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N°.lB 525
FEBRUARY 5, 1852.
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THE NEW NOVELS.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
THE HEIR OF ARDENNAN.
A Story of
DOMESTIC LIFE 1N SCOTLAND.
By the Author of " Anne Dysart."
Also now ready, In 3 vols.,
EMILY HOWARD. By Mrs. Dunlop.
" A most fascinating work. It has an interest and originality not
often met with."—Sun.
Immediately, in 3 vols.,
HEARTS AND ALTARS. By Robert Bell, Esq.
' Author of " The Ladder of Gold," &c.
Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE.
Just published, in 1 vol. post Bvo., price '7s. cloth,
QOME THOUGHTS about the SCHOOL of the
FUTURE ; cr, a Sketch of the Solution which Time appears
to be preparing for the different Educational Questions of the Day.
By the Rev. FOSTER BARHAM ZINCKE, Vicar of Wherstead,
near Ipswich.
London : L01101:111, Brown, Green, and Longman.

NEW EDITION OF SHARON TURNER'S HISTORY OF TILE
ANGLO-SAXONS.
Just published, a New Edition, in 3 vols. Bvo., price 365. cloth,
THE HISTORY of the ANGLO-SAXONS,
from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest. By
SHARON TURNER, F.A.S., and R.A.S.L., Author of "Sacred His-
tory of the World," &c. Seventh Edition.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

This day is published, Part 11. of
CUSTOMS' ADMINISTRATORS and CUS-
TOMS' REFORMERS; or, The Digest of the Charlotte-row
Committee. _ _

By JAMES O'DDIVD, Barrister-at-Law.
London : Bally, Brothers, Cornhill.

ITEPHEN GLOVER'S . NEW VOCAL
DUETTS.—The Warrior Page—The Wandering Stars—The
Flower Gatherers—The Stream and the Willow—Say where shall we
roam ?—The Sister's Birth-day—Farewell I—Remember me—Sing,
sweet Sister, sing to me—Ruth and Naomi —When shall we two
meet again?—Why do you watch the lone, lone Deep ?—Tuscan
Girls crossing the Sea— The Midnight Moon—The Murmuring Sea—
The Echo Duett—A. Voice from the Waves—Voices of the Night—
Tel/ me where do Fairies dwell ?—The two Forest Nymphs —The
Gipsy Countess—Tell me where is Beauty found?—Happy Days—
Peaceful Nights—Music and her Sister, Song—There is a sweet Wild
Pose; ,Ind his lovely duett, What are the Wild Waves saying?—
Each 2s. Od. and 3s.
Several New Duetts by this esteemed author will be ready for
publication in the course of the month.
N.B. The chief recommendation of the above duetts is the origi-
nality and sweetness of the melodies, combined with the moral
purity of the words (written by Mrs. Crawford and J. E. Carpenter,
Esq ), thus allowing of their introduction into every family circle.
London ; ROBERT COCKS and Co. New Burlington-street, pub-
lishers to the Queen ; and to be had of! all music sellers ; also their
monthly list of New Music, Nos. 1 and 2.

SPERMATORRIICEA AND STRICTURE.
Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post (free), 45.,
ATREATISE on the CURE of STRICTURE
of the URETHRA ; containing the True Reasons why that
Disease so often assumes such an intractable character; with Rules
and Instructions for the successful Treatment of every Form of
Urethral Contraction, based on the results of extensive and pro
longed experience. To which Is added, Practical Observations on
the Treatment of Spermatorrhcea by Cauterization.
By F. B. COURTENAY,
"These who complain most loudly are those only who know not
how to use the common instruments. . The prac-
tice of surgeons has been marked with all kinds of violence, and in-
difference about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for
operations, and all the excesses and horror of surgery."—John Bell.
H. BaWiere, 219, Regent-street, London.

CLOSE OF HOLIDAYS.
Now that the season of annual festivity is terminated, and
the respective boarding-schoels but
to be reinstated by the busy
throng of youthful aspirants, their personal comfort and attractions
become naturally an object of great solicitude with friends and
relatives. Now it is that RoWlands' Macassar Oil, for accelerating
the growth and for improving and beautifying the hair, Rowlands
Kalydor, for improving the skin and complexion, and removing
cutaneous eruptions, and Rowlands' Odonto, for beautifying the
teeth and preserving the gums, must be universally considered in-
dispensable.

Beware of Spurious Imitations.
The only genuine of each hears the name of " ROWLANDS' "
preceding that of the Article on the Wrapper or Label.
Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by
chemists and perfumers.

TEETH.
MR. EPHRAIM MOSELY, 61, Grosvenor-
street, Grosvenor-square, SURGEON DENTIST (by ap-
pointment to the King of IIalover) begs to call the attention of his
PATIENTS VISITING LONDON to his NEW DESCRIPTION of
ARTIFICIAL TEETH and GUMS, of which he is the sole Inventor
and manutacturer, guaranteed never to decay or become disco-
loured, and so closely assimilate to the natural as not to be detected
by the closest observer, and will be found superior to any teeth ever
before introduced. This method does not require the removal of the
remaining teeth or the extraction of any stumps, and may be worn
on gums of the most tender nature ; and at the LOWEST PRICE
CONSISTENT with the BEST MATERIAL and WORKMANSHIP
No fee, unless perfect satisfaction be given.
Consultations free.
No other town establishment.

WHAT'S THE CRITERION?
Of a gentleman's business skill, or a tradesman's capa-
bilities ? The former to comprehend where quality exists, and the
latter to provide it.lThe criterion with a gentleman is his judgment of
where he has been well served in his former purchases ; the trades-
man, that he perfectly understands what quality is, and where it can
be found, with a determination to provide it. The unquestionable
experience of E. MOSES and SON in the clothing and general out-
fitting business giveethem a complete qualification to decide on the
quality of every article in which they profess to trade. Quality !
E. MOSES and SON consider as the criterion of price. No article
can be cheap unless it be good. They are anxious their patrons
should regard the Strength, Fineness, Colour, and Workmanship of
their dress, as much as the advantages in its price being much lower
than charged elsewhere. They are confident in the result of such an
examination, and equally sure the immense patronage bestowed on
their establishments in the City and country is the result of Superior
Quality, as well as low prices. Quality ! is not limited by E.
MOSES and SON to any single class of goods, but is applicable to
the whole of their trade ; whether garments they have the honour
to make in compliance with the commands of the nobility, clergy,
and gentry, or the endless description'of goods they have the pleasure
of supplying from their extensive stock of ready-made clothing in
the same regard is paid to quality.
Shawls, Furs, Mantles, Boots, and Shoes, &c. ;
each
In
Td,aedpiaerstpueanbti, Habits,
In Youths' Dress, every kind,' in the most ingenious styles;
In all articles of Clothing, from the richest velvet and the most ele-
gant satin to the substantial working-dress of the Artizan, Mechanic,
or Seaman ; in all these the same regard to quality is observed—and
on this E. MOSES and SON rest as the criterion of their capabilities
for the world's patronage. •
MOSES and SON,

London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minorite, 83,
44, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506; 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,7,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford Yorkshire Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Farriers, Boot and Sboo'
makers. and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to stinsw' on
Sat -r s. when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock.
The New Book, entitled " The Exhibition for All Nations," in
Three Languages, viz.:—English, French, and Berman, ands mai'
ing full directions for self measurement, can be had gratis,
cation. or forwarded post free to any part of the kingdom.
apPl
A handsome Almanac, for the year ending 1852 grate'
o
n can be had '
on application.

Id I'on park Francais°. Qui st parla Italian°.
Ma sprint man Deutsch. Aqui se habla Espanol.

MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
POUT I AND MATURITY.
With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cure.
FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.
Just published, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and
Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, 6d., or post-free from the Author
for Forty-two Stamps,
SELF-PRESERVATION; a
th.en Infirmities Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on the
Secret
physical and
yanpderitealdsoredteranfoo,fwYholucthh
daesndtrMeyattehl y
ty, usually
fr ac.
mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and ex-
haust
the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on
-the certain Prevention and successfhl Treatment of Nervous Debi-
lity, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all
Diseases and derangements resulting from Indiscretion, as adopted
by Lallemand, Ricord, and other eminent members of the faculty of
France. With Fifty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy,
Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining
their structures, uses, and functions, and the various injuries that
are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and infection.
By SAMUEL LAWERT, M.D.'
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Hunterlan
Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c.
This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana-
ferny and physiology of the reproductive organs, and of their
taken
native
p as has
endatestimthoe
conditions in health and diseasied.eneDerd.hLaTerdti,
laver
highest medical honours,
esirsenythinenoynylye,tlreysg,lldleye
teieeldthtledis stmudedieiscaltonitehne
Voted
who has exclusively,
nials inserted inthe
t tions may become debilitated
by all those whose consta u
treatment of these complaints.. He may be consulted with advan-
tagethrough secret practices acquired in youthhereby the excesses of
later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects of
marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of unceas-
lig misery and regret.
Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater-
noster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Starie, Titchhorne-street,
Haymarket ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street; Mann, 23, Cornhill ;
or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence,
_ItY be consulted on these disorders personally, or by letter,
"mn Ten till Tee . and from Aix till Eight_

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WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID,
" That three score years and ten our course may ram',
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vougy.debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and ein!
bitters old age • with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu-
lation
of every:day life.

N.
TILE PASSIONS.
"WhTrutathspassus irosnftsuheduratstAhethbeousd
ever hhaarp Doe,
The
The ad.
FitmEcT*--Life's pilgrimage, from infancy
to old ag
etimd.
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual.
ties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, flax
Y—w
rative, and remediative. Advocacy of early TOOZTIageS.

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
-
PROGRAMME :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli-
gion
regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Cases, &c. _ •

By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
(1824). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
matters. Reception hours daily till Five. . Evenings, Seven till
Nine. 10 Argyll-place Regcnt-street.

FRUSTRATE THEIR NAVISU TRICKS.--The only
mode we can suggest for dealing with those persons who
want so much of the public money as riggers of the navy, is
to bring the rigour of the law to bear upon one or more of
them. It would do no harm if a delinquent were to be trans-
ferred from a dock at Woolwich or Chatham to the dock of
the Old Bailey.—Punch.

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.
SECOND REPORT, FEES (COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY,
&e.), ORDERED BY TUE ROUSE OF COMMONS TO BE
PRINTED, 14111 AUGUST, 1850 (711, SESSIONS
1850-51).
(From the Law Review for November, 1851 )
Unpopular as the Ecclesiastical Courts are, and
strong as are the public prepossessions against them,
the r4ort which stands at the head of this article will
be received with sentiments of surprise and indigna-
tion througout the country. The abuses it details
will, we believe, be found far to exceed in magnitude
all similar examples in other public departments, and
they present features of aggravated deformity that
must excite a general feeling of perplexity and amaze-
ment at the apathy of the Government and of the peo-
ple which has so long permitted them to exist.
It is our intention to give a brief summary of the
tenor Of this report. But previously to so doing we
deem it best to explain our views of the principles
applicable to this question. Our duties are those of
practical law reformers, and we should not be ful-
filling our appropriate task were we to content our-
selves with an exposition of detects and abuses. It is
incumbent on IV, as far as lies in our power, to indi-
cate the remedies that will reach the root of the griev-
ances now under discussion.

We consider the objections to the Ecclesiastical
Courts to, apply not merely to their administration,
but to the fundamental nature and constitution of
their jurisdiction. A general concurrence'Of opinion
has lately been established among enlightened autho-
rities on jurisprudence with respect to the inexpe-
diency of maintaining a separate Equity or Chancery
jurisdiction, a proposition which has been fully dis-
cussed in the present and in other numbers of this
Review. Now, the principal objections which have
been suggested against an indepndent Chancery
jurisdiction may be urged with equal truth against
the preservation of separate Ecclesiastical Courts.
The business of those courts is divisible into two
branches, viz., the contentions (chiefly consisting of
cases involving the trial of disputed wills of per-
sonalty) and their "common form or non-contested
business " (chiefly derived from• the functions ful-
filled by those tribunals as offices for the registration
of wills and the granting of probates.
In suits relating to disputed wills the evidence (as
in Chancery cases) consists of written evidence to
the exclusion of oral testimony and the parties (as in
Chancery cases) are exposed to enormous expenses
owing to the abuses with which the courts abound,
and the distance at which, generally speaking, they
are situated from their residences. For these
grievances (no less than for those which the Court of
Chancery inflicts) local tribunals alone can afford an
efficient remedy, a proposition on which it will be
needless for us to dilate as our various articles on
Chancery will apply totidem verbis.
With respect to the " non-contested business " of
the Ecclesiastical Courts (as offices for the deposit of
wills and for granting probates) it will be self-
evident that those ends may be most conveniently ful-
filled (especially as regards wills of poor persons) by
means of the different County Courts' offices, com-
bined, perhaps, with a common index in London.
These observations we have thought it necessary
to make in connexion with this report, because there
are some cases in which an exposure of the more sa-
lient features of public abuses may have a tendency
to divert the attention of the community from its pri-
mary sources unless those sources be at the same
time plainly indicated. We may here remark, there-
fore, that we consider it certain that the extinction
of all the sinecures and the reduction of the court fees
of the Ecclesiastical Courts would not suffice to render
those courts cheap and accessible to the suitor, be-
cause he would be still exposed to the heavy charges
of proctors and attorneys, from which it must be im-
possible to exempt him except by local courts and
offices near his own home, in which he could act for
himself.

We have been assured by a Judge of the County
Courts that there is no greater grievance than the
difficulty and expense which are at present imposed
on the humbler classes of society in obtaining pro-
bates and letters of administration. Poor widows
(according to our informant) are in this manner fre-
quently robbed of the small unpaid earnings of their
husbands at a time when they may form their chief or
only resource. Without probates or letters of admi-
nistration they cannot sue in the County Courts,
while the expense of taking them out would com-
monly swallow up the outstanding debts.
No difference of opinion can, we belive, exist
among impartial men as to the necessity of remedy-
ing the abuses to which the Ecclesiastical Courts give
rise. Hitherto, the gentlemen interested in those
abuses have, nevertheless, succeeded in thwarting the
Government, controlling the Legislature, and setting
public opinion at defiance. But their success has
been attributable not to their own inherent
but to the apathy of the constituencies on
the subject of law reform, an apathy that happily has
ceased to exist. The establishment of the county
courts, which have practically taught the electors the
sotbrveinogutshl y
feasibility and the advantages to a cheap administra-
tion of the law (combined with the reiterated debates
that have lately occurred in both Houses on various
measures for the improvement of our legal system)
have given a new impetus to the cause of law reform.
No doubt, therefore, exists that, when the state of
the Ecclesiastical Courts shall be brought forward in '
the next session of Parliament (as we understand is
intended) the question will be discussed under cir-
cumstances highly favourable to the success of the
advocates of a complete correction of their abuses.
We shall now proceed to place succinctly before our
readers a few of the facts disclosed by this report.
Of the " common form" business of the kingdom
two-fifths passed through the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury. The fees for the year ending March
31st, 1848, amounted to no less than 30,8321., out of
which sum the judge received 3,9231., the registrar
8,5081., the deputy-registrars 2,8031., and the rest was
applied to the general expenses of the office. A sum
of 6,7601. was received in the same year by certain
officers as discount on stamps, a source of emolument
that has since been put an end to.
The office of registrar, which is in the gift of the
archbishop, is a sinecure. So completely is this the
case that it has been the practice to grant it, like
landed property, for three lives. The late archbishop,
when one of these dropped, did not exercise the power
he had of inserting a fresh one ; but the office now is
full for three lives,. the present archbishop having
added another to the two existing lives.
Besides the deputy-registrars there are subordinate
officers called clerks of seals, who do not perform
their duties in person, though expressly required to
do so by Act of Parliament. An attempt has lately
been made to obtain power to impose fresh fees for
payment of the clerks, who actually do the work,
which was refused by the authorities.
In the Chester Ecclesiastical Court the gross fees
on an average of the last three years were 9,1811.;
from which the 'chancellor received a net income of
1,652/., the registrar one of 4,5231. (together with
250/. commission for money advanced by him for
stamps). No table of fees is in existence.
At _Rochester the deputy-registrar executes the
_

whole duties of the registrar's office, which is held
jointly by two clergymen, who are paid two-thirds of
the gross receipts of the office, the deputy defraying
the cost of the office out of his third. Our space will
not permit us to multiply examples of these abuses
which have been carried to such an extent that in one
instance the office of registrar has been given to, and

is held by, a female, -
The greatest and most enlightened authorities on
jurisprudence, from Jeremy Bentham to Lord Lang-
dale, have concurred in condemning the practice of
levying fees upon suitors, even when the amount im-
posed is wholly employed in the necessary expenses of
courts of justice. What then are we to think of the
exaction of such fees for the purpose of maintaining a
most odious system of sinecures? If sinecures are to
be tolerated at all, it would be far better that they
should be openly extxacted from the revenues of the
bState
tuthfhnadnerththate
Iltil.:eteynscheooufldjusbteicwe.rung from indivi-
duals
We earnestly commend to every friend of law re-
forme perwial both of the report and of the entire
evid,ince by which it is accompanied, and we
cannot doull,t the conclusion at which be wdarrive.

THE "EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCE.—The earthquake
at Bordeaux (which we noticed on Thursday) is the fifth
which has taken
Sighebert and Chilperic were disputinge the
place in that cit . The first
i The
dhlii
ed
of Tours, when the Kings
city.was
in
tThehe hands secondeowf
theas in
Englishl42 7, ;
prosstseoscioc occurred
the
n
574, in the time of Saint Gregory
t
tgchorienrasdfdshock
l eo fwdFaa rsma
afnegcl oe
to the church of Saint Andrew. t
on the 21st of June, 1660, two days before the entrance of
Louis xrv., on his way to Sain Jean de Luz, to marry th
ncliciigldh,bourthlie°,°,dio,
Infanta of Spain ; according to a writer of the time "it wase
so furious that it caused some stones to fall from the' laelfrw
of Saint Michel, and shook the inhabitants in their beds.'"
The fourth shock took place forty-seven or forty-eight years
ago ; this was not very severe.
SUSPECTED MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS MOTHER.
--A coroner's inquest has been sitting two days at Alving.
ton, near Chepstow, to inquire into the cause of death of a
the body of whidh was discovered in a ditch in that
Barley,
urderess. beenris h
examined woman,
asn theanle
suspected
hheaenrcdolifialidt3:<ah7psegarls to be about two months old,
mand from the circumstances that have transpired in evidence,
and the contradictory statements made by the suspected
woman,
eTuredytahgaatinsatvheerrd.ict of wilful murder
1
willmbaen, it is
returned
ll
by
-
tlip

THE lONIAN ISLANDS,
The following correspondence between the Gover-
nor of the lonian Islands and the venerable President
of the Senate has been published on the eve of the
local elections :

of 1852 are now fast approaching,
" Palace, 10'cla January, 1852.
n state following
(c Highness,—As the elections for the Parliament
best consult your Highness's wishes by rendering
last„ I,
mreyceiLveodrdf,r_omThyeou
ptrheese
public the fact that so long of
ago as the 25th April
1 think that I shall
letter :
«
" ' Corfu, 25th April, 1851.
Islands is indeed most lamentable. It was not the
will of heaven that the reforms effected in the
tution should be granted by such dual steps as
gr.a .
would have enabled the people to the lonian
receive them in a
proper spirit, and to make a wise use of
them. Intro-
duced too suddenly, and at the most inopportune time,
been
the result was such as might have • •pated .
They awakened the most extravagant expectations, in-
flemed minds by nature too easily inflammable, offered
to the natioc, by which they were conceded, instead of
thanks, proofs of the most flagrant
ingratitude, and
plunged these islands into a state of the greatest con-
fusion and disorder. Your Excellency's well-known
abilities and paternal care were unable provide
to a
remedy for these evils, nor have the good intentions
and the remonstrances of the executive power proved
more successful. The present
..aYatem takes from
every man, hawever wellxinOstioned, the. piayew
promoting in any way the ;OA -ecilin
of his try, sad
consequently renders unavailing my labours as Presi-
dent of the Senate. This state of things, my Lord,
afflicts me profoundly; it injures more and more my
health, which, from the influence of the climate, has
not been good during my residence in Corfu, and
makes me sigh for my native land, where I hope to
find that peace of which my saddened mind has need.
If I may be permitted to exprees a wish, at a mo-
ment in which I am about to return to private life,
it can be no other than that my successor may be e
person of tried moderation, and of unequivocal fidelity
to the Government, so that the disorders which already
afflict too heavily these islands, may, at all events,
not go further. I cannot close this declaration of my
former resignation of the high post with which your
Excellency was pleased to honour me, without re-
peating the assurance of my sincere gratitude towards
yourself, my Lord, and of my unbounded devotion to
the great protecting Sovereign.
" 4 I have the honour to be, with the greatest re-
spect, your Excellency's most humble and devoted
servant,
(Signed) "' DEMETRIO SALAMON.
" ' His Excellency Sir Henry G. Ward, Gee.m..G ,
Lord High Commissioner:
" This communication was wholly unexpected by
me, for, up to that time, no misunderstanding had
occurred between ue, and having had many proofs
both of the firmness of your Highness's character,
and of your aptitude for public business, I sincerely
desired to retain your aid in the difficult task which
had been committed to me. Your Highness was not
convinced by my remonstrance, but you agreed to
suspend your intention of retiring until the close
of the present Parliament, in order to spare me
the necessity of nominating a successor, for
a few weeks or mons, whose selection
might not be in harmony with the results of the
new elections. The time is now come when your
Highness's wishes may be carried into effect, without
detriment to the public service, and I have this day
communicated them officially to her Majesty's Secre-
tary of
State for the Colonies, recommending that
her Majesty should abandon the intention which she
might otherwise have entertained, of contemplating
your re-appointment as president of these States, as
has been the practice hitherto when a dissolution of
Parliament has occurred in the middle of a quin-
criennium. I cannot terminate my public connexion
with y our Highness without expressing my regret at
the loss of your co-operation, although the necessity
that exists for maintaining a perfect understanding
between the head of the lonian Government and her
Majesty's representative prevents me, at present, from
hoping for its continuance. Your Highness has
expressed the causes and the nature of the
differences that exist between us, in one
passage of the letter now before me, in which
you state that ' the present system takes from every
man, however well intentioried,Al-446wer of contri-
buting in any way to the good of - his country, and
consequently renders inoperative my own efforts as
President of the Senate.' I believe, on the con-
trary, that there never was a time when it was in
the power of every well-intentioned lonian so ef-
fectually to promote the good of his country, or when
a wise and conciliatory policy, on the part of those in
authority, would have produced
an effect so univer-
sally beneficial. It is possible that I may be wrong
in this impression, or that my marred
plans may be
by the blindness of those local and personal passions,
of which Zante presents, at this m tso unhaPPY
an example. But I will not vol otrne•nl ' ome to this
un ari y c
conclusion, or resign my hodifferent
result, from the appeal pos of a very _
which I have made in the
name of the protecting Sovere-ign to the good sense
n
and good feeling of the lonia people.
"I have the honour to be, with great respect, your
Highness's most obedient bumble * servant,
'Signed) " H. G. WARD,Lord iii g. la es Comm issinner.
" His Highness Sir I)emetrio Count Salmon,
G.C.M.G., President of the Senate."

ENGLISH AN D----Fi:H SQUABBLE
ABOUT A WRECK IN THE BRITIS.B
CHANNEL.
The following statement has been formally made at
Ramogate, respecting the wreck of anEnglish merchant-
man, in the Channel, being wrested from the possession
of English fishermen, by the Crews of two French fishing
smacks, and
carried off vivet
arena to a French port.
A steam-crulser, stationed iu the Downs, would have a
wholesome effect in checking the increasing aggressions
of the French fishermen:-
4 Appeared personally Elieze.r Johnson, of Ramsgate,
in the Isle of Thanet, in the county of Kent, master of
the smack Elizabeth, of Brixham, 29 tons per register;
and William Johnson and William Hutchings, of Rams-
gate, marinero, also
belonging to the said smack,
and
from mßrixhara tade oath tho at whilst proceeding in the smack
R
-aingßate on the 30th day
of January instant, at 8.30 A.m. , being then about
20 miles S.W. from Beachy Head, the wind blowing
hard from S.S.W. with a heavy
sea,
our smack under
close reefed sails, we fell in with a wreck, but were unable
to board it until 0.30 Pin., -r,
w-en the weather having mo-
derated, the said Wm. Johnson and Wm. Hutchings for ,
themselves say, we got on beard and found the said wreck
to be the schooner Triumph, of Brixham, with both her
masts and bowsprit carried away, the wreck lying on
deck and alongside; she had apparently been in colhsion
and was abandoned by her crew. The hatches were
not displaced, as she did not appear to have any water
in. 1,1,7 e a
rope to o commenced clearing away the
-- wreck; then got
ur smack and proceeded to tow towards Dun-
geness. We had been in possession about three hours
and a half, and in tow of our smack about a quarter of
an hour, when the rope by Which
we were towing
broke. Before we could get another rope fast to our
smack, a French fishing smack, called the Auguste Vic-
toria, 11. 0., No. 143, came alongside the schooner, and
three men jumped on board, one having an axe another
a hatchet, and another an adze. They took, posses-
' sion, flourishing their weapons iu our faces. They would
another Fiaanch smack not allow As to g
coning
the ropeg
o again to our smack; but
p (a. _
\ v. 36), a rope
was passed to her from the schooner. w
'0
were forced
by their threats to leave the vessel.
They said they
should talc° her to France.. As we were
overpowered.
our smaa..k's crew, consisting of
m
only four en and
oce boy, including ourselves, wo were obliged to
submit said return on board our vessel. About 4.30
P.m. the said schooner Triumph was about nine miles
south-east from Beechy Head, in tow of the French
smacks, proceeding towards the French coast. We
shortly after fell in with a Dover smack, called
the Gulware, with three men on board, and with
her returned towards the wreck, but the
Frenchmen on board stood with axes uplifted,
and would not allow us to come on board in the
smack th it was towing. They stood,
_ one with a heavy
stone rea fly to heave into ourpiaallh boat if we went
alongside,, and another man with
andspike. As we
could do lamthing against superior fort©to ail armed we were
compelled, to bear up and proceed to N Rama rite. The
wind at 't this time came round .
morning Ay a moderate
at ono o'clock this it got back to
}nor ze;
W •S•V ir • • „. Johnson lastly
"And the said Eltez . saith, that since
my arrivf i have 1
at Ramsgate I been informed the said
schooner 'Triumph
had a cargo of bale
goods on board,
and to
and was lac mog clor. I know the master; his
f
no is also part owner."
name is Afi ilium Sprig-

.1N YORKSHIRE.
TILE _FORGE
Further Oiscoveries of forged notes of the Doncaster
branch of the Yorkshire Banking Company continue to
be made Li towns which it was anticipated had escaped
the thprec'elions of the swindlers. Marshall and Ellis,
this bank at Leeds,
have undt rvone a fa
notes ( I.f.
two of the men already under committal to York As-
sizes for ering forgedrther examination at L'seds Court-
g
house, cb as o:1 with uttering a number of notes
at Pontel is et. Several traLlesmen from that town
attended at; 'Leeds on Thursday is.st, and picked Marshall
and : of some dozln or twenty prisoners in the
dock. It wa a then proved that Ellis had put off three
forged notes ; on Christmas eve iu Pontefract, and
thence took train to Leeds, where he uttered five
or six others the same night, and got back again
to Sheffield by the last train, exhibiting no trifling
amount of um :ivity, as well as considerable tact.
Thomas
Dyson, assist ant to Mr. Scales, draper, Pontefract,
sold Ellis tt.p air of glover, and took a forged 5/, note in

payment (which gloves have since been found by In-
spector Granhan in the horse of Ellis's mothpr). Mr.
Scott, grocer, of the same place, received a 51.'note, 111E0
forged, from the same prisoner, who paid a third to
Mr. Stones, grocer. Marshall was loss successful.
His first attempt to put off one of thare
notes was at the shop of Mr. Shirteliffe, draper, who
suipa.2ted its genuineness and refused change; where-
upon Marshall appears to have left the town precipi-
tately, and plied his dishonest vocation reore successfully
at Leeds. The notes passed at Pontefract were:pro-
ducad in court at Ineds; they were dated and numbered
similar to those previously described. The prisoners
were returned to the borough gaol to await their trial at
the York Assizes.

Si'ORTING NOTES.
No. CLXXII.
THE METROPOLITAN HANDICAP, So.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE .SUN.
SIR,—It is quite time that my analysis of this cele-
brated pet of the metropolitan division of the sporting
world should be laid before the public, therefore I shall
proceed at once to discuss the merits of the animals en-
gaged in it. This stake has this year a very fair quan-
tum of acceptances, in number 56. The nag that has
commanded most attention as yet is the top weight, Lord
Eglinton's Elthiron, now in his sixth year. His chance
over this course, in my opinion, is a very fair one,
though I think hardly good enough to allow
of his being the absolute winner; he, however, has his
next three companions, Landgrave, The Ban, and Miss
eA-P.miNgesisaleteeges seleseiklaiters aoneider, is over dosed
at Bst 31b; he is now falling fast into the sere and yellow
leaf, and is not likely to astonish the world by winning
any more Metropolitan or Goodwood Stakes. Raby
and Mark. Tapley, at ist 81b each, I hardly know what
to mako of them; they have neither been in very
magnificent condition for some time past ; but
us Dawson is generally considered a trouble-
some person for this event, no. doubt, if neither of
these can accomplish the trick, his favourite colt by
Cotherstone out of Wryneck, or Burndale, may do the
deed of note; which, on the part of one of the latter
couple, will be by no means an improbable circumstance.
Lord Waterford's Cockcrow I do not imagine will be
brought out for this stake. Lord Lurgan's Cnaeus,"
with Hesse Homburg, Officious, Grand Duke,
and Calmar are much on a par, and not very likely to
turn up the trump card. Kick-up-the-Dust, I fancy, will
represent Lord Waterford's interest?, but her chance is
not attractive. Hungerford, at the same weight (6st
121 b), is a dangerous looking animal; but I almost
fancy the distance is too far for him. John of Berwick
and Achyranthes may figure favourably, but I doubt it.
Grey Tommy, at est 71b, bas no chance whatever. Knook
Knoll, at the same weight, would seem to be almost
as dangerous as his stable companion, Hungerford.
Sister to Clothworker is of no account. Osborne's mare
Kathleen, at Est 61b, if theldistance is not too far, ought
to be somewhere about;the mark; she will, however, find
a dangerous opponent in Candlewick at two pounds
less, 'Letter-press, Masham, Peleßidae, Ischia,
Young Troublesome, Curl, and Perjury may be
classed together as a very bad lot, and of no
earthly use. Bardolph, I imagine, will be reserved for
Nowmerket. Haresfoot, at sst 71b, ought to be the pick
of Stebbing's stable. Old Rowley, together with In-
gratitude, Janina, Cyclops, Snowdrop, Kate, Urbanity,
the Retan filly, Czarina, Barbara Bell, Royalty, Uncle
Sam, Eller, and Suarry, will be held perfectly harmless
by the Sally Warfoot colt, sst 61b, Joe Miller, 53t 61b,
Follow-me-Lads, sst 31b, Burndale (if he runs), sst 31b,
Ethelwolf, sst, and the Wryneck colt, 4st 111 b.
Having taken a cursory glimpse of the chances of the
lot, from all the accounts 1 have received, I am induced
to believe that the race will lie among the following .
Elthiron, Kathleen, Candlewick, Haresfoot, Sally War -
root colt, Joe Miller, Burndale, and Wryneek colt. Of
these I should give the preference to Elthiron, Cetallc-
wick, and the best of Dawson's youngsters.
CHESTER Cup.—As soon as it was known in town
yeeierday that the High Sheriff had won the Trial
Stakes at Lincoln in a common canter, a general rush was
made to get " on" him for this stake, which rapidly ad-
vanced him from forties to twenties to one, taken freely;
his Trice this morning, however, cannot be set down at
more than 18 to lat the outside.—l an', Sir, See.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
Feb. 4, 1852.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA..
CHESTER SPRING MEETING, 1852.
Acceptances for the Tradesmen's Plate of 200 soya. (in
specie), added to a Handicap Sweepetakes of 25 toys.
each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared, &c.
Age st. lb. Age at. lb.
Clincher
Nancy 4 9 1 Grey Tonuny 3 5 11
Russborough
Mountain Deer
Confessor
Pitsford
Truth
Alonzo
Aphrodite
backbiter
Cossack
Mark Tapley
Ariosto .......
Payment 4 7 10 logratituile 4 5 6
Lady Evelyn 6 7 8 True Girl.
Hippolytus
....--. 3 5 6
Neasham 4 7 6 Merry Bird... 3 5 6
Le JuF
7 6 Bird on tl le- Wing 3 5 6
Goldtinder
Raby
Trickatress .... ..... 4 7 5 Allegro ~ 3 5 6
Musician .
Old Dan Tucker 6 7 5 Maid of Lincoln... 3 5 3
Black Doctor
--Manion 3 5 3
Herbert
6 7 3 Lady A: nyott ... 3 5 0
Duo an Darras
Retail
Earl of Warwick
Hesse Homburg
Calculator .. ...... 4 6 12 Br.to Rut sborough 3 4 12
Ringleader
Birmingham
Kick up the Dust 4 6 12 Galvanise n ......... 3 4 12
Vampyre a 6 10 B c by Melbourne
Ballot Girl
Achyranthes
Torn Hcltby 4 6 10 Bcby CI )therstoue
Storyteller
Lough Ban
CEWIS 4 6 10 Sophistry 3 4 10
Hungerford 4 6 10 Constantine 3 4 10
Ephesus
liothorpo....
Gholab Singh
llar'sfoot
Kathleen .... 5 6 8 Kate . ... 3 410
Cockcrow
View-halloo, (11 b) 6 6 6 Joe Miller
Gladiole
John of Berwick 5 6 6 Diamond; 3 4 10
Grand Duke
Oh cby Harkaway, The Sut der 3 4 7
out of Due-an- Bass of 1 fiardwicke 3 4 7
Dhurras's dam... 4 6 6 Happy Joe
Grosvenor ... ...... 4 6 6C by Fat igh-a-Bal-
Candlewick 5 6 4 lagh, cut of Delta 3 4 7
Eliza, Middleton 5 6 4 Dalton... 3 4 7
Kuook Knoll
Unity
Breba
Cardinal Wiseman 4 6 4 E11in,... 3 4 4
Tophana a 6 3 Lizzy . 3 4 4
Dulcet a6 0 Surprise, (h b) 34 4
3 4 4
Abbess of Jerveaux 5 6 0I Barley !Sugar
The Castle
Vivandiere ...., 4 6 1) The Shadow ...... 3 4 0
Harp
Recruit
La Fiancee 5 5 12 B fby Lanercost,
England's G10ry....4 5 12, out o f Jemima 3 4 00
ThelndianWarrior 3 5 11 Water I.ily .........3 4
NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT.
Acceptances for the Northampl.onshire Stake
lb _ .
Yrs. st lb. . Yrs. st. _
Teddington 4B 13 Tom Il:oltby ...... 46 8
6 5
Landgrave
King of Oude 5 8 &Ballet Girl ......... 56 6
30
Cariboo
_
Uriel
Doubt
5b 88
Clothworker
Niark Tapley 5 7 6
OBllodoßd
Sir Rowland Tren-
chard
ley .. .;...... .. .. 3 55
75
4 7 6 Pluck ~ ....
...a.1331: 3 5 2
476 C by Vane' .
Cockcrow
Chief Justice
iFarme.
Darkie ... .551 F by
Hesse Homburg ... 45 77
6 7 1 ~. °""ini
I.Aanemrcsost, out
3 4 9
Herbert
0 ourpmse
sIS
ysr2 Handicap,B9 t 51h
Combatant ...
4 7 OIR°Ya"
Storyteller
7 0 Poodle 3 4 5
Grand Duke ...... 4 F by Cetheratone,
Jack-in- the - Cor-
ner ............... a 612 out of Vit ago... 3 4 0
6 10
Knock Knoll ......4
YORK SP R Ili
Flying
iELD 'gl
ElkEall'icynn:Ga,t
16,
Acceptances for tshset
Voltigenr. 5 y Ra7tsttlerB,th outs irof
R.
ouTnrteensesh,
arsd '3.
r4s .'
y' --ir—ss t,
br g by ISlorgenr4
121b—Raby, 5 Yrs,
ough Bawn, 4
lloltb , 1 7st 41b—Storyteller, 4 yrs, 7st llb —L '
IbKtleen, 5
yrs, 6st 111 b Tom 3, yrs, Est 9113—Kilo&
Knoll. 4 yrs, fist 91,b Haricot, 5 yr, tis'
fist 715—Achy ranthes, 5 yrs, Est glb—Prior of Lan-
y rs, A t 51b—Harp, 4 yrs, 6st 51b Lee •
, bor, 5 yrs, 6st 21b--Little Fawn, 4m;rs,
ercost, 5 Yrs, 6T he •g,
toot, 4 yrs, sst 12:1b—Bardolph, 3 yr?, 55t
4 yrs, 6stillabresl:
Gs 21b -
121 b - Goliah, 4 yrs, sst 101b—br c by Melbourne, out of
came,
Sally 'Warfoot, 3 yrc, Sat 81b—Cot
Ylthee, 4 yrs, Sat 815—
'4116 so, 3 yrs, 5 t 7 b—c yclops, 4 yrs, ;st 41b—Poetess, 3
yrs, 4st 131b—Euphony, 3 yrs, 4st .1315—f by Lanercost, out
of jewima, 3 yrs, 4st 101b—Royalty, 3 yrs, 4st 101b—Sur-
prise, 3 yrs, 4st 41b. The rest pay 5 soya. each.
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1852.
Acceptances for the Newmarket Handicap of 25 sovs. each.
Teddington, 4 yrs, Ost —Aphrodite, 4 yrs, Bst 61b—Her-
nandez, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—Payment, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b - Officious,
5 yrs, 7st 81b—Hardinge, 5 yrs, 7st 81b—Grand Duke, 4 yrs,

[PRICE SD.

7st 51b—The Proctor, 4 yrs, 7st 51b--Merry Peal, 4 yrs, 7,t
41b —Tom Holtby,.4 yra, 7st 31b—Snook Suolli 4 yrs, 6-t
101 b —Tophana, aged, Est 81b —Aberhamann; 4 yrs, 6st 811)
—Haresfoot, 4 yrs. Est 71b—Harpsichord, 4 yrs, 6st 41b—
Coryphee, 4 yrs. Get 31b —Lady Agno, 3 yrs, Est 12. b
Odes.sns, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Constantine, 3 yrs, sst 121 b —Old
Rowley, 3 yrs, sst 101h—Father Thames, 3 yrs, sst 91b—The
Old Lad, 3 yrs, sst 81b--Ingratitude, 4 vrs, sst 81b—The
Little Savage, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Mountain Flower, 3 yrs, sst
81b-,- c by Faugh-a-Ballagh, out of Delia, 3 yrs, sst 716--cby Melbourne, out of Sally Warfoot, 3 yrs, sst 711—.Bardolph,
3 yrs, sst 61b—Caracara, 3 yrs, sst 61b—Poodle, 3 yrs, sst
2113—Royalty, 3 yrs, sst—Plumstead, 3 yrs, sst—Pluck, 3
yrs, 4st 121b—Snarry, 3 yrs, 4st 91b. The rest pay 5 sous.'
each.