The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-02 00:00:00

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When we instituted, some weeks ago, a compa rison between the contests in Edinburgh and Lon don for the chair of the Civic Magistracy, and stated that both Mr. HARMER and Mr. BLACK Were to be excluded on account of their opinions, We were taken to task by more than one Liberal Journal, which affirmed that there was no resem blance between the two cases, and justified the ex clusion of Mr. HARMER• The Scotsman, for example, then said— The Sun, in a recent article, endeavoured to draw a Parallel between the opposition to Mr. Harmer and the at tempt making in this city to exclude Mr. Adam Black f m 4 ";_ci the P rovo stship, and to prove that in both cases t h ro e object was to render religious opinion a ground of exclusion from civil office. Were this the case, then the result of the contest just concluded would be a Matte r for deep regret, and a lasting disgrace to the ,city of London. But we should be sorry to assign the triumph wholly to bigotry. Mr. Harmer is a member • of the Church of England, and is, we have no doubt, • al sincere as many who enjoy the reputation of good Churchmen. Still it is questionable whether the pro prietor of such a paper as the Dispatch is a man on who m th e highest civic honours should be conferred. .True he disclaims the sentiments advocated in its co . lumns, but he yet derives a vast annual profit from its circulation, and must necessarily have some control, sot of course over individual passages, but over its • eteeral tone and character. Although, therefore, we s hould not have regarded the election of Mr. Harmer as it tlY very serious calamity, as, from the testimonies borne to his character, we have no doubt he would have dis ellarged the duties of the office in an efficient manner, we yet cannot regard his defeat us the defeat of a great Principle. It is his connection with a disreputable Jou, , and not his religious opinions , which have operate d a gainst him. The Dispatch cont , contains, we believe, much It teng, and sometimes good writ ing, and pays perhaps U.S much regard to the decencies of life as some of the ioure e l s w h o h ave been abusing it ; but i t is neverthe less allied to that class of periodicals which address themselves to the lower passions of the vulgar, and it manifests a wholesome tendency on the part of the Public to stamp with disapprobation. It has, however, been affirmed at the dinner at Ed inburgh, given to Mr. BLACK, that he w as excluded because he was a Dissenter. He w as, in fact, kept out of the Provostship on ac c4unt of not belonging to the State sect. 'Much of, the proceedings at the dinner turned on his ex cl, 113 ion being the revival of the Test Act. It was described by Lord DUNFERMLINE as placing the I)issenters beyond the pale of the law. Mr. BLACK hiMself said— Shall man take it upon him to say to his fellow-worm -1 will tolerate von to worship God according to your eQ nsoience, and be thankful for my clemency ; but, if yo u will not worship in the way that I think best, or in the Way that the State directs, you must not presume to to public office ; at least you mutt be excluded r een th e hi g h er o ffi ces o f t h e S tate . —(G rea t c h eer i ng .) It h 43 been argued that there is no persecution in this ; sad reference to the late contest one of the Edin urgh journals says, Civ." The man is persecuted whom the „ 'Magistrate requires to recant his religious opinions ; 'e Magistrate has in this case overstepped his province, s he interferes where Divine authority should be para . "et but the Magistrate and Legislature may right „-"slY exclude from certain functions those who cannot ` 0 " - IPIY with the conditions which grow out of them"— r . , in othe r wor d s , we ac k now l e d ge that the o ld f as hi on u burnin g at the stake to make a man recant his reli gious opinions, is persecution, but to attempt the same thin g by excludin g him from offices, or by branding hi m as a member of a degraded cause, is a righteous act in the Magistrate, o r in the people who resort to such measures. Such doctrines are so monstro us , that they only re qu i re to b e exhibited in their naked deformit to secure the repro b at i on o f every right-hearted man. y Mr. BLACK then was excluded from the Lord Provostship because his z - religious opinions were not agreeable to the dominant sect ; Mr. HARMER was excluded from the Mayoralty, because he is the proprietor of a newspaper which cxpresses opi nions not agreeable to the dominant sect. Both Were punished because certain opinions were not agreeable to the electors. In Mr. BLACK'S case, the opinions were his own ; in Mr. HARMER'S c ase, they were those of another, which he dis tt,, claimed. The Livery were appealed to, on th e ' 4i l lground that some opinions promulgated in the Dispatch were inimical to civil order ; and during .N ‘ that contest a writer i n t h e Ti mes ap p ea l e d aga i ns t Ir. BLACK on the very same grounds. The com ‘\: Parison is really much in Mr. HARMER'S favour, 441- ryr4 and he is of the two the more injured man, for lie was kept out of office on account of the opinions of a successful editor, who, as the Editor of the Scots rna th _n must know, is n o t lik e ly t o b e con t r olled by e monied proprietor, tenacious only of his re ceipts. The same principle was violated in bo th ea ses, but more outrageously in the case of Mr, HARMER. If Mr. BLACK had been excluded be r. ca use lie has in his time made a profit of opinions Utifa VOUrablC to religion, published in the Encvclo li ',lt; 4 j l,-1 / P a 'dia Britannica or the Edinburgh Review, the • e ,, -r nparison would have been strictly accurate ; but lt t S l 4 ft tl 'en the denunciations against the citizens of Edin burnt c. b b y the Liberal Scotch pr ess f or excluding k t hk4 * . ti „, , r ' BLACK on such grounds would hav e b een ten snore severe than at present. 114.,. T he S CO ! SM(//1 d escr ib es t h e Di spatc h as a dis lal/44:101€- l'eputabl e journal, which addresses itself to the 110r1 S'" oi I st passions of th e vu l gar . It offends the _ sown, and that j ourna l, so averse f rom perse utiun in the case of Mr. BLACK, has no objec- tion to it where opinions differ from its own. - 1 he vulgar, are not necessarily wrong, any more than the respectable. Their passions arc a part of their nature, and arc no more low or despicable than the passions of the rich. • Their passions are not, it is true, the passions of the respectable. They do not always fawn on the rich. They do not ape the paltry splendour of the spendthtift landlords. They have probably little respect for a Lord of Sc,sion, and still less for a Lord of Parliament, for they have never known anything of either, but that the one en forces, and the other makes laws which in jure them. It may not be pleasing to the other classes that the passions of the vul gar should find an organ ; but there is no more vice in appealing to their passions than in appeal ing to the passions of the respectable or the rich. We, of course, imply that the Editor of the Dis patch has as firm a conviction of the truth of the opinions he supports as the Editor of the Scotsman. The latter thinks that "it manifests a wholesotne tendency c 9 the part of the public to stamp with disapprobation" the opinions of the Dispatch ; and the Edinburgh Advertiser, with all the Tories and High Churchmen of that city, in like manner regard it as a wholesome tendency on the part of the Edinburgh public to stamp with disapprobation the opinions entertained by Mr. lILAcK and the Scotsman. The fact appears to be, and we see it with much regret, that the Dissenters who demand— and whom we cordially support—perfect free dom of opinion for themselves, are not disposed to allow the same freedom to others. They seem to us to say, " Mr. HARMER is altogether a diffe rent sort of man from us. We honour the Scrip tures ; his Editor does not. We are staunch ad mirers of the monarchy ; the Editor of the Dispatch scolds at its enormities, or mocks at its eccentri cities. We honour the priesthood (Mr. BLACK toasted the whole trod), their craft and all) ; the Editor of the Dispatch turns their claims to sanc tity, while they grasp at the world's gear, into ridi cule. We worship the LORD in the conventicle ; the Editor of the Dispatch observes the Sabbath after another fashion. He is in all things different from us. We are believers, he is an infidel, and we have no charity nor tolcration for his opinions. NN'e may conscientiously differ from the State sect, we are bound to express that difference, and the State has no right to exclude us from any social advantages or honours on that ac count ; but he must not consientiously differ from us, he must believe in the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible, and if he does not lie is a disturber of social order, an impugner of our faith, and a Test Act must be enacted by our manners, if not by our laws, to exclude him from every office." If such language, or any correspond ing language expresses the thoughts of the Dissen ters towards Mr. HA RM ER, or towards those who write in the Dispatch, because its opinions do not meet their approbation, what better are they than the members of the State sect whom they so severely condemn ? We make such remarks with no other feelings than those of deep regret, for where can we look for the defence of freedom, when those who complain of persecution are themselves ready to persecute? The Scotsman—we honour it for the part it has taken—has been a zealous defender of Mr. BLACK, but it is evident from the passage we have quoted, that it is ready to punish the opi nions entertained by the writers in the Dispatch, in the same way as the Church party in Edinburgh have been willing to punish the opinions entertained by Mr. BLACK. The outrages arising from the preservation of game are becoming serious, and are attracting public attention. What is the value of a head of game, that men risk their lives to obtain it ? If the poachers receive 2s. a head, that is the outside. By successful labour, night after night, they may probably gain 30.., or at most 40s. a week. For that wretched paltry reward they stay out night after night, expose themselves to the penalties of the law, and are ready, according to the reports, at any time to embrue their hands in the blood of their fellow-creatures. Before they could take up such a trade, they must be in a state of deep dis tress ; they must have witnessed the patient toil of the industrious go unrewarded, or rewarded so scantily as to make toil a mark of slavery, which has made them prefer the risk of the poacher's life to that of the half-starved oppressed labourer. The existence of numerous bodies of resolute poachers implies that the condition of the working classes is desperate, and the diseases of society of no com mon character. Here and there a poacher may be bred up in a manufacturing town, but we apprehend very few spinners and weavers take to the occupation. A successful poacher must have local knowledge—he must be familiar with woods and paths, with fields and streams, and, in the majority of cases, the poachers are necessarily members of the rural popu lation. They are the squire's own dependents. Extensive poaching, then, is a proof of the distress of the rural rather than the town population. At present, too, the poachers run greater risks than formerly. A rural police is organised in many places. The gentry have a strong pecuniary in terest in their game—formerly they had only a sporting interest—and they watch it with more care than ever. All these circumstances make us infer that in those districts where poaching is common, the condition of the rural labourers, however much the squires may be delighted by the hat being touched as they pass along, and may flatter them selves that all is well because they are rich, is ex tremely bad, and is not to be remedied by stronger game laws, or giving a more bloody execution to those which already exist. We have no objection to gentlemen preserving game, but they will find it to be a most difficult task in the midst of a starving population. When people are half-fed and half-clothed it is to he ex pected that they will not respect such a doubtful right of property as that claimed in wild animals. The gentry cannot have Corn-laws and Game-laws too. At least they cannot be enforced without run ning the risk of getting up a little civil war in every cover and coppice, and nothing would be more dan gerous for them than to train the rural population to this kind of ambuscade warfare. What is to prevent starving men who shoot keepers from shooting the keepers' masters ? We are not aware of any particular charm which protects their lives, and if the gentry will persist i❑ keeping down the numbers of the people by a starvation law, and so make themselves the oppressors and the enemies of the labourers, they must take the consequences. ' At any rate we do not see why the rest of the community, driven to poverty and desperation by 'heir extortionate legislation, should be required to preserve their game, if it must submit to their Corn laws. An Evening Contemporary proposes that the Excisemen, whom it represents as grow ing fat for want of employment, should be set to watch game salesmen, and trace every hare, or a pheasant, to the hand legally entitled to kill it, as they trace a gallon of spirits to the stock of the licensed salesman. The manufacturers, according to this scheme, must pay public officers to protect the preserves of the gentry from the depredations of the people, whom their own exactions have reduced to despe ration. It would be better to dismiss the unem ployed excisemen, and allow the taxation, which pays their salaries, to be remitted to the people. SUN. LONDON WEDNESDAY DECEMBER/ t o 1446 . Our Contemporary talks of a wise humane man in terfering to check the progress of the evils of poach ing, hut if he look for either wisdom or humanity in those who make laws to enrich themselves by taxing the people's bread, he will look eternally in vain. Ihe true way to put a stop to poaching is to make its reward less than those of honest dustry, which is not to be accomplished by ipulti plying mural police, excisemen, and 2-,oldiems. Let the wise and humane, rather say the idle and the meddling, try nature's remedy ; let trade go free from their mischievous trammels, and let industry reap the full reward of its own exertions. There is an exceedingly amusing, and, at the same time, useful article in the Timesof this morning' on the great question of University Reform, which, we trust, will not be confined to Glasgow or St. Andrews, or any 'University in Scotland, but be xetended to the great twin Universities of Eng land, where the abuses, the corruptions, and the general malversation of important functions arc as the ocean to a drop of the bucket, when compared with those north of the Tweed. It will be remem bered that the Journal which especially patronised Dr. CHALMERS in oppOsition to Dr. HILL, 011 t he occasion of a contest for the Divinity Chair of Glasgow College, threatened the electors, namely, the Professors, with the vengeance of the Royal Commissioners in case they did not elect that weather cock of the Scotch Church, the Rev. Dr. THO MAS CHALMERS, Prolessor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh. The Professors had the manliness to treat this threat with due contempt, and to follow the honest dictates of their own minds in choosing the son of one of the brightest ornaments of the Scottish Church, (the late Dr. HILL, Tory Principal of St. An drew's), a man of sound learning and sound sewse, in preference to a man who has set the Church of Scotland in an uproar, who changes his opinions with every change of the moon, who, according to the Times, labours under monomania, and who, with all the great learning, wisdom, and discretion, which they attribute to their ordefe - , is misled by the boys of the Church. A fine picture of a Divinity Professor, certainly, and one for which Dr. CHALMERS has to thank his Tory patron. We will allow the patron, however, to speak for hint self, after, in imitation of our Contemporary, having offered a parenthetical remark or two. The first is that the party abused are not Whigs or Radicals, but good Tory Conservatives ; and so gross has been their conduct for many years past that the Royal Tory Commissioners could not advert to it without the severest reprehension. They cannot be otherwise than Tory now from the nature of their appointment, and must have been still more Tory when many of the malversations of which the Report complains existed in all their vigour and rankness. Fourteen of these Professors, besides the Principal, are appointed by the Crown, and the other eight Professorships are appointed by these fifteen, which, considering the long tenure of office held by the Tories, must, even after ten years of Whig Government, be still sufficiently Tory to warrant us in describing this body as belonging to the political party of their accusers, the Royal Commissioners and the London Times. Having got out of this parenthesis, we call the attention of our readers to the character of these Tory Profes sors of the University, or rather those appointed in bygone times ; and above all to the damning cha racter given to Dr. CHALMERS, which forms the tail, and very properly the sting, of the extract : " The exceptionable way in which the Glasgow rrofes sore dispose of their University patronage will naturally awaken public attention to their maladministration of College property. For a vast number of years they have bet nin the habit of doing what they please with that property without check or control ; and on this point we find from the Report of the Royal Commissioners in 1827 (to which are appended the names of Lords Aberdeen, lladdingtoa, and Melville, the late Duke of Gordon, the Lord President Elope, the Lord Justice Clerk Boyle, Sir W. Rae, then Lord Advocate, Mr. John Elope, then Soli citor-General, Mr. Home Drummond, M.P., and the Rev. Dr. George Cook, of St. Andrews, all stanch Tories), that those eminent and impartial authorities expressly say (page 20)—" We havo beets deeply impressed, in the course of cur inquiries, with the neces sity of an efficient University Court." Then, alter men tioning that the three statutory visitors of the University are—first, the Rector, who " is seldomresident ;" second, the Dean, who " is chosen by the Projessors themselves ;" and third, the Minister of Glasgow, who " lies been for some time Principal of the College:" the Report goes on to say that— " It is greatly to be regretted, considering the important duties of such visitors, that provision had not been made for securing attention to the business entrusted to them. The result has been, that the duty of visitors has never been pet formed in the way, or to the extent pointed out by the statutes; that the Principal and Professors hare assumed powers in direct oppositiov to the regulations of these statutes, even after their construction had been set- tied by a Court of Law; that there is no practical check on their expenditure or on their administration or disposal of the surplus revenue of the College ; and that the vi sitors, at least for a great length of time, have not exer cised, or even been made acquainted with the powers they possessed, or with the Latta e of the duties entrusted to them." —Report, page 20. Now, let us here offer a parenthetical remark or two. When the Earl of Aberdeen, and the other Conservative Commissioners, chargo the Glasgow Professors with con cealing from some of the visitors the posters they are pos. sessed of, it may seem extraordinary that any visitor should be ignorant of those powers. We shall explain this. The allusion refers exclusively to the Lord Rector, who " is seldom resident." The right of electing that high officer belongs solely to the students, who, tar more careful of the University's tame than their undutiful teachers, usually appoint some eminent scholar and statesman ; so that the serious imputation which the Earl of Aberdeen and his fellow-commissioners bring against the Glasgow ProleF sors is, that, taking advantage of the unavoidable ignorance of their highest academical superiors, they have concealed from those distinguished persons the full knowledge cf their official powers. Again—the Earl of Aberdeen, Dr, George Cook, Mr. John Hope, Sir W. Rae, and the other Royal Commis sioners, inculpate the Glasgow Professors on the ground that " they have assumed powers in direct opposition to statutes whose construction had been settled by a Court ( 2 f Law." Now, our readers will bear in mind, that the only assigned fault of Dr. Chalmers, on account of which they have rejected him, is pri.cisely that which the Cominis sinners have hero imputed to the Glasgow Professors them selves. According to the servile prints which the latter gentlemen have suborned in their defence, the sole reason why they have excluded him from the Divinity chair is, that at his instigation the non-intrusion party " have as sumed Towers in direct opposition to statutes whose c,)n struction has been settled by a; Court of Law." This is the head and front of the Doctor's offending. We are not in sensible to the Doctor's monomania on non-intrusion, in regard to which we regret to think that he is so egregi ously misled by a ring of upstart boys." To thorough Reformers these liberal opinions on University Reform, expressed by the Royal Tory Commissioners and the leading Tory journal, are quite refreshing, and lead us to hope that the work is commenced in earnest, and that we shall have the schedules A. B. C., &c., up to the half of the alphabet, in the educational system of the Univer sities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Oxford, in imitation of what Sir CHARLES WE• THERELL called the Russell Purge of the re- presentative system i❑ the House of Commons. When that is completed, the overgrown Church Establishment will next require the attention of these Conservative Reformers ; and considering the because the English Government had forbidden it. Were we to judge of M. DE TOCQUEVI LLE from his sagacious work on democracy in the United States, we should hold him to be the last man in France capable of uttering such an absurdity. The Journal des Debuts has a very caustic ar ticle, exposing what it calls the " posthumous po licy" of M. T H ERS. The ex-President of the Coun cil, like the old Sexton it► " Humphrey's Clock," was for doing every thing next Spring. His was altogether a fine weather policy. But Lord PA L mEnsto Is; refused to wait idly during the winter; and so the Spring, when M. THIERS was to have ac complished so many wouders, will never arrive. The French Ministerial Journals of Monday state, on the authority of their Corespondents at Alexandria, that MEHEM ET ALI had resolved to submit to the decision of the Four Powers the in• start l►e was apprised of the fall of St. Jean d'A ere. There is no general news of the slightest in terest in the Paris Papers of Monday. The de bate on the Address, and the success of the Allies in Syria, entirely engross public attention, to the exclusion of almost every othet topic. The Augsburgh Gazette cootains a letter dated Ather:s, the 12th ult., which states that the Government had re ceived an estaiiite on the 11th announcing that Wood' Valenzias had entered on the territory of the Porte at the head of 300 or 400 men, near the frontier of Thessaly, without having received any orders to do so. It is sad that this step had been supgested by Austria, in order that Turkey, occupied at this, frontier, should be obliged to diminish the number of troops intended to be marched against Ibrahim Pacha. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There have been few arrivals of any kind of Grain since Monday. The little business transacted has been at Mon day's prices for all sorts of Grain. Flour very heavy of sale at last quotations. NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was a good supply of Game and Poultry ; trade was dull„ and prices tho same as last quoted. Eggs, French, .5s 6d to Gs; English, tis to 8s per 120. Meat was in mo derate request, the supplies large, and the prices as follows : Beef, 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 2s Sd to 4s 3d; Veal, 3s 6d to 51; Pork, 3s to 5s p.:r stone of 81bs. COLONIAL MARKET. The demand fur most decriptions of produce was limited from the home trade, and for shipping scarcely ony business was done. Impoiters, however, diqla3ed firmness, and prices underwent no material variation. 'File public sales were smal. The arrivals keep trivial from all quarters. enormous abuses, the unequal pay for work per formed, and the political uses made of Church patronage to the detriment of pure religion, we hope to see the day when we shall have a useful and a godly Church, when clergymen shall not change their flocks for filthy lucre—when curates shall not starve on 301. and an Archbishop of Canterbury riot in the enjoyment of 30,000/. a-year. \\ALKER C. GI;NTUN. The French Journals of Monday have all been received, with the continuation of the debate on the address in answer to the Speech from the Throne up to post hour on Monday afternoon. The only speakers were M. CARNE and M. DE TuCQUEVILLE, who briefly advocated, the former a war, the latter a peace, policy. M. DE ToCQUE VILLE surprised the Chamber, as he well might, by stating the existence of a rumour that the only reason why the French fleet was not increased was, BOLLS' COURT.-(THIS - DAY ) The Master of the Rolls resumed his sittings this morn ing in the Rolls Court, Chancery. lane, and it being the first seal after tcrm, heard motions. KING OF HANOtER V. SIR HENRY WHEATLEY. Mi. PEMBERTON moved in tliiS case for a commission to Hanover, to examine witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff. The defendant declined to join in the conimixaien. M. WRAY appeared for the Crown, and consented to the motion.—The older was accordingly made. The object of the bill did not transpire, but we believe it relates to the Crown jewels. The plaintiff and defendant formerly carried on business in Thames-street as chemists, druggists, varnish, and colour manufacturers ; but, not being able to agree, they dis solved partnership; and a motion was now made on be half of the plaintiff for the appointment of a receiver of the outstanding debts due to the partnership, and that the de fendant might bo restrained from receiving any of the debts, and that the stock in trade, utensils, sc,, might be sold. VICE-CHANCERY-(THIS I)AY.) The VICE.CHANCELLOR rose at hall'-past eleven o'clock, having disposed of all the motions. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) HIND, CLERK, V. REYNOLDS (CLEkK). It will be remembered that this action was brought to try the right of the Bishop of Ely to nominate the Minis ter of St. James, Bury, to which office the defendant had been nominated by the Corporation of that borough. The question arises out of the section of the Municipal Cor poration Reform Act which requires Corporations to sell the right of nomination to all benefices and ecclesiastical preferments in their possession, and gives the right of ap pointment to all vacancies which might occur before such sale to the Bishop of the diocese. The verdict was taken by consent for the defendant, the nominee of the Corpora tion ; and last term Mr. Sergeant Stephens, after an z.r gument of great length (which we reported fully), ob tained (on the part of the Bishop's nominee) a rule nisi to set aside the verdict. Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS this day showed cause against the rule, arguing that the office did not come under the denomination of a benefice or ecclesiastical preferment. That it was an office which the Corporation had the op tion of leaving vacant, if they thought fit to discontinue the appointment, being only that of reader, and such as a layman could fill. Mr. Sergeant STEPHENS replied. The argument had not concluded when we went to press. There is this curious fact in the case, that the Corporation wanted to sell the patronage, under the Mu nicipal Act, but the Ecclesiastical Commissioners inter posed and would not allow them, on the ground that the office was not within the meaning of file Act. Thus, the Corporation being prevented from selling, the Bishop of Ely seeks to deprive them of the patronage without com pensation. (Sittings at Nisi Prius.) SHREWSBURY V. THE MRECTORS OF THE WHEAL BROTHERS MINING COMP ANY . . . . ...... ._ . This important case was resumed at the sitting of the Court, and is likely to continua beyond this day. The real facts will best appear in a report of the proceedings when concluded. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lard ABINGER and a Mid dlesex Special Jury.) THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION 01? COVENTRY V. LYTHALL. Tho Solicitor-General, Sir William Follett, Mr. Aus tin, and Mr. Kenyon, were Counsel for the plaintiffs ; the Attorney-General, Mr. Sergeant Adams, Mr Richards, and Mr. Atherton, appeared for the defendant. This was an action to try what constituted the teal boundaries of the borough of Coventry under the Munici pal Corporation Bill. The plaintiffs claimed that the liberties of the borough extended into certain parishes in the neighbourhood, and made a borough-rate, including them, which was resisted by the inhabitants. The cause promised to be an exceedingly long one, the written evi dence being very voluminous. When the Solicitor-General was about to open the case. Lord ABINGER suggested that it was a most fit case for the consideration of the Court upon a special case. After some consultation between the Counsel, it was arranged that the cause should be referred, the arbitra tor to take evidence upon oath, upon which evidence be would settle a case for the opinion of the Court. COMMON JURIES,— TURTLE V. WALLIS This was an action for work and labour done by the plaintiff', upon an intended likeness of Dr. Dillon. The defendant was in possession of a picture of the Rev. Gentleman, and wanting an etching of it, for the purpose of supplying his loving congregation, he em plo)ed the plaintiff to make the desired plate. While the work was in progress. the Rev. Gentleman became rather too notorious. The defendant then affected that the work was bad, and the likeness not good, and he refused to oomph to the contract ; accordingly the action was brought to recover the value of the labour done. A witncss, named Pritchard, was called to prove the contract. but it appeared that no price was named. His LORDSHIP held this to be an incomplete contract, and nonsuited the plantar. 110 M AND I'. SHAW. The plaintiff in this-action - was Col. Howard who brought his action to recover the sum of 1421 , the rent of a stable, from 1827 to the last year, at 121. a year. Mr. PEACOCK stated the case to.the Jury. It appeared that Colonel Howard had let a field of his property at Kilburn to a person named Pocock, who made bricks upon it. He built some houses, but he also built the stable in question upon some adjoining land, to which he had no •claim. . Colonel, Howard had advanced Pocock a considerable sum of '.money, and when.. be was selling the. houses he bad built, he, sold the< stable in question to tho defendant ;• but the , attorney of .the plaintiff attended the sale, and gave notice of the fact that any one purchasing that particular lot must pay an annual rent. Shaw after wards obtained possesiion of the property, and retained it, although the sale was never completed. Frequent appli cation was made to the defendant to give up possession of the stable and coach.house, which he refused to do, be cause, as he said, he had never been repaid his deposit; and he continued to retain them until last year, whea an ejectment was brought. Mr. PLATT submitted that there was no case so clear as that when a person was let into possession upon a con tract for sale, no action would lie for use and occupation ; possession in this case was given up immediately upon the set vice of the ejectment. His LORDSHIP directed a uonsuit, reserving to Mr. Peacock leave to move •to enter a verdict for the plaintiff for bO/.- It having been gen . erally expected that the first cause would occupy the time of the Court for at least two days, parties in many of the cases were not ready to bring them on, many were struck out of the paper, and in others the records were withdrawn. The Cuurt rose at one o'clock. LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. I.—Wind this day at noon, light north westerly airs, and hazy weather. DEAL, DEC. I.—Wind W.—Arrived the General Wolfe, Bell, from Demerara. Sailed the Wellington, Chadwick, for New York. LIVEIAPOOL, Nov. 30.—Wind W. N.W.—Arrived the Anne and Jane, Cocks, from Berbice—sailed 25th Oct. ; Virginian, Allen, New York--sailed 12th ult. Off port, the Pact°lus, from Mobile ; Chicora, Charleston. The Zeno, Stephenson, bound to Jamaica, has put back leaky. Bounty, Hall, bound to Maranham, and the Duncan, from Deaumaris, have come in, the former with loss of foretop mast, and the latter with stern damaged, &c., having been in contact the 29th ult. off Tuskar, - - DOVER, DEC. I.—Arrived off, the Black Cat, from Sardinia. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. I.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived her Nl:tjesty's ship Serpent, front Halifax, sailed Oct. 28. CORK, Nov. 29 —Arrived the Ferouica, Miller, from Cape of Good Hope. SWANSEA, Nov. 3/ —Arrived the Floraville, Wilson, front Valparaiso. SulEins, Nov. 29.—Arrived the Jane A. Nlelvain, Storer, from Quebec. The Armadillo, Benedict, bound to New York, put back, 28th ult., leaky, having struck on the bar, and must discharge pat t of cargo. YARMOUTH, DEC. 1.- The smack Emma of Barking as run down off Harwich, 29th ult., by the Coy of Aberdeen :learner ; crew saved. THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY.—An address from some of the members of the late British Auxiliary Legion of Spain has been forwarded to Con stantinople, tendering his Lordship thanks for his advocacy of their claims in Parliiament. " The successful result which has been produced we believe to be entirely owing to your Lordship's exertions. We have been so accus tomed to demand layouts from your Lordship," con tinue the subscribers to the address, " that we can not refrain from the practice, even in the present ad dress ; we have cherished the hope that your Lord shp may perchance accede to our request that this modest testimonial of our feelings may not be entirely lost, and that the descendants of your Lordship's house may know that, amongst the hereditary honours detived from your Lordship, that can be also enumerated which has been earned by the unthing and successful advocacy of the claims of the British Auxiliary Legion of Spain by the Most Noble the Marquis of Londonderry." In his reply the Marquis of Londonderry says, " I do assure you I have no words adequate to express the unmixed gratification I derive from a testimonial so unostentatious and so per fectly emblematical of the principle that should regulate the feelings of brother soldiers in offering proofs of each others approbation or regard." DEATH OF DAVID BRIDGES, ESQ.—We an nounce to-day the death of a well-known citizen of Edin burgh, Mr. David Bridges. During some years back he appeared very little in public, but those who can take a survey of the last forty years will not fail to remember the deep, prominent, and unceasing interest which he took in all matters connected with literature and the fine arts. In the .Annual Register and in the newspaper press be at one time largely wrote ; but it is unnecessary to particularise his productions, arid we shell therefore only say that his svritrvgs were chiefly d e v o t e d t o th o se subjects on which he was, by universal acknowledgement, well qualified to give information and instruction—the fiao arts and the drama—on which lie prelected with the ability of a mas ter. Caledonian Mercury. NAPOLEON'S REMAINS --The framework for the grand decoration, representing Napoleon More his . throne, has been c ommence d se tting up on the summit of the Arc de l'Etoile, Paris. The pedestals for the statues and other decorative preparations have b.:en begun in the Champs Elysees. Sir Charles Morgan's a nnual cattle show is fixed for the 12th instant at Tredegar. TEA MARKET. The transactions in Free Trade were limited, and prices had a downward tendency for both Black and Green sorts. The speculative market was in a dull state, and 2s. 3 1 A. taken for Compan)'s Congou, cash. TALLOW MARKET. The market continues in a dull state, and prices had a downward tendency. On the spot P. Y. C. sold at 465. per cwt. The stock is larger than last year, and many ships are near at home. PROVISION MARKET. Butter is in good request, and prices o■ the aev.ince. Fine Irish is worth 1033. to 104. per cwt. Prices are on he advance for Bacon, and a good demand exists. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—The Cotton Sales to day are .1,000 bags, chiefly American ; full prices were obtained, and the market closad with' much firmness on the part of the holders. Livs.acool. SHARE LIST, DEC. I.—Eastern Counties Debentures 4 ; Glasgow and Ayrshire 281 ; Great Western Fifths 9; Landon and Birmingham 163; 32/. Shares , 18 : 1-; Quarter Shares 071-; Brighton United Com pi.ny 29 ; 1 ; Marathester and Birmingham 22 ; Midland Counties New Shares, :q ; North Midland 76. Extract of a letter from New York, Nov. 13 :—" The Boston Bank have agreed to loan the Philadelphia Banks one and a half millions of dollars, and application for another million has been made to the New York Banks, one half of which, it is said, has already been sub scribed, and as the Philadelphia Bank only asks for two and a half million dollars, it is thought there will be no difficulty in their resuming in January next." We have received Montreal Papers to the 10:h Nov. EXCHANGES AND STOCKS. On London-60 days, Montreal Bank, 9 per cent. 60 days, City Bank, 9 per cent. 60 days, Bank of British North America, 9 per cent. 30 days, Government, 101 per cent. New York ants Boston, 3 days, Bank, 1 per cent. Sovereigns, each, 245. 61 Montreal Bank Shares, 11:1 per cent. prem. We have received Quebec papers to the 7th Nov. LOVER PROVINCES, 11.kI.IFAX, OCT. 27.—We under stand that the elections, particularly throughout the eastern section of the province, will be warmly contested. A num ber of new candidates have already offered, and others are expected to came krward. The poll for Halifax will commence on Tuesday, Nov. 3.: THE FUNDS. owing to the report in e expect e d t o t a k e place in the French Ministry. Consol e , w hi c h left off rather papers flat ofthis Some morning, owing yesterday at 90i ; 1 4 for M on ey, and 91 to h for th e Ac count, opened this mo rn i ng at 90-1- 91 for the opening. the n nso F i r s en arech The shutting of Consols which takei place this day, has also an effect on the market. Exchequer Bills, 3 5 prem. ; Bank Stock, 158 i 1591 ; India Stock, 24q 2221. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 231 -4-; De ferred, I I ii - 12i•Ls; Pd ssive 51 il ' Portuguese, 341 1 - , ex div. ; Three per Cent s. 29 1 ; 'Brazilian, 72 73 ; Colom bian, 261; :Mexican, 30 ; Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents. S2 : 1; Five per Cents. 99k. Our chief arrival this morning is the New York packet the Virginian—l f - e-t on the 13th ult.; the intelligence she brings is ol little importance. Exchange upon London, B.i- to 8:i ; ITnited States Bank Share, 66 to 661. Shares—Londoti and Brighton Railway, 10 9i- dis. ; Great Western, 21 23 premium ; Blackwell, 3 . 21 1 dis ; Birmingham, 77 79 premium ; Southampton, .53i 54. per :hare; Croydon, 11i- 121 per share; Greenwich, 7i 81 per shale ; Manchester cud Birmingham, 13 11 discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby ~...,...10 0 Eastern Counties .................. 23 . . • Ditto Debentures ............... 2 ~• •• 4 i Great Western ..... .. ............. 65 Ditto New ... ...... ... ........... 40 Ditto Fifths ... .................. 4 .... 91 to s London and Brighton ............ 40 .• ••• 29t to 30 29i London and Blaekwall ............ tei•••••• 18/1 to London and Birmingham 9O ....„168 London and South Western London and Croydon (Trunk) 13;...... 1I4•••••• to 11ancliester and Birmingham „, 35 .... .. Ditto Extension... . ., - ... • • , North Midland .................... Ditto New ...... .. ............... 40 ...... 37 South Eastern and Dover OB ...... 1 4 to 12 Mork and North Midland ... ...... s o ...... 6€4 to - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia.. COURSE OF EXCHA. Amsterdam CF. 12 Zii Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 0 U l2 6 Antwerp....... .....•• 12 5 hamburg \I. B l3 11 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine 149 Petersburg, 3 Us 37 Berlin Vienna, effee.fl. 3 M lO 4 Trieste, ditto lO b Madrid Cadiz. _ 35; 25 •341- to --- G E...4 YESTERDAY). Gibraltar 4B Leghorn Genoa Nlilan 3l Venice..................... 47 N a ples .................. 391 Palermo, per oz ......... I°l Lisbon .................. 511 Oporto ..................... 521- 13io Janeir0............... 2 - 1 8ahia..................... °7 Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight 414 Philadelphia ............ 46 ?tuck: OF BULLION, PER oz. Portugal GoldCoinaCO .0 0 Foreign Gold, bars 3 17 9 New Doubloon, 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bar . 0 0 0 1111 L F. PA S T ONE. Consols have fluctuated during the morning from 90i 91 to 90, 7 4 , at which price they are at present, for the open ing, 15th January, with very little doing to the present hour. The s p e culators of another French Mi nisterial crisis.s, 1 prem., have . fallen since the ear:y part of the morning; Bank St oc k, 1531 159 ; India Bonds, 10 die. ; In dia Stock, a ii e Exchequerr fearfu l s , lower, 23k; 242 i. In the Foreign Market Sp an i s h Active is a shade 34; .Three Three per Cents., 22i ; Colombian, a shade lower, 264 ; Mexican, 30 ; Danish, 7.4 ; Belgian, 0 71 ; Dutch Tw o - and-a-Half per Cents., 51; Five per Cents., 99i. In the Share Market there appears to be a good deal doing, but the prices are much the same as yesterday. Birmingham and Derby, 76 ; Eastern Counties, Deben tures, 44 ; Great Western, 871 ; ditto, New, 494 50 49 ; ditto, Fifths, 9 St ; Portuguese, London and Brighton, 29i SO 29i South Western, 54 ; Croydon Trunk, Ili ; North Midland, 74 ; ditto, New, 37 ; York and North Midland, 661. Joint. stock Batiks—Union of Australia, 344. Gilboa ''' 3 5 1 Barcelona 35 Seville ........ 35 11 , / ! : h e° stopp age ag has eo PRIVATEef a l e r ----- sd. it --- and stagnation,the last ageannera,lingloeonm being . private bank in the town, and Drewry under fourteen weeks since the firm of Atkinson, Craig, r i E tI R I I , L;. a AAN t i 'e I t U dais a g o, and Laidman, terminated its concern. For the last few years it might properly be termed a Savings' Bank, since nearly the whole of the creditors are composed of the mid dling classes, with sutns deposited of from M. to 501. ac cumulated from hard labour and industry.—Ca dials Jour nal. A meeting of the creditors yn took pllo p t. lace in the early part of last wcvk, when a series of inspectors to assist t r h e D almostr B evi A r y N : b I bank, . C p u m _ e s o m l a u ni t nd i o worewnhsienrd iiieldestg up s passed tohnep ss ii i i bl l C l . r — s. andco Il _ t e k ae Pr l i Co ai sn u t l : o °1" : n tr e a s cotresp o tt d e it t mentions the follow ingthe occurrence of which, in the French army, by no means surprises us. The 4•? d expressing confiden p c: regiment of the line has been recently quartered on the town, the men being lodged at the houses of the in habitants. Two soldiers were billeted upon an English who, to avoid the inconvenience, gave them 12f. instance of military probity, it.oangiolya,nd find themselves lodgings elsewhere. The men did so, but returned next day and repaid 4f. to the family, saying that they had been able to get accommodated for 8f , and would not keep the difference. kitAiiiiii, CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, Nov. 30. At two o'clock M. Sauzet, the President, took the chair, when the debate on the address was resumed. M. de Carne, the first speaker, said, that he was a parti san of the system of an armed peace, so brilliantly es pounded by M. Dufaure on' Saturday. Mete was some thipg more than a mauvais precede, he thought iu the con duct of England towards France. He saw in it a total change in her disposition ; but did not, nevertheless, con sider the conclusion of the treaty of the 15th of July as one of those insults which ought to be avenged by war. The treaty was alarming, inasmuch as it evinced a bad feeling on the part of England and Russia, which ren dered it indispensable for France to continue her prepara tions for war, but particularly her naval armaments. He notwithstanding was of opinion that the apprehension of war had ceased to exist the moment the Eastern question had become an European question. War could only take place in the Mediterranean, and he believed it now impos sible, from the whole of Europe having interfered in the affair. France had only two courses to adopt—either to adhere to the treaty or remain _ isolated, and await with dignity and confidence events which he conceived to be at hand. M. de Tocqueville, who followed M. de Carne, said he regretted that so much talent and eloquence had been wasted during several days in the discussion of personal questions. lie announced Ile would confine himself to ex amine what was the real interest of France in the present conjuncture, and began by declaring that he was no par. tisan of a propaganda warfare, which reminded him of a deplorable epoch ; but added, that be was ready to vote for an energetic war, if it was indispensable for the preser vation of the rank his country held among nations. He thought that France ought at any risk to prevent the par tition of the Asiatic provinces of Turkey by England and Russia, and in presence of the coalition to fix bounds to her concessions, and lay down a cases belli. He blamed the present Ministry's pusillanimity, and did not think that the auspices under which it had arrived at the direction of affairs was a recommendation in the eyes of the country. M. Guizot should not have presented France to strangers as a prey to factions. That there existed disaffection in the kingdom was obvious. One should not, he added, ex pect to govern a free nation by enervating its passions ; it was as necessary t , ) subdue the bad as it was to encourage the good—to struggle against the revolutionary spirit, as it was to avail itself of the patriotic sentiments of the po pulation. M. Jauffroy, who succeeded M. de Tocqueville, said, that the Cabinets of the 12th of May and Ist of March had not conformed to the system of policy laid down by the Chambers ; that the latter should have signed the Treaty of the 15th of July, which abolished the exclusive protec torship of Russia, and the Treaty of Unkiar 'Skelessi, &c. (LEFT SPEAKING,) The c!earest result of the explanations given in the Chamber by M. Thiers and M. Guizot is, that France, or rather those who pretend to represent it, have always been ready to talk, to negociate, to protocolise, sometimes in one sense, sometimes in another ; but when they were to act they agreed to retreat without thinking fit to attack or to defend any one.—La Gazette de France. The Portafoglin of Malta, of the 19th ult., brought to Marseilles by the Euphrates steamer, announces that Me hemet Ali has submitted to the conditions required by the Allied Powers. A great conspiracy has been discovered at Bucharest. and numerous al rests hat e taken place.—LeConslitutionnel. On the 26th inst. a letter from Trieste, dated the 19th was recaivcd at Lyons, from which it would appear that Damascus had fallen into the bands of the Allies. The taking of that city would prevent the army of Ibrahim flout receiving supplier of provisions and other necessa ries. This army is reduced according, to some accounts, to 15,000 men, or as others affirm to 12,000. The accounts received at Toulon do not )et mention the fact, but Ibrahim having received orders to retire into Egypt, the Allies may have rendered themselves masters of Damascus without difficulty, as announced in the letter received at Lyons. We have received by express the Sud de Marseilles:of the 27th, which however only gives the extract of the sup plement of the Portafivlio of Malta, of the 19th, adding on'y—" We have re&son to believe that the Maltese Journal is very correctly informed, and we have no doubt that the proposal of the Viceroy will be accepted by the parties concerned".—Le Commerce. BOURSE.—PARIS, AloNoAv, Nov. 30. I irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price French 5 per Cents 434 per Cents ..... 4 per Cents 9J 50 ... 99 75 ... 99 1 5 .. 99 75 3 per Cents Bl 35 841 35 ... 79 to ... 79 8 0 3ank of France twigless Bank S per Cents... 31,er Cents 7O ... 70 ... 70 ... 7 , ) New Loan ... . . . ... i.;Littab ACLIVe W 4 ... 14 ... ..:4 ... •24., • Passive - - --- -- --- -- --- .. ,• 5% 5 .• ••• t% •-• 5 /4 --- Portuguese 3 per Cents '2'2% ... 2% ... 225 i ... 22A Near.lo4o 163 'lO ... 03 SO ... 103 70 ... .03 bC Roman lto ... 100 ... 110 ... 100 RAILWAY SHARES. L.B 305 3 , 750 3P5 ... 307 .O Orleans Mulhouse!) to Thann ...... ... 434 430 ... S rAsburs to Bale SPAIN. Madrid Journals of the 233 ult. state that the Commit tee charged with the revision of the tariffs was about be ing re-organized, and as Catalonia had heretofore com plained that its interests had been overlooked by former Governments, three members belonging to that province are to be attached to the Committee. Licut.-General Francisco Ferran had been appointed President of the Supreme Tribunal of NVar and Marine. Madrid was tranquil, but resembled more a strong place than a capital, from the number of troops concentrated there, and which amounted to at least 20,000 men. The Five per Cents. were done on the 22d at 25 1 1 fur cat h, and at 26 at 60 days. The old coupons of the debt bearing no interest were negotiated at 81 at 60 days, and the new ones at bi- for cash. GEItMAN Y. BANES OF TAE DANITEE, Nov. 04 , . All is very busy in the Bavarian War Department. The regiments are being raised to their war footing. The army was considerably below the contingent-36,000 men, many being on leave. This is the Ring's doing. His hobby is the fine arts, and he pays very little attention to the army. All the horses at the reserve studs have been called in, and their numbers not being sufficient orders have teen given for the purchase of the required number. Munich is particularly bustling. Every day, not ex cepting Sundays and holidays, workmen arc employed in the artillery department, and after the usual hours, princi pally in preparing artillery carriages and harness, &c. I see, by the by, the Bavarian army stated at 60,000 in an English journal ; this is nearly double its real amount. I also re:d that 4,000 Bavarians were ordered to Mentz ; this is not the case, and cannot be ; fur though that is a German league fortress, still it is by stipulation only occu pied by Prussians and Austrians. There aro two regi . wants of infantry, each of 2,000 men, at Landau, in Rhe nish Bavaria. The Dowager Queen of Bavaria has been very seriously indisposed, I believe of a bilious attack. She is upwards of 60, and as thin as a lath. Munich has bad a great musical treat lately. Ernst, the greatest violin performLr of the present day (in the opi nion of good judges), not even excepting Ole Bull, has been playing there. An anecdote is related of him, that many years ago, while yet a boy, he gave a concert at Frankfort, at which was Paganini, whose astonishment was great on hearing Ernst play a piece of music which he ( Paganini) had composed, but never published. The fact was, that Ernst had learned this most difficult piece merely by hearing Paganini play it. Thalberg, the pianist, is now at Munich. lie also gave a concert here last night. I don't know whether it is ge nerally known that he is the son of Prince Dietrichstein, the ci.derant governor of the Duke of Reichitadt. Count William of Wurtemberg is at Munieli. He is going to be married to Theodulinde, sister of the Duke of Luuchtenburg. He is the son of a brother of the late King of Wurtemberg by a left-handed marriage ; hence he is only Count. Shelley's works, just translated into German, and pub lished at Leipsic, have been forbidden in Bavaria by an order of the Home Minister. Lord Napier passed through here last Friday, with de spatches for Vienna in great haste. Ile voted for Lord Lyttelton at Cambridge, left for London, and then crossed the Channel in an open boat on the preceding Monday, as no steamer would venture. I fancy he bears something of importance, as he travels night and day, but I could worm nothing, of course, out of him. The Germans were ready to embrace him everywhere, thinking that he is the brother of the valiant Commodore, whom they are very particu larly astonished at, and extol to the skies for his intrepidity. The painter Cornelius is about to leave Munich for Berlin. I fancy he has had a little tiff with the King. The following anecdote I have on good authority :—Cor nelius, you must know, has just finished the fresco paint ings in the Lcdwig church at Munich. The other day his Majesty went to inspect it, accompanied by Gartner, the architect, giving orders that no one, not even Cornelius, should be admitted during his stay in the church. Who should, however, conic but the painter himself, with a friend, to see the building, and was not a little disgusted to find that the door was shut against him. Gartner is now gone to Athens to finish the theatre there. lie has taken with him a number of young artists to assist him. POLISH FRONTIER, Nov. Ill. —The rejments of cavalry which were to go from 'sVosnesensk to join the southern army, have returned to their usual quarters, and a division of infantry which was on its march to the Black Sea, have received counter orders. The transports at Odessa are dismantled, and the troops quartered in barracks. News is said to have been received from Riga, that the wintering of the Russian Baltic fleet in a Danish harbour, has either met with difficulties, or is no longer judged neco.sary ; the ships will not leave Cronstadt and Balisch port this winter . 0 baeeezlr:dga in pri vate f of troops, which are , for the most part, qrt Some new regiments have now arr ived in Poland, whi c h * —This town has l a t e l ) has lately been very weakl y g arr isoned , O D ESSA, Nov. 6. ull houses. From time to time ships i arrive n the port in whi h they are embarked in detachme nts for Sebastopol, where they remain in readiness to proceed" destination, which k doubtless the to th e i r f urt h er Caucasus, where the corps of the army in the field require large reinf orcements to make up their losses. I t may, from the measures that have been however, be inferred new ones that the probability of an taken, and from some Russian aid at Constantinople by immed•ate occasion for AUSTRIAN FUN no means lost sight of. Five per Cents. Metall lIN.—ViuNNA' N".‘2l. lour per Cents. lques ...... ....... "„ .O SX Three per Cents .. ................ "" . "lUO Bank Shares ••• 744 17,.5 Zeitung. Nov. '26. -------- ------- - The Duke of Norfolk left town on Mondry' for Farnham Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, where com pany is expected this Jay. His Grace returns to town on the 15thainstant. S 1311TINC '"'~~ Uni 4 Her Majesty the . Queen Dowager, at ed thtl Dowager Lady Clinton, came yesterday fiernoon to the Palace to pay a visit to the Queen. Het--14* - sri t"c was icceivcd on hcr tirrival by the Lady Barhea,klay in \Vaiting, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Paget, Maids of Honour in Waiting, Viscount Torrington, Lord in \Vaiting, Earl of Belfast, Vice-Chamberlain, Msjor the Hon. George Keppel, Groom in Waiting, Col. Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting, and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry to Prance Albert. His Royal Highness Prince Albert received her Ma jesty in the Grand Hall, and conducted her to the Queen. The Infant Princess Royal was presented to the Queen Dowager. The Duchess of Gloucester afterwards . tiited her Majesty. Lord Hill had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday, at Buckir.ghnin Palace. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen ) esterday morning. Major-General Sir Edward Bowater relieved Colonel Wylde yesterday, in the duties of Equerry iu Waiting on his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Among the Nobility and Gentry who called yester day at Buckingham Palace, to learn the state of her Majesty, were Count Pollon, the Sardinian Minister ; Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister ; the American Minister and Mrs. Stevenson ; Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister ; the Russian Minister and Ba roness Brunow ; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister ; the Danish. Charge d'Affaires and Countess Bille Brahe ; Count Revell ; the Archbishop of Canterbury ; the Duke of Richmond; Duchesses of Richmond and Inverness ; Marquis of Aylesbury ; Marchionesses of Aylesbury, Clanricarde, and Wellesley ; Earls of Wil ton, March, and Denbigh ; Counteztas Carnarvon, Wilton, Denbigh, Erroll, Stanhope, Mexhorough, Dowager Carnwath, Mount Norris ; Viscountess Ash brook, Baroness Brahe; Lords W. Powlett, J. Fitzroy; Ladies C. Gordon, Lennox, Alice Peel, Selsey, Ida Hay, Denman, M. Stanley, J. Somerset, A. Culling Smith, S. Savile, W. Powlett, M. Fielding, and W. Stanhope ; Honourables Miss Otway Cave, Mrs. Henry Murray, Miss Denman, Miss Flower, Mrs. Annesley ; Rev. P. Y. Savile, Cust and Mrs. Cust ; Sir Robert Chester; Lieutenant-General Sir R. Darling ; Colonels Peel, Cowper, and Daj•le ; Major Bell, Lieutenant Sir Archibald Macdonald, Dec tor Holland ; Messrs Craufurd, M.P. ; Bernal, M.P. ; Irby, Backhouse, Labouchere, Pat Ann, M.P. ; F. French, and Wilbraham Taylor ; Mistresses Denman, Cowper, Labouchet e, Backhouse, Crauturd, anti Vet non Smith ; Misses Disbrowe anti Lister. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, after visiting the Queen yesterday, went to Gloucester House to visit the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge. The American Minister bad an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Hoarse-office. Baron Mounier bad an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Irving and Mr. Colvile had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing -street. The Postmaster-General had also an interview with his Lordship yesterday. Viscount Ebrington had an interview with the. Cha ncellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. J. Shaw Lefevre and Mr. T. Lewis had an in terview with the Marquis of Normanby yektertlay at the Home-office. Captain Trotter had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Cohnial-office, The ktrl and Countess of Lichfield and Lsdy Ann Anson, arrived in town on Saturday, front their seat Kanto!' Abbey. Mr. and Lady Alice Peel have left Farrance's Hotel, for the seat of the Earl and Countess of Jersey, Middle ton Park, Oxon. TIIE SLUGGISH" ARCHBISHOP'S PRAYEIZS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sits,.—l lately had the pleasure of reading in the Evening Edition of The Sun, some very appropriate, and undoubtedly called for, remarks, on the " Sluggish Archbishop of Canterbury's Form of Prayer," to be offered up to-morrow in all Churches, in thanki giving for the birth of the Princess Royal ; and ap pended thereto, (by way of rider) your commentary, (true as excellent) that the people throughout " the length and breadth of the land" had already offered up their grateful prayers to heaven (spontaueously), not caring or waiting for his Grace's " Word of Conitnaud," which of a verity has been long of coming, and not being so cold of heart and sou: as to remain (ill this time) stock-still, and mute of -tongue and lip ; uud so continue, until it should suit his Grace to arouse from his „Nthargy, trammel them with the heavy weight of his phleginatic "form of prayer," and then set them " a-going," as a carter would his team, to the eupho nious words " nei-up "go on there !". His Grace, being slow of movement, woull be " a good messenger to scud for death." 1 question much whether ho would be so " backward to oome !inward, as Pat says, if, unfortunately, prayers . of ; condolence were necessary in this case. " There is not a wink in his Grace, although he seems drowsy." But, Sir, a very extraordinary feature in this " Form of Prayer" is, as published in a previous number of your Paper, that his Grace, it would appear, means it to be sent as a " circular," not only to the . eliiirehos under his own jurisdiction, but " to . cbareli, and the various other places of worship" with which he hai. nothing to, do! When you published this, Sir, were you really serious—or were you merely joking ? If serious, " the Sluggish. Archbishop," it must b e con f essed, was, though slow concocting it, " rather strong," hoping that it would be swallowed secundum artem ; but, seriously speaking, this is " too bad !'' Does his Grace for pudent one moment presume to di c t ate his formof pr a y ers to b a used in Dissenting, or other places of ? If so, I tell his Grace that the experi ment — an im —.will not be gulped down. Th e Dissenters, Sce., os you have so well observed, have alr ea dy sent up their prayers to the throne of God : and they. are neither disposed to wait for, nor to admit, his Grace's " forms, , I remain, Sir, your obedierkt servant, LOYAL. TIIE ADELPIII TH EA TRE.—The Manager of this Theatre has appropriated Mr. Ainsworth's tomanco, Tower of Lowloa, and summarily brought it to a conclu sion. This novelty wa . introduced to the public last night. The piece was very successful and deservedly rn, as great care was displayed in its getting up ; end the Manager, I corning forward after the fall of the curtain, an" nneed it or reprti.ion during the week amidst untning led plaudits. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—It does not often fall to the lot of a Journalist to record an escape from sudden destruction more wonderful than than the following Mr. William Owen, of St. Martin's, Haverfurdtrest, a re lieving officer to the Haverfordwest Union, was on Friday evening returning from Pater, in company with a lad, the son of Mr. John Ball, Market-street. Having passed Frey. strop, they turned into a footpath which led across a field, close by a disused coalpit belonging to Mr. Richard Ellis, of Morlas-bridge ; when they had arrived opposite the pit's month, the lad said to Mr. 0 WQII, " Take care of that coalpit." Mr. 0. turned his head towards the lad, anti his foot slipping, he was instantly precipitated to the bot tom of the shaft, a depth of sixteen fathoms ! The lad immediately gave the alarm, and between fifty and sixty colliers were quickly on the spot, one of whom descended, and brought up Mr Owen, who bad proxideutially received no other injury than a few slight bruises. He had on at the time a mackintosh cape and cloak, and it is supposed that the air getting under it, not only gave him a buoy ancy, but preventeci his being injured by striking against the side of the pit, and broke the force of his fall. Ho ilext day described the sensation produced by his fall to riding a sedan chair. NVe cannot but think the prac tice of leaving the mouths of disused coalpita open, with. out some kind of fence to warn a stranger of his approach to so dangerous a spot, in any situation, exceedingly re prehensible, but especially when a footpath leads near. IC seems like a trap set t o cat c h t h e unwary.— ll (Winton. HORRIBLE DEATII.—On Saturday a poor man named Sanders, went to B rom l ey f or a load of wash for a ecwkeeper in the City-road, but by some accident he fell :nto a boiling copper at the distillery at Broml ey, and was so terribly scalded as to cause his death, The Lyons papers of Saturday mentions that gfooordust;:aarasalnof three the quays had at length been left dry, and the shoot. p ors had been able to get into their dwelling • . a e f e .,- e ; r h .n a c ‘ te • i i ki n es g . e : been Trehme e ea x : c p l t u ehe d et e excluded of Etbshyientdlglacomosavdgasteedor of all kinds was melancholy nge very y great. SUDDEN DEA TOoTuesday morning, be tween ten and eleven o'clock Wiseman, residing in Kilburn' as gentlemanwalking, o a t c h c c o by a friend along 0 dor -street when he suddenly ex claimed, " My head , h ead namep n i e o d f nii ! and instantly tell a corpse in the street. The body was removed to the workhouse to await an i nquest. On Saturday morning a stone bridge, erected across the river Ure between Linton and Net. ton-oe- Ouse , , %; as washed down by the overflowing - of the waters and the strength of the current. No further damage was occasioned. The bridge was built by subscription some years ago, for the convenience of th• inhabitants of the neighbourhood corning to this city, as previous to its erec tion they had come by Tollerton, a considerable distance further round.— Yorkshirernan. DESERTION OF SEArsIEN.—We have been In formed that, on the 10th of October last, the ship Fergus, of Shields, for Embden, put into l'lymouth from str e s s o f Weat h er . \Vbile at anchor in the roads, three of the crew,name l y, Edmund Frost, chief mate, Isaiah Riley, secon d mate ; ant t HenryH-nry Wilson, sailmakcr, all of thi s port, m.„ nage d to desert the vessel, leaving no officer on b oar d (the captain being on shore), and the ship at the ti me in a pe. riluus situation. We understand that the owner intends torin g lnit. hold the aboof — ve individuals to justice as so on as t h ey can b be FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. For seine time past forged Bank of England notes of 5/. each have been circulated to a very considerable extent in the neighbourhoods of Windsor and Eton, by a o'ani , of fel lows who, until within the last day or two, managod to escape detection. One of them, however Ow three com panions who were with him it few minutes before he was cauqht having escaped), has just been apprehended, after having exchanged a forged al, lie is now iu prison at Windsor. td V-1 SINTIV IN& .40 9 , a ble, liday .t. ;Q. a fter t he Fe, oru'' our )1 4S ' . v 0 TO 10" U. , RN 1; 31r, 04 , ati4Plet 'bir it ' a ', 11 0- 100 0 ; s itor II 11# 0 1 0 ,NO I ' p 15 0 Pr e° to s °3 :. t i:I: Boil' of t" 15° %el il ° P e I ro ! vvt ..----'. r. 3 13 , 0 dy:r. 1 1 ;tri`' (oe'