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

r if,:ew up to the close of the year, 393 6d Wri Tallow, 37s to 37s 61 p,r cwt, net cash; ro igh per cwt; •eat, 2s Id per Blbs. The latent accounts from St. Pete►s vio state that 3000 casks of Tallow had sold at pre vious rates. 1846. Rock tilts day •••• • - I -- i'rl i ee i " I. C. '''l ', Os s'{c,l,i De—Tery last week •• 1 ° C bawl", June 1.. • ' Artlvals last wvek • Nit. &urn June 1 N ..: et of T own • ' 1847. 1848 1819. 14,542 13,221 36,472 43,370 50s 6d 51s 9d 393 Od to, 38s • d to 518 Od to 52, (Id Cs Od to Os Od 1,23 G I 3,159 2,166 1,417 65,016 76,689 72,167 67,375 259 1,771 2,714 68,935 151,809 101,136 85,74 Os Od 152 s Od 533 Od 1 42 s Od 394 6d „,, uHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) i ne Lord Chancellor and the Ala:tar of the Rolls sat tnfithi” old Hall, Lincoln's lun, to-day, to har the case echWhich ores v the Grand Junction Canal Company," in Mr. Dimes appealed against an order of the fire Vict%- ;,'_'ancell l England, committing him t ) the Queen's ''.lBoll contempt of the Court in disoteying its „nl.titetion. Our readers will doubtless recollect that a it'wortion has existed now fir nearly fourteen years, be paa'.ri Mr.Dioles and th e G ran d Junct i on Canal Com thein,:elanve to that p art t f t h e cat al that goes through Lar e t of Rickmen swort h , and that several trials it, S„ "'en Place in th e courts t f law with respect to „,10 a t me since t h e C hancellor of England f r a,„T e " o injunction, resti aining Mr. Dimes s ubs stoppi ng or impeding the truffle on the canal, to the it Was discovered by Mr. Dimes, on appeal t aTI, e Lord Chancellor, that his Lordship could n? horl.deeide the matter in dispute, inasmuch as f his hie tI. B I P mas an intere:t xi party, in consequence ( did th" * shares in the canal; and after that discovery co rn fte . ta in breacb of the injunction for which he was e, ranted. to application being made to the Lord h orznecellor to hear the appeal of Mr. Dimes from the e e *oak! e°rhi going him to prison, his Lordship said fer h is . not hear the application by himself a fter coasrhdiction had teen disputed, and, his L: r 7,. with the Masttr of th_ e r e ß a olls, %eat Sulp appointed this merning for hea i g the 1 . , r "tton. Jointly with Lord Langdale. 41rdr,PANIELs proceeded at great length to address his pp, T I P oh the behalf of Mr. Dimes, in favour of the e Wh014 3 111 0.. d . ° , .i n n",•• which the Learned Counsel occupied th " 1 gt C 0 Air ...............-- _ _ itf.h ~,A O.N PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) 4 _ ,-,gsief at Nisi Priu., at Westminster, before Lord Ji.utice WILDE and a Common Jury.) Thi f ~_ HUDSPETH V. TARNOLD._ . ' tiff, a come -44 nal an action brought by the plaintiff, of the Pa,l4„teoecover from the defendant , the lessee f ee tta"e theatre, in Whitechapel- road, el, the sum of 451., de e t i ,S,lY•two and a haltsweek'e salary at 21. a week, et tve ... in 'his capacity of an ac b to r r eir.vujuecernber, 1 848, and Septem , theatre, 114 th 9 e . ke phi appeared as counsel for the plaintiff, and ebtto_nsnlrpresented the defendant. Prov e ., l. Utirrish, formerly secretary _to the eh fondant, th„..'4 t•et the plaiutitf was engaged to play following month e f7;_re .in OTember, 1848, and in theat the teete.eMber entered upon that engagement. off,rinle,- __lag ()eV., tile tr' s were put in written in November , . 1848, by Difitiiifilifdant and her secretary, to ngage the with 4 ), tr the ensuing season at a weekly salary Att i.",a4-Yearly benefit, ple3eiarrish in cross-examination, sa 7th of the May folieeina the first low comedy. On tls , . id the plaff the theatre, ette. ,g.t.here w as the salaries " a commonwealth in . of t h: 1 ° sine Yarnold being unable to p ay tOr 4 facto, ivhen she gave up the theatre to the actors . The°lit,taileht to meant by a Pay themselves out of the . proceeds. 'Nin e , an CUIEIt JUSTICE—What is ),te I,‘Yealth in the theatre? Lord. The T.:414.--Mrs. Yarnold was deposed, to Sps te? an Cuite JUSTICE—There was a m re y volution, 1 kr, is,,;Lilehter.) Ce0,8:%--Exactly so. "commonwealth" took 6zateintition resumed—The Thetle/ee on the 7th May, and endured t hre e of the t hett re w as a notice posted ia the green-r b o a o than the sea l% ttt i ,'n the 4th and 15th May, stating Stitr t i a. "s Th e atre t would close in about a fer t tnight after- Prbti eu i was not a proper notice, a month's notice th e us 1 Y t ° a season terminating $e age ( f th e'profession. being necessary by et'ts delnli"d--The " commonwealth" lasted seven -4110 411041 - 1 8, itbd Mrs. Yarnold then resumed her sway. 1)1 sY etitltGiles Blake was engaged by the defend.fanterto f„ettly--24,0 t heatre in 1848. Recollected the plaint' at the eteeiro"ed• Did not know when he came to play a Re teethe' ~C"eld not remember dates .—( Laughter.) not ,_thioh l e g tt Christmas p antomime in 1848. that. were:: Plaintiff enu red the audience before 4 4 - W as no engag d at all at the theatre; he p lay ed po_ frie,4ter of friendshiep, and his remuneration was e V_ 4sheeta„l?•"--(A. laugh • ) Witness terminated his . to ltah ee'it, ia 41 1 11-- * lB4B when Mr. Yarnold died. . e litte,-;VvaB pl g a in t' at the ' theatre bef 're that time. glither'. had employing at the theatre as a dramatic 4110 11 t 4ft" Mr. Yar Id'e death. Saw Mrs. Yarnold for the those r .no him (witness) i t ," 4 . bi d ' P oductions, who paid Pt fle d . ' not b k now when the theatre c los e d ; ne v e r , 44 . tiriti.4lere4Zaatilitted—Soinetimes R ent to witness his o wn . beer was managing 114 ; e r t°P of the4te3ar. Joseph K i e, o rs lunti ered to adjust a te. oeace be. et.n silis. ie,: 4 lii ei.a4',a,_ Kers . h O ne n r ee and Mrs. Yarnold. Mrs. p f ittly dec,i In'' recognlsed lessee of the theatre. Neve 1 ;414 " t'f Partnership between Kershner and Mrs. ge. i; D''etteter4is'lN, in his address to the jury for the t d o ef n ence, the t e tt p t i or thtt'd PliS as a very unworthy atter o p lt Zhicti I : l , 4l4 titr to fix the defendant cha . rg ee e sin I R4B e a th at e VVP‘ts e w I•fa death in August, ° .‘ h- ' ile a II h as not alone lia.ble, 1 , 4. , ti,eze atter M r. Yarno • . . th,e,bold was a partnership subsisting between Mrs. 44 „ ~.. i re ' " 4'lr. Kershner in the management of the it ''. 1ia,,,. t Knight Ryder ditpt, i),,e-'iY iirtsri, a solicitor, in Grena- the part of the 4,4 4 . ° _,r 8 Commons, produced c 1849, c partners le, f ' g ee. e" ' t eed f h•- dated 19th May, 'ets '' Uls e the de wit st, t° chic ph liershner and E e a, an attesting Emma Yarnold, , ttietie,,. ,rnieh deed he (witness) a week after the tti , the'T_o partnership commen cedat the Pavilion Tyr, Gs e .`"l, and was to endure to 25th March, 1852. .. tilt t 'RS Wit", tin ._l3anager - . ,eltyttskihtlit4hteireltB49, and ' ae a t e e d ''i tt th a t "caracity up to th A e . 1 , e Rememberee hinOteea u ,„ 9f the " Commonweal n. Kershner came as te ft eirt eer ::4.? that tep th 'r the ft, Mrs, Mrs. Y ye a a r r nol w d h , e a n nd Al t r* ok the sole m anage let tiPtsthet °Atte. Had announced the fact of the part ktiff 0 4 1 , pi Prupany previous to Mr.Kerahner's coming, rehereaft_e"t•ff among the rest. be It was intimated iltivtiole,r,Alr.liershner would th e 4 Ise.A" t ° the corn . jointly liable with Company f .r their s . alaries. The ' ^ "4 Chief Justice WILDE havtng summed up 4 8%! itir r 0 1 t', 21/.•°und a verdict for the plaintiff for 43/., de a, ^sl t it lit t. Bs e, 4 d., cash already of three paid to him by the 8e t) get Ia services, and 61 . in respect tov ile ee of I,'„es rut --ring " the Commonwealth," leaving a ahieit it4l. 8 l. due to the plaintiff; the real sum the verdict was given, tt tier, , Th-AtNAL c(jiritT.— . , 'tr "'eehr„ OLD COURT, (THIS DAY.) the e , col% "srY sittings of the Central Criminal Court 3 / 4 °rd keneed this morning in the Old Court,before l' i s°l) ' P itite t l 9 r, the Recorder, Aldermen Musgrove, an 011, 19 , and C d Reffie se ttled , ar en,. and Sheriffs Lawrence . is The lla tite b y the tinder-Sheriffs and other civ ~l a b, 4 6 rAt d;‘: ' ke r 'e s one t e . - ',"°tl of the calendar contains the . ,tbealvez,si oeing 32 for London, 53 for Middlesex, names of t tlit e er a 2 for ICent, and 31 for Surrey. . lettlellede" jury having been selected, sworn, and t o i l 41 it. 2 h, °"in.'"ubstt ,: %i d eN t . ~,Prec,leded to charge . _ a them to the Oh ,_, co te . ;--- the calendar which 1 y before him, At,„ nverai erenends The names of 123 persons, charged th f as traiitfelonious offences, differing only degree. in that tit tliii /is nib e Yin g to him to be able to inform t h em of th o e . 4i telleb l t ' fell considerably short ti e llt et 3 a ser, to r ,_, 'f prisoners at this period has e'e m 4 ince - B, ° ' l "g at the long interval which . . -4 1`;: )- • of th in -"e Period f the last sessions. The juris 1104' e att. ‘ll COUrt exte nded, as no doubt the ja7: l."44Bt) t r e Pe r%o ° e 'r s er a Population of upwards of two mil p. ,, ,,, o ie, : h nd the gratification . which all must ' I,Y , Nih u ' 10 number of cases diminished would be Q„ , for e O s el by a reference tettieuintett,.,4o, and which brought into comparison to a statement which . tht t il l it k Ye sr * : lB ° ,-.. f the Year 1849 with those of the pre- Ns 'lO cam . /le found in this dacument a sta tem ent _,A, c)14,41/1114 t.'atttals for the year had decreased by ff's t tlea r d, o r ir,eln Whatever cause this improve ment . wa it might etltitrtOti tho" whatever happy circumstanc es 4 es iti qii ' -r e vea - • d• ted an improved Ole • Sth en a 110 doubt that itin ica The met e t rft- I tiee get the great body of the people. al an t i , 41 Mt' t)f Pron ,_ 4 f t e h ~, ,erty by unlawful means w metet t ',;d Do, PeellliarlY arose from a state of d titu ea had e°l:44:l44tei ertY, and this description of offence a 11441 ti 14 i ailed ' b ut • h d to the other offence th tit i a th e 1 with regar e,, much the ~,ere ~, ore to 1 a ender, they were pr tY 'lse "ere r Y. Out of the whole number of 123 . Res et 3 e t, eeni e ord. earges of larceny, which . braced em h uses tervatl trettlalltry larceny larceny in dwelling- o_ . , e llas I' hl tail Person a ' nd larcenies committed by ar got%,i,,; l° ea„ltli O fembezzlem en t there was a very ;"( trhZi.roblt'b.-?t43e while, with the exception of 5 li t h - e ift () , - ," t otti ß . t,', fi:oca the ' person and 4 of cutting -e It ' s - "at ig - " e re sv p erson and 4 of cutting Were no ca se s of a serious character insitt4e4,4l a perlonerenneowcaas happy to say, also, that the t 4 ea Of aPPettrence of the calendar did not present to h ° 06°41 Mrsvation to the extent which hither "qtiC e rve. 41 the juryhad had the misfortune I f , IN, ti„ he most p ,' ith,•" p 4„ rn the whole therefore , had . 11 4 • bad "B4re i • ' I eking at the inter crl„ - co el ti stating, that o . tt,'ele„l2%,; sPsed since the last session, t 0 h cafe nder -4 Abl ' B l w' h e • s presented a very the e fe.. e d oe. _ it . former session and character of e. 4 _ til,o‘.;_ett whieT're in the number d since the diminution ef,r,tiutu,o th e u Ltteontained, an i f 4 th e e Lned i n i 7nole of the proc . eoing year they h, ; thtOtititr, noulging the hope that ._ the metropolis t-:se eoetiVvere gradually and at, a lily improving (I ' It• t neh, ."'°n . The state of the calendar, then, act , It a;,l ''''' not ear to be necessary 4Fiet,o4 01? trespass at a ny " length upon the htk;lti ß , fit th e difeJ u r3', or to diieet it to the law as ;1,41* Prete --erent charges which the calendarlevmd ollittiles af ;I:laetrile speaking theysimplyin v o lved the :t th nor the . which intelligent g entlem en , .. t ,,h,ith e te Iv.. Spry would ha ve no di ffi culty in deciding. .' o ' h a s --" °4O ease three individuals " 0 ti - '' th s little o t t h e y trig . to % f e . ~ ereto re Le u .cf ordinary course and to „peterN t11;11: ithadou. wished particularly to direct the;r eed 51'norninae ' to a charge which was comprehended were I) 114 Wlth f ion of forgery. The parties . 4, 4 3., and ° Nieg the pa er mone of a foreign sp fe ,ste m , th e jury i i P Y . l 1 4 4 In th e , wou , And the law bearing on the -41 e then -e .8t o •ll* -, which ofd ,„ hi h e offence ino a r I tam AV., F. 16, 5..19, 11%1qt; f Provided tiuts ways, differing in deg ree,. ik i _ ish re a ~ .lea the onus of proving ' to the '°relen power to issue and stih • Paper #4. 4 / s hould r tn9ney of that power in t s) h ik t 9 b t eat with therty accused. Tnat 6 14 9111 Y S M fulling out of the ordinary course, end having made these ')bservations to the jury, it only rt mained for him to coth :ratulate them upon the decrease in their duties, which a • manifest im provemtnt in the stste and condition of tho humbler claisea of society he d occasioned, and at of ice to dismiss them to the discharge of the functions wh. 'Ch they bad bcen called there to perform. Tbe grand jury then retired, and short' y afterwards found Beyond true bills, and a petty jury curing in the meantime been empanelled, the trials were at once pro eeeded with. SURREY SESSIONS.--(tsis DAY.) This sessions commenced this morm lig at the Sessions House, Newington causeway, b fore rbamas Puckle, Etq., and a full bench of magistrates. The calendar contained the names of fifty-three prison , vie for trial. The grand jury he'll g been sworn, we tc dismissed to their duties. The whole of the morning was occupie d in appeals from tined jurymen. One of them came St , drunk that he was compelled to be moved by force and conveyed to the police-station. Several gentlemen wet afterwards sworn in as magistrates of the county. 3IARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) EXTRAORDINARY CAPTURE OF G AIIBLEP ' .S.—Morris Levy, wine-merchant, 23, Norfolk-street, Stra-id, Charles Lucas, Charles Snowden, J: ones Hutchinson, Charles Hainbleton, William Mallard, t tVilliam Spurting, William Jones, James Johnson, Sin mons Maddox, Charles Jones, Henry Johnson, Job a Jones, George Hart, Thomas Jones, James Wood, Fri Orrick Johnson, James bt Irey, John Sitford, John Mytt an, John Jones, Adolph Golcismidt, Moses Samuel, and J tunes Townsend, gouty cf whose names are assumed, were) brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with baying been found assembled in a common gaming -house, No. 119, Jer utyn-street, for an unlawful purpose. Townsend was also) charged with being the door-keeper. Superii t.mdent Foxnll, cf the E division, stated that, having reported to the Commissioners of Palice that the house situated at 111, Jermyn-street, volts used as a common gaming- house, he received authorityr from them to visit the house. In compliance with th at order he proceeded to the house on Sunday morning, about a quarter-past two o'clock, with several consttebles. On arriving at the entrance he knocked and rang, and at that moment a signal of a loud cough was giveu outside of the house, and something was then tiarown at the first floor 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 effort& They were about 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 for being found in a common gaming house. Lie then took all their names, and sent them to the police - station in Vine street. He aub.equently searched the house, and on the fiat 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 cf covers, which he now produced. ' In the back room he fund a back-gammon board and some cards, with the address of 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 seed, 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. 13musram said that was the point on which the question turned, 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. Bel!chambers, 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, said that on the previous afternoon, from information he received, he went to Bel!chambers's shop, in Red-cross-street, where he dis covered two pocket, of bops in the back premises. lie asked Bel!chambers how the hops came there, when he replied that he exchanged them for beer. Witness said he believed them to he 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 hoe estly 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 sati.faatory account of them he should take him to the police-statior. Ho took him to the station-house. Wit ness then retarned 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 cu&tody. Mr. A'BEcxEvT asked Hunt whether he had ascer tained to whom 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 fi nd the owners. He therefore wished for a remand. _ Mr. Solomon, who attended for the prisoners, courted a full inquiry and asked for bail. Mr. ATECKETT consented to take bail, and remanded the prisoner until Monday next. SPORTIN G IN NORTHAMPTON ANI TELLIGENCE. ) PYTCHLEY HUNT iG, 1850. Northamptonshire Stakes. Yrs st lb Chantrey Drakelon' Mounseer Tophanu 5 6 13 Giselle a 6 12 retina Velox Pins IX Ra th mines Priestess 4 6 10 Wild Rose Lady Bangtail 5 6 Puffy Black Doe Minto %lahratta 4 5 11 Eiarriott Damask o by Lanercost, out of Concertina Bastinado MEETD Acceptances for the Great Yrs st lb Collinprood Wanota Mutcatcher — 5 8 5 Fe rnhill Halo 6 8 2 Borneo 4 6 2 Inheritress Elthiron Cl.-rmont 6 7 10 Sylvan 5 7 10 Bellinsfsd WestlW Vesta Being Clarissa Iron Bail 6 7 2 Tarn Wadlin Grief Abbot c f Mesux 4 7 0 Glen Saddel Osterley Sunnyside NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1850. Acceptances fur the Newmarket Handicap. Yra at lb Surplice Wanota Flatcatcher Halo Fernhill Malton Black Eagle Sobraon Saucy Dick 4 7 31Beebee Bunnoo ... 4 6 3 Dulcet a 7 3' I ffy Pu Woolwich Herbert ClarisEst • . W ea tow Strongbow .. Chaotroy Sunnyside Rathmines Glenalvon Vasa... Deceptive I 3 4 6 Kerala Kia s away BATH AND SOMERSET COUNTY MEETING, Yrs it lb 1850. Acceptances fur the Somersetshire Stakes. Age st lb Age at lb Fernhill Hotspur Halo 6 8 2 Red Doe 5 6 7 Sylvan ...... ......... 5 8 1 Seagull G 'eudovi er Chantrey 4 7 6 Yard Arm lEdipus Sunayside Chorister 5 7 3 Thug Cockermouth 5 7 S Windischgratz ... 3 5 7 Eagle's Plume 5 7 3 Won't-you - come- Midis SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY, FEB. 2.—The Royal Mail Steam Packet Comraly's ship Avon, Lieutenant Philip Hart, R. N., commander, took her departure this sfeernoon with the usual British and Foreign West Indian and Alexican 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/. fur Havannah, and 2,200 bottles of quicksilver, value about 34,0001, for mining operations in Mexico. The iron steamer Queen !eel yesterday fir Oporto. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany's ship Jupiter, Ceptain F. Meehan, with the mails from Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, is ex pected on Monday. COTTON SBED.—The American line of packet ship Prince Albert, just arrived in the docks from New York, Lai brought us three packages of cotton teed, 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 art'cle may have token place, it is c 4 interest. THE A URISTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. "Pity the sorrows of a poor old mar. !" hope to remedy, by means of your extensive circulation, the injustice suffered by a much injured 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 haricots. Before the Agricultural Committee of Lords, 1836, an arithmetical fact transpired, which seems now entirely forgotten—namely, that any rise or fall, say of 10 per cent. in the-market price of the produce of our farms, is a rise or fall of 30 per cent. on our 116a1 property in that farm held in capite. Our farmers, it is clear, are bound to make three rents, one for one for our plant, and one for themselves. In the very general case of no lease, or lease expired, we never suffer them to retain on labour-skill-risk grounds, more than they have already got, so that the whole of that 30 per cent. rise or fall in the market price annexes itself to (or defalcates itself from) our Wel property. We have by royal assignment the same beneficial interest in that 30 per cent. that H. M. has in Begshot-heath or in the ex cellent Widdicomb. Now, if the statists had stated this to us, or if the p economists had politely said so, should we, could we, with such a per-centage to lose, have made such a gallymaufry Lf protection, with little Benjamin for guide. The 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 it no escape—yes tigia nulla retrorsurn—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. Nor is this the only offence of political economists against the grand theory of _ Rent! Si possis, recta, si non, quoounque 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 Si. per annum is not more the value of 961. at present, than 961. is of 3/. per annum, but I speak of the value both of Si. and of 961. in goods. Danarj or denarii are denries, viveri, anything which supports life—general ralues. If I owe 401, having a horse worth 30/. 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 65., 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 4/. 10s., he owes half that ton ; but if falls to 41. 10s., he must make and sell a whole ton to pay the 9/. 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 11. 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 For Anglais—j" ai paye 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 states by Lord Palmerston, eighty of which to Spain. How much shall we get back from America and Spain ? 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 Bank lends money for time-bargains in loan-scrip or corn scrip, the borro ever takes it in gold, and as the specie wanes the securities, lodged by borrowers, wax. This has been the invariable preliminary of each panic. M. N. M. Rothschild told the Committee of 1832, " The directors are ,clever men, and know what the gold is wanted for, but they never ash." 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 a 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 J. Burgoyne happened to be dining out, 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 t hat 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 troth 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 we; 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 ceased amongst the poor inmates of St. George the Martyr's Workhouse, Southwark, in consequence of a cry being raised that tie 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 work, and several brigade or, gine? with that of the West of England Comrany, fol lowed. There being plenty of water obtained, the fire men, inmates of the workhouse, and the parish engineer, succeeded in getting the tire 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 offi' 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 fi:emen round that the cause of so much consternation was one t f the chimneys of the poorhouse taking fire. TOE FIRE AND SUICIDE IN BERMONDSEL—On Saturday evening Mr. William Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, held an inquiry of several hours' duration at the Simon tho Tanner tavern, Long-lane, Bermond sey, respecting the circumstances attending the death of Samuel Smith, aged 33, who committei suicide at the house of Mr. Medford, a general dealer, No. 163 in the same thoroughfare. 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 de rangement." ONDON, MONDAY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—Oo Friday night there was the repetition of one of the scenes for which past Houses of Commons }save 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 teen. 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 cf, 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 unsuccessful in times past, in pointing out the road to present liberation and to future safety. The first point I want to impress, is the importance of keeping up the habit and practice of Public Meet• ings, for the purpose of examining with deliberation the questions which the constitution and practice of Parliament are not adapted for entertaining. If cer tain propositions connected with the preservation of your rights and fortunes, turn Parliament into a whirlpool, it is in the calm shades of the Free Trade Hall, and your own Temperance-devoted building, that the discussion must necessarily be 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 presstd 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 ba asked, why* manufacturei 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 been born to the belief, or have imbibed it from the instructions cf their fathers, that they have the same right to your property and labour which a proprietor in South Ca- rolina think s h e has' in his negroes. Th ere are ex ceptions ; but th e i rra tional are perfectly i ntractable in their insanity. Th e y may disguise it as t h ey please, but your genuine Protectionist honestly believes that if all the Orchidaceous plants of South America are collected at Crow Nest, it is so much clear robbery of what ought to have been handed over to the 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 same 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 resistance. The Protectionists are loud and incessant in their assurances that they will persevere till they get back again. Ask then, on what their actual strength, and with it their chance of getting back again, depends. It depends, among other things, 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 themselves to a hearty junction 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 this moment riding round }our 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 they 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 their repentance, they will record that their representative did the duty of an honest man in doing his best to point out to them the way. If your representative is told he should have risen earlier, he will probably reply, that he rose five times, and what could man do more ? On another opportunity you shall receive more in elucidation of our position. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, London, Feb. 4,1650. AN OLD REFORMER. (From the 1-Ifrald.) PROTECTIONISM. Present of Country party ... ••• Tell _rs ••• ••• Pairs ... .414. Awes Present 'Whig Protectionists ... FREE-TRADERS. Whigs and. Radicals present «.Tellers .. Pairs ... ••• ..• ••• Peelites Desertions from Country party INFORMATION for the MILLION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—ln you r paper of T uesday evening, Jan. 29, there is an article headed " Drinking," from Eliza Cook's Journal. I have always been an admirer, and am so still, of whatever comes from her pan, especially in the pre sent case, where she clearly establishes the insane and unnecessary prrotice of d r i n king,—the more so as she proves to a demonstration th a t d r i n k, w ith its villan ous an b compounds, brings on premature death. W more beautif u l th an w h e r e she says, "Drink destroys man's self-respect, eats away his moral character, makes him powerless to resist the insidious approaches of vice, 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 h er l etter I respectfu l ly b eg t o set her right (also the p u bli c ) , 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 i s not much thoug h t o f a commercia l if he is not up to the scheme of selling a few articles, in the course of taking his order, at a price su ffi cient to make both o f t h em d run kthat 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 rillanous 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 ago ; at that time they used to swim in whisky, brandy, and gin, but now they float lin a more pure and intellectual atmosp here, and are becom ing every d a y more an d mo re enlightened, so as to be an ornament to society—a benefit to the State and their fellow-man (Cobden to wit)—so much so th a t in a very sh or t ti me drinking will altogether be banished from their minds. I recollect being told of an occurrence once taking place in Berkshire of a commercial asking his cus tomer to take a pipe with him in the evening, —thi s was one who forgot to lay on a little additional pr o fi t in taking his order; he never forgot that pipe, n or never will, it cost him about 6s. or 7s. ; as for the pip e and tobacco it was nothing, it was the trimmings th a t did the mischief (the whisky and brandy that fol lowed) ; he bas 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 PRY 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. PREFERMBNTS.—The Lord Chancellor has pre santed tha Reverend Charles Moldy to the rectory t.,f Taplow, Bucks. His Lordship hes also presented the Reverend Joseph Willey to the vicrage of Drax, York shire; and the Rev. Thomas Hill to the Perpetual ca mpy of St. Trinity, Afinorieo. EVENING, PEBRAJARY 4, 1850 PROTECTIONIST ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISION ON THE All. DRESS. Absent of Country party, without pairs Country party supporting Government ~.. ,ENT witsrour 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, B. Vesey, Hon. J. Vivian, J. E. Vyvyan, Sir R. Wegg, P. F. R. West, F. R. AGAINST A3IENDMENT. Johnstor, Sir J. Legb, G. C. Monsell, W. Pakingt n, Sir J. Plowden, W. 11. Pugh, D. Reid, Colonel Sandars, George Sandars, J. Stuart, 11. Turner, G. ES WHO VOTED FOR THE >MEET. - 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, bolonel Owen, Sir J. Palmer, Roundell Peel; flight 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. THE MAGAZINES, &c. BLACK WOOD.' Oliver Goldsmith furnishes a beautiful theme for a biographical paper, prefixed to the miscellaneous con tributions in the February number of Blachwood . 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 more 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 I r.news, burst into tears ;" 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. .MaDonnell "wept bitterly at the intelligence ;" and how Dr. Johnson " felt the blow deeply and gloomily." Then it is, moreover, that we hear with tender admiration that there was beard the "lamentation of the old and infirm, and the sob • bing of women" on the stairs leading to the poor dead poet's chambers in the Temple, while the reader's heart melts within him at 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 Jessatny Bride I Two 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. "Tho 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, in a h uge a p pen di x o f 1 22 c l ose l y printed pages, gives verbatim et seriatim the opinions expressed by various journals upon its previous dis quisition on " British Agriculture and Foreign Com petition." The article and its cumbrous supplemen' 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 Ragglee, 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. Tom 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," lays 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 on a large scale. The scene in which " he transacts important business" with Lord Yalta 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 fur 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 mach desire to cultivate. Mr. S. D. Huyghue, 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 cf 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 Dau phin, the f a th er o f L ou i s XVI., by th e Jesuits (of which body he was a member), in revenge fur his alleged inability t o preven t th e expulsion of the order from France. There are several other i nterest ing papers in Bentley besides the usual admirable review of the current literature cf the month. FRASER. Could the author of thePaPe;On the State and Pro spects of the Country," in the present number ofFraser, 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 Bucolic' (which, as having been admitted for merly behind the scenes, he ought to be aware is vox et, preterea nihil), 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." lie 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 course, unequivocally condemned by the aristocracy-loving Fraser, an admirable review by " Morgan Rattler" of Mr. Curnwalle 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. NEW 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;— To praise the generous is to think of thee." Horace Smith's tale of " Leve 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 subject of a very interesting article. That " the lore of poetry is not extinct " is gracefully proved by lir. Alaric Watts in some stanzas bearing that title, in which are enumerated a few of the innu merable and blessed achievements of the poet. "As Muses-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 " The love of song can never fade illhast gentle hearts are r le, To feel the sunshine and the balm It sheds on hum au Many very interesting papers are contained in this, which is a very excellent number of the N P2C .31011thly. UNITED SERVICE. Lieut.-Colonel Wilkie has written on " Th e P ay of the Army," and, utterly heedless of Mr. Cobden, advocates its augmentation. The article on " Pun ishment and Crime" is to a certain extent just, but in some respects too severe, especially in allusion to corporal punishment. We say so undeterred by the complimentary inuendo contained in the AINSWORTIL The story of " Guy Fawkes" has now reA c h e d its most interesting point. In this part of the narrative Guy Fawkes discovers that he is himself the object of Viviana's lore, and a few pages after we read of his capture on the memorable fifth of November, as 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 Esrl of Orkney, who, two hundred .and thirty-four years ago, finish A d his ignominious career at the market-cross 'of il?Ain burgh by the hands of the common executioner. !The most delightful paper in this number of Tait is the second instalment of Hurton's " Written Pictures from the North of Europe." The Christmas family festivities at Copenhagen, and the men and manners of the north countries, ate described in the most fits, cinating and natural iminner. The scenes and ti oe Characters, already rendered familiar to sus by Y i ii s Bremer and Christian Andersen, revive in these 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 - beautPul map a 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 funs, And with great praise and marvel of the Anglo-Saxon name." THE' CHEMIST. A new periodical, under the above title, purport.. ing to be " a mont hl y j ournal of chemical philosophy,, and of chemistry applied to the arts, manufacture', agriculture, and medicine, and record of pharmacy; has recently made its appearance. It has been brought out at an appropriate time. The publics health is now deservedly one of the most interesting and popular topics of consideration, and, in addition to various papers on purely chemical subjects, VA Chemist devotes considerable attention to matt affecting the sanitary condition of the people. In'an article on some of the many poisonous sewers in London, it is asked—" Should the summer of this year, on its *frivol, find us unprepared for the attacks of epidemic disease, what fearful results may we net anticipate ! What shall we not deserve 1' " Sanitise's- Observations relating to articles of Food, Drink, &c.' 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. THE JOURAAL OF DESIGN. Every succeeding number of this periodical con firms our opinion of its excellence. Its criticisms are, for the most part, as judicious as its illustrations are graceful. THE LONDON JOURNAL OF PATE,AVT INVENTIONS. The proposed Exhibition renders the London Jefroirnal 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 ornamental. According to this srticle t improvements in impit-tnente, &c., affecting " sgricul 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 negleoted. It is to be desired that neither the ornamental nor the useful shall be neglected in the Exhibition. They are both se closely intertwined that it is difficult and quite undesirable to separate them. THE BELLE ASSEMBLER. In an article entitled 4 • 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 quot , Al in support of the opposite principle, whereas, on examina tion of one of Mies Eigeworth's works. " -)4 arenta' Assistant," it appears that the majority of Lb lesseons are inculcated by presenting vice in all its enormity. Those who remember the tales of the " Th e F a l se Key," " Tarleton," " L►.zy Lawrence," and others, will at once agree that if Mrs. Cr►►sland has erred in the principle of her tale, Miss Edgeworth had also erred greviously and continually, which very few will allow. MRS. ELLIS'S MOBANIAG CALL. Part 11. This new magazine promibes well It is bdornad with borne very beautiful engravh , gs, and, in bddition to tales and poems, contains literary criticisms of con siderable ability. Longfellow's beautiful "EvArige line" is reviewed this month. MIS CE L LAN E 0 US. Sharpe's Magazine is, as usual, adoraied with two beautiful engravings, and full of interesting and well written articles. In one of these Mr. Sydney Her 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 interest to the firmer and agriculturist.—The Spurting .Reriere is adorned with engravings of " the IVhaddon Chase Hounds" and " the Barbel," literally a fish out of water, hut its appearance of agony accords ill with the jocpctosertnraesist o f the proverb.—The l,abrei op C ues o o l i o , r; People's emigration el Magaz i ne ourn p l er has s o r a n an d ope ns immi gration Louie Kossuth. a g timelyrat n review reports .--The rt . — o f and memoir of the Hungarian hero, The first part of the story, in explanation of Gilbert's pictures—" The Sulditt's Progress," hich obtained the prize of twenty p oun d s, i s contained in the People's Journal this mont h . I t is written with much spirit.—The Metropolitan, among many fic titious tales, contains one of powerful interest called " The Veiled Portrait."—The Church (y . England Magazine is occupied with its customary serious and instructive papers.—The Worhing Man's Friend is a new weekly magazine, and appears calculated to be beneficial to the class for whom it is intended. "Why should n o t ever y wor ki ng man b e a gentleman behaviour !" is the very reasonable beginning of an excellent article in this magazine.—Very deranntlar rg.maga pe zi r n t e od eo ic n al . is the character of the next magazine before us . the tthweofor u ds rte o e f nt e h tla nu ti t i n s be l r . month we have occasion Ladies' ta or ins l st a d eCs biography ..— nr l' a h n e i 07114 flea Bishopr gracefully eh a t x Taylo rs 01 illustrated n so memorable as beingh—F: nn t h ek e wF r eeadcriiipteiizo.ge has s f v the e ry lareacheds of n.— to commend the elegance of Le Follet. ------ REFAMENTATION OF WINDSOR. —A new writ having been moved fora representative of the borough of Windsor, in consequence of the resignation of Lord John Hay, Mr. Hatchet), the Solicitor -General for Ire land, has issued au address to the electors soliciting their suffrages. A c [A w n i :0E117AI: NTT s ]c- A F Fi O r t: t a iy, R a r QU g I o S o I d TES R LO o It r —Secondly, a good Strop —Thirdly, Good Soap— Fourthly, a good Shaving Brush. And these are t be obtainers, of the best quality, and newest construction, of Ross ei,d Sons, who can strongly recommend their triple converted Railway Razor; their Railway Strop, with hone attached; their Pearl Shaving Paste, beautifully scented and making a durable livher; and their medium badgers' hair Shaving Brush. They also recommend travellers to inspect their Russian Dress ing Case, which contains the greatest number of cow e niences in the smallest space.—Address, Ross and Sons, . 119 and 120, Bishopsgate- street, Lond on. Colonel Green (retired front the East India Corn been w appointed orki in t hSeu roomper Superintendent t t- o n f d eat lonel Pa En gineernY's servic e) i D e e l cror Irvine deceased. The operas of Le Domino .Noir, Zampa, and Lot Cold, will form the attractions at the bt, jeo l o.i. Theatre dodos tho pretest week, folio Wing observation :-----TI i cannot vest I uyself - of th e id es, " says the writer o , f this i article, "th a t th ose p hi lanthropists who so anxiously desire tile abolition of capital and corporal punish ment, and who talk so much of the nobleness of human mature, and its degradation by the use of the lash, have some innate consciousness of their own _fallibility, and a distrust in their power of resisth3g the ev il i n fl uences to which their cor ruptible natztio may expose them, and of th e possi bility, shoul d these punishments be allowed to exist, of their some day affecting themselves." A mournful fragment, entitled " The Cashiered," concludes with some just anims dversions upon the irresponsibility of courts-martial. "A recent court-martial' —we quote the last paragraph of thisarticle—" held at Guernsey % on Captain Douglas, of the 16th nt, forcibly recall e d our attention to the subject. Regime That bu s he is innoc en t o f any crime, o r t h at his con g duct has in au ht deviated from reci course of an officer and the cot man, there cannot be th e s li g h test doubt, yet a be ge hit ntl s e been sympathise an d condole convicted and cashi ere d b y a court-ma rtial.we deeply While Douglas in his unmerited disgrace wi th Captain we confidently hope that justice will e r e l ong b e rendered him ; and sincerely as we commiserat e t h e position of that high-. minded gentleman, we rejoice that his undeserved le,. fliction will prove the means of remodelling th e p er . nicious system of courts-martial." COUNTRY PARTY ABS Alexander, N. Alford, Viscount (ill) Arbuthnot, General Bcnett, J. Blackstone, W. S. Blair, S. Brackley, Viscount (ill) Brooke, Sir A. (ill) Chichester, Lord J. Christy, S. Clive, Hon. B. Dundas, G. Edwards, IL Egerton, W. T. Ftolliott, J. Gordon, Admiral Gore, W., jun. Hodsworth, T. (ill) Hughes, J. B. DESEATED AND VOTED Acland, Sir T. D. Cubitt, W. Cocks, T. S. Currie ' H. Drumlanrig, Lord Dupcuft, J. . Emlyr, Lord Greenall, G. Hayes, Sir E. Heald, J. Heneage, G. W. TEN WHIGS AND PEELIT AMEN Barron, Sir H. Berkeley, Hon. G. Cayley, E. S. Cholmeley, Sir W. Dunne, Colonel TRUITY-FOUR rEuttras WJ.F 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. H. Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E. Goulburn, Right Hon. H. Graham, Right Hon. 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. Duff, G. Tollemache, Hon. F. Grenfell, C B. Phillips, Sir George D'Eyncourt, C. T. Trail!, G. Ellice, E., jun. Duff, J. Morgan, Grogan UPPOSED POISONING OF A. HUSBAND BY HIS WIFE. kor 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 Comran7, about thirty-four years of age, living with his wife in Peartree• court, Lower Clapton, had been poisoned by the latter. On the report yeaching 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 t) be held. On Wednesday last the inquiry was opened at the Fountain Tavern, Lower Clapton, but after an identification of the body of the deceased, the inquest was adjourned until Friday evening for a post ntortem 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 c f age, was charged before Mr. Arnold, on suspicion of having idministered 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, in Peartrec-court, who proved that she had been inti mate with the prisoner and her husband for some time past. Between ten and eleven o'clock on the morning of the day of his death, the prisoner requested her to It t her son get her (the prisoner) some oatmeal to make some gruel for her husband, who was ill in bed. Wi'- ness did so, and about two hours afterwards she saw the prisoner mixing some (f , the oatmeal In- gruel. Mr. Toulmin, the surgeon, was the next witless 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 state of considerable collapse, having very little pulse, and his skin much below the natural temperature. Ho 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 pre see ding, as it was contrary to tho expressed wish of her late husband. 1)r. Lotheby next repeated evidence he had given at e inquest, as to finding arsenic in the stomach and its contents. From the results of his examination be felt satisfied that the deceased had died from the effects ef arsenic, which must have been administered more than once, and but a short time previous to his death. The following fresh evidence was 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 fir:t declined to serve her with the article, but having assured him that she had procured it on previous occasions from his father, heat length supplied her with it, making it up at her request in two separate packets, as she alleged that one of them was intended for her sister, 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 hou.e of the prisoner, and having closely questioned her as to whether she had lately purchased any arsenic, she positively denied having done so. On being con fronted with the last witness, however, she admitted having bought twopennyworth of arsenic at his f.tther's shop, with the intention c f taking it herself. Witness then took her into custody, and on their way to the sta tion-holm she stated that her husband for 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 Calla Policc-constable Clarke, N 223, stated that during the temporary absence of the inspector, while the prisoner n Ili 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, wasordered to be remanded, to await the result of the adjourned inquest on Tuesday. RUMOURED LAW CHANGES IN SCOTLAND.—AB the lamented death (f Lord Jeffrey neces.arily Cr( ates 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 tte 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 Monerieff, Esq., advocate. Another rumour has, however, since prevailed, and which receives more credence, viz., that the Lord Advocate Rutherford 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, as representative of the Stewattry cf Kirkcud bright, and his acceptance of the office cf Lord Advocate would not render a new election necessary. It is further thought, that the fate which attended the more impor tant measures introduced by the Lord Advocate last ses sion, and the little thanks he received for his legislative exertions, will not render him particularly anxious to remain in his present office. However, it is also re porteil, that in the event c f the Lord Advocate taking the judicial appointment, the understanding will be, that he might st;ll aspire to higher honours, in the same manner as if ho continued Lord Advocate.—Caledonian Mercury. MARRIAGE IN HIGII LIFE.—The nuptials of Lady Olivia Montagu, only daughter of the Duke of Man e-tester, with Lord Ossulton, M.P., only son of the Earl a nd Countess c f Tankerville. were celebrated with much festivity on Tuesday, at Kimbolton Castle, the ducal seat in Huntingdonshire. The marriage solemnity was performed by the Rev. Thomas Ainsworth Otte Vicar of Kimbolton), in the private chapel of the castle, ere 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 uaiform costume. They were—Lady Julia Hay, the Misses . Steele (two), the the Misses Baillie (two), and the Honourable Miss Wrott( sley. Shortly after the solemnisa tion the noble bridegroom and his fair bride left the castle, amidst the warm congratulations of their friends, for the Marquis of Abercorn's et a', the Priory, at Stan more, Middlesex, for the honeymoon. Mr. J. Cooke, superintendent of pilots at this port, and a practical man of great experience, attributes the loss of the Hottinguer and other vessels on Black water Hawk to the want of a light on Arklow Bank.— Liverpool Chronicle. usr OF FAIRS. ... 112 --- 203 35