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London, England, 1836-10-20 00:00:00

suffered them " to drop," as the phrase goes, or they
permitted them to be destroyed or mutilated by the
Lords, without even a word of remonstrance, or a
manifestation of displeasure. This child's
play will
do no longer. If the liberal measures which will be
introduced next Session, be either abandoned by the
Hon. Members who bring them in, or if, in the event
of their being rejected by the Lords, the House do not
have recourse to some expedient which will meet the
emergency of the case—then we say that the indigna-
tion at present felt towards the Lords, will be shared
to an extent by the Commons, for which they are by
no means prepared.—Morning Advertiser.
It may be, as the Ministerial organs state, that .Mr.
Justice Patteson has become unfit for the discharge
of the judicial functions, on account of the malady of
deafness having increased—but we confess we have
been taken by surprise by this announcement, not hav-
ing observed the symptoms of that incapacity which
the Ministerial organs so unceremoniously assert. Mr.
Justice Patteson is one of the youngest, as well as one
of the ablest Judges on the Bench. If he retires,
as the paragraphic " feelers" of Government lead us to
suppose, the country will have lost one of the soundest
lawyers that ornaments the judicial seat ; and, in addi-
tion to that loss, will have the additional one of being
burdened with the retiring pension of the Learned
Judge, while he is yet in the very vigour of his life
and freshness of his intellect. That his hearing is
not equally quick with his other faculties, physical and
mental, is greatly to be regretted ; but it is a defect
which has exhibited, as far as we can learn, no out-
ward symptom of recent increase. It certainly has
not induced him to abstain, even temporarily, from
the discharge of his judicial duties, and we hare not
heard, nor do we believe that any one else has heard
of complaints of the suitors in his Court, either in
Westminster Hall or at the Assizes, of justice denied
or delayed, or imperfectly administered by him. It is
curious enough that some time since a Cornish Paper
should have announced that Sir R. Rolfe was to have
the " vacant seat on the Bench," there being no va-
cant seat, and that this announcement should .be. fol-
lowed up by the Ministerial Papers asserting that Mr.
Justice Patteson was about to resign. It is also
curious, if true, that the malady of deafness should
be ascertained by the Ministerial writers to have in-
creased, just at the moment when Government be-
came most anxious to provide for its dumb Solicitor.—
Morning Herald.
Some of our Contemporaries treat the late propo-
sition of the Spanish Minister, to pay the November
dividends by a series of four years' bills on the Ha-
vannah, with a gravity that is truly remarkable. None
of them denounced the project in the only terms due
to a conception of so vile a nature, and some of them
seem absolutely to believe that M. Mendizabal is a
very liberal personage in offering such good terms, and
that the bondholders should receive them with grati-
tude. Now to set this question again on its proper
footing, we repeat that already 300,0001. worth of
bills of the Spanish Government on the Island of
Cuba are returned protested, for non-payment ; and
we firmly believe that the treasury of the Havannah
is always in advance to the mother-country, and is
likely to scout any further application to its liberality.
The great danger in these proceedings is, that the
people of the island, who are flourishing in an
unexampled degree, and are working railroads
and mines by means principally of free labour—
having imported large bodies of men from the Canary
Islands, and having established a system of emanct-
pados—may begin to find out that the mother country
IS unworthy its affection, and discover the folly of
draining itself of treasure to supply the changing and
corrupt Government at home. If once that opinion is
promulgated generally in Cuba it will be acted upon
much more rapidly than some imagine ; and, in that
case, the quantity of British property already in the
island may be exposed to hazard, though we believe the
local Government is too wise and too powerful to in-
jure establishments from which it derives so much
advantage. Still it is well to reflect on the
consequences of every step, and we think that
the British capitalists in Cuba have not much
reason to thank Lord Palmerston's proteg6, M.
Mendizabal, for giving any cause of discontent to a
colony in which their interest may be so seriously
affected by a political change. A loan was contracted
two years .sinee in London for the service of the island
of Cuba, which is reckoned one of the safest invest-
ments of the day ; a railroad, of sixty miles in extent,
is laid down by English engineers, and with English
wealth ; and mines are worked by English capitalists
and for British account. Those great interests should
he a little considered ; and M. Mendizabal, who is the
nominee of Lord Palmerston at Madrid, should be
cautioned against the consequences of irritating a Go-
vernment which has hitherto continued so true to the
parent State.—Morning Post.

There are about eighty applications for music li-
cences, one-half of them new ones, to come before the Mid-
dlesex magistrates this week.
THE NEW POPULAR PUBLICATIONS.—The fol-
lowing new works are just published by Mr. Colburn, 13,
Great Marlborough-street :-1. Second edition, with addi-
tions, of the " Diary of a Desennuyee," in 2 vols. post Bvo.
2. Tho Viscount de Chateaubriand's new work, " Sketches
of English Literature, with considerations on the spirit of
the times, men, and revolutions," 2 vols. Bro., 245.-3.
.6 Violet ; or, The Opera Dancer," 2 vols. post Bvo.-4.
" Mrs. Armytage ; or, Female Domination," by the au-
thoress of " Mothers and Daughters," 3 vols.-5. " Cap-
tain Brenton's Naval History of Great Britain," to be com-
pleted in eight monthly parts, and in twenty-four weekly
shilling numbers, with numerous fine portraits, and other
embellishments.--6. " Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon,"
by the Count de Las Cases. New Edition, with twenty
portraits, &c., in 4 vols., price only 205., neatly bound. 7.
Theodore Hook's " Sayings and Doings," First Series.
Complete in 1 vol., neatly bound, with plate*, Gs.
Durient, the most celebrated actor on the German
stage, while he equals, if not excells, our own Kean in all
the accomplishments of his art, resembles him' too in his
failings. " Like many other great actors (says a modern
traveller) he is unfortunately addicted to stimulants. After
the play is over, he almost invariably hurries to some wine
house to meet with a knot of boon companions, with whom
he devotes the night to the orgies of Bacchus."

NEW WORK BY PROFESSOR HOPPUS.—We are
requested to state that the new work by Professor Hoppus,
entitled " The Continent in 1835," is now ready, and may
be had of the publishers, Messrs. Saunders and Otley,
Conduit-street ; of their agents in Dublin and Edinburgh ;
all the libraries ; and of the Booksellers in town and country.
ELOPEMENT AND SWINDLING.—A circumstance
occurred at Pontefract on Tuesday week which has thrown
the inhabitants into the greatest excitement and amaze-
ment. John Hawkins, the letter-carrier of that place,
eloped with the wife of a tradesman on the night of the
4th instant, after having paid a visit to a great many of the
inhabitants, and borrowed various sums of money on the
plea of necessity, as well as obtained jewellery, silks, linen-
drapery, &c., to a great amount, under false pretences.
The route of the fugitives was traced to Manchester, but as
yet the officers of justice have not been enabled to appre-
hend the villain. It is supposed that it was his intention
to proceed to America. His depredations thus committed
upon the inhabitants amount to hundreds of pounds, as he
found no difficulty in obtaining loans from almost every in-
dividual whom he solicited, he having hitherto. borne a fair
and unexceptionable character. He has also carried off a
great sum in vicarial tithes, corporation tolls, Sm.—York-
shire Gazette.
THE PRINCE OF CANINO'S MEMOIRS.—We
observe in this valuable work, which has just appeared, and
which forms an important link in the history of modern
Europe, that during the Reign of Terror, the horrors of
which he has painted with a master's hand, he figured con-
spicuously—openly sPleu°uslY—openly as a revolutionist—covertly as a philan-
thropist. Appointed at an early age President of the Re-
volutionary
charged gcornomCommittee at St. Maximim, he, at the risk of
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Prince, adverting to the ill return ma de by one of the par-
ties whom he had thus rescued from destruction emphati-
cally remarks His conduct to me did not prevent me
from considering that clay •
to b e one of the happiest of my
life."

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WORTIIING.—On Wednesday night last, the tide
and wind committed considerable havoc on our esplanade.
The water came over so rapidly that the South-street for
Esplanade was almost impassable. The
about 100 yards was one entire sheet of water, and the
road along the
turfed embankments were nearly all broken down ; in fact,
so vast devastation has not been committed here for several
years, and great fears were entertained that we should ex.
perience more serious consequences on the following day,
The wind, however, abated, and no further damage was
done,—Brighton Guardian,