The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-18 00:00:00

BUTURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1852.

LITERATURE.

Monsoiro, Joarrieol, and Corrospoodnom, of TAoosas Moore
Edited by *be Right Him Lord Joist! KressLt.. Long•

(Snood Notice.)
The contents of the .scored volume of these relics
of Mean are of deeper and more varied interest than
those of the first. The hero of the tale has been
draws loco the vortex of a healer world—the whirl
of that vortex has become more stormy and im-
psases--and he has himself caught the contagious
excitement, become imbued with more earnestness,
and engrossed with more serious interest.. We find
him hameght into familiar contact with the leading
spirits of the age at the time when the allied 'ove-
rtire visited London; when Napoleon snatched
rfor a brief and stormy interval the guidance of
destinies of France. It was a spirthatirring
epoch, such as those who did not live in
those days can have no conception of. And
the intenser life which inspired men in
public affairs, was felt also in their literary
efforts. The interest with which the publications of
the snout popular favourites of the public are nowa-
days looked for and received is hence compare] with
that which was awakened when works from Byron,
Scott, and Moore, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Shel-
ley, and a host omioor aspirants, issued daily trout
the press.
The clam of society with which Moore was most
intimately associated was that of the aristocratic
whigs. In his letters and journals, therefore, we
catch the reflex of their tone, less impassioned, less
stormy than that of the democracy, on the surface of
which they. floated. Their's was a courtly libe-
ralism, aspiring to the toleration of the despotic
circles it opposed, ambitious of being distinguished
the vulgar discontented. Their character is
well indicated in a letter from Lady Donegal (a good-
natured partisan of the court) to Moore, prescribing
to him how far he may go in liberalism :
You will be in the society of some whose beads awl hearts
are too wrong to bays any iniluenee with you, but their
very society will do you harm, and the association of their
sautes with yours would grieve me moat sincerely. I be-
seech you to avoid them all if you eaa, and if you cannot he
u guarded as in your nature lies, for the Irish democrats (if
you choose I will call them opposition) arc a &aprons,
unprincipled set as ever existed, and are held in great dis-
repate by all the respectable part of the opposition in this
country; I pat all my own courtly feelings out of the qua.
tioo. • • • lam satisfied that you should go as far in
your politics as Lord Lansdowne or Lord Grenville, but 1
will give my consent to your going one step beyond
them. /As for Sir F. Burdett an this country, and Mr. B.
and others I could name in Ireland, I bare a horror of
them, &adjoin heartily is the general feeling of contempt
into which they have fallen.
Moore's natural disposition prepared him to con-
form
to this advice, and it is accordingly with the'
politico-literary Holland-house and allied circles that
we find him most intimate. We do, however, find
him occasionally associating with " wilder " men,
such as Burdett, Hobhouse, Douglas Kinnaird, &c. ;
but always with something of that feeling en-
tertained by decorous, steady-going men, who
indulge in occasionally consorting with fascinating
nosh. In justice to Moore, however, it must be
remarked that his native good sense frequently
led him to warn and remonstrate with his whig
friends when their pOOO-curantiam in politics was
pushed to excess.
Tee tone of eircles such as he mingled most with
in such excited periods is that of careless resignation
to fate. They affect indifference in, and laugh at,
or satirise everything. Hence records of their
familiar conversations are peculiarly frequent. Their
bon mote, levelled alternately against ministers and
popular leaders, are amusing to the extreme; their
unceremonious treatment of dignities edifying. Here
is a sample from Moore's diary :
Went to Holland House; had some conversation with
Lord Holland before dinner. Mentioned to me a curious
scene which be bad with Sheridan and the Prince while
they were Is power. Sheridan having told him (while
they waited in se sate-chamber) about some public letter
which he had corrected or re-written for the Prince, the
latter, as their admission to him, told quite a different
story, referring to Sheridan, who all the while enurteonsly
bowed ament ; and, said Lord Holland, "I could not, for
the soul of me, make out which was the liar."
Mr. Dalton is scarcely more complimentary to the
externals of the Regent than Lord Holland to his
inner man. In June, 1814, Mr. Dalton writes from
London The Emperor [Alexander] is a very
amiable-looking person; the King of Prussia is, I
think, much more interesting, from his simple and
unostuatidiess demeanour ; but the contrast between
their Wawa manner and unaffected dress, and the
&Hiegel dignity and manufactured emanate of our
Itegent, ie most striking." The same setter recounts
a rather smetify hag adventure of him whom Thackeray
calls " Game the Magnificent :
The swot striking eabiMtion witch I saw was the first
appositions asi masptiime M the peat visitors at the Opera.
• • • • no ltagent, who meowed along with the Em-
peror and ling of Prowls, nod wile at sparse shared in the
appleue, "NA was peedigiaek Wiwi pale when ha sew
the artfully timed s waaatofthePefaeessof Wales 'wally
opposite,ali tie critical assamea whoa the applause bad sub-
sided. I wee saw anything so painted as the manner
in whit dime the entire setileaw turned to her sad
cheered harf

--Flitminlitess of that dity biro is one respect a
era* Melees to these adm resent, in •d•etiolf
the seamen of their ft. On this head poor,
wrote to Lady n April, 1816 :
By the bye, a= yes er an yea not a little eabamed of
ear dear binds. the misistsest I dent lases ea the more
of their wields ea abaft Ile lir is this rupee they are,
of worse, es eimiraWe es ever, hat ter the shabbier's with
which they am daily mereaderiag so many wile, Wisps &
sable, sad use mos amisof ampeeares to the Malin of
eyeesities. " Time was when the braes were one the tea
woad die ;" or that whet a Waiver (es rombemy says)
was proved a feel, be would go sear to be thought se too;
bat sew we ses that, so be keeps his Mace, he seed sot be
aim. es le whets sessearee he keep ley,Vslie hmas asst the
vises, or some te hem what he aisle a Me ad-
vammiss. he lee the seamiest prim= he he tiem
hem whet thoy pines ayes Nes. We dell sou ham all
measures artgleate with dm 41111psitisa : they will. ley the
sp, sod drikiiml soden eishows will bomb *e the
Ice the present fragmentary asini-antassaistie rela-
tions of was is opposition, the followair Mature
os easiitjeasr dawn& ia 1819, has an istemot :
Modatimb Minis madam warmly, sad is measialy
right es to Sheila/MI erhielyie. though some of the mid-
imbues. Ism boa neimey. TM *Wendt cen-
tury wail full of asalitioos the Bumbstioa was brought
shout by a eseUtisa ; Lord 's Nation with the
Duke of Newer& hued oat year reedy. • • • llie
' said that Wee etelitlem were Mewed,- we and Mink
ler em Is a ottadlog swat minis** ; end the
arms Wine ..sip • sees of wthunidas mod, tiatisseiai
linehethedity them lapse of —die to es
I mama essimme die lessper et their sad nal
them dam essemisilni themeless le rash *ohm ear im
pesselegie messerse. wadi an Mle an sews of delouse
sad poise sash *eels as maid 'Ma the esnallasties.
The light throws upon bilamo's own Amstar
and *aim in these volumes is ample. He
called limit a Rosen catholic, but his devotion
to diet Nth dem sot upper to have gam
auk braise this a nodes that it wee a Pont of
Maims sot to essede from a ehmalt of wkiak ho bed
ease thawed himself a .amber. His ebildroa were
baptised and educated as protestan% sad boss awry
early pedal of his life be absolved himself hem the
eademisa. la the autoblegraphisol
whichWiest Lard Lord Aim Russell's rollesidtga of
the Now =IL speak the post tolls us:
Of this venerable_ seisms [O'Halloran, his diet and rely
esahreml, led la bele end masaer, se he sat Healey to
me in the esoesseimed, I hays given a dremip!loe, by ao
moose everstreged, in the lest volume of we Trends of
as Irish Deellssasa." It was, if I reeelbeet Aght, twits a
year that I used to tally teeth, before kfast, to pectins
this sebum INSISIII7-41, smear I thsacertainly felt it—
del ame hes wrier pet of the illersises work was my
Immildmese oder ohs esaibmisa with en old Medea of my
=Mar, Mrs. Demme, the wife of a West India amide,
whit lived is a Weft of Towasheetetree, sad a meet
lambus dkylsy of bettered teest, sap, beeirmeek, di.,
litiadeelegie ms en those essesisas. - To this part of the
essemosies I Wok beak, ems now, with a
sort of Owen ; but set se to tit* trylas geese which lad
gee* Made it. Noteithsteeding the patio sad parietal
mown of the sit esaleser, his peeitice, sitting there es
Wei" maimed allM wfal la say was; sad the awne-
d whims up a isy boyish yeeeedille s,y
VlLlol6.lt■"lna' alid
eadabotbeaa eahar":
humilisdag. Wea wets InrethoTtmeseeit par sad Mani-
Medea era selatie to the W. awl 1 en ail mess/ we
Mety 11. the sentneim is awed smwelat
areas heft soma argnmena sad high halm* ha IN
flwar. has lermrse, did it at lam home se mei
MO shoal a
_year eta two ear my entrants lam eel*. 1
walosello signify t• samb.• a wish that 1 Medd am
Maga we issod, afte a slight /411•1111111111 W.
she essay *Nisi le my wish.

It Is easily dissolvable that periodical explicit con-
tagion, to a gran, elderly priest, must have been
rather awkward he the author of "Little's Poems."
Bat though ths scapegrace deserted his duties
an a dameeatlslie, maternal lore persevered in
time for him. There is something mud •
cal in precaution which the semi-oceptic's mother
took in fitting him out for his first trip to London :
My peer mother bad long been hoarding op every penny
she *mid scraps tepther towards the expenses of my

,Ouraey to Limiest, foe the purpose of being entered at the
Temple. A part of the smell sum which I utak with nte
was legal/lees, end I recollect wee earsfully sewed up by my
mother in the waistband tam, pantaloons. There was also
another treasure which she had, unknown to sae, sewed up
in some other part of my clothes, and that was a scapular
(se it is called), a small bit of cloth blessed by the priest,
which • food superstition laclined her to believe would
keep the wearer of it from harm. And thus, with this charm
1 about me, of which I was wholly unconscious, and my lit-
tle packet of imbues, of which I felt cl.eply the responsi-
bility, did L for the flr,t time, start from home for the
great world of London.
The success of the charm was, as usual, rather
equivocal. It was the singular fate of one destined
to be not only a distinguished pet, but the especial ,
pet, of the 'typically fashionable world, to make his
debut in London as the comrade of a seedy sharper.
At Northampton, a young man entered the coach
who "had been on the continent, talked of his
hunters (though rather shabby in his appearance),
and was going to London then only to get rid of a
little money." This genius attempted to thrust him-
self on the raw Irish lad. Moore, however, was
prudent enough to save his money and goods, but
could not escape altogether the equivocal honour of
the adventurer's company.
You ought to see a little of London (he said), and I will
show it to you. Allowing him to remain under the im-
pression that all Ude was likely to happen! I yet ventured
to say that I must first visit those friends whom I have
mentioned ; and to this he considerately acceded, saying
that he would himself after we had breakfasted, walk with
me Dart of the way. To this, not knowing how to get rid
of him, I assented ; sad accordingly, arm in arm with that
swindler (as I have no doubt the (*lbw was), I made my
brat appt 'ranee in the streets of London.
The believer in the efficacy of scapulars will attri-
bute to the one which Moore's mother had stitched
into his raiment the saving of his purse and clothes ;
the sceptic will ask how the holy charm did not
save him from such an inauspicious first appearance
in the metropolis.
This occurred in the year of grace, 1799. In 1803
he was exposed to an indignity scarcely less than
that of compulsory association with a swindler.
It has hitherto, we believe, been kept a profound
secret, that in 1803 the laureateship was offered to
Moore, that (from pecuniary considerations) he at
first accepted it, and that he actually wrote one
birthday ode. He thus speaks of the incident in a
letter to his moiler' dated 20th May, 1803:
Never could I hay. bad the faintest idea of accepting so
paltry and degrading a stipend, if I had not the toying
apprehension that my dearest home wanted it ; but Heaven
be praised that you are not in instant seseepiq for as
subsume which aseessity alone could ultimate. I will do
better for you, at least as well, by mesas more grateful to
my feelings. The manner in which Mr. Wickham commix,
sleeted the eircumstases to me would disgust every
man with the least spirit of independence about him.
I accordingly, yesterday, after the receipt of my father's
letter, enclosed the Ode for the birthday, at the same time
resigning the situation, and I slept sounder last night in
consequeses than, I assure you, I have dons for some time.
It would place me on "a ladder" indeed, but a ladder that
has but one rank, when I would remain stationary fur
ever. Feeble as my hopes are of advancement under go-
vernment, I should be silly to resign them,withoat absolute
outstay, fur a gift which would authorise them to consider
me provided for, end leave me without a chance of any
other or further advantage ; it would " write me down as
au" and a poet for ever.
The story of the duel (or semi-duel) with Jeffrey is
told by Moore in a gay, playful, self-complacent
style. It does not, in our humble opinion, do him
much credit. He states that the review of his poems
affected him at first so little, that he treated it play-
fully in a conversation with Lady Donegal and her
sister Miss Godfrey. It was only on second thoughts
that he resolved to make it the ground of a chal-
lenge. This proceeding he palliates by remarking:
However boyish it might have been of me to consider
myself bound to take this sort of notice of the attack, there
was certainly but little, if any, mixture either of ill temper
or mere personal hostility with my motives. That they
were equally free from a certain Irish predilection for sue
encounters, or wholly unleavened by a dash of vanity, I
will not assert.

The motive wu not only vanity—the silly ambi-
tion of the eclat that attends (or attended) the duel-
list—but vanity ootabined with great vulgarity and
coarseness. Moore himself describes the challenge
he sent as follows :

Of the short note which I sent, the few first lines have
long escaped my memory; but, after adverting to some as-
sertion contained in the article, accusing me, if I recollect
right, of a deliberate intention to corrupt the minds of my
readers, I thus proceeded: To this I beg leave to answer,
you are a liar ; ye., sir, • liar • and I chooee to adopt this
harsh and vulgar mode of delta:see, in order to prevent at
once all equivocation between uss, and to compel you to
adopt, for your own satisfaction, that alternative which you
anytht otherwise hays hesitated in affording to mine."
This was sheer brutal bullying. It was not so
much a demand of reparatiou for wounded honour es
an attempt to goad au adversary into personal con-
flict by the use of language that could only redound
to the discredit of him who used it. Such language,'
such conduct, would scarcely have been' excusable
under the influent* of a personal squabble in the ex-
citement of wine or gaming; deliberately used, after
the lapse of days (if not weeks), for a literary
quarrel, it is coarse and rerolting. Moore's aooount
of his own deportment at Chalk-farm is worthy of
tho beginning; it is entirely melodramatic—the sen-
timental,graceful ineoweeenee of an actor sustaining
a part quite different from his own vulgar habits:
HMI( retired with Hume behind the wee,, for the pur-
pose of loading the pineal., Iseelog Jeffrey and myself toge-
ther. All this bed rempled bat a very few minutes. We
of ape= bed bowed is nob ether an meeting ; bet the
last west I MANI Se have pared between us was
JAW 9 ogler, on per belattleft together, " What a beau-
tiful men* it is." " Tee," I answered with a mile, "
me dui made for better purposes ;" to which his only re-
growl'''. a sort of assenting sigh. As oar 'errante were
net, say more than ourselves, very expert at warlike mat-
they wen rather slow in tide pesseethage; and as
I end I walked up end down "gmber, we came mice
in sight of their operathea ; upon vldelt I related to him,
as rather d-propos to tte purpose, what Billy Bean, the
Irish barrister, roes said, when b• was saunteriag
Meat in Re newest while the 'be* wen hiding his
eaugesis:A= little fellow, e~ ewe is his angrily to
beep hi : " Don't who yourself erelq, asy dear
Mew" Ikea, " sure lea% it hard sueugh is ihe the
du" IMMO being at the shier up." Jeow seizes*
Ilse Is mile at this *my wham ear ire Kends, twain,
bin haul di Om is. -
- -

Thiagiiii,ll7A‘Cw, of the pp amid fashion
appears to have had a prodigies Abet ea the two
taw thatch lads—tarat Set time Herm and
Juba wun little better. We de net binge Jeffrey
br brig es
usesselled be Meer% for
Moon had both ftable as:drolly rateable qualities.
His induct to hie parents throughout, and
his resslate iniones, are bored praise.
Bat in the admii, he essmeived for Mews • gay
dememmer on the deli JeCrey allowed himself to
be haired to Abe ea explanation, dish woe in
het an apelemp and retracted.% although in his
review being only said of Little's Poems gist they
doesrved, and 'gouging it pg as sad to that proligate
wheel et literature of which thole peon, mei Lowie's
Welt; are the last remembered examples. " A
la Bleats" serried it away.
Enough et Moore. Thu first volume .stains in-
oidental nodose that throw light en grime charac-
ters. Lard Moira makes a very poor appearance.
Moore himself, it is apparent, Met inure epos the
Regent's profeseions than he nonght be make the
world believe in the prefaces to his collated pams.
The following anecdote of Lord Wellington shows
that, like many other great men, his merits were not
observed by his early acquaintances.

I have bea• enabled to nark mere arbiaty the ate of
this toy's [the toy salted is Pima landahrs, ad:rue.
pais], from a oltemssames meatiemsd to me by
leek semeralai the NW it Wellieglem. who. EA the lime
I ems spooking st, WY UN of the sides dasump et the Lord
Liagensaat of Imbed. sad is the year 179 e, soma&
isi to Lied Plashes's assamt, east kayo bees a resmberof
the Ida House of OSIMUMIL " I remember." said Lied
Mel" so • ammeillee with him ; and it le a•
Lord Alma Fitsmeraid wee elm am at
the members it. TM Duke thplay:Capadm WESaikti
or Wisky), was,l reeellset, with NIS it those
lays ealWApilsom, ths whale time et t sitibuitia ears-
mita." nib 1114111, the Dube Ali all
that have baud abed *biome ma's frivolity
at that pedal et kis life. Latrl ledges, who is about
two yams ales thaa the Duke, seal who lived es terms of
Mama with all the /belle an of them dqs. has the
=am. is the Ms atoll the Duhe's permt glory,
frellell the faun betimss of the
miss with whim ht U be had said to bimtelf, at
iftelkillire whet be, Well, let who will get ea is
this walk you artsialy will met." Si MOM iambs did
awe appear et that time of am the mist @Mims, emotes
is lib la the sea whe elms accumulated mad his
am" 1.16 Prise:: Ind" kin.
onnwes wellington, it was (at
tkinlteateried, at lent) Italy ma a soldier. The
dank as a datums had not yet been re-
aegiaed.
titimgh some W legs to sospeet him of
sqpiring to aiyil me well es military distinction.
Moore notes in his diary a cooesesaties ma this sub-
ject which be had with P tesoater itur Devizes,
and a bank director in 1819, whey the bank question
was under discussion :

----- •
Pewee says It is understood la town that the Data of
Welliagton is very anxious to booms Primo MialArt,
aad that in order to gelato character or as imestaireghiroa
he had himself named oa the Beak Ourollteer and

attended it newt pasetsally every day. This will Sot do.
If the Bank meta be takes by a weep de wain, his grace
might be the person, but God preserve us from his states-
manship.
The diary is replete with amusing anecdote and.
illustration, of character. portions of the years
INIB and 1819 embraced in the second volume being
those in which Moore was engaged collecting mate-
rials for his life of Sheridan. anecdotes of that mark-
ing a large space in it. Many of the best and moat
authentic have been passed over in silence in the
memoir from prudential considerations. In truth,
the diary affords us more insight into the character
and fortunes of Sheridan than his " Life." The next
most prominent figure in these pages is Bowl, s, the
parson and poet. The anecdotes relating to him
have this ad vantage over the Sheridomana, that,
whereas the latter are gleaned from others,
the former are ream Moore's own observation.
Bowles was a near neighbour, and on intimate
terms. A richer mixture of bonlionimie and
absurdity with literary ambition and taste can
not be well imagined. Ho is always rich,
alike when superintending his straw hermitages
and water-fano; dictating to the waiter at an inn his
rejoinder to Campbell's strictures on his conclusion
of " Hope"; or libelling Calvin and all his sectaries.
Perhaps, however, the following exhibition of him-
self is as amusing as any the good man ever made :
Bowles told me of his having advised the poor psalm.
writer (that comes to him for charity), to turn dissenting
preacher ; of his rigging him out with an old black coat
and breeches of his own, and saying, "There now, you are
fit to preach before any one." Excellent, this, in a minister
of the establishment.

The following anecdote of Sheridan, though not
so new, is not bad in its way:
One day at B.'B house the servant in passing, threw down
ati plate-warmer with a crash. Sin riders, after meolding
most furiously, at last exclaimed, " And how many plates
■re broke ?" Oh, not one, sir," answered the fe:low,
delighted to vindicate himself. " And you dsmneil foul
(maid ), have you made all that noise for nothing i"
But we must break off, referring our readers for
full satisfaction to the &imitating pages where we
h..ve been extracting, and repeating the assurance
with which we concluded our former notice, that
these volumes are a valuable addition to the rich
stores of Baglish biography.

LIVERPOOL FINANCIAL REFORM ASSO-
CIATION.

The annual meeting of the Financial Reform
Association was held on Thursday evening at the Concert
1141, Lord Nelson-street. The chair was occupied by Ro-
bertson Gladstone, Esq. He congratulated the meeting on the
approach of the termination or the first five years of its
existence. (Cheers.) The first business would be to read
the report. The next business would be to propose • peti-
tion to parliament in opposition to the budget of her Ma-
jesty's ministers—(loud cheers)—which, in point of fact,
might be summed up in a few words : it was • trick to
compel the poor man to pay for the rich. (Cheers.) The
third hominess would be the appointment of a council for
the ensuing year.
The report was read by Mr. Mit..ex, the ouretary. It
commenced u follows:

" The put year has been marked by so much political
and party excitement as to leave little scope for the profita-
ble discussion of practical reforms. Your council have,
therefore, abstained from holding meetings, or otherwise
attempting to press the subjects of economical expenditure,
combined with increased simplicity and efficiency of admi-
nistration in the several branches of the public service, and
the yet more important ohj.c: of a thorough reform of our
fiscal system, upon a public pre-occupied by electioneering
occurrences, or impatiently waiting the announcement of
the financial policy of Lard Derby's ministry "
The report then proceeded to discuss the merits of the
budget, which it denounced as both a fraud and a failure.
It then proceeded :
" By the dime anation of free-trade principles, the Anti-
Corn-law League triumphantly exploded the key-stone of
monopoly from its legalised position, and thereby de-
molished for ever the combined arch of exclu-
sive protection. But customs dudes, which con-
fine
within comparatively restricted limits the com-
merce of England with the world, remain yet to
be abolished. Why may notthe Financial Reform Asahi
ation put forth the irresistible energies of a combined heap
to emancipate the springs of industry wholly from the op-
pression of this fiscal hindrance, and win for the cowslip
and the wield the great commercial desideratum of per-
fectly fres ports' throughout the British empire ? LM
the bases ofeeesmercial freedom, who have so persevere
in* mill seensifolly fought the battle of free trade spirt
sow dffeasegrthe i
ow inntellitteencea which will e to
col-
the national revenue 4y imposts n onmaarliTlelesyof mer-
e of
on the one hand, and, on the other, the compare-
tire mignal advantage of direct taxation ; then the pau-
• 'seal system of indirect taxation will soon cease to
to the of obstruction to the expansion of commerce,
rliltipestest barrier to the progress of human advance-
ment—is civilisation, in moral improvement, and in late'.
lectual elevation—will be removed. Tree omnipotence
of enlightened opinion is as available now to sweep
away from our statute book the excise and cus-
toms duties which are the inveterate fiscal yes-
: tips of barbaric ignorance, as heretofore it was to erase the
corn laws. Glorious, indeed, and
will be the coming day when all enlightened men shall com-
bine to make their rallying cry—' The substitution of
direct taxation for all excise and customs duties.' The
world's opinion would quickly gather round the advocacy
of this just, profitable, and political fiscal system of direct
taxation with a forte that would ensure its universal adop-
tion, Thenceforward every labourer would be fully

employed and liberally remunerated. Productive industry
would everywhere pour out its wealth of industrial produe-
tins fiscally uuburdeoed, which would render all occurs.
tics. profitable, and enrich all classes. Amidst such general
aluence all would be willing sad able to pay for good
goverusniat their fair share of direst taxation. Every one
would thee mut accarately his own individual cost of the
national mgmaditare, aud string meow in the manage-
ment of Ms
_pa lblis hada wadi be thereby neces-
sitated; Os ditsibutisu se *sty sod prosperity would
be dieing Ilmmoismat this seutstry sad the world, and the
amity of seramsmial ties tottered, sad multiplied by the
repeal of costa= dulls', would le marywhem inter-
nationally interwoven, and would burs= alms enough to
neutralise sad ristesia all asthma smiths, and disarm
war for ever of Ili 1111111ka5ity. Am natio= thenoeforward
would, in the sisitemwet of materilly bewsikial interests, be
practically sisalgualstsd ssmessis would be an absurdity,
and anneudisa an act of sapaursestion. And ought not
Sir Robert Peel's trial of embiltistioa of direct taxation
for indiresio—ehisb has premed eminently rumen.

ful, because of dm gnitielireeriiiiion of customs
duties this segatdom operation hes effected—to be
the pole star of cur foal palsy? Ought not this
sucteesful experiment to swages the vast advan-
fte that would meow bum tite total extinction
eCall annum Muer% sad ens ear society with wisdom
and seal to piped to the pane and to the soma-
neat the presentees of the wine way of attaining to •
stiff greater Wrenn of prosperity *a the country ? Tiss
substitution by the legislature of lbws taxation for suer
toms and excise duties is the rational centimes to Sir Robin
Peel's succeeds] experiment, sad IS. esseewion to the an.
lightened dessatul of the poldie Mealy • question of Rm.
The glory sad honour of behrMeg sheet this eliblesseset
of fissal jades la the menial diesse—of benefit to emery
Sher den of send astleasl penny, and of extends& hese -
nines to the whets banes lually—is surely wertliy the
1...nenl the honest principles, and indomitable enterprise of
w. d's intelligent merchant princes."
"C"meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. A. C.
Stewart, Mr. F. Bonk, Mr. J. R. Jeffery, and Mr. L. Hey-
worth, and a petition against the budget was unanimously
adopted. Thanks were then Toted to the chairman, and
the meeting broke up.—Liverpool Chronicle.

PREPARATIONS TOE CIIBISTSIAS.—In almost every
dwelling in every street,in every quarter of this gigantic
city, Christmas Cs heralded in with a clatter of knives and
fasts, a fieurishing of spoons, end a jingling of glasses. In
wanly chapels royal, whore doles of bread are given to the
per ; in miserable garrets, where the addition of another
red herring is made to the always minty meal, on the
ground that it is Christmas there, low down, as well u
elsewhere, higher up ; Christmas to brought in with a
jovial, genial sort of—let us not call it by a harsh nun—
gormaadising. As we trudge through the streets every-
body sums to be eating and drinking, or pre-
panng to eat and drink. The crossing•sweeper munches
a large paralsllopipedon of bread and treacle, bestowed on
hiss, no desk, by some kindly spinster in the neigh-
bourhood; the policeman leans somewhat lazily against
a rallies, notwithstanding the cold. He bake ple•
thoric, dyspoptie. Goodness ! what number of supports
has that ausietpal officer consumed with what num-
ber of Nobs I How many puddings, in their raw state
has he tweed ? How many sly little nuggets off noble joints
have been broiled ter him ? How many sanasges—links in
that chain which binds the turkey to our heart—will be
miming to-morrow, owing to his Christmu Eve rapacity ?
Will X. 99 dine ? Of course he will; and Mrs. Policemen
X 99 is at this moment concluding the purchase of a mighty
piece of pork and a colossal amalgamation of cabbages,
known in the precincts of the Brill, Somers Town, where
the trans etion takes place, as a " green ;" which pork and
green will cheer the heart of hour,* X 99 when he comes
off duty.—Dickena's "Household Words."
BALLTIAACAIBEIT COPPER MINIM—WC are gre ti-
ned in learning that a wealthy English company have ob-
tained possession of au extensive field of copper mince at
Ballymacarbery, in the parish of Kilronan. They have
already employed several hands in nuking the ne
preparations for mining on a large scale. R'e undeeenlin
the gentlemen commissioned by the company to commence
operations are so confident of an ample return for any
amount of capital that may be expended on the undertak-
ing, that they are determined to spare no expense in work-
ing the mines vigorously and anciently. Mosel
Chronid..
Arnurenatura. HaLL—Namee of gentlemen who
named their examination in the science and practice of me-
dicine, and received (*infinite* to practise, on Thursday,
Dee. 16, 1862:—Allred Adams Marston, Hilton, Gloaces-
tenhire : William Derbyshire, Stockport, Cheshire ; Fred-
erick Ellis, Birmingham.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY.

swa Law Caaacas.sna, Luta CON ourros, awa
LOAD 8.1114 A. 1,11 alma.

CULL= v. BLAClL—TitaNseleit he it•ILWAT AtiAltr.a.
Thin was an appeal from the Court of Bemion in Gentians%
and the question is whether the court was right in directing
an issue of certain disputed facts between the appellant and
defendant to be sent to a jury for trial, or whether the ea*
ought not to have been dismissed at ones, without any in-
vestigation of the disputed fact, on the ground of its being
irrevelant. An action was brought against the appellant.
Mr. John Cullen, writer to the signet, Edenhargh, by the
respondent, Mr. Alexander black, sharebrukur, Glasgow,
with respect to certain shares of the Great Northern Hail=
way Company. Accordirg to the case for the appellant, on
the 12th of October, 1847, he instructed Mr. Arehibald
Kerr, stockbroker, of Glasgow, to purchase for him 180
, Great Northern shares before the loth of October. On
that day 1:e received a letter, stating that he
had bought the shares, which the appellant stated
he was ready to accept and pay fir no receiving the
transfer, but which he could not chisels until the Gth
November, when he elet to Glasgow fur it. The transfer
which was went to the appellant was a double one from a
Mr. Lindsay for 13U share', and t em Nis,. Black the re-
maining 60, making 180, Red the coneideratien money, oe
sum to be paid, was left in blank in the transfer. Thy ap-
pellant afterwards discovered that the aharee were hot pur-
chased before the leith October, the tone lia..te el for the
purchase, but on the Gth November, so that the authority*
purchase had expired. It also aiipearet that eie the 3rdd
November a call of 10e. per share bad Men made by the
company, which neither Lindsay or Black bad paid. Neill*
party being willing to pay the tall the shay. s were for-
feited ; but previously to that action ass brought against
the respondent, is, the registered proprietor of the slimes, by
the company, La toe amount of the e i November,
1847, and another in February, 1818. Tilt' respondent
then brought his ',even against the appellant, declaring him
to be liable tor the said call, rand that the rehpoteleht
should be relieved from any liability. An issue was di-
rected by the court, and against teat decision an appeal wee
by leave of the court, brought to this house.
Few the appellant it was contended that ha had, in ext.,
never purchased the shares ie question from cite re sperelent,
inasmuch as Ken's authority, as his age re, expired ou the
16th October, and he had no authority to lewd Lim to a sale
on 6th November; that the transfer itself w:ol void, be-
cause it did not contain the amount of coml.:mat:on money
to be paid for the shares, but that that part of it was in
blank ; and, besides that, the respondent, being tl e regis-
tered proprietor of the shares, and not Laving paid the
call made on the 3rd November, could not If gaily teamster
them; that, as the respondent was the registered proprie-
tor of the shares, and liable to pay the calls, and ie:s.sed to
do so, sad they were forfeited, he had no claim against the
appellant; and that if it was competent to the court to
send an issue toe jury, the issue which had been sent war
not in conformity with the facts of the ease.
Fee the respondent it was urged that he bona tide sold
the shares to the appellant through the ages cy of Kerr,
and that the question of that agent's authority relecel
be-
tween him and the appellant, who took and retained the
transfer; that, as the calls not having been paid before the
sale, it was clearly within the obligation and untertaking
of the appellant that he should have paid it, and that he
had only to pay that call in order to get the transfer regis-
tered ; and that, as to the transfer being void hie not stating
the consideration money, the acts of parliament only im-
posed a penalty for such au omission, and the instrument
did not become a nullity.
At the dose of the arguments for the appellants on
The.rsday,
The Lord Chancellor suggested that the parties should
coma to some arrangement so as to enable the court below
to deal with the we. _

An adjournment took place until yesterday, when it was
arranged that, with the consent of both pastier, the ease
should be remitted to the court below to be Manion certain
admissions, the LUAU) in dispute to be withdrawn.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—YeaTERDAT.
Ann/1w AT Ni. PRIM IP LOPTIOX.7I3IIOIIII Loco CA WILLI. UM

tram& Jurise
BUSINESS OP THE COURT.

Lord Campbell gave notice laring consulted with
the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, he ha l ar-
ranged that the sittings at Nisi Prins, both at Westminster
and in London, should, after neat term, tOUST3ISZIOII at ten
o'clock.

OLVER V. DOCBLIDA7.—PIOVIS!ONAL CoMMIT?IIN U(.

This was au action for work and labour done, as an engi-
neer and surveyor. The defendant pleaded he did not pro-
mise to pay ; on which issue was joined.
Mr. Crowder, Q.C., and Mr. Wordsworth were counsel
for the plaintiff ; and Mr. James, Q.C., and Mr. 'lnca ap-
peared for the defendant.
It appeared that the plaintiff was a surveyor and engi-
neer and the defendant a surgeon. The work done, for
which the action was brought, was making a survey fur the
purposes of a prop-•sed railway from Falmouth to Penzance.
This survey was made between September, 1415, and De-
cember, 1846 ; the statute of limitations did not apply in
this case, the d. fondant's liability, if it ever
existed, having been kept on foot by writs issued
from time to time. The only question was as to the
existence of that liability. The circumstances under which
the plaintiff alleged that payment was due from Mr.
Doubleday were these: On the 11th of October, 184.5, the
defendant wrote to Mr. Hervey the promoter of the line)
that he should be glad to join the corn; any to effect its
formation, and accordingly, in a prepustus issued on the
16th of October, Mr. Doubleday's name appeared is the
list of provisional committeemen. The defendant was pre-
sent, as provisional committeeman, at a inciting held soon
after the 13th of January, 1846, and also at another meet-
ing, at which a list of the liabilities of the embryo com-
pany were made out and read, and a resolution pawed that
• contribution should be made for their payment. In this
list Mr. Olver's claim was comprised.
The witnesses for the plaintiff were called, and Mr. James
was proceeding to address the jury, when he was stopped by
Lord Campbell, who suggested to the jury whether the
plaintiff had proved his case.
The jury, after considering a few seconds, said they were
of opinion the ease was not proved.
Verdict fur the defendant.