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There is not _ Page, from the first to the last, in this book (and it contains above 480) which is not rich in instructive anecdote, grave reflection, choice flowers of sweet Petry, w i t h h ere an d t h ere l essons o f w isdom, ad t, d ressed t o y oung l a di es , which we would recommend ;ern, to treasure up in their " heart of hearts." As t he work is principally intended for the use of young fe males, the Editor has carefully gathered—in the briefest !'°ssible form—from the most celebrated modern travel lers, accounts of the condition, habits, and morals, and Other influence of women in every country of whose domes tlc customs we have any knowledge. With the remarks Which frequently occur throughout this volume, on the general defectiveness of female education, we most readily accord. In the knowledge of all that really constitutes the affairs of life, our most fashionalAy educated women are deplorably deficient. They seem `; to be . intended for any purpose rather than that of dis the ordinary duties of good wives and tender mothers. It seems to be the study of fashionable .women to discover what is least profitable in the wide field of intellectual acquirements, in order to impose • I t as the only task worthy the attention of their ,e . hildren. Often and often has this ill judged partia ity for frivolous, or at best unprofitable, studies in * persons, themselves well informed, filled us with Wonder. Nor can we yet account for so strange a perver sion of judgment, especially as all women are willing to Confess that to talk bad French, strum and scream in a Concordia discors, or to waltz with the libertine gesture of a Parisian Opera dancer, are not the most effectual Means of controling the will of a headstrong husband, or the best qualifications for rearing up a family in the fear of God. Far be it from us to say that the know ledge of languages, of music, and of graces neces sary to an appearance in the ball-room, ought wholly to be dispensed with in female education. It is not .the use, but the abuse of these accomplishments of Which we complain. It is the making those things ALL which ought to form the PARTS of a minor '?'ART. Of ethics, or the science of morality, women in general know nothing ; and yet this comprises the whole range of civil, domestic, and religious duties. Women complain that the tyranny of men is the cause of their deficiency in useful information. Now men hav e sins enough to answer for, without adding others of which they are not, and have not been, guilty. Th e vanity of women prevented, and prevents, their being properly educated. The mother will not have her daughters moralized, and sermonized, and made mopes of, to satisfy the whims of antiquated visionaries and Bedlamite enthusiasts I Her dear girls are incapable of wrong, and she knows better than t o sour their minds with crabbed lectures on the distinctions of good and evil, just as if the charming creatures did not know of themselves how to act pro- Peri ) , on all occasions. No, no I the dancing, the French, the music, and the drawing masters, are the Only proper and genteel instructors for such sweet in ntxents. If they want any thing else, they will have time enough to learn it the year before they come out. This is the substance of a lecture which is repeatedly a drawing-room, by the mother of deli v ered in many a young family ; and the consequences are sooner' or lat e r felt and deplored by society. It would seem, in short, from the language of many women on this subject, that domestic virtues, like dresses, 'would be worn out before the time for putting them in practice, if assumed before marriage. This volume is well calculated to correct many of the most will form preval en t errors in female education ; and libraries. av , ery valuable acquisition to young ladies' u e regret that the length to which our obser vat i ons have extended prevents us from extracting in our columns some of the beautiful passages which abound in almost every page. The whole is a sweet well-trimmed flower-garden, in which at every turning a nos ega y of every hue, fragrant as the breath of morning, may be gathered. SELECTIONS FROM THE ENGLISH POETS FROM SPENSER TO BEATTIE. London : Scott and Webster, Charterhouse-squat e. 1835. In the beauty of its embellishments this volume deserves to be classed with the Annuals ; while, in its letter-press, it is as undying as the language in which it is published. It is embellished with a portrait of goldsmith, from the well-known painting by Rey noNls, with twenty-four handsome illustrations from Corl;ould, by Heath, Rolls, and Finden. Some of the engravings are well executed. In the selection from the po e ts a sound judgment, a classical taste, and a poetic fancy have been exercised. The volume neces sarily contains but a very few of the fine passages to be met with in the works of the greatest of our poets ; but it is no small praise to say of it, that it does not contain a line which we would wish to see omitted. It i s admirably adapted for the school-room ; and we cordially recommend it to parents and teachers as a valuable Christmas Present and New Year's Gift for good children. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, Oxroito, DEC. 13.—0 n Saturday last Mr. John William King, of University College, was elected Scholar of that Society, in the Bennet Foundation. At the same time Mr. George Stuart Ombler, of University; Mr. Frederick Wil liam Faber, of B,lliol ; and Mr. William Fishburn Donkin, of St. Edmund Hail, were elected Scholars in the Yorkshire Foundation. On the 7th inst. Mr. George Markham Gifford, Scholar of New College, was admitted Actual Fellow ; and on the 9th Mr. William David Hail, from Winchester, was admitted Scholar of that Society. Thursday the following Degrees were conferred : IMASTER OF ARTS. Richard Holberton, Exeter. 13ACIIELORS OF ARTS. Daniel Butler, Exhibitioner of Lincoln. Iltid Thomas, Oriel. Daniel Rare Godfrey, Michel Scholar of Queen's. Alexander Lyon Emerson, Pembroke. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Charles Henry Hutton, B. D.,Fellow of Mag dalen College, has been presented by the resident and Fel lows of that Society to the Vicarage of Willoughby, Warwick shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Brydges. The Rev. John Powlett M‘Ghie, of Queen's College, Cu rate of St. Edmund's, Salisbury, to the District Church of East Cowes, Isle of Wight. . The Rev. Fisher Watson, M.A., to the Vicarage of Lan. king, Sussex. The Rev. George Pearse, M.A., to the Vicarage of Mar-. than ) , N o rfolk ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The Rev. Thomas Watson to the Vicarage of Newton, by Castleacre, in Norfolk, on the presentation of the Bishop of El y . The Rev. Paul Johnson, jun. , M.A., to the Rectory of Syderstrand, Norfolk, on the presentation of Samuel Hoare, Esq., of Hampstead, Middlesex, ani others. The Rev. Richard Cooper Christie, B. C.L., of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester to the Rectory of Fretherne, Gloucestershire, va. cant by the resignation of the Rev. Jas. Hartley Dunsford patron, the Rev. Collingwood Forster Fenwick, of Brook, ii the Isle of Wight. The Rev. Henry Cooper has been presented to the Living of Rye, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr. Myers. The Rev. Mr. Douglas having resigned the Vicarage of Horkstow, in this county, the patron (Lord Yarborough) has been pleesed to present the living to the late Curate, the Rev. Ri c h ard Preaves Moore (eldest son of John Moore, Esq. of Dittear, YorLshire), in accorcifinee with a memorial to his Lordship from the principal parishioners.—' tamford Mercury. The Rev. D. H. T. G. Williams, A.B. Curii:l l o f Ru*lia l l; Wilts, has been instituted by commission to the Vicarage fr Nevem, Pembrokeshire ; patron, the King. The Rev. Richard Haworth, to the Rectory of All Saints and St. John, Huntington, vacant by the death of the R e v. E. Edwards. COURT CIRCULAR. The King gave audiences yesterday to the Duke of Wel lington, the Duke of Devonshire, and Sir R. Peel. The Princess Sophia visited their Majesties yesterday at St. James's Palace. The Princess Augusta was expected to arrive at Bagsbot yesterday afternoon from the Pavilion at Brighton, on a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester. A messenger with letters for Sir Robert Peel from Lord Stanley returned to town yesterday morning. During the day a meeting was held at Sir Robert's, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Rosslyn, Mr. Goulburn, and Mr. Baring, M.P. These noblemen and gentlemen were occu pied a considerable time in deliberation. Mr. Croker, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, Lord Granville Somerset, and Sir Henry Hardinge, had interviews yesterday with Sir Robert Peel. Mr. F. Pollock, M. P., and some of the Foreign Ministers, called upon Sir Robert yesterday. M. Tricoupi (the Greek Minister) and the Marquis Cam den visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Home office. The Marquis of Wellesley arrived in town yesterday from Ireland. The Duke of Wellington, the Earls of Euston, Jersey, Coventry, Rosslyn, and Verulam, Lords Adolphus Fitzcla rence and Hill, Sirs J. Scarlett, B. Stephenson and F. Wat son, General White and Mr. B. Currey, followed the chief mourner in the funeral procession of the late Duke of Glou cester. The Generals, supporters of the pall and canopy over the coffin, were on the one side, Sir E. Paget , Hon. Sir W. Lumley, Sir A. Barnard and Sir W. Rooks, and on the other Sir H. Tierney, Right Hon. Sir G. Murray, Major-General Hepburn, and Major-General Clitherow. SIR ROBERT PEEL AND DR. LUSHINGTON. ;‘ Whitehall, Dec. 12, 1834. SIR-I have to request that you will take the earliest opportunity of giving publicity to the enclosed correspon dence. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT PEEL. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. Whitehall Gardens, Dec. 12, 1834.—Friday morning, 10 o'clock, A. M. SIR - I have this moment read in the Morning Chronicle of to-day the following report of a speech attributed to you : " When, said the Doctor, I hear people say, Oh, for God's sake, trust the Duke I—for Heaven's sake, listen kindly to Sir Robert Peel, who carried Catholic Emancipation!' I cannot help exclaiming against such folly and absurdity. The man who patiently listens to such stuff, is an idiot—the man who avows his belief in them is a traitor. How do men act in pri vate life? Do you confide in those you know to be convicted swindlers? If you seek a woman to be your companion for life, do you take as a wife, or as a mother to your families, a prostitute from the streets? If, then, men are governed in pri vate life by such feelings, should they not .feel equally jealous of the character of those who govern them ?" I request that you will inform me whether that part of the above extract which I have marked, be an accurate report of expressions used by you ? I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, ROBERT PEEL. Stephen Lushington, Esq., M.P. Great George-street, Dec. 12, past 3. SIR-At the time your letter arrived, I was professionally engaged in Court, but I have taken the earliest opportunity to write an answer. . . It is wholly impossible for me, considering the circumstances attending the meeting of yesterday, to undertake to say with precision what particular expressions I used on that occasion ; but though undoubtedly some of the words stated by you in your letter were uttered by me, yet the whole passage is not correct. I know well the argument I used. I intended to support this position—that the world, in their opinion of statesmen, ought to be governed by past experience, and to rebut the assertion, alluding more particularly to the Times, that it was probable the new Administration having always opposed Reform, were proper to be entrusted with carrying into effect the measures expected to result therefrom ; but I did not, as from your letter I conjecture you are inclined to believe, use or intend to use any expression purporting to have any effect beyond this—that the Duke of Wellington and yourself could not be expected to become zealous Reformers in the sense in which that term was understood by the meet ing, any more than a great change of principles and character would be likely to occur suddenly in any individual. My ob servations, if all correctly detailed, did not reflect on the cha racter of any one ; they were directed exclusively to the inex pediency, in my judgment, of employing in the cause of reform, persons hitherto opposed thereto, and nothing was further from my intention than to make any personal allusions disrespectful to yourself. 1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) STEPHEN LUSHINGTON. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart. • Whitehall-gardens, Dec. 12, 1834. Friday Evening. SIR--The explanation which your letter conveys, and the frank assurance that nothing was further from your intention than to make any personal allusion disrespectful to me, are en tirely satisfactory. It is perhaps right that I should add, that for the purpose of removing the very erroneous impressions to which the re port of your speech might naturally give rise, it is my inten tion to give publicity to the correspondence which has passed between us.—l have the honour to be Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT PEEL. Stephen Lushington, Esq., M.P. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX AND THE UNIVER• VERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) We are induced, at the suggestion of a valued correspon ent, to publish two letters, which have already appeared in print, from the Duke of Sussex, respecting the Univers4•^ offices now vacant : " Kensington Palace, Nov. 28. My Lord Duke,—ln answer to the letter with which you favoured me last night, I beg candidly to state to your Grace, that had any one of my personal friends sol cited my support on the vacancy of the High Stewardship of the University of Cambridge, occasioned by the lamented death of the Earl of Hardwicke, I should have declined all interference, not wishing to connect myself more immediately at the present moment with that learned body, after the events which have there so recently taken place, and which, I lament to say, are to my feelings in complete contradiction with the opi nions I have ever conscientiously held and advocated, both in Parliament and elsewhere. I trust, therefore, my Lord Duke, that you will not attribute my adherence to such deter mination at the ensuing election to any unwillingness on my part to meet your Grace's wishes, but to a desire Gf religiously observing those principles, and of maintaining that line of con duct, which have been the guides of both my public as well as private life.—l have the pleasure to remain, my Lord Duke, with consideration, your Grace's obliged servant, &c., " AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. 6' His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K. G., &c. &c." " Kensington Palace, Dec. 3. " Rev. Sir,—ln answer to the letter which you have ad dressed to me on the 2d instant, I have to express my regret at being unable to give the Marquis Camden that sup port you have solicited for his Lordship, as no one entertains a higher respect for him, or is more anxions to show him personal regard, than I am. When I had the honour of first connecting myself with Trinity College and the University 0f Cambridge, I did so under a firm impression and convic tion, that I was joining both a University and a College which were distinguished, pre-eminently distinguished, for possessing liberal, constitutional, and tolerant principles, such as I have ever advocated and professed during a Parliamen tary career of upwards of 30 years, and which I conscien tiously believe best calculated to meet the exigencies and welfare of my country. Finding, however, by the event which took place last session of Parliament, that the opinions of the University are at variance with those I entertain, it is with deep regret that I see myself under the necessity of withdrawing my connexion with a learned body of men, for several of whom, individually, I entertain the sincerest re gard and affection, but with whose principles, as a body, I entirely differ. Under these circumstances, you will see my inability to meet your wishes, while -I express my sincere hope that the Noble Marquis will succeed in obtaining that honour which can be conferred on no individual more de servedly, " I remain, with consideration, Rev. Sir, your obliged, " AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. " The Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, Master of Trinity College." Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington were both closeted with the King yesterday morning for a consider able time. The Earl and Countess of Burlington have been paying a longrvisit to their estates in Lancashire. Holkar Hall was rarely visited by the head of the family until his Lordship succeeded to it. The Hon. Mrs. Cavendish, his Lordship's mother, and Miss Fanny Cavendish, are travelling in Italy. They were lately at Rome. We have heard, but almost doubt the fact, that the Treasury ordered lately a chapel for the accommodation of the troops to be built adjoining to the barracks in St. James's Park, which has been finished this year. This barrack was highly necessary, as the troops were quartered in the worst de scription of public houses in Westminster ; and it is a very handsome plain building, having also been built within the es timate. The chapel, however, is we think, a most unneces sary appendage, and is to cost between five and six thousand pounds; it should be recollected that a very large proportion of the troops dissent from the Church of England—that those who are of it have ample opportunities of attending church, and that soldiers ought to have prayers read to them when the weather admits, in the gppn air, or within the precincts of the barracks, es at PertFeali.street Bffr44;i Owe it is done in the spacious kitehou. We really consider this r e . mot wanton expenditure of public money. If the troops riwst attend di vine service as a body, v.1.2h we allow, If done with judgment, in tigjt.o fittinF, why not march them to . `` l. f`stminst Pn earl .er Abbey, to y selYipe Rpr.sly f9F them ? We hope tile Treasury may si,;l this work, winch they has 4. 4 1 ? ,dy, we b e lieve, be gun upon, by the means of either the Woods and Foresp , or fhe Ordnance.—ArPipg Clopicle. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1834. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE FRENCH PAPERS OF THURSDAY, At the Court at St. James's, the 20th day of November, 1834, PRESENT,' The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. • ' 7 i. It is this day ordered by his Majesty in Council, that the Parlia ment, which stands prorogued to Thursday the 18th day of Decem ber instant, be further prorogued to Thursday thellsth day of Ja nuary next. Lord Granville had private audiences yesterday of the King and Queen, at which lie delivered letters from the King of England, announcing the death of the Duke of Gloucester. The King will go into mourning from to-day to the 21st. The Procureur-General yesterday concluded his argu ments before the Court of Peers, after which the Court WHITEHALL, DEC. 10. The King has been p'.eased to direct letters patent to be passed un ler the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., the offices of Chancellor and Under Treasurer of his Majesty's Exche adjourned till to-morrow, when the Procureur will establish the grounds relative to the accused persons being put on heir trial. , quer. It is said that a new Bill relating to the National Guard ST. JAMES'S PALACE, DEC. 9. The King has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to obtain Edward Clarke, Esq., one of his Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, v►ce Knapman, resigned. of Paris is in preparation at the office of the staff of Marshal Lobau. Should the plan in contemplation be adopted, the present National guards of Paris will be in creased three-fold, and every man will be clothed in uniform, WHITEHALL, DECEMBER 9. 'I he Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Harley the younger, of the city of Bristol, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Isaac Oliver Jones, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Ex traardinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Alfred Grundy, of Bury, in the county of Lancaster, Gent. to be Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Acton Tindal, of Ayles bury, in the county of Buckingham, Gent, to be a Master Extraor dinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Hare, of Sleaford, in the county of Lincoln, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. as it will provide a fund in each Mayory for furnishing uniforms to those who are unable to buy them. The Bill , ..... _ will also contain provisions for insuring a more regular at tendance of the members of the corps, and prefenting evasions by futile excuses. . The Academic Council has appointed a committee of five of its members to examine into the circumstances of the late disturbances at 'the lecture of M. Rossi. M. Blondeau, Dean of the Law School, has been interrogated, and M. Rossi himself, and every other person who can throw any light on the subject, will undergo examination. All the students who were arrested have been released at the request of the Dean and Professors. The only mea sure taken against them has been an order that they should return their tickets by a given time, which expires to-day. The object of this order is to ascertain those who lent their tickets for the purpose of getting admission for persons who WAR-OFFICE, DECEMBER 12. 12th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet H. R. Needham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bavntun, who retires, Dec. 12; W. Miller, Gent., to be Cornet, - by purchase, vice Needham, Dec. 12. • 13th Light Dragoons—Cornet E. R. Read to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Heneage, who retires; H. Hamilton, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Read, Dec. 12. Scots Fusilier Guards—General George Duke of Gordon, G. C. B. from the Ist- Foot, to be Colonel, vice Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, deceased, Dec. 12. Ist Regiment of Foot—General Thomas Lord Lynedoch, G. C.& from the 14th Foot, to be Colonel, vice the Duke of Gordon, ap- • pointed to the command of the Scots Fusilier Guards, Dec. 12. 14th Foot—Lieut.-General Sir C. Colville G.C.8., from the 75th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Lord Lynedoch, appointed to the command of the Ist Foot, Dec. 12. 21st Foot, Second Lieut. Malcolm Mac Gregor to be First Lieut., by purchase, vice Cavendish, who retires. A. Andrews, Gent., to be. Second Lieut., by purchase, vice MacGregor, Dec. 12. 27th Foot, Ensign John Hope, from the half-pay of the 89th Regt. of Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Edden, promoted, Ensign T. G. M'Nair Edden to be adjutant (with the rank of Lieutenant), vice Byrne, promoted Dec. 12. 30th Foot—Captain Hon. J. Jocelyn, from the half-pay unat tached, to be Captain, vice Brevet, Lieutenant-Colonel E. A. An gelo, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Dec. 12. 34th Foot—Lieut. R. W. Byron to be Adjutant, vice Howe, who resins the Adjutancy only, Oct. 17. 33th loot—Captain W. Campbell, from the 62d Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice O'Brien, who exchanges, June 11. 41st Foot—Captain A. Hook, from the half-pay of the Royal York Rangers, to be Captain, vies Thomas Vincent, who ex changes, Dec. 12. 46th Foot—Ensign W. Peacock to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edwards, who retires; W. H. O'Toole, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Peacock, Dec. 12. 02d Foot—Captain G. B. O'Brien, from the 38th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice Campbell, who exchanges, June 11. 74th Foot—Major-General Sir J. Campbell, K.C.8., from the 94th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Sir C. Colville, appointed to the command of the 14th Foot, Dee. 12. 94th Foot—Major-General Sir J. Colborne, K. C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Sir J. Campbell, appointed to the command of the 74th Foot, Dec. 12. did not belong to the school. A serious disturbance took place at the Polytechnic School on Tuesday night, which lasted from nine till eleven o'clock, and was not put an end to till the general com manding the school arrived. He yesterday ordered that none of the first division of the school should be allowed to go out till further orders. The mutiny is said to have been occasioned by the great severity of the colonel. The Journal des Debats observes, that one striking fact results from the late discussion of the Chamber—namely, that the adversaries of the Government, notwithstanding their well-known inclination, could not find a single griev ance of importance against Ministers. All their eloquence was lost in personalities, or in mere common-place remarks. There was the victory of Ministers, if victory it was, when no one dared to attack their conduct, or contest the wis dom and efficacy of their political acts. They called for a solemn discussian of their policy, and found no opponent, but the reason is obvious. Their adversaries, separated from them by transitory differences, were unwilling to bor row the arguments of the Opposition, and seem to condemn in 1834, a policy which they have defended since 1830. They were desirous, in case of failure, of saving their logic, and this to a certain degree they have effected ; but the Government has gained more than they have. The Constitutionnel says—" Although the majority was little favourable to Ministers, yet it saw the difficulty of replacing that which exists—it saw no Ministry formed, and ready to take the direction of affairs. It was aware that, being always in sufficient force to recall to Ministers the ideas of moderation, of dignity, and of economy al luded to in the address, it could still transact with them the business of the country, which has more need of positive improvement than of Ministerial changes. The majority has resigned itself to the Doctrinaire Cabinet for want of another, and has reserved to itself the task of neutralizing its evil propensities. The discussion first directed against the • address was gradually supplanted by common-place phrases, to come to a result which seems enigmatical, inas much as it eulogizes with the same breath the Ministers and the address which opposes them." The Courrier Francais considers the late debate, and the vote in which it terminated, as a further proof of the ne cessity of a reform in the electoral system, which is about to be called for from the tribune of the Chamber. "We hope," it adds, " that reform will be demanded from every part of the country ; and when the almost unanimous wish of the people is pronounced, the men of the resistance party must capitulate, for to resist, even with , a legal majority, like that of the 300, against the wants and desires of the nation openly expressed, is, they are well aware, to run the risk of a revolution." DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. HENRY WHEELER KING, scrivener, Bristol. JOHN GILBERT, Sen., coach-proprietor, Woburn, Bedford shire (From the Election.) PARIS, DEC. 10.—The sum which was to be paid for the release of the wives of officers and others of the Queen's party not having been completed, Zumalacarreguy has de clared that he will always make them follow his head quar ters. These unfortunate females are now in the highest part of the Amescoas. On the 2d instant General Oraa occupied the villages of Huarte and Villaba, be came from Echarri Aranits ; his co lumn had captured on the Ist, five waggons with ammuni tion, and two with cartridge boxes belonging to the Car lists. This column and that of Cordova accompanied a convoy which came from Vittoria. They separated at Irurzun ; that of Cordova, which has been joined by 2,000 men from Vittoria, is gone to Estelea, and it was affirmed that that of Oraa would arrive on the 4th ult. in the Valley of Bastan to receive the money and arms which are in the Aldudes. Don Carlos, with four battalions, left the village of Oheyza on the Ist and proceeded to the Vallies of the Amescoas. Zumalacarreguy, with nine battalions and 600 horse entered Falces on the 30th in the evening. The Urbanos retired into the fort. The next day they were summoned to surrender. The Carlist General had caused thirty-five families of distinction to be arrested. Provisions are so dear at Pampeluna, that between the 25th Nov. and 2d December above 60 families had been obliged to leave the city. We regret to announce, according to letters from Bayonne of the 6th, that Zamalacarreguy had taken on the 2d, not only the fort of Falces, but also two other points at a short distance, where the troops of the Queen and the Ur banos thought to make a stand. Above 500 Christinos were put to the sword. His Excellency Lord Granville, Ambassador of Eng land, has delivered to the King and Queen, in a private audience, the letters by which his Britannic Majesty noti fies to their Majesties the death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, his brother-in-law and cousin. On this occasion the King will go into mourning for eleven days, from to-morrow, the 11th, to the 21st of December.- Messager, Dec. 11. BOURSE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 3 O'CLOCK.---The French Three per Cents. have improved to-day. Some business of consequence has been done in that stock, and the price rose gradually to 77f. 40c. buyers. The only news on 'Change is brought by a letter from Bayonne of the 6th inst. It says that the Carlists have been repulsed from Elisondo, but they had made themselves masters of a fort called Pratas, in vvhich they have put 500 to the sword. The Spanish Securities remain without any fluctuations, owing to a total stand of business in them. The last prices at half-past three o'clock are as follows :-Five per Cents. 106 f. 90c. ; Three per Cents., 77f. 40c. 45c. ; Five per Cents., Spanish, 43* ; Three per Cents. ditto, 27 ; Cortes, 39i ; Royal, 45i ; Coupons, 25 ; Differes, 943 ; Romain, 951 ; Belgian, 99i ; Pedro, 84} ; Miguel, 27k. BoURSE, THURSDAY, DEC. 11.-In the beginning of the market the stocks looked up, and a great deal of busi ness was done. The Three per Cents. have been done at 77f. 25c. sellers. The Spanish Securities are totally aban doned : no fluctuation whatever in them. HALF-PAST 3 O'CLOCK.-Five per Cents., 106 f. 80c. ; Three per Cents., 77f. 20c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 43 ; Cortes, 39K ; Three per Cents., 27 ; Coupons, nothing done; Differes, 14i; Ducats, 93 75 ; Romans, 93 ; Belgic, 901 : ?edros, 84 ; Miguel.% 27; Dutch, 55 Is. FRENCH FUNDS.-Paais, Dim 11. Five per Cents., 106 f. 65c. 60c. 50c. Four and a Half per Cent, 101 f. 10c. Four per Cents., 93f. -c. Three per Cents., 77f. 20c. 15c. 77E Bank Actions, 1,860 f. 1,797 f. 50e. Rente de Naples, 93f. 85c 70c. Roman Five per Cents., 95%Y ; 95. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 39%%%. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 27. Royal Spanish Loan, 45%. Bente Perpet. d'Dpagne, Five per Cent., 48 32%. Belgian Loan, rive per Cents , 995%. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 84%. Ditto, Six per Cents, 94%54. Haytian Loan, 275 f. -c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. 0 :e month, paper, 25f. 32%e. ; money. -f. -c . Three months, paper, 2.5 f. 1734 c.; money, -t. -c t o rs 4u/he/tag/re. BANKRUPTS. JOSHUA VOLLANS, Jun., woollen cloth-manufacturer, Leeds, to surrender Dec. 29, at twelve, and Jan. 23, at eleven at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turner, Basing-lane ; Graham, official assignee, Copthall-buildings. DAVID BOWEN, hatter, Swansea, Dec. 23, at one, and J an . 23, at eleven, at the ourt of Bankruptcy. Groom, Ab ehurch-lane, official assignee ; Wright, Hare-court, Tempe. BENJAMIN CHALLINOR, colour-manufacturer, Derby, Dee. 27, and Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Office of Mr. John Moss, Derby. Addington , Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row ; Moss, Derby. SAMUEL PHILLIPS and JOSEPH PHILLIPS, merchants, Liverpool, Jan. 1 and 23, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms Liver pool. Chester , Staple - Inn , London ; Davenport , Live r p ool. WILLIAM POPE and ARTEMAS CAMBRIDGE, ship builders, Liverpool, Dec. 24, and Jan. 23, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Blackstock, Bunce and Vincent, Inner Temple, London ; Brabner, Liverpool. JAMES EYKIN DEVEY, farmer, Hurcott-mill, Kiddermin ster, Worcestershire, Dec. 22, and Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Kidderminster. Dangerfield, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Brinton, Kidderminster. HENRY CLARK, linen,draper, Bridgwater, Somersetshirc, Dec. 27, and Jan. 23, at one, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. Jenkins, New-inn, London; Clarke and Sons, Bristol. JAMES GRAHAM, seed-dealer, Netland, Westmoreland, Dec. 22, and January 23, at eleven, at the Whitehall Rooms, Kendal. Wilson and Harrison, Kendal ; Addison, Verulam- Buildings, Gray's- Inn. London, THOMAS NIARSHALL MYERS, salt-broker, Liverpool, Jan. 1, and 23, at eleven, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Blackstock, Bunce, and Vincent, Inner Temple, London ; Brabner, Liverpool. RICHARD KEHOE, grocer, New-street, Bishopsmate-street, Dec. 22, at two, and Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankrupt cy. Lofty, Potter, and Crowe, King-street, Cheapside ; Tur quand, Copthall-buildings, official assignee. GEORGE SHOOBRIDGE, tailor, Skinner-street, Dec. 18, at twelve, and Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, Basinghall - street; Gibson, Basinghall - street, official as signee. SAMUEL DANFORD, money-scrivener, George -yard, Lom bard-street, Dec. 18, at one, and Jan. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lewis , Church - cour t, Clement's-la ne , Lombard street; Green, King's Arms-yard , offici al assi g nee. RICE SHARPLEY and GEORGE SHARPLEY, stationers, Oxford-street, Dec. 22 , at one, and Jan. 2 3 , at twelve, at the C o urt of Bankruptcy. Strand. Groom, Abchurch-lane, official assi gnee ; C ross , Surrey-street, DANIEL HAIGH, and JOSEPH HAIGH, cloth -manufac turers, Linthwaite, York, Dec. 22, and Jan. 23, at ten, at the George Inn, Huddersfield. Jaques, Battye, and Edwards, Bar nard's Inn ; Battye and Hesp, Huddersfield. WILLIAM BROADY, Leeds, wool-dealer, Dec. 19, at half past twelve, and Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy Rixon and Sons, Jewry-street, Aldgate. FRANCIS EDWARD BINGLEY, printer, Wakefi e ld, York shire, Dec. 20, and Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Commercial-build- Leeds. ings, Leeds. Jones and W ard, Bedford-row, Lond on; Hicks DIVIDENDS. W. E. Powell and J. Powell, linen-drapers, Oxford-street, Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. R. Merccr, coal owner, Swansea , G lamor g an, Jan. 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. J. G. Chester, tailor, Shrewsbury, Jan. 9, at one, at the Tem porary Shire Hail, Shrewsbury. J. Parr, corn merchant, Jenny-Hole, Worcestershire, Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidderminster. G. Rowland, innkeeper, Plymouth, Jan. 3, at eleven, at the Commercial Hotel, Plymouth. CERTIFICATES —JAN. 2. G. Littlewood, printer, Green Arbour-court, Old Bailey. J. F. Prescott, painter, High- street, Marylebone. 0. Paul, plumber, East Grinstead, Sussex. E. Brown, cotton-spinner, Heaton Norris, Lancashire. W. Johnson, jun., grocer, Thirsk, Yorkshire. T. Cocking, chemist, Great Portland-street, Marylebone. N. Trafford, cook, Oxford. T. Meredith, maltster, Hornoastle, Lincolnshire. T. Bishop, glover, Cheapside. W. Mills, bricklayer, Chapel-street, Edgeware-road. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Camwell, C. Camwell, and A. Bacon, milliners, Coventry. J. Orrell and J. Moors, ironmongers, Wigan, Lancashire. R. P. Southern and R. Harper, smiths, Stockport, Cheshire. J. 111‘Ray and F. Wrigley, fustian shearers, Gaythorne, Man chester. J. and T. S. Lea, carpet-manufacturers, Kidderminster. N. Turner and J. Ingham, glass-blowers, Thornhill Lees, Yorkshire. R. Snow and T- Pratt, maltsters, Tiverton, Devonshire. J. Burrows and T. Fox, millers, Spital Brook Mills, Stafford shire. J. and E. Burrows, millers, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. C. R. Freeman and R. French, soap-manufacturers, Norwich. C. R. Freeman and W. Andrews, grocers, Norwich. J. Whitlow and J. S. Cooke, milliners, Manchester. G. Collins and B. Dowding, meat salesm en, Newgate-market. A. J. Strachan, sen., J. Strachan, and A. J. Strachan, jun. , goldsmiths, Long-acre. T. Weston and W. Gurner, jun., carpenters, Cheltenham. W. Green and C. Slatterie, silk-mercers, Church-street, Hackney. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. DAVID MALCOLM, distiller, Gillybanks, and writer, Perth Dec. 18, and Jan. 3, at one, at the Hammerman's Inn, Perth. Lord Rosslyn, it is confidently reported, does not go Ireland, and Lord Cowley is named as Ambassador to Paris. We have been much gratified by inspecting a very ingenious and efficacious mode of warming places without any chimney, invented by Mr. Rickets, of Agar-street, Strand. This desideratum is effected by means of a small supply of the street gas (as we are informed at the trifling cost 9f one half penny per hour) which is introduced into a chamber at the bottom of the stove, and afterwards between two strong iron cylinders, which in a short time are sufficiently heated to dif fuse a comfortable warmth, free from dust or smell. They seem particularly well adapted for Halls, Conservatories, or Churches, as they can be left burning all night with the most perfect safety. On the Long Down, near Beachy Head, nine paupers were found digging slack chalk, and drawing it out on a piece of six acres in their hand carts, containing five bushels each, at the rate of 640 such cart loads for six pounds per acre. The men were thankful for the work, at which they could earn 2s. and upwards per day, and the tenant by whom the work was doing, stated that he found the hand-cart work cheaper than in the usual way with cattle, and that the trial of spreading chalk last year on the adjoining ground proved that expense would be repaid by the crop. On the road to Beachy Head, a pauper was found breaking flints at 18d. the ton of thirtHwe half bushels, which 4 f he said he ?referred to doing the same work by the day, as he could leave it when he pleased ;" and three little boys under nine years of age, who considered it an amusement, were helping him. If a greater quantity of flints were broken than are needed for the cross- Toads and making ponds, &c., ships which now ta ke in shin g l e for ballast would probably pureme them. — Brighton Gazette. SITTINGS OF MONDAY AND TUESDAY, DEC. 8 AND 9. On these two days the law respecting the land tax was discussed at great length. Many members spoke against it. The Minister of Finance replied to various objections, and declaredin continuance, that, if the projects were rejected, the King bad authorised him to declare that it should be sent back to the Chamber with the alterations which some of the members had proposed. On the question being put, the law was rejected by a ma jority of 44 to 8. FLUSHING, DEC. s.—We understand that the fortifica cations that are to be erected at Ellewontsdyk and Braskens will be commenced before the end of this year. AMSTERDAM, DEC. B.—Dutch Stock was much in de mand on our Exchange on Saturday, especially the Two and-a-Half per Cents, which were at 53k. To-day the de mand continues, especially for the Two-and-a-Half per Cents., of which large purchases were made for French ac count, in consequence of the establishment of an office for them at Paris. In other kinds of stock little was done. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. (Concluded from The Sun of yesterday.) ELECTION OF A RECTOR. The Court, previous to proceeding to the election of a Rector of the United Parishes of St. Margaret Pattens and St. Gabriel Fenchurch, unanimously agreed to a resolution that the several candidates for the vacant Rectory be in formed that it is the expectation of the Court that the gen tleman who may be elected shall reside in the parsonage house, and personally perform the duties of Rector, and that in the event of his obtaining any other preferment which shall render such residence and performance of duty impracticable, he do resign the benefice : and that each candidate be asked whether he is willing to go to the elec tion upon the faith that such shall be his conduct if elected. The resolution was then communicated to the two Reverend Gentleman who were candidates for the Rec- Wry, in which they both readily acquiesced. The poll was then proceeded on, and the scrutineers re ported the numbers to be, for Rev. Mr. Grose 66 Rev. Mr. Newbury whereupon the Lord Mayor declared the latter gentleman duly elected. The Court proceeded to consider a report from the City Lands Committee for an application to Parliament in the next Session for enlarging and improving Smithfield market. The report was agreed to, except as to the site for the pro posed enlargement of the market, and it was referred to the City Lands' Cammittee to further consider that subject, and to confer with the New Street Committee thereon. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDIIALL. Yesterday Mr. Nickolas Maillard, a gentleman who had served Don Pedro, with the rank of Lieutenant, for twelve months, during the occupation of Oporto, was brought before Mr. Alderman VENABLES, charged with attempting to extort money from Mr. Mendizabal, the financial agent in London for the Portuguese Government, under the threat of bringing upon that government the hatred of the public ; and Thomas Williams, a poor man, was charged with carrying two placards up and dowu Cornbill in aid of the said attempt. Mr. Alderman VENABLES would not sanction the placing a man with these placards opposite Mr. Mendizabal's door, but as the man had in this case walked up and down like .the other placard-bearers he should dismiss the charge. In reply to questions from the Alderman, Mr. Maillard had been engaged in several actions, and had his arm broken by the bursting of a shell in the bar racks. All his baggage had been detained for many months, on account of a debt for freight due from the Por tuguese Government to a ship-agent at Portsmouth. Mr. Alderman VENABLES hoped Mr. Mendizabal would immediately redress this grievance. The parties were then dismissed. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Pierre Le Maitre, a native of France, was held to bail to keep the peace towards Mr. James Smith, tailor, in Bond-street, whom he had annoyed in various ways, and threatened to make a victim of, in consequence of his having been discharged about a fortnight ago by Mr. Smith, in whose employment he had been as a journeyman. THAMES- OFFICE. Yesterday Mark Brady, a seaman belonging to a New castle collier, who has been in custody for the last six weeks on a charge of maliciously wounding Robert Dixon, his shipmate, with intent to murder him, was brought before Mr. Broderip for the fifth time for re-examination. The wounded man, whose skull has been trepanned, has since remained in the London Hospital, and his sufferings have been very great. His ultimate recovery is even now very doubtful. Yesterday, on the prisoner being put to the bar, Sporle, a names police constable, stated that he had just seen the man in the hospital, and he was not yet in a fit state to give his deposition. He could not get in or out of bed without assistance, and he understood that he would have to undergo another painful operation. Mr. BRODERIP said it was a most painful and distressing case, and notwithstanding the length of time the prisoner had been in custody he was afraid he must again remand him. _ _ --- The prisoner was then remanded for another fortnight. We have been given to understand that the Duke of Sussex attended the funeral of the late Duke of Gloucester, though at great personal risk, at the express desire of the King. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.---On Thursday after noon, during the time that a party of labourers were engaged in lowering cinnamon powder from a floor of an upper story of a warehouse in Lower Thames-street, one of the bags, weighing from three to four cwt , fell fmm the slings of the crane upon a man employed below, and deprived him almost instaritmleously of life. GERMAN PAPERS. MUNICH, DEc. I.—A Commission has been appointed, which is to compile elementary books of instruction for the public schools. The Commission met yesterday, and con sists of six Members, the Bishop of Augsburg, J. A. Reigg, being President. One of the Members is M. Beck, Pro testant Dean of Munich. The Gernzan Courier has announced that the Govern ment of the Circle of the Lower Maine has issued an ordi nance, by which booksellers are enjoined to submit every new work which they 'ceive to the Board of Censo rshi p , immediately on its arrival, on pain of subjecting themselves to a penalty of 100 dollars. The Nuremberg Correspondent observes, that this regu lation is not new in Bavaria ; that it is founded in Sec. 5 of the Constitutional Edict relative to the Press, which en joins booksellers to exhibit their catalogues, under a penalty of 100 dollars. CASSEL, Nov. 30.—The Electoral Prince has acceded to the desire of the Dowager Landgravine of Hesse Rohen burg, to reside henceforward in the Palace at Rolienburg. The Princess Clotilde of Hesse Rohenburg, sister of the deceased Landgrave, who had hitherto lived at Rohenburg, intends to reside in Cassel. • The Landgrave has left a fine library of German, English, French and Italian. Litera ture, consisting of 50,000 volumes, the greater part of which has lately been removed to Corvey.—l'ranhfort Paper, Dec. 7. ROME, NOVEMBER', 28.—The unexpected return of Don Miguel, the departure of Sir Robert Peel for England, and the new change of the French Ministry, has caused an uncommon sensation here. It may easily be imagined that the second of these events, or rather the cause of it, is very agreeable to many persons here. Among the effects of the late Cardinal Zanta, there is said to be a beautiful and costly collection of antique and precious stones, which during his life time was inaccessible to every body. Lord Shrewsbury, with his family, has arrived at Rome. According to an authentic census the population of the kingdom of Naples amounted at the beginning of 1834 to 5,883,273 souls ; (Sicily is not included.) Among the number are 26,806 priests, 11,733 monks, and 9,521 nuns. Among the deaths are 2,038 persons between the ages of 90 and 100, and 26 above 100. FRANKFORT, DEC. 2.—About 200 men of the Prussian battalion in garrison at Borekenheim and Bornheim, in our neighbourhood, marched yesterday to Mayence, and were replaced by a detachment of recruits from Mayence. It has been positively stated that the troops of the Confedera tion in the vicinity of Frankfort will enter the city itself on the Ist of April next year. But we do not see that any preparations are making for such an event, and we have no place in the city ready to receive more troops. It is there fore believed that the manner in which Frankfort is to be occupied in the sequel by the troops of the Confe deration is not yet fixed. Since the return of the Duke of Nassau we are very anxious to see whether an Envoy will be sent to Berlin on the part of the Duchy, to negotiate for the accession to the Commercial Union. Letters from Berlin positively assert that an Envoy will be sent, and especially as the Duke, while in that city, paid great attention to the subject. Meantime various reports have been spread here, confirming the opinion that our city will join the Union. We do not hear at present that any further resolutions of the Diet will be soon published. It is affirmed that it was resolved at Vienna, that, in the Journals published in the States of the German Confederation, the blanks caused by the erasures of the Censors, must be filled up. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 13.—1 t is known at Conttan- tinople that a courier from Toulon bad arrived at Alexan dria, with instructions to warn Mehemet Ali not to behave in a hostile manner towards the Porte ; for that, if he did, such conduct would be considered as a violation of the friendly relations between France and Egypt. Mehemet is said to have been* much surprised at this communication, and to have renounced for the present the idea of declar ing himself independent. He continues, hoivever, to strengthen his army and navy, though he had the most fa vourable accounts of the war in Arabia Felix, almost the whole of which had submitted to him. Part of the Eng- lisp squadron is still near Smyrna.—Allgenziene Zeitung, Dec. 7. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, DEC. 7.—Yesterday being the second an niversary of the birthday of his Royal Highness the Prince cf Orange it was celebrated with the usual rejoicings. A detachment of 260 grenadiers and jagers left this place ycsterday to join the army. The corvettes Dolphin, Pollan, and Comet, are put out of service, and most of the officers placed on half-pay. The celebrated Jurist M. J. D. Meyer died ycsterday, at Amsterdam, at the age of 54 years. M. Meyer was Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands, and of the Legion of Honour, Member of the Royal Institution of the Netherlands, and of many of the national and foreign Li terary Societies. In the sitting of the Second Chamber, on Friday the sth December, the report of the Central Section was read, relative to the law on the land-tax for 1835. It appeared that several Members had objections to the proposed law. The discussion was fixed for Monday, the Bth. SALE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LAT. MR. HEBER Mr. Evans, of Pall-Mall, has been selling, during the week, the books which form the fourth part of the library of the late Richard Heber. The sale commenced on Mon- day last, and is to occupy fourteen days. The catalogue contains some very curious books on English, Scotch, and Irish history, and some rare French romances. It also con tains the larger portion of the collection of English poetry and of authors connected with the commencement and pro gress of the English language and literature. This is the part of his library of which we are told " Mr. Heber was the most proud, and which he laboured for nearly forty years, with unceasing perseverance, and equally constant pleasure, to enrich and complete." The sale of yesterday contained some very rare and curious specimens of early English poetry, and some exceedingly curious and valuable metrical tracts. The room, however, was but thinly attended, and with the exception of the " trade," very few bidders were present : of course there was but little emu lation in keuping up the prices of the lots, and many of them were knocked down at little more than one third the prices they cost the collector. The " Tragi call and true Historic, which happened betweene two English Lovers," written by Bernard Garter, and " im prynted in. Flete-strete, within Temple-lane, at the signe of the Hande and Starre. by Richard Tottyli" almost a unique copy, was knocked down for 171. " Eclogs, Epytaphes, and Sonnettes, newly written by Barnabe Googe," 1563, one of the scarcest books in the English language, and never met with by Farmer, Warton, or Reed, fetched 161. ss. The first book of the " Famous Historye of Penardo and Laissa," printed in 1615, at Dordt, by Geo. Waters, of which only two copies are known, was sold for 121. ss. This same copy was purchased at Pinkerton's sale for 211. The " Notable Discovery of Coosenage," 1592, by Greene, who appears to have dedicated his muse to the task of exposing the ehelts of the day, produced 2/. 3s. " Conny-catching,' 1592, by the same author, 4/. 10s. Another copy 4/. 12s. Another tract by Greene, entitled " A Disputation between a bee Conny-catcher and a shee Conny-catcher," and said to be the rarest of all his pro ductions, 41. 10s. " A pair of Turtle Doves," by the same author, and of which only one other copy is known, fetched 4/. 14s. 6d., being little more than half of what it produced at the last sale of Sir M. Sykes. There were many other tracts of Greene, but those enumerated are amongst the most valuable. " Guy of Warwick," black letter, brought only 25/. : this copy was formerly in the possession of West, Pearson, Stevens, and the Duke of • Roxburghe, at whose sale it was bought by Mr. Heber for 43/. Is. " The Chronicle of Englande," by John Hardyng, 1543, brought 13/. 35., being the precise sum given for it by Mr. Heber ; this copy has the autograph of the celebrated John Dee. ‘."l'he Temple of Glas," stated in the catalogue as the work of Stephen Hawes, but written by Lydiat, fetched 14/. ; this copy was purchased by Boswell at Malone's sale for 461. 10s. The " Passe tyme of Pleasure," by Hawes, Wynkin de Worde, 1517, 21/. 10s. This work fetched at the Roxburghe sale 84/. and at the sale of Sir M. Sykes 421., and will furnish some notion of the depreciation of this sort of property. Ten books of " Homer's 'Hades," translated from the French by A. Hall, black letter, 1581, 5/. 10s. It was sold at White Knights for W. In this curious work Ajax is made to speak of the Bastile, and to quote the Bible as the stan dard of truth. It would be endless to mention all the rare volumes which were yesterday submitted to the public by Mr. Evans, but we must not omit to notice the " Chrony des of the Londe of Englond," printed at Andewarpe," 1493, by Gerard de Leew. This rare.book was knocked down to Mr. Thorpe for 371. 16s. and is, we believe, with the exception of one in the library of Lord Spencer, the only copy in existence. The " Chronycle of Englonde," printed by " me Wynkyn de Worde, 1502," fetched 171. 10s. This was Mr. Dent's copy, and cost Mr. Heber 381. 17s. " Dives et Pauper," " emprynted by me, Rich arde Pynson, at the Temple Barre, 1493," being the first book printed by Pynson, 211. LIE NEW WEIGHT AND MEASURE ACT. On the Ist of January next, the Act for establishing a just and uniform system of weights and measures will come into force. I trust its provisions will mee Uhl' more ho nest practical observance than has hitherto been the case with Acts of this description—among the lower class of retail dealers in particular. It was melancholy to read in last week's papers, that in the Borough of Southwark alone sundry fines, to the amount of no less than 7001. were levied upon various tradesmen, for using false weights and mea sures. It is impossible for the fair tradesman to compete successfully in business with such fraudulent dealers as these. The worst of all sorts of underselling is that which consists in underweighing. The poor man is deceived in thinking be gets full value for his money, when lie does not, and is as literally robbed as if the money of which he is de frauded were taken by force out of his pocket. I much fear, however, that no legal remedy that can be devised (except, perhaps, that Turkish one of nailing the ears of every offender to his door-post), will ever prove adequate to the extinction of the evil. There has always been—and in spite of Mr. Owen's benevolent anticipations, will, I sus pect, always be—too much dishonesty in the world to per mit us to hope for so desirable a consummation. Much, certainly, depends on the character of the magistracy to whom the execution of the law is intrusted : were all ma gistrates, for example, as determinedly hostile ro the frau dulent dealer as the late Brook Watson, there might be every thing to hope. It is with great pleosure I now recall .to mind the many impressive addresses which that worthy alderman was wont to make to inquest juries on the ini quity of the users of false weights and measures, and the necessity of protecting the poor against their devices. His laudable efforts had a marked effect at the time in lessen ng the number of offenders, and yet now, after the lapse of twenty-eight years, we find them again as numerous and as daring as ever. The present method of proceeding on the part of inquest juries strikes me as particularly injudicious. Can any thing more absurd be imagined than the notion of body of public functionaries setting out to detect secret (fenders, decked out in all the pride and pomp of wardmote grandeur, with furred robes of office on, and attendant beadles in gold-laced liveries, bearing gilded staves as big as may poles ? For whose sake is all this show ? For the sake of the inquest themselves, or for the sake of the public ? To persons who are in the habit of using false weights and measures, it must often be exceed ingly convenient to be forewarned in this way, of the pro. priety of putting them for the moment out of the way., To defend myself individually against being a sufferer from short weight, I keep a pair of small scales with suit able weights, and whenever I detect any dishonesty in those I deal with, I always change my tradesman, whether but cher, baker, cheesemonger, or grocer. By this method I obtain clear evidence of those who act honestly, and of those who do not. Conformably to this plan, I would suggest that every one of the police-stations (of which we have now enough in all parts of the town), should be furnished with a set of legal weights and measures, according to the forth coming Act, so that every purchaser of any necessary arti cles might go there and ascertain whether he has been ho nestly dealt with or not. If he has been cheated, then (putting all enforcement of penalty out of view) be can have recourse to the remedy I adopt, of trying some other dealer.—Correspondent of Mechanics' Magazine. The Marquis of Sligo left his eldest son, the young Earl of Altamont, in England, for the purpose of proceeding with his education at Eton. His Lordship frequently visited Mr. Rice, at the Colonial Office, before the Right Hon. Gen tleman quitted office. The mansion of the Noble Marquis, in Mansfield-street, is still in the occupancy of her Royal High ness the Princess de Beira and her nephews, the sons of Don Carlos. SIR WILLIAM GELL'S ROME AND ITS VICI NITY.—This work is not, and from its nature could not have been, a hasty production. Years of labours, of lore, have been devoted to the unconscious accumulation of materials. The previous publications of the author had rendered hint skilful in the immediate practice of classical antiquarianism ; the study of a whole life had imbued him with the requisite knowledge and feeling for the task. When the composition was finally determined on, be made, in addition to personal examinations, a trigonometrical survey of the district, applying modern science to bear upon ancient remains. The result of this particular labour accompanies the work in the shape of the completest map of " Rome and its Environs" we ever saw, or which, indeed, can ever have been published. No one can thoroughly study the history of the earlier ages of Rome, 0 , - understand the more familiar allusions of her writers, without possession this work.—Spectator. ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.-- yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, during the fog, which was very dense on the river, the London Merchant steam-ship, which was coming up the Pool, on her return from Rotterdam, and the Brilliant Gravesend steamer, going down the Thames, met each other nearly opposite Execution Dock, \Yapping, and a serious collision took place. It ap pears that the two vessels were going half speed, and were very near each other before the respective Captains and pilots were aware of the fact ; and, though the order to stop was given, the collision could not be prevented, and the ironwork on the larboard side of each vessel was carved away, and other damage caused. A part of the paddlebox of the Brilliant was also stove in, and as well as could be ascertained in the con fusion that prevailed she appeared to have received the most injury. She turned on her broadside, and came in contact with a lug-boat, laden with coals, lying alongside the tier of shipping off Church-stairs. The tugboat immediately went down, and a man on hoard had great difficulty in sarina his life, and was only enabled to save some of his gear. Both steamers, after a short delay, proceeded onwards to their re speetive destinations. The passengers were greatly alalnaed, and when the collision took place ran fore and aft calling out for boats from the shore. Several watermen put off, but the: fears of the passengers being allayed their services was not re quired. =