The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-22 00:00:00

EANING SUN IN order to afford a further opportunity to the OWNERS of UNSTAMPED EXCHEQUER BILLS to have their Outstanding Securities Examined and Stamped, Notice is hereby given, that on FRIDAY NEXT, the 26th inst., any Persons desirous of having Bills Examined and Stamped may deliver them in at the Exchequer between the hours of Ten and Four, when such Bills will be Examined, Stamped, and returned - to the Holders, on Saturday, the 27th. AMOUNT of EXCHEQUER BILLS RECEIVED and EXAMINED to the Evening of FRIDAY, Nov. 19. Number of Bills. Value ... £18,769,900 MON TEA GLE, Comptroller-General. Exchequer, Nov. 20, 1841. riCHE FASTING 1, KAVANAGH."—It is 1- right the Public should know, that the infamous im prisonment of this poor " Irishman" by the Government Select-vestry-agent of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Magistracy of READING, Etc., on his " single voice," without trial by Jury—had its emanative concoction in London ; through the medium of " A few of Kavanagh's philosophic friends," as stated in the " CATCHING HAND-BILL." The said hand-bill's wording, for " a clandestine collection in place of admission money," amongst the rustics of R e ad g," having Leen arranged at " Burton-street, Barton crescent," by the Pestollozzian brethren on flesh-ab stinence and no cooking of " the vegetative principle." The " meshes" of the net for the Mayo man's " incarceration" being got up, in order to prevent Kavanagh " blowing the gaff" on Dr. Elliotson's ineffectual attempt at " Animal Magnetism" by horizontal see-saw finger-poking at the eye-balls of " Kavanagh" on Tuesday, the 9th of November last. This failure on " the negative empty gut" of the Irishman being in the opinion of Messrs. Greives, Lane, and Oldham, associating members tor the illustration of " crude" interior life--as being " No co" and adverse to the Doctor's humbug as well as the Frenchman's (La Fontaine's) mountebank trickery—late in Town, now at Manchester—which, in the opinion of the public and the undersigned, most deserves the "whipping at the eart's tail," as well as the " treadmill." 5, Swallow-street, Quadrant. C. ACKERLEY. Author of the Vital Flame Lamp for Asthma-cough, &c. _ . NEW SERIES OF HOWITT'S VISITS. On Tuesday, November 30th, in medium Bvo., with upwards of Forty highly-finished. 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Now ready, elegantly bound, price 125., HOOD'S- COMIC ANNUAL FOR 1842, With 37 Illustrations by the Author and Mr. Leech. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. * * *To be had of all Booksellers. NEW NOVEL by THE AUTHOR of " COUSIN GEOFFREY." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE MATCH-MAKER, A Novel. By the Author of " Cousin Geoffrey," " The Marrying Man," &c. 4' This clever novel, like the History of a Flirt,' combines a vast share of moral instruction with its piquant sketches of manners and soci,ty."—Sun. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME YESTRIS. THIS EVENING, NOV. 22, - Will be repeated the New Comedy, entitled COURrAND ClTY.—Captain D.ngerfield, Mr. W. Lacy ; Sir Paladin Scruple, Mr. \V. Farrell ; Sir Harry Whiffle Mr. C. 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UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Unexampled Novelty. Change of Entertainments every night. THIS EVENING, NOV. 22 Will be acted Shakspere's Tragedy of HAMLET.—HamIet, Mr. Graham ; Laertes, Mr. Hicks ; Ghost, Mr. H. Hughes; Ophelia, Miss Waverly. To conclude with ALICE GRAY.—Alice Gray, Mrs. H. Vining. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Immense success, and Nightly overflowing Houses. THIS EVENING, NOV. 22, Will be acted a New Melodrama, entitled CASPER THE DOOMED ; or, the VICTIM of the VAULT.—Casper Hauser, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Schwartz, Mr. Dale ; Ernesl Vorline, Mr. Seaman ; Blaize, Mr. Gardner ; Von Pompe, Mr. Paul ; Eva, Mrs. Howard. After which, ROMEO AND JULIET.—Romeo, Mr. E. F. Saville; Mercutio, Mr. Osbaldiston; Juliet, Miss Vincent. To conclude with, THE DUKE OF SHOREDITCH.— Henry VIII., Mr. Dale ; Adam Allyne, Mr. Gardner ; Lion Bell, Mr. Cullen ; Queen, Mrs. Lee ; J3an, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 21.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes ca y, at Half-put Eight. To-marrow, Damon and Pythias, The Stranger, and Cas per the Doomed, being for the Benefit of Mr. Osbaldiston. THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTICE.—A New Edition of the RAILWAY SUN is NOW PUBLISHING. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SLXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Nov. 22, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot find room for our Correspondent's letter, dated Greenock, and signed "An Operative." It would strengthen the evidence we have laid before the public of the acute feelings of the working classes; but, alas ! for our country, the aristocracy are deaf to all kinds of warnings, and though one rose from the dead, yet would they not believe. --- THE WEATHEIL—Nuos, NOVEMBER '22 . ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE -STREET. Thermometer.,.. 55 Highest 55 1 Lowest 42 Barometer 29.30.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. HIGH WATER ' AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORRO W M0rnmg......48 minutes after b I Evening ......I6 minutes after 9. The Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN com menced at 10 minutes after Three. L.' , 4,1irtn ip ,,, , , , ,L41,11 .4 3 TAlpf),, 4 &t ,7 ; Alb !4' LONDON MONDAY , NOVEMBER 22, 1841. The discussion, day after day, of the Corn-laws, which is forced on our Contemporaries b y the eondition of our trade, and the increasing happily) distress of the people, must be it war rant/ to our readers, that by continually dis Cu ssing those laws for upwards of three years, ,We have had a correct conviction of their vast influ ence on the public welfare, and have only done our duty. We may say the same of those en lightened politicians, Mr. WOLRYCHE WHIT MORE, Sir WM. CLAY, Mr. HUME, and Mr. VILLIERS, who, for several years, on various occasions, have unsuccessfully attempted to force the subject on the attention of Par liament. Whatever blame may be clue to the Whig Ministers, if any—for they had to con sider their party and their means of retaining the Government in their hands—for not be fore taking up the Corn-laws, none can be thrown on the Radical party, which more often brought forward the question without _meeting adequate support from the country or Parliame n t, than neglected any opportunity to enforce their viers. Now the Corn-laws have beCome the one engrossing question for poli ticians, which absorbs all others, and will con tinue to do so till the laws be repealed, or till the denial of justice provoke some terrible cala mity. The present distress, which is felt in Spital fields as severely as at Manchester, brings the mr.lplq subject to a short issue. The people want C 4 ' r: . kel WilEitd Provision-laws are passed ~11 : r elsir lijelt\food from being imported for 'lnotr, Ilse-. Tifeye'ftre expressly intended to ti1 ii , 011 ......r, 11 , ; -. .ie from buying corn and oilSetet- .id ' . 4 3 from a n y other p er 1 --- Wlis—Atukte/,' rmers of England ; • they - ± \ :`N: v a F are expressly intended to prevent the farmers of the United States, of Russia, of Prussia, and of Germany, from growing food re gularly for our people, and with greater effect than most laws they have answered this end, and have effectually kept a great quantity of food from our people. This is the plain and pal pable cause why the people want food; and why should we look beyond this, or puzzle ourselves about prices, and wages, and foreign tariffs, to find out the cause of their want of food, and of their great distress ? If they have not food, and plenty of food, it is clear that they can have no comforts and no luxuries, because these are only sought for after food is obtained, and they will at all times be sacrificed to obtain it. To seek for any other cause of distress than the decree of the Legislature, designed to keep food away from the people, is a mere idle waste of time. Ingenious men may thereby show a great surplus of econo mical learning, but it only serves to make dark that which was light, and perplex, under an enormous mass of words, that which was per fectly plain. Of course, when the supply of food is limited, the number of people is limited by that supply. To limit the number of people stops enterprise, checks invention, and arrests improvement, for all these are invariably the consequences of an increase of population. We talk vaguely about time adding to human knowledge and skill, but time is a mere abstract term, and the real source of extended knowledge is the greater number of human beings who exist, or have existed, in time, and who add, or have added, their observations to the common stock. To arrest the progress of population, by limiting the growth and the supply of food, is, therefore, to arrest the progress of civilization, and to doom the peo ple to all that poverty, misery, and crime, which are the known attendants on a declining or station ary population. The Corn-laws, then, are more dis astrous than famine, earthquakes, or pestilence; and, supposing public utility to be the basis of the moral sentiments, the authors of those laws far more deserve to be visited by the indignation and wrath of the public than highwaymen or murderers. Some of our Contemporaries, who have a wish, if possible, to render the subject obscure, endea vour to prove, from the late population returns, that the manufacturers have nothing to com plain of, and that the fault is their own dishonest or inhuman competition. At the same time the Standard admits that " the increase of po pulation " (the source of national greatness, and the sign of national welfare) " bears an exact proportion to the commercial prosperity of the nation." Have they not, therefore, a right to complain ? and have not the people a right to blame those laws which, like the Corn-laws, impede our commerce with Germany, Prussia, and the United States, and, of course, impede prosperity, and stop the increase of the people? Compared to this view, all the other presumed consequences of the law, or of repealing it—such as raising or lowering rent, placing a few acres of land more or less under the plough, impover ishing or enriching a few thousand landlords—are trifles of the least possible consequence. The law withholds food from the people; the law ar rests the progress of population; the law stops civilization ; the law dooms a portion of the people to death ; and a large number of those whom it fails to starve it dooms to po verty, misery, and crime. It is no longer a question whether the law be good or bad, and it is idle now to discuss it. The question is, how can it be maintained in the face of a starving and indignant people, and how long will they submit to the cruel oppression ? We have seen it eloquently stated in that excellent journal, the Nonconformist, that the people display a noble self-denial by foregoing plenty of food, which, by coalescing with the middle classes, they could command, in order to obtain their political rights. But of what use are political rights, compared to food, to starving men ? The hunger in Spitalfields, Manchester, and Paisley, ought to satisfy the probably well-fed leaders of the Chartists that it is impolitic as well as unrighteous to seek, if by that means even it can be obtained, univer sal suffrage at the expense of the prodigious suf fering to which the manufacturing poor, from the continuance of the Corn-laws, are now exposed. It is no longer for them a question of voting or not voting, but a question of life or death and the Chartists will act most cruelly—as cruelly as the landlords, without their excuse—if they do not relieve their suffering fellow-labourers, by at once making common cause with the rest in demanding the total and immediate repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws. The fire at Woolwich, the attempt to set fire to the Horse Guards, and the various acts of incendiarism in the country, beget a suspicion that the Tower was burned by design. Out of that grows the suspicion that the Royal Ex change and the Houses of Parliament were both wilfully burned—that Plymouth Dock-yard was designedly set on fire—and now, as far as we can learn, the suspicion is general that we live sur rounded with would-be incendiaries. The ques now asked is, which is the next building to be destroyed? and a prayer follows for the safety of Buckingham Palace and the Museum. We are far from saying such suspicions are well founded ; we continua to believe that some of these fires may have been accidental, but it implies a horrible condition of society that such suspicion can be for one moment entertained. There is no portion of the people not in terested in the public buildings. They are the property of the people. With several of them are associated many traditionary feelings, which the lower classes cherish as warmly as the upper classes, and which they are more slow to discard. Sad and desolate must be their condition, and full of terror the condition of the other classes, when suspicions can be entertained that amongst the people are to be found a number of willing incen diaries. The only appropriate epithet for the state Of society which such suspicions imply is horrible, and for this horrible condition our rulers are answerable. We do not confine the term to the present Ministers, and to the members of the Legislature ; we embrace in it the aristo cracy, the clergy, and the upper classes, and we lay on them the responsibility of this horrible condition of society. If they know that they are unable to prevent such wickedness— that it is, as they say, natural to the heart of man —why, in the name of common sense, do they assum e the power of making man other than he assume in refusing 18 • As long as their ambition or their avarice Prompts them too e exclusively the multitude guidance all society, share of it, so long will they be exclusively re sponsible for every evil in its condition. They will not be able in this case to mak e th e Press their scap e - goat, On other occasio ns , w h en untimely mpeeolyplienhsuarvreecbteioenns, drive n r e s-constituted r u l ers n elf by oppressions into have been able, by artful management, to throw the blame of the public discontent on the Press, The Press, which has reprobated thei r d o i ngs. h owe ver, discusses laws and politics, not the art of setting buildings on fire. It has pointed out the errors and the mischievous d • esign s o f Tory legislators, and may, therefore, have roused the people to oppose the Legislature; but it has never in any shape, orform, or degree, advocated, approved of, or recommended the incendiarism of the national buildings. If a desire to perpe trate such crimes exist, it must be the sponta neous consequence. of the peculiar condition of the people, and has never been generated or fanned into force by any public writer. The law-makers will not, on this occasion, therefore, be able to escape the responsibility of causing the present horrible condition of society by throwing the blame on the Press. We see it stated that a conference is to be held in London to consider the affairs of Spain. France and England are to be the active parties to theconference, which is to do for Louis PHILIPPE what his own intrigues have failed to accomplish. Neither any portion of the Spaniards nor their Government has asked any of the Powers to interfere with Spain. They abhor and repudiate all such interference. They are ready to shed their blood to keep Madame MuNoz out of Spain, and to escape the grasping influence of the wily tyrant at Paris. They have selected their own Government by themselves; they have interfered with no other people, and have molested no person's rights. For England to be a party to any such conference—for England to attempt to interfere in any way with Spain in conjunction with Louis PHILIPPE— is quite uncalled for and unwarrantable. We hope, therefore, that the report is untrue, and we console ourselves by believing, if it be not untrue, that the Governments of France and England will have so much business to attend to at home that they will be compelled to leave Spain to take care of herself. If they look at their own subjects, society being in a distracted state in France, and the people starving here, they will see a much more pressing case for their exertions than Spain, even were she in the very height of a revolutionary fever. The letter of the Provost of PAISLEY will be read with painful interest. The distress in that place continues to increase. From the returns referred to in the letter, it appears that on the oth of November the number out of employ ment, together with those dependent on them, was 7,884; on the 13th it had risen to 8,841, and is now 9,701 ; thus increasing at the rate of about 1,000 per week, and forming one-fifth part of the whole population, which, according to the last census was 48,125. In the towns of Johnstone, Kilbarchan, and Barrhead, similar distress pre vails, without the slightest prospect of relief ex cept from the hand of charity. Unfortunately, however, Paisley and Spitalfields are not the only places where the poor are driven to the last extremities. Every manufacturing town more or less suffers from the same cause. Men, ashamed to beg, are dying of want in the richest country of the world. Such a state of things cannot be allowed to continue. The rich must come forward liberally in every district, as they are now doing in London for the distressed weavers of Spitalfields. Let this example .be imitated, and then the poor of the land will look forward to the dreary winter months without the dread of starvation. We rejoice to learn that the best feelings on the subject prevail in the City, and that the Spitalfields Committee have every prospect of support in their humane endeavours to relieve the sufferers. The .211oniteur of Friday contains the follow ing telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, with the latest intelligence from Spain:— Van Halen entered Barcelona on the 15th. His troops occupied all the posts without resistance. The city and the province have been placed in a state of siege. " The Regent was still at Saragossa on the 14th. " The meinbers of the Radical Junta of Barcelona em barked on the night of the 13th, for London, passing by France. " The demolition of the citadel has been interrupted. " The Regent has published a proclamation directed against the Exaltados." The fugitive Junta landed at Marseilles, but the French Government ordered them to re-embark for London, as by their abuse of France, they had rendered themselves unworthy of French hospitality. The following is a copy of the Pro clamation of General Espartero, alluded to in the above telegraphic dispatch : " Spaniards—On the 18th inst. I addressed you with a soldier's feelings, and with the authority of the first Magistrate, charged to watch over the happiness, pros perity, and liberties of Spain. I announced to you my departure from the capital, with the view of stifling at the birth, a fatal and perfidious revolt, which threatened destruction to all. The patriotism of the army and national militia, and of every Spaniard worthy of that name, transformed my expedition into a march of triumph. The designs of the ene mies of justice were frustrated by the loyalty and bravery of patriots. Between revolt and victory there were but a few short moments, and those who fancied t 6 raise the.mselvocon the ruins of the nation fell first. Spain hailed with enthiisiasui• this triumphant day, and gave herself„up to the agreeable prospect of the consolida tion of a peace always so much desired, and now more than ever, when fresh sounds of discord burst upon her ears, announcing an attempt on the laws and on the dig nity of the Government. Thus were our pleasing illu sions replaced by bitterness. " A handful of turbulent men, enemies of the public repose, allowed themselves to be carried away at Bar celona by a remarkable act of violence, rendered more odious still by the circumstances which -accompanied it. In contempt of the laws, they destroyed a public monument, the property of the nation ; they abused the confidence which had placed in the hands of the national militia the guard of walls which have been destroyed by them ; they have despised the voice of mili tary authority which called for the disbanding of the mili tia; and, finally, they have furnished the scandalous sight of deciding by brutal force what was the peculiar attri bute and deliberation of the Cortes and of the Govern ment. The citadel of Barcelona threatened neither the property nor the liberty of the population of that indus trious town. Could suspicions be entertained of the pre sent Government, whose observance of the laws is their first rule of conduct ? Was not this fortress confided to the patriotism of the national militia ? Was it noble thus to profit by the absence of the brave soldiers who had gone to shed their blood against the enemies of the country ? Spaniards, this act was accompanied and followed by other acts of violence in which a Junta, calling itself one of safety and vigilance, constituted itself master of property, and created itself as an arbiter of the destinies of a whole province, and usurped the functions of the powers of the State, at the very moment when the Government was watch ing, with the greatest solicitude, over the observance 01 the laws. These events have been heard of through out Spain with disapprobation. The Regent would be wanting in duty to the nation and to justice if he left unpunished violations of the laws, and if the princi pal and guilty instigators were encouraged to commit fresh excesses. Have confidence, Spaniards, in the jus tice which animates a Government cemented by the laws. The arm, always raised for the defence of the Consti tution and of public liberties, well knows how to re press all the excesses produced by the abuse of that same liberty. (Signed) " THE DUKE OF VICTORY. (Countersigned) EVAOST SAN MIGUEL. " Saragossa, Nov. 9, 1841." The Report of the Peers on the treason of QUENISSET and his accomplices is the subject of fierce contentions in the columns of the Paris Press. The Opposition Papers laugh at the Re port, while the Ministerial Journals are moving heaven and earth to prove that it does not in the least exaggerate the danger that threatens France. Hear what the Court organ, the Presse, says upon the subject : "It is pretended that the smallness of the number of the adepts of these under-ground sects and associations ought to prevent our feeling alarm. The Report, it is said, mentions only about sixty of them, and there are not 1,200 to be found in all Paris. Persons who talk in this way may, if they please, console themselves with the reflection that there are not 1,200 political assassins in Faris. But unfortunately the disclosures of the Report have but raised up a corner of the ♦eil which conceals the extent and projects of secret societies. Is it to be supposed that this plot, which is fostered by the Communist and Radical publications, this permanent plot, which has its seat in the bosom of secret societies, had its only or its principal establishment in the public-house of Colom bier ? Is it not evident that the conspiracy now before the Court of Peers is but a fraction, and that a ♦ery small one, of a more general conspiracy ? Is it not en dent that there are ramifications established between these various subversive associations ? The anti-social propaganda, which is revealed to us by the present pro secution, is not confined to an obscure corner of one of our faubourgs. There were only 60 persons at the meet ings of which we hear, and there were not 60, perhaps, surrounding Quenisset on the 13th September ; but how many were there on the 12th May? Were not the same associations at work on the 12th May ? was not the same anti-social object aimed at ? and were there not the same oaths, and perhaps the same secret chiefs ? If the Report of M. de Bastard does not expose the whole of the odious truth, it shows, at least, plainly and clearly, the intimate connection of the parties engaged in the attempt of the 13th September with those who were con cerned in all the preceding attempts." Does the Court really want the heads of a few of the poor wretches now before the Peers ? It really looks like it; but suppose we admit the statement of the Presse to be true, can a greater libel be written upon the ORLEANS dynasty ? Of what use, then, are the September laws, and the laws against Secret Societies ? What has France gained by the Revolution of July if such be her present social condition ? If the Peers have only lifted a corner of the veil that covers the moral gangrene that pervades the social system of France, the much-talked of London Conference of the Great Powers will find more to occupy their attention in France than in Spain. In recog nising the mischievous principle of interfering with the internal administration of other States, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1841. France has authorised the other Great Powers to draw round her that cordon sanitaire with which LOUIS PHILIPPE iS so eager to encircle less guilty and disorderly Spain. At about four o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, as the King was returning from Versailles to Paris, a stone was thrown at his carriage by 'an individual standing on the side of the road. The miscreant guilty of the at tempt effected his escape and could not be overtaken. A Constantinople correspondent writes:—" A rene gado, named here Mahmoud Effendi, who was physician to the late Sultan, died recently, without his real name and family having been positively known. It is now said that his real name was Fromann, and that he was a na tive of Coburg. In 1809 he was a surgeon-major in the Austrian army, and in 1815 was involved in a plot for carrying off the Duke de Reichstadt ; but, being disco vered, fled to Constantinople, and there became a Maho metan, and physician to the Sultan. The Turkish Go vernment, in violation of his will, by which he bequeathed his large property to a young Greek, called Youssouf Effendi, has seized the whole to itself ; declaring the le gatee to be a Giaour, or infidel, and therefore incapable of inheriting. He has made a petition to the Sultan, but can have no hopes of its being available." The fire at the Chateau de Barante, in Auvergne, which we have mentioned, consumed one entire wing, but was stopped before it reached the main building. The loss is estimated at from 30,000 fr. to 40,000 fr. The part destroyed was the richest part of the chateau, and some family portraits, with other valuable pictures, are said to have been lost. The assassin Collot, who was condemned to death by the Court of Assizes at Lyons for the murder of his uncle some time ago, was executed on the 16th instant at Lyons. When the rejection of his petition for pardon and the warrant for his execution were brought to him, he was awakened from a profound sleep, into which he fell again as soon as the reading was finished. He pre served the same coolness till the last moment. . A melancholy accident took place at three o'clock yes terday morning, at the Hotel de l'Europe, in the Rue de Rivoli. Mr. Charteris, who was residing there with his family, set fire during the night to his clothes and other articles in his room, and then precipitated himself from the window, which was on the third storey. The unfor tunate gentleman in the fall broke both legs and frac tured his skull; he was picked up in a state of perfect in sensibility, but notwithstanding the assistance of Dr. Bertin and Dr. Higgins,'lvho were immediately called in, was too seriously injured to survive, and died in two hours. A man named Glemee was executed at Rennes, a few days since, for the murder of his wife. His behaviour was suitable to his position; he received the spiritual suc cours of the chaplain with resignation, and admitted the justice of his sentence. On the scaffold, the executioner, contrary to the usual practice, had placed the coffin in tended for his body close by the fatal plank, and the cri minal on beholding it was observed to shudder violently ; in other respects he conducted himself with firmness. An immense crowd was assembled on the occasion. The Prefect of the Dordogne has adopted a system, which, if general, would be invaluable to the historian. He has opaned a register, in which is to be inscribed, with due authentications, a summary statement of every remarkable event that occurs within his department, such as the erections and demolitions of public or private buildings of interest—important occurrences—storms — epidemic diseases—acts doing honour to individuals and families—in short, every event and circumstance which may furnish historical materials for posterity. Among the numerous visitors who have waited on Lord Cowley since his arrival has been a deputation from the "Dames de la Halle," who came to offer his Excel lency an enormous bouquet, with the congratulations of the " illustrious" body they represented. His Lordship received his "fair" visitors with the utmost good nature, and acknowledged their civility by a handsome gratuity. The ladies, on coming down stairs, strongly pressed the porter of Meurice's Hotel to accompany them to the nearest wine-shop and drink his Lordship's health. A farmer of Chapelle d'Huin, in the Doubs, having some days ago left in a field a quantity of vitriolated corn he Intended for sowing, his daughter found it, and not knowing the preparation it had undergone, gave it to a pig she had the care of. The animal, after eating it, became so much out of condition that the farmer de termined to sell it before it was too much reduced. An inhabitant of the place bought and killed it, and 17 per sons who partook of the pork were attacked with violent cholics. Some became so ill that, believing they were about to die, they had the last sacrament administered to them, but fortunately all recovered. It was remarked that those who partook of the black puddings made with the blood were those who suffered the most severely. A marriage, as we learn from the Memorial de I'au, is about to be celebrated in that town between Baron Oscar Bernadotte, nephew of the King of Sweden, and Mlle. de Navailles, a descendant from one of the Barons who accompanied the Bearnese Viscounts in the Crusades, and who afterwards formed an alliance with the princely house of Albret. BOURSE—PARIS, FRIDAY, Nov. 19. f !rat Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents ll6 ... 116 10 ... 116 ... 116 10 4 per Cents lOl 75 ... 102 ... 101,75 ... 102 S per Cents... B9 5 ... SO 15 ... 80 ... 80 5 Loan Rank of France Laffftte•ltank I.ooof. Shares 1050 ...MO ...11`50 ...1050 Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cent 3., 18414 lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... IQ2 Spanish Active ......... .... 12% ... 252 N ... 22% ... 22% Pa111iVe.........« 47i ... 4:4 ... 43 2 ... 4% Neapolitan . . ...... ........... i lO6 66 ... 186 60 ... 105 60 ... 106 60 Roman, es. die —.. 102% ... 102% ... 102% ... 102% Portuguese 3 per . Cente.New 25% __.......25 . % ... 25% ... 25% RAILWAY . iHAREIs. ....._ _ Versaillcs.L.B ..... ........ 2.2.50 ... , 203 15 ... 202 N ... 202 50 R, B 315 ... 3 16 2 5 ... 315 ... 316 25 Orleans . 482 50 ... 482 50 ... 4b2 50 ... ose S 0 Straiburgtoßale,shares red. 231 23 ~. 231 25 ... 231 25 ... 231 25 A Brevet will appear in the Gazette to-mor row evening. It will embrace the Colonels of 1836, Lieutenant-Colonels of 1828, and Majors and Captains of 1828. The Earl of Beverley will be appointed to the office in the Queen's Household (C a pt a i n o f th e Y e omen of the Guard) which has become vacant by the death of . the Marquis of L o thi an . The Queen, in her capacity of guardian of the the E scithe Chancery Bar, Duchy. Duke of Cornwall, has been pleased to nominate Attorney-General 'Thomas THE HUMANITY OF MODERN LEGISLATION.— The poor were wont to have little carts drawn Pemberton, o about by dogs, and we well remember that an armless man, whose industry and neatness we long admired, had a nice team. They always barked with satisfaction at their work, and seemed to be well-fed and kindly treated. When the time approached that dogs were no longer to be used by the orders of the Legislature, we saw that this poor man had provided himself with a Shelty. We presume his trade did not pay for the additional expense, and now the pony we see is gone; and the armless man, assisted by a girl, probably his daughter, a healthy, cheerful looking being withal, drag their little cart through the mud themselves. They must not go on the pavement—they must not employ dogs, and so they are obliged to de, in this severe weather, dogs' work themselves. So the humane legislator interferes to protect dumb animals from painful toil, and dooms the young females of the human specieS to perform those tasks which are supposed to drive clogs mad! We understand that the Princess Royal has lately been suffering slightly from the effects of dentition. But, notwithstanding the fact that the Princess has but seven or eight teeth, she has thus far passed through that which is fre quently one of the severest ordeals of infancy, and its only effect has been to make her a little thinner.--Observer. [Why does not our fa shionable Contemporary, who knows all the movements in the Palace, give us sonic more in formation on these interesting topics? We should like to know whether the Princess Royal can speak, and what she thinks of her Royal brother the Duke of Cornwall. The story about seven or- eight teeth, and dentition, and the severest ordeals of infancy, and the thinness of the Royal sufferer, any one could tell.] THE QUEEN DOWAGER. The following Bulletin was received this morn ing from Sudbury Hall:-- " The Queen Dowager passed a good night, but still the symptoms attendant on her Majesty's complaint remain the same. " D. DAVIES, M.D. " Sudbury Hall, N0v.21, 1841. TO THE EDITOR OF THE OBSERVER. Sin—As the allusion in the Observer of this day to "A Noble Lord who has filled high diplomatic offices, having been connected with the Exchequer fraud," might possibly be supposed to apply to me, I lose not an instant in giving the most unqualified and indignant denial to such an imputation. The Observer not being again published until next Sunday, I send a I am, Sir, y our most o b e dient humble servant, copy of this letter to the daily papers. Harley-stieet, Nov. 21, 1841. STRANGFORD. ST. MARYLEBONE BANK FOR SAVINGS. 76, WELBECK-STREET. ESTABLISHED STH JULY, 1830. Comparative Statement of Progress, at specified periods, during the last Eight Years. Oen De osit Sums Invested with p National Debt Accounts. On 20th Nov,, 4,948 lB34...tgommissioners. 69,731 ••• ••• 1835... 6,492 95,090 ,-:,--------: ---- ... ••• 1836... 8,328 126,209 ••• ..• 1837... 9,947 155,910 ••• 1838... 11,278 196,334 ••• .•. 1839... 11,935 223,353 ••• ••• 1840... 12,680 253,167 ••• ••• 1841... 13,00 4 SUICIDE OF AN ENGLISH OFFICER IN PARts.--This morning, very early (writes our Pari s correspondent on Th urs d ay ), an English naval officer, named Charteris, residing at an hotel in the Rue de Ri voli, threw hi mself from t h e third floor into the stre e t. Both his l egs were broken, an d his skull was fractured. lie surviv e d a b out two hours , but in a state of insen sibility. There can be no doubt that this fatal act was the result of insanity. Before he committed it he had burnt all his effects, even to the clothes which he had worn the preceding day. He was about 45 years of age. [We believe the officer here alluded to is Lieutenant Charles Charteris.] SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public eptuton. " TVlio runs may read." FOREIGN. _ The budget of the Portuguese Minister of Finance has been adopted without opposition by the Deputies. The expenditure is estimated at 10,984 contos of reis, or about 2,526,3201. sterling, the ordinary income falling short of that sum by about 652 contos of reis, or 149,960/. sterling. The most interesting item in the budget to an English reader is the sum of 247,2501. sterling for paying the dividend upon the foreign debt. Spain has shamed Portugal into some regard for the claims of the public creditor. On Thursday the French Court of Peers declared itself competent to try Quenisset and his accomplices. The Peers declare " that it results from the examina- tions whiclihaWbeenttiken that an attempt has been made upon the lives of the Dukes of Orleans, Nemours, and Aumale ; that a plot was formed either to destroy or change the Government, or to excite civil war by arming or inducing the citizens to arm themselves one against another, or by exciting the citizens and inhabi tants to arm themselves against the Royal authority ; that these crimes are connected, and that, by reason either of the p ar t taken th ere i n by illicit associations, of the nature of the means prepared for the attack, or, in fine, from the publicly avowed object of changing the Constitution of the State, and even the organization of society, by violence and civil war, these acts present the highest'degree of criminality, so as to determine the Coart to take cognizance of them."—The Court of Peers attaches an importance to the Report of its Committee, which we are very far froth doing. The day for the commencement of the trial is not yet fixed. We find the following in the France of Friday— " It is said that soon after the opening of the next Ses sion a proposition will be made for augmenting the number of Deputies, which is now only 459, to 500. The ground of this proposition is said to be, that in the States-General of the 16th and 17th centuries, when France was neither so extensive nor so populous as it is now, the number of representatiVes was comparatively much greater. In 1560, it was 393; in 1576, 326 ; in 1588, 305 ; in 1614, 446." France has already plenty of Deputies, and England has too many. It is not more Deputies, but more electors that are wanted. France wants an extension of the electoral franchise, not an increase in the number of her Representatives. The fault of modern Legislative As semblies is that they are too numerous for proper busi ness purposes, and that they do not represent the people. Reports have been spread by several papers, within the last few days, that a misunderstanding exists between some of` - the members of the Administration, and that several changes in the Ministry are likely to take place in consequence. On this subject the National states that a serious discussion has arisen in the Council of Ministers between Marshal Soult and M. Humann. " The latter," it adds, " demanded that a considerable reduction should be made in the budget of the war department, to which Marshal Soult replied by declaring that he would not consent to it. Resignations, it is said, were offered on both sides; and the rumour is cir , culated that the Cabinet is at the present moment com pletely dislocated." This is confirmed by the Constitu tionnel, which says that the discussion alluded to occurred at a recent Council, and that M. Humann succeeded in getting his views as to a reduction of the war budget adopted by a majority of his colleagues. The following extraordinary account of a murder and the arrest of the murderers, is from a French provincial paper. In a new edition of " God's Revenge against Murder," it would be worthy of a particular place : " A travelling dealer in porcelain and glass was some days ago driving his cart towards a small town near Lorient, when a little boy, going the same way, asked him for a ride. Nogues, the dealer, kindly put the boy into the basket swung under the cart, as being warmer than the cart itself. They had not gone far before two footpads stopped the cart, mur dered and robbed its owner, and then, to disguise the act, drove the cart over the body, in order to induce a belief that the death was accidental. During this ter rible scene the boy lay concealed in the basket ; but, as soon as he conceived the robbers were at a sufficient dis- tance, he contrived to set the horse off at full speed, re maining in his hiding-place, till the horse stopped at the door of a country inn, frequented by its master. The poor boy went into the house, and was telling his hor rible tale, when, among his auditors, he perceived and denounced two robbers, who had disguised themselves in the uniform of gendarmes, but were afterwards recog nised as convicts who had effected their escape. They were immediately arrested." General Van Halen entered Barcelona on the 15th inst. On the 13th the Radical Junta had made their escape through France to London. The Journal de la Vendee states :—" On the sth inst. a ball of fire, of dazzling brightness, passed through the air with great swiftness in the environs of Bourbon Vendee, and at the same moment an aerolite fell in a field where some labourers were at work, making a consi derable indenture in the ground. The stone on being taken up was found to weigh between 101 b. and 121b5., and to resemble a calcined stone, composed of iron, sul phur, and silex." - The St. Peterpburg Gazette states, that 700 houses in the town of Orel have been recently burnt down. The local depot of archives was greatly injured. What the injured archives of Orel consist of, we really have no idea. Most likely the books of the collectors of customs. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald, alluding to the late fire at Wool wich, observes :—" That wisdom is the most useless, the most costly, and the most tardy which, when the steed is stolen shuts the stable door.' Doubtless, we shall now hear of engines of such enormous power at our dock yards, that they could cool the blazing fury of Etna and calm the perennial irritability of Vesuvius—if volcanoes would only be content to wait for the arrival of a battery of Bristow's or of Hadley's most improved patents. But—how had they managed these things at Woolwich, up to the actual outbreak of this fire ? Let us see. ' Inspector Robinson, who was on duty at the dock. yard, mustered his men, and proceeded, in company with a detachment of the 15th foot, to the spot, taking one of the small dockyard engines along with him. Unfortunately the engine was in such bad repair that it broke down upon the road.' So that in the dockyard of Woolwich, wherein, of all the dockyards in her Majesty's dominions, it might have been naturally anticipated that there would have been the most' ample supply of fire engines, buckets, hose, and all their equipments—and, amidst the multitude f artificers constantly employed there, the most ready means of repairing and renewing them whenever they had become deteriorated, or unser viceable—the very first engine which is brought out at so alarming an emergency tumbles to pieces from neg lect and decay before it can be brought to the scene of the conflagration ! ! " The Times insists as follows, on the expediency of cancelling Captain Elliot's appointment to the Consul ship at Texas:—" The nomination of Captain Elliot to the Consulship at Texas, after the flagrant proofs of in capacity and mismanagement which he has left behind him in China, cannot be permitted to remain uncan celled without doing injury to a variety of interests which her Majesty's Ministers are especially bound to protect. Whether it be in contemplation to dispense with the further services of this notable employe, we can not of course conjecture; but as no intimation to that effect has yet transpired, the presumption is, that the Government may be somewhat reluctant to exert their dutiful interposition, for fear of appearing to act dis courteously towards an appointment made by their pre decessors. Now, really, if there be any faltering in this particular, we must enter our protest against it in the strongest possible form."—There is no question that this obnoxious appointment ought to be cancelled, and with out delay, too, for Captain Elliot has had an ample trial as a public servant, and has shown, not what he can do, but what he cannot do, in that capacity. The Chronicle observes, with reference to Mr. Warren's recent appointment to the Queen's Sergeantship, which has created such dissatisfaction among the Dublin Orangemen :--" This is the melancholy and ignominious result of Lord De Grey's first timid experiment of jus tice. He has sent for Mr. West, humbled himself before him, and, what was of much more consequence in Mr. West's eyes, promised to repair his recent oversight. All that is positively known is, that Mr. West, who is not a man to be contented with mere apologies and civilities, left his Lordship highly pleased. The rumour is, that Sergeant Greene is to be coaxed into giving up some office, for which he is said to be fit, and that the office so vacated is to be given to Mr. West. It is said to be further understood, that there is to be no more of this nonsense in future ; that impartiality is a very fine thing to talk about, but an absurdity in practice, and that the proper way of practising it is that :which is to be adopted in future—merely selecting men for office on ac count of their party services, and swearing through thick and thin that they are the most competent and mo derate men in Ireland."—We never placed much faith in the Irish Government's professions of moderation and impartiality, and the result has fully justified our dis trust. Toryism will take special care to vindicate its old supremacy in Ireland.; and, in the present Lord Lieu tenant and Secretary, seems to have found very apt and willing agents. The Cumbrian thus speaks of the present - state of the country :—" Certainly at no period within our remem brance was the distress of the manufacturing, mining, and agricultural population of this country more severe, or apparently irremediable than at present. Whilst on every hand we hear complaints of reduced wages, want of work, and dilapidation of capital, no where do we hear any prophet' bold enough to predict that things are on the turn, or tliat any avenue opens up towards future prosperity. The vista is gloomy to the end." The Bolton Free Fress comments in the following terms on the proposed Government emigration scheme ; —" As a stroke of policy, the rumoured scheme is wor thy of its•alleged originators. It is a tub to the whale, and something more. It will afford a way of escape to pining thousands, who will eagerly embrace the sad al ternative of leaving their native land ; while it will tend to relieve, for a time, the intense and deadly competi tion among our operatives, who remain behind. But why have recourse to this expensive, and to its miserable objects, at best, painful mode of relief ? How much easier would it be to bring the food to the people, than to take the people to the food?" The Dublin Evening Post says :—" The landlords must relax the screw, while commercial people will tighten it. The process will go on until the farmer feels the pinch. The rents, even at their reduced amount, cannot be paid, when the rate becomes enormous. If things should come to this, never will the wicked be more thoroughly and snore speedily punished. It may be too late then to talk of the Sliding Scale, or of any scale. Hunger will d e m a nd the t o t a l an d unqualified repeal of the Corn-laws." The following is from the Leeds Times;;---" People are perishing of hunger ; ' deaths from starvation' are in creasing in frequency. The demand for bread every day becomes louder and more menacing. Every week the pressure on the means of subsistence is increasing. Whatever the lawmakers may suppose, this state of things cannot last. The people must be ed •, if they are deprived of the means of earning their bread by their own honest labour, they will assuredly, sooner or later, attempt to wrinc , a sufficiency for themselves by some other means ; and who knows what will content them in the hour of desperation and revenge ?" MONEY-TRADE-COMIKERCE. The distress of the Spitalfield weavers and the poor of the metropolis, will be considered at a meeting to be held at the London Tavern, on Friday next. At Bradford spinners do not work after dark, and prices do not decline. At Bolton prospects are more cheering. The trade of Holmfirth gets worse, and the number of unemployed increases. At Leicester the de mand for goods is slacker, but prices remain the same. At Manchester the cloth-market has greatly declined, prices are fearfully low, and the gloom increases. At Middleton not one-half of the silk-weavers and dyers are at work, and, indeed, in every_ direction twenty miles round Manchester, distress and starvation prevails. At Rochdale this last week a manufacturer has as signed over his effects for the benefit of his creditors ; his engagements it is supposed will amount to a few thousand pounds. COMMERCIAL REFORM. At the meeting of the Anti-Corn. lavrDelegates, held in Manchester on Wednesday last, a proposal was made for preparing a complete statistical survey of the inju rious effects of the Corn-laws on morality, health, and the various branches of industry. Committees were proposed to be formed in every district in the kingdom, and each branch was to be under the control of those best fitted to conduct the inquiries —viz., the religious bearings under the cognizance of the clergy and dissent ing ministers ; the medical line by the members of that profession ; and an united committee of masters ar.d workmen, to collect materials as to food and wages. It received the unanimous sanction of the meeting. ECCLESIASTICAL. On the 31st ult. the three hundredth anniversary of the festival of the Reformation was celebrated at Witten burg. The inhabitants =the occasion formed a proces sion, and walked to the statue of the great Reformer, where they sang their hymns. FINE ARTS. Chantrey's „ monument to the Bishop Ryder, was erected last week in Lichfield Cathedral. As a work of art it is much admired. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. At a meeting of the Asiatic Society held on Saturday, a paper which was read, related the advance of the British into the Ghaut country. It appears that in the Orissa region the people were in the habit of propitiating the Earth-god, with considerable human sacrifices, and in a valley not two miles in length, the bodies of no less than seven victims were found. Children are preferred for the sacrifice, and slaughtered by the Priest or Pa triarch of the village, who cleaves their sculls with an axe. THEATRICAL. Mrs. Alfred Shaw has been singing at Trieste, with the greatest success. Her career in Italy for these two years past has been one of great brilliancy. SPORTING. In Norfolk the destruction of game has been enor mous during the last fortnight. At Holkham, Colonel Anson and Lord Coke killed, in the same day, each 104 head of game, the entire slaughter of the party being upwards of 500 head ! At Witchingham 220 pheasants were killed in one day. At Felbry 216 and 236 phea sants on two succeeding days. The flight of woodcocks is also said to be very large. EIXECTIONEERING. Lord Viscount Bernard has come forward, on the Conservative side, for Bandon, vacant by the resignation of Sergeant Jackson, who has been appointed Solicitor- General. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The steam-ship Acadia, for Halifax and Boston, with the mails, left the Mersey on Friday, at noon, with fifty passengers. Lieut.-General Sir Edward Blakeney, having proceeded to England, is succeeded temporarily in the command of the troops at Dublin, by Major-General L'Estrange, Nhose own command in the southern district is taken by Colonel Turner. The works at the Plymouth Breakwater are to be stopped forthwith, in consequence of the want of funds. Nearly 200 hands will be thrown out of employ. COURT-PA.SHIONA.BLE. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and family in tend to leave Montagu House, Privy Gardens, on Wed. nesday next for Dalkeith House, Edinburgh. The Duke of Devonshire is daily expected at Devon shire House from Rome. Viscount and Viscountess Maynard have left town for Brighton. Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Copley returned to town last week from their seat, near Henley-upon- Thames. Sir Robert Peel will have a dinner party on Wednes day next, at his residence in Whitehall Gardens. The annual ball given by the Woodstock Book-club took place, on Thursday last, at the Marlborough Arms Inn in that town. Nearly every family of consideration in the country was present. MISCELLANEOUS. The frost was so intense in the neighbourhood of Man chester last Tuesday night, that ice was brought to the fishmongers and confectioners in that town on Wednes day six inches in thickness. A female descendant from one of the Crusader Barons, Mademoiselle de Navailles, is shortly to be married to Baron Oscar Bernadotte, nephew of the King of Sweden. A few days ago the bellman of Bradford was em ployed in crying "Houses to let, at eighteen-pence a week, in a part" of the town which has been considered the most densely populated. These are mostly cottages formerly occupied by workmen when trade was good. The late census gives 656 houses unoccupied in Bradford. ItIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW S CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL CovroN MARKET, Nov. 20.—The sales of cotton to-day comprise 3,000 bales, without any dis tinguishing feature in the market. Prices remain at yesterday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, Nov. 20.—The tran sactions at the Stock Exchange comprise—Eastern Counties, 7i; London and Birmingham, 155; Ditto, New, Thirds, 24i; Great Western Half Shares, 55k; Great North of England, 66 ; Midland Counties Quar ter Shares, 204. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE , Nov. 20.—Our Mar ket is nominally the same as yesterday, and the business done is confined to the following transactions :—Lon don and Birmingham, I 56i ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 424. The accounts from Manchester continue of a very gloomy nature. The depression in prices keeps moving on, and bids defiance to all calculation. The decline may be quoted 2i- per cent. upon some goods, and more than that on others. Yarn is equally dull, and the pros pect of any amendment so distant, that most spinners seem to have given up all hope of a better state of things until the spring, when new shipments for the Continent will again come in. There are no later arrivals to-day. The Dutch and French Mails of Saturday have not yet arrived. Three failures were reported on 'Change late on Sa turday,—one at Lisbon and one at Cadiz ; the other, a house largely engaged in the haberdashery line in the City. THE FUNDS. The opinion that the Spanish Government are about to pay the dividends on the Active Stock continues to gain ground, and further speculation has taken place this morning, in consequence of which an advance of per cent, upon the closing price of Saturday has taken place, the quotation being now 22i ; Passive, 51 Deferred, 11+ • Portuguese Five per Cents., 3(1. 3 ; ditto Threes, 181 .1. The English Stock Market opened firm, with an ad vance upon Saturday's prices. Consols are now 88! for Money and the present Account ; Exchequer bills 8 10 prem. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAY'S. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths .. London and Brighton London and Birmingham ... 90 Ditto Thirds North Midland York and North Midland HALF-PAST ONE. There has been but little business doing in the British Securities. Consols are now quoted at 88-$. i f for money, and 881 i for the account. Exchequer . Bills 811 prem.; Three per Cents. Reduced, 88 1 1- ,:i ; Three-and-a-Half ditto, 97 a -a_ ; India Stock, 249. The principal business doing in the Foreign Market has been in Spanish Active Stock, which has receded a little, it is now quoted at 22i- I- ; Passive 5 1 - • , Deferred 4 111 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. are firm at 311- ; Brazilian Bonds 571 ; Belgian 1001 i; Dutch Two-and - a-Half per Cents. 514 i ; Ditto Fives 99 i i. The Share Market continues flat with little business doing :—Great Western, 79 ; ditto New 561; do. Fifths, 7i . ; London and Brighton, 31- i ; London and Bir mingham Thirds, 521 ; North Midland, 651 ; York and North Midland, 86. TWO O'CLOCK. The Dutch and French mails still remain clue. Consols, Money, 883 89 ; ditto, Account, 883 89; ditto, January, 894 ; Portuguese, 311 32 ; Spanish, 223 4. QUARTER TO THREE A meeting of the holders of Passive Spanish Bonds is now being held for the purpose of considering the best measures to be taken in obtaining the payment of the dividends upon this security, or rather the gradual conversion of them into Active Stock, as agreed upon originally. We have no doubt the Regent of Spain will give his early attention to the matter at the instance of the holders. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWPORT PAGNELL STEEPE CHASES. SATURDAY.—CONCLUDED. Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, and 15 added ; 12st each ; winner to be sold for 701., &c. Four miles. (8 Subs.) Mr. Westley's White Stockings (Mr.Bretherton) 1 Mr. Morre's Game Chicken Mr. Carter's Tom Tug (fell), Mr. A. M`Donogh's Prince, Mr. Whitworth's Pedlar, Mr. Steevenson's Not tingham, and Mr. Langham's Lazzarini, also started, but were not placed. We understand that there will be a brevet in the army, and a promotion by way of brevet in the navy. The details will probably appear in the Gazette of tomorrow.--Times. We. have beard that a Puseyite Curate of the Established Church at Lichfield was, on Sunday last, or dained a Roman Catholic priest.—Leeds Mercury. EVENING SUlsT___,, LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT.—(THis DAY') NORBURN V. OLLETT. • s uit, The MASTER of the RoLLs gave judgment in this which was heard on Saturday, and reorted in The a " r of that day. His Lordship said that t did not 0 1 ) P e co , to him from the evidence that the defendant had ecto. pied the farm as a tenant subject to rent, but, nev e !, he less, if the plaintiff required an inquiry on this point was entitled to it. With respect to the account prfn for, it must be made by both parties, each havi n g f r ceived money on account of the personal estate. 1" 'by ceiver must be appointed, unless security was gr vell the defendant SHEFFIELD CANAL COMPANY V. SHEFFIELD AO 50 ' THERHAM RAILWAY COMPANY. The COURT was occupied the remainder of the mornifitig, in hearing the arguments in this suit, whi ch "went °sp toted to compel the performance of an ag reemy e'our tered into on behalf of the parishes. W e resery report until the conclusion VIOE-CHANCERY—(TMS DAY) (Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE.) SMITH AND OTHERS r. SPENCER. w ill, This suit related to the alleged suppression of s ea , under which the plaintiffs, as Sevisees, claimed toli i 3Jon" titled to certain property. The plaintins we-e Smith, Dorothy Guy . , and o thers, who.'Vl toe to be beneficially interested in the reldt,lso 'of a lady, named Mary Carter, under 1 1835, made by her in their favour, in the year r.st , The defendant Spencer was the nephew and ile.„lber, law of that lady ; and upon her death, in SePtel"tesur 1838, took possession of the estate of the W hich trix, and of her papers and title-deeds, among AO' was her will, by which she had bequeathed to the,Yraer tiffs certain portions of her property, consisting 55 11, suages and lands at Dalton, in Yorkshire ; and tl; bill it was alleged, the detendant bad suppressed• prayed that in case the will was not forthcoming cer might be declared the trustee of the testators for the benefit of the plaintiffs as devisees ; tin' t a d the count should be taken of all the rents and profit s d to estate received by him ; that he might be defile:it he pay what should be found due to them ; and should deliver up the title-deeds. (Before Vice-Chancellor WicliA3l.) DODD v. 00 0 LYALL. Ceti J This was a foreclosure suit. His HosoUn Pl9/3,,,ertm an opinion upon several of the points raised, WI r " his final decision until to-morrow morning. QUEEN'S BENCH._(THIS I) , A li c a vir v.) At the sitting of the Court this morning 1 4 °- b ,00 11 ; bell took the usual oaths of supremacy and IS° on being appointed a Member of her Ma.l"'" Honourable Privy Council. h bsd STONEHOUSE V. JENNY. • Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this ease , "„,, t ien. been argued during the present term. ft " 3 : i - fell brought by the plaintiffs to recover the arnoun,' ;kap p i sums of money, and the value of certain go u „ s f - i t on behalf of the defendant, who was owner ''';„" to )e t i ; called the Good Intent. The vessel had Ptl t g ", e ' ith. ry port in distress, and a person named Haw k t ie is°% tl represented himself as captain, obtained ao ol r, and goods in question by virtue of sn ui „ which he alleged he had from t`i„: 0 01 1 . bet who was at that time residing at rii,c o tain , appeared that Smith was not the registere d ki + r o btai'd he alleged that as supercargo he had a riAt,,"" s hip /, 0 '. supply of necessaries for the benefit aW e ost, crew. There were two answers to the action;taiolo he was not the party who had authority to ° , l l, diti t ,, t g o and goods on behalf of the owner; told seconu.i:4lao nea r authority was limited when the owner a that a communication could be had ether,vvi,t atA days. h aldt was been unnecessaryconstituted to ac t in considerg_tn asacting-master e w r n t be ovi st o party I) , Y ot be 0 , he could waive his responsibility by allegif. c o urt inn s' not the registered owner, because tn e _a of opinion that the second answer was a gd, e rsb' o oti much as the advances had been made at eon s ' Oa ' 4 O tervals of time. At the trial great s t r ess vil s but , . be e the special authority given to Hawk Snl itl ' c i t° t ioo very doubtful whether that authority exten entaoies.ad; rowing money, when he could have had e'g e t . th° ss of with the owner by letter. As the attention tot had not been directed to that point,_ C ourt b e , $ ll . opinion that the verdict for the plaintiffsp°e' trig aside, and a new trial granted.—Rule for 'l solute. THE QUEEN V. THE EARL OF r• WA LDEGRAv - ' 110 4 DUFF. mr ito.,1 pu This was a rule calling upon the proseetiv",or cause why the side-bar rule to tax the osts cad be set aside. , tn ito The SOLICITOR-GENERAL nOiir appearedbe i against the rule. The facts of the case won bee recollection of the Court. The defendantsl4'eatieia dieted for an assault upon Charles John l y Tbe i be police constable, in the •execution of his dig . . ipt o 'orar l eer y dictment had been removed by writ of certt D oss t he Court of Queen's Bench, and the defendants 001 the judgment to go by default. The affidavi t i c r i l te stioli rule had been obtained set forth that ly_ ev t.hs,, e o police constable, was the only party was not the prosecutor—that the prosecutioni,botld carried on by Mr. nobler, who, it was PNbN: employedas ,stvahoth G,pi eeep h ot go b h o . ' en a . erl l e ts : et °tdni these neu ß w s neteoehhdwreeaeiarprl Commissionersni a a o a 44 b l' s l d e prde t f o sc i oli r t ai h pi t s l A e a Nov.tont specialotelcbii ( e f C i f i l pr t : i o i b e t i mi ai v or e ri ; 11' le 4 P . ie? so e o r ° : i icl ot i c ee lic° ; ,:to ?: l o l j e ef . een within the spirit and meaning of the Secl" sS sth William and Mary, chap. 11. By the d 'i c tnie ll ; that Act it was provided - that where an ' a id ellt e : h e removed by certiorari, the prosecutors s hot! d if . fee t' recognizances for the payment o f cosh" , ~livrifi eo :4 l, dictment was proceeded with nnder sfa;asolTared or, tiorari, then the Court would give snub Par t iPr to the prosecutor, if he was the r r pe sol! or grr; aggrieved, or to any justice of ty, tie i r or bailiff, constable, headborOt.'"'or ot": a ct c°'"; churchwarden, or overseer of the r',, of 511) , 0 Sti p C s officer who should prosecute on acco°" 0°7; 0 mitted or done, and that concerned hi m eft. "%ors:4 officer or officers to prosecute or Pll o inoli 3s o l o3 roi tt • i i tion for the Court was whether the g et e L Police were public officers prosecuting ' l rose ent e t ' be A c z or done, and that concerned them t° Vntl er the meaning of that Act of Parliament. for itnr er , 0 the 10th Geo. IV., which was a statn,tenoissionWeil" the Police of the Metropolis, the 1-1( 1 ) -4.ace f , t)f f i r Police were appointed Justices of the - an d tu e ' o bl e , minster, Middlesex, Kent, and SurreY_„, i j o e-0 1P 0 0, t l i authorised to appoint, and swear in r oe oove nt and to make orders and regulations the de(en ci lsee of that force. The indictment charged t"' ofln s having assaulted Wheatley in the exccuti°° r , of lib police constable, and the Commission,' the re lb directed that indictment to be preferreu_rdsbiriher),; which was already known to their L t u itw tini, ,r ob" Court would have to say whether in i lls f y ,dy e; the 11 10 ' ; secution for the protection of one of the re vel , ~r e they were appointed to preside and to J) ne o , • • ss i.o.. to . currence of similar outrages, the COrn i T.o, 3 o "-„,/ acting within the spirit of the sth `;l„wthorlbe beer The rule had been obtained on the ,4 2 w rt. cases, which had been decided in that i u q.r e cin, - o f • it , was the Queen v. Sharpless, 3d vni' jou' . ers / " 5 .4 p. 47, which was an indictment ' 'Y,. • c io , Peace against the keeper of Pembrobe i , ting the escape of a prisoner, and in otip ot,glsa ; ti t ruled that the prosecutor was pot If ie r r 07.„ and was not entitled to costs. The °` s s anlte„, King v. Edwards,s thßamwell andAdolph,trl ; s od, , oo e i, preferred by the Commissioners of rav l a l of the borough of Derby, for an ussnUlt.,. oo ,o 4 pc o There also it ;was decided that thes e the 510 being appointed for a specific ptirr..los 4 ?! f i Act, did not come within the prov l- e ho" e de ot "", e William and Mary. In the present ens :l ;,, e vi t ro p ; circumstances were entirely distinct, it he o ; i ' e rs°` pt e# the prosecution concerned these Commis ° o f O le o a and that they were entitled to the cost s ke tW I action. sa id the c Oing Mr. WADDINGTON, on the same side , „_, aer me ~e r n., 4 clearly intended to prevent the officious ' d u n ", &T ie d tb; 4; parties in prosecutions in which theY h i s 010 1 Mr. MARTIN, in support of the rul e ' tier oetli e e! t t t the heavy fines imposed upon these genadergli; severe punishment they had otherwise °Li that t 0 ,00 0.4 be considered a sufficient reparation , o f the 13 0e 1 would not now visit them with the costs no the, t be • tion. lie thought they were bound to g ci n av it, 'r o e i ll e s J strictly to the facts set forth in the aud icte d to a o ier er , were, that the defendants had been in an d 11 0 4, tb an sault upon Wheatley, a police constabl,e, con otly se cli guilty. Now he wished to know wlu.g o li e e an u ite til o ti was between the Commissioners of -L,, e t ons 10 0 Jo , indictment, and how they came into ni` ICI °,O all? That certainly did not appear, aZd u pon d ¢ l o g these facts only that the Court was es" Aets The Court had always construed these _ A at tbe ee a ment very strictly, and if they look"' u ld be • i bia t hat of the Act sth 'William and Mary, it vo selves the prosecutors did not bring an y 0 ,9 1, 1 11 y spirit or meaning. It did not apPear w hate' o f the police constable had any connexion Ac t„ 0 , pubes f , the Commissioners of Police. ht the oacl Mr. Justice COLERIDGE —I thou g iss iond e l. 0 Parliament gave authority to the ecn ura to d the., 0 /1 „1 lice to appoint their police constables, defau lt T o , jeP o i t ants having suffered judgment to g ° b Lia not Die s b in which they were the prosecutors, c.,..econste the fact. Were there any other ro t '. but het` '`4 those appointed under 10 G eo. _ n ; :ei r seteel (sins stbea ff %a s . , d e cy e b Mr. MARTIN could not say limc 4 11°: ce l lieved there had been that Act had come into operation. Hee Ac t Whi , C , lll' ever, that there was no provision in to :`l O , orj , e posik i be police constfu: srtibmit.te, these Commissioners beyond the .sion to ~ ;el Justice of the Peace, and the dee llicie na ese err' Court had come in former cases had sn ie th de o the rule that as a mere Justice of I t there " 11! ieci lte the A g an ' s tO P r° ja fei C ama o csupeel imposed fei not he eut the r eo e n co Nr theseee indictment resent, n costs.. o , s ts t adr nt the netsdaoidni tor, .deasdnrcenttir. that on" cuit cot atsntetr: erieceeri prat,. erre, be: er pesets oc loeti 5 joe4, Kerr P o r n e , e e yr, made e uw a b n d am o e y t i teatnesdt absolute.i l t e h d a it e t o t °hffie the eP rr°s e c costs, u b ould n s g t oo s -A f o r ,s l62i c l 0 0 0 u T k n h e l e n eTd t C O H O t EhtUheßeQi their decision.aEs saEei QUEEN v it thats: FbiebEelnr. AND otcytisi.viot:oo The COURT gave judgment obtain A, ha t • selindictmentmanufacturersA reiif e fo id r t a , ocfpoillelsipaiiicaheysesattieoiretgnitadnind in .0 hicrine;:endolotti been tried before Lord Denman , :l b tb r : :col ey o g of guilty had been returned againds' for n tie°l A rule to set aside the verdict, an , been a been subsequently obtaine d, and baa