The Sun. — London, England, 1850-11-07 00:00:00

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The '"iun was in corenfrat upon an indenture, dated 29th ,JulY. 1841, made between Thomas George Phileotta ''eceased, of where t h e defendants were executors, a nd the plaietiff, and by w hi c h th e tcs t a t e r panted fur the pecuniary consideration of ss r . tsar several annuities of 3/. eacb, three fa k e t . l ,ife, 91 the. laintiff, and one for the life of the -cred 'tutor himself •p and these annuities were to be cha a , - 'e t : lands in the counties of Monmouth, Brecon, Gleuce3- I:a:l.E.iy aetairfora. The defendants were sued for eleven ditiliddeionlitui,vpealyyments of these annuities; and the defend ; ti P was, that the indenture had been fraudulently male for the purpose of splitting and bet g tne interest in divers houses . and lan , ve wee n Phillpot the elder and Pleilpott the r in ger, in order to increase the number of votes e font of Members of Parliament for tftee,tiefehres,id. couies, and that the indenture was not ta.. °La fide or for any valuable consideration, to and ili Z ll . o estate er interest passed by it beneficially the a stiff, The Learned Counsel now net:stled that this a ss .._ 111hilleeetanswer to the action. The question turned upon e: Destruction to be placed on the 7th and Bth W e il - - f,ritstl,,ntitiethda,p. 25, which regulated the election of M m _ hof Prliament, and the 10th Anne, c. 23, which . jest election 1 ` Au Act for more effictually preventing th e fraudulent eOlareyarcea in order to multiply votes s f h. o f knight s of the Shire. The u coe'sjah_:. p."eviously been brought under from the ue atton et the Court by appeals '' tfeoti..e,..eisione of revising barristers, and the . Court was d er _rion that where there was some pecuniary cous t i o - Pass 4,,,, And►eh, and L :h: a7e t he interest granted was entitled avo ' wed object was to multiply votes; lwitythhat the right to vote existed, and was not taken t * ell rwth e Y dtheeispiorneviin he sitons of the statute s mentioned. That 10 2. 1: c rr ati h , respondent „case of " Alexander, appellant, v. reported in 2d 2 B. Reports, p. h j . it i.t..t :elle Learned dOtlnSel conte n d e d that though tne rho ..0 the Legislature was to discourage the practice g votes, that was to be accomplished by de endalies. the vendor of the property made over to the e tstat e : a „., 1111t1 ; by subjecting him to a penalty; but t tha.ef„:-"ained in the possession of the vendee, ache, The could not be deprived of his right to vote. `-'°llllT rzrantei a rule. BAIL COURT. Nett es i '''' (THIS DAY.) 4 , t n ,,- 4 iaaneo, before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) !lr, fis .4 l'• soLITH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY . .. the j un C'?°INS applied to the Court for a rule nisi for aeti n ," B , (),',:. tnandamus directed to the justices of Kent ' e l t , tea;', aiii"'laghna Special Sessions, in that county, . 1 , 44 i1w 411 1 , - i lg there to try ' an appeal of the South-Esster o n t. atie a it ; e•etnPany against a poor-rate of the parish tl , Jilee,;,' i n the Lie of Thauct, made on the 12t.. Of ( tide' . '' 49 - The of filed in support of the motion atas set they© f acln Octobar, 1848, a poo_r- s ra o te t t he Ree;se,,Z't the eempany in respect of three pa I eippet °g one line, on n assessment of 1,50 0 of 5001 sein eOh mile of the Deal branch on a",e,mile. assessment and e iin Th e e '' gin each case at the rate of 500/. p • that it w as appealed against this rate, on the grou .. n t d . the "as eXcessive, but it was ultimately agreed rat n Parish dop e d on autherities that the appeal should be aban -4zBhaktt t,(3 understanding that the rateable value l of the' e ' r i ne should be reducedfrom 500Lt0200 .permdle li gare s ,°` the Deal branch from 5001. to 1001., at which Ithi oa - t he ratieg was to stand until a case was decided aro39 bout pending in the ueen's Bench, and w.. the oti t h . i 4 l , l s of a slimier excess of rating of that part of ri _ of W ea a ,. tern Railway whith passes through the a - h The point to be settled by the case was, tlitiet'the: the e e ar • R CCT4 P t nYvvere to be assessed according to Paristr°4 °atnings per mile of the entire line, as t h e areat:s contended they ought, or only according to t . e t e tasse c i ,P:" tulle of esch section of the railway as i wee fully.ero t eh _ ja'e`itl 61 each particular parish. The case has ti t a rged, but as yet the Court has given DO l U: ten °t l it. Notwithstanding the agreement early i tsses s rre 'ent Year, the parish in question made a new th e setaent behind the back of the company, and raised breach of 10 the ori ginal figure ; but no sooner did this Ihttly th °l good faith come to the knowledge of the com parish ah they e aPpea,!ed again against the rate, but the trae"tautaortties took an objection that the appeal same late, which the Court of Quarter Sessio h ns t th e a eu• Both aides then agreed a second time t a deci a P n P e al should be adjourned from time to time till the r e m ai ns in the West Bear case could be known, andse the dealiournments accordingly did take place; but afterthat 11 ,1 5 pec e „ lai ° 4 of this Court, in a Lancashire case, b lie mi ' than be made at the first sessions after the pu - t 01 t°1 11 °11 . ( ' I. a rate, the legal advisers of the parish wen aad l ' 4 ; es tlens, in violation of all previous arrangements,. 11411 Y, t. '11 ,% . ? .1 the, magistrates, without hearing the . com tee 'me-Quist:piss the appeal on the ground that it came s a ppeal t'h It w as to compel the magistrates to hear this 4. „ ~ at the present mandamus was required. vilhleation granted. 1 1 eel:lNa afterwards sat at Nisi Prius, and disposed , etal undefended causes. Slit, „ -.....___ Y 40 41 ''4/l ITS' CO URT —( THIS DAY.) i I IiS SC)CILTI ELCAN NAN AND ANOTHER V. PACKER. time tlet e. 1 3' 43 an action by the same plaintiff on the he note. , A. witnefandant pleaded that ho did not make t al g il Th ed e - d til e " ei e l s ote amed Jackson proved that defendant Ato how e . t i, d4 e4 Attorney cross-examined . the hadwitness not 40 be t " ( 2 11 e was paid. but the witness Iltho u ° 8 o ri f ti al°lllY seciet • of which he was secretary, I le sai g a ti s n i, e ° had been Y s ' erved on plaintiff's attorney. far t 7 , „ at ~, e ""en the money was paid he deducted 15s. it ill b .t e l l:fir r si : °llt hs' interest, but admitted that in default fp„,i' e alea instalment they could have claimed all. thid ecle--euant's attorney then addressed the jury, 144i:tended that the interest was paid for twelve N)i i; 441 that the action could not be brought till the ee payabl e Piell 0 1 that time, although the note was ma The se en daisafter that date. tr. Le 1 ---_,,. aabi Le UNDER-SHERIFF . st ated e t hemselves with the law which the a fo tt r oT w e r y e h t a n d e c alf a ' i and he might be right or wrong, defendant made the 4 ,° l e. r i e , a Was whether or not the l aay ~,'" Persons chose to go to these loan societies Thlat abide by the rules. / artli: t etrY asked whether they were bound to give a T bel i i )r the full amount. b letit i l, il bElt SHERIFF said there was n H o e p b le a a d o s f aid pa h y; fora &Jut plaintiffs gave credit for 2/. . 1(1 11 - o ‘ t t the Payments ought to be indorsed on the bill, 4 . Th e ; °II .Y in the society's books. istui ttli e li ury Court gave a verdictforth a e rp b l a y len to ce, th a e ndde - Vk,e. attorney said he should This C ANNA.N AND ANOTHER V. BERGERY. ( Let w WO 40 action aga i nst a secon d p ar ty, and a ver ks given for plaintiff. 110 via -S' W ilt , STREET. —(THIS DAY.) qtr. ,; (474 nowen, alias Reynolds, aged 30 years, was fr o ' ,e a before Mr. Hall with stealing a metal inkstand la th e Sir u ore department of the British Museum. t iati !,„, e nrY Ellis, the principal librarian of the institu hee4"thnePota the; bench' to watch,the proceedings on be a , tosteio. shie,°:ePu Sholver, an attendant engaged at the British h he Xis; isaid----festerday, shortly before four l o s ' a e l l e o e c e . , li luttanding near the door in the grand centr h a im He t ',„aere e d 0 /8 P the prisoner approaching 4.11 ° Prise 114 toeave something bulky in his coat pocket. Puh li o days--nr had visited the institution for the last four ,. for beie zin ~,a ili d wit ness had occasion to speak to. Jaim e. -irehrre liid - a e l i ee t s e, w er k s e i r e the public . were not ad . mitteci 141 - The prisoner ro d bberi t e e s t i h n e th e e ew in g s a t l it le u r 7 , n w l h a e t h - PeeZ ddel q Placed tie r , c i s were Pressed. li ) i a s ss li e and en s behind him, and his coat Witness then noticed the impres- IN nogg an inkstand, and saw a portion of it in his pocket. the Prisoner spoke to smother attendant, and told him to watch A , , i t io r le. hlthzep u r n i t s i e l it obtained ,ivss the assistance of a con the to them, and must have s aid, for he instantly turned round, pulled . _ Ilia inkstand frima his pocket, and asked the attendant if 411 4 4 d ill e s w as Lingar The name of Lingard was eneete forl3 the inkstand, but the witness could not se the slam t he tame being upon it. The inkstand bore T he P ef the institution. liQ ekeer isi) ner said he could not put the inkstand in . his ateed, ,as they were too shallow. He found the i fi nk st 13480 e I l „, " Il aY€3, tho second attendant, was the r 4r. li A ! net to give it to. b eg lt waTtl' eel:emitted the prisoner for trial. n in cast aftervvards ascertained that the prisoner had MA D i etlatOdy Previously charge of felony. y on a 151, (THIS DAY.) 1 ItOn ti , \- 1 -STREET— . l i i c b t b il u ° g h E h t ..-- ; e el ; 0 4 r a e 171. 34 1v es r IC A B i i ng S : h a C am 3 re E i s T opAreßertel.bel:ys a examination, io d ß . :7 3 a A n s , wN chargedas 's ails 41.113 g Stolen' a e q - uantity of valuable jewels and 4 . B e a eie 1.,,(iie::8 treat the box Thatched-house t t h eh e e P d. r h in e c u e se of T W av a e le r s n, M s a t - . ret i e s . , , e at the a t, kr, 028,"eet "'Med for'°BBe, solicitor, No. 13, Harley-street, who at het ler O f t p the prosecution, said the prisoner w" at the Th atch rine') of Wales Freemasons' Lodge, held a (:) aet es et'4oose Tavern. The duties of tyler were thet b eu a Bort of door -keeper, and to take charge of s Yea enataining the property of this and other lodge s. th o he, Mr. Crosse, received, he went on ere ,May week to the Tbatched-bouse Tavern, an ail:4l found that the box belonging to the Prince of 7 4 1 D had been broken open, and a silver square, atol e ev el, end ether articles belonging to the craft _ II teerefroin. thea e te he r e ° ali t Bewley, 20 11, (stated that from information 16 , 4 e ived, he went on Thursday morning last to No. 144,706411- street, Golden-square, where he found the . sie BB -13 .e,,r in bed. Oa telling him the nature of his bule -41)041,1'4e prisoner requested him not to male any noise trett it he owned he had done wrong, but he . was i 'led t,dlfficulties at the time. Witness asked him if he said h° stolen jewellery in the house. The prisoner . e ete 0 had the tickets, and delivered up several duple tip,lt° witness. The prisoner's wife gave witness some s a r t l'a and co llars belonging to th e Lodge. Witness to e , till th e pri soner had dressed himself, and then tt hi Tr, as to the station-house. ele )3 cou p ,' :adon, the magistrate of Hammersmith Police sld '; o ho is a member of the Prince of Wales Lodge, e raf r i - . 6 y e u the Court on the pars of his brethren of the t his '''''' said it was not the wish of the members of ,wori ri ci : le t Of the largest charitable institutions in the la ve „ 0 preceed in this case to the extreme point the bii:"°wed them, end he wished, if it mot the appro tl,e p of the Court, that the case should be taken . nnder oner fo r , 'l.rtibrokers' Act, just: - oel of sending the Fi t: the ee e rr i al- The prisoner, although a member o Prince Of W . , Was 11 , 3 a member of r h . e . E N ' 4,,e,a,Lodge but a paid servant. Wilhelm Cue m itt, B' ' 're wae , the GM. of the Lodge, and be, r. beleeton, therefore should . wish to lay the property as hit. to Willialin Cubist and others. ~ _ and 04114 1311Q1141st consented to this proposition, A ,_ upon the pawnbrokers to produce the property. 4,;;•otootit nineteen pawnbrokers produced jewels to t o ile hi l , h th il e t p ° e f i e ll e e n a e r r s ° o l-, which had been pledged with them cl Pinner' Who did uot attempt to deny the charge, was mu!ctrd in the full penalty :,nd value of the property pledged, acaourving to about G5Ol. COMMON COU2iIWIL.-(THIS DAY.) At eleven o'clock this morning a very large number of the members of the Court of Common Council met at the Guildhall. Before any business (excepting the reading of the minutes) had been transacted, JOHN WOOD, EA., gave nctiee of the following mo tion:—" That this Court take into consideration the propriety of presenting an address to her Majesty on the recent proceedings of the Pope of Rome with regard to this country, and expressive of the loyalty and at tachment of the Corporation to her Mejesty's authority andj government."—(The notice was received with re iterated cheers.) Mr. BLAKE then called the attention of the Court to a letter which this morning appeared in the Times from the Premier, Lord John Russell, to the Right ittiv. the Bishop of Durham. He (Mr. Blake) thought that the country was indebtiql to his Lord ship for that letter, rendered incalculably valuable from its emanating from such a quarter at such an opportune period.—(Loud cheers.) He consi dered its tone to be both noble and dignified, while the assurances it held out would tend in no smell degree to satisfy the public mind and to allay apprehensions which some parties had of late taken so much pains to excite throughout the kingdom. He proposed a vote of thanks from the Court to Lord John Russell for the stand he had made at the ptesent crisis. Mr. F. BENNOCH seconded the motion, and in doing so he thought it right to add that he considered the ad dress shouli be prepared forthwith. He would suggest, for the purpose, that ;he etancling orders be suspended. Agreed to by acclamation. Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR supported the motion. Ee remembered that the archives of tho City contained do• eunaents which showed that on firmer occasions the Corporation of the city of Loudon had acted in a simi!ar way to that now proposed. In the reign of George 11. the Corporation had resisted the attempted innovations of the Catholics with signal succee.—(Cheers.) Ile (Mr. Taylor) also approved of the conduct cf Sir Peter Laurie, who had always warned the Court of Puseyite errors and Roman Chthelic encroachments. Mr. BLAKE having moved that a committee be ap pointed to draw up a motion, conveying the thanks of Court to the Noble Pi emier for this timely expression of his feelings on the subject of the Pope of Rome's au thority, which was carried, when the gentlemen com posing it retired into the Alderman's ante-room to con sider the same. Upon their return, Mr. BLAKE proposed, and Sir P. LAURIE seconded the address to Lord John Russell, nllich was couched in terms of gratitude to Lis Lordship for the noble stand Le has made in the matter. The reading cf. tit,: address was accompanied by loud cheering. Sir PETER LAURIE, on seconding the motion as to the presentation of the address, said, that he, never was more delighted than be was upon that occasion, in ruing to second the proposition. He rejoiced in Lord john Russell's 'setter, and to the following paragraph he would call the especial attention of the Court:— " There is a danger, however, which alarms me much more than any aggression of a foreign Sovereign. " Clergymen of ovr own Church, who have subscribed the Thirty-nine Articles, and acknowledge in explicit terms the Queen's supremacy, have been the most forward in leading their flocks step by step to the very verge of the precipice.' The honour paid to the saints, the claim of infallibility for the Church, the superstitious use of the sign of the cross, the muttering of the Liturgy, so as to disguise the language in which it is written, the recommendation of auricular confession, and the administration of penance and abso lution,—alll these things, are pointed out by clergymen of the Church of England as worthy of adoption, and are now openly reprehended by the Bis " hop of London in his charge to the clergy of his diocese. These were noble sentiments, worthy of the Premier of this country at this critical period, and of one of the representatives of that great and important city. The motion was then put and carried nem. dis. It was then ordered that the address should be im mediately presented to his Lordship, and that a copy it should be advertised in all the public jtairnals. The Court adjourned shortly after two o'clock. Bank, Tli E SUN, LONDON. THURSDA Y EVENING, TO THE CHAIRMAN AND COURT OF DIREC TORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMI'ANY. Gentlemen,—A letter appeared in the Times cf . the 28th June, stating that the widow and son of the late Raja of Sattara, with their numerous retinue, were starving at Benares, and that not one rupee had been paid in relief.of their necessities since the Raja's decease i❑ October, 1847. • In the last return (No. 6G9, sth August, 1850), you have made to an order of the House of Commons, is a letter to the Directors, dated Fort William, 6th April, 1850, and signed " Dalhousie, J. H. Littler, F. Currie, J. Lowis," that is to say, by the Governer- General and Council of India, which contains the fol lowing passages : • Par. 7. "'The Gwernment of India has alirays advocated the grant of an ample stipend to the adopted son of the ex-Raja. Par. 13. "But we 410 not feel ourselves justified in making these grants, unless both the Ranee and the boy at Bemires renounce all right to the Raj of Sattara • ; or, at all events, unless the use of the desig nation and all marks of sovereignty are abandoned by both of them." In the letter above mentioned, of the 231 May, your Court was apprised " That Ballejee Punt Nattco, the pensioned traitor and conspirator, had suddenly ap peared at Benares from Bombay, in the very height of the widow's distress, and was secretly tampering with her near relatives end servants, with the design of stifling her complaints, and eweing her into silence and submission" to the wishes of Marquis Dqlhousie and his Council. The relative whose instrumentality was employed was the Ranee's own father, who was dispatched from the Court of Nagpore, where he had been residing for many years, for the express purpose, there can now be no doubt, of securing the success of the scheme. It he succeeded ; the last Indian Mail, it appears, brought a dispatch, stating that the Ranee, worn out by three years' want and incessant threats and persecu tion, has at length been starved into compliance; that she has been starved into signing and dispatching to the Most Noble Marquis Dalhousie a document, pre pared and dictated to her by the Brahmin, in which, as the Governor-General exacted, " both the Ranee and the boy at Benares renounce all right to the Raj of Sattara, and abandon the use of the designation and all marks of sovereignty." It is to be hoped that the Nast Noble Marquis slept tranquilly in his bed in Koonawur, when he at last clutched this precious docu ment thus obtained from the captive - widow and orphan child. You also, gentlemen, must be congratulated on its obtainment. Surely it merits, like other great In- dian victories, to be celebrated, by a banquet given at the ',expense of the natives of India, at which the Directors may toast " the emic.ent success" of the Most Noble Marquis, and wash their own pure hands in rose water.! Suffer me here to suggest a fitting use for this paper—let it be duly framed and glazed, and shown in the largest; letters to the assem bled civilized world in 1.51, as one of your valued contributions to the " Exhibition of the Industry of ell Nations." Let me at the same time ask the civilized world, which will be as sembled to behold the trephialts of an empire, " upon which," it is vauntingly told,. " the sun never sets," whether the French people, when they e xtin g uished the sovereignty of the Bourb ens, stopped the dower of the Duchess of Orleans until she had renounced in writing her son's hereditary t ice of " Comte de Paris," and the use of the arms of France ? Let me ask if the French people first confis sated all the private pro perty of the late King of the Fr nch, after pledging them selves five times in writing to respect it,* and next made it a condition with his sons, not of the restoration of that property, but of their not being left to die of hunger, that they should renounce their family titles ? And yet this is what the mawnaninnous British people, as represented in India by the East India Company, have deliberately done to the widow and son of the Reja of Sattare. Marquis Dalhous'as says (par. 4), "The boy wrote in the character of R kia"—(an off,nce clearly beyond the pale of pardon in the eyes of this Most Noble Marquis). Par. 7. "'The Governme of of India has always advocated the grant of an ample stipend to the adopted son of the ex-Raja, and is still of opinion that he should be liberally treated as well as the Ranee. Such is evidently the wish of your Honourable Court, which we infer from your having lately directed us to make payments to which these persons had forfeited all fair claim. Par. 8. " But we apprehe.o d that you cannot wish this Government to confer a, pension on the adopted boy at Benares, at the time that by persisting in de signating himself Raja of Sa tiara he is virtually dis puting the right of the East: India Company to terri tory of which it has assumed possession. Nor do we suppose it can be your wish that we should increase the pension of the Ranee, while she ie recognising and maintaining these sovers.ign rights in the adopted son" (by signing his name to a receipt for 800 rupees !) Think of an Eu,,glishman penning such a sentence as this ! But what is this "liberal treatment," which the world is now so ostentatione:ily told it was the anxious wish of the Directors and of the Governor-General should be bestowed upon the Ranee and her son ? Before the Ranee left Sattai-a, a captive with her late husband the Raja in Septeeeber, 1839, the sum which your own Resident, Colonel ;)vans, certainly no friend to her or her family, thought it but decent should be settled upon her in the n slure of pin-mony, as the Raja's second wife, altogether distinct from the monthly allowance of 7,700 rupees made to the Raja, was 800 rupees (801.) a month. This sum she re. ceived for her own private ttse up to the Raja's death in October, 1847. At his decease the whole of his allowance was at once stoplned, and all his retinue, amounting to 1,000 or 1,20 1 ) persons who had accom panied him from Sattara, were cast for subsistence upon the Ranee, who was informed, that her pin money of 800 rupees would be continued to her as a pension, provided she renounced all the rights of her adopted son. The " liberal allowance" to be granted jointly to the Ranee and her son during her life has been since increased to 2,400 rupees a month, equivalent to 2,8801. a year. Let us examine this magnificent liberality. In your return of the sth of August is given part of a minute, dated 18th April, 1849, by the Governor of Bombay, in which he staaes that the " gross rent roll of the Sattara territories is estimated at between 39 and 40 lacs of rupees (390,0001. to 400,0001. a year), of which," with the necessary annual remis sions, little more than 141 lacs (142,5000 have been collected." This " liberal allowance," when truly stated in your account with the family of the deposed Raja, stands, therefore, thus . Present net annual revenues of the Sattara State taken and annexed by the E. I. Company ... ••• ••. (Prospective value 390,0001. a year.) Value of private property left at Sattara by the iteja as per inventory taken at the time, about Rs. 30 lace., 300,0001.; annual interest thereon at ten per cent. for eleven years... ... ..• .. . £142 , 5 0 0 33,000 Total annual income appropriated by the E. I. Company ... ..• .._ DEDUCT Liberal allowance" proposed for the Ranee and her son during pleasure by the Di rectors 2,880 Balance of revenue appropriated by them by the annexation of Sattara... £172,620 The "liberal allowance," therefore, amounts to your offering to the Ranee and child 2,8001. a year, for themselves and all those dependent for bread and property 172,6201. upon them, still detaining them prisoners, while you a take ye t a o r, yourselves wth a in territ o prospectivey increase of b e t ween 400,0001. and 500,0001. a year of their right to ail which your Governor-General and Council exact a peremptory written surrender from the Ranee and child as a condition of their receiving even the 2,860/. a year during pleasure. These facts and figures furnished by yourselves and your Indian Government, coupled with the last crowning act of the latter, speak for themselves ; and render one word of comment superfluous. They will convince every man who reads them what the real ob ject of your conduct throughout has been ; first, in entering the Palace of 0(1 ex-Raja in the dead of night, seizing him while sleepi n g in his bed, and de posing and exiling him without trial ; next, in con fiscating all his private property in the face of five public written pledges to respect it ; third, in appro priating all his dominions on the pretext that he left no male heir, while you yourselves make prisoner of the heir, and forcibly detain his person at Benares ; fourth, in starving that lawful heir and adopted son, and the Raja's widow, whom also you hold captive, into a written renunciation of their right to those dominions, of which ihnaagsts.huternhlpeelde neverthelesssp,sl,ellaaasdwuyprf "lawful lonocdflaci possessionhmt hi Bld ptoorims prisoners a h efiy e w r fifth, in Government. e r ßi n l r d yo e u have nkmaeere n o e c i you h ip. nt ins that e dt "As anticipated," writes to you Lord Dalhousie, "the Governme n t o f B om b a y st r on g ly o bj ec t e d t o either one , or the oth er being allowed to return at this time !' (par. 6)—and the chivalrous Governor- General of India, at th e head of 300,000 bayonets ready to do his every bidding, acquiesces in the guilty fears of . these guilty men ! It is a man who, in the fawning parlance of his country, is styled a " Nobleman," who makes this war upon a woman - and child whom he has in his power. He does so eleven years after she has been forcibly taken from Sattara and kept captive at Bemires, while AGES OF EXISTING NETVSPAPERS. We find by an examination of Thomas's Newspaper List, that the oldest existing paper in Great Britain is the Edinburgh Gazette, which was established in the 'ear 1600. The Caledonian Mercury, established in t 660. Ftands next in point of antiquity ; the Edin bu, gh Evening Courant, of which the first number ap peared in 1690, being some thirty years younger, and yet sufficiently old to be venerable. The oldest existing paper in England is the Stamford Mercury, which was established in 1695. The first paper now in ex istence, in the United Kingdom, which appeared in the last century, was Berrows' Worcester Journal, first published in 1709. Two years afterwards, in 1711, the Aelveastle Courant was first issued, and in the same year appeared the first number of the Dublin Gazette. In 1717, the Kentish Gazette, and 1718 the Leeds Mercury first commenced their career of in formation. Between 1720 and 1730 inclusive, the fol lowing papers were first ushered into existence :—The Northampton Mercury and Salisbury Journal in 1720; the Gloucester Journal in 1722; the Reading Mercury in 1723; the Norwich Mercury, and the Dublin Evening Post in 1725 ; and the Chebnyord Chronicle in 1730. Between 1730 and . 1740 the following papers appeared—St. James's Chronicle and the Chester Courant in 1731; the Derby Mercury in 1732; the Sherborne Mercury in 1736; the Belfast News Letter in. 1737; and the Hereford Journal 1739. Between 1740 and 1750, the journals added to the stock were the following:—The Birmingham Gazette and Nottingham Journal in 1741; the Bath Journal in 1742; the Edinburgh [feebly Journal in 1744; the Bristol Journal (Felix Farley's); the Sussex Advertiser and the Sligo Journal, iu 1745 ; Saunders' News Letter (Dublin) in 1746; the Aberdeen Journal, in 1747 ; and the Cambridge Chronicle, 1741. Be tween 1750 and 1760, only four of the papers now published made their appearance. These were, the Oxford Journal 1753 ; the Leeds Intehigencer 1757 ; the Liverpool Times 1756 ; and the Ban Chronicle 1756. Between 1760 and 1770, the following ap peared :—The .Nord r olk Chronicle 1761; the Exeter Flying Post and the Dublin Freeman's Journal 1763; Lloyd's List, the Sherburne Journal, the Newcastle Chronicle, and Edinburgh Advertiser in 1764; Gore's Liver pool Advertiser in 1765 ; the Limerick Chro nicle in 1766; and the Bristol Gazette, and Kilkenny Journal in 1767. Between 1770 and 1780, the following new candidates came into the field :—The Morning Chronicle in 1770 ; the Morning Post, the Shrewsbury Chronicle, the Hampshire Chronicle, and the Londonderry Journal in 1772 ; the Racing Calendar, the Chester Chronicle, and the Bristol Mirror in 1773 ; the Cumberland Pacquet and the Kerry Evening Post in 1774; and Prince's London Price Current, and the Clare Journal in 1779. Between 1780 and 1790, the following journals were born: —The Morning Herald ; 17A1 - . the B ury Viand Nor wich Post 1782; the Maidstone Journal 1786; the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, the Evening Mail (London) and the Gazette de Guernsey 1789; and the Kent Herald, the York Herald, and the Bristol Mer cury 1790. The following appeared between 1790 and 1800:—The Glasgow Courier 1791; The Sun the County Herald (London), the County Chronicle (London), and the Bath Herald 1792; the Morning Advertiser, the Commercial Daily List, the Hull Advertiser, the Worcester Herald, and the Doncaster Gazette 1794; the Kelso Mail 1797 ; the Times, the Observer, the Daily Pactiet List, and the Carlisle Journal 1798; the Hampshire Telegreph, and the Greenock Ad vertiser 1799; and the Essex Herald and Oxford Herald in 1800. We have only brought our statement doen to the close of the lost century. Since then, between three and four hundred papers have been commenced in the United Kingdom, all of which are now in exiAence. IMPROVEMENT OF "LORD . MATOR'S SHOW."— Mr. Godwin's letter to the Lord Mayor elect, sketching the history of the show, and suggesting the desirability of ren dering it more worthy of the time and country than has lately been the case, was referred to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs' Committee for conducting the entertainment, and we may now state that it has been determined in consequence to attempt to make the present pageant one of more than usual interest. We trust that taste and good judgment will be called in to guide the endeavour. We have received a number of letters from men with knowledge on the sabject, a ll concurring in the suggestion. From one we learn that the cost of the day, including the dinner, has lately been 2,4251., so that something satisfactory might surely be ex pected. Of this the City contributed 2001., the Lord Mayor 1,1121., and the Sheriffs a like sum between them. The item of charge for the men in armour was 1101. 10s. The cost of the banners, barges belonging to the companies, trap pings for horses , &c., did not come into this soot. One city antiquary writes, that the principal knight, and his retinu e (should) represent the City standard-bearer. " Robert Fitz waiter held Baynard's Castle, to him and his heirs, on the tenure of being the City standard-bearer and leader of the civic forces in time of war. The recent Volbs-fest at Mu nich, afforded a proof of what artistical,taste can do in similar cases, without large expenditure; the inhabitants of Au se n t a model of their church , with its stained glass windows ; the joiners a model house ; a pavilion of Byzantine form, drawn by richly caparisoned ho rses, contained the bust of King Louis; the porcelain works afforded a c ollection of fine terms, and the car of the sculptors and artists were charmingly ar ranged.—Builder. THE POISONINGS IN LINCOLNSHIRE. —Surgeon Clegg, of Boston, writes a letter, referring to a case of 16 or 16 farmers' labourers, who were seized witlied h symptoms of poisoning by arsenic after drinking ale supp y their master. Mr, Clegg states th at the circumstance was to th purely accidental. "An arsenic solution," he says, was used in dressing certain kinds of seed, and, by an accident, some portion el the poison gained access, to the pitcher which contained the ale supplied to the labo urers as their morning's allowance." DEATH OF A RICH NISEIL—Died last week, at Blandford-place, Kentish. town, a miser cf the name of Shel don. He had formerly carried on the busines s of a breeches maker, but or th e l as t twenty Years had retired, and lived by the contributions of the neighbours, or any one who would assist him. H e was so penur i ous i n his habits as to de n y himself a coat, and seldom wore a bat, and would pick up at the age of E 5, pieces of bread out of the road and eat them. The room in which he lived Lad not been cleaned for twenty years. ile died suddenly,of upwards leaving afortune . . of 15,030/. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE AT CHELSEA HOSPITAL. — On Tuesday morning an in-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital at tempted to destroy himself by cutting his throat with a razor. kb lost much blood, and lies in a precarious state. ... £175,500 the innocent child has never been at Sattara at all ! How truly lawful he end you fcel at heart your " possession" of Sattara to be, let his and your con duct procliAim, let your own countrymen pronounce; but after permitting such conduct by you in India, let not yeur countrymen venture to talk of the French in Algeria, the Russians in Poland, the Turks in Syria, or Abbas Paella in Egypt. A NATIVE OF INDIA. November, 1850.. Sir J. R. Carnac, Gov. of Bombay to Lieut.-Col. Ovans, Resident at Sattara, 30th Aug. 1839. Par• Pa. No. 569-1843—par. 8, page 469. " You will inform him (the Raja) that an annual allowance will be assigned from the Sattara revenues for the support of himself and his family—further, that all property belonging to him bona fide private, and not appertaining to the state will, on his peace able submission, not be interfered with." Col. Ovans to Secretary of the Governor of Bombay, sth September, 1839. Par. Pa. p. 471, par. 6. " I communicated to his Highness the substance of the Bth par. of my instructions (as above), and after giving him every assurance that his comfort, e.c., would be scrupulously attended to." Captain T. D. Carpenter, Superintendent of the ex- Raja of Sattara, to T. H. Maddock, Secretary to the Government of India, Benares, 15th Nov. Par. Pa. Aug., 1834 ; p. 47, No. 622, par. 8. " The ex-Raja of Sattara has in his possession three letters signed by Colonel Ovans, the Resident at Sattara, and dated sth, 6th, and 13th Sept., 1839, respectively, to the effect that his private property would be surrendered to him." The Times, August 13, 1850: — "HOUSE or COMMONS. " Sir John Cain Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control, in answer to a question put to him by Joseph Hume, Eq., M.P., relative to the detention of the Raje,'s private property, stated—' No guarantee had been given with regard to the private property of the ex-Raja.'" LORD JOHN RUSSELL A.ND THE PAPAL AGGRESSION. TO THE RIGHT REV. THE BISHOP OF DURHAM. My dear Lord,—l agree with you in considering " the late aggression of the Pope upon our Protes tanism " as " insolent and insidious," and I there fore feel as indignant as you can do upon the subject. I not only promoted to the utmost of my power the claims of the Roman Catholics to all civil rights, but I thought it right, and even desirable, that the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholics should be the means of giving instruction to the numerous Irish immigrants in London and elsewhere, who without such help would have been left in heathen ignorance. This might have been done, however, without any such innovation as that which we hare now seen. It is impossible to confound the recent measures of the Pope with the division of Scotland into dioceses by the Episcopal Church, or the arrangement of dis tricts in England by the Wesleyan Conference. There is an assumption of power in all the docu ments which have come from Rome—a pretension to supremacy over the realm of England, and a claim to sole and undivided sway, which is inconsistent with the Queen's supremacy, with the rights of our bishops and clergy, and with the spiritual independence of the nation, as asserted even in Roman Catholic times. I confess, however, that my alarm is not equal to my indignation. Even if it shill appear that th e minis ters and ser • g in England wants of the Pope in this cou ntr y have n ot trans gressed the law, I feel persuade d that we ar e strong enough to repel any outward at tacks. The l iberty of t P o r a o l t l e o s w tan o t f is a m ny h s a u s c b c e e e s s n fu e i r j a o t y te e m d p t t oo t olionpose a foreig n n l yoke upon our minds and consciences. No foreign prince or potentate w ill be permitted to fasten his fetters upon a nation which has so long and so nobly vindicated its right to freedom of opinion, civil, poli tical, and religious. _ . Upon this subject, then, I will only say that the present state of the law shall be carefully examined, and the propriety of adopting any proceedings with reference to the recent assumptions of power delibe rately considered. There is a danger, however, which alarms me much more than any aggression of a foreign Sove reign. _ . . . - _ Clergymen of our own Church, who have subscribed the Thirty-nine Articles, and acknowledged in ex plicit terms the Queen's supremacy, have been the most forward in leading their flocks, " step by step, to the very verge of the precipice." The honour paid to claimsa so in p t e s r , st tihtiou e suse of the s of infallibilityigo of the forth c e ross,he Church, t the muttering of the Liturgy so as to disguise the lan guage in which it is written, the recommendction of auricular confession, and the administration of p out e n a b n y c e c e a r n g d y m a (absolution—all u e s n of t t i h o e n— Ch all ure t h he o s f e E tl n ii g ng lan s d ar a e s p: ,o in rt t h e y d of adoption, and are now openly reprehended by the Bishop of London in his charge to the clergy of his diocese. What, then, is the danger to be apprehended from a foreign Prince of no great power, compared to the danger within the gates from the unworthy sons of the Church of England herself ? I have little hope that:the propcunders and framers of these innovations will desist from their insidious course. But I rely with confidence on the people of England, and I will not bate a jot of heart or hope so long as the glorious principles and the immortal mar tyrs of the Reformation shall be held in reverence by the great mass of a nation which looks with contempt on the mummeries of superstition, and with scorn on the laborious endeavours which are now making to confine the intellect and enslave the soul. I remain, with great respect, &c., J. RUSSELL. Downing•street, Nov. 4. AMERICAN NEWS. - ARRIVAL OF TILE ARCTIC STEAM , SHIP. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The above splendid ship, comman ded by Luce (which forms the thi r d o f w h a t is generally t e rmed the Collins lin e ) h as j ust arrive d i n o ur river, after a passage of ten d ays . Captain The Arctic left New York on the 27th ult. her news is, therefore, four days later than that brought by the Europa, and, both as regards commerce and politics, is uninteresting and unimportant. INCREASE OF BUSINESS AT THESTAMP.OFFICE.— In consequence of the great increase of `business at the Stamp-office since the new Stamp Act came into operation, the Commissioners have been obliged to make an addition to Sunday), they have great difficulty the number of employ sible the complying with the numerous orders sent under the new Act. Although the stain ers are e mployed daily, ts, so as to facilitate as much a pos sible eight o'clock A.M. till nearly nine o'clock r.m. (except portion of the demands, as the orders from Liverpool, Bir mingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, York, Carlisle, Dum fries, Glasgow, Edinburgh,' and 'other large cities in the United Kingdom, are so extensive and urgent; that; they ars sent off by the morning mails, and during the day to r the public the different localities. Michaelmas Term, which com menced on the 2d inst , had given a reat deal of extra duty in this important establishment for stamps of every description, deeds, mortgages, leases, tic. Indeed, it is won derful when the number of stamps in satisfying only a required daily for the bgeestidtehsroPuoght Post-office stamps, businesssta m newspapers in London and every large town of the empire, they. can demand. t ed s a h t j o s w f: CHEAP GAS, AND WHT NOT CHEAP WATER ? Now that we stand a tolerable chance of getting cheap gas, we think a stir ought to be made to get us cheap water also. The New City Gas Company, by putting; its pipes into the ground, has put out the pipes of the old monopolists, and we do not see why the water companies should not be subjected to the same sort of competition. Light and cleanliness be ing both necessary for the preservation of health, we would Ps the i ; tr considered ask why economy should not visit our cisterns as well as our gas-meters? If we were consulted as to what would be a fair price for the water at present laid on, we should say that it ought, at all events, to be "as cheap as dirt," which is the article it bears the closest resemblance to. The only advantage to be gained by the present water supply is the chance of a fish occasionally being included in our bargain with the company; but as the fish cannot notify his arrival he often dies in the cistern before his visit is known, and we see nothing of him till his bones, forcing their way through the tap, come up to us unexpectedly in the toast-and-water, or the tea-urn.—Punch. Yesterday afternoon we had the pleasure to attend at the fourth exhibition of the large Boston Organ, recently constructed by Messrs. Gray and. Davison, of the New -road. The talented organist, Mr. G. Cooper, more than sustained i the reputation which by former performances he had ac quired ; loud and repeated plaudits were bestowed upon him by the crowded and respectable audience. Amidst the excellence it is quite unnecessary to mark any one part with superior approbation. The following programme was se lected with great taste and, judgment :—Part I. Largetto, Second Symphony by_Kalliwoda ; Offertorium " Quod in Orbe," Hammen ; first, and second movements of a Manu script Sonata, J. S. Bach ' • Songs, Schubert ; Chorus, "Fi xe d in his everlasting seat," Handel. Part H. Movement from Fantasia, A. Hesse; Adagio, Kalliwoda ; Grand P re l u d e and Fuge, J. S. Bach; Recitati ve and Air, " 0, ruddier than the cherry," Handel ; Chorus, " He rebuked the Red Sea," Han del. The above were performed by Mr. Cooper at his former performance. Yesterday a Court of Directors Was held at the East India House, when Lieutenant-General Sir John Grey, K.C.1.3., was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Com pany's forces en the Bombay establishment. NOVEMI3EII 7, 1850. IiTAGAZINES, &e --{CON TIN UED.) DAVID COPPERFIELD. Nos. XIX. and XX. By Charles Dickens. Gratitude is our predominant feeling in regard to the author of this exquisite home story. Gratitude for those seeds of a pure and beautiful morality which he has sown broadcast in our hearts from the lavish hand of his other self—David Copperfield. On clos ing the last pages we find this sentiment welling up within us to the subordination of every other. Even our admiration at the genius displayed more or less throughout the whole of the autobiography becomes !merged into this one absorbing sense of gratitude. To speak less earnestly than this would be to violate some of the truest and noblest emotions we have ever experienced. So far from assuming any appearance of enthusiasm in writing as we do, were we to write otherwise we should be guilty of an affectation. Our whole nature has been so stirred during the perusal of the narrative, that it is impossible for us to dismiss the work with any more modulated tones of farewell. The creatures which the novelist has here summoned into existence are to us no mere imaginative abstractions,but beings upon whom we have come to look asupon our most intimate and familiar favourites. Old companions, sometimes dear and cherished friends, associated in our minds with all the incidents of that romantic history which is to us as actually realised at heart as our own lives, or as the lives of those around us—we cannot treat them as the ordinary creations of the novelist, and let them so depart from us with only words of formal approbation. Generally speaking this has ever been with ourselves in some measure the effect produced by all the higher masterpieces in this lovely department of literature. Like old Ebenezer Scrooge,we have believed so intensely in the world of Story, that we should scarcely have felt surprise at times if we had seen passing by outside our windows eteli Baba leading his mule, laden with faggots, by the bridle, or Sinbad the Sailor with his girdle filled with precious stones from the Valley of Diamonds, or poor Robinson Crusoe with his parrot on his shoulder, and Friday coming after him with his gun through the houghs of the plantation. With the characters drawn by Charles Dickens this intimacy is to us in many respects even more the case than with those of even the most illustrious of his predecessors. Whether it is that he has some new and astonishing faculty fur de picting imaginary beinga with an air of uncommon verisimilitude, or whether he infuses into them, as it were, some of the warm blood beating in his own good heart—however this be—we know, from a thou sand strange and brilliant recollections, that they are invested for us with a certain marvellous vitality. Whereas with most other writers of fiction, a fanciful personage, however brightly or vividly pourtrayed, is, after its fashion, like a figure in a painting, to be seen only from one point of view, with Dickens the creatures with which be has peopled the works of his are ; in a manner, like the forms wrought by the hand, ;of a sculptor—to be walkerround and eeeu from all.. directions. Added to the body and substances 3 these's farms, however, there are also many of the subtler attributes of humanity, together with the charms cf colouring and intelligence —colouring, too, be it observed, the most life-like, and intelligence the most individualized. So extraordinary, moreover, is the power thus exercised, that even the most eccentric emanations of our author's fancy are animated to the full as much with this tern- Vance of existence as the most homely and probable of hia characters. Insomuch, that after reading, for example, his exquisite story of the "Old Curiosity Shop" we seem to know as well as if we had been ac quainted with him for years that unnatural and fero cious little abortion, Quilp—quite as well, indeed, in every respect as the facetious Richard Swiveller, as good Mrs. Nubbles the washerwoman, as poor Kit himself, as the villanous attorney of Bevis Marks, as the self-willed pony Whisker, even as " sly little Barbara," or as the angel of that dream of trials and vicissitudes, poor angelic Nell. Another remarkable capacity displayed already very frequently by Charles Dickens is that of rendering the bad as real and veritable as the pure and excellent each one conveying his own moral as unostentatiously as some actual event of life, and yet as inevitably as a parable. It is thus that, in " Nicholas Nickleby," the same master-hand has drawn, with equal vigour and veracity, the despicable rascality of Squeers, the avarice of Gride, and the loquacity of Mrs. Nickleby, while its more genial efforts, in the same production, have proved not a jot less worthy of admiration. Among the latter none can easily forget the good-na .ture of Newman Noggs, in spite;of his red nose and his affection for the bottle, any more than they can lose a recollection of warm-hearted old Tint Linkinwater, or of his glorious employers—those avadevats of humanity—the brothers Cherryble. " Martin Chuz• zlewit," if possible, yet more strikingly revealed the scope of this admirable versatility in the genius of Dickens, seeing that such a lovely and love able character as that of dear old Tom Pinch came before us, in that fiction, cheek-by jowl with that unconscionable rogue Seth Pecksniff. Surprising, nevertheless, as are the qualities already particularized as conspicuous in the intellect of our great novelist, they are as nothing when compared with one not yet specified—we mean his intimate blending of the pathetic and the humorous. Were we called upon to decide as to which of these facul ties—the faculty of commanding our tears or our laughter—preponderated the one above the other, we should be fairly puzzled as to the preference. A genius which can create with equal facility the fat, old, gin-drinking, wheezy, nurse of the hospitals, who " sicks and monthlies" in turn, likes " the bottle on the chimbley-piece" to soothe her nerves when so " dispoged," and bewails, in her own peculiar dialect, the sorrows encountered by herself and Betsy Prig in "this Pilgiau's Projis of a mortal Wale"—a genius which can create with equal facility Mrs. Gamp and little Paul Dombey, mast surely be acknowledged to possess a strange and admirable mastery over all the variable chords of our nature, provoking at plea sure our appreciation of the comic, and melting us at will into sympathy with fictitious suffering. These are some among the many rare gifts united in the heart and intellect of Charles Dickens. These he has now employed with the most brilliant success in the happiest of all his inimitable fictions, the personal his tory of David Copperfield. Treasured favourites as his previous writings are and ever will be with ourselves, associated es some of them are with our dearest and sweetest recollections, the beat amongst them all must yield the palm to his last work, for his last work is his master-piece. In David Copperfield its author has vindicated yet more indubitably than ever his right to his immense and enviable popularity. Through his latest fiction he has peopled our home with " household words" more eerirablv than through the medium of his weekly miscellany. The characters crowded together in the tale he has just told are to us henceforth as " old familiar faces :" and formost among them the auto biographer himself, the most charming of all the heroes in the books of Dickens. In delineating the individual character of David Copperfield the author has adventured upon a labour (to him a labour of love) more daring in its way than that, to our recollection, ever before attempted by novelist — he has described the growth of a mind and the formation of a temperament literally from the first moment of consciousness up to the meridian of ripened manhood, a psychological achievement wortby of the profoundest admiration. Every secret phase in this character we become familiar with through the .con fessional of autobiography, so that our sympathy for the hero follows him vigilantly along all the varia tions of his fortune. Long before the close of the narrative he has grown from a kind of petted curiosity into the reader's intimate companion : so that we could call him by turns (but all times lovingly) by each of his many nicknames—" Brooks, of Sheffield" with Murdstone, " Daisy" with Steerforth, " Trot" w ith Aunt Betsey, " Mas'r Davy" with Ham, " Doady" with Dora, and " Trotwood" with Agnes. Linked with him in our affectionate interest come the better angels of his history. Associated with him, also, we can even look with half-forgiveness on the evil beings met with in his many vicissitudes. The solemnity of a great retribution, nobly and even wonderfully described, shields from unmeasured con demnation even the head of the chief offender, Steerforth. For his despicable servant Littimer, and for the yet more repulsive Uriah Beep, we entertain feelings of somewhat diminished loathing , now that we find them incarcerated in one of the model prisons, preparatory to their final transportation. The c h a pter in which we are introduced to them as Numbers Twenty- Seven and Twenty-Eight is a masterly . and crushing satire on that preposterous system of l solitary confine ment, against which the author has a read f y elsewhere his irony. battled with the trenchant weapon o Several of the minor personages of the story, although .. at the outset objects either of contempt . or suspicion, are reclaimed to our regard, and, in one or two in stances, drawn even within the . limits of a loving ad miration. The manner in which these changes are accomplished affords new evidence of the consummate skill of the novelist. Every one familiar with the pages of David Copperfield will remember how these alternations of opinion are developed; how Miss Mow cher, in defiance of her apparently dangerous " vole tility," comes forth like thrice refined gold out of the furnace of temptation ; how Mrs. Gutnmidge, forsaking her long habit of " worriting Dan'!" with his reminiscences of " the old 'on," proves the very stay and comfort of the Wanderer; how Martha becomes purified by her wo man's nature even in the midst of her unwomanly abandonment; and, above all, how Emily herself passes from the mother country with a redeeming sorrow at her heart, and shrinks for ever with a penitential sense of resignation into the solitudes of Australia. With out possessing any very peculiar appetite for ven geance, we must acknowledge, nevertheles., thrt we should marvellously have se joiced to hear that some vial of poetic justice had been poured out ou the head of Rota Dartle instead of leaving her in turns to a chide and console Mrs. Steerforth in her cottage at Highgate ; we should not have experienced much regret at learning that Mr. Jack Maldon had lost his Patent Place; neither should we have been over whelmed with sorrow if we bad learnt that some ter rible punishment had fallen upon the two cruel hearted Murdstoeer. It would seem, however, from the pervading gentleness of the closing instalment of David Copperfield, that the author looked back alto gether too lovingly upon the beings be had within its compass summoned from the ideal world into exis tence, to treat the worst amongst them otherwise than with an all -forgiving tenderness. Mr. Wilkins Alicawber, no longer looking .out for "something to turn up" in order to relieve himself from his " pecu niary liabilities," has flourished so well in his colonial residence that he can mix punch to his heart's content, and write letters by the quire or ream, while the partner of his bosom may entertain the natives with her memories of her papa and her mamma, or asto nish them with her thin singing of "Little Tsfflin." Annie, still exulting in the restoration of confidence between herself and her husband, sees dear old Doctor Strong advancing slowly as a tor toise in his Dictionary, but still, although as yet no farther than the letter D, believing confidently in its ultimate completion. Among the dead who are passed away, the heart reverts to each with a subdued but still surviving sympathy. Mr. Spenlow himself is not forgotten, with his well•starched neckcloth, compelling him to bow like Punch. Mr. Barkis seems even in the grave to remind us he was " vvillin' " when "it being low water be went out with the tide!" Clara still lives for us as the pretty widow of I3lunderstone Rookery, and, whatever Mr. Dickens may say to the contrary, we are persuaded that her dear old servant Peggotty has to this moment " cheeks and arms so hard and red," that, like David, we may yet "wander why the bii ds don't peck her in preference to apples." As to whether Julia Mills is unhappy in her wealthy alliance with the Indian Nabob, or as to whether Dr. Moll is potent at Port Middlebay, and Mr. Creakle as a magistrate in Pentonville, we confess ourselves to he, comparatively speaking, indifferent. But in other and dearer characters described in David Copperfield our interest remains bound up for ever as cordially as well can be imagined. Our hearts glow within us at the prosperity of dear old Traddles, who has pros pered at the bar beyond the expectation of the Gray's Inn Waiter, and who (better than all this) has married Sophie, " the dearest girl i❑ the world," the daughter of the poor Dorsetshire clergyman. Earnest too are our rejoicings at all the joys of Mr. Dick in his kite and his Memorial, and fully do we coincide with him in thinking Aunt Betsey Trotwood to be " the most extraordinary woman in the word." To us there is no more thoroughly delightful character among the many charming creations of the genius of Dickens than that of good Aunt Betsey Trotwood. But our disposition to ex patiate on these and other equally bewitching -feature*. of the work must cease ; the brief memo rial of ourgatitude totverds the writer of this exquisite and touching tale - mw.t, draw to its conclusion; We have spoken (each in turn) of the various creatures of the story who have influenced for good or ill the character of its hero, David Copperfield ; but hitherto, it may be seen, we have refrained from alludiag to the guardian angels of his destiny—to Dera and to Agnes. The omission was intentional. We would not by a single syllable mar for our readers the beauty and the sweetness of all that is here written of them both in this exquisite history of their husbarel, David Copperfield. The memory of the " chi'd wife" has been sanctified, as it were, by the recollection of our tears ; and the thought of Agnes, too, possesses for us somewhat of a sacred character. Closing the volume, therefore, with the sound of that last elequent and solemn sentence ringing in our cars—" 0 Agnes, 0 my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed ; so may I, when realities are melting from me like the shadows which .1 now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing up wards !"—we would blend a heart's Godspeed with the utterance of our Farewell. From the brief but ear nest preface to this last and sweetest of the home stories of Charles Dickens, we perceive that he him self, not less than his readers, looks eagerly forward to the time when, as of 013, he shall put forth each month his "two green leaves." How cordially we sympathise with this anticipation he himself may know from the sincere though inadequate tribute we have here offered to his masterpiece, David Copper field. HO US EHO LDWORDS. Vol. I. Conducted by Charles Dickens. A weekly journal, published under the direction of the most popular writer of the age, was certain from the first moment of its announcement to secure for itself a wide and permanent circulation. That cordial support it has received from its very numerous sub scribers during the lest seven months uninterruptedly, or rather we believe we should say increasingly, from the first morning of its appearance. Nur can we be surprised at the immense patronage accorded to Household Words, when we remember that its originator has the happiness to be regarded by thou sands and thousands of his fellow-creatures with an earnest and affectionate admiration. His rare and splendid genius has long secured to him self personally the regard of innumerable readers, who have found their appreciation of his great powers warmed into a sentiment of friendship. This, in all likelihood, is attributeable to the genial tone of his incomparable effusions, and to that gen tleness of feeling arising out of the depth and sweet ness of his sensibilities. Whatever the immediate reason may, or may not be, it is most certain that between Charles Dickens and his readers there exists a more intimate relation than exists in reference to any one of his contemporaries. Out of this well recognized communion of sympathies has come forth the instant popularity of the present cheap and excellent periodical—a popularity accorded to it at the outset purely in homage to the celebrity of its originator. More than this, however, must now be acknowledged in allusion to Household Words, a weekly journal of vigorously esta blished reputation. A first volume of no mean dimensions having been completed, we may consider ourselves justified in forming some estimate of the general merits and pervading character of the publi cation. A judgment upon the organ in its present stage of advancement can no longer be viewed as one pronounced ex pede Herculem. By this time, at any rate, we can recognise the proportions of our new contemporary, and comprehend, in some measure at least, its proposed tendency and disposition. Upon both we can speak in terms of altogether unqualified approbation—upon the tendency as calculated to be eminently instructive and beneficial, upon the dis position as one singularly cheerful and exhilarating. Throughout the whole of the papers there can be readily detected a wholesome leaven—the leaven of the genius of Dickens, a genius always prone to inculcate the loftiest truths under the most attrac tive garb imaginable. A new style of composition in one respect has been contrived in the pages of Household Words, a style so vivid, so graphic, so in tensely, and yet so truthfully coloured, so judici ously, and yet picturesquely descriptive, that within the compass of a brief essay the intricacies of a huge and complicated establishment are most lucidly re duced to comprehension, and the details of a chemical or mechanical process of manufacture given with the happiest attention to their sequence and relationship. Instances of this kind might be adduced from this single volume capable of suggesting materials for a dozen different periodicals. Take for example the masterly account given of the postal system in the paper entitled " Valentine's Day at the Post-office," a paper which formed the hint upon which Sir Francis B. Head penned his more elaborate article for the Quarterly. Take again, the chapter headed " Pet Prisoners," which Mr. Dickens has very re cently worked out yet more brilliantly in the closing number of David Coppeifield. Then, in like manner, " The Fire Brigade of London" fur nishes at once the most practical exposition of the working of that remarkable corp of public servants and the most astonishingly accurate description of a fire in the metropolis that we can anywhere call to our recollection. Similar in manner, but yet more ad mirable in its completeness, is the narrative given of the greatest of our astronomical observatories, in an inimitable contribution entitled " The Planet Watchers of Greenwich." Now we are introduced with the same sense of all-embracing reality into the " Pauper Palace," now again we enter the precincts of a" Paper Mill," everywhere charmed with the style of the writer, and everywhere deriving from his slightest syllable some grain of good and useful knowledge. Mingled with these delightful papers are humorous effusions, such as the hand of " Boz" alone in all the world could produce—such matchless passages of satire and wit as those presumed to come directly from the "Raven of the Happy Family." Besides which we obtain from Mr. Dickens himself some of bin own personal expe riences, as in the instance of the " Begging Letter impostor." Simple and entertaining stories, such as " Lizzie Leigh," or " Little Mary ;" eurprising ec centricities like the " Visit to Skitsland" ; scientific articles rendered comprehensible to the most unscien• title, articles to wit such as the one on the " Chemistry of a Candle," make up, with miscellaneous contribu tions of the most varied kind, the bulk of the whole publication. Sprinkled among these prose portions of Household Words are poetical fragments, in some instances worthy of being classified under that phrase of Shakspere ; an assertion which may in some degree be credited when we observe that gossip has affixed one sonnet on Mr. Justice Talfourd, and when we remark that in one or two other cases we have fancied we could detect the exquisite tones of the voice of Tennyson. With such materials for the contents, we cannot be surprised that Household Words has main tained the popularity originally accorded to it purely for the sake of Charles Dickens, and .looking back upon what has already been accomplished,, we feel eery confidence in its sustaining its reputation. :. I_ COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE. The paper on the military tribes of Central Asia, which appears in the United Service for the present month, treats of matters of the very highest political importance. The writer, who is evidently well acquainted with his subject, exposes the intrigues o f Russia, followed up now perseveringly for more than a century, to obtain, by force or fraud, dominion over the military tribes of Central Asia, for the purpose of opening for herself a route to India, the Sovereigns ot Russia looking to Calcutta for a repayment of these advances. At the present day Asia swarms with Russian emissaries—they were in Affghariitan and in Sinde, exciting the people to destroy the British, they are in the Punjaub and in India. The military tribes of Central Asia abhor the Russians, and by extending our frontier to the Hindoo Koosh we should come in immediate contact with those tribes who are disposed to be friends and al lies of the British. Already have we advanced our frontier to the Khyber Pass, our safety requires tbat we should have the command of that pass and of Affghanistan ; we have twice conquered that country, and but for faults the most glaring should have held it. The Punjaub and Sinde are now ours, and we therefore have that which we bad not at the time of Elphinstone's disastrous retreat from Caubul, a basis for our military operations in Affghanistan, and the means of keeping open our communications ; and while our possession of Caubul, Kandahar, and Herat would open to us the markets of Central Asia, we should obtain recruits for our Indian army from the hardy military tribes which inhabit that vast region, and whose hatred of Russia is in tense. Such is the policy advocated by the writer of this paper, a policy well worthy the consideration of those to whom are confided the future destinies of our Indian empire. The opening paper of the United Service recommends the institution of a British Le gion of Honour, and we certainly concur in the re commendation ; we would have no distinction in the order. Those who had won it, whether privates or officers, should be alike decorated with the simple iron cross as recommended by this writer, and we would add, that every member of the legion should ipso facto be enfranchised, and entitled to vote iu Parliamentary elections in any borough or county in which he might chance to reside, on merely register ing himself, without being subjected to the operation of the rate-paying clauses ot the Reform Act, as other voters are. There are several professional papers of a high order of merit in the United Service Magazine for November. THE GENTLEMAN'S. Sylvania Urban takes the Edinburgh reviewer to task for his recent defence of M. Panizzi's method of cataloguing the British Museum Library, and, after having read both articles, we cannot but admit that Sylvanus bath the best of the argument, and has put both M. Panizzi and his defender completely hors de combat. The interesting diary of the Earl of Egmont is continued, and in the present instalment we have a report of the debate in the House of Com mons, on the 31st January, 1728.9, cn the motion for continuing the same number of laud forces as the pre •yious year, and which soon became a debate on the whole of the Ministerial policy, foreign and domestic, in which the Pulteneys (Daniel and William), the Walpoles'(Sir Robert and Horace). " down-right Shippen," as Pope calls him, and all the Pa►liamentary celebrities of the day, took part. We rise from the perusal of this etk.bute with a much higher opinion of the abilities of Sir Robzrt Walpole as a debater, a logician, and a statesman than we had previously entertained. We have also in this number some original letters of Bishop Bedell, au interesting Biography of Andr6 Chenier, and several communications on antiquarian matters. The number is illustrated by a portrait of the late Mr. Thomas Dud, the most learned print collector that ever lived, of whom we have a copious biography, and by views of Clare Castle, St. Julian's, Norwich, and other examples of Gothic architecture. THE NAUTICAL. In the Nautical Magazine for November there is to be found, in addition to much useful information on nautical sajects generally, the most full and accurate account that has yet appeared of the proceedings of the recent Arctic expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin. It is illustrated by a lithographic chart of Barrow Strait, Prince Regent's Inlet, &c. TAIT'S. Tail's opens with a very interesting article, " Notes of a Traveller." occasioned by Mr. Laing's " Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People, in 1848 and 1849." The principal subject of this article is the somewhat complicated question of the law of primogeniture, versus territo rial division. The ill effects of peasant proprietor ship, and the minute division of land, when carried to an extreme, are contrasted with the good results of the system, in a prima facie view. From a table of figures, given in the course of these observations, it is shown that in England forty per cent. of the revenue is raised by Customs duties ; in Prussia, twenty per cent. ; and in France, twelve. Equally worthy of consideration is the concluding article of Tait's, " Colds and Cold Water." In a smart and lively strain the writer laments the depressing influence of cold, bewailing the many great works and noble actions prevented or marred by the evil agency of " a cold ;" as the best preservative against which " cold water" is commended, a simple, in expensive, and easily attainable remedy. An interest ing story, " Sinners and Sufferers," commences in this number. THE CATHOLIC. After an interesting chapter on the "Religion of. Byron," in which the justice of Sir Walter Scott's remark about the great poet—" I thought he would end by becoming a Catholic"—is argued by the con tributor, we have a continuation of •' Martha Baliol's Diary," and the completion of the " Recollections of Bishop Baines." In the last-mentioned article we find the subjoined statement, one which will be read with curiosity by the almost numberless admirers of the author of the "Irish Melodies :" —" One assurance which Dr. Baines gives me at this time must be interesting to very many. We were speak ing of Tom Moore, the poet, whom all the world may not know to have been born and bred a Catholic; but some of whose publications all the world unfortunately does know to be inconsistent with the dictates of religion: Ob, he is a good boy now,' exclaimed the Bishop in reply to some observation of mine; • he is a good boy now: I have been with him, and he is all right'—giving me to understand that he bad fulfilled his religious du ties by confession and holy communion. This assurance may be a comfort to many who lament over his present sad bereavement and ina bility to atone for the past." The •` Verses for the Month" are taken from a vo lume of Church hymns, rendered into English by Mr. Beste. The fc.,:c ign correspondeLce in ibis num ber of the Catholic Magazine and Register will be found more than usually attractive, containing a great variety of documents relating to the late appointment of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. The People's Journal abounds in agreeable tales and interesting sketches. In the present number are two criticisms by Parson Frank on George Prince Regent James and William Makepeace Thackeray. The latter is an able and earnest eulogium ; but we cannct quite coincide with the opening remarks of the former article, where, among other things, we find one of the greatest writers of our day spoken of as "the Pelham Baronet." One of the most inter esting contributions to this number consists of two chapters of " 'Wanderings and Ponderings," bearing the initials "E. L. B. They record a "Flight through the Factories of Manchester," and are filled with useful pieces of information, enlivened with amusing remarks. A visit to an umbrella factory affords a happy specimen of these two characteristics : —" Everybody has heard and many know from ex perience that at Manchester it is always raining ; but few perhaps are aware that the balance of compen sation is tolerably well preserved by Manchester making umbrellas for the rest of the world. We paid a visit to one of these factories, where upwards of five hundred hands are constantly employed making umbrellas for other hands to hold. From this esta blishment an umbrella has been turned cut complete every minute for the last ten years?' On considering this fact, and remembering that there are several other factories in Manchester alone, no wonder the writer adds—" We may begin to associate another marvel with the celebrated problem of the pins, and wonder what becomes of all the old umbrellas." We are also informed that " a periodical fluctuation go verns the statistics of the umbrella market to an ex tent that would puzzle a political economist to ac count for. For one series of years the rage is for the round knobs, and then for the next the hook han dles are alone considered saleable. The reiralar, re currence of these two periods and their unvarying duration form, of course, the most singular part of the subject, as there is no palpable reason for,this alterna tion of choice." The observant traveller was grati fied with the apparent comfort of the operatives em ployed in this manufacture. On hearing that many of them had savings in the bank—an unusual cir cumstance among people of their class—he remarks that " possibly the suggestive nature of their employ ment may have thus advantageously led them to pro vide against ' a rainy day.'" A MAN BURNED TO DRATI-I,—ON Thursday last Mr. Herford, borough coroner, held an inquest at the Royal Infirmary on the body of a man named Samuel Siddall, 22 years of age, a warp-sizer, living at Illackley. It appeared that about a month age the deceased's sister was stitching bandages on his knees - , and baying no scissors to cut the thread with; she put a lighted candle to it to burn it. This set the bandages, which had been steeped in turpentine, on fire, and the deceased was soon enveloped in flames. H e jumped out of bed, and ran into another room, where the games were extinguished by his father. He was much burned about the legs and was taken to the Infirmary, where he died yesterday week from the Effects of the injuries. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental deatb."—/Ifanchester Guardian,