The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-21 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. THE NAPOLEON CEREMONY. ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF TUESDAY'S CEREMONY. (From the Paris Papers.) The Courrier Francais states that a petition is getting bp to the Chamber of Deputies for obtaining the resti;u tion of the effigy of Napoleon to the decoration of the. Le gion of Honour. The Commerce observes that in addition the eighty six standards representing the several deportmeots of France, borne in procession on Ttic , 'Ctay, there was an eighty-seventh, bearing the name P i t Algiers, which from a singular arrangement, was carried by a non-commissioned officer of the Municiri i al Guar's, the only co r ns which has Dever touched the F Jll of kfrica. " Marshal Aler, te - ," says the National, " in order to be present at the solemnity in the church of the Invalides, on Tuesday, %cm. ilaken to the choir in a wheel-chair, and as cended the r.,t , ps with great difficulty, supported by two I . l eutcna . x,-Generals. It is stated that during the last furtnigh',. The Marshal has taken the utmost care of his h ennit, frequently asking his physician with great maiet; "et,'ss.er by should have a chance of living till the 15,h, %theta, after the absoluticn, the Marshal with great effort ltd approached the catafalque, and sprinlsled it with holy ' , rater, he was beard to say, Now lam ready to die,' The venerahle Marshal is in his 87th year, and loaded with in irmlt ics." " On Tuesday," says the Droit," some people who were waiting round the Ho'el des Invalides discovered some lad ders which workmen had lett at the corner of the Boule vard, and, having placed them in the fosse, descended from the outside parapet, and were making their way into the Inclosure up the opposite slope when an old sergeant came to the spot with a party of men to drive them back. In repelling one man more obstinate than the rest the ser geant fell into the fosse, broke his thigh, and was trampled under the feet of the crowd in it. His men with great difficulty got him out, and at, the same time the ladders were removed, punishkg the intruders by leaving them in the ditch, where they could ace nothing till the ceremony was over." The interior of tl'e church of the Invalides, with the de corations used fo - : the funeral of Napoleon, and the cata falque under w,nich the Emperor's body is placed, will be open t o the t nablie for a wet.k, between the hours of one and four. Persons provided with tickets, for which they "t "I.T by writing to 111. Cave, au 11Iinistere de l'lnte r'eur, time de Gren e lle, will be admitted fr o m t en t o one . Thy sumptuous car which conveyed the body has been t ' -KM to the Arc de l'Etoile, and placed under that monu "vltin for public inspection till Saturday incluLive. It will ' , ken be removed' to the establishment of the Administra ion des Pompos Funebres, No. 183, Rue du Faubourg St. Denis, and will be visible there. The etio sailors of the Belli.; Poule and Favorite who accompan , cd Napoleon's reeaaius to Paris, have been quartered at the Ecole M ; :ittaire, where they arc to remain for a fortnight and er,joy themselves after the fatigues of their voyage by seeing the capital. A month's extra pay has been given to e•sch man for good conduct. The itioniteur Parisien states that during the proces on Tuesday '‘wo men fell from trees in the Champs tissees ; tine was killed on the spot, and the other seriously ink,red. We, are glad to find that the statement of a Municipal kitv,rd 1 - eying been killed on Tuesday by the rammer of l 'oe of Coe guns at the Invalides was incorrect. The poor fellow bad one of his thighs horribly fractured by the t ampon, which had been left in the gun inadvertently, and was yesterday amputat e d f o r it. H e b ore th e amputa tion with the greatest courage, and is doing well. A veteran, who had lost a leg at Austerlitz, was cross ing the Rue St. Honore to attend the funeral ceremony, 1 24 Tuesday, but w} , en near the Piece du Palais Royal he Tell and broke P.s wooden limb. He was lamenting with tears his inab;',ity to pay the last honours to his great Ge neral, vrhey two young man acing his distress took him oP,th and r.iaking a scat by interlacing their hands, carried ° °ld soldier in triumph to a spot where he could sec the b. „ The number of pers o ns that cam e on Monday morning lo th e Pecq and Versailles stations of the two railroads that are on the north bank of. the Seine, to be conveyed to Paris to see the funeral Napoleon, was so great that t hey could not all be ta'aen. The conduits were all frozen, and there was the P:,,eatest possible difficulty in procuring "rate r for the boi i .ers. It required three engines to a train (51.1 account of I,Ce intensity of the frost. Twenty thousand persons were, notwithstanding, thus conveyed to Paris t hat day, To tHs we may add, that at seven o'clock on T u esdaY . rnore",ng a train of thirty ' waggons came to Paris Y the ,toe it Railroad. find the following in Le Breton, of Nantes :—" On -tesdey, a piece, called Napoleon a Schoenbrun et a St. Zekne, was performed here at the Grand Theatre, in cc of the translation of the remains of Napoleon. the appearance upon the stage of the actor who person ated Napoleon was greeted with loud acclarnmations, whilst that of the performer who personated Sir Hudson Lowe has the signal for an explosion of feelings of a very differ tl,t character. Th e pi ece fi r st represents the hero in all ' l5 glory, and then as the victim of adversity, dying in ;Reny by the hand of an enemy, coldly regal, ding the suf. E4ogs which he had prepared. Every allusion against eland was rapturously applauded." Th e return of te remains of thc Emperor, as we find °Y the E c h o d u N o :ri, was celebrated at Lille, on Tuesday evening, at the tlr,atrc, by the exhibition of a species of A Potheosis, during which a Cantate, composed for the o ecasion, was performed, The whole was received with t he l : stronger. marks of approbation. At Valenciennes, on C tame stay, a solemn funeral service was performed in one of the churches, in which a large catafalque had seen ~, ' 4 's'=d, to represent that in the Invalides. A sumwa voted by te municipality of Guise, In th e Aisne, for the s celebration h of mass on the occasion tlf the funeral of the Emperor, and for a distribution of }h eat and bread to the indigent inhabitants. The funeral car which conveyed Napoleon's remains is s tated to have cost 55,000 f. , After the sarcophagus of Napoleon was removed from t he funeral car, on Tuesday, at the Invalides, one of the ° ldest pensioners, watching an opportunity, got possession 11 f the violet cloth upon which it had lain, and was fur trvcly carrying it off, when he was observed and stopped, As he avowed that t .iis only motive was to preserve it as a the officers contented themselves with demanding it s reStitUtiOn, bich he was very reluctant to make. As th ey persissed, the veteran, under the feelings of the PIO- Pt, , 00k ote. his knife, and, cutting off a fragment o f the a , hurri e d away . Thi s e xample was followed by all 11 ' 1 ,7 d aud in a few minutes the commissary who h eld it be (3 r.ly a small remnant left in his hand, which, being him ' an old soldier. he retained as a memento. The unfortunate. Municipal Guard, the accident to whom, P p rn cannon at the Imalides, we have mentioned, has not -Itt vived the consequences of his amputation. A grand dinner was given by Marshal Soult on Thu rs. iY, in h onour o f th e tr a nslation of the mortal remains of a" Emp eror . All t h e P r inces of the Royal Family, the j i nisters, and the Members of the Commission o f St. H elena, were prose nt. ROYAL COURT OF PARIS• IMPORTANT DECISION. ki:the following question was brought on for discussion on 30th of November, and decided in tho affirmative : " Has the forein manufacturer the right to c ause the 1 1 1 1 , Pression of hi s s ame and signature assumed in Franco French manufacturer of a similar article, and placed oq uv. aes, flagons, &c. ?" In the course of the discussion ti - 1 4 "e interesting details were submitted to the Court as t o e forgeri es o f p a t en t m e dicines, and celebrated articles of th e toilet, practised in France, Belgium, end England. I%I M. Gueland, Guesnot, and Co., perfumers in Paris, t o t y l pealed against a decision of the Tribunal of Commerce, which they were ordered to pay 3,000 francs damages ° Mes srs , R owlan d an d S on, pro p r i e t o rs ol the universally admired " Macassar Oil," to which Lord Byron's allusion t -8 gi , en so much celebrity. The action had been insti eted by the Sieur Bouverct, agent for its sale at Paris, in Q tl nt lequence of a counterfeited article with Rowland's 2 03 0 on the labels having been extensively sold. The 'ante precise principle which was involved in the legal .l i _ r gurnent appli es to every d escr i p ti on o f p a t en t m e dicine 1 q which E ng l an d i s so pro l if i c, an d o f w hi c h t h e sa l e i s gaily increasing in the continer.tal cities. Ilsl. Gueland arid Co. on an inquisition being made nt I _ l l 'r laboratory, produced a great nu m ber of Ws con taining M acassar Oil, w hi ch they did not deny to be co o f n tainingheir own manufacture, and bearing on the labels the name and address of ‘• Rowland and Son ; ' but they alleged that perfectly this fabrication o f a f ore i gn production waslegal in France. R ow l an d' s agent thereupon abandoned the charge of forgery, and confined himself simply to re claiming against the usurpation of his name, seal, and address. The Chamber of Council, in an ordinance prepared 'With great care, pronounced that no action lay against the kccused, and this ordinance was confirmed by a decree of t !ten Chamber of Accusation. The same question Laving ten reproduced shortly after, in a trial relative to the l abrication of a Parisian imitation of some patent English Needles, received the same solution by a decree of the . 1 . 4410 Chamber. It would thus have appeared that, accord ing to the legislation t f France, the facts eith %Nliich the F rench perfumers were reproached by the London house could not be criminatcd. They were, however, subsequently t Ur emened by Rowland's agent to appear before the Tri un4l of Commerce, where damages to the amount of 10,000 f. were claimed. The Tribunal in question decided in e _ ° r , land's f avour , an d c ondemned each of tbefive mem bers of s'ue Parisian firm of perfumers to the payment of 600 f. da 4g". The Tribunal's decision containe d the followin g l ords ,—" The name of a man engaged in an y p articular itr,..ttde of ten b ecomes a va l ua bl e property, which the law s x, I 41 1 countries aught to respect ; to such a name a corn tercial value is often attached, which becomes a real fa- I t tli lY patrimony. I lie fabrication of Macassar Oil is o p en fecturep° the public in France, but no one has a right to menu it under A NAME WHICH DOES NOT BELONG TO HIM ; 4. 1 14 the care which the defendants have taken to ,ffix the rp l aintiff's name upon tl:eir vials proves the plaintiff's inte °t in prese r vin g the integrity of that name. Good faith I,_, equity arc o f a ll co untries, and the tribunals of France i b(3 'lld not suffer the public to be deceived by speculations Pugnant to both good faith and equity. It it be al- Jged, that in similar matters Frenchmen trading in Eng ',:tad are exp ose d t o similar spoliations, these allegations re net justified; and, even it they were, it is not the less inc umbent on the Tribunal to do legal justice to foreigners Piecing themselves under the protection cf the French laws, w ith a. view to commanding and obtaining the Same pro ttetion for Frenchmen abroad." The P ar i s an p e rfumers sought to upset this creditable decision by appeal ng to the Royal Court of Paris. Choix d'Est-Ange, in support of the appeal, av a il e d h imself of the French legal axiom, " Una via decta n eldatur recursus ad al , crant." He held therefore that . 1 1 : 14 deci s i on o f th e o riginal tribunal (dc Conseil) should 47 e been binding, and cited numerous authorities in sup vort of this view. He contended that the laws which lic knowledge this sacredness of literary and industrial property Fr' ceu oely he epp, Hied to by Frenchmen. Qtraegere were to, merly field in Feence to be in seine I lleeeure serfs. TuLir ~ituetioe became giadualiy amelio 14ted; but they obtained no civil rights. The droit 4 u4aine remained in force ; the publicists, more especially Montesquieu, exclaimed against the existence of this law ; and at a Inter period the Constituent As sembly, considering the world as one great family. abolished the droll d'aubaine, and aliens were permitted to inhCrit property. Meanwhile France became the victim of her generosity ; in which she war not imitated by other nations. Strangers in France were allowed to require civil rights;—while piracy of every s"rt was permitted against Frenchmen in other countries. France exports an nually perfumery to the amount cf 6,000,000 francs, and in London especially (said the Learned Advccate) nu merous compositions are sold as French which were never manufactured in France. The labels of French manufac tures are counterfeited in England, and affixed to bottles and boxes, without the slightest scruple. Messrs. Shaw and Sons, engravers in London, offer (he alleged) in their catalogues to the public all sorts of lab-ls, inscriptiona, and emblazonments of this description, which may be pur chased irons them in thousands. Here was a ludicrous instance of a mistake into which the English engraver fell. A Paris perfumer, named Lubin, was the inventor of an oil which possessed the property of fixing the hair on the head, and which he therefore called fixateur des chcccis. The English copyist wrote it . fixatur des die roux —( Much laughter.) The Belgians, who were per petually assassinating French industry by t h e ir forgeri' s, were not more backward than the " English plunderers." It was therefore clear that foreigners were far from ob serving those scruples which they wished to enforce against French industry. M. Paillet (advocate for Rowland and Son, the same gentleman who defended Madame Laffarge) contended that there never was a more barefaced imitation, and that the proceedings of the French perfumers amounted to ab solute brigandage. Rowland's name, seal, and signature, his treatise on the hair, his entire prospectus, were repro. duced with the most minute accuracy, Rowland published reclamations, loading his imitators with maledictions, and de7cribing them as adventurers. These gentlemen, with unheard of effrontery, copied their own condemnation. Rowland again directed the public attention to the false signature " Rowlandson," put upon the fictitious article in place of " Rowland and Son," and this denunciation had been also reproduced by the Paris pirates. With regard to the alleged foreign piracies (for example the jixatur des chevaus) no proof had been adduced. In any case the example would be a shameful one, and it would be unworthy of them to follow it. Internttonal probity, and the progress of universal civilization, should serve as barriers against the admission of such principles. Since England had been mentioned, he might observe that more generous ideas had there prevailed, and that, by a law cf 1838, England proclaimed her respect for these principles, and enacted penalties for the preservation of literary property, to the benefit of which foreigners were entitled. After a short deliberation, the Court confirmed the de cision in Messrs. Rowland's favour. London, December 10. 1840. GENTLEMEN,—The above appeared in the 7 imesof this day, and is to appear in the other London papers. It being a matter of considerable commercial importance, you will greatly oblige us by noticing it also in your next paper. We are, Gentlemen, your's respectfully, A. ROWLAND AND SON. HAMBURGIf MAIL. BRUSSELS, DEC. 17.—The anniversary of his Ma jesty's birthday was celebrated "'yesterday as usual. 're Deum was chaunted in the Church of s'. Gudule. The Foreign Ambassadors. the Minister, the Chief Officers of State, and a great many persons of distinction, were present. ANTWERP, DEC. 16.—The Noord, Dutch steamer, which left yesterday for Rotterdam, has put back, being hindered from proceeding on her voyage by the ice. There is a good deal of drifting ice in the river, and unless the weather should speedily become milder, the navigation between this and Ensiling will be interrupted. LIEGE, DEC. 16.—Our rivers arc quite frozen in many places. The workmen going to Seraing could not cross the river, and were obliged to turn back. BRUSSELS, DEC. 28.—A journal states that a lady of Bruges, who di,d lately at Brussels, has bequeathed to Bishop Boussen a legacy of about 300,000 francs for his seminary, of which 40,000 francs are in money, and the remainder in real estates. A letter from Seraing, of the 17th, says, " Yester day morning at seven o'clock, the ice blocked up the Meuse, odposite Scraing. The water rising suddenly, this circumstance and the collision of the flakes of ice, sunk several boats laden with iron ore and coals, and considerably damaged several others. The loss is very great. BERLIN, DEC. B.—Letters from th't frontiers of Prussia and Poland say, that, in consequence of the continued levy of recruits in the kingdom of Poland, as well as of the emigration which has taken place of young men liable to serve in the army, such a number of labourers have been taken from the country, that the great landholders are greatly e mbarrassed, and are frequently obliged to have labourers from Prussia at high wages. CONSTANTINOPLE, NOV. 25.—The Representatives of the Four Powers, parties to the Treaty of the 15th of July, appeared this week at the imperial Palace, to con gratulate the Sultan on the taking of St. Jean d'Acre. Lord Ponsonhy, who was the spokesman, dwelt na the effect which the conquest of this important military for tress would have on all Syria, and concluded by observing that that province being relieved from the oppression which it had endured, would early rise to that state of prosperity which its natural position ought to give it. The Sultan returned thanks for the generous efforts of his Allies who had made such great sacrifices to assist bins in restoring order in his provinces, and in respect to Syria expressed hopes corresponding to the address of the British Ambassador. The fidelity of the Syrians in so many trials called on him, he said, to do his utmost for their welfare. Syria required many years' indulgent treatment to recover from the wounds inflicted on it. The Sultan believed that he bad proved by his conduct what he felt for the unfortunate Syrians. The ex ertions of the Porte to ameliorate their condition and to convert the evils of war into a blessing, were well known. The prisoners of war had received the:arrears of pay, and would be admitted, according to their wish, into the Ottoman army. The strictest orders had been given to treat such as still persevere in their errors with all practicable forbearance and humanity. The words spoken by the Sultan deserve notice, because they seem to prove that a beneficial influence is intended to bc'cx ercised by the Allied Powers, and the administration of the recovered country ; and that some steps to this end must have been already taken, or else the Sultan would not have dwelt so long on this point. BaussELa, DEC. 19.—Since the ice has interrupted all the traffic in the canal the conveyance of goods by the iron railway has increased to such a degree that the means of transport are scarcely sufficient. His Majesty has conferred on the Count d'Auxi the title of Marquis, which was granted to his family by King Louis XIV., and on the Senator , Baron Fancier Stratin, that of Count granted to his father by Louis XVI. The Chevalier de la Ztrna has in like manner received the confirmation of the Spanish title of Count de is Zcrna. BELGIAN k tiNDs—BausseLis, Dec. is. Actual Delit,*4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ‘ , 7 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. --(1419 O7 ----- 3 per Cent ---a. Thirty .seven-- .. Qi IA Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent PO Society of Conncrce, 4y4per Cent llO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............ National Society . 11 :•5 Exchange on London (shot t) —l?russels Papers, Dee. 18. AUSTRIAN FUNDS—VIENNA, DEC. 1 ) Five per Cents. Metalliques - 1114 .2 Four per Cents. Three p:r Cents. -( y, Bank Shares lOO -.A/ken/eine Zenung, Dec. 15 HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Dec. 15, Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. - Bank Shares 1 )70 Arh4lo- Russian Loan lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist SelißS lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 97 9C 3 Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, '2 per Cent ON Ditto 5 per Cent - - l'oli,h Bonds Ncw 1 icket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent '7N 73 Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cvnt~, Spanish, New 3 per Cents. --- eXCHANGES ON LONDON. HASIDIM°, Dec. 15.-13 tIN.—Two months, 13 1' . STOCKHO LM, DEc, ..—Seventy - five days, 11, 33. LEIPSIC, Dec. 11.—Two mo ths, 6. 12%. V IENNA . DEC. 28.—Three months, 9. 47 ys,„ - 105 A GERNI AN Y. FRANKFORT, DEC. 14.—The open discussion of the ad vantages which France might obtain from an alliance with Russia, has naturally its effect upon the minds of the Ger. mans. They perceive that they would by such a conibi naton La placed between two fires, and th e ac ti ve m ilit ar y prepara t io ns which are going on are sufficiently explained by this most singular tone adopted by the French orators. The speeches of the war party in Paris can be construed into nothing more than an assertion that the trophies of the English and their allies will not•allow them to rest until they find some victim weak enough to be sacrificed to this misplaced thirst after fame. It is now currently reported that the organization of a combined Prussian, Austrian, and confederate army, has been resolved upon, and that measures arc in progress which will enable the Germans to take the field with an overpowering force, if necessary, in the spring. The fist step is the completing the actual force nominally on foot, t h e inspection of arms, accoutrements, and the whole material. The second is the taking the necessary mea sures to be able to call out the reserve, or the conscripts dismissed since 1818 in some States, in 1820 in others. This levy exactly doubles the present standing armies, after allowing for casualties and exemptions in conse quence of marriage. The addition is then composed of men between the ages of 20 and 40 who have served their t i me . various reports are abroad respecting the corn maaders to be selected. The King of Wirtetnbcrg is said to be disposed to take the post of Commander-in. Chief of the confederate army, to whom probably the Prince of fleece and Prince Charles of Bavaria would be attached. For the Prussian and Austrian armies no general has been na med as Commander-in-Chief. Gene ral Grollman will be Adjutant-General. The lesson taught in the Levant of the advantages of energetic mea sures, when it becomcs,neccssary to act, has not teen lost; and when the three cerps I have nsm 2 d arc estimated at bilndred thous'lnd men, •••• ith four hundred pieces of cabncn, it is l ather below t han above the rn,rk. This leaves as many mor e at the disposal of Aust . ria and Prussia at home, and does no t include Sardinia and Tuicauy, who would probably; i the that instance TFIEsUN, LONnoN, MONDAY, DECEMnFII 21, IPfO. seek to remain neutral. .It is reported that this exten sive armament will be discontinued as soon as the French G.‘errment begins to reduce its army to a peace f.oting, and it appears certain that a Spanish intervention would cause a counter-movement here. In the event of a war, it is stated on good authority that Russia has offered to advance 150,000 men upon the Oder, backed by a re serve of double the number, to be stationed on the Vistula and the Niemen. So much for the Russo- French alliance. ploycd in the constructing and shifting of the scenes, preparatory to the development of the piece. " Thus when, some weeks since, the walls of the Borough were placarded with " Tooke fer Finsbury," and a few day after the words " No go" were interlined in red le tern after my nanne,t I considered it a prelimi nary movement for some profound electioneering pur pose, and so it proved. " Mr. T. Duncombe, apprehensive that his custo mary small talk in Parliament at the close of each Ses sion, might not have had its intended effect on an inte:li gent constituency, which he evidently fears he may never be again permitted to misrepresent, and enter taining exaggerated notions of the importance of a Treasurer, and of the influence arising from actual pay ment of tradesmen's accounts, availed himself of the discovery of the astounding fact that out of the 13,000 electors of Finsbury, two tradesmen in the employ of a literary Society, to which I happen to he Treasurer, had been spoken to on my behalf by the Secretary, who had been a private and personal friend of mine long pre vious to the formation of the Society ; and upon this isolated transaction he reckons upon repairing his totter ing interest in Finsbury. " But, be it known to Mr. T. Duncombe, that I will riot at his bidding forego, in the event of my declaring inyself a candidate, the benefit of a punctual discharge of every pecuniary claim, and of the honourable relations of confidence and of mutual good offices, which have subsisted between my kind friends and neighbfrers and in) self during a residence of nearly forty years i❑ the borough. Having also during that period fulfilled thi duties of treasurer to various benevolent and literary institutions, and of receiver and trustee for several con siderable estates in the borough, and also acting as vestr) man in two of its most populous parishes, in one of which is my domestic, and in the other my profes- Two accidents occurred recently on the railway between Augsburg and !Munich. A driver had his leg crushed by the overturning of the locomotive engine, which was. thrown off the rails, and, with three carriages, precipitated over a slope. Fortunately no serious injury happened to the passengers. On the second occasion, a smith at an intermediate station discovered that the axletree of the engine was broken before the train started. M. .1. J. Littrow, the celebrated astronomer and direc tor of the observatory at Vietna, died of an attack of gout on the 30th ult. He was 60 years of age.—Morn lug Paper. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LORD NUGENT AND AIR. WILLIAM TOOKE. 6, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, December, 18, 1840. Lord Nugent presents his compliments to Mr. Tooke, and begs to know whether a letter which appeared if: the Morning Chrenick of to-day, purporting to be ex tracted from the Morning Herald, and signed" William Tooke," was, in reality, written or authorised by him. Lord Nugent is induced to ask this question by the having observed his own name coupled with statements in that letter on which it may be necessary for him to make some observations. Mr. W. Tooke's compliments to Lord Nugent, and basil() hesitation in admitting as having bee❑ written him the letter with his signature, as it appeared in the Morning Herald of the 17th inst. ; but, while making such admission, Mr. Tooke begs leave to add that thy letter was written under circumstances of considerable irritation, arising from the scurrilous and unfounded c iumnies poured upon him by the press in consequence of the resolution adverted to in that letter ; if, however, he could have had more leisure for revision, he would have pruned it of some sportive immaterial allusions, which he regrets should have escaped him, and which, before the receipt of Lord Nugent's note, he had omitted in the inclosed reprint of that letter, subjoined to Mr. Tooke's explanatory statement, addressed to Mr. Mills. The substantial facts, however, aro correct, and Ly them, and them alone, Mr. Tooke abides. 12, Russell-square, 10th Dec., 1840. tonal establisfmtent, it has in all these various capaci ties, public as well as private, been my practice on ab occasions to give a preference of e mployment to trades men within the borough, and to cultivate with its inha bitants generally, sentiments of reciprocal attachment, ounded on the best basis of reciprocal respect and con fidence ; is it. therefore to be wondered at, that having , o acted for many years previous to the district acquir ing a representative privilege—and therefore with no in terested view to that object—l should after that event, contemplate a practical expression in my favour of that 4 :ood opinion from my neighbours, which it has been he study of my life to conciliate and to deserve? On -his point, I have the unfeigned satisfaction of adding, that this first and only attempt ever made to impugn my moral or political integrity, has emanated from one whose praise I should deprecate, as conveying the se verest censure. " Equally desirous with yourself of redeeming Finsbury irom its present state of political degradation, I yet .muse in acceding to the requisition, which you and 'natty other valued and influential friends have done the honour to sign, still hoping that some more eligible eindidate may be prevailed Upon to undertake the re ,ponsible duty of substcntiAly representing, irrespective of the comparatively petty purposes of party end of sect, the varied commercial and professional interests of the one more favoured class of this great constituency, and December 19, Chandos-strect. Lord Nugent presents his compliments to Mr. Tooke. The moment that Mr. Tooke, on consideration, sees reason to regret the having introduced into his letter any passages which he considers to be "immaterial," and pronounces to be " sportive," Lord Nugent can on!) put those passages at once out of question, and thank Mr. Tooke for having withdrawn them. When, however, Mr. Tooke states that " the sub stantial facts are correct," and that " by them he abides," Lord Nugent must beg to assure Mr. Tooke that, so far as his (Lord Nugent's) name is concerned, they are all erroneous. The letter in question states that Lord Nugent bed " rarely, if ever, met the Committee before." Lon d Nugent begs to remind Mr. Tooke. that for several years he has been afrequent attendant at the meet ings of the Committee, as the minutes of the Com mittee show ; and that he has. on more than one occa sion, had the pleasure y . meeting Mr. Tooke there. Mr. Tooke is also misinformed respecting the resolu tion of the Committee of the Society, " on the supposed use of its influence," having been carried by any " double vote" of Lord Nugent's. The previous question against entertaining the subject was, it is true, nega-I tived (on an equality appearing of the votes of the members present, of whom Lord Nugent was one) by his casting vote as chairman. But the subsequent re solution, the resolution on the " supposed use of in fluence?' was passed by a majority of several votes. Mr.Tooke says, in his letter to the Morning Herald, that Lord Nugent was " not possessed of any-informa tion respecting the subject, except what he might have derived from Mr. T. Dancomhe." Lord Migent begs to assure Mr. Tooke that the information lie was pos sessed of was derived from a careful attention to the former correspondence, and minutes, and rolution of the Sub-Committee appointed in July lasv: , '"'to report upon the case, which had been read in deVail by the Secretary ; that he has had no communication with Mr. Duncombe on the subject, and was noe;awaie that j it was to come before the Committee till 'et was read j in its due order. He begs also to state that, ever since his return to England, more than five years ago, he has been a "con tributing subscriber to the funds of the Society," when ever any subscription has been called for from any of the inenilvers of the committee or Society. Lord Nugent hopes that he is always ready to make every due allowance for any letter written " under cir cumstances of irritation." But he must at the same time say that, as no irritation had been provoked, or intentional offence given by him, so he is bound to correct, through the same channels in which they first appeared, public imputations, which could not fail to g ive an impression (not only concerning his conduct in the chair of that meeting, but concerning that also of the gentlemen who had placcd him there), as offensive as it was undeserved. the wants and wishes, the grievances and the oppres sions, of the other far more numerous, but not less esti ,nable, portion of it, and with no other object than the prosperity and common happiness of all. " But in an any event, whether as Candidate, or as Elector, I pledge myself that no effort shall be wanting or sacrifice withheld on my part, towards the attain ment of the paramount object of purifying the Repre sentation of Finsbury. With sentiments of unfeigned regard, I remain, toy dear Sir, " Your ever faithful and obedient Servant, " Russell-square, Dcc. 18, 1840. WM. TOOKE." • The subjoined letter alluded to we pub!ished on Fri- day, but it is sadly mutilated. The " light allusions," as Mr. Tooke playfully remarks, to paymasters, &c., arc alto gether omitted. Why, he can best tell.—F.D. SUN. " I caused written notice to be given to the printer, whose name appeared on the placard, that unless he gave me up the name of his employer, I should conclude it tvar done by order of Mr. T. Duncotabe ; to this notice and repeated subsequent applications, no answer was returned ; the only circumstance, therefore, which militates with the obvious inference is, that the printer stated, that the job iiad been actually paid for." THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS OF THE CITY POLICE. The following letter of the City Police Commissioner contains the suggestions adopted for the final arrange merits of the force:— City Police-office, Guildhall, Dec. 16, 1840. Gentlemen,—Reverting to the various details I had the honour to submit to the Sub-Committee on Monday last, respecting the present strength of the police force, and the charge of its maintenance for twelve months, ending on the 26th day of November last, it has occurred to me that it might lie satisfactory to have the circumstances more minutely given which call for its augmentation. At the time the Court of Common Council resolved that 500 fit and able men, and no more, should be appointed. and should continue to he tl.e number of the force, until the Court should otherwise order and determine, several important localities had not been brought within the juris diction of the police, while the appropriate distributn.n of the force, and its peculiar duties, required to be tested b) txperience. Apart from these considerations, and without regard to any contingencies whatever, the number of men so voted was adequate to the ordinary existing duties. But it is my prestnt object to slow to the Committee that the nurittler of men now required, having regard to the ex tended jurisdiction of the police, and its e xtraordinary du. ties, %sill be 542, including the officers. This calculation assumes the desirableness of maintaining the existing divi sions, sections, and beats, i n w hich, I may add, all the officers of the force concur. The additional localities to which I allude arc London bridge and Blackfriars-btid g e ; and the extraordinary du ties arise front the attendance of one inspector and twelve constables at the Central Criminal Court, at monthly in tervals, for an aggregate period of 72 days ; and the uni form attendance of twelve constables, on Sunday night and Monday, and of six constables on the Friday in ever week, at Smithfield market ; while the average number of constables daily absent from illness is not fewer than twelve. t hitherto the inadequacy of the force to this st :to ot hings has been partly met by the employment of super numeraries, and by extending the beats of the constables on duty. Both these means of recruiting the force arc obviously objectionable. The supernumeraries are per sons, for the most part, - ne, A e- o a geie in o ther occupations, and not being sworn, or wearing the clothes of the force, elm!, office; while the extension of beats, which devolves double the obligations of the law , duty upon the acting con and their obedience to the chie f stable, has been found a source of great dissatisfaction to the inhatn. ants, as also a tempta tion and security to offenders. This irregular methoa of supplying the deficiency is not unattended with expense, as the supernumeraries are p a id 194. per wee k . It is to obviate this undesirable state of things that I venture to submit to the Committee the augmentation of the City police force to the extent enumerated in the fol lowing estimate ; MR. WILIAM TOOKE. The following letter has been sent to us with Mr. Tooke's compliments : " Letter addressed by Mr. NV. Tooke to Samuel Mi Is, Eq., Russell-square, a Deputy• Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets, one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Ilerts, &c., and Chairman of her Majesty's Honourable Jus tices and Commissioners of Sewers of Finsbury, &c. I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.'-11/i/ion. " DEAR Sue—Presuming on the long-continued in tercourse of friendship and good neighbourhood which subsisted between us during many years, I venture to address to you the plain unvarnished version of the ro mance recently fabricated against me for obvious pur poses, by which I have incurred the virtuous indignation of both parties, the one forgetting the reform mission to Ludlow, and the other the head-money paid for signatures to requisitions in Southwark. " For myself, happily placed in a position of entire independence of both parties, and never having solicited or received a single favour from either, but only done my best to serve our common country, it was natural that 1 should incur the hostility of those contending only for its plunder. The vultures have for a moment relaxed their mutual warfare to pounce upon poor me, thus re-enacting the ancient fable of the viper and file. " Several years ago I employed a bookbinder of the name of Leighton, and paid him annual bills for binding for my library. 1 had opportunity for recommending him to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know ledge, and to another public institution, and a binder of the name of Leighton was in consequence employed by both ; it is now alleged that Mr. Duncombe's client is not the one I actually employed, but his brother, or partner, or successor ; I still believe him to be the same person, but at all events he was employed on my re commendation. " Mr. Coates, the Secretary to the Society, having been six years in my office, and continuing in habits of private and personal friendship with myself, 1 had fre quent interviews with him, quite irrespective of the So ciety's business ; at one of which, we conversed about Finsbury, and I probably asked him to sound Mr. Leighton, an old acquaintance, as I thought him, on the subject of the requisition ; 1 heard no more of it, except an observation from Mr. Coates that Mr. Leighton dis approved of my pretensions. Soon afterwards Mr. Leighton's son called for a cheque for a bill of about 141., being the only business he had ever done for the Society ; while filling up the cheque, 1 intimated that I was sorry to fold that his father bad forgotten an old friend, when the youth, instead of setting me right as to the identity of his father, began a speech, which not hav ing leisure to attend to, I coolly, not contemptuously, bowed him out, with some vague expression, that hoped he might be better served by his present repre sentatives. " Mr. riensliall, a very respectable Map Engraver, was the only other person spoken to by- Mr. Coates, and he instantly and cheerfully affixed his signature. " Not one syllable of threat or promise, or induce ment, was held out to either ; the one as freely refused, as the other acceded, and nothing ensued of vindictive consequence to the one, or of advantage to the other. "There arc but three other Electors in the employ of the Society, who have each of them addressed a letter to the Committee, stating, ,that although in the fre quent habits of attending me for payments and in structions, I never spoke to them on the subject of Finsbury-, nor were they ever applied to directly or in directly r cegtc%ol, never rnd o s n :s.ire m oonut y sese behalfo f m y by Mr. Coates, or otherwise. or rn d spoke o feelingetno any ty n h d eo u e t , Generalmanedin member r n o fimodifii Committee, t co i ( n n, t t loi ei h nnoa e nvi tsi li: u ieigeu b mi j tri e oi et e lleg t b . tnifigoe u o sincerely : t pot riflee c isn e scvqu u oaur iie nc ) eicaru3to c w inquiry, which baw. i un t i iial ny hehs i professional sais,sd,isnupicierocedrpleeiainiyrs auatoa d preparatory t v o o •• resolution re to 'v''se aver that 1 have never infringed, that in the opinion of such Com mittee no Officer of the Society or Member of the Coin mitteo ought to use his influence as such with any per son employed by the Society concerning any matter relating to elections or otherwise foreign to the objects of the Society ;' how at a subsequent meeting another resolution was passed by the double vote of Lord Nugent, who never contributed to the funds: of the Society, and yet assumed to act as Chairman of its Committee, and how it must be for that reason ex punged, appears by my subjoined letter to the Editor of the Morning Herald of the 16th instant.* " This is the plain matter of fact, on which such an absurd and malignant medley of falsehood and scurrility has been traced. " But the whole farce will be rendered more intelli gible by adverting to the ingenious machinery em. lnspee..l Ser- ' Con sta• tors. jeants.l hies. ...--- ----- To fill thg existing divisions, sections, beats, and station clerks Required for London- bridge duty — 7 Required for Blackfnar's-bridge duty -- 5 Required for Smithtield-market duty i -- 2 12 Required for Central Crintim.l Court' duty... .... One s torekeeper, with pay of ser jeant __ 1 Three constables, acting as clerks at the chief office One cons , able as messen g er .------ —_ 1 13 1 4 7 i 452 Grand Total 542 a l in u d iri et 7 ; vill be en It may be well here to add th at th e money cost of su p porting the above- mentioned establishment would be 80,571/. 83. Should this proposal meet the s anction of the Court of Common Council a reserve f orce w:11 be created, consisting of one inspector , th ree ser g cants,and 28 constables, of w hic i, num s e r one serjcant wiil be emp lo y e d in looking alter the stores, clothes, &c. ; three constables will be tb e e n 6 r• P a o g li e c d e as clerks, and one consta ble as me s se ng er, whose business i c t o i s m t in o i l t o t o c k e a o f f te r A a l i d id er a m t t e e n n , d a n t h d e t h p e r in r c e i n p i a gaged, as I have before described, at the C entra l C r i m i na l g C a o g u e r d t , andthe they at w t il Smithfield fitlthe market, vacancies t and, ii when not so en - the several beats. nsing from illness or ether causes of ahsen ce, and upon oc easionsof emergency or of civic ceremonies. The entire force not devoted to the special duties I h ave csumerate d may be usefully employed without disturbing the ordinary duties of the other con stables. It would ext en d t hi s corn. munication to an inconvenient length to enforce thevarious a dvantages of a reserve, and I will therefore only add zs to nth as thed been .ls e n i i i ? l d i nee, it has been thatfound s o f highlyar a s the t,d v a e n x t p a e g r e i of the esta blishment, and when so occupied, exemplary and successful in the detection of ofTendcrs.—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your very obedicut servant, (Signed) D. W. HARVEY. To the Police Committee. NORWICIIPO BI LYTECHNIC EXII lON. TILE SUN. sir2o THE EDITOR OF I perceive in your p3per of the I 7 t h inst. a not i e . of an ingenious invention of a patent lock, and addres Our Committee is anxious to obtain for th eir exhibit ion every novelty of this charact er, and wou ld be obliged to 3p , ori tue n o t l ei ce y ) t being v i e g y n o t r o a n h t i m of t t h h e e ir n d am es e ire to obtains of the one of th e se locks for ex hibition. It will be a m utual advantage, as o e n o n li n e c a t ri o e a verage g of c naturalnearly and scientific thousanda did curiosities. As ours is no p rivate speculation, but one pro motive only of the interests of scce and the intellectual imrove ment of the mass, you will ien , I have no doubt, excuse this liberty. I a m, Sir, your's respectfully, JOHN COPEMAN, Jun. [We aro not aware who the pa l cntee i s , b ut if this should meet his cyc p roba b l y he will oblig e t h e C omm itt e e of the Norwich Poly technic Instaution.l The Marquis of Northampton, accompanied by Earl Compton and Lady hlarianno Compton, arrived in town on Wednesday, horn Castle Ashby, near Nor thrurpton. THE STRATHROGIE The Court of Session on Friday gave a final decision on this case. It is somewhat complicated, and we ( Scots• man) may therefore state here, in one word, that the effect of yesterday's decision is simply to compel the Presb; tery of Strathbogie to admit and receive Mr. Edwards as the minister of Marnoch, in terms of his presentation. It will be remembered that the Presbytery—that is, the seven suspended ministers—some time ago took him on trial, and found him duly qualified ; but they delayed his ad mission from time to time, in the hope of some amicable settlement taking place between them and the Church, to render this less of a hostile proceeding than it would otherwise be. As this, however, seemed hopeless, and as the Presbytery declined to take this decided step without the direct injunction of the Civil Court, Mr. Edwaids found it necessary to bring his present action ; and the re sult is, that the Court, by a majority of three to one, hove granted a decree in his favour. The following are extracts from the speeches of the Judges on the occasion : Lord Gillies, after going over the facts of the case, pro ceeded to say that the duty of the Court was perfectly clear. The pursuer ( Mr. Edwards) had been found tin y qualified, and had repeatedly applied to the Presbytery to be admitted minister of the parish of Marnoch in terms of tits presentation ; but they had always passed over his case sub silentio. Nothing remained, therefore, for Mr. Ed wards to do but to bring the present action against the Presbytery, to have them deccrncd and ordained forth with to admit and receive him. This conclusion was alto gether irresistible. It was merely telling the Presbytery to do what the Court had previously declared they were bound to do. It was merely an application of their undoubted constitutional powers ; and if they refused to grant it, it would just be in effect to say that they had the power to tell people their duty, but that they had no power to enforce it. Lord Gillies then proceeded to express same doubt whether the minority of the Presbytery ought to have been heard at all in this case ; but having been heard, he must admit that their arguments had made little impr, ssion upon bim. He entirely concurred in the opinions contained in Lord Cunrungharne's note respecting the powers of a majo rity of any corporation to overrule the minority ; acid considered that the extreme cases which they bad brdught forward for the purpose of proving a contrary opinion did not by any means apply. His Lordship next went on to examine the objection:, of the minority of the Presbytery, first, to the pursuer's title to raise the present action, and second, to the jurisdiction of the Court to entertain the action ; in both of a hich objections he thought they had entirely failed. Tne title of the pursuer was recognised in former actions, and if good then, nothing had happened to make it worse now. It had been enacted in various Acts of Parliament, BYRON AT RAVENNA.—I questioned the man to which he referred, that in the case of a presentee found about - the habits of Byron, and he answered that they were duly qualified, the Presbytery were bound and astricted to ed. molt° bizzario, always reading or writing, taking little mit and receive him ; and it was the duty of that Court to see pleasure except in riding in the Pignaa, or playing with that the enactment of the Legislature were enforced. his favourite animals. " Though profuse to the poor," Their judgments in former cases of this kind had been c natintied the custode, "he indulged in no luxuries him sustained, and the present followed as a necessary co self, signora ; and there was net a servitor in this Palezzo, rollary from what bad already been dune. But it was that would not have thought himself aggrieved, had his said that that Court had no power to ordain. His reply repasts been so scanty, and of so ordinary a quality as to that was, that the Legislature said nothing about those of the Lord Byron. Ile was not, like the general -ord:l:talon—the decree of that Court said nothing ity of the travellers we hear of (for here we sec but few) , about ordination. All that the Court had to do, was pampered, and never satisfied with the fare set before to decern and ordain the Presbytery to admit and re.- them. He was greatly beloved at Ravenna, and we all ceive Mr. Edwards. It was possible that in this act or- grieved when be left us."-Lady Blessington's Idler in dinetion was inferred, but upon that point the Court was lidy, Vol 111. not called upon to decide. lie concluded by stating, that FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SERPENTINE. — he WAS clearly of opinion that the Court ought to dccern and ordain in terms of the first conclusion of the libel, The following account has been furnished by the &ere and as consented to by the majority of the Presbytery. tary of the Humane Society :—On Sunday, about four Lord Mackenzie spoke nearly to the same effect, and o'clock, twelve or thirteen persons playing foot-ball, near concluded by stating that he agreed with Lord Gill es the bridge, broke through the ice in a cluster. In less tact the Court must grant a decree in terms of the first than two minutes there were nine of the icemen of the So conclusion of the libel. cloy, under the direction of Mr. Williams, the superin- Lord Fullerton, after some remarks on the import- tendent, on the spot, with boats, ladders, hand-lines, and ance of the case, proceeded to argue that the minority drags. Seven of the persons were rescued by them, and were quite entitled to lodge separate defences in the taken to the receivirg-house of the institution, where the ease, seeing it was impossible for the Court to decide hot-baths and beds were ready for instant use. Dr. Lee whether the seven or the four ministers were entitled and another medical gentleman were present, and several to call themselves a Presbytery. He also entered into nlembers of the Committee and the secretary of the Society a long acal technical argument to show that the mo- were likewise in attendance. Through the immediate op tion before the Court presented a series of insuimount- pl.ca'ion of the warm baths and the other remedies pre able difficulties, whether considered in reference to the scribed by the institution, all who were taken to the rcceiv consistency of the Court, or the various points no lag-house were restored to life with one exception, a lad volved in the principles of law, and that to agree to who had been at least six minutes under the water, and that motion would only be to aggravate the difficultieswas the last t. ho was taken out of the break by the use of But, in point of fact, he considered the dra g s. The following arc the names in the: most already existing. Bu that the Court were debarred from entering upon the serious eases :—David Csird, aged 14, deceased. He was in the employ of Mr. Thorns!, a baker, of No. 13, consideration of theso questions at all, seeing that the question of jurisdiction was still an open question, King-street, Kensington. The body was removed in a and one which they had no means of clicidi n g in the shell to the dead-house of St. Margaret's Westminster, at present form of process between the pursuer and the Knightsbridge. William Chitty, 15, of No. 4, Hector defenders. The only question before them wa s , mte _ place, Crawford-street, Edgeware-road, removed in a cab titer, while this question of their jurisdiction was di,._ to St. George's Hospital. John Little, 15, the son of a puted, ' they should proceed to exercise that jurisdiction by gardener, living at No. 96, Church-street, Chelsea, re pronouncing a judgment in compliance with the pursuer's moved home in a cab by his parents. Henry Orasby, 15, summons, It certainly appeared to b:m to be inconsistent of No. S. Croydon-street, Marylebone, still at the reed:v .6th ordinary principles to sustain their own jurisdiction ing-house under the care of Dr. Woolley. by pronouncing judgment, when it might ultimate'y turn IMMENSE EXTENSION OF THE SUBURBS out that they had no jurisdiction in the case whatever, or THE METROF. 3I . IB .-The mania for building houses and He concluded by advising the Court to refuse the motion, forming new streets has attained a rapid growth within the The LORD PRESIDENT—My Lords , I shall not d e ta n., pest )ear. Indeed, there cannot be less than from four to your Lordships long, for two reasons—first, because I err- five thousand houses of all classes nearly built or building. tirely concur in opinion with the majority of your Lord- To the north-east, passing through what was once Spa- ships; and, second, because it is perfectly painful and fields, on to the New River Head, and thence past Sad heart-rending to see the General Assembly of the ler's Wells, and along the banks of the New River, all is Church of Scotland, of which, for so many years I bustle and activity. A complete town is forming between had the honour to be an unworthy member, so per- Iloxton and Islington, and probably in another year or two tinaciously resisting the law of the land. 'I he first the immense exert of the " Sturb estate" will be completely thing we have to consider is, whethe'r we have any built Gm. More northerly, and crossing the great Liver jurisdiction in this case or not ; for if we have no pool-road, in Barnsbury-park, connecting White Conduit jurisdiction in the case, it is of little consequence ache- and Copenhagen-fields with Holloway; every step of which thee the pursuer has a good title to bring it into Court may now be traversed on good stone pavement, and lighted or not. With regard, then, to the question of jurif- with gas. In fact, there is very little 'vantage ground now diction, my opinion is clear and decided that we have. between London and either Highgate or Hampstead. To We arc the Supreme Court in this country, and tbo Su- the westward, the soil of Pimlico has been covered with preme Court of every civilized country with which lam the modern mansions of the aristocracy ; and from Brornp acquainted haa the power to require every person re dia. tun to Bagshot, and from Kensington to Hammersmith, charge the duty which the law 'has impoied upon him, the houses arc almost continuous, To the eastward the and this whether they are single persons or bodies cur- case is the same. Mile-end New-town has sprung up as if porate. And more than this, by the noble constitution of iby fairy hands, and Barber Beaumont, Ecq , has planted our State, although it may at first appear a soruvrhat start- a "philosophical institution" in Beaumont-square, for the ling proposition, the law can compel even the Sovereign to enlightenment of the " East-enders." The wayfarer must do his duty, and restrain him from exceed ng his duty: travel considerably beyond Bow crc he can catch a glimpse Your Lordships know that the Sovereign ie this country of green fields. In Southwark improvement and eaten. never acts by himself. lie always acts through the medium of sion are visible. la the Borough-road new public schools his Ministers, and executive servants and Magistrates ; have been c cried ; the Southwark Literary lestitution and if any duty is refused to be performed by any o f the has been built within the last few months; and St. George's • dicers in the particular department over which th e y pre _ I Fields, to tire right and to the left, are literally covered aide ; or if, in the discharge of the functions , they exceed 'with houses. their duty and attempt to injure any of her Majesty's sub- DEATH OF HER SERENE HIGHNESS THE jests, the law gives redress. Your Lordships know t hat DOWAGER PRINCESS OF REUSS , •KOESTRITZ —lntelligence in this country there are some actions,which cannot be , of the death of the above Princess was received at B uc k. brought into COMA withoUt the concourse of her Mi,j ,sty's i ingliam Palace on Friday last. The deceased Princess, Advocate ; and ram' Lordships will find, by reference to ! who was daughter of Prince Henry Reuss d'Ebersdorf, our books, that in more than one case where the Lord I was born 2d June, 1759, and was widow of Prince Henry Advocate has refused to give his concourse, and of Reuss- Schle:z Koestritz, who died 22d September, where he failed to show good grounds for this refusal, we 1814, and mother of the present P rinc e and g reat-a unt to have been obliged to order the action to go on her Majesty trio Queen. In consequence of the death of A itheut him. . There _cannot be a : doubt, therefore, her Serene Highness the Court was ordered to go into ,hat Where the Legislature imposes any ditty either upon an I mourning from eesterday until the 31st inst. ridiiidual or a body al individuals we have the power to i The Dowager Countess of Clonmel, accom ,nforee it. In the case before us, then, the law says in ex- partied by the Ladies Scott and the Hon. Mr. Scott, has press and positive terms that the Presbytery e r e b oun d and , arrived in town from St. Lconards :stricted to receive and admit a qualified presentee. That ' A SON CHARGED WITH THE WILFUL MUR is riot an ecclesiastical duty. That is a duty imposed upon them by law, by the very 'statute under which they Haunt- i Coroner's warrant to DER OF lIIS MOTHER —A man at Northampton, named selves exist as a Church. Is it possible to suppose, th • es. West, has been committed on the . take his trill on the charge of 1.6E111 murder His mother that when they are called upon to execute this 1 ", will refuse to execute it, and say that wecamarest died from the effects of arsenic, and the prisoner is sus theyl retell cf haying in-reduced it into some flour, of which Iris c anpe.l then to do it ? Now, suppose they admit this qualified presentee, is it possible .hey refuse to ! mother made some pudding. fancy themselves at liberty to do so ? If they are, can I 1 The Earl of Lichfield has had a large party at can only say they arc above the law. They sit the Renton Abbey during the past week, among whom have taw at defiance. Some of them think they get out of ben the Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Alfred Pa g et, Mr. the difficulty Mr. Lyric Stephens. Colonel M, by saying that they cannot admit the presene George Anson, Hon. William C, Captain &e. There were ke, Captain Msjendie , tee without ordination, and that ordination i s a sp i r i tua l a Act with which this Cou r t ca n not interfere. It is certain several days' excellent shooting, the party colle ctivel ; killing a vast number of birds and hares. we cannot ordain. That is very true; but we can i Her them to ordain, it they cannot show us pi oper reason for \VOBURN ABBEY.--The Duke and Duchess of abstaining from it. The law says that they shall admit Bedford's party during the past week, at the above seat, this qualified presentee; and if ordination is a necessary included Earl Fitzwilliam, Viscount Melbourne. Lord ingredient in admission, then they arc bound to ordain ; John Russell, Lord Fitz g erald, Lady Agnes Byng, \rig we do not say per salturn, but according to their own forms, count Duncannon, Lady Caroline Stanhope, Lord ► J. and in the customary way. The next question is, has this Fitzroy, Lord Charles Russell, M. P., Lords Edward and presentee a just title to come to this Court and call upon us Francis Russell, &c. to exercise ou r p ower o f control ?In my opinion he has. Captain Strange; one of the Military Knights, Is his patrimonial interest not affected in being kept four expired at his residence, in the Castle, on Thursday last. years out of his stipend ; and in being perhaps kept other He was upwards of eighty years of ago. It is expected tour years out of it, if the defenders carry it to another that the vacancy will be filled up by the appointment of Court, which, after all, they won't obey. But we are told Captain Cochrane, of the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade. t hat it is impossible to execute our jurisdiction because we Mr. and Lad y Mary- Thompson arrived at Mil arc going to order certain members of Presbytery to per- ton House, near Peterboroug h, on Thursda y last, on a visit term a spiritual act when they are no longer members of to the Earl Fitzwilliam, from Leamington Spa. Presbytery ; when they are suspended by their ec- Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Stanhope arrived at clesiastical superiors ; and do we seek to prevent the Holkham Hall last week, on a visit to the Earl and General Assembly from suspending and deposing its Countess of Leicester, from their seat in Yorkshire. Ministers ? God forbid that we should ; but I say Miss Rolle, sister of Lord Rolle, is suffering that they can only suspend and depose them fur a f rom severe indisposition, at her seat, in Devon. proper ecclesiastica l cause. And what is the cause for The Earl and Countess de Grey arrived in which these seven gentlemen have been suspended? For no thing more than obey i ng the law of the land—not the town, on Saturday last, from Brighton. The Noble Earl and Countess "the intend passing the Christmas at Session" —for our declaration would have been of little consequence if it had not been affirmed by the House of The Earl and Countess Cardigan arrived in Lords—but the law of that Court which, by the Conrei- Portman-square, on Friday evening, from Brighton, and tution of this country, is entitled to declare what is the leave to-morrow for Deane Park, Northamptonshire, law of the land. Parliament can pass laws, but cannot where a distinguished party will assemble during the interpret them. The interpretation of the laws is vested Christmas holidays. in the Courts of Law. The House of Lcrds, as the Supreme The Dowager Countess of Galloway has re- Court of Law, has declared that the cause of the suepen- turned to her villa at Hampstead from Hastings, where sion is illegal—that cause being that they disobeyed the her Ladyship has been staying several weeks. Veto Act which is illegal, and obeyed the Court which is legal. It really a pp ears to me that t h is case is Lady Eleanor Fortescue has arri ved in Dublin, on a visit to his Excellency Visco unt Ebrington, from already decided. We have alread y found and declared Castie Hill, Devon, the seat of the Earl and Countess what is the duty o f the Presbytery. We have fou n d that Fortescue. their suspension by their ecclesiastical superiors is illegal . ; and we have interponed and interdicted all others from in- inmate of the Fleet Prison MR. OASTLER.—We are concerned to state terfering with them ; and have found them entitled to all that this gentleman is nowan the powers and privileges of members of Presbytery. we confess at the suit of Mr. Thornhill. What oNulrrs.elTvehsoranthiall loss Upon by this incarceration Upon the whole, then, my Lords, lam clearly of opinion Money Mr. Oastler has none, and even to conjecture. that the pursuer is entitled to a decree in terms of the first conclusion of the libel, that is, that the Presbytery shall l' - application to his friends • we think we know his disposition too well to suppose that ho will make any ~ proceed to receive and admit hint according to law, and obligation of accepting not only according to this law, bat according to the law as and, faded, were such an application to be made ; d not wish c io rt n hel i c f ss: l w r. e laid down in their own forms.quarter, we much qu n e e s v t Mr. Whigham then craved that the pursuer should be from any other Oastler suchhi nuipsmoe upon rile. u ni n gr. d . e Tr «o e e r nwhoiulii to say entitled to the expenses against the minority, in so far as they his liberattrocnflem. g had been occasioned by their opposition to this anything. •; • • do think the imprisoning of Mr. Oastler, at this inclement motion. se"' en to be a harsh, if not an unnecessary proce e di ng . The Lord Advocate maintained that that question in • To assist Mr. Oastler prison, his Huddersfield friend. ought to be reserved. now endeavouring to devise the best are means in their Mr. Whigham held that it could not be reserved, seeing and we trust that every town that the record was now closed against that party, and power, 811eea well as in other counti and vill age ttrn in : Yo k es, vvl.. ,o,low in their they were now out of the case. steps.--Leeds Intelligencer. The Court, after some conversation, &Tented with ex- BYRON AND DANTE.--There is a sort of simi penses, larity in the fate of Dante a nd n The folowing is a copy of the Interlocutor pronounced „lron, that must have more by the Court :—`° Edinburgh, Dec. 18, IB4o.—The than once occurred to the latt er w hil e h ere. B o th were unhappy in their domestic liv es , h owever different might Lords, on the report of Lord Cunning hame, Ordinar y , have been the causes, and the characters of the ladies heard the counsel for the pursuer, and also the counsel for whom they wedded. Both exiles from their countries, the defenders, the Rev. John Robertson, William Duff, Harry Leith, and David Dewar, for their interest, against and, writhing under a sense of the injustice with which decree going out against the defenders on the closed they had been treated, both sought and found that peace Lady Blessington's record betwixt the pursuer and the P resb y ter y of Strath. at Ravenna denied th em at h ome .— bogie, and majority of the members thereof , Decent Idler in Judy, Vol. 111. , . COURT CIRCULAR. _ . The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese beck, returned to town on Saturday afternoon from a vhit to the Ea-I and Countess of Jersey, at their seat, Middleton Park, Oxford. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service yeqerday afternoon in Grosvenor Chapel. Lieut. Col. Jones was in waiting on his Royal Highness. Viscount Melbourne arrived in town on Saturday from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. Despatches for the Governor of Gibraltar were sent off from the Colonial-office, on Saturday evening. The Judicial Co:nmittce of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. Lord Brougham gave ,judgment on the part of their Lordships is " C'arke v. Mullick," from Bengal, affirm ing the decree of the Court below. The Appeal " Goddard and Wellesley v. Vere," from the Prerogative Court, was then rk sumcd. Dr. Addams for the appellant, Mr. Tnesiger, Queen's Counsel and Dr. Haggard, kr the respondent, and Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Queen's Counsel in reply, were heard. The Court row at the conclusion of the case. AFFAIRS. " Mexico, Sept. 15, 18'40. " Some days since I had the honour to request the se rious attention of your Excellency concerning certain tot settled claims on the finance department, whereof the de., 1 flnitive arrangement has been the object of urgent and re.• peAted remonstrances on the part of this legation for some. rnonAs past. I will endeavour, as briefly as possible, to. . -lye .0 your Excellency that with a due regard to the. . d F lo q ,;ty , ( „f the post which I have the honour to occupy,. Her Majesty and, his Royal Highness Prince A\lbert, ' and sk? lift lI sense of the rights of the British subjects and the Royal Household, attended divine service yes- interested in k 'he claims referred to above, I can no longer terday morning in Buckingham Palace. The Rev.. Dr. j submit to the ,*klaconcern—not to say complete indiffe- Short, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in waiting, offiaiated. r elice _ w i t h which' the sf3overnment of your Excellency continues to treat my remonstrances in this matter. The service was performed in one of the state rooms, . " In the year 1835 t..'"°' 21lie.an Government, through Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert 1 formal and positive manner; .to pay to certain British its Minister for Foreign k subjects a sum of money as ,0. . .. m zpensation for the de- The bound itself in the most took a carriage drive in Hyde Park on Saturday after - its committed on their rties by a part of the noon. Vtsican army commanded byP d erm. ral Arista. It was The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty on Saturday. me w of 30,0 00 dollars annually •, .. n i :l i as file wholeade bi- instal. Lord Hill had an audience of his Royal Highness the,- stipulated th a t p ayment s h ou ld he Prince A bert. __ amount sans barely 100,000 dollars:folion eg a a h in: a , t ea; t ll . he paidi n I M iit e i x e ic m an or f; t o st ve r rnm th e r n ee t hyaedarsfuitlfiwlie,odulidtitfsoh ..... te tiet is to say, before the end of the year 1838. Majeety's Government taking into considerati s eX the diffietelties which prevented any earlier settlement, weal please d to e ,coress its satisfact i on at this agreement, which, was thereupon t ern) , ratified and confirmed by the Mexican Government, which thasreby pledged itsnif to that of Great . Britain fur the due and o ,7aet compliance of the stipulations: set forth.—( See the note ef the Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated the 20th April, ,1836, to the /I. ( inister Ple nipotentiary of her Britiannic Matessty-) " I have already had the honour ta' observe that accord ing to said original agreement the whole sum due to' Bri tish euljects was to have been paid before the end of 1, 51 36.. On my return to this country in the beginning of Last year, 1 found that by reason of the financial embarrass.- meats occasioned by the French blockades, the Mexican Government bad been unable to fulfil the stipulations it had pledged itself to make good within the time specified, and that a considerable sum was still due to the claimants. About that time a treaty was made with the French Go vernment by which Mexico bound itself to pay within six months the sums claimed by France under various denomi nations on behalf of its citizens. Her Mejeeay's Govern ment indulged :he hope that the claims of subjects acknowledged to be just and valid, and of wlich pay ment had been solemnly promised long before t, would have been discharged with equal promptitude, L tit faith ful to the maxims of moderation and friendship which have uniformly characterised the proceedings of Great Britain towards Mexico, no attempt was made to urge immediate eettletrent of the British claims, relying t noon the integrity and good faith of the Mexican Governm eat for the punctual discharge of its engagements with as lit,'lo delay as possible, the claimants receiving in the meantime a rate of interest very inferior to that which is customary and usual in the country, and consequently suffering a pro portionate loss on the sums due to them. It is , aeer my unpleasant duty to lay before your Excellency the Conte plaints which with signal justice the British Govermatent ha; to n. ake in respect to this affair, arising from the nun.. fulfilment of its engegezients by the Mexican Government and the little regard shown to the execution of its arrange ments as made with inc for the payment of a debt of such a sacred character. Towards the end of the past year some partial payments were obtained by the duties receivable on importations made by the bout e ef Manning and Marshall of this city, after which them, remained more than a fourth part of the ,total amount of claims unpaid. With a view to ensure p. ment of this sum in the manner least embarrassing to tr. 'e Government, I agreed with his Excellency the Minis ter cat Finance, that from the duties payable by the Company oil the United Mexican Mines the amount outstanding or their claims should be paid by the local treasury of Guana-• junto. Orders to this eff:ct were given, the 4th of last: October, which were officially communicated to me the: Bth of the same month. Nevertheless, upon learning that the superior authuri ies of the department ulGuarnaSeato had' manifested some discontent with this arrangement, I was: induced again to consult the convenience of the Govern ment by consenting, that instead of the foregoing, an en signment of $17,000 should be made on the revenue known as the Seventeen per Cent. Duties, then newly created by' a special Act of Congress, with the positive understanding that the remainder should he paid as agreed upon by the local treasury of Guanajuato. New orders were accord ingly expedited to the authorities of that department, anti your Excellency gave me the most positive assurances that; they :could be scrupulously fulfilled. Up to the present, it does not appear that one single dollar has been paid to the United Mexican Company und r this arrangement; while, at the same time, all the representations on this subject which I have had the honour to melte to your Ex cellency, have had no other result than the intimation that they had been forwarded to the. Minister of Finance. Another in which I have a just and well-founded came of complaint for the little regard vouchsafed to the representations of this Embassy is, in that of the supplies furnished by the British Vice-Consul of Tepic for the maintenance of 47 British and American subjects, who arc detained prisoners in that city. These unforturtatc mots might have died of hunger had it not been for the gem roux interference of the Viet-Consul, Mr Barron, seliO, from the day of their arrival in Topic, advanced to the local authorities the money necessary for their daily sue sistence. It is true that an ord r was sent to the collector of the department of Jalisco to see to the maintenance of the above- meetioned pHs:wets, and to return to Mr. Bar-. ron the money advanced by him for that object, nut of the rece ; f its of the internal customs of T. pie, but this ordet. as I had the honour of proving tat your Excellency in my note of the 3d of last month, was quite dluaury. inasmuch as the proccede of the said custom-house ens ioutEcient to meet the orders previously given upon it ; at the same time I pointed out the propriety of paying this sum from other sources. This representation passed unheeded, and Mr. Barren, with the object of relieving the prisoners from the sufferings inseparable from their want of support,. and the misery arising from :heir unjust and illegal has continue.' to furnish the funds for their maintenance, and the sums due to him on this accooat amounted at the end of the last month to upwards of 2000 deflate. I might also ref. r to many other costs wherein the Btitish subjects hive sustained consider able losses, and wherein my representations have not been received with the attention due to the agent of a na tion which has always shown itself in an eminent degree friendly to thtt of Mexico. Neverthelete the two eases now brought forward are quite sufficient to prove to your Excellence that I have ample reason to be extremely dissa tisfied with the proceedings of your Government, as wilt also be her Majesty's Government, nben acquainted with all the proceedings of the case. It is true that I still err.. tertain, the well-founded hope that your Excellency, whose zealous and earnest enthavours to promote the fiiendly in telligence which, fortunately, up to the present, has st ways existed beta cen the two countries, ate H ell knower tee me, will be able to interpose your influence with the °their departments of the Government, to the end that soy repro-- sentations may receive that cor.sidetation due to the British Legetion. and in the hope that this state of affairs sill soots be remedied, I am content to wait your Excellency's Roe sever, announcing a satisfactory arrangement of existing differences mentioned in this communication, until the b oil-- ing of the next packet for England, which, if not by thou complied with, I find it my duty to declare plainly to your Excellency that I shall consider my nvssion as Sr mad in this country, and ask fee my passports to leave Mexican. I beg your Excellency to receive the assurances of the high respect and consideration with which I have the honour to remain your Excellency's most obedient servant, " R. PAKENH AM. " To his Excellency Senor Don Luis du Canedda lag." " MEXICAN MINISTER OF FINANCE TO THE NIINI3Tift; 07 FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Ministry of Finance. " Excellent Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt d your note of the 19th instant, wherein your Bicellene, encloses a communication from his Excellency the British , Minister, respecting the claims now existin g + ' ei» t Oast department, and which have been a long time tr:terettledi. notwithstanding the agreement made. " This department of the Government beholds wilEs much regret that his Excellency the British Minister should have entertained the idea that his representations had not received all the attention so justly due to his cha racter and station, and to the good friendship existing be. twccn the Republic and the Government of ler Britannic Majesty. Very far from treating the representations of the British Embassy with indifference, this department hie constantly endeavoured to settle whatever differencce may' have arisen in the most just and satisfactory manner. had if with regard to some , matters the replies have not WO, so speedy as would be desired, this arises, as your cellency well knows, from the necessity of correspond ing with the provincial local authorities, and collecting the t il h e e ne s y ati t s h fa e cto British itis wayh Minister in svhieh Britishhas, before now, witnessed needful data for making an adjustment, seeing that Ape ma tter in question was the settlement of pecuniary eagni doubt tude h the av equitablebee n determination settled in this d of the r m t i ram tent, att, His Excellency g an re dh e e r cannot magnitude Government with regard to his demands.ln the de partment over which your Excellency presides evi • dence abounds to show the c this Government to avoid giving constant endeavours ult o to r that of her Britannic Majesty. a t n n y . c . aus n e of com plaint Pakenbans complains of the delay Lis n ote, . which has taken place in the ray ment of the inde • t hose British sub sets mnity granted to who sustained losses by reason of the insurrection at Gal. najuato. It is true that unforeseen and very unfortunate circumstances have prevented the payment of this debt with all the regularity which the Government desired, and which, as Mr. Pakenhans mentions, was caused by the state of the country during the year 1838 and part of 1833, But your Excellency i s aware of, and should acq uaint the British Envoy, that, besides what has been paid on ac count of import duties received by Manning and Marshall. other credits have been paid by the treasury of Guanajuato, besides which, under date of the 26th inst., the most pe remptory orders have been Riven to the 'Collector of that department to continue furth er payments, until the whole i s e xtinguished , which certainl y does sot now exceed 9,000 dollars. If the entire payment of this sum has not been earlier made, this doth not arise from any fault of the au• pre me Government, but from the circumstance of the ex• traordinary penury of the treasury at Guanajuato, whi c h, like those of many others of the department, scarcely re ceived enough to pay the most urgent and indispensabte necessities. Notwithstanding this, the general Govern ment has issued the strictest orders to make those ;air men% even should some extraordinary rneasurei be ra- due to Mr. Barron, th e British ciu , ir i e F d .or for tb t e ha p ni t o r e p y OE. Con sul at Tepic, for the advances mad., by him for the support of the English and Americans, 'who a rived there from California, orders had been given three days before recois. figitiNst the Presbytery of. Stratii!Yazie, and the Rev. ,John Cruickshank, William Allardice. Jame,4 Walker, Wil liam Masson, James Thoillsotli Wm. Cowie, and J. it ries A. Cruickshrink, being a majcvity of the said Presbyizi 'y, in terms of the first conclusion of the libel, and allow t decree to go out and be extracted ad interim, dispensil with the minire- book ; find the defenders, the said Jot in Robertson, William Duff, Harry Leith, and David Dews r, liable to the pursuer ill the expeusn occasioned by the it opposition, both before the Lord Ordinary and in the lane r- Hctue ; allow an account thereof to be lodged, and rem it the same to the auditor to tax arid be reported ou ; quad d ultra remit the cause to the Lord 6,-dintry. (Signed) C. oopF,, 1.P.D." 4 F;T,' 4 ,e t v.'4o, • 0111 Vie -k t 4 _IS ON The following are the official documente r si4o464Stia passed between the British Minister in l‘w . r.iina the Mexican Government, on the claims of Br itish sub jects EVENING CLAIM " MR. PAKENHAM TO THE MEXICAN MINISTER FOR FOREIGN ,_.