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AMERICAN AFF AIRS. Nrw YORK, Dec. 14.—8 y the steamer which brings you this letter you will receive, if you have not previously received it, the President's Message at the opening of Congress. Accompanying this mes sage, are numerous documents of great importance in relation to Mexico, Texas, &c. As these papers will all be in your possession, I have deemed com ments on them unnecessary. A new source of discontent and collision has oc curred between the States of Massachusetts and South Carolina. Some years ago the State of South Caro . lina passed a law prohibiting ftee negroes fron l coming into the state, and subjecting them t‘2- And penalties.for a violation of this lays, ( ..; - 11 different occasions free blacks, einßlov•..."'-. as seamen, were brought into the state-. .I.tiev were immediately im prison . im prisoned, i n pr i son U nt il th e sa ili ng o f th e Yerelto they belonged. Some of these men, .t l s.,".ileed, were citizens of Massachusetts. Recently the Legislature of that State authorised the appoint ment of a Commissioner to proceed to South Caro lina, and ascertain the precise state of the facts. A Mr. Hoar was selected to perform this duty. On . his arrival he notified to the Governor of South Carolina the character of his missicn, and that the object was to try the constitutionality of • the State law in the .Supreme Court of the United States. The Legislature of South Carolina being in session, the Governor transmitted to that body the communication of Mr. Hoar. Upon its receipt a Bill was introduced, and passed in a few hours through all the forms of a law, authorising the in stantaneous expulsion of Mr. Hoar from the State; and he was, without delay, expelled as an incendiary. Rumour adds, that the presence of a young lady, his • daughter, who was travelling with him, was his only protection from personal violence. The next step, on the part of Massachusetts, will be, it is said, an ap peal to the Courts of the United States. " The glorious uncertainty of the law" will, most probably, ihang up this case. But suppose the decision to be 'against South Carolina, what then ? Why, nothing. In the proceedings of Congress . you will notice a most extraordinary and unexpected change of opinion since last session in regard to abolition petitions. The rule which prohibited their reception by the house has, on the motion of Mr. Adams, without 'debate, been repealed by a majority of twenty-eight Totes. Petitions have accordingly been received, 'praying the abolition of the slave-trade in the district of Columbia, and referred to the Committee on the district. I o'er no opinion as to the cause which has tended to produce this change. Indeed, I have not heard any assigned that was even plausible, except that the rule was a bad rule, and kept the House in a conti nued state of excitement, while its effect was to strengthen, rather than to weaken, the abolition party. Indeed, I have been unable to account for the pertinacity with which the south adhered to this rule, seeing that it gave great dissatisfaction to many of their best friends in the north, who were warmly op • posed to the doctrine of abolition, but firm supporters of tine right of petition. Mr. M`Duffie ' agreeably to the recommendation of the Presid en t, has introduced into the Senate a series of resolutions * to be passed by both Houses of Con gress, annexing Texas to the United States. Mr. al`Buffie made lie. remarks ; but on motion they were referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. For this prccedure there is no precedent under the Federal Constitution ; but the doctrine of its authors is, that for its adoption it requires only a majority of each branch of the national Legislature. On the next day, the 11th inst., Mr. Benton intro duced a Bill, which was substantially the same as the gone he offered last session, annexing Texas to the United States, with the assent of Mexico, which Bill, without debate, was also referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr. Ingersoll's resolution in the House, for an nexation, similar to Mr. M`Duffie's in the Senate, vas made the order of the day for Monday, the 23d inst. Mr. Allen, of Ohio, offered in the Senate the fol lowing resolution : "Resolved,—That the President be requested to lay before the Senate, if in his judgment it may be done without prejudice to the public interests, a copy of any instructions, which may have been given to the American Minister in England, on the subject of the title and occupation of the territory of Oregon, since the 4th of March, 1841 ; also a copy of any correspondence which may have passed between this Government and that of Great Britain, or between either of the two Governments and the Minister of the ot her, in re l at i on to that subject since that time." This resolution was adopted, after some opposition from Mr. A rcher, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, by a vote of—ayes 24 na y s 16. Mr. Allen is a strong advocate for immediate action on this subject. After giving to the Government of Great Britain the required notice (twelve months), Le is for taking forcible possession, if force should be found necessary. It is confidently asserted that Mr. Adams has ex pressed an opinion that the annexation of Texas with out a war with Mexico will take place ;' that Great 13ritain will do nothing more than protest ; but that age will probably, by .an arrangement with Spain, fluke possession possession of Cuba. NOW, without possessing. any knowledge on the 'subject (notwithstanding the boldness with which the sta tement is made), I have no hesitation in expressing I thY Unbelief of the rumour. But if it be true that Mr. Adam s has given such an opinion as that above st ated, I take leave to differ with him. Great efforts will be made to secure the annexation, but I yet think it cannot b e accom pli s h e d w hil e th e p resen t S ena t e i s la power. No movement has yet been made in Congress on the subject of the tariff. The south—but more espe• 941 1 y South Carolina—is grumbling, and threaten - tng the most direful consequences to the nation if the tariff of 1842 is not uprooted. But, on the other ? nand, the President, and his Secretary of State (Mr. Calhoun), are far more interested in the question of s sunexation. Besides, a portion of the west have Illounted, thus early to the session, their hobby, and seem determined to ride it pell-mell. I refer to a bill for reducing and graduating the price of the public Lands. In this scramble lam beginning to think that ule tariff will escape with little effective notice. 4 , By the late accounts from the Holy City, Nauvoo, (-no Mormons appear to have settled down into a state 14 tranquillity. They boast that their great and magnificent temple will be completed in a few Months. A GENEVESE TRAVELLER. I tYRTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS. PRILADELPHIA, DEC. 13, FIVE P.M.—PENNSIL-• LoAN.—I have just received the subjoined im- Portant , information from an authentic source, re "ecting the interest on the State Loan. The balance 44 so much larger than was anticipated until very re cently, that there now exists not a single doubt but the interest will be paid punctually when It falls due in February, without the aid of a loan for t hAtpurpose. Indeed, it is now highly probable that Ihe interest will also be paid in August, and regularly t hereafter. The amount of outstanding taxes for 1843 and 1844 is very large—the domestic debt has nearly s ed [ saPpeared, and we will, in 1845, be in the receipt of 'ne mill -tax.—Courier and Enquirer. "Onto.—The message of the out-going, and the 'lnaugural of the in-c. 'ming, Governor Bartley, of Ohio, rP t licit us in the Cincinnati papers. The forme* 'states the amount of money in the Treasury at . 23,822 doll ars; th e t o t a l amoun t o f th e C ana l F un d 44 1 ,233,339 dollars, of which 25,000 dollars is applied t 0 the Sinking Fund, 1,167,444 dollars to pay the Interest on the State debt, and the balance to keep .1 114 , public works in repair. The taxable property in State is 136,142,666 dolls., and the aggregate mount of taxation is 15 mills on the dollar. The Public improvements are nearly completed. The pre sent condition of the resources of Ohio is represented 19 hi ghly flattering. The aggregate foreign debt is ,2 76,751 dolls. I sIbIANA. VIRTUALLY REPUDIATES. ••••• Governor -11,,, h itcomb's message to the Legislature gives no hopes to the holders of the bonds of the State that she oan-or w ill ma k e any attempt t o pay t h e i nterest ou or pu bli c d e b t at presen t. H e nom i na ll y co repudiation, but states explicitly that the il°Ple are unable to meet the payment of the interest. • t ls language is, that "the interest on our public h t cannot b e p a id." A reso luti on was o ff ere d i n and Interest, b y M r. D e f rees to f un d t h e pu bli c d e b t e interest, with a year's interest in advance, and an i to take three per cent. bonds, with 25 years to run up the present bonds, pledging all possible r esources of the State to meet the interest, and h c residu e to be raised by taxation. This manly Pr : s liesitio n was l a id on t h e ta bl e, 30 t o 19 ! Th e 'Tie debt of the State is short of 15,000,000 dollars, i ti the vs ealth of the State, which has now a popula- A at l."" of near a million, is estimated at 150,000,000 , - C io la ra, and vet she pretends before the world that she I:tnnot.pay an annual interest of 600,000 dollars. It ' di a monstrous iniquity—a subterfuge which would _!grace a tribe of savages. In fact, Indiana herself %enuid inflict summary punishment upon any one of e h; old tribes which should in like manner seek to wade its ust responsibilities to her.—Newark Daily Advertiser. Th e H on. William Prescott, of Boston, who has I filled conspicu ous s i tuat i ons a t th e b ar an d on t h e bench, died recently at his residence in that city, at an advanced age. The immediate cause o f hi s d ea th vc7ts a fit of apoplexy. He has. left a family, among which is W. H. Prescott, LL.D., an eminent historian. Ameng the ch anges pro d uce d b y t h e organ i sat i on of a party und er th e name o f N at i ve Amer i can, we n otice that the city of Boston, which gave a majority ever all the others of 3,500 votes for Clay at the Pre sidential electior, has failed to choose a mayor by the PQple at the first trial. The ,notorious Engliab thief, William Floppy, has :J "'`rl TRE - S.TIN) LONDON, WgDN`ESDAY MOANING, JANITA,-RY 1, 1845. at last been arrested, and is now believed to be secured. The ship Massasoit (of Plymouti), near Boston}, from Calcutta for Boston, was lost in a severe gale at the entrance of Boston Harbour, and three personS perished. The ship and cargo area total loss mated at 70,000 dollars. _ By means of Morse's Magnetic Teltrapil the pro ceedings of Congress 1 ?.:*. made known in Baltimore as soon as they occur in Washington. The distance is 40 mil f_;, arid the communication instantaneous and MAGAZINE PA . X• I _ L BLACK 'TO oD;:s' 4fAG,el . 4 tlyar , . The bpehint article in Ablic4k6';',.o for this month is essay the hackneyed theme of " Homer, Dante, and Michael Angelo." But hackneyed as is the sub 3ect, and hopeless as is the task of bringing anything like novelty to bear on it, it is yet rendered enter taining by the mode in which it is treated. The author commences his essay in It very spirited ati,d turesque style, by showing the ingUenbreS ttiat Homer has exercised over tutope for the last three thousand years, obserVlng, " Painting and statuary have been employed in striving to pourtray his yet breathing conceptions. Language and thought itself have been moulded by the influence of his poetry. Images of wrath are still taken from Achilles, of pride from Agamemnon, of astuteness from lilyst',ei; of pa; triotism from Hector, or tenderness from Andromache, of age from Nestor." This is true, but though the Homeric Ulysses is a synonyme for "astuteness," a greater genius than even him of the " Iliad" and the " Odyssey," has boldly grappled with the character of the Istracan King, and endowed him with far mtnt lofty sagacity and keen worldly knowledge than Homer had it in his power to bestow on him. In the brilliant but strangely irregular play of Troilus and Cressida, Ulysses displays in one single passage—we mean that inimitable one commencing with "Time hath, my lord, a wallet on his back," which is more truly Shaksperian than any other to be found in the whole range of Shakspeate's dramas—more profound wisdom and more searching worldly truth than he manifests throughout the entire " Iliad" and " Odyssey." In the course of this clever essay the author, alluding incidentally to the etT,!cts of criticism on genius, says, " The dread of ridicule extin guishes originality in its birth," The power of the critic is certainly great over mere talent, which it has often succeeded in Crashing; but first-rate genius, deeply conscious of its superiority, and earnest in ex hibiting it, bids defiance to the fiercest hostility of criticism. "A Ramble in Montenegro" gives some curious details respecting a sequestered European province little known to English travellers. In the present chapters of " Marston," the hero has just ac cepted the office of Irish Secretary, at the stormy pe riod of the rebellion of '9B, of which some stirring sketches will, we suspect, be given in the next portion of the narrative. In the " Red River Recollections" we find the following graphic account of a stag-hunt on the water ;---- "It was a long Indian canoe, made out of the hollowed trunk of a cotton-tree; a many-tined antler was stuck in the prow, and dried legs and haunches of venison lay in the fore part of the boat; towards the stern sat a young girl, partially enveloped ih a striped blanket, but naked from the waist upwards, impelling the boat in the direction of the deer by long graceful sweeps of her oar; in front of her was a squaw of maturer age, performing a like labour. In the centre of the canoe were two children, queer guinea-pig -looking little devils, and near these lay a man in all the lazy apathy of a redskin on his return from the hunting-ground; but towards the stern stood a splendid Antinous-like young savage, leaning in an attitude of graceful negligence on his rifle, and.evidently waiting an opportunity of getting a blow or p shot at the stag. As soon as these children of the fore4t caught sight of the steamer and of Doughby's boat, they ceased rowing. only recornmencing"when en couraged by some loud hurras, and even then visibly taking care to keep as far as possible from the fire-ship. It was a❑ interesting and picturesque sight to observe the two boats describing a sort of circle on the broad ruddy stream, while the steamer rounding to, formed in a manner the base of the operation, and cut off the stag's, retreat. Presently a shot fired without effect from Doughby's boat, drove the beast over towards the canoe. The- long slender barque darted across the animari track with the swiftness of an arrow, and as it did so, the Indian who was standing up dealt the stag a blow that caused it to reel and spin round in the water, and change its course for the second time. When I again glanced at the denim., the young Indian had disappeared. , . " Here he comes!' shouted Doughby, pointing to the deer, which was now swimming towards his boat. ' Give way, boys! the Indians must learn of a Kentucky man bow to strike a stag. Give way, I say!' "The noble beast had recovered from the severe blow it hail received, and had now approached the steamer, towards which it cast such a supplicating tearful look, that the hearts of the ladies were touched with com passion. " Mr. Doughby,' cried half a score feminine voices, spare the poor beast!. Pray, pray let it go!' • " Spare a stag, ladies! Where did you ever, hear of such a thing? Hurra, boys!' shouted he, as the beat came up with the deer, and clubbing his rifle, he deli vered a blow with the but-end that split the stock in two ' and threw the stunned animal upon the gunwale . of the boat. Quick as thought, Doughby clutched the ant lers with one hand, while with the other he reached for the knife which one of his companions held out to him. At that moment the deer threw itself on one side with • convulsive movement, the boat rocked, Doughby lost his balance, the stag, which was now recovering its strength, drew itself violently back, and in an instant the Ken tuckian was floundering in the water, struggling with the deer, to whose horns he held on with the gripe of a tiger. _ _ Hallo, Mister Doughby in the Red River!' "The hole ship was now in an uproar, the ladle; screaming, the men shouting directions dill advice to those in.the boat. We began to be somewhat anxious as to the result; for although these water hunts are by xna, means uncommon occurrences, they are often dangerous and :sornotimes fatal to the hunter. .The deer had been. severely stunned and hurt, but not killed, by the blowti had received, and it now strove fiercely against its power% ful opponent, throwing 'him from side to side by violent ; tosses of its head. Doughby still hel&Titr like grim. death," but his eyes began to roll and stare wildly, his Strength was evidently diminishing, and he- had each moment more difficulty in partially controlling the stales' movements, and preventing the furious beast from run ning its antlers into his body. It was in vain that the four men in the boat endeavoured to render assistance. Man and beast were rolling and twisting about in the river.like two water snakes. The scene that had at first hew interesting had now become painful to behold. " ' Fire Parker !' Fire, Relby !' shouted several voices from the steamer to the men in the boat. " Knock the cussed redskin on the head!' was the unintelligible rejoinder of one of the latter. " The stag kad now got Doughby close to a tree-trunk, against which it was making violent efforts to crush him. His life was in imminent peril, and a universal cry of horror and alarm burst from the spectators. Just then the bead of the deer fell on its breast, the eyes glazing and the legs flinging out convulsively in the agony of death; at the same time, however, Doughby began to sinlr i and a bright streak of blood that rose to the sur face'th the water, and spread in a circle round the coin bitants,. gave reason to fear that the mad Kentuckian had received some deadly hurt. At last the men in the boat succeeded in getting hold of Doughby and the stag, the former being seized by the hair of the head, while his hands still clung to the doer's antlers with the desperate grasp of a drowning man.''' e • 0 1 ; „ t• tioks.ofelatites; of whom -he knew little enough, though he loved their society. I well remember the deference of his manner to them—how seldom he ventured to raise his fine, dark, beaming eyes to gaze on any young beauty. Yet, he was, though when I knew him inclin ing to the old bachelor, by no means unsusceptible, But he lived in an ideal world. He lived with Grey, Pope, Addison. His intimate associates were Wertoft, and Thottip t s,on ; the cpilipauias of his lighter hourS; Lady MarY,WoitleY; SWltt, Cr fi'efbaps; ISlrS,Centlivte, of Mrs. Oldfield—no scandal ! I mean to say, he spoke iii their language—he almost thought their thoughts. Ho was remarkably conversant with dramatic literature, and I doubt not was one of those who understood every point of a good actor, from John Kemble down to Blanchard. His quotations, in society, were infinite-- his manner,,gentle, but not devoid of pqdAntry. Pe ilaati.y ! What sin chitiactristic ! Like tht stage-coaches ' it will soon be a mark of age to remember that such a failing was ever known. With it, there has passed away the race of close readers—the habit of accuracy—the love and knowledge of the old writers. " I was on the top of a Cambridge coach when I passed, one day, the lodgings where my poor friend Mills liVed; I saw Hint at tht *inflow; his Itide looked pale.; I thought—he was standing, too, unemployed. A faint smile passed across his face as he saw me. I called to the guard, and jumped off, carrying my carpet-bag with me. Absolutely the dear fellow came down to the door to meet me. I never saw a frame more shattered. He had been ill, broken - a blood vessel, he told me, in his weals Venn the stuttered it little), but Atas doing 're , markably well now. Alas ! He had wintered in Pisa years before for that same melancholy symptom. I never saw him more. He took me into his room, up stairs, well lined with well-preserved books, neat as a don's room, with a good fire, a disused desk, an easy chair, and prints of one or two favourite authors over the ehimney-pieee. I reeollper, lad at I Was, envying all this eomfort. Poor Mills it was an easy cheerful decline, I heard ; he was never well enough to admit, after that, such harum scarum fellows as myself. Ido not believe he was more than thirty-six years old when he died." to the Shah: The . , windows of the room' looked upoA ~ sPacious Cotirf; where was assembled a Vdst concourse of people. We Id this, spot two hours ;' the time passed away very heavily .; for, oil ak;edifni Of ifs being during the fast of Ramazan, no kaliauns or fe freshments were brought in, which circumstance marred the accustomed gaiety of our Persian friends. Meerza Abool Hassan was habtted in a fine court dress, and *ore; as *ell as oursel4l; fed stockings and slippers, *hick is .the usual costume for and cntl Otto lies the hohdtir of, aPpeiriig before the Shadow of God,' its the Shah of Persiii is terified by his. subjects. " At length the welcothe iiiiellie:ettoe arrived that his Majesty was ready to receive us, Upon *high Meerut. Abool Hassan arose, and requested us to follow laid; ithci we all proceeded together to a spacious court, at the upper end of which was the front of the royal palace, and toted at all open window cm the ground•floor was the Shalt, of wnora We then had a side flew: When we had arrived at about twenty ytirdi from file palace, the Meerza shook off his slippers, and directed us id do the same. We then each made a low salaam, and began slowly to advance. We repeated the obeisances several times before we arrived before the entrance of the build ing, when the shah turning round, celled to us to enter ; the *olds he used being Ileauyegd ' Come up.' We adeufdingly proceeded to ascend a broad flight of steps, and entered the apartment in which his Majesty was seated. It was a spacious cilemher, the walls and ceilings of which were covered with mirrali in every part of it were ornaments of various descrip tions, chiefly of European manufacture ; I could not, however, help retnarkil the strong resemblance the spot bore to a large ton on China-shop. On our ens trance, the Meerza conducted us to the corner most re mote to that occupied by the Shah, who was seated on his heels on a beautiful nummud, and very plainly habited in a dress made of Cashmere shawl. In his girdle was a large dagger ; ornamented with jewels, and on his head he wore a black Bokhara lamb-skin cap, on which was a string of pearls ; but the most striking feature about him was his beard, which exceeded by its length even what I had expected. It conceals most of his face, and reaches to his knees ; during the whole of' the audience he continued to twist the ends of it round his fingers. When we had occupied the corner, his Majesty ex claimed, Khosh amedeed !' literally, You are welcome' (well come). He then proceeded to ask us various ques tions concerning our travels, and showed by his obser vations upon our answers, that he had, for a Persian, a very fair knowledge of geography. lie then proceeded to question Mr. M'Neill upon the affairs of Khorasan, (from which he, Mr. M'Neill, had just returned), and the late campaign ; he spoke at the same time much in approbation of the conduct in that quarter of the heir apparent (Abbas Meerza). The audience lasted above an hour, and I had ample opportunity of observing the illustrious personage before whom we were staning. His Majesty is still a very handsome man, and appears much younger than he is in reality, on account of the blackness of his beard, which is kept to that colour by the application of the Persian dye ; his voice, however, and want of teeth, plainly indicate his very advanced age. He bears a great resemblance to portraits I have seen of him. Oa his, arm, above the elbow, his Majesty wore a large bracelet (in Persian, styled kazubend) as a mark of royalty. The bracelet consisted of stones set in gold. This was the article of most value amongst the few orna ments he wore. " The manner in which the audience terminated, was by the Shah giving a nod with his head, and saying, You are dismissed.' We then made several low sa laams, and retired, keeping our faces towards his Ma jesty, and bowing, at intervals, until we reached the spot where we had left our slippers, which we put on, and then backed out of the court. " Thus ended the ceremony:of our presentation to the Kiblah-i Auleen, the Shahee Shahu, and the Zil Illah, such being the titles by which Fath Ali Shah was ad dressed ; meaning, Attraction of the Universe,' King of Kings,' and Shadow of God.'" BURGLARY, AND CAPTURE OF THE THIEF UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIR CUNISTANCES. In the morning of Sunday last, the 22d instant, about one o'clock, the family of Mr. Robert Cutler, of Little Yeldham, were alarmed by a loud explo sion in the lower part of the house, as of fire arms. Mr. R. Marsh, son-in-law of Mr. Cutler, immediately got out of bed, and looking out at a back window, perceived a quantity of smoke issuing from the back premises. He then aroused the other members of the family, and ran down stairs al most in a state of nudity, when he found the house full of smoke, and the back part of it on fire. Assist ance soon being at hand, the flames were speedily ex tinguished, and but little damage was done. The in mates, now somewhat recovered from their fright, observed that the premises had been entered by a win dow, which had been forced out, and that part of the roof had been carried off from the effects of the explo sion ; they also found a large pool of blood, and traced spots of the same to a cottage near, in the occupation of a man named Cook. On being called up, Cook stated that his boy Haggai had just arrived home wounded, and nearly dead, alleging that he had sus tained his injuries from somebody who had shot at him as he was coming over the Hall Green, but on Mr. Cutler confronting the boy, he acknowledged that he broke into the house and caused the disaster above described. The boy's statement was, that he and another lad, named Dearsley, had the even ing before been tt) a kaffie in _the Village, and on leaving they agreed to break in and rob the premises In -- question ; ~ but they effected an entrance into the 'back kitchen by cutting a window with a pocket knife, and removing . a shutter; but having got so far, they_ found further progress arrested by bars and, bolts', and finding ,nothing there to suit them, were about to depart, when he (Cook) said " I'll see what's in the oven. P.3n his search he found a canister, which he supposed to contain tea, but instead of which there was in it about three-quarters of a pound of gunpowder ; on pulling off the lid he poured out a small quantity, which immediately ignited the whole. The explosion carried off part of the roof of the building, forced out a window, and set fire to various articles in the oven, besides doing other damage ; it also shattered the boy's thumb, carried away part of his tongue, and inflicted a very large scalp wound, his head, face, and eyes presenting a frightful appearance. A surgeon who was immediately sent for dressed his wounds, and although maimed as above described, he is likely to recover, when he will be brought before the magistrates upon the charge. Cook, although young in years, is said to be hardened in crime ; he is about 15 years of age, of diminitive stature, and has been several times brought before the magistrates and committed for minor offences.—Essex Herald. Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, Bart., G.C.8., is appointed to succeed Sir Edward Owen in the Mediter ranean command, and will hoist his flag on board the Monarch, 84.—Hampshire Telegraph. The Lords of the Treasury have granted 750/., part of the Parliamentary grant for public walks, &c., to the Corporation of Sunderland, in aid of a plan for providing a place of recreation for the inhabitants ; the only condition of the grant being, that the ground, when purchased, shall be legally and permanently secured as a place of recreation for the people. It is intended to purchase and lay out Building-hill. The estimated cost is about 3,000/., the remainder of which will be raised by public subscription. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine was occupied on Tuesday with a case in which Lady Dorothea Campbell, of the Rue d'Aguesseau, 12, was plaintiff; and M. Rohaut de Fleury, her landlord, defendant. The point to be decided was simply whether a tenant had a right to have carriages enter the court-yard at night, in giving balls or soirees. It appears that the plaintiff has for a short time inhabited her present apartment, at a rent of I,ooof. a-month. She is in the habit of re ceiving company every Friday evening, and no objec tion was at first made to the carriages of her friends entering in the usual manner into her court-yard to set down company until about three weeks ago, when the landlord issued a prohibition to prevent any carriage entering the court, or going out, after twelve o'clock. This step was taken at the instigation of a Mme. Sarlandiare, a lady keeping a boarding-house on the same premises, and whose inmates complained of the noise made every Friday night. A servant of this person was placed in the porter's lodge, to the exclusion of the old servant, who had filled his office for twenty eight years, and when the carriages arrived he !pre vented them from entering. The result was, that Lady D. Campbell's guests were obliged to alight in the street, and cross the court-yard on foot, to reach her apartment. Her Ladyship remonstrated ; but, finding all her efforts at an amicable arrangement useless, saw herself obliged to bring an action to establish her right. After the case had been thus stated for the plaintiff, counsel' was heard for the defendant and Mine. Sarlendiere. The advocate for the former declared that his client had done all that was in his power to conciliate matters ; he had offered to construct at his own expense a tent in the court-yard, to enable Lady D. Campbell's guests to arrive at her apartment under cover ; he had proposed also to put down a carpet ; and it had been agreed, on his suggestion, that straw should be strewed under the gateway and in the yard, in order to deaden the noise of the carriages. This arrange ment, however, had afterwards been broken by Lady D. Campbell. and the suit brought on. For Mine. Sarlandiire it was stated that, if the soirees just alluded to were continued, she must be utterly ruined, as she had laid out 50,000 francs in founding a boarding house, and all her boarders would leave her if their rest was disturbed every Friday night from nine at night until five in the morning. The plaintiff's counsel, in reply to these observations, stated that the noise of the carriages would be heard in the street just as well as in the court-yard, by Madame Sarlandiere's boarders, the rooms of all of whom were on the street. But the Court had nothing to do with the feelings of these persons, however respectable they might be ; the question was as to the right of a locataire to have carriages enter the court-yard when a soiree or ball was given. The Court, after having deliberated, decided that Lady D. Camp bell's right was; incontestible, and in consequence con demned the defendant to the costs of the suit.—Galig aa i's Messenger. THE VAGUE, Dsc. 26.—According to the preli minary report of the Central Section on the projects of law relative to a modification of the first book of the penal code, thirty-three Members declared in favour of solitary confinement as well by day as by night, with hard labour ; thirty-five Members desire the introduc tion of the pena lty of transportation to one of our colonies. There has been a meeting at Ghent of the men em ployed in the sugar houses, for the purpose of drawing up a petition to the Chamber against the proposed law On sugar duties. The petition has above 800 signatures. . IRELAND. fikaitStNTATION OF TIPPERABY. DUBLIN, IYEc. Hon. Mr. Hutchinson, in 6onse4uence of the Micrtte state of hi% health, declines to aeseept the representation of Tipperary. It is likely that Mr. ItyrO, of inch House, a deputy-lieutenant of that county, will now be otiteted. ANTI-TRINITAIUAN COLLEGES. Under this headinv, the Evening Mall glfr the follow ing announcement :—" We believe we may novr mate *ith certainty that Sir James Graham, and that portion of the t abinet which encourage everything anti-Pro testant in Ireland, have come to the resolution of found ing two colleges—the one in Ulster, the other in Mun ster ; Belfast and Cork being the localties fixed upon in ctppo'gition to z if not in rivalry with Trinity College, Dub'in. ft rge understand, decided upon that these new establishments at to be founded and provided for by special charters and Parngtnuncary grants, indepen• dent of all other funds ,• and that, rcir the present, they are to have the power of granting degrees m medicine, law and arts." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAT.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince Albert at the Castle this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed exercise this forenoon in the grounds adjoining the Castle. His Excellency the French Ambassador and the Countess St. Aulaire arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty. The Countess of Gainsborough also arrived at the Castle. Sir Henry Wheatley left the Castle to-day. The Earl of Warwick has arrived, and has suc ceeded Viscount Hawarden as the Lord in Waiting on the Queen ; and Major-General Sir Frederic Stovin has succeeded Admiral Sir Robert Otway as the Groom in 'Waiting on her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Caste this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, la Mar guise d'Harcourt, le Comte and la Comtesse George d'Harcourt, Mr. and Mrs. W. Harcourt, and Captain Francis Seymour. The band of the Royal Horse Guards were in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and performed during the re mainder of the evening. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester, yesterday at Glou cester House. The Earl of Aberdeen left town yesterday, on a visit to Earl de Grey, at Wren Park, Silsoe, Bed fordshire. Lord Ernest Bruce, M.P. for Marlborough, had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Dalhousie, at the Board of Trade, respecting a memorial from the inhabitants of Marlborough in favour of the line projected by the South-Western Railway Company to Hungerford and Marlborough. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left Cambridge yesterday for Audley End, Saffron Walien, Essex. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of New South W ales. The Earl of Ripon arrived in town on Monday. Sir James Graham left Drayton Manor, Stafford shire, the seat of Sir Robert Peel, yesterday, for his residence, Netherby, near Carlisle. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Sir Brooke and Lady Bridges, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from their seat, Goodnestone, Kent; the Countess and the Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan, at Queensberry House, from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey, at Beaudesert, Staffordshire; Captain H. J. Denny, Enniskillen Dragoons, at the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, from the Cavalry Barracks, at. Brighton ; Mr. and Mr s . H en ry Beauclerk, from Northamptonshire ; Lady Alicia Gordon, at the Hon. Captain W. Gordon's, at the Admiralty, from the Ranger's House, Blackheath; P. R. Wybault, Esq., in Dover-street, from Glenville, near South ampton ; Lady Morgan, at her house in town, from a tour of visits in the north; Sir John Tyrrell, Bart., M.P., at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, St. James's. DEPARTURES. Earl Cadogan, from Queen'berry House, on a visit to Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Charles Drummond, at Newsells, near Royston, Herts ; Mrs. Dawkins Pen nant, from IVimpole-street, on a visit to Lord Heytes bury and the Hon. Miss A'Court, at Dublin Castle ; Mr. Myddleton Biddulph, from the Clarendon Hotel, for Chirk Castle, Denbighshire ; Lieut. J. S. S. Stuart, Ist Dragoon Guards, from the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Canterbury ; Charles Fraser, Esq., from ditto, for Berkshire ; Mr. Mor daunt Fenwick, Ist Dragoon Guards, from ditto, for Canterbury. CHANGES. The Hon. Captain A. G. F. Jocelyn, 6th Dragoon Guards, on a visit to the Dowager Countess of Roden, at Bath; Mr. Henry and Lady Sophia Devereux, at Drake Southall, Derbyshire, from a visit to the Earl and C oun t ess o f Ch es t e rfield, at Bratby Park ; the Hon. G. Smythe, M.P., from the Bedford Hotel, Brighton, on a tour ; Sir Alexander and Lady Hood, at Bath, from their seat, in Somersetshire; Sir Hugh Stewart, Bart., and family, from Dublin, for their seat, Ballygawley, Tyrone. :F ASTLEY'S. AMPHITHEATRE. The - fifst of " B'atty's Equestrian Morning Fetes and Fashionable Day Performances, commencing at half-past one and terminating at. half ' -past three," was given ;~ri Alonday. The spectators were principally those for whose accommodation the hour was chosen, viz., the members of the rising generation, who are now home enjoying the festivities of Christmas, and seeing the sights of the season. The programme of Monday was a good one—there were the first ap pearance of M. Pierre, in a novel and olympic act of horsemanship; Mademoiselle Helene, the celebrated French equestrian artiste, on a spirited steed in a grace ful scene of equitation; M. Genges, the juggler of Marseilles ; Mr. Wells, who introduced two dwarf well-trained steeds ; the Southern American Minstrels, Messrs. Woolest, Hobbins, Parker, and Ring; Mr. H. Smith, and the steed Taglioni. After them came a Polka dance on horseback, by Mr. Newsome and Miss Isabella, and finally a variety of equestrian quadrilles, said to be of "the moyen age," which were capitally performed both by the horses and riders ; the evolu tions being perfectly carried through, and the gallo pades in the best style. The audience, which was more select than the usual evening audiences at this theatre, seemed highly delighted, and we have no doubt but the speculation will answer. The idea of giving day performances for the juveniles is a capital one, and we were glad to see that the public supported the undertaking by a numerous attendance. The theatre was brilliantly illuminated, as for an evening per formance. CYFARTIIFA.—In anticipation of an increased de mand for railway iron, Mr. William Crawshay has de cided upon the erection of an extensive steam rail-mill, capable, if necessary, of the completion of 2,500 tons of rails per month? the estimated cost of the extensive project is about 25,000 L, while it will be the means of affording employment to 300 persons, in addition to the large number already employed in this gentleman's im mense establishment.—Cambrian. SUPPLY OF COALS.—We are glad to report, on un doubted authority, that the directory of the London and Birmingham Railway have determined to carry coals at ld. per mile per ton. The waggons and carriages for the conveyance of those Naluable commodities are in progress, and will shortly be ready for use. Our para graph last week on the subject has elicited this informa tion, which our numerous friends will be glad to receive. Bedford Mercury. _ _ BRUSSELS, DEC. 27.—The Senate, in its yesterday's sitting, after an animated debate, adopted the project of law on corn, by a majority of 20 to 13. STATE OF FRADE.—The market, both for cloth and yarn, has been quite as active as is generally the case at this period of the year. Indeed, where parties have been disposed to meet the demand, stocks of both cloth and yarn are quite cleared out; many in fact are working under contract. Some, however, refuse to sell, except at an advance, choosing. rather to wait the de insnd for the spring trade. The year closes upon the commercial interests with a prospect of good things to come; which nothing indeed but some untoward event, as a failure of the harvest, or a war, can blight. Money, the sinews of all business, is plentiful and cheap; so also is cotton, the staple, almost as essential as corn itself. Then the condition of the labouring classes is greatly ameliorated, the demand for labour and wages having alike improved. We should think, also. the Government will be constrained early to lighten the oppressive bur dens of the people by a total repeal or a considerable re duction of those fiscal imposts which press mainly on the industrious classess. On the whole, we may congratu late the trading community on the wide fields of enter prise which have opened on them in the East, and which have greatly tended to the improved state of business; as also on the far more profitable results of their trade in the latter compared with the former period of the year, when unwarrantable speculations in cotton totally overcast our dawning advancement; and we have but to express a hope that the ensuing may be a year gratefully remembered alike by master and operative. —Manchester Times. HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR ROMFORD.—On Tues day night, as John Sumner, a servant in the employ of Mr. James Stone, of Great Goose Farm, in the parish of Rumford, was proceeding from Hare-street to his mas ter's house, between eleven and twelve o'clock, he was stopped a short distance from the Ship, Hare-street, where he had taken some refreshments, by two men, who knocked him down and robbed him of his watch and eighteenpence in mosey, with which they decamped over the park palings of Hare Hall estate. Information, with a description of their persons, was immediately given to the inspector of police, at Romford, who appre hended John Staines, a blacksmith, and Thomas King, and they were both identified by Sumner as the persons who had robbed him. They were examined before Oc tavius Mashiter, Esq., at the Court House, on Friday last, and remanded for further examination to yesterday (Monday), when they were fully committed for trial. The prisoners are suspected to have been connected with a gang by whom many parties have been lately robbed of poultry, provisions, &x,—Essex Herald. -r^~Y NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINI. The public character of the Comte de St. Aulaire, at present French Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, is cleverly pourtrayed in the first article of the Number before us, entitled, " Passages in the Lives of the Celebrated Statesmen of Europe." The Comte, it Seatls, is a member of ode of the most ancient families in France, and adhered steadfastly to the cause of the Bourbons during the famous Hun dred Days, which terminated with the final downfal of Napoleon at Waterloo. His biographer repre . - sents him as a man nearly as ardently devoted to literature as to politics, and his history of the " Wars of the Fronde " proves that he is as competent to shine in the one capacity as in the other. " iEsop Illustrated " is a humorous tale from the pen of the author of "Peter Priggins," who is rather too close an imitator of the late Theodore Hook. " Zurbano " is a spirited memoir of this celebrated Christino chief, who, says his biographer, was more dreaded by the Spanish Carlists than any other leader of his party, not excepting even the feroci , nis Mina. The Carlists, we are told, never considered themselves safe unless he was within twenty or thirty leagues of them. " He would accomplish forced marches of a length that appeared almost fabulous; and in an extraordinary short space of time fall upon and exterminate some detachment of the enemy, capture a valuable convoy, or kidnap an officer of rank." " The Robertses on their Travels" contains, as all Mrs. Trollope's fictions do, some caustic and truthful touches of character, ,but the story is sadly spun out, just as if the authoress was chiefly solicitous to furnish a certain amount of matter, and was not ♦ery particular as to the quality. " A Discourse of Puppies ' is a sprightly, satirical essay, but, nevertheless, it would have been greatly improved by a little judicious condensation. The " Gentleman on Half-pay" is from the airy and graphip pen of the author of " Stories of Waterloo,' who relates the confessions of a murderer in a most ,earnest unexaggerated manner. The subjoined inte xestic particulars respecting the famous bandit, *Santa Lucia is quoted from Mr. George Burdett's "..Traits of Corsican and Sardinian character :" , " Santa Lucia, who is still alive, enjoys the reputa tion of being at present the Fra Diavolo of Corsica. He was sent to school, at an early age, in his native dis trict, Stiitene, and was known as a generous, open teartecrboy' always ready to do a good turn for a com 'panion; 'These seeds were, unfortunately, foredoomed to bring forth hitter fruit, and were, in fact, the main opring.of -his future career of guilt and wretchedness. After leaving school, he lived a contented life for some time, tilling his little patch of ground, and surrendering up his spare hours to the chase, of which he was pas sionately, fond. At last the hour of his fall arrived. His brother, .a priest, was condemned at the assizes for some trifling offence, on evidence which everybody in the island believes to be false. Santa Lucia's warm attach ments and antipathies now burst out in volcanic flames. Reputation, property, even life itself, were flung to the winds. , His brother had been unjustly punished, and it was his task to avenge him. Having laid wait for the perjured witness, he placed the unfortunate on his knees without a struggle, as his known strength and determi nation rendered resistance hopeless. " Did you not call Santa Lucia (a Roman Catholic `saint) t 6 witness thit you were speaking the trath ?' y es. ' " &Alta Lucia is here to reward you as you deserve." " With that he dug out both his victim's eyes with a stilettochnd wrote a scroll with the,bloody point, which )he:pinnekl to the man's back : ' This is the punishment -of false witnesses.' A friend of mine, a captain,9f vol tigeurs, actually saw this scroll Wore it was taken off. " All restraint was now removed, and the evil im— pulses. of Santa Lucia raged 'like the Whirbvind. Any, the slighipst opposition to 'Wishes, was puniShed with death. N 6 distance; no lapse iaf time or fancied security of place, could turn him from his fixed purpose, if in tent upon shedding blood. A medical man had given him some ground of offence, and, fearing his wrath, took refuge in Ajaccio, the capital. Thither Santa Lucia followed him, and, after loitering about the streets for some days, saw him approaching. Both drew pistols, but Santa Lucia, the quicker of the two, shot, his enemy dead. A small knot of women and boys had gathered round him, from whom he asked his way out of the town, and by them he was directed to the quarters of the custom-house officers, which he soon reached at a good round pace. The sentry perceiving a man coming along followed by a crowd, shouting out, Step the assassin !' levelled his piece and told him to stand. Santa Lucia said, What have I done ? If you shoot me you will commit murder, as, whatever these people ma y say, I have done nothing wrong.' Having closed by degrees with the soldier during these few words, he threw the latter for an instant off his guard by the openness lof his manner. This was enough for Santa Lucia, who felled him to the ground with four blows of his stiletto. He then seized the soldier's weapon, dashed through the main gateway of the barracks, and was soon out of the town. About three hundred yards from Ajaccio he met a Corsican voltigeur, who made a useless attempt to stop him. ' His step was on the mountain, and, being well armed, he set both resistance and pursuit at defiance. " Having gained his stronghold his steps were marked with blood wherever he went, and the list of his murders had already reached nine, two years ago. His wife, his sister, and one friend, were alone entrusted with the secret of his whereabouts. His sister was a most beau tiful girl, or rather amazon, who had refused many offers of marriage, on account of her devoted attachment to Santa Lucia, whose love of vengeance she shared. During the day she- assisted her sister-in-law in her household duties, and at night, slinging a double-bar reled gun and a box of cartridges across her shoulders, she used to plunge into trackless thickets, to carry food to her brother. " Last year a hot pursuit obliged Santa Lucia and his cousin, Giacomini, to fly to Sardinia, where they made themselves universally popular amongst the inhabitants. Santa Lucia freely accorded his protection to any in jured person who sought it in the island. The Sards at last gave him the title of " Il Guerriero," the warrior, from his approved courage and conduct. A cousin and namesake of his was to be tried at the winter assizes at Bastia, in 1843, for murder, on which occasion Lucia re turned from his exile. It was understood that he had the address to remain concealed in the town itself during the trial ; at all events he issued a mandate for his rela tive's acquittal, threatening, in the contrary event, the judges and jury with death. An acquittal followed as a matter of course. Since then he has declared that, hav ing destroyed all his enemies, he is about to quit his native country for ever, and that he has chosen Egypt for his future home. I have heard, however, that he has very lately entered the service of the King of Sar dinia, and was almost immediately promoted to the rank of corporal of gendarmes." AINS TV ORTHIS MAGAZINE. The best thing in the present chapters of the Editor's " Revelations of London," is his description of Regent-street in the high noon of fashion, which is as vigorous and lively as it is circumstantial. The diablerie of the story is, we must honestly confess, not much to our taste, for demons, gentlemen three hundred years old, dwarfs of the same respectable antiquity, and such like melo-dramatic monsters, ill assort with the business-like, matter-of-fact habits of the present day, in which they are represented as playing off their romantic vagaries. However, Mr. Ainsworth is not without his justification, "Ms win plebecula gaudet." "Agincourt" is a kindly and generous notice of Mr. James's latest novel—his hundred-and-fiftieth, we believe—which comes with peculiar grace from the pen of a rival novelist. " Wild Oats " gives some whimsical anecdotes illus trative of Elliston's eccentricities, and the effrontery with which he played on the credulity and forbear ance of the " pensive public." The "Country Cu rate " is one of Charles 01lier's unassuming domestic stories, and is throughout pleasingly written. " Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry contains several characteristic portraits of this unaccountable portion of the creation. We quote from Mr. Saville's Per sian Journal" his account of an interview with the late King Fath Ali Shah : " JAN. 28.—This was the day fixed for our having an audience of Fath Ali Shah ; in consequence, about ten o'clock in the morning, we mounted our horses, and, ac companied by Mr. M‘Neill,* the secretary of the Eng lish embassy, directed our course towards the royal palace. Having proceeded, with great ceremony, to a gate leading to the residence of his Persian Majesty, we dismounted, and were conducted to an apartment, where we found several Persian khans assembled, among whom was Meerza Abool Hassan Khan, who was to present us * Now Sir John WNeill, G.C.B. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Mr. Albert Smith here commences a new work of fiction with the ominous title of the " Marchioness 01 Brinvilliers." The subject will require a great des' of dextrous and delicate management to render it palatable to the reader, for the Marchioness, together with her paramour, St. Croix—the two most noto riotis poisoners of the day—was a heroine in whose fortunes it is scarcely possible for any one to take the slightest interest. The story opens in a promising manner, but we must see more of it before we can venture to pronounce a decided opinion. The " Close of the Old Year" is a poem, whose greatest recom mendation is that it does not fall below absolute mediocrity. The " Fete of Peterhoff" is an ani mated description, by Mrs. Romer, of one of the Emperor Nicholas's birthday festivals. We could have spared, however, the fair writer's exagge rated account of the " unrivalled beauty" of the Czar. The " Boys of Kilkenny " is a lively, boisterous sketch of certain national oddities, by a writer who signs himself " An Irish Whiskey drinker." The " Gaol Chaplain " continues his per sonkl recollections this month, and his stories—whose only fault is that they are of somewhat too gloomy a character—exhibit no falling off in point of interest. " Confessions of De Loude Chiselham ' is a lively tale from the practised pen of the author of " Richard Savage." In the " Literary Retrospect of the De parted Great " occur the following reminiscences of the late Charles Mills—one of the profoundest his torians of the day, and who—had he lived—would have realised the predictions of Scott and Southey, and taken a foremost rank among the authors of his age... We knew him long and intimately ; and as we lift'our eyes up from the desk at which we write this to his bust, which faces us, it seems but yesterday since we heard him, in his usual buoyant manner, relate the progress he had made in his last and most popular work on "Chivalry," which reached its third edition but a few days before his death, by consump tion, at Southampton. The writer is mistaken in some of his details respecting Charles Mills, who did not winter at Pisa, but at Nice, and who was not "thirty-six years old " when he died, but thirty-nine "Coeval with my acquaintance with him,• and be tween the period of boyhood and of college, was my mole matured friendship with Charles Mills. Charles Mills ! I think I hear those of my grandchildren who may, at some future time, pick up this retrospect, among old bills, or old letters, ask, Who was Charles Mills ? ' I answer, 'Many a worse man, many a writer with one third of his knowledge, has lived, and does live, whilst he is chiefly to be found in a dusty back-room (that is, his remains), at Messrs. Longmans', Paternoster-row.' "He was one of that race, my child, or children, who may scan what this hand now writes (having 'done, thank Heaven ! for the present wits these p apers from Lincoln's Inn)—of a race quite gone by--clean expunged from society—a laborious gentleman writer. A man of independent circumstances, not rich, who ch, )se, from the love of letters, and the desire of fame, to dedicate hiMself to the fabrication of long historical we Irks, the very subjects of which would drive our presont :authors to despair. History of Mohammedanism—lfiN.kory of the - Crusades, History of Chivalry—admirable, neglected works, written in a too ambitious style, with the ghost of Gibbon always in the writer's view, presiding ovor his library table, but excellent, nevertheless—and, my daughters, or grand-daughters, or great grartd-daugh ters, they were pure I The subjects were delicately' handled ; for their writer had an infinite seagA3 of what was seemly, and was a Christian writer. " was, indeed, sort ofknight-errwat ill his no- i INCREASE OF CRIME. We regret to find that crime of a serious character is increasing in towns of the midland counties and in Tip perary. The Leinster E.tpre.s, of this day, contains the following details. That Tory journal, in describing faction fighting in Dunkerrin, where Shinrone police agents had been at work for some months before, admits that the peasantry, on this occasion, were supplied with whiskey by a villain of this description " MORE VACTION FIGHTING.—At the fair of Dun kerrin, on Saturday, we had a renewal of the brutal and baneful system of faction fighting. A fellow, who earned for himself an infamous notoriety at Hoscrea during the recent visit of the apostle of temperance to that town, played a prominent part on the present occasion. It is stated that he plied the leaders of one party with whiskey, and then, with a demon-like propensity for evil, furnished the heads of the opposing faction with a supply of the same fiery and maddening fluid. The affray soon com menced, and the fair presented one scene of turbulency, uproar, and riot. The contending factions were the Hickeys and the Lahys—parties who so often fought for the last three months, and as often, we regret to say, escaped, at least from legal punishment. Had these fel lows been made amenable to law when involved in its meshes, faction fights would be more or less suppressed. Leniency towards men of such untameable ferocity is too often an inducement to them to continue their career of crime. " ATTEMPT TO BURN A HOUSE.—On Tuesday even ing the house of Mr. Patrick Savage, Willow-lodge, near Cloughjordan, was observed to be on fire by a man who was passing at the time. He immediately called on one of the servants to know if there was any light in the yard ; the servant haring said no, they examined the dwelling-house, and found it in flames. Having given alarm, the fire was quenched before much damage was done. A coal was found in the thatch. This hap pened at the early hour of half-past five o'clock in the evening. " On the night of last Monday, four armed men, two of whom had their faces blackened, entered the dwelling house of a man named Banan, of Clonaganna, near Dun kerrin. One of the miscreants fired a shot into the kitchen. Banan, who had been at his brother's house, a short distance from his own, hearing the report, and conjecturing the cause, whistled and hallooed, as if he had assistance at hand. The ruse had the desired effect; for the ruffians became alarmed, and fearing that they would be set on by a superior force, they decamped. " LATE MURDER OF THE SHEPPARDS.—Some arrests have been made for this barbarous murder, and the parties committed to Parsontown bridewell and Tuna more gaol, for further investigation. " BARBAROUS MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S COUNTY.— About four o'clock on the 20th instant, a boy who hap pened to be cutting switches in the plantation at Le velly, near Rathdowney, discovered the body of a man who had been brutally murdered. There were five cuts on the head, and on the right side was the appearance of two stabs, inflicted by a bayonet or some sharp instru ment. The murdered man was John Dillon, of Rath downey, and it was the opinion of medical gentlemen who attended, that he must have been five or six hours dead when discovered. John Dillon was upwards of seventy years of age, and a respectable man. It seems he had a rent-charge on some land held by nephews of his, also named Dillon, which, being allowed to run in arrear, he had them served with an ejectment process, that was to be tried at Abbeyleix Quarter Sessions on the 28th instant. On Saturday an inquest was held on view of the body at Rathdowney, by Thomas Budds, Esq., one of the Coroners for the Queen's County ; and Thomas Cannon, RM., Robert Fitzgerald, Thomas Mosse, and Steele, Esqs., ma gistrates. After the examination of several witnesses, and two medical gentlemen, Doctors Harte and Delany, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against some person or persons unknown, and that James and Robert Dillon were aiding and conspiring in the same. Robert Dillon was arrested on the evening of the murder. There were recent marks of blood on his trousers. In account ing for himself he equivocated very much, and his state ment could not be sustained by facts. Jame Dillon has absconded. The Government has offered, through the hands of Thomas Cannon, Esq., R.M., Maryboroagh, a reward of 801. for the discovery of the murderer. " ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On Friday night last two armed ruffians entered the house of Kyraa Bergan, at Ballycooled, near Rathdowney. Having placed Bergan on his knees, they ordered him to say his prayers and prepare himself for death. While in a kneeling posture one of the miscreants snapped a pistol at him, which, -fortunately, missed fire. Bergan, feeling the hopeless ness of his condition, became desperate and reckless. He - bounced off his knees, and rushed at the other Rockite, wrested his pistol from him, and acted most manfully, both on the offensive and defensive., He at last succeeded in getting both, ruffians out of, , the house. His head has several cuts in it; but none of them very dangerous. Government has offered a reward for the apprehension of theperpetrators of the above outrage. " ATTACK ON HENRY CARDEN.—Sir Henry was passing through the streets of Templemore, when he was assailed and knocked down by a blow of a stone ; while down he was struck on the head by another ruffian, also with a stone ; and, but for the exclamation of some chil dren who were playing near the spot—that • a man was murdering'—there can be little doubt that Sir Henry would have been added to the list of persons whose lives have been sacrificed. " BORRISOKANE, DEC. 26.—1 have just a moment be fore the post goes out to inform you that a frightful at tempt at murder has been made in this part of unhappy Tipperary, at an early hour yesterday evening. This occurrence took place in the parish of Terryglass, within pistol-shot of the village of Carrigahovig, and five miles of Borrisokace. The circumstances are as follow :—A Mrs. Going (a widow) was some time ago ejected from a small farm which she held at or near Carrigahovig. A respectable farmer, named Cleary, got into possession of it. Ile was served with threatening notices, but did not mind them. Yesterday evening, when going to his own house, and quite hard by it, a gun, charged with a vast quantity of heavy shot, was fired at him. At the moment the deadly weapon was discharged, Cleary had his hands in his breeches pockets, and in his left hand, the one next the assassin, he held a bunch of keys, with some pence and halfpence, which he had just got from a neighbour. The shot struck his left hand, carried off three of his fingers, smashed the ring of the keys, bat tered the money, and tore away his pockets and linen. The abdomen is untouched, but his left thigh is much _ _ _ lacerated. Hopes are entertained of his recovery, and never was there so narrow, so providential an escape." TIIE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY. The Leinster Express, a Tory journal, eulogises the Rev. Mr. Nolan, parish priest of Dunkerrin, and other Roman Catholic clergymen of the district, for their in defatigable exertions in repressing outrage, and in ob taining fire-arms from the peasantry, which had been delivered to the authorities. THE SCOTCH BANKS. The London correspondent of the Mercantile Adver tiser states, under date of Wednesday—" I think I may announce, with confidence, that Sir Robert Peel has yielded to the remonstrances of the Scotch people, of all parties, by abandoning, for the coming session at least, his threatened project for the regulation of bank ing and currency in Scotland, the main feature of which was the suppression of the small note system in that part of the empire. As you must be aware, all Scot land has been in motion in defence of its banking sys tem; but, probably, by this time, the agitation has been somewhat calmed down by an official intimation from the Government that the contemplated changes will not beroposed during the session of l 845; " TEE VANGUARD STEAMER.—The Cork Examiner of yesterday says, " We have the pleasure to announce that the Vanguard has been most successfully removed, her leaks staunched, and that she is placed in safety on a smooth sand-bank, from which she is to be removed next tide to Passage, in order to get finally repaired." COERCION ACT FOR IRELAND. (From the Dublin Evening Post.) The Leinster Express calls upon Government for a Coercion Act. Certainly, the extent of crime is deeply to be deplored, and means of repression should be used, in co-operation with the Catholic Clergy ; for the horri. ble system of outrage must be stopped, no matter how apparent may be the causes. But, can a remedy be found in a Coercion Act ? That experiment has already been often tried and found totally unavailing. The renewal of faction fights, through the instru mentality of agents who supply the peasantry with whisky, to involve them once more in brutal intemper ance, is one of the worst features of the present dis turbances. It is worthy of note that such miscreants dare not have shown themselves whilst the late Govern ment were in office. During the six or seven years that Lord Normanby and Lord Fortescue presided over the Government, and Lord Morpeth held the office of Chief Secretary, Ireland continued in the most profound tran quillity, and Tipperary had been less disturbed . than Yorkshire or Middlesex. I f the landlords of Ireland understood their own interests, they would have cast faction to the winds, and have upheld a Government which had been enabled to secure such a priceless bless ing to the country. Then there was no hired vill a i ns prowling about, debasing the peasantry with whisky. If such wretches ventured to appear, th e cons t a b u l ar y, under the able administration of the late-Thomas Drum mond, would at once secure them for the vengeance of . the law. how it that they now stalk abroad, prac tising their hellish trade with impunity? After the re velations about the Shinrone conspiracy, concocted in the very district where most of the present outrages were committed, can we wonder at these crimes, no matter how deeply we may deplore them? CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT. The opposition to this Act has been revived, and now appears to be carried on with more energy than before, in consequence of the statements that have been put forth in the newspapers respecting negotiations of the British Government at Rome, on the subject of the ap pointment of Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland. The night Rev. Dr. COEN, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert, attended a very crowded meeting in Loughrea ou Monday, and spoke iu the most decided manner against the Charitable Bequests Act. Dr. Coen, :oia taking the chair, said—" The friends and advocates of this, obnoxious measure attempt to produce arguments in its favour, as if, by gilding the pill, they fancy themselves able to make its bitterness and nauseous ness somewhat palatable to the the patients. Some of them say that it is a boon, that it is a distinct; proof of the friendly disposition of the Premier towards the Irish people. A boon, indeed! oh, what hypocrisy to call that a boon which, if its provisions are carried out, can only be considered like that which the Greeks bestowed upon their enemies, the Trojans of old, vrkien.. they wished to introduce within the walls of Trc7;, the wooden horse filled with incendiaries, who were ordered to creep out in the dark and set the city on fire.. —(Cheers.) That is what we may consider this mis called boon, which the Premier intends to' offer to the• Catholic inhabitants of Ireland as a new year's gift.— lHear, hear.) A boon, forsooth ! Oh, no ! we cannot ook upon it in that light. Can we so regard such a. measure, which insults the hierarchy and clergy of Ire land, and strips them of their vested rights and privileges in their respective dioceses? Is that a boon which sows the seeds of distraction, distrust, and division between, the priests and their flocks?—(Cheers.) Is it, is flue, a boon which proscribes and wished for the extermination of the regular clergy of Ireland—s learned, pious class of men, who are our zealous co-operators in the vineyard of the Lord ?—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) But it is said that we ought to be satisfied with this Charities Bequests Aat, because, as they allege, it is better than the old penal enactment. I say emphatically no—on Me contrary, it is more dangerous in its consequences, more• injurious to religion, than all the Acts passed in the angry days of persecution. And why ? Because the times are now changed—direct persecution for religious opinions has ceased ; the enlightened Protestants never looked back with pleasure to the penal code., : they wish its remembrance to be buried in oblivion.—(Hiar.) But not so this new penal enactment ; it is not intended by its framers to be a dead letter on the statute book.-- (Hear, and cheers.) And in order to give it the appear ance of liberality, what have they done ? They have exerted every nerve to enlist as members of the commis sion a few of the prelates—persons of most exemplary conduct among the hierarchy of Ireland.—(Hear.) But at the same time that they have succeeded in entrapping a few, as if to conceal the venom of the pill by gilding it, they also take care to have the majority on the board members of the Protestant communion, whd, if they be true and faithful to their faith—that faith which they publicly avow and proclaim—cannot con,cientiously de cide in favour of grants for Catholic purposes.—(Hear.) Can it be expected that they, the majority, would decide in favour of that religion which they have been taught from their childhood to condemn, and which they haves sworn to be damnable and idolatrous ?"—(No, no.) The Cork Examiner contains a long report of a meet ing of the Roman Catholic citizens, held on Friday, to protest against the Charitable Bequests Act. The Mayor presided. Mr. D. Callaghan, M.P., was amongst the speakers. The provincial papers received to-day contain various other accounts of meetings to protest against the Act, which is denounced in terms the most unqualified. THE LATE EARL OF LIMERICK. Lord Monteagle has addressed the following to the editor of the Limerick Chronicle : " Sir,—l enclose you a memorandum in contradiction of the account given in the last Reporter of some of the occurrences at the late Earl of Limerick's funeral. " I am, Sir, your very obedient servant. " MONTEAGLE." " The statement published in the Limerick Reporter, respecting the funeral of the late Earl of Limerick, is -in correct in several particulars relating to others, - as well as to myself. It is in its relation with myself that I feel bound to give it an immediate and an authoritative con tradiction. " It is stated in the Reporter, that ' Lord Monteagle, either intending to accompany the remains of the de ceased into the cathedral, or, fearing that his carriage: would be upset, descended, but was jostled by the crowd, that he took refuge in a public-house, and concealed him self under a bed.' The paragraph adds, that a troop of horse, with drawn swords, galloped towards the public house where Lord Monteagle was in durance;' and it concludes by stating, that Lord Monteagle left his hiding-place, and entered a carriage, in which were. Sir Aubrey de Vere and other gentlemen.' " ' There is not one of these four assertions which is not unfounded. A simple statement of the facts will be sufficient to show their inaccuracy. " On approaching the cathedral, in my carriage, I found, to my astonishment, that by some extraordinary order, the iron gates were closed. It was thus rendered impossible for the procession to advance, and my car riage, as well as the carriages of others, was left in the midst of a violent and exasperated crowd. No one con stable, no municipal authority, was available at the spot at this time, to preserve order. Finding it impossible to proceed towards the cathedral, I, in common with others, left my carriage. From the want of any con stable, or police regulations, it was impossible, however, to reach the cathedral gates. I had no sooner quitted my carriage than I found myself surrounded by a few humble but resolute citizens, who, far from ' jostling or assaulting me, carried me into a house opposite the ca.- thedral, where I and several other gentlemen were re ceived with true Irish hospitality and kindness. It is wholly and most notoriously false to state, that I was concealed under a bed,' or concealed at all. I remained in a room with upwards of twenty persons of both sexes. To that room the mayor, the high sheriff, and many other persons, had access, and can contradicl - -the false as sertion. It is equally false that a troop of dra goons, with drawn swords,' rescued me from what called hiding place.' When the excitement had somewhat sabsided, and before any soldiers arrived, r crossed over to the cathedral with my friends, and en tered my carriage without difficulty or concealment; nor did I see a single soldier till L reached the bridge, where Colonel Mansell met me, and asked me whether I required any protection.. I informed him that I did not, and returned to my hotel without theAlightest mo lestation. " It has thus been shown that in the case of each ts£* these four assertions the writer iu the Reporter is inac curate in every particular. " I pass aver altogether the political imputations cast on myself. If my public services to the city and its in habitants are not a sufficient refutation to such an attack, I disdain suggesting any arguments in self-de fence. To the intelligent people of Limerick, of all creeds, and of all parties—to the gentry, clergy, met.- chants, traders, and labourers, I am willing to leave the judgment, whether I have been guilty of any treachery or deception towards them ; or whether I laboured faith fully to promote their interests. But I will not accept as judges of my political conduct an excited crowd, which could forget the reverence due to death, and the sym pathy which every manly and generous spirit ought to have felt for a daughter and a widow attending the ob sequies of a parent, a husband, and a sister. From a tribunal like this no judgment can proceed to which I feel disposed to attach the slightest importance. "Dec. 26: " " • MON TEAGLE. The :Liznerich Chronicle, adds the following paragraphs:- " Lady Glentworth, Lady Russell, and George Lake Russell, Esq., left this city on Thursday morning for Lon don, after attending the obsequies of their deceased rela tive, the Earl of Limerick. The Hon. Edmund Pery, son of his Lordship, and uncle of the present Earl of Limerick, left this yesterday for London, after the dame mournful duty. Upon the front of Limerick House, Henry-street, there is affixed an escutcheon, or hatch ment, of the family arms of the deceased Peer as a me morial of his death. " Appropriation made by the executors of the Earl of Limerick, in fulfilment of the trust devolved on them of his Lordship's ch. ity:—County Infirmary, ION.; Bar rington's Hospital, 1001.; Fever Hospital, 1001.; Pro testant Orphan Society, 501.; Sisters of Mercy, 501.; Convalescent Dispensary, 501.; Presentation Schools, 501." DISTURBANCES IN TIPPERARY. The Tipperary Vindicator contains the following:— " We have every reason to think that the suggestion as to townland meetings is likely to be acted upon with out further loss of time. The people, thank God, are beginning to awake to the peril of apathy. They know that the innocent, nut the guilty, should necessarily be the sufferers if matters go on in utter defiance of the laws of man and the decrees of Providence. They will be obedient, therefore, to the stera dictates of their ow•n consciences, and to the advice of their clergy—and, hurl ing defiance at the miscreant hirelings who are desirous of establishing a reign of terror in the country, they will assemble and resolve to discountenance crime and criminals, and to put down the abominable ruffians whcs seek a trade in the people's misfortunes." WRECK AT CLIFDEN. The GalwayVindicator contains the following account of the wreck of the Lady Grace : CLIFDEN, DEC. 23.—This schooner, bound from Glas gow to Kilrush and Limerick, consigned to both places, laden with iron, delf, pottery, &c., was, about six o'clock this morning, driven upon the rock " Carrigcumbe," north of Slimehead, and about one league from shore, on. the coast of Connemara, where she remained for some time, her crew in a most perilous condition, the breakers rolling over them at intervals, and had it not been for the praiseworthy exertions and timely aid of the inha bitants of Erismore, who, at the extreme risk of their lives, got out their row boats, and went to the rescue of these poor souls, they would in a few hours have perished every one of them. The crew was taken from the wreck by heaving lines from the row boats to which they tied: themselves, and were pulled through the breakers, shortly after which the vessel was driven by a sea off the rock, when she sank to the bottom in about twelve to sixteen fathoms of water. She was 110 tons burthen, 66 tons register, crew five it number, viz., Captain John Michael, a Welshman ; James Grant, Kilrush, mate ; Timothy Kelly, Kilrush, Davy Davis and John Owens, Welsh men, sailors. During the night of the morning it blew a gale, wind about south-east. It nppeared they were keeping the land aboard, to encounter the gale ; at day light, while trying to put to sea, the vessel Intsstayed, and in attempting to wear her, she ran upon this rock." IRISH NAVAL SQUADRON. Luenetcx, DEC. 28.—The Pluto steamer, Commander Crozier, arrived here on Monday, and after discharging ordnance stores, left for Cork on Christmas eve. It is expected that this vessel will return and occupy the late station of the Tartarus in the pool. The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Hoe. B. Plunket, is ordered from Cork to the Shannon. The Tartarus steamer, Captain James Wolfe, was paid wages at Plymouth, and has arrived at Cork to re assume her survey on the Southern corst. The Alban, swain-transport vessel, Lieut.-Commander Lowe, is ordered from the Irish station to Woolwich, to have her defects made good. SIR ROBERT SALE AND SIR HENRY POTTINGER.— Loudonderry claims the honour of giving birth to the former, and Belfast to the latter of those distinguldied men. The Earl of Pomfret is on a visit to Sir E. and Lady Elizabeth Borough, at Dublin. Sir George De La Poer Beresford, late IMP. for Ath • lone, whose case has been for some month; in the Initolvent ' . 'ii MR rg, the thf r 10, n di It 2 •