The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-03 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY). John Minter Hart, otherwise John Morton, was placed at the bir, charged on an indictment charging him with feloniously stealing, on the Ist of May, one bill of exchange, for the payment of 301., the property of James Stanhope. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty, and was given in charge to the Jury. Mr. ALLEY, who, with Mr. BODKIN and Mr. PREN DERGAST, defended the prisoner, took a technical objection to th e indictment. The offence was laid in the indictment to have been committed in the parish of Marylebone, with out stating the county. In short, the words, "in the county of Middlesex," were omitted. It appeared that blank bad been left for the purpose of adding these essential words, but instead of inserting " in the county of Middlesex," the words " in the city of London" bail be e n added. The Court bad judicial knowledge that the parish of Marylebone was not in the city of London, and on this fact, coupled with the statute 7 and 8 Geo. IV., he relied that the objection was fatal, and as the jury hail been charged with the prisoner, he was entitled to an acquittal. Mr. BODKIN and Mr. PRENDERGAST followed on the lame side. Mr. ADOLPHUS contra contended, that as the Court bad jurisdiction to try prisoners for offences committed in the City of London as well as in the County of Middlesex, tl e objection was untenable. The JUDGES conferred for a few minutes, when Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE pronounced the decision of the Court that the objection was fatal, and the jury must re turn a verdict of not guilty on this indictment. The jury then, under the direction of the Court, re turned a verdict of Not Guilty. Mr. PRENDERGAST applied to the Court to order the irisoner to be discharged. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE-The Court will make no order. The prisoner was then removed by one of the turnkeys, in custody. IVilliam Collier, described in the calendar as forty four years of age, and by profession a surgeon, was in• dicted for feloniously aiding and abetting a certa n person, at present unknown, to personate Richard Squire, the joint owner, together with the said William Collier, of the sum of 2,044/. 3s. Id. Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities, and by these means transferring to his own use such share or interest, with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and applied to the Court to postpone the trial until the next sessions, in b y Mr. e Lord Lrres ted cis th e at the auseitt ore the es the acellot• ) maioa h biro► Lord shoe big ,vlt► la Mr. e day?, r 8000 —Ake he WO Con' be 08 , ed the to the day g° I the' led by I some is per' 2atter . It g• , gine°. y, and orders U. ls de -Ihould rule ,ut be Mr. 'gust, He . r 22, ;haw, sel Oti Mr. I sol Vag Fleet read• three ding !ars. per- for lan, The was In, )1e In lat letter from plaintiff to Lord 13rotip,Lam, setting forth , t h v grievances and cee p..ioci , on, was here put in and I t ' , dated 21st January, I 532 ; also one of the 3d 4re h• to Ihe same effect. I'hat rioted th e c a s e for the plaintiff. The 1 SOLICITOR GENERAL then rose and submitted t o a Lordship, that the plaintiff must he nonsuited. He * oula not say one word about the character of Mr. Dicas, b° b ' would he throw any blame upon the L o r d C hancellor. T, tt was an action against the highest legal authorit y 4 'he kingdom against the chief magistrate, and by the 'r of England no such action could be mai ntained. There was nothing for Mr. Dices to coMplain of. lie I qa that h e has twice been imprisoned, once in March , t !:d another tithe in tueust or September , an d t hat u p on 0 d eta granted by the Chancellor, acting as C hancellor in !Jorisdiction as Keeper of the Great Seal. There was .7 11 no irregularity complained of in the second order ; asst forth every thing it should have done—the rule, the 'sand, and the refusal—it was in every w ay re g ular. holes the plaintiff could make out the case that the ` 4l ancellor had no power sitting in bankruptcy to I t '!he such orders, there was ne c ause of action at tit h e ) and be must be put out of Court . Now, as ~j . ' '9arded the first order, the plaintiff had merely PA it in, and there his base remained—he gave no further 'ridene e . How stood the case? the plaintiff is ar r e sted in t ° e Common Pleas—he goes before the Chanc ellor and please his privilege, and he, in his anxiety for the libert y of ht subject, orders him to be released without that which 4 "ingular, an oath of either party. The ti p staff was the "Non who was in the error, for he took the plaintiff into t4 ttody after being made acquainted with the question ° , l privilege—but was the Chancellor to be answer "e for that ? Lord Eldon, than whom, he might i t '? without offence, no greater lawyer ever sat o n the ,dchs even now in the p ossession of all his faculties, doubt 'Whether there ought to be any second de ig'r,d—in fact, up till the time of Dicas's case, it was l i h '"aYe a matter of doubt. Lord B rou g ham now held S uppose it w a s necessary, and had so settled t h e matter. an attachment was issued from the Kin g 's Bench, not paying money according to the Master's allocator, I lflecime irregularity was found out in the affi lavits, would 11 a held that an action would lie against the fou r or five f udges of that Court. The same applied to the r ulin g of t 'heriff to bring in the body of that Court , and a n at llehment issuing, but still nothing could be done as a g ainst 'le Judges who ordered that attachment. Lord LYNDHURST—Why did you allow the evidence to On, with regard to the practice of the Court ? The SOLICITOR GENERAL—It was not for him to stop , °4 Learned Friend, or he would have called it a denial of lattice—he wanted that be should have his full swing. t Lord LYNDHURST—The Chancellor is pla ced at the 'ad of Bankruptcy in order that he may bring in aid his illthority of Chancellor. lie The Sou CITO . R.;GENERA L is —Yee ; and ot) can against any judge who acting in his jurisdiction. That was clearly laid down by Lord Hale in Bushel's case. ' 'here a jury would not find Penn, the Quaker tailty, according to the directions of the Court, 144 they were fined and imprisoned. For that an letion was brought against the judges, and it was said then 'het the bringing of the action was a greater offence than i t,l'a elared, fining, &These c. Agcas es ain, in w e H re to be found i ammond's case, the n same let and was 44 d Modern. There were two decisi ons b y Lord cEldon reported in 14 Vesey, 449, and let Rose, in which, to his view, the question was set at rest. Pon all these grounds, as all the principles of law, as Hell as all adjudged cases, were in his favour, he trusted 'het th e plaintiff would he nonsuited. Mr. WrosiTatare followed shortly on the same side. Me. PLATT said the question really was , whet h er Mr. „ "leas was to be debarred from the right of every man, t he laying his case before a Jury, in order to re '`'eer damages for an injury which he has sustained. The cases cited by the Solicitor-General all applied to a ~,'-'ourt of Record, and in this case it was not so ; for the \'hane e ll o r, while sitting in bankruptcy, did not constitute t les He apprehended the Chancellor only bad jurisdiction where the common law did not apply. Lord LYNDHURST—No ; the Chancellor has a concur rent jurisdiction, in m ,ny cases, with other Courts. Mr. PLATT—If a person receive a sum of money the miry of another, he app rehended that a Court of j Zguity had no power to order its restoration while the `"Nrnon law was open, for it was then evident that it I toold be allowing the defendant to take advantage of his o Aa wrong, unless it were proved that he had jurisdic :,'oll in the case. The Learned Counsel contended that d.e defendant took his jurisdic tion to commit by virtue 'A his office of Lord Chancellor and not by any of the s tatutes, and in consequence be was bound to plead specially, viz., that being Lord Chancellor, and as such Judge of the Bankruptcy Court, he did so and so. All t he cases that had been cited, showed that under the plea of general issue, it was only competent for Judges aot of Courts of Record to make defence to an action of t jeepass. Upon the authority of former cases therefore, be submitted that the plaintiff should to - he nonsuited, btlt that the case should go to the Jury, for them to award damages. Mr. KELLY and Mr. FoLeerr followed on the same aide. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL rose to reply, and to contend %at the plea was good, and the Lord Chancellor's juris diction was derived from statute law, and no other means, and that his powers as a Judge of the B inkruptcy Court were conferred particularly by the 6tb Geo. IV., which repealed all former Bankrupt Acts, and established a new triode. Lord LYNDHURST stopped the Solicitor-General by says nag that he bad no doubt upon the question ; he was clearly of opinion that no action could lie against the Lord Chancellor as Chancellor for any thing i'one in bankruptcy. It was upon some judgments in the Ceancellor's Court that this proceeding was founded, and it any one of those Judgments happened to be erroneous it could not be called into question by an action of trespass at the suit of the Party aggrieved. Upon the other point also as to the spe cial plea his Lordship was of opinion it was not necessary to plead it. The plaintiff must, therefore, be nonsuited, With liberty to move the full Court to enter a verdict for the plaintiff, if their opinion should prove to be wrong. Mr. PLATT refused to be nonsuited, and preferred going to a Jury. Lord LyNniruasT said the plaintiff was not bound to be nonsuited, and be might go to the Jury if he pleased. The Jury would, therefore, find a verdict for the de fendant. The Jury found a verdict accordingly, adding that they had made up their minds to that course independent of the Point of law. cntoequence of the absence of a witness material to hie defence. To this fact the prisoner put in an affidavit. The COURT, after perusing the affidavit granted the application. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT. Richard King was indicted for e mbezzling and stealing :he aunt 421. 7s. 64., the property of Thomas Woodward, his master.. The facts were clearly proved anainst the prisoner, and be was convicted. The followinz were also convicted of felony :—Henry Rockall, Edward Evans, Eliza Williams, John Hawes, and John Burke. It is a singula fact, and it called forth the remark of the Court, that several of the prisoners had been charged with crime by their step parents. The Conrt feared it was done with the view of getting rid of them, rather than to further the ends of juatice. MANSION HOUSE.-(THIS DAY). RECAPTURE or JOHN MINTER HART.—A strong sen sation was excited this day at the Mansion-house, about half-past eleven o'clock, by the appearance of a police officer, with John Minter Hart in custody, on a charge of stealing a bill of exchange for 301., on which be had been acquitted this morning at the Old Bliley. Mr. Isawcs, for the prisoner, contended, that as be had already been tried and acquitted, and as the grand jury had been discharged, the Lord Maycr bad no power to go into the case de novo, or to hold the prisoner in custody. Mr. Clarkson contended that the prisoner bad not been tried. H. had merely been arraigned, when a fatal error hail been discovered in the indictment. of which the Judges had declared him entitled to the benefit, and an acquittal was accordingly directed by their Lordships. Hail the Grand Jury been sitting, a fresh bill of indictment would have been preferred, and he trusted, therefore, his Lordship would not suffer the ends of justice to be thwarted, hut go into the case, which had never been heard before a magistrate. The LORD MAYOR felt himself placed in a situation of difficulty, and sent for the City Solicitor, who advised his Lordship not to interfere. Mr. Isaacs said the judges of the land had acted precisely in the same way, by refusing to order the detention of the prisoner. The LORD MAYOR declined to interfere, but there being a warrant for the apprehension of the prisoner for a minor offence i❑ the county of Middlesex, be was handed over to the officer who held it, and with whom he left the justice room. FRANKFORT PAPERS. NUREMBURG, Nov. 24.—A letter from Berlin has the following account of the much-talked of Memorial (ascribed to Privy Councillor Relifir-s) called Memoire sur le Malaise de la generation actuelle, which the author, a distinguished Prussian ratesman, presented, at Scbwedt and Munchengraiz, to the F.reign Ministers, for their consideration. It is most decidedly characterized by the concluding words : " Some years ago, he would have thought himself too positive, his proposals too rash, but the situation of the world has assumed a character of danger which requires the most energetic measure•, if the social edifice is to he saved from falling, and burying beneath its ruins all mo dern civilization, which has fi itirisbed only with it, which has been protected, and can be preserved by it alone." Let us take a view of some of the principal points. The author founds the chief ground of the ruin of States in the abolition of the guilds of trades. He says, " Among all the institutions which tend to the preservation of Stites which administrative Vandalism has devoted to destruction, there is none which deserves to be treated with so much delicacy (management) as the guilds of trades (corps du metiers). This institution is the most solid basis of public order in the town, the mine of all the virtues on which the tranquillity of nations and the security of governments depend. Meantime, tranquillity and order cannot be disturbed by any revolt." The trial by Jury is also represented as an institution deserving of condem nation and increasing the evil. He would have the journals prohibited from discussing public affairs at all ! " The sphere of action of the journals," says he, " must be limited by an absolute prohibition of all discussion on public affairs. All education, both public and private, should be made to harmonize with military institutions." After speaking of the talents which cii,tinguish our times, and particularly the remarkable desire for great un dertakings, of the general wish to profit by them, &c., the author finds herein the chief danger of the present times— of the absolute necessity of diverting the spirit of enter prize, which be thinks would be best effected by the Go vernment undertaking a crusade to Asia and Africa, which would open a vast field to those talents and that spirit ni enterprize, by conquests and the foundation of colonies. All ardent talent, all aspiring young men, would certainly t +le part in such a crusade; and when once they were at a distance beyond sea, tranquillity would re urn in their own country ! Such an expedition is, therefore, the duty of the Government. For the act of Government con sists in foreseeing the events of the intim, and its wisdom will be to place itself at the head of movements which it cannot prevent. The author recommends that no time m-ty be lost, and thinks that the conquest of Algiers some years sooner would have kept the Bourbons on the throne. Lastly, we come to the two main points in the memorial, the nobility and religion. Page 34, we find, " Outward worship appears to be more attended to than ever. Society is disgusted with pleasantries on religious ideas, and ft ee thinking has become ridiculous." But in page 35 it is laid to the charge of our age that religion no longer exercises her magic influence on the welare of mankind, and pt incipaily on the peace and virtues of families. They ROW sit down to table and rise from it without prayer. Respecting the nobility it says,— " Whatever may be said, the conservatory magic of nobility rests in the last instance on the -upposition of a superiority in the race, which. though rejected by natural bistot y, is not the less fertile in realities. Almost all the names that antiquity and modern history have found worthy of being preserved belong to this class, or to a si milar rank. Can we be astonished if the idea is established, that the nobility is the only nursery of all celebrity ? At least Government ought to infer from this that nobility and merit ought to be inseparable, and that it is merit alone, and to every merit of all kinds that titles of nobility ought to be given. By constantly following this principle, the distinction between old and new nobility which divides their strength will soon cease, and the first will find it to be his interest to welcome in its ranks, as its equals, these recruits who are destined to revive its splendour tarnished by the lapse of time.—Nuremburg Correspondent, !\ov. 25. WEIMAR, Nov. 26.—The opening of the extraordinary assembly of the States will take place on the Ist Dec., on account of the accession of our Grand Duchy to the great system for an assimilation of the tariff of customs, the execution of which is fixed fur the Ist of January, 1834. Several modifications will be made, in consequence, in our system of taxes, in some of which considerable reductions will be made. Her Royal Highness Princess Wilbelmina of Prussia has returned to Berlin, and the Duchess Ida, consort of Duke Bernhard, has left us, to return to the Hague. Her High ness will stop some days at Meiningen.—Frankfort Papers, Nov. 27. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS M .—i At per Lo D ad of 36 Trusses.) CU BE pe r l a d Best Meadow Hay 2s. pes load cheaper than last quoted ; prices otherwise station,ry. Sapp' moderate ;and trade dull. L oarse heavy Lowland Meadow Ha y ............ t3 sto £3 10 New .leadow Hay 315 4 8 Useful Old Ditto 315 4 0 F t l . n y e e l i tpl H a ay nd Meadow and stye-grass Hay 40 5 5 Oat Straw £1 6to£l 8 I Wheat Straw... 1 8 110 SMITHFIELD. A modera'e supply, and a dull trade ; prices stationary. Coarse neavy buwiauu Meadow Hay .t 3 to £3 5 New Meadow Hay 3 lO 0 4 5 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Itye-grass Hay ...... Clover Hay (extra tine)...£s o... Generally )at Straw ... il 4to £1 61 Wheat Straw 1 8 1 10 In consequence of the invitation in Mr. Hill's letter, the two members for the county of Kilkenny, Col. ,nd Mr. Finn, wrote to that gentleman. By re turn of post the latter received the following answer. Of course all the answers will be the same :— " 44, Chancery-lane, Nov. 27, 1833. " Sir,—ln answer to your lett-r, which I had the honour to receive this morning, I have to inform you that you are not the member to whom I referred in my speech to the electors of Hull.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, "To Wm. F. Finn, E.g., "M. D. Hill." The English company of actors arrived at Hamburg on Saturday with the steam-boat, and will com mence their performances to-morrow with The Merchant of Venice anti the farce of Raising the Wind. THE HON. WILLIAM LONG WELLESLEY. —.At last arrangements for a final sep iration between this Gentleman and his wife have been made. The Lady has agreed to accept an annuity of 7001., payable quarterly, and properly secured. MAGAZINES. THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL Ofthis month will more interest the professional than the general reader, there being hardly an article which does not bear upon the details of military or naval duty. It would be presump tion in us, therefore, to venture to say much about it, one way or the other. We will only observe, that the reader, in going through the concluding article, " On the Cause and Repres sion of Crime, with special Reference to the United Service," must keep himself on his guard against the Tory bias of the writer. M. Quetelet, whom he criticizes, has displayed a degree of industry and research, of which he may well be proud. its ninth edition within the year--or remerii. tiered only as an authoress, who realized an im mense fortune by her wits. Doctors' Commons; we see, sets down her income as under eighty thousand pounds ! Vice Humbug! " The Stage and the Drama" contains one or two plea sant anecdotes. We request those among our readers who may be on the eve of perpetrating tragedy, comedy, or farce, to peruse the follow ing passage : " The unlucky dramatist, whose piece has overcome the reluctance of reader, manager, and stage manager, and been read in the greenroom amid the sneers of the com pany, finds that his greatest difficulty of all lies in propi tiating the cavilling spirit of a set of men, for the most part grossly ignorant, and for the whole part misjudging. Greenroom damnation invariably foreshows the triumph of a play; unless, as is often the case, a manager is weak enough to condemn his author to truckle 'o the criticisms of his actors. One of them, being fat, and scant of breath,' insists on having no particles in his lengths,— away go conjunctions and disjunctions, ' ifs,' `buts,' ands,' and fors.' Another is ' genteel,' like Goldsmith's bear leader. ' You have given me the expression of a bone to pick,' Mr. Vapid. I bee to tell you the pit won't stand anything low-lived. I shall give the passage a nut to crack or a pill to swallow.' I cha'n't commit my reputation by such vulgarity as a bone to pick!' Another insists upon a pocket handkerchief passage; and, blessed with a pecu liar grace in unfolding his cambric, requires a little hit of pathos in all his comic parts. These, nevertheless, are the gentlemen so facetious, and so courteous at a Theatrical Fund Dinner, and so gentlemanly in their breeding at any other. But plant their foot upon the boards, and the transition in the manners of a naval captain between the boudoir and the quarter-deck, is not more remarkable. No dramatist dares complain ; his mouth is sealed by the interests of his next piece. No manager dares condemn or punish, or he would be attacked in the Sunday news papers, and calumniated at tavern meetings.' But the knowledge of the spirit of off nce prevented Scott from ap plying his great talents to the stage, and will confine the dramatic authorship of the times, either to actors them selves, who u nderstand the secrets of the prison-house, or to men hardened to the vocation, who meet the heroes of the sock and buskin in their own style, and bully or cajole them into good humour." " The University of Cambridge" is a clever notice of a pamphlet lately published by Mr. Beverley, bitterly reflecting on the morals, habits, &c., of Alma Mater. There is, no doubt, much truth in the statements of the pamphleteer ; hut they are mixed up with more prejudice. As for wholly doing away with the faults and follies of the Cantabs, this neither Mr. Beverley nor his reviewer will he able to do, until they can place the head of age on the shoulders of youth. Moralize as they may, young gownsmen will occasionally exhibit " manifestations of the spirit" at their wine parties ; rattle over in tandems to Newmarket ; knock " snobs" on the head at night ; frighten old women into fits ; shirk chapel, quiz their tutors, and kiss all the pretty women they can lay hands on. We could wish it were otherwise; but alas ! flesh is frail,— University flesh proverbially so. By some means or other, we find we have begun our notice 01 this Magazine backwards—have commenced dinner with the cheese—we finish, therefore, with the first article, " Praise of Folly," which is a smart, pointed attack on Ministers, most pro bably from the tranchant pen of the Editor of the Examiner. The BOTANICAL REGISTER, or ORNA MENTAL FLOWER GARDEN and SHRUBBERY. By DR. LINDLEY. No. 10 or VOL. VI., NEW SERIES! Professor Lindley, in the above-mentioned number of this work, introduces many new and beautiful plants to the lovers of botany. We will, however, for its singularity, confine our notice to one drawn by her Grace the Duchess of Buccleuch, a subject worthy indeed of her graceful pencil: it is figured in all its glory, as when it flowered at Dalkeith, we are told, for six weeks in succession, and in the course of that time produced not fewer than one hundred splendid clusters. "It is one of the many noble plants in which the once-fatal colony of Sierra Leone abounds. It is not a climber, as it is sometimes called, but rather a scrambling plant, raising itself upon other plants by means of a very curious kind of hook with which nature has ingeniously supplied it. At first sight one would wonder what this hook can be ; for no thing like spine, or prickle, or tendril can be discovered upon the branches ; for want of these, it is necessary that their place should be sup plied by some special provision, which is of the following kind. When the leaves are first fully formed, they are seated upon a foot stalk, of a very common appearance ; but after a time they fall away, leaving the leaf stalk behind ; the latter does not wither up, but gradually lengthens, hardens, sharpens, and curves, till at last it be comes a powerful hook, admirably adapted for catching hold of the branches of any tree that it may be near, and thus elevating the plant from the earth." It forms a bush of a few feet in height, and strikes freely from cuttings. We were much amused at seeing among our Advertisements a number or two bark, a piece of com poAtion, which for style is rarely equalled now-a days. It was, we learn, actually sent to us by the original Lawrie Todd (the hem of one of Galt's Novels), and as some of our readers may not have observed it, we repeat it for their amusement. We understand that the author has visited England, solely to publish this his own life, and that the work itself promises a rich treat to the literary world. We regret to learn that Mr. J. Brougham, M.P. for Kendal, is dangerously ill at Brougham Hall.— Carlisle Patriot. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last an inquest was held at Bury, before the clerk of Mr. Ferrand, the coron e r, on the body of Alice Crossley, a widow, who met with a violent death under the following circumstances :—The deceased was employed by Mr. Nicholas Hoyle, woollen-inanufacturer, as a warper or winder, and worked in the lower story, which is partly below the surface of the ground. About 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon, the deceased descended into the exca vation on the outside of the back part of the building, made for the freer admission of the light, for the purpose of cleaning her window. Whilst she was so engaged, the corners of a fringed worsted shawl were caught by an iron shaft that rune from the steam-engine, through an aperture in the window, to turn the macnine; y in the mill, and it instantly drew her neck tightly to the shaft, and whirled her body round with frightful velocity. A painter, who was working at the outside of a window in the story above, immediately went to her assistance, but in attempt ing to release her he found he should share her fate if he persevered in his humane efforts. Unfortunately, he knew not how to stop the engine, and the poor woman was whirled round with every revolution of the shaft, till another person c Jule and effected that object. The shawl was instantly cut from the shaft, and she was conveyed to her own resid ence , w h ere , a ft e r a faint sob, she expired. At the time of the accident the shaft was making upwards of 60 revolutions per minute, and as the deceased was of tall statere, an d revo l v i ng a t this speed, her limbs were fractured in a horrible manner. Verdict—" Acuidental death." The shaft was a round beaten iron one, and the portion which crossed the surface of the part between the engine house and the mill was boxed off; but from 20 to 24 inches of it, which runs over the above mentioned excavation, was left exposed, and the jury levied a deodand of 6d. on the shaft.—Manchester Chronicle. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. There are several articles in the present num ber which cannot fail to be interesting to the general as well as Indian reader, although it is certainly not so good as some of its predecessors. The article on East and West India Sugars should be read by every Member of Parliament. JOHNSTONE'S EDINBURGH MA GA. ZINE. We are glad to meet with the " Experiences of Richard Taylor" again. The old gentleman cuts out a tale to measure, quite in the fashion, and in a neat workmanlike style that Stultz might envy. His present gossip about " Ma rianne's Hair" will fit the public to aT. The " Life of the late Dr. Adam Clarke" unfolds an interesting chapter in the volume of human nature. The future reader of the Methodists was, as a youth, a devourer by wholesale of novels and fairy tales. He was led to reason through the paths of romance, and even to his dying day entertained a grateful recollection of " Ro binson Crusoe." This is a pleasant trait of character in so rigid, and uncompromising a Dis senter as the Doctor ; but still more so is the story which he tells of the poor Irish school master, who undertook to cultivate his farm upon the principles laid down by Virgil in his " Georgics !" Who after this shall call Parson Adams a fiction ? " The Lion Heart" is a stirring poem, though rather too closely modelled on Mr. Macaulay's splendid stanzas, entitled the Armada." It is followed by an able, and in passages, eloquent and feeling dissertation on the Aborigines, or " Red Men" of North America, who, it seems, were once two millions in number, but are now dwindled down to two hundred t housand. We subjoin an anecdote highly characteristic of these savages : " The Bear they respect as a warrior and an equal, though this does not prevent, but rather stimulate to friendly combat. Great pride is felt in subduing a bear. Instances are given of the successful combatant insulting and glorying over the vanquished, as if be were a con quered chief of a hostile tribe. Mr. Heckewelder, a missionary, who has given a great mass of information concerning the Indians, relates, ' that a Delaware hunter once shot a huge bear and broke its back-bone. The animal fell, and set up a most plaintive cry, something like that of the panther when he is hungry. The bunter, instead of giving him another shot, stood up close to him, and addressed him in these words :—' Hark ye ! bear ; you are a coward, and no warrior, as you pretend to be. Were you a warrior you would show it by your firmness, and not cry and whimper like an old woman. You know, bear, that our tribes are at war with each other, and that yours was the aggressor. You have found,the Indians too powerful for you, and you have gone sneaking about in the woods, stealing their hogs ; perhaps at this very tune you have hog's flesh in your den. Had you conquered me, I would have borne it with courage, and died like a brave warrior ; but you, bear, sit here and cry, and disgrace your tribe by your cowardly conduct.' Heckew4der heard the delivery of this curious invec.ive. When the hunter had despatched the hear, he asked him how he thought that poor animal could understand what he said to it ? 'Oh !' said he in answer, ' the bear un derstood me well ; did you not ohs- rve how ashamed he 1 while I was upbraiding him?' " TAIT'S MAGAZINE. The most curious, if not the most edifying, article in Tait this month, is " Manifestations, New and Old," by which it would appear that Mr. Irving, the great apostle of the Unknown Tongues, is no original—not even in his absur dity. A Mr. John Lacy was in the habit of splitting the sides of the year 1706 by far finer displays of fanaticism. He too " dreamed dreams"—saw visions,--had the faculty of speak ing in a dialect known only to the elect—got glimpses of grace from above once a month or so—and could boast the honour of an intimate acquaintance with the Spirit. But as no honour is to be had for nothing, so poor Mr. Lacy paid dearly for his. About a week before the Spirit condescended to manifest itself, he was afflicted with severe " gripings" in the bowels, Evange lical " hiccups," and " preternatural labourings in the wind-pipe," which had no sooner ceased, when lo I the Saint's " tongue was loosed," at forth came such a torrent of inspiration as fairl . drowned the wits of all his hearers. Mr. Lacy, it seems, was a great prophet in his day and the instant he felt himself " griped," the glad tidings spread like wild-fire among his dis ciples, who rushed in crowds to congratulate him on such evident prern:initory symptoms of divine influence. Sometimes, however, he was attacked without the slightest previous notice, and once the Spirit manifested itself while he was on his " way to a hearing at the Attorney- General's !" But this must have been a very equivocal Spirit—one fro:n below rather than from above—for what could a celestial messenger possibly want with an Attorney-General ? Law yers have a very slight acquaintance with the Cherubim. Their connections lie the other way. The " Manifestations" of this remarkable fanatic, after continuing for some months, at length at tracted the notice of Government, who con demned Mr. Lacy and his disciples to " stand on a scaffold at Charing-cross, pay each of them a fine of twenty marks, and find sureties for their good behaviour." In our days we treat " Ma nifestations of the Spirit more leniently. We merely fine the " Manifestors" five shillings for being drunk. " Mrs. Hannah More" is a prosy, prolix essay, whence we conclude it is clerical. The old lady, who is its subject, is wholly lost sight of, in the zeal of the author to show off his own intellectual attainments. Time was when Mrs. More was looked on as the " tenth Muse." Bishops delighted to do her hon our; Royalty itself was proud to be ranked among her visitors. She is now forgotten—notwith standing her novel of " Calebs," which reached BRIGHTON, DEC. I. This morning their Maje Tie., the Princess Augusta, and the Duchess of Gloucester, heard divine service in tlit Place chapel. The Earl and Countess of Brownlow, Lord and Lady Falkland, Ledy Sophia Sidney, and the suit• i generally, were also present, ("cctipying the pews next their Majesties. Prayers were read by the Rev. W. Wag ner, assisted by Dr. Everard. A most able discor.rse wa , , delivered by the Rev. J. J. Anderson, taking his tex' from the 11th and two following verse! of the 25th chap ter of the Gospel of St. Matthew. Mr. Gutteridge pre sided at the organ, and the cha;r sang the 50th and 145 - 11 psalms with much effect. As on the previous Sunday. the body of the chapel was crowded with the gentry of the town and neighbourhood. Lord Arthur Hill was honoured with an audience of tie King yesterday. The Queen, for the first time since her recent indispo sition, appeared in public yesterday. Her Majesty, ac., companied by Lady Brownlow, Miss Mitchel, and Lord Errol, walked for a considerable time on the Marine parade, and every indication of respectful congratulation was evinced by all classes of persons who beheld her. Their Majesties took a carriage airing to Shoreham previously. The Duchess of Gloucester and Lady Brownlow also took carriage exercise. The King and Lady Kennedy Er-kine drove to Kemptown in the afr ernoon. The following distinguished persons had the honour of dining with their Majesties last evening :—The Earl of Chaiham, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lord Lake, Lieutenant• General Sir P. Maitland, Sir W. Cotton, Sir A. Clifton, Sir Charles Pratt, Sir J. Smith, General M'Mahon, Gen. Hepburn, and Sir K. Grant. Amongst those who left their names at the Palace were Lord A. Hill, General Phipps, Lady and Miss Cotton, Lord M. Hill, Hon. Mrs. Ferguson, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Greville, Colonel and Mrs. Elwood, &c. An Italian named Mason , (a v i olin player), who recently arrived from India, performed before their Majesties on Friday evening, to the great satisfaction of the Royal party. The eudden death of the Portuguese Ambassador (the Cottut de Funchal), which took place on Friday morning at the Marine Hotel, has caused much regret to those trio had the pleasure of his acquaintance. All the papers connected with his diplomatic calling were put under seal immediately on his decease, and given in charge to th. Chevalier de Lima. An inquest was held on his remains, as is usual where a short illness has only existed. The med'cal attendant attrihutes his death to indigestion, which _ . . occasioned a spasmodic attick of the heart. DEC. 2.—ln consequence of the unfavourable state of the wetther their Maj,sties did not leave the Palace after their return from Chapel yesterday. The Lord Chancellor arrived at his residence in Bruns wick-terrace, late on Saturday evening from London, and had an audience of the King yesterday, the Noble Lord returned to town this morning. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Gloucemter lett. thoocester House yester day afternoon, on a visit to the M trquis of Salisbury at Hitfield House, Herts. After remaining a few days at Hatfield his Royal Highness, it is expected, will visit the Earl of Verulam, at Gorhambury. Tbe Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked and drove in Hyde Park for some time yesterday. Viscount Palmerston had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey. The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England had an interview yesterday with Viscount Althorp at the Treasury. Arrivals.—Viscount Melbourne from the seat of Earl de Grey, at Selsoe, Bedfordshire. Viscount Althorp, from the residence of Mr. Spring Rice. Departures.—The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, for their seat at Goodwood, Sussex. Lord Tullamore, for Brighton. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Viscount Melbourne, yesterday, from the seat of Earl de Grey, at Selsoe, Bedfordshire; Viscount Althorp, from the re sidence of Mr. Spring Rice ; the Duke of Sunderland, at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, from Trentham, Staffordshire; the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Chesterfield House, South Audley-street, from their scat, Bretby Park, Leicestershire ; the Earl of Burlington, at Burlington House, Piccadilly, from East Bourne; Madame la Marquise d'Harcourt and Captain Harcourt, at Crawley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from St. Leo nard's-hill, Windsor; Mr and Mrs. Reiley and family, at ditto, from Dover; Captain Hay, with despatches, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's street, from Hanover; Captain Heneage, at ditto, from Market Harborough ; Captain and Mrs. Kiffin Lloyd, at Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, from Kent ; H. Batson, Esq., ' at ditto, from his seat, Brentwood, Essex ; G Glegg, Esq., H. Noel, Esq., and General Wallace, at ditto, from Bedfordshire; Henry Potts, Esq., and family, at ditto, from Chester; J. R. Smith, Esq., at ditto, from Cheltenham; Captain Macdonald, at Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, from Holland; Hon. G. 0. Callaghan and Captain Williams, from Dover; Frank Hartley, Esq., at ditto ; Edwin Jones, Esq., at ditto ; Sir Edward and Lady Hamilton, in Nottingham place, from their scat in South Wales; Mr. Hamilton, from Cheltenham. DEPARTURES. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, for their seat at Gond. wood, Sussex ; Lord Tullamore, for Brighton; the Marquis of Bath and Lord H. Thynne, from Warren's Hotel, Regent. street, for Longleat, Wilts ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, from Bur. lington House, for East Bourne; Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart., from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn_street, for his seat in Suffolk ; Colonel Latouche, from St. James's-square, for Cliff oal; the Misses Gubbins, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for Norfolk ; J. Dedel, Esq., from ditto, for the Hague ; Captain Rose, from ditto ; Colonel, Mrs. and Miss Jones, from ditto, for Bath; Mr. and Mrs. Hill, from ditto, for Paris ; Admiral Sir T. Baker, Bart., from Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, for his scat, Walmer, Kent; Captain Mordecai and M. J. O'Con nell, Esq., from ditto, for Dublin ; George Platt, Esq., from ditto, for Paris ; J. and H. Duncan, Esq., from ditto, on a tour ; Joh❑ Elwes, Esq., from the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd, from ditto, for Bath ; Edward Ingram, Esq., from ditto, for ditto ; the Rev. E. Dewhurst, from ditto, for Cambridge; W. Macaulay, Esq., from ditto, for ditto; J. Chapman, Esq., from ditto, for ditto; E. Venables, Esq., from ditto, for ditto; W. E. Tucker, Esq. ; from ditto, for Haverfordwest ; the Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, for Beaudesert ; Lieut.-General Sir C. Wale, for the Continent ; Lord Glenlyon, for the North ; Lady Henniker, from Clifford_ street, for Newton Hall, Essex ; Hon. Col. Henry Murray, for Brighton; the Countess of Tankerville, on a visit to the Mar quis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield ; Mr. Secretary Stanley, from a visit to J. Cotes, Esq., M.P., at \Voodcote, Salop, for Knowsley Hall, Lancashire ; Lord John Scott, from South Audley-street, for Ealkeith Palace, N.B. ; the Hon. W. Spencer Cowper, for the Continent ; General Buller, from Gloucester-place, on a visit to the Earl of Westmoreland, at Apthorp, Northamptonshire; Rev. J. Tumour, for Wendover. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE T_4TTERSALL'S. The two favourites are now so equal that it would be difficult to say which has the call ; each was backed yes. terday at 7i : to 1. the takers at that price being pretty , numerous. Offers to take 13 to 1 about Plenipo. Deli rium was backed at 25 to 1 at the opening, and subs— quently at a point less—he is evidently on the rise. The folluwing were the closing prices : THE DERBY. 71 to 1 agst Mr. Yates's Bentley (taken) 7i to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Bubastes (taken) 12 td 1 agst Mr. Batson's Pienipo 16 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's shelelah 22 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's Emigrant 24 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Delirium (taken) 30 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Bee in a Bonnet colt 35 to 1 agst Mr. Miller's Brother to Kate (taken) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Watt't Belluno OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Cotillon (taken) 7 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Rosalie No others mentioned. The French Government have lately been making ex tensive purchases of race horses for the improvement of the breed. Cadland, winner of the Derby in 1828, and some of Lord Sligo's stud, are now in town, and will be sent abresd on the arrival of some others recently pur chased. VICTORIA THEATRE.—WC understand that Mr. T. Thompson, the Box Book-keeper at this theatre, takes his benefit on Thursday, the sth December, and judging from the bill of fare, together with the high estimation in which that gentleman is held by the patrons an I visiters of the house, there can be no doubt but there will be a good return to the Exchequer. SCOTTISH HOSPITAL ANNIVERSARY.— On Saturday, St. Andrew's day, the annual anniversary dinner 01 this excellent institution was celebrated at the London Tavern, Sir L. Shddwell (in the absence of the Duke of Girdon, president) in the chair. From the report read by the secretary it appeared that the institution, established in the time of James 1., and chartered by Charles IL, steadily progresses in usefulness. During the last year no less than 250 Scotchmen were relieved, and 240 sent back to their native country. A contract has been entered into with Hugh 111•Intosb, E.q., (the eminent G ivernment Con. tractor) with the Directors of the London and Green wich Railway Company, for executing that splendid and useful work, and which will be completed in the course of the ensuing year. CORN LAWS. .77 711 TO THE EDITUROP T f Ati.A. Slap—l am induced, froinirsr general c.ndour and readiness to insert in your vr4l ( e.errcniatinz, and most use ful paper, any fair opinion thtsitnay concern the public at large, to believe you will notiobject to insert the f , ..!lowir,g remarks on the cotn laws an)Llanrled interest in general. The question of the Corn ) liirt, as they now stand, have called forth a variety of oplitOtii, and the majority p if which ere, as far as the public Prints ao, I thintc, evi lently for abolishing all duty on the iiiip• rn and flour imported into this kingdo o r foreign ( This view of the question cannot be too soon fairly corn. batted, as I fear it emanates in public clamour, or in igno once of the true situation and responsibilities the landed merest of this kingdom, as the laws now stand, ale liable to. I think it does not, or at least ought not to require much argument to convince the dispassionate and thinking part of the community of the injustice free trade in corn and flour would subject the landed interest to, unless the laws Are made at the same time to hear equally on all prouerty, is regards the support of the poor and unemployed labourers of a ll grades and callings, and its other responsibilities. The speculative manufacturer, tradesman, mining inter at, have long found no difficulty in stopping their vorks and running away from any unprofitable speculation, ,nd leave the landholder to provide for the poor labourers hey leave behind them. This injustice towards the landed , nterest is not fairly met by the manufacturin g , &C., interests, when they cry out for a free trade in corn ; but which reckless feeling _behoves the landed interest to look Sharp after their fair interest, as the public opittion at this moment on this subject is most alarming, all of 571hich I •onsider aris-s out of an erroneous view of the case. I beg to call the attention of the public to the true hearing of the claims the landed interest have to a protec tion on corn grown in this kingdom over the produce of the foreign countries, and warn them not to in their judos meta and justice be run away with by the reasoning o f the interested few who only look at one side of the question, viz., their own interest, and who are daily calling up , u he landed interest to go back to the primitive rate of rent rhey received before the late disastrous war which has entailed upon the land of this kingdom a burden of debt ,hlrh. I fear, all our industry and perseverance can never liquidate. W..aie this monstrous debt of, I believe, 800,000,000/. ,nd interest is to he paid, how can any man in hi. sen.es .uppos the landed interest, who are b iund hand and foot , o this frightful debt, can return at once to the same rate ►f rent as before this d ht was tied upon t' eir property ? Suppose but for one moment that the silk and cotton ,nanulactures should fall off, and the millions of .outs (now fortunately mostly in employ) should be thrown on ,ociety at I age for support, who are to support teem when all other means are gone? Why, the landed inte. est, they are the „.t..n.ihle body that all protection in time of need must come from. The pi °pile tors iit the land cannot with these burdens 'led to them meet the manufacturers, &c., who can it a lay's notice shut up their factories (ba:tars for multi, olying human beings) the moment they find the working of them yield. no profit, and have the me ins of vesting their capital abroad, or in the funds, or become m-rtga e holders, or any thing to evade, as much as possible, the support of the poor, or charges of the state, all which I admit is natural on the part of individuals so placed, but very unwise in the government and people to let such discrepancies exist. These, and many other reasons, show evidently the landed interest, who may be said to be only guardians and 'rusts of the people, must or ought in good times so to improve the land and their general means, as to enable them to meet the demands of the poor labourer when thrown out of employ, which will be quite out of the question if the duty on corn is taken off the importations to this kingdom, as the foreign merchants, no doubt, can bring corn into this state forthwith at half the price the English farmer can grow it at from the cause I hive ' , efore stated of the heavy burdens of taxation, &c., he and his landland have to hear. Remove the duty on corn and flour, and I feel confident , he present race of farmers are bankrupted the first year of the removal, which would bring on such a panic that would, I have no doubt, lead to a revolution. I sin ready to admit the present corn laws and fluctuating scale of duty are most fallacious, and prove how careful the people should be in the choice of theic statesmen. The Duke of Wellington and his party were the movers of the present corn laws, and they took great credit to themselves for the enforcing of these laws. The graduated scale and means of bonding the corn have enabled the prudent importer at all times to secure a high rate of profit by enabling him to bond his corn at the very lowest scale of duty, and giving him the power of releasing it at the vety highest possible price. In place if our present system, I recommend a fixed duty to be paid down when the corn is landed, and a proper draw back made, if again exported. To find out the fair amount of duty to be paid, let the Government ascertain the real price the diff•rent foreign growers of corn can raise it at, and the expense of delivering it into this kingdom ; then take a fair average price of what it can be grown in this kingdom for, and put a duty on accordingly. This done, and the Irish poor laws enforced, then, and not till then, shall we have any thine like a healthy state of business as regards our landed interest. Leland can deliver, from the present facilities it finds in steam carriage, corn, flour, cattle, and the produce of the land of all kinds, considerably lower tban England can, from the simple cause of England not only keeping her own poor, but nearly one third of the Irish poor also. Let the bonding system of corn be got rid of, and the duty on foreign corn be paid when imported as a fired duty, then depend upon it the English shipowners will be the caldera of nearly all the imported corn, which is now carried in foreign bottoms, and I have no doubt it would lead to a barter trade in the place of the present demand of cash for all corn brought into the kingdom. In closing this letter, which I fear you will think already too long, I cannot help making one more observa.. tion, that is, I recommend, if a fixed duty is put on im ported corn and flour, that, be the price what it may, it shall be put in juxtaposition with the national debt, and as a certain number of millions may be cleared off the debt, the duty on foreign corn and fl ur shall be lowered, and so in proportion if said debt should be by any unforeseen cause increased, in the like manner the duty advanced. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Lichfield, Nov. 30. R. T. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Drc. 2.—Wind N.W., light.—Arrived from the River and sailed the Horatio, Hatfield, for Madras. Arrived from the River and remain the Mary Ann, for the Cape of Good Hope; and Mandieo, Burgin, fr..m London for Jamaica. The Moffat, for New South Wales, sailed this morning ; and the William, for Guernsey. The •iutward bound remain; p.m., the Elizai.eth, for Gre nada, and several brigs, are under weigh. PORTSMOUTH, Mx. 2.—Wind S W. to N. W.—Sailed his Majeopy's ship SeAlower, for Lisbon. His Maj s'y's ship R •mney, for Cork, has 'trapped dawn to St. H ten's. FALMOUTH. DEC. I.—Wind W.S.W. to S.W., strung tirrez,s and squally. PENZANCE, DEC. I.—Arrived off port the Diana, Dahlia, from Lisbon. kin L ,: v fr v , i , t in voo s% , va D nn v a c. h; l.— and A v Ti a y s ed the sijy\vi T lik ec y u , m w ec u b, Ti Wulff, from St. ersburgh. GREENOCK, Nov. SO.—Arrived the Canada, Allan, from Quebec. DUNDEE, Nov. 30.—The Malvina, Miller, from Riga to London, which was assisted into Carlsharn after being on shore, is sunk in that harbour. The Hope, Irving, from Liverpool to --, Content, Roberts, from Towey to Liverpool, Prosperity, R ,brrts, and the Cygnet, Robert, from Cardiff to Liverpool, were driven on shore near Pwllhele during a tremendous gale on the 29th ult.—crew saved. The Langton, trothLeith to St. Vincent , and the Venus, from Be,gen to Leghorn, were driven on shore near Gal way the 29th ult. The Mary Ann, M'Kenzie, of Srornaway, from Cape Breton to Limerick, was wrecked near Cape Cornwall the 29th ult. _ The Malvina, Cholwick, from Cork to Liverpool, sunk near Southport the 29th ult.—crew drowned. The George Canning, bound to New Orleans, has put back to Liverpool, and must discharge, having struck on Hoyle Bank. The Fume, from Newry to Liverpool, is wrecked near Carnarvom—crew saved. wasrr d ite riv O en rw o enl, sh G o i r crse n , t ftrhoombiLeiovferivpiononl o to n FNreidwayOLleoarenws, saved. The Glasgow steamer , K y le, Argo, Potts, Euphetnius, a violent g ale on Frida y , S M l:g n o to c , u a ri n n d g Thorney Close , Cooper, were on shore at The inquiry into the corporation of Liverpool closed on Saturday afternoon, after having lasted fin one mouth.