The Sun. — London, England, 1850-11-08 00:00:00

son e was trying to break the windows ; he get ae and went to one of the wind ws, when t ' w 11 94 , :l t a id : ,;r7d.e. t h al e . 7. ,I t e a indows. ; , 11 • He ask , d them what they made no answer hut kept throw- Ile went downstairs; and re: his * s a l ?., tt ' v i 3 A him not to go out without some tttli;s; ahsitsici;.arrg something weapon, It appears Neer lying of that sun on paesing room to go out of doors, he seezel at the fire-place, and then sallied firth. tae ?Peara from his affidavit that he chased there two th ey he says, with the intention of ascertaining who e h .' w ere, and complainingof them to the police; beet eh.' be a curt, t_ reubt teem 'to bay they turned et l 'a T / erY gross language, they threatened to make an bats e t :, Or finish him, or do fur him, or do him some great Neale!, whereupon they ca .me to a struggle, .and n ' :eg or thinkine h •h 1' be orsted it being cue e .t. oil a w , Nest tw 46t, , ,,, o, he cried cut " eenrder," and a thraglas for assistance. Serne of them coma to ppealed to hls Bays wiedows, and they corroborated what he that he cued t ‘. warder Peal and ap eoureEde for eassistaenee. Then ue it appears m that in the tee !,` the struggle he unhappily struck one after- ta 1 41 4 , u _ l ',W o Pen the heed with ti,e poker, Nvhahhernp_ke „a:tied cut to be an engine-driver named when e stist -t ilts man fa, while the other decamped, and Ithe r aace came Thompson was carried to his home, Sanders lingered lingered for many days. In the neea.,.nttllaalv:: e , rest s read t: was apprehended upon the charge which important e th e i4t Your Lordship, and it became very important for ,l totonp.latLoa of of or juqice that an examination upon emu , a a dlica' declaration made uncler the immediate con death, should be obtained from the . injured nr aea . Yvhether that declaration was to turn in . ta .. loar e ', th St the prisoner, your Lordship will agree, is quite hi gh ' e rfal to the present question. As it had become , a coral ! , P ub lic duty that it should he taken, ac made y' we find that an appointment was j e th for th e 17th of August, at ten o'clock Bak, e morning, w h en mr. Barton, who re tiedserit Saabery, some little distance from Barton h eeded c ame to th e town of Berton, w h ere the in c ustody e rnal l was lying, and where the prisoner %las oath ~ or the purpose of taking the examination upon could bet eeele , , a be so taken, or at all events doing a het uellce o i"° o e for the purpose of perpetuating the evi that mr tr,fle wounded man. Unfortunately it appears con e , iv atzerten had many years before received what he of th a t " "be some insult from Mr. Gabon, the clerk Ain alagistretas acting at Barton. When he c_ame s aeetalgt that ail the parties were not quite assembled, 1- _ , _ Pre ta i, t ° ' L ave been offended, and he goes away to Hull, aPpe ers a f Z to retur n in the evening of the same day. I t : . oth ers, th r ,, ° , l33 „kr• Gabon's affidavit, amongst a varie w ty as o s vers e i s a'• elr. Gabon knowing that Mr. Barton that cif °atewhat sensitive in temper, and apprehending etetionl" 11 . ad been taken• he went to the railway / thieh h gglng to assure Mr. Barton that the delay s altogether .`'scarred, and which had been short, purpose ofsu'et"h",er loaposible to be avoided, and for the bits tt l o o ln ,g;thY angry feeling which Mr. Barton . might , "n bu t ' -- `"e sta; et ,,,.. L . , tee% Ir. rig ht i understo.ndia-g 11 Pon b e : "n °SINT,. pressed for Bartonß a n a r ton appointment,recei received .neirm. rather a e t • very ri ght a l `g P r e 2 sA by Mr. Gabon to know if he was that the appointment had boost Ilart fora acluarter past six o'clock in the evening, , .ei. I%l° °"ald ' land h a w, it " Tea l ", the train went -wey.- to - -og „t aPnears, that no train serves th at ti versa !) , from Hull to Barton exactly at t i ttle l e t They must come either a little earlier or . a tee mega., a and it so happened that the surgeon, with teys for clerk of the gentle men who are the attor ;ae Qt. Sang' Messrs . Frost, of Hull, came in the t :l l i ttle he:ferieagee• Wilt Mr. Barton.. They all arrived a ey an tx ()clock, about half-past five in fact, end baited Pr° eeeded to the Louse of the wounded man, and ltie Go i ticar the door till Mr. Gebon, the clerk, came. 1 , . ea , 4 t u i l u e l a t.iti t° o ‘ ;i t s: 1 11 ; 1 ' ot, tuse,t°l'37L,s,°°t five minutes le, fore the appointed e about ten minute's past six o'clock; a - Was Mr. Barton states the time men -Ild h e e , n ut a (planer past, but a quarter to six o e ' x cl e c . , c e k . ,.. ree et, to as . in a state of most extraordinary . . cu l m t - ten et ,. h a rtse, as it did, out of so unimportant a or by eia 0 ' h aut it is distinctly Morn and particularly x tfele e k z uen, that the time was to be a quarter•past theei l ' e ette a . T he poor man, when they all went intoquite eria ea 'as in a state of great agony, and it was ta. hitt 1: t , h at it Would be only an act of humanity, h kat) relieve to he done, should be done quickly, and the poor . IN ile ved 0F the of strangers, f . 4 411 d • presence man's for the room fa 'an it was filled partly by' the unhappy t he ' and partly by the magistrate, the clerk,and Sail tllitahlrnier, for the defence and the prosecution. th e 1) 0 raugistrate would not be prevailed upon. to allow Il Ltio ite tt i ettle r i cl af e t e te ed r, in b g ese ta:sge: on, nor would he g . o on with them 'els ' I Will read to your Lordship the details of although the poor man underwent ve bsadee:tailiation, it is fully believed that he would have th at :1 different statement had he then been made aware t°ll se:, Was r apidly approaching his dissolution. . I k ett e len , e ', however, of what occurred, and the . excit n e-_ WriteDF,!-°%lced upon the eor man by the quarrelling a d s, ill 1 0 ,',•g of the clerk an P d the magistrate, his testimon i * Geh l ' 0 the Purposes of / 'hi eh have heen in his favour, but that is not a justice. My client believes it itte re w L [tethe r it is for or against him it is clear that the 1 4 ,40 : 14 :c oaf e ve : k t elie w e ill take any cognizance of at all ma be a shape that ~ would , 0 a ju m sti a c d e e re . quire that the statement in such eetheadt ed w, trial of the • 'Lave been used on the prisoner 111, to irirneglo -ee Learned Gentleman then pro- Often aw e • -• the affidavit of Mr. Gabon, which, fir' B, L hen the foregoing facts, proceeded to state all:, arrived at the death-bed of Thompson n vi sitiea rt a °ll a , -graY addressed him thus—" I have d ee the %lie tit;e h alf an hour for you, and I di Ito a Morni ng . , fo r e', the deponent replied you are always insulting me:'' wa to s that the appointment It , ea quarter Barton Past six, but Mr. Barton would have it that Ntig e a t i tt quarter to six. The deportment d of as M t r he medi a tea a Painful sensation in the room, ip Baia 4 declared that the dying man, who an was writhing It, att on cold(' not bear any excitement , he implored . oat - n et to be influenced by any to D 4. pi q ue against him, Mr. Poszih i ee , through the painful examination I ,hro lle Q l ,' tpggesting that thequestions should be put as rapidly as Barton would not listen ' this t4 e medical man. /1 1aa re asoning, but loudl ll y r e . x . claimed, "I shall put by joclheations I think proper, without being dictated to dep ee tt ''' The examination was then h pr n o e e i e se ed h e a d d w th it r h ew ley n the Poot and the medical man, but t tar a l i Tr man into a state of stupor, a m e nd it was scarcely ,_vih n e!ced before it was ended. retiring ill., A " Poor man said, and as wereth e r y . , B , art h en signed i tstaT lr tela called out to Mr. Gabon, do you s hags ree without apologising?" Mr. Gabon Wy . r e e n plied, ce to hi 4 he had been the cause of any inconvenience tlti til e t il t : was sorry for it, but really the time fixed was a %ti re r, Past ma, whereupon Mr. Barton . exultingly ex ly t e , e ( '' Now he has apologised, lam satisfied." The Nit W o e in which deponent could account for this con- Yea r , "Itat_hY stating the fact that on two occasions many .a_ (1 44 --atuirtY, indeed—ago, he had to expose some i a, t ieall ot Mr. Barton. eer, , . by that eff td _, nice PATTESON—It does not appear . the It Oath whether there was any proposal to 1 / a s t e ,'„ I can't understand it, because the prisoner administer M r s - ,: t e , and he, ought have been examined upon . oath. l Pat "" n• lima—'Your Lordship sees that this brawl tilisesvterraeathing e sill'a The poor man was so exci kinited tam er Re conduct that the medical man pro lir. ~pro!eeding. signed the s e PA.TTESON--And derstana t it could not un aarlaination though ThomapppseuanrsDlr.Barton Mr, al . D . :Itlences ar e til la , —No .nough al,,,rcially dou s b e t r , io m n a s • L to ord s , Sanderson, r t s h o e n e , ell . s who, e- tete ! , e-"" re'Pected station Averdict of manslaughter was d ....i8 nm1 " 111: -"taule very of life—he is a wheelwright be has agale t , ; u . b the coroner's jury, an ia L• n al, sieve August nn last, been incarcerated trXtetint . terra, 1 -e°lll gaol e the first day of the when one of your Lordships the firlittil Out. The r e sult of the blow Sanderson lifer; l ot t ic: °, latnent, and e will lament to the end of his Inel te alßa the on being poor man did not recover sufficiently . to told tha t oclaration of the circumstances, yet, W oakt his death was near, be said be hoped Sanderson t IN true.'ot Is for the fit was his own. He said i • Ibis teT ,that 1:e broke fault was his own. He said it brokzs the windows, and that l he I Nth e d the prisoner when he came up, and the n b e o e w , 00 ( 1 0 e conseqtleece of a struggle which then commc San '4ls the result of an misconduct on the part of b _ '4ls b ' i I believe I have now stated the whole facts of all , o naht t hgentleman as following v444 ' 4'1'41 ea se. I will say nothing about the feelings oaer aoe . 0 aye actuated this . c t a l l„. iteon, but I will limit myself . his position tilntrY comes before the Court, that is, b e d of tt ea a _ to that in which o ni 3 a magistrate. oe 131allat(lin'-utori that 'this thewsgentlean must give the C ,art te ' . I think your Lordship will 4 fer h -11 °f his co dt t atisfaction of him. Itt r e - -,e call be relieved eue from the charge against in forte- :Justice PATTESON—Wo do not grant criminal A oforrup tioiaat'4;ll against magistrates except in ccse (hitt ~,A . ,- ‘ : r u e, there may be some cases of gross e iscon- Il e oie - ,7 4 compels the Court to interfere. There ile is sort 5-""IGI attributed to this getleman of any kind or litra-hreßerds either the prisoner or the dying man. 41 Ta n - Lord. Mn.e, a- • • ma —Certainly not, my e a risen from atilfelle-L. D. a°1330 ill ti : tice PATTESON—It appears to hay Mn. 14"Inper respecting the clerk? HlLL—yes, my Lord ; it is. ch has re sulted.? and pertinaciously indulged in, win ill-temper tlema 1u a great failure of duty on the part of this gen .: Cipl e P. I apprehend, my Lord, that the general pri ... fully i t a a t hia, that whenever magistrates„ do wrong wil for te •`"°3' are answerable to this Court. The common cor n • et . - lia w hich such charges are made is generally that be t, Ption, Corruption is, no doubt, a great offence,_ s. tr ate r aY Lord, it is not the only offence which . a ixi!gi Here the ~sau comm it in the administration of justice. f ro ,"!SCOlulllct results from no matter of accident,but PosT 11l ' w ill on the part of the magistrate, who first 4 lter liata a great public and a great Christian duty, and . traitzweards allows it to be entirely neglected and neu heti dby an uuseemly brawl with another officer of °Milsclerk, Mr Justice UP p r : ;; PATTESON—It will be difficult to draw f s t his e - :twr alation under the peculiar circumstances of ti a . ase. but you ay take a rule to show cause, and e eee' wha t answer m he can give.—Rule nisi accordingly.t e°MIVION P LEAS. —(I'HIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) I S wA rtNER CARRELL AND ANOTHER. • w as V. 81, 0 all action to recover damagvs for an exces- Van r str ess, tried b efore the late L or d Chief Justice, at *ll4 sitti ega in Middl esex , and in which a verdict mgr en for the defendants. ver t 3,PltEY moved fora rule to show cause why hd th. 'et should nut be set aside, and a new trial , I,L - ground of •i• • Nr, Benjamin Bond 1.1 „=suit ection. \Te r , . 1 ., was the landlord of the Oriental Hotel, ~3s hie b,: t o r k e e e r t: Oxford -street, arid the other defindant The of iginol tenant of the hotel wasa Kszi rson 11,411:led Bishop, who assigned his stock, furniture,. .44 31 °° :twill in the ' premises to Warner, the plaintiff. tr a o L a ulY, 1 849. Bishop's cry ditors examined into L ana ket ien, and issued a fiat in buckruptcy cpm It lx t i e toeisenger took po.ssession of the whole 1;046; 10 th of the tame month. The defendant, uf Patin a (L l a no OR the 21st, in eatilifttetion bG etj . 83 11 11 Ord , go . lot for ) 54 ' 0 b •oo to ;dleo ree i da 00 0,,- ss f 18) 919 to 3P 6i a ll 50 er 1 : 'g o o d r ie r. Or m ia °TO side r olls il 3 g„dje) PD- peor di a )o'6- k•S' e o f , 10 10 0 4 10, 01(0 000 hos 'Pt . ' ER' oireci yip , o coo' st I" et' oil' 11, I ' 0 ye ! so' 3, 0 1 . 0 i0 for 1 41 001 i ro le for I e ite a tbo. ?Lie ( ' 0 9 c iele f il efid ea le (14 15 f; ads e e lr Of g I,be v' P_,„s 0 UP tO. , e dea I t ti; ri , d io l ; lee b 9 el l r, Of , $b t o, :004'e Y~) SUN, LON DON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 0150. Venetian kingdom, might be maintained. But when we consider the independent spirit of the Hungarians, the heartburnings which must naturally prevail in consequence of the cutting in of the Russians, the atrocities committed in Galicia, the distrust of Austria on the part of the Bohemians and Transylvanians, and the events which have occurred from the death of Francis the First until 1848, arising from disregard to the signs of the times, when reform, without revo lution, was certainly practical, and when we take into account the event of the late revolutions, and the conduct of the Government since that event ; and, above all, the notorious poverty of the Imperial trea sury, we may well be amazed at the warlike move ments and the enormous numbers of the Austrian army. A war in such circumstances must end in a total disruption of the empire. .in which, although there has been no fighting, there has been a signal victory. Constitution alism and its party are crushed, aad we may depend upon it, that the victors will not be content without adding prize money to their laurels and pro ceeding to share the spoils of the dupes. We may depend upon it that the Conferences at Vienna will not be spent in constitution-mongering. The three powers that met in the last century for the partition of Poland are now to meet for nothing less than the partition of Germany. And the Ministerial revolu tion which has taken place at Berlin merely means that Prussia, instead of being the victim, is to be cue of the victimisers. We have little doubt that one of the terms of accord between the rival empires of the north and south will be an exchange of Baden for Hesse, the Prussians withdrawing from the former, the Austro-Bavarians from the latter. holstein will no doubt be thrown to Denmark ; but we are much mistaken if flamburgh be not at the same time flung to Prussia. Bavaria cannot be contented with less than the possession of Frankfort, which, by the by, has been already delivered up to Bavarian troops. And free cities, we may be certain, will be no longer tolerated in the new absolutist federation. What part in the spoil Russia is to have does not appear. But no doubt the moment will be chosen for completing tae outopsie of Poland. Its complete division into Russian provinces, and absorption in the Russian empire, has been for some time in progress. Poland has been already divided into Greek bishoprics, not as Cardinal Wiseman has divided England, but with large landed property attached to them. The Greek churches, which otherwise would have remained empty, have been filled by the Russian military and employes. And the transfer of the imperial residence for a large portion of the year to Warsaw will come plete the work begun., Whether there may not be some advance of the Russian frontier westward v seems doubtful, Prussia, of course, receiving indemnity west ward; and whether Russia, by virtue of this ad vance, may not insist, on her old pretension, of be coming one of the German Confederation, is another question. But, indeed, as acknowledged arbiter and suzerain over the two great German monarchs, Rus sia already rules that Federation. As to Prussia, we admit that there was no medium policy open to it. Belong it must either to the constitutional west or the absolutist east. If supported by neither, it must have fallen a prey to both. And whilst democracy undermined it on one side, the great military powers would have overrun it on the other. The noble words of Condorcet are well known, in which be said he was left no choice but to be either executioner or victim: On me Mersa 10 ehoix d'erre bourreau ou victime; Je choisis le malheur, et leur laissai le crime. To Prussia was presented a similar alternative. In stead of choosing to be victim, however, that monarchy has preferred to enact executioner. And in that capacity we shall no doubt soon see Prussia at work. The Times, _which has an eppetite for devouring a Schleswig-Hoisteiner for breakfast every morning, draws a formidable picture of an Austrian army marching from the Maine into the Danish peninsula. The Times need be in no alarm for any such expe dition, which would be more disgraceful to the Prus sians than for themselves, to put down their friends ef Holstein. But it is the rule of the Diet to commis sion neighbours to put down each other. And Ger many has always a tame elephant ready to belabour and crush a wild one. The accord of Warsaw allow ing the Frankfort Diet to fairly represent all the states which adhere to the Diet, lles.e and Holstein being amongst them; the Bavarians have been com missioned to pacify Hesse, and DO doubt the King of Hanover will he empowered to do the same by the Holsteiners, which he can do without crossing the Prussian territories. What will be the feelings of all Germans whilst this is going on we leave all who know or who have lately seen them to imagine. Nor is it only the feelings of the peasant or the citizen that are to be considered, but those of the soldier. The Hessian officers and soldiers, discarded and proscribed, will no doubt quit the electorate, and be hospitably entertained and supported throughout Germany. What feelings, what judgments, will be universally excited by' such a spectacle ? There will he no up rising, we belieie. Parties are too deeply separated, the democrats too ulcerated,:and for the moment enjoy too heartily the disgrace of Prussia and the constitu tionalists, to think of helping either. But the nature and mass of their sentiments are dangerous and in fl iinmatory to a degree beyond comprehension. Talk of the French mind being in a dangerous state of irritability and restlessness : what is it to the choke damp that now invades and circulates through every crevice and passage of the German mind, waiting for the flame that is to produce the explosion? Politicians may call this a reconciliation, journalists may call it peace, and the dealers in public funds may think it a most auspicious and pacific 'settlement. But there is not an experienced or thinking man that does not regard it as the moat perilous and uncertain state, into which the population and the fortunes of Central Europe could be thrown. DRURY-LANE THEATRE Last evening M. Jullien inaugurated his return to this theatre with a grand bal masgue, conducted on a scale of splendour and elegance for which these kind of entertainments under his management have long been remarkable. The house was throughout fitted up with exquisite taste, and when crowded by the motley votaries of the dance presented a spectacle of re - ally gay magnificence. Cut-glass chandeliers and lustres of all shapes and siz?s were fixed to the boxes or pendant from the ceiling. Banners with brilliant devices and garlands of artificial flowers chequered the roof and panelling of the building, which was festooned very daintily with white and gold draperies. Immediately over the commencement of what is usually the stage, and consequently directly in front of the orchestra, hung the gorgeous crystal curtain, which a year ago excited for the first time so much admiration. The lord of the revels was as a matter of couve the " cynosure of neighbouring eyes" directly he made his appear ance, and was greeted with genuine and prolonged enthusiasm. He wielded his baton with his accus tomed dexterity, and kept the attendant company in almost perpetual motion, either with the quadrille, the valse, or the polka. The lighting, the flowers, the crystal curtain, the flags, the music, the dance, and the , various costumes (some beautiful, and some filia -1 tune), rendered the whole scene one of splendour and animation. Added to the numerous dancers, the boxes and galleries were crowded with spectators. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. To know exactly how much mischief may be ven tured upon'with impunity is knowledge suffi c i ent for a little great man.—Eliza Cook's Journal. MANCHESTER THADE E EroRT, TIIUR:..DAY, NOV. 7.—There is no change in to-day's market. Holders of goods and Yarns are very firm, but little business has b een OW/. " A rigorous system, nearly in e very respect pro hibitory, was enforced by that soveereign. An expen sive army of preventive custom- house agents was stationed around the frontiers, and monopolies of trade and manufactures, to be earn id on by Govern ment, or by individuals, were estal dished. Of these, the monopoly of sugar granted tot :ertain individuals, and the monopolies of salt and tole icco, as managed by the corrupt employes of the Het/hammer (finance department) were the most ruinous to the treasury. " The late revolution, for we c annot consider it under any other term, was caused by the denial of those political, and representative rights, which the progress of civilization, and the diffusion of know ledge, among the middle and indus,;trious, rendered it impossible, either for the sovereign or the aristocracy, longer to withhold. The financial history of Austria is too instructive for us to cast it asi de, when inquiring into the condition of Germany. " Maria Theresa, rather than free her empire from the barbarous shackles of restriction, and consequently increase her revenue, descended to the humiliating expedient of public begging in the churches ; and so far was she reduced in her finances., that, to secure, in her need, the alliance of France, she condescended to correspond and pay court to Fari Della and Madame de Pompadour, both royal misti.esses ; and, both of whom the virtuous, and chaste, empress would no doubt have immured in a convent, if she had had them at Vienna. "The first wars of the French revolution, not only soon emptied the treasury, but the public debt was increased by every possible expedi t lit, to an amount which was cleared off by the most; discreditable coup de main on record. "Count Wallis, called by the Emperor from the post of Oberst-burg-graf in Prague, - was appointed Mi nister of Finance in Vienna, for the whole empire. He soon perceived that the fin ancial measures of Counts Sauran, Zichy, and O'Donnell, from 1790 to 1811, were mere temporary expedients for momentary distress, and not calculated for permanent income to provide for future exigencies. Voluntary contribu dons had been demanded; the silver of the churches had been used; a base currency, intrinsically of half its nominal value, had been issued • the exportation of the precious metals had been prohibited ; a com pulsory loan of seventy-five millions of florins had been exacted, to diminish the exorbitant amount of imperial bank-notes which were issued ; additional enormous duties had been laid upon sugar and all tropical produce ; the post-move y had been raised two or three times ; a property- tax of one-half per cent. had been levied ; and the :Emperor, who had publicly promised to issue no imperial bank-notes for the future, was again compel'Led to have recourse to that ruinous expedient. All was in vain I The following statement has become history :-- "The floating benke notes had irn perceptibly risen to 1.060,000,000 of florins (106.0005000/. sterling) ; the amount of the interest paying debt was not exactly ascertained ; it was, doubtless, even; more considerable. the Fealties of all public officers and the expenditure of the state had risen enormously en proportion to the depreciation of currency ; all ttmse evils were now to he remedied by the bold project of the determined Count Wallis. "Toe coup d' &at which that minister carried into execution was approved of by his late Majesty the Emperor Francis. On the lleh of February, 1811, the orders were printed with the' greatest secresy in the Imperial printing-office ; a copy of the warrant was sent sealed to all the governors of the empire, who were to open it at the same hour, on the 15th of March, 1811 ; these orders were instantly to be acted upon, without remonstrance, and without the assent of the states; and they were promulgated amidst the roll of military drums. This master-stroke consisted in the substitution of quittances for bank-notes, so that five florins of the latter were pl2id by one florin of the former, in all public and private. engagements. " The whole financial system. of the empire was thus changed; the usual notion of right and property was entirely violated by a general national bank ruptcy. v The war of 1 813 drew forth a fresh issue of 212,000 ; 000fl. in paper, besides anticipation-scheine (notes issued to be paid by anticipated lands) to three times that amount. When Count Stadion succeeded Count Wallis the paper money became so valueless that he found it necessary to reduce it from 250 to 100. In consequence, the property of minors, hos , pitals, all institutions, and capitalists, was reduced from one hundred to twenty by Wallis, and from twenty to eight by Stadion—that is, in the two na tional bankruptcies, creditors of all kinds received only eight 113rins in state paper for every hundred due to them in silver. Yet all this was of no comparison to the corruption of morals introduced amongst the people. Every one endeavoured by all or any means to make up for his unmerited loss. The per manent disadvantage to the state was still greater. It was compelled to borrow, after the peace, first 20,000,000, and afterwards 38,000,000 from Roths child, and soon after nearly as much from other con tractors." Twice afterwards the Government we-e guilty of acts that nearly, though not ao flagrantly, dishonoured the national faith. In 1831 a loan of near 100,000,000 florins was con tracted ; and unfortunately the expenditure of Austria has ever since exceeded the receipts : while Prussia, under far inferi9r natural advantages, paid off an im mense amount of her national debt, and will, if neces sary, be in five years altogether unincumbered. No one can tell the present state of the Austrians, further than that the land is overflowed with a paper circu lation not worth a twentieth of its nominal value there is little doubt that the Empire is threefold in a state of bankruptcy. No calamity can ever justify the national bank rup cy of a respectable Government. A French wrier contended "That in an absolute Government like France, the reigning prince has only a temporary interest in the revenue of the state, and consequently that it would be not only a prudent, but even a legal operation to annihilate the public debt at the commencement of each reign." This diabolical maxim may have been read b).. Count Wallis?, but he should have remembered, as 'imperial Minister, whtt 1 King John of Prance declared, "That if honour had fled the world, it ought still to be found in the bosom of princes." If Austria were as clear of financial difficulty as Prussic ; and it a liberal revenue system of commer cial and financial legislation were established, we might still consider it possible that the integrity of the empire, with the exception of the Lombardo- FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMESe—The Prussian game is now almost played out. The fall of M. de Radowitz is the signal of the defeat, and, we hope, the abandonment of that policy of the Court of Berlin which had sacrificed the just influence of Prussia in the Confederation, and her national weight at home, to a chimerical union of the minor German States, which prolonged the Danish contest by a singular mixture of vacillao ticn and bad faith, and which threatened at last to embrof I the whole of Germany in actual war. Like M. Triers in the autumn of 1840, the Prussian Mi nister has lost his footing at the very moment when it became necessary to resort to the most extensive mili tary preparations to support his policy ; but there is this important difference between the two cases — that in France the King perceived the danger of his position, and turned out the Triers Ministry by his refusal to authorise their armaments; whilst in Prussia Frederick William has himself been the most eager partisan of this desperate and im practicable line of conduct, and the check which has removed M. de Radowitz from office falls with equal, or even greater force, on the person of the Sovereign. In this respect the mo derate members of the Prussian Cabinet have gained a constitutional victory over the heated and violent ad visers of the Court, end Count Brandenburgh, with M. de Manteuffel have rendered fresh services to the stability of the monarchy and the peace of Europe. The plans which M. de Radowitz had brought for• ward and promoted for a time with so much eagerness, had, in fact, crumbled under his feet before the late crisis; and his position became the more ludicrous as he was rushing to the verge of war in defence of a project which bad already lost all shape and cohe sten. The question was, in fact, reduced to a m e re point cf personal vanity and consistency. Individually AI. de Radowitz could not recede from the position to which he had pledged himself ; but his resignation happily removes the principal difficulty which de layed or prevented the settlement of these differences. There seems to be no doubt that Count Branden burgh was authorized to propose at Warsaw the abandonment of the scheme of the Prussian Union, and to accede, under certain conditions, to the reor ganizetion of the Germanic Diet. A negotiation was opened upon these terms, and Russia declared herself adverse to the rejection of them. If, as we hope, there exists on both sides a sincere d es i re to re store the federal union of all Germany, the conditions cannot present any invincible difficulty, and the Aus trian Government would be highly reprehensible if it attempted to avail itself of the present turn in the affairs of Germany to impose any sort of onerous conditions on the Prussian party, or to assume a tone of recrimination end menace. In the meantime the Federal party and the Frankfort Assembly have shown that they are quite prepared to act in support of the authority they chins The mission of the Austrian officer to Kiel, which has recently been ad verted to, was intended to convey to the Stadtholderate the terms of that resolution of the federal authority which was taken on the 26th of October for the termina tion of the war, and published by ourselves a f ew days afterwards. As we had anticipated, the mission of the Prussian agent, General Hayn, proved a com plete failure, for what he recommended under the shape of ass armistice was, in truth, a prolongation of the burdens of the war without any prospect of a de finite result. The intimation of the Frankfort au thority is of a different character, for it is, in fact, that summons to desist from hostilities which we have so long hoped for, proceeding in this instance, from the federal power which is competent to enforce it, with out any violation of the territorial rights of Germany. It becomes a matter of perfect indifference, under these circumstances, whether Lord Cowley's signa ture of the ratifications recently exchanged is or is not a recognition of the Power with which he signed. For, happily, the time is past when the dilatory and nugatory mediation of this country can be made a pretext for prolonging the hostilities Lord Palmerston bad undertakers to terminate. It is very much to be desired that the German States themselves should take effectual measures to heal the wounds and repair the injuries which have mainly been caused by their guilty connivance ; and, if the obstinate resistance of the Kiel Stadtholderato should render any armed intervention necessary, the presence of federal troops in Holstein is infinitely pre ferable to the invasion or occupation of any part of the Danish dominions by any foreign Power. It would even seem possible that, in the event of a posi tive interference, Prussia would herself anticipate the march of the federal corps by preparing to occupy Holstein, as she has done a part of Hesse. We have no doubt whatever that Lord Palmerston will even- tually recognise the restored Germanic Confederation, but it will he with this difference, that he will be compelled by the force of events to accept with re luctance what he might have promoted with eager ness i for, if the part he h as t a k en i n th e affairs of Germany had been as far-seeing and practical as it has been blind and petulant we should not now have to regret deoversire t t h thh e ee h twe u rh m mo i li l en i a ao t t i fi n o 6 n , extension pacificationf f : cotre Danishd should oluvl war,de we have any reason to deplore beene means by which of the e ascendancye ven sincerely this and of the unhappy dissensions andwhich have now for many months tarn asunder weakened the prin cipal German States. will have etrhman As to those objects, there can be no difference of opinion between an English states man and the Emperor Nicholas himself. But the question was, and is, w h et ' these objects are. to be effected in a manner favourabler to the advancement of liberal principles and to the 4, connexion of Germany m ith England, or whether result is to be at tained by the sacrifice of liberal ila principles, and by an increased subserviency of German interests and powers to the policy of Russia. o The result is, un happily, one which he who runs may read. Judged by, that result, the whole policy of those who es tranged this country fro m the Austria and Bavaria, and staked their credit an schemes of Prussia, is a succets of thevislona j a y s , total f a il u r e , since it ended in the ruin of the cause our Government affected to favour, and the triumph of an authority essentially opposed to our own. In th e various emergencies which may arise, either in the East or in the West of Europe, the prodigious diplomatic aivance which made Russia has indubitably'or later, prove will, sooner prove to he an event of the most serious importance. If her attention were again actively directed to the Ottoman Empire, we have lost, and she has gained, the support or acquiescence of the Germ= Pow ers in that quarter of the globe. If events in France should give rise to another change less favourable to the maintenance of peace, the Emperor of Russia would find himself without an effort at the head of a conti nental coalition of the most formidable character. We are at a loss to discover any advantages which this country has derived from its m arked deviation from our traditional policy, and we are persuaded that the Emperor of Russia owes a great portion of his ascendancy in Germany to the eccentric and un friendly attitude of England. Lord Palmerston courted, it is true, the revolutionary party and its leaders with incredible eagerness and credulity. He based the alliance of the two nations on the duration of their ephemeral power, but w hen they lay buried under the ruins of their own topheavy schemes, be found himself without a frien d among the regularly constituted authorities of the nation. We hope that with the cessation of these projects and the overthrow of that dangerous policy of which M. de Radowitz was the ostensible leader, we ma y enter upon a more rational period. It is impossible, for their own di g .. nit y and security, that the Germ an States c a n cherish the idea of a strict Russian alliance ; and, even now, a skilful and friendly policy on the part of this coun try would remind them that Great Britain is not less concerned in their union an d their welfare. With Prussia, especially, we mg renew the most amiceble relations whenever she abandons or discards the men and the measures which have suspended our confi dence and forfeited our esteem ; and we should view the position of danger and humiliation in which she is placed by the enormous forces opposed to her on the Russian and Austrian frontiers with more sympathy and apprehension, i f w e could forget that she has ac cumulated these impending calamities by her own folly and iajustice on her own head, DAILY NEWS. —The abandonment of all the popular principles of German unity, and the sacrifice of all independent and constitutional system of go vernment in Germany, having been consummated in "Warsaw, in accordance with the desires and congratu lations of our contemporaries, it is quite misplaced of them to continue to commiserate Prussia, or to repre sent it, as the Times does, threatened by a dismem berrnent of Silesia. Let it not he supp ose d t hat it accords with either Russia's policy or interest to weaken Prussia. All that Russia requires is, that Prussia should be, like herself, absolutist and military, and in the concerns of Europe, that the voi • ce and the weight of Russia, of Austria, and of Prussia should go together, as they were wont to do in the good old times. This triple alliance being fully restored, Russia, instead of seeking to curtail the territories of Prussia, will be inclined to extend them. The events of the last weeks have formed a kind of *campaign, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Tbe glorious letter of Lord John Russell to the Bishop of Durham, leaves little to be desired but that means should be devised, in the absence of Parlia ment, for giving opportunities of expressing adherence to his leadership so well begun. The question of law may demand consideration ; but so far as I can recol lect from the authority on former occasions men tioned as my domestic attorney-general, the statute of 13 Elizabeth, c. 2, remains in full force by express provision of the statute of 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 102, except the " suffering pains of death" which by the first statute is enacted. Ido not suppose anybody wants to see St. Pudentiana quartered ; but it would be well to try the law of the case. We see now what was preparing for us, when a French army was restoring the Pontifical power in Rome, and the same organs that hounded on Don Carlos in Spain, were found at the table of the French general in support of the same mission. It is not clear, either, that the case is mended, by the re ported movements of 200,000 Austrians and Bavarians towards the liberal states of Germany. There is a medium always between needless &arm and careless• ness ; and it is well we see the question so far in such good hands. The thing more immediately in our power at present, is to adhere. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, Nov. 8, 1850. A VOYAGE ROUND THE I%o3LD.—There is at present lying in the Mersey a ship called the Hannah, which will leave this port with the first fair wind under novel and „... _ peculiar circumstances. The Hannah is a fine frigate-look ing weasel, of 450 tons burden, which has been purchased by a Manchester gentleman, named Gardner, who has had her fitted up in a first-rate style for the accommodation of him• self and family, as well as several friends. The between. decks have alsO been made exceedingly — comfortable for the reception of a posse of servants. Mr. Gardner, who is a gentleman of fortune, intends making a voyage round the world, and has made preparations for sailing from country to country for the space of live years. The vessel, which is in first-rate order, carries everything necessary for the perfect enjoyment of Mr. Gardner's novel and lengthy voyage, and is commanCed by Captain Moodie, who has engaged a crew of picked men. Whether Mr. Gardner has any particular adventure in view, such as the discovery and appropriation of some new and rich country, over which he and his friends may have dominion, we know not; but, whatever secret ob jects he may have, we wish hint fair and prosperous breezes, and a kindly reception in all the lands off which he may anchor.-- Lirerpool Times. ACCIDENT AT THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY STATION.—BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 7.—A singular and annoying accident occurred at the junction of the Derby and London and North-Western station this morning. There is a lift betwixt the elevation of the two lines, and therefore carriages are obliged to be lifted by machinery from the Derby up to the Bristol line. It appears that between 3 and 4 o'clock this morning, and after the mail train left for Glou cester, a goods train passed over the viaduct which crosses Lawley-street, and from some cause not yet explained an ex plosion took place. As to the cause there are various opi nions; the most popular one is that gas had collected under the dry arches of the railway, and that an accidental spark from the engine rendered the explosion inevitable. It is somewhat singular that, with the exception of the stoker of the goods engine, no person connected with the train was seriously injured. But the results have otherwise been fearful; the parapet wall and masses of brickwork were propelled from an elevation ..of 50 feet, and lay in large masses, showing the violence of the shock. Numbers of men are now actively engaged in repairing the serious da mage done. Matrimony is a circus. Many noble creatures enter' it, run round and round, and kick up a fine dust, but few get properly trained and broken to it. —Eliza Cook's Journal. MISQUOTATION.—" He who runs may read."—No such passage exists in the Scriptures, though it is constantly quoted as from them. It is usually the accompaniment of expressions relative to the clearness of meaning or direction, the suppositious allusion being to an inscription written in very large characters. The text in the prophet Habakkuk is the following :—" Write the vision and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." (Ch. ii., 2.) Here, plainly, the meaning is, that every one reading the vision should be alarmed by it, and should fly from the impending calamity; and, although this involves the notien of legibility and clearness, that notion is the secondary, and not the primary one, as those persons make it who misquote in the manner stated above.—Notes and Queries. DEATH IN A CAB.—On Wednesday a sergeant in the Royal Artillery engaged a cab, giving directions to be set down at the North Kent Railway, London-bridge. On ar riving at the terminus the driver alighted from his seat to afford egress from the vehicle, and he was not a little sur prised when, opening the door, he found the passenger inani mate. Life being pronounced quite extinct, the body was conveyed to the Green Man, where it awaits tht coroner's inquest. It is thought that an apoplectic fit was the cause of death. LOVE AT FIRST SlGHT. — Lately two soldiers met two girls in the streets of the fair city of Perth, smiled, talked, proposed on the instant, and on the instant were ac cepted. On the ensiling Sabbath the banns were proclaimed, and the next day the minister was engaged and the festival prepared. But the commanding officer had heard of the affair, closed the barracks, and tempted a new illustration of the proverb that " Love laughs at locksmiths," for in a day or two the ,four inamoratas were made twain, and " woo'd and =OA an' a' that, "..-,Perth raper. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Last evening Mr. Macready played, for the last time but one, his celebrated character of Werner. We shall not now enter into a criticism upon a per formance the lofty merits of which are universally known and admitted. It is one of our eminent tra gedian's greatest efforts, and should be seen by all who reverence histrionic genius in its highest and mostoinstructive manifestations. We never saw him act better than on this occasion. All the masterly touches of nature with which his delineation of the character abounds, and the whole of the magnificent last scene, his conception of which is perfectly sublime, were given with as great effect as ever, and elicited most enthusiastic applause. Mr. Davenport made another considerable advance in public favour by his admirable version of the dißicult and important part of Ulric. Mrs. Warner was highly effective as Josephine, and Miss Reynolds made a very pretty and interesting Ida. The house was crowded. QUEEN'S THEITRE. A new meiodraraz, entitled The Pirate Queen; or the Cataract of the Grants Rock, was produced at this theatre last evening, in the course of which the introduction, as beautitul as it was novel, of a torrent of real water on the stage produced an immense effect. For variety of scenery and magnificent cos tumes the melodrama has seldom been surpassed. The piece was strongly csst. We mutt especially commend the acting and singing of Miss Farrell, who made her first appearance on this occasion ; this lady will prove a great acquisition to the company. Mrs. Boyce evinced considerable talent as the Pirate Queen, while Messrs. Green, Dean, and Bigwood in their respective parts added greatly to the success of the piece, the quaint acting of the last mention2d gentleman being greatly appreciated by the audience. At the conclusion the principal artists were called before the curtain, and the piece was announced for repetition every evening. THEATRE ROYAL, MAN CHESTER During the past month the frequenters of this theatre have been gratified, through the aid of a most efficient operatic company, with 4 series of admirable performances. Among the various pieces produced have been several of the masterpieces of the great composers. One of the most brilliant, successes among these was the rendering of the chef d oeuvre of Mozart. Almost all the principal parts were sup ported excellently well, but Borrani appears to have excited a genuine furor in the character of Dan Giovanni. His splendid voice and artistic singing tells to admiration in the duet "La ci darem," gain ing him a nightly encore both in that and in the " Serenade." Everything shows that Manchester is still resolved to maintain its fame for musical taste and discrimination. ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF AERIAL .'VA. VIGATION IN AMERICA. :From the New York Herald of Oztober 22.) TAGGET'S FLYING MACHINE.—Mr. Tagget bac been at great expense in preparing a place to show the people of New York ho can navigate the air. "His ascension will conic off on Wednesday, the 30th inst., near the corner of Twenty-Third-street and Fifth avenue, at three, P.M. Mr. Tagget informs us he has made two successful ascensions, and travelled 75 miles in an hour and twenty minutes, making four different angles. This machine has been on exhibition at 135, Fulton-street, for two weeks. Many scientific men have ex mined it, and we believe all concur in saying they believe he has accomplished the fact of navigating the air. We were incredulous in believing the air would ever be navigated, but after critically examining the in vention, we mu!t say that we' can see no difficulty but what Mr. Tugget has overcome. We shall be present at the ascension, and hope all scientific men will attend." Such is the statement of the New York Herald, and to this we may add that in one of Mr. Tagget's ascen sions, wich came off at Lowell, in Massachusetts, on the 4th July, the New York Journal of commerce states that Mr. Tagoet proceeded out to sea a considerable distance, and 'having promised to return to Lowell, he turned his machine about, and would undoubtedly bare fulfilled his promise of returning, had not some part cf his machinery broke, and he descended safely at Middle ton, only six miles from Lowell, though the entire dis tance he had travelled was 75 miles, performed in an hour and twenty minute. Mr. Tagget has patented his machine, but neither of the above papers give a description of it, with the ex ception of thq. Journal of Commerce stating that it is at tached to a balloon. A LEAPING MACHINE FOR, EXPLORING PANTIES. The following is a later account from Mr. Wise, the American aeronaut, of this singular suggestion for a leaping machine to assist exploring tourists:—lf we take a balloon of limited size, about eighteen feet in diameter each way, it will, when inflated with hydrogen gas, be capable of raising 160 pouuds independent of its own weight. Now, if this be so fastened to a man's body as not to interfere with the freo use of his arms end legs, he may then ballast himself so as to be a trifle heavier than the upuo tendency of the balloon, which will ha nearly in equililnia. If, then, he provides himself with a pair of wiags, made on the bird principle, with socket joints to slip over his arms at the shoulders, and a grasping handle internally of each one at the distance from the shoulder-joint of the wing, as the distance is from the shoulder to the hand, he may beat against the air with his wings, and bound agaiust the earth with his feet, so as to make at least a hundred yards at each bound. This the writer has often done in the direction of a gentle wind, with the aid of his feet alone, after his balloon had descended to the earth, and on one occasion traversed a pine forest of several miles in extent by hounding against the tops of the trees. Such a contrivance would be of inestimable value to ex ploring expeditions. Landings to otherwise inaccessible mountains, escapes from surrounding icebergs, explora tions of volcanic craters, traversing vast swamps and morasses, walking over lakes and seas, bounding over isthmuses, straits, and promontories, or exploriog the cloud-eapred peaks of Chimbarazo, could thus all be easily accomplished. IItELAND. DUBLIN, THURSDAY.—DEATH OF MR. J. K. JOHN.- STON.—Died on the morning of the 6th Novem ber, at No. 24, Eden-quay, John Kent Johnston, Esq., in the 48th year of his age. The late Mr. Johnston has, for many years, been acting as general newspaper agent in this country, and was the princi pal means of first expediting the transmission of news papers through the General Post-office as well as by his own independent expresses. DEATH OF MICHAEL HEAD DROUGHT, ESQ.—The friends of this gentleman will regret to learn that his death took place on Saturday evening, at his resi dence at Harristown, in the Queen's county, from a malignant fever, caught at the Donaghmore poor house, in the discharge of his duty as one of the guardians of that late establishment. Mr. Drought wasfor many years master of the Ossory Club hounds. A GOOD LANDLORD.—A tenant farmer from Gra nagh came to our office yesterday and showed us a receipt from his landlord, Stephen Roche, Esq., for 201., although this gentleman actually received only 2s. 4d. out of the sum due. He allowed a reduction in the rent of 11/., for a cow that died 51., for poor rates the entire 3/. 17s. Bd., and the balance was handed to him by the tenant—namely, 2s. 4d. ! This speaks for itself. CUFFE-STREET SAVINGS BANK.—The Upper Castle yard has been besieged for the last few days by the depositors of the late Cuffe-street Savinga Bank. THE NEW NOVEL, " NATHALTE," by Miss KAVA.• NAGH, author of " Woman in France," "Madeleine," &c., is published this day by Mr. Colburn, and may be had at all the Libraries. Also just published :-2. Lettice Arnold, by the author of " Emilia Wyndham."-3. Lamia, A Conies ion.-4. Light and Darkness; or, Mysteries of Life, by Mrs. Crowe.--5. Singleton Fontenoy, by James Hannay, Esq., late R.N.-6. The Luttrells ; or, The Two Marriages, by the author of " Shakspeare and his Friends."— 7. Our Country, by John Mills, Esq.-8. Petticoat Government, by Mrs. Trollope.-9. Claude, by Miss Molesworth. Also just ready, Love and Ambition, by the author of Rocking ham." SERVANTS' PROVIDENT AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. —Yesterday a special general meeting of the board of directors of the above society was held at their new institu tion, in Great Marlborough. street, Regent-street, for general business, and snaking final arrangements for the opening of a Female Servants' Home. The report of the society's pro gress was highly satisfactory. The financial statement showed that since the 6th of May, 1849, not less than 19,7061. 14s. 11d. has been paid by servants to the provident fund for providing annuities, insurances, and endowments. The benevolent fund at the date of last audit, .in a donation of 1001. from his Royal I:Ugh:less Prlnce Albert, aniutuated to 1,2381.35. Bd. T of his rent, and this unit WaS instituted lay Warner on the ground of its being excessive. The Lord Chief JusLice told the jury he was ,f opinion ti.at, as a ms senger from the Court ot Bankrupcy euter,d, the defendant could set 'kit up against \''. ,- arnor, and that Warner had not sufficient property in the ,nods after the messenger cntered sup:.nrr, nu action. 'Mr. Hum frey now contended that the Learned Judge was wrong in his direction, as there had previoubly been a bona tide transfer of the property to Warner by Bishop. The COURT promised to consult Lord Truro with re gard to the evidence in the case. BOW-STREE'f.—('ruas DAY.) This morning a young woman, named Elizabeth Burke, the wile of a lithographic printer, was charged before Mr. Jardine with attempting to commit self-de struction by swallowing a quantity of laudanum. Police Sergeant Chadwicke, of the F Division, said about six o'clock last night ne was called by the land lord of the house No. 5, Vere-street, Clare-market, who stated that eta of his lodgers bed attempted to commit suicide. Ha went up to the second-floor front room, occupied by they prisoner and her husband. He found the prisoner lying upon the bed. She had sant a boy to three different chemista for laudanum, and she had pur chased three-pennyworth of that poison, the whole of which she had swallowed. She said the cause of her attempting her life was in consequence of her husband, who was a Roman Catholic, forcing her to go to the priest. She did not approve cf it, as she was a Protes tant, and it bad preyed upon her mind. She also said her husband had threatened to desert her and her two children if she did not secede to the Roman Catholic faith. Witness removed her to the King's College Hospital, where the stomach pump was applied. The prisoner, who cried bitterly during the examina tion of the sergeant, said she had nothing to say in answer to the charge. The husband of the prisoner was then called into the court. He said his wife had been very low-spirited during the last few days. He accounted for the altera tion in her conduct, because he wanted her to go to his chapel. She was of a different religion to himself, and he thought his religion was the best. Mr. JARDINE said it would have been much better if he had allowed her to follow her own inclination. At preseet she was not in a fat state to be trusted alone, and he should take care of her and send her to a place where she would be properly attended to. The prisoner was then remanded for a week, and the worthy magistrate allowed her to have the care of her child while she was in prison. MAR,LBRO'-STREET—( THIS DAY.) Harriet Vellum, a girl, 15 years of age, was placed be fore Mr. Hardwick, charged with stealing fourteen silk handkerchiefs, the property cf Mrs, Mary Kay, draper, 51, Tottenham Court-read. She was also charged with having two far victorines and a roll of ribbon in her pos session, supposed to have been stolen from another draper's chop. The prosecutrix stated that yesterday afternoon the prieciner came into her shop and purchaal two pairs of stockings and six yards of calico, which she paid for and Isfe: the shop. Directly she was gone witness found a paced, conzeining seven silk handkerchief's, lying upon the chair on which the prisoner had been sitting. A box close by, containing several pieces of handkerchiefs, was also found open, and on witness looking over its contents she missed two pieces of silk haudkes chiefs, besides the one she found on the chair. She then sent fir a constable, and gave him a description of the prisoner, whom she suspected had stolen them. While she was speaking to the constable. the prisoner came in again, and said she had left two vietoiiries be hind her en the counter, at the seine time taking them uff the counter. Witness then taxed her with stealleg the handkerchiefs, when she said " Pray forgive nice, I was told to do it by a woman outside the door." She was then given into custedy. Police-constable 100 C said he took the prisoner into custody, and en the way to the policeestetion she tole him a woman, who sells lucifers in the streets, and whom she met the same morning at Islington, had psr suaded her to rob the prosecutrix. On arriving at the station she was searched, and a parcel containing two fur victorines, a roll of ribbon, and a pair of gloves were found upon her, The handkerchief; had not been found. The prisoner now, in defence, said she met a woman who sells lucifers in the street, and she requested her to go into the, shop and buy the calico and etoehings. She did so, and when she came out of the shop the woman was gone. She (prisoner) denied stealing either the handkerchiefs or the victorines and ribbon. The lucifer woman bought them both and gave her one for herself, and the ribbon she gave her to sell. Mr. HeaDwies. said it was a most improbable story. and asked if any of the girl's friends were in attendance? The prisoner's mcther, a decent respectable-looking woman, with an infant in her arms, here stepped for ward and, in tears, said the prisoner was the eldest of 12 children, but unfortunately she was a lazy indolent girl, and would not learn to do anything that was taught her. Yesterday morning she gave her 2s. Gd. to purchase some calico end two pairs of stockings, at a shop close by her house, at Hackney. She (prisoner) never re turned, and they were up all night in search of her; and to their great grief and surprise a constable came to her house this morning, and told them she was in the sta tion-house on the charge of felony. The poor woman added that her husband was employed in en iron foundry, where he had been for more than eight years, and he was always talking to the child upon the evils cf lying and dishonesty. Mr. HARDWICK said it was a shocking case in one so young to turn to thieving. He should now remand her till Wednesday next, VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT TO THE REGISTRY AND HOME OF THE SERVANTS' PROVIDENT AND BE NEVOLENT SOCIETY. This day, his Royal Highness, who, with her Majesty, is joint patron of this society, visited its establish ments, Nos. 49 and 49A, Great Marlborough-street. They comprise an office for the transaction of the Go vernment Annuity business, a registry for male and female servants, and a home for female servants out of place. As his Royal Highness had signified a viish that his visit should be quite private, no company were invited to meet him. In the absence of the Bishop of London, the President of the Society, who was officially engaged elsewhere, the Prince was received by the dirt ctors. He rainutely inspected the whole of the premises, including those models of neatness and comfort the dormitories fir the female servants. His Royal Highness also examined the account-book and registers, and mado many perti nent and acute remarks respecting the accounts of the annuity business, and the descriptive registers in the male and female registry departmi nts. The whole of the establishment, secretary, matron, registrar, and investigator if characters, were in tlieir plae s, and all appeared to be ready for the commence ment of business on Monday next. The Prince remained fur a considerable time, and ex pressed his gratification with what he had seen, and with the increve and FUCCPF3 of the society. We must not omit to mention that his Royal Highness has now added a donation of 50/. to his recent donation of 1001. A GRAND ROMAN CATHOLIC DINNER, AND THE PREMIER DUKE.—It is said that several of the leading - lay Roman Catholics contemplate having a grand dinner at the Freemasons' Hall, in honour of the restoration of their hierarchy ; his Grace the Duke of Norfolk in the chair. NEW YORK, OCT. 23.—There is a rumour afloat here that the Pope has sent a well-informed and eminent dignitary of his Church to proceed to California, to ascer tain the validity of the title of the Jesuit missions to a large portion of the territory. This investigation, if made, will cause a stir in California. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. --THE LORD MAYOR'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. — At the close of the Com mon Council meeting yesterday, Mr. Wilkinson having been appointed chief clerk of the City Small Debts' Court, in the room of Mr. Jupp, resigned, the Lord Mayor said,—" Gen - tlemen, this is the last time I shall have the honour of ad dressing you from the chair. I beg, therefore, to thank you for all your kindness, and the considerate spanner in which you have assisted me during the time of my mayoralty. I have often felt my inability to discharge the duties imposed upon me in this court, but you have so well supported me upon all occasions, that my duty has many times ceased to be onerous ; so that I now feel most anxious thus publicly to tender to you my most grateful thanks for your kindness, and to bid you all a most affectionate farewell."—(Cheers.) ARCHIMEDES, RUSSIAN STEAMER.—IIAMBURGII, Nov. 2. A letter from Copenhagen contains the following details of the wreck of the Russian war steamer Archimedes, Captain Glasserup : " This steamer, whose engines are on the screw principle, and which was proceeding from the Bay of Kjoege, Zealand, to Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein, was thrown by a violent tempest on the rocks of Hoiderodde, situated at the entrance of the port of Reenne, in the Isle of Bornholm. The Archimedes went to pieces, and it was by the extreme activity of the pilots and fishermen of lleenne that the crew and troops on board, in all 420 men, were able to pass into boats. One of these unfortunately upset, and seven soldiers were drowned. The Archimedes was built last year in England, and was one of the finest steamers of the Russian n av y . It was on its first voyage. It is hoped to save the rigging and the guns."— British and Hamburgh Standard. COURT OF LIEUTENANCY. —Yesterday, at a Court of Lieutenancy for the city of London, held at the Guildhall, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor iu the chair, it was resolved, on the motion of Sir John Petty, and seconded by Mr. James Anderson, that the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor be requested to convene a Court of Lieutenancy by public notice, to con sider of presenting an address to her Majesty expressive of the opinion of this Court on the late unwarrantable assump tion of authority by the Bishop of Rome to exercise spiritual jurisdiction within this realm, in derogation of her Majesty's prerogative and the Protestant Government of this counldermat. R es olved unanimously, on the motion Mr. A ry n Hunter, seconded by Mr. Masterman, M.P. :—" That the best thanks f this Court are pre-eminently due to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor for his able conduct in the chair this day. Ordered also, that above resolutions be advertised in the usual morning papers." Adjourned. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. —111 c onsequence of complaints from the West Indies, that the West snail packets leave the varieu , islanals before the time appointed, orders have been issued by Government, that on no ac count must the packets be allowed to leave the ed port offi s ial of call before the periods mention ed hi the publishc mail route scheme. Hitherto w hen the packets have arrived at any of the stations before th eir time, they have left after the interval has elapsed which has been allowed for coaling or exchanging mails, without r eference to the hour or the day at which they oug ht to !cave. I n future this will no longer b e psi mitten. The only i slaral which has been excepted from these nor iustructions is the island of St. Thomas, which is the principal foreign stealers from which all the mails conveyed by the West India steamers are distributed. FINANCIAL. CONDITION OF AUS- TtelA, AND HER lIIILITARY AM) poLin- CAL POWER. F2..e&rick the Great, the policy of whose genius still animates and directs the conduct of Prussia, lays great stress in his memoirs of his own times on the fact " that France and all the states of Germany were in 1763 exhausted in their funds, except those of theKiug of Prussia, who alone had always one year's revenue in advance in his coffers." In the annals of finance we find no example of a nation having so struggled through such calamitous humiliations and exactions as Prussia endured from the victories and dictation of Napoleon, and which has throughout not only maintained her credit untarnished, but has ac tually reduced her whole national debt to a sum not equal to the amount levied by the English Customs in one year on tea, sugar,:coffee, tobacco, wine, and spirits, which in 1849 yielded, at reduced duties, 19,232,4611., the national debt of Prussia being 120,000,000 thalers, or 18,000,0001. sterling; but since then, it is true, a loan of 20 000,000 thalers has been added to provide for eventualities arising out of the state of Germany. How has stood, and how does Austria stand ? In his commercial statistics now completed, Mr. Macgregor states—" This empire occupies 11,631 German square miles, or 258,000 English square miles of the surface of Europe : that is, 45,000 more than France, 138,000 more than the United Kingdom, and 141,000 more than all the States of Prussia. The surface of the Austrian empire has pre-ttrninently the ad vantage of varied and extensive productive regions, yielding, or capable of gronting, corn, rice, wine, oil, honey, wool, silk, hemp, flax, tobacco, mad der, all useful vegetables, and delicious fruits—iron, coal, salt, and other minerals and products in abun dance—cattle, swine, horses, and sheep; with the Danube and other great rivers, extending inland na vigation to almost every part of t:he empire ; with many seaports on the 'Adriatic; with her states also joining each other, and with a population generally industrious and orderly. All these advantages and blessings, therefore, render the Austrian empire ca pable of being one of the most rich and powerful states in the world. But the empire is without unity of tradition, races, history, or langu:tge—and the spirit of the supreme government—the itifhxibility of bureaucratic routine—the mechenical heaviness of the military organization—the non-amalgamation of classes—and the almost total exclusion of learned and scientific men from the society of the aristocracy,Lall constituted elements of change or disintegration. " The fallacious principle of prohibiting foreign commodities in order to force home manufactures into existence, and to promote and maintain their pros perity with the patriotic and even paternal view of in• creasing the general wealth and power of the state — the establishment of Government and individual mo nopolies, all which in practice su'ojugated the whole nation to impoverishing, indirect taxation, without enriching the treasury, and for the benefit, at most, only of the few instead of the many, have formed that smothering system which had long paralysed, and still continues to oppress the commerce, fiscal in depence, and effective power of Atastria. " With the good intentions of a liberel and ardent mind, but not of a sufficiently matured or sound judgment, Joseph 11. enfeebled his country by the false commercial and financial lea-ilation which he directed his Minister, Prince kis anitz, to enthace. He subjected Austria, in consequence, to all the mis fortunes that an empty and bankrupt treasury are sure to bring upon nations as well as upon indi viduals. . EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES FROM THE LEEDS POST-OFFICE. Much excitement has been occasioned in Leeds and Bradford by the discovery that several merchants and manufacturers have been robbed of letters ad dressed to them from parties with whom they had business transactions, some of the letters containing large remittances of money. It is supposed that the letters have been obtained at the Post-of f ice by parties who have represented themselves as the servants of the firms or persons to whom they were addressed, but who had no authority for what they did. A few days ago Mr. Read, the chief-constable of Leeds, received information that a letter, containing a bill or draught for the sum of 7441. 15s , had been sent through the Post-office by Mr. John Atkinson, of Bradford, to Messrs. Holt, wool-merchants, Leeds, and that it had not reached its destination. Inquiries were made, and suspicion fell upon a young man named John Warren, who some four or five years ego was in the employ of Messrs. Holt as an errand boy. _ _ 'Yesterday (Thursday) morning Mr. Read and Superintendent Grauhan apprehended the suspected person (John Warren), his brother (William War ren), his father (Peter Warren), and a young woman who gave her name Hannah Leonard, and said she came from Hull. Peter Warren, a weaver, of good character, rays that his eon John told him that he was going to marry the female prisoner, and he had ordered a barrel of beer and a quantity of meat and provisions for the celebration of that event. The whole of the prisoners were yesterday forenoon placed before a bench of magistrates, at the Court house, when the following - witnesses were examined : Mr. Atkinson, of Bradford, stated chat on Monday, the 4th instant, he sent by post to Messrs. Holt, of Leeds, a bill of exchange, drawn by the Bradford Banking Company on Jones Loyd and Co., London, for 744/. 15s. Mr. Joseph Holt proved the non-receipt of the lett r containing the bill of exchange. The witness added—Last night I went to the Leeds Post-office, and saw the postmaster, who showed me a letter, now produced, and of which the following is a copy : " Harrogate, Nov. 6. 1850. "Herewith you receive a cheque t,ir 4001. and a note for 501., from your father, which please to acknowledge. " From your affectionate father, "THOMAS HOLT." That letter, which was then sealed, the postmaster op nod in my presence. It contained a cheque for 4001., and a 501. bank note ; that letter purport. , to have been written by my father, who resides at Har rogate, but it is a forgery. I assume from that letter, and the contents of it, that au original letter had been• sent by my father to our firm, with that cheque, and that it had been fraudulently intercepted at the Post office, and then the party who had done it, finding that he could not use the cheque, had enclosed it in the forged letter above-mentioned. Mr. Joseph Croft, clerk and cashier of the Brad ford Banking Company, stated that on Tuesday morning last the prisoner, John Warren, presented for payment the bill of exchange for 7441. 15s. On being titled his name, the prisoner said it was William Holt, and that he was of Leeds. He wished to have the bill cashed in back-notes and sovereigns. Be lieving his statement to be true, witness cashed the bill, and asked the prisoner to endorse it, upon which he wrote " William Holt." Witness then said to him that it would require endorsing by the firm of Holt, Brothers, and he wrote that firm on the back of the bill. Witness then paid the prisoner John War ren the full sum of 7441. 15s. in bank-notes and sovereigns. (Tae witness then mentioned the num bers of these notes.) Wm. Palmer Ord, cashier at the Leeds Branch Bank of England, said, on 'Tuesday last, between one and two o'clock, the prisoner John Warren came to the bank, and produced one or • 'two bank-notes, for which he wished coals, but as they were London and Manchester notes I declined. The prisoner then produced a Leeds Bank of England note for 1001., and wished me to cash that note for him. I agreed to do se, and desired him to put his name and address upon it. He then wrote upon it the name of " Henry Watson Brooke," and as he did not add the address to the name, I inquired of him his address, and he then gave " Alfred-place." I gave the prisoner the full change, all in Bank of England 51. notes. He immediately crumpled up the notes, and was about leaving the bank without counting them, when I told him so, and he then opened them and counted them very hastily. In this way my attention was called to him. I entered in a book the numbers and dates of the notes I gave to him, and I have examined the twenty notes of Si. each produced by Mr. Read, the chief constable, and they are the same notes I paid to the prisoner. Mr. Read, chief constable of Leeds, stated that he apprehended the prisoner, John Warren, in the house of his father, Peter Warren. He found the prisoner, John Warren, at breakfast with Hannah Leonard. In his left trousers-pocket be found four bank-notes of 1001. each, and in his right trousers-pocket Dl. or 101. in gold. A key of a box was Bing upon the table, and witness asked John Warren if that was the key of his box, and he said it was. Witness asked him if he had money there, and he said, " No." Wit ness then went upstairs, and, on opening the box, found five Bank of England notes for 101., twenty two notes of the same bank for Si. each, and 1301. in gold. There was also 151. in gold in a purse at the bottom of the box, which Pater Warren claimed as his own. He also took from John Warren's finger a ring, and from his pocket a watch. He likewise took a gold ring and a silver watch from the girl Leo nard, and a silver watch from Peter Warren. Upon being charged with the robbery John Warren did not deny his guilt, but exonerated his father from any knowledge of the affair. Mr. Prentis, clerk in the Leeds Post. office, proved tbat the prisoner John Warren had, on the 28th of October, obtained the letter of Messrs. Stansfield and Blume. As there appeared no evidence against Peter Warren ' the father, be was taken out of the dock and examined as a witness. William Warren was also admitted evidence. Mr. Barker, Temperance Hotel-keeper, Briggate, Leeds, proved that the watch which was found in the possession of John Warren was stolen from his house in July last. It also appeared from other evidence that the pri soner had visited Harrogate on Thursday with a horse and gig, and that he then had 4001. in cash in his pocket. The prisoners John Warren and Hannah Leonard, were then remanded till Monday next, the others be ug discharged. THE DUKE or NEWCASTLE.—The accounts re ceived in town on Wednesday evening from Clumber• park describe the Duke of Newcastle as being in a sinking state, though free from pain. No hopes of the Noble Duke's reco very are entertained. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.— On Wednesday morning, about half-past ten o'clock, a gentleman, whose name has not transpired, was proceeding on horseback through Broad street, Bloomsbury, when his horse took fright, and before he could be reined in the animal came into violent collision with one of Messrs. Soulbv'a coal-waggons, which was crossing from Drury-lane to luseum-street ; the gentleman was thrown on the top of bis bead, which was lacerated in a dreadful manner, and before the waggoner could stop his horses one of the forewheels had passed over the gentleman's thighs and over the unfortunate animal, which lay in the most excruciating agony until the arrival of a veterinary surgeon, who put an end to its misery. The gentleman was taken to a surgeon's, when it was found that no bones had been broken. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly general meeting held yesterday. at the society's house, in Hanover-square, Mr. Wm. Yarrell. V.P.. in the chair, his Excellency the Baron Brunnow, Mr. George Routledge, Mr. John S. Gaskoin, and Mr. Richard Hartley Kennedy, were elected fellows, and Mr. Thomas Brooksbank was pro posed as a candidate for the fellowship. The report of the Council states that the number of visitors to the gardens during the current year has been 344,590, and that there has been an increase in consequence of 5,6001. in the receipts, as compared with the corresponding period of 1849. Upwards of eighty animals have been added to the menagerie, by purchase and donat'ons, since the meeting in September. The principal objects of interest are a Polar bear, three grisly bears, and a male brush turkey (Talegalla Lathanti), of which species the society had previously only obtained a female. The principal gifts are a lioness from Mozambique, presented by her Majesty the Queen of Portugal; a lioness presented by General Sir Harry Smith, Governor of the Cape ; and a herd of rein deer, presented by W. C. Domvile, Esq. The first portion of a collection which has been obtained in Ceylon, by Alexander Grace, Esq., reached the gardens on the Ist instant, and wilt be regarded with interest, as coming from a country of which the zoology is still very imperfectly known. The first evening meeting will take place at the society's house on Tuesday, November 12, when, among other papers, Dr. Mantel' will make a communication on the discovery of a living specimen of Notornis (a bird hitherto only known in a fossil state) in the middle island of New Zealand. LEGAL PROMOTIONS.—Mr. Sergeant Allen, of the Oxford Circuit, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, of the Northern Circuit, have received a pat,nt of precedence. Mr. Miller, of the Midland Circuit, will receive the coif. The vacancies occasioned by the elevation of Mr. Martin, and the retire ment from circuit practice of Mr. Whitehurst, have led to several applications to the Lord Chancellor for silk, but at present no determination has been made as to which, if any, gentlemen will be called within the bar. THE MARINE SOClETY.—Yesterday a meeting of the governors of the above incorporated society was held at their offices in Bishopsgate-street, City. for the reception of boys and general business. The report of the society's operations during the past year was satisfactory, clothing and outfit having been provided for 282 poor and destitute boys, who had been sent into the royal navy, Indian navy, and merchant service, making up to the present period near ce E n s t q ly ., b a e n en d thus 1001. p rofrvoimdedthfoeriatAe during the past year 5001. from the late J. Curteis, Esq., rsereivoedboyksifyPehaacsocrke, Ald e rman Lucas, and a be q uest of 9,908/. 6s. Bd. by John 509/: 14s. 2d. by t he late Sir C. Wintringham, 100/. late Massee, E s q., in the Three per C ent. Consols, after the de. raise of his widow. Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.—Eliza Cook's Journal. FOREIGN GAME.—An importation of a quantity of game has taken place by a vessel arrived from Dunkirk, con. signed to order. This is an unusual article of importation from abroad. red etd est Oa off ani og and 100 0 1 ' 190 tO s 4 ' a o ; 3 4 t S bare i r • . tO J fi I ; 3 6 3 4 3 1 j 4