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CHANCERY. -(THIS DAY.) PRICE V. BERRINGTON. The further arguments in this part-heard apped °mu- P ie cl the Court the whole morning. LIE R OLLS' COURT.--(THIS DAY.) JOINT-STOC K COMPANIES WINDING-UP ACT- The NORWICH YARN COMPANY. guments in this case, which came before the h a r t upon exceptions to the Master's report, and which e already occupied the Court several days, were re stilted ibis morning, and occupied the Court tho whole day. /1 C -E-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE ) Ca ll 3 es of no general interest occupied the Court the morning. whol e (Before the Vice-Chancellor ROLFE.) The SIMMONDS v. RIIDALL. further arguments in this part-heard cause oc uPied the Court the whole morning. 'tUEEN's lENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (sittings et Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Lord CAMPBELL and a Special Jury.) DRYDEN V. FRYER. T his case was resumed this morning. It was the lilb j'et of some remar k, t h a t ne i t h er the Solicitor r, ' w aeral, Sir Frederick Thesiger, nor Sir F. Kelly, the .eQuasel for the defendant, appeared in court this morn zing; and the management of the defence was left to the Junior counsel, Mr. l' Barstow, assisted by Mr. Carpenter b ; ', Q. C., the latter of whom appeared to bold the r "f of some one of the absent leaders. ' of t 0 hert" documentary evidence, consisting principally .b e Proceedings in the Chancery suit, were put in jh.r Barstow, (in the part of the defendant, among li e s le ,, h was the affidavit of the late Dr. Warburton, who, G t c " his death, deposed to his acquaintance with Sir sacig°rY thPe age Turner, th testator, fr several A to general characteristics of his insanity years, d a 4 schedule attached to the affidavit of Lady Turner, tis s te t ti I s th November, 1842, which was made on the o r :, aPplication to the Court of Chancery in the matter S i 'us lunatic, coestained the following item:—"Paid l ii : Gr egory for pocket-money with which to enable tt i, t : to please his fancy, as he now walked in full liberty ancitt.t London, to bet spent in books and other articles sic. a i l ,n sight amusements 401. 25." v,"'" 21 1 Long was the first witness called. She said, .I the formerly in the service of Mr. and Mrs. Johns, in j :Alpha -road, where Sir Gregory Page Turner resided. 1 0 1 14 in the service of Mr. Rook afterwards when he 1 , 4 the h ouse. I cont i nue d i n t h e h ouse a f ter L a dy • 11 4 ,,Z e r came to live in the house, till February 18 4 1. I 13 ,, - - had left. I stayed about two months after Rook. li m it : G. P. in the hous e altogether nearly three years. I T ut PPortuniti e s of seeing a good deal of Sir th i s r'• I used to see Sir Gregory in the street, before the •'tree,b. when I was in the service of Mrs. Holmes, - '°tlls f M Holmes for tree ears ad nine k oiss , . 0 r. . 1, us. I have seen hi m in the street when n fu afuneral • sp a, Passed, and he used to cross to the other side of the j a l A rather than meet it. When I went into the service fs e Z l Pha-road I considered Sir Gregory quite different of rings other ntlemen. He was very much frightened g e , p un gs ands ats. There was a dog called " Sir Gre 10X3 dog." I remember Sir Gregory having a new suit of e ve ""e 3 l and he was coming in from church on Sunday, w i l,..en the dog licked his gaiter, and he said he would never there the gaiter again. He never wore it again, and 4i s -e G w as a new pair got for him. Rook used to shave d regory at that time. He was shaved every other Ity. tally He had a great objection to be shaved. He gene• a salted Rook to excuse him being shared. He was ' he CF seldom excused. He ate very greedily, and w is tusde his clothes very dirty and greasy whilst eating. th en he Went to bed he used to put his clothes inside ow bed; that was his constant habit. When he came al w u stair s of a morning one leg of his trousers was th: t 4 Y 4 turned up, which he called his morning dress; a , , was a habit The trouser leg was always turned 14 1 ; 11 he went u p . to dress, and then it was put right to s w arda. He was very dirty in his person. He used ' telt!? h e washed his face, but he never washed it clean tio ts ' nook washed it. Rook used to wash his face to:,suicl then. He would never use a towel if it had o,lQed the floor. He was very particular that his bed ',ues should not touch the floor. I used to make his bed. ttp - a l ways told me to be sure to be particular and not let b e u,edsclothes touch the floor. Be u-ed to have both 4 ueet s of the bed put underneath him, and he slept tuts e eta r, the blankets. He used to tear the bed furni ew He kept a bag of thread and needles, and used to . e t . ss ,Losi bed furniture up. Every other Sunday was his ,bids work day. Every other Sunday he also shaved l o ' elf, and the shaving-day was his needle-work day. ste: s er saw him shake hands with any one. He used to re ad ut l l his trousers pockets full with papers, which v eth rho ; h em stick out very much. He was very careful of s se Poet,. papers. I used to put additional buttons on his 1.1 ' tB, at his request, in order to keep his papers safe. Pane did not . but s i r rs room, open. That was attended to every day, Ilap,reGregory objected to such attendance. A news ' Leto i t al ne to the house every morning, but he did not first e a - v till the following day; it was kept to dry all the lug W'''''„(Laughter.) The newspaper was the Morn jes -r y l w •—(l-tenewed laughter.) His curiosity some t' It whii: t. ' t eame his fears, and on the firstelay he has read keeer e i t s ' i llsbody held it for him. I has © known him in thtotuirr.;;;Qttr.l,leinstydianer stand on the table a quarter of an minutes bofore he sat down. He dined iceir: Yby himself. He had hot dinners always. If a a se ;A () ,r a fork fell to the ground Sir Gregory would not it °r but would have another. He would not allow it to be • - 44: .set i . ) ,,T c n e s d up until another had been brought, so that 'niht not give him the same knife or fork. as s ! lad a very groat objection to the medical men. m aw en y . er. p_e (I, st alway s to call Dr. Southey h , itt 3Ughter.) I have seen Mr. Maberley; he has called • Alpha -road about six times, when Mr. Holmes kept ,Tasi sr . „ _ ( • L j u i g r h as te r r. efor s y ir eall e d Mr. ,Which he kept Maberley "_the Gregory h a d a cupboard in newspapers, and he was very particular in falter up th e d oor with pieces o f piper. I have known him come b ac k two or three times on the same ' day to seo if the cupboard was fast. I remember a Piece of wedding-cake coming to the house on the occasion of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Fryer. Sir Gre a- kept , L gory K the piece of cake on a plate standing in .„!4 (3 back drawing-room, which he called his library. • , ' l . _ kept Fome of it for five months, until Lady Turner l i ' i s t ne; it vies quite black, and her Ladyship wished to 1 , 0 7 it removed. It was removed. I have heard both e " cs ,: e nses and Rook joking with him about the wedding ,„, ' • He said he would not have it removed because it -at of , i s ,„ great importance. Lady Turner came in May, b ia ' t u• A keeper of the name of Barton was there then, s e ll on ll ll ' so ' *t went away after her Ladyship came. After r „ . " and Barton left, it fell to my lot to attend on Sir 4 4 1 1 6 0 - t! °l l'. I assisted in dressing him. I did not shave Oth er a ll . man named Sutton came to shave him every 4 11,,,Ge e5 ., L Y• When Sutton first came to shave him, Sir its, Ar 01 7::,7 Was dreadfully excited, and the perspiration 4 4 : e Butt r," 'I him. He submitted easily to be shaved by t(l s il los. ° • -- ; ' Used to be in the room when Sutton shaved " t leithe oh `,l e rostriber giving him a clean shirt. I was in e ''' l s i aoti ll ta - "" of giving him his clean linen. It was a tilt 4lli rt :' after itook left before he bad a clean 14 el have frequently asked him to have the b e a n shirt, an d I have put it out on 4 18 0 ~e dt .: He said he would not put it on. Lady Turner • Ivbe i ; 4 ` s ed him t o p u t it on. He refused her Ladyship hi ed ' :U0 first asked him, a great many times. She then .4id no say she would have Rook back again if he ' -ssb ea gt Put the shirt on. At last he consented that 1 l(lfei:,, Put the cl e an shirt on over the other one. He gO O O to allow the dirty one to be taken off. When 'tte s w as gone I remember Sir Gregory going out so'el e : l , He said t he would return home to dinner at six al o - d r`• He did n ot return till ten at night. He came 4: l te - ' and was very much intoxicated. I opened the bo sop an t a let hi m i n w ith John the page. Be came ' ,4011 11 - , I v , il ligiaing, saying " Elise, I have come at last." -' s 1 1 ;;" Page, and I supported him into her Ladyship's ror ' t ;: ° Eo• Her Ladyship was in bed, and bad been ill tat; rt e months. Bcfore Sir Gregory came home her ,ISt o •' B nip sent me for Mrs. Rook, who came, and went li sos sr L a d ysh i p ' s b e d- room . Si r G regor y was most with i ntoxicated intoxicated when he came home. Her Ladyship 1 4 th„ (l , b lus to sleep in her room, but he went and slept `n,, , lrei,adYmaid's bedroom until four o'clock in the (1 ,, t t., ‘ "g• He was put on the bed with his clothes on. '.„ ( kr o - " r o'clock he wished to go into his own ~qt a ! arid I and John assisted him to go there. 11 1 : - ,„` Peculiarities in Sir Gregory continued until I left i%ott % ;;,_ v ioe. Her Ladyship used to say to Sir Gregory ',,,,q0e, f,' ,te did not leave off those habits she must have r h 4l` l ,, l3 ack again. I remember his keeping a storeo ~,%tirl. , ,"t h Os in a cupboard in the drawing-room. Lady r ti lt ! has very otten spoken to him about getting rid -'nee l , old clothes. He gave me eight or ten suits o was t ' that was b e f ore R oo k l e ft. Sir Gregory said I e loth - „ °t on any consideration to let any one see the ' *he -8 ' When Sir Gregory unlocked the cupboard Re re the clothes were, the moths flew out in hundreds. 11 ,0 ti, N , when speaking of Rook, to call him the " Old 4e l t . r I put the clothes into the wash.house for a time. ,tte l ,`'adythip gave me 10s. tor them, and then gave s ' Ite ; n 4W ty_ to an old woman in the Marylebone Work ' , 4- When he got any new clothes, he would always I •4 a 4. ' t oe`ta vie r'k before he would put them on, notwithstand- V th t ; `„"e suit he had on was in a very greasy state. All 1 1 th rue I was in the house be never appeared to act as ,N.dnlaster of the house. Lady Turner always gave the li j." : " \ l'll ') e t e 3 tP , S Pecting the manegement of the house. tha t s ilook left I slept in a room adjoining my °r Sir Gregory. He frequently came to I att r°ol u-door i n th e night ; on the first night ' have", ' tended him he came to me and wanted to t4 t d handkerchief which he wore over his nightcap hie ° n thre e t i mes. I n th e m iddl e o f t h e n i g h t h e ca ll e d d oe r s ? and bad three glasses of ale given him, at his re gory . I was very ill from this attendance on Sir Gre lie; ' ! and I left the service in February, 1841, I think. Sei n 'ssdyship gave me a character. I remember his R av ing a fainting fit on one occasion in the night, . iii.e„, i efc. when his mouth was drawn together and his told - ,,,, a1 was affected about a month afterwards. Rook to 11 7 e that the first time Sir Gregory went out he went skls -43 Lyre Arms, and afterwards to the York and Cr y+ where ho got drunk. -tea s , s ' ' amined by Mr. CIIAMBERS—I was not al it raj:4 W ith fits u n til the Christmas before I left. We had ,kk ki` s t'e too bough in the kitchen. Mr. Rook's son wanted Roe l .;:' too and I went into a fit. After I left Sir Gre -4i i, for - . s ee rViCe I went to my sister's at Esher, in Surrey, 44,alliledi'lut thige. s esystas s , s ,ise .t s nut attended by any ` l ' i '1 1ite" 4 4,1904,;011t."1415t Fridf..s.fortuight I was a I ‘ ll 4, k -a 1 ° l , gr'ilt , calei'li s lstifi .( 4! l oe b S,'.:X r ` Ste " ; z can esiv libi, and li t °' liii.' L M" f t P rC lit? PY MOr n rPS 7 r '' t' r es given k q , -(l .d v u- „. recollect it:, i ,t 4/ nuls -, ,Ll!" u I ' t Et- ' -Aurse§t '" o . o t Limehouse, where '4l , , , rit;, lit,*i___Ou r 6 „ ~.. -_. ;„ r serywe with a gentleman. fll';' :: :: t ile nae. °l. " a t - v' !4l 7 ic Y ar r p * lreyYisl lll 47 °6e ' S ee dnda sy ' 44l Vs'ad t7st„-,a'ink Also!, ;the 1146 n .- Slisi evening. He 010- %4 t,, ,w rs Uk Ulinemi ss ill utt „" e d she ,floor becatuie it was - be dirtied.- ~ Whoa" Sir or_egory. would not use . . the newspaper on the first day, I and the other servants used to read it down stairs. John and I have held the newspaper whilst Sir Gregory rend it. The newspaper always came wet, and it was whilst he refused to shake hands with people that he would not read the newspa per wet. When Lady Turner came Sir Grmory was completely altered in many respects. He did not dress more for dinner when her Ladyship came than he did b;fore. The racaning after the night on which he came home drunk he got up at his, usual time and breakfasted. _ Mrs. Francis Freeman—l catered the service of Lady Turner as lady's maid in the autumn of 1839. I accom panied La.ly Turner to the house in the Alpha-road, where, for the first time, I saw Sir Gregory. At that time Rook and Barton were living in the house. During the time I remained there I saw Sir Gregory daily. Sometimes when he wanted a holiday, and was granted that, he would pat Rook on the shoulder, and soy, he was a good fellow. I have heard him use violent language to both those men. His habits were different from those cf other gentlemen; for instance, he ale ays took hold of the skirt of his coat with which to open doors, one of his trousers legs was ale ays turned up when he came down of a morning, and his trousers pockets were very much filled with papers. Ann Walker—l am in the service of Mrs. Fryer as lady's maid, and was with her when she lived at Cheltenham. I remember also living with Lady Turner in the Alpha-road, for about three months, where I had opportunitieds of seeing Sir Gregory, I have frequently made his bed. His clothes a ere in the bed. I slept in the adjoining room to Sir Gregory's. Twice I got up one night, and titre.) times another. He called me up to have his hand kerchief tied round his head. He used to disturb me very much by talking loudly, and I got no sleep at nights.—(This witness corroborated the pre ceding witnesses as to Sir Gregory's dislike to his bed clothes falling on the floor, and to his being shaved.) His peculiarities continued down to the time I left, in June, 1841. Cross-examined by Mr. CIIADIBERS-I have lived twelve or thirteen years with Mr. and Mrs. Fryer. Elizabeth Butlin—l am a widow, keeping the George Inn, at Luton, Bedfordshire. In July, 1841, Sir Gre gory Turner and a large party came to my house. William Paxton was one of them. They remained there about a fortnight. One Sunday whilst they were there Sir Gregory was seized with an epileptic fit of a very violent kind. Dr. Wal ler (now dead), a resident medical man, was sent for and came. The fit lasted full half an hour, and he suffered very severely. I saw him after the fit passed away; he was then taken to his bed-room. After the fit was over his countenance was very much affected, as was also bis speech. The whole party left my house on the Tuesday after this occurrence. Before the fit occurred Sir Gregory did not give any or ders at the inn like any other gentleman. Lady Turner and the party treated him as if' he was not competent to manage his own affairs, nor did I think he was. Every thing was done for him. The waitress who attended the party was now married and had gone into Scotland. (The case was proceeding when our report left.) TEE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1850. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) CRAWFORD V. COCKS, AND OTHERS. Sir Frederic Thesiger appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Lush for the defendants. The action was brought by the plaintiff, a gentleman possessed of large estates in Scotland, against Messrs. Cocks and Biddulph, the bankers, to recover the sum of 434/. 10s. 6d., the amount of several payments which he alleged had been made out of his private account to a person named Caulfield, without his authority. The matter in dispute arose on some executory transactions as far back as January, 1839, while the plaintiff was absent abroad, and the action had been delayed to the present time to enable the plaintiff to pay off a mortgage, which the defendants bad on his estates, and which they threatened to use as a set•cff against his claim. At the conclusion of the opening statement of Sir Frederick 1 hesiger, Mr. Reginald Cocky, a member of the banking firm, was called, and he stated that two of the de'endants had become connected with the firm since 1841, and that one of the old partners had died. The CLUES BARON said it was his opinion that the two new partners could not legally be made responsible for transactions which had happened long before their con nexion with the bank, and they ought not to have been included among the defendants in the action. He should, therefore, direct the plaintiff to be nonsuited. Nonsuited accordingly. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) THE JEWEL ROBBERY IN THE STRAND.—This morn ing John Buncher, who stands charged with being con cerned in the burglary and robbery of jewellery upon the premises of Messrs. Clapham and Williams, jewel lers, &c., of the Strand, was admitted to bail, to appear on Saturday next. His wife , Mary Buncher, who is also implicated in the robbery, was admitted to bail a few days since. MARLBRO'-STREET.-(THISDAY 7 ) EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT.— William Francis Davis, a well-dressed man, was brought before Mr. Hardwick on the following charge : Mr. Theodore d'Lome, an American gentleman, re siding at Thompson's hotel, Berkele).quare, stated that at about ten o'clock this morning, he was leaving the hotel in his carriage, with his wife and sister, when the prisoner, whom he had never seen before, thrust his head into the carriage, and touching his sister on the shoulder, said, "Is not your name Phillips?" She re plied in the negative, but the prisoner still persisted in saying " You are Miss Phillips." and would not go away. 'His sister said, " You are mistaken in the person ; I am not Miss Phillips;" and then pulled up the window. Cemplanant then or dered the coachman to drive on, and the prisoner ran by the side of the carriage to No. 12, It •gent-street, where they stopped, and witness got out and entered the shop. On coming out, he saw the prisoner looking through the window of the carriage. He told him if he (prisoner) did not mind his own business and go away, he would send for a police-officer to remove him. The prisoner, however, refused, and, in order to put a stop to the annoyance, a constable was sent for, and the prisoner given in charge. The prisoner, who appeared to be labouring under some strange delusion, denied the statement of the com plainant as far as alluded to his persisting in speaking to Miss d'Lome more than once, and the reason he did so then Was , because he fancied he was acquainted with her. He was a clerk out of place, and lodged at No. 447, Oxford-street. Mr. HARDWICK directed a constable to go at once to the address given by the defendant and ascertain who and what he was. On the officer's return he said he had been to defend. ant's lodgings, and had seen the landlord, who informed him that he thought defendant was not right in his mind, that his friends were highly respectable, and that be was frequently in the habit of making love and claiming ac quaintance with any lady he chanced to rneet. Mr. HARDWICK thought the defendant's conduct very extraordinary, and remanded him. The constable was directed to:communicate with:the defendant's friends, and acquaint them of the position he was in. THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE - --- - FROM THE MODEL PRISON, - PEN TONVILLE. Up to ten o'clock last night the authorities of this pri son had not learnt any tidings of the convict George Racket, the particulars of whose escape appeared in this journal of 3 esterday. In the course of the day the Go vernment Inspector of Prisons visited the establishment, and instituted an inquiry into the circumstances attend ing the convict's flight. The investigation was con ducted in private. One important fact, we understand, was elucidated during the inspector's inquiry, respect ing the turnkeys and officers of the prison, who were suspected to have aided Hacket in accomplishing his object. It was shown satisfactorily, as we are informed, that they were entirely exonerated from blame. It was stated that Racket was one of the most daring desperadoes that perhaps were ever confined in the prison, and it is a matter of surprise that the Govern ment, with a knowledge of his previous desperate career, should have sent him to the Model Prison, it being un • derstood that it was intended as a receptacle for felons likely to be reformed and instructed in trades. In illus tration of 'locket's character, we may be permitted to mention that in the course of Monday night he sent a letter through the post-office, addressed to the Governor, the contents of which it is said are to the following effect:— "Monday, Dec. 2, 1850. " George Hacket presents his compliments to the Go vernor of the Model Prison, Pentonville, and begs to apprize him of his happy escape from the gaol. He was in excellent spirits, and could assure the Governor that it would be useless for his men to pursue him; that he was quite safe, and in a few days intended to proceed to the continent to recruit his health." As yet the Government have not offered a reward for his capture. Hacket is described as a stiff-built man, about five feet six inches in height, large features, nose slightly turned up, gray eyes, a scar on his cheek. light hair, pale complexion, and twenty-two years of age. Ile had been cohabiting with a woman who is now living in the neighbourhood of Kingsland. His parents reside near Calvert's brewery, in Upper Thames-street. It is considered somewhat strange that the police on duty near the prison on Sunday evecing saw nothing of the convict after he had cleared the walls. All the covering he had was a shirt, a pair of stockings, and his trousers. No person answering his description was see❑ during the night. It is pr'sumed that he took shelter in the house of one of the gang in the neighbourhood of Holloway. One thing is certain—that the parents of the convict made known to the police in the early part of last week that ho had attempted to escape from the prison, and that they were going to take their fare% ell of him on Monday, as it was the intention of Government to send him out of the country. THE FLAX MovEmENT.—The tenth annual meet ing of the Belfast Fax Improvement Society was held in that city on Friday last. The Earl of Erne presided, and there was present ri vast array of the nobility and gentry of the province. The proceedings occupy nearly nine columns of the Northern Whig, three of which are taken up by "the roort" alone. Among the speakers were the Bishop of Down, Lord Dufferin, Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., Sir Robert Bateson, and the Earl of Roden. The latter, who was the second chairman, paid a just tribute of respect t odhe Earl of Clarendon,f or , his Excellency's the ottjectsa the sotiety. ' Of"i DAUGHTXIt .eXtitiGIAS 10. pro mote Telegraph says :—,r 'I he favourjt d aughter f jolui 11urttet;' author' of ',Observations and Suggestions onliducation7 L tice, man who haileft cld ertainly the best grammar in the lan-' guage Lindley I.lurrayjtevisetl'),' b6en trying to Eke' out a precarious existence by singing ballade, through the l streets of Newry for the last few evenings!". THE MAGAZINES. BLACK WOOD. A capital jeu d'esprit of a poetical kind adorns the pages of Blackwood for December. The notion is taken from the history of Guido Fawkes, and refers to the circumstance of Tresham having been the one of the conspirators to roll the powder into the cellars of the Houses of Parliament—that very Treshant who afterwards peached against his accom plices. The purport of the joke may be caught from the "moral" comprised in the two concluding stanzas : "If you, dear youth, are bent on truth In these degenerate days, And if you dare one hour to spare For aught but Roman Lays;' If, shunning rhymes, you read the Times, And search its columns through, You'll find perhaps that Tresham's lapse Is matched by something new. "Our champion John, with armour on, Is ready now to stand (For so we hope) against the Pope, At least on English bind. 'Gainst foreign rule and Roman bull fight, and surely win. Bat—tarry yet—and don't forget WHO DOLLED THE POWDER IN!" Another instalment of Sir Bulwer Lytton's " Novel" familiarises its readers more with one or two cf the principal characters, more especially with Giacomo and Riccabocca. Randal Leslie, moreover, becomes better known, and with some peculiar be ings perhaps better liked than before ; while good parson Dale preaches us a long sermon on the text, "For every man shall bear his own burden," taken from Galatians. A sermon by Bulwer will of itself, we opine, be a sufficient curiosity in its way to ensure for it a very extensive perusal. And that perusal will not prove fruitless, the sermon inculcating a beautiful morality. Exquisite is our great author's allusion to the apology made so touchingly by Oliver Goldsmith for not entering the priesthood, to the effect that he did not feel himself good enough. " Thy Vicar of Wakefield, poor Goldsmith," he ex claims, " was an excellent substitute for thee; and Dr. Primrose, at least, will be good enough for the world until Miss Jemima's fears are realised." An article on "Ancient and Modern Eloquence," takes in one comprehensive view the whole mass of rheto ricians. It is an essay of remarkable beauty, and reveals no little erudition. Mr. Laing's " Observa tions on Europe" are subsequently passed under cri ticism; and this is followed by "A Lecture on Journalism, by an Old Stager," full of a quiet and humorous sarcasm. "The; Great Unknown; a Jest from the German," will be read with interest in Scotland, and found entertaining also with the gene rality. "Duelling" is the subject of the third instal ment of the series entitled "Modern State Trials," and a contribution relating to the " Defences of Great Britain" contains a review of the last remarkable work of Sir Francis Head. The whole number, which, taken altogether, is of more even than ave rage excellence, is brought to a conclusion by a paper, entitled, " The Popish Partition of England." FRASER. On receiving Fraser for the present month we turned with anxious curiosity to the table of contents for the purpose of ascertaining in what manner this organ of the Puseyite Tories would treat the subject of the Papal aggressions, and were surprised to find that not one word, good, bad, or indifferent, had the Puseyite organ to say on the subject. Those who de rive their information of the current history of the period solely from Fraser, would never, for an in stant, imagine that the whole English people had been stirred up during the past month to renew the protest which their forefathers had made against the errors and aggressions of the Church of Rome; that the Pope had attempted to encroach on the supremacy of the Sovereign by assuming the right to make a fresh territorial division of the kingdom, and that the traitors within the camp, whose " mummeries" had en couraged the Pope to this act of aggression, bad re ceived a " heavy blow and a great discouragement" from the denunciation of them by the Premier in his admirable letter to the Bishop of Durham, which denunciation had been re-echoed throughout the length and breadth of the land. This silence on the part of the Tractarian organ is more significant than speech. The present number of Fraser is almost entirely literary. With the exception of a short article of three pages, entitled " Poland as it Is," and of a pleasant, gossipping comparison between Paris of 1828 and Paris of 1850, which is evidently the pro duction of one who is intimately and personally ac quainted with the scenes sad with the persons he describes, we have nothing political in the Fraser for December. From this last article, which is entitled the " Chronique de Paris," we extract the following account of the Carlist, or, to speak more properly, the Ultramontane party in Paris, and its :chiefs, to the extreme accuracy of which we can speak from our own personal knowledge. "It has fallen to my lot to see much of the Carlists of the present day, both in public and in private; and, with a few exceptions, men more unpli asing, more dis agreeable to Englishmen, it is impossible to conceive. The Carlists of the best water never liked or relished England or her institutions. They could not conceive, tolerate, or endure, our freedom of conscience, of speech, and of the press, our complete liberty of thought and of action. But the men of the old school were too polite and polished to express openly their disrelish or dislike. They did not give to their worst of thoughts the worst of words, but dissembled with exquisite dexterity their prejudices and prepossessions. But the French Carlists of the present day base no such reserve; they blurt out their opinions, however unpalatable, openly, without re gard to time, or to place, or to circumstances. In pri vate salons, in the reserved galleries of the Chamber, in the Café de Paris or the Bois de Boulogne, it is all the same. La Perfide Albion!' Co venal et remnant Palmerston!' are always on their tongues or in their thoughts. With them, the Pope of Rome, the politics of the Vatican, the Capucins of Marseilles, and the Jesuits of St. Acheuil, of Brussels, or elsewhere, are always the first consideration. The men are, for the most part, stupid, reserved, and proud. Some excep tions there are, where individuals are keen-witted and masters of fence, and no mean debaters and dialecticians, like Montalembert; or where, like M. de Falloux, there is power of concentrated and vigorous expression, and a robust tone of thought. But the exceptions are few, and only murk the rule. Besides, the head of M. Monte lambert must be complimented at the expense of his heart. He is a cold, a waspish, and a vinegar-minded person, English on the mother's side, who has repaid the obligations which he and his family, more especially his father, who was in our military service, owed to England, by the blackest ingratitude. Such however, is the effect of religious bigotry, that this man forgets all the obligations which he and his owed to England, in remembering that we are not subjects and vassals of the Pope. M. Falloux is not obnoxious to the same objec tions. He owes nothing to England. No English blood flows iu his veins, and there is not in his bigotry the acerbity and bitterness which leavens that of M. Monts lembert. But, withal, he loves us at bottom as little as his fellow; and if ever one or other shall have an in fluence on the politics of France, such influence would be exerted against England." Perhaps the best article in Fraser is the kind and genial notice of Charles Dickens and his works (more especially " David Copperfield,") with which the num ber concludes. It is written in just the tone and spirit in which a notice of" Boz" should be written, for to quote the truthful words of this article, " most men would as soon think of dissecting a first cousin as of criticising Charles Dickens." The critic who writeth touching things theatrical is evidently old and soured, and because he remembers John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons, can now-a-days " find nothing worthy behind the lamps." For Macready, indeed, he has a grain of praise in a bushel of censure, and for that grain of praise Macready is indebted to the fact that he is about to leave the stage ; but all the rest, with the single exception of Miss Helen Faucit, are in his eyes, " leather and prunella." Our sour critic is self-sufficient also, and rails at all mankind, from the Queen to the journalist, because they will not " see with his eyes and djti im dg h ew s i e t l h f in his s l i Bs d l a thegmsent." Does he intend t o exhibit model man ? " Our Musical Autumn" is a well written notice of the musical doings of the last three months, in which we are glad to find that the author does justice to the directors, conductors, and performers, at the Grand N ational Concerts. These concerts are worthy their name • the classical music by Beethoven, Mozart, and the other grand masters, is performed even more con scientiously than it ever has been at the Philharmonic; and, vk bile the concerts of the latter are of a peculiarly exclusive character, the National Concerts are within the reach of every lover of music in every station of life. The "Naturalist" gives us some pleasant gossip on crocodiles and alligators, whilst we have from an astronomer an interesting account of the revelations of Lord Rosse's Leviathan telescope. There are al,o several interesting tales in Fraser for this month, and an excellent lyric, entitled " The Two Ave,"s by T. Westwood, which hath a smack of genuine poetry about it. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE MAlL.—Arrangements have been made for the Cape of Good Hope mail screw steamers, which are to leave Plymouth on the 15th of every month, to call at Madeira and Sierra Leone, on their passage to the Cape, and they will doubtless take mails for those intermediate ports of call. Her Majesty's six ships which used to leave the West of England with mails fur Madeira and Sierra Leone have ceased to do so for the last two months. A STEADY DRIVE.—Mr. James Bloxsome, the coachman on the north mail from Gloucester to Abergar v.enny, has been on, tnn; line of road nearly five years. I'he distaywe between. the above-named. pjaces is 4'd miles, conse quently his daily drive is 8 . 6 miles. When . the Ave years have expired, Mr. Bloxsorne will havecizie`ovei an' itnendise splice - of gfeetid,' ainonnting'tO" . 146;95d (six , iftlieAtii6•Circunifereilte 6f the gitib-6), and. , would , occupy:the' dime ef rinldn six-oyears . (less two 'days), the' of thite:rfillts per hour perpetually wand • what is terS , ektitabidinkiy, Bloxs6rne . hhs only misspd, hne otiqdurftl , the'whol& tithe, and 'that' exception was by driving -' tar' AS Ragland' - instead of Attergavenay.--.- „ Cibucestei LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE PAPAL MOVEMENT. TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. My Lord,—Were Parliament sitting the resent letter would not be written, as I should then be table in your Lordship's presence to speak that which I now feel com pelled t.) write. The extraordinary circumstances of the resent time induce me not to wait until the meeting of Parliament, but et once to give expression to my opinions concerning the mischiefs which now threaten the peace of this empire; and I address myself to your Lordship because I believe that great principles are in danger, and that to you is attributable the imminent risk to which they are exposed. The great principles that are thus imperilled are those which your party and the great leaders of your party have fur above half a century resolutely supported, and to which the chiefs of every party have, during the pre sent century, rendered singular and honourable homage —which Mr. Pitt recognised and acted upon, when he resigned and broke up his Government in 1801 ; which Lord Grenville and the Whigs of his Cabinet obeyed when, in 1807, they left office, rather than y idd to the unconstitutional demand of the King, that they should pledge themselves never uga,n, as a Ministry, to agitate the question of the Catholic claims; which governed the conduct of Lord Wellesley, Mr. Canning, Mr. Grattan, Lord Grey, and a host be side, during the long and wearisome contest that fol lowed upon the great question of justice to be done to the Roman Catholic subjects of the Crown; and which, at length, my Lord, induced the chiefs of your party, in • 1829, and yourself, as one of their followers, to fat ego all considerations of personal ambitlou and party aggran dizement, and give a hearty assistance to the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, when they, under com pulsion, consummated, as we believed, the victory of common sense and justice, and, as we hoped, for ever laid the foul demon of religious intolerance by passing the celebrated measure for the relict of our Catholic fellow- subjects from all civil disabilities. 'll3est, - ;;ijorr,ae the great principles which I believe now to be iu danger, and which you, in my opinion, have pat in peril. But still you may ask—" What are these principles?" And you may say, " Though you approve the acts you mention, it by no means follows that you understand the motives which led to them, or the principles which go verned the conduct you praise." I will answer the question which I suppose thus put. I believe, then, that the great men whose names I have cited, and whose deeds on the occasions referred to I have presumed to praise, thought that, in an empire like ours, in which are united under one Government people professing every description of religious belief, and who by law are permitted to exercise the right of private judgment, and to support by argument, both in writing and in spoken discourse, the truth and wisdom of their own opinions, any attempt to degrade by law, and by the imposition of civil disabilities, any one class of believers, was not merely unjust, but in the highest degree impolitic also, and that while any deprivation of civil rights for such a cause was a gross injustice and cruel injury—the affixing on them badges of social in feriority, because of the peculiarity of their faith, would be an insult more galling still than injury— and therefore it was that they said, make all men, whether Catholics or Dissenters, equal before the law ; and let us, under the inspiration of a generous philoso phy, and in accordance with the teaching of experience, be wise in time ; and, forgetting those mournful days when the friends of freedom thought themselves compelled, for safety's sake, to be intolerant, erase from our laws those cruel and impolitic enactments which have made religion a curse instead of a blessing— a cause of hate, and strife, and weakness, in place of being a bond of peace, of unity, and strength. In accordance with this dictate of justice and policy was the conduct of the Whig party when they, with great honour to themselves, aided their opponents in passing the Emancipation Act in 1829. They then gloriously belied the oft-repeated imputation upon one who was once a great Whig, and they did not " Give up to party what was meant for mankind." The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, I ac knowledge, acted on this occasion upon considerations much narrower than those which were supposed to have moved the Whigs. He and his Right Hon. Friend thought peace and the continuance of Roman Catholic disabilities impossible, and, simply because Ireland was turbulent, the Duke of Wellington was content to be just. He was just, however, only by accident. What he thought expedient happened to coincide with what justice demanded. Had his views of policy been differ ent—had his iron will still resisted, he would have risked the chance of civil war, and scouted the Catholics and their claims. But to you, my Lord, I address myself as one of those who laid their superstructure cf policy upon the broad foundations of a wise and generous morality. I may be wrong; but I will suppose you clearly to have under stood the principles which you and your party enun ciated. I will even believe that you really foresaw, and with a calm mind contemplated, the legitimate conse quences of the act which you' advised and supported. Remember, that your party drove the Duke of Welling ton into concession,—most unwillingly he yielded; still more unwilling was Sir Robert Peel. By your support the Catholics of Ireland were made to gather courage and organize a resistance which at length rendered civil war inevitable, if their claims had been any longtr denied. During the long dis.ethsions which preceded the passing of the Emancipation Act every possible con sequence of the measure was described and threatened. I t h u e s p % i v t e h , g n s e v e i r n t s h i e s l t e e s d s , u o p f v e c r y o ees sion? suggestion an o d f d e a a n n tr t , notno w fo a r s e s s e e r e t t w h h a e t they t n a weresince not oee u t r o r l e d d and Neither oefntsproafistehe l praise, could few w o eeks weeks a surprise. If, indeed, they were n o t f oreseen, have party blindedr nor yo love u es to of make the o r ev then must you confess yourself a short-sighted politi cian. If, however, you did believe that such things m i g ht happen, your present indignation must be feigned, and put on to serve a purpose, or your past confidence was falsely assumed and ((puny intended to deceive. I will not quote Hansard against you. I leave to others a task which, though to me ungrateful, will be pleasant to themselves and most amusing to their hearers. And by this time doubtless many a Parlia mentary orator could take a degree on account of his knowledge of your Lordship's speeches. Bat, as I have no desire to convict you of mere inconsistency—and as I believe that even a most minute investigation of all that you have ever uttered in Parliament would not greatly conduce to my edification—l would rather address you as the Prime Minister of England than deal with your sayings as recorded in Hansard. And now, my Lord, I will tell you why I believe these great doctrines of civil and religious liberty to be at the present time in dauger. I will endeavour to give a reason for the fear that is in me. I find the public mind of England stirred from one end of the kingdom to the other. I hear fierce denunciations hurled against one large class of our Christian brethren, and I see politicians nearly of all classes bending be neath the storm, and joining in the cry against Papists and the Pope, and I most sincerely assert that I am ut terly at a loss to understand how a really tolerant people could be thus carried away by an intolerant feeling. Does any danger really exist? Seeing what the public feeling is—knowing, as I have for many years known, the strong anti-Catholic prejudice of my countrymen—l am not surprised at this outbreak. Simple, downright intolerance, is at the bottom of it. No real danger exists. It is not fear, but blind intolerant hate, that has aroused the land; the same sort of feeling as that which, in 1780, roused the mobs of London against Sir George Seville, and made that madman Lord George Gorden a hero—the idol and leader of the people—is now exercising a fatal influence upon the good sense of the English people. This feeling you have most un fortunately countenanced; you have given dignity and importance to an antipathy which you ought carefully to have allayed; and by your ill-timed support, have done your utmost to keep alive for years a detestable intolerance, of which in your heart I believe you to be thoroughly ashamed. Where, again, I ask, and what, is the danger? lam not frightened by words, but I wish to know what is meant by "Papal aggression?" Can the Pope acquire power over any man in England merely by nicknaming a man Archbishop of Westminster,or by giving him a large bat and a pair of red stockings, and dubbing him a Car dinal ? Has the Pope acquired any actual territorial right or influence by what is called parcelling out the kingdom of England? We are all equal before the laws. He cannot invoke the power of the law, then, to perse cute us into acquiescence in his doctrine. Upon what, then, is he to rely in order to gain influence over us? Per suasion. He and his emissaries must influence us through our reason ; and we who pretend to rely upon the force of truth and the great safeguard of flee dis cussion—we cower and tremble, and, like all cowards, bluster, because a foolish old man, at the instigation of a crowd of intriguing priests, and a set of weak-minded, silly converts from our own to the Catholic Church, has thought fit to give a certain number of bishops English names—and, spite of our pretended confidence in the truth of our own opinions, and our braggart boasting of the efficacy of reason and of argument, we are all at once horribly alarmed, and fancy that we shall awake some morning and find ourselves irretrievably Catholic. This very statement shows how thoroughly ridiculous is the whole affair when viewed in this light; but far different is it when we reflect upon the feeling which really has created all this confusion. When we remember that hate —religious bigotry—is at the bottom of it all,—when we remember that every Protestant priest has, by religious antipathy, been roused into action,—when we also bear in mind that every Catholic priest in England and Ire land has now been challenged to the combat—is it tot clear, my Lord, that your most unwise and unstatesman like letter has served as a trumpet to call into action the worst and fiercest, and most dangerous passions that darken human reason, and harden the human heart? The work of years has in a moment been destroyed, and all the weary labour of eradicating those now vigorous wet ds in our fair g arden —religious hate and ecclesias tical intolerance, has again to be encountered. When you were a labourer at this work you had to aid you many Protestant sects then suffering under legal dis abilities. These you helped to remove, and now that as sistance will no longer be afforded to the friends of re ltious freedom, for every Protestant sect will band to gether on the one hand, and range them elves in fierce hostility to all the Catholics on the other. And now, my Lord, I put to you the ,question which you, as a statesman, ought long since to have asked youself, H,ow .is Catholic Ireland ;o be. governed? The immense majority of the peeple,of Irelandare9atbolic ; w ill they not now be . excited toAlte ,sritde . 'franticitC Inch'stiPp.l.4 : .; Qt, ;fbeVreTigtoti 'as thll.t i whiCV,:noi , r'' , 4 tigitrite s Englapd., 'gai9st 'it, add upon the some vridelpleS"'fitja6 ..PrOtest4ots - in ' ,England: d'eteftaine - . Lcep 'tld*rt- :the Pf4!4 8 .?. Wilt.L l3 Cajhqiics odirie theiv ~ciwn pie: 4016c° in,"tbnt 6uptiY, and insitst.. upon equallty, : at least, in tfie baneful' right of'peilieeitfion? , And here,, shall` have the' P o pe br o ught fury ward and I shall be. instilled by being asked 1. if OTO ct 1,1130 01;1 ;), aul(14:0: ono ni the people of Ireland bear allegiance to Queen Victoria? Let me answer this question by another. If, in fact, Catholics bear a divided allegiance—ii by their as we hear, they really give one-belt of their obedience to the Pope—if this be a teeat of their faith, how, I ask, is their allegiance affected or diminished by the nominal distribution of England into Catholic sees? Let us, if we will, fulminate an Act of Parliament against the Catholics—does any one suppose that their faith will be in the slightest affected thereby? We can not make people loyal by Act of Parliament; we cannot, by excluding certain names, keep out the doctrines of the Catholic religion. But what we can do is to keep up religious dissension; we may make the empire a divided empire; we may bend Protestant against Catholic, England against Ireland, and to you, my Lord, posterity will refer as the ma❑ who, just when the real difficulties were conquered—when, by the united and continuous labours of our grea'est statesmen, the law had become just, and peace and good will were about to be established, took advantage of your great position to rouse up the spirit of strife and hate among us, to quicken into active life the demon of persecution, and to rend asunder a great empire, which, but for your fatal interference, would soon have become firmly united, peacelul, and prosperous. A melancholy distinction tbis, my Lord, for one who ail his life has styled him self the friend of religious as well as civil freedom! Your common sense must long since have been shocked at the wretched fanaticism you have evoked, and which, unfortunately, you will find a spirit beyond your power to la,y. I remain, my Lord, your obedient sprvant, Milton, Dec. 2. J. A. ROEBUCK. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TlMES.—Unable any lon g er to keep silence, and im• patient of the p er i o d which must intervene before the meeting of Parliament shall deliver the Premier into his hand, Mr. Roebuck has addressed to Lord John Russell a letter on the part he has taken with reference to the questions now in debate between this country and the See of Rome. Every one must naturally be anxious to see what such a man has to say on such a subject. Mr. Disraeli has been beforehand with Mr. Roebuck in seeking to give a political turn to the present discussion; but Mr. Disraeli's letter took no hold on the public mind, and is as completely a thing of the past as his own Radical speeches. The object of Mr. Roebuck's letter is to accuse Lord John Russell of in consistency and impolicy, of deserting the principles of Catholic emancipation, and fomenting those religious differences in 1850 which he has been striving to allay ever since 1829. The prin ciple which Lord John Russell is supposed to have be trayed is in substance, that in an empire like ours any attempt to degrade by law and by the imposition of civil disabilities any one class of believers is not merely un just, but in the highest degree impolitic also, and that the fixing on them badges of social inferiority because of their faith would be an insult more galling still than injury. We cordially assent to this proposition; so we are sure does Lord John Russell; for he says in the second paragraph of his letter that he not only promoted emancipation, but he thought it right, nay, even de sirable, that the instruction of Roman Catholics should be carried on through their own ecclesiastical system. Thus does the very letter which is the object of Mr. Roebuck's attack clearly lay down the very principle which he contends is violated, and extends that principle not only to the toleration of individuals but to a modi. fled permission to develope their ecclesiastical polity. Mr. Roebuck treats the present Papal aggression as the necessary consequence of the Emancipation Act, and taunts as shortsighted politicians those who did not foresee it at the time. Of this startling proposition he offers no proof at all. Whether it ought to have been foreseen or no is now very bootless to inquire. That as a matter of fact it was not foreseen is perfectly clear, from the consideration that the people of England were much more unfavourably disposed towards the Roman Catholic religion in 1829 than they are now, inasmuch as in 1829 there was a large party which opposed the ad mission of Roman Catholics to civil rights, while now every one, with exceptions only numerous enough to prove the rule, approves their exemption from civil dis abilities; that the people of England are now strongly opposed to the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy; and that therefore, if they believed in 1829 that the establishment of the hierarchy was the necessary consequence of the Emancipation Act, they would never have allowed it to be passed is equally evident. We have shown in former articles that, regarding the Emancipation Act not merely as a law, but as a solemn compact between the Roman Catholic minority and the Protestant majority, the recent proceedings are in violation of the letter and spirit of that compact, and owe their impunity, not to the intention, but the over sight of the Legislature. We have looked in vain through Mr. Roebuck's letter for any proof that the pre sent movement in this country tends in any way to the infliction of degradation or the affixing badges of in feriority upon our Roman Catholic subjects. It is easy for Mr. Roebuck, in the plenitude of his infallibility, to apply to the immense majority of the citizens of the most liberal country in the world, and of the party in Parlia ment with whom he generally acts, such epithets as " blind, intolerant hate," " detestable intolerance," and so forth; but it would have been more difficult, and also more convincing, to have shown by argument how the general desire to curb the claims of the Ro man Catholic Church, to prevent its organizing an iniperium in imperio, and arrogating to itself powers only conceded to her Majesty, reserving at the same time to individual Roman Catholics pet feet civil right!, is any violation of the principle of toleration with which he sets out. Mr. Roebuck condescends to adopt the ar gument of Dr, Wiseman, that, as the Pope cannot give himself territorial jurisdiction, there is no danger from his assuming it. This conclusion, also, he has not con descended to prove. With seven millions of Roman Ca tholics in Ireland, headed by a hierarchy which sits in judgment upon the statutes of the Imperial Parliament, and repeals them at its pleasure under the direction of the Pope—with a form of belief in Scotland whic'n holds prelacy in little less aversion than Popery—with a written declaration of 1,800 of the clergy of the Esta blished Church against the supremacy of the Queen in spiritual matters—and with a number of eloquent and influential geutlemen. who, like Mr. Roebuck, are un able or unwilling to distinguish between the most reasonable resistance against rampant aggression and the most virulent persecution of unoffending opinion—it is impossible to say that any decided movement of the Church of Rome against the Church of England is with out danger. That danger is, without doubt, diminished by the very movement Mr. Roebuck deprecates; but till that demonstration was made it was impossible to know how far the laity had been infected by the taint which prevails so widely among the clergy. The remainder of Mr. Roebuck's letter is taken up with a glowing enume ration of the evils which the present agitation tends to produce, the difficulties which will arise in Ireland, the destruction of the charities of life, and the introduction of a spirit of sectarian animosity. It is assumed, but not proved, that these evils are traceable, so far as they exist, to Lord John Russell's letter, and he receives castigation accordingly, But it was not till the voice of the coun try had been distinctly heard that Lord John Russell's letter appeared; and there have not been wanting those who, instead of accusing him, like Mr. Roebuck, of rashly inflaming public opinion, have censured him for lagging behind it, and servilely following what he was unable to lead. It appears to us that, so far from inflaming the spirit against the Roman Catholics at whom the letter was obviously, not principally, levelled, the assurance of the sympathy of the Prime Minister, and the conse quent expectation of speedy redress for the insult, tended to produce that moderate tone and tolerant spirit which, in contradiction to Mr. Roebuck, wo assert to have pervaded the immense majority of the resolutions and addresses. But if evil must come from this movement, why is it to be laid to the charge of those who have openly and manfully resisted aggression rather than of the aggressor himself? Are we to submit to aggression in order to avoid the scandals which may result from resistance? Is intolerance to have her hands free, and toleration only to be tongue-tied? Does the liberty to worship imply the liberty to conspire against the worship of others? We know that Mr. Roebuck advocates the propagation of liberal principles, supported, if necessary, by force of arms—will he grant the same right to religious conviction? and if so, where will he draw the line between propagation and invasion? Mr. Roebuck's letter appears to us to amount to this— that since the Emancipation Act, all sects have been placed on a perfect equality ; that therefore the Church of England and the Queen her head have no right to complain of any invasion, however barefaced and unpro voked, of their spiritual right and jurisdiction; that so to complain would be likely to make the Roman Catho lics very angry and the Protestants not a little warm, and is therefore hateful and detestable•, and that though it be quite right to send 16 sail of the line to avenge the wrongs of Don Pacifico, it is unstatosmanlike and un christian to utter a single word of protest against any outrage, however gross, to our Crown and Constitution. DAILY NEWS.—The trap which Dr. Pusey ima gined and gave his name to, and which was framed and baited by his disciples, is now so very well known for what it is, that as a trap at least it can no longer serve. The veriest rat of the Establishment must be perfectly aware what he is about in venturing in. And we doubt that any more, save those who are already irrevocably within the bars, will put themselves in the power of the Romanising rat-catchers. The delight of these eccle siastical sportsmen at present is to hold up their cage to the world, and show the great people they have caught. Although they are not able to boast complete and bodily capture of such portentous animals, for example, as the Premier and the Bishop of London, they can at least show how one left the fur of his coating, whilst the other left his very tail in the closing trap, so narrow was his escape. As to Lord John, he evidently did but smell the bait, and thought it savouring with de vout unction; but scenting the Pope, his Lordship made off in good time. His denunciation of the roguery of the bait has much angered that ingenious rat-catcher, Mr. Bennet. The Bishop of London, however, walked all fours into the trap, and not only smelled the bait but swallowed it; nay, recommended it strongly to all his tribe,: until the great discovery was made, and the inmates of the cage threatened to be let loose amongst the people, who are very terriers on such an occasion. His Grace made off more in fear than dignity, leaving, as we stated, his consistency behind. And now the Rev. Mr. Bennet has come forward and published at length the history and success of his decoy of St. Barnabas. And we must say that, on a careful. perusal, we see no differences werth mentioning between the Church of Mtn. Bennet antlithe 'Church oot;;Faiber Newman. Both s za t a h cc e o ,fl r Zt: r :phi to c, 1 14 ; i. a:Fe B in e tl it o t e li t b ,, le i s s , ti b r oc ell:LE A llt is a nattQhal ' Church: • Brat lila 'own • Cbtirch;; being 'net .natiotial,, but universal, i s i n f a llible. On this infalti bility,is founded, aceorsling to Mr. Benner,' the certainty of the Efoly Scriptures . , Our deductions from records, .s from:-history, the internal. proofs in the Bible itself of its own authenticity, are nothing. , We can only be lieve iu-the Bible because we, believed the Church to be infallible; and we must believe the Church to he in. fallible in order to give certainty to the Bible. Such is the absurd, the vicious circle upon which Mr. Bennet builds his church. This is not to be converted to Popery, but to surpass and to transcend it. The creed of Roma❑ Catholics is reason end common sense compared with this. Infallibility draws after it omnipotence. If know ledge be power, the perfection and the irrefragibility of knowledge imply supreme power. Since the Church possesses these, where is its organ, its chief ? Shall a council be called of the universal Church? Mr. Bennet knows that it would be a bear-garden. In despair of any result from a council, shall all decision and authority be referred to a supreme head, foreign and antagonistic to all lay and domestic rule? Mr. Bennet durst nut say this, but be points to it, and all his arguments lead to that great conclusion—Popery. But for the present this is not prudent to announce. For him the time of absolutist restoration on matters of religion has not come, and therefore Mr. Bennet recommends anarchy. his desire is that every priest shall do what be likes, preach what tenets, and practise what ceremonies, he fancies. He will not admit the Queen's supremacy, because it is the Prime Minister's —nor the Prime Minister's, because it is after all the people's supremacy. Queen, Parliament, Government, and people skull have nothing to do with their religion. Laymen shall net meddle with it. It is a sacerdotal affair altogether, infallibility being confined to the priest hood. And as the people must not elect their priests, nor the State be allowed to appoint them either, it follows that religion is to be altogether a Levitical institution, handed down in a tribe or corporation, self-electing and salt' rearing, siered in their persons and infallible in their judgments. If we couple this scheme of religious faith, and church government, with the worship of the saints, the adoration of the cross, the auricular confession, pe nance and absolution, all insisted on by the theologian of Brompton, it makes up something considerably more than Popery. It is rank Hindooistn, with its castes, its rites, its Brahmins, and its pagodas. It is bringing back society, not to the middle ages, as Catholicism would do, but to the remotest ages of barbarism. We can conceive no greater outrage to common sense than the attempt to place a sect, which has such aims and principles as these, by the side of the great Dissenting denominations of this country, in order to claim kindred and support. Every single characteristic that Dissent objects to in the Church, sacerdotal supremacy with repudiation of lay influence, and all the consequences of these opinions and pretensions, are exaggerated by the Puseyites. The Queen's supremacy, which the laymen of the Established Church prize. as their safeguard against sacerdotal tyranny and extravagance, is objected to by Dissenters as insufficient. Dissent worships no Pope, and believes in no infallible church ; for the Rev. Mr. Bennet, therefore, to creep under the gaberdine of the Rev. Baptist Noel, is but a piece of Jesuitry worthy of his school. Into the great and important ques tion of whether there shall be a State Church or no State Church we need not enter. But of this we are confident, that in any country where churches are divorced from 'and unrecognised by the State, those churches with infallible and dominant pretensions, with a hierarchy, with corpo rate property, advancing their influence as much by the argument of wealth and power as by argument, must be subjected to rigid restrictions, if not successfully com batted by education and by great worldly and industrial activity. The idea of allowing such a Church as the Anglican in England to separate from the State, and constitute itself with all its property arid privileges into a separate corporation, re-electing itself, disciplining and rearing its sons in the creed and qualities requisite for domination—this would be the establishing of a yoke so much more intolerable than that of any State Church, that it would infallibly lead at no distant day to an in surrection of the laity for the sure and set purpose of getting rid of it; unless indeed the success of the Indian jugglers of the Church had succeeded in prostrating the people and reducing them to the state of the low castes of inciia, condemned to labour and prohibited to think, and bidden to save their souls with the mummery of unintel ligible orisons and fanatical asceticism. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Sir Edward Lytton's interesting play, The Lady of Lyons, which was made by Miss Helen Faucit, and which in return made her, was revived here last evening, Miss Helen Faucit resuming her original character of Pauline, and Mr. G. V. Brooke sustaining (for we believe the first time before a metro politan audience) the part of Claude Mel notte. The character of Melnotte tests the judg ment of the actor more closely than many others which have a higher dramatic rank. Although the author, with his singular constructive skill, has wrought up the general action and sentiment of the piece to the romantic pitch, the character of Claude verges on the improbable ; and the contrasts and me lodramatic points presented by it suggest temptations to an indulgence in stage effect that are not easily resisted. The good taste and tact of the impersonator are drawn upon rather than his more ready and superfi cially attractive histrionic powers. In this respect Mr. Brooke's performance of last evening was really very masterly, conceived with much discrimi nation and intelligence and in a healthy spirit, and sus tained with dignity, feeling, and impressiveness. If in some part there was, by comparison with other embodiments, a want of passionate force, on the other hand there was no exaggeration, but a natural ease and a manly sustentation. Dignity of bearing, as we have already had occasion to remark, is one of the merits of Mr. Brooke as an actor ; and this rare stage quality is eminently displayed by him in this imper sonation, which, as a whole, is certainly calculated to justify the good opinion of his admirers, and ad vance his reputation as a dramatic artist. The Pau line of Miss Helen Faucit is one of those finely chiselled creations which charm alike the critical and the impulsive. It needs no new praise ; unless it be indeed that we notice with pleasure in this gifted lady, on her return to us after so long an absence, a palpable desire to correct that mannerism and exag geration which formerly tainted with affectation her acting, naturally so nobly conceived, so truly femi nine, so delicately shaded, and so impassioned. The play throughout was well rendered, and it was deser vedly successful. THE CORPORATION ADDRESSES TO HER MAJESTY. The Sheriffs of the city ;7Endon, accompanied by the City Remembrancer, had the honour of wait ing upon her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, at half past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, by appoint meat, for the purpose of receiving her Majesty's commands relative to the presentation of the address agreed upon by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City, on the subject of the recent Papal aggression. Her Majesty received the City functionaries most graciously, and was pleased to fix Tuesday next for the reception of the address. A deputation from the Commissioners of the Court of Lieutenancy had also the honour of waiting upon her Majesty relative to the address agreed upon by that body on the same subject, and her Majesty fixed the same day for its presentation. The deputation consisted of Mr. Alderman Salmons, Mr. Anderton, Mr. Ambrose Moore, Mr. Alliston, and Mr. Henry Smith, the treasurer. REVENUE RETUENS.—The Commissioners of Cus toms having approved of an amended list of periodical re • turns to be transmitted from the several oatports to the Commissioners and their officers in London, copies of the amended list have, by their direction, been transmitted to the officers of the department at the several ports through out the United Kingdom for their information and future government. This list contains the several returns which will require to be made daily, monthly, bi-monthly, quar terly, half-yearly, and annually, and includes all returns respecting the general affairs of the department at the re spective ports; as also an arrangement for the complete and regular transmission of accounts of imports and exports of every description of merchandise to and from the United Kingdom ; and also the general coasting trade and between England and Ireland, and returns of British and foreign shipping engaged therein, comprising altogether a complete list of the periodical returns to be made of the trade of this country. ESCAPE OF THREE CONVICTS. WOOLWICH, Dac. 3.—Between six and seven o'clock this morning, shortly after they had taken their breakfast, three convicts ma naged to let themselves down over the side of the Warrior convict-ship, at Woolwich dockyard, and proceeding along the mud on the banks of the river, without being perceived by the sentry or any of the guards on board the Warrior, succeeded in seizing a boat at some distance from the ship, belonging to a waterman named Spurling, and, crossing the river in it, effected their escape through the North Wool wich marshes. The names of the convicts are John Rain, aged 26 years, convicted at the Central Criminal Court en the 9th of April, 1849, for housebreaking and larceny; and having been previously convicted, sentenced to 10 years' transportation. Rain was a type-caster. Charles Fletcher, aged 23 years, convicted of larceny to the value of 51., and having been previously convicted, sentenced to 10 years' transportation, on September 22, 1847. William Smith, aged 23 years, convicted of felony at Salford, on February 26, 1848, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. ST. IVES.--HEROIC AND HUMANE CONDUCT.-011 Monday, the 18th inst., a smack belonging to Jersey came to an anchor in St. Ives road. The day following, some of the pilots boarded her and informed the captain that there was every probability of a heavy gale of wind coming on, and offered to take them into St. Ives for 45., or into Ilayle for ss, The captain refused the offer. The smack rode out the Tuesday night. On the Wednesday morning, the wind veering more to the north, it was thought by many respectable inhabitants of St. Ives that the captain was not aware of his danger. Several shipowners and others employed a boat and bent three long hawsers together, leaving one end ashore, and after much difficulty and danger they succeeded in pulling the other to wards the smack. Just as they had made fast the rope and signalled to those on shore, the smack's cable parted, but she was brought into the pier in safety. Some of the respectable inhabitants of St. Ives, whose hearts and purses are always ready to relieve the really distressed, subscribed 20'., and presented to the boat's crew for their gallant and heroic conduct. In a few Minutes more the vessel would have be come a complete wreck, and in all probability the crew would have met with a watery grave.— Cornwall Gazette. FIGHT ; AT DRATTpN, NORFOLK.—On Dionday a fight took place between 'two working men at Drayton; and on the came diry one ot them died in. conissnuenee of the,i)-, ittries,he ,receiYed t The names .of the parties were RObeit' * Baker andßenjamin EMS; both fin e 'then; idsidetit' in 'Bt. Marlin's at Oak. As 'usual sal eases, the fight Laated in a drunkenAuarrel, and the stake was only 11. a side. Each man had his seconds, an c i crowd of people witnessed " ths kilt al Conflict, which' listed sein e time: - 'Ellis bad the worst of it, and• after being severely punishea, be was tlp, veyed home, where he died the same night. 9n . Tuesday inquest was concladed, the jury h i v i ng returned a verdict of manslaughter against Baker a nd the four aeconda. They have 1:113 yet been. apprehended. THE EXHIBITION OF 18M. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The notice taken of my letter on the sub ject of prohibiting the affixing of prices to specimens in the Exhibition of 1851, and the ire'ry unexpected reception accorded to it, impose on me beyond doubt the necessity of a reply. And first, by way of obviating the possible impu tation of inattention to the previous collection of opi nion in quarters where deference was due, let me protest in the most unqualified manner, that in my simplicity I hal no more idea of the necessity for asking any previous question, than in the only two cases which present themselves as in any degree pa rallel. If the Archbishop of Canterbury had been found declaring his anxiety to turn over the duties of his office to the Cardinal Legate; or if Ministers had announced their determination to advise the reigning Sovereig❑ to make a transfer of the powers of the Crown to the individual who is writing letters from America to Members of Parliament and others, de claring himself the legitimate descendant of the Stuarts by virtue of a second unexpected appear• mmnee of issue like what nave ri.e to our ancestors' suspicions of the warming-pen, and holding out the abolition of the national debt as his lure,—the same individual probably, who after the Three Days of July, presented himself at the office of the Westminster Review as a descendant of the exiled family. and though an officer in the King's service or calling himself so, wanted to challenge the conductors of that work for having used the phrase "the obsolete tyranny of the Stuarts," and who is described is the Quarterly Review of a few years ago under the title of " The White Eagle ;" either of these events might have led a simple-minded man into precisely the state of astonishment which was my own. It may be necessary to beg pardon for the digression attendant on introducing these parallels, but as the claim of the living Stuart to the throne rests on the same basis as those of the Cardinal to the episcopates, the next event will naturally be that they will be found hunting in couples, and there fore little points of history are interesting. To return then, I felt so perfectly undoubting that the admitted prosperity of Bradford since the aboli tion of the corn-laws rested on the fact of its manu factures being the medium selected by foreigners for return cargoes for goods furnished from abroad, and that the prospect of entering a collection of the world's products with the good articles in one hand and the low prices in the other , would have been hailed with ecstasy by every boy who greases a wheel and every girl who tends a spindle ;—that the one thing which would have raised a tumult in Bradford would have been that somebody should have whispered, " You are not to be allowed to send your prices ; the foreigner is to send his alpacas and hit merinos, as handsome and as good it may be as your own, but you are not to be allowed to state that your price is half of his ;" —that the rich would have joined i❑ it for the sake of completing the prospects of affluence to themselves and their children already opened to them, and the poor in defence of their share of the general prospe rity ;—en all this there was such an absence of any shade of hesitation on my mind, as I hope will at all events free me from any intended act of presumption or of disrespect. And now what do the objections on the other side amount to ? As collected from quarters distinot from those indicated in your paper, they amount to the dislike of particular wholesale-dealers to let their prices be published, lest a cry should be raised of the excessive magnitude of the profits of the retail-dealers (a cry in which no man with the smallest idea of the workings of the commercial machine will join), and the retail-dealers shouldeake'measures to avenge them selves. To which is to be added, an equally unfounded fear of the comments of the working classes, on the proportion between prices and wages. To obviate which it is demanded, not that the affixing of price* shall be a thing left to the option of the exhibitors, but that a prohibition shall be laid on that other portion of the commercial community, who with the general public besides, are interested in publicity. And this is what, if there is no mistake, is advanced as a system of non-interference between Protection and Free Trade. "By no means interfere; therefore let there be the prohibition ;" it strikes me such is the argument. Other reasons have been urged, such as that prices vary. Does not a price -current do the same ? And if prices vary, could not the exhibitors alter them if they chose ? But ex hibitors may put wrong prices. Does anybody pay more than a qualified attention to any man's state ment of his prices, and would not the same reasoning shut up the Post-office, lest men should send decep tive accounts of their prices ? But the Commissioners are responsible. Who made them responsible ; and who accounts them so ? And if there is any shadow of responsibility, st uld it not be obviated by a decla ration on the part of the Commissioners, prefixed to their catalogue or other publication, stating that they have no means of testing the accuracy of the state ments of prices affixed to the goods, and therefore leave the public to the same means of precaution as in other cases ? And now, having asked some bold questions in my time, I will ask another, and that is, whether the reasons urged for the prohibition are such as the Commissioners, with due regard to their standing before the Bridal public and foreign nations, ought to admit as their rules of action ? There is a responsibility on the Commissioners, very different from what there is upon the applicants for prohibition. The last may plead the difficulty of escaping from the influence of particular views of gain. The others are to be a specimen to posterity, of what a Royal Commission could do for the public interest in the middle of the nineteenth century. One point more. In all operations, a moderate at tention should be paid, to whether the opponents have not the means of counteracting in their hands, and so leaving the attempt without the deed. In the pre sent case, what reason is there t i p suppose, that the individuals interested in their prices being known, including the mass of foreigners who have prepared goods for the express purpose of showing what articles can be had cheaper by the British public through the intervention of Bradford trade, and the united public whose interest lies the same way, will not without delay prepare a list of the articles whose owners are anxious the prices should be known, and press it upon carriage and foot passengers at a small price, as near the doors of the Exhibition as they can contrive ? And if' this is done, or if strange and extravagant ways are taken to prevent it, I ask who will in any imaginable re spect stand better than they would have done if the affixing or not affixing of the prices had been left to the option of the exhibitors, a just compromise which it is still in the power of the Commissioners to secure P To conclude, I have done what I thought a pal pable duty for the interests of my constituents, and think so still. If they do not concur, my appeal must be to the next generation of commercial men, who I doubt not will view the proceedings of their prede cessors in the same light as we now regard the opi nions of our ancestors on the benefits of Protection and a high price of corn. I am, Sir, your obedient, servant, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, Dec. 3, 1850. IRELAND. THE CORPORATION. DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.—With a quietude and decorum to which the walls of the city assembly-hoese have been long unaccustomed, Mr. Alderman Guinmiss was yesterday unanimously elected by his fellow•citise►h to the office of Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. All parties hail the choice of the Town Council as the ad vent of the reign of decency in the conduct of municipal government. " LOYAL CATHOLIC AND REPEAL ASSOCIATION." Under the above title " the Hall" was formally re• baptized yesterday, Mr. John O'Connell and Father Gilligan standing as sponsors at the interesting cere mony. In the course of the proceedings the former an nounced that the word " Catholic" was to remain as • prefix until; the intended persecutien of Lord John Russell and the bigots of England was effectually repelled. In a financial point of view the additional cognomen of " Catholic" appears to have been, so far, • failure, the rent having yesterday declined from 144 odd shillings, the previous week's receipts, to 91. 19s. Id. FIRM AT MANCHESTER.-A fire broke out yea terday morning, between two and three o'clock, in the bleach-works of Mr. Thomas Holmes, of Douglas-mill, Pen dleton, one of the largest works of the kind in the immediate vicinity of Manchester. The building stands on the left banks of the river Irwell, near the race-ground, and is six stories in height. Unfortunately there were no engines on the spot, but in a short time the Salford fire-brigade was present, as were several of the powerful engines trom Man chester, accompanied by Mr. Thomas Rose, the active su perintendent. So rapidly had the fire spread, however, that the place was nearly gutted, and only a few mangles could be saved from the ruin. The attention of the firemen was then directed to a bleaching shed, and a small warehouse adjoining, both of which were saved. A large anii valuable dash-wheel, which :drove part of the machinery:- was also saved from destruction. The main part of the building is a complete wreck, and the extensive stock of bleaching calicoes, shirtings, &c., amounting to some 6,000 or 7,000 pieces, is also consumed. We have heard the loss estimated at from 8,000/. upwards. The building and stock were insured in the North British office for 1,850/., and in the West of England for 4,0001. The mill, which wa erected a century ago, was one of the first spinniri,g eats blishments in the coanty, and had only recently bean verted into a bleach-waks by its present owner. FUNERAL OF LADY Joust HAY.—We believe it intended that the remains of her Ladyship will be conve y ed from the Royal Dockyard, Devonport, to Leamington, Wsts wicashire, to be interred in the family mausoleum. LlTUNcarr GEEst.---One 'day last week a poulterer Withbf the sound; tif St:John's .bell having imported from the courtry . a large number of geese, let them loose. into hie cellar, and next morning sent a lad to feed them. The cyoath willingly will i2friithe errand ;hut ere many , minutes , had elape,ed he, was 10144 again minus his unmentionables, with afa ce like a ghost, .and almost speechless. It appears :thit it& ig to niadneaby along fast, Or not liking a jailer, the boy had no sooner entered the condemned cell, than ,the whole fi o ck, was .upon him ;, and, ere he could turn round and. effect a retreat, 'had almost the last shred Q 1 his 'eordarOys..safelY stowed in their insatiable maws..—Pertli• shire ..idt 'raiser.