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I EVENING EDITION. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE t The critical notice of Calderon's dramas, which i was commenced in the last Number, is resumed in the present one ; and is accompanied by translations in rhytne, from the Spanish dramatist's comedy of the .‘ Goblin Lady." These translations are cxe euted with spirit and elegance, and we are willing, to believe that they are accurate. The article is \ written after the manner of the popular "Harm Germanicac —possibly, it is the production of the stime author—which so long graced the pages of Maga. " Sir Walter Scott at the Tomb of the Stuarts in St. Peter's,".is a poem from the pen of Mr. R. M. Milnes, who states in a note that time circumstance on which it is founded, fell under his own personal observation. We have been struck with three stanzas, in which a fine thought has found adequate expression : " There lie the Stuarts 1 There is Walter Scott Strange congress of illustrious thoughts and things ! A plain old moral, still too oft forgot, The power of genius and the fall of kings. The curse on lawless wi:l high planted there, A beacon to the world, shines not for him ; Ile is with those who felt their life was sere, When the large love of loyalty grew dim. He rests his chin upon a sturdy staff, Historic as that sceptre, theirs no more ; His gaze is fixed ; his thirsty heart can quaff For a abort hour the spirit-draughts of yore." " Goethe's Life and Works" is somewhat tedious. We have now had quite enough of this German poet—unless, indeed, some new feature in his cha racter should be discovered. " Thoughts on Asses" is a clever bit of gossip. We agree with the writer that.donkeys are a most unjustly calumniated class of animals. There are many interesting associa tions connected with them, that should raise them hi the estimation of every humane and thinking person. It was an ass, that by his timely braying, saved the throne of Laken, King of Siam ; an ass, j according to the Koran, is to sound the trumpet of the resurrection ; and it was on an ass that the Sa viour rode into Jerusalem. Then think of Sancho's Dapple; to say nothing of Sterne's "-Dead Ass," and Peter Bell's sagacious living one ! The i author thus takes up the cud gels on behalf of donkeys : _ " We should like to know by what right YEsop, and ___ . .. . .... Gay, and all the fablemongers,from Jotham upwards, have o.':.hed upon one unhappy animal, and made him a mock, zsnd a byword, and a laughing-stock for all succeeding generations to crack their " fool-born jests" upon. Now, in a goose there really is something ridi culous ;—his very waddle is vain-glorious ; he stretches out his head, and elevates its antipodes with all the pride of a peacock ; his hiss is most superlatively self , complacent and contemptuous—it is eloquent of irre pressible misanthropy ; a child can see through his pre tension to dignity ; his folly breaks out in the very means which he takes to hide it. But an ass ; pshaw ! th ere is no deceit about an ass ;—he stands before us even' as nature made him, rough, homely, and honest ; he pretends not to beauty which he does not possess ; he makes no ostentatious display of his sagacity ; he is content to slip through existence as peaceably and silently as we wilt let him ; he wants but little, and he gets it ; he e a rs teach R 2 many lessons as the ant, and be finds, if possible, fewer dizciples. Yes ! the world may sneer as it likes, ;Jut an ass is no fool ; we rather take him for a philosopher. How many requisites for greatness does he not possess ? Urge him, scold him, Wet him, kick him—the Man of Uz himself was not n ; ore enduring ! He looks at you all the while, as much S.S to say, " I can't help it, so you must go on as long i s you please, though you must be aware this sort of treatment isn't, by any means, gentlemanlike.' Does he tb el it repugnant to the dictates of his conscience to take some particular course ? only observe his un swerving strengt!.h of purpose." " Hints on History" is a useful, well-seasoned essay, of a fragmentary character, and furnishes us with a new view of the famous priest, Thomas a. Beckett, of Canterbury. " Ten Thousand a Year" improves considerably. The Seeti2 where the arro gant, purse-proud linen-draper, Tag-rag, repents of his brutality to Titmouse, when he learns that that ingshnous youth is heir to ten thousand pounds per annum, is a clever satirical portrait, dashed off, freely and boNly, from the life. --- - BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Mr. Ainsworth here commences hie new work of fiction, "Guy Fawkes," t o niiich we have not the same objection that we have to his " Jack Shep pard ;" for the subject is a legitimate one, and such as affords numerous and striking materials for ro mince. The author, who seems wedded to what he, no doubt, thinks is an effective opening, corn menceß with an execution at Manchester, some of the details of which are graphically enough pour. trayed. We hope, however, he will not be too profuse of scenes of blood, but allow his readers occasional repose. The portion of the present chapters which has most pleased us, is the brief, t t rse, and energetic account of the state of the Ca ti,,, lie party at the period when Guy Fawkes was iu the flesh." The " Letter-Bag of the Great contains some amusing points, but the Weste.'n" letters A re a little too long—especially that from the Stoke." whose perverse spelling becomes at , length something of a bore. The "Whiskey" is a serious, intelligent paper. We should he glad to see more of this sort in the Misce;!any. " Starilay Thorn" opens with infinite spirit, and is worthily illustrated by George Cruikshank. The " Macaw" is a sprightly sketch by Alfred Crowquill. We quote a portion of an amusing incident in Stanley Thorn. The kro, we should premise, is a boy at Eton, who has An invincible horror of being flogged : " Now it happened a short time after this affair that ..Tolliffe, one of his most intimate companions, was il t ,gged. The cause was very trifling, and the effect was not very severe ; but, independently of the extreme in delicacy of the process—and it ;really is very indelicate —the degradation struck Stanley with so much force, that ho at once resolved to manifest his abhorrence of this vile and disgusting species of punishment in a way which could not be mistaken. " He accordingly conferred with his companions on the subject ; and as they were equally anxious for the abolition of that species of punishment,contending very naturally, and very properly, that it ought at any rate to be confined to mere children, it was eventually re solved that they should get up a show of rebellion, than which at that period nothing could be more easy. " Stanley was chosen their leadq, and they certainly c quid not have elected a more experienced hand. He set to work as usual at once, and in earnest, Harry p ure. liased an owl, which bore some resemblance to the th en :,ord Chief Justice, a dozen lively sparrows, aria a n infinite variety of fislatinating balls, it was arranged that ho hi . caself should take the management of his inte resting ornit'hological curiosity ; that Joliffe, Fox, and Villiers should' each have the command of four spar rows : and that io Howard and Cholmondeley should be entrusted the diN:ribution of the fulminating balls. A certain evening was ised upon for thp commencement of the rebellion, and they took esperiat care that their plumed troop should go to work as hungry wibrssible. " Well, the evening came, and the consiotratoks at t he usual hour marched into school. There stood the revered Doctor with all the gravity at his coalman'', w hit,. the various masters respectively sported a corre spondog aspect of solemnity. The signal was given ; a b uzz i L lsc was heard—a buzzing to which the whole school list,' long been accustomed, the process being known as that of booing the master. .4 • Silence!' cried the Doctor, who really scorned to anticipate a storm ; .hut the buzzing continued, and gra dually increased until indeed it appeared to be abso lutely universal. -. . I'll flog the first boy I ( ;sc.Aver,' said the Doctor, who held it, by virtue of some si;.`linge and inscrutable perversion of 3udgment, to be disgrat.l 4l . ll . The buzzing, however, continued t . . 0 increase ; and it may be stated, as a most extraordim:ry fact, that although the lynx -eyed Doctor looked in .every ditez.- tion with really unexampled intensity and mii:uteness. not one of the rebels was be able to detect. \Vltat wade it, t inder the circumstance s , still more remarkat,.'e was, that they all seemed at that particular period to be studying with unprecedented zeal. " . Silence !' egain shouted the Doctor. " I'll punish the whole school:' And he really did feel very angry at that moment. Just as he was solemnly promulgat ing something having reference to the highly unpopular process of taking away their holidays, which seemed to be generally understood and appreciated , Stanley. w i t , all due gravity, drew the Lord Chief Justice from his pocket, and having given him an impetus in the perfect similitude of a pinch of the tail, allowed his Lordship at once to take wing." FRAZER'S MAGAZINE. There is an entertaining' desultory sort of paper in the present Number, entitled " Preface to our Second Decade," in which literature, politics, criti cism," &L.. arc so mixed up together, as to form a very relishing hodge-podge. The writer of this medley indulges in sundry vaticinations respecting the advent of the Tories to power ; and, frankly and boldly enough, warns them that if they hope to continue at the head of affairs they must be pre pared to catty matters with a high hand. This rather a rash vaticination, for the Tories are as far • distal, t as ever from the promised land of office, 'c flowing with milk and honey," though they ima tgine they have got a Mount Pisgah view of it. - . "My Irish Tutorship," is a lively story, con tinued from a former Number. " Recollections of Germany" contain one or two pleasant descriptions —more particu!arly of Potsdam, and the palace of Sans Souci. " Constantinople" gives us as vivid and minutean account as we have lately met with of this famous city. " Sonnets prophetical of Civil Dudgeon" are from the pen of Sir Morgan O'Do herty. They are replete with fun and humour; but we protest against their political tone. We have no space for extract. • TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. Tait is very clever, and very anti-Whiggish this month.. Instead. of a New-Year's Ode, or an Epi thalium on the Queen's Marriage, our stern Radi cal Contemporary •f the North opens with a broad side levelled at the Melbourne Cabinet. But Tait labours in vain. No eloquence can make the people confound the Whigs with the Tories—the authors and supporters of the Reform Bill, with the champions of rotten boroughs. Turn we, therefore, to the more amusing sketches in which this Number abounds. Innkeepers have from time immemorial been good story-tellers, and Samuel Pogson is worthy of being classed among the most entertaining of that jovial fraternity. His " Hunt ing► a Fummard" is excellent ; though the dialect will be in more request in the North of England, than within the sound of Bow-bells. Not so the " Picture-Dealer," which is quite a Cockney sketch, and exceedingly clever withal. The " Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham," by Dr. Bowring, promise well, but the portion before us does not extend beyond a general description of Bentham's father and grandfather, and the political and religious opinions in vogue in the family of the infant Law Reformer. It is not a little strange, however, to find Dr. Bow ring gravely quoting a statement made to him by Prince Talleyrand as the deliberate conviction of that celebrated .diplomatist, namely, that he had known many great warriors, statesmen, and au thors, but only one great genius, and that genius Jeremy Bentham ! Assuredly if Talleyrand was in earnest, which we much doubt, he estimated ge nius on a lower scale than either war, statesman ship, or authorship. " Society of the Lakes" is from the Autobiography of the English Opium Eater, and is agreeably enlivened with anecdotes of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Wilson, and their friends. " Violet Hamilton ; or the Talented Family," is a smart, lively, well-written tale ; but as it is not concluded in this Number, we are de-. vied the satisfaction of speaking of it as a whole. The Literary Notices are numerous, and as care fully written as usual. THE METROPOLITAN. There is not an article in this number calculated to afford amusement to a casual reader. The " Corallines" with which it opens, is a continuation of a story not yet told. "On the Early History of Turks," the second article, may, with mercantile brevity and lucidity, be described ditto, ditto. " Italy, by an Exile," the same. " Literary Notes and Jottings" has No. 11. prefixed. Mr. Add►- son's "Journey to Gaza" is but a chapter of a whole volume of travels already published in this piecemeal form ; and " Lord Killi-Kelly," and a " Pilgrimage from Fontainbleau to Scotland" have occupied, respectively, the pages of the Metropo litan for the greater part of the last year. These articles may be all very clever, but as we have for gotten the portions of them already published, we cannot from a single brick farm an opinion of the merits of the whole building. Of the literary notices, we can, however, speak more favourably. They are numerous, and very just, without a tinc ture of ill-nature. • THE ORIENTAL HERALD. The " Cazi of Juanpore" is a pleasant satire, as applicable" to a large number of the priests and people uf . Great Britain, as the Moollahs and Da bees of• India. "Jeremy Bathos" *nay include us among the number of dime desirous of becoming better acquainted with him through so popular a medium as the Oriental Herald. " Calcutta as it is" is a continuation of Mr. Stockqueter's clever sketches of the state of society in that oriental capital of the Merchant Princes of the India House. The present article is little more than an enume tion of the names and offices of the subordinate inmates of a Calcutta establishment on a large scale ; and truly it is enough to frighten a retired tea-dealer, with a son and heir in the service of the Company, out of his wits. What would five thou sand pounds in the Three per Cents. be to a young fellow, living at the rate of two thousand rupees a a month, and this, it appears, is being economics: in India. The other articles are neither so clever, nor are the subjects of which they treat of any ge neral interest. The extracts from the Anglo-Indian and Native Press are copious and well arranged. ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA MAGAZINE. This Number abounds in pleasant, gossiping articles, of just the right length for the patience of a retired nabob, who only remembers what he reads at a single sitting. With the exception of steam communication with India, and a rather copious exposition of the Report on the Manufac tura of Tea in Assam, the Number is made up of extracts from the diaries of instructive travellers, anecdotes, prophecies, and a digest of the contents o f the Indian Press. What more suitable for a ses.,ion pf universal festivity ?. THE SCHOLASTIC JOURNAL. This Magazine is published under the support and pOrooage of the London School Society, and its princiegi contributors evidently belong to that very respectable body. It is peculiarly ad dressed to teachers, and such as are charged with the education of youth. We highly approve of its principles, which arc liberal, and of its object, which is t,3 place schoolmasters on a footing of re cognized equality wit.h the other learned pro feasions. CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY REVLETV. Painter, Strand. This Review, we are informed in a note ap pended to the first article, has changed its Editor since the publication of the last Number. The new Editor, accordingly, sets out with an exposition of his principles, in which we recognise those of the thorough-going High Churchman, as exempli fied in a belief in the divine institution of episco pacy, in the apostolical succession of the Bishops of the Anglican Church, in a cordial hatred of the so-styled " evangelical" party in the Church, and a still more cordial hatred of all parties out of it. Although, therefore, we cannot approve of the principles on which this periodical is conducted, we are hound to say that it displays a considerable degree of learning and talent. After what we have said of its views, wir readers - will not be surprised that a long article is devoted to the defence of the "Charge" lately delivered by Old Toby, who seems to realize, in tb'3 writer's opinion, the luau ideql of a Christian Bishop, An article entitled " Angli can Liturgies" gives i 6 history of the various chang,es which have been made hi the Church ser vice 130c4, p. 44 o those who are euriato id such matters, will affoi4 gygification. There are careful other articles which axe WPA written, but their lite rary merit is greatly detetiorakea by the bigotry with which they are tainted. THE MONTILLY LAW MAGAZINE, This Magazine, R.s 4; title indicates, is chiefly, though not exclusively, 4qigpp4 fpr the legal pro f,:sion. It is rich in aftieie44 irrteF,c4iog 4like to the 4 1 . Learned in the law," anti ,to time Vbp,s'# legal studiea are yet in progress ; and, thoggb Pis- ,;enting from its paities, we are bound in coitanoo j us t;ce to admit that its 14w iq pot only good, but, unlike ti:e commodity of our C9HyL i o • i;; far from expensive. ti 4'e suggest the Law of rfrP4s6)9 qr, 9 Editor, as a .titiPel; of general and deep inteigs,t t for some remarks "lost 44,'911th. LONDON AND EDINBURG!, AryLoso- PILICAL MA GA ZINE. R. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion-court. The present Number : of Ails scientific periodical commences with an article frow O t t Fri of Berze hus, in which the veteran chemist eu•tee:7 ri lists with M. Du mas , w h o had broached a timp, , ,y substitutions which thica6tPllptl to overturn ail ilia is now considered as ests.i44.lp4 in chemistry. To avert this calamity, the Aalwr of the science has rome to the rescue, and gifklY brief examination 4)- M. " substitutions;!• : that Mtl we have to do is " to apsa u ce rcs th t e lie syrn wo b ry e ilnu4 4 Alm acetic acid no in an order rather (hi:fere - tit from:that .0 . ; thisg is pliia2dyin a class slightassof change the acw ,cornhina t tioo elO us Potter, of 'Cambridg pr e, has a l p yak wn per on 6 , Photomatry in c onnection with Physical Optics," in which he vindicates his claim t0.141c.1i.e ,scovery of the law i. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY„TANUARY 1. IMO, which Professor Forbes of Edinburgh, he alleges, would pare down to the size of a remark, that " me tallic reflection is less intense at the higher angles of incidence." Dr. C. Schafhaeutl, of Munich, continues his important remarks on the com position of the different species of cast iron, steel, and malleable iron. The geologist will find an in teresting morceau in an article by the Rev. Mr. Williams or the Geology of Cornwall. The sup plement contains the continuation of Mr. Ivory's Bakerian Lecture on Astronomical Refractions, and the conclusion of Colonel R. Wright's Me teorological observations in Colombia, together with the proceedings of the Royal Geological and Zoo logical Societies. receive the la: ,o bonus which is to be divided by the Company this very evening. No failures were announced in the Foreign Market up to the trinination of business. Spanish Consols improved to 24-1 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. to Co:ouit);kl to 244 ; Dutch Too-and-a-Half per C,?nts. to 58,1 ; and Mexican to 284. The shares were in brisk demand ; the Brighton at 131 discount ; the Birmingham at 52 premium ; the Southampton at 2i premium ; and the North Midland at 14} discount. In the Banking Shares there was no business. PARIS MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. MONDAY, DEC, 30. HERALD.—The decided intention of the Minister of Finance to bring forward his bill for the reduction of the Five per Cents., has caused a slight decline in the Money Market. The little attention that the Paris capitalists pay to the American loan, contracted under the auspices of Rothschild and Co., will doubtless be of as much im portance in England as in the United States. The quo tation obtained by Rothschild is a mark of respect and deference to that gentleman, but it has'availed him little, for no important buyer has come forward. He has been blamed for having had it quoted at l 4 above the price at which it was contracted, which was 93i, Besides, French capitalists by no means approve of the adventur ous manner in which operations are carried on in the United States, nor do they like to see the Americans more employed in regulating their affairs at home than in settling those abroad. These are the reasons why this new loan has met with such a cold reception. Such a decided negative to take a part in a loan opened by a tirst-rate banking-house is unparalleled in our Bourse, and must be very prejudicial to the United States, represented by Mr. Jaudon, for, after all, it is said that Rothschild and Co. have contracted the loan but on commission. Consequently a decided failure of the negotiation might ensue by notifying this result to Mr. Jaudon, should London not be more eager on the subject than Paris. The guarantees offered are accept able, but the antecedents and the spirit of commercial gambling show❑ by the Americans excite dissatisfaction MONTHLY CHRONICLE. There is here an article on the y " Coming Ses sion," in which the writer speaks out boldly and significantly on the subject of those two important questions, the Ballot and the Corn-laws, observ ing :—" We are far from entertaining the visionary hope that the concession of the Ballot is at all likely to allay the dissatisfaction that prevails among a large portion of the population ; nevertheless, we would be well pleased to learn that this measure had been chosen by all Liberals as the rallying point of the ensiling Session. Public justice demands that the elector should be secured against intimidation, and till some equally efficient plan is proposed for the attainment of that end, we shall continue to demand the Ballot, not as a concession to be re ceived in lieu of other measures of Reform, but as the undoubted and inalienable right of the people, without which the Reform Act must remain a mu tilated and imperfect enactment. Next to the Ballot, we would place the repeal of our existing Corn-laws among the measures which the people of England confidently anticipated as the natural consequences of• the Reform Act. These laws, however, cannot be repealed until .their opponents have agreed on the system which they would substitute. To clamour for the introduction of foreign corn, without even the imposition of a moderate fixed duty, can only lead to disappointment." The remarks on " Ar tesian Springs" are of a sound, practical character, and furnish us with some circumstances relative to the gross impurity of the Thames water, with which the metropolis is now for the most part supplied. In the sketches of " Spanish Generals" occurs a short biographical sketch of Cabrera, who, if what 'the writer says be true—and he appears to write from a knowledge of facts—must be a monster of cruelty. Jf the remaining articles, the best is that on Car lyle's late History of the " French Revolution." THE COLONIAL MAGAZINE. The public will require no better recommenda tion of this Magazine, than that it has for its editor and principal contributor Mr. Montgomery Martin, whose numerous works have so effectually contri buted to make the state and resources of our colonies familiar to the people of Great Britain. First numbers of periodicals are usually considered as en titled to some indulgence, butthe Colonial Magazine would owe nothing to our good nature, however much we might feel inclined to say in its favour. We only regret that it reached us so late that we cannot do more than notice its appearance. Be sides a large mass of Colonial intelligence, and numerous well-written notices of new books, it con tains eight original articles on subjects connected with trade, colonies, and colonization. We wish it all the success which it so richly deserves.. [Wc have received many other Magazines, but at too late an hour to permit us to notice them this day. The " New Monthly Magazine," we have not vet received.] MRS. SALMON.—At the Christmas general meeting of the Royal Society of Musicians, Mr. F. Cramer in the Chair, among the applicants for relief who had no claim on the funds (of which there were upwards of thirty) was Mrs. Salmon, the once cele brated singer, who, in consequence of having been deprived of her voice for twelve or fourteen years past, is in very straitened circumstances. Mrs. Sal Mon durnmenced a most brilliant musical career, as Miss Munday, about 1809 ; she was engaged at all the great festivals in the kingdom, and sung for the first time at the Concerts of Ancient Music in 1815. Madame Ca tuleni was so pleased with her at the York festival in 1823 that she made her a present of an elegant piece of plate. Mrs. Salmon was pre-eminent in such songs as " From mighty Kings," " Rejoice greatly," " With verdure clad," " All ! parlate," " Parto," &c., &c., and she was considered second only to Mrs. Billington. The Royal Society of Musicians presented her on this occasion with a donation of fifteen pounds ; and distributed among the rest of the distressed appli cants nearly 701. The sum of 2,3511. 16s: was appro priated durinc , the last year by this excellent institution to the benevolent purposes for which it was established in 1738—namely, the support of aged and indigent musicians, their widows and orphans. Mr. Parry was re-elected honorary treasurer for the tenth time, and Mr. J. A. Wood and Mr. J. Watts secretary and col lector. SECOND AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY RE MOVAL OZ A BOG NEAR KANTURK.—KANTURIC, DEC. 26.—0 n Saturday last this hitherto peaceable town was thrown into the greatest state of excitement. Dense crowds of people were observed hastening on the Bo herbuee road, which was crowded for about three miles. Public consternation was at its height, when descending the valley between Derrygallon and Ballyholahan, was seen a dark mass rapidly ap proaching, with something like pikes elevated in the air. As the body moved with the rapidity of a steam-engine, doubt was soon dispelled, nod it ap peared that about 200 acres of Colonel Longfield's bog, at Farrandoyle, had, truant-like, gambolled through the country, a distance of four miles, and was about paying a Christmas visit to the Kanturk folks. The scene was terrific, Illy, grand (if grandeur and bogs could be associated together) and impressive beyond description. Onward moved the mighty and overwhelming mass, carrying utter destruction in its course, and con veying to the mind of the beholder an idea of one of those catastrophes which geologists inform us have from time to time changed the surface of the earth. Occa sionally it moved in a compact body ; sometimes, on meeting obstructions, it rose in angry surges like the ungovernable sea, elevating enormous pieces of bogwood (which caused the mistake about the pikes). The course of the Brogreen stream was soon impeded, as the bog got into the valley, and the water having become considerably swollen, and accumulated behind, forced on the whole mass with fearful violence and an ap palling sound, and dispersed the bog-stuff and timber to a considerable distance up the acclivities, leaving " tur bary" to the occupants of the different farms for four miles for many years to come! It is to be regretted that bog-timber, to the value of at least 5001. passed into the Blackwater, the people being unable to come at it on account of the great depth . of the surrounding bog-stuff—and it is calculated that no less than 1,200 acres of meadow and pasture land have been covered at an average of ten feet ! The first movement of the bog was observed by Mr. Robert Swayne, of Kanturk, who was shootint , on it at the time, and who narrowly escaped bein;lost. He saw the impetus commence in the centre—in fact, the entire of the centre of the bog moved at once to the side until it forced the higher part here into a neighbour ing declivity, and went off before the alarm could be given. Mr. Swayne, having got on terra firma, nil with all his might to give warning of the danger, but all his speed was unequo! to the task, and one house was overwhelmed before he could call out. For tunately, however, no lives have been lost. The bog is still moving, and it is thought will continue so for many days. lam just informed that a coiv, belonging to a fanner named Flannery, was swallowed up in the bowels of the bog, and he looking on at the circum stance. Twelve acres of prime arable land have been covered with bog-mould to the height of 20 or 30 feet, belonging to the same individual. THE HEREFORD BIGOTS.—At a meeting of " The Hereford Protestant Association" held last week, the following precious document was concocted for pre sentation to Parliament ‘• To the Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the Ufoitcd Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ig ?Filament assembled. ‘. The ltumble petition of the undersigned resident gentry of the county and city of Hereford, showeth, that your petitioners are convinced, by an actual in ikepion of the class books of the Roman Catholic Col lege'gt *Thogth, that the principles therein taught err immoral to Z c eitreTe, subversive of the best in terests of society, acid inspMpatil:4 with the stability of the most sacred civil an d religious institutions of the gota.t,e_ humb humbly entreat nt roefat inquiry your Honourable "our pe Gougect tione r t s therefore, appoint a commission into the system of 10 discipline adopted at that college." fri:l,e; ; 'e petitions bear the signacure of thirty-four in- Fliarn three are Baronets, fifteen county magistrates, .aidgegtle,men of s t a ti o n a nd character in the county, though pess,est , in direct different poli tical opinions. THOMAS POWELL, Turnastow, 41, - ',NRY COYLE, Major, Hereford, S" .SPcTO44 , - ,3 ! T HE Akiil44.4.:S FRIEND SOClETY.—Thoirms Clark and John Dean were las week charged by Gibbins with having cruelly beaten a horse wip4 be butt end of the +Aqi•p. and Mr. Norton, of Lambeth-btmet,dirgsfftd both Cliargez 0:„.-2,: i ipse there was only one witnet.. . ; 01bbins, 'however; on to swine day caused W. Brest to be committed for - foniteeri'days ia'y Alderman White i for cruelty to a sheep. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (TUESDAY EVENING.) TlMES.—Copies of the report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on the administrat:on of the Bank of England, are in town, and have been much talked of in the monetary circles. It is especially praised for one thing, which is, that the parties have not ventured to point out any specific remedy for the evils complained of, but are content with clearly tracing their operation upon the trade of the country. That is a matter which must be left to those who are not only more experienced in the workings of the currency, but are removed from the excitement produced by actual suffering. It was feared that the Lancashire merchants and traders, living, as it were, in a ta,tex ofjoint-stock banking, would have advocated increased issues of paper as the only panacea, which would have damaged their case exceedingly, and rendered the whole of their labours useless. As the report must be perused entirc, to form any just estimate of its bearin, is s, it is the less r . necessary to dwell upon it. What said in it in commendation of the )=.ractice of France and Hol land, and other countries enjoying a metallic currency, that they have been quite free from the agitations which have lately convulsed England, and in a still greater de gree the United States, is intended perhaps to advert to the remedy really considered to be an effectual one, and if it is so, the Manchester Chamber will obtain on this spot credit both for great judgment and for great disinterestedness. No doubt can prevail but that the monetary system and practice of those countries would preclude the vast fortunes which some lucky in diviOuals have realized, but it is equally certain that none of the desperate re-action and bankruptcies and ruin which we are now familiar with would take place under them. This is the practical lesson which, whe ther intended or not, the Manchester report will convey to the country. Mr. Brooks, one of the speakers at the meetinc , of the Manche s t er Ch am b er o f C ommerce , pu t in a table ' (which appeared in The Sun of Saturday) and results of his trading operations in 1837. A curious question is likely to arise out of the suddon death of Mr. Miles Stringer at the Bank to-day, in re spect of the bonus declared and about to be paid by the Equitable Company upon policies of a certain standing. To-day being the last day of the year, and the full year therefore not completed, the question is whether the representatives of the deceased gentleman will be en titled to the banns payable upon policies which would have come within the specified class on the termination of this, the day fixed. The mail that has arrived to-day from Alexandria has brought a large portion of Indian letters that ought to have been here en the 10th, by the " convention" with France. Many persons received letters to-day who had none before, and many the portion that were left behind in Egypt for this route. One house of agency received to-day orders from two regiments, the execution of which might have been sent out by the Sophia, or Clau dine, but which cannot go now for one month. Public attention may be usefully :ialled to these facts, in con• nexion with the present arrangements for the communi cation with India. Among the schemes for a decimal division of the coinage, one published by Mr. Babbage, in his " Eco nomy of Manufactures," to which our attention has been called, is in principle, the same as the first of the two schemes mentioned in the Times of yesterday. He purposes also to effect the division by the creation of a tsNo-shilling coin, to be called the Prince (the florin of the other system). In detail the resemblance still continues, as he says, that when the public were familiar with the new coin, it might be divided into 100 instead of 96 farthings. The piece of 10 farthings is to be re presented by a silver coin, the stiver of the other sys tem. The only real difference consists in the requisi tion for a coinage of two new pieces, instead of the pre sent shillings and sixpences, the first to represent 10d., and the second sd. Here it will be seen that the sys tem mentioned yesterday has the advantage, for the al lowing five farthings to the old great 'penny, and five of these to the present sixpence, permits the present shillings and sixpences to be retained. A consideration of the two schemes published yes terday has led to a remark in the city, that the pro posers of the first scheme; after ha'viag ingeniously given a distinctive value to the great penny, have not made bi ty do co u r bli a n go t c h we ssionitin:mugchhauvsee notof i o t n a l s y t o h r e e y nte m d ig a ht, n b oo u o t s coinage, but destroyed a decimal part already in their hands (the great penny), and to make up for its de ficiency struck another new coin under the name of the stiver. The proposers of the scheme doubtless did this from a wish to retain the pound sterling as the highest denomination. From a comparison of the two schemes, a third idea has been started, in which the principle of the second is to be taken, and so much of the first applied as relates to the distinc tive value of the great penny. By this new (or re.- tiler compounded) scheme, the half-pound would be the highest denomination ; this would be di vided into ten shillings, as in the second scheme ; but then, instead of creating a new coin, to be called the decimo, the great penny of the first scheme is to represent that coin, and be the tenth of the shilling. The farthing, as in the first scheme; would be the fifth part of the great penny, and represent the two cents of the second scheme. The advocates of this third scheme hold forth the advantage that it would leave the coinage, both silver and copper, utterly untouched. One new wordthe word—" cent"—would be introduced, and this value would be represented by no new coin, but be merely imaginary, with its double represented by th e present 'farthing. The adoption of the half-pound as the highest denomination would not, it is contended, lead to any serious inconvenience, as the denomination would be sufficiently high to prevent the mass of figures found in the French franc column. If it'should be found expedient to represent the cent by a coin in stead of leaving it imaginary, still no new coinage would be required, as the half-farthings now struck for the use cf the colonies might be at once applied, and would be perfectly intelligible to all classes. POST.—The heaviness of the Spanish Funds to-day seems to have been occasioned by an expose published in the French Journals on the subject of the late Trea sury arrangement at Madrid, and of which the particulars were given in the Morning Post. There is no doubt, from the past conduct of the Spanish Government, that the statement of the Commerce, to the effect that large amounts of Active, Passive, and Deferred Stock have been placed with Messrs. Ardouin, Laffitte, and others at Paris, in order that money may be raised upon them, and transmitted to Moreno for the use of the army. If the markets of PariS and London are to be again inun dated with these bankrupt bonds, a fall of some conse quence may be looked for. Messrs. Ardouin and Ri cardo would appear to have a certain quantity to give up. The name of Zulueta :s also mentioned in con nection with the affair. H ERALD.—The Public Securities have varied but slightly to-day. Money has been rather more in re quest, in consequence of the settlement of the Account in the Foreign house. The adjustment of the half-monthly account was effected this afternoon without much difficulty, and we believe all parties in the market were prepared to meet their differences. The principal fluctuation has been in Spanish, Dutch, and Colombian Stocks, since the Account commenced. We much regret to state that Miles Stringer, Esq., well known in the City as one of its honourable mer chants, expired suddenly this afternoon, while in the Reduced Three per Cent. Annuity-office, where he was about to effect a transfer of stock. Mr. Miles Stringer was one of the Directors of the Equitable Assurance Office, and would have been entitled to a bonus on his policy, it is said, of not less than 10,000/., had he lived until twelve o'clock this night, when such bonus would have been effective. It is more than probable, however, that the deceased, as well as other Directors, has se cured the amount by effecting a policy to such amount. As a merchant, Mr. Stringer was well and deservedly respected in the City. The event was the subject of much regret in the Stock Market and on 'Change this afternoon. e re; da at quarter. Paris r a may CHRONICLE. —In the English Funds very little Exchange was business was transacted , and prices continue without alteration. The Exchanges on Hambu rg h ave rece d e d a be account e d f this period of the rather taalsri fromear f esi,iva the considerably lsi circumstance ilopmse. enr shipments ; baurthis,et made ehv thato t o Amsterdam a sett higher ; the circumstance attending the remittance of the coupons for the dividend on the Two-and-a-Half per Cents., due to-morrow, is of itself sufficient to justify that alteration. The Liverpool steamer from New York is now anxiously looked far, particular:y as it is understood that the Baltimore, whose arrival we noticed yesterday, h a d s poken her on the evening of the sth ; therefore she would have arrived at New York on the 6th. This being settling day in the Foreign Stock Ex change, the Account to be settled was on a much smaller scale than for some time past, the fluctuations during the Account having been unusually small ; money at one period of the day had the appearance of being wanted at higher rates than noticed yesterday ; subse qkLntly, however, it was comparatively easy. and Antwerp, 12 3. T 3 h B e ,l, a ; st prices were SUN —The Exchanges left off flatly this afternoon ; I Amsterdam, e — sp P ec a i r a is ll , y 2 t s hc 6O ra t t o e 6 7 ; l l l i l a o n l l b b u u r r g g . , 1 i;3 ,1 3 ,4 -l e - e k ; 0 1 0 ' i r f a ,ii n i l Li lor i 4 a l i r et -k 4 , l l ; rQ ;till clospd, Coffee, ~500,0001b5. I ; owercr, is in demand. TO, i s firm. The neat public, this afternoon, but not closed at 0 , 2-,i- to 6 ::'l : s ; l l , : s e v d i l o E l i n n °3 g g .3 l . P i:l l ! C n t o i Q a n f r s . 'Li o n e l :: . f l w o e r i - 4 " g th t g in iP o n v 0 n i 0 f.t. 1; Bank ptp,c l 4 at 17s ; Exchequer liilis at par. i and ItOia Bonds at a rally to 60. 018 04;. - : Lute i l . ; b t , h y A o ppd cle4i of conversation, 4110 wo may add no little regret, Isitil 9C9l§ieced by the skicHcjeti death of Mr. Stringer, a w " w ealthy gent i em 17 wellknow; ' ii ,, kiio o pt i t i . : ;, ; ,.!", while effecti n g a transfer at the Bank. TNs gentiewan wao eoPneeted with the Equi table Assurance Office, and it has become a curious 1 auestion whether his reprecnOtive§ will b e en titl e d to SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS PROM TILE EVENING PAVERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) For a party which, according to its recognised organs, is on the eve of office, the Tories seem sadly divided as to the period when the event, so big with the pecu liar advantages which Tory officials are known to prize, should commence. Even the same journal does not preserve the same tone for two days i❑ succession.. One day, the Whigs are to be driven from Downing-street by an immediate coup de main ; the next, caution is recommended to the eager aspirants to office ; and Sir Robert Peel is represented as disposed to sacrifice his convictions of duty to a de licate regard for her Majesty's known partiality to her present Ministers, and to permit them to remain in place to please the Sovereign—although his doing so endangers the Protestant institutions of the country ! Sir Robert Peel's hold on the affections and confidence of his party is manifestly less firm than it was twelve months since ; and the efforts of the Tory journals to conceal this diminished confidence only serve to render it the more apparent. The disappointment inflicted on the hungry gobe mooches, who imagined themselves se cure of present pay and good quarters in Downing street, through the Right Honourable Baronet's at tempt at negotiation for office, which failed by his demands to become Major Demo of the Palace as well as First Minister of State, will not be easily forgiven, as it must greatly tend to weaken confidence in his sue coss, should he ever be again " sent for," an event of no likely occurrence. Then his " timidity,"—as the more furious of the faction delicately term his unwillingness to go the " whole hog" of hostility to the Catholic Relief Bill, the repeal of which they demand as essential to Protestant ascendancy—is assigned as a reason why some more bold and uncom promising chieftain should be nominated as their leader to conduct them to the Canaan of their hopes ; and Lord Roden is not obscurely hinted at as more suited to th e enterprise than the expediency-loving Peel. Pity it is that the Tories - should be at sea respecting their Pre mier ; who certainly should possess the confidence of his friends, as a necessary preliminary to his acquiring that of the country ! In the midst of these dissensions in the Tory camp, the Standard looks to the farmers for help, and labours lustily to enlist them, as a body, on the side of bigotry, under the pretext that the Corn law monopoly cannot be preserved if the Whigs re main in office. True'. Lord Melbourne has expressed himself against the abolition of protection—(the Standard, by the way, avoids citing Lord Melbourne's words, which we shall do, on occasion)—but the agriculturists arc cautioned against trusting to his declaration ; and therefore, with admirable consistency, our Contempo rary recommends that his Lordship's post should be filled by Sir It. Peel—who is not trusted oven by his own party !. _ (From the Courier.) Great praise is claimed by the Ministerial organs, be cause— " The acknowledged industry and tact of the Noble Secre tary for Colonial Affairs, which have been so long exempli fied in his administratica of the Home Department, have been applied to the consideration of the beet mode of carrying out the principles laid down in the Report of a Select Committee of the House of Commons on colonial lands, and in forming a plan for giving efficiency t o t h e operation of those principles. " The result will be seen in Vac resolution taken by Lord John Russell to recommend that the South Australian Commission be r :Yoked by the Crown, and the office of General Agent for Emigration be abolished; and that, in lieu of these authorities, a Colonial Land and Emigration Board, to ( one :t of three Commissioners, shall be formed. To this 1.34 and is to be entrusted the control and disposal of all the Crawl lands in the several colonies; and from it will be re. (My obtained such correct information as parties interested in emigration may desire to receive." What the " principles" to be carried out may be does not very clearly appear, but we can have very little hesitation in expressing our belief that any change in the system of colonial management generally must be for the better, and more especially in that department connected with the disposal of colonial lands and emi gration. Hitherto these have been made available al most wholly to the purposes of Ministerial patronage and to the private views of land-jobbers and schemers, who might chance to possess Parliamentary influence, with the tact to bring it to bear upon the fears or favour of the Colonial-office. The revocation of the South Aus tralian, as well as of the Emigration agency, are more over advisable measures to begin with, for the extraordi nary- anomaly of the first, by which a sort of imperious ill iMperio was created, the direct authority of the Colonial Office superseded, and its indefeasible du ties of administration and protection of the subjects and the property of the realm transferred to an irresponsible and unconstitutional body, was too monstrous long to be tolerated. How the heavy debt with which it has already burdened that un fortunate colony is to be disposed of, or liquidated, we have yet to learn, but it may be apprehended that with the dissolution of the Commission the Colonial Office means to take charge of all its obligations and respon sibilities also. If so, and the debt come therefore to lie guaranteed, that is consolidated with the National Debt, is it proposed to continua payment to the loan contractors and bondholders of that grossly exorbitant interest of ten per cent. per annum, of which we believe they are now in the receipt according to the contract ? CONIMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIETY.—On Saturday last the anniversary festival of this Society was celebrated at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill ; and the muster of members and friends of the Society, we are happy to say, was even greater than that which took place on a similar occasion last year. The Lord Mayor presided, and, after proposing the usual loyal toasts, introduced, in a speech replete with good feel ing, the principal toast of the evening-, " Success to the Commercial Travellers' Society." His Lordship pointed out in a very forcible manner the advantages which every one engaged in the laborious occupation of a commercial traveller might derive from being a member of this So ciety. It appeared from his Lordship's statement that the total amount of money paid by the Society to mem bers who had declared on the funds was 11,1091., and to their families, 8,8661. ; while the money which the Society had received from them did not exceed the sum of 3,272/. Independent of this, 65,7301. had been ex pended on sick and infirm members or their families, from whom only 9,239/. had been received. The num-f her of claimants relieved by the Society amounted to 1,112, and consisted of 362 members, 313 widows, BS4 children, and 53 orphans ; and the number on the fund in October last was 293, consisting of 50 members, 110 widows, 30 children, and (3 orphans. The toast was drank with great enthusiasm. The Secretary then read the list of subscriptions, which amounted to about 1,000 guineas. KENDAL ANTI. CORN-LAW PETITION.. — The petition adopted at the meeting of the N'tioritnig Men's Anti-Corn-law Association on Monday evening last, has already received about 1,500 signatures, and from the willingness and anxiety to sign it, that nuatiL cr will be very rrreatly increased. The wives qc, the ap e ., rativcs have bean most eager in thei; solicitations to b e allowed to add their names, rind (l a di n g that it is con trary to usage, expross Oe strangest wish that a p e ti. 0 0;1 bi-,' originated for themselves. T he dearness of bread is an argume n t that comes home . to them, and the cries of their family speak with a force that compels convict ion.—Kmial ME HARVEST IN NORTH . DERllYsinitE._ COM is Still out on Tideswell moor ; b ut should the weather continue lino a few days, the farmers will, no donbi, be enabled to get it "housed." —Derbyshire r)4O k, othina , r- TA PC Or TRADE.--- Ni b 1 ...... w t 6 report. A great part of the worlonc, are 641 of employ, and there is but little pro_Teet (If any spring trade with Ame rica, whic..„h wiii prevent their being employed for some tine,--,-4 4 cicc.iler _Mercury. THE SPAN IS!! DEBT. (From the Cowrie'. Francais.) •` The Spanish Government has advanced another step in the way of disorder and bankruptcy. After decreeing the levy of taxes by a Royal ordinance, sold a mass of national property, expended by anticipation the proceeds of the'mines, and farmed out the taxes for the consideration of a miserable advance, behold it now laying its hands on the reserv e fund of the public debt —a sacred deposit hitherto left in the possession of foreign bankers, to be applied to redeem the stock re duced by M. Torreno. " On the 21st of December the Madrid Cabinet for warded orders to its agents in London and Paris to withdraw the securities deposited in several banking houses as a guarantee of its good faith. Messrs. Ardoin, Laffitte, &c., will in consequence be obliged to give up the following sums to Don. A. G. Moreno, the representative of the army contractors, viz. :-21,000,000 reals in certificates or titles of the Active Debt ; 29,600,000 of the Deferred Debt ; 56,800,000 of the Passive Debt ; 5,800,000 in specie (in all 113,200,000 reals, or 1,132.0001. sterling). " The firm of Zulueta, in Londoa, will have to remit the following sums, deposited in the bank of Glyn and Halifax :-12,000,000 reals of the Active Debt ; 24,700,000 of the Deferred Debt ; 146,000,000 of the Passive Debt ; making 202,700,000 teals (2,027,0001.) Messrs. Ardoin and Ricardo will besides surrender the stock which they may hold as deposits in their possession. " Such a mass of Spanish stock will afford temporary relief to the Spanish Government only when negotiated on the London and Paris markets. Their sale will necessarily produce a considerable depreciation, and have for its effect not only to squander the paper which the Cabinet of Madrid appropriates to itself, but also to occasion great losses to the holders of Spanish stock. If the corporation of stockbrokers have any regard for the obligations imposed upon them in this circumstance, they will not allow Spanish funds to be quoted on the Bourse until the Queen's Government shall have re turned the deposit which it has violated." MONTE VIDEO. We have been favoured by a respectable mercantile firm with the following extracts from .a letter from Monte Video : OCTOBER 31.—The news from the country are good. It is reported to-day upon good authority that the pro vince of Santa Fe had joined Lavalle, and that he had about 4,000 men. There is also a report that the troops under Oribe had revolted and joined Lavalle, but this wants confirmation. The province of Corri entis has declared itself in favour of Lavalle, so that there is every probability of the ports of Entrerios, Santa Fe, and Corrientis being shortly opened. Nov. 2.—We have good news from Corrientis, which had placed about 4,000 men at Lavalle's command. The Government had been changed, and a partisan of Lavalle's put in. A vessel arrived from Buenos Ayres last night (which had licence to go up). The Captain states that there was no alteration in matters there, and that Rosas refused to allow any passengers to leave. A French boat's crew of ten persons had put into Rosario, of which seven had been massacred by Echagne's par ties in a most horrible manner. The officer had been decapitated and quartered, and the pieces carried about as trophies. Although the armies are only twelve or fifteen leagues distant from this, we have no news of any action ; bat it is currently reported that a cessation of hostilities has been agreed to by Don Frutos and Echagne, which may settle matters here. Exchange at Buenos Ayres 3 1-16 d. per dollar. ambloons 270. Here some German and American bills have been passed at 48d. Produce most extrava gantly dear ; in fact, little or nothing is coming in. The quantities going forward are on a very small scale, in deed, as compared with late exports. In sales very little doing. Salt 9 rls. and cry abundant, as also is flour. Should matters not shortly be settled, your sup plies of hides and tallow will be very small indeed, (lur ing the next year.—Liverpool .3fail. ST. ALBAN'S STEEPLE CHASE. A steeple chase took place yesterday in this neigh bourhood for a sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for horses carrying 12st each. Three miles and a half across the country. The following started : Mr. Goodman's b h Vandyke (Mr. M'Donogh) Mr. Barker's b m The Queen (Owner) 2 Mr. Charlton's b g Phosphorus Mr. H. Morley's Ringleader Mr. J. Elmore nd. b g Conservative (Mr. J. Mason) 0 The ground commenced at the back of Coleman's paddock, extended thence to the left for a mile and a half, and, making a circuit, finished in the starting field. There was very little betting ; but Vandyke and Phos phorus were the favourites. They got off well, Vandyke soon taking the lead, with the rest well up, and after numerous changes the race home was left to The Queen and Vandyke, the former with the lead till near the winning field, when Vandyke took it from her, and won cleverly by about a length and a half. SURREY SESSIONS. These Sessions commenced yesterday before Mr. Hedger, Chairman, and above one hundred leading Magistrates of the county, amongst whom were Earl Lovelace, Lord Monson, Sir Henry Fletcher, Sir It. Frederick, Captain Alsager, M.P., Mr. Kemble, M.P., Mr. Dennison, M.P., Mr. Briscoe, M.P., Mr. Hawes, M.P., Mr. C. Barclay, Mr. Crauford, M.P., Colonel. Chnlloner, &c. The Grand Jury having been sworn, th e Ch a i rman adverted to the unusually heavy state of the calender, which contained no less than seventy-three cases of klony, notwithstanding the Sessions had been held scarcely three weeks since. After the usual observa tions, the Grand Jury were dismissed to their duties, and the Court proceeded with the county business. In some conversation on the New Prisons Act, Mr. Tidd Pratt stated that an increase of 1,010 Court of Requests debtors had been confined in the county gaol during the past year. From his knowledge he could state that no Act of Parliament had been passed, within the last five years, giving Courts of Requests through. out other parts of this country the power of imprisoning debtors for a longer period than seven days. Yet in this county a power existed, and which was frequently exercised, by which debtors might be imprisoned for 100 days. The average number of days which this class of prisoners were confined in the county gaol of Surrey amounted to forty. It would be necessary for him to point out the additional burden which t 1 ~5 county had to bear above any other for main :aining small debtors ; but it did appear to him most important that the Committee should inquire into this subject. Mr. HAWES said that he fully concurred that this was a most important topic ; the greater number of the debtors were confined for very small sums, but they were unable to pay the Court fees, which were mostly exceedingly high. In many instances the debts amounted to only a few shillings, while the costs were above a pound. He did think it a most monstrous thing, and he hoped the Committee would apply them selves to the subject, which might he the means of bringing about a useful and public measure. After some discussion on the rural police the Court agreed to the appointment of a Committee to investigate the subject and report thereon at the next Sessions. The Lord Advocate being applied to by the un employed operatives in the Abbey parish of Paisley, to give his opinion as to whether heritors and Magistrate, of Burghs have power to assess for the relief of p.' o l e _ bodied men when out of enipioyment, his Lord nip has returned an answer to the effect, that every person in a state of destitution has a right to relief from the poor's funds. lie founds this opinion on the decision in the caw of Dunse in 1804. NEWARK ELECTION.—On Thursday morning, her Majesty's Solicitor-General arrived again in Newark, and resumed his canvas, the result of which was most satisfactory. Mr. Thesiger has paid another visit to Newark, and we should wish to ask whether he still persists in saying that Newark is his sole patron, because he was last week accompanied in his eanva:;,s hy Mr. Tallents, agent to the Duke of Newcas,tle, and we plainly and distinctly ask, whether the name of the, Duke was not employed in soliciting vc.ies for Mr. 'y he . siger '?lf he values his reputation, he will do this, a n d when defeated, as 41eated he assuredly v. illbe, he w ill retire with edit from the contest, if he is aguided by thp auction of Rods, he must retire both defeated and d(vraced.—Newark Gazct‘c. The Anti-Corn4aw agitation works well ; the causes which favour it arc but too potent. In the volu minous G(ozettes we recognise names that no ordinary vicissitude could have broughtthere and ; for every s i ng le name in the Gazelle, tens, hundreds, and tens of hundreds, are thrown into a state of de • stitution. The very agency that tears employment out of the hands of industry doubles the price thev` feeds o loaf artisan. The ruined manuf , Inrat• can retreat to his humble lodging, may f lower in afar 'gratthe scale of the cr .community, and. yet know what tort ; ti,e working man, whose earnings did not much more than cover his bill for bread, sees his means annihilated, the bread bill doubled, and—what comfort can remain for him ? Hunger and despair are not good for preserving the peace of a co mmun it y . Will t h e Go vernment liabo!d and mad enough to support the breP. tax this winter ?--Glasgow Argus. EXTENSIVE PLATE ROBBERY.—At an earls' hour this morning a robbery of plate to the amount of upwards of 1301. was discovered to have been effected as is supposed, during the night, at tho residence of Thomas Dickson, Esq., N;„ 51, Moruington-cresceht, Hampstead-road. T A " , is conjectured that the thief as thieves had ' o . y some means contrived to gain admission 1 " ..ue house on the previous evening, and had remained concealed until after some of the servants were up, when it would seem they decamped unobgerved. The commercial stagnation in the United States has had a serious effect on the receipts of the theatres in New York and other parts of the Union, which I l y, suffered much from general distress in trade. EVP,NING EDI rioN rvMOB MOUTH SPECIAL CO NI MONMOUTH, Tri• sDAY NIGHT. This being the day to which the special ComMissi..:ii stood adjourned, the Court was opened at an early hour with the usual formalities. It may be remarked that it was yesterday preceded by the greatest bustle prevailing about the town and neighbourhood. This bustle was caused principally by the constant arrival of vritnessis from all parts of the country, but especially from Newport. Not the slightest effort was made to molest these witnest , ev, or to hurt their feelings, even by a harsh expression: Ar personal outrage, there appeared to be not the sligh cwt idea entertained of attempting it. That it was apprehended by the authorities was, however, plain from this—that small parties of the Lancers were sent out at different tiros in the day, for the purpose of scouring the country. There were also to be remarked, what is not usual in so great a town as this, post-chaise pouring in after poor chaise. and carriages following, it might be said, in a con tinuous line. This accession of strangers was also to be remarked this morning, so that by the time the Court was opened, Monmouth was filled with hundreds of the middle and upper classes; while the addition to the numbers of the poorer classes was not such as to justify any remark, in such a time as this, as to its being in the slightest degree extraordinary. As at the opening of the Commission, it had happened that a man, in pressing forward to see the pisoners alight at the Court-house, was accidentally wounded by a sol dier's bayonet, it was considered right to have wooden harriers made outside the Court, which would be suffi ciently wide to admit the prisoners from the prison van, without the possibility of any such accident again occur ring. In the interior of the Court itself several alterations were made by order of Lord Granville Somerset, Major accommodation to the w Esq., the object of Marriott ,hieh wasartiod givet e N i l n a c y r o c r a . sed T . Dyke, repor ters. Those connected with the London Press have had especial reason to be pleated with the attention paid to them, and the facilities afforded to them. Shortly atter nine o'clock the• bugle sounded, and Lancers were seen advancing from their several qu ar t ers , who, with the infantry stationed in the vicinity of the Court-house, were reviewed in the square by their several. officers. The infantry filed off and returned to the guard room, while the Lancers continued mounted and under arms. A section of the London police, under the com mand of Captain Marest, marched up to the Court, r; ney were stationed along the avenues and stairs leadirg to the Court, and beyond the outer iron gates. At this hour applications for admission became haras'alugly numerous. The police discharged their duty firmly but respectfully towards all, admitting none but such as were provided with tickets. At half-past nine the van- for conveying the prisoners from the gaol to the Court-house left the Beaufort Arms, followed by twenty-seven Lancers, under the command of Lieutenant Bernard. Mr. Ford, the Governor of the Gaol, met the van and its escort at the avenue leading tq the gaol, and having received the authorised order for ti.le transmission of his prisoners, he directed the offrer to turn out the Rifles, who were on d u ty i n the ! - aol and having enfiladed the passage from the gaol. gate to the which lv spot where the van was drawn up, rs a distance of , about twenty yards, and Lieutenant B'. rnard having so surrounded that portion of the road '',tthe vicinity of the van, as to render all access by 9 ", rangers i m p oss ibl e , h e returned to the gaol for the purpose of b r i n gi ng out t h e prisoners, who had been previously handcuffed and secured by chains together in twc separate parties of six each, Frost was in advance of the first party, escorted by the gaoler. He walked forward with a steady gait, and a firm, fixed countenance. Although he did not evince the least shrinking, yet lie showed a strong senst of the awful situation in which he was placed. There was no alteration in his appearance when he was ar raigned, with the exception that he was somewhat emae ciated, the effect, no doubt, of his long imprisonrar at. Mr. Frost bowed most gracefully to a gentleman wb-0 was standing under the arch leading to the gaol. His appea , .- ance, and that of his fellow-prisoners, elicite .4 fi om %he bystanders a general expression o f regret anycompasuote That expression appeared to have reac.hr.:(l their eats, as then, for the first time, there was a'sibl e alteretiou in their s as a p if e dtheir e `oused by it. N ot a single countenances expression escaped s all the tune, but oxen prisoner seemed anxious to lesr,en the pain or annoyance which might be caused to hi r, fellow-prisoner by th e hard bolts or chains. As soon the first party of prisoners wer e secured in the van, Nl r . F or d returned for the remaining prisoners. Zephaniah Williams and Waters were the first two of this party. Williams has rallied wonderfully. He appeared quite unshaken, and without the slightest symp tom of bravado; both he, Waters, and their canparie.„ s evinced a manly bearing; they, as well as the exhibited a consciousness of their truly serious ai'uatiou. Williams,' Waters, and Morgan saluted the fel', persons permitted- to remain within the yard of the cool. The. van having been secured, and the several tun nkeys havii taken their place s i n t h e f ront seat, it war, surrounded by the Lancers, the advanced party of the 'Latter having %heir lances lowered for a charge, and thtrs guarded it re Ached and C ourt in a few minutes. At thri entrance to the.co ur s , and in that part of the street 'oetween the van atnd the entrance, there was placed P. - large temporary 'palisadieg, formed of strong timbcre,, and consisting oi two sides, which completely preteted the prisoners 'from any en croachment by the. spectators, who anxiously crowded around to have e. view of them. On their reaching the Court The same expression of regret f'; i r their situation, as was made on their departure from. The gaol, was also m an if este d , and with the same ef feet, on the feelings of the prisoners themselves. Fee some time after the prisoners had entered the Court t' je Lancers continued to patrol in front of it, and then re turned to their quarters. The Judges arrived in the sq uare i n f ront of the house about ten oclock. The c arr i ages were 1) . receded by two of the Lo n d on p o l ice w i t h b atons, two jay.elintncn, and two trumpeters t o eac h. H av i ng robed themselves,jourt their Lordships, preceded by the Mayor, Hi gh Sheriff, and other officers of the Court. Dearing wr,nds., followed by train , bearers and gentlemen, ushers, and, a sma ll f orce o f the metropolitan police, entered the Court. Long before the time appointed t ear the Judges com mencing their proceedings, ttlaose for whom seats had been reserved, in the Court were seen to enter, anti take their respective stati'ins. Amongst the earliest, „f these were the Counsel "for the Crown and for the pri soners. The counsel for the Crown took; their place op posits to the jury-box ; those for the prisoners sat with their baeks to their clients, and immediately frontin the Judges. The Counsel for the Crown were the Att ney and Solicitor-Generals, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, M . . p., Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, Mr. Whiteside, and Mr. T a n eot. The Counsel for the prisoners were Sir F. Pollock., at P ., Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, M. P., and Mr. Thomas. At the barrister's bench, and next to the soliciteme far the pri soners sat Mr. Feargu s O'C onnor, who c.eiterrid the Court a few minutes before the Judges. In 'e r e early part of the day there was no rec ogn i t i on between M. O'Connor ac i d Mr. Frost. appe a r to be much affected by Mr. O'Connc r did no t a the situation_ o f hi s friends; at least he came into Court with a s" . eile upon his face , with which he frequently in dulc;ed those who looked, at him. At a quarter past t.en o'clock the Judges, Sir Nicho', es Tindal, Baron Parke, and Sir John William;, took ',heir places on the, bench. Mr. Bellamy called on the High She'riff to ret'.irn the grand panel of the county. The usuP:L proclamr.tions for the attendance of the Mayor and tb.e Magistra',:es in the county was then made. The Gra'ad Jury was 'next called over. At half past ten o'clock it ".;as directed by Mr. Bellamy that the prisoners should ' J e placed at tee bar. As so many were to be arraign'al at the one time, Mr. Bellamy suggested to the go:Ace that some of them should be moved out of the pr'isoners' dock to the small space besie , , e it—that which belongs to the gaoler himself. Thi& was done; the consequence was, that Mr. Frost an Mr., Waters stood in •,,he gaoler's box. The names of the pr: i , soners were t;nen called over as follow :—John Fr os t, Charles W;iters, John Lovell, Richard Benfield, John Reece, e/corge Turner alias Cole, Zephaniah Wi . . i ii ams. Edmor,d Edmonds, Jacob Morgan, Solomon Britton, WiP.iam Jones, James Aust, John Reece, and Dr... v ld J ones. , . 'The Clerk of the Arraigns th en addressirre: Mr. Frost, Said, " John Frost, h o ld u p y our r i g h t h an d. .. Mr. Frost, before complying with the '..equest, took off the black gloves which he wore, and then held up his hand. . to read the indict ment,as it has been already The other prisoners having also }-, e ld u p their bands, which little attention to i' , . published.tl eC l Clerk of of Arra ig nsDheurdini d wordthtel i e t o ri :o i nr l e r p o w, c f e tyr e dbdue itsdt being read, the pri soners at the bar seemed., to They were of course al, i f u l fully , * aware of its contents. Scrno of them were obser Jed .i o s p e ak to each other ; a u , only one who was engaged in conversation was Zephani a h Williams, who was engaged nearly all the time with his solicitor, Mr, ot standiti4 . Owen, t o w h om t h e facility was affe,rded Frost t=in in the d ec k i n company with the pris on ers, generally either resting his head upon V . i s r i g ht ll'in( l .. (his usual attit u d e ), or i n l ocking about th .e Court. Pie seemed to watch with peculiar interest th e box ap propriated to the London reporters. The dr;meanour of 1 all the prisoners was extremely proper and 'quite suitable to the awful situation in which t'aey r,cre placed. They were all respectable and very in:Lellig,entiooking men, and all dressed in the garb of gent:iemer, with the exception of Richard Benfield, John R'cece, and George Turner alivs Cole. The prisoner Z , ,phaniali Williams is exceedinc4ly like a person well knowin at the time of the Irish rebel:lion, and who was commor:ty called " Natty Cox,"—th,J pub lisher at a subscquiAt period of a very clever and 'satirical magazine. Upon the e,onclusion of the reading of the 'indictment the Clerk Arraigns said, " How say you, .John Frost, ar e you guilty of these treasons or not.. Mr. Frost, in a very firm tone of voice), replied " Not Guilty." Chavles 'Waters, in reply to the swine question, made the snore answer in a firm. tone of vr,ice. The reply of John Lovell was scarcely audible,, Richard Benfielsk, when his name was pronounced, t'.,rned red, replied, r,nd then looked up to the ceir.mg. The answer of John r.eece was given in a strong to• - ,,e of voice. George Turaer said " Not Guilty" before Th e question was put to Wan. The answer of Zephania',l Williams was strong a',d decided. nond Edmone, s sa id " N o t gu il ty " in very subdued tone. Jenkins. Morgan gave his answer with a rather careless exP . .cssion. Solomon 13rittoe. turned deadly pale, and then repeated " Not guilty, not guilty," in a hurried manner.. Jones and Aust muttered forth their replies in such a manner as to give the Court and the, W public the .ea that they l oo k e d upon t h e questions put, to them ag a Mere matter of f o r m . The Attorney-General then. rose and said—My Lords, the prisoners having been tp7raigned, having pleaded Not guilty, this is the ti".ae in which m y Learned Friends will perhaps have 'no objection '„o state whether their clients will seve r 'e r join in th e i r c h a ll eng e s . What they do casist of co arse gu i de my proceedings mu on. the present ocon. Sir ' Pollock—l cannot answer for what ot h er 'T,ners will do : t appear for only ooze, Mr. Frost, cf" sevMr' ers on challenges. with m T. y e y..itzro K 11•— I ant likewise engage d y 'I