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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Nov. 23,---Ina convocation holden on
Thursday last, the Rev. John Peat, M.A., of St.
Peter's College, Cambridge, was admitted ad eundem.
At the same time the following Degrees were con-
ferred :

BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW, BY COMMUTATION.--
Francis Nicholas, Esq., Wadham College,
MASTERS OF ARTS.—Rey. Markham Mills, Christ
Church ; William Cope, Trinity College ; Charles
Mitchell, Wadham College ; Rev. John Sutton Utter-
ton, Oriel College ; and ten Bachelors of Arts.
PREFERRED.—The Rev. J. S. Brewer, M.A., of
Queen's College, OXford, has been appointed Classical
Tutor and Librarian of King's college, London. The
Rev. Henry Martin Sherwood, 8.A., to the vicarage
of 'White Ladies' Aston, vacant by the resignation of
the Rev. Wm. H. J. Beauchamp. Patron, R.
Berkeley Esq. The Rev. Henry William Johnson
Beauchamp, to the rectory of Monks Risborough, with
the chspelry of Owlswlck, in the county of Buckingham,
void by the death of the Rev. H. Dimock. The Rev.
James Garbett, Custos of Hereford College, has been
presented by the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral to
the vicarage of Upton Bishop, Herefordshire, vacant by
the death of the late Rev. Canon Underwood. The
Rev. Canon Hobart. has been presented,by the Dean and
Chapter of Hereford Cathedral, to the Mastership of
St. Catherine's Hospital, Ledbury, vacant by the death
of the Rev. T. Underwood. The Rev. Canon Morgan,
8.D., appointed tothe Mastership of the Hospital of
St. Ethelbeit, founded in Hereford Cathedral, on the
resignatiOn of Canon Hobart. The Rev. Samuel
Rundle, B. A., aptieketed perpetual curate of St.
Aubyn's chapel, Devonport, void by the resignation of
the Rev. J. Jacob, D.C.L., who has accepted a curacy
in Wittshire. The liev. Philip Henry Haughton,
8.A., to be assistant minister of Bedford Episcopal
Chapel, Bloomsbury. The Hon. and Rev. Charles
Amyand Harris, M.A., has been instituted to the rec-
tory of Shrum alias Shaston St. Trinity, with St.
Peter with St. Lawrence destroyed and St. Martin de-
stroyed, in the county of Dorset, void by the resignation
of the Rev. W. Patteson, on the presentation of the
Earl of Shaftesbury.
CLERGYMEN DECEASED.-On 9th inst., the Rev. J.
Taylor, incumbent of Coppul,and Head-master of Heskin
School, aged 74 years.—At the New Hotel, Hornsea,
aged 55, the Rev. James John Hudson, B.D.—ln his
75th year, the Rev. Robert Hele Selby Hele, M.A.,
and Rector of Brede, Sussex.—Aged 78, the Rev. J.
Hudson, 31 years vicar of Stanwix, Cumberland.—At
Newbattle Manse, near Edinburgh, the Rev. John
Thomson, M.A., minister of Newbattle, in his 67th
year.—At North Cheam, Surrey, the Rev. John
Cookesley, D.D., in his 69th year.—A few days since,
at Sallowglen, county Kerry, in early life, the Rev.
Francis Sandes, curate of Listleton, second son of the
late Thomas &irides, Esq., and nephew to the Lord
Bishop of Waterford.
OXFORD, Nov. 28.—1 n a Convocation, holden this
day, the nomination of the following gentlemen to be
select preachers at the ensuing Michaelmas Term, was
unanimously agreed to :
The Very Rev. George Chandler, D.C.L., Dean of
Chichester, late Fellow of New College ; the Rev.
Ernest Hawkins, 8.D., Fellow of Exeter; the Rev.
George Gleig, M.A., Balliol ; the Rev. John Ryle
Wood, M.A., Christ Church ; the Rev. Robert William
Browne, M.A., late Fellow of St. John's.
On the same day the following Degrees were con.
ferred

DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW.—Francis Nicholas, Wadham.

MASTERS OF ARTS.—The Rev. John Somerville
Broderip, Banjul ; Thomas Drayton Wintle, Pem-
broke.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Charles Haughten Aitkens,
New Inn Hall ; Francis Hinde, William Brooks Ste-
vens, and William Ewing, Lincoln ; William Buckley
Graham, William Chapman Rawlinson, and Edmund
Lane, Magdalen Hall ; Fitzwilliam John Taylor, Christ
Church ; Edward Rys Jones, Scholar of Brascnose ;
John Dobree Dalgairns, Scholar of Exeter ; Thomas
Preston, Exeter ; Thomas Pearse, and Edward Kaye
Burney, Demies of Magdalen ; Benjamin Jowett, Fol-
low of Balliol ; Edward Dugdale Bucknall Estcourt,
and George Hector), Balliol ; Thomas Carteret Maule,
Fellow of St. John's • John Williams Deane, St. John's ;
Philip Hayman Do, Worcester ; Wm. Samways Oke,
Wadham ; William Yorick Smythies, Trinity.

NOMINA CANDIDATORUM TEItMINO MICHAELIS, A.D.,
1839, QUI HONORE DIGNI BUNT HABITI IN UNA-

QUAQUE GLASSE SECUNDUM, ORDINEM ALPHABETI-

CUM DISPOSIT,AsIN LITERIS HUMANIORIBUS.
CLASSIS I.—Fr'ser, Jacobus, e Coll, Line. ; Giraud
Henricus A., e Coll. Vigorn. ; Jones, Edvardus R., e
Coll. YEn. Nas. ; Jowett, Benjamin, e Coll. Ball ; Kay,
Citthelmus. o Coll. Line. ; Northcote, Stafford H., e
Coll. Ball.

CLASSIS 11.-_-Anderton, Gulielmus H., e Coll.
Univ. ; Andrew, Samuel, e Coll. Line. ; Clarke, Thomas
G., e Coll. Reg. ; Cooke, Samuel H. Ede Christi. ;
Dalgairns, Joannes D., e Coll. Exon. ; Estcourt, Ed-
vardus D., a Coll. Ball. ; Graham, Gulielmus 11., ex
Aul. Magd. ; Marshall, Georgius, ex Ede Christi. ;
Price, Thomas C., e Coll. Alert. ; Sheppard, Joannes,
G., e Coll. Wadh. ; Swaine, Georgius C., e C.C.C.
CLASSIS lll.—Austis, Matthasus, e Coll. Exon.;
Beckett, Gulielmus T., e Coll. Trin. ; Bradley, Edvar-
dus, ex Aul. Magd. ; Conway, Joannes J., e Coll. lEn.
Nas. ; Dawson, Ricardus, e Coll. Wadh. ; Fox, Hen-
ricus W., e Coil. Wadh. ; Gray, Rober:us H., ex lEde
Christi ; Lane, Edmundus, ex Aul. Magd. ; Maule,
Thomas C., e Coll. D. Jo. Bapt. ; Pearse, Thomas, e
Coll. Magd.; Rawlinson, Gulielmus C., ex Aul. Magd.;
Sayres, Joannes, e Coll. Wadh. ; Smythies, Gulielmus
Y., e Coll. Trin. ; Weidemann, Carolus F. S., ex lEde
Christi.

CLASSIS IV.—Bathurst, Robertus, e Coll. Nov.;
Burney, Edvardus K., e Coll. Magd. ; Corbett, Uvc-
dale, e .Ede Christi ; Hathaway, Edvardus P., e
Coll. Reg. ; Hobhouse, Reginaldus, c Coll. Ball. ;
Mapleton, Reginaldus J., e Coll. D. Jo. Bapt. ; Pres-
ton, Thomas, e Coll. Oxon. ; Somers-Cocks, Hon. Ca-
rolus, e .Ede Christi ; Tomlin, Ricardus, o Aul. B.
M. V. ; Tuttlett, Edvardus, e lEde Christi ; Wigan,
Gulielmus L., e .Ede Christi.
EXAMINATORES.—Ricardus Greswell, Ricardus Mi-
chell, Robertus Hussey, Henricus Wall.
CAMBRI6GE, Nov. 30.—At a congregation on Wed-
nesday last, the following degrees were conferred :
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—John Kitton, Queen's Col-
lege ; Richard Blanchard, Queen's College.
The following grace also passed the Senate :
To purchase of Count Munster, from the Wood-
wardian Fund, a collection of Geological Specimens,
about 20,000 in number, at the price of .500/.
On Friday last, Joseph Clark, 8.A., was elected a
Foundation Fellow of Christ's College, in this Univer-
sity ; and on Tuesday last, Henry Brooklaud Mason,
8.A., was elected a Fellow of the same College, on
the foundation of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas
Baines.
-The Rev. James Geldart, LL.D., late Rector of
Kirk Deighton, in the county of York, and Senior
Magistrate of the West Riding, whose decease we lately
recorded, was admitted A-B. in 1783, and was the
first man at Trinity College in the Mathematical
Tripos. Marrying early he was not a candidate for a
Fellowship.
The Rev. Jackson Delmar, B.A. of Corpus Christi
College, in this University, has been presented to the
Rectory of Swalcliffe, Kent, vacant by the death of the
Rev. John Burke.

Rev. James Witley Deans Dundas, M.A. of Mag-
dalen College, in this University, has been presented to
the Vicarage of Ramsbury, Wilts, void by the death of
the Rev. Edward Graves Meyrick, D.D., of St. Mary
Hall, Oxford.
The Rev. Rowland Ingram, M.A., of Trinity Col-
lege, in this University, has been presented to the Vi-
carage of Giggleswick, Yorkshire, vacant by the death
of the Rev. John Clapham ; Patron, John Nicholas
Coulthurst, Esq.
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William Howman. Patrons—the Corporation of Queen-
borough.
The Bishop of Ely has appointed the Bev. H. J.
Rose, 8.D., of St. John's College, in this University,
and Rector of Houghton Conquest, to be one of the
Rural Deans of the Deanery of Bedford.
A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on
hMond.air Professor
a y evening,Sedgwick communicated the result of Dr. Paget, the Treasurer, in the
c
his examination of the rocks of Northern Germany on
the east and west sides of the Rhine.
At a meeting of the Oxford Society for Promo'ing
the Study of Gothic Architecture, held on Tuesday
se'nnight, John Orchard Halliwell, Esq., Fs.A, of
Jesus College, in this University, was eleectedan Hono-
rary Membre.

JOHN THOROGOOD.—PUBLIC MEETING IN
EDINBURGH.—We are gratified to learn that a public
meeting is to be held in this city, in the course of ten
or twelve days, and under favourable auspices, to con-
sider the case of Mr. Thorogood, the prisoner for con-
science sake. We venture to predict that the meeting
prove a most influential one from the numbers, as
well as from the spirit which shall animate its pro-
ceedings.—Scottish Pilot.
Ate the
piece, St.
Theatre, on : ht,
called
ledliTe The Saturday night,
a of Da Vinci, was brought
a w
out with success. It is the joint production of Mr.
Mark Lemon and Mr. J. A. Wade. The music is
very pleasing, and it was well sung by Mr. Allen and
Miss A. Cooper.

.rti RWICH UNION LIFE-OFFICE
MEETING.

[tre insert this article in order to do justice to all
parties ; the report of the meeting which we formerly
insetted having been impugned as incorrect}

From the Norwich Mercury.)
Not one in five hundred of our readers will wade
through the voluminous mass of the Report of the
7_iorwich meeting. 'We can give the result in a very
kw lines, and in the order in which it happened. The
.enrol merits of Mr. Bignold, nominally 8 or 9,0001.,
but probably from 4 to 6,0001. a-year, are reduced to a
fixed salary of 2,0004 The formation of a new Consti-
tution. for the future government of the Society is com-
mitted to four Directors, who, we underitand, are
Mespr.s. Jenny, Seppings, Crosse, and • W. Rackham,
and lliessrs: Charles EVans, Poynter, Farebrother, and
Stew; e:rd—to be referred to Messrs. Brodie and Tyrrell,
and in case of their non-agreement, to Mr. Duval as
final itt-mpire. Such is the triumph achieved by the in-
surers... Had half these benefits been gracefully eGn-
cededr as justice, prudence, and policy dictated, at
the first meeting in 1837, that half would have
been gladly accepted. It is due to the shamefully-
abuse d London Committee to say, that to their
efforts: the Society is mainly indebted for the in•
vesti,vation which has led to this promising result.
We were also, it will be seen, pretty handsomely
abused... To have replied where yells were substituted
for arguments and .invectives for reason, indications
which sufficiently expose the materials of this assembly,
would,` have been as useless as derogatory. We more-
over felt that we had our appeal to a far higher, a far
mora competent, and a far more impartial tribunal—.
namely, to the Insurers and the -Pabiie at large.
Nor need we now enter into any defence. Our jus-
tificatiem (we might proudly say our praise), a justi-
fication the most full and complete possible, is re-
corde,3 in the circumstances which have accompanied
every step of the progress towards the consummation
we have above related. Our earliest notices aroused
the distant insurers, and our justification is first recorded
in the following vote, passed at the Birmingham meet-
ing, which gave rise to the London meeting, and pro-
duced the investigation—

"‘ `That the thanks of this meeting be presented to
the Editor of the Norwich Mercury for his honest and
able exertions in promoting an investigation of the af-
fairs of the Society."—Dec. 6, 1837.
Our justification is next recorded in the adoption of
all our suggestions by the Committee appointed to revise
the sunpended bye-laws—it is recorded in the appoint-
ment of the examination of accounts—it is recorded in
every paragraph of the Examiners' Report, and espe-
cially in that part of it which declares that the bonus;we
denounced as merely colourable, was not authorized by
the funds, but actually placed the Institution in insol-
vency to the amount of 126,0001., and so deprived all
the insurers since 1829 of their rightful share of the
profits, a transaction which has no parallel in the annals
of swab a Society. Our justification is consummated by
the proceedings of the meeting, in the disclosures relative
to that transaction, which arose out of Mr. Morgan's state-
ment and Mr. Farebrother's excruciating exposition ; and
finally, by the triumph of the insurers in the redress they
have thus obtained, Their triumph is also our triumph,
for we headed the advance which led them to their final
victory. Nay more—we have thus demonstrated what
the power of a single journal honestly and fearlessly con-
ducted, can effect for numbers too scattered to become
themselves immediately apprized of the steps necessary
to the protection of their own interests, a fact which
will not be lost upon all those it may concern. These
truths are se incontrovertible and acknowledged to us
spontaneously by so many hOnourable men, that our
justification we repeat is most full and 'complete.
The remarkable feature of the meeting is that 500
or 600 persons should pass over the proofs, the
direct and positive proofs, that 299,000/. less 15,000/.
had been taken out of the pockets of the rightful
claimants and given to others, with scarcely a
comment, diverting their thoughts to criminations
and recriminations, and financial calculations that
amounted to nothing, while the strong, the important
fact escaped. The mismanagement, the gross misma-
nagement, was not even denied. The reason was, that
al looked to retaining the Office at Norwich, and
turned their expectations towards the future, having
nothing to hope from the past.
We must, however, say a word or two in fair and
manly expostulation to Messrs.Parehrother and Steward.
The Alderman complained in no very measured terms
of a sentence or two in our remarks on one of the Lon-
don Committee's Reports.
We are astonished to find, on referring to the ar-
ticle, that the Alderman was guilty of dividing the
paragraph, and, by so doing, of totally perverting the
expressions we used. Mar ! Reader! how passion
led Mr. Farebrother away from justice. He read as
follows—and observe, what Le read was a comment
made by us on the London Committee's Report :
" That Mr. Farebrother should accept lucrative em-
ployment from a body whose concerns he was entrusted
to investigate, seems as utterly at variance with the
object of his appointment and as inconsistent with the
delicacy of a man of nice honour, as that such inquiry
should commence with a round of dinners given by the
Secretary and his Directors to the examiners."
Here was no charge against him. Here, however, he
stopped to introduce language we shall not characterise.
Had he read on these are the words that follow :-
6' We have heard both rumours, but we can scarcely
believe either of them to be true. If Mr. Steward has
been the extravagant and unqualified eulogist of Mr.
Bignold'—his tone is certainly very much changed
since his appointment. These gentlemen are the guar-
dians of their own honour, and will doubtless vindi-
cate themselves from aspersions which must discredit
them entirely with the insurers."
Now, then, we put it to any. honourable man, to. Mr.
Farebrbther himself, whether he can, with the shadow
of a shade of rectitude or justice, accuse us of imputing
to him dishonourable conduct?- On the contrary, we
expressed our doubts and denied these " aspersions,"
and we put it in the Alderman's power immediately to
have extinguished any such report. We shall corro-
borate our statement by the following facts :
The paragraph read by Mr. Steward from the Nor-
wich Mercury, and which he urged gave rise to the
misstatement in the Report of the London Committee,
was not our Report. We copied it from the Norfolk
Chronicle ; and the moment the Editor of this paper saw
the comment of the London Committee, though in no
way concerned, he wrote to Mr. Wise, the only one of
that body with whom he had then had any communica-
tion, and told that gentleman it was not true nor scarcely
possible that either at that meeting, or any other, Mr.
Steward should have done that 'with which they charged
him. This Mr. Wise assured us he personally told
Mr. Steward subsequently in'Norwich..

. .
Mr. Steward suggested that we might have applied
to him. 'Mr. S. states truly that we have had friendly
intercourses ; and we add, not only on this, but on other
subjects of nearer personal interest to that gentleman,
and he had ever found us most cheerfully willing to for-
ward his objects. A private note from him would in-
stantly have produced reparation—a conclusion to which
our article even pointed in its last words.
If apology be due to eithdr party, we submit to the
reader whether it be due from us who employed the
language we b'ave cited towards the Examiners, or
towards us from the Examiners. We never desire to
be judges in our own cause. We leave the judgment
to honourable men.

We trust we know too well what is due to our own
self respect, to bandy terms of abuse with Mr. Fare-
brother, but if to either of us belongs the distinction
of " Base Slanderer," which ho so liberally
bestowed upon us, we freely submit that it
would be more justly applied to one who
could misrepresent, garble, and suppress an adver-
sary's words, and then endeavour to fasten a calumnious
censure upon him. We are willing to believe that Mr.
Farebrother did not see or sufficiently consider the
plain import of the terms upon which he commented,
and if he have the frank and gentlemanly spirit for
which we have hitherto given him credit, he will
promptly recal an expression so hasty and unbecoming.
If not, he places us on an elevation for whence we can
the more proudly look down upon and forgive him.
Mr. Bignold says " he shudders" at our presence ;
and well he may, when his altered state compels him to
remember that to his own obduracy be owes the severe
chastisements, truth, duty, and self-defence, have com-
pelled us to inflict upon him. If he go back to our
earliest and most friendly recommendations, he must
now be feelingly persuaded that their adoption would
have prevented the heaviest blows from every side that
have fallen upon him. All this is now past, and we
should be as desirous as Mr. Bignold himself can be to
rid him of sensations at once so miserable and so per-
manent as those he has described.
During our long and painful practice of defending
public rights, experience has but too often enforced
upon us the admiration and the exercise of that mag-
nanimity which can alone eradicate such deep impres-
sions, which conveys a balm so sovereign to a wounded
mind, which bath often withheld and withholds us now,
by the conviction that
" The rarer action lies
In virtue than in vengeance."

In this vicinity are kept a pack of stag hounds,
a pack of fox hounds, and a pack of harriers—so that a
lover of the sport has at all times a day's diversion
within his reach. Mr. Rothschild's hounds have had
several good runs since their commencement, but on
three occasions have unfortunately succeeded in-killing
the stag.—Aylesbury News.—

PRICE sd.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In reading the Times Paper of last Fri-
day week, I noticed a " paragraph" alluding to the
" Chartists"; in London having changed their name
into that of "-Old Friends," and also intimating
that they held meetings in different Lodges in the
City of London for political and unconstitutional
purposes against the Government, which is evident
from the allusions there made, that some person or
persons wish, if possible, to do some injury to the
" Society of 'Old Fri6ds," which " institution"
has only for its object the public weal.
I beg therefore most respectfully, through the
medium. of your valuable Journal, to deny such in-
famous slander. I have had the honour of ,being
Secretary to one of the Lodges of " Old Friends"
(of which there are sixteen) for many years. We
have certain signs and secrets for initiating mem-
bers, which are similar to the Freemasons, and of
which many belonging to that respectable and
" ancient order" are our members.

The Society in question was established in Aug.
1818, and is known by the name of the " Improved
Order of Old Friends," which far excels many So-
cieties of the present day, in that it is based upon
the best and surest foundations, both as to our God,
our Queen, and our country. neligion and loyalty
is our basis, which, thank God, in so great a mea-
sure distinguish .our highly favoured land. We are
not a political body—nor do we suffer any discussion
relative to religious or political matters in our
Lodges. Our meetings from time to time are for
benevolent purposes in relieving distressed members,
and making provision for sickness and death.

The insertion of the above in your respected
paper, will no doubt, Sir; cause many
pled and charitable men to rally round our " Stan-
dard," and enlist themselves under our" Banner."

I remain Sir, your most obedient servant,
JOHN SKUDDER, Secretary,
No. 1, Baldwin-street, City-road,
30th Nov., 1839.

SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALDS.-MONDAY.

The Derby betting has at length assumed a less questionable
shape than it has borne for some weeks past, and in the in-
stance of- the two principal favourites, approaches the cus-
tomary average at this season. 700 to 100 was laid against
Bro. to Euclid and Muley Ishmael, and 500 even between
them ; 15 to 1 was afterwards offered against Lord Jersey's
nag, and a point more laid against the other, the Newmarket
nag having a slight call at the close. 18 to 1 was
taken about Wardan, but not with any spirit, nor did the
Epsom division show any disposition to support their pet (Buk-
hara). Launcelot colt gave way several points, while on the
other hand Prince Albert was in general favour; his first price
was 40 ; his final one 33 to 1. _flay Boy took a nominal rise
of 10 point,„ but was not backed to any amount. Oaks, sto 1
was taken to 1001. about Crucifix ; 15 to 1 to twice that sum
about Rowton's dam ; and 33 to 1 two or three times
about Tetela ; offers to back Currency at 11 to 1.

THE DERBY.
5 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken
15 to 1 agst Muley Ishmael
16 to 1 agst Brother to Euclid
18 to 1 agst Wardan—taken
18 to 1 agst Bokhara
18 to 1 agst Angelica colt
33 to 1 agst Lady Sarah colt
33 to 1 agst Prince Albert
35 to 1 agst Lucetta colt—taken
40 to 1 agst May Boy
•
40 to 1 agst Fitzroy
1000 to 20 agst Ottoman—taken
1000 to 15 agst Morgan Rattler
1000 to 10 agst Black Beck—taken
700 to 100 agst Muley Ishmael and Bro. to Euclid
400 to 25 agst Bokhara and Bro. to Euclid
1700 to 100 agst Lucetta and Prince Albert
500 even between Muly Ishmael and Bro. to Euclid.
THE OAKS.
5 to 1 agst Crucifix—taken
15 to I agst Rowton's dam—taken
10 to 1 agst Currency
1000 to 30 agst Tetela—taken
2500 to 100 agst Crucifix winning Oaks and St. Leger.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

DEAL, Nov. 30.—Wind S. W.—DEc. I.—Wind S.W.
—Sailed the Trinculo, for the Mauritius ; and City of
Edinburgh, Knight, Sierra Leone.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 30.—Wind S. S.W. to W.—DEC.
I.—Wind S.W. to E. S.F.

RAMSGATE, DEC. l.—Arrived the Stranger, Prowse,
from Boston, after being on shore at the back of the Pier,
but without apparent damage.
CORK, Nov. 28.—Arrived the Lady Mary Fox,
Sowerby, from Honduras.
ABERD/LEN, Nov. 27.—Arrived the Sarah, from Quebec.
SrAnnonovou, Nov. 29.—The Medusa, Walker, from
Middlesborough, was totally wrecked on Feley Main,
this morning, during a heavy gale at S. E.—Crew, ex-
cept one, saved.
WHITBY, Nov. 29.—The Thomas Smith, of Scarbo-
rough, was driven on shore this morning, and it is expec-
ted will become a wreck—Crew saved ; Brilliant, Dick-
enson, of Boston, foundered in the Roads last night ; and
John and Ann, Skinner, of Boston, was driven on shore
last night, and has become a total wreck—Crew saved.
SUNDERLAND, Nov. 29.—The Eagle and Baltic, of this
port, are on shore, but it is expected will be got off.
Stituns, Nov. 30.—The Enterprise, Gardner, bound
to Jersey,—the Arthur, and the Isabella, from Sunderland,
in entering this harbour this morning, were driven on
Teignmouth Rocks—Crews saved.

HULL, Nov. 30.—The Friendship, Nesbitt, from New-
castle to London, was wrecked off the Dorking Sand yes-
terday morning—Crew saved.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.--The Flora, of Boston, and
Louisa, both bound to New York, 16th ult., off Sandy
Hook; Ann, Bristol, to St. John's, New Brunswick. 20th,
lat. 43, long. 56; Lady Kinnaird, New York to Liver-
pool, 25th, lat. 51, long. 31 ; St. Lawrence, New York
to Liverpool, 28th, lat. 51, long. 12, by the Great
Western (steamer), arrived at Bristol. Lord" William
Bentinck, Stockley, and St. Vincent, Muddle, both from
Canton to London, in the Eastern Seas, and not off the
Cape of Good Hope, as previously reported.

56, CHEAPSIDE, AND 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET,

PICCADILLY.

DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE VISION.-At
length those dreadful maladies arc completely obviated,
without to►ture and serious risk by medical treatment.
The Messrs. S. and B. Solemons, Opticians and Aurists
to their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover, and
their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia.
&c. &c., have constructed a Voice Conductor, and newly-
invented Spectacle Lenses, which will be found in most
extreme cases to effect instant relief. It is seldom or
ever that an invention of striking merit is laid before the pub-
lic that ignorant pretenders do not start forth. In no case
is this more observable than in Ireland, as well as England,
bypersons who not only assume the name of Solomons, but
actually as having a connexion with their house. Numerous
ladies and gentlemen are daily calling who hare been misled
by these pretenders, and who have made purchases of their
spurious imitations, which they term Voice-Conductors and
Spectacles, supposing them to be the Messrs. Solomons'
invention, which not only proved to be useless, but pro-
ductive of very ill effects. The Messrs. Solomons do not
employ any agents or travellers. Their improvements in
the materials are secret to themselves, and are solely con-
fined to their establishments, 39, Albemarle-street, and 96,
Cheapside.

TIIEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—
Amongst the many noble and distinguished personages
who visited this theatre during the last week to wit-
ness the performances, were the following :—Their
Graces the Duke and Duchess of Montrose ; the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne ; the Marquis of Normanby ; the
Earl and Countess of Charleville ; Lord and Lady
Jersey ; Lady Tankerville ; the Earl and Countess of
Chesterfield ; Lord and Lady Lyndhurst ; Lord
Yarborough ; Lord and Lady Holland ; Lord Middle-
ton ; Lord Allen ; Lord Fitzjames ; Lord Sandys ;
Lady Grey ; Lady Gordon ; Sir John Hobhouse ; the
Swedish Ambassador, the Dutch Ambassador, &c.

ABSURDITY OF THE OLD PLAN 0E POST-
CIIARGES.—OakhiII and Axbridge are both eighteen
miles from Bristol ; a letter, four ounces weight, sent
by post from that city to Oakhill, is charged one penny,
but to Axbridge the tax is six shillings and eightpence.
—Somerset Gazette.

A RUSSIAN CRCESUS.—M. de Tiszkiewies,
the richest landholder in Russian Lithuania, died a
short time since. The St. Petersburg papers inform
us that he has left to his three sons 2,000 villages, con-
taining more than 60,000 serfs, and in ready money
10,000,000 of crowns, and that it was this gentleman who
was said to have refused the band of his daughter to
Duke Alexander of Wirtemberg, who afterwards mar-
ried the Princess Marie d'Orleans. His daughter has
since married Prince Sapicha, and had 2,000,000 crowns
for her dowry. A letter from St. Petersburg says :
" This gentleman's property comprised forty-six exten-
sive domains, on which there are 20,000 families of pea-
santry, reckoning in them 60,000 males. In money he
possessed
.56,000,000 Polish florins, equal in Erench
money to 21,600,000 f. He had bad six children, of
whom three sons, besides his daughter, survive him.
The eldest, according to the laws of Lithuania, inherits
the whole of this immense wealth. He, however, has
assigned one-fourth to he equally divided between his
two brothers."

PROLIFIC Sows,—Mr. Roadnight, of Cud-
dington, has a. sow in his possession, of the " anti-
Malthusian" breed, which last week brought forth the
unusual number of nineteen live pigs ! Strange as this
may seem, it was exceeded by a sow which belonged to
Mr. James Wheeler,
.jun., of this town, and which, at
two following litters,. brought forth 40 pigs-21 and 19.
—Aylesbury Arms.

Sin--I am far from joining in those fierce invectives
which sonic persons are in the habit of. launching upon
anything in the shape of a policeman. In large towns a
police force is absolutely' needed, and under proper re-
strictions cannot but prove a benefit. But the case is
very different when the question is, whether such a force
shall be extended throughout the whole of the rural
districts. It would he just as absurd as to talk of ex-
tending gaslights through the length and breadth of the
land ; there is as little need of the one as the other. It
lareald, no doubt, be dc,irable to some few compelled
at thees to traverse lonely places at night, to have the
trees and hedges studded with variegated lamps ; and if
there were a rural police traversing our highways and
byways, and scampering over hedges and ditches, there
might be some turnip-tops savd, and a few hen-roosts
the less robbed ; but would the end he at all answerable
to the means? Would it not, in either case, be an
enormous outlay of public money for a very trifling,
trumpery benefit Such great preparation for so little
purpose, would be like using a sledge hammer to kill
flies.
This opinion, as to the non-necessity of a rural police,
has not been at all shaken by a careful perusal of a
work, entitled " The First Report of the Commissiotrs
appointed to inquire as to the best means of establish-
ing an efficient Constabulary Force in the counties of
England and Wales." .jay opinion has been
strengthened and confirmed thOre:237-
It has forced
upon some the conviction, not only ,bat such a force is
not needed, but that it would be a grxti, evil, a state
engine, wherewith to crush the rights aid ;.:berties of
the poor. Of this more anon. At present shall
content myself with showing that no case is made put
for the requirement of such a force.
In this Report of Messrs. Shave Lefevre, Charles
Rowan, and Edwin Chadwick, there is an immense
muss of statistical evidence touching various subjects of
our social condition ; but from which no conclusion can
be drawn, that I see, warranting the necessity of a rural
police. This Report, it is evident from the manner in
which the questions are framed—leading questions to
elicit the required answers—is concocted to establish a
foregone conclusion. The three Commissioe'ers had
made up their, minds as to the propriety of a ruCal, or
rather a national police, and then set to work to gaa.vier
such information as might best substantiate their pre
conceived notions ; so that, with their power to collect
the fitting materials, and to select from these, rejecting
all that teas iniwical to their views, or that did not con-
firm them strongly enough, they had the amplest scope
to make out a plausible case.

With all these advantages, of which they doubtless
made the best use, let us see how far they have suc-
ceeded. It would be impossible here to follow the
whole of the evidence ; to do so would make a larger
book than the Report itself ; we will take one part as a
sample of the rest. Among the different classes of
persons examined by the Commissioners, is that of com-
mercial travellers ; a class with whom, if with any, such
a scheme must be in good repute ; and who, thezrefore,
would not be backward to give it all the sanction Zhey
possibly could.

I refer more especially to the evidence of these corn•
mercial gents., because parts of it have been given in.
" Chambers' Journal," and in other publications, as,
being strongly confirmatory of the necessity for a rura'
police. It is quite clear that these said gentlemen
have a particular interest in the matter. If they were
asked as to the expediency of having lamps along the
principal lines of road, their answers might readily be
guessed. "0, by all means ! it would be of the great-
est benefit ; nay, it is absolutely necessary that there
should be gas lights from John-o-Groat's-house to
Land's-end !" Considering, then, how fitted these men
must be from personal experience, to give evi-
dence on the subject, and what valuable auxi-
liaries their own interests in the matter would na-
turally make them to the Commissioners, it appears
somewhat strange that only three of this class were ex-
amined, at least there are only three whose examination
appears in the Report. Whether more than these three
were catechised, and their answers, not being exactly
suited, were suppressed, deponeth saith not. In the
absence of more and better testimony, we will scru-
tinize a little that with which we are favoured.

In the first place comes Mr. J. H.' Elliott, whose
answers to the leading questions put to him amount to
no more than this :

" I have travelled twenty years in the southeastern
countries ; generally travel by day; think it would be
imprudent to travel about the country with much money
after dusk ; would rather travel before light in the
morning than late at night ; the most dangerous time in
the country is not at midnight, but about 7 or 8 o'clock
in the evening, when working people are about ; farmers
go home three or four together. If a robbery has been
committed, it creates the.greatest alarm throughout the
district."—(p. 87.)

Here is -a
man- who has travelled for twenty years,
yet not once during the whole of that period has he been
attacked, or in any way molested ; for, of course, Übe had
been, it would be recorded. Thus all his 20 yeurs' travel-
ling experience can furnish of insecurity and danger,
is, that he would rather travel in the day-time, Owl
by night, as who would not. He does not fear the mid-
night thief, not he ; it is the working people returning
home, after their day's toil, whom he fears. They
rogues, indeed ! It would be well if he and his bro-
ther outriders were half as honest. The farmers, it
seems, wait for each other at the public-house, and like
to go home three or four together. To be sure, they
prefer company to a solitary ride ; the diStance seems
shortened while the prices of wheat and barley and oats
are canvassed. As to the circumstaece of a robbery
creating a great sensation throughout a whole district,
methinks that is a pretty good proof of its rarity, es
things of daily or common occurrence do not usually ea•
cite much surprise.
Mr. Thomas Burt, the next examined, concurs with
Mr. Elliott, that he would rather travel by sunshine than
by moonshine. His evidence, however, is certainly
stronger as regards the insecurity of public roads, He
states thus :

" I was shot at some time ago, near Harpenden ; the
shot missed me ; but the report of the pistol startled
the horse I had, which was a blood horse ; he gal-
loped away, and I did not attempt to stop him."—
(p. 89.)
With this exception he passed through his ten years'
peregrinations unmolested. Acording to this gentleman's
opinion—

" England, in respect to roads, is far inferior to most
of the Continental nations ; following next after Italy
and Spain."—(p. 90.)
Mr. Lindsay Cole's six years' tour enables him to
say ditto to Mr. Elliott. In answer to a question as
to the state of security or insecurity of the roads in
Yorkshire, he states thus :

" A large portion ot it is as bare and desolate as Salis-
bury Plain ; and I found travelling there, with money
or anything valuable, attended with danger. I cannot
give a better conception of the state of the country, than
the fact, that the farmers in the neighbourhood of
Leeds frequently waited for each other's company to re-
turn home after market. When I have been travel-
ling with sums of money, I have more than once thought
that had I been attacked, I should have stood but little
chance of saving my money, or of recovering it after-
, wards."—(pp. 90, 91.)
Indeed, sapient Mr. Cole ! so, you cannot give a
better conception of the insecurity or roads than that
farmers like to enliven their way homeward by a social
jog trot, after having had a social glass together. What
a dreadful conception ! And then you have more than
once thought that had you been attacked, you might lose
your money, and, what is worse, never get it again. So
long as danger thus exists only in the fancy, there will
be no need of a police.
This is a sample of the evidence by which the neces-
sity for a rural police is sought to be established. Out
of the large body of commercial travellers we have th e
examination 'of only three given to us ; and the only
thing approaching to ought like a reason for such a force
is, that the blood'norse of one-gentlawast-toftir fry}` t. at

the report of a pistol and galloped off. With this ex-
ception a total of 36 years' travelling through different
parts of the country is passed in absolute security with.
out the slightest molestation. What stronger argument
than this can there, or need there, be to show the non-
necessity for the proposed force ? How weak must be
the cause that relies on evidence such as this for sup-
port !
It will be perceived that I have avoided any discus-
sion regarding the evil use that might be made of a
centralizedt constabularyoert
le
land, forcemould .
; ‘Nhich, like a huge
web uld convey the slightest
vibration at any extreme to one common centre, thus
giving to some bloated despot, ever wakeful to pounce
str stretched •d over
upon his prey, the power to seize our rights and liberties
and privileges within his murderous clutch. Limited as
I am in space, I have confined my remarks to one branch
of the evidence by which the efficacy and need of this
jumping-over-hedges-and-ditches force is sought to be
established.

Bearing in mind that the whole burthen of proof rests
upon those who contend for the adoption of this rural
police, and seeing how contemptibly weak some of the
assumed reasons are, we may fairly, as far as we have
examined, come to a verdict of not proven.
In a future letter I purpose to show how fatal to our
liberties, how especially grinding upon the poor, such a
farce would most probably be ; and this 1 shall mainly
do by extracts from the Commissioners' Report, certify-
ing how baneful its operations have been on the limited
scale on which it has been already tried.

LASH.

JOLLY BACCHUS TRAPPED AT LAST !-
How are the mighty fallen ! The. prototype of the Jolly
God, not content with the inspiring nectar quaffed by
him of old, has been descending so low as to form close
acquaintance with Sir John Barleycorn, in order that
he might fuddle his brains with vulgar beer ; and how
he has been rewarded for his pains will be seen by the
gaoler's books at Bedford. This week there is a mi-
nute that James Bacchus is committed for trial, for
stealing a sack of Malt at Cranfield.—Plenus Bacchi.
—ln Vino i eritas.

_EVENING EDITION.

PORTUGUESE SLATE TRADE.

COPY OF A NOTE FROM bORD HOWARD DE WALDEN TO
THE PORTUSUESE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
BARON RIZEIRA DE SABROSA.
" Lisbon, Nov. 15, 1839.
" The undersigned, &c., having transmitted to his
Government the number of the Diario de Governo,
from which it appeared that her Most Faithful Majesty's
Government bad issued an order, provisionally confirm-
ing a Codwention relative to the slave trade under the
Portuguese flag, and concluded between Lieutenant
Tucker and the Governors General of Angola, has re-
ceived instructions to acquaint her Most Faithful Ma-
jesty's Government, through Baron R. de Sihrosa, that
her Majesty's Government has not confirmed the afore-
said Convention (which was concluded by Lieutenant
Tucker from laudable motives, but yet without any
authorisation), the necessity of that Convention having
ceased, in consequence of the general instructions which
have been given to her Majesty's cruisers, with regard
to the capture and detention of vessels found traffick-
ing in slaves under the Portuguese flag.—The under-
signed avails himself, &c.
(Signed) " HOWARD DE WALDEN."

TRANSLATION OF BARON RIBEIRA DE SABROSA'S REPLY
TO THE FOREGOING.
" Foreign Office, Lisbon, Nov. 20, 1339.
The undersigned, &c., had the honour to receive
Lord Howard de Walden's note of the 15th inst., ac-
quainting him that the British Government had not ap-
proved of the convention signed at Angola, by the
Governor of that province,iiVice-Admiral de Noronha,
and by Lieut. Turner, of the British navy, on the 29th
of May, 1839, and the observance of which, provision-
ally, was enjoined by her Majesty the Queen, in an
order from the Minister of Marine, dated the 30th of
September last.
" Her Majesty's Government, in acknowledging this
communication, cannot by any means admit the right
which the British Government arrogates by virtue
of the bill presented to Parliament, to give the
instructions to which his Lordship alludes for
the capture and disposal of vessels found trading
in slaves under the Portuguese flag and south of the
Equator,—instructions, in consequence of which, his
Lordship se) s, the necessity for the said Convention had
ceased, and against which her Majesty's Government
now renews the protest made by her Majesty's Minister

in London.
" Meanwhile the conclusion of that Convention hav-
ing been solicited in the name of the British Govern-
ment by Lit ut. Tucker, her Majesty's Government has
the satisfaction of having shown, by its promptness in
approving of it, by the issue of the order above-men-
tioned, the good faith with which it concurs, on its p;rt,
towards the total abolition of the slave trade, wheneree
its co-operation for that purpose is called for, within the
bounds sanctioned by the general law of nations, and to
the extent stipulated by treaties, conditions which the
dignity of her Majesty's Crown eannot dispense with.
" The undersigned avails himself, &c."

THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME
VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, Due. 8, 1839,
Will be repeated the New Original Play, in Five Acts, written
by Janice Sheridan Knowles, called
LOVE.
Duke of Carinthia, Mr. Cooper; Sir Rupert of Lerch, Mr.
J. Vining ; Huon, Mr. Anderson Countess of Eppen-
stein, Miss Ellen Tree ; Katherine, Madame Vestris.
After which,

THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.
Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W.
Farren ; Lockit, Mr. Bartley; Filch, Mr. Harley; Mrs.
Peachum, Mrs. C. Jones; Polly Peachum, Miss Rainforth;
Luey Lockit, Madame Vestris.
To-merrow, Love, with The Beggar's Opera.

Dress Boxes, 75; Second Price, 3s. Bd. ; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Prise, •?s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
2s. ; Gallery, Is. _

--Doors to- be opened at half-past Six—the perfermanees to
commence at Seven o'Clock.

Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167, New Bend-street.