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" 7. The notes thus reimbursed shall be preserved apart,
and in case they should still be fit for use, may be issued
anew against deposits of specie, or in exchange for old and
worn-out notes brought into the bank.
"8. The remittance of deposit bank notes by the post
shall be effected on payment of an insurance rate accord-
ing to the amount transmitted, and of the postage of the
packet containing it.

(From the Times.)

" 9. In case of forgery of the said notes, the same
laws shall become applicable as are in force relative to the
imitation of State papers.

. .
OBSERVATION. —No change is made in the regulations
concerning the acceptation of the precious metals in tire
shape of bars or plate, presented to the Bank of Commerce,
to be kept in deposit.
" 10. For the management of the affairs of the deposit
bank, as well as those concerning the deposit of the precious
metals in ingots and plate (article 9). there is formed in the
Bank of Commerce an office of administration for the deposit
bank, the account of the personnel and expenses of which is
hereto annexed ; this special office, placed under the care of
the governor of the batik, and under the more immediate
direction of his deputy, shall be composed of a first and a
second director, of two directors elected by the commercial
community, with the fixed number of clerks ; the expenses
of this office shall be defrayed out of the profits of the
Bank of Commerce.

"11. The Minister of Finance is charged with drawing
up the detailed regulations for the internal order of writ-
ings and accounts, as well as for the guardianship of the
funds, and in general fur all the operations of the deposit
bank and its administration. The Minister shall take as
the model for these regulations those which are in force in
the credit establishments, previously communicating and
acting in concert with the Controller of the empire, and
shall ultimately communicate the dispositions so drawn up
to the council of the credit establishments.
" 12. For the verification of the operations of the de-
posit batik there is established, besides the internal control,
a superior control on the part of the council of the credit
establishments, and for the conservation, intact, of the de-
posits; this council shall every year select from among its
members, one deputy of the nobility, and one of the com-
mercial community, who shall take part in the monthly
revisions of the funds and returns, and assist in unforeseen
revisions. The operations of the deposit bank shall con-
stitute a portion of the accounts rendered of the Bank of
Commerce.

" The Directing Senate will take the necessary steps for
carrying the present into execution.

NICHOLAS.

" St. Petersburg, .July 1, 1839."

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Times of this morning contains an elaborate leading
article on the sutject of Tuesday night's Irish debste in
the Lords, the object of which is to show, that Lord Nor-
manby's defence of his system of policy in the sister-country
was wholly unsuccessful, and that Lord Brougham's attack
on certain portions of it, was altogether as triumphant.
Speaking of the prerogative of mercy, our Contemporary
says :—" This prerogative, like every other, is intrusted
to the Sovereign, not as a plaything to be tossed about at
his whim and fancy, nor even as a source of gratification
to his kindly feelings, but as an allowance in order to the
regulation of public justice, which, like the sun itself upon
the dial, needs some correction to fulfil the true result."
The Morning Chronicle, in the course of an article
strongly vituperative of Lord Brougham, for his speech on
Tuesday night, and as strongly in defence of Lord Nor-
manby's Irish policy, observes as follows :—" In England,
where the persons in gaol for crimes are generally de-
praved in character, and held in aversion by the rest of the
community, the course pursued by Lord Normanby in
Ireland might be attended with great mischief; but Lord
Normanby had to deal with people, the victims of a
diseased social system, rather than criminals in the Eng-
lish sense. Wishing to work on the kindly feelings of the
Irish people, he knew that the liberation of the prisoners
in question would enlist in favour of the law Oct merely
the individuals themselves, but all their kindred and con-
nections, and that the latter would view themselves as in
sonic sort responsible for the conduct of the men who had
had been so mercifully treated. He has not been disap-
pointed. It has become a point of honour with the Irish
peasantry not to disgrace their benefactor, and Ireland is
at this time in a condition to spare troops for England."
The Post, with reference to the discussion of Tuesday
night in the Lords, thus speaks of Lord Normanby's
system of Irish policy, and the Government defence of it
The substance of the defence set up for the huge wrongs
and ridiculous affectations that have been substituted for
government in Ireland may be stated in two words—mon-
strous impudence. The Whig creatures who have gone
over to Ireland in official situations (apt scholars for such a
school) have, in the matter of monstrous impudence, be-
come indeed hybernis ipsis Iwberniores. Nothing has
been too flagrant for them. They do the grossest things
imaginable in behalf of the faction of the priests, and in
palpable hostility to all that bas ever been respected in
England as law, justice, and prudence; and when they
are called to account for such conduct they reply with as
matchless intrepidity of face, and as shameless audacity of
tongue, as if the whisky of Irish bogs were more than
native to their throats, and the water of Irish streams less
than native to their skins."
The Morning Advertiser, in a leading article suggested
by Tuesday night's debate in the Lords, speaks of Lord
Normanby's Irish political system in the following terms :
Ireland, and the Irish, required to be treated as a con-
valescent, who, having escaped the severest paroxysms of
his complaint, is hot strong enough to be treated as an en-
tirely restored man. Lord Normanby has done this well ;
and the result proves the wi:dom of his treatment ; and it
he have deviated somewhat on this side or the other of a
rigid rule or an established practice, it is not for the Le-
gislature of a great State to deal with such deviations in
the spirit of a quibbling lawyer; but viewing the scope of
tie policy, and the disinterested and successful exercise of
it, to sanction the result as we are accustomed to do when
a great Admiral or a great General secures a signal victory
by a departure from his orders."
The Morning Herald, speaking of the Birmingham
Police Bill, says, •• Every true Conservative ought to raise
h:s voice against the monstrous innovation. There may be
traced, it is true, a disposition ou the part of the Home
Secretary, to conciliate—so far as the general Consta-
bulary Bill is concerned—the country gentlemen, by leav-
ing in their hands, in the first instance, the levying and
marshalling of the constabulary forces to be employed.
But a new arrangement will soon be deemed expedient.
The Govereei-ent Commissioner will represent that with
the aid of sub- Commissioners like himself he should be able
to discharge his duties more efficiently; and the Govern-
ment will, gradually, consent to swell its patronage by
adopting the suggestion of its servant 1"

TIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, U 39

BIRMINGHAM

WARWICK ASSIZES.

no riot at the time I read the Riot Act. I mean to say I
saw no blows struck. Smallbrook-street is a quarter of a
mile from the Bullring.
Philip Henry Muntz, a magistrate for the borough of
Birmingham—I was in the Bull-ring several times during
the day and night of the sth July. I was not there at the
time Mr. Alstpn read the Riot Act. I requested him to
read it. The general impression among the Magistrates
was that as the riot, had continued for 24 hours, it
was necessary to read it again. Every half hour I
went out there was' a great crowd. I was there
between nine and ten, but at that time the people
had almost cleared the Bullring. The avenues
were very much crowded. Wherever the troops took
up a position the snob collected around them outside.
There was some shouting, but I saw no stones thrown.
On several occasions afterwards, in the course of the
night, when I went out w;th the police, we were pelted
with stones. About ten o'clock I went to Smallbrook-
street and Egbarton-street with the police. There were
ag ood many people about, but not a dense crowd. They
retreated before the police, occasionally throwing stones.
When we got to the open space opposite Worcester-
street the military were required. I
was myself struck
two or three times with stones, and heard the police say
they had been struck. There was comparatively much
less disturbance, and worse than during the whole of the
day, and much fewer people. Some of them came out
of the windows. I saw one brickbat thrown out myself.
John Menbinick, of the Metropolitan Police, was on duty
in Smallbrook street on the night of the sth, and saw
the prisoner there about twelve o'clock. There were
several persons scattered about in all directions. When
I first saw him he was with three or four others,
walking. He pointed at me, saying, " I'll settle him—
I'll settle the fellow." I immediately ran at him, and
collared him. Before that time, I bad been struck several
times with stories. I asked him what he got in his hand,
and he replied, " Nothing;" and put his hand into his
waistcoat. I then took trom the hand that was in his
pocket this dagger (producing one). When I took him to
the Police-office, he said, " Never mind if I get trans-
ported; it is a glorious cause, and ti-ill be the means of
many more leaving the country."
Cross-examined by the prisoner—There were a good
many people in the street when I took you. I said when I
took you, " You must be a blood-thirsty lot, that would
carry such instruments."

LITERATURE,

MORTALITY AND CRIME IN GLASGOW
Mr. Symons, in his work on " Arts and Artisans at
Home and Abroad," draws a frightful picture of this
city—the first in importance in Scotland. and situated
in the centre of a district long celebrated for the Pres-
byterianism and piety of its inhabitants. He seems to
attribute this lamentable state of society in a great
measure to the use of ardent spirits. By a recent cal-
culation, he says, it appears that the quantity of spirits
consumed in England is seven pints and one-ninth per
her head per annum ; in Ireland rather more than
thirteen pints ; and in Scotland twenty-three pints per
head per annum. Disease, crime, population, and com-
merce culminate at Glasgow. After describing a hunt
after a housebreaker, with a superintendent of police,
through one of the most pestilential and dirtiest districts
in the town, he adds—
" I frequently visited other parts of this district, accompa-
nied by my friends Bailie Campbell, Lawrence Hill, Esq.,
Dr. Cowie, &c., and they were alike impressed with myself
as to the fearful evil of such a nucleus of crime, filth, and
pestilence existing in the centre of the second city of the
empire. No pains seemed to be taken to purge this Augean
pandemomium. The clergy visit it, if at all, during the
day, when three-fourths of the inhabitants are prowling
about the streets, or the suburbs. Many of the houses are
condemned by the Court of Guild, as dilapidated i • and re-
main
most inhabited, standin thre nevertheless. These are w the
the b for where they are condemnead, noays rent
can be enforced. Hogarth conceived nothing which ex-
ceeds the picture the whisky and pawn shops exhibit late on
a.Saturday night.
II host
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seel tsohnoutlhdi,s
breecvaoultsienga
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extensive
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nastpleocntgioenr
than
of the lowest districts of other placesy, both here and on
the Continent, never presented anything one-half so bad,
either in intensity of pestilence, physical and moral, or in
extent proportioned to population.
" I have named spirit-drinking; it is the great proximate
cause of this dreadful evil. Every tenth house in Glasgow was a spirit shop at the last census ; and in the artisan dis-
tricts the proportion must have been one to seven I The
tee-total societies are making most strenuous efforts for the
salvation of the working-classes, and, on the whole, I am
disposed to consider them the most effectively useful body
now in existence in this country.
" The extent of crime is further developed by the police
cases. It is no unusual occurrence to lock up 160 to 180
persons in one night.
" In point of population, Glasgow bas increased with
greater rapidity than any other city in Europe. A century
ago it contained 17,000 souls, and now numbers 253,000,
being an increase of fifteen-fold in one hundred years.
Whilst London, Manchester, and Birmingham, doubled
their aggregate population in twenty-five years, viz. be-
tween 1811 and 1836, Glasgow doubled its population in
less than twenty. This increase is in a great measure the
result of immigration, chiefly of females, both from the High.
lands and from Ireland, which has outstripped even the im-
mense increase of local industry."
The rate of mortality at Glasgow has increased at a
frightful speed, within the last sixteen years. In
1822, the population being 151,440, the deaths were
3,408 or 1 in 44.43, while in 1837, with a population
of 250,000, the deaths were 10,270, or 1 in 24.63,
nearly as great as during the cholera year.
The mortality in Middlesex, including London, has
been estimated at 1 in 41, and the rate throughout
England averages lin 51. From these facts some idea
may be formed of the extent to which fatal disease has
arrived in Glasgow compared with the rest of the em-
pire. The most fatal diseases are fever and small-pox,
and from a tract published by Dr. Cowan, a medical
practitioner at Glasgow, it appears that in-Manchester,
containing nearly the same population, and resembling
Glasgow in the kind of manufactures carried on and the
density of the population, the annual average number
of persons treated in the Fever Hospital for the seven
years ending 1836 was 497, while in Glasgow it was
1,842. In 1826 the number treated in Manchester
Hospital was 780, and that of Glasgow 3,125.
In this tract Dr. Cowan adds—
" The first point that attracts our attention is the rela-
tive mortality of the two sexes, and certainly it is very re-
markable. The total mortality of the males is 1 in every
6 121-163 th, while in the females it is only 1 in every
11 21-101 th.
" In the males the mortality is 14.83 per cent.
" In the females ... 8.92 ...
" At the age of 15 the mortality is very nearly the same
in both sexes.
" At the age of 30 the mortality of the males is more
than double that of the females.
The rate of mortality is greatest in females at the
age of 45.
" The mortality of the Scotch arid Irish was precisely the
same, while that among the English, if any inference can
be drawn from such a small number, was considerably less.' "
" As regards small- pox :
" The first remarkable feature is, that out of 95 pa-
tients, there were only four natives of Ireland; and that
out of 91 natives of Scotland, 70 were Highlanders, and
21 natives of the Lowlands. A very large proportion of
the Highlanders were from remote islands, and all of them,
without a single exception, had recently arrived in Glasgow.
" Fifty-five of the patients had apparently been vacci-
nated and forty never had this operation performed.
" No death occurred in any individual who presented
the appearance of having been properly vaccinated.' "
The average annual number of persons carried off
tiystnill-pox in Glasgow for the three years ending
with the year 1837 was 467, or about 9 per week.
" Dr. Cowan is not ill justified in his belief that Glas-
gow exhibits a frightful rate of mortality—a rate which,
it is believed, is unequalled in any city in Great Bri-
tain,' or, he might have safely added, in Europe."
I attribute," says Mr. Symons, " a very consider-
able portion of this mortality to the growing pestilence
of spirit drinking. Nor is the evil confined to mere
spirit-drinking, opium contributes largely to the mental
devastation of the artisans of Glasgow. Laudanum in
an adulterated state is largely consumed by the labour-
ing classes, and by many of the middle classes also.
There is scarcely a chemist in Glasgow, who cannot
corroborate this statement. The lesser expense with
which the effect of intoxicating liquor can be produced
by means of laudanum, is the chief cause of recurrence,
in the more advanced stages of depravity, to this fatal
drug. Well may crime have arrived at its climax in
Glasgow!"
The following scene, drawn from real life, is after
the manner of Sir Walter Scott :
" In one of these places (which he visited with the sta•
perintendent of police), a young girl, fresh in crime, at-
tracted the practical eye of the superintendent. Who are
you, lasse ?' he inquired, and the girl turned her bead away,
and tried to hide her face ; while her female companions
looked on with the brazen.facedness which a month's practice
in profligacy aptly teaches. Her story was soon elicited;
she was fresh from the Highlands; Glasgow was a mine
of wealth ; she came to seek service and high wages ; she
obtained a miserable place, was turned out for some trivial
fault, was thrown on the town, was starving, and was there.
And there she must remain, like tens of thousands before
her, and tens of thousands to come, till her brief career of
vice, drunkenness, disease, and starvation, exhaust their
rapid rotation, and end in death. A dozen sometimes in a
day of these poor things,' said Captain Miller, ' come to me
to beg for honest employment; but what can I do ?
the factories are all overstocked, the benevolent institutions
would not contain one-hundredth of them; besides, they
have no characters, and if they bad there is no employ-
ment.' I thought of the Corn-laws, and the sympathy for
West Indian slaves, and Polish patriots, and heathen er-
rors, and the refined feeling which teaches English religion
to shun the pollution of a regard for prostitutes. We may
Samaritanize all respectable sinners, and Christaiaize infi-
dels, and shed the softest tears of pious compassion over
the frailties of patrician adulteresses—and all this in per-
fect accordance with orthodox Christianity ; but the very
idea of common low.lifed prostitutes—the mere mention
of the duty of extending a hand to uplift from a worse
than Juggernaunt destruction, the millions of our fellow
country- women, who are immolated, soul and body, in
the centres of civilization—most of them helplessly im-
molated—is a solecism in the morality of the respectable
world, which very few Christians have the courage
to commit. The number of women who perish by
such a mode of life in this country exceeds that of
any other country in the whole world, by at least three to
one in proportion to the population. It is a flagrant stigma
on the Legislature, that it has neither the courage nor the
Christianity to take up this matter, and devise a national
resource for these persons."

J. T. Harrison—l live in Moore-street, and was acting
as a special constable on the sth July. I was on duty in
Smallbrook-street, where there were some people. I saw
the last witness take bold of the prisoner, who said then,
" You —_, I will settle you."
The prisoner, in his defence, said he was passing through
Smallbrook-street, on his way home, when, on passing
near the police-station, one of them sprung out, struck him
with his staff, and laid hold of him, saying, " There's one
of the —." If it had not been for some people that
interfered they would have killed him, for they were in a
fair way for it.
The Learned Judge summed up the evidence, and the
Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Joseph (venus John Fussell was indicted for maliciously
and seditiously inciting the subjects of her Majesty to riots,
tumults, and disturbances. The prisoner pleaded not
guilty.

Mr. WADDINGTON said he would offer no evidence, and
the prisoner was consequently acquitted, and ordered to
I be discharged.
Henry Wilkes was indicted for a misdemeanour.
The prisoner applied for leave to traverse till the next
Assizes.
The COURT said he had a right to traverse if he wished.
Mr. WADDINGTON said there was no objection to his
standing out on his own recognizances, and as he appeared
to have some influence with these disorderly persons at
Birmingham, it would depend in a great measure on bis
own conduct whether he would be brought up for trial at
the next Assizes.

William James and George BeEt were indicted for a riot
at Birmingham on the 15th July. No evidence was offered
on the part of the Crown, and the prisoners were acquitted
and discharged.
Henry Wilkes was indicted for breaking and entering
the dwelling house of James and Henry Bourne, on the
15th July, and stealing therefrom a large quantity of tea,
&c. There was no evidence offered, and the prisoner was
acquitted and discharged.
The indictments against John Gaven and John Bird,
for breaking and entering the dwelling house of Elizabeth
Martin, were not prosecuted, and the prisoners were ac-
quitted.
At five o'clock—Only one case remains to be tried. The
sentences will be passed to morrow (this day).
CA

_lsToß.—The crops of corn in the neigh-
bourhood of Caistor look very well, and are lately tench
improved; the quantity of rain on those hilly wolds not
being too much yet. The Wheat fields look particularly
well ; Beans not so good ; Barley and Oats my be a fair
produce. —Hull Observer.
LERWICK, JULY 23.—The following vessels
have landed their Shetland men and proceeded home, all
from Greenland :—Gleaner, Anderson, 2 fish, 200 seals,
25 ton ; Commerce, Martin, 4 fish, 1,500 seals, 50 ton, of
Phd. ; Monarch, Marshall, 4 fish, 1,660 seals, 50 ton ;
Resolution, Hogg, 2 fish, 22 ton; Eclipse, Gray, 9 fish,
1,700 seals, 80 to 90 ton ; Mary, Cumming, 1,200 seals,
14 ton ; Perseverance, Oysten, clean ; Union, Stephens,
1 fish, 500 or 600 seals, 26 ton.—Hull Observer.
TELEGRAPHS TO SPURN.—We learn that this
project is progressing. A meeting of the Committee was
held on Thursday; Mr. Hassal was appointed chairman,
and Mr. Stocks, jun., secretary and treasurer. Lieute-
nant Watson reported the result of 25 day's observations
he had caused to be made three times a-day between the
Pilot-office and Killingholmne at Paul, and that he would
be very soon ready to fix the semaphores. It was agreed
to proceed forthwith in the entering of vessels on the
books, and preparing codes of flags, so as to enable out-
ward bound vessels to be telegraphed on their return ; and
under the hope that the project will be liberally supported.
A strong feeling was expressed that the intelligence com-
municated should he made so public, that every person
interested in the fate of ships' cargoes or the sailors might
have the benefit of its communications.—Hull Observer.
THE PENALTY FOR A KISS.—John Sampson,
.was charged by Jane Baker with an assault. Complainant
stated that on Tuesday she was going down Green-lane, when
she saw defendant, who had employed her husband, near his
new house. ' She said to him, " Your are getting on nicely
with your new house," to which he replied in the affirmative,
and invited her to view a pantry which he said he had built

'himself. Upon a second invitation she went, when he pushed
her down a step, shut the door, and kept it Est with his foot
whilst he took liberties with her. She " skelled out," and
his son came in, when he ordered her away. Cross-ex-
amined by defendant.—You took me round the neck and
would kiss me ; I cried out as hard as I could, so that a
neighbour heard me ; when you saw your sor, you turned as
white as a corpse, and afterwards confessed, in the presence
of my husband and your wife, that you did kiss me." Defend-
ant said that complainant went into his new house to see it;
he said to her " Here's a nice place I have built; let's have
a It'ss in my new house, Mrs. Baker." He therefore took
and gave her a kiss, and thought neither good nor bad would
conic of it. Complainant indignantly repelled the sup-
position that she was a consenting party to the kissing,
saying she never gave such an old man liberty to take
that freedom. Mr. Parker said defendant must pay for
kissing, as that against a woman's will was clearly an as-
sault. He was tined 2s. 6d. with ss. 6d. costs, to teach
him to make less free in a new haus: in future. Defen-
dant : Very will, sir, but mind you, I should not have gone
to Mrs. Baker's house—she came of her own free will to
mine. tie then left the Court, complaining o the hard-
ship of a man having to pay so much for a kiss.—Hug
Observer.

EGYPT.
&ilia, London, 1839.
This volume, which is one of a series, to be pub-
fished periodically, under the title of " Popular Geo-
graphies," contains a familiar description of the land,
people, and produce of Egypt, with, in addition, an ex-
cellent map of the country, and upwards of fifty pass-
able wood engravings. The work is, of course, for the
most part, a compilation. and we arc glad to see that
the soundest authorities only have been referred to.

HEMA S'S WORKS. Vor,.
Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1839.
The present volume of this elegant edition is em-
blished with a beautiful engraving of " Our Lady's
Well, near St. Asaph," re-executed by Kcrnot, from an
original design of Mrs. Hemans. The Poems com-
prised in it are some of the authoress's best ; among
them, we find her animated drama, the "Siege of
Valencia," and her " Sceptic," which first introduced
her to the notice of Mr. Gifford, of the Quarterly Re-
view. The present re-publication is got up with re.
markable neatness.

LIFE OF NAPOLEON.—PART
Thomas, London, 1839.

The present Part commences with an account of the
famous battle of the Pyramids, when the flower of the
Mameluke Cavalry—the finest horseman in the world._
was utterly destroyed by the furious attacks of the
victorious French ; and concludes with the famous
Eighteenth of Brumaire, when the last vestiges of re-
publicanism disappeared, and France was subjected to
the grinding, military despotism of the Consulate—a
period at which it may be remembered niers concludes
his history, as being the closing stage of the revolution.
The embellishments to this Part are numerous and well
engraved, from the well-known designs of Horace
Vernet.

1 I 113 ON.

EVEN [NG E

.. .
course of her preface, that the ,sill Qrity of her verses
~,
were penned at a very early agf-Intendingajiigek,i
sume, by such statement, to apologikgf-orre,ir,iip:ae i -
fections. She need not have beenlitfia PlAliettrifeton
the subject, fnr her poems have talent enough to cause
them to be generally admired by all who have an ear for
the melody of rhyme, and can appreciate just and feel-
ing sentiments, expressed in appropriate language. As
(
a specimen of Mrs. Richardson's powers, we quote the
three first stanzas of a poem entitled, " My sin Fire
Side."
Oh I my ain fireside, mean I bid you adieu !
How aft ha' I sat, cbeer'd by friendship an' you ;
When the tales o' our country, had warm'd ev'ry heart,
The glow o' pure love ! ga' a charm to each part ;
And the wild flow o' fancy, would roam far and wide ;
But return'd with delight, to my ain fireside.
My ain fireside, my ;tin fireside,
But return 'd with delight, to my ain fireside.
When I gaze where my father, and sister ha' been;
The tear 0' remembrance, flows fast tho' unseen ;
Oh I memory, tho' pleasing, you're painfu' to me,--
Those days they are gane—l those friends cannot see;
Yet the spot where they liv'd, and the home where they died,
Makes the sigh ,mair intense, at my ain fireside.
My itn fireside, my sin fireside,

Makes the sigh mair intense at my ain fireside.
For the heart that once leapt at a sister's embrace,
In the cauld arms o' death finds a last resting place;
And her soul bath forsaken its tenement here,
For its oan native clime, in a heavenly sphere;
Ia a mansion of clay 'twas too bright to reside I
But bas left me to weep by my ain fireside.
My ain fireside, my ain fireside,
But has left me to weep by my ain fireside.

CHILD'S PICTORIAL BIBLE.
Thomas, London, 1839.
_ .

A useful idea well worked out, so far as the text is
concerned, but the illustrations are very ordinary speci-
mens of engraving.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon,
attended by the Hon. Miss Murray, Baroness Lebzen,
Miss Qizentin, Marquis of Headfort, Colonel Buckley, and
Sir Willium Lumley.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the
Queen.

The Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Hon. Charles
Howard, and the Hon. William Cowper, joined the Royal
circle at dinner last evening at Buckingham Palace.
The Marquis of Headfort and Sir William Lumley
have succeeded Viscount Torrington and Mr. Rich as the
Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar visited
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Tuesday at Cam-
bridge House.
A Cabinet Council was held yestorday afternoon-at the
official residence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing_
street. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, Marquis
of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John Russell,
Viscount Palmerston, Marquis of Normanby, the. Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Sir Jobn Hob-
house, Lord Holland, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Viscount
Howick, and Lord Morpeth.
The Council sat three hours.
, His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the American Mi-
.

nister, transacted busin'ess yesterday at the Foreign Office,
end afterwards with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY—Ava. 7.

MURRAY V. WALTER—THE "TIMES" NEWSPAPER.
This case came before the Court upon appeal from the
decision of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor dismissing the
plaintiff's bill with costs. The facts of the case were as
follows. Some years since, Mr. Murray, who was the
editor and manager of the foreign department of the Times
newspaper, had assigned to him, by the proprietors of that
establishment, for his services, one-sixteenth share in the
property of that paper. Those profits were enjoyed by
Mr. Murray up to the time of his death, and after his de-
cease, by his widow. By the deed by which the interest was
conveyed, it was stipulated that the proprietors should be at
liberty, upon certain notice being given, together with
a sufficient compensation. to re-purchase the share. That
notice was given a short time ago to Mrs. Murray, accom-
panied with an offer to her of 2,000/. down and 1001. a-
yesr for her life. This offer not being considered as
sufficient by Mrs. Murray, she filed her bill for ihe pur-
posei of having an account taken of the 'profits of the
Times newspaper, and also for an inspection of certain
documents connected with that establishment. Upon the
cause coming on before the Vice Chancellor, his Honour
ordered the bill to be dismissed with costs, and from that
decision the present appeal was brought.
Mr. WIGRAM and Mr. ROMILLY appeared for the plain-
tiff', and Mr. K. BRUCE, Mr. JACOB, and Mr. .1. BAcuN
for Mr. Walter.

The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment, affirming the
decision of the Vice-Chancellor, ordering the bill to be
dismissed with costs.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

ROME CIRCUIT:—.CROYDON, AUGUST 6.
DENCH U. WEBB.
CIVIL SlDE.—This was an action brought by the
plaintiff, an upholsterer, at the west end of the town, to
recover from the defendant, Maria Webb, also sued as
Anne Angerstein, the sum of 671. being the balance of an
account for goods sold and delivered, and for labour done.
The defendant pleaded infancy and that the goods were
not necessaries.

Mr. PETERSDORFF appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. SHER
for the defendant.

1 Mr. PETERSDOEFF briefly addressed the Jury, and said
that his client was an upholsterer, carrying on business in
Seymour-street, Bryanston-square, and he had first bad
dealings with the defendant in the year 1837. She re-
presented herself as the lady of Colonel Angerstein, and
her appearance was that of respectability, and was such as,
in his opinion, should justify the plaintiff in furnishing
her with the articles he had sent in, which were only such
as befitted her station. The bill originally amounted to
170/. but a considerable portion had been paid, which re-
duced it to 671. which was the sum now sought to be re-
covered. His client admitted the infancy of the defen-
dant, and the only question for the Jury to decide was,
whether the goods were necessaries or not.
A number of witnesses were called to prove the delivery
of the goods, and to say whether they cocsidered they were
necessaries, when
_ _

Mr. PETEKSDORFF submitted to the Court that there was
sufficient evidence to go to the Jury.
Chief Justice TINDAL—You have not given us the
slightest proof that these articles were necessaries. Damask
goods and sofas of such a description would not be neces-
sary for a young female in the defendant's station. If
ou press me, the case shall go to the Jury, but my opi-
nion is, that there is no case whatever made out.

Mr. PETERSDORFF said, that after such an intimation
from the Court he could not press the case further.
The plaintiff was accordingly non-suited.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

WORSHIP-7 STREET.
CAUTION ;TO DISORDERLY " GRNTLEME."—On Yester-
day an unusual number of disorderly " gentlemen" were
brought before the Magistrate, for disturbing the repose of
the more sober part of the community, and " making night
hideous" with their noisy and mad-brained freaks.
Mr. GROVE, in disposing of the several cases, took oc-
casion to apprize " each bold bacchanal" that by the new
Bill, which only a« aired the Royal assent to become law,
Magistrates would be empowered to send tippling:gentle-
men to the tread-mill for a month ; and that he should
certainly exercise that power, in all cases where the de-
grading propensity was habitually indulged in.

SOUTHWARK ELECTION.—The coalition be•
tween the Tories and Radicals, in the above borough, with
the view of securing the return of Mr. Walter, the Tory
ex. Member for Berkshire, in the event of Mr. Daniel W.
Harvey giving up his seat, is, it is understood, likely to be
broken up, as a third candidate, a Member of the late
Parliament, is now in town, and ►s about to start in the
Radical interest.