The Sun. — London, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock. 205 431 India Stock 255 3 per Cent. !fed. 57147,,% Ditto Bonds 2 pm. par 3 per Cent. Cons 8831 i%N, South Sea Stock - 1 3),4, per Cent 97% 010 Annnities - Ditto Red 96 5%14 I New Ditto -- New 3% per Cent 97% 7 , 4 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 3 per Cent - . Ench. Bills, £l,OOO 2 dis. Bank Long Annuitiesto expire 'Ditto 500 — pm. Jan. 5, '81;0 Oct. 10, 1050 —' Ditto Commercial Jan. 5. IWO 14 13-16 Ditto Advertised — -.0 pm Jan. 5, 1880.............„... ..... I Bank Stock for Acc0unt........ Aptil 5, 1880 - India Stock for Account — Jan. 5, 1870 - Consols for Acconnt 8 814% Omnium pm. I PRICES OF FOREIGN FONDS Austrian Bonds 73 , 1'1 gi a n Bonds 09% Ditto Account . Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Avres Bonds ..... Ditto ACcount Chillian Bonds Ditto Account ........... Columbian Bonds. Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, !8c..3 2 21 Ditto Account ........ Danish Bonds 7IN 1 Ditto Account Greek Bonds —; Ditto rsonds, 1325 - -1 Dittes Account 1 Dlexii!all Bonds. 5 per cent —. Ditto Account — _Ditto, 6 per cent. .....--” 22 Ditto Account — Neapolitan ...... ............... ...... TRIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds — Ditto Aceotu.t — Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account ...351A 514 Ditto, 3 per cent. 35?, 1 4 , 5 Prussian Bonds — Russian Bonds, 181 - r 10 7 1,i4 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds , I)itto Account Ditto 80nd5,1934 20% Ditto Account 201,1 4 20 4 French, 5 per cent.......... —f. —c _ . 4 per cent —f. —c. • 2 per cent. .—f. —c. Exchange _f. —c. Dutch, Di per cent. 5335?1 Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per cent 99% Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Eastern Counties Railwa— (heat Western Railway Company 3O South Eastern and Dover Railway Company 2 Per Share 0 ra 31N 3 4 ov Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 0 Prazil 0 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Carthagena 0 1 Dublin... 0 Flanders 0 MAILS. lArrived. Due. Arrived. Due I France 0 1 Lisbon 0 0 Guern. &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 0 Jamaica 0 Leeward Islands 0 I Waterford ..... 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 5 minutes after 2. I Evening...... 29 minutes after 2. HAMBURG, SEPT. 28, 1836. OUR Friends, and all those who may have to write to us, are requested to be particular in directing, HEINE BROTHERS, in HAMBURGH, and to observe, that a letter with one inelosure doubles the Postage only, but several inclosures would by far increase the same. Thus 104, 201., or 30/., for instance, if remitted in One Bank of Eng land Note would only cause double Postage, but 101. remitted in two notes, would be liable to a much higher charge. It is there fore most advisable, for any Person having to remit Money to Ham burgh, to forward the amount in One Note ; or having to receive Money from Hamburgh, to receive the same in One Note, when ever possible. Of course remittances from Hamburgh to England, surpassing the usual amount of One Bank of England Note, may rather be made in Bills of Exchange, on London. - • To save expenses that may as well be avoided, we request our Correspondents not to overlook these particulars. HEI NE BROTHERS. The publication of TIM SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. -4) , - , ' Oit 'Cra e " LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1836. The Paris Journals of Sunday have all been re ceived. The Moniteur announces that four Lieu tenants of the battalion of Engineers, named DUPEN- TioAT, PETRY, GRO:S, and LAITY attempted to se duce the six Companies of that Corps, quartered in tne barracks of the Pecheurs, to proclaim NAPOLEON The loyalty of the sub-officers defeated this treasonable detlign, whereupon three of the Lieutenants fled, and LAITY only has been taken into custody. The publication of these facts will cause considerable un easiness among the more reflecting portion of the inha bitants of Paris. They cannot conceal from them selves that disaffection is fast spreading in the army, and that the officers are united in sympathies which bode no good to the reigning dynasty. Generally speaking, the French soldiers are rather intelligent as a body ; they, more than the soldiers of any other country in the world, take an interest in the social condition of their fellow countrymen ; they are not, and newer were the passive instruments of power ; and when not engaged in the field, they are compelled by their very feelings—by the necessities of their nature ----to busy themselves with the concerns of Go vermuent. In their own eyes they are nothing when not engaged in augmenting the glory or giving sta bility to the freedom of France. Lours-PHILIPPE can never become Popular with the army, because he can neither employ it abroad, nor will his system admit of his engaging it at home, in strengthening the ranks of democracy. He rill not send it into Spain, for two reasons, viz., because of the influence of rev. oiutionary ideas in the Peninsula, and because such, a step would alienate from him the great northern Fow•ers, for whose support he is prepared to risk evelNthing but his Crown. It is believed that the extraordinary speed with which M. r lIIERS travelled from Venice to Paris is sufficient evidence of the urgent necessity of the ex- Premier's presence at the Chateau. The Ministers were a good deal disconcerted at first ; but TIMERS assured them that though it had been his intention to give them all the op?osition in his power in the Chain beri, yet the recerq affair at Strasluirg had determined him to support t.'nem on all vital questions. Our own opinion is the:, M. TIIIERS will not be long before he again finds, himself seated at the Council-board. The KING We know personally dislikes and fears him, but he cannot now help himself. - The present Ministry caimot stand, made up as it is of discordant elements. Count TOLE wants judgment, humility, and temper; GUIZOT pliancy and readiness ; PERSIL common po litical honesty; MARTIN (DU NORD' a knowledge of the business of his office ; GASPARIN, dignity, comprehensiveness of mind, and an acquaintance with the affairs of the nation ; and all, principle and confi dence in each other. A Ministry made up of such materials cannot continue for any long period to sway the destinies of France. Madrid Journals to the 30th ult. have been received. On the 28th the Cortes received a petition on the sub ject of the Royal Decree for the levy of 50,000 troops. The petition prayed that the Decree to which it related should be first discussed in a full sitting of the Cortes, and subsequently be referred to the War Commission. Senors Cabaleiro and Caballero, severally opposed and supported the prayer of the petition. The decree was eventually referred to the Commission without under going examination in the Cortes. The Madrid Journals bring no satisfactory accounts from the seat of war. Several 'Members of the Cortes expressed themselves dissatisfied with the recent con duct of RODIL, and intimated that SAARSFIELD is now the only man qualified to take the command of the army. On the 25th GOMEZ was pushing th e siege of Almaden, and Colonel FLINTER, who defended it, was forced to shut himself up in the citadel, which he maintained with the most intrepid gallantry. RODIL with his division was only a few hours march from the town, but whether he was aware of the extreme danger of the garrison, or knew that the enemy was so near, cannot be ascertained from these journals. We have pleasure in stating that between the Go vernment and the Cortes the most cordial unanimity of purpose is found to exist. MENDIZABAL is making every effort to restore the finances. Advices from Lisbon to the 25th ult. have been re ceived this morning. Intrigues of all sorts are at work, some with a view to overturn the Constitution ; some to strengthen it ; some to dethrone the Queen ; and some to work the downfall of all liberal institutions, and thereby effect the recall of Don Miguel—and all to ad vance the private interests of their concocters. But beyond mere rumours and intrigue there is nothing to call for much observation. The copy of a project of law for regulating the mode of naturalizing foreigners as subjects of Portugal, will be found in another part of The Sun. Our advices from Bayonne, received this morning, confirm the accounts published yesterday relative to the raising of the siege of Bilboa. ITURALDE has been condemned, by sentence of a court-martial, to quit Navarre on pain of death. ESPARTERO was at Orduna on the 29th. The force under him was not sufficiently strong to warrant an attack upon the Car , list lines. There is no logic like the logic of facts. When ;hese stubborn things—these " chiels that winna ding and dinna be disputed," as BURNS, with his strong sense described them—come in contact with the best constructed syllogism of the dialectician, what sad havoc they make of it ! An incalculable quantity of breath, hardly a less quantity of ink, and an exceedingly minute portion of brain, have been of late spent by the Tories in weaving a fine-spun theory of reaction. This theory has been demonstrated, according to the most approved principles of Anti-Reform argumentation, to be the only possible correct one. No reasoning, as far as words go, could be more conclusive ; all that• it wanted was probability and the corroboration of facts. Unfortunately for the theory it has been put to this test, and the consequence is that it has been entirely demolished. The Municipal elections have scattered it to the four winds of heaven, and have left its crest fallen supporters to wonder at their own folly, and di gest their disappointment in the best way they are able All the reports from the country concur in repre senting the efforts of the Tories in these elections as desperate in the extreme. They seem to have felt that their very existence was at stake, and to have acted with corresponding energy. And what has been the result? In an inconsiderable number of inconsiderable boroughs, where the electors were few, and where the consequence of giving an independent vote would have been almost certain ruin to the voter, they have succeeded in foisting in a councillor or two of thcir own kidney ; but taking the whole range of the elections, the cause of reform has gained an important triumph. And it is worthy of observation that the triumph has been the greatest in some of those large towns which the Tories have hitherto regarded as their strong holds, and held out to the public as proofs that the civic population were de voted to Toryism. Now if these principles have been gaining ground since last year, as the Tories assert they have, how comes it to pass that in Bristol, Exeter, and some other large towns in which the Tories had a majority in the elections last year, they have not been able to retain their advantage ? They cannot say that Toryism has not had fair play in these towns, for they took care to split the borough constituencies into small insulated portions, under the fallacious title of separate wards, for the very purpose of bringing their baneful influence to bear with accumulated force against the independence of the electors, following in this, as in other respects, the example of tyrants, whose motto is, in all times and places—Divide et iinpera. But it is not merely the general result of the muni- cipal elections, which proves the steady progress of Reform principles in the public mind, and puts to shame—were they capable of shame—those who have attempted to propagate the calumnious charge against the people, that they have changed their opinions on this subject. We find in particular instances also, a direct, practical, and overwhelming contradiction given to this charge. Who can have forgotten the hurrahs which resounded from one end of the Tory camp to the other, when a Tory was lately elected to represent the town of Newcastle in Parliament ? Here was an in fallible proof of re-action. It was in vain to show that the Tory owed his success entirely to a misunderstand ing among the Liberal electors. No—nothing would do—nothing but re-action could be allowed to account for the event. Now, mark what a striking illustration of the new theory the present Municipal election at Newcastle affords. There were 24 Members of Council elected, and of these how many do our readers suppose are Tories ?-the great majority, of course. In a town which had given such a splendid example of reaction, a less proportion than three-fourths was not to be expected. The Torics were actually unable to return more than four out of the two dozen I I I—and but for the warding system, would not have returned a single individual of their own hue. In every ward in which they were opposed, they were beaten. Rare reaction this—is it not ? -------- THE I UNDS.-(THIS DAIL .) CITE 7'lV EL Yil O' CL 0 CK. Consols opened this morning at 88a for the Account and for Money, with little doing as yet ; Excheqw2r Bilk 3 to 1 ; India Bonds 1 dis., I, par; Bank Stock 205 : I I G ; India Stock '2.55i256. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active 20i- ?.; ; Passive ; Deferred 8 4 1 ; Portuguese 55 4 ; Three per Cents. 351- 36 ; Colombian 221 ; Mexican 221 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 531 1. .11AILIF-PA,l7' His Majesty's steamer Rhadamanthus has arrived from San Sebastian, which place she left on the 2d inst., with dispatches for the Foreign Office. General Le Merchant has conic home in her, it is understood, on business cen ❑ected with the financial embarrassment of the Legion. The raising the seine of Bilboa was known at San Sebas tian on the 2d. Espartero was in the former place. The letters by the Lisbon Mail state that 12 or 14 ships of war, English and French, were in the Tagus in a threat ening position. The Queen made an excursion down the river almost under the guns of the two squadrons, which saluted her, and the bands of music struck up Don Pedro's favourite air instead of that of the Constitution. The heavy Stocks are very dull to-day, and have re ceded owing to considerable sales in the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Money is more easy this morning. Consols also heavy, at 8 n for Account and Money. Exchequer Bills, lid., 7 5 disct. ; 2d., 2 disct. ; India Bonds, par ; India Stock, 235. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 20i ; Deben tures, 36 ; Passive, .5i ; Portuguese, 551 ; Three per Cents., 36 ; Colombian, 22 ; Mexican, 22 ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 53f. Consols for the Account, ma. THREI O'CLOCK ROYAL ACADEMY.—At a meeting of the Royal Academy last evening, Mr. Robert Graves, the engraver of the portraits of Lord Byron, after Phillips, was elected an associate engraver of the Royal Academy, and T. P. Knight, Esq., an associate painter. THE MAILS.—This morning, on account of the frost, the roads were so extremely slippery that the mail and other coaches could with difficulty proceed to Lon don ; several valuable horses fell, some of them fracturing their legs and thighs ; the Devonport, and several of the western and northern mails, did not reach the Post-office for nearly an hour later than the usual time. FORTY-SECOND HIGHLANDERS.—The know ledge that this far-famed national corps was to be reviewed on Burntsfield Links, near Edinburgh, brought forth a greater number of spectators of all ranks than we remember to have seen congregated to witness any former military spectacle. The immense park was, in fact, darkened by a dense crowd, except such parts of it as were kept clear for the manoeuvres of the gallant Highlanders. The regiment, which was commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Middleton, was reviewed by the Commander of the Forces, Major-General the Hon. Patrick Stuart, who, with his staff, appeared on the ground shortly after ten o'clock. Between that hour and one o'clock the corps were put through a great variety of evolutions by their Commanding Officer, all of which they executed with a soldier-like accuracy and precision worthy of the high name which they have so long borne. The Leipsic Gazette has the following singular anecdote :—" When Theodore Hildebrand painted his pic ture The Sons of Edward,' which is at this moment the ornament of the Berlin exhibition, he deemed it necessary, in order to be correct in the details of his work, to cover his model with the silk tissue which the eldest Prince wears in the picture. Hildebrand selected and ordered that tis• sue in a shop of Dusseldorf known by the name of Tyrrell. The vendor was surprised, and inquired why the painter was so particular about the article. When the explanation he demanded was afforded him, and he was told of the histo rical subject which Hildebrand had chosen he seemed much presence of th e b uyer, an d d ec l are d t h at it was pe m rpx most extraordinary in traordinary that he, Tyrrell, should be se lected to supply the tissue. The motive of his astonish ment was soon accounted for ; the murderer, who, by command of Richard the Third, put the Princes to death in the Tower of London, was compelled to leave England, and settle on the Continent. The present proprietor of the commercial house of Dusseldorf, so far as genealogy can be credited, descends in a direct line from the noctur nal assassin of Edward's sons ! " THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8,1536. not take any acknowledgment. He frequently demanded payment, and in February, 1835, in the presence of a Mr. Walsh, at the Three Nuns, in Aldgate, received from the defendant an order on a Mr. Fisher for the amount due, which, however, was not paid, and the plaintiff was, there fore, obliged to bring his action. David Walsh deposed to the fact of being present at the circumstance at the Three Nuns Tavern, and saw the defendant hand the plaintiff the order alluded to. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD. He said he was formerly a jeweller, residing at No. 2, Leicester square. About four years since he gave up business :he has since attended sales, and sold what he had purchased at three or four coffee-houses in Duke's-place and Leicester square. He goes occasionally to races and bets a little. Stephens, he believed, gets his bread by receiving two guineas a week from his brother ; was in the habit of meeting him during the last four years at the Bell Coffee-house, Leicester-street, Leicester-square. They made some bets there on prize-fights, races, &e. Never heard from Stephens of his having taken the benefit of the Insolvent Act. Had no idea of meeting the defen dant when he went with the plaintiff to the Three Nuns. Made no memorandum of the conversation between the parties. Did not see the defendant write the letter in question. Joseph Saunders, a waiter at the Three Nuns, proved the handwriting of the defendant. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD addressed the Jury on the part the defendant, and contended that the affair arose out of a gambling transaction. However, after the examination of L witnesses at the suggestion of the Learned Judge, a verdict was entered for the plaintiff, with leave to the defendant to , move for a nonsuit. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR was occupied the whole day with the further arguments in the part-heard case of Malcom v. O'Callaghan, which was an appeal from the de cision of the Vice-Chancellor, affirming the Master's report allowing the charges of a person named Wyatt for journeys to Paris on behalf of the parties in the cause, in his cha racter of receiver, and disallowing others. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) MAYHEW V. BRETTINGHAM. This case, which was part-heard yesterday, and in which 240 exceptions have been taken to the Master's report, which charged Mr. Brettingham with a balance in his hands of 10,0001., occupied the whole day. The facts of the case are devoid of public interest, as they merely related to matters of account. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) His HONOUR heard pleas and demurrers to-day, none of which possessed any point of interest except to the parties concerned. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) GILBERT AND ANOTHER V. DALE.—IMPORTANT TO BOOK ING-OFFICE KEEPERS. MR. PLATT moved in this case for a rule to shew cause why the nonsuit should not be set aside and a new trial had. It was an action of assunzpsit, tried before Lord Den man, at the last Westminster sittings. The action was brought by Gilbert and another, tailors, against the defend ant, who was the keeper of a booking-office at the Glou cester coffee-house, for the loss of a box, containing a quantity of clothes, directed to a Mr. Jeffreys of Cotmore, near Pembridge, in South Wales, alleged to have been lost by the negligence of the defendant. The contract laid in the declaration was, that the defendant was law fully possessed of a certain booking-office, and that the plaintiff delivered to him a certain box to be taken care of, and forwarded to a certain person to whom it was directed. To this the defendant pleaded first, the general issue, se condly, that he did take care of the box, and that it was not lost by negligence. It was proved on the trial that the box was delivered by the plaintiff, and also that it never reached Mr. Jeffreys. Counsel for the defendant submitted that the plaintiffs ought to be nonsuited, because, first there was no evidence to shew that the property was the plaintiffs, inasmuch as the clothes being made for Mr. Jeffrey's, and being sent on their journey to him, the property passed to him ; and secondly, it was objected that no evi dence had been given of the negligence of the defendant. Now, with regard to the first question, he (Mr. Platt) maintained that the pleadings did not raise the question of property, because, according to the new rules, the plea of non-assumpsit merely denies the contract, without putting in issue the property which is the subject of the contract, and therefore it appeared to him that the Learned Judge was mistaken, and that the question of property did not arise. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Was there anything stated in the declaration as to whose property the box was? Mr. PLATT—It states " a certain box of the plaintiff's." Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Is not that one of the facts in issue ? Lord DENMAN—The contract is laid to be with the plaintiff. Mr. Justice PATTESON—Is the ground of nonsuit that the contract was with the consignee, Jeffreys, and not with the plaintiff? Mr. PLATT—Yes, my Lord ; but I contend that the delivery does not begin until the box has left the booking office. So long as it remains in the booking-office it is the property of the tailor, and until the goods are delivered to the carrier the delivery to the consignee does not com mence. The Learned Counsel having cited some autho rities, submitted, first, that the question of property did not arise ; and, secondly, if it d:d, that the property had not passed from the plaintiff, and that the evidence with regard to the breach was sufficient for a Jury to infer that the defendant had not performed his part of the contract. • Mr. Justice PATTESON would give no opinion upon the first point, because he thought the nonsuit was right on the second, that there was no evidence to prove negligence on the part of the defendant. It must be borne in mind that the defendant was not a carrier, but a booking-office keeper, and his contract was to take care of the box, in order to be forwarded by some carrier ; and in order to prove a breach of contract it was necessary to show that the box had been lost or taken away while in the booking ing-office, and before its delivery to a carrier. The only evidence was, that it had not been delivered to the con signee, and that was very good evidence of a breach of con- tract on the part of the carrier, but not as against the book ing-office keeper. There should have been some evidence of non-delivery to the carrier by the defendant, and that not having been done, it appeared to him that the nonsuit ❑pon the second point was quite right. The other Judges expressed themselves of the same opi nion.—Rule refused. KEMPENEEES V. HOLDING. Mr. PLATT moved in this case for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the plaintiff should not be set aside and a new trial had, on the ground of misdirection by the Learned Judge. It was a❑ action on a bill of exchange..l tried before Lord Denman, at the sittings after last term. Ti.e hill was drawn for a sum of 200/, by Messrs Deliance, Clarke, and Co., of Brussels, accepted by the defendant, and endorsed by Deliance and Co. to the plaintiff. The defendant pleaded first, that he had not accepted the bill, and secondly that Deliance and Co. had not endorsed the bill. It appeared on the trial that the defendant lived , somewhere in the Edgware-road, and the bill which was dated the 30th July, 1835, being on plain paper without a stamp. He, (Mr. Platt) had objected that it ought to have been proved to have been drawn in foreign parts, or to have existed in its unaccepted state in foreign parts to entitle the plaintiff to recover. When that objection was made, it was attempted to supply that defect, and a wit ness was called who proved that he saw Clarke, one of the firm, at Antwerp on the 31st July, the day after the bill was dated—that he also saw the bill, but whether it was then accepted or not he could not say. Now if the bill was seen accepted at Antwerp on the 31st January, the drawer then residing in London, it appeared to him quite clear that the bill must have been drawn in England. The Learned Judge thought that the bill bearing the accep tance of the defendant, stating that it was drawn at Brus sels, bore on the face of it verity, unless that could be impugned by evidence on the part of the defendant. He (Mr. Platt) would submit that all the circumstances of the case shelved that some evidence ought to have been given to prove that the bill had been made abroad, or had existed abroad in an unaccepted state. Lord DENMAN—There was a letter of the defendant's to Mr. Clarke read as follows :—" I will accept the 2001. bill on its arrival, knowing you are out of England." Mr. Justice PATTESON could see no difficulty in the pre sent case, the bill having been seen abroad in the hands of the drawer at Brussels the day :Stec it bore date. It would be a very dangerous thing indeed if all foreign bills were questioned in that manner, and that it was required to be proved that they existed in an unaccepted state abroad, for instance in India or any other distant place. He saw no ground for disturbing the verdict.—Rule refused. BAIL COURT. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE sat in this Court this morning for the purpose of hearing motions. THE KING V. COMBERS. Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK applied to his Lordship for a writ of certiorari to remove into this Court an indictment that had been found against the defendant for perjury by the Grand Jury of the Cntral Criminal Court. The perjury was assigned on certain evidence given by the defendant (a servant girl)on the trial of an indictment for conspiracy,which took place before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE at the sittings after last Trinity Term, when two of the defendants were found guilty and the others acquitted. The affidavits filed in support of the present application stated that on the trial of the present defendant, several points of law would arise which ought to be discussed betbre a Judge of one of the superior Courts, and that :it was necessary for the defend ant to have the assistance of the same Learned Gentlemen of the Bar as were Counsel on the former trial, in order that her defence might be more fully stated. The defendant also wished the indictment to be tried by a Special Jury. Mr, Justice LITTLEDALE—I remember the case—my clerk (has received notice to produce my notes of it, the defendants intending to move for a new trial. Sir FREDERICK PoLLocK—We have had no notice to that effect. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—You may take your writ, and as the new Act of Parliament directs me to fix the amount of bail, let it be defendant in 801., and two sureties in 401. each. His Lordship afterwards sat at Nisi Prius. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY PHYPPERS V. EBERS. This case, which related to a point of law of no public interest, occupied the Court the whole morning. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice JAMES PARKE, and a Common Jury.) JONES v. LANGAN. This was an action on a bill of exchange for 501., and Si. 2s. interest thereon. There was no appearance for the defendant, and a verdict was given for the plaintiff, 55/. 2s. damages and costs. STEPHENS V. WILLINGDALE. This was an action for money lent. The defendant pleaded non debet. Mr. TnEssIGER stated the plaintiff's case. In the year 1834, Stephens lent Willingdale the sum of 50/., but did EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY., The Court sat in Banco this morning, and disposed of all the new trials. There was nothing of any public inte rest, and having got through all the business the Court rose at twelve o'clock. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, Nov. 7.—Wind N. W.,. stormy.—Arrived from the River and sailed, the Ruckers, Soper, for Grenada ; Nes bett, Simpson, for Jamaica ; Rose, Belles, for Demerara ; and Ruth, Corringal, for Sierra Leone. Arrived and pro ceeded for the River, the Bengal Packet, Stewart, from Cal cutta ; Gratitude, Todd, Honduras ; Hope, Maur, and Bro thers, —, from Quebec ; and Labuna, Wells, from Mira michi. 8 P.m.—Wind W., light airs, hazy, with frost. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 7.—Wind N. W., fine weather.—Ar rived the Eldon, M'Calp, from Hobart Town ; sailed June 10. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 6.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived the Priam, Wells, from Quebec; and Aquilla and Maria, —, from Denis. Arrived from London, the Julius, Moffat, for St. Kitts. FALMOUTH, Nov. 6.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Lyra Packet, from Lisbon, sailed the 28th ult. ; and the Alchymist, Wells, from Quebec. Off port, the President from St. Marks, and Stevens, from Pictou. STANOATE CREEK, NOV. 7.—Arrived the Malvina, Brooks, ' from Odessa ; Howard, Wrightson, and Rowena, Kayle, from Gibraltar. MARGATE, NOV. 7.—Off port the Reaper, Walker, from Gibraltar. COWES, Nov. 7.—Arrived the Ellen, Kemp, from Batavia ; and Janet, Lovett, from New York. The Bonnetta, Howard, from Colchester, and Caroline, Nelson, from London, are on shore near Wells. The Neptunus, from Hull to Dantzic, was wrecked on the Jadder on the 14th ult. CREW OF THE SHIP JOHN EATON. (From the Canton Register.) In Scott's Gazette of the 21st of February is a Govern ment notification (too long for extracting), stating the official report of the examination at Batavia of Richard Quin, William Grindall, James Wright, and Laurins Constantyn. Two others, the third mate and boatswain, were confined by illness to the hospital. It appears that this part of the crew, after leaving the ship, and driving about 15 days on the ocean, thinking they had arrived at Timor, landed, were attacked, and being unarmed, were obliged to surrender to the natives ; that after living for fourteen months with the natives, the Chiefs permitted them to depart in a trading proa from Am boyna, the seamen having promised to return in an English ship with arms and ammunition to assist them against their enemies. From Ambnyna they had been brought to Batavia in the Dutch brig Patriot—they declared the natives had treated them well, returned a part of their clothes, and sup plied them with food, without requiring them to work. They heard that other Europeans were on some of the neighbouring settlements. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusties.) CUMBER] _AND. Coarse homy Lowland Meadow Hay.... tier; Meadow Hay Useful OW Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay Clever Hal 5 5 0 0 Oat straw £1 18 t• 1:2 01 Wheat Straw 2 0 2 2 32,11 TH FIELD Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay f.ft 10 to .4:3 15 tii.'W Meadow Hay Usefiil ON Ditto 4 0 4 5 Fine Uplanvi Aleadow alai Rye erase Hay Ci,ver 1-lay k extra fine 4. 60 .. Generally ....... $ • 515 Oat Straw WHITECHAPEL, Coarse Nlea , iow Hay -.5..3 10 t• A: -1 0 New Meadow Hay 1.1 . ,ef0l Old Dittw 4 0 4 10 Fine Upland Meadow and [lye grass Hay Clever flay 5 1 0 0 1,1 titrAw ..f.1 16 to ..t" 1 111 Whwat:Urav' NEW PALACE.—Yesterday and this day nearly 200 tons of Welch coals were delivered at the New Palace at Pimlico, for the purpose of airing it on a new and improved construction. Immense furnaces have been constructed on the basement of the premises, which, when heated, communicates entirely over every apartment through out the Palace by the aid of large pipes, which airs them in a much superior manner without the danger of separate fires in the apartments, which originally was the ease. The contract entered into is 200 tons per month until the Palace is ready. HALF-YEARLY PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS AT SANDHURST.—The usual half yearly public examination of the officers and gentlemen cadets studying at the Royal Military College took place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 3d, 4th, and sth inst. At the close of the examinations the following officers were presented with certificates of qualification :—Capt. S. Gordon, 35th Regi ment ; Lieutenants J. R. Wheeler, 54th ; G. Grey, 83d ; and G. Balck, 93d. In consequence of the very superior talents and acquirements displayed by the three last-men tioned officers in the highest branch of mathematical science a special honorary addition was made to their certi ficates, and the following gentlemen cadets, who had com pleted their qualifications for commissions, were recom mended to the General Commanding-in-Chief for appoint ment to ensigncies in the line without purchase :—J. M. Primrose, G. A. Taylor, T. J. Kearney, Henry J. Warre, Robert Baillie, James R. Lysaght, J. A. Wilkinson, W. H. M. Simmons, J. L. Croker, C. Svreteham, C. J. Walker, E. Montagu, W. J. Hamilton, W. J. Hall, D. M'Adam, E. Haythorne, E. G. Wynyard, E. W. D. Lowe, W. Hamilton. By the result of the examinations about fifty other young gentlemen were declared to have made various steps towards qualifying themselves for com missions in those various branches of the mathematics which are applicable to military purposes in permanent and field fortifications, and the attack and defence of fortresses ; in Latin and general history, and in the modern languages ; and had also, during the half-year, completed the course of professional education in military surveying, and forty-one in the actual construction of entrenchments, and saps in the field, pontooning, &c. AN INDIAN Du-CRow.—The children of the Crow Indians are perfect imps on horseback. Among them was one so young that he could not speak. He was tied on a colt of two years old, but managed the reins as if by instinct, and plied the whip with true Indian prodigality. Mr. Hunt inquired the age of this infant jockey, and was answered that "he had seen two winters."—Astoria. Trollopizing has become very frequent at our theatres. Strangers are not aware what it means, and ge nerally falling into the indiscretion of turning their backs on the audience, and availing themselves of the cushions as a seat, in the intervals between the acts, from the oppressive ness of the heat. It is at such times that a sharp buzz is generally heard in the pit, and the eyes of many persons seem directed towards the individual or individuals who have offended. The cry of " Trollope ! Trollope ! Trol lope !" &c., finally becomes so loud and shrill, and so often repeated, that the objects aimed at are attracted by it, and looking around, find in a few moments that they are " the observed of all observers," and of course, without being conscious of any particular crime, immediately resume their seats, when a general roar of laughter, and then a perfect silence succeeds. This is Trollopizing, a mode of accelerating the civilization of American manners ; for which we are indebted to a certain well-known tourist called Mrs. Trollope.—. New York Paper. In opening lately a communication between two mines in a district of Hungary, the corpse of a miner, ap parently of about twenty-three years of age, was found in a situation which indicated that he had perished by an ac cidental falling in of a roof of the mine. The corpse was in a state of softness and pliability, the features were fresh and undistorted, and the whole body was completely pre served, as is supposed from impregnation with the vitriolic water of the mine. When exposed to the air the body be came stiff, but the features and the general air were not discomposed. The person of the deceased has not been recognized ; but an indistinct recollection of the accident by which the sufferer bad been thus engulphed in the bowels of the earth more than half a century, has been prolonged by tradition among the miners and the country people. Further inquiry has been dropped, and the necessary ar rangements were made to inter the body with the cus tomary rites of burial. THE THEATRES DRURY-LANE. Mr. Forrest repeated his performance of Lear here last night ; but as we noticed his first tppearance in this cha racter at some length on Saturday, we recur to the subject only for the purpose of answering some objections urged against Mr. Forrest in a Sunday Contemporary, who boldly asserts that his Lear is little, if at all, removed above the level of common-place. Our Contemporary is often just in his theatrical notices, giving reasons " for the faith that is in him ;" but in the present instance he appears to write in a headstrong spirit of partizanship, just as if he were a nnoyed that an American actor should presume to claim a first-rate rank in his profession, and bear away the palm from Macready ; and as if, also, he were desirous to show how completely he is in the right, and the rest of the play-going world are in the wrong, in their estimate of Mr. Forrest. Now we dislike this perverse, crotchetty spirit in critiscism, and have yet to learn that eccentricity is discrimination, or prejudice pro foundness. Our Contemporary begins by objecting to Mr. Forrest that he played Lear as a " foolish fond old man." Well, and this general conception of the character is the right one, for in what other way should he personate the royal dotard, who gave away kingdoms in return for foolish speeches, and banished an old and tried friend for merely daring to show his disinterestedness ? Elevation of mind and sentiment are not the natural characteristics of Lear ; misery, it is true, takes him out of himself, and for a time lifts him into the world of imagination ; but we find him, in the pauses of the mental tempest, constantly falling back on his original self—the royal dotard, the crea ture of conventional habit all over ; and no mote to be considered a lofty or intellectual personage, " for the " sublime analogy of his sorrows"—as our Contemporary sublimely phrases it—than the Duke of Wellington is to be considered an orator, because he once delivered an eloquent and impassioned speech on the horrors of civil war, that took the Lords and the country equally by sur prise. Again, our Contemporary insists that Mr. Forrest's sorrows do not issue " out of a great breach in nature," and " assume a privilege of preternatural grandeur"—in other words, that they are not unnatural enough ; not sufficiently stilted or unintelligible, like the objection itself, which re commends the issuing of a " breach" out of a " privilege"— a very original objection truly, and one happily calculated to disturb, what Philosopher Square delighted to call, " the fitness of things." The critic goes on to observe that Mr. Forrest's question to Goneril, " are you our daughter ?" which by the way was one of the finest points in his per formance—should have had a " hideous and dream-like sound." What quaint, captious hypercriticism is this? How was the actor to convey the notion of a dream by a sound ? Wei he to do it through the medium of a snore ; I or show that he could make his voice "hideous" by roaring like a Westphalia bullock ? A tragedian who should adopt the critic's suggestion in this passage, instead of delivering the interrogatory in a tone of distrust and heart-felt bitter ness, would very soon have leave to absent himself from the boards of an English theatre. But the thing is impossible, and we have George Colman's word for it, that " What's impossible, can't be, And never, never comes to pass." " Mr. Forrest," adds our Contemporary, "threw himself on his knees for the delivery of the curse with fine effect. But he should have thrown his head completely back, instead of thrusting it forward." Now this is sheer, undiluted drivel. Lear was not taking a gargle for a sore throat, but imprecating a curse. He was in the attitude of deep, im passioned prayer, asking from the Deity that which he felt assured would be granted to his invocation. Had be " thrown his head completely back"—we say nothing of the burlesque figure he would have cut in such an attitude—he would most unquestionably at his age, and with his physical weakness, have cracked his occiput against mother earth. " The terrible imprecation," pursues our Contemporary, " was afterwards given in an explosion of rapid and con• vulsive passion." Of course it was ; and if the critic, dismiss ing his crotchets, and his strenuous desire to be thought to see further into a millstone than other folks, will but conde scend to weigh well the thoughts and images of which the curse is made up, he will see that it could not with propriety have been given otherwise. Is there no " phrenzy of rage"— no "convulsive passion" in Lear's supplication to " nature," that she will " suspend her purpose," and " convey ste rility" into the " womb" of his own chilld ? If this be not passion exasperated to phrenzy, we know not what is. The critic, however, insists that the curse " wrought its passage from a heart that was absolutely breaking in the the effort," whereas the heart was all energy—not " break ing," but strung, for the time, to the extreme point of ten sion. Our contemporary proceeds to say, " Mr. Forrest's aye, every inch a king,' was good, though mistaken in its spirit ; for these words, we think, do not imply a cling ing to the notion of rank, but rather a bitter satire the other way." Every trait in Lear's character disproves this perverse assertion. He is throughout the creature of conventional habit. Royalty is his second nature—ever uppermost in his mind, even when discrowned and unhoused, a beggar, in the storm. His very 'first causes of complaint against his daughter, are, that she has shorn him of his ap pendages of State by dismissing five-and-twenty of his train—put his " fellow" in the stocks, even in the Royal presence—and kept the Royal father waiting the arrival of his child and subject. In fact, allusions to this monarchi cal dignity are constant throughout the play, and in laying due emphasis on these, Mr. Forrest has proved that he rightly apprehends the text of Shakespeare. Our Contem porary further objects that the actor gave these lines— " I tax not you, ye elements, with unkindness, I never gave you kingdoms, called you daughters, You owe me no obedience—here I stand your slave, • A poor,_ infirm, weak, and despised old man," in " very tender tones." Our critic will, we suspect, stand " gloriously alone" in this objection. The lines in question breathe the very soul of pathos. The allusion to the " daughters" here is no longer in a phrenzied or vindictive spirit, but in one, of sad regret—of heart-felt tenderness — of deep, hopeless despair, in which however there is not one particle—not the most distant approach to—anything like fierceness, or active energy. We have dwelt, perhaps, on our Contemporary's objections at more length than they deserve, but our sole motive for doing so, has been from a principle of fair play. We dislike to see an able man attempted to be sacrificed to a crotchet ; depreciated in order to suit the purposes of a clique. There are many pedantic critics, now living, of the " word-catching" genus, Who view In Shakespeare more than Shakespeare knew," and who, though apt to be sadly perplexed by an ob vious beauty in the great dramatist, are in raptures with a recondite or a doubtful one, which has escaped all eyes but their own, and our Sunday Cotemporary—at least as regards his present criticism—is evidently one of these. He is great on all small points of criticism ; we protest therefore against his competency to sit in judgment on Mr. Forrest's Lear. do, peculiar humour. The female characters have little to with the exception of Sally Snow, a Quadroon, who has a penchant for Jim Crow, and who was personated by Mr. s• Stirling in a style which the most " se vere" Yankee coulA not fail to applaud. OLYMPIC. Last night a new burletta, in two acts, was brought out at this theatre. It is called Barrack Boom, and is founded on the authority assumed by Buonaparte as ac ting as match-maker general for his whole empi re, and giving the hand of any lady he chose to select, whether so inclined or not, to such of his officers', civil or military, as he was dis posed to favour. It is a light trifling affair of love and glory, and could scarcely have become a part of the small currency of the theatre, if not supported by the attractions of Madame Vestris herself. Madame Vestris invited the audience to see her again in barracks, and the invitation wao accepted. SURREY. Two new pieces, the first called The Eniperor's Joke, and the other illy Frie.nd's IVife, were produced last night at this theatre with consisilerizble success. My Friend's Wife is an excellent little farce --:yell cast and well played, especially the characters sustain.'d by Miss Martin (who is very deservedly a partichilat favourite), and Messrs. Vale and W. Smith. The Betlouin Arabs went through their surprising feats of strength ant; agility, and the entertainments concluded with a revival of j,:ick Robinson and his Monkey. Monsieur Gouffe, as 3/fust:' a Pug (the monkey), is an inimitable representative of that i n ischieyous and active ((lucre) quadruped —that comedian of tie wilds. J-, THE WEATHER.—There is yet much corn uncut in this county, and we fear it must remain uncut for human food. The potatoes, in many places, have suffered severely by the frost ; and many farmers who had commenced taking up their crop have been great losers by the sudden ness with which it set in, and at so unusually an early period of the season. At the hour we write (three o'clock, Fri day afternoon), a severe hail and snow storm, accomp with lightening, is now raging.—Carlisle Journal. THE POOR LAW AMENDMENT BILL.--Th e Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police have within the last fortnight directed the superintendents of the vari nos divisions to institute immediately the following inquiries, and report thereon at head-quarters in Scotland-yard How many infants have been found murdered in each dis trict from the commencement of 1833 to the end of Aug4 lst last ? Has the mother been detected ? What was her calling ? Was she independent, in service, or an applicant' for parochial relief ? The residence of the mother is also required, and the sex of each infant discovered as above. A return of the number of living infants found deserted and exposed is also, by the same order, called for, and the re port in question is to be delivered in to the proper authori ties on or before Wednesday next.—Morning Post. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, the greatest consternation and alarm was created in consequence of a fire breaking out at the residence of the Rev. Mr. North , No. 1, Connaught-terrace, Regent's Park. The whole of the family, with the exception of Miss North, had retirekd to rest, but that young lady, who was in . the drawing-room , perceiving a strong smell of tire, proceeding from below stairs, ran thither, and found the back parlour or library in a blaze. She screamed aloud " Fire, fire !" which alarmed her parents, and the rest of the family, who, in the greatest affright awoke, and, running down stairs into the street, pry' ceeded in their night dress to a friend's house, No. 3 9 e Upper Baker-street, where they were instantly admitted , and remained till the fire was extinguished. Several engines shortly arrived, as well as Superintendent Lincoln, of the D division of police, Mr. Wiggins, inspector, old several of the men, when, by their united exertions, and a plentiful supply of water, the fire was got under, being confined to the room in which it broke out, all the furnitore, books, and other valuables it contained, being entirely c onsumed. The fire, it appeared, had originated in a cupboard adjoin ing the fire-place. The damage done is estimated ttt 200 1 . The property is insured in the Norwich Union. A question of great interest in the dramatic world, involving property to a considerable amount, will shortly come under the notice of the gentlemen of the long roe. The parties are Moncrieff, the dramatist, and Cumberlan 3, a bookseller. It may be remembered that by a recent Act: of Parliament the right of performance of all dramatic pieces was secured for the future to the several authors of those pieces, their heirs, or assigns. The same right was also vested in all printed pieces published within ten years previously to the passing of the Act. Cumber land having previously printed a great number of dramas of different authors, for many of which he had given scarcely anything, while others had been given to him, or the stereotype plates purchased of other publishers, Cum' berland, as in the case of " Richardson and Dobbs," •con tends that in all instances the bare act of his printing th e piece entitles him to the right of performance of it ; that the right of printing and performing are one an d the same ; that a letter authorizing him to print is as good at. , a receipt for copyright ; and that a receipt is an assignmen t. Moncrieff (who, we believe, was bred a lawyer) argues tho contrary, inferring, that if the right of printing and perform ing are the same, there was no occasion to have passed an Act of Parliament expressly to create the latter. He also insists that a receipt cannot be an assignment, as the Le-. gislature, aware of the sweeping nature of an assignment , has fixed a 30s. stamp to it, while a twopenny one may serve for a simple receipt. Cumberland is realizing an immense income out of the brains of the poor " play-wrip;hts," which (under the peculiar circumstances) appears to be a hard ease.—Observer. SHORT SIGHT.—This infirmity of vision, a eottl",. plaint whi c h is rather common among the higher classes of society in all countries, is not unfrequently cured in Russi a by the following plan :—The patient is placed with the back part of the head fixed against a wall, and a desk is Pu t before hi m with a book on it, at such a distance that h may easily read. After a week or two have elapsed the desk is moved further off, thus gradually increasing the ds' tance, until it has been removed to the full exte nt of ord nary vision, always allowing the patient to acquire the power of reading before the distance is increased. NEW POOR LAWS.—It does not seem to be gene" rally known, that by the 27th section of this Act aPYt two Justices of the Peace usually acting for the distrie where the Union is situated, may, at their just and prolO i e r discretion, direct, by order under their hands a nd seal!, that relief shall be given to an adult person, who shall from old age, or infirmity of body, be wholly unable to work' without requiring that such person shalt - reside in any wo r k.. house : providea, that one of such Justices , shall certify ID_ such order, of his own knowledge, that such person Is wholly unable to work, as aforesaid." for Lord Charles Wellesley has left Apsley HoLlse Strathfieldsaye and Portsmo - uth. On Saturday the four inspectors, who it will be re v' collected were suspended from their situations in the division of police, in consequence of an extensive robbed of money having been committed at the station-house that division, in Bow-street, were restored to tbe° A r i former rank. It is understood, however, that they s'"'', forfeit their pay for the period during which they been suspended, and that three of them will be rem ove" to another division. Captain Sercey son of the late Peer of Cher bourg? was found dead in his bed on the morning of the 27th 13 3 ' with the flesh on his breast and throat, and both his Om, burnt away to the bone. When he went to bed, a Ju'r °ll' bottle of very strong brandy was placed by his side , ° which only about one-eighth remained. The medical m on examination, ascertained that he had died of apople%Y, °l' and that his flesh had been consumed by spontaneous 0 bustion, for though the bedclothes were slightly burnt bf communication with the candle, the fire from them had esTirt dently been insufficient to produce the consequences• lilt is probable that they arose from the flames having the alcoholized vapour that issued from the Captain's b°`,: from EDUCATION IN HOLLAND.—WC find oM statistical report of the public schools and universities ib°, Holland, that the followinc , is the number of plac es of P° lie instruction in the northern division of that kingdom ~ Three universities, three athenaeums, 68 Latin schooP, three seminaries for Roman Catholics, one for Lutherat,!s; one for Sectarians, one for the Catholic clergy, and one.w e _ the Jews ; altogether 83 institutions for the higher of learning. For primary and for second class instructi:te there are in 70 districts, 2,1'25 village schools, 117 Pr iv , schools for the poor, and 630 for private sevenindiviuei! altogether 2,872 ordinary schools. There are also ,e institutes—viz., one for veterinary students, two for 01 1 ... deaf and dumb, one for the blind, and three for the litary and naval professions. Besides the institutions decal.. merated above, there are several others especially 1 cated to the arts. In Southern Holland there are one institutions for the highest grade of learning--viz° university, nine Latin schools, and one seminary for . l ere brancpeer man Catholics. The primary schools are 422, a an illag e contained in nine districts, and consist of 217, v illage schools, 20 for the poor, and 151 private OneS.---Aatirrhe INDIAN PREPARATION OF SALAION.---Aor salmon are cured and packed in a peculiar manner. on having been disembowelled, they are exposed to the sun dry, scaffolds erected on the river banks. When suffielen. t i: t he they are pounded fine between two stones pressed into smallest compass, and packed in baskets or bales et matting about two feet long and one in diameter, lineu;_a the cured skin of a salmon. The top is likewise co:its with fish skins, secured by cords passing through h° l eac h the edge of the basket. Packages are then m ade; .e a t containing twelve of these bales, seven at bottom, up. top, pressed close to each other , wit h the corded !tigtued ward, wrapped in mats and corded. These are 0 1 dry situations, and again covered thesepackages contains from 901 b. to 1001 b. of &le o with matting. P A which in this s tate will keep sound fo r several years. p ADELPHL Last night a new burietta, called A Flight to America; or, Ten Hours in New York, was produced at this theatre, for the express purpose of calling into request all the comic talent of the company, but more especially that of Mr. Rice, the able and faithful delineator of the American nigger, who made his appearance here for the first time after the conclusion of his engagement at the Surrey. The materials composing the plot are as slender as can well be conceived, but full of bustle and animation throughout. A pair of fair fugitives, Juliette Labelle, an opera dancer, and Ellen Segrave, her friend, are on their way from Liverpool to America, the former making her escape from her guardian, and by whom she is pursued, as alio by Antoine Pirouette, an antiquated French dc.ncing-master, whose pupil she had been, and who, in the infatuation of old age, is deeply enamoured of her charms, a dame to whom he had been yoked for many years before having proved faithless to her vow, and fled from his fire-side. Meanwhile Benjamin Blen kinsop, a cockney, who had come in for a fortune by the death of an uncle, having paid his addresses to Juliette Labelle, promised her marriage, but afterwards, repenting of his precipitancy, seeks to avoid the contract by taking a trip across the Atlantic. All the parties sail together in the same vessel, but it is not till their arrival at New York that a recognition takes place between them. The inci dents of the voyage are as varied and ludicrous as may reasonably be expected, and with them the first act termi nates. In the second act a very amusing picture is given of American manners, and here it is that Mr. Rice, while presenting an original personation of his far-famed Jim Crow, in the character of an ostler at " The One Tun Inn," and afterwards promoted to the station of Cicerone to Blenkinsop, produced an effect which must add very mate rially to the celebrity he has already acquired. His success was complete from the first moment to the last, and there were reiterated calls for several portions of his interminable song. The humour ho displayed in haranguing a body of his brother "niggers," as an officer in command of them, was comic in the highest degree ; nor was he less happy while exhibiting himself in his military character at a black ball, particularly at the moment when the whole party are interrupted by a loud knocking at the door announcing the arrival of Blenkinsop, whom Jim Crow, with all the effrontery of nigger independence, invites to join in the dance. Towards the conclusion of the piece, the Frenchman discovers his frail spouse in the person of the landlady of an hotel at New York, and is reconciled to her. Shortly afterwards, Jim Crow, the" runaway nigger," obtains his freedom by means of the hard dollars of his master, Blenkissop ; Juliette Labelle giving up all claims upon the latter, unites herself to a more favoured suitor, and the cockney is joined in the silken bonds to her friend Ellen Segrave. The comic trifle which has been thus made the medium of much varied talent, was as well received as the author could possibly desire, and is likely to have a run for some nights. Mr. Reeve as Blenkinsop, and Mr. Buckstone as a " Virginian settler, one of the not•to-be denied go-ahead school," gave each a rich sample of his