bareilly, to more on the 12‘11 November. 74th Regiment, from Nlhow to Dacca, to move on being relieved from Madras; to march to Mirzapore, and to go by water front thence. N.B.—One of the regiments of Oude local infantry to be ordered into Lucknow so as to admit of the 6th Re giment of Native Infantry marching from thence on the 12th November. The Madras and Bombay troops at present serving on the Bengal presidency will be relieved by Ben gal corps as follow, and seat to such stations as may ba allotted to them by their respective Governments:— ROLLS' COuRT.-('PHIS DAY.) The Master of the Rolls sat in his court, in the Rolls yard, Chancery-lane, to-day, and was occupied the whole morning with the further arguments on the part-heard case of " Solomons v. Laing." Nothing of any intert st occurred iu any of the Vice- Chaucer) Courts. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) :sittings in Banco before Justices MA.ULE, CRESiWELL, and WILLLi3IS•) DOE DEM. STRICKLAND V. STICKLAND. In this case, which was part heard yesterday, it ap peared that the defendant, Sir George Strickland, and [leery Eustachius Strickland, are sons of the late Sir George Strickland, who died at Boynton, in the county of York, in the year 1808. The deceased Ba ronet executed a will on the 18th July, 1776, which, in the course of the argument, was denominated " the Yorkshire will," by which he devised certain estates to his four sons, with remainder to the survivors. Another son, the plaintiff, was born early in 1778, after the testa tor had executed his will, and on the 15th May, 1778, the testator, by a codicil, provided for the plaintiff by a deviso, and also by extending to him the benefit of re mai❑der, as to the devises in his first will in the event of his surviving his brothers. In the same year, 1778, the testator executed duplicate copies of this will and codicil in London, without altering their original dates, which were duly attested. Lady Strickland, upon the testator's decease, handed over his keys to his sons, who found the Yorkshire will in a portfolio upon the testator's writing-table, and the London will was discovered in a drawer of the same table. Ia the codicil to the Yorkshire will the devise to tho plaintiff was fuuEd to have been obliterated; whilst in the Laudon will it remained entire; and the question was whether the alteration in the one will was in tended by the testator to operate as an alteration of the other. On the trial of the cause at York the ver dict went for the defendant. OA a former day, on the motion of Mr. Martin (with whom was Mr. Cowling), a rule nisi was ob:aiued calling upon the defendant to show cause why there should not be a now trial on the ground of misdirection on the part of the Learned Judge who tried the cause. Mr. Knowles, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Hugh Hill, now showed cause against the rule, contending at great length that the ruling of the Judge at nisi pries was Mr. Justice MAULE, in giving judgment, said he thought the rule should be discharged. The question was as to the direction of the Learned Judge to the jury, who left it to them first to say whether the London will was a separate will, or whether the London and Yorkshire wills, with the duplicate codicils annexed, formed cue will in two part:? It such a question as that was raised by the evidence there could not be a doubt that it was a material question to be determined by the jury. It was suggested by Mr. Hill that there being a variance in one passage, not in question at all in the ejectment, between the London and Yorkshire wills, those wills were not strictly duplicates. But it seemed to him (Mr Justice Maule) quite unnecessary to consider whether they were duplicates or not in the rigorous sense of the word. That was really no more than to enter into a critical discussion as to the word duplicate. He conceived there wits nothing at all to show there might not be one will consisting of two papers, which were contemporaneously executed, and were intended each of them to be the testator's will, although there was a variation between them. The Learned Judge at the trial then left it to the jury sly if those two wills, with the duplicate ware intended to form one will, and if the t\literatioe. and alterztioa in the one was intended tc altt r the dispoLition of the property, or was in eflect an obliteration and an alteration of both. Now, inasmuch as with respect to that property, if each of these decumants was intended to operate simultaneously, and not by was' of superseding the other, then the can cellation of one of those papers was he (Mr. Justice Mauls) thought on principle and authority a cancel's tioit of the other. Then the Learned Judge left it to the jury to say whether these obliterations were intended by Sir George Striek'and to be final as his then will u he should determine on making another, or whether they were made whilst ho was deliberating on what will he should make. Now, that was leaving Le, the jury the question of the intention of the testator, which was undoubtedly a question of fact. Upon the whole it appeared to him (Mr. Justice Maule) that this case had been rightly decided, and that the ruling of the Learned Judge at the trial was correct. Ile therefore thought that the rule should be discharged. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL and Mr. Justice WILLLOIS both concurred. Rule discharged accordingly. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) A man named Hollis was charged with theft. Sergeant Thompson stated that last night, about a quarter to six o'clock, he was passing down Upper Wellington-street, when he met the prisoner with some • thing under his arm, covered with a sort of black cloth. He asked him what he had got there, and prisoner re plied, a desk, which he was going to take to a French polisher's in a neighbouring court, adding that it be longed to his master, Mr. Brown, a cabinet-maker in East-street, near to Covent-garden Theatre. Ho told the prisoner that he had some doubts of the truth of this, and requested him to return with him to Mr. Brown's, but the prisoner no sooner heard the request than he threw the desk down, dashing it to pieces, and took to his heels. Ile, however, pursued, and soon over took him, and when they reached the station•house the owner of the desk had just arrived, to give informatio❑ of his loss. The owner was a broker in Whitehart street. Drury-lane and the value of the desk was esti mated by him at 15s. Mr. HENRY asked the prisoner if he had anything to say 7 Prisoner—No'hing. Mr. HENRY —What are you ? Prisoner—A. labourer. Mr. HENRY- Where do you live ? Prisoner—Any where. Mr. llENnY—Where and when did you work last ? Prisoner—At B. , rwicic, about nine months ago, on the Newcastle and Berwick ilailway. Mr. HENRY—How long have you been in Loidon? Prisoner—Three months. _ _ _ . --------- Mr. HENRY—What have you been doing during that ion, ? Prisoner—Begging. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. MR. ARTII'S ELOCUTIONARY ENTERTAINMENT. — Last evening this talented gentleman gave another of those attractive entertainments at the Freemasons' Hall, at which place he is now delivering a series. Han. et was the tragedy read last night. It would be stale praise to say Mr. Artis reads beautifully and tastefully—we prefer reccmmending a visit, promising all those who do o a delightful evening. STEPNEY RELIEF SOCIETY.—On Tuesday evening last a concert took place at the Philosophical Institution, Beaumont-square, Mtle•end, in aid of the funds of this excellent charity, which has for its object the relief of the deserving poor during the winter months. The Distin Family were engaged for the occasion, with Mr. George Ford, and other artistes. Every part of the in stitution was filled with a highly respectable company, and many friends of the society who had not previously taken tickets were unable to obtain a seat in any part of the house. The Distills were repeatedly encored, and lost none of their well-merited fame upon this occasion; Mr. George Ford was also well received, and encored in every song. An address written for the occasion was well delivered by one of the members of the society, end much applauded, printed copies of which were afterwards distributed to the company. There were upwards of elaven hundred persons present. Altogether it must have been highly gratifying to the management to find their praiseworthy exertions so completely successful. Great credit is due to the committee of the Beaumont Institution for the success which attend their labours in rendering the accommodation to the public most com plote. Riches are but ciphers; it is the mind that makes the sum.— hliza Cook's Journal. _ The Marquis of Northampton, accompanied by Viscount Alford, M.P., and Lady Marianne Alford, Lord Aboyne, and Lady Margaret Compton, by the last letters received in town, had left Malta after a sejour of three weeks, for Alexandria, with the intention of making a tour in Egypt, in the courso of which the Noble Marquis and party intended to visit the Pyramids. We understand the Noble Marquis returns to this country about March, also Viscount and Lady Marianne Alford, for his Lordship to attend to his Parliamentary duties. MANNA CROUP.—Some large arrivals of the article known as manna croup are now taking place, the supplies of which have hitherto been of a very limited character. The vessel Helen. KGregor, from St. Petersburgh, has brought 50 packages, at:d the vessel Idas, arrived in the 'ocks from St. Petersburgh, has brought 101 bags, con signed, an.i also 305 packages of the article to order. By i ec4lit general order of the Custom.' board, the article known as manna croup. which is now understood to be sAlivat gr.•und by a particular operation, is to be admitted as wheat meal at the nominal duty of 4i per cwt., which will account for the greatly in c reased supplies of the k article which are now taking place from Log% MADRAS TROOPS. 7th Regiment Light Cavalry, from Nowgong, when relieved by 3d Regiment Bengal Light Cavalry. t2d Regiment Native Infantry, from Midnapore, when relieved by a detachment of three coaspaniea from Bar rackpore. 34th Regiment Native Infantry, from Dacca, when re lieved by 71st Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. 13osin•r TROOPd—UORSE ARTILLERY. 3J Troop, from Peshawar, when relieved by 23 Troop Ist Brigade Bengal Horse Artillery. FOOT ARTILLERY. 2d Company 13t battalion, and No. 7 battery, from Peshawar, when relievid by 4th company 6th battalion Bengal Artillery, and No. 19 horse battery. 4th Company 2d battalion, and No. 5 battery, from Moultan, when relieved by 2d company lat battalion Bengal Artillery, and No. 14 camel battery. Ist and 2d Companies golundauze, from Moultan. The relief for these will be announced hereafter. SAPPERS AND MINERS. Ist and 4th Companies, from Peshawur and Moultan. The relief for these will bo anncuneed hereafter. Ist Regiment Light Cavalry, from Moultan, when relieved by sth Regiment Bengal Irregular Cavalry. 2d Regiment Sinde Horse, from Peshawur, when relieved by the 9:12 Regiment Bengal Irregular Cavalry. INFANTRY. Ist Regiment of European Infantry (Fusiliers), from Peshawur, when relieved by her Majesty's 9Sth Regi ment. 3d Regiment Native Infantry, from Peshawur, when relieved by the 23d Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. 4th Regiment (or Mae Corps), from 'Moulton, whoa relieved by the 41st Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. 9th Regiment Native Infantry, from Moultan, when relieved by the 12th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. 19:h Regiment, from Peshawnr, ',hen relieved by the 71st Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. N.B.—Her Majesty's 60th Rifles, now on the Bombay establishment, and stationed at Peshawur, will stand fist until further orders. Strict attention to be paid to the standing regulations of the service, relative to the information required to be given by commanding officers to the civil authorities in. the districts through which the routes of their corps or detachments may lie; to the transmission of progress and other reports to head-quarters, and, during the absence of his Excellency the Commander in-Chief fronts the Presidency, of duplicates of all such reports to the officers in charge of the Adjutant-General's and Quartar master-General's offices in Calcutta. Routes will be furnished from the office of the Quarter. master-General of the army. 13y order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, PAT. GRANT, Lieut.-Colonel, Adjutant-General of the Army. The Great Northern Railway Company are pre paring to take the whole of the coal trade along their loop-line into their own hands, and have commenced the building of coal staiths at all the principal stations of this line. It is stated that they will sell the Silkatone coal tt Lincoln at 9s. per ton, whereas the price in the yards be 138. At King's-cross station, London, they propose . to retail the same coal at 17s. per too, the proms pima being in the metropolis 275. 1 3 4 112 ..... 12 74 -11 .. J JO 8111 I'4 ,v, 14 , a ...