The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-10 00:00:00

' any account of him since his accession we copy it ; and also the description of his Prime Minister : " His Majesty was seated near the window sup ported by a pile of cushions, while a single attend ant knelt behind him waving a broad fan of feathers above his head. His dress was as usual, perfectly simple, the rich-jawelled handle of his dagger alone betokened his rank. His age does not exceed one or two and thirty, but his thick beard and heavy I figure make him appear an older man ; his counte / trance is rather handsome, and except when his anger is excited, of a prepossessing and good humoured expression : his manner, especially towards Euro peans, is extremely affable ; he generally speaks Turkish, the language of his tribe, but, both in that and in Persian, his enunciation is so rapid that it re quires some practice to understand him. Compared with the generality of Asiatics, the Shah is a man of considerah'e energy, and by no means deficient in information : he is well versed in the history of h's own country, and has a tolerably correct idea of the geography and political state of Europe. His iarmy is his hobby, and to his thirst for military fame he sacrifices both his own ease and comfort, and the welfare and prosperity of his country. His ' Court is far inferior in style and splendour to that of his grandfather and predecessor, the principal 1 offices of State being occupied by men of low \ origin, deficient in that magnificence and courtli i o ; s of manner which formerly distinguished the 1 Persian Noble. The late King was always at tended by a numerous and gallant retinue of princes i of the. blood, and officers of state, besides a crowd ; of inferior retainers ; the present Monarch often i rides out with a few ill-mounted and worse ap i pointed followers. The Shah is a strict and con ; scientious Mussulman ; he never indulges in the forbidden juice of the grape, an abstinence rare in the ro:, al family, nor does he follow the universal prac tice of smoking. His harem, unlike that of his grand 'father, the number of which exceeds all credibility, 1 is within the limits prescribed by the M a h o m me d an I law. Well would it have been for P e rsi a h a d F a tt e h f Ali Shah been as moderate, for every government, however insignificant, was conferred upon one of his I cluntless sons, who drained the very heart's blood of 1 the country. Since the accession of the present mo -4 nareh the greater part of these have been removed, and many of them are now reduced to the ut- I n;ost distress, living from hand to mouth by the sale of shawls and jewels, the relics of better days. Some of the late king's wives have passed into the i Harems of private individuals : others, who had i amassed some property, live in their respective vil lages. Mahomed Shah has two sons ; the eldest, his Idestined successor, is now at Tabreez, under the care of Suleiman Khan, his maternal uncle. The 1 mother of the boy was of the royal tribe. The se mid, who resides at Tehran, is a chubby little fel low, about three years old, the son of a Koordish i woman. Having answered some questions put to me by the King on military s u bj ec t s , an d recommen d e d 1 , i to his Majesty's notice several of the officers who I had been under my command, I quitted the royal 1 presence and repaired to the tent of Haji Mirza 1 Aghassi, the Grand Vizier, which communicates by i a private door with the Nigaristan. The Haji, or pil . grim, as this important personage is always called, 1 from his having performed his devotions at the shrine 1 of Mecca, is the most remarkable man that I have met with. He is by no means destitute of talent, but his words and acti ons are strong l y i tinctured with real or affected insanity. He is said )to be deeply versed in the my s t er i es o f S oo l ec i sm , the wild theories of which, though incompatible 1 with the religion of the Prophet, are daily extending 1 the number of their votaries. The extraordinary 1 degree in which he has possessed himself of the confidence of his sovereign, both as political and spiritual adviser, rendered him almost omnipotent, and emboldens him to treat the ancient nobles, and even the princes of the royal family, with the utmost hauteur and coarseness, doubly galling to them ( from the l owness o f hi s or i g i n . Th e w h o l e ( ousiness of the state is transacted by him, and the other Ministers of the Shah are mere instruments in his hands. It is impossible to introduce any subject, but the Haji immediately assures you that he understands it more thoroughly 'than any man alive ; and I have h ear d hi m utter the most consummate nonsense about military' matters, while the whole assembly, with impertur -1 bable gravity, agreed with all he said. On one eccasion, some one having ventured to praise the 1 generalship of Napoleon, the Haji sharply inter , rupted him, saying, ' Napoleon 1 whose dog was Napoleon ?' The good sayings attributed to the Haji would fill a volume, but unfortunately few of them would admit of repetition to ears polite. His tent was as usual crowded : on either side of the great man, with the most punctilious regard to precedence, sat a long row of ministers, priests, and soldiers, whilst several secretaries, seated behind him, were writing despatches, or present ing them to him for perusal and signature. The approaching departure of the army occupied every mind ; and gholains, or couriers, ready booted for the journey, stood in readiness awaiting their orders to proceed to the different provinces from whence new levies were to be summoned. The Vizier is a short but athletic man, of about sixty, with a s areiad grey eye and a thin scanty beard, the cause of much witty rema r k i n a country w h ere t h at ap pencl...!ee is cultivated with so much care. Until the accession of the present Shah, the Haji filled a subordinate station in the household cf the Prince Royal, and had something to do with the education of the reigning King. He was raised to his pre sent dignity in 1835, when his predecessor, a bold clever man, having excited, by his ambition, the ' jealsavy of the Monarch, met with the fate of the bowstring. He affects a great friendship for the English, overwhelming us frequently with expres sions of regard, such as 'My life,' INIy soul,' 4 My ancient friend ;' but it is almost hopeless to . transact any business with him ; for, whenever the ' subject becomes disagreeable, he turns the conversa tion :o some other topic, and his ready made pus mises are as readily broken." FRENCH POSSESSIONS in AFRICA NI. Blanqui, sen., who WRS sent out by the Aca demv of Moral and Political Science, with the concurrence of Government, to make inquiries into the actual condition of the French possessions in the north of Africa, read the first part of his o'lservations to the Academy at its last sitting. We suljoin an account of his memoir, the length which is compensated by the interest of the sub lect " AT. Blanqui observes, that he found Africa Very different from either the flattering or the si nister pictures which have been represented of it. The country is not the same throughout. Oran, I ,‘ t glers, and Constantine, with Bo n a, form three utiff'ir ,, nt• modes of social existence : Oran, by its ex ternal t rade—Algiers for cultivation on a small —and Constantine for agriculture on a large scale. The three points represent the past, the present, and the future of the colony. The two extremities, Bona and Oran are as distant from each other, a 3 they are all three from France. Thc province of Oran, provisionally left in the back- L ji.)tinti, retains the habits and recollections of the Spanish administration ; but, as he could not visit 1 this province, which he consid ers d est i ned to great things, he directed his attenti on especially to Al , I Biers and Constantine, and t o t h e means of coloni zation which have hitherto been attempted in Africa. On setting his foot on the African soil, the traveller Alders is struck with different impressions, acco r di ng as he 1 lands at Algiers or Philippeville. .At he is astonished at the sight of this white Alo town, buil t i n the. form of an amphitheatre, and enclosed withi n I 4 hi,.,( , 11 circular walls. Its environs are covered with 1 a country houses, surrounded by lame trees,. and an is filled i exceedingly rich vegetation. Its harbour : i .0 throned with an ani .s with vessels, and its quays are thron, the vi -1 mated crowd, which reminds one of the move t} 1 r ent of the largest French towns. I • ! sitor enters the streets, he is still more as ' tonished at geeing new houses built in the Euro- C ^ D style would t . ) , and f u ll o f e l egant s h ops . H e tapcy that he was in a town of Provence or Italy, if hands of negroes, Biskiris, and Arabs, carrying :Airders, did not keep up something of the original 1.1 physiognomy : Al ready two-thirds of Algiers have 10 Yone this unt -rt, rnetamorph,;sis, which is extending ii i tse lf, and driving before it the Mussolinan popula! ton, who reject European habits, and cannot tole ! EVENINi EDITION. THE SCHAH OF PERSIA AND HIS GRAND VIZIER, (From the Indian Review.) " When the Persian army marched to the siego of Herat, Captain Wilbraham sought the opportu nity to make this autumnal excursion, and, previous to his departure from Tehran, had an audience of leave of the new Shah. As we have not met with rate an activity so foreign to their own, and the Moors, Turks, and Arabs who leave the city are re placed by numerous emigrants from the Balearic Islands, Malta, the coast of Italy, Germany, and even Switzerland. The visitor must penetrate the narrow streets of the upper town to find the native habitations which have escaped European contact. The high price of provisions is a consequence of this new population, whose voracity astonishes the Mussulman, accustomed to live upon so little, and impoverishes him without opening a prospect of change. Rents have increased enormously, on account of the limited space of the city. A simple restaurateur, who is however making a fortune, pays 9,000 f. a-year for the first-floor of a house, and there are shops which are let at quite as high rents as those of the Palais Royal. A dark and low bureau de tabac islet at 2,5001. a-year. The occupation of the French has ruined the middle classes, to raise the lower orders from the de graded state in which they were vegetating. The middle classes, many of whom lived upon the incomes derived from the posts which have been suppressed, and others upon revenues which are now unequal to the increased prices of all the necessaries of life, and whose misery is be coming greater and greater every day, either live in the midst of privation, or solicit even the meanest employment for bread, or the most fanatical of them expatriate themselves, leaving their wives and daughters behind to a course of life which is be ginning to excite serious attention. The lower classes, however, under the protection of the laws, now raise their heads, are becoming industrious, and get rapidly reconciled to European habits, and above all, to the money of their new masters. The mania for hoarding up, so common in the East, is very strong among this ignorant population, who, it is said, have not buried less than 30,000,000 f. since the conquest of Algiers. The cultivators of the environs of Algiers have been great gainers by the increased consumption occasioned by the presence of the French. The markets are as well supplied those of Paris, and the environs are as busy with the movement of horses, mules, camels, and carts laden with provisions, as those of the capital of France. The gardens are let at enormous rents, old houses are constantly disappearing to make room for new buildings, and the legal interest on capital in all transactions is 15 per cent. Everything in the vitality of this African city shows that it has richness and strength. Toulon, in spite of its arsenal and its marine, has the air of a ruined city, if its tranquil monotony be compared with the feverish activity of Algiers. " The Sahel is an immense plain or plateau in terposed between the coast and the Metidja. Its surface is unequal, divided by deep and abrupt val lies ; but it is of extraordinary fertility, and in point of picturesque appearance equals in many respects Italy itself. It extends from Cape Matsfou to the promontory of Sidi Ferruch, and is covered with farming establishishments and country houses, many like Provençal bastides or Italian villas, The trees that grow on it attain immense size, but it is in many parts covered with thick brushwood, or with unprofitable produce that resists the efforts of the cultivator. Behind this district, adds M. Blanqui, extends the plain of the Metidja, which all the persons who come to settle in Algeria look on as the promised land,' but which in reality has proved to too many the seat of death. M. Blanqui compares this plain to that of Aleria, in Corsica, and maintains that it is impossible to colonize it properly without measures having been first taken for rendering it healthy. The consequence has been, that the mortality among the settlers has been very great, and that it was speedily found by Government that it would take too great a number of troops and too much money, to say nothing of the risk of the lives of the soldiers from the climate, to allow of the colonists being protected in the way that might be desired. All that has been found practicable has been to form a double line of road along the base of the Atlas, and to make other roads diverging to it from Algiers as a common centre. These lines communicate with detached camps, some of which are in more salubrious posi tions than others, but in all of which great mortality among the soldiers has occurred. The towns of Blidah and Koleah are in exceptional situations at two extremities of these lines of de fence. Bouffarick is on the verge of the Sahel. He mentions as instances of the fertility of the land that bulbous plants which grow on it in great abun dance have bulbs sometimes attaining twenty pounds in weight. Nothing, too, can be more beautiful than the extraordinary luxuriance of the weeping willows, and all kinds of African plants, that cover the surface. The Jewish population is the only one that really amalgamates with the French one —the Arabs not. Many French have adopted the Arab costume, but not a single Arab the French one. The children of native families show great aptitude to acquire the French language, but those parents who allow them to do so are only of the lowest classes. The Moors of Algiers have only hitherto sent three or four children to the college of Algiers, and at a ball lately given to the Duke of Orleans not a single Moor ish woman was present, though there were seven or eight Jewish ladies. All the public revenues are on the increase. The department of Enregistrement et Domaines has produced during the first half of the current year 20,0001. more than during the corresponding pe riod of 1838 ; the octroi and other minor duties have been increased 64,000 f. ; the post department 33,0001. ; steam-packet department more than 25,0001. The total excess of the revenue for this period over the corresponding period of 1838 has been 206g000f. Commercial returns show similar results. In 1838 the exports of wax from Algiers amounted to 1-22,715 f. ; the first six months only of 1839 have given an excess of 100,000 f. on thi a ar ticle alone. Leathers, in 1838, were exported for 746,000 f. ; but during the first half of the current year they have increased to 1,396,427 f.; the trade in wool is 800 per cent. greater than it was last year ; leeches have been exported from Algeria for more than 3,000,000 f. during the current year. " M. Blanqui concludes this part of his report with pointing out the difficulties arising to colonists from the tenure of property in Algiers, calling it a great evil, and promising to notice it in his nex communication.' FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN NORTH AFRICA. No. 2. At the last sitting of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, M. Blanqui continued the read ing of his report on the condition of the French provinces in the north of Africa. This second ; part of his memoir was to the following effect : It appeared appeared difficult to explain the stationary character of the colonization of Algiers, considering the great activity that reigns in the town and its environs, and the various symptoms of the prosperity to which he had already alluded, such as high rents, high rate of interest, and other indications of colonial progress. In spite of all these, the colonization of Africa languishes, a circum stance which he attributes to the complicated regu lations connected with the possession of property. When the French army took possession of A;friers, property was subject to laws very different from those of France. These laws were the resu!t of two authorities equally despotic—military and reli gious power, and were in direct opposition to the philosophical and liberal principles of French legis lation. The Civil Code and the Koran were brought into a conflict, which is not near its termination. When the French system of government suddenly replaced that of the Dey, there were several kinds of property—that of the State, which is called doiruzine in France, and in which was in cluded the personal property of the Dey ; corpora tion property, which was a sort of collective pro. perty possessed by partners or associations, some times by whole tribes; and the property of individuals. As far as the property of the domain and of the Dey was concerned, the change pas effected without difficulty, the con queror simply exchanging places with the conquered. The difficulty began ;lien the Government at tempted t o l a y i ts h an d s on th e p ro p er ty of corpora tions, some religious and others charitable, or pre tending to be so, a n d a sser ti ng man y rights liable to disp ute, one of which was that of holding and managing possessions, the heirs of which were ab bpyro pty were ab sent. Wh en the French attempted to inquire into the titl e whicher thedi held, descriptions of cor poration complaints arose on every side, and a formal article of the capitulation having guaranteed that property should be respected, it was made the ground of defence for every abuse. Speculators fell upon all kinds of property without 4jstinction, with ideas of European tenure, and without forieeieg perils which, great as they are, have not put a stop to this fatal passion of acquisi. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1839. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL, DEC. 7. (Before Lord BROUGHAM, Mr. Justice BOSANQUET, Mr. Justice ERSKINE, Sir H. JENNER, and Dr. LUSHINGTON.) MR. DAT'S WILL.-DUFAUR V. CROFT AND OTHERS. Mr. GIILDLESTONE applied to their Lordships, on the part of Mr. Croft and the two other executors named in the will and four first codicils of the late Mr. Day, the blacking manufacturer, to fix an early day for hearing the appeal in this case. Lord BROUGHAM asked on what ground ? Mr. GIRDLESTONE—On the ground that until the appeal is decided, nothing can be done under the will, and a great many persons entitled to bequests and an nuities under it are consequently placed in a state of the greatest distress. The property is immensely large. Lord BROUGHAM—What is the question ? Is it the validity of the will? tiveness. Everybody wished to parchase, without reflecting that in the military struggle which had taken place many titles miglit have been lost, and without inquiring if the vendors had a right to sell. Such was the rage for acquiring property at last, that purchases of 10,000 and 20,000 hectares (.25,000 to 50,000 acres) were made without their having ever been seen by the purchasers ; and the gardens of Blidah and Koleah were sold before the French army had set foot in those towns. The scarcity of specie, and probably the influence of habit, had established the system of paying by a perpetual ground rent instead of capital. This system was adopted by the French Government, and contributed greatly to increase the rage for speculation. Every succeding purchaser had the hope of selling at a profit, and knew that, in the event of disappointment, he risked only a very small sum. This facility of acquisition brought prices up to an exorbitant height, and houses (although let at enormous rents) did not produce a revenue equal to the perpetual rent paid by their owners. The consequence was, that disasters, such as take place on the Exchange of Paris, oc curred in Algiers under different names. The course adopted by the colonists, even the most skilful, is stated by M. Blanqui to have been highly injudicious. Some of them have turned their attention to a system of cultivation unsuited to a new country. They have planted cotton, tobacco, and madder, and are all ruined. Others have only appeared in the plains to cut down the grass for hay, and have seldom had time allowed them by the Arabs to carry off what they had cut. Every day costs a head. Immense crops have been lying for two years, which the colonists have neither been able to sell nor to carry off. Blidah has rather less than 40,000 inhabitants. The streets are much wider than those of Algiers, and are • covered by a sort of trellis-work, which protects them from the sun. The houses are open with front shops, in which the inhabitants are employed, some embroidering silk burnous, others on saddlery, and other works in leather, and some in hollowing out the long pipes which are so prized in the east. The coffee-houses were filled with grave, silent cus :omers, and nothing gave indication of its being a French town. The inhabitants have never enjoyed more profound security, but many have emigrated, and their houses are falling to decay. The orange trees are withering for want of being watered, and the fences of many of the gardens are broken down. " And what gardens !" adds M. Blanqui : " there is nothing in the environs of Naples so fine. The orange, almond, and carob trees, and all the fruit , trees of warm countries, and the vine, grow here and at Koleah with remarkable vigour ; and the Palma Christi grows at Koleah to the height of 30 feet. As to the houses which have been sold to Euro peans, who pay the perpetual rent, as if they were really proprietors, no person attends to them. The Europeans cannot enter, and the Arabs, having no interest in keeping them in order, suffer them to go to decay." On whatever side we turn our eyes, M. Blanqui then goes on to remark, it is evident that it is high time to put an end to the anarchy which reigns as to the tenure of property in every part of these posses. sions : and there is no proprietor who would not cheerfully prefer a new organization to the present state of uncertainty. M. Blanqui recommends that a progressive tax should be put upon all the un cultivated lands, and every facility be given to the industrious colonist, at the same time that an end is put to wild speculation ; in short, that labour should be encouraged in every possible way, and speculation without labour be effectually checked. After M. Blanqui had concluded the reading of this part of his report, several members of the Aca demy congratulated him on the result of his labours. M. Dupin observed that M. Blanqui had com pletely established the basis upon which the colo nization of Algeria must henceforth be conducted ; adding, that the Romans, when masters of Africa, proceeded on a very different pla❑ from that fol lowed by France, and that their policy of attach ing the colonist to the land, as a new country, was especially worthy of imitation. BRUSSELS, DRc. 4.—CHARITY OF THE EN GLISH AMBAISADOR.—The Philanthropic Society will give, on Saturday next, a grand Concert for the benefit of the poor ; which promises to be very attractive. The society being informed that the English Ambas sador intended to have a grand evening party on Sa- turday, Mr. T. Kent wrote to his Excellency some days ago, requesting him for the sake of the poor to be so good as to change the day fixed for his party. The letter was delivered in the evening, and very early on the following morning, Mr. T. Kent received the answer of the English Ambassador, who informed him that he would not only defer his party to the following Saturday, but that he would make it both his duty and his pleasure to ask all the persons whom he had invited, to go to the Concert, where he would himself be present with all his family.—The Chevalier Peruzzi was received on the 3d instant by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to whom he delivered his credentials as Charge d'Affaires from his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany to the King's Government. THE MAGISTRATES AND THE CORONERS.— UNNECESSARY INQUESTS.—On Thursday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Baker at the Black Swan, School House-lane, Ratcliffe, on the body of Joseph Elliott, mariner, aged forty-four. The Coroner said this was one of the cases where the Magistrates complained that inquests were unnecessarily held. In this case he also thought it unnecessary ; but the regis trar bad refused to permit a funeral until one had been held. An application had been made to him to hold an inquest when the deceased died, on the 24th of last month, but on making inquiries he found it was not a case of any suspicion, as the deceased had been ill and nearly bedridden for twelve months, and after having been taken mortally had lingered for at least six hours. The registrar having prohibited the interment, he (the Coroner) ag reed to hold an inqu es t if d es i re d to d o so by the paris authorities, and they, at length, on the sth instant, sent an order to him. He was surprised at receiving it, for from the lapse of time he thought the matter was decided. Had the case occurred in a com mon lodging-house, or amongst dirty people, the result might have been frightful. Evidence was then adduced proving the death was perfectly natural, and a verdict to that effect was returned. ROBBERIES.—On Thursday, the 21st ult., from the railway station, Liverpool, a black leather bag, containing a thick patent cloth coat, a silk vest, a French silk cravat, a pair of grey trousers, two dressing-cases, linen marked " D. H." a letter containing a ten-pound Bank of England note, nine five-pound Bank of England notes, and a five-pound note of the Shropshire Bank, marked at the back of each " W. T.," with a recent date ; fifty one sovereigns and two half-sovereigns, addressed to " Ricnard Hall, Esq., Eastern Counties Railway office, London-bridge, London, tied with red tape, "J. M. H." on the seal.—On Sunday, from 48, Greek -street, Soho, the following articles, the pro perty of Mr. Francis Arundel :—Five ten-pound Bank of England notes, one five-pound ditto, and a pair of shell cameos for earrings. —From the tollhouse, Cambridge heath, Hackney, on Monday morning, about forty sovereigns, and a note of the Bank of England for 51. or 101., by a lad abont seventeen years old, five feet six inches high, fair complexion, dressed i n a dark brown coat, corduroy trousers, and worsted cap.—On Sunday, from the house of Mr Crew, No. 30, West-street, Bethnal-green, a pair of pearl drop ear-rings, a pair of coral ear-rings, a wed ding ring, two gold rings, a silver single-cased watch, a gold breast buckle with brass pin, a plum-coloured waistcoat piece with a dark flower, an old gold ear-ring with a coral drop, 71. in sovereigns and half sovereigns, 9s. 6d. in silver, and 12s. in fourpenny pieces.—On Sunday morning as William Pattram was returning from Leicester to Wigton, he was stopped by three men, about three miles from Leicester, who threw him down and robbed him of a silver bunting-watch, with a gold seal and key at tached ; a double-cased comb, a pocket-knife with three blades, and fifteen shillings in silver and some halfpence.—On Thursday a servant of R. R. White head, Esq. of Thuscomb-house, near Minchinhampton, was robbed of sixty pounds at Gloucester fair. Four of the notes were of the Gloucester branch of the Bank of England, Nos. 59,374, 59,375, 59,376, and .59,377, for 101, each ; the other four notes were of the Bank of Stuckey and Co., Bristol, for .5/. each. The rob bery was committed by two men, about 30 years of age SINGULAR CASE OE IMPOSITION.—There •is a woman en route through the Northern Counties, who calls herself sometimes Daniels and sometimes by other names ; she appeals to the hearts of the several clergymen at the different towns which she visits, and, unfortunately for our incumbent, the Rev. F. Close, re fers to him for a character and the truth of her tale ; and he has actually received letters of inquiry (most of them unpaid) from Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Preston Bury, Wigan, and the last of all from Brad ford in Yorkshire. It is needless to add, that he knows nothing of this woman, who is such a successful vagrant that we hope she will obtain retribution somewhere. We understand that Mr. Close has, in several instances, an swered the letters by return of post, b ut t h e lady is too active for bey clerical pursuers —Cheltenham Chronicle. HOLLYHOCKS.—There is now growing in a garden in the occupation of Mr. J. Jones, of Great Ness, six hollyhocks of various colours, one of which is upwards of thirteen feet high, the other five from eleven to twelve feet.—Carnarvou Herald, Dec. 7. PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) Warned by Lord E.don, that Prince of Prophets, whose inspiration it was, and is, absolute profanity to doubt, that " from the moment the Catholic Relief Bill became law, this country would no longer have a Protestant King or a Protestant Parliament,"—with this solemn warning sounding in their ears, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel pressed onward in their course ; and, by passing the Bill, opened the Constitution to ail who are subject to its laws, instead of endeavouring, at the risk of destroying the inte grity of the empire, to maintain the monopoly for which Lord Eldon contended, and which the Tories are labouring might and main to restore. 'rho close corporation of former dee s being opened by the Act of 1829--for this most sufficient reason, that the exclu sionista could no longer with safety venture to keep it shut—the question now is, can the Relief Bill be treated as a dead letter by any Government ‘Vill the nation which wrurg from the Duke of Wellington's expressed fears what had in vain been claimed on the ground of reason and right, be con tent to be proscribed—treated as " aliens" from the commonwealth—as the Irish Catholics were before the restrictions under which they laboured were removed by the Legislature ? This question is one of serious import to Sir R. Peel ; who, if he has not abandoned all hope of ever again forming a Cabinet, must, whenever he makes the attempt, encounter the ditri -1 culties it involves. Is the Right Honourable Be ' ronet prepared to adopt the p r i nc ipl e o f exc l us i on , and thus repeal in practice the la w w hi c h ra i se d th e 1 1 Catholics to the rank of freemen ? Does lie imagine that the members of that communion will be satisfied with this mockery of their rightful claims, and that Ire ' land will be tranquil under injuries rendered vet more galling by insult ? The first measure of a Cabinet acting on such a policy must be to con vert every town and village in Ireland into a garri son. Is the nation prepared for the large increase of taxation demanded by such an addition to its military force—for the calamity it would be designed to avert —the possibility of its inefficiency for the purpose—and 1 the direful consequences of its failure ? To illustrate the base hypocrisy, the glaring injustice of the clamour raised by the Tories against the present Government, on the ground of its acts being hostile to the Protestant Establishment, it is worth while to refer to the policy of their own statesmen when in power. 'What, we ask, would be the outcry raised by the Tories against the present Ministry, were a Bill to be introduced into Parliament under its sanction, for maintaining the Ro man Catholic priests out of Me public revenues Yet such a project was formed, and the attempt actually made to carry it into execution by the orthodox Tories! (From the Courier.) We have manifested no indiposition for placing the conduct and measures of Ministers favourably before the country when, on occasions too few and far between, the task has been rendered conscientiously practicable. In the absence of positive evidence we have indeed at times rather strained presumption in that sense. It is therefore with entire satisfaction that we refer to one act for which credit may fairly be assigned, and in a double point of view, for the appointment of Sir Charles Metcalfe to the Government of Jamaica is no less a confession of past errors than his first proceedings are fruitful of promise of future amendment in the course of our colonial policy. The amendment, indeed, was like a death-bed repentance, the effect of fear and force, for the Legislature had cut short the further career of folly and oppression. The Ministry were brought to a stand-still in the course upon which they had pro gressed so far, but yet they had it in their option to stultify legislative action by executive perverseness, if pride and passion should so have prevailed. Fortu nately counsel more wise and safe predominated ; they hesitated not to seal the avowal and condemnation of their own past transgressions by the recall of Sir Lionel Smith, the instrument, unscrupulous as senseless, and the nomination of Sir Charles Metcalfe, the enlightened harbinger of a better policy and a more happy era. The inaugural address of the new Governor has already been given in our columns, and we venture to say has afforded unmixed satisfaction to all classes of sound opinion in this country, as in the colony it diffused hope and had softened the asperities of party already. If to afford instant relief, and restore the ancient prosperity of Ja maica, were beyond his power, and, except by patience and prudence, out of human power, the expression of soothing sympathy and of cheering hopes of better days was not withheld ; and we all know the balm to the troubled mind which the condolence of friendly feeling never fail to impart in seasons of trial and adversity. (From the Standard.) Ministers are driven to their " old word so." The Examiner of yesterday had a tolerably long article to prove that the retirement of Lord Mel bourne must be followed by a rebellion in Ireland. The only chance of a rebellion in I re l an d, h owever , arises upon Lord Melbourne's continuance in Ireland —not upon his retirement. The Romish sect, though very ready rebels and admirable seconds in a rebel lion—never take the initiative, or the chief lead at first. There is a reason for this in the constitution of their Church. Bishops and priests are too much habituated to the practice of tyranny, to make manageable conspi rators, while the secret is to be kept—when the sacer dotal democracy is free from the necessity of keeping up appearances by concealment, and is able to corn -1 municate and debate openly, then R ome t a k es her station and lead. Thus it will be seen by a reference to the history of all Romish rebellions from that of the League . to that o f B russe l s, t h at t h e Romanists always come in second. In Ireland, happily, there is at present no party to play first, and there fore the constitution and the habit of Romanism give an assurance that there can be no rebellion. But why should the accession of Sir Robert Peel to office provoke a Romanist rebellion ? Sir Robert Peel, we are sorry to say it, has given more to Roman ists than all the other Ministers that have governed the United Kingdom since 1688. And long before he made that last gift ho had adminis tered the Government of Ireland for four or five years, more to the satisfaction of all parties, Romanist as well as Protestant, than any predecessor or suc cessor in office. But then Sir Robert Peel is con nected with a party for which he as a Minister would be responsible : why surely for the party not for the individuals, and before 1829 that party, and that party only, had given to Romanists everything they could demand, but the one great gift, by which the Right Honourable Baronet in the year referred to, tested Romanist fidelity, Romanist honour, and Romanist gratitude. Why, then, should the Irish Romanist& rebel, in resentment for the accession to office of him who (whether wisely or not) has beer of all men living their greatest benefactor ? We can not tell —except it be that Mr. O'Connell cannot hope for a place from him or expect to govern the empire in his name. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The ordinary monthly meeting for general business was held on Thurscl4 afternoon. W. Yarrell, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. Mr. Ogilby, the Secretary, read the Report of the Council, which stated the balance in hand at the last month -436/. 18s. 6d.: received since from the sale of Exche quer bills, 1,0091. 18s. lid. ; and the general income 197/. 2s. 1 id.—making a total of 1,6541. ss. 7d. There had been expended on the Gardens, 885/. ; on the Mu seum, 83/., and the general establishment, 711., which. with 505/. invested in Exchequer bids, made a total of 1,505/., leaving a present balance of 143/. A variet 3 of presents were announced to the library, and also t , the Museum ; amongst. which was a large collection of shells and sponges from South Australia, from Mr. Harvey, a corresponding member. The number of visitors in the past month was 184, from which I/. 14s. was received. Several presents, but none of particular importance, were announced to the menagerie ; and the number of visitors in November were 2,094, from whom 681. 12s. was received. The most particular work which had been completed at the Gardens was the new monkey-house. Several new candidates were proposed, after which the Society adjourned to January 2, 1840. THE ORDER OF THE BATll.—Among the orders of knighthood stablished in England, one of the most ancient is that of the Bath, which is supposed to have derived its name from the ancient custom of bathing previous to the ceremony of installation. As to the precise date when this order of knighthood was established no evidence now remains ; but the first mention of it in English history occurs in the year 1399, when Knights of the Bath are said to have assisted at the Coronation of Henry the Fourth. Froissart says, " The Saturday before his Coronation he departed from Westminster, and rode to the Tower of London, with a great number ; an d t h at n i ght a ll suc h esqu i res as should be mad e k n i g h ts the next d ay , f watched, who were to the numb er o f' 46. Every esqu i re h a d hi s own bagne (bath) by hi mself ; and of Lancaster ma d e them all kn i ghts, at t h e mass - t i me. Then had they l ong coats withstraight nett dayslei t ,e h s e , Dukeurred with mynever, lik e pre l ates, with wh i te l aces h ang i ng on the their shoulde rs ." T he purpose of loathing previou s t o the act of inst a ll at i on, seems to have b een , "t o s i gn i fy that such as w ere a d m i tted to this d egree s h ou ld b e of a pure mind and h onest i ntentions,— b e willing to contend with any dangers or difficulties in the cause of virtue, take care, both in their words and actions, to follow the maxims of prudence, —and on all occasions religiously observe the motto of the Order, Ti•la jut - Ida Ia uno, which implied a true belief in the Trinity." NEW SYSTEM OF POSTAGE.—On Thursday last the new system came into operation, when, as anti cipated, there was a great influx of letters at the General Post-office. On the Tuesday preceding 5,425 letters were received ; on the Wednesday, being the last day of the old system, the number decreased to 5,091 ; and oft Thursday the number rose to 9, 9 4, being 4,143 be yond the number of the preceding day. A corresppndi ng increase has taken pl ace i n t h e l etters arciving,—(alc donian 2Wercury. T 4 Provincial Bank of Ireland has raised the interest on permanent deposits to 51 per cent per annum. Mr. GIRDLESTONE—NO, only the validity of the fifth codicil. By his will, which was made on the 2d of May, 1834, Mr. Day appointed Mr. William Under wood, Mr. William Croft, and Mr. Pinder Simpson, his executors, and bequeathed several legacies and annuities. By a codicil of the same date he directed that his execu tors should invest such a sum of money as would realise 3,0001., for the endowment of certain almshouses, built by him in his lifetime, and he also bequeathed a further sum of 100,0001. to his trustees, upon trust, to found a charitable institution, to be called " The Blind Man's Friend." M r . Day afterwards made four codicils to this will, and a fifth, dated the 22d of September, 1836, appointing Mr. Frederick Dufaur, the appellant in this case, one of his executors, and that codicil was the one now in dispute. The testator died on the 22d of October, 1836, having be come, in the opinion of his medical attendants, for some days previous to, and at ;he date of; the sth co dicil, quite incompetent to make any testamentary dis position, or to appoint an executor. Upon this ground a suit was instituted in the Prerogative Court to set aside the codicil. Letters of administration, pendente We, were granted to Mr. John Simpson, a son of one of the executors, for the purpose of receiving the rents, interest of monies, attesting and paying debts, and conducting the business of the testator. On the 29th of June the suit came on to be heard in the Preroga tive Court, and Sir H. Jenner decided that the testator was not in a testamentary frame of mind at the time of making the last codicil, and granted probate to the will and four first condicils, and rejected the codicil ap pointing Mr. Dufaur an executor. From this judg ment Mr. Dufaur appealed. Lord BROUGHAM—Then, although the will and the first four codicils are not disputed, the bequests made by them are in abeyance until the question upon the sth codicil is decided ? Mr. GIRDLESTONE—Just so. The letters of admi nistration pendente lite ceased with the termination of the suit in the Prerogative Court, and the consequence is, that the property is locked up, and the executors are unabla to apply any part of it to the relief of the numerous objects of the testator's bounty, although they have no other means of support, and are therefore suffering great want. There were thirty-seven annui tants under the will, whose annuities amounted alto gether to the sum of 84,0001. Mr. Day had left 10,0004 to each of his three natural children, and, as the money out of which those legacies were to be paid had not been received, the children had been left with out any allowance for maintenance or education. The charity for the blind also could not be established, and the trustees were empowered to allow from 10/. to 15/. per annum to each poor person belonging to the alms houses, which, of course, they could not do until probate was obtained. Lord BROUGHAM—You have made out a sufficient case, but we have great difficulty in fixing a day, for one of the Learned Judges who generally attends at this board is obliged to go on a Special Commission into Monmouthshire ; and although we may probably be able to get Lord Lyndhurst to attend, it is doubtful whether he can do so•during these sittings. It was ultimately arranged that the appeal should be heard on the first day of the sittings after Hilary term. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEe. 9. COOKE V. BEETHAM. Continued from The Sun of yesterday. The LORD CHANCELLOR, at the conclusion of the ar guments, said he thought there would be considerab difficulty in settling the rights of the parties by an ac tion at law, for there could be little doubt that the mo ment the case was called on the Judge would say, as it was a matter of complicated account, it ought to go to a reference. His Lordship thought the parties would do well to consider among themselves whether they could not come to some arrangement by which their rights might be decided ; nevertheless, if the parties called upon him to decide advisedly between them, from the experi ence he had had in that Court, he felt convinced that it Aould be:acting unjustly towards the defendant to con tinue the injunction without having the money in Court, and there would be even a difficulty attending that, inas much as no specific sum was sworn to. Perhaps the better course might be, for the purpose of deciding the of the defendants, to allow the action to go on, the defendants admitting for the purposes of the action that a certain sum was due for professional charges, the defendant ( Mr. Beetham) being at liberty to apply to dissolve the injunction, quoad executum, upon the ver dict obtained. At the suggestion of Mr. Wakefield, his Lordship permitted the case to stand over till tomorrow (this day), in order to give the parties an opportunity of considering the proposition of his Lordship. The COURT did not rise till five o'clock. ROLLS' COURT, DEC. 9. This being the Seal day, the Court took motions. WOOD V. HITCHINGS AND OTHERS.—WILL OF THE LATE JAMES WOOD, ESQ., OF GLOUCESTER. Sir CHARLES WETHERELL moved in this ease, in behalf of the plaintiff, Sir Matthew Wood, as one of the executors, for a reference to one of the Masters of the Court to appoint a fit and proper person to be a re ceiver of the personal estate of the testator, James Wood. The bill was filed against Edward Hitchings and others, executors of the instrument or tes tament which, the plaintiff, alleged, constituted Mr. Wood's will, the next of kin, and the Mayor and Corporation of the city of Gloucester, for a discovery, and praying that the Percival estate in the hands of some of the defendants, and all the estates of the tes tator, might be secured by the Court, pending the appeal from the decision of the Prerogative Court to the Privy Council, until a legal personal representative of the said James Wood should be duly constituted, that a proper person might be appointed as receiver. The Learned Counsel then entered into a short state ment of the facts of the case (which have been so often before the public that it is unnecessary to repeat them here), and read the terms of the three instru ments on which the litigation took place in the Prerogative Court. He then proceeded to state that the testator died on the 26th April, 1836, and the executors named in the first instrument took proper steps in the Ecclesiastical Court to prove that instru ment, but, as was universally the case where there was a large prize, many persons attempted to be the captors, and divers next of kin appeared contending there was no will, others again appeared asserting that there was no will, but each respectively contending who was or was not the real next of kin. Those points being afloat, another captor, or alleged captor, made his appearance. A codicil made its appear ance which certainly came into life in a very extraordi nary manner—a penny post letter, sent to a gentleman named Help, who c:aimed to be one of the next of kin, enclosing a codicil which ran thus :—" In a codicil to my will I gave to the Corporation of Gloucester 140,0001. In this I wish my executors would give 60,000/. more to them, for the same purpose as I have be fore named." It then gave pretty large legacies to other parties. The letter enclosing that alleged codicil was anonymous, and although large bribes, in the shape of 20,0001. or 30,0001., had been offered by advertisements for the name of the writer of that letter, in order that all parties interested in the property of this very curious millionaire might have their rights, the attempt had !.itlierto been unsuccessful. In that state of things, on the 4th June, 1836, administration was granted to Mr. Maddy, pendente lite, who was made a defendant to this suit. The case underwent a full investiga tion in Doctors' Commons, and the result of the decision of the Learned Judge, Sir Herbert Jenner, was to declare the whole of the three instruments void. Supposing that decision to be final, the testator would die intestate, and the personal property would fall among the next of kin, but an appeal had been made against that decision to the Privy Council, and under these circumstances, he (Sir Charles) had to move on the part of Alderman Wood for a receiver. lie apprehended that, in a case of this kind the Court would take care of the property till the appeal was de cided, and appoint a receiver ad interim. The power of conservation of the property by the Prerogative Court was only co-extensive with the duration of the ease, in its jurisdiction, and consequently as sou as that Court pronounced judgment the administration pen dente lite ceased. The Privy Council appointed no administrator pendente lite—it merely issued an inhi bition against the Ecclesiastical Court proceeding further, and consequently since the jsteigment of Sir Herbert Jenner the property had been unprotected. The rule of the Court had been laid down by Lord Eldon Li several cases, but he would ottly refer to one case, because, in his opinion, the law was clear upon the non-existence of any legai person to collect or administer the property. The MASTER of the Rous—What is it that now prevents the Ecclesiastical Court granting adminiatva. tion to the next of kin ? Sir clifVt47 W“kiEREU.—The appeal. There ;2: nn inhibition from the Privy Council. The ItilksTEß of the RoLLEI-...P:ilen the property is wholly unprotected. 81; Cimar 'T y vv ETHERELL—ExactIy. The lis 71 :71 - ',.ens during which the Prerogative Court granted protection had ceased—the moment the sentence of Mr. KIN DERSLEY (with whom was Mr. L. WICRA M) appeared for the defendant Mr. Hitchings, one of the next of kin, and opposed the motion. The applica tion was made under rather extraordinary circumstances, and it was surprising to find that out of three executors one only had thought proper to make this application. The present notice of motion had been given on the 3d of August, the day on which the bill was filed. On the 27th of July preceding, a precisely similar bill, verbatna et literatini, was filed by Sir Matthew Wood before th e Lord Chancellor on the same day, and precisely similar notice of motion given. But on the Ist of Au gus t th e plaintiff obt a i ne d an or d er dismissing his Bill before the Lord Chancellor, and on Lim ;,I of August filed iderai cally the same bill before pie Master of the Rells. There was something a little„singular about that. But a suit had been instituted before the Vice-Chancellor by Mrs. Goodlake, one of the next of kin, for the pur pose of having a receiver appointed ; and, therefore, it did not require much shrewdness to guess the object of the course that had been purstred, but which object had been disappointed. At the time Mr. Wood, the testator, was taken ill, . Mr. Chadborn was in London, but on receiving an intimation of Mr. Wood's illness, he immediately returned to Glou cester, and took out of some repository or desk two papers, and, in the presence of the four executors, watered them together, put them into an envelope. and endorsed the envelope as being the will of Mr. James Wood. The Learned Judge in the Prerogative Court had expressed his surprise at the attempt made to obtain probate of such an instrument, sub silentio, and said— " Circumstanced as the Court is, the Court does feel that it has been unfairly and improperly treated by the executors." The executors failed to establish that paper ; there was no person who had a legal title, and, therefore, the receiver asked by this motion would have no means of receiving anything except what the parties chose to pay to him ; indeed the property of the testator was either in the hands of the party making the appli cation, or in the hands of the Bank, whom, it would not be denied, was a good protector. The real object of the bill, which professed to seek for a discovery for the defendants, was to fish out information which might assist the plaintiff in endeavouring to establish those testamentary scrips produced by him. The MASTER of the ROLLS—Who is in possession of the leaseholds? Mr. KINDERSLEY believed the alleged executors. The MASTER of the RoLLs—The rents will be lost to every body if there is no one to receive them. Sir C. WETHERELL—My friend the Alderman wants to pay his rents. Mr. KINDERSLEY—He rents a freehold, but we have so much confidence in him that we think his rent is safe. But would the appointment of a receiver secure payment ? The MASTER of the RoLLs—Do not we find it does every day ? Mr. KINDERSLEY—There is nobody in whose name the receiver can act. The MASTER of the RoLLs—I should like to know if there is any case to be found in which the Court re fused to appoint a receiver pending a discussion in the Ecclesiastical Court, on the ground that there was no legal personal representative in whose name the receiver could prosecute any proceedings the Court might direct for the benefit of the estate. Mr. KINDERSLEY observed that the cases did not decide the Court would grant a receiver under any circumstances. No doubt in a simple case the Court, seeing property could not be protected otherwise than by the appointment of a receiver, would interfere ; and he submitted that the whole of the circumstances which had occurred after Mr. Wood's death, the proceedings in the Ecclesias tical Court, the proceedings in this Court, and the Vice-Chancellor's, taking them altogether, were such as would induce his Lordship to say that he would not, as against those who were now prima facie interested, namely, the next of kin, allow the plaintiff to have a receiver ; but that if he really wanted the property protected, there were other means of obtaining that protection without applying to the Court for a receiver. Mr. PEMBERTON and Mr. SUTTON SHARPE ap peared for the Corporation of Gloucester. They could not understand why the Corpoiation had been made parties, unless it was that the present suit had been merely filed in aid of evidence for another Court, the plain tiff not having chosen to examine witnesses in the Court below. Under the 2d and 3d William 4, chap. 92, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council had the same power with respect to property which the Court of Delegates had ; but in this case the Ecclesiastical Court having been applied to,* and having the power to protect the property, the party making the present application had thought fit to abdicate that jurisdiction, and to apply to another tribunal, to which the case was perfectly new. If the property ever required protection that protection was wanted in the month of April, 1836. The next of kin who, as the case now stood, were en titled to the whole of the property, were satisfied to leave things in their present state. If it was necessary for any one to interfere, an administrator could be ap pointed, who would receive the rents, and do every thing that was requisite, not only for the protection of the pro perty, but for the beneficial investment of it, should the parties desire to have it invested. The Learned Counsel in conclusion contended that it would not be advanta geous to any of the parties interested to have a receiver appointed ; but that, if the property required protection, that protection could be afforded at the instance of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The bill in truth was filed for the collateral object of the appeal, and for the benefit of any of the parties interested in the property. Mr. GRIFFITH RICHARDS opposed the application on behalf of Mrs. Goodlake, one of the next of kin. The motion for a receiver would be made before the Vice- Chancellor on behalf of his client in a suit duly and properly constituted for the purpose. Mr. GIRDLESTONE appeared for the defendant, Edwin Maddy, one of the executors, who did not wish to interfere in the discussion, but left the case entirely in the hands of the Court. Mr. DIXON, on behalf of John Surman, opposed the application. Sir CHARLES WETHERELL then replied. He had been opposed by a very formidable corps of learned gentlemen. The l a b ou ri ng oar was M r . Ald erman ilrood, and he (Sir C. Wetherell) as the representa tive of the worthy Alderman was the labouring oar in support of this motion for a receiver, in which labour it appeared to him that some of those who had opposed him ought to have been fellow watermen in the same boat.—( Laughter.) The ground on which the deci sion of the Prerogative Court proceeded was the wa fering of the two instruments together, but the Learned Judge had not professed to decide the question whether the second instrument of the 3d of December might not be a good will taken separately, though in its con joined capacity, being affixed to the paper called " instructions," it might be invalid. If on ge neral principles the plaintiff had a right to a receiver, the abstract rule of practice must not give way to a speculation that in another tribunal the judg ment of the Ecclesiastical Court may be overruled. It had been stated that Mr. Chadborn had tacked the two in struments together. With that Mr. Alderman Wood had nothing to do, and Sir Herbert Jenner in delivering judgment, has observed, " With respect to the fourth executor, that is Mr. Alderman Wood, he does not ap pear to have been conversant of that part of the pro ceeding, at least so far as appears on these answers. He says, that being otherwise occupied, he was totally ignorant of what was taking place at that time, and that he knew nothing of it, nor did he suspect anything of it until the allegation on behalf of the executors had been sent in in the course of these proceedings. He is a party entirely exonerated from the slighteA imputation on that head." Sir Matthew Wood was, therefore, entirely exculpated from any thing like fraud Sir Charles Wetherell then proceeded to contend upon the authority of Atkinson v. Henshaw, decided by Lord Eldon, and Watkins v. Brent, decided by the present Lord Chancellor, that supposing the Ecclesiastical Court could grant administration, that would be na ouster of the jurisdiction of this Court. The Present, Lord Chancellor, in Watkins v. Brent, said, " T n ere is no doubt that, by the rule of this Court, If, t h e representa tive is in contest, and no person 'gas been constituted executor, the Court will i r:terfet , contest, but beca me *"-„ renot because of th e is no p r oper person to re ce i ve the rents." ' tie interference o f t h e Court, therefore, ou was a-- i .e necess a ry, of course, altho u g h t here might be e no regal per sona l represen tative. That a r ece i ver was necessary, appeared to be acknowledged by some of the parties from their havin g c , instituted a suit e l sew h ere for that purp ose , a lth o ugh for some motive or other, not avowed, they chose to resist this application. He trusted, however, the Court would accede to it. The MASTER of the ROLLS—I shall look into this bill, and the affidavits that have been filed, before I give my opinion in this case. lam not quite sure that t t h o e otherCourtuOt pinion ean n t n i l t l the per m m i t o ti anyon I ought not delay giving my d b o wii ttb 4e t e a n bo i u n t the jurisdiction of the Court. I am clear there is no doubt about the jurisdiction of the Court to interfere, and that it is not necessary there should be a person in whose name an action may be brought to authorise this Court to appoint a receiver. The ques tion, in the first place, is whether it is necessary, for the protection of the interests of all parties concerned, that they: should be a receiver appointed. Now, if I cor rectly understand the statement made here, that L i the only question in the motion proposed to be made before the Vice-Chancellor. On the KERRIDGE V. HESS. The plaintiff in this action sought to recover for work and labour done, as Secretary to the Committee of a proposed Midland Grand Junction Railway, of which the defendant had been a Director or Cam" inittee man. It appeared that a railroad from Not tingham to London, and joining several of the midland railways, was proposed in May, 1837, and a Committee formed in Nottingham for the purpose of carrying it into effect. Mr. Armstrong was appointed the so licitor of the Company in London, with power to form a Committee, which having been at length done, the plaintiff applied for and obtained the situation of secretary, at a salary of either 3001. or 4001. a year. The Committee in London, remained in existence till January, 18:39, but it was an entir.t failure, never having been able to dis pose of any shares, and, of course, getting no funds in their hands. The plaintiff during the whole time acted under the orders of the Committee, and transacted all their business as secretary. He also claimed 841. as the expenses incurred by him during a residence of two months in Nottingham, which he bad undertaken for the purpose of attending public meetings, and soliciting influential su pp or t f or t h e pro j ect i n the neighbourhood, and at the request of the Committee. The plaintiff had laid out a considerable sum of his own money previous to his being sent to Nottingham, and he then refused to make any other advances, and would not proceed to the country unless he was furnished with funds. A bill for 971. was then drawn by one Director, accepted by another, and discounted by a third, from which funds-the plain tiff got 371., the remainder being paid to the solicitor, and 51. being paid to the defendant for his expenses in attending the public meeting at Nottingham as a Di rector. Several letters were put in signed by the de fendant, giving directions to the plaintiff as to his con duct and proceedings in the country. For the defendant—Mr. Holmes, the engineer of the Company, deposed that he recommended the plaintiff to the situation of secretary. He told him that all the expenses to be incurred: were to be Paid out of the funds to be raised from the deposits On shares, and that none o f t h e C omm i ttee men or Di - rectors were to be personally liable. He ag reed to those terms, and a resolution come to by the local C °lll b mittee at Nottingh a m was commun i cated to hi m , and Y him entered into the minute-book of the CompanY• Ttie book was called for, and the minute read ; it was to the effect that all the transactions of the Committee sbould be without per sona l li a bili ty e i t h er i n di v id ua lly or CO'col lectively ; all r emunerat i on an d expenses to be derived from the inst a lm en t s t o b e realized from the sale of shares. It was a l so p rove d t h at the d e f en dant had n ot .. become a Committ ee - man or Di rector un til the s th of October, 1838, and was therefore, under any circum stances, not liable to more than a quarter's salary. His LORDSHIP left. it to the Jury to say whether the plaintiff had accepted the situation in the limited manner stated, in which case, as no funds had been raised from shares, none of the Directors or Committee-men were personally liable, and therefore the verdict must be for the defendant. If they found that the plaintiff had err tered the situation without any reservation and in Vac usual manner, then it would be a question for them what was a reasonable sum for remunerating his ser vices and reasonable expenses while in Nottingham. The Jury almost immediately found a verdict, for the defendant. Mr. Jervis was for the plaintiff, and Mr.. 'Hill ap peared for the defendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dsc. 9. ASSIGNEES OF CLARK V. SOUTHWELL. This was rather an extraordinary case. It was an action to recover the sum of 3701. fr , im the defendant , under the following circumstances :--Clark bad en• tered into business as shoemaker with the defendant, who had advanced capital, and had taken a warrant of at torney for 1,4001. holding it over, to make it available whenever, the business proving unsuccessful, Clark should be in danger of insolvency. The business did fail. And one morning Clark disappeared , leaving a letter for Southwell—to. the effect that be was tired of their viljainous phns, which had been err tered on solely f or hi s , S out h we ll' s, profit. Southvie!„ took possession of the goods (the stock in trade), and sold them for 3701., the amount for which the action was now brought by th e ass i gne es, under a f i at i ss ued to three creditors. Mr. KELLY, with Mr. Hoc.Gms, was for the Oslo' tiff, and insisted that the co , acealment of this warrant was evidently fraudulent, and, was dishonest towards the rest of the creditors, who trusted the bankrupt greatly' on the security of the stock in trade, which they WO na idea was thus appropriated. Mr. PLATT, and Mr. BAnsTow, for the defendant, contended that he having advanced the capital, had a right to take security of the stock., Verdict for plaintiff. , AY.) the Honourable and Learned Judge of that Court was pronounced the death '_warrant to the lis pendens in that Court issued. In this state of things there was no one to receive the dividends of the stock, or to receive the rents, or manage the property ; and under those circumstances he trusted the Court would think this was a case in which pro:tection to the property was absolutely necessary. Messrs. Turner and Belhall followed on the same side. present occasion there are unfortunately many questions involved—questions relating to the alleged delay—questions as to the alleged male fides of the suits, and other questions involving the personal con- EVENING EDITION. duct of the plaintiff, who makes the application. Now if it be for the interest of all parties that there should be a receiver, it is hard on them that their right should depend on any additional questions such as those are. However, I shall look at the affidavits to see what is the bearing of those questions. I do not think I am ex , mpt from giving my opinion on the point when asked, but I am not satisfied that the best course would not be for me to wait till the opinion of the other branch of the Court has been given on the abstact ques tion of the right of the parties to a receiver in this case, and which does not involve any prsonal controversy. When that motion comes to be made before the Vice- Chancellor, I should not wish it to n, supposed anything has passed here which renders it inexpedient to make that motion there. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DEC. 9. (Sittings at Nisi Prius L'mdon, before Mr. Baron ALDERSON ,Ind a Common Jury.) The Court was occupied the greater part of the morning with undefended CalliVS. THE MARKETS-(YESTE PRICE U. The highest price of Bread in tl Loat. Good Bread may be had at ! PRICES 0 . BREAD. he Metropolis is 1034 d. for the 4lb IF SEEDS. Per Cwt. Per Quarter. New English Red C10ver...555. 90s Old Ditto Ditto —a. —a. —8 New Foreign Ditto 565. 30s. Old Ditto Ditto — a. S. New White Clover sos. 65a. 70s. Old Ditto Ditto New Trefoil Old Ditto —s. l2s. Trefolium s. 28s. 395. Carraway —s. 525. 56c. St. ..... 49: 660 Rye Gras c —4. 404. UP Pacey G.:ass I. —4. Linseed,, for feeding—s. 4,e. 5 , 2 s Ditto, far sowing —5. 544. bt , a Ditto, for crushing —s. 424. 4i Canary —5 704. tif.a Hemp —4. 3as. 40s Per Bushel. Foreign Ditto —s. 50s. 565. Coriander . —s 20*. 255, Rapeseed, fine (per L White Mustard-11g. Pi. 14g. Od. Brown Ditto lbs. Od. Ng. MI Tares ss. 63. 7s. 6c). st) 28/.311. Foreign 261. 2t41. PRICES or LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d Per lb. d. to d. CropHl 4 es,3oto4oll3.each 11 13i Horse Hides, Cerman... 12 22 40 M l:2 16 -- -- Spanish ... 13 24 Bull ----50 Hides 18 2/ , 10 13 -----40 50 ... 60........13 18 CalfSkins.,o to 401b.(doz) 15 . 22 Butts, V triol ... - -511 CO - Etigl,sh ...... . ...- 15 24 --- 70 100 ----- Foreign Foreign Hides ...... . Dressing Hides .. .. - -Sr ~a ved... 13 17 Basils Bes Saddlers' Hides... 15 Ifif Bellies Horse Hides, English ... 11 I` , Shoulders ...... .. $ II Calf Skins, if rounded 2d. to 4d. por b. more. PRICES OF HOPS. Farnham rockets (per cwt.) 0 Os. 01. Os. to 01. to. East Kyn, Pockets 4, 10s. 5/, 15 3 . t• 01 0 , Ditto Bags :, I , o *. Oi Os. to 41. 4. Mid Kent Pockets " '-. 10 4. 41. 10s. to 5r 12' , Dias Bags 5 . 1 , ) , ous cis 4.. ' it. Sussex Yearlings O l. Os. 31. 3s. to 3/ tor Old //ids ,I, tits. PRICE OF OIL. RapeOil,brown,pe ton, "4/. 10L-Retined,3ap s _ • 'pie ' dr 0, 2.2 1 . Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill (I i4.sq, 14/. ..s.- Rape ( alt.e. ~ ,er tons 7 l PRICE +A' TALLOW, Si )AP, sic. per '.12'.0. Town 'Tallow s2s, Od. Yell w Soap _ __.. n il Yellow Russia 4ox. 6d. Mottled White , ....... ..,... ••• --s. Od. Curd Soap Ditto ... . ' " ..., 144. .s l ' Melting Stuff .... - Od• Ditto Rough iwleininn PRlCE geawdrc h ... F ' RAW 06 8 .... ij d FAT. ,rege" ~. ........... OE. Price of Tallow (as stated by the 2s. Ild. PRICE r TaUow M ,dr.ers) '-'-' I LAN DI ,E.F The price of good Store . andles ',ri the EV mil ' Shoiss Is as /bllows:-. Candles, per dozen, Ss, Od. , inferior 75. Pd. ; Moulds, 9s. 6d. Sixpence poi dOzen disc , aint for cash. • per sto n , , o f $ll7. CAL MAR AEI. 1313 .4 e d idl a l lr iti ' e s so,bson a c,... , (1.1 . ........ Hebburn W M. e a s i t i;, ll .„ 3 . r .! l- .4. 23 . ' : : :: .................... 3 ,. 6( Holy weP, Main ........... ......... zi u P,,,, ° , n t'.p Windsor ....... ........ 2.1 • o ..e r t . : ::: 18 0 I Walls End Go:forth ...... ... 23 0 Walls WNVi: ill Isa: Esio FEn :dedi Northumberlandl-l° Hilda spur..' ...: ............... ° 22 2'.223 (( )1133 4V: , : lv D ia i' l l i i i l l ' t i : : ngE . :n::: , d d n n i ,:sic.BFaci,olaiw.:ln;::'..l.-.1.3......r...0......w......n....., $ 1- 2: : t. i:l Wall:s End Percy Bensharn 22 0 Walls End Riddell's Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton 24 6 Ships arrived sin .Min..... o„ d. Walls End Haswell 44 Walls End Hetton ' 94 gi „ Viiins End. L ain b ton ...... • Walls End Pemberton ...... . S ' !Walls End. Russell's Hetton 24 9 Walls Endo Stewart's ......... 25 0 Walls ..Writ Whltwell . 9 IWalls En d Hart1ep001......., 95 Walls Er id rarrington Tees 21 0 I Walls Fnd Clarence Hatton 91 .. Walls 1 !:ncl Comfort') ......... 23 " Walk End Evenwood ....... ; Walls End Seymour Teo.— n Walls End Tennant • Walls End 'Tees 24 tf .1 • Walls End 'Tees Hetton . 6 Walls End! W es tHetton 6 Walls End Wendleston Q. 41 6 Hartley tets last mark et-day, V. SPOONS and FORKS, at , tongly plated with Silver on a w hit e meta l , an d consecuer.tly not liable by w est to show any other colour. Table Spoons or Forks 21. Ws' per dozen. Dessert Spoons or Forks, Two Guineas per dozen. Tea Spoons, 255. per dozen. Ormy Spoons, 9s. id. each' Soup Ladles, 16s. each. T. COX SAVORY, Silversmith, &e., 47, Cornhill (Se ven doors from Grace church-street), London. BIRTHS. On the etls inst., at Southa m p ton , th e lasly of F. B. El ton ' Esq., of the Madras Civil Service', of a son. On the Bth inst., Lady Grey, the wife of Sir Charles Ed ward Grey, of a daughter. On the ith inst., the lady of, the Rev. C. J. Goodhart , Mi nister of St. Mary's Chapel, rereading, of a daughter. On the Bth inst., at Meth ury-terrace, Dorset square, the lady of the Rev. Henry Tayl or , if a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 7th inst., PA Ditton, near Maidstone, Robert Wyldep seventh son of Joh a Barrow, Esq., of Wedmore, Somerset, to Sophia, fourth d - Aghter of John Golding, Esq., Ditton-plaee , Kent. DIED. On t',.te 21st ult., at Fishguard, Captain Charles King Rudgo.. el(k.st son of the late Venerable Archdeacon fudge, Chance '..i Hereford, and Vicar of Dursley and Haresfield, Gloucester shire. On the 20th of August last, at. Cabul, East Indies, Lieute nant-Colonel Robert Arnold, of her Majesty's 16th Regiment of Lancers. On the 29th ult., at Caerleon, Monmouthshire, John New man Pritchard, Esq. London: Printed and Published by AIURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No 112. Strand, in tie county of Middlesex.—Tuesday. December 10, 1839.