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14_:vENINCi EDITION. NATIONAL EDUCATION. SKETCH OF THE STATE OF POPULAR EDUCATION IN HOLLAND, PRUSSIA, BEL GIUM, AND FRANCE. BY THE REV THADDEUS O'MALLEY. (From the Dublin Evening Post. [After some introductory observations, which we are compelled to omit for want of room, the Rev, Gentleman proceeds thus :—] The only question with us is, whether it be I, expedient that Government should charge itself with the mere primary elementary instruction of the humbler classes of the people ; and that main question divides itself into these two—is that pri mary instruction better provided for with Govern ment controul or without it ? and, may that Go vernment controul, in the primary instruction of childrent of different creeds, be so used as to give a full assurance to the spiritual teachers of each that it shall, in no case, be misused to the prejudice of their spiritual charge ? " I shall understand these two points the bet ter," said I to myself, as I steamed down the Thames bound for Rotterdam, " when I shall have compared the state of primary instruction in Hol land, where it is in the hands of Government, with ' that of Belgium, where Government has nothing to do with it ; and when I shall have conversed with the clergy of Protestant Holland, and with the clergy of the Catholic provinces of Prussia—the provinces that border on the ' beautiful Rhine'— and I shall derive additional lights upon them both by comparing such notes as I may collect with the peculiar and anomalous state of France, being, as she unhappily is to a m elancholy extent, neither Catholic nor Protestant." With such a programme it would be very easy to make a book, and evith a few episodes, sanctioned by high authorities, a pretty bulky book too. But I have no such intention, and shall be satisfied with bearing, in as brief a space as possible, the testimony I have to offer as to the two points here stated. And I claim for that testimony the full 1 Confidence of my reader, upon these two grounds : First, that I am not now, and never have been, the undistinguishing eulogist of the system of pri mar y instruction conducted by our Education Board ; for if I have written one or two letters to defend it from the objections of others, I have written ha.lf a-dozen objecting to it myself ; and, secondly, that I am not only an unprejudiced, but an unpaid wit ness—for I have undertaken this task purely pro prio mote, for my own pleasure, and at my own cost. And I say this the more distinctly, because I find it has been whispered about, and even stated in the public prints, that I was sent upon a mission of inquiry as a paid agent of the Government or of the Board, which is not true of either in any sense whatsoever. The organisation by which the system of public instruction in Holland is carried out, is very simple, but very complete. The central and chief autho rity is the Minister of the Interior (Secretary of the Home Department), aided only by one inspector general, who has his bureau at the Home Office, and the whole vitality of the system is derived from a most effective inspection. Each of the ten pro vinces is divided into school districts, about five or six in each. In every district there is a resident salaried inspector, who is bound to inspect all the schools of his jurisdiction, at least twice every year. In every municipality or commune of the district there is a school commission, of which the inspec tor is always a member, consisting of persons ser ving gratuitously, and not of persons marked out by their office merely, but of persons judged most suited to such a trust by their persona! aptitude and caracity, and nominated directly by the Minister. The duties of this commission are—to exercise a i perpetual local inspection over their school or schools ! —to take care that the local regulations he duly ful l. filled, to appoint the teachers and assistants duly ' qualified, fix and provide their salaries, and receive and examine complaints from them or against them, &c. &c. Besides these local commissions, which correspond with the local committee here (by the-way, why are not these committees better or ganised ?), there is also a school commission in every province, consisting of the inspectors of the districts of the province, and the governor for pre sident This commission assembles in the chief town of the province three times every year ; they k give in, each of then, a report of his district, out of which reports is concocted the annual report to be made to the Minister ; they examine and pro ) nounce upon the various matters referred to them by the local commissioners ; they take care that the general regulations, drawn up according to law ( for the management of the schools of the province, be duly observed ; and they suggest to the Minis ter such modifications as they deem to be useful, i and if there be a vacancy in their body, they pre sent also to him the name of the person they deem I most competent to fill it, and their presentation, I either backed by the governor or coupled with an other from himself, guide, but do not controul, the Minister in the appointment he has to make. But, besides this administrative character, these provincial commissions are vested also with a judi cial character of the highest importance. They ate the ordeal through which the candidates for the office of schoolmaster must necessarily pass. No one can be appointed to the poorest village school, whether as teacher or assistant, without their certi ficate of capacity. And even with that certificate and diploma, before the local commission instal him in their school, he must pass a special examina tion before them and the district inspector, and stand the brunt of a concursus with whatever com petitors may offer—and, if the inspector and the other members of the commission disagree as to the person best suited to the locality, the inspector's appeal to the higher jurisdiction stops any appoint ment by them. 'I bus is there secured a complete unity of action between all the agents of the public instruction, from the highest to the lowest—from the Minister of the Crown to the humblest teacher in the land—as, on the other hand, is secured a complete harmony of co-operation between the co ordinate jurisdictions of the provincial commissions or re-unions of inspectors by means of the inspec • tor-general, who is a connecting link or running knot between them, assisting at the conferences of each, carrying the wise suggestions of one to guide the councils of another, and serving as a focus to collect the scattered lights, derived from the expe riences of individual members, for the better en liAteement of the general body. te Such provincial commissions are not, I think, necessary here, as in Holland, where there is no central commission, and where, consequently, the chief part of the general administration devolves on them. Neither is there here that marked difference in provincial usages, which makes such an organ isation useful in Holland ; nor would there be in our system enough of business to be done to war rant the instituting such a machinery—our eorn mission bell g limited to the care of the primary instruction only, and of the humbler classes, . and in their own public schools—whereas, the commissions in Holland have a controul and supervision over all the schools in their province, both public and private, whether the mere elementary schools of the lowest rank, or the French and Latin schools of a higher older. But, I do believe, that occasional conferences of the inspectors would be highly useful, whether by pro vinces, or smaller districts, and presided over, not by a governor, or other extraneous ex officio per sonage, quite a stranger to their proper duties—an inconvenience in the Dutch system of which I have heard the most experienced of their inspectors complain—but presided over by the elder of them selves, or better still, by an inspector-general I would earnestly sug g est to the commissioners the appointment of such an officer, not in addition to their present staff, but by substituting for two secretaries, one secretary and one inspector general—(two secretaries, by-the-way, serving ex cequo, is in itself an inconvenience)—nearly half the business done in their office would naturally devolve upon the inspector-general, and the secre tary's salary would suffice for him. I see a hundred ways in which the services of such an officer, if pro perly qualified, would be of great value. Bu t as the topic does not belong strictly to my subject, I shall be satisfied with barely throwing out this hint upon it. The Dutch system of public instruction is not only thus carefal in providing an efficient inspection of the masters already placed, and an efficient con troul in the appointment of the aspirants seeking to be masters, but is also solicitous, like . ours, about the forming and training of those masters. For this purpose there is a normal school ) at Haarlem, supported directly out of the na tional budget, with the celebrated M. Prinsen at its head. That normal school, how ever, is now just like ours ; and is, perhaps, hr some respects, inferior to it. You certainly see' there no well-selected apparatus for scientific lec tures ; nor spacious halls fitted to give them but a small unpretthding sdhool-room in M. Prin hotisq, furnished only with a few m aps and globes, and two or three demonstration boards one with the familiar musical lines for singing lessons, an appendage invariably found in every Dutch school, Here M. PrinSen, who has but one as ststant, though he is also inspector of the distriet, gives lessons to his pupils --nearly 40 in number, who come to him from their different lodgings in the town, early in the morning, before the ordinary school hours, or in the e vening when all the schools are closed. These lessons, which are continued, not for two or three months, but two or three years, are intended to push the pupils still more forward in the several branches of information they must have already acquired—as they must be at least 15 years of age—and which they will have to teach to others as masters. But infinitely more than to any or all these ordinary branches of education, in cluding linear drawing and singing, M. P. devotes himself especially to the science of teaching. He feels that his normal school was destined, in a more particular manner, for the formation of masters for the primary schools, for the popular education ; and he is conscious, that, whilst it is easy enough to give his pupils as much knowledge as could ever be found necessary or useful for such, it is comparatively very hard to instruct them in the true method of imparting that knowledge. He labours, therefore, most sedulously in his morning and evening lessons to imbue them thoroughly with the soundest theoretic principles of that noblest science ; and during the day he employs their, in a practical application of them, as aids and assistants, under the experienced teachers in the several schools of the town. I spent a most interesting afternoon with M. Prinsen, accompanied by his friend and interpreter, NI. Deenix, and as he is not only at the head of the Dutch normal school, but is, as it were, a per• sonification of the whole Dutch system of educa tion, I must devote a few more words to him. M. Prinsen, like every man of true sterling worth, is a man of great simplicity of manners, there is even a peculiar brusquerie about him, but it is of a kind that rather attracts than repels your confidence— 'tis the roughness of a shell that protects the preci ous kernal of a mind rich in deep thoughts and generous affections. He took a great deal of pains to unveil to me the ruling principles of his method, and conducted me to the several schools in the town where his own pupils, the tyro-teachers, were practising themselves in their application. His views are substantially the same as those of Pesta lozzi, except that, more temperate in his enthu siasm than the mercurial Swiss, he does not push them too far, but restrains them within their logical and legitimate bounds. In fact, they are pretty much the views of every writer in our times, who has thought much about the matter, and are very nearly those to which I have myself given ex pression in the letters I addressed to our Board of Education. But as this is not the place to go at any length into this matter, I will here only briefly observe, that the whole secret of the excellence of NI. Prinsen's method consists in this—that it keeps constantly and distinctly in sight the vast difference there is between instruction and education—that it acts upon the persuasion that the knowledge that makes wise cannot be poured into the mind like water into a vessel, but must be the growth or florescence of a germ, born with the mind itself—that, therefore, the true process of educa tion k to cultivate and develope that native germ, whether moral or intellectual, whether of thought or feeling, by the aliment suited to each, by the exercise proper to each ; and, finally, that the ordinary instruction in the sciences of letters and of numbers should be considered purely as me- chanical aids in furtherance of that real educational development ; nay, that the pupils themselves should be always kept conscious that they are but mere aids, and that between the forming mind of the learner and the informing mind of the teacher there should be a constant sympathy and co-opera tion, by the one making the other distinctly under stand, as they go along, the meaning and object of every step they take.* M. Cousin, in his book on Holland, objects that, instead of one, there ought to be, at least, three normal schools in that country. But, it must have escaped his notice, that in effect there are so many, or more. For nearly all purposes, seve ral of the chief towns constitute normal schools, in this manner : The aspirants attend the best schools as subordinate assistants, exercising during the day, like M. Prinsen's pupils, the practical duties of schoolmastership, and getting lessons on its theories, in the mornings and evenings—like his also, from the several head-masters in the town, each taking the department in which he is strongest. When our system is brought more completely into operation, and our chief towns supplied with good masters from the parent normal school, and our reformed Corporations ready to ''' ,, rant a subsidy for the purpose, much good may be done in this way here, too, in diffusing more widely the prin ciples of sound teaching. Besides this controul in the appointment of teachers, and superintendence in their training, the Dutch system also secures to the Government a controul over books. But neither in this, nor, in deed, in any part of the system, is there anything like an attempt at minute legislation. In fact, the only organic law they have upon the subject—that of the Republic, enacted 1806—barely constitutes the superintending authorities, and leaves all the rest to ordinance and regulation. Nor are these general regulations either very straight-laced in their provisions, but leave a wholesome latitude for every discretion. Amongst them is a long list of approved books, out of which the provincial, and, after them, the local commissions, may select at will what they deem to suit them best. When we come to legislate upon this matter, I would prefer we should lean towards this prudent latitude rather than in the direction of the elaborate codification of our French neighbours. But what is the end and aim of all this superin tendence and controul and diligent training ? It is the more effectually to secure that every child in the land shall be educated in the truest sense " to the exercise"—to use the words of the lawgiver— "of all the social and christian virtues." The Dutch method, however, proposes to attain this end in a manner peculiar to itself, so far as religion is concerned. It objects to anything like a cate chetical or dogmatic moral or religious instruction being given in the schools. But yet the very air of these schools is pregnant with the purest mo ral and religious influences. It mixes up a moral with every lesson it teaches, and not the moral merely of reasoned ethics, but the holier moral of revealed religion. Yet, this morality is of all religions, as this religion is of all sects. It is general certainly, but it is not, there fore, indistinct. The commandments of God in the old law, the divine precepts of our Redeemer in the new, constitute together by far the most im portant part of the Christian code of morals, and what difference of opinion is there about these amongst the Christian sects? Piety towards God, and a cordial charity towards all our fellow men, make up no small portion of the religion of those sects, and by inculcating it thus far upon the chil dren of all, you meddle not, surely, with the special tenets of any. Nor do I see how this general in culcation in the school could, in the least, indispose those children for the more special inculcation of their respective pastors, in their respective churches, on the Lord's day. The one seems to me, on the contrary, the legitimate foundation of the other. The teaching of th e mora l an d re ligious truths, about which all sects agree, which is what the Dutch system does by its mora l an d p i ous his tories of the Old and New Testaments, seems to some to lead to an indifference as tothe truths about or which they differ. This is an opinion, how rather a delicate apprehension, which I do not at all understand, and cannot, therefore, in the least par ticipate, and which it is enough to barely point to Holland, to dissipate and refute. But, instead of leading to an indifference about the truths upon , which they differ, it leads to a far happier result, a mutual toleration of the difference itself. The men who as children have prayed together to their com mon Father, and sung together hymns to his praise, will be slow to denounce each other as heretics or idolators. M. Cousin is not satisfied with this general re ligious instruction, and would prefer a " closer link • I promised Messrs. Prinsen and Deenix to present their respectful compliments and regards to Mr. James Grattan, who, I found, was reconnoitering that field some time before me. As these columns are likely to meet his eye, I beg him to take this note in acquittal of my commission. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1840. of connection between the Church and the school," in the shape of " a positive Christian instruction at once moral and dogmatic, whether Protestant or Catholic, according to the communion of the pupils," such as he found in Prussia, But there is such a contradiction and confusion of ideas in what he says upon this head, as to deprive his opinion upon it of that weight he would else have a clear title to. " Assuredly (he says) besides the moral and reli gious instruction of the school, the Church ought to have hers, and in her own temple, together with the exercises related to it, and under the ex elusive authority of her own ministers. But this instruction of the Church ought to have for a preparative, the moral and religious instruc tion given in the school, of an in initely less spe cial character to be sure, yet still Christian." (See his book, De L' Instruction Publiquc en Hollande, pp. 66, 168, et seq.) Well ! it is to this " less special," precisely, that the Dutch s) s tem confines itself—it is this system, therefore, that really constitutes the " close link" between the school and the Church, whilst his favourite Prus sian system, with its " positive and dogmatic" in struction, transfers the Church into the school, and, losing sight of the " exclusive authority" of the minister of religion, makes the schoolmaster a priest. The constant cultivation of the moral and religious sentiment is a necessary part of a true education —every well-trained teacher knows it is, and, therefore, attends to it scrupulously as a strict duty, whilst the " positive and dogmatic" cate chising he feels conscious does not properly belong to him, and he does it, in consequence, carelesslt and fruitlessly. I have observed something of the working of these two methods, and feel not the least misgiving in preferring tin Dutch. Indeed, M. Cousin himself admits, " that, after all, the best way to appreciate principles is by their results, and, that so judg ing of it, the Dutch practice is good—for, from all he has seen and heard, he is convinced the generations reared up under it are, and have been, moral and pious." To this honourable testimont I can boldly add mine, for I too believe, and upon well assured grounds, that there is not in Europe, or beyond the great waters, a more moral people than the Dutch, more honest, more industrious, more sober, more peaceful, more loyal to their King, more obedient to the laws, more attached to their country, or more faithful to their religion. Now, to come to practical results. There is not a city, or town, or village, or commune throughout all Holland, where there is not a school or schools provided with teachers thus trained, thus appointed, thus inspected, and secured by the care of the several commissions in a decent competency, so that there is not a poor man in the whole country who has not an opportunity of procuring for his children gratuitously that sort of education I have sketched, and you will scarcely find, in fact, one young person of either sex who has not had the benefit of it. I saw these schools myself in full operation, and not in the great towns only, but in small villages ; and I shall conclude this part of my subject by a short statement of what I observed in them, limiting myself to a few comments upon whatever may strike me as worthy of special notice, and I can dispose of this matter the more readily that, in describing one of these schools you pretty nearly describe them all, the only difference bein such as must necessarily result from the different capacities of the respective teachers. (TO BE CONTINUED.) TRZASURE TROVE.—Christmas morning last a little boy, about twelve years of age, residing at Chal lord, Westbury, proceeded to take a piece of an old window frame from some ruinous premises, late the pro. perty of Perry, a bankrupt, for the purpose of making a Christmas fire. On cutting it up, nearly 200 piece,, of gold coin were discovered. They were of different sizes, of the reign of Elizabeth, and were in the most beautiful state of preservation.—Salisbury Journal. Our readers will see by the report of the Lewes Sessions, that the vendors of the Paul Pry, who were indicted for the publication of libels in that paper, have, on making an apology, and agreeing to discontinue the sale of the paper, been discharged on their recogni zances to appear and receive judgment when called upon. Since the trial, the Smiths have handed over to Mr. Dempster, solicitor to the Association for sup pressing the paper, various communications forwarded to them for insertion ; and among them are several letters, the hand-writing of which is well known.—Brighton Gazette. EARTHQUAKE NEAR LYME.—On Christmas eve, about six, the residents in the houses and cottages along the coast between Lyme and Seaton were alarmed by a convulsion of the earth, attended with fearful sounds ; this astounding occurrence was suc ceeded by reiterations of the phenomena, and it was soon ascertained that a course of mischief was in serious operation. On arriving at a part of the coast called Gowlands, a quarter of a mile from the sea, it was found that a large portion of land on which there were several cottages, orchards, and a coppice, had been separated from their scites, leaving huge chasms in a lateral direction along the coast between Sidmouth and Seaton, to the extent of upwards of four miles. The convulsions of the earth continued at various intervals from the night of Tuesday the 24th in stant, to Friday evening, the 27th instant, having, within that interval, occasioned the prostration and subsidence of buildings of various descriptions, and the displacement of large tracts of soil, a loss of property to a considerable extent, among the sufferers by which is Mrs. Inman, a respectable resident of Bishop's Hull, near this town, whose loss is estimated at upwards of 2,000/. Mr. Hallett, of Axmouth, and Mrs. Dare also suffered heavily by the event. A huge rock fifty feet high appears in the sea off Culverhole, nearly a quarter of a mile from the spot where the principal scene of mischief presents itself. The soundings were being taken around the newly-formed rock on Satur day. No lives were lost by this event, although several of the occupants of cottages, who had left home to spend their Christmas-eve, found to their great astonishment, on their return, no other vestiges of their dwellings but those presented by the roofs and. chimney discernible above the chasms in which their habitations were engulphed. The new road from Charmouth to Lyme is utterly destroyed. Whether the occurrence above stated be attributable to an earthquake, or con sidered as the result of the slow working processes of Nature, which, as foreseen by naturalists, and asserted by Mr. Buckingham in his lectures in the town of Lyme a few years ago, will gradually encroach upon the shores of the Channel, as has already unquestionably taken place eisewhere on the Bri tish Coast, is at present problematical. The visita tion, to whatever cause it may be referred, beside the destruction of property, has occasioned great alarm and anxiety among the owners of buildings and estates in the vicinity. Multitudes of persons from all parts have been for several days past rushing into Lyme, Seaton, and Charmouth, eager to ascertain the nature and ex tent of the catastrophe. The total loss of property is estimated at 6,0001. Mr. Chappel, the renter of the estate called Gowlands, upon which four of the destroyed cottages stood, succeeded by great exertions on Wed nesday in saving the lives of twenty-eight of the poor occupiers, and having employed nine carts, secured most of their furniture. On the following morning the cotta ges had sunk up to their roofs. The cliffs on the colst do not appear to have suffered any disruption, all the mischief being inland.—Taunton Courier. BEAR-MEAT.—Reader I did you ever eat bear meat—that is, the bona fide flesh of the bear ? I do not mean your having, by accident or chance, at some period of your existence tasted a morsel of some im ported ham, so smoked, and dried, and disguised, and tumbled about, until neither you nor I, nor anybody else, could by possibility pronounce upon its identity— no ; I mean have you ever sat down to a savoury bear steak, or to a nice roast sirloin of some honest bruin that had been nurtured in the wild forest and lived a life of freedom ? If you have not, I have : nay more ; for I have not only dined seven days in the week upon bear meat, but breakfasted and supped too upon the same dish (when I indulged in those somewhat uncertain and unnecessary repasts of the forest hunter) ; for I have been much where the only meat-market was the howling wilderness, and the only meat that market afforded was wild venison and bear-meat. But mind, while I state that I positively consider the flesh of the bear both good and wholesome, I beg it may be understood that I refer exclusively to the North American black bears ; and even amongst them I must be permitted to make my selection. An old bear, fat or lean, is rank, tough, and unpalatable, and a young lean one is not fit for the table ; it is only your nice plump young fellows, half or two-thirds grown, that iire really delicious. As for those melancholy wretches that are poked about with a long pole in our perambulatory shows and exhibitions, and that are finally sold to those puffers of bears' grease for the purpose of being fattened in some dismal stinking cellar for a season, and then knocked on the head ac cording to public advertisement, and to the imminent danger of ruining Rowland's Macassar—why I declare I would as soon think of eating the leg of a pole-cat as a morsel of one of these sorry wrotches.—Old Sportin g Magazine for December. We believe that the new commission of Colonial Lands and Emigration will consist of Colonel Torrens, who has hitherto acted as Chairman of the South Aus tralian Board ; of Mr. Elliot, the agent-general of Emigration ; and of the Hon. Edward Villiers, the brother of Lord Clarendon. The successful perform ance of their duty will require a steady adherence to principle, and an assiduous attention to detail. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The Post, in an article intended as a defence of the Corn-law monopoly, exceeds the usual quantum of ignorance generally evinced by that Journal on this important question ; and, what was yet more difficult, the limits, if such there be, to the dis position it indulges to misrepresent those who ad vocate a repeal or mitigation of the existing mono poly :—" It is manifest from the language of the Go vernment prints that they exult in the circumstances of (listless produced by the bad harvests of the last two years. They evidently rejoice that in some degree the plague of hunger will come in aid of the usual impatience of order and love of disturbance which characterise large multitudes under mild systems of government. The Whi g hate certain of the laws, especially the laws estaolished for the protection of British agriculture, and they exult even in a national calamity which affords a better chance of creating multitudinous clamour and violence against those laws." The entire article is worthy of such an exordium. Ignorance and falsehood strive for the pre-eminence from its commence ment to its close ; and leave the reader undecided whether the former or the latter prevails. It is ut terly false—a malignant libel on that portion of the public press, to which we belong, which advocates the modification or total repeal of the Corn-laws, to assert of it that, either by direct or indirect at empts, it has excited the people to " violence of action against the existing law," in order to compel its repeal." We demand the name of the Journal ,n which any such attempts have been made, and the language which by the most tortuous ingenuity can be construed into any such meaning—in order that we may join the Post in its reprobation. Where has the languageof " exultation" been employed, because it has pleased the Almighty Controller of the seasons to visit this country the last two years with deficient harvests ; in consequence of which extensive privations and sefferings Are endured by the labouring part of our countrymen ? We have indulged in no such exultations—have not heard of or read any such expressions of delight, at what must excite sympathy and grief in every bosom not absolutely devoid of those feelings which belong to our common nature, and without which man is a rebel against his kind. The fact of such deficiency in the harvests has, it is true, been adverted to ; it was necessary to advert to it, for the purpose ofillustrating And establishing the position which it went so far to prove ; viz., the folly of excluding from our markets the corn produce of other countries, when it may be ob tained at a moderate price in exchange for our manufac tures, which would thus be extensively consumed by the corn-growing continental States, from which they are ;low shut out ; thus compelling its purchase in specie at an exorbitant rate, when the the home sup ply is by any of the accidents which attend its cultiva tion rendered insufficient for the demands of our inha bitants. (From the Standard.) A very great portion of our paper is this day occu pied by the proceedings at the Monmouth Special Com mission. After the Jury had been sworn, the Attor ney-General having previously set aside some nine or ten of the panel (a fact which we notice for Lord Normanby's observation), and after the Attorney- General had opened the case against Mr. Frost in a speech, calling for no particular remark, except, per haps, that it was prudently free from any allusion to the preparatives of the rebellion—after these preliminaries, Sir F. Pollock objected to the examination of the first witness called, on the ground that the delivery of a list of witnesses to the prisoner had not been made in the form prescribed by the statute. The list had, indeed, been delivered more than the required ten days before trial ; but it had not been made in company, and at the same time, with the delivery of the indictment, as the law expressly and distinctly commands. The objec tion was argued with extraordinary learning and talent by Sir Frederick Pollock and Mr. Fitzroy Kelly for the prisoner ; and it was resisted at some length by the Attorney-General, who, however, could not deny the fact alleged, and was compelled to admit that the terms of the law had not been literally complied with. The decision of the Court was as follows :—" Chief Justice Tindal said,—There ap pears to us to be sufficient doubt to reserve the point for further consideration. I am not prepared to say the objection made on the part of . the prisoner is valid, but it is a question upon which no direct decision has taken place, and which calls for very serious consi deration. It is the more important, that the same ob jection may apply to the several other cases in which the indictments have been found, and the prisoners arraigned. We purpose to take a course on the present occasion which will prevent the possibility of an over hasty decision operating to the prejudice or disadvantage of the priso ner , an d from causing a failure of public justice. We shall allow the trial to proceed, and take the opinion of her Majesty's Judges on the validity of the point, provided such proceedings shall become necessary. To-morrow morning we shall proceed with the evidence." It would be presumptuous and indecent in us to anticipate the decision of the Judges to the extent of saying that the slip of the Crown lawyers is Jatal to the "prosecu tion ; but a very strange slip it is, and, if not an intentional one, it proves extraordinary slo venliness somewhere. That nothing harsh as against the prisoners was designed, we freely admit. They have ilad all the benefit intended for them by the law, and ----- the question must be admitted to rest upon a mere technicality. The o bjection, however, must not be regarded the less upon that account. The forms of the law are the subject's defence against oppression ; and if these forms come to be violated in cases where their effect is indifferent, they will in time come to be violated in all cases. We commend the following to the attention of every Catholic who read the articles in the two last numbers of this paper. It is copied from the Morning Post of Friday last, and may be taken as an official delaration from Sir Robert Peel : " The Ministerialists are evidently in an agony of terror, from having heard that Sir Robert Peel means to spare them no longer, but to be down upon them with the honest indignation of all England at his back, as soon as Parliament meets. Most fervently do we hope and trust that Sir Robert Peel will in no degree disap point either the fears or the hopes of his loyal Protestant fellow-countrymen. The time has come to crush these minions rf Romanism—these paltry dependants upon an Irish conspiracy against the British Protestant Consti tution. We hope, and we belive, that a blow will be struck, and that immediately upon the meeting of Par liament " The war then, is to be a religious war. It is to be a war of clerical persecution against religious toleration ; of Church of England bigotry against Catholicism and Dissent. So let it be—but Catho lics must no longer be supine. It is they who are especially assailed, and it is therefore their bounden duty to exert themselves. As we said last week, the repeal of the Emancipation Act is the first object of the ultra-Tories, of whom Peel and his clique are the mere puppets.—Provincial Paper. The Rev. H. Pepys, brother of the Lord Chan cellor, has received the appointment to the see of Sodor and Man, vacant by the translation of Dr. Bowstead. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The performances at the Haymarket Theatre have attracted the following distinguished fashionables during the week • The Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Augusta of Cam bridge, Prince George, Prince Louis Napoleon, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Charleville, Earl of Lichfield, Count d'Orsay, Countess and Ladies Sefton, Lord St. Maur, Lord W. Lennox. Lord Craven, Lord Alfred Paget, Sir George and Lady Wombwell, Hon. Col. Molyneux, Hon. C. Greville, Orby Hunter, Esq., Massey Stanley, Esq., Captain Hicks, and Lord Castlereagh. STEEPLE CHASE AT CHELTENHAM.—The Steeple Chase for the Berkeley Hunt Handicap sweep stakes came off last Tuesday, on the Race-course. The (lay was fine, the spectators numerous, and. ! the assent al blage of nearly all th e spor ting gentlemen in the neigh bourhood, gave th e scene t he greatest animation ; al though ten h orses were en tered only four started , namely, Mr. Stou g ht on ' s Pi c Ni c , ro de by Mr. Healey ; and Mr. W oo d' s Gilb ert , ro d e by Mr. Craven. The start Win ton's Nimrod, od, by rodem r L himself oves ; y Mr. Cridland's Mr. De D The ; he V Doctor, 's rode was from th e G rand S tan d, a nd the horses, after a cir cuit of two miles, and having to m ake three g ates and sev era l stone alls, returned in the following or der :—M r . C r idl an d' s Th e Doctor, Mr. Wood's Gilbert, Mr. De Winton's Nimrod, and Mr. Stoughton's Pic Nic—unfortunately, in coming in, the Doctor went the wrong side of the post, and the stakes were awarded to Mr. Wood's Gilbert. QUARRELS AMONG THE TORIES.—The Dub lin Statesman has bestowed two angry columns upon our suggestion as to the probable policy of Sir Robert Peel. Much as we regret to have provoked the anger of our able and faithful Irish Contemporary, we do not complain of it : we have too much sympathy with the feelings of Irish Protestants not to understand perfectly well why some of the less considerate among them may regard the c ooler sentiments of men living out of the sphere of Romanist insolence and Romanist Whig oppression, as evidence of defection from Protes tant principles.—L o ndon Standard. SUICIDE IN THE GREEN PARK.—On Wed nGersedeanyla morning,r Green-park, h en se ven and eight o'clock, two men were pa ss i ng the side of the reservoir in the perceived part of a woman's dress floating in the w ater. Drags were procured, and the body of a woman was brought to shore, and imme diately taken to St. George's hospital. She was quite dead, and appeared to be about 45 years of age, and was dressed in a black straw bonnet, merino check gown, and low shoes. u pon her person were found three duplicates in th e name of Anne Smith. Inquiries were made by the police respecting her, but nothing further could be ascertained. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. The Lord Mayor issued a warrant on the :30th of December for the apprehension of Thomas Harris, late of John -street, America-square, merchant, in conse quence of the application of Mr. Cleasby, of Broad street, merchant. The warrant was put into the hands of John Forrester, the officer, who immediately went in search of the accused, but, we understand, learned that he had left the country. Mr. Cleasby's statement, which we were not until now at liberty to publish, was to the effect that Harris had, in the course of commercial transactions, placed in his hands bills of lading, and certain East and West Indian Dock warrants for quantities of hemp, and other securities of a similar nature ; that on the 30th of De cember Harris called upon him for those securities, on which he (Mr. Cleasby) had advanced 3,000/., and gave to him checks for the amount upon the banking house of Masterman and Co., and that payment of the checks was refused, upon the ground that there was no effects. The following hand-bill was circulated yesterday in the City : CAUTION. Whereas Thomas Harris, late of John-street, Ame rica-square, in the city of London, merchant, hath ab sconded, having in his possession divers securities and sums of money, obtained by him under false pretences, namely, bills of lading for divers quantities of rye, lin seed, beans, and wool, on hoard a certain vessel called the Steffanino, bound to Antwerp, and bills of lading for divers quantities of iron on board the Gulnare, now bound for Baltimore ; and also certain East and %Vest India Dock warrants for divers quantities of hemp, and other securities of a like nature, by the Sun, marked "P." in 449 bales lying in the East India Dock ; notice is hereby given, that the said Thomas Harris hath no legal title to the said securities, and that persons taking the same from him acquire no legal title therein ; and notice is requested to be given by any person to whom such bills of lading, or other securities, may be offered to Mr. H. H. Hill, solicitor, 12, Copthall-court, Throgmorton street, London. . . . . John Forrester is, it is believed,gone to the Continent after the fugitive. GUILDHALL. CRUELTY TO OMNIBUS HORSES.—An omnibus driver was summoned at the instance of the Animals' Friend Society for cruelty to a horse. Joseph Williams, in the employ of the Society, stated that on Saturday, 21st December, in the afternoon, he saw one of the horses in the defendant's omnibus work ing uneasily, and shifting from side to side ; he stopped him, and perceived a raw place as wide as his hand on the horse's shoulder, on which the collar was pressing. The collar was covered with blood. The defendant did not deny the fact ; but said that the collar was softly padded, and that the horse had not been used for five days previously, and had only gone one journey on the occasion in question. He said his master had had bad luck with his horses. Mr. Alderman J. JOHNSON said that he considered it a very proper case to prosecute, and the public were indebted to the witness for bringing it forward. The defendant was fined 20s. QUEEN- S QUARE. DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A FRENCH MAN.—Francois Visseurs, a French cook, in the service of a family living at 40, Albemarle•street, and who was wrapped in a policeman's coat, was placed at the bar charged with attempting to destroy himself. Police-constable 156 A, stated that he was on duty in the mall of St. James's Park, opposite the Duke of York's column, about seven o'clock last evening, when he observed the defendant, who was only dressed in his skirt zlnd trousers, run down the steps from Water loo-place ; and climbing up one of the trees, he took a rope from his pocket, fastened one end of it to a branch of the tree, and was in the act of putting the other end round his neck before witness could come up to him. With some difficulty witness got him down from the tree, the defendant all the time exclaiming, " Why you not let be! what for you touche me ; sat I not do what I like for myself? If I like hang vat is dat to you." When witness had got him to the ground, de fendant, who was very powerful. entwined his arms and legs about witness in such a manner as nearly to suffo cate him. He called out to a corporal of the Foot Guards, who was standing by in the Queen's Mews to assist him, but he refused. After struggling with the defendant for some minutes, relief came from the stt tion-house, and after the constables had strapped both the defendant's legs and arms they were enabled to take him to the Police-station. Inspector Haining, of the A division, said that he had learnt that the defendant had, in the early part of the evening, some words with his wife, who is a servant in the same family, and he ran out in the half naked state he was in. In Piccadilly he threw himselt into the road, before a waggon and horses, and was with much difficulty rescued from his perilous situation. He again attempted to throw himself under the wheels of a coach, but was interfered with, and he afterwards made his way into the Park, where he was taken under the circumstances mentioned. When at the station-house he was exceedingly violent, in fact he showed all the symptoms of raving madness ; he seized upon everything that he could, to. destroy himself, and up till tweive o'clock at night it took five constables to hold him. In . . the course of that time Mr. M'Cann, the divisional sur geon, was sent fur, and he gave him a composing draught, which about twelve o'clock sent him to sleep. . _ _ Mr. BURRELL asked the defendant what he had to say to the charge. _ _ _ Defendant said, in a low melancholy tone, I noting say ; do vat you please. I‘lr. BURRELL ordered defendant to find sureties. The sureties were found in the course of the day, and defendant was liberated. It may not be generally known, that the moss gathered from the bark of the ash tree will imme diately stop the effusion of blood from a wound, caused by cattle goading or fighting with each other. This is an excellent remedy, and the more valuable, as it may with safety be applied in the absence of a veterinary surgeon. DETAILS OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE HULL BANK.—WITHDRAWAL OF DEPOSITS FROM SAYINGS BANKS.—In their last annual report the Committee had to announce an increase of 22,0001.; and for seve ral years previously large and steady accessions had taken place. During the year just ended, the payments have exceeded the receipts by upwards of 5,0001. The amount deposited has been 59,644/. ss. 3d. The amount withdrawn 64,976/. 9s. 9d. But the amount of interest placed to the credit of depositors (8,260/. Os. Id.) more than covers this deficiency, and leaves an actual increase on the year's account of 2,927/. 15s. 7d. The total amount due to the deposi tors on the 20th November, 1839, was 254,1691. 3s. sd. It is a gratifying circumstance that the deposits have equalled, within 1,0001., those of last year ; the differ ence arising, with that deduction, f om the larger amount withdrawn by depositors which has been 19,000/. more than last year.—Report of the Committee of the Hull Savings' Bank.—Hull Observer. THE CHANNEL FISHERY.—Anthony Perrier, Esq., her Majesty's Consul at Brest, and the Commis sioner appointed by Lord Palmerston on the part of this country to execute the Convention between the English and French Governments, signed in August last, for defining and regulating the limits of the oyster and other fisheries on the coasts of Great Britain and France, was here and at Worthing for several days last week, making inquiries among the fishery as to the causes of the collision between the trawlers and the line and long-net fishers of the two countries, with the view of preparing a set of regulations to be agreed to by both Governments for the guidance of all fishermen in the Channel. The Commissione collected the statements of the owners of mackarel and herring boats and craft, as also those of the trawl boat and small boat fishery separately, and is now, we understand, at Hastings , inte ndin g to return shortly to this place to examine the Brighton men before he pro ceeds further to the westward. Mr. Perrier is the gen tleman to whom the fisheries are indebted for the satis factory arrangement of the disputes respecting the oyster fisheries in the Channel—an arrangement that was rati fied by the convention above named, and which has worked so well that no complaint has been made by either party concerned in that particular fishery since the rules and regulations for the guidance of the fisher men have been in force, though previously disputes and collisions had for very many years been even more fre quent between the oyster fishermen of the two countries than between the French trawlers and English long-net fishers on this coast.—Brighton Guardian. The Gazette de Genoa contains the follow ing :—" The little village of Saligni, in Piedmont, the population of which was about 800 souls, no longer exists. Some houses had been shaken by the extraor dinary rains in the Autumn, but the damage had been gradually repaired, and the people had forgotten their past danger. About two in the morning of the 7th December, a dresdful crash was heard. The houses fell and disappeared in an abyss The inhabitants fled in all directions. At day-break nothing was to be seen but part of the church and the steeple. The cler gyman, M. Alvigni, rushed into the church, in spite of the danger, went to the altar, and got the consecrated wafers, and then proceeded to the belfry to sound the toscin to alarm the inhabitants of the environs ; the walls are shaken, the ladder on which he stands breaks, he lays hold of the fragments, and hastens to encourage his fellow-citizens."—Constitutional. IRVINE.—SERMON ON TOTAL ABSTINENCE. —The Rev. Mr. Leechman, pastor of the Baptist Church, Irvine, delivered a sermon in the parish church, on Sunday evening, Lie 29th inst., from Ist Timothy, sth, 23d—" Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities." The Rev. Gentleman laboured to make it appear that the use of all spiritual liquors, except as a medicine, was contrary to the rule laid down in Scripture ; and took occasion to state, that in Irvine, where there is a popu lation of from 7,000 to 8,000 inhabitants, there were no less than 72 public-houses. BANK IN A HAT. (From " Sutherland's Loose Leaves," a pamphlet pub lished in New York, commeiaorative of the progress, in 1838, of banking in Michigan, and rebellion in Canada.) There had been created in Michigan, by an Act of a recent Legislature of the State, what was called a general banking system,' which had about this time got into full operation. Under this law, associations for the issue of bills were formed and established in multiplicity throughout the State. During my stay in Michigan, I visited one village in the interior, having no more than 500 or 600 inhabitants, in which there were then no less than four of these banks, as they were denominated. Other villages, containing half the number of inhabi tants, had two, three, and so on, and a number of places I passed through on my perambulations in the State, existing as villages only in name (as they contained no more than four or five habitations each), had also each their bank. " The bills issued by these concerns, which bore the style of safety fund banks'—but more generally known by the name of wild cat banks'—and their notes by the denomination of ' wild cat money'— were in most extensive circulation. And as the flood ing of the State with these bills had had the effect to banish therefrom all better currency, the bills, however questionable in character, were, by the people, cx xecessitatis, universally received and accepted as a currency for the ordinary transaction of business. Why these institutions of Michigan were called wild cat banks' I was never informed, and could not now even conjecture, unless it was that their location, or the places from which many of the bills of the wild-cat money' in circulation were issued, were matters of as much uncertainty, and as difficult to be arrived at, as was the whereabouts of the animal whose name they had been made to assume. " But banking and bill-making associations were not the only incorporations that the Legislature of the new State of Michigan had been prolific in bringing into existence. Railroad incorporations flourished almost as extensively as 'wild-ca‘, banks,' and if there had been railroads as abundant as railroad incorporations, there had been less complaint and delay on account of the mud by which Detroit was surrounded. However, among the number of railroads for the construction of which incorporations had been formed, there was one to extend from Detroit to the village of Pontiac, some twenty miles or more to the north. This road had been graded for about half its distance from Detroit—and upon such part rails were laid for one track, on which the company constructing the road had commenced running a single car at stated times for the conveyance of passengers as far as Royal Oak. The remaining part of the route to Pontiac was supplied by an ordi nary lumber waggon as a means of conveyance. " On a day appointed for the car to run upon this road, I concluded I would endeavour to make my way as far as Pontiac by means of these public conveyances, and took a seat in the car for Royal Oak. Other than myself, there were but two passengers in the car. The one of these, by the side of whom I was placed, was a young gentleman, apparently in the last of his teens. The other a young lady, who was, perhaps, his junior of two or three years. On my first entering the car, I guessed the two to be a brother and sister, but it was soon made known to me that the individuals bore a nearer and closer relation to each other ; and from their bland and polished manners, they were, to me, very agreeable and amusing road companions. They told me that they were very recently from the city of New York, and had taken up a residence at the village of Royal Oak, where our ride upon the railroad would terminate. " While the car rolled on by the agency of a one horse power, the conversation, in which both my fellow- , passengers engaged with true American ease and socia bility, turned upon the operation of the' general bank ing system' of Michigan, and the universally deranged state of the currency which then existed in the country ; and although they were both of an age that did not al low them a legal majority, the gentleman nevertheless spoke more advisedly of those matters than I had often found it done by intelligent persons of a more perfect age—and in the matters of exchange, loans, and dis counts, the lady showed herself no less learned than her lord. " From the drift of the conversation which had been carried on, with the fact that my fellow passengers were, as they had informed me, recent emigrants from the city of New York, I had drawn the conclusion that the young gentleman was engaged in the retailing of merchandize—and of this I ventured to inquire ; when I was informed by him that he was the cashier of one of the banks established under the general banking sys tem,' located at Royal Oak ; and the lady produced from her reticule one of the bills of their bank, and exhibited it to me. So far as the bill was concerned, it was a very handsomely executed engraving, with a beautiful vignette. A. very pretty thing it was, and so was the lady. Then, as I was advised we were near our stop ping, I put my head out of the window of the car in order to get a view of the village. From the name it bore, and the fact of its being the location of a bank, I had expected to see something of a place ; but, to my surprise, I beheld little else than stumps and trees. The village was merely a cleared spot upon a plain, without stores, shops, or dwelling-houses, save a single dwelling, then kept as a public-house, with the barn and shed belonging to it, and a shed for the housing of the railroad cars " So extraordinary did this place seem to me for the ' location of a bank, that, as the car was stopped, I was induced to inquire if we had really arrived at the village of Royal Oak? Being answered in the affirmative, and seeing nothing that looked like a banking-house, or office, I asked—' Where do you keep your bank ?' Oh !' replied the lady, my husband keeps the bank in his bat.' " CORN PROSPECTS.—For the last two years the harvests having proved defective, an immense amount of gold has been abstracted from circulation to purchase corn in the Continental markets. This has necessarily curtailed the circulation, and raised the discounts upon first-rate commercial bills, while all others have been rejected by the banks. Manufacturers and merchants have been consequently fettered, and the operations of trade to a great extent suspended, and in many places broken up. For the frequent recurrence of this state of things, as Lord Monteagle justly remarked on almost his last appearance in the House of Commons, the English traders must be prepared, until foreign wheat is allowed to be exchanged for English manu factures, instead of compelling its purchase with gold. Judging from the agricultural reports, we fear the com ing season will be as unpropitious kr agricultural pro duce as those of 1838 and 1839. At Mark-lane, we are assured that very extensive contracts have been en tered into for forward delivery of corn at foreign ports, in the expectation that notwithstanding the depressive effect of the large proportion of inferior grain, the ave rages will so advance as to cause foreign corn to be admitted at a low duty. We may therefore look for a continuance of, and even an increase of, the pressure on the money market, arising from the export of gold for the purchase of corn, and with it the ruinous results to those of our manufacturers who have hitherto managed to maintain their standing, and increased privation and distress to the people in their employ.—Evening Paper. ELECTRICAL EXCITEMENT IN LEATHER BY FRICTION.—The Rev. Thomas Drury, under date of Dec. 17, 1838, at Keighley Rectory, Yorkshire, Eng land, communicates the following fact to Dr. Faraday. He speaks of what he terms an extraordinary electrify ing machine, which is no other than a leathern strap which connects two drums in a large worsted mill in the town of Keighley. " The dimensions and particulars of the strap are as follows :—lt is in length 24 feet ; breadth, R inches ; thickness, k inch ; it makes 100 revolutions in a minute. The drums, over which it passes at both ends, are two feet in diameter, made of wood fastened to iron hoops, and turning on iron axles ; these drums are placed at ten feet distance from each other, and the strap crosses in the middle be tween the drums,'where there is some friction ; the strap forming a figure of eight. There is no metal in con nexion with the strap, but it is oiled. If you present your knuckle to the strap above the point of crossing, brushes of electrical light are given off in abundance, and when the points of a prime conductor are held near the strap, most pungent sparks are given off to a knuckle at about two inches. I charged (says Mr. D.,) a Ley den jar of considerable size in a few seconds by present ing it to the prime conductor. The,:gentleman who told me of this curious strap has frequently charged his elec trical battery in a very short time frcm it, and he in formed me that it is always the same, generating electri city from morning to night, without any abatement or alteration. If this strap had the advantage of silk flaps and a little amalgam, it would rival the machine in the lecture-room in Albemarle-street."—Ameriean Journal. TILE BARON GERAMB.—Many of our read ers must remember this eccentric individual, whose career in London caused so much excitement in the world of gaiety and fashion. What will be their sur prise to learn that the ultra man of fashion is metamor phosed (by some extraordinary circumstances with which we are unacquainted) into the rigid anchorite, and that he has entered that abode 01 . the most self denying enthusiasts on the earth, the celebrated monas tery of La Trappe, and, in the fervour of his devotion, has made a " pilgrimage" to the Holy Land, of which he has written an account, announced fbr immediate publication in London. Report speaks highly of it, as illusti sting, with a truly religious feeling, the present condition of the ever-interesting localities of Scripture. The production of such a work from such a pen will un questionably be chronicled amongst the most remarkable " curiosities of literature." A Society held at the King's Arms, Hounds ditch, called the " Harmonious Knights of Benevo lence," and consisting chiefly o f J ews, h ave , t o their credit, distributed among the poor, within the last two months, 500 quarters loave s and 20 tons of coals. It is known everywhere on the Continent, in all Courts, great and small, that the three Cobourgs, father and two sons, are to arrive about the 20th of January, and that the marriage is to take place on the Bth of February. _Correspondent of the Brighton Gazette. EVENING EDITION. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE'. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. The alteration in the betting yesterday may be disposed of in a few words : Ottoman's party were again in force, several bets were made at 26 to 1, and the takers would have gone on. One bet of 25 to 1 'was laid against Bokhara, but the average offers did not exceed the price quoted at the beginning of the week. Wardan dropped to 30 to 1 betted in hundreds, and Fitzroy to 40 to 1 offered ; a horse in the same stable (Confederate) was in considerable request, and in the course of the afternoon advanced from 50 to 33 to 1 ; very long odds were laid against Brother to Melbourne, who a few weeks since, figured at one-third of the price. There was not any change in the four principal favourites. The only bet on the Oaks that came under our notice, was 7 to 1 in fifties, against Lalla Rookh. THE DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Brother to Euclid —taken 16 to 1 agst Angelica colt—taken 22 to 1 agst Bokhara—take 25 to 1 25 to 1 agst Ottoman—taken 26 to 1 30 to 1 agst Wardan—taken 30 to 1 agst Glenorehy 33 to 1 agst Confederate—take 35 to 1 40 to 1 agst Gambia—taken 40 to 1 agst Fitzroy 1000 to 15 agst Assassin—taken 1000 to 100 agst Brother to Melbourne 600 to 500 or 500 even on Bokhara agst Ottoman—taken THE OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Lalla Rookh 1250 to 50 agst Crucifix winning Oaks and St. Leger—taken LONDON NOMINATIONS FOR THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1841. Lord Westminster's c Satirist, Lord Westminster's c Dr. Jenner, Lord Westminster's c Morning Star, Lord Westmin ster's c Tan Amburgh, Lord Westminster's c Marshal Soult, Lord Westminster's c Lampoon ; Mr. Wreford's b c by Camel, out of Escape ; Mr. Wreford's b c by Sultan, out of Monimia ; Mr, Wreford's b c Sultan, out of Margellina: Col. Wynd ham's Stedmere,Col. Wyndham's York shireman, Lord Stanley's b c Sybarite, Lord Sta n l e y' sc F a t a li st, M r. W . Di xon ' s c h eJu nius, Mr. Houldsworth's Delusive, Mr. Houldsworth's .ch c Barelegs, Mr. W. A. Rose's gr c Fitzglue, Lord Stradbroke's ch c Precursor, Mr. Buckley's br c Tory Boy, Mr. T. Wal ters's br c Hope, Mr. T. Walters's St. Botoiph, Mr. T. Walters's br c Mustapha Muley, Mr. Knox's ch c Harkford, Captain Williamson's Mobareck, Mr. H. T. Hastings's St. Cross, Mr. Rush's ch c, by Plenipoten tiary, out of Bangtail ; Mr. G. S. Ford's br c Mette rn i c h, M r . J. Robinson's b F a ith, sister to St. Andrew ; Lord Orford's Brother to Ascot, Mr. G. Godwin nd ch c, by Sir Hercules, d ( foaled in 1821) by M ango , out o f Si r H arry ' s d am ; Sir C. Ibbetson's b f by Voltaire, dam (foaled in 1820), by Partisan, out of Spotless ; Mr. James Wood's b c Paul Potter, Lord Chesterfield's b c by Ishmael, out of Arcot Lass ; Lord Chester field's f by Sultan, out of Rowton's dam ; Lord Chesterfield's eh cby Velocipede, dam by Whisker, out of Tramp's dam ; Lord Chesterfield' s f P a l e f ace , Colonel Anson's b c Pandarus, Colonel Anson's b c Traffi c , olonel Anson's ch f Miss Hors wood. Mr. G. G. Richardson's b c Silstron. Colonel Synge's, ch cby Zealot, out of Zillah ; Mr. L. White's b c Tearaway Mr. Skerratt's b c by Newton, dam by Mr. Lowe; Mr. Sad— ler's Defy, Mr. Sadler's Lady Serutt, Mr. Sadler's Diversion, Col. Westenra's bl c Warlock, by Velocipede, out of Vat ; Mr. Sowerby's ch f:Plimgari, Ld Exeter's Czarovitch, Lord Exeter's ch cby Sultan, out if Velvet ; Lord Exeter's Brother to Can dia ; Lord Exetier's c by Ibrahim, out of Anne of Geir stein ; Mr. Rawlinson's b c Coronation ; Mr. Goodman's gr c by Agreeable, out of Antelope's dam ; Colonel Peel's Simoom, brother to Siroc ; Colonel Peel's brother to Whim, Colonel Peel's Hawk's-eye ; Lord Miltown's b c Fidhawry, Lord Stradbroke's brother to Phosphorus, Lord Stradbroke's ch f by Peter Lely, out of Margrave's dam ; Lord Strad- broke's cby Ibrahim, out of Malvinia ; Mr. Etwall's Thistle Whipper, Lord Bruce's br c by Glaucus, out of Rosalie ; Lord G. Bentinck's Mustapha, Mr. Thornhill's brother to Mango, Mr. Rayner's eh c Young Quo Minus. THE MARKETS., COUNTRY MARKETS. Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. I Bea,.s. s. to s. 72 81 60 76 Per Quarter Bath Blandibid Bridport Chao Gloucester Exe er Guildford Newbuvy 50 81 Reading 50 85 Salisbury ;72 80 Shcrborne 72 78 SheptonMallet' 68 80 Uxbridge —. Warminster „- Winchester Yeovil a. 8. 38 50 32 48 c to S. 29 36 30 36 E. to 8. 43 56 96 50 PPwse 60 82 64 76 70 SO 36 `,I 45 48 27 34 40 16 32 50 35 47 40 50 42 53 33 51 37 43 36 54 20 26 30 31 21 28 26 34 21 32 23 34 30 34 26 30 30 34 25 32 27 36 S. to S - 37 40 38 46 4S 50 41 43 40 44 4`2 52 40 53 44 58 42 48 48 50 56 82 64 76 1 - - - - 164 72 40 48 30 •32 146 50 i - -. LEEDS CORN MARKET.-Dec. 31. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk --- Yorkshire and Lincoln s hi re Grinding Beans Oats, Potat oe 3os. to 325. V -Mealing, For. -d. to i l Eng. 1350. to 15d. per stone Shelling 38s. to 395. per load, GU ILDFORARKET, Wheat, Old (Per Load) 19/. t 2 0 ! . 101.-New 161. to 211. ss. Barley (Per Qr.) Oats 2B 24 1 Rye 4O 44 Grey Pease, 425. to 445. DEVIZES CORN MARKET. Per Sack. 6. d. s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. a. d First Wheat 3810 to 40 0 Oats ... ......... ..... 25 0 to 36 Second 34 0 36 6 Beans (per sack)... 20 0 28 f Third - 0 58 Barley 3l 0 49 6 Bread (per ga11.)... 1 6 - 0 50 58 MARKETS. Barley, Mecklenburgh 204 to 240 Magdeburgh to - - - Holstein 204 to 240 - Summer ...... 136 to 19(4 Oats, Eider l2O to 1:148 Mecklenburg -- Holstein 132 to 165 -- East Friesland ll5 to i 35 Pease, Mecklenburg Beans 255 to 312 Buck Wheat 174 to 192 Rapeseed, Hanover idalt Tares ON. Maranham Madras 5 74,' Surats 536 0 Domingo ... 7% 7U 'EE. Domingo La Guayra 5% 6 % Porto Rico 6 Havannah • 5 tiN 8% Discount) Bahia, White 5% to N Brown 5% 5% Pernambuco, White 5% Brown 5 53; 1,5% t 6i. HAMBUR OR. Wheat, Marks 438 to 459 ..—.— Magdeburg Attilalt, white 429 to 486 red . 425 to 462 Brunswick 426 to 462 Mecklenburg 396 to 46, Polish 420 to 495 Holstein Rye, Mecklenburg 228 to 285 - Dantzic - Elbing and Ka nigsJurg - Upland - Riga 255 to 264 COT] Carolina and Tennessee nit° 9% Georgia, Ist sort 6.X 9 2d N 3d and 4th AIN. COFI Mocha 13 to 1:34 Batavia Sumatra Rio Bahia SUGAR.—(Wit Havannah, White . Brown...—, si,j, Rio, White .............. 634 Brown Manilla, BroA MORE MONEY THAN WIT.— For the last three days an individual, dressed like, but not having much the appearance of, a gentleman, has been passing himself off as a Noble Marquis, and delighting the in habitants of Cornwall-road and the New -cut with divers Saturnahan pranks. Yesterday afternoon, about ttvo o'clock, he collected from the river-side a waggon-full of coalheavers, preceded them in a street cab, crossed Stamford -street, and passed into the Cornwall-road. He treated them plentifully to Barclay's black cham pagne and to blue ruin, giving each public-house in the road a fair share of his custom. By the time they reached the New-cut they were all ripe for a spree, and the soi-disant noble leader having purchased a tin kitchen of baked potatoes, ordered his followers to use them as they liked. Thereupon they began pelting one an other, and having sufficiently " amused" their patron, the whole company entered a public-house, on leaving which it is to be hoped they will be placed in a cooler station. On the 11 th instant a public dinner is to be given by his friends to Mr. O'Connell in Dublin ; it is said the Earl of Charlemont will take the chair. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman leaves Dublin the day following, and dines at the Anti-Corn-law Dinner in Manchester on the 13th, on his way to town.—Evening Paper. TEETOTAL FESTIVALS.—WhiIst the votaries at the shrine of Bacchus have been welcominr , " old Father Ch r i stmas " w i th the usual wassailing and jovial festivity, the teetotallers, determined to be merry too, have shown their veneration of the hoary-headed sire, by their accustomed " sober banqueting." EOM SHEFFIELD PLATED WINE COOLERS A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths 14, Cornhill, London (opposite the Bank of England), ha ve f or choice in their warerooms a Selection of PLAIN and ORNA NIENTAL ICE PAILS, to which they wish to direct attention The price of the Plain Tub-pail (now much in use), 81. 10s the pair ; the Clas s i c V ase ( very neat ) , 101. Bs. the pair ; the Victoria Pattern, 151. the pair ; the Dresden Cooler, tot, the pair, &c., all of whic:. are strongly mounted with Silver, and have Silver Shields for Engraving the Crest or Coat of Arms. A pamphlet is published, with drawings of the above and other articles of plate generally, v,hicb may be had on appliea tion, free of cost. PATENT LEVEE, WA TCHE With silver double-bottom cases ........................ 6 With silver hunting . •,•,ases ................. 616 6 This celebrated construction (the most accurate on which a watch can be made) is now offered, with the latest improve ments i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, ;lard enamel dial, and main taining power to continue going while winding up, at the above Price. A printed warranty is given, with fixed terms, on which the Watches will always receive any attention needed, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsmit:2, 47, Cornhill, London, (Seven doors from Grac,,tchurch-street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. Sih7 l l-IS. On the 30th ult., at Theobalci's-row, the wife of Mr. H. Thomas, of a (laughter. On the 30th ult., Mrs. Charles A Ferguson, of Lee-terrace, Blackheath, of a daughter. On the 31st ult., in Grosvenor -street, the lady of Dr. La tham, of a son. Langley, MARRIED. On the Ist in s t., at Newmarket, Willi am N as h , E sq, o f Bucks, to Mary Anne, second daughter of Mr. Charles Powell, of Duke-street, St. James's. On the Ist inst., at St. Mary's, Cheltenham, the Rev. G. H. Evans, M.A., Chaplain in the Hon. East India Company's service, Madras establishment, to Maria Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Sir Henry Maturin Farrington, Bart., of Spring-lawn, Devonshire. On the Ist inst., at St. Giles's, Dersetshire, the Rev. Hinton Castle Smith, A. 8., Lecturer of Kingsbridze, Devon, to Grace Harriett Goodwin, youngest daughter of the late Robert Henshaw, Esq. DIRD. On the 29th ult., at Wilmington -square, Henry, the eldest son of Mr. S. Nickisson, of Ashby-street, aged 37. On the 27th of September last, at Calcutta, Captain William Allen, formerly of the Hon. East India Company's ship Van sittart, and late Inspector of Customs on the Hooghly, aged 48. On the 28th ult., at Honiton Clyst Daniell, Esq., aged 67. near Exeter, James On the Ist inst., William, second son of Mr. Dorling, of Epsom, aged 30. London: Printed and Published by 11URDO YOUNn , of No. 112, Strand, at 714. .374, Offi ce, No. 112, Strand, in the county of Middlese x , —F r id ay, January 3, I+s-10.