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- • ... co ci it; 1 1 Beeto`' reply ppoeep aciT t; , • :, lirtteler lo ur.. 0 sacio -;,- , hs I coo' LS. ~d ° 0 ° 4 4 5 4 11/ 4 4 each. i to 5 4 4 0 511 4 • 0 ,0 at t rit is' I, A at I ead' • gt in° ! - 11 ' thP- / sor ; the 0 0 ' 0 00 0 i or ma g P r 1 COURT OF CHANCERY:-(TITIS DAY.) WEAVER. V. RHODES. The LORD CHANCELLOR sat to-day at ten o'clock, and 141 occupied the who'e of the morning in hearing a ! 3 otion arising upon the form of the minutes of certain 44 11 es directed by the House of Lords in this case, in / illich nothing of any interest occurred, and which was U ltimately directed to stand over for consideration of the I Nna of the issue. ROLLS' COURT.—;THIS DAY) IN RE SMITH'S CHARITY. This was the petitien of trustees , and it p ra y ed that the 'lloter's report made in the cause might be absolutely con 4rned, and that the scheme he had set forth might be adopted by the Court for the regulation of the charity in question. At the bearing of the cause it had been referred to the Master to inquire into the nature and state the cir autostances affecting the property, which, situate in the County of Warwick, had been devised by the testator in t he cause for the education, clothing, and maintenince of the poor children of the parish of Nuneaton. The Master having now made his report and settled a scheme, t he present petition was presented for their confirmation. Mr. GoorErt appeared in support of the application. His HONOUR, having assured himself that the Attorney- Qeneral, or some one on his behalf, had attended before the Master, in order to the settlement of the scheme, made t he order as prayed. BULWER V. LYTTON. The object of this suit is to have raised a sum of 6,0001., s ut of the realty of the late General Bulwer, in favour of his personal estate. The question depends on the effect of the intricate provisions of a marriage settlement, and a vari e ty of other instruments, which had been executed auhaequently to its date ; but though it will occupy the whole of the morning, the point is not at all interesting, except to the parties. VICE-CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY. CONTEMPT. William Briant, a solicitor, some years back Clerk o the Papers to the Court of King's Bench, was brought 11 1 3 by habeas corpus from the custody of the Marshal of the King's Bench, for the purpose of being turned over to the Fleet for contempt, and not paying the costs of the dismissal of a bill which he had filed. Mr. COOKE appeared in support of the application, and submitted that it was a matter of course, under the orders, that the prisoner should`be turned over to the Fleet. •Mr. DUNBAR opposed the application, A motion was It present depending before the Lord Chancellor, and had been part heard, to discharge the attachment; and should that motion be successful there would be an end to the object of the present application. Mr. COOKE observed that the motion to which the Learned Counsel alluded was the third application to dis charge the attachment, the two previous being abandoned. Should the motion succeed, Mr. Briant would ❑ot be in a Worse situation in the Fleet than he was at the present sooment in the King's Bench. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that if there was a tootion part heard before the Lord Chancellor to set aside the attachment, be should feel great delicacy in interfering. Mr. COOKE submitted that there was no regular appli cation before the Lord Chancellor to discharge the at tachment. Mr. DUNBAR considered this application perfectly l'egular, and observed that the Lord Chancellor directed the motion to stand over for the production of an affidavit. The VICE-CHANCELLOR inquired if any affidavits had been made upon the subject ? Mr. DUNBAR answered in the affirmative, and handed the affidavit up to his Honour. The VICE-CHANCELLOR, after reading the aff►davit, stated that be did not consider it sufficient ; for it appeared from it that the notice of motion had been served upon the solicitor, instead of the clerk in Court. Mr. COOKE-Then we take the order. The VICE-CHANCELLOR —Yes ; the notice of motion before the Lord Chancellor is wrong upon the face of it. If Mr. Dunbar's client had served a more regular notice, I would have beard him. KING'S BENCH•-"(THIS DAY.) (Sittings before the LORD CIIIRF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.) MAYHEW V. MILLS. The Court was occupied all the morning in trying this ease, which was an action of debt connected with the bsnkruptcy of Messrs. Chambers, the late bankers. It possessed no feature of public interest, and had not con• eluded when our reporter left. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Chief Justice TYNDALL.) SCALES V. PINKERTON. This was an action on the case, brought by Mr. Alder man Scales, against a water works company, for damages done to property of the plaintitl by the defendants, in the execution of their works. On the cause being called on, The COURT was informed that it had been arranged to leave all matters in dispute between the parties to ar bitration. POSTMAN V. HARRELL AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover compensation in damages fur an illegal distress. The facts of the case were entirely destitute of public interest, and after a long examination of a host of witnesses, the Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages 201. MODERN PHILOSOPHERS AND PH LOSOPHY. We copy the following shrewd and pertinent re marks from the Athanceunz : There is not a parish in London, and there is scarcely a town in the kingdom, in which any fidgetty little prig, who has nothing better to do with his time, might not get up a philosophical so ciety. If you have a telescope, an almanack, and a pair of globes, and if you look at the moon with your nightcap on your head, you are a philosopher; if you have an electrical machine, and serve your friends shocking tricks, you are a philosopher; if you have a barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, and hydrometer—if you chronicle the clouds, and tell the world once a week which way the wind blows, you are a philosopher ; if you have a mantlepiece covered with brickbats, and a bureau full of black beetles and cockchafers, you are a philosopher ; if you roam about the fields and the ditches with a tin box in your hand, picking up chickweed, ground ael, and duckweed, you are a philosopher; if you become cat's butcher, and kill mice with an air pump, you are a philosopher; if you risk the blow ing up of your house with hydrogen gas or other combustibles, you are a philosopher ; if you hunt for a soul with a dissecting knife, and then, because you cannot find one, say that that there is no such thing, you are a philosopher; if you read German metaphysics, and talk moonshine that nobody can understand, you are a philosopher ; if you disbelieve what your neighbours believe, and beleve what your neighbours disbelieve, you are a philosopher. If you do not care who is hanged or drowned, or whose cat has kittened, you are a stoic philosopher; if you growl at everybody and everything, you are a cynic philosopher ; if you have a fancy for fish, flesh, and fowl, and like good cookery better than bad, you are an epicurean philosopher; in short, I verily believe that the difficulty now is to avoid being a philosopher—the whole air and the whole nation is thoroughly bephilosophized — saturate d with philosophy : we cannot open our eyes or ears but wisdom must come in—we cannot open our mouths but wisdom must go out Everything is made on philosophic principles,wigs, whiskers, boots, breeches, and bed-posts :so that we are almost all of us forced to be philosophers, whether we will or no. CATHOLIC POPULATION OF LIVERPOOL. --At the Liverpool Corporation inquiry, which has just terminated, Mr. Rosson (the barrister) tendered to the C o mmisi•ioneis the following statement: — Number of Catholic baptisms within the Par liamentary borough for 1832 2,388 Total amber of baptisms ditto ..................... 8,501 Population of Liverpool and its vicinity in 1331 205,97' Average yeatly increase for the last 10 years (1 0 , 000 seamen not included therein) ......... 5,000 T ota l population of 1832 220,974 Assuming that the total baptisms were to the Catholic baptisms as the whole population was to the Catholic po pulation, the n the y had the fulfollowing proportion, viz.— T.B. C.D. T. POP. C. POP. As 8,504-2,38 8 —220,974-62,051 the fourth term being the number of Catholics. BRIGHTON, DEC. 5. Their Majesties continue well, but, in consequence o the unfavourable state of the weather throughout yes terday, they did not take their accustomed out-of-door exercise. The Princess Augusta and Duchess of Gloucester, in the forenoon of yesterday, drove out and returned to the Palace to luncheon at two o'clock. The invited guests to the Royal table last evening com prised the Earl and Countess of Rosse, the Ladies Parsons, Earl and Countess of Bandon, Countess of Huntingdon, Sir William Fremantle, Sir Matthew and Lady Tierney, and the Suite and Household. Her Majesty's band attended, as on the previous evening. Lady E. and Miss Palk, Mr. and Lady Augusta Fox, Major-General MiDonald, Lady and Miss Cotton, and Lady Augusta Seymour, had the honour of visiting their Majesties yesterday at the Palace. The second Almack's Ball took place last evening at the Old Ship Assembly-rooms; the company present com prised the principal Nobility and Gentry of the place. Dancing commenced soon after ten o'clock, and continued with much animation until after two. Amongst those present were— The Earl and Countess of Moray, Ladies Steuart, Hon. G. Steuart, Countess of Newburgh, the Lady B. Eyre, Lord Marcus Hill, Baron and Baroness Dimsdale, Hon. H. Tumour, Earl and Countess of Rosse, Ladies Parsons, Viscount Bolingbroke, Hon. Miss St. John, Earl and Countess of Listowel, Viscount Berehaven, Hon. H. Murray, Sir Arthur Clifton, Hon. General, Mrs., and the Misses St. John, Lady Augusta and Miss Cotton, Lady Falkner, Sir John Rae Reid, Sir Matthew, Lady and Miss Tierney, Sir John Eustace, Lady and Miss Hodson, Hon. Mrs. and the Misses Tennant, Sir George and Miss Anson, Sir Charles and Lady Blunt, the Misses Bush, Lady Caroline and Miss Dundas, Sir John and Lady Frazer, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Greville, Sir George Head, Lady Parker, Hen. Major and Mrs. Massey, Lieutenant- Colonel and Mrs. Polt, Mrs. and the Misses Dawson, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Barrington, Officers of the Grenadier Guards, and Colonel Sir George Teesdale and Officers of the King's Dragoon Guards. Lady E. and Miss Palk, after a lengthened sojourn here, took their departure this morning for town. Lord Arthur Hill has also left to join his regiment. Sir Andrew Barnard will return to-morrow to the Palace, front Portsmouth, where he has been for the last few days. The East Sussex fox hounds will meet on Saturday next, at Ditchling Common ; and on Monday at the King's Head, Chalky, at a quarter before eleven o'clock each morning. The Brighton barriers meet to-morrow at the Dike ; and on Monday at Patcham. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was present at part of the performances at the Adelphi Theatre yester day evening. Mr. Vail, the United States Charge d'Affaires, visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Foreign .office. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial office for Lord Aylmer, the Governor-General of the Cs nadas ; and also for the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. Earl Grey had a grand dinner party last evening, at his residence in Downing-street. Among the company were, the Russian Ambassador and the Princess Lieven ; Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador ; Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister, the Swedish Minister, and Countess Bjornstjerna ; the Danish Minister ; Baron de Wessenburg, the Austrian Special Minister, the French Charge d'Affaires, the Earl and Countess of Tankervilie, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Sir J. Graham, and Colon•! Dawson Darner. Lord Stuart de Rothsay transacted business yesterday, at the Foreigu•office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. adjoining a flower-garden at Stratlifielilaaye, from which the late Duchess used frequently to feed him with bread from her own hands. During the battle the Duke was on this horse fifteen hours without once dismounting, and it has never been ridden since that dry. It is a small chestnut horse, slightly made ; and as it was quite a colt at the time of the battle, it is wonderful how its strength was equal to the excessive fatigue it must have undereone. There is a proverb in some parts of England that a chestnut horse is always a good one, and that it will always do more work than any horse of the same size of any other colour, and this horse seems to furnish an illustra tion of its truth.— Gardener's Magazine. Don Pedro has paid the Dublin Steam Company the debt due to them for having detained their two vessels (the Birmingham and Britannia) a period of nearly two months after their charter for the carriage of troops from England had expired. The City of Dublin Company have at length been paid the balance of their claims, amounting to 4,0001. ; and it must be ad mitted on all hands that they well deserved it.—Dublin Evening Post. On Tuesday morning last an examination of I several prisoners engaged in the riot of the preceding day, in consequence of the body of a pauper having been re moved to the anatomical school at Cambridge for dissec. lion, took place at the town gaol, before the Vice-Chan cellor, the Mayor, and several other Magistrates; when seven of them were committed for further examination, but afterwards liberated on bail, and the remainder dis. charged on their own recognizances. Lord Frederick Fitzclarence now unites in his own person the appointments of Aide-de -Camp said Equerry to his Majesty, Gentleman of the Horse, and Assistant Adjutant General at the Horse Guards. The last-mentioned office is, however, understood to he hono rary, the duties and the salary of it being performed and received by Major-General Gardiner, the first Assistant Adjutant General to the Forces. Lord Frederick has arrived at Eaton-square, from his seat, Etal House, Northumberland. It is generally credited in the circles of the United Service Clubs that the Secretary at War has solicited the concurrence of the General Commanding in Chief to his plan for the abolition of the offices of Adjutant and Quartermaster -Generals, re spectively held by Sir Willoughby Gordon and Major-General Macdonald. It is proposed, however, to retain an assistant in each of those departments, to be under the control of the Secre tary at War. FUNERAL OF CAPT. FENTON, M.P.--The funeral of this much lamented gentleman took place yester day, and was attended by more than two hundred gentlemen, and about fifty of the Armed Association, (of which he was captain)) wearing white favours and gloves. The hearse, drawn by six horses, was followed by two mourn ing coaches and twelve private carriages. The chief mourner was M. S. Kenny, M.D., of Halifax, brother-in law of the deceased. But for the wetness of the weather, the precession would have been much larger ; and the closing of the shops, while it passed, testified how much their late representative was respected by his fellow towns men. Captain Fenton was in his 52d year.—Hudders field Express. DREADFUL SUICIDE AT THE DANISH MINBTER's RESlDENCE.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Feathers' Tavern, Grosvenor-place, Pimlico, on the body of Doris Jessin, aged 29, a nurserymaid, in the establishment of Baron Biome, the Danish Minister, at No. 39, Grosvenor-place. About nine o'clock on Wed nesday night, one of the footmen, named May, was passing by the dining-room door, when he observed a red stream issuing from underneath the door. The lady's maid, who was standing by, said port wine had been spilt, but, on opening the door, the deceased was found with her throat frightfully cut, lying in the mids t of a p ool of blood, and a razor near her. She was quite dead. The deceased, who was evidently enceinte, bad latterly been observed to be very desponding, but the cause was not known, and it did not now transpire who was the father of the child. She had had two illegitimate children in her own country. It appeared that she supped with the governess, and on leaving her she said, " I'll go and do something more." Shortly after she was found a corpse. She had frequently been discovered alone, and crying bitterly. Verdict— Insanity. BARRISTERS 'V. ATTORNEYS. ---At a meet , ing of the practising attorneys of this town and neigh bourhood, at the White Lion, on Thursday last, a memo rial to the High Sheriff was adopted, respecting the admis•don of attorneys to advocate causes in the new Sheriff's Court. We understand that the Sheriff has ntituated his intention to follow the practice of the old county courts, and admit barristers anti attorneys to practise indiscriminately ; and that one of the Judges has expressed to Mr. Maude, the Sheriff's Assessor, his appro bation of that course. It will thus remain open to the parties in a suit, either to retain counsel, or to commit their cause to the hands of their attorneys.—Hudders field Express. When Lord Seagrave came of age a grand ball was given at the castle, which was honoured by the presence of his Majesty, then Duke of Clarence. Jerry Hawkins had an invitation to it, and his wardrobe being overhauled for the occasion, he was found wanting only in a new pair of lcerseytnere breeches, which were deemed a b s olutely necessary for the Royal presence ; and for the 1 first and last time in his life his hair was powdered. Now, Jerry bethinking himself that dress breeches, and dress breeches only, would be rather an unprofitable article in his wardrobe, had them so shaped as to answer the united purposes of the ballroom and the saddle. They were cut longer at the knee than dress breeches should he cut, and having an eye to the future, an extra button was placed at be back of the leg for the boot. This button was not lost on the Royal Doke, who, no doubt, was m tile acquainted with the character of the man, and by way of joke he addressed him thus :—" Pray, Mr. Hawkins, do you ever wear boots ?" " Please your Royal Highness," replied Jerry, " I very seldom wear shoes." Lord Alvanley could not have given a readier answer. There was a good deal of the " nemo me impure" about it, and much in the style of the old Squire Leche, of Cheshire, of whose sayings and doings I fear I have a Itngth exhausted my stock."--New Sporting Magazine. t Zarco del Valle, the new Minister of War, ad interim, in Spain, is the intimate friend of the Marquis tie las Amarillas, who, when in the same office in 1820, named him his Secretary General. Zareo del Valle was afterwards appointed to go to Naples as Minister Plenipo tentiary, but the fate of the Neapolitan Constitution prevented Lisp; oceeding to his destination. He was ultimately created Captain General of Arragon. In this station, however, he did not show sufficient energy against the Royal insurgents ; in consequence, he was called to the functions of Political Chief of Catalonia. Being, in 1823, declared impure, and at a later period declared impurifiable, he was relieved from his disgrace by the special favour of the King in 1832. He was originally in the corps of engineers, and he commenced his functions by re-organising the War Department, and re-establishing the Staff created by Ballasteros in 1815. In 1820 the officers who composed the Staff took part with the Constitutionalists. The Prince d'Anglona, who is ap pointed Captain General of Andalusia in the room of General Abadia, was a warm parti"au of the Revolution of 1820. He was exiled in 1823, and obtained his pardon in 1831, but Ferdinand would never intrust him, with any employment. It is proposed to establish Urban Guards in Old Castile. It is said that there is not a good understanding between the Regency and the Ministry, but the Queen continues to support the latter with great firmness. SUBMARINE FOREST.—" This very singular phenomenon occurs on the eastern shore of the island of Aranmore, on the coast of the county of Donegal. It was pointed out to us in 1827 by the boatmen who conveyed us from Rutland to Nranniore. The stumps of trees are of various lengths, from a few inches to six or eight feet above the bog stratum on which they originally grew. This stratum is now below the surface of the sea ;—and at high water the whole remains of the forest are from six to twenty feet beneath the surface of the water. When the tide is out, a considerable number of the stumps are city, and appear to protrude frotn sand, but this sand is merely a covering which has been superimposed in the bog. The stumps may be observed by a keen eye at an immense depth beneath th e water as we approach the main land. Submersed forests have been discovered on the eastern coast of England, and in Scotland. Their exist ence has been variously accounte d for, by supposing that the bed of the waters of the ocean maintained a higher level now than they did formerly ; o r, that owing to !ome convulsion, the land on which the trees grew subsided. The most satisfactory reason which ha s been given appears to hr., that the bog and the tree s which it supported moved, as we know bogs frequently do, from a higher to ears a lower level—this, from the appearance of the land, app to have been the case at least with the submarine forest on the coast of Donegal."— Cork Constitution. SALE OF -A WIFE.—Ou Saturday morn ing last, a man named Samuel Hay, residing at Midgley, in this parish, sold his wife, at the market cross, in this town, to a neighbour, for ten shillings , throwing down ,txpence for luck. As the town authoritie s are very properlyinstituting legal proceedings against the parties, we shall not, at present, offer any comment on this dis graceful transaction.—Huddersfield Express. ARRIVALS, The Duke of Richmond in Cavendish-square, from his sea Goodwood, near Chichester; Lord A. Conyngham, in Green street, Grosvenor-square, from Bretby-park ; Colonel and Mrs. Crockford and family, at Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, from Dublin ; Mrs. Sneyd, at ditto, from ditto; the Dowager Mar chioness of Salisbury, yesterday, in Arlington-street, from Hat field; Captain Smith and It. Creede, Esq., at Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, from Cambridge; James and William Cuddy, Esqrs., at ditto, from the East Indies; Mrs. Admiral Edwards, and Miss Osborne, at the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Scotland ; the Rev. E. Osborne, at ditto, from Greenhook, Hants ; T. Kinlock, Esq., at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from the Continent ; Rolle, Esq , at ditto, from ditto; La Touche, Esq , at ditto, from Brighton ; Captain and Mrs. Lyster, in Brook-street, from Essex; G. A. Hoskins, Esq., at the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street, from the Island of Maea, Upper Nubia ; Henry Watterton, Esq., at ditto, from York shire:, Thomas Smith, Esq., at ditto, from Ireland ; Captain Natts, R.N., at ditto, from Dover Jar Jenning, Esq., at ditto, from ditto ; William Alsop, Esq., at ditto, from ditto. DEPARTURES. From the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street ;—The Earl of Ox ford, on a tour; the Honourable A. Trevor, on ditto ; James Watts, Esq., for Bath ; W illiam Franks, Esq., for ditto ; John Vaughan, Esq., for Brighton ; James Ellis, Esq., for ditto. — Lord Farnborough, from Whitehall Gardens, for his seat, Bromley Hill, Kent; Honourable William Noel, from Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, for Herts ; Money Penny, Esq., from ditto, for Cambridgeshire; D. Potts, Esq., from ditto ; Mrs. and the Misses Hutton, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Southampton ; H. G. Knight, Esq., from the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Yorkshire; Edward Rose Tunno, Esq., M.P., from Upper Brook.street, for his seat, Red Price House, Andover ; Captain Mackenzie, from Raggett's Hotel, Dover street, for Dublin; Wm. Mitford, Esq., from ditto, for the Continent ; Lord John Russell, on a visit to the Duke of Rich mond, at Goodwood, Sussex ; the Duke of Dorset, from Har ley-street, for his seat, Drayton, Northamptonshire ; Viscount Ossulston, from Grosvenor-square, for Woburn Abbey ; Lord Arthur Hill, from Arlington-street, for Hatfield House; Vis count Berehaven, for Brighton; Sir Burges Camac, for ditto ; Colonel and Mrs. Barrington, for ditto ; the Dowager March ioness of Cholmondeley and Miss Bentinck, from Carlton-ter race, for Brighton ; Lieut.-Col. Reed, Second Life Guards, for ditto ; Captain Kinlock, for ditto; Lady Georgiana Barnes and family, for Weymouth ; Col. and Mrs. Howard, for ditto. BATH. ARRIVALS. —major-General Sir John Fitzgerald, Sir 11. and Lady Campbell, Sir Phineas Riall, Sir H. Strachey, General Kasade, Colonel Richardson, Colonel Page, Major Ross; Captains Brown, Davies, Morris, Mackinnon, Day, Strachey, Lewis, Gallaway ; Rev. Messrs. Glynn, Browne ; Mr. and Mrs. Beresford, Cheesewright, Durden, Gilbertson Paul, Petty, Uptun, Eaton, Gummer, Randall, Michell, Ashe Napier, Powell ; Messrs. Bradshaw, Collins, Duncan, Dowall Green, Howell, Hazard, King, Langley, Lane, Lowe, Mil.. let, Matthew, Norris, Ogle, Rolleston, Smith, Williams Long, Partridge, Rogers, Wickham, Westbeach, Chambers Slocombe, Tynte, M.P., Hygford, Hinman ; Mistresses Groves Havereld, King, Wood, Gallaway; Misses Baring, Groves, Bever, Field, &c. It was reported yesterday at the West end that a Cabinet Council will be held on Monday next at the Pavilion, to fix the meeting of Parliament, which at pre sent stands prorogued to Thursday next, the 12th instant. The Duke of Richmond will proceed from Goodwood to attend it. Captain Cotesworth, R.N., is appointed to succeed Mr. Mornay, to superintend the mining establish ment at Cata Branca, in Brazil, and goes out in the Briseis. OXFORD. —The dangerous illness of a dis , tinguish2d Nobleman has given rise to various reports as tollis probable successor in the Chancellorship of one of our Universities. We understand that the Duke of Wel lington and Sir Robert Peel have both been named ; but we cannot but conceive that the very distinguished honours gained by the latter at Oxford, and his intimate connexion with that University, must decidedly secure him the pre ference. The exportations of silver to the continent, go on very extensively. It appears by the authentic re turns, that (luring the week between the 21st and 29th ult., 911,444 ounces of silver were exported to Calais and to Lisbon. The quantity of gold exported within the same period, was only 700 ounces. We are informed that, besides the reduction of the Militia, the Army will be virtually reduced 6,000 or 7,000 men by the cessation of recruiting. At no time has the prospect of a long duration of general peace been more promising. ELOPEMENT. —The unusual occurrence of an elopement from these parts, took place on Tuesday evening last. The debutantes were a young farmer of Broughton, and the daughter of a deception not far dis tant. Under the plea, as we are informed, of going to a ball at Stow, a postchaise was ordered, which was met by another, in which was the gallant, on the road, and they are reported to have turned aside for Oxford, where another chaise and horses were in readiness to convey them onwards, to which place they themselves, of course, best know. The lady is said to be of age, and entitled to 20,0001. in her own right. Her father followed them the next mo rnin g , but we have not heard with what success. --Oxford Journal. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S WATER- Loo CHARGER.-The charger which the Duke of Wel lington rode at Waterloo is kept in a small paddock ADDRESS on OPENING HULL THEATRE, DECEMBER 2, 1833. Written by Mr. W. Lama); REDE, and spoken by Mrs. STANLEY. (The York Circuit has been retaken by Mr. Douse, who relinquished it in 1828, after seven very prosperous seasons.) Bound back my mind, my heart, to other days, What happy scenes sloes waken'd memory raise ; My by-gone sorrows, absent griefs, are oe'r, Up, Up, my heart—l am in Hull once more. And Fortune here her common freak has play'd, There blooms a matron, whom I left a maid ; In the few years that I have from you tarried, All the young beaux of batchelors have married. Yet limes and gentles former scenes renew ; Come now yourselves—and bring your children too. Since my farewell, thro' much of woe and joy, I bore one memory, nothing could destroy ; Oft of ye all I've thought with fond regret, And, sighing, asked, " Am I remember'd yet ?" Your greeting answers me: 'tis sweet, tho' rare, To find old friends as kind as once they were. But why prate idly of myself, the while So many anxious ones await your smile. To night some trembling strangers meet your view, Other old faces court your smiles anew ; And ONE who erst for several seasons wrought Hard for your smiles, and won the meed he sought ; Who, as a Manager, obtained your praise In by-gone hours—" The Drama's pshny days," Asks, may be venture now the bask to steer, When gratitude impels a new career, And beacon hope points to a haven here. Your favour once gave vigour to his prow ; You cheered him then—will you forsake bins now? I feel you will not—Yorkshire hearts are sounder, Than, in a gale, to let a good ship founder. Your favouring mil.' have power to restore This well-trimmed bark to all she was before. No efforts shall be wanting by the crew ; But mind—our vessel's safety rests with you. Don't let her want for hands, nor prosperous gales ; A favouring omen—come, lads, hoist your sails. (Curtain rises.) Ship's'company advance, and banish fear ; I promise you they're kind commanders here. Steersman, (to Mr. Doune,) take you the rudder: shape your way Thro' sterling dramas' sea to SHAYSPEARE bay ; Touch at Cape SHERIDAN, at OTWAY Sound— Sail where the Island Novelties abound ; And if from quicksand Folly you would ward us, Why, let their judgment be your sailing orders. So shall a prosp'rous breeze your voyage bless, And anchor us, at last, in Port Success. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. THE DERBY. to 1 agst Mr. Yates's Bentley 7 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Bubastes 12 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Plenipo 16 to I agst Mr. Chifney's Shelelah (taken) 20 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's Emigrant (taken) 22 to 1 agst Duke of Gratton's Olympic (taken) 22 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Delirium The others as before. OAKS. 13 to 2 agst Mr. Walker's Cotillon 7 to I agst Colonel Peel's Rosalie 14 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Louisa (taken) HAMPTON COURT COURSING MEETING. This meeting took place yesterday in the Home Park, permission having been kindly granted by the Earl of Albemarle. We subjoin the results : For the Cup and Goblet. First Class.—Mr. Anderson's r. b. Atalanta beat Mr. Dansie's h. d. Nelson ; Mr. Clarke's r. d. Critic heat Mr. Rice's w. b. Rarity ; Mr. Willshen's brio. b. Moll beat Mr. Goodwin's bk. d. Glowworm ; Mr. Seymour's r. and w. b. Sally beat Mr. Krnell's b. b. Fly ; Mr. Thompson's r. d. Pilot beat Mr. O.borne's bk. b. Mouse ; Mr. Bailey's b. 41. Blackbird heat Mr. Patient's b. d. Prince; Mr. Elmore's w. b. Echo beat Mr. Burnett's w. d. Bramble; Mr. Collier's r. d. Creeper beat Mr. - Nicholls's b. h. Nimble. Second Class.—Mr. Anderson's Atalanta beat Mr. Clarke's Critic ; Mr. Willshen's Moll beat Mr. Seymour's Sally ; Mr. Thompson's Pilot beat Mr. Bailey's Black bird ; Mr. Elmore's Echo beat Mr. Collier's Creeper. Third Class.—Mr. Anderson's Atalanta beat Mr. Will shen's Moll; Mr. Tlonnpson's Pilot beat Mr. Elmore's Echo. Fourth Class.—Mr. Anderson's Atalanta agst. Mr. Thompson's Pilot. This proved any thing but a " decided course." As far as we could see of it, Atalanta certainly had the best of it, and such seemed to be the opinion of the umpire, and the majority of those who saw the course; the other party thought otherwise, and much confu'ion ensue. When nearly dusk we left the Park, it being then an " undecided" affair. The hares ran remarkably stout, and defeated the do g s in almost ever y course. The cons , , pony was very numerous. HUNTING APPOINTMENNTS Mr. A. Smith's Hounds meet on Monday, at Pare Hill ; Tuesday, at Park House ; Thursday, at Huretburn Tar rant ; Friday, at Charlton Clumps—at 11. Mr. Hurlock's Hounds meet on Tuesday, at Lueknam Lodge; Friday, at Great Wood—at half-past 10. The Warwickshire Hounds meet on Monday, at Bishops Itchington ; Tuesday, at Mitford Bridge ; Thursday, at Kineton ; Friday, at Kenilworth ; Saturday, at Prineethorpe—a., half-past 10. Mr. Farquarson's Hounds meet on Monday, at Coombe near Longbredy lint; Tuesday, at Short Wood ; Thursday, at Coker Wood; Friday, at Buckland Wood. his Majesty's Hounds meet on Monday, at Stoke, near Bolbarrow ; Wednesday, at Burton Turnpikegate ; Friday, at Broom Hill Mill. The Burton Harriers meet on Wednesday, at Stone combe, near Beaminster. The Bevel ley Hounds meet on Tuesday, at Woodbridge ; Friday, at Marnli ull. Mr. Portman's Hounds meet on Monday, at Sparkford Inn ; Wednesday, at Henstridg e Ash ; Friday, at Cogley. The Cadbury Harriers meet on Monday, at the Red Post; W e dnesday, at North Barrow; Saturday, at Kennel. The Somerset Vale Hounds meet on Tuesday. at nick. nel Wood ; Friday, at Loxley Wood. Lord Fi'zwiliatn's Hounds met on Monday, at Sawby Gorse ; Wedneslday, at Bythorn e Toll Bar; Thursday, at Walcot Park—at 10. Lord Yarborough'e Hounds meet on Monday, at Peak's Closes ; Wednesday, at Howsham ; Friday, at Willingham House; Saturday, at Healing Well—at 11. The South Wtaid Hounds meet on Tuesday, at Ketsby Mills ; Fridey, at Waterloo Plantation—at 11. Sir B. Sutton's Hounds meet on Monday at Wellingore ; Wednesday, at Fiskerton Long Wood ; Thursday, at W'ickenby Village; Friday, at Coddington Plantation — at 11. The C a mbridgeshire Hounds meet on Monday, at Morden Heath ; Friday, at Long Stanton—at half past 10. The Doddington Harriers meet on Tuesday, at Mill Field ; Friday—at half-past 10. The Royston Harriers meet on Tuesday, at the Ship Inn, Ashwell (a stag) ; Thursday, at Therfield Mill— :it half-past 10. Mr. C. Brock's Hounds meet on Monday, at Clitrey ; Wednesday, at Crowle ; Friday, at Elmley Park, Bredon— at half-past 10. The Upton Harriers meet on Tuesday, at Forty Green, Hanley ; Friday, at Newland Green—at 11. ilgachk Mill—at Hil—ouri T d i a l y e , A at ibßi. to Mr. Mure's H oun d s meet on Tuesday, at Dave r's Arms; Thursday, a t Stet c hworth—at half-past 10. East Kent H o unds meet on Tuesday, at Sole-street ; F a n t ds a i g n u ee a t rt ( e ) r n p iu a , st ed l s l a . y, Court ; Thu rs d ay , at the Clouds ; Saturday, at the Lizard —at 10. at Moseley The Herefordshire Hounds meet on Tuesday, at Ber rington ; Friday, at Five Mile Stone, Froome's Hill-road —at 10. REFUSAL - An important suit is now pending in the King's Bench, relative to the liability of the inhabitants of Richmond terrace to the payment of poor and other rates. The suit amounting to has been in s ti tut ed b e th e p a ri s h of St. Margaret agai nst the whole O f t h e no bl e an d wea lthy individuals occupy in g premises o n t hi s spot , t o rec over arrears of these rates, having paid anything towards the poor ra tes since th e mansions w ere erecte d, severa l thousand pounds, the p arties not upon whi c h t h ey stan d w a s formerly that o f a p alac e belonging t o t h e fi rst D u ke of Richmond , an d that th e land being the under the pretext that the site property of the Crown, they are exempt from taxes of the above description. The cause is set down for h ear i ng on W e d nes day, next week , Sir C. Bur rell, one of t h e i n h a bi tan t s , and Henry N i c ho lson , the parish beadl e , b e i ng nom i na lly the plaintiff and defendant. Privy-gardens, and some other places adjacent, are placed in the same situation, and their liability will be deter mined by the result of this action. In the latter place stand the princely mansions of Sir R. Peel, the Duke of Bticcleuch, Lord Dover, and other titled and wealthy in. dividuals. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. REPRESENTATION OF LEEDS.—The ap. proachiog vacancy for this borough has set all parties in motion. Mr. M. T. Sadler is, of course, the favourite with the Tories. Mr. Joshua Bower, of Hunslet, is expect. ea, we hear, to be the nominee of the R olical party ; and the Whigs, we understand, are directing their attention to Mr. Fawkes, son of the late Walter Fawkes, Esq., ol Farnley Hall. The name of Fawkes must ever be dear t o Yorkshiremen, and to all friends of rational and eifee tive reform. —Huddersfield Express. REPRESENTATION OF HUDDERSFIELD. — Some of the electors of this borough have invited J. C. Ramsden, Esq. ALP., for Milton, and formerly one of the Members for Yorkshire, to offer himself ; and a very respectably signed requisition was forwarded to that gentleman, last week ; but Mr. Ramsden very properly declined the invitation. As the son and heir of Sir John Ramsden, almost the sole proprietor of the town, Mr. Ramsden could not represent Huddersfield without subjecting himself to that odious imputation of borough mongering ; and, indeed, the influence of property at tached to the family, would, whether unfairly exercised or not, secure Mr. R:11 election, at any time. A requisition to M. T. Sadler, Esq., the defeated candidate at Leeds, last December, has bee❑ got up by the Tories, and it is understood that Mr. S. will stand a contest. Colonel Thompson, the well known author of the " Catechism of the Corn Laws," has written to us, to recommend Dr. Bowring to the electors. We publish Colonel T.'6 letter, in another column ; but we cannot join in the recommendation. Dr. Bowring's talents are cer tainly great, and his services to the cause of free trade have been considerable ; but his political opinions are too ultra,—his republicanism too decided, to meet our appro bation. Sir John Cam Hobhouse has been talked of. Green Bentley, E.q., of Deadmanstone Hall, has issued an address to the electors. Mr. B. is, we believe, of Whig principles ; but his address is very general. "The only claim I have," he says, " is based in pledging myself, if I have the honour of being returned, to advocate those noble and liberal principles to which we are indebted for the privileges we enjoy as Englishmen, and for which I shall contend so long as I live." Mr. James Knight, ol Huddersfield, and formerly of Halifax, has also offered himself !! ! The report that Capt. Wood, of Sandal, has been invited by the R idical party, seems to have been premature. General Johnson is now spoken of, as their nominee. The liberal party, however, have invited John Blackburne, Esq., of the Middle Temple, and whose situa tion, as the head of the Corporation Commission, is a strong guarantee for the high character he sustains at the bar. Mr. B. is a native of Huddersfield, and practices on the Northern Circuit. He is expected to visit the electors in the course of a few days, and there is every probability of his return. —Huddersfield Express. DEFENCE OF SCIENCE IN ENGLAND: CURIOUS ANECDOTES OF TALLEYRAND I EXPOSE OF ST. SIMONISX &c. &c.—The Literary Gazette of Dec. 7 (No. 881) will contain an Argumentative Defence of the Science of England, arid its Friends, against the Extraor dinary Charges of Infidelity and Atheism by Mr. Nolan, in his Banapton Lecture—Raviews of all Recent Publica tions, including an Expose of the Absurd and Profligate " Religion" of St. Simon ; ►he Book of Beauty, and Aristocratic Diffusion of Literature ; Miss Alartineau and her Deinocratic Diffusion ; Carne's Italy ; Galt's Jaunt of Baillie Daidles and his Wife to Greece; Flowers ; and other Novelties—An Original Poem on Wordsworth's Threatened Blindness, by R. Howitt—Specimens of American Periodical Publications —A page of character ittic and piquant Anecdotes of Talleyraud—and the usual Critiques, Literary and Scientific Intelligence, Varieties, Sce. &c.—W. Scripps, 7, Wellington-street. Died, on the 23d ult., at Worthing, the Rev. John Wool!, D.D., formerly Fellow of New College, some time Master of Midhurst School, and for twenty-one years Head Master of Rugby MIRROR OF THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT.-- A work under the above singular title has ben set on foot at the Presidency, the profits of which are to be applied to that excellent institution, the School Book Society, which, we regret to learn, is in debt to the amount of nearly 1,0001., and obliged to suspend its operations. The work is intended to concentrate the " Spirit of the Indian Jour nals," by reprinting the best productions which appear in them. The discussions in the newspapers are assimilated to those iu our Parliament, and hence the fanciful title of the work, We have now at last before us a complete re port of the proceedings which took place in the court of the Municipal Commissioners at Liver tlool, on the inquiry into the state of that corporation,—a most important and valuable, though perhaps rather voluminous and fatiguing, document. Its length, however, may well be excused when it is considered that it details the patient and laborious examinations of 24 days, —that it communicates the evidence not only of the corporation officers, but of their antagonists, —and that it, moreover, admits the pleadin g s or summing up of the principal champions on both sides at the close of the trial. Though in this case the Tory corporators did not think it for their interest to resist the investigation of their accounts •in d management,—though they even affected plea sure, at the institution of the inquiry , and p rofessed their willingness to meet it with every demanded disclosure,—though in no part of their con duct did they pretend to an immunity from public inspection or popular control,—and though the Town-clerk, who had stood in the Town-hall the brunt of more than three weeks' combat with the enemies of corporate abuses, seemed to withdraw at last from the field amid a haze of dubious self-con gratulation or unconscious defeat, —we have no hesitation in saying that in none of the most notoriously corrupt boroughs in the kingdom have we found stronger proofs or more striking illustrations of the evil of the close or self-elective system of municipal government. It is true that the Liverpool magistrates and counci did not indulge in small peculation at the expense of their fellow. citizens, like some of their brethren in the more insignificant boroughs,—it is true that they did not help themselves to trust pro perty like the corporators of Cambridge,—it is true that they did not first sell themselves to Tory candidates, and then mortgage the corporate lands to defray the bribes of their corrupt voters, like Leicester,—it is true that .hey did not alienate or pervert the charitable funds intrusted to their care, like the same " worshipful company,"—it is true that they did not offer themselves as the humble and degraded tools of some neighbouring lord or patron, like Stamford, Tiverton, Banbury, and Warwick, wearing their livery and feasting on their veni son : No ! the corporate junta of Liverpool either could afford to despise such sordid and degrading arts and compliances, or knew that hey could not enjoy such mean advantages with impunity. Their ambition was higher, or the vigilant control of their enlightened fellow citizens over their conduct was stronger. With powers to levy and to manage a revenue of nearly 300,0001. from the town, from the docks, and trom trade—with the patronage and places which such an expenditure put into their hands, the snug little senate of 41 in Liverpool might safely forego the dangerous gains of vulgar corpora tion plunder. When they could fasten them selves or their friends on the public at salaries of from 5001. to 1,5001., or even (in some cases) 5,000/. a year, it would have been absurd to expose themselves to suspicion or censure for the petty larceny profits of common knaves. But their mismanagement is not the less mischievous that it is externally of a less sordid character, and the necessity which it creates for corporate reform is not the less urgent and imperative. When we consider that the municipal government of Liverpool was established for a state of things so ,ntirely different from the present, and that it has stood still while civilization, trade, and veaith have been rapidly advancing around it— when we consider that the last of its mass of charters, or its governin g charter, was granted in 1695 to a population of less than 6,000 inha bitants, and that its present population amounts co near 200,000, we are astonished that the iniquitous incongruity should have been allowed so long to remain, or that it should not have produced more extensive mischief. A self elected junta of forty_one persons, under the de nomination of " Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council," rules the second commercial city in the world, to the exclusion of all control either over its formation or its conduct by the great body of the citizens, by the great mercantile in terests, or the enlightened classes of the comtnu oity. The same sort of corporators, to the same number, existed when it was only a kind ofmarshy hamlet, as at present, when by the increase of its population it exceeds in trade and resources ill the cities of the world, with the exception of London,—when the revenues of the town pro perty and dues amount to nearly I gN, O vel O salon , o o mdf oo be l vtu . lerine. when its dock duties exceed 182,0001.,—when its assessed house property is estimated at 800,0001., —when the rates levied for its poor amount to 50,0001., —when about 12,000 vessels, with a tonnage of [ 2 411,964 tons belong to its port,—and I ( i ) e i c i e u a s r t l o y m 4 s ,00 collected o,o 001 o . n ( i o t its merchandise 3,92s, o oamountl.) The reader may form some idea of the prodigious !nagnitude of the latter item, when we mention that it exceeds the Custom-house duties of all Scotland and Ireland put together (the former of which only amounted in 1829 to 1,370,240/., and the latter to 1,585,4761.), and that no port of France, with the exception of Havre-de- Grace, yields one-fourth of such a revenue. Yet the whole interests, commercial, political, civil, and ecclesiastical, of that great trading cotnmu.. mir thi wlsynysi are et undernlhy i ch has o a ts c iftiti e ett d nuhteeodbf ejboee feelings tetgyil Is:ts ae e tfowribevheoatimrrchoiheaeunn superintendence ngcelieilat yizwehi italhsv,e a ll: their(dlf t Y h householders, political franchise, in have e ee franchisei the Reform omle for Ar e electing i has independence or welfare. Tin the passing of ct the Reform Bill the counterpart of this govern tlsoi vhie t a, l o:eosyse tsi—l e C or poration ilseaidm a e t t l i t i n fer i e t e t ex e n t c l i municipal 1 5 . ra m n o c o his o e f is ti s i t e i s ll e 7.l ,e% T N l l : i g e ttoei Representatives choosing a f r — tteloiee n m ale Mayor.r n e nj os i:b m u ct abouti; the in the latter handsvoot s comprise in their ranks little of the stealth; otelligence, or respectability of the town, We have no room to enter on tiny summary of the facts contained in the long „, report be fore us, which would occupy sixty or seventy of our columns, and to which it is the less necessary particularly to advert as it is about to be published in a separate volume or pamphlet—but we cannot help stating, as its general result, that it exhibits a shameful waste of the public money in salaries, allowances, and jobs,—that the revenues of the borough, which would be sufficient for a considerable state or principality, have often been prodigally or igno rantly squandered, —that its extensive patronage has been injudiciously, if not corruptly, exer cised, —that there has been reason to complain o f a general favouritism in the disposal of its corporate offices,—that family connexions and nereditary influences have been formed in the Council or among the magistrates to the exclu. THE GUERILLA CHIEF MERINO. (From the Spectator.) The Memorial Bordelais contains a long account of this extraordinary man. It is evidently written by a per son thoroughly acquainted with Merino, and with all the circumstances connected with his exploits. A few extracts from this account, showing the personal character and the influence of Merino, may interest our readers. It is necessary to premise, that, so far from being the champion of the priesthood in Spain, Merino entertains a decided hatred for that class, and admits no priest to his confidence. He never enters a place of worship, or returns thanks to Providence fur any of his successes. He has no fixed political principles ; and has, according to th, writer of the article in question, no hostility to the Ultra Liberals, whom he would join if he could bs assured o. their gaining the upper hand, and granting him impunity for all his crimes. But he has a dread of what are Moderate Governments, lest, when his services are over, a guarantee of oblivion should be broken, and he be sacrificed. The personal bravery of Merino is said to exceed e 0,,, that of Mina. In 1808, he carried by assault the town of Roa, at the head of his soldiers. At Pampelona, he made the whole of the French arrison prisoners, by the at audacity of his movements. At the V e nts del Abgel, Almazan, and in many other places in the same year, be astonished everybody by his boldness. About this time, wishing to become acquainted with the designs of his enemies, be entered Burgos seven or eight times, dis guised as a peasant, and leading an ass loaded with red pepper, which he sold in the streets ; becoming thus his own spy, counsellor, and general. " In 1823, in the month of August, Merino, accom panied by four men, arrived at eight o'clock in the evening at Ontoria ; whilst at table, the house in which he had taken up his quarters was surrounded by sixty soldiers of the regular army and 30 of the National Guard. Merino quitted the table, deliberately saddled his own horse, saw the horses of his soldiers also saddled, and rode through a shower of halls to the bridge, where his horse fell under him; in this position the two sentinels fired at hint ; but he raised his horse, and escaped. At another time, he appeared at the chateau of Colina, with twenty men. The authorities of Villahoz being apprised of his visit, sent one hundred and forty soldiers to the chateau. They blocked up all the avenues. At night, Merino ordered the owner of the chateau to open all the gates, and drove before him about thirty bul locks which were in the stables, at the same time shouting defiance to his enemies. The besiegers, bearing his voice and the noise of the sortie, discharged a volley, killing nearly all the bullocks. Before they could reload, Merino and his troop had escaped without a wound. At Roa, in 1823, he was defeated by Obregon, and had seven hundred of his men taken prisoners ; but his defeat did not discourage him. He withdraw, disputing every inch of ground. Among many anecdotes respecting him are the follow ing. In 1823, when the army of the Duke of Angou 'eine was in Spain, the husband of 'Merino's sister, An tonio Santuyo, and another assassinated the Alcalde of Villahoz, Don Mateo Alvarez, a distinguished Liberal ; for whom, personally, Merino was said to entertain a great hatred. The assassins were apprehended, and im prisoned. Merino's sister immediately went to 'Madrid, where her brother was all influential, to obtain his inter • cession in favour of her husband. At first, Merino drove her from his door ; but recalling her, and appearing to relent, he gave her a sealed letter to Don Ignacio Romero, the Chief Judge of the Criminal Court at Valladolid ; which, on being opened by the Judge, was found to con tain the following words:— " Seuhor—My sister will give you this letter. I charge you to look out for a second husband for her, and to hang the first, as a just punishment for the murder of the Al calde of Villahoz. It is not for him to judge of the poli tical opinions of men. (Signed) " MERINO." The influence of Merino over the Castilians is extraor dinary. It may be judged of from the following fact. The Judge of Curia, Don Pedro Martinez de Velasco, returned to Villahoz shortly after the arrest of Merino's brother-in law. The Royalists of the environs, in their rage at the arrest of this person, bad flocked to avenge it, and bad laid the Liberals of Villahoz under contribution, and impri soned some of the most wealthy. Having been informed of the return of Don Pedro, they surrounded his house, and demanded his person with loud imprecations. Don Pedro presented himself, and exhibited his passport ; on which Merino had written with his own hand, that Don Pedro Martintz de V e lasco might without fear of molestation traverse the two Castiles. The chief of the band had no sooner read aloud the words " In the name of Geronimo Merino," than all the troop took off their hats, and heard the whole in the most respectful silence. They then withdrew the Commandant, having first kissed the pass port, and placed a guard of honour at the door of the man whom they came to arrest, perhaps to massacre.