The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-11 00:00:00

EVENING- SUN LAW INTELLIGENCE. CR A 4ANCERY COURT.—(THIS DAY). th,The L 0rd,,.... Chancell or did n ot t a k e his seat in Court fr,:"Zoing till after eleven o'clock, not having arri fed Windsor till that hour. COORE V. LOWNDES. it iS case, in which the argument's were part-heard on tl i „ r uler day, was ordered to stand over, in order that appellants might give a new notice of motion. Th . ALLEN V. MACPHERSON AND OTHERS. Jed Is case came before the Court upon appeal from the b., grant of the 'Waster of the Rolls. , The bill was filed itiflathe plaintiff, Robert Allen, against the defendant th e ° Pier persons, who claimed certain legacies under g , ent till of a gentleman, named John Allen. The three cu t , r uen who had presented the appeal were the exe the r s, Of John Allen, and they had filed a demurrer to Plaintiffs bill, on the ground of want of equity and "f parties. The Master of the Rolls, on the case bf.fore him overruled the demurrer, and from ( ! rh dee6ion th e present appeal was brought. " e t ir ir tinients were proceeding when we went to ------ COURT.—(THIS DAY.) Thi STRICKLAND V. STRICKLAND. I ttste 3 Was a motion to set aside an order made by the e . d r for enlargement of the time for publication of the a v t i l ,, eu ee in this cause until an answer should be put in to f ni l lu ended cross bill that had been filed by the (le ttr' ; t au t. The original bill was filed in 1839 and the :e r in March, 1840, in which month the cross-bill QPled also. I n January, 1841, the plaintif f obtained 1 , _Le to 'pan publication, and in the mean time the cross th e gad been amended. A supplemental bill was filed in Af t :lnte cause, and an answer to it put in in May, 1841. 1, 44 r the cause had been set down for hearing application . ti on made to the Court to enlarge the time for publica tiq:putle t the Court considering that it had no jurisdic ka;etused to do so, and application was then made to the Ni er, who made an order for enlarging the time tP - '"? for eitt „ jou upon the usual terms of the plaintiff's having p k get down the cause for hearing. The cause was tt(1 1 ," 1 1 for hearing , and subpcenas issued to attend ilat u 7 e ut In this state of things, another bill of the k l e e of a cross - bill, was filed, and application was , r, rn e to the Master to enlarge the publication from the N ru , en cement of Michaelmas Term to the end of it, N i c t ' , the Master did. The publication being thus t g e d application was made for further enlargement, Ne Plaintiff in the cross bill having in the mean time Itt s i lded his bill, and the Master made an order enlarg -4 `4,ePublication until the amended bill should be put .lit.,ih would have had the effect of postponing the to s etg of the original cause. It was, therefore, moved I,laside the order. tlie t ' ) MASTER of the ROLLS said, that without saying N: ; s ster had not jurisdiction to make the order, he ti lt - 'd that he ought not, under the circumstances of lie e . ss e.to have exercised it in the manner he had lot tte conceived, therefore, the order made could '4 sustained, and must be discharged. 7 -1-t;-CH AN CERY .—(T HIS DAY.) kuefore the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) FLETCHER V. NORTHCOTE. "LlG thi 19 tONOUR was occupied during the whole of the Np ort n g with hearing the exceptions to the Master's in this part-heard cause. (before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) BOYES V. LIDDEL. t he Sl 3 Was an appli ca ti on t o th e C our t f o r a reference to i 4 sh„ as ter, to inquire whether or not a good title could Itleh 7 11 to the premises in question in the suit, and that lio n . 14 quiry s h ou ld b e w i t h out pre j u di ce to any ques wiii, t i the cause. The question between the parties toti tp :ether time was or was not of the essence of the 44' La p oi 1 °Noun said the conditions were of a strict nature ke h„,, li t of tim e an d ot h erw i se as aga i ns t t h e p urc h aser . r ,"" entered into the contract, and had no right now I liti e-In Pain of it ; although the nature of the cen t °ll 1, as affecti ng him and as favourable to the ang might possibly furnish a reason for apply e rule as to time strictly as against the vendor, tisi (l ll favour of the purchaser, he had only to „kik e e r whether it was a defect. He could not he ett the order without prejudice to any . question in btte th , l4 e, because a portion of the inquiry might be : °4l4 l l , th r°wn away. If he were in error the parties f l4e h e - r ave an opportunity of correcting it, by taking the :44 cause ~:; u re the Lord Chancellor. e d The motion was re dhout costs, the costs of thefe defendant to be costs ), trZmuE V. T HE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON . "Itl3 f)th ,TCCE applied to the Court to have the cause & At from Wednesday next till Hilary Term. ati ld " s uggestion of his HONOUR the cause was ordered °ver generally. In }I . A LOR V. RUNDELL. 1 11 : . a9 Z iS t eaaSe, WThich came before the Court on excep 'ePtiota. e Master's Report, his HONOUR all the (Before Vice-Chancellor Wxanam.) t,48 11 0 WALKER V. JEFFREYS. ortP eq l A ments in this case having been concluded, it to stand on the paper for judgment. c ox , t. (sitt i Ollj PLEAS—(THIS DAY.) 4, undon before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE „ The . and a Common Jury.) d r.alnti ff . ISAZELL V. BARDELL. hr o e i , 1 4 %dg/ it 13 a livery stable-keeper and horse - dealer; 1)01. n t to r _ ai l omnibus proprietor. This action was ~suld , 'ecvver the sum of 91. 10s.. the price of a Lo the defendant, who had refused payment, 914 t thet h ei_ r" M ui th a a s t n a the rasnatleee Nvas false. It appeared Tnti. Hors eacknowledged lame, but 4: h' e r respe cts :arranted sound and well. tempered. e ,idence, as usual, in all cases where a horse is 4 ,1 / 41 1 1 4 into a Court of law, was full of innumerable con i L iQ tions, and gave rise to not a little merriment. Accord jkt'ltimi the plaintiff's witnesses, the guarantee was fully 14, 4 ed. One of them declared that the " hanimal was as pati as a lamb, and had no vice whatever ;" another 'ot 4 - , e was well worth the money, and quite good ehough % bus." On the other hand, the defendant's wit lit: w ere unanimous in setting him down as a vicious %ol. ` ' n ot worth a pound ; and "a jibber, that wouldn't Th a tog, unless he liked. " Jury found for the plaintiff. fb EXCHEQUER-(THIS DAY.) fore Lord ABINGER and a London Special Jury.) G „Th A CATIIERWOOD V. CASLIN. 'vt !_ •..I VORNEY-GENERAL said, in this case the plain "lght to recover damages as compensation , t/Il e of the most grievous wrongs which . C I ," could fasten upon another. The plaintiff 11 ,, 4 1t ( 7 Present state of the law was compelled to 11 - ;„ t he Jury money damages for a wrong which ietj tl eY co u ld repa i r — v i z., f or t h e l oss o f th e ire, 1)f a beloved and heretofore affectionate s m Ntl Q ,'" t er detaili ng th e c i rcums t ances , th e L earn ed ,„ske —2ll called witn e sses who proved the mar -4'1,04 ° f the plaintiff to his wife, a cere kuktil rlvhich to" place abroad in Syria. The ste ms ° f the plaintiff said the wife had "an skl Ch e ducation, a li ve ly di s position, a fond nat ure , bra ttn ish bl ood. " After res i d i ng i n E ng l an d f or a tt e ;`4,'°, th e p l aintiff and h i s w if e went to t h e U n i te d " i ' s i3 O t in 1839 for what reason did not appear, ho ~wife ' home to his family, himself ! t 4 e5. „ 11 ( ' ; ,e,w York. The wife went to the house of '_4 lll z zt ! --14 s mother, but her brother-in-law took 1- for her first in Regent's-park, and then It:tokt,344l•lotte-street, they residing in Charles-square, n ' tt fr i'. ix * i The defendant was a second cousin of the plain- It Y 1,, B° d tO 'visit her at her lodgings. No crimi.. fc: Q of . t 4 h shown, except that the defendant and the 4 - " Plaintiff sometimes walked out together 11 "r 4 ,11: tu ld upon one occasion, when he had made a visit stai). e s ervant saw a pair of boots at the bottom of u ' 4 o, 1; 8 Itfter her mistress had gone to bed. In Angus t t f . Plaintiff came home, and then the wife ab k.,,the%;,"4:l nothing was heard of her until the August Pr e y year, when she and the defendant were h° to livinw tOgether. 1 4 14 4 l'utsioira addressed the Jury for the de- It ritt 4 ,0 d insisted that there was no evidence pl of 4t n tu e defendant for the Jury must throw ' ° usideration 'everything which had taken I. ' lll h • 11° ,e December, 1840, when the action was blamed the conduct of the defendant and said his conduct appeared to 4, ; 11 i fo l r s h% %dishonour. ' 4 4,7 r dship having io summed up, the Jury, after few Nbkral,„.' delibe ration , returned a verdict for the plaintiff. ages 200/. -Alt LBOROUGH-STREET. 4 / 4 „ 1 (THIS ])AY.) L tl 'lcl e , - "tt' Wren and Charles Mott, two boys of cleanly th appearance, the former thirteen years of age, r. ` 1 ,41.4:. latter twelve , were placed at the bar before M %ti " l elt, on a charge ' of shop-lifting. It appeared that 4 11( 1 ,, t elev hl' v ei l o'clock this morning, they had entered the Farren, dealer in fancy articles and cutlery, 4- "e b ilt°ll-areade and while pretending to purchase '! l p et ;istlirs2 ,' Wren slipped one into his boot with 4 ,', n g fo rt 1. 4) 1e,:;,.wer to a question from the Magistrate, the , P N„ , 4 01 that Mott had only recently been discharge "t 'PAson, which was evident from the "county crop h a t t'l Pes l4r) wlcx (to the prisoner)—What were you sent for ? Prisoner Mott—Nothing I need be bl r II of, Only for standing on my head. tc'i4d;Aabwielt. was quite puzzled until the gaoler ex :"agra. „? hint that the prisoner had been committed as ,st; a - "„for going about the streets singing songs, and standing on had and clapping the soles e t tOgether to excite charity. 411Ntaeijirisoner Wren said that his friends were " re , Ntr 1, People." ht,"4lll)wcx committed the prisoners for two h t i", Q 24, to Westminster Bridewell to hard labour, ,h air s. Farren's shop for an unlawful purpoie, R.. ,4111ZI,QIITON RAILROAD —This road, we are - ‘ l tY has been recently examined, and appears in for 1 :,;" to be perfectly safe. It seems to be no less 11 , Q ht 6 — „ e neY than sseners • for, according to a state inere % le can rely, in the course of last week h ere two instances of passengers leaving behind e several sums of 7,0001. and 4,0001., which were ,Teht: an d f arefully secured by the officers of the establish delivered to the owners. We un all carriages and horses which are destined -4 ' St "ton must join the line at Croydon, and be taken 9 ti°4 is, h i e 8441 e place for London. This point of junc -1,1t0,,,,u Point of fact, almost as near the west-end of sei treo " l aS London-bridge, and the additional expense Y more. t•ieli T e e , regret to f i nd it ;stated that the Bisho of weld (I) • 7ore everr • nowstead) continues seriously indisposed. Herald. Dec. 11. COURT CIRCULAR The Queen held a Privy Council at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Windsor Castle. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert; the Archbishop of Canterbury ; Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council ; the Lord Chancellor ' • the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Privy Seal ; Sir Robert Peeli-First Lord of the Treasury ; the Earl of Liver pool; Lord Steward; the Earl Delawarr, Lord Chamber lain ; and the Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse. The Lord Chancellor had an audience of the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the patent creating the Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. The impression of the Great Seal was enclosed in a silver case beautifully embossed with the Royal Arms, which, with the patent, was placed in a box, lined with white satin, and covered with crimson velvet. At the Council the name of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was ordered to be inserted in the Prayers of the Liturgy after that of Prince Albert. The Arms of his R'iyal Highness the Prince of Wales were taken into consideration at the Council. Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued, from Tuesday, the 21st of December, unto Thursday, the 3d of February, and a Proclamation was ordered to be is sued, summoning Parliament to meet on that day for the dispatch of public business. An election for a Scotch Peer was ordered. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. James Lord Wharncliffe to be Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of the County of York, his Lordship took the usual oaths. _ _ _ The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Sir Robert Peel, the Lorl Chancellor, the Duke of Buckingham, and Lord Wharncliffe, left town to attend the Council by a special train, which left the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway at one o'clock. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday from his residence at Kew, and paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester-House. In the evening his Royal Highness went to Exeter Hall, and honoured the Sacred Har monic Society with his presence at their performance of Handel's Oratorio, " The Messiah." A meeting took place yesterday morning at the Home office, which was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, Sir James Graham, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, on a special mission, transacted business at the Foreign-office on Thursday. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked for some time on the terrace of the Castle. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Buck ingham, Lord Wharncliffe, and the Hon. William Bathurst, took their departure from the Castle after the Council broke up. The Lord Chancellor, Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Earl of Liverpool, Earl Delawarr, and the Earl of Jersey, remain on a visit to her Majesty. It is expected that Sir Robert Peel and the Earl of Jersey will leave to morrow. _ _ Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, and the Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot, will have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Party this evening. By command of her Majesty, Mr. W. C. Ross, A.R.A, had the honour to-day of painting a sketch of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The unfavourable weather has prevented the Prince and the Princess Royal from being taken their usual airings. ' The Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot had the honour of joining the Royal Circle at dinner yesterday. A military band, as well as her Majesty's private band, attended at the Castle in the evening. EASTERN LITERARY and SCIEN- TIFIC INSTITUTION, HACKNEY-ROAD. On Tuesday evening last, Mr. F. Rowton delivered the second of an extremely interesting course of lectures on the genius and writings of " Boz," to a crowded audience, assembled in the theatre of this Institution. Having considered the author's humour and knowledge of character in his last lecture, Mr. Rowton proceeded in this to speak of Dickens's powers of description, pathos, and satire. In illustration of the first of these qualities, Mr. R. read, with excellent effect, the Chapter from " Oliver Twist," entitled, " The Jew's last night alive." We were pleased to perceive that an in cidental remark of Mr. Rowton's on the brutalizing nature of public executions, met with a ready response from the majority of his audience, As specimens of Dickens's pathos, the Lecturer selected the final release of the Chancery prisoner (from the Pickwick Papers), and the death of Nelly and her Grandfather (from the Old Curiosity Shop), and analysed the pathetic quality of the author's mind with much clearness and judgment. He then referred to Boz's satire, upon which he made some very just and appropriate critical remarks. He described it as being invariably marked by discrimination, good purpose, and manliness. In speaking of its aims, Mr. R. showed the author's contempt for affectation, in his ridicule of ladies who are all- soul,like Mrs.Wititterley, of pragmatic patrons of literature and the arts, like Mr. Curdle, with his definition of the dramatic unities, of effe minate dandies, like Mr. Mantalini, and of hollow heart less men of the world, like Sir John Chester. The Lec turer mentioned also Dickens's satire on the insolent in office, instancing Mr. Fang and Mr. Bumble ; and al luded likewise to Miss Montflathers, and the prevailing system of young-lady education. As a fair specimen of the author's power and humour in satirical writing, Mr. Rowton recited the well-known trial scene in the case of Bardell v. Pickwick, in a style that brought down the hearty laughter, and equally hearty cheers of the audi ence. With this extract Mr. R. concluded his lecture. ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS. On Friday the 10th instant, being the seventy-third anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts, a General Assembly of the Academicians was held at their apartments in Trafalgar-square, when the fol lowing distribution of premiums took place, viz:— To Mr. Henry Le Jeune— For the best Historical Painting, the Gold:Medal, and the Discourses of the Pre sidents,. Reynolds.and West. To Mr. William Calder Marshall—For the best His torical Groupe in Sculpture, the Gold Medal, and the Discourses of the Presidents, Reynolds and West. To Mr. William Hinton Campbell—For the best Ar chitectural Design, the Gold Medal, snd the Discourses of the Presidents, Reynolds and West. To Mr. Frederick Stacpoole—For the best Copy made in the Painting School, the Silver Medal, and the Lec tures of the Professors, Barry, Opie, and Fusili. To Mr. James Price—For the next best Copy made in the Painting School, the Silver Medal. To Mr. James Gildenvie—For the best Drawing from the Life, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of the Pro fessors, Barry, Opie, and Fuseli. To Mr. Henry Le Jeune—For the next best Drawing from the Life, the Silver Medal. To Mr. George Nelson—For the best Model from the Life, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of the Professors, Barry, Opie, and Fuseli. To Mr. Henry Bayly Garling—For the best Drawings of the South Portico of St. Paul's Cathedral, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of the Professors, Barry, Opie, and Fuseli. To Mr. Michael Angelo Wageman—For the best Drawings from the Antique, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of the Professors, Barry, and Fuseli. To Mr. Alexander Davis Cooper—For the next best Drawings from the Antique, the Silver Medal. To Mr. Henry Boyce—For the next best Drawings from the Antique, the Silver Medal. To Mr. Thomas Henry Merrett—For the best Model from the Antique, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of the Professors, Barry and Fuseli. To Mr. George Gammon Adams—For the next best Model from the Antique, the Silver Medai. To Mr. Alfred Galley—For the next best Model from the Antique, the Silver Medal. Which was concluded with an address from the Presi dent to the Students. The General Assembly afterwards proceeded to ap point officers for the ensuing year, when Sir Martin Arthur Shee was unanimously re-elected President. Council—New List—Philip Hardwick, David Roberts, John James Chalon, and William Mulreacly,Esqs:. Old List—Daniel Maclise, William Fredeiick Wither ington, Solomon Alexander Hart, and Henry Perronet Briggs, Esqs. Visitors in the Life Academy—New List—Charles Robert Leslie, Henry Perronet Briggs, William Mul ready, Thomas Uwins, and William Wyon, Esqs. Old List—William Etty, Henry Howard, Solomon Alexander Hart, and Daniel Maclise, Esqs. Visitors in the School of Painting—New List—Win. Collins, William Etty, Edwin Landseer, Joseph Mal lard, and William Turner, Esqs. Old List—Richard Cook, William Mulready, Daniel Maclise, and Henry William Pickersgill, Esqs. Auditors Re-elected—William Mulready, J. M. W. Turner, Esqs., and Sir Richard Westmacott. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize : Week Name of Railway. Mil " Total. ended Opened. £. a. d. Dec. 4 Birmingham and Derby Junct. 3Si 1,021 11 0 3 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,356 8 7 4 Chester and Birkenhead ..... ls 352 5 8 5 Dundee and Arbroath... 16;1 197 8 0 5 Eastern Counties 4 Glasgow and Ayr.... 4 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenork 22/ 610 1 7 N0v.27 Grand J unct. &Chester &Crowelo3l 6,818 17 8 Dec. 6 Great North o f En g land 45 1,122 10 10 'i 5 Great Western 118* 9,398 10 3 4 Hull and 5e1by....... 4 Lancaster and Preston Junction 201 372 7 7 3 Liverpool and Manchester ... . 3l 4,072 14 8 4 London and Birmingham ll2l 12,784 411 5 London and Blackwall 4 London and Brighton 4oi 1,224 12 4 98 18 6 4 Ditto Shoreham Branch ...... ••• 5 i 7 London and Croydon ...... 10i 236 0 1 9 London and Greenwich ......... 3 4 758 3 8 3,950 9 4i 4 London and South Western .... 93 559 9 3 2 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 342 2 1 6 Manchester and Birmingham... 5 3,549 4 2 4 Manchester and Leed5............ 5 0 4 Midland Counties .... 57 2,113 2 lli .. Newcastle and Carlisle 6o* No returns 5 Northern and Eastern . 4 North Midland 3 North Union .... • 2 7 5 24 3, 8 7 9 8 2 1 19 117 4 Preston and Wy re 5 Ulster 6 York and North Midl an d 23 1,426 611 During a recent trial before the: Correctional Tribunal at Verdun, it was shown that out of the 700 domestic servants employed within the town, 600 were under suspicion of the police, as being dishonest or immoral. THE SUN„ LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1841 EXETER MARKETS. (From the Western Times.) There was no material alteration from our quotations of last week. The Cattle Market, owing to the fair hav ing been held on Wednesday last, was very thinly sup plied, and the attendance of buyers was also very small ; the business transacted was trifling. TOTNES, DEC. 7.—The supply of fat Bullocks' was small and inferior in quality, the demand good, ar.d an advance took place of from 2s to 3s per cwt. Cows and Calves fetched very high prices. Store Bullocks were not plentiful, and sold well. Sheep met a dull sale at rather lower rates than on last market day. Corn. — The millers and maltsters evinced little disposition to pur chase, consequently little business was done. Wool was also very dull, and the same may be said of Potatoes. Best Beef for Christmas, from 63s to 70s per cwt; good market Beef, 58s to 635; second ditto, 52s 6d to 58s; Cows and Calves, 56s to 635; Store Bullocks, 33s to 40s. Sheep.—Wethers, 5301 to 6d per lb; Ewes, 54d to sid per. lb. Corn.—Wheat, 14s 6d to 16s per bag of two bushels; Barley, 7s to 8s; Oats, 6s Gd to 7s 6d per bag of 21, bushels. Wool, lid to 7id per lb in the grease. Potatoes, 2s 3(1 to 2s 9d per bag of 1401bs. TIVERTON, DEC. 7 . —Corn.—Wheat, 7s to 8s per bushel ; Barley, 4s to 4s 6d ; Oats, 2s 4d to 2s Bd. Sup ply very good, demand moderate. Turkeys, 4s to 5s 6d each ; Geese, 3s 6d to 5s ; Ducks, 3s 4d to 4s per couple ; Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s ; Butter, 10fel to is per lb. ; Eggs, is to is 2d per dozen ; Potatoes, 16 lbs for 6d ; 3s 6d to 4s 6d per bag of 8 score. Supplies abundant, demand slack. Shambles.—Beef, 53-d to 7d per lb Mutton, 5d to 6d ; Veal, Gd to 7d ;. Pork, sid to 7d ; Dry Bacon, 8d to 9d. Supply and demand good. Cattle.—Fat Beef, 9s to lOs per score ; 1 Store Cattle, 6s to 7s ; Cows and Calves, 121 to 13/ each ; Sheep, 5d to 6d per lb. A tolerable good supply, demand rather slack. LITERATURE. CULLOMPTON.--There was a remarkably fine exhibi tion of Cattle here on Saturday last. The prize heifer at Ottery, the property of Mr. John Hole, of Plymtree, and another the property of Mr. Henry Matthews, of Bradninch, were exhibited. The beauty of these ani mals attracted universal attention and admiration. Mr. Salter, of Clisthyd on , b ut f or the unfavourable morning, would have driven in a beautiful fat heifer. There was a particularly fine lot of young stock from Mr. John Hole's herd. A large number of buyers attended, and added to their provision for Christmas customers. THE WOOLLEN TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury.) LEEDS, DEC. 10.—We have no new feature to notice in the foreign wool trade this week. About the same extent of business has been done as is usual at this season of the year, which is generally .somewhat limited, but prices are firmly maintained. There has not been any increased demand for English wool this :week ; the manufacturers, as usual at this season, limiting their purchases as much as possible. Low deep grown combing wools still go off more readily than the finer qualities. In prices we do not quote any alteration. There has been exceeding dull markets at Leeds Cloth Hall this week: On Saturday there was scarcely any thing done except in fancy cloakings, in good patterns, the stocks of which are completely sold off, but on Tues day there was literally nothing doing—it was the worst market we havehad during the year. BRADFORD MARKET, TIIDRLAY.—This being our winter fair, we have had a great influx of people attend ing the Piece Market, but few of these have been buyers of manufactured goods, and only a limited business has been done, and that chiefly in merinos, low figures, and lustres, of which there is but a small stock in the market. Prices without alteration. There is no altered feature in the yarn branch in either demand or prices. There is no in dication of any increased activity in the wool trade, but middle and low sorts of full-bred wool continue in good request at late prices. The finer descriptions of combing are dull of sale, and prices are disproportionately reduced. HALIFAX MARKET, DEC. '4.—The Piece Market to day has not shown quite so much animation as on this day week. There is no alteration in the yarn market, nor any perceptible vatiation in wool. Middle wethers are quoted at 121., and' Ocond ditto at 11/. to 111.55. per pack. Common nolls'alid'brOkes about 91. --'`" ~. THE SMITHFIELD CLUB DINNER. Yesterday evening-the Members of this useful, numer ous, and influentitr'Club dined together at the Free masons"ravern. The Earl Spencer, President of the Club, was in the Chair, supported on his right by Lord Aboyne, the Hon. Wm. King, &c., and on the left by Colonel Wood, M.P. for Brecon, Colonel Sibthorp, Charles Handley, Esq., Chairman of the Royal Agricul tural Society of England, and about 250 gentlemen con nected with the breeding of stock and the general ad vancement of agricultural pursuits. The cloth having been drawn, the NOBLE CHAIRMAN proposed the health of her Majesty, which was re sponded to with the most loyal enthusiasm, as was that of the infant Prince. Upon the health of Prince Albert being proposed, the Noble Chairman stated that his Royal Highness and the Duke of Cambridge had become members of the Smithfield Club, which an nouncement was received with enthusiastic cheering. Upon " Success to the Smithfield Club" being given, the Chairman observed that he had scarcely ever seen a better show than the present one ; although there had not been so much stock, great improvement had taken place. The numerous improvements in implements of husbandry, seeds, &c., would account for their success in their receipts.—(Hear.) After a few other observa tions his Lordship stated that it was his determination to do the utmost in his power to render every assissance to the Club, as he felt assured it would be his own and the farmers' fault if they did not by determination succeed. In fact if the farmers would not act for themselves, they would have themselves to blame, but he had every hope that every man would do his duty. The Noble Earl con cluded by proposing "Success to the Smithfield Club." Upon the health of the Vice-Presidents being given, 'Twas twelve o'clock, not twelve at night, But twelve o'clock at noon, Because the sun was shining bright, And not the silver moon : A proper time for friends to call, Or Pots, or Penny Post.; When, lo ! as Phoebe sat at work, She saw her Pompey's Ghost ! Now when a female has a call From people that are dead, Like Paris ladies, she receives Her visitors in bed : But Pompey's Spirit could not come Like spirits that are white, Because he was a Blackamoor, And wouldn't show at night ! But of all unexpected things That happen to us here, The most unpleasant is a rise In what is very dear : So Phoebe scream'd an awful scream, To prove the seaman's text, That after black appearances, White squalls will follow next. " Oh, Phoebe dear oh, Phoebe dear ! Don't go to scream or faint ; You think because I'm black I am The Devil, but I ain't ! Behind the heels of Lady Lambe I walk'd whilst I had breath ; But that is past, and I am now A-walking after Death ! " No . murder, though, I come to tell, By base and bloody crime ; So, Phoebe dear, put off your fits Till some more fitting time ; No Crowner, like a boatswain's mate, My body need attack, With his round dozen to find out Why I have died so black. " One Sunday, shortly after tea, My skin began to burn, As if I had in my inside A heater, like the urn. Delirious in the night I grew, And as I lay in bed, They say I gather'd all the wool You see upon my head. " His Lordship for his doctor sent, My treatment to begin— I wish that he had call'd him out, Before he call'd him in ! For though to physic he was bred, And pass'd at Surgeon's Hall, To make his post a sinecure, He never cured at all ! "The doctor look'd about my breast, And then about my baelc, And then he shook his head and said, ' Your case looks very black.' And first he sent me hot cayenne, And then gamboge to swallow, — But still my fever would not turn To Scarlet or to Yellow ! " With madder and with turmeric He made his next attack ; But neither he nor all his drugs Could stop my dying black. At last I got so sick of life, And sick of being dosed, One Monday morning I gave up My physic and the ghost 1" Earl ABOYNE returned thanks, and regretted that he iiad not hitherto attended to his duties as he ought to have done, seeing the immense utility of the Club, and although he had looked upon the office as a sinecure,. he had the consolation of findi ng t h e d u ties skilfully and ably. performed by others. His Lordship concluded by proposing the health of their Noble President, for which his Lordship returned thanks, observing that he sincerely hoped each succeeeing year would, by the exertions of his friends, be the means of promoting Isuch improvements as would be o f a d vantage to t h e cou ntry generally. True it was, he had not been so successful as he had been on former occasions, but that would not damp his ardour. The Hereford stock bad bad the ad vantage for the show, 1841, which showed there was a good run between them an d the short- h orne d, w hi c h would ultimately do great good by stimulating the breed ers of each kind of stock. Still, if his private opinion were asked, he would declare it in favour of the short horn to win. The several prizes, as awarded by the judges, were then distributed ; the various successful competitors re turned thanks. Amongst others, Col. Wood, of Littleton, who, upon his health being drunk in consequence of his being a successful competitor in two prizes of pigs, ob served that he felt the more pleasure in receiving such a prize, as he should now be enabled to assist his poorer neighbours.—(Cheers.) The prize medal he would keep as an honourable testimony to himself, but with regard to the money portion of the prize, he would give it to his honest servant, who had had the care of the animals which he had shown. Several other toasts having been proposed by the Noble Chairman, and responded to by the club, they separated. THE LATE LADY DURHAM.—We remember no circumstance, since the death of her Noble husband, that produced so great a shock on the public feeling of the North of England. - With respect to the disposition of her Ladyship's property we believe it will be found that the most satisfactory arrangements have been made in that respect. We understand that the individuals ap pointed to carry her intentions into effect, are the late Earl's devotedly-attached brother, Mr. Hedworth Lamb ton, Lord Howick, and Sir George Grey. Her Lady ship's remains have been placed on board ship for con veyance to this country ; and we learn that it is intended to deposit them in the family burying-vault at Chester le-street. It is consolatory to know, that her Ladyship retained possession of her mental faculties to the last moment ; and though:her sufferings were severe, that she met her dissolution with the most calm and pious re signation to the Divine will. The young Earl of Dur ham and the Ladies Lambton, though perfectly conscious of the irreparable loss they have sustained, have yet borne their bereavement with far more fortitude than could have been expected from persons of their years, losing an affectionate and beloved mother amidst strangers in a foreign land. It was the intention of the late Countess to have wintered with her family at Rome ; rr hither, we are informed, the latter have since proceeded, under the charge of Lady l3entinck, who had shown great kindness and solicitude in her attentions to Lady Durham, during her brief but fatal illness.— Durham Chronicle. WORCESTER DECEMBER FAlL—This fair was held to-day, and despite of the inclemency of the weather, there was a good show of stock, and a tolerable attendance of dealers. The number of sheep penned was 1,127 ; beasts, 469 ; pigs, 275 ; and horses, 108 ; being an increase of more than 100 each in sheep, beasts, and pigs, on the numbers at the same fair last year, and 1 in horses. The beef generally was exceedingly fine. Six teen rare beasts were exhibited by Mr. E. Herb er t, o f Powick, fourteen of which speedily found custo mers f or Christmas slaughtering. The general run of p r i ce i n beef as was xto7tdaf; and in mutton, bid . ; b ut there business transacted th a t was looked w for.— Worcester Herald. . not6dten that i SCOTCH TITLES OF THE PRINCE or IVALEs.—As the descendant of our immortal patriot, King Robert the Bruce, the infant Prince is Pri nce an d Steward of Scotland, Duke of Rothesay, E ar l o f C arr i ck, Lord of the Isles, and Baron of Renfrew, and, as suc h stands at the head of the roll of the p eers of Scotland ' , entitle,d to exercise all the functions thereto belonging. t,oT h i i i ! sisc e ow ld tal eit tdh s .e on fi , Wr a sht t en Scone, on the The title of Duke of Rothesay was first conferred by Robert 111, upon David Earl of Carrick, P r i nce an d introducti on of David fell a victim to the ambitious views of hi▪ s uncl e , t h e D u k e o f Albany, leaving no issue, , his honow s n'PfiP conferred 2S the Bt ethw ducal oa rfdA oPf r dignity iScotland, 1398. i n , upon James, King TIC111(30 3 only surviving son, after wards James I. of Scotland. From that period the above titles have been vested in the first-bor n son and heir ap parent of the reigning Sovereign, who, from the moment 's accessio of his birth, or his pant n to th e th rones be comes a Scottish Prince and Peer.---p a i ef w an mc,c144.4e. 1 - 1 Q? INTgpt.igsNce.- -,— WOROESTER. D EC . - 1 0,—Our Hop Market has little doi▪ ng, n or d o we expect any alter a tion in prices till after Christmas. Fine Hops are become scarce. The scale returns of planter's Hops, sold and weighed on Saturday last, is -- new pockets, 21; and old, 60—and new, 82; and old, 91, in the week. HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL. album, London, 1842. i If this be not the . best number of the " Comic Annual" that its author has yet put forth, it is at any rate among the best, which is no slight praise, when we bear in mind how many exquisite pieces of humour, in prose as well as in verse, have appeared in the "Annual." The first rhymed story, entitled " Miss Kilsmansegg„ and her Precious Leg," has already been published, though without the illustrative plates, in succes sive numbers of the New Monthly Magazine, wherein it soon became a favourite with the public. It is a clever bagatelle, but we do not rank it among Mr. Hood'S most fortunate efforts, for there is evident throughout it a constant and painful straining after effect; the lines, too, move on heavily at times, and the humour is not always sufficiently obvious. It has none of the ease, spirit, or raciness of the author's mock sentimental ballads, though we cannot deny that its satirical flings are frequently very felicitous. " The Friend in Need" is a prose story, embel lished with several capital wood-cuts, one of which, under the quaint heading of " Enough to sicken a Dog," represents a morose-looking mastiff, evidently one of the old school, running away with disgust from a litter of puppies, each of whom is smoking an Havannah cigar with the coolest arid most complacent air imaginable. The contemptuous look and upturned nose of the old mastiff, who is evidently shocked at such an innovation on canine propriety, are full of ster ling humour. Phrenologists measuring the head of a murderer, who is seated in his dungeon with. chains round both legs, is a not less effective plate. With what an air of smug self-conceit the leading phrenologist of the party feels the ruf fian's head, accounting for his crimes, as one can see at a glance, by the absence of some, and the presence of other, bumps on his occupit ! The Sheriff who is witnessing the scientific examina tion, wears the true official aspect; and his dull, stolid, formal phiz does honour tot he Shrievalty. But the criminal is the Most characteristic por trait. He is just the sort of fellow, with his thick pug nose, short bull-neck, .bow-legs, and great swelling calves, that you would expect to see standing beside your bed at midnight with a dark lanthorn in one hand, and a crow-bar in the other. He was manifestly born for no other purpose than to swing from an Old Bailey gallows, and furnish the surgeons with a, subject, for dissection after death. " None so deaf as:: those who will not hear" is illustrated by an old maid, straight from head to foot like a stick of• sealing-wax, who is turning with lofty contempt from some poor little beggar-girls who are supplicating herfor charity. The withered old spinster has, it is plain to see, long outlived all the charities of life, and has no notion of being beset by such vulgar importuni ties in the public streets. Her nose tells you that she has not yet taken the Temperance pledge, and her eyes have a canting, hypocritical expres sion that has been cultivate and brought to per fection at the Tabernacle. We feel convinced, indeed, that she is a rigid Methodist, one who believes in the infallibity of Sir Andrew Agnew, and is averse to all Sunday baking and travelling, except when they interfere with her own per sonal comforts. " A Screw Loose" represents an elderly gentleman starting aghast with horror from an enormous boa-constrictor, who has just escaped from his den, and is rearing himself up for a spring, not ten pa ces off his victim. The snake, as we can see by his look of satisfaction, expects to make a pleasant dinner off the old gentleman, who cannot, however, at all reconcile himself to the idea of being thus compelled to administer to the epicurean propensities of an other. He looks sadly woe-begone, and his hair stands erect on his head, like so many wire strings. We close our notice by an extract from a "pathetic ballad" entitled' " Pompey's Ghost :" FREDERICK THE GREAT and his TIMES. 2 Vols. Colburn, London, 1841. There are many memoirs and scattered no tices extant of Frederick the Great of Prussia, but we have never happened to meet with a memoir su full and so every way satisfactory as the present, which not only gives in detail the leading features of the hero's political and mili tary career—for he was eminent alike as a soldier and a statesman—but discusses also the charac ter of the remarkable times in which he flou rished ; and furnishes, in addition, biographical sketches of his half-crazed father, the First Frederick, and his celebrated ancestor the Elec tor of Brandenburg, deservedly styled by his subjects " the Great." The Second Frederick was beyond all question the most illustrious man of the age in which he flourished, and on which in some degree he stamped the impress of his own character. Though a great portion of Eu rope was arrayed in arms against him; and he was frequently opposed in the field by forces immeasurably superior to his own ; though he was reduced at times to such a state of despair that he more than once thought of ending his troubles by suicide ; yet, in the end, his indo mitable courage and perseverance vanquished all obstacles; and at the termination of the famous Seven Years' war, he was the only gainer, having achieved the object for which he drew the sword ; raised Prussia from an inconsiderable State to the rank of a first-rate European Power, and established his claims to the title of the most consummate warrior of his age. The great blot on Frederick's escutcheon is undoubtedly the active share he took, in conjunction with the Empress Catherine—a despot capable of any atrocity—in the partition of Poland. The ex cuses he made for this infamous act of wanton spoliation, when it began to excite the indigna tion of Europe, are anything but valid, and indeed serve, if possible, to aggravate the enor mity of the case. But Frederick, though he appears to have found a gentle biographer in the author of the volume before us, was always a desvat in his heart; and though he was laudably anxious to promote his country's prosperity, yet it must be after a fashion of his own. Wh en, however, the circumstances of the times in which he lived, are considered, he may be pronounced on the whole a liberal and enlightened Sove veigo I awl when we think of him in connexion with Louis the Fifteenth, for whom he possessed the most hearty contempt, lie shi nes w i t h re doubled lustre. As a literary man—for Frede rick was ambitious of the character of an author, as well as of a soldier and a statesman—he dis played but very indifferent ability. His works, which are voluminous, have long since descended THE EXCHEQUER BILL AFFAIR.! It is, we apprehend, not less the duty of an honest and independent press to state to the Government from time to time such movements of the public mind as re quire attention, than to inform the public at large of the purposes and plans of Government, so far as they may be accurately ascertained and usefully imparted. Such considerations as these induce us to say a few words on the present position of the Exchequer bill affair. There can be no doubt that the recent disappointment of the public curiosity has operated prejudicially on the character of the Government. That disappointment may have been inevitable ; it may have been morally impossible for the affair to have been with propriety worked in any other way ; but not the less certain is it, that the sudden fall of the curtain, and disappearance of the chief performers, without the least disclosure or ex planation, has furnished an opportunity for calumnious invention and the spread of scandalous reports which has scarcely ever been equalled. People had generally taken it into their heads that in transactions of this magnitude there must have been other and greater criminals than Smith and Itapallo. They waited with patience for the public trial, believing that in the course of such an investigation the whole facts of the case would, somehow or other, be developed. But, lo I in one short half-hour, the whole scene passes off ; the accused appears, makes his bow, reads his ad dress, is sentenced, and retires, and his fellow-prisoner is permitted to depart unquestioned ; the eager public knowing, if possible, almost less of the real history of the transaction than they did a week before That the mere force of disappointment should produce " evil surmisings," was almost inevitable. Accordingly, the ill-disposed towards the Government have instantly embraced the opportunity of declaring everywhere that " there were those implicated in the affair whom it was convenient to screen ; that at least two Noble Lords, more or less connected with the Administration, were involved with the affair ; and hence it was contrived to cut the whole investigation short, and to suppress all the evidence." It is impossible to be surprised, considering what hu man nature is, and how unwilling men always are to be balked of a tale: of romance, or a promised discovery— it is impossible, we repeat, to wonder that imaginative invention on the one hand, and eager malice on the other, should create such fictions as these out of what was probably a very common-place affair. The main ground on which these assumptions are or dinarily found to rest does not appear to us to be a suffi cient one. " What can have become of so large a sum of money ?" it is asked ; " Smith has it not—Rapallo is poor ; who, then, has had all this vast amount ?". . , To those who are unaccustomed to the scenes which are daily passing in the Bankrupt Court this question was likely to carry the inevitable conviction that some more im portant persons than Smith andßapallo must have been con cerned, and that somegreat hoard of wealth . must still exist, the result of "the Exchequer bill conspiracy." But to those who have been used sometimes to read and hear of city failures, whether mercantile or on the Stock Exchange, there will appear nothing strange or unaccountable in the utter dissipation of 300,0001. without any gain to the parties ; nor any expectation that a hoard could be dis covered, even by tracking every single bill through all its stages to its ultimate resting-place. The present autumn has already witnessed several, nay, many failure*, in London and the larger towns, of amount equalling, or even exceeding, the Exchequer bill fraud. and in each of which it might with quite as much pro priety ha asked, " What can have become of all this mo ney ? We have seen bankers worth 300,0001., or 400,0001., now deficient, perhaps nearly as much ; book sellers, in a few years, minus 100,0001. or 150,0001. ; and warehousemen who, in two years have dissipated 80,0001.1 Yet none of these occupations offers so easy and rapid a method of getting rid of money as the time bargain system on the Stock Exchange. Where, then, h the wonder, that two or three persons, without exciting any great observation, should, in the time which seems tolit've been spent in the work, have got rid of the sum now in question ?—not 300,0001. we apprehend ; but only such amount as may have been advanced on Ex chequer-bills apparently of that value ? • For our own part, therefore, we discern no facts which lead to the conclusion that " there must be something in the back-ground." But at the same time we think it our duty to point out to the Government the use which is being made of the recent occurrences by those who bear them no good will ; and we 'will venture to add the recommendation, that if any means can be found, whether through the medium of the Bank of England, or by any other channel, of letting the public understand the real character and full extent of the transaction, such a course should at once, and with all possible frankness, be taken.— Times. CHINESE ARMS. WOOLWICH, DEC. 9.—Lieutenant-Colonel Knowles, commanding the detachment of Royal Artillery at pre sent serving in China, recently transmitted to this coun try a complete assortment of Chinese war arms, with specimens of shot and the costumes of the soldiers of the Celestial Empire. The whole of these articles, and a .figure of a Chinese soldier in his tiger dress, have, within the last few days, been arranged in the Royal Repository at Woolwich, where the public have free ad mission to witness them and the other curiosities con tained in it, between the hours of nine and twelve A.M. and one and four P.M., on week days. The appearance of the arms of the soldiers who serve the Brother of the Sun and Moon contrast strangely with the 'other modern arms in the Repository, and har monise more with the antique fire-arms deposited in the building.. Part of the. Chinese weapons of war remind us of the ancient bows and arrows of " Robin Hood and his merry men," while the ordnance pieces exactly iesemble those used in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, similar to those which have been found and said to have belonged to the Spanish Ar mada. The largest piece sent home by 'Lieut.-Colonel Knowles appears to be about seven feet long, and is formed of pieces of iron welded together, and hooped with rings, throughout its whole length . about four inches distant from each other. Another piece, with a plain musket shaped ,barrel, is about fire feet long, and is mounted on three legs, presenting a similar appearance to the tele scopes used in this country, only it has an additional moveable leg at the breech 'to regulate the elevation. The charge of this piece is placed in a separate iron chamber, which, when loaded, is inserted at the rear end of the muzzle, and fired by a matchlock. The Chinese swords appear' fdtmidable, and in_ the hands of good sol diers would he very effective. They are in the form of Turkish sabres, but with less curve, and the handles are about fifteen inches long, evidently that they may afford room to hold with bothands at once, and cut with tre mendousiorce. There , are two swords of a different con struction, the blades being 'only about eighteen inches in length, fixed on handles five - feet long, for cutting or de fending the men from the attacks of cavalry, or, as there is a small tuft of hair attached to them, they may have been used to denote the rank of those who used them, as the Sergeants of the British army were distinguished by their halberts. A most singular arm of the Chinese is formed exactly similar to the trident held in the hand of representations of Neptune or Britannia, the centre prong being straight, and the two outer prongs slightly curved, but very sharp pointed. This weapon is fixed to the end of a pole about 10 feet long, similar in thickness to thoie used by British regiments of Lancers. The Chinese standard is cut in a sheet of iron in the form of the ace of spades, with a number of projections, evidently intended to re present flames of fire. The standard is fixed upon the top of a pole, and immediately underneath it is a circular piece of iron about 6 inches in diameter, hung round with hair about 9 or 10 inches in length. There are also, neatly arranged on the wall, two bows formed of bamboo and horn, and the contents of a sheaf of arrows, 120 in number, about 3} feet long each. On the table below are specimens of the shot used by the Chinese, very rudely cast,'the largest being only about 4 inches, and the smallest 1 inch, in diameter. The tiger dress of a soldier has been stuffed with straw and placed against the wall, and presents a singular ap pearance, being a second edition of Sir John Falstaff, having nearly as, substantial or bulky a corporation as that celebrated Knight. Attached to the costume, which is from top to bottom all one dark red colour, with fan tastic stripes painted black to represent a tiger, is a hood, made to cover the head quite close and fall down over a considerable portion of the face, with holes for the eyes, and two projecting representations of the ears of an animal. Amongst the articles is a dress which belonged to an officer of high rank, and although it is rather the worse for wear, it still has the remains of finery about it, being of a dark ground thickly studded with metallic ornaments, and flowered with embroidered figures in silk. It is intended to have this dress stuffed, to exhibit the costume of the Chinese officers; and altogether, the arti cles transmitted by Lieut.-Colonel Knowles form a great acquisition to the Repository. DISTRESS IN THE METROPOLIS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Seeing in your valuable paper that numerous sums of money are being collected for the relief of the distressed of Spitalfields, I beg respectfully to ask, through your columns, where it is distributed, and if not actu ally distributed I beg to suggest a plan for its distribu tion—namely, the appointment of District Committees, composed of men who have a knowledge of the various branches connected with the Silk trade. This mode is the more necessary, because it has frequently happened that the really deserving have never received any relief, while those who were of doubtful character have been the greatest recipients. The mode I would propose is, that a public meeting be held in the district, to which meeting I would suggest that each branch of the Silk trade be invited to send men who really know the distress existing. This also should be impressed on any meeting that may be held in the City or elsewhere, as there are parties in a condition to prove that the distress among the Dyers is truly awful. Many out of employ, and the average earnings of those employed n o t e i g h t shil lings per week. Should you deem this worthy a corner in your valu, able Journal you will oblige Dec. 10, 1841. A CONSTANT READER. FATAL ACCIDENT.—Mr. Jesse Gray, of Wetumpka, Alabama, came to his death on the 3d of September last, in Union county, Arkansas, in the follow ing extraordinary manner. Mr. Gray being out on a hunting excursion, came to a tree loaded with muscadines. He set down his gun and ascended the tree about twenty feet, for the purpose of gathering grapes. Having on a bear skin cap which he usually wore on such excursions, and being hid by the vines and leaves, all except his head, ho was mistaken for a hear by one of his com panions, who instantly shot him dead. He uttered a single exclamation, and falling backwards about four feet, lodged in the vines, and remained there until help was obtained in the neighbourhood, to take the body from the tree. to their just level; and if he is ever thought of at all as a 1 tenteur, it is chiefly by reason of his friendship with Voltaire, who afterwards be came his bitter enemy, and, under the title of the King of Bulgaria, has satirised his despotic habits with the severest acrimony in " Candide." In the volumes before us, the fullest details are given respecting Frederick, both as a man and as a monarch. Every memoir, bearing on the subject, has been diligently ransacked; the so cial and political peculiarities of France, Austria, and several other European States, are also con sidered with attention; entertaining matters of Court gossip are introduced ; and.the result is livelier a n d comp l eter p i cture o f t h e condition of Europe during the greater portion of the eighteenth century, than has yet issued from the English Press. The opening chapter is the most indifferent in the work. It is too vag,ue, and sketchy, and unsatisfying, and though aspiring to the in of hi story, i s anything but histo rical n its character. In the course of this chapter the author expresses his surprise that a witch should have been persecuted in North Germany so late as the middle of the eighteenth century, when he might have known, on a little consideration, that even at that comparatively recent period, witchcraft was believed in through out the greatest part of the Continent, and per secuted accordingly. He speaks, too, of the German armies, at a somewhat earlier period, being too often recruited from the dregs of the population; unaware, apparently, that the Eng lish armies were thus recruited, through the vile agency of press-gangs, as late as the year 1810. Many a gaol-bird fought, and fought bravely too, in the Peninsular war. On the whole, we consider the present volumes the most entertain ing works of the sort we have read for some time. They are not exactly history, for history deals with the great outlines if particular periods, and seldom deigns to notice their minor peculiarities; but they are the next best thing to it, and are about the same calibre, in point of literary abi lity, as Mrs. Thompson's entertaining Memoirs of the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough. We subjoin an extract, by way of sample of the author's manner. He has been speaking of the military jealousy of Frederick and his occasional brusque manner towards his Generals : Frederick, though a consummate judge of military merit, showed himself, through his whole life, but too ready to affront even his best officers on what might be deemed very slight occasions. Thus we have seen that, during the second Silesian war, the brave Marshal Schwerin, who had rendered the most important services to his Sovereign, as yet inexperienced in military opera tions, had fallen into disgrace, quitted the army, and re tired to his estates. Accidentally meeting his brother at the Ridotto, soon after the conclusion of peace, the King inquired—" What is the Marshal doing ?"—" Ho is attending to the cultivation of his estates and the management of his affairs, your Majesty ; for the rest, he is quite well." " When you write to - him, salute him in my name," rejoined Frederick. "Heis a great man, but he is obstinate, and forgets that lam King." A year afterwards, he invited the Marshal to Berlin. Schwerin went, and was in the King's ante-chamber by eight o'clock in the morning, just as his hussar was taking in coffee. He sent in his name. The King gave no answer, took up his flute, and walked to and fro for a quarter of an hour extemporising. Laying down the in strument, he buckled on his sword, and then ordered the Marshal to be admitted. He motioned the attend ant to retire. Of the conversation that ensued nothing is known, but that it was at first loud and warm, gra dually subsiding till nothing could be heard in the ante-chamber. Schwerin was in high spirits when he left the King, who had given him an invitation to dinner. Before the commencement of hostilities Frederick was anxious to conciliate another of the tried and distinguish-: ed leaders of his troops. Zieten, the dashing commander of the hussars, had been for some time in disgrace with the Kind He, with many other officers, had early con ceived a jealousy of Winterfeld, because Frederick was thought to honour him with his more especial confidence, and frequently gave him commissions to which his rank might be supposed not to entitle him. In 1745 he even preferred a formal complaint on this subject to the King, and accused :Winterfeld of doing him ill offices with his Majesty. "Be assured," replied Frederick, "'that I have seen with great pain from your letter that you enter tain the idea that I have taken a dislike to you or am dis contented with your services. I beg you to believe that neither the one nor the other is the case ; that, on the contrary, I esteem you as a meritorious officer, and am perfectly satisfied with your valour, skill, and fidelity. But, if at times I give particular commissions to Winter feld to do this or that, according to my instructions im parted to him in secrecy, I cannot suffer any one to inter fere in such matters or to tie my hands, especially as in • these cases there is nothing that trenches on your rank and seniority. I hope this will make you quite easy on the subject." Zieten had in his regiment many volunteers of dis tinction, in favour of whom he was less strict in regard to discipline, and this drew upon him the severe dis pleasure of the King. In the year 1753, a great encamp ment was formed near Spandau. Zieten was there with his hussars. The regiment was advancing into the line, preceded by the kettle-drums, which it had taken at Katholisch-Hennersdorf. " You are good for nothing," cried the King, " back, behind the front !" After wards, at the special review, he upbraided the whole regiment in the severest terms, and said that it was composed "of rude unplaned clowns." In this man ner he continued to vent his displeasure. Zieten, who was standing before the front with drawn sabre, could no longer repress his boiling indignation. Turn ing towards the King, and thrusting his sabre, rat tling with the vehemence of the action, into its scab bard, he said, in an emphatic tone—" If then, in the devil's name, we are good for nothing now, there was a time when we knew how to do our duty like brave men. At that time, when we were needed, we were good enough." " Yes," cried Frederick, quite as angrily, " then you were good, now you are good for nothing whatever." During the time the manoeuvres lasted, Zieten never drew his sabre again, but remained in the camp as a mere spectator. IVANHOE. Cadell, Edinburgh, 1841. We have here one of the most popular of the Waverley Novels, published first in an octavo form, and secondly in a duodecimo, and in both cases got up with remarkable neatness. These editions are far preferable to the original ones in forty-eight volumes, which were much too bulky. SCOTT'S LIFE OF NAPOLEON. Cadell, Edinburgh, 1841. This is the Fifth Part of the Second Volume of this well-known historical work, and com mences with the proceedings of the year 1806, and goes down to the Battle of Busaco, which was fought in the year 1810. The work is singu larly cheap, considering the elegant manner in which it is published. C. DIBDIIV'S SONGS. Part IV: How and Parsons, London, 1841. This edition of Charles Dibdin's songs has the advantage of musical accompaniments to the words, which is decidedly a great recommenda tion. In every respect, it is the most complete edition that has yet appeared of the great naval song-writer. METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. There are several pleasant papers in this Num ber, evidently from practised Magazine pens; and foremost among them, we may mention the " Memoirs of an Italian Exile," which relate with much spirit some circumstances regarding the last squabble between the Austrians and the Italian Liberals, which, it may be remarked, excited great interest in England about the year 1821—the " Poet and the Reviewer," which is a lively sketch, by Mrs. Abdy, of London literary life—" Spencer Middleton," an amusing story, but which would be much more so if it were a little less prolix in some of its dialogues—and " Memoirs of Gibraltar," in which we have a striking account of the lague that raged there a few years ago. We should have included this periodical among our usual monthly notices of such works, but it reached us at too late an hour. Sixth, of thi s KNIGHT'S STORE OF KNOWLEDGE. C. Knight, i L vh on ic d h on i , s l t sit ie l . useful and intelligent Miscellany, there are some In the presetaigrhti; statistical accounts of our public endowed gram mar-schools, together with several pertinent sug gestions respecting education; and a Life of the Duke of Wellington, whose chief recommenda tions are, that it is penned in a temperate and impartial tone, and is remarkably accurate in its leading facts. KNIGHTS ENGLISH MISCELLANIES. The second volume of " Brand's Popular Anti quities," from the last edition of Sir Henry Ellis, sets before the reader a delightful continuation of every relic of our olden sports, customs, and manners, either derived from Pagan practice, or emanating in later times from Christian observ ances and rites. THE DISTRESSED SPITALFIBLDS' WEA VERS.—.The Lord Mayor received in aid of the dis tressed Spitallields' weavers, the sum of 104 as the con tribution of Mr. Russell Ellis, and 12/. 19s. 40. from Mr ' H icks, of the Bank of Enand, which had be en collect e d f rom various officers oft hat establishment, in small sums, from ld. upwards. The donation of 1001. in aid of the Spite!fields' weavers, mentioned in a paragraph a few days ago as having been transmitted to the Lord Mayor thro ugh Childs' banking -house by Mr. R. Wood, was sent by Mr. Robert Richard Wood through that medium. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have appointed Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Brace, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's fleet in the river Medway. We are the first to announce this appoint ment, as we are upon all matters connected with the navy.—British Queen. NUMEROUS DEATHS IN THE METROPOLI TAN HOSPITALS.--Within the last few days no fewer than nine inquests have bermleld in three of the London hospitals, viz., St. Barthe;lomew's five, St. George's two, and the London two, being a greater number than has I ever been known in so short a period. EIVENING SUN A.LMANACKS FOR 1842. THE WEATHER ALMANACK, 1842. By P. Murphy, Esq. This indefatigable weather-seer- has, in the " Scientific notice" for the year, introduced a new element into his system of calculating the seasons and weather, namely, a barometer, not 30 inches, but 2,000 miles long,. The reader no doubt will be anxious to know the name of the maker, in what part of the world it is erected, and who the enormous giant is that, with an arm one thousand miles in length, marks with the sliding-pointer the rise or fall of the fluid in the tube. Mr. Murphy shall answer for himself .-- "Our barometer of the seasons," says he, "is the work of nature, in whose hands both time and space are elements indispensable to her ope rations; the tube of the barometer is no other than the bed of the Nile, whose length, from Donga to the Mediterranean, is estimated to be 2,000 miles." He then goes on to point out the con nection between the inundation of the Nile, and the weather for the ensuing year, for which we must refer to the Almanac all those who are desirous to know whether a fair is to be held on the Thames on the 25th of Ja nuary, or Windsor Castle is to appear like an " oasis" rising out of the waters on the day fixed for the christening of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. We are glad to see that Mr. Murphy has taken the hint, and given the pub lic something more than prophecies and discus sions on meteoric phenomena, unintelligible to ordinary minds. The Almanac is now one for general use, containing a good calendar, with many of the lists usually given in such works, and all sold at sixpence less than the price of that extraordinary publication which stamped his name with immortality. TIODSON'S LONDON AND WESTMINSTER POCKET ALMANAC. 1E 4 42. This Almanac is accompanied by "an annual picture of London," which will be found, by tra vellers and persons engaged in trade, of great convenience. It contains, among other lists, the Steam-packet Companies' offices and wharfs, with the places to which passengers resort ; the Railways, describing the metropolitan terminus of each, the intermediate stations, distances from. London, fares, &c. ; and the Cemeteries of the metropolis, with the charges and fees payable to the general cemeteries at Kensal-green and the Tower Hamlets. It contains also a list, which we have seen in no other publication, of the omnibus lines of road, naming the streets of the metropolis through which the omnibuses pass to the sur rounding districts. THE CONGREGATIONAL CALENDAR AND FAMILY ALMANAC. 1842. W. Tyler, London. This Almanac is compiled chiefly for the use of the Independents, a class of Christians to whom the historian Hume pays the following just com pliment—" Of all Christian sects," says he, " this was the first which, during its prosperity, as well as its adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration." It contains a great deal of mis cellaneous information on ecclesiastical statistics, complete lists of Independent ministers and churches throughout the United Kingdom, and sketches of new chapels, with some neat wood cuts. The work extends to 120 pages, the type and paper being of a superior quality, and is sold at the moderate price of one shilling. AN EPHEMERIS AND WEATHER GUIDE 1842. By Win. Se d. Siniphin and Marshall. .This Astrologer having studied carefully the horoscope of the birth of the Prince of Wales, draws the following picture of his Royal High ness :—" He . will be of a -Middle stature and gen teel figure, rather slender, with flaxen .hair ; but will grow darker in manhood, the visage oval, broad in the forehead, grey eyes, slender waist, tall and well proportioned in the leg and thigh, in disposition generous and free-hearted, of a hasty temper and forgiving turn, yet will be very confident in opinion, and determined in his own principles." THE POST MAGAZINE, ALMANACK, AND COURT AND PARLIAMENTARY .REGISTER. This is the greatest wonder of all. Indepen dent of numerous advertisements of an interest ing character, it contains fifty-two pages in large octavo, with the Calendar, the Members of both Houses of Parliament, Post-office Regulations, a Legal Guide, a description of the more re markable Shops of London, the Bench of Bishops, with their incomes, patronage, and ages, , and a. variety of Lists and Tables, all for the ch arge o f sixpence. The publisher, IVIr. Pateman, of Wine office-court, intends to continue it annually, and have each number stereotyped, so as to meet the demand, however large. MURDER THROUGH FEAR•—At the Carmar then Assizes in 1742, a girl only eight years old was tried for the murder of a brother and sister, the one six, the other four years of age, and acquitted. It appeared that the three children, who lived in a cottage not far from the sea, had been frightened with stories of the cruelty of the Spaniards, and the danger of their land ing upon that coast. These children having been one day left alone, when there happened to arise a violent storm, became so terrified as to imagine the Spaniards were coming, and the eldest, to avoid falling into their hands, took up a hedging bill in order to destroy her self, which the two young children observing, cried out repeatedly, "Pray, sister, kill us first," upon which sho actually despatched them. She afterwards desperately wounded herself, but not having strength, or perhaps courage enough, after feeling such pain, to complete her design that way, she ran out of the house to a river near it, and was going to throw herself in, but was prevented by some casual passenger, to whom she said, in great terror, that she was going to drown herself for fear of the Spaniards, and that she had killed her brother and sister for the same reason.—The TVelshman. THE CONVICT WARD.—The day appointed for the execution of this wretched man, is Monday, the 20th instant. He has not made any confession, as has been reported, nor does he allude in any way to the crime of which he has been found g uilty. He now occupies the same cell in which Blakesl ey, Courvoisier, and others were confined. Great efforts are being made by many persons, to obtain a mitigation of the sentence. Two under-graduates of St. John's College, Cambridge, having quarrelled at a party, resolved to settle the dispute by a duel. Fortunately the affair ter minated without bloodshed, the seconds having taken the precaution to load the pistols with currant jelly. Our attention has been called to a paragraph which appeared in a recent number of the Hull Packet, whence it was transferred to many of the London and provincial papers, stating that Mr. Kennedy, editor of this journal, had gone out in the employ of Government to Texas. We are authorised to state that Mr. Kennedy's visit to that country is wholly unconnected with any Government mission or diplomatic appointment what ,ever.—Hull Advertiser. FATALythijs-lAnr.cC°Cl3tlayne, at LD.—ENYTesterßdßay"evenAing Pan A N inqu eo es F t Coe,Bartholomew'saged Hospital, on of William Shefrd, s o 3 f . No. 10, Great 'wasfroml, tC ; evidenceltrehEldnb view of the body of Jaine that It appeared, doeeased Ormond-yard, Qneen-square, Bloomsbury, was a fellow-servant with him in the employ of Mr. Snowden, candleztahnuoffaxeturer, Theobald's-road. On the to go into the room whereovember last witness happened There a was pan o.fthlieghtenderch."ar. afternoon of the found him lying on floor deceased usually worked, and It had been upset, Pro cured the attendance and of a so so m r e g it c l o t al h c is los c e lo b th y es dec on eas fi e re d : scattered about floor. Witness immediately the w o n t. , andthe cdhannarcaosaeld,wbasy surgeon's desire,to the above hos pital. Deceased's clothes,wastaken before the fire was extin guished, were not in flames, but were burning slowly away like tinder. Deceased was completely insensible. The account he subsequently gave of the accident was, that he was drying some cottons to be used for the wicks of candles, over the charcoal, when he was suddenly over , come by the fume of the charcoal, and fell . senseless on the floor. Mr. Edward Blake, house surgeon, stated that deceased had been dreadfully burnt about the abdo men and legs, and that he died of the injuries on Wed nesday last. V er dict, " Accidental death." A WIBSEY GOOSE. —On the morning of Tues day week, the watchman at one of the mills in Bowling. lane, Bradford, had his attention drawn to one of the outhouses, from whence proceeded some strange noises. He there found a man dressed in a most fantastic man ner, having on light s hoes, black stockin g s, bri g ht y ellow breeches, a girl's slip, through the arm-holes of which his shirt sleeves protruded. He had also on a black oil skin hat, on which . was painted, in white letters, "Born so." In this dress he had paraded the town, and when found was on his way home to Wibsey . he is stated to be one of those who the day before had joined in the Chartist demonstration.—Leeds Mercury. EARLY LAMB.—On the 7th instant, a fine Southdown lamb was yeaned at Park, near Truro.-- West Briton. THE OLDEST FRENCH SHIP.--The oldest of our ships of war, says the Temps, is the Ocean ' of 120 guns. She is 5 1 years old , having been launched Brest in 1790. She is still in a fit state for service, at she underwent a thorough repair at Brest in las SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—A Person named Winifred Ibbetson, 74 years of age, died at Leeds on the 24th November last.' She was daughter of Ann Dickinson, the latter of whom was wet John and family of the late Earl of llarewood. si ;ns e in the same day of the month as the first Earl, t died on the ago. Mrs. Ibbetson was about six monthswenty years the Earl just deceased, and died on the year and within an hour or two of his r o ue day of the was accustomed to go every Christmas -day rdship. She to Harewood House, when she always received a handsome present. — Leeds Mercury. LYNN AND LONDON. --.A steam-vessel has been hired for a certain time to trade the two ports ; and the said vessel, which between is named the Brokelbank, will commence the under . taking on Wednes day next, the 15 th instant, when she will leave Harri son's wharf, London, with rfolk Chronicle. goods and passengers for. Lynn.—No Ell '