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<.~,, ~. Ann Kenny, Staten 1-Itvid. ()rf purr, Creain'i:•.., P r n I nviuc,,; Quefn C. I' e 2.tieri.pydiot hwq7 t her Mj , s'y:'s ship Tweed. daril g a gz.le. at liu,nos Ayres, previous to 7ch . Octoher, and lust bulwarks, :stanchions, and split covering board; the latter l' , st bo‘ssprit. WHITSTABLE, DEC. 7.—A large ship is reported to be on the Par Sand. WEXFORD. DEc 6.—The Gaz•lle Dvcrpool Dame r,r4 to tvotho:oon, ,uok , afttr striking on l3heit.wa.er Bank, and be a wreck. Cargo expeted to he , avers. YARMOUTH, DEC. 6.—The William and Isabella, Suuderkud for Lonriun, struck on Scrt , by Sand ester• day ; came off leaky. but will proceed wiih PALPERRO, CORNWALL, DEC. 7.—The Shepherdess, Penang for London, hus come on shore near here, dis aWd by severe weather. Crew have all mustered ex• Copt three men, who are supp , .sed to be safe. Mit.F.Jztn,DEc 6. roe Wdliitai and Jane, Liverpool to Havre, is ou the rocks if Ilubl - ierstore Point, hut lies well; will lighten to get tiff. It is blowing strong at S. W„ wi h heavy squalls. BELFAST, DEC. 6 —The Ranger, on shore at Car rickter,zus, has been got tiff and tow, d here to repair. MUMBLES, DEC. s.—The C.:mbiia, of Bridgewater, and the Hope and Mary, of Swansea, drove from that. anchors and we nt on shore. Tho former is striking heavily, is leaky and will be beneaped. The Hope has received considerable damage. SHIELDS. DEc. 5.—A ship's long - boat, maritcd " Tho etas Dix.)ll" on the stern, with salmon-coloured bottom and yellow streaks on for side, was passed outside the bar yesterday. LEITH, DEC. G.—A boat, marked " William and E ir , beth," of London, Samuel Baker, was picked up on the Ist inst. off the Dudgeon. HOLYHEAD, DEc. 7.—Wind S.E. strong.—Arrived Adelle, Friend, - Prince Edward's Nand. LIMERICK, 'DEC. 6.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed Robert, Shoti,lii, New York; Standard, Nova Scotia. 'TULL, DEC. 7.—Wicd S.S.E.—Arrd. Queen, Claik Quebec; Wolf's Cove, Quebec. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN. Inward supplies of Vegetables were on sale to-day. The demand for them ruled heavy, at cur quotations. In Fruit very little was doing. English Fruits— Pine Apples, 4s to 6s ; Muscat of Alexandria Grapes, As to 5s 61; Black lamhurgh Grapes, 23 Gd to 3s per lb; Pears, 55 to 106 ; Eating Apples, 2s 6d to 3s 6 d per half-sieve ; Apples for cooking, 2s to 3s 6d Eer bushel; Filberts, 60s to 653 per 100165. Foreign 'recta —Black Haruburgh Grapes, 63 to 93; White ~( 1„ ,i1 . 1 0, 6d to 83 per lb ; Spanish Nuts, 4s to 6.; sv alnuts, 3s to 6s ; Brazil Nuts, 3s to 4s per peck; Oranges, 3a to lOs ; Lemons, to 8s per 100. Vege tables —Cape Brocoli, 3s to 6s per dozen bunches ; C auliflowers, 2s t.) 4s per dozen; Turnips, 93 to ls; Carrots, 2 s 6d to 4 s; G reens , i s t o is 6d p er d ozen bunch es ; Onions. 2s 6d to 3s 61 per bushel ; ditto for pi c kli ng, 23 to .23 6d per half-sieve; Horse-radish, is 6.1 to 3s • and Celery, is to Is 31 per bundle; Leeks, 81 to ls; ' Parsley, 9d to Is per dozen bunches; White Clibbages, Gd to 83 ; Savoy ditto, 6d to 8d; Red d itto, is 3d to is 91 per dozen; Brussels Sprouts, is Is 61 per h a lf -s i eve; E nd i ve, is to 15 3d per score ; i t i t 6 Beet, is to is 61 ; P arsn ip s , 4d to 8d p er 0 9 z e d n ; Tomatoes, 5s to 6 3 per half-si e ve ; Mu s hr o o ms , °•1 to 14 per pottle; Spinach, Is 31 to Is 6d per half sieve' Small Sal a d, 2s to 2 s 63 p er d ozen p un n e t s; age, is to Is 61 per clozm bunches; Curn Salad, is d to i s 6 d per half s i eve; Shallots, 2id to 3d per lb; P otatoes, 80s to 1203 per ton; ditto, 2s 6d to Se 63 Per bushel; Sea Kail, 2s 63 to 3s per punnet. NE WGATZ AND LZIADENIIALL. P OULTRY. --Turkeys, 35 Od to 7s 6d; Geese, 4s 63 to 64 ; Ducks, Is 6d to 2s 61 ; Tame Rabbits, i s 01 to is 8d; Wild ditto, 6:1 to lld ; Pigeons, 5.1 091 Roasting Pigs, 4s 31 to 7s 03 each ; Surrey Fowls, 61 Od to 9s Od ; ditto Chickens, 3s 63 Fr 6 s 0.1 ; Bsrndoor Fowls, 2s Sd to 5s 61 per couple ; esh Butter, Os to 134 per dozen lb ; English Eggs, 1 . 3 3 to lO s 01 ; an d F rench di tto, 7s 03 to 8s O d per i °o ; PneaSants, 2s 63 to 3s 6'l ; Partridges, is 31 to 3 81 ; Hares, 2c 03 t o 3 s Od ; Leverets, 23 03 to 3 t ; Woodcocks, 2s 3d to 2 3 91 , G rouse , 1 4 93 116 6 3; Ptarmigans, is 0.1 to is 93 ; Snip e s, 91 to I s `'; Teal, 6 Ito ls; Wild Ducks, Is Gd to 2s 3d; Wid• Pons, 93 to is 61; and Plovers, 6.i to is 03 each. NEWPORT. v Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2 s 101 t o 3 s 103 ; e al, 3s 2d to 3 s 10d ; an d P or k , . 3s O d to 4s 2d per Blbs. WHITECIULPEIL. Beef, from 28 4d to 3s 4d ; Mutt on , 2 s 61 t o 3 s 8d ; Veal, 33 2d to 3s 10d; and Pork, 28 8d to 4s Od Per albs. IGATII. Salmon, lld to ml L L Is 3dp e e rs b ; Turbots, 4s to 12s; Brills, 25 6d to Ss; Cod Fish, 3s 61 to 7s 6d; Whitings, 4 d to 10(1; Lobsters, 10d to 25; Crabs, 4d to Is 9d each; Soles, 6d to Is 101 per pair; Eels, 4d to is per lb.; Large liaddocks, 9cl to Is ; small ditto, 5d to 7d each; Crimped Skate. 7d to 9d; and Prawns, 23 to 2s 6d per lb; Shrimps, Is 31 to 2s 6 1 per gallon ; Bloaters, is 3d to Is 6d per dozen; Common Oysters, 103 to 15s; Scotch Peurls, 16s to 203 ; and Best Natives, 42s to 60s per bushel; Flounders, 9d to is per dozen. Elm Are. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are trOin 6id to 7d; of household ditto, 5d to 6d per 4lbs loaf. SIDE MARICET. BMarket hides, 561 b to 641 b, led to lid; ditto, 641 b to 2 113 , 2d to 21 1 ; ditt o , 72ib to 80 1 b, 2 1d to 2id; ditto, S l b to 88113, 3d to 31d; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 31-d to 3FI; eib to 1041 b, 3frd to 4d; 104:b to 1121 b, 4d to 4id. Calf light 25 Od to 38; ditto full 5s Gd :o Gs; Horn Hides, °re , to 7, 61; Polled Sheep, 4s dto Gs 3d; Hun Half- ds 33 6,1 to 4s 6d; Dawns , 23 2 1 to 3s 6dts and . SAY XVIANJMETS. sMITUFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 31103; Clover 1 Itto, 04 to 41 10S; and Str aw , 112 s t o 11 9 s p er 04 ,,,d• A moderate supply, an d a s l ugg i s h dem a nd. ditto 31 ‘-'IIZ4BERLA.ND.—Meadow Hay, 218 3 to 31 128; Clover I , Os to 41 7s; and Straw, 11 2s to 1/ 9s per , 4 ' Supply tol e r a bly goo d, an d t ra d e d u ll. ni lI ITXCRAPEL. Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 3/ 103; rover, ditto, 3/ Os 103; and Straw, 11 23 to 11 8s per ° W. Trade dull, at barely late rates. LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHANCERY. —(THIS DAY.) Lord Chan c ell o r s a t i n hi s cour t i n th e Old H a ll, ln's Inn, and heard appeals to-day. TILE ATTORNEY GENERAL e a THE CORPORATION 07 LOND ON—PRoPERTY IN THE SOIL AND BED oF THE ~ - " / ER THAMES. th 44 case came before his Lordship upon appeal from ,:evs,ituedrgent of the Master of the Rolls, overruling m at-11'4°4 taken by ,the Corporation of London to the d to Ines report,. finding that the defendants were bound th 'Ke a discovery of their alleged title to the banks . s ° river Thames, and ordering an inspection of their ;tillers and papers. The information was filed in the 4 11 ! . 1844 by her Majesty's then Attorney-General L": l 'est the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of es - 41 °e, the town clerk, and William Cubitt, Sir Tho -43 Turton, J. 0. Hanson, W. G. Prescott, Sir tOirteeay Boyle, J. P. Reich, and J. Cornelius Park, of;,' 4B t , seven as lessees of portions of the soil and bed t er Thames, und,r lease. 4 granted by the Corporation eith keendon, whereupon they had erected wharfs and attrchMents, which were stated to be common 14,1 4 °es and obstructions to the navigation of her fiv e „ , subjects, and to the low of the p r t „ - ,," The information stated that by the royal of - t ' h ° Rative the ground and soil of the coasts and shores kicre seas, creeks, and navigable rivers in the kingdom, et, bo ut it, belonged of right to the Crown; that the i er lr . i . l the King's highway for all subjects; that by pre th,Puon or some grant the corporation had ' exercised a u (I kea bailiff or conservator, whose duty it was to ki s' to the navigation aid prevent obstructions or nui thbatce.s in the river, and to regulate the fishing thereof ; o r; tne corporation thereby acquired no right, or estate, th e ' llt erest in the ground and soil of the bed or shores of o e ,",„river between high and low water mark ; that the sal i ) , r tition had, notwithstanding, of late claimed, in . - "n to the exercise of the right of bailiff, or con lirvator t b seized or entitled to the freehold of the to.. o seiz " 41 , bed, and soil of the river and of the . shores . be eoneeil high and low water mark, within the limits of the eet - ,, 4er ,,rancy of the Thames, assumed the exercise of p r ; ° L Ownership over it, and had made grants of it to th„ -°ll3 having land or wharfs on the banks adjacent ts, e °e, to embank it, and build on such soil and bed of placeiver bet ween hi g h an d l ow water mar k , at different r snd s on the river—namely, at the Isle of Dogs, at Dur tl47'4 Wharf, Rotherhithe, and at Battersea Marsh ; th e ' °l4hankments and buildings were, in consequence of ktise leases, built or building, which would be a common it e f:lce and prevent the free flow of the river. The etl;„, - T a tt7b charged the corporation with having re titl a considerable sum of money in the way of fines e e rents'w from such lessees; but refused to give the tende r account thereof; and the lessees set up a pre- Th e e " ; claim of right to execute such embankments. leti `afernsation further charged that no charter or ta e e o , 4 Pitent by any of her Majesty's predecessors, hoe Or Queens, had con:eined any grant of the soil or D erit ° ! sgores of the Thames, and charged that the cor whntl°o ought to discover and set forth under and by ie charter or letters patent they claimed such freehold tle tt i . : 3 , Bo ll or bed of the river. The Attorney-General by ti,'" tiO Y immemorial right in this respect as alleged f ee) , e , c erporation, or that the corporation possessed the Of h ' i ' s Q'd Under a charter of Henry IV., in the 23d year th at t° ige, which had no force to pass such freehold; em such charter had been also revoked or annulled; of the i nformation alio charged that no sufficient acts evid en ri •rehip by the corporation could be shown to th e c „ ,?e immemorial usage of the right claimed by tlte et - ` l3 ` ) ratien—th a t the corporation had no right to thus t°°. ° FeePt money as floes or rents for . permission . that t It was also asserted by the information, Poore l : l 7 e v e e rr ; a d t e e r n e:d le a a n s t e s s, had is their custody, possession, or he accounts, deeds, instruments, charters, maps, plans, and papers, by which tap e , r . itt h ef the several matters would, if produced, wi th :, that the town clerk was cognizant of them, and h ue "nt their production the Attorney-General could not m ade she ll ry on oath, and that therefore he had Gen eral ne town clerk a party t the suit. The Attorney of th e , Prayed that the rights of the Crown and those that i.„`-porntion might be ascertained and declared; ) )3 , 13,711115113 Cubitt and the other lessees be restrained fr eea erttPetuil injuction in respect to works in progress Should rrYing ithem on, and that embankments formed endo.aee restored to tie it fertile'. and ancient condition, tlse canes account should be taken by this Court of gr sn . ti ": rests, expenses, and profits arising frem mayor and such licences to embank, received by the t o tid eorporatien, and the amount be decreed to , c : B P . id to her Majesty, after deducting all just allow estebe an d the right the fr. ehold be decreed and th " li ed in and to her Majesty. To this information 4 4 - edtite°r_Pyration of London put in a demurrer to part, a" answer to the residue, in which they denied_that . •••• I.to- to ~ to —• ~ to . to .. to . to . to -- . to -- . to k to 112 .. to ~ to .... to ~ to —, » to to to to • to ~ to . to . to . to 4 . to . to -.. . to ...... . to to . to -. . to •••• .to-:. ▪ to . tO .to— to 16 . to -- . to . to . to . to -- . to • to . to . tO • tO to • tO ••••• • to • to .... • to ..... • to - • to A • to •••••• • to ''''' • to .... • tO "...• • to ... • to - TO .... . LO ..... . to ..... . te ....., . tO --. . to . to -- . to ...... . to --. • to to I to to tO - - LO . tO .to- to , to ..-. to „, to tO•-•• tO , to to to to la. PO ~ 2 4 6b 40% Dv/ It an/ its £.3 IT . 7 0 O 0 g 0 O 4 4 OP iz ht breeze CitY 4 Ilos. Ac 0)13 ' KJ M P ' ca. ,id, ,ArqUO ;, end ; 96. I te Or e u ; er loc i a quo incesol7' aDd b ° sea bioulv lofanto' Id. se°' . , 11 1 ;g of brig , A ter • c S. S- r : J co' V; righ t : ndur ' leroiP e * ; pido• Metall I n LoNnoN, SATITIIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER, INA the thA•a , ,lita, z..; sere or would be nuisances or inter- i SAViii= , !GS' BANK :3. fly , !Pi , ii ,v. of tie tide fir the navigation; and in th:ir ! The late Pariiimentary inveqigntion on. Le prac (l( niurr:r for eau , e of dewurrer sti.:i'd tots the. Crown tical working of savings' [allies . has elicited some hat tot stated stn:ft a case as entitled the Clown to any i strikng facts ac:ative to these institutions, whit relief in a c.iurt of t (pity, or to any discovery. The i deserve the serious con s id era ti on o f G overnmen t. corporation rested their detence of t 11,7 erections on the ~t appears from th e evidence t a k en b e f ore th e Com op:ni.:ins of harbJur-masters, water-bailiff i i, and Captain mittee that the lo sses sus t a i ne d d ur i ng t h e prev i ous Bullock, hydrographer to the Admiralty, under whose i:.speeCon and approvil they had been constructed, year by the sale of stock at a reduced price, compared alle ;4 int ti:a.i. they unproved, Cr won!el haprove the natl.. with the rate of pitreb:zsr, amounted to 270,0001, and gain ~! the river; denying also that the cJrpor:in,n that had the entire of the deposits been with:lrawn— all, girl ta- pretend, d th e y h a d a l i g ht to erect or create, a contingency which might happen—the quantity of or gte e licence to erect. or create, a c .1a111 , 41 nuisat:ce , on Consols forc,d on the mit ket would have lowered the the ThAir...s, to the injury of the suljects using it as a quotations, and the deficit exceed four millions—a hi g hw a y. On the 4th June, 1845, aster firgum:-nt, the liability which the State was pledged to discharge, as Master of the Ras held the demurrer to b;-, insufficient, ~• a were - d obligation, to the poor. and it was overruled. Against that decision the corpo ration appealed, aid the House of L or d s a fli acn •d th indispensable. referred in this vise- ions system is, therefore, e . de eisoa of ttie Master o• the R o ll s . Th e su bj ect was i referred to the Mater to report v. hat answers were to Ile separation of savings' bank affairs from the i - e given as to the claim set up by the corporation, which Treasury has long been advocated on Folitical as well the inforolaiion by the At , :orney General sou,;ht to set as flail %cid groun is. According; to the published ~side. The Master in consequence investig a ted the returns upwards o f t wen ty- e i g ht millions are in subject and drew up his repot t, in which he stated the scribed in their name with the Commissioners of the defendants were bound to mako discovery of their Sinking Fund, and it is fairly objected that so large alleged title. and ordered inspection of the charters and a sum of a tangible nature, and capable of being pap,rs. Exceptions were taken to that report diverted from its orLinat destination, should be coin by the Cot pora ion of Lorick-n, and upon those excel:- 'flitted to the undefined guardianship of the Exchequer, tions being acgued, the Master of the Rails, after taking .. winch may involve the Minister in trouble and em time to consider his jud g up nt, ord, , red them to be over- ~, ruled, and from that decision the Curporadon appealed i_%irraisinent at a season of . difficult catty and distress. 1 he example just exhibited in I ranee, under similar t 9 this brunch of the court. circumstances, teaches an instructive lesson, and indicates the remedy to he applied. Nor is this the only point in which an amendment is le quired. The failure of several district banks in meeting their eegagenients, and the abuses that have crept into others, has entailed painful sacrifices on the cre diture, followed with the usual consequences of distrust in the stability of these insti'utions. In order to prevent the recurrence of such evils, by supplying safeguards fur the future, and to rectify such glaring defects, e. scheme is suggested for the constitution of imperial savings banks, on a sure and solid foundation, organized with modifications for a more extended sphere of usefulness. The provisions embrace four departments, with distinct offices, consisting of one for deposits on Government guarantee; the second for deposits to be lent out on mortgages secured on landed property ; the third for the negotiation of loa s, and the discount ef promissory notes, and the last f. r conceding provident annuities. The whole to be self supporting, without any cost to the empire. The leading articles of the project are comprised and embodied in the following resolutions :- 1. That imperial Saving's Banks be established, and a board of Commissioners appointed by the Crown for their direction, control, and administration. 2. That the assets of all existing savings' banks be transferred to the Commissioners in trust, and that the selection of managers, secretaries, clerks, and other officers, be confided to their discretion, as well as the regulation of salaries, and the stipulations of bail. The Attorney and Solicitor-General in each Kingdom to be the standing counsel. 3. That from and after the day of 1850, and on the first Monday of every subsequent month, the Treasury shall be empowered to grant to the Commissioners, imperial savings' bank debentures, specially appropriated for that purpose, and marked " Unalienable ; equal in value to a similar amount of money or stock, received in lieu thereof, and bearing a fixed interest at the rate of 31. 6s. 81. a year, and payable on the expiration of twelve months, with the option of renewal, for which notice must be given. 4. That the Commissioners be authorised to issue in return for deposits imperial debentures for sums not less than 11, or more than 201., entitled to in terest at the rate of 7d. per pound a year, and re deemable in twelve months in case the principal is not demanded, the interest paid to be stamped oil the back of the debenture. 5. That deposits may be accepted by the Commis sioners, for sums not less than 1001, for which pro visional certificates shall be given. The proceeds to be employed in the purchase of old mortgages, or expended in contracting new ones, secured on landed property, at an uniform rate of interest of four per cent. The definitive bonds to be delivered for the different sums subscribed shall be signed and sealed by the president of the Commission, with coupons attached for 3f per cent. dividends, payable halt-yearly. The difference of interest will cover arrears and defray incidental expenses. 6. That the several loan societies be amalgamated, and annexed to the banks established in their respec tive localities, and be placed under the management of the Commissioners. That steps be taken to in crease the means at their disposal; the surplus profits already accrued, amounting to 354,6361., being ren dered available for that object; and loans to be advanced on the lodgment of debentures, as well as notes discounted. 7. That the Provident Annuity Department be conducted by the Commissioners in accordance with well-digested statutes and revised estimates. Tables containing the rules and terms to be printed and circulated. 8. That an annual report of the proceedings of the Commissioners be presented to Parliament. It is necessary to offer a few observations on the details of the foregoing plan. As the duties of the Commissioners will require assiduous application and undivided attention, the remuneration awarded should be adequate to the labours performed. The members chosen must be endowed with the qualifications of energy, zeal, and capacity. En trusted with an arduous task, and armed with extensive powers in the discharge of their executive functions, they will of course be made amenable to the Legislature for their acts. With respect to the first department, it is well known that the facility of obtaining a safe and eligible investment, for the temporary and permanent deposit of small earnings, encourages honest industry, fosters economical habits, and checks visionary speculation. The financial arrange ments are peculiarly adapted to accomplish these re sults. The substitution of Exchequer-bills for stock, and of debentures for pass-books, which is the main spring of the whole movement, will free the public from rhk, and relieve the Government from respon sibility. The payments being spread over successive periods, and due at stated times, can be easily liqui dated by the Commissioners, instead of being suddenly subjected to weighty demands at moments the most inopportune. One, at least, of the disturbing elements will be removed from the Exchange, and a portion of the floating debt withdrawn, influences so sensibly felt during commercial panics and monetary derangements. The debentures created under the new law will represent real capital, and possessing un doubted solvency, which are the primary ingredients of credit can never suffer the least depreciation, and will aid in completing the uses of paper currency in conjunction with a gold standard. Being readily convertible into cash, through the medium of the loan-office, no inconvenience can ever be felt by the depositors. A plain and simple machinery will sup plant a clumsy and complicated apparatus, accompa nied with an interminable series of fractional accounts and an accumulated mass of cumbrous documents. By pursuing the course recommended the number of the banks may be reduced without detriment, and the staff diminished without impairing their effieiency. Confidence will be restored, the balances regu!arly adjusted, and the national faith maintained inviolate. With regard to the Loan Office, it is generally admitted that a system of the kind, judiciously con• ducted, has invariably proved eminently instru mental in developing hidden resources, and stimu lating individual exertion, which seld o m fails in reaping the accustomed fruits of contentment and wealth. But these advantages being chiefly derived from banks, the benefits have hitherto been almost exclusively confined to the affluent ranks, the hum bler portion of the community receiving little ac commodation, except in Scotland, from bodies formed for pecuniary transactions on a large scale. And the same remark applies to Exchequer-bills. It seems advisable, therefore, to abolish restrictions, and to extend this branch, in a mode sanctioned by experience, and conducive to the welfare of the operative classes, by placing within their reach a participation in its beneficial agency. In furtherance of this view, permission should be accorded to discount promissory notes of an approved description for su.nis not exceeding 201., or at a longer date than twelve months, at five per cent. interest, thereby avoiding all interference with ordi nary banking affairs, and by being enabled to advance loans on the lodgment of debentures, the whole design will be perfected. As to the third department, it is certain that a first charge by mortgage on fee simple estates, held under a char title, presents the most unexcep tionable species of security. In this instance mutual gain will arise from a reciprocal interchange of be nefits. The burdens of the proprietors will be lightened, and the interests of the tenants become identified with the soil they cultivate, generating harmony, and m u lti p l y i ng t h ose artificial links which bind and strengthen human society. To facilitate the assignment of deeds and the con veyance of indentures, it will be expedient to confer additional powers on the Court of Chancery in questions affecting legal and equitable ights, by which litigation may be prevented and costs avoid. d. The Incumbered Estates Act passed for Ireland vs ill serve materially to assist the operations in that qua: ter of her Aldjesty s dominions. By erecting a c h ea p tribunal for the judicial decision of disputed claims, searches of registration, and other impediments, will be got rid of, and a final settlement of ownership decreed, a matter hard to be ascertained amid conflicting opinions and reversed judgments. With refe rence to the last department it is needless to dilate on the utility of provident associations, the merits of which are so justy appreciated whenever tried, holding out as they do inducements, during the vigour of youth, to prepare moderate camforts :and independence under the infirmities of age; but it is desirable that the direction should be Mr. I3ithell, M. it=rgeant Mereweather, and Mr. Ran datli appeared as counsel for the Corporation and in support of the appeal; and the Solioitor-General, Mr. James, and M. Mule were on behalf of the Crown. The arguments appear likely to occupy several days. ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) The Master of the Rolls sat in ILL; court, in the Rolls yard, Chancery-lune, to-day, and was occupied the whole morning with the further arguments on WI part-heard case of " Sulomons v. Laing." Nothing of any iuterist occurred in any of the Vice Chancel - ) Courts. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) ',Sittings in Banco before Justices MAULE, CRESSWELL and WILLIAMS) DOE DEA. STRICKLAND V. STICKLAND. In this case, which was part heard ye.terday, it ap peared that the defendant, Sir George Strickland, and Henry Eustachius Strickland, are sons of the late Sir George Strickland, who died at Boynton, in the county of York, in the year 1808. The deceased Ba ronet executed a will on the 18th July, 1776, which, in the course of the argument, was denominated " the Yorkshire will," by which he devised certain estr.tes to his four sons, with remainder tot he survivors. Anothcr son, the plaintiff, was born early in 1778, after the testa tor had executed his will, and on the 15th May, 1778, the testator, by a codicil, provided for the plaintiff by a devise, and also by t x!ending to him the benefit of re mainder, as to the devises in his first will in the event of his surviving his brothers. In the same year, 1778, the testator executed duplicate copies of this will and codicil in London, without altering their original dates, which were duly attested. Lady Strickland, upon the testator's decease, handed over his keys to his sons, who found the Yorkshire will in a portfolio upon the testator's writing-table, and the London will was discovered in a drawer of the same table. In the codicil to the Yorkshire will the devise to the plaintiff was foiled to have been obliterated; whilst in the Loudon will it remained entire; and the question was whether the alteration in the one will was in tended by the testator to operate as an alteration of the other. On the trial of the cause at York the ver dict went fur the defendant. On a former day, on the motion of Mr. Martin (with whom was Mr. Ciwling), a rule nisi was obtained calling upon the defendant to show cause why there should nut be a new trial on the ground of misdirection on the part of the Learned Judge who tried the cause. Mr. Knowles, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Hugh Hill, noA showed cause against the rule, contending nt great leng,h that the ruling of the Judge at nisi priu; was righ,. Mr. Justice MAULE, in giving judgment, said he thought the rule should be discharged. The question was as to the direction of the Learned Judge to the jury, who lett it to them first to say whether the Lonlull will was a separate will, or whether the London and Yorkshire wills, with the duplicate codicils annexed, formed cre will in two parts? It such a question as that was raised by the evidence there could not be a doubt that it was a material question to be determined by the jury. It was suggested by Mr. Hill that there being a variance in one passage, not in question at all in the ejectment, between the London and Yorkshire wills, those wills were not strictly duplicates. But it seemed to him (Mr Justice Maule) quite unnecessary to consider whether they were duplicates or not i❑ the rigorous sense of the word. That was really no more than to enter into a critical discussion as to the word duplicate. lie conceived there was nothing at all to show there might not be one will consisting of two papers, which were contemporaneously executed, and were intended each of them to be the testator's will, although there was a variation between them. The Learned Junge at the trial then left it to the jury say if those two wills, with the duplicate colic :r, w?re intended to form one will, and if the ci\litcratior. and alteration in the one was intended to alt' r the disposition of the property, or was in ellect an obliteration and an alteration of both. Now, inasmuch as with respect to that property, if each of these documents was intended to operate simultaneously, and not by way of superseding the other, then the can- cellation of one of those papers was he (\lr. Justice Maule) thought on principle and authority a cancella tion of the other. Then the Learned Judge le! tit to the jury to say whether these obliterations were intended by Sir George Stricleand to be &all as his then will until he should determine on making another, or whether they were made whilst he was deliberating on what will he should malv. Now, that was leaving to the jury the question of the intention of the testator, which was undoubtedly a question of fact. Upon the whole it appeared to him (Mr. Ju,tic, Maule) that this case had been rightly decided, and that the ruling of the Learned Judge at the trial was correct. He thereforc , thought that the rule should be discharged. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL and Mr. Justice WiLLrems both concurred. Rule discharged accordingly. BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) A man named Hollis was charged with theft. Sergeant Thompson stated that last night, about a quarter to six o'clock, he was passing down Upper Wellington-street, when he met the prisoner with some thing under his arm, covered with a sort of black cloth. He asked him what he had got there, and prisoner re plied, a desk, which he was going to take to a French polisher's in a neighbouring co ur t, a ddi ng th at i t be longed to his master. Mr. Brown, a cabinet-maker in East street, near to Covent-garden Theatre. He told the prisoner that he had some doubts of the truth of this, and requested him to return with him to Mr. Brown's, but the prisoner no sooner heard the request than he threw the desk down, dashing it to pieces, and took to his heels. Ile, however, pursued, and soon over took him, and when they reached the station-house the owner of the desk had just arrived, to give infoi mation of his loss. Toe owner was a broker in Whitehart street, Drury-lane and the value of the desk was esti mated by him at 15s. Mr. HENRY asked the prisoner if ho had anything to say ? Prisoner—Noling. Mr. HENRY—What are you ? Prisoner—A labourer. Mr. HENRY—Where do you live ? Prisoner—Any vi,here. Mr. lIENRY—Whert and when did you work last ? Prisoner—At Be-rwick, aliout nine months ago, on the No% castle an.l Bor wick hallway. Mr. HENRY—How long have you been in London? Prisoner—Three months. Mr. HENRY —What have you been doing during that Lm, ? Prisoner—Begging. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Ma. ARTIB'S ELOCUTIONAUY ENTERTAINMENT.— Last evening this talented gentleman gave another of those attractive entertainments at the Freemasons' Hall, at which place he is now delivering a series. Han. ci was the tragedy read last night. It would be stale praise to say Mr. Artis reads beautifully and tastefully—we prefer recommending a visit, promising all those who do Eo a delightful evening... oTEPISEY RELIEF SOCIETY.—On Tuesday evening last a concert took place at the Philosophical Institution, Beaumont-square, Mile-end, in aid of the funds of .this excellent charity, which has for its object the relief of the deserving - poor during the winter months. The Distin Family were engaged for the occasion, with Mr. George Ford, and other artistes. Every part of the in stitution was filled with a highly respectable company, and many friends of the society who had not previously taken tickets were unable to obtain a seat in any part of the house. The Matins were repeatedly encored, and lost none of their well-merited fame upon this occasion; Mr. George Ford was also well received, and encored in every song. Au address written for the occasion was well delivered by one of the members of the society, and much applauded, printed copies of which were afterwards distributed to the company. There were upwards of elaven hundred persons present. Altogether it must have been highly gratifying to the management to find their praisv worthy exertions so completely successful. Great credit is due to the committee of the Beaumont Institution for the success which attend their labours in rendering the accommodation to the public most com plete. Riches are but ciphers; it is the mind that makes the sum.—L .liza Cook's Journal. The Marquis of Northampton, accompanied by Viscount Alford, M.P., and Lady Matianne Alford, Lord Aboyni, and Lady Margaret Compton, by the last letters received in town, bad left Malta after a sejour of three weeks, for Alexandria, with the intention of making a tour in Egypt, in the course of which the Noble Marquis and party intended to vi-it the Pyramids. We unchrstand the Noble Marquis returns to this country abut March, also Viscount at,d Lady Varianne Alford, for his Lordship to attend to his Parliamentary duties. MANNA CAOUP.—Some large arrivals of the article known as manna croup are now taking place, the supplies of which have hitherto been of a very limited eh acter. The vessel Helen M'Gregor, from St. Petersburgh, has brought 50 packages, and the vessel Ides, arrived in the docks from St. Petersburg h, has brought 101 bags, con- Agned, an - 1 also 305 packages of the a; tide to order. By a recent general order of the Custom.' board, the article known as manna croup, which is now understood to be wheat gr.'und by a particular opercion, is to be admitted as wheat meal at the nominal duty of 4f per cwt., which will account for the greatly increased supplies of the article which are now taking place from Jinni% LITERATURE. DAVID COPPERFIELD. .No. Charles Dickens. 7t3(ri 120c:i : D I ;c pro r duced i r i bte appeared ot t her f ro (. 1 u y rr t t h an m ,ociva ofeb o . rer : Cceiet g e::, allnh:ofsep:otbri:)lineersrfisi the a i perfectly eDe t re : tilim e ..iectio n pts u etli),: n si. lfe l cee b rii clynlei closing sfoieditu t s4n h ts,gb e h, at; fez"— none haceuetatrzaid:rett_eoeenrsr.st scribA as truthfully, or with such a miraculous particularity, the effects of a " first dissipation." As a delineation of drunkenness it is actually marvellous, and may rank with the happiest descrip• tive passages in the language. It falls out thus : Daisy having been installed by Aunt Betsey in certain furnished apartments in Buckingham-street, Adelphi—chambers consisting of " a little half blind entry where you could see hardly anything, a little stone-blind pantry where you could see nothing, a sitting-room and a bed-room"— is visited by his friend Steerrorth, and thereupon re solves to have a housewarming; to that end inviting as his guests the said Steerforth and two of his college friends, Grainger and Markham. The latter personage, who "always spoke of himself itidefinitely as a man, and seldom or never in the first person singular," is a slight outline, but oae touched off to the life. Mrs. Crupp, who is very great in her garments of nankeen, with a flounce of flannel petticoat, comes out in grand style on the occasion of the banquet, advising her lodger to obtain the aid of a handy young man to wait, and "a young gal" to wash the plates in the pantry; recommending him also to obtain all the pro visions at the p as t r y coo l' s exce pt t wo d escr i pt i ons o f alitnent—" leaving her to concentrate her mind, on the potatoes, a„d to serve up the cheese and celery as she could wish to see it done." Among the more im portant features of the dinner are the circumstance of the mock turtle soup proving what Steerforth face• tiously calls "rather a tight fit for four"—Daisy madly taking so much snuff out of Grainger's box, that he was obliged "to go into the pantry and have a private fit of sneezing ten minutes long," and the catualities arising from the inquisitive disposition of the "young gal," who thereby was unable to confine herself to the pantry, was constantly peering in at the festivity, and constantly imagining herself detected, "in which belief she several times retired upon the plates (with which she had carefully paved the floor) and did a great deal of destruction." But the account of the rise and progress of the various phases of intoxication, as evidenced in the person of Daisy, is the best of all. His declaring passionately, in two words, to his principal guest, on the occasion of proposing his health, " Steerforthyou'retheguidingstarofinyexist ence"—his indignantly objecting to the toast of " Woman " in lieu of " The Ladies "—his finding himself smoking with the others, " and trying to sup press a rising tendency to shudder"—his resting his nead against the cool stone parapet outside the bed room window, and remonstrating with himself for smoking, by the name of Copperfield—his seeing the resection of his face in the looking-glass, where " his eyes had a vacant appearance, and his hair—only his hair, nothing else—looked drunk "—his turning the lamp off 'as they were about to sally into the streets, when, " owing to seine confusion in the dark, the door was gone, and he was feeling fur it in the window curtains " are all equally felicitous. As the four boon compa nions are going down the stairs, near the bottom somebody fell and rolled down, somebody else saying it was Copperfield. "I was angry at that false report," says Daisy, " until finding myself on my back in the passage, I began to think there might be some foun dation for it." Further on, after being dusted under a lamp-post, and getting his hat put into shape, he observes that Steerforth then said, " You are all right, Copperfield are you not ?' and I told him Neverberrer.'" His entrance into the theatre, where " the whole building looked as if were learning to swim,"—his recognising Agnes .in the same box, with the exclamation " Lorblessmer,"—his say ing afterwards, " rmafraidyou'renorwell,"—and his finally wishing her " Goori," (which he intended for " Good night,") and thereupon stepping at once out of the box-door into his bedroom,"—are only equalled by the account of his subsequent sensations and repent ance in the morning. He remains at home all the next day, when at night Mrs. Crupp, coming in to take away the broth basin, " produced one kidney on a cheese-plate, as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and Daisy was really inclined to fall upon r her nankeen breast in heartfelt penitence.' , The last chapter has so monopolized our attention that we have left ourselves scarcely room to mention the two preceding ones, though they are scarcely less excel lent. In the twenty second, entitled, " Some Old Scenes, and some New People," we take leave once more of Yarmouth and the Peggotties ; previously, however, making the acquaintance of a knowing little blade of a dwarf, one Miss Movvcher =. a vendor of rouge and general renovator of hair and whiskers. Her "Bob Swore" is almost as good as David's "Goori." Mr. Littimer is left at Yarmouth by Steerforth, who has purchased a boat before his departure —preparations evidently made towards the abduction of little Enfly. In the twenty-third chapter, Daisy selects his profession, Aunt Betsey meeting him in London, and conducting him for that purpose to Doctors' Commons, in order that he may learn the duties of a proctor. The sketch of Mr. Spenlow—" Punch again"—is capital ; also the following happy description of the firm under whom Daisy is to be placed : legalls,:d under the -F uperintendence of the C3trni3• sione i -s, in prcieretiee to being left to the voluntary care of private persons, however benevolent, prudent, and correct. This brief outline of the distinguishing features in the proposed enactment is submitted for examination, more to attract attention to the inquiry, than from any relia.ice on its intrinsic worth. It remains for statesmen versed in such matters, to legislate on this important subject. It is impossible to deny that the prosperity of a country mainly depends on the intellig,nce of its inhabitants and the wis• dom of its institutions. An anxiety to better their position in life is an instinctive feeling prevalent among mankind, but the fault usually committed lies in vainly aspiri ng t o grand things which few can attain, and erroneously neglectit,g minor things which every one may command. For reasons like these, it is essential that the policy of rulers, in the guidance of domestic concerns, should be based on the broad ani comprehensive principle of opening equally , to all, without exception, sources of suitable occupa tion and channels of reproductive employment, strictly to preserve internal order, to spread the arts of civilization and peace; and while the varied grada tions must ever exist and be upheld, to connect and unite its component parts, when broken and scattered, by cementing and moulding them :into the prop..rtioned shape of a great joint-stock com pany, in which every citizen might hold a share. When the body politic is thus healthy and sound, poverty will decline, dissatisfaction cease, a salutary tone pervade the national character, and that pure patriotism, which is best evinced in genuine devotion to one's native land, become universally cherished. Much is expected from the present Cabinet. They fortuna , ely possess both the power and the will to do good. Under circumstances so auspicious a confident hope may be indulged that another session will not be permitted to pass without their devising a matured and well-digested measure, calculated to ameliorate ;he condition of the people, and tending to promote he progressive improvement of the United Kingdom. MICHAEL J. KEATING, Archdeacon of Ardfert. Aug. 1, 1849. HAT SECURITY has a SAVINGS' BANK DEPOSITOR ? TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Since the recent defalcation of the actuary of e Rochdale Savings' Bank, I have been at the pains ,o peruse carefully the whole of the statutes relating o savings' banks, with the view to ascertain the pre cise position of depositors in those banks, as it respects the nature of the security they possess for the money they have lodged in them; and I conceive, at this moment, an essential service would be rendered to the industrious orders of the community, more espe cially to such of them as stand in the relation of de positors in savings' banks, by stating clearly what is the legal position of a depositor. This is the more necessary, as a very erroneous notion generally pre vails that the Government is responsible to depositors for any loss they may sustain by the fraud or defal cation of any officer or party connected with the management of savings' banks. This is a very great mistake, though, as I shall presently show, depositors do possess the security of the Government in a scarcely less important sense. It was shortly after the commencement of the present century that savings' banks dated their rise in this country; and for some time after their origin they were not the subjects of any legislative enactment. The benevolent individuals in a locality who associated themselves together for the establish ment and management of those laudable institutions, and who were usually as affluent as they were philan thropic, were in the habit, in the first instance, of pledging their own joint and personal security to the depositors. But in the course of tune an aggregated sum of money flawed into those, savings' banks, far greater in amount than their most sanguine founders could have anticipated, and thence arose the necessity , for some more solid security to maintain the confi dence which had been shown towards those institutions ; and it was in the year 1817, when there were about eighty savings' banks existing in Eng land, that the first Act of Parliament wis passed with the view to encourage and protect them. That was the 57 Geo. 111., c. 130, under the authority of which a fund was (inter aliu) established in the Office for the Reduction of the National Debt, entitled " The Fund for the Banks for Savings," and to this fund the trustees of savings' banks were bound, from time to time, to transmit the amount of all deposits made with them, when the sum amounted to 50/. or more. For the sums so invested the trustees received debentures carrying interest at the rate of 41. 1 le. 31. per cent. per annum, payable half yearly. By a subsequent Act, passed in 1828 (9 Geo. IV., c. 92), that rate of interest was reduced to 3/. 16s. per cent. per annum, whilst the interest to be paid to depositors was settled at 3/. Bs. Si. per cent. per annum, the difference being allowed to be retained by the trustees to defray the necessary ex penses of carrying on the savings' banks. A still later Act, passed in 1844 (7 and 8 Vict. cap. 83), reduced the interest paid by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to the trustees still further, namely, to 31. ss. per cent. per annum; and the highest rate of interest to be paid to depositors was settled at 3/. Os. 10d. per cent. per annum, the difference, as before, going to defray the current expenses of the bank. I believe the rate of interest which is at present paid by savings' banks is 2/. 17s. ad., and whatever sum remains, after defraying all charges and outgoings, is allowed to accumulate as a surplus fund. This, then, is the state of the case. The depositors in savings' banks hold the security of the Government for whatever sums the trustees invest in its hands under the terms of the Acts which I have quoted; and those sums will, or ought, in all cases to consist of the whole of the deposits beyond the sum of 50/, which is allowed to be kept in hand to answer the exigencies of the bank. It can only be by some gross and culpable negligence on the part of the trustees, as in the case of the Rochdale Bank, that an artful and fraudulent actuary or other officer can be permitted, for a long series of years, to abstract an enormous proportion of the deposits. But even with respect to frauds of that description, the Legislature has by no means left the depositor defenceless or without remedy. The statutes to which I have referred, and others bearing upon the same subject, provide that every paid officer, such as a treasurer, actuary, cashier, or secretary, shall give good and sufficient security, by bond, for the due performance of his duties, and especially for his right eously accounting for any funds that may pass through his hands; and in cases of defalcation, the depositors, by their trustees, are not only empowered to sue the sureties of the defaulter, but the statute of Victoria expressly provides that he shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanour. Nor is this all. The trustees themselves, under certain circumstances, are made responsible for defalcations. Section 6of the Act of Victoria, to which I have referred, enacts, "That no trustee or manager of any savings' bank shall be liable to make good any deficiency which may here after arise in the funds of any savings' bank, unless such persons shall have respectively declared by writing, under their hands, and deposited with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, that they are willing so to be answerable; and it shall be lawful for each of such persons, or for such persons collectively, to limit his or their responsibility to such sum as shall be specified in any such instrument. Provided always that the trustee or manager of any such institution shall be and is hereby declared to be personally responsible and liable for all moneys actually received by him on account of, or to and for the use of such institution, and not paid over or dis posed of in the manner directed by the rules of the said institution." From all this it will be abundantly evident that the depositors in savings' banks have no good or reasonable ground of alarm. I have shown they have an ample and solid security for the surplus earnings they may have lodged in those institutions, namely, the security of the Government of the country itself, than which none more certain or safe can surely be found ; but, beyond this the Government is in nowise responsible to savings' banks. This, being so, depo sitors may rest contented. Now and then an un principled actuary may practice fraud on those benevolent institutions, but in general he will never have scope or opportunity for so demeaning himself. In no case of defalcation in • the savings' banks in England that I know of have the depositors eventually sustained any loss. In the in stances of both the Nottingham and St. Alban's savings' banks, a few years ago, the deficiency occa sioned by the dishonesty of certain paid officers was made good to the depositors by the trustees, to-their lasting honour, out of their own private fortunes, and it remains to be seen whether the trustees of Roch dale will emulate so nob'e an example. The popular mistake seems to have been that the Government was responsible for the defalcations of the officers of savings' banks, whereas the truth is, that it is only answerable for the re•payment with interest of such sums as the trustees of those institutions shall invest in its hands. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, MATTHEW SOULSBY. Dec. 8, 1849. VIII. By We understand that the funeral of her late Majesty the Queen Dowager will take place on Thursday, the 13th, instead of Tuesday, the Times. THE ETIQUETTE OF MOURNING.—Although the deepest mourning has been ordered by authority, i►. does not follow that persons attending the reunions of the season are expected to appear in other than half mourning. This fact may be fully relied upon, the Messrs. Jay, the purveyors to the Court, in Regent street, having been fully instructed upon the subject, and in consequence of which the acknowledged taste and ingenuity of their artists are actively directed to the production of recherche novelties for this express pur pose.—Post. MESSRS. SPEN LOW AND JORKINS. " I was quite dismayed by the idea of this terrible Jorkins. But I found out afterwards that he was a mild man, of a heavy temperament, whose place in the business was to keep himself in the back-ground, and be constantly exhibited by name as the most obdurate and ruthless of men. It a clerk wanted his salary raised, Mr. Jorkins wouldn't listen to such a proposi tion. If a client were slow to settle his bill of costs, Mr. Jorkins was resolved to have it paid; and however painful these things might be (and always were) to the feelings of Mr. Spenlow, Mr. Jorkins would have his bond. The heart and hand of the good angel Spenlow would have been always open, but for the restraining demon Jorkins. As I have grown older, I think I have had experience of some other houses doing business on the principle of Spenlow and Jerkins!" Here also is another admirable picture—Dickens's description of the Court in Doctor's Commons : " Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved court yard formed of grave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors ' names upon th e d oors , to b e t h e official abiding-places of the learned advocates of whom Steerforth had told me; and into a large dull room, not unlike a chapel, to my thinking, on the left hand. The upper part of this room was fenced off from the rest; and there, on the two sides of a raised platform of the horse-shoe form, sitting on easy old-fashioned dining room chairs, were sundry gentlemen in red gowns and grey wigs, whom I found to be the Doctors aforesaid. Blinking over a little desk like a pulpit-desk, in the curve of the horse-shoe, was an old gentleman, whom, if I had seen him in an aviary, !should certainly,have taken for an owl, but who I learned was the presiding judge. In the space within the horse-shoe, lower than those, that is to say, oa about the level of the floor, were sundry other gentlemen, of Mr. Spenlow's rank, and dressed like him in black gowns with white fur upon them, sitting at a long green table. Their cravats were in general stiff, I thought, and their looks haughty ; but in this last respect I presently conceived I had done them an injustice, for when two or three of them had to rise and answer a question of the presiding dignitary, I never saw anything more sheepish. The public, represented by a boy with a comforter, and a shabby-genteel man secretly eating crumbs out of his coat pockets, was warming itself at a stove in the centre of the court. The languid stillness of the place was only broken by the chirping of this fire and by the voice of one of the Doctors, who was wandering slowly through a perfect library of evidence, and stopping to put up, from time to time, at little roadside inns of argument on the jour ney. Altogether, I have never, on any occasion, made one at such a cosey, dosey, old-fashioned, time-for gotten, sleepy-headed little family-party in all my life; and I felt it would be quite a soothing opiate to belong to it in any character—except perhaps as a suitor." The incident of Aunt Betsey's encounter with an unknown beggar in St. Paul's Churchyard is unac countably mysterious. England as the only country In which the arts can be permanently and securely fostered.'" The Art-Journal altogether is one of the most brilliant and deserving of our periodicals. EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. (PRIVATE VIEW—THIS DAY.) In the admirable gallery, recently opened by Mr. J. L. Grundy at No. 130, Regent•street, a copious and charming collection of " Sketches in Oii and Water-Colour Drawings" has just been opened. The private view, which we have had the gratification of attending at the very commencement of the exhibition, has afforded us very peculiar pleasure. Considering the variety and multiplicity of the productions with which the walls of the apartments are adorned, we have seldom witne,sed an exhibition displaying so little to which we could seriously make exception. liav:ng examined these paintings and drawings almost before they were cl-finitively placed in their p:mitions, wu have unfortunately missed the assiitance of a cata logue .in commenting upon the different com positions, and must consequently fur the present rest c,ntented with a general reference to their ability. George Catterinule, as usual, has been pulinently suc cessful, not rm.rely in h s mill scenes, but also, and especially in his armorial and ecclesiastical groups— groups, under his hand, alw !ys rendered strik ingly dramatic. " Columbus explaining his scheme for discovering a new world to the monks assembled in the Spanish convent," and another exquisite draw ing representing the farewell of a knight and his lady love, are admirable examples of his happiest style, the latter being eminently graceful and effective. Frost in two small compositions proves, to our thinking, not so successful as is his wont even upon these smaller occasions for the display of his peculiar and indisputable genius. Poole, on the con trary, shows himself as ever marvellously true to nature and loyal to art; his rustic figures are charmingly felicitous, above all the one pourtraying a little girl laughing slyly from under her eyebrows, with all the archness of the little Ilebes, who seem to hare been somewhat favourites with the great Murillo. In one corner of the principal room we observed a fine and singularly clever specimen of Pyne, while on an opposite wall hang three glorious little drawings from the easle of Clarkson Stanfield. The centre one forms a perfect bijou of coast scenery. The principal feature of the exhibition, however, remains yet altogether unnoticed, namely, the screen fronting the chief window of the gallery. On this screen are arranged, besides three extraordinary drawings by Edwin Landseer, the most conspicuous production in the apartments— namely, a very admirable and brilliant painting by Topham. In th:s work he has been eminently successful, whether in regard to colouring, grouping, manipula tion, sentiment, or character. The story is told in a word, as it is recognized at a glance. A poor Irish family, a young man and his young wife, are seated by a " holy well," the mother is administering a portion of the miraculous water to her sick infant, the father looking on with a listless indifference singularly expressive and characteristic. In every respect the painting will tend to raise the reputation of Mr. Topham, and cannot fail to prove one of the main attractions in the present very interesting and most diversified exhi bit ion. INDIA. NORTH-WEST PROVINCES. We copy from the./llnfassilite of the 18:h inst., the follov‘ing programme of the intended movements of Sir C. Napier during the period he has to remain in India, which, we dare say, will be found correct, should nothing turn up in the meantime to cause a change in the arrangements resolved on. The state ment that Sir Charles is to be succeeded by Sir W. ' Gomm may be doubted. It is towards Bombay the present sojourner in Ceylon looks as the place on which to rest the soles of his feet. " We are at length enabled to announce that his excel lency the Commander-in-Chief leaves Simla on the morn ing of the 20. h instant, and proceeds on his tour to Agra and Delhi. His Excellency's camp starts from lialka on the sth proximo, for Loodianab, where Sir Charles overtakes it by dank. He crosses the Sutlej at Phillour, traverses the Jullundhur Doab, and visits Lahore. He afterwards inspects the several military stations and posts between the Bane and Indus, and proceeds as far as Peshawur. From thence he returns by a cross route to Moultan, where his Excellency dispenses with the further attendance of head-quarters staff, who returns to the provinces, whilst Sir Charles pursues his journey to Bhawulpore, and goes down the Indus to the point where ho crosses to Kurrechee. A steamer will bo in attend ance there to convey Sir Charles to Bombay, and there he takes his leave of the army in India, and embarks for England in March next. Sir William Gomm, we be lieve, will be Sir Charles Napier's successor." BY HIS EXCELLENCY TEE COMMANDER•IN CRIER IN INDIA. Bead-Quarter:4, Simla, Oct. 16, 1849. With the sanction of tho Most Noble the Governor- General, his Excellency the Commander-in• Chief is pleas«•d to direct the following movements and changes of quarters of corps of the army, to be carried into effect in the order specified:— ARTILLERY.-Ist Brigaale.-I.st Troop, from Jullundur Wuaeeraba(l, to more whoa relieved by the 3d troop 21 Brigade. 21 Brigade, from Hosheyarpore to Pesbawur, to move on the 15th November. 4th Brigade, from WiLverabad to Hoshiarpore, to move when relieved by Ist Troop Ist Brigade. sth Brigade, from Aluttra to 11,:twu1 Pindee, to move the 15th November. 2d Brigaie, 3d Troop, Ferezepore to Jullundur, to move on the 15th November. 4th Brigade, from Rivvul Pindee to Ferevpore, to move %hen relieved by the sth Troop let Brigade. 3d Brigade 4th Troop, from Wuzeerabad to . Sluttra, to move on the 15ih November. Ist Battalion, 2d Company, and No. 14 camel battery, from Nusseerabad to Moultan, to move when relieved from Bombay. 4th Company, and No. 8, bullock battery, from 11how to Agra, to mDvo when relieved from Madras. 2d Battalion, Head-quarters, from Cawnpore to La hore, to move on the 22d O,tober, as already ordered. 6:h Battalion, 2d Company, and No. 9 horse battery, from Agra to Jullundur, to move on the 15th November. 4th Company and No. 10 horse batter•, from Boodee Pind to Peshawur, to move on the 15th November; to halt at Jullundur, until the arrival there of 2d Company tth Battalion and No. 9 horse battery. 7th Battalion-Ist Company, from Almorah to At tcck, to move on the 3d of December. 2d Company and No. 6 horse battery, from Jhelum to Boodee Thud, to move on, being relieved by the sth Com pany, 7th Battalion, and No. 13 horse battery. 3d Company and No. 5 horse battery, from Wurzeera - bad to Bareilly, to move on the 15th November; two guns of this battery to be posted at Moradabad. 4th Company and No. 1 horse battery, from Bareilly to Wtwerabad, to move on, being relieved by 3d Com pany, 7th Battalion, and No. 5 horse battery. sth Company and No. 13 horse battery, from Delhi to Jhelum, to move on being relieved by 6th Company, Btb battalion, and No. 15 horse battery. 6th Company, from Attock to Meerut, to move when relieved by Ist Company, 7th Battalion, Bth Battalion.-2d Company, and No 2 bullock bat tery, from Neemuck to Lahore, when relieved from Bombay. 3d Company, from Cawnpore to Govindghur, to move on the 15th November. _ . 4th Company, from Govindghur to Almorah, to move on being relieved by the 3d Company, Bth battalion. sth Company, from Bangor to Cawnpore, to move a hen relieved from Madras. 6th Company, and No. 15 horse battery, from Lahore to Delhi, to move on the 15th of November. LIGET CAVALRY.—Ist Regiment, from Peshaw•ur to Cawnpere, to move when relieved by the 7th Regiment. 3d Regiment, from Muttra, to Nowf,ong, to move on the 20th November. 4th Regiment (lancers), from Cawnpore to Wuzeera bad, to move on the 20th November. sth Regiment, from Wuzeerabad to Nakodah, to move when relieved by the 4th Regiment. 7th Regiment, from Jullundur to Peahawur, to move on the 15th November. 9th Regiment, from Mhow to Muttra, to move when relieved from Madras. IRREGULAR CAVALRY..—tat Regiment, from Nee much to Lahore, to move on the 15th November. If in dispensable, the duty of detachments from the corps to be taken by the cavalry of the Mulwah contigent, until relieved from Bombay. 2d Regiment, from Hoshearpore to Jhelum, head quarters and right wing to move on the 15th November; left when relieved by right wing of 7th Regiment. 3d Regiment, from Jhelum to Bireilly, to move when relieved by head-quarters and right wing of the 2d Re giment. 4th Regiment, from Segowlee to Jhansi (for civil duties), head-quarters and right wing to move on 20:h November ; left wing when relieved by right wing of 10th Regiment. _ . sth Regiment, from Bareilly to Moultan ; left wing to move 15th Nove m b er ; h ea d quarters and right wing when relieved by 3d Regiment. 6th .Regiment, from Saugor to Wuzeerabad, to more when relieved from Madras. 7th Regiment, from •Yuzoerabad to Hoshearpore, head quarters and right wing to move 15th November ; lwft wing when relieved by 6th Regiment. 9th Regiment, from Loodianah to Peihawur. One wing of this regiment will join the escort with the Governor-General's camp, and be relieved at Lahore by a wing of the 17th Regiment; and one ressalah will join the escort with the Commander-in-Chief's camp, and be relieved at Peshawur; the head -quarters and remainder of the corps to march on 20th November. 10th Regiment, from Jhansi to Segowlie; head quarters and right wing to move on 15th November; left wing when relieved by right wing 4th Regiment. 12th Regiment, from Rawal Pindee to Jullundur; head-quarters and right wing to move on 15th No vember; left wing when relieved by right wing 16th Regiment. 13th Regiment, from Peshawur to Molterian, to move when relieved by the 15th Regiment. 14th Regiment, from Lahore to Hoshearpore (for civil duties); head q carters and right wing to move on 18th of November; left wing on arrival at Lahore of lct Regiment. THE ART JOURNAL. Another volume of this splendidly illustrated pub lication is here completed by the current number for December. From the Vernon Collection we hare before us copies by the graver of H. Beckwith, of the " Low Life" and "High Life " of Edwin Land seer. Everybody is familiar with these admirable paintings, which the engravings will only ter.d to render yet more popular. Sir H. Westmacott's '• Distressed Mother" is the statue represented in this the 103 d number. From the editorial address, which celebrates the conclusion of the volume for 849, we gladly extract the following foot-note:— " In a letter written by Mr. Vernon in answer to an address of the artists and engravers who had been em ployed at his house copying and engraving the pictures, Mr. Vernon thus expressed himself—' The engravings are most beautifally executed, and I trust that when they are published in the Art-Journal they will be ap preciated by the public, and by their diffusion at so mo derate a cost, improve and increase the taste for the productions of our native artists." The following paragraph likewise from the same address is also worthy of particular consideration : " The Art-Journal is at present almost the only Art- Journal of Europe. In France L'Artiste lingers, but can be hardly said to exist, with a monthly circulation of about three hundred; in Germany the Kunst Blatt, so long the organ and oracle of European art, has ceased to be published; In Italy no publication worthy the name has of late years represented the arts; and we are not aware of the existence in either of the other states of Europe of any work devoted to those Arts of Peace' which struggle, oppressed and terror-stricken, amid the turmoil of domestic war. Under such circum stances, therefore, the best talent of the Continent is in a great degree at our disposal; and we quote the words of one of the most eminent and accomplished of German writers, Dr. Wangen, who, in one of the articles with which he has honoured our pages, says, I now look to r 13th Itegiuunt, from rieshoarport id Thi'itil riitit4l I headquarters and right wing to move when relieved by ! right wing 14:h Regiment; and left wing when relieved by left wing 14th Regiment. 17th Regiment, from Lahore to Louclianah; one wing of this regiment will join the Governor General's camp at Lahore ; the oth r wii g will march on the arrival of the Ist Regiment at Lahore. MI Regiment. from Mhow to Lahcre, to move on the 2 , )th or Novamber, or as soon es relieved from Madras. EUROPEAN INFANTRY.—TIer ALejeste'e 9th Regiment from Lahore to Peshawur, to move on the 20th of November. lion. Company's Ist Fusiliers, from Agra to Lahore, to move on the 22d of November. 2d Regiment from Lahore to Agra, to move when re lieved by the Ist Fusiliers. NATIVE INFANTRY. Ist Regiment, from Lahore to Jullundur, to move on the 12th of November. 21 Regiment (Grenadiers) from Umballah to Rene! Pindee, to move on the 12th of November. 31 Regiment, from IlAtearpore to Jhelum, to move on the ht January, 1850. 4th Regiment, from Jullundur to Tiara! Pindee, to move on arrival of the Ist Regiment at Jullundur. 5 - h Regiment, from Ditiapore to Lahore, to mov.3 on 15th of November. Gets R9gimtnt, from Nuiseerabad to Agra, to move when relieved from Bombay. 9,11 Regiment, from Unaball.th to Lahore, to escort the Governor -G e ne ra l' s temp to L a h ore , an d be relieved there by the 56th Regiment. 11:h leiment, from l3areilly to B trreckpore, to move on arrival at Bareilly of the 723 Regiment. 12th Regiment, from Allygurh to Mon!tan, to rcovu OR being relieved by the 30th Regiment. 13th Regiment, from Rawut Pindee to Delhi, to move on arrival at Rawul Pindee of the 2d Regiment. 14th R , giment, from Berhampore to Dinapere ; left wing to move on the 15th November ; head•quartere and right wing when relieved by the 59th Regiment. 15th Regiment, from Wuz •erabad to Umballah, to move on arrival of the 323 Regiment at Wuzeeraly.d. 16th Regiment (Grenadiers), from Barrackpore to Benares, to move on arrival at Barrackpore of the 54th Regiment. 17th Regiment, from Lahore to Hoshearpore, to move on arrival at Lahore of the 9.h Regiment. 19th Regiment, from Lahore to Boodee Find, to move on arrival at Lahore of the 57. h Regiment. 20th Regiment, from Jhelum to Noorpoor, to move on arrival at Jhelum of the 37th Regiment. 21st Regiment, from Bandah to Wttzeerabad, to move when relieved by the head-quarters and right wing of the 48th Regiment. 223 Regiment, from Rawul Pindee to Ferczepore, to move on arrival at Rawul Pindee of the 2d Regiment. 23d Regiment, from Phillour to Peshawur, to escort the Commander-in•Chiers camp to Peshawur, end ho relieved there by the 70. h Regiment. 25th Regiment, from Wuzerabad to Hajeepere, to move on arrival of the 32d Regiment at Wuzeerabad. 26th Regiment (Light Infantry) from Barrackpore to Dinapore, to move on the 20th of November. 27th Regiment, from Barrackpore to Benares, to move on the arrival of the 44th Regiment. 28th Regiment, from Hoshey erpore and Kangra to Peshawur, to move on being relieved by the 17th Re giment. 29th Regiment, from Not rpoor to Peshawur, to move when relieved by the 20th Regiment. 30th Regiment, from Meerut to Allvguhr, to move on the 12th November. 31st Regiment, from Peshawur to Jullundur, to move on being relieved by the 29th Regime-nt. 323 Regiment, from Ferezepore to Wezeerabed, to move 12th of November. 333 Regiment, from Neemuch to Benares, to move on being relieved from Bombay. 34th Regiment, from Ilajeepore to Wrz.?erebad, to move when relieved by the 24th Regiment. 35th Regiment (Light Infantry), from Barrackpore to Lucknow, to move when relieved by the 423 Regi ment. 37th Regiment, from JulluLdur to Jhelum, on arrival at Jullundur of the lbt Regiment. 38th Regiment (Light Infantry), fr.m Lacknow to Barrackpore, to move on the 12 h of November. 39th Regiment, from Dinap,re to Lahore, to move on arrival of the 60th Regiment from Cawnpore. 40. h Rigimcnt, from Barrackbore to Allahabsd, to move on arrival of the Ilth Regiment. 41st Regiment, from Delhi to Moulton, to move on arrival of the 68th R Timent from Meerut. 42d Regiment (Light Infontr)), from Delhi to Bar rackpore, to move on the 12 , 11 of November. 44th Regiment, from Allahabad to Barrackpore, to move by water as soon after receipt of order as tonnage can possibly cln be procured. 45th Regiment, from Umballah to Bareilly, to move on arrival of the 15th Regiment at Umballah. 48th Regiment, from Benares to Bandah; head quar ters and right wing to move on the 12th of November ; left wing when relieved by the 16th Regiment. 49th Regiment, from Nakodah to Phillour, to move 12th November. 53d Regiment, from Wuzeerabad to Delhi, to more on arrival at Wuzetrahad of the 21st Regiment. 51th Regiment, from Agra to Barrackpore, to move 12th November. 55th Regiment (right wing), Com Nagodo to Now gong, to move to r e j o i n th e h ea d quarters o f the regi ment, when a wing of the corps will be detached to Jhanti, to relieve the detachment of infantry from the Gwalior contingent now there. 56th Regiment, from Lahore to Umballah, to move with the Governer-General's camp. 57th Regiment, fr em Din2p,re to Lahore, to move on arrival of the 26th Regiment from Barrackpore. sSth Regiment, from L a h ore to lloJsheyarpore, to move on arrival of the s t h R eg i ment from Dinapore. 59th Regiment, from Bareilly to Berhampore, to move 12th November. 60th Raiment, from Wuzeerabad to Cawnporc,t) move Ist February, 1850. . 61st R-ginient, - from G , vineguhr to Lucknow, to move when relieved by the 66th I{Pgitnent. 63d Regiment, from Agra to Wuzeerabad, to move when relieved by the 66th Regiment. 65th Regiment, from B2nares to Lahore, to move when relieved by the 27th Regimont. 66th Regiment, from Lucknow to Govindguhr, to move on being relieved by one of the regiments of Oudo local infantry, to be ordered to march so as to allow the 66th to move from Lucknow on the 12th of November. 67th Regiment, from Cawnpore to Dinapore, to move by water as soon as tonnage can possible be procured. 6Sth Regiment, from Beerut to Delhi, to move on the Bth of November for temporary duty until the arrival of the 13th Regiment at Delhi, when the corps will return to Meerut. 69th Regiment, from Jhelum to Agra, to move on the arrival of the 37th Regiment. 70th Regiment. from Peshawur to Umballah, to move from Peshawur ‘..th the Commander-ie-Chiet's camp in relief of the 23d R(ginaent. 71st Regiment, trom Boodeo Pind to Peshawur, to move on the 12th of November. 72d Regiment. from Ferozepore to Bareilly, to move on the 12.12 November. 74th Regiment, from Mhow to Dacca, to move on being relieved from Madras; to march to Miz sspore, and to go by water from thence. N.B.—One of the regiments of Oude local infantry to be ordered into Lucknow so as to admit of the 66d1 Re giment of Native Infantry marching from thence on the 12th November. - The Madras and Bombay troops at present serving on the Bengal presidency will be relieved by Ben gal corps as follow, and seat to such stations as may ba allotted to them by their respective Governments:— MADRAS TROOPS. 7th Regiment Light Cavalry, from Nowgong, when relieved by 3d Regiment Bengal Light Cavalry. 22d Regiment Native Infantry, from Midnapore, when relieved by a detachment of three companies from Bar r ack pore. 34th Regiment Native Infantry, from Dacca, when re lieved by 71st Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. BOMBAY TROOPS—Lionss ARTILLERY. 3d Troop, from Peshawur, when relieved by 2d Troop Ist Brigade Bengal Ho rse Artillery. FOOT ARTILLERY. 2d Company Ist battalion, and No. 7 battery, from Peshawur, when relieved by 4th company 6th battalion Bengal Artillery, and No. 19 horse battery. 4th Company 2d battalion, and No. 5 battery, from Moultan, when relieved by 2d company ht battalion Bengal Artillery, and No. 14 camel battery. Ist and 2d Companies golundauze, from Moultan. The relief for these will be announced hereafter. SAPPERS AND MINERS. Ist and 4th Companies, from Peshawur and Moulton. The relief for these will be announced hereafter. Ist Regiment Light Cavalry, from Moulton, when relieved by sth Regiment Bengal Irregular Cavalry. 21 Regiment Sinde Horse, from Pcshawur, when relieved by the 9th Regiment Bengal Irregular Cavalry. INFANTRY. Ist Regiment of Europesn Infantry: (Fusiliers), from Peshawur, when relieved by her Majesty's 98th Regi ment. 3,1 Regiment Native Infantry, from Peshawur, when relieved by the 23d Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. 4th Regiment (or Rifle Corps), from Moultan, when relieved by the 41st Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. 9th Regiment Native Infantry, from Moultan, when relieved by the 12th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. 19;11 Regiment, from Peshawur, w h en re li eve d by the 71st Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. N.B.—Her Majesty's 60th Rifles, now on the Bombay establishment, and stationed at Peshawur, will stand fast; until further orders. Strict attention to be paid to the standing regulations of the service, relative to the information required to be given by commanding officers to the civil authorities in the districts through which the routes of their corps or detachments may lie; to the transmission of progress and other reports to head- quarters, and, during the absence of his Excallency the Commander in-Chief from, the Presidency, of duplicates of all such reports to the officers in charge of the Adjutant-General's and Quarter master-General's offices in Calcutta. Routes will be furnilhed from the dice of the Quarter• master-General of the army. By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, PAT. GRANT, Lieut.-Colonel, Adjutant-General of the Army. The Great Northern Railway Company are pre paring to take the whole of the coal trade along their loop-line into their own hands, and have commenced tie building of coal staiths at all the principal stations of tle line. It is stated that they will sell the Silkatone coal .t Lincoln at 9s. per ton, whereas the price in the yards is 13s. At King's•eross station, London, they propose to retail the same coal at 17s. per t on , th e present pm* being in the metropolis 275.