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!. ~~ SPLENDID AND COSTLY PRESENT! NVITII THE NORTHERN - STAR, of SATURDAY NEX r, the 19th inst., will be given a SPLENDID FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT of T. S. DUNCOMBE, Esq., M.P., with a MEMOIR. Office, No - . 1, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street. Sold by all Newsmen. NAT ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., with Portraits, 2b. bound, MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENS OF FRANCE, AND ROYAL FAVOURITES. By Mrs. FORBES BUSH. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW STORY OF THE SEA, AY THE AUTHOR OF V THE PILOT," " THE TWO ADMIRALS," &c. On the 21st Inst., in 3 vol?.. post Bvo., THE JACK O'LANTERN (LE FEU FOLLET); OR, THE PRIVATEER, A Story of the Sea. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEW WORT BY JOHN POOLE, ESQ. In a few "days, in 3 vols. post Bvo., P INEAS QUIDDY ; OR, SHEER • INDUSTRY. By JOHN POOLE, Esq., ' Author of " Paul Pry," " Little Pedlington," " The Comic Sketch -Book," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Q 200 MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided en the 30th Instant, amongst EIGHT THOU SAND TWO HUNDRED SELECTED Bonds of the LOAN negotiated in the year 1820, and GUARANTEED by the GO. VERNMENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. 1 Dividend 50,000 Florins 50,000 Florins 1 do. 25,000 do. I do. 12,000 do. 12,000 do. I do. 10,000 do 1 do. 6,000 do. 8 do. 1,000 do. each B,OOO do. 10 do. 500 do. each 5,000 do. 10 do. 200 do. each 2,000 do. 500 do. 110 do. each 200 do. 105 do. each 21,000 do. 467 do. 100 do. each 46,700 do. 7,300 do. 94 do. each 686,200 do. 8,200 Money Dividends, amounting to 892,900 Florins, or £74,400 Sterling Money. yx) SELECTED Bonds, each of which is sure to obtain one of the above Dividends. Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4 Smallest Dividend £ 7 16 8 12 florins equal lo £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per the day's emehanie. ALL £HE DIVIDENDS PAYABLE WITHOUT ANY DEDUCTION WHATEVER. areet for the few Bonds which are still on sale, WITHOUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. Bonds are on sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this Month the price will rise to #35, and the Sale will close before the ead of this Month. Those who remit £l5 BEFORE the 15th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, to&ether with the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re• mittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, November 1, 1842. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT -GARDEN. THIS EVENING, NOV. IS, Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST.- Alonso, Mr. Cooper ; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; P ros p ero , M r . Vandenhoff; Antonio, Mr. J. Vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. C. Pitt ; Caliban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste phano, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff; Ariel, Miss Rainforth. After which will be repeated a News Original, Comic Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of ‘. The Ladies' Club," &c., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatookeri Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d . ; First and Second Circl es 5 5 ., Secod Prise 2e. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Tea till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond - s t ree t ; M r . Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. MadamirVestris and Mr. Charles Mathews are engaged, and will appear To-night, and every Evening during the week. THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, Nov. 18, Wlll be performed, Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Strickland ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Stuart ; Charles Surface, Mr. Chas. Mathews; Crabtree, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Buckstone ; Moses, Mr. Webster; Careless, Mr. Howe ; Rowley, Mr. Gough ; Snake, Mr. Wilsone ; Sir Harry, ( with a Song), Mr. Caulfield ; Trip, Mr. Brindal. Lady Teaale, Madame Vestris; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Glover, Lady Sneerwc4l, Mrs. -W. Clifford ; Maria, Mrs. E. Yarnold. - After which.—SNAPPING TURTLES; MATRIMONIAL MASQUERADING. Mr. Timothy Tims, Mr. Backstone ; Mrs. Matilda Tims, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with—PERFECTION. Sir Lawrene Paragon, Mr. Strickland ; Kate O'Brien, Mrs. _ _ Honey. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING. NOV. 18, Will be repeated THE. MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin.. oipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. 11. P. Grattaxi, Miss Faucit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. After which, a New Comic Burletta, called AN PONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss 3lurrat. To be followed by a Grand Rurletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton - , Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche G'iubilei. To conclude with THE SECRET. Thomas, Mr. H. Beverly. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense success of the new Nautical Drama. Mr. T. P. Cooke es Union Jack is highly cheered by crowded audiences— the novel effects surpass everything hitherto attempted, and the ship on fire creates a complete hurricane of applause. THIS EVENING, NOV. .18, Will be repeated an entirely New Nautical Drama, en titled THE UNION JACK; or, the SAILOR and the SETTLER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. T. P. Cooke, who will be supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Smith, Heslop, Mrs. R. llonner, and the entire Company. New scenery and splendid nautical effects never before attempted. After which will be produced en entirely new Drama, en titled THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, the FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zamba, the Slave, by Mrs. H. Vining. The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W. Smith, M rs . H ug h es , an d Mi ss E. Terry, who will sing Miss Eliza Cook's Song of the " Red Indian," composed by Mr. G. Stansbury. To (tont:)ule with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE ; or, a SIS TER'S SACRIFICE. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at t-he Box office, from eleven to four. fuf:l4 W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.: THIS DAY. al .... 31. aninittes after 11 Evening ..... 51 minutes after 1. etp dl% tAPA .5 k We N 7 z -4t, Q 9 4,7"1, AIN AKV LONDON : FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18,1842. There is an avowed conflict going on, not only in England and Europe, but in America, be tween the aristocratic and democratic principles, and hence our Tory Contemporaries, Who neces sarily champion the former, have thought it their duty to excuse and palliate the late exposures in our Courts of Law of the vices of some members of the aristocracy. They set forth that the Peerage contains, amongst its members, " the brightest ornaments Of the nation, men of pro found learning, practical ability, and sound, statesmanlike views." " The'Peerage," they say, "affords, in the bulk of its members, examples of pure-life; 'decent ,conduct, generous charity, and justice well - zlMinistered." They speak of the nERTFORDS, the FRANKFORTS, the HUNTING TOWER:4., .and th e C IIESTERFIELDS, as mere ex ceptions to the general high character of the Peerage; and they call upon the body to make war upon those individuals who are bringing the whole of the Peerage to • public shame. Our Tory Contemporaries have not acted with their usual prudence in directing attention- to these blots in the escutcheon of the Peerage, and it would have been wiser for them to have followed their usual course, and have passed stains unno ticed which only become the deeper and extend the further the more they are rubbed. If the Peerage contain men of protbund learning and great practical ability, they I►ave not in general been born in that station. F or twenty years the principal man in the Upper House, despite the great sagacity of Lord GRENVILLE, the vast and playful learning of Lord HOLLAND, the majestic good sense of Earl Gagy, and the official influence of Lord LivERPOOI., was the son of a Newcastle coal whipper. Rarely —very rarely, indeed—is any commanding talent found in a Peer who has in herited his title through three generations. The leading men there, like Lords LYNDHURST and BROUGHAM, were born members of the demo cracy, and their original, hardy, or virtuous nature enabled them to rise in influence and in tellectual power, high above the great majority of th o se born in the Peerage. Nor can the Duke ot WELLINGTON, the younge ► • son of a poor Ir4h Peer, and schooled in the army, be considered an exception to the rule. Of all our great Admirals, in modern times at least, though the navy has been freely open to the aristocracy, .'"iliap..- ' , ...N.,„. NELSON, DUNCAN, COLLINGWOOD, EXMOUTH not one, we believe, except, perhaps, Lord HOWE, was by birth a member of the Peerage, or of a flimily allied to the Peerage. For the sake of human nature, for the sake of those whose parents pass a toilsome or a turbulent life, in order to transmit coronets to the brows of their children, the truth must be impressed on the public mind that, in the majority of cases, to be born in the Peerage is to be the heir of compa rative imbecility, It is a sad ambition that men should waste their own happiness, and sometimes sacrifice their peace, in order to doom their posterity to certain feebleness, if not to annihi lation. Is not also, let us calmly inquire, the apology for the Peerage carried too far, when it is asserted that those individuals who have of late made themselves notorious, are rather the exceptions than the rule In their case the vice was bla zoned before the face of the world; but are not similar deeds common among the aristocracy ? Is it anything rare or strange for a married Peer to have a mistress? Is it uncommon for Peers to barter settlements for the possession of a woman ? Do not a great many of the scions of nobility incur, like Lord HUNTINGTOWER, ,great debts, which they expect to pay. hen they come of age ? Most of the reproachful acts committed by the late Marquis of HERT FORD, by • Lord FRANKFORT, by the Earl of CHESTERFIELD, and by Lord HUNTINGTOWER, are of every-day occurrence, among men of title and wealth. What is remarkable in these cases, and proves, we think, the low tone of moral feeling and debasement of the class, as much as of the individuals, is this —they went voluntarily into a Court of Law to make known their depravity, which if they had possessed one scintilla of right feelinc , they would have given the wealth of worlds to hide. To the Marquis of HERTFORD, of course, the remark does not apply. No ; it applies with great force to his executors, to his family, and friends—to a class, rather than an individual, who, for the sake of a few thousand francs, or perhaps to gratify a vindictive feeling, unfolded all that old man's hideous private life to the scorn and detestation of all decent people. To Lord FRANKFORT, tO Lord HUNTINGTOWER, tO COMA BATHYANY, to Lord CHESTERFIELD, and to all their friends and advisers, the remark does apply. At a comparatively small sacrifice—for of what value was Lord FRANKFORT'S trinkets, Lord CHESTERFIELD'S 3001. a year, if he had to pay it himself, or ten times Lord HUNTINGTOWER'S whole estates, compared to a good name ?—these noblemen and their friends 'might halite - pre vented the public coming to any knowledge of their conduct. But they rushed into Court and proclaimed their own vices to the world, as if they knew not that they were vices. That is an almost infallible index to the moral opinions of the class among whom, and by whom, they were educated, and with whom they live, and move, and have their being. It proves, as clearly as if similar facts were brought home to every Peer of the realm, that the conduct which the Times and the Iferaldi vehemently and justly condemn is commons arnßngst the upper classes, and is not by them branded with shame and disgrace. Another index to the general character of the Peerage is to be found in their corporate acts. There can be no mistake about what the body does publicly. "In no country," says the He rald, " has the Peerage such inducements to virtuous and patriotic careers as in England.' They have " the SOVEREIGN'S favour, national honours, the people's applause, power, and the gratification of ambition." " They are secured in the possession of their estates, they have perma nent wealth and permanent power." How have they rewarded the generous and confiding people for their vast social advantages ? They have, for their own selfish purposes, to add a little to their wealth, and extend their power, doomed the industrious classes to still severer toils to obtain a living, and doomed many of them to the slow and torturing death of starvation. Tell us not of any political expediency in the Corn-laws; tell us not of any patriotic notion of making the nation independent of foreigners, in those who almost live on foreign productions—that was the after-found-out defence of a pre-enacted ini quity; tell us not of any Wish to have a great abundance of strong-backed and independent minded agricultural labourers—which, of all things, the landowners abhor; none of these dictated the Corn-laws. They were avowedly dictated by a low and mean desire in the aris tocracy to increase their wealth, and keep up their state and their extravagance. If, instead of increasing rent, the Corn-laws had been sup posed to lower rent, they would have been, regardless of every'interest but that of the aris- tocracy, at once swept out of the statute-book. If the aristocracy, too, as a body, had been as generous as they are extortionate, supposing the Corn-laws to be productive of wealth to them, they would have been sensible of the bias their minds must receive by their own advantage, and they would have spurned the dishonest proposal to enrich themselves by laws which plunder the people. But they are neither generous nor grateful to the people, who submit to unheard-of privations out of respect to them, and show by their corporate acts that the world may readily believe the whispered stories of the shamelessness of their private lives. If they had those feelings of charity, of bro therly love to their kind, of respect for justice, which the Herald ascribes to them, would they go on, year after year,obstinatelyenacting one punish ment after another for trespasses which only the poor and humble classes can possibly commit, when experience has proved that the punishments are so much gratuitous misery, for they prevent no crimes ? Men of the most lukewarm feelings of humanity would recoil from ordaining Meting, month after month, and year after year, those slow and lingering tortures in prison, to which the Press has lately adverted, for offences which spring from slicer poverty and want, such as the Peers can never experience. Law after law, heaping these tortures on their fellow creatures, and Sharpening them, have the Peers passed, selfishly to protect their own sports. They have unthinkingly or wilfully inflicted such misery on their fellow-creatures for killing a par tridge or a hare as no man of average humanity would doom a dog to suffer. The statute-book is the index to the generosity and Imtnanity or the Peerage.. Its numerous and bloody decrees, its sad and disgraceful enactments regarding such things as young trees and young birds, to which a fellow-creature's life is as nothing, which have been somewhat meliorated, or retbrmed, as the intelligence of the middle classes has come influence the decision of the Legislature-- , -the nu merous, sad, disgraceful, and bloody decrees, whic have encumbered, and still encumber, the st tute-book, which the Peerage have zealously preserved as long as possible, show that they have no respect for their fellow-creatures, n love for their kind, and no confidence in huina nature. All that is a sign of men degraded, not ennobled, by the.wealth,vprivilages, and honours they enjoy. The meeting held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, last evening, to which we yesterday ad verted, was numerously attended. Mr. DUN ' COMBE was in the chair. The resolutions were carried unanimously, and, were of a description, w e believe, to command a very general assent, The fewer examples there are, and happily they are very few, of Judges:exhibiting themselves as intemperate political partisans, and expressing opinions vindictively hostile to the men they are about to try, the more necessary it is, when such a case does occur, that the public should pro nounce a•strong and unanimous condemnation on such conduct. Possibly the expression of public opinion, to Which a beginning and an impulse were last night appropriately given, mcy not suffice to remove Lord &BINGER from the Bench, but we are sure that it will suf fice to impress a lesson of moderation and caution on him and all other Judges. Considering how very strongly the feelings of a l ar g e portion of the people are excited by the late proceedings in the north, their conduct last night seems to have been highly creditable. Seve ra l l adies were pre sent. The mee ting was peaceably conducted to its close. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1842. s -4'4? 4 ti nte SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock We must own that, despite the assurance given apparently from authority, " that the under writers at LLOYD'S are satisfied of the sea-worthi ness of the 'Waterloo, and have agreed to settle for the loss at once," we have many misgivings as to the strength of that ship. We should be able to form a more correct judgment of the Value of this decision, did we know the amount of the premium and the nature of the policy. In our ignorance of those circumstances, we cannot help thinking, and we must be permitted to say, remembering that two or three other cases have occurred, within these few years, of the loss of transports carrying convicts, that sufficient care is not taken to provide proper ships for the con veyance of such large numbers of persons, who can exercise no volition of their own• in the matter, to the other side of the globe. We shall briefly allude to the circumstance which makes us conclude that the Waterloo was not a proper ship for such a purpose. We saw from the first moment that we read the accounts, some reason, in the facts, that the Waterloo had drifted broad-side on the beach, while the Abercrombie Robinson had gone end on, why one ship should much more speedily be destroyed than the other. The one ship parted her cables and ran on the beach, the other ship dragged her anchors and drove broad-side on the bead'. It would be rash to judge and condemn on such imperfect evidence as we possess, but we have always understood it to be a part of seamanship, when it is found impossible to save .a vessel from wreck, to put her head if prac ticable to the beach and force her as high on the land as possible. In the case of the Aber cromby Robinson, this appears to have been done, and it appears not to have been attempted in the Waterloo. If there were any oversight of that kind it was the fault of those who had the ship in. charge. As to the sea-worthiness of the ship, she was 27 years old, she had been, it is said, completely repaired, had a new deck and been doubled ; but. those circumstances do not vouch for her sound ness. We say nothing of her age, which is not very great provided she were priginally i a„sub istantial, 'built shi p but'27 -yearS:ago, just at the close of the 'war, when prices were very high and timber scarce, we are inclined to believe that it was not the custom to build ships re markably strong. The doubling, as our readers are probably aware, is putting an addi tional outside case on the ship, adding conside rably to her weight, without, necessarily impart ing any new strength to the frame-work, on which all depends. It is often employed to make an old ship hold together, and will answer that end well in fair weather, and under no adverse circumstances; but it does not add to, in old ships, ability to resist the destructive power. of waves and rocks. Such a ship can be insured, at some premium or other; so can all the goods which are sent in her; but a cargo of living beings cannot be insured. It seems to us highly improper to send vessels of that description to the other side of the globe, so laden. We feel pretty confident that the chief' of the Transport -office and the surveyors of transports, would not select such a vessel to con vesy their own families, and therefore we con clude that she ought not to be employed by then . ' to convey men who have no will of their own. On the heels of such a great misfortune, when many hearts are sorrowing and suffering, we are averse from employing strong language, but we must advert to the subject, because it is only at such times that the public can be sufficiently in terested in such a matter as to make its opinion of commanding weight with men in office. The honour and humanity of the country are con cerned. England is not very tender of the lives of poor criminals, and successive accidents like that of the Waterloo may receive a name from foreigners, borrowed from the worst period of the French Revolution. We must be careful not to merit such a terrible stigma. Besides the defects in the ship, she seems not to have been well provided with means for the me►i to escape. We read of no boats being launched, no apparatus brought into use either by the officers of the ship or the persons on shore, which could contribute to save life. No attempt was made either to send a line from the shore to the ship, or, which probably would haVe been more easy, to send a line from the ship to the shore. We hope that such circumstances will call the attention ,of men in authority to the provisions made for safety i n conv i ct s hips, and that they will take care that every transport carrying convicts be pro vided with all the ordinary means of escape, under such dreadful circumstances proportionate to the number of the people on board. We trust, too, will canchorages, whether colonial or other, toremain so destitute of ' that l b ) e ) auoved the means of help onl an emergency, which will cost only a few pounds, as Table Bay appears to have been on the lamentable occasion of the wreck of the Waterloo. The Belfast News _Letter states, that it is in contemplation to commemorate the great moral revolution effected by Father MATHEW through out Ireland, and that. a national testimonial in • his honour is also Contemplated by his friends. "No Irishman," observes our, Contemporary, "deserves better that his really patriotic services should be rewarded. He has, indeed, effected a great moral revolution in the country. By the magic power of temperance, the aspect of affairs has been wonderfully altered. Men of different religious creeds, and different po litical opinions, have borne decided and concurrent testimony - to the spread of temperance in Ireland, and the god fruits it is producing. There is now peace instead of quar rel, - industry instead of idleness. Irishmen are improving in their, worldly circumstances.' When we state that it is a Tory journal which holds this language—one of the organs of that party, which; when Father MATHEW first com menced his grand experiment, styled him a dreamer and visionary, and ridiculed his ideas as Utopian and impracticable, our readers will readily admit that the Temperance Apostle's exertions must indeed have been successful to have wrung such an acknowledgment from an avowed enemy. In fltet, so ) ;successful has Fa ther MATHEW been in his comprehensive scheme of working out the moral regeneration of his country, that the Tories are now taking e ta l g ve e o s advantage of his peaceful triu m ph t o benefit a . nd have ac t ua ll y t h e coo l impu dence to assert that the pacification of Ireland is owing, not to the spread of temperance, but to Earl DE GREY'S G overnment! Never was a greater fltlsehood Yet promulgated, even by ex perienced and unscrupulous Toryism. II Ire land be now comparatively tranquil, it is in spite of Earl DE GREY'S halting Administration, not in consequence of it. The real Pacificator is Father MATnuw. He has achieved what Tory Government after Government has been in vain attempting for the last fifty years and upwards. By arrivals this mo rn i u m we learn, from Ber lin, that the ses s i on of the Provincial States closed on the 4th i nstant, hav i ng lasted twenty two days. The close of the session somewhat resembled the prorogation of the British Par liament, with this diff erence , that the Royal Speech was not delivered in a formal manner from the Throne, b ut at a hospitable mite:win ment given by his MAJE S TY, to which the Minis ters, Marshals, and D eputies were i nv it e d. Th e KING thanked the m for the eff i c i en t manner i n which they had deliberated on the different mea sures of State presented to them by his Mi nister, and expressed his high satisfac tion at the goo d order an d di scre ti on which had marked t h eir procee di ngs . Hi s M A . JESTY has adopted at least one point of the Char ter, for, on the Deputies closing their labours, he ordered three dollars a day, with travelling COURT CIRCULAR. Yesterday morning her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by'Lady Charlotte Dun das, took a carriage airing from her residence at Frog more Lodge, near Windsor. Her Royal Highness took a carriage drive on Tuesday, the weather only has prevented the Royal Duchess taking an airing every day. The Governor of the Bank of England and the De• puty Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Earl of Lincoln had an interview with Sir James Graham yesterday. Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, gave a grand dinner last evening at the residence of the Embassy in Manchester-square, to his Imperial High ness the Archduke Frederick of Austria and the No blemen and . Gentlemen of his Suite. M. Dedel, the Netherlands' Minister; Prince Castelcicala, the Nea politan Minister ; the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, and a select party were honoured with invitations to meet his Imperial Highness. T%lr. Wiclilkam, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street. Dispatches from Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of Canada, .and also from the Governors of the other North American Colonies, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Hon. and Rev. Lord Charles Paulet, and Lady Paulet and family, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from Brighton; General Sir Jeffery Prendergast, at ditto. DEPARTURES. Mrs. Carnegie and Miss Nicholson, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel ; the Hon. Mr. buncombe, from ditto ; Allyne, Esq., the Rev. Mr., Mrs., and .Miss Thurlow, from ditto; Mrs. Gibbons, family, and Miss Cotton, from ditto ; James M'Taggert, Esq., and Mrs. M"raggert, from ditto, for Lyndhurst, llants. LITERATURE. JOSEPH JENKINS, or LEAVES from the LIFE of a LITERARY MAN, by the Author of " Random Recollections," " The Great Metropolis." 6.c., 3 vols., post Bvo.—Saunders and Otley. • After a season of unusual dullness in the liter ary world, publishers now begin Pi give " note of preparation," and among the earliest candi dates for public favour, •as a caterer to our winter evenings' entertainment, we have here the amus ing author of " Random Recollections," with three gossipping volumes, on a theme differing from any which he has formerly essayed. Hi therto lie has been for the most part known to the reading public as a lively and pleasant chro nicler of the habits, physical peculiarities, and intellectual qualifications of our " Most potent, grave, and reverend Signiors ;" and as a ram bling excavator and explorer of the Lights and .Shadeaofi Metropolitan:Life; Rat on ithePresent occasion he comes before us in the capacity of it biographer and illustrator of a literary adven turer. This unquestionably is an interesting sub ject ,and, properly treated, ought also to be an in structive one. Our own notions as to how this matter might be most profitably discussed, differ considerably from those of our author; but not to intrude them at present on the attention of our readers, we cannot but allow that in the work before us, according to his view of the subject, he exhibits in no ordiary degree those good qualities of shrewd observation and humorous incident, ac companied, we must add, with a due proportion of garrulous prolixity, by which he acquired his early popularity. It cannot be said that there is much of the " romance of real life" in the history of " Joseph Jenkins," who, notwithstanding his own high estimate of himself, is, after all, but an ordinary enough mortal, and his career all too common in our every-day world. Nor is there any thing very extraordinary in some of the specimens given of the stuffof which "Joseph's" literary con tributions were made up. There is neither plot, nor well connected story, nor any gilded halo of romance, to excite the sentimental sympathies of the ordinary novel reader. In truth, it is not a novel, in the usual acceptation of that term; the author's intention appears to have been alto gether different from producing a work of that kind. "Joseph Jenkins" is a raw youth from the "north countrie," who leaves his home from necessity, and the force of circumstances, to try his fortune in that line of life, which is graphi cally termed " living on one's wits." His first essay is in the character of epic poet, when, big with the expectation of fame, and, what he values as much, profit, lie publishes an " epic" on the " universe," which, alas ! a dull, ungrateful public, will neither purchase nor appreciate; we are not favoured with any specimens of this work of unappreciated genius, but are much inclined to think, from other circumstances in his history, that the decision come to was the right one. After this adventurous flight, it is rather humili ating to see our hero reduced to the hard, labo rious, and very prosaic occupation of " a gentle man of the press"—a writer of all work for newspapers and magazines. The scenes in ‘‘ Lich Joseph is necessitated to mix, and the places he must visit in the performance of the duties of his new vocation, along with various lucubrations and disquisitions on the state ofliterary criticism, Magazine and Review writing, &c., compose in a great measure the bulk of the volumes. These materials appear at first sight slender and meagre enough, yet does the author display such tact and ingenuity in piecing the various incidents to gether, with such humour and drollery in the descriptions, that we do not hesitate to say the perusal of them will afford pleasure and amuse ment. The author indeed purports, and evi dences, a higher object than that of af fording mere amusement to his readers-- ; he hopes his story may also be found to " point a amoral." The principles and morals i of Mr. Jenkins are certainly rather wavering and unstable, and his subsequent chequered career renders them lax enough, while the dis astrous consequences which follow, and the -miserable shifts to which he is obliged to resort for the purpose of " keeping up appearances," are palpable and evident. Still although the moral be plain, we question whether the public may consider the work, as, in that view, having the best title to consideration ; however, t'ie matter admits of easy adjustment to all classes of readers—those who read for amusement can not miss the moral lesson, and vice versa. Some. of those passages which pleased us most we had marked for extraction, such as the laughable affair of the " rival hatters," " contested 'elections," &c., and some curious particulars about Burns and Dr. _Hornbook, which the author says have never before been published, and which certainly we do not remember once having met with—hut our limits do not permit, and we must refer our readers to the work itself. We regret to perceive that the style of this writer does not exhibit any symptom of improve ment—the work before us is disfigured in a con siderable degree by much of that negligent " slip-shod" manner which was visible in several of his former works. It is true there are certain points of style which may be as rnuch peculiar to a man. :AS the features of Lis own face; but these are very far removed from careless habits of composition, which, with the bestowal of a little time and attention, miwht be entirely re moved. The book is beautifully printed. IVe hear from good authority, Lord Lowther, and other persons ofral etl tered into a contract with and property, assignees h of f v e purchase of the Italian presentOpera artoflesisee, negotiationslAtnlle)r, othnethe h o ti s e . Chambers for the thee jr has con ductedt the purchasers, And we sincerely hope that the new lead to the payment of the long looked-for dividend. This property has now been in Chancery, or the Court of Bankruptcy, or some other Court of law or equity, for eighteen years, and it is hi g h ti me f or the creditors to get what remains. . Tna LATE SIIIPWRECKS.—The loss of the Water loo convict ship in Table Bay involves, in addition to the question of ber seaworthiness, some nautical questions which it would be as well to examine into. The chain cable of this ill-fated ship is said to have ' snapped inboard, which leads to the supposition, that when the wind increased cable was not veered. On board tho Abercrombie cable was veered to one hun dred and fifty' fathoms, and the top-gallant and top gallant masts got down on deck, and other seamanlike preparations made to meet the approaching tempest. The rotten state of the 'Waterloo must have been known; which, in addition to her dreadful cargo of convicts, might have been the cause'ofher being under the command of some very inefficient person, as it is not probable a seaman of a high grade in the mer chant service would have taken the command of so inferior a ship with so desperate a class 'of men as convicts. Why, Asks a writer, are our old 32 and 36-gun frigates now rotting in the Medway, not used for such purposes, instead of hiring such disrepu table craft? BRlBERY.—Sweatmeats were formerly much used to bribe persons of quality or judges, to whom a re quest was to be made. This custom at last rose to such a pitch, that Louis IX. of France issued a pro clamation, wherein he forebade all Judges to take more than ten penny worth a week. Philip the Handsome, subsequently curtailed this quantity to no more than what one could use in one day. The Rev. Dr. Cramer, principal of New Inn Hall, regius professor of modern history, has resigned the public oratorship of the University of Cambridge, and the Vice-Chancellor has appointed Thursday next for the election of a successor, expenses, to be paid to each Member, without distinction of rank. The proceedings altogether do great honour to this excellent Prince, and cannot fail to produce a lasting effect on his grateful people. The accounts from Hanover respecting the KING'S health are still very gloomy. According• to these, no symptoms of improvemen t have taken place, and his MAJESTY continues to labour under great depression of spirits. We have perused with much interest the note of Lord CUNINGHAME appended to the interlo cutor or judgment pronounced by him in a Non- Intrusion case, entitled "The Rev. Mr. CRUICK SHANK and others against the Rev. Dr. GORDON and others." The seven deposed ministers of Strathbogie sought redress from the Court of Session, because they had been deposed by the General Assembly for obeying the statutory law of the land, and had applied to the Civil Courts for protection against previous incom petent sentences or suspension pronounced by that body of which Dr. GORDON, one of the ministers of Edinburgh, was moderator. His Lordship gave judgment in favour of the plain tiffs, and adduced among others the following arguments in support of his decision : In so far as the Church claim the station and privileges of a supreme legislature, their pretension is essentially unfounded. In the words of Erskine, they derive their whole powers from the State, through the Acts of the Civil Legislature. It was by Act of Parliament that a change from the ancient Catholic faith to the Protestant Creed was authorised; by the same authority the confessions of the new faith from time to time were sanctioned and enforced; and the judicial powers of the Church in spiritual matters were also defined by Act of Parliament. According to the defenders, there may be two Courts in the same State, both legitimately entitled to interpret the same law, and neither is bound to yield to the other, because there is an irreconcilable collision between equally competent jurisdictions. The Lord Ordinary conceives that this is an anomaly contrary to every principle and precedent in the law. Lord CUNINGHAME quotes precedents from BACON and other authorities, clearly proving that the Judges of the Temporal Courts both in England and Scotland have the supreme power of construing a statute, and thus concludes : The Legislature of Scotland did not choose to in vest a popular body, consisting of above a thousand members, with any of the powers and privileppes of the Supreme Civil Judges. Accordingly, every power of carrying their own sentences into effect was withheld from the Church ; and even if the Moderator were insulted in the chair, he has no power of committal. He must appeal to the Civil Magistrate, who, of course, would repress and punish every pffevce of the sort. But with regard to the ,ordrnary ecetesiaStical sentences, these are by special statutes, quoted in the pleadings of the case, appointed to be carried into effect by the Civil Courts alone. Finally, the jurisdiction and interference of this Court, in the present case, might, it is supposed, be justified, if necessary, by the compact between the Church and the State in the Confession of Faith. The 23d chapter provides that "the civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the word and sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of Heaven; but he bath authority, and it is his duty to take order, that unity and peace, be pre served in the Church." It is manifest that, under constitutional Governments, the civil magistrate must speak through the supreme courts of justice ; but in what case could such interference more competently and appropriately take place under the power, than on the present occasion, when a large majority of the. General Assembly have ventured to deprive seven of their brethren of their offices, for yielding obedience to a law which the supreme courts of the country have found that they are bound to obey ? It is on these grounds that the Lord • Ordinary has sustained the jurisdiction of this Court in theSe processes. As the case stands upon the documents produced, and the statements hitherto advanced, the pursuers complain of grievous injury and oppression inflicted on them, for conduct not only not inferring blame, but constituting high merit in public flux,. tionaries. If the reasons of reduction shall be estate" blished, it is a matter of the greatest concern, 'both to the law and to the established religion itself, that its ministers and Courts should be restrained, by com petent authority, and with as little delay as possible, from every abuse and excess of power calculated to bring themselves and the Church with which they are connected, under the condemnation of those tribu nals to whom the interpretation of the law is com mitted by the constitution of the country. We have received the Paris papers of Wed nesday at a late hour this day, owing to the bois terous weather in the Channel. The leading, articles relate chiefly to the project for a Com mercial Union with Belgium, but that has lost all interest for English readers. The following, from the Sentinelle of Toulon, is the only extract of interest : " Our neighbourhood is encumbered with troops; waiting for their turn of embarkation for Algiers, and new detachments continue to arrive almost daily. These detachments are furnished from the depots of regiments at present in Africa, and which are not intended to return speedily to France. To judge by the movement of troops which has already taken place, and which is to last fora good part of the winter, some grand military operations must be con templated for the spring. As has been already an nounced, the Due.; d'Aumale is to have the command of a inoveable column, the head-quarters of which will be at Medeah. In this case General Changarnier will, to all appearance, leave the province of Tittery." The Three per Cents. at two o'clock on Wed nesday were 80f. 35c. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY LONDON, Nov. 18.—Wind this day at noon, westerly, light and cloudy. DEAL, Nov. 17.—Wind E.N.E., fresh.—lt bl ew very hard last n i g ht a t E . N . E ., with a heavy sea, and continued until noon to-day. The outward bound are riding all well. Nov.l7.—Wind E.—Arrd.North Star, Tessier, Rio Janeiro. Sld. Nunez ' Gambia. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 17.—Wi n d E. to N.E.—Arrd. Emly, Paddonaccra, St. Vincent's; Planter, Allen, Jamaica. Sld. Diana, Strickland, Bombay. Off port, Goddess, Fayal. DOVER, Nov. 17.—Off port, Elizabeth, Dagnall, Quebec. TORBAY, Nov. 16.—S1d. Chatham, Sydney. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 17—Wind S.E , fresh.—Sld. Asia, Rio Grande ; Priscilla, Pernambuco ; Jackson, Trinidad ; Sarah Trotman, Barbadoes ; Jamaica, Ja• maica ; Shakspeare, New Orleans ; Eliza, Savannah. WATERFORD, NOV. 14.—Arrd. Thistle, Quebec. CORK, Nov. 15.—S1d. Bache, Halifax. BELFAST, Nov. 15.—A.rrd. Ceylon, Whitburn, St. John's, New Brunswick. YAUmourn Nov. 17.—The Dian a , R o b son, of Shields, has been assisted in leaky, and with pumps chocked. BIDEFORD, Nov. 15.—Arrd. British Lady, Prince Edward's Island. SWANSEA, Nov. 15.—S1d. Dorothy, Yates, Cuba. FALMOUTH, Nov. 17.—Wind E.N.E., fresh gales. —Arrd. Crane, packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed 13th ult., with about 19,0001. in gold and diamonds. Sld. Nine, Cape de Verds and Monte Video. IVANSEA, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Stockton, Sims, Cuba; Fortune, Williams, Quebec. FISIIGUARD Nov. 16.—Arrd. Triton, Quebec. MILFORD, Nov. 16.--Sld. Liverpool, ew Orleans, THE FUNDS-(CI BRITISH USING PRICES. FUNDS. flank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ...... 933 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. C0n5......... 943 Ditto Old Annuities 3 h per Cent. lied... 1001 Ditto New Annuities — New 3} per CenL ...... 1014 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 55 pm N”w 5 per Cent .... Ditto 5001...... 55 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 55 pm Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1.:60 l2 11-16'Consols for Acct. 94i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lo2h Ditto, New Ditto 3Bk Brazilian Bonds... 65 Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Busman, 5 pet cent Chilian 6 per cent ...... 91 Ditto, M e t a lli c ...... . Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent. lB4 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... . . 103 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79 French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Danish, 3 per :ent Exchange . —f —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent..... 33 Dutch, 2h per cent....... 52h I )itto, 6 per cent. 18.37 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 101 h Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. SARES Bristol and Exeter (7 H pa 0 id) . .. ... . 456 Eastern Counties (23 paid) B/ Ditto New (—paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ••• Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 7l London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 4Bl London and South Western (41/ 6s 10d pd) 60 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 166 North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 23 Ditto Scrip (20 paid) SUVA MAsi,ll or , NEWS AND et bitc tiNotnt:,)m) " Who rims may read.' POEEIGN. The session of the Prussian States was closed by the King in per son on th e 10th i ns t. A letter from Belgrade, Nov. 3, announces the arrival there of Emin Effendi, with the berat of .61 Sultan for the new Sovereign of Servia. The inves titure was to take place on the 7th. The Augsburg Gazette states that the recent changes in Wallachia and Servia are the subject of frequent and important conferences between Prince Metternich and the Russian Ambassador at the Austrian Court. A letter from Constantinople, October 17, Sud of Marseilles, mentions the arrival in the" Turkis capital of a Lieutenant of the French army, who is t act as instructor of the Turkish Imperial Guard. II was sent out by the French Government at the re quest of Riza Pacha. The Duke and Duchess of Leuchtenberg left Ve nice on the 3d instant for Ancona, from whence they will proceed to Florence and Bologna. By the Jorrud do Cornmercio of Rio de Janeiro to the 12th ult., received by the Crane packet, we are informed that the late disturbed provinces were in a state of great tranquillity, s and Baron Caxias, with 3,000 troops, on the eve of embarkation for Rio Grande, where the insurrectionists were already dis heartened by the prospect of his speedily attacking them, PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicic, alluding to some recent agricultural meetings, and the spirit displayed at them, says— " Thank Heaven, these illusions a re gradually pass ing away. Agriculturists and manufacturers are be ginning to discover that they need not gaze upon each other, like antagonistic Indian braves, each with tomahawk in hand, and whom nothing can appease but the possession of each other's scalp. Arrogant claims are no longer put forth for agriculture, as if it were an interest which could live and flourish though Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Sheffield were sent to the botto m o f the sea. And in the pro portion in which agriculturists admit the claims of manufactures and commerce, so will they find that manufacturers are ready to concede to British agri culture its just importance, and, with unfeig ne d an d unaffected readiness, to admit that it constitutes a prime element of British greatness and glory. We do not' know that we need go about to adduce proof of the prevalence of this better spirit, for every agricul tural meeting exhibits it." The Post reverting to the question of free trade, observes :—" We are straining after the supply of foreign countries with British manufactures, at the very time that foreign countries have resolved to manufacture for themselves, and to exclude our manu factures as much as possible. We know that, not withstanding this, - ti p yin.ister has said 04 ; • he, sees, no way out of the 'difficulties of the mainifacturcrig classes but in the extension of foreign trade, and knowing this, how can we hope that the Parliament will take any other view ? But we must say, that in the present state of the world, to rest one's sole hope upon the extension of foreign markets, for the produce of British industry, seems to us much about as comforting a state of things as if, on the 22d of June, one should rest one's hop e on th e ex t ens i on o f the length of the days. No ; we should trust to something far more within our own power than the extension of foreign markets. How can we control the determinations of this foreign country or of that, which may tell us it has no wish to deal with us ? Why should we put ourselves at the mercy of foreign Goverritnents ?" Speaking of Lord Lyndhurst's. Law Reforms, the Herald expresses itself as follows It is doing no injustice to Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst's great merits, either as a judge or as a statesman, to assert that his ex ertions as a law reformer are not equal in value and importance to his judicial and political services. The .Noble Baron has, doubtless, saved th e coun t ry f rom much crude and hasty legidation, projected for the removal of defects in the administration of the law ; he'interposed when Lord Langdale suddenly signalised his newly acquired, some say enforced coronet by an attempt to sweep away the present equity institutions andlubstitute a philosophi ca l 7 l oo ki ng scheme, of his own/ he checked Lord Cottenham's well-intended eirdr ts when they occasionally verged on extravagance or rashness; he rebuked the absurd crotchets of " plain John," now Lord Campbell, . and he has prevented the establishment of local courts until every doubt is removed that cheap law means cheap , justice. One' qualification Lord Lyndhurst does not however possess; • and it is resolution to accomplish the diffi cult task. Its want may proceed from age, love of ease and quietude, hopelessness of success, or the ab sonce of high moral motive • but the want is ob v i ous . Those improvements, i n d ee d, which cannot , be de-. layed, or which the labours of others have prepared for his adoption, Lord Lyndhurst has• adopted, and will again adopt; but he wrestles not with the giant himself, his heart is not in the cause; and though he abhors the abominations of the Equity Courts as much as the sternest reformer, and regrets the practical in justice that is perpetrated by their continuance, still has not Lord Lyndhurst the energy and the industry to remove the abuses, rectify the defects, and i m p rove the good points of the system." ECCLESIASTICAL. The Tories of St. Pancras having it in intention, by a sort of side-process, to perpetuate Church-rates in that parish, the _churchwardens called the attention of the Vestry to this fact on Wednesday, when a Com mittee was in consequence appointed to watch and oppose the proposed Bills in every stage, which the former party are about to present to Parliament upon this score. The Rev. T. Robinson, the new morning preacher at the Foundling, was travelling companion and chap lain to Bishop Heber. He was subsequently pro moted to the Archdeaconry of Madras, which he re signed two or three years since. Archdeacon Pakenham, brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington, is spoken of as the new Bishop of Cashel and Waterford, in the room of the deceased Dr. Sandes. Dr. Daly and Archdeacon Torrens are mentioned as his opponents. LAW AND POLICE. Cesare Ungheretti, an Italian, was charged a Guildhall with threatening the life of Dr. Belluomin (one of Napoleon's physicians, and the introducer of the homoepathic system into England), and also that of Miss Clorinda Sagramoni, residing at his house in Great Marlborough -street. The defendant was held to bail. LITERARY ILND SCIENTIFIC. Yesterday concluded the seventh day's sale of the third part of the library of the late George Chalmers. So extensive a collection of the proclamations of James 1., has not occurred in any sale for many years ; since, being generally stuck upon walls and dilapidated buildings, they are very generally de stroyed. Many of them were obviously the produc tion of the King's own pen. The charge of whitewashing our churches to hide the paintings, carved work, &c., is generally attributed to the Reformers in the days of Henry VIII. or Vizabeth. Many circumstances, however, show that most of the whitewashing was done during the great rebellion, and was not intended as a work of deface ment, but to serve as a defence against Cromwell's Iconoclasts. COUR T - PASITIONATILE.. Her Majesty will leave Walmer for Brighton, ac cording to the present arrangement, on the 22d inst. Earl and Countess Amherst have gone to Montreal Sevenoaks, for the winter. The Duke of Bedford arrived in I3elgrave-square yesterday from Oakley House, Bedf or d s hi re . I) The Marq u i s and Marchioness of Abereorn left Loch Laggan for 13aron's.Court, Ireland, early in the week. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have post poned their departure for Paris until Monday next. The Earl and Countess of Harewood and family have been passing the autumn at Goldsborough Hall. MISCELLANEOUS. At the Sandwich , islands, owing to missionary labours, there are at present, 385 schools, containing 18,034 scholars. In the printing department 10,583,950 pages have been struck off in 1841, and about 50 books printed. The skin and skeleton of the large fin-whale, which a short time ago was caught by some fishermen in the Thames, off Deptford, has been purchased for th British Museum, whither it has been conveyed. A lueifer-factory, in William's-court, Southwark, was burnt down last night. IWNeil, a wire-worker, with a large family, suffers much by it ; the pre mises are uninsured. The death of Dr. Sands, the Bishop of Cashel, is likely to lead to!a vacancy on the Judicial as well as on the Episcopal Bench. It has been understood for some time past that Judge Torrens was willing to retire in favour of any of the Government men, pro vided his brother, the Archdeacon, was elected to the Episcopacy. This opportunity has presented itself, and the probability is, that the descent of the Judge will be but a preliminary to the exaltation of the par son. Mr. Sergeant Warren, it is thought, will be the successor of Torrens in the Common Pleas. —Cor respondent of the Advertiser. A rich copper mine has been opened at Cumber land, R. I. Within the last week fifteen tons of ore have been shipped for Boston, from the mine, com menced this season, and worked by four men only. The ore was sent' to Liverpool', to be sold at the monthly mart of ore at Swansea. There is not a single smelting surface for copper in North America. CHEAP MEAL, &c.—A correspondent from Banff shire writes us this morning, that oatmeal is sellin fur 10s. er boll in Banff; g p potatoes, 3d. per peck ; beef, 4d. per lb.; eggs, Bd. per dozen and coals at ls. per 4i-rel.—lnverness Courier, L \V INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN'S BENCH. -(THIS DAY.) HEAVE U. RUTTER. This was a special case, agreed upon between the parties, the object of which was to ascertain whether the chapel wards, and a portion of the land of Chef" sea Hospital, was li a bl e t o th e sewers-rate. The plaintiff, Mr. Richard Neave, was Secretary to the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, ,and the defend ant, Mr. Rutt er , was one o f th e c ollectors of the sewers-rate, in the employ of the Sewers' Commissioners le of Westminster. The action was one of trespass, an d - the declaration stated that the defendant had entered Chelsea Hospital, and had taken and seized one seat from the'Hospital chapel, one table from the common hall, and one table from one of the sleeping-rooms. . The plea stated that these buildings had been duly assessed, and were liable to the sewers-rate of 89 i . ;he s s . 6d., payment o f w hi c h h ad b een re f us ed, and , 1 therefore the goods in question had been distrained. 9 Mr. WATSON on the part of the Commissione rs of e Chel s ea H os pit a l, stated that the chapels and wards • had been rated at 841. los. 6d., on a rental of 3,3811., and the lands to 41. 155., on a rental of 5701., maki n g a total of 89/. 55. 6d. This portion of the Hospital had never before been assessed to the sewers-rate., It was now assess e d as being in the occupation 0! Mr. Heele, a gentl eman who had no occupation in it whatever. Lord DENMAN said that the case seemed to MT very similar to the case of Tracy and Taylor,. whin y ` had.been before the C our t th e o th er day ; and as on that occasion the argu men t s h a d b een ve ry fully gon e into, the Court would be glad to hear Mr. K eil (who appeared for th e Commissioners of Sew ers offer any argument s t o s h ow w h e th er an y rate cou ld be laid on any person other than the occupier of that premises ; and al s o w h a t h e h a d t o say t o show that the person rated in the present instance had any occupation. Mr. KELLY said that the first point on which it Win; sought to exempt this portion of Chelsea Hospital from the payment of sewers-rate was, that it was Crown property. Now as Chelsea Hospital had never been occupied as a R oya l P a l ace, b ut was h e ld by t he Crown only as t rus t ee f or th e pens i oners w ho were i n the enjoyment o f th e b ene fi t o f t h e i ns titution, 11 1 contended that it wa s li a bl e t o t h e sewe rs-rate, a nd had been rat e d i n th e name o f M r . Heele, th e . Clerk of the Wo r k s . B y t h e t erms of severa l of the statutes o f sewers, all lands, withou t el " ception, which deri ve d b ene fit f rom th e sewerag e : were liable to the sewers-rate. No lands were exemp t except those in th e ac t ua l persona l occupa tion of the A; Sovereign, and in the use o f N e th er t on an d Warne , ' Barnewall and Adolphus, 81, it h a d been held t hat Crown lands were liable to be assessed to the sewers" rate, whether the Crown had beneficial oc cupation not. With regard t o th e secon d po i nt th a t Mr. fla i r had no occupation, and therefore was not the Pl ed person to be assessed, h e (M r . K e ll y ) conten that it was perfectly i mma t er i a l , if t h e l a nds we' d liable, who was the person assessed. The object the assessment was, in the event of payment being he fused, to enabl e th e C omm i ss i oners to en t er upon land liable to th e ra t e , an d t o se i ze any chattel ; he % might find thereon, and se ll it for payment °` rate. It was, therefore, immaterial who wa s 1 9 1 sessed. The Commissioners might if they on chosen have a ssesse d one o f t h e p ens ioners, an ed• his refusal to pay the rate have en t e red and S ela The Learned Gentleman cited several cases in stl Y t , port of this position of his argument. It was admit' ted that the lands were benefited, therefore they we re ar J.; liable to be rated. There was no exception in fa ve te , 't" f of Crown lands ; being liable, it was utterly inima ot rial who was the person assessed. In fact, it wos n . t .,.' necessary to name any one, and therefore he submit" ted that the Court must give its judgment in fa" of the defendant's plea. Mr. 'WATSON, on the other s id e , c ontended tha t th : assessment was not good, ina smuc h as it was not a n assessment upon the l an d s or t enemen t s , but nr,: e Mr. Hall ; and inasmuch as Mr. Hall was not in To occupation of the l an d s an d tenements, he was wrong person to be assessed, and therefore the age s s . ment was void altogether. If h e (M r . Watson), r, h a rd, ing no connecti on w h a t ever w i th Pembroke Doekla were to be assess e d t o a sewers-rate for t h a t dockyar d ' and were to traver se , and the Commissioners we re find that he had been properly assessed, would t hat contended that therefore they would have a right to enter that dockyard and distrain, without the et; missioners of that docky ar d h av i ng h a d any 0 14 3°r o f nity of disputing'the assessment, or any knowledge as , the rate having been made ? The prese nt case w like the • one he had put. The C omm issioners had assessed Mr. Hall, who had no occupation, and there '4,4 fore the rate was void. If t h e law intended that land, not the persons, should be assessed by the CI; missioners of Sewers, what necessity was the re 1 1 ' y them to have recourse to the poor-rates ? C ie3l / 1 only to ascertain the persons to be assessed. ,v + 13 1 3 3t the terms of the statutes of Sewers, he submitte a ,„„,` the sewers-rate was clearly only assessable upon r sons as occupiers c,f land. The Learned Coun.s,_ having quoted several authorities in support of tn n ii opinion, submitted that the Court must give judg in , e rw for the plaintiff. The Learned Gentleman ha v '''' concluded his argument, The COURT took time to consider its judgment. ROSE V. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. no Mr. KELL Y s t a t e d th at as there appeared to be chance of the parti es com i ng to an arrange ment this case, he was !desirous of knowii,g whet h er the . Lordships were o f op i n i on that there ou ght to h e 7 rule for a new trial. Lord DENIIANLWe think there ought. Rule granted. AIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) IN THE MATTER OF CAPT. ARCHIBALD DouGLAO:. The AT TORNEY -G ENERAL, addressing t h e Cr" said,—l understand, my Lord, that Captain Dc'a,goui a . 5 is in att en d ance b e f ore your Lordship under a 1'3'24 corpus, and I have to pray that he may be nha r b, t with the i n f orma ti on fi led against him, in or d e r 0 1 he may b e comm i tte d to the custody of the M a rshaif unless he should give bail., • Captain D oug l as h av i ng p l eaded not gu ilty t° e d, indictment for extorti on , un d er w hi c h h e was al l of Mr. C HAMBERS sa id t h at he appeared on bells" in Captain Douglas, to make an application the sant al. substance as th a t ma d e b y the Attorney t. However th a t p o i n t nee d not be discussed at preseint But with regard to the amount of bail, the pen. sought to be recovered here in shape °' ta sum alleged to have been taken, according'. w ft; the expres s i ons o f t h e statute, " by way o f gi not and which amounted to 12,800/. He did however, think it would be absolutely essent i a l tog" bail to the a moun t o f the penaltysought to be covered. Th e s t a t u t e, i t was true, requ i re d s ufficie security to a nswer an d pay all forfeitures an d Penal : , ties for, if the party should be convicted. There w a a precedent for such a course in the case of the K il g v. Stephens and Agnew, reported in sth East. a to that case the penalty sought to be recovered 10 refer the same a moun t , b ut the course adopted was to of it to the Attorney -General to say w h at a mount bail he would require, and he referred it to the en ar of Directors, to receive instructions from them, and the bail required in that case was 10,0001. ma tter ° f The ATTORNEY -GENERAL—Mat was arrangement. Ur. Justi ce P ATTESON — I f i nd there i s case a a l which a pe rson o f t h e name of Holland was pr oseeln e ci ' for a simil ar o ff ence, i n the time of Lord K en yon,° after heari ng M r . E rs ki ne the Court or d ere d bail for the lowest amount of penalty mentioned in that info mation, namely, 20 , 0001. an d two suret i es in 10, 00°6 each. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—That was Under the old statute. Mr. CHAMBE RS —P er h aps , then, the better course would be to a ll ow th e case to stand over of Director s are commun i cate d w i t h a " e , and it be r thew tamed from th em w h et h er t h ey w ill requ ire the I amount, or will b e sa ti s fi e d w ith l ess . Mr. Justi ce P ATTESON —I see no o bj ec tion to that course. till the Cun.r.t. ... tie ATTORNEY-GENERAL-1 have no objection, my Lord. lam sure the C our t o f Directors w ill id ford every convenience t o a p erson i n C a pt. D ougln''' s , situation ; but I think y our L or d s hi p wo uld be bo o to to take the highest sum. In the case of Stephens an d sum l received c a r s e a a te gif a t n . i l m t p h e i d n i l m c ne m n Agnew the fine was 5,000/, and imprisonment for two years besides, or the forfeiture of 112,800/., th ° f • flg • the p is 1 mlttell'iro your Lordship mi. M Lordship. I think your Lordsh ~- ip must require bail to the full amount. i . l-I ; lt ir Mr. Justice PATTESON—Mr. Chambers need nc' t ‘ ..iorl apply to have this gentl e m • • I yt Learnedy i• e err an ballet at the p resent moment ; he w ld c ustody -its:r ou then be committed to the custo „ , of the Marshal, and an l'c tio to bail him out could be made at a th a e p r p time. ia nln the meantime ..s.,t, application may be made o to theof D . tors. Court irec . Mr. Chambers havin concurred in the suggestion of the Learned Judge, Capt. Douglas withdrew in the custody iiirieild , ~,.), of the public officer. IN THE MATTER OF GENERAL ROBERTSON.—AFPLICA, TION FOR A CRIMINAL INFORMATION. , The Ayr ORNEY-GENERAL applied al ~, for a cri mi , ,t l ' info • • imation against a gentleman who was making, / ,A some applications to the Court of Directors of tne .d i East India Company of a very extraordinary nature. 1: 1 4 1 . General Robertson, one of the Directors, stated In -.7;:,di his affidavit that he received, about the 11th of Octo: : . 1 „?, ber, 1841, a letter enclosed in an envelope, addressed . 9 ; i i d to him at the India-house. It Was dated Hampton.; , _ - •!,4. Sussex, 10th October, and was signed "11. Sharpe]. : - . 4 ' , _,,,f The letter, after apologising to General Robertson ,-o , 7i_ , for writing on such a subject, stated that he had a • r ar o, • and ~. , young friend who was desirous of a cadetship,. ~ 0 , A that as he was himself known to many o f t h e Three - , ~ . r... . 01 tors, he took the liberty of addressing him on the „, 4 1 . ; 0 J subject. It also stated that he was the son of Lient••,..:lll j ,, pi General Sharpnel, who voted for him (General 11 ' 9 ; ,1-t bertson), and that he iwas intimately aqua'nteu with many of the ari s t ocrac y, and concholed 41 0 10 . ' 0 4