The Sun. — London, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

ANsu R , nEC.TION AT BARCELONA. Thr! following' _Wel-41.'14'6e dispatch appeared In the lifonitaur Parisien of; Tueaday night:— " PERPIGNAN, Nov. 19. A- courier, who left Barcelona the day before yesterd ay,ss has just a r r i ve d - . Th e dili gence o f arcel”aa had no t reac h e d Fi gueras . Th e eva ejl 11413 - nn of Barcelona by the troops is confirmed. The Gene ra l Zavala is in the hands of the 4 "ll47 gents. They sp ea k o f th ree o ffi cers an d 500 len having been killed. PoPular junta - leas been installed. It is i rnPostil of men but little known. The Presi reril.t Is Do n J uan Ma nual C orsy. I t h as pub lished Proclamation, which recommends to the Z -n1t)1 / 4 men Union and Condzme . 4, and does not e t , n ne word o f t h e Q ueen , E spartero , D on ( NS ) or of t h e a i m o f t h e i nsurrect i on. IN lonljuie, occupied by the troops, fires upon p o e t tote r continually. The citadel i s i n th e r er of the rioters. t r " T hey Write on tic 17111 from Valentia that "'Ts had been sent far the Mesestrarz." " " BARCLONA, Nov. 17. • T he E troops were engaged in the streets on th e e l " i th, at eight o'clock in the morning. After t' l '"ura fighting and a less of3oo men killed , 4 ; te"ntidtal, the Captain-General, seeing that windOws and 'terraces of the houses were oc qhPie(l in ail the city, by the armed National too -", retired into the citad e l with his staff and Apt;ilegiments. . The other regitnent and the a a " ,feraailave gone to Artarrazanas. The re uer of the day was employed in making pre rations on one side and the other. It e ‘ ; ) . ()a the 10th there was a firing both of mus the'Yand cannon a great part of the day. All eita btr a et _ we re barricaded. The garrison of the 0- 1 . 4 ! as without provisions. The citadel rit-,en's lls into the town during the night. th " , a 'nrniee• betbre day the troops evacuated 'll-adel and went - out of the town, leaving the of d~e to the Pos'aession of die insurgent militia, ss o l leh th e number was increased by the militia for t . „',{. l :( ig!.l)(;iiring towns and •villac:cs. The the -4 ) l tl.julc had likewise thrown shells into „cinarteis of the municipality. A junta h as b een fi tr ined, and it signed a al t r sa,, i p t i lli alion with the regiment of Guadalaxara th e } lnd remained shut up the building of toia t ' lli versity. The General commanding the itit e - r i ur ,Y force had asked of the Juota what the to e -t ''nns of the people were, and he proposed 4v 0 i ° , 1 41 , e• to an understanding,' for the purpose of tha;: r il g greater disasters, and stop the destruc seed th e a k a. 3 The overtures thus made sue ex,(l. They are negotiating at present. I , l° i nhabitant had been menaced in person hserrnPerty. All the French inhabitants had stla ti a res Peated, and the Consul had received as c< i c e that lie had nothing to fear. tnyi„ Ile Royal brig, le Meleager, had given an ts alm " l n to several Spani4.ll refugees. The Corn- Ca p ,,,T bad received on board tile family of the 1 4; 14- General. It is thought that the move 811reala t he object of which is not yet known, will The c' t " all Catalonia, at Saragossa and Valentia. tos st rlP lnbers of the j ttnta say that there is no hea t ,'", r ae:Y, and that the people had sponta -444115'' taken up arms to defend their rights, th e -by ,tllO imprisonment .of the editor of ora e ' rj arnal called the Republican°, and by the kilitr6giYen by the Government to submit to the enlistment. b Y O a h - Provincial deputation- had been called t ity r e Ulna to take measures of order and secu- Th r ° ll l the very commencement of the revolt. futeseven constitutional' Alcades had taken re °h ta t , board the Meleag A er. N ee " Surrend er o f tlte rtarrazanas has taken abl e ' a nd th e f o ll ow i ng proc l amat i on to t h e din fantsi of Barcelona was published by the poli jest ~e p t lie f on th e 14 t h , i n d ie evening on the sub -4 the,. troubles : , 43 . e :LAINIATION PUBLISHED BY THE i i ; l / 4 11 1 POLITICAL CHIEF. ase a PLoNa.-a-Yesterday night public order was s' 4 l t ,..e k e d `i ; in this beautiful and populous capital by rQAti and evil-intentioned persons, m con-• 11 of the laws, and the tranquillity of the popu r4lo they-began the disturbance by insulting i the "Pritaft the Port del Angel. According. to the n `l44:4)n that I have received from the General in a P 4 tt of the place, the groups formed around this i s sa v ing been dispersed, others collected being eore the vitht,l"-alsistoriales, some among them g- armed Cl;likeketts- The brave guard of the National on :- 1 , 13 " hein in cheek. Warned of what was theAt Governor-General, I marched imme t't ' . the ent ry a strong escort to reinforce this point. a r ance of th e Pla c e St. Jayme, I was insulted t s . gleav ( , 51.(41 P4 who had assembled there, and who ti: ecei; 4 ; e l, (ll ),),' their cries to prevail on the guard not do 40 0 • "e. But as soon as I had given orders b to t() charge them, they dispersed and a an ttit ta e a a lni a , sl A lnace. Immediately afterwards the . Con la lov e los e - o Vl,a7untamiento _assembled. Its patriotism la qt tioa oader are well known ; and, in , con '(lo4....witit me, it deliberated on what was to a atsafr National Guards, who had been either se t-0(144:4n their duty, or were of the number of those 4 1 r ee:nour their uniform and sully the arms which a.: 41 1 c ilt ry has given for the. defence and the main t° -e of , • - theat 111 Ale tranquillity, assembling together qu art a A nY ()ram from the authorities, proceeded to ik•fg, h 114 era of the third battalion ; there were among s er • taus ,. eer and several National Guards . armed . a i , e ‘ e aa ets belonging to other battalions. This tb th s e ' r sed of its own accord, as soon as it knew Ivi e l th to a uthorities were taking means to reduce ta a ?_the t : li btoission; notwithstanding some of them Ors a ',was reason to believe had been the pai -I,' tits ott -ll 't the chief of the insurrection, were arrested ( jr nillle of the Republican. At six o'clock in the et s 4. a, retired to my own house, having dismissed . ‘ vl a i )s their g r est quarters, with the satisfaction of tr a tl t of a a ° . r ed public tranquillity, to the re-establish stal4`"h the authorities and all the corps of the la 4( )tilv militia effectively contributed. The militia sia ontribut Ito support the authorities when thews cc 'ailed for by them, but the great majority ' ll4 a `+ati 4, 4 t ßent s ° nal Guaras, despising the appeals of the t o d to remained quietly in their houses, disposed e k .c'sa b a a ,rins but when they should be called upon th e ' i °ll t e j ta le gitimate authority ; and I took that oe- A s r t eo , a,, tr 7 l l( these good citizens in the name of Gust 4 ora, • us t ;, r oeil ta al „ately, the public peace has been again a s a4lov tori-a s • caroups assembled before the Casas tsatherei danaanding satisfaction for my conduct, f re " as tes € :ae from prison of those whom I had caused t orn the ' e d• Five young men separated themselves th e Pas, to forced a constitutional regidor to ac- Pes ll4 tae 1, and came as a deputation to me, in g Pie . of those l• ta ate • wretches who call themselves the t)e,4. ortunately for them they found that I had to t a bu tt, a, I not to accede to 'their criminal de thesegitta° nave them arrested and delivered over ett e , 'aeselent of th e t r ibunals. In consequence of 1114 1: 411 ( 1 public order' continuing to be t . bref -ur its 1 .1.; 1 5e of the powers which the law invests ' a nttenance, I ordain and command_ _ te as meeting of, an armed force f Ivy Vtlike abti;3'n-2 it is 4 . l :G . Ta e ri l l y s forbidden, unless it be con ,,ehaut a, LT •t under the orders of to /a Ar, a 2 . P x ;eed conformably to the laws. to s ;ila re , "at the officers of the said guard are per 7 th ex ce p t ' °llSi ble if they call together any armed 4ra, chile •• ' said local au it I. " the orders of the . of A rt t he 3 . Every :(k,a Per mane n t armed body, not forming a part 0) 4 1 1 1 by th army or the National Guard, con t, tie arrestede proper authority as above mentioned, and retained in the quarters of the th e A rt ' i na until I shall have been informed thereof. 4 . Th e Of t , gliares assemblina of more than ten persons in raj haita„;_roe nd streets of the :townis forbidden. If, times summoned to do so, they do 4 ed h od Pirat ' and withdraw, th e p a t ro l es , or any o th er of 4 e of Y 111 jell may. be employed in the main ]ay i l'at s ..trallthe easier shall disperse them by force A5 t, 1 1 41 4 an t all those whom they ,may be . able to eve ratan. conduct them the quarters of the 1 4%N r ti, the 's that they may be afterwards delivered aro tr.ibunttls, and tried conformably to the zAksir:al,ll,,t_lcu,l.arlj: to law 5, title 2, book 12 of the axra a . c "( 1/ ztacion.. ""forrnabl to the law the orders ` - Q(l . sail Taallieati of •'e in force immediately after the pub -144 With the Present proclamation, which shall be aid greatest solemnity, according to the „ I ,(Sig t , e ' i ( nns of the country. l 'areea:,- / "JUAN fa UTIERREZ, C . V. 14, 184 . 2. Political Chief." D A T he s,ssion A.IADIIID, Nov. 15. . Wei, ~ ,of the Clutmber of Deputies opened at pt, ' c 'c• f.-,enor A'carisa, as the oldest deputy pre ti '"vetkpied the Presidents ' I I " l i, kat , chair. 14 'ea tt a ) and Cos;ans, took the 3 i l r M s . ea 3 Nae r ,, 4 secretaries being the youngest members . seats e t r he ' illaec'. \4-I\r"e of ihe 'Ministers appeared in their Cha in th e 44' Alonedero read from the tribune, the acts illatto,...e PreParatoryand ' opening sessions of the c were approved. e 4 11 4 4 orlh'Lwhi h - It v . ‘ t' ,-* -.` (leputies then assembled in the saloon, `dli ,11-4,lnlinber (I`,3o).liing fbund 'sufficient by the — "vie of the Reglyntrnto the elections of the officers of- the Chamber were proceeded with. The result of the ballot has given a complete and almost undisputed victory to the " Coalitionists ;"—M. Olo zago, President, 82 votes; M. Cortina, first Vice- I President, 80 votes ; M. Cantero, second Vice-Presi dent, 75 votes ; M. Caballero, third Vice-President, 68 votes ; M. Domenich, fourth Vice-President, 65 votes; and the following Secretaries, in the order. of their names, MM. Galvez, Canero, Mats, Paz Garcia, and Garnica. Forty.four votes was the highest num •ber which any of the higher candidates obtained. There can be little doubt, therefore, of the character of the Chamber for the rest of the session. The Presi dents and Secretaries all belong to the Coalition, which overthrew the late, and always declared the present Government as unparliamentarily appointed. As a matter of course, it is to be expected that now, hav ing the power, they will act on their principles. If so, there is but one of two paths for the Regent to pursue—either to select a Ministry from the Presi dents and Secretaries elected to-day, or .to dis solve the Chambers, and appeal to the country. In either case the difficulties, if not dangers, to the country may- be great. As to a com promise and a modified Cabinet, that is barely pos sible ; but in such case, little for the benefit of Spain may be expected. The Senate also held a session to day. The proceedings, however, were unimportant. A resolutioil.of the Chamber was read to the effect that the President gives notice to all members who did not present themselves in fifteen days to resign ; and that, in the event of not appearing in the Cham ber in two months after, they would be considered as having vacated their places. It was then agreed that the hour of meeting each (lay should be at twelve o'clock, and the session broke up. Brigadier Lavinia contradicts, in a letter to the Castellano, of this even ing, the statement published in all the journals here, of the troops of the garrison, &c., having been under arms on Saturday night last. The contradiction is being explained by the fact of the troops of the gar rison and the National Guard having been . under orders to be in readiness if required, and not under arms as stated. That precautions were taken . on the occasion is universally admitted. This being a holida - y there was no Bourse. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 24.—Wind, light breezes and fine. DEAL, Nov. 23.1Vind, S.W., light.—Arrd. Ac land, Baxter, Berbice ; Rookery, Bournie, Calcutta. LIVEUPOOL, Nov. 23.—Wind S.S.E.. moderate.— Arrd. Oxford, New York, sailed Ist inst. Sailed Coaxer, Ceylon and Madras; Mary Russell, Vera Cruz ; Vandalia and John, Denniston, Mobile ; Thetis, Charleston ; Mary, Africa. Arrd. off—lris, Madras ; Belfast, Valparaiso. DUBLIN, Nov. 21.—Arrd. Astrea, Adams, Quebec. Coax, Nov. 21.—Arrd. Moslem, Wright, Monte Video ; John Francis, Kent, Quebec. STOCKTON, Nov. 21.—Arrd. Orion, Quebec. • • POOLE, Nov. 23.—Arrd. Mountaineer, Filset, New - foundland. OFF SCILLY i NOV. 22.—Watermillet, Quebec. COWES, Nov. 23.—Arrd. Helen Anderson, Thom son, Rio Janeiro, sailed Sept. 21. BRISTOL, Nov. 22.—Arrd. Emanuel, Pearson, Quebec ; Hero, Fayal. BERWICK, Nov. 22.—The Queen Victoria, Gray, from Memel to Eycmouth, got on the beach, near the latter place yesterday, but is expected off without much damage. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind W.N.W. to S.W. —Arrd. General Palmer (transport), Rio Janeiro, Sept. 23. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind W.—Arrd. Prowler, Stokes, Labrador; Integrity, Walford, Sierra Leone; Ruckers, London, to St. Vincent's. THE FURY OF FREE TRADE. We have been contented with insisting that it was the duty of our own Government to our own people to abolish the re strictions on the importation of corn ; the Standard, which has suddenly become quite enraptured with free trade, and sees in it the means of cementing na tional unions, and of guaranteeing the observance of treaties, far more efficacious than the wishes of a Go ernment, actually preaches to the surrounding na tions that they may make war on Great Britain for excluding their corn and alienating herself from them. The treaty with China, obtained by war, it says, is " such as the society of civilised nations have a natural right to impose upon any people perversely alienating themselves from the great family of mankind,' even though such perverse people had given no other ground of quarrel than their alienation." Our people do not, indeed, alienate themselves from the great family of mankind, but the Government, under the influence of the landlords, tries to alienate them; and thus the words of the land lord's instrument' convict the landlords of deserving the hostility of other nations by their perverseness in shutting otit the trade which other nations and our people would willingly enter into. SUGDEN, V. BLACKBURN.—We do not understand the motives of the Mail for the malicious contrast it. has drawn between the Chancellor and the new Master of the .Rolls. There was a tinie when the Mail would have acted a very different part towards Mr. Blackburne, when that Right Hon. Gentleman spoke with voice potential at Dublin Castle. But let that pass: We cannot, however, but admit that this very early condemnation of a solemn decision of the present Master of the Rolls—a man who enjoyed so very tip top a reputation at the Bar, and who is regarded as a Solon amongst the equity lawyers—has come upon us quite by surprise, the more so, as the. Rolls' Court, during the incumbency of the late lamented Judge who presided there, had become celebrated for the dis cretion and completeness of his judgments. On this subject we recollect a very remarkable statement made by Mr. Ford, at the recent meeting of the Irish solicitors, who assembled to consider the most fitting mode of exhibiting their reverence for the memory of Sit' Michael O'Loghlen—" In the space of five years and a half (said Mr. Ford) that he presided in the Court, he disposed of upwards of twenty-five thousand dif ferent matters. He pronounced more than that num ber of orders, and out of that number there were only twenty appeals from his decisions. On the hearing those appeals, fourteen of his orders were affirmed, three varied in part, and three only reversed, and one of these on a communication he himself made to the Appellant Court, on the re-consideration of the case." —Dublin Evening Post. THE POPE AND THE PACHA.—Sevep Egyptian workers in mosaic (who are about to repair to home at the expense of their Government, to perfect them selves in the art) are to be the bearers of a new gift to the Sovereign Pontiff from Mehemet Ali, viz., four large granite columns, recently found in the neigh bourhood of Thebes, and covered with hieroglyphics. The railroad from London to Ashford will be opened about the Ist of December next, and in the meantime nearly every coach, with the exception of the Dover mails, will be taken off the present line. It is calculated that travellers from Canterbury will reach London in the course of four hours and a half from the time of starting from the city, and the train will run either five or six times daily. Application will be made to Parliament in the coming session for a cross line from Ashford to Canterhury and the coast, and as little or no opposition is anticipated it is not improbable that the railway will be opened some time within the next two years.—Kentish Gazette. THE PUBLIC ORATORSHIP or CAMBRIDGE UNIVER SITY.—Three candidates have been announced as de sirous to succeed Dr. Cramer in the above office— namely, the Rev. W. Jacobson ' M.A., late fellow of Exeter, now the vice-principal of Magdalen Hall ; they Rev. John Griffiths M.A., sub-warden of and tutor of Wadham ; and the Rev. Robert Blackburne, M.A., fellow of Brasennose. The election is fixed for to-day. A BATTUE OF BRIGANDS.—A letter from Sartiene (Corsica), Oct. 20, says :—" The demand made by the French Government on that of Sardinia to execute rigorously the treaty of extradition agreed on some) ears back between the two States, having been favourably received, the Corsican bandits, who had taken refuge ,in Sardinia, hastened to return to their own country, .to the number of 350 at least. As this influx of malefactors was expected, measures were taken to carry . on a war of extermination against them. A fortnight back the bandit Nicoli fell under the attack of the brigadier of gendarmerie, Guelfucci; and two m e th To-day the robbers Luciani, father and son, were killed near Sierra by a party of the Corsican voltigeurs. . The . two robbers entrenched themselves behind some enormous blocks of rocks, and fought w ith desperate courage. The father , although covered with dreadful wounds, had strength enough left to give a stab of his dagger to a voltigeur who came close to him under the impression that he was dead. The son survived . an hour, without a complaint having escaped him, and died abusing man and blaspheming God. We had scarcely. recovered a little from the emotion caused bY these events, when a new crane threw us into consternation. The widow Rocaserres, residing at Levie, was mortally wounded by a pistol shot, fired at her by a cousin of her husband's, be cause this latter had left her all his property. This murder will have the effect of bequeathing to the commune of Levie a dreadful hostility, to which no inhabitant can remain a stranger." SOUTHEND.—The 19th instant was a most beauti ful day, the wind at S.W., when about nine o'clock in the evening it shifted to S.E., and began to blow a fresh breeze. About twelve o'cicck the rain fell in torrents, and the wind then blowing a strong gale, boats and vessels put off on the look out. They had not to go far to find a job, for directly off Southend lay not fewer than nine ships driven on that dangerous and well known sand, the Nore. The gale at this time had increased into a perfect hurricane, and the de struction amongst the shipping was most dreadful, ( some drawing their anchors, running into each other, 1 bulwarks cracking and smashing in kevery direction. When the anxiously looked-for daylight came, the water was covered with pieces of yards, masts, - bolt sprits, &c.—Essex Herald. THE SUN, LONDON ) FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1842, SURCHARGES UNDER THE IN COME-TAX. The extravagant and uncalled-for surcharges now made under this impost by. the Income-tax Commis sioners or their agents, are causinggenerrl dissatisfac tion. Reference to past documents, relating to the time when this noxious tax was first put into force under Mr. Pitt, only show, that the British subject stands entirely unprotected. The statement and sig nature of no man in the kingdom is respected, as if, putting principle and honesty out of question, the heavy penalties threatening him at the head of the paper on which he renders his return, were not of themselves sufficient to dragoon the most dishonest into truth. Mr. Pitt, in bringing forward his peoposition for this tax, in 1799, stated at full, in the House of Com mons, the system upon which he considered it ad visable to proceed in the collection of the tax, the offi cers and machinery necessary to be employed in the task, together with the general order of proceedure. With regard to the matter of surcharges he expressed himself thus :- 1 " Individuals might also state in what they had been overcharged. If the Commissioners should not be satisfied with the schedules given in, they should have, in that case, the power to proceed to examinations by oath; but they should have no compulsory power to ' make a man answer. They should neither have au thority to call for books, nor to examine any man's clerks or agents. If, however, the party examined should withhold any information on these points, it should rest with the Commissioners to form their own opinion, and their judgment should be final, un - less the party chose to appeal to the higher Court of the Commissioners. But even in that case no books or papers should be examined. If the party should be unwilling to produce those papers, he must acquiesce in the decision which the Commissioners should come to upon such other information as it might be in their power to obtain. Such information the Commissioners should be strictly sworn not to disclose, nor to avail themselves of it for any purpose separate from the execution of the Act. *lf, however, any information should be made, upon oath, whicli the Commissioners should think to be false, they might carry on a pro secution for perjury." We now proceed to notice an action brought by the Earl of Uxbridge ' Messrs. Hughes, Williams, and Grenfell, plaintiffs, and proprietors of very extensive copper concerns, against one Teed, the defendant, an inspector a the duties on income and property in the City of London, for a wilful and vexatious surcharge made by him, in respect of the plaintiffs' returns and profits for the year. The matter came on for hearing in the Court of King's Bench, before the Commis sioners, on the Ist of March, 1810. The statement made on the occasion was, that Teed, the defendant, without any information or ground of surcharge, except the circumstance of plaintiffs having the year before, made a much larger return of profits, surcharged them the sum of 28,3571., several months after their returns oT profits had been, upon examina tion, allowed by the additional Commissioners, and the amount of ten per cent. duty thereon being paid into the Bank, the inspector at the time he made such a surcharge having been also aware that Mr. Gren fell, one of the plaintiffs, had appeared before, and fully satisfied the Commissioners, previeusly to their passiAg the assessment upon which this surcharge was afterwards made. Upon hearing, however, before the Commissi oners of appeal, the surcharge was disallowed, and the plaintiff, considering it a question of great public im port to ascertain by the decision of a court of law, whether the inspectors were justified in making sur charges, (as, observes the reporter of the case, is now by far too much the practice, without any ground of information for doing so, and taking the chance of putting a proportion of the surcharge into their own pockets, in event of its being in any degree disallowed), brought this action. It, however, appearing that one of the additional Commissioners had advised the defendant to make the surcharge, the Court was of opinion that it removed from him all imputation of his having made the surcharge vexatiously, and the plain tiff 3 were of course nonsuited. It was, not withstanding, distinctly understood, that a sur charge made without any ground besides an inspec tor's own presumption is unwarrantable, and would be deemed vexatious. From this decision it would appear that the sub jec t is not protected by the e x i s ting law against a f a l se surcharge, provided the inspecbr acts under the ad vice, or at the suggestion of any one of the Commis sioners, notwithstanding the assessment having been made by the Commissioners before whom an investi gation respecting the same had previously taken place. Mr. Horne Tooke's reasoning on this subject, as conveyed in an answer of his to the Commissioners of Income, upon their apprehending that his income was greater than sixty pounds, the sum for which he re turned, strongly expresses itself to the point, and ex hibits in a plzin point of view the light in which an Englishman's word is to be taken, by these fiscal Judges :—" Sir," he wr'tes in answer to the Commis sioners Clerk, in the year that the impost was laid on, " Sir, I have much more reason than the Commissioners ca n h ave t o b e di ssa ti s fied with th e smallness of my i ncome . I h ave never yet in m y life disavowed, or h a d an y occas i on to re -consid er , any declaration which I h a d s i gne d w i t h my name. But the Act of Parliament has removed all the decen cies which med to prevail between gentlemen, and has given the Commissioners (shrouded under the signature of their clerk) a right by law to tell me that they have reason to believe that lam a liar. They have also a right to demand from me, upon oath, the particular circumstances of my private situation. In obedience to the law, I am ready to attend them upon this degrading occasion; so novel t o E ng li s h men ; and . to give them every explanation and satisfaction which they may be pleased to require." TOWN-COUNCIL PRocEEDINGS. (From the Scotsman of Wednesday.) PROPOSED VOTE OF CENSURE ON THE LORD PROVOST Or EDINBURGH. Mr. LOGAN—Before proceeding with the ordinary business, I have to state that a number of my col leagues have imposed upon me the disagreeable duty —but not the less a duty, because it is disagreeable — of laying before the Council the customary notico of the following motion : " The Lord Provost having, on the evening of at a dinner inti mately connected (as to its origin a n d purpose ) w ith Monday the 14th current, presided certain proceedings at the Municipal Board, as to which (as was well known) there existed a marked difference of opinion among its members ; and, whilst so acting, having himself publicly spoken, and permitted others to speak, of the Magistrates and other Members of Council in a way net merely offensive to their feelings l and derogatory to their character, but directly calcu lated most injuriously to affect their usef u lness as public functionaries — be it resolved, that this Council is of opinion that , inasmuch as the Lord Pro v ost is their official president when met for th e di s p a t c h o f public business, and their recognised represen t a ti ve aaac conn tnddi fin cgdg:ena sna sret d eiat i fu , oiontfri eotoshn u aiai sdl a l ,Cd l oud o uti t ydn h c e ;ai r lca. o t ; id c n a h s i av osioon of hits official ns violation his thereby forf e ited th e Lord i shi f p,in l Mr. motion, during N a v f h te ic r h m h a e king his comments upon this asserted that the Lord Provost had make those remarks as a p r i va t e indivi dual, and denouncing the attempt to interfere with him as a gross infringement of th e lib erty of the sub muriALnNg' jeet, moved "That in respect the motion of Mr. Logan is an interference with the liberty of the subject, and ultra vires of the Council, it be not entertained." Mr. WIIYTE seconded the motion. Finally the Council divided upon the question —Mr. Macfarlan's motion or not--when it was carried " not," by 18 to 10. Against this decision Mr. MACFARLAN, protested, and took instruments, in his own name and in the name of all who should adhere to him, for reasons to be afterwards given in. COMMON COUNCIL. A Court was held yesterday, when the Lord Mayor presided for the first time. A vote of thanks to the late Lord Mayor for his upright and impartial conduct was carried unanimously, and ordered to be tran scribed upon vellum, and presented in due form. A petition was hen presented from Mr. Daniel 'Whittle Harvey - , praying that the election for High Bailiff of Southwark may be declared void, on the ground that it had not been conducted according to the usual rules of . the Court, and that the petitioner had evidence to prove that he had a majority in his favour. After some discussion on the motion for affixing the Seal of the City to the appointment of Mr. Pritchard, the question• was carried by a large majority, and Mr. Pritchard was received as High Bailiffof the Borough of Southwark. THE LONDON CAOUTCHOUC COMPANY. In consequence of an intimation that Mr. Warwick would attend at the Guildhall yesterday, to state the ultimate determination of M. Leaf with respect to the bills filed in Chancery for alleged infringement upon the above Company s patent, the Police •court was crowded with the retail hosiers of the metropolis. Sir PETER LAURIE presided. Mr. Warwick said that eertain statements havino appeared in the public prints which were' injurious Co Mr. Leaf's character, he (Mr. Warwick), after a con ferenca with that gentleman, came forward for the purpose of making the following statement. Mr. Morley called upon him, and after stating that he was the chairman of certain parties who were aggreived by the several Chancery suits, requested him to have an interview with Mr. Leaf to know what steps he had taken to put a stop to the injustice under which they were suffering. lie replied that he was most dissatisfied, in the first instance, that any proceedings should have been taken against the retail dealers, and had - in sisted upon their immediate discontinuance. There was no doubt that they were in posses • sion of goods that infringed .the patent .of the Com pany, but his wish was that wholesale dealers and im porters alone should be punished. Such being the sentiments of Mr: .Leaf, he (Mr. Warwick) was quite sure, that if the gentlemen who were aggrieved had applied to him in a body, they would at once have ob tained redress. Sir PETER LAURIE—I understand that every shilling which has been taken out of the pockets of these defendants, has been paid back again to them. Mr. Warwick—Yes, out of Mr. Leaf's pocket. Sir PETER LAURIE—I am delighted that this has been the result of this investigation, at ,which some individuals attempted to sneer at first, but which brought such a fortunate termination to a case which threatened 150 Chancery suits. Mr. Warwick then continued to say that after Mr. Leaf had acted as described, a meeting of the de fendants in the suits instituted by the solicitor was held on last Tuesday at the Guildhall Coffee-house, at which -a resolution was passed to the effect that the meeting felt deeply grateful to Mr. Leaf for his honour able and kind conduct towards them. Mr. Leaf deter mined that the bills should be taken off the file of the Court of Chancery, not only in the original cases, but those of the iemaining 53; and not only that, but he had also given him a letter to produce in Court this day. Sir P. LAURIE, upon receiving the letter, read to the following effect :—That the undersigned gave an assurance no further proceedings should be taken against the retail-dealers. It was signed by Mr. Leaf and other members of the Company. He thought that the retail-dealers and all other parties were much indebted to Mr. Warwick for the conclusion to which the case had come. Mr. Morley said he thanked, on the part of those for whom he spoke, Mr. Leaf, for having paid 3801. out of his pocket in liquidation of the law expenses, and he also most gratefully tendered his thanks to Sir Peter Laurie, for only for him the retail dealers would have had to pay 1,0001. in costs. Mr. War wick bad said that if the retail dealers went to Mr. Leaf the proceedings would have been dropped ; hut he could show crom . Mr. Warwick's own evidence at the last meeting that such was not the case. Mr. - Warwick—l am ready to state, on lily oath, that Mr. Leaf did all he could to prevent the oppres sion of the small dealers. Mr. Morley—As Mr. Leaf had already paid 3801., it would be a gracious act in him to pay about 401. more out of his pocket to take the bills off the file of Court. Such conduct would give complete satisfaction to the great body of the metropolitan hosiers, and it would also render justice to men who were unjustly persecuted. Mr. Morley here ad dressed Mr. Warwick, and said, " Will you allow me to state, through you, to the retail dealers, that Mr. Leaf will take those bills of the file ?" Mr. Warwickl have no authority to make such a promise on the part of Mr. Leaf. What might such a proceeding cost in such case ? Mr. Morley-21., perhaps. Mr. Warwick—l could not undertake to make this promise if the sum exceeded 11.—(after some hesita tion) —or perhaps 11.55.—(A voice ironically, " Make it another half-crown.") If the costs did not exceed this sum, he would undertake, on the part of Mr. Leaf, that the bills should be taken off—at the same time he knew that gentleman would act with his usual kindness and liberality under any circumstances. Sir PETER LAURIE said all parties were deeply in debted to Mr. Morley for his share in this trans action, and Mr. Leaf more so than any one else; as, were it not for him, not fifty individuals only would have been oppressed, but one thousand. All parties having expressed their thanks to Sir Peter, the meeting broke up. THE SHIRT-MAKERS AND THE ARMY AND POLICE CLOTIfING-MAKERS.— Since public attention has been called to the prices which are doled out by the whole sale shirt-makers to those whom misfortune compels to earn a subsistence by their needle, a very strong feeling has been expressed on the subject. But while something has been done, and more will be, for the shirt-makers, it may be as well to mention another class of persons—women who earn a scanty subsistence by making portions of soldiers' and policemen's dress, and who are equally imposed upon either by the con tractor or some " middleman." It will hardly be be lieved that the actual maker receives but sixpence per pair for the grey trousers and red sidepiece ; the same for summer drills for the Foot Guards ; tenpence for cavalry trousers, and fivepence for the white drill jackets, and twopence halfpenny for a pair of drawers. For policemen's trousers tenpence is paid, and out Of this the poor women have to find their own thread.— Pod. [Now, can our Contemporary so far forget the re gard due to his readers, as to write about such things? Shirts, and trousers, and summer drills, and red side pr., ice will make many a high dame blu s h. It i s „ too bad.] The Charge d'Affaires at Naples has sent with a letter, of the 15th November, to the Chamber of Commerce at Marseilles, an ordinance of his. Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, dated the 29th of last month, and published at Naples on the sth instant, by which the duty on the exportation of sulphur from Sicily is reduced to two . earlins (88 centimes) per cantar (89 killogrammes).—Le Commerce, Nov. 22. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 21.—The two celebrated por traits by Rembrandt, belonging to the late Airs. Vandepoll, relict of Mr. John Vandepoll, have been sold here to-day by auction; they were purchased by M. Nieuwenhuys, of Brussels, for 32,600 florins, which, with the expenses of 71 per cent., make 35,045 florins. •A cry of " Bravo " congratulated that gentleman, who is well known by his numerous purchases f pictures of the highest class, It is, however, to be regretted that these two gems will not remain in this country. The election of Registrar for the West Riding of Yorkshire has excited much interest in that district. The candidates are Mr. Hodgson and Mr. Lascelles. At the close of the poll for the second day the num bers are given as follows, by Mr. Lascelles' Com mittee :—Lascelles, 1,433 ; Hodgson, 1,356. The poll closes this day. FonN HAM Ham„ SUFFOLIC.—The Duke and D uchess of Norfolk and the Ladies Howard, are not expected to leave for Hyde Park-place until the middle of next month, when they will remain in town a few days on their way to Arundel Castle, Sussex, for the Christmas holidays. PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY.—What becomes of all the pins 4 says a paper involving some singular points of manufacturing economy. It appears from Pro fessor Parrington that twenty millions of pins are daily manufactured in this country. These get into general circulation, and, after a time, entirely disap pear; but the remarkable fact is, that, like the swal lows, nobody knows where they go to. It is proved that, were it possible to recal these lest articles, a quantity might be collected sufficient to build the projected foot-bridge at Hungerford-market, and the residue might be cast into one enormous Pin, which should be erected as a column in any part of London best suited for its elevation ; and to be called Victoria's Pin in I opposition to Cleopatra's Needle at Alexandria. There would be a winding staircase in the interior, with a saloon in its head ; and it might serve as a landmark, in stormy weather, for the fourpenny steam• boats plying between Vauxhall and London-bridge. —Punch. A Goon EXAMPLE.—(From a Correspondent.)— More than 1,0001. was collected at three charity dinners in Bristol last week, to distribute among the poor during the present winter. This was to make good the loss sustained by the death of Mr. Colston, a wealthy merchant, who used to give away at least one thousand pounds a-year. Two of the dinners were made party questions. The Whigs—that is, the Anchor Society—beat the Tories by nearly 1001. THE UNEMPLOYED.—We grieve to say that the number of the unemployed is still rising. Last week it was 7,022, this week it is 7,372; showing an in crease of 350.—Paisley Advertiser of Saturday. THE PARKS AND METROPOLIS IMPROVEMENTS. ng into to be From the Nineteenth Report of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, relative to the various p u bli c mprovements under their control, it appears Hy l d . e T r h a a r t k fo ad r t d h i e tio f n orm al a p ti u o r n ch of as t e h s e a n r e o w a o b p oeunt i made by them from the Dean and Chapter of West minster, and other parties, more fully to complete their plan for giving an improved character and appearance to this already much-used access. Mr. Cubitt, has, at his own cost , removed the Can non brewhouse, which occupied the site of the ne w entrance, and the demolition of several other house s i n Knightsbridge, have contributed to effect the present beneficial alteration. I b l e . p T or h o r h ee as h od ou f s o e r s t i h n e Higho-sstreet,pelnieinng Kensington, are to a new r oa d villas ; thefrom that street to Bayswater. 111. The kitchen-garden at Kensington is par celled out into lots to be let as sites for v proceeds to be applicable to form, a new Royal kitchen-garden, at or near 'Windsor, for her M a j esty. The Lord steward has the plans for the latter purp ose now under consideration. n of the new IV. The Lodge in the Green-park, occupied by bridges V. Lady William Gordon till her death, has been t a k en down, and grass laid down on its site, and a gravel walk formed t o c onnec t with other walks in the P ar k. T The Report and paths in with Prim rose -hill. Th e improvements on thi s l atter n o t t h i e c e R s e the Regent's nft?srin Park,atio connecting it spot will be speedily commenced, the requisite pur chase having been made from the Provost and Fel lows of Eton College. VI. The formation of a new Park between the Hackney and Whitechapel-roads will 800 n b e pro ceeded with. York House has been sold, and the money invested for the purpose ; certain other pro perties are now being treated for. With regard to Metropolis Improvements) the Come missioners state that, according to empowerment, they- , had raised the sum of 500,0001. upon mortgage of the. Land Revenues of the Crown, ;n Middlesex and Lon don, towards the intended faimation of a new street. from Coventry-street to Long-acre, and for other im provements ;n the metropolis. The Commissioners further state upon this score that they have completed purchases in three of the lines of the projected Im provements, to the amount, in the aggregate, of 120,8041., and have contracted for purchases, in rll those lines of improvement, to the furtlier aggregate amount of 122,7421.; viz., 1. In the line frtm Oxford-street to Holborn, the Commissioners have completed purchases to the amount of 115,7431., and have contracted for pur chases to the further amount of 5,310/. 2. In the line from Bow-street to Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, no purchase has been completed. Pur chases have been contracted for to the amount of 11,3851. 3. In the line from the London Docks to Spital fields Church, purchases have been completed to the amount of 3,2611., and purchases contracted for to the further amount of 29,3601. 4. In the line from Coventry-street to Long-acre, purchases have been completed to the amount of 1,8001., and purchases contracted for to the further amount of 76,6871. ' In the foregoing statement of purchases made and contracted for, the Commissioners include those cases only in which the purchase-monies have been fixed. They have entered into contracts for many other pur chases in each of the lines of projected improvements, at prices which remain to be ascertained by arbitration. 5. Purchase or contract has not yet been made for the purchase of any part of the ground and houses re quired for the formation of the new street from Enst Smithfield to Rosemary-lane; bat notices have been given to the freeholders on this line, p►rrsuant to the Act of Parliament, that their premises will be re quired, and that the Commissioners are ready to treat with them for the purchase thereof. THE LATE MURDER in STANLEY, DERBYSHIRE. Within the last week very important evidence has been obtained respecting the murder of Miss God dard, at Stanley, in this county, the particulars of which have from time to time appeared in our paper. It seems to go very far towards firing upon the par ties—particularly Holmes the sweep—now in OU7 county gaol, the crime ‘,N which they are charged, and for which they will be ti ;ed at the ensuing Spring Assizes. It appears, that for about a p er i o d o f t h- ee wee k s previously to the commission of the murder, Holmes, one of the alleged murderers, had in his employ a about eighteen years of age, named Richard Dron field, commonly called among his companions Dick the sweep. This lad states he was with Holmes at Heage at the time of the murder, and was privy to conversations between the three men, Holmes, Bonsai], and Bland, which, if true, places beyond doubt their guilt ; and he also speaks to their arming themselves with staves, and to Holmes taking a knife with him, having whetted it for the purpose, on the evening on which the murder was committed, as well as to their burning the staves whEn done with. We gather :rom his statement that, after the !Tim.- der, Holmes took the lad Dronfield with. him to Leek, in order to be out of the way as much as possible, Holmes's parents residing at that place. It will be recollected that Holmes hid himself in a wood near Leek for some days before he was apprehended, and that it was in consequence of communications passing between him and his relatives that the constable of that town was enabled to apprehend him. In these communications the lad in question, Dronfield, was mixe I up, so far, we mean, as having conveyed them from one party to the other. Holmes being fully aware that Dronfield was cognisant of the murder, and of the share he had in it, threatened the lad that if he dared to mention it to any one he would murder him too. Dronfield from the time Holmes was appre hended has led a wandering life, and it was by mere accident that he was met with. Our readers will re member that, in former statements respecting the murder, we have mentioned a person named Domino. This person, it appears, accidentally fell in with th e lad Dronfield in or near Wirksworth on Tuesday or Wednesday last, and took him to. Mr. Hawkins, the constable of Heage. The lad then narrated all he knew about the murderers. The most material part of Dronfield's testimony is this :—lt appears that, after the murder, the clothes stolen from the Miss Goddards were divided amongst the murderers, and the lad stated that Bonsall secreted his share in a garden, and that Holmes hid his in a sough near to Ambergate. The sough, which Wl'; pointed out, 'vs been searched, and several gowns and shawls belonging to Miss Goddard were found as described by the lad. Most of these have been cleerly identified by parties residing in Stanley and the neigh bourhood. Uronfield is now with Mr. Potter, of the Hill-top. who has clothed him, and will give h;m employment until the assizes. It is needless to say that Dronfield stands peifectly clear of the least participation in the murder. All that he knows of it was obtained n consequence of his being in Holmes's employ, and his overhearing the cony ersations of the alleged murderers. DEATH OF MRS. KIRWAN, CASTLEIIACKET.— Died, at Castlehacket, this morning, Mrs. Kirwan, relict of . the late Major Kirwan. The demise of this universally-esteemed and respected lady has thrown several of the most respectable families in this county into mourning ; while the poor have to deplore in her the loss of a generous and kind benefactor. She sur vived her lamented husband but five months and a few daP.—Team herald of Saturday. RAILWAY LIBERALITY.—Having occasionally con sidered it our duty to the public to take exception to some of the proceeding of the Directors of the Londo n an d Greenwicht'llailway Company, we gladly seize an opportunity of giving publicity to an act of the boa r d w hi c h i s wort h y o f i m i tat i on b y the Direc tors of other railways. The Company, having hitherto conveyed the Post-office letter-bags between London and Deptford and Greenwich for two deliveries a day, was lately applied to by the Post-office authori ties for the terms upon which they would convey the bags for a third daily delivery ; to which the board made answer, that for an additional payment of only 301. per annum they would be ready to carry as many bags, to and fro daily, at the several times of the running of the trains, as might be desired. This liberal. offer was at once accepted; and Greenwich and Deptford will, in consequence, on and after Satur day next, have the benefit of four instead of two daily deliveries of letters. PROPOSED RAILWAYS.--SUITCyS are now in pro gress, and application to Parliament is intended to be made in the ensuing session for leave to construct a branch railway from the Blisworth station on the London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton and Peterborough, and likewise for another branch to Leamington and Warwick. Branches are also in contemplation from the London and Dover Railway to Canterbury, Margate, and Ramsgate. The Eastern Counties Company are about to make a line from their station at Kelvedon to Bury St. Edmund's ; and the Northern and Eastern will extend theirs from Bishop's Stortford to Cambridge, terminating by a junction with the Norwich and Yarmouth. Two branch lines from Oxford are to be constructed to join the Great Western at Wallingford and Dideot ; and a third to communicate with the Aylesbury Railway. Surveys are also in progress for a line to pass through the towns of Greenwich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Ro• chester, and Maidstone; and also for another to con nect the Brighton and South Western railways. The above lines, when completed, will open a direct lino of communication with the metropolis from nearly all parts of the kingdom. Two new stations have lately been opened on the London and Birming ham Railway - , at Sudbury and Rimer, to accommo date the increasing traffic. A NEW ZBALAND NEWSPAPER.—We have been favoured with the first two numbers of the Maori Gazette, a newspaper published at Auckland, in the native language. It is entitled Te Karere 0 Mi Tireni, Na, to Rawana, 1 mea Kia taia. It is printed on a sheet of foolscap, and each number contains some original articles, and several letters, which we understand are the production of natives who have been instructed by the Church missionaries. We will endeavour to get one or two of the letters translated, in order that our readers may be able to form an opi nion of its contents. The effect ivhich this publica tion, if judiciously edited, will have upon the minds of the native population of New Zealand, is likely to ' be very beneficial; and it is highly creditable to the Government to have started such a publication, the first of the kind in the history of colonisation.—Syd /ley Herald, June 14. KEEP SOBER.—Luke Booth, a , plasterer, was brought up at the Borough Court, on Monday last, charged with having been found in an improper state in the street, during the hours of Divine service on Sunday last. The Mayor—What have you got to say to this charge ? Defendant—Why, aw reckon aw wur doing wrung ; but there wur folk there wur drunker than me when they brought me. The Mayor —You must pay five shillings ; that is our rule as to persons who get drunk on the Sunday. Defendant — Well, aw reckon its law (taking out of his pocket two half-crowns); but, before aw pay it, aw should like for't know where it goes to ? The Clerk—You will have another half-crown to pay, for the conviction. Defendant (scratching his head, and staring with as tonishnient)—Eh, my. G—, what's that for ?—ex penses ! Is it for drinking Belmont water? for I've had nowt else ith' dungeon.—(Laughter.) Eh, dear my ! Why, bless my days! Johnny Mangno (agent for the Water Company) doesn't charge above three shillin for a quarter of a year, un yoa chargen hawve a-crown a neet. Eh, Johnny's a . foo to yoa awever. —(Laughter.) " Take him down,' said the inspector of police ; and the defendant was removed from the Court.--Martehester Paper. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, GLASGOW. FOR THE EDUCATION OF LADIES. I The unparalleled success of tb;s spited enterprise, and the sensation wb;ch the ceremor;al of its opening (which WC noticed on a former occasion) produced, aftbrd the best proof of the estimation in which it ;s held, and of the void in female education which it has suddenly filled, hi that 'great community. In the fist fortnight of its existence it has enrolled about 100 pupils —a number which its prototype here re quired yeas to ac."nieve. When we look at its pro gramme, we are equally struck with the comprehen siveness of the provision made for a liberal and gene rous female education, and with the number and talent of the teachers. Theology, literature, science, and the faie arts ; are all answered for by professors who, in ether seminaries in Glasgow, have established the higYLest characters. One feature of this Institu tion is. especially graceful—its harmony. Its pa• trone sses are of all shades of religious and political con aexion. Clergymen, both Churchmen and Dis senters, undertake its theological department ; which, with. much propriety, is limited to Natural Theology, the evidences of Christianity, and sa cred history an d geograp h y, trusting the special religious instruction, in which sects disagree, to home and p as t ora l care; w hil e i ts pro f essors of the other branches meet under its roof from all the rival seminaries of note in Glasgow. We find what we may call the philosophy of this achievement of our friends in the Wstst, so concisely set forth hi the shoe speech made by our townsman, Mr. Simpson, at the splendid rnee!ting the " in the Assembly-ro oms , o n op e ni n g e," that we cannot do better than transfer it from the Argus to orr own columns. Be'-ng called upon by the Lord Provost to address the meeting, as one of the strangers who had come CP.an a distance— Mr. Simpson said, that on an occasion like the pre sent, he could not be satisfied with sending an apology for absence, but, when honoured with an invitation, at once resolved to attend.—(Cheers.) No doubt the noble railroad, which almost makes the two great cities one, offered him great facilities ; hut he sincerely said—so highly did he estimate the im portance of this meeting, not merely to that great place, but to the country at large—that he would have walked to Glasgow for the sake of the privilege he at the moment enjoyed.— (Loud applause.) He had spoken from that same platform four years ago on the subject of the new education and its advantages, in the elementary-way which its novelty then demanded ; but such had been its progress since, that, as one gentleman near hith (Dr. Penny) had remarked, its topics have become common-places and truisms. That crowded hall was real evidence of this. That enlightened platform, the splendid assemblage before him, needed not to he told that the old education was a mockery—that the new contrasts with it as much as educating all the faculties ofman contrasts with imperfectly educating one—as the knowledge of the creation of God in its realities con trasts with words without meaning—as the formation of character, and the development of intelli gen c e , honesty, and mercy, contrast with bad reading and worse writing. No adult present but has felt, in every relation of life, that that wide field for culture in man, his feelings, his impulses to action, has been left miserably barren ; nay, worse, that these impulses have been miseducated, to the incalculable increase of human suffering. This misdirection begins early, for it often mars the future man in his nurse's aims. We complain that men are sensual, while they are taught to be sensual by the abuse of food to selfish enjoyment, in the first months of their existence. We complain that they are violent, often cruel, while they are taught to rage, to strike, to revenge, before they can walk, while violence and dcmineering are their daily lesson in their schools, and bettered by them as a practical instruction in their after years, till force and fear, and violence and blows, and sangui nary laws and wars, are considered by them as the essential moving powers of the moral world. How different the new education, which rules that the chili should never hear an angry word, should never see an angry face, should never receive a blow, or be in structed to discover that such a thing is a possibi lity in nature. If they are trained to be violent, men are also made deceitful, proud, vain, and selfish, by concealment, and competition, and emulative struggle, misnamed generous, but intensely selfish, and often incurably attaching to character through life. It is only those who appreciate the new educa tion, who know and feel how deeply the iron of the old entered into the soul of society, and how beauti fully the new is adapted to remove almost every complaint that renders life a life of wailing and woe. It would sweeten domestic intercourse—exchange household wrangling for " the music of kind voices, and the heaven of kind looks"—give to private life its " quiet majesty"—exalt and purify public relations— banish party for justice, self-seeking for benevolence, and all uncharitableness for brotherly love. We com plain of the servants of our houses, and our business ; but we are only learning that their uneducated, mis educated, impulses render them the nuisances that an noy us. How and when is the counter process to he ap plied ? We are coming nearer to the object of the meet ing. When in this place four years ago, he (Mr. S ) had summed up the items of a sound education—moral, which rightly trains the feelings—intellectual, which opens up even the stores of science, and claimed that sum of education for all—he was asked, " What ! even for females?" Yes, he answered, for females, even more imperatively than for men, seeing that, in educating wo man, you are educating the most important, because the earliest, of the educators of man. You are edu cating a teacher whose function and responsibility re• duce the teachings of science and art to insignificance. —(Cheers.) The germ of the future man is in her trusted hands—the opening of his being—the first movements of his muscular frame—his first sensa tions—his first emotions—his first cognition of existing things. What may not, what ought not, woman to do for that education which forms character ?—nay, Tather, he would ask, can that education be realised without her agency? can, above all, that emotional religion, which cherishes the love of God in the heart, by an unceasing exposition of his goodness by her who first pointed the infant eye upwards too his throne, be implanted by any so well as a female hand ? Never-to-be-forgotten was the brief—in. her own language, the mono syllabic—answer of Madame Campan to Napoleon, who asked her what she considered most necessary for the educatiOn of the French people ? she re plied, Mothers !‘—(Loud cheers.) Write this on the door-posts of this new • seminary ; bind it, as on . their frontlets, on the memory and the heart of every pupil that treads its threshold, and its opening in Glasgow will be well entitled to be held one oAf After most important epochs of Glasgow's history. s lV o l m ai e nz r e e r ma si r ra k s s excitingupo the musical us ical Edinburgh,enthusiasm vwhich he which e r l r l not fail to rouse in Glasgow when he i s t 'aid as Mr Simpson, he will at no distant time do—and , h m e askveoueldv,erbyy oneth eextraordinary were ta the reoomhorn, spowersing, he possesses in . in cluding the Lord Provost himse lf— (A l augh) — whether they would or no.—Mr. Simpson concluded by congratulating Glasgow on the opening of the Queen's College ; and added that, with its High School, Collegiate School, Western Academy, Trades' School, and Queen's College, no place in the empire possessed a richer provision of means for an en lightened, liberal, and generous education for the middle classes. A national plan alone will extend the blessing to the entire population.—Scotsman. THE TEN HOUItS BILL.—MANCHESTER, TUESDAY NIGHT.—The approaching session of Parliament is thisil()t to district,b e passed wit hout the distressed verlv factory operatives aremakinganothe o x f attempt to emancipate their children ' from the slavery to which they have too long been subjected by being worked from an early hour in the morning until a, late hour at nigh t, by which they are deprived of all means of acquiring either a domestic or moral edu .cation. Yesterday evening a very numerous meet ing of the Lancashire Central Short-time Committee was held at the house of Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, Red Lion Inn, London-road, at which it was agreed again to appeal to Parliament through their friend and champion, Lord Ashley. Amongst other things it was resolved to print 1,000 copies of their address, presented to Lord Ashley in the latter end of September, together with his Lordship's reply on that occasion. It was stated to the Committee that there was every prospect of something being done during the forthcoming session of Parliament to abridge the hours of labour in cotton and other fac tories. It was also stated that Lord Ashley was very sanguine as to the success of his measure, provided he was supported by the Short-time Committees of Lan cashire and Yorkshire. The Committee, which was attended by most of the most active of its members in former struggles, entered warmly upon the prosecu tion of the good work, and have resolved to leave no means untried to forward the emancipation of the children of their fellow-workmen. . . EFFECTS or CULTURE.--The almond, with its rough coriaccous husk, has been changed by long culture into the peach, with its beautiful, soft, and delicious pulp; the acid sloe, into the luscious plum; and the harsh, bitter crab, into the golden pippin. At tention to nutrition has produced quite as marked changes in the pear, cherry, and other fruit trees; many of which have nut only been altered in their qualities and appearance, but even in their habits. Celery, so agreeable to most palates, is a modification of the apium graveoleu, the taste of which is so acrid and bitter that it cannot be eaten. Our cauliflowers and cabbages, which weigh many pounds, are largely developed coleworts, that grow wild on the seashore, and do not weigh more than half an ounce each. The rose has been produced by cultivation from the com mon wild briar. Many plants may be modified with advantage by suppressing the growth of one part, which causes increased development of other parts.— Dr. Truernan on Food. TULIPOMAISIA. — The sum "of 6401. has been lately given for the bulb of a new tulip, called the " Citadel of Antwerp." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 24. LANCASTER V. EVORS. Sir CHARLES WETHERELL replied in this case to. day at considerable length, and The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed his judgment ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 24. This day being set apart as the general petition day, previous to the close of term, Lord Langdale was engaged throughout the morning in hearing consent petitions. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Nov. 24 (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) The COURT was occupied to-day in taking unop— posed petitions and short causes. IN RE THE LONDON AND CROYDON, AND LONL"ON AND GREENWICH RAILIVAYS. This was a petition presented for the purpcse of ob taining payment out of Court-of two sums of money invested in Stock, the residue of the purchase money of property taken by the two Companies of a person named Freen. This property was devised .by Mr. ltd. Freen to his scn, with leave to dispose of it by will only; both the London and Greenwich and Lon don and Croydon Railway Companies considered this as equivalent to a life interest in the property, and accordingly purchased it. By an order of the Court the money WAS invested in another portion of real property, which was devised by John Freen on his demise, to his five children, according to the terms of his father's will. There was a residue of the purchase money still remaining- invested in stock, and the object of the present retition was to obtain the payment of those two sums.—Order taken as prayed. TIIE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. WOODWARD. This Wi.S originally an application having for its object the consolidation of a number of small charities in the city of Bristol for the support of indigent per sons. The Charity Commissioners had recommended that one of these charities, which was possessed of an almshouse, should have centered in it all the other small ehariti:.>:.:, so as to convert them into one institu tion, instead of having them divided into small frag monts. 4.1. great inducement to take this course arose from its being held out by several charitable persons that they were ready to present this consolidated charity with a suni of - 800/1 The decrce of the Court referred this application to the Master, who had in quired minutely into all the circumstances of the different, charities, and reported'i-tf fa+NoUr of the ap plication.—Order granted`; Confirtning the Master's report. , (BeforeVice-Chancellor Sir J. K. ThilicE.) • s. I3ARRY V. HILL. „ . - His Hosroun gave judgment In this case this morn ing. In this suit fortithes;ly the rector of Brockley, in Som metshire against an occupier c.f lands in that po• arish, and the adjoining of Yatton, there were sonic points not in dispu b te, The plaintiff asked relief only,,in respect, of the periOil between Lady-day in 1838, ,and the !31st of December 1841, the former being the period .at. ' which the 'composition subsisting between tr*, parties.quded, having been determined by a notice given by the plaintiff, and the latter being the time from which - the statutary commutation of tithes had taken effect the parish of Brockley. The relief asked was algO.Testricted to the tithes of calves, lambs, pigs, foals, and agistment in Brockley; the tithes of such milk in tattori as was produced there; of calves and heifers fed in Were with hay brought from Brockley while they Were so fed ; and the tithes of calves, lambs, and foals in Patton. As to Brockley, the right to this account had not been contested; the question raised was merely whether there should be any and what directions as to the agistment of steers and oxen. The main dispute as to Yatton rested upon an alleged series of fraudulent removals of stock from Brockley to Yatton for the purpose of depriving the plaintiff of the tithes. Tie removals thus alleged by the p l aintiff and denied by the defendant had been the subject of evidence on both sides. That upon proving a fraudulent removal for such a purpose, a tithe-owner would be entitled to relief, was a proposition which could not be doubted ; it was of ancient recognition in the Court. To prove this it was not necessary to refer to any more remote authority than the Ist of Roll's Abridgment, p. 42. His 'Honour then referred to several cases in which the judgment had turned upon the fraudulent re moval of titheable matters for the purpose of de frauding the tithe-owner. From all these authorities, said his Honour, it was clear that as on the one hand the mere fact of •the removal of cows or ewes very shortly before the time of calving or lambing did not entitle the owner to claim in respect of the calves or lambs; so, on the other hand, he was entitled to relief if the removal was effected fur the purpose of de priving him of the tithes. Ile thought the plaintiff's evidence in this, can as to fraud was not wholly unmet. Smith's evidence did not appear to him to have that weight which the plaintiff's counsel had given to it. He said that he had observed the defendant's mode of using his farms in Yatton and Brockley ever since 1838, and where he had kept his stock during each year • and then came a particular enunciation, which, if regularly proved, would deserve great attention. He said that it was from a memorandum which he had made, that he was able to make the statement. The law of evi dence could not allow of a witness using notes in memoranda, unless he had some further recollection of the facts than as finding them written in a memo randum. The bill stated the defendant himself to have admitted or acknowledged to his servants and other persons the purpose imputed, but of this there was no evidence, and the defendant, in his answer, denied it; nor did the answers, taken by themselves, or in connexion with the bill, offer in his judgment, either evidence offraud, or grounds for suggesting fraud. Prom the plans and statements of both parties, it ap peared that the Brockley and Yatton farms formed substantially a single farm. Having regard to all the circumstances, he could not say that the plaintiff had established a case of fraud. in support of the de fendant's answer, several persons, whose respectability saw no reason to doubt, had deposed that the re moval alleged to be fraudulent had been . carried on before the period of 1838, when the composition came to an end. He had considered, how ever, whether he ought not to put the case in a train for further inquiry. Counsel had contended that the plaintiff was entitled to an immediate decree to the costs of the suit up to the hearing, and the defendant's counsel having given his consent, he was in a condition finally to dispose of the costs up to that time. He had already said that the plaintiff had not satisfied him as to the case of fraud hro alleged gnaenndesqsdafu:ofeirtr;ons b tfim y i caloinann t tus h ghllo e ydefte rearl i .eona l lsstb. an ts, sw ill er. His juedlpo, concede als n tov b d Lu:o e rtslu n n tB t tsh l l4tdi y eaon the nttr. o eoer f delllaio. question of ndhenraisectet.vinen°good rtahlle considering sp r d e 3a a es7- againstt heplai plaintiff rr.e Lox,qlt requested n tl r l e % ided defendant s evidence u tt l m g , il a .e n d e l a . whom he had commenced a suit to recover tithes. Upon his stating that he was unable to give evidence as to the quantity of potatoes produced by a particular field, the plaintiff became exceedingly angry, and said he would give him to Saturday to brush up his me mory. The plaintiff declining to give evidence, several disputes occurred subsequently, and the plaintiff, it was stated, acted hostilely and vexatiously towards the defendant. His Honour said the mode of collecting the tithes had riot been of a softening or winning kind. On the other hand, the conduct of tne defendant appeared, to be that which usually resulted from such disputes. Neither appeared to have acted in a judicious manner. He declared that there would be no costs up to the present time. He did not consider the case of fraud as proved against the defendant ; his consent was not to 19e understood as an admission of fraud. He thought the plaintiff, by restricting the relief asked in the manner which he had done by his counsel had exercised a wise dis cretion. His Honour then directed an account to be taken by the Master. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 24. (Sittings in Banco.) BOSANQUET V. GRATUM. - BOSANQUET V. BRIDGER. The plaintiff in these cases was the . public officer of the Westminster Banking Company. T he de fendant,ehor D YGn Graham, was sued as the p u bli c off i cer of t Banking Comp any, and the the s Southern defendant Bridger was sued as one of the Share holders of the said Company, a scir e f ac i as h av i ng been issued against him after judgment had been ob tained against Graham, in conformity with the pro visions ( i f the Statute regulating Joint Stock Banks. Mr. TBESIGER had obtained a rule calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the warrant of attorney given by the defendant Graham, and the judgment entered up thereupon, should not be set aside, and why the scire facias issued on that judgment should not he set aside. The Some ITOFt-GENERAL appeared this morning to show cause against the rule, and took a preliminary objection to th e titl e o f the affidavits in the case, and contended that it was contrary to practice to have one rule in two cases. Mr. THESIGER denied that the cases were really separate cases, the scire facias against the defendant Bridger, as a Shareholder, being merely a following up of the judgment against the defendant . Graham, in the manner prescribed by the Act of Parliament. Lord DENMAN said the feeling of the Court was against the validity of the objection, but it would re serve its judgment. In the meantime the arguments in the case had better go on. The SOLICITOIV•GENERAL said that the rule had been obtained on several distinct grounds. He understood that the objections to the warrant of attorney and to the judgment were substantially these :—lt appeared that the warrant of attorney had been given by Uley Graham, as the public officer of the Southern District Bank, for 30,0001., alleged to be due to the London and Westminster Banking Company, on the 4th of March, 1841; and the first objection taken to it was , that the warrant of attorney bad not been given by him as the public officer of the