The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-25 00:00:00

EVENiNG EDiTIoN. Chambers, in order that the Speech from the ( Throne might contain some splendid phrase on th it subject. This has greatly annoyed th e Divan, and M. DE PoNTots remains now at home, in , state of isolation. 'rile Paris Morning Journals of Mon :iday nave arrived, but they do not bring the KING'S Speech. The following are extracts from them : The Echo del Comte, cio of the 10th says :—" We are ass ured that the Ministers yesterday tendered their resignation to her Majesty the Queen Regent." A letter from Toulon of the 19th is as follows : " The Phare steam-boat has just anchored in the road ; it left Algiers on the 16th with despatches from the Marshal, which were immediately forwarded by express to Paris. It seems that the departure of this steam boat was not known at Algiers, since no letters have been brought by it. We have, however, learned the following particulars : " From the 14th to the 16th the combats continued on the whole line from Koliah to the Foudouek. 14th the Maison Carree was vigorously attacked by 3,000 4,000 Arabs ; it is not known whether they got posses sion of it, or whether they were repulsed, but we lost altout GO men at that point. Mcantitne General Rul hieres defeated the Bedouins in advance of Douera, and they suffered considerable loss. On the 14th the Ama zone landed 550 men of the 3d regiment of light in fantry, who were immediately sent to the Maison Car ree. The 58th arrived on the 15th, and left imme diately. " On the 16th, in the morning, the whole of our line of battle made a movement in advance, and de feated the enemy at every point ; from that moment we resumed offensive operations. " Very few letters from the camps, however, came to Algiers, so that we cannot precisely learn what is passing in the plain. The Marshal, it is said, was preparing to set out from Douera, where a considerable quantity of troops and artillery bad been assembled. Douera will become the centre of the future opera tions. Notwithstanding all this, the environs of Algiers are still infested by marauders, and we cannot get of the city. Will the sending of the Phare bring us the news of some happy event ? We do not know ; but it is not likely that the packet would have been despatched only two days after the ordinary mail, unless there had been some urgent motive.—Le Commerce. The Moniteur of the 23d has no official part. A letter from Saragossa says that Cabrera, after having gone to Catalonia to concert measures with Se gMr-11, has returned to Aragon with Balmaseda. What is certain is that his family is no longer at Morella. All the Christino prisoners at Benifasa have really been set at liberty, on condition of not bearing arms till an equal number of prionert Anil have been re stored to the Carlists. The rebels continued to desert. A captain of the 4th regiment of Aragon has surrendered to Zurbano with 14 men. The ancient palace of the Duke of Hijar, at Hijar, fell down on the 13th : it is now only a heap of ruins. A letter from Bilboa says that &Tarter() is nommated Deputy General of Biscay.—Constitutionnel. EXPORTATION OF CAPITAL.—One of the arguments of the Tories against the abolition of the Corn-laws is, that it will cause capital to be ex ported ; how is not explained. The country will, so far as those laws arc concerned, no more export anything after they are abolished than now without an equivalent. At present every man those laws banish from the country to seek bread abroad, every m.:lnufacturer, engineer, or artizan whom they compel to expatriate himself, is so much capital exported without any equivalent import, The Corn-laws cause an exportation of capital which would cease could food be freely imported, A few days ago it was stated in the City article of a Con temporary, that a number of persons living abroad had taken their capital out of the English SPeuri ties to the extent of between two and three millions. The owners of it begin to perceive that they can get higher interest abroad with equal security. Chartist riots endangering the public peace, and Corn-laws limiting the profit on industrious entcr prizes, are now causing, and will continue to cause, capital to leave the country. To stop it 4 exit, repeal the Corn-laws, which would both give se c urity and increase profit. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. On die Sta,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of W. this morning from Mr. Gulley, late M.P. for Pontefract, through Mr. Baines, M.P. of Leeds, with my grateful acknowledgments. I am, Sir, your obliged servant, JOHN THOROGOOD. HOGG'S ATTACHMENT TO SCOTL A ND.- Hogg's native county was Selkirkshire, and what gave it greater value in his eyes were the scenes commemorated in border history, tradition and song. The Abbeys of Melrose and Dryburgh, the latter of which now contains the revered ashes of his kind and generous friend Sir Walter Scott-the Eildon Hills, renowned in the an ' nals of superstition-Selkirk, whose brave burghers won glory in the disastrous battle of Flodden Field, where so much was lost by others-the " Forest," with its lone and storied dales-and Yarrow, whose stream and " dowie dens " are not to be surveyed without involun tary poetry-are all in the neighbourhood. The love, the deep heart-felt love which Hogg bore to the land which contained these pleasing associations was such as no stranger can Appreciate ; it was a passion absorbing many others which might have been expected to hold sway over him, and it ,:urvived to the last.-Old Sport ing Magazine for Decemtl'er• CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO THE POOR IN THE CITY.-Yesterday morning 400/. wl.ts distributed by the Bank of England Directors to the poor, as " quest money" of the following four parishes;__narnely :-St. Michael's, Cornhill ; St. Bartholomew's, Bar; holomew lane ; St. Mildred's, Poultry ; and St. 1 1 / 4 1argaret's , I.othbury. It is not, we believe, generally known that the Dank of England stands in the above-named four parishes. The poor in these parishes are few, and, "rotn the alterations in the Poor-laws, in a few years it w ii; be very difficult to find objects to bestow the gifts that li:we been left by the pious and religious to the poor. There is not one in St. Bartholomew's parish w h o rece ;ves relief who has been a housekeeper ; they are those s ho obtained their settlement from being apprentices or servants. GLASGOW' MARKETS, DEC. 21.-In the early part of the vrt!ek ti.ere was very little done in Raw Sugars ; latterly there has been more doing, and the market closes very steady. The sales amount to 252 hhds, and trs. ; dry brown Tricidads, 58s. to 60s. 6d. ; good browns to low middling, !ils- ; good middling, 645. ed. to 645. 6 d. ; middling DeWraras, 625. ; good brown to low middling Jamaicas, 625. 6d. ; middling and good middling, 635. to 655. ; middling yellow Barba does, 655. ; fine, 695, to 695. 6d. ; and 130 bags brown Bengals, at 58s. 6d. No sales made in West India Molasses. Refined Sugars are dull, without any altera tion in price ; brown loaves, 82s. to 83 s . ; middling and good. 84s. to 87s. ; fine and very floe, 88s. to 91s. ; double loaves, 92 5. to 955. Candy, 10fd , to . I lid. Crushed Sugars, the low qualities, are very flat ; got.'d and tine in ;:lmited supply, and selling steadily at full prices ; browns, 00s. to 645. 6d. ; middling and good middling, 655. to 68s. ; good and fine, 695. to 735. ; Crushed Lumps, 7 . 55. to 78s. Treacle in steady de mand, at 30s. Gd. to 31s. 6d.-No sales made in 'few, ,Whack Pepper, Ginger, or Pimento.-The sales made in Coffee are 60 casks middling Demerara at 112 s ; and 30 bags damaged St. .Domingo, at 685.-620 bags East India Rice were sold at 14a. ; and 400 bales Jute, at 11/. IN.-Nothing done in Rum Jamaicas. 16 0.P., ss. Gd. to ss. Bd., and Leew,ards 3s. 6d. for proofs.-The sales in Dy ewooda are 10 tons Cuba Fustic at 104-The transactions in Ashes are 150 barrels Pots at 245. 6d. ; pearls dull at `2 9IC to 30..-Y. C. Tallow fiat, an d ra ther lower ; the sal e s were at 49a....-Fish Oils steady ; Wha.e, 30s. Per eort. ; Pale Seal, 32/., and Cod. 301. per tun, im perial t lie as ur e STATE of TRADE.—Though the deviation from our usual day of publication this week has pre. vented us from giving the result of the principal market ' day, we are glad to be enabled to say, that the appear ances of slow and gradual improvement, which were m ar tzifested lust week, have continued to the present time. Ntwvithstanding the time of the year, which is unfavou,-- able to the transaction of any large amount of business, there h k s been a lair demand, both for goods and yarn, since Tue, - day last ; zind the: prices of all descriptions have been lay maintained. Indeed, in a few articles there has been a trifling advloce ; and in all the feeling of the market appears healthy. It may be necessary to observe, however, that the imprt;vement which has tak en place has by no means placed great body of Spinners and manufacturers in any envi.•:ble position. Their business is still unremunerating ; and here must be ei t h er a further decline in the price of cotte.a or a furthe r improvement in goods and yarn, before th e y can eommand a profit. —. Manchester Guardian. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—At the pre s'ltt season of our year this admirable Society affords the coblic an opportunity of witnessing the performance of ti an ,..'el's illessiall—a composition peculiarly adapted to ex c i te i.. .ts hearers feelings well befitting every ob s"er of Cloistnog. To those who occupy that portion of E xeter Hale appropclated to the reserved sittings the t one of sound, the sol os least, !nigh have hitherto be en considered as somewh a t i;,'ltred by its extreme i +l stance Irons the or.thestra ; b u t e ven this defept trill o a very considerable degree be remedieu by the "IC _ c ae e qUiSitiOn t o th e S oc i e t y o f a new l y b u ilt orgai, e n o_.,.o!int of whi c h h a s a lr ea dy occup i e d our co l umns . it will be seen that there is an announcement of is perform aooo of this oratorio for Friday the 27th instant.- The arrivals this morning are a mail from the Brazils, by the Seagull—sailed from Bahia Oct. '2l, Pernam buco Oct. 16, and Rio Janeiro Nov. 16 ; mails from the West Indies, by the Penguin—sailed from St. Thomas's Nov. 16, and Cape Henri Nov. 12 ; and a mail from Jamaica, by the Mutine—sailed from St. Thomas's Nov. 15, and Cape Haytien Nov. 12. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—TIIC de mand for Cotton to-day Las been only to a moderate extent. The sales 2,500 bags. Prices without alteration. We have received Jamaica papers to the 23d No• vember. " In the House of Assembly on the 19th November, Mr. Jordan presented a petition, signed by 253 indivi duals, against the bill which was before the House relative to the currency of the island. Mr. Barclay said, what he proposed was merely that an English shilling should be called a shilling instead of a shilling and eightpence, and that the pound should be twenty instead of twelve of these shillings ; in other words, that the money of account should be ster ling instead of currency. Our friends will perceive with satisfaction that the Legislature proceeds with harmony, and that the very ' best feelings exist between the several branches of the same. THE STATE OF THE WEATHER--The Bar badian of the 30th of October says, that at this advanced season of the year we have had lately some appearance of hurricane weather, after a week of most oppressive heat. We have received a Price Current from Rio Janeiro to the 15th of November :—" The exchange since our last circular of the 18th ult., advanced from 32 to 321- and 32i ; but latterly has again been declining, and this week settled at at which rate a good deal of busi ness has been transacted. " STOCKS.—There has been a good deal of business done in the last and previous week, The price of Six per Cent. Stock advanced to 78 79, and remains firm at 78 buyers, and 781 79 sellers. " P.S.—FRIDAY, Nov. ls.—Exchange rather flat, 31:1 a 31,f, little doing. COFFEE.—No alteration in prices. Sales this morn ing, 4,000 ; Stock, 6;000 ; Shipments this month, to day inclusive, 47,554 bags." Barbadoes Papers received to the 7th of November d o not contain any news of consequence. Demerara Papers have also been received to the 7th of November. The Legislature had been opened with a speech, which does not contain anything of novelty. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—I have been right glad to find you at least ex ercising calm judgment, and expressing temperate opinions respecting the poor silly Welsh Chartists. To dream of such a rabble being guilty of high treason, according to the terrific notion of such a dreadful crime generally entertained, is indeed, one of the " divers vanities" to be found (as saith the Scripture) amongst " the multitude of dreams !" Amongst the worki ng men I fi n d such a horrible charge demed too horrible—if; indeed, it be not too utterly absurd—to be for one moment admitted ! But not so amongst those of whom Grand Juries are composed, and from amongst whom Magistrates, et hoc genus onine, spring up like mushrooms or other fungi of a far less wholesome nature. Such men, from the very cast and pressure of our laws and customs, form a perfectly dis tinct class from the masses of our people —as distinct as any class in India from the other classes, as the Man. darins in China from the common Chinese —and are not much more likely to conduct themselves, in political cases, according to the just rules of equity and mercy. Of mercy, of course, a Judge knows nothing, nor of equity more than very unequal Judge-made laws pre scribe. The office of a Judge is to direct and decide according to the law of the case, however absurd, pre posterous awl base, any such particular law may be. A Special Commission is the severest form of Judge action, and Special Juries are thereby the most severely exposed to the temptation and hazard of returning cruel, unequitable, and contemptible verdicts, especially so when the poor creatures under trial arc far below them, sunk beneath their sphere, entirely beyond their lines of communication and familiar cognizance. Here, in aw ful feet, we see that the main object of the noble trial by jury is utterly overthrown! The glory of Jury trial is, that a man l)P tried by his peers—his equals! Will the Welsh Chartists be so tried ? With the exception of Frost, there is not, perhaps, another man amongst them in possession of the franchise ! Where, then, is the Jury of their peers? In the name of God, who regards all the eaeatores aids hand with an equal eye, let them be tried by a Jury of their peers, or not be tried at all! Let not a single enfranchised person be suffered tom ? , pear in the Jury list, no clerk, or 'foreman, of overhs'olier —the naturally selected tools of their masters, .and nerally mote cruel to the working man, than tho waste , themselves are.—and let also this rule be extended to Frost, who, no doubt, upon the most deliberate work ings of his judgment and conscience (such as they may be) has identified himself fully with the unfranchised and thus unfrieoded portions (fearfully astounding in numbers) of his op pressed and suffering fellow•eountrymen, and has ren dered himself thereby more obnoxious to those of Iris own caste, What chance can all such have in the judgment of others of their countrymen, whose minds, habits, and opinions have all been formed under tutors en] auspice; so utterly unlike theirs ? Are Judges and Grand and Special Juries necessarily so far exalted in power and principle as to be thus safely entrusted with the lives of others ? By no means. They have their prejudices and prepossessions, and modes of thinking and of acting, which are perhaps the more injurious and hateful to the larger masses of their countrymen for being within the limits of laws made almost exclusively for them alone. As to Judges—are they as a class so like their Saviour—so gracious—so full of compassion and tender rnereta—such a protection to the needy in his distress—such a refuge front the storm—such a shadow from the heat ? Are they so dead to the world, its has;eurs, its profits, and its praises—so fortified against p x ,litical bias, against the undue desire of pleasing their prince, and promoting thereby the ad vantages of their party, or their own ? I cannot bc hese this of all or of any o f th e Judges upon earth as a class. They have their infirmities, like the clergy, or any other denomination of men. They need te be well watched and thoroughly discussed by their fellow-men, especially in behalf of those who are brought for life or death under their mighty power. If, for iestance, there were only one blur—and there is one—upon the Judge opening this said Special Commission, that one blur would be sufficient to convinee me that he ought not to be allowed to try the poor Welsh Chartists. The plain. palpable blur I mean is that Judge's volunteer and most eager application of a particular portion of Sacred Scripture ; That of itself is quite enough for we. Strange, that a Lee reed Judge, though in a mate t er of Parning, it may be, too Rauch out of his way— strange, that when determined to rush MtP it, he should not be aware that the sacred passage in (111CtatiOn hes eve , - been subject to two antagonist interpretations or that in his choice of one ha should, by his emphasis, have obviously enforced that whi r ,; was the great favourite, and perhaps ruin, of Charles the 'first ! and passing strange, too, even to tears, is the thought, that this said Scripture- Leterpreting Judge should have enfo rce d t hi s sa id most are' '.lrilrY of all arbitrary interpretations (an interpretation only tvoathy of a Judge Jrfferies), et the very opening of that avbt, trary thing—a Special Commission, to try the poor Welsh Chartists ! According to this Judge's interpre tation, the Emperor and Mandarins of China, who have lately murdered all the innocent Catholic Maim they could lay their hands on, and who, some time be fore, burnt all the Bibles or parts of the Bible, they could lay their hands on—and also all parsons uphold ing such parts of the Bible, and retaining them in their possession—according to this .Judge's interpretation, I repeat, such Emperor and Manatarina, a n d a ll ac ting i are ordained of G o d, an d to b e obeyed as such and tip l ee l4 ers o f ar bi trary power may h er r nde h Loverst e' M , ii eve t his interpretation to be the true one, but I fer wetly pray God that th e p e ople of this country, and ultima!gly whole world, may Hot believe it, how a. • b to the Mandartne CiliPo i to I t may o eveaa gratiquag ss i 4 among his bears, or to Judg,e Tind a l tine k ni c , cror of ,u • pf the . _ , • . am idet the Welsh Let Jud ge Tindal look to it. Oiarles the First n might gladly, n o doubt, have chos e n a ;Pu p 4Q much after i r i s own heart to i -:ad a Commiseien„ esi s l but too many Grand Juries and Special Juries may approve of him now ; but, a diamond to a pebble , lie will not b e so approved of by t h e m illions of his own contemporaries i n the ranks a the unfran rll ased and oppressed wino may not rennin in s) e st degraded cad unfriended st a t e many years loneer• t n "7 heart, out of the very b owe l s of the Welsh meuntams, and in other most un expected places, may ere iev spring f?rth men enow of suffici ent intelligence, determio a r t e e n and power to read to JUclgeS and Grand Jurie s moles salutary interpretatio ns of c i • cure. Sir, .aa a minister of Christ, in wYIII er ;t 4 3 ) gea 1)31 a misnomer eSe Church of En g l an d , I utterly abilOt ail such tyranny, favoaring int er p retat i ons of the Word of God as that of Judge ,and I think it my duty to take this chance of inelaing su,G,Jn ?abhorrence known, r A while I subscribe myself yo,ur go,o.s t t a px e r..awir and bumble servant, 14. p. li Qr.t b „Staffordshire, Dec. 18. The most va!uibLe pa pl4ced in the hands of the Or crown jewels have been royal jeweilgrs to be reset. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. This being Christmas Day, all public places for busi ness arc closed. The merchants who are connected with the United States only are in attendance, making inquiries io respect to the arrival of the British Queen. A correspondent in a Morning Journal v..rites from Dover that the above vessel passed that port at noon yester day ; had that been the fact, no doubt, ere this, her papers and passengers would have arrived in London, as well as several expresses announcing the fact. Much anxiety is now experienced for her arrival in ail quarters. TfiV BUN, LONDON, "WEDNESI)A ■.DECEMB,.,J? COURT CIRCULAIi WINDSOR, TOESDAY.—Fier Majesty walked on the terrace of the Castle to-day, attended by the Mar quis and Marchioness of Normanby, Viscoun t :Act bourne, Hon. Mss Anson, and the Hon. Mss Paget. The Earl of P;ngali (Lord in Waiting) has taken his departure, and Lord Byron has arrived at the Castle. Sir Robert Otway, and the lion. Charles Howard, have also left. The Hon. Berkeley, and Miss Paget, arrived this morning at the Castle, and the Earl and Countess of Albemarle, and the Hon. Miss Lister, are expected this evening. In addition to the visitors who have arrived to-day the Royal dinner party this evening is expected to in elude the Rev. R. A. Musgrave, and Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt (St. Leonard's), and the Hon. Miss Ca vendish. knew how to thrash him like a goilleman ! This is a splenetie remark ; but we are not surprised at it. Great geniuses are fastidious, and not easily pleased. Next to Barrington and Dando in adroitness and the successful application of talent, we incline to rank that Great Unknown—" The Man with the Carpet Bag." Perhaps no swindler that ever existed creates such a sensation among Publicans as this highly gifted artist. In their eyes h e seems a being endowed with übiquity. One day they hear of him figuring as a gentleman of fortune, with his famous carpet bag, at an hotel at the West End; the next, he is taken up for playing his professional pranks on a distracted Publican in Cheapside. O a Monday, the papers report him in gaol at some sequestered English country town ; on Tuesday, he forms the substance of an indignant local paragraph at Edinburgh. His style of execution, though bril liant, is remarkable for its simplicity. A few bricks and rags, wrapped up in straw, and packed up with singular dexterity in his bag ; a swaggering air, accompa. nied with a request to the unsuspecting landlord that he will sec the said bag carefully deposited in his chamber, as it contains articles of value—and the thing is done, and the Publican ton! When we last read LE: this accomplished Professor of Kleptocracy— as Leigh Hunt wittily calls the science —he was at Liverpool. He had ensconced .himself, observed aLancashireJournal in a paragraph over flowing with bitterness, at one of the best hotels in that town ; had eaten and drank of the land lord's choicest meats and wines ; and had his car pet-bag carefully placed, according to his directions, in the best bed-room ;---i.vhen, lo ! the next morn ing he was reported missing ; and, what was worse, a pair of fine linen sheets, an or-molu clock, two silver spoons, and a plated cruet-stand, were missing also The sequel of this strange affair cannot be read without tears. The Publican —who is the amiable father of six small children —no sooner discovered his loss, than he went mad on the spot ; and now lies in a lunatic asylum, with his head shaved, a strait-waistcoat on him, and two determined keepers thrashing him punctua:ly. twice a-day, by way of keeping him quiet, and bringing him round to a right way of thinking But to quit these digressions, into which we have been unwittingly seduced by our admiration of genius. The little work before us treats of the Art of Swindling in so knowing and profound a style, that we fuel half inclined to suspect that the author has duly qualified himself, by long pratice, to write upon it—that he is, in fact, a sort of Emeritus Professor of the Science I If so, we would advise his Publishers to look to it, or they may peradventure be done--though to do a Publisher, requires a union of skill, cunning, and experience, not often vouchsafed to the literary sons of Adam. But to be serious—if it be possible to be so on such a theme—this " Hand-book of Swindling" is written throughout in a grave, caus tic style of irony, that at times reminds us of Swift's " Direction s to servants." The author sets out with asserting that the propensity to swin dle is universal, and that men only want tempta tion ; and thus cleverly illustrates his theory : "Jack Smasher was one of the prettiest hands at coin ing ; and more, he was blessed with a wife born, I should say, with a genius for passing bad money. She took a crown—one of her husband's base-begotten offspring—., and purchased with it three -pennyworth of rhubarb from a quaker chemist, who—undone man !—handed over four and ninepence change. Aminadab Straight.. back was, even among his brethren, the brightest child of truth. In due season Aminadab detected the guile ful crown, and, in his own clear breast, resolved to destroy it. However, it remained by the strangest ac cident in his till, and by an accident still more extraor dinary, was given in part of change for a guinea to a gentleman a little the worse for liquor, who, on his way home to bed took the precaution of dropping into Straightback's for a box of his own patent—anti-bacchic pills. In the morning, the vinous gentleman disco vered the pocket-piece, but as he had changed more than one guinea, could not with certainty detect the giver of the counterfeit. No matter it remained loose with other money in his pocket, and one day, to his own surprise, he found he had passed it. He had taken a journey, and it was very dark when, in the handsomest manner, he fee'd tho'coachman. The poor man who drove the Tallyho did not realize more than 4001. per annum, and could not afford to lose five shillings : lit nee, Smasher's crown became, at a fitting opportunity, the property of a sand-blind old gentlewoman, who, her loss discovered, lifted up her hands at the iniquity of the world, and put aside the brassy wickedness. Time good old soul never missed a charity sermon. The Reverend Mr. Sulphurtongue made a sweet discourse in favour of the conversion of the Jews. and the churchwardens condescended to hold each a plate. To the great dis gust, „of; the , dieredrerera,:. i bad drown was detected amongst the subscribed half-croWn s and shillings. The beadle was directed to destroy it. He intended to do so, but, in pure forgetfulness, passed it one day for purl ; the landlady of the George' having, as she said, taken it, wus resolved not to lose it,' and by some ac cident it was given to a pedlar, who, after a walk of twenty miles, entered an ale-house, took his supper of bread and cheese—went to bed —rose, and proffered for his account Jack Smasher's pocket-piece. The pedlar was immediately given into the hands of a constable, taken before a magistrate, and ordered to be impri soned and whipped as a passer of counterfeit money." The author is strongly opposed to the practice of swindling in mustachios, and advises all artists to victimize with clean lips. He also recommends them to cultivate suavity of manner, adding that tradesmen, in general, like to be diddled in a gentlemanlike style. It flatters their self-love, and half reconciles them to their loss. On the important subject of doing tailors, he is express and particular. He advocates their being swindled on all occasions, and in the most remorseless manner, for—having them selves an innate genius for the art--they will be sure to indemnify themselves by overcharging their richest customers. This is a sound truth, and reads like a Baconian axiom. As regards names, the author is of opinion that the swindler, who wishes to be honourably distinguished in his profession, should choose—not a high-flown, aristocratic pa tronymic, but a chaste, rational English alias, which will be sure to take with the sober class of trades men, when they would suspect a customer with the lofty name of Altamont or Fitz-Fortesque. But enough of this. Suffice to say, that the work be fore us is one of the most amusing little prose squibs we have read for some time. No swindler's library can be considered complete without it': LITERATURE Yesterday evening the band of the Rifles attended at the Castle, and played the following places :—March, Sinfonia, Serniratnide (Rossini) ; Duetto, Beatrice di Tenda (Doniz, - ?.tti); Walzer di Nuchlevandler ; Galop, Chaperons blares Laudler das Tager, Horn (Wichels) ; Le Danois Quadrille (111uard). The Princess Augusta took an airing yesterday in a carriage and four. Her Royal Highness visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge left Cambridge House yes terday morning for his residence at Kew. Prince George of Cambridge returned to Kew on Monday night from town. Despatches were sent off last eveni 1g from the Colo nial-office for Sir George Gipp, Governor of New South Wales. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE ARRIVALS. Major-General Sir George and Lady AVliitmre, Lady Charlotte Gordon, Sir Bellingham and Lady Graham, the Marchioness and Ladies Cornwallis, Lord and Lady Charles Paulet, the Hon. General Upton, the Misses Douglas, Sir ileketh Fleetwood, Bart., M.P., Mrs. Berkeley Drummond, Colonel Scott, Scots Fusilier Guards. DEPARTURES. Captain and Nits. Bunhury, from the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Barton Hail, ,Suffolk; Capt. Fayrer, R.N., from ditto, for Liverpool ; John Pryce, Esq., from ditto, for York ; F. - Bennett, Eq., from ditto, for ditto ; H. Wetherell. Esq., from ditto, for Ramsgate; H. Lee, Esq., from ditto, for Southampton ; Donald Campbell, Esq., from ditto, for Brighton ; William West, Esq., from ditto, for the Continent; J. R. West, Esq., from ditto, for his scat, Alscot Park, Northamptonshire; H. NV. Penrose, Esq., from ditto, for Cappoquin House, Ire land ; R. Keane, Esq., from ditto, for ditto; Lord Geo. Loftus, from ditto, for Ireland; Colonel Burdett, for Althorp; the Ladies Harriet and Fanny Scott, for War wick Castle ; the Hon. Miss Somers Cocks, for Leaming ton Spa; Lord and Lady Hillsborough, for Glenarm Castle ; Lord and Lady Galway, on a visit to Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Monckton ; Lord Howden, for Grimston Park ; Col. Chatterton, 4th Dragoon Guards, for Birmingham ; the Marquis of Worcester, for Paris ; Lady Packe and family, for Ampthill Park, Beds; Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Whitbread, for Cardington, Bedfordshire; Capt. Barker, 27th Regiment, for Dresden. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE PREFERAiENTS, &c. • The Rev. John George Bellingham, M.A., to the be nefice of Aldsworth, Gloucestershire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. C. W. Everett. The Rev. William Frederick Kerr, A.B , to the Rec tory of Marston Sicca, Gloucestershire, void by the ces sion of the Rev. R. Green Jeston. The Rev. P. C. Nicholson, of Trinity College, Cam bridge, to be Assistant Curate of St. James's Church, Leeds. The Rev. Francis Duncan, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of West Cheborough, Dor set, void by the cession of the Rev. C. P. Brugge. The Rev. J. B. Reade, M.A., of Caius College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Stone, Bucks, vacant by the cession of the Rev. W. Fletcher. The Rev. R. B. Davies, 8.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, to the Curacy of Accrington, Lancashire. The Rev. NV. H. Dearsley, to the Perpetual Curacy of Hot ton, Staffordshire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. C. G. Harvey._ The Rev. F. N..Highmore, M.A., formerly second master of the Elizabethan School, at Wimbourn, has been appointed head master of the Free Grammar School at Burnley. The Hon. and Rev. Robert Plunket has been ap pointed by his brother, the Bishop of Tuaw, to the living of Headfort, worth 7001. a year, vacant by the death of the late Rev. Mr. Mears. The Rev. George Chute, to the curacy of the united parishes of MolahifFe, Kilkneedane, and Kilbonatie. The Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald Plummer to the united parishes of Newcastle and Mongea. THE HAND.B 0 OK OF SWINDLING. Chapman and Hall, London, 1839. " The Hand• Book of Swindling !" What a host of amusing reminiscences, ancient as well as modern—for the art of conveyancing is one of high antiquity—do these few words suggest They re call to our memory the God Mercury—the Adam of the swindling race, al'id unsurpassed in roguery, save by his own son Autolycus, after whom Shakspeare has named his pedlar, that famous " snapper-up of unconsidered trifles"—the sharper mentioned by Herodotus, who played such tricks with the cash of King Rhampsimtus—the pus of Lucian, who did Hell's grim ferry- man out of his Stygian p assage -money—the Sosias of Plautus—the Lazarillo de Tormes, Paul the sharper, and Guzman D'Alfaraclie of Mendoza and Clue vedo—tl,e Don Raphael of Le Sage—the (,fines de Passamonte of Cervantes—Se " gentle Claude Du Val—Fielding's French Clout— Garrick's Lying Valet— note's Papillon—Gold smith's Ephraim Jenkinson, whose one long story about the " cosmogony," conjured all the loose cash out of Dr. Primrose's unsophisticated pockets —Kenney's Jeremy Diddler—Major Semple's autobiography —the unrivalled Barrington, who stole his own snuff-box, by way of keeping himself in practice—and, comin g down to the present civi lized times, Vidocq's feathery-fingered heroe s —lk e) Solomo ns , an d hi s apt disciple, Fagin—the late la his appetite— an d a b ove all, mented Dando, w h o was cut off m the flo wer o f that mysterious perso nage—the Junius of petty larceny—the Man with the Carpet-bag I Of all these Conveyancers, each eminent in his hi nk the his own particul ar b ranc h of the profess i on, Barrington was, we I v n e o r s s t at r il e i i t i;ar a k s a to b ri le. shil Ig ; and Hishe science was first-rat e had the finest conception of a " Do," of any swindler we ever read of. The following anecdote, which w e [net with s ome y ears ago , but cannot just now remember where, will give a faint idea of Ins style of practice. . On one of his professional tours, it chanced that he stopped to dine at an hotel at Chichester. The landlord, struck by his dash ing air, and still more by his gig—which was then, as now, a certificate of respectability—received him with infinite respect, and ushering him into a pri vate room, placed before him the best extempore dinner he could furnish. Fish, flesh, and fowl, pastry, and a select dessert, were soon disposed of, and when a cozy bottle of old port had also been dispatched, and then a glass of brandy and water to make all comfortable, Barrington rang the bell, and summoned the landlord into his auaust presence. The man instantly appeared, and Cow ing and simpering with ineffable grace and sweet ness, placed his little bill on the table. His guest took it up, and coolly looking over the items, said " Landlord, I am rather delicately situated just at present." " Indeed," replied Boniface," with a visible dropping of the nether jaw, whil e a cloud stole over his intelligent visnom " Yes," continued Barrington, " I have un luckily left my purse at home, but I shall be back punctually tins day three weeks, when I will take care to make all right." " I'm done, by G—d," roared the landlord, half-sufflecated with passion, and forgetful of all prudential considera tions, turned his guest out of the house, saluting him at the same time with a kick that grievously endamaged his sitting parts. " You will repent this," said Barrington, as he quitted the hotel. And the landlord did repent it, for that very day three weeks, his maltreated guest again drove up to the hotel He entered the house with a countenance that bespoke forgiveness, and shaking hands with Buniface, who made a thousand apologies for his Former discourteous treatment, told him that he was come to pay his bill, adding blandly, "To show you that I entertain no towavds you, you shall dine with me to day', so let us have the very best of every thing in your house." This order was no sooner given than obeyed. A capital dinner was served up, far more expensive than the former one, and, after the choicest hock, claret, and burgundy, had been done all possible justice to, and the landlord had told his best stories, and cracked his slyest jokes, and Barrington had laughed, fit to kill him self, at the rogue's drollery ; the bill, as before, was called for, and deposited on the table. It was of awful length, but our hero's nerves were not easily flustered, so he addressed Boniface with the most perfect non-chalance, observing " Hark'eo, Mr. landlord; you kicked me out of this house just a4ever*e,s.ago ; I told yo u at t h e t i me you You I.l l 9'4)eiii,• of it ; and so you will, for though your hilt is now twice as long as it was, I have not a. StXpenee.. to pay it with ; wherefore," he added, coolly •turning aside his coat-tails, " you must act to ; you did before, and pay yourself by a cheque on the same bank!" • AVe,look upon this as the most perfect swind ling aehievement on r ecor d. T o do a:man, twice, and each time under precisely .the same 'circum stances i None but a Barrington could have conceived such a project. Here is another instance of his surprising fertility of inven tion. He had taken an unfurnished house in Long-acre, and was at a loss how to stock it. Walking out one day in the neighbourhood of Holborn, devising schemes for obtaining the necessary furniture, he saw a private house, the door of which happened to be open. After look ing cautiously about him, and listening in the hall for a few seconds, he marched up stairs, and, hear ing no noise, made his way into a bed-room, the bedding of which he quietly packed up, and lifted on his back. On his way down, he made a false step and stumbled, the noise of which brought out a fat, bald-pated gentleman, from the parlour. " Halloo, fellow, what do you want there ? ex claimed the astonished stranger. " Please, Sir," replied the unabashed Barrington, " I've brought the bedding you ordered of master last week." " Bedding ? What do you mean ? I ordered no bedding." " Oh, indeed ; then I suppose I've come to the wrong house ; so, perhaps, Sir, you'll be kind enough to assist me in replacing the load upon my back." The good-natured gentleman did so ; and not till some hours after Barrington had marched off in triumph, did he discover that he had actually assisted to rob himself Dando, like Barrington, was a superior genius, but he practised in a lower walk of the profession. His conceptions were good, and his exeeution prompt and intelligent; but lie wanted originality. You might always know him, like Gibbon, by his style. Then, too, he was a mere prosaic swindler, with nothing of the poetry of the art about him. He seldom soared above oyster-shops, but it must be added to his credit, that " within that circle none dare walk but he." Unparalleled was his success in the humble and limited sphere which he had chosen for the display of his abilities, and not a shell-fishm onger but sweat e d w i t h h orror at the very mention of his name, as the subjoined anecdote will show. Late one winter night, he walked into an oyster-shop, the master of which chanced to be absent, and addressing the girl behind the counter, desired her to send in three dozen of oysters, two breads, ditto butters, and a pot of porter, into the eating-room. Well, the viands were brought, and Dando set to at them with an energy that seemed proof against exhaustion. In a few minutes all had vanished. Another three dezen were then or dered ; and th en a third and fourth, with et ceteras in proportion ; till at length the pile of oyster shells formed quit e a Primrose-hill in miniatu re . Just at this crisis the shop w sil l ° li P te heap n the in,floor, a n d cast ingcame rubbed his hands and chuckled with uncommon sien the tifi e master glailc e c atf glee at the good night' s business that hod been d one . 111 warrant," he sa id , " there ' s been at least a dozen mouths at work her e ." cc A dozen I" replied the girl, " no such thing_only one." A horrid misgiving seized the fishmonger at these Words! Grim visions of ado flashed across his brain. He knew that there was but one, Man in Christe n d om g ifted with such Pr i All - giolis Powers of voracity ; an d rushing wildly into the inner -room, where at 4ia customer; smiling and COmfort e ble, with the secon d por ter -pot turned upsid e d own before him, h e a dd resse d him IMely and envrgetipally, as follows In the Devil's name, who and what are you ?" f 5 Dando was the reply, delivered with dienifi e d emphasis, and an air of conscious de sert. The shock was overwhelming. " Oh Lord Qll Lord !" f4lierOci !,he 1 . 14 .43 - 1-P . 9411 fleh murger , and dropped senseless into the midst of his own oyster shells. If we are not mistaken, it w As this are Dat i d u , though our author has referred the caging to an inferior artiste--who observed in his last mineente to a friend, that though he had been kicked, cudgelled, and horsewhipped a t h o u san d times, y e t h e had never met With Ally gne who A REPLY TO THE LECTURES OF DR. CHALMERS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF NATIONAL CHURCHES, 4.c. By MARK BUTLER. When Dr. Chalmers' Lectures in the Metropolis were closed, the Protestant Society offered some prizes for the best refutation of his principles. We hailed that offer at the time with much approbation, thinking it would tend to dissipate the prejudices the Doctor had raised ; but, till now, we have seen no fruits of the Protestant Society's exertions. Perhaps the little . work of which we have just written the title, may have been tempted by the offered prizes into existence ; but it is not so said on the title•page. Its object, however, as if it were a prize essay, is the same. It is confined to refuting some of Dr. Chalmers' state ments, and is wholly controversial. It developes no new principle, and establishes no new_ ground for rejecting the union between Church and State. It is a criticism rather than a didactic work. The author has the best intentions, and his re marks are neatly and tersely written. The Doctor, we are persuaded, will not like his antagonist, and will wish that he had not brought on himself such a castigation. THE ART UNION, No. XI. London, Longman, 1839 1 This is a monthly journal, bl . I 1 the same form iet in form as the " and devoted chiefly to the fine arts. We always refer to its columns with interest ; for the wed: is edited with great care and skill, and preserves throughout its various discus sions, a of scrupulous impartiality. The pre- Number contains, inter al/a, some sensible ob servations on the proposed Nelson Testimonial in Trafalgar -square. We have been pleased also with the biographical sketch of the late Douglas Cowpe r , who, according to the writer, was an artist of great promise, when he was so suddenly and prematurely cut af at the age of twenty-two. POLITICS AND BED -MAKERS !--A bed-maker at Cambridge has been dismissed, and the Cambridge Advertiecr appears to think (ve know not how justly) that her dismissal by Mr. Crick, the President of St. John's, has some sort of connection with the votes in favour of Mr. Gibson, given by s ome of the bed-maker's relations. The Cambridge Paper says, " Mr. Crick is the individual who, at a Tory di nner i n Suffolk a few years since, distinguished himself by 0 boast that ' was born a Tory, 4 6 )) .,)). . sic :‘ -.y forgetting dr.:. when first born he ha" "'7 :tieas at all. His varliegt ideas were of course of pap, and not of polities, OBl'rliAltY. On the 10th inst., at the Rectory-house, Ackworth, aged 78, the Rev. William Robert Hay, M.A., Rector of Ackworth, and Vicar of Rochdale. Aged 75, at his residence, in Henry street, Bath, tLo ,ev. John Genev. Suddenly, at Liverpool, the Rev. Richard Cadeprell, it the' 62d year of his age. - • At his reSideeee, Fort Elizabeth, near Groom, the Rcv. John - Croker, one of the Minor Canons of the Cathedral, and Vicar of Clonelty and Clouneagh. At Newport Glebe House, county 'Tipperary, the PA , . John Pennefather, LL.D., Rector of the 'Union (,!. St. Jonn's, aged 83 years. lii communio❑ with the Established Church, the v. Laurence J. Nolan, Curate of Atliboy, formerly :,ornan Catholic priest. filer Majesty's Christmas bounty to poor and •1 men and women will be distributed by Mr. Hanby, War office, Secretary to the Lord Almoner, the rehbishop of York. Her Majesty's gate-alms to the I and afflicted are also in course of payment. .'ortraits of her Majesty the Queen and Prince ert in the lids of gold snuff boxes, will, we under :l, be presented to all the Foreign Ambassadors on 3ccasion of the Royal nuptials, and the jewellers already received orders to prepare them. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess anbridge and Prince George are expected to ho the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham with a visit Stowe, the second week in January. The principal o apartments are undergoing re-embellishment, pre % .3 to the arrival of the Royal visitors. His Grace t. refurnished the mansion in a state of great splen tl e.• since his accession to the Dukedom, and many im- I • vements are in progress on the splendid domain, un- ;- the superintendence of the Noble Duke. The ornamental gardens alone, laid out by Lord Cobham, cost half a million. A numerous party of the Bentinek family will asaernble at Welbeck Priory, the scat of the Duke of Portland, to-day. The Earl of Ilchester and Lady Caroline Fox Strangways, Lord Stavordale, and Mr. and Lady Theresa Digby, are passing the holydays at Melbury Castle, in Dorsetshire. The Dowager Countess of Ilchester will join the circle from Abbotsbury Castle. The Earl of Clare, the Dowager Countess of Clare, and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon will pass the Christmas at Mount Shannon, his Lordship's seat, near Liinorick. TIT Marquis of Titchfield has been enjoying the sports of the field at Andover. Lord George Loftus has left the Cavendish Hatch Jermyn-street, for Lord Ely's, Ely Lodge, En niskillen, for the holidays. Lord Berwick has removed from his house, Red Rice, Andover, to Attingham House, Shrewsbury. • IiACKLEY, DEC. 24.=--Much company is ex pected in this neighbourhood for the Christmas festivi ties, at Earl jerrnyn'a, Middleton Park ; Sir Robert Fit zwygrana's, Tusmore Park ;and our county member, Mr, Cartwright's, at Aytous. We are sorry to add that these families leave us next month, for the meeting of Parliament, The Lord Bishop of Ripon commenced his annual distribution of clothes, coals, &c., on Friday last, to the poor of Ripon, Budgell, &c. Mr. dames Haynes's new tragedy, founded on the story of Mary Queen of Spots, which was to have been brought out last season at Covent-garden, by Mr. Maaready, has been, we are t o ld, accepte d b y t h e l essee of Druly-fang. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Among the nnmerous fashionables present at the last performance pf hq . tr, Po Monday evening, were Cou n t an d Countess liatbiany, popi,o. of Euston, and Lady Louisa Fitzroy, Mr. ant; MU? Wmubwell, and Miss Womb well, Lord Howden, Illajor,General Sir George and Toady Whitmore, Hon. Captain Macdonald, Lord Masfort, &c, Lord ;n4 43.4 1 , William Russell have arrived at the Duke of Bedford 7 a, in Eelgrave-square, from Berlin. His Lordship's eldest son, Mr. Francis Hastings Rus entered the Coldstream Guards as Ensign and Lionteca4- Mr. St. John Mildinny has left town for Hast ings in but indifferent health, Mits. Tom SHERIDAN.—Mrs, T. Sheridan is also 4e-,-e at present ; very pretty, very sensible, amiss. ble, and gentle y indeed, so gentle, that Tom insists upon it that her extreme quietness and tranquillity is a deCept in her character. Above all, by accuses her of suc h a s eii.trerne apprehension of giving tremble Om says), it amounts to algolute affectation. He affirms that when the cook has forptten her duty, and no djeaer is prepared, Mrs. Sheridan says, 0 Olt, pray eintrt •c,t 444; pn purpose for me ; I'll take a dish tit tea instead:?Anti Ito drttlares himself certain, that if s he were to set her Clpther, re, she would step to t h e bell very quietly, and say to the pc, , FFOt ? with --a‘t gen tleness and composure, " P ray, WillaTp, 4 .4;;,.-,.4er in the!ruse ?"—" No, M a da m ; 'hut . soep get , Oh ? dear no ; i t d oes not s i g - I cat. .' “ 7 the fire will • t -If!"—Life and • I dare P-0 • • •g" C.o s r iespondence ,^,f 111, IRELAND. lives, properties, rights, and liberties, against the envc, nomed and increasing hostility of the bigoted Tories o Great Britain. " Your faithful servant, " DANIEL O'CONNELL. ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARN An affair of a singular nature has recently occurred in the county of Norfolk. We abstain from revealing the names of the parties, as we are informed a Court of Law will speedily decide on the merits of the case. It appears that the gentleman, Mr. --, was informed by his domestics that his lady was a great admirer of an officer in the Lancers, now quartered in the city of Norwich ; indeed, so well founded were the suspicions, and so strongly conveyed, that the injured husband de termined to procure proof positive, and to effect this invited the gentleman and a brother of f icer to dine and sleep, omitting to say in the invitation that some Bens d'annes were to be of the party. The lady and her husband it seems have been long in the habit of occupying different apartments, and on this par ticular night Mrs. --, it was remarked, wished her husband good night more affectionately than usual. The police, however,were on the alert, and stationed about the mansion. At about three in the morning a figure appeared, slowly and carefully bending its way through the passages, and finally ensconced itself in the lady's bedroom, and turned the key. To make assurance doubly sure, the gentleman's room was searched, but nor ghost nor shadow was discovered there. Doors, in these fashionable and romantic days, arc made of stout oak, and do not give way as in the times of Jack Shep pard. Armed with pistols, the police and husband were yet several minutes effecting an entrance, and the gay Lothario, doubtless without much hesitation, jumped out at the window in his robe de nail and one slipper. It was (fortunate or not ou r rea d ers must determine) the merest chance in the world he was not killed on the spot, falling within two inches of a deep area ; however, a run of three miles across ploughed fields proved that the gallant gentleman was more frightened than hurt. The end of this romance is, that Mrs. - departed to her friends, the enraged husband to th e French, and the officer to the English metropolis —.fronting Post. • DEATH OE LADY EMILY WELLESLEY.—We regret to hear of the decease, alter a lingering illness, of Lady Emily Wellesley. The event took took place on the 22d inst., at Boulogne.sur-Me r . Her remains will be brought to London tor interment. The late Lady Emily Wellesley was the eldest daughter of Charles Sloane, first Earl Cadogan. Her Ladyship was born on the 26th of May, 1778, and was married on the 2d of Juno, 1802, to the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley, D. 1)., Prebendary of Durham, and a younger brother of the Duke of Wellington. Lady Emily has left a numerous family. Her third daughter is married to the Viscount Chelsea, eldest son of Earl Cadogan. Lady Emily was the sister of the present Marchioness of Anglesey. SIGNS or TILE TIMES.—In one of our garrison towns the following exposition of an important principle is to be seen, exhibited on a large painted board, in front of a tradesman's shop, quite in a business style :, ". Peace on earth : good will among men." So cieties for the Promotion of Permanent and Univer sal Peace.—Peace Societies, which are in operation in London, this neighbourhood, many other parts of Great Britain, in Ireland, America, Switzer land, and France, are formed to rectify public opinion on the custom of wan, all kinds of which they regard as utterly opposed to the precepts and example of Jesus Christ, which enjoin all mankind to live as brethren, " to return not evil for evil, but good for evil." Inst cad of resorting to human butchery, the conflagra tion of cities, and the destruction of the rich bounties of a beneficent Providence, a system withal for the ob tainment of justice, proverbially uncertain. They pro pose that a congress of wise and good men of different nations should be established, to whom international disputes should be submitted for equitable adjustment. Peace Societies disclaim all sectarianism, and seek only to unite the whole human family, the offspring of a corn mon parent, in one peaoeful brotherhood. " The co operation of all persons favourable to these views is ear nestly requested. The sinfulness, the horrors, the im policy, and the folly of war, are set forth in the Society's publications, which may be obtained for perusal of --.- of whom furth er i n f ormat i on may be had. " " One mur , der makes a villain—millions a hero."-- Porteos. " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings couel not play at."—Cowper. " The national debt, which was contracted by war, is nearly eight hundred million pounds sterling, the interest of which burdens the country with taxes to the amount of about thirty mil-. lion pounds annually." NEWARK ELECTION. —During the pa'A week although not so excited as by the presence zind during the canvas of the Solicitor. General, Newt:trk has been all alive ; the meetings of the Liberal Society have been very numerously attended, and with considerable acces sion of members they meet, not for riotous excess, but for mutual information, and for the common benefit of their common cause. The announcement of a dis tribution of the charity funds, which were so long with held by the old corporation, and have only just been re covered, added to the excitement. Among the signs of weakness on the part of the factious oppositionists, not only have they very greatly abated in the numbers by which they boast they shall win, hoping vainly to deceive the very few stragglers of no decided character, but they also are issuing addresses, which notwithstanding their great words, display manifest alarm, if not also a consciousness that they will be beaten. The High Church party in Newark hope by their factious cry of " No Popery" to cajole the Wesleyans into aiding them to reject the Queen's Solicitor-General.—Nereark Ga zette. BAPTISM BY IMMERSION BY A CLERGYMAN O THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. --OR Sunday week the Rev. Mr. Storr, Rector of Otley, baptized a female by immersion in a new baptistry, which had been made by orderiof the clergyman in the v estry.—lpstvich Expres s , ADDRESSES." -- We G F THE AUTHOR OF REJECTI AnnaEssEs."W e ar e gr i eved to record the James S m ith, E sq., t h e author of " ReectP' "It took pl aces yestei day morning, j 41 eath 11 A t d his d r e s housescs. of 3 " in Cr aven - street. It is but sei- , ... individ ua l to combine so -, - the -24th",a nom the fortune of an and mi n d as were pOS many advantages i n p erson V s be sinc ere l y mourn , .: sed by James Smith ;he must admitted to h;- • "ect by all who had the happiness to he sroin a v- .. intimacy. He h a d b een su bj ect to gout die, wry early period of his existence, yet it never .....urbed the equanimity of his temper, or prevented him frem enjoying the quiet society of his friends when its torments had subsided. Last January he was at tacked with a violent increase of the disease, and the system seemed for some weeks unable to rally. His end was tranquil, and distinguished by that placidity and contentment so characteristic of his disposition. A correspondent at Brighton informs us that a wealthy gentleman of the Jewish nation, who possesses the Wyke estate there, has offered to present a portion of it to her Majesty for the site and grounds of a new palace, with a view to remove the objection which her Majesty is understood to entertain to frequent or pro tracted visits to Brighton, on account of the want of a sea view, and the limited extent of grounds at the Pavilioa. It is added that the same gentleman has offered to lend the whole sum required for the build , leg, and that an architect of the same nation has alrp- 4 prepared a pl an f or t h e e di fice upon a scale r ' , Re' " g 1 a magnificence.—llfornin. Post. A DRUNKARD . -On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr. Payne at St. BP: ctlinlornew's Hos 't l on view of the body of Mary Giii aged • . PI a t , sixty years. It appeared from the evidencethe pr ev i ous S atur d a , • . of several w itnesses that on of th e T ur k' s r- ' . ,afternoon decease d the came out Clerken •. H ead public-house, T urnmill-street, - k - -ea, in a state of intoxication, an d fell off the , -o -stone into the road, and both the near and hind 1 wheels of an empty coal waggon passed over her body. 1 1 She was conveyed to the above hospitzl, where she died i at six o'clock the same evening. Verdict—" AQei-. i dental death." DUBLIN, D EC . 2:3. TRIUMPH OF REFoßm.—The following notice was this morning posted in the City : " Mr. O'Connell presents his respects to the el ctors of the city of Dublin, for whom notices of registry have been served, and solicits the honour of their attendialce to meet him at the sitting of the Registry Court this day, to proceed with the registration. " Punctual attendance at ten o'clock is most earnestl requested. " Merrion-square, December, 1839." At half-past three o'clock the Liberals had a majority the Tories having polled only two or three, while twent Reformers registered. The Pilot says— " The Liberator is making the most earnest and vigorous exertion to get up for registry all those for whom notices have been served at these Sessions ; and his efforts are, we rejoice to say, most signally an I tri umphantly successful." 1 INCENTIVE To REBELLION.—In the speech made l, Mr. O'Connell at the Tralec dinner, the Moil dis covers —what think you ? why, an incentive to rebel lion ! The following passages are amongst those pro duced as damning evidence against the traitor : " Here (in 'fralee) was the origin of his physical— of his professional lite ; and what place so fitting for the re-opening of that peaceful, holy, and nece,,sary campaign on which the maintenance of our liberties— aye, and the safety of our lives, and our properties and our families depend ?" , " I stand fearlessly upon the right —aye, gentlemen, and, thank God, upon the ?night of the Irish people ; and I say to them that they shall not crush us—they shall not put us down." AGITATE, AGITATE.—Mr. O'Connell has pub lished the following requisition : " Merrion-square, Dec. 9 3. " I request a meeting of my constituents at the Adelphi Theatre, Great Brunswick-street, To-morrow (Tuesday), the 24th inst., at half-past three o'clock, in order that I may communicate to them my views of the necessity of taking immediate measures to defend our Vt.',_:NING EDITION. THE LATE RIOT in BIRMINGHAM (Ns_). I-) Whitehall, Dec. 20. 1839. am directed by the Marquis of Normanby to transmit to you the copy of a letter, which has been this day addressed, by his Lordship's desire, to J. B. Hebbert, Esq., at Birmingham. I have the honour to loe, Sir, your obedient servAnt, (Signed) S. M. PHILLiPPS. To Wm. Scholefi2Td, Esq., Birmingham. (No. 2.) , (Copy.) Whitehall, Dec. '2O, 1839. StR,-With reference to the memorial and repre sentation of certain of the inhabitants of the borough I of Birmingham, presented to the Secretary of State, • relative to the conduct of the Mayor and lagis trates of that town, on the evening of Monday the 15th of July last, in which memorial it is stated, that from about half-past eight to a quarter before ten, on that night, the property and lives of the memorialiasts were left unprotected to the violence of an organized mob, although full and authentic information had been early given to the Mayor and Magistrates of the borough of the intentions and plans of the rioters,—Lord Nor manby directs me to inform you, that, having consi dered the evidence adduced on the part of the memo rialists before David Dundas, Esq., to whom it was re ferred to investigate the subject -matter of the said me morial, and having also considered the evidence adduced on the part of the Mayor and Magistrates, his Lord ship is of opinion that the memorialists have altogether lailed in establishing the allegations and charge con tained in their memorial, and that such evidence does , not call for, and would not warrant the instituti on o f any such proceedings as are prayed for in the memorial against the Mayor and Magistrates. Lord Normauby directs me to add, that, in conse- • quence of his having only recently received the rcpo!'t of the inquiry, he has not been able to make an eP.rlier communication to you of his decision.—l am, sm. (Signed) S. M. PHILLIPPS, To J. B. lichbert, E:q., Birmingham. (N? : WhiCeball, Dee. o ff, 1839. GENTLMnts---1 have the honour tP , . having c ons id ere d the evidence ad"l quirt' at Birmingham into 't ..aced on the late in ie condu c t o f tho Magis tr the on 15th Jul last the o utragrs which took place Itiro r ni 30u, th a t ates, the occasi on o f on y.,1 do ground to imput e e i ther to not p er ceive any sufficientte May Magistrat es , any W ilf ul negiect h of duty or, or t h e ot h er I am of your opinion, that it would have been more prudent if t h e M ag i strates, instead of ordering the police not to act in th e i r a b sence, had made arrangements For the const an t atten d ance of out at least of their be-4 at 's the police- o ffi ce ; an d , although the Magistratestrate ht mi have supp ose d t h at, b y the directions left 1.-',6re g had provided for i mme di ate attendance in they ttes gencv, I still regret th a t t h e other course e of emer w-ae not taken ; but I see no reason whatever to ch Magistrates, on thi s account, With ae.y wilful ne .a rggl the ect of duty or want o f zea l . 1 regret that I have not br.,en able sowner to COMMII. j i nicate to you my op i n i on. I am gentl emen, your obedient servant, 1 (Signed) NORAIANBY. To Wm, Seholefielti, Esq. (late Mayor), atni th e Magistrates of Birmingham. COU.NTY CoURT OF uIiQUESTs thsAsruous CASE.— Mary Julian summon , ‘,l Jacob Barker, who, she said, was a " gentleman tr.), - keeper," for 17s. Gd. Mary was one of those " t'Alk J::- tire creatures" who pay no respe c t to the " ante,ce del c." " If you please, sir," said Mary, etzrtesyi ag. to Mr. Commissioner Dubois, " I lodges in this 'sere rgentle man's torret—back— as keeps eleven cows. as owes me I 7s. Gd. for sundries." " Have the goodness," said the COYAMISSIONEA "Us enumerate the sundries." gownd for this here b g r o i o n A d i d a le r gentleman's missis when e.ney went to buy tha Well, sir, lust I made a . brindled cow as het up my greens as I left in the pan in the yard, which was 3s. 6d. Then there's uppune,e for the green s as the cow het, which makr.s Ss. 'id. Then —and Mrs. Mary Julian hesitated. Mr. Commissioner DUROlS—Proceed,, Mrs. J ali en, if you pl ease . Mary—The next thing I done was a raend:ing two pair of breeches, which was Is. 84., which makes— Here Mary was puzzled, e.nd had t o reckon up the two sums in black and w:nite, her rAwers of mental arithmetic being too feel:Adler -the nonce. Mary—That makes os. 4d. The there was the pan as their donkey I.roke whera him and the brindled cow run their he , :,d s together about the hay ; " that I s. 4d., vid4 - ich is a mat t er of —yes-62.8d. Aint twas ht there "fight ?" said Mary, turning short round up on t a b, * ,„entleman cowkeoper," who replied, " Oh, yes ! I aint no pertikler objection as yet." Mary—And then there was the sheet as t' le pulled off the line an d tore all to pieces, lls. Ild. Gentlem an cow k eeper—That I es as to deny ru There ai n t no p i g as I keeps as is got w hi'' . .th i make:. iw do si c h a h act , any reason to ' Mary (d raw i ng herself up)—No see him d o i t w i th my own eyes, reason, i n d ee d! I Jere effect. Wrin't ~ belie ve i t ;—not if Gentlemen eoWkeeper— you'd make a h oath to that tl- MAr. `marker, y ou k now, as I y Mary—G o d bl ess me, don.e it. You see, Si r ( turd. i t n o g l d o to t u h , e 'z c a c o k m l y m ai Commissioner i t o he n gi r i ), as the day was a worry wietly pegs on the line fell off, and the sheetonc, and was o a n fi e op o p f in th , e 4. about when the pig was runnint: across the yard ; t:ne consequence was, as the end of the sheet came rt,romiscuously dab in his face and the corner on it go'c tight round his nose his the harder he pullea the tighter it got, 'cos the sheet was just hui g out. and quite wet ; and when he found as he could .„ get rid of the linen, he upp'd with both of his feet,. ,„,i down came the sheet, and run into the sty with :, and afore I could git down stairs he'd made small bor .es on i t. Gentleman cowkeeper—l mean to say as t'ae story's unprobahle. When a piri's got anything th e matt* with him he don't go into ' his sty. only when it rains, when he wants lie never goes in his. wittles, when he's called, or when the boys pelts ' tion to any aim. P ut the ques cobbcrate (corroborate whd. one as has fr,tl.c, and s ee if h e don't at c I at s y Mary declared thr a ? .t what she had stated was " as true as Gospel," avid that piggy, when going into the sty with the torn. piece of linen, looked like a porke r " three sheets 'a l the wind." The Gen.cleman Cowkeeper said he wished it ha A laden the P.nimal's winding sheet. The affair had (=p m him a ', mas t d eal of trouble and loss (' f time, sol the yard. gs t i i n futute he o would not a ll ow his pio have the range o f Mary then gave the particulars of the ini portion of h er c l a i m, vowing that she would never rema hang her thi ngs out to dry in a place where .: animals with snouts were tol erate d . After some further interchang ) (I of opi n i ons and ob servations bet ween plaintiff (rad del en d ant, a verdict was given f or t h e plaintiff. -.----- C _,HRISTALAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSES.-- In all the metropnlitan • and suburban parishes the par - pers are supplied on this day with old English fare, roa st beef and plem-pudding, and porter. In some of the houses the supply is more liberal rhea in other s . For the 1 ,000 poor comprised in the K ensington receive but half a pound of beef ar 4 t h e „,, tel , i u ns n t i a o n n ee r , quanity of pudding, whil e their neigh!), Airs in th e Wandsw ort h and Clapham U n i on , are f arnished w i t h roast beef an d and juvenile plum-puddi ng ad Coitt 4 „, ; the aged indul paupers will h ave to a p.ed gences in the evening. care several extra W advocates for the ad libitum plan, and wish it w`J re more g enera l. O nce at least i n a year the poor 81- A D EFINITION • OF 4ould h ave a goo d d i noer, da V ituNKENNESS.—On Mon y we - A at the To '.en- a atill during the hearing of one 4, WrAs he dlrunk ?" of th .runkenness the accused person deniee, !./ having sacrificed too freely to the jor ly h a e lle c g b a a t r i g o e n s O of 0 god, on whie d the following colloquy took pittet hetwr, ez the Mayo:., and the constable, who was . 4 witness, ~...., Mayor : i , Are you sure he was drunk ?" Const a b le : Wr.is the. Tha n "` Constable:No t r egula G r ra d e drunk."—Mayor iy.Aiayor: : „ drunk ?"---Con or sober r" Neither." —Mayor :‘.W.nat then stable : " Sharp fresh ; well, so frr.sla that he did not know what he was doing, but not regular drunk." (en this elaborate definition of inebri'ation the bench seemed puzzled how to act, and the defendant, w h o ad the allegation of"fresh," but indignantly repudiated the mitted accusation of " drunkenness," was reprimanded, and li.„ berated on payment of costs.---Prstoit Chronicle. According, to ancient chronicles, Arthur kept the east of Christmas with great solemnity. The I 4ords kept it chiefly with the Sovereign, and it was the season when the great gave clothes to their domest;.es. Barons feasted the whole country, and a boar (not merely a boar's head) was put upon the table, ri.ebly gilded, by way of brawn. Ships sailed only with, the foremast, in honour of the season. the amusements in ePrly ; Por the purr,Jose of conducting t.me s —su , A as singing the was sail], se , ram asneir.g round standards de corate(' with - evergreens, the hobbyhorse, &c., a lord of b li ng f` ,Jr nuts, misrule., or master of the revels, was appointed, who i Iva° sometim es crowne d a nd atte n d e d with all the pant- , phernali a o f roya l ty during the 12 days. H e was alr ,0 called the Christmas Prince; a mock play, as Nexatz' ler and the King of .E.upt, was usually ac t e d by ruu rur rers, The chief performers in the interlude ; and plays Were the g entlemen and children of choir s . Interlud• „ were in the Inns of Cone s , as were re .rels and also usual before and after suppe% So ea:ly as t 509 puri dances anism began to object to these sporA s of war ancestors. t SUICIDE OF AN iiouNO r_,NOLI.6II LADY AT MOUNT VESUVIIT'—The Moniteur Pezeisien of Satur day night state:, that the d a'aghter of au English banker, a rich heire',s, named W igs A nna Wilkins, had thrown herscl F . 'into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, on the 12th 1 i'''",i.. in consequ.,nce of being crossed in love. The oh- jest of her - years of attachment was a handsom e Lazzarone, 19 t . age. i i I