The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-01 00:00:00

' vei 0 0 • 14• il t K al l, fc 5 ha o f ° ler S. 4.- EVRNENG NI eibser;/e that the Christian dispensati rl ontradicted and overturn e d a great Tsai:lY thin S which were mkiters of faith in an/ivitY• To quote one or - two exainples. It was' btf i re the appear ance of CHRIST a matter 9 . f faith that the MtssrAtt was to be a cor tquering hero, who "CRS to establish on earth the k' ingdom of the chosen P e ople. It was deinonstrat Jd, after his appear ance, that he was to be R spiritual sovereign. It was a matter of faith, hid ore he came, that the ALMIGHTY had sclecte' f a particular people for Ills grace; and as they Pam!, in the vicissitudes of nations, once attained to considerable power, it was a matter of faith thzl t they were highly favoured h Y Him, and before an d a b ove a ll reople, and were to receive (Ire tarth a.s their inheritance. By the Christian (lisp' m he ki n d F ather of sation GOD is announced as all, who, instead of favouring a Particular pew,fr., has given his own and only 1 „ 8° 1 1° ' the ceder i pti o n o f a ll mankind. It was a I, '" of faith amongst - the Jews that GOD de- I -ggie dd in sacrifice, for that CHRIST substituted 1 ,,, e . : rt7 and a contrite heart. Now, the'.ie cotnpa ively modern matters of faith are ail : wally substi ilted for, and preferred to the more, ancient matters of by Mr. G L A DSTON-f, and his friends. v h e y' af fi rln that th e -aratter ' ears id of faith taught 1,800 ago are su p er i or tr , those taught 3,000 years li ke ' and yet, while. t,',,, te y affirm this, the unlady the sc ribe of the post denounces those who assert at modern knOr.viedore in matters of faith is to be Preferred to, anr:Ant knowledge. Such writing is a e4: : P°ll "‘ ionomnee and impudence, for the lmPudc-tier "netualry iffnorant of what he asserts, and ' r .tly accuses other people of ignorance. R . 4 -1 t these gentlemen have a curious way of i il l tin g out of this difficulty. They assert that the ate and people of antiquity did not understand interpreted su bject, and that the writings which they had -terpreted to mean a temporal actually meant a liliritual kingdom. To say nothing of the con ceited arrogance of those who, being imperfectly ac quainted with a language, - fiud in it a meaning t those wino spoke it never contemplated, what 4 08 e writi ngs really ntJant is of no consequence, t t he question cor , cerns w h at t h e anc i ent peop l e ' tll ally believed, The dead letter was a mere e.tO,olred m ar k- —the matter of faith was in the hearts Art minds n the people. To contend for the vt : 7 1 i t i e ti l g 4 s n . : 1 stian interpretation of the ancien i 3 in fact t o g i ve up the whole qu e stio: t at so stie ‘ , Mr. GLADSTONE and his friends asr.,ert by contending that the moderns know more on Il ert of faith than the ancients, ae,Ci they do in tract entert a i n t h e very op i n i eu. which in words Y derid e and condemn. b uti ll) Ofthis f ac t spr i ngs, f or our argument, a very i.r Port ant con•elusie.li. Haw c am e M r . GLAD klietNitl with the Pose .11(1 that party, to be so 11. Tien (-l etter: infor me d , as to t h e mean i ng o f t h ose ' t . they w ming 3 than the people among whom F iriginated ? Is not that information clearly Zone traced e to their belief in CHRIST, which is o f 'modern origin ? They are wise an the d"wit. The MESSIAH has appeared ki r► h as established, not a temporal, but a spiritual gr tit , gm°ln . The chosen people, .instead of being t ei . e4 into a great ruling nation, are still scat hided a btriad th roug h t h e world, a somewhat da -I%anti degrad e d race , without n nd° u_r . national power or . Events, modern facts known to us, ch could4l4,l_ not be knavvn to the ancient Jews, Gt'licarried tile c onv i' ot i on to t h e m i n d s of Mr. nti4l) E. .sToN and Iris friends, that the people of lirt:l,ll,riltY we quite at se a on matters o f f a i t h. t r they misunderst oo d t h e i r own wr i t i ngs an d thethjawr_itings o f Th eir countrymen, and the people of pert age unde rstan d them correctly or not, it is ectly clea• e that the interpretation now put on them is tut ' r esult of would h a y. ° bee,modern events, and never - put a great kinduointlirnehradantyheotjleewosf re- It tllt prete n d ers who ap g peal e d in d Jerusalem a bout or 4nte period withCHRIST, The creed then, ft of • ti l4 of Mr. tilt GLAD ;TONE, is, in fact, the C9lll Par That modern 'knowledge, bo rrowe d f rom tit tid af avely modern events, which h e an d a mul ti ft of: similar shallow word-mongers pretend to eS Pisa. It 1 , /te till be seen from a report in another part of ter Stet, that the ease of Mr. BAINES, of Leices i car before hefore the LORD CHANCELLOR this k11 13 ("Ii ''g• M r . H ILL , as in the Court of Queen's rnovel f o r a writ of habeas corpus, in order an argument for the discharge of Mr. C A 14 t,.4.!.) on th e around that the Ecclesiastical had no power to proceed to a final decree, li had b g ( Von the d e f en d an t for payment, until e eel , No . brought into Court. His Lordship ..1 itestion th e tr Y gra nte d t h e wr i t, an d di recte d t h at ir should be argued on Tuesday next. C ott Ii AINES will not be brought up. But if the 1 3 0 & ,; I t s , ° rder the discharge of the defendant what re 64th' beneficial result can it have while the law t r , e , l 4l4 'las it is ? The same process will maim thateel: 411 (1 the persecuting parties will take care oter ate (toes not escape a second time from an or through irmorance of the law. 1 01 , •ne arrival of the Euphrates steamer at Tau t'etia th e 2 .`ith ult., we hav e rece i ve d l e tt ers f rom ea,, t t --x51(418 . of th e 11 t h, w h ere t h e news o f t h e 13re r v. i 1° r e ,, St. J ean &Acre had arr i ve d two d ays off' l l''lY. On that night the PACIIA had sent t, I=.ourier to Cairo, to stop the expedition about off for Syria, consisting of 7,000 fresh ti, a train of camels, and an immense quan ti? of military stores. It w a s lik ew i se asserte d t h at e ;Vlctr.ttoY had recalled IBRAIIINI PACIIA from xn )l ' a, hot with out f ears that he would he unable it . " re treat i n t o Egypt, beset as his army was by the tribes of the flaouran and Naplous. The P orte having set a reward of several thousand Purses upon his head, the 'Mountaineers had be %ire extremely anxious to get possession of it. %le of thes• 4 letters states that the P.ACHA is now It g d t; - "Y to restore the fleet and make an uncondi tilikl ' , lbmission to the Four Powers ; while oother, asserts that his ,Highness was preparing : 41 r, and would see Alexandria in flames before . `" (l iog one iota to European di c t a ti on . Th e 5' before th e arr i va l o f t h e E up h rates at Alex q-tl,dria With th e news o f t h e capture o f S t. Jean k4',lere th e V ICEROY h e ld a L evee of h i s M inisters fi t) ; C bief Officers, naval and imiitary, of which we tile following account in one of these letters : Th th ere , f rench Consul-General, M. Cochelet, was also r the advantages . of a moderate ' l4 ). policy, and 'the prudence of waiting at_l o e u as o t n a 'kith tk,wo longer for the steamer expeFted from T . wo l u.! i~raitLge certai n intelligence which the King'sp" nri the opening of the Chambers, before . hetook e hi t 4,elecisive step.' The Pacha replied in a ton d -}c; he had never before been heard to use t , owar . s . I hevikhelet—" will wait no longer for b Fra n nc t L : e 'eaa r , e ' Waited too long already. France has h " loll ow !If ' , lt my embarrassment. What have gained by *„.14 0 1," -I ng your arkice ! Nothing; and I have lost the 4 %R e t vt 'l.st of Syria. Henceforth, I will be fooled no "Y Frabce —I will now act for myself." This was outbrttak for the Pacha, whose prudence and 11 ,er y i rle " scarcely- ever allow him to be betrayed oy his ; -1% temperament into a fit of scolding. However, tr ir i heiehelet was just as calm a. 11Iehernet Ali was warm, tachtaiParently succeeded after all in inducing . the Ny r , a t ' " wait a while" in continuation; for thoun the eci," '4ll sailors are busy in the tops, there is no sign of 'Preparation for sailing. w e it, 'ave received the whole of the Paris Papers of ' cl uil dal• The conclusion of the debate on Sa- Wi t l , /'s sitting of the French Chamber of Deputies p ft found in another part of The Sun. The ''Pl speakers were M. M. ()DILLON BARROT, P: le4 der of the Republican party, and M. Du- Q - , lll tE, one of SouLr's former colleagues in the .41flet, BARROZ fell into the same slough of wretched personalities as the Hon. Members who preceded him in this miserable debate. Having no ground to stand upon from which to aim a blow at the policy of the SOULT-GUIZOT Cabinet, this gentleman was not ashamed to cant about the be trayal of France to the "Foreigner," and to favour the Chamber with his recollections of the Foreign Mi nister's conduct in 1815. It amounted to no less than treason against his chief, in the opinion of M. BARROT, for M. GuizoT to preserve the peace of Europe at the expense of making known to the world the dishonest schemes of his predecessor in office. M. ODILLON BAR ROT is, no doubt, a man of nice honour in the French acceptation, of that phrase, and may, for aught we can tc,Yr to the contrary, be a very sound French la,, , y er , but his definition of the duty of M. Gurz.c.vr proves that he has yet to study the science r ,.1 morals. He, too, is for " war" and "glor y '," and all the humbug which placed tl•e F.:ttach Revolutionists in the sad position which they now occupy in the eyes of Europe. However this debate may terminate, it will, as was observed yesterday in The Sun, irreparably in jure the political character of all who as yet have taken any part in it. As for M. Till ERS, his Mi nisterial career is ended. Never again during th e lifetime of the KING can he expect to be restored to office ; and were he Foreign Minister there is not now a Court in Europe that would enter into any negotiations with him. Nor will M. GUIzOT appear wholly scatheless after this conflict of petty passions and personal hostilities. He, too, will be constrained to make way for some Minister less ob noxious to the storm of individual obloquy which now rages in France. A fresh modification of the Cabinet is essential to the tepose of France and of Europe. The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the follow ing official announcement : PARIS, Nov. U.—The King's Government has received from that of the Queen of Great Britain, through the me. dium of his Majesty's Charge d'Affaires in London, the following notice:— " The Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, her I'vlajesty's Principal Secretary State for Foreign Affairs, has re ceived her Majesys commands to notify to the Ministers of the friendly and neutral Powers who reside at her Court, that the nr,ee'ssary measures have been taken by her Ma jestYs r,rders to effect the blockade of the river and of the port •.,f Canton at all its mouths, and front the date hereof al!. the measures authorized by the laws of nations will be adopted and put into execution, with regard to all vessels which may attempt to violate the said blockade. " Department of Foreign Affairs, Nov. 19, 1840." The Hcrald of this morning has discovered that the Admiralty must have allowed the Navy to go to ruin, because there is now bustle in our dock-yards. For the first time these twenty-five years there has been a probability of war with France, which is not wholly passed away. It is possible that M. Thiers may have a majority in the Chamber, or by some other means be forced back into power. On this account it would be highly imprudent not to be prepared for war. Hence the bustle in the Dock-yards. To have had no such bustle now would have implied that our navy was pre viously on the war footing ; and to infer from it that the Admiralty has allowed the na v y t o go to ruin is to condemn the Admiralty for not having maintained a war establishment in the midst of profound peace. Such a niaiscric is denominated political writing. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—WC have had a good demand for Cotton to-day, and steady prices have been obtained. The sales have been 4,500 bags. A mail has arrived from Vera Cruz, brought by the Skylark—sailed from Tampico, Oct. 1, Vcra Cruz, Oct. 12, Havannah, Oct. 27. A Hamburgh mail has also arrived of the date of No vember 27. Exchange upon London, 13 21, same as last arrival; Gold, 4234-, also no alteration; Metalliquis, 105 ; Bank Actions, 1,700. The Vera Cruz papers to the 9th of October state that the differences which existed between the British Minister and Mexican Government have terminated to the satisfac tion of both parties. • We have received Quebec papers to the ith Nov. : . . " KINGSTON, OCT. 30.—Winter seems to have come upart us with all its terrors, without its usual precursor— the Indian summer. On Sunday and Monday it showed nearly all day, and Wednesday was such a day as would make a common man hang himself to get rid of it." "LOWER PR9VINCES, FREDERICTON, OCT. 11th:—Tea.— It will be seen by an article in our first page, that what ever may be the result to the Chinese Empire, of, the present - hostile demonstrations against it, yet the trade in Tea must soon resume its usual vigour; and abundant supplies will soon be obtained. Meantime the price of the article here has advanced to a most enormous extent, the commonest tea being retailed at 4s. 6d. per pound." The Special Council of Lower Canada, summoned by command of his Excellency the Governor-General, meets at Montreal to-morrow." THE FUNDS. There is little or nothing doing as yet in the British Funds, and Consols opened at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 90a 1 for the opening; for Money, 004- ; Exchequer Bills, 4 6 piem. ; Bank Stock, 1581 1591 ; India Stock, 2411 2424. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which left off at 23a 1,, may be quoted at present 23 24 ; Deferred, 114 12 ; Passive 5 -4-; Portuguese, which left off 351 1, at 341 ex. 1 dividend ; Three per Cents 221 ; Colombian, 254 ; Mexican, 301 ; A s- • Chilian, 55 60 ; Brazilian. 72 73 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 514 5.24; Five per Cents. 981 991. Shares—Great Western, 23 24 premium ; London and Brighton, 101 10 discount ; Blackwell, 4 31 discount ; Birmingham, 78 80 premium ; Southampton, 53 1 54 5 per share; Croydon, 114 124 per share; Greenwich, 71 81 per shale ; Manchester and Birmingham, 13 11 discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. ItAll.V% ATS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby lOO . .. 74 Great Western Ditto Fifths .. 4 .... 91-- to London and Brighton London and Birmingham 9O Ditto i Shares London and South Western 3B/ 534.- to 54 London and Croydon (Trunk)... 134 l2 ...... to North Midland Ditto New South Eastern and Dover JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland 25 . 431 HALF-PAST ONE. We have a very blank day both in respect to intelligence and speculating in the Funds, which causes rather a gloomy appearance in the City, and in addition to which money is rather tight, both in:the 1 - louse and sot of it, nevertheless Consols have a firm appearance, and are a shade better than in the earlier part of the morning, 901 fur January 15, and piney 901 ; Exchequer Bills, 6 3 5, rather improved ; India Bonds, 12 10 15 discount ; India Stock, 9411 ; Bank Stock, 159. In the Foreign Market little or no alteration in the prices—Spanish Actives, 231 24; Deferred, 11.1 ; Pas sive, 54 ; Portuguese, 34+ -4- ; ex. half dividends ; Three per Cents., 22h a ; Co'ombian, ; Mexican, nothing done ; Brazilian, 72; Dutch 'Two•and-a. Hall per Cents., 52h ; Five per Cents., 981,-. in Shares, some business is doing with improved prices. Birmingham and Derby, 74 76 ; London and Brighton, 291 ; South Western, 53,1 54 ; Croydon Trunk, 12 ; North Midland has risen considerably, 76 ; South Eastern and Dover, 13 121. ScoTTisii HOSPITAL.—A Genecal Court the Corporation of the above Institution was held yester day at the Corporation-hall, Crane -court, Fleet -street, for the purpose of electing the officers for the ensuing year, and receiving the accounts of the Charity for the present year. The Hon. Fox Maule, M.P., was in the Chair. The Minutes at the last Quarterly Meeting having been read and confirmed, it was agreed that the Duke of Sutherland should continue President for the ensuing year. On the motion that the Marquis of Tweedale should be appointed to the office of Vice-President, vacant by 'the retirement of the Duke of Roxburgh, an amendment was made that Lord Dalmeny be elected. A discussion arose, in which Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P., the Honourable Wm. Frazer, Dr. Brown, Mr. Stuart, and Mr. Dallas took pint, when the question was put to the vote, and Lord Dal meny was elected. Mr. Ware, Mr. Lamb, Mr. Struthers, Mr. Dallas, Mr. Webster, and Mr. Stirling, were ap pointed members of the General Committee ; and Colonel Drummond and Colonel Acheson were added to the Corn. mittee for managing the Kenlock bequests. The other officers were re-dee:eel, and received thanks for their past services. The Treasurer's report was then read, which showed that the receipts amounted to 3,5651. IBs., while the expenditure was 3,138/. 17s. sd. The stock belong ' lag to the Corporation was—in the Three per Cent. Re duced Annuities, 34,225/. 17s. 6d. ; in the Three per Cent. South-sea Stock, 5,100/. ; and in the Three end a Half per Cent. Bank Annuities, 3,1821. 9a. 2d. A Com mittee of five was then appointed to draw up and present a congratulatory address to her Majesty, his Royal High ness, Prince Albert, and her Royal Highness the-Duchess of Kent, on the birth of the Princess Royal. Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the Court broke op. The Corporation dined in the evening, when the Duke of Sutherland presided. THE HIGHLANDS.—Such of the crops as had not been secured previous to the last week of October had to hear the pelting of the adverse elements for the three following weeks, so that in the latest—we might almost say th e .10vel,lier—distriets, consider able quantities of crop remained exposed till within the last ten days. Such in stances can, however, have no effect on the general abund_ ance of the l a st h arve st's produce... Caledon i an Mercury. .TII E st7Ni LONAMN. TIT ESOAY._III;CEM PER 1, IS4O. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS RAY.) 111 AG &GINE DAY. IN REIIAINES-CIIURCIP.RATES. BLACKIVOCW. The first article in the present Numbtr is a tale en titled " Raymond," and is from the pen of the author of the " Picture Gallery" —a collection of stories which, it may be remembered, appeared in this Magazine a year or two since. The tale appears carefully written, and records the adventures of a young man who, on quitting tile University, trusted to achieve fame and fortune by his pen ; but was cruelly disappointed in both cases, for fortune kept studiously aloof from him, ►nd fame served but to gild his memory about thirty years after his death. The details of his disappoint ment deepening into despair, and terminating in mad ness and suicide, painful as they are to read, are, we fear, not exaggerated. But the reader must judge for himself. " A Night Excursion with Martin Zurbano" is a stirring episode in the late civil war in Spain. The Christino Chief, Martin, is, of course, the hero, and a most truculent hero he is, as ever one would desire to be acquainted with—at a safe distance. There is a little too much of the swagger of patriotism in the Reminiscences of the Year 1813 in Germany." Doubtless, patriotism is a very fine quality, but, like other virtues, it may he overdone. The truest patriots arc not always the noisiest— witness Hampden, as calm and modest a man as ever existed. From the letters inserted in this 'arti cle addressed by some young German soldiers to their relatives, it would seem that. they themselves and their Prussian colleagues were the bravest rind most enthusi astic spirits of the acre ; yet we know that the troops of the Great Frederick were annihilated in a day at Jena and Auerstadt, and that throughout the campaigns of 1813 and 1814, they seldom fought to advantage against the French, The letters of Korner are the best, for though they breathe a noble spirit of self-con fidence, there is nothing of bluster about them. This lofty-minded youth died too soon for himself and his country—we might almost add, for Europe. Had he lived, Goethe might have found in him his most formid able rival. His " Sword Song" is the most stirring war-lyric of modern times. Perhaps the following de scription of the arrival at Dresden of a small remnant of Napoleon's famous army of Russia may interest our readers : Mr. M. D. HILL, upon this case being called on, 'sale my Lord, I have the honour to attend your Lordship move for a writ of habeas corpus on the part of William Baines, who is now a prisoner in the county gaol of Lei cester, upon a writ de contumacio capicndo, which issue, from this Court upon a significavit from the official of th( Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Court of Arches, certi• fjing to this Court that Mr. Baines was in contempt of that Court, for not obeying a decree upon him, to pa) the suns of 2/. 53. fir a Curch.rate, and the sum of 125/ for the costs of the trial resp, cting such rate. My Lord, it is right I should inform y our Lordship a writ of habeas corpus, upon the ground on which I now appear to ask your Lordship for another writ (.f habeas corpus, WM granted by the Court of Queen's Bench, and that, after argument, that Court &Tidal against the applicant, and remanded him to Elm custody of the Sheriff. I mentior, that htcause ft is proper your Lordship should know the exact state in which the case is ; but your Lordship, 1 think, will have no difficulty in agreeing that the circum stance of a writ of habeas corpus having been sued out in another Court is of no more force and effect than this— that it shows the case is one which is proper for a writ of habeas corpus; and your Lordship would feel yourself no more bound by the decision of the former Crain than if this were an appeal to your Lordship from the Vier-Chancellor or the Nlaster of the Rolls ; or to take an illustration from our own Courts, than if were a writ of error fur a udgment of a Court below. That is to say, my Lord, 1 ake it to be a general rule, and above all applicable to cases of habeas corpus, that a decision in the seine case is no authority when the case comes before another Court, because it is brought before that other Court for the very purpose of seeing either expressly or incidentally whether the decision of the former Court be right or not. My Lord, that being so, your Lordship must consider that as a matter of right William Baines might make his application to every Court in Westminster Hall, and ins application and refusal in one Court would be no bar to him, nor any authority even against him, in his applica tion to another Court. But my Lord, with my Learned Friend the Attorney-General, and other gentlemen with whom I have the honour to be associated in this ease, 1 myself feel the deepest conviction that the best mode of preserving all our privileges is to use them with modera tion and discretion ; we should all have been very averse to raising this question again, if, after a careful and most con scientious consideration of the judgment which has been pronounced, we did not feel, however, errone ously, thoroughly satisfied in our own minds, that the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench in this mat ter has been founded in error. It is, therefore, that we come before your Lordship. Your Lordship is aware that iu time of vaoation there is no other Court we could conic to except your Lordship's, where there might be an open and public hearing of the matter. The case, as I have stated ? was one of subtraction of Church-rate. It appear: by the significavit that the case was originally promoted in the Curt of the Arehdeaconry of Leicester, which is in the Bishopric of Lincoln, but that immediately by letters of requ st the cause was transferred to the Court uf Arches. It appears upon the significavit that the defendant was cited to appear in the Court of Arches, that he did not appear, and that he has never appeared in any stage of the pro- ceedings. Being duly cited to appear, and the citation personally strycd upon him, your Lordship is perfectly aware that by the ancient course of the law, ratified and confirmed by the 53d Gee. 111., which shot tened the course of proceeding in those matters to some extent, it was then competent far the Court to have pronounced Baines contu macious, to have signified his contumacy to your Lordship, upon which the writ de conturnacio c.piendo would have issueu ; it would 'nave issued at that moment when the costs were comparatively light. Instead of that, passing over the contumacy, the Court of Arches assumed to itself the power of proceeding in the absence of the defendant, going through all the steps of the case, pronouncing a final de cree, serving the defendant with a monition to obey the final decree, declaring him contumacious for not obey ing such monition, and signifying to your Lordship the con tumacy, not as not appearing in the first instance, but as not obeying this final decree to pay the rate with the costs. My Lord, my first objection, and probably the only one which your Lordship will think it necessary 1 should urge in the present stage of the proceedings, is, that the Court had no power to proceed to a final decree, calling upon the defendant for payment, until he had been brought into Court. I say that is pro bably the only objection your Lordship will think me jus tified in taking up the time of the Court by laying before you on the present occasion, because my only present object can be to have the writ of habeas corpus. When that writ goes the Sheriff will make such return upon it as he shall be advised, and objections, which we cannot now anticipate, may be made upon that return. Other objections which i might anticipate may be shut out by the form and the substance of that return. Your Lordship is aware it is usual only to suggest a sufficient ground to in form the mind of the Court that there is something to be inquired into, and then the writ of habeas corpus issues, and so slight is the ground considered sufficient fur that purpose that I am not aware of any application for a writ of habeas corpus having been at any time refused. Still, my Lord, as this is a very serious matter indeed, I shall take the liberty of laying at some little detail before your Lordship the ground on which I now make this motion. The Learned Gentleman, in support of his objection, went on to observe that, according to the ancient practice of the Courts, a party could not be proceeded against in his ab sence. It was necessary to bring him before the Court. " I was lately eye-witness of a terrible scene. The re giment of the body guard that acquitted itself so manfully at Minsk, has, in the retreat from.Moseow been altogether cut up, mainly by the frost. Of the whole regiment only about sever.ty men remain. Single bodies arrive by de grees, but in the main most pitiable plight. When they reach the SAxen border they arc assisted by their comps- Fionate countrymen, who enable them to make the rest of the road in some carriage or wagg6;n. On Sunday fore noon last I went to the Linkeschca Bad, and loand a crowd cO:lected round a ear in which some soldiers had just returned from Russia. No grenade or grape could have so &figured them as I beheld them—the victims of the cold. One of them had lost the upper joints of all his ten fingers, and he showed us the black stumps; another looked as if he had been in the hands of the Turks, he wanted both cars and nose. More horrible was the look of a third, w hose eyes had been frcz , nt ; the eyelids hung down rotting, the globes of the eyes wore burst, and pro truded out of their sockets; it was awfully hideous, and yet a more bide:-.‘us spectacle was to present itself. Out of the slaw in the bottom of the car, I now beheld a figure creep painfully, which one could scarcely believe to be a human being, so wild and so distorted were the features : the lips were rotted away, the teeth stood exposed; he pulled the cloth from before his mouth, and grinned on us like a death-head ; then be burst out into a wild laughter, began to give the word of command in broken French, with a voice more like the bark of a dog than anything human, and we saw that the poor wretch was mad—mad from a frozen brain I Suddenly a cry was heard, Henry my Henry and a young girl rushed up to the car; the poor lunatic rubbed his brow, as if trying to recollect where he was, then stretched out his arms towards the dis tracted girl, and lifted himself up with his whole strength; a shuddering fever fit came over him; he fell collapsed, and lay breathless on the straw : the girl was removed forcibly from the corpse. It was her bridegroom. Her agony now found vent in the most terrible imprecations against the French and the Emperor ; and her rage com municated itself to the crowd around; especially the women, who were assembled in considerable nu mbers ; they expressed their passion in language the most fearfull y frantic. I should advise no Frenchman to ente r into such a mob ; the name of the King himself woul d hel p him little there. Such are the dragon-teeth of woe which the Corsican Cadmus has sown. The crop rises superbly ; and already I sec in spirit the fields bristling with lances, the meadows with swords. You and I doubtless will find our place among the rr;wors." " A Few Hours at Hampton-Court" is one of those slight, flimsy, periodical essays which one reads to-day to forget to-morrow. The author is quite in raptures with Wolsey, and says of this arrogant, selfish, osten tatious Cardinal, that his ambition " was a compound of various noble and excellent feelings, crowned with ability and power, and enlarged to a beneficence far out of sight of self." What rhodomontade is this T. Self— self—and nothing but self—was the governing princi ple of Wolsey. It was for self he intrigued, now with Francis, now with Charles V. For sea' he built palaces, and amassed wealth that Kings might envy. To gain the Popedom he hesitated not to light the flames of war in Europe ; and unhesitatingly sacrificed every just, generous, loyal, and patriotic feeling on the shrine of his insatiable ambition. That he was beneficent, in the proper acceptation of the term, we deny. Benefi cenceedesnt is a modest quality, and blows no trumpet. The " Contrabandist " is an animated translation from a popular modern Spanish b allad. The substance of th 14ioguay riaphiebael foundaket in Golddit he h's lif e o f the .• Monarch of Bath sketch beaded once celebrated Beau Nash, whence tilt! majo rity of the anecdotes arc taken. Tile introduction e is very cleverly written—indeed is the hest part of the article. Though once a character of first-rate mark and likelihood in the fashionable world of England, Nash is now utterly forgotten. Yet the man who reformed the domestic habits of his age, by teaching his uncouth, reserved countryman to cultivate good -fellowship with each other, and all the better social qualities ; who in the hey-day of his power made the proudest nobles tremble at his frown ; and whose word at Bath and Tunbridge—then the head-quarters of fashion—was a law from which there was no appea l —such a man de serves to be rescued from the long list of forgotten dandies, for his could have been no ordinary character. The " Beauty Draught" is a pleasing story told gaily and unaffectedly. " Charles Edward after Culloden" is a graceful lyric from the pen of Mr. Simmons. " Post Mortem Musings" arc a series of appropriate Lctions suggested by a visit to the Kensal Green Ce metery. We ourselves have often wandered on summer evenings to this hushed, sylva n spot, and never without deriving benefit from the thoughts it awoke in our mind. It is indeed, in places like this, where all around speaks of serene, and even smiling repose—how different from the loathsome city churchyards I --that we best learn to look calmly and rationally at death, and set a proper value on existence. How paltry seem even the loftiest ob jects for which men struggle with such unwearied ar dour for years and years together, when we look down upon some unnoticed grave that covers a mere handful of dust and ashes, which, but the other day, perhaps, rejoiced and sorrowed, toiled and endured like ourselves! Disappointment is a great instructor —experience a greater—but there is nothing like a tomb in a retired church-yard, to read ambition the lesson it most re quires. The " Non-Intrusion Question" is not want ing in a rgument, but it is dismally dud—so dull, th at to read it through at a sitting, and when read, to di. gest it, demands the patience and perseverance of a Job. he was contumacious, and refused to come, then was the time for the Court to INC those powers which had been given to it, let them be many or few, strong or acak, for the purpose of compelling his attendance. No doubt much inconvenience was found to arise from the strict and rigid adoption of that principle, and a century had nearly elapsed since power was given by statute to a plaintiff to enter an appearance fur a defendant. That was the ancient practice of the Equity Courts until Sir Edward Sugdrn's Act amended that state of things. If that was the state of things in the Equity Courts and in the three superior Courts of Westminster Hall. the presumption would be very strong that the ancient practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts conformed to that principle. That presumption was very much strengthened by the terms of the Act of the the 53d of George the 3d, chap. 127, the Act upun which the present proceeding was founded Non-appearance by that Act was treated not only as a contumacy but as a contumacy which called for summary remedy by the interference of the secular power. That was a state of things which he (the Learned Counsel) contended with great submission was utterly re pugnant to the supposed power of the Court as witnessed in these proceedings, because if the Spiritual Court had the power in the absence of the defendant to go through stages of the cause and come to a final decree, the non appearance was not contumacious—it was not a contempt • —for what was a contempt ? A contempt was something which obstructed the proceedings of the Court ; but the absence of the defendant, so far from obstructing the pro ceedings (if the Court had power to proceed without him), very much facilitated the proceedings of the Court. It was proverbial that justice, or at least decisions, would go on pretty rapidly if it were only necessary to hear one of the parties. The Learned Counsel then referred to " Houghton," and other books of practice, in support of his proposition, that it appeared by the ssgnificavit the Spiritual Court had exceeded its jurisdiction, and conclu • dcd by saying it was for that Court, which called upon his Lordship for aid, to show that all the preliminary steps had been duly taken. It was with reference to the time of the Court that he wished to take his Lordship's plea sure whether he should go through the other objections, which ran to a considerable length. The Loan CHANCELLOR thought Mr. Hill had shown enough to entitle him to the writ, but suggcstd, for thee Lelined Counsel's consideration, whether another mode of proceeding was not more consistent with the practice of that Court in questions of that kind, namely, a motion to discharge the writ de contumacio capiendo if, as he under stood the Learned Counsel to state, the significavit d:d not state enough to justify the issuing of the writ. The Court had been the habit of eniertaining those questions upon an application to discharge its own writ. Mr. HILL replied that the Common Law Courts enter tained motions for discharging the writ, but they also enter tained the question upon a writ of habeas corpus. The Court of Queen's Bench thought the defendant was per fectly regular in moving for a writ of habeas corpus. Hay. ink; taken the course (though if the suggestion had crossed their own minds, which his Lordship had done Oh m the kindness to throw out, they would most probably have adopted it) and as he and his Learned Friend believed no inconver.ience would attend it, they would rather abide ny it. The Learned Gentleman then said it was not des red that Mr. Baines should be brought up from the prison in Lti ccstcr. It was competent, upon an agreement on both sides, to consider the party in Court ; and that was the course, with his Lordship's permission, it was proposed to take. This day week was then fixed for the hearing of the mo tion for the prisoner's discharge. tghreamoirilae:sisi,3 tainiearit'-uesviireigwCir makes ernsi'ortheeivorMY BENTLEY'S MIS CELLARI'. The " Ncw Comic English Grammar" form ui s z, t h l u i v e t subject of a sprightly critical notice in the present Mu,. cellany. The Reviewer hints that such a work is much and expresses a modest hope that the 4 Comic" w i ll sips _ wanted, for that we arc very gram marian itrni t u l ca e der ti es i c ,gr i e c n it t m i r n good o f n i l l o l y sp t c h t e i k mentionil n e l g i c o o l c i f n t e ii Y e . various The shocking'igi e r a n m o use r l a a t n Eotbosne,„e observes t where, hat speaking ki , r . i gof masculinethe anal the feminine !" This gross violation of all politeness should have been animadverted on in becoming terms of indignation. 'file wood-cuts, in illustrati on of this quiz zical notice, are sonic of them as good a s i t is possible for such things to be. The best is the "Respeciable Man," which professes to e xplain the exact ineanin,* 01 that much-misunderstood adjective. A stout, elderly man is represented standing bolt -upright in his counting-house, with his two thumbs stuck in the arm-holes of his w aistcoat, and his pen behind his ear. From hi s jolly' red nose, which tens of many a bibulous Achievement ; his han dsome paunch, and m.issive gold chain and seals which dangle hail way 1 down to his knees ; and still more trent the business-like papers sticking out of his coat pockets, it is clear that he is a man well to do i n the world —in short, one of those shrewd, sleek, respectable individuals who will never dishonour a bill, or overdraw an account at, a banker's. That he keeps a gig is certain ; possibly he subscribes to a charity or two ; never m i sses inornint; church on Sundays , and if he must s-I eop. is far too decorous to snore during the sermon. When he dies, we should say—judging from rippcarances—that he will " cut up" fur at least twenty thousand pounds ; tind a tomb stone will be erected to him in the church-yard of his parish, setting forth that he was endowed with ali the virtues that can elevate frail humanity. See, what it is to he a respectable—that is to say, a rich man ! ~ Guy Fawkes': presents us with a long love dialogue between Viviano; the heroine of the tale, and H u mphrey Chethain. W e can not ate congratu . • l Mr. Ainsworth on his success in this instance. His language is stiff —fornal—cold—anil utterly' , without grace or sensibility. Were a steam . engine to make love to a spinnin g -j enny, he would ex• press himself pretty nearly in the same style! " Merrie England in the Olden Time," describes the Sunday holiday-making of the cockney with much unction. The allusion to his dislike of being " put out of his way " is true to the letter. He is methodical even in his plea sures. If he goes, for instance, being a lover of the rut al, to regale his eyes on the prospect from Hampstead Heath, his first glance, is always directed towards the d istant St. 'Paul's, and Ahe would no more think of omitting to commence COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) SHREWSPURY V. 111.01:NT AND OTHERS. This action was brought against six Directors of the Ip.te Company formed for working the Wheal Brothers' tin, lead, and silver mine (Cornwall), to recover from them the several sums of 700/. ar4(l 8001. paid for shares in the Company, epos the fraudulent representations of the defendants. Sergeants Talfourd, Channel!, Holroyd, and Sir Wil liam Follett conducted the case for the plaintiff; and Sergeant Maning, Sir F. Pollock, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Erie, Q C., with Mr. Smith, appeared for the defendants. Mr. S , . , rgearit TALFOURD having stated the plaintiff's case in an address of two honrs and a half's duration, called the Secretary of the Company, Mr. Harrison, son of one of the defendants, who proved the formation of the Company in the early part of the year 1835, by his father, at the request of Mr. Malachi, the lessee, of the mine. 'The number of shares first issued was 1,000, but in July 1835, the Company was remodelled, and the shares were increased to 5,000, each holder of one share being required to take four in addition. The reading of the deed of partnership of the Company, the assignment of the pro perty to the Directors, and oth er d ocuments put in evi dence through this witness, occupied a great part of the morning. Mr. Kelly and Sir Frederick Pollock making several objections to the admission of certain pals of this evidence against those of the defendants, who were not proved to be present at the meetings of which the minutes were here put in. The case is of great commercial importance, and it will occupy the Court to a late hour, the first witness being still under examination when we went to press. Many daring burglaries were committed on Sa turday night, during the dense fog, which afforded an opportunity to the thieves to carry on their depreda tions with impunity. In the neighbourhood of Lambeth and Stamford-street seven houses were broken into and robbed of property to a considerable amount. Not less than twenty burglaries have been reported to the police. his 4ith this favourite object, that he would think of going Witt oili ,iinner. Then if he goes pleasuring to Richmond or TWiCl l :ent:Frr i t,e must dine at precisely the same hour that he dined the ', ?.. , efpre at his cook-shop or counting-house, otherwise the enjoy ment of his trip is 19et• There is not so methodical an animal in creation as yOtit true apekn ey, or who has so completely the art of turning piedstift into business, and business into pleasure. In the " 111ot'a1 ktenomy of large Towns," we find some sad, but useful, 041ot/tires of the state of destitution and demoralization that exists among the lowest classes in Glasgow. The narrative is a sickening one, but will not be without its good effect. The " Visionary" is a strange, 'wild story, yet it interests, despite its manifest improbability. " Autobiography of a Duck," is a villainous collection of incorrigible puns strung together with out rhyme or reason. Nothing but an hour in the stocks will cure a punster. As for remonstrat ing with such a sinner, it is hopeless ; we therefore forbear to criticise. " The Golden Legend" is another of Tom Ingoldsby's inimitable, humorous fancies. The lines bound on as nimbly and gracefully as a stag over a park-lawn, and sparkle with wit and merry conceits. How many a heart-ache has Toon been the means of curing with his drolleries! May lie live to the age of Methusalem, end may the rich wine of his fancy run clear to the last. NVe subjoin a passage or two from his Lc- gend : And see, the portals opening wide, From the Abbey flows the living tide ; Forth from the do as The torrent pours, Acolytes, Monks, and Friars in scores, This with his chasuble, that with his rosary, This from his incense-pot turning his nose awry, Holy Father, and Holy Mother, Holy Sister, and Holy Brother, Holy Son, and Holy Daughter, Holy Wafer, and Holy Water , Every one drest Like a guest in his best, In the smartest of clothes they're permitted to wear, Serge, !ackcluth, and shirts of the same sort of hair As now we make use of to stuff an arm-chair, Or weave into gloves, at three shillings a pair, And employ for shampooing in cases rheumatic, —a Special specific, I'm told, for Sciatica. Through groined arch, and by cloister'd stone, With anoskes and ivy long o'ergrown, Slowly the throng Come passing along, Witt many a chaunt and solemn song, Adapted for holidays, high-days, and Sundays,—. Dies ire, and De profundis, Miserere, and Domine dirige nos,— Such as, I hear, to a very slow tune are all Commonly ehaunted by Monks at a funeral, To secure the drfunet's repose, And to give a broad hint to Old Nick, should the net NS Of a prelate's decease bring him there on a cruise, That he'd better be minding his P's and his Q's, And not come too near,—since they can, if they choose, Make him shake in hie hoofs—as he does not wear shoes. Still on they go, A goodly show, With footsteps sure, though certainly slow, Two by two, in a very long row ; With feathers, and Mutes In mourning suits, Undertaker's men walking in hat-bands and boo's, — Then conies the Crosier, all jewels and geld, Borne by a lad about eighteen years old ; Next, on a black velvet cushion, the Mitre, Borne by a younger boy, 'cause it is lighter. Eight Franciscans sturdy and strong Bear in the midst the good Bishop along ; Eight Franciscans stout and tall Walk at the corners, and hold up the pall, Eight more bold a canopy high over all, With eight Trumpeters, tooting the Dead March in Saul Behind, as Chief Mourner, the Lord Abbott goes, his Monk , . coming after him all with posies, And white pocket-handkerchiefs up at their noses, Which they blow whenever his Lordship blows his. And oh ! 'tis a comely sight to see How Lords and Ladies of high degree Vail, as they pass, upon bonded knee, While quite as polite arc the Squires and the Knights, In their helmets, and hauberks, and cast-iron tights. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Mr. Theodore Hook's shrewd conceptions of character have never appeared to greater advantage than in his pre. scut story of " Fathers and Sons." His Mrs. Smylar, the intriguing housekeeper of Colonel Bruff, the one great aim of whose existence is to prevail on her master to marry her, seems logged down, strictly and literally, from the impressions of actual life. This artful dame, with her mingled sycophancy and superciliousness, is, we incline to think, the most sustained and consistent portrait that the author has yet drawn. The peculiar style of her manceuverings, nay, even her very dialogue, having a truth and appositeness that we at once recog nise as genuine. She is cleverly contrasted with her unsuspecting young mistress, the Colonel's daugh ter, in an interview which Mr. Hook describes with manifest relish in the present chapter. As narchies, and pcMic and national institutions. Th, t con sequ:::.ne is, that the Icrrs of change is encouraged, e bY those whose l a J sitions in tile would scorn to point the to out as the props and mporters of society. M. Maug; sin is very intimate with tilt the Bonapartists , the ficrt'Sicans, and though ht . sthernitely laughs at then Irate i 1 he suppori al.l oppositions, and lanes see men in in a cleft stick, of .1., impasse. To thee imperial rule is destined 4ud thine shall be baronial sway : May tii;. who hold thee in their guidance, Endow 61,7 c for another day ! Wheii earthly pomp has pass'd and vanish'd, And thou', thy worldly . labours done, Shalt come with other worm." to tremble Before the one gtersval thrond. Bright be thy path in peace alai glory, Worthy of her who rules the free, And fit to crave froze Him a blessing, Who died as well for as as thee. Sir Morgan O'lloherty's three seonets on arc same subject are much more to our taste, for there is a broad drollery about them that, without trespassing on pro , priety, sets all sentiment at defiance. They are capital November reading, when a man needs the cheering stimulus of a hearty laugh, if only to stave off awkward thoughts of suicide. By the bye, we perceive that Sir Morgan is republishing his periodical articles under the title of " Magazine Miscellanies." The idea is a pro mising one, and will not fail to bring grist to his mill. In the notice of Grantley Berkeley's last novel, the critical lash is laid on without mercy. We have not read the work in question, and therefore cannot speak to its deserts or otherwise ; but from the extracts given by the Reviewer, we are not without a suspicion that it must be sad stuff. " The Thrao Great Epochs" is a tale founded on the donteetic polities of 1829, when the passing of the t..latholic Relief Bill occasioned such heart-burnings among the more ratapant Tories. The sketch of a fierce old boroughmonger, rho hated the Papists as intensely as the hates holy rater, is pnurtrayed with equal truth and breadth of effect. " Scotch Lairds Forty years ago" turns upon humours of a halicraztd Highland proprietor, who, in a fit of rage, compels a rascally attorney to eat a pair of tallow candles—a pleasant luncheon enough for a Cossack or an ostrich, but ill-suited, we should imagine, to the digestion of a Christian attorney—if indeed an attorney can be said to be a Christian ! The " House of Uncommons" is a clever quiz upon Select Parlia mentary Committees. " Sketches of National Litera ture" is an agreeable, rambling essay, not devoid of scholarship, but expatiating over too ample a field. Had the author contracted the range of his inquiries, he would have succeeded better. Much of his criticism is sound, but there is much also to which we object. His estimate of Terence, for in stance, is too high, that of Plautus too low. A " divine salt" is certainly not the chiet characteristic of the former's comedies, which arc remarkable for little more than a uniform, elegant insipidity. They never excite you by their vigour or spirit—never make you laugh to your heart's content. A languid smile is all that they can extract from you. Not so Plautus, who, though somewhat of a buffoon at times, abounds in true humour ; is forcible when force of ilea or ex pression is requisite ; and in his play of Amphitryon, with its grotesque mistakes and surprises, keeps your risible muscles on the stretch throughout. Speaking of Cicero, the critic tells us that " his chief anxiety was, not what to say, but bow to say." This is tersely and justly put. Of Ovid a very indifferent opinion is ex pressed, to the propriety of which we can by no means assent, fur in point of luxuriant fancy, ease and variety of expression, and eloquent, animated description, he is, to our thinking, the first of the Latin poets. His account of the Pythagorean system is a splendid piece of declamation interspersed with striking thoughts and rare touches of feeling ; and as a pathetic, well-sustained narrative, we prefer his " Ceyx and Halcyone" to the best episodes in the Georgics or the iEncid. Proper tius we give up to the critic's censure, for he is a mere pedantic humbug, on whom sentiment sits with as ill a grace as it would on a Hottentot or an Esquimaux. We cordially agree, too, in the praises bestowed on Tacitus's Agricola, the pensive and thoughtful beauty of whose closing passages lay a strong grasp on the reader's memory. " Pascal and his Friends" is an intelligent essay varied by extracts from the writings of this emi nent Frenchman. The " Past Year and Present Pros pects" is penned in too inveterate a party-spirit to find readers without the pale of Toryism. Of course, every thing that Ministers have done during the last twelve months is shown to have been wrong ; and a pretty con fident opinion is expressed that their genius for blund ering is far from being exhausted. From a highly en tertaining paper. headed the " Cafe de la Regence," we quote an anecdote of Napoleon, which we are assured has never till now appeared in print : While about to enter upon the famous Polish campaign, the Emperor was one day playing chess in the Tuileries with Marshal Berthicr. when the Persian Ambassador was to George Grindlc, the young fashionable roue, he is too exaggerated. The sketch, besides, is much too coarse and ropulsive to please generally. The colouring should be toned down a little. The " Life and Adventures of Charles Chesterfield" display a good deal of cleverness--for what does Mrs. Trollops write that has not some clever points about it ?—but the tale is less a representation of daily life than a bold, reckless caricature. The reason of this is, that the authoress describes things and persons with which she is but im perfectly acquainted, and trusts to a salient, teeming fancy' to earry , her stieeessfully• through her task. How ever this might *iv° answered in the days of the D'Arblayi, Roehes, and Charlotte Smiths, it will do no longer. We arc grown fastidious and practical, and demand truth and some portion of matter•of-fact even in our boldest fictions. The passing sketch of the literary lion, Mr. Marchmont, is the best thing that has yet appeared in the tale ; but even this is not without a dash of extravagance. " Susceptible People," annoui:ced, as requesting an audience. The game was at an interesting crisis, and Napoleon would no more permit it to be suspended, than would Charles of Sweden leave his chess-board when the Turks commenced battering dovin his house in Bender. Bonaparte ordered the Ambassador to be shown in, and M. Arnedee Jaubert was commanded to the presence as interpreter. The Emperor continued his game with Berthier, overwhelming the astounded Per sian with questions all the while, in his usual rapid mode of asking to gain information. The Mussulman toned it difficult to plant his replies suitably ; the various topics bcing,Turkey, Persia, Mohammed, and the Koran; Eastern harems, wives in sacks, the vaccine, military discipline, and ten thousand other matters. The Persian, however, steered his way like the really skilful diplomatist he was. He exalted Persian institutes to the seventh heaven, or a little higher, and dwelt especially upon the horse-soldiers of Espahan, as being the finest cavalry in the world. Na poleon good-humouredly disputed the assertion, and inter rupted the son of Iraun more than ones ; but the Ambas sador constantly returned with his pet cavalry to the charge, and, getting warmer, by degrees, pronounced his judg ment with even more and more decision. " There could be no doubt about it,—the foot-soldiers of Europe were otxcellent—but the Persian horse !"—Napoleon laughed outright as the interpreter rendered the sentences in French; and, carelessly addressing Jaubert in reply, said, " Tell him that to-morrow we'll show him a little cavalry here." The Persian made his salaam, and quitted the Palace. The long-contested chess-game was not even then finished. While pondering over the subsequent moves, the F,mperer found time to issue certain brief orders upon slips of paper, centralising upon Paris the instant march of various bodies of horse-soldiers from their cantonments in the vicinity. Like the knights on the chess-hoard, ho had them all in his hand. The subject was not again alluded to ; the game was played out ; but the next morning saw forty thousand French cavalry defile before Napoleon and the Persian Envoy, in all tho glitter ing pomp of military decoration. Paris beheld that ca valry almost for the last time. Moscow awaited them. by Mrs. Gore, is a sparkling and sagacious essay. In its terse and compact style it is not unlike Elia. We have been struck with the worldly wisdom of this remark : " There is no stronger symptom of insignificance than to be touchy. The moment a person's position is de- ' finite, he ceases to be anxious concerning the slights of society ; while those by birthright placed shove the little impertinences of the little, are incapable of sur mising the possibility of affront ; susceptibility on such points is almost the unfailing symptom of a raw. — Touchiness is one of the most paltry phases of egotism and vanity. It is only those with whom self is ever uppermost, who dream of being touchy." This obser vation will remind the reader of that exquisite scene in . Farqtthar's Beaux Stratagem, where the vulgar, con cetted Scrub takes for granted that certain gentlemen arc talking of him, because " they laughed so con sumedly." " Foreign Sporting," by Nimrod, is amusing, but it is too much spun out. We have enough, and more than enough, of German and Italian noblemen's studs of horses. " The Literary Public,' is the production of a writer of strong common sense. Few will dispute the justice of this assertion : The class of average readers has been lowered by the general spread of education. As useful knowledge sprang out of Mechanics' Institutes, so the intense, the blackguard, the lackadaisical, and the insane have arisen in the attempt to supply the literary demands of those t o wl om nature has denied a susceptible taste, or who are cut off by poverty from the exercise of a practised judgment." The " Crown Prince of Hanover" is very stupid. " A Quarrel with some Old Acquain tances' refutes with rare ingenuity the well-known adage, that " a guilty conscience needs no accuser." The article throughout evinces tact and quickness of observation. " A Soiree at Monsieur Guizot's," is hap pily timed, and will be generally read and approved. Here is a personal reminiscence of 'Thiers, as he ap peared at one of these soirees : For a short time there was a pause in the arrivals, when of a sudden the door opened, and the servant announced M. Thiers. The announcement produced some effect, and all ey(s were turned to the little man as he entered the room. M. Guizot received him with affability, and at once engaged him in conversation. " Que voulez vous? que voulez vous? mon cher Gui zot," was soon repeated in a loud and petulant voice by the new corner ; whilst M. Guizot replied, " The triumph of order and of the laws." " C'est hien, c'est bien, et moi aussi," retorted the little man ; " rnais—" and the rest of the sentence was lost It was a short debate as to M. Rossi and his bad recep tion by the students : no doubt, M. Thiers vindicating not the students, "but the pressure from without," and M. Guizot opposing it. M. Thiers was soon surrounded, he had much tittle tattle from the palace, he jumped, he shrugged his shoulders, he declared the Ministry " incapable," " ab surd," " stupid," &c., &c. He sat down, he jumped up, he stood on his toes, he pulled M. Royer Collard's but tonhole (the greatest possible offence to a man of his gra vity), he took off his spectacles, he put them on again, and with his vehemence, exclamations, life, and energy, he made a sort of emeute in the room No. I , of M. Guizot. The host preserved his calmness and his dignity, but he evidently enjoyed the scene. The question was the defeat of the Ministry at the C hamber of Deputies, and the pro bablc conduct of the King. " II fee un changement complet," cried M. Thiers in a passion : and from that momenta line of conduct was organized which eventually led to the present state of affairs in that country. The wise men of the circle looked grave and distrustful ; but some of the Dukes and Marquisses went into the room No. 2, and repeated to those there conversing, that Thiers said there must be a total change." " M. Jollivet," cried the man-servant, and in walked, or rather ran, a tall, good-tempered, lively barrister and Deputy, with a quick tongue, a light step, and ro ordi nary portion of animation. He is l a good h a ter of Tillers, and he did not hesitate to say so. " Rely upon it," said M. Jollivet to an English friend, " that man will bring us all into trouble." This was his prediction ; we enter not into the question of whether it has been realized, but leave this to wiser heads than our own to determine. " M. Mauguin" was ushered in with all the honours ; but M. Guizot received him coldly. M. Mauguitt belongs to his own party, and seldom visits his political antagonists. He is caustic, clever, a good jurist, and a sort of railer at the tribune. But on the occasion in question he had voted with Thicrs and Guizot, and now came a ccording - to cus tom, " to enjoy the sport." Political mon in France are too otters jesting vthen they speak of government 6, mo: UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. The " Battle of Nizib," writter by Mr. J. M. Rus sell, late of the Kurdistan expedition, will be read n ith interest, even after the great events which have taken place on the coast of Syria. This gentleman having been an amateur warrior in the camp of Hafiz had an opportunity of observing the great features of the coiatest so f4tal to the Turks ; and his account cer tainly gives us a very mean idea of the military skill and foresight of the two leaders. Had Ibrahim Pacha been opposed by an army much smaller than his own, but marshalled and led on to battle in proper order, he could not have stood before it for an hour. His army was in the greatest disorder. By his oven ac count, eight battalions refused to advance, seve ral squadrons of horse displayed the same bad feeling, and while the Egypt4n officers were actually sabring the recusant soldiers, and the Turks might have gained the victory by ono decisive charge, many of them only thought of plunder, and were actually making for the Turkish camp for that purpose. " Thus," says the writer, " the field presented the extraordinary sight of two bodies of armed men recoiling from each other without exchanging a blow." Some great folly on the part of the Turkish commander afterwards gave Ibra him an a dvantage, which he seized, and thereby decided the contest. Altogether, the battle was of the most contemptible description, and gives us a very unfavour able idea of the troops of both Turkey and Egypt. The account is accompanied with a good plan of the field of battle (if it deserves the name), which illustrates the movements of the two wretched armies. Most of the other articles are of the usual description ; and in the Editor's Portfolio full tattles are given of the ❑um ber and strength of the British fleets in the Mediter ranean and Chinese seas. T 4 IIT'S MAGAZINE. The important question of the " Condition of the Labouring Poor in Scotland," which was commenced in the last Number of Tait, is resumed in the present one. The question is reasoned with great care, and the writer, not satisfied with mere argument, adduces a multitude of statistic iacts in support of his assertion, that an immediate, searching, and impartial inquiry is necessary into the condition of the Scottish poor," which can no more be efficiently conducted by the Ministers and heritors of parishes, than any inquiry whatever by parties strongly interested." The " Sketches of Lill and Manners" contain more literary reminiscences by the English Opium Eater, who dwells with m arked l pleasure on his acqu a i ntance w i t h the author o f " lon —the most sterling classic drama of which the present age can boast— an d adds, "Of all the men whom I ss have known, a f ter long intercourse with of the wo r ld, t h e L earned Sergeant is the Th. a ll ou tward aPpear who most preserves, tothe businoene If ante, the freshness and integrity of his yout... spirits." The cursory remarks on Junius, in connection with Sir Phillip Francis, are not the least entertaining portions of the Opium Eater's Recollection. He is firmly of opinion that the Right Hon. Baronet was th a real man in the mask ; and we hold the same faith, though the question is hardly worth discussing at this time of day. As an influential author, Junius is filet I going down hill : and no wonder, for take away his FRASER'S' MAGAZINE. _ i, ; bitter sarcasm, and love of striking antithesis, and you It is astonishing what a quantity cf i leave him scarce a leg to stand upon. " St. Stephens. some bad, and some positively exer 7tciating, a lt " I and the Kirk" is a broad, farcical article thrown into birth, death, or marriage, is the means Of putting i nto i poesy, some_g , o% . _ ! ' the form of dialogue. As Tait is usually sparing of circulation. Here, among divers other chow..." Artie' e s ; jo cu l ar ity, we congra t u l a t e him on this suc cess f u l a tt em p t we have " Stanzas on the Birth of the Princess ii.,'l-01, at the facetious. As a specimen of our Radical friend's of which the utmost we can say is, that their loyalty' 1 I po ;try, we quote these lines on " Change" : more to be commended than their fancy or their feeling.' i Change ! change ! The mournful story The author's muse is indeed no goddess, but a mere Of all that's gone before ! `,waddling old woman, who hobbles along on crutches. The wrecks of perished glory Ve select the only passable stanzas in the poem : Bestrewing every shore. Sweet was the song, though small its moment, The shattered tower and palace, Sung to loved boy by gipsy crone, That frown o'er every glen, Which told that stream, and hill, and valley, b,-oken language, tell us Seen from his towers were all his own. 10O.' Y t `e fleeting power o f men . chaba,. ., .; ,:hange ! The sc yth e i s sweep i ng O'er n 0, . .!. a cottage hearth; The sickleci n %od is r ea pi ng O'er scmc sc Sacs of household mi r th. The sheaf is bouts i where daughters Round their moth. Sr used to spin ; And where little feet . 4 id patter Full often out and in. Change change ! for all t;;;ngs human ! Kingdoms, statcs of amole.l wing lia N % v •e it t h he th ir e fl m ig e h a t ne a s n t d m f o a r l t l al ,i t n h e in (,:n r : mon With beauty, love, and passion ';‘ With all of earthly trust; With life's smallest wavelet, rushing, Curling, breaking into dust! .Where arose in marbled grandeur, The wall'd cities of the past, The ,sullen winds now wander O'er a rt.o:i-huddled waste. Rent is the pa;ac” Eplendid ; The owl, in si:s;Cee, wings w h ere , e;' '-Attended, faced O'e r floors, the satidalleci.,%et of kings. Still change ! Go thou L id yiew it, All desolately sunk : The circle of the Druid The cloister of the monk ; The abbey, holed and squalid, With its grass-maned staggering sln. 'U. Ask by whom these were unhallowed-- 'Ter as Change that did it all. But Mind, the ever_ living, From Time's each succeding birth, Will receive some more of heaven, Will retain some less of earth. Mort of truth, and less of error; Less of hate and more of love; Till the v cqrld below shall mirror 4!11 the pu,ity above. CAMBRIDGg L'IVI'YELRSI7'Y MAGAZINE. We like the spirit and t.`oo f this young Megazine. which, if it continue to be ck.'udn,ated as ably as it hags hitherto been. bids fair to attain ; J r a very respectable , longevity. Though dated f rom a Uz io . ne of the pe.- uversity, there isa -a :no undue assumption of learn in g in ,things are more dantry of scholarship , tha n which few ' repulsive, especially in p eriodical literat cc. 'The first; article is a Epirited protest against the sya.'cm pursued at. Cambridge of compell i ng candidates far i.'""rs pass through a certain mathema tical examivatin. a, before: they try for the iii,lhest classical prizes. Some y .ll ears ago—say fifteen or twnty—this system was very t.'lguY enforced ; but it is now, we understand, greatly re 7 4 that it were abolish ed lazed. It were to be wishi , altogether. Classical and mathomat:cal studies are Cut good yoke•fellows. They do not draw well together,: though we grant that there are son'lli pple.-idid exceptions to the contrary. The refined and devoted `aiste that ap preciates the beauties of the Greek drama: fists and the Latin poets is apt to turn with a shudder fi'ol. close, matter-of fact problems of Euclid ; the dry, a.' t o take fright at the bare mention of that most perple.xing and crabbed of sciences—Algebra. And y et before d a gra duate can aspire to the honours of the Craven sci.'(!ir ship or the Medal, he must have swallowed—and,* if possible, digested—no slight quantity of mathematic s Surely this is about as unreasonable as to force a ma xl who is qualifying himself for a medical diploma to un dergo a previous examination in theology ! . 4 Some Passages from the Life of a Wandering Irishman" are too flippant ; and what is worse, their flippancy is cora mon-place. " Ode to Bacchus" is a vigorcus, elegant, and tolerably faithful, translation from Eur'picles. The " Queen of the South" is humorous, but the h 'amour is rather overdone. " Literature and the Arts b .s they now arc," is a shrewdly reasoned prose essay—int:eed is the cleverest contribution in the Number. • 4 THE QUEEN. Buckingham Palace, Half-past Nine. The Queen and the Princess Royal continue in a most satisfactory state. Her Majesty's convalescence is so far advanced that no further bulletins will be issued. COURT CIRCULAR. The daily bulletin of the Queen's health rval dis continuod yesterday morning, hor Majesty contirming to go on perfectly well. The Duchess of linft her Majesty yesterday morning, at Buckingham Palace.. At one o'clock his Royal Highness Prince Albert,. attended by Colonel \Vylde, Equerry in Waiting, and Captain Seymour, Groom in ‘Vaiting, left the Palace on horseback, and proceeded to Marlborough House to pay a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. His Royal Highness returned to Buckingham Palace at two o'clock. • . Viscount. Nielhourne had an audience yesterday of Prince Albert. The 'Vice-Chamberlain attended at Buckingham Palace yesterday morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attendod by Lady Fanny Howard, dined with his Royal High ness Prince All;ert in the evening. During the whole of the day her Majesty and the Princess Royal were going on most satisfactorily. Among the Nobility and Gentry who yesterday entered their names in the list of inquirers alter the state of the Queen and the infant Princess were Prince Castelcicala, the Swedish Minister and Countess Bjorn-- styerna, the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunow, the Danish Charge d'Affaires and Countess Bills Brahe, the Bishop of London, Marquises of Down shire, Northampton, Winchester, and Bute ; Mar ' chionesses of Downshire and Bute ; Earls of Yarborough and Pembroke ; Countesses Wicklow, Mexborough, and Galloway : Viscounts Ebrington and Dillon ; Viscountesses Dillon, and Dowager Dillon ; Lord 1 Frederick Gordon ; Ladies Catherine Cavendish, Brodie, Langdale, Robert Grovenor, Sarah Savile, E. Law, E. Sevmeur, Ouseley, C. Paulet, Foley, Augusta Gordon, Charlotte Hill, and Dowager Clinton ; the Baroness Braye ; Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, So licitor-General ; Hon. Baron Dimsdale, Baroness Dims ' dale, Rev. P.l. Savile ; Misses Foley and H. Fortescue ; Sirs J. W. Lubbock, Gore Ouselev ; Colonels Sir Horace Seymour, Power, R.A., and F. Davies ; Major Darby Griffiths ; Messieurs F. Dundas, M.P., Horace 'l'wiss, Q.C., Charles Cavendish, Edward Marjoribanks, Ashley, and J. Adolphus ; Mistresses Blorotield, E. Marjoribanks, Davies, G. Darby, Griffiths and Ashley ; Misses Burdett Coutts, Blomfield, M. Blomfield, Black well, Marjoribanks, and Ouseley. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. A deputation of the Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society, on the subject of the window duties, had an interview with the Chancellor of the ExchcqueTyester day, in Downing-street. The dep utation consisted of Messrs. IVorsley. Keasley, Watts, Dulea, HLghes, Ward, Scull, T. Smith, J. Anderson, Paulson, 11i.P,„ Hawes, 111.1' , and B. Wood ; Lieut.-General Evans,. M.P., and Mr. Alderman Humphery. The Attorney-General, Sir George Grey, and Mr.. Holmes, M.P., had interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Secretary to the Postmaster-General had an in ' terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Viscount Ebrington arrived in town yesterday from Woburn Abbey. Lieut. Woodford arrived yesterday at the Colonial office, with despatches from the Governor of Gibraltar. LLO YD'S SH I PPING-(THIS DA2Y,) LONDON, DEC. I.—.W westerly airs, arid hazy weather. DEAL, day at noon, light south; the Maria, DEAL, Nov. 30.—WInd \V. S. \V., moderate.—Arrive d' Redesdale, Tailor, from M s o i g . a n d te o z re u . m ien a i n a d vaiparaiso ; Fauckner, labia Collings, from ; Betsey, Allen, Cephalonia; Lord Mary Ann Buton. RAMSOATNov. ' . E. N 30.—The arch board of a vessel of about - 230 tons has been picked up in the Queen's Channel, with " Clarence, of Stockton," tel yellow letters on a black ground ;also &c. on it. Monte zuma Selkirk, sea, and landed here. the ,tern of a boat with same name,. Astrea, Nine casks of tallow have been picked up at. LIVERPOOL, Nov. V.—Wind W.—Arrived the Monte having Laguna ; Bootie, Tasker, Porto CJ,cllo ; Europa, Man.. zanilla ; Howard, Savannah ; Oxford, Rathbonc, New York ; Roberts, Mattliewson, Miramichi ; Jamaica, White, Nassau. Off port, the 'Fulani, from Antigua. The Bounty, Hall, bound to Maranbann is off port, putting back, with loss of foretopmast and other damage, been in contact with the Duncan, off Wicklow. The Oporto, from Tobasco to this port, put into Nassau pre vious to 29th ultimo, leaky; had discharged part 1 0 cargo and was reloading. Scit.t.y, Nov. 25 —Airivcd the Ilalinsh, llaccitioel, from Rio de Janeiro ; Eliza, Bell, ditto. DOVER, Nov. 30 —A bowsprit, foremast, and lower yard and new buoy, marked " Clarence " his up and landed here. , been picked .. PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 3). —Wind W. Elizabeth, flarnlyti horn (.; * lcutt. ' —Off port, the the '' h ' ~ on ..4t September, a—sulcd from the Cape ~, s 0 0 kiog of the ha s %ten' S AD' ne („.t oire- ;0 05 e out ova l ' rifles' 40! 11 01 : f O r INIt"