The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-13 00:00:00

FRANCE. The Moniteur announces that Captain Graeb, who was placed on the retired list in July, 1848, when he exercised in the most bonourable manner the functions of the Governor of the Island of Reunion (Bourbon), had been recalled to active service by a decree of the President of the Republic, and at the unanimous recommendation of the Board of Ad ralralty. he Dlinister of Marine and the colonies had re ceived dispatches from the commander of the naval division of Reunion and Madagascar, dated Zan zibar, 25th of September last. No occurrence of any importance had taken place at Nossibe since the arrival there of the frigate La Reine Blanche. Captain Febvier Despointes states that the insurrection of the Sakalaves, which might have been attended with most fatal consequences, was entirely terminated. Those,' he says, ' 1 thought proper to pardon, have subscribed to terms advantageous for the colonisation of the island. The turbulent and dangerous chiefs have been dismissed. The principal have retired into the Ambongou, and there is every probability that tranquillity will not again be disturbed.' A letter addressed to the Minister of Marine, on the 14th of August, by the Commissioner General of the Republic in the Island of Reunion, contradicts the report or the death of the Queen of the Ovas, cir culated by a journal cf the Mauritius. The Moniteur contains the following :—" The President of the Republic admitted to a private au di en ce, on Thursday last, the Minister of the United States, with whom relations had been interrupted in consequence of the difference that had arisen between Poussin and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Washing,ton Cabinet. The President of the Republic declared to the American Minister that, not withstanding the wrongs which, it was but just to say, were mutual on both sides, he was willing to make advances in order to restore friendly harmony between the two great nations ; that a susceptibility, perhaps natural towards a Monarchy, did not appear to him seriously justified towards an elder Republic. Ile adiel that however jealous he should be of the honour of France, he entertained too high an opinion of the intelligence and character of General Taylor to hssitate an instant to acknowledge the pain it would give him to see sentiments of friendship so intimate and so ancient impaired on account of a mis understanding of no importance. The Ambassador of the United States received that frank and straight forward declaration with the utmost cordiality." The Moniteur publi%hes the report of the three arbitrators appointed to inquire into the extent of the los=es sustained by the two printers of the anarchical jeurnals, Messrs. Proux and Boule, whose establish ments were forcibly entered by the National Guards and troops on the 13th of June last. The prejudice occasioned the proprietors of the Democratie Paei- Aro is estimated at 4,812 50c. ; the damage suffered by Peoux, printer of the Trruie Republi2ue, at 40,444 f. 64e. ; and by M. Beul6, printer of the Peuple, at 78,065 f. 67e. ; in all 123,322 f. 81c. AUSTRIA. A recent number of the Vienna Gazette contains four or five columns of military promotions and appoint ments. Count Wratislaw has been named Com mander of the first army, which is stationed in Austria.. Count Rldetzky commands the second, which is in Italy; Baron Haynau the third, which now occupies Hungary ; and Baron Hammer stein the fourth, in Galicia. The four armies are subdivided into fourteen army corps. The ht is to hie commanded by Count Clam-Gallas, the 23 by Count Schlick, the 3d by the Archduke Albrecht, the 4th by M. de Legeditsch—the appointment for the sth has not yet been made—Baron d'Aspre commands the 6th, Baron Appel the 7th, Count Thurn the Bth, M. Wocker the 9th, Count Wallnaoden the 10th, M. de Schulzig the 11th, Prince ;Edmund Schwarzenburg the 12th, and Prince Francis Liechtenstein the 13th. The commander of the 14 - ,b army corps has not yet been appointed. A non official article in the Wiener Zeitung states that the political prisoners are treated with as much lenity as is consistent with their safe keeping. They are allowed to read, write, and receive letters, see their friends, wear their own clothes and linen, &c. Those who possess private property are permitted to add one florin (25.) a-day to the sum allowed for their maintenance by the Government, which is 16 kreut zers conventional currency, or about 6d. English. Even those who are condemned to hard labour are not put into irons unless they have attempted to escape, or have offered violence to those around them. It is expected that the question respecting the Vojvodina will be decided in the course of the week. The great majority of the population in the Bacska, being of German origin, offers a stout opposition to the plan of incorporating that fruitful country with the projected Voivcdina. The Germans are said to have expressed their determination rather to emigrate than submit to be subjected to the supremacy of the Ser vians. _ _ _ At the outbreak of the Hungarian revolution the Magyars destroyed all the German sign-boards. Baron Haynau has issued a proclamation, ordering them to be restored, under a penalty of 20 florins c.rn , in caF,e of disobedience. The Hungarian Allgemeine Zeitung gives the fol lowing ethnological statistic concerning Hungary : Magyars, 5,278,665 ; Slavonic races, exclusive of the Bulgarians, 5,277,329; Romanen, 2,908,876; Ger mans, 1,377,484 ; smaller nations, 381,064. It is somewhat singular that, although the Magyar power is completely broken, and the question of ex tradition definitively settled, giissia increases, rather than diminishes, her preparations for war. PRUSSIA. A grand banquet had been held in celebration of the accession of the Brandenburg Ministry to office. Two public meetings in memory of the death of Robert Blum had been broken up by the police ; at one of them the constable intrusted with the duty, was wounded by a knife or sword-cut, and several persons were arrested. A note had been received from the Hanoverian Government, protesting for mally v.gainst every resolution of the Council of Ad ministration of the Prussian Bund, to which the assent of all the states of Germany is not given. The King had cancelled the two last sentences of death passed by the late courts-martial for trying the insurgents in Baden. The resignation of M. Patow, as President of the province of Brandenburg, had been received. The Kolner Zeitung of the 10th instant states that a large meeting assembled in the Villa Colonna on the Bth instant, to celebrate the anniversary of the execution of M. R. Blum. The meeting was at tended by no less than 2,000 persons in mourning, who chanted a requiem, and who were being addressed by one of their number when the military and police arrived, and cleared the room. Another meeting was held in the Krausen-strasse. It was dispersed, and the police attempted to arrest a man who distinguished himself by an enormous red cock ade ; but the individal in question was rescued byl his friends, who fought the police in the room and in the street. THE SPANISH BUDGET. The Finance Minister of Spain brought forward the Budget for 1850 on the 3d inst.:— ` ' Senor Bravo Murillo commenced his financial exposition by stating to the Cortes that the Govern ment submitted the Budget of 1850 to their delibera tion, in conformity with the 74th article of the . , Constitution; and that the confidence of the Govern ment in the loyal and efficacious support of the Legislative bodies was so great, that it had not hesitated bringing forward the estimates at the very beginning of the session, in preference to other important measures which it had prepared. He then adverted to the transcendant importance of financial matters, and said that " the present state of Spanish finance could not be considered satisfactory ; that, notwithstanding the sacrifices which have been im ' posed on the tax-payers, it had not yet been possible to bring the receipts and expenses to a level, but that, • on the contrary, an inequality existed, which not unfrequently embarrassed the action of the Govern ment and the march of the administpation." The Government was penetrated with the necessity of getting rid of this deficit—the more so as this state of things might give eccasion for disturbances and commotions, from which Providence had hitherto • preserved them. Senor Bravo Murillo avows himself a " practical man" in economical matters. " Away from the field of rash theories," he says, " reducing to their just • value certain doctrines of finance and political eco nomy, the experiment of which has cost dear to the nations which have allowed themselves to be dragged along by thtm," two ways present - themselves for equalizing the receipts and expenditure without im posing new taxes—viz. to improve the collection of the imposts, and to reduce the public charges as far as can be done without detrimentfirst to the public ser vice. With resp ec t t o th the Government had • ' introduced, and proposed to introduce, various re forms in the general administrati on o f the finances!; tariff re form, he must ma k e especial mention of the re form,conformity " which, carried into effect in with the law voted in the last session, w ill receive opportu ne improvements, as soon as experience duly enlightens the Government respecting its results." Retrenchment of expenditure had also considerably engaged the attention of the Government, and, in spite of the difficulties with which it has had to struggle, it has carried out such reductions as its zeal • and convictions have dictated ; other measures of this • kind, of great importance, it proposed to effect next year. Amongst the most notable reductions was that N E .v ~.4 a , 4 ~,r ,i n the army estimates from the sytem of the reserve rikently created. The Government would have w hecl to have gone further in the way of re tr hment, but this was one of the points that etre a the greatest difficulties in its realization. . . •i:- ;, • el .',.. 4: , • Ti l e 1 impulse having, however, been given ... In . ir l tjlift direction, it was to be h o p e d th a t the , ' ~.: --e4..• .e....e1e1e ...e, S THE SUN, movement would continue. In the meantime the Government was under the necessity of proposing the deduction of a month's pay from the civil employes in active service, and from the military who were not in active military service, and of two months from the passive classes generally, as also of two months from the arrears due to the active classes, and four months from the arrears due to the passive classes; but these deductions did not in any way involve the loss of the rights of the parties interested. They preserved their right to these payments, and would merely not receive them in 1850, which amounted to a postponement of payment. Future measures would be taken for the due reduction of the estimates of the passive classes, by giving employment to the cesantes, and other dispositions, to attain which the Government had named a commission to examine the subject. It would be found that under some branches of the service the expenses had increased ; but this was not to be wondered at, as, when the products of the reve nues increased, their reproductive expenses increased in proportion. Senor Bravo Alurillo next alluded to various measures which the Government meant to submit to the Cortes e by which the finances in general would be benefited, if not directly so—such as the law of accounts and the regulation of the supreme tribunal of accounts. The total estimated revenue for 1850 had been taken at 1,296 millions of reals, from which deducting 7_49,036,912 reels for reproductive ex penses of the revenue s, there remained an effective amount of 1,147,020,274 reels. The estimated ordinary expenditure of the same year had been fixed at 1,146,907,536 reels, and there was also an extra ordinary expenditure of 80,000,000 of reels, as below expressed. The budget had been drawn up in a new form, by which the obligations of each Ministry ap peared classified in chapters and articles, &c., and it was intended that the estimates of 1850 should remain open till July, 1851, so that any arrears not paid off on the Ist of January might be paid with such re sources as might be realised, belonging to the same period; the accounts would then be naade,up. The arrears due for taxes to the end of 1849 had there fore not been included in the budget of 1850, the obligations of which were to be met exclusively with the current revenues of the same. However, it was not possible that all obligations undischarged in that period (1849) could be so met, and the Govern ment proposed to place a portion of them (i. e. ex , penses of 1849), which it considered indispensable to pay off, in the estimates for 1850. It amounted to 23,920,744 reels, which added to 27,587,481 reals for the War-office, in case the army of reserve should require to be kept under arms, and 15,491,775 reels set down as required for the navy estimates, made up the extraordinary estimate of 60,000,000 reels above mentioned. The arrangement respecting the clergy being still pending with the Holy See, no alteration had been made under that head; the Government had taken measures to have the law for the dotation of the clergy carried out in all its integrity. Senor Bravo Murillo concluded by expressing a confident expectation that the state of the finances would progressively improve, considering the present financial difficulties as owing chiefly to accidental and transitory causes—as the prolonged duration of the war in Catalonia, the delay in carrying out the Tariff Bill ; the extraordinary charge of the 100 millions of the forced loan, and other circumstances, which had reduced the receipts of the Treasury and increased its outgoings, and, therefore, when the one and the other cause had ceased to operate, it was reasonable to ex pect that the state of affairs would improve under the successive developments of the revenue and the gra dual diminution of expenditure, if Spain continued to possess the peace and order which she now enjoyed. He then submitted the following " PROJECT OF LAW. " Art. 1. The ordinary expenses of the state during the year 1850 are fixed at 1,146,907,536 reals ' distri buted in the chapters and articles expressed in the statement marked with the letter A, with the deduc tions expressed therein, assigning to the Government for their payment the corresponding credits. " Art. 2. These credits shall be attended to with the products of all the revenues and contributions for the above-mentioned year, comprised and computed in the statement marked with the letter B, amounting to 1,147,029,274 reals, after having deducted 149,056,812 reals for reproductive expenses of the same. " Art. 3. The Government is authorised to open, in case of necessity, on the receipts of 1850, an extra ordinary credit to the amount of 60,000,000 reals, with special destination to the payment of the ex penses estimated in the statement, indicated with the letter C. . ------ _ _ " Art. 4. The receipts corresponding to 1850 shall not be capable of being applied to cover any other obligations than those comprised in the budget of expenditure of the same year. '• Art. i. The receipts which are realised during the said period, for arrears gnii taxes of former years, shall have special application to the payment of the obligations of the present year which should not be paid off at the end of December next. " Art. 6. A surcharge, not exceeding 4 per cent. on the amount, shall continue to be imposed on the quota of each town, &c., for the contribution on im moveable property, cultivation and cattle, as disposed by the law of 23d May, 1845, in order to cover the expenses of collection, transmittance, and delivery of funds in the depots of the Treasury. " JUAN BRAVO MURILLO. " Madrid, Nov. 2, 1849." A. GENERAL ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITUNB FOR THE YEAR 1850. Sections. 1. Royal Family 2. Legislative bodies 3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Beals. 45,900,000 1,161,870 11,555,371 4. Ditto Grace and itustice 18,508,831 5. Ditto War 6. Ditto Marina 7. Ditto Home Department 8. Ditto, Commerce, &c. 9. Ditto Finance 125,072,410 10. Passive Classes 11. Re-payments, arrears and pay ments, charged on the products of the revenues 12. Charges of justice .. 16,825,680 13. Public debt 100,136,957 14. Secular clergy and nuns in cloister 154,734,603 Deduct from this total for the reasons explained below 1,197,602,193 50,694,60' Total net expenditure . 1,146,907,556 The above reduction proceeds:- 1. From one payment of the twelve which are credited to the employes dependent on all the Ministries, who were subjected by royal de cree, of June, 1848, to the forced donation of another payment, the which they will cease to receive in the approaching year, 1850, though they will be credited in individual accounts, as a credit which they have and is acknow ledged as against the State 2. From two months' payment, which will cease to be paid to the passive classes in the terms, and under the same conditions 3. From two months' ditto to the cre ditors for arrears due to active employes, who are deceased or have passed to the passive class 4. Finally, from four months ditto to the creditors for arrears due to the passive classes 13,100,045 22,812,425 1,840,648 Total.. 13,041,584 5Q694,557 " GENERAL ESTIMATE OF RECEIPTS FOR. 1850. Gross Revenue. Net Revenue. Reels. Reals. Direct Taxes 333,780,000 ... 333,780,000 Indirect ditto 180,500,000 ... 180,500,000 Customs Government Monopolies 300,900.000 239,597,342 National Property Lottery Bull of Cruzada 15,000,000 ... 14,343,000 Excess of Colonial Re venue 71,500,000 ... Ministry of Foreign Affairs Home Department Commerce, &c. War Department .. 162,400 ... Marine ditto 71,500,000 380,000 19,418,390 23,443,000 162,400 620,582 Total 1,296,065,186 ... 1,147.028,275 " The " Reproductive' Expenses" which make up this difference are as follows :—Direction of Customs, 200,000 reals ; ditto of Government Monopolies, 61,302,658 reals; ditto National Property, 12,922,814 reals ; ditto Lottery, (prizes, &c.), 54,227,000 reals ; Bull of Cruzada, 657,000 reals ; Home Department (Post-office, &c.), 17,271, 610 reals ; ditto Commerce, &c., 2,240,750 reals ; ditto Marine, 213,079 reals ; making a total of 149,036,911 reals. C. " ESTIMATE OF EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDITURE FOR 1850. Beals. Matters pending at the end of 1849 23,920,744 Ministry of War 37,587,481 Ditto Marine 80,000,000 As these sums would only be totally re quired in case the whole reserve were put under arms in the beginning of 1850, and the whole amount under the Marine Department expended, it may be reason ably expected that the whole amount will not bo required, deduct consequently as estimated net to be required in 1850 20,000,000 --- Net extraordinary estimate .................. 60,000,000 Lieutenant Tiosken had an , interview w i t h E ar ; Grey yesterday. Captai n etherall had also an in terview with the Noble Earl, at the Colonial-office. LONDON, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 12. REGISTRATION APPEAL. CAPEL, APPELLANT, V. OVERSEERS OF ASTON, RESPONDENTS The appellant in this case was the owner and occu pier of some freehold land in the parish of Aston, Birmingham, of a greater yearly value than 405., and was also the occupying tenant, but not the owner, at a rent of more than 101. yearly, of a house distant from the land, and situated within the parish and borough of Birmingham. In respect of the land he claimed a vote for the county, but the Revising Barrister held that the land aad house, although separated, ought to be united, and made to form one tenancy, and being so united they constituted under the Reform Act a true qualification. The claim for a county-rate was, therefore, dis allowed. Mr. KEENE, who appeared for the appellant stated, that the 2,4 th section of the Act, which was relied upon by the Revising Barrister, said that no person was entitled to a county vote in respect of his interest in any freehold land occupied by himself " togeth er with" any house of sufficient yearly rental to entitle him to a vote for a city or borough, and he contend ed that the words "together with" were meant to refer to space, to the land being attached to and not separat sd from the house. In the present case the facts show(xl that the land was not only at a distance from the house, but was not even in the same parish, and if the decision of the Barrister was upheld, he argued th at no meaning would be given to the words referred to. Mr. MELLOR, on the part of the respondents, con.- tended that the Legislature, by the words " togetle!r ‘rith," meant cotemporaneous occupation of the free hold land and house, and that it mattered not whetlo they were actually separated, because the house arid the land must be united and be considered to make up and constitute one mixed or joint tenancy, quaff.- fying for a borough voter. Mr. KEENE replied, observing that the effect of his Learned Friend's argument would be to deprive free holders in boroughs of a county vote. A house and land could not be considered as making one tenancy, entitling to a borough vote, if the claimant was only the occupier of the one and the owner and the occuph of the other. Before they could be united and made to form a right to a borough vote, the claimant must be tenant only of both; he must have a distinctive character as a tenant without having any frecheld interest. The COURT deferred its decision. BURTON, APPELLANT, v OVERSEERS OF ASTON. Mr. KEENE was also heard on the part of the ap pellant in this case. Burton wa3 the owner of free hold land in the parish of Aston, occupied by himself, of greater value than 40s. yearly, and also the mem— pying tenant of a house in another parish of lesA yearly value than 101. He claimed, in respect of the land, a vote for the county, but the Revising Barrister decided that he was not entitled to one, and held that, although he had not a 101, tenancy, the, land and the house must be taken together to form a borough qualification. The only distinction betwe an this and the former case was, that the house occupied by the appellant was of less rental yearly. ➢ir. Keene contended that the two occupations could not be united, saying that a voter's qualification coulill not be rated in two parishes. He also argued, as im the first case, that the voter must have a distinctive character—that his qualification could not be malt up of a freehold and a tenancy, which, although oft-. cupied together, were actually in separate parishes. Mr. MELLOR was heard on the other side. The COURT took time to consider their decision. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 13. (Sittings in Banco.) G OSDEN V. ELPIIICK AND BENNETT-TOSS V. TD3i SAME-MATNARD V. THE SAME. The three actions abovenamed, arising out of the: same transaction, were brought for alleged false im prisonment, and tried before Mr. Baron Alderson,at the last assizes for Surrey, when the jury in each case: returned a verdict for the defendants. Mr. lI.AwKiNs now moved to set aside the verdicts in all three cases, and for new trials, on the ground of misdirection. It appeared that the three plaintiffs, Gosden, Von, and Maynard, had taken a horse to sell at a fair im Surrey, and whilst they were endeavouring to obtaima a purchaser for the animal the halter round the horse's neck became loose, the horse started off at a gallop, and running amongst a crowd, knocked down a little boy, whose arm was broken by the fall. The bp standers' sympathies were excited in consequence of the injuries sustained by the boy, the police were called for, and the defendant Bennett, who was constable, without much consideration, took into his custody a stranger, whom he believed was the owner of the runaway horse. The, second defendant, Elphick, seeing the constable at. fault, and having witnessed the whole transactifin., assured the constable that the person who was first; arrested was wholly innocent, and pointed out the three plaintifis, who were immediately taken in. custody by Bennett. The following day all the three plaintiffs were brought before a magistrate, and there being in fact no charge against them they were at once set at liberty, and after a long interval brought the present actions. The defence was that Bennett being a constable was within the protection of nu! statute 24 George IL, c. 44, which enacts amoi3g other things, that actions against the parties protected by the statute shall be brought within six months after the commission of the alleged grievance ; and that the present action was not brought within the prescribed period. As to the other defendant, Elphick, the answer to the action was, that he ha-cl merely pointed out the plaintiffs, as the persoras having the charge of the horse, and incurrest no personal responsibility by so doing. On the trial, the Learned Baron who presided left it to tl jury to say if Elphick had given the plaintiffs infix, custody, or had Merely pointed them out to thep liceman as the .parties to blame, if any one was ta. be blamed. As to Bennett, the constable, the Learned Judge asked the jury if they believed l acted bona fide under the belief that he was autho rised as a constable to arrest the plaintiffs, as in that case the Learned Judge thought he was clearly en-. titled to the protection of the statute 24 George IL It was now submitted that the Learned Judge ought also to have asked the jury if Bennett had a reason.. , able ground for taking the plaintiffs into custody . ; and as to Elphick, it was contended that the elms. dence was, that he had directed Bennett to take up the plaintiffs, and that there was no evidence to sup-. port the inference suggested by the Judge, that he (Elphick) had merely pointed the plaintiffs out as, persons who had charge of the horse. The COURT was of opinion there was no ground: for disturbing the verdicts in any of the three cases., There was no doubt that Bennett was a constable,, and acting in this instance as such, and whether he: had reasonable ground for taking the plaintiffs into, custody or not, if he acted under the belief that he, was discharging his duty he was clearly within the. protection of the statute. As to Elphick, it wouh lead to very inconvenient results if a person pointing , out the right party to a policeman who had arrested., a stranger was to be personally liable for such an act. If this were the law, persons would be slow to assist; the police in the discharge of their duty. For these: reasons the Court would grant no rule in any of thel cases moved. Rule refused. (Sitting at Nisi Erius, before Mr. Baron PLATT and, a Middlesex Jury.) CHILD V. BEST. Mr. Atherton for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant, Wilkins for the defendant. This was an action on the case for verbal slander. It appears that the plaintiff, who had formerly been a draper, and was bankrupt in that trade, after-, wards entered the service of Broad wood and Co., the brewers, as a collector, and now fills that situation. The defendant is a publican, carrying on business in. Queen Anne's-street, Cavendish-square, and had some, transactions with the plaintiff previous to his bank ruptcy. In June last the defendant, who is a cus tomer of Broadwood and Co., went to the counting house of that firm, and seeing the plaintiff there, said, to a clerk named Eyles, " What is that fellow (mean-, ing the plaintiff) doing here ?" To which Eyles, replied by asking "Do you know him ?" and defend-. ant answered, "Know him! to be sure Ido ; the , thief robbed me of 171." For these words the pre, sent action was brought. On the part of the defendant, it was proved that) after the conversation with Eyles the defendant went to Mr. Huggins, the managing partner at Broad wood's, and stated that he had used the words ixt question in anger, and without any serious intentiose of imputing felony to the plaintiff, and that he was sorry for it, and was ready to make an apology. Itt also appeared that before any considerable expensit had been incurred in costs, the defendant offered to: pay 101. and to give a written apology. Mr. Huggins also deposed that defendant told him he was willing. to settle the action, but that his attorney prevented him., Under these circumstances, it was suggested that. the action was merely brought by the attorney fors costs. Mr. Baron PLATT, in summing up, pointed out to• the jury that in any event the plaintiff would have to pay his attorney's costs, and, therefore, that they should not be influenced by the argument that they attorney was pressing the action for costs. The jury, however, after an absence of nearly two hours, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with ono farthing damages. CONSIST DRY COURT, Nov. 13. (Before Dr. LUSIIINGTON.) DAUNT V. DASENT. On the application of Dr. Addams the Court ad mitted the libel in this case, which was promoted by the wife against the husband for a divorce, on the ground of cruelty and adultery. MORRIS, FALSELY CALLING HERSELF COOPER. Dr. JENNER explained that this suit was pro. TUESDAY EVENINGS NOVEMBER 13, moted by the wife against the husband, for neglect and impotency. Dr. BAYFORD opposed the admission of the libel. The marriage took place on the 15th January, 1846, and the parties lived together about two years. The husband then left home, and never returned. The learned civilian contended that the parties ought to have lived together three years before this application could be made. Dr. Jenner, for the wife, disputed the necessity, and quoted "Briggs v. Morgan," and other cases. The Learned JUDGE said that in this case it was not necessary that there should have been a three years' cohabitation, since it was proved that the husband was incompetent. The libel must therefore be admitted. MAJOR V. MAJOR. In this case also the wife proceeds against the husband, Mr. Wm. Major, for a divorce, on the ground of adultery, and no opposition being offered, the application was granted. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 12. (Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.) IN RE BISHOP. The bankrupt was the proprietor of the Oriental Club House, Vere-street, Oxford street. The case came before the Court on Thursday last, when the bankrupt's examination was adjourned sine die, and without protection. A few minutes before 3 o'clock, however, the bankrupt surrendered, and his protection was enlarged until this morning at twelve o'clock. That hour having elapsed without the bankrupt making his appearance, Mr. DUNCAN applied to the Court to issue a warrant for his apprehension. his Honour would recollect that the bankrupt's property in Vera street had been seized by a Mr. Alfred Mortimer Job, who had put into the house a Miss Angelina Job, and who re tained possession. The Court's summons to Mr. Job was a perfect nullity. No such person could be found to exist. His HONOUR granted the warrant against the bank rupt's person. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 12. (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) IN RE RENTON NICHOLSON. The application of the insolvent for his discharge was supported by Mr. Cooke. Mr. Sargood opposed on behalf of Mr. Shenton and Mr. Morrison. The Court being informed that the insolvent was a tavern keeper, inquired what was the name of the tavern ? The . insolvent—The Justice Tavern, 36, Bow.street. The COMMISSIONER—Oh ! The Justice Tavern. Insolvent examined—Was arrested on a debt of 261., and is now out on bail. Had been insolvent on three previous occasions, his debts under which amounted to 11 3811. The debts on the present oc casion were 5,550/. ; making a total of 16,9311 Had paid 5,000/ on the debts due under the previous insolvencies. Did not now possess anything for his creditors, unless the bankruptcy against Mr. Ellis, of the Cremorne-gardens, should be superseded. He believed it was about to be so superseded. In this case he would be entitled, during the remain ing portion of Mr. Ellis's lease of Cremorne-gardens, a period of eighteen years, to a salary of 3001. per year, and which he was quite willing to set apart for the liquidation of his debts. All his other property had been disposed of. Mr. SARGOOD—Have you not disposed of a car riage to Mr. Wrench ? The insolvent—Yes; that was my state carriage.— (Laughter.) The COMMISSIONER—Just explain what you mean by state carriage. The insolvent—lt is the carriage, your Honour, that, as president of the Judge and Jury Society, I had used for the purpose of driving about the west end and the parks. It brought business. It had a coat of arms emblazoned upon it. The COMMISSIONER—It has quite a judicial ap pearance, I suppose.—(—Laughter.) Mr. SARGOOD (to the insolvent)—When did you last take a drive in it ? Insolvent—l never rode in it at all. I have paid for the carriage, but I had not the means of buying the horses.—(Langhter.) I purchased the carriage at 'Fattersall's in 1846. The carriage and harness were deposited with Mr. Wrench as security for a debt of 1501. In May, 1848, I had in my possession certain wood blocks. They were made use of in illustrating certain works. The COMMISSIONER—What works ? The insolvent —The Illustrated London Life. Ilis Ilostoun—The Illustrated London Life! Insolvent—These cuts had been given to Mr. Mayon as security for a debt of 60/. A chandelier had been given to a creditor. The other creditors might probably recover it by an action and paying his debt. Mr. SARGOOD —Was there not another carriage ? Insolvent—Yes ; that was given to Mr. Lacey, another creditor. He had last used it at Epsom races in 1848. It was his business carriage—(Laughter)—and was used to convey the members of his forensic society on their travels. His HONOUR—How many will it hold ?—lnsolvent —Six of us.—(Laughter.) Examination continued—Mr. Meiklam had lent him 300/. upon his acceptance. He had given Mr. Meiklam security over his property. That was all the property be had. He had just before been turned out of the Garrick's Head, which he had held for ten years. In May, 1846, one Mr. Deberenger, granted a lease to Mr. Wolsey, of the Cremorne-gardena. Wolsey assigned this lease to Mr. Simpson at the in solvent's wish. Mr. Simpson afterwards granted a lease to Mr. Ellis. On the Ist March, 1846, a deed between Ellis and himself was executed under which he, the insolvent was entitled to one eighth of the takings (receipts) of the gardens. The insolvent was then examined at length touching the gradual disposal of his interest in this guarantee, from which it appeared that he had paid, at various times, a number of bills on account thereof. In February, 1849, he sold his remaining interest in it to Mr. Ellis for 3001., and a guarantee of a salary of 3001. per year during the remaining period that Mr. Ellis should hold the lease. ' Mr. SARGOOD called the attention of the insolvent to the circumstance that, although the receipt of these bills was duly entered in his balance-sheet, their application was not shown. Insolvent—lt was three years since the transactions to which Mr. Sargood referred. The money was i accounted for generally, if not specifically. Mr. Ellis had accepted our bills of exchange, amounting to 1,5001., as due to him, the insolvent, on account of his share in the takinge of Cremorne-gardens. He had paid them to Mr. Foulkes, to whom he was largely indebted. Foulkes had a registered judgment against him for 8001. There was a claim of 3,000/. upon Mr. Ellis, but that was in favour of his (the insolvent's) children. The deed was in court. Foulkes had at tempted to prove against Ellis's estate in the Bank ruptcy Court, for the four bills amounting to 1,5001., but the proof had not been allowed by the Com missioner. Mr. SARGOOD submitted that the Court would order the insolvent to make out a debtor and creditor . account between himself, Foulkes, and Mr. Pooke, in order to show whether he had properly or improperly made over property to those persons. Mr. Coors submitted that it was not reasonable to require this, and proceeded to re-examine The insolvent—Mr. Shenton, the opposing creditor, was a wine merchant at Greenwich. He was a creditor under a former insolvency, and had, after that in solevncy, been paid 20/. on account of an old debt. [lt was here stated by the traveller for Mr. Shenton that the old debt was due to Mr. Shenton's father, and not to the opposing creditor.] Mr. Shenton had taken his bill for 3001., giving him in return 150/. in wine and 1501. in cash, less 271. deducted for interest upon the latter at the rate of 20 par cent. He would admit that he had been irregular in keeping his accounts. • His books might show what had been done with the money. They were in the court. He had been travelling in the country lecturing upon poetry and sociality, and his books had not been kept so fully as they might have been. Foulkes was a bill discounter. By Mr. SARGOOD—When examined at the Court of Bankruptcy Foulkes swore that he never kept books. Mr. COOKE—BiII discounters seldom do. Mr. SARGOOD—For a very obvious reason. The COMMISSIONER said he felt called upon to grant the adjournment that had been asked for by Mr. Sar good. A debtorsshould be at all times anxious to put his creditors in possession of every information they might require. The insolvent—l hope I have not evinced any re luctance in this respect, your Honour. The COMMISSIONER—CertainIy not. Mr. Robins, auctioneer, Covent-garden, proved that a distraint for 1501. rent bad been levied upon the premises forming the Garrick's Head, and under which furniture had been condemned of the value of 1701. The distraint was levied by the order of Mr. Ady, as agent for the Duke of Bedford. Insolvent—He had paid 350/. per year to Mr. Simpson for the Garrick's Head. Simpson had been a friend of his. He did not know who was the Duke of Bedford's tenant. His furniture had been taken. The COMMISSIONER (to Mr. Robins)—You did not care whose property it was. Mr. Robins—Not the least.—(Laughter.) We received the money for it , from Mr. Simpso n , and paid it to the Duke' s agent. 1 Mr. Cooxe—l n the articles removed were t h ere , not some pictures ? Insolvent—Yes ; the pictures of the judges.— (Laughter.) His HONOUR then ordered an adjournment to the 26th instant, in order that the creditors might be furnished with the information desired. We have receivedintelligence of the death of the Rev. WilliAm French, D. 1)., the master of Jesus Col ler, Cambridge, who sank under paralysis at seven o'clock yesterday erening. The deceased was in the sixty-third v.flr of his age, and had held the master -1144 ff eou•g since the year 1820. POLICE INTELLIGENCE MAIVSION-HOUSE. MOVING PUBLIC-HOUSES.--A man named Smith, the master of one of the halfpenny steamers which ply between Dyers'-hall Pier-wharf and Westminster, was summoned before the Lord Mayor and Alderman Ilumphery for having, during the time at which licensed victuallers are by law obliged to keep their houses closed, viz., about twenty-five minutes past eleven o'clock on Sunday, the 4th inst., unlawfully sold exciseable liquor on board his vessel, whereby he was subjected to a penalty not exceeding 51. The defendant pleaded guilty ; but The LORD MAYOR having been informed by Inspector Mitchell that there were constant repetitions of the offence with which the man was charged, and that it had, 'in fact, become of late a scandal in the neighbourhood, desired that evidence should be given in order that the most vigorous measures might be adopted for its suppression. Inspector Mitchell said, that, in consequence of directions issued by the late Lord Mayor, he and one of his men had gone in coloured clothes on board the steamer, in which they soon found that, during church hours, gin, rum, brandy, beer, and tobacco were sold to the passengers;- that the tap room custom commenced soon after eleven o'clock, and was kept up without intermission from that hour until the public-houses on terra firma opened, and the interval was so busily employed by the customers, that many of them landed in a state of intoxication. The de fendant had, upon being remonstrated with on the dangerous nature of the nuisance to which he had given his sanction, promised that it should never be repeated, and the inspector had reason to believe the assurance would not be violated. The LORD MAYOR asked whether the same latitude which was granted to public-houses of inferior de scription was given in those steamer-places of amuse ment. Inspector Mitchell said, precisely the same. From the moment the guests entered they began to smoke and drink ; and the game was kept up with many as long as they had money in their pockets. They were then put on shore, and several were to be seen stag gering along the streets when church-goers were returning from places of worship, to the great scandal of Thames-street and its neighbourhood. There were difficulties in the way of the performance of their duties by the police in cases of the kind, the Act being susceptible of a construction favourable in the opinion of some to those who authorised the practice ; and he had been obliged to confine his evidence to what he had seen while the vessel was still fastened to her moorings. The LORD MAYOR said the Act which exempted steam-vessels from the penalties to which public houses were subjected for infringements of the law could never have been intended to apply to the half penny and penny steamers which plied between the bridges, but merely referred to the vessels which tra velled to such a distance as was calculated to render the use of exciseable articles necessary. He considered that the offence constituted a nui sance of the most dangerous as well as disgusting character, and was injurious to the licensed vic tuallers, who were already so severely taxed for their privileges, and he should certainly do all that the chief magistrate could do to put an end to it. Inspector Mitchell said his Lordship might form some notion of the manner in which the trade was carried on in the steamers on Sunday, from the fact that a short time previously to the present occasion of complaint, he, and one of his men, had gone in co loured clothes on board one of the halfpenny boats, and the instant it was believed that officers were present off the master ordered the vessel, although a thick fog covered the river; very luckily it ran foul of no other boat, but she passed very near a sister steamer filled with customers of the same descrip tion, who were hallowing and singing, and smoking and drinking. Alterman HUMPHERY said some of the tap-room boats alluded to had, in order to come within the meaning of the Act, obtained licences for steaming to Sheerness, but confined their business to limits be tween Dyers'-hall Pier and Westminster-bridge, and realised considerable profits every Sunday. If such an abuse were allowed, the Thames would be soon covered with floating public-houses, and robberies and offences of still greater magnitude would become easy of perpetration. He thought the Lord Mayor in such an emergency would do well to apply to the chairman of the Commissioners of Excise, who were empowered to grant licences, to interpose their au thority, as, no doubt, advantage was taken of the latitude of construction alluded to. It was quite evident that these floating tap-rooms could afford to take their passengers all day, backward and forward, for the profits on the sale of the spirits, beer, and tobacco. The LORD 'MAYOR said be certainly should take an early opportunity to wait upon the chairman of the Board of Excise, upon the subject of the giu and beer steamers ; and requested that the inspectors of police would in the meantime vigilantly observe the conduct of the masters, and report the result of their observation at the Mansion-house. WESTMINSTER. DARING ROBBERY.—Thomas -Haycock, a we known thief, was charged with committing the following daring robbery, attended with violence to the person : At about ten o'clock on Saturday night James Bolt, a country lad, was accosted by two women of loose character, near Westminster Abbey, and in n the ot beenneighbourhood m or o than ofa y had in % s -e t i . g A le n d n i o n - t s o tr a ee d tr w o h f er in e f h am e minute when the prisoner knocked at the door, and, having been admitted by one of the women, asked the youth for some money. The latter replied, he had none, when the prisoner took out a knife, and declared with an oath that he would have his money or his life. The lad repeated he had none, when the prisoner knocked him down, and another fellow who had entered the room held him on the floor while the prisoner robbed him of 2s. 7d., which he had in his trousers' pocket; the lad fortunately escaping from the house with a much larger sum in his fob, which they turned aside to examine the purse which contained the 2s. 7d., no doubt in anticipation of finding from its weight—there being some halfpence in it—a much greater booty. The lad gave information to Knowland, B 50, who took the prisoner into custody on Sunday night. The prisoner, who denied the charge, was remanded for a week. A respectable looking woman, apparently upwards of 60 years of age, attired in deep mourning, who gave her name Eliza Howard Billington, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a small drinking-glass. Charles Frederick Clarke, barman at Mr. Spence. ley's, the Swan Tavern, Sloane-street, stated that in consequence of having of late lost a great number of dram glasses, and suspecting the prisoner, who some times took a little refreshment and looked at fie news papers, he watched' her upon the occasion of a visit that morning, and he saw her put the glass in a reticule basket she had on her arm, immediately after which she walked out. lie followed and brought her back, and then took the glass from her basket, when she drew it out of his hand and let it fall upon the floor, by which it was broken. Serjeant M'Cloud, 18 B, proved having, since she had been in custody, searched her lodgings, and found three other drinking.glasses, one of which was identi fied as Mr. Spenceley s, and a second as Mr. Hallifax's of the Two Brewers, Queen's Buildings, Knights bridge. He also discovered a great number of beg ging letters and duplicates. The accused, upon being called upon for her de fence, said—l had been reading the paper, and I have not the least doubt I put the glass into my basket with my spectacles by mistake. The police having intimated that they should be in a condition to prove a former conviction against the prisoner, who is a well known begging-letter writer, for felony, Mr. BRODERIP remanded her till Monday next. LAMBETH. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN DULWICH WOOD. —The young woman Ewins, on whose life the despe rate attempt had been made by the young fellow Jordan, in Dulwich-wood, on the night of the 19th of September last, and for which the latter had been left for execution, yesterday waited on Mr. Elliott, accompanied by her grandmother, an aged but decent looking woman. In reply to the questions of the Magistrate, she said she expected to be confined in the month of January next, and that as soon as she got over that it was her intention, if her health and strength permitted her, to get into service again. Mr. ELLIOTT informed her that a short ire before Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate, had called with two guineas from the Sheriffs of London for her use. He also said that it was likely other sums would be sent for her, and if so he should be happy to take charge of it, and that it was properly applied to her use. He then directed that 20s. of the money in hand should be given to her and her grandmother for her immediate use, and expressed a hope that they would not go about with a petition. This they promised, and having expressed their gratitude, left the court. THE MURDER AT THE MILLBANK PENITENTIARY. Yesterday appliQionWis - Macfe to Sir George Grey, at the Home-office, to grant an order to remove the convict John Francis, who now stands charged by a coroner's jury with having brutally murdered Thos. Hall, the warder, from Millbank Prison to Newgate, to await his trial at the ensuing sessions. After the return of the verdict, at the inquest on Saturday last, the wretched culprit was conveyed back to the refrac tory cell, but wag soon afterwards placed in a large room, called " a day work room," by himself. His arms and legs were heavily manacled, and two warders are stationed in the room with him to guard him. He has displayed no remorse for having committed such an atrocious deed, nor even alludes to the occur- 1849, rence. He was allowed to communicate with his friends, who are of the Jewish persuasion, residing in the neighbourhood of Houndsditch. His relatives are highly respectable, but he has been discarded by them for some considerable time, in consequence of his depraved and incorrigible habits. In consequence of Francis being a Jew, he did not attend chapel on Sunday morning with the other prisoners, and he applied to the Rev. Mr. T. Penny, the chaplain, for a Hebrew bible, which was most readily given him. He remained very quiet all day on Sunday and yes terday, and was constantly reading the bible. The wretched murderer was tried some time since for robbery, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. While at the hulks he complained of the diet, and asked Mr. Dabbs, the surgeon, for an extra allowance, Mr. Dabbs, not thinking it necessary, refused to give it him, and while he was walking away from him, Francis suddenly struck Mr. Dabbs a most violent blow upon the back of his neck, with a heavy mallet, with which he had been working. The un fortunate gentleman was knocked down, and Francis would have repeated the blow, but was fortunately prevented by several of the officers, who rushed to Mr. Dabb's assistance, and safely secured the mis creant. Mr. Dabba was confined to his room for upwards of four months, from the effects of the injuries, and he now frequently complains of his neck. Francis was severely punished, after which he was again sent hack to Millbank prison as a most incorri gible convict. On his way from the hulks he re peatedly threatened that on his arrival at the prison "he would be one with the officers, and that he would not be treated as he had been." After Francis had inflicted the fatal violence upon the unfortunate deceased warder Hall, he was secured, and when the two points of a pair of scissors were discovered in his jacket pocket, he exclaimed " that he had carried them about him for the purpose of stabbing Dr. Baly on the first opportunity." He had endeavoured to obtain an alteration in his diet at Millbank, and no other cause can be assigned for his committing this atrocious murder than that of revenge for his not obtaining the alteration. Hall was universally esteemed by his brother officers for his general ur banity and mild demeanour. He has left a wife and six young children, who were totally depending upon him for support. The sum of 501. has been given to the distressed widow, froln a fund, which entirely belongs to the officers attached to the prison. This fund is raised by weekly subscriptions, and the fines inflicted upon the officers for dereliction of duty are added to it. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—We proceed to consider the question which we opened in our financial article en Friday last, viz , what relief it may be practicable to afford to the country from that pressure of taxation which is unquestionably one of the heaviest clogs upon its prosperity, and one of the greatest drawbacks to the comfort and well-being of its productive classes. It must by no means be supposed that in turning our attention, in the first instance, to this branch of the subject, we are overlooking or disparaging the im portance of retrenchments in the national expendi ture. Whether it be in the affairs of states or of individuals, we appreciate at its full value the " magnum vectigal" of a vigilant and penetrating economy. Our incessant solicitude for this object is qualified by no other consideration than a regard to public faith, to efficient service, and to the just remune ration of labour. Those who have seen the result of the army-clothing system, as described by our Metropolitan Correspondent in his seventh letter, will be at no loss to understand what we mean by the last-mentioned condition. It is impossible, however, to glance over the Finance Accounts without a lively conviction that many of those who now serve the public are too highly paid, that the services of some might he dispensed with altogether, and that too many are paid who do not serve the public at all. These things must be amended, but the reform can only operate by degrees. In regard to pensions and sine cure, we are waiting the expiration of a vicious system which is soon to become obsolete. Time alone can set us free from compacts into which the State never should have entered, and the like of which it is not possible for it to enter into again. The consolidation of offices, and the revision of salaries again, have already commenced, and they will infallibly be carried on. The in tense pressure for employment, and the general reduction of profits, will not suffer the recipients of Government salaries to enjoy both a higher scale of income, and at the same time that exemption from reverse and uncertainty which official station affords. We are firmly opposed, indeed, to the short-sighted policy of underpaying public functionaries ; but justice demands for those who have to struggle un aided fur subsistence, that ability and industry should not find a more lucrative provision in a public than they would meet with in a private career. It is upon the high ground of justice to the community that we a.sert the paramount duty of economy in the dispen sation of the public income. Extravagance is injus tice : the endowment of sinecurhts, the over-payment of those whom the State maintains, are frauds upon those who, by their labour, maintain the State. The dis content which is roused by the spectacle of such abuses is deep-seated ; it is well-founded ; and it is dangerous. In considerations such as these we find ample motives for desiring and advocating economy. In those, on the other hand, which have been put forward by some classes of financial reformeas we find little or no force. So far as the condition of individual tax payers is concerned, the effect of such retrenchments in the public departments as can be made consistently with national security and with good faith must be almost insignificant. The utmost rigour of the pruning-knife could do comparatively nothing to alleviate the pressure upon the millions who are suffering the hardships of poverty or ill-remunerated labour. If, indeed, it were possible to effect a saving of several millions at a stroke, there might be some reality in the prospect of relief, but whoever has had the temerity to advance such a position has shrunk from the proof of it. It is the opinion of one of the ablest and best informed of our modern writers on taxation, that, " so long as we make ade quate provision for the security and good govern ment of the different parts of the empire, there is not so much as the shadow of a ground for supposing that our expenditure can be sensibly reduced. On the contrary, the probability is that it will have to be enlarged." The experience of the past certainly goes far to confirm Mr. M‘Culloch's view. If we carry our eve back over the finance returns of the last fifteen years, we shall observe an unmistakeable ten dency towards increase in the expenditure of the nation. Whatever may be said of extravagance in the public departments, it can hardly be asserted that Government are comparatively more profuse now a-days than they used to be. The inference remains, that the necessary - cost of governing the country has increased with the increase of population, territory, and civilization. As the area is extended, and the machinery of Government becomes more compli cat d, the cost of working it becomes greater. In 1838 the total payments out of the Exchequer were 47,678,6881.—in 1848 they amounted to 55,175,0421. Allow a very wide margin for reducible items, there still remains a large substantial advance in the de mands of the public expenditure. It is plain to any one who reflects on the tendencies of the times, that the wants of society, which Government is called upon to satisfy, have increased of late years in a still more rapid ratio than its numbers. Concurrently with the progressive increase in the expenditure of the State, there are some other financial features which it affords us more comfort to dwell upon. We may observe, pari passu with the increase of outlay, a proportionate increase of revenue, accompanied by a progressive decrease in the sources from whence that revenue is derived. A very large amount of taxation has been remitted, while the total receipts of the Exchequer have been augmented. The poor and the industrious classes have been relieved from some of their most oppressive burdens. Look over the items of Customs and Excise ; and observe how vast is the advantage which they have gained by recent fiscal alterations. Bread,beer, coffee, candles, salt, sugar, leather, starch, vinegar, printed goods, and many more articles of prime ne cessity to the humbler classes, are now either tax-free or are taxed at a much lower r a t e th an t h ey were a few years ago. Existence is thereby rendered much easier to these classes than before. The amount of taxes paid per head is considerably less. The pressure of population upon the resoures of the country is miti gated. We may well be thankful to those statesmen who have guided the course of our recent legislation, that the fiscal policy of the country has taken such a turn. It would have gone bard with the labour ing classes if it had been otherwise. Let any one who is acquainted with the condition of the labourers refl ct for a moment upon the consequences of attempting to re-impose upon them the catalogue of taxes which we have just enumerated. No states man, let him be called either Free-trader or Protec tionist, would venture on such an experiment. Yet, though these once heavy imposts on the subsistence and comforts of the population are irrevocably gone, the country, notwithstanding , pays its way, and bears up against its increasing obligations. How is this to be accounted for? The fact is, that there are two ways of replenishing the Exchequer : one by in creasing the weight of taxation, the other by di minishing it. The older and coarser method has in bygone days been carried far enough, and experience has i shown that its li m it s are easily reached—for, n the arithmetic o f fi nance, , two and two do not invariably make four. A more enlightened public economy has taught us the art of increasing the product by lowering the rate of our taxation, of drawing our supplies from a wider sur face and an ex tended range of constimie ion, and of opening new sluices for revenue to flow in by removing the barriers of prohibition. Instead of a fiscal system which was oppressive, we have endea voured to substitute one which should be elastic. By such a policy we have relieved, reanimated, perhaps saved from utter prostration and decay, the industrial energies of the country. But is there no further room left for the development of such prolific relaxa tions ? Is the work of fiscal reformation even now fioi!hed and complete —or is it not possible, by further experiments in the same direction, to lighten still more the weight that yet presses down our heavily-taxed population in the keen race of compe tition, and in the arduous struggle for subsistence? Let us see. HERALD.—Of all the marvellous aspects in which that marvellous animal man is to be regarded, there is not one more marvellous than that which presents him to us in the concrete military state of an army, or a regiment of soldiers. We think nothing of it, it is true—we think nothing of the most wonderful things in existence, because we see them or read about them every day, and take everything for granted that does not startle us by its novelty, or astound us by its noise. We wonder at any departure from fixed laws, physical or moral, but the most wonderful phe nomena are not these erratic exhibitions, but the regular methodical goings on of the world, upon which we rarely bestow a passing reflection. Fami liarity breeds contempt. We do not marvel at the discipline of the army which we see every day, though there be no greater marvel in the world than that we do see it every day. We only wonder at any slight deviation from it—at any transient symptom of irregu larity that may manifest itself, after a long interval of monotonous repose. Then we lift up our hands and our voices. It is discovered that the army is in a most unsatisfactory condition—that the reins of discipline are loosened ; that authority is being openly set at defiance ; that our soldiers are insub ordinate, and our officers incompetent; and that our towns are being overrun by a stream of military licentiousness, which, if its current be not s p ee dily checked, will disorganize society and desolate the laud. All this it is, on some accounts, satisfactory to contemplate. There can be no higher tribute paid to the general discipline of the army than the ex citement occasioned by any temporary infraction of it. There are countries in which military disorga nization is the rule and not the exception. There the revolt of a regiment, or a score of regiments, is too ordinary an event to create any excitement in the country. The attention which is bestowed upon any erratic social manifestation is the truest standard of the regularity from which that manifestation is a departure. It is so rare a thing to witness anything remotely assembling insubordination in a British regiment, that we are incontinently astonished at the unwonte.d exhibition, and magnify all its unseemly features until a very trifling affair expands into gigantic proportions, and bristles with incalculable terrors. It is on this account that the disturb- ante in the 3d Dragoons at Nottingham has as sumed an importance that does not bslong to it. It is seldom that we are called upon to chronicle such events , but the wonder is not that they occur sometimes, but that they occur so rarely. When we think of the constitution of a regiment—the classes from which it is recruited—the slender tie that binds the soldier to his officer—the numerous inducements to excess—the contagious effects of bad example — the absence of all domestic comfort in barracks,—the almost entire forfeiture, indeed, of the domestic cha racter, with all its subduing and restraining influ ences, we cannot but wonder that the many are kept in subjection so easily by the few—that the magic of authority is so potent to keep the rude elements of military society in subordination to any fixed laws. But so it is. A sentence written in the order-books or a word spoken on parade, and eight hundred men are as obedient to one as though they were little children under the eye and the rod of the pedagogue. Nobody wonders at this—nobody won ders at the orderly conduct of soldiers in our gar rison towns, at their steadiness in barracks, at the ready obedience they yield to their commanding officers, at the almost infantine docility of these h a nds of sturdy, vigorous men. Few even admire the beautiful system which presents an almost unbroken succession of these phenomena. But many pour out noisy abuse when any r are d e p ar t ure f rom t h e re' gularity of the system is presented to their under standings, upon soldiers and all soldierly things, oe though the adjective military were entirely synony' mous with l:centious. And this is called liberality'. Liberal writers are always great upon the subject of military licentiousness. On the wonderful subordi' nation which is the rule of the British army they condescend not to bestow a thought, or if the unwe!' come thought should force itself upon them it 1 0 speedily enveloped in a cloak of silence, and busked in its very infancy. There has been a great deal of fuss made, and a great deal of stuff written, about the recent disturbance in the 3d Dragoons. The importance of the affair has been greatly exaggerated—partly because at this dull season of the year a very little matter may be advantageously elongated into many sheets of attenuated " copy ;" and, secondly, because the peccadilloes of the military are nuts to a certain class of journalists. A number of men, anxious, it would seem, to enjoy a little c onv i v i a l i ntercou rse with some friends who had come to visit them, and not being able to entertain their visitors respectably in barracks, determined to disobey a restrictive order which had been issued as a pu n ish men t t o the regl" ment for bad grooming, and to sally into the tovvn• They had hoped that the order for their retention In barracks, after being some time in effect, would have been rescinded sufficiently soon to have enabled then' to break their confinement, without breaking the order s of their commanding officers, but the anticipated rein )„ not coming opportunely, they quitted the prescribed bounds, and committed thereby a grave militari. offence. There was doubtless a double indiscretion the order was an indiscreet one, because it tried the forbearance of the soldiers too severely; its infraction was still more indiscreet, for no provocation justifies such acts of military lawlessness. The o ffence, committed, a third mistake was made. Inefficien t measures were adopted for the suppression of It ° irregularity so discreditable to the corps. A party was sent out under a non-commissioned instee of under a commissioned officer, and the firs t offence was greatly aggravated by resistance to authority. The consequence is, that there hav e , been several courts-martial, and the criminals have been sentenced to expiate their offence in prison' and to learn better manners for the future. Tb officers, too, will not improbably profit by the lesso.n,', and learn to exercise their authority henceforth Wit" better judgment. Such accidents as these seldore happen unless there has been something or other O generate them in high places ; some want of temP er —some want of judgment—some want of consistenoi t ' We are sorry for this business at Nottingham; after all, it is only one of those unfortunate exces s s Lions that prove the fortunate rule.' It has made ,„ stir in the world because, happily, such acts of insn' 4 ordination are rare in the British army. If to l army had not been the best disciplined in the svor' we should not have heard so much of the affray. T o; [ ADVERTISEMENT. —A LIVER COMPLAINT kiLl.; 1 , 0 BY HOLLOWAY' S Pird.s.—Extraet of a letter from 0 " - APLean Ferguson, Esq., dated Melbourne, Port Ph i l May 9, 18.19 :—" To Professor Holloway. Sir, I had b e „ afflicted nearly two years with the liver complaint, accomPli nied with flying pain s i n my shoulders, dimness of sight , a ' 3 difficulty of breathing. Aft er expen di ng upwar d s o f tvvea 0 pounds in medicine without findi ng an y re li e f, I was itlac,a th e to try your Pills, and by their use, and s t r i c t a tt en tion to t ud prescribed regimen, lam effectually cured. 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