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EVEN ENG EDITION. LITERATUE,E. MASTER HUMPHREY' S CLOCk, No. 111. Chapman and Hall, London, 1840. rhough we preler this Number -to either of the two that have preceded it, we cannot say that it is altogether what we should have expected from Boz. 'l'hcre is too much of the imitative about it. The author does not write so much from his own fresh, lively impression of men and things, as from hints and suggestions furnished i h! ethers. Sterne and Washington Irving, particu lar, seem to have been uppermost in his mind, while he % '.„ 43 penning the first five or six pages of the present Number ; and in proof of what we assert, we quote a Passage. wh ere i n, not on l y S terne ' s p e culiar vein of sen timent, but his very manner of giving expression to that se ntiment, are closely imitated :--- It I I grew still more interested in my friend. His din. ber d one, a decanter of refine was placed before him. It :rained untouched for a long time, but at length , with a uivering hand, So he filled a giass and raised it to his lips. home tender uish to which he had been accustomed to re utteran ce on t h at day, or some beloved name that he d been used to pledge, trembled upon them at the mu_ mere He put i t d aw n very hastily—took it up once f are_again put it down—pressed his hand upon his and tears stole down his cheeks, I am certa i n. ebout pausing to consider whether I did tight or wrong, aid stepped across the room, and sitting down beside him, ray hand gently on his arm." Who would imagine that Master Humphrey wee 'Peaking in the above passage ? Who would not rather "PPose that it was Sterne who—under his favourite a lms of Yorick—was describing same fresh rencontre he had had, when in France, with the Calais monk, cr. with poor Lefevre, at the time when 4 4 Dendertnond vas taken by the allies ?" In the extract we are about to make, it will be seen that Boz has dexterously caught that. strain of kindly and pensive reflection in which Washingt on I rv i ng i s so p rone to indulge, though we Wi ll do him the justice to say that his language is much more easy and natural than that of his prototype :-- " Who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those P i sces which they once dearly affected; when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and byegone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and this that warmed his heart of old ? It is thus that at inis quiet hear I haunt house where I was born, the rooms I used to tread, the acmes of my infancy, my boy hood, and my youth ; it is thus that I prowl around my buried treasure (though not of gold or silver), and mourn m 7 loss ; it is thus that I revisit the ashes 'of extin guished fires, and take my silent stand at old bed sides. If hY spirit should ever glide back to this chamber when my dY is mingled with the dust, it will but follow the course it often took in the old man's lifetime, r.nd add but one more change to the subjects of its contemplation." In the sentence which we have marked in italics, a tout:ll4lg sentiment is conveyed in just and felicitous la nguage, Not less striking in its way, is the brief sketch of a London tavern on Christmas-day, where l ne author speaks of " the bough of misletoe sickening , in the gas," and the " very waiter having g one home,' and his representative, " a poor, lean, hungry man Keepi ng Christmas in his jacket." In the portrait of Jack Itedburn, the reader will again be reminded o f Washington Irving, whose arch humour Boz has imi tated a s ca refully as his more serious manners. The Number closes with a tale which is worked up with much graphic energy. COURT CIRCULAR. „ WiNpson, SUNDAY.—Thfs morning the Queen and rrinee Albert, and all the visitors at the Castle (except t ii l 3 '! Du c h ess o f Zent and the Hereditary Prince) attended eine Service at St. George's Chapel Royal. The Rev. Re Knyvett chanted the first part of the Service. The "' A rt. Dr. Keate and the - Rev. Mr. Digby officiated at the dar ; the latter Rcv. Gentleman !reached the Sermon, his text was taken from St. Luke chapter xvi., and part of v erse 31, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neith er w il l they b e persua d e d th o ugh one rose from the d j ' a d.” The musical part of the servi ce was, C haunt, rand Chaunt, and one of C. E. Horn, jun., Te Deum, aud Jubilate Creed, &c., Dr. King in C., and the anthem, " I know that my Redeemer liveth " ( Handel). The m usical p ar t o f the Communion-service was by the Rev. Maurice and Dr. Child ; Mr. Elvey, M. 8., presided at the orgau. Her Majesty and Prince Albert received the Sacrament, Which was administered by the Rev. Dr. Keats and the Rev. Mr. Digby. The Service was not over till half-past two o'clock. This afternoon the two bands have been playing on the Castle Terrace, and the concourse of visitors is very great. Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert, the 'Hereditary Prince of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, and a great Part of the Royal suite, witnessed a review of the Rifle Corps stationed here. Her Majesty rode on the ground (the Little Park, opposite the East Terrace) in a pony Phaeton driven by the Prince. "At half past two o'clock the Royal party again rode out, her Majesty in a pony phaeton driven by the Hereditary Piinee of Saxe Cobourg, Prince Albert driving four in Wnd in another ; the Duchess of Kent in one of the car ges, and the rest in pony phaetons, carriages, and on ek. About five o'clock the whole party returned. L z a "e„, a' 'loyal Highness the Duchess of Kent , atte nded b y Bar m)" Stoekmar, Countess Uxbridge and the Ladies E. and -C. Paget, Hon. W. Cowper, Hon. Mrs. George Anson, Lord G. Lennox, and Viscount Melbourne, arrived yesterday on a visit to the Queen. The Countess of Erroll and Lady Ida Hay, Lord R. Grosvenor b and Sir J. Clark, left the Ca s tl e yesterday The Royal Dinner Party at the Castle last evening consisted of the Duchess of Kent, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Earl of Erroll, Earl and Countess of Uxbridge and Ladies E. and C. Paget, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Kinnaird. Baron Stockmar, Hon. Misses Anson and Paget, Baron de Gruber, Hon. W. Cowper, Mr. O. E. and Holt. Mrs. Anson, Countess of Charlemont, Lady A. M. Dawson, Hon. Misses Pitt and Spring Rice, Baroness Lehzen, Lord Byron, Lord George Lennox, Hon. C. A. Murray, Admiral Sir R. Otway, Hon. Colonel Grey, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Francis Seymour. Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, her Royal Higimels the Princess Augusta, her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the Princes and Princesses of Saxe Weimer, attended Divine Service yesterday morn ing in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Sermon was Preached by the Dean of Carlisle from St. John, chap. 1!., verse 9 9. The lessons were read by the Rev. Mr. Hall, the Rev. Horsley Dakics, the prayers by the Rev. Mr. Knapp, and the Communion Service by the Bishop of London, and the Rev. Messrs. Knapp and Hall. The G rand Chaunt was HumphreN'. The Te Deum and Ju bilate Was King's in C. The Athanasian Creed was cha ir unted. The Sanctus by Savage, and the Responses h King. The Anthem 6' If we believe that Jesus died" 0 0 Yee) was sung by Messrs. W. Knyvett and J. B. Smale. drr George Smart presided at the Organ. The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Court was in wai ting. The Queen Dowager was attended by the lion. Miss Hudson and Earl Howe. The Princess Augusta "as attended by Miss Wynyard. The queen Dowager, the Princess Augusta, and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, re ceived the Sacrament, which was administered by the aik hop of London. A T. l lO Duk e an d D uc hess of Cambridge, and the Princess Llngth•ta of Cambridge, attended Divine Service yesterday morning i n G rosvener Ch a p e l, S o uth Audley street. Lady Augusta Somerset was in Waiting on the Royal D uchess. The Queen Dowager, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duche ss _ Id a o f S axe W e i mar , an d P r ince Edward o "e Weimar, attended Divine Service yesterday after linen in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester Look an airing together on Saturday in a carriage. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta yes terday. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the Duchess Ida of Sax e Weimar, and the Princes and Princesses of Saxe Weimar. visited the Surrey Zoological Gardens on Satur. 'tidy. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge drove to Kew on Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses returned to town in the evening. On Saturday her Majesty's Royal Bounty, the Gate , Alms to 163 persons (thirteen shillings each person), was paid by Mr. Hanby, the Secretary and Yeoman of the Almonry. All receiving this bounty exceed the age of 60 years, and are persons who hare descended from com parative affluence. Among them is Thomas Aris, who is nearly in the 100th year of his age, and was formerly Go vernor of Cold Bath-field's Prison. The supernumerary Maunday men and women, or those who could not be continued upon the Royal list, the num ber of which is governed by the age of the Monarch, were 4180 paid at the same time. These persons being very aged and infirm, her Majesty was graciously pleased to command that they should continue to receive the Royal alma during the remaining period of their lives. His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the American Mi nister, transacted business at the Foreign-office on Saturday. Viscount Melbourne came to town on Saturday morning from his seat, Broeket• hall, Herts. His Lordship left town at half -past two o'clock in the afternoon on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. A Deputation on Soaninh Claims, consisting of Mr. L -uivett, M. P., Messrs. 'Davey, E. White, and A. Hadley, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday in Downing-street. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonia-- ° wee from Sir G. Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, and from General N-ipier at the Cape of Good Hope. The Marquis of Normanby left town on Saturday for the seat of the Earl of Hardwicke, Wimpole Hall, Cambridge shire. „.„ °RATH OF S IR H E NRY r A NE.--On Saturday t he following was posted at the Jerusalem Coffeelieuse • The Malabar, 'Pollock has arrived off the Star t, from Bom bay. Sir Henry Fane ; the Commander-in -Chief in India, ( lionboaril the Malabar. at St. Michael, on the '24th March. Sir Henry was 62 years of age.” There is, we believe we may aver, but one feel tng throughont the United Services ( always excepting the "yal Artillery, wh ose mem b ers are , as they have good season ! la he, well sati s fi e d w i t h t h e pre f erence t h ey h ave ,•xperieneed) on the subject of the Report of the Naval and Alilitary Com mission. The e x p r e ss i on of disappointment, nay, even disgust to both the Army and Navy, exceeds arything we ever re member to have met with before. The only branch of the services that professes the slightest satisfaction with its recom mendations is the Royal Artillery.— United Service Gazette. -1 , Our Rail w ay, we understand, will he opened tlaroughout in the Middle of May. We have heard that the . th Is fixed f or this important extension of our travelling faci -1 I w-1-lam ps / t i re Independent. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1840. HE DUKE OF SUSS X. -~b-- Case submitted to Dr. Lushington and Mr. Richards regarding the validity of his Royal Highness'3 Mar riage with Lady Augusta Murray. " Your advice is N - posted, on behalf of Sir Augus tus d'Este, on the fuilos6ng case, which regards the effect of a marriage contracted by his parents in 1793, at Rome—beyond sea—and out of the jurisdiction either of the British crown, or British Parliament. At the close of the year 1792, his Royal High ness Prince Augustus Frederick of England, as son of his Majesty King George 111., and of Brunswick as son of the Elector of Hanover, being at Rome, be came acquainted there with the Right Hon. Lady Augusta Murray, daughter of the Earl of Dunmore. " His Royal Highness Prince Augustus and Lady Augusta met at Rame by mere accident, and had pre viously been wholly unknown personally to each other. An attachment having sprung up between them, after an interval of several months they intermarried ; Sir Augustus &Este is the son of that marriage, born about nine months after its solemnisation. " It may here be observed that Lady Augusta her self, being descended from a branch of the house of Athol, after the Isle of Man had descended upon them from the house of Derby, was member of a Sovereign family. She was descended also from several Sovereigns of Scotland, France, and England, and, amongst others, from the House of Bourbon, and Henry VII. of Eng land (vide the table left herewith). " The circumstances stated as to the illustrious descent of the Earl of Dunmore are material so far only as they regard Germany, and as indicating that there was ❑ot, in the case of the marriage hereafter-mentioned, that disparity of birth which would invalidate the mar riage, as to feudal inheritance, in that country. Even in Germany, when a marriage is unequal, the wife is a lawful consort to a certain extent ; and the children legitimate for the purposes of civil succession. Earls, however, it is well known, are of such high dignity in England and Scotland, that originally they were the only titles be;d by even princes of the blood ; as Dukes and Marquises were then unknown. t. The esteemed old English author, Gwillim (Display of Heraldry, page 460,) says, " the title of Earl is very ancient, the dignity very honourable, their calling being, in sign of their greatnesse, adorned with the lustre of a coronet, and themselves ennobled with the style of Princes." All the German law books, treating of un equal marriages, allude to the marriage of Princes only with " une bourgeoise, or simple demoiselle," but not with the daughters of nobles of the higher class. Earls in England are even presumed to be connected with the blood of royalty, and objects of royal alliance. On this account they are styled by the King " cou sins ;" whereas Viscounts and Barons are styled only " well beloved." " In addition, therefore, to the circumstance of the lady's father being himself an Earl, is the fact of his being descended from the Dukes of Athol, actual Sove reigns of Man. The Queen Consort of George 1., and mother of George 11., was the grand-daughter of only a private French nobleman ; and yet the alliance of the Duke of Zelle with this lady did not work any incapacity in George 11. to succeed to the Electoral dignity. The modern history, therefore, of the House of Guelph illustrates the rule of German law, as above laid down. " It is, however, more material to call your atten tion to the circumstances, as connected with their legal effect, under which the marriage at Rome took place. " The marriage ceremony was performed, not as has been erroneously supposed, by a Catholic priest, but by a minister of the Church of England, according to the liturgy of that Church ; and it was also pre ceded, a circumstance worthy of remark, by a written formal contract of marriage, signed by both parties, al most per verbs de prcesenti, in the nature of espousals. No possible formality, so far as religion was concerned, appears to have been neglected. " The following is the account given by his Royal Highness, himself, of all the circumstances which led to and accompanied this marriage. It effectually refutes, and in a manner wholly incontrovertible, a variety of unfounded reports and prejudices which have been cir culated ; invented maliciously, perhaps, at first, and since too hastily credited. It is taken from the duplicate of a letter of his Royal-Highness to the late Lord Erskine (then Mr. Erskine), all in his own handwriting, dated from Naples, and so late as the 30th January, 1798. It may also be observed that this letter was written whilst his Royal Highness was living apart from the Lady, whom he de scribes himself as " standing forward, and claiming as his wife "—whom he had not seen for a considerable period, they being in different c ountries—after any first impulse of juvenile ardour had ceased—and, therefore, it must be considered as expressing the spontaneous, deliberate, and fixed impressions of the illustrious per sonage from whom the letter proceeded. The following are the most material passages in this interesting document : " A detail," says his Royal Highness, " of the circum stances which relate to me and my wife will put you in a better way of judging the affair. " In the month of December, 1792, being on my tra vels, I got acquainted at Rome with Lady Dunmore, and her two daughters, who were just come from Na ples. Englishmen, when they meet in foreign countries, generally keep their own national society. Such was exactly my case. I used to live a great deal with my fellow-countrymen, but the well-known accomplishments of my wife (then Lady Augusta Murray) caught my peculiar attention. After four months' intimacy, by which I got more particularly acquainted with all her endearing qualities, 1 offered her my hand, unknown to her family, being certain beforehand of the objections Lady Dunmore would have made me, had she been bi formed of my intentions. The candour and generosity of my wife showed on this occasion by refusing the pro posal, and showing me the personal disadvantages I should draw on myself, instead of checking my endea vours, served only to add new fuel to a passion, which already no earthly power could ever more have extin guished. At length, after having convinced Augusta of the impossibilit} of my living without her, I found an English clergyman, and we were privately married at Rome, in the month of April, 1793, according to the rites of the English Church. Many people think that Lady Dunmore was privy to this marriage, but of this I must totally exculpate her ; for she never was informed of it till three months after, when secrecy was of no longer use ; and when I was fOrced to make it known to her, for fear she should occasion my wife to miscarry." " ' His Royal Highness proceeds to account for the second marriage, in the following words : " After having lived with Augusta some months, though privately, I was recalled to England, when, for fear of any difficulty being made as to the legality of my child's birth, I eaused myself to be married a se cond time." " Independently of this letter, Sir Augustus d'Este has in his possession the following instrument, in the handwriting and under the seal of his Royal Highness, being the contract or espousals before al luded to. " On my knees before God our Creator, I, Augustus Frederick, promise thee Augusta Murray, and swear upon the Bible, as I hope for salvation in the world to come, that I will take thee, Augusta Murray, for my wife, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sick ness and in health, to lose and to cherish, till death us do part, to love but thee only, and none other, and may God forget me if I ever forget thee. The Lord's name be praised, so bless me, so bless us, 0 God, and with my hand-writing do I Augustus Frederick this sign, March 21, 1793, at Rome, and put my seal to it, and my name." (L.S.) Signed " AUGUSTA FREDERICK." " • A similar engagement in the handwriting of Lady Augusta, and signed by her, is subjoined at the foot of the above paper ; and that the idea of it proceeded from h's Royal Highness appears from the heading of the paper, which is in the handwriting of his Royal Highness, and is as follows : As this paper is to contain the mutual promise of marriage between Augus:us Frederick and Augusta Murray, our mutual names must be put here by us both, and kept in my possession. It is a promise nei ther of us can break, and is made before God our Cre ator, and all-merciful Father." The clergyman who performed the marriage is alive, but of very advanced age. Lady Augusta died last year. Sir Augustus d'Este or his posterity may, in the possibilities of events, have to claim estates and honours which may devolve to him from his maternal relations. It becomes, therefore, necessary for him to ascertain how he really stands according to law ; and how far the marriage at Rome, be, or not, capable of being sup ported ; as in csse it be invalid, he cannot succeed, on the part either of his mother or his royal father, to any property, real or personal ; and he may be left, in a manner, destitute. " He is ale° in this singular and unprecedented predicament with respect even to his own individual free dom, in regard to any marriage contracted by himself. " ?If (as it has been contended in a treatise pub lished twenty years ago, by a learned gentlemen then at the bar, (Sir John Dillon), the Royal Marriage Act, does not, and cannot, in sound construction be made to extend to marriages contracted and solemnized beyond sea, (Vide the treatise left herewith), neither Sir Au gustus d'Este nor his sister, it is conceived, as de scendants of George 11., can conclude any marriage themselves, however advantageous, unless they applied to the Crown, under that Act, and gave notice to the Privy Council ; waiting twelve months according to the Statute. These parties are thus compelled to ascer tain their legal position ; if it were only to obtain their own freedom from the obligation of the Royal Marriage Act, and liberty to marry a t t heir p le asur e, with security. With respect to the legal effect in this behalf, of the sentence p ronounced in the Court of Arches in 1794, it might be observed that it stands, and was p ro- e linrceudas regarding the marr ia g e s ol em nised at Rome , on o very different from those on which was an nulled the marr ia g e solemnised at St, George's, Ha ver - sq uare. As regarding the marriage at tone, the Court seem to have proceeded principally on the con sideration, that the fact of such 3 Marriage having really taken place, was not, as the case then stood, sufficiently proved to the satisfaction of the Court. In fact, the lad yhad not at that time the means of adducing, and w,s induced by her necessities, and the promises of a provision from the Crown, to abstain from bringing for ward the evidence now in the possession of Sir Augustus d'Este. The Duke of Sussex, in the paper above quoted, himself states, that "she was defenceiess in the absence of her husband." There are also other grounds, which it is noc; necessary on the present occasion to state, on which it is conceived, that in a Temporal Court deciding on the construction of an Act of Parlia ment, and in a case of property or honour, the decree would be altogether avoided. It is sufficient at present to observe, that the Duke of Sussex was no party to the suit—that he was abroad at the time when it was instituted, and sentence passed—that he did not ac quiesce at the time in that sentence ; but, on the con trary, in the letter above quoted, describes it as " bar barous, inhuman, procured by a fraud committed on the naturally just feelings of King George lll.—a des potic and dreadful sentence." Such arc the - words of his Royal Highness, applied by him so late as 1798. " This law suit," says his Royal Highness, " was begun immediately after my departure from England, in January, 1784, and conducted with gloat inhumanity, as it is not only not sanctioned by the laws of our own country, but even in strict defiance of them.. My wife was prosecuted the second day after she was brought to bed, and perfectly defenceless, for her husband was absent." " Indeed the contract above set forth, purports, on the face of it, that it was to remain with the Prince. " Much further eviience, also, is in possession of Sir Augustus d'Este ; showing his royal father's oppo sition to the sentence down to a much later period than 1798 ; and also " that. he considered, - and ever would acknowledge his son Augustus Frederick, as his true, legitimate, and lawful son." . . . " ' Under these circumstances, your opinion is re- quested : " Ist. Whether the Royal Marriage Alt extends to marriages by any descendants of George 11., con tracted and solemnized bona fide out of Great Britain, and beyond the limits of British jurisdiction ; and whether, under the circumstances sustainable by the the evidence above stated, and not before the Court of Arches in 1794, you conceive the marriage of his Royal Highness at Rome to have been a marriage impeachable under that statute ? " 1. We are of opinion, after great consideration, that the Royal Marriage Act does not extend to any marriages by any descendants of Geo. 11., contracted and solemnised bona fide out of Great Britain, and beyond the limits of British jurisdiction; and we think that the marriage of his Royal Highness at Rome was not a marriage impeachable under that statute. " 2d. Whether, if the matter were now originally brought forward, the marriage at Rome would not be capable of being sustained ? "2. It the marriage which took place was sanctioned and permitted by the laws then existing in the Roman States, we are of opinion that the marriage was a valid and good marriage in England. Assuming, however, that, by the laws then existing in the Roman States, it was not competent to British subjects, being Protes tants, to contract any valid marriage at all ; we are of opinion, that in England the marriage would be con sidered good and valid ; for we think that British sub jects, being in a country where marriage is prohibited to them, may legally marry, according to the law of Eng. land, as it existed before the Marriage Act. Ex necessi tate such marriage must be good, otherwise part.es so cir cumstanced could never marry at all. See upon this sub ject, ' the King v. the Inhabitants of Brampton,' 10 East 282. Lautour v. Teesdale,' 2 Marshall's Reports, 248. Reeding v. Smith,' 2 Haylon's Report 270, discussed before Lord Stowell. In Lord Cloneurry's case—Lord Cloncurry wts married at Rome, by a Protestant cler gyman, to Miss Morgan—Lord Cloncurry brought an action against Sir Thomas Piers for adultery with Lady Cloncurry, and recovered damages, and afterwards procured a divorce in Parliament. Lord Cloncurry could not have recovered damages in the action, or pro cured a divorce in Parliament, unless the marriage, so celebrated between him and Miss Morgan, had been good and valid in England. We are therefore of opi nion, assuming the Royal Marriage Act not to extend to marriages abroad, that if the matter was originally brought forward, the marriage at Rome would be sus tained. " ' 3d. If you are of opinion that the marriage at Rome w:_s not affected by the Royal Marriage Act, was it necessary by the law of England that any other witness besides the officiating ministers should have been present at the ceremony ? " 3. We are of opinion, that it was not essential to the validity of the marriage, by the law of England, that any other witness besides the officiating minister should have been present at the ceremony. " ' 4th. Whether the certificate, or declarations, or statements of the Protestant minister, by whom the marriage was solemnized at Rome, would be receivable as evidence in the Courts of England ; or whether it be expedient to file a bill in Chancery, for the purpose of obtaining and perpetuating his testimony on with, as well as of other persons, whose evidence might be material ? " 4. We are of opinion that the certificate, or decla rations, or statements of the Protestant minister, by whom the marriage was solemnised, at. Rome would not be receivable as evidence in the Courts of Law or Equity in England ; and we are of opinion that it. would be expedient to file a bill in Chancery against all proper parties, for the purpose of obtaining and perpetuating t he clergyman's testimony on oath, as well as of other per sons, whose evidence may be material. We think, con sidering the great age of the clergyman, a bill should be filed immediately, for the purposes above mentioned. sth. Whether Sir Augustus d'Este, or his sister, can contract marriages themselves under the circum stances, and without complying with the requisition of the Royal Marriage Act, with full security that their own marriages may not be questioned hereafter, and their own issue declared incapable of succeeding to any pro perty they may themselves acquire or possess? " 5. Our opinions being as above stated, we think that, under alf the circumstances of the case, it would be very dangerous for Sir Augustus d'Este, or his sister, to contract marriage, without complying with the requi sitions of the Royal Marriage Act, or without giving previous notice of their intention to be married, to tht Crown. We are of opinion that no marriage could be contracted without the liability of the marriage being questioned hereafter, and the risk of the issue being de clared incapable of inheritinc , property. " STEPHEN LUSHINGTON. " GRIFFITH RICHARDS." " Doctors' Commons, July 13, 1831." CAPTAIN I.I:OSS'S EXPEDITION.—Letters have been received from the Antarctic expedition, dated St. Helena, the beginning of February. Lieut. Leiroy, of the Royal Artil lery, who is to conduct the magnetic observatory on that island, had been landed with his instruments and assistants, and occupied Napoleon Buonaparte's house at Longwood, which has been assigned as his residence, and in the neighbour hood of which his observatory is to be built. From St. Helena, Captain Ross proceeds to the Cape of Good Hope, to establish Lieutenant Eardley Wilmot, R. A. and his party, in a similar observatory, where corresponding Observations are to be made during the three years in which the expedition will remain in the southern hemisphere. We understand that, by adopting proper precautions, the officers succeeded in making magnetic observations at sea with as much precision as on land, the two ships sometimes telegraphing to each other the same minute of dip. The importance of this success towards the prosecution of the objects of the voyage will be estimated, when it is con sidered how large a portion of the southern hemisphere is covered by the sea. Captain Ross obtained soundings in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and far distant from any land, with aline of 2,5!)0 fathoms, being, we believe, by far the greatest depth that has ever been reached by a sounding line.— Literary Gazette. The Academy of Sciences at Paris has elected M. Piobcrt, a distingu7shed artillery officer, and one of the authors of the new system of French artillery, to fill the chair, in its Mechanical section, vacant by the death of the late Baron do Prony. An oration in honour of that profound geometrician—the last of the illustrious band of philosophers which included the names of Lagrange, and Monge, and Berthollet, and Chaptal, and Daubenton, and Lacepede, and Cuvier—was pronounced in the Chamber of Peers by the Baron C. Dupin, in its sitting of the 2dinst. At a recent meeting of the Academy a letter from M. Humboldt was read, in which he states that the last Comet obsered at Berlin is, in all. probability, the same as that which appeared 370 years ago — which fact, if confirmed, would furnish astronomy with another example of a comet, with a short period of revolution. We may also mention that the Academy has been directed, by an oidinance of M. Cousin, the new Minister of Public Instruc. tint,, to draw up a general view of the condition and progress of the moral and political sciences, from the year . l7B9 to the close of 1832. It is to be divided into five parts, corre sponding to the five sections of the Academy, and to be pre sented to the King by a deputation. of that body in the early part of January, 1842. M. Rossi has undertaken that section of the task which embraces political economy—M. Mignet the -historical department ; while that of moral philo.. sophy has been entrusted to M. A. de Tocqueville. The Re port will be printed at the Royal press, in the same form with the Reports presented in 1808 by the other classes of the In stitute, and which were prepared by Curier, Delambre, Chenier, Dacier, and Lebreton. The Academy instructed its officers to wait on the King and Minister, and express its pride and grati fication at the important labour assigned to it. A similar Re port has been demanded from l'AcadellliP des Beaux Arts, which is to contain.a yiew of the State of Art in France for the last thirty years.—Atheneum. A GOOD MASTER AND A FAITHFUL SER. : vANT.--In July, 1838, John Pullen, I sq., t n a ti i, leaving considerable property, but no wife or children to inherit it. A person named Samuel Naylor, groom to El w i n Ley, Esq., of Penzance, being distinctly related to the deceased fr. came acquainted with the fact, but had Tiopeppi-ii-try ;ileNnS 1q eompetp w ith this ontrary clap - R! I;it9c - coolg Air ; Ley, ever, of the circumstance, he became interested on behalf of his servant (who had proved faithful to him), and at his own expense employed professi - nal gentlemen in town to institute a legal investigation of the matter. Proceedings were thereunoe commenced, and the business only eery reeentl7 a snecessful issile on the part of the - oorrant, with was, with his sister, declai:ed to be entitled to the deceased's estate. Information of the same having been communicated to Mr. Ley,he instantly intimated to his servant the necessity of his repairing to Lon_ don to take out letters of administration. This iful, hi, ITIWa very 14r i Oli lovity to, towi, Null' became snre4 to the 41'11 0 144 Pf 'KCluof• Mministration was ob tained, and the funded property alone amounted to 40,0001_ Plymouth Journal. SOUTHANITON DOCKS.—We are highly grati fied to ob serve th e ra pid progress of the works for this and Important underfaing. If Op samo active exertions a re continued duiing the n'exe six montlis, it will indeed h ave the appea rance o f b e i ng spee dily completed.— Hampshi re lade. pendent. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. REVISAL OF THE PARISH RENTAL. On Saturday, at the ordinary weekly meeting, M r . Hood, the Vestry Clerk, read a Report of a Committee appointed to revise the rental of the parish, which showed that they had done so to the extent of 25,755/, out of which amount they had increased the assessment of the north side of Oxford-street to the ex tent of 18,7151._ per annum. Mr. HARBERT, in moving the adoption of the Report, contended, that although an appeal bad been made by the inhabitants on the previous week, the increase of assessment did not come within 20 per cent. of their rack-rents. They had, previous to the increase, been rated at from 100 to 150 per cent. below their rack rents, and unless the Report was carried, it would be a gross injustice to the poorer inhabitants, and to the inhabitants of the south side of Oxford-street. who had had their assessments increased to the amount of 12,0001. per annum. The motion having been seconded, Mr. KENSETT opposed it. Ho argued, that in the assessment of the south side, the increase would be de voted entirely to the repairs of the road and pavement ; whilst on the north side it would not be of any benefit to the parish, inasmuch as the greater portion would have to go to the Police and County-rite, over which they bad no control. Th e gran d roc k , h owe ver, upon which he would stand, was the gross injustice and ille gality of selecting one portion of the parish for re assessment, without going over the entire parish ; and he would move, as an amendment, the adoption of the Report, with the exception of that portion relating to Oxford-street. Mr. GIBSON se con d e d t h e amen d ment , an d urged the necessity of continuing the property in Oxford-street at as low a rate as possible, capitalists from exending as otherwise it would prevent money in its improvement. Mr. JosEpti c on t en d e d that the rat i ng of the pro pertyin the parishes of St. George and St. James, Westminster, was m os t un f a i r , an d, f ro m its lowness, was, in fact, a robb er y upon ot h er par i s hes which rated the property within it nearer its value, thus contributing an undue and e x t ravagant proport i on to t he Police and county-Pate. He could look upon the selection of 24'2 out of an entire p ar i s h o f 14 , 000 or 15,000 houses in no other light than an invidious tax upon property, and should oppose the adoption of the Report. MGSSrs. THEOBALD and BIERS supported the amend ment. The Rev. Dr. DIDDIN considered it a wise and mer ciful principle on the part of the vestry to keep the tax ation upon the property of the rate payers us low as possible, and he should oppose the Report. • After some few observations from Messrs. RATH BONE, FREEMAN, and other vestrymen, Mr. HARBERT replied, contending that the re-assess ment of the entire parish would cost no less a sum than 10,0004 The question was here put, and the amendment ear r'ted by a large majority. The vestry then adjourned. .A CURIOUS CHANCERY SUIT. (Abridged from the .ZC'ottinghanz Reviezv.) Our readers will rejoice with us to learn that an ho nest industrious townsman, of Nottingham, named Ed ward Godfrey Leman, is likely to succeed to the title, honour, rank, and dignity of Baronet, and is in a fair way to obtain several valuable estates, which belonged to his ancestors, the Lemans, of Northam. We are also happy to learn that some gentlemen of the legal profession, who have been successful in similar cases, have kindly undertaken to prosecute the claims of Mr. Leman; About eighteen months ago some garbled paragraphs, of the extraordinary amount of wealth of the Leman fatni'y, went the round of the papers, which were after wards discovered to be incorrect, but no statement of the Leman claim has ever been published. As it is interesting to the public, particularly Mr. Letnan's countrymen, to know the particulars of the case, we have taken considerable pains to glean tho following facts from authentic information. It will probably be recollected that a few years ago a native of Nottingham, named John Leman, framework knitter, laid claim to a Baronetcy. and certain large es tates in the Counties of Hertford, Huntingdon, Cam bridge,-and Middlesex, belonging to the Lemons of Northaw. The distinguished individuals from whom he deduced his descent were wealthy, influential men in their day ; with an honest view to perpetuate their names, and snake their extensive possessions secure to their latest posterity, they were at great pains to exe cute several important deeds of trust (rine of which is for the term of a thousand years), for the exclusive use and benefit of their " heirs male fo:- ever." The founder of the family was the Right Hon. Sir John Leman, Lord Mayor of the City of London, a native of Suf folk, who flourished in the reign of King James the First. Sir John was an enterprising merchant, and was the first in London who sent ships to the north to fish for whales. He was a special favourite of King James, because among other courteous qualifications of that age. Sir John believed in the supernatural power of the Witch of Endor as much as his Majesty did, who prevailed on the learned Bishops to interpetrate her mysterious art as wo now have it in the Bible. His Lordship died without issue, and was succeeded in his great wealth and influence by his nephews. He settled the most of his property on his favourite nephew, Wil liam Leman, a middle-aged, dark complexioned, plea sant, good tempered gentleman, who was a rich linen draper and silk-mercer in the city of London. In 1634, he purchased the beautiful, extensive manorial estate of Northaw, a parish in the hundred of Castrio, of the liberty of St. Albans, in the county of Hertford, with the church patronage, gce. He afterwards be came M.P , and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire. Hence in his official journies he had often to pass through Edmonton, Cheshunt, &c., with his lady and nume rous issue (seven sons and eight daughters). The wags of the day raised a humorous report of a cu rious adventure that the High Sheriff of Hert ford had on the road, which one o f th e English Bards has since immortalized in comic poetry, under the fictitious nam e o f " J o h n Gilpin, " prob ably de rived from one of Sir William's estates, which was an ciently called " Gilpinham." Though he was patron of the churches of Warboys, Northaw, and other valuable livings elsewhere, he privately favoured the Noncon formists, and openly differed with some of the leading men of the age, as to the possibility of compelling, by means of Acts of Parliament and armed soldiers, the en tire inhabitants of Great Britain to adopt an universal creed (Lutheran), which was the mad whim of King Charles IL, that led to the lamentable feuds and blood shed between the Church party, Nonconformists, and Covenanters. In the 17th year of King Charles II (3d March, 1665), a Royal Patent was granted to the said William Leman, creating him a Baronet, with limitation to his heirs male lawfully begotten. This was one of the most eventful periods in the history of England, by the dreadful plague which first broke out in St. Giles, and afterwards sprend desolation in the great emporium of the world. It was about this time that the wander ing tribes of Israel first settled in Goodman's Fields, under the auspices of the benevolent owner, since which time the Jews have wonderfully multiplied on this leasehold property of the Lemans, and to their honour be •it spoken, some of them were willing to surrender their leaseholds to the late Sir John (well knowing they had no right to the ownership,) provided they were liberally dealt with. Sir William with many other good men were of essential service during the plague and the great fire that succeeded it. The ciistingushed house of Northaw connected itself by marriage with . the' Earl of Manchester, and other great faMilies, and con tinued to flourish in the per Sans of three Sir William Lemanf, during the respective reigns of King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, And the Royal House of Hanover. The account then goes on to state, that on the death of the last Sir William Leman, the vast property fell into the hands of strangers in blood, apd was last possessed by William Strode, who died in Isos, and by his will directed his trustees to throw the Leman property into Chancery, for the purpose that justice should be done to the true heirs. Then commenced one of the most extraordinary heavy suits in Chancery on record. " Strode v. Casamajor, for the honest dis tribution of the Leman property, which ha s p rove d a mine of wealth to several lawyers. in coolegu me o f the public advertisements and quillb,les h e tweep the con tending parties, not one a whom, as may b e seen from their own statements in Chancery, is a single blood drop to the Lemans, the rights of the true heirs became more fully known to them. It is not a little oxtraor dinary, that several of the claimants, who are all aliens in blood to the house of Northaw and Warboys, aro actually foreign adventurers residing in Germany, whose names tiro as strange as their claims arc unjust. wineslaus Charles Labra de Waekei l b arg h , and Charles Francis Zavier Melon du la Grtzo," often occur in the proceedinni With q yiew to aLl'or 4 cl our readers a correct statement of the Leman funds, we subjoin the following extract, taken from the books of the A4.,eountant-General of the Court of Chanmy, which proves the accumulation front :trode's death to 1822, to be this, viz. ; Kmount of 3 per cent. Bank Annuities, X 467,190 17 0 Ditto 3 per cent. reduced Annuitie5...12.7,964 10 6 £595,155 7 6 t i his sum afterwards preportion atcl y increased. The suit for this vast property will be commenced forthwith. The writer adds :—" We learn that our to wnsman, Mr. Godfrey Leman, is already more fortunate than Sir John, not only in having a virtuous race of children, but because he is a steady, modest,. unassuming man , and he and his son Edward have fortunately selected confidence men, who, to use a Nottingham ex , the h ones ty, the ability, an d presision, haveproper stuff to pull the claimant through his diff icu l t i es. , He has got the best legal advice that his claims ara good, and we sincerely wish him success. With this ki n dly fg:eti% we will now take our leave of him for the pre sent ; but we intend to watch the progress of his claims, that we may hereafter be able to give our rea ders other particulars, as also the law of the case, which is of importance to the public. SECOND EDIrFION. THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) .1 FUNDS Bank Stock — f ndia S' Da: 3 per Cent. nod :3 per Cent CC115.....,• 0074 Ditto Old Annuities — 3% per Cent. lied 98% Ditto New Annuities New 3% per Cent 99% Ex. Bills, LOW/ od "4 pin New 5 tier Cent Ditto 50 , 11 "4 pm Loii Annuities to expire Ditto Small 9 4 pm kn. 1660 Oct. 1659 Jan 1660 FOREIO N FUNDS Austrian. 5 per cent — i Portuguese Bonds,sper cent. -- 13.21gian, 5 per cent 1(6%! Ditto. New Ditto Brazilian Bonds . Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — i Russian Bond., 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent — ; Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 er cent — I Spanish, 5 per c e nt 26% Ditto, 1524 9s!i! Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent — , French, 5 per cent 111(.—c Greek Bonds, 1625, 5 per ct. 1 Exchange —ll —c Mexican, &per cent — I French, 3 per c ent -4. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1325 — Dutch, 2% per cent. Peruvian ,1323,6 per cent..... 16 1 4, I Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway ... 8 % Birmingham and Gloucester Railway I ristol and Exeter Cheltenham and Great Western Raivray 13% Great North of England Railway 52 oreat Western tiaiiwav London and Brighton Rsilway 26 London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway . :67 Ditto Quarter Shares t 8 Ditto New Shares Loudon and Greenwich Railway ll London and South Western Railway 46% London and Croydon Railway i'frunic) ll Manchester and Leeds P , BwaY ao Manchester and Birmingham Railway 13% Northern and Eastern Railway l3 North Midland Railway min New Shares 21% South _ ___ 3% BNITISI .outh Eastern and Dover 3 ,, York and North Midland Railway. TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. As many of the leading members have left town fo: the Newmarket Craven Meeting, which com menced to-day, the betting at Tattersall's possessed little interest. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Globe.) The " High Church party"generally have lately been putting forward claims, and hinting at latent but inde feasible rights, in a manner that cannot but draw at tention, though it may not excite alarm. We believe that the great body of the clergy, and even a large ma jority of the Episcopal bench, disapprove and discounte nance these assumptions, which come with a bad grace from those who are foremost in calling in the civil power to aid them in the levying of ecclesiastical duet, and in getting up petitions for Church Extension by additional taxation. The a.:,vocates of the last measure plainly say that it has become necessary because the Church was robbed by Henry VIII., and hint at the resump tion of lay impropriatons and abbey lands. To such persons it is no answer that these were the property of the Romish Church, for we believe that however odious Popery may be when it shows itself in the form of a priest at forty pounds a year on the voluntary system, and a con gregation of barefooted Irish, a return to the doctrine would not be greatly resisted if made a sine qua non to the possession of the endowments. But the people of England are attached to the Church for its utility—they support it for their own benefit, and utterly repudiate the notion that it exists for the purpose of putting money into the pockets and power into the hands of any set of men, however holy, without demanding from them en equivalent in the shape of good precepts and good examples. The public have no deep reverence f abstractions, and will not encourage sinecui ists, or risk the immediate dismemberment of the empire, to provide pastors for flocks which may arise at some indefinitely remote period. The Post talks of the Whig-Radicals wishing to throw the Church down. Perhaps there was never less said or done with such an intent than at the present time. The Church is let alone, and will be so, while it continnes to dischtirge its duties. We do not treat as recognised leaders of the Church, the Philpotts's, M'Ghees, and M'Neils. Were the clergy generally to resemble them, the Church would be swept away before the end of the Session. (From the Standard.) The Examiner of yesterday has the following para graph : " It appears by returns sufficiently authentic, that in 1811 the persons employed in agriculture in 1000 wero 352, to '648 in manufactures and trade ; and that in 1831 the former were 281 only to 719 of the latter; so that at that ratio of decrease of the one and increase of the other, in 1861 we shall have only 175 out of every 1000 employed in.agriculture, and 825 in trade and manufactures. Another cogent proof of the justice of the Corn-laws !" We knoW not what are the Examinez's sufficiently authentic returns, and we are not immediately con cerned to know what the state of things may be in 1861 ; hut wo see very clearly that the argu ment of the Examiner, admitting its premises, proves a marvellous improvement in the profits of manufactures, without any corresponding improve ment in the profits of agriculture, a result of which we think the friends of the manufacturers and the enemies of the agriculturists ought to be the last to complain. Without, however, looking forward 21 years as to what may be, and what of course must rest in conjecture, let us look back only nine years. In the population return for 1831, we find the following en tries, among others, for the whole United Kingdom : Engaged in agriculture Do in manufactures Do in retail trade, handicrafts, &c 1,466,394 Here, then, we have the persons engaged in agri culture as six to one of the persons engaged in manu factures, and, dividing the retail traders and handi craftsmen between tem in these proportions, as is plainly fair, we have, to use round numbers, three millions and a half engaged in agriculture, or dependent upon agriculturists, for about seven hundred and fifty thou sand engaged in manufactures or dependent up.n ma nufacturers. There is not much danger of this pro portion being reversed in 1861, except indeed by a re peal of the Corn-laws, and even that would only ex tinguish the agriculturists without increasing, but greatly diminishing, the manufactures. (From the Courier.) One of the consequences of the pretended amendment of' the Poor-laws is, for instance, the attempted re vival of the Income Tax, although that was so ob noxious that even the necessities of the State, arising from a general war, could not render it palatable. By the Bill now before the House, the Poor-law Commis sioners will be entitled to levy a tax upon the property which, fluctuating in value, as it necessarily must be, a tradesman devotes to his peculiar avocations. The tax on stock in trade must surely open the eyes of our mer chants and manufacturers to the tyranny of the Whig system. At the mere resolution of an arbitrary impe riuni in iniperio, the books of the banker and merchant may be inspected by the agents of the Whig Commis sioners, and what is, perhaps, worse, but most assuredly quite as bad, the delicate processes of the manufactur ing chemist, and tLe care) printer and dyer, may be laid open to the examination and knowledge of persons whom, except upon compulsion of this kind, they would refuse to trust. This is an evil which, we presume, it is sufficient merely to mention, in order to call attention to the iniquity and impolicy of the Whig measure. We do not go into the particular enactments at pre. sent ; if the principle of the Bill be conceded we do not see how we can well refuse the surrender of its min . - ,a requisitions. The Bill takes away the discrett a which was wisely vested in local authorities r adjudicate upon the cases of consider and per which from their intimate knowledge o f qualified to i circumstances they are duly whose ate' ;of, and places it in the hands of men • • L -.y qualification is tuat t h ey are the obsequious S n-yaws of the Melbourne Administration, which has bad the modesty to place itself in competition with that of a Burleigh. TOUGH, BUT TRUE.—OId Mr -- t of Worcester county, used sometimes to be absent on a missionary tour. Once on a time, having just returned from one of those excursions, Le found his congregation quite drowsy, and, wish ing to wake them up, he broke off in the midst of his sermon, and began to tell them what wonderful things he had seen in York State ; among other wonders, he said he had seen mon strous great mosquitoes —so large that many of them would weigh a pound ! The people were by this time wide awake. " Yes,' continued Parson M., " and, moreover, they are often known to climb trees and bark !" The next day one of the deacons called upon him, telling him that many of the brethren were much scandalised at the big stories he told the day before. What stories ?" says Parson M. " Why, Sir, you said that mosquitoes in York State were so large that many of them would weigh a pound!" " Well," rejoined the Minister, " I do really think that a great many of them would weigh a pound." " But," continues the Deacon, you also said that they would climb up on trees and bark !" " Well, Sir," says Parson M., "as to their climbing up on trees, I have seen them do that—hav'nt you, Deacon ?" 0 yes." " Well, how could they climb on the trees and not on the bark ?" The Deacon was, of course, nonplussed. NAPOLEON'S MEMORIALS OF DECEASED SAVANS.—fie spared nothing that could do honour to the memory of deceased savans. From Osterode, still covered by the dust of battle, he ordered the statue of D'Alembert to ba placed in the hall of the Institute. He caused a mausoleum to be elevated to Voltaire, and another to Rousseau. The busts of Tronchet and Portalis, by whom the first draft of the Code Napoleon was drawn up, were placed in the hall of the Council o: State. At Cambray, a monument was erected to the ashes of Fenelon.— Opinions of Napoleon, by Prince Louis. DEVICE OF GRATTAN TO WAKE HlM SELF.—Grattan, the celebrated Irish barrister, tei e was indefatig dheivmo regularly to u study,rlyat day break. indefatiga bly industrious. He was so anxious be devoted t os_ a moment. that s h i e e ep, contrivedw hi ch , a i n singularhi his pi opinion, A small barrel filled with water was placed over a apparatusough tot to rousee immediately above his pillow, an d ed to fill the basin b y day tbialesinee,ewkhiecfh i s t to:d .as on su a ffi s e h i e e l e f t i l m y light ; so that if he did not then rise the water flowed upon his person and bedding. THE WAR IN ARAGON.—In the action which recently took place between the Queen's troops under Zurbano and the Carlists, and in which the latter were totally defeated, 300 men, sooner than surrender themselves to the Queen's troops, as a Saragossa letter in the Phare st a t es , t h rew them 'elves over a precipice, and were fousid dead or d rea d fully mu t lated at the bott om. Es p artero's head-quarters are at Agua viva, and he has o 'tiered the fortifications of Monroyo to be repaired. The small place of Zercuda has fallen into the hands of Espartero. DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH- WEST PASSAGE. NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER :\:ESSRS. DEASE AND SIMPSON. Fort Simpson, Oct. 16, 1839. HoNocualiee Saes, - tic have the honour to report the completion of all the primacy objects of th e expedition, the entire fulfilment of Covet aor Simpson's oilginal in. structions, under which it has been our hood fortune to act, and something more, though, as we plainly told yeur Honours last winter, it was quite out of the q uest i on to think of reaching the Strait of the Fury and Hecla from the Coppermino River. On the 22d of June we descended the impetuous stream of the Bloody Fall, where we remained until the 28th. This interval was employed by Mr. Simpson in exploring Richardson River, discovered in 1838, which discharges itself, as we then supposed, into the bottom of Back's Inlet, in latitude 67. 53. 57 North, longitude ‘ 115 56 N e st. A p ar ty o f about thirty h,squi maux were encamped there, all of whom fled pre cipitately to the hills, except one family, whose tent was placed on an island in this stream. With those last a communication was opened, through our interpreter, Ooligbuck ; but the circle of their little lives being con fined to Berens Isles, and the borders of Richardson's River, they had no information to impel t of any value. On the 31 of J u ly th e fi rs t s li g h t open i ng occur r e d in the service, of vshich we took instant advantage; but our first week's journey d:d rot exceed twenty miles, and it was the 18th, alter sad work, before we could attain Cape Barrow. From its rocky heights we beheld, with equal surprise and delight, the wide extent of Coronation Gulph, partially open, whereas long alter the same date in 1838, the whole party mi g ht h ave crosse d i t on f oot. A t mid night, on the 20th, we larded at Cape Franklin, just one month ea:ller than Mr. Simpson's arrival there, on his pe destrian joarney of the yerr before. A vio'ent easterly gale arrested our progress for the next four days; and on the 27th we encouthe:ed great peril in doubling Cape Alexander, arri'dst very heavy driving ice. From Cape Alexander, situated in lat. 68. 56 N., long. 106. 40 W„ to another remarkable point in lat. 68. 33 N., long. 98. 10 W., the Arctic coast may be com prised in one spacious bay, sketching as far South as lat. 67. 40 before it turns off abruptly northward to the last mentioned position. This vast sweep, of which but an inconsiderable portion was seen by Mr. Simpson last year, is indented by an endless succession of minor bays, sepa rated from one another by long narrow projecting points of land encloslng an incalculable number of islands. From this description it will be evident that our route was an extremely inn icate one, and the duties of the sur vey most harassing; but whilst pet plexcd beyond measure in finding our way tb"ough these labyrinths, we de rived great advantage from the protection afforded by the islands from the crushing force of the seaward ice ; and the weather was generally clear. In fact, the most serious detention caused by ice on this part of the voyage, was from the fat to the sth of August, on a point that jutted out beyond the insular chain. White Bear Point, as it was called, lies in 68. 7. 8., 5 N , 103. 36. 45 W. ; variation 54. 45 E. These bays and masses of islands present a distinct succession of geo logical features, which can be best illustrated by our series of specimens of the rocks that compose this wild and barren coast. Vestiges of Esquimaux, and mostly old, were met with wherever we landed. They appear to subsist in single families, or very small parties, and to travel inland tor the deer hunt in the month of June, not returning to the sealing islands till the ice sets fast in October. A river, twice the size of the Cop permine, which falls into the sea in 68. 2. N. tang, 104. 15. W., is much resorted to by reindeer and musk oxen, in the summer season. Finding the coast, as already remarked, tending northerly from the bottom of the Great Bay, we expected nothing less than to be carried round Cape Felix of Captain James Rosy, con trary to the conjecture hazarded be Mr. Simpson, in his narrative of last year's journey. On the evening of the 10th of August, however (at the point already given), we suddenly opened a strait running into the south ward of east, where the rapid rush of the tide scarcely left a doubt of the existence of an open sea leading to the mouth of Back's Great Fish Raver. This strait is ten miles wide at either extremity, but contracts to three in the centre. Even that narrow channel is much encroached upon by high-shingle islands, bnt there is deep water in the middle throughout. The 12th of August was signal. ised by the most terrific thunder-storm we have ever wit nessed in these regions. Next day it blew roughly from the westward, with a very dense cold fog, but we ran ra pidly south-east, past Point Richardson and Point Ogle of Sir George Back, and continued on till the darkness of night and the increasing gale drove us ashore beyond Point Pechell. The storm shifted to northeast, and lasted till the 16th, when we directed our course with flags flying to the Montreal Island. On its northern aide our people, guided by Mackay, soon found a deposit made among the rocks, by some of Sir George Back's party, but, asMackay to seemed think, without that officer's know. ledge. It contained two bags of pemican, and a quantity of cocoa or chocolate, all perfectly rotten, besides an old japanned tin vasculum, and two or three other trivial ar ticles, of which we took possession, as memorials of our having breakfasted on the identical spot where the tont of our gallant though less successful precursor stood, on his return from Point Ogle to the Great Fish River that very day five years before. The arduous duty we had, in 1836, undertaken to perform, was thus fully accomplished ; and the length and difficulty of the route back to the Coppermine would have amply jus tified our immediate return. We had all suffered more or less from the want of fuel and the deprivation of warm food, and the prospect grew more cheerless as the cold fall weather stole or, apace. But having already ascer tained the separation of Boothia from the American eon ! tinent ou the western side of the Great Fish River, we de termined not to desist till we had settled its relat'am thereto on the eastern side also. A fog which 1 +7.; come on dis persed towards evening, and unfold;:d a full view of the picturesque shores of the estua7ly. Far to the south Vic toria Headland stood forth so clearly defined, that we in stantly recognized it by Sir George Back's exquisite draw , ing. Cape Beaufort we almost seemed to touch, and with the telescope we were able to discover a continuous line of high land as far round as north-east, about two points more northerly than Cape Hay, the extreme eastern point seen by Sir George Back. The traverse to the farthest visible land occupied six hours unremitting labour at the oar, and the sun was rising on the 17th, when we scaled the bluff and singularly shaped rocky cape to which our course had been directed. It stands in lat. 68. 3. 56. N., long. 94. 35. W. The azimuth compass by Jones settled exactly in the true me ridian, agreed with two others by the same maker, placed on the ground. From our proximity to the magne►ic pole the compass had latterly been of little or no use ; but this was of the less consequence, as the astronomical observations were very frequent. The dip of the needle, which at Thunder Cove (12th August) was 89. 29. 35. had here decreased to 89. 16. 40. North. This bold promontory, where we lay wind-bound till the 19th, was named Cape Britannia, in remembrance of our glorious country. On the beetling rock that sheltered our en campment from the sea, and formed the most conspicuous object on all this part of the coast, we erected a conical pile of ponderous stones, fourteen feet high, that, if not pulled down by the natives, may defy the rage of a thou. sand storms. In it was placed a sealed bottle containing a sketch of our proceedings, and possession was taken of our extensive discoveries in the name of Victoria the First, amidst the firing of guns, and the enthusiastic cheers of the whole party. On the 19th, the gale shifted from N. E. to E. S. E., and after crossing a fine bay, due cast, with no small toil and danger, the coast bent sway northerly, which enabled us to effect a run of forty miles. Next day the wind re sumed its former direction, and after pullltlg against it all the morning, among shoals and ;►reakers, and gaining only three miles, we were obliged to take refuge i❑ the mouth of a small river. From a liteestpile , 'ridge, about a league inland we ob tained a slew of some very remote blue land, in the N. E. quarter, ie_ all probability one of the Southern promon tclif'; of Boothia. Two considerable islands lay far in the offing. and others high and distant stretched from E. to E. N. E. Our view of the low main shore, was confined to five miles, in an easterly direction, after which it appeared to turn off greatly to the right. We could, therefore, scarcely doubt our having arrived at that large gulph uniformly described by the Esquimaux as containing many islands, and with numerous indentations stretching down to the southward, till it approaches within forty miles of Repulse and Wager Bays. The exploration of such a gulf, which was the main object of the Terror's ill-starred voyage, would necessarily de mand the whole time and energies of another expedition having a starting or retreating point much nearer to the scene of operation than Great Bear Lake, and it was quite evident to us that any further fool-hardy perseverance eouli only lead to the loss of the great object already at tained, together with that of the whole party. We must here be all to express our admiration of Sir John Ross's extraordinary escape from this neighbourhood, after o Arcticd, he pretreated endurance of hardship which bounded career of our admirable little boats, and received their name, lies in lat. 68. 28 . 27 . N. , lon g . 93. 7. \V., varia. tion of the compass, 16 20. W. The strong wind that had forbidden our advance gave wings to our retreat. The same night ( Aug. 20) w e landed once more at Cape Brittania, and next morning re crossed the inlet direct t o Point Pechell, wit h a heavy . sea . On the 22d we explored a long narrow bay, on the west side of Point Ogle, which extends to the parallel of latitude. day we north wind blew roughly, with sharp frost, and next d we get no farther than Point Richardson. F rom t h ence y we crossed over, on the 24th, to what had, from the Con tinent, appeared like two islands, but which we rightly conjectured to form part of the southern shore of Boothia, or to speak with greater precision, of that land on which stands Cape Felix, of Captain James Ross. This shore we had the satisfaction of tracing for about sixty miles, till it turned up to the north, in lat. 68. 41. 16. N. , long. 98. 22. W., only 57 m i l es f rom R oss ' s Pillow the dip of the needle was 89. 28. 45. N., the magnetic pole bearing N. N. E., distant ninety miles. The variation, as shown by both the azimuth compass and the horizontal bar needle, was 45 degrees east. The objects seen on this coast are easily enumerated. A low, uninteresting, lime stone tract, abounding neverthele;s in reindeer, musk-oxen, and old native encampments. To the westward a good deal of ice appeared, and vast numbers of snow-geese passed 11 3 3. h overhead, in long triangular fllghts, bound f r milder elties. Whilst engaged in taking observations, our men con structed another durable memorial of our discoveries, which was saluted in the usual manner. Then recrossing the strait on the 25th, we resumed for some time our outward route, only keeping more along the seaward verge of the islands, so as to shape a straighter course. The weather, from being threatening and unsettled, soon became unequivocally severe. On the 29th Aug. a severe snow storm began, that lasted for seven da s, during four of which we were fixed to a single spot by the violence of the north-west gales, whil e the frost was so keen that the pools among the rocks on EVENING EDITION. which we lay became solid enough to bear up a man. A more moderate interval succeeded this fierce outbreak. Quitting the Continent again, at the large river already mentioned, we struck N. N. W. for an extensive island, 22 miles oil, which we coasted (N. W.) for twenty miles; and shortly before sunset on the 6th of September, stood out from thence due north, for the nearest point of Vie.. toria iand, which proved equally distant. We have never seen any thing more brilliant than the Phosphoric gleaming of the waves when darkness set in. The boats seemed to cleave a flood of molten silver, and the spray dashed from their bows, before the fresh breeze fell back, like showers of diamonds, into the deep. It was a cold night, and when we at last made the land, cliffs, faced with eternal ice, obliged us to run on for a couple of leagues before we could take the shore with safety. The coast of Victoria Land, which we explored for upwards of one hundred and fifty 'Liles, is incomparably the boldest we have met with in these seas. Often near the shore no bottom could be found with thirty.five fathoms of line, and the Corr.elian blue colour of the water everywhere in dicated its profound depth. There are several noble bays, the largest of which north-west of Cape Alexander, is twenty miles wide, an d equa ll y deep, b ac k e d b y snow-c l a d mountains. It attains t o 69 d eg . 40 m i n . nort h, t h e highest latitude of this voyage. At length we reached the extrewe point seen by Mr. Simpson from Cape Franklin in 1838, w here the coast of this large country begins again to bend northward of west, Cape Berron Wing, by com putation S. S. W., distant fifty miles. On the 10th of September we crossed this magnificent strait, with n strong E. S. E. or side-wind, and a rough sea, in which our gal lant boats, old and worn out as they were, acquitted them selves beyond our niost sanguine hopes. Our return from Cape Barron was miserably retarded ! by furious north-west winds and severe stress of weather. Winter permanently set in on the 15th of September, and next day, to the undisguised joy of the whole party, we re entered the Copperminc River, after by far the longest voyage ever performed in boatsori the Polar Sea. Leaving one of cur little craft, together with the remains of the pemican (whic'a, through age and long exposure, was become quite mouldy), and various other art i cles, as a prize fur the first Esquimaux who may visit the Bloody Fall, we ascended the river with our double crew in four da.s, abandoned our tents, and everything but absolute necessaries ; crossed the barren ground, up to to the knees in snow, having unluckily left our snow-shoes on the coast, and safely reached St Confidence at dusk on the 24th. The fisheries had failed worse than ever, and we had good reason to congratulate ourselves on not being doomed to pass a third winter within the arctic circle. After settling with the Indians, liberally rewarding the most deserviug, and supplying all with ammunition gra tuitously, we took. our departure on the evening of the 26th, to go into inland batteaus—one belonging to the cape. dition, the other came from Fort Simpson sixteen days before our arrival. Our passage of Great Bear Lake was most boisterous and inc!ement. In crossing the body of the lake, and otlr..r considerable traverses, our boats, with everything in them, and even the very clothes on our backs, became converted into shapeless masses and concretions of ice. It was high time for us to escape from Great Bear Lake. f'or the temperature, which was at four degrees below Zero when we landed at the head of the river, on the everting of the 4th October, fell ten degrees below it in the' course of the night ; end next day wedescended th e ra pid stream in the very midst of the driving ice, On filtering Ore Mackenze, we experienced A temporary rni t i gat i oa of this excessive cold ; but we should most as suredly have stuck fast above Fort Norman, had not the northern gales again arose in their strength, and while they shattered and dispersed the rapidly-f orm i ng i ce, enabled us to stem the eurrePt under close reefed sails. At noon, on the 14th of October, after forting our way ith no small risk through the torreut et ice poured out by the river of the mountains, we ranched this place, and were cordially welcomed by our valuable friend, Chief Trader NlTherson, vcho hat for come time given up all hopes of our areival. Most of bur people are still elided witli acute pains and swdlinge in the limbs, caused by the cold and expo• sure; and are assured by Mr. M . Phersan that he has never known or heard of so early and rigorous a commencement of wir.ter in Mackenzie's River. On the other hand. so fine a Spring as 1839 seldom visits these frozen regions; and to this favouring eircumstanc:. , , under Providence, ought cur signal success to be partially ascribed. Oct. -3tY.-I—The state of the ice it length enables us to despatob carriers to Great Slave Lake. In the meantime, Governor Simpson's highly t valued letter of 17th June, which unfortunately missed us on our way hither, has cut up overland. We rejoice in having anticipated the Russian expedition, and secured to our country and the Company the indispu table honour of discovering the North West Passage, which bas been an object of search to all maritime nations for three centuries. When our expedition was planned at Norway House in 1836, it was confidently expected that Sir George Bach would have achieved the survey of the Gulf of Boc.thia with the Terror's boats, end that our meeting at the mouth of the Great Fish River would have left no blank in the geography of Northern America. That officer's failure, the eximust!on of our men and means, aid the necessity of a new wintering ground, render a fresh expedition in dispensable for the examination of the Gulf of Boothia, the circuit of lwhich, to the strait of the Fury and Heels, according to the Esquimau' accounts, cannot be less than 400 or S3O miles. It only remains fur us to recommend to your Honours' approbation the plan proposed by Mr. Simpson to perfect this interesting service, which, as he has no wish to avail hiroscit of the ',cave of absence granted by Governor Simp. son, he is prepared to follow up whenever the limited mesas rerntired are placed at his disposal. We have the honour to be, Honourable Sirs, Your most obedient humble servants, PETER W. DEASE. THOMAS SIMPSON. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHETER—FRIDAY NIGHT. There has not been any business during the present gay that requires observation. Cruiskeen holds the premiership far the May event ; but closely pressed by Sir T. Stanley's horse. 7 to 1 has been accepted on the latter in a very good quarter ; and Gilbert Gurney at 10 to 1, has been, since Tuesday, sup ported to a considerable extent. 100 to 7is yet offered against any of Mr. I)awson's lot. TILE DERRY.—_t to I has been the current offer on the field. Launcelot was backed at 7 to 1, • with Molyneux as " a cock boat," by a gentleman who, appears never to have enough of the " yellow jacket." Last Sunday, vulgo " Flowering Sunday," the graves of the Chartists slain at the Westgate on the 4th of November, were decked with flowers and laurels, and sur mounted with the following lines:--. " Maw the rose of England never blow, The Clyde of Scotland cease to flow, The harp of Ireland never play, Until the Chartists gain the day•" It may be presumed that the enthusiast who made this metrical exhibition, considered himself doing honour to the manes of the unfortunate victims of misleading and revolutionary men; but it were better far not to distinguish the testing-places of those who died in a murderous attack upon their fellow-subjects.— Monmouth Olerlin, ATTACK ON AN ENnLISIIMAN IN FRANCE.— A late rise in the price of bread has caused great discontent in various parts of Frarne, and amongst the dealers in corn who have come in fur the hostility of the populace, is Mr. Packham, an Englishman, who is a tenant of Louis Philippe at Eu, near Dieppe. Mr. P.'s agents have lately been insulted in the mar :e1 of Gatirache, where the people cried out " a bas Pack ham—a bas les A nglais —a bas le Rol." It has been intim ted that the King is the real owner of these mills. Many years ago Mr. Peckham, who was thee a journeyman millwright, was ern pleyed at a palace of the Duke of Orleans, when his Royal Highness, finding him an industrious man , offe red to let him the mills at 9 ,000 francs (801.) a year, and to lend him metal f• carry them on, which was accented, and at the end of the first year the rent was refused ; the Duke offered to remit the second year's rent, bu tMe. Packham refused the kind offer. When Louis Phi lippe became King, he authorised his tenant to make any additions to the mills, and to pay him four per cent. for any advanees that might be made. Mr. Packham profited by this latitude, and has made such important additions with the money furnished by Louis Philippe, that instead of paying, as at first, a rent of 801. a year, he is now pa y ing nearly a thousand, and is said to be I doing business to the extent of more than 70,0001. a year. He has established a biscuit-manufactory, saw-mills, &c., and has found occupation for nearly all the poor population of Eu. He has sent large supplies of cm a to Spain for the use of the Go vernment troops, and furnishes the French navy with a large quantity of biscuit, which is superior to that previously sup plied by other bakers. In his own neighbourhood he is a be nefactor to the poor, and is highly esteemed. Latterly, it ap pears that having occasion for large quantities of flour for the use of the army in Africa, his purchases have been consider able; the lower orders in the places where has made his pur chases attribute the rise of corn to him, and, forgetting that the supplies furnished by Mr. Packham were for their own army in Africa (respecting which they have been crying up the courage, and comphining that their candition was not suf ficiently attended to), they have made Mr. Packham the object of their vituperations. MAILS TO NORWAY AND SWEDEN. --Go vernment having ordered a weekly mail to be conveyed by steam from Hull to Christiansand and Go'tenbur g , a contract for t h e transit has been taken by Messrs. Wilson, Hudson, and Co., of this port, and by whom two competent stearn•vessels, of the first class, will be immediately plaited on the station. The service is to commence on the 2d of next month. The pas sage, which will be imperatively undertaken at specific hours. to and from the Eastern ports, will afford a safe and certain conveyance, and thereby give an an additional impetus to Cora mete ial int ;prise. --iiii - 1/ Times. GREENLAND FlSHEltY.—Notwithstandingihe i unsuccessful state of this fishery for some years back, the owners fitted out four a in Kirkaldv have, in the most spirited manner, vessels for the Straits. Two of them have sailed —th e ipci and Caledonia ; and the others. the Chieftain e an t d he ßeg alia, onlyvease ar l e s in the o ffi ng, preparing to follow. ' hope which that will betterle ave the suoiceiosi success s awaits ali?;sfe theirthis r s h e e e' e n s t e o e n r a p , r r a i n s e d . w e s e hu l i d d ft p ensuing season be well-fished aging owners to renew a s peciesit ma y ofs l e t t a u v i e at t i h n e n e: .n ec i, t h o h f a e s nc he our en - Caltdonian Mercury. la si ; r. itts, residing g i . t — tformation was cOla for SUICIDE. —Ott O yea n rly sa de tu cr r e ( had committed veye... • Hi ggs, the Deputy-Coroner for Westminster, that , I to Mr. at No. 5. a sculptor, ta k in g a quantity of laudanum. d From in quiries, it c a o n n d ne d c u te ring w i th the the B elgrave-squ are, fighly- talented Sirlate Francissevere Chantrcy, the eminent .1 1 . e a s s c e :i l l scu lptor struggle for the Nelson testimonial, Mr. Pitts sent in a design, a su pe i a d r e s b l ' hat the deceased which was rejected. This circumstance, it is stated, preyed heavily on his mind, and, having been equally unsuccessful in a more recent competition, lie procured a quantity of laadanam on Thursday night, which lie swallowed, and before medical as sistance could be procured, ha ceased to exist. A letter, it is slid, reached the unfortunate gentleman's residence a few hours after the commission of the fatal act, the contents of which would have had the effect, beyond all doubt, of dispelling from his mind any melancholy produced by unsuccessful competition. Mr. Pitts, who was about sixty years of age, has left a widow and large family to lament his untimely end. He was well known in the scientific world, and a few hours before he teak the poisonous drug he dined with a friend moving in the higher circles. The inquest upon the body has been appointed to take, place at four o'clock this afternoon at the Belgrave Taveen t Ir a , Eburyestr The Marquis and Marchioness of Dow-.lshire have a select party visiting them at Hillsborough Cast' ' , Deere shire, Ireland, where the Noble Marquis and am Able Mar chioness have arranged to stay until the first week ia May. 1 I ', I