The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

..-- FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED TIIIS DAY.) D RussELs, Nov. 19.—The average price of wheat last week was 17f. 93c.; and that of r`•e 10r. 69e The import and export duties remain unaltered. The Chamber of Representatives, after having re ceived a great number of petitions, resolved itsel into a secret Committee to enter on the examination of its own budget. After having decided on this question, the public sitting was resumed, to examine the project of law relative to the importation of twelve million kilogrammes of corn from the duchy of Limburg, with a reduction of 7.5 c. from the pre isetit duties. The debate taking a political turn, the Chamber again formed itself into a secret Committee, which, as we hear, was adjourned till to-morrow. In this Committee the Minister urged the necessity tor this project of law, as he had proposed it to the Chamber. A royal resolution of the 2d of November autho rises the Commercial Bank of Antwerp to a certifi cate of the Roman Five per Cent. Stock inscribed in the Great Book of Rome, to the amount of six mu-- l ifts of francs, and fora period which will expire on e 31st of December, 1854. This permission is granted on the following con ditions 1 . To fulfil in any points the obligations mentioned ' l3 the National Act executed the 16th October last. 2 - Not to issue certificates of less nominal value tbao I,ooof. at the least, as well as the coupons, with to mention the corresponding value in Roman 154atres. 3 . To insert in the certificates the cases which may illterrupt the payment of the interest (rente course), L ka w ell as the conditions by means of which an w linal share may be obtained. . 13 4 . To h ave the cert i f i cates stampe d , as prescribed . 7 t he law of March 21, 1839. If these conditions should not be complied with, the 1/44nliasion will be withdrawn. Aetna D BELGIAN FUNDS.—BausseLs, Nov. 20. ebtCent., Loan of Five per Cent "Akan of Thirty M illions, Four per Cent 6 % Three per Thirty-seven Millions, ditto —.. (1840) lO4 mac.. ....... 103 Loan of City, 1843, /our per Cent. lo2k Bo eiety of Connnere, Four and a Half per Cent. 'teak of Bel ' Five r Cent emu. of IMF "' per •••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••• ..... •••••••••••••••• ......trisisilTiapers. Nov. 21. DUTCH 1 UN 03.—Amerreansid, Nov. 16. Monts. Kilts. Dit to Debt '2% per Cent tllti • ' 024 62% 1 ,-- 0 , ditto, 3 per Cent. 96% 97 ....C L u tt i Q 4 , th in t t t , o ) , 4 4 per Cent. per era t. .. . 99;6 1(0 Afs4tnet t Syndic, 4}i, per cent i.914 99% Xrurn t to. ditto, 3}4, per cent... ...a ...o erelal Company, 4}, pea cent 147 147% Loan„. 1837. 4% per cent. 114tchange on Londe, Onemonth .... Two months.„ l2 C,7 4, Plarsiburgh, One month Two months, 55 25 ' pl utit Papers, Nov. 20. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-13same, Nov. 16. Bills. Money I)t ',, --, ‘"tudd Sch., 336 per cent. i'llassian English Bonds, 1830, 1 per cent — 0 23% Exchange on London — 6 23N, 'desian State Gazette. Nov. 17 tio -• KEEN-AN'S NEW PRINCIPLE OF PHYSIOLOGY. Dr. Keenan last night delivered the second of his cou rse of l ec t ures on organic chemistry, sa the :4 1\ress tern Scie n tifi c I nst i tut i on, on which the room 114 again well fill e d . H e went o‘;sr much of the -at ilt ground that he had travert'sd in his first exposi tion, hi s theory being simply that the human body/is tn el theory mac line, and that the electricity is t i r lerated in the lugs by the oxygenation of the food. e point on which he particularly . dwelt was the ab lehen of a ll philosophical explanationofthe cause the useof Illotion hi. the theory of Lieb g, who supposes chief purposes of th e l ungs to be generated reaaw from heat and the e vo l ut i ons of carbon. The in genuity displayed by Dr. Kee fo nan th in e manner r bu in t "which he placed his theory be itsrvi cf a t c h c e ot v nxt v n s ie e d f wilethhif o t e s ahue i n d s d r ime eir cn e f en e s ; r e n theta - g, considerable ae d re was He Thost part on assumption. - that the nervous assumed, u in the first place, the disputed question, that ; influence and electricity are identical and having taken that for granted, he rested his theory of the generation of electricity in thelungs ki altogether ton analogy, and that of an imperfect . nd. Though the generation of voltaic electricity is produced by the absorption of oxygen, it is doubted by many phy siologists w h e th er any oxygen whatever is absorbed f'bby the bl oo d i n t h e lungs, and there is little analogy et ween the absorption o f oxygen by a zinc plate ffr an the decomposition of water and the assumed a bsorption of o x y gen an d t h e formation of water .in lungs by th e d ecomposition of atmospheric Dr.par. -4 be excit ement of frictional electricity, which Keen an attribut e d ent i rely to the oxydisement of the amalgam on the rubber can with great difficulty 4 attributed to chemical action, since electricity , is ften excited under circumstances when no oxy di.sa -1„le base is known to be present. Even supposing the identity of nervous influence and fvotlhtaeic lungsel lriei t.l 7 , the analogy of the action -v-art but feebly in support of Dr. Keenan's theory, end he leaves the heat of the body altogether lanaccounted for. In applying his system body,of j 1 : 8k) logy to the management of the hurpan . 1 , , • Keenan contended that the electricity i in te t a li i e s Zer,ves spread over the stomach and in the ' s4 ts mainly in digesting the food, and that when ae the ib °llla ch has more food thrust into it, in proportion to 01,,43'gen absorbed by the blood, than the e ec y . „"3,Kenerated can digest, the remaining portion of Ache,-,,loisable food irritates the stomach and intestines, - ;: i the electricity of the nerves is exhausted by the electricity and over - work. In this manner, he affirmed. 'by ~ ar e quite as many of the rich starved to death froth th e re as t h ere are of the poor who are starv w e a d s ver y _-- Want of food. Dr. Keenan's lecture . out well received, but, owing to his speaking with an nots, he is very discursive, frequently repeats, 111,3‘ .°ll3equently, makes his lectures rather confused • much tco long. Pc., Saturday, between thir, .5.11A.TE ESCAPE.—Last s of a coalpit 1, 11 :Y and forty tons of the bind or root fell inn A Messrs. Barber and Walker, l a m t c i n ii i m ia b d e b rl e e c y n , ly,, ki • A. few minutes previously sevcra bu t g upon the spot where the heavy m . aterial fell, essk,,,rwtnnately their services had been required in some ..., A , v part of the pit, and thus their lives were preserved. 'tt'n9huna Review. It tv 4 ~._ zasn or FORTUNE —The police-constable 299, Isru'es Tracy, who was struck by Mr. Ashton, of . t c h n e ha E s tt ? -°i n'ec, in self defence, at the South Dock stati on , /ri s ;:•hce been elevated to the ' title of Earl Tracy— Atlat"4ge.--Liverpool paper. O tAr ARMING FIR E. — Yesterday morning, florti c y . al er i lli ed 2 ( " I, lc . iock, a fire broke out upon the premises o c . v ..) Mr. Richard Hanks, 11, Duke-streot, Pica clarL':, Wh ich was not extinguished before considerable .e o ,,e was done to the ground floor and workshops, titl i alrii ng at valuable quantity of stock, furniture, T an h d e cceiet: ProPery, both by fire, water, and removal. "tits are insured in the Phoenix. ; !inderstand that Mr. Locke, the eminen o t f e t n h - e 1: 72 5 has received from his Majesty the iti:i;:n.a Magnificent diamond ring for his a K tt in en g tion to ~:r a i,esty on the Sou th - Western Railway. . , v e hear that it is in, contemplation to invest his Ili th Gotha with ttshiatei:ining Duke Ernest Saxe Coburg rte r, at an honlusignia of the illustrious Order of the persu,iticAiding his visit t o his honor knight, Earl d other atrlnguished party, hugu l t relatives in thisher Majesty, country. he A tlis during Premier, Ae ni bi e at winhd:ges of high note, are expected by her expected Highnesses. ensuin t4 e4 „, "S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.—The .an s ' " 4 17 dinner of this excellent Institution was given Za-"'"aY, at the Freemasons' Tavern. The number v_srlarger thsri that assembled last year, amounting to ~,,`V.!. three hundred. The Chairman was Alderman i'Ll la r l lllB ' whn dye supported by the Sheriffs, Messrs. ter and Sy, Mr. Giblett, and several other t re rlds of this Charity. In announcing the principal boast, the Chairman dwelt with tact and feeling on the se,ll:olent purpos e of the Association, vindicated the b u ''Q b. l ty from the assertions made as to their want of vt,'llitlity some years ago, and pointed with a just de of' 4: " 2 of triumph to the fact that at present the butchers _, London expended 1,000/. annually, on fifty-three re .l`ZnPiellt3 of their bounty, the men receiving 20L and the ?ials/. per annum. The subscriptions were on the utmost al liberal. scale, and the evening was passed in the terJharmony. AVAL MEDICAL SUPPLEMENTAL FUND .----Yes this".Y a special general meeting of the subscribers to b f und vim held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Sir Wm. !.erhttt, Rse.ll., president, in the chair, to reeeive the .t'Port of a Committee appointed to investigate the af ef the society. The chairman having acknowledged that the Up on w as i n a very embarrassed state, called the Mr. Crand e ll, t h e secretary, to read the report of ' con tai ennt nittee, which was exceedingly volumnieus, and aned the re commendation of the Committee to re tiee the annuities fr om 404 to 261. 13s. 4d. ; and also the t`T'ilion of the law officers of the Crown that they could a ,?t, Make that reduction without an Act of Parliament ai‘sthorising them to remodel the society. The report 1,47 contained a draft of the Act necessary for those , . _P i lots. The report was adopted, and thanks were - ' 3, est to the Committee and the chairman of the day. t,,A. VESSEL RUN DowN NEAR GRAVESEND.—LOsS )4; L11.E.---About three o'clock on Monday morning, 41:hg somewhat foggy, as a vessel named the Ranger, nut 80 tons burden, belonging to Goole, was working st ale struck the Rall 14 P t he Itsach for London, a collier brig, also beating ger in midships with such force as to ' t her ahnost i nstantaneously, carrying with her the 4111140 Ste, Mr. Duffield, wile, it is said, 11 , its in the cabin 1•,,,. 11 " moment and who perished. The rest of the eresn, irl.,-:r, in /lumber had a narrow efcape. The collier, after e v k ' i u,": IaTO. too' r,r several minutes, ih , the ht , pes of * ll 4 $ tip the ill-fated master, proteeueu on to Graves “,,whre the crew of the Ranger were landed. Mr. ertZ el d Was a native of Grimsby, whore he ha s l e f t a ..... lui t i f„,„, -••414.1Y, .77 TfIE SUN, .LONDQN,_FRI_DAIt_ P,VE,NI.II4_G IRELAN.I).•-: DUBLIN uNtvhAslTY—oitAlT'Qt AiOVI?,.UPN DuityArrz, goV. 1 20:---.Thsf.ateirrent of t 4 Dublin IVttptler, respecting. the atitt-Peel,ttlovemenft;amongst the divinity students, haS ..prcianceil some e)s. , i: ,- ?!irlent in the University, and.l4 to ikiplrOed entiFsevf action on the part of the bet:it-Pot Skeier : fellows. , '-, The Siatantah, QrangrjoUtrial, contains the following on this subject • -• ' tie still sinnt-:• . beetiase harriste rs who expect promo- Zountenance, or place, still remember the warning of Lord Ebrington, and say nothing—because - the army and police dare not read the journals of .he Liberal press or join in the crk for r,encal-r-and hemp?, pnri:dti.l, in everx 4eptlrtnitnt 01 the few public offices in Ireland haVe received notice to quit or be mute, . Thi:, J~ti viii permit me to say, 13 at bat but a very negative power, and while you stop the mouth of the Yolcarioi you do not quench, but concentrate the fitt; and ilotwithetind log that thtte ate still many waiters upon Providence — many who are still content to take the crumbs which fall from the rich man's table—the truth is every day becom ing more and more evident that the ranks of the res. pealera are increasing-- ,- -that nine-tenths of the Roman Catholics are practical patriots, and that a large body of the Orangemen, too, wish the cause to succeed, but their esprit de corps prevents them as yet from say ing so ; for my part, I felt I would be doing violence ( to hu m m y ble na t t h u o r u e g , hdiisthomnao: be) from my religion, and. injus tice to my c o untry, in withholding my co-operation fI foreknew th e consequencesro o m f ni th y e ac4 NA TION bu AL ca use. I co uld no longer stifle the expression of my conviction, when the master-spirit of our age —he whom Providence has raised up the emancipating pillar of the Irish, nation—who, heaven directed, leads, while he cheers his chosen people from their long captivity—was sought by legal mystifica tion to be hidden from our view, whilst O'Connell was himself a captive, when an ominously sullen gloom over hung this land—when the last ray of hope was.abont to carry our faint prospects of justice to a foreign shore, to be afterwards so gloriously and unexpectedly revived there, by the voice of the immortal Denman, of whom it may be said in the language of the poet; Semper hones, nomenque tuumn, laudesque manebunt.' When there was no longer in Ireland any chance of Justice to Ireland,' I came forward, but at the eleventh hour. I did not, on that account, expect an exception in my favour for so long a time, even to prove a rule, and though I could have anticipated thin mark of his Lord oNsslani p lmi ' nsygdliyspalceca accept constitutionalpu t r displeasure my irnigt eh voluntary act ri:, s r a : g bt to . n a resignation, i on, done,l did n t o to: , wish to commit so pu6illanitnous a suicide, but, relying of his Lordship, and I shall rest Zoo-tea iiiithle e !' ll n 4 z n e d st s s consciu sibi recti' to take my nand at.thda/0..A1..am no longer considered worthy of a sea6m:Alfthich cannot now be held by any one, b4Vgolifigkacri fice of self-esteem and p u bli c indepeffilitiW,Mlceap to be a magistrate of this county, Only fio'beColjail a more determined national repealer,—l to re main your very obedient humble serotit:, ; ':k, - ;?1 ,. _ . " LUKE JOSEPH SHEA, eii4X,,i'iipit-TWOloter at-Law.::-L'. MR. O'CONNELL IN - E, 1:11/0,,,E41f, (From the Kerry Eiiiinitieri): From an early hour yesterday 4 ,ol44o . :loe popu lation for twenty miles round theslo*Wn,*l7ocall in rhotion- 7 -all proceeding to the gratul4jeci4.-akirac tiok'fralee, from whence the proCiseiptp.*:cOmpli merit:the illustrious Liberator waaii) • 'start at timlve o'Clock. At twelve o'clock, the hoirrappninted,there vY4$ '4, general move towards Mit A igrave-bridgf, the :044,apPoitited for the rendezvousr.sie.q,,oo various trades proceeded, with their beautira'new silk -ban `ners;nwlffeb had been prepared for4he occasion, to 'take , ,, up ;. iteir several positions. The:. Castle-street b a irt if cl or s t ii n er ;, t` ol a e ft: l r o , o d g r t e h ss e ed st i r n ee t t he i i n k s i Ve i ld v id ei m so il r it t ar o y f chariot; 'being no other than the celebrated boat, be• longing to Dr. Blennerhassett, which had the honour of visiting the metropolis, with her galla4t Crew, when Tory injustice consigned the Liberator to Richmond Penitentiary. This boat, the famous Colleen Dlias, placed as it was on the body of a car riage,rmfolry Lordsboun bound, e a n n h d b a m a c r i o n t g the t o inscriptions, which Hu tR' o t tend n ham, , u a n n d i Campbell, oo;, ra rsDa Remember h anie l O t ' h C e o n n 3 e o l t l h , a o n f d Repeal ra I awakened in the bosoms of the spectators the warmest respect for the worthy owner. Notwithstanding the distance the quay of Blennerville is from the town, the seamen in the harbour seemed to participate in the universal ardour—the captains of the dif ferent vessels having ordered, at six o'clock in the morning, to hoist all the flags on board to respect Ireland's vindicator. The appointed hour having arrived, the procession proceeded along the Mall, with banners inscribed with the appropriate mottoes of each trade. Immediately in front of the proces ilon were Dr. Blennerhassett, the Rev. Bartholomew o'conner s P.P., Milltown ; Rev. Jeremiah Connell, T;P4)..' 1 44 - Winore ; Rev. T. L. M'Donnell, R.C.C„ haytintnere; Rev. O'Callaghan P.P., Bally-M'Elli gotf; E. U'Flaherty, Tralee ; Daniel and - Justin . Supple, Esqs., Dr. King;,4be Messrs. Donevan, Mulchinock, Fitzgibbon, &o. The procession having passed the 'barrack, the gates of which, by-the-way, were closed, and the loop-holes stuffed with straw, proceeded along the picturesque and romantic glens of the new line of road to Miltown. Along this line the scene was majestically grand. The eye of man, perhaps, seldom witnessed a sight more imposing than what was there presented. As the dense mass of human beings wound along this meandering road, the mountain presented the appearance of some mighty encamp ment, as the banners moved in front of its heath-clad sides, while the national airs, re-echoing from every hollow ravine, spoke as if with a thousand tongues to the Irish heart. "An article quoted iii Other column from the Warder, with reference to.. Ntryiie- and Peel's proposed University tamperine micntiona that the Regius Pro fessor of Divinity had:spoken, io:his , opening prelection, this term, of the possibility that this might be his last occasion of addressineihetu.tia -an, officer of a iirotes - tent university. • " We understand that yesteillay'.(Monday) the Rev. Mr. M'Neice, Arclibishop . 4inie*Lecturer in Divinity, warned the students of thejuntOr e . tass, that any attend , once upon a political meeting; of .the sort referred to would be a direct breach of -, acadefnic discipline, and would be so treated by the boaa, %Ye understand, also, that this day Dr. Elrxrigtor); Regius Professor of Divi nity, advised the senior class not to take any part in such movements ; and also...**plainedthat he did not speak of likelihood, but merelY. of thOlatigers threatened by the enemies of the Protettant,ostise,iand of the University and Church of Ireland. ; " Of course, in conseqtrence. of these admonitions, no public step of a political hue Will be taken by university students in that capacity. 1 ;;i; • • ' " Since writing th% abo'rerwe learn that fa special meeting of the board was held this day, and that it was resolved to publish oti tho' gatg of `Trinity College the old rule of the board, which prohibits' all students f, am taking part in political *gsemblies. rule , which is now upon the gate, o,riglhate'd 'in 1798, or thOreabouts, we believe, and was reVived:in ; but lye do not know that it was ever:before:published, or that in any mode whatever a student could be reasonably 'presumed to be informed of it. ;We .sek it, indeed, printed in the recent new edition of the statues, lilt these will be in very few hands. Of Course the rule `will be at once and heartily obeyed to the letter but equally, of ;course, it will be found a step tokwitkioilt deep , and ulterior conse quences to tamper with . ark,y - moi* bulwark of Pro testantism." THE CORPORATrON AND THE TREASURY. At the 'fleeting of;thezOrpOiattun of Dublin, 'es terday, the Town-clelicieii4eliglowing letter from the Lords of the Tee)reply to a counnunica tion from the Council, dated--Sep; . .lo " TreasnriChamOrs, Nov. 16, 1844. " My Lord,—Thet Lord%.Commyisioners of her Ma jesty's Treasury h a ving haetiiefore them the letter from the Town-clerk of tlie city of Akibliii;dated Septets • ber last, in reply to the letter . tifihiii . hoard of )he Alst August last, upon the' subjeitit'o th arrangenients pro,. posed by the corporation. of , ..Pablin, - for charging the' estates with a sufficient sunsUpayi . .pff certain , Fity bon4 and pipe water debetiturea„;4ith = ''-view to an annual,. saving, by a reduction of qkqtititetest now Payabla oil those ,bonds and deb!:;.naltei;'l l- ampOnimanded by theii Lordships 4 ,,0 acquaint you -Ofat, under the peculiar cuT . .?an . ces in which` the corporation are placed, thtiF . Loydships are disposed to OconOder•Ahe financial scheme - . Proposed by the council, with -a view to ascaitain when ther the interest ou the colorate debt can be reduced an • a - manner more in accordance with the usual ,practice of .this board than that briginally proposed. 'I, My Lords desire me to—state that they continue to - entertain objections to the plan of parcelling eat so large ,a . anni as that required by the corporation ani - ong credi tors of 1001. each. • "Their Lordships are, however, informed by the Town-clerk's letter, of the 10th of September last, that the Hibernian Bank would agree to consolidate the bonds and debentures into somewhat larger amounts, such as sums of 500/., 3001., 2001., and 1001., instead of the present 1001. debentures. " Such consolidation, if carried to such an extent as to divide the debt among a large proportion of creditors of 5001. and 300/., leaving comparatively few of smaller sums, would lessen the objections entertained by this board to the proposed scheme. My Lords, therefore, before they proceed to the reconsideration of the whole question, would wish to be informed of the utmost ex tent to which the Hibernian Bank will consent to such a consolidation of the 100/. debentures into larger sums.— I am, my Lord, your most obedient humble servant, " C. E. TREVjLYAN. " To the Lord Mayor of Dublin." The corporation had given notice that they would reduce the rate of interest on their debentures on the 29th September last, that being - the gale-day, and.t.e enable them to make' such .reduction in the manner then proposed, the sanction of the Lords of the Trea sury was required. Accordingly, a correspondence on the subject ensued ; and now, to a letter dated the 10th September, on a subject to be concluded on the 29th of that month, an answer is forwarded by the Lords of the Treasury of the 16th November ! The matter so treated by the Lords of the Treasury related to a saving to the citizens of Dublin of not less than 1,3001. a year. The corporation not having received a final answer in preper time from the Treasury, might have been involved in great difficulty but for the intervention of the Hibernian Bank, which en abled them to keep faith with their creditors and carry out the reduction of interest for which they had given notice. This conduct of the Treasury was the cause of much severe animadversion at the meeting of the town council, and the repeaters availed themselves of so good a topic. RESISTANCE TO THE POOR-RATE. The Majo Constitution says :—" A. p*(llice force, under the command of Sub-inspector Walshe, and Mr. Kelly, R.M., accompanied the collector of poor rate to that part of the parish of Islandeaay which is in the Castlebar union, on Saturday last. At first the collector met with fierce opposition; and stones were flung at him ; but owing to the conciliatory course adopted towards the people, a good deal of the rate was paid, and the remainder promised. It is but just to Mr. Kelly to say that, in several cases where he saw that persons were not able to pay, he Paid the rate for them himself. This creditable act ought to be stated." ANOTHER DISMISSAL FROM THE MA GISTRACY. Having gained the summit, the whole body, which could not have amounted to less than fifty or sixty thousand persons, halted to await the arrival of their illustrious Liberator. The delay was but short, when the cheers of thousands who accompanied the Liberator on his route proclaimed his near approach. Nothing could equal the enthusiasm of the multitude on his arrival. As he slowly passed along, the lines were drawn up to meet him. Hating again formed, they moved down the mountains, and on reaching the barrack, outside the town, the several bands, on passing by, struck up the royal anthem—" God save the Queen,"—amidst loud cheers for her gracious Majesty. The procession at length arrived in town, and conducted the Liberator to Miss Connor's house, Denny -street, where ho alighted amidst general accla mation. Mr. O ' CONNELL then presented himself at the window, and was received with the most deafening cheers, which continued for several minutes. After silence was restored, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman said—Fellow -countrymen,—l am anxious that the bands may now stop playing, as I am unwilling that the men who have done me the honour of accompanying me to town may be exposed to the rain. In the fullest tone of satisfaction and delight, I must express my warmest thanks for the very kind reception my friends have given me this day, in my native county.—(Loud cheers.) It has been observed that no man is considered a prophet in his own country; however, I have received marks of your affectionate regard beyond anything I could anticipate. It is impossible for me to And words to describe how I feel. I again thank you for your kindness. My gratitude towards you is not founded on the consideration that the compliment is personal. No, my gratitude to roe is for Ireland—(Cheers)— and Sour dekotitth In the eatise of Old Ireland — (Loud cheers)—for which every man of you is ready to die if necessary. And are you not ready to live for it ?—(Loud cheers) Yes, you are, and your attachment to it to °day proves it Yon ar e deter mined to stand in support of fatherland—(Cheers), —for liberty and Ireland—(lmmense cheering),—fur repeal of the union and Ireland.—(Tremendous cheering.) For this I hare laboured a 2 during the struggle of Emancipation ; but I had always an ulte rior object—not, however, to place the Catholic or the Protestant in the ascendancy } but to make both the possessors of property in the land of their birth. —(Loud cheers.) For this have I struggled—to have Ireland for the Irish—Scotland for the Scotch— Wales for the Weleh--and with all my heart, England for the English.—(Cheers.) B u t I insist that Ire land must be for the Irish.—(Cheering for several minutes.) For my attachment to this principle they sent me to the felons' gaol—to a prison for one hun dred days—(Loud groans)—but here I dm as merry as ever.e—(Long continued cheers.) They had no more right to send me there than I would have to send the ,judges whn tried me thrre. How much they would deserve it you all can judge. I need not i'- mind you of the law having been violated, the packed jury and the jury lists.—(Groans.) I committed no crime; my only crime real my love for Ireland— (Cheers)—but if it is a crime to love Ireland, let them punish me again; for I love Ireland as m uch a s ev er. --(Great cheering.) I hake now come Prom iffy na tive mountains, still determined to struggle against the enemies of Ireland, looking for the great and mighty object of all our aspirations, liberty. And oh I what can expand the human heart in its greatest amplitude more tnan the obtainment of liberty and the amelioration of the condition of the people ? If the people of this country had employment, how happy would they feel ; if the absentee rents were spent in works of public utility, now ditl'erent would be the state of the labouring class. If we had the 6,000,0001. a year expended among the people, to how many would it afford employment ? It would put in circu lation 500,000/. a month, 125,000/. a week, or about 18,0001. a day, including Sunday.—(Loud cheers.) What employment this would afford. What a cheerful country would this be. You would have the farmers • comfortable—you would have the labourer able to obtain from the farmer remuneration for his labour. —(Loud cheers.) I don't mean to detain you at this late hour by other topics on the repeal question, but I hate been informed by gentlemen in other parts of the county that the people are alive to the subject— I perceive by this day's display that Kerry is alive. —(Loud cheering.) I have sufficient proof of that fact by your conduct to-day.—(Loud cheers.) Your peaceful, orderly conduct in the national cause must be crowned with success.—(Cheers.) Let us have no anger or irritation, no hatred to any man. I am now contending for the interests of Protestants as well ae Catholics. My heart beats only for the goal of Ire land. I begin now, and will nut cease until we have the rarlianiont House again in College-green.—(lm ) manse peals of cheering, during which th e Liberator ' retired.) Mr. O'Connell shortly after appeared at the win dow, and advised the immense assemblage to disperse to their homes, on which all quickly separated. The The Cork Reporter contains the following corre spondence, commencing with a letter to the editor of that journal : " The Rennies, Carrigaline, Noy. 18, 1844. " Sir—Having had the honour of being admitted a member of the Loyal National Repeal Association on the Ist of July, I have been now visited with the usual laconic notice of Mr. Henry Sugden, which gave rise to the following correspondence.-1 am your obedient ser vant, "LUKE JOSEPH SHEA." " Seeretary's-office, Four Courts, Dublin, Nov. 8, 1844. "' Sir—lt having been reported to the Lord Chan cellor that you are a member of the Repeal Association, I am directed to ask you, as a magistrate, whether the report is correct.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant., " HENRY SUGDEN. " Luke John Shea, Esq., &c.' " " Ringmahon Castle, Cork, Nov. 12, 1844. " Sir,—Yonr letter of the Bth inst. did not reach me until this day, owing to my absence froth " The Ren nies," and being on a visit here with my father-in-law, Mr. James Murphy, which will account for your not having heard from me in duo course. "' By your communication I am informed of a report having been made t o th e L or d Ch ance ll or ' that I am a membr of the Repeal Association,' and you ask me, as a magistrate, whether the report is correct ? " ' In reply, I have the honour to state, for the in formation of his Lordship, that on or about the Ist of July last I sent a letter to Smith O'Brien, Esq., accom panied by a subscription to the repeal fund, and I am informed that I have been admitted a member of the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, and I have further to add, I subscribed myself then, as I have still, the privilege (at the pleasure of his Lordship) t o do, a magistr a t e o f the county of Cork, and, am goer very obedient servant, &c., " LITRE JOSEPH SHEA, J.P. " Henry Sugden, Esq., Secretary's Office, Four Courts, Dublin. " ' N.B. Your letter directod to ' Luke John Shea, Esq., I presume was intended for me.' " Secretary's Office, Four Courts, Dublin, Nov. 15. " Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th inst, and I sim directed by the Lord Chancellor to inform you that he regrets he has felt it his duty to supersede you in the commission of the peace.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, _ " HENRY SUGDENp " Luke Joseph Shen., Esq.' " The nennies, Carrigaline, County Cork, Nov. 18. 1844. " Sir—l have received an intimation you, bear ing date the 15th that the Lord Chancellor has thought fit to deprive me of the commission of the peace for s l oe county of Cork. I therefore beg leave in reply to say, that intelligence has come upon me without au:- prise, as I have already seen to thility instances of the practice, but in no Case have I heard it alleged that in any amongst the magistrates who joined and who have been visited with the intended penalty of a supersedeas, for so joining the peaceable association of their country men for a legal object to be obtained by strictly legal means—have been guilty of the slightest violation of the laws which they were sworn to enforce, or in any manner infringed upon the principles of the Constitution, which they learned at all times to respect, and under any cir‘ eumstances sacredly to upheld as the ;safeguard of the butte ; in a word, I have yet to know how or when we ceased to be loyal subjects, or impartial magistrates?— You will, then, allow me to say, that in my humbie opi nion, you do his L or d s hi p the Chancellor, in his minis terial capacity, a great injustice when you make him thus pronounce my doom ' s i c rob, sic jubeo, sttt pro ratione voluNt as .' "I respe c tf u ll y b ow to. the decision of his Lordship, but it makes the fact to me the - .more clear, that nothing can serve Ireland but repeal. - Promises have been made and as soon broken. This - kingdom has been the play thing of party in every age. A Government (exhibiting some profession of good perhaps) chanced to have had a short existence one day, lint again the picture is re versed, and our faint hopes are blackened, We have seen alternate. courses of conciliation and coercion, tan talized by English friends,- and oppressed by English foes—lrishmen are MADE to feel that no consistency can be relied upon except in the security of self-government. This, I .ay, is the conviction on the minds of many, and it is wine, though .Government may think themselves strong because they have a pp aren tl y succeeded in stifling, not the opinion, but the expression of it in some —because magistrates who have ;got aristocratic friends SUMMARY OF NEWS btit ptutott. " Who rury may read." 7:0 Zt.,11.:0:71. The Duke de Nemours went on Saturday to Ram bouillet, and reviewed the regiment of Carabineers quartered there. After the review, the Royal Duke was present at a carrousel, or imitation of the tour naments of the middle ages, with also went off with great éclat. At every point the Prince was greeted with cries of " Vive le Roi `rive le Due de Ne mours !" On Sunday there was a grand dinner given by the actors in the tournament, to which the autho rities of the town were invited, and the healths of the King and the Duke were toa3ted. The Due d'Aumale arid Prince de Joinville arrived at Toulon on the 16th, and were expected to embark next day for Naples. A Berlin paper states that the Duke de Rovigo has been in that city, for the purpose of soliciting the King to use his influence towards restoring to him the domain of Sommerchenburg, in Westphalia, which was given to his father by Napoleon, but declared national property by the Prussian Government, on the dissolution of the kingdom of Westphalia. The Duke's visit, however, is said to have been unsuccessful. The Quimperois announces that a typhus fever is raging at St. Brienc (Cotes du Nord). Thirty of the students in the grand ecclesiastical seminary have been attacked, and the whole establishment has been cleared except of twenty of the patients, whose cases are too bad to admit of their being removed. The English packet Wilberforce brought into Havre on Monday the crew of the French vessel the Bon Pere, of Fecamp, which went down, with all her sails set, off the coast of England, in one of the late gales. These men, seventeen in number, in cluding the captain, speak in grateful terms of the care taken of them during their passage from London to Havre. At the Tribunal of Correctional Police for the Seine on Monday, M. Orfila, the son of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, was fined 251., and ordered to pay I,ooof. damages, for an injury inflicted upon the porteress of the house at Passy at .which his father resides during the summer months. Arriving in his father's carriage, which he was driving on the 29th of May, he entered the court-yard before the porteress could remove her hand from the gate, and her thumb was crushed between the carriage and the gate. The price of bread at Brussels, says Galignani, is at this moment five centimes higher per kilogramme than in Paris ; but there is a still greater difference between Paris and Marseilles. In th't latter - Tlace the price is ten centimes higher. We cannot under stand why there should be so great a diffurehce as one-fourth between Paris and .Marseille's.* . , s. A large-and model hospital, to be `acted theql6pi tal Louis Philippe, is about to b"; 'quilt, by the Muni cipality of Paris, near tte Station of the Northern Railroad, on the gr'outd situated at the northeril ex'-. tremity of the, iiues du Faubourg St. Denis, and St: Martin. The troops of the garrison of Madrid had been. kept under arms d ur i ng th e n i g ht o f th e 13th; in - the expectation of a revolt in the regiment of San Fer nando, which, however, did not take place. • The court-martial appointed to try General Prim and his co-accused assembled on the 14th, and at nine o'clock in the evening brought the proceedings to' a conclusion, but the judgment was not made public. A letter from Barcelona of the 12th states that M. Lefebvre, the French merchant, has received from the Spanish Government the indemity which had been awarded him for Zurbano's cruel treatment, and for the losses which he had sustained on that occasion. 311. &W AND POLIC3I. The Court of Common Pleas was occupied in hearing appeals from recent decisions of the Revising Barristers. A suit instituted in the Arches Court by. Mr. 11. W. Evans against his wife for a divorce, on the ground that she had committed adultery with a Mr. Elliott, eight months only after her marriage, was dismissed b y Sir H. J. I. ust, for the want of suffi• cient evidence, notwithstanding a verdict had been obtained with 5001. damages, and the lady herself had withdrawn her opposition to the suit.: Several wine• merchants were summoned before the. Court of Excise for not having renewed their licences, and also for having the words " Licensed to deal in foreign wines" painted over their place of business, and were severally fined in the mitigated penalty of 10s. to 20s. Robert Franklin, son of a coffee-shop-keeper in King-street, was summoned to Marlborough•street for an assault on a boy named Foy, who is in the employ of Mr. Jenkinson, baker, Fouberts•place, Regent-street. Franklin owed Jenkinson a bill, and he directed Foy to 'go to Franklin's and remain there until he was paid. On the boy's refusal to go out Franklin pushed him out, and this was the assault. The Magistrate dismissed the case. At Greenwich,:lsabella Collins, coffee-house keeper, East-lane, Greenwich, and Robert James, of Lew isham, apprentice to Mr. Worth, arespectable butcher, carrying on business adjacent to the female prisoner, were both committed for trial, the latter for stealing llilbs. of beef, and the female prisoner for receiving the same, well knowing that it had been stolen. 001711M--rAsznozgaitslals. The Duke of WTellington had a select party to din ner at Apsley House on Thursday evening. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have gone to Broadlands, the noble Viscount's seat, near Romsey, Hants, for the winter. A distinguished party will shortly assemble there. Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley are prolonging their visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at Burleigh House, and, according to present expec tations, are likely to remain there until his Lordship goes in waiting on her Majesty. On Monday, Mdlle. D'Este left Witley Court for the Spetchley station of the Birmingham and Glou cester Railway. On the same evening the Ladies Caroline, Catherine, and Amelia Cust, Earl Brown low's daughters, arrived at Witley. Sir Robert and Lady Peel have issued invitations for dinner parties on Saturday and Monday next. Sir henry Pottinger had a lengthened interview on Wednesday last with Sir Robert Peel at the Right Hon. Baronet's private residence in Whitehall gardens. The Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Cie ' mentina Villiers were to leave Arundel Castle, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk on Thurs day, to join the party to assemble at Petworth, on visits to Colonel and Mrs Wyndham. The Earl and Countess of Kenmare arrived last week on a visit to the Dowager Lady Wilmot, the Countess's mother, at Malvern Wells, where her Ladyship has been residing for some considerable time. Earl Howe,Deputy Grand Master of Freemasons for England, having received the appointment of Pro vincial Grand Master of Warwickshire, vacant by the decease of the late Earl Ferrers, will be duly installed at a provincial grand lodge, summoned for the occa sion, at Coventry, on Monday next. The Earl of Denbigh and the Ladies Fielding are on a tour in Italy. The noble Earl and family left Milan at the commencement of this month for Genoa. Lord Elphinstone, by the last letters, had arrived at Milan from Germany, his Lordship having passed the greater part of the spa season at Marienbad. The Earl and Countess of Eldon and their chil dren have repaired on a visit to the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Arthur Duncombe, at their seat near Pock lington. MAXEICIETadaNIIO I 7 III . The new church at Camberwell, of which the first stone was laid in September, 1842, was consecrated with the accustomed ceremonies on Thursday fore noon by the Bishop of Salisbury. The service was commenced at 11 .'clock, by which time the church was crowded in every part by a congregation of nearly 2,000 persons, who were admitted by cards. Among them were Archdeacon Wilberforce, the Rev. Mr. Eden, and a great many clergymen ; Sir John and Lady Pirie, Mr. H. Kemble, M.P., and most of the gentry of the neighbourhood. Another extra Gazette, extending to sixty-four pages, was issued last night. It is filled entirely with a repetition of railway and other notices published in previous Gazettes. At the last meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society it was stated that the Rajah of Travancore had esta blished an observatory and a printing press, and that he appointed none but Christian Judges. Much interest is evinced in the musical worts at the present moment in regard to the two new grand operas to be produced at Berlin—one by Meyerbeer, entitled Das Sehlesische Feldlager, and the other by Spontini, named Die Athenienserinn. The latter com poser, who is now at Dresden, will shortly return to Berlin, to superintend the rehearsals of Die Athcnien serinn, in which a Mdlle. Jenny Lind, a Swedish lady by birth, who has lately been studying under Meyerbeer, is to make her debut. Captain Francis Edward Holyoake, R.N., formerly our Consul at Dunkirk, died at the advanced age of 85 years last week, at Studeley. The amount of O'Connell tribute collected in Lime rick on Sunday was 3371. 4s. 6i. The Limerick Re porter pronounces that " Limerick has nobly done its duty." The amount exceeds that of any preceding year save the last. The amount at Cork was 7641. 17s. he E xam i ner expects th a t t hi s :aini will be increased. to at least POOL. Fermoy contributeb 701., and Clon mel 247/:' A contemplated mee ti ng o f students of me . versity of Dublin at the Rotunda--to be attondtd in academicals —for the purpose of protesting against the Peel liberalising scheme with regard to Dublin Col lege, has been put a stop to by the University autho- PPE t ~~'-•-~ NOVEMBE,___ s 1 CastleOlreet • and Square Temperance Rooms were brilliantly illuminated. • LITERARY PROPERTY. The - last number of the Phrenological Journal con , tains the following letter from Mr. Combe, " Oa the Law cif Copyri&lt," which places the subject in a new light ! 1 " it' s —boring the whole period of the recent con troversy regarding the amendment of the law of copy right, I preserved silence, being aware of the ten. dency of self- interest to bias the judgment ; but now, when the question is settled, end is not likely to be revived during the lives of the existing generation of authors, I am desirous of placing on record the views which . occurred to me on the subject, and which are in some respects different from any which I saw stated by the learned and able writers who took part in the discussion. As the result at which I have arrived seem to be directly, and, I hope, logically deducible from the principles of phrenology, they may, perhaps, not inappropriately find a place in your pages. " With the view of avoiding details, which now possess no interest, I shall proceed at once to the main point in dispute between authors and the public. The former claimed a perpetual property in their works ; while the advocates of limited copyright opposed their demand, as unfounded in justice, and detrimental to the public interests. The oppo sition was maintained chiefly on two grounds, viz., Ist, That property is the creature of the law ; that authors, therefore, have no inherent right of property in their works ; an.l that any extent of exclusive privilege of publication conferred on them by the Legislature is a boon for which they should be grateful, but which they had no right to demand ; and, 2dly, That the public interests require that a limit should be set to copyright, otherwise authors, or their representatives, might capriciously withdraw the most valuable and useful works from the circulation, or sell them at a price so extravagantly high that only the affluent could procure them. " The first argument, that authors have no inbe , rent right of property in their works, appears to have been drawn from an opinion of Bentham, expressed in his Theory of Legislation. Property and laws,' says he, are born together, and die together. Before laws were made there was no property : take "away laws, and property ceases.' Phrenologi cally and philosophically, this dictum will not stand investigation. The organ and faculty of acquisitive ness arelhherent not only in man, but in many of the lower 'aulinals,,and give rise in both to an...instinctive sense 6f property.. Lord Kaimes justly ratriarks that man. ‘ : .iS a lid'ardilig . animal, having an appetite for storing up tharigaaaf use ;' and Chancellor Kent, of the Statey.Now . ACitalc; 'says 'that the sense of property le inherent in tbejafirnan breast., and the gradual enlarge , meld ancV,Cil.ltivition of that sense, from its feelato form ift.the - saVagp•state to its full vigour and inatqity.,, among_ poli4lied.",naticins, forms a very --instructi., portioti,in,theNstory of human society.' (Kenej Conimentaties,.ii.; 318.) Lneed not enlarge on this propositioh, 'because it. is admitted by phrenologists. in general, and is placed in the clearest light, and.very ably, l ported, in: Mr. Hurlbut's excellent thef‘..,Right . and_ Moral Relations.:of,;,Pro• pertY,. published in col, xv., p. 97, of yourjoUrnal; to which .1 beg leave to refer. "Co-exi - stenOmith this sense of property, we find in Man organa'pf,.conscientiousness, benevolence, and intellect, and'..thfi Corresponding mental powers, evi dently intended'tO serve as guides to his general con ductaand; consequently, to the proper exercise of his acquisitive propensity. Human laws are, or, at least, ought to be, simply transcripts of the dictates of the latter faculties, enlightened by knowledge and expe rience. Laws may regulate, but cannot confer, any just rights. They may legitimately expound, define, and protect them ; but the moment human legislators assume the power of creating rights which nature has not previously bestowed, they commit injustice, and prepare the way for the introduction into society of insecurity and suffering. " Mr. Locke observes, that ' the labor of a man's body and the work of his hands are properly his ;' and it seems no undue stretch of the proposition to affirm that equally should the labour of his brain, embodied by the. work of his hands, be his. The man who procures from nature, or obtains by purchase, certain raw materials,. and by his own labour and ingenuity works them, Up" into a machine or piece of furniture, is recognised lay all civilised nations as the exclusive prOprietor, • - in'' ‘ perpetuitY;. of the article produced ; and 1 am Ate a loss to discover on what principle it can. be maintained that an individual, who, from ori ginal invention, or the current science and literature of his age, composes a book, should not possess the exclusive right, in perpetuity, to this product also of his labour and ingenuity. " But it is agreed in the " Second place, that the public interests require that limits should be set to copyrights, otherwise authors or their representatives might capriciously withdraw valuable works from circulation, and thereby retard the progress of society in virtue and civilisation. It is a very ancient and a very sound maxim, that nunquanz aliud natura, aliud sapientu dicit e in other words, nature is so constituted that it is never neces sary to rob an individual of his just rights, in order to promote the real advantage of society. The rights of the one, and the interests of the other, are in all cases compatible ; because the same great Being who laid the foundation of society in the nature of man, also conferred on the individual his rights ; and He is too wise and powerful to have rendered the two con flicting. A few elucidations will, I hope, show that the case of copyright forms no exception to this general rule. " Books may consist, Ist, Of new ideas never be fore published to the world; 2dly, Of the science and literature of past and present ages, mixed up with the author's own observations and reflections ; or, 3dly, Of the expressions of fancies, emotions, and pa-sions, common to the human race, but invested with a peculiar charm by the author from the man ner in which he embodies them. Newton's Principia, Harvey's work on the Circulation of the Blood, and Sir Charles Bell's Dissertations on the Functions of the Spinal Nerves, all of which communicated dis coveries, may be selected as a specimen of the first class ; Dr. Neil Arnott's Elements of Physics, of the second; and Campbell's Pleasures of Hope, of third. I ask, then, what does a perpetual copyright in such works imply ? Not an exclusive proprietorship in the ideas and reflections, in the fancies, passions, or emotions, embodied in them ; but simply in the author's peculiar mode of expressing them—in that combination of words which he employs in order to convey them to the world. The ideas themselves, with all their consequences and applications, are left free as air to the public, although the copyright of the work in which they are embodied be preserved inviolate to the author and his heirs. In our own day, Sir Charles Bell's discovery of the nerves of motion and feeling is transferred to every systematic work on physiology In Europe and America, although the copyright of the special essays in which he an nounced it still belongs to his representatives. " In regard to this class of works, then, there is no reason for maintaining that the public interests require that the discoverer's copyright should be " In regard to the second class of books, I trust that I do no injustice to Dr. Arnott in saying, that all the principles of science which enter into his treatire, pre-existed in the works of his predecessors, and that the peculiar merit of his composition, in my opinion, consists in the clear Arranipment and perspicuity of elucidation of his propositions. If a perpetual copyright wero granted to Dr. Arnott, it is clear that th whole principles, or, in other words, the entire raw material of the Ntark, would be left as free to the public as they were before he wrote. The only thing of which it would then be in his power to deprive than, would be the advantage of that curiosa felicita.s docendi, in which his peculiar merit consists. But the talents which produced those results were conferred on him, as an individual, by the Creator, when He gave him a peculiar conformation of brain, and a temperament characterised by fineness and activity; and it is difficult to diseover oii what principles of justice society can consistently deprive him of the advantages of that gift, or limit his en joyment of it, while they respect the right of property in perpetuity in tables and chairs, made by the hands of far less talented and less accomplished men. " It is argued, however, that were the law to recognise a perpetual copyright in this work, Dr. Arnott, or his heirs, might capriciously deprive the public of the instruction it contains. In so far as re gards the author himself, nature has given a pretty ellective guarantee against such an unreasonable course of conduct; because a brain in which the organs of benevolence, conscientiousness, love of ap probation, and reflection, were so deficient as to render the individual capable of acting in such a manner, could not compose such a work. It is an extreme supposition that his heir or assigns might be so in fatuated—it is supposing them to be insane, and, nevertheless, at large; but as such an occurrence might happen, I shall, for the present, assume that it actually does present itself, and inquire into the means which nature has provided for the protection of the public interests in such an emergency. They are sirnPk. " The ideas contained in the work are public pro perty; and all that is wanted is a re-expression of them in such a form 86 may supply the void occasioned by the withdrawal of Dr. Arnott's treatise. The power of composition depends on temperament and cerebral development, and nature has not confined those gifts to Dr. Arnott. She has ushered into the world other brains and temperaments capable of running the race in which Dr. Arnott has conquered: and if his work were withdrawn, and the, public• needed his ideas, other individuals would , speedily appear to supply the desired information. In point 01 fact, every author on science knows and feels that he holds his place only until an abler brain appears to wrest the laurels from his brow, and the bread from 0 r - ' 7- - , his mouth. He stands in a situation similar to that of the champion ofEngland in the barbarous age of pugilistic combats. From the first hour of his pub lication to the last day of his fame, he is exposed to the challenge of every rival who chooses to enter the field with a view to occupy his place ; and as the public never fails, sooner or later, to award the prize to the highest merit, he holds his supremacy Only while h 9 iq able to distance every competitor. The law which limits his copyright may despoil him of his bread, before such a rival has appeared. It may wrest from him and deliver over to men of infe rior capacity, the profits of his genius, at the very time when these men acknowledge that they cannot, by the exercise of their own powers, rival him in the career of public usefulness. If they could do so, there would be 110 teed of infringing his rights ; for the publication of a treatise of higher merit would extinguish hie work, and bring it to an end by natu ral dissolution. Even assuming that it might be cen turies before a writer appeared capable of producing such a clear, eloquent, and instructive elucidation of the principles of mechanical science as the work in question, this would only present stronger motives to Dr. Arnott's representatives to enlarge its circula tion ; but if they were so insane as not to do so, the inherent rights of all authors should not be violated because the representatives of one happened to be mad. " This argument applies to works of every kind, the substance of which consists of useful and practical ideas. The law which regulates patents for mecha nical inventions denies to all individuals the exclusive we of principles ; and, in like manner, no author claims, or can juetly pretend to, an exclusive right to particular ideas, facts, notions, or scientific postulates or inductions. All that he contends for is the right of property in his own special combinations of the elements of thought—leaving to all the world the free privilege of making similar, or better combinations of them, at their own discretion, and to the buyers the right of preferring the works which they find to be most instructive. " The third class of publications embraces novels and poetry ; in short, all works of fiction and fancy. What would a perpetual copyright of such works imply ? It would confer no exclusive property in the emotions, incidents, and ideas, which form their sub stance ; but solely in the special combination of the words by which they are expressed. On one occasion Mrs. Siddons happened to read one of the sublimest passages of Shakspeare in the presence of the late Mr. Sotheby, the translator of Oberon and other works. When she paused, lie exclaimed Fine words! Grand words!' and, after a few moments, added Now, these words would not have occurred to me r This remark renders the thing which would be covered by the copyright of such works as clear as the noonday sun. .It: would be, as in the other instances already cited, only the special combination of words by means of .which the ideas and emotions are expressed; and the power of making this combination is a gift so pecu liarly individual that no s p ec i es o f p ro p er ty ca n surpass it in sacredness. It depends on a particular `size and combination of cerebral organs, and a par ticular temperament, which impart strength, fire, re finement, and sublimity, to the products of the pen. If man can be said to create anything, it is such works as those of Shakspeare, Milton, Byron, Scott, and Campbell. These are pure luxuries to the public ; they cannot justly be viewed as articles of necessity, because the ideas and sentiments contained in them may all be applied to general use. It is only the magnificent forms in which the inspired sons of genius have embodied them that are claimed as sacred; and it appears to me to be a mere wanton exercise of power in the public to appropriate these, while a re presentative of the author is to be found alive on earth. The first and grand motive to the composition of such works is the conscious delight of creating them ; the second, the love of fame ; the third, the hope of doing good, directly or indirectly ; and the last and least., the expectation of pecuniary profit. Every age produces its own sons of genius ; and if, by such incredible suppositions as I have already allowed, the representations of a Shakspeare or a Milton were to stop the sale of their works, no substantial interest of the public would suffer; for, even could the copies already issued be recalled, new mi n str e l s w ou ld ar i se , who, writing under the same inspirations, and guided by the lights of science and of a more advanced phi losophy, would, in all probability, sing new songs of emotion and fancy, not inferior to those of their pre decessors in fire, energy, and refinement, while they might surpass them in purity, truth, and all the grander elements of thought. " With all deference, therefore, to the able indi viduals who have controverted the title of authors to a copyright in perpetuity, it appears to me that jus tice supports their claim, and that the interests of society are not exposed to the least danger in grant ing am, Ste. " GEO. COMBE." SUICIDE BY A GENTLEMAN ON EPPIN G-FOREST. On Wednesday last a gentleman, named Scott, committed a most deliberate act of suicide by hang ing himself from a tree in that part of Epping-forest which is known by the name of Phillipson's Warren, High-beach, and this circumstance, together with the discovery of the skeleton of an old man, named John Harris, who was supposed to have been murdered, near the same spot, has created an unusual degree of excitement for some miles round the country. It appeared that on the same morning (Wednesday) Mr. Scott had arrived from his residence in the neighbourhood of Steine, at the asVum of Dr. Allen, on a visit to a female patient. lor some reason or other, Dr. Allen, on his making his appearance at his house, wrote to deceased's brother to apprise him of his being there. About one o'clock in the day the deceased was observed walking about the forest near High-beach, but there was nothing in his manner to attract particular notice. About three o'clock, a man named John Clarke, in the employment of Mr. Phillipsen, of the King's Oak Tavern, Iligh beach, having occasion to go into a small thicket adjoining the rabbit-warren, found the deceased gentleman suspended from the forked branch of an oak by a white silk handkerchief. He with much promptness cut him down, and with the assistance of Paine, a police-constable belonging to the N division, conveyed him to the King's Oak Tavern. The body was warm at the time, and Mr. Searl, a veterinary surgeon, who happened to be at the inn at the time, opened several veins and arteries, but no blood flowed, and it was evident the vital spark had fled. In the course of the afternoon, Dr. Allen and the brother of the deceased arrived at the King's Oak, when the latter seemed dreadfully affected, and desired that every respect should be paid to the remains of the de ceased until the Coroner's inquest was held. The body, or rather the skeleton, of the man Harris, remains at the same house, and an inquest is appointed to be holden on both this evening. The disappearance of the deceased was attended with much mystery, and the general impression at the time was that he had been murdered. It seems that he was in the employment of Captain Southey, son to the late poet laureat, who is lord of a manor in Loughton, and the last time he was seen alive was on th night of the 28th of June last, between ten and eleven o'clock, by a lad named Cannon. On that day, it appears, he changed half a sovereign at the King's Oak Inn, where he was in the constant habit of calling, and in the evening was at a beer-shop, in the company of some notorious poachers. He left shortly after ten o'clock, in com pany with the youth Cannon, and after that had not been seen alive. The fact of his absence under such suspicious circumstances, had for some time engaged the attention of the police, and from what transpired it was found that out of the change he bad received he had not spent more than a shilling, yet strange to say when his skeleton was discovered there was not a farthing about him. The spot where his remains were discovered was a very secluded one, and had it not.been for the annual custom of cropping each tree this might have remained there for years without being found. It was evident that the cord with which he had been suspended had, after some con siderable time, given way, and the body was on the left side, (and the ancles rather contracted when found. Not the slightest cause has been assigned for the suicide. GLANDERS.--The Siècle states, that the facts of glanders affecting human subjects are multiplied. It appears that since the year 1838, more than thirty indi viduals have sunk under this terrible malady, which at the present moment counts as many victims as patients. MM. Fleury and Monneret, physicians attached to the Academy of Medicine, at Paris, state that " glanders and farsy, acute or chronic, may be transmitted from horses to men, and from one man to another, either by inoculation or by infection." Amongst the:measures re commended to prevent the spreading of this fatal malady, " every stable intended to lodge permanently several horses ought to be constructed in such a manner as to supply each horse with 50 cubic yards of air." CORONER'S INQUEST.—DEATH OF A DISSENTING MixisTEß.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Golden Eagle, Stepney, on view of the body of the Rev. Edwin Parsons, aged 47, a Dissenting minister, attached to Baaltim chapel, Mile-end-road. It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased was residing in Assembly-row, Mile-end. On Friday morning last, be tween twelve and one o'clock, he was alarmed by a noise, which he thought proceeded from his garden, at the back of the house. He immediately went out of his room to go down stairs, when his foot caught against something , and he fell down nearly half the fli g ht of stairs. In his fall he knocked down some flower pots. Mrs. Parsons afforded him immediate assistance, and he was carried into his room. 'The deceased grfultmlly sank from the eflects of the injuries he received, and died on Tuesday last. Verdict, "Accidental death." Deceased was highly respected by his congregation, over which he had presided many years. Mr. Rimishay's (of Naworth Castle) celebrated blood stallion, Liverpool, died at Brampton on Sunday last. It is believed that, by the decease of this fine animal, the loss to the owner will be to the extent of some hundreds of pounds annually.--Newcastle Adver tiser. - - mow:_ K.-~ -~=9-..~..v 7, , , ...0 - 7 ./<, COURT CIRCULAR. lirmnson, THURSDAY.—This being the natal day of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the band of the Royal Horse Guards serenaded at nine o'clock this morning on the eastern terrace of the Castle , performing several martial and other pieces. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Castle early from Frog-more Lodge, to offer her congratulations on the happy return of her royal god-daughter's birthday. The Royal Duchess after wards took breakfast with her Majesty and the royal party. The illustrious party went to Frogmore-gardens in the forenoon, the Queen and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha riding in a pony phaeton, and Prince Albert and the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Wurtemberg walking. The royal party afterwards returned to the Castle in pony carriages. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their usual airings this morning. His Royal High ness Prince Alfred was taken a drive in the middle of the day. The Royal Family were again taken out in the afternoon. Her Majesty and the royal party drove ont in pony carriages for an airing this afternoon, the Queen and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg in the first carriage, Prince Albert and the Duke of Saxe Coburg in the next carriage ; the Equerrie3 in Waiting, Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde, attending the illustrious party. The Hon. Miss Hamilton and the .Hon. Miss Stanley have arrived at the Castle, and have suc ceeded the Hon. Misses Paget and Liddell as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on the Queen. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the Countess Wratislaw, Mr. George E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Sir George Couper, and Captain Francis Seymour. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. The Earl of Aberdeen left town yesterday after noon for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. Lord Granville Somerset transacted business yes terday at the office of the Board of Trade. OLPMPIC THEATRE. - - - This theatre, under the new management, seems to progress in public estimation, and the new drama, introduced for the first time yesterday evening, will yet more establish the lessee's claims tn'the support of the admirers of the sock and buskin. The piece introduced was entitled Sir Degr - ees of Crime; and exhibited in the most striking manner the various stages of vice which, deepening in colour as the pas sions are *more depraved, eventually terminate with that fearful, but unfortunately too common climax — the scaffold. The hero, Julio Dormilly (Mr. J. Hud son Kirby), from the man of fashion, sinks into the confirmed roué, and, after figuring as the gamester, the thief, and the assassin, is at last doomed to death at the hands of the public executioner. Such a plot necessarily involves many situations, which, from their severe realities, rather grate upon the sensibi lities of the more refined part of the attatence ; but what is thus lost by the seeming absence of ei:.'licacy, is more than compensated by the lifelike development of the story. The intensity of passion was most admirably pourtrayed by the transatlantic ar tist. As the man of fashion, he was faultless ; and as he degenerated into the ruffian, his acting (if we may use a seeming contradiction) was of a still higher character, simply because it gave scope for the display of more concentrated passion. Of the auxiliary characters we would particularly mention the Lacaille of Mr. B. Rogers, one of those gentlemen who are said, in common parlance, to " live upon town." Mr. Waldron, Mr. Broadfoot, Mr. P. Emery, and Mr. Smith, were also well up in their several parts. Miss L. Melville, as the heroine of the piece, Louise, evinced the same lady-like appreciation of character which we have ever observed in this young lady's acting. In the ball-room scene, Mr. Flexmore, without doubt the most happily grotesque ballet master on the English stage, was much and deser vedly applauded in the Cracovienne, a la Fanny Elisler. The drama throughout was highly suc cessful, and at the conclusion Mr. J. H. Kirby was called before the curtain, and announced the piece for repetition amid unalloyed applause. Don Ccesar de Bazan followed, and concluded the evening's enter tainment. THE FISTULA INFIRMARY. A numerous and influential meeting of the sub scribers to this excellent institution was held at the London Tavern, for the transaction of special business. Sir Chapman Marshall was, in the ab sence pf the Lord Mayor, who had to attend a meeting of the Common Council, unanimously called to the chair. The honorary secretary, Mr. S. B. Merriman, read letter from Mr. Ho we ll, w h o communicated in it his resignation as treasurer of the charity. Mr. Howell stated he exceed ingly regretted that frequent absence from Eng land, and a feeling that he could not adequately dis charge the duties of his office, induced him to resign. lie, however, though officially retiring from their valuable institution, should always feel a deep inte rest in its welfare, and contribute to its support. The resignation of Mr. Rowell having been ac cepted, and a vote of thanks passed to him for the zea lous and liberal assistance he had at all times afforded the institution, it was unanimously resolved, " That J. Masterman, Esq., M.P., be requested to accept the office of treasurer." Mr. Masterman, in returning thanks, said he had, for many years past, had the gratification of witnessing the great advantage de rived by the poorer classes from the Fistula Infirmary, and the great kindness and skill of its excellent founder and honorary surgeon, Mr. Salmon. The chairman then stated that their esteemed friend, Mr. Ogden, who had for the last twentyyears acted as their honorary secretary, was about to retire into the country, where he would permanently reside amongst his friends. That gentleman had in consequence resigned kis office, very much to the regret ofevery friend of the institution. The vacancy had been filled up by the Committee, and their new honorary secretary, Mr. Merriman, who was lending his able and active exertions in promoting the welfare of their charity, was now present at his post. After a warm tribute of praise to Mr. Ogden, the cordial thanks of the meeting were voted to that gentleman, and it was further resolved that such vote should be presented to him emblazoned on vellum. In accordance with a recommendation of the Committee of the charity, the meeting resolved that a honorary physician to the Infirmary should be appointed. A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, who, in acknowledging it, spoke in strong terms of the great value of the Fistula Infirmary, and the great bless ings it had conferred upon the poorer and industrious classes of the metropolis. The meeting then broke up. We understand that the sum subscribed for the purpose of presenting the founder and honorary sur geon of this valuable charity, Mr. Frederick Salmon, with a testimonial of the esteem in which he is held by the friends of the Institution, already exceeds 7001. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. So thin was the attendance, and so few were in the vein to back horses, that to attempt a list of market prices would only be to lead our readers astray; we shall, therefore, confine ourselves to the bets actually made. DIMBY. 1000 to 40 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas 1000 to 40 agst Mr. Gully's Old England 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Stanley's Minikin colt 875 to 25 twice, and 1000 to 30 agst Mr. (bores's Anti-Repealer. 350 to 10 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse 2000 to 25 agst Mr. Worley's John Davis 1000 to 10 agst Mr. 11. Hill's St. Pancras. All the bets, except the one agst Idas,were afterwards offered. THE FOG. —Yesterday afternoon we were visited with one uf the densest fogs that has occurred in the metropolis fof aC.me yearsand rendered the streets in the past, which continued during the whole of the nig , : t, vicinity of the river nearly impassable. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.— Thursday evening a cattle dealer was robbed of a sum 01.10,0 Z in a notorious house in Grcensille. It appears that lit' suspected the parties of robbing him soon after he entered the h, and mn aonnt el c yy h a da r ne g nd e i d es dee them tlfehe e w h i ah t r h agde the d, a t h and e nye f d,s t r ; ne %dth, beganh e hi cith l mo a ntchtdooeluacnsdoitymui count money olmoney o p n r e o Y N ' ' proved too strong_ a t mptati and T taken trom e him, with ght f hich he parties were soon v,s d i. o ot t es oya much ehsacnadpfeud to the street. l on; a dash was made at the money after taken into custody, but the money has not been re covered.—Scotsman. CONSECRATION OF CAMBERWELL CRURCll.—Yes terday morning the Bishop of Winchester consecrated the new church at Camberwell, built on the site of the one destroyed by fire in 1842. The church, whioh has been erected at a cost of, 14,0001., will accomodate 1,500 persons. The design is in the style (if the latter half of tho thirteenth century, being the transition between the " Early English" and the " Decorated Style." The plan is cruceform, having a central tower and spire. The spire, Nvhieli may be seen from a considerable distance in every direction, is 207 feet in height. The Bishop arrived shortly after eleven o'clock, and having gone through the prescribed forms, preached a sermon from the 12th chapter of Deuteronomy, sth verse. A collec tion WPA wade at the close of the eerncs. 1 that Ana 3e o/ n° f aie beP de' the !p% xt, kik s ,