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Bristol; °- men t of 0 to!, en top lent of DO; miuoter, y, rd the i01.‘4 'nth by lit _, an inter lonial Office". ODER IC° ulauted 4treet. • d from ti" :w build► site of !t o ,' Lm entuf '7., • uto the SHIP - PIN - • - . , . Q INTELLIGENCE --(THIS DAY.) I bill cannot be sustained, Upon the authority, therefore, of these two opinions, I inn of opinion then that the de murrer ought not to be allowed. The question depends entirely upon the construction of the instrument set out in the bill, and I am of opinion that that instrument doei not convey any interest to Tacon and Serne n this property. The bill, therefore, cannot he sustained. Sir C. WETHERELL then applied for leave to amend the FROM LLOYIYS. DE4I, DEC. 21.--Arrived the Europe, Brown, remain. from Triest e. The wholeThof the outward-bound " FALMOUTH' DEC. 26. vv Iv rur A rri veu the L°lll Hobart Packet, from the Leeward Islands. b The D. — ope, of Sunderland, sunk on Scroby Saud on Thursday night. B Th e Olympic, from Havre to Monte Video and th u e e"B Y res ) was wrecked the eml of October on Coast of Africa, about 300 Colonists saved. His Loanstxip overruled the demurrer without preju dice to any amendment. He considered it a case of great importance, Machardo having in his hands a vast suns of money (upwards, we believe, of 100,0001.), which he bad no right to retain.- NEROT U. BURNAM). LAW INTELLIGENCE 41M=PM.1........1 THIS DAY.) The Loan CHANCELLOR said this was a bill filed by James Nerot against George Burnand and his wife, to ob tain the dissolution of the partnership and for an account. The transaction was of this nature :—A person of the name of Nerot kept an betel in King-street, St. James's. In the year 1798, being then in the occupation of the pro perty, he made his will, and by that will he bequeathed the residue of his property to his only children, his soil and daughter, Mr. Nerot, the plaintiff, who was then about twenty years of age, and Mary (the female defendant), his sister, who was then living with him ou the premises. In his will the testator declared that it was his intention to assign over the house, the property in it, and the busi ness, to two trustees, for the benefit of his son and daugh ter. No such assignment, however, was ever made, and by his will he appointed his daughter his executrix, who, up to that time, had managed the business of the house. After the death of the testator, she took possession of the property as executrix, and conducted the business as be fore; and there can be no doubt that she and her brother were entitled jointly to the property. The business was carried on by Miss Nerot upon the premises, in King street, until 1809 or 1810. Mr. Nerot was frequently absent from the country ; he carried on business of some description in France. In the year 1809 the lease of the house in King-street being about to expire, a negociation was opened by Miss Nerot, fur the purchase of a house in Clifford-street, with the view of transferring the business to that house. In the course of that negotiation she made an 'application to a Mr. Carey, who acted in this country as the agent of her brother, for an advance of money to assist her in the purchase of that house. He demurred for a considerable time, at last he agreed to advance 4001., but in the mean time money had been procured from an other quarter. The business was ultimately trans ferred to the Clifford-street house, purchased by Miss Nerot and she continued to conduct it there as formerly, until 1819. In September er October of that year, the plain tiff being en the Continent, she married the other de fendant, Mr. Burnand. As soon as Mr. Nerot heard of this he was dissatisfied with it, and declared the partner ship to be dissolved. He filed his bill in Hilary Term, 1880. No delay, therefore took place between his hearing of the marriage and his determination to act ou that mar riage as a dissolution. The answer set up to the bill was, that shortly after the death of the testator, an agreement had been come to between his son and daughter, (Mr. Nerot alleging that it was inconsistent with his views in life to be concerned in this business), that the property should be valued, and that half the amount of the valuation should be paid to Mr. Nerot. The Vice-Chancellor di vested an issue to try the fact, whether such an agreement had been entered into or not. Upon the trial of that issue, before the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Nerot, Mrs. e ß i‘ws enie u ertrm r e. e n r Nee a dd nd, a eorftoo t.oh opinion into—consequently aivnßei 00 0 tnb t ie le etn t r hi s i e , w ao tfLoonp e roi r dn e Cot l e : e xmined, and the Jury suchi tyeahf netpideacnie,itenanaeitrl and the partnership eeext Ji b e sutf e ero i dyr i between th ose p ar ti es . L or d Eldon, atfja oguatagreement however, has observed and justly observed, that the Chief Justice had nothing to do with the partnership ; that the Jury had nothing to do with it ; so that, whatever impression was made on their minds with respect to the existence of a partnership, as they had no authority to decide the question, although all parties were examined before them, I must lay entirely out of my view. In the answer it is stated that the parties canie to no account whatever except the supposed account which was referred to the decision of the jury. The case therefore, stands thus :—These parties were jointly interested in this property upon the death of this testatoe; no account has ever been come to ; Miss Nerot has continued in the oc cupation of the property from 1804 to 1819, and the only question is, whether those parties were partners,—whether _they carried en the business in partnership,—the business having actually been conducted by Miss Nerot alone. —I have read the evidence several times, with a view of coming to what I consider a just conclu sion; and though I , have entertained . doubts,. . at dif ferent periods, I think in the result, I am bound to decide that there was a partnership existing up to the marriage of Miss Nerot. I am bound to decide that, melees I reject xx TR COURT O CHANCEY. - lIATTE K or THE REV. 241E. R HOLIIES, A SUP POSED LUNATIC. M essr s OORN moved that an order be served upon sr2;r:VlHiolnlme Holmes s nd Parry, solicitors, in the Temple, tha t A rr may b e ' produced at Nottingham, " the 27th inst., upon the execution of the corn- Ifinissi"; becausev ever y exertion had been used to lid M • and ..trs. tiolmes, without effect. A mes senger had been sent to Mr. Holmes's residence, to Liverpool t ,to ..1. 13 ...0, and to several other places, but it ;. (l not been able to find him i they believed that :Ilya; intentionally kept out of the way. made the order, and directed that "lorlic iilBlol,lolnuens before t - enaington and Arnold should s ee Mr. Holmes he 27th. JUDGMENT. Th -.. arss OP SPAIN V. HALLET, &C. e "RI) CHANCELLOR gave judgment in . this case, The li. bill 1e..; ° tect of the (said his Lordship) is to obi from the defendants an account of certain -,_ e h t ging to the plaintiffs, which came into v e nf ia n ia c b °' the defendants. By virtue of a con meet: - o f WaS entered into between the Govern- , F ran : °f F rance and Spain, the Gd . vernment of sum o f l ook upOn itself to appropriate a certain i•Mon e y for the purpose pub led t being IT' "f 'h the 0 the liquidation of certain claims which jeet of . i„ s Spain bad upon the French Government, t'ro°tisideration of certain circumstances when he was' of France occupied Spain. The stipulation , not that so much money should be paid, but that a . in the c ertain quantity of rentes should be vats tu e Great Book of France, and that i n scription inseribed son s be be made in the name of such perso t n o l r t was per- Put ins the King of Spain should al S ki the Great Book in the nan ' ie P of the 1811 Consul in France. In pursuance it eonyew . ti . 0 0 in f the then w as 'ion th e inscription was made , but before Nli e b: ° , l 4leted, that Consul was ., em . oved, and of 11,110 substituted in his e i nscriptionthat th e i plac e e n , the part to th e n elm er Consul's num b e d scrip t i„ -a ne of Michardo, and in that trmanasdfeerreida was s name the in- Was . 1;1 wa g completed. Soon aften . vard n s s a te e n iv d i . l . ing • n te o ut i n F r „ ce , a nd the inseript e io name of Mic l b the Great Book of France in h Prop s 4da , he being apprehensive thatt t h to o k rt Y flight be in some way dives t ed of the in to him,en s e seriptii!°o himself to sell the who le oisutimo for some time to t ti 7 , end with the proceedshoafesuch sale he came . h e ils! and. After lie was . and he afterwards: arid Co ordeposited. money, ned went , 1 1 3 , 1113 Y part of this where he wan residing when t o p ant Netherlands, arra s g •'''' bill was filed. Subsequent to the next when the civil V lle uts between France and Spain, the e r had determined, application was made by pay over this /no n 11) R . of Spain to Michardo to th e e)r, or to deposit it in the Bank of England ; and 4415,?iieation was made by the Secr etary of State, tw o t ,' t erwards by two individuals at the heads of the tic f ,` - loverninents, the one appointed for liquidating p eal ili 'nrid, and the other from the Tribunal of Ap twn In consequence of instructions from these two, n - Persons were appointed for collecting in this la pC ; ll eY, they were Tacon and Serne, two of the i :' i ltiffa o n the record. They came to this coun till* tt nd filed the bill in their names and in that of t 4. l (in g o f S pa i n, aga i nst Hallet and Co. and an t rrd ii 0. To this bill there is put in a demurrer; l'a e ~e Point argued on th e d emurrer was , t h at s o s „ 1 and Serne had no interest in that property tli a ;t, s e entitle them to sue for it in this Court ; a nd . th e . 'L they had no interest, their . being joined with i nter king o f Spain, assuming that he has an tli e e st, that that was a ground to sustain i s ~dernurrer. The first question . therefore u ) "ethe r Tacon and Serne have any interest in the 'l l l‘t3 t e l : ert Y. The question of whether they have any l f aet e st or not depends upon a very short statement . of I 41 j a ud a material document set forth in the . bill. :( Ivi t l, l ' 4 ssum that the King of Spain has an interest i h l a i , - ro ll r none e y, and I think there is no doubt that who 4(1 ,;',O tribunals were instructed to ascertain I 1151 - .T u ts on the fund—they were merely triwbu -44,48 -1; ad judication. After the claims had been as the Pertt they were to give certificates, and til ed l oos holdinthose certificates were to be en 4Luountt° receive s sums corresponding with the get ti t . stated inthem. In consequence of this, to ki ng of tl g Of b eY out of the hands of Michardo, the "rorri' l •'Pain authorised those two tribunals or get 1-6 % • som e person or persons to th e eta to appoint were ~ItiCaal • the two persons already named toe ,3° pointed, by an instrument set out o rae t : ecord . That ' instrument does appear to s very ( I ) i k i :e very like a power ,s , gives Thep, an English power of of attorney—it . i attorney; . taneesN'wer to • sue, demand, and give Icquit in the B 1, ' IN then of it in some a° of t , t o d eposit the money °tiler ni "`sngland, or to dispose ti t l e struMent ea pointed out. I and 8, u rn e° v eye any interest whatever to Tacon for ft - e. it s do not think this in . - -.los e ba , 1 ••• a mere authority to act in -h e -vuo s u ggested It was coo ts 111 they represent. difficult to be as attornies quite 814;1 of the aument, to be awes rtueetdhaccording e r,,, aet :le import of this instrument. It was e -41st:tad in - Pain, ad it was said that it was to b . set out on to the laws of Spain. The an t ile'r e nr , at ar gllntent is obvious. It is naturael-") and we must construe it according to the F ete 141 Po rt of the terms in this country.. If i e to b according to '''roe R e construed otherwise, and 41 teL"Paaiall int erPratation, it was incumbent on the pare beio.'° set it out on the bill to have stated so ; but ther e to its 11 0 such statement ro.a —esi must construe it according rind '" obvious import here and I think, after having 1 " - atto it with my best attention, th at it is a mere power o f p r i t. 4% authorising those partie s to act on behalf of t h e ir e ii...cpal; that being so, there are o n this record, th e leave • S Pain, who has a s interest, and two persons who :led inttr olt. as platffs who, it is said, ought to have v r h otn ' n t l t ie i : r t heir own na mes, but in thed, names of those grou n d of not, a tive of v ' represent 1 atA the question is, is this, or is it , the record With It would be due pneral detnurrer ? erygreat inconven' if it were not. If a party could joi n ience an individual who had an in te rest, opinio n 't ' that in Party having no interest, m, my lint it ? would be Productive of the greatest inconvenience. pri u • l is most necessary for me to reason this on general tins- and b ecause the point has been decided in two dis . and n, : precise cases , b the late Vice-Chancellor, the 131e;rit Maste r of the Rolls ) : ,an d in one of these cases, Cuff v. aster 1 1 ; t tell, decided in the year 1t522, a person of the name was in °l n fell into embarrassment, and an arrangement h eneat ad o e that he should assig n over his property for the and t h e 6 fl 'is creditors. An assignment was draws out, name of C .°,63 named were Cuff, and a man of th d e . Li nen , `inffiths, hut the assignment was never execute d. the suit afterwards became insolvent. The defendant i n Whicil Platen, took possession of part of the property, c aff, !.ashl. Subsequently a commission issued, and t 1,, Aned by the other assignee, filed a bill against well for th e r • of th e o ft he p roperty he ad „ to. , ecovely e amount and 4 upoo bye" A general demurrer was put in to that bill, not .., argument it turned nut that the assignment had the miszt. executed. The Vi ce - Chancellor, therefore, said int ere , i tarnent not having been executed, Griffiths had no , in co n j ilu s ,(.l that having no interest, he had no right to sue serest : an g ra with Cuff, who, it appeared,' had an in the d emurre t r la it he was of opinion on that ground, that c ame aga i n h _,,asght not to be allowed. The same question Make ""re th e same Learned Judge, in the case of Peace v. %% in 1827. The objection there did not app ear on t ~ . it, an d ah e ind ,s ine, 11, the def d .en_ant, therefore, pleaded ' P l eat of Judge wa s i n these terrns—" The general the Learn ed interest bathe m a n-o n ,Pes, tion is, if one plaint iff .. has an not, Aloes sa c ""aeseit, and the other plaintiff, have . h unction of a • on the record make th e Bill demurrable ? Upon eZnaarttdieeeration. I retain the sante opinion I expressed on the arguments that such a the evidence of Mr. Carey. His Lordship then said, Mr. Carey in kis evidence proved, that he had frequently examined Miss Nerot's books on the part .of the plaintiff; that she had admitted to him at different periods, that she was i n partnership with the plaintiff; and under these cir- • cumstances, his Lordship felt bound to confirm the Vice-Chancellor's decree, so •far as it established it partnership up to the marriage of Miss Nerot,— His Lordship, however, differed from the view which the Vice-Chancellor had taken of the partnership property ; he directed an enquiry before the Master to ascertain what part of the partnership property remained on the premises at the time of the dissolution of the part nership, and what the value of that property was. The Master to make a separate report on this inquiry, which the would afterwards deal with. " VIOE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. His Howoun rose to-day at twelve o'clock. The bank rupt petitions in the matter of Acton were directed to stand over. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. PHILLIPS V. STONEHOUSR. Mr. BROUGHAM stated the case. This action was brought for defamatory words spoken of the plaintiff's elm eeting racts r at a meeting of Trustees far lighting, watching, and Paving the district of Wandsworth and Newington B g' utts. The m • was held at the Elephant and Castle, and both the plaintiff and defendant being Trustees were pre sent.sing so me A co lan nvr in ation ensued about the propriety of asses sing other the possession of Mr. Phillips, and some very angry w or d s passe d b e t ween th e partie s . things, Mr. Stonehouse said to Mr. Phillips, staiue d n You are a scoundrel, a rogue, and a thief. Thesekind co were the b words s complained of, f or an ac tion of this unless the defendant had ap plied some words to the plaintiff, uld not crime, would be equa l with a an l d ega this I;e had appli e d t o ' h to iin cli t a h r e g l i v n o g ra hlm "thief," expressio n to use towards a man whose integrityav w er u y gross never before ques tioned, and who was as res p ectable as any man in the city o f London. He understood he would be üblea to prove the defamatory expressions alluded to, by persons of respectability who were present, and it would then be for the Jury to say what damages they considered the plain tiff entitled to. The Learned Counsel then called Wm. Gretton, who said I was one of the Trustees of the W elswor t,h..roa d. The plaintiff and defendant are both an Trustees also. On the 25th of June last I attended a meeting of the Trustees at the Elephant and Castle, at which the plaintiff and defendant were also present. Mr. Stonehouse made some proposition about assessing an orchard. This was proposed by Mr. Stonehouse, and ob jected to by Mr. Phillips. A quarrel took place between the parties, and words ran very high, but I do not remem ber the language that was used. Cross-examined —Mr. Stonehouse asserted that Mr. Phillips had occupied and derived some benefit from the land in question, and Mr. Phillips denied this. Another witness was called, who was present at the quarrel, but he was not able to recollect the expressions used by the parties. The Clerk of the Trust stated, that lie was engaged making minutes of the proceedings of the trustees, and did not attend to the angry language which passed between the parties. 'The words " scoundrel, rogue, and thief," however, were uttered and applied by Mr. Stonehous e to Mr. Phillips. Cross - examined.--Mr. Phillips is a testy old gen tlemen, and I do not believe that Mr. Stonehouse in tended when he called hint a thief, to charge hint with a felony. The word was merely applied in anger. Lord TatuaßDlN.—Do you sail anyother witness ? Mr. BROUOIIAM.-.4 believe we must next call Leo nard Phillips (the plaintiff ), ray Lord. Lord TENTERDEN.—GentIemen, the action cannot be I sustained. The plaintiff must be called. The plaintiff wr.s accordingly nonsuited. COURT OF COMMON PLEASa ROLPH V. WRIGHT. This was an action brought by the assigness of the plain tiff, who is a bankrupt, against the executors of the late Earl of Shrewsbury, for the recovery of the sum of 5001. for medical attendance upon the Earl.—The plaintiff was non suited. Prince LEOPOLD left his residence, IVlarl barough-house, ll m n Pa - - a- on Thursday, for his seat at Claremont. COUNTRY BANKERS - AND THE BANK' OF ENGLAND. The plan adopted by the Bank of England of establishing Branch Banks has, as will be ob served, spread a general alarm among the Country Bankers, who have united to oppose their great rival, and have published resolutions on the subject, which though perfectly moderate in their tone, express, nevertheless, decided op position to the scheme for extending the business of the Bank. The questions at issue between the Country Bankers and the Bank of England are of great importance, as involving not only the character and conduct of the National Bank, but the policy of such an establishment. The Country Bankers complain that they are to be rivalled by a Bank which has exclusive privileges ; that the present policy of the Bank of England tends to subvert the banking system of the country, which is intimately connected with its prosperity, and has, in point of fact, essentially conduced to its wealth and improvement. 1. With regard to the exclusive privileges en joyed by the Bank of England, we cannot see any reason why the trade of banking or money dealing should, more than any other trade, be bound up in the fetters of monopoly. To the wealthy, the enterprising, and the industrious; all exclusive advantages are superfluous, as they only require an open field of action and fair play, to beat their less wealthy, less enterprising, and less industrious opponents. The effect, there fore, and the purpose of monopoly, as of all com mercial restrictions, of whatever sort they be, is to plaCe the lazy and the ignorant on a level with the industrious and the skilful. They exist merely for the benefit of the weaker party, and not of those who are strong and able to endure the conflict of open competition, for they have no need of them. Such being the inherent character and principle of all monopolies, so op posite to the clearest maxims of policy, we cannot help thinking it extremely curious that the greatest trading country in the world, the seat of freedom also, and of every liberal im provement, should still retain in her commercial system this ancient relic of barbarity. But such is the case. Nay, this exclusive privilege of dealing in money, is sold to the Bank of Eng land for a pecuniary consideration ; for a loan on somewhat lower terms than could be got in the market ; and thus this great establishment en grosses, within 65 miles of London, the business of supplying the community with a paper cur rency. But though we see no necessity for carrying on the trade of banking by a monopoly, we are not aware that any great evil can result from it, so long as the Bank of England is obliged to pay its notes in specie at the will of the holder. The Bank cannot in this case issue its paper to excess, because any over issue would be instantly returned in exchange for specie ; and if those re turned notes were re-issued, the Bank would be subjected to a constant and very inconvenient drain of gold until the excess was withdrawn. The discretion at present committed to the Bank, of regulating the whole currency of London and the surrounding districts,. is a great trust ; and the difference, if we had in. the metropolis two or three, or half a dozen of rich and responsible Banks, would just be, that we would no longer depend on the discretion of the "Bank Directors for supplies of curren4, - aS there - woidd be va rious competitors- in the business, to either of whom we might then : apply. The great pin ciple of competition would thus come in place of the, discretion of indiViduats,' as a 'security to the public for ethe proper- managenient of the banking business, and on this solid.. basin the, credit and commerce of the country would cer tainly rest as securely as on any other. With - regard to the complaint of the Country Bankers, that the great National Establishment is stretching out its grasping hand over the pe culiar districts of their business, that it presses upon them with the weight of its exclusive pri vileges, it is a just and well-founded complairif. The Bank is aided by its monopoly, and by the unfair advantage over all other Bankers in the trifling duty paid for its bill stamps, to under mine the trade of the Country Bankers, and there cannot be a more cruel grievance. To throw into the already preponderating scale of this too powerful Establishment such exclusive advan tages is unjust- and impolitic; and highly in jurious to a most 'respectable class of traders, namely the Country Bankers, who, during the late period of commercial distress, were the ob jects as we always thought of much unmerited cla mour and reproach. If we divest the Bank, how ever, of all exclusive advantages, and if her agents enter the field in equal terms with the Country Bankers, we confess we do not see any- rational objection to this establishment of Branch Banks. In this case there is a fair and open competition, and if the Country Bankers lose their trade, it can only be by the superior qualifications of their rivals. The public can have no interest in the success of either party. They will go where they are best served ; atul .we may be assured they will not prefer one to another without.their own substantial reasons. This is a case which, how ever hard it may bear on individual interests, ad mits of no interference or relief. We cannot free the Country Bankers from the,competition on equal t erms w i t h t h e B an k o f E ng l an d . I n Scotlan v Scotland tunderstandhekin-gt(hi kingdom. .Brahch There arßanks,e.no from the grea t c h artere d establishments are quite common a N ll e over monopolies in the banki ng business of that country. Th ere are in Edinburgh three incorporated Banks, each with an immense capital, besides others of great w ea lth and of unbounded credit. All these Banks are competitors for the business of the community—they are necessarily rivals to each other ; but the public gain by this rivalship, as they have the choice of going where they are best served. Those great establishments in the metropolis send out Branch Banks , whic h dis pense supplies of their excellent a nd well accre bn remotest districts of the dited currency to kingdom. There are besides numerous Conn try Ban ks in good credit, and many o f them of great wealth, which maintain a successful com petition with the Branch Banks of th e Metropo lis, and come in for a fair share of business in their particular districts. And such would be the case in England, even if the National Bank were to succeed in establishing Branch Banks in the different country towns. — A competition would no doubt commence ; the Country Bankers would have' to contend with powerful rivals ; but there is no remedy for this. In Scotland the establishment of Branch Banks by the great Banks of the Metropolis has not proved ruinous to the country dealer ; nor is it likely that any such effects would be produced by it in England. At any rate, if the Bank of England ,venture into the fieldofequal competition,theCoun' try Banker s have no alternative but to mee t their enemy boldly. But, at present, this is not the case. Th ere is no equal competition. The great champion of Threadneedle-street is still shielded in the impenetrable armour of monopoly, and pit is quite fair, therefore, that Government should prove its influence and authority, either to place the two parties on something like an equal footing, or to stop the unequal contest. The Country Bankers have submitted their resolu tions to the consideration of Ministers, from whence there is no doubt that this important subject will receive all due consideration. POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS. An important circular, of which the following is a copy, was yesterday transmitted to the different police-offices in the metropolis, from the Marquis of Lansdowne, addressed to the Magistrates : (clacuLAa.) WHITEHALL, DEC. 20. GENTLEMEN—I am directed by the Marquis of Lans downe to desire that you will give the necessary orders for making out a detailed report, or account, of the proceed ings of the police-office at --, to be written by one of the clerks, and to be signed by one of the Magistrates iu attendance at eight o'clock every evening. The report is to contain a short statement of the sub stance of all informations received at your office in the course of the day, in cases of felonies, and of all misdemeanors of an aggravated nature, and of all informations against re ceivers of stolen goods, reputed thieves, and of all offenders who may have escaped from custody. Your report will also state the time, the place, and any particular circumstance, marking the offences, the names of persons not in custody who are charged, if known; or if not known, their appearance or dress, or any mark of iden tity that can be described ; the names also of accessories, together with any other particular that is known, which may lead to their apprehension. Your report will also give the names of all persons put before the Magistrates in the course of the day charged with any of the offences above-mentioned, and state whe ther they are committed for trial or re-examination, or whether otherwise disposed of. It will also contain a description of property that has been stolen, with as much particularity as can be given, and should state every circumstance with respect to stolen property that may be useful for the purpose of tracing and recovering it. The particular evidence given by witnesses is not to be stated, nor their names, except only the name of the prose cutor who makes the charge. Your report, when signed as above directed, will be sent to Mr. Stafford, at Bow-street, the editor of the Hue and Cry, so as to be received by him by nine o'clock in the evening. A proper direction will be given that the reports of the several officers will be kept and printed consecutively in one sheet of paper, ready for delivery the next morning to the messenger, to be sent by you to receive the same. If the 'particulars above-mentioned do not include all that may be suggested, it may be sufficient for explaining the object which Lord Lansdowne has in view, which is, that a daily report of the proceedings of the several offices should be drawn up as to the most important particulars of offences and offenders, for the purpose of their detection, and that thus there may be a full and complete communi cation and interchange of useful information between the several police-offices. Lord Lansdowne desires that you will give the necessary orders for carrying into effect the regulations on the lst of January ; and his Lordship hopes that this plan, when carried into effect with zeal and activity, will be productive of public benefits, and contribute to the credit and improve ment of the police system. I am, gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant, S. M. PIIILLI2S. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. Last night presented one of those exhibitions of impressive excellenCe in which the drama, all its usual trickery and artifice laid aside, rises at once to the dignity of the most thrilling reality. The play was Othello; the Moor, Mr. Kean (the best of ex tant or recorded Moors), lago, Mr. Young, Cassio, Mr. C. Kemble, and Desdemona, Miss Jarman ;—a bill of fare which will sufficiently account for the thronged state of the house. The competition lay of course between I.ean andYoung—Charles Kemble, however, first-rate as Cassio, personating only an in ferior character,—and never was rivalry carried on with more determined generous. enthusiasms With less of his former passion, and less, infinitely less, of his usual clap=trap, Mr. Kean appealed more stirringly than ever to the hearts and the understanding of his nu dience. He sacrificed the Gods to the critics. His Moor was passionate, revengeful, decisive, with a few gleams of tenderness breaking in here and there, with truly sunny effect, amid the clouded atmosphere of his feelings—yet lacked (a welcome deficiency) the boisterousness with which he used of old, to invest the character. It was more touching than astonishing, and of course more natural. We know of nothing on the modern stage, nor have we any thing OR record, so perfectly resistless as the spirit of Mr. Kean's farewell. " Some natural tears he shed, but wiped them soon," yet in those few _noiseless tears, what mute eloquence, what heart-rending sensibility struggled forth ! The return too of the man—the resumption at one proud glance of his former stern spirit, was marked with the nicest discrimination, even to the scornful turn of the lip 'and the eagle flash of the eye. Mr. Young pre sented an impressive and studied contrast to this' natural burst of feeling. He worked up the Moor artfully, yet with all apparent ingenousness ; and somehow or other contrived to reconcile the cool malignity of the demon, with the . blunt good-hu mour of the cavalier. This union, a paradox in the closet, was none upon the stage ; so har moniously had the artist blended the two op posing qualities. His very humour wore the aspect of benevolence, bubbling up in its freshness from the unsullied fountains of his heart, and even in his more severe moods—where wit bore the im press of sarcasm—he took care to smile away its ef fects by the most buoyant good-humoured expression. Perhaps he carried this studious concealment of ma lignity too. far ; but whether right or wrong, the au dience were with him throughout. Miss Jarman's Desdemona was characteristic and inoffensive. — The part, technically speaking, plays itself; it requires no aid frem feeling or reflection ; a de cent appearance, modest and unobtrusive, will alone carry an actress successfully through it.— Did Desdemona tax our feelings more acutely, this might perhaps be different ; but we cannot cordially sympathi4e with a silly (though unfortunate) young woman,,.wha, has thrown herself away on an old black man, merely because he was an embodied re presentative of the Thousand and One Arabian Nights. Her sufferings are to be expected—we look for them, have made up our minds for the oc caSion, and are disappoint e d if it be othT.wise.' Mr. C. Kemble's Cassio is beyond all praise. In its own peculiar way it equalled Kean's Othello ; his inebriety in particular had the rich raciness, not the disgusting folly, of intoxication about it ; it was the very poetry of tipsiness, and as such inspired unalloyed g rat ifi ca tion. We trust that the success of last night will serve to convince the Managers, that to become popular they have only to be de serving. Let them forswear the Planches, the Beaseleys, th e Moncrieffs, the Coopers, and all the wretched animalculte of this grovelling school ; stick to Shakspeare and the genuine drama, and throw themselves, thus fortified, boldly and unreservedly on the public. The Paris letters, by the regular mail, in the absence of political intelligence, are some of them occupied with speculations on the financial state of France on the eve of the assembling of the new Chamber of Deputies, and anticipate a serious increase of M. de VILLELE'S difficul ties, should he remain in power, from tkat cause. Among the items with which the new budget is expected to be in cumbered are—the augmentation of the debt incurred by . the occupation of Spain from 3 4,000,000 to 50,000,000 (francs) ; a deficiency of 5,000,000 on the civil list ; and advances made by the Paris capitalists and Receivers-qe neral for the support of public credit, 50,000,0 00 . It is further anticipated, that the expenditure of the war and marine departments on account of Turkey and Algiers will be considerably augmented. The conclusion is, that there must be a new loan in the course of next year. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. Whitehall, December 19, 1927• The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom to the following . Gentlemen respectively, and to the heirs-male of their bodies lawfully begotten, viz.:— Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, of Horn and Logie Elphinstone, in the county of Aberdeen, Esq. Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, of Truro, in the county of Cornwall, Knight Commander of the Most Hon. Military Order of the Bath, and Major-General of His Majesty's Forces. Charles William Taylor, of Hollycombe, in the county of Sussex, Esq. Uvedale Price, of Foxley, in the county of Hereford, Esq. Richard Bulkeley Philipps Philipps, of Picton Castle, and of Kilgetty Park, in the county of Pembroke, Esq. The Honourable Edward Marnaaduke Vavasour, of [aslewoori, in the county of York. Robert Tristram Ricketts, of the Elms, in the county of Gloucester, Esq., Captain in the Navy. Francis Hastings Doyle, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. John Hutton Cooper, of Walcot, in the county of So- merset, Esq. Henry Wakeman, of Perdiswell, in the county of Wor cester, and of Hinton Hall, in the county of Salop, Esq. George Philips, of Weston, in the county of Warwick, and of Sedgley, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Esq. Henry Chamberlain, Esq. his Majesty's Consul- General in the Empire of Brazil. John Forbes Drummond, of Hawthornden, in the county of Mid Lothian, Esq. Captain in the Navy, and in default of issue male ; to the heirs male of the body of his daughter, Margaret Anne Walker Drununond, by Francis Walker Drummond, of Hawthornden aforesaid, Esq. 'Whitehall, Dec. 15. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Isaac Allan Cooke, of the city of Bristol, Cent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Office of Ordnance, December 17. The under-mentioned First Lieutenants of the Royal Artillery, whose commissions are dated previous to the year 1812, have accepted the unattached rank of Captain upon half-pay, viz. _ _ To be Captains, unattached. First Lieutenant John Cochrane Anderson. Nov. 6. First Lieutenant William Furneaux. Nov. 6. Royal Regiment of Artillery. To be First Lieutenants. Second Lieutenant Charles 11. MaHoek, vice Anderson. Nov. 14. Second Lieutenant Charles H. Burnaby, viceXurneaux , Nov. 14. Commission in the 2d Battalion of Royal Lancashire Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster; Edmund George Hornby, Esq. to be Major, vice the Honourable Edward Geoffrey Stanley, resigned. Dated December 6, 1827. Commission is the North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset. George Spry, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Nov. 30. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. Matthew Hirst, Meltham, Yorkshire, clothier, from Jan. 15 to Jan. 28, at ten, at the George, Huddersfield. Thomas Jones, High-street, Shorediteli, linen-draper, from Dec. 25 to Jan. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Com- missioners. Frederick Baeyertz, Broad-street mews, merchant, from Jan. 1, to Jan. 14, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. TiOnry William Ward, Berners-street, merchant, from Dee. 25, to Jan. 8, at eleven, at the Court'of Com Missioners. BANKRUPTS. Richard Hague and Frederick White, Cheltenham, Gloucester, painters, to surrender Jan. I, at four, S, and Feb. 1, at ten, at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham. Pruen, Griffiths, and Pruen, Cheltenham ; Vizard and Blower, Lincoln-inn-fields, London. John Christie, Robert Christie, and John Stewart. Mark-lane, London, merchants, Dec. 28, at eleven, Jan. 4, and February 1, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Oliverson, Denby, and Lane, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. James Braddock, Shareshill, Stafford, victualler, Jan, 23, at five, 24, and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Saracen' Head, Birmingham. White, Lincoln's-inn ; Smith, Wol verhampton. Edward Kilsby, Nine Ehns, Surrey, ship-breaker, Dec. 28, Jan. 4, and Feb. 1, at the Court of Commissioners. Roe and Randell, Gray's-inn-square. John Garrett the elder and John Garrett the younger, Hereford, bankers, Jan. 16, 17, and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the New Inn, Hereford. Wheeler, Gray's-inn-place ; Smith, Walsall, Staffordshire. Timothy Parkinson, Soothill, Yorkshire, grazier, Jan. 10, at three, 1 I, at eleven, and Feb. 1, at two, at the Ses sions house, Wakefield. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane ; Lamb, Wakefield. Edward Knights, Debenbam, currier, .lan. 4, Ib, and Feb. 1, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Carter, Lord Mayor's-court office, London. Thomas Bushell, Grace's-alley, Welb:lose-square, linen draper, Dec. 28, at one, Jan. 8, at twelve, and Feb. 1, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Thomson, George- street, Minories. Samuel Broadfoot, Drumness, Galloway, Scotland, and John'Broadfoot, Ashbourn, Derby, tea-dealers, Dec. 27, 28, and Feb. I, at twelve, at the King's Head Inn, Duffield. Hohne, Frampton, and Loftus, New-inn, London ; Brittlebank, Ashbourn. Daniel Howard, Dukinfield,' Chester, cotton-spinner, Jan. 9, 10, and Feb. I, at ten, at White's Hotel, Man chester. Duckworth, Dennison, and Humphreys, Man chester; Ellis, Walmsley, and Gorton, Chancery-lane. William Morgan, Bond-street, Oxford-street, bookseller, J a n. S, 11, and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Clift and Fisher, Red Lion. square. _ . _ —____ Charles Sykes, 'Leeds, surgeon, Jan. 2,9, and Feb. 1 at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. King, Bedford• place, Russell-square ; Granger, Leeds. Samuel Tyrrell, Bexhill, Sussex, common-brewer, Jan, 8,9, and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Star Inn, Lewes. %Terra], Lewes; Pritchard, New Bridge-street. Tho►nas Roberts, Staple Inn, London, brewer, Dec. 28, at one, Jan. 8, at twelve, and Feb. 1, at one, at tile Court of Commissioners. Weymouth, Chancery-lane Richard Frisby, Richard Miles Frisby, and Henry Frisby, Mark-lane, wine -merchants, Jan. 1, at two, 8, at twelve, and Feb. 1, at one, at the Court of Commis sioners. Selby, Serjeant's-Inn. William Bailey, Dean-street, Soho, leather-seller, Dec. 28, at twelve, Jan. I. at ten, and Feb. 1, at twelve, at tla. Court of Commissioners. Nias, Princes-street, Bank. Charles Edward Collett and Evan Jones, Leeds, mer chants, Jan. 1, S, at twelve, and Feb. 1, it one, at the Court of Commissioners. Turner, Basing-lane, Cheapside. Samuel Winn, Leeds, victualler,. Jan. 2,9, and Feb. I, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Strangways and Walker, Rarnatd's Inn, London ; Warwick, Leeds. William Bolderstoa, Liverpool, grocer, Jan. I, 2, and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool. Hinde, Liverpool ; Chester, Staple-inn, i cation. Henry Lewis Henry, Finsbury-Circus, jeweller, Jan. 14, 22, and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Court of CoMmis sioner.i. Spyer, Austin-friars. DIVIDENDS. Jas. Stein, East-Smithfield, yeast-merchant, Jan. 15, al ten, at the Court of Commissioners—Francis Hobbs, Bark. ing, corn-dealer, Jan. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Coin missioners—Richard Badnall, jou. Francis Spilsbury, an( Henry Cruso, Leek, Staffordshire, silk-manufacturers, Jan 22, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners —Richard Rut lidge, Weedon Beck, plumber, Jan. 15, at ten, at th Court of Commissioners—Rowland Maltby, Mortimer street, money-scrivener, Jan. 25, at ten, at the Court o Commissioners—G. Wilkie, East Poole Farm, Edmonton, farmer, Jan. 11, at two, at the Court of Commissioners-- Richard Houton, Richard Richards, and William Wilkes, Bordesley, iron -manufacturers, Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham—Joh n Palmer, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, mercer, Jan. 29, at eleven, at the Talbot gotef, Shrewsbury—Richard Gittins, Tewkesbury, Gloucester shire, corn-factor, Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Author Inn, Tewkesbury—John Fox, Birmingham, plater, Jan. 14, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham--Fran c is Arnitt, Thirsk, Yorkshire, tanner, Jan. 22, at twelve, at the Red Lion Inn, York--!-Stephen Burnett Masters, H as ti ngs. Sussex, cabinet-maker, Jan. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—Joseph Burn, Lothbury, merchant, Jan. 11, at twelve, at the Cotirt of Commissioners—Gaunt lett Clarke, Basingliall-street, Blackwall-hall-factor, Feb. 29, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners —John Vining Heron, Portsmouth, merchant, Jan. 12, at twelve, at the White Horse Inn, Chichester. CERTIFICATES, Jaw. 11. Daniel Austin, Cottage-grove, Mile-end, brick-maker— Isaac Thompson, Bilston, Staffordshire, japanner—John Holt, Oldham, Lancashire, cotton-spinner—John Hardern and Peter Higginbotham, Macclesfield, silk-manufacturers —William James, Bruton, Somersetsbire, blacksmith— Thomas Neal, sen. Wotton-Underedge, Gloucestershire, clothier—Jonathan Saunders, Goldshill, Westbromwich, Staffordshire, iron-manufacturer—Michael Alex. Gage, Liverpool, tailor. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Edward Jones, Rock-Ferry, Cheshire, and Samuel Jones, Liverpool, coal-merchants—William Lewis and Ann Lewis, Dawley-green, Dawley, Shropshire, grocers—John Bryant, Nehemiah Wimble, and William Attwood, Hastings,.iron mongers—William Holmes, sea. George Pyatt, and Liam Holmes, jun., of the Eaves and Huntley Collieries, Cheadle, Staffordshire, coal-masters--William Heine, jun. and George M'Donnell, Brighthalmstone, china dealers— John Andrew Lockerhie and David Loekerbie, Newcastle upon-Tyne, drapers—Sarah Whittington and Frank Tol son, Wakefield, grocers—lbotson Walker, William Wright, and Thomas Ashcroft, Manchester, doubleri—Charles Gough and Osw. Cheek, Clement's-Inn Chambers, attor neys—Thomas Reynolds and Joseph Ball, Bristol, niac . chants—Samuel Martin and John Martin, Bath, gold smiths. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. John Livingston, Glasgow, manufacturer, Jan. 6, at one, at the Lyceum Rooms, Glasgow. POSTAGE OF NEWSPAPERS. It is the custom at some places (at Liverpool for instance) for the postmaster to deliver the news papers directed to the news'-rooms an hour before those directed to individuals, to the great injury of newspaper proprietors, news -agents, and of the re venue. A spirited news'-agent, Mr. Willmer, of Liverpool, has applied to the Secretary of the Gene ral Post-Office, requesting that he would cause the delivery of the newspapers, generally, to take place at the same hour ; and this very moderate request has Leen refused, without the assignment of any other reason than that " the regulation ,alluded to," (early delivery to the news'-rooms) " was made after due deliberation," and the Postmaster-General did not " feel it his duty to disturb it !" Now it is quite evident to every man of common sense, that; by this unfair " regulation," the revenue is mate. really injured; for if men can obtain " the news of the day" at any one place an hour before they can obtain it at another, they will go to that place, and thus ten papers supply the place of a hundred, to say nothing of the evil which must result from taking a men from his counting-house or his home unnecessarily. It is, however, determined by some persons, who have long felt the grievance, to bring the subject before the House of Commons, in which they shall have all the assistance \we can render ; and we think that every newspaper editor should lend his aid, for nothing is more injurious to public journals than a system of partiality, such as that com plained of. THE CLUBS OF LONDON. This book is ascribed to a Member of Brooks's, and it abounds with .Aneedotes- of the most distin guished Members of that far-famed Club, in its most brilliant era. That it will be read with great avidity we do not • doubt. There are few men of. any celebrity.inrpo litics or literature, of the past or. present generation, that do not figure in our author's pages. Is the author a Member of Brooks's ? We be lieve he is; and what is more, we think we can identify him. We lay claim to no great sagacity in discovering what we do not believe the author wished really to conceal : and yet the strictures on several distin guished men in the present day will not be read by them with unmiagled satisfaction. Men of experi, ence and good feeling generally confide their im partial remarks on their contemporaries to posterity, for two reasons—first, because they know that the truth, when unpalatable, always provokes enmity; and secondly, because, except where some good pur pose is to be answered, there is no use in dispelling the harmless illusiens which most men entertain with regard to themselves. That the writer has been unjust to several indi viduals, whom, though he has not named, he has sufficiently pointed out, we ourselves know. 1 1 His account of William Linley, the brother-in , law of Sheridan, is exceedingly characteristic; but Mr. Moore will hardly thank him for the following account of Sheridan's Biography :—" Liulcy im parted to Mr. Thomas Moore some interesting ma terials for the work which, under the title of a Life of Sheridan, is such a motley patchwork of metaphor, simile, and quotation from Ovid's Metamorphoses, that the slender streak of Biography that intersects its gaudy and enamelled pages is hardly discernable. He is a warm admirer of Lord Erskine, but no very warm admirer of the Bar of the present day, as may be inferred from the following severe observa tions on one of its most distinguished members : " Where is the monument which we were told was to be erected by the English Bar to his memory ? Whose was the base envy, the low-minded avarice of his own personal fame, that extinguished the project ?He is well known—the pertest, primmest pleader of the modern Bar—thethatd sophisticalepgreatestar t ‘e, department a ong them in this day of its littleness. Honours may be fE s o h rt o .sEk w it e .ns r el e :i d sne u e p :v o oa n gsu h ne i lo m icee ; lie b sr u kt t :ien Ad populum plialeras, ego te intus,:et in cute nevi. How immeasurably below the masculine vigour of rhetoric of this fortunate prated Probably, in mere scholarship, S— is somewhat superior; retire." heavybe rltvsohno., In the character which he has drawn of Sir James Mackintosh, he is palpably unjust towards that gen tleman. This we could easily sliew if Ave had lei sure at present. Speaking of his early style, he says, it " was disciplined in the school of Robertson and Gilbert Stuart, who by too cold a correctness, and too religious an adherence to the laws of propriety, have converted English into an almost foreign lan guage." All Scotch writers are necessari►y haunted by the dread of national peculiarities, and look with suspicion on every idiomatic expression,'and the charge of a cold correctness is therefore generally applicable io them ; but Mackintosh is pointed and antithetic, and' by no means chargeable with the Inatofifiliemoin-1 round-about modes of expro d s i s i t then, is the author of the Clubs ? He tells us be was a Barrister in the time of Lord Kenyon—. that he has seen many countries. He introduces a letter written to him by Lord Erskine, when the Whig Administration was displaced, commencing, Dear —," and when he was himself where the murmur of British politics could not reach him. He appears to have been a warm admirer of FON. These, add, a lttoa r h e nkeger s n t l ab C i ed m a foe t o a e pu : n er N a y • t e lh,eil rm s at i li ) t tivd e e rpeete l p rl i oeeupn:vtrirhtnooee whic on h \ttoxiwovronaaelies.isr mission a b i s exs e S i t on Iv a tt i csoi during nin e e. s t r :i te i las l aetk r to s N e e c i N i, dl - h l vo l ait:o s s. Administration as a Diplom pt a h : c a u i . e author, whom ore deed ‘eyliiri o ninifeoit:e