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T r: 7 , E \v 0 LIII ; • J'N SUN Ispublisi i i , t , eti. to cc,tn - memorate her most Gracious 'AIE ST , 13 t 1( S CC , RONATION ; but the "nY postage wil iich now facilitates the send °f , lett ers, War . not the n i n ex istence. Look g for A r ~ i l toAlt w- to a n event o f great nat i ona l in -4 ) /vh ich Queen VICTORIA has now 44 1 L Y re a ti sed, we reserved a few copies of 0 14 1I IE GOLDEN , ' —' ) NATION k hich S U N, ih t t `ln O' sent by post free to all parts of triPire Price SIXPENCE. S un 0 ' Vice, 112, Strand, London, ,!..,„..• Nov. 2S, 1840. 114 i ,„-- , t11 °1. ( 41112 " -- ""`""••%, , k.... ATER AT JA)NDON BRIDGETO.MORRONr 3 V. IC " t minutes aft e r 3. I Evening ......24 mioutes afte . 'ct p ''bli •4ti -. - on of tco Evening Edition of THE Su corn ' _ nlenced at It) minutes after Three. A (.4 :-. y -gkki* „wow • ktf.,l_,irmtat t idi)-ke LONDON: m N s L'ESDIA y, DECEMBER 9, 1840. e 4 4 , =gret te , nnounee that Mr. 'l-TETHERING' 1144 1)1 1 w " a T e stez. day f oun d gu ilty o f p u blishing a ou s lib t n rcl, b u t th e C ourt p os tp on ed pass tnea 'la him. We hope it will be a le he.ctile' for his spirited defence deserves the ap jc:lll of nll the friends to free discussion. i ! t3 4 l „ i ' ai g e (1 ..ord DENMAN) spoke of his exer- L "tr u , - ," 'Peet, and the Court will, we there 'tts6e(l) convinced that justice will be best Th e wit h tb.e smallest possible punishment. Nth i gre at pressure of other matter prevents us titt th e Tr e s .er it occas i on f rom en t er i ng very fi.ttly tr e r o tit s o f t hi s ques ti o n. W e sh-211 not, buts bo, w say one word about the prosecu illtpeinit:"° fine ourselves to some observations on of th e t r i a l. ' el,r .°cur° 11 , 4 'as certain doetrir.des are merely used for e ent of the Ficests, and spiritual terror is i ttti rilbl/I".Yed to co?,.x the wealth from industry N e d e b I T of a Syb ar i te c l erg y, they may be re- de;Polittr', answ i t h indifference ; but when - Fite o f ktiswera pe inosophy, w hi c h says that no man a fe l his belief, and in despite of corn s' - 'N `which requires that the doctrines on 1, uahan n priesthood build their power over the ° ,cr eti • 41t and Use other men's property at their 4on. 4 rit ' be subject to a rigid investigation, a man o t ‘.' priso n , not f or i nvestigating those doe tlll,r), bu t for publishing the investigations of an question becomes of very-great importance. 14 1 s b ' 4ll 't it is fitly appropriated to guilt, but there k e no more useful viTtue than to strip the tt ,rtip t afr hypocrisy, and', expose to merited con- Nl' ti l°se who el' a im otir reverence from do I ,Lrtieularly .h o ly, But how can this ne ittyihf• investiaat,; .on is to be stopped by those l ion s re - a ttit tlaspho', ny at eve ry step whose preten )%ierd 'to be " i nve stigated ? The decision of wh aY 3 t a se ver e blow to free inquiry, and the 4 aso n is st l id t o be the perfection o f h u man 44clr-)es ail which it can, by such a decision, to 11 4 , tr lh , up hypocrisy, if it exists, and maintain the 'aind. in the chains of a selfish priesthoo . d 'ltii, t , o uht the Jury meant honestly, but they pro fit ce ti i gn , 3rantly, and their decision strikes a blow A lit h)f iel d om, and virtue. Ittr t l "g a 6 men m a y b e p ros ecuted and punished %ri llbl ish . rng opinions, we shall boast. in vain of t ilus t "d " 1 . In Germany, the subjects which we ttiti or :" t discuss ate open to every man's investi- N ro ' grid while every word in the Bible is tll t ecl down our th roa t s by the law, the Germans Th ere ', l aril separate the wheat from the chaff. fib 't is held to be no offence ; neither is it to Jec t at • I, oth th e Old an d N ew T estament t o At itkical .txamination, and to treat those parts if th ' l st' nical w hi c h are s o, an d ex pl a i n , tllyth e Y e , aft be expl a i ne d, th os e pa r t s w hi c h are the re c - L The consequence is, that in Germany I)tr, y a great deal of genuine religion and no • he r , ts Y , while both the Old and the New Testa are correctly appreciat e d. Th ey are not m e r ed t o , be obstacles t o sc i ence, nor are t h ey 41 11.4 by a. T arty to uphold a system of political 4q try. aree appreh en d t h e case i s no t ver y diff eren t h ere ler rtst 7the upper classes. STRAUSS, the most i s 'll4l ab4le opponent Christianity has yet met with, igtfree, 'Y ,imported, both in the original language and ha he Pi . ..tench translation, and even BLACKWOOD q k ' atr t aYldprais'ed the infidel. The ATTORNEY kser;med;med to feel the force of Mt. titt e - 4 1 ;. 1 1 , ;;;ToN's remark, that his offence con- It i t selling blasphemy, as it is called, cheap. gai nF f u ite true that if it be bound up in a two "TAUrne it is freely circulated ; it is only 11, .1 t he discussion assumes the form of a penny ei ttt p h let, and goes i n t o the hands of the working p eer that it i s pronounce d to b e d a ngerous. The t ot ; e nde l asses,in eludin g the clergy—whose education, ili al dOn paga n boocs, makes them take pleasure l ci l4l :°rts of profan e writi ng — en t er i n t o the dis cs , 11 -11 of anti-religious subjects. In fact, there ° r° filth an d more pro f an i ty i n O VID an d `tvt, i 4 i 4 ct, and th e other so-called classical books) tl ks e are th e b as i s o f t h e e d ucat i on o f t h e upper It to: s and which they habitually read and ail % t hati i s t o b e t oun d i n t h e wr i t i ngs o f i.ttttthe i nfidels f rom S PINOZ A to STRAU SS . Th e the vise, i llb icct, howev er , of these g e ntl emen an d o f aw is to k ee p suc h books f rom t h e l ower and the prosecution of Mr. HETRERING -44 13 to be cons id ere d as ano th er i nstance of the Ni nation of the priesthood and the aristocracy th e Continue the slavery and degradation of the u iv orking c l asses . W e s h a ll r e t urn to 11 t,„„ .leet of thi s t r i a l, w hi c h we consider of gr ea t 111 Por 11 it er a and in n o light more important than etchloth c , knee of that; bei; - ;L: o hw tor thenr- and th ithi another for the poor—one law for the r iader& of infidelity, bound up in,two-guinea THE SUN. LONDON. WED\ 141,S0AY. OECEMBI4II 9, IRIO. another column. The follotrit d' interesting news from the Spanish capital is from ' t'he Paris iloniteur of Monday CHANCERY COURT.--(THIS DAY.) N THE MATTER OF WM. IIAINES, OF LEICESTER ---CfiekLii- RAT&S. Mr. WIGHTMAN, with whom W 45 Mr. Wigram, pro ceeded to address the Court to-day at lit sitting, against the application, on the part of Mr. Baines, to be dis charged. lie said that upon considering the ohjectiehe taken to the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court o n the part of his Learned Friends Mr. Hill and Mr. Mel lor, the main questions resolved themselves into three objections ; first, his Learned Friend said that inde pendently of any objections arising upon the significavit, it had not been issued by the proper functionary. Mr. iliee—We say that it has not issued in the proper name, but that it has been issued by the proper functionary. Mr. Wionestee —Then it was said that not having been issuad in the proper name there was no original jurisdic tion upon the significavit as against Mr. Beince, and there was nothing to show that he was brought into question in a suit over which the Ecclesiastical Court had jurisdiction. And his third object was, that assuming the significavit was in the name of the proper functionary, and it appeared that 'here was original jurisdiction, still the proceedings wore such as to oust the Court of its original jurisdiction, and to render all that had been done void. Now with respect to the first objection, which was, that the significavit had not issued in the name-of the proper functionary, he was free to admit, generally speaking, that the significavit issued in the name of the Ecclesiastical Judge, but that was not a rule without an exception; indeed, his Learned Friend hirnaell had stated certain exceptions. In the fist place, if the Bishop should be in remotie agendis, there the signifi cavit would be issued by the official principal or the commis eery; it was therefore not an inflexible rule that the significavit should be issued by the Judge of the Eceles:astical Court, for it was laid down in " d'iner's Abridgement" that a significavit might he issued by the Archdeacon. It WAS not necessary for him to go hack to proceedings before the statute of the 53d Geo. 111. In considering the present question, it was sufficient to state what that statute was, aid whether under that statute the significavit issued on the present ease was not issued by the proper functionary. The Learned Gentleman then referred to the statute, and submitted upon several authorities which he cited that the significavit had been properly issued. His Friend had said it was quite clear, independent of what might have been the practice before the Act of 53d George 111., that the significavit should have been issued in the name of the ecclesiastical principal, and not in that of the official principal. Now the answer to that was, that from time immemorial the official principal had issued monitions and sentences in his own name, and these were authorities both by the Judges in Chancery and Common Law, that the significavit, in the name ef Sir Herbert Jenner, was the proper form ; it was, therefore, too late now for his Friend to contend that the proceedings were irregular, and that though Sir Herbert Jenner might pronounce the moni tion and sentence, yet when it came to the significavit it must by the ecclesiastical :principal. Then with re spect to the second object, he must admit that the mode of expression, the phraseology of the significavit, was cer tainly very much involved, but ninon a little examination he thought the meaning was sufficiently obvious. Now up on this point his Learned Friend had made two objections ; first, he said that it no where appeared on the significavit that Mr. Baines was drawn into a question at all with respect to a suit for subtraction of Church-rates ; and secondly, he stated that the Court of Queen's Bench had mistaken the arguments when they supposed that the form of the proceedings Was sufficient to show that the suit was for subtraction of Church-rates ; Stripped of the involution in which the significavit was wrapped up, it did appear to him that there was a cer tain course of business of subtraction of Church-rates depending before Sir H. Jenner, in judgment between Jolt) and Beveridge, the Churchwardens of St. Martin's, Leicester, on the one part, and Mr. Baines, on the other, and lie was admonished to pay 21. ss. rated and assessed upon him ; and ' that he was duly served with a monition. Nov he confidently submitted that such being the case, no ingenuity could raise a doubt but that that sum was rated upon him for Church-rates. What other rate could he have been called upon to pay in such a suit. It was true that the words that the rate was charged upon him for Church •rates was not put in, but he submitted it was sufficiently clear .that it was iu a cause for t Church-rates, and the inference of his Learned Friend that it might be a highway rate, was altogether untenable. Then it was said that sufficient did not appear on the significavit to show that the Court had jurisdiction over Mr. Baines. ' Now what he submitted with respect to that was, that, according to the current of all the authorities, if it appeared to the secular Judge that enough had been upon the significavit to show that the matter for which the party was contumacious was with respect to a suit upon a subject-matter apparently within the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court, that was sufficient. But then his Friend had said that under the statute of the 53d of George 111. the rate should have been for more than 101., or that it must have been disputed, which was not the case in the present instance. He submitted, with respect to that statute, that it did not take away the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court generally with respect to Church-rates under 101., but it gave a jurisdiction to the Magistrates under certain circumstances. The Church wardens had for the greater facility of recovering Church rates the power of proceeding before Magistrates, but it did not take away the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court. If the party could bring himself within certain predicaments, he could go before a Magistrate, but if he did n o t th en th e jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court attached. His Friend, in order to take away the jurisdiction of the Ec clesiastical Court, ought to show affirmatively that the Magistrates had jurisdiction, and that the validity of the rate had nut been questioned in the Ecclesiastical Court. He, therefore, submitted that upon that part of the argument his Learned Friend's case had failed. Then, another point which had been strongly urged in the Queen's Bench, and equally so in that Court, was, that assuming they were right up to a certain point, and assuming that his Lordship should be of opinion that the signicavit had issued in the name of the proper functionary, and assuming also that the Court should be of opinion upon the significavit that there was originally jurisdiction in the cause against Mr. Baines, still his friend contended that the course of proceeding set out upon the significavit was wholly void, and the Court had no power to pronounce judgment against the party, and hold him in contempt in his absence. low his Friend, in support of that proposition hail cited several old books of practice, but none of them showed that the Court had not the power to pro ceed to sentence in the absence of the party- His Friends were certain cases in which the Ecclesiastical Courts had pro obliged to aomit, even from those a uthorities, that there were ceeded in the absence of the party ; for instance, in suits matrimonial ; and if such was the case, he could not see why they did not hold their jurisdiction in cases of sub- , traction of Church-rates. But his friend had said that it had not been the practice of the Ecclesiastical Court to do so. That might have been the case in former times, but it was not so now. Supposing Mr. Baines had appealed to this Court of Delegates on the ground of the jud gmen t being in his ab sence, and supposing that that C ourt d eterm i ne d that all the proceedings were regular, what a stat e o f things would exist if his Lordship should be of opinion th a t th e C ou rt had no power to proceed to sentence in the absence o f th e party ? But sup posing Mr. Baines, instead of making th e p res ent application , had brought au action against the gaoler for false imprison ment, would the Court in such a case have interfered and issued its warrant ? But then his Friend had contended against the injustice of the proceeding in th e a b sen ce of the party. Now, what was the real fact in th e p rese nt case? Why, Mr. Baines had been cited, and h e did no t choose to come in ; such being the case, would the C our t s ay the proceed ings were void? He submitted in th e fir s t place that the proper course would have been if the judgment was erroneous to have had it reversed, but as long as it remained unreve rsed, ing, and the party could not Compl a i n o f an y wrong having been done him, he not choosing to come i n . He submitted no notice could he taken of the pre sent i nter l o cutory proceed that the proper Court to inquire into this subject was the Court of Delegates, which was the Court of Appeal from the decisions of the Ecclesiastical Court. Then his Friends had taken an objection to the writs—they had said that it did not appear upon the entry on the writ that it was delivered openly in Court, according to the provisions of the statute. Now he submitted that if there had been no entry at all upon the writ it would have been perfectly sufficient, and it lay upon his Friends to show that the proper proceedings had not taken place, and it was not his province to draw inferences, because it was only stated that the writ was delivered as of re cord to the Sheriff, that, therefore, it was not delivered to him openly. The present case had been upon all its points, under the revision of the Court of Queen' s Bench : undoubtedly hits Friend's client had aright to go from Court to Court to obtain their opinions if he chose, but he (Mr. Wightman) had a right to use the decision of the Court of Queen's ench as a direct authority in his favour. Ilis Friend had im pugned some of the reasons given by the Judges o f the Court of Queen's Bench ; it did not become him to say any thing upon that, because it was sufficient for his purpos e that they had decided against Mr. Baines upon the argument s of his Learned Friend. Upon the whole he submitted that Mr. that sup- Baines was not entitled to his discharge. interfere Mr. WIGRAm followed on the same side. The first point for the consideration of the Court was whether the Eccles as t ical Court had jurisdiction over the !abject matter of the suits. His Friends had said that it did not appear on the signie_ cavil that the Court had that jurisdiction. , Now, upon looking at the several statutes, he must confess that it appeared to him, as it had been decided by the Court of Queen's is aenen, which had had the subject twice before it, that there was no doubt the Ecclesiastical Courts had jurisdiction. Then as to the second point which had been made— posing there was jurisdiction—the Court had not tried the ease iss,AuVth. in such a way, as far as appeared from the significavit, that the writ de eontumacio capiendo had not been properly ' It had always been the rule of .the Court not to the proceedings of another. Court. In a case before th'ere Chancellor, reported in 3d Simons, where all the cases Vice subject were mentioned, it was held that the proceedings this another Court, even of a foreign Court, must be held to of to he binding on the parties. Unless the proceedings were extremely vicious anti bad indeed, it was difficult to coneeive thatremely Court would interfere. Nothing had been done in the the Eccle siastical Court which might not have been dim e in this Court,provided the proceedings were perfectly regular. That observa tion, he believed, applied to every other point of ob . that had beet. taken ; but he submitted that the proceedings stli in price anti authority were in every way Perfectly °igs re lar. The only other point arose on the ternis of the signifi cavit, and it was said first that it did not ap war upon the significavit that the 21. bs. was a sum demanded its respect of Church-rates, but he su bmitted the re was a sufficient identification of the sum order ed to be paid, becau se i t re cites} that whereas he had been rated and assessed at the sum of el/. 55., and whereas a suit had been instituted against him for the subtraction of C herch-rates, he had been ordered in that suit to pay the sum, an d it was ri diculous to say that the Court, in a suit relating to Churc h-rates, and Church-rates alone, Would make anorder for payment of a sum in respect; of another matter. The Learned Counsel concluded by submitting that all the proceed ingsand that the • had been perfectly regular, prisoner must re main in custody until he tnought proper to pay that which was a legal demand. rent principle upon Mr. Hite. replied. The g which he founded his case was, that the Lord Chancellor hada sup er i ntending power over all the Courts of W es minster Hall ; and that betore the Lord Chancellor became aux iliary , to_ Sir He r b ert J enner, it was his duty to look and see that zeir, Herber t J enner had been perfectly regular. That at once disposed Le a r ed of all those cases that had been cited by his Wasit to b Friends re l at i ve to foreign courts and fore i g n law.e said that the Lord Judges Chancellor and the superior had no duty to perform with reference to the liberty of the subject and the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts? Why, they were the constant guardians against the us urpation of the Ecclesiastical Courts. Even in Papal times the p roue( ings of the Ecclesiastical Courts were such that th e Courts of Law were called upon to hold them in jurisdiction. The construction which the sth of Elizab e th every Judge had put o nw as this, 4 , mis chief has accrued from trusting these Spiritual Courts." We will riot, therefore, lend them the process of the com mon law, excep t on two conditions ; first of all, that th e writ is Opened and read before it, goes at in order that the sludges n.av see it ought to issue ; and second:y, that it be re turned into this Court, so that it' there be any slip in the first in stance by reason of the party most interested not being before the Courtat the time, then the writ shall be returned here in order that there may be an opportunity of examining into its validity. The Learii€C er.)..!eitiernart then , proceeded to combat the arguments that had been Urged against him; and observed, that upon the point that the Court e ATeltres had no right to deteritiikt . the case in the absence of the del4Attant ; the *ther side had cited fiti authorities whatever to contro4i the objec tion he had taken. The Loan ChIANCELLOR should like to have an tii tibttttnity of looking into the cases before I give my judgment. I she'll!, also like to be furnished with a coil 55 the notes of Lord Denhaifes kidqment. EXCHEQUER COURT-TIIIS DAY. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justli:C COO/AIAN and a Le osion Common Jury.) tioi,.lrts v. JSELOE. This was an action fur false ittiptisonment. Mg r ' Mt P*,ATT (with whom was Mr. hetes) stated the case to the Jury. The defendant was a shoernaiter in a large business in the City. The plaintiff had been brought L as a dicker, and had spent nine years in thi. , ..t.t. , r7iee of one master, and in that time he had, with the assistahee of his master, iatroted a machine for cutting out boots and slihttl,/ which saved much labour. He was indoeed to enter the serititt of the defendant in April, taking the machine with him at 3 0 s. c%eg,..5 per week. On the 20th of July, while he Wie nt work in his master's , back shop, the latter entered, end found him cutting some leather different to that that had been given aft to him. Having before had some dishonest servants, he challeged him with felony. The plaintiff ;ass given into the ettstody_ of a policeman and detained in the station - ho use al l night. .tle "'es taken before the Lord Mayor, who liter(' the evidence of the defendant, and then said that there was no t-,,.!_erge of felony in the case and discharged the prisoner. Mr. EitLE (with whom was Mr. Grey) stated 1.1!* de fendant's case, and proved !,bat the plaintiff had no right to have been at work Open Cordovan leather on the day in question, he having plenty of Spanish to cut to employ him two or three days; that upOttlydng caught at it, lie was very much confused, and at first said the leather was waste, and afterwards that he had been trying a new pat tern, but had failed in doing so, He also proved that the mo ther of the plaintiff waited upon him, a!*ed him to be merciful before the Lord Mayor, and that, in fact, the defendant had not offered any evidence before the Magistrat e but t!n. own, and that when the Lord Mayor wished to remand the prisoner; the defendant interceded for him, and obtained his discharge. The Jury found for the plaintiff, with '2ol. damages. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. (THIS DAY.) Thomas Delapicre, a very fashionable -looking man, was charged with creating a great disturbance in the street, and striking a constable. Inspector Jarvis, of the C division, stated that during the remainder of the night, after the defendant had been locked up in one of the cells, he continued to make such a disturbance by shouting, and hammering with the heel of bis boot against the door, that the whole neighbourhood was disturbed, and the noise could be beard for full half a mile off. He also knocked down a very considerable por tion of the wall of the cell. The defendant said he certainly was a little intoxicated, but denied striking the police-constable. He was a native of France, and was unacquainted with the laws of this country. Mr. LONG said the laws of every country enforced a rea sonable obedience to persons in authority, and as the de fendant had committed three distinct offences—viz. drunk enness, assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty, and behaving in a riotous and disorderly manner in the sta tion-house —he should fine him 405., and in default of pay ment commit him to the House of Correction for one month. Some friends of the defendant immediately paid the fine, and he was discharged. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies since Monday have been good of Oats from Ireland, but small of all other grain. T.iere was very little English Wheat for sale, and Monday's prices were supported. Barley and Oats were firm in value. The Flour trade met no improvement. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Trade was dull for all descriptions of Meat. Beef was in small supply ; Mutton was rather dearer, although the supply was large. In Veal and Pork no alteration ; Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d.; Mutton, 3s. to 4s. ; Veal, 4s. to 4s. 4d.; and Pork, :3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. per stone. There was a good supply of Poultry and Game, tract: inactive. Hares 2s. to 3s. each ; Rabbits 6s. to 18s. per dozen ; Grouse 4s. to ss. per brace; Partridges 3s. to 4s. 6d. per brace; Geese 4s. to 7s. 6d. each; Ducks Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. each ; Wild Ducks 2s. to 4s. per couple ; Wid geons 2s. to 2s. 6d. ; Chickens 3s. to ss. per couple; Pheasants 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. each ; Black Game ss. to 10s. per brace; Tui kepi 4s. 6d. to 10s. each ; Surrey Capons ss. 6d. to 7s. 6d. ; Fowls 3s. 6d. to Bs. per couple ; Pigeons 6s. to 9s. per dozen ; Snipes, Plovers, and Teal 6d. to Is. each ; Larks Is. per dozen. For shipping, Live Old Hens, t 2 ls. Bd. e a h Ducas, 2s. to 2s. 6d. ; and Turkeys, 2s. to 4s. 6d, ch. Eggs, ss. 3d. to Bs. per 120. COMMERCIAL MARKET. Prices were firm, but few sales were made privately, either for home use or export, and the auctions were of little moment. Tne arrivals were light from all parts. TEA MARKET. The market was dull for Free Trade Tea, but in prices no material variation occurred ; the tendency, however, was downwards, the general opinion being that the differ ences existing between this country and China will now be speedily settled. Company's Cungou dull of sale at 2s. 31d. per lb. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Buyers of Russian 'I allow were more on the alert, and a fair business was done in P. Y. C. both on the spot, and to errive, at 475. 6d. to 48s. per cwt. The stock is much larger than last year. SPIRIT MARKET. Few buyers of Rum, and prices had a downward ten. dency, the stock being on the increase. Brandy firm in price, and in good request. British Corn Spirits dull of sale: TLLEGRAFHIC DESPATCH. This news created very little stir in ras',s, and we sincerely hope that Frenchmen, s:., e i rig t h a t Syria is lost to MEILF:NIET ALI, cic:SerVedly lost too, inas much as ase Syrians g'setested him as a tyrant, and threw e ; .11 arOlte at the first summons of the All; „es—swill seriously turn their thoughts to pc-esce. They must see now that they were mistaken as to the sway of MEHEMET Aet in Syria from the first. The principal bone of contention is thus removed, and the Treaty of July at an end. France, therefore, need no longer stand aloof from the Great Powers. But to prove her sincerity, she must discontinue her arma ments, which the Paris Journals of Monday inform us are progressing with the utmost rapidity. If these armaments be continued, we can but repeat the opinion which we expressed on Monday as to the line of conduct which it behoves the British Government to pursue. We require now a stronger pacific post to lean against than the respectable ma jority of eighty-six upon the Ministerial address, especially as the bulk of these gentlemen treated the question of a war with England less as a horri ble possibility to be avoided by all just means, than as a question of time, and of means to carry it on successfully. The Punic faith of M. 211IERs; as avowed by himself and his colleague, M. de Re- MUSA T, render us suspicious of those who hare recorded their votes in support of the "war in spring" policy. Nut that we entertain the slightest distrust personally of the moderation of the KING, the patriotism of M. GUIZOT, or the magnanimous forbearance and good sense of Marshal SOULT, but because we do not find either in France herself, or in her represen tatives, that enthusiastic support of the policy of the Court and Cabinet which would be to us a guarantee of its changeless durability. We are disturbed by the variance between the language and the conduct of France. She still, it is true, speaks of peace as an object especially dear to her, but her hand, instead of an olive branch, grasps the hilt of her sword. Her founderies roar and hiss, but her cunning workers in brass and iron, instead of forging steam-engines and rails for roads, cast cannon, and manufacture bayonets and musket barrels. Hcr arsenals are hives of industry, but it is that her flag may carry death to all she may de nounce as her foes, not that her merchants may be greeted as the harbingers of commerce and civiliza tion in quarters of the globe yet imperfectly con versant with the enterprise, the products, and the humanizing influence of France. She prepares for peace;, as the witches repeated the LORD'S Prayer in incantations backwards. Instead of converting the sword into a ploughshare, she forges the ploughshare into a sword. Of her river barges she makes gun-boats, and of her merchant craft three-deckers. When pressed for a definition of peace, she boldly proclaims it to be the forcible submission of all Europe to the will of France ; and that she is merely aiming to secure that great blessing to the world Now we are not so ignorant of international law as to suppose that it is not perfectly com petent to France to raise whatever armaments she may think proper for her own defence. Her only limits to such dangerous extravagance are in the forbearance of her neighbours, the money in her treasury, and the patient submission of her people to war-taxes in a time of peace. But this competency to do mischief by inspiring alarms, restricting commercial intercourse, and squandering the money of the tax-payers, she only shares in common with all the States by whom she is sur rounded. England, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, arc as free to fit out armaments, to be ready against the spring, as France. This is what the mos t warlike of her subjects may yet discover to their cost. We tried as long as we could to combat the idea that a war between England and France, at the present advanced state of civilization in both was so much as possible. We fancied that nations mutually so brave—mutually so enlightened—mu tually so benefited by commercial and neighbourly intercourse—mutually so repentant that they should have so long misunderstood each other—mutually so eager to cement public by private friendships, could never be again frantic enough to contemplate, with yells of triumph, the shedding of each other's blood. But the continuance of her armaments, when every pretext for employing them in the East is over, occasions us much uneasiness. The fol lowing extract from a letter, published in the Times, and dated from Paris on Saturday last, gives no exaggerated description of the enthusiasm with which France is preparing for a state of things, which we devoutly trust will never arrive : Every letter received in Paris from the seaports of France teems with notices of the measures ordered with a view to the increase of the navy. That will not, however, give you any uneasiness, but every letter re• ceived from Grenoble, Strasburg, Metz, Lille, &c., speaks of the Herculean labours of the Government to create or accumulate magazines of the materiel of war, on a scale which nothing but insanity or a determina tion to throw off the mask when ready (or both, for some people will say they are pretty much akin), could account for. Europe is not to be alarmed by indis creet menaces as by M. Theirs—no raising of 450,000 men to increase the military force actually on foot to 900,000 men. Soldiers France can have at a mo ment's notice--" a breath can make them ;' but it is not so with respect to cannons, muskets, sabres, and bayonets, gunpowder, shells, balls, and bullets, clothing, or accoutrements ; and all these things in sufficient quantity for a three years' war, with an army of a million of men, are in process of fabrication, collection, and v. arehousing in France at, this very moment. We repeat, then, that if these military prepara tions be continued—and M. HUNIANN's budget looks very like their continuance—our Government had better be prepared for whatever may happen The Lords of the Admiralty have hitherto proved themselves not unequal to the important demands made upon them by the national interests in the East and the West ; we trust they will not re lax in their vigilance in the promotion of the true glory of their country. The pride, th e soul of England is her navy. Provided; the Admi ralty give encouragement to plenty of blue jackets, like the gallant STOI'FORD, WALKER, and the in vincible CHARLEY NAPIER, we are safe. These are the boys for us and old England. These are not the " Queen's Ov%n," or the " Prince's Own," but they are the " Nation's Own," " Great Bri tain's Own," the " Queen, Prince, and People's O wn ," wheresoever the British flag is spread to catch the breezes of victory. It is indifferent to us what is done upon land, provided nothing is neg lected at sea. Our only sure defence, after Heaven, is in our wooden walls, and the stout hearts man- ning them. Of general news there is very little of any inte rest in the French Journals. What there is, to gether with the report of the presentation of the Budget to the Chamber of Deputies on Monday will be found in another part of The Sun. M. GulzoT and M. MARTIN (do Nord) have been rc-Liected by arcat majorities. Madrid Papers, of the 30th Int., have been re ceived, and extracts front them will be found in " BAYONNE, DEC. 5. " THE SUE-PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. (This arrived by telegraph to Tours, and from that city to Paris by courier.) " By decree of the Regency, dated November 30. an amnesty is granted for all crimes and offences committed since July 10, 1837. " The Carlist refugees, except for the moment, the civil and military chiefs, and the officers and priests, are authorised, on condition of taking the oath, to return to Spain by the Junviierrs and Confrane." LLOYIY S SHIPPING-('PHIS DAY.) DEAL, DEC. B.—Wind S, S. W., fresh breeze.—Ar rived the Water Lily, Hart, from Jamaica. Sailed the Natalie, Drcut- Amsterdam, for Batavia. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 8. —Wind S.E.—Arrived the Mos lem, Vale, from London, for Malta; Alderman Thump son, Darling, from Newcastle for Jamaica ; Siam, Smith, from London to Sierra Leone ; Superior, Dunning, Caps of Good Hope; Collector, Palermo; Abercrombie Ro binson, Frazer, from London, for Malta, with bowsprit sprung, and other damage; Spring, Day, from Yarmouth, with loss of main boom, bulwarks, put back ; Susan, Nearby, Sydney, New South Wales. It has blown a strong gale from S. S. E. to S. FALMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Wind S. S. W. to S. W., a vio lent gale.—Arrived the Deene, from Newcastle for Gib raltar ; Crane packet, Belize, sailed Oct. 2, Tampico, 18, Vera Cruz and Havannah, 10th ult., with 95,200 dol lars; Royal Adelaide, Quebec ; Sir John Byng, Galatz ; Champion, Bream, Taganrog ; Sarah, CafEero, Barletta; Neptune, Stephens, Girganti ; Superb, Stewart, from In verkeithing, for Malta ; David Grant, Laurence, from Shields, for Malta ; Etna, Sloss, ditto, ditto ; Monkton, Haman, ditto; Charente, Pleya, from Sunderland for Bordeaux ; Mary Anne Pendcup, Sillis, from Yarmouth for Venice ; Adelaide, Dryden, from London, for Laun ceston; Wanderer, Hind, from London, for St. Lucia; King Alfred, from ditto, to St. Michael's; Sophia, Payne, from London, for Malta ; Libra, Gibbons, from ditto, to Oporto. Put back thu Azores packet, Peters, fur St. Michael's. The Montrose. with the Peninsular mails, and the Penguin packet, for Brazil, are prevented sailing by the violence of the galp. PENZANCE, DEC. 6 —Arrived off port, the Alpine, Charleston, from Amsterdam ; Guesachan, Anna, and Pro tector, Wood, Demerara. BRISTOL, DEC. 7.—Arrived the General Douglas, Hide, from Quebec. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 8 —The Cleveland, from Bombay, Speed, from St. John's, New Brunswick, United King dom, front Quebec, and an American ship, are at anchor near the north-west light-ship. The United Kingdom was struck by a sea during the passage, which washed away huh , arks, store-boats, and killed one man. It blew very hard last night from the s ,uthward, with violent squalls, during one of which the Valiant, from Port-au-Prince, that was at anchor near N. W. light, dragged her anchors, and was obliged to cut away her mast, &c., and thus rode out the gale. SALCOMBE, DEC. B.—The Esperance, Rolland, from Adra to Dunkirk, was driven on shore at the entrance of this harbour during a tremendous gale last evening, and is breaking up ; crew saved. TEIGNMOUTII, DEC. B.—The Howard, Bartlett, from Mil aniichi, which arrived off this port yesterday, parted from her anchors during a heavy gale from S. S.E. last night, and lies stranded on the beach, but is expected to be got cff shore if the weather continues moderate. HARWICH, DEC. B.—The Elbe, Muller, from Havre to Newcastle, was totally wrecked on the Goodwin Sands last night; crew saved. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—The sales of Cowin to-day were 3,500 bags, chiefly Americans, at steady prices. LIVERPCOL SHARE LIST, DEC. B.—Eastern Counties debentures 4a I 1-6ths ; Glasgow and Paisley 221 ; Grand Junction (palter shares 5.24 ; Great Western 891,- ; ditto fifths 9i 1 ; London and Birmingham 168 ; Brighton United Company 30 ; Manchester and Leeds half shares 291 ; North Midland half shares 364. The Philadelphia packet, London line, has arrived at Deal ; her papers are old dates. Our arrivals this morning are the Crane packet, from Vera Cruz—sailed October 29, and Havannah November 10, and ship letters from the Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 7. The packet Crane, from Tampico Oct. 1 8, has brought only $95,000, not so large a freight as was expected ; the following packet which is to come, the Star, will bring a freight of nearly $lOO,OOO. The Crane had only one passenger. The accounts from Mexico continue gloomy. It is stated in a Boston Paper that the ship Delhi, from the East Indies, whose cargo is now selling in New York, will realize a clear profit to her owners of 2.50,000 dollars on one voyage. In the expose of the French Minister of Finance, it is stated that the expenditure for 1841, amounting to 1,200,000,000 i., and the receipts only 1,155,000,000 f., a new deficit of 45,000,000 f. would ensue, and th)t if the armaments shonld be continued in 1841, the whole deficit would exceed 832,000,000 f. This stgtement, no doubt, will require a large! loan, but not to the amount anti cipated. volumes, and another for the readers of similar Writings in penny tracts. The news of the submission of the PACHA is happily confirmed. The fact was made known in Paris on Monday by the appearance of the follow , Ing telegraphic despatch posted up on the Bourse : TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH FROM MARSEILLES OF THE 4TH INSTANT, RETARDED AT LYONS FROM THE STATE OF THE ATMOSPHERE. " THE CONSUL GENERAL TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " After a long conference between the Commodore Napier and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mehemet Ali, the Viceroy decided this day ( Nov. 26) to accept the hereditary possession of Egypt only, to restore the Turkish fleet, and to evacuate Syria." THE FUNDS Consols which left off yesterday at S 9 5 ex dividend, for the Opening, may be quoted this morning rather lower, 895 4, with scarce anything doing as yet; Exchequer Bilis, 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1565 1575 ; India Stock, 236 238, ex. dividend ; Reduced 894 a. In the Foreign Market Span;sh Active continues at the leaving off price of 241 1 ; Deferred, 121; Passive, ki 64- ; Portuguese, also same as the closing price, 341 345 ; '1 oree per Cents. 221 ; Brazilian, 70 72 ; Colombian, same 251 261, ; Mexican, 291 305 ; Chilian, 55 57 ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents., left off 512- 514, at present lower, 511 A ; Five per Cents., 38A. Shares—Great NN estcrn Railway, 23,),- 244 prem. ; Lon don end Brighton, 95 84 dis. ; Blackwall, 45 4 dis, ; Bir mingham, 77 79 premium ; Southampton, 53 54 per share ; Croydon, 114 12 per share ; Greenwich, 7} 8 per shale ; Manchester and Birmingham, 13 11 dis. URIOES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Great Western Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and Blackwall London and Birmingham 90 Ditto New Shares 24 London and Greenwich ..... .... 20 North Midland South Eastern and Dover JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American ....... Colonial ... National of Ireland COURSE OF EXCHAD Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ......... 2 U l2 65 Antwerp Hamburg... ...... M. B l3 11 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 45 Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine 1494 Petersburg, 3 Us 37 Berlin ienna, effee. fl. 3M lO 4 Trieste, ditto lO 6 Madrid Cadiz 355 Bilboa Barcelona ... 355 Seville . .......... .„ .. 355 .. 40 to .. 17 [GE—(YESTERDAY). 1 Gibraltar .46 Leghorn . Genoa. Milan Venice Naples •. 39i Palermo, per oz 121 Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro 2B l Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight 44 Philadelphia PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold Coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10, Silver in Bars 0 5 0, HALF-PAST ONE. We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 7th of October. They contain a memorial which all par ties cannot but read with deep interest, as it points out, in language not to be misunderstood, the rumours, in cor se quence of the system that has been too long pursued upon our frontier, that the momentous declaration is made to the Government, that; unless active measures are promptly adopted for the better security of the frontier, the English inhabitants will be compelled to follow the example of their Dutch neighbours, and, like them, seek in some remote district a home. The reply was as follows : Slit,-1 am directed by the Lieutenant-Governor to ac knowledge the receipt of your letter of the Ist instant, transmitting a memorial, signed by yourself and certain of the inhabitants residing in the Moncarana and Ilonap dis tricts, praying that some effectual measures may be taken by the Government for the better security of their lives and property, and to acquaint you that the memorial has been forwarded in his Excellency the Governor., I have the honour to be, HUDSON, Acting-Secretary. The American .barcse Pioneer, Captain Conkling, arrived at Baltimore in the :extraordinary short space of twenty-three days from Rotterdam. Consols are a shade lower than in the earlier part of the morning, when they were 891 ;1,- for the Opening, at pre sent may be quoted 891, they have been fluctuating during the morning from 891 4, with little:doing. Although the war in Syria is at an end, and Mehemet Ali has submitted to the Allied Powers, it has not had any effect on the British Market, it being anticipated for several days past. Reduced 891 ; Exchequer Bills, 2 4 prem. ; India Bonds, 14 dis. ; Bank Stock, nothing done; India Stock for the Opening, 238 i. The Foreign Market is also inactive to the present time. Spanish Active, 241 ; Deferred, 121 ; Portu guese Five per Cents new Bonds, 341 ; Mexican, 29; Consolidated, 1837, Five per Cents, 291; Dutch Two and-a• Half per Cents., 511 ; Five per Cents., 98i1 4. In Shares some business has been done, with an im provement. Eastern Counties, 9 ; Great Western, fifths, 9i4Lhaomnd,unneawndshßarriegsh,to4nB 3 ; I. r ; ce l n dl v i v ic ic k h ca.l B ll, ; I N l rt t ; Bir in Mid land, 741. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 28 Five per Cents. Dietalliques • lO Itti4l!g Four per Cents. t+o Three per Cents. Bank sham ..... —Allgemeine Zcitung. Dee. 3. ----- By a letter addressed to Mr. Foster (as Secre tary of the Chamber of Commerce) by order of the Post master-General, it appears that " the late irregularities in Ow arrival of the Lundon mail, rre entirely Ft ttributrd delay 6, which have occurred on the North Midland R a il_ and that such ni,:asures have Leen taken by his Lordship "as he trusts will remedy the evil complained of. "...Hull Observer. LITERATURE. BLACKFRIARS9-BRIDGE.—The last crnbellisi, meets for this bridge have just been finished, and are now erecting over the centre arch, facing the cast and west. They consist of two specimens of the armorial bearings of the City, executed with considerable skill and ability, and which appear with good effect on passing up and down the river. CHEATING BAKERS,—No fewer than 181 bakers have been recently prosecuted before tbe Tribunal of Simple Police at Paris, for selling bread under the proper weight. In the cases of 73, the Court found ex tenuating circumstances, hut the rest were condemned to the maximum of the penalties imposed by law. REPRESENTATION OF SCARBOROUGH.—We announced last week the intention of Sir Charles Style to retire at the next election. Colonel Phipps, a relative of the Must Noble the Marquis of Normanby, has since then made a public entry into the town, and is making a general canvas.— Yorkshirernan. THE NEW lIOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The walls of the new Houses of Parliament arc progressing very rapidly. The elevation of most of the outside walls now reaches about twelve feet. Every exertion will be made to complete both houses in the rime originally spe cified. The new Reform Club-house in Pa is nearly finished. The architecture and appearance of the exterior are very handsome ; the apartments in the inte rior arc exceedingly well arranged, lofty and vvell propor tioned, and throughout the whole of the building beauty and convenience arc united. About eighteen months ago a French vessel, the Neptune, de Means, was:rrrecked under the high cliff near Birling gap, and in March last another French vessel, the Auguste Marie, de 'Vannes. was wrecked near the same spot. Both crews would inevitably have perished but for the generous gallantry of Lieutenant Blair, R. 4., com manding the Coast Guard station at Birling gap, and the crew under his orders. At great personal risk,—and in the eas e of the latter vessel particularly, —they succeeded after protracted and severe exertion in saving from a watery grave twelve human beings out of the thirteen who composed the two crews. The circumstances having been reported to the Minister of Marine by the French Consul at Brighten, the report was laid before his Majesty Louis Philippe, who desired that an honorary gold medal should be presented to Lieut. Blair, and silver medals to three of his crew, viz., Wm. King, Wm. Davis, and Duncan M'lnnes, who incurred peculiar hazards in obeying the Lieutenant's instructions during the tremendous gale when the latter vessel was lost. These medals will be forwarded through the French Ambassador in London and the Bri tish Admiralty. This occurrence is equally honourable to both countries, and at this particular moment is most de lightful,ias showing that the wild cries.of a maddened peo ple cannot stifle the sentiments of gratitude in a ruler's breast. —Brighton Gazette. Information was on Monday given at Bow-street, that John Delton Holt had, on Thursday last, absconded from his employers at Liverpool with 3,0001. in notes and gold. One of the notes taken is a Bank of England note for 5001., No. J. C. 7,665. The delinquent is about 41 or 42 years of age, about 5 feet 8 inches high. His person is thin, and slightly made, and his complexion pale and sallow. His eyes are large, and his hair black. A reward of 2001. is offered for his apprehension and conviction. Grouse-shooting ends to-morrow. The season has been pioductive of much sport in Scotland, Cumber land, and other northern counties. It is a fatiguing and manly amusement compared to pheasant and hare shooting in preserves, which comparatively cannot be denominated sporting. The Leeds Reform Association, invited INTr. O'Connell to a public dinner; and he has accepted the invitation. It is expected there will be six thousand per sons present on the occasion. When Jean d'Acrc was formerly taken, the same negligence was observable when the victors entered the fortress that occasioned the iate explosion of a magazine and other mischief ; the powder lay loose about the place and between the guns, which was noticed in the account at the time of its surrender many years ago. Olin ELEVEN DAYS.--Bradley, astronomer royal, had a considerable share in the assimilation of the British Calendar to that of other nations. Lord Chesteasr field was the or inal p romoter of this measure, which w carried in 1751. The following curious anecdote happily illustrates the presumption and ignorance of the mob in those days --Lord Chesterfield took pains, in the peri odical journals of the day, to prepare the minds of the public for the change ; but he found it much easier to presail with the Legislature than to reconcile the great mass of the people to the abandonment of their inveterate habits. When Lord Chesterfield's son stood the great contested election for Oxfordshire in 1754, one of the moat vehement cries raised by the mob was, " Give us back the eleven days we have been robbed of ' (the reader will re collect that Hogarth introduces this in his Election Feast) —and, several y ears after, wh en Bradley, worn down by his labours in the cause of science, was sinking under the dis ease which closed his mortal career, many of the common people attributed his sufferings to a judgment from heaven for his having been instrumental in what they consider to have been so impious an undertaking. DUBLIN RE VIE W —No. XVIII IYoThu London, 1640. The objection which We have so often made to this Quarterly Journal—that it is heavy and mono tonous in its character, appiles less to this Nurrrber than any of its predecessors. We now meet with none of those scholastic theological discussions is which it used formerly to abound, and which had no other effect than to perplex and mystify the general reader ; these abstruse themes are, in a great measure laid aside, and their place supplied by others better suited to the comprehensiour of the majority of readers. The first paper is devoted to a consideration of the " Transactions of the Armco relogical Society ;" and the remarks interspersed throughout it on the economy of the atmosphere, are distinguished by just such a spirit of fervid and commendable piety as the subject necessarily awakens in the mind of a thoughtful man. We dif fer, however, from one or two of the Reviewer's in ferences, especially when speaking of the height at which life can be sustained without inconvenience ; he says, " Humboldt and other travellers who have surmounted the Cordilleras of the Andes, affirm that tile" , Auffered great difficulty in breathing when they reached those summits. Monck Mason how ever, in the account he has given of his celebrated aeronantic expedition that acrossthe the balloon Chan nel with Mr. Greene N frequently attained an alttude of twelve thousand feet ; and that at Pa time ciLl they experience the slialue effect on their bodies fre'm th• diminished superineuenkat weight of the atmosChere. He, as we think, justly gatibutes the difficulty of breath ire, spoken of by getabo ldt an d ethers, to the museelee fatigue necessarily i!esurred in the cou7o of their uuWet4 ,journey." Nov ;lois inference is untenable, as being drawn from wrong, premises. Humboldt's difficulty of iateething was not the le stilt of fatigue, but of the fa euperior elevation he had gained, having actually reached—see his own ttevels translated by Helen Maria Williams, a work which we read evith infinite pleasure many years age—to within eleven hundred yards of the summit of Chimborazo ; which is nearly twenty four thousand feet in height : At the compara tively insignigeght elevation attained bv. the aeronauts he complained of no difficulty of breath ing ; indeed, how could he, with justice, when we all know that it is no uncommon thing for enter prising travellers to ascend to quite as great a height up Mont Blanc, as Monck Mason reached in his balloon ? The following circumstance e ill be new to many of our readers :—" It is a singular thing, mentioned by Colonel Ileid, in hia observations on the law of storms, that no storm has ever been known to occur at St. Helena: The degree of magnetic intensity Lhere is the lowest yet ascertained on the globe. That fortunate island may be said therefore, to be placed in the tare Pacific ocean of the world." How strange, that the mighty Napo leon, whose life had been one continued scene of storm and tempest, and who had swain over Europe like a desolating hurricane, should at last nave found his grave in an ever-peaceful region, where storms were unknown ! But, unluckily for the sentiment of the thing, such is not the fact, for Scott and Autcmmarchi both assert that the day of the Emperor's death was marked by a furious tempest ; and that, like Cromwell, he drew his last breath while the elements were all in fear ful activity about him. " Shakspeare" is a defence of this incomparable dramatist from the heretical opinions, as the Reviewer seems to think them, of Mr. Peregrine Courtenay. In the course of this defence, Dr. Johnson's definition of history is quoted, which we do not remember to have met with before. " History," quoth the sage of Bolt court, " is a narration of events and facts delivered with dignity." If this be really the true definition of the word, then is George Robins one of the greatest historians on record ; for who narrates " events and facts"—such as the sale of an estate and its various local recommendations—with dignity, equal to his ? His mode of narration has quite an epic majesty about it. Like Goldsmith, he elevates whatever he touches, and were he but to announce the sale of a cargo of Irish pigs, they would be sure to assume in his advertisements the dignified aspect of elephants. We have often thought that it would be an excellent speculation were Mehemet Ali to commission George to sell his Egyptian deserts in lots, for our great modern historian would describe them in such a sublime and impressive manner, dwelling with special emphasis on the amazing fertility of their soil, and the copious va riety of streams which traversed them, that they would find instant purchasers. " Modern French Romances" is a spirited protest against the extrava gance and licentiousness that characterise the majo rity of French works of fiction. The passing obser vations on the novel "Georges Sand" arc calculated to do great good. There are two or three more articles, which we have neither time nor space to Lscuss ; and among the best of them is the one on to present state of our foreign affairs. MR. M'CULLOCIPS DICTIONARY. Part VIII. is just published, which completes the first volume of this work. The most interest ing articles in this Number are on Hanover, Hol land, and Hindostan, in which the history, geo graphy, and statistics of these countries are given with Mr. M'Culloch's usual accuracy and judg ment. Every new Number, however, makes us regret that a work of this importance should be printed in such a small type. Old people can not read it, and as the young will in time be old, it will be to them also a sealed book. Had it been expanded to three volumes, with a little additional charge, neither the editor nor publishers would have suffered. It is but proper, however, to state that the letter-press is very distinct, and the maps, in general are well executed. The following brief history of the ancestors of the Queen of England, taken from the article " Hanover," will be found interesting at the present time Tonv.—Tha kingdom of Hanover is formed out of the duchies formerly possessed by several families of the junior branch of the house of Brunswick. The reigning family derives its origin from the union of the Marquis d'Este, in the 11th century, with a wealthy princess of Bavaria, the issue of which received the sur name Guelph, from his maternal ancestors, and inhe rited the dukedom of Bavaria. Henry the Proud, third in descent from him last, mentioned, married Gertrude, the ruling Princess of Brunswick ; their son, well known in the history of the crusades as Henry the Lion (born 1129), was the first Gerdph Duke of Brunswick. He married a daughter of Henry 11., King of England ; and from this marriage both the houses of Brunswick and Luneberg are descended. The history of Hanover for the two centuries preceding the Lutheran reformation presents little interest, except in the connexion of its princes with the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, in the latter end of the 14th century; little or nothing is known of its internal history. The reformation num bered the Princes of Brunswick among its most zealous supporters, and their subjects, during the thirty years' war, warmly seconded their anti-papal efforts. Ernest of Zell, the reigning Duke, was one of the most elo quent defenders of Luther at the diet of Worms. His endeavours to improve the people by establishing cleri• cal and general schools, when learning was esteemed only by the few, show him to have been a man of en lightened views. His grandson, Ernest Augustus, mar ried Sophia, a grand-daughter of James 1., of England (by his daughter Elizabeth, the wile of the elector palatine) ; and on this marriage was founded the claim of the elder branch of the house of Brunswick to the English Crown, acknowledged by Parliament in 1701. George Louis was the issue of this marriage, and be came King of England in 1714 ; from which time, till 1837, at the death of William IV., both England and Hanover have had the same Sovereign. :__._ _ .. _ ..... 1, le T a ,re selet .tions from Sir Walter Raleigh and Cow t as good as could have been given ; aboa those from Jeremy Taylor, too, and Tillo en,, .ar e not amiss; • but why have we nothing-fisill qv' Er ilton, whose A urose works, in detached frit ! , '.."!" -,-, - n the most ac ceptable reading possib ;3_11411„ ; * - -- = ' , :;?. t 1 the frequent ruggedness and obscure _ i tivoAtig -1, : :.,77i;.) it is somewhai t of a task to wade .0-1 ,, ,,.--.- - Y-:- , ',!_-:// whole ? The poetical extracts Itt. - tididieni.: .?"'/ up --. 1 ,- ! .- f de by no means remarkable for super v ci - PICTORL4L SHAKSPEARE, PART X ;Cl/47 C. Knight, London, 1840. This Part comprises the entire comedy " Twelfth Nigiit," to which is affixed a " Suppl -neintary notiee," from the pen, we presume, of tl Elitor, whose rem lirks show a thorough appreciatio of iti‘e myriad beaujes of the play. The illustra lions ::rc as apposite and engiaved with as much frbility as ever ; the I:Tontispiece, in particular, ex- Pubis two: full-length figures, Olivia and the dis gc,,ised Vie4i, who arc standing talking together in t h e f t ire-ground of the picture, and are compicuous by tha exceeding grace of their attitudes. VICTORIA. E. Wilson, _London, 1840. In a in gdest, chastely written preface the Author' of this poen ► eAplains th e o bj ec t s h e h a d i n v i e w. ire a. yid adds that he " en t e rtains a hope writing it, that some share: of that indulgence which has been usually shown h T the public to the first attempt of an I may prove t o b e we ll f oun d e d, aspiring p o et, way be extend e d t o hi m ." We may meet with a f avoura bl e re atrruidstallaiatt:tilsiispoheorpr: ception, for the set, titnents are such as do equal credit to his head and heart, and hare their full effect given to theta by the aids of concise, vigorous, and barmonious language. DEFOE'S WORKS. VOL. I. Clements, Londone, 1840. volume of this work. is now completed, an in Dr es a memoir of the Author , for the •ma :Tic'oC fit : i t s. w hich the writer has heel) much indebted t t e o r so r v a:ter Wilson's researches, and several .of Defoe's mino Y to les, such as his " Colonel Jack," " Moll Flande ,- s) As we entered at length, " when the first Number of this so me months ago,• Edition was pu bli s •hodi into Defoe's peculiarities as a novelist and a pa ty pamphleteer, we need'gay no more on the preseot i .‘ce„asion, than that his works are here brought oaf in a cheap bnd commo dious form. THE GIPSY KING. Ball, London, ] 840. The Gipsey King is a poem from the p, m of Richard Howitt. It is of a very mediocre chara,ut •t• as regards talent, but there is nothing in the thoughta or sentiments to which the sternest moralist Cattl. object. Some of the minor poems are pretty ; but:: the " vision and the faculty divine"—as Words— worth somewhere calls poetic genius—is wanting throughout. IRELAND, PAnr The present Part of this useful work contains two choice engravings, and a map of the county of Kerry, which is very carefully executed. The letta-uress is from the lively and intelligent pen •f THE ,07VUAL BLACK BOOK AND POL I- TicA,r‘ IJLMANACK FOR 1841. By H. J. R„.„„woK. Cleave, London. This is a c,lmpilation of many statistical facts con which will be con cerning the reve:" e and expenditure, found extremely u „-ful to those who desire to know the workings and beal.4ngs of our political system. It is intended for the ta.:'.payus, and by many of them it will no doubt be stm..4jeci' ''EASONS , LEE'S BOOK FOR ALL Z. London, Cleave. , Christmas A pleasant compilation, intended f o. Agreeable or holiday present; cheap , and f ull 0.4' is & but reading. LEGENDARY TALES OF THE LANDS, 3 Vor.s. Colburn, London, 1840. We wish that some one would do for Wales, what - Sir Thomas Dick Lander has here done for the Scot tish Highlands—viz., collect its innumerable scattered legends and traditions, many of which are of the most singular and interesting character possible, and throw them into such a farm as is likely to ensure their popu larity. Mr. Downes,. ill his " Mountain Deca meron, essayed something of the sort ; but his manner was against him, for not canteet with lying', simple and un affected, he overlaid his language with ornament, sub stituted description for sentiment, and when he had to deal with some strong passion. too often ore it to tatters. Yet there was excellent stuff in his boo:' , , passages of uncommon vigour, and such a lavish display of the ima gin itive faculty as would serve In set up half e' hundred 1 modern poetasters for life. The present vol'a mes, if . they contain no one tale that can be compar ea with Mr. Downes's " Hermit-Vicar"—which in po in t of tragic power is equalled only by the closing chaptt 'r. s of " Anastasius"—yet have none of the faults of that , re markable fiction; but are written with uniform cia plicity, and with such truth and earnestness that no MX who reads them, can doubt fur an instant that they ayes • what they profess to he, the genuine traditions of thw Scottish Highlands. The author has done wisely in avoiding all unnecessary embellishments, which would have had no other effect than to disturb the reader's belief in the sterling character of the Legends, and im press him with a notion that they were merely of mo— dern manufacture. Sir 'Thomas Lauder intimates that. he may possibly continue the series of Legends ; pro trust he will keep his word. • COUR! CIRCULAR. Her Majesty held a Privy Council at three o'clock yes terday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretary of State for the Home Do partment, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, and they Lord Steward. At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be furtl.er prorogued front Thursday next, the 10th instant, unti'. the 2tith of January, and a proclamation %,as ordered ter be I issued summoning the Parliament to meet on the 2.6t1y of January for the dispatch of business The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Cou.l - in waiting. The Court was attended by the Vice-Chamberlain, thes Marquis of Hcadfort, Lord in Waiting, and Lord HailLi Gold Stick in Waiting. The Marquis of Hcadfort and the Hon. William Cow—. per have succeeded Viscount Torrington, and Mai )r thew, Hon. George Kcppcl, as the Lord and Groom in Waiting; on her Majesty. Lord Frederick Beauclerk had an interview with Vie count Melbourne yesterday in Downinf., , strect. Dispatches from the Governor of the Canada, and also from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council met yesterday, and re,unied the Appeal from Bengal, " Ghirdarce Singh v. Koslabul Singh." Judgment was deferred. An appeal from Bengal .‘ Jearin Doss Saboo v. Shah Kuber ood Dcen," was opened, but was not finished when the Court rose. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the Ad miralty Court. Sir E. H. East sat as a Privy Councillor. The Hon. W. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. TILE WINDOW TAX.—A numerous public meeting of the members of the Window Tax Rtival Committee, and of the householders of the parishes of Paddington and St. it.larylebone, was held last night at O* White Lion Tavern Edgware-road, Paddington, for the. purpose of adopting the most effective means to obtain es repeal of the window tax. Several resolutions were adopted, denouncing the tax on windows as most optima. sive,and that the late survey deserved reprobation, as being arbitrary and tyrannical. These resolutions, however, were carried by a small majority only, the Chartist offer inq all the opposition in their power to " a middle class measure." at r presents,,li al , \ t V h o a o n t w o i e ,, h y , h t a h v e e m beenen a f r o e r m m o a r h e y ae years, tivel y i e n ro m p a l o i j o e g d In the Laboratory department of the Royalrsenal, fuses, and they are assisted by large detachments of tile Royal Artillery in this work. Many experiments weft* made last season at Deal, with various kinds of composi tion, to simplify this important mode of communicating fire to the centre of shells, amongst which Mr. Marsh's plan is deserving of notice from its effective and certain operation. It is so constructed that it causes the shell explode in one-half of the time required by ?the! methods,liquid as it and acts in such a manner as to form a floating floating of its burns inwards, thereby preventing the ells wor' e expeti. the others are liable. One hundre s ort of the re- THE PARLOUR TABLE-BOOK. mented with this season at Deal, .but the rep Richerby, London, 1840. being extinguished by rain or any odthehrPcene to which SEA.—If a piece of wood, The selections in prose and . verse of which this PRESSURE OF TIlEb forcd down to a great depth Miscellany is made up, evince taste and judgment which floats on the watreer,of be forced surrounding liquid will be suit has not yet been m ade p ublic: on the part of the compiler—we allude more par- into the sea, the ticularly to the prose, for which some of the and so increase its down Into . F i r t i s si w ng ejg on ht th t e ha s t ur lt e have been m la os id t st : l -i e l s l ep i v i e o rre l e o s t n h g oaf e t r at lig: el:" rac:a.:optsiouatdYb l of O ° f tw ships, a: tSi w y i h n i bleb have foundered in sterling authors . in the languag under contribution. Among those from whose face. Hence f the the timber ocean, we find one of our never rise again to th u e rne surfs under f n a t e b e iet works extracts have been taken, likef,epsearwt old favourites, Sir Thomas Browne ; but the ex- withtimpunity, plunge toa hcnul d d e n p o th t nthe s d ea, but i7ich are sunk near certain .A diver may , e tracts, though excellent of thcir kind, are too short; there is a t limit beyond ieh li i which oh je ct. For the sam e e instead. of a mere paragraph or two, we should have ffesrsx able there is a depth below which fishes cannot live. been indulged with the whole of the last sublime Ti p ley have, according to Joselin, been caught a t a d ep t chapter on " U rn B ur i a l ;" an d t h at fi ne passage at which they must have sustained a pressure . of eighty descriptive of the e ff ects o f street an d tavern mus ic ; tons to each s q uare foot of the surface of their body.... which may be beets in the " Religio Medici," The l Tyne Mercury. GERALDINE. Dolman, London, 1840. A republication► of a novel written a few years ago by a lady who has since, we understand, founded a convent of Sisters of Charity. The tale appeals rather to the sympathies of Catholic than Protes tant readers, though such is the genuine spirit of Christianity, wholly unmixed with fanaticism, which pervades it, that it will find admirers among all se c ts of sincere Christians. '4 4 f ~1~ 4 the i tg r ool