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I Special Commissions ; and we, as in duty bound, shall ever pray, &c. la th e name and on the behalf of the Council of the Birtningh on Political Union, THOMAS ATTNITOOD, Chairman. CitAltcrs JoxEs, Sec. pro tem. B irmingh a m, Jan. 6, 1831* SSASSINATION OF MR. T. ASIITON. t he atrocious assassination of this young man has 'tested an intensely painful sensation in the neighbourhood ' M anchester. On Wednesday an inquest was held on he b ody St Gee Cross. Some of the witnesses who were " ni ttioed proved that several of the tarn had quitted their at the Aptthorpe factor, in consequence of feeling ,Tatitfied with t h e wages that were allowed them. Those had ev i nce d a des i re to b e re i nstate d were re f erre d t o J ames Ashton, who, it seems, took an active part in he bu s i ness of the factory. A man named Platt, who ap lied to be r e i ns t ate d, was refused, and he then said, There must b e an example made somewhere." This : an did not afterwards apply to the factory for employ 'et‘t• On the night of the murder three men were seen igeth er on the road, and one of them had a gun in his an d. Meeting a man named Wood, whose person and pre. c orresponded with that of Mr. Thomas Ashton, one F the won looked at him in the face for some moments, od then passed on. The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against tore person or persons unknown. Platt, and another man, named Stansfield, are in astody. A reward of 5001. has been offered for the discovery of to murderer or murderers, by the father of the deceased. lof LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY NIGHT. (inflation has been received here that the three men Ito c ommitted the murder of Mr. Ashton, at Hyde, have ,en taken; they are the three persons who had b een dis 'harged by a youn ger M r . A s hton the day before, and " it was their intention to have made their victim, ut mistook the person. It appeared the deed was done ! t he grounds belonging to the house, as they stopped L mon th e f ootpath ; two held hi m, one b y eac h arm , to the third shot him, and he died instantly. Report ates that it is discovered that they form part of a body misguided miscreants, who do not intend to burn the ~°party, but have selected a few of those who are ob "x'ett's and intend to dispose of them in this way. IRELAND-THE UNION. Q TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. county (Tipperary) having, with the excep °° , d Cork, the largest and most populous county in Ire ", and not even excepting Cork, I might justly say the oat prominent heretofore in the work of agitation, I el it " m ay not therefore be trespassing too much on your th° give, as regards this county, the feelings on the ject of Repeal to your English readers. 'With very sv exceptions the high church patty have as yet re aittled from giving public expression to their sentiments, in "Y, to my knowledge, give privately their hearty ncurr ence to th e ag i tat i on o f t h e measure — an d were it for th e dread o f ult i mately a separat i on , t h ere h ar dl y ld be a dissenting voice on the subject of Repeal in this roc arc very few of the Roman Catholic portion of the 11,,etoraticy remain aloof, because with them it is fashion on svill say they I issent from the body of the people ; another por ld Y possibly could the • are opposed to the measure, and justly ni°n--th • gain nothing by a Repeal of the °lon—their incom e is handsome, they have a certainty, -and c l u ere, Why th en r i s k t h at to j o i n i n a me a s ure so e .3sgainst the wishes of his M.jesty's Ministers? Thus county divided —the press of the county is in like rsed to the)7ner--the Cl onmel Herald and the Advertiser are 0 reeßepeal qu es tio n , whilst the Tipperary use . • post aft e r p os t, s t renu o us ly advocates the f .: 0 4, 11 of Rep ea l. Th e former two papers are supporte d vernment proclamations, and the latter by the great }' of th e i n d ependent noblemen, gentlemen, farmers, I° PkeePers, an d tra d espeop l e o f t h e ent i re county— l eak from a thorough knowledge of this county, and few )eotnore aware o f th e f ee li ng t h roug h ou t, f rom a r id e o f „, made through it, and only finished within the Reek ; I speak it fearlessly, that this subject of Repeal Ur. O'Connell is the evening chat of every hamlet in wr t and country—all speak, with the exceptions I have ode at the commencement of this letter, in the most e n. lusiastic terms, and have their minds all ready prepared r th eir own Irish Parliament—that would not pass the etry Act the Sub-letting Act, the Taxes on Beer and 'alt -,the Tithes, the curse of the country—and though St not least, think you, they are as fully aware of the at mpt of Ex-Chancellor Goulburn to tax the press, thereby check th e growth of knowledge iu this country, and 'g the public expression of sentiment—to think of the tor peopl e o f I reland being able to di'cuss such weighty titters is hardly credible, but such I assure you is the fact. c an, at the ether side of the water, be hardly conceived e political mania which the late Catholic Association ansi which has since been growing with the "rat of the people, that a calm observer of passing eats would say he could select out of any of those meetings 11-4 1‘, a hundred persons with as much knowledge, r more thoro ug h acqua i ntance w i t h t h e i ntegra l con " of Ireland, t h an t h e very representat i ves w h o are , r Want of better, sent to be their law makers. In a~~ YOu these hasty observations, I am actuated by no e. save that o f g i v i ng you a f a i r out li ne o f t h e progress !F l tation i n thi s cele b rate d county o f Ti pperary. kl oninel, Jan. 3, 1831. T. L. noble a ,nnals of polished in with lee that firth-day hed the f phea ed pre ort, and d in the don't a- al num- Lcnitted roceeded •oom for appear the best tndeliers services and the late Ma retinue attend le centre terry on Rutland nd Mar '-arl and lancellor Norman . Drum !lley, the Fletcher !rs, Rev. Wortley, y South old Mrs. nde were I of Rat- I of Etnme- t univer 'ellington wore the ,TRUCTION of BLACKBURN CHURCH BY FIRE. e thrown Entrance —the Re all-room• music Of TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. f, Lea—Kno w i ng that you e always anxious to have tY intelligenc e o f any matter of public interest, I make Liche to forward you t h e particulars of an alarming fire occurred at our parish church. ,:.thout a quarter befor e t we l ve o ' c l oc k a t noon t hi s d ay , tilst the Rev. I. Bl ac kb urne, Curate, was read i ng Layers (it being old Christmas-day), he was alarmed by ne i s e or cracki ng o f some part of the church, appa• "Y proceeding from the roof of the building ; imme abtielY a smoke was perceived by a female near the church, aPpeared to issue fom the of, and she ran to in rr° the sexton, who was r employed ro digging a grave in the a r c; -yard ; h e was incredulous, but she persisted, when e hastened to the place and found her alarm confirmed. immediately rung the fire bell ; the alarm spread like "fir e ; the i nqu i ry was, where is the fire ? iNo one id the least possible c on j ec t ure i t was t h e par i s h c h urc h . a f", mintitts a flame was seen issuing from the roof the church ; thousands of the inhabitants rushed to the ! l e n ! o,f danger ; th e fi re eng i nes were procure d w i t h out s, out it was some time before they could be brought • to operation, owing to the absence of water : the fire creased with amazing rapidity in the roof ; the attention the active multitude was instantly directed to rescue the Irish registers and other valuable documents, the Corn union plate, fko. The large powerful and valuable Rao, Nhich was built by Mr. Gray, of London, about s ee years ago, and cost 800 guineas, was saved, but re 'red considerable damage; the Communion table, which a 8 made out of the oak timber of the old parish church, as also saved, as also the beautiful carved canopy of the Li Pit. About half-past twelve at noon the beautiful talked grained roof fell a prey to the devouring flames ; It galleries, and the pews in the north and south aisles in Le church, were preserved by tile engines; the pews in the sntre aisles received considerable damage by the falling of re equal'Y ‘ e r oof; the roof of the tower at the west end of the your \L icelt is d es t roye d , and the timbers of that part are still their on" ; the m a s onry o f t h e tower appears to have suf have been . -e u• It is a remar k a b le c i rcumstance that the fire should ate of pre" heen seen at the commencement both at the east and to of utter 'e tern ends of the church. Tile cause of the fire is sup ifter year; h t :' to have occurred by the flues, which warm the ointed an" • r eil by hot air from a cockle in the vaults: some say declara- :2 4 the act of an incendiary, but nothing positive can be hat no die- 37ctsined from the confused state of the matter. Tile in t afforded' rof the church presents an awful dilapidated state. e This church was built by a rate upon the inhabitants of your Ala: : Par ish, which is supposed to have cost about 20,0001. e d ge d that y co mpleted ab out f our years ago , an d consecrate d MajestY's ,a 4 Blorntield, then Bishop of Chester ; tile architect - T. y the ialtd- b 'fr. P a l mer, of Manchester. h distressesr----ilt urn, Jan. 6, 1831. iduct; And --- ye not bee n W it. ouga _tin . dersta n d th at Lord BROUGHAM left misters,hi. ra-hall on M on d ay l ast, for the metropolis. Dur ta r t e o e p f ur , s;l e ., eceivusitay there he did not appear much in public, but t not to be he ~ IS erY numerous calls from the gentry resident in utnstanece• nn urhood.— Leeds Intelligencer. nin i,h r nent okt ~,xwELL.—In this new work Mr. THEO - cba; st etett r ioo!: has tal - en advantage of a powerful source of influence °` n which, strange to say, has never before occurred to ne roan to atlii i‘ a rttee. His " broad grins" he ba s o btain e d f rom hbour in t° ati en r materials--humours, accidents, and droll combi n that, un - fe, of circumstances which " before us lie in daily larld inesistible indeed has he made them. But :ure. r t t „ J o tragic and fearful r tna J but f o portions of his tale have been ie represen- e, pe _ r equally in nature, tile author has looked far lowing the f th an the c ta the surface, and has successfully evoked some eart, to es" re teries by which, though wel suspect it not, we rrou r o ed. e men s'!, Ile afore."'" the ball ' his arm 9 d guests• f the set , , coming• very late minghani and loyal al Union, with our behalf of lave lately of incen- Id also on about to :luals have ender the ree of nu t of cruel expreselY others Of the price 'OWN'S oln at HAZY, tu•sian thaNsa- on DE t PA L artii ird tlid in the off de le Em- r even- nd the at tho cry on -nor of Lieu— mionerS .ON, at irs. Prince sterday ireather • Royal ►ge and , RGE of e, rode ell. . Pow dining Palace )IBEUL, Ms Lu tOUGIf, DroRT, RDETT, tdy H. Lord J. dr. and tuncres w days, !Zs' re. ['LE. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lady Louisa Cadogan, at the Marquis of Anglesea's in Bur lington-street, from Tonbridge Wells • Mules, Esq. and Lady Pilkington, at the Burlington Hotel, from Essex; David Ri cardo, Esq., at ditto, from Gloucestershire; the Hon. Mrs. Marsham and Miss Marsham, at ditto, from Rochester ; the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Whitford, at Crawley's Hotel, Albemarle street, from Kent ; Lieut. Rushbrooke, at ditto, from Dublin ; Mr. and Mrs. 'l'. Haynes Bayley and family, at Morley's Hotel, Cockspur-street, from Lord Ashtown's seat, near Southampton; Captain and Mrs. Fyson, in Brook-street, from Hastings ; Wm. Sanders, Esq., in Regent-street, from Brighton; Monsieur Waller, at Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Belgium. DEPARTURES. Lord Molyneux, from Arlington-street, on a tour; Hon. Ro bert Smith, for High Wycombe ; Sir George Wombwell, Bart., for Chippenham ; Thomas Whitmore, Esq., M.P., from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Brighton ; J. Plawkins, Esq., from ditto, on a tour; Captain George Rose, M.P., and Mrs. Ro,e, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for Nottingham; Mr. and Mrs. Mabbott and family, from the Burlington Hotel, for Ucktield ; Hicks. Esq , from ditto, for Oxford; Macgregor, Esq., from ditto, for Glasgow ; Mr. and Mrs. Ibbotson, from Regent-street, for Bath ; Captain and Mrs. Higgins, from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Brighton ; J. Saunders, Esq , from ditto, for the Continent. NAVAL FORCE OF GREAT BRITAIN FOR 1831. COMMISSIONERS FOR EXECUTING THE OFFICE OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The Right Hon. Sir James Robert George Graham, Bart Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bart. K.C.B. The Hon. George Heneage Lawrence Dundas. Sir Samuel John Brooke Peehell, Bait. The Hon. George Barrington. FLAG OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY. ADMIRALS OF THE FLEET. William Peere Williams Freeman, Esq. Right lion. James Lord Gambier, G. C.B. ADMIRALS. Of tlie Rea lB Of the White l9 Of the Blue VICE-ADMIRALS. Of the Red Of the White Of the Blue 99 22 REAR-AD3IIRALS. Of the Red Of the White 23 Of the Blue 2s— 71 Rear-Admirals on Retired Half-pay Captains on Retired Half-pay l7— 49 CAPTAINS. On Full-pay On the Half-pay of 14s. 6d. per diem ..... 100 On the Half-pay of 12s. Gd. per diem CO3I3IANDERS. On Full-pay On the Half-pay of 10s. per diem Lieutenants Superannuated, with the rank of Commander Lieutenants holding the rank of Retired Com mander 171- 274 POOR KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR. Lieutenants LIEUTENANTS. On Full-pay 2532 On the Half-pay of 7e. per diem On the Half-pay of 66. per diem 7OO-3357 MASTERS. Superannuated TOR SERVICE. On Full-pay On the Half-pay of 7s. per diem lOO On the Half-pay of 6i. per diem:— 2oo— 524 PURSERS. On Full-pay On the Half-pay of ss. per diem . ... On the Half-pay of 4a. per diem l93— 646 MEDICAL OFFICERS. Physicians Surgeons retired on Full-pay Surgeons for Service . Assistant Surgeons 34S Dispensers of ilobpitals Hospit 'I Mates ~.. ... 47- 71 CHAPLAINS. Retired List Active List 3-1153 * The Lieutenants holding the rank of Retired• Com mander under his Majesty's Order in Council of the Ist of November, 1830, are on the hall-pay of 7s. per diem. The Royal naval force of Great Britain consists of 600 sail, including vessels from 140 guns down to surveying vessels carrying no more than two guns. A great por tion of them are employed on foreign and home stations, also for conveying foreign mails and specie. The number of sailors engaged on board this large fleet amounts to 20,000, besides 9,000 Royal marines. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GAR There was a great supply for t market, but the trade was dull, the prices of this day se'imight, which met with a depr:ssien of I s d. s. d. Potatoes (cwt.) 3 Oto6 0 Cabbages (12 heads) 0 9 2 0 Ditto Red Horse Itadish(bundle) Ii 0 12 0 Celery 0 9 1 6 Turnips bunches) 2 0 3 0 Carrots '1 6 7 0 Coleworts or Greens 1 9 3 0 Leeks 1 3 19 1 New Oranges (100) 5 0 10 0 Lemons 8 0 14 0' English Walnuts IEN MARKET. the time of year at this morning's , at little if any variation from with the exception of Celery, from 3d. to 6d. per bundle. s.d Spillage (half-sieve) 0 6 too 9 Apples 26 5 Pears 3 0 7 0 Large Onions 3 0 5 Span. Chesnuts (peck) 6 0 10 0 French ditto Spanish Flazlenuts French Walnuts 4 0 6 0 Eng. Grapes (per 1 0 3 0 Foreign 0 S 1 0 Pine Apples (lb.) Filbercs (121 b.) HAY MA lIKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay X. 0 to £2 5 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 2 5 3 10 Eine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 15 Clover Hay 2 15 5 5 Oat Straw Xll2to£l 14 I Wheat Straw... 114 IIS Supply good, trade dull, and prices stationary. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 lh New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 4 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 10 Clover Hay (extra fine).....C5 10... Generally Oat Straw £ l Sto £1 10 I Wheat Straw 1 12 1 16 A moderately good supply, and a steady trade; prices as last quoted. A Commission was appointed in June last to inquire into the revenue and expenditure of the different colonies and foreign possessions under the Crown, with the view of suggesting improvements in the regulations for collecting the former, and advisable reductions in the amount of the latter. The Commissioners were,—the CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHKQUER, Lord Rosnrst, the Knight of Kerry, Lord ELIOT, and Sir JAMES Wir.- LouGitnv Gortnow. The Commission seems to have addressed itself toss-its task with considerable zeal, and to have continued its labours with great perseverance, thougk it has advanced only a small way towards the ultimate object of its appointment. Its first three reports have been presented to the House of Commons, and printed in one volume. They embrace Malta, Gibraltar, and our Australian colonies, or penal possessions of New South 'Wales and Van Dieman's Land. We have not room at present to detail at length the obervations which a pe rusal of these reports has suggested to our minds ; but we shall now insert a summary of the revenue and expenditure of each of the colonies, together with the savings proposed by the Commissioners, and on a future occasion shall re cur to the subject. Rever ue of Malta, 1329, was £103,072 Expenditure of Malta, 1829, including Maltese Fencibles, 11,1541 103,610 Amount of savings as pr o p ose d b y C omm issioners £15,000 Revenue of Gibraltar, 1929, including arrears, 11,4981~ was Expenditure of Gibraltar, 1829 Amount of savings as proposed by Commissioners 12,000 Revenue of New South Wales, 1823 Expenditure, civil and c0nvict...£240,435 Military and commissariat Transport of convicts 750/07 --- 401,281 Amount of savings as proposed by Commissioners 5,426 Revenue of Van Dieman's Land, 18'28 45,989 Expenditure of every sort, 18•'.3` Amount of savings as proposed by Commissioners 2,813 Expenditure of Swan River, 1829 Total amount of savings ----- Expellee paid by Great Britain for— £35,239 Malta, 1529 £101,133 Gibraltar, 1829 Australia, 1528 Total expellee paid by Great Britain for these colonies, in addition to the Colo nial revenue 3 above stated £73o,Blo—[Times.] THE PERSIAN ADVENTURER.—Of this animated Chronicle of Persian History, decidedly the best production from the pen of its clever author, Mr. J. B. FRAZER, a contemporary Journal thus speaks The morals, the manners, the scenery of the East, are all pic tured from living images in the Author's mind. He has a vivid and familiar conception of Eastern character; his mind is imbued with it ; his pencil dips as freely into Oriental colouring, as his pen does into his ink—such are the romances we read with pleasure." BANKRUPTCY COURTS. Yesterday a meeting was held in the great room of the London Tavern of the bankers, merchants, and other traders of the city, for the purpose of taking into consi deration the expediency of petitioning Parliament respect ing the present division into fourteen lists of the Commis sioners of Bankrupt, as well as with the intention of com plaining of the mode in which the business of the Com missioners is at present transactine, and suggesting the institution of one general Court for the administration of so important a branch of the laws. At one o'clock the great room was nearly filled. Amongst those on the plat form were Aldermen Thompson, Waithman, Copeland, and Venedes; Mr. Bouetield, Mr. R. Taylor, Mr. Ward, M. P. , &c. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON having been called to the Chair, said that there existed but one feeling amongst the trading classes as to the unfitness of the tribunal which at present disposed of cases of bankruptcy. lle confessed he was unable to discover on what ground it could be maintained that the Bankruptcy Courts should rest upon a footing different from that of other Courts of Judicature throughout the kingdom. There were fourteen of them, and, strange to say, that which was law in one list was not law in another; the Commissioners being distin guished by as many sets of rules as there were lists at Guildhall—one went one way, and another went another, and the public were left in the dark. It was admitted on all hands that the system worked badly, and it behoved them to lose no time in urging Parliament to adopt such an alteration as should give confidence to the trading com munity and to the public at large. Mr. BOUSFIELD, in rising to move the first resolution, trusted that before he sat down he should be enabled to ' show that the present system was one with which the public ought to be dissatisfied ; that it was enormously expensive, and productive of delay and injustice. First, he complained that any persons should be appointed to judicial situations who did not receive sufficient remunera tion to induce them to devote the whole of their time to the business about which, they were engaged; then he complained that the attention of a List of Commissioners was divided between three or four meetings at one and the same time. One of them even wound be engaged with three or four, while the other three Commissioners would be amusing themselves with totally different business. On the subject of expence he should take occasion to observe, that he had made a calculation which he had shewn to a friend of his, a Commissioner, who fully concurred with him as to its accuracy, that the average amount paid to Commissioners alone was 40/. upon each Commission. There was 3/. on the opening of the Commission ; on the first public meeting there was 31. That was an expence which might easily be done away with ; for in general the credi tors never thought it worth their while to attend that first public meeting—they always thought it useless to go to such a place; they reserved themselves fee the election of Assignees, or for a meeting when a dividend was to be received or a certificate signed. They always considered it then time enough to come forward to prove their debts; there was then 31. for every meeting, and there was 3/. for executing the assignment. To a printed scale of the fees to be charged by Commissioners, there was this ob servation, " That the Commissioners, in deference to long-established usage, granted the fee of 1/. to Solici tors." Though they did not pretend to decide on what principle such a fee was payable, it would be well for the public if they would try to discover on what principle the 11. was paid to the Commissioners themselves, and thrre would then be a saving of 41. on each meeting of cre ditors. Ile would now come to the third meeting of creditors in a Commission of Bankrupt, which was the most important, and for which 3/. would not be too much, provided the business was well and properly exe cuted, for it was at that meeting that the bankrupt was to submit all his accounts, and answer such questions as his creditors might find it necessary to put to him ; but such was the confusion which generally prevailed its the Bankrupt Courts, that that important purpose was for the most part defeated, and rendered altogether unavailing.— There was 31. for taxing the bills of the Solicitors. Nai doubt the Solicitors' bills ought to be taxed ; but, with great respect for many of the Commissioners, he must be allow, d to say that they were not the fittest per sons for such a duty : the Commissioners were necessarily ignorant of the system upon which those bills were made out, and yet they took upon themselves to tax as many as three bills at one and the same time. The Audit meeting also cost three pounds, and that was a private meeting. Now he would contend that the Audit meeting ought to be a public meeting ; but it was not so, and there, as at all the other meetings. the Commissioners endeavoured to deal with three or four cases at ogee. Thus there was for the Opening £3 First meeting: '3 Second Account £3 Provide Ass. 1 in 3 Adj. choice, or Ex. of decd 3 Three private, or other meetings 9 Third Tax of Bill Audit Dividend He would now, with the permission of the meeting, call 1 the attention to the sums paid by the creditors of bank- rupts—that is, by the creditors to the Commissioners; 1 and when they contrasted that with the duties performed by those gentlemen, and the manner in which they were performed, they would judge how far they gave value for the sums they received. In 1825, the number of bank ruptcies amounted to 647 ; in 1826, to 1237 ; 1827, 1830, 668—making a t 6 0 2 ta i 1 ; 0f 18 4 2 5 8 ; 583;y6ie 1829, 784 7 av B e 4 ra ; ge of '757, which at 401. each, gave an income of 30,2801, and that, divided by 70, would produce an income of 4321. to each Commis. sioner. The gross sum was 30,2801.—a much greater sum than the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas re ceived. Yet who would compare the two Courts? who would compare the Bankrupt Court even with the Court of Requests at Guildhall, where at least they heard but one cause at a time ? Whereas, before the Commissioners, they heard several at a time, in defiance of all decency and decorum—that was not a rare practice, but a matter of evt ry-day occurrence, taking place every day and every hour. There was another evil not less to be complained of, namely, the.mode of payment. Human nature was so constituted, that men could not help looking after their own interest, however high-minded and pure they might be comparatively speaking. It was impossible for the Commissioners to shut their eyes to the fact, that the pri vate meetings were to them a source of emolument. It was well known that the whole of these private meetings were held at the houses of the messengers, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Southampton-buildings. The edi fice which had been erected adjoining Guildhall for the transaction of bankrupt business, cost no less than thirty thousand pounds ; and the expense of erection was to be defrayed by the sum of eleven shillings on each commis sion. Now it had been ascertained that the public meet ings were only double the number of private meetings ; every one of the private meetings was an encroachment upon the fund applicable for the repayment of the building expenses ; and the sum total of them was of an amount that must delay the re-payment of the money sunk in that build• ing to a period one-half longer than would otherwise be re quire,!. How was business managed at the houses of the mes • sengera ? In their drawing-rooms, being the largest in the house, two Commissioners generally sat, and the third in another room ; even that one, sitting by himself in a smaller room, constituted a better tribunal to go before than did either of the other two. But what was the case when witnesses were to be sworn ? Then the three Com missioners must be present; and for that purpose the third had to leave the parties engaged before him to go into the other room for the purpose of hearing the witnesses sworn who were to be examined ber:ire his brother Commis sioners. They had yet to look to the manner in which those gentlemen spent their time whilst ostensibly em ployed in judicial duties. They were often engaged in looking at a case which might be sent to them for ad vice, but as often were they engaged in attentively pe rusing the newspaper. Yes, the newspaper was their grand resource, and upon that their attention was too frequently bestowed, when they should be occupied ex clusively with the questions which they were paid to decide, and the businen which they had sworn to transact. But there W:l3 another evil of very great mag nitude—the Commiseioner who sat as a Judge in one list might be called on to act as Counsel before another : seas not that so degrading to the bar, and, at the same time, so inconsistent with the judicial character, ' as to call for an immediate interference of the Legislature? An Old Bliley Lawyer might leave his Court and leave his client to be transpoi ted, and conic to take his seat as Com missioner of Bankrupt, then quit that and plead before another list, and go back to the Old Bailey just in time to hear his client sentenced, yet receive fees from all, and do duty for none. So much importance was formerly attached to bankruptcy cases, that Commissions issued to no persons of less authority than the Lord Chancellor and the Privy Council, the Lord Chief Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas always being one. In 1687 twenty shillings were deemed exorbitant for a day, and ten shil lings for half a day to the Commissioners ; in 1694 the prices varied, and in 1705 the present lists were established. In 1706 complaints were addressed to Parliament against the exorbitant charges made by the Commissioners, and against the insolent manner in which they treated the creditors who came before them. Thus they would see that in 1830 the same system prevailed, against which Ithey were then met to remonstrate and petition. In 1718 again, another petition was presented to Parliament set ting forth the excessive charges made by the Commis- ' sioners, and alleging that in most cases the proceeds of the estates were swa'lowed up by the fees peid to those functionaries. Every man saw the matter in this light until he was raised to the office of Lord Chancellor. Lord Lyndhurst, for example, had no doubt of the character, the evil character of the Bankrupt Court, until the patro nage of it came into his hands, and then we grid him, in March last, declaring that the more he considered the subject, the more was he convinced that the authority of the Bankrupt Court could not be placed in better hands than those in which it was already vested.—(A laugh.)— It was contended that the dutiee of these Commissioners were well performed; and in evidence of that, they were referred to the fact that so few petitions were presented against their decisions. He would tell the meeting why. Parties were little disposed to go before the Vice Chan cellor when they incurred the uncertainty of having to pay the costs of their application. It was a general rule not to grant costs where such an application was made ; and in any case, where a party conceived that a Commis sion took a mistaken view of a case, his only remedy was to go before the Lord Chancellor. There was another alteration which he thought ought to be made in the Bankrupt Law—namely, that all Commissions be worked in London when the bankrupt lived within eighty miles of the metropolis, instead of forty miles. double'n ame— capacity ly, the pr He would advert more particularly to a topic which ht. , had before o efor f e it3oaurerlirsetrelrsupaferntingboitn sltifichtl of judge and advocate. Lord Brougham, when in the House of Commons, made some most important observa- tions upon that subject, in the course of a debate upon the Welsh Judicature Bill, which were as follows :see" Often times those persons have left the bar and retired to the pursuits of a country gentleman. Ido not say that they are for that reason unfit for the office of Judge, but still they cannot be so competent as men in the daily admi nistration of the law, and forming part of our Supreme Courts. In some cases they continue in Westminster Hall, which is so much the worse, because a mm who is a Judge one half the year and a Barrister the other is not likely to be either a good Judge or a good Barrister." In those sentiments he (Mr. Bousfield) fully agreed. He would proceed with some historical notices of the Court In 1719 they were first sworn. A ntecedentlyto that time, the whole matter was taken upon theirhonours. In 1732 the Commissioners were first placed under the direct con troul of the Lord Chancellor. Between 1739 and 1711 the number of lists was increased to 10. In 1761 they were raised to the number of 12 ; and in 1780 they were augmented to 13, and now they were 14 in number. It was unnecessary for him to proceed further with these details—he hail only to add, that nothing could be more clear than the inefficiency for any good purpose, and the marked activity for evil purposes, of a syst ein fraught with such absurdities and vices as those to which he had ad verted. All that a public meeting circumstanced as that was had to do, was to state boldly and clearly the griev ances of which they complained. There was no obligation on them to propose any specific remedy—indeed, it had been thought advisable to leave all that to Parliament ; they all agreed as to the necessity of a change, but if they came to discuss a new plan they might differ as to its details—it would, therefore, be the most expedient course to leave the whole matter in the hands of the Legis lature ; not but that he was prepared to suggest a modifi cation of the system whenever the period should arrive when it would become proper to do so, but until thin he should reserve himself. In any plan which he should hereafter submit, he begged to state, that he availed him self of the labours of Mr. Montague, who was known to them all—(Applause)—as they appeared in his exeellent pamphlet on the subject; as also of the able tract by Mr. Cooper, upon the same subject. Ile should be equally in debted to these gentlemen as to his own researches, there fore he was quite ready to share the thanks of the public with them, though he had, independently of any assistance derivable from their works, taken a great deal of trouble. Having submitted to the meeting these remarks, he should proceed to call witnesses in support of his statement—he should call upon the living and the dead to bear testimony against the most heterogeneous mass that had ever been collected together in one Court. There were Equity Law yers and Common Lawyers, and men who were no Law yers at all—there were Counsel front the ad Bailey— there were beardless Barristers, and briefless Barristers who were superannuated ; and as Mr. Archibald Cullen said, " It is not only the number of different Commis sions on which we sit at one meeting, which occasions all this irregularity, but the variety of matters also under the several Commissions ; in one it is a contested election of assignees ; in another, it is a dividend ; in another, a last examination, and perhaps two or three - of each of these at a time." Again he says—" But the result of my experience upon the whole is, that instead of so many different lists and independent jurisdictions, there ought to be but one ; which, permanently sitting in public and in private, at stated film's, or as occasion should require, would discharge with ease all the business, both of public or private meetings, that I have ever seen done, or, as I s hould rather say, not done, under the pre sent system." Then we have Mr. Clayton, in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons.---"Do you think that if a smaller number of Commissioners were ap pointed (men of sufficient experience, and enabled to sit more constantly), the confidence of creditors in their de cision would be greater ?—I have no doubt of it. Are you of opinion that the result would probably be to lessen the number of appeals to t h e Lord Chancellor in the shape • of petitions?—No doubt ; if the public had greater con fidence in the Judges , the number of appeals would be lessened. Delay, expence, and uncertainty may be ma terially obviated by limitation of number and selection of individuals as Commissioners of Bankrupts, without any other alteration in the law than what must by consequence follow this measure. Were I to limit my attention to the subject matter of our judicial duties, I should say th e remedy is easy. Put an end to Commissioners at on ce; appoint a Judge or Judges a s if difficult you and The questi ons f or d ec i s i on are of important a cast as a l most any which come before the Courts of Law or Equity." He would next come to the testimony of Sir Samuel Hominy, and it was pregnant with great truth that the evil was even then of prodigious magnitude; and the present times proved this, that what men feared to do then, might now he safely and advan ta g eousl y attempted. Sir Samuel 1809, said, in the House of he allow e d with another n oo t ni l ' e s : tr n h a ‘e n 2l t l9 ; ', b e e ' better if, instead of the present loose and extended system, a pet manent and li mited tribunal were established for the administretion the Bankrupt Laws, he had not the presumption to offer to make so considerable an alteration at the present mo ment." He had other authorities not less powerful. The late Mr. T. C. Glynn, a Commissi oner o f B an k rupts , anti nlr 114, " Th e expeece o f t h e pre issionere, th e want o f un if orm i ty the Editor of Repor ts of Cas es in Bankruptcy, said, 100,pp. sents 1;0. system 0 107, Co 1 1 2, both of practice and decision, and the fluctuation of the Members of the C ourt b y w hich the law is administered, necessarily arising f e e m th e present system, appear to me Ju among Judges he m s con posing prominent defect s . Th ere b e i ng seventy g fourteen diff erent C ourts , an d t h ose f or the most part pe rsons who ar e blending that duty with their professional p ractice, of course only a proportion of their time and attention can be expected to be ap plied to the busines s of bankruptcy." He freely ac knowledged that h e thought the Commissioners of Bank rupt were not sufficiently paid, if the 4501. a year which they received was for the whole of their time, as the salary ought to be ; while at the same time he thought the payment too touch for the slovenly manner in which the business of bankruptcy was conducted now. He hoped, if he as-as not rendering his detail of evi fence too tedious, that they would allow him to produce some other autho rities. Mr. D. W. Harvey said, in his place in the House of Commons, " If there ever was a sincere wish to purge the Chancery system of its gross abuses, the reecemstruc tion of that part of it allotted to bankruptcy business should have been first thought of. It was ridiculous that young men, of comparatively no experience in the law, or old men unfit for any business at all, should be Commis sioners of Bankrupts, with salaries of 5001. a year each. Yet so it was ; and what with the inexperience of youth, and the stultificatio n of age, the House would judge what efficient men those Commissioners of Bankrupts were." lie (Mr. B.) then proceeded to contrast the Bankrupt Commissioners with those of the Insolvent Debtors' Court; there were four of these : the Chief Commissioner with a salary of 1,5001. a year ; the others with 1,200/. each; and no Court did its business better.—(A hiss.) He was glad to perceive that these was but one solitary expression of dissent. lie challenged any one to prove that the judi cial functions of any Court were better discharged. He said nothing of the machinery of the Court ; be said nothing of the legislative wisdom of the Insolvent Debtors' Court; he confined his remark to the manner in which the Judges discharged their duties. In addition to the opinions already laid before them, he would read an extract from a speech made by Mr. Abercrombie, himself, be it remembered, a Commissioner of Bankrupt, in the House of Commons, on the 2d of March, ISIS. ,6 The Bill went too far in imposing new duties on thee Commissioners; but it did not go far enough, because it was impossible to render the Bankrupt Law such as it ought to be, unless there was a total and radical change in those who have to administer it. He made this state tnent in the spirit of candour, and not with a view of impugning the conduct of the Commissioners, of whom he himself formed a part. Oa tote Contrary, he felt assured that these gentlemen discharged their duties in the most Creditable manner it was possible they could be discharged, under the cireenestarces in which they were placed. He thought, however, that fresh dunes ought not to be im posed upon them, because the iiiisinerss in which they were already involved was of a nature shitcierstly com plicated. The law could never be properly administered until the Cternmissioners devoted their whole time to the administration of it, heteanse it was too much to expect of any men that they should negfeet theft own private clients in order t o a tt en d a co mmission of bankruptcy, from which they derived inferior emoluments."--iie then pro ' eeded to read several extraots from the writings at air James Bland Burgess, Lord Henly, and others, illustrative and confirmatory of 4 .1:e positions far which he had been contending; and then came fu e gentleman, whom he described as his last and most inspoftant witness— Mr. Montague, a Commissioner too, and who ha 4 more experience than the whole sixty-nine others put to , gether. He said Amidst many instances whit:hare now present to my mind, I shall merely state, that, in a question which arose upon the Celornbian Bonds, I, on the same day, procured from two Lists of Comittissioners two di rectly opposite decisions ; and in the spring of the present year, the Vice-Chancellor was called upon to decide, and on the same day pronounced judgment upon twe petitions, where one trilvio,,l had determined that costs incurred be tween verdict and judgment were provable, and another had determined that they were nut provable." Again he found that Learned Gentleman saying---" Vram the diffi culty of procuring the permanent attendance of Commis soners, Solicitors have, I conceive, considerable difficulty in occasionally aesembling Commissioners, either because the Commissioners are in the country, or on the circuit, or attending their duties in Court, or in different places. It appears to me also, that some inconvenience results from the nature of the Boarel, as different Commissioners at tmded sometimes at different parts of examinations of the Caine subject ; this, consequently, requires explanation, which occasions delay and expense." Once more, in :mother place, he dee'ared that in his " attendance upon the different lists of Commissioners, I see a constant alteration, so that I air. now occasionally obliged to argue to new Commissioners questions which were settled by the previ ous Board, and which, before that previous Board, I used to argue some years ago. Litigatious, attendant upon peti tions to the Lord Chancellor, is the consequence of this." The Learned Commissioner had made a remark, though he (Mr. B.) could not then exactly say where, that in the Bankrupt Courts they had, " the minimum of justice with the maximum of expense and delay." If Mr. Montague had not said so, be (Mr. B.) was perfectly ready to adopt it himself. That gentleman, in his admirable tract, page 1, s After many years' practice, I am impres sed with the conviction, that every attempt to improve the Bankrupt Laws must, whatever be the advantages with which it is attended, be productive of the three great evils in the administration of justice—uncertainty, delay, and expense, so long as the present mode of administering the law remains unaltered." He would not waste their time by endeavouring to strengthen a case already so well sup ported. He left it in their hands with full confidence as to the result. He was induced to come before them by nothing more than by feelings of public duty. By the abolition of the present system he had something to lose, and nothing to gain ; at least, nothing, but such share of public approbation as might fall to his lot fur zeal and good intentions. Under the circumstances which he had stated to them, he thought he was entitled to hope for public support.—(Applause.) He concluded by moving the fol lowing resolution : " That the present division of ti,e Commissioners of Bankrupts into fourteen lists, of five in each, is highly in jurious to the interests of the trading part of the commu nity, and unsatisfactory to the public at large. That the decisions of the Commissioners do not appear to be founded on any fixed principle or general rule; for what is decided by one list to be law, in one day, is pronounced by ano ther list, the same day, not to be law ; and very frequently one list of Commissioners will decide directly the contrary to what they had previously decided. That the made of remunerating the Commissioners by a fee on each meeting tends to multiply meetings, and thereby increase the al ready very heavy expense of proceedings under Commis sions of Bankrupts. That, from the irregularity and want of punctuality in the attendance of the Commissioners, the publics are constantly put to very considerable inconve nience and expence ; and that the whole system of the ad ministration of the Bankrupt Law by the Commissioners requires alteration." Mr. Alderman VENABLEs rose to second the foregoing resolution, declaring that within his own experience, which was not very extensive, he had seen the business of the Bankrupt Court often most grossly mismanaged, and with great vexation, delay, and expence to all concerned. Mr. DoaNvoan complained of all that he had himself suffered from the illegal and unjust decisions of the Com missioners. He read also a letter, which appeared to have been published in some of the Newspapers, and which had been addressed to Lord Lansdowne and Sir Robert Peel, the one being then, and the other shortly before, Secre tary for the Home Department. This set forth, amongst other matters, that at the time of his bankruptcy, he had assets to the amount of 1,6251., sufficient to pay 13s. 4d. in the pound, and not a single penny of it that was not swallowed up by the expences of the Commission. Sir. Alderman Warmarasr gave the resolutions his most cordial support, and related a case where he lost 1,0001., besides costs to the amount of 5001., owing to the imperfect constitution of the Bankrupt Court, and the unequal operation of the law. He next proceeded to en large upon the immense extent of patronage enjoyed by the Lord Chancellor, mentioning the fact that now, after a lapse of five or six and thirty years, some of the Thurlow family were enjoying patent places of the value of between eight and ten thousand a year. Without meaning any disrespect to the present Commissioners, he must be al lowed to say, that such was their ignorance, that he had seen a young all, in the employment of one of the ac countants, laughing at ignorance of the most obvious principles of arithmetic which a Commissioner had betrayed. Mr. 13aowNE observed, that the system under which the affairs of the estates of bankrupts were at present con ducted was the very worst, there could be no doubt en tertained by any rational person. In the country Com missions, where the whole five of the Commissioners usually attended, and of course received their fees for their attendance, the business was done in a manner, if possible, more disgraceful than in London. In very many of those Commissions the solicitors, assignees, petitioning creditor, and commissioners were all well acquainted, often related to each other, and, of course, the assignee cut out work for the solicitor, and the solicitor provided fees for the commissioner, upon the principle of "scratch me, and I'll scratch you ;" thus the estate of the banki upt was frit tered away in litigation, while the creditors, in many cases went without their dividend. He would mention one case which occurred a few years ago in London before the Third List of Commissioners, in which a creditor, by the chicanery of the agents, was kept out of the proof of a just debt, at the first, second, and third meetings : tile consequence was, that when the final dividend was de clared the debt had not been proved. After this the at torney or assignee retained the dividends of ss. in the pound in their own hands, and then admitted the claim to its fullest extent. Having kept the money for two years, they deducted from the dividend fifty guineas for the accountant to whom it had been referred, and about eighty or ninety more for the solicitor, so that out of a dividend of about four hundred and fifty pounds, somewhat about 3001. only was received, besides having put the party to an expence of above 1001. in travelling to Loudon and back to his residence, he having in the course of the journey he was compelled to make, travelled a dis tance of above 800 miles. It is a fact, assignees were known to make a trade of the debts of the estate and buy up the property of bankrupts, which comprised debts that had never been applied for : these were purchased by them at the rate of Bd. in the pound, and they actually reco vered 20s. They rejected all applications to examine their accounts, bidding defiance to the great body of the creditors, who were in this shameful manner deprived of their property under a system of licensed swindlers. He had known instances of persons acquiring property to the amount of thousands in this shameful manner. He should be happy to render the Committee the utmost service in his power to effect the overthrow of a system of such an iniquitous description.—(Cheers.)—Sir E. Sugden had declared that it was impossible: for any man to wade through the gross mass of perjury which so frequently dis graced bankrupt petitions ; and until witnesses were exa mined viva voce, having the eyes of the Judge, the Coun self and the public upon them, it would be totally im possible to separate truth from falsehood, and thus it was that fraud passed over, not only without meeting the punishment it so justly merited, but it stalked triumphant at the expence of the honest man. There was a time when the very name of a London mer chant was accounted on the whole Continent of Europe equal in stability to that of the Bank of England ; but now the case was sadly reversed ; and that reversal was solely to be attributed to the grossly fraudulent operation of the Bankrupt Laws. The patronage which had been al luded to by the worthy Alderman (Waithman), was ex emplified in the amount of the revenues derived by Lord Thurlow as patentee of the Bankrupt-office; the fees of which, in 1811, were 8,9951. ; in 1816, 10,765/. ; in 1826, 13,2681. The net suns received by the patentee, from 1811 to 1826, was no less than 114,6b61.: the unclaimed dividend: amounted to 22d,0001. up to 1527. The fees of the Secretary of Bankrupts, in 1797, were 1,1001., of which 5001. went to via,- clerks, the remaiudes r teas Secretary. In 1830 these fees were 10,0001., of which the tent Chancellor received 4,0901, though for merly he receiftli Ma part. From 1700 to MOCO, the number of bankrupts Were 11,841 ; in ft teen years, front 1816 to 1830, they'amountedto 1'9.659, being an extras iti. , ttte last fifteen years over the whole of the Nth cen tury i 0,818. After some further observation 4, Mr. Browne correkd'ed by declaring that the measure before the meeting bad ilia stost cordial and hearty approbation- Mr. GOUGII was desh•ans of supporting the rese, , nt:sirr,. as be felt, from his own experlenee, the inefficiency of the firestrif system. He had f, It severely from the many c a., where' he had been a creditor ; the estates had loci: some times almost wholly absorbed by the very great difficulty to elicit facts and obtain the assets belonging to The bank rupt's estate. In one at two cases the only persons de riving any advantage hade been the Commissioners and solititots ; and in some cases he himself has, in the situation Of assignee, paid the exproce out of his own pocket. In ocle ca'e, where 20s. in the rand was clearly receivab'e, not more then 71. was realised, the rest being completely lest in consequence of the large expences, and the increasing difficulty arising frosts fresh investigation, which would much lessen the dividend. In a case just taken place, Where he (Mr. Gough) was a creditor for 1,0001., and the bankrupt absconded, he was petitioning reditor, and was appointed assignee. The situation of the bankrupt's property is such, that many private meetings iimst take place, as it is suite impossible to investi gate facts and elicit information from parties who he Id dent fal securities, and to find tinder what cir cumstances those seettritiee were given. He having so far succeeded is finding where the b,,nkrupt's property was vested, then yeeoctared a private meeting, which he attended yesterday ; and, to his surprise, found a uslicitor attending the witness; and who, even contrary to the express directions of the Commis siolers, persisted In suggesting to many questions sums amended answers. And he was permitted to persevere in such conduct, delaying the investigation by unnecessary observations. This inquiry, Sir, was only to investigate facts, and to ascertain the validity of security which was advanced for 1,2001. only a few hours before the bankrupt absconded. After an investigation of two hours, the re e-- was adjourned till Saturday ; but this cas after the greatest opposition from one of the Commissioners, who thought the witness ought not te be brought again from Clerkenwell, except at his convenience, which appeared to be only for Friday. That Commissioner, without even consulting myself, as a large creditor of 1,000/ , and, with a great difficulty, as assignee, to find out evidence—and the property, which is ranch dispersed, and to the amount of 50,0001., all in the hands of others—would not allow Saturday, and persisted till the last, that he would dis solve the inquiry at once; hut, after a long conversation was prevailed on to consent te eleven on Saturday morn ing. lie felt this matter as well as others of this nature, and did most sincerely wish the petition then proposed to have the strongest, the most absolute, support from all the trading community; he felt much by the serious loss this system entails on himself and others, as traders. The time was come when the system must he revised. Mr. PITT complained, as warmly as the worthy Alder man who preceded him, of the extreme ignorance of ac counts, and of business generally, betrayed by the Coin. missioners. Mr. KEMBLE Suggested that a Committee to procure signatures ought to be appointed, and also to obtain sub srriptions for defraying the unavoiiable expenses of the undertaking in which they were engaged. Mr. CHALMERS made a few observations in support of the resolution. Mr. BOUSFIELD replied. The first resolution was then put and agreed to. Mr. lircitaan TATLOIL proposed that petitions founded on the first resolution should be presented to Parliament, and praying that they " would adopt such measures as in their judgment might seem necessary to abolish the pre sent fourteen lists of Commissioners of Bankrupts, and, in lieu thereof, to establish such a Court as might give to the petitioners and the public at large that confidence which ought to be felt in the administration of so important a branch of the laws of the realm." After enlarging upon the importance of having all judicial functions discharged by competent persons, and persons of known reputation for learning, integrity, and talent, he pressed upon the meeting, as the most judicious course they could adopt, that of petitioning in the form suggested, and avoiding any suggestion of a new plan for the administration of that branch of the law. After some further conversation, in which Mr. Alder man Waithman, 'Messrs. Browne, Bousfield, &c. &e. participated, the second resolution was put and agreed to Mr. Alderman COPELAND would not be guilty of the bad taste of occupying much more of their time by any remarks of his; he Bare the petition his most cordial sup port, and moved the appointment of a Committee of twenty-nine gentlemen, including the names of those who . . . - took a prominent part in the business of the meeting. Mr. HELrs suggested that an alteration ought to be made in the Bankrupt Law, which would enable seven eighths of the creditors to bind by their votes the other eighth. The resolution respecting the Committee was then put and agreed to. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and to Mr. Bousfield, and the meeting broke up. LITERATURE MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. VoL. I.—LoNnox, 1831. This volume, which forms one of the Cabi net Library, is written in an elegant spirit, though the language is sometimes too diffuse and the imagery too copious and artificial ; another defect the work has, is its spinning propensities. In order to introduce the Duke of Wellington at Seringapatam, where, after all he played a very subordinate part, we have no less than sixty or seventy pages descriptive of the Indian Marrhatta war, and that with Tippo Saib. Much of this is clearly superfluous, and should have been avoided. In the same diffuse manner we are led through the early part of the Peninsula war, instead of being introduced at once to the Duke.. Bating these defects, the volume will afford entertainment. It is the composition of a military gentleman well known by some favourable volumes of travels. EDWARDS'S BOTANICAL REGISTER; OR, ORNAMENTAL FLOWER GARDEN AND SHAUBBERI. Continued by Professor LINDLEY. No. XI. Or VOL. 111., NEW SERIES. This useful and almost indispensable compa nion to the cultivators of green-house and hardy plants, continues its career with undi minished splendour. The number before us contains specimens of the " White large-leaved Perennial Lupine," " Close-flowered Poten tilla," " Beautiful Justicia," " Campanulate Sphacele," " Neat Grevillea," " Blushing Lophospermum," &c. This last is likely to become, from its great beauty, a general favou rite. It requires exactly the same treatment as the Eccremocarpus Scaber, namely, to be pro ' tected during winter from severe frost, that the woody stems may be preserved, to push forth new flowering branches the succeeding year. It grows most luxuriantly during summer, trained to a wall or treillage, and is increased readily by cutting. The whole of the plates are so well executed, both in point of colouring and ergra ving, and the typography so superior, that, with Professor Lindley's valuable instructions as to cultivation, &c., we do not hesitate in reiterat ing Mr. Loudon's declaration of the pre-emi nence of the work in its department. RUSSELL.—This novel should have been called " History of a Scotch Parvenu." Thu pen of the Author has been more successful even than when he exerted it in exposing the follies and vices of a " Winter in London." His present scheme is more comprehensive, exposing not only the pretences of fashion, but the tricks of the mercantile world, and the sordid vices which of trude even into the church. •