The Sun. — London, England, 1850-02-04 00:00:00

nPri 1 owe Ta up to the close of the year, 39 3 6d p er 0,4 t; llow, 373 to 37s 6.1 cwt, nP.,t cash; ro_,h id per Slbs. lurgh state that 3,000 cas, ions rates. aceJunts from St. Peters• ilia of Tallow Lad sold at pre TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man!" hope to remedy, by means of your ext( onsive circulation, the injustice suffered by a much in.* ed and most unhappy set of interesting, amiable men, called agriculturists, merely because our hares eat the crops, and our horses level the fences ; like that ex cellent dish, called haricot, because it contains all possible ingredients and condiments, except har;.cots. Before the Agricultural Committee of Lords„ - 1836, an arithmetical fact transpired, which seems now entirely forgotten—namely, that any rise or fat', say of 10 per cent. in the market price of the prodoni:e of our farms, is a rise or fall of 30 per cent. on our Real property in that farm held in capite. Our farr aers, it is clear, are bound to make three rents, one for 11 , , one for our plant, and one for themselves. In the very general case of no lease, or lease expieed, we never suffer them to retain on labour-skill-risk grounds, more than they have already got, so tb at the whole of that 30 per cent. rise or fall in the market price annexes itself to (or defs lcates itself from) our Real property. We have by royal assignment the same beneficial interest in that 30 per cent. that H. M. has in Bsgshot-heath or in the ex cellent Widdicomb. Now, if the statists had stated this to us, or if the political economists had politely said so, should we, could we, with such a per-cents ge to lose, have made such a gallymawfry of protection, with little Benjamin for guide. Tne agriculturists unfortunately see nothing with their own eyes— So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Our advisers should have pointed out the voragine into which we were rushing, like Curtius tutto armato e guardandola. For here is no escape—yes tigia nulla retrorsum—the ratchet of popular zeal has a spring of great volume, stubbornly tempered, and which the power of progress alone can lift: teeth of rack filed to a very acute angle forward: omnia in advorsum spectantia. As each superincumbent tooth ceases to act, the ratchet is forced, with im petuous recoil and jarring sound, well under the next tooth, and the only difficulty is to keep the machinery clean. Stock this day • • • • • • of y. C. [ to( s d Os O o d Deliv ery last week Int to Worn Ju:le I• .. • • • i vals last week • I Di tto from June 1 . Price of Town • 1347. 1848. 1849. 1850. 14,542 13,221 36,472 43,370 50s 6d 51s 9d 39s Od to 355 d to 514 Oa to 52i ed 05 Od to Os Od 1,236 3,159 2,166 1,4A7 65,016 75,689 72,167 67,375 259 1,771 f 2,714 68,935 51,809 101,13 G I 85,274 Os oa 52s Od 53s Od I 42s Od 39s 61 -------- - •efelree DAY.) CHANCERY.—( l'"•••- : The Lord Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls sat 4 the Old Rail, Lincoln's Inn, to-Jay, to hear the ‘, in of " Dimes v the Grand Junction Canal Company,iee. w hieh r. Dimes appealed against ae order of the V Queen's Chaect Dor t f England, committing him to the ts Prison for a contempt of the Court in disoteyingi that a iljunction. Our readers will doubtless recollect t.tahe litigation has existed now fir nearly fourteen yea l ri enm. tw ee') Mr. Dimes and the Grand Junction Ceuta. through Pally, relative to that part t f the ca! al that goes hl trials tee manor of Rickmensworth, and that several t 'hen P'ace in the courts ( f lcw with reseette l t• Seine ewe since the Chancellor of Englandnie gran t an injunction, rest: ainirg Mr. Le! 8 1.1. 71 stn an or impeding the truffle on the canal, l u " s' l lle tle It was discovered by Mr. Dimes, on appeal .o tee Lor d t 1 Chancellor, that his Lordship could aa not oga•lY decide the matter in dispute, inasmuch as c f hish e r . (l 'hiP eas an interest !d party, in consequence "'nig share s in the canal; and after that discoveryh wasdid the nets in brea ch of the injunction for which detilwlitted. Upon application beinmade to the e Loed yeencellor to hear te appeal of Mr. Dimes frore . the a Ore er consignint, him ' toprison, his Lordship sai a d_e er Would no , , . ! the by himself t . y, .. . uear application. Jurisdiction had teen jl?lisulting with the Masteeris puntfed, the Rolls, after I , ls Let4ship appointed this morning for hearing the -deal Motion only with Lord Laegdele. .i.'"e!4le pANlEL'Sjproceeded at gre . at length to address his ' Ic IIP on the behalf of Mr. Dimes, in favour of the w hole a - 1) in de.ing which the Learned Co un s e l occu pi e d t h e M rning. N e i 95/IM ON 111, t '' n gs at Nisi Prin., at Westminster,—(TliiSbeD!forAe DAY.) .rhisChief Jtatice WILDE and a Common Jury.) was an :U.DSPETU V. yAaNr e plaintiff, a come dian to ,_ action brought by t Nil. te.over from the defendant, the lesce ne . eh i. e , f o , 104 T eatre, in Whitechapel-road, the sum aofweek, ee eaetwenty•treo and a halt-wee k's salary 1 bey " hi m 10 his capacity of an actor at the theatre, lieen December, 1848, and September, lete Joyce appeared as counsel fur the plaintiff, and ef et h e lh n re appeared the defendant. threoavieuri iebsatuarerish, formerly secretary to the defendant, Plaintiff was engaged to play at the et alts ovember, re in li 1848, and in the following month t el y t e ber entered upon that engagement. te e ; I 's were put in written in N °veil l :ri ; 1848, by ngage the Pic_ enda shed her secretary, ciP l fr for ensuin season at e a ff' w r e l e e kly salary of 21., "1 4 half " benefit. g i kr. GerrgarlY cross - examination , said the plaintiff Ne el in the first u io comedy. On the 7th of th e May eariling there was " a commonwealth" in the h theatre,eaarks of teZ ta4frs. was being unable to pay (Or hetutee When she gave up the theatre to t t e he actors Tabfeo li n o n it ight to Pay themselves out of the proceeds. eceetoon I) CRIES' JUSTICE —What is meant by a 34r I,wealth in the theatre? Tee. e1411411---Mrs. Yarnold was deposed, my Lord. suPpos,rth CIIIEF JUSTICE—There was a revolution, I etr. p --(Laughter.) Cre,,IIIIIIie-Exactly so. !htoo, el -examination resumed—The "commonwealth" er;: e e 0 0 the 7th May, and endured three weeks. of the ' 4 144! le netiee posted ia the green-room I°l l tit the 4 tee 4th and 15th May, stating that the sea- Waree theatre would close in about a fortnight after. Prese i t hat Waa not a proper notice, a month's notice the us°atlll to ally season terminating being necessary by R e.. _ Re tf the profession. 441 P aillitle d - ---Th e " commonwealth" lasted seven plat and Mrs. Yarnold then resumed hers Pia> eat Gil ee Blake was engaged by the defendant to f ee, tly rho theatre in 1848. Recollected the plaintiff per leettcell• Did not know when ho came to playat_th e e . I , l ertie„ . eeeeld not remember dates .—(Laughter.) id U na e ,"lek h'ete aie.hr.istmas pantomime in 1848. nettles, Plaintiff amused the audience before that. ( . 114 4 ki;,,was not engaged at all at the theatre; . he played e st iese,erer of fri nd ship,and his remuneration was . for laug s h. l ) . ' Witness terminated his . en leildleeie in August ; I ' it t - - : -. 1, Wa s Pia in' 1848, t 4 t B lLe w th h e e a n tre M b r ef Y ir a e ri Th i a d t time.die died. Illtiloerae7" ernPl4nagent at the theatre as a dramatic ''''e lit "'ter Ur• Y ll'e death. Saw Mrs. Yarnold thethese . t 1 alnet who him (witness) for dept 01 be Pro uctions, pairs ene. liot know when the theatre closed; never e its. dil4l>tained—Sometimes went to witness his own sre et et s - s• A Mr. Joseph Kersbeer was mar . aging t e e or of e e . yelee ee „'l theatre. Once volunteered to adjust a 'Note "tween Kerahner and Mrs. Yarnold. Mrs. ver 1, 114 tee deedwsllthe recognised lessee of the theatre. Ne ‘lseole of partnership between Kershner acd Mrs. Ar PAl Np e : l pt t ,'"t; riat, ,N, in his address to the jury for the defence, f t . of th e !his as a very unworthy attempt on the hilr WeiellehPlaintiff to fix the defendant l with a charge eelB 4a k tese thoEilttnely vvellshe ,r was () lo t % adoenaethliainble, August, since . i th e .. • aft er Mr. e.arn `4tre and a Mr. liershner in the management of the le e i r titter:et, Doerr ,Svean, a solicitor, in Great Knightßofydtehre -44elldaet?" 4 C ommone, produced en the part _ _ Ryder -1 wee ll a deed ~f partnership, dated 19th May, 1849, Nati '' s ePh le h iti e . t, to we. ers ner and . Emma Yarnold, thede d gee. etch deed he (witness) 4 4 ee Lee partn h'Ras an attesting ier, th e eet.. ens ip commenced to 11; 4 • Opo 1 and was to endure 2 a st w h e ll e March, r a c hrt,e after the elitre ierge Wilson, acting -Manager at . the Pavilion bit. weilltelehineelB49, and acted in that c%aei ß ty , m ti e p nabered joei ll 'Xo tie " 9f the " Commonwealth , . tie tPerteenYen that year, when Mr. iershoteermcaanmaegaes terile,t:f teet,w, wit Mrs. Yarnold, and took thes o l f the totpart tleflttt' e st' e. Rad announced the , fact t le t h e ..C.ntnPany previous to Mr. Ki t r w h a n a er i 's n e ti z a i i n e g d , ett4.therettft_a_leyfe among the rest. he . . lYareoleeeelr. leershner would . jointly liable with 11 4 he L erd e to the company fir their salaries. Il e h ew e Chief Justice `TILDE having summed up date' . jur e f title ne ze i 40 1 It verdict for the to him by the plaintiff for 431., de- W tel l :l tt nt 1"' `1(le cash already paid vet of three l ei a ,eryor his services, and 6/. in resp t tr ili ke ee t e es duri ng e tee cenemenwealth," 1 eying a *lll O l ,1"2/. lls. Bd. due t) the plaintiff, the r e eal sum h '4O Verdiet was given. ti lk le , g Pr, 141,L coURT.— ('THIS DA Y . ) A 'he 1, t 4 k,,, .OLD CO U R7l etl'Oths r %tee, 03' thin gs s ittin of the Central Criminal Court ore silenced morning in the Old Court, before Musgrove, kie'r b ' Pi n , the Recorder, Aldermen I. ' 4l'l ' l ' 11 4 1111'1 and Carden, and Sheriffs Lawrance e es iv n i d e 11;1‘1°114ieetIscit)(1 by the Under-Sheriffs and other I,We°,4rse a • ' to l l l4 on e :.itiou of the calender contains the names of Middlesex, ele;atez:s, being 32 for London, 53 fur Ito The e l . 12 for leent and 31 for Surrey. klell I n d jet's, h : 1 0 '1 1 '4 h e ,* e eateng been selected, sworn, and tose, eeoee„ ' 4 , ' l eek eee et en prcceeded to ch . arge . them to the 1 :lth t toe, e--The calendar which lay before him, It 4' aetelArehe.nda The ' names of 123 persons, charged t he al ereeeelonious offences, differing only in degree. Ili neret;llne to i tlal e e him to be able to inform them o that it iteem fell considerably short has li tl e) N., l er of prisoners at this period r SeB,tel4iti ,°,l,l3lting at the long interval which h . a ;el'`,N't a wa reef e e '',."" period of the l st sessions. The juris lect -8 ti eat d d a as no doubt the ..Iw7 ''' o l l4) ,' eer%Zer, a popueletitieon' of upwards of two m u t s; ftNtOadt;eLa"d the gratification which 1t Orilla ,',"e Dumber of cases diminished w al o l ul m . d .e b h e '4 et ' 'er e 4 e e be a reference to a statement ht t lieetisNt tela nl .. l , a nd which brought into com t e e a w r p ieco_n_ e'et t i l Yette e'; the year 1849 with those of nre 4 ts% N I . tee feund in this document a statemen t r__ oe t eerie inittai, f at.'ne d file t , e or the year had decreased by 09e eerie ,ee whale this improvement was o„., tit tri lo th Wh n , r cause 4 t i m, tiler wtever happy circumstances it . might be listeeitleieZerlileeoneWti.sano doubt that it indicated an improved l ion 4 ti e e r . l . ef "logreat body of the people. The mere e etch PtePerty by unlae means nes . em, ntl Peel l e , 'ecee Pel, "aril Arose from f a t s tate of destitu- Coh„ tki,s, Ity, tomeagedBlirl inched;ll. is . this 4 and 'description of offence had el):r I ' 'in with regard to the other offences r 'ariv, 4 Cale d ratty much the ret,,Ariv. ,e ar, they were p • late gee Of ' h '' eh yet of the whole number . of 123 hembraced e,eenlea fi,44i11,, 4rgeS of larceny, wine , ecti l ; a eta. TA t-t,lreeny, larceny in . dwelling-hone ~ e lle Ill eeeel 11 et4P-rson, and larcenies committed ve b r y y 114 (1% 4 Of 1 d eer:. ef embezzlement there was a_ 5 I Wee tehe 's'aewhile, with the exception of PI air "IA in erb AO !he 'eti e ne. teeJe_tmotia the person and . 4ef cutting lte'tesei t he n o : were no cases cf a serious character the arses 0 4 r 4 P1 3 t r e r ila n• He was happy to say, also, that to eou., ag. "ea of the calendar did not pr sent 1111 3 4 : e ntiori to the extent which hitherto V4l l,ttl.etr i tp ort " jury bad had the misfortune Ils e lee y N u , .the whole, thermore, he had . most %e t . at to u4 sl el k ' 11 stating, that looking at the inter til 4, it.: elapsed Since the last session, the calendar e o Nhl s on sse e el th, 4 e dee_ ith former sessions presented aver o y thrones IvreieZlse in the number and characterinutinnf !see Iteetch %emit contained, and since the dim 1 ti lt tl4 d i . W hole of the preceding year they o1e4)01:lent n Indillgin t it send, were Krit g clu t a h l e i hope that the metropolis y and sttaiily improving At4lkt l' e, hielltteh, tic'w• The state of the ealeadar, then, 0a , t ,! ) tr did e .,, net appear to be necessary 'it - .+4 -• ee evass any length upon the ka c tt th !I Jury • IN .•r, t ' ( hir e , oralo dirct it to the ~lawe ma s. 4 1: 4 : ettl•jotl: u te rcl f l it n e eril r y ellt e charges which the calendar „, Peaking they simply involvtd hi te er or te e ;!. n'tlich intelligent ere i eh ~e W ee '0'4.1'37 Woul have no difficulty in deciding. gentlemen in . the tl4lll tan 14 147'e cased Of to three individuals %etepee% gore,c'7, out of the ordinary course, and to te 14ledeen.e 'wished particularly to direct thee. eiNmee eleeeeee_tee charg which was comprehended ee,:tee , itwlllth e'or'geiantlen of forgery. The parties war n 4llteNed ‘ 2l the J ur g the Paper money of a foreign and t 414 t he rat wouli find the law bearing on the tt-othowfhieh- offe4ce in William IV., c. 16, s. 19, which elehilltilit/ „froPeleleicletle various weahyes, differingfin degree,in Iltielt4etietapiecip".err: with to the .oWaerautso of proving that Power in -to ;a e the Party accused. That 9111 Y ous 411ing out of the Nor is this the only offence of political economists against the grand theory EX LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1850 -()lsusT AN TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Friday night there was the repetition of one of the scenes for which past Houses of Commons have been famous, on occasion of your representative's insisting on stating the case of the Bradford manu facturers and operatives, as he was engaged to do by what had passed at his last visit to your town. At the same time it is but justice to say, that there were evidences that the progress of the age has made its way in this direction as well as others. The dif ficulty of being heard, it is true, was such as, though tolerably experienced in the kind of thing from ser vice with the League, I never remember equalled except in the meeting of the representatives of the League with the Chartists in the Town Hall of Bir mingham in February 1844. But the noises were all human. Neither ass nor cock lift up their voices in the agricultural ranks. For all signs of the march of intellect, let us be duly thankful. Not to repeat without necessity, I will refer you to the best report that circumstances would admit of, in the columns of Saturday's Sun. My business now is to impress on you, and on our friends in still more extensive manufacturing communities with whom I have no doubt a constant and lively sympathy is maintained, the importance of two or three leading points; and I do it with the confidence of one who has not been altogether unsuccesi-ful in times past, in pointing out the road to present liberation and to future safety. The first point I wan t to i mpress, is the importance of keeping u p th e h abit and practice of Public Meet • ings, for the purpo se o f examining with deliberation the questions which th e constitution and practice of Parliament are not adapt e d for entertaining. If cer tain propositions connected with the preservation of your rights and fort unes, turn Parliament into a whirlpool,it is in th e calm shades of the Free Trade Hall, building, that th e d i scussion must necessarily be and your own T emperance -d evote d carried on. Or if the simple fact were that the Parliamentary vessel overflows, it would be an out rageous policy that would think of blaming our at tempt to preserve the over-runnings. The second point is, that the question the Protec tionist party cannot bear to be pressed with, is that of justice. Pinch them there, "and like an unsound horse they cough. We have what in military language is called, felt the enemy, and ascertained the point on which he is most jealous of being ap proached. It utterly breaks down their patience to be asked, why:a manufacturer or operative of Bradford should not as well call for a twenty years' tax of twenty shillings a quarter on home-grown corn as the means of increasing the quantity of his goods which shall be exported to pay for corn, as the agriculturists demand a tax of the same nature or a return to it. But there are circumstances in their case which claim your commiseration. They have unhappily b een b orn to the belief, or h ave imbibed it from the instructions of their fathers, that they have the same right t o y our property and l a b our w hich a proprietor in So u th Ca rolina thi n k s h e h as i n his negroes. Th ere are ex ceptions ; but th e i rra ti on al are perfectly intra c t a bl e i n their insa n ity. Th e y may disguise it as th ey p l ease, but your genuine Protectionist honestly believes that if all the Orchidaceous plants of South A merica are collected at C row N es t, it is so much clear robbery of what ought to have been handed over to th e agriculturist body ; and that if the hospitalities of your Mayor approximate to those of his metropo litan elder brother, it is only the result of the s ame moral obliquity. You cannot set right the under standings of your adversaries, except by effectually resisting them. My third point is to try to throw light on the road to such resista nce . The Protectionists are loud and incessant in their assurances that they will persevere till they get back again. Ask then, on what th eir actual strength, and with it their chance of getting back again, depends. It depends, among other thi ngs , en this ;—that there is an organization by which Man chester with its fourteen thousand constituents, and the Tower Hamlets with its fifteen thousand, and you with your four thousand if it is grown to so much since the last election, shall each send to Parliament the same number of votes as a little agricultural borough with three hundred. Put the case, that all the constituencies sent a number of representa tives proportioned to their numbers, but the law was that in any contest between the commercial and the agricultural interests, fifty votes in one lobby should only count for one in the other. Fancy that it was the duty of the Speaker to say, on a division in the success of which you were interested, " The Ayes to the One-per-head lobby, the Noes to the Fifty," and you will see the full deformity of the system which applies the same rule under a dif ferent aspect. As sensible men, will you continue this, when, like Bunyan's Pilgrim, you " have the key called Promise in your pocket." If the operative classes would drop the delusions of a visionary Socialism, which has filled Europe with blood and tears when every country in Europe might at this moment have been in the en joyment of constitutional governments, and instead of that apply themselve s t o a h earty Jur otion with the Free Traders for bringing the representation to some thing like a fair position for the interests of the differ ent classes of the industrial community,—and if your wealthier classes would use the calm which in creased comfort has induced in the minds of those in their employment, in pointing out the strong interest employers and employed have in pulling down the stronghold of those who are at thii moment riding round your borders and swearing that half of every morsel which goes into the mouth of a Bradford labourer is theirs and they will have.it, —a force of united opinion might be produced, before which it is the avowed necessity of all parties in this •country to bow. You must drive your adversaries farther, or th ey vow and protest that they will drive you. I want to see the leaders and the men go together. The Free Trade notorieties are the ready-made guides. The men are the operative classes, who, if they will not move on this most in viting of occasions to preserve the feeding of themselves and families, will leave me nothing to request of them but that in the season of th e i r repentance, they will record that their re p re sentative did the duty of an honest man in doing his best to point out to them the way. If your representative i s t o l d he should have risen reply, that he rose fi ve times,earli er, a nhde what will couldprob ay man bl do more ? On another opportunity you s h a ll rece i ve more i n elucidation of our position. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER . London, Feb. 4, 1850. PROTECTI__ -ALYSIS THE DIVISION ON THE ADDRESS, (F p r it o o lt er he io H N e i r s ti Ts /d.) Present of Country party Tel lers "' Pairs ... Present 'Whig Protectionists Absent of Country party, without pairs Country party supporting Government }ME Whigs and Radicals prese E nt TRADERS. ... Tellers .. Pairs ... ••• ••• •• Peelites . ... ..• . Desertions from Count r y party.. OF COUNTRY PARTY ABS Alexander, N. Alford, Viscount (ill) Arbuthnot, General Benett, J. Blackstone, W. S. Blair, S. Brackley, Viscount (ill) Brooke, Sir A. (ill) Chichester, Lord J. Christy, S. CliTo, lion. R. Dundas, G. Edwards, H. Egerton, W. T. Ftothou, J. Gordon, Admiral Gore, W., jun. Houldsworth, T. (ill) Hughes, J. B. DESERTED AND VOTED AGAINST AMENDMENT, Acland, Sir T. D. Johnston, Sir J. Cubitt, W. Legh, G. C. Cocks, T. S. Monsell, W. Currie, H. Pakingt n, Sir J. Drumlanrig, Lord Plowden, W. H. Duncuft, J. Pugh, D. Emlyn, Lord Reid, Colonel Greenall, G. Sandars, George Hayes, Sir E. Sandars, J. Heald, J. Stuart, H. Heneage, G. W. Turner, G. TEN WIIIGS AND FEELITES WHO VOTED FOB THE AMENDMENT. Grattan, H. Harcourt, G. G. (Peelite Heathcote, G. Pusey, P. (Peelite) Sadleir, J. SUPPORTED GOVERNMENT, Lindsay, Hon. Colonel Lockhart, A. E. Mackinnon, W. A. Mahon, Viscount Martin, C. W. Mure, Colonel Owen, Sir J. Palmer, Roundell Peel, Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Colonel Peel, F. Smythe, Hon. G. Thesiger, Sir F. Villiers. Viscount Wellesley, Lord C. Wortley, Right Hon. J. S. Young, Sir J. lENT WITHOUT PAIRS. Hall, Colonel (unavoidably absent at Windsor Castle) Lennox, Lord A. (ill) Lockhart, Major Macnaghten, Sir E. Newry, Lord O'Brien, Sir L. Pennent, Colonel Pigot, Sir R. Robinson, G. (ill) St. George, Christopher Sidney, Alderman Stephenson, R. Vesey, Hon. J. Vivian, J. E. Vyvyan, Sir R. Wegg, P. F. R. West, F. R. Barron, Eit H. Berkeley, Hon. G. Cayley, E. S. Cholmeley, Sir W. Dunne, Colonel THIRTY-FOUR PRELIM Will Beckett, W. Cardwell, E. Charteris, Hon. F. Clerk, Right Hon. Sir G. Copeland, Alderman Douglas, Sir C. E. Douro, Marquis Estcourt, J. B. Fitzroy, Hon. IL Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E. Goulburn, Right Hon. H. Graham, Right lion. Sir J. Herbert, Hon. S. Hervey, Lord A. Hogg, Sir J. W. Jermyn, Earl Lewis, Right Hon. Sir T. Mandeville, Viscount Lacy, H. C. Burrell, Sir C. M. Tyrell, Sir J. T. Lewisham, Viscount Hope, Sir John Renton, J. C. Ossulton, Lord Kerrison, Sir E. INFORMATION for the MILLION. yourTO TI I E paperE DIT o Of RT Tuesday Jan. 2 . 9 , there is an article h ea d ed " Drinking, " from El i za Cook's Journal. u OF d a T y IIE evening,SUlV. I have always been an admirer, and am so still, of whatever comes from her pen, especially in the pre sent case, where she clearly establishes the insane and unnecessary prtotice of drinking, —the more so as she proves to a demonstration that drink, with its villan sus compounds, brings on premature death. What can be mo re b eautiful than where she sap, " Drink destroy s man's se lf- respect, eats away his moral character, m a k es him powerless to resist the insidious approach es o f v i ce, saps the foundation of his spiritual being, ruins his health, brutalizes his intel lect, impoverishes his family, desolates his home, and spreads a moral pestilence throughout society." In one part of her letter I respectfully beg to set her right (also the public), where she says commercial men treat their customers ; this is very seldom the case (there may be a few honourable exceptions), but it is a well known fact in the commercial world, generally speaking, that customers treat the commer cials. There is not much thought of a commercial if he is not up to the scheme of selling a few articles, in the course of taking his order, at a price sufficient to make both of them drunk that evening. Who pays for it? of course the shopkeeper, and what is worse the shopkeeper loses twice as much the next day, not being fit to attend to his business from a bad headache occasioned by the villanous compounds put into the liquor by the innkeeper, so as to have double profit, not caring about the life of either the commercial or shopkeeper. Meantime I beg to assure Miss Cook that the commercial men of the present day are not the abject wretches she thinks them ; they are very much reclaimed from what they used to be twenty years ag o; a t that time they used to s w i m i n whisky, br an d y, an d g i n , but now they float lin a more pure and i n t e ll ec t ua l atmosphere, and ar e becom ing every d ay more an d more en li g ht ene d, so as to be an ornament to society—a benefit to the State and their fellow-man (Cobden to wit)—so much so that in a very short time drinking will altogether be banished from their minds. I recollect I:;inglciOf an occurrence once taking place in B er k s hi re o f a com mercial aski ng hi s cus tomer to take a pip e w ith him in the evenin g, —t his was one who forgot to lay on a little additional profit in taking his order; he never forgot that pipe, nor never will, it cost him about 6s. or 75.; as for th e p i pe and tobacco it was nothing, it was the trimmings that did the mischief (the whisky and brandy that fol lowed) ; he has assured me that ever since that he would not run the risk again of even asking his father to take a pipe for fear of the consequences. PAUL play Of the new school, who dislikes either arsenic, whisky, or brandy—the one is certain death, the others, in the villanous compound state yon get them, produce the worst of all deaths—a lingering one. PREFERMENTS.—The Lord Chancellor has pre• santed the Reverend Charles Whately to the rectory cf Taplow, Bucks. His Lordship has also presented the Reverend Joseph Willey to the vicrage of Druz, York shire; and the Rev. Thomas 11111 to the perpetual cu racy of Bs, Trinity, Mit:gale& THE MAGAZINES, &c. BLACK WOOD. Oliver Goldsmith furnishiis a l›.autiful theme fur a biographical paper, prefixed to the miscell aneous con tributions in th e February number of Blackwood. Regarding Mr. Washington Irving as the best, be cause the least discursive, biographer of Goldsmith,, the magazine writer pens upon his recently re-written. Life a genial and most agreeable criticism. Nothing can be in snore excellent taste than this able and fascinating review—throughout earnest, discrimina tive, and judicious. The exceptions drawn to the argu ment of both Mr. Irving and Mr. Forster, to the effect, that our author was a fop less from any innate vanity than from a painful consciousness of his own personal deficiencies, are the most ingenious, but it appears to us the least ingenious, too, of all the adverse com ments on those two generous and intelligent bio graphers. That a theory so kindly should excite the spleen of any reviewer is to us matter for astonishment, and splenetic assuredly the annotations are, upon those divisions of the two performances. The estimate given of the personal character and in tellectual capacity of Oliver Goldsmith, by way of induction to the notice of his wayward and chequered career, is conceived in a very different temper, and is altogether admirably accurate The portraiture of his unpropitious youth, the account of his dullness at school and college, the record of his eccentric and improvident manhood, are all excellent. But most excellent of all is the mention made of his untimely death at 46 years of age, and the deep affliction felt by all his loving friends at his departure. Beautifully has Washington Irving penned this portion of his narrative, telling us how Burke, "on hearing the news, burst int o t ears ;" how Sir Joshua Reynolds " threw aside his pencil for the day, and grieved more than he had done in times of great family dis tress ;" how Dr. M'Donnell " wept bitterly at the intelligence ;" and bow Dr. Johnson " felt the blow deeply and gloomily." Then it is, moreover, that we hear with tender admiration that there was heard the " lamentation of the old and infirm, and the so b • bing of wom en " on t h e sta i rs leading to the poor dead poet's chambers in the Temple, while the r ea d er ' s heart melts within hi m a t that charming but affecting incident of the coffin-lid being unscrewed to cut off a lock of Oliver Goldsmith's hair at the request of a lady, a particular friend--that lock of his hair being treasured to her dying day by the beautiful Mary Horneck, the Jessainy Bride I Twu delightful magazine papers follow this admirable biographic sketch of Goldsmith, the one entitled the " Siege of Dunbeg, or the Stratagems of War ;" the other headed "Agrippa d'Aubigne and Madame de Main tuon." Every artist in England should turn to the subsequent contribution—being a most judicious, careful, and intelligent criticism on the recently published memoir of William Collins, Royal Academician. The preliminary remarks eulogistic of the style of Georgio Vasari are to us most agreeable, seeing that that glorious biographer has ever been numbered among our especial favourites. "The Green Hand" drags its slow length along, without affording any apparent token of its approach ing termination. After another elaborated exposition of the evils of free trade and the advantages (!) of pro tection' Blackwood, i n a h uge append i x of 122 closely printed pages, gives verbatim at seriatim the opinions expressed by various journals upon its previous dis quisition on " British Agriculture and Foreign Com petition." The article and its cumbrous supplement demand more than a merely passing consideration. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The present number of Bentley opens with the three first chapters of the second book of Mr. Robert Bell's admirable novel " The Ladder of Gold," a work which is destined to hold a permanent place among the English classics as the best portraiture of the life and manners of the English people during the first half of the nineteenth century that has yet been given to the public. Without the exaggeration of Dickens or the caricature of Thackeray, Mr. Bell is equal to either as an appreciator and delineator of character, manners, and customs, and superior to either as a describer of out-of-door scenery. In these chapters Richard Rawlings, the hero, ascends various steps of the ladder of gold ; having married the widow of Raggles, and succeeded to the shop, he soon after acquires a great increase of pro perty in consequence of the death of the uncle of his wife at Tours, to which city he goes to reap the rich succession. He travels to Paris with a cer tain Mr. Turn Chippendale, a shrewd London attorney, who directs him to an agent at Tours, a Mr. Sloake, an Englishman, and this gives occasion to a delight. ful little episode, which reads like an unpublished fragment of Sterne's. On his return to England Richard Rawlings invests certain sums of money, under the advice of Mr. Chippendale, from which he derives a large profit. " The first taste of gold breeding experience," says our author, "is like the taste of blood," and we are, therefore, not surprised to find that Richard Rawlings dis poses of his shop, takes a "residence," and becomes money lender o❑ a large scale. The scene in which "he transacts important business" with Lord Valte line, is one of the most admirably-finished pen-and ink pictures ever drawn. This scene, and the scene of the departure of the Rawlingses per coach from Yarlton, are the subjects of the two illustrations of Bentley fir the present month. The "Ladder of Gold" is followed by a dry and humorous Yankee story, showing " how Simon Suggs raised Jack," and Maxwell begins the" Biography of Richard Raffety," a gentleman whose further acquaintance we much desire to cultivate. Mr. S. D. liuygbue, a gentle man who was employed in Canada under the Boun dary Commission, contributes an interesting ac count of a winter passed in the back woods of Canada, and " Turtini's ,Familiar" gives us a pleasant biography of Frederick Chopin. " Old Times, by Captain Blue Anchor, R.N.,' of which we have here the first number, promises well. " Le Potage de Caporal" is one of the best yarns that has been spun for many a long day " The Souve nirs of Versailles, St. Cloud, Neuilly, and the Tuileries," also promise to be of much interest. No buildings are so rich in legends of love, intrigue, and crime, as the palaces of the Kings of France. The present paper, entitled the " Galerie de Bourbon gives a thrilling history of the poisoning of the D.►u phin, the father of Louis XVI., by the Jesuits (of which body he was a member), in revenge for his alleged inability to prevent the expulsion of the order from Prance. There are several other interesting papers in Bentley besides the usual admirable review of the current literature of the month. FRASER. Could the author of the paper "On the State and Pro spects of the Country,"in the present number of Fraser, have foreseen the result of the two divisions on the Address, he would certainly have greatly modified the opinions therein expressed. For months past Fraser has been halting between two opinions, but has always rather inclined towards free trade; fright ened, however, from his propriety by the bellowing of the Bucolics (which, as having been admitted for merly behind the scenes, he ought to be aware is vox et pretereanihil), he ventures to predict " that either this Parliament or some other will return to a mode rate system of protection." The day on which that prediction was uttered the House of Lords rejected, by a majority of 49, the Protectionist amendment to the Address, and on the day following the House of Commons, by a majority of 119, rejected a similar amendment. We differ from the author of the paper "On the Drain age, of the Metropolis." He would still permit the sewage to run into the Thames, we, on the other hand, contend that no proposal for drainage can be admissible which does not preserve the Thames free from pollution. The interesting story of " The Dom of Dantzic " is concluded ; as are the ad mirable " Sketches of North Devon." We have a review of Mr. Bright's Opinions on Ireland, which are, of cour se , unequ i vocally condemned by the aristocracy-loving Fraser, an admirable review by " Morgan R att l er " of Mr. C Jrnwalle Lewis's, " Essay on the influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion," an exquisitely beautiful Lyric "On the Battle of Alliwal," besides several other papers of interest. NE W MONTHLY. A. poem, " Jaffar," by Leigh Hunt, contained in the opening pages of the New Monthly, is gracefully inscribed to the memory of Shelley, thus:— " Shelley, take this to thy dear memory;— 'l'o praise the generous is to think of thee." Horace Smith's tale of " Love at First Sight" is con cluded after the fashion of " all's well that ends well." The drowned lady whose sad fate was recounted last month was not the heroine, but her sister. The pro posed communications between the Atlantic and the Pacific form the s u bj ec t o f a ve ry interesting article. That " the love of poetry is not extinct " is gracefully proved by Mr. Alaric Watts in some stanzas bearing that title, in which are enumerated a few of theinnu merable and blessed achievements of th poet. " As Moses like, you struck the heart With the charmed wand of song," is one of many beautiful thoughts contained in these verses, which seek to prove - - " Tho love of song can never fade AV hilst gentle hearts aro rife., To feel the sunshine and the balm It sheds on human life." Many very interesting papers are contained in this, which is a very excellent number of the Ne;<, Monthly. UNITED SERVICE. Lieut.-Colonel Wilkie has written on " The Pay of the Army," and, utterly heedless of Mr. Cobden, advocates iti augmentation. The ar ti c l e on " Pun ishment and Crime" is to a certain extent just, but in some respects too severe, esp ec i a ll y in allusion to corporal punishment.. IN o say s o un d eterre d b y the complimentary muendo c01:4414cl iu the THE SUN, THE A ' ordinary course, and having made these observations to the jury, it on;y r. mauled tor lnm to congratulate them upon the decreake in their duties, which a manifest im provem,nt in the state and condition of the humbler clai,3es of society 11.. d occasioned, and at once to dismiss them to the dig:barge tit' the functions which they had been caged there to perform. The grand jury then retired, and shortly- afterwards found several true bills, and a petty jury h6ving in the meantime been empanelled, the trials wire at once pro ceeded with. SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY, This sessions commenced this morning at the Sessions House, Newington- causeway, More Thomas Puckle, E•q.. and a full bench of magistrates. The calendar contained the names if fifty-three prisoners far trial. The grand jury ha virg been sworn, were dismissed to their duties. The whole of the morning was occupied in appeals from fined jurymen. One of them came so drunk that he was compelled to be moved by force and conveyed to the pulicc-station. Several gentlemen were afterwards sworn in as magistrates of the county. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) EXTRAORDINARY CAPTURE OF GAMBLERS.—MOITis Levy, wine-merchant, 23, Norfolk-street, Strand, Charles Lucas, Charles Snowden, James Hutchinson, Charles Hambleton, William Mallard, William Spurting, William Jones, James Johnson, Simmons Maddox, Charles Jones, Henry Johnson, John Jones, George Hart, Thomas Jones, James Wood, Frederick Johnson, James St trey, John Sitford, John My tton, John Jones, Adolph Goldsmith, Moses Samuel, and James Townsend, many cf whose names are assumed, were brought betore Mr. Bingham, charged with having been found assembled in a common gaining -house, No. 119, Jerinyn-street, for an unlawful purpose. Townsend was also charged with being the door-keeper. Superir tendent Foxall, of the E division, stated that, having reported to the Commissioners of Police that the house situated at 119, Jermyn•street, was used as a common gaming. house, he received authority from them to visit the house. In compliance with that order he proceeded to the house on Sunday morning, about a quarter-past two o'clock, with several constables. On arriving at the entrance ho knockei and rang, and at that moment a signal of a loud cough was given outside of the house, and something was then thrown at the first•flour windows. Witness then gave orders to force the front door with a sledge-hammer. After two or three blows the door flew open, and he and the constables went: in. In the passage he found an other door of iron, which they attempted to open, but it defied their utmost efforts. They were &mut forcing this door when some person from inside opened it. They then made their way up to the first-floor room, and there found the whole of the defendants, some of whom were eating and drinking, :and others smoking. He told them that be was a superintendent of the Me tropolitan Police, and they must consider themselves in his custody fur being found in a common gaming house. Be then took all their names, and sent them to the police - station in Vine street. Be subsequently searched the house, and on the first floor room he found a table, which he con sidered to be a gaming table. There were three covers on the table which appeared to be marked with dice. He took possession of covers, which he now produced. In the back room he fund a backgammon board and some cards, with the address cf the " Strangers Club" printed on them. The doors were of double iron, and were fitted with massive bolts and bars, and had not the iron door been of ened, it would no doubt have taken them a quarter of an hour to force it. Police-constable 309 A, proved seeing the defendant Townsend open the door to gentlemen on several occa sions within the last week. Mr. Clarkson (with Mr. Roberts) appeared for the defendants, and addressed the magistrate at considerable length, contending that the charge was altogether bad, inasmuch as the police having given notice to the Com missioners and received their authority to enter the house and seize everything in it, by breaking the things in the house they had evidently exceeded their authority. Mr. BINGHAM said that was the point on which the question tune 1 , and he should take time to consider it. He then directed the defendants to find one surety each to appear on Monday next. SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Bellchambers, the landlord of the Hampshire Hog, Red-cross -street, Southwark, was charged with having in his possession six pockets of hops, supposed to be stolen, and a man named Reynolds was charged on sus picion cf having stolen them. Police -constable Hunt, 82 M, s aid that on the previous afternoon, from information he received, he went to Bellchambers's shop, in Red-cross-street, whare he dis covered two pockets of hops i❑ the back premises. He asked Bellchambers how the hops came there, when he replied that he exchanged them for beer. Witness said he believed them to be stolen, and unless he could give a better account of them, he must take him to the station house. He then said he bought them of a person Lamed Payne. Witness asked whether he had a receipt, when he replied that he had, and produced a bill dated No vember, the particulars of which he did not see. Wit ness then again said that he believed he did not come honestly by them; when he replied that they did not belong to him, but to a stout man at the bar. At that time, Reynolds (the party alluded to) came into the parlour, when witness asked him from whom he had purchased the hops ? He replied that "it was Sunday, and no day to transact business." Witness then told him he was a policeman, and unless he gave a satisfaatory account of them he should take him to the police-station. He took him to the station-house. Wit ness thea returned with Sergeant Berry to the beer shop, which they searched, and in a shed found four more pockets of hops, when they took Bellchambers into custody. Mr. ATECKETT asked Hunt whether he bad ascer tained to whum the hops belonged ? Hunt replied in the negative. A Mr. Greenfield, hop merchant, had taken the number and marks, and would no doubt in the course of a few days find the owners. He therrfjre wished for a remand. Mr. Solomon, who attended for the prisoners, courted a full inquiry and asked for bail. Mr. A'I3ECKETT consented to take bail, and remanded the prisoner until Monday next. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCULEY HUNT MEETING, 1850. Acceptances for the Great Northamptonshire Stakes. Yrs st lb Yrs at lb Collingwood Wanota Flatcatcher 5 8 5 Mounseer F'eruhill .. . 5 8 4 Tophana 5 6 13 Halo 6 8 2 Giselle a 6 12 Borneo 4 8 2 refits Inheritress Elthiron Clermont 6 7 10 Rathmines Sylvan Ba►linsfad Westow Vesta Belus Claris!a Iron Ead 6 7 2 %lahratta . . 4 5 11 Tarn Wadlin .. ... 4 7 2 Harriott Grief Abbot (.f Meaux... 4 7 0a by Lanercost, out Glen Saddel Osterley Sunnyside NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1850. Acceptances for the Newmarket Handicap. of Concertina 3 412 Bastinado Yrs st lb Yrs st lb Surplice W anota Flatcatcher Halo Fernhill Melton Black Eagle Sobraon Saucy Dick 4 7 3 Beebee Bunnoo ... 4 6 3 Dulcet a 7 *Puffy Woolwich Herbert Clarissa • . Westow Strongbow ... Chantrey I 3 5 1 Sunnysido Rathmines - Glenulvon Vasa.. D , ceptive Keratin Kissaway Be5S 3 5 1 l Osbaldeston Bastinado Hope a' COUNTY MEETING, ,50. SomerEetahire Staker. Age at lb Second Sight 4 7 2 Deceptive Rad Doe 5 6 7 Seagull Saucer la Coupe 4 6 6 Yard Arm Black Doe Puffy thug Windischgratz 3 5 7 Won't-you - come out-to-Night Bent Si possis, recta, si non, quocunque mode, Rent! Entirely omitting the element of money in their cal culations, they have sanctioned by default a scarcity of money which immensely enhances our debts, and most of us are two-thirds indebted. " The worth and value of a thing," says Hudibras, "is just so much as it will bring." lam not speaking of the value of gold or silver, nor the value of principal sums in an nuities, for 3/. per annum is not more the value of 961. at present, than 961. is 0f.31. per annum, but I speak of the value both of 3/. and of 96/. in goods. Danarj or denarii are denrees, viveri, anything which supports life— general values. If I owe 401, having a horse worth 301. and a pony worth 101., I must sell both to pay the debt, but if the horse is worth 401, I sell the horse and keep the pony. If a tray bearing four pounds of sugar and one pound of tea is worth 65., and I owe Os., I owe that tray, but if it is worth 125., I only owe half the trayful. If a ton of iron is worth 91., and the ironmaster owes 41. 10s., he owes half that ton ; but if falls to 41. 10s., he must make and sell a whole ton to pay the 91. A debt, called national, of 30 millions per annum, with wheat at 405., is twice as large as the same 30 millions with 'wheat at 80s. Diminished currency lowers prices, especially price of labour, and increases the damage, pressure, loss, and veritable cost of all debts, large or small, funded, book, or bond, each and every pound of them. This truth, awful, obvious, yet occult, hundreds of persons are prepared to demonstrate, but cannot get a hear• ing. Sometimes also they break down—whoever speaks on these subjects should speak unanswerably. A dash of the Minister's pen, a nod or innuendo from him would increase the circulation much, and devote it to the hire of labourers, but ultimately we must have banks of discount everywhere, with 1/. notes for England, and even ss. notes for Ireland. The only obstacle is the canker of 17 millions gold and silver. It is a proverb that our industry brings the gold here Cor Anglais—jai pays mes Anglais; the latter is sel dom true as a universal affirmative. One of the wit nesses in blue folio said, "It is true, we are a credi tor country, but then ours is a country where large sums are seeking foreign investment." The job bers are seeking it, but their scrip is soon got rid of, and England is left with 150 millions owing her, as stated by Lord Palmerston, eighty of which to Spain. How much shall we get back from America and Spai❑ ? English gold is as proverbial as Oriental treasure, and for the same reason. When this gold has been suffered to accumulate, some scheme of great loan-firms, some engrossment and forestalling of Baltic corn, takes it off. The Bunk lends money for time-bargain► in loan-scrip or corn scrip, the borrower takes it in gold, and as the specie wanes the securities, lodged by borrowers, wax. This has been the invariable preliminary of each panic. A.Z. N. M. Rothschild told the Committee of 1832, " The directors are clever men, and know what the gold is wanted for, but they never ask." Could afence be better defined ? Then, after by their connivance the gold •is gone—" Convey, the wise it call"—when the steed is stolen, by themselves, they shut the stable door, and refuse discounts except to the same great houses, made great by absolute command of the Bank—on the double pretence that the securities (which they have increased) are already too high, and that the gold (which they have conveyed) is nearly exhausted. They first rob the house by col lusion with loan-dealers and corn-dealers, and then set it on fire by getting up a panic which hurts every one but the confederates. The great and ,wise Alexander Baring spoke both publicly and privately against the gold standard or legal tender : well he knew the house-list could not be trusted with gold o discretion. What I have said applies to the directory only; ,the Bank stockholders are innocent people, persuaded by their private bankers to take shares in the great polypus of which they are penniless.branches. And is it to retain in such hands the irresponsible control of all labourers and their hire, that we agri culturalists are to have our debts trebled by rarity and scarcity of money ? If a brigade of Gerdes Mobiles arrived in plain clothes while Sir T. Burgoyne happened to be dining our, sacked our 17 millions treasure, scattered half a million or so among our flash-fauxbourgs, and carried the rest to Louis Napoleon, it would be far better for all : the present temptation appears irresistible to loan dealers, and if by a non sequitur, far less preposterous than that of refusing discounts after gold is conveyed, the Government, in consequence of such Garde Mobile affair, should discontinue paying dividends, the misery and anguish would be infinitely less than has attended contraction, because they would leave hope alive and industry free. Most of the fundholders— for instence the red Emperors—are mere speculators, they might, very properly, be " confined" to Hudson's Bay, and the remainder might be relieved by a voluntary supply. I speak of stopping the dividends as a monstrous absurdity, even in this age. Mr. D. Salomons said, incidentally, in a railway pamphlet, there were six ways of paying off the debt, in terest and principal, with ease. Such, Sir, is our feeling about political econo mists; they concealed from us that a fall of ten per cent. in market price of the gross produce of a farm is a fall of thirty per cent. on the Real property of that farm. Secondly, they are wilfully blind to the truth that all statistic combinations depend on the power of money, or that which it will bring : this element of money is not, like the atmosphere, unchangeable, but may be modified as a chemist compounds or divides, expands or compresses, the various fluids in his re ceiver. Charles Fox hated political economy, possibly on this very ground, which did not weigh much with me ; but since one Lankester, tried for burning ricks, embodied in his defence that "it would make corn dearer and raise wages," I was shaken. This is not the way to raise wages. Lankester certainly " went too far."—l have the honour to be, Sir, &c., AN AGRICULTURIST. FIRE AT ST. GEORGE'S WORKHOUSE, BOROUGH. —On Saturday, shortly after noon, considerable alarm was canned amongst the poor inmates of Sr. George the Martyr's Workhouse, Southwark, in consequence of a cry being raised that the building was on fire. In the space of a few minutes dense volumes of smoke poured forth from the several windows in the casual ward, and assumed such an alarming aspect that many persons feared the whole building would have been destroyed. The engine belonging to the workhouse was immediately brought out and set to wor k , and several brigade et:- gines, with that of the West of England Company, fol lowed. There being plenty of water obtained, the fire men, inmates of the workhouse, and the parish engines, succeeded in getting the fire out, when it was ascertained that the cause of so much alarm was the straw used for the casual paupers' beds igniting, but from what agency is unknown. Fortunately very little damage was done by the fire, except the demolition of some windows. The workhouse was insured for 10,0001. in the Sun Fire offit e. Late the same evening some alarm was caused in Lambeth by a report being raised that the workhouse belonging to that parish was on fire. The various en gines quickly started to the place, when the firemen found that the cause of so much consternation was one t f the chimneys of the poorhouse taking fire. THE FIRE AND SUICIDE IN BERMONDSEY. —On Saturday evening Mr. William Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, held an inquiry of several hours' duration at the Simon the Tanner tavern, Long-lane, Bermond sey, respecting the circumstances attending the death of Samuel Smith, aged 33, who committed suicide at the house of Mr. Headford, a general dealer, No. 163 in the same thoroughtare. The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased destroyed his life by inhaling the fumes of charcoal, he being at the time in a state of mental dt rangement." BATH AND SOMERSE Acceptances for the Age st lb Fernhill Hc t=pur Halo 6 8 2 Sylvan 5 8 1 Glendower Chaqrey 4 7 6 1 Uidipus Sunnysiee Chorister 5 7 3 Coeli ermouth 5 7 3 Eagle's Plume 5 7 3 Midia SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY, FEB. 2.—The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Avon, Lieutenant Philip Mist, B. N., commander, took her departure this afternoon with the usual British and Foreign West Indian and Mexican mails, in charge of Lieutenant South, R.N., Admiralty agent. Herroute is via Ber muda, Nassau, Bahamas, Havannah, and Mobile, to Tampico and Vera Cruz. She took out 58 passengers, a large cargo of general merchandise ; specie value 52,000/. f.ir Havannab, and 2,200 bottles of quicksilver, value about 34,000/, for mining operations in Mexico. The iron steamer Queen sailed yesterday for Oporto. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany's ship Jupiter, Captain F. Meehan, with the mails trom Vigo, Oporto, Li s b on, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, is ex pected on M. nday, COTTON SEED.—The American line of packet ship Prince Albert, just arrived in the docks from New Y or k, Lai brought us three packages of cotton seed, consigned to order. Although the importations of cot ton in a raw state from the United States are of so numerous and extensive a character, the importation of the seed is not of common occurrence; and, for what ever purpose the present arrival of the article may have taken place, it is of interest. URISTS LIST OF PAIR& Duff, G. Tollemache, lion. F. Grenfell, C. B. Phillips, Sir George D'Eyncourt, C. T. Traill, G. Ellice, E.,jun. Duff, J. Morgan, Grogan OSED POISONING OF A HUSBAND BY HIS WIFE, For some days past considerable excitement has been created in the eastern portion of Middlesex by the cir culation of a report that a man named James Merritt, one of the turncocks iu the employ of the East-London Waterworks Company, about thirty-four years of age, living with his wife in Peartree-court, Lower Clapton, bad been poisoned by the latter. On the report reaching the ears of the parochial authorities they lost no time in informing Mr. W. Baker, the coroner for the district, who issued his warrant for an inquest to be held. On Wednesday last the inquiry was opened at the Fountain Tavern, Lower Clapton, but a ft er an id ent i f i cation of the body of the deceased, the inquest was adjourned until Friday evening for a post mortem examination of the body to be made, and the contents of the stomach to be analysed. Further evidence was then taken, and the inquest was again adjourned till to morrow (Tuesday). At the Worship-street Court, on Saturday, Ann Mer ritt, a woman about thirty-five years of age, was charged before Mr. Arnold, on suspicion of having administered a quantity of arsenic to her husband, which had caused his death. The first witness called was a married woman, named Mary Gillett, who lives a few doors from the prisoner, n reartrec-court, who proved that she had been in mate with the prisoner and her husband for some time past. Between ten and eleven o'clock on the morning of the day cf his death, the prisoner requested her to let her man get her (the prisoner) some outmesi to make some gruel for her husbm.d, who was ill in bed. Wi:- ness did so, and about two hours afterwards she saw the prisoner mixing some of the oatmeal for gruel. Mr. Toulmin, the surgeon, was the next witness called, and, in addition to the evidence he gave at the inquest, stated that on the night of the deceased's death he saw the deceased, about ten o'clock, for the first time. He found him in a stets of considerable collapse, having very little pulse, and his skin much below the natural temperature. He complained of great pain at the pit of the stomach, for which witness prescribed the requisite medicine, and left. On the following morning ho called to see deceased, and found he was dead. Wit ness at the time suggested to the prisoner the propriety of the body being opened, to ascertain the cause of death ; but she objected to such a proceeding, as it was contrary to the expressed wish of her late husband. Dr. Letheby next repeated evidence he had given at the inquest, as to finding arsenic in the stomach and its contents. From the results t f his examination he felt satisfied that the deceased had died from the effects cf arsenic, which must have been administered more than once, and but a short time previous to his death. The following fresh evidence %as then gone into:— Frederick William Brown, assistant to his father, who carried on business as a chemist in Church-street, Hack ney, stated that about a fortnight since the prisoner en tered the shop and asked to be served with twopenny worth of arsenic, which she alleged that she wanted for the purpose of destroying mice. He at first declined to serve her with the article, but having assured him that she had procured it on previous occasions from his father, he at length supplied her with it, making it up at her request in two separate packets, as site alleged that one of them was intended for her sist , ...r, who could not obtain it in her own neighbourhood. Mr. Inspector Coward, of the N division, stated that shortly after ten o'clock that morning be proceeded to the house of the prisoner, and having closely questioned her as tl whether she had lately purchased any arsenic, she positively denied I aving done so. On being con fronted with the last witness, however, she admitted having bought twopennyworth of arsenic at his faber's shop, with the intention of taking it herself. Witness then took her into custody, and on their way to the sta tion-house she stated that her husband f,r some time past had been so much troubled in his mind that he did not know what to do with himself, and that he had threatened more than once to throw himself into the canal. Policc-constable Clarke, N 223, stated that during the temporary absence of the inspector, while the prisoner vial under his charge, she observed to him, without any previous observation having been made," I suppose that I shall be hanged, as there are so many lies told about it." To which she addei shortly afterwards, that she had bought the poison for her husband. After some further evidence of an immaterial charac ter, the prisoner, who maintained the utmost coolness and self-possession, was ordered to be remanded, to await the result of the adjourned inquest on Tuesday. RUMOURED LAW CHANGES IN SCOTLAND..--AS the lamented death cf Lord Jeffrey neces,,arily creates a vacancy on the Bench, and which, in the ordinary course of promotion, generally leads to subordinate changes, there has naturally been considerable speculation in the Parliament House on the subject. The first idea was, that Mr. Maitland, the Solicitor-General, would be ele vated to the bench, and be succeeded as Solicitor- General by James Moncrieff, Esq., advocate. Another rumour has, however, since prevailed, and which receives more credence, viz., that the Lord Advocate ,receives will be the now Judge, and Mr. Maitland the Lord Advocate, Mr. Moncreiff, in either event, being appointed Solicitor- General. What gives strength to the latter report is the consineration, that Mr. Maitland is already in Parlia ment, sti representative of the Stewartry of Kirkcud bright, and his acceptance of the office of Lord Advocate would not render a new election necessary. It is further thought, that the fate which attended the more impor tant measuretrintroduced by the Lord Advocate last ses sion, and the little thanks he received fir his legislative exertions, will not render him particularly anxious to remain in his present office. However, it is also re ported, that in the event cf the Lord Advocate taking the judicial appointment, the understanding will be, that he might still aspire to higher honours, in the same manner as if he continued Lord Advocate.—Caledonian Mercury. MARRIAGE Is HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of Lady- Olivia Montagu, only daughter of the Duke of Man chester, with Lord Ossulton, M.P., only son of the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, were celebrated with much festivity on Tuesday, at Kimbolton Castle, the ducal seat in Huntingdonshire. The marriage solemnity was petfurmed by the Rev. Thomas Ainsworth (the Vicar of Kimbolton), in the private chapel of the castle, ele whole of the guests at the ducal seat attending at the ceremony. In the bridal train were six beautiful young ladies, the bridesmaids, all in uniform costume. They were—Lady Julia Lfay, the Misses Steele (two), the the Misses Baillie (two), and the Honourable Miss Wrott, slay. Shortly after the solemniza tion the noble bridegroom and his fair bride lilt the castle, amidst the warm congratulations of their friends, for the Marquis of Abercorn's s, a', the Priory, at Stan more. Middlesex, for the honeymoon. Mr. J. Cooke, superintendent of pilots at this port, and a practical ma❑ of great experience, attributes the loss of the Hottinguer and other vessels on Black water Bank to the want of a light on Arklow 13ank.— Liverpool Chronicle. AINSIVOI?171. The story of " Guy Fawkes" has now reached ita . most interesting point. In this part of the narrativ a Guy Fawkes discovers that he is himself the obj , , at of Viviana's love, and a few pages after we read of bis capture on the memorable fifth of November, an event celebrated by the pencil of Cruickshank. There are several interesting tales in this number of Ainsworth. TAIT A somewhat discursive but interesting article, en.. titled " Hyperboreana," records the downfal of Patrick Stewart, the once potent Earl of Orkney, who, two hundred and thirty-four years ago, finished his ignominious career at the market•cross of Edin-. burgh by the hands of the common executioner. V A! , most delightful paper in this number of Tait is the second instalment of Hurton's " Written Pictures from the North of Europe." The Christmas Arnily festivities at Copenhagen, and the men and ma.nners of the north countries, are described in the most fas cinating and natural manner. The scenes and the characters, already rendered familiar to us by Misa Bremer and Christian Andersen, revive in these de scriptions. THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. The Eclectic Review contains a very excellent article headed "Juvenile Depravity," which treats of the terrible social state of London. The review of Gilfillan's literary portraits is a delightful article, and in the main it accords with our own already expressed opinion of that work. THE ANGLO-SAXON. The Anglo-Saxon contains a beautiful map of the world, called " The Anglo-Saxon Map," all those places being coloured a bright red where the children of our race have established themselves and "Filled the world with fame, And with gre a t praise and marvel of the Anglo-Saxon nr.me." THE CHEMIST. A new periodical, under the above title, purport., ing to be " a monthly journal of chemical philosophy, and of chemistry applied to the arts, rnanufactu.res, agriculture, and medicine, and record of pharmAcy,' has recently made its appearance. It has been brought out at an appropriate time. The public, health is now deservedly one of the most interesting and popular topics of consideration, and, in addition to various papers on purely chemical subjects, the Chemist devotes considerable attention to matters affecting the sanitary condition of the people. In as article on some of the many poisonous sewers in. London, it is asked—" Should the summer of this year, on its arrival, find us unprepared for the attacks of epidemic disease, what fearful results may we not anticipate ! What shall we not deserve 1' " Sanit ar=y Observations r e l a ti ng to articles of Food, Drink, kc. ' is worthy of perusal. As far as it has come under our notice, this periodical appears entitled to com mendation, and is likely to help the good cause. Tai E JO URA AL OF DESIGN. Every succeeding number of this periodical co4_ firms our opinion of its excellence. Its criticisms tre, for the most part, as judicious as its illustrations are graceful. THE LONDON JOURNAL OF -PATENT INVENTIONS. The proposed Exhibition renders the London Journal especially interesting at the present moment. The abrogation of the contract with Messrs. Munday ap pears to have given general satisfaction. The London Journal, in an article on the subject of the Exhibi tion, strongly urges the paramount importance of the useful to the ornaments'. According to this article, improvements in implements, &c., affecting " agricul ture" should take the first rank, next articles con cerned with "building," then "clothing," and then " domestic utensils." Nevertheless, the framer of the above proposition does not wish ornamental art to be wholly neglected. It is to be desired that neither the ornamental nor the useful shall be neglected in the Exhibition. They are both so closely intertwined that it is difficult and quite undesirable to separate them. THE BELLE ASSEMBLER. In an article entitled " Reviewers Reviewed," the criticisms upon Mrs. Newton Crosland's beautiful tale " Stratagems," are effectively answered. In the review in the Art Journal, the title and subject of stratagems was objected to, on the ground that it is not well to familiarise youth with images of deception or any form of vice. Miss Edgeworth was quoted in support of the opposite principle, whereas, on ex mina. tion of one of Mii , s Edgeworth's works, " Parents' Assistant," it appears that the majority of its lessons are inculcated by presenting vice in all its enormity. Those who remember the tales of the " The False Key," " Tarleton," " Lazy Lawrence," and others, will at once agree that if Mrs. Crosland has erred in the principle of her tale, Miss Edgeworth had also erred previously and continually, which very few will allow. MRS. ELLIS'S MORA LNG CALL. Part 11. This new magazine promises well It is adorned with some very beautiful engravivgs, and, in addition to tales and poems, contains literary criticisms of con siderable ability. Longfellow's beautiful " Evange line" is reviewed this month. 211 IS CE L LA NE 0 US. Sharpe's Magazine is, as usual, adorned with two beautiful engravings, and full of interesting and well written articles. In one of these Mr. Sydney Iler bert's emigrating scheme is advocated in a cordial and thoughtful spirit.—The Farmers' .Magazine contains its customary report of agricultural meet ings and other matters of int e r es t to the farmer and agriculturist.—The Sporting Review is adorned with engravings of " the Whatidon Chase Hounds" and " the Barbel," literally a fish out of water, but its appearance of agony accords ill with the jocoseness of the proverb.—The Colonial Magazine opens with a timely review of various emigration papers and immi gration reports.—The People's Journal has a portrait and memoir of the Hungarian hero, Louis Kossuth. The first part of the story, in explanation of Gilbert's pictures—" The Soldier's Progress," which obtained the prize ef twenty pounds, is contained in the People's Journal this month. It is written with much spirit.—The Metropolitan, among many fic titious tales, contains one c f powerful interest called " The Veiled Portrait."—The Church of England Magazine is occupied with its customary serious anal instructive p a p ers .—Th e W or hi ng new weekly magazine, and appears calculated be ‘, vvb beneficial to the class f o r whom it is intended. y man be a should not e very working Man's Frien d to i is a gentleman in his behaviour !" is the very reasonable beginning of an excellent article in this magazine.—Very dissimilar is the character of the next magazine before us the Ladies' Companion, a gracefully illustrated periodical for ladies.—The Merchant Taylors Magazine CCM tains a biography of Bishop Juxon, so memorable as wFeadriletiigonh._haEsrveearcyhed monththe fosiu.erteheanvteh onecumubiLr being the recipient of the last wor d s of Charles I. commend —Frank the elega nce o f Le Follet. to of the r n a REPRESENTATION or WINDSOR.-A new writ having been moNed for a representative of the borough of Windsor, in consequence of the resignation of Lord Jahn Hay, Mr. Llatchell, the Solicitor -General for Ire land, has issued an address to as electors soliciting their suffrages. 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The operas of Le Domino Noir, Zampa, and Le Caid, will form the attractions at the 6!• Java's Theatre during the pretens week. following observation :—" I cannot wholly di. vest myself of the icier," says the writer, of this article, " that those philanthropists who so anxiously desire the abolition of capital and corporal punish ment, an 1 who talk so much of the nobleness of human nature, and its degradation by the use of the lash, have some innate conscious Hess of their rs i own fallibilit y , and a distrust in their power of sting the evil influences to which their cor ruptible nature may expose them, and of th e poss i, bi their lity, sould these punishments be all owe d to (ilia, of h ome day a ffecting then tse l ves. " A mournful fragment, entitled - Toe Cashiered,'' concludes with some just animadversions upon the irresponsibility of courts-martial. "A recent court-martial" —we quote the last paragrsph of thisarticle—"held at Guernsey, on Captain Douglas, of the 16th giment forcibly rec a ll e d our attention to th Ree subject. That ,hat he is innoc en t of any c rime, or th at his con duct has in aught deviat e d from the cor r nh officer and a gentleman, there cannot be the slightest doubt, y e t b e h as b een convicted and cashiered by a court-martial. While sympathise and condole with Captain, w D e ou d g e l e a r' s 13 in his unmerited disgrace, we confidently hope that justice will ere long be rendered him ; and sincerely as we commiserate the position of that high minded gentleman, we rejoice that his undeserved in fliction will prove the means of remodelling the per. nicious system of court s - mart i a l . " : ,e 4' e