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

MORN IN G SUN COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSO R , WED N ESDA Y. —The Q ueen an d Pence Albert took their accustomed morning / k a ix) and her Royal Highness the Duchess of ent also walked for some time on the Terrace Of the Castle. In the afternoon, her Majesty and the Prince, r o ended by Colonel Arbuthnot and Sir Edward . vrater, walked to the Riding-school to inspect I ts State of forwardness. _The christ en i ng o f hi s R o y a l Hi g h ness th e o rtnce of W a l e s w ill, it i s un d ers t oo d, ta k e p l ace t i the 26th January next. A. U, - Cabi ne t C ounc il was h el d at h a lf -past t h ree o 'c ockyesterday afternoon, at the Foreign ce• The Ministers present were Sir Robert Pei) the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wel iring,t(m) Lord Wharncliffe the Duke of Buck earn, the Earl of Aberdeen , Lord Stanley, :r dames Graham, the Chancelor of the Ex hquer, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Fitzgc d, the Earl of Ripon, Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir Edward Knatchbull. The Cou nc il sa t t wo h ours . Captain Elliot, R.N., had an interview with f ord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. w .lhe Marquis of Westmeath had an interview lt h the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, e his official residence in Downing-street. E ASTERN LITERARY SCIENTIFIC „ v I N STITUTION, HACKNEY-ROAD. uluesday evening last, Mr. Rowton de wered his concl u di n g lect ure on th e gen ius a n d tings of Boz. He stated that, having on the h. i•us occasions displayed the qualities of w l ekens's writings, his object, on the present, v .as to speak of their aims. To this end he re illewed the author's productions seriatim, begin at the Sketches and ending with his last pu b fished wor k , " B arna b y R u d ge. " I n t h e lo urs , l of hi s rev i ew M r . R ow t on spo k e part i cu - VY, of the aims of "Oliver Twist," " Nicholas w e Kleby," and "Barnaby Rudge." " Oliver tuist" was intended, he said, to expose (by pie ire rather than by precept) the working of the j et e w Poor-law s y s t em ; an d had also fur its ob t): to show that th e res t ra i n i ng power o f cap i ta l Dh V i tshment is not so great as some people be the; and th a t, p ro p er ly ex hibit e d an d set f ort h, Nei terror of conscienc.g and agony of horror that 4 101 17 the commission of sanguinary crimes, have I geater restraining tendency than the fear of a e ee n ientary and painless death. This led the tuturer to make a brief inquiry into the right of 4 141 a n to take away the life of his fellow creature; th at lie sh owe d w i t h muc h or i g i na lity an d f orce , ter ' neither reason, nor justice, nor policy, nor k2gion, can be pleaded in favour of this punish li'nt• In speaking of Nicholas Nickleby," Mr. eg yv toll pointed out, as its principal aim, the l ie l'esure of the Yorkshire school system, which t h justly and forcibly stigmatised; and, after 4 0 ,,, csw .ing the aim of "Barnaby Rudge" to be utst bigotry and intolerance, in other words, t ' ii nst a religious cry, he spoke at some length f i l l e subject of religious liberty, and power pr fa enforced the rights of conscience in matters tas,tli and creed. Mr. Rowton here took oc -I°ll to argue against the notion that Dickens 4: Produced his best works, and passed the eff e ri dian of his powers. He showed, with great itsiu ) that Dickens's mind, being universal 'er e ,grasp, can be bounded yieldsy the limits of h z a tion itself; and, till that y no more to its sp o t) illust go on improving. The Lecturer next b oo e of the one great and g e nera l a i m o f a ll b r iar Writings; viz. to make men look on the Thrt Side of human nature and of the world. and Point he discussed with great earnestness tro,"ility, urging the evils that would result lo u '''Paintinc, humanity in dark and dismal co eipca* Dickens's cheerful views and so un d p r in- G k ' s he illustrated by reciting the " Baron of Itit le fg,swig," (from Nicholas Nickleby), with i ita nurnour and comic talent. lerib'rawing to a conclusion, the Lecturer de ate. ! Tur d Dickens as peculiarly th e a u th o r of the w o.r. R. pourtrayed the features of the times der "'eh we live in an exceedingly striking man iep'rancl shoWed how completely Dickens is the and tentative of the great changes, throbbings, tioevudencies that characterize the present pe- Nv eu l tsperoration was exceedingly fine—con qUe4, and delivered in the true spirit of elo 4,ge, s l• His remarks on the universality of the ‘.;li„ - „`fuek us as bearing some resemblance to all e y I;""g's ideas on this subject—although, by "ley e ' ; ' , We do not know how, upon that subject, t e utler i ,id well be different. Mr. Rowton con- I T Q I 3 p r i n " e ls i address by identifying Dickens with P e of universality, and showing that co me P ea le that quality of mind which enabled - vThe and our other great writers, to be d L . ,. mese/lb "c they represent, and to be what they Th e e; far Lecture was received th roug h ou t w i t h to 4 ‘-'i attention and appl ause . Thi s M r . R ow - Cl ilo 4 eatly and happily a c k now l e d ge d at i ts con- I l i - lon, and modestly attribut e d the favour of j e s aadience to the interesting nature of the sub et upon which he had been engaged. 13 1 x, - ,, NER TO THE POOR INT THE NORWICH WORKHOUSE. (From the Norfolk . Chronicle.) e Lord Bishop having intimated . to the Governor 1 1 4 i - ,',:rubrs of the Court of Guardians in this city, k :10 dinnerre to give e t . o d thepoor inmates of the workhouse p q ' d u d ,ci nr, . of l English fare of roast beef and plum h e i r in cele b ration of the birth of a Prince, the Ey ed to the Throne, Tuesday last was the day eff~ e .e° for T his Lordship's benevolent intention into carrying the'l:nere are nearly 400 persons in the . house, and for th e 'e, ample. provision was furnished plum puddings of 144_ b est quality were made, and joints ' of beef of the litec`!st, kind were procured ; the . hadkitch . en, once a busy i in Whosegrates, since the introduction of a reforni 7 t ' no re has burned, nor has the note of lit..", r tition even sounded within its walls for civic hos it which materials this spacious kitchen and the 444: Lo rds for c ooking - a good dinn er , were again brought rNuisition. About hal f - past one, kr, disbe s wore pl•tced upon the tables w hich had been three in the centre aisle, and one by the side ; a id it b eing announced that all was reraed' and took dy the boys t h. g irl i i n the establishment first ent ered P l4 eo. an d wei c followed by the men and b oth , and i t was a pleasing sight to see so many, al l} o f old and young, whom poverty and not their tti e°nse nts to b e the re cipients of workhouse fare, (ll 'h rl et "wn before fine joints of beef, and smoking (;-" o f Plum pudding. ot o i ry said by • raee the Bishop, and "Non nobis, t ' l i o sere was Sun , by the choristers of the Cathedral, The stationed ° in the orchestra. NI) silaplairi to the workhouse (Rev. J. B. Temp 118teti ;" 45 Governor, and several of the Guardians as made 'n oarvin and most successful was the attack t he 1113 °4 the provisions, every one seeming to enjoy Ni ef ; and Miss Stanley, and several other ladies e n . 1 )} 1 - 1 , 'Buell interest in the personal comfort . and b_ hot the guests, particularly of the junior o AleGr°'. his the bounty. ace "v . g been pronounced by Lis Lordship, anel a c e lb •having resumed their le es , wornea, and children i n ki he ()16lior said, " My friends, I am in duty bound 114- ` a toast, an d I s h a ll g i ve you The health of t iestY Q ueen Vi ctor i a ,' our Sovereign, the ) ;, 0 1114 4 , of the B r i t i s h emp i re , an d gra tified, indeed, bigleshe to wi tness t hi s scene . T rue it i s tha tshe is Bt4ti 'lest authority of the l an d, but exalte d as is her 41 1 if she were here, Englishwoman as s h e is,. with 1 1 , 2ait and a mother's feelings, there is_n.oe: well know, which would please Queen . t 'ea r "re, than to behold the I now w i tness, of Ni t ot Y , 4 9 0 Poor persons regaling themselve_S , on the o 4 4 ,ddr e , ot h er son's birth. Her Majesty has received 4 1! s i - il e t ' fr om the highest and noblest of the land, but e would give her more real pleasure than all the tve,ivr ti es and congratulations that her Majesty has r friends, let us drink the health of Queen ct ori, ' l en"' may she reign h appy may she be, .the ” „°%e(l soverbeign of a loyal, free, and grateful peop l e. " s ter n save the Queen" was then sung by the cho -1:0°.or the Cathedral, assisted by the organ. i. °ll ' l ' l ley—Now, my friends, I must this day give iat4,..aLatLer toast, and it is the health of the Royal In- Ne' R "'",,,,is. under Divine Providence, to be our future B ,Piiii . „,, ; ', l aY God Almighty so impress him with a right ld •, -It Pin, that being moulded and fashioned as h a kto t ,4 4 the true spirit of wisdom, he may, when h e °P to manhood, prove a real blessing to the lan d co st ,`"re him birth. As by his birth he will be the '44 4 , -4 , 4 in the country, so by his education may he be ,b t he n best, and fitted for his exalted station. May Le 41 :e all things set a bright example to those whom Pie govern that they may feel it both a duty and a f 4 Bar e him,. °} 4 l 0 obey and to yield to him the hom age ,i o klie °bedient, arid happy subjects. I give you, The iti1„4,,110 the R oya l Infant, who is to be our future 'f k : -- (Great c h eer i ng.) Air—Rule Britannia. liis " e tlot , again slid—My friends, I must give mark In ure toast, an d I n ill b e s h or t i n my re t),or.3ll b " nevertheless it i s on e in which I bo as t, 4 , 4 rat "ntl, th e l and we live in. " may she ever be the liti o _ e ount ry i n the world, first in enterprise, first in re- Nor:e,,afclfirst in they happiness and welfare of h er (;--(etleers.) Air—Britons strike home. the 6 ,-ovEi:Noi: said—l have the . pe rmission . of . 111 14 ; C- i t° Propose a toast, and I will give you one . in t he h e sure sure you will all unite most cordially ;it h er ealth o a Of on e who does high honour to the high and °lnce which he holds, and who exemplifies that spat tii'Yllness, by generosity, and good feeling.: . It ekight all who venerate our Church, to see the manner in which the head of that Church in that dio cese exercises his office; it gives me satisfaction to pro pose, and I am sure that you will heartily drink, " The health of the Bishop."—(Cheers.) His LORDSHIP said—Five years I have been among you, and I have passed many happy hours in this dio cese, but I know not that I ever passed one more satis factorily to myself, than in seeing, as I have done this day, nearly 400 of the poor regaling themselves on this auspicious occasion. I have seen St. Andrew's Hall crowded at many meet'ngs, for benevolent, religious, and almost every variety of objects, but I have never seen it filled in a manner more gratifying than it is now, by persons of the poorer class regaling themselves on an occasion joyful to England itself. I myself only regret that every poor person, not only in Norwich, but throughout England, is not able by his industry and hnnest exertions to celtbrate the event in the same manner. My earnest prayer to God is, that things may improve ; so that every industrious man may be able to earn a competency and be able to live in the enjoy ment of the privileges of his country.—(Cheers.) The BISHOP then gave " Health, success, and happi ness to the poor in Norwich and the poor in England." His Lordship, Mrs. Stanley, and the company who had been present in the bail, then retired. We will not close our account of the proceedings of this interesting day, without paying a just tribute of praise to Mr. and Mrs. Lowed, the master and matron of the workhouse, for the excellent arrangements they had made, and the cleanly and respectable appearance of the poor inmates was highly creditable to them as managers of the establishment. ANTI-SLAVERY FUNDS. The Committee of the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society aro under the necessity of calling the attention of their friends throughout the country to the low state of their funds. The list of contributions which they have the pleasure of presenting to-day, shows that their kind and valued co-operators do not forget. them ; but the supplies at present, and for a con siderable time past afforded, are not equal to their ne cessities. So very far, indeed, is this from being the case, that arrears have accumulated to the very serious and embarrassing amount of fifteen hundred pounde, and the evil is increasing every week. The attention of the Committee has been closely directed to an exa mination of the expenditure, and to measures of eco nomy, of which latter we may have something more to say in our next. But no idea can be entertained of carrying on the highly-important operations of the So ciety on any scale of efficiency, without larger supplies. —Anti-Slavery Reporter. GENERAL MEETING AND RE HEARSAL OF MR. MAINZER'S PUPILS AT THE MUSIC HALL, STORE-STREET. In this age, so rife with precocity and improvement, the feeling of wonder is all but dead within us, and those events and things which would have made the hairgof our forefathers stand on end with astonishment pass by us now as idle things, " which we respect not." If we did not feel astonishment on Tuesday we at least:fel t pleasurable surprise at the degree of accuracy attained by the pupils of Mr. Mainzer. The vocal performances were confined to choruses, which were admirably exe cuted considering the short space of time, only 16 days, the pupils have had for instruction. The gem of the evening was a preludio fugalo by Mr. Jones on the organ, which was indeed an elaborate performance, and was most enthu siastically applauded. The performances concluded with " God save the Queen," and we have seldom heard it given with finer effect, and here the good instruction of Mr. Mainzer was indeed conspi cuous, as the voices, 1,200 in number, were as one. Amongst the audience, which was an elegant and fashionable one, we noticed Lord Brougham, Mr. Robert Owen, &c. Mr. Mainzer delivered a short address explanatory of his object, which, as he stated, is to es tablish a national singing institution, each pupil paying the sum of sixpence per month towards the expenses. He stated that he proposed extending it to the provinces; and he had established a class at Brighton, which num bered eight hundred. The evening's entertainment ter minated at ten o'clock; and there was but one complaint, which was the want of room, as the boxes only contained room for six tickets for a dozen that had been issued. CHARTIST PREACHERS. Mr. Vincent preached a sermon at Bath on Sunday last, the 12th inst. The text was chosen from John viii. 12, "I am the Light of the world ; he who folio eth after me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." Mr. V. proceeded to give a brief outline of the person and character of Christ: the lowliness of his temporal origin; the apparent insignificance of his birth; the honour poverty had conferred upon it by the Deity introducing his choicest blessing to the world through the medium of the industrious classes. He spoke of this lowliness of origin as showing that worldly wealth and titles are not great in the eyes of God; and that the humility of Christ was a severe rebuke to the lofty and wicked ones of the earth. He then glanced at the condi tion of the Jewish and the Heathen world at the time Christ appeared; and at the extraordinary impression made by his doctrines. He then took the words of the text " I am the Light," and showed that light was the best personification of TRUTH. The light of Christ was spoken of as spiritual, moral, intellectual, social, and political. The spiritual light spoke of man's immortal ity. Mr. Vincent dwelt at length on the importance of this LIGHT ;—how it levelled the artificial distinctions of society—how it raised the slave, pauper, and beggar, when it showed that within their emaciated bodies God had implanted immortal souls that should be received into his eternal presence when the turmoil of life should be past. The king and the pauper would pass through notth e samedepdepend d tomb, upero o r a m nd t an e laws—an wealthheir eo ofr receptionthipoverty , naeitheir ati earthly inn buto f h ud e pu a ot v ni e e n would Christ—and duties. he Tful filmentmoral o li p g oe h rf t God's t P aught men they were brethren ; that God made of one blood all th e nat i ons of the earth ; we were to love one another ; delight in charity and mercy ; to give heart worship to our Creator ; and let our faith be of that lively character as should evince it self in works of practical good towards all with whom we came in contact. Intellectual light was necessary to make men acquainted with the laws of God and the laws of their own being; to elevate their characters; to give increased beauty, to the moral light; to diffuse the blessings of science; to enable men to defend their rights against the encroachments of others; or to win rights when withheld. Social light was necessary to teach men how institutions could be so fashioned as to pro mote the good of all. Political light was necessary to show the iniquity and atheism of our present rulers, and the injustice of all exclusive systems of govern ment. Mr. Vincent, at great length, (supported by passages from the Scriptures) proved that Christ's Gospel was this light; that it established the equality of man ; that it was the foe of darkness and vice ; that it bore testimony against all wrong ; and that as soon as all men saw the Light the world would be religiously, intellectually, morally, socially, and poli tically revolutionised. Mr. Vincent concluded a sermon, of which it is impossible to give anything but a mere outline, by showing how all classes needed " the Light," and by imploring the Deity to enable all to become il lutnined by the spirit and practice of Christ. The building was crowded to suffocation. Hundreds outside were unable to gain admission. Mr. Philp delivered his second lecture on the same evening, at .3, Gallaway-buildings. The room was crowded. A powerful impression was made upon all present. The precepts and practice of Christ were con trasted with the exactions of the Church, and the gene ral immorality of the higher and other classes. The im morality and irreligion of our present system of Govern ment were eloquently set forth, and the Christian duties clearly expounded. Mr. Clarke lectures in the same place next Sunday evening, at half-past six o'clock. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM SHIP WRECK. The fine brig Amity, of Newhaven, 252 tons register, John Scott, commander, sailed from Colombo, in the island of Ceylon, on the sth of June last, with a valuable cargo, consisting of 264 tons of cocoanut oil, in tanks and casks, a large quantity of deer and buffalo horns, about 150 coils coir rope, 5,000 packages coir junk, 2,000 bundles of coir yarn, and several bales of coir fibre, which, together with the value of the ship, was valued by Mr. Hennis, a salvage agent, of Mount-street, Whitechapel-road, at 15,6414 The ship, in taking her course up the English Channel, owing to the dense fog, was obliged to run into Dungeness Roads for a pilot before daybreak on. the 30th ult., and there let go both anchors ; but the wind and waves raging in a most ter rific manner, swept all before them, and the Amity struck on a sand-bank, which carried away her rudder, and. consequently she was obliged to slip her cables, and run from her anchors. Her windlass, owing to the heavy beating of the sea, was broken, bit gone, foremast sprung between de c k s , and nine feet water in the hold. In this disabled state, with the prospect of her becoming a total wreck, the Pandora, of Dover, Thomas Collins, master, with four men, while cruising off Dungeness, perceived the brig with a woff in her main riggirg, and signals of distress. flying at her mast-head, made for and boarded her about nine, A.m., when John Adams and James Aldenbury Hender son (an old twenty-six year North Sea pilot), went on board, and found her to be abreast of Brockman's barn, off Dungeness, bearing N.N.W. in four fathoms water, and very leaky, and in the crippled state before men tioned ; upon which they made signals for more assist ance, and the cutter, having made fast two hawsers, one on each quarter, endeavou red to steer the brig for Dover harbour, and got sail upon her about ten, A.M. About this time the lugger Catherine, of Dover, William Da vidson, master, with four men, hove in sight, boarded her, and took the Amity in tow. The leak in creased, and great fear wa s entertained that the Amity would go down in deep water, and all hands were kept to the pumps. Th e Amity made Dover bar, in charge of the salvors, about one, P.M., of the same day, and it was discovered that there was not sufficient depth to cross the bar. The wind . was then blowing a tremendous gale and the sea running strong. On the Amity reaching within fifteen fathoms of the south pierhead a heavy sea struck her, she pitched heavily, and was, in a few minutes, forced about forty fathoms to the eastward of the north pierhead, and, beat ing round, stranded on the beach. The boatmen were now compelled t o cut a d r if t , and, to save their own lives and property, make for the Downs. The pumps on board were still kept at a ork, w hich so lightened the brig that she floated about an hour before high water, and about one A.M., on the Ist instant, she was brought into Dover Harbour by th e b oa t m en, and her cargo is now being discharged there. During the time sh e lay stranded on th e beach great fears were enter tained by at least 800 spectators, who watched her with great anxiety, that she would become a total wreck, especially as .the wind at that time was blowing very strong from the S.W. Not one life was lost in this dangerous enterprise, and great praise is due to those courageous men, Collison, Davison, Adams, and Henderson, and the boatmen generally for their exertion. ,But for their nautical skill and perse verance, the Amity would have become a total wreck, and every man on board would have perished. Davison is known at Dover as " Old Jumper," who has many times risked his life by taking foreign mail bags over sea when others would not put off. On Monday a Board of Commissioners was called by Messrs. Latham, Lloyd's agents at Dover, on behalf of the ship and cargo, and Mr. T. J. Hennis, salvage agent, on account of the salvors and pilot, at the King's Head, Hotel, Dover, be fore Thomas Pain, Esq., R.N., Chairman, John Hyons, Esq., Harbour Master, Deputy ; Captain Mudge, R.N., Captain Shylock, RN., Daniel Peake, Esq., and the Col lector of her Majesty's Customs for the port of Dover, when, after receiving evidence similar to the above state ment, and the valuation of Messrs. Latham and Mr. Hen nis, at 15,6411., the Court unanimously awarded the salvors the sum of 5031., which was instantly paid. LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING. As on this day week, the attendance was good for December. A variety of offers were made on the Derby. Two or three influential parties seemed very anxious to support Ballinkeele and the Lord of Hol derness ; one gentleman laid 300 to 10 against each of them, and afterwards 300 to 10 against Wiseacre, and the same against Robert de Gorham. These prices, however, may be considered quite the extreme of the market ; the closing offers being 500 to 20 against either the Lord of Holderness or Ballinkeele, and about 25 to 1 was Robert de Gorham's price; 30 to 10 was laid against Attila, and 11 to 1 offered to a small sum against Chatham ; 200 to 6 was taken on Meteor, afterwards 1,000 to 30 offered; 50 to 1, to a few pounds, was laid against Mr. Booth's two. Sir T. Sykes 's two greys were a good deal talked about, but the offer of 1,000 to 30 against them, or 1,000 to 15 against either, did not cause a bet to be pencilled down; 35 to 1 against either of the Marquis of Westminster's two, say Auck land and William de Fortibus, we imagine could be had. A bet of 50 at evens on William against Auckland was offered ; 1,000 to 50 against all the mares was offered in vain ; 50 to 1 was offered against William le Gros, and the same against Brother to Phcenix. _ _ THE OAKS.-51 to 1 was offered against Passion. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER.—The market continues exceedingly depressed, and rather lower prices, both for goods and yarn, have been pretty generally submitted to. We understand, however, that the very low rates now cur rent have had the effect of causing some speculative in quiry, both in yarn and goods. There have been, during the past week, several failures at Glasgow and Paisley, two of which are of some magnitude ; but we understand that one only is likely to affect this neigh bourhood, which it will do to the extent of about 14,0002 ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, DEC. 13.—We have had a fair average market to-day, with no change in prices. The wool market has undergone no change this week. THE SUli, LONDON, TH URSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1841. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 14.—0 n Sunday, sailed the Vi per, 6, Lieutenant Carter commanding, for South Ame rica, having on board Mr. Ball, Secretary of Legation. She returned to the anchorage of St. Helen's this morn ing, owing to adverse winds. The Serpent, 16, Captain Devereux, sailed this after noon for Plymouth, to join the North Star, Captain Sir Everard Home, Bart. These ships, in company with the Apollo and Sapphire, will proceed to China, the two latter vessels with troops. The Belvidera, 46, will sail to-morrow for the Medi terranean. Captain the Hon. G. Grey, who commands the Belvidera, has gone to Genoa by land, to arrange the affairs, and take charge of his late sister's family, Lady Durham. Lieut. Bullen will take charge of the Belvi dera, until she arrives at Genoa. The Warspite, 50, Lord John Hay, will go out of har bour on Thursday. The Athol, troop-ship, Mr. Bellamy, master, is or dered to proceed to Barbadoes with troops, calling at Cork. The Dido, 20, Captain the Honourable Henry Koppel, on her way from the River to Spit head, has put back to the Downs to make good her defects, having encountered heavy weather off Dun geness. The Rapid, late tender to the Royal George, is ordered to be fitted for the coast of Africa ; Lieut. J. Gale is appointed to command. The Royal George will be paid off on Saturday, and recommissioned by Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence; Lieut. Hawker is appointed First Lieutenant, vice Tryon, promoted. BEAUTIES OF ENGLI S H LAW. On the sth of February last, there was published in the Shrewsbury Chronicle a paragraph, in which Mr. Fountleroy, a wool-merchint of Bermondsey, was stated to have suffered a heavy loss, from having been induced to give goods to a person named Howell, engaged in the woollen trade at Llanidloes, hich were afterwards ob tained by the party by whom the character was given. The name of the individual who gave the character was not stated in the paragraph, but on the 12th February the attorney of Mr. Jones, a banker at Llanidloes, sent an affidavit to the Shrewsbury Chronicle, to the effect that his client was the party alluded to in the paragraph. On the 4th of March, Jones, through his attorney, de manded the name of the person who forwarded the original paragraph. for publication, accompanied by a suggestion, that if a statement were inserted, to the effect that the editor " had inquired into the ac cusation against Jones and found it false," this might end all further proceedings. After some correspondence, the name of the writer of the writer of the paragraph was communicated to Jones, and in the Shrewsbury Chroni cle, of the 12th of March, appeared the following retrac tation:—" As son_e persons seem to imagine that the statements in the paragraph of the sth of February apply to Benjamin Jones, Esq., banker, Llanidloes, we have made inquiry, and are authorised to state, that not the slightest imputation rests on that gentleman. We are glad to give this decided contradiction." On the day that this contradiction appeared, the writ in the action was issued. The trial was appointed to take place in London in June last, and for eighteen days the plaintiff and his attorney and witnesses, and the witnesses of the defendant, were kept there at an enormous expense, and dismissed without the cause being tried. The plaintiff then caused a Special Jury to be summoned to try the cause, and all the witnesses on both sides had again to be taken to London, where, on Friday, the 3d inst., the cause was tried, and one farthing damages were given. The plaintiff applied to his Lordship to certify, in or der to have his costs ; but Lord Denman said he did not consider this a case which required a certificate. The Shrewsbury Chronicle gives the following estimate of the plaintiff's costs : EXPENSES OF WITNESSES, &C., ON THE FIRST TRIAL, IN JUNE. JONES V. WATTON. £ s. d. OWENS, solicitor, 18 days, at 2 guineas a day , 37 16 0 Travelling expenses, 186 miles, at ls. a mile up 9 6 0 Ditto, down 9 6 0 PRYCE, manufacturer, 15s. a day for 18 days 13 10 0 Travelling expenses, up and down, ls. a mile, from Llanidloes to Lon don, 200 miles 2O 0 0 MORRIS, stationer, 15s. a day for 18 days Travelling expenses, up and down, 200 miles 2O 0 0 STURKEY, 18 days, at a guinea a day Travelling expenses, 186 miles, up and down lB 12 0 HAYWARD, 18 days at 2 guineas a day Travelling expenses JONES, 18 days, at 15s. a day Travelling expenses Fees to the Counsel Briefs SECOND TRIAL. OWENS, 5 days -. 10 10 Travelling expenses, up and down STURKEY, 5 days Travelling expenses HAYWARD, 5 days lO 10 Travelling expenses Fan, 5 days Travelling expenses DAVIES, 5 days Travelling expenses JONES, 5 days Travelling expenses Refreshers to three Counsel Fees to their Clerks Special Jury Court Fees Other Costs of the Cause £5ll 13 These are independent of the defendant's costs, the greater part of which, as it turns out, the plaintiff will have to pay, and also independent of all the costs between himself and his attorney. The Welsh have the character of being a very litigious people, and no stronger proof could be given of their peculiar propensity than this brief narrative. Mr. Jones, however, must be convinced now that a man may " pay too much for his whistle." LATE DELIVERY OF .LETTERS. A memorial was lately addressed to the Postmaster- General, from a number of London merchants, and signed by John Dillon, the Chairman, complaining of the late delivery of letters in London on the arrival of the foreign mails, and praying that the subject might be taken into his serious consideration. The following answer has been returned : " General Post-office, Dec. 10, P 341. " am directed by the P ostmaster-General to acknowledge the receipt of your co mmunication of the 6th inst., transmitting a memorial from the London As sociation, requesting that the delivery of the General Post letters may not be delayed on the days of arrival of the foreign and colonial mails, and to inform you that his Lordship regrets he cannot comply with this applica tion, as he should not feel justified in subjecting the im portant correspondence from India and other parts abroad, which is brought by these mails, to the serious detention which must inevitably result from a compli ance with the wish of the memorialists. " I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, " W. L. MABERLY, Secretary. " John Dillon, 106, Fore-street." In consequence of the continuance of wet weather the banks of the Arun, in the neighbourhood of Arundel, have overflowed, and the hay-stacks are now standing in three and four feet of water. Persons are obliged to be conveyed along the roads in waggons Some of the meadows have been under water for the last three months. THE MURDER NEAR WALSALL. CORONER'S INQUEST. BIRMINGHAM, Monday Night.—This morning an in quest was held upon the body of the unfortunate old ' man, named Matthew Adams, ivho was most cruelly mur dered at the Delves, near Walsall, on the morning of Wednesday, the Ist inst. It will be recollected by our readers that the Government had offered a reward of 1001. for the apprehension of the offenders, and it is sa tisfactory to know that, through the diligence of Ray mond, the Superintendent of the Walsall police, there is every reason to believe that the crime has been traced to the actual perpetrators. The circumstances of the case as detailed in the evi dence were briefly these :—Matthew Adams was an old man nearly seventy years of age, deriving his means of subsi s t ence from the rent o f some h ouses . 1 A few days b e f ore t h e occurrence of th i s catastrop h e he was know n t o have collected h i s money d ue in respect of this property, and it is thought that the hopes of obtaining it led to a burglarious en trance of his premises on the morning in question ; and although there is little reason to suppose that the life of the old man was originally intended as a sacrifice, yet there is no doubt, from the preparations of the burglars, that they were resolved to carry their intentions into effect, regardless of the consequences that might ensue. As it was, 1 hey made their entrance through a pantry at the back of the house, and it would seem that the old man, hearing the noise, came down stairs, partly undressed, to ascertain the cause of it. Here he was assailed by . the burglars, and the old man making a strenuous resist ance, was violently struck upon the head with a hammer, which caused his death. A woman living near heard the noise at this unusual hour, and opened her window to satisfy herself of the cause, but one of the party threw a stone at her, and caused her to retreat. She suc ceeded, however, in perceiving. three men, and immedi ately raised an alarm, on which aparty of navigators living near pursued tile ruffians, though they did not succeed in capturing them. Superintendent Raymond was quickly on on the spot, and instituted a strict search of the premises, but found nothing except a loaded pistol, which was left in the pantry. From inquiries which he made, he found that a young man of the name of Boswell had fre quently been seen discharging a percussion-cap pistol ; accordingly he went, in company with one of the police men, to the house of the suspected party, whom he found at breakfast with his mother. Raymond forthwith taxed him relative to the pistol, but he declared that he knew nothing about it, and that the pistol which he had been seen to use was at that moment in the house. At the direction of Raymond he produced it, but still there were circumstances of suspicion which seemed to justify his detention as a prisoner, and he was immediately taken into custody. It was soon afterwards discovered that the pistol found in the ; pantry had been repaired by a lock maker in Park-street for the prisoner Boswell; and addi tional suspicion fell upon him from the fact of his at tempting an escape from prison. At the inquest four persons, named Joseph Wilkes, James Wilkes, Thomas Boswell, and George Giles, were charged with the commission yf the crime. It was not only proved that the : pistol found in the pantry had been repaired by Mr. Bagott t the locksmith, for the prisbner Boswell, but a confession- of. that pri soner to Superintendent Raymond was put in evidence. From this it appeared that the four prisoners went' the house of the deceased with the view of effecting a robbery. They made their entrance through the roofing of the pantry ; they then attempted to force the door which led into the house, but heard the old man cough, and were induced to refrain. They remained here quietly for nearly a quarter of an hour, when the old man came down stairs, and, on hearing it, Joseph Wilkes went round to the front door to meet him, and struck him several times upon the head with a hammer, thus fractuling his skull in two places. It was admitted by Joseph Wilkes that he struck the deceased, but without the intention of killing him ; and it further appeared that, inasmuch as Joseph Wilkes was a young man, his brother James went to his assistance, and thus received a blood stain on his frock. Against the prisoner Giles there appeared but a comparatively trifling case, but he was implicated by the evidence of Boswell and 'Wilkes. The Coroner having summed up the evidence, The Jury unanimously came to the verdict, "That the deceased had come to a violent death ; that Joseph Wilkes was principallyimplicated in the murder, and that the other prisoners were principals in the second degree." The Coroner then issued. his warrant for. their com mittal to the Stafford Assizes Cod have been kept in salt water ponds in dif ferent parts of Scotland, and found to maintain their con dition unimpaired. Of these ponds there are three—one in Galloway, another in Fife, and a third in Orkney. That in Galloway is at Logan, the seat of Colonel M 4 Dowall ; it is a basin of 30 feet an depth, 160 in circumference, hewn out from the solid rock, and communicating with the sea by one of those fissures that are common to bold and precipitous coasts. _ _ Last week the inhabitants of Worthing were much surprised by the appearance of a pack of fox hounds, with the huntsmen in full chase. It appears that Mr. Richardson's fox-bounds found a fox, and had an excellent run of an hour and a half, when reynard, being hard pressed, ran into Worthing, followed Ly hunts men and hounds iu full cry. The fox was killed in the ornamental shrubbery of the Crescent, which was sadly destroyed by these unusual visitors. Meetings have been held at Welshpool, and other places in Wales, to petition the Queen for a new order of knighthood, to be called the order of St. David, and the establishment of a professorship of the Welsh language and literature in the Universities of Oxford and ("Attu bridge. THE LATE HORRID MURDERS.--OFFERS or REWARDS.—Tuesday's Government Police Gazette contains the offer of a reward of 501., to be paid by her Majesty's Government, for the discovery of the person or persons who early on th e morn i n g of th e sth instant, at Denton's-green, near the town of St. Helen's, in the county of Lancaster, brutually and cruelly murdered Mr. Henry Grayson, of Rainford, in the same county, farmer. Majesty's Also, pardona further to ay accomplicereward of 50/. by the personal representatives of th e • unfortunate gent l eman , an d h er information. Lik ew i se the offer of g a ivig r n ew t a h r e d by her Maje s ty' s G overnment, and her Ma j esty ' s f ree necessary e l s o s a o r t, y pardon to any accomplice who shall give such 'informa tion as shall lead to the discovery of the porson or per sons who, on the night of the 30th ult., broke into the dwelling-hou se o f M atthew Adams, of Delves Bank, in the parish of Wednesbury, in the county of Stafford, and most barbarously and violently beat and wounded the unfortunate man, who was 74 years of age, and the the only inmate o f th e house, from the effects of which he lingered in a state of insensibility until the following morning, when he died. Also for the discovery of the murderer of a male child, two months old, which was found on the 3d instant cruelly mutilated, in a wood be longing to Lady Hippesley, in the parish of Stow Easton, in the county of Somerset. RESIGNATION OP MR. SERGEANT ARABIN. —We are happy to hear that the above Learned Gentle man is going on very favourably, considering the painful operation he underwent on Saturday last, but it is under stood that he will never resume those judicial duties .that he has performed for many years, hence the Judge ship of the Sheriffs' Court for the City, and his seat in the Central Criminal Court, will become vacant. We understand that Mr. Ryland, who has long been the ,senior barrister in the former Court, will be elected to the first situation as successor to Mr. Sergeant Arabia without opposition. We hear - that the Learned Gentle man has declared that in the event of his elevation to the Bench he will, if business and public convenience require it, preside three times weekly, instead of twice a fortnight. The Earl of Aberdeen, and several of the Ca binet Ministers, visited Sir R. Peel yesterday morning at the Right Honourable Baronet's official residence in Downing-street. ON THE Loox-ouT."—The Rev. John Peel, brother of the Right lion. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., accompanied by Mrs. Peel and family, arrived at Mivart's yesterday, from Canterbury ; and i n a few Waresley House, near Stourport.— days Hotel leave for Tory Paper. AMERICAN CHE ESE.—Amongst the recent arrivals from the United States have been large quan tities of cheese. This cheese is subject here to an im portthe freight and other ex stconsiderably exceed a half penny per pound, thus addi ng to it s or i g i na l va l ue i n ex penses, se duty t we y o are re 12s. ss per ured, cwt.; m and u America not less than 2d. p er poun d, or some 40 or 50 per cent. on its cost price. Y e t thi s c h eese i s se lli ng a here at prices which brin g it i n t o di rect compet i t i on w i t h cheese of British manufacture. And here let it be ob served, that, so far as labour enters into the question under consideration, there can be no difference in wages which may enable the American farmer to undersell the English one ; for the wages of agricultural servants in the States are nearly three times as high as they are in this kingdom. Our inability to compete on equal terms with the Americans in the manufacture of cheese must therefore be found in the high rents to which the British farmer is liable—another blessing which we owe to the legislative preponderance of the landed interest —Man chester Guardian. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NOVELS,—What would Sir Walter Scott have said if he had seen his im mortal Novels on sale at a few pence each week? We think " This is popularity" would have escap e d hi m . Hi s family have done wisely, in these times of J ac k Shep rhaacr t d e s, s to fe rt bring healthy reading to e ver y one ' s f i reside; and we rN y have it in the po wer f u ll y drawn cha racters The prize ox which fell into the kitch en o f the hair-dresser's shop at the corner of Vere-str ee t, Clare market, on Monday, was obliged to be slaughtered t h ere . this morning, all attempts to get it out promo. unavailing. CHRISTMAS BOXES,—A lady at Bath, a short time since, sent her servant, " a recent importation" from the country, for a leg of mutton. The man executed his commission, and informed his mistress th at h e had given 9d. per lb. for it. The lady, surprised at the price, in dignantly ordered him to take it back, and tell the butcher better the leg message,of mutton was not to be s he would have no inferior meat at her t a bl e, and that he The but c h er a t first t declared m ust send the best he had in the house. J o h n took back joint, had in the city ; but recollecting himself, h e as k e d J o h n the name of his mistress, and upon being informed , he danced round the shop in vexation— , and t hat delivered a Confound my stupidity," said he, " take this leg, say it's 9d. per lb., and make an apology to your mistress for me, and I will give you two guineas at Christmas. How long has James left your mistress ?" The new servant was however, too honest to allow his mistress to be cheated, and told her the whole of the conversation.—Liverpeei Courier. OXFORD PROFESSORSHIP.--It will be satis factory to many of our correspondents to know that the defeat of the " Tractarian" candidate by a majority of at least two to one is certain. — Tory Evening P a p er . " THE LONGEST LINK. --But eight miles remain to be finished of the railroad between Batavia and Buffalo, which, with the Boston road, will complete a continuous road from Boston to Buffalo, 600 miles, the longest in the world.--,New York Weeny llerald. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTRRDAY. GLOBE.—If the Times finds it impossible to preserve consistency of opinion, and avoid self ' contradiction even throughout any one leading article, still more impossible does it seem to find it to preserve any sort of coherency, or common tendency, amongst those motley guerillas of its correspondence columns, which it equally honours with large type and prominent place in the same day's publication. When knaves fall out, it is said, honest men cbme by their own; and when Times correspond ents of one column fall foul with pious zeal, and scriptural quotations, of the very palliatives for our present evils which the Times correspond ents of another column suggest, they give wel come tokens of that discord in the enemy's camp, which must yield to determined onset— that restless want of union in wrong, which cannot stand before union in the right. The scriptural gentleman in to-day's Times attacks the last " Queen's letter" to the Archbishop of of Canterbury, which calls on her Majesty's loyal subjects to co-operate with the Society Ibr the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, in carrying on and promoting the good designs of that Society : " We are told in the Queen's letter 'that the present state of the labouring classes in Great Britain, together with the demand for labourers in every British colony, affords reasons for be lieving that emigration will be carried on for many years to come upon an increasing scale, and that the condition of our countrymen who quit their native land, and settle in distant coun tries, without any public provision for their re ligious instruction, gives them a strong claim upon the Christian sympathy of the mother country.'" Now we must so far agree with the scriptural gentleman in the Times, as to say that it is in deed startling to find her Most Gracious Majesty (who has done her best, at least, to provide that her subjects should have bread at home) reduced to apply to them in this language ! The present stale of the labouring classes (no reserve; no qualification!) is such as to afford " reason for believing" that they must be expatriated wholesale ! This is the first time a Sovereign of England holds such language to her subjects ! Thank God we have a Sovereign whose will is innocent of these extremities ! And these ex tremities----were they not foreseen and foretold when the Corn-laws were first enacted ? We, have quoted the late Lord G renv ill e on thi s point. We will quote him again : " The first petition which he begged leave to present to their Lordships (March 6, 1815,)' was from the merchantS, manufacturers, cotton-spin ners, and others in and about the town of Man chester, signed by 52,000 persons. . . . . .The petition was read, and stated the mischiefs Whieli;:fn'the opinion of, the petitioners, would result fromaYerieVerance in the proposed altera tion in the Corn-laws, by raising the price of provisions in general, sending skilful workmen , Out of the country to France, the United States of America, &c., and ultimately proving highly injurious even to the owners of land.' - Lord Grenville, the late Sir Robert Peel, the present Lord Ashburton, and others in both Houses, enforced the prayers of these petitions with an earnest emphasis, which has proved pro phetic 1 Yes—labourers are to be sent out of the country to relieve their whole class I—a most monstrous absurdity—individuals may be bet tered—the class will not. Labourers are to be exiled, because trade is prohibited ; and agricul ture needs not our increasing numbers—the po pulation in some great agricultural counties is even diminishing. The landlords don't want us on their lands—the foreigners shan't feed us in our towns! STANDARD.—A week, or thereabout, has passed since we put a plain question arising out of Lord Palmerston's letter, viz., if the late Ca binet were impressed, as Lord Palmerston said they were always, with the necessity of adopting the principles of their abortive budget, why did they postpone the adoption of those principles to the month of April, 1841 ? The question has not been answered; as far as we are able to discover no serious attempt has been made to answer it. The fact is remarkable. It certainly is not that other matters of more pressing interest occupy the attention and the labour of our Contemporaries, for we scarcely remember a season when "a subject for a lead ing article" was more in request, and we see by marks, obvious to the initiated, though the vulgar overlook them (at least we hope so), that our Liberal Contemporaries are not the lightest sufferers by the prevailing dearth of topics.. Day after day the Morning Chronicle spreads its Anti -Corn-law sophistries and crotchets as nearly as it can in new shapes, as one sees an old lady sometimes spreading her fifty-two pasteboard playthings, in the hope of obtaining a novel combination—still with the same wearisome disappointment to matron and jour nalist ; they are still the same elements, only a little damaged by thumbing, and all the modes of arranging them have been long exhausted. Night after night we have the Globe yawning, and making its readers yawn, over the same dreary " game of patience." Now surely when " a new hare has been started," one would expect that such an unexpected chase in so dull a season would be eagerly followed, if there should not be some danger apprehended from the pursuit. So we suspect it is : the question which we have pro pounded is not one that will hear handling by Whig-Radical hands—for either Lord Palmer ston's proposition must be admitted false, or his Lordship and his party must plead guilty to a ten years'. gross neglect of duty. We have heard a whispered explanation, indeed, that the Whig- Radical Ministers were not strong enough to carry a free-trade law, and, therefore, they did not make the attempt. Let us try to understand this. The Whig-Radical Ministers were strong enough to carry the Parliamentary Reform Bill, the Municipal Reform Bill, various Irish Church Amendment Bills, the East India Trade Bill, many other Bills no less grave in their operations, and, finally, the Bill which more than all others outraged ancient habits and wounded public feeling, the New Poor-law Bill. All these they were strong enough to carry—why could they not carry the free trade law ? It will be said that the combination of monopolists opposed them upon this last subject, though not on others. What, are we to understand then that it was by the aid of the " combination of mono polists" that the Parliamentary Reform Bill and all the other great measures of the late Adminis tration were carried? Alas! for the honour of reform, if this is true—if, after all, we have re ceived our new constitution at the hands of (we blush to write it) a combination of monopolists. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS: FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 51 per mile, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 28, and exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 47k, it follows that gold is 0.78 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By nclvices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 428 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10Ncl. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 01-, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 7i, it follows that gold is 0.58 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. A point of considerable importance arises out of an anomaly in the present sugar duties. So great is the difference between the duties on raw sugar and that in a manufactured state, such as lozenges, and other arti cles sold by the hard-confectioners, the impost on the raw article being very high, and that on the manufac tured article little more than nominal, that a consider able loss to the revenue, and a great injury to British labour, is the consequence. For the duty on lozenges, &c., being so low, the great confectioners in London have found it profitable to have their goods manufactured in France and the Channel Islands, and imported here ready made, and thus entirely deprive the English makers of all chances of competition ; for the rate on sugar here is so high, that it is impossible to work it with any prospect of profit, while the foreign ma nufactured goods are admitted comparatively duty free. But the evil does nos stop here ; since, while the English operatives are thrown out of employ, the revenue is also affected by the diminution in the con sumption of Colonial sugar. These evils are so appa rent, and a remedy for them would be so easy, that one would think the remedy need only be known to he in stantly removed. The process would simply be raising the duty on the lozenges, so as again to bring the Eng lish workmen into employ, for as they are articles com pletely of luxury, and moreover purchased in very small quantities, such an impost would not be felt as an in jury to the consumer. An additional motive for suc h a measure is, a fraudulent practice which is said to have made its way among the dealers in confectionery, viz., the importation of the sugar in its manufa c t ure d state, to be subsequently melted down, and used as the raw material. Whether this practice actually exists or not, the evils which result to the operatives and the revenue, even even by a legal use of the present scal e of duties, quite sufficient to merit serious attention. We mentioned the. other day a circular from a mer cantile house at Adelaide, in which overc ismesportfatihonwas considered to be one of the leading au depression of trade in the Australi an colonies, especially Sydney. This opinion is in a great measure c on fi rme d by a statement furnished by a correspondent, of the stock of bonded goods in the port of Sydney during the years 1840 and 1841, whi c h shows n increas rm eof the most reckless rapidity. Thus, in the first week of January, 1840, the number of gallons of brandy was under 9,000, in the corresponding period in 1841, as much as 78,000, and in the first week of last July above 158,000. Geneva in similar periods increased from 35,000 gallons to 51,000, and 85,000 ; tobacco from 248,0001 b. to 492,0001 b. and 883,0001 b. An increase of this kind cannot possibly be occasioned by any adequate demand, nor can any cause be assigned for such immense disproportion between such close pe riods, but the most inordinate desire to force goods into a particular channel, without for a moment con sidering th e wan t s o f th e popu l at i on , or their ability to meet the imports. It should be observed that other articles have been supplied in equal proportion, and that the bonded articles are merely cited in preference, because the stock of them is capable of being ascer tained with greater accuracy. The tricks of fraudulent traders are often exposed, but are constantly assuming new shapes. A country correspond en t h as sent us one, the description of which may furnish a very useful warning to many persons. He was applied to in June last to under take an agency for the sale of a certain description of goods, which he undertook, but sent no order, and was duly furnished with a supply of the article. In Nov. he received a notice that the party had disposed of his business to another person, and a few weeks afterwards that person, though a solicitor, made a peremptory demand for payment with an addition of ss. for the cost of the application, threatening immediate legal proceedings in the event of non-compliance. The cal culation is of course that many timid persons will thus be frightened into a discharge of the claim. • We need not describe the article supplied, though the whole cor respondence connected with the affair has been sent. The warning will do equally well without it, and it would therefore in the present glorious state of out libel law be incurring gratuitous risk. CHRONICLE.—We told the innocent holders of the spurious Exchequer bills " that they must either make up their minds to try the fate of an action, or wait until Parliament meets ;" for it was plain that the Government had been advised to resist payment, upon the ground of fo rger y. W e h ave strenuously ad vocated the claims of the innocent holders, and conceive that the conviction of Smith, as the sole and only cri minal, if possible strengthens their case, because it re stricts the fabrication and issue of the spurious docu ments to a paid officer of the Crown, holding a situa tion of high trust and confidence. But while we hold that doctrine, and maintain that the lathes committed by the Exchequer are sufficient to establish the claims of the innocent holders, our difference with the Government in this matter rests on other grounds than the mere postponement of the affair until the meeting of Parliament. The impounding of the bills to wait the directions of the Lords of the Trea sury gave an undue advantage to the Crown, in so far as in a coourt of Law it would throw upon the holders the onus of proving that the bills were genuine ; where as the burden of proving forgery should have remained with the Crown. The bills should have been restored to the holders after having been branded at the Exchequer with a notice that they were rejected as spurious because they did not, on exami nation, correspond with the counterfoils. That was the sole test on which the Exchequer-office relied, and on which they decided whether the bills examined were genuine or fictitious. They were quite incapable of deciding whether the signatures were real or not, and yet the course they pursued was just the same as if they had been in a situation (as they ought to have been) to detect the spurious bills by an ex facie examination of the hand-writing. This they could not do. The Deputy-Comptroller, to be sure, said he could do so, but did not dare to attempt to put his profession into practice. They tested the bills at the Exchequer, not by reference to the signatures, printing, numbers, or stamp, nor by any means within the reach of the public ; but by trying whether the notches on the edges of each instrument did or did not correspond with the counterparts. We look u p on suc h con d uct as open to strong ob jection, and savouring more of what we might expect from the Old Bailey than from Whitehall. But if the bona fide holders have good grounds of complaint for the chicanery which has been practised against them in impounding their property, and thus preventing them from using their relief both against the Crown and their immediate authors, they have much graver right to protest against the collision with which, to all appearances, the trial of Smith terminated. Smith declared in his confession that he was the victim of more powerful and cunning associates, who robbed him of all share of the common plunder. We are not, to be sure, disposed to place much reli-, ance on any statement from him. Nothing he could say against others is entitled to much reliance, and if the allusion to higher game rested on the mere asser tion of the convict, it ought not to receive much no tice ; but in this respect it is seemingly corroborated by the statements of the Counsel for Rapallo and the Crown, both of whom alluded to " important circum stances that had transpired elsewhere," which made it necessary that the character of the accused should be cleared before a Jury. Under these circumstances, the plea of " guilty" by Smith and the liberation of Rapallo have created a strong impression in the public mind that the former had agreed to plead guilty under pro mise of commutation of punishment, in order to avoid disclosures which would come out from the witness box. The manner in which Rapallo was allowed to slip through their fingers after Smith pleaded guilty, makes this the more likely. The Judge very properly was slow to let him loose, and even stretched a point :in detaining him some time after the Crown Solicitor had stated that he had no instructions to proceed against him. After all this, and after the bird had flown (but not till then), a police-officer, or some other myrmidon of the law, is said to have appeared with a warrant for his apprehension on some new charge connected with the fraud of Exchequer bills. This official did not come into the field until after Rapallo was out of reach, and then made a great noise and splutter (as if on pur pose) to make it known that he had a new warrant. There is not a shadow of doubt that Smith had numer ous confederates, and that a conspiracy for defrauding the public had been for years in operation. The public therefore, expected a rigid investigation into the whole mystery and bearings of the plot. The ends of justice demanded that this should be done, but instead of this the whole affair ends in smoke, and there is too good reason to suppose that a bargain bad been concocted to smother the truth. MUST.—We recommended, many months ago, to capitalists in this country interested in the affairs of the United States Bank, that they should lose no time in calling a meeting, and forming a Committee of in vestigation. We did this long before the assignments of the property of the instituti3n in favour of particular parties in America were made, so much to the pre judice of the stockholders in England, and before the resumption took place, the effect of which was the payment out of the coffers of the bank, very much at their expense, of six millions of specie, in exchange for its notes, in the course of two or three weeks. A Committee at that time would have been of much service, as its reports would have exercised a salutary control over the conduct of the Directors of the Bank. The English Stockholders, with that apathy, however, for which they are remakablc in such cases, left the Directors to take their own course, and the result is that the shares, which were last year worth from 101. to 201. each, are now worth no more than from 10s. to 20s. It may not yet be too late to call a meeting and appoint a Committee, for although the , shares have indeed fallen to the miserable prices quoted, something may still he made of the wreck. The case of the forged Exchequer bill holders is another case that calls for activity and inquiry, but we do not hear that any beyond individual efforts are making to procure redress. A public meeting of the sufferers should be convened, and steps taken to get at the root of the gigantic Treasury frauds—to trace the plunderers to their dens, and compel them to disgorge their ili-acquired gains. There is also another class of unfortunates whose case equally demands investigation. We allude to the numerous parties affected by the large and ruinous failures which have given so mournful celebrity to the proceedings in our Bankruptcy Courts during the last eighteen months. We hear of individual partners, ori ginally possessed of no property whatever, d raw i ng out from the concerns with which they have been connected l to the enormous sums of thirty and f or t y t h ousand pounds annually each, and that for a continuity of y e declared to have vanished. , the whole is ars . yet, when their affairs come to b e 100 ied in NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTI TUTION. The sixth annual meeting of the subscribers to this institution was held yesterday at one o'clock at the office No. 13, Nicholas-lane, King William -street, for the pur pose of receiving a statement of the accounts, &c. One of our reporters attended, but he was told that it was a private Society, and therefore the press could not be admitted; consequently we are precluded from giving any report of the proceedings. Mr. F. Lewis, Mr. Ni c holls Poor-law Com missioners, and one of the Assistant Poor-law Commis sioners, transacted business yesterday morning with Sir James Graham at the Home-oilice. The announcement we made of a vessel having sailed from Rotterdam, to purchase a thousand blacks at Ashantee for the King of the Netherlands, is fully con firmed by more recent accounts. The name of the ves sel, however, is not the 13ritannia, but the Europa.— Anti- Slavery Rsporter. At a meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, held Dec. 13th, the Very Rev. the Dean of Ely, President, in the chair, an addition to Mr. De Morgan's paper on the Foundations of Algebra was read, and Mr. Hopkins read a memoir on the form of the Isothermal surfaces within the earth, and on the thick ness of the - earth's solid crust, supposing the central portion to be fluid. The under-mentioned were among the passen gers landed at Calais from Dover on Sunday last, by her Majesty's steam vessel Widgeon, Lieut. Striven, RN., commander:—Duke Stackpole and suite, Earl Munster, Lord Aylmer, Lord Howden, Sir Noel Harris, Vis countess Stuart, &c. &c. MORNING StXi'. 1 • , • 4 \ a} 3 : -47Vfl ; 1; 1' 4)7 o dit • j __-; LAW INTELLIGENCE. vl=‘;',,` C 5 —d i COURT OF Cf. I.<l NC ER Y, Dec. 15. LV m SA'''' THE ATTORNEY -GENERA L V. THE EARL OF STANFSI4II.a . The arguments in this i n f ormat i on were resumedifirib morning, and occupied the Court the whole day. The case appears likely to take up several days in argument. We gave a statement of the facts yesterday in our Second Edition. ROLLS COURT, Dec. 15. ALLEN V. BONE. The arguments in this case, which was reported in The Sun of Monday, and was postponed yesterday, in con sequenee of the absence of Mr. Pemberton, was con cluded this morning. The MASTER of the ROLLS dismissed the bill, and or dered the costs to be paid by the solicitors as between solicitor and client. CREASE AND OTHERS V. JOHNS AND ANOTHER. Mr. PEMBERTON (with whom was Mr. Parkington) moved for an injunction to restrain the defendants from taking possession of and working certain mines in Cornwall, called the Treloare and Crowgey mines, and held under a lease from the Duchy of Cornwall. The injunction had been applied for ex parte, in the long vacation, but the Master of the Rolls, considering that it was the subject of a special application, refused then to make the order. The case was partly heard yes terday. It appeared that the mines in question became vested in Mary, the wife of Captain Henry Crease, R.N., and that in the year 1835, they granted a lease of them to a Company called the Cornwall Great United Mining Company, but not being satis fied with the manner in which the mines were worked by the Company. the plaintiffs exercising a power they had reserved to themselves in the lease terminated it, and obtained possession of the mines in January last. The plaintiffs afterwards agreed, in consideration of several reservations to let the mines to one Mr. Came, who was to work the whole of them. The defendants, however, alleged, that in the year 1830 the agent of the plaintiffs had agreed with them for a lease, and had received from them two shillings and sixpence, in consideration of it, and that another agreement for a lease - of the same mines had been made between the alleged owners of the tin bounds and one Richard Williams, of Bloomsbury, London, who had de mised the same to defendants in pursuance„ as they alleged, of a custom in Cornwall, by which any person raising up, on a piece of unoccupied land, four hillocks of earth or stones, termed " tin bounds," giving notice thereof to the Lord of the Manor, and proclamation in the Stannary Courts, and renewing the same annually, became entitled to the minerals under it. Mr. Came, on becoming the lessee of the mines, purchased a portion of the machinery which remained in the material-house, until the 10th September last, and on that day was about to place other machines on the premises, when the defendants and forty or fifty of the workmen of a neighbouring mine, called the Wheal Level Mine, who had taken forcible possession of the mines, prevented him from doing so, and said they would retain posses s i on . A M rs.i Lydia Taylor one of the adventurers in the Wheal Level Mine, had applied with Hannibal Perry, one of the defendants, to the plaintiffs, for a lease of the min e s i n ques ti on, w hi c h had been refused, upon which the defendants took for cible possession. The plaintiffs denied that any agree ment had been entered into on their behalf with Johns and Perry for a lease to them, and alleged that they were willing to try the validity of their title in any manner the Court should direct ; but they prayed that some person or persons more responsible than the defendants, who are workmen, might be opposed to them, from whom, in case of the plaintiffs maintaining their title, they might be able to obtain their costs. The MASTER of the Rotas having heard Mr. Kinders ley and Mr. Bacon for the defendants, and Mr. Pem berton, in reply, for the plaintiffs, said that he thought the plaintiffs were entitled to tranquil possession under the Duchy lease pending the trial, provided he was sa tisfied that the legal right would be protected, and that what was done with the property in that period would be consistent with the interests of the parties. But it appeared to him that the defendants, before that Court came as agents of Mr. Williams, and it was important, therefore, to know whether Mr. Williams would come forward. The defendant's Counsel said that he would do so to-morrow, and he, therefore, thought it would be his duty to 13 the case stand over till then, that Mr. Williams might be formally before the Court. VICE CHANCELLORS' COURT, Dec. 15. (Before Vice- Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) HOLLAND V. CLARK. In this case the bill was filed to recover the sum of 1501., the amount of a legacy to which the plaintiff claimed to be entitled in right of his wife. The de fendant, who was trustee under the will, had on one oc casion given a promise to pay the legacy, but afterwards alleged that he had no assets for that purpose. The question was whether he had rendered himself liable to the payment by his promise to the plaintiff. The case was not concluded at the rising of the Court. (Before Vice-Chancellor \Vic RAM.) His HONOUR disposed of several petitions and short causes, none of which involved any feature of public in terest. BLARESLEY V. WHIELDON, In this case the bill was filed with reference to cer tain coal mines which were worked by the defendant. Before the plaintiff's case was concluded, the Court rose, and the further hearing was postponed till to morrow. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dcc. 15. (Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN a n d a • Special Jury.) BRITNE v. THOMSON. This was an action brought to establish the right to certain tolls claimed by the plaintiff, as proprietor of certain port dues payable upon all goods and merchan dise entering the Port of Padstowe, on the coast of Cornwall. The proprietor claimed under a charter granted in the reign of King John to the Prior and Canons of Bodmin. The dues were regularly paid upon all vessels trading with the port down to the year 1728, when a person named May disputed the right of the then proprietor, one Prideaux. The case was then fully investigated, and a verdict returned for the plaintiff, and since then another attempt was made in 1805 to resist payment of those dues ; but as soon as proceedings were commenced, the defendant con sented to pay the toll dues. Since then the proprietor had regularly claimed and received the dues on all mer chandise imported into Padstowe till the present de fendant resisted their payment, and the present action was brought to try the right of th e plaintiff to these tolls. Mr. CRESSWELL stated the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. ERLE appeared for the defendant. There are a large number of witnesses to be examined, and the case is likely to occupy a considerable time. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 15. Sittings in London before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.) IIARRISON AND OTHERS u. lIEATHERN AND OTHERS. This w as an action against certain Directors and Shareholders of the late Anglo-American Mining Com pany, to r ecover certa i n sums o f mone y advanced tothe Directors on account of the Company. Richards, a s ond l t l ed byThe case for the plaintiff was conducted by Sir Thos. Wylde, with whom were Mr. Watson, and three oth e r gentlemen Wm. ; Follett,thatija,no,l-liett, lth v i of whom were w Mr. — For the plaintiff it was proved that bills of exchange to the amount of 6,0001. drawn by the defendants, and accepted by the plaintiffs, were paid by the latter, upon Thomlinson, a ncil n i;ee vk i •o n. c 4 )t t l i i n er t s .l . an agreement that the drawers should be severally liable, if the Company should fail. The defence was that the Company was not legal, in asmuch as the provisions of the Act, the sth and 6th Geo. IV., commo g n sa l l y lia c r a e l i l i e o d lde tl r i s e . " Bubble Act," had not been complied with, purposes, and a t h n e d re t f h o e re p t l h ai e nt m iff o s n h el• d w n a o s pied the Court from half past nine o'clock claim i cT v l oahenekcaegidan triali fntoisriteoti 1 half-past four, when a ver dict was returned for the plaintiffs, with leave to the defendants to move for a nonsuit upon several points reserved. SHERIFFS' COURT, Dec. 15. CRIM. CON. —DAMAGES 7001. This was JACKSON V. BROOMHEAD. for the l an action to recover compensation in damages loss sustained by the plaintiff from the seduction ' ro of his wif e b y the defendant. Damages were laid at 10,000 1. Mr. Crowder, Q.C. zy Belly and Mr. and Mr. Martin, appeared for the plaintiff, an d Mr. Fit James, for the defence. Mr. MARTIN opposed the pleadings , and stated that the plaintiff was William Oliver Jackson , solicitor of the Ad el Phi, and Chester-square, Regent's-park, and the defendant was Joseph Broomhead, barrister-at-law. The action was brought to recover compensation in damages for criminal conversation with his wife. Mr. CROWDER rose and said, it was his duty to detail circumstances of a melancholy, irreparable, and distressing character, being no other than the seduc tion of the plaintiff's wife, by the defendant. It was alleged that the action had been brought to recover damages, rot compensation for t h e loss, nothing on earth coull compensate a husband f or the loss of his wife's affection and society. His o n l y means was to resort to the law, fur the twofold object of a legal dissolution of the marriage, and, if possible, to alleviate the wrong he had sustained. Of all cases of this description lately before the public, none were of so aggravated a character as the present, as the parties w ere related by marriage, and were on terms of h id macy and friendship. The facts of the case wer e shortly these : The plaintiff met hi s on her thegether till though a college acquaintance at her fathervvife .son of a a house Dr. Johnson, of Suffolk-place. They were ried in 1835, the plaintiff being then 28 years of his wife wife six years younger. The sum of 10,00717 and we nt ieft m 's i h d t s ht o ah h °cle o ri u i s s l 6 d ' then settled upon the plaintiff and his wife-4,000 j side, and 6,0001. on his. They lived happily to College, where the 15th June, 1841. Mr. Broomhead was was called clergyman of wealth and character in Derby, and had been brought up at King',-, ICieoll County of and go he was introduced to the plaintiff. adduce, business, to the bar in the year 1838. ha d d le b o ee f been permitted to sleep at the plain il t htandouhglhataaet away next morning, when plaintiff keen theab absent oul d Jackson,ftti e n andtreturnly contrive i n ttoheh come but it would appear, by the evidence he home with her t t that a t visit he Mrs.m e n ing as all husband da in These the advantagese v to effect the ruin of the plain.tifre.l3. enabled him the day in question the plainlitr had,s wife. On dinner party. After the company had a small house, about ten o'clock in the evening, had quitted the went to his dressing-room, accordi er Mr. Jackson for the purpose of smoking, leaving 116 t° his usual custom, the defendant and Mrs. J. together in the drawing room. He (plaintiff)called out several times "Joe is to come down," and receiving no answer, he walked up stairs, and then became an eye witness to a scene a . •of dis gust i ng depravity, andg wit nessed his own dishonour. He • seized the defendant by ;es ea 0 00), igeo oili