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it was preparing for publication,, confesses that he
himself read through the proofs, and yet insists
that he cannot be held responsible for the errors
yet remaining. After this assuredly Mr. Macaulay
canny t be regarded as precipitate in charging Mr.
Vizetelly (call the latter what you will, editor or
printer) with being "grossly ignorant." On the
contrary, all the scholarly gibes directed by the
injured orator against the devoted head of the of-
fending bookseller tell so truly and witheringly
against the latter that the reader of the " Preface'
is fain to dismiss him at its close amidst explosions
of derisive laughter. Mr. Vizetelly, and no other
than Mr. Vizetelly, has written himself down, in
fact, as Dogberry would have had the Sexton en-
dite : and now upon his own showing Mr.
Macaulay is perfectly justified in asserting that:—
I. " Mr. Vizetelly makes me say that the
principle of our Statutes of Limitation was to be
found in the legislation of the Mexicans and Peru-
vians "I [The orator having said nothing whatever
about either Peru or Mexico.]
11. "Mr. Vizetelly next makes me say that the
principle of limitation is found amongst the Pan-
dects of the Benares" [The orator having spoken
of the Pundits of Benares.]
111. " Mr. Vizetelly makes me say that Whit.
field held and taught that the connection between
Church and State was sinful" . . giving the
House of Commons some very extraordinary infor-
mation about both the Calvinistic and Armenian
Methodists." !!! [The orator never having uttered
anything of the kind.]
IV. " Mr. Vizetelly makes me say that the
Great Charter recognises the principle of limita-
tion" !!!! ["a thing which everybody who has read
the Great Charter knows not to be true" adds the
orator in contemptuous indignation.]
Enough. The culpability of Mr. Vizetelly has
by this time been tolerably expiated. His palm
has tingled under the ferule. None the less
smartingly because his formidable castiga-
tor had himself so far blundered as to
lose his temper, condescending to those lowest
resources of invective rhetorical personalities and
even unnecessary vituperation. Nevertheless—
" It's an ill wind"—but the proverb's somewhat
musty ! The reading public is the gainer from this
unhappy transaction. An authorised edition of
" Macaulay's Speeches," issued from the press by
the Messrs. Longmans, follows hard upon the heels
of the unauthorised edition surreptitiously printed
by Mr. Vizetelly—that most learned discoverer of
our far-famed Statutes of Limitations, having their
prototyye simultaneously in Magna Charta, and
in the Mexican and Peruvian Legislature, the eru-
dite elucidator of a new phase in the genius of
George Whitfield, and the profound celebrant of
the hitherto-unheard-of Pandects of the until-now
invisible and unknown Benares. True that in
their new and authentic version these notable
Speeches have colapsed from two volumes into one,
comprising not fifty-six separate orations, but no
more than twenty-nine altogether, delivered in an
interval of our national history extending from the
2d of March, 1831, to the Ist of June, 1853. Yet
fastidiously reduced to these more moderate dimen-
sions, the Speeches of Macaulay may now be con-
sulted for the first time with the luxury of implicit
confidence in their general correctness—their noble
and impulsive eloquence being preserved to us by
a triple guarantee—the memory of the orator, the
truthfulness of the annalist, and the conscientious
scrupulosity of the statesman.

The Martins. No. XI. By Charles Leyer.

October finds the " Martins of Cro' Martin"
established in Paris. That gay capital is the scene
of all the incidents recounted in the four chapters
here offered to us as the contents of this month's
instalment. Captain Martin, with his selfishness
and fashionable vagabondism—Martin of Cro'
Martin, with his self-reproaches at having aban-
doned Molly in " ould Ireland"—Lady Dorothea,
with her insolent pride of birth, and her chagrin
at finding herself neglected by the beau monde—
move before us, singly or together, just as it may
chance to happen in the chapter of accidents. And
side by side with them, the model heroine, the
paragon of perfection, Kate Henderson, glides ever
and anon across the field traversed by the phan-
toms in Mr. Lever's new phantasmagoria. The
companions of Captain Martin are the most
amusing of the fresh characters introduced in the
present number—conspicuous among them that
vulgar dog of a Jew gambler, originally one of the
hangers-on of a London hell, Mr. Herman Merl.
With him the haughty Sir Spencer Cavendish, with
his glass in his eye, sporting hacks for thorough-
breds, and a buggy for a park-phaeton, according
to the jeer of Jack Massingbred. And, besides
these, Lord Claude Willoughby, that very type of
"chic"—chic being the French slang for any ob-
ject asserting its undoubted superiority over all its
counterfeits ; such as a coat from Nugee's, a car-
riage from Leader's, and a bracelet from Stores,
or rather from Hunt and Roskell's. The incidents
of the number are—Kate's recognition in Paris by
her former friend and pupil, the Duchesse de
Mirecourt, together with the consequent re-intro-
duction of Lady Dorothea to fashionable life by
her grace's mother, the Duchesse de Luygnes—
beyond which must not be forgotten the arrival of
a " Letter from Home ;" a letter written to Mr.
Martin, in bitterest anguish and hot haste, by
poor olly, telling in a few poignant words a
woeful tale of the prospects of the peasantry. In
consequence of this letter Captain Martin, in spite
of all his selfish indolence, is about to hasten

homewards, at the instigation of Kate Henderson.
It yet remains to be revealed by the novelist
whether or no the paragon, Kate, is a good or an
evil genius to the House of Martin. At present, we
must confess, that either seems to us somewhat
problematical. We guess that the downfall of
Mr. Martin is among the great events of the story
" looming iu the future," and look for the re-
appearance of his brother, or at any rate for the
establishment of the rights of that brother's
daughter—good, charming, unselfish Mary Martin
—as for the climax of this strange eventful history
of the Martins of Cro' Martin.

CUNARD, BRRTT, AND AUSTEIV.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN,

150, Lea lenhx.ll-street, London.
SlR,—Seeing an article in your paper of last evening
(Money Article) which ii likely to wish ad the public, we
beg t) eneloze one of our cirsulars referring to the disso-
lution alluded to, as we feel convinced that you would
not knowingly allow your journal to be made use of for
such a purpose.—We are. Sir, your obedient servants,
CUNARD, BRE UT, AND AUSTEN.
Oot. 17.

Liverpool, Olt. 11, 1855.

Gentlemen,—l beg to acquaint you that the business
formerly carried on under the firm of Cunard, Munn,
and Co. is dissolved owing to the death of Mr. Kerr,
one of my late partners, and I avail myself of the pre
sent opportunity of thanking you for the many 13" d
favours received, aad solicit on behalf of the new firm.
Cunard, Brett, and Austen, a continuance of the same.
I am, Gentlemen, yours faith
lINA.RDfuIIy,
JO. C.

York-buildings, Liverpool, and 150, Leaden-
hall-street, London.
Gentlemen,—Referring to the dissolution of partner.
ship between Messrs. Cunard, Mann, and Co., of Liver-
pool, annexed, we beg to inform you that we have amal-
gamated the two houses, and that our senior will con-
tinue the business at Liverpool as heretofore, under the
firm of Cunard, Brett, and Austen, as well as in Lon-
don.us withobedient
The union of interest and action we trust will
enable us the better to carry out the views of our frie d ,
r
asunpdpotrhtviro!
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Soliciting the favour of your commands
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Oct. 12.
are,wh Gentlemen,o favour
CUNARD B
RETT, & AUSTEN.

BILLS or EXCHANGE.—A. change in the law is about
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to take effect which in its bearing on the internal opera-
tions of English commerce is likely to prove very im-
portant. From and after this day week (24th Oct.), the
Summary Procedure on Bills of Exchange Act is to come
into operation. The object of its framers was to remove
all means of frivolous or fictitious defences to actions on
bills of exchange and promissory notes, and the decisive
character of its provisions renders it necessary that every
trader in the country should be well apprised of them.
A. new form of writ of summons is to be issued, after
which the plaintiff may in 12 days, unless leave to de-
fend the action be meanwhile obtained, proceed to judg-
ment and execution. Leave to appear is to be granted
only on the defendant paying the amount of the claim
into court, or upon satisfactory affidavits disclosing
legal or equitable defence, or the necessity for theonh bolder
to such
to prove consideration, or such other facts
terms as to security as to the judge may seeaTan
.fiets. _ (1)„_"_
summons may be made to include all the pant,. Wales,
and The act applies exclusively to England a
ehdataaenceepxtaagngcees.
and not to Ireland or Scotland.
ercgtting losses sup.
reportthe 2 sth August
had been
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ratedilby Messrs. Lubbock and
posed to have been sustained
Co. through their discounting
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f)r a Mr. Marcellino de AI
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comparatively . 1 poars that
the forgeries, which were ofin small amount,
the confidence of Mr.
were committed by a person .
name of the latter was made use
Allo, and that the
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with Messrs. Lubbock during
of in the correspond
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and •
from England without any knowledge
his absence
or privity on his part. The real culprit went to the
United State-3
a few clays after the last bill was dis-
counted.
The Post Ampt Gazette contains a letter from
Vienna, which saya :—" The visit which the Arch-
duke Albert is about to make to Italy is by many
persons here attributed to a political motive, the
Prince intending, it is said, to visit his sister, tho
Queen of Naples. It ought, however, to be borne
in mind that the excursion of the Prince was
ranged many months back, and that his nlidr
advisers have been urging him of late not to e y
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