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141 V E N G EDITION LIT ti.:RATURE. SOCIETY IN LYDIA. 2 VeLs lie Celburn London, 1841. title of these volumes is strictly borne ou3 P t ae content s , f or t h ey rea l ly are w h at t h e y rateSs to be,--namely a series of sketches illus itrative efthe p resent stato of si)cietv in India, which or der, we presume, that they may be rendered we -attractive to the general reader—are thrown i nto the form o f a tale. The second volume is the' is iloSt entertaining, so far as wild, stirring incident fiiat Nncerned ; but, in a literary point of view, the i s the best, for the sketches of provincial !f)eietv in the East are more highly finished, and meirescriptions are more racy and graphic. We : 4 2 1 easily imagi ne th at t h e accoun t of the voy ",sc lip the River Jumna - in a crazy boat, is sK etchcd from the Author's own personal expe lieuee, so li ve l y an d p i ctu r esque i s hi s manner o f narrati on, and so minute are his local details. BRITISH MISCELLANY. Hastings, London, 1841. 0 11 1i6 is one of those cheap monthly periodicals r "11 are now so frequently issumg.from the ) ,ess, and t h e ma j or i ty of w hi c h , a l as, are so ??" - lived that scarcely are they launched into ,?9.stence, ere they " die, and make no sign." e do not, however, anticipate s 3 sudden an ex t!v tiirir the " British Miscellany," for we 8 , antono• its contributors several of the most among writers of the day ; and totthem Dr. Maginn and Leigh Hunt, the t itS t of whom contributes a lively critical essay o t he Number before us, on the subject of Ho racel Walpole, upon whose peculiar talents he is :Y well qualified to give a sound, discriminating LECTURES ON _HEROES. Fraser, London, 1841. accomplished and distinguished, the tlit,ytiful, the wise, something of. what is best in ' wj,l a nd, have listened patiently to my rude 4 1 1 , -- `,,s,>" observes Mr. Carlyle, with modest pride, w e ' l 'ung to the present series of Lectures which vere delivered some five or six months since, if w Mistake not, at one of our public institutions. wil e . are not surprised at the favourable reception a te ic h the Lecturer's discourses met with, for they 04 - b in ;' lrk ed by a vein of strong original thinking hie'uts' of vital interest to the social cornmu thi' "nd are calculated to excite attention by as i t TY eccentricity of their style, possessing, oft e i thi nks w( i i , in e ,;, l "s--and this, we fear, is its chief recom lyrtatlon—all the charm of novelty. Mr. Car and thinks deeply too, on many ci et ,„ ie iSreat questions that are now agitating so-_ ex t ;') but he has such a strange, uncouth way of ti t ', eB ,sing himself, and involves his thoughts at in such a cloud of quaint, hazy, half pern'lL(Ted metaphors, that he becomes not merely dian, r.exin g , but absolutely unintelligible. His iy N ;"nlids are of the first water, but the setting k pi e ri r .Y . inferior. He scorns to express things in ""moanner, bat seems purposely to hunt about ex th e n , most startling and enigmatical forms of tlic n ,." B , l °n• There are hundreds, no doubt, who tnis a convincing proof of his genius, and off, ',. r equent his Lectures for the sole purpose th...i e 'tig excited by something—careless what s 'nlething may be—that wears the aspect earTvelty; but we are not of this class of Mr. all d Yl e': 4 admirers; and therefore while we pay it the homage to his manly and original powers th e " 13 4' 1. d, we most earnestly protest against th o m anner in which he enunciates those g.naugbits. We are quite satisfied with our lan .fitee as it stands, and have no desire to see it tio n ", e nnanized. Thus much by way of o:)jec - If ' hi v e Proceed now to a more pleasing theme. Whi re be one thing more than another for earn e- Mr. Carlyle deserves praise, it is for the tit t ,: e stness and sincerity, and, above all, the qu e l ; absence of cant, with which he discusses titaZ t nB Which many people would handle with trut l CY and hesitation. He sees and feels the 13 4 0 1 0 , 11 speaks out boldly, like a man. There - L p i "loching—no shilly-shallyin about him., eure e s no quarter to prejudice; laughs at the t eitt r i n r, on..pla ce and conventional in thought and an ttn —le nt; and, like Wordsworth, writes with Tho.-Parent indifference to the world's opinion.. a stern and searching observer, yet s hula,riece has not taught him to off nity ; on the contrary, he is full rh e ,:,,, lit h in its capabilities; and holds the doctrine that it is fast advancing ht it ,,7 l Pite the s t u mbling-blocks that are con of 'Y thrown i n its way—along the road To sue ial, moral, and political improvement. Lira ce rtain extent, therefore, he is a Perfecta- Nl it Y man, and deriveS hope from the very cir -lo:stances that would induce. others, less 5an (1,,,1,4) to despair. He has many stranp crot vui", however, which detract greatly trona his t t u i ll as a moral teacher; and one of them is, an 64eniration of Rousseau, whom he alludes to as the leading spirits of his age, ranking him fitt u : c ,:l with Johnson and Burns. Was ever in ktre-","on greater than this! The most heartless, aid -l ' e.(l , and egotistical of men, placed by the Vof the most kindly, sincere, and unaffected ! e, ) ,: l ` ) but Mr. Carlyle, would ever dream of th' l3 ,,linc, , Johnson with tous;eau—the paint with 4: 1 `Lwa.rf—the man of strong common sense, k t .:, 41 the crazy, maudlin,. sentimentalist—the fi l ; v( ') majestic teacher of moral wisdom, with th - advocate of licentiousness disguised • under le,l 'i 'lngY mask of philanthropy ? "We name " says our author, cc because, with all he t amid and they are many; he has the chief characteristics of a hero — he is ter n - - „ ., `; I Y in earnest." In his admiration of ex , nature, Rousseau—as he shows throughout 'les t ,Confessions"—was unquestionably in ear 111 1 ' n it in no other instance. He had no faith tilt t ' l l s fellow-men; and wanting this, he wanted theeleMents that constitute the true heroic • i ntellectual character. - THE ENGAGEMENT. z VoLs. • • CoMorn, London, 1841. th6 v „ e . most novels, whose chief personages t h , e "_ . the higher walks of „ society, the " En 1414nent• abounds in scenes of love and senti l'elid admirably calculated to recommend it to Ti w e i rs of the gentler and more susceptible sex.. "eiro is Lord Halsingham—a tall, romantic, V ol s b , ter '"us Peer, who stalks through the three leti ti r C" like a phantom, appearing and . disa . p . - ei i . 4 ' 4 `4 with all the fbrmal gravity and signifi- f t4,,,1"11\1r. Cooper when playing the part .t o erwbuost in Hamlet. This remarkable ar i ls 0 . - 40 a , WTI " of course is as handsome as an .1 nti- N i s n ' ' l lcounte rs , on his return from Vienna, a 11 11 0 ,-;' girl by name Horatio -2.4ornington, to aditi-2,:with her f a th er 's permission, lie pays his c:(11 ' - e .' i ses ' and by whom he is favourably re :: t i ° itle is soon, however, summoned back e l , but previous to his departure, 11 14 -o i rts front Horatio a promise that she will r Y aim the instant he returns to England. "fort 1 4 14 unattay, the girl repents her rage tarn and scarcely has her affianced Lord l elaa e. „ 4 "is back, when she meets with a or hi s , one C apta i n Coniagsby, at, d, a,. house i n t h e coun try, whom she fa ` ll ll - -a telY love•with ; _:and the passion being l 'aii Y •i ree 'Procated, a very pretty scene of einbar ent. ensues; both parties become perfectly . l iorZ ; b le ; the Captain can think only of Horana ; eess,, - ` l4 can think only of the Captain, the ne- ll'ICIrY"---indeed, inevitable consequence of .i' . -6 4 ;" 1 . is, that one fine morning the enamoured .§t4' l ' l , ( ' are caught kissing each other at an awful i as a 1" an officious fellow, one Chadwick, h est t a l.-el-4 of Lord Walsingliam, takes the ear 14ail;PPortunity of his Lordship's return, lu lu with Isis untoward discovery. Mad ariiis w ith rage, the Peer vows yeill,ce Coningsb v , but on an explanation taking , b( Aween previous to a resort to ta, m finds Walsinglia nds out that the Cap rim - as after all not so much to blame, for lie Itiad e every honourable effort to struggle da, 11 ., 8 t hi s weakness., and had, besides, been m -414(1' to b elieve that Horatia was not in heart re ti f t le d to his Lordship, but was anxious to th e engagement between them. On further i 1 11 ion, it traasn i res that t h oug h Miss 1\ .orn it I has' noau far him, a Miss Belly . ti nlif [Led nel',-111;.our—liits,whicli .- ;n: . aq ~1 4 t ul f , l ',ile Peer, who had always suspected L ' e r, L ilu lgsby had supplanted him in that guar -4114' Ultimately, it turns out that the Cap -1344 1111. from being his enemy, had always Ma lt uts b est and most di interested friend, and 1, 4,) th e cause of the estrangement which had 111 „ , e „ ).( ,, is tcd between them, was owing to the eal kt :;f r es of Chadwick, whose projects of poli hia,; b"o-vaucement Coningsby had on one occa art(r ti t s the means of thwarting. Of course, ,Itic e ' L ui s explanation, a reconciliation takes . `Jetween the parties, who are both, in the ti ve t %s of time, made happy with their respec -1()r so I Illel at , us. Such is a slight, hasty sketch of. the c hi ef i nc id ents i n the " Engag,e th sere ' which i s a c l ever, animated story, though foreibil no great nov elty in its construction ; gty.le•Y' and even eloquently written, as regards r at4 . a " (l not deficient in its delineation of cha- D UBLIN REVIE .—No. 19. Wt. Dolman London, 1841. et 1.1 4 4- 14 " the same fault to find with this Num !4et,,...a4. we have found with so many of its pre- Jurit-s3rnainelv, that the subjects of the ma 411(1 3;1(4. its articles are but indifferently chosen, V el'ho 141 they are, with hardly Ve ada te and r • ; ea isome. The lightest and most an exceptioi s i, 'Whi c h ir t o re e' one entitled " Recent Poetry," a review of some late poems by Sir • Francis Hastings Doyle, and Mr. Manes, both of which were noticed in detail in The ,z-:a at the period of their publication. The Reviewer is, we think, unnecessarily severe in his strieitures on the Baronet's verses, chiefly because he '1)-o -fc3scs to be an imitator and uizciple of Words worth, whose genius is here treated with very little reverence, and the errors of his school thus pointed out—" The blunder of the school of - Wordsworth is this, that when the soul is scarcely moved at ail—at least when it has no. power to move any other soul; when it is dozing through some dull dream, or describing some litVe fat urchin, some new-born cock, kitten, or puppy, it affects the dialect of the skies, and humbles the fiery expression of noble thoughts to the meanest uses of the poultry-yard or ken nel." There is great exaggeration in these re marks, though certainly it must be confessed that not a few of Wordsworth's " Lyrical Bal lads " give some foundation for them. • The " Horse Guards" is a review of the proceedings of the Commander-in-Chief as respects the Earl of Cardigan and his numerous disputes with his brother officers. The article is shrewdly and dis• passionately written, and the conclusion to which the Reviewer comes is, " that the outrages which have been committed on public feeling in all these transactions demand a high satisfaction, which the people—the just, and thinking, and reason ing people—will require, and which the Crown, if well adVised, will not refuse." The " Wants of Ireland" is penned in a cheerful, sanguine spirit, and States with confidence that many cir cumstances have recently occurred which open up the most cheering prospects of the future destinies of the sister country. Of the articles headed " Life of Pope Pius the Seventh," • " Ar bitrary Power, Popery, and Protestantism," and "on Romanism in Ireland," we must content ourselves with the remark that they possess little interest for the general reader. BELGIUM. 2 Voze. Bentley, London, 1841. One of the chief objects which Mr. Emerson Tenuent proposed to himself in writing these volumes—as he has stated in his dedication to Lord Stanley—was to show the injury that has occurred to Belgium from the repeal of its union with Holland, and thereby to convince Ireland of the peril in which she would place her best and dearest interests, were she to be infa tuated enough to follow the same example, as regards her connexion with Great Britain. As this is a political, rather than a literary question, we shall not discuss it in this place, but content ourselves with remarking upon matters more ac ceptable to the general reader. As a traveller, Mr. Tennent evinces much laudable curiosity, and though his road lies through countries with which few Englishmen are unacquainted, yet he frequently contrives to entertain us by describ inc, things—as in the instance of some of his sketches of Ghent and Bruges—which have es caped the researches of other travellers. There are many pages in his work, however, which are dull and tiresome in no common degree— especially where he speaks of the agriculture and manufactures of B elgium, which have already been described so often that the subject retains not the slightest vestiges of novelty or interest. Of Bruges be tells us that " it is unlike any place that one has been accustomed to before, and is certainly the most perfect specimen of a town of the middle ages on this side the Rhine. Its houses have not been rebuilt in modern times, and with their ample fronts, vast arched en trances, and sculptured ornaments, and fantastic gables, are all in keeping with our s'ately im pressions of its feudal counts, and affluent but turbulent burghers. The squares maintain the same character of dignity and gravity, oversha dowed with old ancestral trees, and flanked by their municipal halls and towers, the monuments of a time when Bruges was the Tyre of Western Europe, and her counts and citizens combined the enterprise and wealth of the merchants with the fiery bearing of the soldier." Our author's notices of Ghent—hackneyed as is the theme — are amusing enough; but he is far too lengthy in his descriptions-of Brussels; and in his second volume becomes positively prosy in his accounts of joint-stock speculations in Belgium. THE FALLS OF NIAGARA. (From the New York Commercial Advertiser.) GULLIBILITY.—Some of the papers this morning centain what is called an extra from the " office of the Advertiser, Buf falo, Feb. 14, four o'clock," giving an account of the destruc tion of the Falls of Niagara. A slight glance at it will con vince any one that it is a hoax, arid by no means a good one, got up by some witting who probably never saw the Falls. We will point out a few of the indicia leading to this conclusion. 1. The article was not written, although purporting to have been, by the editor of the Buffalo Commercial Adver tiser. We know his style too well. He never deals in such inflated, windy language as the account presents. 2. The extra purposes to he dated at Buffalo on Sunday evening, at four o'clock, and it was received in this city last evening. This could not be done. •3. " Biddle Tower and all the adjoining ground-work had disappeared." Mr. Biddle never built a tower at the Falls. Some years ago he caused to be built a staircase on Goat Island, leading down to the Falls, which goes by his name. 4. " The water made a subterraneous passage, and burst through the wall of Goat Island." Absurd. 5. " The hotel is gone. It is believed no lives have been lost." The last clause is correct ; there can have been no lives lost, because therewas no hotel to be carried away. The near est hotel is the Clifton House, far below the Falls. _„ P. S.--Since the above was in type the northern mail, only due this afternoon, has arrived, and brouaht us the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser of Saturday evening, the latest which could be expected. The Albany papers of yesterday are silent on the subject. The hoax was probably got up in this city. SPORTING IN TELLIG EN CE. ALL ENGLAND COURSING MEETING, MaucH 9, 10, AND 11. The All England Cup of 640/. was won by Mr. Hunt's Harriet, beating Mr. Reade's Ruby. The Fleetwood Stakes of 114/. were won by Mr. A. Graham's Cacciatore, beating Mr. Slater's Echo. And the All England Purse of 401. by Mr. Easterly's Erico, beating Mr. Eden's Snap. HER MAJESTY'S STAG Hon MOS.—Monday, Riching's Park ; Wednesday, Ascot Heath. COURSING MEETINGS. (Received this Day ) LANAnxsurnE AND RERFREWSIIIItE CLUB, MARCH 6. The Champion Collar and Stakes were won by Mr. Dug gan's Nanny 0 ! beating Mr. Crawfurd's True Blue ; the Puppy Stakes were won by Mr. Pollock 's Douglas, beating Mr. Crawfurd's Spanker ; the Darley Stakes were won by Mr. A. Graham's His Royal Highness ; and the Poppy stakes (second class) by Sir A. Maxwell's Music, beating Mr. Geddes's Go-between. BROUGHTON. MARCH 5 AND 6. The Broughton Stakes were won by Mr. Atkinson's Fame, the All-aged Stakes by Mr. Gibbs's Graceful, and the Skipton Stakes by Mr. Garnett's Mischief. BINGHAM, MARCH 9. Ihe Chesterfield Stakes were divided between Mr. Taylor's Belle and Mr•. J. Foster's Lath. EXTON PARK CLUB, MARCH 4 and 5. • The Cup was won by Mr. Malpas's Metal (late King Pepin) ; the Noel Stakes by Mr. Tinda!e's Lady Auguste ; the Caks Stakes by dlr. Marshall's Eva; the Derby by Captain Fain tree's IC C.B. ; the Exton Park Stakes by Mr. Marshall's Ellen Tree; and the All-aged Stakes by Captain Daintree's Kimber. BURTON AGNES, MARCH 9 and 10. The St. Leger Stakes were won by Sir H. Boynton's Smoker ; the Tally-ho by Mr. Lapish s Swallow, and• the Vic:oria Stakes by Mr. Lapish's Acklam. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. Elk CU?. ' 20 to 1 agst Calypso—taken 20 to 1 Ernest 1. 20 to 1 Champagne 20 to 1 Bellona 200 to 8 Tubalcain 10 to J Lord Eglinton's Lot CHEST, 9 to I agst Bloomsbury—t. 13 to 1 Gibraltar—tak. 13 to 1 Gallipot 15 to I Queen Bee 15 to 1 Dean 17 to 1 Bedford 17 to 1 Tuly—taken 18 to 1 The Young-un 13 to 1 agst Rosalie 1.1 to 1 Eringo '22 to 1 agst Marshal Soult 27 to 1 Knight of the Whistle 50 to 1 Morning Star. 17 to 1 Coronation 2'2 to 1 Cameleon 22 to 1 Palmmon HUNTING AP. 'OINTMENTS. Major-General Wyndham's hounds meet on Alonday at Loxwood House ; Wednesday, at Thakenham ; Friday, at Pepper Harrow ; Saturday, at Oakhurst. Colonel Wyndham's hounds Monday, at Saltbox Common ; Wednesday, Coster's Mid ; Friday, Durford . Wood—half -past eleven. East Kent hounds Monday, Belshanger Grove; Wednes day, Waltham-street ; Friday, Cheriton Wood—half-past ten. Oakley hounds Monday, Knotting Box ; Tuesday, Clifton Spinney, ; Thursday, King's Wood ; Saturday, illetsoe— quarter to eleven. Mr. Drav's hounds Monday, Bloxworth Down ; Wednesday, Spettisbury Down; Friday, Bere Wood—eleven. Craven hounds, Monday, at the Crown, Highelere ; Wed nesday, at Savernake ; Friday, at Thrup ; Saturday, Ham 'Ashley—half-past ten. Mr. Farquharson's hounds, Monday, at Shortwood ; Wed nesday, Edenondsham ; Friday, Uddings. Mr. A. Smith's hounds, Monday, at Wilcot ; Tuesday, at ; '1 hursday, at Woodhouse ; Friday, at Crowdown Clump—eleven. Cottesmore hounds, Monday, at Manthorpe; Tuesday, at Little Dalby ; Friday, at Grimsthorpo Castle—eleven. Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds, Monday, at Tansor Gorse; Wed nesday, at Abbott's Ripton • Thursday, at Waleot Park—ten. Lord Yarborough's hounds, Monday, at Utterly ; Tuesday, vborough Hall ; Saturday, Stallingborout.4ll—eleven. Sir IL Sutton's hounds, Monday, at Gate Burton ; Tues day, at Nocton ; Wednesday, at Carlton-le-Moreland; Thurs day, at Harpswell; Friday, at Swinethorpe ; Saturday, at Mr. Dudding s Panton—eleven. Marquis of Hastings's hounds, Monday, at Hartshorn-village ; Wednesday, at Bunny Park ; Friday, at Barrowash—quarter to eleven. Pytchley hounds, Monday, at Wootton House ; Wednesday, at North Kilworth ; Friday, at Crick—quarter to eleven. The Atherstone hounds Monday, at Willesley ; Wednesday, at Filloughley ; Thursday, at Itedgate ; Saturday, at High Cross —quarter to eleven. Mr. Musters's hounds Monday, at Red Lodge; Wednesday, at the 7th milestone Mansfield-road ; Friday, at Hockerton Bar—eleven. The Middleton harriers Monday, at Bratton Castle ; Friday, at New Copse Farm, Little Down—eleven. Y. 11. Monday, at Poin,nolon Ridge—half-past ten. Mr. Giles's hounds Monday, at Colin Park ; Thursday, al Stanley-hill Turnpike. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCHI3. Iq4l LICENSE OF COUNSEL. .An article upon the criminal procedure of the Eog lisp and Scotch Courts, in the last number of the Wect. minster Review, contains some arguments and state ments on this subject which ought to be generally circu lated. The occasion which gave rise to it was the r.- va arkablc speech of Mr. Charles Phillips, in defence Courvoisier, which shocked the public, on the supposi tion that the advocate had exceeded his line of duty. The writer, however (Mr. Chadwick, we belieie), pro poses to show that the defence came within the rule of duty hid down by the bar of England, and points out this and a great many other absurd practices in the English Itw which impede and often defeat the ends of justice. Among some of these are the annoyances thrown in the way of prosecutions, the browbeating of respect• able witnesses, the apathy, not to say acquiescence of the Judge, whea unjust imputations are made qn their charac ters or veracity, and the absurd practice so much praise.) by Judges red Magistrates, of refusing to interrogate sus pected persons lest they should say anything to convict themselves. In the subjoite I extract two remarkable ind tnces are given of the workings of the two different. systems in England and Scotland. "'The practical superiority s of the Scotch law, though capable of amendment, may be established by abunch ant evidence. One result of the ca-e!'ul preliminary examination is, that fewer doubtful cases are sent for trial, and fewer persons tried escape conviction. Sas.. pected persons obtain ready discharge on accounting for themse . v.s, and the pursuit of criminals is better directed. Bet for the power of interrogating suspe:ted persons,. which was exercised by Captain Stewart, chief of the police at Edinburgh, in his capacity of pubte prosecutor, Burke and Hare would both have escaped, as Gould and Several murderers, of whose guilt no rational doubt can be entertained, have (scraped in England, to the greet injury of public justice. Tee procedure being shorter, and private individuals being relieved from the burthen of prosecution, parties come forward with greater readiness, and fewer persons who have once prosecuted will hesitate to go forward a second time in aid of public justice ;" and it is sta ed in another place that, but for the accidental fining of the plate before t, e trial of Courvoisier was co .eluded, the probabilities were the defence .vould ha% e prevailed and that his case would have been added to :hat of the murderer Gould, as an instance of the mi-ehievous defect of our law in not permitting an in ter nediate verdict of not proven as in Scotland, ".idowing tl:e pari.y to be again tried on the di,covcry of new evidence." The Writer labours under a mistake in this instance. The-law of Scotland, we believe, is precisely the sane :as that of England, regarding the finality of a crirnieal trial. Tile verdict of not proven Hy acquits tie prisoner but infers that the Jury strong impressions of his guilt, though the evidcecc Id not warrant them in convicting him. It punishes in in a moral point of aiew by affixing a stign a to s character for life. With these remarks, we make no apology for giving the following copious extracts from this excellent article on a subject so important to evory civilized community : The state of our penal procedure is such, that few persons, of any respectability, who have once prosecuted or giving evidence in any of our penal courts, could ever Le induced voluntarily to prosecute or give evidence a second time. Part, no doubt, of this reluctance is ascribable to the trouble and loss of time imposed on the prosecutor or witness by the mode of the procedure, needlessly encumbered as it is with forms, which afford no real protection to the innocent, and give only chances of escape to the guilty; but a most serious part of the reluctance is the dislike of persons of any sensi bility to expose themselves to the assaults of the pri- . soners' counsel,—to their express or implied imputa tions of mendacity ;—to their imperious deportment and to their efforts to confuse witnesses,—assaults which modesty and timidity only s erve to invite, and against which innocence or ordinary respectability af ords no protection. had wau The following instance which came to our knowledge may be given of the reluctance of persons to implicate themselves in a matter which might bring them into court as witnesses:—" As we were rowing on the Thames, near Windsor, we saw near the banks the body of a man floating ;" said a young gentleman, who was one of a boating party. " Did you go near to examine it No, we kept off and rowed an ay, for we might have committed ourselves as witnesses, and have made ourselves liable to be examined in Court if we had gone near it." We apprehend that there are few persons who have been engaged in making any legal or other investigations in which the examination of witnesses is involved, who Rave not exper'enced the frequency with which persons of respectable character will evade the disclosure of facts known to be in their possession, when it is made apparent that they may be called upon to give their testimony upon them in a • court of justice. When an outcry, or sounds indica tive of violence, or distress, or suffering, is heard in the Areas, it is generally only the young, or the labouring ilisses, who are seen to yield assistance ; the educated or the sensitive ride past or hurry from the spot, for fear of being drown in as witnesses and forced on that re pulsive stage, a court of law; Public attenti an is sometEmes roused by tie very slight pecuniary penalties which are awarded in police courts for even murderous assaults, and the newspapers call down indignation against magistrates who impose such inadequate punishments ;—yet it will in general be band, notwithstanding the slight pecuniary penalty which police magistrates arc able to impose, that sum mary conviction is the one earnestly preferred and sought by the party injured, and tl.e punishmeet is inflicted by the magistrate in the consciousness that to send the cri minal to trial before a jury is to inflict another and a severe injury on the prosecutor. The case of Courvoisier was extraordinary in the circumstances of the crime, whilst the procedure of its trial only prese%ted to the public an exhibition of the common practice in our criminal courts, and has brought tte barristers before the public to justify the description given of them, as " indiscriminate defenders of. light and wrong, by the indiscriminate utterance of truth or falsehood"—as it may serve their cause. On the occa sion of the presentation of a petition on this subject to the House Of Lords, Lord Brougham said— " I once before took leave to remind your Lordships, which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind, that an advocate, by the sa cred duty of his connection with his client, knows in the discharge of that office but one person in the world — that client, and none other." His Lordship might have been asked for a definition of the sacred duty, and the authorities wherein that duty is set forth. According to him, the counsel, who has for a client a murderer or a robber, is to know that murderer or robber, and "- none other." " To serve that client," continues his Lordship, " by all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others " [even the party already in jured]—" and amongst others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties." His Lordship was assuredly mistaken when lie as serted that the duty was then unquestioned. It had been powerfully questioned in the " Rationale of Judi cial Evidence ;" we hope it will be further questioned, and that the Bar will be relieved from such a degrad ing duty, and elevated to a practice dictated by common morality. " And he must not regard the alarm, the sufferine, the torment, destruction, which he may bring upon any others." The Legislature will, however, be called upon to re gard this alarm, this suffering, this torment, indiscrimi nately and wantonly inflicted by aspersions ou respect able witnesses in our Courts of Justice : " Nay, separating even the duties of a patriot from those of an advocate, he must go on, reckless of the consequences, if his fate should unhappily be to involve his country ii: confusion, for his client." We venture to doubt the legal authority of this ex tragant pretension, and were it fully made out in law, we conceive that it may be peremptorily challenged as equally:pernicious to public justice and morality. In the course of his speech on the subject of B u.k ruptcy Courts Bill, Lord Brougham stated, that— " Any man who wishes to see talents beneficially ex ercised, would do well to go into a Court of Law." In the course of his description of this the ttre, on which his Lordship himself was so distinguished a per former, he says— " The jury see the wane:s ; they have the opportu nity of watching his deme teour while giving his evi dence, and then they see him submitted to a cross• examination ; after which comes his counsel, comforting and restoring, as it were, the poor man, after the flagel lation he has undergone, and setting up the broken credit of the witness, damaged by the cross-examination. After the cross-examination of the adverse counsel, which has impaired the credit of the witness for a mo ment, then comes the skilful counsel, who restores and cordorts the poor man, and gives him a better oppor tunity of explaining the case and setting himself right with the Jury, until at last the conflict being over on both sides, the evidence of the witness is fairly before the Court." In all the self-laudation of their own skill and of the value of their own talents, no perception appears to exist as to the effects which must be produced by the indiscriminate application of such skill to respectable as :veil as to untrustworthy witnesses. What person of r espectability, who is acquainted with the practice, will volunta-ily come forward in aid of public jus tic if he be aware that no respectability or truthful ne23 will protect him from having his " credit bra ken" by false imputations ; from undergoing the flagalations of an unscrupulous tongue? Can it be expeet.:d of any " poor man," of retiring hi,bits ' that he will be induced voluntarily to endure th's infliction of pain from the forensic gladiator on a public arena, by any assurances that he will have Lis " broken credit set up," and that he will be " re stored" and "comforted" by the skill of the counsel on the other side ? Tl:e practice gis C 3 pre-eminence to the unscrupulous ' wtnesses w1;0 can withstand such z!ssaultt. Sir Roger Noith, in his " Life of Sir Dudley North," relates, t that the la :+ of Turkey, like our absurd law of evidence in some cases, required tb.e testimony of two wit- nesses. in . proof of each fact, and, that a practice had, in consecinc nee arisen, - and had obtaine 1 the sanction of general opinion, of using false witness in.proof of those facts which admitted only of one wit ness. Sir Dudley North, while in Turkey, „bad nu merous disputes which it became necessary to settle by litigation, " and," says his biographer— " Our merchants found by experience, that in'a direct fact a fal:e witness was a surer card than a true one ; for if the judge has a mind to baffle a testimony, an honest, harmless 'witness that doth not knOw.his play . cannot so well stand hi s many captious questions as - a false witness used t o t h e tra d e w ill d o ; for he bath been exercised, and is prepared for such handling , and can clear himself; w h en t h e ot h er w i l l b e confounded ; therefore circum s t ances may b e suc h as to make the false one more eligible." ALIN' exemplifications m i g ht be given 'of the " hand ling' which a bon a fide witn ess will sOn;e.iale3 receive,' in cases where th ere i s no opportun i ty of casting direct . imputations up on hi m . W e m i g l .t a dd uce s uch plai tedas that of th e a d vocate turn i ng hi s eyes away from the witness-b ox w hil st he asks: the w itness a ques tion. The simpl e witness, doubting whether the question • was addressed to him, or believing that it was addressed to some one else, hesit stes, or does not answer. When the witness has evidently lost his stlf-possessior, be is asked, in a thundering tone, why he is 50 reluctant to answer : or if that does not promise success, he is plied with another question which leads him is-Aray from explanation, and thus an impression is pro bably made on the minds of the inexperienced jurymen, that the witness had been fearful of the effect of his ansxer, and had, for sinister purposes withheld it. The follow:rig is an instance of the practice of Garrow, who, was held up as a " masterly cross-examiner." The case was that of a witsess who was deaf, and whose deaf ness it was this advocate's part to make appear pre tended. He said to the witness, in a low tone, "So you have the misfortune to be deaf?"—" Yes, sir." — You have great difficulty" in hearing ?"—` Yes, sir, very."—" Anti it was not till I raised my voice thus (Loa ering it still more), that you, could hear what I said at ?"—" No, sir." Tire Jury and the whole of the auditory roared with laughter, and the witness might as well have been utterly deaf and dumb too, for the service of his testimony in the case of justice. And yet any person of experience with individuals hard of hearing, knows well (and no. one, knows better than the counsel) that distinctness of enuncia tion will often, beaer than loudnesß, enable a' witness to hear or comprehend what is addressed to him. In this inst ince the enunciation of the advocate was painfully distinct ; add it might be that the deaf witness saw whst the cross-examiner said, rather than heard it ; the counsel's voice looked loud, and the witness believed it to be so. It is not often that this noxious ingenuity, or any in genuity whatever, is exercised fur such purpases at the courts adverted to ; there the weapon of attack is chiefly imperious and coarse deportment, in a word, bullying. Tnis is often carried to an extent which arouses the sympathy of jurors for the witness, awl ex cites them against the cause in behalf of which it is used (as is well known to those who use it), but no matter ; the case being hopeless, it affords the appear ance of a defence ; and, as one of the practif oners in the Old Bailey once alleged in a brawl with allot} er, gratifies the low and ignorant client and his associates. As they went out of court they may be overheard in the avenues using such language as this—" The jury went against us, but how -- worked for us ! how he did give it to that d—d witness." We shag recal to recollection some incidents which occurred on the trial of Courvoisier, as illustrative of the common style of usurpation of the functions of the Judge by the counsel of our criminal courts. It is to be borne in mind, that twenty-four hours before the defence was made, Mr. Phillips, the prisoner's counse►, had received the confession of tie prisoner's guilt. Tie rule which the bar has prescribed to kelt in such cases is thus stated in an article in the Edinburgh Review, said to have been written by an eminent counsel, No. 79, March, 1824 : " Even in the very few instances where the accused has entrusted his defender with a full confession of his crime, we held it to be clear that he may still be law. fully defended." That the prisoner should be defended, law fully defended, we do nut deny ; we admit that it is certainly a useful rule that the bar, having a privilege of defending and accusing persons, should not be al lowed to refuse their services to any person who may please to retain them. Though a counsel may pro ecrly be bound to defend an accused person, it does not fellow that he is bound to defend in any way, to make an immoral defence—and still less does it foLow, that when hired for defence of the accused, that he is engaged to attack those who are not accused. We hive quoted the doctrine in its common, aide, and un restrained generality, to show that the rule of the bar is with Mr. Phillips. But we are assured that Mr. Phillips is really a man of refined perceptions, and, like Lord Brougham is private life, a man of kindly feel tag ; and probably being uneasy at the duty which the rule imposed upon him, it is stated that before he made his defence he privately communicated the fact of the confession to the judge, and obtain( d •his sanction to the doctrine that he must " tlo his beat" for the pri soner. With the knowledge of the fact of the pri soner's guilt, the counsel assailed one of the witnesses— Madame Piolans, the wife of the keeper of a foreign tavern in Leiceiter- square, after having, without any otl.er ground than that there was a billiard-table in the house, charged her with being the keeper of a gam bling-house.—(The writer here quotes the attack on Madame Piolans, and the " ruffians," " gang," " blood hounds," " miscreants" of the police, with the remark able peroration of Mr. Phillips). Whilst adverting to the rules of behaviour current amongst the class of gentlemen, we must remark that it is one rule to put a double restraint upon themselves where they are proteetel, as in the cases of clergy men and old men. Thew, who have been present in our common law courts, will ray whether the bar does not avail itself of its authoritative protection to cast off all restraints against all parties. To serve t'.e client by "all expedient means, to protect that client TA al hazards and costs to all others," or, according to the Noble and Learned Lord who vindicates the practice as a duty, to disregard the " alarm, the suffer ing, the torment, the destruction, he may bring upon any others, we have seen innocent and respectable females so confused, and assailed with such imperious gestures and condemnatory tones, on the assumptions (as groundless as the assumptions in the conspicuous case of Cow voi sier) that they had committed perjury, as would make any father or brother shudder at exposing daughter or sitter to, and in such a manner as the counsel using the " ex pedient means" neither coul.l nor would use under any circumstances in respectable private society. The most demoralizing effect produced by these exhibitions ap peers to us to be the treatment given to persons of the labouring classes, servants, or policemen. It good con duct is to be promoted in them, one means of doing so is surely to increase their estimation of the value of character ; one means of raising their moral perceptions is rather to assume that they are keenly alive to the pleasures and pains of self and social estitria'ion, than that they are dead to them. We have frequeet'y witnessed such treatment of witnesses as that displa)ed in the case of Courvoisier, but we never happened to witneis an attempt " to comfort" the shattered wit ness of that class. Though the depraved state of the bar permits the practice of such inflictions in pubic trials, it does not prevent the Judge from doing_ justiv, by en deavouring to soothe the irritation, and at the same time manifesting the feelings of a gentleman. Obtuseness of feeling, and sympathy with the prac tices of the bar from which they have been taken, are the chief reasons which suggest themselves for this otherwise unaccountable apathy of the bench on this subject. In more thart one instance the deportment of the Judge has afforded the example of habitual im- Feriousticss, and justifies the suggestion. In other cases, from what is well known of the character and superior practice of some of the Judges when ht the bar, there can be litt'e doubt that they have a suffi persons, yet they fail to do so. rine want ciently nice perception of the feelings of bona fide properly wit nesses to enable them, in the character of Judge, to common benevolence is ascribable to the of protect vary such pusillanimity of men of keen sensibility, whose infirmity, say, prevents them w fro h strong expressions, either in direct reproof of those whom they have daily in their pre sence, or in protecting from assaults those whom they may never see again. Lonse givingeo wardic paine i b v y e might The evil complained of is, it appears to us, impli cated in the rules that a prisoner shall he'protected against being " compelled" to criminate himself, and in the practice of the English courts, that the character of the prisoner's defence shall not affect the sentence. Ti.e practical rules of law which we should propose for the abatement of the evil, in addition to the real ex conflation of the accused, would bc to the following ef- feet : That no man, w hether the accused or his a g ent, shall be allowed to use ' alga accusations, or do that in Court for his defence whic h he would be p unishab!e for doin g out of Court, for any o ther purpose tha n f or hi s d e f ence . That the counsel shall not assume a witness to he un t rus t wor thy, or be allowed to treat him a s such , un less upon some fact s et forth in his brief, which shall be producib:e in Court. That the attorney sh all be responsible for the ex cl .. eise of reasonable ca re in the preparation of instrue tuisoends,inthtahtendoegfernocuen. It is said we aboun d in mercy, but we g ive. so muchdi es s or wilfully false imput a ti ons b e of it to the guilty that we have none to spare for the innocent. Criminal justice has been made to vacilllte en this country between two sets of blind presump might be tionF,—the ancient o ne, which presumed g uilt in all who were accused, a nd the modern one, which pre sumes tliPt.all who are a ccused are innocent, and whi ch , even after conviction , overlooks the party in j ured and mi t s r e e h a ie ti f s s e of acting the tendency of the .crime, and bestows unbound e d written in on illu t st h r e ati cr! illustration of the the A mischiefs on presumptions, when the facts of the particu lar case are developed and require none. Our 1 English practice, it appears to us, requires the 1( rtium quid of " not proven." The sympathies of the 1 Old Bailey bar are, we must say, on the same side with their lucre, and with all the inmates of the gaol ; with them, all policemen are what they were designated in Courvoisier's case, bloodhounds,—and witnesses, per secutors of the innocent. Entire innocence is always in peril in the dock, and has no other security than in the aid of counsel. When an extension of summary punish ments in the case of juvenile delinquents was lately proposed, the Old Bailey bar was in arms for the de fence of the right of Jury trials, and the legislature was scared from much needed and highly beneficial reform by their outcries of danger to the innocent. The very rule for which the English practitioners endeavour to maintain a superstitious ewe, the rule forbidding the interrogation of the accused in an st age of the procedure, either at what was originally intended to be Iris exam:nation, or at the trial,—that rule which shuts the mouth of the guilty for fear he may commit ell; also shuts the mouth of the innocent man who niay be accused, and prevents hire oiving the circum stantial explanations which he elane could give in answer to any questions put to him. An innocent person could really be in no more dangerous hands than in those of a practitioner of the class belonging to the criminal courts, who inveterately act on the latent presumption that their client is guilty, and cannot open his mote h without endasgering himself: In the doubtful case where an accused person would, by his explanations in answer to the interrogatories of a judicious Magistrate, obtain an early liberation, bov ine h's tongue tied by the English procedtue, being adrised, as he always is, by his attorney and counsel, when he has one, " not to disclose his defence," but " to reserve himself until his trial,"—he is committed and endures a long term of imprisonment, then an anxious trial, in itself a punishment, before he obtains his ac quittal. And here on the favourite legal ground for the exclusion of testimony, viz., interest, we might fairly challenge the competency of the practitioners of the criminal courts to give an opinion on the subject. If such a question were determined merely by dicta, we believe the disinterested practitioners of other courts would as , ient to the reform. An attoracy who resists the committal of his client for trial, or who favours such explanations as may have that effect at the first stage of the procedure, favours a course in which some five or ten guineas of costs are obtainable, in stead of a prolonged course of several hazardous stages, from which twenty, thirty, fifty, or a hun dred guineas of emolument are obtained, or more, according to . the means of the accused ; who, inde pendently of any question of guilt or innocence, may - always in this position be termed "a victim of the law." The substitution of a pure procedure for the present course in England, which gives to the ninety per cent. of clear and undoubted cases- of guilt, de fences on such false assumptions of persecuted inno cence, and of malice and dishonesty of witnesses, as were displayed in the defence of Courvoisier, would present to the imagination of the practitioner the appa rent loss of ninety per cent. of his business—we say ap parent, because the professional aid of avocats de prison would neverthi less be frequently required to submit ex tenuating circumstances. Summary convictions before the professional Magistrate would, it must be confessed, occasion a dire diminution of business and professional emoluments in the superior Courts ; and we might put it to the gentlemen who practise in them, whether they arc competent to judge calmly of anything which may so powerfully affect them. ,11_4 .1 COND EDITION. THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) FUNDS. Bank Stock .. India Stock 3 per Cent. Red — Ditto Bonds lB dis 3 per Cent Cons B7-1 ,1 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3:!-, per Cent Red.. — Ditto New Annuities... New 3,1 per Cent 933 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 12 pm New 5 per Cent • Ditto 500/ lO pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small lopm Jut. 1860 .. Bank Stock for 0pg....169 Oct. 1859 — India Stock for Acct.... 247 Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct BBi FOREIGN FUNDS. . BRITISH Austrian, 5 per cent 109 Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent look 'Ditto, New Ditto 3OL Brazilian 80nd5.......... , Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 221 Russian, 5 per cent llO Chilian, 6 per cent —i Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... 'Spanish, 5 per cent 23/ Ditto, 1824 . . ..... 221 Ditto, Deferred ... 12i Danish, 3 per cent....... !French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. !Exchange —f. —e. Mexican, 5 per cent. ... 27Z !French, 3 percent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 504 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 99 SHARES. Great Western Railway (65 paid) ...... B7 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6oi Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Gosport Junction Railway (40 pd) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) ... ...... 23 London and South Western ... 55 Ditto Tenths Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) 6B Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)... 24i York anti North Midland Railway (50 pd) 79 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. (From the Globe.) Lord Palmerston properly and distinctly stated last night, in reply to Sir It. Pee!, that " the intention of the allied Powers had been to offer Mehemet Ali a bonctlide hereditary pachalic, not subject to any trou blesome or unusual molestation whatsoever." And the conduct of Lord Ponsonby, as the representative of the British Governmeat at Constantinople, has been, so far as is known respecting it, in perfect keeping with the expressed intention of the Allied Powers. No " harsh or ungenerous terms"—no" troublesome or unusual mo lestations" have been attempted to be thrust upon the Pacha. From the vary first lie was expressly told, both by Commodore Napier and Captain Fanshawe, that the question of hereditary succession in the Pachalic was en tirely for the decision of the Sultan—that to him it would be conceded for life, subject to certain conditions. The only point on which the Allied Powers insisted was the evacuation of Syria by his troops ; which, if not im mediately acceded to, the expedition would proceed to Alexandria. Even the surrender of the Turkish fleet was a matter entirely be•wern Iviehemet and the Sultan. It iz true that it was intimated that the friendly offices of the Allied Courts would be employed with the Soften to induce him to confer upon Mehemet Ali the Pachalic as an hereditary possession, if the fleet were immediately surrendered. But it would he monstrous to suppose that the Allied Powers would interfere in the way of dictation and compulsion with an independent Sovereign, such as the Sultan is, and as such must be recognised by them, as to the way in which he shoull deal with a refractory and re bellious Viceroy, who bad rendered him,e:f formidable in his rebellion, and whose seizure and occupation of a province, part of the dominions of his Sovereign, had become perilous to the peace of Europe, and induced the European Powers, with the exception of France, to co-operate for his expulsion from a territory which he could not hold with safety to themselves. The ap provel of the Sultan is necessary to clothe the Pacha with the requisite power. Ile must proceed to Con stantinople to be so invested. (From the Standard.) We believe filet there is no second opinion in the country as to the unfairness of the terms which the Porte has imposed upon Mehemet Ati, and ell will be grat.fied to find that the subject has beea t deco up by Sir Robert Peel and Lord Francis Egerton. No matter what Mehemet Ali may be—and we be lieve it difficult to describe him worse than he is —but no matter what he may be, faith must be kept with him, and the British honour must not be tarnished even in a t•ansactiort with the worst of men. We say the British honour, because it is idle to speak of the Porte as any substantive agent in this affair. It was Great Britain and her Allies who deed the Pacha ; swept his troops from Syria, and sent back the Turkish fleet upon their conditions. Now one of th..se conditions notoriously was, that the heredita y Pachalic of Egypt should be secured to Mehemet and his family. Whether this particular condition was or was net reduced to writing, does not avail a feather. Good faith does not depend upon written characters—a promise is the same whether spoken merely or engrossed 'on parchment ; and there never was a doubt, nor is there now a doubt, of the pro mise of the hereditary Pachalic having been made by the Brit;sh negotiators. The promise is, in deed, admiVed, but it is attempted to evade the just performance by an arbitrary and most unrea sonable interpretation. The Porte claims to se lect in succes.ion the several members of the Paella's family, upon whom from time to time the office that Mehemet now holds shall be conferred. Why, this is turning an expected benefit into a real and a severe injury. The Porte will be always jealous of the Pacha of Egypt, and the proposed arrangement would give to the Porte the sure means of rasing up a rebel to parental authority in the family of the vassal whom it must ever regard with suspicion and hosti,ity. Let the Porte have the power to name the heir, and the sons and brother of the Paella will always be more desirous to stand well at Constantinople tl,an at Alexandria. . _ (From the Courier.) The recent narrow escape from a European war on the Turco-Egyptian question must necessarily reader the public mind peculiarly sensitive in respect of any apparent recurrence of difficulties in the way of its final adjustment. Indeed adjusted it was assumed to be so fully for some time past, and the Government in speeches from the throne and in Parliament, as well as in articles of the press in their confidence, had so largely taken credit for their own success and consummate address, that from time to time of late certain my4eriousindi cations of a hitch here, and a lurking obsta le there, have not been witnessed without some misgivings that something still remained bLhind t id but s ignificant of embarrassment. It was not, however, without sur prise 'that at length people were entirely .aroused from the state of fancied security by the appearance of the Sultan's hatti-eclieriff, which, professing to re gulate the terms on which Mehemet Ali is to hell the possession of Egypt himself; with the hereditary reversion of it for his family, subject to the dictation of the liege lard in the matter of the personality of the heir male to be promoted from that family, seems in reality to re open the whole Egyptian imbroglio at the precise moment when its complete settlement would 11,1:e been most seasonable, should have been most urgently labour. ed for, and was most anxiously anticipated. What the consequences may be with France armed and arming to the teeth, and with the United States in a position of quasi declared hostility, we need not now speculete upon. To our understanding the agreement of the Four Powers with Mehemet Ali, expressed and implied, was so explicit in sense as to require no supplementary explaaatron, arid to adar:t of no eleeratioe. By that agreerner t„ it was stipuLted in certain i!ipl neatie phraseology, and with a cer!ain rezervation in favor) - of the Sultan's right of eubscquent conformation more of farm than reality, that the here:litery possession of Egypt should be securei to the Peelle, subject, of course, to conforrn'ty in this Government with the ge neral laws of the Turkish empire ; such, for examp!e, as the commercial code and treaties premulgated some time ago. By lieredit try succession, ncehing cool lof course be understood but the common lease meaning of the term, as accepted iu ell countries, namely, that tl.e next heir, son or otherwise, in a direct line, should suc ceed on the demise of the actual authority, or, ac cording to Asiatic wage, that member of the family specially designated by the reigningpotentate or Paella, for in the present case the terms are elinost coever tiblr. By the Sultan's &man it appeare, however, that he elaime the absolute right of nomination and selection from among the offspring or heirs in the line expectant. And moreover the power of appointment of all superior officers of the Paella's land and sea forces, the amount of which is to be cut down to a given standard. These are strange disfigurations of the original covenant, to which it may be presumed the Four guaranteeing or mediating Powers with whom passed, will scarcely be I prepared to yield assent. CHATEAUBRIANI) AND MAR- SIIAL VICTOR. (From the Quotidienne.) M. de Chateauhriand has addressed to us a letter on the subject of the lamented (le tth of the Duke de Bellune. We hastentogiveit insertion. - Assuredly iii. de .- Clinteanbriances name is always welcome to the press, and in this instance we greet it with double avidity, for it is for the purpose of leader ing homage to one of tie most valiant warriors left to the empire by the monarchy as a model of honour and fidelity. Lc t us add that the appearance of M. de Chateau briand's name in the press is a signifiearit onion for us. The symment is propitious for bins to resume his po- Ltical pen, for murmurs are increasing on the side of power, and threats are secretly made against writers. We will tell him our opinion and that of the Ly on this subject. The following is his affecting letter : " Paris, March 3. " Sir—You have been kind enough to call into no tice, with too much eulogiurn, the work, the Congress of Verona.' It has no other merit than being a collec tion of authentic documents ; bnt, as it expresses my strong opinion against the unworthy Tie sties of Vienna, and as, at the period it appeared, when the authors of these Treaties were still in existence, it met with both the obstacles of power and of wounded vanity, it will remain at 1 ast as an irrefragable proof that a poet can tolerably well understand and conduct affairs. " You have republished, Sir, a letter from Marsha: Victor, inserted is: this Congress.' If the Duke ce Bellune been simply a veteran, twice wounded at the siege of Toulon—distinguished by the attacks of Saint Elme and Roses—victorious at Ancona, receiving a sword of honour for having contributed to the battle of Marengo ; wounded again at Jena—appointed a Mar. shah of France on the field of battle of Fried land—victorious at that defile of Pena-Perros, where the French army, struck with the beauty of the Guadal quivir, presentetharms to Andalousia, commanding the 9th corps in the campaign of Russia—covered with glory at the passage of Beresina, making 15,000 Austrian psi soners at Dresden—wounded again at the affair of Crone —there coal only be said of the Duke de Bellune, for all those warlike feats, what is said in praise of that France of the Empire, no personage of which will speedily remain. But, at the Restoration, another career orenel for this intrepid soldier. Ile continued to pursue the honourable tine of conduct which was so natural to him. I have seen him ranged, in the most unassuming manner, 011 the side of the exiled Louis XVIII., just as he . unostentatiously matelied in the midst of Bonap.ate's triumphs. lie varied no more in the second episode of his life than he did in the first: his care,ir was changed by the fortuity of event;, without change of mind. If he could not speak in praise of the Restoration, he never abandouel it. Minister with myself in the year 183'2, his disgrace preceded mine. It was at that ferial that tie wrote to me the letter which you have quoted. " When Bonaparte's star had been set, and he was lost in the immensity of the ocean, no mausoleum was better suited for the ruler of the world than the rock of St. Helena. Every flag saluted him in passing. Sepa rated from his historical scenes, Napoleon contemplated them in the midst of tempests : to him history was the St. Denis of winds and seas—to the Bourbons that of religion and peace. Restored to our shores from na tional feeling, but to the detriment of his glory, Bona parte has returned to pass a last review, and rally round him the few companions in aims who had survived him. " Faithful to France as she is and France as she was, Marshal Victor will repose, it is said, near the Emperor —under that dome which the great King has erected to our worn-out warriors. At this moment I should be incapable of dwelling further on a loss which the country will deplore as much as myself. Contrary to the cus tom of el 1 men, I shall not be garrulous as my life di minishes ; I wish to reconcile it with my words. " I have the honour to be, " CHATEAUBRIAND„" MARKET INTELLIGENCE COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Oats. Wheat. 6. to S. 54 67 55 66 5; 6i t 0 (;9 54 61 G 3 72 65 68 50 GA 68 7:! 51 73 6 64 60 - 70 - 64 Barley. Bean, s. in ~. 33 44 40 45 31 4S. :0 44 4) 50 40 42 40 53 43 53 46 LO 36 46 0 40 41 43 39 4( Per Qua. ter \ Abingdon .. Andover Banbury Basi gs toke Circnc-ster Coventry .tiaventry De' by llowden Filingerford Mahon . Mai- enhead Notti A;hain \Vantage Warwick Winchester Yor Per Bushel Bir►uingham g d. s. n 6 6 68 s. to s. 2t; 27 NI 27 2; 31 :Is 44 3) 36 3'2 37 35 :IS :13 38 3:; 1 48 31 40 31 - S. to S. 22 28 '2l 29 :0 22 29 2:: S 3 IN 34 25 3) 24 25 :33 22 33 t. 15 34 4 27 a; 32 29 58 d. s. d. s. d s. d. s. d. s. d. s. s. d, s. 7 0 8 6 3 6 4 0 4 0 431 5 4 7 0 EDINBURGH CORN MARKET. W neat. Barley. First 71k.1.1d 56: ftl. Second 6l 0 32 0 Third Average price of Wheat., PRICES OF PE, Beet, per irs. Us. fa to 0,81, Mutton 0 5 0 8 0 10 0 5 Lamy, per qr. 8 0 1 0 fallow, cwt....--40 0 42 0 2uarlcrir Loaf USi 0 9 I'otatoes.l4lb. ........ 0 4,1 0 0 EDINWIIOII Per Sack of 2Sifib. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 15 0 Barleymeal . I 8 0 Pease ix bal 1 0 Pot Barley from 3 0 . 0 10 II 3 - 0 7 \Vim t. 6. t:. to r. tl. t run) — 0 7 8 9 0 St. godmin — 0 8 9 6 7 6 —0 8 I Camvlcord 6 8 7 6 Penzance...... 6 6 7 4 CORNWALL MARKETS, (Calculated at ?,.1 gallons to the bushel, Barley. s tw s. (1. 0 3 —0 4 0 —0 3 6 —0 4 0 30 3 6 -0 3 3 3 6 4 4_ , 40 4 4 oats. t'ciLs,,.. 375. 4d. 484. Od. :0 0 4 n 24 4 4. 0 2 91, OVISIONS Freidi 13utter, b 0 to Is 3 iSalt Ii) 1 1 I)ittuaer mt,t....93 Il 112 0 Eggs, per doz. «0 0 0 ikttStraw 1 0 8 Wheat Ditto,,,, 7 0 9 0 Barley Ditto «« 0 0 I 0 1 Hay, 1 0 0 0 IIt:AL MAIIKEK l'er Stun.: ui I 1 Ib. Imp First Oatmeal ........ 2 0 Second ditto 13arleyrseal ....... 1 s, Peasemeal 0 1 8 103. to VS, per sk:k. Pear.. .43: On 44 f' 40 6 Oat>. I. 0. L 0 1, - 0 '2 —0 3 0 —0 2 5 6 :3 o 0 • 2 0 :3 0 24 2 8 2 4 '3 8 (From the London New Price Current of March 12 ) CJCOA.—The market is dull for West India, holders bought in Trinidad fair gray at 50s, mid and good mid red 525. to 5-Is per cwt : the few lots sold were however rather cheaper. Foreign has maintained its former currency. RloE.—There has been only a limited demand for Bengal , although the stock is by no means large, still some holde,s St e desirous to realize, and have submitted to a reduction onfoi:r_ rates of 3d to 6d per cwt ; privately sales of mid ta t i o i J a 4 been made at 12s lid to 12s 9tl, and good mid per cwt : none has been offered at auction. Ja va c i Iran existed : have produced previous rates, and a fair dern a ,liiia a fair buti the stock of Rice does not increase. n ri e v s a s ls ha o s ti b i e )a e d n d d y re at previous r y a:es! TALLow.—The market for ..u i t i sia e h l T e n r al e C i h in a l v v i e m b s e bee n e s s o e m n t e e ( 7 : given way 3d to 6d per dull aspect this vr fo e i k . , p an y d . cwt ;on the spot P. av l oiders have accepted 45s of fo t r his th ar e rd la fo st r t n h e re x e t 9d mon to th 4 46 ' 6l i s g enerally asked. South Moe. months of the year 3 g. p6sri;cefsorhadveeli vdermylitnoesdv_artdos 4 tl s te s e c ri d d ; ric T an his at .3ftesrtnooots .thT3owt r n an T 2 a a l e l t o i % o v n h s a s in b e e i n ,e t t a e k rs e b n u l r e g s h s fr y e e el ll y o . w Candle were on a small scale, and at 45s 9d there were sellers on the spot. pkgs East India sold at 37 s to 4 7s per cwt. Southern Oil prices have given way lOs to 20s per°AtittLiansu7ctiaF°tn°aruleSltion 150 tuns sold slowly at 251 15s to 29/ for Middling to fine quality. Cod Oil 261 5s a 26/ 10s, being a ( reduction on pre vious q uotations of lOs to 15s. S eal , pate of first quality not to b e obtained under 32/. Sperm, A mer i can, fair and good , at 91/ to 95/. Headmatter, American 9'l the value quality, it purchasers have Linseed Oil, on the sp ot, at 27s 6d to 28 s; for. Palm at 32/ 15s'ein .elv, 28s .' ' 6 • 3d to .cBs 6d per cwt. R a p e is firm in price. Cocoa Nut Oil ' on the w isdecllinfeo,r3Bgsood quality. ‘t•ayl.ue Forof h been only to a limited extent ; Spanish 641 10s, and Gallipoli 68 1 to 681 103 per tun. t is held for 641 to This afternoon at auction 50 cases P alm buyers at 29/ to 311 lOs per tun for only partly fotnd ordinary quality. MOLASSES.—The trilling purchases made in West India 2 have been at rather lower rates, 8s is the lowest, and 36a is the highest point of the market, Porto Rico car, be purchased , at 12* per cwt. EVENING EDITION. IMPERIAL PARMA VI ENT . ROUSE OF COMMONS, 11.1.Leczr 12. On the motion of Sir BRUCE CHICHESTER the Chard Canal Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. WAK LEY presented a petition from the medical practitioners of St. Colon - ib, Cornwall, praying for the union of the medical body in Great Britain and Ireland into one faculty, and generally for Medical Reform. He also presented petitions againA tte new Poor-law Bill from Leicester, Brampton, and other places.. Some of these petitions were, he said, piiiited, and he wished to know whether it was a rule of the House that they could net be received ? The SPEAKER said that it Wai a rule-of the Howe not to rcceive any l;e,i•iou which was either printed Tar lithographed.___ M. S. O'BRIEN presented ev eral petitions from places is Ireland agnin't the BM for giving the- Govern tt.e:tt cow r,l railways; also fevetal p_titions from thsvenE . a i;.3 in i e'a.:d, pra; iag that medical charities in . g - ht not be put tn.oec contiol of the Poor-law Core vuts.ol;e::. P',:iNTED PETITION. (Cctitinucd hum cur S cond itf last N ght.) Sir R. PEEL st.i I tt.at the qui stion was realty one cf great importance—( Hear, I etr)—a calculated l to give rise to serious eJ,:siderittion. lc was und.r3teod thet a 3 or.Lagerkleat had la,::en entered ieto Hi h Nlehemet cohfcrrii - g on him the hereditary P4chalie of '['he Finnan to which the Noble Lcrd rtforr.d coi.firmed that cngsgcmcn . , hut the Porte re:erved to itself the povie: of determining which of the sons of the Pacha should succeed hirn. Was that, he would ask, a provision in conformity with the conditions of th 2 quadruple treaty ? —(Hear, hear.) llc wishei to know whether th• Four Powers weir I:arlies to iL? Lord PALMERSTON said, that La had answered the question as it had been put to him.—(Laughter.) He had been asked by the Right lion. Baronet, whether the Four Powers had or had not, approved of that pro. vision of the Firmia which reserved to the Sultan the r . .i.t of selecting which of Mebernet's descendants was to sues cod Lim in the P,chalic. Now h 4 was sure it would be seen that it was impssible for him to say wh,t the Four Powers might or might not think upon that .particular rim. lie underaJod that tiro Paella had on the 23d of February last seat a remonstrance against that stipulation. But wha the Sultan rh;ght reply to that— whether he might modify the protision, or wlether he might think it expedient in the first instance to ask the advice of the Alli a, it was impssible for him to asiurne beforehand. The intcution t f the Four P.ssvt e s undoubt«l4 war, ti ie. should gra,t a bona fide hereditary succession to the.ee;cvadants of IVlebenn-t Ali -(Heir, heir)—in as -nearly a diiact Tire as' tire interests L!' both parties %could admit:They had ucvar intended that the grant should dcrog..to from the rights of the Sul , an, tf•at it should create ,a separate and it:Ce ; )cudent sovete:guity, but the clear :mein- lug • rt:ld iptAni)n of tbe ATe3 um.letionably'• was that tie grant thould at the to - ae time be a bonif fido Cor to MActutt and his deteendanlp. It aimer toast Hop. Member, Lind PA LMERSION said that what the prtel:e communie,Cons were betsteon the Purer tnd the Four Powers preciously to the iatttng of th e fi: man, he to eAlld not take upon himself to at pres.itt. POOR. LAWS (IRELAND). _ _ _ . _ Mr. DAWSON DA Al It' begg• d to esk tl:e..Nol is - Lord, the Se.trctury tor Ireland, what was the result of tic e‘nntrit.mii a inis tio.t bad taken place betw( eit the Guaid ans of the Pear of Mountsnillit k Union and the Pocr-law Commission( r.;, r(l.iiiie to the site cf a union workhouse and utLer matters. He had also a quasi :in to ask !dative to a letter purporting to c ime from Mr. M`Dqutic.,ll, the Nob:e Lord's i:.nd which aiipe ired in the public papers. It would a; lo at thl.t Dr. Janl, , , a ge,itli:rnati (f great °mi. net ce is his pr( in, had hoes apv,itttcd a guardian of she j7o7;r fir that union, and lid made himself eel dis agtecable to the Pool-law Commissioners. The later of Mr. M•Donnell was to t' c ( - Efe,:t, that if Dr. Jacob was again c'tosen a poor-law gulrdi.in, his Exceil.eJey the Lard Licutiliatit would I cl it rtitt to appoint another mcLietl atti.miant to the /1 , 4 low. Nw if that letter were authentic, lc eioug• t it was an atki , rar) assump lien of power on tin part of the Pot r-law Cornmi,sisF.(rs. Lurl MO said rie shire esx,:s be.Licen the I3oarJ cf Giptidians . and the Cormi.sionars were el-i.fly with tefcrenee t) a rate fur Cie workhouse, aid Le had uo cbjection to lay them on the table of tie House. With respect to the letter of Mr. Al‘Dorinell, to %% hid, t he ILr. Men ter nferrod, he believed. that it was correct. Ia answer to a que,tion fret Lord S A NDON, which was inaudible, Lord PALMERSTON said the repte3entativ.'s of the Four Powers had hcea continually in c.Anniunica'iin with the Porte. If l e were Lsked w i.e•lar the hatti scl!eriff, in ti:e stave in which it was i,snei, was communieLted to our Atr.l.a3zador, he wally was nut Lble to answer the qucst;or.. Air. E'\VART asked wh. ther it was understood the Pa- Ce.;e:!nLltererlitaril ) tl e f u.ily of.Alchetnet Ali wTiout the iLte:vention of ti Lr-rd PALNIERSTON said ti..e acci.e g't•ea'by the Four Pot, ers d.d not go tut t:etaik tile•idvica g.ven whs that the Sultan should grant bercilit.ry sjon to e of Multerifet Al;, but that (.aell succeed- rectivo, inrestitute fennt the foVer glt lif the Sultren, and Let a Ua.o i as an independent so- Lord SAN DON if th's was known efore the hani ttcherlif ma* arid wh(t;iitr it was made the subject Cl' Fenno:, ? Lord PALMERSTON said he teas not a• ate that any reinonstr4nee Lad been node on the lulject, but he must really put it to the [louse whether he should be called upon to. give xp'a uti l ns t t Ilon. Gentlemen opposite as to acts and discussions eadint—( Hear ; liNirj—on which no offi ci :1 communication had been recei.ed.—( Hear, bear.) Mc far be would say ; he believed there was a migunder st.nditag on the subject, and he thought the intention of the haul tcherlf was to preserve to the Sultan that acve reign right which must belonf , to hire, and that it was not intended to evade the bona fide arrangement that had been inade. Lord JOHN RUSSELL begged to a,l; the Hon. and Le:stied Gentleman opposite whe•her•he intended to pro ceed with his Bill for the abolition ti the punishment of death on Wednesday. He hoped it might suit his convo ni. nee to postpr ne it till another day. Mr. KELLY was glad to have the opportunity of state ing to the House that it nes not his intcn ion to go into Committee on his Bill until aftc r Easter. He took that course decause of the several [tills which had Leen intro duced on the same subject. lie trusted that by that time ail those Bills would be in the hands of Members and all fairly lef.)re the House. As cminected with the same subject, he had communicated w th the Under-Secretary of Stat reiecting some returns relating to the Criminal Law, and there ivi , s no opposition to them. Perhaps the House would then ali;liv him to move f( r them under such cireuntstanem He then inevei f.,r a r(turn of the number of I ersons who had been eaiitally iarlicteC, convicted, and executed in the years 1837, 1838, 1839, and 1540.—0 - dercd. Ia ano7er to 1 qu,s,i;nl from Sir G. CLERK, Lo, d 3. RUSSELL said he v.•c,uhl ue tidy not pro po:e to go on with the. Ree.i•ttz:fon (Scotland) Bill on Monday, if the lat_ , ,iness hef,re it occ c u . i i ,ted raisn tl ga te pi l l h ii , e )n d se ev u e n n til to a late hour. Ile begged to state that the re;- ha Is, uld li,,ve to propose on Munday i , i Conunitte. would be in stasta cc to autlio,iie her Nlaj,!.ti to grant a loan from the Cum()Hated Fund to the amount of 210,0001. to the Commissioners of Sou.h Austraii to be repaid et cer tain p..riods. Lord SANDON sad it was undeistuod that Sir P. Smith bad tepo,t d upon the lest line of railway to Scot lam!. lie Legg ,d to rsk if that was the case, and if so, was it such ts it would be deniable to put the Hous (F, e f. i a n se p iol o ,ini s .l2 - . session of ? Mr. LABOUC II E R E la iJ,lglie(t)ini,ceaodi7tseic)qt:ai.ieensdeietr tails he yesterda y,n° \ t ould b 2 ou fae table cf the r ti n iic u a i n t) u i n e i, a tu : r i ; i r i i ,,,,,g i he:e bute I,tyee tits tosryt i ti saeilif House en Monday or Tuesdav t . ythati cn. S i; i . r en i t ?.. en P y l i ': a lL er3 su , g ht g m e id te b d e dertakirigs. Last year one Company they ssea :t A let l r ßs . syii : L I oltseu A il rtd ß ib O retioxb U ui asal C tileid H aot 1:1E141 theZ,E douse. _ p r l e , t citrlti lo S atyn,l i f)co r yi.d: F ahit . ll) di c,a S imis n pe i rettliti ww o i r ialoty o it t iu b era e ge. r e. thalo 70,000/., all 0; which nal been absoluttl I thrown away. tl:ey, should deal out equal justice WEST INDIA AND NORTH AMOUICAN COLO NIES. Du.. tics ,f It West India.n and Noah America colonies. n e noie r tf i c t 6 into s. 11 C y o m 11) ittee` . on the' Custom Mr. LABOUCHERE said he rose, in pursuance of the notice which Lc had given to call the at cation of be House to that system of duties whi el i tors cst a b i Ii e d by if t tr h ve e a t .au Althoughle c s to t r i e l : r t e r i n y utn p t f olh o te e e t t t h h i a u c euK n bc J.l.:mloeto entcr conti let ably into detail, f lions - P the cT: i The le dominions 'rli house a ra g v t 'e g , s_ stem, it y n twi c i : c ot s ; gnc t ' h -oh e nt b ' -'ol ' e'fsi ' e:i ni vi natureue: sgbits t c ytol li l a " : i rtte rn .i et: e lCh C ie l P:' uej°: t oe'n I : tsft e ai m'a*tn. er i l : :' I t c i e , rt i g l d eßeoS c Pl . U Ya l t e Sti-ti. g rat t .tl i t. C lYa. t :n n se c :i e tli o (tov e ' l ifenears n y t Pto t ii ' ' °sl t t ailt i pe h 'st ril a mc c to )a itap , nh 3 neg ,. :- dr greati Itirtbile4biraglaeit---.L e t y r e a ec t d ; t e irt. of ou r colonies; dome co He: wo uld not detain the House by exclusively to the mother country. That system - Ireland, which was considered a d wflecartifnsotcheuigtnoht into the ht t oi h s e toifonbrimeaceotr.t the er By Britain, and prolaited from having • oPeneency of Great own to any of the British colonies , at,y direct trace of her was maintained in all its rigour , and that an&ent system of the American war, it became until 1780. At the close the rising spit it of discor.tert necessary for us to look at Ire land, and which wai notoriou sly i which then existed in illiberal and unjust policy h extremely fomented by the her. Then it wa : w h ich this country pursued to wardsthat the first relaxation in the system took place ; and Ireland, though she was nut at fi rst on the same footir . g as England and Scotland, w as duce to the c ') y e t "lel. allowed to e x port her own pre produces' and to rcceive in ram the co lonialinto Ireland. The .next great change that took l p ace was in tl e y ear 1t502 ' w hen the, present . Robinson, Lord Rip on , t h en Mr. - ' who fit .c 4 :t l ie office o f President o f t h e B oard o f T ra d e , introduced some im portant measures with respect to our colonial trade. By thole measures many of the prthibitory duties , imposed upon all articles not of British growth and manufacture underwent alteta ion. M many of the duties existing at that'time still remained, h e was anxious to show what were the views vs/ ich Mr. Robinson then entertained, and what' was his intention in proposing the scale of duties which now existed. Mr. Rblinson, after alluding to the probable effects of the iropoted measure, said, that that p t-c•ti on ccold in no other wa y be afforded them i n that , • 0 instarce than b y im p osie g a roodtrate duty on the importa tion int, the West lueies of such art'4 to es.as were equally production 4 i the of L. i Orcountries. The duty should moder:tely &ciliated as not to d, ilri • ve the people of -Vic Uni ed States of a 1 buil) y, or increase the price to to the consumer. Those were , - [ Air. Robinson e hiseeared principles on which measure was founded when he John uned Fcr• » a~y idav) th e resfel opt, laian 'eu - 'orsei St. e go ; I:bcr , mith• ustiegi ersi . tl th e xy of Y t" mod 'C, is Ut tbe g Y• c it , i q t r °I 1 this Mel'. I tli rdk ju Pi s " a ai l lob ill, in the ritlip' (Yet i" b' ell L;iisOP ;• 0.31)1P - P1 t 1 fo r 0- ' ion of r :duce(' tio c of s oo j • sta. DO f. C I ) 0,01 ffe r,e 4-1 ) ,r f. o ur to -t oo' 0 No .bleA 1- ,cc J od a l cuing' irso, so°