The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-16 00:00:00

EVEN iNG MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (SATURDAY EVENING.) C H RONICL E.—We trust that the directors have been enabled to induce their branches to follow the stringent policy adopted at head quarters. It is well known that some country establishments who may be properly classed under the denomination of " branch banks," inasmuch as they issue none but Bank of Eng land paper, have an interest in doing the largest amount of discount business when the state of the exchanges makes it prudent for the Bank management to reduce the amount of their circulati o n , because by agree ment with these establishments they have the use of the notes of the Bank of England at a fixed per centage to a fixed amount, for a stipulated pe- . riod, and thus, when a rise takes p lace in the value of money, their profits rise along with it, so that the greater the amount of discounts which they ne7otiate when money is scarce, the higher their profit. This is one of the errors which the Bank Directors committed in times past, through the clashing of their private and public interest, which is now proved beyond doubt by the report of the Committee on banks of issue, where it is shown that the operations of the country discount department of the Bank is generally in direct opposition to that of the Bank parlour, the former having been at the maximum amount when the bullion has been at a minimum. We give the Directors credit for being now sensible of their past blunders in this department. But their repentance has been tardy, for it is not above twelve months since we had good reason to know that the) were obstinate in error, as a reference to our columns about that period will demonstrate. We are quite aware that the branch Banks have been profitable auxi lirries. Their business is also increasing, and they, perhaps, are necessary to keep the field against rival establish rats, but this is no tenable ground f or the Bank of England to maintain in its public capacity. The reasons which may influence its directors, with a view to the profit of the shareholders, are inadmissible as arguments to support the directors in the policy which should guide them as managers of the national currency. When the exchanges are unfavourable, and the specie is leaking off, the position of the Bank of Eng land by means of these branch banks is most unsatis factory. At present the refusal of' the Manchester branch to do discount business is loudly complained of by the mercantile classes there, and yet the Manager is only acting as he ought, and in the manner which sound policy dictates. But this mixing up of dis count operations with the legitimate business of the Bank of England, as the national bank of issue, ex pow., it to constant animadversion when there is a pressure for money, and shows plainly the necessity fo' applying a legislative remedy to separate its private am. public functions. POST.—The funds were drooping to-day in ho markets, but the change since yesterday was more par. titularly seen in the Foreign House, where everythins was again quite depressed, and strongly in contrast witt the then encouraging prospects of parties operating fo: the rise. The bonds issued by Count Toreno, in thc'year 1834 and for which the par price of 601. per cent. was paid it this country for the purpose of enabling the Spanish Go vernment to carry on the war of succession again s : Don Carlos, are now mcdestly termed " foreign bonds" by the honest people of Madrid, and, as w , tooted two days ago an effort was about to be made, it. cons quence of the influx of some small amount of then, wet haps 2,0001. or 3,0001. nominal) from Paris, to pu , a e.'op to any further competition of the same kind The ergement used in support of this scheme of exclu sion is that according to the law of the Cortes, tie Toren° raper of 1834 is entitled only to an " inscrip tion nonn'netive," no t negotiable, but that Seno San IsliParr issued, before his retirement Iron the nuance department, a Royal order, entitling it t, be converted ;nto five per cent. home stock, w hi e l, being negotieble, and the price having been, at Paris "I, whilst at Madeid it was 25 or 26 per cent., quantity of it had been presented for conversion we operation yielding to the French speculator a clew profit of 3 or 4 per cent. Under these circumstances it is found convenient to the conscientious gentlemen te tM,aL to declare Senor San M;llen's Royal order it itgel, and the new Minister of Finan tt'. Gamboa, is me ereilised to negative the effect of it by issuing cou.tter order. To crown all, it is urge,i, in illustrz, the beneficial result to he derived from sure counter• order, that had the balsa not been subject t, the coe-oetition of the " foreign bonds" in question the home Actives would have risen to 30 per cent. So, then,. after inundating the markets of London Paris, Brus,:e!s, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, first open'y end next cla,edestinely, with these obligations, for the chief part of stehich 60/. per cent, was taken in gold. and upon which 251. is now due in interest, making et tot-al of 851. per and through the non-payment it an; part of which thousands of families have been pat perised, an uproar is made, because, indeed, a few pal. try thousands of realer Are sell: back to be sold at 251. per cent., the foreigner sustainiog, by his misplaced con fidence in Castilian honour, a loss - of 60/. per cent., r the whole of the capital originali . : l paid over to the contractors for the prosecution of the ever, and for the maintenance of the Queen's army. Spanish stock is apparently once /Mr c, the rage in this market, and we dare say fresh dupes -id presently triad themselves entangled in it. We have, t otwever, so effectually exposed the game that is playing as ,‘.O render it impossible, we should hope, that a single relti.er of this journal can be cf the number. Tile contractors do not, we are to recollect, undte take to interpret the Spanish laws ; and to appeal tej them upon the subject of the present movement woufi be unavailing. Any reference to General Alava would' ' prove equally fruitless ; but, if the British Ambassador I at Madrid be of any use whatever, he will take care diet the fresh injustice which the Spaniards are seekinn .to do his countrymen shall not be done without remon strance or with impunity. It behoves Mr. Thornton and his committee to be vigilant, and we would recom mend them to put themselves in communication with. ,Mr. Aston upon the points adverted to. The French committee have made but little demon strsaion of energy since the death of Doctor Paradis e th e , late Chairman, whose losses and anxieties, arising out of the treachery of the Spanish Government. brou n eiet him prematurely to the grave ; but it is again_ under the presidency :of an able, enterprising man, and we are much mistaken if any disqualifying order of the nature ca" the one alluded to, will be quietly endured by this spirite d body. A meetiog of the holders of Portuguese and Spanish Treasury Bands will be found advertised in another part of our paper. Great activity will be required in order to preveuc the merging of these special and dis tinct interests in the general mass of Ake foreign debts of the two nations. Holders not residing at a great distance should attend by all means to protest against so flagrant an act of dishonesty. The bondholders at istrge should, moreover, make common cause with their fellois-sufferers if they would have their own more con siderable claims respected. The wholesale system of plunder and fraud now practising by Spain and Portugal must be attacked at every point, or the fatal e:utmple will he sure to extend itself to other quarters. Mr. William Elliot. of Weymouth (banker), ruh- Fishes a letter, addressed to the Chancellor of the l'x chequer, on country banking affairs, and the projects ti establishment of one general bank of issue. The write.' defends the country bankers from the charge alleged against them of extending their accommodation to a point calculated to embarrass the monetary concerns of the kingdom. He denies distinctly that there has, • i n his vicinity, been any excess in the issue of notes, and his assertion is, we doubt not, entitled to the fullest credence. It is not in a quiet town like Weymouth that anything very objectionable in banking matters is to be looked for, but Mr. Elliot is not pre pared, we apprehend, to answer for the uniform cir cumspection of his brethren in the north of Eng land. It is an established fact that the extrava gances committed by the banking interests in that part of the country have had the effect of keeping up the prices of all kinds of foreign commodities at an undue elevation, thereby all but annihilating the export trade of the manufacturer, and of forcng gold from the cotrers of the Bank of England, in defiance of every effort of the Directors to prevent it. Foreign grain, cotton, .eilk, indigo, wine, spirits, and every other foreign arti c l e ' of merchandise, as well as foreign labour, and above ill, foreign mock and sh are proPerty, has been paid for: si inordinate rates in gold. The e;lcanarise f rom so exce se of bank issues alone. The bankers in the note h, especially' the issuing joint-stock bankers, have be running a race with each other in making advane es ras hly and reckles sl y u p on all these things. T. e,!itor of The Sun conceives that t he paper Circulati c te of he Bank of En g land ou g ht to b e sixty million n instead o c o i xteen , and that the instituti on is worth: of no Aspect on account of the niggardi ness of its paper c nag(' Our Contemp orary meat s well we have little question ; but, were his opinions t e be acted upon, a very short perseverance in the systeri, they embody would serve effectually to starve the poor, and to involve the country in the consequences of a general bankruptcy and civil war. Mr. Ellio: says quite enough to exculpate the old Bank of Weymouth trout al blame, and, in the selection of his concluding extras - from Adam Smith, were the practice of the last ten years not twist thoroughly at variance with the theory it conveys, he might have acted wisely in bringing forward that eminent person as a witness in favour of country hAulting, as conducted upon the broader principle, the defence of which he hos undertaken. The letter is a compound of palpable misconceptions, but- there is, ne vertheless, an air of honesty about it seldom to be met with in this class of publications. HgRALD.—The funds dial of the Globe editorial for retle,-.ling the sunny splendours of the policy Palmer stonian is . Dre;cast to-day , for after some trivial fluctu• ntioni Col tsols receded t o 894 to .; for money and time, leating " foreign poli cy " at a d i scount of pc cent. upon yesterday's quotations. Sotne se 3 sation was excited in the City by the pub- A lication oF dmiralty noti ce to the officials at all the outports, urging the most strenuous efforts for the en- - Estment of seamen, under the favourable circumstances presented by the necessary stoppage of the navigation at this season of the year to the north of Europe, by which the merchant shipping carrying on that trade would to a great extent be unemployed and the hands consequently disengaged. It is known that for some time past the Lords of the Admiralty, as indeed all the officers of that department, have been occupied most laboriously and incessantly in the en deavour to recover lost ground, by fitting out for im mediate service every vessel of war disposable, and putting others into a more active state of preparation for service afloat. It is understood also that great attention is now, somewhat about the eleventh hour, directed to furnishing the dockyards and arsenals with more complete assortments of naval stores and munitions of war. "My Lords" seem determined to earn their salaries!this year fairly, so far as hard work, if never before, for they are in attendance daily at the Board, it is said, from ten in the morning until eight in the evening, without once budging from the desk. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS' FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Herald.) The exposition of certain transactions connected with the dealings of a concern in the City, calling itself the British and Australasian Bank, which has recently been made at the Mansion House, and which we re ported at considerable length, naturally excited a good deal of public attention. It was evident that the incul patory statements made by Mr. Alderman Pirie, by Mr. Ashurst, and Mr. Beddome, could not rest where they were. Either the managers of the concern, which had been made the subject of charges imputing, at least, serious irregularities in their mode of doing business, must give a satisfactory answer to those charges, or other proceedings must be taken for the protection of the public interests. It was thought that some answer or explanation] was about to be given, when an advertise ment appeared calling a meeting of the shareholders of the British and Australasian Bank for Saturday last at the office of the establishment in Nloorgate-street. As we had published the proceedings at the Mansion House, we thought it only fair to give a report of what ever took place at that meeting, which was presumed to have been convened for the purpose of meeting the charges there made, and offering matter in defence or exculpation. But so far were the Proprietors and Share- holders of the bank in question from duly appreciating the valuable service which the press could render them by giving immediate publicity and circulation to their defensive statements, that they closed their doors against the reporters of the journals, and repudiated the gratu- Acus assistance tendered them by the organs of public Tiuion in making their case known to the whole world. We complain not of ingratitude in this matter. The public will draw their own inference from the preference of secrecy to publicity—of darkness to light —which the parties concerned in the manage ment and character of the British and the Australasian Bank have thus evinced. The reporters were told, as a reason for not admitting them, that the meeting was only one of Proprietors and Shareholders. Be it so. The reporters had certainly not qualified by being holders of shares. If they had, they would not have ',seen the most proper persons to be the medium of communication between the bank and the public. It w a s precisely because they were not Shareholders that the public would place most reliance upon the impar tlality of their reports. We now tell the parties respon :ible for the management of a banking concern against which such serious complaints have been made as those contained in the Mansion House reports, t hat the pub. de expect a full and explicit answer to the charges pub licly made by such respectable authorities as Alderman Pirie, Mr. Ashurst, Mr. Beddome, and Mr. Richards ; irel if that answer is not given, no secrecy, no mysti tic vien wiil avail them—much less will it benefit them o endeavour to sileece the press by threatening actions for libel. We, at all events, shall not be prevented from doing cur duty to the public by resorting without rear or favour everything that publicly transpires, tend ing to throw light upon the real state and transactions of an establishment in which the interests of many of our emigrant countrymen, and they not of the richest class, are invoiced, and who shall not be left to their fate without redress or protection. The real character of the transactions revealed at the Mansion House we will not now more particularly describe. We wait to see whether they are denied or satisfactorily explained. If not, and that within a reasonable time, the holding of meetings of Proprietors and Shareholders with closed doors will not satisfy any body—and, least of all, the actual sufferers. (From the Morning Advertiser). Alderman Harmer has declared his intention to re sign the Aldermanic gown, and in doing so has evinced :hat high spirit which has been the great characteristic of his life. There runs through his letter of i esigna tion a strong feeling—an honourable conviction that he has done his duty as a public officer—that ho has been wronged by base calumny and political hostility. Mr. Harmer must be re-elected, even although he himself may refuse to he a candidate. The electors of the Ward of Farringdon owe this to themselves, to the justification of their former choice of Nina—they owe it to the cause of justice : it is essential, in order to show the world that malice and a vindictive spirit, although they may wound an honourable man, yet cannot de stroy him, nor long be triumphant. Let then, ihe friends of justice immediately rally and canvass for Ar. Harmer, and once more elect him Alderman of he Ward. It would be deplorable. indeed, were the t cv deprived of the services of a gentleman so talented eed so charitable and humane as Mr. Harmer. (From the Times.) The recant sentence passed by the Livery of Lce d„,l ):as now taken full effect. Mr. Harmer has re signed the aldermanic gown, which it had been more for his ovra comfort and the City's credit if he had never been persuaded to accept. We war not with the fallen ; and, least of all, with such as exhibit any signs of repentance. This last act of Mr. Harmers is the most praiseworthy, As well as the most sensible, that lie has given as ocCaSiOrl to record. It releases him from the grave perplexity of next year's choice, either to decline a contest, and thus admit his disgrace, or to meet it, at a vast expense, and with, at least, the risk of a second and more intolerable defeat. It releases the City, also, from the possibility of cancelling, by any mistaken relenting, next year, the deliberate decision in favour of religion and loyalty which has illustrated its annals of the year 1840. Of the late candidate we shall only re peat at parting what we have more than once distinctly stated, that we have never attributed the crimes of the Dispatch to himself as his personal acts, but that, standing in the relation to that paper which he confes sedly did, it was impossible but that he should be held :fairly responsible for its general character. PROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. : (From the Standard.) 1 The poll at Cambridge was resumed yesterday morning, and we were enabled to communicate the result in last night's Standard. As might have been anticipated, the majority in favour of Lord Lyndhurst was considerably increased before the close of the poll ; it being exactly two to one. The learned and estim able Bishop of Lincoln walked into the Senate House yesterday morning arm-in-arm with his Lordship, and gave a vote in his favour, amidst the loud cheers of the bystanders. Another gratifying fact in con ' nection with this contest is worthy of mention. Lord Lyndhurst polled the largest number of votes ever recorded on behalf of any previous candidate. It it; impossible to speak too highly of the zeal and good feeling which have been exhibited through out the struggle by Lord Lyndhurst's supporters. Before his Lordship's return to England, and before, of course, his consent to become a candidate could be knower, several of his friends—some of them wholly unconnected with the University—pledged themselves in the most handsome and liberal manner to form a gua rantee fund to cover the expenses which are inseparable from all elections ; whilst many of the most respectable inhabitants and tradesmen of Cambridge volunteered to the Committee to furnish beds gratuitously to above 50 of the outvoters. (From the Courier.) The result of the Cambridge election is such as no man ought to have been in doubt of from the corn . mencement. The triumph of Lord Lyndhurst has been, as his eminent merits, signal and unrivalled, but although no doubt could hang over the final ;result of the contest, it is only discharging a debt 'of common gratitude to record how much more signally that triumph was rendered, than it might have been, by the reaction in his favour of all that unwearied malignity of personal abuse brought to bear or rather sought to be, by the Ministerial press against him. The Noble and Learned Lord was even better served by his bitter foes than by his most devoted friends, and the lesson may serve as a warning hereafter how infinitely more service able is the malace and hate outrageous of an im potent and unprincipled faction than its warmest sup port. That truth must be felt by none more keenly than that amiable as accomplished young Nobleman Lord Lyttelton himself, whose cause had the misfortune to be damaged still more than otherwise it would have been by their fulsome, injudicious, and we believe, intru ,i si ve and undesired advocacy. The event, adverse as it m ay he to the flattering expectations in which he might teiely indulge on the representations of partial friends ' ) ei ne reflect no discredit u p on hi m . N a y, honour may be cle- ,' t ri veil from a contest with a competitor so eminent, and of 114 h reputation so w e ll earne d an d so l ong estab icing be, dlt as Lord Lyndhurst, L sin yn ai d i h e u v rs i( t i , t h h o e u though i d e rth defeat , has * tataienis of a young Nobleman like LO and Lyttelton tne , 'i Tice 1 before in University honours, that so large a body e p tsh e e r oi s tr o n,p,sor,itveasttlitene or ri ,m personalfaa.vo,r, u i majority 1 o f i c allied and distinguished i at i ma jed, there can he no doubt, by conscientious cojnvicY htalivaen b re y co m r o d t e i a v . In feeling as, Conservative . :' ;.‘t"l'6l;,,Cerg:iatisoinitdnert,l:o:::ilcosornuutf6l:tdbreest, we hope, will now end even the recol differences:e,iy,hi v e o f sentiment di,vided th I:3eneptohristet°secoafsei°anch candidate. Feese are nut times for 441 l=uring. (From the Globe.) Every fresh account from Canada indicates a return of a better state of things, and a return, too, to that more wholesome effervescence which belongs of right to free Governments. The non-contents with the project of the union of the provinces have, either in accordance with the changed tone of their own feelings, or in sub servience to the sentiments of the constituents whose suffrages they are soliciting, signified pretty generally their adherence to the present Constitution. The news papers of both provinces teem with electioneering intel ligence and addresses ; and breathe principally a feeling of impatience at the delay which must elapse before the general election for the United Parliament shall take place. It was expected that the Special Council of the Lower Province would meet again before that event, and pass some ordinances to put the two pro vinces in some respects on an equal footing, es pecially as regards the municipal institutions, the pro visions respecting which were rejected from the Union Act. The incorporations of the cities of Quebec and Montreal had been carried into effect ; and the ap pointment of the first Council, the members of which had been named by the Governor-General, bad given general satisfaction. They consist of a fair admixture of French and British. These bodies had commenced operations in a creditable, business-like manner. They had formed themselves into committees for various pur poses, and seemed disposed to put to immediate use their important functions. The opposition to the Union Act, which had been struck up in one quarter, was a faint attempt on the part of the promoters of the French petition which was presented to Parliament during the last Session, to renew that fruitless agitation. It was seconded still more feebly by the French people. Lord Sydenham had been returned to Montreal for some time. He was ill at his arrival—so ill, as not to be able to receive the demonstrations which the munici pal authorities and others desired to make by way of greeting on his return. But though he suffered for some time, he had regained his usual state of health. The weather had become extremely cold, changing from great heat to the opposite in the course of a few days, and there was every prospect of an early and severe winter. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1840. LAW fsirFELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 14. (Sittings in Banco.) WOLLASTON V. HAKEWELL. This was an action to compel an executrix to surrender certain leasehold property in Middlesex. Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS, for the defendant, obtained a rule nisi for a nonsuit, on the ground that the defendant, not having taken possession, under the will of her tes tator, was not liable. The Court held the case over till this day, that their Lordships might have time to go through the documentary evidence, in order to clear the case of some of its intricacy, before they heard the further argument. Mr. Sergeant STEPHEN showed cause against the rule at great length, and cited a number of cases, to es tablish the liability of the executrix, in consequence of her having taken part in the assets, whereby she in curred a full liability ; and he also argued that the execu trix, by taking probate of the will, became in the condition of assignee, so that it was not necessary for her to enter, in order to make her liable in the same extent as the testa tor would have been. This extends at least as to repairs, although, perhaps, not as to rent, except to so much as the profits were adequate to. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that although the Court had gone at great length into the consideration of this part of the case, their Lordships' minds were not wade up about it. They would therefore prefer to hear all the arguments so far, before they proceeded with the rest of the case. Mr. 1341,Es then addressed the Court in support of Mr. Sergeant Stephens's argument. The case was rendered more complicated by the fact that the defendant is not merely an executrix, but the executrix of an executor, her immediate testator having been the survivor, and Bakewell and Boardman joint executors to a previous testator, from whom the premises in question were demised. Mrs. Elakewell might have avoided the liability at present alleged, if she had renounced the exe cutorship of the remote testator, aid accepted only that of her immediate testator, who was her father. There had been evidence on the trial that Harce well, the first executor, entered, inasmuch as he paid the ground-rent. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE There is no proof that this was not paid out of the assets. To show that he entered it was necessary to prove that he had under tenants, and took the rents. The further argument was then postponed, and the Court rose at two o'clock. COURT OFF XCHEQUER, Nor. 14. (Sittings in Banco.) SWEETING V. ASPLIN. This case was tried before Mr. Baron Gurney at the Assizes for Essex, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff. Mr. Platt, early in the term, had obtained a rule nisi for a new trial. Cause was shown against the rule by Messrs. Thes• siger and Gurney. It appeared that the defendant entered into an agree ment with a person named Rolland to build a new house upon a farm rented by him from the Corporation lof Henley ; the plaintiff , by an under - agr eement, was 1 to perform all the carpenter's and plumber's work un- I tier Rolland, to be paid out of the money to be paid Ito Rolland by Mr. Asplin. The Learned Counsel for Ithe plaintiff contended that the agreement wa s bin d in g upon the defendant ; while Mr. Ogle, for the defend ( ant, contended that the contract was between the plaintiff and Rolland, and that the latter was the party liable, the defendant merely saying that he would pay the plaintiff the money due to him, upon his bringing a proper discharge, which was one from Rolland. Mr. Baron PARKE was of opinion that the rule ought to be made absolute. The plaintiff ought not to have sued for work and labour done ; his remedy was to bring his action upon the contract between them. The other Learned Barons were of the same opi nion, and the rule was made absolute. LORD MAYOR'S COURT, Not. 14. _ .. GRANT AND HODSON V. THE BLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY. (Before the RECORDER and Special Juries.) This was a claim for compensation for lease, loss by removal, &c., from premises, 32, Crutched-friars, re quired by the Blackwell Railway Company. The particulars and award of the jury for the free hold of these premises have already appeared. The present claimants are the occupiers. Mr. Thesiger, Mr. Randall, and Mr. Bullock, were counsel for the claimants ; aad Mr. M. D. Hill and Mr. Ryland for the Company. The claim was—for lease, 400/. ; fixtures, 1931. ; total, 59:3/. Mr. THESIGER stated the claims for loss and da mage by removal, when Mr. Hint. said he thought he might save the Court some time by conferring with his Learned Friend. The Learned Counsel having consulted for a short time, Mr. HILL stated to the Court that the Company had consented to a verdict for 291/. 9s. The RECORDER then directed the jury to assess the damage as follow :—Fixtures, 1411. 9s. ; loss, da mage, &c., 1501.; total, 291/. 9s. —Verdict accordngly. cUMMINGa AND OTHERS V. TILE SAME. This claim was for two freehold houses, Nos. 37 and 38, •Crutched-friars, let at 1401. a year. Mr. Bullock was for the claimants, and Mr. M. D. Hill and Mr. Ryland for the Company. After a long conversation between the Learned Counsel on either side, and Mr. Tite, the surveyor to the Company, Mr. HILL said the Jury would in this case, by con sent of all parties, give a verdict for 2,9601., being for the fee of the two houses in question. Verdict for 2,960/. The claim was for 5,000/. SANDERSON AND OTHERS V. THE SAME. Mr. Platt, Mr. Randall, and Mr. Bullock, were for the claimants, and Mr. M. D. Hill and Mr. Ryland for the Company. This was for a compensation for two freehold houses, Nos. 9 and 10, Hart-street, Mark-lane. The claim was 3,000/. Mr. PLATT said that the plaintiffs in this case were the trustees of this freehold property for charitable purposes, and it was their duty to see that the charity lost nothing by any act or connivance of theirs. He should have been glad if some arrangement could have been made with the speculators in this Com pany, but as they were desirous to get property as cheap as possible for their own benefit, this, it was feared, could not be accomplished, and it was necessary to have the verdict of a Jury before the property was given up. He need not tell them of the value of freehold property in the City of London ; it was sought after as the very best investment in which to speculate. He should call before them surveyors of the first respecta bi;ity, who would prove the great value of this property. One of them, Mr. Reed, a member of the Society of Friends, estimated it to be worth 3,000/. In 1829, the rent of the premises on lease was only 103/., but since that time the value had been greatly increased, and they were re-let at 120/. It would be shown to them that the fair value of this property was at the least 120/. a-year clear, and that to pay only 4 p er cent, would produce exactly 3,0001. And he was quite sure that in estimating the damage these trustees would sustain by the taking of this property, they would give s uch com pensation as would prevent injury to the charity, the be nefit and prosperity of which it was t heir duty, as well as desire, to protect as far as in their power. A number of surveyors were examined relative to the value of the property, when— The jury consulted for ten minutes, and found for the plaintiff for damages to the amount of 2,6001. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—vuring the overflow of the river Creedy last week a young otter was driven into a g arden- p lot at Newton S t. Cyres, where it was observed by a terrier bitch with a litter of puppies. The bitch immediately made at and caught the otter, ,and brought it in her te eth to her own p ro ge n y , among which it tow remains comfortably domesticated, being treated quite as one of the family. The otter took to •suckling not ten minutes after it was with its adopted mother. This extraordinary freak of nature may now be seen at the house of Thomas Moore, carpenter, in the villogc.- IVesiern Luminary. POLICE GEN CE GUILDH-4LL. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. —MYSTERIOUS CONDUCT OF A YOUNG MARRIED LADY.—Several days ago a young lady, of the name of Alice Gordon, was arrested by a policeman, when about to commit suicide by plunging into the Thames at Blackfriars-bridge, whereupon she was taken to the Compter, where she has ever since been an inmate for safe custody, rather than as a pri soner. She was conveyed to Guildhall during the week, and questioned by Alderman Humphery and others to discover who are her connexions, as they are, doubtless, persons of respectability, but she has evinced would rather die in pr iso n than apprise her pa rents the and n o a s dogged husband her disgraceful situation : she has been importuned with a fatherly tenderness to make a state ment in private, on a pledge that she should not be ex posed publicly, but, down to Saturday, all was unavail ing ; hence the Aldermen consider it necessary that a statement may be made of the facts which have come to their knowledge, in order, if pos sible, that she may be placed under her natu ral protectors. She is a short, handsome little woman, apparently about the age of 21, and in consequence of some intercepted letters she has written, it is inferred I that she has left her husband and lived nn terms of in timacy with one of the gentlemen to whom her letters (post-paid) were addressed. It has been gathered, that she and the person alluded to disagreed, and she sud denly left him, and, after pledging her shawl for seven shillings for a temporary subsistence, she attempted, as a dernier ressort, to destroy her life. On Saturday Mr. Alderman T. Wood had a conversation with her, and all that he could elicit from her was that she was born at Frankfort, that she is a married woman, and that her parents live at Southampton, aad their surname initial is the letter B. She pointed to the intercepted letters , and dd complainedtathe y had beenthatthey should b e expose d. Sh e was kept secret, and should remain so if she would make a private but candid statement, which she refused to do at all hazards, and she was con voyed to the Compter prison. The following is a verba im copy of letter, No. 1 : " Nov. 4. " Ma chore amie, votre pauvre ami Alice—As my letter will be read, I may as well conclude in English. I do not want my father and mother to know I am in prison, as they will instantly send for my husband, and you know I wish to avoid meeting him, as we have not lived together so long. Excuse my not telling you what I am imprisoned for, fearful you might say anything before the children, and the whole affair be immediately known. I want you to meet me at the office at Guild hall to-morrow at twelve or one, and I wish you to say that you know me, and will see me safe home to my friends. I have pledged my shawl for seven shillings on Monday last, and wish you would send me one to ap• pear in, as I am most disgracefully dressed, and in my folly, perhaps, determined not to say where I am. If you think they will question you too closely, deny all knowledge of me, and do not appear at all. I have gone (i❑ prison) by the name of Alice Gordon, and eta heartily sorry that I have given my own name. Your's s►ncerely, A AA DON. " To " Field-court, Gray's-inn. BOW.STREET. Thomas Dale was brought up on the following charge :—Policeman 4G F stated that about ten on Friday night he saw the prisoner hiding himself under a scaffolding that was erected iu front of a house in Sa lisbury-street, Strand. He asked him his business there, when he replied that he had been sent for to put a new pipe to the cistern of the house, and that the job must be done that night, or the water would come in in the morning. He then rang the door bell, but witness told him that it was of no use his doing so, as the house was unoccupied. The prisoner denied it, and continued ringing. He had a basket with him, on searching which witness found a quantity of lead which he nad no doubt had been stolen, and therefore took the prisoner into custody. Witness afterwards gained admission to the house by means of a ladder which he placed against the first floor window, and on examination, he found that the cistern was not in want of any repair ; in fact, the job about which the prisoner pretended to have come, hail been finished that very day by the prisoner himself. 'File prisoner's master attended and gave him a good character, and said the lead produced did not belong to him, and he knew nothing about it. The prisoner, in defence, said he found the lead out side the house. Mr. JARDINE convicted the prisoner of having unlaw ful possession of the lead, and committed him to the House of Correction for one month. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. WILFUL DAMAGE.-11 7 Awn Frimbley was sum moned before Mr. Dyer, for having wilfully damaged the cabriolet of a gentleman, named Reade, residing in Portland-place, Clapham-road. Mr. Grove stated he was in Mr. Reade's cab, driven by the groom, a few days ago ; and when in High-street, St. Giles's, the defendant, who was in a cart going in a contrary direction, came out from behind a wagon, and attempted to pass the waggon. Seeing that a col lision would be inevitable if the defendant persevered, the groom drew up, and witness called twice to the de fendant to stop. The defendant,although it was quite manifest there was not sufficient room to pass between the cabriolet and the waggon, disregarded the solicita tion to stop, and the consequence was that the wheels of the cart and the cab came ino contact, and the cab and the horse were overturned Mr. Grove said the portion of the conduct of the defendant which appeared the most reckless, and of which he more particularly complained, was this—that when the defendant, after being desired to stop, went on, he caught the wheel of the cab, asd lifted it up , but instead of then pulling up he pushed forward, again caught the wheel, and overturned the cab. Mr. DYER asked Mr. Grove if he was injured ? Mr. Grove said he was not seriously injured, though very much bruised. Both himself and the groom were thrown out. The damage done to the cabriolet, according to the coachmaker's bill, amounted to 31. 13s. Several witnesses were called, who all declared that the accident was entirely owing to the want of forbear ance on the part of the defendant. In defence, the defendant attempted to show that the m at such a speed that he was roo unable time sufficient to avoid collision. groom was in to fault, poil P h y o going Proof having been brought forwarOthat this assertion was not founded on fact, and the amount of damages having been properly authenticated, Mr. DYER said the evidence clearly established a case of wilful damage against the defendant. It was an indisputable fact that the recklessness of drivers in the streets of London was every day becoming more noto rious, and it was therefore proper to use all lawful means to secure the public safety by discouraging such conduct. . . The defendant was then fined the full amount of the damage, or one month's imprisonment. PARIS POLICE. MUSIC AND BEAR'S GREASE.-M. Pelerin, a worthy knight of the curling•irons, and moreover a manufac turer of, according to his own account, a never-failing pommade, for restoring to the human head its natural clothing, was cited before the Magistrate, a few days since, by a musician, who claimed the return of a sum of money paid for a pot of this inestimable grease which had failed of producing the desired effect on his pericranium, when the following colloquy took place : M. Verdinet—M. Pelerin, I have no enmity towards you. I have summoned you to appear at the bar of justice, but it does not follow;from that that I am your enemy. Our opinions differ on one point. We will refer it to the opinion of the Magistrate, and there is an end of it. lam a musician, and therefore fond of har mony. that pun is not a new one, but no matter, it is nothing the worse for that. M. Pelerin—Well, Sir, let us bring this matter to an end, for my customers are waiting for me. M. Verdinet—The longer they wait the better for them. Whew ! whew ! I do not say that to annoy you. M. Pelerin—Well, let us finish this affair, I beg of you, Sir, for you trespass on my time. M. Verdinet-1 do not trespass so much on that as you have taken advantage of my credulity. It is not by way of reproach that I make the remark. M. Pelerin—Well, Sir, do you intend to— M. Verdinet—D o not lose your temper, Sir. lam about to state th e cause o f our difference to the Worthy Magistrate. (To the Magistrate)—Sir, you must know lam a bachelor, an d just entering on my : 37 th y ear. I i felt an nclinati on to become a Benedict, but, as you may observe, Sir, I have had the misfortune to lose my hair. lam bald, as you see — as b a ld as an egg. I considered, and perhaps not without some reason, that this defect might prove a bar to my matrimonial pro tects ; that a fo re h ea d so comp l e tely despoiled of its natural covering might present some inconvenien ces only to me as a h us b an d b ut t o the wife I might choosF, and under this imp ress i on I en tered the sa lon of this distinguished a r ti s t e , an d purc hased from him. a pot of , not bear's-zrease, fo r w hi c h I pa id him the sum of six ,. francs, M. Pelerin—T rue; genu i ne bear's -grease, Sir—from a white bear of Siberi a , b roug ht from that c ountr y b y a remnant of the campaign 9 of 1812, who had been exiled for twenty-five years to those M. Verdinet—l d o not w i s h to wound your suscep tible feelin gs , M. Pelerin. Fro m my profession lam fond of harmony, but a ll I w i s h to observe to you. in the presence of the M ag i strate , i s , I paid you six your bear's grease, i n or d er to have some hair on my head ; examine the s p ot an d say if a ny is visible. No one replies in the affirmative. Y ou gee, then, my e steemed friend, Pelerin---- francs for M. Pelerin— Well, Sir ! M. Verdinet-1 do not believe it is your fault, but it is the fault of your grease—(correcting himself) I mean to say of your bear's grease. It has co virtue, 1 do not mean, from that remark, that you have none, but in my instance your grease has not come up to the pro mises held out in your programme. It it, therefore, but natural that I should claim the r eturn of my money. M. Pelerin—You will not get a liard of it. M. Verdinet—l think lam very reasonable, I paid six francs for a pot, which was to procure me hair. The hair does not come. Give me, then, the hair, or restore my six francs. M. Pelerin—The Magistrate must see clearly that this whole affair is a paltry piece of chicanery, got up to injure me by parties, of whom M. Verdinet is the agent, and who are envious of the fame of my inimitable bear's grease, and the reputation of which they think to injure by this proceeding. M. Verdinet, this is not handsome conduct. M. Verdinet—l let you go on. I will not lose my temper with you. You pursue your business by extol ling the virtues of your grease—that is, of your bear's grease. But for me, lam in the position of purchaser, and claim the return of the price paid for your ineffi cacious compound. M. Pelerin—lnefficacious! Take care what you say, Sir. M. Verdinet— Dam ! Look at your prospectus, and look at my skull. M. Pelerin—Well, Sir, and pray what does my pros pectus say ? First, That it prevents the hair from tallir: off. You cannot say it made your's fall off. M. Verdinet—Certainly not ; for I had none to fall off. M. Pelerin—Secondly, That it prevents the hair turning gray. Has it turned your's gray ? M. Verdinet—No ; for I had none to turn. M. Pelerin—And, thirdly, my prospectus states tha it promotes the growth of the hair. M. Verdinet—Yes, yes, there I have you. I anointed my head with your pommade, and you see that it is in a perfect state of nudity. I have a skull as clear and shining as a newly-scrubbed floor, and yet it was well rubbed with your pommade. M. Pelerin—Well, sir! M. Verdinet— Well, sir ! M. Pelerin—Well, sir, what does that prove ? M. Verdinet—What does it prove? Why, it proves that your grease—l should say your bear's-- M. Pelerin—That proves nothing at all. My grease possesses the virtues of promoting the growth of the hair. But where is your hair ? M. Verdinet—l have none. M. Pelerin—Well then, what could you expect? In order for the growth to be promoted, the hair must be first there. M. Verdinet (with a stare of stupid amazement) — Bah! that is true ; certainly there is some truth in that. M. Pelerin—Certainly ; I am no charlatan ; I do not pretend that my grease has the power of planting hair on a skull as barren as yours. My prospectus says that it promotes the growth. If yourhair had been thin it would have thickened it—if it had been short it would have lengthened it ; but having none at all on your head how the devil do you think it could make it grow ? M. Verdinet—Ma foi ! you are in the right. Ibe your pardon for having taken these steps against you. It is I who am a fool. M. Pelerin—lt is what might have happened to any one else. But do you absolutely wish to have a good head of hair ? M. Verdinet—Certainly I do. M. Pelerin—Well then come with me, and I will sell you -- M. Verdinet—Not another pot of pommade ? M. Pelerin—No, a wig ! The parties left the office of the Magistrate the best friends in the world—the one to get fitted with a fine head of hair to carry on his matrimonal scheme, and the other still upholding the sovereign virtues of his grease from the white Siberian bear. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. OxForm, Nov. 12.—0 n Tuesday last, Henry Went worth Acland, Esq., and the Hon. Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell, both Bachelors of Arts of Christ Church, were admitted Fellows of All Sools. In a Convocation holden this day, it was .i.i&.l.A.Laasl resolved that the sum of 1501. should be given out of the University chest to the Episcopal Library i❑ Ja maica, to be expended in the purchase of books printed at the University Press. The selection of the books to be left to the Lord Bishop of Jamaica. In the same Convocation the Rev. William Alleyn Evanson, M. A.., of Trinity College, Dublin, was ad mitted ad eundem, _ . _ Ina Congregation holden the same day the follow ing degrees were conferred : Doctor in Civil Law—Richard Clarke Sewell, E3q , barrister-at-law, Fellow of Magdalen. Masters of Arts—Sir Walter Charles James, Bart., Christ Church, Grand Compounder ; Rev. Wm. John son Burgess, Exeter ; Rev. Edward Boyss Ellman, Wadham ; and Alfred Stocock, Trinity. Bachelors of Arts--Rowland Hill, Worcester, and James Hemery Jancrin, Oriel, Grand Compounders ; William Francis Baron de Paravicini, Wm. Percival Walsh, Thomas Edward Dorville, and Henry Winford Cooties, Worcester ; John Durrell Durrell, and Rev. Isaac Fidler, New Inn Hall ; F. William Cartwright, St. Mary Hatt ; George Border, Henry Strong, and Edmund Roberts, Magdalen Hatt ; James H. Ashurst and George John Ford, Exeter ; Nathaniel Morgan, Abraham Burnett Stuart, and Win. Charles Howell, Brasennose ; Frederick Leigh Colville and Godfrey Edward Alexander, Trinity ; Charles George Torring• ton Barlow, Thomas Wodehouse, and John Cooke, Balliol ; Charles 1). Everett, Queen's ; Richard Lloyd, Merton ; Arthur Bigge and John Edward Cox, Uni versity ; Arthur Mosley, Oriel ; Octavius A. Hodg son, Magdalen ; Thomas Knapp Chittenden, Fellow of St. John's; Frederick Wm. Trenow, John Scotland, Clark Whitehead, Edward Boys, Logan Dobinson, and Wm. Osborne Maclain, Wadham ; Robert Cozens, Pembroke ; Thomas Dabury, John White, and Joseph Leopold Longmire, Lincoln ; Philip Story and Hon. Edward L. Gower, Christ Church. OXFORD, Nov. 14.—There will be an election at Lin coln College on Friday, December 11, of a Fellow of that Society, candidates for which must be natives of Lincoln shire, and are required to wait on the Rector with the usual certificate and testimonials on Saturday, Dec. 5. The Archdeacon will receive the certificates and testi. monials on or before Saturday, November 28. The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has instituted the Rev. T. F. Dymock, of Ballihl College, to the rectory of Hatch Beauchamp. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has licensed the Rev. E. Caswell, of Brazennose College, to the perpetual curacy of Stratford, under the Castle of Old Sarum, Wiltshire. The Rev. W. H. Hale, of Oriel College, has been col lated by the Lord Bishop of London to a fourth Canonry in St. Paul's Cathedral. The Rev. P. E. Boissier has resigned the incumbency of Malvern Wells, and as patron, has presented the Rev. E. Meade, of Wadham College, to the same. The Rev. F. B. Twisleton, of New College, has been nominated by the Dean and Chapter to the office of Canon Residentary of Hereford Cathedral. The Rev. H. E. Fryer, of Pembroke College, has been instituted to the Rectory of Winterslow, Wiltshire. The Rev. H. Gough, of Queen's College, has been li censed to the Assistant Curancy of Penzance Chapel. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 13.—The following is the subject for the Nerrisian prize essay for the present year :—" Both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind only through Christ." A NAVAL HERO OF THE OLD SCHOOL.— Old Commodore Napier has done wonders 'on the coast of Syria. He has settled the Turco-Egyptian question iu far less time than the French journals have spent in talking about it. He has enacted more marvels than a hot-brained boy in the first glow of warlike aspirations, and confronted danger, " e'en in the cannon's mouth," merely for the plea sure, it would seem, of being foremost in the field of glory. The old Commodore is a fine specimen of the British tar; his very errors smack of pitch and salt water. He evi dently * dislikes wordy altercation, and thinks that the best of all ways of settling a dispute is to fight it out. Cannon balls are the arguments for which he has the greatest par tiality, and in this respect his mode of reasoning is irresis tible. His logic carries everything before it, and although not given to arguing in a circle, his " demonstrations" take a tremendously wide sweep. He will be sorry for the pros pect of peace. Rather than not fight at all, he is not par ticular to the clement of water, as was proved the other day, by his putting himself at the head of some Turks, and administering a drubbing to Ibrahim Pacha on dry land. There ought to be a war always on hand, if only by way of keeping such heroes in wholesome exercise. Sunday 7 biles. THE LATE Mn. CURRIE, OF LIVERPOOL.— Mr. Currie's vocation was confined exclusively to the agency for the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, and his energy, punctuality, and habits of business, rendered him a favourite with the commercial community. He was not rich, in the mercantile sense of the word, but compe tent to support his station as an independent gentleman. He married, about sixteen or seventeen years ago, Mi ss France, daughter of Thomas France, Esq., of Bostock H a ll, in Cheshire, and has died without issue. In conse quence of rather precarious health, he lately made a tour on the Continent. He was accompanied thither by Alder man Wm. Earle, and, after passing through Pau, a bathing place in the South of France, visited the Pyrenees, remain_ ing some time at Bareges. He returned precisely a month before his demise, in, as he and his friends concurred, im proved health ; but it was remarked, on Monday last, that his complexion indicated the inroads of disease. In the opinion of Dr. Brandreth, the immediate cause of death was an apoplectic attack ; or (though less probably) an af fection of the heart, which, it is known, also frequently oc casions sudden death. We learn that a surgical examina tion of the body will take place, under ,the direction of the Coroner. The funeral, which, it is understood, will be private, will take place on Tuesday next; and the inter ment will be at St. Michael's, Toxteth-park, in the neigh bourhood of his own estate and house, of Ellerslie, near the Dingle. —Liverpool Standard. ONE OF THE QUEEN'S SUITORS.—It may be recollected that a short time back a man named Afflet was apprehended for riding on horseback in front of the Queen's carriage, and by his gestures causing great an noyance to her Majesty. He has subsequently been in custody for stealing an apple in Covent-garden Market, assigning for that act disappointment in having his ad vances to the Queen thwarted, and his hopes blasted , and on Friday night it appeared that he made up his mind to commit suicide, he having been observed by Sergeant Scuffe, of the N division, to deliberately throw himself into the New River. With some difficulty ho was got out, and conveyed to the Islington s tation-house, when Acting- Espector King, feeling convinced that the poor fellow was insane, sent him to the infirmary, at the workhouse, were he now remains, THE BRID E OF LAMMERMOOR (From the Aberdeen Journal.) Our readers, we feel assured, will peruse with deep interest the following excellent account of the originals of the principal characters who figure in, perhaps, the most touchingly beautiful fiction which proceeded from the genius of the author of Waverley. The letter is written by a gentleman who, as will appear, has had the best means of ascertaining the real circumstances on which the romance was founded, as well as the true cha racters of the persons introduced in this tragical tale. The light thrown upon the point as to the author of the homicide is curious and striking. L— E—• September 5, 1824. My Dear Sir J—, Various circumstances have oc curred which have unavoidably prevented my returning an earlier answer to your queries regarding our unfortu nate relative—" The Bride of Lammermoor." I shall now have much pleasure in complying with your wishes, in as far as an indifferent memory will enable me to do so. The Bride of Baldoon" (for such has always been her designation in our family) was the Hon. Janet Dalrymple, eldest daughter of our great-great-grand father James Viscount of Stair, Lord President of the Court of Session in the reign of William and Mary, sister to the first Earl of that name, and to our great- grandfather the Lord President Sir Hugh Dalrymple. of North Berwick, and consequently our great-grand, aunt. She was !ecretly attached and had plighted her faith to the Lord Rutherford, when, under the auspices of her mother, a less amiable but much more opulent suitor, appeared in the person of David Dunbar, eldest son of Sir David Dunbar, of Baldoon (an ancestor of the Selkirk family), whose addresses were, as may be supposed, submitted to with the greatest aversion, from their being ungenerously persisted in after his being in formed of her early attachment and solemn engagement. To this man, however, she was ultimately forced to give her hand. The result of this cruel and unnatural sacrifice was nearly, it not exactly, as related by S r Walter Scott. On the marriage night, soon after the young couple were left alone, violent and continued screams were heard to proceed from the bridal chamber, and on the door (which was found locked) being forced open, the bridegroom was found extended on the floor, stabbed and weltering in his blood, while the bride sat in the corner of the large fire-place in a state of the most de plorable frenzy, which continued without any lucid in terval until the period of her death. She survived but a short time, during which (with the exceptio❑ of the few words mentioned by Sir Walter Scott)—" Ye hae teen up your bonny bridegroom") she never spoke, and refused all sustenance. The conclusion drawn from these extraordinary cir cumstances, and which seems to have been assumed by Sir Walter as the fact, was, that the forlorn and dis tracted victim, seeing no other means of escaping from a fate which she beheld with disgust and abhor rence, had, in a fate of desperation, indicted the fatal wound upon her selfish and unfeeling husband. But in justice to the memory of our unhappy rela tive, we may be permitted to regret Sir Walter's not having been made acquainted with a tradition long cur rent in the part of the country where the tragical event took place, namely, that, from the window having been found open, it was conjectured that the lover had, during the bustle and confusion occasioned by the preparations for the marriage feast, and perhaps by the connivance of some servant of the family, contrived to gain admis sion and to secret himself in the bridal chamber, from whence lie had made his escape into the garden after having fought with and severely wounded his successful rival—a conclusion: strengthened by other concurring circumstances and rendered more probable by the fact of young Baldoon having to his latest breath obstinately refused to give any explanation on the subject, and which might well justify a belief that he was actuated by a desire of concealing the particulars of a rencontre, the causes and consequences of which he might justly consider as equally discreditable to himself. The un fortunate lover was said to have disappeared immedi ately after the catastrophe, in a manner somewhat mys terious ; but this part of the story has escaped my re collection. While on the subject of this calamitous event, I cannot help offering some observations on the prin cipal personages introduced in Sir Walter Scott's nar rative, all of whom are more or less interesting both to you and me. The character of Sir William Ashton certainly cannot be considered as a fair representation of our eminent and respectable ancestor Lord Stair, to whom he bears little resemblance, either as apolittcian or a gentleman; and Sir Walter would seem wishful to avoid the appli cation, when he says that, on acquiring the ancient seat of the Lord of Ravenswood, Sir William had removed certain old family portraits, and replaced them by "those of King William and Queen Mary, and of Sir Thomas Hope and Lord Stair, two distinguished Scots lawyers ;" but on this point some less ambiguous intimation would have been very desirable, and having, in the character of Lucy Ashton, stuck so closely to the character of the daughter, the author should, in fairness, have been at more pains to prevent that of the Lord Keeper from being considered as an equally fair representation of the father : an omission of which the descendants of Lord Stair have, I think, some reason to complain. In Lady Ashton, the character of our great-great grandmother seems in many respects more faithfully de lineated, or at least less misrepresented. She was an ambitious and interested woman, of a masculine charac ter and understanding, and the transaction regarding her daughter's marriage was believed to have been hers, and not her husband's, who, from his numerous im portant avocations as Lord President, Privy Councillor, and active assistant in the management of Scottish affairs, had probably neither time nor inclination to take much personal concern in family arrangements. The situation of young Ravenswood bears a suffi ciently strong resemblance to that of the Lord Ruther ford, who was an amiable and high-spirited young man, nobly born, but destitute of fortune, and who, if the above account is to be credited as to the manner and place in which he thought proper to chastise his suc cessful rival, seems to have been not ill cut out for a hero of romance. And as to young Baldoon, of whom little is known beyond what has been related above, he seems to have a more respectable representation than he deserved in the person of Bucldaw. The story was, I have understood, communicated to Sir Walter Scott by our worthy friend the late Mrs. A— M— K—, who seems to have been well ac quainted with all the particulars, excepting those to which I have more especially alluded, which, as a friend and connection of the family, had she known, she would not have failed to mention ; and in as far as his information went (with the exception of his having changed the scene of action from the west coast to the cast), Sir Walter seems to have edhered to facts as closely as could well be expected is a work bearing the general stamp of fiction. But, if the memory of so dis astrous and distressing a family anecdote was to be pre served and handed down to posterity in a story so singu larly affecting, and by an author the most popular of our own or any other age, while it was surely of importance to avoid any such offensive misrepresentation of cha racter as that to which I have alluded, it was at the same time much to be lamented that the author of The Bride of Lammermoor" should have been igno rant of a tradition so truly worthy of credit ; throwing so much satisfactory light on an event equally tragical and mysterious, and which, while a judicious management of the circumstances might have increased rather than di minished the interest of the narrative, would have left a less painful impression regarding our unhappy and un fortunate relative, " the Bride of Baldoon." With best regards from all here to you and Lady S—, I remain, my dear Sir .I—, ever most truly yours, (Signed) H. D— H— E—. 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An anecdote is related of a Member of Parlia ment, who appears not to have made himself perfectly ac quainted beforehand with the subject of his oration, and whilst expatiating on the hardships endured by the troops in India, stated, " that after an engagement, the "ferocious doolies" rushed down from the hills, and carried away the sick and wounded. The patriotic statesman had little idea of the nature of the beast he was alluding to I—Napier's, Scenes and Sports. A SNAKE FANCIER.—One of my s'aake catching friends at Milapoor could produce, besides the usual assortment of dancing cobras, every other delicacy of the season in the serpent department. His " carpet snakes" were in good condition ; he had some fine, fierce_ looking, bright green " eye-snakes;" and some charming young bo a s, which, although he assured me were mere " pups," measured about fifteen feet in length, and were 4a thick as the arm of the stoutest man.—Napier's Scenes and Sports. 7 EVENING EDITION. 1 THE MARKETS. COUNT .Y CORN MARKETS DURIN G LAST WE Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. ---- -- — ---- --------. Per Quarterd s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to 5. s. to s• Carlisle - Hexham 5O 62 32 33 21 31 a , --- 4 Morpeth 43 t 0 9.8 32 22 s 4 48 50 3 1 lien rith — 58 311 31 Z`.3 --- ,-, Sheffield — 65 35 22 45 -- , 4 ' .. ,” Winchest.r 56 64 28 53 26 29 42 4.) 35 ; I ', Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d s''' Carmarthen taii 7 1 00 50 00 22 56 pal 0 0 I) Cowbridge 10 0 —0 50 56 30 40 5 0 5 3 0., 0 Swansea 160 84 4 0 48 2 2 28 5 6 6 0 5 6 ° Per 8011. 1 Barnardeastl 11 6 21 0 8 0 9 3 7 4 8 6 1 11 0 12 6 ill 6 12 Iro .0 . Durham l2 6166 S 0 90 7 9 8 910 013 0 0 10 Richmond II 0190 7 0 9 ls 5 6 80 9 0 11 69 0 0 Stockton l3O Pi 090 9 0 70 8(i 76 8 6 0 0 ' WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. Nl'neat, Red, Nortolk and Suffolk —is, 61s. to 624. fine 6511 -- Lin. and Cam. -- Yorkshire —s. —s. to 58s. tine 49.5. White - fine e ." --- Foreign, fted —s —s. to 54“. fine 6 ' 2 " -- White —s. —s. to 60.. one ?Os. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. to 3.55. fille 391. , -- Lincolnshire Yorkshire Wold . 2 Bs. t o —s. fine -- Foreign Beans, New -- Old Oats, Potato --- Poland Vriezland and Sinai: Iss.aling Shrilling - 10 :i : .. ---- t 0 55'. 1 . 3 1 : 00 :3'23 2 6 P :. e fififi l 274. to 2Ss. tki. per Loaf,. Malt Rapeseed —l.os. 261. Os. 30/. Os. per Last. nnnSeeet 3. NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. Red. White. Wheat, Northumberland sos -5....... •-5.68.1 -- Norfolk and Suffolk 663. 69+....... 68s. 724. - Berwick and Scotch 6ls. (i 55...... -.; . 1 . 3 ,'• - Foreign 62s. 66s ... 6 . 2.• 0 ,3 . , riye, Norfolk ,Tl,l Suffolk - Foreign 29s. 335....... ••• -3 . "'"' .s. , ."; Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suflidk -s. -5....... -s• -- " s ' , !-; - Grinding and Feeding ?Os. 335...... - -5 . -" ?';2.. Malt, Norfolk and Sutihlk 4s; b'B.--s. ^"- Beans, Small 406. 485....... --s• --s * 1 1 - - Tick - Pease, White 44s. 46si. .... ...,. -...5. -- Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 3os. 325....... - 5 . --'' --- Feed :Ms 305....... --s• - Foreign Flour ( per sack) 4's. 531...... - ~ ""` SCO'T'CH mAßK.Ei2_________.- 7 60 ..._._.o3,av__.. - - - -- ------- 33 too kberdeen "ha. Berwick 33 45 18 23 16 '26 33 36 :, ~.. ...:oldstream t0e.7t.0 . 2 B 6 a t r o ley_. 17 0 t a o ts. 00 — lle t a o ns i 16 Cupar (Fife) 45 65 126 31 IS '22 ‘2-.1 26 , , Dunbar Elgin Inverness 5O 66 27 20 12 23 32 33 "" ....- Kelso., .. , , 3- 45 '2l 24 17 24 33 34 •"" Kirkaldy ... Perth ri• Thu size of the measure varies throughout the cou ntry H ADDINGTON CORN MARKET. B onS , W heat. Barley. Oats. Pease. ...., Od First 7'2s Od 35s 62 27s est 49s Od ....., Od Second 6os Od 31s Od '2 sPd 45s Od -..,..; 0. 1 Third s'2B Od 29s Od 22s id 4e3 Od Average 3/. Is OA 11,12ths. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat Barley. 1 Oats. Pea-se. 14 .., e .' " 4 First '76s 4 a . 34s 6d l 28' Od. 51s Od ',:(14 Second 62s Od 3ls Od 1 23s 4(1 42s Od ' 1. "; od Third Vs 111 9ls Rd 111 Rd _ , ";-% 1 ... Kelso .... ~, I 3.. 45 17 24 33 34 Kirkaldy 162 67 33 45 45 Perth ri• Thu size of the tries throughout the i H AIME ‘II.N MARKET. W heat. Oats. Pease. hint 72s Od 27s ed 49s Od Second POs Od 2 s Pd 45s 0, - 1 Third s2s Od 1 %..., 22s id , 48s Od Average 3/. Is OA 11.12ths. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat Barley. I Oats. Pease. First 766 4 a . 343 63 1 284 Od. st/s Od Second 62s Od Sts Od 1 23s 4tl 42! Od 1 Third 42s Od 21, 6d 141 8d....- ill GLASGOW CORN Alt 11,KET,-.....N0, IL d g• a d • , s• • i 9 Wheat, per 240th. s. d. s. d. 1 05.',3, per iSritish, old 230 to3 o 0 1 0 „.., 17. A 19 new ,.:3 oal 0 I :tritish - 0 6 Canada, tree — 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. 0 , 46 Irish , o 4 Barley, per 220113 Scottish f2O 0 DO English 27 0 BO 0 Pease, Scottish ...••• 1 7 • 5 0 0 Scottish 23 0 26 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b.... 4 0 0 Irish Ladies Tite Howard Earl and left a Cu y c o nd n i s t h e . s s s o q u ar t e ' Nick o N n ' Th l u o r ‘ s ir d t bett villa al c a l t iu S ß ta c n i m i o i re t . ATEs._ o• 0 Thursday m eeting the rate-payers of St. George ri 's in the East a cl,rllthed at the George Tavern, New-road, in connection si:t" " Associated Reformers of St. George a nd "vlci n ' tY' • 5 consider of the proceedings of theparochial authorktibe during the recent contest for a Church-ratep in that.P ari t s be when the rate-payers were prevented from vestry by a number of policemen • h bludg e° armed with to force and when some of the rate-payers, in attempting f the their way, were struck and injured by t h e staves ° was police. Mr. Fraser, of Tyne-wharf, WhapPing' F called to the chair, and read two letters from Colone ad Thompson on the subject of Church-rates a nd the spina of Puseyisrm which the Gallant Colonel denounced as_ be jog more tyrannical in principle than the domination of a ! of the letters w old Catholic hierarchy. The reading ett received with great applause. Mr. Wickham address the meeting in a forcible speech, and concluded b wit Nor commending that a memorial be addressed to Lord manby for an inquiry into the employment of the police Ia of preventing the inhabitants from attending the yestry„eo entering us the parish of St. George, on the 29th ult., to csP rate . their opinions on the subj ec t o f m aking a church- to Mr. Goodfellow secon d e d th e mo tion, and bore witries9 e n the shameful m anne r i n w hich the rate-pavers bad he , , a treated. It was eventually agreed that the memorials b±a be presented to Lord Nermanby by a deputation appoint° for that purpose. ' O f WIPE ADVERTISING.-The following u ni or d advertisement appeared in the Manchester and 3 100 Advertiser, of Saturday week :—" Matrimony.--A ,pest and Prudent Farmer aged thirty-six, is desirous to 11,. with a lady that possessed wit 1201. one that can clitico clean shippons, milk and go with butter to market. ~".• im age no m a t er i a l. N one n e eds to ply got Any tb.t. svt. ...Joey may meet with a good it" substantial husband by applying to Landaend Hunts Farld near Middleton, Lancashire." TEMPERANCE PLEDGES EVADED.—I recollect a man swearing he would not drink for a month—he wake' bread in spirits and ate it; another, who swore be would not touch liquor while he stood " on earth," gl drunk amid the branches o f a tree ; anot h er, w h o vo wiu not to touch a drop, " in doors or out," strode across hi s threshold, placing one leg inside and the other outside, and so, persuading himself he did not break his oath, ch an t until he fell ; another, who bound himself not to liquor in the parish," brought a sod of turf from a distait and placed his feet upon it when he resolved to drink. 11,7‘,. knew one who was kept sober thus : he was always Wtllinno to take an oath against whiskey for six weeks, huit_.:h longer; his master invariably watched the day on r", 113 " his time" expired, and compelled him to repeat his ow,: which he would readily do, after swallowing two Os se o , To make the Irish abstain, even to a modera te elte was, therefore, considered a hopeless task..--Ireland Scenery, Character, 6-c., by Mr. Marsdon. C. f at° . ° We quote the following from the E Luxemburg—_" An able chemist of Luxemburg, vlb°l: at 0 , the same time a distinguished physician, with Wh° lies have conversed on the a ff a i r o f Madame Laffarg},it to made us acquainted with a f ac t w hich we think it rig, make public. He has submitt e d t o chemical analYsi oot ferent qualities of paper, and has found larger than the palrn,of the hand, a quantity of ars e ifo ge. great as that extracted from the body of M. o f raas" Hence it results, that any person who has the ).:,ab" ticating paper, or one who may only chew a Piece The Near , sionally, must absorb a certain quantity of arsenic' 11 , the presence of arsenic in paper is thus ted for. aer,oun d Og g ' r - all kinds of paper are in part made of coloCr„ pr °0 dyes of which are, for the mo.' e duce' part, pr an d r .. tiers into which much arsenic introduce",,,, l ope" of which must remain in the • of composition in piecesn,ic a, 12 I:nivDESSERTes anand. F 1 ,U -- -?4 v FOIt S.-.' Sav er. Forks,T r rKNIVES A— Plated on Steel. Is 0 - o 9 ivory handles plain £3 3 0 .. ..... .* .., ii 0 12 do., carved ivory handles... 316 0 •••••".• 1 1 ',‘; 0 12 do., finest plain pearl handl es 417 0 ....... •• 12 i" 12 dc,., carved pearl handles ... 58 0 ••-"'". 0 0 12, do., King' s p a tt ern , s il ver 14 r;4 handles They may be had a t th e a b ove pr i ce , in sets of 1 - or pairs, with or with ou t a nea tl y fitt e d ma hoganY e, s ,, e. 14, C ° A. B. SAVORY an d SONS, G o ldsmiths , ". hill, London, opposite the Bank of England• a itlA SilverSP O on o a N wh S ite a m n e d tal ted - not to show any other colour. Table Spoons or Forks _ r jolt" liabl 2/. IP" per dozen. Dessert Spoons or Forks, Two Guineas P:, i. osow' Tea Spoons, 255. per dozen. Gravy Spoons, 9 i• Soup Ladles, 16s. each. fro m a ragr T. COX SAVORY, ,FlOndßeKonSsec,uesnttrioyngly pia by co o Silversmith &c., 47, Cornhill (Seven doors fro, Sli fer church-street' London s of Or N.B. A Pamphlet, containing — a list of the pric e ha d gra ii. Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &e.., ma,' b e , a id aIV or will be forwarded, post f r ee, is ansrier to a pos' r cation. T SS PAPIER MACHE TEA f RAYS , 6°9 ' tri t ol°. Superior . e at, of FULL SIZED GOTHIC `;RAPE. Table Knives, with ivory 'ciar a lles, 14s. per d:r;er f e. ,. ' Poles for Window Curtains, 1 .4 inch diameter , Is. .1.0,%, par s 2 inches, ls. &I. per foot, Catalogues gratis, cont.air,in the prices of stoves, feri`,. iron irons, kitchen utens':is, and everygarticle in furnishmb ot. rnongery. i-st r RIP P°N P-nO, BURTON, Wells-street, Oxfor _...00 ; bronzed fenders, 4 feet . , eO , il . Established 1820. ......... ,„,„ ------- - BIRTHS On o l in c, e ,. l c it r it a,‘ in t setr.d,,at Esq.,the Cooattadgaeu,gßhtaetrh.easton, n ear 13at ' 8 ladyof P ra°- 'Jr. the 13th inst., the lady of T. D. Rotch, E' 4 ' f .ariSord House Ayrshire, of a son. k the la (1 On the 13th , inst., at York-gate, Regent's-par 9 dY Major Ramsay, of a daughter. -- Neil. MARRIED. C 31 ' 1 On the sth inst., at Milton-place, Glasgovr, Mr. ' o f Ce late of Demerara, son of Captain M'Neil, the yo unge r i,oo lt, lonsay, to Margaret, only child of Malcolm M'Nei/, E'' Islay. gr. l ' On the 11th inst. , at Edgbastori, near Billuipth au f :' s i dle , Thornirroft, of Studley , to Ann , only dr_dighter o • Esq., of the former place. O n the 14 i t Es h as,q i n .e s i d t l . e. , :t a e tdsaSeuteg.rheGtteae, Secretary s., Hanore r - s q a a r s o n „t ) • tir l s Clifton, Esq., of the Admiralty, 'Whitehall, eldest ,to iEInVI \V. Clifton, ____---------- Italloer Vmicotutiar!l,inogf cl3aopecaret ...._ - -------- On the 13th inst.., a t H p atn l m E e D m rs . ith, Mr. John Haravriel' o m oo ti nn ib t u thh s ee p 2 r 49 o t p thh ri ,o e or t f: oz . A .. c . c Kem p. oa August, at 11 i I ki adr . as on, aged 43. Hop , , Mrs. ( . 2,Ann September, at Green Point, Cape ° the On the , • , Baker-street, Lieutenant'_ of Loak ,. 's,' •ii * ni , near High Wycombe, aged 03. reli toef On th, .s 12th inst., at Painswick. Mrs. Carrington, c. Glou e, On the 12th hest s l iire, aged 72. OnG J. °or vicarf the 12th inst., at Eaton Ford, Bedfordshire, • ham, Esq , aged 8. Price , et B.rkeieCyo,lonel Cr ~ Hannah aria, wife S'erl . . Mg Cottage, Margate, aged 78. ~.„0, 04 On the 12th inst ,at Cam ' den. lace, Bath, J. Hoo"' - o re, On the 13th inst , in Upper GlPoucester- I 'Lace, Dorset-s 9 t.:O, Caroline, widox of . the latJ. Law, Esq., of the Hoe' India Company's Setviee. d street On the 13th nst., Elizabeth Maria Rowell, of Alfre - Bow road YOUR of —----- -YOU''"' London: Printed and Published by Allll4l/0 _ ,J i s stre -, No. 112, Strand, at The See O ffi ce , 1\ o. 112, the county of Middlezes.—Monday, No 16. 1 1a t e ill:v.: i nCa't Carrington, iungu t aptoafinMr.. J. iG° 1