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E YEN ING EDITION. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nor. 4 , IN THE MATTER OF POYNTER, A BANKRUPT. This case came before the Court upon a special case, in the nature of an appeal from the decision of the Conrt of Review, refusiry: :n allow a gentleman of the name of Terrewest, who 1,(1,l , nocclptance of the bank rupt's for 1,1371., to prove it uader the Commission, on the ground that it was only a shift and contrivance to evade the usury laws, . Mr. WIGRAM and Mr. ANDERDON appeared on be- I half of the appellant, and fMr. SwaNisrom and Mr. JAMBS RUSIELL supported 1 the decision of the Court below. The LORD CHANCELLOR, without hearing Mr. SrVi,g,rem in reply, reversed the judgment of the Court below, and gave liberty to the appellant to prove his debt under the bankruptcy. IN THE MASTER OF BOUSFIELD. Mr. HORACE TWISS stated that this case came before the Court upon the petition of Mr. Bous field, who sometime since was of the Deputy Registrars of the Court of Bankruptcy, praying that a sum of 621: Bs. :3(1. might be paid to him. According to the f i;atements of the Learned Counsel, the petition was presented under the following circumstances :—Mr. I Bousfield during the time he held the office of one of the Deputy Registrars became embarrassed in his circumstances, and was thrown into prison, and ulti mately applie 1 for the benefit of the Insolvent Debtor's Act. While in prison he performed many of the duties of his office, and was permitted to receive his salary ; ultimately, however, he considered it his duty to resign i his office, and the amount now asked for by the peti tioner was due to him for his salary, up to his resigne r tion. The officer whose duty it was to pay the yeti , tioner, had declined doing so without the sanction of his Lardship, considering- that the money ought to be paid to Mr. Bousfield's assignees. The present petition bad been served upon the assign!es, and they did not appear. His LORDSHIP made the order according to the prayer of the petitioner. The Court iose shortly before five o'clock. (. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nor. 4. BR.OOKS V. HAIGH. Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE, with whom was Mr. GEL . DART, appeared in this case to shotv cause why the II common injunction which had been granted to stay execution should not be dissolved. The p!aintiff was a Mr. Thomas Brooks, and the defendants were Mr. Thomas Haigh, Edward Franceys, and three other gentlemen, who were the assignees of a person of the name of Aaron Leas. The short facts of the case ap peared to be as fellows, from the statement of the Learned Counsel :--Mr. Brooks, the plaintiff, unfor tunately for himself, was the friend of Mr. Aaron Lees, who had carried on the business of a cotton-spinner at Manchester, under the firm of John Lees and Sons, but Aaron Lses was the only person constituting that firm. •The defendants, Messrs. H a i g h and Franceys, were cotton-brokers at Lieerpord, carryicg on basis ness in partnership. The firm of John Lees and Sons were, great consumers of cotton, and Lad therefore ex tensive dealings with Haigh and Franceys and several very complicated transactions took place between them. In the early part of 1837, Messrs. Haigh and Franceys desired security from A aron L ees to the extent of 10,000!., a n d h e app li e d to hi s friend Mr. Brooks, wire consented to become answerable for the amount re quired, and ultimately on the I.3th of March, 1837, gsuaranteed the payment of three large bills of exchange. In December of the same year Aaron slsees became a bankrupt, and an action of assumpsit nas brought by the defendants for the recovery of tile amount of the bills. Judgment had been enterel up on that action against the plaintiff, who upon application to the Court obtained the common injunctie,n to stay execution. An order nisi had been obtained for dissolving that injunc -41 tion, against which Mr. 1.1. Bruce now showed cause. Mr. JA COB an d M r. AJYLNE submitted that th e or d er 1 nisi should be made f...05.,01ute. Mr. K. BRUCE replied ; and His HoNouat ordered the injunction to be dissolved. IN THE MATT ; R OP TAYLOR —FIRS T APPLICATION UNDER IHE CUSTODY OF INFANTS' BILLS. Mr. K. :Baucc. at the rising of the Court, applied in this matter on behalf of a married lady, under the provi sions of ',he Custody of Infants' Bill, that she might have access to her children. The Learned Counsel stated that t, the lady on whose behalf he made the application, and f against whose character there was not the slightest imputa t tion, had left her husband's residence about two years ago, under the i m p ress i on of great misconduct on the part of her husband. Th at m i sconduct had been communicated to her by a p erson on whom she considered she could place I implicit reliance, but circumstances had afterwards come to , her knowledge, which induced her to doubt the accuracy of the representations, and sho therefore became desirous, f mainly on account of her children, to be reconciled and return to her husband, and she had made repeated endea r years for that purpose, all of which had been ineffectual. This bei ng t h e case, proceedings were instituted in the i Ecclesiastical Courts for the res , .itution of conjugal rights. This tank place previous to the passing of the Custody of In tints' Bill. Upon those proc,edin,,s bein g i ns ti tute d, t h e husband p ut i n an allegation of his wife having left his house in a most improper manner, after havin g made most unfoanded charges against him of adultery. These allegations were rejected both in the Consititory and the Arches' Courts, but the husband, notwithstanding the concurrent decisions of Dr, Lushington and Sir Herbert Jenne:, 'sad thought fit to appeal to the Privy Council, and by that means had prsver.ced for the present any further pro secuSion of the su i t f or the restitution of conjugal rights. The lady during all this time had been separated from her fax children, is no were all very young. She had written repeated letters of submission to her husband, all of which had been returned unopened, with an intimation that in ' future all communications from her must be through the medium of the husband's solicitors. The lady bad applied to those gentlemen for access to her children, but she had been always met by the statement that they had no ir.structiens on the subject. Under the circum stances, as the only resource left her, she had presented the present petition under the Act passed last Session re lative to the custody of infants, for an order of the Court fur ReCCSs to her children. The VICE-CllANcEsLon—H as the - petition been served upon th. husband ? Mr. K. BRUCE—ND, Sir, it has not. It is not my in tention now to ask for an absolute order for access, but that the service of the petition upon the solicitors of the husband should be considered good service. The husband of my client is a geutleman of large fortune ; he is en gaged in a great brewery at Limehouse ; be has anestate at Southgate, and another at Gilsborough, in Northamp tonshire, at all of which places attempts have been made to serve him with the petition, but without success, his so licitors have declined to accept service for him, and it is sworn that he keeps out of the way to avoid service. The V ICE-CHANCELLOR—What jurisdiction have Ito make an •rder fur substituted service ? Mc. K. BRUCE —Your Honour can make the order un der the Act, without service at all, if you please. The Vlca-Cuascauma—Yes, but would not that be contrary to common justice ? Mr. K. BRUCE—The Court has power, if it thinks fit, to make the order ex parte. The VIC E - CuaNcau.ort—lt is not known where the husband is, but it is supposed the children are with him. It is true that the Act authorises the access of the mother to the children, but if they arc with the husband, and it is net known where be is, how can it be acted on ? Mr. K. BRUCE—We think if your Honour was to grant us an order for access, that it would be soon found out where the husband and children were. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—I can easily conceive that there might be so gross a case as to render it necessary for the immediate interference of the Court, but I cannot say that the present is such a case, without first reading the affidavits by which the p ,, tition is supported. The case therefore stands uV r, ! a give an opportunity to the Court to look into the aiii :••..ts. ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 4. The Court this day took petitions. The unopposed which were heard first, occupied the attention of the Master of the Rolls the greater part of the morning. Consent causes, short causes, and consent petitions will be taken every 'Tuesday at the sitting of the Court. NASH v. COATES.--CAUTION TO SOLICITORS. The petition in this case was that of Mr. Smedley, a solicitor praying for the taxation of the bills of costs of Mr. Kensitt, another solicitor, whom he had em ployed as his agent. The petitioa was presented last February, but had stood over from tim; to time, and as Mr. PEMBERTON was. proceeding to open it this morning, Mr. - S PENCE , w h o a pp eare d f or M r . K ens i tt, ob jected to the petition being heard on the following grennd ,_Since the petition was before the Court on the 20 th of A ugus t, M r . K ens i tt h a d searc h e d t h e 0 4 1n 3, !•8, and h a d found that in 182:3 Mr. Smedley had itted to take out his certificate ; he went on from that year practising sm edl‘rh: as a so li ci t or , b u t was never re admitted. .that Mr. Learned C ounse l t h ere f ore conten d e d tor, solici and .amongey had forf e it e d a ll t h e pr i v il eges o f a other thi ngs , t h e r i g h t o f ca lli ng M r. Kensitt his a g e oti 3 , ht r a claimi ng any r i ght as the pr i ncipal of Mr. Kensitt. was a p re li m i nary answer to the petition, and therefore missed with costs. he asked that it might be dis- Mr. PEMBERTON contended that . the petition hav-• 1 ing stood over from tim e to time since Febr uary l ast , 1 for the purpose of filing a the Court would not permit an objection of that iairt to be taken at the lest stage. Mr. SPENCE said that Mr. S medley by presenting the petition had led them to belie , e th at when l em ployed Mr. Kcnsitt he was a solicitor. Havingie one year omitted to take out his certificate be could not according to the Act of Parliament, after that, act a ; a solicitor, without applying to the Court to be read mitted, in which case he would have to pay the duty he had omitted to pay during the interval. The MASTER of the ROLLS thought he must have it looked into. There had been an accidental omission, but his Lordship thought there were many cases which bore on the point. Mr. PEMBERTON suggested that the better way would be to dismiss the petition without costs. The MASTER of the ROLLS—I certainly cannot give costs after a ll t hi s d e l ay. ). r. Bruce said he would rather waive his objet-' than ha ve t h at done. ) After 4 Short conversati , n, however, the suggestion I of Mr. Pemberton was agreed to, and the petition or dered to be dismissed, but without costs. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 4. THE QUEEN V. THE VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS. In this case (which was not concluded when we Wert to press) The COURT took time to look into the affidavits. THE MASTER AND WARDENS OF THE APOTHECARIES COMPANY V. CIREENWELL. Mr. CRESSWELL moved in this case for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the defendant should not be set aside, and a new trial had, on the ground of misdi rection. It was an action to recover penalties against the defendant for practising as an apothecary without the necessary licence, and was tried at the last Liver pool Assizes before Mr. Baron Manic. The defendant carried on business at St. flelen's, near Liverpool, call ing himself a surgeon, and his sister's name was over the door ; but it was given in evidence that he bad attended and prescribed for patients in the usual manner as an apothecary. By the 28th section of the Apothecaries' Company Act it was provided that nothing therein contained should affect the rights of chemists and drug gists as they had been exercised previously to the pass ing of the Act. The Learned Judge, on summing up the case, said if the Jury believed that chemists and drug gists were in the habit of visiting patients, then the de fendant had committed no offence ; and the Jury re turned a verdict as follows :—" As there is no evidence to show what was the trade of a chemist or druggist, we find for the defendarit." The Learned Coansel con tended that the direction was bad, inasmuch as the onus v.robandi rested with the defendant as to what the bu siness of a chemist was. COURT —Take a rule. DURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nor. 4. JUDGE V. BRAYE AND OTHERS. Mr. PLATT moved for a rule Nisi to set aside the trdiet which was for the defendant. The action was :tied before the Lord Chief Justice at the late Assizes 'or Sussex, and be moved on the ground that the ver dict was a perverse one. The defendants were parish officers, and seized a feather bed and bolster, a table, two chairs, and a gun, the property of William Judge, for a rate which was due by Jesse Judge. At the trial he proved that the father of William and Jesse Judge died about eight years ago, up to which time the father and the two sons, with their families, re sided all together in the house—that after the death of the father the goods became, and were always recog nised as, the property of William Judge, although Jesse Judge and his family continued to reside in the same house—he also proved by the maker of the chairs that they were made fur William Judge, and he further called the person who sold him the gun. The de fendant's Counsel knew of what materials the Jury was composed, and he touched them on the right part. They were all in such a situation of life as to expect to become parish officers themselves, and he expatiated on the hardship of persons acting in that capacity being put in jeopardy for a mistake of such a cha racter, and to the astonishment of the Judge, and every one, the Jury adopted that view of the case. Mr. Baron PARKE—The defendants took the pro perty—it was a mere mistake in rating. Mr. PLATT—The name of Wm. Judge was not in the rate at ali—Jesse Judge was the person rated and summoned. Mr. Baron PARKE—By mistake. The goods seized were in the house liable for the rate. They were the proper goods. Mr. PLATT—NO doubt of it, but are the jury to be allowed to commit perjury ? it is neither more nor less than that, for they found the goods to be the property of the wrong person. The LORD CHIEF BARON—It is quite clear that the defendants had made a mistake in the rating, but that they had taken the proper goods. We think there will be no injustice done in letting the verdict stand. The action ought not to have been brought. The ends of justice do not require the interference of the Court. Rule refused. HUMPHRIES V. PRICE. This was an action for assault, which was tried before Mr. Justice Pattison at the late Assizes held for the County of Glamorgan, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff—Damages, 201. Mr. JERVIS now moved for a rule Nisi for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection on the part of the Learned Judge. The Learned Gentleman said, how ever strange it might be, the fact was that processions of teetotallers were becoming very frequent in Wales. The defendant formed one of such a procession when the petitioner, who was, returning from bunting, rode into it, and assaulted the plaintiff who, in self-de fence, committed the assault complained of. For the defendant it was proved that the assault was not com mitted until ten minutes after the processpn had dis banded ; but the. Learned Judge kit it to the Jury to say whether the assault committed on the plaintiff by the defendant was done immediately upon the assault committed upon the defendant by the plaintiff. Rule granted. POLICE INTELLIGENUE. BOW-S7'REET. William Frederick Box, who stands charged with steal ing from the shop of Messrs. Howell and James, of Re gent-street, a ruby pin, value eleven guineas, was yester day brought up for final examination. Mr. Rickards appeared for the prisoner. Mr. HALL said that at the last examination he had for gotten to ask the witness Webster, who had exhibited the jewellery for sale to the prisoner at the time the pin was taken, whether he would have sold the article in case the prisoner had agreed to give a cheque for it? Mr. Webster being sworn, said that he would have men tioned the circumstance to Mr. Sedgwick, one of the fi-m, but he would not have taken upon himself to have accepted a cheque as payment without first apprising his employer. Mr. HALL—Do your employers hol.cl you or any person in the department to which you belong responsible for the loss of the article in question? Witness—l am not aware, nor have I been given to understand that they do. Edward James Marsh, an apprentice, recollected having on the 18th October brought a bill of parcels to the house of the prisoner, amounting to 19/., where he saw Mrs. Box, t o whom he gave it, and she said she was very sorry that Mr. Box, meaning the prisoner, was not at home. Witness returned without the price of the articles. In answer to Mr. Rickards, the witness said that the order had been delivered to him by the witness Webster, and he was not aware of the contents, but he knew a pin was mentioued in it, the price of which he could not tell, nor did be know if it was a chain-pin. Mr. HALL, to the prisoner—You arc aware that you are not bound to say anything in your defence, and should you do so, it will be taken down for the purpose of using it against you at the trial. ..... — The prisoner declined, and after the witnesses were bound over in the sum of 401. each to appear at the Ses sions, he was fully committed for trial. Mr. Baley, proprietor of the Carriage and Horse Repo sitory, Aldersgate-street, said in coming forward he did not intend to institute proceedings against the pri soner, but he considered he was bound, for the be nefit of the public, to state how he had been treated by him. On the 6th of September he drove into his yard in a cabriolet, attended by a livery servant, saying that he wanted to purchase a cabriolet for his father. He was accordingly shown one, the price of which was 201., and, upon complainant exhibiting some horses to him, he fixed upon a spotted mare for 701. or 751. After some conversation, the prisoner gave his address, and he got the mare, with a set of harness, as complainant had some knowledge of his uncle. On the following Saturday he came again, saying that he would be obliged to get credit, but, before a conclusion had been come to, he was asked was be of age, and he said he had been so for the last six months; that he held a situation in the office of his father, who was a proctor in Doctors' Commons, at a salary of 1901. a year, and from the marriage licenses he derived an income of about 15/. or 201. a week. He then gave a bill upon Messrs. Stevenson and Salt, but as, upon inquiry, no account appeared to be kept with that firm, the circum stance was made known to his father, to whom the bill, which had fourteen days to run, was presented, and he said that the prisoner had not had for some time any con cern with his establishment. Mr. HALL—Then you would not have given him credit had you known he was under age? Mr. Raley—Certainly not, nor would I have come forward ; but it had been insi nuated in the newspapers that the prisoner had been harshly treated, and it was but right that the public should know that I have been a loser to the amount of 1001., in case he should be acquitted of the present charge. Mr. HALL--Have you ever been able to recover your horse or harness? M r . B a l ey— N ever : but l am given to understand that he disposed of them the very next day. Mr. Humphries, the solicitor, said he was instructed to prefer a charge of forgery against the prisoner. Mr. Nies, an attorney, discounted the bill produced for 851., which had been endorsed by the prisorn.r to Mr. Roche, and it was purported to be drawn on Mr. Storey, of St. Albans, who denied that it was in his handwriting. Mr. Nias, solicitor, of Copthall-court, City, proved that on the 2d of August be received the Bill of Exchange produced from Richard Smith Roch e , o f Newstock, Essex, which, becoming due on the 28th of September, and not being paid, he issued a writ against the acceptor, Mr. Storey, brother. in-law of the prisoner, who resides at St. Albans, and in consequence of seeing the accounts of the last examination in the Newspapers he gave information of the circumstance on Friday last. . Mr. Anthony Brown Storey, solicitor, of St. Albans, proved that the acceptance in the bill produced was not in his handwriting, nor did he ever authorize the prisoner or other person t. accept it for him. He did not know the handwriting in the body ohe bill, but he knew the i n i. tials answered to the na of the prisoner, whose father keeps an office in Doctors' Commons. Witness was not acquainted with the prisoner's handwriting. Mr. Humphries said that was the case as it stood for the present, and he hoped there would be no objection to re mand the prisoner for a week. Mr. HALL said it would be desirable to produce all the evidence that could be obtained, in order to prevent delay at a future day. Mr. Ni as deposed that from information he had re ceived, he had reason to believe the prisoner was the per sciour:,tewho had written the signature to the bill, and he was prep a red, if ne cessary, to disclose to the Magistrate itlhaevo gansroot a t h b el is upon whi c h h e considerea it necessary to ezcaAhma, who i rae examination. cen took the p r i soner i nto d t o h n e t hu h o co s r e ig proved th at h e left a summons at of 11r. N a lr. R oc h e, where he was informed hceuwstooulyd be , i a n w q u e r k e . inir. townti L d if any p erson fro m Ai. in m Southampton TIER SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5., 1839 was in attendance to prefer a charge against the prisoner, and being answered in the negative, Mr. Brown, a coachmaker, of Long-acre s said be tlactight it necessary to come forward tb state that on the 2d day of May, the prisoliti., who gave the name of Chas. J. Douglas, hired a cabriolet from him, and it was by giving an indemnity to the stable-keeper that he was enabled to recover his property. Mr. HALL—Your object is to signify the fact that it may be known in the proper channel, but you have no charge to prefer against him ? Mr. Brown—My object is to make known that be has gone under another name, for the purpose of imposing upon tradesmen, who may come forward to identify him. The prisoner was then removed from the bar. Mr. Simpson, proprietor of the Albion Tavern in Great Russell-street was summoned by the Inspectors of the F division, for having kept open his house on the 27th Oct., being Sunday, for the sale of liquors. Mr. Hodgson appeared for the defendant, who pleaded Not Guilty. Constable 14 F proved that at half-past 12 o'clock on the day in question he saw fourteen persona come out of th, defendant's house. Mr. HALL inquired if there was any disturbance to war rant such a complaint? Witness said there was no sign of any disturbance. Mr. HALL asked if he had entered the house to satisfy himself of what was going on ? Witness said he did not. In answer to questions put by the Solicitor, the witness said that all the gentlemen he saw come out were per fectly sober, and he observed no person enter the house, nor could he tell if any liquors had been drawn for them. Mr. HALL instantly ordered the case to be dismissed. Mr. Hodgson said he was prepared with several wit nesses to prove that nothing had been sold after the hour allowed by law, and be knew that it was the defendant's order to every person employed in his establishment to use every exertion in clearing the house, in order to avoid having such complaints brought against him. Mr. HAL/ —I am glad to find he has adopted such a course, and he must ultimately hive the benefit that must derive from it. if descending to the millions of Protestants in humbler stations, produce results which we do not like to con templale. MR. WAKLEY AND THE MID DLESEX MAGISTRATES. Mr. Wakley has begun a series of letters to the readers of the Lancet, on the subject of the attack made upon him by the Rev. Theodore Williams and Mr. Laurie, at the meeting of Magistrates of Middlesex, in the Session house, Clerkenwell, on the 11th of October last. 'We extract from it the following passages, which contain some of the points bearing more particulary on the question : , ,‘. Look here exclaims a candid specimen of a jus tice of peace, the sum paid for Coroners' inquests out of the county-rate, for the year 1836, was 1,1771. 13s. 6d. ; for the year 1838 it was 4,134/. 16s. 3d. Is not this increase most alarming ?' And thus he tries by interference to sustain the complaint of the Vicar of Hendon, that the increase' in the sum arises out of an augmented number of unnecessary in quests. Can any excuse be offered for a commen tator, who, seeing that a reference to facts would defeat his object, thus dispenses with them while they arc within his reach, and at his own command and disposal ? Is he so ignorant, can he be so ignorant, as not to know that 2,3841. 1 Is. 3d. out of the 4,134/. 16s. 3d., which he quotes, has been, since 1837, a new charge upon the county rate, arising out of the passing of the Poor-law Amendment Act, and the consequent Act of 1 Victo ria, c. 68 ? A few words will explain this matter very satisfactorily. No sooner was the new Poor law in operation, than the Poor-law Commis. sioners refused to allow any payments for inquests to be made out of the poor -rates of the res pective parishes. Not one of those payments was permitted to remain in the accounts. Under the new law all those allowances and payments were at once discontinued. What was the consequence ? As no provision existed for meeting ' the necessary ex penses of the Court, the Coroner often experienced considerably difficulty in finding rooms wherein to pur sue his inquiries, and in many places dead bodies were left exposed in out-houses, to the annoyance of a whole neighbourhood, and the disgrace of the country in which such scenes were witnessed. A general outcry having been raised against these revolting occur rences, the attention of Government was directed to the subject, and the present Solicitor-General, Sir M. Rolf, introduced into the House of Commons a Bill to provide for the payment of the expenses of holding Coroners' inquests,' which Bill, having received the Royal assent on the 15th of July, 1837, provided, thenceforth, that the Justices of the Peace in every county, and the Town Council in every borough having a Coroner, should' make or cause to be made a schedule of the several fees, allowances, and disbursements which, on the holding of any inquest on any dead body within such county or borough, might be lawfully paid and made by the Coroner.' " In conformity with this enactment, the Magistrates of Middlesex, in November, 1837, prepared a schedule of fees and allowances to be paid to witnesses and other persons at inquests. " In the same Act, 1 Vic., c. 68, it is provided that the Coroner, in consequence of the advances, out of pocket, which he was thus called upon to make, and For the additional trouble and loss of time which that regUlation would occasion, should receive 6s. Bd., in ad dition to his previous fee of 1/. on each inquisition. " Thus, then, it appears that previously to 1837, whilst the only payments which were made out of the county-rate relating to inquests were those of the Coro ner's fee of 11., and his mil e age, there now is issued from the same source all the expenses of the inquests which are held throughout the whole county—in fact, all those costs and charges which, before the Poor-law Amendment Bill was passed, were paid out of the Poor rate, by overseers and vestrymen, in their respective parishes. This plain explanation of the increase of the de mand on the county rate surely must have been known to my or ponents. Why were they silent on the sub ject ? The omission of this explanatio n is not calcu lated to obtain respect for them or their statements on future occasions Mr. Stirling, my predecessor, was ninety-one years of age when he died. He performed the duties of his office until within six days of his decease, in January last. His private residence was at Battersea—his office in Chancery -lane. A gentleman named Bell acted as clerk to Mr. Stir ling (luring the last fifteen years of the life of the late Coroner, and continued in that capacity up to the day of Mr. Stirling's dissolution. D ur i ng the larger portion of that time, Mr. Bell attended the office of Mr. Stirling, where he received from the constables and beadles all the applications for inquest warrants. Excepting in very peculiar eases, Mr. Bell was enabled, from his intimate acquaintance with the business of the Court, to grant or refuse war rants, without consulting Mr. Stirling. He also made out the accounts of the Coroner, and transmitted them, with the necessary vouchers, to the Magis trates at the sessions. Under these arrangements, no complaint was heard at the great house in Clerk enwell ; not a murmur of dissent escaped from the lips of the Magistrates, eith , r after the death of Mr. Stirling, or at the discussions which took place at the Sessions' House in February last, immediately preceding the last election for Coroner. On that occasion, it is true, a reference was made to an increase in the number of inquests which the accounts had exhibited in 1838 ; but this circumstance was not mentioned in a tone of condemnation. It did not then elicit one word of anger or reproach, either with reference to the living or the dead. "On ascertaining, immediately before I was sworn into office, that Mr. Bell had occupied this prominent and active position with my aged predecessor, I en ;aged him as my clerk. On resuming his duties in Chancery-lane, Mr. Bell was, on the very first day that I exercised the functions of Coroner, expressly in structed to act for me as he had acted for Mr. Stirling during the fifteen years of his engagement with that gentleman. Accordingly Mr. Bell attended at the office, and there received the applications from constables, for me, as he had done for Mr. Stirling ; granted or refused to supply the warrants, for me, as he had done for Mr. Stirlin g ; and prepared the ac counts, and sent them to the Magistrates, with the ne cessary vouchers, for me, precisely as he had framed them and sent them to the sessions for Mr. Stirling. While all these things were being executed for the late Coro ner, nothing could be more excellent. " After perusing the explanation which I have now furnished to you and to the public, very many persons may be induced to exclaim, If Mr. Bell has granted warrants precisely for you as he did for Mr. Stirling, how has it happened that your inquests hare so prodi giously outnumbered those of your predecessor ?' What the answer to this plain and very natural question ? What is the brief but conclusive reply to this pointed interrogatory ? Here is the answer. The inquests which have been taken by me since I have been elected, down to the hour at which I am now writing, have ave raged, throughout, one a week less than the inquests that were taken by Mr. Stirling in the last year of his life, 1838." SURGICAL OPERATION.—W e understand that the Taliacotian operation for the restoration of the nose, was performed here lately, by one of our medical gentle men. The case was one requiring considerable inge nuity and precision, and we are glad to learn that the operator has managed it with complete success.—Fife Herald. ANSWERS TO A MATRIMONIAL ADVER TISEMENT.—ShaII I open and peruse any more of the mountain of epistles lying before me in beautiful chaos ? I asked myself this question. I hesitated a moment as .to whether or not I ought to open more of the matrimo nial letters. It is certain, thought I, that though I had an infinitude of love epistles before me, I could not by possibility have one in the vast mass, better than that before me. And if there be one or two of the number pretty similar in their contents, I may—how seasonably I then deemed the discovery !—find myself in the same predicament as the ass between the two bundles of hay ; that is, remain undecided until I have lost both, or all three, as the case may be. My determination, therefore, was, after a few moment's consideration, to read no more letters. What then was to be done with the remaining huge archipelago of epistles ? Thrust them ioto the fire ? I felt reluctant to do that : their beautiful paper, lovely seals, admirable penmanship, all rose up and eloquently though silently, pleaded for their preservation. But what is the use of preserving a congregation of un opened, unread letters ? I concluded the thing to be very foolish ; more especially as they might fall at some future time into some unhallowed bands, and reveal matters, both as regarded myself and others, which ought to be sacredly kept an everlasting secret. Into the grate, therefore, I flung the whole lot ; and what a bright and brilliant blaze they made 1 " There," said I to myself, the one physic a l, " There go two flames ; the other moral ; the one caused by paper, the other made of lady-love." And I could have wept while I thus moralized.—;Valley and {Wanderings in the World (If Literature, by the Author (If "The Great Metropolis." It has been a subject of general complaint in tl.e suburbs of London that the establishment of the metro politan police had driven the thieves so far a-field, that those living out of town were now more than ever ex posed to their depredations. It is, therefore, with pleasure we learn that there exists an intention of ex tending the metropolitan district to fifteen miles round London.—Observer. Two HUNDRED PIGS DROWNED AND SMOTHERED.--AS a proof of the violence of the easterly gales which have recently prevailed, the William Penn, Waterford steamer, which left that port on Monday last, did not arrive here till yesterday afternoon. She was compelled, by stress of weather, to put into Beau maris, where she remained two days. Sho had on board, when she quitted Waterford, a large cargo of i pigs, of which upwards of two hundred were smothered or washed overboard during the passage.—Liverpo o l Albion. A KENTUCKY SLAVE TRAGEDY. 'the following hotrible account of the murder of 63ivb in Kentucky in 1807 by tie nephews of President oeiretOn; is from the pen of the Rev, William Dickey, a highly respectable and exem plary Presbyterian Clergyman of Ohio. , It is ex tractel from a work just published by the' Ameri can Anti. Slavery Society, entitled, " American Slavery as it is," which we cordially recommend to the attention of the abolitionists of this country : " In did t aunty of Livingston, Ky., near the mouth of Cumberland River, lived Kilburn Lewis, a sister's son of the celebrated Jefferson. Ike was the wealthy owner of a considerable gang of negroes, whom he drove con stantly, fed sparingly, and lashed severely. The con sequence was that they would run away. Among the rest was an ill-thrived boy of about seventeen, who having just returned from a skulking spell, was sent to the spring for water, and in returning let fall an ele gant pitcher: it was dashed to shivers upon the rocks. This was made the occasion for reckoning with him. It was night, end the slaves were at all home. The master had them all called in the most roomy negro house, and a rousing fire put on. When the door was secured, that none might escape, either through fear of him, or sympathy with George, he opened to them the design of the interview, namely, that they might be effectually advised to stay at home and obey his orders. All things being now in train, he called up George, who approached his master with un reserved submission. He bound him with cords ; and by the assistance of Isham Lewis, his youngest brother, laid him on a broad bench, the meat-block. He then proceeded to hack off George at the ankles ! It was with the broad axe ! In vain did the unhappy victim scream and roar! for he was completely in his master's 1 power ; not a hand among so many ducat interfere : casting the feet into the fire, he lectured them at some length. He next chopped him off below the knees ! George roaring out, and praying his master to begin at the other end. He admonished them again, throwing the legs into the fire—then, above the knees, tossing the I joints into the fire—the next stroke severed the thighs trom the body, these were also committed to the flames —and so it may be said of the arms, head, and trunk, until all was in the fire ! He threatened any of them with similar punishment who should in future disobey, run away, or disclose the Koceedings of that evening. Nothing now remained but to consume the flesh and bones ; and for this purpose the fire was brightly stirred until two hours after midnight ; when a coarr.: and heavy back-wall, composed of rock and clay, covered the fire and the remains of George. It was the Sabbath —this put an end to the amusements of the evening. The negroes were now permitted to disperse, with charges to keep this matter among themselves, and never to whisper it is the neighbourhood, under the pe nalty of a like punishment. " When he returned home and retired, his wife ex claimed, ' Why, Mr. Lewis, where have you been, and what were you doing ?' She had heard a strange pounding and dreadful screams, and had smelled some thing like fresh meat burning. The answer he returned was, that he had never enjoyed himself at a ball so well as he had enjoyed himself that night. " Next morning he ordered the hands to rebuild the back wall, and he himself superintended the work, throwing the pieces of flesh that still re mained, with the bones, behind, as it went up, thus hoping to conceal the matter. But it could nos be hid—much as the negroes seemed to hazard, they did whisper the horrid deed. The neighbours came, and in his presence tore down the wall ; and finding the re mains of the boy, they apprehended Lewis and his bro ther, and testified against them. They were com mitted to jai:, that they might answer at the coming court for this shocking outrage ; but finding security for their appearance at court, they were admitted to bail ! In the interim, other articles of evidence leaked out. That of Mrs. Lewis hearing a pounding, and screaming, and her smelling fresh meat burning, for not till now had this come out. He was offended with her for disclosing these things, alleging that they might have some weight against him at the pending trial. " In connexion with this is another item, full of hor ror. Mrs. Lewis, or her girl, in making her bed one morning after this found, under her bolster, a keen butcher knife! The appalling discovery forced from her the confession that she considered her life in jeo pardy. Messrs. Rice and Phillips, whose wives were her sisters, went to see her and‘to bring her away if she wished it. Mr. Lewis received them with all the ex pressions of Virginian hospitality. As soon as they were seated they said, ' Well, Letitia, we supposed that you might be unhappy here, and afraid for your life ; and we have come to-day to take you to your father's, if you desire it.' She said, Thank you, kind bro thers, lam indeed afraid for my life.' We need not interrupt the story to tell bow much surprised he affected to be with this strange procedure of his brothers in-law, and with this declaration of his wife. But all his professions of fondness for her to the contrary not.: withstanding, they rode off with her before his eyes. He followed and overtook, and went with them to her father's ; but she was locked up from him, with her own consent, and he returned home. " Now he saw that his character was gone ; his re spectable friends believed that he had massacred George ; but, worst of all, he saw that they consi dered the life of the harmless Letitia was in danger from his perfidious hands. It was too much for his chivalry to sustain. The proud Virginian sank under the accumulated load of public odium. He proposed to his brother Isham, who had been his accomplice in the George affair, that they should finish the play of life with a still deeper tragedy. The plan was, that they should shoot one another. Having made the hot brained bargain, they repaired with their guns to the grave-yard, which was on an eminence in the midst of his plantation. It was enclosed with a railing, say thirty feet square. One was to stand at one rail ing, and the other over against him at the other. They were to make ready, take aim, and count delibe rately 1, 2, 3, and then fire. Lilburn's will was written, and thrown down open beside him. They cocked their guns and raised them to their faces ; but the peradventure occurring that one of the guns might miss fire, Isham was sent for a rod, and when it was brought, Lilburn cut it off at about the length of two feet, and was showing his brother how the survivor might do, provided one of the guns should fail (for they were determined upon going together 0; but forgetting, perhaps, in the perturbation of the moment that the gun was cocked. When he touched the trigger with the rod the gun fired, and he fell, and died in a few minutes--and was with George in the eternal world, where the slave is free from his master. But poor Isham was so terrified with this unexpected occurrence, and so confounded by the awful contor tions of his brother's face, that he had not nerve enough to follow up the play, and finish the plan as was intended, but suffered Lilburn to go alone. The negroes came running to see what it meant that a gun should be fired in the grave-yard. There lay their master, dead ! They ran for the neighbours. Isham still remained on the spot. The neighbours at the first charged him with the murder of his brother. But he, though as if he had lost more than half his mind, told the whole story ; and the course or range of the ball in the dead man's body agreeing with his statement Isham was not farther charged with Lilburn's death. " The Court sat—lsham was judged to be guilty of a capital crime in the affair of George. He was to be hanged at Salem. The day was set. My good old father visited him in the prison —two or three times talked and prayed with him ; I visited him once myself. We fondly hoped that he was a sincere penitent. Before the day of execution came, by some means, I never knew what, Isham was missing. About two years after, we learned that he had gone down to Natchez, and had married a lady of some refinement and piety. I saw her letters to his sisters, who were worthy members of the church of which I was pastor. The last letter told of his death. He was in Jackson's army, and fell in the famous battle of New Orleans. LORD PANMURE—R A ILWAYS.--On Satur day last, a meeting of the tenantry on the Panmure es tates dined together in the Town-hall of Arbroath, in celebration of the anniversrry of his Lordship's si x ty. ninth birth-day. Many of his Lordship's friends through. out the county were present to do honour to him on the occasion. Mr. Miln, of Woodhill, filled the chair. His Lordship was unavoidably absent, for reasons assigned in the following letter, addressed to the Chairman, which was read co the meeting :—" Brechin Castle, Oct. 25. Dear Sir—l have received an invitation to dine with the Panmure tenants to-morrow evening, and nothing would give the greater pleasure than to accept of it ; but though the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak ; and I am quite sure that the excitement would be attended with consequences to be regretted afterwards. I entreat that you, as Chairman, will assure the meeting that I sincerely wish health, happiness, and prosperity to them all, and that nothing but the present state of my health would have prevented :me from meeting with them." Provost Kay, in acknowledging a toast complimentary to the success of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway, said—" They would not be satisfied with the success which they had already had ; they would never be satis fied till they reached Aberdeen, and till Aberdeen was connected with Glasgow, so that a man might break fast in Aberdeen, lunch in Glasgow, and sleep in his own bed.—(Cheers.) He could only say that, from the spirited exertions which were now making, he was as sured that they would never be satisfied till this was accomplished.—(Cheers.) He thanked them for the compliment which they had paid to the Dundee and Arbroath Railway ; but let them unite, let them show that they had enterprise in Scotland to connect the east with the west of Scotland. He wished all success to the Arbroath and Forfar Railway ; their success de pended on the succe ss o f t h at li ne ; b ut l et t h em unite and have a great national line, and then commerce would be full and free."—(Cheers.)—Dundee Chronicle. The cotton trade being in so deplorable a state of depression, it is in con t emp l at i on amon gst the manufac turers here, to work only only eight hours per day dur ing the winter months.—Stockport Advert i ser. • DIVERSITY OF TASTES.—" There is no ac counting for tastes," says the proverb. Undoubtedly there is not. One meets with a variety of singular tastes in jostling through this wondrous world. Not the least curious of those which have lately come under our notice is that of a poor beggar woman, who follows the judges barefooted in their circuit. The following is the way in which the fact was stated in the Standard a few evenings ago :—" The beggar woman who has for several years walked the Oxford circuit b are f oote d , following the route of the judges from place to place, as their Lordships go to hold the assizes, is now on that circuit as usual. What attraction huge powdered wigs, and countenances remarkable only for their gravity, can have in the eyes of this poor woman, is more than we can tell. But this we know, that to some people there is not a more unpleasant spec tacle in the world. The very idea of a judge conjures up reflections in some men's minds—aye, and in some women's too—which are the reverse of agreeable. In stead of following them about from place to place, as this poor woman does, it is no uncommon thing to hear o f people not only recoiling at the bare idea of meet ing a judge, but suddenly fleeing across the Atlantic to avoid the unpleasant intercourse. How wretched, in the estimation of a certain class of people at the anti podes, must be the taste of this female mendicant."— Walks and If T anderin . 7s in the World of Literature, by the Author of " The Great Metropolis." Sir W. Hey2ate states that he has no intention to offer himself for the borough of Leicester when a vacancy OCCUTS. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) _ _ _ The Tory Newspapers have chr . istened Lord Mel bourne's Government " The Lucky Administration," in consequence of the invariable and signal success which has attended all its undertakings. We have no objection to the appellation, though we do not admit the assumption implied in it, that the successes ob tained have been owing to good fortune and not to good management ; for on the contrary we arc prep are d to show th a t a ll t h e successes which have so happily marked the career of Lord Melbourne's Government have been the result of a judicious selection of objects, and a prudent adaptation of means to ends. But it is no slight recommendation for a Government to have the character of being invariably fortunate. This character is one which many great leaders, both military and political, have been the most desirous to establish, as being the one most likely to secure for them zealous and energetic co-ope ration from their followers. For mankind are more likely to follow those whose undertakings are thought to be sure to succeed, than those whose undertakings only deserve to succeed ; and, as far as the interests of a nation are concerned, success is the main point ; whether it is the result of fortune or of good combinations, regards only the merit of those by whom it is achieved. But never was there an occasion on which it could less truly be said that success V 7 4S owing to chance, than in regard to our recent glorious achievements in India ; on the contrary, these achievements have been the result of the most able combinations, and of the most judicious adaptation of vast means to accomplish a great end. The end which has been accomplished is one the full value and importance of which can only be justly appreciated by persons well acquainted with the con cerns of our Indian empire ; but we fearlessly affirm that our triumph has not merely added glen) , to our arms, but is pregnant with advantages of trans cendent importance to British interests of a vital kind. With regard to the meet's employed, nothing was left to chance, as far as human foresight and pru dence could provide for future contingencies. Four armies crossed the Indus, three of which united to march on Candahar, and the fourth was ready to have marched on Cabui if necessary. The Bombay army from the South, the Bengal army from the North, and Shah Shoojah's troops from our frontier, all met by different routes to the eastward of the Bolan Pass, and marched successively to Candahar, Ghizni, and Cabul ; and the fourth army, which came through Run jeet Sing's territories, was ready to have taken Dost Mahommed in the rear if he had not prudently fled. Some of the Tory papers have said that the capture of Cabul was solely owing to the accidental circumstance that 13,000 well appointed troops of Dost Mahommed refused to fight ; but why did they refuse to fight ? Why, for an excellent reason—that if they had fought, they would have had to contend against a victorious army three times their own number. (From the Courier.) The extraordinary ability with which the plan of cam paign against Cabul was combined, the patience and perseverance under privations of no ordinary severity, with which marches of a duration so lengthened and distances so vast were accomplished, and the climax of surpassing gallantry by which all was wound up in the storm of Ghizni and the capture of Cabul, the capital itself, have scarcely been repaid hitherto with that full and fair tribute of admiration and gratitude to which they are so preeminently entitled. It may, indeed, be observed of Indian affairs, and the achieve ments of our Indian army generally, that they receive less attention and are regarded with much less interest than is creditable to the intelligence or honourable to the feeling of the nation. It would almost seem as if the lustre of victory was dimmed, and the warmth of national sympathy chilled, in proportion to accumulating degrees of intervening latitudes and longitudes. And yet the annals of the Indian Government, and that heroic Indian army, from the earliest dawn of empire, present one unbroken record of glorious triumph in the field and successful sagacity in council, such as con. tinuously can be paralleled only, hut not transcended, in the history of Rome, Republican and Imperial. That matchless army has ever been, as yet it is, the nursery in which the military spirit, the best blood, and the brightest genius of British chi valry was cradled and trained to the vigour of man hood : from the laurels, almost unheeded, of Indian war fare we have seen its chiefs mount to imperishable fame on the ruins of the mightiest of the hosts and heroes of more civilized Europe. If we have been unmind ful of the arrear of gratitude due for the past, let us be just at least for the present and for the future. The hand so lavish of reward and title to Colonel Dc Lacy Evans, who led battalions only to de feat and decimation, and returned with no remant of the army committed to his charge, save a bare truncheon, cannot be niggard or churlish in the dispensation of ho nours and rewards to Sir John Keane and his gallant asso ciates, who have triumphantly upheld the invincible banner of England and extended the empire of their Sovereign. Whilst, however, we humbly discharge our portion of the national debt of gratitude to the Indian army, we must be allowed to question the policy and prudence of the Indian Government in entering on this war without necessity. The system of Indian policy, as under stood and acted on by our ablest statesmen, has been in principle essentially defensive and pacific ; conserva tion of territory and influence has been the rule, con quest and extension the exception. (From the Standard.) The literary supporters of the Ministry manifest great satisfaction at the supposed unpopularity of the Queen with the Conservative party, and exult in the difficulties which the assumed violence of that party would impose upon Sir Robert Peel at his accession to office. The satisfaction professed at the loss to the Queen of the affection of an important division of her subjects--and that division, too, in which the Crown has ever found its only support in times of danger —is a singular evidence of &pity ; but it is quite in keeping with the whole policy of that party, which has so sedulously laboured to represent the Sovereign as in feel ing the Sovereign only of a faction, and by these represen tations to render her such in fact ; but this satisfaction has happily no solid foundation, and as groundless is the hope of difficultie s from his own party to Sir Robert Peel, when he shall accept his high commission as restorer of the empire. It is true, and it would be undutiful and dishonest to conceal the truth, that the Queen does not possess the same enthusiastic attachment of her people which welcomed her upon her Majesty's ac cession to the throne of her ancestors. Strange it would be if she did, after two years of outrage upon the best feelings of the nation by her Ministers, and of public and private exertion on the part of these Minis ters to exhibit her Majesty as embarked with them in all their crimes. Such a long•continued warfare against the character and peace of the Sovereign has necessarily produced some effect ; but that effect is at present limited, and it would not last a month after a change of administration. The Protestant feeling of Great Britain and of Protestant Ireland is very strong. It is the feeling which placed the House of Brunswick upon the throne, and which has maintained that house upon the throne in defi ance of two Jacobite rebellions ; and, indeed, we may say a Jacobin rebellion also, for the Protestant feelinc,6 of a p art o f t h e I r i sh population it was which saved the empire in 1798. This feeling cannot be in slt,ihlteedpetooptlehewiellxatevnetngtehaatcointtihnausedbeeoeunrswe oitfhinismulptu;ttnsde will, in some instances, avenge it amiss. " In ill-advisee. The gu il t l ess head with random censure dislik strike." All such vague and violent resentment will, however, be confined to the inconsiderate of not the highest rank. Let us not be misunderstood : we are speaking of the present position of p u bli c affairs—not to what ma y be—we had almost said what must be the effect of a perseverance feeling in of the the system of out rage t o the Protes peopl e . not promise that the ma sses will remai We will Cive w h en t h e f ear f u l a l ternative of allegiance to onserva their reli gion or allegiance to the Crown shall be thrust upon them. A sentiment which now affects but one or two men of ardent temperament in the middle classes, would ST. PANCRAS LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. A Lecture, by Mr. Traice, on the Comedy of As You Like It, was on Friday delivered to the members of this institution. The Lecturer introduced his subject by re marking on the suggestive principle in the human mind, which rendered everything that stimulated the faculties into activity, highly beneficial, both as to mental exer -03.,... and instruction, and instanced the number and variety of subjects for reflection that were suggested by the comedy. He more especially adverted to the acute, sagacious, and benevolent Jaques, who, whether " weep ing and commenting upon the sobbing deer," or when " most invectively he pierceth through the body of the city, court,l and camp," is full of matter touching tuna— his follies, vices, and better qualities. The Lecturer directed the attention of his audience to the simplicity of the plot of Ax You Like It, and instituted an amusing comparison between it and that of the modern comedy. He viewed the play as the most exquisite pastoral poem in our language, and contrasted it with the so-called pastorals of Shakspeare's contemporaries, and those of a more recent date ; and exemplified the lattar by a whimsi cal sketch of a noble dame, tending sheep on a moun tain, in a hazy morning. He contended that, the deficiency of action in the pay was no defect —nothing bad been easier than to have made Orlando brave a phalanx of dangers to obtain his Rosalind, who, poor damsel, might have been tor tured by all the periis and distractions of true love, be fore being permitted to prove any of its joys. But this had been wholly incompatible with the calm, meditative, and philosophical character of the serious, and the quiet rich humour of the comic scenes, which constitute the great charm of the play. The Lecturer illustrated his remarks by readings of the principal scenes—he very effectively touched the right chord in the pathetic passages, and put his audi ence (which was most respectable) on the qui vivo, with the quaint says of Touchstone, and the sparkling wit of Rosalind. STRANGE VISITOR AT FOY. TAINEBLEAU. The other day, at the moment when M. Viennet, duly provided with an invitation, was alighting from a humble vehicle in the court-yard of the Palace of Fon tainebleau, another unseated Deputy, General L—, gallopped in on horseback, self-invited, insisting upon speaking with the King of the French. " Your invitation, General ?" " I tell you again that I have none. lam not come to dine with Louis Philippe ; I am come to make him quite happy. 'Tell him that such is my only object." " But, General—" "No buts, Sir! Fetch General Athalin—Let him know that it is I. I tell you that I have come to make the King happy ; is an invitation required for that ?" Upon this Louis Philippe was apprised that General L—, his eye animated, his face flushed, looking, i short, like a man entrusted with an urgent and momenn tons mission, begged leave to make his Majesty quite!! happy. On the General being introduced, " Yes, Sire," said he, " I am come for your happiness, for to afford you the means of making the people happy i 9, I presume, to contribute to your happiness. For this I have hurried hither, and got myself introduced to you a la militaire, in order to impart my secret without loss of time." " General, you have acted very properly. And now pray what is your secret ?" " There is much ferment and discontent, and your Majesty is complained of. The ferments wild be con verted into riots, and the discontent into rebellion against your authority, and all this because it is alleged that there is no bread." " Bread, General, has, it is true, been very dear ; but I hope it will fall in price." " I bring you something which will dispense with that, and be worth more than all the corn-laws voted by all the Chambers of Peers and Deputies—l bring you the means of doing without corn? Louis Philippe listened to the General, whose eye seemed inspired. " Sire, the means of doing without bread, and render ing France happy, is to feed all France, and you as well as France. with buckwheat 1" " Yes, General, that is an excellent secret, and which will make me quite happy, I can assure you. But, cn attendant that France and I have the happiness of thriv ing upon buckwheat, do us the honour of dining with us to-day, and of once more eating wheaten bread, for it will require some time to sow the buckwheat." The General accepted the gracious invitation, and was placed at table between General Athalin and Dr. Marc, to whose care he was particularly recommended. After dinner the General was conveyed back to Paris. This sudden derangement has made a deep impression ; we know not whether the General he not this evening lodged in a Maison de Sanle.—Paris Paper. DESTRUCTION OF THE CAL- CUTTA THEATRE BY FIRE. (From the Englishman of June 1. We have seldom experienced more real pain in announcing a public calamity than we do in now putting on record what all our town readers are by this time aware of—the total destruction by fire of our long-loved Indian Drury, the Chowringhee Theatre, After standing for some SO years, a source of delight to thousands of visitors, and of support to many deserv ing professional artistes ; after sustaining numerous rude shocks from the vicissitudes of fashion and of taste, and from the operation of the commercial pres sures which have at times affected more or less the in terests of all institutions supported by the public ; after enduring unscathed the side-wind attacks of the righteous overmuch, and the assaults of faction within — our valued theatre, scene of a thousand delightful remi niscences and delicious associations, has shared the fate of all the mighty temples which devotion to Thespis had reared in our favoured land. We deeply regret the catastrophe, for we have reached a condition of society, a period of pecuniary pressure, and a state of feeling on the subject of theatricals, which, for the mo ment at least, forbids us to hope for an early resuscita tion of histrionic amusements. Various accounts of the origin of the fire have reached us, but the true version of the business we be lieve to be as follows : Some gentlemen in the Marine Service had been re hearsing the drama of the Pilot, preparatory to its per formance on the 6th instant, and had duly retired to their homes about I 'o'clock. At about 12 o'clock Mr. Chester, the secretary to the theatre, being then in Led, was suddenly aroused by the ayah with cries of fire, fire! He jumped up, looked out upon the_stage, with which his room communicated, and immediately encountered volumes of smoke proceeding from the stage itself ;—the mimic sea with which the boards were co vered being (ridiculous as it may seem) on fire, and the flames rapidly enveloping the wings or side scenes, and ascending to the roof. Mr. Chester saw there was not a moment to be lost. He rushed out of the house with his wife and children, and had scarcely got into the street, when the whole interior became one vast flame of fire. The roof, composed of the most combustible materials,—straw, tarpaulin, and wood, soon ignited, and in a few minutes, we may say, everything was destroyed. The engines had arrived with extraordinary promptitude, and as soon as water could be obtained they were brought to bear upon the conflagration, under the direction of Captain F. Birch and Mr. Justice M'Mahon, who used the greatest exertions to give a proper direction to the labours of the firemen, and to treserve order. All was in vain, however; the scenery, the splendid wardrobe and paraphernalia, the valuable dramatic library, the benches, trellis work, frame work, curtains, cushions, the whole property, in short (excepting a clock, and the plate of the beef steak club), including all the chattels and wearing apparel of poor Mr. Chester and his family, full a prey to the " devouring element," and by morning's dawn nothing was to be seen but the bare masonry of the walls, and a heap of smoking embers. Mr. and Mrs. Chester were, with prompt humanity, immediately offered an asylum in the house of a neighbour, but we believe they have been rendered, by this calamity, so utterly destitute, that the smallest assistance that can be sent them by the generous and the charitable, will, we are sure, be very acceptable. We regret to bear that the house was not insured. The loss to the proprietors will consequently not fall short of half a lac of rupees, in addition to which there is a debt of some twenty thousand rupees, which they will now (the mortgaged property being gone) have to pay to the mortgagees. EVENING EDITION• STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury.) FOREIGN WOOL.—LEEDS, Nov. I.—We cannot note any improvement in the demand for foreign 9 00l since our last, but, still a steady business continues to be carried on, and prices remain without any material alteration. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS Nov. 1.--Sales have continued (lull during the present week. Prices have been without any material alteration. though tending downwards. The manufacturers think the prospect of the demand for goods unfavourable, and therefore many are materially reducing their con sumption, which circumstance makes them still more indisposed to buy. TRADE OF LIEEDS.—We have scarcely ever known less business (lone at our cloth-halls at this season of the year than during the present week ; the demand, which has for some time past been brisk for low-priced and heavy goods, has fallen off very considerably. Low priced goods, however, maintain their price. As to goods of finer qualities, the prices are nominal. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY.—Thig was another dull market, worse than any this season. Hap pily there are special orders, otherwise the oieratives would he generally out of employment. Fancy woollens are most in request, but business is in a wretched state generally. 'Wools of a middle and low quality remain tolerably firm, while the finer sorts are decidedly lower. TRADE OF HOLIIFIRTH, &C.—The past month b is been one of very languid business. The mills are now scarcely half employed, and at most of them dayligh t suffices to get through with the work. No necessity at present for a Ten Hours Bill. The effects are felt by all classes —manufacturers cannot sell to any extent without loss—the circulation of money is imped ed-- retaildealers compl a i n h eav ily— an d the operatives are suffering, and are lik e ly t o h ave to su ffer more seve rel y from reduced w ages , i na d equate emp l o yment, and the high price of provi s i ons . S ome o f t h e manufacturers hold their goods, but there is no encouragement for them to increase their stocks ; others are making great sacrifices, and if the present state of thing s continue much longer, many will be involved in inextricable difficulties. The anxious inquiry is What is the cause of the presen t commer cial difficulties ? and Co rn -l aws an d Currency-laws come in for the blame. But whether it be the CarrencY laws or the Corn-laws—over-population or over-tll%e" tion—enpidity or carelessness, which has of late years caused the streams of t ra d e t o a l ternate ly low w ith the impetuosity of a mountain torrent, or move so sluggis hl Y, as to stagnate a nd p u t r if y , if t h e pr i mar y cause be fi t ' removed, the evil will p ress w i t h accumu l a ting force nn the energies of th e coun t ry —d amp en t e rprise--de steeY confidence—drive capital into other nations--make our merchants bankrupt s , an d our l a b ourers paupers. all bank monopoly—the Corn-law monopoly—Ye"' monopolies are fast hastening their own death throes. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—In the Piece market we hear of nothing but complaints, and all sew to go on curtailing their production, which is the one' legitimate way of bringing things to their proper Jer, We regret our inability to report any improvement in the yarn market, which, we understand, is now in ave r s l undesirable condition, owing to the great disproportma. which stil continues between the price of the raw et a , terial and the manufactured article. Low and middle There qualities continue most in request. Prices firm. is no new feature in the wool business. Fine combing sorts continue in small request at our last q but middle and lo wer sor t s are scarce , a nd consequentLY prices are firm. notation!, THE illAitlZEriS -(YESi'ERDAY.) OF BREAD. The highest price of Brea PRICE d in the Metropolis is 1 0 34 d. for the -1117. Loa. Good Bread may be had at 9d, PRICES 0 Per Cwt. New English lied C10ver...555.90s Old Otto Ditto S. 3. New Foreign Ditto —s. Ltis. 30s. 01,1 Ditto Ditto —s. —s. —s. New White Clover sls. 05e. 7*s. Old Date Ditto —s. s Neil Trefoil —s. lals. 30s. Old Ditto —s 12s its. Trefo —s. 265. 30s English Carraway --s. beg. 55, Foreign Ditto s. bus. 565. Coriander —s 9.05. 255. Rapeseed, English fine (per Ls PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d Crop Hides,3l , to bOlb. cads 1 I RI 40 50 l2 16 ..... 13 IS Bull Hides Butts, V triol . • En gl , s Z'f;reign oreign Hides ..... ss l3 12 Dressing liidei 13 17 Beit Saddlers' Hides l3 lfit Horse Hicks, English Call Skins, if rounded SEEDS. ' Per Quarter. ~. oe ,„ St. F0in...... --s• lz . 44 , Rye Grass ... . 1. ov: ~ , P./my Grass ........... --g• -: 9 ,. Linseed, for feeding -- 4 . o:„ 5 6, Ditto, for sewing --s• .;;,, .. 465. Ditto, for crushing --4 ,li 4. et. Canary ........ .. ....... --° 1/4 90 1 . Hemp --s. Per Bushel 4. Brow W hi Whit e n A p t i u t s t t: r . d .. ......1 1 l b s ; . 0 0 ii . 144 . ; 6,1 ' 0 (I . T are s ss. 6d. 7 '. it) 2 , 96. 311. Foreign 261. LEATHER. a. Per lb. sl. to 0 IQ k Horse Hides, German... • 94 ------ Spanish ... id „ 2 Calf Skins,3o to 401b.(doz) 15 ' 4 -----90 50 a g _5 60 ... ..... 21 a ,2 ... .. 70 100 ..... .... 1.. 16 Seal Skins, large... ...... It • 0 1 '-'..."..-.• sra.ill ........... a° 2 0 'Kips ~ • /6 ........... 6 II Davi5... , Bellies Shout.; ers .... —.• ....... " 2;1. to 9d. por lb. m ore. OF e. PRICES HOPS. oi , to 0/. CY: Farnham Pockets (per cwt.) 0! Oa. 0 4 ~:. to 61. IP* East Kait Pockets . 4l 10s. 51 ; i'ic s to 4L 4 '. Ditto Bags St. los. o ' . 'to bi 11 ' . • Ards Kent Pockets 3l. 105. 41:1,-,°!' t . 4;. 01. Dte Bags 3l. i 0,.. 0 "", :I' s '' Sussex - 2 4 log. Yearlings or. Os. W. ° oi . 101. Old fflds Old Duty estimated at 225,0001. PRICE OF 01E. . it . , 10s Rapeoll,brown, pe , ton, 8 111os.—Reffned, 3 , 24.0 s —I. inseed 11 4 „ ' o „ V. Linseed oil Cake at the Mill (1000), 131. Os.—Race take, pet 10 ” , PRICE uF TALLOW, SiSAP, be. per 1121 b • ei. Town Tallow sss. Bd. Yel;, w 50ap......... —l. a Yellow Russia 5/s fid. Mottled _, White Soap Ditto .. . 14 1. rA od„ .. . ... Melting fltuff ...-. - Ditto Rough PRICE OF RAW FA r , per stone of 511 , . sta. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) ......... 38 . -‘, PRICE uF CANDLES. The price of good Store t andles in the Reti.il Shops is AS fill ., j ew . o Candles, per dozen, Ss. Od. ; inferior, 7s. Od. ; Moulds, 9. 1 . v u Sixpence per doze.. discount for cash. COAL MARKET. s, d., Adair's Tturdon Main 2l 0 Chester Care's Hartley 2O 0 Holywell Main 2l 1 South's Pontop l4l Tanfield Moor 23 I d. s . V 9 Walis End NewMarell...•••• 7 , 2 6 Walls End Walker .......•••••• IS Walls End Belmont ......•••• n 4 5 Walls End Braddyll'sHeteLm ;, 3 Walls End Haswell r ;t: 6 Walls End Hetton .........-•• g Walls End Larnbton 9 Walls End Pemberton 23 9 Walls End Hartlepool Walls End Barrington Tees 42 7. Walls End Brown's Deanery 2 9 n ' W4lll End Tees Hetton 21 2 : Walls End Tennant 24 Walls End Victoria Tees 23 Walls End Wendlestea 2l • last market-day. 3. Townley l9 0 WylaTn. Walls End Brown'A l9 6 Ditto unscreened l7 6 Walls End Clarke and Co 2l) 0 Wall; End ;race Wafl End Gosforth Walls End Killingworth arrived sinec COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR NOVEMBER, among a variety of amusing Papers, contains an exceedingly interesting Biographical No tice of the late John Horne, Esq., author of" Douglas,' &c., with some pieces never before published, for which the public is indebted to a near relative of the poet. The Letters from Garrick, David Hume, and others, are very characteristic of the writers, and one especial' , " from Lord Bute exhibits traits highly honourable t° that Nobleman. A Note of a Conversation betwee° Ht.nie and Lord Chatterton is interesting, as attes t ' ing that illustrious individual's respect for, and apprecv ation of, the value of classical learning. Home sr pears to have been an indefatigable contributor to t he periodicals of his time, and several extracts a re give n from his political Letters. This Biographical Notice adds considerably to our knowkel;e of Home's cbar ac l r and habits. Another article in this Number, whi c h ;- will delight all readers, is a Tale of the Countess Blessington, entitled " Matrimony," full of that knows ledge of the world and of character, and of those touch c o of nature and of feeling, for which all her writings are o f distinguished. This pleasing tale exhibits the danger e young wives exacting attentions only paid duri n g te e . days of courtship, and endeavours to lower the W 0... rated and romantic expectations of the unbroken fen cities of wedded lovers. There are other Papers front? the pens of Mrs. Trollope, Laman Blanchard, a 4 other distinguished writers. n . PATENT LEVER WA TC; 1114.4" ; With silver deuille-bottom cases With silver hunting cases ...........................•••••... . ............... 1 ' 46 li g This celebrated construction (the ..t accu ra t e es whie a watch can be made) is now offered, with the latest improve' ments i. e. the detached escapeta vr nt, j e elled is fe ar hole" capped, hand to mark the seconds, had ena mel dial, arid Winbe ° v' taining powa to continue going while winding up, at die s price, at T. COX SAVORY'F., Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, Londe, (Seven doors from Grassohurch-strect). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exclungo• SHEFFIELD PLATED WINE COOLE R A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silvors 14, Cornhill, London (opposite the Bank of Englani), ta j lt f i l ( v. choice in their warerooms a Selection of PLAIN and °I. ": MENTAL ICE PAILS, t o w hi c h t h e w i s h t• direct attention The price of the Plain T u b- pa il (ne y w mueh in use) , Si • Th 9; the pair ; the Classic V ase (very neat), 10/. so. the air' " Victoria Pattern, 13/. th e pair ; the Dresden Ce•ler , 17 pair. all of whic.. a re strongly mounted with Silver, s n . have Silver Shi e ld s for Engraving the Crest or Coat of Ar ‘ i A pamphl e t is published, with drawiags of the aloes other arti c l es o f plate generally, which may be hail en APl hral tion, free of cost. On the 3d inst., at Princ BIRTHS e's-street, the lady of George Lidele( Esq.. of a son. On the Ist inst., at Ealing-park, Mrs. Lawrence, of daughter. On the 31st ult., at Sevenoakes, Kent, the lady of TlO rl ' as Carnell, Esq., of a daughter. Esq „ of On the 30th ult., the lady of John Giles Pilcher, Stockwell-park, of a daughter. On the 2d inst., at Chester-terrace , Regent's-park, the 101 of Andrew llonar, Esq., of a MA RRIED• On the 2d inst., at St. Alary's, Battersea , J ohn Meek Brit' ten, Esq., of Clapham-common, to Ann, youngest daughter of Robert Davis, Esq., of Wandsworth -common, Surrey. DIED. On the 31st ult., at Richings-lodge, Colnbrook, the Right Hon. John Sullivan, aged 91. On the Ist inst. , a t Lewisham -hill, Henry George Cobb Dretc, only son of the lat e John Drew, E ll sq., of the East India Com pany's Civil Servic e, Dacca, aged years. On the Ist inst. , at Claremont-pl Mr. Wil ace, s ur- Islington, liam Griffin , for merl y of Watford, supposed to be the last vivor of those w ho accompanied Captain Cook in his last voyage of discovery, aged 85. On the 29th ult., at Kingston, Surrey, Mr. Henry Frederick Nicholas, distiller, aged 39. On the 7 th o f Au g ust last, at sea, Ba y of Bengal, CardaiP George Husiwick, c ommanding the ship Lady Macnaghten. London Printed and Published by MURDOYOUN in ; ( " 1 No. 11 2 , Str and, at The Sun Office, No 11 9 , Strand, county of Middlesex. —Tuesday, November 5, 1&139.