The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-30 00:00:00

FATE OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

York Factory, Nov. 7, 1836.
My dear Xing,—Here I am once again in the solitudes
of the " Far West," cheerfully taking up the pen to write
to you according to promise. London life is over ! Where
now are the snug parties—where the theatres—your reflec-
tion—and the rest ? All gone—sunk into endless night.
Such are the strange vicissitudes of this fitful world.
When I parted with you at London Bridge I little anti
cipated the heavy forfeit I was about to pay for a winter
iu Loudon. But to my tale. The voyage down to Strom-
ness was as gentle and propitious as Cleopatra herself could
have wished ; but from that place to this a more tedious,
perilous, and disagreeable one was never known. Heavy
gales of contrary winds opposed our passage across the
Atlantic; and at the mouth of Hudson Strait we encoun-
tered interminable fields of massive ice, among which we
were involved and knocked about for upwards of two
months, with slender hopes of ever being able to extricate
ourselves. The passengers and crew (95) had already been
put upon half rations, when, happily, the Equinoxes co;r -
iug on, we succeeded in forcing a passage through, and
ultimately reached this place about the latter end of Sep-
tember. All the vessels received more or less dam-
age in the " strait," and yet their misadventures did
not cease. The Rupert was barely able, with great
difficulty, to land her passengers, when she broke from her
anchors, ran out to sea, and has net since been heard of I
Another, the Esquimau', was ordered to " Churchill" to
winter, and had Mr. Lewis on board, on his way to take
charge of that " Fort." She had not, however, proceeded
far, when she encountered a violent storm, which drove
her upon the coast near Cape Tatnam. She, too, ulti-
mately drifted out to sea, and was lost to sight.
Such has been the unhappy conclusion of a voyage
so auspiciously begun. The place of my destination
is Cumberland House, an appointment with which I
have every reason to be pleased. My family have already
preceded me hither, and to join them I'll have to travel
the whole distance on snow shoes, which I may add to
the other evils resulting from my journey to London.
Groat changes have happened here since you left. That
incomprehensible disease, of which you heard so much
while hero, bids fair to make the place untenable. It
returned last spring with redoubled violence. All your
friends in the interior are just as you left them.
Now, my dear King, I long to learn how "affairs in
general" have prospered with you,—whether you still
fondly cherish your Arctic journey—whether subscriptions
are fast filling up—and whether everything is cut and dry
for a start. There are many here who would rejoice to
see you among them again and again; but I fear all will
not do unless the Hudson Bay Company sanction the un-
dertaking. There is a report, indeed, that they themselves
intend to prosecute it next year. Peter Taylor is at Lac
la Pluie, and fully expected you. Both he, as well as your
other companions in adventure, are high in your praise,
while Captain— is the theme of their aversion and con-
tempt.

As no return from the °wintry this season, this
letter will reach you Zia New York; and, I fear, will cost
a heavy postage, without affording any adequate return.
But I have fulfilled your wish. Rave you heard anything
of Heron, or Stuart, and what is doing in the political
world ? Write me all this, and in return you shall have
from me all you may want, from a scull down to a peri-
winkle I I have hardly room to say that I always am,
my dear King, yours most truly,
To Dr. King, M.D.

CHAS. Ross.

Great Slave Lake, July 2, 1836.

My dear King,—Both your letters of last September came
duly to hand, and I was extremely happy to learn of your
welfare. May you long enjoy that blessing is my sincere
wish.

Your determivation to accomplish the discovery of the
North West Passage inspires me with the hope of seeing you
the current season, and if your plans admit of your eial4g
this length to pass the ensuing winter, it wilEnetOme most
agreeable. Even if the upper estttilishment* should be
your residence, sore very calamitous event must inter-
vene to prevent me from going to see you.
It may, perhaps, be in favour of your enterprise, the
late intimacy that has taken place between the Chipe-
wyan and Esquimaux tribes, in the course of the last sum-
mer, on the Thlew-ee-tiezza.t Amongst the latter there
were many inhabitants of the Thlow-ee-cho ;: but the ma-
jority were those that frequent Churchill annually, to
prove which they produced the articles they obtained freso
the Hudson Bay Company's stores in the way of trade, and
readily exchanged the same with their guests, by way of
cementing their friendship. There can be no doubt of a
successful issue to your undertaking, of which I feel so
confident that I hail with pleasure the moment that will
bring you once more among us, as I am equally certain
that every attention will be directed to promote your views
and be assured none shall moro willingly contribute thereto
than your humble servant.

I have not succeeded in obtaining the skeleton of a
moose, but I have bright hopes of getting it as well as a
skeleton of the musk ox by the noxt spring ; and if you
do not make your appearance, I shall endeavour to for-
ward them to England to your address.

I am much obliged to you for your kind wishes to my-
self and family, they are, thank God, in the enjoyment of
health, and unite their wishes to mine for your welfare
and prosperity.—Believe me, my dear Kiug, your sincere
friend, (Signed) ALE/. R. M`LEOD.
To Dr. King, M.D.

Norway House, 12th August, 1836.
Dear Sir,—l was very happy to receive your letter last
spring, when I arrived at Norway House, always expecting
to see you here again. I was here for about a month and
a-half, looking earnestly for your arrival. I was at last
obliged to join with the expedition again,U and I am now
going to Red River, whore I shall remain until the first
ice, and then travel to Athabasca to join with the rest.
lil`Kay and Sinclair have joined it. Of the birds and in-
sects you requested me to preserve for you, I have get as
many as I could.

Dear Sir, I should have been very happy to have seen
you here, and joined with yen with ►ll my heart, bat since
it cannot be, I therefore must leave you, with my beet
wishes for your temporal and eternal welfare.— I remain
your sincere friend and humble servant,
(Signed) PETER TAYLOR.

To Dr. King, M.D.

Athabasca Fort, 28th May, 1837.

Dear Sir,—l was very sorry to hear that you could not
get into the country last spring, for I was at Norway House
waiting till you should be there ; and when I saw you
wore not coming, I was obliged to eater into the service of
the expedition. But. I was most sorry when I received your
last letter that you sent by the last ship—though I hope
I shall have the pleasure of seeing you in the north if you
do come.—Your ever true friend,
To Dr. King, M.D.

(Signed) PETER TAYLOR.

* Athabasca Lake.
± Fish River.
:1: Great Fish River.
II Mr. T. Simpson's Journey to the Polar Sea.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS•DAY.)

LONDON, Oct. 30.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ;
fine, clear weather, with a strong breeze.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 29.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—
Louisa, from Elamburgb, for Sydney, N.S.W.; Concordia,
Altona, for Guernsey; Alexandria, Dautzic, for Poole;
Commerce, Christiana, for do. ; Walmer Castle, London,
for the Black Sea ; Harvest Home, London, for Sydney,
N.S.W., leaky; Egypt, do. do., leaky; Resolution,
Youghal ; Coronet, Quebec ; Warrior, London, for Ja-
maica ; H.M.S. Lizard, Sheerness. Sailed—Eurydice, for
the East Indies.

PLYMOUTH, Oct. 29.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Reward,
from Quebec ; Sea Nymph, Antigua ; William, London,
for Melbourne ; Telegraph, Southampton, for Australia ;
True Briton (store-ship), London, for Malta.
DOVER, Oct. 29.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Nelson
Packet, from Hamburgh.
COWES, Oct. 29.—Wind, S. Arrived—Jane Picteryn
Koerr, from Akyab ; Dolphin, Callao ; Thetis, Gothen-
burg, for Oran ; Y. E. D., Newcastle, for Constantinople ;
J. A. Hazard, Cuba; Maria Eugenia, do., for Trieste.

(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.45 a.m.
Wind, S. ; tide first hour's ebb; fine.
Arrived, Oct. 29—Dinapore, from Madras • Swan, Stock-
holm ; Ypres, Dunkirk; Havering and Wonder, Antwerp;
11 clpomene,
Rotterdam; Camallas, Demerara; Walter
Hood, Sydney ;
Leeuwarden, Harlingen.
Arrived, Oct. 30—Hanover, steamer, from Rotterdam;
Stad Dordrecht, steamer, Dordt ; Raveisbourn, steamer,
Antwerp; Fyenoord, steamer, Rotterdam; Caledonia,
steamer, Hamburg ; Era, St. Kitt's ; Newcastle, Ostend ;
Eagle, Rouen ; Leanne, Gravelines.
Sailed—New Great Britain, for Port Philip; Advance,
Havre ; Lady C. Barham, Jamaica ; Commodore, Ja-
maica ; Perseverance, Leer ; Lucy Sharp, Algoa Bay ;
Louthe, Rio Janeiro.
Thur., Monday, 9.55 a.m.

Wind southerly, light, very fine.
for
North Star, London, for
lery ;
Packet, Myth, for St. Va
illiam Bryan, London, for Belize; Ashburton,
Anchored—Eliza, from Shields, Guernsey ; Leipsic
Akyab ; W
Antwerp, for Cardiff.
Sailed—Haddng
105 for
dayscutCalcutta,
r fo
omr
London,W h a ni p o6xB.
Passed—Alice Matounde,fofrroßmomAblagyo,aißn Bay, for London.
i yacht,
for Poole.
Passed the a 1 r Polonaise,,
f from
days out, lat. 19.30 S., long. 2.19 W. ; passed barque
Reportofbathrgeusehimp
Granville, from London, for Calcutta, lat. 6.41 N., long.
23.54 W. ; passed barque Velure, lat. 8.47 N. long. 24.13
yr.; passed barque Niagara, from Glasgow, for California
lat. 13.2 N. long. 25.50 W. ; passed brig Wiltonwood,
from Liverpool, for Ceylon, lat. 13.20 N. long. 25 56 W.
passed brigs Favourite, from Newport, 'for Rio, and Af-
moors, from Swansea, for Coquimbo, both in
lat. 14.51
N., long. 26.22 W. ; passed Eliza and "'cites, from Callao
for Cork, and Richard Barkley, from Valparaiso for Liver-
pool, brig Ellen M•Gregor from Vaaraiso for Bordeaux
—all in lat. 27.36 N., long. 33.34 W. ; passed barque
Goethe, of Bremen, from Baltimore, lat. 47.41. N., long.
53.51 W. ; passed barque Grange, from Jamaica, off the
Start.

DR. .RAE'S ON THE ARCTIC

EXPEDITION

TO TM: EDITOR OF THit TIMES.

Sir,—Although the opinions which I hold on the sub•
ject of Dr. Rae's report vo something beyond what you
yourself have expressed, I trust that you will allow this
letter to appear in your paper, if it is only for the pur-
pose of.eliciting the sentiments of others on a matter in
which I am peculiarly interested—having had a brother
on board Her Majesty's skip Terror.
It appears to me that Dr. Rae has been deeply repre-
hensible either in not verifying the report which he re-
ceived from the Esquimaux, or, if that was absolutely
out of the question, in publishing the details of that
report, resting as they do on grounds most weak and
unsatisfactory. lie had far better have kept silence
altogether than have given u; a story which, while it
pains the feelings of many, must be very insufficient
for all.
To say nothing of the difficulties which, in your article
of Thursday, you have touched upon, there are others
which seem to me so patent that I can only wonder they
did not occur to Dr. Rae llitn,elf.
1. Where the Esquimaux eau live—where Dr. Rae's
party could find abundant means—what should have
prevented Sir John Frankliu acid his party from subsist-
t-ez
2. When they were forced— as, a
anynoonedoubt,
y
believe the have
been—to abandon their ship., can
they would have encumbered themselves with forks and
spoons and-silver plates, :ristea.l of reserving every inch
of available space fur:Aures and articles absolutely neces-
sary for subsistence ?
3. Supposing that they died by starvation, is it likely
that a large body of rnea .vould have died all together I
Would they not have yielded one by one, each struggling
on as far as he could, in the laepe of either finding some
store of provisions or meeting some party sent out for
their rescue
I, sir, for one, have long given up all expectation of
seeing my brother again in this world. But there are
many who still cling to the hope of regaining their rela-
tions. My own belief is, that the ships have been aban-
doned and plundered by Esquimaux. I would only per-
suade myself that I am not compelled to believe the
painful details which Dr. Rae has most unwarrantably
published. But others believe that the crews may yet
be subsisting smmewhere, and until Dr. Rae's report be
verified they wiil not part with their belief for anything
which he has said,. I enclose my card, and am,
Sir, your obedient servant,
E. J. It

Oct. 26.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S FATE.

(From the laamuter.)
There is no longer any doubt of the melancholy death
of Sir John Franklin and his companions. To the roll.
call of perished hesoes, to the lists now daily swelling
with noble names, of brave men battling against fearful
odds, and dying in the performance of their duty, are to
be added the names of the Arctic voyagers. The sad
assurance might have reached us at a moment less die.
tracted by other anxieties and sorrows, but it comes not
. unfitly while the public sympathy is keenly awakened to
the claims of all who imperil life for high and unselfish
aims. Almost simultaneously svith the late of so many
who left us six months since to perish in the tents at
Varna, on the heights of the Alma, or before the walls
of Sebastopol, we learn the fate of the devoted band
who departed ten years ago to lace a far more terrible
foe, and, after more then three years of unspeakable
suffering, have left behind them but the memory of
that unflinching enterprise arid endurance, that resolute
perseverance, that moral and physical courage, that har-
dihood unappalled and discipline undisturbed by the
most frightful dangers NN hick •.ve take to be peculiar to
English seamen.
The dreadful certainty of Sir John Franklin's fate has
reached us at the time when we were busied listening to
the details of the last expedition sent to explore the
mystery of it. The court-martials on Sir Edward Belcher
and his officers place before us vividly not alone the
dangers and uncertainties of Arctic enterprise, but the
sad inutility of even its most hopeful results. Twelve
months of the year spent motionless in the ice, excepting
perhaps an interval of three week's open water, and even
when freedom returns, the intricate and still ice-locked
straits and inlets only possible to be got through step by
step, year by year I No doubt grave mistakes were
committed in sht., • '•-= • r,` xpedition,l
and ft comes back
cue recent,.
we
or
&-ii by any marks of unus':.,
daring, at any rate in its chief. But 'sje !ay,. we
are surprised to find Arctic discoverers themselves, who
have spent their best years and energies in the zeal of
such research, turn from it at last in even such despair
and weariness as would seem to have inspired the
doubtful resolution of the last commander.
Of the charge against Sir Edward Belcher, and his dee
fence, we now shall say nothing. The public opinion
upon his conduct will be reserved till the fate of Capt.
Collinon is known, and we prefer ourselves to wait for
that light to read the proceedings by. Should Cellinson
have also fallen upon the memorials of Franklin, as now
appears not improbalsle, and retraced his steps in safety,
there will be nothing left that need be urged with any
particular warmth against Sir Edward Belcher. But
should the fate of the last navigator remain much longer
in suspense, should actual reverses have befallen him,
should it appear that the help withheld might really with
effect have been given, then certainly opinion will side
with Captain Betiett, and a just indignation will be felt
that his reluctance to quit those frozen shores till the
third summer bad passed was not acquiesced in by his
superior officer.

Of the correctness of the testimony, oral- and circum-
stantial, which Dr. Rae has brought home, we limit our
belief to the proofs of identity and death. The evidence
is quite imperfect as to the '7l wirier of the death, or as
to the shocking incidentt, assumed to have preceded it ;
but for the rest, the pieces of silver plate, the crests and
initials, the watches, telescopes, and guns, tell sufficiently
the terrible story. It is also borne out by the Esqui-
inaux acebunts, which neither is there any reason to
doubt, of the exhausted state of the little band. At
once marvellous and met tifyie, is it, that in a vicinity
so attainable, so known, so likely to be visited as the
position of the magnetic pole, the lost wanderers could
neither have been met with, or directed towards reach-
ing supplies. But unfortunately every effort at discovery
or help, up to the period when all such ceased to be use-
ful, was directed to the sea and its shores, although the
abandonment of the ships and betaking of the crews to
land passage was a circumstance so naturally to be looked
for. The Admiralty people were too romantic in their
conjectures. Ships and men, it was thought, must have
disappeared up one of those mysterious and perilous
avenues that strike northwards towards the pole; and
that the starving band should have been prosaically
sought for on the bank of the Great Fish River was in
the contemplation of none.

Of none in authority. But let us do justice to Dr.
King, who, with a humane perseverance worthy of bet-
ter success, has vainly urged upon successive Govern-
ments, ever since 1847, that the expeditions in search of
our lost countrymen should take that exact course which
we now see too late would have led upon their track.
In 1847 he wrote to Lord Grey to point out the Great
Fish River as the high and ice•free road to the land
where the missing expedition was likely to be found.
In the same year he implored to have his services joined
to those of Sir James Ross and Sir John Richardson,
using these remarkable words :
" It is a service in which I can act independently of Sir
James Clarke Ross, and independently of Sir John Richard-
son ; and Sir James Clarke Ross and Sir John Richardson,
_
it is already arranged, are to act independently of each
other. Sir James Clarke Ross's knowledge of Barrow
Strait—Sir John Richardson's knowledge of the Mackenzie
and the Coppermine Rivers—and my knowledge of the
Great Fish River and its estuary, will be so many guaran-
tees that the work to bo done will be done well ; and this
state of independence will insure a large amount of effort,
even though it were merely in a spirit of emulation."
Two years later (some six or eight months before the
date of the now ascertained calamity) he renewed his
applications. He wrote letters to Lady Franklin to tell
her she was ill advised, and, with all the vehemence of
personal entreaty, besieged successive Secretaries to the
Admiralty ; but Mr. Ward, Mr. Hamilton, and all the
rest, returned him answers as cold and unsympathising
as their chiefs, and the opportunity was lost which never
was to return. Hear the Cassandra of this ill-fated
business ! We quote one of his last appeals :
" All that has been done by way of search since Febru-
ary, 1848, tends to draw closer and closer to the west land
of North Somerset as the position of Sir John Franklin,
River,ot wouldld )
to
the
and to the Great Fish River as the high road to reach
i it.
Such a plan as I proposed to their lordships
would
1848
instance
happiest con-
sequently
momentth euft
yo
life i nirfp
me to go by my old route, thGtehrtGeairruecia:t.redvlrj::srilPrys
theme prtelteorssaveee. human life a second time on the soroesaof
It is deplorable to think that in the
Admiralty attempts to find our countrymen have been
by far the least successful. Kennedy and poor Bellot
were near upon the track, but theirs was a private expe.
dition, and nut undertaken till a year too late. When
we discussed the subject in this journal
inawtaokuthilndegncoaltosftwenaoalrf.
rugoendsidthereiungetcheasstittyhooofhathuecnes
relaffBno4tl9l ;hwaeenrdi of another expedition, we held that it should
have been planned on such a scale as completlyrtoscour
the track, both by land and sea, in which the clearest
judgments might see the probabilities of success. More
ltahsatngtl we :myears
alti then
iaodnal
were passed beyond the time to which
the ships
victualled, and we believed it to be our
hope. It is now proved to have
been so.
On
the details of what our lamented countrymen have
suffered
we forbear to dwell. It was into no unknown
s o.
perils Sir John Franklin ventured. Nearly 30 years
earlier, and again after an interval ofd. six
tobresseavmene
dee.
years,
his indomitable spirit had b
trous scenes. The language contains
nn the
records of en-
terprise and endurance surpassing those of his two jour-
neys to the shores of the Polar Sea, and to them we have
but to turn to obtain no dial or imperfect image of the ter-
ror of his final journey, or of what we may hope to have
been the merciful assuagements vouchsafed to it. "At
this period we avoided as much as possible conversing
eubpdoenavtnhuerehdeptoelelesasndetsbse ocfonovuer s
rieitttuoantion, and
towards
generallyour future
prospects in life. With the decay of our strength, in
fact, our minds decayed, and we were no longera_n 1e
b
to bear the contemplation of the horrors that serrou
us. Each of us excused himself from se doing Ys n d
Were
de-
sire of not shocking the feelings of the oteliteellrse.ct We,
though
sensible of one another's weaknecs of intellect,
us, and
the Supreme Being,"
punc-
tual and fervent in our addrrde:sews
ere written, the writer
blind to our own. Yet we were caacalmawned
wreesriegnedto
our fate, not a murmur escaped u
When these affecting
wo
so nearly face to face with
and his companiOdn! were
another day in their relief
might thtn
htavee w
of but
anticipatedethe national sorrow which
now makes
athkaest h
sacred the memory of Sir John Franklin.

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servants of the bar. The judges were of the bar, and acted aud which would be followed up by an active canvass. (AP- lent services in the chair this day, and for his constant devo-
and a happy reign. And I cannot doubt but that a sove- 40 to 1 agst Frederick (taken freely). Oats, ... 11. 14 5 4-12ths I Beans, 21. 14 5 6-12 the
son E. Addison, A. Horsfall, J. Dunning, It. L. Ford, R.
Bar,r, W. Bruce, H. Snowdon, S. L. Booth, F. Ferns, S. and made rules for the profession with bar prepossessions, pla.use.) The resolution they had thus passed and circulated tion and zeal to the interests and honour of the po:ifession 50 to 1 agst Affghan.
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Clapham, S. Hick ; Liverpool-Messrs. H. H. Slatham, with views drawn from bar practice, and with an earnest was as follows .-
generally." reign who has adopted as his motto, " My people's love, SATURDAY.
175199787
OBwhDaaArtlseeLaytßElTH GRAIN MARKET-00T. 26.
R,. A.
Bayne, George Webster, „d F. Horner a Man- desire to uphold at the expense of one branch of the profes- "That this meeting is of opinion that the importance of the After the meeting, above 40 members dined together at five my strength," will in that strength reign, and see his
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sous each, 10 ft,a)rfpoarr3k-)yrl- Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior.
ehester-elessre. F. . . Thorley, J. Street, J. sion, though they may not knower intend it, and of the pub- olaiacts of the meeting
and Provincial Law Association- o'clock, at the White Horse Hotel ;J. H. Shaw, Esq., In the country all that he so ardently desires peaceful, pros_
88a Oct
janion, w. H. partino.ten, T. Baker, F. Robinson ; lie at large, the interest so called, of the bar. (Hear, hear.) the uniformly-zealous and well-directed efforts of the commit- chair. A good deal of interesting conversation took place porous, and happy.--The toast was received with pro. olds. R.M., 1 mile 17 yards. (4 s(ußbes
36s Oct oos Oct ... ...... 33s 41
York-G, H. Hodgson, Richardson, - Dreary; Lan- Why was there this arbitrary distinction between the bar tee to maintain the character and interests of our branch of upon the proposed edu, ational test, and on the suggestion longed applause.
His Majesty, however, who sat on the right of Captain Skipworth's Fanny Fern, by Bran, 6.st 131 b
39s Od oos Oct
caster-J, Hall , glue: off. H. Moss, J. Shackles, G, and solicitors in this country ? He regarded this as an the profession-and the unremitting and successful attention which had been made by Mr. Ryland, that at these meetings
prizes
of
ABERDEEN—OCT. RtDOE4N-are_OcTo.at2B7, 00s 01
2 Peas & beans 53$ Od ooe Ocl
Stamp ; Birmingham-J, W. Alluett, A. Ryland ; Wren_ interesting question of economical a ience, and well wor- which the committee has devoted to the various bills of Par- previously-prepared papers should be read and discussed.(Aldcroft) 2
the chairman, Captain Andrews and facing Mr.
(..T. Mann) 3 -
leatn-J. Lewis' Lincoln-J. Moore ; Sunderland-J. thy the attention of political economists. If they went Bement and rules of court which have from time to time been This suggestion met with generalapproval, and a warm invite- Peto, and having side ' him the g
on either
Burn ; Horiscastle-e. H. Parkinson ; Holbury-J. Bail- to America, they won,el find there a body of lawyers than introduced for the amendment of the law-entitle the associa- tine was given by Mr. Uuett, of Birmingham, to make that '
SECOND NURSERY STAKES of 20 sous each, for 2-yr. olds
1..
BCleaviiklis,monG'set7l,mBsstid7lll Is:
Bst
7th .
Danner and the lady of Herr Von did not
; 40 lbs per Lusher; rlize
don ; afaidstone_e. case ; Wakefield-J. Nettleton ; whom none could be found more distinguished. Who don to a more general support of the solicitors of Birming- town the place of meeting next year. Rosen,
the winner of the Nursery Stakes 71b extra. R.M. w oats, 26s Oct to 27s 0(1, 401 be per
Bradayed-J. Taylor, sent to England their best text-books, their Storeys, ham than it has hitherto received." (Applause.) The party broke up soon after ten o'clock. make any response, it being contrary to Danish eti- -
1 mile 17 yaids. ; The
bushel ; here, 29s Oct to 30s Od, 531bs per bushel ;* barley,
Upon the motion of J. H. Suety, Esq., their Kents, and such works as Sedgwick, on the Mr. FIELD, in answer to a question, said that in America quette to do so, either on the part of King or subject, Bianca,
(Wells) 1 29s Od to 30a Od, b3lbs per bushel • wheat, red, 583 Od to
E.. S. BAILEY, Esq., chairman of the committee of manage- measure of damages -a matter never touched by any they adopt the ancient practice of England-the bar and the
OPE NING OF THE ROY A L DANISH Having bowed his acknowledoments, he proposed the
health of Queen Victoria, which, it is needhos to say, Mr. Montagure s mica, by lago, st 2lb
Mr. Evvbank s Jack Shpanl, Bst 71b (Charlton) 2 60s Od, 621bs per bushel; wheat, White, 68s Oct to 75s OJ,
3 621b3 per bushel •,• oatmeal, 20s Od te 21s Od per boll;
mant of the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Society, took English writer? They come from America. They naturally solicitors being the same, The English inns of court were
RAILWAY BY THE KING OF DENMARK. was received by the Danish not less warmly than by the Mr. Osborne 's Lard Alfred, Bst 711)
tee chair, and, in opening the proceedinge, said it must he asked, whet were the arrangements of the legal profession formerly universities; and the bar of America had now to pass
Tae following also ran : Maid of Cadiz, Berezina, flcesr, aBe Od to 60s Oct per sack. Proyisions-Beef, per lb,
matter of congratulation to all to see such a numerous in a country where they found lawyers becoming presidents an examination. Judge Storey, whilst judge of the Supreme allw
English portion of the guests, and the health of his Ma-
assembly, more especially so when they considered that of the republic, as vets the ease with General Pierce, who Court of Appeal, was held in much more honour as having the LOWESTOFT, Sunday Evening.-Last night, the Cyg- Johnny Taft, Laura Selina, and Lady Adele. 6(1 i , 9(1 ; mutton, ditto, 5d to 8d ; veal, ditto 6d to 9d;
jesty's consort, the Countess of Danner, was received
SWEEPSTAKEs of 10 sous each ; for 2-yr-olds •; colts, Bst pork. per lb, Os 8(1 to Os 9,1 ; ealumn, per lb, is 43(1 to Os Od ;
several present were a dePutation from, or representatives was a successful lawyer before he became a soldier. They head professorship of the great school of law in America. He nos, commanded by Captain Andrews, mana.ger of the with great applause, as was likewise that of "Mr.Peto,"
of, a much lager body, who would have been present had found that, practically, each took the department he thought spent one-half of the year in teaching school, and the other North of Europe Steam Navieation Company, returned7lb ; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 40 rabbits, each, Od to 0(1 ; tallow, per stone, 5s 9d to Os 0(1 ;
the Kin, who, on rising to depart, said he potatoes, per peck, 8d to Os 9,1 ; butter, per lb lld to 12(1;
not circumstances under which they were placed prevented best suited to himself ; some „sing very much as an half in presiding as one of the supreme judges of the country. to this port, whence she saile'd the previous Sarni proposed by
D'
s,, c.a o
day, would fellow the wood old Danish custom of thankino a" 1. ~ 0 fur- ego's, per doe, Os 101 to Os lld ; hens, per pair, 3s Od to
theme (Hear.) One additional reason why the attendance had attorney does in England, and others spending the greater (Hear.) But the great difference between the bar and the at-
witty a party of English gentlemen interested in the •• ' longs 215 yards. (5 subs.) his host for the noble hospitality the Danish Court had , 3s 6d 6(1; chickens ditto, es 01to 2s 6(1; ducks ditto, 2s OJ
not been more numerous was the fact, that the day of meet- portion of their time in the courts as advocates; but there torueys in this country was intimately connected with the
Ito al Danish Rail '. ; 1 ' 1-• .
way Just opence wit. great ceremo-F. Mr. Darlings Usurer, by latcatcher, Bst 71b to 2s 61 ; ducklings, ditto, 2a 6d to 4s Od •; turkeys,
experienced at the hands of Capt. Andrews ; and again
my had been fixed without bearing in mind that that was was no distinction in legal status between the two. (Hear.) rules of right and wrong. If an attorney received 1001. to do .
IY. by the Kinof
vial g Denmark, his Itle;esty being subse-
(Whitehouse) 1 3s 61to 4s Oct ; geese, ditto, 2s 6.1 to 3s Od butter
Vase week of the sessions throughout the kingdom--(hear) - Were they wise to allow in England the continuance of something welch he did not do, he would, as a matter ofwishing Mr. Peto the fullest prosperity, he went on
qnently entertained on ship board by Mr. Peto, Count Batthyany's Dame Partlett, Bst 41b (J. Mann) 2 for exportation (present cure), per cart, Ks to lOUs Od;
and that, which he knew, had had the effect of de- the Present wide gulf between the two branches of the pro course, return the money. (Hear hear.) But the bar holds M.P., shore, where his appearance was the signal for renewed
prising them of the Presence' •Stf many valuable and esti- Lesion? That was a question which lay at the bottom of it to be unprofessional to return a fee, even if the barrister contractor of the line,
manifestations of loyalty, which were continued through- Mr. Megson s Restoration, Bst 71b (Dowling) 3 ditto (summer cured), 00s to 00s Od • eggs, wholesale price;
enable members, who would otherwise have been amongst the efficiency or non-efficiency of the administration of never attended the court where the case was heard. He said Among others who accompanied Mr. Peto, were Mr out the whole return to Flesburg. In the evening his Mr. W. Day's fby Epirus out of Wapiti, 8t 41b per doe, d. to 7d ; 41b loaf, 7cl.' ; 21b loaf 6d •; pork,
them that day, and who deeply regretted their unavoidable the law. (Applause.) The speaker then turned to the that the practice of the bar at the present time was-far more G. P. Bidder, engineer of the Norwegian Grand Trunk Majesty went to the theatre, where a very lively sands- (J. Gunter) 4 fine small, Os Od to its Od • pork, large, Os Oct to Os Od ;
absence. Amongst these gentlemen were the two messes, abortive statutes which had been Passed by the Legislature than at any Previous time-to doke the brief and the fee and RailwaY ; Mr. J. Anderson, dputy-hairinan of the villa was ereditabl 1 d• '.l • h •
y p aye , the slued actress Lein a Mr. S. Scott's ch fby Sir Tatton Sykes, out of Caro- lamb, per qr., Os to Os Od.'; cheese, per imperial stone,
5s 6d to 7a.
Palmer, of London ; Mr. Haigh, of Selby • Mr. Scriveu, of within the last few years, especially mentioning the tin- not to attend the court, (Applause.) These were the gentlemen Royal Danish Company ; Mr. F. H. Geach, secretary
, Madame Brun, to whom the King gave a bracelet in •
Northampton ; Mr. Young, of Size-lane London ; Mr. Dodd, leering in the bankruptcy laws, which he said had been who talked of the rights and wrongs of the people ; and yet and Mr. J. V. Gooch,
superintendent
o the astern
fE testimony of his satisfaction with her exertions The H S f 10 sous each ; for 2-yr-
ANDICee e wEEPSTAKES oof Stockton ; Mr. Lawson, of Carlisle ; Mr. Crossley, of man_ altered and re-altered, modelled and re-modelled, extensive many of the judges themselves had in this way very fie- Counties Railway. The Cygnus arrived at Tonni at - ' • olds. T.Y.O , 5 furlongs 140 aids. (3 subs.) DUBLIN, OCT. 27.
f'gperformance, which was witnessed by all the members of _ e ,s _ ,
cheater ; Mr. Watson, of Liverpool ; air, Sharpe, of Lancaster; provisions introduced, and enormous expenses incurred, quently sinned against what he (Mr. F.) called one of the one o'clock on Sunda • but the unfavourable
Sunday morning, the Court in attendance on the King, and by the English g yLibel 8 lb
Dar. Spencers s Moonshine, by the , st 2 Our corn market opened with considerable excitement.
Mr. Hughes, of Shrewsbury, and other gentlemen, who had which never would have been heard of if practical lawyers plainest laws of right and honour. (Loud applause.) Iu
state of the weather detained the cenipany on board railway party, whose box adjoined that of his Majeety, (J. Goatee 1 Much higher prices were demanded for every description
scut letters expressive of their sincere regret that other and had been consulted, and if practical knowledge, instead of America in such a case the barrister, however high his posi-
util mid-day on. Monday, when they proceeded to lasted about three hours. At its termination his Ma. Lord Ch on's P
estert , almerston, 7st 91b (Flatinan) 2of grain and an advance was realised of Is to 28 on wheat,
. imperative engagements precluded their attendance that day. theories destitute of any pervading principle, had been tion, would return his fee as a matter of course. (Applause.)
until
Flensburg, a distance of about 40 miles. By the new Mr. Woffenden s Cigarette, Bst 71b (Charlton) 3 6(1 on ' oats, and ls on barley ; but towards the close there
The attendance that day of so Large a body of gentlemen refl. allowed to have weight in the framing of those laws. (Hear, dr. Suety, on rising .to propose the next resolution, said
jesty familiarly addressed a few words to the audience, was much less anxiety to *purchase, and several samples of
dered it unnecessary to enter into any lengthened vindication hear.) Adverting to the different systems of England and the part allotted to him was fortunately so limited in extent line Terming, situated in the extreme west of Denmark, expressive of his pleasure at his reception in Flensburg, Tile HOUGHToN HANDICAP of 15 cove each, and only 5 oats and barley remained unsold. Indian and foreign
of the objects of the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Asso- America, he said that he asked the opinion of Mr. Dudley that he should not have to trespass long upon the time of the on the Eider, is brought -in connexion with Flensburg, and was cheered to the echo ; after which he retired to ft if declared, &c ; for 3-yr-olds and upwards. wheat dull, at a small advance. . ,
elation, because their presence proved the interest they took Field, ono of the most able lawyers of New York, as to the meeting. The subject of his resolution was one he had often via Husum, containing about 5,000 inhabitants, princi• his hotel. T.Y.C., 5 furlongs 140 yards. (20 subs., 7of whom
in the objects of the association. One great object was to re. American system, and he received for answer, "Do you dwelt upon on former occasions, and he could only now re- pally occupied in cattle feeding. From Husum a branch On Thursday his Majesty entertained, in the Town paid 5 sous ft.)
store--if he might so term it---their branch of the profession think that Storey or Greenleaf, or other such text-writers, peat a more than twice-told tale ; but he could accomPanY extends to Rendsbug, formerly border on between Hall, the principal inhabitants of Flensburg and the dis- Lord Wilton's Orson, by Orlando, 3 yrs, sst 121 b SEABORNE MAILS.
to the status that it formerly occupied, and which they felt it would have been able to write the books they have, if they the reiteration of it by saying that another year's experience Holstein and Sleswig. and formsa junction with the Kiel • • • notabilities.
trict, together with the English railway (Fordham) 0 w.o.
ought to occupy, not only for their own advantage, but also had not begun by practising as solicitors, and been in the had greatly strengthened his conviction. (Hear.) They had and Altona line, thus becoming the direct route to Ham- After the din • '
diaper, his Majesty returned to his hotel, from Duke of Bedford's Weathercock, 3 yes, Est 111 b ____.e,-..._
for the advantage of the public; for he was satisfied that it habit of confidential personal intercourse with all classes received from Mr. Field and other speakers much valuable b
(N signifies that the malls are sent from the General Pest.offlo
burg. Rendsburg is favourably situated for commerce,
(Carroll) 0
tLe windows of which lie responded to an address read
by the night-and M by the morning-despatch.)
was of more importance to the public that their branch of the of the people with whom they had to deal ?" (Applause.) information upon the general state and future prospects of
toeing the • e point at which the unction of the Sleswi Mr Scott's Poacher 4 rs 6st 131
J gat the head of a procession of 500 torch-bearers (a • ;y , . b (Wells) 3 -
should Moen its dignity, character, position, The question was by some regarded as theoretical; but he the legal profession, and upon the endeavours--and he hoped.
profession ma
Holstein Canal with the Eider is effected, and hence one The following also ran :-Little David, The Deformed,
and respectability than any other branch of the legal profes- concurred with a learned judge, who said the other day that he might say, to some extent, the success-of the Metro old- strikingly beautiful. spectacle), and again on behalf of
()ea when ma t• ,• I From wit.. Whea
Sion ; and, indeed, of any other profession existing, always it would in a short time become one of the most pressing tan and Provincial Law Association, in arresting the progress main element in the importance of the route now open ; his consort, in whose honour, as well as his own, illu Hospoder, Michaelmas Maid, Humboldt, Quince, Ched- cOUNTRIEe in General Post- Porn due is
excepting the clergy. (Applause.) This would be apparent practical subjects bearing upon the welfare of the legal of the downward course of which they had so much reason to for the most cursory glance at the map will show that, Initiations were got up, the national anthem (the coun- der, John Barleycorn, Foam. Odlce, London.' ina,,..tche England.
when it was considered what high and important duties were profession and the administration of the law. (Applause.) complain. They had heard also from other gentlemen, and at least on geographical grounds, Tonning and Lowe- art of our own air) bf 5 000 •
sung ya, chorus o , voices, The Duke of Bedford and Lord Wilton divided the , --- —._
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merica(bylint.pack)N Every Friday .. • Liverpool Each Moll
cast upon the solicitor, and which none but persons of educe. [fie then referred to the registration scheme of the session be- especially from Mr. Moss, that justice was not done to the as- stoft are the natural termini of any chain of con-
tion, and a di;iplay of brought from Eneland, and stakes; and Orson walked over,
America (by United Sts.
tion, integrity, and high tone of feeling could properly dis- fore last, which he characterise eas the most ignorant and sociation by the public, nor, indeed, he (Mr. Shaw) thought, nexion between the Danish and British metro- MeeeH-50 sevs. T.Y.C., 5 furlongs 140 yards. packet) .. „.. „ „iri9ct. 14......• •• ; Liverpool .. Nov. ff
let off on the river. On fireworks,he returned in the even-
charge. They were consulted in the more important matters mischievous project ever propounded, and one which might by even their own branch of the profession, for the services it polis, and on commercial grounds the advantages • • • Friday . • Mr. Swan's Guitar, ing, after a ride in the country, and again entertained by Dulcimer, 2 Est 41b
yrs,America (by U State,'
1 '
affecting man and society, and it became therefore the duty, well be laughed at and ridiculed by any man who had spent had reudered. Now thatiujustice was simply because those ser-
packet) ...... „.. N. ;Oct. 11 .. •••• •• • • eouthamptonNov. t
are not less manifest. Until lately Denmark ,
the Flensbureers at a ball. Mr. Pete, Mr. Bidder, (J. Steggles) 1
as it was the interest of the public to uphold them in their pro- ' a fortnight with his eyes open in a solicitor's office. It would vices were not sufficiently made known, and he was therefore
ko stralia (via South-!
arid Northern Europe could o 1 be reached from Mr. G. B. Price's The Dandy, 4 yrs, Bst 12Ib 1
per position. And yet the recent disposal of patronage, and have entailed enormous expenses upon the owners of pro. exceedingly desirous (indeed he thought it of the highest import- .•
ropd n y . and Captain Andrews returned in the Cygnus, on Fri- ampton) ..........M Nov. 4 ..:•• .. •. .. southamptoe ,Dee. 4
the recent course of legislation, had been, he could not say to pertY ;it would have gone far to render every title in the ance) that generally increased publicity should be given to the London by the long an tedious rail and sea route via day morning, and arrived at Lowestoft yesterday even- (Watkins) 2 onto (via et arseilles) N ,Nov 2 . ..... -. • Dover ...... Nov. 30
, , Ditto (via Cape of ~10•.(11
degrade, but certainly to lower their branch of tha profession, country bad, and it would have made the transfer of land laboursof the committee of the association, so that members of Hamburg, or the still more wearying one via Hull to in as as already stated, much pleased with their expert- SWEEPSTAKES of 10 soya each ; for 2-yr-olds, 6st 7io ; Rope) ............N Dec. 4
...11.1n•••-rta.n
by depriving them of high and valuable offices which they had next to impossible. (Hear, hear.) Referriag to the regula- the profession and the public might be much better informed Copenhagen, a distance of 735 miles, the voyage alone ences of the ceremony of opening the Royal Danish three, Bst 71b ; four, 9st ; five and upwards, 9st 41b. Africa ( West Coast) ..N 'tan of the month
formerly held, and to which they were justly entitled. It was tions of professional remuneration by Act of Parliament, he than they were of then mount of good which had been done, and occupying 34 days at least ; while to reach Hamburg, Railway. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs, if demanded. :Alexandria .......... NB, 9, 24, &30of on Dover ......
not contended that as a body they had forfeited their claims to said the laws of bygone ages regulated the charges of dealers (what he thought quite as important) the enormous amount the traveller being then distant from Copenhagen nearly
...... M .17th of the month Southampton, Nov. 1
these distinctions by any change in their character or conduct ; in most of the necessaries of life, but this ignorant legislation of the evil which had been prevented. That could only be 300 English miles, usually takes about 55 hours. On .
Mr. Powell's Redemption, by Orlando, 2 yea, Est 71b 313 ealhgiummas. ..
..
..
..
1,, .. . .N 1 Daily -
on the contrary, it must be admittedby all who considered or had long ago given place before the rational principle of leas- done through the medium of that powerful organ, the influence the other head, from London to Tonning can be accom- MA GYLEBONE TESTRY. (Ashinall) 1 Brazil •-••• • • •• Dover ...... !Daily
..............ml9th of the month.. Southanop:coiNov. 16
understood the subject, that their branch of the profession ing prices to be regulated by supply and demand, to all of which on the public opinion of this country was almost irre- plished withia 30 hours ; from thence to Hamburg in six -a Mr. Walker's Merry Nun, 2 yrs, Est 71b (T. Cliff) 2 Buenos Ayre5........M19th of the month,. Snotim,••••,, 'Nov. 16
had never been filled by more intelligent, high-minded, or able classes of the community except solicitors. In their case sartible-he meant the press. One of their main objects, h
Parlous ports Uncertafa
ours • while to Copenhagen is net more than 150 miles, On Saturday a deputation consisting of Dr. Rushford Mr. J. M. Stanley's Resaline, 3 yrs, Bst 71b Cape oof,;(loond Hope ..N
men than (he might use the term)then adorned it. Every mom- only the antiquated absurdity was still retained. He illus- therefore, ought to be, through the press, to make generally ' •
1 Hope ..N 1
from London to Hambur,
thus shortening the route , and Mr. Ferara, residents of Norton-street, attended be- (T. Charlton) 3 Cal*
pe de Yards ......N sth of the month Southampton 'Nov. 16
her of theLegaslature had his own prefessional adviser, to whom tested its absurdity by several instances. One was that they known the claims of the profession, and the di-act interest
.
with the utmost confidence he entrusted the business relating were paid at the rate of ls, per folio, so that if they had a which the public had in supporting those claims, because he nearly 19 hours, and to Copenhagen several hundred fore the board to complain of the immoral and disgrace- The following also ran t-Determination, Cherry c eylon (sec India)
Ceylon ..............N
to his property, and often his character, and his most inti- draft of a hundred folios, and simply wrote it out, they were maintained it to be a clearly demonstrable truth, that the in- miles. But rapist passenger transmission forms only a ful condition of not only the street in which they resided, Brandy, Moonshine, and Cigarette,
„ Channel Isles„ ......N Mon.,Wed.,&Frid. Southampton Tn.Th..at
mate relations in life. Doubtless, it was matter of congra- entitled to 51. It was often much less laborious to frame a terests of the profession and those of the public were strictly very slight item in the facilities afforded by this line in but the whole of the inumedia,te neighbourhood abutting SWEEPSTAKES of 5 soya each ; for 2-yr-olds, Est 7isi ; Chili .
..
•..m 2d &17th of meet Southampton NOV. 1
- tulation in having secured a person in whom such confidence long draft than a short one, and if they spent half a day or a identical. This was necessary as a matter of justice to them- conjunction with the North of Europe Steam Naviga- on Fitzroy-square. three, 84 51b ; four, Bst 101 h ; five and upwards, Bst China (see India) I
could be placed ; and whilst, therefore, they as a body were day in shortening the draft, so as to make it not more than selves, but he urged it for the Estill more important purpose of ties Company. Considerations connected with cattle Mr. FEHA.RA explained, that from time to time he had 121 b. The winner to be sold for 25 sous, if de- Constantinople+
Constantinople ......N 8,13,13,23,&28 of m Dover ...... )Oct. 80.
........ 4th & 20th of me t. Southampton
individually highly esteemed by their respective clients in fifty folios, but probably more valuable for their client, on ac- increasing the efficiency of their institution, and its power of breeding in the plains of Jutland, and the fattening of made complaints of the " dens" in Norton-street both mended, &c. First half of Ab. M 3 f 1 21r
M. ur ongs J Cont. of Europe M& N Ewice daily ...... Dover ...... Twicedidll
their private capacity, yet in their legislative capacity they count of the mental labour, then they would have their bill re- rendering that service to others, as well as themselves, which those cattle on the pastures of Norfolk, and their trans- to the h 1 h• • d la • '
paroc la aut orities an the po ice, without pro- yar 8.
d (12 subs.) Egypt (see India)
had. certainly of late done all in their power to lower the duced. to 2/. 10s. ; thus losing half their fee, besides all their they wished to render. His allotted province, ho • wevei, port thence in as undeteriorated state, invest the new curing any redress, and the consequence was, that the Count Batthyany's Dame Partlett, by Chanticleer, 2 France ........ M& N 1 Twice daily...-. Dover ...... Twicedall9
status, and thereby most effectually impair the efficiency, Of time and trouble. These arbitrary and vicious regulations-to was even more limited than this. The point to which he had
Gibraltar ..........ml4, 7,17,20, 27 of in. Southampton Nov. 4'
with many features of importance on which it infamous traffic had now got to such a pitch, that some Yrs;
enterprise _ Est 71b (Stamford) 1 Greece (see India)
their body. This ought not to be, nor was it just to the which, by the way, the bar was not subjected_made it the particularly to call their atttention, was that this medium of is superfluous to dwell. Tonning, which is 30 miles steps, and those determined ones, should be at once Mr. Farrance's Grimalkin, 3 yrs, Bst 51b (IL Greater 2 are town ~ .. ~ ~ ~Ml2nd & 17th of mon. Southampton,
public that it should be, and he trusted, therefore, that the immediate and apparent, though not the ultimate or real, communication with the public was in part, under
from Sleswig, and 11 from the mouth of the Eider, taken to suppress the nuisance. In fact, the affair was Mr. Shaw s Medina, 2 yrs, 6st 7lb (Snowden) 3 Hamburgh ..........N,Tuesday & Friday London .....
profession would never cease to agitate until they had set interest of lawyers to object to improvements ; but if these the control and guidance of hands decidedly hostile
titoegh now a small and irregular village, of some 3,000 becoming daily worse and worse, and the neighbourhood The following also ran :- Strutaway, Albemarle, - filoalvlaannidiall -•.
- .•
•.: Nov 1 •
mei 12Dnadii of the month nouthamptonioall.,„
themselves right in the estimation of the public, and regained restrictions were removed, and they could charge fairly and to them. (Hear, hear.) He was quite aware that there
the position which they were 50 justly entitled to maintain, equitably, then they would be free from all temptation, or were gentlemen who thought it hazardous to deal inhabitants, must, as the traffic of the line develepes, was becoming thinned of the respectable inhabitants, Doralice, Sweetness, Sir Mark, Mouser, Robert, and noneuras...; ........ .•
ef 17 thYo7 the month. Solivaehralne-tPNov-. 16
....
(Hear.) There was, however, one reason for this, and, in the appearance of temptation, unfavourable to legal reform. freely with this topic for fear of rousing into increased become the most important port in Western Denmark, who left their houses, in which they had resided for Game Chicken. India (vtaSouthampt.)M,4th & 20th of mon. Plym ,uth ..
adverting to it, he desired to be considered as not speaking Another of the crying evils which the public sustained, by activity the hostility of which they complained, but for him- possessing, as it does, good depth of water, and being 60 years, unalsle to stand it any long,er. His street, he MATCH, 100. D.M. (7 furlongs 201 yards).-Mr. Ingle (via Menne' lies)M,9th& 25th of month Dover ...... Oct. it
g, contain Isles (see India)l7, 17, &27 of tan D0ver......
invidiously, for he did not wish to do 80, nor would the these restrictions upon attorneys, was the high premium self, he would say explicitly, and he hoped he spoke the feel- miles nearer the sea, than Hamburg, while the ativan- might clearly say, was nothing more than a street of Clarkson's Amy, 2 yrs, 9st agst Mr. Kenyon's Sidin i eland e ...... el st eeTwice daily ...... Holyhead .. Nov. meeting bear with him if he did not, It, however, happened they offered for employing the bar where no real necessity ing of the meeting, that, whilst he acknowledged the power tages of Flensburg as an entrepot on the shores of the loose women and vagabonds. (Sensation.) The neigh- 2 yrs, 7st 1211) -off. Li5b0n.............. Ml 7, 9, 17, &17of m. Southampton Nov. 18
that since elle peace in 85, tinlveLe ead the navy being existed. He gave a strong instance of this in Chancery prat- with which they had to grapple, he was not disposed to quail Baltic caunot be over-rated. The traveller from Tonning bourhood was always in a continued uproar, and it was MATCH, 200, h ft. T.Y.C. (5 furlongs 140 yards). Madeira ............3119th of the month Southampton Nov. 16
comparatively closed to t e
4-- aha yole; ;oh -s
of ' the riteracY tics. Their interlocutory questions, which used to be dis- before it. (Applause.) He believed that in public as well as to Husum is struck with the fertility of the plains on a common occurrence to hear cries of "Murder l" and Mr. Greville'a Doralice, 2 yrs, Bst 71b, received forfeit .
r,ltialliteair(asee. in. ai i; . - . . -
) N '23.1 of month .... Liverpool ... Nov, 3
and the higher 't-1„ of - wee-aussecl in court, and by the employment of barristers, might in private life, the temperate and judicious, but manly aed
-
creases gentry, they had in large numbers a either side. the I.and the • e ine,
boo- -•.-•,.. be disposed of at the judges' chambers, through the unflinching, assertion of right, was not only the truest honour,
-erne members of the bar. That was proved by the re- now ea -- .
grazing on them. The town of Husum the principal heads cut open. He, in fact, could not well describe Yrs, Bst 71b. Mauritius (see India)
leiter • and he had not unfre u'entl spent a but the soundest policy, and he believed also that truth to be
fatuities ..........N 14th of the month
turns, which showed that in 1817 there were 5,941 attorneys agency of the sc;:!
s-' the night in preparing for Y an araumeut especially applicable to the relatifs,' ofd branch of the pro- intermediate station) is of considerable importance, and the scenes that took place, and for the sake of mora- It will be seen on a review of •the last week'ir sport ‘ meek°
...... „... „ea 2nd of the month.. Southampton Nov. 1 .
and 891 members of the bar ; whilst, in 1854, there were considerable part or -.. " • - raelowin day d fession to the P" - ' - ---"
'....
' -- • contains a population of about 5,000, who gain t 1 It dand the welfare of t 1 •h he did
a o toles iy, ecency,
:3,845 members of the bar, and 11,326 attorneys ;so that in on such points in chambers the'roi. g .ean some
..,,.. a.ess. A portion of that mighty engine halm! -e, ....
- - sitence as cattle feeders. The line between hope the authorities would endeavour, to the best of with a strength of patronage and a display of generous `low Granada .. .... 111 ;2d & 17th of month Southampton, Nov. 1
1817 the members of the bar were not one-seventh of the hours during the following day in the judges' chambers'. tually aspersed their profession, and their silent acquiescence able subs.,
Tiensburo i little
s e worthy of note the come- their New Zealand. 113 private
rivalry which augur well for the future. Many of the ••••••• •• y ship •• Various port voconaln
whole, and now they were nearly one-third. (Hear.) The For these exertionS he might claim 13s. 4cl. •; or if the officer in these aspersions had given to them something like the Husum and .ata-e,enee -,, , th power, to clear the neighbourhood of the houses
Papal States ........N•hthlth2thoftnon. Dover ...... Nov. 2
result was, that the bar must have some employment over were in a generous mood, get if. ls. But if instead of taking authority of admitted facts, and enabled those who made try being remarkabievePt,. and uncultivated, dreary, which he complained of, and which were becoming more contests were remarkably close and severe ; and, in •Peninsula ..........m 7thl7th27thofmon. Southarnpto, Nov. 26
b'ein; li.o.drained, and with but numerous every day. short, the Houghton Meeting, with its peculiar features Peru ~............af 2rl & 27th of mon Southamptn Nov. 1
and above that which the legal business of the country gave this trouble he went to chambers with a mere glance at the them to assume an appearance and semblance of impartial marshy, and wet, from
them. consequently, if an appointment became vacant, an PaPers, and stated that there was any difficulty iu the case, observers and critics, when they were in reality nothing. bet- occasional plots of tillage. Denmark, thou-
oh essenti- Mr. SoDorta-How many houses of this sort are there, of attraction, produced by hay and corn considerations, e?rt Natal._ ......N By private ship... Varisas perts-Dneertitia.
Sicily .... ..........N,sth 1 Nth2htheimon, Dover .... Nov. 2
honourable
appointment, and one which reflected dignity and and that it had better be taken into court, it was readily tar than prejudiced and often interested partisans. (Hear, ally an agricultaral corn producing country has large- -de you think, in your street ? was never more interesting and successful. Tuscany ...........N Sthlstherdhonnon.iDover ...... Nov. 2
respect upon their branch of the profession, and which for- ordered, and he would get his 13s. 4d, for attending the hear.) He believed they should, to no inconsiderable extent,
To Mr. Clark, the •judge, Mr. Manning, the clerk of Venezuela ..... _„ el 12d & :7th of month Southampton Nov. 1
FICRARA -Fifty er sixt if not
tracts of excellent land that now lie bare and waste, Mie
merly had been filled by theta, it was taken awaY from the court, or sending a clerk tc; attend it besides his six or seven disarm those writers of their power of rniechief by the very
I
..
whick require but little capital and labour to reclaim ; Dr. R.HSHFORD said in Norton-street there existed a t , •
he scales Mr Hibburd, the starter, and Mr. Starling, Van Diemen'sLa.nd (see
solicitor or attorney, and conferred on a barrister of a certain guineas for preparing the brief for con 1. So that act of placing them in their true position ; not that of impar-
' Australia) ..
standing. These appointments were given to the bar, not here again the regulations were made to work advan- tial judges, to which character they had no claim whatever, and of the value of this truism the intercourse with other French and, English clique, and there was a regular the keeper of the course, all praise is due for the very post !new,
~.. m 2,1:4r l 7th o , month Southampton Nev. 1
only in the ordinary way of patronage, but absolutely by acts tageously for the barrister,. by inducing attorneys to place but of advocates, and generally very uncandid advocates, of districts will soon apprise the agriculturists dwelling on traffic carried O.Rbetween the two houses. No respect- efficient performance of •their respective duties. i
of Parliament. (Hear.) He repeated that these observations briefs in their hands ; and disadvantageously for attorneys the opposite side. (Applause.) For these reasons he had either side the Royal Danish Railway. able person was supposed to live in Norton-sired '.:3(1- Messrs. Church and Dawson are also deserving of no When t these dates f
were not meant invidiously towards the bar, for whom, as a and their clients, whose interest it was to have the work always urged upon the committee of this association a vigi- On arriving at Flensburg, one of the most interesting therefore spy respectable person on a, visit to a friend small share of coinienese'est:ea--Stse- railway arrange- spateiaz ofia an otit a qtinday, the mails will tan d:
body, he in common with all present must entertaintbebighest done well at a reasonable cost. (Hear, hear.) The arbi- taut, active, and Systematic operation through the medium of and beautifully-situated towns the territory of Denmark in that street was immediately put down as a hod ch.,. talents under their personal superintendence were Cat ried Southampton), and the WaltAaY. bowthildh=ezpnotth. liii, v
be despatched the
respect and esteem. The bar of England had been the surest tray rules of pay imposed on their branch of the profession the press, which, if it afforded the bane, would equally afford affords, the traveller is amply repaid for any lack of racter if he asked his way to Norton-street. One of his out in the Most satisfactory manner possible. reoedinna cta,.
safeguard of our constitution, and was justly considered one Presented to the judgment of the political economist the antidote, for it was as open to their body as it was scenic effect experienced on his route from Tonning. It patients would not allow his wife to meet him (Dr. Rush-
of the brightest ornaments of the country-he might add, of many other contradictions to those rules which nature to their assailants. He laid particular stress upon the ope- stands on the bight of a deep gulf, running twenty miles ford) at his residence a short time a oas he said she
g ,
WORCESTER AUTUMN MEETING.
the world. All he desired was, that they should keep itself under the free-trade principles of supply and demand ration being systematic. He was quite aware that there
island, and is completely landlocked, so that ships of would be down a • '
put as prostitute if she were seen near for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of her
within their own limits; and whilst they engaged in their 'lisplayed, not only in many other occupations, but even in every now sad then appeered articles of very great ability,
the realest gran 1 t i • lie in s• fet there b .
g .g i nay ay, being no the street. TUESDAY. Majesty's Forces in the East -Half-crown day.-Ad-
own just rights and privileges to the utmost, they that branch of the legal profession which was the lawgiver which, on particular questions, to those who went to the
• •
al tt • ch upon those of the other branch o;
should no trench on this subject to attorneys and solicitors Be nature, skilled consideration of them with minds not already imbued with
. rise and fall of tide, and therefore no locks required for Mr. FERAZIA further observed that not only would it PROGRAMME OF THE SPORT. mission at the doors, 36,420 ;by season tickets, 2,771
the profession. Any attempts to do so, he was and experienced labour obtained higher wages ;by the legal prejudice, might often carry conviction; but these occasional loading or unloading, thus rendering Flensburg alto- be necesary to clear the street of the dens it contained The
, WORCESTER AUTUMN HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of total, 39,191.
cony nee ~ would in the end fail, if the attorneys and soiled- tariff imposed on attorneys the work of the attorney who at and spasmodic efforts in isolated cases would have little effect gather unsurpassed for commercial purposes. but the name of the street in consequence of its note. 10 sous each, h ft, and 3 only if declared, with 100 [ADVERTISNIENT.]-11olloways Ointment and Pills
tors wars o'dy true to themselves (hear, hear)-for if they twined tbe age of 21, an I was admitted last term, was assessed upon persons whose minds were pre-occupied with prejudices It becoming known some days previous that, nOtWith- nety would haVe tO he changed before a respectable addd. Certain winners extra. Two /am (37 subs wonderfully efficacious in curing a scorbutic Eruption
could be brought 'together to act as an united body and at the same rate as the work of the most able veteran of the instilled into them by the systematic misrepresentations of standing the political embroilment in Danish councils person could be got to live in the houses. With respect 12 of whom declared ) ,of 10 years' standing.-Mr. Mackridge, ship's store
with a cordial understanding, there was no point of right Profession •; while by the rules of the bar a higher fee must mouths and years. If they wished to exercise any beneficial juet now, the King would accept the proffered hospitality to the complaint he had made on various occasions, he •• Age st lb I dealer, of Price's-street, Liverpool, was afflicted for up-
(and they wanted nothing but that which was right) which always be Paid to the veterans than to the juniors Another influence upon the press it must be by making the defence of of Mr. Peto, and inaugurate the opening of the line, the should state that the police had positively declined in- Rata lan
r, .
.. y i a violent scorbutic affection in
they would nit be able to carry. (Hear, hear,) Them was Point of similar interest was the special rule to exclude attor- the profession as systematic as the attacks upon it; and how Flensburaers made timely 1 • 4" s .-:-... -- :« .- ...-« :.. 41_,_ ____, C P and earnpst. nranaLratintlQ ,••• 1-.... ..
another point which was of importance to their branch 01 as Ys from becoming barristers. Any nitz.,•lv,,,,i—i —_ __ --LI +4,.., 1,. ~..,- -,--- ,•k--- ~------- --, - • - -

the profession and the public. There had been a great, many
changes recently attempted in the Legislature of the country.
Commission after commission had been appointed ; and who
had been placed upon them I High-minded and honourable
men, no doubt, and men of talent ; but in most—indeed, in
almost all—cases, they had not had practical men joined with
them ; and the very want of practical men of their branch of
the profession, who would have informed them of the prac-
tical working of the proposed measures, was the reason why
many of these proposed measures had fallen to the ground ;
whilst those which had passed into law had proved so crude
and ill-digested that it had been found impossible to carry
them effectively out, and they had, therefore, become com-
paratively useless. Whether this had arisen from jealousy, or
whether their branch of the profession was )of thought
worthy to be associated with those persons of whom those
commissions were composed, he could not say, but certain it
was they had not been associated with them. The exertions,
however, which had been made since the formation of their
association, had "in some degree stopped this downward career.
It had been seen that they were not disposed to allow them-
selves to be degraded without a struggle. He would point,
as an example, to the case of the registrations of assurances
commission, on which two distinguished members of their
branch of the profession had been appointed. That was a
move in the right direction, and he believed that in conse-
quence the efforts of that committee would come out in the
shape of a report better considered and better capable of being
carried out than some which had preceded it, They must,
therefore, all feel—if he had carried them along with
him—
the necessity of unity amongst themselves. If that were so,
how could that best be accomplished ? Their local asso-
ciations were unquestionably productive of good, and in
the north of England they might well be proud of them.
(Hear, hear.) Local associations, however, would not alone
do. It was not as several distinct bodies, but as one con-
centrated body, that they must move. They must move
as one ; and they could only do this by uniting themselves
with the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association, whose
object was to carry out by a concentrated effort what he had
attempted to describe ; and he thought that the good that
this association had already accomplished was a proof that if
properly supported it was capable of accomplishing all they
could desire. (Hear, hear.) He was sorry to say that,
though the number of their profession reached 11,326, the
number of the members of their association scarcely amounted
to 1,000. (Hear.) It was deeply to be regretted that at the
present moment they had hardly one eleventh of their body
enrolled as members, but he hoped this would be altered ; and
it was a matter of congratulation that though the number was
comparatively small, it contained some of the best names in
the profession. (Hear, hear.) The meeting at Derby had
been productive of great good, and he trusted that the pre-
sent meeting would be productive of even greater good.
(Hear.) If they felt the importance of this association, and
the great good effected by its means--if they exerted them-
selves, every one individually, to obtain additional members
and the co-operation of the great body of the profession, and
by these means gave the association greater efficiency, they
would be successful in placing the society upon such a basis
as to carry out the objects for which it was established. (Ap-
plause.) Ho would make one observation to prove the neces-
sity for increased exertions and increased funds; and in
alluding to the funds, he must say they could not be more
economically managed, and they were only expended in what
in the strictest sense were proper objects. Beyond the pay.
ment of their house rent, the salary of their worthy secretary,
and for the printingand publishing of their repor; and papers,
there was not another item of expenditure. But what was
the instance to which he had alluded I Two bills were intro-
duced into Parliament last session, as important, perhaps, as
any that had been introduced for a very many years. One
was the bill of the South Sea Company, and the other Regis-
tration of Assurances. Anything more vicious in principle or
more destructive of the interests of the public than these bills
he could not conceive. (Applause.) How such measures ever
ssumed a definite formhe could not understand; and still more
unaccountable was the fact, that these measures received the
sanction of one who had been one of the brightest ornaments
of the bench, and some of the merchants and bankers of the
country. When these bills were brought into Parliament
their association opposed them ; but as they had assumed the
form of private bills, and as the opposition to the bills to be effective must necessarily be
the want of funds to
conduct the opposition preeeeeztle3ednsiye,
the association from effec-
tually, opposing the bills. Fortu 3', notwithstanding the
heavy drains on their funds, thenaltel pated Law Society
stepped forward in this hour of neeede.er Their president, and he hoped he might be excused naming him, he had done
excellent service to the profession and thep'ufl,hdevoted his
valuable time and talents to the oppositios, in w
most ably supported by another member of that body, was
Gregory, jun. ; and by their united efforts these bins- Mr.
were
thrown out. That opposition, however, although the ox.ex-
pense was confined to actual money payments, cost a very
large sum. It was manifest therefore they could not expect
great results from the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Asse
ciation, unless funds were furnished fur carrying out and sup-
porting the objects for which that society was formed:
(Hear, hear.) He trusted therefore that on every ground as
affecting themselves and the public, this association would
meet with every possible support, and that none of them
would cease their efforts until they had really placed it on
that footing which would make it truly valuable as an insti-
tution. (Hear, hear.)
E, W. FIELD, Esq., proposed the first resolution, which
was as follows :—" That for the purpose of carefully con-
sidering every projected alteration in the law, as well as
to maintain the rights and increase the usefulness of the
prof it is important that the attorneys and solicitors
profession ,
throughout the kingdom should form an united body."
Having argued that laws were worthless unless there were
Persons. possessing legal information to carry them into

etite 1-‘
seesot, he proceeded to observe that both in anei emcee' tat if reporter were made, showing the suggestions of law re-
modern days the profession of the law in every civilised form. made by attorneys, which had not been adopted, as well
state had been of the very highest importance--second per- as those which: had been passed into law, and if similar re-
haps to none. The necessity of introducing judicious ame- turns: were merle with regard to the reforms which had been
liorations of the law was admitted by all ; but if they looked suggi elted by barristers, it would be found that the prepon-
at the statutes passed by the British Legislature with the dorm ice of real, practical, valuable reforms, lay with the atter-
how many would they find that had neys to an overwhelming extent. (Hear, hear.) As a means
letters ? How many had been framed in of ai ding this association, he suggested that they should hold
la s t lO
become o
dead
alds years,
utter ignorance of what was absolutely necessary to bring eunu al meetings, at which papers should be read and discus-
them to bear upon society ? The most cursory glance sions taken upon legal subjects, treated in a scientific as well
at many of their acts would show how ignorant were as a :practical way, after the manner of the British Associa-
those who framed them of the requisites for carrying their tion for the Advancement of Science. (Hear, hear.) With
own laws into practical operation. (Hear, hear.) A great respect to Birmingham, the members of the association resi-
deal of this was owing to the distinctions existing in this dent there called a meeting recently, at which their respected
country between the bar and the solicitors, who were—if friend Mr. Unett presided, and where they passed a resolu-
they went really to the bottom of the thing—the mere teen, a copy of which was sent to every solicitor in the town,
servants of the bar. The judges were of the bar, and acted and which would be followed up by an active canvass. (Ap-
and made rules for the professioi with bar prepossessions, pla.use.) The resolution they had thus passed and circulated
with views drawn from bar practice, and with an earnest was as follows
desire to uphold at the expense of one branch of the profes- "That this meeting is of opinion that the importance of the
sion, though they may not know or intend it, and of the pub- objects of the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association—
lie at large, the interest so called, of the bar. (Hear, hear.) the uniformly-zealous and well-directed efforts of the commit-
Why was there this arbitrary distinction between the bar tee to maintain the character and interests of our branch of
and solicitors in this country ? He regarded this as an the profession—and the unremitting and successful attention
interesting question of economical s dente, and well wor- which the committee has devoted to the various bills of Par-
thy the attention of political economists. If they went liament and rules of court which have from time to time been
to America, they would find there a body of lawyers than introduced for the amendment of the law—entitle the associa-
whom none could be found more distinguished. Who tion to a more general support of the solicitors of Birming-
sent to England their best text-books, their Storeys, ham than it has hitherto received." (Applause.)
their Kents, and such works as Sedgwick, on the Mr. FIELD, in answer to a question, said that in America
measure of damages —a matter never touched by any they adopt the ancient practice of England—the bar and the
English writer ? They come from America. They naturally solicitors being the same. The English inns of court were
asked, what were the arrangements of the legal profession formerly universities; and the bar of America had now to pass
in a country where they found lawyers becoming presidents air examination. Judge Storey, whilst judge of the Supreme
of the republic, as was the case with General Pierce, who Court of Appeal, was held in much more honour as having the
was a successful lawyer before he became a soldier. They head professorship of the great school of law in America. He
found that, practically, each took the department he thought spent one-half of the year in teaching school, and the other
best suited to himself ; some -acting very much as an half in presiding as one of the supreme judges of the country.
attorney does in England, and others spending the greater (Hear.) But the great difference between the bar and the at-
portion of their time in the courts as advocates; but there torueys in this country was intimately connected with the
was no distinction in legal status between the two. (Hear.) rules of right and wrong. If an attorney received 1001. to do
Were they wise to allow in England the continuance of something which he did not do, he would, as a matter of
the present wide gulf between the two branches of the pro course, return the money. (Hear, hear.) But the bar holds
fession ? That was a question which lay at the bottom of it to be unprofessional to return a fee, even if the barrister
the efficiency or non-efficiency of the administration of never attended the court where the case was heard. He said
the law. (Applause.) The speaker then turned to the that the practice of the bar at the present time was—far more
abortive statutes which had been passed by the Legislature than at any previous time—to ..t !ke the brief and the fee, and
within the last few years, especially mentioning the tin- not to attend the court. (Applause.) These were the gentlemen
kering in the bankruptcy laws, which he said had been who talked of the rights and wrongs of the people ; and yet
altered and re-altered, modelled and re-modelled, extensive many of the judges themselves had in this way very fre-
provisions introduced, and enormous expenses incurred, quently sinned against what he (Mr. F.) called one of the
which never would have been heard of if practical lawyers plainest laws of right and honour, (Loud applause.) 1u
had been consulted, and if practical knowledge, instead of America in such a case the barrister, however high his posi-
theories destitute of any pervading principle, had been tion, would return his fee as a matter of course. (Applause.)
allowed to have weight in the framing of those laws. (Hear, r. SHAW, on rising to propose the next resolution, said
hear.) Adverting to the different systems of England and the part allotted to him was fortunately so limited iu extent
America, he said that he asked the opinion of Mr. Dudley that he should not have to trespass long upon the time of the
Field, ono of the most able lawyers of New York, as to the meeting. The subject of his resolution was one he had often
American system, and he received for answer, "Do you dwelt upon on former occasions, and he could only now re-
think that Storey or Greenleaf, or other such text-writers, peat a more than twice-told tale ; but he could accompany
would have been able to write the books they have, if they the reiteration of it by saying that another year's experience
had not begun by practising as solicitors, and been in the had greatly strengthened his conviction. (Hear.) They had
habit of confidential personal intercourse with all classes received from Mr. Field and other speakers much valuable
of the people with whom they had to deal ?" (Applause.) information upon the general state and future prospects of
The question was by some regarded as theoretical ; but he the legal profession, and upon the endeavo-ars—and he hoped
concurred with a learned judge, who said the other day that he might say, to some extent, the success—of the Metropoli-
it would in a short time become one of the most pressing tan and Provincial Law Association, in arresting the progress
practical subjects bearing upon the welfare of the legal of the downward course of which they had so much reason to
profession and the administration of the law. (Applause.) complain. They had heard also from other gentlemen, and
die then referred to the registration scheme of the session be- especially from Mr. Moss, that justice was not done to the as-
fore last, which he characterised as the most ignorant and sociation by the public, nor, indeed, he (Mr. Shaw) thought,
mischievous project ever propounded, and one which might by even their own branch of the profession, for the services it
well be laughed at and ridiculed by any man who had spent had rendered. Now that injustice was simply because those tier-
. a fortnight with his eyes open in a solicitor's office. It would vices were not sufficiently made known, and he was therefore
have entailed enormous expenses upon the owners of pro- exceedingly desirous (indeed he tlaought it of the highest import-
perty ;it would have gone far to render every title in the :trace) that generally increased publicity should be given to the
country bad, and it would have made the transfer of land laboursof the committee of the association, so that members of
next to impossible. (Hear, hear.) Referriag to the regula- the profession and the public might be much better informed
tions of professional remuneration by Act of Parliament, he than they were of the amount of good which had been done, and
said the laws of bygoue ages regulated the charges of dealers (what ho thought quite as important) the enormous amount
in most of the necessaries of life, but this ignorant legislation of the evil which had been prevented. That could only be
had long ago given place before the rational principle of leav- done through the medium of that powerful organ, the influence
ing prices to be regulated by supply and demand, to all of which on the public opinion of this country was almost irre-
classes of the community except solicitors. In their case snitible—he meant the press. One of their main objects,
only the antiquated absurdity was still retained. He illus- therefore, ought to be, through the press, to make generally
trated its absurdity by several instances. One was that they known the claims of the profession, and the dieect interest
were paid at the rate of Is. per folio, so that if they had a which the public had in supporting those claims, because he
draft of a hundred folios, and simply wrote it out, they were maintained it to be a clearly demonstrable truth, that the in-
entitled to Si, It was often much less laborious to frame a terests of the profession and those of the public were strictly
long draft than a short one, and if they spent half a day or a identical. This was necessary as a matter of justice to them-
day in shortening the draft, so as to make it not more than selves, but he urged it for the "still more important purpose of
fifty folios, but probably more valuable for their client, on ac- increasing the efficiency of their institution, and its power of
count of the mental labour, then they would have their bill re- rendering that service to others, as well as themselves, which
duced. to 2/. 10s. ; thus losing half their fee, besides all their they wished to render. His allotted province, however,
time and trouble. These arbitrary and vicious regulations—to was even more limited than this. The point to which he had
which, by the way, the bar was not subjected—trade it the particularly to call their atttention, was that this medium of
immediate and apparent, though not the ultimate or real, communication with the public was, in part, under
interest of lawyers to object to improvements ; but if these the control and guidance of hands decidedly hostile
restrictions were removed, and they could charge fairly and to them. (Hear, hear.) He was quite aware that there
equitably, then they would be free from all temptation, or were gentlemen who thought it hazardous to deal
the appearance of temptation, unfavourable to legal reform. freely with this topic for fear of rousing into increased
Another of the crying evils which the public sustained, by activity the hostility of which they complained, but for him-
these restrictions upon attorneys, was the high premium self, he would say explicitly, and he hoped he spoke the feel-
they offered for employing the bar where no real necessity ing of the meeting, that, whilst he acknowledged the power
existed. He gave a strong instance of this in Chancery prat- with which they had to grapple, he was not disposed to quail
tice. Their interlocutory questions, which used to be dis- before it. (Applause.) He believed that in public as well as
oeussed in court, and by the employment of barristers, might in private life, the temperate and judicious, but manly arid
now,-•
b 2 disposed of at the judges' chambers, through the unflinching, assertion of right, was not only the truest honour,
ei
agency of the ' solicitor • and he had not unfrequently spent a but the soundest policy, and he believed also that truth to be
considerable part or .the night i
in preparing for an areumeut especially applicable to the enlahhihehe
,hfttleir branch of the pro-
on such points in chambers tiTeetddowing day;,,and some fission to the A portion of that mighty engine babe!
hours during the following day in the jidges' chambers tually aspersed their profession, and their silent acquiescence
For these exertions he might claim 13s. 4d. ; or if the officer in these aspersions had given to them something like the
were in a generous mood, get 11. ls. But if instead of taking authority of admitted facts, and enabled those who made
this trouble he went to chambers with a mere glance at the them to assume an appearance and semblance of impartial
papers, and stated that there was any difficulty iu the case, observers and critics, when they were in reality nothing bet-
and that it had better be taken into court, it was readily tar than prejudiced and often interested partisans. (Hear,
ordered, and he would get his 13s. 4d, for attending the hear.) He believed they should, to no inconsiderable extent,
court, or sending a clerk td attend it besides his six or seven disarm those writers of their power of mischief by the very
guineas for preparing the brief for counsel. So that act of placing them in their true position ; not that of impar-
here again the regulations were made to work advan- tial judges, to which character they had no claim whatever,
tageously for the barrister, by inducing attorneys to place but of advocates, and generally very uncandid advocates, of
briefs in their hands ; and disadvantageously for attorneys the opposite side. (Applause.) For these reasons he had
and their clients, whose interest it was to have the work alwa, s urged upon the committee of this association a vigi-
done well at a reasonable cost. (Hear, hear.) The arbi. Islet, active, and systematic operation through the medium of
trary rules of pay imposed on their branch of the profession the press, which, if it afforded the bane, would equally afford
presented to the judgment of the political economist the antidote, for it was as open to their body as it was
many other contradictions to those rules which nature to their assailants. He laid particular stress upon the ow-
itself under the free-trade principles of supply and demand ration being systematic. He was quite aware that there
displayed, not only in many other occupations, but even in every now and then appeared articles of very great ability,
that branch of the legal profession which was the lawgiver which, on particular questions, to those who went to the
on this subject to attorneys and solicitors. By nature, skilled consideration of them with minds not already imbued with
and experienced labour obtained higher wages ; by the legal prejudice, might often carry conviction ; but these occasional
tariff imposed on attorneys the work of the attorney who at and spasmodic efforts in isolated cases would have little effect
twined the age of 21, an I was admitted last term, was assessed upon pen-sons whose minds were pro-occupied with prejudices
at the same rate as the work of the most able veteran of the instilled into them by the systematic misrepresentations of
profession ; while by the rules of the bar a higher fee must months and years. If they wished to exercise any beneficial
always be paid to tie veterans than to the juniors Another influence upon the press it must be by making the defence of
point of similar interest was the special rule to exclude atter- the profession as systematic as the attacks upon it ; and how
ways from becoming barristers. Any utterly unlegal man, a re- could that be better done than through the influence of an
tired tailor or scavenger, for instance, might be called to the association like this ? And what was necessary for doing it
bar in three years, while, for purgatorial reasons, he supposed, but that the association should receive from the profession a
the attorney, who knew necessarily something of the subject more general aunt efficient support ? What they required was
beforehand, was required to wait five years. These were im- the steady, unremitting devotion of time and talent in the im-
portant questions, affecting the interests of the public even portaut task of correcting and refuting mis-statements and
more than the attorney ; and it was an undeniable truth that doing themselves justice ; but they could not command, nor
there was no real difference between the interest of the public could they with honour to themselves accept, that steady, un-
and the interest of a great body like their profession. (Cheers) remitting devotion of time and talent, unless they had the
R. E. PAYNE, Esq. (Leeds), seconded the re3olution, in means of fairly remunerating those whom they engaged. One
which he expressed his most hearty concurrence, requisite, therefore, for that purpose was what a gentleman
The resolution, as well as all those subsequently proposed, whn had already addressed them had emphatically called
was carried unanimously. " the sinews of war." But there was another equally esseo-
R. A. PAYNE, Esq. (Liverpool), proposed the next resolu- tial. Any member of their profession who paid attention to
tion, which was—" That although these objects have to some the attacks made upon them through the press must be well
degree been obtained by means of the various local law as- aware how easy it would be in many cases not merely to
sociations throughout the country, yet it is only by such refute them, but expose their outrageous absurdities. They
an organisation as that of the Metropolitan and Pro- often consisted of misrepresentations so enormous, and
vincial Law Association that they can be effectually secured." blunders so ludicrous, as to excite only a smile from
He said he thought their associations in the various localities the professional reader, but still they would mislead
had been of much service in keeping up good rules and pre- even acute minds not familiar with the profession,
serving the etiquette of the profession, as well as in discour- and on that account unprepared to detect falsehoods
aging those who might otherwise have acted with impropriety. quite palpable to those who were. They wanted, there-
(Hear.) He was afraid, however, that the measure of the fore, not only increased pecuniary means, but that the mem-
Chancellor of the Exchequer, passed 18 months ago, was bers of the profession individually, as far as possible, should
calculated to accelerate the introduction of unworthy persons furnish accurate statements of fact within their own observe-
into the profession. He spoke in terms of praise of the con- tion or knowledge,
or the ef,wh
ichdefwenocule do
f furnishthe le profession. faron. oet
to
be
t
duct of the gentlemen in London who had taken an active powerful weapons
part in the management of this association, and especially once brought to be a contest between the weapons of misre-
eulogised the conduct of the worthy secretary, Mr. Sheen, presentation or ignorance on one side, and the weapons of
to whom he wished to pay a tribute of thanks, in the name of facts and arguments judiciously wielded on the other, and he
his brethren generally. (Applause.) He said that the mem- well knew what would be the result of such a contest in this
bers of the Metropolitan and provincial Law Association had country. (Hear.) It was with especial reference to thin sub-
received more than the value of their subscriptions this year, ject that he had been requested to address them ; and with
by the admirable way in which the directors had brought the strong sense he had of its importance—with his convic-
into one focus, and placed before the members, the whole of tion, indeed, that it was absolutely essential to the attain-
the statutes of last session. (Applause.) mint of the object they had in view—the maintenance o f the
W. H. Moss, Esq. (Hull), seconded the resolution. He honour and interests of their profession—he hoped that those
said it wanted no meeting like that to satisfy the gentle- present would carry back to their several neighbourhoods a
men present of the importance of that association ; but he determination strenuously to support the society, to endeavour
thought it would not be time wasted if what was said there to increase its numbers, and by every available means
that day reached the public ear, for with the public the strengthen the hands of the committee in all its efforts, and
members of their profession ought to be set right. The more particularly enable it greatly to extend its efforts In the
public had been much misled by writers who had found it very important sphere to which it had been his special pro-
to their interest to misrepresent and vilify the profession. vince to call their attention. (Hear, hoar.) He begged to
(Hear, hear ) It was but right, therefore, the public should move :—" That attorneys and solicitors having been made
know that the most able and successful reformers of their the subject of systematic attack by a portion of the press,
own profession were the lawyers. (Applause.) They had it is important that the public mind should be disabused
never studied personal advantage or personal gain in any through the same channel ; and that for this purpose this
way ; but wherever they had seen an evil or an error that society call upon the profession to afford them increased sup-
could be corrected, they had boldly come forward and assisted port."
in the alteration and reform without regard to personal feel- Mr. J. Cass (of Maidstone) seconded the resolution. He
ing or pecuniary considerations. (Applause.) So much did briefly expressed his approval of the society, and said he
this feeling pervade the profession, that it would be found believed its effect upon legislation of past years had been ex-
upon investigation that many measures, for which the Go- ceedingly important.
vernment or some eminent judge or barrister had received the The resolution was carried.
warmest praises throughout the country, had really originated Mr. BEEVER. (of tianchester) moved:—" That this meeting is
with, or been suggested by, some metropolitan or provincial glad to recognise the efforts which have been made by the
attorney. (Hear, hear.) Their chairman had alluded to the Incorporated Law Society to improve the educational test of
anomaly of the legislation against attorneys by those who held attorneys and solicitors; but they earnestly trust that further
attorneys in so much personal esteem; and it certainly did steps may be speedily taken to secure for the profession a.
seem to him a strange inconsistency. Men of all ranks higher standard of general education." The subject of an
sought the solicitor, and made him their confidant, their educational test of fitness to be articled had frequently en-
friend, their adviser in matters of life and death, in pecuniary gaged the earnest and zealous attention of the committee, and
concerns, and in domestic afflictions. No man hesitated to during the past year various suggestions had been submitted
trust his property, his reputation, his domestic peace, in the to the Incorporated Law Society, it being considered that
hands of his attorney ; and yet the attorney was, by the very that body was peculiarly qualified to bring the question to a
men who placed implicit reliancenpon hishonourand inte ity practical solution. Since the stamp duty and the duty of
rY
declared unworthy of trust when his own pecuniary
interests' articles of clerkship had been reduced, by which means the
were concerned. They declared the attorney to be
competentto facilities for entering the profession had been increased, this
do anything and everything but charge 6s. Bd. (" Hear question canes ecome of still greater importance. No doubt
hear," and laughter.) The speaker next adverted `too the the our date should not be excluded, simply because
attacks made upon the profession by a portion of the press,o he was poor, but they must not allow their sympathy for
and said he looked forward, to the time when the press worth by poverty distressed to make them forget that poverty
would see it to be its duty to defend the profession from the was not a proof of worth. Let their candidates, whether
unjust aspersions cast upon it. (Applause). After pointing out rich or poor, be examined before persona specially appointed,
the beneficial operation of the local law societies, and the far and stand upon their merits. They might leave to the exa-
greater benefits conferred by the Metropolitan and Provincial miners to decide whether the examination should be on an-
Law Society, Mr- Moss concluded by urging all the gentlemen cient classics and mathematics, or on a curriculuni of a more
present to become missionaries in their several localities, and general and practical character ; but he thought the exami-
spread the knowledge of the association and increase the num- nation should precede clerkship, and should be made a test
bee of its members. (Applause),
of fitness for articles. With such an examination they woul
T. Honaosz, Esq. (York), proposed the third resolution, as have some guarantee as to the future success of the candidate
follows :—" That this meeting, therefore, pledges itself to sup- (Hear, hear.)
port the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association by Mr. LEWIS (Wrexham) said the subject had been before the
everymeans in its power, for the purpose of placing it on such members for the last eight or ten years, and the Legislature
afo footing as shall enable it to act with efficiency." He ex- had in a-great degree conceded the necessity of it, by afford-
pressed his concurrence in what had fallen from Mr. Field, I ing advantages to gentlemen who had taken a degree at the
and said that so far as his knowledge went there was no eta- university. Whilst a classical education was necessary, it was
tute iu this country which created the arbitrary distinctions i not enough, and he hoped that ere long, gentlemen b More
between the two branches of the legal profession which had they were articled would produce certificates that they ad
been assumed and acted upon by the bar, who hail been attended a c ,urse of lectures on all the various branches of
allowed, by the sanction of the judges, to form themselves physical science. (Hear.) After illustrating the great im-
into a sort of club, claiming the exclusive right of advocacy portauce of such knowledge, Mr. Lewis said he thought it
in every court in the country. The bar hail, of course, a i
must be obvious to every one that a mere pecuniary test was
right to frame their own rules, so lon as they did not not at all satisfactory. Any man who could raise his 801.
interfere with the rights of the public ; but seeing that I could, if it were necessary, raise a larger sum, and therefore a
the interests of the public were seriously interfered with pecuniary test could not be any evidence of respectability.
by those rules, it was the duty of the public to interfere He could recollect the time when the idea of solicitors under-
and stop the monopoly. (Hear.) He believed that in the going any examination as to their legal fitness was laughed at,
Popular mind the position of the profession was improving, f and in some instances it was said by members of the bar that
(Hear, hear.) And he was quite satisfied that the odium attorneys did not require a knowledge of law. They knew the
into whieh the profession fell years *ago, arose in a 1 reason for that. If an attorney did not know law, hi mut
gif-eht measure, from bad legislation, and the sad state ! take a great many more counsel's opinions, Gent. amen
the law, which frequently compelled every honest attorney of the bar stood in an invidious position—a man who
manyjusticaimwparuolvdembeentsdeinnethttera,
c len , even
to advise his tif he had a perfectly good case, not could not write his own name might be called to the bar
twoerveenture to go to law. (Hear, hear.) But now that there if he would pay his 1001., and eat the requisi .3 number of
see thsaotendmpisetaopkleenbefgeaenlintgo din.n.ers ; and then he
.mightclaim the excluove privilege,
against attorneys was • law,thawhich was not found in America, and which prevented
raindly wearing off —not that it ought solicitors from conducting their cases front the commence-
ever to have existed, the fault h
not with the lawyers. (Hear "lug
been with the law, and , meut to the termination. It was often annoying to
, hear and I hear barristers not only tinker, but actually maul,'
ARUM RYLAND, Esq. (Bi h, applause.)
tiona and referring to an oboe g am), seconded the resolu- ' your case, and to
rvation feel that you had no alternative but to
made by Mr. Moss, said remain Piet, and afterwards take We Name from your client.

LOWESTOFT, Sunday Evening.—Last night, the Cyg-
nus, commanded by Captain Andrews, manager of the
North of Europe Steam Navigation Company, returned
to this port, whence she railed the previous Saturday,
with a party of English gentlemen interested in the
Royal Danish Railway just opened with great ceremo-
nial by the King of Denmark, his Majesty being subse-
quently entertained on ship board by Mr. Pete, M.P.,
contractor of the line.
Among others who accompanied Mr. Peto, were Mr.
G. P. Bidder, engineer of the Norwegian Grand Trunk
Railway ; Mr. J. Anderson, deputy-chairrean of the
Royal Danish Company ; Mr. F. H. Geach, secretary,
and Mr. J. V. Gooch, superintendent of the Eastern
Counties Railway. The Cygnus arrived at Tonning at
one o'clock on Sunday morning, but the unfavourable
state of the weather detained the company on board
until mid-day on Monday, when they proceeded to
Flensburg, a distance of about 40 miles. By the new
line Tonning, situated in the extreme west of Denmark,
on the Eider, is brought -in connexion with Flensburg,
via Husum, containing about 5,000 inhabitants, princi•
pally occupied in cattle feeding. From Husum a branch
extends to Rendsburg, formerly a border fortress between
Holstein and Sleswig, and formsa junction with the Kiel
and Altona line, thus becoming the direct route to Ham-
burg. Rendsburg is favourably situated for commerce,
being the point at which the junction of the Sleswig
Holstein Canal with the Eider is effected, and hence one
main element in the importance of the route now open ;
for the most cursory glance at the map will show that,
at least on geographical grounds, Tonning and Lowe-
stoft are the natural termini of any chain of con-
nexion between the Danish and British metro-
polis, and on commercial grounds the advantages
are not less manifest. Until lately Denmark
grid Northern Europe could only be reached from
London by the long and tedious rail and sea route via
Hamburg, or the still more wearying one via Hull to
Copenhagen, a distance of 735 miles, the voyage alone
occupying 34 days at least ; while to reach Hamburg,
the traveller being then distant from Copenhagen nearly
300 English miles, usually takes about 55 hours. On
the other hand, from London to Tonning can be accom-
plished within 30 hours ; from thence to Hamburg in six
hours ; while to Copenhagen is net more than 150 miles,
thus shortening the route from London to Hamburg
nearly 19 hours, and to Copenhagen several hundred
miles. But rapist passenger transmission forms only a
very slight item in the facilities afforded by this line in
conjunction with the North of Europe Steam Naviga-
tion Company. Considerations connected with cattle
breeding in the plains of Jutland, and the fattening of
those cattle on the pastures of Notfolk, and their trans-
port thence in an undeteriorated state, invest the new
enterprise with many features of importance on which it
is superfluous to dwell. Tonning, which is 30 miles
from Sleswig, and 11 from the mouth of the Eider,
thoegh now a small and irregular village, of some 3,000
inhabitants, must, as the traffic of the line developer,
become the most important port in Western Denmark,
possessing, as it does, good depth of water, and being 60
miles nearer the sea than Hamburg, while the advan-
tages of Flensburg as an entrepot on the shores of the
Baltic caunot be over-rated. The traveller from Tonning
to Husura is struck with the fertility of the plains on
either side. the line, and the immense number of cattle
grazing on them. The town of Husum (the principal
intermediate station) is of considerable importance, and
contains a population of about 5,000, who gain a toter-
.;stence as cattle feeders. The line between
aule subs:,
rg is little worthy of note, the coun-
try flat and uncultivated, dreary,
gr
°f ul: Husubmein and
marshy, and
wet, front being risiyarned, and with but
occasional plots of tillage. Denmark, thouVit emeriti-
ally an agricultural corn producing country has large-
traCts of excellent land that now lie bare and waste,
which require but little capital and labour to reclaim ;
and of the value of this truism the intercourse with other
districts will soon apprise the agriculturists dwelling on
either side the Royal Danish Railway.
On arriving at Flensburg, one of the most interesting
and beautifully-situated towns the territory of Denmark
affords, the traveller is amply repaid for any lack of
scenic effect experienced on his route from Tonning. It
stands on the bight of a deep gulf, running twenty miles
island, and is completely landlocked, so that ships of
the greatest draught may lie in safety, there being no
rise and fall of tide, and therefore no locks required for
loading or unloading, thus rendering Flensburg alto-
gether unsurpassed for commercial purposes.
It becoming known some days previous that, notwith-
standing the political embroilment in Danish councils
just now, the King would accept the proffered hospitality
of Mr. Peto, and inaugurate the opening of the line, the
Flensburgers made timely and earnest preparations for
commemorating the double event in a mariner worthy of
its novelty and importance. Processions in the streets
and exoltations on the housetops, evergreens and flowers,
flags and music, everywhere greeted the ear and caught
the eye ; while outside the town the inhabit tuts clustered
in knotted groups, and, with their long Dutch pipes
hanging from their mouths, manifested their approval of
their more systematically busy neighbours in low gut-
tural sounds and commendatory shrugs and nods.
His Majesty was expected about 3 o'clock on Tuesday
the 24th, but for hours previously the quay was
crowded with holiday people, anxiously gazing towards
Cursor, a distance of about_ 70 miles, whence the king
would arrive per steamer, and shortly after the ap-
pointed time, the fine vessel, the Sleswig, bearing his
Majesty and suite, hove in sight—the recognition of the
royal standard at the mast head being announced by the
firing of guns and the enthusiastic cheering of the
populace. At the landing-place the king was re-
ceived by Herr Von Rosen, President of Flensburg ;
his Excellency Herr Von Bulow, Governor-General of
Sleswig ; his Royal Highness the Duke of Glucksburg,
Prince William of Glucksburg, and a hest of military_
and municipal functionaries in full uniform. The King,
was accompanied by his consort,
who wore his military uniform, with the star of the
i
aid chief Mini,ters of his Court.
TothrhdeeeCrroooyufanSltete. sosVe cortege mi
andDanner,r suite were driven to their hotel,
and at night a general illumination of the town took
place.
Early on Wednesday morning Mr. Peto, Mr. Bidder,
and the other gentlemen connected with the railway,
were formally presented to his Majesty, surrounded by
his staff. The King took the opportunity of stating,
what he repeated more publicly afterwards, his appre-
ciation of the services Mr. Peto had conferred upon the
kingdom, not only by the construction of a work of
such national importance as the Royal Danish, but by
completing it with such extraordinary rapidity, and
thereby rendering it available so much earlier than he
was bound to do, or could have been expected. The
ceremony of introduction having been performed, the
gentlemen repaired to the station. Here Mr. J. S.
Louth, the general manager of the line, had converted
the whole structure and its approaches into a triumphal
avenue of unique and imposing aspect, Mr. Louth being
assisted by MOMS. Peyton, Keogh, and Trery, an ac-
complished artist. About ten o'clock his Majesty and
suite proceeded from the hotel in opencarriages, escorted
by several regiments of soldiers through the town amid
continuous acclamatiens, to the platform of the station,
where Mr. Pete, dressed in the uniform of a deputy-
lieutenant, conducted them to the royal carriage, a most
elegant specimen cf locomotive ingenuity, designed by
Mr. J. V. Gooch, superintendent of the Eastern Coun-
ties, with which his Majesty expressed his particular
pleasure, as indeed he did with all the arrangements that
had been executed for the ceremony. The royal car-
riage was occupied by Mr. King and the Countess Dan-
ner, Mr. Peto, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Bidder, and nume-
rous officers of the household. Upon the party being
seated, the train moved slowly from the station, the
hearty cheering of the vast concourse combining with
the clangor of the military music, and the roar of artil-
lery, to invest the whole scene with the utmost anima-
tion and buoyancy, the brilliancy of the weather en-
hancing its universal enjoyment. On the train arriving
at Husum, his Majesty was received by the President of
the district, who delivered an address on the platform.
At Tonning, to which the party afterwards proceeded,
extensive preparations had been made, the decorations
of the ships in the harbour forming a most brilliant back
ground to the, variegated panorama. His M jesty, the
Countess Danner, the lady of Her Von Rosen, and two
other ladies in waiting on the countess, together with
the members of the royal suite, Mr. Peto and his friends,
including Messrs. Lawrence and Rich, who had accom-
panied him from England, in all thirty-six persons, went
on board the Cygnus, and were most sumptuously enter-
tained, the viands, fruits, and wines having been brought
from.Lowestoft by Mr. Howett, who personally super-
intended their serving. Upwards of 60 of the other
officers of the King, the rail way officials, and civic func-
tionaries, were also reg.iled at the Victoria Hotel, while
the banquet to his Majesty was proceeding. Just pre-
viou, to this latter event, however, the King, accirm-
panic I by his premier, Count Meltke, to whom a cere-
monious presentation of the local authorities of Tonning
had just been made, descended into the saloon of the
Cygnus, and having summoned Mr. Peto, invested that
gentleman with the insignia of Knight Commodore of
the Dannebrog, the highest distinction in the power of
Danish royalty to bestow ; one also of the 17 orders
of foreign knighthood worn by the Duke of Welling-
ton ; and, like our own order of the Bath, is appli-
cable to either military or civil services. The investi-
ture was a premeditated act on the part of the King, who
brought with him the Chancellor of the Order for the
express purpose ; and in handing over the decoration his
Majesty requested Mr. Peto's acceptance of it, not
merely as a memorial of approval from the sovereign in
whose reign a great Danish work was executed by a
great British capitalist and contractor, but as a souvenir

Mr. FJSRAIIA further observed that not only would it
be necessary to clear the street of the dens it contained,
but the name of the street, in consequence of its noto-
riety, would have to be changed before a respectable
person could be got to live in the houses. With respect
to the complaint he had made on various occasions, he
should state that the police had positively declined in-
terfering, as it was not in their power ; and when the
parish solicitor, Mr. Randall, sent one of the parish
officials to give notice of indictment to the owners of one
of the dens in question, the official went inside himself,
remained there two hours, and then came out drunk.
(Expressions of surprise and disgust.) With respect to
the indecent sights that were frequently seen he on one
occasion observed from 20 to 30 of the female inmates of
those houses dancing half-naked in the street to a band
of music, arid it was a common occurrence for those
wretched creatures to appear in a semi-naked condition
at the windows. In conclusion Mr. Ferara remarked
that noblemen and men of rank were constant visitors at
the houses.

Mr. HICKMAN said that he resided in the neighbour-
hood he complained of, and the picture was not at all
overdrawn by the deputation.
After a short discussion,

Mr. SODON moved, and Mr. J. BELL seconded, that
the attention of the parish solicitor should be drawn to
the brothels, and that steps should be taken for their
suppression.

The motion was carried unanimously, and Mr.Green-
well, the ♦estry clerk, was instructed to inform Mr. Ran-
dall that he should carry out the wishes of the vestry
without delay. The vestry then adjourned.

FRENCH TREATMENT OF THE
WOUNDED RUSSIANS.

The French Minister of Foreign Affairs has received,
from Lord Cowley, the English Ambassador, the follow,
ing communication :

Paris, Oct. 27, 1854.
Monsieur le Ministre,—l have the pleasure of transmit-
ting to your excellency, on behalf of her Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the enclosed
copy of a despatch sent to her Majesty's Government by
Brigadier-General Rose, who testifies to the humanity dis-
played by the French officers and soldiers towards the
Russians.—l embrace this opportunity, &c.,
(Signed) COWLEY.

Age st lb
Rataplan
Ticton 4 7 5
Elea 5 7 5
0 :tavia
Tantlie
ATortimer
Whalebone
Merry Bird
Butterfly (h b)
Little Davie
Sleeping Partner 6 6 6
Cleveland
Magnet

Age st lb
'qrs. Birch 6 6 0
.Jack Leetning
Neville
Ceres
Omer Pa,ha
Waterfall
Kidnapper 3 5 8
General Breezo 3 5 8
Incubus 3 5 8
Red Rose
Claret 3 5 2
Sbakspeare 3 4 10

Head Quarters of the French Army,
(Left Bank of the Katcha), Sept. 2'i, 1854.
My Lord,—Your lordship will learn with great satisfac-
tion, I am sure, that the conduct of the French officers and
soldiers towards their wounded enemies at the battle of
the Alma has been humane in the highest degree. I saw
upon the field of battle itself French soldiers giving food
and attending to the wants of the wounded Russians,
and saw a Russian by the side of a Frenchman carried off
on litters. Obeying the inspirations of a great heart,
Marshal St. Arnaud had given orders that the enemy should
receive the same attention as his own soldiers. When the
Zouaves had carried the telegraph by storm they uttered
enthusiastic cries for the Emperor, and several of them,
surrounding me and shaking me by the hand, shouted ac-
clamations for the Queen, adding that nothing could stand
against the united French and English.
Rosa.

A HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKICX of 50 eova each, with 40
added, for two-yr•olds ; a winner of 50 soya clear after
the weights were published to carry slb extra ; the
second horse to receive 10 sovs out of the stakes ; the
winner to be sold for 50 sovs. Rather more than one
mile.

at lb

The Despised
May Boy 8 2
Questionable
Grey Chicken
Lady Tatton (inc. slb
extra)
Wheat Ear
Myrtle 7 4
Equivoque
A SELLING STAKES of 5 soya each, with 25 added,
3-yr-olds and upwards. One mile and a quarter. Closes
this day (Monday).
A SWEEPSTAKES of 5 soya each, with 25 added ; for
horses not thorough bred ; three-yr-olds. Bst 71b ; four,
9st 91b ; five, lOst 41b ; six and aged, lOst 91b ; mares
and geldings allowed 21b ; penalties for certain winners.
One mile and a quarter. Closes this day (Monday.)
THE AUTUMN FLYING STAKES (Handicap) of 5 sous
each, with 40 soya added, for all ages. The second
horse to save his stake. Rather more than half a mile.
(29 subs.)

gr c by Chanticleer—
st lb
Ino
Forward
Banbury
by f by Springy Jack
—Motley
Woodford 7 0
Poor Dick

INov. 1
Daily
Nov. 16
Nov. 16
,UnceitiVia

oy

Age st lb
Rataplan 4 9 6
Titterstone (h b) 6 8 7
The Deformed 4 8 7
Octavia
Tonic 6 8 5
Nancy 6 8 0
Butterfly (h b) 5 710
Riibert
Kennyside Hero 3 7 4
Cardiff Lass
Nightcap 4 7 4
Walton 5 7 4
Horatio
Ragbill 3 7 4
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Age st lb
Falcon 3 611
Blossom
'Yhitelock
Katinka
Vivid
Miss Sellon
The Cripple 3 6 4
Rose of Ellel .., 4 6 4
Gossip
Citnicina
Wheat Ear 2 5 7
Dartmouth
Lady Tattoo
For ward

WEDN
THE WORCESTERSHIRE GRA:
Handicap of 20 soya each,
with 100 added ; the own.
ceive back his stake ; five
will not be added ; certaii
miles. 19 subs. 10 of wh
st lb
Needwood lO 10
Spring
Diana lO 2
Maurice Daley
Little Charley
THE HURDLE RACE, handicap of 5 soya each, with 50
added. A. winner of 50 sous clear after the weights
were published, 51ba extra. (Two miles, over six
flights of hurdles.) (15 subs )
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ses. oVrfice
a:e:oiaosecuebs,s
Age et lb Age at lb
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Gaylad
Teddesley
Freedom 5 10 10 Sailor
Alp
vPanTTaAhticr
a 10 7 Wideawake ...... 5 9 7
Bullfinch a 10 2 Black 8e55..,...... a 9 4
5 10 2 C fby Safeguard
Tbeodine
with 50 added ; for horses certified to have been rsgu.
°Sit extra. lO
larly hunted in any estaLlished pack during' the season
Jemmy
toplls2r h3ee6s4til;oe4al race, Yai
91 ralb:kl extra tm42: maiden hvioalalel22' R-te;
qualifiedsixe cc
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county of Worcester allowed 51b ; gentlemen riders,
THE Hoar STEEPLECHASE
jockeys
701fbie
he
this day (Monday).

ESDAY.
ND ANNUAL STEEPLE C tiASE,
h it, and 5 only if declared,
ler of the second horse to re-
to start, or the public money
u winners extra ; abuut four
.oni have declared.

BIRTBs.

OF A SON.

On the 25th inst., at 65, Cambridge-street, St. George's-
roa 1, the wife of Captain Herbert Rus.ell Manners, 51st
King's Own Light Infantry.
On the 25th inst., at tAonmel, Tipperary, the wife of T.
H. Chads, Esq., sth Fusiliers.
On the 27th inst , at 36, Hamilton-terrace, St. John's'
wood, the wife of George Leslie, Esq., R.M., her Majesty's
ship Calliope.

st lb
Thickleby (h b) 9 7
Old Misery
Cervua
Fr- ak

OP A DA,CraIiTEN.
On the 26th inst., at 13, Verney-place, Exeter, the wifo
of W. L. Wright, Paymaster.
On the 27th inst., at Brook green, Hammersmith, the
wife of the Rey. Dr. Huntingford.

Ramsey, Sussex, MRRIED.
On the 26th inst., the parish church of Winwiciff
Lancashire, the Rat A
v. George Croxton Shiffner, rector of
Amport, Hants, and canon of Chichester, nephew of Ad-
miral Sir Henry Shiffner, Bart., to Elisabeth, only child of
son of the Rev. George Shiffner, rector of
the late John Greenall, Esq., of Myddleton Hall, Lanca-
shire.

On the 27th inst., at Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, Ed-
ward Gandy, Esq., of the Admiralty, Somerset-house Lon-
don, to Charity Courtis, second daughter of the late 'Cape.
Daniel Ross, R.N.