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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning - Papers,Jan.2 o , 1525. {MORNING POST.] The infatuation of Spain with respect to South America has unquestionably been the sole cause of the perfect independence of the whole of that vast region. Ferdinand, by obstinately reject ing all terms with Colombia and Buenos Ayres, when they had shaken off every visible sign of external authority, took the most effectual means possible to destroy the remnant of his sovereignty in Peru also, which longer than any other pro vince manifested a sort of dubious allegiance to the mother country. Had the mediation of England been accepted in favour of the Colombians, and amity established between them and the Cabinet of Madrid, instead of the latter having now to contend with the experience and talents . of Bolivar and his brave troops, the one would probably be reposing under the shade of his own vine and his own figtree,and the others have already worn out their swords as plough shares. The very terms of an arrangement would imply neutrality on the part of those with whom it was made, and consequently Spain would have been able to direct her whole force to the subju gation-of the unassisted Independents of Peru. ut by the opposite course adopted, the Colom bians - were compelled, in self-defence, to league with the Peruvians, and in short to make common cause with the revolted Provinces, their neigh bours. They felt that the success of the Royalists in any one State would not be employed merely for the preservation of the Spanish domina tion there—but to attack the rights and liberties of the States which had established their entire independence. Upon the whole, perhaps it is fortunate for the future peace and prosperity of America that such embecile policy has been pursued—though certainly us regards the power and possessions of the Peninsula, no conduct could have been more fatal. Sore, there fore, as the Court of Madrid may naturally be at the total loss of its former inestimable Colonies, itself alone must bear the odium and the pain of the sacrifice. England has not been even an ac cessary to the result ; but, on the contrary, has laboured to serve Spain, and to impregnate her Councils with some portion of common sense and self-regard. In fine, there is no view which can be be taken of our conduct between the two parties which does not redound to the honour of the country. [BRITISH PRESS.] The French Journalists, on Monday, filled their columns almost exclusively with their dis cussions of the great political questions now affect ing their country. All moderate and reflecting men see with pain and apprehension, the ascend ancy obtained in the public councils by the emi grant and the Jesuitical parties. The project for the punishment of sacrilege, the indemnity for the old Royalist proprietors, and the ties by which France is bound to the Holy Alliance, form altogether a portentous mass of evil. Our Cor espondent is disposed to blame M. de Villele severely for his Ministerial conduct, but, con siderin how he is surrounded, and the par 'ties, he has to deal with, we can find much to excuse him : he is evidently quite sincere in his desire to remain at peace. In the Elate there an article extracted from the Austrian Observ:?r, the object of which is of course to show, that if the Mahornetans have sustained losses at sea, the elements alone have caused them, and not the Greeks. It is admitted, however, that the Egyptian fleet is dispersed, though the Greek Lire ships, we are told, produced no effect. The tempest afterwards became so violent, but we suppose against the Egyptian vessels only, that the Greeks, who do not appear to have been in the least embarrassed by it, took several trans ports 'during the confusion. The plague continues to rage at Constantinople. All the members of one foreign Legation- have suffered from it mortally. Our readers saw yesterday that the Coroner's Inquest on the young man killed in the boxing match at Chalk Farm, ended in a verdict of manslaughter against all the parties to the fight --the surviving prinCipal, the seconds, and the bottle-holders. The Jury declared their " full concurrence in the propriety of checking the practice of prize-fighting." The recommendation of the Judges is thus producing its due effect ; and we hope the day is not far distant.when this stain upon our civilization will be quite removed. The total battle was fought on Sunday morning last, and the Coroner stated, in his address to the Jury, that " of late the practice of prize fighting had been carried on every Sunday in that. deighbourhOod." We hope that Mr. Stirling, was misinformed ; for if his statement be cor rect, what can we think of the peace officers of that district ? One of the witnesses says that he saw a " Bow-street officer on the ground, and desired hint to put a stop to the fight ; which he declined to do, alleging as his reason that he had not his staff." This " Officer," whoever he was, should be identified and discharged. It is scan dalous that men in his situation should by therr presence encourage so profane and wicked an outrage on the law, and on public decency, —more especially when the J.udges-have so lately directed their efforts to suppress the practice even in its least revolting form. ETIIE TIMES./ We do not know-- by whom it is that the Por tuguese newspapers are composed, or, as people say, " indited." , But Lisbon loyalty, under their management,- goes to a mighty si}ly lune. Large credit is taken in one of these gazettes, fonts much as that the whole year 182-4 . (a leap-year besides) has passed away Without any one of the thrones of Europe being overturned by the " re " zolutionary spirit !" It must have been bad enough with some of them, when such an escape from such a danger is deemed a Lit subject of CQII • gratulation. We.are then told that the death of Louis XVIII. wss a crisis ; and that " the happy ‘, issue of this crisis," by the peaceable succession of Charles X. to the throne,proves—what ?—that " the Covernnients of this part of the globe have' "advanced with firm and ' gigantic' strides towards " general tranquillity." With considerable de ference, we say it proves nothing, but that nobody had the least idea of disturbing the " general tranquillity," and that it was no wonder Charles succeeded so quietly to the French Crown, when there was not the shadow of an obstacle or im pediment in his way to it. But again : the peace of the world was never so solidly established, as since the magnificent partnership of Sovereigns, nicknamed " The Holy Alliance," became a bulwark against rebellion, proud ambition, and so forth. The Holy Alliance, we tell this write: of Court circulars, is no bulwark at all against any mischief : if it were a thing effec tual to any lasting purpose, it would be as a bar rier against every social and moral good to which' the aspirings of mankind can be directed, and by whose enjoyment our nature is distinguished above that of the beasts which supply us with food and clothing. Preservers of peace! Why, despots are its perpetual violators. Slavery with them is peace ; the vile and abject servility of their stupid vassals is to them the beautiful order of society. Oppression must be silently endured, until the oppressor of his own free will shall please to relax its gripe, or to vary its aspect ; but so long as he may draw satisfaction from the indulgence of his own harshness, vengeance, and rapacity, or from countenancing those of his ministers and creatures—so long, by the first great dogma of this blessed alliance, no earthly power must dare to controul the otnnipotency of the most atrocious tyrant ; since, up to the time that be shall choose to affix the bridle upon his own wickedness, every complaint is calmly tortured into sedition, and each convulsive effort to escape from misery is defined to be rebellion, and pu nished with death. This is not an exaggerated or assumed construction of the principles of the Holy Alliance. It is the very basis of their whole creed. No reform is lawful—so they de clare officially—but that which proceeds from a crowned Monarch. Suppose, then, that the re reform wanted is in the character or conduct of the King. Why then there can be no reform— the worse he is, the more certainly will he re fuse to mend ; and the more intolerably bad any given Government, precisely in the same de gree is its prolongation. This mad, according to the minds or some people, be a satisfactory condition of tile affairs of men. This right to everlasting abuse on one side, and obligation to , eternal submissiveness on the other, may be a precious recipe for " attaching men to their legi timate Governments," and for " uniting the di verse regions of the globe in indissoluble friend ship ;" but it is a prescription which the patients for whom it is intended will, we are very apt to suspect, return upon the Doctors' hands. Buona parte reproached himself with fighting against the spirit of the age he lived in ; but here is a system which goes at once to make war upon the princi ples of common sense, and the tendencies of hu man nature at. every period of society. It goes to build the security of the criminal on the very excess of his crimes ; and to fix the acuteness of the sufferer's agony, as the measure and the pretext of its duration. If this be the peace reserved for Europe, rather be eternal warfare her inherit ance ;—if this be the sort of union to which King's invite their subjects, rather let the sub jects, we say, one and all, unite against their Kings : otherwise, since coercion must every day extend itself, and the cruelties of despotism keep pace with the terrors which inspire it, all Mo narchs must at last degenerate into Ferdinands —all nations into modern Spaniards ; and every vestige of spirit, intelligence, and civilization, be swept off the face of Europe.—The wise author of the passages on which we have remarked, throws out a sufficiently obvious menace that the " union" of the revolted colonies with their old possessors is to be the work of the Holy-allied Kings. We shall rejoice to see them openly try it. [Naw Timr.s.] Consols for Account closed yesterday at 941,1 ex. div. A variety of reports prevailed in the course of.the day of an unfavourable descrip tion relative to the unsettled state of Colombia and other parts. of SOUth America ; but, like those of the preceding day, we believe them to be without foundation. The letters received yesterday by the Leeward Island packet from La - Guayra are quite satisfactory. From the distance of the place, and the variety of chan nels through which intelligence is thence re :ceived, it is necessarily subject to much misre presentation, either intentionally or otherwise. The report of Bolivar's defeat was counterba lanced by a report of his having obtained a decisive victory . ; but both remain quite in dubio. The South American Securities, however, experienced a very rapid and extensive fluctua tion, which, the circumstance of France and Hol land being likely to follow the example of Great Britain respecting those States, did not tend- to counteract. The report of Martial Law existing in Colombia, &c. was among other reports raised to create alarm. Colombian Bonds fell between three and four per cent., Mexican Bonds to about the same extent ; but they both. recovered in price between two and three per cent. before the - close of businesss. We men tioned two days ago that it was expected in Paris that the 'recognition of certain of the South Ainerican States - would 'be made by the French Government, and that the announcement of such event -would he made by a communication from the King to the Chambers. We learn the rea son for this form being adopted is, that there are certain clauses in the treaties existing between France and Spain, which make it necessary to receive the sanction of the French Legislature previously to such measure being adopted.' [TILE PUBLIC LEDGF:II.] After a considerable lapse of time, and no little anxiety arising - from the delay, we are at last able to lay before our Readers direct intelligence from the liberating army in Peru. It shews, that Bolivar, so far from having been placed, at any time since the defeat of the enemy's cavalry at Junin, under the necessity of re-measuring his steps, had constantly advanced, without any other interruption, but such as became absolutely necessary, from the duty imposed upon him, of obtaining supplies for his troops, and given them time to recruit their strength, after a forced march of nearly four weeks, in pursuit of the enemy. About the beginning of Sep tember, he encountered Canterac ; brought him to action; completely beat, and dispersed his troops. Having allowed his army a proper interval of rest, he continued his victorious march, and on the 25th of September transferred his head-quarters to Humanga, from which he pro posed immediately marching on Cusco, where the last remains of the Viceroy's forces were col lected. These important particulars are contain ed in a letter, which was received yesterday by a most respectable house in the City, from its Correspondent at St. Thomas's. The letter is dated the 15th of December, on which day a vessel arrived there from Chagres, bringing the intelligence, which we have felt a satisfaction, commensurate with its im portance, in laying before our readers. This news is very different from that brought by the Flora from Buenos Ayres ; and against which we thought it our duty to caution the Public, be cause we saw in it only a new version of a very wild rumour, which prevailed at Lima towards the end of August. That rumour reached us through the United States about a month since ; and when it made its re-appearance the day be fore yesterday, it passed for something wholly new, merely because it had been conveyed through another channel. By placing the field of battle at Jauga, it was of course inferred, that Bolivar had been compelled to retreat ; and it was naturally apprehended that he either ad vanced incautiously in the first instance, or that he had greatly under-rated the strength of his opponent,—in either case a very serious error. Placed as Lima was towards the end of August, it is not surprising that extravagant re ports followed one another in quick succession ; but it showed great credulity to receive them as worthy of credit. This credulity, however, exists to an extent which we could hardly be lieve, if we had not seen daily proofs of it ; and, we fear, it will still make many victims, not withstanding the uniformly favourable nature of the accounts, which are derived from every source worthy of credit. Whilst the Independent cause is consolidating itself at home with a rapidity that has far outstripped the hopes of its most ardent admirers, it appears to be making friends in the European Cabinets with a celerity much more astonishing. It is stated in the most confident manner ; that both Austria and Prussia have already expressed themselves most favourably in its behalf ; and, whoever considers the friendly relations subsisting between the one and the Court of Rio Janeiro, as well as the characteristic prudence of the Prussian Government, will have little difficulty in be lieving this account. It is said that France has gone much farther than either of those two Pow ers; as a proof of which, her Government is positively stated to have formally announced to the Members of the Diplomatic Body at Paris, her intention of entering into Treaties with the New Slates. This change affords either an im posing proof of English influence, or is an instance of consummate address on the part of those legiti mate Powers. If it were suspected by their sub jects, that they were at variance with England on a question of such paramount importance, the consequences might be fairly troublesome ; and they may therefore have deemed it more advis able to make a virtue of necessity, and to recog nize that independence, which they must now see the folly of trying to overturn. Be this as it may, their conduct is a tribute to the vast influ ence, which is wielded at this time by his Mg jesty's Government. bIORNING , CHRONICLE.] A scientific investigation has rarely excited more public attention and interest than that which relates to the protection of the copper of ships by the contact of some. positive metal ; this is not surprising when we consider the great na tional importance of the object, and the very striking manner in which an apparently abstract principle of philosophy has been brought into im mediate practical application, by the most simple process of art. We have lately observed several paragraphs in the public prints, which contain representations calculated to render the public less sanguine as to the ultimate success of Sir 11. Davy's plan. We are, however, enabled to state, that the first accounts given of the condition of the Samarang's copper is entirely un founded, and the subsequent one very incorrect. The copper of this ship had been on between three and four years, and she was chosen for the particular purpose of ascertaining the effects of the principle of protection in old copper, and we know that the result has more than answered the expectations of the inventor ; for, as she appear ed in Dock, her copper might be considered as absolutely clean, and it required minute exami nation to, discover the few capillary weeds and shells adhering, not to the protectors, but to the oxide of. iron, for a small space round them on the stern. Both as to clean ness, and as to the effects of a rapid corro sion, the experiment was perfectly success ful. We are acquainted with another example in the yacht of a - distinguished Nobleman which was protected in May. last, and taken on shore a few• weeks ago, - and found perfectly clean, and the copper almost unchanged. The only vessel, I , the Arethusa, which has been under the influence of protectors, for any considerable length of time in Plymouth Harbour, is said also to he in a very satisfactory state. We have moreover just received intelligence from Naples of the arrival of the Ser ingapatamonother protected ship, and that she has entered the Bay,with her copper beautifully bright. These few instances are sufficient to show that the method of protecting copper, as proposed by Sir 11. Davy, promises to answer the intended purpose ; but, even, if in some instances foulness has been, or shall be produced by excess of protection, it will only demonstrate the power of the princi ple of protection, which may , be so graduated as to save all the copper, or 1-10th, 'or 1-sth, or 1-3 d, of any other proportion. The practical application of this principle can only be learnt by varied experiments, which we feel con fident the genius of the inventor will esta blish. He is, we understand, at present en gaged in ascertaining whether the best results are to be obtained by a few large, or by numerous such protectors placed below, or above the copper ; and also all the circumstances of the corrosion of different kinds of copper by sea water. We have offered these remarks, derived from authentic source , , as an act of justice to the labours of Sir Ilumphry Davy. It must be highly painful to the Learned President, to find incompe tent persons reasoningu port experiments which they cannot understand, and questioning results which they cannot fairly appreciate. To the Public it must be annoying to read so many contradictory statements and misrepresentations ; to Science it is humiliating, for it proves that, like commerce or politics, she even is exposed to the jealousies of conflicting interests. [MORNING HERALD.] A day or two since we noticed - in an Evening Paper, a paragraph stating that very early next Session the Corn Laws would undergo a revision. The paragraph further stated, that such reported revision of the Corn Laws had created a great sensation in Mark-lane. We should think it more than probable that there will be an alteration made in those laws; though we should hope that they will be rescinded altogether, and that no new laws will be enacted in their stead, further than an Act to provide for the payment of a certain tax on the importation of the various descriptions of grain. The Acts of a Legisla ture cannot be too simple ; and in order to se cure simplicity so far as Corn is concerned, we would have a fixed tax on the importation of all Corn, be the average price what it might. This measure would do away with the system of taking averages, and of course it would do away with the frauds said to be practised by the dealers in Corn, in order to the showing of a high or a low average price in the market Corn Lists. Some of our contemporaries affect to think that Corn should be imported free from duty, and that such should be done to encourage the interests of the manufacturers. This idea is certainly in accord ance with the principles of Mr. Ricardo ; but in our present financial situation, in having every year a taxation of thirty millions to meet in respect to our debt, and twenty mil lions for the expenses of the Government, we differ in opinion from Mr. Ricardo as to the expediency of importing Corn duty free. lie may be a very good authority ; but we will pre sume to set up an opinion in opposition to his, and especially in this matter, for while we have fifty millions a year to pay, 'and the people must be taxed so much, we cannot see why as much of that sum should not be raised by means of an indirect as a direct taxation ; for though it be the same thing to pay 51. a year for window lights, as to pay the same sum for bread made of foreign corn, yet in one case the taxation is seen, but in the other it is not. The one tax is paid in the lump, and on the day it is demanded it might be inconvenient to raise the sum ; the other is daily paid to the baker, who does not appear in the shape of the collector of the tax, therefore, in all cases we are ad vocates for as much revenue as possible being raised by a tax at our out-ports upon foreign commodities, care being taken that the tax shall not be so high as to encourage the trade of smuggling. We therefore would lay a tolerably heavy tax upon all foreign Corn, but we would have no Act, upon the old principle of regulating the duty to be paid by the averages. The following letter has been addressed by Thomas Mangan to Mr. Sherrill', the Governor of Aylesbury gaol (Copy.) " Glasshouse-street, Vauxhall, Jan. 17, 1825. " Sin-I , wish to inform you, for my own satisfaction, as well as for the sake of the unfortunate prisoner under your charge, Charles Lynn, and for the public in general, that my brother is alive, and is now at Chatham barracks, which place I have this moment returned from. He enlisted into the Hon. East India Company's service, as an Artillery soldier, on Monday, the 3d inst. It was entirely by accident that r discovered him, and I thought it my first duty to apprise you, that you might acqu'aint Charles Lynn of his being found, to whom I am sure it must be some relief of mind ; and truly sorry I am that ever the least suspicion should rise in my breast against the un fortunate Lynn, about my brother, but I trust when he comes to consider every circumstance, he will pardon me for so doing. Sir, if you will have the goodness to give every publicity to this, that it might take off that prejudice which exists in the minds of those who know not these circumstances against Charles Lynn, you will for ever oblige, " Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) 44 THOS. MANGAN." " To Mr. Sherrill, Governor of Aylesbury Gaol." DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT ON THE RlYER.—Tues day morning, at half-past seen, seven men, of the names of James Connelly, Roger Foy, William Fermi', Barry Brian, Donald 111‘Carthy, Richard Norton, and Wm. Gogan, entered a wherry at Cuckold's-point-stairs, to be conveyed - on board a vessel lying in Limehouse-bole, which they were engaged to assist in unloading. Scarcely had they reached the middle of the river, when the boat was swamped by a sudden gust of wind, and upset. Of the seven men on board, exclusive of the Waterman, one alone was rescued to tell the disastrous tale : the remainder perished. The survivor, William Gogan, saved himself by clinging to one of the boat's benches, and was near three quarter's of an hour in , the water, but saved by two men, who put off in a sculler on hearing his cries. The body of Richard Norton was yesterday morning picked up, near Pickle herring-stairs. Twelve children are by this sad event left fatherless. There is now living at Winslow, Buckingham shire, a man, whose name is William. Ovitts. He was the second person who enlisted into Elliott's regiment of Light Dragoons, raised in 1758, and is now, and has been for some considerable time, the only survivor of that regiment as originally formed. This mar) is known to have been an excellent an d brave soldier while lie served in that regiment, from which he received his discharge about thirty years since. In the battle of Frey burgh, which took place near the'conclusion of the seven years' war, when tile then hereditary Prince of Brunswick was at tempted to be carried off the field a prisoner, by two French dragoons and a foot soldier, Ovitts single handed galloped after them, killed the three French soldiers and rescued the Prince. In this gallant exploit he was badly wounded ; the Prince took him to his quarters, had him carefully attended until his wounds were healed, gave him a purse of a hundred guineas, and recommended him for promotion; the latter he modestly declined, on account of his education and habits being such as were not suited to any rank above that of a Private This man, now above 90 years of age, with tiIDRO! infirmities and wants which are usually attendant upon so, advanced a pa rted of life, is'obliged to take refuge in, aad submit to the pri vations of, a parish workhouse. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 19. BUTLER W. BARTItOP.-CONTEMPT. Mr. HART moved for the commitment of the defendant and his son, who had, contrary to the injunction of the Court issued a few days since, persisted in cutting down timber upon an estate in Kent. The LORD CHANCELLOR would not commit the parties. however much in contempt, without giving them an opportu nity for showing cause against the motion, if any cause could be shown. His Lordship directed the matter to stand over tilt Saturday next, at which time, if the defendants did not come in, the order for their attachment must issue of course. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 19. POWER V. LEIGH AND CLOWES. Mr. STUART moved for an injunction to restrain the de fendants from publishing, in the 2 itli number of a periodical work called The Harmonicon, certain words of a song, written by Thomas Moore, Esq., the copyright of which had been vested in the plaintiff. The affidavits stated, that a volume of poems, written by Mr. Moore, was published in the year 1802, by Carpenter, of Bond-street, under the title of " The Poems of the late Thomas Little, Esq.," and that the copyright of that volume temained in the possession of the publisher. He had, however, transferred to the plaintiff, by an agreement dated in the year 1809, the copyright of the words of some of the songs in that volume, amounting to the number of 16. For the c spy right of these songs, of which that in question, entitled " When Time, who steals our years away," was one, Mr. Power paid to Mr. Carpenter 400 guineas. By a subsequent contract between Mr. Power and Mr. Moore, dated in the year 1811, for the considerations therein mentioned Mr. Moore assigned to Mr. Power the right of publishing the music as well as the words of certain songs mentioned in the schedule under that contract; and here, also, the song in question was included. The pro perty was thus clearly proved to be in the plaintiff. The affie davits stated, moreover, that the words annexed to the song published in The Harmonicon were a part of that published in Little's Poems, and since with the music, on a single sheet, by the plaintiff. The plaintiff - swore that he had derived great profit from the sale of the song so published by him. Under the facts thus disclosed, Mr. Stuart contended that the plaintiff's property being injured by the sale of the same words in The Harmonicon, he was entitled to the injunction for which he prayed. Mr. LORRAINE, for the defendants, resisted the application of which notice had been given. The affidavits in support of the opposition stated, that Little's Poems were published at first anonymously, and that in the preface to the first edition, it was stated by the person supposed to publish it, " that the author died in his 21st year," and it was added, " if he had lived to be of sounder judgment and riper years, his mind would, probably, have become more chastened," The suppo sition that the author was dead was thus speciously put for. ward, and even in a second edition the same assertion was re peated. Under the law as it then existed, the copyright in such works continued only for 14 years; that period had now expired, and the Counsel contended that there could be no claim now made, although by a subsequent statute the pro perty in copyrights had been extended to authors during their lives, since in this instance the fact of the author's being dead had been so frequently and carefully repeated. The VICE CHANCEL Lo It said that an author had a right to assume any disguise he might think fit; but his property in his works was not therefore to be impaired. Mr. LORRAINE went on to state his affidavits. Mr. Clowes, one of the defendants, said that in the year 1802, soon after the publication of Little's Poems, Dr. Arnold had been employed to compose a burletta, which was acted at the Haymarket, under the title of Fairy Revels, or Love in the Highlands. In this piece was a duet which Dr. Arnold had adapted to the first and third stanzas of a song in the poems, beginning, " When time who steals our years away," with the permission, it was said, of Mr. Moore. The proprietors of The Harrnonicon, in pursuit of the object of their publication, which was to impart information respecting the progres of music, gave specimens of various English composers ; and for a specimen of the style of Dr. Arnold, they had selcted this duet front Fairy Revels, to which they added the two stanzas originally used by Dr. Arnold, and . that neither these words, nor the rrist sic, nor - any part of it, had been taken from the plaintiff's pub lication. The Counsel therefore contended, that with this ex planation, and as there was not even a colourable imitation of the publication which his clients were charged with having in fringed, the injunction could not be granted. He argued also, that the minuteness and insignificance of the alleged infringe- , ments made the subject wholly beneath the dignity of the Court, and not entitled to its protection. The volume from which the song was taken consisted of between 300 and 400 pages ; the whole amount the defendants were charged with having taken was eight lines. TheNrcE-CHANcEr.tort said, they were charged not with having taken eight lines from the volume, but two stanzas film° the song. Mr. MonaArNE submitted, that as the song consisted of nine stanzas, and they had only taken two,. the purposefort and the circumstances under which they had been taken, would sufficiently authorize them. Upon another ground. however, and with more confidence, he submitted that the injunction could not issue. The Court had decided that where a party had by his own neglect thrown any doubt upon his pro perty for a considerable period, he could not afterwards recover it in that Court, hut must first establish his right in a Court o f law. Here the prefaces to the two editions of the poems, and the forbearance of all parties to complain of the use which Dr. Arnold had made of the song since 1802, were so much calcu lated to excite doubt, that until the real title had been ascer tained before a jury, the claim could not be recognized in ecsiti! The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that even if a licence had been, as was suggested, given to Dr. Arnold, that did not jas' tify the use which had been made of the poem by the present defendants. The injunction must issue to restrain the defend' ants from publishing so much of their work as contained the two stanzas of the song which had been proved to be purchase°. by Mr. Power. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 19. The COURT was occupied the whole day in trying an action for the infringement of a patent for making paper by a machine, the details of which were entirely destitute of interest, and the points of which could only be understood by a reference to models. SUlClDE.—Yesterday an Inquest was held nt Guy's Hospital, on the body of a female named Williams, wh° destroyed herself by taking a quantity of laudanum. Ivap peered from the evidence of a female servant, that the deceas ed, who was of highly-respectable connections, resided in Bet' nard-street, Russel-square. She went to the Marshalsea 0 0 Wednesday evening, to visit her husband, who was confined for debt, and while there, took a considerable quantity 0 ; laudanum. Her husband's embarrassed circumstances hsti, had a great effect upon her mind, and it was perceived has caused a temporary delirium.—The Jury returned a verdict of " Insanity." NATURE OF CATS.—The following fact, which has been communicated to us, and for the authenticity of which we can guarantee, tells greatly against a domestic animal which is not sufficiently mistrusted. ' A female child , six months old, of the. Hospital of Laon, under the care of the widow V—, at Aisse (Aisne), was put to bed quite well, at six, on the evening of the 17th of last November' The nurse having fastened the door, went. out, and did not return till midnight. On opening her chamber door the COt, flew out, having been shut in there all that time. She stantly ran to the cradle of the child, and found it nearly al l devoured. The flesh of the chin, the lips, the two chetki , half of the tongue, as well as the left eye, had been torn out. and eaten, . and there only remained a few slight trac.2s .u` blood on the cap and handkerchief of the infant. Two claY 6 ' afterwards the little tyger returned and scratched at the dOe?r of the room in search of its prey. We give publicity toll o fact, that it may serve as a warning to all careless nurses, who. ignorant of the natural ferocity of the cat, are not sufficientlY alive to its deceit, and often themselves place them in th e cradles of their little charges.—( Morning Paper.) • . - MARRIED. On Monday, the 17th inst., at St. Mary's, Nottinham, Mr' A. H. Tilleock, of Cheshunt, Herts,‘to Miss Frances of St. hlary's, Nottingham. —, - 1)1111) In May last, at Madras, after a few hours illness, Cntherine , ' wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Miles, of his Majesty's 89th Reg i ' ment of Foot, C. 11., and daughter of the late Rev. Archdeaco n Falconer, D.D., of the Close, Lichfield. On the 6th inst.. at his house, No. 6, Kennington-grai l ' Michael Crappins, Esq., aged 77. On Saturday last, the 15th inst., John Copley, Esq., of Me" gate, many years an. inhabitant of pariah of St. Dunstan -in" the-West, in the city of London. On the 17th inst., after a long and painful illne*, at Host' ings, Thomas Wilson Hetherington, Esq., of Walthamstosr• On Tuesday, the 18th inst., Mr. Thomas Foss ; of &out' Moulton-street. On Tuesday, the 15th inst., at Putney, Thomas Chapala , Esq„ in the 76th year of his age. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Stl OFFICE, No. 112, strand; by , J B. GAUT:AIM.