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Chronicles of Carlingford. Salem Chapel. 2 vole.

Blackwood : Edinburgh and London,

This work has already proved one of the attrac-
tions of Blackwood's Magazine, and many readers
will rejoice at this opportunity of reading it in a
corapleted form. It ;s a book that eminently re-
pays perusal, containing many scenes of an unusual
character, and being written throughout in an ear-
nest and impressive manner. Vincent, the hero, is
a young Nonconformist minister, who does not en-
gage our interest very deeply at the first, but as we
proceed we like him better. He was unfortunate
in the sphere in which he wasplaced and the uncon-
genial atmosphere that surrounded him in Carling-
ford. This sad state of affairs, which afterwards
became an evil of great magnitude, and finally re-
sulted in his abrupt, withdrawal, is gradually un-
folded to us, and skilfully introduced. So it is with
all the great changes in human affairs ; slowly,
sadly, but surely the evil day comes, and some,
hoping against hope, would not see its advent, but
the presage of its dark dawn had visited many
minds before the final crash drove away doubts
and dim forebodings, to give place to the certainty
of despair and the agony of conviction. Vincent
was an excitable, enthusiastic, young man, full of
energy, and devoted to a refined existence. He
found himself located among coarse and material
natures, with no care beyond narrow confines and
limited boundaries, and never heeding about ele-
vating themselves. When he was carried away
with lofty thoughts and high-wrought ideas, their
greatest conception was how to fill the chapel. He
fondly imagined and ardently desired to lead the
hearts of his hearers to the contemplation of
the highest good that human thought can take
cognisance of, and dwell on the noblest theme that
the grandeur of human intellect can comprehend.
It was not to be. Besides these trials, there were a
hundred daily petty personal annoyances that in-
tervened, " and weighed his burdened spirit down
with the cumbering dust of earth." Carlingford was
a very quiet place, but still had some society. Into
the elite of this poor Vincent had fancied he must
enter. He was thus not prepared, we are told, "to
circulate among his flock, and to say grace at Mrs.
Brown's teas, and get up services to amuse the con-
gregation. Somehow the tone of public writing
has changed of late days. Scarcely a newspaper
writer condescends now to address men who are
not " free" of society, and learned in all its ways.
the Times and the Magazines take it for granted
that all their readers dine out at splendid
tables, and are used to a solemn attendant behind
their chair. Young Vincent was one of those who
accept the flattering inplication. The first " tea"
to which he went was a sad blow to the young
preacher. After the wretched entertainment, with
its pretensions and prejudices, had jarred upon his
mind, it is no wonder we are told that " the unfor-
tunate young man:groaned in spirit, only deeper and
deeper humiliation seemed in store for him. Was
it he the first prize man at Homerton who was sup-
posed to be already smitten by the pink charms of
Phoebe Tozer ?'' This young lady was the daughter
of a butterman, one of the chief deacons of the com-
munity. He was a worthy man, quite a bright
particular exception to his fellows, and his honest
and steady support was of great service to Vincent,
when trouble came in various forms upon him.
Even in this dull place, however, Vincent contrived
to weave out a romance for himself wherewith to
beguile the tedium of his dark days, and to bring
fairy land into his prosy life. He met by chance a
beautiful young widow, when visiting a peculiar
member of his congregation. Lady Western's in-
fluence irradiated his gloomy path, and the wilder-
ness of his world seemed to bloom like the rose.
"He went home with an unspeakable elation, long-
ing, and excitement, and at the same time with a
vain floating idea iv his mind that thus inspired no
height of eloquence was impossible to him, and that
triumph of every kind was inevitable. He went
home and got his writing-desk, and plunged into
his lecture, nothing doubting that he could transfer
to his work that glorious tumult of his thoughts ;
and with his paper before him wrote three words
and sat three hours staring into the roseate air, and
dreaming dreams as wild as any Arabian tale.
Such was the first effort of that chance encounter,
in which the personages were not Lady Western
and the poor Dissenting minister, but Beauty and
Love, perennial hero and heroine of the romance
that never ends." Brief, bright, and inglorious
was this fitful fever of his mind, for Lady Western
thought nothing of him; but out of kindness partly,
and partly because he was kind to her humble
friend, she noticed him a Effie with that fascinating
manner so few could resist. His first disappoint-
ment occurred when she asked him to a little sum-
mer fete at her house. He went there delighted
and returned despairing. Lady Western hardly
noticed him, and her company imitated her neglect-
" Nobody wanted him, they stared at, him, and
asked questions who he was. When he at length
nerved himself to speak to his next neighbour,
he met with a courteous response, and no-
thing more. Society was not cruel, or repul-
sive, or severely exclusive, but simply did
not know him, could not make out who he was, and
was now talking that conversation of a limited
sphere full of personal allusions into which no
stranger could enter. Instead of the ineffable hour
he expected, an embarrassing unbearable tedium
was the lot of the poor Dissenting minister by
himself among the beauty, wit, and fashion of
Carlingford." This is an apt sketch of the fate of
many an unfortun ate individual who finds out too
late that there is no solitude so dreary and dis-
heartening as a crowd, and to be a nobody among
aombodies of every shade is a forlorn species and
a funereal representation of mirth. Vincent then
turned his thoughts to his profession. "This
resolution rose and swelled into that heroic region
which youth always attains so easily. He accepted
Salem with all the heat of passion at that moment.
His be the task to raise it and its pastor into a
common fame." Fired with this zeal and actuated
by this fervour, he produced a series of lectures
-which shook society in Carlingford to its very
foundation. A man of decided ability cannot be in
any position of responsibility without making his
presence felt, and exhibiting in Some form or other
his talent. He was misunderstood, unappreciated
and finally disliked by the majority, but Vincent had
his hour of triumph, he was hailed victor in the
contest of aspirants to the favour of the congrega-
tion, he was crowned in the capitol of Carlingford
as their hero, their orator, and their regenerator.
In the midst of these excitements a dark page of
domestic misery is unfolded, and we are introduced
to Vincent's mother. This lady is the most interest-
ing person of the story. She is genuine, unaffected,
mid self-restraining. In the time of trial she was
calm, when bearing' the burden of as bitter a
enlaraity as could crush a mother's spirit, and
Neigh her in the dust, the mysterious loss of her
young and lovely daughter, she was still watchful
over the interests of her son, and careful of many
things needed to maintain the dignity of our social
position and the general working of the springs of
daily existence. It is a great mistake to suppose
that those possessed of deep feelinr, cannot think of
anything but indulging their selfish sorrow in a
time of calamity. The truth is far otherwise and
widely different. Those whose fine natures suffer
the most acutely are the most capable of self-corn-
wand, and in the day of distress they will meet the
emergency and rise to the height that is due, not
from prostration of mind, but from innate great-
ness of soul. The world has done its worst, but it
cannot deprive them of a strength that • it
neither gives nor takes away, the strength that is
accorded to those who have overcome the world by
their trust in its Maker, and who regard not the
frowns or smiles of men as the decisive elements of
a struggle in which they put their trust and find
their rest in God. Of such a class was Mrs. Vin-
cent, and no one here met with can
excel her in
her claims on our respect and reverence. She had
not been wise in the confidence that she put - in the
faithless wretch who had despoiled her home of its
treasure, and so cruelly treated his own family'
But then, when the blow had fallen, this timid
woman proved herself worthy of being the mother
of a minister, and so conducted herself as to win
back some of the regard that had been gradually
dopartiDg from lio• sun. When her bon in hi im-

petuosity scorned her minute attention to trivial
matters, how much greater was she in her day of
small things than he in his intemperate haste and
frenzied complaints. Vincent was not of the stuff
of which heroes are made. He was too easily in-
fluenced by passing events, too vehement in his
demonstrations, had too little control ever his pas-
sions ; but Mrs. Vincent was different—under many 1
another circumstance she would have been called
a heroine. As it was, she played a part and ful-
filled a role that is numerous but little noticed ;
powerful for good, it is not synonymous with great-
ness, few trouble themselves with such lives, and
none mourn for such deaths. The nameless martyrs
of earth are an unnoticed throng, their sufferings
are not sympathised with, nor are their wrongs re-
dressed ; but this sad earth would be sadder with-
out them, this dark life gloomier if they existed
not, and their recognition, if delayed, will not be
denied where alone approval shall be lasting, and
the winner can never find his gain turn to loss, nor
his treasures prove illusory. The quiet town was
in a stir, the secluded lodgings became the centre of
attraction, and the simple rooms of Vincent were
transformed into the theatre where was enacted an
exciting drama, that threatened at one time to be-
come a tragedy. A romance of real life always
outdoes the stage effects in the mind of the looker-
on, and demure and dowdy Carlingford held up its
head in excitement till the nine days' wonder was
over. To add to the confusion in the mind of Vin-
cent, the man who had been engaged to his sister
under false pretences was the brother of Lady
Western, and the husband of her strange friend,
I Mts. Hildyard. Colonel Mildmay was indeed a
villain of the darkest and deepest dye;
he preyed upon widows and orphans, and
cared for no one but himself and the gratifi-
cation of his base desires and unworthy tastes. To
complicate matters still more, he had assumed the
name of a man to whom Lady Western had long been
attached, Mr.Fordliam, and when asking questions
of this man's character, as the supposed lover of his
sister, Vincent had referred to her, she said he was
one to be trusted through life even unto death.
Thus encouraged Vincent did not prcceed with the
same despatch he might otherwise have done, and
the dark mystery took place. The whole of this
exciting passage of the story is most artistically
sketched forth, and the interest becomes most intense
as it proceeds to depict one fearful scene after an-
other. While Susan was still in danger a new
trouble came. The greatest discontent prevailed
among the congregation of Salem Chapel, and the
direst displeasure arose against their young mini-
ster, and they resolved to dismiss him. Vincent
was equal to the emergency, and met it calm and
unmoved. When Tozer came into his pulpit to
give notice of a call to a meeting that had been sur-
reptitiously determined upon, he apprehended the
charge as a war-horse sniffs the combat afar, " He
rose, with the paper in his hand, and faced the con-
gregation, where he no longer saw one face, but
had suddenly woke up to behold his battle-ground
and field of warfare, in which everything dear to
him was assailed." He told the people of this meet-
ing about to be convened for Monday, and then, in his
own name, summoned them to a similar assemblage
on Tuesday. This was throwing down the gaunt-
let, not picking it up, and the same spirit sustained
him. Though the hostile assemblage did not de-
cide against him on Monday, still on Tuesday he
carried out his purpose and executed his resolve.
At the appointed hour he appeared and told the
astonished, bewildered, and repentant throng that
he was going to leave them, and that he was not
minister of Salem from that night. In this hour of
voluntary deposition, Vincent came out grand, he
called forth the admiration of his friends, and won
even the applause of his enemies. He whose short
career had been beset with conflicts, ended in a
burst of triumph. "Half of Carlingford sat in
tears to hear Mr. Vincent's last sermon. Such 4
discourse had never been heard in Salem." So it
often occurs in real life, when a man shrinks from
an evil, it doubles in proportion and deepens in in-
tensity, but let him boldly meet it and bravely re-
sist, and the chances are ten to one that he comes
out of the contest more than conqueror. So it
proved with our hero, and he prospered 1
more after leaving Salem, which never
could have suited him. At the last
we are told of some bright prospect in the future to
make Vincent's home again bright and his life en-
joyable. Through the course of these volumes, we
find him encircled by cares and encompassed by
difficulties; it seems but meet that afteraur acquaint-
ance with him is over, other influences, more graci-
ous and more happy, should preside over his destiny
than the sombre spirits that haunted his career at
Carlingford. " Salem Chapel" is a peculiar story,
that goes out of the common in its way of telling
how things occurred and events took place. But
the monotony of such details are not at all tedious as
they are so admirably exact in their counterpart of
real life. Human nature must be faithfully repre-
sented, or else a story is of no avail. The many
diverse and conflicting interests at stake in the
quiet little town are brought into juxtaposition
with consummate adroitness and great dexterity of
I plan and purpose. We are shown the evil result of
bigotry, the sad effects of passion, the dreadful con-
sequences of selfishness, and the awful 'wages of
sin. In all these momentous occurrences, there
is occasion to notice the good representation of the
several characters, and the contrary effects wrought
on different persons by the same event. Rachel was
maddened to fury, while Mrs. Vincent was calm and
dignified. The Salem congregation could not con-
tain themselves in their impulsive zeal, but their
minister met them composed in solemn state. So on
through the course of the " Chronicles of Carling-
ford," now so graphically described, and the ad- 1
, ventures of "Salem Chapel," which are here recorded
in a form that has made them famous. The skill
with which the greater part of these volumes has
been drawn up will render them attractive studies for
those who may not care fora romance, but who will
nevertheless be glad to meet with some sketches of
individuals that seem to belong to human nature
in its foibles and its faith, and to hear of events
that may be taking place around us to-day, or have
been occuring yesterday, and which are sure to be
enacted oft and again during all the to-morrows of
this sad and suffering world. New names may be
foand, but the prototypes for craft and cruelty,
passion and prejudice, love and
,hatred, are all seen
not very far off; and this story has achieved a
great success in affording us so true a glimpse of
life,
and. so apt an illustration of the conse-
quences of evil actions. The painful family of sin,
motoyreeahrisdheoeunseatthha,n theiranawilqluseoeonn,
gaattthenerdinona the vale
of dlelaetohneteortnheed delinquent,orconnectedto with him. Colonel
Mildmay's wrong was ever present in his wife's
misery and his child's affliction, Ms sister's sorrow,
and his friend's betrayal. Many pictures appear'
of a descriptive nature in the course of these pages,
which may be recommended to those who wish for
a solid work of fiction, whose purpose is 1,
aeyond
the amusement of an idle hour, or the pastime of a
since it seeks to convey a lesson under
giddy circle,
the guise of an effective story, and to illustrate an
endeavour with the eloquence of earnest language.
It proclaims not its meaning trumpet-tongued, but
gently whispers with a still small voice of the
blessed influence of that spirit of wisdom which
leads through ways of pleasantness and peace, until
its path becomes bright and brighter in the light
of the perfect day.

Memoirs of Christina, Queen of Sweden. By Henry

- -
Woodhead. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett.

An unusual degree of interest always attaches
itself to a youthful Queen Regnant, and this feel-
ing is naturally heightened when, as in the ease of
Elinbeth of England and Christina of Sweden, the
sceptre of a great kingdom falls into a feminine 11
hand at a crisis of the national history. In both
these instances there was no lack of firmness in the
grasp, or of capacity , in the administration, and
however much credit may be due to the able coun-
cillors who surrounded their thrones, it would be
unfair to attribute the vigour of Elizabeth or the
toleration of Christina exclusively to the influences
of Burleigh or Oxenstein. The Swedish princess
is said to have attentively studied the character of
our English Queen, and possibly to have derived
from her the impression that streugth of rule mubt!

necessarily be associated with a rough and mas
culine manner. .But, however similar in other
respects, there was certainly one very import-
ant particular in which the two maiden Queens
differed. Elizabeth tantalised her Ministers and
people for many years by her reluctance to no-
minate her successor; she could not endure
the thought of relinquishing her dearly loved
power. Christina, on the contrary, during the few
short years of her reign, was impatient to resign
the crown, and declared her intention three years
before she actually fulfilled it, although induced to
postpone its accomplishment by the entreaties of
those around her. Sweden at the time of her acces-
sion held a very different position in the European
scale to what it does now. The fame of Gustavus
Adolphus extended throughout the civilised world,
Napoleon has since placed him in the very first rank
of military commanders, and his death at Lutzen,
by postponing the conclusion of the Thirty Years'
War exercised a powerful influence on Euro-
pean politics. His daughter, who inherited his
talents and judgment, though not his steadiness,
was still in the first years of childhood at his death.
His faithful Minister and friend, 0 eenstien,
acquitted himself of the trust reposed in him most
scrupulously, aided by the rest of the Regency ; and
the young princess received an education which
left her one of the most learned women in
Europe, and whose only fault was that it taxed too
severely her delicate heSith. Her mother was con-
sidered incompetent to take charge of her, and in
accordance with the wish of the lamented King,
Christina was committed to the care of her aunt,
who was in every way worthy of the £rust. Un-
fortunately she died when the young princess was
just entering her girlhood, committing her family
on her death-bed to her niece's favour and protec-
tion. " Never," says her biographer, "was a dying
injunction more faithfully observed than this last.
Christina resigned her crown to Catherine's son,
and resigned the man she loved to Catherine's
daughter." Whether these acts were due to her
veneration for her aunt, or to motives of policy, it
is certain that Christina deeply felt the loss of the
Princess, and was thus deprived of her only judi-
cious female friend and adviser. Bat, notwith-
standing her habitual disregard for the graces of
her sex, and her affectation of manly tastes and
habits, Christina was not destitute of refinement, as
the encouragement she gave to men of arts and
letters testifies. Taste and manners were at a very
low ebb in Sweden at the time of her accession,
and knowledge was not much higher. She did
good service to her nation by introducing a better
state of things. The uncultivated state of the coun-
try previously is shown by the fact that two of
the most important measures of the Regency were
the improvement of the roads and the formation of
a regular post. She invited men of learning from
France, Italy, and Holland, and every week she
held an assembly of the most famous wits and
scholars. More substantial benefits were conferred
by Christina on her kingdom by her love of peace;
she was always slow to engage in conflicts, and
ready to come to fair and reasonable terms with
an adversary. Her greatest achievement, how-
ever, was the active part she took in bringing
about the the peace of Westphal'a. Her anxiety
on this point reflects the higher honour upon her,
because Sweden was by no means the greatest
sufferer in the war, and to some classes it was
a positive advantage. It is remarkable that this
Peace was the first recognition of that principle of
the balance of power which has become so
favourite a dogma with modern statesmen,
Christina inherited her father's courage and
independent spirit. She was well fitted to rule,
for the eccentricities that made her ridicu-
lous in private life did not interfere with her just
and wise administration of the affairs of the State.
The resolve to abdicate, formed so soon after her
coming of age, and declared the year after the ex-
travagant ceremonial of her coronation, was the
more extraordinary when we consider how well
adapted her position was to the gratification of her
tastes. One of the reasons she assigned for it was
her desire to cultivate literature more at leisure,
forgetting, as the anther remarks, how much of the
ready admiration of men of genius was given to the
Queen, not to the woman, however gifted. Another
cause is found in the state of the finances, for
Christina, however skilful in mathematics, does
not appear to have been by any means a good
financier. By her first act she had confirmed the
alienation of some of the Crown lands by the Re-
gency, and refusing from a mistaken sense of hon-
our to reclaim them, the consequence was continual
embarrassment. Last, but not, least among her
motives was the change in her religion, for though
Christina was not one of those who
" Threw Crowns for rosaries away;
An empire for a eat,"
yet as the profession of the Catholic faith was for-
bidden to a Swedish monarch, it undoubtedly had
a great influence over her. Her biographer adds to
these the restless desire to do something startling
which should increase the admiration felt for her
many rare qualities. He is throughout her staunch
partisan, admitting her follies and foibles, but de-
fending her from all graver charges. He asserts
that few eminent persons have had less justice
done to them by posterity than Christina, for the
majority of the lives published have either been
" extravagantly hostile, or unreasonably eulogistic."
This defect he strives to remedy by a fair and tem-
perate work, founded on authentic documents.
Christina's abdication was neither productive of
benefit to her country nor to herself. " Three
kings succeeded her, each of whom possessed great
military genius, but their incessant wars impover-
ished their country, lost the fairest portion of their
territory, and reduced Sweden to the position of a
third-rate power." The reign of her immediate
successor and cousin, Charles Gustavus, which
only lasted five years, was an incessant cam-
paign ; his son, though a prince of great
ability, was continually involved in war ; while
the martial history of Charles XII. is as well
known from its misfortunes as its successes. Of
the ex-Queen herself her biographer writes—
" There is little doubt that she soon began and
never ceased to repent of the step she had taken.
Far from enjoyingthe coveted repose, she was more
than ever absorbed in politics, when she could no
longer interfere in them with dignity. Her literary
meetings lost half their joyousness from the time
that they were no longer her relaxation from the
duties of government. She must often have thought
of the merry conversations, when the greatest
scholars of Europe sought a word or a smile from
her." The two most celebrated examples of
monarchs laying down their crowns have, says the
writer, little in common with hers. Diocletian and
Charles V, were exhausted by the fatigues of war
and the cares of state. Christina was but twenty-
eight when she abandoned her sovereignty. She
was beloved by her people, and her reign had been
singularly successful. The rest of her long life, for
she survived her abdication for thirty-five years,
she spent chiefly at Rome. She visited France,
where she was concerned in the discreditable
threargne
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voef
land,M on awl dheesiceh
ti ,haend re
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teirewn asrdhes
mr eettu
with
ni et dh
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the hands of the Government affords one of the
most notable instances of human ingratitude. The
Regency then in power during the minority of
Charles XI. was principally composed of men who
had been the recipients of her favour, yet their con-
proclamation forbidding her
niatatdi
ors ; they
of the
States, ;Qsistiueeednawas marked by every possible
id:scut,
tt.o thei e
They
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the exereise of her religion during her stay, aright
e
any meeting
they dared not refuse to foreiagitt
foreign ambassadors
woulde
be necessary
forbad
and
dr
atnonnbuenpeerd hestenatt
to take extraordinary precautions about the young
king's health. As she was proceeding to Stock-
holm a courier met her with orders to dismiss the
Catholic priest who attended her. The indignant
Queen refused to submit to this affront, and
although it was near midnight she gave orders to
prepare for instant departure. The people of the
towns she passed through surrounded her
Carriagelaspite of
with every demonstration of affec-
tion and regret, and Christina withdrew from the
country
of Yailehad once ruled with the dignity that,
teark
ing eccentricities,
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Swedish
clung u
Count
to
who
daughter
Gustavus Adolphus. " Tell the King,"
she said,
R escorted her, at my pride will keep me from

complaining, and my patriotism will prevent me from
seeking revenge." The best proof that Christina
was disappointed in her choice is to be found in her
readiness to seek another crown. She was proposed
as a candidate for the throne of Poland, rendered
vacant by the abdication of her kinsman and con-
temporary, John Casimir. Strangely enough the
same generation witnessed the surrender of the
regal dignity by the last heirs of two branches of the
great Vasa family. Alas ! for the inconsistency of
human nature. Christina resigned a crown which
was hers by right, and gave up a position where
adulation was her daily fare, to seek vainly another
sceptre, and to struggle for the respect and autho-
rity which had once been her due. The conduct of
the Swedish nobles is of a darker dye, and their
conduct towards their former benefactress is an in-
delible disgrace to their memories. It is remarked
in Christina's favour that her enemies were gene-
rally among the most worthless, while her friends
of virtue and learning she retained to the last. No
doubt her career was chequered by many foibles and
eccentricities, but there was much that was noble;
and there is little doubt that, from all points of
view, she has been represented in extravagant
colours. The public has, therefore, to thank Mr.
Woo dhead for affording them this candid and im-
partial view of one who, whether from her charac-
ter, her circumstances, or her conduct, must justly
be ranked among the most remarkable women of
modern times.

LAW INTELLIGENCE---Feb. 4.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Mr. Baron
Bramwell and a Common Jury.)

PAYNE V. BARNES.--EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ASSAULT.

This was an action for assault under very peculiar cir-
cumstances. The defendant pleaded that he committed the
assault in self-defence.

Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Henry James were coun-
sel for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. F. J.
Smith appeared for the defendant.
The plaintiff, Mr. Richard Payne, is a contractor at Chat-
ham. The defendant, Mr. G. Barnes, a manure merchant in
the same place.
The nature of the case is fully explained by the following
evidence :

Richard Payne, the plaintiff, said—l am a contractor for
discharging ships which arrive in her Majesty's dockyards
from different parts of the world, and reside at Chatham.
In the course of my business I have to leave home for days
at a time. I married my wife 15 years ago. In spring last
rumours came to my ears about my wife's conduct with the
defendant. I called his attention and my wife's to what I
had heard. The defendant strongly denied it. On the 2d
Dec., 1862, I left my house to go to London on business. I
intended to go by the one o'clock train on the North Kent
line. When I arrived at the station I found I had missed
the train. There was not another train until three o'clock,
and I resolved not to go to London that day. I, however,
remained at the station to meet a captain, whom I
expected to come from London, but he did not
arrive. I returned home at half-past three o'clock.
I have no servant. We only keep a little niece, but
she was at school at that time. We have no children. Be-
fore I left home I went up into my bedroom and took £2 out
of a drawer for my expenses. The bed was then made, and
the window blind up. When I got home I did not see my
wife. I called her three times, but she made no reply. I then
went into the parlour and sat down. In 5 minutes I heard
her coming downstairs. When she saw me she rushed back
again. She came down again with some needlework. I then
went upstairs to replace the £2 in the drawer. When I
opened the bedroom door I found the room very dark and
dull. All the bed clothes were chucked in the middle of the
floor, and the bed laid open to the tick. The blinds and cur-
tains were all closed. As I was leaving the drawers I thought
I saw the bed clothes shake. It surprised and " stagnated"
me. (Laughter.) I looked to see the cause, and on lifting up
the curta'ns I saw George Barnes. The bed was in the cor-
ner of the room, and he was at the furthest corner of the
bed. I called out" George Barnes ;" but he made no an-
swer. I repeated his name a second and a third time, and he
said at last; " Yes, Dick, it is." I went to the top of the
stairs and called " Mary Ann." She came up crying. I said
to her, " What is that fellow doing under the bed 2" He
exclaimed, " For God's sake, Payne, listen I" I knocked
him down. He got up, and I knocked him down again.
I did this with my fist. I then turned round and struck
my wife. Afterwards I received a blow on the back of
my head. I turned round and received a cut on my
nose and another on my forehead with a pair of tongs
which Barnes had taken from the fireplace. He struck
with the handle part. A great quantity of blood flowed
from the wounds. I received four blows altogether.
At the fourth my wife put her arms round my neck and
said, "For God's sake, George Barnes, you'll kill my hus-
band 1" I fell down by the window and felt faint and
stunned. I shoved my leg through two windows and shouted
for help. I rushed downstairs to get a policeman, and I
went to a doctor, who lived opposite. Barnes followed me
downstairs with the tongs. He then dropped them and ran
out. I was under the doctor's care 10 or 12 days. I suffered
great pain from the blows, and do now. The skin was cut
in three places. Barnes is the deputy landlord of my house.

Cross-examined—l have known the defendant since we
were boys. I never heard from my wife that water came
into my bedroom, nor that the roof required any repairs. I
only struck my wife with my open hand. I and Barnes did
not fight for some time before I was knocked down a second
time. I did not say to him, " You --, I'll kill you." My
wife did not pull me off him, and say, " For God's sake,
you'll choke Barnes." I did not put my hand into my
pocket, and say, " I'll kill you both." The witness added
that he had not lived with his wife since.
A Clerk in Pickford's office at Chatham said he had seen
Barnes at Payne's house scores of times.
The surgeon who attended the plaintiff was then exa-
mined ; after which,
Sergeant Parry addressed the jury for the defence, and
called

Mr. Barnes, the defendant, who declared that he went up
to the room at the request of Mrs. Payne to look at the leak
in the roof. He swore that he had never had any criminal
intercourse with her.
By Mr. Hawkins—l did not ask Mrs. Payne to show me
the leak. In fact, I did not know there was one (Laughter.)
Re-examined—After I had been to the solicitor's office I
received the letter produced, dated 7th April, from Penny,
who had circulated the rumour about me and Mrs. Payne.
In it he states that the words were uttered in passion, and
that he apologised for them, and would not repeat them
again. This apology was sent to Payne's house, and came
while both were there.

Evidence was then given to prove the repeated visits of
the defendant to the plaintiff's house while the husband
was away.
George Penny said that in April his wife called him up-
stairs in the evening, and on looking out of the window he
saw the defendant kissing Mrs. Payne at the back door.
Mrs. Penny opened the window and called out, " That is
beautiful, lam sure." (Laughter.) Mr. Barnes then tripped
lightly up High-street, and Mrs. Payne scampered away
like a frightenedcat. (Laughter.) In February I overheard
the following conversation between them at the back door.
Barnes said, " I watched him down the street. I would
not tell you a lie; you know I would not." After that I
heard a kiss and some caressing sounds. All the words I
heard Mrs. Payne say were, " You always do that."
(Laughter.) Barnes said, " Yon will break my heart—that
you will." Then he said he could not sleep all night for
thinking of her, but having seen her he felt much better. I
also heard him say that if it were not for his family he
would run away with her. I told Mr. Barnes what I had
seen, and he gave notice to quit.

Mrs. Penny corroborated the evidence of her husband,
and said she thought the kissing on the evening when she
opened the window and called out was a very disgusting
sight. (Laughter.) She said so because the defendant was
a married man.

Other evidence of familiarities between the defendant
and Mrs. Payne was given, and it was also proved that at
the time of the assault there was no leak in the bedroom, or
any sign of water having come in.
The learned counsel having addressed the jury for their
respective clients,
Mr. Baron Bramwell, in summing up, said the only two
questions were whether the defendant was justified in com-
mitting the assault, and if so, whether he had used any
excess of violence. The plaintiff was entitled to their ver-
dict if the beating was not in self-defence, or was more
than was necessary for that purpose. They had not to
consider whether the defendant was in the house for the
purpose of committing adultery with Mrs. Payne, or for any
other unlawful t object, because in either case the plaintiff
had no right to beat him, and if he did beat him the defen-
dant was justified in defending himself. Though that was
the law,,still if they thought their verdict should be for the
plaintiff, and believed that he found the defendant in a
situation which left no doubt that he had committed adul-
tery with his wife, and did no more than fell him to the
ground, they ought to give him damages with no niggard
hand.

The jury retired, and after a brief deliberation found a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, £2OO.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before Sir C. Cresswell.)
THE COUNTESS OF LIMERICK V. THE EARL OF LIMERICK.
Dr. Wambey conducted the case for the petitioner.
This was a suit promoted by the petitioner for judicial
separation on the ground of her husband's adultery, and
there was no defence.
Dr. Wambey, in opening the case, said that the marriage
was solemnised at Nor:olk Island. The ceremony was per-
formed by a clergyman of the Church of England, and ho
cited the case of Cotterell v. Cotterell to show that mar-
riages such as the present were to be considered valid when
they were followed by reputed cohabitation.
air C. Cresswell said the question was whether he could
take cognisance of the colonial law relating to marriage.
Dr' Wambey, having referred to an act passed by the

New South Wales Legislature, in reference to legalising
marriage in that colony, called—
Capt. N. P. Horsley, who said—l am the father of the
petitioner, and am an unattached captain of the 96th Regi-
ment of Foot. In 1842 I was staying with my regiment at
Norfolk Island. I knew the Earl of Limerick, who was at
the time holding a Government situation there, On the 6th
April, 1842, I was present at the marriage of Lord Limerick
to my daughter in a building used for the purpose of mar-
riage in the island. Divine service vas usually held there
for civilians ; for the troops it was held in the barracks.
Sir C. Cresswell said it does not appear to have been con-
secrated ground.
The witness continued—The ceremony was performed
by the late Mr. Naylor, a clergyman of the Established
Church, and according to the rites and forms of the Church
of England. 1 have not seen any marriage performed there
since, but I understand that the marriage of the daughter
of the then Governor was solemnised in the same building.
After the marriage I remained a very short time in the
island, and left Lord Limerick and my daughter there.
They were reputed man and wife in the island. (Here a
certificate of the marriage was produced, and the witness
identified, the hand writing as that of Mr. Naylor.
Sir C. Gresswell—Can you show me that any register
was kept ? -
Dr. Wambey—l cannot.
Sir C. Cresswell—This is merely a declaration of mar-
riage.

Witness continued—Lord Limerick and my daughter re-
mained about two years at Norfolk Island after the mar -
riage. They then went to Ditcham Park, in Hampshire.
There are six sons and one daughter issue of the marriage.
Emma Snelling said she was the wife of J ohn Snelling,
and lived at 7, Burlington-villas. In 1861 and 1862 she
lived at 15, Cumberland-terrace, Westbourne-road, Bays-
water. A woman lodged in her house named Garrald, who,
she understood, was married but did not live with her hus-
band. She remembered a gentleman who called himself
Colonel Fielding coming to visit her lodger frequently.
He slept in the house and occupied the same bedroom as
Mrs. Garrald. He continued his visits for about eighteen
months, and'in 1862 Mrs. Garrald went by the name of
Fielding. She had seen the gentleman who went by the
name of Col. Fielding at the Grosvenor Hotel. She was told
he was the Earl of Limerick, and she addressed him as
"My Lord." On the 27th of last month she went accom-
panied by a female named Elizabeth Hull to Tenby, in
Wales, and she saw the Earl of Limerick there again. He
was the gentleman who slept at her house.
Elizabeth Hull said she was a servant of Mr. Hill, the
solicitor of Lady Limerick, and she had known her and Lord
Limerick for the last few years, as they were in the habit of
visiting at her master's. She went with the last witness to
Tenby, and they saw Lord Limerick there. Lately she saw
Lady Limerick also in her presence.
Mrs. Snelling was recalled and said that Lady Limerick
was not the female that Lord Limerick used to visit at her
house.

This was the petitioner's case.
Sit C. Creswell said he must consider the case before de-
livering judgment.
Dr. Wambey applied to the court for an order respecting
the children, who were at present IA the custody of the
Vice- Chancellor.

Sir C. Cresswell said that they must remain in his (the
Vice-Chancellor's) custody for the present.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Yesterday.

BOW-STREET. THE RIGHT TO SEATS IN A
THEATRE.—Mr. William Wray, who described himself as
a gentleman, and whose appearance certainly accorded with
that description, was charged with creating a disturbance
at the Theatre Royal New Adelpjii.
Mr. W. Smith, the acting manageriAtated that on Tues-
day evening, in the early part of the performance, he was
informed that there was some dispute about the seats in the
pit stalls. On proceeding to the spot, he found that the
defendant, who was accompanied by two ladies, had taken
possession of three centre seats in one of the front rows. A
party of three, who had tickets bearing the numbers of those
seats, wished to go to their places, but the prisoner refused
to give way. Witness called the prisoner's attention to the
numbers on those tickets, and asked to see the prisoner's
tickets, in order to ascertain the numbers and show him
and his party to their proper seats. The prisoner refused to
stir, though the two ladies, his friends, endeavoured to per-
suade him to do so. Witness then requested him to re-
move to the seats indicated by the numbers on his tickets,
and as the prisoner persisted in his refusal, witness called
the police officer on duty in the house to remove him. The
prisoner said that no " bobby" should take him out of his
place, and on the constable proceeding to remove him he
resisted so violently that it was found necessary to call in
another constable to help. So much disturbance was
created that it was found necessary to stop the perfor-
mances until the prisoner was removed, and Mt. Webster
felt it to be his duty to direct that the prisoner should be
given into custody. It was painful to Mr. Webs er to
take this course, and still more so to press the charge
before the magistrate, but Mr. Webster felt that it was
incumbent on him not only to provide proper accommo-
dation for the public, but to protect the public in the en-
joyment of that accommodation. The seats being numbered,
visitors were entitled to expect that they should obtain the
seats indicated by the numbers on their tickets. This ar-
rangement would be utterly futile ,if gentlemen like Mr.
Wray were permitted to usurp any seats they pleased, leav-
ing those who held the numbers of those seats to shift as
they might. But if anything could be worse than this, it
was that a gentleman should create such uproar in the house
as to prevent the entire audience from attending to the per-
formance, and compel the entire stoppage of the perform-
ance, to the annoyance of every individual in a crowded
house.

Mr. Henry—Was the prisoner under the influence of
liquor ?
Mr. W. Smith—Certainly not, sir; he was perfectly
sober.

The prisoner said that the reason he refused to leave the
seats was that he wished Mr. Smith to prove to him that
they were reserved. If not, he thought that he was as well
entitled to them as any one else. When the performance
began, he said, " I am very comfortable ; I don't care about
moving."
Mr. Henry said it was quite clear that the seats were re-
served. As all the seats were numbered, they were in fact
all reserved seats. It was an admirable arrangement for
the public convenience that all the seats should be num-
bered, so that every person could go at once to the number
indicated on his ticket, without any squabbling or any rash
for places. But the advantage of that arrangement would
be entirely nullified if even one person was allowed to in-
fringe it.
The prisoner said he wanted to be convinced that those
seat had been engaged prior to his arrival. If they had
been engaged after he came, he thought he had as good a
right to them as any one else.
Mr. Henry could not understand how the prisoner could
have been under any such misapprehension. His tickets
being numbered entitled him to the seats corresponding to
those numbers. It would be difficult to devise an excuse for
his attempt to take wrongful possession of other seats to
which he was clearly not entitled, and to maintain that pos-
session by force. Probably he did so under an impression
that force would not be used to dispossess him. If so, that
motive was no more creditable to him than the act of usur-
pation itself.

_
The prisoner said if he had been asked to leave the house
he would have done so. He was only asked to change his
seat.

Mr. Henry—Surely, Mr. Wray, you cannot make it a
grievance that you were not ordered out of the house, which
would have been unnecessary and unreasonable ; but only
asked to go to your own place, which was just and proper.
I really think that, apart from the law, your own good
taste and regard for the convenience of others ought to have
guarded you against such misconduct.
Mr. Wray—l admit that I forgot my charecter of a gen-
tbman.

Mr. Henry was glad to hear that admission. But the
public really must be protected. The prisoner was liable to
a fine of V, or even to imprisonment without the option of
a fine. He would not go that length, He would fine the
prisoner in the mitigated penalty of 43.
The fine was paid:

REPRESENTATION OF DEVONFORT.—PLYMOUTH,
Wednesday, One a.m.—Sir Frederick Grey, one
of the Lords of the Admiralty, has just arrived by train
fidm- London, to canvass the borough of Devonport for the
seat iraCtilit by the retirement of Sir Michael Seymour.
Mr. Bonsfield Ferrand, the Conservative candidate, arrived
yesterday afternoon. A sharp contest is expected.
OLDSTERS AND YOUNGSTERS.—There are games
which are becoming to particular periods of life. I
remember in the days of our youth, when my friend Arthur
Bowler was an eminent cricketer. Slim, swift, strong,
well built, he presented a goodly appearance on the ground
in his flannel uniform. Militasti non sine glo ria, Bowler
my boy ! Hush i
We tell no tales. Mum is the word.
Yonder comes Charley, his son. Now Charley his son has
taken the field, and is famous among the eleven of his
school. Bowler, senior, with his capacious waistcoat, &c.,
waddling after a ball, would present an absurd object,
whereas it does the eyes good to see Bowler, junior, scour-
ing the plain—a young exemplar of joyful health, vigour,
activity. The old boy wisely contents himself with amuse-
ments more becoming his age and waist, takes his sober
ride, visits his farm soberly—busies himself about his pigs,
his ploughing, his peaches, or what not. Very small
routinier s amusements interest him ; and ("thank goodness)
nature provides very kindly for kindly-disposed fogies. We
relish those things which we scorned in our lusty youth.
I see the young folks of an evening kindling and glowing
over their delicious novels. I look up and watch the eager
eye flashing down ,
the page, being, for my part, perfectly
contented with my twaddling old volume of Howell's
Letters or the Gentleman's Magazine. I am actually ar-
rived at such a calm frame of mind that I like batter pud-
ding. I never should have believed it possible, but it is so.
Yet a little while, and I may relish water-gruel. It, will
be the age of mon lait de poule et mon bonnet de nuit. And
then—the cotton extinguisher is pulled over the old noddle,
and the little flame of life is popped out.--1 hackeray in the
Cornhill for February.

TIMES.—If the usage of a few years still pre-
vailed, we should this morning present our readers
with the Speech from the Throne, slightly varied in
language and amplified by our remarks. But the
custom of communicating beforehand to the Press
the words of the Sovereign on the only occasions
when she addresses the nation in person has been
reasonably discontinued, and we, therefore, without
pretending to predict what will be said, aee content
to take a survey of the national position, and point
out the light and shade on the prospect before us.
Happily, the light largely predominates. The very
fact that a Queen's Speech is not in these days a
matter of interest; that no stubborn aristocracy, no
timid mercantile class, no angry multitude is wait-
ing with anxious ears 'f'or the announcement of a
Ministerial programme, is in itself a blessing. Any
political storm must be a sudden and abnormal
phenomenon. No set of statesmen, no unduly
powerful class, are expecting to reap the whirlwind
as the reward of what they or their forefathers have
sown. The Session begins without the foreboding
of a conflict; with hardly the promise of a measure.
The keen intellects of the Chancellor and his sub-
ordinates may have been employed during the recess
in framing new simplifications of our anomalous
laws, and their labours may result in useful addi-
tions to the Statute-book; but, unless they affect
such popular subjects es a marriage law, the lay
public can hardly be brought to take an interest
in legal Bills. These schemes of technical legisla-
tion remain beyond the sphere of public curiosity,
and generally of Royal notice. Of more exciting
domestic subjects there is a complete absence. The
name of Parliamentary Reform is never heard. Tile
Church Rate discussion is little more than an oppor-
tunity for the two parties of an evenly-balanced
House of Commons to show the gains and losses of
the preceding twelvemonth. The usual crop of
annuals in the shape of the Ballot and a number of
little bills in some way connected with ecclesiastical
grievances will spring up and live their life of a day;
but of regular political measures to be proposed and
opposed, debated, and divided upon, we know none.
That there will be something done, and that by the
middle of August some hundred Acts of Parliament
will have become the law of the land, must of course be
believed. But we foresee it onlywith the eye of faith.
All our thoughts are, in fact, directed to what is
passing beyond the limits of these realms. Her
Majesty in her Message may congratulate or con-
dole, but she will in most cases refer to the acts of
foreign nations, their civil wars, and their revolu-
tions ; the ambition of one, the weakness and decay
of another, and the prospect of their one day learn-
ing wisdom and imitating the prudence and self-re-
straint of her own people. Among the most legiti-
mate subjects of congratulation will be the bearing
of the nation under the heavy trial of the cotton
famine. Though all is not ever, yet we may fairly
believe that the worst has passed. Within five
years the two great calamities which, as long as we
can remember, the world has been predicting as cer-
tain to prostrate the power of Britain have come
upon us, and the old ship has weathered both storms.
The Indian mutiny established anew our power in
Asia ; the shutting of the cotton ports by an Ame-
rican war has but shown the possibility and the ne-
cessity of becoming free from dependence on one
foreign nation. But the courage with which dis-
tress hasbeen borne, and the munificence with which
it has been relieved, are still more worthy subjects
of Royal comment. As if to contradict all the
theories of desponding philosophers, the population
of the towns, which, from its numbers and its sup-
posed principles, has always been viewed with sus-
picion, has given the most perfect example of good
behaviour under sudden privation, and the events of
the past year have united class to class in a mutual
confidence which could never have been formed in
the sunshine of prosperity. With respect to the
two communities whose unhappy feud has been the
cause of these sufferings, what can an English
Queen do except utter a fervent hope that their
passions may soon be allayed so far as to permit
reason and humanity to be heard ? Any thing
more than the vaguest expression of good wishes
would probably be viewed with anger by the sen-
sitive community on -whom the continuance of
the war depends. But it is certainly a cause of just
satisfaction to the nation that no act of its own has
embittered the contest, and that from first to last
its almost unanimous opinion has been in favour of
peace. Many are the subjects relating to foreign
nations which might deserve a place in the Message.
The expedition of the French to Mexico, the conso-
lidation of Italy, the renewed struggles of unhappy
Poland, are matters on which the country would
like to hear something, though Ministerial pru-
dence may think it better to disappoint its curiosity.
But there is one interestiug event a reference to
which cannot be omitted. Since the last session of
Parliament ended a crown has been offered by the
Greek people to the second son of our Queen. All
the world has felt that the election of Prince
Alfred, so enthusiastic and unanimous, was a sin-
cere tribute to the English character and policy, as
well as to the constitutional principles of her Ma-
jesty's House. Although circumstances seem not
to allow the Prince to accept, yet the Queen can-
not but express a hope for the prosperity of the
Greek kingdom, and her satisfaction that the crown
is likely to be taken by a near connection of her own,
a Prince distinguished not only by his high Euro-
pean station, but by his ability, his attainments,
and his proved constitutional principles. The true
chord, however, will be struck should her Majesty's
Message contrast, not in boasting and presumption,
but with real thankfulness to Providence, the peace-
ful state of this Empire with the troubles of the
greatest States in both hemispheres. The heir to
this world-wide Sovereignty is about to contract
his marriage of affection at a time when the vast
dominions which he will one day be called to govern
are in profound tranquillity. No political discon-
tent, no serious quarrel of race, or class, or caste,
exists in all this system of communities. But be-
yond the limits of the British Empire all is diffe-
rent. There is nothing but war and civil dissen-
sion;-Kings falling from their thrones, or tempting
fate by blind provocations of their subjects; republics
destroying themselves by internal war, or wasting
away by misgovernment and the decay of their
people. What is the state of Russia and Poland;
of Turkey, still distracted by Christian seditions ;
of Prussia, where Charles Stuart and his Parlia-
ment seem to have come on the stage again; of
Austria, which can neither conciliate nor coerce
two of her chief provinces ; of Italy, where the old
monarchies have left many a legacy, of trouble ?
England alone stands free from the solicitude of
any domestic quarrel or any foreign war. The
declaration of the Sovereign that she is at peace
with all Foreign s I:'4,lFers rises on this occasion
above the usual cothmonplace. It is, indeed, a
triumph of administration that in the midst of all
these commotions we, who have interests in every
part of the globe, are at peace with every one.
While asserting our just tights wherever they have
been denied or violated, we have so far combined
self-respect with moderation that the country has
at this moment no enemy in the world, and may
soon reap by diminished imposts the benefit of its
just policy.

HERALD.—We all remember with what quaint
and strenuous frankness Thomas the Rhymer pro-
tested against the proffered kiss of the Queen of
Faerie, which was to give him " the tongue that
could never lie." If any malicious sprite could con-
fer upon the present Cabinet the gift of involuntary
veracity, we conceive that the Speech which will

this day be delivered in the name of their Royal

mistress would be the most damning record of Minis-
terial crimes and follies that ever was presented to
a scandalised Parliament. It could refer to nothing
creditable in the past ; to nothing hopeful in the
future. It must acknowledge a series of abortive
conspiracies and detected intrigues—conspiracies
against the Church and the Constitution, entered
into solely with a view to keep together a disor-
ganised party and sustain a Government divided
against itself ; intrigues which seem to have had
for their sole object the dishonour of the country
in the eyes of the world and of her rulers in the
eyes of their countrymen. Her Majesty's Com-
missioners would have to inform Parliament
,that
the career of the Ministry has been, even in their
OWII opinion, one of defeat, failure, and discredit
from first to test, and that there is not the slightest

reason to suppose that its termination will be one
whit less inglorious to themselves or less mis-

chievous to the country; that they have betrayed
their principles without conciliating their partisans,
and sacrificed their honour without securing their
offices; that they have attacked the Church with-
out winning the confidence of the Dissenters, and

endeavoured to undermine the constitutional bal-

ante of power Without thereby confirming the
wavering allegiance of the Radicals ; that they have

insulted the Pope without contriving to ingratiate
themselves with any Protestant adversary, except
Mr. Steuart, of Cambridge, and won the lasting

hatred of the Catholics without shaking the firm
adherence of the Orange party to the Conserva-
tives; that they have completed the ruin of that
Liberal Coalition which was so laboriously pieced
together in 1859; that they have lost the confidence
of their friends while they have justified the dis-
trust and embittered the antagonism of their adver-
saries ; that they keep their hold of power only by
sufferance, and have no idea of using it for any

other purpose save that of keeping it. But heartily
must they congratulate themselves that on this sub-
ject they are not obliged to speak the whole truth.
They need not say how they have insulted the
country from which the Prince of Wales has chosen
his bride, and the Royal head of the family which

confers almost as much honour as it receives in this
happy connection. They are not compelled to dwell
on the deliberate and wanton affront they hav put
on Denmark ; on the advice given to a friendly
and most respected Sovereign to dismember his
own ancestral dominions in compliance with the
insolent and utterly unfounded demands of an
encroaching neighbour ; and on the imperti-
❑ent lecture addressed to him when he civilly-
but decidedly declined to follow that unwar-
rantable and pernicious counsel. It is possible that
Lord Russell is not ashamed of this exploit ; but
we hardy give his colleagues credit for so much
insensibility. And yet they must let the Foreign
Secretary have his two or three paragraphs of self-
gratulation, and on what are those paragraphs to
touch ? Will they announce the preservation of
that cordial understanding with France of which
Lord Palmerston 'was so proud, and which has been
so strikingly manifested in Italy and in Mexico?
Will they express satisfaction that we have not
been involved in war with the United States by any
rash attempt to assert the honour of our flag and
the immunity of our ports, and take credit for the
prudence of the Ministry in forbearing to join in
any endeavour to restore peace to America and_
prosperity to Lancashire ? Are we to be congra-
tulated on the success of our diplomacy in Italy,
which has resulted in confirming, for an indefinite
period, the French occupation of Rome, or on the
fortunate but inevitable failure of the strange in-
trigue which was to have brought the Pope as our
pensioner to Malta ? Or will Lord Russell com-
placently refer to a subject which makes every
honest Englishman blush with patriotic shame—
such shame as Englishmen have not had occa-
sion to feel since England was a nation--
the infamous outrage offered to the high-spirited,
) enlightened, honourable, and most friendly
Government of Brazil? What, indeed, can he say
of which we shall not be ashamed to hear ? Will
he boast of the inextricable difficulties in which he
has involved us in China, where a chronic state of
warfare seems to be the inevitable consequence of
a Whig Government in England ; or of the disre-
putable quarrel with Mexico, or the still more dis-
reputable fashion in which we have backed out of
it ? What is there of which he dare speak, unless
it be of the happy prospect of getting rid of our dis-
contented subjects in the lonian Islands, and of our
power in the Eastern Mediterranean, by a sacrifice
which has the peculiar merit of injuring everybody
except those who may hope to avail themselves of it
to the injury of others; and of the intrigue which
resulted in the choice by Greece of a King who
❑ever could have been allowed to accept the Throne,

and whose election, therefore, should have been at
once rendered impossible by a Crank and honest de,
claration that he would not accept it ? We must
expect to read the Royal Speech to day with less
indifference and more indignation than such a docu-
ment can ordinarily provoke. But we may console
ourselves that it will be very long before ber
Majesty's present advisers will again have the
chance of addressing the nation in their Sovereign's
name. We cannot believe that those who have so
signally dishonoured themselves and their country
will be allowed further opportunities of exercising
their talents to serve the enemies, to alienate the
allies, to imperil the interests, and to sacrifice the
dominions or England.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

1,

• •- LYNN—TUESDAY.
White ' ';-;so's to 63s j 8ar1ey...... 38s to 410
Red.. 49s to 518 Grinding ..32s to 330
Beans .34s to 395, Oats..
New • —s to —s Peas —s to ,--6

HULL—TUESDAY.
A poor supply of English wheat to-day at market, which
again met a slow sale at about last week's currencies. Fo-
reign neglected. Barley for malting sold atfully late rates;
grinding in limited sale. Oats, beans, and peas were ull"
altered.
Wheat.... Old white per qr. .... 50s Od to SSS 0o
Old red
New white .. „
New red .... ,
Dutch, Belgian, and French. 58s Od to 62s Od
Baltic and Hamburg, red 49s Od to 51s Od
St. Petersburg and Riga, old sos Od to 52s Od
Barley.... English malting 3ls Od to 388 Od
Grinding 3os Od to 338 Od
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 2Bs Od to 29s ocl
Grinding 2Bs Od to 31s Od
Oats English, old 26s Od to 28s Od
Archangel and Riga, per St OBl2O to 130,
Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to 08131 a
Swedish and Danish Osl2ld to osl3d
Beans ....English, old, per qr
New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od
New tick. 4os Od to 42s Od
Egyptian .. 34s 6d tc 35s Od
Peas Foreign boilers ... 36s Od tt. 38. 6d
Grinding . —s Od tc 38s Od
Tares Spring. —s Od to —s Od
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding
crushing
Linseed cakes (Hull) 110 5 0 to £lO 10 0
Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 0
Rape cakes 6 5 oto 610 0
Bones 5 5 oto 510

NEWARK—
White wheat 'new, 53s to 56s
Red do. 4BB to 52s
Old white sBs to 63s
Red do. 55s to 59s
Barley, malting 388 to 42a
Peas.

•WEDNESDAY.

Barley, grinding 30s to 330
Oats, old, .. 27s to 300
New do 22s to 250
Beans.. 42s to 440
Beans. new 36s to 408
44s to 48s.

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Low Spirits.—The misery occasioned by disordered dive"
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Holloway's Pills should be taken to restore health ; the,:
dispel headache, biliousness, nausea, lowness of spirits, and
similar symptoms, which indicate the presence of poisonous
matter or perverted action. A course of these invaluable
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pursuits. They strengthen the stomach and brace tb
nerves. Holloway's l'ills are peculiarly adapted for rene'
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anxiety, or any other excess which is known to debilitate
and exhaust the human constitution.