The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-19 00:00:00

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The solicitor (Mr. Freshfield) had made an affidavit which would be filed to-day, and he (the Solicitor -General) was instructed to ask that the petition might be ordered to stand at the head of his Lordship's paper for Saturday week, though he hoped that in the meantime there would be a compromise come to between the parties. 4r. KNIGHT, who appeared for Mr. Stead, did not Object, and the petition was accordingly ordered to be in the paper as prayed. WRIGHT V. WAGGONER. The SOLICITOR:G;;ERAL ' moved;hat the defendant 'night be discharged from the custody of the Warden of the Fleet, by consent of the plaintiff, without the payment of costs.—Discharge ordered. RICHARDSON V. WAGGONER. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved that the defendant might be discharge.? from the custody of the Warden of the Fleet, where he had been detained for some time in this cause also, at the instance of the plaintiff, on the ground that the plaintiff had been twice a bankrupt, had gone to Mexico to reside, that his solicitor, Mr. Chippendale, had also left the country to reside in France, and that, there fore, there was neither plaintiff, solicitor, nor clerk in Court to be found in the cause. The LORD CHANCELLOR ordered the discharge to be immediately made out, observing, that a case of this sort ought to he in some way or other provided for. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL perfectly agreed with his Lordship, and said that he had taken so much trouble respecting it, that there would not be much difficulty in having the grievance remedied. EMDEN V. COVENTRY. This was an appeal from a decision of Sir William Grant, while Master of the Rolls. The case has been before the Court in different shapes, at many different periods, (and the question simply was, whether the late Colonel Thornton had been twice payed a sum of 225/. ?) Tlie Master of the Rolls decided that he had. Exceptions Were taken to the Master's Report, which was heard and overruled. An appeal was presented to Lord Eldon, and fro memo randums made on th e b ac k s o f some of the papers in Lordship's hand -writing, it appeared that Lord Eldon's opinion was the money had been twice paid, but he pro nounced no judgment before quitting office. The appeal Was accordingly reheard before the present Lord Chan cellor, and he delivered judgment, confirming the original order o f Sir William drent and immediately afterwards was told th at t h e cause bad t ' tbated, therefore all th it had Passed before him would have to go for nothing. The suit Was revived, the whole of the case again re-argued, and now in final judgment. The Court entertained the same opinion that had formerly been expressed, and which was the concurrent judgment of all the Judges before whom the case had been. —Appeal dismissed with costs. TICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. JUDGMENT.-FOSTER V. HARGREAVE. This was the petition of Lord Crewe, who is residing abroad, praying for the removal of his daughter, Miss Crewe, from the guardianship of her aunt, and also for a reference to the Master for the appointment 'of a pro- Per guardian. The petition was heard at considerable length on a former day, when his Honour expressed it as his clear opinion that there was no ground whatever for his interference, but he would make no positive order till he had seen Miss Crewe her self, and heard from her own mouth what her wishes were. On coming into Court this morning his Honour observed that singe the case was last before hiss, he had had an opportunity of seeing Miss Crewe, and upon conversation with her, he was satisfied that the evil which the Solicitor-General had alluded to as likely to result from the young lady's continuance with her aunt, Mrs. Foster Cunliffe, was not likely to take Place. The circumstances stated in the petition of Lord Crewe himself afforded strong evidsnce that it would not. The who first offered to take charge of Miss Crewe had declined to do so, and the petition now rested upon a mere reference to the Master, for the purpose of inquiring whether it would not be better for the young lady to have a new guardian appointed than for her to remain under the guardianship of her aunt. His Honour must say that it was his clear opinion there was no ground whatever for disturbing the residence of the young lady with her aunt. It appeared, as far as the father was concerned, there was no ground whatever for the in terference of the Court. Ilis Honour mentioned this, be cause, upon conversation with the young lady, whose age was 15' years and a half, he understood Miss Crewe had never seen her father during her life, nor had she re ceived any letters from him except one, which had be e n within the last fortnight, in whi c h Lord Crewe expressly desired her not to write to him in answer, but to her sister. Under touch circumstances, the Court did not think the facts stated in the petition of such a nature as to furnish any reason why Miss Crewe should be removed from the care and attention which had been exercised towards her by Mrs. Foster Cunliffe. The Court was strengthened in this opinion on adverting to the conduct of the aunt towards Mi , a Crewe, which had bun every thing that could be wished. His Honour concluded by observing that things must remain as they were, and the costs be costs in the cause. The Court took exceptions, further directions, and pleas and demurrers to-day. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. HILL AND ANOTHER V. HARRIS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, with whom was the Com mon Serjeant, stated, that this was an action of trover, brought by the plaintiffs as assignees of a bankrupt named Murdoch, who formerly carried on the profession of an attorney in the country, and it was brought for the pur pose of obtaining a quantity of household goods, and other property, which the defendant shortly before his bank ruptcy assigned over by a bill of sale to the defendants. The value of the goods was not disputed. The only ques tion therefore for consideration was, whether the commis sion that had been issued was or was not a valid com mission; The commission issued against Mr. Murdoch Laving been put in and read, and Lord Tenterden decided that the Petitioning creditor's debt was good in law, a great 2.lumher of witnesses wets called, for the purpose of proy. ing the trading. They were chiefly auctioneers, and de- Poled to the fact of Mr. Murdoch frequently attending sales' and making purchases which lie used subsequently t .. d :Vote of again. f GURNEY was heard at length for the defence, t er whi c h the Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.) NEW COURT. After Mr. Serjeant AILABIX took his seat on the bench soon nine o'clock. William White and Samuel Carroll were indicted for unlawfully assembling and entering certain inclosed lands called Stanwell-park, in the county of Middlesex, the Property o f S i r John Gibbon, Bart , on the sth of January an, about twelve o'clock at night, for the purpose of de stroying game, armed with guns and bludgeons. There was a third prisoner of the name of Pond, who pleaded guilty. 111 r. Anotruus stated the facts of the case to the Jury, Which was afterwards detailed in evidence. He said in the indictment, although the offence charged against the prisoners was a misdemeanour it was necessarily brought before them in consequence of an Act passed in the reign of George IV. section 9, which stated that such Offences 'could be tried before Justices of the Peace, and at general gaol delivery. Sir J. Gibbon was not one of those Who were called preservers of the game, but was a man who e xpected to enj o y i n p eace an d quietness that estate which ' , ad descended to him from his ancestors, but which was Pat to be made a place for plunder. The question alone f°2 ea'go, to try was one of identity ; it would be for them say what punishment ought to be inflicted on such men W " were guilty pf resorting to such measures as the Present for procuring ganlP. Sir John Gibbon, Hart. examined—Lives at Stanwell, 14 the county of 111iddlesex ; his place is called Stanwell ark, On the night of the sth of January was called up, ro son and a footman} went out first, and witness followed '"el4 out; this wasbetween twelve and one o'clock; went r, ti t and met the prisoners, in company with a great many , w , t. " 5 51, at the back of an aqueduct in his park ; they were th em with gu n s a nd bludgeons ; his man was following i g ent at a short distance ; witness went into the midst of k Zent and seiz e d one of them who bad a gun in his hand ; n t then struck several blows on his arms 4 44 4 held ; in the struggle he and another man fell ,1 4 ' 1 1 togrotor; his bat had been previously knocked "'I; when on the ground heard these words from one of the poachers, 4! , it, it must be," he was then "latch with a bludgeon, which knociro him down. After ,_ la rne time st rugg li ng h e an d . one of the poachers got up `°l3ether from the ground ; on the suite instant witness's man seized thi s p oac h er , an d k noc k e d hi m down again. Ev ery man was then engaged in the struggle. Witness desired his servants to keep one is custody, saying, " now • ae have one keep him." Atf the tl4 thato...efil ran away, but returned a2,ain and rescued their comrade. Frequently saw them level their fire-arms. Pursued them, but did not see any of them after, until they were in cus tody. Saw the prisoner Pond when he was taken on the 7th ; Cerro!, when he was taken, begzed for mercy, and said it was the first time he ever did such a thing; the ether prisoner said he had a wife awl family. There is plenty of game in the park. _ _ _ Donald Cottell exlmined—ls a labourer, was in Stan well Park on the night of the sth of January. The poachers were hailed by the footman and others, and they answered by saying, " stand off, for our guns are loaded." Saw Sir John Gibbon down in the struggle with one of the poachers, and a gun was levelled at him. 'Witness saw the Hash, but it did not go off, or else Sir John must have been shot. Had no doubt that they came to destroy game. The prisoners at the harwere among the poachers. Charles Coodree examined—ls a constable, assisted in taking prisoner into custody ; took Pond on the 7th, and the two others on the Sth. White asked had they got Carrell, and when they answered not, he said he would show them the house. White said tire of the others were to be found at Datchet. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty. _ . . . The Learned SIROZLWT, in addressing the prisoners, said that they ought to consider themselves most fortu nate that they were not placed at the bar, charged with the crime of murder, for which their lives would be for feited. He concluded by sentencing them each to fourteen years' transportation. .21fary Healy, was indicted for feloniously stealing a handkerchief, an apron, two sheets, and a gown, in the parish of St. Giles, on the 12th of Decemher, the pro perty of Timothy Doyle, and others.—Guilty. Sentenced to be imprisoned three month■ in the House of Correction. Thomas Broderick was indicted for stealing at Maryle. bone a handkerchief, the property of Edward Blake, on the 10th of December. The prisoner, a very young boy, in his defence said, his father was a reputed thief, and taught him to do such acts. —G uilty. John Benson, was indicted for stealing at Marylebone two loaves of bread, the property of William Goodman, there being no prosecution here, the prisoner was acquitted. John Darlidge, and his wife were indicted for stealing two blankets and a horse-cloth, the property of William Stephens. William Gurney examined—Lives just behind St. Luke's Church. Recollects the 7th of December. Sow the prisoners go into a public-house on that evening, they had a bundle with them and had some drink. Witness went out and gave them into custody. The police constable deposed to having taken the female prisoner into custody by direction of the last witness. She told him a wrong story first. Kept the bundle until it was claimed. William Stephens examined—The male prisoner lived as shopman with him, he WWI there on the 7th of De cember. Does not know whether prisoner's wife was with her husband on that day. These are his blankets. Cross•examined—Succeeded a Mr. Duffield in business; there was an entry made in his books of Mr. Duffield's having purchased the blankets from witness; it was scratched out since the apprehension of the female pri soner. Prisoner was discharged from custody on the 12th of December ; he was again taken on last Monday week, in consequence of information which witness received from a Mr. Crook. William Crook examined—Saw the female prisoner en the day in question, about half past seven in the morning, with the bundle in her hand. Verdict—Darlidge, Guilty —Elizabeth Darlidge, Not Guilty. George Westky, a genteel looking young man, was in dicted for stealing and embezzling the sum of 401., the property of George Darby Dermot, on the Ist of Novem ber. In the first count he was charged iu the capacity of a servant, in the second count in the capacity of a clerk. Mr. C. PHILLIPS stated the case for the prosecution. George Darby Dermot, the prosecutor, stated that he was a surgeon ; knows the defendant and a gentleman of the name of Wye, ; authorized the prisoner to receive 501. from Mr. Wyes ; prisoner informed him that he received 401. ; he never paid witness that money; did not au tkorize prisoner to detain it in his hands ; prisoner was instructed to receive the money as an agent. Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS—EmpIoyed pri soner to act for him as an attorney.—Not Guilty. Mr. AnoLritus said he never, in all his practice, had such a case brought into Court. At the time the pri soner was charged with embezzling this sum, he was ac tually doing business for the prosecutor as an attorney, who was in truth indebted to the prisoner at the time for a large bill of costs. DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ., M. P., AND THE COUNTY OF WATERFORD. A . letter has been received in town from Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., stating, that it is the de termination of the lion. Member to be in Waterford on Wednesday next, the 20th, and that he will spend the four succeeding days, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, in different parts of the County Waterford. Every one knows the almost incalculable value of Mr. O'Connell's time —and the County Waterford will therefore duly appreciate the sacrifice which he thus makes in its favour, particu larly when it is recollected that this sacrifice is made gratuitously, without the slightest remuneration, and by the individual whom the Beresfords strained every nerve to bring down to the County Water ford, at a fee of Nine Hundred Pounds!!! We are not yet aware of the fact, but we think it pro bable that Mr. O'Connell will attend the Free holders' dinner, which is announced in our adver tising columns for Thursday next, at Dungarvan.— Wateiford chronicle. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The betting yesterday was pretty heavy, but confined to a few horses. The Mummer and Brunswicker are now " neck and neck "—the closing offers being S to 1 against each at the outside; the last bet was 1,700 to 200 against Brunswicker. Neither Mouse, Cressida, nor Cetus was backed, but Wat Tyler sprung two or three points in con sequence of the eagerness evinced by some of the principal betters to take the odds about him. The last new favourite, Zucharelli, is fast returning to the outside. A few bets were made on the Oaks without any result of importance. Both Raby and Brunswicker have improved a:point for the St. Leger. We give the closing odds DERBY. S to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's The Mummer 8 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Brunswicker 11 to I agst Lord Cavendish's Mouse colt 12 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Cressida colt 13 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's Cetus 17 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Wet Tyler 18 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Mahmoud 25 to 1 agst Lord Egremont's Brother to Grampus 30 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsbottom's Zucharelli 30 to I agst Lord Sefton's 111ouche 50 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Brother to Lancastrian The others as before. OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Mouche 9 to 1 agst Lord Queensberry's Maria 10 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Leeway filly 15 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Filagree filly ST. LEGEIt. 9 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Raby 11 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Brunswicker _ _ There is ;report in the sporting circles that George Nelson is engaged as principal Jockey to his Majesty, in the place of James Robinson. DARNLEY, BY THE AUTHOR OF " RICHE LIEU."-Few modern novelists have been so happy, both as to their choice of subjects and their mode of treating it, as Mr. JAMES. Of the new work under the above title, the Literary Gazette observes We cannot imagine a period better suited to the pen of the novelist than the commencement of HENRY the Eighth's reign—a young Mo narch, whose frank and chivalrous spirit stood out in bold relief from his magnificent and kingly tastes—a time of wild adventure, yet of gradual civilization—of fete and pageantry, of tilt and tournament,—when scientific ac quirements were sufficiently rare to add mystery to might, and when chivalry took its highest tone of honour and re finement ;—when a fine spirit of poetry was beginning, like the dove, to bear the olive-leaves of imagination to the deep fountains of literature, from which the dark mists of ignorance were rapidly clearing away. We felici tate our author on his choice of subject, and still more on the manner in which it is treated. His work is an ani mated and gorgeous picture of the times; here the gallant KING delighting in the splendour of the Court; here a young knight placing his hope of fortune in his own good sword and a fair dame, whose broidered glove is hope's best augury—here the mystic chamber of one of those wild dreamers in astrology, whoso often real and great acquire ments could not protect his mind from the superstitions of the age;—now some feat of arms, and now of policy— fill the various pages." COVENT-GARDEN T ATRE. The Grecian Daughter was revived at this house last night, for the purpose of affording Miss FANNY KEMBLE an opportunity of appearing in a new cha racter. Though the tragedy itself is of a dull and repulsive character, particulinly in the three first acts, yet Miss KEMBLE'S conception of the heroine was such as to add to her already distinguished fame, while it proved that she is capable of still further efforts. Her reception was highly flattering, and her endeavours to merit applause were not more suc cessful than natural. This young lady's powers are not yet sufficiently developed, nor have any of the characters which she has hitherto personated afford scope enough for the full display of that deep energy and impassioned feeling with which she appears to be so eminently gifted. Euphrasia in her hands was indeed the Grecian daughter—but if the character were more varied and more conso nant to nature throughout, her representation would be still more effective. It was in those scenes re quiring the tenderest pathos—the mightiest expre-s -. sion of scorn, and sublimest energy of soul—action, and tragic reality of feeling, that her genius was most conspicuous. The part of Evander was played by Mr. C. KEMBLE with much propriety, in all but the tremulousness of age, which was rather overdone. The other characters of the piece are insignificant, except the tyrant Dionysius, to which Mr. BENNETT did becoming justice. At the conclusion of the play, Mr. C. KEMBLE came forward and announced it for Monday next, to the overwhelming applause of a very crowded house. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Last night this theatre was opened for the benefit of Mr. JOHN Isaacs, of Covent-garden theatre, and the house, we were glad to find, was well filled. TOTTENHAM-STREET THEATRE. The new melo-drame, called The Field of the Forty Footsteps, produced at this theatre on Saturday evening, is from the pen of Mr. PERCY FARREN, the stage manager. It was played again last night with the most complete success, the whole audience having called for its repetition at the fall of the cur tain. The ground-work of the plot is taken from the new novel by Miss PORTER, published under the same title, but the dialogue and many of the best incidents wholly belong to the author of the drama, who has shown very considerable inge nuity in both. The former is easy and natural— the latter highly effective. The acting is for the most part very good. FRED. VINING rather surprised us by his happy personation of a preux chevalier, Sir Arthur Matchlozve, attached to the cause of the unfortunate Stuarts, at the time when the Roundheads had obtained the ascendant. From this gentleman's excellence in comedy we were pre pared to expect a good deal of that gaiete de cour which was the distinguishing characteristic of the brilliant court of Charles; but in some serious scenes, the actor displayed touches of pathos and feeling that would not detract from the fame of some of our best tragedians. He will do well to give attention to this department of the drama, as we have no doubt that his faMe, as a comedian, will "moult no feather" by an occasional appearance in such characters. Ross does not appear to have studied the peculiarities of the Roundhead soldier— he made it more of the Quaker than the Puritan. Miss A. TREE has Effie to do except in the last Act, but in this she won a fair meed of applause. Mrs. WavLurr's is a very pleasing character, and it lost nothing in her keeping. The villain of the drama, Geoffrey Matchlowe, a brother of Sir Ar thur's, is well conceived by the author, but Mr. HOWARD, the gentleman to whom it was • rather: injudiciously given, has no pretensions to achievements of such pith and moment. GATTIE, as Sir Nicholas Vere, a timorous old man, attached to the Royal cause, but vaccillating, as he says, with the balance of power, was eminently successful. We should not forget to say that Mr. P. FARREN himself is entitled to no small praise for his per formance of an humble but lively Squire to Sir Arthur. The music, by ALEXANDER LEE, is pretty, and the scenery is respectably touched. On the whole the piece is well got up, and bids fair to become popular. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl and Countess Stanhope and family, at their new re sidence in Albemarle-street, from their seat in Kent; the Earl and Countess Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux, at their house in Arlington-street, from the Countess Craven's seat in Glouces tershire; J. Dupree, Esq. at his house in Portland place, from his seat, Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Bucks; Lord Lynedoch, at his seat, Cosgrave, Boas, from a tour; Sir John Knight, Bart. at his seat in Surrey, from Woodend, Hants; Mr. and Mrs. J. Dickenson, in Brook-street, from Hastings; Major Duncan, in Regent-street, from Brighton; the Right Hon. William Dundas, M.P. at his seat, Pitchford Hall, Shrewsbury, from Buxstead Park, Sussex ; Captain and Mrs. Patterson, in Piccadilly, from a tour; George Smith Thornton, Esq. at the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, from St. Petersburgh ; Joseph Simpson, Esq. at ditto, from ditto; Captain Henry Drummond, at ditto, from Geneva; S. Daniels, Esq. at ditto, from Berkhampstead ; E. Baber, Esq. at ditto, from Stamford ; Captain W. G. C. Kent, Royal Navy, at Symmons's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Leamington Spa; Arthur Bonar, Esq. at ditto, from Munich ; Messrs. Moss, Esqrs. at the Burlington Hotel, from Liverpool ; Dr. Barry, at his house, Welbeck-street, from Gibraltar; Sir C. Grant, Mr. Drummond, Captain:Gowan, Count Pontraren, Mr. H. Brazier, Mr. Cullen, Mr. Thornton, Mr. G re i g , Edwards, Mr. Cramp, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Blake, and Mr. New man, King's Messenger, at Dover, from France. DEPARTURES. Prince Lieven, from Ashburnham House, Dover-street, for Richmond ; Edward Hartopp, Esq. from Syrnmons's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Oxford; - Hartopp, Esq. from ditto, for Eton ; J. Lawes, Esq. from ditto, on a tour; the Rev. Thomas Lane Fox, from Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle. street, for Dor: etshire ; Mr. and Mrs. A sheton Smith, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for their seat in Hampshire; William Cumming, Esq. from ditto, on a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, from Grosvenor-street, for Bath; William Rowlands, Esq.. from Brook-street, for his seat in Berks ; Major 'Wheeler, M eeler, and family, from the Berners Hotel, Berners. s ",ellfton. 51 THE FROST. r.- FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Orders have been issued to close the gates of the enclo sure in St. James's-park on a Sunday, during the skating season, at three o'clock, so that no person can be admitted after that hour upon the canal; and at four o'clock the whole enclosure to be cleared. This is an excellent regula tion, as many, who are fond of the exercise, have been known to remain until dirk or moonlight, by wiich nu merous accidents have occurred. The ice which has been floating up and down the river Thames with the tides has, in consequence of the intense frost during the p Ist two or three nights, become corn • bined, and many parts of the river on the Surrey side pre sent a body of ice extending above half-way across. Should the present intense frost continue a day or two longer, we may expect to see persons enjoying the exercise of skating on many parts of the Thames. The inclemency of the season has played sad havoc among the pensioners of Greenwich. Jelin Shea, a blind man, John Rowe, and a pensioner belonging to Duke's Ward, suddenly dropped down, and expired on the spot. Between twelve and fourteen others, whose constitutions were sensibly affected by the late fogs, have also, within the last eight or ten days " gone the way of all flesh." In Burton-crescent a register thermometer of Fah renheit, exposed on 'a wall, fell to 14 degrees or 16 de gi ees below the freezing point, on the night of Sunday. Mr. Secretary PEEL entertained the LORD CHANCELLOR, Mr. WASHINGTON IRVING, and A select party to dinner yesterday evening, at his residence, in Privy-gardens. The French Ambassador had a conference with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday, at the Treasury. His Excellency also visited the Earl of ABERDEEN, at the Foreign-office. In the evening his Excellency sent off despatches to his Government. We understand that the recent death of a lady of a gentleman at the bar, connected with an M.P., is likely to bring to light some 'occurrences of a very extra ordinary nature, relative to the conduct of a married gen tleman, who is nearly related to the deceased lady. The subject alluded to is currently spoken of in a not, Very taut county, as having been carried on for several years . past, but without having inducted the gentlemen of th, Long Robe to interfere, LITERATURE. MOORE'S MEMOIRS OF LORD BYRON. I.ONLON. . 1830. We have seldom read a more instructive never certainly a more fascinating—piece of bio- graphy than the present. It is rich to profusion in all that constitutes the excellence of this kind of writing—simplicity of style, perfect familia rity with the persons and things described, abun dance of illustrative anecdote, a lively sympathy with the hero of the narrative, an ability fully to appreciate his greatness, and above all--a rare quality among poets—a generous freedom from envy, jealousy or any unworthy passion. In this last respect, how greatly has Mr. Moore the advantage over Mr. Leigh Hunt ! Both were personal friends of Lord Byron ; bOth received favours at his hands ; both were for a time do mesticated with him ; and both have made a cha racteristic return. The one unable or unwilling to acknowledge the existence of moral or intel lectual worth superior to his own, l►as tasked every faculty to lower his benefactor to his own level ; the other has striven equall) hard to fix him on his proper pedestal, and to prove that his merits as an author were only second to his worth as a man. In the pages of Mr. Hunt, Lord Byron appears every where as a wretch beneath contempt. He is alternately a coward— a braggart—a coxcomb—fickle—ungenerous— incapable of friendship or refined sentiment, and alive only to the sordid interests of self. In the memoirs of Mr. Moore he is the soul of honour—the slave of sensibility—the truest of friends—the most considerate of relatives—the most affectionate of masters—the most munifi cent of patrons. " Look on this picture, and on that !" Study both portraits attentively, w:Agli the merits of the respective artists, com pare their competency to sketch a perfect resem blance, and then, reader, let your own heart— to say nothing of your common sense--decide which of the two has drawn the most exact por- trait of Lord Byron, the malignant caricaturist or the experienced limner ; the viperous scrib bler who has exaggerated him into a monster, or the grateful poet who has pourtrayed him as a man. But to pass to other matters. Lord Byron was born in the January of 1788, at Holles-street, Cavendish-square. His mother, who by the bye forms a very amusing personage in the present memoirs, was a Scotch lady and an heiress, of the family of Gordon. His father was an officer in the Guards, we known for his rakish disposition, and his in trigue with the Marchioness of Carmarthen At the early age of two years, young Byror was carried by his mother to Aberdeen, where he continued to reside, until by one or two unexpected demises he succeeded to a title and Newstead Abbey. In the year 1799 he was put under the ore of Dr. Glennie, of Dulwich grove ; but hid; mother fancying that he made but slow progress in his studies, transferred him thence, about the year 1801, to Harrow, Here he remained upwards of fire years—the happiest portion of his feverish existence—and distinguished himself by his reckless intrepid spirit, his strange fits of alternate buoyancy and gloom, his industry, his idleness, and more especially by the warmth and constancy of his friendships, which partook rather of the ardour of love than of the sobriety of esteem. Among his cotemporaries were the present Mr. Secretary Peel and his brother William (the latter of whom was Lord Byron's favourite, though he speaks with great respect of the former), Col. Wildman, the present proprietor of. Newstead Abbey, Lord Clare, and Mr. Harness, well known as an eloquent and impressive preacher. As a proof of the constancy of Lord Byron's ' school attachments, Mr. Moore mentions that on meeting with Lord Clare, but a few years before his death, on the Continent, the recol lections of their past intimacy came so strongly upon him, that he could not speak, but burst into tears. On quitting Harrow at the age of seven teen he entered himself at Trinity, where he first became acquainted with Messrs. Hobhouse, Mathews (which last, according to Mr, Moore's account, Was a very extraordinary young man, and was drowned in the year 1809 while bath ing in the Cam), Scroope Berdmore Davis, and two or three other equally distinguished young Cantabs. This coterie was noted for their viva city, their talent, and, we believe we may add, their irregularities. Mathews, however, seems to have been the idol of the circle ; all confessed his superiority, particularly Mr. Hobhouse, whose anguish, on hearing of his death, Lord Byron describes as poignant in the extreme We must not omit to mention, that previous to his Lordship's departure for Cambridge, he had formed an unfortunate attachment for a Miss Chaworth, who resided in the neighbourhood of Newstead, and who married a Mr. Mus ters, an event which preyed deeply on the embryo poet's mind, and was the origin of his exquisite " Dream On quitting Cambridge, Lord Byron took up his residence for a time in London, where he entered recklessly into most of the dissipations of the day ; and became an expert fencer, boxer, and swimmer. Still lie was a desolate and a lonely being, with no home ties to attach him—his mother seldom had an interview with him unaccompanied by a quarrel—little or no respectable female society to wean him from the follies of a town life—no rational enjoyment, inn short, except what he derived from the occa sional society of his Cambridge friends. Under the withering influence of this desolation he quitted England for the Continent—having just previous to his departure published the well known " English Bards and Scotch 4eviewers," as an answer to an attack made by the Edin burgh Reviewers on his youthful volume 4 , Hours of Idleness"—and spent the years 1809, 1810, and 1811, in travelling with his friend Hobhouse, through Portu g al, Spain- Girece and • t parts of Turkey, and Asia k rifinor. It was durin g thi s journey th a t h e com p ose d the major part of the. two first Cantos of ." Childe Harold," w4i.cll on their publication, in 1812, place 4 him in die very first po c of EVish gets. Vivqi 4114 period he doors of the highest fashionable circles were unreservedly thrown open to him. He became at once the wonder and the glory of his age; or, as he himself quaintly expresses it, " I woke one morninc!;, and found myself famous." The Pilgrimage was iblowed in a few months by the Giaour, the most brilliant passages of which were (singularly enough) not inserted until two large editions had been disposed of. The most celebrated of these passages, where the poet compares the present aspect of Greece to a dead body, we have always thought over• rated. The simile though ingenious is in applicable. It is a comparison of life with death. " Such is the aspect of this shore," says Lord Byron, identifying Greece with a corse. But surely such is not the case. The " aspect", of this celebrated country, for the poet no where alludes to its history, is the same as it has ever been, immortal in the beauty and fresh ness of its climate, the lavish production of its fruits, the grandeur and variety of its landscapes. The pass of Thermopylw, the steep of Sunium, the plain of Marathon, these still exist and flourish as in the old heroic times ; while the corse to which they are compared, knows neither life nor growth, but is a mere mass of senseless self-decomposing matter. Lord Byron's next publication was the " Bride of Abydos," which was completed in the short space of two nights, and was followed quickly up by the " Corsair," a noble production, full of vigorous description (though in this respect it is inferior to " Lara," which reminds us more of the rough forcible versification of Dryden, than any thing we have ever read), daring por traiture of character, and unequalled tenderness. It was about this period of his life that Lord Byron first ventured upon a Journal, from which Mr. Moore has selected ample materials, and which, as might be expected, abounds in satire, wit, and shrewd, though severe knowledge of life. About this period too—or a little later, in the December of 1815—he married Miss Milbanke, by whom he had been twice refused, and from whom he separated within a year from the period of their nuptials. The blame of this separation seems, so far as we can learn from Mr. Moore's surmises, to rest any where but with Lord Byron. On his wife's departure from London he bade her adieu with the utmost tenderness, and even accompanied her part of the way.—A few days afterwards, without the slightest inti mation of such an event, he received a cold letter from her, bidding him adieu for ever. The shock that this surprise occasioned him, together• with the pecuniary embarrassments which threatened to overwhelm him, and the repeated attacks made daily on his moral and in tellectual worth, drove him nearly frantic, and in a paroxysm of indignation, disgust, and misan thropy, he quitted England in the year 1816, naver to return. Here Mr. Moore's present Memoirs terminate. On perusing this most enchaining volume, the reader will glean a truer—inasmuch as it is a more favourable—notion of Lord Byron's cha racter than any he has yet possessed. His Lord ship seems to have been a man of strong passions ; extreme in hatred as in love, and preserving no medium between his friends and foes. In one respect Johnson would have reverenced him. He was was " a good hater." To the defects of his early education, and, above all, to the caprices of his mother, who died of an up holsterer's bill, must be traced the origin of those eccentricities which afterwards rendered him fully as notorious as his genius. One feature in his character is strikingly deserving of observation. He was fond of making himself out worse than he was, especially where women were concerned, and but too soon got credit for his ideal crimes. But with all his follies—with all his Strange obliquities of thought and sentiment— with all his professed contempt for man and suspicious opinion of woman, his heart was in the right place, ever foremost to do a charitable action, and to make reparation where injury had been inflicted. It was his love of mystification that was his greatest enemy. His " tumultuous passions," as Dr. Jones described them at Cam , bridge, might have been forgiven—his sarcasm even relished by the world ; but his inveterate fondness for making fools of the public, and keeping their curiosity perpetually awake by quaint, mysterious allusions to some terrific sin, some conscience•harrowing enormity, was not to be " washed in Lethe and forgotten." It is with the world as with individuals. We can bear to be hated, but certainly not to be ridi culed. Hate implies that we are at least on equal terms with the person so honouring us ; but ridicule, that we are beneath his contempt. This the public seem strongly to have felt. Lord Byron, they but too soon found out, was fooling them, and they resented the insult with more than Briarean energy. Of Byron, as a poet, we shall say nothing. His works are in every one's hands. But one feature in his literary character we cannot pass without notice, as it is emphatically illustrative of his temperament. He never hesitated to adopt the thoughts of others, when he found they suited his object, but paraphrased the spirit, and in one or two instances, the very languNe iseparallel.ldt u i s n d t o e r t h a i s we t c h t a c t d w s e c t o r r a n c L h o i f s a e t r gre— at c r l e — a t Wordsworth, with a boldness a b so l u t e l y wit h out ill th Lake poet. His proud spirit spurned at the idea of obligation. He knew he could never repay his poetic loans, so took ref;; ;e from the sting of this reflection in haughty unqualified abuse. But our limits warn us to a close. We shall content ourselves, therefore, with observing, that the volume before us, with a thousand attrac tions, has one unhappy blemish—it eaeonrages too strongly the notion that Lord Byron was a confirmed sceptic. That he at times doubted, the spirit of his poetry leads us to believe, but that he was ever a decided sceptic we have, en Mr. Moore's own showing, the authority of Sir W. Scott to contradict. It is to be lamented that his Lordship permitted even a transient doubt to cloud the surpassing kadiance of his ge nius; but better, far better even this unfortu r4te tendency to distrust * than that cold, selfish, settled inAdelity which, deprived of hope, dc-. prived of faith, deprived of all that in .? l ,- tes t h e present happy and the future at4ielou s , lo o k s on death as an eternal shßhev, limn which no Archangel's trunle ever awaken the soul. VBE CODE OF HEALTH AND LOI‘ZO, Tn our brief notice of thls', useful bate treatise, we - mentioned thqt F;uthcr preferred " theory to practice.'' '01,3 Was mistake of th e p r i nter; the, 'sentence shoviiti have run thus, " the author prefers praoke to theory," a fact which no one 4cquainted with his serviceable vublica L tko. can for an instant doubt, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOUINALS. A curious suit has been instituted before-one of the Courts of Paris, against the Civil List, or the funds of the King's House-hold, by two Counts, de Saur and Gueheneuc, members of he former Senate. The sum which they de manded amounts to 500,000 francs, or about 20,000/., being the arrears of pensions which have been paid to one of them only partially, am! which have been totally withheld from the other since the restoration. The cause is of much greater importance to the Crown than the mere sum in question, as the admission of this first claim would authorise demands to the amount of 14,000,000 or 15,000,000 of francs. It grows out of the changes which took place in the Government of France on the restoration of the Bourbons. Bonaparte, it will be remembered, had a Senate, not of a very independent charac ter, to discuss his measures, which enjoyed a flotation of 4,000,000 of francs, settled on the national domains. This fund furnished every Senator with an allowance of 36,000 francs, or about 1,6401. By a proclamation of Lous XVIII., dated February, 1813, a Royal ordi nance, dated June 4, 1814, and the law of Nov. 8, in the same year, all the constituted authori ties were to retain their pay ; and the pension of 36,000 francs, which was expressly secured ,o the members of the Senate, whether in- corporated in the new Chamber of Peers or not, was to lae defrayed out of the Civil List, which appropriated the fund originally des tined for their support. :It would appear, how- ever, that these engagements have . not been kept, and that many of the members of the Senate, who were passed by in the nomination of the Peers, have received no pension at all. One of the plaintiffs was in this predicament. Both had applied to the Treasury, and were told that no order had been issued to grant their de mand, and they were therefore obliged to sum mon the King's Household before a Court of Justice. The cause is not yet decided, but it is extremely likely that the decision will be against the claimants, as various modifications have been made in the law since the issue of the ordinance and the enactment of the statute on which they found their right. The cause naturally leads us to make a remark on the French Chamber of . Peers, which, intead of being like our Upper House of Parliament, an institution growing out of the social condition of the country, and embracing an aristocracy already existing; is a mere creation of an upper council out ot demo cratic elements, on which the King or the Charter has chosen to confer legislative powers. This will become manifest by the slightest re flection on the materials of which it is composed. At its first establishment many of the old senators were incorporated with the new Chamber, and retained their senatorial pen sions as the only support of their patrician dignity. Since that time every change of ca binet has sent a batch of pensioned ex-Ministers to swell its ranks, in addition to the elevation of public functionaries, whom the Government ennobled to command majorities. M. de Villcle, by one single ordinance, increased it by more than seventy members, many of whom were men of extremely limited fortunes. He gave it besides a kind of Episcopal bench occupied only with pensioned prelates, who depend upon the Budget for incomes less than the benefices en joyed by many of our parish Clergy ; the See of Durham with its golden prebends alone yielding an amount of revenue nearly sufficient to pay the stipends of all the Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops of France. Besides the allowances to ex -senators, we find pensions of from 1 . 5,000 to 1,000 francs given to more than 30 Dukes, to more than 20 Marquisses, to more than 40 Counts, to six Viscounts, and six Barons. The amount of these pensions exceeds 1,370,000 francs, or 55,000/. sterling. To all of these Members of the Upper Chamber the pittance of 4001. or 5001. is an object, and some cf them have little else to depend upon. What madness would it be in the Crown to rely upon such an Ai istocracy in France !—Times, The Norfolk Meeting of Saturday last was of importance, as well for the resolutions there proposed, as for the sentiments of many of the speakers. According to our notions, however, the repeal of the Malt-tax alone will 'ao but little service to the people of England. So long as the brewer's monopoly continues, and enables him to charge what price he pleases for his beer, any reduction of the tax on malt will b e turned to his exclusive profit. S o long, main, as th e subaltern monopoly of the pub.:ican against the public shall be secured by the same law of licences which warrants the monopolist in chief, namely, the brewer, against the rebellion of his own dependent, who buys the great man's liquor on such hard terms that he is forced to adulterate it for the retail customers, or to starve, even so long will a repeal of the Malt-tax be no more than a donation to the brewer and the ni!, l o . lican, and a delusion as it affects the cow: milky. overthrow e of abreal. ;nimble o f Couple, indeed, the a b o liti on of the above- ntiond tax with a the B eer -t ax , an e power of ma gistrates over lice nces fb r the sale of beer, a large reduction of the duties on foreign corn—an operrtir g of the odious monopoly of tea in Le4aenball-street, and a sensible diminu tion of the tax on sugar, coals, and window lights, all which imposts, except the last, were warmly reprobated by Mr. Wodehouse, who hail the manliness to declare that an abridgment of the poor raan's comforts was a scandal to the aristocracy of England, join these beneficent measures to the repeal of the malt tax, and the lower classes, and through them the classes of gentleman, merchant, and tradesman, will have cause to approve the reformed legislature of their country. A meeting of the meat county of Devon, at ; the pregnant subject of the tithe sys tem, took place on Friday last at Exeter. The names affixed to the requisition were those of eleven hundred payers and receivers of tithes. The object of the requisition was to " consider the propriety of petitioning the Legislature to deliheratP on the prevent state of the tithe laws, with a view to some better arrangement of the mode of paying tithes." This meeting, and the motives for it, constitute the opening of a most important crisis in the legislation of Er I d Art an . Ibid. Som e or our contemporaries are dissatisfied with what was said by Mr. Chambers, the Union hall Magistrate, to Mr. Lambrecht, on his sur rendering himself to take his trial. The worthy Magistrate is represent e d t o have c , recom mendo the prisoner to prepare himself for the worst, declaring it as his opinion that the law would be carried to the fullest extent." It is more thin insinuated, that if the Duke of Wel lington had silo the Earl Winchilsea, or the Earl of Winchilsea his Grace, at Battersea fielda, Mr. Chambers would, in addressing the survivor, have carefully abstained from the slightest allusiori to the possibility even of any, necessity for having' I :Qcourse to suck a personage:- ,