The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-17 00:00:00

MA R LBRO'-ST RE ET-(TIIIS DA - 1 7 .) A EAR') CASE.—An application was made to Mr. Hardwick on the behalf of Miss Emma Stanley, of the Princess's 'Theatre, by Mr. Hughes, solicitor, for a sum mons ageinst Messrs. Cafe and Sons, to oblige them to give the address of their client (one Mrs. Edmonds), who, on the first of December last, seized Miss Stanley's properly, to the amount of 5001., for the sum of 80/., alleged to be due to Mrs. Edmonds for rent by one Loyd, from whom Miss Stanley took apartments in Conduit-street, no rent being due to Loyd by Miss Stanley, whose property was sold by public auction for one-fifth its value. She now sought redress from Mrs. Edmonds, who is represented as a person of large pro perty, and the Messrs. Cafe ref used to give up her address. The MAGISTRATE, after commenting upon the hard ship of the case, said, as the case stood at present it was merely an ex parte statement. He must therefore re fuse to grant the summons. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT M ANC HESTER.—TUESDAY. Tart DERBY.-9 to 2 agst Flying Dutchman (offers to take)-7 to 1 rgst Tadmor-13 to 1 agst Honeycomb (t) —2O to 1 agst Osterley-25 to 1 agst Uriel (t)-30 to 1 agst Strongbuw (t)-35 to 1 agst Nunnykirk (offers to take)-50 to 1 agst Magician (t). CHESTER Cur.—Several offt-rls, but nothing done. PUGILISM.—W. HAYES AND GEORGE CROCKETT, FOR 50/. A SlDE.—Theso, well known professors of the art pugilistic contended yesterday, at the Lower Hope, a few miles below Gravesend, on the ground well known as the battle-field of Adams and George Sinclair, and Norley and Berry. The men weighed respectively— Hayes, 9st. 7ilb.; Crcckett, 9st. 61b.; the former being the favourite at 6to 4. At two o ‘ clock the men stood up. The first round, which lasted 45 minutes, was in itself a fight; the hits, stops, breaks, pauses, and rallies, putting both men to the test. Hayes received from Crockett's right on the body rather severely, while he returned with stinging smartness on Crockett's nasal organ. After eight rounds, which lasted 98 minutes, Hayes was hailed as the victor.—A second affair fol lowed, between R. Dickinson and Benjamin Buckey, which lasted till dark, Dickinson proving the conqueror in 19 rounds, occupying 58 minutes. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual morning walk in the grounds around the Castle. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise. The Duchess of Sutherland :yid Lady C. Leveson Gower, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Abercorn, the Earl of Aber deen, the Earl Spencer, and Colonel Wylde, are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a visit to her Majesty and his Royal Highness. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Elise of Hellenlobe Schillingsfurst, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leveson Gower, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aber corn, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl Spencer, and Colonel Wylde. The band of the Coldstream Guards attend during dinner in the Castle, and will perform the following pieces : Grand March from Sinfonia " The power of Sound" Fantasia from 3d Act—" Malek Adel" Costa. Valse Selection from " Les Huguenots" The Phcenix Polka Meyerbeer. Jolly. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance at Frogmore House, the residence of her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, during Monday evening, and played the following pieces : Overture—(op. 142) . . Selection—" Zweikampl" Spohr. Marien Walzer ... Strauss. Entre Acte—" Havdee" Auber. Grus an Wien Polkas Mr. Bennett and Mr. Elworthy, accompanied by the Solicitor-General and Mr. Tufnel, Members for Devonport, Lord Ebrington and Mr. Roundell Palmer, Members for Plymouth, had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office, and presented a petition to her Majesty the Queen from the inhabitants of Plymouth, Devonport, Stone house, and the neighbourhood, lay members of the Church of England, praying for the adoption of mea sures with a view to a revision of the Liturgy, and a definition of the Ceremonial of the Church. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a committee meeting yesterday, at their office, in White hall• Mr. John Wood and Mr. Pressly had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Benjamin Harrison, Chairman of the Public Works Loan Office, had also an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet in Downing -street. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India Colonies. Lord Cle►nents had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey. IRELAND. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING. DUBLIN COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH- THIS DAY. At ele ven o ' c l oc k this morning judgment was deli vered on the writ of error brought by Messrs. O'Brien, Mea g her, M'Manus, and O'Donoghue. _ The Lo r d Chi e f J us ti ce , i n a n e laborate speech, decided against all the errors assigned, and con firmed the proceedings of the Court below. Mr. Justice Crampton, Mr. Justice Perrin, and !Air. Justice Moore followed in order, fully confirm ing all the arguments of the Lord Chief Justice, and delivered le ng th ene d j u d gmen t s , w hi c h occu pied the Co urt upwards o f f our h ours . S h le he .prisoners were removed in custody of the riff The Court House was quite tranquil. It is said an appeal will be brought to the House of Lords. _ Our corn market continues very dull for every d escriptio n of grain at our quotations of Friday, but wa s,. scarcely supported for oats. I n di an corn i n very difficult sale, and ls. per quarter cheaper. c , TO THE _EDITOR OF THE SUN. I perceived, after post time, that I had made an erratum in my letter to you, in stating that " on tilhei,globe, or by the great circle course to Chusan, is E. ;" it should have been " N.W. 4 W." I am, Si r , y ours mos t respectfully, Dev "Pnrt, Jan. 16, 1849. J. T. T. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. directSlßAs the ad voca t es f or a change f rom th e in to to a dire c t system o f taxat i on are daily increas ing, it may be well to direct attention to a book Under the title of " An Attempt to show the Justice and Expediency of Substituting an Income or Pro- Perty Tax for the Present Taxes," &c.: Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly, 1833. This book was written by the late Benjamin Sayer, c 49., many years senior clerk in the Tax Office. It Is the work of one who had the advantage of being assisted with much information afforded by his official position. Jan. 15, 1849. J. 11. th -ELAxcuour DEATH.—Captain Alex. Grant, of ° shin J iof Leith, died at Eastfield, on the 9th i n . acaey, w hich Captain Grant commanded the unfortunate vessel - "Leh was lost near the mouth of the British Channel, 11 0 her as from Galatz to Leith, in November last. 1 1 11 ,a ship having become leaky. and nearly all the crew „ I , ll g in a sickly state of health, she got waterlogged,. ;"`i Was found in that condition by a Dutch vessel, while 41 , a sinking state. Captain Grant at the time was at the th 6 'dP's sid e ca lli ng to his men to save themselves; but W h i a magnanimity rarely to be met w . ith, he decl d are l d . m e Would be the last to leave the sinking ship, an a d w° ugh he was urged to give up his charge, he refused to (.° 0 till the Dutch boat was carried away by a sea, and .'aptain Grant with two of the crew were left on boar till r° the ill-f ated ship went down, the three unfortunates w takin g to th e i r own b oat. Thus for eight solitary nights, without food, or an oar to uide them. t u i ld they welter in the vast deep, till first the one and , n en the ot h er of the crew expired from want and ex o,fatstion—the c a pt a i n, from weakness, being unable to thr ow the last man overboard. In this situation he was Pecked up and carried into Dublin, and after some little ti me conv e y e d to Leith. lie so ' far recovered that he was beginning to go about, but his constitution had re ceived such a shock that rapid disease ensued, which cut him off in a few days. In Captain Grant, the rough characteristics of th e sa i lor were softened down by mag nanimous sentiment, and gentle and kind address. His untimely fate, after enduring such unparalleled suffer- I ngs and hardships, has caused (loni an M ercury , uni versal regret.—C a l e - LARGE E XPORTATION OF HORSES Th steam boats from L on d on - b r id ge and Folkstone. ar deaareilyben °ping horses to Boul ogne . T hese horse s e '',", L i PPed by Mr. Burford, the h orse - dealer of ononcd.taning, " 4 0 • has ta k en the contract to supply the N (Inver nment with the numbe r th e y requ i re: eapoli II:NE WEATHER IN THE NORTH. —On Monday the i wielc Fishing Company completed their supply of 1 oee, having secured in their stores about 5,000 can t hztas• Since Monday the frost has yielded, a general w tl _,w, having taken place throughout the district. On t b,7 0 ,, s suay considerable quantities of ice passed down j r ; 1 3 : 1 :W ad to the sea, and in the course of that night the ea!estearn ferry boat, belonging to Mr. Wilson, was out 1,1 away from i ts moorings at Spittal, and drifted b ut t ' h ° ilea. F artunately, th ere was no person on board, h e b_' v esEel, we reg re t to say, has been thrown uon 402 1 404 become a tota l wreck. p THE SUN, LONDON, LITERATURE. THE USES OF TIIE SENSES. 1 Vol. Pp. 335. By Catharine Lake. Without being a mere copyist, or a servile imitator, the authoress of' this intelligent volume has taken a suggestion from the Correspondence of Mrs. Chapone, arid from the Conversations of Peter Parley, and has, by carrying out those suggpstions upon a religious framework, produced a book of a very agree able and entertaining character. Sometimes, we must acknowledge that the tone of the writer sounds rather too dogmatic ; but, generally speaking, the work abounds with wholesome and elevated thoughts, gracefully expressed and illustrated by perpetual al lusion, to the Universe. The title is sufficiently in dicative of the contents ; and the argument of the whole production tends to impress the mind of the reader with a conviction of the beneficence and omni science of the Divinity. This object alone would be enough to elevate the writer from amongst the herd of ordinary bookmakers, and to invest the volume with a novel and dignified charm. Of the wood -cuts, which are intended to form the embellishments of the narrative, we can say nothing whatever, and of the incidental verses scattered through the pages very little, indeed, in commendation. Tine excellence of the book is restricted almost exclusively to the letter-press, and of that letterpress to the prose, and of that prose to its tendency. Inasmuch as the writer enlarges upon the blessings attendant upon the laudable employment of the five senses— upon the chaste use of the eyes, the ears, the palate, the nerves, and the nostrils—she demands and re ceives our eulogium. Although the manner of the authoress is too frequently sedate and chilling, from the dogmatism of tone already spoken of; it is evident that she has written throughout from her heart's earnestness. CLOUDS AND SUIVSIIIIVE ; with other Poems. By John James lialls,B.A. As among the first flutterings of a young spirit on poetic pinions, we receive the verses contained in this little volume with all due tenderness. We have a covert sympathy for those who bend in a reverential mood to the streams of Helicon, to quaff their earliest draughts of Hippocrene. And among these reve rential votaries we class the author of" Clouds and Sunshine." As in the majority of such instances, his most ambitious efforts are his least successful; take, in point, his " Napoleon," and " Richard the First at Acre." Occasionally his conceits are quaint, but sometimes a delicate thought is marred by an abrupt conventionality of language,—as where, in " The Condemned Soldier," he drops suddenly into the bathos of the prosaic by telling us that the captain of the regiment gazed upon the betrothed of the private. There is a dry humour in the lines called " Mathe matics versus Poetry." But we cannot give a more felicitous example of the style of Mr. Halls than in the following dream, penned under the inspiring remembrance of Robert Herrick or of Sir John Suckling : THE FIVE SENSES. " I SLEPT. Methought my form around A fairy girdle, rich and bright, Seem'd cast—which, by its magic, bound' Each separate sense in new delight. " A beauteous scene before me spread; Arabia's odours filled the air; And heavenly music seem'd to shed Its softest notes upon mine ear. " Something more soft than India's web, With silken touch stream'd o'er my cheek; And nectard draughts were at my lips, That king's might leave their thrones to seek. " I WOKE—and found the vision real, For thou wert bending o'er me there; That silken touch was not ideal, For o'er me waved thy glossy hair. " More than Arabia's spices choice Thy breath sweet perfume shed around; And in the whispers of thy voice I heard prolong'd that music's sound. " The neetar'd cup, the zone of light, Well might I deem them both divine; Thine arms had form'd that circle bright, Thy lips were gently press'd to mine." In the sensuous school of poetry the author has found his efforts to be the happiest ; and for this reason we take the title of his volume to be not altogether inap propriate. THE OLD JUDGE ; _ or Life in a Colony. By Sam Slick. 2 Tli* We are glad to meet again our old friend " The Clockmaker," and to find him as warm-hearted, as spirited, and as good-humouredly sarcastic as ever. One of the objects of these volumes is to give an idea of the various peculiarities of colonial life, an other, and a more important one, is to amuse and interest the reader. Both objects have been successfully accomplished—the latter most trium phantly. Both volumes abound in lively sallies, capital sketches of men and manners, interesting narratives, and amusing anecdotes, all given in Sam Slick's attractive and inimitable manner. Here and there, in our wanderings through the co lony, we meet with some interminable talker, from whose lips, once opened, pours forth an endless stream of anecdotes, reminiscences, and incredible facts; related with the most unblushing effrontery, mingled—strange as it may seem—with maxims of wisdom and lessons of philosophy, doubly attractive, and hence doubly valuable, from the quaint and original manner in which they are set forth. As a sample of the charac ters to be met with in this colony, and also as a specimen of Sam Slick's rattling style, we beg to intro duce Master 'Leh Hunt, " a drover and horse-jockey, who lives on the road, and is the pest of every tavern, and the torment of all travellers." " < Morning to you, Squire !' he said, in his accus tomed loud tune and familiar manner. lam glad to see you I have been waiting for you for some time, to lock at a horse I have here, that will just suit,you. He is great, that's a fact; a per-ft et case, I assure you. He can trot his mile in two minutes and thirty seconds, and no break, shuffle-rack, or pace, but a handsome round trot, with splendid knee action; not pawing the air like make-believe, nor pounding the road like break ing stones, but a sort of touch-me-light-and-go-easy style, like the beat of a gall's finger on the pianny ; and so gentle, a child can manage him. When you want him to go, take up the reins and he's oft like a fox; when you want him to stop, throw them down, and he'll stand all day. The way he makes the spokes fly round in a w heel, so that you can only see the rim, as it it was a hoop, is amazing. It frightened me at tirtht, and I ain't easy scared by a horse. He is a su-perior animal, beyond all doubt. I never was suited before in all my lite, and I don't know as he ain't spoilt me, so I shall be suited agin. Sometimes I think I can't part with him any how, for I can't never get another like him; and sometimes I take a notion into my head I ought to sell him, as it is too much money for a poor man like me to have in a horse. You've hearn tell of Heber of Windsor, haven't you? Well, he's crazy after him; and, if he don't know a good one when he sees him, he does when he tries him, and that's more than most men do. I'd like you to have him, for you are a judge of a horse,— perhaps the best in these parts (though I've seen the leak put into you, too, afore now.) You will take good care of him, and I wouldn't like to see the critter knocked about like a corn. He will lead your tandem beautiful, and keep his traces up, without doing the whole work and killing himself. A thread will guide him; and then he knows how to slack up a going down hill, so as not to drag the wheeler off his legs. Oh, he's a doll! His sinews are all scorpion tails and whipcords, and he's muscle enough for two beasts of his size. You can't fault him in no particular, for he is perfect, head or neck, shoulder or girth, back or loins, stifle or hock, or chest and bastions; and, as for hoofs, they actilly seem as if they was made a purpose for a trotter. In fact, you may say he's the greatest piece of stuff ever wrapped up in a horse-hide. Come and look at him, and judge for yourself. My price is two fifty; but, if you like him, say the word, and he is yours at two hundred dollars, for I'd like you to have him. I consait he'll suit you to a notch, and do me credit too. Heavens and airth! ain't he the boy to slip by the officerb' tandems club to Halifax, like wink, and you a bitting at your ease, pretending to hold him in, and passing of them, nodding and laughing good natnred-like, as much as to say, 'Don't you wish you could keep the road now you've go it?"' Zeb's truthfulness being called in question, he thus satisfactorily establishes his character as a " candid" man : " ' Squire,' he said, turning away with apparent con tempt from the man who had ti educed him, ' if there is any one thing Lpride myself upon in the world, it is on being candid. I am straight up and down; what I say I mean, and what I mean I'll stand to. I take all man kind to be rogues, more or less, and, what's more, canting, hypocritical rogues, too ; for they pretend they are honest, all the time they are cheating the world and the devil. Now, I am straightforward, open, and above board. I pretend to nothing. I won't say not get the advantage ill can in a horse trade, or any other trade. I don't deny it. I avow it open. What sort of a deal would it be, were I to get the disadvantage always? Why, in six months, I shotildn't have a horse to trade with; for, what is trade, if you come to that, but gambling with the chances in your favour? I am not bound to tell my horses' faults. I don't like to dwell on the faults of my friends ; I praise their virtues. People don't cry stinking fish, in a giniral way, in any market I war ever in yet, becruse folks have noses, and can smell for themselves. I don't talk of sprains, curbs, and ring hones; people have eyes, and can see for themselves: and, if they ore too pinny careless to look, whose fault is that? No, sir, I scorn a dirty thing. 1 conceal no. thing. I say, publicly, I expect the advantage in a bar gain; and, if I can't get it, I don't trade. That's my rule, sir; and I don't care who knows it. I hate and despise pretence. The world's full of it. Every man, in a giniral way, has more cloaks to cover his villany than shirts to cover his back.' " My eyes were first opened to the baseness and falsehood of mankind in elections. I had no idea what rascals politicians were—canting about patriotism, re form, public spi r it, e d uca ti on , ame liorating the condition of the people, and so on; and all the time using these slang Words as blinds to conceal office and place seek ing, selfish ends, grasping public money, and what not. I first st arted in life on the 'I ory ticket, for I am a loyal man, and so was father afore me. He was a refugee loyalist, and left the estates and all his property to foliof the flag of his king into this cold country, that's only fit for wolves and bears. Well, we had a great election to Digby, and we carried in our Tory man, Lawyer Clam (him that was raised on the mud flats to the joggin); and, when our side won the day, ano I went to get my share of the plunder, he had the impudence to tell me all the offices that could be spared must be given to the Radicals, to conciliate them. 'Conciliate old Scratch!' says I: giving them fellows sops, is like giving bits of raw meat to bull-dogs ; it only makes them hungrier, luriouser, and wickeder.' But so it was, and so it always has been, with that party, in America; they don't stick to their friends, and I gins them up in disgust, and changed sides right away. " I am a candid man. lam willing to serve the country, but then I like reciprocation, and the country ought to serve me. Friendship can't stand on one leg long, and, if it does, it's plain it can't go ahead much at at any rate. Well, bymeby, the Rads come in. Now,' said I, remember Z, b Hunt; he wants an office.' But, lo and behold I the offices were all wanted for the leaders, and there were none left for the followers but the office of drudges. Seeing they were both tarred with the same stick, one side of which had too much liberality, and the other too much selfishness, I thought my chance would be better to lay hold ,on both ends of the rope; and I went on both sides, one foot on one and one foot on t'other; but they pulled so far apart, they straddled me so wide, they nearly split me up to the chin. Politics, squire, are like pea-soup; they are all very well and very good when kept well stirred; but, as soon as the stir is over, the thin part floats up by itself, and the rich and thick settles down for them who are at the bottom of things. Who ever heard of a fellow like me being choked by a Government loaf, cr his throat hurt by the bone of a fish that's too large to swallow? Now, I've taken uncle Tim's place; lam neuter. I avow it, for I'm a candid man; and a fellow can't be honest if he don't speak up plain. lam neuter now, and courted by both sides, and whichever comes nearest my mark will get me. But neuter is my ticket just now.' " Zeb has all the talk to himself. The most casual observation draws from him anecdote upon anecdote, of which the following is a specimen. A friend in quires after his mother, and hopes she enjoys good health:— "' Pretty well,' replied Master Zeb; pretty much as usual; she is about and stirring, though she complains a little of rheumatism lately, and my opinion is, it was " Chick, chick, chick !" that caused it.' " Chick, chick, chick said the other; what under the sun's that ? I never heard of such a complaint !' "'Lord bless you !' said Zeb. I thought that every body that know'd mother, know'd that story. Five years ago, come next summer, the old lady made a trip to Ha lifax, in one of our Digby coasters, to see sister Susan nab, that is married in that city to Ted Fowler, the up holsterer, and took a whole lot of little notions with her to market to bear expenses; for she is a saving kind of body, is mother, and likes to make two ends meet at the close of the year. Among the rest, was the world and all of eggs, for she was a grand hand in a poultry-yard. Some she stowed away in boxes, and some in baskets, and some in tubi so that no one accident could lose them all for her. Well, under the berths in the cabin were large drawers for bedding; and the routated that out, and packed them full of eggs in wool, as snug as you please, and off they started on their voyage. Well, they had nothing but calms, and light airs, or head winds, and were ever so long in getting to town; and, when they anchored, she got her duds together, and began to collect her eggs all ready for landing. The first drawer she opened, out hopped ever so many chickens on the cabin floor, skipping and hopping about, a-chirping, " Chick, chick, chick !" like anything I " Well, if that don't beat all !' said mother, and she looked the very picture of doleful dumps. I hope there is no more of them a coming into the world that way, without being sent for l' and she opened a second, and out came a second flock, with a 6 Chick, chick, chick I' and another and another, till she pulled them all out. The cabin floor was chock full of them; for the heat and confined bilge air had batched all the eggs that were in the close and hot drawers. • " Oh, the captain, and passengers, and sailors, they roared with laughter I Mother was awful mad, for no thing makes one so angry as accidents that set folks off a tee-hee-ing in that way. If any body had been to blame but herself, wouldn't they have caught it, that's all? for scolding is a great relief to a woman; but as there war'nt nothing left but to cry; and scolding and crying are two safety-valves that have saved many a heart from busting. " 6 Well, the loss was no great, though she liked to take care of her coppers, too; it was the vexation that wot ried her. But the worst was to come yet. When she returned home, the boys to Digby got hold of the story, and, wherever she went, they called out after her " Chick, chick, chick 1" I skinned about half-a dozen of the little imps of mischief for it, but it only made them worse ; for they hid in porches, and behind doors, and gates, and fences, as soon as they seed her a-coming, and roared out, " Chick, chick, chick 1" and nearly bothered her to death. So she give going out any more, and never leaves home now. It's my opinion, her rheu matism is nothing but the effect of want of exercise, and all comes from that cursed • Chick, chick, chick 1' " According to the oft-quoted fable, a brick is no spe cimen of a house, and these extracts give but an inadequate idea of the fund of wit and wisdom con tained in these very amusing ♦olumes. NEW MUSIC. 1. MY BROAD LANDS I HOLD IN TRUST FOR THE POOR. Sung by Mr'. Weiss. Com posed by E. J. Loden 2. SAY WILT THOU ROAM WITH ME. Sung by Miss Poole. Composed by E. J. Loder. 3. OH ! WERE NOT THIS A WORK OF BLISS. Sung by Illiss Poole. Composed by E. J. Loden 4. OH! SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF DAYS LONG VANISHED.' Swig by Mr. Charles Braham. Composed by E. J. Loder. 5. MY VILLAGE CHURCH. Ballad sung by Mr. Weiss. Composed by E. J. Loder. The above songs are all from the ballad opera of Robin Goodfellow, one of the most beautiful of Loder's compositions, and which is now being performed nightly at the Princess's Theatre with almost unexampled success. No. 1 and No. 5 are bass songs ; both are excellent, but the melody of the latter is more flowing, and from the sentiment expressed in the words, and admirably rendered in the music, it cannot fail to be popular. No. 1 is a glorious composition, full of spirit and warmheartedness. It is just the song for an amateur to sing to a party assembled around tilt Christmas fireside. Nos. 2 and 3 are beautiful and graceful melodies, No. 2 being a most agreeable and sparkling composition. No. 4 is an exquisitely plaintive me- lody, full of sentiment and expression. It is by no means difficult of execution, and will no doubt be a great favourite with all amateurs who possess a to. lerable tenor voice. THE HAPPIEST SPOT ON THE OCEAN A National Song. By J. Beuler. This is one of the happiest ot Mr. Beulees efforts; although a chanson de circonstance, more particularly adapted to the present state ot the times, yet it has so much character about it that it can never become obsolete. Both words and melody are full of spirit. Old Charles Dibdin might have written this song and have been proud of it. WOOD'S EDITION OF THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND. No. XXII. The present number of this truly national work contains the popular songs of " Och! Hey Johnnie lad ;" "The Night is dark, the Way is long; " "Up in the Morning early ;" " Annie Laurie; Aiken Drum ; " " Since all thy Vows , false Maid," (this beautiful lyric is set to the air of ? " Cromlet's Lilt") ; "O'er the Muir amang the Heather," and "Bonnie Jean." The pianoforte accompaniments to these songs are composed by Messrs. Finlay Dun, T. M. Mudie, J. T. Surenne, and H. E. Dibdin. The songs are copiously illustrated by notes containing much curious information, interesting alike to the musician, the antiquarian, and lover of the romance of family history. The manner in which this work is produced reflects the highest credit on its accom plished editor, Mr. George Farquhar Graham. CO CICS' S MUSICAL ALMANAC for 1849, containing all the Useful Information to be found in every Almanac. Also, the days of Birth and Death, and the Remarkable Events appertaining to all distinguished Musicians and Vocalists of every Age and Nation. Had the promises contained in the title-page been fairly carried out, this would have been really a valu able manual of musical information; but, unfor tunately, the most important thing recorded of all the musicians and vocalists whose names are mentioned in these pages,,,is, that the works they composed, or the songs they sung, are published by Cocks and Co. The music shop of Cocks and Co. is, according to this work, the vestibule to the Temple of Immortality. It is, in short, an advertisement in the guise of a goodly octavo pamphlet. SUSSEX• HALL LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTI TUTION.—Last night a ball was given at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, under Jewish patronage, to celebrate the anniversary of the opening of the Jews and General Literary and Scientific Institution, Sussex-hall, Leadenhall-street. This institution, with its library, reading-room, lectures, and evening classes, has supplied the means of instruction and amusement to great numbers of persons living in the eastern portion of the metro polis, a n d it s succes s has fully justified the anticipations of the wealthy and influential Jews who founded it, and under whose patronage the ball of last night was held. Between 300 and 400 persons were present, among whom we observed Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Mr. Hana nel de Castro, President of the institution; Mr. Salomons, Mr. C. Anstey, M.P., and several of the vice-presidents and officers of the institution. Jullien's band discoursed the sweetest music, Mr. Corrie made an efficient master of the ceremonies, a liberal supply of refreshments was at hand, and the dark-eyed Rebeccas and Jessicas were dancing away as if the Jewish Emancipation Act were already passed, or if the p eop l e h ad a l rea d y passe d t h e i r own emancipation act who are among the foremost in acts of charity and liberal and discriminating benevo lence towards their fellow-citizens. MARGATE.—The trial of John Clelan Bennett, the Margate Savings Bank defaulter, who was committed . to Dover gaol, has been removed to the assizes, true bills having been found against him for felony and misde meanor.—Contabn Journal. AMlftro WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN UARY 17, 1849a el) trb s,7llttion NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTI TITTION-(THIS DAY.) A Special Meeting of the members of this successful Assurance and Provident Institution was held by requi sition to-day, at twelve o'clock, at the London Tavern, Mr. Lucas in the chair, for the purpose of considering the propriety of rescinding one of the rules, which ren ders retiring directors ineligible for re-election for two years. Mr. LOCKHART, of Dunstable, proposed a resolution to the effect, that the rule be rescinded, and that retiring directors be eligible for re-election immediately on their retirement. He said the feeling of the members was altogether in favour of the immediate alteration of the rule, as at present they might lose gentlemen who had acquired experience in their service, and who might re tire at a time when their services were more than usually valuable. Mr. BROWN, of Liverpool, seconded the proposition. Mr. BURR, of Rochester, intimated that he represented 500 mernbe.rs, who were of opinion that the alteration was most essential for the benefit of the institution. Mr. RICHARDSON proposed an amendment negativing the proposition, on the ground that if it was carried they shout- have a stationary directory; which was seconded by Mr. BULL&M' of Battersea. Mr. GAMMON (one of the auditors) said a careful review of the accounts and proceedings of the institution for the last few years convinced him that the greatest injury might result if the present rule continued in existence. I nasmuch as the institution had lent 300,0001. on mortgage, it was most desirable that those who had investigated the se curities. and who had conducted their affairs so success fully, should be retained, the members having the power, as now, to dismiss any directors who proved objectionable. After a prolonged discussion, in which Mr. Shaw, Mr. Alderman Wilson, and Mr. Tyler took parr, the motion was adopted by all save six of the 200 members who constituted the meeting. Some formal business having been transacted, and a vote• of thanks passed to the Chairman and directors, the meeting separated. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK.—(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held this afternoon at the Bank, Lothbury, Charles Gibbes, Esq. in the chair. The meeting was a very large one. The CHAIRMAN said that the report was of a more satisfactory character than that which had been pre sented at the meeting in July last.—(Cheers.) They were now, fortunately, enabled to pay the usual divi dend of 61. per cent., to restore to the reserve fund the amount which was taken away from it, and to make a little addition to it.—(Cheers.) He assured them that the bank was in a soundland healthy state, and that the business continued surely and steadily to increase. The following is the report of the board:— " The directors have to report that the net profits of the bank, during the last half-year, have amounted to 37,2371. 3s. ld. Out of these profits they now declare a dividend, at the rate of six per cent. per annum. After the payment of this dividend, there will remain the sum of 7,2371. 3s. Id. to be added to the surplus fund, which will then amount to 102,7231. 16s. I Id. " The three directors, who go out by rotation, are Thomas Chapman, Esq., Joshua Walker, Esq., and Henry Buckle, Esq., all of whom, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election." Mr. TITE suggested {the expediency, as the rest or surplus fund amounted to neerly 100,0001., that some effort should be made on the part of the directors to in crease the amount of dividend during the life of the pre sent shareholders. It had been felt by many of the proprietors that the large amount invested in Govern ment Securities, 1,200,000 i., was unusual. He wished to inquire whether there were any circumstances which made it necessary that so large an amount should be in vested in property producing so small an amount of in terest ? He also understood that it was thought unde sirable to present a statement of the accounts half yearly.—(Cries of "No, no !") When he proposed the resolution for a half-yearly instead of a yearly meeting, it was in[order that they might meet each other more frequently. He now thought it better that the dividend should be considered only once a year, but they might nevertheless meet half-yearly. Mr. Tite concluded by proposing an amendment that the accounts should be submitted, and the dividend declared, at the meeting in January, and that the June meeting should be confined to the other affairs of the company. Mr. LEVY opposed the motion, seeing that the board had yielded to their wishes to meet twice a year, and the shareholders were satisfied with the arrangement, and if the directors thought it inconvenient they were surely not so mealy mouthed as to be afraid to say so. The CHAIRMAN stated that the directors would leave the matter entirely in the hands of the shareholders.— (Hear, hear.) As to the Government Securities, the directors thought that they should be of that large amount to answer the capital of the bank. They were the best possible security, and when they could be made available in times of panic the shareholders might be at their ease; whilst other securities realising , a larger return could not be made available during the last panic, although quite good and bona fide. The amendment was ultimately withdrawn, and the report received and adopted. After some further suggestions with reference to the position and management of the bank, the following di rectors, who went out by rotation, were re-elected : Thomas Chapman, Esq , Joshua Walker, Esq., and Henry Buckle, Esq. Alter a suggestion that the salaries of the clerks should be increased, a resolution was proposed and se conded to reduce the allowance of the directors from 4,500/. to 3,0001., which was, however, negatived. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. having one of the best of the French 'generals, if necessary, as Commander-in-Chief of the army. The report of an insurrection at Modena turns out to be unfounded ; but it appears that, on the 4th, there was great excitement, owing to a rumour that the whole of the municipal body had resigned. The shops were shut up, in the fear of a general rising of the populace, and artillery was brought into the streets by the Government; but the rumour of the resignation of the municipal body not being con firmed, tranquillity was not disturbed, and the artil lery was withdrawn. trains, but the English-mails did not reach Boulogne. The captains of the vessels declared that being de tained in the port of Dover, where the bad weather prevented the boat service in the roads for so long a time as to leave no hope of saving the Boulogne train of fifty minutes past three, they steered for Calais, in order to be in time for the six o'clock train on the Great Northern. Out of the 305 times that the English mail arrived at Boulogne, there were 40 times that it arrived too late for the train of 3b. 50m., viz. : January 1,5, 7. 9, 18, 26, 28 ... 7 times February 4,5, 6, 10, 25, 26, 27, 28 8 „ March 2,3, 12, 23 ... ... 4 „ April 12, 13, 14, 18 ... ... 4 May 17 ... ••• ••• .. „ June 14, 28, 29, 30 ... .. 4 „ July 22, 26 ... ••• ... 2 „ August 22 1 ~ October 10, 11, 20, 21, 28 5 ~ November 7, 21, 26 ... 3 „ December 7 ... 1 40 times. Out of these 40 delays, that of Jan. 9 was occa sioned by an accident to the Princess Alice-that of April 18 by an accident on the Dover Railroad-and that of Oct. 20 by an accident to the Undine (3). Jan. 1,7, Feb. 5, and May 17, a thick fog prevented the captains seeing the entrance to the port; they prudently kept off, and were too late (4). Jan. 18, 28, Feb. 6, 10, 27, 28, March 2, 12, July 22, August 22, Oct. 21, Nov. 21, and Dec. 7, the road service at Dover was impracticable, the packets were compelled to remain in the harbour, and could not get out till it was too late to make Boulogne before the departure of the train (13). Jan. 26, Feb. 26, March 23, April 12, and Oct. 28. -The late arrival of the packets in our roads did not permit the disembarkation of the mails by boat, a service so easy in itself, in sufficient time. It should be remarked that the first five dela3 s would not have occurred if the station had been then, as now, at Boulogne (6). Total, 26 delays, which cannot evidently be attri buted either to the difficulty of access to the port of Boulogne, or to that of communicating by boats with packets in its roadstead. There remains, then, 14 delays out of 40, for which the port of Boulogne may be considered responsible ; and out of that small number we should not have had to reckon January 5, February 4, and March 3, if our port had been provided (which it was not for six months) with boats suitable to the road service. Since then two boats have been constructed (3). Finally, April 13, 14, June 14, 18, 22, 30, July 26, Oct. 10, 11, Nov. 7 and 26, the landing of the mail, by boats in the offing, was rendered impossible or dangerous by stress of weather (11). During the past year the mails landed at Calais have arrived at Boulogne too late for the eight o'clock train, 38 times, viz. :-8 times in January, 3 in February, 2 in March, 1 in April, 1 in May, 1 in June, 1 in July, 2 in August, 1 in September, 9 in October, 4 in November, and 5 in December. We cannot conclude this article without recurring to the singular coincidence that the last days of November and the Ist of December should see the mails go to Calais, and Lord Clanricarde come to France. To say the least of it, it afibrded an argu ment in favour of Calais. We would also inquire, do the public reap any advantage by the mails going to Calais when the captains choose, or are compelled to be too late for Boulogne ? If the dispatches arrived at Boulogne too late for the 3h. 50m. morning train, they would go by the eight o'clock night train, reach Paris at four in the morning, ;and form part of the first delivery. If they go to Calais to save the six o'clock morning train they would arrive in Paris (according to the printed bills of the Great Northern line), at a quarter to eight in the evening ; but considering that this arrival is only at the ter minus, and that it takes another half-hour to forward them to the Post-office, to say nothing of the time required for sorting, are they, or can they be de livered that same evening? If not, the public de rive no benefit whatever from these voyages de plaisance a Calais. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Mager, banker, Lower Team, Durham. BANKRUPTS. William Broady, commission agent, Heiken-street, Belgrave-square, to surrender Jan. 24, at two, and Feb. 27, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, offi cial assignee; Clarke, George-street. Mansion-house. Lazarus Congdon, painter, Spring-street, Paddington, Jan. 30, at one, and Feb. 27. at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Depree, Law rence-lane, Cbeapside. Christopher Joseph Knapping, cattle dealer, Eastwood, Essex, Jan. 23, at one, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Chid lay, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street. Thomas Carpenter Dixon, oilman, Gravesend, Jan. 25, at twelve, and Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch lane; Philp, Great St. Helen's. John Coles, baker, Launton, Oxfordshire, Jan. 27, at one, and March 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, G uildhall • chambers, Basinghall street; Lawrence and Plews, Old Jewry-chambers. Edward William Hunt, victualler, Nevrgate-market, Jan 30, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Vaughan, Lincoln's Inn fields. Zebulun Leigh, tea merchant, Manchester, Feb. 1, at eleven, and Feb. 16, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Johnson and Co., Temple; Ilitchcwk, Buckley, and Tidswoll, Manchester. Horatio Kemp, discount agent, Threadneedle-street, City, Jan. 27, at one, and March 3, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street;lcote, George-street, Mansion-house. Robert William Hunter, baker, Praed-street, Pad dington, Jan. 22, at twelve, and Feb. 22, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Knight, Basingball-street. William Childerhouse, jun., builder, Montpelier place, Brompton, Jan. 26, at half-past one, and March 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stangeld, official assignee ; Gibbon, Great James street, Bedford row. William Thornley, grocer, Ripley,'Derbyshire, Jan. 26 and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court, Nottingham. Bittleston, official assignee, Not tingham; Ingle, Belper. William Parrott, stone mason, Leicester, Jan. 26 and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court, Nottingham. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottinghan; Dibben, Leicester; Rowley, Nottingham. John Jackson, farmer, Clifford, Herefordshire, Jan. 31 and Feb. 28, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Pugh, Hay, Brecknockshire ; Chaplin, Birmingham. Henry Richard Benbow, veterinary surgeon, Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, Jan. 30 and Feb. 27, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Blozham, Birmingham. Daniel Boit, sharebroker, Bristol, Jan. 13 and Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Rennie, official assignee, Bristol; Crosby, Bristol ; Jay, Sergeaut's Inn, Fleet-street. John Menhenitt, builder, Plymouth, Jan. 25, at one, and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Kelly, Plymouth; Stogdon, Exeter; Harris, Sone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn. Robert Lodge, miner, Starbottom, West Riding of Yorkshire, Jan. 29 and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Bell and Co.. Bow Church-yard, London ; Watson, Sed bergh ; Bell, Leeds. John Serjeant, grocer, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Feb. 3 and March 3, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds; Moss, Ser geant's•inn; Branson and Son, Sheffield. William Garret, bookseller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan. 24, at half-past one, and Feb. 22, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Birkett and Son, Cloak-lane ; Jobling and Fleming, Newcastle•upon- Tyne. DIVIDENDS. At tb• Court, Basinghall-street. Sophy West, Hornchurch, Essex, saddler, Feb. 6, at eleven C. F. Smyrk, Lavina-grove, Wharf-road, builder, Feb. 9, at twelve. In the Country. J. Roberts, Liverpool, ironmonger, Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Hignett, Liverpool, __. tobac conist, Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpoo l ! , i Roberts, Denbigh, innkeeper, Feb. 12, at eleven, at t h e hire, Court, Liverpool—J. S. Manby, Burnley, i t ironmonger, Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Court, wen , Ln —J. F. Fletcher, and IL Fletcher, Over Dar wen, t . e Feb. 9, at twelve : V the ancbester cashire, cotton manufacturers, Court, Manct the Court, Newcastle hester—W. B. Briddick Durham, iron and steel dealer, Feb. 9, at eleven, a Newcastle upon-Tyne. PAYMENT OF grocer, 25., on Saturday, Jan. J. Rutherford, Carlisle, IDIVID . ENDS. ten T end three, at the office 13, or any Saturday, betweense.o n. yne. of Mr. Wakley, Newca I t , : 0 in Ireland, draper, ss. 9d., on T. Browne, Limerick, Tuesday, between ten and one, 1 Tuesday,. Jan. . f.. ~.Y_ I .s ; r ° .edoeson, Manchester. . T. ji. hay, Newton heath, Manchester, at the office of S. Detbick and j. commo n brewers, 10S. 9d., on Tuesd a y, J an. 23, or any Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. W. F. Fenton, West Smithfield, City, lead and glass merc hant, ls. 6d., on Thur s d a y, J an. 18, and three fol lowing Thursdays, between twelve and three, at the office o f Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. J. Goodcheape, Aldersgate- street, City, and Princess street, Marylebone, furnishing undertaker, 4s. Id., on Thursday, Jan. 18, and three following Thursdays, be tween twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-streat. J. Trevers, sen., Gloucester-place, Old Kent-road, and J. Trevers, jun., Apollo-buildings, Walworth, Surrey, carpenters and builders, 205., any Wednesday between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basing hall -street. G. Duplan, Regent's•place, Westminster, tea dealer, 2s. 4id., any Wednesday, between eleven and three, at the (Ace of Mr. Whituivre, BuiDghall-street. G. Webster, Hedge-row, Islington, licensed victualler, 9id., any Wednesday, between eleven and three, at the dike of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall• street. Matilda Sarah Oxley and Margaret Oxley, Norfolk crescent, Hyde Park, h ote l and bearding and lodging housekeepers, 2s. Sid., any Wednesday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basioghall street. Jane Dowdier, Shrewsbury, jeweller, aid., any Friday, between eleven and three, at the office of Air. Whitmore, Birmingham. G. W. Dean, High-street, Southw ar k, j eweller, 2s. 9d., on Saturday, an. 13, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane. S. G. Fryman, Rye,'wine and spirit merchant, 78., on Saturday, Jan. 13, and three subsequent Saturdays, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Ab ehurch-lane. H. Wyer, Newington-causeway, tailor and draper, 5d., on Wednesday, Jan. 17, and three subsequent Wednes days, between ten and two, at the office of Mr. Tar quand, Guildhall-chambers. J. Willis, Liverpool, merchant, is., on Wednesday, Jan. 17, or any subsequent Wednesday, between eleven and two, at the office of M r . F o ll ett, Li verpoo l . J. Willis and J. T. Swainson, Liverpool, merchants, Is., on Wednesday, Jan. 17, or any subsequent Wednes. day, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Follett, Liverpool. W. Crankshaw, Preston, cotton-spinner, 3s. 4d., on Tuesday, Jan. 9, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. J. Nall, Chesterfield, grocer, second dividend of 6d. and 2s. 6d., on Tuesday, Jan. 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. C. Fletcher, Greenwich, coal merchant, Feb. 9, at twelve—W. Collard, Ramsgate, bread baker, Feb. 7, at eleven—T. Williams, Jermyn-street, Westminster, licensed victualler, Feb. 7, at eleven—F. W. M. Collins and A. Reynolds, Charter-house-square, Aldersgate street, engravers and printers, Feb. 13, at twelve—ll.M. Wells, Ramsgate, baker, Feb. 13, at eleven—J. Thorman, Grosvenor-street, Camberwell, wholesale tea-dealer, Feb. 9, at eleven—J. F. Wills, Portsmouth, wharfinger, Feb. 13, at one—J. E. Bacon, Upper Russell-street, Ber mondsey, and Maismore-square, New Peckham, leather factor, Feb. 9, at one. In the Country. J. Hogg, Walcot, Somersetshire, draper, Feb. $, at the Court, Bristol—W. and J. D. Couch, Swansea, sail makers and ship chandlers, Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—W. Carpenter, Liverpool, shipowner, Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Ridgway, Liverpool, merchant, Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—A. Johnson, Liverpool, licensed victualler, Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool —A. Powell, Shenstone, Staffordshire, engineer, Feb. 14, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—T. Wright, Hensley, Stafford shire, tailor, Feb. 10, at twelve, at the Court, Birming ham—G. Hardon, Preston, joiner and builder, Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester. At the Court of Review, Feb. 6. J. B. Murphy, Derby, jeweller—A. Armstrong, Sal ford, Lancashire, ironmonger —W. Tanner and J. Ward, Leadenhall-place and Leadenhall-market, leather factors —J. Feeny, Liverpool, hotel keeper—G. Cowsill, Black ford-bridge, Lancashire, calico printer—R. V. Furlong, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, wine and spirit merchant— H. Wynn, Liverpool, broker—M. Preston, Wakefield, surgeon LI. Buckland, Charles -street, Manchester square, cabinet maker—W. Tench, Winlaton, Durham, grocer —G. Banks, Lymington, builder—N. Denton, Gorton, Lancashire, hat manufacturer—J. Carter, Swaff ham, Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, grocer—A. Jessop, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, auctioneer—Betty and James Crankabaw, higher Booths. Lancr.shire, cotton spinners. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. Pearce and J. Pearce, Canford Magna, Dorset shire, builders—R. Whibley, sen., R. Whibley, jun., and A. Whibley, Sittingbourne, Kent, hosiers—W. H. Cope and E. Deeley, Oldswinferd and Kingswinford, Stafford shire, glass manufacturers—R. B. Cooper, J. R. Cooper, W. Scholefield, and J. D. Goodman, Birmingham, gun-manufacturers (so far as regards R. B. Cooper)—G. Parbury and W. Thacker, London, general merchants— H. E. Davey and H. Essery, Blackburn, Lancashire, curriers—W. Lambert and S. Lambert, Bath, book binders—J. Silvester, L. Blackstone, and J. H. Lane, Manchester, manufacturer of pegged boots and shoes— J. Silvester and L. Blackstone, Manchester, merchants —J. Davis and E. F. Hurry, Dalton, Lancashire, steel converters—W. Jacobson and T. Phillips, Plymouth, attorneys—G. Forster, J. Barlow, and Mary Fouracre, Stardish-with-Laegtree, Lancashire, coal miners (so far as regards G. Forster)—J. G. Waterfall and A. Heath, Sheffield, confectioners—H. W. Schneider, J. Davis, E. Hurry, and E. F. Hurry, Dalton, Lancashire, iron masters—C. Rogers, T. Lowrey, A. Monday, and J. A. Bennett, Watling. street (so far as regards J. A„ Bennett and A. Monday)—T. Tagg and 'l'. A. Tagg, Bishops gate-street, furnishing undertakers--G. Macdona and R. Macdona, Dublin, and Regent-street, wine -merchants —W. Bird and E. George, Hereford, and Withington, Herefordshire, English timber merchants —C. T. Hopkinson and J. H. Milward, Pall•mall, tailors— E. Bloxome, jun., and A. Jackson, Duraley, Gloucestershire, attorneys-at-law—J. B. Wagstaff, S. L. Kenyon, and A. Sandiford, Manchester, engravers to calico printers—J. Wood and H. Meese% Northiam, Sussex, grocers—W. Gatliff and R. Hutchin son, Leeds, stuff• and blanket merchants—J. M. Robin son and T. Ingram, Leicester, attorneys—AV. T. Adcock and T. Thompson, Manchester, livery stable keepers— W. B. Fisher and J. Howell, Langthorpe, Yorkshire, seed•cruhhers—G. C. Fletcher and J. B. Roberts, Wandsworth, attorneys at Schofield, Ben., J. Schofield, jun., R. Schofield, and W. W. Schofield, Rochdale, woollen manufacturers (so far as regards R. Schofield), and London, Ihnnel manufacturers and ware housemen (absolutely)—J. Ford and W. Chadwick, Glossop, Derbyshire, and Manchester, paper makers— W. A. Long and J. Smith, Wotton-under-edge, Glou cestershire, clothiers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Henry Henley, Exeter. • John Fox Warner, Wolverhampton, schoolmaster. Henry Butler, Birmingham, carrier's clerk. William Shiliou, Handsworth, Staffordshire. Samuel Waterfield, ,Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, builder. Thomas Tutin, jun., Birmingham, journeyman butcher. John Gray, West Derby, Lancashire, nurseryman. George Cooper, jun., Leading Post-street, Yorkshire, jeweller. Thomas William Nichols, Lower Tranmere, Cheshire, glazier. John Pearse, jun.. Bampton, Devonshire, saddler and harness maker. Hannah Whitworth, Bingham, Nottinghamshire. Charles Ley, jun., Nottingham, cooper. Thomas Edward Carpenter, West Teignmouth, Devon shire. Maria Buxton, Dudley, Worcestershire, stone mason. Epaphras Seage, Exeter, whitesmith. Robert Ware, Exeter. George Butler, Darlaston, Staffordshire, gun lock filer. Henry Cresswell, St. Michael's, Somersetshire, clerk. Richard Kelsall, Burslem, Staffordshire, fishmonger. John Thomas Kent Sloan, Sheffield, comedian. Ralph Lomas, Manchester, retail beer seller. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. Young, Woodside Ayrshire, grain dealer, to meet within the Eglinton Arms Inn, Irvine, Jan. 23 and Feb. 8, at twelve. J. Miller, Crieff, manufacturer, to meet within Robert son's Drummond Arms Inn, Crieff, Jan. 22 and Feb. 19, at one. THE NIGHTINGALE THAT SINGS IN THE WINTER. When the waters aro stark, and the crystalline snow Sparkles keen and unchanged in the morn's ruddy glow, And the prism coloured icicles flash in the sun, The bitter cold stills all the song-birds but one. Now the linnet. the lark, and the throstle are dumb, E'en the stout little wren's gallant heart is o'ercome, And the Nightingale, warbler so wondrous of tone, That sings iu the winter, is tuneful alone. Sweetest creature, in song without rival or peer, Far more inwardly vibrate thy notes than the e_ f a i r i , : ed For there speaks in that music, pure, gentle , r' The exquisite voice of a beautiful mind-- rutb, Of a spirit of earnestness, goodness, and t ruth, Of a heart full of tender compassion and bless, Ever ready to comfort, and succour, a In sorrow and suffering, in want and distres s. 'earaised; faint voices is praised, the children with 1 And the Nightingale's name For poverty aided and Ch_ whom by 3 childhood believes—. Genius attest, eaves. Not Th e more r°a d br re to a memory revered, By in tribute and love monuments reared, Nightingale's breast. By her magical voice o mmunicrn with G • thrillsc in the Niglitin The high minded good ett st s ' t . a h s a that ceobvierrdeadlnit 1 this Nightingale rare, .in the winter wh o sings, Being t sings, a ser a p h, is one ' Be i ng not Yet. without wings ; Which gloriawdy And her name , which has travelled wide ' as as the wind, I s kind-hearted, generous, dear Jenny Lin d. p h ....-- une • THE NEW CITY SEWERS------COMMISSION.—Yester day and during the last few days the official gentlemen connected with the Corporation of the City of London have been engaged in operation of the new Act makingaking arrangements of Parliament for appoint ment of Com m i ss i oners of Sewers forthecityof L fo u r nd th on e the and the liberties thereof, and the due regulation of the paving and lighti ng o f t h e sa id Ci ty . Th e p re li m i nar y steps havi ng b een taken by special meet i ng on t h e part of the committee of the Common Council appointed fur such a purpose, the names selected will, it is expected. I on Thursday next, be submitted for approval to the Court of Common Council. It is expected that the seal of the new commission will be opened on the Tuesday next following such meeting of the commonalty. The late chairman of the old commission, it is rumoured. will he appointed as the president, the members being chiefly appointed from the late body of Commissioners. Certain members to represent the district of the City at the Metropolitan Board will also be chosen. THE BORDER HIGH PRIEST.—The death of Mr. Collins seems to have broken the spell of monopoly, for instead of a single successor there are now, to our knowledge, no fewer than eight persons offering their services to the public, willing to :perform the marriage ev e h d i m h e to should ceremony on the shortest notice possible . One of th ese officiators told us that he had this w eek been o pp r essed b with b l the ige a d m t o o upnrtocoufrbaussinnef‘s, ass"atid he convey believed Scot land and ho me aga i n . Another sho wed us a published to announcement of his having commenced business, in which he states that be will be ready for his duty " by night or by day." Such industry and accommodation may well put the sons of Levi to the blush,..-Berwich . Aslcertisor. FRANCE. The Moniteur says:—" Several journals, in speak• ing of a mission to Piedmont confided to General Pelet, have given it a character and bearing which does not belong to it. We hasten to place the facts in their true light. At the time of the election of M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte to the Presidency of the French Republic, his Majesty the King of Sardinia sent a special agent to Paris to congratulate the Pre sident. Therefore, there is nothing more in the mission to Turin than sending a person in the name of the President of the French Republic to thank his Majesty Charles Albert, an act of courtesy in con formity with international usages." " Marshal Bugeaud, whose health is completely , re-established, will," says the Siecle," take his depar ture at the end of the month for the army of the Alps. He will at first fix his head- quarters at Lyons, re moving them afterward s nearer the Alps should hos tilities be again renewed between Austria and Pied mont. Charles Albert shows himself more and more resolved to confide the command of his army to a French general." M. Duchatel is arrived at Havre. He has an nounced (says the Corsairc) that he will not come to Paris, but will go to reside on his estate near Bor deaux. PRUSSIA. The Berlin State Gazette, of 13th, contains a declaration of the Minister of Justice relative to the Members of the National Assembly, who are being prosecuted before the tribunals for having decreed the refusal of the taxes. The Minister denies the insinuation of several journals that the Go vernment has acted in a spirit of persecu tion, or with the view to prevent the re-elec tion of the deputies. He says that the judges who are independent, and the public prosecutors will only act according to their consciences, and the laws. The public prosecutors cannot, he adds, prosecute any one except in virtue of the law. And though it be true that the Minister of Justice can order anin vestigation against any one, yet he declares that he has not done so with regard to the deputies of the dissolved National Assembly. The New German Gazette of the 12th states that the cholera is again making great ravages in Berlin. According to this journal, 165 persons had died of the disease since the beginning of the present month up to the 10th. FRANKFORT. The Frankfort Diet had not concluded the debate on the Austrian question, when, the post closed on the 13th. On that day, M. de Gagern again spok e , an d in sisted on the necessity of opening negotiations with Austria, which, he said, he was convinced would have a satisfactory result. Austria c ould not e n t er th e confederation with all her provinces, and she could not consent to a separation of them; ,so that negotia tions to define her positionin respect to Germany were necessary. M. de Gagern, referri ng t o t h e Chief of the Empire, said that his personal opinion was that the Chief should hold office with hereditary succession. RUSSIA The Menzel Eciw announces that the mo vemen t s of Russian troops continued in Poland , and th a t th e soldiers, who by the Emperor's positive orders were R ell clothed and paid, believed that they were to enter Italy in the spring. A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 4th states that the Government had received intelligence of the total disappearance of the cholera from Moscow. At St. Petersburgh the malady still exists, but with only the small number of 5 or 6 cases a day. ITALY. We learn from Turin, under date of the 10th, that the Commissi,on, in the interest of the Piedmontese Government for the Duchies of Parma, Placentia, Modena, Reggio, and Guastalla, having solicited Charles Albert to allow them to have a representative at Brussels for the purpose of aiding the Sardinian Charg d'Affaires by the information which he could give as to the affairs of Italy, the King has accredited Count Louis Sauvitali as the repre s e n t a ti ve o f t h e Duchies through the Sardinian Ambassador at the conferences at Brussels. The Opinione, of Turin, states that the Sardinian Government intends to form a foreign legion, com posed chiefly of Corsicans. French, Poles, and Spa niards, and that the Government has the certainty of SICILY. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 11th publishes official papers from Sicily, showing that, on the 28th ult., the Torrearsa Cabinet had resigned ; but that the President of the Sicilian Government, not having been able to form a Ministry, the former Cabinet, in obedience to a vote of the Chambers, had resumed their functions, and published a proclamation to the people, dated the 29th, in which, after stating their reasons for their resignation and their subsequent return to power, they recommended the people to observe tranquillity, if they would succeed in their struggle against Naples. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The growing indisposition of buyers to accede to the recent demand of producers, has been more manifest to-day than it was in the latter part of last week; and it is still felt far more de cidedly in yarns than in goods. In the former very little business has been done, and most of the counts and qualities that rose in price during the late excitement are found to have receded, in some degree, wherever sales have been effected. Water twist, of the qualities known as " common to good seconds," from 12's to 24's, have yielded more than the same descrip tions of mule. Spinnings for home manufacture are less affected than those for exportation, but they betray a somewhat diminished firmness. ,Manufac turers, having still more or less of contracts to work upon, are adhering to the advanced quotations with great firmness, in nearly all kinds of cloth, some of which are a good deal wanted, and difficult of purchase. Generally, however, the buyers are keeping aloof, in the expectation that, as orders run out, more favourable terms will become practicable; and, in some things, there are already slight symptoms of concession. In both goods and yarns, a struggle is now going on betwixt the producers and the buyers, in regard toiprice-. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—There has been a flat market to-day. Few buyers have attended, and prices may be quoted a shade lower. We have had more inquiries for wool, and those who have purchased have been obliged to give a small advance in price. HUDDERSFIELD. TUESDAY.—The market to-day can not be reported equal to that of last Tuesday ; neverthe theless, a considerable business has been done. During the week the wool merchants have been busy, and prices firm. Throughout the whole of our district,the prospects of trade are now cheerful. HALIFAX, SATURDAY. —There was a better attendance at our Piece-hall today; and more inquiry for goods, both plain and figured. In some cases an increased price was obtained, though not equal to the advance which has taken place in the raw material. In the warehouses there is a considerable business doing; but there is an impression that many of the purchases are on speculation, in anticipation of a rise in price. The aitivity in the yarn trade remains un abated; and some qualities are rather harder to buy. Much wool is changing hands; and there is still a ten dency to look up. The growers are more difficult to deal with, and are asking more than the staplers can sell it for. LEEDS, TIIESDAY.-Our this day's market showed a decidedly firmer tone, and a good deal of business has been transacted. Prices of all descriptions of cloth are rising, and even the better sorts cannot bs bought at the old rates.—Manchester Guardian. BOULOGNE v. CALAIS. (From the Boulogne Gazette.) In our last number we stated erroneously that the mail, via Dover and Boulogne, bad arrived at Bou logne, during the last year, " 46 times too late for the train ;" it should have been 40 times. The fact either way appears at first sight to sanction the charge of irregularity preferred against Boulogne by its too eager enemies. We hope, however, to be fa voured presently with such statistics, on the mail ser vice, via Dover and Boulogne, as shall at once dis pel the cloud of exaggerated and interested reports under which it has laboured. It may be too late to repair the mischief that has been done, but truth is acceptable at all times, and sooner or later will pre vail. The question is, not the late or non-arrivals of the mail at Boulogne, but the causes of those late or non-arrivals. It the inadequacy of the port of Boulogne were proved to be the cause, we should rejoice at the removal of the service to Calais, but, as we stated in our last, the night service at Boulogne was only attended by 46 (say now 40) de lays, while the day service at Calais was attended by no less than 38 for the same period. But there are many circumstances that may have prevented the due arrival of the mails at Boulogne, and over which the port itself may have had no possible control. For instance, if the mail cannot leave Dover, it cannot reach Boulegne ; if the captains of the mail packets choose to go to Calais, the mail at Boulogne may be expected in vain. Under the action of all or any of these contingencies, it is perhaps surprising that the irregularity of the port of Boulogne has not been greater than it has. We hope, however, to prove that by far the major part of these irregularities lie at any other door than that of the port of Boulogne. During the whole of last year, which was our year of trial, it is a fact that not one single day passed over without several steamers leaving the harbour of Boulogne, both by the day and night tides, while as many entered, except on Dec. 4, when, however, one left in the day time, and another in the night. Why then could not the mails come ? It is also a singular fact that, just at the time when Lord Clan ricarde visited Paris, the captains of the mail-packets visited Calais in preference to Boulogne. Their excuse was that it blew a gale of wind—and a long gale it was—but not so severe but that the steamers left and entered the Boulogne harbour as usual, and the boats carried off the mail bags to the packet in the roads as usual ! If we mistake not, Lord Clanricarde visited Paris during our September fetes, and it was then we fear that a parley to the preju dice of Boulogne took place. We maintain earnestly that never was a sea service more regularly main tained than at the port of Boulogne during the year 1848. Out of the forty delays occasioned to the regular transmission of letters to Paris, we hope to prove that 25, at least, are attributable to the port of Dover, the South-Eastern Railway, or the captains of the Boulogne mail packets. We know the disinclination of the cap tains for the port of Boulogne—we know their partia lity for the old beaten track of Calais. But it will be something new in these go-a-head times if prejudice for a particular port be suffered to interfere with the public weal. Hitherto the mail via Boulogne has been the greatest benefit ever conferred on the commercial re lations of France and England —to-morrow that benefit might be greatly increased. Five hours is amply suffi cient for the transit from Boulogne to Paris, which, if the system were adopted, would allow the captains of the mail-packets such latitude, as to time of starting from port to port, &c., that the perilous boat service would be almost annihilated. Generally speaking, the boats might steam from port to port without its intervention—and be in time. Greater regularity is not likely to be obtained at Calais, the same speed never can. Since writing the above we have been favoured with the following : STATISTICS OF THE PORT OF BOULOGNE FOR 1848. The mail from London to Paris, via Boulogne, leaves London every evening (Sundays excepted) at half-past eight o'clock, and arrives at Dover at eleven, performing the distance in two hours and a halt. About half-past eleven of the same evening it is put on board the packet in the Dover harbour, or sent off in a boat to the packet in the Dover roads, as the case may be, and ought to be landed on the quay at Bou logne before forty minutes past three in the morning, the train leaving Boulogne for Paris at fifty minutes past three. Deducting from the 366 days of the year 1848, 53 days for the morrows o f th e S un d ays, i and Christmas-day, it s clear that the mail has been forwarded to Boulogne 313 times. It has arrived at Boulogne 305 times, and the remaining eight, namely, March 1, Oct. 26, Nov. 29 and 30, Dec. 2,5, 6, and 8, it was landed at Calais. "Vas this change in its direction justified by circumstances ? —We shall see. March I.—lt blew a gale of wind from the S.W. The Dover roadstead was impracticable, and the mail could not leave the harbour till about half-past four, consequently too late. But, why did it not come to Boulogne ? It could have done so, for at the same moment that it quitted Dover, the Lord Warden left Folkestone for Boulogne, and the Queen of the French left Boulogne for Folkestone, both effecting their passages with the greatest ease—and yet the English mail could not do so ?—So much for that day. Oct. 26.—1 t was high water at Dover at half-past ten ; the mail therefore could easily leave at half-past eleven, and the wind being favourable, arrive at Boulogne at half-past one. Why then did it go to Calais ? It certainly was not on account of bad weather, and as a proof of the fact, a boat went out at three o'clock to the Onyx, in the Boulogne offing, with the mail destined for England. On that day the commerce of France and the Continent was deprived of its dispatches—and whose the fault ? Nov. 29, 30, and Dec. 2.—The tides served of b t o he both at Dover and Boulogne, that is, they allow n e departure from the quayatD theo ver ai s d o o a t s b tooatdrsr service ea e t the quay at Boulogne, without ofin e t i h t e he m r a r i o ls ad o s o t m ea e d irom Why, then, d to Bidoonlootgothee, particu larly i f o ro d m p Boulogne to D lar o l v y er a , s B.—There was theiraod with i b t r h o t a h l e e r s s captainsl favourablever wt Dec. 5,6, and Boulogne at the hou rs of the arrivall:lenty of water at and departure of the mails; those wh i c h carried to Dover the Fr ench mails went out of our port at the usual hour without difficulty, and immediately after the arrival of the IMO •+ T A to - Ye c u ld Ijso the rtf 13 . (el to PEE 1