The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-18 00:00:00

EVENING SUN orders a significavit to be made, in order to sue eat the writ de contumace capiendo. It was not until the defendant was taken into custody, that he 11 : 1 any notice of t h ese procee di ngs. The significavit ell; he contended, was bad. It ran in the name of the -Archbishop, instead of running in the name of the Judge of the C ourt who issued out the citation, as it ought to u ° , in acc or d ance w i th the provisions of the Act 53d t !,°. C. 12, s . 1. I t set f ort h t h at t h e d e f en d ant au been guilty of contempt, in not paying the money and costs, according to the monition thereinafter made, • 'While in the signific e 'avit no monition was made at all ; ?r - -and he begged his Lordship's particular at tention to th e word or—" or in not appearing be forec, Gran v ill e Harcourt 'Vernon, our Surrogate." 00 that it would appear that the Archbishop had not quite made up hi s m i n d as t o w hat consti t_eted the non-payment or th e no n-appearance. The writ de contumace capiendo followed the significavit iu all its errors, and therefore w as equally bad. On these gruu uls he moved that th e d e f en d an t b e discharged out Of custody, and that the writ de c ontumace capiendo be set asid e . Mr. Justice PATTESON—Take a rule to show cause. Application granted. THE QUEEN v. TIRISTOW.—CERTIORARI. ▪ au% BAnsTow moved that an indictment against the ant for p er j ury , s h ou ld b e mov ed by certiorari 4°l4,t.he Central Criminal Court into this Court. This ewas a'ease connected with an action for ejectment, tried eefore the Lord Chief Justice in the sittings after last te ,rlu, and as i n t h e course of the tr i a l mail - questions °` law w ere lik e l y to arise, on the d ec i s i on o t which the 11°83 ,-„, "slot' of property to the am ount of more than — ' ° °° l , in some degree depended ; and as it was de desirable that the Judge who had tried the action of ejectm ent s h ould also try this i nd i ctment , an d th a t it l'. l ould be t r i e d b y a Spec i al Jury, h e h o p e d hi s applica ",!l Would b e grante d . a lr• Justice PATTESON—Certainly. Application granted. SHERIFFS' COURT-(THIS DAY). MANSFIELD AND ANOTHER v. STANFORD. This was an action to recover the sum of 41. 10s. for Z u ° , ls sold an d d e li vere d , an d d amage d on e to certain ell wires, belonging to the plaintiffs. T• he plaintiffs are wine merchants, and the defendamt u'au architect, living in the same house with the plain tie. • s , In Pall-mall. The house is the one in which the e,lebrated Almack's balls were once held, and is of con siderable e x t ent, conta i n i ng no l ess t h an e l even stair '',s es, with subterranean passages innumerable. It was !ated that these passages had ',wen used frequently by ttle defendant to evade certain well-known individuals 4Sheriffs' officers, and by whom lie was termed Prlug-heeled Jack." The defendant had received, at • erent times, small quantities of port wine, in all out °l to 31. 103., which had been some time out °landing, and for which the present action was brought; tJremaind er o f t h e amount stated in the declaration hi n g for damage done to acme bell-wires belonging to Plaintiff; th .. T ~Qarned UNDER-SHERIFF, in summing up, said, at up on the declaration the plaintiff could not recover h e a'nount of damage done to the bell-wires. The de livery of the wines had been clearly proved. T he Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 2/. I Os. II A A ,,NK MEETING —(THIS DAY). Speci a l G enera l M eet i ng o f th e P ro p r ietors of r_ Ank Stock w as h e ld i n t h e C ourt - room , i n Thread edle-street, this morning, for the purpose of consider - Rog address es o f congratulation to her Majesty and his e v Yal Highness P r i nce Alb er t upon the late auspicious ent—the birth o f an H e i r Apparent to the throne.. I,_At tw e l ve O ' clock the Governor, Sir John Henry tell 3, Bart., the D e p u ty-G overnor an d mos t o f the Di entered the Court, when the minutes of the last o T ur h t em , Geore. read and confirmed. eo,..GOVERNOR said the Directors had called a special gra : 3 fur the purpose of considering addresses of con uee`nlation on the auspicious event which had recently to tahrred—of course they were all aware that he alluded p r • e safe delivery of her Majesty and the birth of a ,?e and Heir Apparent to the throne. The Court of tif I).trectors, anticipating what would be the wis w t he Pro ri t th t Rothe dra n on e subjec , 1:113,, addresses p whlc o li r' they thought suitable °ma , .Y r n• They would be read by the Secretary, and put 'la esolutions for ideration and adoption of the C ourt the cons "To the Queen's Mos Ex2ellent Majesty. Please your Majesty, the Governors and Company of the Bank of .gland, in General Court assembled, beg leave mos 43Pectfully to approach your Majesty, to afer our sin the Qere con gratulation 3 mi the Birth of an Heir Apparen t., Thron e of Great Britain and Ireland, an eveut which Las excited in your devoted subjects the most lively tenthnents ofjoy and thankfulness. the„" We desire to express our gratitude to Him who . is giver of every blessing for his merciful preservation of Your Majesty,;and our fervent hope that our Ma toJesty 'nay long be protected by His gracious Providence reign. over a loyal and prosperous nation.” "To his Royal Highness ;MarshalFielt Prince Albert of ~ May it pl S ea m s x e e 3 C4) fi b r uro• and Gotha. Royal Highness, , c We the Governor and Company of th Bank of Eng land in,General Court assembled, beg leave to approach y.ear Royal Highness with our most sincere congratula- Iwns on that auspicious event, the birth of an Heir APPa 'rent to the British Throne ' 1 .or his high destiny by " Trained f ' • • amp e of his illustrious parents, we earnestly hope that Under the Divine blessing he the precept and ex will at some distant period lua,!ontain the dignity of the Briti s h C rown , an d the love 11114 affection' of a d evoted and grateful nation. " The addres.ses were put separately and adopted, only °ll e haltd being held up in opposition. th l t,/vits further- moved that the addresses be signed by .„--t secretary, and sealed with the Corporation eom m s un l i. s td that the Governor and Deputy f -Governor pep art "itt With the Secretary of state km, f . -`4 with respect to the modeof o p t resenting the same. 4gre ed to.—The Court then adjourned. LLOYD'SSHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) r'OCNGATE ‘,REEK, Nov . • N DoN Nov. 17.—Wind this day at noon , W. -FA 17 —Arrd.Margeret Thomas, bi * o 3 „ 3 „, in a; Grecian Queen, Starry , Patras, Atalanta, 1 4` , nerf-, p:tAL, Nov Pl7.—Wind, S.S.E. , fr esh breeze.—Arrd. Ac r t' d de ' Westward; Scipio, St. Domingo for Hamburgh. ;tad fro . ni the River, Camilla, Resource, Henry Tanner ropt c for Jamaica. . • Y ARMOUTH, IbLE OP WIGHT, Nov. 17.—Ann Eliza, nde n to Bridgwater, which was on shore on Lymington came off to-day without damage , and p roceeded. 'e bi. PAs.r,, N ot . 13 .___A r rd Thomas Gilston, Mira hi Sailed Samuel, Mobile. L Mourn, Nov. 17 . .—A large quantity of tallow is Ivi th g lauded here.' Arrd. Wasp floating light vessel, :13,, 1°28 of mainmast. sl..l"lnialicTeN Nov 17.—Arrd. British Queen, from SY for Mauritius master ill. of S tr mily of Whity, and Throe Sisters lunderhind have become total w b recks. ke fi °ATE, Nov 17. —Eight casks of tallow and about 1, - "a's of lo ose h av e been landed here to - day. It'Eltr ooL, Nov. 17.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. the Rocldc tu? Madras ; Eli za , Warneck, New York ; Ma r y Rea - - Importer, M'Candy, Miramtch! ; Ann ' nnd ; Alcyone, Charles , Reso lution, and Waterfo -d, Quebec; Clyde , d o . , after bein g ashore ttans ; Martha, Montreal ; B lack Cat, Ches ale, ',thorn. Sid. William Lockerby, Calcutta ; W ins- and i t ' urn et!lztranhani ; Gipsy, Terceira ; Maid of Alic r t ` a PPy Bet Azores. Arrd. off, Alexa nder, Ed , -' , lnanda, and Asia. Put back, 17th., Coronet, p o or Charleston, with loss of sails. her Nl rs ixouTH, Nov. 17.—Wind E.N.E. to E.—Arrd. I sv i a sty's ship Aigle, eastward. Sid. Johanna , Ba ati,j ' r nlaurn of Muscat, Ceylon ; Clarendon, Tropic, a ,:nline, Jamaica ; Apollo, Grenedtq; Jamaica, An -I),‘;u''lleardx,lSurinam ; Java, Trinidad. - Tor, — 114 OUTII, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Flora, Sundersfoot, for Lu MOUTH, loss of topmast. The Racer, from Ham he "jell put in here, 14th inst., with a leak under 11 Ler, has had it stopped, and will proceed. tr'd4R(l4lTE, Nov. 17.—The Royal Eagle, from Water . t ur „ ,to -London, got on shore on Foreness Rock this - I ,' n ing, but was got off. and proceeded. ,k -r LYMOUTII, Nov. I7.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Star of Ala, Wes t , Demerara, w ith loss of main -boom, bulwarks, ' • &c., in a gale, 2d i.est., in lon. 25. Ll'A•l DU 'TH Nov. 16.--Wind W. to W.N.W., fresh li t'eze ' s,—Arrd. Fame Alit Cayes, sailed , 20th , October ; Home, Thomson, .Miramichi. bld. Eliza Ellen, 7tra Leone. 4 4 1 )4Enicx, Nov. 15.—Arrd. Maria , Jones , Q uebec. 1 4, 1, 7 11 11L1N . , Nov. 15.—Arrd. Dromohair,: St. Joh n ' s, pßrunswick. • 4, t z licaroww, Nov. 16.—.Arrd. Carlton, Summers? an d IC • Quebec. q, - , 3 / 1 .1,E Nov. 12.—Arrd. off the Old Head, Ann , and Ann, Jeffrey, from Quebec. r, — "NnoNnEnnY Nov. 11.—Arrd. Marquis of Aber i:, Queb ec; Londonderry, St. John's, New Brunswick. 4lt : P RACOMBE, Nov. 17.—The Sarah, of Falmouth , t uNv a doned, an d w ith l oss o f ru dd er , i s o ff this place, in 141 of th ree smac k s, an d i s expecte d i n next t id e ; crew P B P° 3 ed to b e save d. A yr n lELoa, Nov. 17.—The Perlin, bound to Buenos S E Z: , , in proceeding to sea yesterday, got on the Herd ch ar d '. but it is expected will be got off to-day after dis ang part of her cargo. tieutiTit RONALDSHAY, Nov. 11.—The Lovesa from )e ate ° l ,g , to Wick is on shore in Widewall Bay, from of E ' nontheze Nv lt and expected tobecoine a total wreck; crew saved. t c , ,,, b witilt :, Nov. 16.—The Ovareld, from Amsterdam got in contact on the 11th inst., in ion. 3 ind imrod, Hillrivod harp from Archangel, 'a nuPposed to have , ar sunk with three of the crow. . ..,,,, c ................ S'H'ORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) OP F 1 "/ -... , COURSING. -- MEETING, Nov. 16.—The Fleetwood .. Cup ,` 2 4/,. Was won by Mr. Fisher's Fly, beating, in the °ll , t ,'; )(a.. Bourne's Beeswing. 110,11:,:tnriti:oeli,lossall Puppy Stakes (8 dogs) were won by Mr..-r i s.p p o r l i d in fa r s o t s , e. heating in the deciding course, M . I'l , a ir, ila ll'a Hall Puppy Stakes (4 dogs) were won by , eoetlkson's Sligo, beating Mr. liertipt's Flora 02 A 'IOIOITTH, Nov. 10 AND 11.—The Sweepstakes n i rgs) were won by Mr. Bragg's Sweep, beating the deciding course, Mr. Paisley's Neptune., ‘4I‘4I.I2ItEIIIIIDGE, Nov. 8. The first Puppy. stakes b ikes, w e'll by Mr. Knubley's Brush; the second Puppy ,bY Mr. Pox's Frank • the first All-aged Stake , s, htak ir denry Jefferson's Mar ' 37; and the second .A.ll-agul es, by 11r. 11. Jefferson's Midshipman. GRAY, mr........., Ntl , 3 INN, Nov. 17..—The undermentioned ter. l 4l l , fl ea were this day called to the degree of. Barris- If it ,,„Law by the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, , —44)11 Genie, Esq., and John Archibald Russell, Esq THE CENSUS. The population return, according to the census taken in 1841, for Great Britain, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, which was presented by command of her Majesty, has just been printed. It contains an account of the total population of each county, distin guishing males and females, showing the rate per cent. increase or decrease, as compared with the returns of 1831 ; also the number of houses. inhabited, uninhabited, and building, according to the census taken in 1841, of each superinten dent registrar's district in the several counties of England and Wales ; together with the popula tion of each city and Royal burgh in Scotland. The total increase during the last ten years for Great Britain, amounts to 2,298,756 inhabitants. The returns for the towns in Scotland are given in a simple and intelligent form, so that any person may ascertain the amount of population in each at a glance ; but those for the cities, towns, and boroughs of England, and Wales, are presented in a most confused shape. It is quite impossible from such returns to ascertain the actual amount of population in each, as the numbers contained in the superintendent registrars' districts only are given, thereby rendering it impossible to compare the number of inhabitants in the re spective places, with those they contained at the census of. 1831. In one respect, also, the re turns for Scotland are defective, as the numbers for 1841 only are given; and reference, there fore, to the previous census must be made, to form a comparison. We certainly expected something better from the great notes of preparation, as well as the sum voted for making the census, and therefore trust that the Regis trar-General will publish another table, giving the population of each tuwn and country, as com pared with that of the three ten years preceding, together with the. trades, professions. &c., of the different classes of the inhabitants. The follow ing are a few of the principal towns in Scotland, with the population in 1831 and 1841 :- - 1831 1841 Edinburgh.. 136,346 • 133,692 Glasgow .... 202,426 257,592 Aberdeen ... 58,019 62,900 Dundee 45,355 63,825 Greenock ... 27,571 35,921 PASSPORT SYSTEM IN FRANCE, and DETECTION of ENGLISH DELINQUENTS. 70 TEL EDITOR OF ThE SUN. SlR—From an advertisement which I saw in your Paper of this day, offering a reward for the apprehension of one Abraham Horne, who had absconded, and taken refuge in France, I am induced to address a few lines to you upon the passport system of that country with reference to the pursuit and capture of nethrious runaways from England; and if they are thrtunate enough to elicit from some of your numerous Correspon dents any hint or information that may facilitate the ends of justice, I shall be truly glad, as it could not fail to be of infinite service to the public. I happen to be well acquainted with all the facts connected with the flight of the person alluded to in the advertisement, " Abraham Horne." I know that he was overtaken at Montreuil, Pas de Calais, in May last, and that he was summoned before the Procurcur de Itoi ; his false passport, describing him as Alfred Hallen, was very properly taken from him, and himself detained by the authorities in Montreuil for a given number of days, Yin the ground that he was travelling with a false passport, which tact indeed was proved, and reluctantly admitted by the same Abraham Home, alias A. Hallen, himself. The heavy charges of fraud, 'though substantiated to the satisfaction of the Judge, the laws of France did not authorise him to take cognizance of So far so good, and there is no cause of complaint ; but to the great surprise of the party who had thus far succeeded in tracing him, the false passport—the same false passport, which had formed the ostensible ground for his arrest—was, after a lapse of seven or eight days, returned to him, and he was allowed to escape with his plunder, and . to travel through France by means of a passport known to be spurious; and still under the assumed name of Alfred Hallen to enter Paris, where for the present he has eluded the vigilance of the police. Now, in excuse for such conduct, the authorities of Montreuil allege that they had no power to stop a person bearing a passport obtained from the French Embassy in London, although proved to be kfalse one; that they have only the power of doing so when the passport is issued in France. And this may be sufficient to exonerate them from blame, which it is far from my desire to im pute to them; but that system, I contend, mustbe faulty, which allows the guilty to escape merely because he takes his passport from London, in stead of procuring it through our Consuls at the various ports of France. I remain, Sir, your's respectfully, __ M. Stamford-street, Blackfrian-roaa, Nov. 15. [We are almost sure, as our Correspondent's letter will probably meet the eye of the French Ambassador, that for the sake of society the evil complained against will meet with consideration, and, in the case mentioned, proper means be taken to put the police authorities at Paris on the qui wive.--En. Sun.] COURT CIRCULAR. The Royal Family sent yesterday morning to Buck ingham Palace to inquire after the state of the Queen and the Infant Prince. . Her Majesty going on favourably, and the Infant Prince continuing well, no bulletin of her Majesty's health was issued yesterday. His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, arrived at the Palace in the afternoon, and made inquiry after the health of her Majesty and the Royal Infant. The Countess of Charlemont, Lady in Waiting on her Majesty, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord in Waiting, Captainj Meynell, Groom in Waiting, and Colonel Ar buthnot, Equerry in Waiting, having arrived at Buck ingham Palace, at three o'clock the following Ladies and Gentlemen wore received :—The Countess of Poulett, the Countess of Hardwicke, the Countes► Delawarr, the Lady Stratheden, Lady Langdale, the Lady Colville, Lady Emily Seymour, Honourable Lady Correy, Lady Elizabeth Osborne, Dowager Lady Brownlow, Lady Seymour, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Agnes Buller, Lady Frederic Smith, Hon. Miss Campbell, Hon. Mrs. Portman, Miss Cust, Miss Seymour, Miss Somerset, Miss Hamilton, Miss D3uglas, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Leeds; the Earl of Oxford, the Earl Dela warr, Hon. Berkeley Paget, Hon. Edward Phipps, Lieu tenant-Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, Colonel Webster, Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Osborne, and Mr. B. Brookes. After having had candle served, several of the No bility above named had the honour of being conducted to the north wing of the Palace to see his Royal High ness the Infant Prince.. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday afternoon. Among the inquirers at Buckingham Palace yester day were Mr. Colquhoun, Agent for the Hanse Towns, the Duchess of Leeds, the Marquis and Marchioness of Wellesley, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Earl of Wiltshire, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Earl and Countess of Denbigh, Lady Mary Fielding, Bishop of Winchester, Viscount Hinton, Lord harnclifft, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesei, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord Walter Butler, Lady E. Lepton, Lord Punboyne, Dowager Lady de Clifford, Lady Augusta Onslow, Lord and Lady Mostyn, Lady Kemeys, the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, Marquis of Bris tol, Lady Clark, Lord Adolphus Fitzclareuce, Sir Au gustus and Lady Albinia Foster, Sir John and Lady Rae Reid, Right' Honourable H. Goulburn, Sir John Scott Lillie, Honourable Mrs. G. Villiers, Sir John Key, Sir Frederick Hamilton, Sir G. and Lady Larpent, lion. Colonel and Mrs. Parker, Sir George Murray, Sir George Chetwynd, Lord Campbell, Sir J. and Lady Hensler, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Sir Thomas Phillips, Mr. Sheriff Magnay, .Mr. Sheriff and Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Under-Sheriff Pritchard, Rev. Dr. Foord Bowes, Rev. Dr. Vivian, Rev. Dr. Kuper, Rev. IL Tho mas (Lord Mayor's Chaplain), Mr. Sergeant and Mrs. 'falfourd, Mr. Aldermen Wilson, Queen's Harbinger, ~111-s. Wilson, Mr. C. Lee Wilson, Mr. Alderman T w yod, Mr. Alderman Lainson, Col. H. Montagu, Col. w a om, Major and Mrs. Weymouth, Miss Meynell, • I:V. Pritchard, Capt. It. D. Pritchard, Capt. John son, Mr. and Lady T.Lister,Mr.Boddington, Capt. p Norman Macdonald, Mr. Rowland Alston, Mises Alston, Air. Locker,- Mr. B. Botfield, M.P.; Mr. and Ir. Balguy, Q.C.; Mr. W. Erle, Q.C. A , ling.''th; Ormsby ur Mrs. R vea rr Gore, M.P. ness the Duchess of Kent visited the and rs . e ßa E i Duchess of .. Gloucesor yesterday at Gloucester House. His Serene _Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen to her Royal Highness the Duchess House, , St. James's; to her Royal of Gloucester, at Gloucester to their Royal Highnesses the paid th H ) lf 'tss a n att d h eCa yesterdayl t ajet w inc a be Qe d s : . Derv. and Duchess of Cambndge, at their residence at a w n i d th tli t e h C e hairman of Stamps Chancellor of the and:r h T e a r x e o s s , t m h a a s d t e 1 - I G t e , r 7 n e e rn street. uer yesterday at his official residence in Downing from Dr. Charm. , ers arrived in town on Tuesd t ay t e o v n en u i c n k g_ Sudbury Hall, and immediately proceed d Tilt QUEEN DOWAGER. i Q ug ue b e a n m p i o t g ee e , r; to announce the state of her Majesty the Weier mar,etrheenseistAi,rgi:if the Queen Dowag er, the Duchess IdraarorfiveSdaxaet Marlborough Howse, fell last evening fr om the Continent. The bulletin o f heriSlaksty's health, issued at Sud bury Hall last evening, was as follows :-- " The Queen Do•,vager slept several hours during the night, but her Majesty's cough and other symptoms remain the same. " DAVID DAVIES, M.D. " Sudbury Hall, Nov. 17, 1841." -- - GREENWICH, Nov. 16.—Richard Weeks, a pensioner of the Itoval Hospital, at present in the White House Lunatic Asylum, Bethnal-geen (quite insane), has been left the enormoi is sum of 120,0001. WOOLWICH—WEDNESDAY. ROYAL ARTILLERY. • Captain Greenwond's company, about to proceed to China, attended coherne practice this morning on the Upper Common. As this is a description of exercise seldom performed here, it may be necessary to observe that a coherne is an engine of a similar construction to a mortar, but so small that two men can carry it on a hand-barrow. When used in actual warfare it is carried to within from 100 to 200 yards of the spot against which the missiles discharged from it are to be directed, the chamber for containing the powder being so small that it cannot contain a charge sufficient for a greater range. The shells fired from the cohernes this morning were about four inches and two-fifths in diameter, and the practice showed they are excellently adapted for firing over an elevated wall to dislodge troops stationed on the inside of it. In the afternoon the company attended rocket-practice in the marshes, and have evidently ac quired a thorough knowledge of the various branches of the science, surprising, Considering the short period they have been under instruction. Yesterday the muskets of the company were called in, and placed amongst the'Stores of the Royal Arsenal, and to-day they are to be served with handsome carbines, on the new construction, with percussion locks. It is a positive fact, that the certainty of the men being served with the new and approved arms previous to embarking on this expedition has raised their spirits, which were otherwise good, fully 20 per cent., for they cordially hated and detested the present cumbersome musket, and there is but one general feeling throughout the regiment in favour of the carbine, and a hope that they will soon be issued to every individual. Orders have been issued to the men of the company, to hold themselves in readiness to embark in a steam-vessel here on Saturday morning next, for conveyance to Ply mouth, where they will be transerred to the Belleisle, Captain Kingcombe, formerly a 72-gun ship, but now converted into a troop-ship, with 24 guns, and a crew of 280, for the conveyance of her Majesty's troops. It was originally intended that the company should embark in the Apollo troop-ship, about the Ist of next month, but 400 extra workmen having been put upon the Belleisle, she will be ready for sea by the time the Royal Artillery arrive at Plymouth, and will sail almost immediately after their embarkation. By converting the old ships of the line, as in the in stance of the Belleisle and several others, contemplated by Government, an immense saving will accrue to the country, compared with.employing hired transport-ships, as the former vessels will be commanded by officers of the Royal Navy and be under the entire control of the Admiralty, which the hired vessels were not, having merely an agent on board. The country may now cal culate on having efficient vessels of its own in the transport service, and the troops will be far better ac commodated, in spacious and airy ships, with ample room betwixt decks, and many valuable officers of the navy be kept in active.. emplqment in the service of her Majesty, instead of being idle on shore. Besides, another great saving will be derived, by converting the majority of 72 -gun ships into troop-ships, instead of into 50-gun frigates, as recommended by some, as to effect the latter an expense would be incurred amounting on every vessel to a sum nearly equal. to what she would cost if built entirely of new materials. The Boyne transport-ship will sail to-morrow from Deptford, having taken in her stores, and will proceed round to Cork, to embark troops for Malta. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazette.) PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 17.—The Apollo, troop ship, is making rapid advances towards completion, and report says is to take Major-General Lord Saltoun to China, with the 98th Regiment, which will 'embark at Cork. The Commander of the Apollo (Festing), is now at Hasler Hospital, suffering from indisposition. The Tyne, 26, Captain Townshend, arrived on Sun day from the Mediterranean, and exchanged salutes with the port flag-ship St. Vincent. She left Malta the 15th October, and has had very boisterous weather in crossing the Bay. Left in port the Powerful, 84, with Sir John Ommaney's flag. Howe, 120, Rodney, 92, Cal cutta, 84, Vanguard, 84, Indus, 80, , and Inconstant and Magicienne frigates. The Implacable, 72, had left for Gibraltar, to join the Monarch, 84, on that station. Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Mason was daily - looked :for in the Impregnable, 110, to succeed Sir John Ommanev, who, it was thought, would proceed home overland. The Tyne will be paid off at this port. The Queen, 11 . 0, Captain Rich, it is expected, will be moved out to Srithead in about a fortnight. and complete there for the Mediterranean. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen, K.C.8., goes out in a steamer to Malta, to assume the command. _ _ Ferret, Lieut. Lapidge, is to return to the coast of Africa, and awaits orders at Plymouth. The Crocodile, 26, Captain Milne, from Halifax, and Scorpion, 10, Lieut. Gayton, from Gibraltar, have left Spithead, to be paid off at Plymouth. The brig Rapid, 10, Lieut. Tryon, returned from Cork on Saturday, with volunteers for general service. The Viper brigantine, fur the Brazils. will sail from this harbour about the 15th of December. The steamer Devastation, Commander Henry, is daily expected from Woolwich for the Mediterranean. Com mander Wilson to join the Cambridge, 72, will take a passage in her ; also the new Bishop of Jerusalem, the Rev. M. Alexander, law Hebrew Professor at King's College, Cambridge. The Illustrious, 72,'Captain Erskine, is awaiting the embarkation of Sir Charles Bagot, for conveyance to New York, on his way to Quebec. She will sail imme diately afterwards, and will ultimately receive Sir Chas. Adams's flag in the West Indies. The Pique, 36, Captain Yates, is under orders to refit with all dispatch, it is supposed to proceed to China. At Spithead—lllustrious, 72, Tyne, 26, and Pique, 36. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Queen, Victory, Royal George yacht, Excellent, Vindictive, Warspite, Belvi dere, Sapphire, Hazard, North Star, Apollo, Viper, and Rapid. IRELAND. LORD DE GREY'S FIRST LEVEE. DUBLIN, Nov. 16.—The levee of Lord De Gray, to be held to-morrow, will be very numerously attended. The Orange and Tory gentry, who so factiously avoided the Castle during the viceroyalties of Lord Normanby and Lord Fortescue, are crowding into town from the most distant parts of the country ; and even from London, Mr. Emerson Tennent and some other small officials conected with Ireland, have come over. The Reformers have determined to pursue a totally different course from that adopted towards Whig . G overnments by the Tories. They will attend to-morrow as a matter of duty towards the representative of the Queen; for theirloyalty is still the same, whether Whigs or Tories govern. The leading Liberals, Protestant and Catholic, will appear at the Castle to-morrow—such men as the Duke of Leinster, Lord Charlemont, Lord Fingal, and , Archbishop Murray. No matter how factious may be' the conduct and the appointments of the present Executive, it is the duty of the Reformers to pay their respects to' the Queen's Viceroy, especially at a levee held so soon after the birth of an heir apparent to the throne, and that duty they will perform, however painful it may bo to their feelings to mix in a Court where faction and intolerance reign triumphant. The following notification appears in the papers this morning:—" The Lord Mayor requests that such of the Aldermen and Councillors as intend to do him the ho nour of accompanying him to the levee, will be so good as to be at the Mansion-house in their gowns at twelve o'clock precisely. The Lord Mayor's carriage will leave the Mansion-house at a quarter after twelve. " Mansion-house, Nov. 15, 1841." THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1841. MURDER OF MR. WALSH. A very numerous meeting of the Magistrates of the county of Waterford was held on Friday in Dungarvon, for the purpose of adoptin g c , 'measures to discover the murderers of Mr. Walsh. .imongst those present were Sir Richard Musgrave, Mr. Villiers Stuart, M.P., Sir W. J. Homan, and Sir J. N. Humble. Subscriptions to the amount of 8001. were entered into in aid of the re ward offei ed by Government. The meeting was not open to the public. THE NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The usual weekly meeting of this body was held to day in the Corn Exchange. Dr. Murphy in the Chair. The Lout) MAYOR stated that he had the honour to announce the receipt of 1001. from the friends of Ireland at Pittsburgh, in America. His Lordship spoke at some length in praise of the esteemed kindness of tho Ameri cans towards the people of Ireland. As the subscribers to this sum were not British snbjects, he could not move their admission as members of this Association, but he had extreme pleasure in moving that their names be en rolled in " the book of the friends of Ireland in America" [passed with acclamation]. After a number of communications were read, and new members enrolled, The LORD MAYOR rose to bring before the considera tion of the Association the various topics on which the Committee were preparing petitions. There never was a time, said he, which required more statesmanlike con duct to be pursued than the present. There was war going on at present in Hindostan and China, which • would certainly require a large expenditure of money, and this could only be undertaken by ad ditional taxation of the people. The position of France was not at this time in such a situation as to give anything like a security for a continuance of peace between her and England. She was keeping up an immense military anti naval force, which would compel England to act similarly, and here again would be the cause of requiring additional taxation. His Lordship illustrated the evil working of the Corn laws, and called upon the Association to unite with the English in demanding their repeal. He then recurred to the state of Ireland, and spoke of the murders of Mr. Walsh and Mr. Bolton which have been lately committed, He did not wish to lessen the feeling of execration which these crimes created; on the contrary, he hoped the per petrators would be discovered and executed, but he would say to the cruel and relentless exterminating land lords, who made these murderers, " You are more guilty than those who actually shed blood —the sin of it is on your heads—you are accountable for it, and the day of judgment will certainly overtake you." His Lordship expressed his delight at the birth of the Prince of Wales, and expressed a hope that he would yet be found in Ire land acting as viceroy to his mother—the only British Monarch that ever desired to treat the people of Ireland with justice. He might be asked why he did not, as Chief Magistrate of this city, publish a proclamation for illuminating in honour of this happy event, which gave him and every other Repealer such unbounded delight. His reply would be that illuminations would give an ex cuse for riot, and as the feelings of the entire Irish people could be much better expressed in the form of a congra tulatory address to her Majesty, he would move that such an address be adopted by this Association and cir culated for general signature throughout the country.— (Cheers.) On the next day of meeting he would bring this address forward, as well as the draft of a petition on the subject of the administration of the law. The repeal rent for the past week was 2294 4s. Gd. The meeting then adjourned. HOP INTELLIGENCE. - - WORCESTER, Nov. 13.—There was a steady demand fur all descriptions of new Hops to-day at about last week's prices, which are likely to remain stationary for some time to come. The duty will be declared in a few days, and is likely to fall between 13,0001. and 14,0001. BOROUGH, Nov. 15.—The HOp market is in a dull state at present, as the official duty must come out in a few days and set at rest all further doubts as to the result of the yield. The duty last year was only 62,253/. Bs. 111 d., of which the old duty at 1 12-20 per lb., furnished 34,0011. 16s. Id. 4-20 ; the new duty at d. 8-20 per lb., 25,1981. ss. 10d. 16-20 ; and the addi tional duty of 5 per cent. 2,963/. 6s. i i d. The prices rule about: the same as in our last. Estimated duty, 140,000/. to 145,000/. Wednesday afternoon a fatal accident occurred in Pedlar's-acre, Belvidere -road, Lambeth, to a young man named James White, a drayman in the employ of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins . , and Co., the brewers. He was returning with his dray, and endeavoured to clear an other vehicle whi c h was passing at the time, when he took androad, in slipped, s o and hold of the b ear i ng re i n of the second horse o f t h e team, h d i s thefoot, n e a near owing whe t e o l theof thef ro drayz en s t l a T t e e nt of overthe his chest and head, and he was killed. c decease oven Miss AG NE S T AYLOR.— W e h ave t h e b es t authority f or s t at i ng t h at there is no truth i n t h e para graph whi c h appeare d i n our columns of yester d ay, an nouncing t Garden ofMiss . The Agnes lady, Taylor, wer are f ap t p h y e Theatre Royal, the to - say, is in the enjoyment of excellent health. The paragraph was sent t o us b y an occas i ona l Correspendent. Captain Tayler, the projector of the Floating Breakwater, and several members of the National Float ing Breakwater Company, have been in Brighton during the week, with the view of making arrangements for the forthation of a Company to lay down a breakwater off Brighton. We hear that the arrangements are nearly brought to co mpletion.—Brighton Gazette. The Directors of the Croydon Railway have been unremitting in their exertions for the removal of the obstruction occasioned by the late slip on their line, near New Cross. Already one line of rails has been cleared ; and a luggage -train passed through yesterday. It is expected that both rails will be free by Monday next .; and in the mean time the passengers on both the Croydon and Brighton lines are protected from the wea ther, in passing from train to train,•by the erection of an awning along the side of the slip.—Brighton Gazette. POVERTY:—Who shall say there is no want and poverty even in Cheltenham; - when they are told that at a Court of Appeal on Friday last, upwards of 450 persons were excused their poors' rates, en the ground of poverty alone !—Cheltenham Examiner. Two hares were killed last week by the engines on the Carlisle Railway in the Alien-side Cut, close to the railway station, Haydon-bridge. The first was found by the repairers cut asunder across the rails, and the other lying in the ditch, with some down struck off her by the engine, apparently little the worse.— Tyne Mercury. EFFECTS OF AN EARTHQUAKE ON THE YE. GETATION OF WHEAT.--It is a remarkable circumstance that since the great earthquake in 1687, no wheat will grow on the coast of Peru. In some places, indeed, a little is raised, but it is very unproductive. Rice, on the contrary, yields a great return. Before the earthquake,, one grain of wheat yielded 200 grains.— York Courant.. DISGRACEFUL RIOT.—On the sth of No vember the village of Slop Pond, in the immediate vici nity of Highcliif and Beacon Lodge, on the coast of Hampshire, near Christchurch, the respective residences of Lord Stuart de Rothesay and the Honourable Grantley Berkeley ; was the scene of a most disgraceful riot. It seems that the vigilance of the game-keepers of the latter gentleman since his residence there had made them obnoxious to the lower classes, who consist chieriy of deer-stealers, poachers, and smugglers, which led to the disturbance. About half-past :eight at night, from 50 to 60 people assembled, many of them disguised, with their faces blackened, armed with bludgeons and guns, and proceeded to burn figures supposed to represent Mr. Berkeley and his men. They then broke the windows of one of the keepers, who was from home, threaten ing to burn his house and to murder his wife, at the same time throwing fire into his premises, in the direc tion of his fagot pile, but which fagots his wife had previously removed within doors, to barricade her win dows, having had some suspicion that things were going wrong. Having visited the head-keeper's (George Targess) house, in the same manner, whom some one,. a short time before, had fired at through the window in an endeavour to take his life, they then went to the house of Mr. Berkeley's butler, and to the residence of a man who had been witness against some poachers, and committed various acts of intimidation and excess, concluding with burning the figures on the highway, which runs immediately in front of these houses. The road was thus rendered impassable to a horse for nearly two hours. A single policeman approached when the riot was over. Mr. Grantley Berkeley, who was in Gloucestershire at the time, has since arrived upon the spot, and his servants having taken down the names of 40 of the chief leaders of the riot, active measures are being adopted for the punishment of the offenderS. We are happy to state that the severe remark s which we have been obliged to make on the • conduct of the searchers at the Douane in this town has drawn the attention of the Director to the subject, and that instruc tions have been issued to the searchers to perform their duty according to the spirit of the law and with pro priety and civility.—Boulogne Gazette. FALL OF SNOW IN PARIS.—A fall of snow took place in Paris on Monday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, but the weather was not'sufficiently cold for it to remain on due ground. THE YACHT FLEET.—The following is a list of the yachts, with their ton na ge and owners, at present lying in Hasiar Creek, Gosport:—Schooners—Mischief, 091 tons, owner Sir Joseph F. Hawley, Bart.; Flower of Yarrow, 141, Viscount Exmouth ; Gem, 125, Marquis of Ormond; Merlin, 104, William Lyon, Esq. Yawl— Arundel, 210, Hanhani, Esq. Cutters—Flower of Yarrow, 145, Marquis Conyngham; Adelaide, 124, Hon. IL F. Walker; Dream, 100, G. Bentinck, Esq.; Nelson, Quantock, 04 ;Antelope, 90 ,Viscount Powerscourt; Norai, 70 , Ma jor James Mill; Asp ara h , 50, Bill , E sq . ; Matilda, 44, B aw n Esq.; Giulia Spider, 33, F. S. Greville, isq.; Nymph, 31, Bayley, Esq.; Violet, 22 , i E u s li q a, ; 4 35 2 i d g e Earl , 315, 0 of Colonel TyreoT yreo n p n i e k l e l ; Naiad, 40, — ; Hon. F. A. Berkeley; Louisa; Gipsy. The gross tonnage amounts to 1,711 tons.—Portsmouth Paper. ' WILD CAT, —.About the middle of the last month, Sir Pyers M ostyn, the young Baronet of Talacre, emulating the f am il y s ki ll in the use o f t h e gun , shot a wild cat, in a covert in the parish of Llanasa. The cat and a brace of foxes started from the same gorse bush. but Joe Manton soon dissolved the partnership. A simi lar animal had not been seen in the country for fifty , years. The tail is annulated with black; body with black stripes. The dorsal ones, three in number, longi tudinal; those on the sides, spiral. The length is three feet two inches, the girth sixteen inches and a half, and the weight thirteen pounds two ounces. These strangers have been induced to come by the extensive plantations made by the late Sir Thomas Mostyn upon this part of his property in the Principality ; but they will not be welcome visitors, as, after the wolf, now happily extinct in this country, they arc the fiercest and most destruc tive beasts of prey in the island. The same gun laid an embargo upon a male hobby, a beautiful specimen of a small hawk, which was upon the point of setting out for his winter quarters in Western Asia. This little fellow was formerly used in hawking to dare larks and other small game. In early times he was employed by the Welsh falconers, as is testified by an ancient bard of the fourteenth century.—Carnarvon .Herald. ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT THE OLYMPIC THEATRE.—Last night, about nine o'clock, another ac cident, which bears a great resemblance to the one which occurred on Monday night last, took place at the above theatre, and which had well-nigh terminated in the loss of life. During the performance of Jack Rann, the Reever, or Sixteen-string Jack, at the end of the se cond act, Mr. Leman Rede, .who is the author of, and takes the principal character in the above piece, jumped from the window to escape the officers of justice, a height of about fifteen feet, and dropping upon the stage it un fortunately broke in with him, and to the astonishment and dismay of the audience the body of Mr. Bede was suspended by his arms; his head, shoulders, and arms being only visible. The scene immediately changed, and after some few seconds, Mr. Baker the acting-ma nager, came forward and intimated to the house that, notwithstanding what had occurred, he trusted Mr. Redo would be enabled, in a few minutes, to carry through his personation of the character. In a short time Mr. Rede again made his appearance, and, although evidently suf fering from the accident, maintained the personation of the character throughout. MEETING OF THE CUARTISTS.—On Mon day evening, a meeting of the ChartiStS was held at the Ebor public-house, Straker's-passage, Fossage, in this city, when a lecture was delivered on the Charter by. a person from London. After the lecture, it was stated, that in consequence of t he proceedings that day in the Guildhall, with reference to presenting an address of &c., o n h er sa f e d e li verance e ts h en ad sent a d eputat i on to the that lie gis ening, for th e purpose of agreeing would allow them the use congratulationLoofftariie,ArClinau y e i Prince, there ahrieei to qt uch t h eahst e auev .r Q nt u congratulation, and also petitioning f offenders, and f o r an in quiryt oor h an n rteol addresseothese of of existing all distress politicalof the would wished it. and it. It w as now therefore moved Lord ship stated to the deputation that it was contrary to the sent ou people. His Lord- preside over their usual custom to us d e t s l e i c e o ndehalld at b y n iv ig i. hrt,cobrduk but they might , a l e 2 d._ o'cloyot Courant. that a blohavee),equiioltiisroti. meeting Judson, ufn be i h t dt l s e oe ny d , day and to the Lord Mayor, de s i r i ng him to call a meeting of the w o rkin g classes, in the Guildhall, on which was agreed to, I NTO LERANCE. —At a vill age not ten m il es Thursdayood the e ( e t t o i m -odga)s,) separated,—York a rt from North Newbald, the funeral of an Odd Fellow took place, last week, when, as it frequently happens, the principal officer of the Lodge to which the deceased be longs, reads the funeral oration of the order over the grave, after that of the Church is concluded. The officer was proceeding with his duty, and had almost finished, when lo ! the Curate stepped to him and requested him to desist, as he could not al low . hint to pro cee d, a t the same time lib er al (' pointing out that he might go into the highway and there finish if he thought proper. How long will it be, ere the Church purge itself of such imbecility, pride, and absurdity, and which can only exist in the minds of those of her ministers who are pro foundly ignorant, and of the meanest understanding.— York Courant. DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT.—O n Wednes day week one of the elephants in tho menagerie of Mr. Wombwell, now exhibiting at Leeds, died, It was a fe male, and supposed about thirty years of age. The cause of death is not satisfactorily explained. It has been sold to the Leeds philosophica society for 20L ; the hide weighed five hundlld "Ott-- rork Courant. LITERATURE. MCKAY'S MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDI NARY POPULAR DELUSIONS. 2 Vas. Bentley, London, 1841. Lord Byron's well-known remark that "Truth is strange, stranger than Fiction," was never more forcibly illustrated than in the instances of the Mississippi Scheme, and the South Sea Bubble --two wild, unprecedented projects, that turned I the heads of France and England about the commencement of the last century. In the pre sent volumes Mr. Mackay has given an interest ing account of these romantic schemes; and from his details, aided by our own recollection of the numerous memoirs of the period, we shall pro ceed to state a few curious particulars respectin g them. And first of the Mississippi humbug a n d its projector, John Law, of Lauriston. This shrewd adventurer was born at Edinburgh in 1671. His father was a rich goldsmith and banker, and his son for three years laboured in the counting-house, where he acquired a good insight into business. At the age of seventeen, however, on the death of the elder Law, he with drew entirely from the desk ; and fancying him self handsome, though he was so scarred and seamed with the small-pox that his face resem bled a cauliflower, and being besides of a restless, enterprising, mercurial turn of mind, and inordi nately fond of female society, he determined on quitting Scotland and pushing his fortunes in London. As he was well endowed in point of pocket, he found no difficulty in procuring the means of enjoyment. He gamed; flirted with the women ; fought asluel in which he killed his antagonist; was found guilty of manslaughter, fined, and detained in the King's Bench, from which he contrived to make his escape to the Continent—as poor as Job, for his fortune had been all lost in gambling. After travelling for three years, he settled himself at Amsterdam, where he devoted his mornings to finance, and his nights to play. Thus accomplished as a worldly adventurer, he quitted Holland, and continued to vagabondise for years, support ing himself chiefly by gaming. At length, he decided on taking up his permanent re sidence at Paris, and trying there his skill in play and speculation. At this period the Duke of Orleans ruled as Regent, during the minority of that scamp of scamps, Louis the Fifteenth. Mr. Mackay, cursorily alluding to the Duke— whose character, by the bye, considering the con spicuous part he played in the Mississippi scheme, should not have been disposed of in a sentence— tells us that he possessed "wit and amiability." "Wit" he may have had, for this was common enough among the French aristocracy of the pe riod; but of " amiability" he had not an atom. Capricious ; tyrannical ; physically brave, but morally a coward; hating all State business as the Devil hates holy water; a heartless sensual ist ; and as selfish as Louis the Fourteenth, with out any of his redeeming qualities ;—who can recognise in such a character, the germs of any thing like " amiability ?" Smollett states that lie " was endowed with shining talents for empire ;" but when we look for proofs of the historian's assertion, they are not to be found. In a word, the Duke was just the reckless, greedy, unscru pulous man to be made a tool of by any clever financial experimentalist, and to go the whole hog with him in any scheme that promised their mutual benefit, no matter at what cost to France. When Law first made his bow at the Duke's levee, the finances of the country were—as Mr. Mackay truly observes—" in a state of the ut most disorder." The corruption and extrava gance of the preceding reign were now telling with ruinous effect on all classes. The national debt was of an amount almost incredible, when the value of money at that time is considered. The currency was depreciated one-fifth. The right arm of commerce was palsied. A cloud of tax-collectors, like locusts, overspread the country. And what was the system of policy pursued by the Regent in this alarming crisis? He had none. In vain one Minister recommended the declaration of a national bankruptcy, and another, the assem bling of the States-General ; he listened to all, but pinned his faith upon none. France might be delivered up to the wildest anarchy, and even blotted out from the map of Europe, provided the young and witty Marquise du Duffant, then a mere girl, scarcely seventeen years old, did not look coldly on his love 1 But Law now appeared on the public stage, and henceforth, for a season, all was to be changed. He soon contrived to in gratiate himself with the Regent, and to exercise that quiet, despotic mastery which a strong mind rarely fails to exercise over a weak one. His in fluence was first shown in the permission which he gained from the Government to establish a bank, under the name of Law and Company, the notes of which should be received in payment of the taxes. So adroitly did he manage this con cern that, in the course of a year, his notes rose to fifteen per cent., and so widely was his credit extended, that branch-banks were formed in many of the principal towns and cities of France. Law's prospects were now hourly brightening. He was on the high, broad road to fortune, and was not the man to stop while aught of ambi tion's career remained to be run. Strike while the iron is hot, seems to have been his motto ; and strike, God knows, he did, and this with a force that stunned France, and resounded through Europe ! Shortly after the formation of his bank, the beneficial effect of which was soon telt, he proposed to the Regent—we quote our author's words—" to establish a company which should have the exclusive privilege of trading to the Mississippi, and the province of Louisiana on its'western shore. The region was supposed to abound in the precious metals, and the com pany supported by the profits of their exclusive commerce, were to be the sole farmers of the taxes, and sole coiners of money." Delighted with the success of Law's Bank, the Regent assented without hesitation to this new proposal, and letters patent were issued, incorporating the Company, in the year 1717. And now began that rage for speculation which brought France to the verge of ruin. Despite the opposition of Parliament the applications for shares in the Mississippi scheme increased daily; additional privileges were bestowed on the Company and Law promised a yearly dividend of two hundred livres upon each share of five hundred ! From this moment the game was in his own hands— the ball at his feet. People of all classes, and of all professions, the young and the old, the rich and the poor, speculated in the rise and fall of the Mississippi bonds. The high-born dame quitted her boudoir—the secluded scholar his closet—the merchant his counting-house—the Minister the Council-board—the actor the green-room—and the artist his studio—to go and buy shares of the jobbers in the Rue de Quincampoix. From the remotest provinces sanguine speculators flocked by thousands to take part in the one grand scheme of the day. So astonishing, indeed, was the infatuation, that the price of shares sometimes rose ten or twenty per cent. in the course of a few hours The con sequences may be imagined. Men's social posi tions were changed in an instant, as if by magic. The Lazarus of yesterday was the Dives of to day. The tradesman, who rose in the morning comparatively poor, by a lucky investment, be came before nightfal rich beyond the wildest dreams of his ambition. All that can be con ceived of the romantic and the marvellous, of the desperate and the infatuated, was realized in Paris at this period. The barriers between the patrician and the plebeian classes were thrown down. Pride offered itself up a willing sacrifice, at the shrine of avarice. France, in short, was mad—stark, staring mad, and society fairly turned topsy-turvy. And Law, the arch con juror, whose power had worked all these won ders, where was he ? What was the extent of his authority during this season of phrenzy ? Mr. Mackay shall inform us : During this time, Law, the new Plutus, had become all at once the most important personage of the State. The ante-chambers of the Regent were forsaken by the courtiers. Peers, judges, and bishops thronged to the Hotel de Soissons ; officers of the army and navy, ladies of title and fashion, and every one to whom hereditary rank or public employ gave a claim to prece dence, were to be found waiting in his ante-chambers to beg for a portion of his India stock. Law was so pestered that he was unable to see one-tenth part of the applicants, and every manoeuvre that ingenuity could suggest was employed to !gain access to him. Peers, whose dignity would have been outraged if the Regent had made them wait half an hour for an interview, were content to wait six hours for the chance of seeing Monsieur Law. Enormous fees were paid to his ser vants, if they would merely announce their names. Ladies of rank employed the blandishments of their smiles for the same object ; but many of them came day after day for a fortnight before they could obtain an audience. When Law accepted an invitation, he was sometimes so sur rounded by ladies, all asking to have their names put down in his lists as shareholders in the new stock, that, in spite of his well-known and habitual gallantry, he was obliged to tear himself away p ar force. The most ludicrous stratagems were employed to have an opportunity of speaking to him. One lady, who had e sp h air striven in vain during several days, gave up in despair all attempts to see him at his own ho us e, but ordered c oachman to keep a strict watch wh enever she was out er in her carriage, and if he saw Mr. Law coming, to drive against a post, and upset her. Th e coachman - promised o b e dience, and for three d a y s t h e la dy was driven inces santly through the town, praying inwardly for the op op portunity to be overt urne d. A t last she espied Mr. - Law, and, pulling the string, called out to the coachman "Upset us now ! for G o d' s sa k e, upset us no%vt" 'BR! c oachman drove again s t a post, the lady screamed, the coach was overturned, and Law, who had seen the acci dent, hastened to the spot to render assistance. The con ning dame was led into the Hotel de vissons, where she 9 , soon thought it advisable to recover from her fright, and, after apologising to Mr. Law, confessed her strata gem. Law smiled, and entered the lady in his books as the purchaser of a quantity of India stock. Another story is told of a Madame de Boucha, who, knowing that Mr. Law was at dinner at a certain house, pro ceeded thither in her carriage, and gave the alarm of fire. The company started from table, and Law among the rest; but, seeing one lady making all haste into' the house towards him, while everybody else was scampering away, he suspected the trick, and ran off in another direction, 'But this state of things could not last. It was high water, and the tide was about to ebb. The extraordinary increase of paper-money, when the rage for speculation had in some degree abated, began to produce its usual bad effects ; whispers got about injurious to the credit of Law's Bank; the stock-jobbers took the alarm, conceiving justly that shares could not go on rising for ever; and many of them quietly con verted their notes into specie, and sent it off to foreign countries. Hundreds followed their ex ample ; and hundreds, too, concealed what coin they possessed; so that in a short time the ope rations of commerce could no longer be safely carried on. In this emergency., " Law hazarded the bold experiment of forbidding the use of specie altogether." It was his death-blow. The value of the Mississippi shares fell almost imme diately ; general distrust took the place of general confidence; the Bank stopped pay ment; and France, at length aroused from her infatuation, poured the vials of her wrath on the devoted head of Law. Quack, impostor, were among the lightest of the charges brought against him. Every ministerial blunder—every obnoxious edict—was laid at his door. He never appeared in public but at the risk of his life. If he begged for a patient hearing, he was laughed at: if he suggested a remedial measure, the Court was suddenly seized with deafness. Of all his for mer friends, not one remained to cheer him Sin his adversity. Thus bereft of all influence— stripped of fortune and of reputation—the Re gent's scape-goat and the people's abhorrence— the unhappy man quitted France, and, after rest lessly wandering over the Continent, supporting himself; as before, by gambling, he died at Venice in the year 1729. The above outline, brief and hurried though it is, will enable the reader to form a pretty cor rect estimate of Law's character. He seems to have been a man of the world, in the strictest sense of the term; of infinite self-possession; ardent and enterprising to a degree; of un bounded confidence; fertile in expedients; and as unencumbered with principle as an inveterate gambler is apt to be. But Mr. Mackay, adopt ing Smolittt's hasty, partial view, thinks other wise. He assures us that Law " was neither knave nor madman, but one more deceived than deceiving, more sinned against than sinning." Of madness we readily acquit him; but as to Lis being the deceived party in the Mississippi hoax, this is really too ridiculous. He knew well the fallacy of his golden promises; and that Louisiana was by no means the El Dorado he asserted it to be; for among the more en lightened and adventurous classes, the hope of finding the precious metals to any extent on the shores of the Mississippi, had been extinct for nearly a century. The vague, ardent expecta tions that had hurried our speculators across the Atlantic in the days of Elizabeth and James, had given place to a spirit of rational enterprise; and it was in South, not North, America, that gold was looked for. None knew this better than Law; but he trusted to the ignorance of the masses, and, as we have seen, succeeded in duping them. Then, what absurd cant to talk about his having been " snore sinned against than sinning," when we know that he had spent the best part of his life at the gambling-table and become notorious in every European capita for his dexterity in games of chance, which he studied as a science, and pursued as a trade, with the plodding diligence of a shop-keeper ! But not only does our author insist on Law's unso phisticated simplicity of character, but he car ries his nationality to a still more extravagant height; in fact, lie quite burlesques the feeling, for he dwells with marked admiration on the personal graces of his hero, whom he calls " the handsome Scotchman," notwithstanding he was specially described in an advertisement inserted in the Gazette, as "a very tall, black, lean man, well shaped, above six feet high, with large pock holes in his face big-nosed, and speaking broad and loud !" Unablei to get over this imtward, matter-of-fact description, Mr. Mackay insinu ates that it was drawn up " with a view to favour Law's escape"—just as if those who had an interest in the man's arrest, and themselves penned the advertisement, would have wilfully falsified the truth in a business-like Government Gazette ! About the same time that France was con vulsed to the heart's core with the Mississippi ma lady, England was running wild about the South Sea Bubble. This scheme originated with Sir John Blunt—a cunning, plausible, unprincipled scrivener. The pretence for his project was to discharge the national debt by reducing all the funds into one. On this occasion the Bank and the South Sea Company outbid each other; but the latter offering the highest terms, they were accepted by Government ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought into the Commons, formed on the plan presented by the Company. " While this afliair was in agitation "says Smollett, " the stock rose from one hundred and thirty to nearly four hundred ;" and when the Bill had received the Royal assent, the avaricious hopes of the people were excited to a degree that bore the aspect of the wildest insanity. In vain Walpole in the Commons, and Earl Cowper in the Lords, pointed out the inevitable evils of the speculation ; the country held fast to its belief that " the Com pany trading to the South Seas would be the richest the world ever saw, and that every hun dred pounds invested in it would produce - hun dreds per annum to the stockholder." Day by day this belief strengthened, till at length it be came a deep-rooted conviction. Everybody rushed to purchase shares ; Exchange-alley was blocked up; and Cornhill was impassable for carriages. In one week stock rose from five hun dred and fifty to eight hundred and ninety, and a few days afterwards was quoted at one thousand per cent. ! But the bubble was now full-blown ; trickery had done its best, and was to pay a pro portionate penalty. After fluctuating for some days, stock—notwithstanding the contrivances of Blunt and his agents—began to fall as rapidly as it had risen, and a general panic was the imme diate consequence. In the first phrenzy of her disappointment England, as in the case of France, looked out for victims, and pounced upon the Directors, whom they compelled Parliament to punish with remorseless severity. Sir John Blunt, in particular, was reduced to the verge of beggary ; nothing could surpass the popular fer ment against him ; and in this case the victim deserved his fate, for he was so consummate a rogue—and a Methodist, in addition—that John Law shows like an angel of light beside him. It is not a little remarkable that the proud, wealthy , aristocracy of England were as eager in the sup port of the South Sea scheme as the most des perate jobber on 'Change. In the hot pursuit of gain they stooped to every meanness; and a de scendant of one of the Peers of the Norman Con queror might be seen in Cornhill humbly soli citing the patronage of some upstart Director, who, like a mushroom, had sprung but yester day from the dunghill! Among those who suf fered most severely by this famous Bubble was the elder Craggs, whose son, the Secretary to the Treasury, is now only remembered by his friend ship with Pope and Addison. Ou r aut h or tells us little or nothing about the senior Craps ; w e ms to emi nence. will supply his omissions, therefore, by stating that lie was originally a barber, wh o by his g e ta lents and perseverance raised himself elf He became, insuccession, Genthe Duke eral, and home agent to rostmaster e of Marlbo rough; amassed a vast fortune; and was looked upon as one of the most efficient honest, men of busi ness of _, I 'f• not the most his d well as himself, was mixeday. His son , as Sea hoax ; and t h ey died up with the S ou th within a few weeks of each other, while the Parliamentary investiga tion into their conduct was going forward. G4r, the poet, was another of the sufferers. Poor Gay ! he fancied, in his simplicity, that he was about to be put into possession of the wealth of Crces us ; and went about dreaming of parks, and palaces, and • • paintings, and such luxuries, as no poet ever yet acquired but in imaginat i on ; but one fine morning, his delusion was rudely dispelled ; the Bubble burst ; and he found him -self possessed of nothing beyond the shirt on his back, and the friendship of the Duke of Queensbury. Mr. Mackay's account of this cele brated ho ax i s — cons id ere d as a whole—the .bc_st portion of his work. It is neatly and concisely Penned; the details are dexterously put to gether, and enlivened by. apposite s k e tches of time descrip character ; and thieve is a vivacity alert th rough tions that keeps attention on therdects that were out. Alluding to the various projects of time South set on foot during the continuance particulars : Sea mania, he relates these cu of London, 'gravely informs : Maitland, in his "History .es p which received great en us, that one of the l'or r°- t c he establishment of a com couragement, rdeal-boards out of saw-dust." This Tany "to makeis, intended as a joke ; but there is abun dance doubt, no to show that dozens of schemes of evidence h ar dly a w hit more reasonable, lived their little day, ruining h u ndreds ere they fell. One of them was for a wheel fur perpetual motion—capital, one mil lion another was for " encouraging the breed of horses in England, and improving of glebe and church lands, and repairing and rebuilding parsonage and vicarage EVENING SUN i l i n i thetl' e l fi a r t s t t e , r i c s la o u n s l e y , in Why the clergy, who were io rittlialyintOested' .. be d e x h p a i l a • s to ho b u e in ta edt .i . :thuleu:scupph ,interest that the scheme was projected by a .. lif the fox-hunt i ing parsons, once so common in EnglaW., - The shares - of this company were rapidly subseillzeid for* ' ' Bailin,. • most absurd an d preposterous of all, atutwhicli:Streivell; 2 more completely than any other, the uttetsittitiness of the people, was one • started by an unknown adventurer entitled "A company Ar.carlwin oj gon an undertakin g ' great advant age , • b ut no b ody to know what it is." Were not the fact stat e d by scores of credible ' witnesses, it would be impossibl e t o b e li eve that any person could ave been duped by such a project. The man of genius who essayed this bold and successful inroad upon public cre dulity, merely stated in his prospectus that the required capital was half a million, in five thousand shares of 1001. each, deposit 21. per share. Each subscriber, paying his deposit,. would'be entitled to 100/. per annum per share. How this immense profit was to be obtained he did not condescend to inform them at that time, but promised that in a month full particulars should be duly an nounced, and a call made for the remaining 9i/. of the subscription. Next morning, at nine o'clock, this great man opened an office in Cornhill. Crowds of people beset his door, and when he shut up, at three o'clock, he found that no less than one thousand shares had been subscribed for and the depositS paid. He was thus, in five hours, the winner of 2,0001. Ile was philosopher enough to be contented with his venture, and set off the same evening for the Continent. He was never heard of again. The " Tulip-mania" is another singular chap ter in the voluminous annals of human folly. This epidemic raged throughout Holland about the seventeenth century, and made sad havoc with the fortunes of the sedate, square-sterned, broad-breeched Dut c hmen. All the rich mer chants of Amsterdam became suddenly smitten with a rage for tulips. Jobbers speculated in the rise and fall of these exotics, and made or lost vast sums by them. The tulip-mart was the fa vourite resort of all classes; and people of the highest rank converted their property into cash, and invested it in flowers. At length the crash came, and then thousands of ruined speculators stared at each other, wondering how they could have been such asses! Alas! in cases of this sort men always wonder too late! They are wise after the event, when wisdom can be of no fur ther use than to suggest the propriety of their being resigned to their lot. Nearly contempo rary with the " Tulip-mania" in Holland, was the rise of that religious fanaticism in England, which Cromwell turned to such excellent ac count. Mr. Mackay says not a syllable about this phrenzy, but lie should have made it the subject of a chapter; and it would have been one of the most entertaining in his work, fbr the materials are abundant; and what more curious than a sketch of the early reveries and preach ings of Fox, the founder of Quakerism, of the strange day-dreams of the Independents, and the still stranger fancies of the Fifth-Monarchy men? On the subject of " Witcli2raft," ,Nxhich for many centuries was firmly believed in through out Europe, our author is more than usually mi nute and painstaking in his details. He is mis taken, however, in supposing that this supersti tion was confined to the Middle Ages, for the Romans—even in the enlightened 'days of Augustus—had faith in it ; and one of the most earnest and energetic of Horace's Odes is ad dresSed to the witch, Canidia. Tile creed of witchcraft, as it was generally received on the Continent, as well as in England, is so extraor dinary, that we subjoin a slight summary of it. It was thought that the earth swarmed with demons, who were divided into seventy-two bat talions, each of which was commanded by a Prince, or Captain ; Satan, of course, being the Commander-in-Chief. These demons could as sume any shape they pleased ; and when male were called Incubi, when female, Succubi. Al though their supernatural powers were great, $ yet they had the greatest possible difficulty in concealing their tails, which used to stick out, in spite ofihem. Sometimes, however, the male demons managed to hide these embarassing ap pendages, and then they would make love to, and marry, beautiful young women, by, whom, if they ever had children, such children could always be detected by their innate genius for kicking and squalling-, and requiring five nurses to suckle them ! One of the favourite tricks of the Incubus, or male witch, was to transform himself into an ass—a circumstance which ought 1 to make certain Tories unfeignedly grateful that such transformations are no longer believed in ; fbr were it otherwise, they' would certainly be tray themselves by their ears, and be burned at the stake for wizards. The Incubus was also fond of changing himself into a lawyer, which, by the bye, was a very natural and becomin g [ metamorphosis, for there is a wonderful conge niality of mind between the Devil and a lawyer, especially it' the latter happen to be also a Saint, and an unsuccessful candidate for a metropolitan borough. Every Friday night the witches and wizards held their Sabbath, and once a year on the Brockeu, where they set tled all their business mutters with the punctu ality, and—it is to be hoped—with the rigid integrity of stock-jobbers. It any of them attempted to levant, they were instantly caught, and soundly flagellated by order of Satan, who, like a certain Noble Lord, had a fancy for flogg ing refractory spirits on the Sabbath. At these weekly and annual meetings, Beelzebub always presided in the prepossessing shape of a he-goat, with one fitee in front, and another in his rear ! When all the business-matters' were disposed of, the whole assembly stood up for a dance, in which they were joined by toads and frogs, who capered away on their hind-legs like mad, to the enlivening music of the Devil's bagpipes. The dance ended, two or three of the superior witches figured in a reel, with tom-cats round their necks by way of necklaces ; and then the whole party sat down to a capital supper, Satan in the chair, at which they made a variety of excellent speeches, till cock-crow,when they hurried away to their respective homes; but not beingTee-totallers, the majority of them got so glorionsly drunk that they actually tumbled off' their broomsticks; and had they been discovered by any of the New Police, they would most assuredly have been taken to the station-house, and next day fined five shillings by a Bow-street Magistrate. Such were the superstitions that for centuries held Europe in thrall; and this, too, at a period when Bacon, Shakspeare, and- Milton were dif fusing far and wide the broad searching light of their genius! The circumstance is one mmiliat ing to the pride of human intellect; but how much more so, when we bear in mind that among the firm believers in witchcraft and its attendant absurdities, were such luminaries as Fairfax the translator of Tasso, Sir Matthew Hale, a n d . t h e philosophic author of th e " Religlo Medici 1 " But indeed Mr. Mackay's volumes through ou t are calculated to lower man s estimate of man's pretensions; for what are they but authentic re cords of such errors, crimes, hallucinations, and . pitiable weaknesses, as exhibit human nature in the light of a !noon-struck id"' ? lot . One sad truth they forcibly impress on our • .. attention—namely, that while Intelligence is the slow laborious, up growth of y ears, P olly, shoots '• and arrives at maturity in a day, as thouolt rooted • 1 a conge nial n soil. The • nation that listened with impa tience to the sagacious warnings of a. Walpole, welcomed with general enthusiasm the frantic offers of a Sir-John Blunt ! We here take leave of our author, with the remark that his • • work will excite great differences of opinion among his readers. A D • .11 'hid emocritus In in it food a Heraclitus it for inextinguishabl laughter • • e , !n. ~ when we will call forth only sigh • a or a tear• the contrast," says Gibbon, speaking of 1 gress of this inven tion of gunpowder, 1 " tie rapid,',aleal advances mischievous discovery with the „i of peace, the phi of reason, science, and the arts i will ' laugh or • losopher, according to his . temper, weep at the folly of mankind." . , __-.......--, CORONER'S INQUEST. — Yesterday evening an inquest was held in t he Board-rom City St. Bartholon o mew's Hospital, before Mr. Payne, the Coroner, view of the body of John Hutt, aged fifteen,. who w as killed on Monday morning last by an explosion, of a firework manutiletory in Charles-street, Curtain-r oad , Shoreditch. The catastrophe was not confined to the death of the unfortunate youth—four others are at pre sent more or less injured in the Hospital, viz.; Mr. Price, the proprietor of the premises ; William Shore, one of his workmen ; another lad, named Miller ; an d M give ry infer- Price's sister ; the latter much hurt in her escape by r. jumping out of window. Mrs. Price, who at the time n seven of the accident was in the last stage of pregnancy, since been delivered of a still-born infant, also h as lies in a very precarious state. After a number of respecting l i f i e is c b a o u d s y e ; ol l ' le th d e it e a xp a l b o o si u o t been examined, whose evidence did not persons had. the house-surgeon, stated that the deceased' ir. perry,was dread fullyon :.he evening of nl a ti : ) b u u riital l e , his admission, from had received. - Mr. Price and the other the injuries he state of great suffering. It might be s were still in a would be able to quit the wards. Both weeks before they Price had questioned, who said there was and Shore he ft fire when the explosion took place,in the room. might have flown emote, and th a t some of the a spark mate rials. Verdict—" Accidental. death," combustible consi dered there was muchand the carelessness Jury ure of the fireworks, used in the mandate- The banking house of B b ut e of Portsmouth,Y; Lot, and Co., appear is Friday bankrupts. The partners have night's Gazelle as Irish provision trade. The carried on a very extensive announcing the failure, says, , The ampshire T e l egra ph, i n com menced with an actually proud ' establishment c ex penses of the parties h ave been apital ; the personal rigidly economical.'' A benevolent fami ly in D com menced their annual distribution t • Devonshire have butio tickets to the poor of their parishn of coal and potato tickets will be delivered ; thus one h un d re d months, to the great joy of monthly fir the five winter the poor. 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