The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-03 00:00:00

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Commissioner FONBEANQUE.) IN . RE CAROLINE BARRETT. Ti t - • muss t e at oxford, l'r ea llo was a married woman, and teacher of n,-.4er of a ___ . me character.o for her final order. The case was P :pth. I 1 el erreco t a i unitintyfegrg : aa n on g i tuifnol Protection,arr atth the insolventea red ,‘ o , n as t confined rsta in - ,ber separate debts, and some delay oc otientlelmient, whih. per protection, in consequence of her r i the ec nrt, b 14.1 custody. Her husband had also peti er ‘ l 'ent could com b's case was adjourned until the present titted%r. affairs, it e forward to make a disclosure .then appeared that she was en the " Propert 4. affai rs, hoYwhich she . valued at about 4,0001. ; 100/scree thater, w ere in Chancery, but under t ett i Per a lthorn " Court site had an allowance of ,_ ta lent _„, ~ and after the decree she married, making a nstee ,`,n lite whole of the amount her husband, as is th e ‘, oelialf o f . They on t i ti , alta wane ,, __ .. any issue. L . hey had themselves lived Ai: , atid hoth9lll7llt3hout providing for the payment of the 3 / 4 4 41 , 61 that the allow 0 and and wife were arrested. It was tlttit.tattd,o weboombeeeaurriaa:ee must be considered to fall to the tat e ld before iname liable for the debts of his wife con l. coupe Coeintinteoteotuolvtintnnamviessioner, e, and that the wife was not en hed,Lcarnea P ,to claim the benefit of the Act. not b e however, held that if the relieved from prison, she been placed there. She was te - t ;to co me m l . as a trader, and as a trader she was en te44ll,l Prot„ati?' eshud' therefore, grant the interim t;th,,. li te tb„ tonhen her agreeing to do all in her power i4cloitteti"o'n spplieation of herproperty in expectancy to Iltaii te be clear s h e debts, but a difficurty arose, as it was thi s vst th e *ce could not make such a transfer as would ta t4 ,_, it wo,.;Propeity in the official assignee, and even )4 t r . l t, bill o r' be. necessary to file another supple -44,,,, alt of ,revisor, to make all persons interested Ttere w er ga a bill had been recently filed, rn atgetteue about being brought to a close after twenty ,!t e t : 4 11 1 ; 4 1d b e -siettwas tbereupon proposed that 30/. of t . he '-ita tt übe eet as . apart if the trusts of the deed of sett e- sett %tact ha tide so far, and the decision was postponed le thetemerit re and extent of the proprrty and trusts l'h % .rti as th c 'sid be ascertained, and legal opinion could tbi t 4 4- et% were ' too r • I eat h no Precedents. lb Nil had hot handed in part of the documents till to % 04 0 I. . 11 q th e 14 114 1 1 44 ath ot, , Y Were very lengthy. NveetTliitrgraetrwever, was withdrawn, the Learned Mt, (alleleetethe final order, on condition that the "littb b t l ate an assignment and pay 30/. a•y ear. liA i dit --- ~,,- -___ 4 4.70 ,, - .Es p o r : r THE HIGH SEAS. —1 14 1) b ; 4 °E COURT.—(THIS DAY.) 4A,i ----- " 1 "--- r T eilb lINATION OF CAPTAIN JOHN kilelf.Ltile p t ,.,,• STONE. ofttS beep t ., 1 41 - c re ae 0. : , ,.e , Captain Johnstone, was brought up ia r ,"t te at i: iiiot t o t ''oeli, for further examination; . and it 11: vrite„ u " e t 8e necessary to take additional evidence A t ti l 7 3l ‘lre P , D° „ r t of the charge of murder, the follow o"°41 - "' L ed, Mainly relating to the death of 1 th lt. i ts * S Penee. er' ili ki t ti:senga'gtexdslnined—l made the entries in the log 4t• tees Pttri e „ lo do that. from the 22d of Setemer. kidilitirtalo. iheentiirely under the dictation and direction 42. Slide th e ° g-book now produced is the one in ode otkaionathentries. - ", ; 4 , I. l %hieh ren requested the witness to turn to the o l t -N e- - ',„ B °O. we, Made the entry of the deaths of Mars t 4 t 4 2;:, s de th e loaess did. so, and in continuation It i 'lis, b % of o: t a t,_ l lof the death of Reason, as here written, Ih t tnel p: heti 1 e a : 4 er. I wrote it at the dictation of the il a ,?•b oe - 704 b ed l.le !tit° the cabin, he told me h .n htN,to th at " i ed In a fit, and that I was to note it 1 e.. 44 t0 tue 257h effe ct• I made an entry of thede b ath th o e f to ipt A i , t tlter t h of October. I was instructed y L hi t 0 8 at Afars had been murdered by the crew. 'li7 4(4, 1 Sta e t ed i\l3 ' nhat they (the crew) had put an end tkths eh ltli e „ l a Iny previous examination that I had it, „'4,tah t :'4„ the a c f • nv i )t ,ein to take the evidence of the men. SO, b u i ., sua f„:"' t 'eCeml3er. I went to do so in the lar ilt,lthe-k_tile ea n "," ll .t l ta Man there. I don't recollect who I ti : is ,'oiqi n r' a ill Was not present. I was called out of Ic h. t el tadpiee:er to take the evidence. The man who first n'lrk t `"e pa"'!" r erY nervous and excited, and I was re it4ltetly 4 ao one theular notice of what the men had to say. t ket i , k liti f nett i l :: ll led where I was at the' time. I cannot_ titt4le e l'elli gc atlY one was armed on deck. I tool. krePtir t % q t .: a or aix of the crew. remembercame in sepa -11, Mb !et et'ir statements I don't seeing kttkitA`ah.emetlYaPftar_t of the time.. The statements were kty i k 'Att;iwid ,i o ,er they were written down. I can only tit ee 4__lhet tuistone told me to take my time and be I tst, t ,. i tletZ t 7 to % al ight be said. I would wish still further to 4 ki'd 4 '''' tit( e; to that the captain after these t i o ell ' e ta ti :4 eizalti_the habit of calling me into his own re ‘lh to to mimes daily to read over the entries ili4thkly,a(gre.,yrl'ect them, and to make he ad ca ditions tie iit ,lit ~,,It 4:4_,, Written at his direction. T . tain, op, o p th;;_utetate all the entries I made in the ) log . - p op, c that had relation to the disturbances in 11l e N e ese tklNLeeofst,tpsthailled, and deposed—l was put in irons , t het i Ltee, tal,tlt"cer by the orders of Captain Johnstone. :thla of R. 7 ew e as Reason were also put in irons at the On k,satet-,Ptemis_e confined on the main hatchway. h I ~ et hips after eight o'clock in the evening, we e hi of Zit h'e'D'a inizen top. While there, during th .. e llth e iti % ship hem cut Rambert, who was chief ' c l , l4l44 t :ever a i He cut him with a cutlass on . his I.l t,, ih t. tit 's. 44l, ,,colt ° P l aces. Rambert was at the time 4Li _ l 4 4 14 ' A tt 'hi 4 ‘„,-' th e Tory. Rambert was in handcuffs V 4 ‘4, ' 4 4 Altel " a a , I think, before twelve o'clock at gilt, ti ta e !tlize e :: , 0 o'clock the master locked me in double h °ll thi .g tio l a : 44,1 3. Ile was quite sober at the time. He iAt ti Naft,,lL Places over the body and on my head. tl er k lit 4 44 l °P. a nd pain. I lay for some time senseless . Ll4e a fle e k glie k , rola four o'clock in the morning, as II his-N,Ote ' p s aw the captain running about the ztqle,ed i - sot t., !) e t rt l:a .. ll2b . ert with_ a . c . utlass in his hand. %';' t4.444(1"010tt was been in the mizen-top, and showed He was t t,,Z,C,!llfed . "as cut open in several places. k‘t irt, e ,be tt „,At the time after when I saw the Ca- t ,SoiQtlie l a TrUt the quarter . - deck, the latter jumped te t t, tie .-."---„_ 11(72rd-quarter side. . 1 1, }7 . ttilitittet:Mttite:d e ir er ne ? ar was the captain to Rambert. at itilt, It ta l 11,; .. e, th e .u1433 inThhieswhiatnned.ss—TAhbeosuhti ship was s ) 1 e, t ,,1 VI ,7toli„ - ,_'Ml, with the sails square. We did not then d -, rer o - 40,•et0, r -,‘ ,, , the h'e officer up, nor was there any Let" 011 & a lt er ," t Sr, er t: him. . The ship was luffed too a t 1 hCitk at thtne weather course again. There were (1) 1 t : l ati ot aisl es e time besides the captain, but I did not 1 . t kketwh a e es e,, ngers. We saw a ship shortly after, -.4 1 , b --4ti on •.er it was the same day. C Ts. - W aa proceeding when our report left.) t ,l ~, .*T4II D E R. - -..ll t r i'Wbb,_ It AT NEWINGTON. t: th, - .N.,.. , g ~i k RIS DAY.) OI v t 'llChnhi "en o'clock, Mr. W. Carter and a jury - "'t, f,„s, alg t r ?; St the Peacock Inn, High-street, New- . tl Lle t , „ e r e ' % , ,,b0 : e teath of Daniel Fit zgerald, aged forty , I tiag°l',' was Murdered on the evening of Thursday i lli ki N ti it e Pow t tili lti k i r fidence was adduced :- 4 % ts..qtte t : it tliat 4 _ 41, of No. 4 . , Agnes-street, Whateerlsoaow 00elip,r the evening of Thurs_ay n.n . on- Otiio he iZt l ng along the east end of Ken igt ; 404 t r t 7, a t - t Tu eth Police-court. He passed witness p ; % 1 4 i',), 'l.,' t m , !,veral persons were running after and ''',,ia:'" t e 'ati thveunn." Witness caught hold of him, tt ,lta r ,,to tii !o." IT U) the station-house; that is where I tk"%,ll„' l tt eclist m -e Was taken t the station-house, and '4'4 '"Yer -'' (4. the r• o 4 44 N 4 tf til 4t 4 , ltnrin., at 2 the n$ Z i oo .l ( B e , 'Peacock-street, Newing tiOort%aver„ki%llrer,;.°Yening in question she was passing . itiehN 4 l th 'lon, ;;;,, I n Peacock -street, and saw two per 4. o f )4 3 , 1 Viti 1 .... - "`' one &chart distance from them,. by I ,ZI t ht ak 'ges s h'" believed was Quennell. Immediately 3.tos, 4 t11 4 ,2 11 1'5. il al l the report of a pistol, and saw .t a . kciiii:rda io- e „,,,,, rent came out with a light, and wi ii li i t i l l tha t e l 4 411 1 4 1 1:; that „, Fitzgerald was shot. Quenne agilet - th e „c4neti ",,L , and was subsequently captured. 'et%rs,"'kea'"ilder of Lower Kennington-lane, i lei lit tA lta3 a bri e r ti had been in his employ for nearly t i , o. t ie ;4, l ,: , ,rt er te a /tr. lie left work on Thursday even -1,44411 et:cd lli, vs O'clock. A few minutes after one kl i 41,1) , te r ;,,' by sea'arthY, informed witness that deceased t? CP habit ! t lway s n tn ael Quennell. The deceased and 1 / 4 4 t i l t t r .,_4,0f l a - py "! 1 the best terms, and were occasion. , r,:t ),,,toki ',the h ,"lng, but never injured each other. ' tto '''gs ' 4 ' 10.1.4 M Qlsennell was not discharged, but , t t ie ei _ l soti tt jag 81; ( ust for employment els were as the ' leL i llii: % tob e l e a t hm.'" He called several times but made no 1 4 1 41 (1414tithql' the ts L4(l xaei tt ; 4l y, a t Z t ie of the last witness, confirmed the 4.7iet i lpe .111rit, ad ded that on Saturdaywe'll m ,when IT; l st il lt a t - I P lli c k i tu sg %Ap o , l i t toldv r a ogxe , r. wit h ie e ss sa •,,,Z. tqpt,h,r. itt.4t, who had caused him to speak i t b il e t tha s t s i ,r7lte4 14 411..aint th'ltsgerald had urged him on to do so. Nia l ts P e ,` - 'L th e at WaS no excuse. He turned away, c,i 1 3 %14 , 4 4, of Iciolintng-house, much affected. t4 4 14t4 11 quern° . 34, Ti verton -street, Walworth, proved ‘, tit, 04 T elti og ell a p i ste ,. l'll,:tp%lothiniturscia.:3,t; Am elia-place, deposed to serving Ot;,ilep_ .t lY e j witeL 4 t, with a pennyworth of gunpowder. e ltt 11,fic,ltoz,tlifireleZ'rta were examined, but their evidence t , / L:111 k t :t Bap ie( Y i Of the above. s iS a i ll ad e v t( ler " na gs .P, and the jury returned a verdict , ~o rte r an en amel Samuel Quennell ; and the Co r I Ite l to pr ose t e _w_ e ltness es to appear at the Central 4 414 4 4 h ut 1: % 1t., i. toi n t 't.__________-------„ t.e`, at' i ' l t i ' ao t i ll t yaifw":: T ri s -- -We understand that the Y4iN lir a Itap, ompany and the Tunbridge, o %I: 4 0t • ri the d e 'YvaY Company have returned t th-t,itt dolt pi a posit:Posits paid by them, as the Corn -41:it:e:I C o le igh' ' °ll to go to l'arliament at present. oih e MalitteeY honourable to the members of the b , an t eS txth...l i ' r thew Companies, and we trust ijjklit' L t OP„ato` - pi e 7" similarly sieuated will follow so 41 1 ) N° tt ~ r,A ttr • 0 Z t% o l : tht t,, t uulla ell'arr PExcEa.—The will of the late 4, -0 7qvithi h i 't Pre,,, w. Earl Spencer, has been proved by otklor,,'• 4:' the province''-- the sole executor; the personal F' Ot ! Itt 14 LOrd s of Canterbur was sworn under . 40 t 1 4,,..,. fret', uip has devised,and appointed all his tl,„ , ch„s - ua to, void, eop‘to, lil la 'le with t he th e and i ork, to his brother, the present htl4,%kooe `u.the form. Frederick Spencer), subject and 441174 ft ,ratieti °f aYment of the legacies and annuities, q to 'io th, itevearnY mortgages or other incumbrancea. ii d Christopher Nevill, and to his t0 4 k 4 ;, i4 41.0 4 : Is 'evill, 1 ,,N i' Of 1 - ) an a n , ( I' , 10 ,000/. each. To Dr. Loudon, tei i 4 ~000, nay of 1 00/. To his bailiff, John lUD, 4 ot to tin '' and all h oh 1 ,, Pte,,, e Rham s h i t e short-horned cattle on the ktt„,,•lit ot , rN, lithe h _'e, or 2,000/., should the present Earl N t -_ , t , !le ,•_s h aiti ',e:d and ••• to retain the same ; and to :IN . 4 '! high l6 :t3' of 2, ,,,L, n his to retain estates, he t,,, , , 44 I, 4!..aule„'"-&n• Liberal annuities to his principal Ber th l ee et g , tel e , t ", gatnekeeer, ~e II ; IN °eth er _„ his , gardener, butler, and ennui t'ilt, :3ht R ona l r ea and ", servants, male and female. The e, ht with Frederick Personal estate he leaves to his brother, NI c 't - 4 todi ' tl , l c 1 41 ili a ell ' W a B Mad • Iv I ho st of 4 B ate at 41.,_ o e r in the year 1840. He latterly tr zh o ; Ov t : t tober tast:lia...epi 6 N 3 o rthamptonshire, and died 6'l" ' th % V I - i % ho AZ " ) MA11, 6 —.NV . It 4 Neit, ow acti vel „ e • e understand that Mr. ,Q 144 , laci th ,,ynt e as i . l _ ng?ged in preparing for six trials ;IN . ' r c. Aa soe``. a rnee._'g a Na time against that by Mar ,,,tti option willing of the London, East India, and take Place, in order that the u ix b z o n n th ui s:u su s b u i m ee m t summer iN:hteif4Z(3ti. ..stititel,l'ertri:_aiiret?"tlYellna,olBflaY43.t_hereethitT"'Yti ti?iaeeaskite route. rntly drawn attention viz., the ittic47,Z.l.l,°,l4at:see,llll,alivrele a so l T ' o f: vr E e '4 lIISANCE.--The nuisance to s e P a :hrough the 64111y -holes tl e '4l e7 ll " de l i, lengt weekng general notice. The Ok t t ir l ; tl : ll :it tn :P:l h ai i e s t: t u g n i d t e e l:: ttPasttiniseshc ompeenreedptahretiireacloalrulmy ewers. The cleansin of the surfa n c e e seat 9 o f l i ro v t ette, e en v e 4.,,, eof at I. 4 , 'ettat: n ati us e , Iv se _far as public health Ts concerned, will d by the subsoil—, n V,ll,4l_lltly i nfect :llle the atMospher! Builder.ean be thoroughly 4 11 kQt, of ' -, Le4 tT 13 grove, has bectaeathed the handsome Society of St eel ' i l Of knfalllbor B(tuEsTs• The latel. Phi lanthropi c k .0/ . ,_ well airs. Ann ittett, The i" th e Do i am the ate R ev. w . ir George's 'l4 a suns of „ L __ i lam Wenthorpe he • tint isi 1,744.1. l and the late BUS. El. 5 also be eanor Smith :.,"`"~. _ --~_ THE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1845.. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DEC.'2. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 14 p.—Cambridge and Lincoln, 13 p.—Chester and Birkenhead, 45—Ditto, New 201. Shares, par—Clydes dale Junction, 12 p.—Derby and Crewe, 2% p.—Eastern Counties, 18%—Grand Junction, 2261 / 2—Ditto ' 401. Shares M.), 49 1 , 1 p.—Grand Union, % dis.—Great Grimsby and Quarter Shares, 1% p.—Grcat Western, 61—Hud dersfield Canal and Railway, 3 p.—Leicester and Bedford, par—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 1 p.—London and Birmingham, 210—Ditto, Fifth Shares, 19—Manchester and Birmingham, 70 ex n.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 6 5 A p.—Man chester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 14s. p.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 10 p.—Midland, 140—Ditto, 401. Shares, 12 p.—Northumberland and Lancashire , 17 s. dis. — North Union (A), 205—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—Sheffield and Manchester, :Quarter Shares, No. 2, 5 p.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3 (scrip), 2 3 1 4—South -Eastern and Dover, Con solidated Thirds, Half Shares, 1 p.—West Riding Union, 3% p.—York and Carlisle, 7s. 6d. p.—Dutch Rhenish, p. MANCHESTER, DEc. 2. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 5 1 ,4—Blackbum, Chorley, and Liverpool, 21—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 8 1 4—Clitheroe Junc tion, 4% —Edinburgh and Glasgow, 65—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 445. 6d.—Huddersfield and Manchester Rail way and Canal, 5 3 / 4 —Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 495. 6d.—Leicester and Tamworth, 42s.—Liverpool and Bury, 25 c. n.—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 2—Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston, 41/ 2 —London and Windsor, 16s. 3d.—Lynn and Dereh am, s—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, 11— Dit to, ditto, 8 4—Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1 1 4—Manchester and Bury Atmos pheric, 21s.—North Staffordshire, 5/. 7s.—Nottingham and Mansfield, 2% —Nottingham, Boston, and Grantham, 3% — Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 15—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No. 3, 5% —Shrewsbury and Binning ham, 3—West Lancashire Coast, 225. —West Riding Union, 6. LEEDS, DEC. 2. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, B—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 3—Ditto, Docks, 5 Huddersfield and Sh effield, 19 c. n.—Leeds and Bradford Ex tensions, 12%—Leeds and Thirsk, 9—Newcastle and Ber wick, 8 1 / c.—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 14— Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, par—Sheffield and Lin coln, 2%—London and York (Bawtry), 2—West Riding Union, 5 3 / 4 —Grand Union, 3s. 6d. dis.—Great Eastern and Western, 10 dis.—Leicester and Bedford, 3s. 6d. p.—Liver pool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 15s. p.—Man chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2% p.—Northum berland and Lancashire Junction, 3s. dis.—North Western, 2 %—Nottingham and Boston, ss. p,—Wakefield and Harro gate, 3s. 6d. p.—Welsh Midlands, ss. dis. lIU LL, DEC. 2. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Hull and Selby, Half Shares, 17 1 4 —Cambridge and Lincoln, 2% —Coventry, Nun eaton, &c., 1 1 /—South Midland, 41. 2s. HUDDERSFIELD, DEc. 2. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Huddersfield and Man chester, 6A—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 21 . 8 s. — West Riding Union, 5!! Grand Union, 255. 6d.—North Western, 2. SHEFFIELD, DEC. 2. STOCK EXCH./4 NGE.—The sales are—Manchester and Leeds, 140 1 / 2 —Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No, 3., 5 1 4 3 —Grand Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 1 1 ,4—London and York, 3 IA —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 21. 14s.—South Mid land, 3 1 / 2 —Wakefield and Harrogate, 3s. 6d. p. YORK, DEC. 2. STOCK EXCIIINGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Dar lington, 49—Ditto, Brandling, 3e, —York and North Mid land Extension, 23—Newcastle and Berwick, 91/2—Lanca shire and North Yorkshire, 21. 2s.—Leicester and Bedford, 1 1 4—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 41. 18 5 .9 d. —North Kent and Direct Dover, 2 1 / 2 —North Western, 2 1 4 — Welsh Midland, .2. BRISTOL, DEC. 2. _ _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, 79—Ditto, New, 41. 18s. 9d.—Caledonian, 12 1 4—Midland, New, 18 1 ,4—South Devon, 27%. GLASGOW, DEC. 1. STOCIe EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bathgate, 451.—British and Irish Union, 60s. —Caledonian Extension, 495.—Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 34s.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction, 45s.—Dundee and Forfar Junction, 475. 6d.—East of Fife, 42s.—Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 18s.—Glasgow and Belfast Union, 408. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, New, 17.—Glasgow, Kil marnock, and Ardrossan, 525. 6d.—Lanark and Lothians, 50s. —Lanarkshire and Galloway Junction, 495. 6d.—Lesmaha gaw, 50s.—Paisley, Barrhead, and Hurlet, 3—Scottish Cen tral and Caledonian Junction, 34s.—South Midland, 80s.— Wishaw and Coltness, 50s. IRELAND. THE POTATO DISEASE. DUBLIN, DEC. I.—The accounts brought by the latest pro vincial journals are, in the aggregate, by far the most favour able that have been received since the first appearance of the distemper, and the opinion is daily gaining ground " that the injury sustained will prove to be very short of what was ap prehended, and the great alarm and excitement created con siderably exaggerated, and in many instances for interested purposes." Such is the view now entertained of the subject by a Repeal paper (the Cork Reporter), and having made the candid admission that the panic was kept up, if not created, for an "interested purpose," it will scarcely answer hereafter to charge those who, from the outset, were inclined to take a less gloomy view of the prospect, with being actuated by factious motives in their opposition to the reiterated cry of impend ing famine. There is a wide difference between actual star vation and temporary scarcity—the latter being of itself an evil of sufficient magnitude to justify the precaution of any Government sincerely disposed to take measures for avert ing what, in Ireland, must be regarded as a national ca lamity. The reports from Cork, Kerry, Wexford, and some districts of the north, all speak of the gradual subsidence of the disease which, from whatever cause, appears to have re ceived a decided check ; and there is every hope that from the great abundance of the crop, and admitting that the average loss all over the kingdom would amount to one fourth of the whole, enough will remain to preclude the pos sibility of an actual dearth of this essential article of food. Several other provincial papers have given less favourable accounts. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The usual weekly meeting of the members of this body was held to day at one o'clock, in the Conciliation-hall, and was rather thinly attended. Mr. O'Connell, who was at a meeting of the Corporation at an early hour, made his ap pearance in his aldermanic robes and cocked hat, and was accompanied by Mr. O'Brien, M.P., Mr. J. O'Connell, M.P., and several of the less prominent members of the Committee. Upon the motion of the Learned Gentlemun, the chair was taken by Mr. Richard A. Fitzgerald, M.P. for the county of Tipperary. The CHAIRMAN briefly addressed the meeting, and handed in 21. as his own subscription and that of his infant son, for the present year. He said, that since he last had the honour of attending in his place in that Hall, he had travelled over a great part of Europe, and he was happy at being enabled to state that there was a strong feeling in favour of the struggle Irishmen were making to restore to their country her Parliament; while, at the game time, he never heard anything urged which did not fully bear out the doctrine preached by their great leader—" peace and perseverance."—(Hear, hear.) The Learned Gentleman having in very warm language expressed the indignation he felt, as a Roman Catholic, at being obliged to take the oaths put to Members of his religion upon taking their seats in the British Senate, went on to say, that he felt some difficulty on his way home to decide as to whether he should remain in London and watch the proceedings of the Legislature upon Irish affairs, without meddling in anything English, or come home and take his place in the Conciliation-hall, the repre sentative assembly of Ireland.—(Choers.) His decision was, however, in favour of Ireland. He was a peaceful agitator; yet, if the necessity arose for it, his arm would not be want ing to protect his fellow-countrymen from unjust oppression and tyranny.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'CONNELL said, he was deeply affected at being obliged, in the discharge of his duty, to announce the death of his Hon. Friend Mr. Hutchinson, whose last subscription was acknowledged on the previous day they met. It was at all times a melancholy task to make such an announcement, but particularly so when it referred to a patriot, who was an influential member of a bigoted Conservative family.—(Hear.) Mr. O'BRIEN also expressed his deep regret at the loss which Ireland had sustained by the Hon. Gentleman's death, and took the opportunity of noticing a subject he had re ferred to on the previous Monday. He had stated that an eminent barrister was obliged to cease from practising in the Court of Chancery, owing to, the overbearing impudence of Sir Edward Sugden, and he had mentioned the cause and other particulars concerning the cessation. Now, he (Mr. O'Brien) had since heard that his information was incorrect, and in justice to his Lordship he felt bound to state it pub licly ; at the same time he could not but still give expression to the general feeling of the Bar upon the subject generally. As far as he (Mr. O'Brien) was personally concerned, he always found Sir Edward Sugden most polite, and he would be most happy to see him on the English Chancery Bench, which he had heard was likely to be vacant by the retire ment of Lord Lyndhurst, and they would place in his stead a member of the Irish bar, of Conservative politics, whose ap pointment would give universal satisfaction.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'CONNELL added his testimony in favour of the gentleman alluded to by Mr. O'Brien, as being qualified to fill the office of Chancellor in Ireland, observing that the pre sent Chancellor was not less impudent, because he bad failed to oblige him to give up practising in his Court; and then proceeded to apologise for appearing in his corporate robes, alleging, as his excuse, that he had been at the meeting of the Corporation, to propose Alderman Keshan as the Repeal Lord Mayor for the ensuing year, which appointment was seconded by Alderman Kinahama, Conservative member of the Council, whom he said he was ready to propose himself next year ' if he only declared for a domestic Legislature.—(Hear.) The Learned Gentleman then went on to allude to the letter of the Times Commissioner, dated from Kerry, and said he knew no one to whom he should feel under greater obliga tions, for his fabrications had shown him (Mr. O'Connell) that he was mistaken as to his opinion of the Irish Tory press ; and from what that press had in justice, done for him, during the last fortnight, he would beat them out in kindness, and for the future—no matter what they said of him—no matter how much they abused him—he would never say a word against them ; and amongst those papers to which he felt most particularly obliged were—the Evening Mail and Evening Packet.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. O'Con nell) was now done for ever with the " gutter" Commissioner, whose rascally paper had not the common honesty to publish his defence in full, after publishing a grossly libellous attack ; but the secret of it was, that the Irish Conservative gentle. man was a man of honour, while the writers of the English I , Conservative journals were the most calumnious liars that ever lived.—(Cheers). Mr. O'BRIEN next addressed the meeting, in bringing up a report OR the grand jury law from the committee; and in doing so took occasion to allude to the present state of Ire land. He first referred to the failure of the potato crop, and again, for the last time, called on the Government to come forward and provide against the starvation of the Irish people, suggesting as the only remedy that the ports should be thrown open, and rice, fish, corn, and other provisions purchased, and stores for the poor, who should be provided with employment, to enable them to pay for their own sup port, and be under no compliment to England for anything. —(Hear, hear.) To purchase provision without calling on the English people he would suggest an absentee-tax of 25 per cent., and a property-tax, to include all those whose property was rated above 50/. per annum under the poor-law valuation.—(Cheers.) Something it was plain, should be done, for the people would not starve; and that " something" should be, in the first instance, to open the ports. The question had been agitated in England, and the corn-law question was also engrossing much attention, for within the past week Lord John Russell had joined with the members of the Anti-Corn-law League, and on most import ant terms.—(Hear.) Mr. Cobden, Mr. Villiers, and other leading members of that body, had publicly announced that they would support no party that did not act with them on the corn-law question ; and inconformity with that announce ment his Lordship had joined them,—and they would, no doubt, endeavour to merge the question of repeal in the corn-law question. Mr. O'CONNELL.—Never.—(Loud cries of " Never, never.") Mr. O'CONNELL then read an article from the Morning Chronicle, in which the propriety of erecting a statue to Cromwell in the new Houses of Parliament was vindicated, and went over the old farce which has been re-enacted each week for some months past, of the Wexford slaughter, &c., to show that he was a man of the most bloodthirsty and profligate character, and thus unfitted to be preserved in the recollection of the English people.—(Hear.) In conclusion, he gave notice that on the next day of meeting he would go fully into the foreign and domestic state of Ireland, and lay before the Association an Act of Parliament, to enable her Majesty to summon her Irish Parliament. The rent was then announced to be 262/. 7s. 3d., and the meeting, at four o'clock, adjourned till Monday next. EARL STANHOPE AND THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE FARMERS. The following is a copy of a letter addressed by the Right Hon. Earl Stanhope to Mr. Twiss, Secretary to the Cam bridgeshire Farmers' Association, in reply to an invitation sent to his Lordship : " Chevening, near Sevenoaks, Nov. 26. " Sir,—Tam favoured to-day with your letter, inviting me to attend the dinner of the Cambridgeshire farmers on the 16th of January next, and I need not assure you that I have always been most anxious to co-operate with'my countrymen in defending their rights and interests ; but I received from them so little support that my exertions in Parliament were utterly useless and 1 have therefore retired for the present from public life. The circumstances which induced me to form that determination are fully explained in my letter to Mr. Wing, of Aylesbury, which was published in the Morn ing Post of the 21st of April last, and it would be unneces sary to repeat them. It would also be superfluous for me to advert to the opinions which I have so frequently expressed, both in and out of Parliament, on the necessity of securing full and effectual protection to British industry in all its various branches ; for those opinions ought to be well known, and I have reason to believe that they are approved by the great majority of my countrymen. It does notlappear from your letter that the Cambridge shire farmers require my advice, which could be of no ser vice to them unless it was followed, and this was not the case on former occasions, or my assistance, which would be alto gether unavailing unless they propose to act in concert with other counties in a combined plan of operations, and to co operate with other classes of the community in order to obtain that redress of their grievances which they have an undoubted right to demand. I think, therefore, that my presence at the dinner would not. be useful, and I must beg to decline the invitation with which they - hare honoured me. " It is the duty, not only of the farmers in Cambridgeshire, but also of all those who are interested in agriculture, whe ther as landlords, as tenants, or as labourers, in every part of the United Kingdom, to consider what is their present si tuation, and what are their future prospects. " The free-trade policy of the present Ministers, who would never have been restored to power if their new corn-laws and their new tariff had been expected by those who sup ported them at the last general election—the base and treacherous and unprincipled conduct of so many of their adherents, who, by an utter disregard of their promises and professions, have covered themselves with indelible dis grace, and justly incurred the hatred or contempt of their fellow-citizens — the indefatigable exertions and reckless at tempts which are made by some enemies of the corn-laws, and the culpable supineness of the agricultural community, which seems at present to be quite benumbed and paralyzed, —all these circumstances concur in placing this country in a state of the utmost danger, from which it could be rescued only by that which I have so often, but so ineffectually, re commended,—by energy and union. Patriotism and public spirit appear to be almost extinct, and those who are , unable to see the perils with which they are surrounded on all sides, or who are unwilling to adopt adequate measures to avert them, may at last be instructed by experience and the evi dence of facts. " I am aware that in some parts of the country there are farmers who, without being misled by the misrepresentations and falsehoods of their enemies, begin to view with indiffer ence a repeal of the corn-laws, as they suppose that it is in evitable, and that it would be less injurious to them if it were immediate than it would be after their capital had been en tirely exhausted. If, indeed, that measure is to be considered as inevitable, from the zeal and perseverance of those who op pose the corn-laws, and from the lamentable torpor of those who ought to support thern.:l do not, like Lord Ashley, wish or seek any compromise, in order, as he expresses it, to break the force of an inevitable blow.' On the contrary, if free trade is to be applied with respect to corn, the same principle must also be applied with respect to all other articles of ge neral consumption, and to all the other products of British industry, and in such a case let the repeal of all protective duties be immediate and entire. Under such circumstances I say again, as I did in the House of Lords, I throw down the gauntlet, and dare you to the attempt.' The effect would be so violent and so sudden, that even those who are the most supine would be compelled to act, that even these who are the most prejudiced would be convinced, and there would probably be produced a pressure from with- out' which no Government would be able to resist. Those who have proposed or supported measures which are in their nature destructive to the interests of British industry, or who, disapproving of those measures, had not the courage to oppose them, will bear the entire and exclusive respgusibility of the result. The intense and intolerable misery wRSch all the productive classes would suffer under a general applica tiou of free trade might, as a natural, If not a necessary con sequence, produce a social revolution, and the rights of pri vate !property in land, which already are openly assailed, might then be openly attacked, and property of every de scription might afterwards become the object of spoliation. " I am, Sir, your faithful servant, STANHOPE." POSITION OF THE CORN-LA - W QUESTION. (From the Eclectic Review for December.) Another heave has been given to the progress of tter, corn-law question, by circumstances which .man cannot regulate, but on the occurrence of which or something similar, he was as much bound to calculate, as sea-going man is to be provided with the means of reefing hie. sails, in the knowledge that though none can foretel the precise period of a gale, a gale at some time is in the first class of certainties. A failuge has been announced in the potato crop ; thus reducing the numerous class who in the language of ecclesiastical dignitaries " rejoice in potatoes," to try what they can make of mortifying' upon wheaten flour, after the counsels of that celebrated French princess, who said, that sooner than die like the people who starved for want of bread, she would live on macaroons. And this is backed up by continually ac- - cumulating reports, that the wheat harvest in most parts of the country is defective either in quantity or quality, and that the other countries of Europe, with the unim portant exception of Denmark, are suffering under at least a jealousy of short supply. And here it is that our quarter-deck people have con trived to move a step towards the solution of the ques tion. A belief is clearly among the crew, that a gale of wind is coming on, and a winter's night in prospect makes it doubly important to prepare. Of the officers some take one side and some the other ; but there is shrewdly surmised to be an interest among them in keeping things as they are. In some way or other the sensibility of their breeches' pockets is suspected to be involved in denying the danger, and carrying sail through all, though at the risk of sending the masts over the side, when they are supposed to count upon having the boats at their disposal, and escaping the de struction which is to fall on the ignoble herd. In this state of things the chief mate—(for the captain is too great a personage to have anything personally to say to it, nor would much difference be made by the fact if it took place)—the chief mate holds a council—half a dozen councils—hour after hour of precious time expended on each. By this he recognises to the fullest, extent, that there is a popular belief—a creed among the unaccounted vulgar, who are to go the bottom in the event of ill success, without a boat to help them—that a gale is close at hand. Knots of the crew are seen col lected here and there, handling the ropes which lead to reefing sails, and the word from time to time passes among them that the chief mate is only waiting to hear what this and another gentleman has to say against it, and then he is going to the captain to say it must be , done. In this position of things, what does our Palinurus, chief of all with the exception of the seed of the gods that tenants the state cabin, finally decide on? He de cides, that though the growling of the coming storm is not reduced but heightened, and without a shadow of reason to show except that the gentlemen do not like it, he will say we will go on as we are, and if the gale comes and all effort at taking in a reef is too late, we will read the Prayer for Fair Weather as by law established, and put the officers into the boats when the rest must clearly go down. In this state of being " doubly armed," and with the certainty that the abolition of restrictions on the provi vision of food must come hereafter, because it, does not come now, it is time for those to be looking about them, who are the enemies not only of the evil principle ina mediately concerned, but of other evil principles which hang by it and own a common origin. In public ques tions, which can only be settled by the gradual prepon derance of opinion under whatever disadvantages ex pressed, there is very little use in the concealment which may be prudence in more limited concerns. The adver sary " knows his strength, and we know ours." Lord Ashley's declaration is decisive on this point. Instead of being an indication of personal weakness, as in some quarters unwisely intimated, it was the cool declaration of a good officer, taking a leader's view of the field, and counselling the taking up of the inferior position, be cause the higher was no longer tenable. Such a moment was no time for discussing the principles of a cause ; all men are supposed to have made up their minds on these before they present themselves to a contest. A good leader does not request his followers to throw themselves into a gulph because their cause is good; he does what is much more likely to be of use, desires them to take up a contracted position which he points out. The time then seems come, when, as Mause Head rigg invited the Life Guards under Claverbouse in their retreat, the enemy may be called upon to " tarry," and be in no hurry to get away from the consequences of his defeat. There is more to be done with hint, before he is quit ; why will he not stand like a man, and de fend his grand position, or else quietly give up the others which will be found to hang by it? The corn laws were not merely enactments for finding portions for the ruling classes' daughters ; they were the ban ner, the cockade, the representative by concentration, of their general right of wrong. If it is once discovered that the ruling classes cannot keep their corn-laws, a a host of questions they "may not look upon," will be gathering fast about them, each grimmer and more ab horrent to them than its predecessor. Nothing is more certain than that the maintenance of wrongs at large depends on the invulnerability of each particular one. The boy who would not say A because he knew he should be asked to say B, is the true and only type for the policy of wrong-doers. Why not hold out a little longer? Is it not plain that the corn-laws are in the fact of being surrendered, and legions of strange aspect, leaving no hope to the claimants of the marriage por tions but from their quarrelling with one another, are standing on the slip for the first entry at the breach that shall be made? If the monopoly of the bread that perishes cannot maintain itself, what sanctuary can be depended on, where the suffering genius of wrong may hide the sorrows of her pocket and her heart ? The League, with vast resources in possession and almost boundless ones behind, has made at: inroad into the fortress of misrule, and as regards the county regis tration, may be said to have recovered the Constitution. Not a man who has an honest purpose but may take advantage of the expensive machinery here established to his hand, and march in to take his own share of the recovered power, if he can only stomach cheap bread as an accompaniment. It is, therefore, for all that con ceive themselves wronged, to make a part in the move ment ; and if they do not, they are not men who know how to shut their mouth when a good thing is put into it. There may be battles after the battle of Armaged don ; but a man will not be the worse for having been there. and on the right side. Of course, when the League has gained its point, there will be a great breaking-up into a multiplicity of directions ; Ptolemies of all kinds, parcelling out the empire of the defunct Alexander. But nothing is clearer than that they will have gained by the previous union, and not lost. Darius, then, must settle his affairs with the Macedonian as he can ; and when that scene of the play is played, his successors may count on finding the Ptolemies in positions of their own. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The last meeting for the year was held yesterday afternoon, at the rooms of thee society, in Regent-street, when, notwithstanding the advanced period of the season, there was a very superior show of both fruits and flowers. The chair was taken by R. W. Barchard, Esq., and the company was numerous. Apongst the fruit were some tine specimens of black Hambro' grapes grown in a house without heat by Mr. Crawshay, of Colney Hatch ; Queen pine-apples, of good cultivation and large size, from Mr. Birsby, and peaches from Mr. Ware. The fruit from the gardens of the society were, of pears, Glout Morceau, Ne Plus Meures, 'Winter Nelis, Bergamotte Ca dette, which ripens in succession all throughout the winter ; and Beurre d'Aremberg, a fruit which differs much in character and properties, according as it is cultivated ; and the apples were Golden Reinette, Claygate, Pear main, Sam Young, Mere de Menage, and Ducumelon's Seed ling. Amongst the flowers was a collection of orchidacea, amongst which was one of a delicate and powerful odour, the flowers of which are used by the females of Brazil to adorn and scent the hair. There were also three collections of several varieties of chrysanthemums, showing the great im provement which cultivation has made in the appearance of this favourite winter flower. The prizes awarded were silver Knightian medals to Mr. Crawshay for grape,s, and Mr. Plumley for heaths; and silver Banksian medals to Mr. Lawrence for orchidaceous plants, and Mr. Moore for a spe cimen plant. The extract from the meteorological register kept at the gardens, Nov. 4th to Dec. 2d, gave, barometer, highest, Nov. 4th, 30,268 inches ; lowest, Nov. 19th, 29,077 inches ; thermometer, highest, Nov. Bth, 60 deg. F. ; lowest, Nov. 4th, 22 deg. F. ; and quantity of rain, 2.11 inches. The meeting adjourned to 20th of January, 1846. ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AMD GLASGOW RAILWAY.—On Satntds.y evening last, about seven o'clock, an accident occurred on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail way, near the station at Kirkintifloch. On the arrival at that station of the train, which leaves Glasgow at six o'clock, the five o'clock train being behind time, the engine which generally returns singly was sent to, its assistance. It had not gone four or five hundred yards beyond the station, when the engineman gave the signal that all was not right ; when the officers at the station proceeded to the spot they found that a weaver belonging to Waterside, about a mile distant, had been lying on the line, and the engine had passed over hii - right leg about the ankle. He was immediately brought to the station, and medical aid sent for, but the train arriving from Edinburgh in the interim it was thought advisable to bring him to the infirmary, where, after having his leg ampu tated a little below the knee joint, we understand he is doing well. No blame can be attached to the railway company, as the man had been brought back and previously warned. He was quite insensible with liquor, and seemed quite un conscious of the damage he had sustained. The engineman saw him only a few yards distant, and brought his engine up, but not until about 100 yards past.— Glasgow Herald. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, as we have already stated, embarked on board the Ingermanland, Russian frigate, on Wednesday last, with the intention of proceeding direct to Italy, but his Imperial Highness has been hitherto prevented from proceeding on his voyage by the prevalence of contrary winds. At the date of the last accounts the Ingermanland had not left the Sound. LADY VILLIERS.—We are exceedingly happy to state that the accounts received daily in town from Upton House continue very favourable. Ifer Ladyship has nearly recovered from her late serious attack of illness. The Bath Corporation has, by a majority of 23 to 14, rejected a proposition for raising the Mayor's salary from 200/. to 3001. per annum. ' The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and the Ladies Gordon Lennox have arrived in town, from Gordon Castle, North Britain. THE TIDES.—The only place on thegarth were the solar tide is greater than the lunar tide, is at Courtown Har bour, south of Dublin. In all other places the lunar influence predominates to the extent of about 4 timelNaccording to Newtown). RENEWAL OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH BRAZIL' FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL 'SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE-TRADE. (FROM 0 CORIESPONDENT.) The . ./ornal do Commercio of Rio de Janeiro, of the 11th October, announces to the public that M. Galvao and Mr. Hamilton had been appointed plenipotentiaries on the part of Great Britain and Brazil to conclude a convention which might promote the suppression of the slave-trade without injuring the lawful commerce of the empire. On the next day, the 12th, the following leader appeared in the same paper:— " On the 20th of July last, when we endeavoured to refute a leading article in the Times of the 15th of May preceding, which 'sought to impugn the declaration made by the Imperial Government that the convention of 1817 had expired, we stated it as our opinion that the Times, in the article referred to, had no other object in view than to induce the Brazilian Government, by holding out a threat, to accede to the renewal of stipu lations which should revive the conventions whose ex istence had just terminated. The right which England pretended to arrogate to it self by virtue of the first article of the treaty of 1826 appeared to us so extravagant and extraordinary, we looked upon it as impossible that the statesmen at the head of the affairs of Great Britain should wish to ap pear Before the civilised world as sanctioning the putting the threat held out by the Times in force. When Brazil entered into the convention of 1826, now under consideration, England bad already decreed, by, an Act of Parliament, that trading in slaves (by British subjects) should be deemed piracy, and, conse quently, the first article of the convention referred to does not contain a reciprocal or mutual, but a one-sided or partial stipulation. By that article Brazil engaged to declare, likewise, the trading in slaves piracy by her municipal laws ; but England came under no new obli gation, because, as we have already stated, she had previously promulgated such a law. This circumstance is of itself a sufficient proof that it was never intended at that time to declare the slave-trade piracy " by the law of nations." If such had been the intention, the Brazilian negotia tors most certainly would not have agreed to an ar ticle imposing a one-sided obligation, that is, on Brazil alone, inasmuch as the slave-trade not being deemed piracy in England by the law of nations, but merely by the law of the land, it would have been necessary, to have rendered it piracy by the former, that the obli- ' gation should be the same on both the contracting parties. It is unnecessary to extend our arguments on this point; we shall, therefore, confine ourselves to asserting, for the second time, that if the first article of the con vention of 1826 gave s England the right, as the Times terms it, exceeding that of a belligerent, the second and third articles of that convention would have been wholly unnecessary which put in force the convention entered into with Portugal in 1817, establishing the right of visit, search, and detention, and creating the mixed Commissions for deciding the cases of vessels so de tained for a definite period. As an irrefragable proof that England does not pos sess the right she arrogates to herself, we need only refer to the very reasoning the Times itself resorts to in insisting on such right. Proposition—" The first article of the treaty of 1826 gives her Majesty the right to order all Brazilians found on the high seas, engaged in the slave-trade, to be seized and punished as pirates, and to dispose of the vessels on board which they were taken as bona piratorum." Proof—" This is the interpretation which the states men and legal authorities of England give to the first article of the convention, and nobody can dispute its correctness." Let the English statutes (canons) speak for them selves, and the English jurisconsults supply the reason. Notwithstanding the conclusiveness of this line of argument of the Times, it nevertheless seeks a justifica don for the violent measure the British Government was about to adopt, by alleging that nothing but an imperious necessity could induce that Government to avail itself of so rigorous a measure; and asserts that such necessity arises from— Ist. The negligence of the Brazilian Government in fulfilling the obligations it incurred. 2d. The . eagerness it evinced to avail itself of the first pretence it had for considering the stipulations of 1817 null and void. 3d. The having rejected systematically all the propo sitibiis made by the English Government for the more effectual suppression of the slave-trade. If there are any grounds for the first imputation, all the blame rests with the " English" Government. The acts of violence to which alone it has had recourse for the suppression of the trade, have irritated the Bra zilian population to such a degree, that the Imperial Government has found its impracticable to adopt those efficacious measures which alone can put a stop to the trade in the interior. The Times and the English legal authorities are well aware that a sincere and efficient co operation on the Tart of this country would be more conducive to the putting down the trade, than all the virulent means practised by the British cruisers; but the habits of force and coereion which England cannot divest herself of, preclude her from recurring to those means by which only she can obtain such necessary co operation. As to the second allegation, namely, that Brazil eagerly seized the first opportunity which offered to get rid of the stipulations of 1817, we assert that Brazil did ao more than she had a right to do. She acted agree able to the stipulations then in force, if, under the colour of those stipulations, so much violence was exer cised, not only against the illicit, but likewise against the lawful, commerce of this country; if it was always im possible to obtain redress on any occasion for the acts of piracy committed by the English cruisers, not only on vessels engagenn lawful foreign commerce, but like wise on coasting craft; if the sentences of the mixed Commissioners, adjudging indemnification for damages and losses sustained, were never carried into execution by the English Government; if, latterly, the British . Commissary-Judges have taken no notice of the instruc tions contained in the convention of 1817, but have acted on instructions received from their own Govern ment without their having been communicated to the Brazilian Cabinet, it is, indeed, most extraordinary that the endeavours of the Brazilian authorities to get rid of a system so prejudicial to its commerce should, by any possibility, serve as a pretext for acts of increased violence. The third allegation, that is, of the Brazilian Govern ment having systematically rejected all the overtures made it by the English Government for the more effec tual suppression of the slave-trade, is absolutely false. On the 27th of July, 1835, some additional articles to the convention adopted by the treaty of 1826 were signed by M. Alves Branco and Mr. Fox, the which were laid before the Chamber of Deputies, because they could not be ratified by the Regency without the appro bation of the legislative body. The first ""Majority Ministry " examined those " additional articles," and came to a conclusion, that they could not be ratified as tbey were then drawn up, since they would tend to the complete annihilation of the lawful commerce of the empire, for they would have established such, cases as would have been considered prima, facie ground for the condemnation of any Bra zilian vessel whatever. The Imperial Government, in consequence, proposed to Mr. Ouseley a modification of those "additional articles" in such manner that they should put an end to the slave-trade, without, however, oppressing or ruining the lawful trade. Mr. Ouseley declared himself ready to acquiesce in such a modifica tion, but, on the Senator Senhor Lopes Gama having been nominated plenipotentiary on the part of Brazil to treat with Mr. Ouseley in order to arrive at a defini tive settlement, Mr. Ouseley, after a treat many ter giversations, confessed that he was not furnished with the requisite " full powers " to enter into such a nego tiation. On this occasion Senhor Lopes Gama had drawn up the rough draft of a treaty to serve as a basis for such negotiation, which rough draft was commu nicated to Mr. Ouseley—a substantial proof to all the world of the good faith of the Imperial Government. Things remained in this state till 1842, when Mr. Hamilton presented a new proposition, which he asserted was based on the draft made by Senhor Lopes Gama ; but, in fact, the proposition of Mr. Hamilton diverged, in the most essential points, from that of Senhor Lopes Game, and these divergencies would have given a death-blow to our licit trade: consequently it was inadmissible. , Taking this very succinct but most faithful exposition into due consideration, the civilised world will be able to decide whether it was the Imperial Government which systematically resigned the offers made by that of Eng land for the more efficacious suppression of the slave trade, or if it was not the English Government that systematically sought to sacrifice the lawful commerce of a nation (its friend) to its projects with respect to the slave-trade. We believe we have now replied to all the points in the article of the Times alluded to deserving of notice. The rest consists of a declaration very common-place, on the inhumanity of the slave-trade, but which comes with a bad grace from those who, for many years, carried it on with the most atrocious cruelty—from those who forced such an infamous tra ffi c on their own colonies— from those who; not long ago, under pretence of pro moting the prosperity of its Asiatic agriculturists, com pelled the Chinese to receive, at the point of the bayonet, a poison that brutalises and kills them. The English authorities, so long as the slave-trade was useful to the nation, permitted it, without reference to those principles of humanity which now agitate their bosoms. The same zeal which they then displayed to supply other countries with slaves, they now exercise in suppressing the trade in them ; but their motive is evi dently more of a commercial and political character than of a humane one. In fine, we are free to acknowledge that humanity would be greatly benefited if England could carry her point, and that Brazil ought to assist her by the stipula tions of the first article of the convention of 1826, and by all the means in her power endeavour to extinguish the demand for slaves in the interior of the empire, which no doubt feeds the trade. But as Englaad recurs solely to force and violence, thus, under pretext of suppressing a trade the municipal law of Brazil should consider to be piracy, she herself commits an act of piracy (that is, the right which the Times calls " exceeding that of a bel ligerent"). We are led to believe that, so long as those acts of violence shall continue, it does not behove the Brazilian Government to use the least exertion in ren dering assistance. Such exertions, which would expose t h Government to great unpopularity, and, perh e aps, Ti an Government to resistance In the interior, can o nl y take place on a mutual good understanding ; but as England, instead of tr harmony, has .substituted ao violenc heßrazilianian Govern e, and relies entirely mthereon, disrepute would m ote the object it feigns to have in view, w e are of opinion that t he Imperial Govern ment, pro t es ting against the proceedings of the British ...Govgnment , ought to consider the treaty of 1826 broken w itijeaat Government, being undeceived, shall find that w t o b u a l t d pp g lrcin force is insufficient to stop the progress of trade—conse quently, that it is not violent measures only which they ought to have recourse to." [We have published this article from the Brazilian paper in order to give the slaveholders a hearing, while we disapprove of the tone in which it is written, and deny many of the statements.—En. Sun.] LITERATURE. POEMS. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1 Vol. This volume of Poems has much disappointed us. Dr. Holmes is an American, and we have repeatedly been ,toi . d that he was " a second To m H oo d." W e h ave rea d this volume of his poems, collected by a London pub lisher, and find that although it contains many humour ous poems, by far the best are those gravely written upon serious subjects. We looked for a mere humourist, —a man who could be funny, and play upon words—a writer who carried on a Pun-ic war against gravity, and, lo! we find that, though he does all this (and does it well, too), he does far better things. In fact, with the exception of Bryant, Longfellow, and Mrs. Sigourney, we find that America has not a 'better poet than this Oliver Wendell Holmes. He has much disappointed us —very agreeably. We have done very little more, as yet, than glance through the book. Poetry, to be fully enjoyed, must be read again and again, to bring out the hidden meaning, to show the music of the rhythm, to develope the balanced adaptation of the words to the expression of the thought. The first perusal of fine poetry, . such as fills the volume before us, is unsatisfying: it fills us with pleasure, but it disarms criticism. Nor when we have drank in the beauties when the heart expands with the noble thoughts which Genius has poured out upon the page — can we coolly sit down to weigh the charm in the nicely adjusted balances of Criticism ; but, even if we did sub ject these poems to such a trial, few faults could be detected. Dr. Holmes is a writer of whom America has every reason to be proud. The first and longest piece, entitled " Poetry," was written, we believe, before its author had reached the age of three-and-twenty. Thus, in that piece, does Dr. Holmes tell us how general is the power which he at once possesses and illustrates:— " There breathes no being but has some pretence To that fine instinct called poetic sense : The rudest savage, roaming through the wild; The simplest rustic, bending o'er his child ; The infant, list'ning to the warbling bird, The mother, smiling at its half-formed word; The boy uncaged, who tracks the fields at large; The girl, turned matron to her babe-like charge; The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land ; The slave, who, slumbering on his rusted chain, Dreams of the palm-trees, on his burning plain ; The hot .checked reveller, tossing down the wine, To join the chorus pealing Auld lang syne ;' The gentle maid, whose azure eye grows dim, While Heaven is listening to' her evening hymn ; The jewell'd beauty, when her steps draw near The circling dance and dazzling chandelier; E'en trembling age, when spring's renewing air Waves the thin ringlets of his silver'd hair p-- All, all are glowing with the inward flame, Whose wider halo wreathes the poet's name, 'While, unembalmed, the silent dreamer dies, llis memory passing with his smiles and sighs. If glorious visions, born for all mankind, The bright auroras of our twilight mind ; If fancies, varying as the shapes that lie Stained on the windows of the sunset sky; If hopes, that beckon with delusive gleams, Till the eye dances in the void of dreams ; If passions, following with the winds that urge Earth's wildest wanderer to her farthest verge; If these on all some transient hours bestow Of rapture tingling with its hectic glow, Then all are poets; and if earth bad rolled Her myriad centuries, and her doom were told, Each moaning billow of her shoreless wave, Would wail its requiem o'er a poet's grave " If to embody in a breathing word Tones that the spirit trembled when it heard; To fix the image all unveiled and warm, And carve in language its ethereal form, So pure, so perfect, that the lines express No meagre shrinking, no unlaced excess; To feel that Art, in living truth, has taught Ourselves, reflected in the sculptur'd thought; If this alone bestows the right to claim The deathless garland and the sacred name, Then none are poets, save the saints on high, Whose harps can murmur all that words deny." If this be not poetry, and of a high order, we know nothing of our art, and can only wonder where, how, and by whom it can easily be surpassed. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the planta tions of Osborne House on Monday afternoon. Their Roy al Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken a carriage airing on Monday afternoon. Colonel Buckley arrived at Osborne House on Mon day, and has succeeded Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to the Queen. Major-General Sir Edward Bowater also arrived at Osborne House on Monday, and has suc ceeded Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde in the duties of Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. Lord Charles Wellesley and Lieut.-Colonel Wylde left Osborne House on Monday afternoon, and were conveyed in the Fairy yacht to Southampton. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Con sort took their usual early walk in the pleasure groands of Osborne House. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken their usual exercise on the sea beach yesterday morning. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken a carriage airing yesterday afternoon, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Baroness de Speth, left her residence, Frogmore House, about eight o'clock this morning, to proceed by the Great Western Railway to town, en roe to Witley Court, Worcestershire, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Prince Alfred was taken out on his poney this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, and the Duke of Cambridge left the Euston. square terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway yesterday morning for the Droitwich station of the Birmingham and Glou cester Railway, en route to Witley Court, Worcestershire, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The Royal Duchess was attended by Baroness de Speth and Colonel Sir George Couper, Bart., and the Duke of Cambridge was attended by Baron Knesebeck. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, at the Foreign-office. The Duke of Buc cleuch arrived in the forenoon in town from the north, to attend the meeting. The Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Granville Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Right Honourable Sidney Herbert. The Council sat three hours and a half. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a Committee-meeting yesterday. There were present the Bishops of London, Ely, and Oxford. Mr. J. Strettell Brickwood, Public Works Loan-office, South-Sea House, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comp troller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had also an interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. PROJECTED RAILWAYS. notices that applicatioa is intended to be =ado to Parlia ment, hi the ensuing session, on behalf of the undersien tioned schemes, appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday night:— Buxton, Macclesfield, Congleton, and Crewe—(Buxton, Macclesfield, and Congleton—Congleton and Crewe). Buckinghamshire Railway—Oxford and Bletchley Junc tion. Birmingham and Bristol—(Malvern line). Derby, Mansfield, Worksop, and Great Grimsby and Shef field Junction. Midland Railway Extension—Newark and Gainsborough Railway. Midland Railway—Nottingham and Mansfield branch. Midland Railway—Burton-upon-Trent to Nuneaton. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. DEPOSITS WITH THE BOARD OF TRADE. The following are some of the omissions from the List of Deposits with the Board of Trade, which appeared in our paper of yesterday 1. Cambridge and Colchester Junction 2. London and Southend 3. Portsmouth, Guildford, and Fareham 4. Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales 5. Metropolitan Railways Junction 6. Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle-on-Tyne 7. Pontefract, Doncaster, Worksop, and Mansfield Junction li. North London Junction 9. Clonmel and Yougbal 10. Newry and Carlingford and Docks 11. Great Leinster and Munster-Carlow and Kilkenny 12. Great Leinster and Munster-Kilkenny and Clonmel 13. Templemore, Nenagh, and Shannon 14. Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction 15. Direct Manchester, Leeds, and York 16. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edinburgh, and Direct Glasgow Junction 17. Northumberland Dock and Percy branch 18. Carmarthen Mineral Junction 19. Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 20. East and West of England Junction 21. Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport 22. North of Norfolk 23. Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel 24. Windsor and Slough 25. The South Eastern Extension 26. The South Western 27. Reading, Guilding, and Reigate 28. Hull and Holyhead Direct 29. London and Nottingham 30. Canterbury and Herne-bay 31. North London Junction 32. East Coast 33. Manchester and Rugby Direct 34. Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall 35. Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, Dewsbury, Leeds, and Bradford. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAIL WAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—ln going over the list of the several railway projects, as published in the Morning Chronicle of to-day, giving the names of those for which plans, sections, and books of refer ence have been deposited at the Board of Trade, I find that the above undertaking has been omitted. I shall feel greatly obliged if you will have the goodness to notice this in a prominent part of your next paper, and to give it the most positive contradiction, as the documents before referred to were all safely deposited on Saturday, the 29th ultimo, both at the Board of Trade and the several places requisite to do so, to comply with the standing orders of Parliament, in order that all parties interested in the undertaking, and the public generally, may be correctly in formed upon this matter.—l remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, W. H. INGRAM, Secretary. 22, Parliament-street, London, Dec. 2, 1845. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—As the dramatic agents of Madlle. Jenny St. Leon, who was announced to perform at the Strand Theatre last night, we beg, in justice to that lady, to contradict the asser tion that she " disappointed at the last moment." Her name should not have been inserted in the bills, we having made known to the management on Saturday morning that Madlle. Jenny St. Leon would not under any circumstances appear at the Strand Theatre.—Your obedient servants, TURNOUR and HOLLINGSWORTH. December 3,.1845. THE LATE MIDLAND RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—The inquiry into the causes of the death of Police-sergeant Stubbs, which was adjourned in order to have the evidence of Walker, the stoker of the pilot-engine, was resumed o n Monday afternoon last, at three o'clock, in the Council chamber of the Court-house, Leeds. Walker was in attend ance at the time required, having been brought from Brighton, where he has been residing since his discharge from the ser vice of the Midland Company. His evidence of the progress of the pilot-engine, up to the place where the collision took place, corresponded in every material particular with his de position at the inquest on Mr. Boteler. On that occasion he stated, that as they were coming up to the mail-train a white light was seen, and continued to be exhibited up to the time of the accident taking place. It was afterwards suggested that this might have been a green light, which at a distance had the appearance of a white one, and Walker had gathered his impression respecting it when at a considerable dis tance from the mail train. Upon this question he was strictly examined, at the adjourned inquest on Monday last, by Mr. Blackburn, the Coroner, but he made a very confused state ment as to the we of signals. It was evident that he was, in a great measure, ignorant of the rules laid down by the Mid land Company for the use of signals, and he could scarcely be expected to be otherwise, for he said he was a very bad reader, and the rules had never been read over to him. He was clearly deficient in every important part of his duty, and grossly incompetent to be entrusted with any portion of the management of a railway locomotive engine. He asserted that the red lights were seen by him and Wheatley half a mile distance from the train before them, and from that time they did everything they could to stop their engine, although he afterwards admitted that an engine going at their speed could be stopped in 300 yards. This statement being in itself a decided contradiction, and his testimony in other respects so very equivocal, the Coroner said he thought himself scarcely justified in continuing his examination. Eventually . the jury decided to dismiss from their minds this man's evi dence. The Coroner then made some suitable observations upon the evidence; after which the jury consulted together, and returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against the driver, Thomas Wheatley. Sir Isaac Morley and Mr. Houldsworth, two of the Midland Directors, were present at this adjourn ment of the inquest. PRICE or GoLD.—The premium on gold at Paris is 12 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3L 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 45 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 60, it follows that gold is 0.59 per cent, dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 4331 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 1011 per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9i ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 10, it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. Sir Henry Pottinger, whilst her Britannic Ma jesty's Plenipotentiary in China, presented a silver cup, weighing upwards of 130 ounces, to Captain W. Warden, commanding the East India Company's steam-frigate Queen, in the Chinese seas, as a special token of his regard and esteem for his public services at that time. The cup has re cently arrived in this country by a ship from Calcutta, and an application has been made to the Government for its de• livery free Pfduty, which has been complied with. aiiagag ~---. STRAND THEATRE. The Shaksperians have taken this theatre for six performances, and they commenced their campaign last evening with the Merchant of Venice, Mr. Gregory ap pearing as Shylock. Now, considering that Mr. Gregory was for years the avowed editor of the Satirist news paper, and remembering, moreover, that his appearance, two years since, at Covent-garden, in the character of Hamlet, was rendered memorable by a row, which has not been equalled since the 0. P. riots, it was to have been expected that his appearance at the Strand would have given rise to great opposition. The house was crowded long before the commencement of the play, and the appearance of Mr. Gregory as Shylock was the signal for a burst of groans, hisses, and all sorts of unseemly noises ; these were immediately drowned in a most enthusiastic burst of cheering, and it was evident from that moment that the supporters of Mr. Gregory were in the majority. The minority, however, instead of gracefully succumbing after making their pro test, chose to interrupt the performance, and a cry was raised of " Turn them out," which we* responded to verbatim et 'iterating, and sundry of the most noisy of the dissentients were ejected vi et armis. The play was suffered to proceed tolerably quietly until the scene be tween Shylock and Tubal, when the dissentients made a desperate rally. They were, however, again outvoted, and an ejectment by summary process having been served upon some half dozen of them, the play pro ceeded to the end without interruption. At the conclu sion Mr. Gregory was called for, and was received with three cheers, so that, as faithful reporters, we feel bound to state that his supporters complete', drowned his opponents. And now as to Mr. Gregory,! right to claim the homage which is due to onewno capable of supporting the first range of Shak9 e rian without cha racters. Looking at his Shylock of last night prejudice—considering it as the Shylocknot of Mr. Gregory, but of Mr. Smith, or of Mr. .at it was the Any-body-else . w fresh from the provinces —eshould say t hat for years. Modelled most promising debut we bad seen upon the Shylock of Edmund . Kean (and where could an actor find a better model !), i t was yet not a ser vile imitation. It was evident t hat the actor had j ust co nception a of his part, although, lik e all young actors, he was rather too much intent upon making points than upon infusing into the character t h a t unity which is the distinguishing characteristic of a perfect artist. Time and practice would make Mr. Gregory a first-rate actor; and as it is, we know not where, even among professional artists we should find a better Shylock—Macready's Shylock is inferior to it in conception, and Charles Kean's is not equal to it in power. With regard to the other characters, all that we will say of them is, that they were supported by amateug s. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF RAILWAY SHARES.- Yesterday information was received by the police that be tween ten and eleven o'clock, on the night of Saturday last, as Mr. Richard Avery, of No. 5, Parbon-place, Walworth, was crossing the road from the Alfred's Head to the Elephant and Castle, his coat-pocket was picked of no fewer than 6 95 railway and other shares. The robbery is supposed to have been committed by two women, of mean appearance, who walked behind Mr. Avery. THE CURRENCY. Amid the multitudinous din of Corn-law repeal, railway and potato panics, and other agitations which prevail, we hear the c l ear an d steady voices :,‘.f Some thinking men raised to direct public attention to Our national system of currency as an evil of far greater magnitude, and requiring more immediate reform than any other subject of public administration. More numerous and more frequent do these voices become every day. In almost every one of the numerous papers which have sprung up in support of the railway interest do we find able disquisitions on the subject of currency, in which the recent panic or sudden check which has been given to all enterprise, and the conse quent indiscriminate depreciation of railway property, are clearly traced to the mischievous operation of our money laws, and to the designs of selfish and interested parties, who profit and enrich themselves thereby at the expense of the general body of the community. Several of the provincial journals follow in the same strain. - In assemblies of commercial men accidentally brought to gether the subject is often mooted ; and in societies where public debates are held (for instance, in the Coger's Hall, in St. Bride's-lane, in this City), it is a theme of discussion which excites equal, if not greater interest, than the repeal of the corn-laws. In deed in this Hall it is felt that the two subjects of corn and currency are co-relative, and that no legislation should take place respecting the one without the other being included. On this point the editor of the Bankers' Circular, of the 28th ult., says, "Firm in our own faith—rendered additionally firm and conclusively fixed by the circumstances and events of this period of time, we have a thorough conviction that a Short ex perience of free trade, under our existing monetary sys tem, would cause all the manufacturing districts to pray for a deliverance from the effects of free trade." And if we may judge from the resuscitation, during the last few days, of Sir James Graham's celebrated pamphlet on Corn and Currency," by the Times, and the comments of the editor thereon, that leading journal coincides in opinion with the Bankers' Circular. It is generally sup posed that the Times is the organ of the bullionist party. But we cannot suppose it is ready wholly to sa crifice the landed interest of the kingdom ; and, there fore, if the corn-laws be doomed, we infer that it would become the advocate of an amended cur rency adapted to such an altered state of things. Under this view, its recent articles, which it promises to continue, may be regarded as a prelusory to a future decided advocacy of an amended money law whenever the proper time arrives. It is not only in the daily and weekly journals we find these indications of a growing opinion that our present system of money is un sound, but in those more deliberate emanations of the press, the monthly and quarterly periodicals, in one or )ther of which thereis always one or more articles con demnatory of Sir Robert Peel's monetary legislation— never any in favour of it. All this is beginning to have its effect. There can be no question—indeed, we know—that many members of the League are convinced of the pernicious influence of Peel's money laws, but refrain from diverting the atten tion of that powerful body from the single object they have in view, and which they have have so strenuously and undeviatingly pursued. But what is of considerable importance is, that in the Conservative Clubs at the West-end the subject has been introduced ; and in the agricultural protection societies there are many of the most intelligent of these bodies who are now thoroughly satisfied that the policy of the agriculturists clearly is, that in the event of Sir Robert Peel attempting to remove, or even in any degree further to lessen, protection, they should insist contem poraneously for a reform of the currency. To the persevering efforts of Mr. Thomas Attwood and the Birmingham economists to awaken public at- tention to the enormous wrong inflicted on the people by Peel's restriction of the currency—to the enlightened and philosophical writings of Mr. John Taylor, by far the most learned and luminous writer of the day on the subject—and to the disinterested and patriotic proceed ings of the Society for the Emancipation of Industry, established for the purpose of diffusing knowledge of his principles, and bringing them to a practical bearing, are we indebted for the progress which has been made in the public mind in arriving at clear notions on the subject, and for those symptoms which betoken the adoption, ere long, of a totally different system of money from w hat is at present established. The discussion brought on at the close of last session of Parliament by Mr. Spooner and Mr. Newdente, is to be renewed early in the ensuing session ; and we-anti cipate not merely the adhesion of a numerous body of Members to their views, but a very great excitement out of doors on the subject, for every day a knowledge of it is spreading not only in the middle classes, but amongst working men, by means of those journals which are po pular with them, and in which the "futal" effects of our present currency on the industry of the country are illustrated in a very talented and lucid manner, de noting a thorough knowledge of the whole subject on the part of the conductors of these journals. It will be recollected that, in the course of the debate referred to, Sir Robert Peel took occasion to raise a laugh among his supporters by sneering at the work of Mr. Allison, the learned historian of Europe, entitled, " England in 1815 and in 1845; or, a Su ffi cient and Contracted Currency Compared." Mr. Allison has recently published a " Postscript " along with a second edition, in which he notices the observations with 'hich the Premier was pleased to honour his work. A com pleter refutation, a more thorough exposure of ignorance and quackery than Mr. Allison's reply to the Premier, we do not recollect of any public man ever being visited with ; and we predict that, on the next occasion, Sir Robert will exhibit a little more modesty than he .did when he ventured to sneer at Mr. Allison. But this is not all. Not only are men wishing a re form of the national currency—not only are all reflective men engaged in business convinced of the necessity of something being done to protect' them against those periodical convulsions by which their property is sacri ficed, in order to uphold the credit of an exclusive corpo ration, whose capital does not exceed 14,000,000 L, and to enable a few Jew jobbers to profit by the ope ration, and which can only be done by breaking asunder the golden bands with which Feel's legis lation has bound them but they are beginning to have glimpses of a mighty power which has been hitherto allowed to lie dormant, and which power consists in an extensive mercantile association And enlightened organisation of mutual credit, independent altogether of the Legislature, whose sanction is not necessary for its successful working ; for although it is the prerogative of Government to fix and determine the legal tender money of the country as the common mea sure of value, yet with commercial obligations to pay any amount in that money, Government has no right whatever to interfere. Interfere it may arbitrarily, but constitutionally, on principle, it dare not interfere. The numerous exchange companies lately established'in Scotland, in defiance of, and to set at naught, Peel's banking monopoly, created in 1844, and the railway banks which have been projected, are illustrative of the consciousness of this power. Only let a proper ma elainery for its working be devised, and we are satisfied as wonderful a power will have been evoked in the moral world for the distribution of the products of industry, and the comfort, happiness, and enjoyment of the great body of the people, as the applicatjon of steam, through the inventive genius of Watt, was in the material world, with all its appliances, minute and gigantic, and which only require the " com plement " of a scientific currency or effective distributive agent to make these appliances subservient to the uses and enjoyments of all the people instead of the instru ments for enriching a few, and erecting a manufacturing and commercial oligarchy more grinding and oppressive to the people then the worst system of feudal vassalage that ever existed. UNIVERSIT Y INTELLIGENCE. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. BACHELORS OF MEDICINE-1845. EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS. PHYSIOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. Baines, Matthew (Schol. and Gold Medal)—King's Coll. Brown, Fred. James (Gold Medal)—University College. Radcliffe, Charles Bland—Leeds School of Medicine. Whittle, Ewing—Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Wayte, Charles Matthew—Guy's Hospital. Hensley, Frederick John—King's College. SURGERY. Brown, F. James (Schol. and Gold Medal)—Leeds Schoo 1 of Medicin e. Whittle, Ewing—Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Hensley, Frederick John—King's College. Palmer, Thomas—Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland. Wayte, Charles Matthew—Guy's Hospital. Steel, Samuel Hopkins—King's College. MEDICINE. Wayte, C. Matthew (Gold Medal)—Guy'sospital. Radcliffe, C. Bland (Gold Medal) —Lee ds School of Medicine. Brown, Frederick James —University Colle g e. ' Hall of Ireland. Palmer, Thomas—Apothecaries College of Surgeons in Ireland. Whittle, Ewing—Roy Hensley, Frederick John —King's 'ys.College. Medal)--University College. Brown, Fred. James (Go ld n h Kin 's College. Hensley, Frederick Jo . g D — w i gt STUCTURAL A ND PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANI. Whittle, Ewing (Gold Medal)—Royal Coll. of Surgeons in Ireland. DOCTORS OF MEDICINE--1845. FIRST DIVIRON. Davis, John Hall—University College. Ellison, James—St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Humble, William Edward—University College. Leonard, Thomas—University College. Powell, R. Hutchinson—Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland. Routh, Charles Henry Felix—University College. Savage, Henry—University College. Swayne, Joseph Griffiths—Bristol Medical School. Timms, Godwin Williams—University College. * Williams, Thomas—Guy's Ilospital. * To Dr. Williams was awarded a Gold Medal for a Com mentary on a Case in Medicine. LYMINGTON.—THE GAME-LAWS AGAIN.—On Sa• turday, the 22d inst., the following cases were brought before the Justices in Petty Sessions, Messrs. Beames, G. C. Daniell, Lys, Hicks, West, Munro, General Ro berts, Major Blakiston, and the Rev. A. J. Brine : William Hendey was charged' by the keepers, Goodrich and his son, in the employ of Mr. Parker of Pylewell house, with having unlawfully entered and been on cer tain enclosed land, called Owl Tree Wood, with a gun, on the night of the 14th of November inst., for the purpose of killing game. (Information laid under 9 Geo. 0. 69. ) 6 After a long hearing, it was put to the vote, wh a t should be the decision of th e ma g istrates. The result was._ for Hendey's committal, 3; for his discharge, . Blessrs. Beames,* Lys,* and West,* voting for the former ; General Roberts,* Major Blakiston , Messrs. Diniell, Hicks, Munro, and Brine, for the latter. Hendey was accordingly discharged. Those gentlemen whose names are marked with a 4 are game preservers. Need any comment be made as to the votes? How long are these abominable laws to last? And how long I I are game preservers to sit in judgment on poachers ?—ttiante lidtpeneknt.