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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY iatracts front the Morning Papers, Dec-. 1, i 825 [MORNING HERALD.I The French Rentes have fallen to about 94. This confirms the opinion we lately hazarded as to there having been a similar gambling for time bargains going on in Paris as there has been in London. The next Stocks in which we shall hear of a fall will be those of Vienna, Berlin, St. Pctersburgh, Copenhagen, and Naples, for in all these cities we should suppose that gambling has been going on, more or less. These cities are part of the links of the great gambling annuity system. Should the French Funds not recover, but remain at 94, will it not have the effect of further bringing down the price of our Consols? Can Consols remain at 83 or 84, or at the rate of 34 per cent. interest ; and the French be 94, which yield an interest of about 5 ? Are British Consols worth more interest per an num by 1+ per cent. than French Rentes ? :But, considering that the market price for money is fully 5 per cent. interest, is it likely that our Consols will remain long at even their present reduced price ? The public must calculate on a further fall yet ; indeed, 83 or 84 is a high price for an article that amounts to so much as 800,600,000/., or as much as the value of all the land in -the kingdom. We saw land tumble from the extravagant pitch it had been got up to by land-gamblers ; why, therefore, should not the funds experience the same reverse? If solid land, because it had been got to an extravagant price by speculators, fell in price as rapidly as it rose, why not names in books fall in value.? Why should names in books ,remain at too high a rate ? But while all this is going on, what -must he thought of the original holders of five and four per cent. Stock, who were bamboozled into the taking a less interest for their money ? At that time we recollect re commending them not to be humbugged, for we said the thing would be sure to have a turn like all other things.—The live per cents amounted to 1.50 millions, and the four per cents to SO millions —say 230 millions together. We told the five and four per cent. holders, that if they were firm in their determination to be paid off, the Govern ment could not pay them off. We advised both the five and the four per cent, holders not to be frightened. with the idea of being paid off, but to set Mr. Vansittart and Mr. Robinson at defiance, and say—" well, pay us off." If the holders had so dared the Ministers, the bubble which has only just now cracked, would have cracked then, and the holders of either Stock would not now have been looking at the three and a half per cerkts, which are ten per cent. or thereabouts, under par price. • [THE TIMES.] The French Papers, in favouring us with Spa r►ish news, confine themselves to a detail of the Royal Ferdivand's movements between the Es curial arid the capital. Time, perhaps, will show that these are not the movements of most general interest which are now making throughout the degraded and oppressed Peninsula. It is in the nature of things-, that when there exists no press but that of a despotic Government, the world should for a certain season see only what that organ is suffered to exhiNt. Nevertheless, a nation of living men still inhabits the Spa nish territory. The youth of that nation have not been brought up in the political creed of Ferdinand and his Monks. T he bulk of the Spaniards, who were receiving their educa tion under the free Government of the Cortes, and fixing in their minds the love of liberty, are just now ripening into active manhood. We may assure ourselves, that if nothing yet appears be yond what the Gazettes of the priesthood publish, it is not because nothing is in preparation. Our only fear is, that what must one day be fully executed may be attempted too soon, and thus its final accomplishment be again retarded, through inadequacy of means, or indiscretion of Councils. The Court have not given their deci sion in the case of the Constitutionnet ; indeed, the trial has been postponed for eight days, to hear the reply of the Crown lawyer. The Etoila had erroneously stated tine proceedings to he finished. [THE PUBLIC LEDGLIt.I The political intelligence in the Paris Papers is destitute of all interest ; and we have in this circemstance another proof that the present panic in the money market has not the most distant connection with political occurrences. Of the .maddening effects of anarchy and misgovernment in Spain, some'ingtances, it is true, are adduced ; but they only excite horror, without producing alarm ; and, besides being strictly confined to that country, they hold out some sort of hope, from their very excess, that they will cease either through the agency of the. Spanish nation, or the interference. of foreign Powers. However the evils of the system have reached a height that must sm.ni place against it in array whatever patriotic energies are still left in Spain. The troops, who have hit!)erto supported it, have of late in several places broken out into acts of open mutiny for want of , pay ; and there is not a dollar in the 'Treasury to meet their present wants, which have arrived at a frightful height, much less to pay up prrears. Despots have always made it a rule to keep,the armed satellites of their thrones in 'good humour, callOuS as they have often shewn themselves to the misery or discontent of •the rest of their subjects; and by means.of this distinction, they have been able to defy the murmurs, and even to stifle the sighs, of the nation. But the Spanish ,Despot, by neglecting this diginction, will have the army as inveterate against him, as any" Other portion of his subjects ; and there must be always therefore a chance of • the same scene being plaped over again, which took place a'few evenings since. In addition to the danger that arises from the Oesperation of the troops, the misery that exists- throughout the kingdom, absolutely defies - ail' powers of description ; whilst all the' roads are infested with armed robbers, who commit their depredations with perfect impunity, there being nothing to restrain 'them. We are not surprized, therefore, at the tone of remonstrance, in which the Spanish Go vernment has been lately addressed by the Powers in amity with it. France, as most disgraced by its mad excesses, and most implicated in the con sequences of its viidictive proceedings, has taken the lead, it is said, in this course of rebuke, and recently placed in its hands a list of griev ances, which she insists shall be promptly redressed. A menace to withdraw her troops, and compel the repayment of the sums she expended in her late unhallowed enlerprize, is said to hive ac companied this document. Amongst the condi. tions, of which, it is stated, she requires the strict and prompt fulfilment, are the publication of a full and entire amnesty to all persons who were promised protection by the French Authorities ; and the recognition of the independence of her late colonies. The last sine qua non is the promulgation of a Constitution or Charter; and as we have stated the penalties denounced in case of refusal, we shall now notice the chief advantage that is held out in the event of compliance. The French Govern ment binds itself in this casein concurrence with England and Portugal, to uphold the constitu tional authority of the Spanish Monarch, and to assist him with troops, should it be attacked from any quarter. Such is the substance of the very last private accounts from the Spanish capital, and that it is calculated to inspire more satisfac tion than alarm, few, we presume, will venture to deny. [MORNING POST.] We received last night by express Paris Jour nals to the 29th ult. and the Etoile of Tuesday. The downfall of the French Funds had been most rapid and had created the greatest alarm.— " All Paris," says the Quotidienne," was at the Bank yesterday, for the revolution taking place in public securities has affected every interest.— Not a little surprise has been felt to find there crowd of Knights of St. Louis, the companions in arms of Conde, who came to learn their fate.— The Crier's call was listened for with anxiety, and as the variations of price were extremely multiplied, the fleeting and successive shades of ' l hope and fear, of pain and joy, could be traced on every countenance. Those who have seen the lottery drawn, or have visited a gambling house, can alone form an idea of the spectacle which the Bank presented. Never was it more deeply felt how deplorable it was that a measure of justice and the fulfilment of a Royal intention should have been mixed up with the dangerous chances of stock-jobbing. What is most unfor tunate in our position is, that the Banks of Lon don and Paris have a re-action upon each other, and thus increase their reciprocal depression."— The Journal des Debuts says, that the Admi nistrators of the Parisian Bank had met to settle questions of the greatest interest, and had passed resolutions which were sure to conci liate public approbation, and especially that of the commercial world. They had laid down in principle that the Bank had been instituted to assist trade, and to facilitate by its discounts the transactions between merchants ; but they de cided at the same time that it could not consider as merchants those speculations whose operations were founded on the rise or fall of Public Securities, and therefore that, except in cases affecting general credit, it should abstain from making advances on deposits of Rentes.— They also determined not to discount 44 circula tion Paper," or Bills drawn by well known Houses upon each other for mutual accommodation, unless when it should be proved that there wa's a real commercial transation. Notwithstanding these efforts to support public credit, both the fives and the three per cents., the Bank actions and every other description of securities in the French market continued uninterruptedly to decline. [BRITISH PRESS. 3 Yesterday was a holiday at the Bank, but still there were large bargains done for this day, and the Account transactions were also very heavy. At the commencement of business the price of Consols for to-day was 833, and for the Account 84;• but a violent struggle afterwards took place between the Bulls and Bears, in,which the latter were triumphant, and consequently the quota tions declined, for Money to-day to 82-H, and for the Account to 83k. The closing prices for the Account were 83i, and for this day 828. Exchequer Bills not due were at 15s. 13s. 15s. 16s. discount ; and advertised due ones were from ls. to 4s. discount. To-morrow will be a Tea prompt-day at the East India House of 600,0001., and the public probably are not aware that over-due India Bonds will be taken at par in payment for this prompt. Over-due Exche quer Bills will also be taken for duties, so that persons paying them may realize 4s. per cent. premium. rl'here was but little business doing ib the Foreign Market ; Colombian Bonds were at 62; Mexican 6 per cents. 63; Greek Bonds 18 20; and Spanish ditto 15 to 2. French Threes came over as low as 62f. 25c. The Sugar Market continues languid. There were a few more inquiries for Coffee. In Rum nothing was doing. [MORNING CIIRONICLE.i A MM-ning Paper of yesterday has the follow ing observations on Ow subject of the South American. Loans We also -recommend our Stock Exchange readers to peruse some statements which have lately appeared in some of the aristo cratical and democratical papers relative to the flourishing state of the revenues of South America. ft should be remembered, that in the course of about half a year, the sums retained by the contractors out - of the Loans wherewith to pay the four first dividends will be exhausted. And as, the probability Is, that not a single remittance has yet been received from South AMeriCa to pay the dividends; and as it is further probable that it will - be a long time before the South American •. Governments will be able to remit 'money, we would ask the Stock 'Exchange knowing-ones, whether. the accounts with which, hey have lately been feasting their-eyes are not preludes to its be ing announced,some of these days, that Don So-and so is authorized by such and such a Sou thAmerican Government, to contract with Messrs. So-and-so ' for so many millions of dollars for the service of such and such a State ? For our parts we cannot help thinking that the late South American flou rishes are ' Feelers.' "—We are unwilling to add to the uneasiness which the public begin to feel, and not unreasonably, with regard to the South American Loans. We cannot, however, help thinking that the statements above referred to are not exactly of a nature calculated to dispel that uneasiness. The great difficulty with respect to the South American States, and States similarly circumstanced, is that there are few public men sufficiently upright in them, to whom the disposal of Loans can be safely entrusted. Bolivar, we know, is a man of pure and upright mind ; but he may be said to stand alone. The people, knowing that the Loans have become the prey of rapacious people, feel exceedingly discontent ed under the burdens which the interest of the Loans entails on them. The history of the ap propriation of the Chili Loans, for instance, which will soon be laid before the public, will exhibit a❑ extent of profligacy almost beyond example. The Greeks contend that the English Loans have ruined them ; and we fear it may be said, with equal truth, that the Loans have sel dom improved either the circumstances or the cha racter of the South Americans. [NEW TIMES.] There is really nothing surprising in the pre sent fall of the Stacks, if viewed in conjunction with the recent course of events in the commercial world. The Public Funds are affected from day to-day by causes which have no relation to their ultimate security. If by overtrading, by foreign loans, or by speculation of any kind, a demand for money is created, money must be furnished at any rate, and sacrifices must be made by those Stockholders who are pressed for immediate pay ments. Hence a sudden rush, as it were, of sellers into the Market, and a supply of Stock far exceeding the demand. Expe rienced persons have foreseen the result. Similar, occurrences, though rare, are to be met with in re history of public and private credit. Looking back to the year 1792 we perceive a similar cause followed by still more disastrous consequences. " A spirit of commercial speculation and enter prise,"says the historian of that day, " had been for some time increasing in every part of the kingdom, and had now got to such a height as to threaten public credit with very serious clanger." " But as these embarrassments arose from the precipitation and not the inability of British mer chans, there wanted nothing but such activity and understanding as seems to have been employed in providing a remedy." The Report of the Select Committee in April 1793,stated that" the pressure of the moment had affected many houses of great solidity and possessed of funds ultimately much more than sufficient to answer all demands upon them, but which had not the means of converting those funds into money," and that these circum stances had induced Bankers and others to keep in their hands a greater qirantity of money than they thought necessary in the usual train of busi ness ; and that large sums we thus kept out of circulation, and great difficulty arose in procur ing the usual advances on Bills of Exchange." The effect of the measures then adopted by Mr. Pitt was to raise Consols from 702 in Fe bruary to 81 in the April following ; and there can be little doubt but that in a short time from the present date Consols will in like manner re cover. It will be considered that every Country Bank in the Kingdom is now under the necessity of " keeping in its hands a greater quantity of money than it thinks necessary in the usual train of business." Probably not less than Ten Millions are thus locked up, and the sudden subtraction of such a sum from the circulating medium must of course be felt through all the ramifications of trade. But still this property is not lost or annihilated, and as soon as confidence revives, the money will be brought again into circulation. As to the impu dent fabrications which were put forth to increase the alarm, they have been so completely exposed, that they now reflect nothing but infamy on their inventors. We distinctly asserted the other clay that the pretended conversation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank was an entire fabrication. NEW LONDON BRlDGE.—Yesterday a third Special Session was held before the LORD MAYOR, Recorder, and Aldermen, for the purpose of trying what compensation was due for damage sustained by parties whose premises have been taken down to form the approaches for the new London Bridge.—The first claim tried was that of Mr. Thomas Thomas, the leaseholder of Nos. 314 and 315, on the west side of High-street. There were 151 years unexpired of the lease, at a rent of 1001. per annum. No. 315 was let to a fish monger, at 801. per annum. No. 314, with a part of 315, was in the occupancy of Mr. Thomas, who carried on the business of a pawnbroker. There were two tenements at the back of these premises, the one letting at 14/. 6s. the other at 151. 6s. per ann. The claim made by Mr. Thomas was for his lease and the goodwill of his trade. The gross rent of the whole premises was 2141.; and deducting the rent of 1001., the net value of the leasehold property was 1141. per annum. He valued the lease at ten years and a half purchase, and claimed for it the sum of 1,2291. 16s. He estimated his profit as a pawnbroker at 800/. per annum, and valuing it at three years and a half purchase, he asked 2,8001. for it ; for fixtures, &c., he claimed 140/. Mr. Montague, for the City, valued the lease at 9181.; Mr.. Hoggart valued it at 846/. ; and M r . K a y e a t 9191. M r . Ser geant WILDE, for the claimant, requested the Jury to dismiss from their minds the claims made on the Corporation, for they were put in at a time when the claimant was under the influ ence of strong feelings at being forcibly dispossessed of his pre mises, and driven from a business which was thriving. From the evidence adduced on behalf of Mr. Thomas, respecting the . profits of his business, it appeared that for one year they were 5001.; for the next 6001.; and for the last ten months 656/., or what would be about 700/. in the year. The situation was represented as advantageous and increasing in value.— The COMMON-SERGEANT replied.—The Jury having retired for a considerable time, returned a verdict, assessing the com pensation due to the. claimant—For his lease, 1050/. ; for his loss of trade, 960/. ; for fixtures, 116/. ; total 2,126!., being 2043!. less than the original claim made by Mr. Thomas.— Mr. York, a fishmonger, residing at No. 315, High-street, re ceived 220!. compensation, by consent; and Mr. Ovendon, a shoemaker, residing at No. 318, received 863/. by consent. If the Ranger of Hyde Park were to witness the constantly recurring chances of accidents, owing to the close, high paling which intersects the carriage road opposite the Hyde Park-corner gates, from carriages coming unseen upon each other, we are certain that a different expedient would be adopted. Rounding the eastern extre mity, and pulling down a few of the pales, might answer the purpose : we have repeatedly incurred personal danger.—(Morning Paper.) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 30. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.-:HUTCHINSON v. SAUNDERS. Mr. Serjeant TAnDY (with whom was Mr. Prendergast) stated this case to the Jury. It was an action to recover com pensation in damages for a breach of promise of marriage.— The plaintiff Was a young woman, the •daughter of a man in very humble circumstances, supporting himself by his trade as a shoemaker. The defendant is -a farmer, residing in the same county (Essex). He is a farmer, and is now abotit 60 years of age. In the month of July, 1824, the plaintiff lived as servant with defendant, who was then a married man and his wife living. In November, 1824, the wife died, and in the course of some time, the defendant began to pay the plain tiff attentions, and by his promises so tar gained on her, as that she yielded to his wishes, and became pregnant by him. In the month of September last, a friend of hers called on the defendant, and spoke to him on the subject of Mary Ilutchin son's situation. It was on defendant's edmission on that oc casion that the present action chiefly rested. In the course of his interviews with Mr. Clarke (the plaintiff's friend) he gave a promise that he would marry her, and the wedding ring was bought, and the clay named ; but after all he changed his mind, anti now refused to perform his promise. Mr. Clarke was put into the witness-box, and proved those facts, but before his evidence was concluded, Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN, on the part of the defendant, con sented that a verdict should be entered against his client for 100/. To this the plaintiff's counsel consented, and a verdict was accordingly entered for 100/. damages and costs. SLANDER. -JONES V. STROTJD AND WIFE. This was an action for slanderous words spoken by Mrs. Stroud to the injury of the plaintiff's character. The plaintiff is a baker, and the defendants keep the Noah's Ark public_ house, in Deptford. The slanderous words were uttered by Mrs. Stroud in January, 1824. They were these: " You, Davy Jones, have been transported for stealing wool from your master's waggon ;" and, " that he had been discharged by his master, being 2001. short in your accounts." The words were given as they are here written, and were read from a memoran dum book by a witness (John Patterson, a broker), who was called for the plaintiff. Patterson at first said, that he made the memorandums on the evening the words were spokeu. On his cross-examination he admitted that he made it the morning after ; but in the course of his cross-examination, it came out that this memo randum was only a copy of the original, and taken six months or a year (he could not say which) after the original was written. When asked for the original memorandum, he at first said that he gave it to the attorney in the cause, and that it was not returned. (The attorney was examined as to this fact, and positively swore that the original was returned to witness.) Witness then said he had lost it, and did not know where to find it. On being pressed by the Lord Chief Justice to produce the paper, the witness (after fumbling about his pockets for a long time) at length stooped down in the witness box, and picked up two bits of it, which (as he said) had fallen from him. On examining these scraps, it did not appear that the words on them e x ac tl y corresponded with those already stated by the witness, nor was either a correct copy of what set forth in the declaration. Under these circumstances, the LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE directed the plaintiff' to be nonsuited. RULE OF COURT FOR ENTERING LONDON CAUSES. In the course of the day the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE re marked, that hitherto it had been the rule of the Court that all causes to be tried at the London Sittings should be entered for trial on or before the adjournment-day. As this Court had much more business in London than in Middlesex, he thought that more time ought to be given for entering causes. He therefore wished it to be known, that in future suitors in the Court would be allowed three days after the adjournment-day to enter causes for trial. The adjournment-day will be Tuesday next, December 6, on which day the London sittings will be resumed. PREROGATIVE COURT, Nov. 30. CLEMENTS V. RHODES- In this case, Thomas Wilson, of Woolwich, an illegitimate person applied to the Court, to allow an opportunity to esta blish the validity of a will, purporting to have been executed in August 1820, and which would supersede the testamentary document which had been, until this period, deemed th e l ast will of the deceased, and which was dated the 21st of March, 1821. The applicant stated, that although he had been cited to appear in the proceedings which had already taken place, he was not able to obey the citation in consequence of his extreme poverty. The will of 1821 gave to the applicant a legacy of 1001. whereas the will of 1820 left him an annuity of 2001. Sir JOHN Nicnor.r. granted liberty to exhibit interroga tories to the witnesses upon the condition that the applicant would give security in the sum of 100/., to cover costs in case the proceedings should turn out to have no foundation. He could easily anticipate that no difficulty would attend the com pliance with this decision, for he observed th a t Mr. Wilson was in a situation to make his application by two Learned Advocates. GWENAPPE MINING COMPANY. AMeeting of the Shareholders of this Corn patty having been anonymously advertised for Saturday at the Auction Mart, and no proceedings having occurred, as no per son appeared to sanction the advertisement, the Board of Direc tors commissioned their Secretary to announce a bona fide meet ing for ten o'clock on Wednesday, at the Crown anti Anchor. Yesterday a considerable number of original Shareholders, who were exclusively admitted on the production of a circular issued for the purpose of preventing the intrusion of strangers, assembled at the appointed hour. Mr. 11 AY WAR D having been proposed, and having taken the Chair, Mr. COOKE stated that he should submit facts to disprove the false charges which have been advanced against himself and those Gentlemen with whom he was connected. He and two other Gentlemen had received proposals of a desirable nature respecting the sale of the Gwenappe Mines, and inspection confirmed the account which had been given. A letter which Mr. Cooke read from one of the persons concerned 'in the ad venture (Mr. Haywood) said, that one of the lodes already cut through was rich in tin, and that two other lodes, one of tin and another of copper were expected to be opened imme diately. The Directors, however, did not trust these repre sentations, but sent an agent to propose a less sum than was at first stipulated. This proposal was rejected. A meeting was then held, and it being probable that the speculation would prove lucrative, lie (Mr. Cooke) had the honour to be elected, in conjunction with Captain Langley, as one of the Directors. On 1,330 shares, deposits of 3/. each had been received, which amounted to 3,9901.-470 other shares had been allotted, but.not paid on, but the call could be answered on them. After deduction of various expences, in travel ling printing, and cash advanced to agents, there was a balance of 791. The . Directors were in advance 1201. Every shil ling received for Shares had been expended in the legitimate purposes of the Company, or lay in the Bankers' hands. Mr. Cooke next read extracts from two letters, to show that he made his agreement good by paying to the house of Carr and Glyn the money required, as a condition of the contract by the possessors of the Mines in Cornwall. Having thus ratified their contract, the Directors further determined that no salary, nor remuneration should be paid unless justified by, and in proportion to, the profits of the concern. It. was moreover resolved, that the prospects of success warranted the highest hopes—that the Directors should advance 15/. each for certain incidental expences. Twenty shares at first qualified for a Director ; subsequently thirty were added, so that ultimately fifty constituted the qualification. Mr. Cooke, as acting with the money of members of his family, which was numerous, pos sessed more than the prescribed number. No person was ever Te fused information in respect to this Company at his office, and it was a great hardship that persons of respectability who had thuS acted with honour and honesty, should be dragged before the public. Here Mr. Cooke asked was any of these tra ducers present ? He then stated that he expected the Company would succeed, and in this opinion he was fortified by a letter received last night from Cornwall. Should a failure, however, occur, the funds would be returned to the public. He begged to be excused from offering any opinion on legal points. If. Gentle men preSent wished to propose questions of this purport, lie did_ not like to commit himself by an answer: but he appealed to the decision of the Gentlemen present on his statetnent.—(Cheers and applause from all parts of the room.) A Shareholder wished to know, was a further call contem, plated ? Mr. COOKE said, the precarious nature of the concern pre vented a definitive answer. It might be necessary to extend the business, in which case the Shar e h o ld ers must be solic i te d . Another Shareholder wishedlo knoiv if there was to be a di vidend before an instalment. • Alt. COOKE could not positively answer, but said there ' would be a dividend within the time specified in the prospectus. The mines were' the richest in Cornwall,-and if worked by adequate funds must be, lucrative. The purchase was not yet concluded, but there was no doubt of its completion. Several Resolutions were then proposed and carried to the effect That the Directors' acts were. satisfactory, and that these Directors should be continued.—That the pro4ects of success were )cheering.—That the unfounded a tta c k s o n th e Directors were _intended to injure the Company.—That their conduct was disiMerested, path itous, and commendable.—That thanks should be i' , turned to the Chaiiman; and• That the Re solutions passed should be published in the Newspapers." CURIOUS WEAPON• The following description is given i during the revolutionary contest, and now &Pc' sited in the cabinet of the American, Antiquarian the organ Society. The fabricator must have had of destructiveness (we guess) pretty considerably develop e d At the extremity of a shaft or handle about eight feet in length, is fixed a bea d of steel formed in two prongs, eight inches long, n an Amelia united like those of a farmer's large hay fork these, instead of being rounded and smoothed, are formed with sharp edges, so that an assailant Who had seized on either with his hands would hav e been speedily and easily deprived of those men" hers; both are pointed for the purpose of tbrn s . t. 'rig against an enem y. At the insertion of 00 fork int o th e woo d, two stout and keen blades of equal length are firmly fixed a t right ang l e c g i with th e f ormer , p ro j ec ting on each side, a n whetted lik e th e t wo fi r st on both edges; be, math is a third of equal • length, ex t e nding Jo wl ?: ward, and design e d to inflict a death-wound, " the holder, i n fi g ht, s h ou ld strike his victim fr!riti:• above. The contriver, after having th us P r° ed five little s wor ds t o attack and disable his op' ponet, in e v er y ma nn e r circumstances 114.,h make expedient ; by thrusting forward, as wit_ a spear, by levelling a heavy descending blo i % • as with the battle-axe; by pushing ber m/i v / A : l h body and transfixing the unfortunate wr;`eg with a returning stroke, as with the 014 0 bill-hooks sometimes seen ; or by teariog er lacerating him as could be done by no nt i to • implement on the face of the earth, see nls .„-t have bethought himself of a provision agall;t the loss of this portable arsenal. To P reve- A the possibility of the weapon being wrenctl!th from the possessor, the h a ndle is lined 11,e. the surface, and extending two feet sharp blades rising about half an inch an, along fro all the points ; so that if the combatant escaPedire, the traps set for his destruction at the ex the mity, and rashly seized the weapon below Y the points, with any malicious intention, bell first effort to become its master, his ban d would inevitably be cut to the bone an d disable from the p er f ormance o f any further rnili t ! ri duty. At the termination of these knives guard is set to preserve their grasp more sec tl . r i ly. The handle is of strong and firm matertal and terminates at the lower end in a short ttrr thick point of steel, rounded and a dj u sted i o e severed, or essentially injured, plunging into the flesh. Strengthened a nd r h; tected as it is by metal, the staff could 110 `, 4 blows dealt from the sword of the assailant'] Against all engines and implements used in art of human destruction, excepting always,tho.e this slngcle, moved by the " villanous saltpetre," instrument would be a most competent defen.m. The swordsman would be kept at bayl ; r I le , paled, without being able to print a 519 ,fis , • bloody mark upon an enemy placed at t Lance so great as the extremity of the in „ :9 by the heavta2 The trooper would find little benefit from • elevation, for he could not be beyond the o d l e ) , e s. The infantry might, without the ration of the fork and its armament of bla encounter wi_tot great cowardice, shrink from an spears aiming at life in all directions. 19r, look old whatever side we view them, th e y midable and dangerous. When men sb" . boarding shilp meet hand to hand, either in most fea ri or storming forts, they would do execution." imputation.% ISCOYERY EXTILAORDIN,4.R;..- A - upit' D f „,. vi daY 5 ago a person residing in Scotland-yard wrote to Sir II ij .i o verY !iEr DAvY, stating that he had made an important di; . he in chemistry, and requesting an interview, in ordcr to''‘t the might_ explain the particulars thereof. The Presider)! p 1,,,, Royal Society, ever interested in the progress of n atural d Kr i ac ledge, immediately gran , e 1 the interview required , n n 3 ,, are' cordingly took place. The stranger was seated, whe n "„"hiclx conducted with sufficient accuracy nounced that he had discovered a process of analysis, bY traar lyter could be resolved into a single element. " Most e ., 7 :Ticre , dinary, most important," replied the astonished, yet ha' ,l ll ,,,pri dulous President, " are you assured that your analysislr,sp, My process of analysis is to generalise the term argi" e/ ' b oa to comprise under its signifi 'that 1) . 1 las hitherto 1, cation wlc i 1 yero I called hydrogen. In this sense of the term, it is un i „ v ge o true that water is a simtde substance, consisting of ".'-', f alone."—lt would be difficult to describe the Societyexp ress 2 e- countenance with which the President of the Royal c orr heard this novum arganum announced. strang er rid tinued, " Your analysis of the alkalies and lithe eartlis,ol, Won your discovery of so many new metals, are nothing' to t he a nd ders I can perform. I can convert tinsel into' diam onds, over erY e transmute brass ' is false." that every proposition is true, or that every into gold ; I have obtained such a m as! l c ol language?" " Most perfectly 3 , . so r' io and logic, that I am tible to demonstrate wtt 1 sitio Sir Humphrey Davy rang the bell, proly re d a servant to see the gentleman safely home, and to de s family to send for a physician. --.....•te-. 1.: " and or ire, bi, 1 , COAL MARKET, Nov. 30. fen' .n A i \lair's, 38s—Burdon, 37s 9d to 38s•-Beaumont, fri'''' - :43 ,4 ' to g 8s lain, 32s 9d—Heaton, 37s Gd to 38s- L l iebburn l‘lainilia‘ E l!.... e d d G R r id ee d n e ; ° , l 3 Y p_l n wmarch, dkll 3d-- lain, 35s—Ord's Redhugh, 36s --Percy East,' 37 , „,,il • well, 38s—Killingworth, 33s to 3 8 a d-- po t . np 'Windsor, 355--Tanfield Moor,- 38s 3d to 38s Gd--1 v e il ley, 38s—Willington, 391 3d—W3lam, 38s—Walis End anti Co. 39s Gd- 7:: : 3 V 9d a d_ ll t s ov t : lnd Bewicke and Co. 42, all'sl3fi'l Tanfield,— a sEnd Metal, 36s to 36s 6d—lietton242_, 40s Gd to 41 Wll ' a S n reign, small screened,.24s—Lambt 11 scree ned ' I . on sma • - 11 ate , ' 3s 3d—Fawcett bto, ?;s—Hedworth Main, 35s—Lyon;s, '4o i s to 40s 3d—L,'l,,Del. Primrose, 33s—Montague Main, 345-::-Walls End,Ciiies`o;n's, 36s—Walls End Hetton, 42s 9d to 43s—Walls Pia 34s—Walls'''it7li--- End Stewart's , 43s —•Ships at market, Ships sold, 521.—Unsold, 191. _____L ......... ,____ Trader, 39s 6(31_8:31d, al a l Eos sE l d s eend E nd n j vN d .:o } rir i nti o bi t u s . r p t D u b r de , rni 3 tll 9 7 ssd;:e. Russell „....4,1,:411..: • BIRTHS. CsIOF 4 At Great Yarmouth, on the 27th ul t., the lady of Robe H. Barclay, Oya Navy, of a daughter. •of On rt Monday last, R t the lady of Henry D o wn, z s q" daughter. togar - - • MARRI. At fit. Pancras Church, Limitena E n D t Francis Sewell!,!c:;r Margaret, only daughter of Mr. Sewell, of Newlan(-, i le. On the 29th inst., at his IpioluEsepa't.Pentonville, aged 65 ,;; 1 e r : Captain James Foy Watkinson, father of the Rev. H. AVatkinson, a Charterdio On Monday Jast, at her house.in Chandos-street, Cavq, l , o f square, in OA, 79th year of her age, Elizabeth Anne, t'''' u tl , of the late Benjamin Way, of I)dt-ham-place, in thet elc,01;e1 gi a cks, Esq., and eldest daughter of the Very 1 , Suddenly, Ely , and Provost of King's College, Canibr?.geen,„ol, inenly, on the 28th 1 at his house at Twa-li ' fr . diaman - I ' I ' • 0 1 ' le iOt i year of his age.' On Wednesday, at his brother's house in Upper WO, street, Edward Calvert Esq. , late Commander of the Osterly ,Eas t ' S V 4. „ t • tbc Printed and Published for OFFICE, No. 11 2 , Str and, e , PRor nTFT~r~ . "' by J. B. cAns