The Sun. — London, England, 1824-03-11 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Pepers, March 11. ETRE TIMM] An Express from Paris, dated Monday, shows a fall of more then 21 per cent. in the French Funds. Such a fall naturally produced a corre sponding action on the English Market, and the Three per Cents. at one time were as low as 994. As soon as the matter began to be sifted, the alarm subsided. The fact is, that the arrival of the English Papers at Paris, with the account of the debate on Friday last, together with the de cisive language in Mr. Canning's dispatch, rela tive to South America, could not fail to cause a sensation among the monied men of the French metropolis, who are, if possible, more sensitive than our own. Sunday being a holiday, the ef fect of this agitation could not appear till Mon day, when it acted in the way we have described. Another cause, intimately connected with the preceding, was not without its force in both mar kets. It was confidently asserted, that a Con gress is to be held at Paris on South American affairs; and the circumstance of such a conference in the teeth of the English declaration was consi dered as a threatening and alarming omen. The best informed persons, however, do not believe that any such Congress will take place ; and if it does, we may venture to predict that the Holy Allies will not be very ready or willing to come to any open rupture with this country. France, for one, will not like to have to begin her work in Spain over again, knowing, as she does, the disturbed and angry state of that kingdom, ever after its " pacification and reduction to order."— The English Funds recovered in the course of the day. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Paris Papers of Monday, and Tuesday, reached our office yesterday. The Royalists have triumphed in the Capital; the four candi dates of that faction have been returned to the new Chamber, and the Constitutional candidates thrown out. Among these are the rich manufac turer Ternaux, the well-known banker Lafitte, and the intrepid Manuel, who was outrageously expelled by clamour and violence last Session. They ran the Royalists, however, close ; the ma jority obtained in every instance was trifling : Manuel stood the lowest on the lists, and the majority of Bertier, his Royalist antagonist, was little more than three hundred. Every engine of menace, influence, and corruption, was set at work to produce this consummation. The approaching Chamber will now be almost wholly Royalist, and it is impossible even to anticipate what measures may be proposed and passed by such a body. The Bourbons consider themselves at present to be secure on the throne of France ; their great rival is no more; the army has fought under the white standard, and been conciliated by employment, honours, and promotion. The two Chambers will be more than passive, and gradual efforts will be made to undo all that the Revolution accomplished. How far the feelings of the French people generally will oppose this regeneration is yet to be seen. The last Hamburgh Papers con tain an article, (hued from Stockholm, the 20th of Feb. stating the presentation of a note by Sir Benj. Bloomfield, our Ambassador to that Court, on the subject of South America ; its purport is in accordance with the papers lately laid on the table of the House of Commons by Mr. Canning. It states that Great Britain will re main a tranquil spectator of any effort made by Spain to recover, by her own means and re sources, her lost possessions in America, but, on any assistance afforded by any other Power, either by actual armaments, or by subsidies or pecuniary aid, that this country will recognize th e independence of South America at once.— This is the only diplomacy that will he effective, and succeed in preventing any Continental con federacy for the re-enslavement and desolation of these fine and rising countries. Neither France nor Russia will now venture any attempt iu their independence. [SEW TIMES.] The re-appointment of the Foreign Trade Committee is a circumstance highly interesting to the commercial world : nor will it be observed without great satisfaction, that Mr. Wallace has been nominated its Chairman. The valuable labours of the Committee in a former Session are well known to our readers ; and it is clear that they mean to follow up their task with the same energy as heretofore ; for they have already ordered the attendance of witnesses, and directed that various papers relating to the Tonnage Duties should be laid before them. It has been suggested as desirable that the Committee would direct their attention, among other objets, to the present mode of esti mating the value of our Exports. We have heard that the declared value of many commodities is rated in such a manner as to give a false impres sion of its real amount, by including in it the duties which are drawn back on exportation. If this be the case (for which however we do not pre- ' tend to vouch of our own knowledge), it is clear that the estimates must mislead the political econo mist, whose object is to ascertain the actual values exchanged against each other in foreign trade. It might, perhaps, be more correctly stated, that the inquiry should be directed to the relative quantities of labour and degrees of skill as em bodied in the exchanged commodities ; but not to enter into that distinction, it is sufficient to say that a declaration of the value on an article ex ported should be stated clear of any augmenta tion which it may receive from a tax only im posed on it whilst in the exporting country. How far an inquiry into this circumstance may pro perly fall within the functions of the Foreign Trade Committee we know not ; but if they are authorised to examine into it, we conceive that they would render a service to political science in directing to the subject their attention. [MORNING CHRONICLE.I Lord Althorp moves to-night for the produc. tion of a correspondence between Mr. Gregory, the Irish Under-Secretary, and Mr. Richard' Newton Bennett, a respectable Protestant Bar-1 rister of Ireland, relative to a proposition made by the Ribandrnen to surrender their arms, put an end to the Society, and come in and take the oaths of allegiance ; and also for a Memorial of three Clergymen on the same subject. It will appear from these documents that the Irish Go vernment might have easily suppressed that ex tensive Society, had it chosen, while, by failing to take advantage of the opportunity, and encou raging the Orange system at the same time, these two factions have both increased to an unprece dented extent. The Orangemen, on their part, boast (and the fact accords but too well with the boast) that their association under Mr. Plunkett's Bill of last year has been most extensively propa gated, and this extension, coupled with the unjust and machiavelian conduct 'of thelrishGovernment, has swelled the ranks of the Ribbonmen to se veral hundred thousands. It is a strange fact, arid reflects very little credit on the Irish Go vernment, that at the very time a Clergyman, with its assent, was in conference with nearly a hundred leaders of the Ribbonmen, with a view to arrange the terms of their submission, a spy was sent into his room at St. James's_ Chapel, Dublin, where the conference was held. This transaction is fully detailed in a pamphlet containing much valuable information on the State of Ireland, published some time ago by Mr. Ridgway. It is high time that Ireland was governed on other principles than those of division. It was stated in a well written petition from Westminster, that the secret of arraying one part of the population against the rest, is a very costly one to this country, no less a sum being necessary to keep up these divisions than four millions a year beyond the Revenue of I re l an d. Well may we prize an ascendancy for which we pay so much. [ - MORNING HERALD.] At a time when the priuciples of a free trade with foreign countries have so many advocates, and are so warmly adopted by the Government itself, we are surprised that some-of the shackles which still bind down certain portions of our home trade should be suffered to exist. We allude, on this occasion in particular, to the system of licensing public-houses, which, viewed in all its bearings, is one of the most galling spe cies of tyranny that has ever been suffered to exist in a free country. Under the specious pre text of securing the morals of the people, a mo nopoly is kept up, which goes far to destroy both their health and comfort, while its direc tion is confided to persons, many of whom have shown themselves, both in and out of the metro polis, the ready instruments of partiality and oppression, not to say of corruption and baseness. Our reader., perhaps, are not aware that Acts of Parliament have lately been passed to alter the time of licensing in the principal parishes of re metropolis from September to March, and to erect each of these parishes into a separate licensing division, thereby ►ecuring all the power, patronage, &c. to a snug Committee of Local Magistrates, who are also generally members of the parish Vestry. None but those who have witnessed it, would believe the canvassing, cringing,and obsequiousness which are now going on to secure the favour of their High Migh►tinesses, the Licensing Justices. The Chancellor of the Ex chequer, and Lord Liverpool himself, are nothing, in point of consequence, to those worthy person ages, as the day approaches " big with the fate of gin-shops and of beer." When we view the im mense increase of buildings on the north and north-western sides of the metropolis, it must na turally strike one that a large increase of public houses must necessarily follow the wants of a new and extended neighbourhood. But will it be be believed that persons who have expended enormous capitals in raising, as it were, a new town from swamps and fields, have as much diffi culty in annexing the necessary accommodation of a public-house to them, as if they were soli citing those worshipful persons to open their own purse-strings to some object of distress ? And why is th7s, but for fear some new brewer or free house (if there could at present Le such a thing) should break in upon the pri vileged district of another, or lest the old stager should lose the harvest, which the workmen em ployed about the new buildings must necessarily produce, while his monopoly is secured to him ? We would seriously ask, why is this system to continue ? Why should the Magistrates have it any more in their power to say who shall deal in beer, that► in grocery, linen drapery or any other of the common wants of life ? Surely one trade is as likely to find its level as another. It is very fit, perhaps, that regulations should be formed for the government of public-houses, and that the proper authorities should see those regulations duly and impartially enforced ; but " we• can see no reason why, after a man has, upon a fair and honest spe culation, expended, perhaps, 2 or 3,0001. in the erection of a public-house upon his estate, he should be denied the privileges of using his own property, at the arbitrary will and pleasure of persons whose rule it is to give no reasons for their conduct. — Why the landed interests in particular not only so quietly submit to a system which so materially affects one of the staple productions of their soil, but also submit to be the instruments of it in their respective counties, are mysteries which their clerks and attorneys (who are generally solicitors to the neighbouring brewers) perhaps know n►ore about than themselves. [MORNING POST.] We think we may now congratulate the country upon the unanimous decision of Parliament in fa vour of the principles laid down in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's financial expositions, and of the expediency of applying a portion of our sur plus revenue to the gradual reduction of those prin ciples into practice. The Resolutions submitted to the House of Commons on Monday evening by Mr. Iluskisson have smoothed every difficulty which seemed to impede the plans of his Majesty's Ministers respecting the Silk Trade, and with the able explanations and comments by which they were introduced, have at length silenced those whom it would perhaps be impossible to recon cile more positivOy to those measures. As we observed at the commencement of the djscessions which the Chancellor of the Exchequer's state; 'merit had provoked, the sole question was—the best mode of applying a certain amount of Re venue to be surrendered by Government far the f welfare of the country. Now we are free to confess that if the previens remission of Taxes, in the course of three or four years, to the an nual sum of seven or eight millions, had not raised the nation to the high state of prosperity which it now enjoys, we should ourselves have advocated a repeal of direct duties, such as the charges of Window light, in preference to a repeal of those upon the importation of Raw Silk, which it is admitted can only indirectly and remotely be felt by the public as an advantage. We think, however, it must on all hands be granted, that al though the people of this country are still sensible of the weight of taxation which they have to bear, they by no means find themselves thereby op pressed, or prevented from successfully exert ing all their energies, whether commercial, manufacturing, agricultural, &c. Would it then become a great nation, thus flourishing and at ease, to grasp at an immediate, and we may add, a paltry benefit, rather than wave that saving for _ a while, in order to receive a return for it ten thousand fold in the lapse of a few years Such conduct would be a cont ra di c ti on i n Eng lishmen a s a b o dy politic, c ompare d w ith Eng lishmen as private individuals, or as members of a commercial community, of the most glaring description. One of our distinguishing characters as a people, is the spirit and pertinacity with which we devote our capital, time, and talents, to speculations, from which an ultimate, not f a proximate, profit is ex pected, and that often of the most uncertain and contingent nature. Is it not tit and consistent then that our Government, which so faithfully embodies and represents all the feelings of the nation, should act on the same principle as the people, of which it is the organ, do indivi- F dually, and with the best practical evidence of its wisdom ? His Maj?sty's Ministers do not once question the perfect policy of relieving. the public as much as possible from all bur dens but having already done this to a vast extent, and so as to remove all serious complaints of the least distress, they submit the propriety of postponing the remission of some taxes for the present, on the assurance, and with the certainty, hat this very postponement will enable them to grant a much greater - remission of taxes at the end of a short period, besides in the interim most essentially increasing the prosperity of the em pire. Are the present advisers of the Crown worthy of this confidence ? Are those who led us so triumphantly through the last war, and have since so steadily guided us through the critical domestic sufferings which every class en- (lured in consequence of that tremendous struggle, worthy so be entrusted w ith the application ofa few hundred thousand pounds of surplus revenue, which their own wisdom has produced ? Could the people of England, who placed their lives, their independance, their honour, their all, in short, at the discretion of his Majesty's present them its much confidenee as May to prove the policy of setting a 3 le single Vl ;"% -erese t , :r ds a a n r li of our manufactures at liberty ? We dwell purposely on this view of the subject, because in reality the whole is a question of mere confidence. 'Ministers but ask to act for the country as any individual would :n similar circumstances act for himself, and if they may be trusted, they ought to be enabled to exe cute their plans. having so fully expressed our opinions on this Point, expa tiate on the we would willingly expa evident expediency of legislating generally on the c ommercial principles upon which the alterations in th e s ilk t ra d e h ave been made, when the actual and re l a ti ve s it ua ti on o f th e country is considered. This, however, we find must be reserved for another occasion. It will then be our bus in ess to show that in every respect England is fitted to be the great manu facturer of the "rid--that our immense capi tal, our high intellectual rank, or superiority in the arts and sciences, our mariti ne greatness, to gether with the comparative our limited territory and dense population, Parative deficiency of all : a ll other countries dic tlse i i t e eth ccu e ir po r l i i i c s y ta o ut;t: p s er i i n nitting the freest imports- tion of every spe ci es of raw produce into the of facilitating the ex portationUi ed Ki lit o lig fi t° n i a l t i l l u ' fa u c rl tit'lred produce to the rest of the globe. The proposed regulations of the these views and iSnilkourrfr:(ll,ienioatriel,d.aivcetated by no ground for dissatis faction in any quarter. Indeed, if we mis take not, the Silk Merchants and Manufac turers themselves will demand a repeal of the prohibitions of foreign goods before the time to which that measure had been deferred ; for the sooner smuggling is discountenanced by the ad mission of silks on an ad valore m duty of 30 per cent., the less competition will they have to en counter from the productions of other countries. The Silk \Vetivers in Spita!fields, on Tuesday night, had a partial illumination of their houses, in consequence of the repeal of the prohibition of foreign manufactured silk being put of till July, 1326. One upon a more general scale is expected in the course of a few days. New Romney, and places adjacent, ex perienced the effects of the gale on Wednesday last. About six in the evening it commenced and continued upwards of two hours, stripping off the tiles, little or much, from almost every house ; several chimneys were blown down, and other damage done ; the sign at the New Inn was also blown off, but fortunately no accident occurred to the person of any one. At Old Romney, two lights of the Church windows were blown out ; a barn at Newchurch blown down and other similar accidents . n various parts of th e Marsh. Owing to the vio *rice of the gale the tide rose unusually high on .his coast, the inmates of a cottage situate on Ltomney Warren close to the sea, hut which has hitherto been out of the reach of that boisterous element, was, about one o'clock on Thursday morning, surrounded by the sea, and the poor fisherman with his family obliged to leave and go to a neighbour's house about half a mile distant ; it is feared this cottage, if not removed, will be come a prey to the overwhelming element.— (Kentish Gazelc, March 9) PARIS PAPERS. PETERSBURG t, FEB. 17.—The Gazette of Petersburgh does not say one word of the indisposition of the Emperor, which has been mentioned by several German Journals. 11. Siewers, recently dead, a Livonian by birth, was the first person who conceived the idea of enfranchising the serfs. He pursued this object with great zeal, and lived to see it accom plished. CHRISTIANIA, FEB. 16.—The King has communicated to the Diet the project of a law on the Customs, and taxes levied on consumption, by which all the ordinances relative to these objects are revoked. In consequence of this, the wines of France, Spain, and Portugal, which could only be imported from the place of their growth, ,as well as rum, which was subjected to the same restriction, may now be imported from England, and from the same ports as French brandy is at pre sent imported from. After a certain time coffee is to be im ported only in bags of more than a cwt. ; and brandy and rum, in casks of more than 30 gallons. By this law the customs have been reduced on some articles, and augmented on others, among the latter are coffee, sugar, and tobacco. (From the Courier Francais.) FRAlisroaT, Mancx 3.—They write from Warsaw that the Grand Duke Constantine had left that town to repair to Pe tersburgh ; and, according to letters from that capital, the Emperor Alexander continued unwell. ROME, FEB. 21.—A report prevails that a volcano has .broken out in the centre of the commercial town of Aleppo, in Syria, and that it afterwards turned into a lake. A letter from Molinella, in the legation of Bologna, of the 6th, says, " that within the last few days a great number of meteoric stones have fallen in the neighbourhood of the village of Arenazo. The largest of these stones is twelve pounds in weight. Its fall was preceded by claps of thunder of extreme violence, accompanied by wind, a phenomenon which much astonished the inhabitants of the country. The largest aerolite has been taken to the Observatory of Bologna." Pants, .IlAucH 9.—Some persons have much exaggerated the number of suicides in Paris and its environs (b2nlieue,) in the year 1823. We hasten to rectify this error by the fol lowing table, the exactness of which may be depended on : Men. Women Men. Women 8 9 September - 20 10 10 12 October - 18 10 32 9 November - 10 6 33 18 December - 23 3 20 13 27 13 23 8 - 26 17 January February 111 arch April May June July August 262 128 General Total of ) Suicides - j - - 390 ALGIERS. The town itself is but little more than half a mile square—the inhabitants about one hundred and twenty thousand —surrounded by fortifications is not equal to a mile. The face of the wall fronting the sea equal] to three-quarters of a mile ; the sides projecting to the country the same • but the face towards the country about half a mil e ; at each Of the four corners a circular bastion, projecting far enough to com mand the faces of small square batteries issuing from the curtain. The town is builtalong the sinuous part of a bay, or casual indenting of the coast, not running deep enough into the land to afford shelter ; the shore flat, and the water too shallow to serve for anchorage. The port is in the centre of the wall towards the sea ; its construction is altogether artificial; an immensely strong wall is thrown out about 600 yards ; at 200 yards distance further eastward a mole 100 yards long is thrown out; the wall, which is of extraordi. nary strength and width, is continued eastward, and bending inwards by two angles towards the mole, leaves an entrance of about 150 yards to an irregular shaped basin, inclosing an area of about 10 acres. The pier or wall that embraces and forms the basin or port is of the most massive co nstruct i on, and its extensive fortifications, rising in tiers like the s id es of t h e sh i p, present the most formidable offensive works t o an a s sa ili ng and ene le my it of T thelic v town, covered it against a landing as to flank and gall an att ac k on t h e front of the place by sea. There are also many adv ance d wor k s of irregular construction, and a citadel in the S. E. ang l e of the walls are with with batteries, guns, an d t h e coast, right as we ll to protect city, occupying one of the corner bastions. At the formidable attempt made by Ch ar l es the Fifth with a fleet of 1 9 0 ships, 20 gallies, and an army of 30,000 men, aided by the Knights of Malta, lie was enabled, by means of the gallies, to land his army and materiel, notwithstanding the flatness of the shore; but the natural consequence of laying on such a coast was, that the first heavy ga l e o f w i n d d rove off the fleet, the whole of which, in half an hour, were dis persed, and in the extremity of danger (except the Maltese, who by their superior skill and equipment maintained their position on the coast, to the admiration of the ter. rifled army on shore, to whom they presented a solitary hut slight prospect of salvation from the enemy) fifteen sal lies and eighty-six ships of the Emperor's totally perish ed i • the loss of men con sequen t on t h e embarkation under suchcircumst a n ces , was i mmense. A l t h ough the Maltese contributed the most extensive co-operation of their navy, only .109 Knights, each attended by two Gentleman at Arms, were permitted to servo in the army. These Knights, in the spirit of chivalrous gallantry, to render themselves conspicuous, worn over their armour a surtout of crimson velvet, with the star of their Order emblazoned in white on the front of their breast, and served as the rear guard, covering the whole of the embarkation, being themselves the last who went on board. On one occasion, a very formidable sortie having been made by the Algerines, a large body of troops were cut off; but the Maltese rallying some detachments, repulsed the enemy so vi gorously, that the Chevalier Sevignan, standard-bearer of the Order, struck his poignard into the gate of the city, and left it there as a momento. In 1601, the Spaniards made another attack on Algiers, which was supposed a fortunate expedition, because they came off without loss ; but they effected nothing. In 1602, an English squadron, under Sir Robert Maxwell, were no more fortunate than the Spaniards the year before; but in 1682, a French fleet bomb ar d e d t h e town and set it in flames, and next year, repeating the attack with increased vigour, pro cured the release of all the Christian captives, and the payment of a heavy fine in money ; among the captives were several English, who, to the disgrace of the French nation, were sent back by Captain D am f rev ill e, t h e F rench Commissioner; after which the fortifications were extended and increased. Since the possession of Gibraltar, in fear of our strength, and inclined to conciliatory measures, the depredations of the Algerines were carried on against all the Christian Powers, but they continued to respect the ships of this country. In 1775 the Spaniards made an unsuccessful attempt with upwards of 20,000 troops, 2,000 horse, 47 ships of war, and 340 transports. In 1783 and 1784 the same nation made two attacks, whicb only terminated in the expenditury of a vast quantity of am munition. In 11316, Lord Exmouth's victorious atchievement produced the liberation of all the Christian captives, and the payment of two large suing of money. The captives were restored to the countries from which they had been taken—very different to the French conduct in 1682. LICENCE DUTIES. Yesterday afternoon a Meeting took place at the' lorns Tavern, Kennington, for the purpose of considering the best method of petitioning the House of Commons for the reduction of additional Duties levied on their Licences in the year 1 tils. Mr. Fu ems 3 , 1 having been called to the Chair, the business of the meeting was explained by the Chairman. The SECRETARY read the I'etition to the meeting. An objection was then urged, that a clause expressive of the bur.. then the Licensed Victuallers sustained by having soldiers billeted on them be omitted. It was, however, overruled. Another objection was t a ken as to th e i nser ti on of the clause treating upon common informers be omitted, on the ground that it would be productive of much offence in the minds of the Magistrates of Surrey. Mr. COTTRELL was of opinion, that nothing could more add to the honour of the Magistrates for the East Hundred of Brixton, than the present management under their direction, whereby an informer was not allowed to enter the Office at Union-Hall, but from whose cunning they had lately been much annoyed. Several licensed victuallers expressed their opinion that the clause ought to be inserted, and , observed, that should an in former approach the Police Office in Surrey they would be as quickly expelled. It was then moved by Mr. NOSES, and seconded by Mr. DEUCE, that the petition as read be adopted. . On the question being put, there appeared only one dissen tient voice to the proposition. It was also agreed that Mr. Denison, one of the County Members, be requested to present the same, and that a deputa tion do wait upon him for that purpose. The thanks of the Meeting were then voted to the Chairman and Secretary, and.the Meeting separated. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VIC/C-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, MARCH LITERARY PROPERTY. SIR R. PHILLIPS AND G. A ND W. B. WH fain . ITTAKER V. - - BURN AND SIMPKIN AND . MARSHALL. This was a motion to dissolve an injunction obtained by te r plaintiffs to restrain the def en d an t s from continuing the a work, entitl e d A Ch rono l ogy of the Events of the IMP' .7 n ° .f' l Gco. 111. a n d IV. w hi c h t h e plaintiffs alleged had been pow' from a work of a similar nature published by them. The tiffs' bill stated that in 1820 Sir R. Phillips had com posed 1112 published a book entitled A Chronologyoftheßvents in then of George 111. and IV. The first ground on which this /nor: was supported was th a t th e injunction was directed against N r , Fairburn as th e p r i nc i pa l , an d aga i nst h i s servants an d a gents: and affidavits wer e p u t i n on hi s b e h a lf d eny i ng any i n t e realin the supposed pi rac y, an d declaring that if it had ever b eat sold in his shop, suc h sa l e was without his authority, kno w ledge, or consent : that a man named Holder whom be en i; ployed, had the sol e i n t eres t i n t h e work, and must have sol d surreptitiously. In confirm a ti on o f this statement, Holder II self inn in an affidavit, d ec l ar i ng t h a t t h e ent i re p r operty th e d book was vested in him ; th at h e h a d emp l oye d a person none Maurice to print it on his account; that in a conversation which he had held with one of the partners in Slierwo u 4 house, lie had described it as " a little speculation of his own, a and they had taken 50 co pi es o f i t f rom hi m ; t h at after he Il t r , received a letter from the plaintiff's' solicitor, desiring birn stop the sale of the book, he had again called on Messrs. Sher" wood to ask them if they intended to discontinue the sale , which they replied in the negative, and ordered 100 addition s d copies, which were th en sen t from Maurice's, the printer's, a ll for which they gave the following receipt " Received of Mr. Maurice 100 additional copies Chroafr logy, on account of Mr. Holder." Mr. Maurice, the printer, confirmed the affidavit; and affidavit of Mr. Wade, the compiler, was then read. It stated; that the defendants' book was not a servile copy of the plaintifrs work, because it was di v id e d i nto sect i ons i n a different manner' It adtnitted that the Chronology of Events which occurred befel l the birth of o ur S av i our , an d t h ose w hi c h occurre d a f ter , w ere ; nearly the s a m e i n b o th b oo k s ; b ut i t a ll ege d t h at they leer; both copies from R ees ' s Encyclopcedia. That th e ar r a ngemea,, of the discoveri e s an d i m p rovemen t s i n t h e defendants boo differed ft om that in the plaintiffs',work, being all arranged unde r one head at the end of the volume ; that the events recorde d were principally collected from Aiki n ' s Hi s t ory of George , • the Annual Register, the Gentleman's Magazine, the MontlA and the Near Monthly Magasines, and other first-rateperiodle a ` works • that the occ urrences an d ph enomena h a d receive d con' siderable additions from " the Criminal Recorder, Bosianal the Police Reports, and other interesting publications." It wa ll also deposed that Messrs. Whittaker had themselves taken.* number of the defendants' book, which they had sold to the ir customers. The defence therefore rested—first, on the fact that Fairborn had no interest in the publication, and had not authe" tided or consented to the sale ; secondly, that if he should be considered civilly liable on account of the acts of his servant! although those acts might have been performed without / 1 „7 knowledge or authority, then h e con t en d e d t h at t h e plaintiff were not entitled to maintain their injunction, as their woo , was, like his, nothi ng more th an a co p y from other publications . The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that in his opinion the de fendant F a i r b urn was civilly responsible for the acts of his ser vants, and he could therefore be called on to account to the plaintiffs for the profits resulting from the sale of the work.- - As, however, he was n o t cr i m i na lly respons ibl e, t h e i n j u ction could not be maintained against him, so as to render him liable to the penalties attending the breach of it, should his servants sell another copy in his shop without his knowledge or consent: On Holder's own confession the injunction could be maintaine d against him, and the case might therefore stand over to enable the plaintiffs to make him a party to the suit. The case accordingly stood over for that purpose. A certain Learned Member of the Long Robe is not more remarkable for the length of his ova" tions in a great assembly, than for his facility 1 1 . i coining new w ords f or th e i r em b e lli s h men t, " would pardon his coining," said a witty Member, 46 if he would not utter." Tex; LATE DUEL.—Mr. COOPER, the Gentle" man who was wounded in a duel fought near 1 5 " lington, on Monday morning, has been pro nounced out of danger. The wounded Gentlone! is a native of North Wales, and the dispute ore' ginated about the antiquity of the Gaelic or Celtic literature ; Capt. Mona's, being a son of Scotia, w contended i le i‘,, r C hi! a s the pertinaciouslyvenerableness that of the Prin c ip a lit y . A few evenin gs ago , a man, d ressed and psi"' ed like Mr. Ststcr.Ata, of C oven t- gar d en Th ea t r e, in the character o f th e D ar k W arrior, in the ne w defended of the former, Opera of Native Land, went into a tavern 19 the neighbourhood of the Theatre, and in a harry called for supper and wine, stating that he had just left the stage, and was obliged to return and finish his part in a short time. He supped and drank the wine with great speed, and in such' quantities as induced the waiter to think that he would not sing the remaining songs of the opera to the accustomed style. "Illy time is come," said he, suddenly rising, " I left all my money in my clothes in my dressing-room, but the waiter cart come over by-and_by, and I'll discharge the bill: The waiter said he'd much prefer taking the read, at once, and intimated his wish without ceremony. It happened that Mr. Sinclair's servant was ia the tap-room at the time ; and hearing some con versation upon the subject between the landlord and the waiter, entered the room to relieve the extraordinary distress of his master ; but he started back upon seeing a tall Irishman in the Moorish dress, and his face blackened with soot. The imposture was exposed as soon as de tected, but the Irishman let fly a volley of ostb 4 at the waiter, and threatened to pay the bill with his fist. The landlord, at length, ill terfered, and said he should shorten the bu siness by sending for a constable. The Irish man swore that he had no money ; upon which his hest said, " Well then, leave one of your gold seals with me, until you can ge t th& amount." The proposal was, with much reluct ance, agreed to, and the waiter was thus released from all responsibility. The Irishman, to the sur prise of the landlord, never returned for his seal, and the landlord told the waiter to take it to a pawnbrokers, and get upon it as much money as would pay for the supper and wine, but no m ore. The waiter delayed a long time ; and his mister, upon looking after him, found that he was hi the custody of au officer, for attempting to impose upon the pawnbroker, by offering an Egyptian-Or seal, instead of a gold seal, as a pledge. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, George Smith.; Esq., of Basinghall-street, solicitor, to S o phi a M ary , se con4 daughter of the late Christopher Foss, Esq., of Portman-street , . Portman-square. On Tuesday, the 9th inst., at the New Church, St. Pancras , Henry Chawner Shenton, Esq., to Mary Ann, daughter of tho late Charles Warren, Esq. DIED. On the 7th inst., after a long and severe illness, Mrs. Browne , widow of John Browne, Esq., formerly of Lotlibury. On Thursday, the 4th inst., in London, Joseph-Lewis, lim(l' , of Pembroke, South Wales. On Saturday, the 6th inst., at the parsonage-house, Willer sey, Gloucestershire, the Rev. George Williams, curate of the above-named place, and of Buckland, in the same county , aged 34. On Tuesday, the 2d inst., at Green-street- green , Farnbo rough, Bent, Mrs. 3lary Furlonger. On Monday, the Bth Inst.; Sarah, wife of Mr. 'William SO" ford, of Stamford-hill, aged 85. Printed and rcE, It Publish e d f or t h e P ROPRIETOR*, at the SU ' 112, Strand, b y J. B. CAR&TAIRS.