The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-13 00:00:00

n, .L.Le :11,:rquis and TlikhchioneFs of Waterford have L. arrived at Rockwell, the Noble Marquis's hunting lodge, either, from Curraghmore. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn arrived. at Baron's -court, the family seat, iu the county Tyrone, oil Wednesday last. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan are receiving a °accession of visitors at Deene Park, Northamp tonshire. The Earl and Countess of Granville lave arrived at Rome from Florence. The Earl and Countess of Gro3venor arrived in Grosvenor-square on Saturday evening. 'l he Count and Countess D'Harcourt arrived at Manchester House on Friday evening, from Paris. The Countess de Sails has arrived in Paris after a l engthened residence in Italy. _ _ _ l'leEa;fOiCaTedolihasa'riived from Canada, where h , Lordship has been nearly three years withhis re giment, the Coldstream Guards. MISCELLANEOTJEI. The rate-payers of the county of 'Worcester are ar ?nging a determined opposition to the rural police li force. Petitions are preparing in various parts of the county for presentation at the forthcoming Epiphany sessions. The Court of Delegates, Dublin, have decided on the validity of the election of the Rev. Mr. Daly against the appeal of the Rev. Dr. Wilson. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.— His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback this morning, attended °Y Sir Edward Bowater. , Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing to-day, ac eoTpanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. ra the afternoon her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort rode out in a pony phaeton, the Prince driv ,lng, attended by the Hon. Colonel Grey and Sir E. liowater. Sir Robert Peel and the Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce took their departure from the Castle this to n i ng. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at "led by Lady Fanny Howard, to)k a carriage a iring this morning. The Royal dinner party at the Castl3 is expected fo include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, t he Earl of Liverpool, Viscount and. Viscountess Canning, Lady Fanny Howard, the Lord in Waiting, two Maids of Honour, the Groom and the fluerry in Waiting on the Queen, and the Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness. /Es Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge spent ,'"e day yesterday shooting in Coombe Wood. His $o al Highness afterwards went to town. r °1 Sir R o b er t P e el arrived in town yesterday morning r a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Ea of Haddington and Sir James Graham paid v i , i Sit• s to the Right Hon. Baronet in the afternoon, at ' lB official residence in Downing-street. ~,,Messrs. William Watson, James Philips, and Mexican Whitehead, as a Deputation from the 4 ‘texican and South American Association p of Liver ;''l, accompanied by Messrs. J. D. Powles and 'bert M'Calmont, had an interview with the Earl ~_° f Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign-office, with :Z s Peet to the claims of British merchants against t he Mexican Government. The Postmaster-General and Colonel Maberly had kl interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday evening for his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Mr. Dean, Chairman to the Customs, had an inter lie2y, yesterday, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. , The French Ambassador and the Russian Minister, ilitnsacted business, yesterday, at the Foreign-office. 13 ispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius, and ' 4 O from the Governor of South Australia, were re eei,ved yesterday at the Colonial-office. • air. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an Interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes terday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat I2sterday. The Lords present were, Lord Campbell, • I% Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the J udges of the Admiralty Court. • Mr. Jackson, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Charles Buller, and - '• Loftus Wigram, Queen's Counsel, were heard on 111 appeal from Bombay, " Jewagee and others v. Burge, part heard at a former fitting. Mr. •Ourge, Queen's Counsel, was heard in reply. Lord Campbell, on the part of their Lordships, then tve judgment, remitting the same to the Sudder art, ith instructions for the division of the property. LLO YD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DEC. 12.—Wind this day at noon, S.W., li ght airs, and hazy. DEAL, DEC. 11.—Wind E.—Arrd. Marquis Bute, Lamont, Calcutta. Arrd. from the River, Santa Maria, St. Helena; Elma, Monte Video; Golden F leece, Pernambuco; Isabella, Demerara. .NRTSMOUTII, DEC. 11.—Wind E.S.E. to S. , f o 6 ts , breezes.—Arrd. Alcyon, I Sahlactuer, Mazatlan, 6, 141- lamburgh ; Norna, Shields, for Sierra Leone; !C s , Alaje3ty's ship Cambridge, Plymouth; Hebe, Sw itzerland, Rio Janeiro, Sld. Sappho, China. Arrd. oft; W,,,itzerland, Chadwick, New York. w."3OUTHAMPTON, DEC. 11. —Arrd. Royal Tar steamer lth the Mediterranean mails. Sld. Montrose steamer f or Gibraltar. PLymourn, DEC. 11.—Wind E.S.E. to S.S.E.— A rrd. Tory, Lakey, Quebec ; Her Majesty's ship punderer, Eastward.' Arrd. off, Castries, Clarke, St. FALMOUTH, DEC. 11.—Wind E.S.E., fresh gales 1 114 squally —Sid. City of Glasgow steamer for West LIVERPOOL, DEC. 10.—Wind S., moderate.-11 m oderate.—Acrd. Queen Victoria, of Dublin, after b eing ashore ; David Carnegie, Hillman, Chili ; George 1., Brownless, Bahia, sailed Oct. 22 ; Amity, Little, ;condura s ; Lancashire, Lyon, Savannah. Arrd. off, '';'ebert Benn, Bombay ; Isabella, Thorpe, Demerara ; t ;'enn, Jamaica ; Gossipmen and Hope, New Orleans ; bep are and Caledonia, Savannah ; Eliza Warwick, ,%harle s t on . Sld. T a rtar, M o bile ; Gunga, Singapore ; 'antab, La Guayra ; Amelia, Trinidad. v ,bnELThr, DEC. 9.—Arrd. St. Lawrence, Quebec ; uublin Bay, Naparina, 'Wilson, ditto. L ANGER.—Arrd. The John O'Gatint, Robertson, lverpool in 92 days. GALWAY, DEC. 9.—The Factor, Elliott, hence for L andon, w hich was ashore at Kenmore Point, has L 'en got off without dainage, and will proceed. XINSALE, DEC. 8.-Sld. Lord Sandon, Charleston. IItLL, DEC. 10.—S1d. Eliza Keith, Mobile. OFF FALMOUTH, DEC. 9.—Florence, Madeira. JERSEY, DEC. 9.—Arrd. Damon, Gaspe. OFF THE GALLOPER.—Isabella, Bremen, for New York. A YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, DEC. 9.—Arrd. Pollo, Grenada. DARTMOUTH, DEC. B.—Sid. Amphitrite, Surinam; Brazilian, Port-au-Prince. Arrd. off, Marys. OFF PENZANCE, DEC. 9.—Anglicania, Clark, Quebec ; P eg asus, Schaffer, Para, for Hamburgh ; Ernst Gustaf, Beurman, Virginia, for Bremen. BRISTOL, DEC. 10.—Arrd. Lune, Miramichi. Sld. Eliza, Warwick, Virginia. Orr M ARGATE , DEc. B.—Leontine, Waters, for New Orleans ; Andromache, Odessa. ColvEs, DEC. 11.—Arrd. Louise Fredericka, Knigge, k avannah. ) OFF PORTLAND, DEC. 6.—Erfprinses Sophia, Hel as, Batavia, for Amsterdam. IN THE CHANNEL, DEC. 10.—Arrd. Monsoon, Hal ' e tt, New Orleans, for Antwerp. MILFORD, DEC. 10.—Arrd. Ebenezer, Pany, New for Southampton, having been in contact off St. is s - towan's Head. 'The George Watson, for London l'eported to have taken the g round in dro pp in g ° l's'n the River, but had been got off. ICINGSTOWN, DEC. 10.—Arrd. Cynthia , Crag, D emerara ; Constitution Wilson, Quebec. LIMERICK, DEC. D.—Arrd. China, Quebec. LOCMNDAIL, DEC. s.—Arrd. British Queen, New foundland. , - c IGUERA, DEc.l.—Part ofthe cargo of the Chatham , ;°,, 41 London to Sydney, New South Wales, leaked " S an Pedro on the 26th ult., has been sav ed, the v essel is near ly f u ll o f water. A vessel, supposed a br ig, was seen on the 29th ult., dismasted, but cleared t he Coast. It is blowing strong from S.W., with a he avy sea on the coast, and a heavy fresh on the River. , UuEs DEC. 3.—The Wexford, Slattery, from N ewport lo Malta, in entering this port during a gale 2 Ztli ult., struck on a sandbank inside the Bar, and :as driv en on the rocks outside the harbour, and re rlains fast ; crew and materials saved. The Concor b, Permantier, from hence to St. Übes, which put . nek to thin port 26th ult., leaky, has been surveyed, a t'd is discharging to repair ; cargo (fruit) spoiled. CADIZ - DEC. 2.—The Jane and Mary, Hawkins, '° ll l Seville to London, was driven ashore to the h i e ,ts ward of San Lucca de Barrameda during a gale, I ) ,til ult., but is expected off; cargo (oranges) dis charged. - _ The General Steam Navigation Company's favou -I‘,,,i,te vessel J ames W a tt, C a pt ain Gibbs, arrived off th e 'tower yesterday from Havre, after a quick passage. hit ACCIDENT.—Mr. Payne held an inquest rt evening at the Grapes Bermondsey-street, rra n ds ey, upon the body of 'William Gillam, aged o u• The deceased, who lived at Wapping, called 4 4 Sunday to see a married daughter, residing at Nir Alfred-place, Vinegar-yard, Bermondsey. He to u somewhat intoxicated, and requested something f e a.,t. The remains of a meat-pie were placed be 4jelhu, but he had scarcely taken a mouthful ere he sick back in great agony, the food he had taken having in the passage. Mr. Copely, of Bermondsey was called in, and after using the probang, wed the meat into the stomach, but the deceased se ct---" exhausted, and died immediately afterwards. Accidental Death." LITERATURE. HISTORY of the MANNERS and -CUSTOMS of ANCIENT GREECE. 3 Vols. BentLy, London. 1843. In a beautiful and affecting dedication to his son, which it is impossible to peruse without. emotion, Mr. St. John, to whom we are indebted for these volumes, gives us to understand that the subject of them has more or less occupied his attention fur upwards of eighteen years; and, notwithstanding the vast labour expended on it, and the various and extensive research it has re quired, that it has been throughout a delightful occupation, which he takes leave of with un feigned regret, as being associated with some of the happiest hours of • his life. We can readily believe that the work has been a labour of love; indeed, the proofs of this are visible in every page; and we know not which most to admire, the profound learning of the au hor, and the wine range of his inquiries, or the fine classical enthusiasm that imparts interest to his abstrusest speculations. Perhaps there is no other scholar of the day, with the sole excep tion of Bishop Thirlwall, so every way qualified to do justice to a work like the present, as Mr. St. John. In addition to his familiar acquaint ance with the most glorious language in the world, and his uncommon powers of patient and continuous application, he has been a thoughtful and observant traveller through every part of, Greece ; he has mused on the plain of Marathon; he has read the " Iliad"' on the site of ancient Troy, and the " Odyssey," while wandering, like its hero—" qui mores hominum multorum vidit, et urbes "—among the islands of the Archipe lago; he has been a resident in the famed vale of Tempe; hasdiligently explored the spot where the oracular grove of Dodona once stood;' watched many a summer and autumn sun set behind Parnassus; and, passing into Egypt, with Hero dotus in his hand, has journeyed along the valley of the Nile, investigated the gigantic ruins of Thebes and emphis, and stood on the shores of that singular sheet of water which the old Greek historian has described with such minute ness. With his literary stores thus enriched, enlarged, and pointed—if we may use such a term—by personal acquaintance with the scenes most celebrated in Greek tradition, history, and mythological fable, Mr. St. John has, at a mature age, when the intellectual faculties are all in full vigour, embodied the results of his extensive reading mid experience in the vo lumes before us, which—though they may not circulate with the rapidity of the " last new no vel "—will most assuredly win the author a foremost rank amongst the scholars of the age. Mr. St. John commences his work by some general reflections on the subject of the ancient Greek character as modified by the institutions Of the country, in the course of which, alluding cursorily to Athens, he describes her as " the wisest and noblest of Grecian States," and adds, "she was the great preceptress of mankind. The spirit of her laws, transmitted through those of Rome, still pervades the whole civilized world. Her wisdom and her arts form, in all polished communities, a principal object of study, and to comprehend and enjoy them, is to be a gentle man." This is justly and forcibly urged. The study of Greek literature and Greek art is in deed one of the chief intellectual requisites of the gentleman, for it is a pursuit which —more than any other with which we are acquainted— refines the taste, strengthens the judgment, en riches the fancy, purifies the feelings, and im parts an elevated tone to thought. The most perfect specimens of almost every species of excellence are to be found among the orators, dramatists, poets, philosophers, so phists, and historians of ancient Greece; while, as regards their sculpture and architecture, we are content to follow in their footsteps at an hum ble d stance, frankly acknowledging our own vast inferiority, and admitting them to be the greatest masters of the arts of design that the world has ever seen. This, however, is viewing the question in an unworldly light. Regarding it. in a more busines i 4ike spirit—with an eye to pounds, shillings, and pence—we should say that the study of the arts and literature of Greece is one that should never be taken up, except by him who is perfectly independent in circumstan ces ; for it is, in a great degree, a thankless and profitless pursuit —a mental luxury, not a necessity—and, by the refinement of thought and feeling that it tends to beget, incapacitates a man for the rough wear and tear of life, and disables him from coping, except at a manifest disadvan tage, with those hard, dry, matter-of-fact men of business among whom his lot may chance to be cast, and who have - no other notion of intellect than that it is something by which to make money, and who estimate it—as a tailor values broad-cloth—solely according to its market-price. In the earlier chapters of his work, Mr. St. John discusses at considerable length the " Cha racter of the Greeks"—their " Theory of Edu cation"—their " Nursery Tales"— their " Toys, Sports, and Pastimes"—their " Elementary In struction"—and the " Exercises of their youth." He' then proceeds to speak of their " Schools of Philosophers and Sophists"—a masterly disqui sition, displaying infinite acuteness and cogency of reasoning. The mode of teaching among the Greeks," he truly observes, " differed very materially from ours. It smrcely' seemed an object with them to devour large quantities of learning, but going leisurely again and again over the same ground, they appeared to give the les sons they received time to - sink like gentle rain into their minds." How different, and how far inferior is the system of tuition at present in vogue among us ! It is now the fashion to give our youth a little of everything, and enough of nothing. They bolt all languages and all sciences, and digest none! They are taught a little botany —a little mathematics—a little political economy —a little classics—a little history—a little music —and a little philosophy. They go—this is the case in more than one school we could mention— from the classical master direct to the singing master, and from him to the mathematical mas ter, and the drawing-master; and all this within the space of a few hours ! With heads full of crotchets and quavers, they are set to solve a problem in Euclid, or study the laws of Perspec tive ; and these lessons got through—God knows howl—their attention is next directed to the best mode of turning out their toes, and attitudiniz ing in the waltz or the gallopade ! The conse quence of all this is that their brain is a perfect chaos; they become disqualified for habits of sound, continuous study; and, haying got their fill of " cheap knowledge," are sent forth into the world Universal Geniuses—that is, pert, presumptuous smatterers, fit only to contribute to " .Penny Gazettes" and " Cycloptedias." We have no notion of a short cut to knowledge, and have an utter contempt for the Hamiltonian system, and the other educational systems of the day. If a language or a science be worth know ing, it is worth knowing well : " A little learning is a dangerous thing— Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." In his chapter on " Hellemic Literature," which is written throughout with uncommon care and spirit, Mr. St. John evinces a critical perspicacity which shows how thoroughly he appreciates the peculiarities of the great writers of whom he treats. Of Greek literature generally, he says, " there is no excellence of thought or language of which, even in its present fragmentary state, it does not offer us some example. There is a predominance, doubtless, of stern grandeur and colossal elevation of thought; but, besides these, we discover frequently modifications of light and airy beauty, infantine purity of sentiment, ease, grace, felicitous language, and a dreamy luxury of speculation not to b e ou td one by the most subtle and fanciful literature existing. If there be a deficiency of anything, it is of spirituality." Speaking of the Greek writers as a body, we should be inclined to agree with Mr. St. John that their genius is wanting in "spi rituality," by which, we presume, he means that their thoughts, images, descriptions, &c., are mostly of a material character, like the love songs of Sappho,* or the palpable, flesh-and blood portraits of Homer, where nothing is vague or ideal, or left to . be shaped by the reader's imagination. There is, however, a magnificent exception to this rule in the " CEdipus Colo neus" of Sophocles, where, amid the solemn depths of the consecrated grove, the awful voice of Destiny is heard summonir , the old man to his doom, from the presence of his bewildered daughters. The imagination evinced in this sub lime passage is of the most spiritual chara c t er possible, and the horrors of the scene just darkly hinted at, instead of being shown in detail, are left unassisted to work their legitimate effect on the reader's fancy. We are glad to perceive that our author strenuously insists on the unity of Homer, in opposition to the ingenious but false * We have always thought the famous frag ment of Sappho, (1121*-fat. p,ot XrivOc Mc OaOcriv, greatly overrated as a love-song. It has no deli cacy—no depth of sentiment—nothing of ideal beauty about it ; but is throughout grossly material in the character of its genius ;—in fact, little more than a minute catalogue of symptoms, such as a patient might draw up for the guidance of a physician, whom she wished to acquaint with the exact state of her case. We have the throbbing of the bosom—the faltering of the voice—the flutter of the pulse—the rush of strange noises in the ear--the sleeplessness—and the sense of sudden faintness ; but of the sentiment of the passion of Love, we . have not ev e n a g li m p se . How strikingly con trasted with this forcible but material ode, is Cole ridge's fine poem of " G enev i eve ," w h e re the voluptuous is blended with the spiritual in the nicest and most deli cate proportions theories of those who maintain that he was not one, but Legion. How any scholar could come to such a conclusion, after attentively perusing the " Iliad" and the " Odyssey," we cannot for the life of us imagine ! The internal evidences of unity in Milton are not stronger than those in Homer, and we would just as readily believe that a dozen poets clubbed their wits together to build up " the lofty line" of " Paradise Lost," as that they combined to produce an Iliad. We quote Mr. St. John's elegant and impassioned criticisms on the genius of Homer and .Xschylus: The object of poetry is to keep alive in the human breast the love of whatever is noble and beautiful, to dazzle the worldling from' the worship of gold by showing him something more glorious than anything that gold can purchase, to accomplish the apotheosis of pure affection, of virtue, of disinterestedness, of great passions, of patriotism,—and in Homer all this is effected with a spontaneous energy, which like the ocean appears equal to bear the whole weight of hu manity clothed with all its attributes upon its breast. Greece has no poet worthy to be compared with our Shakspeare and our Milton but Homer, who pos sesses some advantages over them both. Shakspeare, buoyant and full of life as was his spirit, felt evidently the waves of his imagination lapse at times from about him and leave his mind stranded and bare on the shores of the immeasurable universe. Melancholy creeps over him, like a black vapour, concealing the Titanian head wont to tower above the region of the clouds. Even over Milton's soul, serene in its fiery brightness as it usually is, I think I discover some thing which at times obscures his faith in himself and human nature, and produces a flagging of the fancy. Bia in Homer this never appears. Cheerfully and joyously he pursues his course with eternal sunshine on his brow, and a heart beating full and true, as if the life of all the world were within him. There is no end of his vitality. He seems as if he could never grow old. His strength is inexhaustible. Equal to whatever may happen, lie nowhere seems to be hur ried by his subject, or compelled to strain a nerve to accomplish what he desires. In himself he appears happy as a god, and only to sympathise in human suf fering from the boundlessness of his charity. He comes forth as the sun in the morning, full of bright ness, showing all the tears that sprinkle the earth and drying them too, but shedding none. We call him old, though in reality he is all youthfulness and love. Every function of life goes on harmoniously in his frame. He enjoys whatever nature brings within the circle of his experience. He drinks in with rapture the freshness of dawn,—basks smilingly in the blaze of noon,—welcomes the stillness of evening—the so lemn grandeur of night. Sleep, too, has for him in expressible charms, and on the pleasures we taste among its bowers he has bestowed every grateful, every endearing epithet. Milton is far more spiritual, and careers in a course nearer the stars. Shakspeare, in his metaphysical subtlety and yearning to pierce beyond the grave, suggests stranger thoughts, and calls up a wilder world of fancies. But Homer, as if admitted behind the veil, never doubts for a moment. Habitually, too, his thoughts are of action, of man as he is, of the virtue of the citizen, of the soldier, of the husband, of the father, of the son, of the wife. He loved the world and all that it contains. His eye could detect beauty where the atrabilious sceptic be holds nothing but deformity. Hence the universal fame and admiration of his writings. For, wherever a well-spring of delight exists, the world will discover it and have recourse to it for ever. The tragic poets who took up his mantle differed widely from him both in temper and charac ter. The experiment of civilisation had been tried, and been the cause of less happiness than at the outset it seemed to promise. A spirit of dissatisfaction had consequently grown up in society, which, shaken by convulsions within and assaulted from without by storms, appeared to be fast resolving into its original elements. Upon the mind; of the tragic poets there accordingly fell a gloomy shadow. They looked back wards and around them, and were saddened by the view of terrible pictures which the dark pencil of Fate was constantly filling up. The inexplicable influence of events upon the inner organisation Of man had caused them too, and their contemporaries equally, to delight in gloom, in slaughter, in revenge, in exhibi tions of suffering, analogous in many cases to what they beheld their countrymen inflict upon each other. Observe the creations of Eschylus : in them, preg nant all with Miltonic haughtiness, energy, grandeur, we already discover symptoms of profound discontent with the character of actual existence, and an invin cible yearning towards the past. He seemed desirous to haunt the imaginations of his contemporaries with gigantic phantoms, quarried out of the wrecks of a vanished ethical system, in which such greatness found congeniality and sympathy. His ideas seemed to clothe themselves spontaneously in language of massive structure, like a Cyclopean wall, such as be fore or since no man ever used. He projected him- ' self by the force of meditation into the heroic spheres, conversed there with mighty shades, acquired among them stern principles of action, of thought, of belief, of composition; and with these he sought to inspire the men of his own time. His object seems less to delight than to overawe, to persuade than to com mand. His ideas move along the highest arch of imagination which spans the universe from pole to pole, or rise out of a sea of darkness which they illuminate for a moment like lightning flashes in their passage. The characters of Sophocles and Euripides are drawn with equal animation ; but to Aristophan es —whose inventive fac u lties were surely ofa high ju stice. True, !—we hardly thi n k our author does True, he speaks highly of his genius, but we cannot help fancying that his praises are wrung from him, from a mere cold sense of duty. He evidently cannot forgive the great comic dra matist his attack on Socrates. We have been struck with the truth of this reflection, which occurs incidentally in the criticism on Aris tophanes :—" There is a load of small malignity and mischief in most mental constitutions, which, if not expelled, might obstruct the healthful play of the faculties. Mirth is the form it assumes in its exit, and comedy is one of the means pro vided by nature for promoting its discharge." Our author's estimate of Herodotus differs from that entertained by most scholars ; but lie has given reasons for the faith that is in him, and these reasons are many of them cogent, if not convincing. We cannot, however, coincide with the remark that the Greek historian " narrates like a prophet." To our thinking, he wants the fervour, the earnestness, the austerity, and lofty grandeur of the prophetic nature, and we agree in opinion with Quinctilian, who des tribes him as being an easy, flowing, frank, and plea surable writer. The criticism on Thucydides is true to the letter ; and that on Xenophon is scarcely less discriminating; of Isocrates—whom Cicero so warmly admired—wehave but a glimpse, in the shape of a brief, panegyrical sentence; but Demosthenes is canvassed in detail, and his claims to the possession of first-rate powers of argument and eloquence insisted on with infinite emphasis. "He is neither draped, nor painted," observes Mr. St.' John, "nor adorned; but a naked colossus whose sublimity springs from the greatness and perfection of its proportions. Other orators persuade, Demosthenes enforces convic tion. They who listen to him, have no choice— they must believe. The spirit of the old demo cratic constitution breathes through all his pe riods." With the criticism on this unrivalled orator our author concludes bis chapter on " Hel lenic Literature ;" but we could have wished that he had given Lucian a niche in his Gallery of Worthies; for though he lived in the days of Marcus Antoninus, when Greece had long since sunk into insignificance, yet he was a perfect Greek in his elastic animal spirits, though a Sy rian by birth; full of racy wit, or rather humour; pungent and sarcastic when he pleased; fertile in invention; and master of a neat, lucid, suc cinct style, that at times displays an elegance not unworthy of the best days of Greece. The chapters devoted to the consideration of the domestic life and manners of the Greeks-- of the modes of farming in use among them—of their trades and tradesmen—of their household slaves—poor-law system—foreign commerce— marriage and funeral ceremonies— theatrical entertainments, &c.—furnish a world of curious and interesting information; and still more en tertaining are those portions of the work which relate to the social position and influence of mar ried and unmarried. women. Having thus briefly glanced at some of the leading excellencies of the volumes, we proceed, as in duty bound, to point out what appears to us to be their defects. In the first place, then, Mr. St. John lays far too much stress on the authority of Mitford, who, though a painstaking, was a prejudiced historian, and wrote upon the Grecian democracies in the spirit of an English Tory aristocrat. We do not forget this gentleman's character of Demosthe nes, one of the most unfair and invidious ever penned; and we think that our author's usual saga city is at fault when he styl es hi nt " a very dis tinguished historian." In the next place, the original terminations of os, instead of us, which Mr. St. John invariably gives to his Greek sir• names, wear somewhat of a pedantic appearance, more especially when—as in the case of the word " Phcebos"—he translates the first syllable, and leaves the second Just as it stands in the ori ginal. We scarcely recognise our old familiar friend, Telemachus, under his new cognomen of " Telemachos;" and feel inclined to ask what crime King Admetus has been guilty of, that he should be disguised under the alias of " Admetos." Thirdly, our author's style is occasionally some what florid, and his reasoning, in one or two critical places, is encumbered, rather titan as sisted, by his exuberant metaphors. But these are trivial blemishes—mere specks in the sun— , regarded as a whole, the work is one of command- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1842, ing ability ; it is penned throughout in a cheerful spirit of encomium, ardent, and energetic, but within the limits of propriety; it evinces the most unhesitating and generous sympathy with all that is heroic and intellectual in the Greek character; and it contains, within the compass of a single volume, information enough to set up a dozen classical Professors for life. In a word, it is one of the few works of the day that are des tined to reach posterity. ADELPHI THEATRE. A new three-act drama, by Mr. Coyne, entitled the Merchant and his Clerks, was produced at this theatre last evening. Mr. Harfcr,d (Mr. Maynard), a London merchant, has two clerks, Edward Mapleton (Mr. Lyon), a virtuous clerk, and Hugh Bramber (Mr. 0. Smith), a vicious one. Now melo-dramatic virtuous clerks are always very vir tuous indeed, and have always the greatest possible confidence reposed in them in the first act, which they always forfeit in the second, through no fault of their own, but through an unfortunate train of circum stances ; and so it is here, for in the first act Mr. Harford leaves town for a few days, entrusting Mapleton with 10,0001. to take care of for him during his almence—(of course Mr. Harford had no banker) —which 10,0001. on his return can nowhere be found, and accordingly he accuses Mapleton of the robbery,who goes mad the instant he hears the accusation. He be comes an inmate of Bedlam, and in the third act we are introduced into the interior of Bedlam : this scene, in which, in the character of Flitter (Mr. Wieland), an attempt is made to convert that most awful of all the visitations of Providence, madness, into a source of mirth, of burlesque, of broad farce, is most disgusting. The audience loudly expressed their disapprobation of it, and we trust the management will have the good sense to cut out the part of Flitteralto gether. A certain Doctor Wilton recommends that Mapleton shall be taken back to the counting-house, and everything be put as it was on the night the notes were lost, and the piece ends with a Marie-Ducange like scene. Mapleton enters in a state of somnam bu,lism, goes to the safe, t a k es c ertain notes out, and deposits them under the board of the floor, where the lost notes ofcourse, are found ; he wakes and finds his innocence acknowledged, while Bramber, the vicious clerk, having fixed upon that night to rob his master's counting-house, is caught in the fact, and de livered into the custody of his quondam friend, Mr. Dognose (Mr. P. Bedford), who, havin6 been high wayman, thief, and smasher, finishes • his career as a Bow-street runner. The low comedy-of Abe piece, which is by far the best part of it, was excellently sup ported by Paul Bedford, as the above-named Dognose, and Wright, as Kit Cockles, a line n -draper's appren tice, whom Dognose is initiating into genteel society, and who, having run through his money, and married Betty Briggs (Mrs. H. P. Grattan), a maid of all work at a lodging-house, takes, not to the stage, but to the street, and, in a spangled jacket, as Herr Stick ankickinbrichitz, assisted by his lady as Signora Soff risky, earns a comfortable living as a juggler and tum bler, and, as he himself calls it, as a Professor of Hankey-Pankey. The piece was announced for repe tition every night by Lyon, amidst considerable ap plause. The house was, as usual, crowded. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY. Some brisk betting on the Derby led to several im portant changes in the odds. Passing the favourite and Murat with the single remark that they were backed for nearly 100/. each at last week's prices, we may point to the altered positions of Winesour and Blackdrop ; the latter was backed heavily at 40 to 1, and in one quarter at 1,000 to 30 ; this of course operated to the prejudice of Winesour, against whom 1,000 to 30 was laid once (a fall of sixteen points), and 30 to 1 afterwards offered repeatedly. The Progress colt opened at 30 to 1, and advanced to 25 to 1, taken to 1004 Aristides was also in greater favour, first at 33 to 1, taken frequently, and finally at 28 to 1, taken to nearly 100/. The Oxygen colt was backed at 50 to 1, to nearly 2001. And several other horses for various sums, but in most cases at odds, agreeing with those last quoted. The list of prices sub joined is completed up to the close of the room:- DERBY. 9 to 2 agst Scott's lot 20 to 1 agst I)awson's lot-taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Kent's lot 8i to 1 agst Mr. Blakelock's A British Yooman-t. 20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Murat-taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Progress colt-taken 28 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Aristides 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour-taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Black Drop 35 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Amorino-taken 40 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Napier-taken 45 to 1 agst Mr. Griffiths's Newcourt 50 to 1 agst Col. Peel's St. Valentine. 50 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton'a Oxygen colt-taken 1000 to 15 agst Lord Westminster's Languish colt-ta. 1000 to 15 agst Mr. BOWCeS Cotherstone--taken 1000 to 15 agst Duke of Richmond's Clara colt-taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Speed's Everton-taken 1000 to 15 apt Mr. Coleman's Jamal-taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Theobald's Humbug -taken 1000 to 15 agst Lord Exeter's Lucetta colt-taken 1000 to 800 on Amorino agst Sirikol--taken COURSING. LYTHAM MEETING, DEC. 6 AND 7.-The Great Clifton Cup (16 dogs), was won by , Mr. Easterley's Holdfast, beating, in th e d ec idi ng c ourse, Mr. Williams' s Pleader ; the Lytham P uppy C u p (16 subs.) was won by Mr. Lendless s S now b a ll, b ea t i ng Mr. Dickenson's Domino ; the Talbot St a k es (1 6 d o gs) were won ,by Mr. Peacock's Humphrey's Cl oc k . t h e Fylde Stakes were won by Mr. King's Fly, and the Warton Stakes by Mr. Deacon's Fly. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Duke of Beaufort's hds., Wed., Petty France ; Fri., Sisson ; Sat., North Wraxall. Mr. Horlock's hds„ Tues., Horse and Jockey-10k. Mr. A. Smith's hds., Tues., New Mill ; Wed., Claren don Park ; Thurs., Redenham; Fri., Netheravon; Sat., Collingbourn. Mr. Long's harriers, Fri., Temples Penning-11. Mr. Farquharson's hounds, Tues., Winford. B. V. H.,'Fri., Pulham Cross Roads-11f. Sherwood harriers, Tees., second mile stone on the Nottingham-road ; Fri., Bolsover Windmill-11. Lord Gifford's hds., hurs., Buscott House; Sat., Red Lodge-10i. Sir R. Sutton's hds., Tues., L a unde Abbey ; * Wed., Black Horse, Grimsthorpe ; Fri., Stocken Hall ; Sat., Market Overton-11. Atherstone hds., Wed., S nares t on ; Thurs., Middleton hurs., Tollthorpe Oaks ; Hall ; Sat., Coombe-lot. Pytchley's hds., Wed., Castlebrooke ; Fri. West Had don ; Sat. Nobottle-10/. Badsworth hds., Tues., Barnsdale Bar ; Thurs., Askern ; Sat., Havereroft--10, . Mr. Foljambe's hds., Wed., Scrooby Bar; Sat., Blythe Law Hill-10/. Rufford lids., Thurs., Wellow Green. Lord Yarborough's lids., Wed., Langmere Furze; Fri., Cadney-11. Essex stag hds., Tues., Matchling Green-12. Baron Rothschild's stag hds., Th., Aston Abbotts-11. Sir John Cope's hds., Tues., Hare and Hounds, Bin ham ; Wed., the Bull, S wa ll ow fi e ld ; Fri., Englefield ; Sat., Brick ridge-10/. Berkshire hds., Wed., Bagley ; Fri., Hinton. Mr. Morrell's hds., Tues., Abingdon Town End ; Thurs., Dorchester Field -11. Essex and Suffolk lids., Tues., Rivers Hall; Fri., Had leigh Town-10/. Twickham hds., Tues., Old Wood, Chilham ; Fri., Otterdon Meadows-113i. East Kent hds., Wed., Lord's Wood; Fri., Street I End-10f. Norfolk hds. Tues., Brown's Arms, Fulmodestone ; Thurs., Stradsett Hall • Sat., Duker's Bridge. Mr. Brand's hds. , Wed., at No Man's Land ; Fri., Poplar Green-10/. ijure. Drake's d i ger Wed., Peverill's ; Sat., Cumbelowe Green- 10. Oakley hds. , Thu r s. , Bletsoe •, Sat., Cranfield-10. Mr. Selby Lowndes's hds., T ues ., Seld e n Wi n d m ill ; Fri., Wolverton Great Ground-101. Mr. hds., Tues., S ou ld ern G a te ; Thurs., Clif tone k Village ; Sat., Stratton Audley-10f. Lord Redesdale's hds., Wed., Broadwell Grove ; Fri., Eyford ; Sat., Sarsden Pillars. Hambledon hds., Wed., Horndean ; Fri., Owsebury Down-101. Mr. Fane's harriers, Wed., Chalgrove Field ; Fri., Great Haseley. H. H., Tues., Tichborne Down ; Thurs., Minchens Barn ; Sat. Hartley Church-11. . Craven lids., Wed., Brinslade ; Fri., Eastbury Park . ; Sat., Stipe-101. Vine hds., Wed., Paul's Wood ; Fri., Chinham-1 1 . Mr. G. L. Coham's hds., Thurs., Little Torrington Village-10. Sir W. Carew's hds., Thurs., Oxton House-11. Mr. Fellowes's hds., Tues., Yard Down, Northmolton; Wed., Drayford Bridge ; Thurs., Northmolton Village ; Fri., Newnham Bridge-1 0 1. Mr. R. Cockburn's hds., Wed., Drayford Bridge-101. F. B. H. Thurs., Casawes Wood -10. Torquay hariers, Tues., Warborough Hill; Fri., Stoke Common. Brushford hariers, Wed., Morebath ; .F r i., Wi ns f or d Hill. Duke of Rutland's hds., Tues,, Colsterworth Pasture ; Thurs., Stoke Rochford ; Fri., We aver ' s L o d ge. P em brokeshire lids., Thurs., Broadway-10. Holderness hds., Tues., Warter Hall ; Thurs., Rise Mill ; Sat., Hunsley Beacon-11. Mr. Watson's hds., Tues., Acton ; Fri ., Linncouth, 10. Bedalc lids., Wed., Butcher Bar ; Fri., Pepper Hall-- 101. Hurworth hds., Tues., Northallerton ; Thurs., Over Dimsdale Bridge ; Sat., Neash am- 10 / . Whit ec ross hariers, Tues., Bishopston ; Sat., Plough Inn, Tring-road to Dunstable-10. Cleveland hds., Friday, Hazelgrove-10/. Wynyard hds., Thurs., Embel ton-101. Newshawm Park hariers, 1 r :tles., Arlan Banks ; Fri., Kennels. Sir M. W. Ridley's lids., Wed.,_Belsay ; Fri.. Sixth mile-stone, Military Road ; Sat., Thropple-10. Prudhoe and Dement hds., Tues., Newlands ; Fri., Tanfield-10. Lieut.-Colonel Hildyard's hariers, Wed., Boughton Bridge ; Fri., Nunthorp-10. liaydon Wed., Page Croft; Sat., Cupola Bridge, 9. Slaley lids., Wed., Shaky Bridge; Sat., Greenhoad-9. The Earl of lucan E - Cirtii — O and S'Alalley, Esq., are superseded from the Commission of th e Peace for the County of Mayo, by the dir ect i on of the Govern ment.—Dublin Evening Packet. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Dec. 12. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at eleven o'clock ; he was engaged throughout the day in hear ing appeals. JONES V. SMITH. This was an appeal from a decision of the Vice- Chancellor in the Court below, which was partly heard on Saturday. The question involved in the appeal was, whether or not a purchaser was entitled to the protection of the Court, on the ground of ignorance, he having had the opportunity of inspect ing a document connected with the purchase, and re fused to examine it. Mr. TURNER was heard against the appeal. Mr. BETHEL, in support of the appeal, contended that a Court of Equity would protect a purchaser ac tually ignorant of the circumstances of the case, where that ignorance was not the result of fraud, but the practice of the Court was not confined to such cases. It must be shown that the ignorance was neither the result of fraud nor of a want of caution. The fault of the judgment was that it narrowed the general proposition of the Court, to the proposition that ruled the case immediately before it. His LORDSHIP reserved his judgment. DESCH V. PROLICK. This was an appeal from a decree of the Vice-Chan cellor of England. by which a dissolution of partner ship was pronounced between plaintiff and defendant, who carried on business as tailors in Leicester-square; the grounds of that decree was the lunacy of the de fendant, by which he was rendered unable to attend to, or take any share in the business. The bill was filed in December, 1837, and the decree was made in May, 1839, declaring the partnership dissolved from the year 1834. It was contended against the decree that the lunacy of a partner did not, ipso facto, dis solve the partnership, as the business still continued to be carried on with his capital. The decree, there fore, should only have dissolved the partnership from the date of the decree itself, and not have had a retro spective operation. Mr. STEWART was heard in suppoit of the decree, and had not concluded his argument when the Court rose. ROLLS' COURT, Dec. 12. JUDGMENT.—COTHAM V. WEST. Lord LANGDALE gave judgment in this cause this morning. The case came before the Court upon ex ceptions to the Master's report. In the year 1818 or , 1819, the plaintiff, who was then an infant, became entitled by the death of his father, a tenant in tail to an estate of the value of about 9511. a year. This estate was vested in James Underhill West and Thomas West, the trustees appointed under the will of the plaintiff's father, Laurence Cotham. On the 15th of November, 1836, an account was directed by the Court to be taken of the rents and profits of the estates received by the trustees, and of the application of these rents, and also to ascertain whether certain sums of money were properly expended on improve ments, &c. By a subsequent order the Master was iiirected to inquire whether any and what sums had been properly paid and expended by James Underhill West and Thomas'West to the plaintiff's mother, for his maintenance, education, and support. Since the death of his father certain sums which had been claimed by the trustees as paid for this purpose to the plaintiff's mother, had been so allowed by her ; but there were other sums the payment of which they also claimed, but which the mother disallowed. Eighty pounds a year had been considered a sufficient sum to allow the mother for the clothing, maintenance, &c. of the plaintiff, and shortly after this sum had been so fixed, an account commenced between the mother and the trustees, and several items in these accounts, some having attached to them the signature or:initials of the plaintiff's mother, and others not, formed the subject of the greater number of the exceptions. With respect to the items having no initials or signatures annexed, it certainly was im possible to say that these were legal evidence of the payments; and so thinking, his Lordship did not know how he could overrule the Master's finding in that respect. The Master had found what appeared to his Lordship to be correct. On the other hand, it was difficult for him not to say that he should not confirm the Master's report. There were facts which made it almost a necessary inference that those sums had been paid. The plaintiff had resided with his mother ten years, and there was an account subsist ing during that time between the trustees and his mother, in which account the payment of certain sums were verified by the signature of the mother. There were other sums not so verified, and here was the son complaining of those payments. His Lord ship then found it difficult not to believe that the facts were as he stated. The order, before referred to, had directed an account to be taken to ascertain not if the trustees had advanced any money, but what sums of money had been properly laid out. His Lordship had asked whether there was any further evidence on this part of the subject, and he had received no satisfac tory answer. He thought then, that he must refer it back to the Master, and give him liberty to state special circumstances in order that his Lordship might know whether there were any other circumstances which corroborated the Master's former finding. VICE- CHANCELLORS' COURT, Dec. 12. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.) WHITE V. HUSBAND. Mr. BETHEL was heard in this case, which came on to be spoke to by order, having been on a former oc casion before the Court. The question involves the beneficial interest of the plaintiff in a considerable sum of money, recovered from the French Govern ment under the treaty of 1815, as the payment of a contract made by the French Directory, for supply ing the French prisoners of war, confined at Devon port (then Plymouth Dock) with meat. The Court then proceeded to the causes on the paper, none of which presented any points of interest. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. K. BnucE.) DOGGETT V. EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. His HONOUR gave judgment in this cause. The question in the cause was in substance, whether in June, 1838, the plaintiff, John Doggett, represented to Mr. Tite, the defendants' surveyor and one of their agents, that the property in Gloucester-court, adjoin ing and occupied by the plaintiff, together and in connection with John Doggett's freehold property in High-street, Shoreditch, was his part of the latter property or otherwise the freehold property, or wholly as to five-sixths, of John Doggett, who in truth had only five-sixths of the High-street property. The plaintiff asserted, and the defendants denied this ; the allegation.of the defendants, contradicted by the plain tiff, being that through such a representation the de fendants, believing themselves to be buying of John Doggett the fee-simple of five-sixths of the whole of what the plaintiff occupied, agreed to give a price upon that footing, which the plaintiff desired to apply to five-sixths of the High-street property only. The true was not always the proper, but to such benefit as belonged to the observation that what the defendants alleged in this respect was unlikely to have happened, the plaintiff was entitled. There was an absence of probability, certainly, in the defendants' case, it being clear, upon the evidence, that this Company, through their proper agent or agents, had, before June, 1838, distinct notice that that part of the property occupied by the plaintiff, which was in Gloucester-court, be longed to the plaintiff; that it was held by the plain tiff and Mr. Teel, Mr. Teel being the acting ma nager of the Gloucester-court property, and also been concerned, previously, as a manager for the plaintiff in the dealings between him and the Company. The duty of the Directors required that Mr. Tite should, before he valued the property in question, be made ac quainted with what the Company knew upon the sub ject; it must be considered extraordinary, in a high degree, if, in the month of June, 1838, John Doggett had, with any fraudulent or unfair design, represented to Mr. Tite a circumstance so notoriously untrue as that the Gloucester-court property, so occupied by the plaintiff, was, as to the whole or any part of it, the freehold estate of John Dog gett. He could have had no rational hope of deceiving the Company; he did not appear to have had any ground for supposing that Mr. Tite was ignorant of the fact. Still if it were satisfactorily proved that John Doggett had committed the fraud imputed to him, the defendants would be entitled to his decision on that occasion, notwithstand ing the conduct of their Directors or their agents. That conduct, however, formed only a part of the evi dence upon which he considered that the case of fraud had failed. It was remarkable, considering what Mr. Oram and Mr. Wm. 11. Doggett had deposed, that Mr. Teel, a witness in the cause, had not been examined as to any thing which had taken place since June, 1838. Not forgetting what Mr. Tite had sworn, or having any reason to suppose him otherwise than re spectable, he did not believe that the fraud alleged had been either committed or attempted; he did not believe that John Doggett had any dishonest or un fair intention, or that he had made any inaccurate representation to Mr. Tite ; and if a case of error without fraud was open to the defendants, he was not satisfied that a case of error or mistake, which it was important to the defendants so to cha racterise, had been established. Being of opinion that upon the grounds before him a case for resisting the plaintiff's claims for specific performance had nut been established, he had considered whether it would be proper to direct further inquiry before a jury or otherwise ; and looking to all the circumstances, not excluding from his consideration that the amount in dispute was only 4001., he was upon the whole of opinion that it was his duty to dispose of the cause, thereby decreeing specific performance of the agree ment of September, 1838, with costs to the present time, against the defendants. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 12. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at the Guildhall, in the City of London, before Lord DErrmaN and a London Common Jury.) GODBOLD V. SLAGIUY _AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by Edward Godbold againit the sheriffs of Middlesex and their officers, to recover damages for an arrest and false imprison ment. It appeared from the evidence that a writ of ca. sa. had been sued out against one John Godbold, and had been confided to Luckett, an officer of the Sheriff of Middlesex for execution. The officer, however, arrested Edward Godbold, the present plain tiff, instead of his brother John Godbold. The plain tiff was detained in custody for some hours, and l. ad brought the present action in consequence. • In the defence it was contended that Edward God bold had voluntarily sought the officer, and had re presented himself to be John Godbold, the man against whom the writ had been issued, for the pur pose of deluding the officer, and enabling John God bold to escape. Mr. Whateley conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. Platt for defendants. Several witnesses were examined on b )th s'des. The Jury found a verdict for plaintiff—Damages,lol. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 12. The Court this morning disposed of some unde fended and other actions, which presented no feature of the slightest interest or iniportance. HOWARD V. ASHTON. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a w3Ol merchant, to recover the sum of 341. 9s. for wool, al leged to have been sold to the defendant, a hat manu facturer, on his own account ; the defence being that Mr. Ashton gave the order to the plaintift's agent for the film of Bowler and Jarrett, lately engaged in the hat manufacture, in Southwark, who have since failed. For the plaintiff, a young man, named Richardson, his apprentice, and another, deposed that Mr. Ashton gave the order to the former on his, defendant's, own account, making no mention of Bowler's name until after the purchase, when (it was admitted) he directed the parcels to be addressed to that firm. For the defence a letter from the plaintiff's firm in Rochfort, addressed to Bowler and Jarratt, and enclosing an invoice made outin their name was put in. Mr.Jarrat also was called, and stated that Ashton showed him samples of the wool in question, saying that he wished to get an order to serve young Mr. Richard son, who was a friend of his son's. The witness liked the sample, and consented to take two bales, which Ashton agreed to order for him, and they were received accordingly. Sometime afterwards the plaintiff and Richardson called on him to inquire how he liked the wool, when he told them it did very well, but he had used but little of -it, and hoped they did not expect the money soon. Howard replied that it was not yet due, but in the proper time he would apply. Witness considered the goods as bought for him solely. Mr. Bowler was dead at the time, though the business was carried on under the old name up to the t;me of the bankruptcy. The COURT directed that if they believed the evi dence of Richardson, the servant of the plaintiff, and that of the elder Richardson, his father, that the de fendant first ordered the goods as for himself, and afterwards, in directing them to Jarratt, said that he and that firm could take them between them, they must find for the plaintiff. The Jury retired, and after a short deliberation, found for the defendant. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 12. . Guildhall Sittings before Lord - AnixoEß and a Special Jury.) CRUCKNELL V. TRUMAN AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought to recover compensation in damages for an alleged false representation on the part of the plaintiffs, whereby the defendant had been induced to embark in a partnership a sum of 10,000/., all of which became ultimately lost to him. Mr. Erle, Mr. Jervis, and Mr. Humphrey, ap peared for the plaintiff; and the Solicitor-General, Sir Thos. 'Wilde, Mr. Thesiger, and Mr. Kelly, con ducted the case on the part of the defendants. It appeared from the opening statement of Mr. ERLE that the defendants ere warehousemen carry ing on business in Wood-street, Cheapside, under the style of the firm of Lewellyn, Truman, Hancock, and Company ; and this firm had been in the habit of making advances of goods and money to two persons of the names of Fever and Lewellyn, who had opened a shop in Ludgate-hill for the same ine of business in the year 1833. The house of Fever and Lewellyn continued for some time in an apparently prosperous condition ; but, having commenced with little or no capital, it seemed that they had in reality been throughout the whole time of their existence on the verge of bankruptcy. The second partner, Lewellyn, retired from the business towards the latter end of the year 1837, upon the understanding that he was to re ceive 2,8001. for his interest in the establishment. A new partner, namely, the present plaintiff, was taken in in his stead; and, it was alleged that Mr. Cruck nell, who embarked 10,000/. in the concern, had only been induced to do so upon the representations of the present defendants, that the house was a thriving one, and offered an eligible investment for the plaintiff's capital. The new pai tnership commenced in the month of January, 1838 ; but so embirrassed were its affairs that the money brought to the con cern by the plaintiff was swallowed up in the course of a few months; and, in the year 1839, the house became bankrupt, paying to the creditors 1 ls. 6d. in the pound. It further ap peared that at the time the plaintiff had been en couraged by the defendants to become a partner with Mr. Fever, they had a claim upon the establishment of the latter gentlemen to an amount of 11,000/. ; whereas, at the period the bankruptcy took place this debt had been reduced to a sum of only 3,000/. The plaintiff's case was, that his money and his credit had been converted to the liquidation of the debt of the very parties by whom he had been induced to enter into the partnership, and that the parties must have known that the house of Fever was insolvent at the time. After a lengthened investigation, Lord ABINGER expressed his opinion that the case against the de fendants had not been made out, inasmuch as the plaintiff had net proved that a fraudulent declaration had been made to him personally respecting the house of Fever, or that the defendants knew that the house of Fever was at the time insolvent. The Jury, after this intimation of his Lordship's opinion, immediately returned a verdict for the de fendants. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec.lo. IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF LORD HUNTINGTOWER. The examination of witnesses in this case was resumed to-day, and it will be seen that the Learned Commissioner expressed his belief that the publicity given to the lengthened examinations would not only do good to the public, but eventually to Lord Hun tingtower himself. Mr. Humfrey attended for the witness under examination. Mr. Samuel B. Hamer, examined by Mr. Nias. This witness stated that he lived at No. 32, Saville row, and had delivered in his bill of costs to Messrs. Bowers and Back, containing a detail of his transac tions. He had not produced his books, bills of ex change, cr notes and securities received from the bankrupt, according to his summons, but was ordered so to do by Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque. The examination was then resumed. What bills of exchange have you received from the bankrupt?—l do not remember. How many do they number ?—I do not remember, but only one of them was paid for 601. To what amount in the whole have you received bills of exchange from the bankrupt P—l do not re member. What has become of the bills of exchange which you did receive from the bankrupt ?—That I do not know. What has become of any part of them ?—I think that one bill of exchange is in the hands of Mr. Price, of Chancery-lane, auctioneer, I believe, for 6001. ; another in the hands of Mr. Nicholls, of Buckingham street, Strand ; he was, I do not know now. I believe he calls himself a bill discounter, and that was for 1251. I am not aware of any other. Did you give any and what consideration for those bills to the bankrupt ?--Tes, for the 601. bill I gave 601. in cash to the bankrupt, and for those of 6CO/. and 1251. I gave him bills of his own acceptance which had been dishonoured during his minority. State the particulars of those minority bills ?—I do not recollect the amounts, nor the dates, nor by whom they were drawn, but I apprehend they were princi pally drawn by myself. Are they entered in any of your books ?—No. Have you any means of furnishing the particulars of the minority bills you state you have returned to the bankrupt ? I have not, nor has any person on my behalf, that I am aware of. Has any person on your behalf?—Not that In I aware of. I wrote to explain that when I stated ' gave him bills of his own acceptance I should have said of his own acceptance or drawing, and that the whole together I believe amounted to 700/., and 251. was added by way of interest, to make the amount of the two dishonoured bills of 6001. and 1251., as I have before stated. When did you receive those minority bills ?—ln the latter part of 1840. What consideration did you give the bankrupt for them ?—I gave him the whole that I received. Of what did that consist?—Cash ; I do not exactly recollect the amount, but it was upon an average at the rate of 601. per cent. discount per annum. Is that transaction entered in your books ?—I do not believe it is. You have stated that you handed over what you received. Now state the amount, and from whom you so received it ?—I received the money from a Mr. Cassidy, of Bucklersbury, bill broker (he is not there now, nor do I know where he is now t o be found), and I do not recollect the precise amount. Where is Mr. Cassidy now to be found ?—I do not know. He is a bankrupt. State as nearly as you can the total amount of bills received by you from the bankrupt ?—I do not re member any others. Will you swear that you never received them from the bankrupt, or any other bill's than the 601. bill which you say was paid, and the minority bills amounting to 7501., f o r w hich you state that you re ceived the renewed bills for 6001 and 125/. P—l may have received other bills, but, if I have,S believe I have restored them to the bankrupt. State the particulars of such bills 1- whiCii — you say C . _ you may have received and restored a ga i n ?—I do not • ' remember the particulars. There is a bill for 4501., . which I received from the bankrupt and Lord William. Paget conjointly, with instructions to take it to Mr. Cassidy, which I did. By whose instructions, and fon:NT/la-4 'purpose By the joint instructions, 1 believe, 'tiriekttl , ,lN).ll 4t a t .-" --- Paget and the bankrupt, and in order that M.i:-Ciagr sidy might send cash to one or both, I believe to the bankrupt. Was any cash, or other consideration given by you or Mr. Cassidy for that bill to the bankrupt ?-11e bankrupt told me he had Teceived full value for it, and meant to pay it. When did he tell you that?—ln the beginning of October, 1841. State the date, by whom drawn and accepted, and when the bill was payable ?—The date I apprehend was about the 28th ofJuly, 1841, payable I believe two months after date, diawn I think by Mr. Wm. Busigny, accepted by the bankrupt, and endorsed by Lord W. Paget. Where did you receive that bill ?—At Andover. When ?—I think the day but one subsequent to the date of it. Are there any circumstances connected with it, which will enable you to name the day on which you received that bill ?—I received it on the Monday morning preceding the election for Andover—the last election for Andover, which I think was in June or July, 1841. From whose hands did you receive that bill ?—I have already stated from the bankrupt and Lord W. Paget, or one of them. I believe it was inclosed in a note addressed to Mr. Cassidy P—l should say that this was on the 29th of June, and not in July, as I before stated. Did you ever part to any person with that bill : an d if so, when and to whom ?—To Mr. Cassidy and no Other person that I am aware of, and on the day that I received it. In whose hands was the Lill when it became due ? believe on that day, or the day preceding, Mr. Cassidy left it at my chambers to present it by one of my clerks. _ _ By whom was it presented ?—I believe by one of my clerks, and subsequently by Mr. Window, a notary public. What became of the bill after it was noted?--I be lieve it was returned to Mr. Cassidy. When ?—I should think on the following day. Was that bill ever in the hands of your bankers ? —Not that I am aware of. I do not think I ever saw it after I gave it to Cassidy, until it was noted. Will you swear that you never placed it in the hands of your bankers ►—Yes, according to the best of my recollection. Now, will you swear positively that you never placed that bill in your banker's hands P—l cannot swear positively. I do not believe I ever did. Ido not think my bankers ever saw it, and, if they did, it must have been before I took it to Mr. Cassidy. Who has possession of that bill now ?—I do, not know. When last did you hear who had the custody of that bill ?—I did not hear for many months. Who then had the custody of it ?—A Mr. Weeks, of Sloane-street. I believe he is not in any business, and lives on his means. His Christian name is Chris topher. I have known him for many years, and have done business for him. Will you swear that you have not received bills of exchange and promissory notes from the bankrupt for 4,0001. ?—Certainly not ; I only received two pro missory notes for 1,0001., which I returned to the bankrupt. When did you return them ?-1 should imagine in October, 1841, and at his request; or it may have been September. Ido not remember the time. Have you now got your books ?—I have. lam not aware that 1 can give you any other information than I have already given, unless it be contained in my bill of costs, which has now been for many months in the bankrupt's possession, or in that of his attorney. I cannot, by , my books, or by any other means, give you further information. The examination of the witness having concluded, Mr. James said he appeared for Lord Hunting tower, and now on his behalf and right, to be exa mined in explanation of the statements made by Douglas, Hamer, and others, who had fraudulently obtained bills from him. Some of these parties seek to prove, injury has been done to his Lordship, and he (Mr. James) would again urge that the bankrupt, in justice to himself and his estate, ought to give' every explanation. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—I should think the assignees would do so, and Lord Huntingtower shall have every opportunity of giving every informa tion in his power. I think examination calculated to do great good, and publicity to be of great benefit to the public, and even to Lord Huntingtower himself. Mr. Nias for the assignees, said it was very desir able that a ll those large claims should not be pressed. Mr. Commissioner FO*NDLANQUE stated that the bankrupt should have the earliest convenient Opportu nity of giving every information as to the statements which have been given by the different persons who have been examined before the Court. The assignees, however, must be consulted, and if I find they do not discharge their duty, which I cannot doubt, then it will be for the Court to interfere, and grant you fin early day for Lord Huntingtower's examination. The proceedings of the day closed here, and the further hearing was adjourned. DEC. 12. This being the first day for hearing the petitions of insolvents under the provisions of the Amended Bank ruptcy Act, the Court was crowded to excess, and owing to the arrangements much confusion prevailed, as the Court is more adapted for an audit office than its present purpose. Upon an application being made by a creditor to prove for law costs, in one fiat, the Learned Commissioner, Sir Charles Williams, said that the power of receiving the proof, as the Mw now stood, was not vested in the Court. This was one of the two very important omissions consequent upon the hurry , with which the Act was passed, but he had grounds for stating that one of the very first Acts of the Legislature upon its assembling would be to rec tify those errors of omission. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Dec. 12. IN RE JAMES LLOYD. The insolvent had been an accountant in bank ruptcy, and about two years ago passed through this Court owing a large amount of debts. He attri buted i n a i t h a l' ) p ß li a c n a k n r u ts pt ,w c e y re C v% o , V,, in p g re fa v r io i us ts his insolvency to the fact of so little business been A c d t o , n t h o av th in e g new operation. Mr. WOODRUFFE, on his behalf , rdthat the name appe name of Mr. Thwaites, an attorney of the Court, should be struck off the roll, on the d groun -of not having performed his contract with the insol vent in passing him through the Court. It appeared by the evidence of a number of witnesses and by several affidavits that Mr. Thwaites had agreed to charge him 101. for law costs, in taking the benefit of the Act, only 31. of which was, proved to have been paid. The Learned Counsel contended that by a rule of Court, it was compulsory_upon an attorney when he once filed an insolvent schedule, to carry the whole case through the Court. Mr. COOKE having been heard on behalf of Mr. Thwaites. Mr. Commissioner LAW said, there was nothing to cast any imputation upon Mr. Thwaites' character. He had acted with good faith throughout the whole transaction, which was more than could be said of the insolvent's conduct. The application must be refused. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. The 95th session, and the second of the present Mayoralty, commenced yesterday at the Old Bailey, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the ci rge , 3 d ; Embezzlement., instruments,; H ouse breaking and larceny, 2 ; Larceny, 49 ; Ditto ; Re corder, and the Sheriffs of t he Cit y of London. The calendar contains the followin g list of charges : B a o 7;1.'3 and 2' ;Passingu t uttering r i bas e forge d in dwelling-houses, 3 ; Ditto from the person, 6 ; Ditto by servants, 7 ; Misdemeanour, 12 ; Perjury, 1 ; Rape, 1 ; Robbery, 5. Th e RECORDER addressed the grand Jury, and said it was not his intention to occupy much of their time on the present occasion, in consequence of the lightness of the calendar, which was to be accounted for by the short time which had la d e pse since the termination of the la# session. He, however, regretted to be obliged to say, that the average number of prisoners was not at all below that of former sessions. He, therefore, was sorry that he could not congratulate them on the diminution of crime. There was .one charge only to which he wished to direct their attention. It was one of perjury, which differed from the ordinary ca*es in the evidence necessary to prove it. It required more than one witness to counterbalance the false swearing of the party to be put upon his trial. It behoved them to attend to this point, for in proportion as the crime was odious, vigilant care in its investigation was requisite on their part. With these few remarks he would discharge them to the perform ance of their duties. BUSINESS OF THE COURT. The RECORDER addressed Mr. Clarke, the Clerk of the Arraigns, and said that in consequence of the business of the Court being disarranged by applica tions made for the postponement of trials out of the regular order, it would be necessary for the fu ture to have a list of the trials in their order exhibited in Mr. Clarke's office on the Satur day previous to the opening of the Court, when the parties, who were not prepared for trial, would have. an opportunity of altering the order. The first case was that of Peter Adamson, aged 33, who was described in the calendar, as a mer-