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if we remember rightly, remarked on the ceremonious gravity of the Yankee character, which has little of the freshness of n a t ura l you th about it—a consequence, no doubt, of the people's exclusive and inveterate at tention to business and the accumulation of money. The writer was delighted with the ladies of New York, whose appearance he thought extremely prepossessing. " They are so infinitely superior to the men," he ob serves, " that one cannot help wondering how such very pretty girls should have such exceedingly ordi nary-looking mortals for fathers and brothers." The " Tempted" i 3 a story which does not rise above mediocrity. Our readers, perhaps, may be amused with Mr. Murray's suggestions to lodging-hunters, and we subjoin them according : If, then, you like your landlady, and her terms, be as liberal as you can afford ; have a care of extras, and be as rigorous as you please in settling what you shall have to pay for them; but it is judicious, in the matter of rent, not to attempt putting on the screw ; for if you put on the screw, your hostess, depend on't, will take off the lock ! Insist upon having a street-door key ; this puts an end to all sorts of nonsense about regular hours, and also is an act of humanity tuwards the poor servants who may be compelled, after the labour of the day, to await your return from the play, opera, or evening party, half the night ; if there is any demur upon this head, you may rest assured that you will not find yourself comtbrtable. It is by no means necessary, or, indeed, desirable, that you should be out late at night ; but it is essential that you should be master of your own hours, and absolute in your comings and goings ; for, if you are not permitted the social comforts and cheering influences of a home, it is hardly necessary for you to put yourself under petti coat government. _ Insist, al.;o, upon having cupboard keys, and begin as you will find it necessary to end, by locking everything up. No doubt the landlady is strictly honest ;we could not doubt it for a moment ; Betty, too, carries in her face a perpetual open Jettar of recommendation ; think what a sin it would be to throw temptation in the way of the rigorous virtue of Mrs. Smith, or to endanger, by promiscuous gin -bottle, or casual tea and sugar, the immaculate character of Betty ; therefore, I say, lock up—lock up. The most curious phenomenon attendant upon London lodging-houses we have ever noticed, is that of sponta neous consumption. Suppose a bottle of brandy arrives from your wine merchant—(of course I mean the public-house at the corner, but wouldn't say so, except confidentially) ; you mix one tumbler, which just empties the neck of your bottle, replace the cork, put it in the cupboard, and lock it up ; you dine the next day with your friend Snooks, the celebrated traveller ; the third day Snooks dines with you upon tripe and onions ; dinner over, you unlock your cupboard with all the confidence of a gen tleman •' not so easily done," taking out your loaf-sugar and brandy-bottle ; holding the latter up to the light, you observe with surprise and horror that the brandy has spontaneously sunk in the bottle at least a guar tern. You say nothing about it, lest Snooks should have tho laugh at you, and conclude not to mention it to your landlady, lest she might think you a mean fellow. This is what I call spontaneous consumption. In like manner, when you purchase a pound of five shilling mixed—your landlady's canister holds exactly a pound —you press it ►ell into the canister, and find on shaking it, that the contents do not make any noise—in fact, the canister is full ; you breakfast with Snooks, who is starting for Timbuctoo next morning, and return home to tea ; taking down your canister, to accept the polite invitation of Ridgway and Co., whose bill requests you to " try their five-shillings mixed," you give it a shake, and discover that it rattles ! This is another case of spontaneous consumption. This mysterious law of nature affects sugar, which in the course of a couple of days we have known to evaporate from a pound of ninepenny down to not enough for breakfast ; butter oozes imperceptibly through the sides of your boat, so that you cannot for the life of you make out what has become of the pound you paid for the morning before yesterday ; coals, though of a heavy nature, fly off with woundrous rapidity, if you lay them in yourself ; if your landlady provide them, you have only to wonder how coals came to be worth a sixpence a scuttle-full. - Lodging-houses, lige other commonwealths, have their peculiar taxes, levied " towards carrying on the war," upon the subjects of her Majesty, Mrs. Smith, and ge nerally collected by Betty. This amounts to from five to ten per cent. upon every article you require, or have occasion to send out fur, and is something in the nature of a broker's fee, or transfer-tax. A pound of mutton chops pays from a penny to twopence, according to the taste of the landlady —twopence if she cuts it fat ; deli cacies, such as fowl, game, or fish, considerably higher— the taxation in these cases proceeding upon the income tax principle, that you can afford it ; a lobster is charged in your weekly bill not so much according to its fresh ness as your own ; cabbages are taxed according to the greenness of the vegetable, and of the lodger. Thus, whichever way you go to work, you are sure to be " done ;" lay in your own consumables, they disap pear by spontaneous combustion ; send Betty for them ; they pay Mrs. Smith's tax ; you can take your choice. AIN SW OR7'H' S MAGAZINE. Mr. Ainsworth's tale of " Saint James's" is here brought to a close. The last scene is a quarrel be tween Bolingbroke and the Earl of Oxford, in the presence of Queen Anne, which is described with more easy, natural vigour than any other incident in the work. The author has made as much of his sub ji.ect as it was possible to make, but the period is not one very suited to the purposes of romance. The politics of the day were mean and tricky, without the slightest particle of elevation and comprehensiveness, and the statesmen were worthy of the politics ; the manners of the Court and aristocracy were cold, pre cise, and formal ; and th e p reva ili ng li terature was not less stiff and artificial. It is evident that there is little here for romance to work on—romance which loves the showy and the picturesque, and which de generates into mere c - immon-place if it have not vigour and variety of character. Instead of being surprised that Mr. Ainsworth has made so little of his subject, we are surprised that he has made so much of it. But if his " Saint James's "be deficient in the elements of romance, not so his " Revela tions of London," which abound in them to over flowing. The present chapters are full of startling, melodramatic incident, but we must honestly confess it is not much to our taste, for we have no relish for diablerie, unless—as in the instances of Peter Schlemible and Undine—it is made to illustrate and work out some wholesome principle —to inculcate some great moral truth. This was the redeeming merit of Godwin's St. Leon, one of the grandest conceptions to be found in modern literature. " A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla " contains some thoughtful remarks suggested by the " Sicilian ITes pen, with which every reader of history is familiar ; and also a passing allusion to " Young England," from which we infer that Mr. Leigh Hunt is strongly disposed to sympathise with the views of that rising party. The " Governor's Daughter" is an interest ing story, the scene of which is laid in the province of New Mexico. An "Anecdote of Old Townshend" is a passable bit of gossip, which should have been told with more humour. The " Man with a Griev ance " is a pleasant essay, full of point and archness. There is strict truth in the following remark : " All are fish .that come to the net of a man with a grievance. He is not particular about his listener, but a listener he must catch. In a case of despera tion, the crossing 'sweeper or the apple-woman—what sufferings will sad humanity undergo for a penny ! must be seized on as a recip:ent of the story of his wrongs." A " Triad of Sonnets," suggested by Wil son's picture of Solitude, evince considerable promise. The sketch of a solitary grass-grown dell, where the "aged trees look fatherly," and which seems as though "it had not altered since the world was made," is very vividly and poetically pourtrayed. "Prometheus Vinctus is a clever ironical parody of ...Eschylus's noble drama. Daniel O'Connell is Prometheus, and the chorus is composed of fishwives and repealers. Viscount Maidstone is the author of this amusing squib. A "Night in a Fog" contains one or two good theatrical anecdotes, which we sub join. The first alludes to the elder Kean : " Among other anecdotes of this actor, which Mr. Mulligatawny Jackson's schoolmaster had preserved, was one of his having, when at the zenith of his fame, ordered at Ford's, a house at the corner of Vinegar yard, Drury-lane, a plain joint and pudding to be got ready daily for such of the poor actors as might choose to partake of it. He also told a story of the great actor's setting off for Bath, accompanied by his secre tary, in his private carriage, who, as night came on, fell asleep. Towards morning, and while still at some dis• tance from the town, he awoke, and was astonished to find that Kean had left the carriage. He immediatel stopped the postboys to inquire they had seen - iin get out, but they pleaded ignorance. The secretary in stantly left the vehicle, and wandered into the fields, de- scribing Mr. Kean to the few hinds ho met, as a little man wrapped in furs, &c., and offering a reward to any one who could give tidings of him. But no one had seen him. The postboys, who had their cue, begged of him to get into the carriage, and drive to the nearest inn, Which the terrified young man did, after he had made the fields echo with the cry of Oh, Lord Hamlet ! What ho ! my Lord Hamlet !' the character in which Kean was to make his appearance ; but no Lord Hamlet answered. They drove on ; when just as they were about to enter the inn-yard, another carriage and four drove furiously up, and, to the astonishment of his secre tary, Kean descended, accompanied by a travelling , pedlar, whom he had met on the road. This man con tinued with him while he remained at Bath, drinking champagne, and feasting sumptuously every day at his own 'table. Kean absolutely brought him up to town in his carriage, setting him down in Bow-street, one cold November morning, saying to his secretary, as he did so, Put your hand in your pocket, and the first thing you touch, . give him.' Th e y oung man did as he was 'direct e d, and the result was, the pedlar left them some tenor twenty p oun d s better off than when they me t. s " Yes,' conti nue d t h e barrister, though Edmund Kean ha. many - failings, he had some good qualities to atone for them, and amongst them great an d uncalculat • lite. generosity. Ms 1' het the greatest audi ence he e;e7dent on, ' I was present at f o u f n t e h r e al p . Maeready one rew —and that was at his all-bearers 11souwas a n d chiefa o n : t o 'l a r s h:ti o r n: and t d d of the fra te - 1 distance from his m4y - followed. It was a very house. to the churchyard, but Richmond of heads. Some thousands of people green w p as a sea 1 Yes; Tsaw the last of him, both there and onettieress sta ge (the dem i-neg,ro looked, as he spoke, pathetically) • 0133011)er it,as if but yesterday. For many years ho THE SUN, 1;0 N IYO N, MONDAY EV N NG, DECEM B 2 THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready, at all the Libraries, In 3 vols., post Svo., THE PALA-IS ROY AL. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By the of •' HENRI QUATBE ; Olt, THE Author DAYS OF THE LEAGUE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE RO YA L, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2, Will be repeated a Grand Opera Soria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusienano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Comae, Mr. Borrani ; Moncenigo, Mi. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison; i•atarina Cornaro, BUB Rainforth To conelude with the celebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Achmet, M. Desplaces ; The Peri, Mdlle. Plunkett; Nourmahal, Mdlle. O'Bryan ; Aysha, Mrs. Payne. The Box.omce is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2, Wlll he perform , d a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HE A RTS, Colonel Rocket Mr. S rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe• s; Torn Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Counb.ss of I ',,•pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawtbori, Madame Vectris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia ,iennett. To to toll,wed by a New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James Peoley, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. P, nice, Mrs. Humby. After which, the Farce of TEDDY THE TILER. Thady Mul. lowny (the Tiler), Mr. Collins. Private Boxes, Two Guinea.: and One Guinea and a-Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. As cher, at the Box-office, trnen Ton till Five o'Clock: THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2, Will be produced a New Drama, entitled SIDONIA DI MOLINA ; or, Ruse de Guerre. Principal Characters by Meters. Hudson, Selby, Wright, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. Alter which, a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER- Cout.t Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanille, Mr Selby; The Mysterious , Str a n g er, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. • To conclude with NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, dr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-odice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2, Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYMOW; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Bearnanoir, Mr. Walton; Olivier , Horn, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C. Jun.; Richard, Mr. Hime ; Renaud, Mr. Mattocks • Ivon, Mr. Lefler; Hermine, aidlle. Helen Condel ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. To conclude with THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wallack ; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Di ector, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 441. ; Pit, 25.; Gallo Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 21. 6d. ; Boxes, 2a. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes. l'wo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two dulness and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh am. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENIN(I, DECEMBER 2, Will be repeated an Original Drama, entitled HOME AGAIN; or, The Lieutenant's D iughters. Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, F. Mathews, Craven, and Keeley, Miss Fortescue and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSIN GEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, Turner, Stoker, and Ke •ley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in ',bleb Jullien's Mazurka and Cellarius Valse will be danced by Md/les. Louise and Adele, Miss James, and Miss Fairbrother. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASSIONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddea ,r Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Geuriet, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli Ige, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, a James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs, Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 41., Upper Boxes, Ss.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Bolcony Tier holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second fler (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private Boxes on the Pit Der (holding six persons), One Guinea. 'The Box-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. STRAND THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2, Will be repeated MARTIN CHUZZLE WIT. Principal Chi racters by Messrs. Maynard, Ayliffe, Attwood, Roberts, H. Hall, Mrs. Montgozierie, mid Mrs. Coleman Pope. After which, THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE, in which Mr. H. Hall, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. Montgoinerie, Mrs. C. Pope, and Miss Bromley will perform. To conclude with DON CESAR DE BAZAN. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fnx-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fox and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel productiqn. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle and Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Three Conscripts. . Acting and stage manager, Mr. W. 1). Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding ty Mr. R. Smith daily. THE WEATHEII.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 2. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33; Highest, 38; Noon, 37 BAROMETER, 30.1.—WIND, E.N.E. SOTIL—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the Ic , ezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is aqually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 6 minutes after 61 Evening ... 2* minutes after 6. SECOND EDITION:. treme worldliness of its ecclesiastical 'system, and the exquisitely skilful way in which it - has adapted itself to the prejudices of society, and re ndered the weak ness and short-sightedness of hum an nature subser vient to its own views of temp• oral and spiritual aggrandisement. Rarely, if ever,, has it neglected an opportunity of serving its own purposes, and we really believe, that the only serious blunder it ever made— and which it has ever since been striving to remedy— was in driving LUTHER and the Reformers to extre mities, at a time when by makii ig a dexterous com promise, it might have retained much, if not all, of what it afterwards lost. In the long and eventful annals of the Church of Rome, p riestcraft wears a more subtle worldly aspect than is the case with any eccle siastical establishment in the ancient or the modern world. We take leave to indulge in a few Parliamentary reminiscences connected scith the Bank Charter Bill of last session, which appear to us to have an important bearing on some features of our present monetary and commercial condition, to which we adverted on Saturday, and return to-day. On the 6th of May last Sir ROBERT PEEL, in a speech of three hours' duration, expounded his views on the Currency question, and on the theory and working of banking institutions; and on the 20th of the same month he got the House of Commons to affirm a series of resolutions embodying the measures pro posed to be taken by Government for the future re gulation of those institutions. The Bill founded on these resolutions, and afterwards brought in, he de fined to be " a measure which would prevent our commerce from future liability to those revulsions which it had in past times been subject to—a mea sure intended as the complement of the Currency Bill of 1819." The Right Hon. Gentleman had arrived at an opinion—First. That there prevailed in the country too great a tendency to commercial specula. tion. Secondly. That this tendency was encouraged by the facility--still too great—(notwithstandin g the desolation of the panic of 1825, produced by his re straining Bill of 1819)—for obtaining issues of money, especially bank -notes. The point at which " legiti mate commerce" ceases and the illegitimate trade that is identical with " speculation" begins, being, in its nature, uncertain and undefinable—Sir ROBERT applied to it a positive and fixed principle, and even exemplified all the specific debails of its mode of action. He assumed, which in a commercial com munity of the first rank cannot be true, that specula tion in the abstract is an evil. 'Without 'speculation, however, commerce would soon retrograde, until it declined to a mere routine of commission trading un worthy of the name of commerce—without enter prise, without energy, without expansiveness, with out forecast, without any chances of that abounding success which has been the proud reward of our maritime spirit in all former time. The Premier had already hit upon the notable expedient of a moveable double-action standard of value. He declared the value of gold, as coined money, to be immutable, and pinned it down to 31. 17s. 10/d. per ounce. He left the value of gold as metal, or bullion, a mer chandise and commodity, free to fluctuate with its rise or fall in the bullion market. That which was to supply a circulation of gold sovereigns bearing, each of them, an immutable, specific value, was left utterly mutable (as it is of necessity unascertainable beforehand), both in quantity and in appreciation or value. But if the quantity of gold in the world— above ground, at least—or in the market at any given future time, cannot be assigned by any man, it would seem still more difficult for him to foretel either the amount of property in the nation actually repre sented by symbolic money, or money of any kind— or the amount of property which its holders might be at any period to come desirous of converting into money. How did the Premier set about obviating these incipient difficulties in any scheme of monetary reform ? By throwing them overboard. The gold mines of Peru, or the gold dust of Timbuctoo or of Ashantee, may increase to any extent; the product of the Ural Mountains may exceed its rapidly in creasing amount ; the caravans of Soudan or Sokatoo may carry a twenty-fold multiplied number of pre cious bars to the gold traders at either extremity of the Great Zahara next year ; or, if you will, all or some of these sources of gold production may fail, or simply decrease. No matter. Sir ROBERT finds a starting point—namely, the assumed amount of gold circulation in the kingdom, and the official returns of Bank of England paper, and the note issues of joint stock banks, at any day he chooses to select for his purpose. 'The gold and the notes together represent the aggregate of the country's ,money circulation. He finds that there is a redundancy of paper as com pared with gold; and argues, " ergo—there is, pro tanto, an excess of currency." But he determines that all paper currency in the shape of bank-notes shall be payable, upon demand, in gold. Alas, there is not in the known circulation of the whole world one-half of the paper circulation of Great Britain and Ireland. What is to be done ? If the gold cannot come to the notes, the notes must go to the gold. But how to catch so vast an aggregate of notes in order to cut them down to the limited dimensions of the gold coinage ? To solve this problem, the Premier enacts that notes of the Bank of England, or notes of their own, convertible to gold on demand, shall be the only currency in which the joint- stock and country banks of issue shall deal ; and that since the Bank of England shall be compellable, by his Act of Par liament, to hold in its stron g room at all times a store of bullion adequate to meet all its own outstanding notes, if produced to it for payment, it is evident that the Bank of England will equate the sum of their own outstanding notes to their own stock of bullion. Q. E. D. And in this way Sir R. PEEL supposes he has adequately provided for the monetary exigencies of a country (on a basis of gold and Bank of England note circulation, on which all issues of notes must henceforth be ultimately discharged, if some thirty-seven, or say, in round numbers, far, above the actual am oun t, th fortyoug h far, nil millions)—of very of i ns )_ a country of which the yearly revenue collected in taxes, &c., is fifty seven millions, the national debt between 750 and 800 millions, the interest annually paid thereon 24 millions, and of which the foreign trade is so enorm ous that the' imports and exports of a single year amount, on a very moderate computation of value, to 150 millions 1 The Bill of last session, in the face of these admitted and notorious facts—in defiance of the experience of those terrible convulsions of the commercial world and mercantile credit which had ensued within six years of the restoration of the gold currency in 1819—convulsions which, in a single twelvemonth, had far exceeded the whole aggregate of the shocks occasioned by the failures of private establishments from 1797, when cash payments were suspended by the Bank of Eng land, to the year 1815, at the close of a war which had cost us 500,000,0001.—this Bank Charter Bill was unanimously passed. So contagious was the fatal example of the Premier's propensity for tampering with the free evolution of trade, and the action of our monetary system —a tampering whose effects were already traced in the bankruptcies of 1825-26, 1830, and 18 37-38 —that Mr. HawEs's motion of the 10th of June on the second reading of the Bank Charter Bill, to the effect " that no case had been brought before the House to justify the interference of the Legislature with the circulation of the banks of issue," was ne gatived by a majority of 155, in a House of 215 Members (185 to 30). Since 1819 the Bank had been often reduced to the very verge of a stoppage, owing to a rise in the market price of gold having drained the coffers of that Company, who were com pelled, by the absurd enactment of 1819, to pay their notes in gold, at the arbitrarily fixed Mint price of that metal, instead of the current market price. Yet, in 1844, the great majority of both Houses kindly permitted the same absurdity to be re-enacted. On the 14th of June last, on Mr. MUNTZ'S amendment to the motion for their going into Committee on the Premier's Bill, namely, " on that day six months, "only eighteen Members were found on the side of the Hon. Mem ber for Birmingham against the Ministerial phalanx of 205 supporters of the original motion. On the sth July the Bill finally passed the Commons with out even a division. In the House of Lords, on the motion for its second reading, 12th July, Lord Asir- BURTON expressed his strong apprehensions that the Government would find their Bill of by no means so beneficial a tendency as they had anticipated —re marking, that upon their own showing, the objects it Proposed to accomplish could have been carried out only by establishing a double standard of gold and silver. To these memoranda of the only divisions which took place last session in Parliament upon the Bill, we will only add one more not unimportant fact as a preliminary to the further examination into which we shall presently enter of this all important question more especially as considered in its relations to the agitated demand for the repeal or modification of the malt tax and the duty on tea. By the returns pub lished in last Friday's Gazette, it appears that the stock of bullion in the Bank of England stores had declined to 13,500,0001. From this point it will as suredly have still further retrograded before the end of the year, if the usual drain of December happens in its usual course. We cannot look, we own, without deep apprehension, to the turn of the year 1845. Accounts from Madrid of the 24th ult. state that the Supreme Military Tribunal had confirmed the sentence passed on Genaral PRIM. " Yesterday morn ing," says the Clamor Public°, " at half-past six, the brave General left Madrid by the Toledo gate; he i repairing to Cadiz in a coach drawn by six mules, and escorted by twenty-five foot soldiers of the Princesa Regiment, and twelve troopers of the Regiment of Leon. His ultimate destination is still unknown." ft is generally believed, however, that he would he transported to Cuba or the Marianne Islands. The appeal of his accomplices, who were all civilians, hav ing been admitted, they were to be tried again by the ordinary courts. Some of the journals confirm the report of the capture of the son and brother-in-law of ZTJRBANO. The mother of the former and the mother of his young wife, the niece of the unfortunate General ESCALERA, who was assassinated by the Carlists in 1837 at Mirande de Ebro, had set out for Madrid to implore the clemency of the Government for the pri soner. The court-martial appointed to try General ARAoz at Cadiz, for participation in the late conspi racy, had found him guilty. On the 23d the Three per Cents. closed at 28 5-16 for Cash, and 28i at 60 days; the Five per Cents, at 20 at 60 days; the Floating Debt at 64 for Cash, and 66 at 60 days. The Journal des Debats contains another article on the state of Ireland, and particularly the repeal question. It is founded upon the work of M. DE BrunatoNr, which appears to be very popular in France, and in a few weeks has reached a sixth edi tion. That journal, on the whole, takes a very ra tional view of the subject, points out the utter hope lessness of repeal, and the folly of a party that would alienate the best friends of Ireland, in the vain at tempt to accomplish an impossibility. The following plain truths we recommend to the attention of those repealers who think they can carry repeal without the aid of that powerful and disinterested party, composed of Tories as well as Whigs :—" It would seem as if the idea was entertained that Ireland, and Ireland alone, brought about the great reform of Catholic emancipation. A simple element in the question has been forgotten, and that is England. Without the slightest doubt, the Irish agitation, the Catholic Asso ciation, and all the movement which came to a head in the Clare election, contributed much to open the eyes of England, and to force the hands of the Duke of WELLINGTON and Sir R. PEEL. But what is apparently forgotten is, that there were also meetings in England for Catholic emancipation ; that this great measure was prepared by a century of discussions ; that it could boast of the illustrious patronage of Mr. Fox, Mr. CANNING, Lord GREY, Lord J. RUSSELL, in a word, of all the Liberal party. It was not, there fore, Ireland alone that achieved Catholic emacipa tion—it was also England and the irresistible force of public opinion. It is also to her aid that Ireland has since owed the reforms of church-rates and of municipal corporations, and the reduction and com position of tithes ; it is to her that is due the Cha ritable Bequests Bill, which gives the Catholic clergy the right of collective property, and which raises so high at this moment the anger of the Protestant party; iit is to her, is fact, that Ireland will be in debted for the ameliorations which she demands so loudly, and which cannot be long refused. The only resource of Ireland, we must repeat, is her alliance with what may be called the Irish party in England; and therefore whatever can alienate that party, as an absurdity like repeal must do, is a calamity for her." M. DE BEAUMONT, in his preface, pays the highest compliment to the House of Lords in reference to Mr. O'CoNstEix.'s case, when they preferred the strict observance of constitutional law to victory over a determined opponent. " All the judges of England," he says, "except one, ratified the sentence of the Irish judges. The Chamber of Lords, that Chamber which Mr. O'CONNELL had called an " assembly of pigs, the Duke of WELLINGTON being their keeper," held in their hands the fate of the condemned, and then it was that a Minister of the Crown rose in his place in Parliament and induced a vast majority of the Lords to abstain from voting, and leave the final judgment to three political adversaries. Woe to a country in which such examples do not excite admi ration." In another place he adverts to the pre tended assistance which France would find in Ireland in case of a war, and says, "Is not such an idea an illusion ? If we only study the past and present his tory of Ireland, we shall be convinced that in such a case Ireland would remain English. It is doubtful that she wishes a revolution, and if she wished it, it is doubtful that in order to accomplish it she would accept even the most generous assistance of France." If M. LEDRU ROLLIN, before he accepted his cele brated embassy to the Repeal Association, had taken the trouble to consult his honourable colleague of the Opposition, he would have spared himself both the uncourteous reply of Mr. O'CoNNELL, and the pro found ridicule with which his burlesque enterprise covered him. The intelligence in the French papers from Spain confirm the accounts of the utter dispersion of the small force under ZUREANO, and the capture of his son and brother-in-law. The subjoined details from the Phare des Pyrenees of the 27th ult. will be read with interest " After the affair of Montenegro, iu the direction of Soria, in which Zurbano beheld himself abandoned by all the foot soldiers who accompanied him on his entry into Najera, he could only think of seeking for safety by flight. The Queen's troops divided into various de tachments, and even the population was in active pur suit of the fugitives ; and the number of those who have submitted has amounted to forty-six. The younger son of Zurbano, by name Benito, chef d'escadron in the army, was yesterday made prisoner, as well as his uncle, an inn keeper near Logrono, and a servant. After having abandoned their horses, one of which was found dead from starvation, they had hid themselves in an olive wood, near the village of Varca, not far from Logrono, where Benito was born. It was the sight of the aban doned horses which put the troops on the scent, and when the fugitives were taken their condition was despe rate. They had not slept several nights, and more than four-and-twenty hours had elapsed without their having tasted food. On their being taken to Logrono, General Oribe had given orders to have them shot, but a few in stants after he suspended the execution, and applied f or fresh instructions from the Captain- General of Burgos. As to Zurbano, and his brother-in-law, Cayo Muro, it appears positive that the former was not far from his son, a little before the latter was arrested ; and, as to the second, he is supposed to be concealed in the moun tains of Cameros. Considering, however, the active search that is made, it is almost impossible for them not to fall into the hands of our troops." The Presse gives some particulars of the defeat of Run, and his escape into France : " The rebels of the valleys of Anso and Hecho are in flight. General Ruiz, Colonel Gavila, and Commandant Casanovo were arrested at the moment they were at tempting to cross the frontier. At nine in the evening of the 24th they were brought into Oleron and placed in confinement. In the night of the 20th Zurbano and the horsemen who accompanied him made an attempt to get into the village of Mansares, but the inhabitants op posed them with their fire-arms, and drove them back. It was in consequence of this repulse that the insurgents threw away their arms, and that the eldest son of Zur bano, his brother-in-law Cayro, and a servant, were taken. It is impossible to gain any intelligence of Zur bano himself. In Castille, in the Rioja, in the Basque Provinces, and in Navarre, all the troops, both infantry and cavalry, are in motion. At Hero the very name of Zurbano inspires so much terror that the inhabitants of the country, although they believe him to be quite alone, have assembled in arms to the number of 400, not con sidering themselves safe, notwithstanding the passage of the Ebro is guarded by 50 carabineers and 100 other soldiers. General Jose Concha, Captain-General of the Basque Provinces, has visited Haro and Miranda, and taken the most active and best-combined measures to secure the capture of Zurbano." The Moniteur announces that, in consequence of the great number of deaths from poison, a Commis sion has been appointed by royal ordonnance, to as certain if the sale of violent poisons, such as arsenic and prussic acid, could be prohibited altogether, with out serious inconvenience to the medical and manu facturing interests. The Commission, presided over by M. GAY LUSSAC, was composed of MM. ORFILA, Dumas, and PAYEN, of the Academy of Sciences, and a number of manufacturers. The preamble of the or donnance states, that the Academy of Medicine, the College of Pharmacy, the Council of Public Health, Sir Robert Peel left town this afternoon, for his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. The Lords of the Privy Council sat this morning to consider a petition from the Island of Guernsey, praying her Majesty's con firmation of a project of reform in the constitution of the said States. Sir James Graham, Lord Wharn cliffe, Mr. Baron Parke, and other Lords were present. OXFORD, Nov. 29.—The Hebdomadal Board has received the report of the committee on Mr. %%Torero publication, and are now engaged in devising some prac tical measure of censure. It is not, however, anticipated that the matter can be brought before the Convocation during the present term. The proposition of the Eel. Mr. Bricknell's pamphlet for including the origo Tract 90 i❑ an authoritative condemnation finds favour in some quarters, and yet may be acted on. NEWCASTLE AND DARSINGTON RAILWAY.—Thef Directors, of this railway have granted an allowance o live shillings per week each to the widows of Mr. Brown and Mr. Burrell, of South Shields, who were recently killed on that line, between South Shields and Brockley Whinns, by a collision, when on their way to attend , Newcastle cattle market. PICKERING.—CHEAP RAILWAY TRAlL—Tuesday last was the day announced for the cheap train to start from Pickering for Whitby. The morning was ushered in by a keen, biting frost, notwithstunding which the country lads and lasses congregated in strong muster at the station. Ruddock's band was engaged for the day. The train started with about 100 passengers. 'l' ".•. 4 •, 4 . . 1 1 , t.% , -zac, ( 7, . 4- 1 • 3101`, c. 40,1331., 4'.wujor, 454,46 y.., 4.. and his son had been at variance, but their mutual friends at length succeeded in bringing about a recon ciliation. And on the occasion of Kean's king leave of the stage, they played together ; the on as Othello, the other as lago. In the first scenes, wh h are tame, Kean got on very well ; but when he cam i o the words, "Farewell!! Othello's occupation's gone !" he moved his fingers beseechingly to his son, who stoo at the side while he fronted the audience, and as th former came forward he faltered, fell on his shoulder, and was obliged to be taken out, while Ward came on and finished the part for him. In a few days after he was no more.' " It is a fact,' he resumed, after a deep sigh, ' that Edmund Kean could never play till he was three-parts drunk. Of course,' he said, addressing the cadaverous looking barrister beside him, you have heard of Fred. Cooke, the contemporary of Elliston and John Kemble. His passion for drink was so great, that when he was without money, or means of raising it, he has been known to go to a certain pawnbroker's, where he was in the habit of applying, and to say, I want five guineas ; but I have nothing to pledge but myself. Give me the money, they'll be sure to redeem me when I'm wanted.' And having sent word to the theatre of his situation, he has frequently been found seated on the pawnbroker's counter, with a duplicate pinned to his buttonhole. On one occasion, when Elliston wished him particularly to be quite correct, he invited him to dinner, and after wards begged he would oblige him by submitting to one thing, which Fred. promised. He, however, looked ra ther funny when Elliston, drawing him into a small room in the theatre, told him he must content himself there till it was time to dress. As there was no getting off, Cook consented ; but after being locked in for some time, he began to long horribly for punch. By and by, he heard a noise of a broom on the stairs. Hope revived ---he called, Mary, Betsy !---whatever your name is, come here, for God's sake !' and he contrived, while curiosity made the maid pause in her labour, to push a crown-piece between the door and the floor—' There, that's for you ; and Mary (pushing through another), go like a good girl, and get me a pint of brandy and a clean pipe with this.' " Oh, Sir, I dare not ! Master desired that I shouldn't come near the door, Sir, nor speak to you upon any account.' _ _ ;" Pshaw ! Go, do as I tell you, and you shall have another by and by.' " The girl was not proof against the bribe. The brandy and pipe were both brought, and the tube of the latter being put through the keyhole, the bowl was filled on the outside, and in this way the liquor was sucked up as the Americans drink sherry-cobler. It is hardly ne cessary to say, that on Elliston's coming to let him out, Fred. was found on his back ; but a plentiful supply of soda water enabled him to go through his part as effec tively as ever." DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. " A most horrid murder was perpetrated to-day close to this place, and which was discovered in the fol lowing singular way .—I had been ca lli ng on C apta i n Macau on business, and when leaving the tent in which we had been seated, I observed a peasant, with blood on his clothes, standing a short distance from the door. I immediately, on seeing him, asked the sentry who he was, and what he wanted. lie replied that he had asked him several times without eliciting any answer. I now asked him myself in Persian and Affghanee, but beyond a stare and moving some clay about with his hands, I could extract nothing like an answer from him. At last, getting impatient, I proceeded close to where he sat, and spoke rather harshly to him, telling my men to take him away. Seeing me thus annoyed, he was de termined I should not remain any longer ignorant of the cause of his silence. So he raised up his head, and ex hibited to view a gash in his throat, which reached from ear to ear. A more horrid sight I had never witnessed. Recovering myself, however, I asked him to make known to me who had committed the act, when, by signs, he made it very evident that he was attacked by robbers on his way from Candahar ; that he, with another man, had; had their throats cut and buried by the way side ; that he had worked his way out of the grave, but that his companion still remained there. The way in which he explained this was curious enough. With the assist ance of a little stick he made two small holes in the ground, and, touching himself, he put his hand into one of them, which he had no sooner done than he filled it with earth, leaving a little heap on the top to indicate that it was a grave. He then pointed towards the spot where the murder was committed, and touching the other hole he filled it up also. After he had done this, he put his hand on it, but with the other hand touched himself, and began to root the earth from the other grave, indicating that his friend was still in the other grave, but that he had rooted himself out of his. The surgeon soon arrived, and found that, although the throat had been severed, the carotid artery was only slightly injured, and gave us some little hope that, with great care, he would be able to heal the wound, and thus enable us to discover the perpetrators of this horrid murder. I sent my men to look for the grave in which the other man was buried, thinking he also might have escaped ; but they shortly afterwards returned, stating that the graves were there as described, but one of them contained a man with his head almost cut off from his body, and that, finding the grave close to the surface, they had dug it deeper and left the body. There was a quantity of dry fruit scat tered about the spot, which leads to the supposition that the sufferers were on their way to our camp with dried fruit when they were attacked. If the poor fellow now in our hospital had come to me with his head in his hand, I could not have been more surprised than I was when he threw up his head and exhibited the awful gash in his throat." THE LEGAL REVIEW and QUARTERLY JOURNAL of BRITISH and FOREIGN JU RISPRUDENCE. November, 1844. No. I. Owen Richards, 194, Fleet-street. This first Number of a new Legal periodical con ains several learned and interesting articles, and a selection of adjudged points, which we regard as likely to prove eminently useful to the profession. Independent of the enormous expense of taking in the reports of the several Courts—an expense which places them quite out of the reach of all except the rich student, or already flourishing practitioner—their bulk is absolutely appalling. The present system of legal reporting is most vicious ; the reporters are paid by quantity, and the booksellers who have a mono poly of the legal branch of the trade are free to charge by bulk ; and most extravagantly they do charge ac cordingly ; while the purchaser is not only condemned to wade through, but to pay for a heap of useless matter, and harassed moreover in a wearisome re search for the two grains of wheat in the bushel of chaff, and destined not unfrequently at last to find them mildewed. For the practice is to report almost every case without regard to the fact whether it does or does not come under the governance of some pre ceding case, and to report it at the utmost length. It must, accordingly, prove a great ease, as well to the pocket, as to the reading of the student, to have access to a selection of adjudged cases in which the points are concisely put ; and the cost is vastly more than proportionately reduced with the bulk. The leading article is the first of a series, hereafter to form la volume, on the subject of "The Science and Study of Jurisprudence," —a subject of the deepest interest not to lawyers alone, but to all concerned in the busi ness of legislati on. or th e a d m i n i stration of the law, and in fact to every scholar. The paper is written' with great learning and ability. There is also an ar ticle on a fearfully important matter to the litigating portion of the com mun it y , " Th e L aw of Fees and Costs ;" and several others on the principal statutes lately passed fur the amendment of the law, together with a very able and brilliant biographical sketch of the late Lord Abinger. The new Review is evidently strong in its cps of contributors. THE DOUBLE SUICIDE.—It having been reported that the bodies of the unfortunate couple would be in. !erred in one grave, on Sunday afternoon, in Beaumont Cemetery, Stepney, a large concourse of persons of both sexes assemble.l to witness the std though novel cere mony. They, however, were somewhat disappointed, as the relatives of the ill-fated young woman objected, notwithstanding her dying wish, to laying her remains with those of her deceased suitor. The parochial officers expressed a hope that the bodies should not be buried together, as such a proceeding might be calculated to give a kind of countenance to such tragedies. Accord ingly, the body of the female was, on Saturday after noon. consigned to its final resting place in Globe-fields burial-ground, Globe-road, Mile-end. The funeral was kept strictly private. Yesterday afternoon, however, the body of the young man was privately interred in Beaumont Cemetery. It has not been noticed that a box belonging to the young man was broken open, and all the letters which the poor girl had sent to him were found secured in an envelop e , w ith th e f o ll ow i ng super scription :—" Anguish and sorrow. The inclosed letters were given to me by my dear Elizabeth. Let them be a Ewing monument of my cruelties, and as a memento of grief.—(signed)—C. A. D." After a successful herring season our boats have bee n laid up in order to be prepared for the mackarel s l e ow as e o s n t , s w um hi , e_h abao w ur i t l ig l i ic o i l m .li m Te e rh n av ce u a m bo ber ut of C b h o r a is t t s m e as oi . plo T ye li d e most money made by an y one boat has been 4301.—the were fifteen. The ablest article in the Number before us of this —by far the best Irish—periodical, is a critical one, and the subject is " Eugene Sue," whose novels are just now attracting the attention of continental readers in no ordinary degree. The Reviewer, on the whole, is highly favourable to Sue, and in support of his opinion quotes some extracts from his " Mysteries of Paris," which are certainly replete with pathos and vigour, though there is a little too much of exagge ration about them. We have been struck with this observation, which does credit to the Reviewer's sense of literary propriety :—" A parent who has the mis fortune to see a son abandon himself to vice and in famy, does not so deeply lament his having brought that wretched being into the world, as an intellectual creator ought to deplore the having originated one bad seductive idea; for when the vicious conversa tion of an individual corrupts at most those only with whom he comes in contact, vice, winged by genius, and multiplied by the Press, overspreads at once a whole continent." The "Pretended Patriarchal Inscriptions of Arabia" is rather a heavy piece of antiquarianism, which will be caviare to the general reader. The " English and the Irish Universities " is a dexterously reasoned essay, penned in a more temperate spirit than we should have expected. Our readers will, no doubt, be entertained with the fol lowing extraordinary anecdote, which we extract from " Major Lynch's Journal of a Residence among the Ghilzies in 1839 and 1840:" b nTin LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1844, According to the statement in the Herald of this morning, the British Magazine--whose last Number we have not yet seen—has become the resolute op ponent of the Tractarian tenets. For some years this periodical was one of their staunchest advocates, and not a few of Mr. NEWMAN'S subtlest works first appeared in its pages. But a great change has come over it of late. It now clearly sees—what it ought to have foreseen long since—that the tendency of these tenets is decidedly towards Rornanism, and conse quently is subversive of the Protestant Establishment. We quote the passage in which the British Maga zine announces its change of opinion, as it is some what curious :—" For a considerable period persons whose charity led them to put the most hopeful construction on the language and conduct of the Tractarians, did persuade themselves that what Mr. NEWMAN and his friends called Church princi ples and Catholicity, differed in nothing substantial from the old-fashioned orthodoxy of the Church of England. Whether such close and jealous attention as the importance of the movement demanded was paid to the gradual development and disclosures by which the movement has at last reached its present form and attitude, are questions which do not come within the scope of the present inquiry. But, of the fact itself, there can be no doubt whatever, that per sons utterly opposed to any Romeward tendencies did think thus charitably and hopefully. Every ves tige of this hope, however, has long been at an end." In the above passage the British Magazine frankly intimates that it did not pay such "close and jealous attention" to the doctrines and movements of the Tractarians as the importance of the subject de manded, which is an act of negligence of no slight order, for surely if there were one question of more moment than another, and which should have been discussed and investigated with the utmost keenness, the question of Tractarianism was that one. As re gards the tendency of the tenets of this party, the British Magazine has now only discovered what The Sun discovered and proclaimed years since—namely, that Tractarianism was nothing more than the wolf in the sheep's clothing—that is to say, Popery in a masquerade dress. We added that if those who pro fessed these tenets were but allowed rope enough, they would infallibly hang themselves, and our pre diction has been fulfilled to the letter; for they have at length thrown off all disguise, and openly avowed their sympathy with Rome, and the conse quence is, that a reaction has already set in against them, and the moral influence which they once ex ercised is daily verging to its decline. We have said that they have thrown off all disguise. Here is a passage from one of their publications, which the British Magazine quotes in justification of its newly roused hostility to them :—" He, WILFRID, mate rially aided in th e bl essed work of riveting more n s w never hic h snapped,held Englandas sad to ST. chair—chainsptigEhTEtlßy,sthe happy c hai expe rience tells us, without the loss of many precious Christio n things !" It i s i mposs ibl e to mistake the us of this remark, or to doubt for an instant that he who penned it, and those who approve it, are Catholics at heart, how ever outwardly they may conform to Protestantism. Such men, therefore, have no right to continue mem- berg of the Church of England, or to share in its emoluments, and it is an impeachment of their ho- nesty that they do not at once abandon it, and go over to Rome. Here is another specimen of their peculiar mode of thinking on divinity subjects :—' " It would be edifying to trace the spirit of the Roman Church through all ages and in all departments, and see how a most unworldly, dispassionate moderation has distin- guished it. It is quite solemn and overawing?' If there be anything " solemn and overawing " it is to be found in the astounding mendacity of this passage. " Unworldly " applied to the tactics of the Church of Rome ! Never was there a grosser misapplication of terms. The most remarkable pecu liarity in this Church is, and has ever been, the ex- 84 * 1 . RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, Dse. 3. Versailles, R. 8......••• All 25 .. 441 25 .. 441 25 441 25 Rouen ••••• • • • .. 1005 ..1010 1005 .•10 0 Rouen to Havre ..... ....• .. 780 .. 783 75 .. 780 .. 783 75 Orleans ......... •• •..• ••••1045 ..1056 25 ..1045 ..1055 Strasburg to Bale— • . 275 .. 278 75 .• 275 .• 278 75 Avignon to Marseilles...... 895 .. 913 75 .. 895 .. 910 THIS DAY'S NEWS, CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) This being the first seal after Michaelmas Term, the Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall, and took ap peal motions to-day, none of which possessed the slightest public importance. We could not but notice the different appearance of the old hall since our last visit. Those remants of an tiquity which have for centuries adorned its windows have all been removed, for the purpose, we presume, of decorating the new hall, and thereby casting the halo of former days upon the young aspirants of the present day to forensic fame. We must confess that the anxiety that has been displayed on the part of the present benchers of Lincoln's Inn to preserve these relics of their forefathers cannot be too highly appreciated. Making this statem.-nt we must not forget the name of a most eminent member of the bar, Mr. Wakefield, under whose auspices and superintendence the new hall is being built, and through whose exertions we trust—nay, we do not doubt—that it will be an honour to the Society and its future members. VICE-CHANCERY. —(THIS DAY.) This was the first seal after Michaelmas Term, and his Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England took motions, none of which were of the slightest importance. (Before Sir J. WioaAm). His Honour was occupied this morning in taking motions, and then proceeded to the case of Mallalieu v. Miller, which has been already part heard, and the facts reported in The Sun. It comes on again on further directions. Sir K. Bruce did not attend Court to-day. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) ,Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord DENMAN and a Middlesex Special Jury.) HOPE V. HARMAN AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by Mr. Alexander Beres• ford Hope against the executors of the late Mr. H. P. Hope, to recover possession of a cabinet of jewellery cf the value of 40,0001. Mr. Kelly and Mr. Serjeant Channel! appeared for the plaintiff, and Sir Thomas Wilde and Mr. Watson for the defendants. It appeared that the late Mr. H. P. Hope had in 1832 executed a deed of gift, giving to the plaintiff, Mr. Alexander Beresford Hope, a cabinet of gems, which was lodged in Hammersley's Bank. Among the gems at that time in the cabinet there was one blue diamond which alone had cost Mr. H. P. Hope 13,0001.—the total value of the gems in the cabinet in 1832 was 40,0001, From 1832 to 1838 gems to the amount of 2,0001. were added to the collection. In 1838 Mr. H. P. Hope executed another deed of gift of the cabinet and its contents to the plaintiff. From 1838, up to the time of Mr. H. P. Hope's death, which took place in 1839, he was con tinually adding to the collection. At his death the ca binet was opened, and in one of the drawers was found a slip of vellum, on which was written, " This belongs to Mr. Alexander Beresford Hope." This vellum had been put into the drawer by Mr. H. P. Hope. At the death of Mr. H. P. Hope the defendants, his executors, took possession of the cabinet and its contents, alleging that the deeds of gift were invalid, and that the whole of the gems therefore came to the residuary legatee ; that, at all events, all the gems added after 1832 were the property of the residuary legatee ; and that even if the deed of 1838 were valid, all the gems added to the col lection afterward were the property of the residuary legatee. The case, which was not concluded when we went to press, appeared to excite the greatest interest among the members of the fashionable world, several of whom were on the Bench during the trial. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) WOODCROFT V. RAYNOR. The Lord Chief Justice and a special jury were occu pied the greater part of Saturday, and the whole of this morning, with this case, which was an action for the infringement of a patent in improvements of the power loom. The details are interesting only to the parties, and could not easily be made intelligible to the public. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman KELLY.) John Ogleby, a young man, was indicted for extorting money from Mr. F. L. Meiville, a member of the Stock Exchange, by using threats of charging him with an iir offe a disgusting ch arac t er . kson attended for th e p rosecu ti on ; the pri soner undefended. The circumstances of the case were stated at great length by the prosecutor, but the principal facts can be given very briefly. The prosecutor had, on the 6th of October, been standing in Tottenham-court -road, waiting for an omnibus to convey him to Piccadilly, when the prisoner, who was very respectably dressed, came up, entered into conversation, and ascertaining in what di rection the prosecutor wished to go, said that his better way would be to get a cab, as no omnibus would be up for a considerable time. The prosecutor did so ; and as the prisoner expressed his intention of going in the same direction, he was requested to enter the cab. They went on as far as Half-moon -street, when the prisoner said, " I want money, and unless you give it me, I will order you to be driven to the station-house." Prosecutor said, " To the station-house, what for ?" The prosecutor after some more words had passed, got frightened, and ordered the cabman to pull up. The cabman did so, and prosecutor got out, followed by the prisoner, who said to the cabman, " You take this gen tleman to the station-house ;" and he added the parti cular charge which he intended to allege against him. The prosecutor lost all presence of mind, and ran away, still followed however by the prisoner, who overtook him, and said, " Now, you give me 201., or I will not let you go." The prosecutor took his purse, containing 5/. 10s. in gold, and gave it him. He also gave his watch and chain, worth about 401. ; and the prisoner then said, " You go in that direction, my way lies here." Pro secutor then got home. He was in about a month after met by the prisoner in the street, and followed to the counting-house in Angel-court. The prosecutor escaped on that occasion, and on the following morning informed his brother of the whole circumstances, and on that day the prisoner was observed lounging about the door, and at once given into custody. The evidence of Mr. Meiville's brother having been given Chiirles Rouse, the cabman, said the prisoner and prosecutor had got into his cab together in Tottenham court-road. They got out in Half-moon -street, and he observed the prisoner running after the prosecutor. He knew the prisoner by sight ; his brother had been a cab-driver. The prisoner addressed a few words to the jury, who, before the Recorder summed up, expressed their opinion of the prisoner's guilt. The'REcounEn - -Then, gentlemen of the jury, I will ask you, for the sake of the prosecutor's family, if you are quite satisfied of the truth of his statements ? Tile Foreman of the jury—Quite satisfied, my Lord. The RECORDER—There is another charge of a similar character against the prisoner, but it need not now be proceeded with. The prisoner threw himself upon the clemency of the Court. The RECORDER said that to a man whose nature was so depraved that he would, for the purpose of extorting money, press a detestable charge of this kind against an innocent person, the Court could entertain no mercy,, and the sentence of the Court, therefore, was—" That he be transported beyond the seas for the term of his na tural life." The prisoner was then removed from the bar. and the Commission of Arts and Manufactures have already been consulted as to the means of altering the colour and external character of arsenic in such a way as to render the use of it difficult for criminal purposes without immediate detection on the part of those to whom it is to be administered. THE BOURSE- 7 SATuavey, Nov. 30. First Highest Lowest Last Price. rice. rice. Prico. ' French Five per Cents-- •• 118 90 .• 1 1 9 15 .. 1 18 90 .. 119 15 . Three per Cents... 83 10 .. 83 GO .. 83 10 .. 83 GO Bank of France 3150 ..3150 —3150 ..3150 I,arntte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslo9s ..1095 ..1095 ..1095 5,000 f. Sharesso4o "5040 ..5040 —5040 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives, 1840 .... •• • • 103 f • . 103 • • 103 f • • 103; 1842 ....•• •• 186 f •• 106 k •• 106 j •. 106 f Dutch Two and-a-Half ....• 63 .• 63 •• 63 . 63 spanish Threes •• •• 351 • • 36 • • 351 • • 36 Passive .... •51•• 6 •• 5 1 6 Portuguese Five per Cents 551 .. bAt .. 551 •• 551 •• • • • 55 60 .. 95 70 .. 95 60 .. 95 70 woman ••• • • ..... .• •••• .1041 .. 1041 •. 104 104 RAILWAY SHARES. •• •• 443 75 .. 443 75 .. 441 75 .. 441 75 L. 8....... •••• •• 320 .. 320 .• 318 75 .. 320 R0uen.......... •• ••• • • •.1005 . 1008 75 ..1005 —lOOB 75 Rouen to Havre ••.. 7BO .. 780 -• 780 .• 780 Orleans .........•• •• •• .• —1047 50 "1085 ..1047 50 ..1055 Strasburg to Bale ••••.. • • • • 275 .. 278 75 .• 275 . 278 75 Avignon to Marseilles.... •• 900 .. 910 . 900 .• 910 ~~~a►< :... ~,~. MON ',AMERCIAL rWE CITY, QUARTER TO THRAP' BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 2078 In o4 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 991 i 3 per Cent. Como's. Anna lOOl New 34 per Cent. Annuities 16 0 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 12 7;41 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860......« 12% India 80nd5,1,000.... Ditto under i,000,, 82 1013( Consols for Accinint .................„—__ Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 1 30 1 1 0001. ..............«..... •••••••••••• 59 57 pas. 5001....... m............ •••••••••••• 51) 57 prof. Ditto 5ma11...". ... -- ... •••••••••••• 59 57 pill. Ditto Advertised . ......... FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIC, Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent... ........ 102% DP' Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. •••••••••••••••••••••••• BS% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ..... ...... 3 0%,„ Ditto for the Account ••••••••..........• 36%A. Ditto Deferred Stock 16%4 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — Ditto for the Account. 26 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..... - Ditto Converted.- ......................»......« :'s4 Ditto for the Account .. .. ..... ....... Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840:..........„ 24% Ditto for the Account 24%§ Ditto Passive Bonds ..... .. ....... ............• 6 !: , Ditto Deterred 159(14 Ditto Three per Cent. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 36 % 9 60 Ditto for the Account ....... ....... ..... Dutch 2% per Cents ...... .. ...... ....... Ditto 4 per Cent. Certi ficates SPICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC IIC RAILWAYS. PAID. PER sniiss. Birmingham and Gloucester.... 100 ..«..... g0i...... to w, Bristol and Exeter , 70 .•••••••• 70 ........ . to .... Bristol and G10uce5ter.......•.....• 30 •••••"•. 35.."..... to ..,„ Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln Chureet Valley .............. ...... .. 2 ......... 3%% t ° ".. Direct Northern. ....... ....... ..... 2%....... 2% ...... to -- Einem Counties ........"........... 25 ......... 13% .....W. iil34 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O •••••••••• 62 .•......... ~ . Great Souther n and Western] 5 EN ...... to '''. (Ireland) Great Western .............". 75......... 142%, ••••• ~,t ° -... Ditto % Shares .. ................. 1 50 0,00, :777 .. 2 87 18 % .... ......: .. to r"„ ....'.. LondonL 1 ver n . l a d n B d i mu Manchester ng - hap i... ..... Ditto New Thirds ..... ............. is .., Ditto k Shares - ••• :.• .a:. ' ...... to '- London and Brighton 5O ......... 48 ........ to ~ 7; London and South Western Ditto Eighths London and Croydon London and York - Manchester and Leeds. 7O .....« 114% ...... W ;: o r t li Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 . 52 .••.••••• to Midland ..... ............ ..... ....... 100 ... ll/9 ......... to I I Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 .0 ° Norwich and Brandon .......... 8 Ditto New 1 ......... 3 1 Portsmouth Direct ••••••••••••• ..... 1 ••••••••• 0% ..... ....... .. 2 , 1 1 1 i i. •.••••••••: 4 4 to to ... 11 Rugby South Eastern and Dover ........ 3356 ..... 37% 38% to % to 17, 2 Ditto New Trent Valley 3 4 York and North Midland .......... 8 ... ... to Ditto Scarbore' Branch ..»,, Ditto Extension — ..".. 13% ..... to %i Boulogne and Amie , .s 2 ...... .. 4% 55 to Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bourdeaux - Paris and Lyons 2 3 y ...... to .... Paris and Orleans ..... "............. 20 Pails and Stra bourg Rouen and Havre. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Nov. 30 3 per Cent. Consols 99% 3 per Cent. Reduced.................... Three and a Quarter Stock.. Ditto New, le3o 3% per Cent. Debentures 944 Lot g Annuities Bank Stock ' — Royal Canal Stock -- Grand Canal Stock Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent. Ditto 4 per Cent, 4 per Cent. City Debentures 4 per Cent. City Debentures, New 4 per Ccnt. Ballast Office Debentures -- 4 per Cent. Pipe Water - Kingstown Railway Debenture 5............. LAST PRICES OF IRISH SHARES c RAILWAYS. PAID. Pan .usit Dublin and K. Railway Drogheda Ditto... Great Southern and Western 5 .... ..... 8 . , Di:to Extension 2% ...„ . - 3/O Lublin and Belfast Junction 2 %. ..... - 376 Dublin and Cashel ditto - Athlone Railway 2% .•"•• 34 Belfast and Ballymena... 2% Waterford and Limerick Hibernian Bank 255¢ •••••• 33 4 Royal Bank National Insurance 25 Patriotic ditto Mining Company of Ireland 7 Wick low Copper Mines City of Dublin Steam Company Steam Ship Building Company Ditto Ditto 5O - Ditto Difto, 1836 .... British and Irish Steam Company ... 50 .... Limerick Extension Railway MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV. 30 .10 1 have not had a large amount of business to-day' 4 k i prices were well maintained:—London and York , ;0 Sheffield and Lincoln, 1 1-16 ; Churnets, '3 • D ar 16 5 - 4 and Bolton, 2 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2 si , Trent ent Valley, 7 1 • Huddersfield and Sheffield , f iCi , Manchester and Birmingham, 51} 2 ; Mancheste r ' Leeds Sixteenths, 34. oe FIRES.—On Saturday evening, shortly afte r o'clock, a fire broke out at No. 32; Old Change. OP originated in the cutting and store-r 4 em belonging ° goof G. Hogg, tailor and man's mercer, situate on the firs yl ete of the building, Th e n ames i n l ess t h an an hour 0 0 entirely subdued, but not until a large quantity of silk ° , h re cloth of considerable value was burned and much done to the premises. The origin of the outbre, 4 ol unknown. Mr. Hogg was un i nsure d. Ab ou t three,'" 00 later the bakehou se b e l ong i ng to M r . F e ll, brew' r ed biscuit baker, 13, Paradis e -row, Ch e l sea , wa s disef.„ / :i0 to be on tire. The lire was confined to the buit,c` h l ; o o which it began. Th e l oss w ill f a i t upon the " . 0 01:P Fire-office. A third fire occurred shortly befur , e 4 , o A night upon the premises o f Mr. J. Reeves, past* brie, 97, Limehouie-causeway, a very narrow thoroug t oti The flames were soon extinguished. 'Jot. h,fweve r 'd the the roof was partly bur ne d o ff, an d t h e re mainder . The premises, with stock in trade, seriously injure'. °c og building was insured in the Phcenix-office, but the 01 0 pier was uninsured. The cause of the two last from the overheating of the ovens. f er ll9 FORGERY.—John Rogers of the Market ii i , e rff Sunderland, who was last week apprehended for Pro for and taken to Thornton, near Pickering, Yorksh k ire n 4ht examination on the charge, was a few days ago 't e n a ° before Colonel Hill, .a magistrate of the county , °I - or evidence being forthcoming to substantiate t he f e rtf , the magistrate ordered Mr. Rogers to be set at ltb and he was accordingly discharged from custody f t he Last week M. Dizien, one of the professors r e P Normal School at Auxerre, after shooting a " 4 f1 ",.; ceeded to charge the barrel which he had J u l we" charged, when by some accident the other hall,' scat off, and the contents entering his head, litertlilY tered his brains over one of the persons who see °l33l) him. He had been married only six months. . re ana SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.---The LlalarSll4. n o Renfrewshire foxhounds, under the charge of P pro ilt° ll ningham of Craigends, have been kennelled at o hbo ur for upwards of a month, and have hunted the ecii' so orti hood almost every alternate day, and had go° o " rtn r igbt only meeting with one blank day. About a disar ago one of the leading dogs, named Lilrrunki.stand• log when hunting at Jervieston, and, not day days mg every search, was not discovered until el v oca litY , afterwards, when the pack were in the saln, e e woutr il and some of the dogs stopped suddenly' at t i ' l l ipt iala th of a' oal waste, and would not leave it. The. h he OP; in looking down the pit, discovered a dog will ( ' _A bell posed to be Libertine ; and having got ropes a nd little down a man, the missing dog was brought °P, w s, ° r the worse for having dropped down twenty t he wtha: 120 feet, and been starved for eleven days' able, after getting some warm milk , to wa lk kennel, and he is again in good bunting trio' The Cotton market at Liverpool en Saturday R e much depressed, at the previous reduction. Sales, 3 , bales, comprising 250 bales Egyptian, at 51d. to 7di s , Ol l 200 Surat, at 2fl. to .21d. per lb —The Share Bier', showed much activity, and the transactions were te . „ , good extent. East ern Counties, 13:1 ; Grand Janc to 'l 215; Ditto, Half, 107 ii ; Great 1 .1 /i stern, Half She'r e ,; 87:} ; Liverpool and M anc h ester, N ew, 34 i ; Lostli", l and York, 41 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Midland Counties, 108 ; South-Eastern, 381; 40 0 Avignon, 525. ; Paris and Rouen, 301 ; Orleans, Tod and Bordeaux, 6k ; Sambre and Meuse, 51s. Boulogne and Amiens, 4:1 ; Central of France, 1 lie o There are not any arriv a l s o f i m p ortance i n the Vitt this morning. We have received the monthly Circular of ges sil ' o ' Ferguson and Taylor, of Manchester, relative to the 0 4 manufacturingof the trade of that import an t district. td states, and most truly, that as f ar as respects Contieell demand this is the dull es t season o f t h e year , s hin to the northern parts of Europe having impels; their operations for the present year. Prices bt h however, continued steady for most descriptions ofg." 4 A strong feature, indicati ve o f p rosper i ty, i s , that fl e d mills are in the course of erection in the vicinity Manchester, and that old ones are b e i ng e nlarg e , / The Circular then state s th us :—" E ar l y i n the e:At year a large increase in the means of serE t will be thus brought into o p era ti on , an d it re ar to be seen what effect this will have on demand prices. For the present, the great bulk of our e ; ducers are engaged with contracts which will carry lffl o into February. The turn of the year will doubtle s9 ! usual, bring the orders which have been withheld the market; and as stocks are most likely to be exc_,,, ingly low, prices will hav e a t en d ency to ad/St Meantime, it is expected cott on w ill cont i nue t o fury' recede." It will be observed, by an announcement in our vertising columns, that the third portion of the Cal h o Guaranteed Loan is to be bid for on Friday next. o f loan is a great favourite with the p r i nc ip a l capitalist i o the City. Its proceeds are wholly to be devoted to extension of public works in the Canadas. The Deb o e s i tures pay 4 per cent., and those already issued areal 1131 to 114. There is a great scarcity of Consols i n th e Stock i t; change to-day. Jobbers are fearful of selling e s be 1,000/., lest the price may rise upon them before et , transfer can be completed. Consol s f or t h e Accoueluo at 1011, and for Mosey at 101, ea c h b e i ng hi g her s;,,i h , at the close of business on Saturday afternoon. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are very & D oi 1021 ; and Reduced Three per Cents. at a rise frolt . 4 to 1004. Exchequer Bills, India Bo n d s , an d P . " Stock, are rather cheaper to-day. A great deal of business has been eff e ct e d i n the f, (f & reign Stocks to-day. It is fully expected th a t th e attetle of Zurbano to excite revolt will be so on entirellirir down. The Active Spanish Bond s h ave a d va nced 241 and the Three per Cents. from 35i to 36k ,i i the Passive I3onds to 6k. For Port uguese Cotiverit' Bonds the prise has rallied to 551. Belgian Scrl;i' firm at 4 11 premium ; Dutch Five per Cents. st 54 0,i Mexican at 361 ; Brazilian at 821 ; and Belgian Are 2 per Cent. above par. An improvement is apparent in most of the rill shares to-day. The Aberdeen are at 21 premium ; Great Western are in request at 64 premium ; verpool end Manchester at 109 premium ; and the W o o, don and Birmingham at 120 premium. Anglo-Mr Mining Shares are at 3, and United Mexican at 3.1. E ✓t t:.