The Sun. — London, England, 1847-11-11 00:00:00

BRISTOL—Put back, James, Tyne, for Bermuda, with ports, p. 115, was referred to, in which it was decided Mr. Prendergast submitted that f ler e was not loss efjibboom and bulworks. by the Court that an address, describ e d s i mp l y as sufficient evidenc e t o j u stify the c omm i tt e .1 ofßrewer. 3 luaini.Es, Nov. 9.—Arrd. Ann Blair, Quebec, for " the Oaks" was not sufficient, without the pari s h or Th e ev id ence o f suc h a person as L ewi ', ;s could only . N eath. township being added. be accented so far as it was corroborate(' L Now that CLYDE, Nov. 9.--Sld. Isabella, Cooper, amerara ; St. t affected ou ld OFF PORTSEA.—Cumberland. Mr. KEATING, for the re s p on d en t, su b m itt e d that part of Lh ew's evidence which affected Brewer was John, S avannah. the question as to the sufficiency of the description uncorroborated, and therefore, he subr witt e d, i n ad- CORK, Nov. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. LaviLia,M`Phey, was entirely one of fact, and that it would depend miscible. Brewer was a gentleman o f respecta b le Bombay. upon various circumstan ces w hi c h proper t y came connex i ons , an d hi s c h a ra c t er wou ld h c e c:np u e ch d, w under the knowledge of th e R ev i s i ng B ar i s t er . b y th e comm itt a l. The CHIEF-JUSTIC E wa s o f o pi n i on th a t th e Mr. theslty said that the case Inust go for tri a l. ' description might f a i r ly b e rea d as " N o . 5, Sh er - Mr. Prendergast's argum en t, if accepted, borne-street, Cheltenham," although the word Chel- render it necessary that every word of such a wit- tenham was not added to it, and the objector would ness s evidence should be corrobor, ated. fail in having any claim to be heard beforo the Re- The prisoners were then come pitted for i t l r rr ial ow . raes " - : : ::f vising Barrister, if it meant Sherborne•street in any same securities were accepted on b ehalf of 13-4. e..-- N9r othor town. It appeared to him, therefore, that there and Ralphs, and the witnesses. were boundwas enough on the face of the notice with regard to their own recoemizance s f or 200/ . each. the description to make it answer all the practical The oiler of bail on the p ar t of B purposes of the statue. renewed. The other judges concured in the opinion of r' Chief Justice. The decision of the Revising Barister was there. fore confirmed, and the appeal reversed. t 11'0 VI a .' 11 1," rb . 04.42 1674 AZA ks, AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. By the ship Sea, 'arrived at Liverpool, we have received New York papers of the 19th ult., being three days later than those brought by the last steamer. There were, however, no later accounts from Mexico during the brief interval, and nothing of in terest had occurred in commercial matters of any Moment. The more reflecting portion of the Ame rican community continue to entertain sanguine ex pectations of an early peace with Mexico, and the Price of stocks is maintained firm, from a confident hope that a considerable advance in prices will follow as a necessary consequence from that event. • - MARLB RO'-S TREE T 1 3 AS DAY.) Charles. P e bl oe , a man o f colour, , vas placed be fore Mr. ll ar d w i c k e, charged with . l je i rjB -- drunk and riotous, an d assault i ng James Nag,ie, barm an , at t h e Tower public-house, Tower-stree v , Sev en. dials. Complainant stated, that on the prev;Lous afternoo n , the priso ner came i nto h is employer's hou se , an d wanted to be served with some gin. Seeing that he hail already indulged too freely, he refused to serve him, whereupon he (the prisoner) became very abusive, and swore he would rip him (complainant) up if he dared to refuse. Complainant requested him to leave the house. The prisoner 'said he would see him d first, and called him by a filthy epithet, and threatened .to charge hi m with a nameless crime. Complaualint, seeing that the prisoner was determined not to leave by fair means, proceeded to turn him o u t. I n doing so, the prisoner struck him twice. He ultimately succeeded in putting him out, and gave ham in charge of the police. The prisoner denied the charge in Coto. Ile merely went into complainant's house professionally to amuse the company with some " bone music," and while he was so engaged the complaintu it came and turned him out. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GOTJLBURN.) IN RE COGDON. In this case Mr. Taylor, a solicitor, attended be fore his Honour for his decision as to his costs, the consideration of which stood over on the question, whether the solicitor to an insolvent could be allowed costs for preparing the schedule, there bei ng no pro vision in the Insolvent A c t to that effect. His HONOUR held that in cases of doubt they were to be treated in the same manner as those in blnk ruptcy, as far as the points were analogous. In this case he therefore considered that costs ought to be allowed in the same manner as costs to a petitioning creditor, or to a person suing out fiat against himself, on the attorney making an affidavit that he had not received any money in account, or was in expectancy thereof from the insolvent, or any other person in respect of bill. Mr. LINDSAY, the solicitor to the trade assignees, applied for costs in respect of their expenses, &c. He said the case was a very bad one, as there was nothing for the creditors, and his Honour Mr. Com missioner cane had adjourned the case for eighteen months, unless the insolvent had previously under gone a certain term of imprisonment. Mr. Lindsay also contended that the costs of the assignees ought to be paid before those of the insolvent. Mr. HARDWICKE committed him to the House of Correction for one week, with 'hard labour. THAMES.—(TRIS DAY.) Four railway excavators, James Buttly, Joseph Jones, Thomas Smith, and William Johnson, were charged by the master of the Mile-end Workhouse with having taken up their quartQrs in that establish ment over night, and with havin g this morning re fused to' pick the stipulated quantity X oakum re quired by the par oc hi a l aut h orities. ( It appeared that the four prisoners were admitted last night as casual paupers—they received a meal , of bread and cheese each, and were supplied with' their breakfast this morning. Prior to these meals , being given them they were inforrned that in the morning they would be required each to pick two pounds of oakum. They gladly assented, but wh en the oakum was given them to pick they resolutely refused to touch it, assailed the mpAter 'with abuse, and endeavoured to dissuade the . cither inm a t es f rom performing th ey th w e e i rreagl given dt a intos k Under these circum stances usto dy. In their defence, the pris' driers said all they wanted ',groper road s . wa i\ s i t r o . B be m l , e L t A g s o Ti o N n E their ob i Antved that he would mark his n Aisconduct by t eac hi ng them a lesson o nN f vh t i l L ir goherhosps r tdwould operate as a salutary warning to other s . He should send them each to the house of Correction for twenty-one days, with hard labour. j Hislll:moult said there was a n ex p ress power b y J the 6 Geo. IV. c. 16, s. 14, allowing costs at the audit; but in this case there would be no audit, for nothing had been realised for the creditors. If costs were allowed where nothing resulted from the busi ness done, a small estate would be absorbed. There was a great reason for granting the costs of the in solvent, as it protected the estate from being wasted by the insolvent paying unreasonable costs, which were by one grade of attorneys frequently extorted. Mr. LINDSAY said the trouble and expense were the same, although no estate was realised, and unless costs were allowed, trade assignees would not in terfere. His HoNoun. then sent for the taxing master, and after discussing the question, decided that he could allow the costs under the 10th rule framed under the Insolvent Act, but the insolvent's solicitor was first entitled to be paid in the same manner as a petiti(;n ing creditor, or a person presenting his own fiat. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS (before Mr. L nder-Sheriff BURCHELL.) rt:OIIERTSON V. lIICKIN. This was an action to recover the sum of 30/., money lent. The plaintiff is a licensed victualber, keeping the Acorn public-house, in Thames•street, and the defendant was formerly clerk to Mess rs. West, Green, and Sedgwick, corn merchants, Rut land-wharf, in the same street. The action was originally commenced in the Palace Court, but had been removed into the Court shove, as beyond the jurisdiction of the Palace Court. The defendant did not now plead. Several letters were put in, fully making out the plaintiff's claim. The UNDER-SHERIFF held that interest could not be allowed. IMPROATEIVIENTS IN FIRE-ARMS AND CARMIDGES. We were this day favoured with a private view of Dr. Jaegar's improvements in fire-arms and cart ridges. The improvements in question have been submitted to Prince Albert, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and a select committer, of officers, at Woolwich, and a favourable report of the same has been made by those parties to the Master-General of the Ordnance. The principal advantages gained by this invention appear to consist in the following points :--The fire arm is loaded and discharged without making any use of caps or priming, and, as a consequence, all those inconvenience s are avoided which have so frequently arisen from the slipping off, or bursting of the caps, and also from the priming being partially spilt or wetted, and the fire-arms can be discharged with speed both by night and by day, in cold, rain, or wind, as in dry weather. By the adoption of the principle of placing the cock under the barrel instead of the old mode, wet and rain have no influence on the lock or on the charge. When the gun or pistol is overcharged it will not be liable to those involuntary discharges which so frequently occur ; all possibility of the fire-arms being overloaded is also removed. In consequence of these improvements the act of loading is facilitated and shortened, the par tial spilling of the powder is prevented, and the ranks of our gallant army may be recruited from those who, from want of teeth to bite off the end of the cartridges, are at present disqualified from serv ing their Queen and country. The charge may be h andled with perfect security, and the kindling of it commences immediately in the chamber of the fire 'lnns. The shot is thus kindled more speedily and more safely, uniformily at one time as at another, and produces a l esser re b oun di ng against the person I who discharges. The handling of such-like fire arms is thus made more simple, easy, and safe than of th ose now i n use. The fire arms can be loaded and discharged eight times and more in one minute. There is also another •Advantage connected with the invention. Such fire arms can optionally and each time, without the least delay, be turned into percussion cap guns, and, what is of considerable importance, the manufacture of these fire-arms and cartridges is less expensive than that of cap-guns, or guns with flint and steel. In all other respects such fire-arms are like the others now in use. In addition to the above-named advantages, the gun is not subject to the slightest recoil. We dis charged several of the pieces ourselves, and were not able to discover the slightest effect from the discharge, and in consequence of the peculiar nature of the car tridge, there is none of that liability to "fouling" which invariably attends the repeated discharge of ordinary fire-arms. And, as a matter of considerable importance to amateur sportsmen, we confidently pronounce that there is considerably less danger in the handling of these fire-arms than in those in ordinary use. The mode by which these advantages are brought about are by dispensing entirely with the loose priming and percussion caps ; and the inventor thus does away with priming altogether, thereby reducing gunnery to the two simple operations of loading and firing. The pernicious practice of biting off the ends of the cartridges is rendered unnecessary, by the construction of his cartridges of a peculiarly prepared paper, which takes fire as quickly as pow der itself, and burns without any residuum whatever. Every cartridge is made to carry its own priming, thus superseding entirely the necessity of the priming. The top, or rather, the powder end of the cartridge, is ,made to terminate in a small nipple charged with fulminating powder, which drops into a recess formed for it in the breach of the gun, and is entirely protected by a shoulder-piece in front of the recess from the percussive action of the ramrod. In the top of the recess there is an orifice through which the hammer attached to the cock of the gun descends on drawing the trigger, which striking the nipple of the cartridge, causes the instant discharge of the piece. From what we have to-day seen of the actual working of the principle, we have no hesitation in pronouncing the invention to be a most invaluable one. The principle upon which it is founded, a perfectly sound one, applicable alike to the sportsman of th e moors an d the infantry and cavalry, whose deadly charges may yet affect the destiny of nations, and the world. THE ROBBERY AND MURDER OF MR. BELL CEIADIBERS.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford resumed, for the third time, at the Grosvenor Arms, the inquiry touching the death of Mr. John Bellchambers, who was robbed and ill-used on the night of the 11th ult. The case having been stated by Inspector Taylor to be still in the hands of the police, the coroner again adjourned the in quiry to await the result of the magisterial investigation. Some fresh parties have been taken into custody and re manded to this day week. SEASONABLE MOVEMENTS.—The fog arrived in town for the season on the 2d of November, and was re ceived with the usual formaliaties. Several boys with torches were in attendance, holding in their hands those links of civilization which unite the dark ages with our own time. Omnibus rivalry was for a time buried in oblivion, or at least in a fog, and " Many a cab was made to bump unseen, And waste its fleetness on an awkward post." All nature, in fact, seemed to have distributed over the metropolis one tremendous ticket for soup, with which, in the shape of the densest atmospheric fluid, London and the suburbs were indiscriminately served out. We will not say we hope we shall never look upon its like again, for it cannot be the like of the late fog, if we are enabled to look upon it at all.—Punch intended topmasts for a pa an packe t COWES, Nov. 10.—LAuNcit OF THE BRILLIANT.— A splendid b r i g o f 372 tons was l aunc h e d thi s d a y, a t half-past t we l ve o ' c l oc k , f rom M r. J osep h Whit e ' s yar d , t nd to a Madeira.nd yards across, had and was het takenmasts s ill to the Thetis D berths. ock the same tide. She has 50 cabin on A cona ne ra w on T r r o e a d t d is le a - t vv t h he ee r l a C te a o rr f i t a e g n e m , e i x le p s e a c n te h d ou t o r, b t y r . a t v h e e l light, simple, and pleasant labour of a tread-wheel attached to machinery in the interior, and capable of carrying twelve persons at this rate, for thirty to forty miles, by one driver, without fatigue, is at present ex hibited in model at Liverpool. If the power requisite as a prime mover be so light and easily applied, why not replace the dri ver ' s b y a powerful spring, to be wound up like that of a watch, at convenient stations, or by the driver himself at once, with the hel of a passeng or er two, instead of having hi m on the tr eadmill continually like some incorrigible criminal?—Builder. , it_ ti r s L 1 44 'l9 0 N T 1-1 TJ RSDA Ir EVENING, NOVEMB MAGAZINES, szc. —(C Thy throbbing temples need repose-- E'en penury hath eyes to close; Suffice it now 'as mine to wake— All labour's sweetened for thy sake. And thus with prayers he sendeth her to rest, To write of cheer with trouble at his breast, While the goose -quill striveth and straineth away Over the paper Beneath the taper, Through the hours that man calls night—and genius day. " Alack, the taper's getting low— The fire hath slumbered long ago— What's to be done? not half the task Fulfilled, these craving dear ones ask; The thoughts, too, burn so bright and high, They flash Like lightning from the sky; That now the taper should refuse its spark! It flickers —the pen flies—it drops—and all is dark. " A moment bath the penman paused in doubt— At length, as with a groan he turns about, Ho starts with joy, for a long fine ray Through the shutters shoot the light of day; He flies to the window, opens it wide, And shrinks from the morning's great Heed-tide That bursts on bis blood-shot eyes, o'erwrought From the deep carouse of desperate thought. He steals to the table, and once again Opens the orgies of breast and brain, While the goose -quill fluently fleeteth away Over the paper, Without the taper, Through the hours when night sleeps in the lap of day." Painfully true as this is, we are not sure that we do not prefer the exquisite pathos and simplicity of " The Poplin Weaver." Alas ! how many of our own countrymen may be subjected to the like privations by an obstinate adherence to the unwise and impolitic monetary laws under which our manufactures have been checked, and our operatives deprived of employ ment. We would fain ask our lawgivers is the fol lowing picture one that they would wish to see realised in what was once merry England ? " I'm loth to awake ye, Art, my dear! But the steps of a stranger are drawing near— Up the ricketty stair they come, Making, I think, for our wretched room— Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent— Art, it's the sheriff—the rent—the rent! " See, daylight has lit on the window-sill— Art! is it you to be slumbering still? Ye knew that at last we must quit, or pay, Though ye didn't expect the distress to-day! Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent— Art, it's the sheriff —the rent—the rent! " At the doorl—oh, a month, to make up what's due The landlord he knows, Art, your word is true— If he saw how we strive, he'd put off the sale— 'Twas the will of God that the trade should fail! Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent— Art, it's the sheriff—the rent—the rent! " In days gone by, it was Ireland's pride To be decked in the web that our looms supplied— Those were the times, Art, that ye took me home, And told me that love would make business come. Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent— Art, its the sheriff—the rent—the rent! " It's hunger, Art, that has made ye weak— What can I think of, your fast to break? Here, Art, here is my wedding-ring— The lodgers will lend on the blessed thing! Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent— Art, it's the sheriff—the rent—the rent! " God forgive me! my heart is torn To drag ye from bed this bitter morn; The bed that they're coming to seize and sell— Where I've nursed and prayed by ye, sick and well! Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent! Art, it's the sheriff—the rent—the rent! " How silent he sleeps! not a stir, or breath; Poor famishin g husband, yo u ' re wor k e d to d eat h! At the shuttl e before and after the sun— And a morsel of meal when the day is done! Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent— Art, it't the sheriff—the rent—the rent! " Dead !—Oh, my God! it is over at last-- The wearisome struggle is past—is past! The heavens be praised! 'tisn't you need fear— 'Tis'your widow that's desolate, husband dear! Rise, Art, rise! to the happy skies, Where the tears are wiped from the poor man's eyes!" We have little space to notice the remaining articles in the number, although they well merit attention. The title of " A Week in the Hebrides—Gleanings in the Queen's Wake," explains the subject. " The Bachelor of the Albany " also will be read with much interest. "Poor and Pauper" states the means adopted by Mr. John Hamilton, of St. Ernan's, Do negal, for unpauperizing the population on his own estates—an example which, if generally followed by other proprietors of the soil in that country, would speedily be attended with the most beneficial results to all classes. "University Reform," the last paper of the number, is an able and elaborate defence of the Alma Mater against the charges put forward by Mr. Heron, in " The Constitutional History of the University." There are some sentiments put forward highly creditable to the writer, and which we would gladly see participated in by the authorities of Oxford and Cambridge. He says, "Mixed Education is now very generally approved of. It lessens acerbity of feeling, removes prejudices, unites men in after life in pursuit of useful objects in which they agree, and leads them mutually to forbear on subjects on which they differ. In Trinity College it has been found eminently successful; Roman Catholics and Pro testants now live there on the best and most cordial terms of friendship, and are treated with perfect im partiality by the heads and senior members of the College. And again—" In short, the system we advocate in Trinity College is to admit Roman Catho• lies freely to all rewards for learning, and all places for teaching, which are not parts of the body cor porate, or governing body of the University, and not directly for the teaching of religion." These state ments, coming from such a quarter, should silence the cavillers who object to the admission of Dissenters to the English Universities, and who have ventured to state " that mixed education has been found to work badly, and was very mischievous in fostering religious animosities in Trinity College, Dublin." THE BANKERS'. , This is indeed an important and stirring period for the Bankers' Magazine. There are unfortunately no lack of subjects that come within the sphere of its ope rations. " The Triumph of the Banking Principle" sets forth the proceedings immediately preceding the virtual repeal of the Bank Charter Act of 1844, to gether with the letters that passed between the Go vernment and the Bank on the occasion. The follow ing sensible observations are made with respect to the recommendation that eight per cent. should be the minimum rate of interest charged by the Bank : " We do not believe that the eight-per -cent. minimum will be long maintained: it should not be maintained one moment longer than the exigencies of the times may seem to warrant it. A usurious rate of interest is so contrary to the Spirit of all our commercial institutions, and so destructive in its consequences, that it cannot long be tolerated by the Government with impunity ; and we are sure that we echo the sentiments of nearly the entire commercial community when we state, that the recom mendation of Government, that the Bank should not charge less than eight per cent. on its advances at this crisis, in order to attempt to keep in force an exploded theory, is a heavy blow and a great discouragement to our commercial greatness." There is an excellent memoir, accompanied by a portrait, of Thomas Bracken. Esq., late the respected Secretary of the Bank of Bengal. A melancholy catalogue then ensues of the series of disasters which have taken place within the last month, and of the several banks which have been com pelled to yield to the pressure of the times, and to suspend payments, together with lists of the shareholders in the Royal Bank of Liverpool, and the Liverpool Banking Company, reprinted from the last official returns, and lists of the shareholders in the several other joint•stock banks that have sus pended payment. These are succeeded by the balance sheets of the great firms which have recently failed. There is also an excellent article on the state of com mercial affairs in Liverpool, showing the dreadful state to which the trade and commerce of the first mercantile port in the world has been reduced, from the baneful operation of our monetary laws. " Savings' Banks" relates to the general withdrawal by depositors in all parts of the country, in conse quence of the present depressed Estate of the public funds, and the loss to the nation thereon, which, from the 16th of March to the 12th of June last, amounted to upwards of 100,0001. How much it has been in the disastrous period subsequent thereto it is impossible for us to state. The usual paper on "Banking and Commercial Law" refers this month to the law relating to bankers' receipts. There is also a vast quantity of valuable information on various points, which will render the present number highly acceptable to all commercial men. THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE RE VIE "The Scottish Church and its Assailants," the first paper in the pre sen t num b er, is principally founded on the report of the, deputation appointed in May, 1846, of ministers and lay members of the Church of England representing the congregations adhering to her forms and doctrines in Scotland ; the members of the deputation are described as schismatics, and dealt with very severely for the objections which they have put forward in their report. The controversy is very fully entered into, and letters from several of the English bishops, in answer to the circular addressed from one of the congregation of Fochabers, are given in extenso. " Episcopal and Capitular Revenues " attacks what it terms the late spoliation," in other words the allocation of revenues which had been founded on the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Com mission. " The Churches of London," the tenth paper under this title, by Ridley, is a lamentation over the degeneracy of those clergymen who obeyed the Order in Council, by using the form of prayer, thereby appointed for the Thanksgiving Sunday—and a laudation of those who refused to do so, more par ticularly of the Rev. Bryan King, the Rector of St. George's-in-the-East, and of the incumbents of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge ) and rSt. Andrew's, Wells- ft , 11, 1847. • street , Oxford-stre e t. " A Country . Curate 's — Tale," i s aI A easingly writt en poem of the Crallbe school. The number also contains the usual short reviews and Main 3rsity intelligence. TF)E cokti,C HISTORY OF ENGLAND. No. XVII. By Gilbert Abbott A'Bechett. There is a capit a l brew of fun in this number out of the mash of Oliver Cromwell, the brewer of Hun tingdon. The author, however, is wrong in saying tha t the l as t known descendant of the Lord Protector died in 1821 ; there are several of the - Protector's deicendants yet living. The description of the cele brated " Royal Oak scene" is admirable :—" After the battle of Worcester, Charles determined to pecceed towards London, and, by the aid of a leathern doub:et, grey breeches, and green jerkin, he 'made up ' very effectually as a stage countryman. Takin with him a real countryman, one Richard Penderell, i , as a companion, Charles went into a wood, from the edge of which he saw a troop of horse ; but the rain poured down in such torrents that the troop retired, instead of taking shelter in the wood, which was cer tainly the wisest course they could have adopted. The anecdote is, however, so essentially dramatic, that the soldiers were perfectly in character when they went quite in the opposite direction to that they should have taken, like those pursuers on the stage who usually overlook the person they are in search of, and who, to every one else, is most conspicuously visible. Charles's position on this occasion resembled, in a minor degree, the situation of the fugitive at the fair, who, poiwing t o a pa i nte d bli nd representing a tree with a hole cut down the centre of it, expressed his detePmination to conceal himself in yonder thicket.' Finding accommodation for his body only in the tree's imaginary trunk, his legs of course pro truded from the shady grove,' when two assassins in hot pursuit tumbling over the out-hanging heels of the wretched runaway, exclaimed confidently in the ears of the audience, By ivins, he as eluded us.' Such must have been the good fortune of Charles, and the stupid blindness of the troop when the former sat on the forest's edge, and the latter never noted him. This incident being over, another soon afterwards ensued of an equally melodramatic character. Charles and Penderell, after travelling two nights on foot, had put up at the house of one of Penderell's brothers ; but it was not thought safe to remain in it, and his Majesty was recommended to an oak, whose parent stem would afford friendly shelter, while all the junior branches might be thoroughly relied upon. The king having supplied himself with bread, cheese, and beer, which could not have been table beer, for there was no table to put it on—though there were plenty of leaves—made the best of the im perfect accommodation that the tree afforded him. He had no sooner settled on his perch, and made himself a kind of nest in the boughs, than some sol diers entered on the 0. P. side, and looked every where—except in the right place—for the fugitive monarch. His legs, as usual, were visible enough, but the troopers possibly mistook them for a pair of stockings hanging up to dry, and they were not even struck by the shoes at the end, that should have awakened them to the va l ue o f th e b o oty. The most infantine participators in the game of Hide and Seek, would not have been at fault under circum stances of a similar kind ; and there can scarcely be a doubt, that if any urchin had only raised a suggestive cry of ' Hot beans and butter !' Charles would have been laid by the heels without a scruple on the part of those who were in search of him. Leaving his Majesty's legs to dangle in the air, and allowing credulity to score one for his heels on the cribbage-board of fancy, we proceed to contemplate Charles in a more dignified position on the throne of England." TILE MIRROR. The Mirror for November opens with three addi- Aonal chapters of " Paul Pevensey." The Lover of Kate returns, and weds her. His name is Laurence Stanley, and he is high in the service in India. There is, however, a great drawback to the happi ness of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Stanley—their child, Paul, is nowhere to be heard of. Stanley, in com mon with almost every one else, believes that he has perished in the explosion ; but Kate, with true wo man's faith, believes and hopes, in spite of hope, that she shall yet see him again. She, however, departs for Bengal with her husband, without having heard any tidings of Paul. We have already spoken of the writer of this work as a philosopher possessed of a thorough knowledge of character, a poet in the highest sense of the term ; we have already spoken of his exquisite descriptions of rural scenery; we now present our readers with a gem of an interior, an interior that Mulready might have painted. " Our readers will not perhaps object to step, this fine Sunday morning, into the parsonage of Ulraven, where the parson was just now at breakfast with his family. He was an extremely odd sort of a man, that same par son; who seemed to love especially three sorts of things —children, books, and cats. Mrs. Williams, as part of himself, went, of course, for nothing. That he loved ber was most certain, but that he never thought of it was equally certain. He was as unconscious of it as of the Ms he breathed, though the one was as necessary to his life as the other. She sat at one corner of the table, while he took up his position exactly opposite, with his youngest son upon his knee, a huge Tom cat upon his shoulder, and one or two mewling little vagabonds of minor calibre on hi s l ap . All these bipeds and quadru peds he fed from time to time, occasionally taking a peep into a volume of Tillotson—which he held more from habit than for use in his left hand. The bigger children occupied their places round the table, his eldest daughter, Nancy, sitting close to his side, on the right. If we glance at the table we shall find that it displayed a number of comfortable things—solaces, as the parson expressed it, for the outer man. Mrs. Williams was a very nice person, a jewel of a housewife, who loved to see everything about her as clean and neat as a Dutch woman's band-box. The table-cloth was as white as snow, and Mrs. Williams exerted all her authority to prevent the unthinking youngsters from spilling the coffee over it ; and then that coffee ! what fragrance it diffused through the room—how the foaming hot cream mantled over it, making Master Philip's teeth water, as the parson's grace, which was rather of the longest, was saying. We have always thought that it was highly injurious to the devotional feelings of the family to pour out the coffee before the grace was said, a sort of secular whiff ascending from the cup to the nostril, generally bringing down the thoughts to sublunary concerns, when they should have been otherwise employed. Besides, there was fresh butter lying pillowed in a china basin, delicate enough to tempt a St. Anthony ; and racks of dried toast, and fresh white eggs in little egg cups with gold rims—all intended to shed over the break fast-table an air of epicurean refinement. But the greatest ornament of all was the row of rosy faces, with a dash of eagerness in each, peering over the white table-cloth. " Mrs. Williams looked perfectly happy, as she glanced over the group, and concluded with looking at her hus band, who was just then maturing in his mind, not his sermon for the day, but a series of questions, which when, in Homeric phrase, the rage of hanger should have been a little appeased, he meant to put to Nancy. But we are going a little too fast. We ought by all means to cast a look out of the parlour window, and describe the prospect which presented itself there. We wish for Mr. Williams's sake we could dwell upon a fine lawn, with indications of a coach-house, and stable peeping from behind a screen of trees. " But our imagination must not fly beyond the reality. Mr. Williams's parlour window looked into an orchard, where a few golden apples, the remnant of the year's fruit, still hung upon the trees. The leaves around might almost be said to be of all colours, and as they rustled and twinkled in the October sun, look down upon a number of their brethren lying in tranquil decay upon the grass. There is a sort of melancholy in autumnal sunshine, reminding us of the mellow splendours of in tellect which light up our passage to the tomb. It has nothing in it of the bright fervour of morning —nothing of the golden hue or warmth of summer. It is placid, gentle, relaxing; as if meant to make us let go our hold on this world, and pass away without start or struggle into that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns. And yet I love the sunshine of autumn, which indicates that the work of the year is over, and that all things are approaching their rest." Mr. Percy St. John concludes his interesting story of "Cecilia Armand," the object of which is, he says, to call attention to the false notions which have hitherto prevailed on the subject of the French Revo lution, more especially as regards the characters of St. Just and Robespierre, who are described by Mr. St. Johti as almost the only virtuous men of the revolution. We do not agree with him in his estima te of the cha rac t er of Robespierre; we consider h Robes pierre to have b een a cold- b loo d e d, se lfish a who was pr eserve d f rom any fl agran t P e rsoutrages , of decor um b y t h e co ld ness o f bas partisanscooanl y st of the co nstitution —a traitor, constantly intriguing w ith the t h e words of Camille Desmoulins, "endeavoured old regime, who, to quote to drive liberty mad in order to disgust the wor ld with her." He was th e man of the reaction he reaction , not and he would have succeeded i n his schemes had been as inferior to D an t on i n cou rage as he was to Camille Desmoulins in honesty and ability. In one point, however, we entirely agree w i t h Mr. Percy St. John, the history of the French Revolution has yet to be writt en , an d we know of but one living author capable of doing justice to the task f of ather writing it, and hat' is Mr. J. A . St. John, th e he author TIIE NAUTICAL GAZETTEER a Dictiona r y o f Maritime G eography. The design of this work, Parts I. und which is p u bli s h e d under the especial sanction of th e L ords of the Admiralty, is to furnish the naval service with a book of refer ence, &c., "applicable to the localities of the sea, em bracing g en eral accounts o f th e coasts o f the conti nents and islands of the world, with the roadsteads, harbours, navigable rivers, shoals, bars, rocks, channels, currents, &c., together with the towns and cities approachable by shipping, also latitudes, longi tudes, soundings, anc h orages , an d compass variations, with general sailing directions to and from . principal roads ; the wh o l e arrange d a l p h a b e tically, in grand divisions of the oceanic surface—namely, the N or th Atlantic, the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the North Pacific, the S ou th P ac ifi c , an d th e Arctic and Antarctic Bea." The; want of such a publication has CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) SCOTT V. PASCALL. This case came before the Court on an appeal mo tion from the Vice-Chancellor of England. It ap peared that Mr. Scott was formerly a guardian of the Parish of St. James's, Clerkenwell, but having been accused of embezzling the funds of the parish to a large amount, an indictment was preferred against him, upon which he executed a deed for 10,0001., and admitted that there was a balance due by him to the parish. Mr. and Mrs. Scott subsequently instituted proceedings against the parish, the result of which was that the deed was set aside on the ground of having been obtained under duresse. The present motion was on the part of Scott, to set aside an order of the Vice-Chancellor of England, which reversed a decision of Masters Lynch and Senior, finding that Mr. Scurgill, who was formerly a guardian of the parish, but had ceased to be so since 1841, was an interested witne , s in the cause. His LORDSHIP affirmed the order of the Vice- Chancellor of England, and directed the costs to be paid out of the fund in court. CO LTER V. THE M IDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. _ This was a mot i on to dissolve an injunction which had been granted by his Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England, restraining the defendant from taking by compulsory process certain land near the city of Gloucester, of which the plaintiffs were the trustees. ills Lordship rose at half-past one o'clock, when the arguments had not concluded. C E - CHANCERY. —(THIS DAY.) (Before Sir J. WIGRAM.) BRIERATT V. THE :NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.—JUDGMENT. HON OUR I7IB _ i gave jud gmen t i n thi s mo ti on t o -d a y. The plaintiff n this case was the owner of certain land, part of which the defendants, under the powers of their Act, were at liberty to take for the construc tion the of thei r ra il way. After some d i spute b etween parties, an agreement was entered into, which W as put into the form of a memorandum, to the effect that the value of the land, as well as of residential and other injury, should be left to arbitration. The costs that were necessarily incurred were also to b e decided by this tribunal. On the 19th of March, „Thi the ar bi tra t ors were appo i nte d , and on the t V t h of Jun e , 1847, th ey ma d e t h e i r award, whereby as e c ompany should pay the plaintiff 5471. 1 ls. 6d. in. Purchase money for the land, a sum of 801. for the f n jur Y inflicted by th e d e f en d an t s , and 1081. 9s. 11d. 11 , 1 4 . C Tst.P. A motion was then made to set aside the theP", and up on th a t mo ti on t h e C ourt now gave Ttnent. His Honour was clearly of opinion that b (t award h a d nu t b een ma d e i n the terms specified the Act, an d th at j ust i ce cou ld not b e done if it "ctrnfirmed. H e wou ld th ere f ore or d er i t to b e asid e co e. QUEEN'S BENCH.— (TIIIS DAY.) T n p . (Sittings in Banc o .) - LONDO N AND WESTMINSTER. V. THE NEWCASTLE UPON-TYNE JOINT STOCK BANK. 4 t c 3: l lS Was a proceeding under the Joint-stock Bank by the public officer of the London and West ster Bank aga i nst M r. W alter Scott, the public "ricer su s of the N ewcas tl e J o i nt - s t oc k B an k , wh i ch °f Pended it s payments i n 1846, to recover the sum thi s 2 ' oo 01 . A rule wa s su b sequen tl y o b ta i ne d f rom othe Court, calling on a :Mr. Brook, Mr. l i awson, and te:r persons who had h e ld s h ares i n th e b an k to s h ow use Why a scire facias should not issue against them recover the amo un t o f their respective liabilities. 41r. WATSON contended at great length that Mr. th r :°k w as not liahle, as he had sold all hi s s h ares i n • concer n in 1845, and complained that the parties cin°4a ec ted with th e b an k h a d b een gu il ty o f co l lusion, w i ri l n inch as th e y h a d set f ort h persons as responsible ,1,3 w ere mere men of s t raw . CLEASB Y f o ll owe d on the same side. 811-e ATTORNEY-GENERAL addressed the C our t i n P i p t Or t o f the rule. e4l ""e COUR T cons id ere d th a t thi s was expressly a e in which a scire facias should issue, because it „Peenable th e part i es affected to s h ow when they „Ped to be s h are h o ld ers, and ot h er matters, which Rulebe of advant age t o th em . made absolute generally. CHEQUER. —(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) GOULDY V. DUNCOAD3E. }ht aside IVILus renewed his application for a rule to aside the order of Air. Justice Williams, made in ri s . e ase, and which has already been reported in e 82171. e COURT took time to consider, they being of an r in len that as 'the -ssFembling of Parliament was ben'uncd for the 18th, they did not see o what ne6 t it would be to grant the rule prayed for. COm- - MON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) Thi s morning th e i r L or d s hip s h ear d cases o f ap -131111 front the d ec i s i ons of Rev i s i ng B arr i sters, under eAct for the registration of voters. thatGRAY appli e d, on behalf of the appellants, Co the cases 7,8, and 9 might be heard by the no twithstandi ng that the necessary books and E p ea eFs had not been delivered four days previous to 4'e as req u i re d b y the rules of the Court. e h, ourcr decid e d t h at th e application could not entertained. E. This w a BURTON V. ATFIELD. • W iinlOt B an appeal from the decision of Sir John si en 0 ,. ~,e , Revising Barrister for the southern die i of avt_A_ rthamptonshirei who had retained the name . s !" ) . id Atfield on the register for the parish of Cole 41 Obv. Mil H v that M AI"RIEs, who supported the appeal, stated , . r. Atfield belon g ', occupied a farm of the value of 501., Lady.d g t o Mr. Loveday, in the above parish, up to 11 , 1' • a Y, 1847, when he ' left it; and that from ichael m lon g i ng toaps, 18 46, he also occupied another farm be andr. Nv. IL of the gai n , . a C'er, which was in the same parish, p to the presenvta-ne' and which he continued to hold application to be i tiole, but he had not made a new thetherefore Wasnserted on the register. The ques• entitl _r Fegister B . a . rister decided thed Whether the claim already upon him to vote ? The Revising 9lslon cited the C at it did, and in support of his de- Manning and LI , , rra a i se of Bartlett v. Gibbs, i n 5. n ow said t h e poin i t i ger, P. 81. Mr. H um ph r i es er Lord s hi ps was, wheth for the cons id era ti on o f their a 3 an occupier of land person wh o sen t i n a c l a i m vvards c ease d to hold a which he then held, but after although h e h a d s.n't was entitled t o b e on t h e li st, the no new claim, simply be caus same ehe happened h in old a s i m i lar qualification in , Mr. Hs Es submitted construction put upon 'the the o th er hand, that the Barrister wa s correct. Act by the Revising t The CHIEF JU STICE said, he did seehtie Act or th e o doubt either upon th e construction n o o f t entertain a n y reason of the case. Th e f ourth p n ers o of statute expressly provided th a t w h ena the was on a former register did not re t a i n the same q wh a o lification (by which he underst oo d not simply -nthe same legal description of qualification, but the same property in respect of which the qualification w as given), that he should send in a new claim. He was, therefore, of opinion that the decision of the Revis ing Barrister was erroneous, and that he ought to have sent in a new claim. The other judges concurred in the above opinion. The decision was accordingly reversed. SHELDON V. FLETCHER. Mr. Ser gean t B y l es appeare d f or t h e appe ll an t i n this case, and Mr. Keating for the respondent. It appeared th a t th e appe ll ant was struc k o ff the list of voters for the borough of Cheltenham by the /3arrister, upon an objection made by the respondent, and the present appeal was grounded on the inform ality that objection. It was simply signed Joseph Fletcher, 5, Sherborne-street, and did not state the parish and township in which the str ee t was situated, and it was shown bef ore the Barrister that there were other Streets of the same name in other parishes, within sev en miles of Ch e lt en h am. But it was also shown t Cheltenham cons i s t e d on l y of one parish; and t hat., t ther e was no other Sherborne-street in it. The 1 . 1 th section of 6th Vic., c. 18, enacts that a notice c'ff he must state th e name an d p l ace of abode ir "Le party objecting, and also the parish of which a voter, and the question was, whether the 'Erve bad bee n sa ti s fi ed by the description given C .T. On the part of the appellant, the "e of Wooll e tt V. Davies, 4, Com. Bench Re- WRIGHT V. JARVIS. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 141. 16s. 9d., for rent of a house and shop in Ftd wood's-rents, Holborn. The defendant pleaded the general issue. The plaintiff' conducted his case in person, and stated that the defendant had taken the premises at the yearly rent of 401., and there having been two quarter's rent in arrear, a distress was put in, but only realised 51. 3s. 3d., and the action was brought to recover. A witness proved having called on the defendant and demanded the rent, and telling him that unless he paid the one quarter's rent before the next quarter became due, a distress would be put in, but the rent was not paid. After the rent was due, witness offered, on behalf of the plaintiff, to allow defendant to leave the house without any rent, but he said he would not, but would " stick to the crib," and he was still in possession. The defendant said he did not dispute that the amount was right, if they were right at all, but the matter would not end here. The action ought to have been brought in the county court. The UNDER-SHERIFF said he could not entertain that question ; the defendant must apply to the Court above. Verdict for 14/. 165. 9d. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) HOR RY AND MS ALLEGED CLERK. Mr. llorry having intimated a wish to the court to render ome explanation with respect to certain observa tions which had been made on Thursday, The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said the court had DO power to interfere with respect to the subject alluded to by the Learned Counsel, but he thought it was due to the gentlemen of the bar that he should hear amy observations Mr. Horry might choose to make with respect to his knowledge of the transaction. The Learned COUNSEL then went on to state, at great length, that on his way here from the Old Bailey, the woman Denny was introduced to him, when she said she wanted him to defend her son, amd showed him what she thought were the depositions, but which was only the warrant of committal. He waited some time in court for the case, and not find ing it upon the list, he made some in quiries, and found it was a case in cus tody. From what he heard, he concluded that the case had been disposed of, and he went back to the Old Bailey, where he had been only a few minutes when Flanagan came in with some papers, and said Mrs. Denny's son was in the dock, and he (Mr. Horry) told him it was useless to return, as the case had b ee n tri e d th e even i ng b e f ore, and Denny must have been only called up for judg ment. With respect to the observation made upon the subject of the woman calling upon hina on Satur day, he should say that when she came she was ac companied by the same female who was with her at the Sessions House, when he explained to Airs. Denny that the person who had received the four half-crowns from her was not his clerk ; upon which the other woman said, "I must do justice to all parties, Mr. Flanagan said nothing at all about being your clerk." The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said he did not wish at all to interfere with the statement of the Learned Counsel, but he thought a few concise answers to what he should ask the Learned Counsel would be the best course. He should take the liberty of ask ing the Learned Counsel whether Flanagan was his clerk or not? Mr. lionar—Most certainly not. _ The ASSISTANT-JUDGE—DO you know whether Flanagan received 10s. from the woman in the way described? Mr. HORRY—I have no knowledge whatsoever upon the subject. The ASSISTAINT-JUDGE—Did any portion of that I Os. ever find its way into your pocket? Mr. HORRY—Assuredly not—not one fraction of it. ri.l_ A The iiSSISTANT.JUDGE—Did you take the brief with the fee of 105. ? —• • Mr. HORR Y—No ; I did not. The ASSISTANT-JUDGE—And afterwards put it in Your pocket without doing anything for it? Mr. l ioaay—Nothing of the kind. The ASSISTA NT - JUDGE—Then the whole case, so far as you are concerned, personally resolves itself into this :—that a person came to you to defend a prisoner, which you di o, because you thought the case had been triedbefore. Mr- HoßßY—That is the whole case, my Lord. Mr. lorry was about addressin g when the C our t f urt h er, The ASSISTANT4IMGE said he ht the matt er might be safely a ll owed to drop now thou after the Lear ne d Counsel's repli es . The Usher of the Court said that Flanagan inva riably represented him se lf to the officer of the Court and others as Mr. lorry's clerk. such The ASSISTANT J lorry d en i es that is the case. The matter then dropped, and the Court proceeded to try felonies, none of which were of any general i interest. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) THE LATE GAMBLING CAsE.--Andrew William Barr, Charles Brewer, and Samuel Ralphs, who were remanded to this day from this day week, on the charge of conspiring to defraud Mr. S. Julius Carey, by foul play at cards, were brought up for final exa mination this morning. Mr. Ballantine was not at present prepared with any further evidence. He proposed that the prisoners should be committed for trial at once, but, if neces sary, should be brought up again in the mean time, as the sessions would not commence till the 22d inst. ONTINUED). COLBUI?N'S UNITED SERVICE. The first paper in the present number, "Military* Education in F rance, " is compiled from official docu ments furnished by the French Minister of War. It Proposes to give a sket c h o f th e hi story of each of the military scbools in France, showing the most impor tant modifications in its organization, its gradual de velopment, the conditions of admission, and requisite formalities to be performed, together with the studies, th'a manner of living, the future prospects of the pu pils, the discipline exercised, and the modes of punish ment in use in the different establishments. It must be remembered that in France a very different sys tem is in force both with respect to the recruiting, and providing officers for the army, from that which pre vails in thie country. Every young man is subject to be called on to give his services to his country, or to provide a substitute, who shall be approved of and accepted in his place. Few, however, of the wealthier classes are ' willing to enter the ranks as private soldiers, although a fair prospect exists for the well disposed and meritorious of obtaining promotion to a higher station. In France the ridiculous custom of acquiring military rank by purchase does not exist; every officer must, therefe;re, either work his way up from the ranks, or undergo 'an education suited to, and which will properly qualify him for, the position he is about to fill. For that purpose various schools have been established throughout the kingdom. That of St. Cyr is described in the present number. "The Cruise in the West Indies, with some aeceunt of a Slave Captain," is continued from the September number. We left Guiseppe on board the Culloden, with Lord Nelson's squadron; on his return to England he is transferred to the Barfleur. After some time his feelings are excited by hearing a Vene tian air, and meeting a countryman in the master of the band on board the Vine de Paris ; some time afterwards he s uccee d s in escaping from the Barfleur by swimming ashore. He gets a place on board a vessel trading to Guinea for slaves, it being previous to the period w h en the labours of Wilberforce and his philanthropical associates had led to the abolition of that abominable and inhuman traffic. He is, how ever, pressed to serve in an English frigate, from which he again speedily deserted, and obtained a situation in another slaver, in which he made many voyages, and finally became a slave captain, in which capacity be realised a considerable fortune. The third chapter of "Recollections of Waterloo" details the proceedings from the evening of the triumph and on the following days. Mr. Curling, in his con tinuation of the " Siege of Oldcourt House," ablyrol lows up the promise of his first chapter. The Round head troops have been marched to the attack, but are benighted, and compelled to bivouac in the woodland surrounding the old hall. A daring reconnoitre by 1 'one young Falconer disturbs them, and he con trives to lead them in pursuit of him away from their p a th, so as to gain greater time for his friends in the hall. There are many other highly interesting narratives, to which, if time permitted, we would gladly allude with greater particularity; for the present, we must be contented to say, that " Recollections of the Early Life of a Sailor," " The Ruse de Guerre," "The Fusilier, or Bygones of a Bearskin," " Scenes in the Life of a Foreign Medi cal Officer," " Shots from an Old Sixpounder," " Original Anecdotes of Nelson," "A Leaf or Two from an Old,Log," and "Blackbeard's Island," are all well worthy of perusal, and that the reader must be fastidious, indeed, who will not d er i ve amusement therefrom. The remaining articles are of a different character. From the reasoning of the writer of " Crime and its Prevention" we dissent tot o cce l d, and we must express our unqualified disapprobation of the sanguinary measures which he recommends to Government for adoption. He would fain re-estab lish the Draconic severity of the criminal code, and corporal and capital punishments would be rigidly enforced, the triangles and the gallows would again he crowded with victims. After a certain number of convictions for the secondary offences, such as theft, robbery, breach of trust, embezzle ment, forgery, mutiny, desertion, ar son , &c., he would punish with .stern, unshrinhing, unmitigable rigour, by shooting or hanging. The writer seems to forget the utter uselessness of the examples afforded by the hecatombs of human victims who were annually sacrificed in former days, and to ima gine that the course which was then so unavailing would now prove more effectual. God grant that we may never see many of our legislators actuated by a similar spirit, or willing to contemplate with such calmness " the extra consumption of bones and sinews" which would at first be occasioned, and which, in the army, might excite momentary regret r Of course, that in the mind of so stern a philosopher could only be on account of the expenditure of so much material, and not for the sufferings of our erring brethren, who, "as they would be only the wicked and vicious, we would have no reason to regret." " Naval Improvements in the Nineteenth Century" contains much useful . information; the present number chiefly relates to the new element of power that has been in troduced into the service—our steam armament. On the whole, the number is an excellent one, fully maintaining the former reputation of Colburn's United Service Magazine. TEE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. November has given us an o th er a d mirable number of this excellent periodical. The first article con tains an account of Mademoiselle Le Normand, the extraordinary fortuneteller, w h ose won d erful powers excited such astonishment in the French metropolis, and who for half a century m a i n t a i ne d th e reputat i on she had acquiredin her very childhood. Certainly, if there is any foundation for the legends that have been related of this lady, and some of which are now presented to the readers of the Dublin University Magazine, it is by no means surprising that she should have i attracted so m uc h o f t h e pu bli c atten tion. She t was who, when a prisoner in the Lux embourg, confirmed the prediction which had been made respecting Josephine Beauharnois in her in fancy, by an Obi woman, as to her:f u t u re e xa lt e d ran k , a prediction which was afterwards so wonderfully verified. She it was who prophesied the extraor dinary advancement of Napoleon, and his no less sur prising reverses ; and who, on being pressed on one occasion to give a more satisfactory explanation of an obscure answer, replied, " that it was a problem the solution of which she should reserve until the 31st March, 1814," a day which afterwards proved to be so eventful to the fortunes of the Em peror, as witnessing the entry of the allied troops into Paris. Strange details are given of her mode of pro ceeding from the papers of a lady, under the title of the Countess N. N., and also from those of the well-known President Von Malchus ; but perhaps the strangest of all her oracular exploits was the manner in which she divined the lucky num bers in the lottery, of which various anecdotes are told. " Wills's Lives of Illusrious Irishmen" is the subject of the next paper; full justice is done to the great research, patient investigation, sound judgment, and strict impartiality of the author, whose work is at once a history of Ireland and a biography of her most illustrious children, and we are promised a continuation of the notice in a future number. " The Watcher" is indeed a story of deep and pain ful interest, closely bordering on the supernatural ; it purports to give an account of occurrences which some fifty years since crea t e d a sensa t ion in the fashionable society of the Irish metropolis, and which ended in the melancholy_d ea th of a person, whose real name is concealed under that of Captain Barton, R.N., and which are enveloped in ;impenetrable mys tery. " Stray Leaflets from the German Oak" contains seven new translations by I. C. M., which are marked by the great taste and feeling, the poetic inspiration, for which the writer has acquired so high a character, and which render all his contributions so acceptable to the readers of the Irish Magazine. " The Comic Alpenstock " is continued, and there i s no a b atement of the comic spirit by which the first chapter was animated. A great deal of sound information is also communicated that would doubtless b e valuable to the traveller, notwithstanding the strange form in which it is put forward. " New Books of Poetry," is a notice of three recently published poetical works —" Theoria," by Mr. Digby Starkie ; " Church Me lodies," by Viscount Massareene and Ferrard and The Theoria is a Shadows of collectionth e Pyramid,"some of by l poems, two of which are given, and both of which we would right gladly tran s f er to our columns if our space permitted. The first, .` The Son g o f t h e Pen, " possesses great vigour and ori g i nality, it depicts the talent,h the support pelled p a nfu to o struggles writef or ot their e i m r d e men of ye r ge n i use:d of those dearer to them than lif e i tself. We cannot, however, refrain from giving a few quotations as spe cimens of the style and power of th e writer. The first stanza is as follows : nAndinrrfde.oaßrl really be er agnutsi un a n " Sing of the pen! sing of the pen! Sing of the thousands of gifted men, h il W e thhoe goose-quil l wring w ith n From the sweat of their brain, W Over the paper, pain n c a e t h d beggarly driv Beneath the taper, Through the hours when mortals dream, and f aut • • os play! And again— " Sing of the pen! sing of the pen! Sing of the pleasures of gifted men! Ye who delight To 101 l in listless interest lost, Little ye reek what the theme bath cost The tribe who write. " Drive, drive the pen along In something—tale or song; No matter, so we cast A wet page o'er the last, And enter in our score One mouthful earned the more. There's silence in the house—l'm free, Dear heart! to work for such as thee. Hie to thy bed, beloved one— Dark as it was, the day is done; pay a proper respect to his wife; and it was only by the strongest commands and entreaties on her part, that he was brought into keeping a decent behaviour. • You can't shoot mo into society,' she said, good-naturedly. ' Remember, my dear, that I was but a governess, and you, you poor silly old man, have the worst reputation for debt, and dice, and all sorts of wickedness. We shall get quite as many friends as we want by and bye, and in the meanwhile you must be a good boy, and obey your schoolmistress in everything she tells you to do. When we heard that your aunt had left almost every thing to Pitt and his wife, do you remember what a rage you were in? You would have told all Paris, if I had not made you keep your temper, and where would yon have been now?—in prison at St. Pelagie for debt, and not established in London in a handsome house, with every comfort about you--you were in Filch a fury you were ready to murder your brother, you wicked Cain you, and what good would have come of remaining angry? All the rage i n t h e world won't get us your aunts money; and it is much better that we should be friends with your brother's family than enemies, as those foolish Butes are. When your father dies, Queen's Crawley will be a very pleasant house for you and Lao to pass the winter in. If we are ruined, you can carve and take charge of the stable, and I can be a governess to Lady Susan's children. Ruined! fiddlededee! I will get you a good place before that; or Pitt and his little boy will die, and we will be Sir Rawdon and my lady. While there is life, there is hope, my dear, and I intend to make a man of you yet. Wh o sold your horses for you? Who paid your debts for you?' Rawdon was obliged to confess that he owed all these benefits to his wife, and to trust himself to her guidance for the future. Thanks to the tact of Rebecca, Rawdon had kept on terms with his brother, Pitt, after the death of his aunt, and Rebecca now looks forward to the arrival in town of Lady Jane, to be her sponsor in London society. In the meantime poor Amelia is living quietly at Fulham, her en whole an s occasional soul wrapped walkrappintti: in Georgy, who is taken the park by old Sedley, and introduced to all the W a t er l oo etstase battle thesonef the o - 18th. .. One day Captainolc Osborne, w h o s m va e s n killed eme in the d Sedley he a wd o to n eachand h o i t s h l e i r t . tl e j s o o s b , introduced a c n h d ild G re en n rg a Y re meetß arenturns A to India, and Major Dobbin, who is sta_ 0 d. 7 t tioned at Calcutta, is continually sending home han, some presentsmelia cc to Amelia andmoenlaiaan o and Georgy. thergY n call onoccasion is sisters ste one of those visits she hears that William Dobbi n is about to be married to Miss Glorvina O'Dowd. KNIGHT'S MONTHLY VOLUME. Vols. X VII. XVIII., xx., XXL, xxa, xxia-1 Warnum's History of Painting. Two Parts—Destruc. Lion and Re discovery of . Pompeii. T wo P arts— Popular Tumults — Planche s History of British Cos tume. Two Pails. Since its transferrence to the establishment of Mr. Charles Cox, from that of Mr. Ch ar l es k night, this excellent periodical has continued t o ma k e its ap pearance every successive month with the utmost regularity. The materials of the publi cat i on, type, paper, printing, and illustration, are as g oo d as here tofore, and the themes of the different volumes are as varied and intelligent. The `°History of P a i nt i ng, " by Ralph N. Warnum is especially wor th y o f notice, being a condensed narrative of the differ en t s t ages i n the progress of that art both in ancient and mo d ern times. The account of Pompeii is a rep r i n t o f the publication formerly issued by the Soci e t y f or the Diffusion of Useful knowledge, an d i s em bellished with a profusion of excellent wood-. cuts. " Sketches of Popular Tumults, illus trative of the effects of Soc ia l I gnorance, " are divided into three sections, one on religious fanaticism, dating from the first tumults against the Jews in England to the No-Popery Riots of L or d G eorge Gordon : another on political excitement, beginning with the days of Wat Tyler : and a third on Raising the of Labour, illustrated by circ ums t ances that h av e occurred in the manufacturing districts. The " History of British Costum e ," b y Pl anc h e, like several of the preceding serial s o f thi s pu b l i cation, profusely adorned with embelli s h ments ; and affords the reader an accurate idea of the changes which have at different times diversified the costumes of our ancestors, from the tattooed emblazonry of the Pi cts down to our present most hideous and inelegant dress. Altogether the Monthly Volume must prove no in considerable acquisition to the libraries of the middle classes. DESTRUCTIVE FlltEs.—Last night, shortly before ten o'clock, two serious fires broke out almost simul taneously, at High-street, Camberwell, and High -street, Newington Butts. The first was discovered by a con stable of the P division, burning upon the premises in the tenure of Mr. T. Tidy, furnishing ironmonger, situate at No. 5, High-street, Camberwell. The con stable raised an alarm, and fortunately the inmates had not retired to rest, but so dense was the smoke in the front shop, that none of them were able to pass through it. They, however, succeeded in effecting a safe retreat from the back of the house. The damage done to the valuable stock by fire and water is very serious ; but fortunately Mr. Tidy was insured in the Sun Fire-office. Mr. Inspector Campbell, with a powerful body of men, were early at the fire, and kept the place from being plundered by a party of men who are always on the alert in cases of such a disaster. The firemen had hardly succeeded in getting the above fire safely subdued, than a gentleman named Pratt, residing in the Walworth road, communicated to them the intelligence of another outbreak in the same neighbourhood. It was found that the spacious building in the occupation of Mr- Pickett, a cheesemonger, No. 17, High -street, facing New w ig a a g rie Such reached Church, was wrapt in a general blaze. fury of the destructive element when the fireme n busily at i o ef l n 3 -• the spot, that the whole of the surround w in e g re h e a bit appeared in danger, and the occupiers ° more distant an gaged in removing their furniture a wns place for protection. Fortunately there i from the mains 01 imme diate and abundant supply beforeb u o t f n w oa tw e it fl h a s m ta e n s d c in o g ul t d hc be p e r: : the Lambeth Company, miser were nearly damage gutted must be very consider. tinguished. The tot al i, r. Pickett could be seen during but the general opinion is that the house when the disaster occurred. they were not in the raging agNinegitohferthMerfi. flames, e i , ple of an improvident Irish nia r . A striking A happy--" were married make the M k l a t e ii 3 e - morning,githeir nuptial 1 u . p Pere tia l c c a o t . riagewal o couple, w . New-cross turnpike-roads were put up to public, TuRNPINE ROADS AND RAILIVAIS.--Yes terdaN, c t o h ra e petition. They were put up at 11,470/ , this being stealing Leicester hhay y E I E xpress. latelyp the rxeas exhibit ed se.vening above the expenses of collecting them, and . , which was the sum they were lct for last year ; but in consequence of the falling off in the collection . of the tolls, arising from the competition by the numerous railways, not ono offer was made. LITHOGRAPHY FOR ARCIIITECTURAL SUBJE CTS . -', of esthuanive.rec.ently seen some specimens of a new p rocess be ad v a.l3nztnagg e m o u s iy lithography,used for by Hullmand e l, w hi c h may architectural subjects, as it supersedes the necessity of a tint-stone, and so enables s good effect to be obtained with economy.—Builder. EXPECTED SPECIE.—Her Majesty's ship Cormorant was to sail from Valparaiso for Rio Janeiro and Englattl on the 29th August with about 1,500,000 dolls, in specie. on freight. ACCIDENT TO LORD GEORGE PAGET.—We re. Bret to state that Lord George Paget, Lieutenant. Colonel of the 4th Light Dragoon Guards, stationed at Island Bridge Barracks, Dublin, met with an accident on Monday week, shortly after joining his regiment. Tho Gallant Officer was accidentally thrown from his horse, and unfortunately fractured his collar-bone. We are happy to add that, according to the last accounts re ceived, his Lordship was recovering. One of the most splendid illuminations in honour of the natal day of the Heir Apparent, was exhibited by Mr. Walton, of Gosport. The device consisted of a magnificent and costly plume of feathers, surmounting the letters P. and W., formed of pure gas. The design was well conceived, and the effect exceedingly brilliant. Madame Viardot Garcia has contracted an engage. ment with the managers of the Grand Opera at Berlin, of four months' duration, to commence on the Ist of January next. Mdlle. Lind has arrived at Stockholm, and wilt pass the greater part of the winter there. She will appear at the Theatre of Stockholm but two or three times at the most. -.......-......_----........., ...- long been felt. The pr Rgresors of modern discoveries hich like th e present places has render e d th e existing- works of thi s nature worse than useless, and a wor k is every navigator au nivecat des connaissances actuclles, cannot bat be hailed as 174 boon by every one " whose home is on the deep." FA,TR. No. The Rawdon Cr.jwieYsv -after getting over head and thanks to th e tact By W. Thacy, ears in d e bt in Pan:s, lea•we it with fl y i ng colours, and urcragement of Rebecca who also manag es t o induce . L! , awdon's London creditors to accept a composition. .11 4 7.ving sold hi s commission, Rawdon's on l y source of eva olument i s hi s superior knowledge of billiards, card-pi n . wing, & c ., and heat last sinks dow n i nto " Airs. Creak 'y's husband," Mrs. Crawley herself being the adored of all the men who visit at their snug little menage Curzon-street, where, like so many others, they mat, age to live very comfortably on "nothing a year." _ But, although Rebecca's cleverness and fli ppancy made . her the vogue among a certain class of men, " The few female acqaaintances whom IW2, s. Crawley had known abroad, no t on l y d ec li ned to visit A t ter wh en she- came to this side of the channel, but cat her se verely when they met in public places. It was .curious to see how the great ladies forgot her, and no dotOt not altogether a pleasant study to Rebecca. When Lady Bareacres met her in the waiting-room at the Opera, ,she gathered her daughters about her as if they would be contaminated by a touch of Becky, and retreating a step or two, placed herself in front of them, and stared ht her little enemy. To stare Becky out of ' countenance, required a severer glance than even the frigid old. Bareacres could shoot out of her dismal eyes. When Lady de la .Mole, who had ridden a score of times by Becky's side at Brussels, met Mrs. C rawley ' s open car riage in Hyd e -p ar k , her 'Ladyship was quite bli n d, an d could not in the least recognise her former friend. Even Mrs. Blenkinsop, the banker's wire, cut her at church.. Becky went regularly to church now; it was edifying. to see her enter there with Rawdon by her side, carrying a couple of large gilt prayer-books, and afterwards going through the ceremony with the gravest resignation. " Rawdon at first felt very acutely the slights which were passed upon his wife, and was inclined to be gloomy and savage. He talked of calling out the husbands or brothers of every one of the insolent women who (lid not