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bie grophical notice of saint Francis of Assisi are those in which are described, first, the t g ) r_owth of the F ranc i scan o rder by the accumulation . f .! the di sc i p l es around t h e f oun d er —th os e being •!.', l arnard d e Q u i ntava ll e, P eter o f C a t an ia, Egidius, abbatini, Morico, John de Capella, Sylvester, and others of less importaLce ; secondly, the formation !f the confederacy near the river Torto ; thirdly, the supplication of Francisco to Pope Innocent on the terrace of the Vatican ; fourthly, his preaching in the sacred consistory before Pope Hon orius 111. ; fifthly, his daring attempt, in the Holylands, to go unarmed a mongst, the Saracens, and to convert the Soldan to the air ; an d l as tl y, hi s d ea th i n th e monastery , of St. Mary of Angels, after eating the cakes of Jacoba. Thet final pi c t ure i s s i mp l y b u t exq uisitely pencilled. :His last labour done, he was laid, in obedience to i . us own command, on the bare ground. The even ing, we are told, was calm, balmy, and peaceful, the Western sky glowing with the mild and transparent radiance which follows the setting of an autumnal sun behind th e l o f ty hill s o f centra l I ta l y . At th a t mo ment the requiem for the dying ceased, as the faltering ►oice of Francis was heard, in the language of David, exclaiming, Voce med ad Dominum clamavi !" Again we would express our satisfaction at discerning the Honou ra bl e G eorge P erc y Sydney Smythe among the number of the Edinburgh reviewers, for the more closely we examine this leading article on " Saint f i rincis" the more thoroughly are we convinced that '4 is the effusion of his scholarly and elequent pen. A rich promise of the revival of the olden glory of the Edinburgh is afforded by the acquisition of a contributor so opulent in literary promise himself. The second article i s an a d m i ra bl e paper on Beaumont and -..tletcher, opening with a miniature memoir of Francis Il eaumont, who was born in 1585, at Gracedieu, hard by Charnwood Forest, and died in 1616 ; and another of John Fletcher, who was burn in 1579, at Rye, and died of the plague in 1625 at London. Knowing these dates, it will be well to remember o ne or two others of peculiar interest—namely, that Beaumont Bas younger than Fletcher by somewhere about years; th a t they first met in 1607; that, reckon ing from 1607, their union as friends and poets con tinued during nine or ten years ; and that Fletcher survived his companion nine summers. Fletcher was Puor, and wrote for his bread ; Beaumont was well t'clu, and wrote from a pure love of the art; hence, argues the reviewer, their literary association with each other " must have been entirely free," and not have arisen from the hack partner- Ship in the composition of dram as caused by the exigencies of a playhouse. An interesting anecdote about Shakspere (only recently brought to light) is given in this criticism. We eagerly transfer it to our columns as we would anything new and authentic about that God-like Genius. Edward Alleyn, be it premised, and William Shakspere are " the two great theatrical managers"—the managers of the two great rival theatres of London—mentioned below. " Alleyn being absent in the country on a strolling excursion, at a time when the theatres in London were shut by reason of the plague, his wife receives in town a visit from ' a pretty youth, and handsome in apparel,' who assumes an aristocratic name, asks for a loan of ten Pounds, and asserts that he is known both to Mr. Alleyn and to the other great theatrical manager. Mrs. Alleyn who, as the step-daughter of old Philip Henslowe, had learned economy and caution, declines to comply with the demand till the reference shall have been verified; and the brother manager, on being appealed to, declares that he knew the applicant only by having heard that he W as a rogue, and is glad the treiney had not been given. The i mpostor does not aeain show himself; and Joan Alleyn, in her next letter to her hu.band, exultingly tells him the story. Her friendly adviser eves a per: on hiellehondluZ. are accustomed to think as discharging to humanity than detuoing swindlers. She describ es him ahial as 'Mr. Shakspere of the Globe.'" Speaking of the visible influence exercised over his con temporaries, and his immediate succes sors, by the dramas of Shakspere, the reviewer writes as follows : If " ima ginative inventors, of all ranks below the very i ghest, are like planetary satellites, which revolve in deed ea c h on its own axis, but are all carried round in the orbit of their common centre; nay, to push the coin- Parison a step further, Jupiter himself, as well as his moons, gravitat es i n dependence on the sun. Through the co ncurrence of the two impulses, the special and the c ommon, it is natural and inevitable, that the appear !nee of every great work or groups of works, in litera ture or a r t, s h ou ld not on l y pro d uce p art i cu l ar an d d ,, e r signed imitation, but should throw over all productions ) 7 1 the sam e c l ass a h ue w hi c h o therwise they would not ave possessed. Thus did thoughts, and feelings, and hi g h way innumerable, sown by Shakspere beside the • stately plants, o n w hich he travelled, spring up there into plants, and shed their seeds over every field that la y in the neighbourhood. Even the spirit of the great Poet did in some degree rest upon his contemporaries, !hen his wide mantle fell and covered them all—his rivinest moods of emotion, his most dazzling trances of are agioation his profoundest intuitions of character, his marv elousreaches of thought, sounding all the depths of human nature;—these were indeed inspirations not !ouchsafed to any but himself, and apprehended but imperfectly even by the most exquisitely endowed of those t to whom th e poetic seer communicated his visions. u there was much th at could be both comprehended transfused; much that did as s from the most com prehensive of all created minds, to to the finest of the intelligences which surrounded and followed him. The magnetic rapport b etween his gen i us an d t h at o f hi s fellow dramatists, could not, it is true, qualify any of them, even in their most intense phases of poetical rapture, to imagine characters, or mental histories, like tho se of Hamlet, of Othello and lago, of Lear, or of Macbeth: but the relation was close enough to enable several of them to conceive forms and incidents, feelings a n a l, thought s not so very dissimilar to those of Romeo Nothing. Juliet, o f A s Y ou Like It, of Much Ado about -- " .4 9. That Samuel Johnson should prefer Shak reree comedies to his tragedies, does not surprise us. ut that Milton should have gone to see a comedy of Sheatspere's when he was merry, and have been oblieed to fall back upon Greek plays about Pelops' line' when he was sad —not finding in Shakspere enough of pity itho ughthe showed _good taste in doing so, is more than We p i . can understand. ' The e stimate of the different plays of Beaumont and strain i s generally judicious, and is penned in a ' ra in of encomium not one iota more than is de -" i d• A glimpse at a " Wh a li ng C r ui se " is suc a-eci by an elab ora t e cr iti c i sm upon L or d Sid mo uth ti n „ d 11 ;s, .biographer, th e D ean of Norwich. " Robin that wurenisowa ned delightful scrap of antiquarian gossip upon outlaw, all except the concluding party renowned where, t o our i n dignation, his existence at any time i s a l together d i scre di te d ! R o bi n H oo d ! I . I Y I his time-h onoure d compan i ons , G e orge-a -Green, .iylot.d.d Marian, Friar Tuck, Scarlet Much, and Little flit across the pages as vividly as though they were in the greenwood glades, but they are invested bution awf ul authority as m yth es . The other contri miscell s an tel eou th s e Edinburgh Review are clever and , Tancred, treatof Prussian Agrarian L e r. Ben islatio jamin Eastlake 's gn, 0 2 the tr ave l s of Mrs. Quillinan and Mrs. Butler, of Materials for the History o f Oil Painting, a nd of the im portant pro bl em " What i s to b e done with our Criminals ?" Abetter number of this eminent Periodical has not appeared during- ni. , nv past quarters. MAGAZINES —t tjk/iN i INUED.) TIDE COMIC lIISTORY OF ENGLAND No. xrir. By Gilbert - Abbott A'Beckett. The reigns of the bloody tyrant, Henry VIII, and of his equally bloody daughter, Mary, who, on coming to the throne, was, says our author, " com paratively old, exceedingly hard, and totally void of all the milk of human kindness," are the subjects out of which our author has contrived to find food for laughter in the present number. As a specimen of the manner in which he has executed his task, we take the admirable description of the death and character of Henry VIII.: " The tyrant, who had been getting physically as well as morally worse and worse, clung to life with such des perate tenacity. that is a sure sign of there being good reason for dreading death in those among whom, after a certain age, such a cowardly fear is manifest.youloutlive would d all the often impiously threaten that " be % Younger people about him yet ;" and though his time Was evidently not far off, he would not bear to be told of his true condition. Instead of repenting of . his past l ife, he devoted the wretched remnant of his existence to doing all th e m i sc hi e f that he coull, and venting his Malice to the fullest extent that his now failing strength Would admit of. Nobody dared muster resolution to tell the un h appy old brute that he must very speedily die , until Sir Anthony Denny, a knight who shared our friend Drummond's aversion to any humbug of any de scription, boldly told old Harry that he was on the point of visiting his redoubtable namesake. " Finding all chance of escape cut off, he began con fessing his sins ; but it was rather too late, for, had his repentance been sincere, the catalogue of his crimes was far too voluminous to allow of his getting through one half of it before his dissolution. He had been in the habit of adjourning that court of conscience existing in his as well as in every man's breast, and he always post- Poned it sine die; but when the time to die actually came, or the die was really cast, it was rather late to Move for a new trial. Henry died on the 29th January, 15 47, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, the thirty-eighth of his reign, and at least the forty-first of his selfishness, basen(s ; , and brutality. " He had been married six times, having divorced two PS his wives, beheaded two more, and left one a widow. This leaves one more—Jane Seymour—still unaccounted for tad indeed h er d eat h was t h e most won d er f u l o f all, tircause it was natural. lie left behind him three Children but he did not care a pin's head, or even—to na me a- article of s ma ll er i m p ortance to hi m — a w if e ' s be ad, for any one of them. Such a ye; y bad man was s ure to be a very bad father, and he hart declared two ' 3 2 f his children illegitimate, for it was the delight of this monster to depreciate his own offspring in the eyes of the world as much as possible. His religious reforms, howe ver wholesome in th e i r resu lts, were brutal i n th e i r p ee ntion and base in their origin. His insincerity may be gath ere d f rom the fact that he appointed masses to be e said for hi s own soul, though he h a d b urnt many per sons for p opery ; and he seeme d to t hi n k t h at , b y ng up two creeds a t once on hi s d ea th-b e d, ho could ire e up for the utter irreligion of his past existence. paid to have coutributod Cv the nue of Wight- enment, and so perhaps be did with all his blackness, as the coal contributes to t'::e c-as ; and never was a bit of Wall's End half so hard, or a tenth part so black as the heart of this despicable sovereign. He never had a friend ; but he was surrounded by sycophants, whom, one after the other, he atrociously sacrificed. " Cranmer being a man of superior mind, exercised an influence over him, and was sent for to his death-bed, when he pressed the prelate's hand ; but whether the pressure arose from cramp or conscience, rheumatism or remorse, penitence, or ' pins and needles,' must be con sidered a question to which we will nit hazard an answer. We regret that we have been unable to adhere to the excellent motto, de mortals nil nisi bonzes, in this case ; but Henry was such a decided maum in se, that mischief was bred in the bone, and the I nl nisi bonum becomes impossible. " Learning certainly advanced in this reign, and Henry himself affected authorship ; but every literary man, from the highest flyer in the realms of fancy to the humblst historian of last night's fire or yesterday' police, e will be h on estly ashamed of his royal fellow s craftsman." COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE 21IAGA ZINE. We are glad to meet our old friend Colonel Fire brace, who this month furnishes an excellent article on the Enlistment Bill, in which he not only de molishes the allegations of the opposers of that mea sure, but exposes their motives. That it would be opposed by the Marquis of Londonderry, et hoe genus omne, was of course to have been predicated from the first—indeed, had they supported it we should have rather doubted the efficacy of the measure—but it is not by the " gentle dull" alone that this measure is opposed—it is also opposed by " The aristocracy of wealth, who have tried to make the army a close monopoly for themselves, and, to say the truth, have in great measure succeeded. They in their heart of hearts cannot but see the justice of the Bill, but they look on it with fear as the forerunner of other measures of reform that may drive them from their long enjoyed privileges; they see that concurrent with this Bill, the education of the soldier is to be attended to, and if the plan works well, it must follow in natural course, that the instruction of the officers must march pari passe or rather keep ahead of that of the soldier. What a mortifying thing it would be to them, when about to pur chase a cornetcy for a son or nephew, to be told, that as a preliminary step, the aspirant for glory on horseback must prove that he can read the Articles of War, make out a guard report, and write his name legibly, and that previous to getting another step of promotion must prove that he is capable 074 fulfilling the duties of his advanced position! Yet such must be the fatal conse quences of giving instruction to the hitherto neglected soldier. _ _ " Strange instance of blindness and fatuity that has ever guided our military councils, that the education of officers of the army should have been totally neglected in all time, until we come to speak of the education of the soldier, and then it is only forced into notice by the shame attending the possible superiority of the servant over his master in point of instruction. " If we were to draw inferences from what the Duke said about the old soldiers, which I have just quoted, it would follow that the officers of the army were of small account ; there is not the slightest hint that the courage of the old soldiers was in any way assisted by the intel ligence of the officers, and most probably the instances were rare. None knew better than his Grace that there were but very few officers under him who knew any . thing of their profe:sion beyond the eternal routine of a parade, and that there was not one in his army capable of supplying his place had anything happened to him self. The sublime ignorance of the essential parts of their profession, which distinguishes the officers of our army from all others, arises, as I have repeated a hun dred times, from the purchase and sale or commissions. If that venal and absurd practice is so abso utely inter woven with our military constitution as not to be eradi cated, at least it ought to be accompanied with some test that would exclude blockheads, fools, and cv n idiots, of which I could quote many instances, from entering an honourable pro , ession." Let us hope that it will be the proud boast of the new Parliament, that it has applied that test rigor ously that it has thereby saved wise men from the tyranny of blockheads, fools, and idiots, by excluding the said blockheads from an honourable profession which they disgrace by their ignorance and inca pacity. Before the country is considered safe, the army must be thoroughly purged of ignorant and incapable officers, and Judging from the revelations recently made, the issuing of a commission to inquire into the capacities and attainments of the officers of the various regiments in her Majesty's service would be by no means und,,sirable. We re commend this article by Colonel Firebrace to the careful perusal of the authorities at the Horse Guards, and of the Members of the new Parliament. We know of no subject which if properly taken up is so likely to secure fame and name for a legislator as the subject of army reform, more particularly as it regards the officers, and we accordingly recom mend it to any young member who is ambitious of connecting his name with a great measure. The re maining articles of the present number are all good. CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE. Part 11. By Aiber Smith. Such has been the success attending this serial, that it is intended to extend it to sixteen numbers, instead of completing it in twelve. We are glad of this extension, both for our own sake and that of the talented author ; to us it will be a source of pleasure (for we are lothe to part with Christopher) to him it will be a source of profit and also of pleasure, for it is evident that he writes con amore. In this number we have the adventure of Mrs. Hamper in Switzer land, and the return of Christopher to England—the reconciliation of Bessy Payne and Sprout, who with the jolly man goes to Vauxhall to witness the debut of Paty as a dancer. Paty, in returning home, i 3 insulted by Sir Frederick Arden, but is rescued from him by Christopher, who gives the Baronet a thrashing, and is by him handed over to the custody of the police, and marched off to the station-house, where for the present we leave him. THE MIRROR. The Mirror for this month opens with the first four chapters of a tale entitled " Paul Pevensey ; or, The Man from Below," the below being one of the Nor thumberland coal-mines. The heroine, Kate Peven sey, is a female collier, bred and brought up in the coal-pits— Wayward, headstrong, full of inordinate vanity, and more ignorant than a red Indian squaw. In spite of all this, she possessed the fatal gift of beauty. Her form had been cast in the lightest and most graceful mould, and her countenance was radiant with loveliness and native intelligence. She was teachable, though she had never been taught, and at the moment when :she comes before us, ready to be transformed by circumstances into an angel or a devil." Kate is deeply in love with a gentleman who has " amu*ed" himself by flirting with the collier girl, and for whose sake she has rejected the love of a col lier youth name i Richard. The gentleman lover, who is about to desert her, makes an assignation with her in a coal-pit on a Sunday. Richard observes them, and as they emerge trom the pit, attacks and wounds his rival, whom he leaves senseless. Kate attends upon her lover, dresses his wounds, and rescues him from his peril. Will he de sert her ? This is a question which must remain unsolved until next month. There is much powerful writing in these chap ters. The description of the thunder storm in the opening chapter, is sublime. The author pos sesses the secret of exciting the interest by rivetting the attention of the reader, in a marvellous degree, and Paul Pevensey will do yeoman's service to " The Mirror." The novel of the Eagle's Nest is concluded, so that we shall henceforth only have one continu ation in " The Mirror," which, in this respect, sets an example that it would be well if its contemporaries were to follow. There are several other admirable articles in this number of " The Mirror." THE MAN EV THE MOON. The trip which Albert Smith and his collabora teurs took in the Nassau Balloon, is admirably de scribed, and quaintly illustrated, and Mr. Crindles' rapid career is continued, and is most laughter moving. The jokes are as good as ever. Take the following as a specimen— " A BULL IN THE COCHIN-CHINA SHOP.—The Pope is so pleased with the affectionate pastoral dispo sition manifested by M. de Foureade, in standing upon the deck of La Gloire, and encouraging the fire upon his diocese, until upwards of a thousand of his flock were killed, that on reaching Rome, he will be saluted (a la Alderman Waithnalui) as • feu Bishop of Samos.'" T u ll'i n abundance rnri nc ß e of N AL a e n . mbellish As usuTaffl,EheA :l re ft ar . ment, an abundance of criticism, and abund ance of artistic information. The leading article is written in commemoration of that glorious edifice which is still in progress on the banks of the Thames at Westminster—a structure which will for centuries be a memento of the enterprise and genius of the age of Victoria,. A bold likeness of Eugene Neureuther, with sleet ches of some of his fantastiql but most imaginative designs, and an effective biogra phical notice will be examined with interest, as will also the portraits and miniature memo i r s of Edward Mathew Ward, the painter of the cele brated picture of "D:. Johnson re,ading the manu script of the Vicar of Wakefield in the lodgings of Oliver Goldsmith ;" and of E. H.. Baily, the sculptor of that incomparable gem of art , which has gained a name like Thomson's " Seast ms"—Bally's Eve at the Fountain. Pyne's "Le tters on Landscape" and Mrs. S. C. Hall's fairy-tal a are both continued , the latter with, as usual, the r lost lavish illustration. THE SONGS OF ci WILES MEDIA, Chronologically Arranged. wit h Notes and Music of the best and most popular of tiw i lelodies, with new Piano forte Accompaniments ; to which is prefixed a Memoir of the Aut.',,,r, by Geofge floatc,-th Vol. I. DAVIDSOA'S UiVI - VEb" SAL MELODIST. Vol. I. We have frequently he d occ tasion to speak in terms of laudation of both the. ;e :cellent works, as they have appeared in monthly F ;arts. These parts are now collected, and the 1, Sol igs of Dibdin" and the Melodist" each form a handsome cctavo volume, elegantly bound in cloth boarag, and adorned with ap propriate devices. The " Songs of Dibdin" are dedi cated to Prince Albert. A copy of this edition of "Dibdin's Songs" should form part of the library, not only of every ship, but of every officer in her Majesty's service. THE CABINET Ms OR Y OF ENGLAND. Vols. XXV. and XXVI. By Charles Mac Farlane. Warning the readers against a certain tone of bigotry and intolerance which pervades the work, we record the conclusion of this epitome of our national history from the remote obscurity of anti quity down to the close of 1846. As no similar com position has ever appeared, this miniature history, in twenty-six volumes, must prove acceptable to the multitude. (We have received the Second Part of " The Dis grace to the Family," by Blanchard Jerrold, but have not yet seen the first part. " Tait's Magazine" has not been received this month.) FINE ARTS. THE HEROINES OF SHAKSPERE. Part XIV. The mere enumeration of the names appended to each engraving in this inimitable serial is in itself a i panegyric upon the genius of our great Shakspere. Those names so fraught with the remembrance of passion and of interest, so allied to the recollection of poetry, now tender and now sublime, now sparkling into wit and now dissolving into pathos ! Thirteen numbers have already appeared, each containing the imaginary portraits of three of the female creations of the most wonderful of all poets, each portrait representing a character complete in its individuality, and more familiar to the popular imagination than the heroines of any other dramatist. Still is the theme any thing but exhausted ; in the part just pub lished, for example, there are sketches of charac ters not less conspicuous than Cressida, Portia, and Katharine, the first by Kenny Meadows, the second by T. W. Wright, the third by A. Egg. Katharine, though somewhat too sombre in attire, is almost scornful enough to freeze the heart of the jocund Petruchio, when he is bantering her thus by playing on the pet abbreviation of her name : " You are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst ; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all es:tes.'' We can fancy how Christopher'Sly stared for the nonce, how he wagged his frouzy head in his velvet frill, how he called a second time, and with more gusto yet—" For God's sake bring me a cup of small beer ' when he looked on the tart visage of Katharine and heard the saucy gibes of Petruchio. Portia is the worthy daughter of Cato, and what is much the same, the noble wife of Brutus. She is saying to her lord gently and beseechingly, " D well I but in the suburbs of your good pleasure." Cressida is a graceful limning of a face yet more gracefully drawn on wood already by the artist of Tyas's Shakspere. She seems not likely to be num bered amongst those whom Troilus derides as— " scanted with a single famish'd kiss, Ditlaited with the salt of broken tears." Cressida has evidently just been correcting the knuckles of the old demirep Pandarus, and is gazing into the amorous eyes of Troilus. LOCH LAGGAN-THE QUEEN'S VISIT. (From the Inverness Courier.) The s.Nnaery of Loch Laggan, amidst which our gra cions Qieen is about to pass a portion of the summer, is among the most remote and grand iu Scotland ; and yet it is not so bleak or wild from its position as many would suppose. Ardverikie (King Fergus's Mount), the shooting- lodge c f Lord Abereorn, which is to be the temporary residence of her Majesty and Prince Albert, lies on the south side of the lake. and is about sixty mites in a right line south of Inverness. It is stir, tounded with beautiful woods of birch and oak, and belts of young and less hardy forest trees, from which deflect on all sides interminable heaths and corries, the abodes of multitudes of the roe and red deer, of the blackcock, red grouse, and ptarmigan. In the copses along the lake side may be seen some of the largest aspens, mountain ash, and birch trees in Scotland, and the adjoining moors abound with enormous roots and stems of oak and pine trees, the relics of an ancient forest. A most excellent road, with good country inns, traverses the district from Fort-Wil liam to Kingussie, in Badenoch (a distance, in all, of 54 miles), and the peculiar Highland features of the scenery are often relieved by considerable patches of corn land, and by long terraced banks of the greenest pasture. The mountain screens all round are grand in the extreme, and varied in their outlines, from the bare mural Alps of Ben Nevis, Loch Treig, and Glencoe, to the round-backed, desolate, and undivided ranges of the Monaliadh and Grampians, while over the whole is cast much of that stern and solemn stillness so generally felt in passing through the solitudes of Skye and Sutherland. Human associations, however, are not wanting to give additional interest to this locality. There is Inverlochy Castle, whose history is lost in high antiquity—Glenroy, curious alike in its wonderful natural roads and terraces as in its name and Celtic recollections—Corryarrick, by which Prince Charles's army passed on its march to the low country —Keppoch, the residence of a branch of the Clan Coila, that can trace back its lineage to Robert the Bruce— Craig Dhu, the high beacon and, gathering hill of the Macphersons, guarding their Chief's Castle, beautifully nestled on its western slope—and Loch Laggan itself, with its island, its ruined castle, and all its surrounding homesteads—the undoubted earliest seats of the Scottish monarchy—and deriving their names from Fergus and other kings and heroes who had there their hunting. grounds, and whose feats are still handed down in the Celtic songs of other years. A more romantic and spirit-stirring district for the Sovereign and her royal household to repose in does not exist in all Scot land. An official return has been ordered by General Rid dell, Commander of the Forces in Scotland, of the number of soldiers that can be accommodated in Fort Augustus. The return was required to be immediate, and it has accordingly been transmitted. A garrison of about 300 can be temporarily accommodated in the Fort, though the buildings are in a dilapidated condition. To quarter soldiers in Fort-Augustus for ordinary military purposes would be absurd—the above return most probably refers to the approaching visit of her esty. SUPPLY. The report of the Committee of Supply was brough up and agreed to. COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES (IRELAND, BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. POLLING AT ELECTIONS (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was also read a third time and passed. CONSTABULARY FORCE (IRELAND), &c., PEN SIONS AND SUPERANNUATIONS. The report upon this Bill was brought up and agreed to. CONSTABULARY FORCE (IRELAND, &c.) BILL. The House then went into Committee On this Bill, On the order of the day for bringing and the various clauses were agreed to. NAVIGATION (No. 2) BIL L. up the report upon this Bill being read, Lord JOHN MANNERS mo ved the inse rtion of a clause in the Bill, suspending the stamp duties on The CHANCELLOR of the EXC policies of insurance eff e cted on grain - la den British ships till the Ist day of March. 1848. the clause. After a few words f r om M r . F e rster, Mr. T hornel y , and Lord J. Manners, in reply, HEQUER opposed Strangers were ord ere d t o withdravv. No division, however, took place, the clause having been withdrawn. RECOVERY OF PUBLIC MONEYS ( The report upon th e B i ll was t h e n agreed to. BILL. and The House then went i n t o C om mittee on this Bill, Lord CLEMENTS d enounce d, on the pa rt of Ireland, A L ARMING FIRE AT KIVETON HALL, NEAR W ORK- the inju s t ice o f any attempt on the p art of the IRELAND) Govern sop.—On Sunday night last , be tween ei g ht and nine ment to recover the re p a y men t of even a sinele shilling o'clock, a special messenger waited upon Curzon, our of the monies which had been advanced by this country. c hief constable, with a message from John Ha ll, Es q , Mr. HUME and Mr. P. SCROPE in sisted upon the right of Kiveton s requesting that a fire - engi ne mi g ht be sent of this countr y to exac t a punct ual repayment of the over to assist in extinguishing the flames, which were loans advanced by it. then furiously raging in the barn near to that gentleman's Sir J. GRAHAM thought that its highly neces the utmost house, and containing about 120 loads of wheat, a large sary that some distinct understaralieg ould be come to quantity oic• straw, arid a thraseing machiee, which were upon the subject of these loans, and that u nt e rtunaf ely destroyed. l'he news soon spread, and a punctuality' should be ob serve d in the repayment large concourse of persons congregated in the market - several instalments in exact conformity W n eoflatwhes d • it At the same place to see the departure of the engine, drawn by four under which the money had been advance the Govern horses from the Lion Hotel, and on which were Curzon time he would have no objection to allow to o some of the and the fit-omen, &c. They proceeded with all possible ment a discretionary power, with respect ! de and amount speed to the spot, directed the engine, and commenced poorer parts of the country, as to the m° - playing upon the flames in the earn, but unhappily they of the repayments to be made. FENTS, were unable to save the property. • The buildings adjoin- After a few words from Lord CL CHE Q UER said ing the barn were preserved from injury. It was gratify- The CHANCELLOR of the .b., l uld not have been ing to see the willingness and anxiety manifested by that a more inappropriate occasion oz . ) the opinion he persons in the crowd to go with the engine, for the pur- chosen by the Noble Lord for expressin g esent one, when pose of rendering their assistance, and many persons heel just stated to the House than the proposed to remit went on foot to the place, distant about seven miles. the Bill under cons ideration actually prol the people of Many pars ous arrived from the neighbouring villages, one-half of the amount o f de bt to w which had been and every exertion was used to quell the fiery element. Ireland were liable, under the lawdaurgent request, as All the p arties present deserve the greatest praise for passed at their own most ear nest an from starvation. their exertions, which were taxed to the utmost. The being to prevent the people necessaryit was the duty of fire is sup used to have been the diabolical act of an in- Mr. TRELAWNY thought that r. the loan, and if no cendiary ; but at the time of our writing nothing accu- the House to enforce paymen-- of g ht to sell the lands rate can be stated relative to its origin. We sincerely other means were availab le, they oil- f it themselve -. hope, ere 1 ong, it will be discovered ; and if the demo - of Ireland, and even the owners o niacle act of a reckless incendiary, that he will be (Laughter.) that the feelings of the detected and punished as his crime deserves. We are Mr. W. PATTEN thought acute the Journal. extremely upon happy to say that the property is insured.—Nottinyham people of this country Were 1 d dth ld rded to Ire an ,an ey wou Journal. subject of the relief atro of the money which had been, BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY 9.—The market insist upon the repayment d too lavishly bestowed by continues rat her dull, and purchases are only made to perhaps, too liberally n_ a d Liverpool had suffered most supply immediate wants. Refined goods are flat and Parliament. The people of Irish distress. effects lower. In _rum there is very little doing. severely from the l'S thought that there was no place INHALATION OF ETHER.—On awakening from the Lord CLEMEN earth which ought with greater fairness inebriation, the personal experiences of the etherised on the face of the the support of the Irish poor than are most interesting. A gentle aura, of the most to be taxed for ort derived great profits from its curious and thrilling character, steals over the entire Liverpool, for that P ctions with the people of Ireland. frame ; and a sensation of the most perfect well-being commercial trzls ( l A ,___ , rk ; tnought it most preposterous to possesses the mind. Then comes a gradual loss of con- Mr. NEWD disease and privations to which the inha sciousness ; sight, hearing, and tactile sensation dis- set against the had been exposed, the profits which appear. Tlee mind appears perplexed what to bitants of Liverpoolm s ight make by their private transac make of its new condition, and feeling as if the chains a few individua ple of Ireland. which bind it. to the earthly tenement were burst, it is tions with the_ peo ß RE TON thought that this country had in a state of the most downright apathy with regard to Mr. BROTHER, great credit for the assistance it had rendered the body. Tile soul then seems to bathe in an atmosphere deserved nthe late distress, and he sincerely hoped of light, and aevels in the happiness of apparently another to Ireland i ne advanced would be gratefully and world, while frequently a dream of transcendent glories that the mo std. passes before it. If tho inhalation is discontinued, punctually rePwords from Mr. Trelawny, Sir R. Fer this blissful state is of short duration, and the stern, After a few lof Arundel and Surrey, air. W. Brown, the Ear cold realities. of our unspiritual world force themselves guson, lett back once 'more upon the recollection. The baseless and Lord W. Pow , the cls were agreed to and the fabric of the- vision, and thefade The whole of the Ch ' glories away, and some resumed, airman reported accord casual House having mov ement in the apartment summons the patient at length out of his beatific condition. But the same glo- ingly. HERRING FISHERY (SCOTLAND). rious things are not vouchsafed to HERRIN every one. Some,and ordered to on the co n t ra This Bill was reported, be read a third contrary, are troubled with • ideal ccntests with fiends ; sometime on Monday. are violently altercating with • their ONS (IRELAND) relations ; some are tumbling down bottomless DESTITUTE I?ERS BILL (No. 3). and horrors of all sorts crowd in uponh abysms; This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be In these cases, it is frequent that during t e minds of others. committed on Monday. the process vio- PUBLIC WORKS AND DRAINAGE (IRELAND) lent struggles, contortions of thefeatures, and other BILL. tokens of uneasiness, betray the troubled state of the • Bill dreamer's mind. A ady undergoing 'as read a second time, and ordered to be This a this process at our hands, during the removal of a tunscommitt e d on Monday. our, was the whole time violently strugglinc, and crying out t o h er Sir JAMES GRAHAM wished to know what child, with whom she believed' herself to be violen . tl course the Government intended to pursue with re ing. Where this state exists the termination onotfenhd spect to the business of Monday. h He wished to process is an inexpressible relief to the etherised, know whether it was intended . t. at the House should sit but it is an almost universal experience th at an early hour, and whether it was intendeel to proceed no actual pain was felt :—" It was a frightfulat with the second reading of the Bishopric of Manchester dream," or "I thought a fiend had hold of m e Bil es l. or "I felt I Would have given wors to be out of' e t! e The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER under are the exprsions often made use d of on. awaking, S i n stood that it was . the wish of the Noble head of the Gov some cases these gloomy impressions are the result. of Lord at the sit Government that the imperfect inhalation; but in others it is a question hould on Mend at three o'clock, House sprivate burin . whether the impurity of the ether employed is not the and after the business had been dis , . h should move the Committee of Supply cause. —People's Journal. beta ot e Great numbers of females are, it is said, employed as re the other orders of the d of _ ay, and after " n wvies "on the Necker and Danube, aud Prague and i that the Committee j. W e and Means. -- With regard to the Ishoprto of bLanclatuter Dresden Railways. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS .111, (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) FRIDAY. JULY 9. SUPPLY. Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :" Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " there he laid before this House so much of the Correspondence or Reports of the Inspectors under the Act 10 Vic. c. 7 (with the name, rank, and residence of the parties referred to), as sustains the statements made Ly the Commissioners of Relief in their third Report, condemnatory of the conduct of com mittees, or of individuals, in carrying out the provisions of the said Act" instead thereof :—Motion made, and Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 81. Ainsworth, Peter Ellice, Edward Flumridge, Captain Anson, Colonel Gore, Robert FriCe, Sir R. Baine, Walter Gower, Leveson Repton, G. W. J• liaring, F. T. Greene, Thomas Rich, Henry Baring, W. B. Grey, Sir G. Richards, Richard Barnard, E. G. Grosvenor, Lord R. Roßeston, Colonel Berkeley. Craven Hastie, Archibald Russell, Lord J. Berkeley, Captain Hatton, Capt , in Rutherford, A. Bodkin, W. H. Hawes, Benj. Shell, R. L. Bowring, Dr. .:2 Howard, C. W. Smith, R. V. Brotherton, J, Jervis, Sir John Somerset, Lord G. Buck, L. W. Labouchere, Henry Spooner, R. Buller, Charles L m y i g i d o nn,,,aGy,e ll.n. Langston, J. H Staunton, Sir G. Byng, G. S. Lawson, A. Strutt, Edward Clive, R. H. Lemon, Sir Charles Tancred, H. W. Courtenay, Lord aa arn ding ely to , Tn.;:n. S. Craig, W. G. Masterman, J. Townely, John Denison, J. E. Manic, Fox St. John IN T': Vane, Lord H. Divett, Edward Dodd, George Miles,:P. W. S. Walker, Richard Douglas, J. S. Milnes, R. M. Ward, Duckworth, Sir J. Mitchell, T. A. Wilshere, T. W. Duncan, George Molesworth, Sir W. Wood, Sir Charles DuncombelA. Morris, David Wynn, C• W. Dundas, Admiral Morison, General Dundas,iSir David Mostyn, E. Ebrington, Viscount Pattison, J. Egerton,X. T. Philips, G. R. TELLERS. Tanen, IL , Pater, John MINORITY—NOES, 19. Aglionby, H. A. Gregory W. H. Wakley, Thomas Blake, Martin J. Hamilton, G. A. Williams, W. Borthwick, Peter Hayes, Sir E. 4 Yorke, Henry B. Burke, T. J. Hume, Joseph Clements, Viscount Jones, Captain Cole, Hon. H. A. Lowther, Hon. Col. Collett, John Pechell, Captain Ferraud, W, B. Vesey, T TELLERS. Norreys, Sir D. Ross, D. R. Motion made, and Question put, " That a sum not exceed ing 36,2141. be granted to her Majesty, for Non-conforming and other Ministers, Ireland." The Committee divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 68. Aglionby, H. A. Dundas, Sir David Morpeth, Viscount Anson, Colonel Ebrington, Viscount Mostyn, E. M.i Arkwright, G. Ferguson, Sir R. Neeld, Joseph Arundel, Earl of Fox, C. E. Newdegate, C. N. Bankes, George Grey, Sir G. Ogle, S. C. Barkly, Henry Grogan, E. Paget, Lord A. Baring, F. . T. Hamilton, G. A. Palmerston, Vis. Baring, Thomas Hatton, Captain Parker, John Bellew, R. M. Hawes, Benjamin Pinney, William Bennet, P. Hayes, Sir E. Russell, Lord J. Bentinck, Lord G. Hayter, W. G. Rutherfurd, A. Berkeley, Captain Henley, J. W. Sheil, R. L. lodkin, William H. Howard, C W.G. Sheridan, R. B. Borthwick, P. Howard, E. G. Somerville, Sir W. Buller, Charles Hudson, G. Spooner, Richard Burke, T. J. Inglis, Sir R. Strait, Edward Burrell, Sir C. Jervis, Sir John Tancred, H. W. Byng, G. S. Jolliffe, Sir W G. H. Ward, H. G. Colvile, C. R. Csurtenay, Lord Wood, Sir Charles Craig, W. G. Lygon, General Dawson, T. V. Law,Labou c che E re . , Henry Watson, Henry 31acaulay, T. TELLERS. Dickinson, F. H. 31aule, Fox Tufnell, Henry 1 Dundas, Admiral Monahan, J. H. Rich, Henry Bretherto n, J. MINORITY—aIpNOES, 13. Wakley, T. Brown, W. Perfect, Robert Duncan, George Rice, E. R. Hindley Charles Talbot , C. R. Williams, TELLERS. W. Hume, Joseph Thornely, Thomas Bowring, Dr. Lowther Colonel Trelawny, J. S. COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES (IRELAND) BILL Reported ; Amendments agreed to ;--Amendment pro posed, page 5, line 29, to leave out the words " or tithe Question put, "That the words or tithe' stand part of the Bill." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 38. Arundel, Earl of HaStie, A. Rich, Henry Bellew, R. M. Hawes , B . Russell. Lord John Berkeley, Captain Howar d, E. G. Rut herfurd, A. Bodkin, W. H. Jervis , S ir John So merville, Sir W. Brown, W. Maxie , Fox Talb o t, C. ft. Brotherton, Joseph Labou chere, Henry ltrutt, Ed war d Buller, Charles M o ffatt, G e orge Thornely, T. Craig, W. G. Monahan, J. H. Wakley, Thomas Dickinson, F. H. NorPeth, Viscount Watson, W. H. Dundas, Admiral Mostyn, E. M. L. Wood, Sir Charles Dundas, Sir D. Napier, Sir Charles Greene, Thomas Paget, Lord A. TELLERS. Grey, Sir George Palmerston, Viscount Tufnell, H. Hallyburton, Lord Pechell, Captain Parker. John MINORITY—NOES, 9. Yeripion, Sir R. Spooner, Richard Mayes, Sir E. TELLERS. Jolliffo, Sir W. H. Hamilton, 0. A. Newdcgate, N. Grogan, Edward Batikes, G. Bennet, Philip Christopher, It. A. Colvile, C. R. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. July 10. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve o'clock. THAMES CONSERVANCY BILL. Mr. HUME moved that the petitions of brewers and others in and near the metropolis, against the Thames Conservancy Bill, be printed with the votes.—Motion agreed to. LAW IN TELLIGEN CE. COURT OF ( 1-IfrIACEI?Y, ort , ?/ 1n- Tike LORD CIIANCI.I.I. - II • t;le LiDUOID ' S Inn, and heard appeals to-day. ROBINSON V. WALL.—JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which came before his Lordship upon appeal from the decision of the Taster of the H Us. The bill was filed for the specific perlf,vmance of an agreement en tered into by the plaintiffs as the assignees of Sir Thomas Champneys, an insolvent, for sale to the defendant, Flight, of the interest in certain property to which the insolvent was entitled in right of his wife, who had a life interest in it. The assignees being desirous of selling the interest of the insolvent, who was advanced in life, Lord Mostyn, whose wife was interested in the pro perty, subject to the interests of Sir Thomas and Lady Champneys, made a prcposal to the assignees for the purchase of their interest. He was anxious, also, to purchase the interest of Lady Champneys, and he offered to pay 35.0001. for the interest of the assignees, and to pay 4001. a year to Lady Champneys for her interest. An arrangement was come to on this footing, which was carried into effect by a deed, dated 13th August, 1838. It recited that the assignees were of opinion that it would be advantageous to the creditors to accept Lord Mostyn's offer, but they had no power to sell except by auction; that they were willing to put the pro perty up to sale by auction, and if Lord Mostyn should attend and bid 35,0001., and there was no higher bidding, he should become the purchaser at that sum; but if there was a higher bidding at the sale, it should be accented. And Lord Mostyn to contracted purchase the interest o the assignees, and to pay 35,0001. foriithe same, and to pay an annuity of 400/, to Lady Champneys for her in terest. And it was provided that the contract should be deemed one entire contract. And the assignees were to procure the assent of the creditors to the arrangement, and the sale was to be without reserve, except so far as the bidding of 35,0001. by Lord Mostyn might be con sidered a reserved bidding. By this arrangement the assignees secured a bidding of 35,000/. for their interest. They procured the assent of the creditors, who passed a resolution that the reserved bidding should be 35,0001.; and on the 10th of Newember, 1838, the sale by auction took place. It was expressly stated in the particulars of sale that this property was sold without reserve. There was no reference to the contract with Lord Mostyn. There were many biddings at the sale, and it was said that a bidding was ultimately made, on behalf of Lord Mostyn, of 49,8001., and that Wall, as agent of Flight, then bid 50,000/., who became the purchaser at that sum, and the usual contract was signed. Sir Thomas Champneys died in November, 1839, and this bill was filed in the following April. The bill was to compel Mr. Flight to perform his contract. Perform ance was resisted on several grounds. The first was that the estate was professed to be sold without reserve, and that no notice was given of the agreement with Lord Mostyn, securing a bidding of 35,000/. On the case coming before the Master of the Rolls, that Learned Judge was of opinion that whilst the agreement remained in force, the sale ought not to have been professed to be made without reserve. A reserved bidding was a right to make a bidding to prevent a sale for less than a certain sum. Lord Mostyn had entered into an obligation to advance the price to 55,0001. It did not appear to him to make any differ er.ce whether the bidding was made by the vendors per sonally or their agent, or some other person, who, for a consideration moving from him, had entered into a con tract to do it. The auction appeared to him to have commenced in error. It was from the beginning with reserve, when it was expressed to be without reserve. He thought, in the absence of notice of the agreement with Lord Mostyn, the auction was improperly con ducted, and that the contract was one which ought not to be specifically performed. The bill must be dismissed with costs, except as to the costs occasioned by the denial of Flight, in his answer, that Wall was his agent, a fact which was admitted. From this judgment the parties appealed to the Lord Chancellor. His Lordship this morning, after going at some length into the case, stated his opinion clearly to be, that the Court below had come to a right conclusion, and he should therefore order that judgment to be affirmed with costs. Appeal dismissed with costs. VICE-CHANCELLOICS COURT, July 9. (Before Sir J. KNIGHT BRUCE.) BLAIR V. ORMOND. This bill was filed for the purpose of recovering the sum of 877/. 4s. Id.. Navy Five per Cent. Annuities and the dividends of the same, which one Jose ph Buckley lent to Thomas Wood, and which the latter alleged to have been repaid or forgiven. The plaintiff, Mr. James Blair, a solicitor of Uttoxeter, is the surviving executor of Thomas Buckley Bridger, who was the nephew and only relative of Joseph Buckley, the lender, and is also the administrator of Joseph Buckley. The defendants, Mr. William Ormond and Mr. William Hayward, are the trustees and executors of the will of Thomas Wood, the borrower. The facts out of which the suit arose appear to be as follow :—Buckley was a ticket porter in London, and on the death of his brother, some time before 1812, he be came possessed of about the above-mentioned sum of stock. Thomas Wood, who was originally a Vintner's porter, in London, formed an acquaintance with Buckley, and the former lodged with him and his wife Prudence from 1796 to 1802, when Wood bought some property at Charlton, when Buckley accompanied him from London, and paid 10s. or 12s. a week for board and lodging. Every half-year Buckley went from Charlton to London to receive his dividends. Upon representations made to him, Buckley early in 1812 sold out part of his stock and lent the produce, 1001., to Wood, and afterwards sold out the remainder, and received the produce, 7331., in Bank notes, which he took to the house of Wood's nephew, who sewed up the money in Buckley's shirt sleeve, under his arm, and apprised his uncle of the fact. On the sth of December, 1812, Buckley lent the 7331. to Wood, and Wood's solicitor prepared a bond for him to Buckley for 2,0004, conditioned to transfer 877/. 4s. Id., Navy Five per Cent. Annuities, and to pay a sum equal to the dividends in the meantime; and also a me morandum by way of equitable mortgage, or a deposit of title deeds, relating to a house and land at Charlton, be longing to Wood, and which deeds were, therefore, de livered to Buckley, but afterwards came back to the pos session of Wood. Buckley continued to live as a boarder and lodger with Wood at Charlton until his death. which happened in September, 1842, and during that time Wood supplied him with moaey to pay for clothes, and with very small sums of money, such as two crown pieces, which Buckley carefully preserved as pocket pieces. He frequently demanded payment of his n oney from Wood, and also possession of the deeds, and when very troublesome Wood used to humour him by talking about a nobleman's deughter who he thought was in love with him. Immediately after Buckley's death, which happened after a week's illness, during which he was insensible, Wood directed his nephew to write a letter to the nephew of Buckley, which letter Wood signed, informing him of Buckley's death, and in forming him that he had lived to spend all his money, and that nothing was left; and on going over to Charlton the same story was repeated, excepting only that it was said Buckley had left an old coat with silver buttons, two crown pieces, and a watch. These articles the ne phew Bridger refused to take, and demanded his uncle's deeds, but could not get them, and then went and con sulted the defendant, Mr. Ormond, a solicitor at Wan tage, who declined to act for Bridger as he was solicitor toe Wood. He, however, made some inquiry of Wood, but then declined further interference. Wood, the debtor, died in March, 1843, having. by will, devised his real estates to the defendants in trust for sale, and appointed them executors. Bridger having died, but that fact being unknown to William Wood, the nephew of Wood the debtor, a letter was written by William Wood to him, offering to disclose the facts re lear, to the loan of the money. This letter was for warded by Bridger's surviving partner to Mr. Blair, the plaintiff, who thereupon investigated the matter and took proceedings, giving notice to the several persons who had agreed to buy Wood's estate not to complete, for that he had a claim by reason of the bond. The de fence set up by the answer was that Buckley gave Wood the money, and on his death-bed acknowledged that he had done so; and the statute of limitation was set up as a bar to the claim if any; so long ago as 1824, the de ceased, Bridger, knew every fact relating to the case, but never took proceedings, and that, although Mr. Wood died early in 1843, yet the bill was not filed till the latter part of 1844. Buckley died on the 11th of Sept., 1824, and the bill was filed on the 4th of Sept., 1844, seven days within the 20 years. Mr. Swanston and Mr. Wright appeared for the plain tiff ; Mr. Russell, Mr. Kenyon Parker, Mr. Heathfield, and Mr. Haynes for the defendant. His HONOUR said, that if the defendants required to try the validity of the bond by an action at law, he thought they were entitled to it ; but the plaintiff's counsel could be heard against such right. Mr. RUSSELL said he wished to try the action. Mr. SWANSTON was heard in opposition to the right to bring an action ; and Was followed by Mr. WRIGHT, who contended that in sucha as was no need of an action. Th e plaintiff' had craaedtehoeuret such a case as entitled him to a decwreehoenintihgehetvhidaeznarcde as it stood. If the plaintiff went to ltk , his case by the caprice, thetfodllay, lintdtletheasigyneoorapnlecenaouflad jury. Even in the prese t n osse p up for. If a jury were believe it, verdicts were food, or drink, when half shut up, without Sre, or wou ld not toss u p for a s t a rved, who coul d say they verdict? His HONOUR remarked that the Learned Judge now on the bench had allowed a jury water, holding that that element did not come within the description of drink. Mr. WRIAMT would not like to trust even a water drinking jury. It might happen that all the jury but one might be of the same opinion, and yet the eleven might be beaten by the one. Such a case did happen in Ireland, and the one who stood out against his companions admitted that he could not afford to convict a prisoner, who, if convicted, would have been hanged, because he was the last life in his, the juryman's lease His Hosioust said, that if the counsel for the de fendant would consent that he should give his decision on the whole case without any reference being made to the jury, he would do so. Mr. RUSSELL declined to accede to the proposition. The defendant ,was entitled to have the right tried at law. His Hosionn gave judgment, in which he detailed the whole facts with great minuteness, and said, that considering the date of the time when Mr. Bridger, through his solicitor, Mr. Simpson, communicatedt with Mr. Ormond knew, when, if not before, hknewtla Ormond had been or was Mr. Wood's solicitor, and that nd the Mr. Bridger then having his s uspici , s still lived for know, at at least,of hitshca eon nt Wood lived three teen years and took outline a years after and nothing done;step Mr. Blair, the executor, of Bridger, and Bridger hini:.elt, must be considered as identical. In such a case it was bondnot proper that the Court should interfere unless the were established at law; an action must therefore be tried on the bond. The bill must be dismissed with costs as to the pur- chtmers. end-in all other respict,s the cause must sttn over until after judgment in the action. ir, of l ttoxt tk r ; Messrs. Fennell, Child, and lit lly. for Mr. or dcleLdants, COURT OF QUEEN% - 37—B,tivC11, July 10. (Sittings at :Nisi Prins. at Guildhall, before Lord DEN MAN and a Common Jury.) CRIM C. N.-WI:STON r• LILL. Mr. Dowdesweil and Mr. Clea,i}y were counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. llumfrey for the defendant. Tt.is was an action for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. The damages were laid at 1,0001. Mr. DOWDESWFLL, in opening the case to the jury, expressed his great regret that in the absence of Mr. Martin it had fallen to his lot to state the case of the plaintiff to them. The plaintiff was a person who, at the time of contracting his marriage with his wife carried on business as a butcher. The marriage had taken place about four years ago ; he then gave up his business as a but cher, and took a public-house, called the Sun and Sports man, in Marylebone, which was exactly opposite some extensive mews kept by the defendant, who had also a house in the Regent's Park. He frequented the plain tiff's public-house, and a familiarity sprung up between plaintiff's wife and the defendant. At first this was a slight familiarity, but afterwards it became stronger, and the defendant had been seen sitting with his arm round her waist. The plaintiff gave up the public-house and went to reside in another place, but the intimacy was continued, and the defendant was in the habit of ne tf Wei g ffn o dh i W n ae sa obliged g to the house wh e n th e plaintiff was from home ; but the defendant being a marri e d man, and not very young, the plaintiff did no t t hi n k anyt hi ng o f i t . I n th e begin nn t, . d n t ia i ff n y g ainn o d f a the h ch ae e r pre driea e fge s en e , n d tat defendant sit s hh r 00 i u_s t ti d w u si a gpe s oa aged mror r nou r t a rwn n t so:g_he,, tun t t h e n a rpd t l oacii t n h e t h p e l a f i a n s - t waswin dnoowt however, t to o of t g cthia o telelppf elsewhere loaarriln ohtuiimfplaintiff t tori iel callril : n t w r noe hisde r wh t i h of r me e: e e n ,b g o:' h e t a e l u o c pw k . 0 onn l t o t o o ki t n h g e in, he saw the defendant and his (the plaintiff's) wife in such a position as could leave no doubt in his mind of the fact of criminal intercourse having taken place. While the plaintiff was standing in a state of the greatest asto nishment and misery, the _defendant came out, passed the plaintiff, and jumped upon his horse, which was waiting for him, and rode off. They might easily con ceive the state of mind of the plaintiff. He left his house, roamed about the streets all night, and the next morning he went to the house of the mother of his wife, and related to her what he had seen. The mother called upon the defendant, who at first said there bad only been a slight difference between himself and the husband, but eventually admitted the fact, and begged for pardon ; but yet the defendant would now attempt to say that the act had not been perpetrated. He called on the Satur day, and requested to see the plaintiff, and an interview was arranged for the following Tuesday, at which the mother of the plaintiff's wife was present, and on that day the defendant expressed the greatest contrition for what he had done, and offered to make any compensation if the matter could be arranged. These were the facts of the case. It was impossible the wife, who had one little child, could ever again be the inmate of her hus band's house, and he now came to this court to ask for compensation—a compensation which must always be inadequate to the wrong done. He should call his wit nessef, and leave the case in their hands, and they would say what damages the defendant should pay. Mary Ann Charlton—l was present at the marriage of the plaintiff and his wife in September, 1843. I have visited them two or three times, and they appeared to live on very affectionate terms. Mr. Smith—l am the mother of the plaintiff's wife. The plaintiff was then a butcher. He afterwards sold his business and took the Sun and Sportsman public• house in Marylebone. Opposite to that were the defend ant's livery stables. My daughter then had one little b' y. I visited her, and she and her husband lived on very aff ctionate terms. He was remarkably kind to her. He sold that business in April last, and went to live in Caledonia-n.ad. He came to me on the fast day; he was in a most distracted state of mind. I went to the defendant's in consequence on the following day, and saw him. I then asked him what was the matter between him and Mr. Weston, and he said that he did not know. I afterwards saw him ag ls ain on a Satur day, and he , g zed pardon, and denied that any thing ciminal occurred. He said he was very sorry for what had taken place, and begged to see Mr. W eston. I afterwards saw Mr. Weston, and then Mr. Hill, and I told the latter what the former had said. I asked him if he was aware he had parted man and wife. He said he would do anything, either in money or any thing else, if Mr. Weston would but forgive him. I said, if I could get Mr. Weston to see him, I would send and let him know. Mr. Weston consented to see him on the following Tuesday, and it was arranged that I should be present. We met on the Tuesday. Mr. Hill was in great agitation. Mr. Hill asked what had taken place. Mr. Weston asked him if he did not see him in a certain position, and Mr. Hill admitted that it was not a false hood, and begged Mr. Weston to forgive him. Mr. Weston said, how can I forgive you when you have ruined me and my family for life ? Mr. Hill begged me to have another interview with Mr. Weston, but Mr. Weston refused. I had seen Mr. Hill at Mr. Weston's before this ; they were on very intimate terms. Cross- examined—When Mr. Hill came to the house a person was placed to hear all that took place. I ad vised that. He was in an adjoining room, with the door open; his name is Summers. At the interview, Mr. Hill said the fact of criminal intercourse bad not taken place. My daughter now lives with me. I can't tell how often the plaintiff comes to my house; he calls to see the child, sometimes twice a week. Mr. Williams succeeded Mr. Weston at the public-house. The plain tiff's wife has gone there to collect the debts, and what money she collects she keeps. It is not requisite I should tell you how much she has got. I never inquire into other people's business. She sends her brother Joseph. I have three sons. Mr. Hill is younger than Mr. Weston; I believe him to be about thirty-five; my daughter is twenty-three. Charles Summers—l am a tobacconist. I called upon the plaintiff on Tuesday, the 20th of March. I was asked to remain. I went into the next room to that in which the plaintiff and Mrs. Smith and Mr. Hill were. Mr. Hill said he was come to apologise for what had taken place. so help him God it had not taken place. Mr. Weston said it would have taken place, if it had not. Mr. Hill said, " My dear soul. it would have taken place, I have no doubt; but it did not." Mr. Weston said, you have been there when I have not been at home. Mr. Hill said, yes, he had ; he did not deny it. I bad never seen anything wrong between Mrs. Weston and Mr. Hill when I called at the public-house. Sarrah Watson—l was in the service of the plaintiff at the public house on the 3d of May last year. Mr. and Mrs.• Weston lived un very good terms. Mr. Hill used to come very often. I saw nothing particular. I have heard him call her my dear. She ha s said, Mr. Hill, I'm not your dear." Cross-examined—There was a barmaid in the room at the time. Mary Willis—l also lived servant in the public house. The plaintiff appeared affectionate to his wife. Mr. Hill came there frequently. I orce saw his arm round Mrs. Weston's waist. I have seen them meet on the stairs ; he has gone up stairs to the billiard rcom, and Mrs. Weston has gone up stairs. Cross-examined—Mr. Hill used to take Mr. Weston out for a drive. James Smith—l recollect Mr. Hill coming to Mr. Weston's on the fast day, on horseback ; Mr. Weston was out. I took care of the horse ; he remained for two hours. Crosseexamined—l am living with my mother now. I have been to collect the debts at the public house by the desire of Mrs. Weston. I have given the money to her. Hester Macey—l live with the defendant, in the Re gent's Park. On the day before the fast day an arrange ment was made between the plaintiff and defendant to meet the neat day at Red Hill, near Edgeware, to shoot spar rows, and the ladies were to go in the evening. The defendant was to call for the plaintiff. Joseph Tewsbury—l lived with the defendant ; he kept livery stables opposite the Sun and Sportsman. Mr. HUNFREY then addressed the jury for the case brought before a jury. His friend had de fendant. It had never been his f o rtune cases, but here common place phrases, which would do for rs'friend had said that u t s o ed se esuc ha they were a little out of pla b ce. on account of Mr. Hill being b a did not know what Mr. young woman ; the little familiarities which Weston a w ent n o ( n id we rn r a e n n , o n t nd not l ic ir e s d . old gentlemen, was about two stead of being thisthanlilt. Weston himself. He had never years younger Weston would think of that, but Mr. Hill, h ea rd a case so attem p ted to be got u p ; but he in ut must say that th is husband had presented himself with as litt l e pretence of being injured and heartbroken as any man he had ever known. This had taken place on the fast day ay. The attorney (Wednesday), and the wr i t h a d b een i ssu ed on the Frid said, " Oh, I will issue the writ; I shall get 21. 3s. 4d. for that; but then what is your case?" Mr. Weston would theu look a little blank. The attorney would say, you must have some evidence upon which, by the advice of the attorney, the heart broken husband arranges with his mother-in-law that a conversation should be got up, so that some person might hear what was said, because if they could manage a little admission that would tell before the jury. The interview of Tuesday was to take place, and he had no doubt Mr. Weston had gone cif to the attorney, and said we have made a good shot, much more effectual than shooting sparrows. We have knocked down the bird, for Hill has agreed to meet us. Then the attorney would say and admission is not so good if proved by one witneesisn, the therefore if you could just quietly get r in one barrel and , . gun ; put Mrs. Smith e shall be sure to have next room to hear what is said would then be on a double barrelledmrhim. It was . discreditable g let tfho fur m a c quarter nc e i%' e tog e eact [' said, could this cube Summers in the other, and then t we u a case of this sort by conversation, and hie t j tie wire ; him sitting in the room toba " ' listening• cconisi. was in of an hour, while the worthy " t s h at interview bilt band ever again live with at the other room. The defendant had said that nothing criminal had taken place, and then the husband (no doubt on the suggestion of the attorney) said it it had not, don't you think it would? Ile had never seen a case in which there Yves such evidence to lead a jury to the conclusion of guilt. He submitted that the proof was not sufficient to induce them to find a verdict for the plaintiff. Lord DENMAN, in summing up, said it was a question of facts for the jury. A great deal depended upon the evidence of Mrs. Smith. Surely the feelings of the mother of the wife who had committed such an act were to be spared in some degree by all parties in the evidence she had to give. Let them consider what her feeiiugs atu,t have been during that conversation, and what tier feelings must lie when in a public court of jus tice she came to state the guilt of her child. Were they or not satisfit d that this had ti.letn place ? He thought it a most serious case. If thtse parties were adulterers, be thought the defendant had much agg ravated the c Bill, although it stood for a second reading on Monday he did not think it would come on. His Noble Frier-id at the head of the Government had stated anxiety bring that measure forward either on Tuesday or Thurs day, but he would on Monday state what course he intended to pursue. Lord MORPETH brought in a Bill to amend the Act for the Enclosure and Improvement of COMMOL which was read a first and ordered to be read a second The House then adjourned to Monday at three o'cluck POTATO CRO P IN THE CARSE " i ' m ß p i o E riant crop continues - 0 of tGhiOs The appearance healthy-looking and luxuriant over all the county, with the exception of the Carse of Gowrie, where symptoms analagous to the disease of the last two years had again manifested themselves in some in stances. Why it should have appeared so early in that district may be accounted for by their bf ing planted earlier ; but as in several instances the plant is already coming into bloom, without the least ap pearance of disease, either in stem or shim, hopes are yet strong that, if it should prevail again this season, it will be both more mitigated in its form and partial in its sphere than formerly. The early varieties are now coming to market without taint of any kind, and promise to be a full crop. We personally witnessed one day last week several cases of singular growth in that crop, in a large garden at the west end of the town, and which we observe is not a rare case this season, but the same has been remarked at Elgin and other places. Among a quantity of the early cup leafed kidney potatoes, planted in the end of March, and generally whole, about two-thirds of them came up, and are looking healthy. The owner, on proceeding to dig where the vacancies were, found new potatoes forming closely attached to the old seed, which was quite fresh ; but no stem proceeded from the seed. In this instance the order of vegetation appears to bo reversed. The potato. instead of producing a stem from the eye of the seed and young potatoes from the stem, has reversed the order, so that the young potato grows direct from the old one without the production of any stem whatever. Potatoes, but of a more globular form, and of a much smaller size, are sometimes found growing on potatoes stored in pits ; but we have not till now seen the same pro cess going on in the field. The subject, we believe, is one which has never been investigated, though extremely curious in its nature. In the present in stance, it appears to be connected with the excited vitality of the potato tuber, which again appears to be connected with the potato disease. To see a potato taken on an inverted action, and producing potatoes from its eyes instead of a stem, is in itself a matter of singular curiosity and importance, and the investigation of which would doubtless lead to a far more perfect knowledge of the growth of tuberous roots, than has ever yet been ac quired.—P(rth Courier. THE EDUCATION SCHEME AS REGARDS IRELAND. A correspondence has taken place between the Arch , bishop of Dublin and Lord John Russell as to the education grant for Ireland. The Archbishop, addressing his Lordship, on the 14th of May, says—" Before the annual grant of money for the education of the poor of Ireland is proposed in the House of Commons, I am anxious to bring under your Lordship's consideration the claims of a large number of most useful schools which have not as yet obtained any assistance from the State. Your Lordship and other members of her Majesty's Government having announced your earnest desire that assistance out of the public purse should be extended to schools connected with every denomination of Christians in England, so that none should have reason to complain of being excluded from a participation of the grants for diffusing education on the ground of their holding peculiar religious opinions, I cannot bring myself to suppose that her Majesty's advisers will continue to shut out from all assistance nearly 2,000 schools for the poor, which are under the superintendence of the clergy of the Estab lished Church in Ireland. The schools to which I reft-r are those which are conducted on the system of the Church Education Society for Ireland—a system which is the same as that which was organized nearly fifty years ago by the Incorporated Association for Promoting the Knowledge of the Christian Ri:ligion, and which has had the approval of every prclatc of the Irish branch of the United Church without exception. I do not know whether it is requisite for me to explain to your Lord ship that the schools which are founded on this system are open to children of every creed, that all the scholars who have attained a suitable proficiency are required to read the authorised version of the Holy Scriptures, and that those children only who are members of the Estab lished Church are obliged to learn its formularies. The rule respecting the use of the sacred Scriptures, wherein this system resembles that of the National Society of England, and that of the British and Foreign School Society, to both of which aid is given in England by the State, forms the sole ground on which these schools in Ireland are debarred from receiving assistance." Lord John Russell, in reply, dated May 26, says— " After giving the most attentive consideration to your Grace's views respecting the education grant for Ireland, I am sorry to say that I am unable to concur with your Grace, or to propose that any part of the vote should be applied to schools connected with the Established Church. The great majority of the people of Ireland being Roman Catholics, I should not think it advisable to make a provision for education from which their children were excluded, either by law or by regulation. The revenue of the Established Church in Ireland appears to me sufficient, not only for the support of the beneficed clergy, but also for the encouragement and maintenance of a Scriptural system of education." LODGING-HousEs IN GLASGOW FOR THE WORKING CLASSES.—" The Glasgow Association for establishing lodging-houses for the working classes" has just opened its first or experimental establishment. This is situated on the west side of Mitchellestreet, a few doors from Argyle-street. The house—which has been fitted up for this purpose under the direction of Mr. James Wylson, architect--comprises four storeys, thus afford ing facilities for accommodating separately the three classes of inmates who in such places must be provided for—namely, single males, single females, and married couples, leaving the ground storey to be appropriated to the dieting department. It has accordingly been thus arranged :—the three upper floors as dormitories according to this classification, and the ground floor as a day-room, divided by low partitions into correspond ing compartments for the use of the ledgers during the day, and in which they may take their meals. For economy of space, the dormitories have been fitted up with two tiers of berths, after the manner of passengers cabins on ship-board, excepting that the upper and' lower berths are entered from opposite sides; thus, though rendering more standing room necessary, accom plishing the complete separation which is essential in houses of this description. Each berth is furnished with a seat, and is enclosed by a door, in order to secure the clothes end other property of the occupants; arid each dormitory is provided with a water-closet; also a lavatory, containing several wash-hand boxes so that a small number may wash at one time. The kitchen and bar are combined, and are situated at one end of the ground storey, separated only by a counter from the seated portion forming the day-room. Here are pro vided the means of furnishing plain wholesome meals; and advantage is taken of the draught in the furnace, which heats the coppers, for ventilating the dormitories above: this is effected by means of an upright shaft of tin tubing which communicates with each floor, and leads into this furnace, so as to become mainly the source of its supply of air. while it is the medium by which the vitiated atmosphere of the several floors is drawn off downwards. Arrangements are being made for fitting up, in the rear of the premises, one bath for male and another for female lodgers.. —Glasgow Citizen. SNOW IN JUNE.—Last week there was a pretty heavy fall of snow in the parish and district of Betty, so much so that the inhabitants gathered it in handsful. It did not lie long, however.—Dundee paper. THE CHINESE JUNK-KEYING, NOW ON HER WAY TO ENGLAND.—Captain C. A. Kellet has kindly favoured ius with the following account of the Chinese junk Key ng:—The junk Keying left China, Dec. 6, 1846, ar rived at St. Helena, April 17, 1847; has had very light winds nearly the whole voyage, having been at anchor six weeks in the Java Sea and Sunda Straits, with light southerly and south-west winds. Off the Mauritius ex perienced some very heavy weather on the 22d and 23d of March, but found her to be a most beautiful seaboat, and easy, never having shipped a drop of water since leaving China, or leaking. Her masts and rudder are of immense size and weight, being made of iron wood. Her rudder is hung to three laroaropes, and drawn into her stern by two others, going underneath her bottom, and coming over the bows, and when the rudder is down, draws 23 feet, but when hoisted only 13 feet. It some times takes 20 men to steer her, but in fine weather, running before the wind, she goes so steadily that the tiller rarely requires to be touched, and then two men can steer her. She is built in compartments, hav ing fifteen, several of which are water-tight ; she has a maindeck, raised quarterdeck, two poops, and a raised forltcastle, with a high verandah above that again. Her maindeck is arched. Her anchors are made of wood, and the shanks about 30 feet long ; the cables are made of bamboo, the ropes of bamboo, rattan, and India grass; she has three watertanks built on her decks ; her sails reef themselves by lowering the halyards, so that one man to each mast at the halyards can either reef the sail or take it in in a minute ; her stern and her bows are open, but she is so very buoyant that she never takes in any water at either end. Her main cabin, or saloon is 30 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 12 feet high, paint/ with various beasts, birds, &c. S. e has also six stil e cabins on the first poop, with the joss home in I t h e centre, in which a light is constantly kept burin H stern is 32 feet high out of the water. Gazette. t. fr i I elena COMMISSION or LUNACY. —Saturday a commission, was held at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, mbeaforee,Ms6r., Commissioner Winslow, on Miss Ann Hare m , a ton-road. a maiden lady, of No. 2, York-row, K Newton. The property was stated toe onsistGover of houses, u of nmeet which were in a dilapidated state, a stock, to the amou nt of 10,0001.; three of the houses had not been te nanted for e w ight years. Her delusions e re that her hand s were notcr tongue that that spoke human, but the claws o f eagles; that it was not h magic; and that her heart was being turn to pi bu t eces. She raa6 sa id she could not see, and that she was stoop blind. She was constantly grinding her teeth., The servant who attended her for many years had become impaired in mind by waiting on her, and died in Beth al, m Hospital. The jury had an interview with the l una tic lady in her houe, when they were quite satisfied of her insanity. They found her on the bed, to which she had been confined for years. She was sec-sawing on ti e bed, and gave full proof of her dein-Leis by her answers to the questions put to her. The jury re turned a verdict, dating her unsoundness of mind from Mara), 1847. IsiSi' THE _SITINT, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1847.