The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1;

TitE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The debate on the Budget of Marine was continued
in the National Assembly on Tuesday, and it was
proposed that a Committee should be appointed to
inquire into the expense and the efficiency of every
branch of the naval service, a proposition to which
the Minister at once acceeded.

M. RASraIL, one of the condemned of June, 1848,
has been removed from the Citadel :of Doullens, in
which he was imprisoned, to the hospital at Amiens,
in consequence of ill-health.
M. ODILON 13ARROT is confined to his house by
illness—he was visited on Tuesday by M. DE Toc-
QUEVILLE.
Seventeen persons, accused of having taken part on
the 13th June in an alleged revolutionary movement
at Lyons, have been acquitted by the Court-martial
sitting in that city.
The trials before the High Court of Versailles
still continue. M. Horan, who had arrived in Paris
with the intention of surrendering, returned to Bel-
gium in consequence of being informed that he could
not now be tried with the other prisoners.
PARIS BOURSE, OCT. 31.—Latest Prices—Five
per Cents., 88f, 30c. ; Three per Cents., 56f.; Bank
of France '2,330f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
.
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Ocr. 31
___ _ .

Boulogne and Amiens, 53%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon ), 113,4 —East Indian, 33%—Paris and Orleans,
284—Paris and Strasbourg, s%—Sambre and Meuse, 2.

GERMAN Y
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES,

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

On the 25th ult., the EMPEROR admitted the Am-
bassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of the Ottoman Porte, KONSTANTIN MUSSURUS,
to a private audience, and received from him an
autograph letter from the SULTAN addressed to his
MAJESTY.

The Lloyd says, according to direct intelligence
from Widdin, only six of the Hungarian exiles have
as yet abjuied the Christian faith. These men,
although readily admitted to Islamism by the
Turks are, nevertheless, regarded by them with
suspicion.
Several Poles who declared their willingness to
embrace Islamism were, as is customary, desired to
state their reasons, and as they felt constrained to
confess that they wished to secure themselves from
the persecution of the Austrian courts-martial, they
received the humiliating answer that the mere adop-
tion of the Mahomedan creed, if unaccompanied by
proofs of internal conviction, would be anything but
a passport to the Garden of Paradise.
The Wiener Zeitung says—" We understand that
two more of the insurgents who fled into Turkey,
and who were formerly Imperial officers, said to be
Count FLORESTAN BOZITADOWS/LI and Lieutenant
Colonel FLAMM, have gone over to Islamism."
The Prague Zeitung, in an article, dated Ofen,
Oct. 19, says—" We learn by a letter from Semlin,
dated 14th instant, that a report was in general
circulation there that KOSSUTH, if he will not consent
to go over to Islamism, will be given up. Our cor-
respondent adds, I cannot vouch for the truth of this
statement, but so much is certain, that the differences
between the great Powers—Austria, Russia, and the
Porte, will be settled amicably."
The murders in Hungary still continue, the
venerable Baron PRaENYI, who was President of the
Hungarian Chamber of Peers, was hanged at Pesth,
on the 25th ult. SZACSVAY and CSERMIS were hanged
at the same time, and HATNAU has announced his
intention of murdering sixteen other persons in a
similar manner.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was dull,
and prices rasher in favour of buyers. The sales were
estimated at about 6,000 bales-5,000 American; 400
Pernam and Msranham, at 61-1. to 7id ; 100 Bahia, at
Sid.; 200 Surat, at 40. to 51; 100 Sea Island, at Ilid.
to Is. Id. per lb.—Railway Shares were dull, at rather
lower prices.
The sales of Wheat in the markets that regulate the
averages were, last week, 126,760 quarters.
By the foreign mails, arrived to-day, we learn that
the Amsterdam market was firmer, Dutch Two-and-a•
Half per Cents. being 53 5-16 on Tuesday. At
Vienna, cn the 27th ult., Austrian Bonds were 95; and
at Frankfort, on the 29:h, 87*. The Berlin prices for
the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Prussian Stocks
were 88.
The railway receipts in Belgium during the month of
September amounted to 1,407,7751., being an ircrease
compared with the previous month.
The later intelligence received by the Overland Mail
from Calcutta beer out, in reference to commercial mat-
ters, the previously favourable reports, but the holidays
were occasioning a temporary cessation of activity.
Money was exceedingly easy.
The Stock Exchange and Bank of England Transfer
offices being closed, there is no official business doing i❑
the Funds, but nominally, and as far as a few outside
operations will determine, they are lower, say 92i for
Consols, in consequence of the very important
message of Louis Napoleon to the French As-
sembly. City men appear scarcely, as yet, to
have made up their mind as to the bearing of the docu•
went, and whether it should be considered favourable or
the reverse, but the prevalent impression is that, how-
ever distasteful to the Legitimists, Louis Philippists,
and Socialists, the people at large will receive it well as
an evidence of a firm purpose. The right of the Presi-
dent to assume such personal grounds, and act on such
personal authority, so long as the Ministry could hold
together, is greatly questioned.
The railway calls for the present month aro but
674,000/. A good deal of attention has been attracted
by the putting in force the Stock-Exchange regulation,
and the buying in of thirty or forty Great Western
shares, against a seller who could not deliver them.
Thera can be no doubt that this is a good beginning,
but the committee will further increase legitimate share
business if they counsel as strict action against mem-
bers of the house (jobbers) who act for themselves,
as against outside speculators, mischievous as the latter
generally prove. We perceive that at the Bank, &c., a
framed list of all the members of the Stock Exchange is
hung up, and this suggests to us the great and bene-
ficial changes that might be effected in the constitution
of that body, by allowing the public access, under
proper restrictions, that they could see their busi•
nese done.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
NEWGATE AND X.EADENEAX.X..
These markets were firm to-day, and prices had an
upward tendency. Beef, from 23 2d to 3s 6d; Mutton,
28 8d to 3s lod; Veal, 3s to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 2d to
4s 2d per 81b5, by the carcase.
HAY MAZILETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 3/ 10s; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 10s; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 9s per
load. A moderate supply, and a dull trade.
CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 8t to 31 12s; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 4110 s; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 lOs pea
oad. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull.
WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 31 103;
Clover, ditto, 313 s to 4/ 12s; and Straw, 114 s to 1193 per
load. A slow trade, at the above quotations.
MEAT MARKETS.
SOErTHALL, OCT. 31.—Our market to-day was firm
for all kinds of stock, the prices of which were higher
than on Wednesday last. Beef, from 35 Od to 3s 10d;
Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 6d; and Pork,
3s 4d to 3s 8d per Sibs, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, OCT.3l.—Prime Beasts, Sheep, and Calves
sold readily, at an advance in the quotations of 2d per
81bs. Otherwise the market was steady. Beef from 3s 2d
to 4s; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 6d; and
Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves,
18s to 255; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 21s; ,and
Mulch Cows with their small Calf, 151 to 181 each.
LEWES, OCT. 30.—The general demand was steady
at very full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Mutton,
3s 6cl to 4s 9(1; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 35 4d
to 3s 8d per Ms.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN*
eor the Week ended Oct. 23,1849, made up from the Returns of toe
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towis in Emgland and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. RTE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
I I PRICE .. 41s 7d 28s 5d 17s 2d 23s id 1 28s 10d 31s 7d

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
WHEAT. I EARLEY. OATS. i EYE. 1 WEANS. I PEAS.
IS Od Is Od is Od Is Od is Od is Od

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Nov. I.—Wind this day at noon S.E., light
bre. ao, and dull cloudy weather.
KIRKCALDY, OCT. 29.—The Regalia, from Davis's
Straits, has Lathed off this place, with 150 tons; she
sailed from the fishing grounds on the 30th September,
leaving the Lord Gambier, of Hull, and the Chieftain,
of this port; the latter was spoken 15th ult. with 1 t
whales and 16 bottle-noses. 30th, A large ■hip besting
up the Firth this morning missed stays about seven miles
to the eastward of this port, and got foul of a schooner
also plying to windward, which bad her topmasts carried
away, and ran for some port to leeward; the ship ap-
peared to sustain no damage, and is riding under Inch-
ktith, the wind blowing nearly a gale from S.W. to W.
DEAL, OCT. 31.—Wind S.S.W. to W.N.W.—Arid.
Clio, Easthope, Quebec. Sld. Ellen, Jamaica; Clydes-
dale, Cuba.
LIMERICK, OCT. 28.—Arrd. Granville, Brown, St.
John's, New Brunswick; Heatherbell, Jerkins, ditto.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 31.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrd.
30th, Oxford, Goudeninson, New York; Teresina, Bu
baroviek, Ragusa. 31st, Allen Kerr, Grey, Bombay;
Morning Srer, Dill, Pasboro; Prispect, Prince Edward's
Nand. Sid. 31st, Virginia, New Orleans; Hopewell,
Bahia; Clyde, Apalachicola; Marmion, New York. The
Thomas Dempsey, arrived here yesterday from Rio
Grande, with hull strained, leaky, &e., having experi-
enced heavy weather 3d ult., in lat. 29 S., lon. 33 W.,
18th inst. in Ist. 38 N., lon. 29 W., and on the 23d in
lat. 45, lon. 25. Off Port 31st, Ann Martin, Bombay.
BELFAST, OCT. 30.—The Jane Hughes, which was
on shore inv., on the Cannon Rock, has been towed
up here, and must be put in dock for repairs.
YARMOUTH, OCT. 31.—The Lambertiva, of Papen-
burg, came in here to-day, with loss of bowsprit and
cutwater, having been run foul of, while riding in the
roads, by the Mercury, of South Shields.
GRIMSBY, OCT. 31.—The Rita, Bergen to Barcelona,
on shore on Wainfleet Flats, 12th inst., was got off and
towed here to-day, having sustained considerable damage.
OYF FALMOUTH, OCT. 31.—Norden, Koffel, Singapore
for Hamburgh ; Sarah, Bock, Valparaiso.
PLYbIOUTH, OCT. 31.—Wind S.W., strong and squally.
Arrd. Prowler, Cumming, Labradore.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 31.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Hovers
Bride, Bowen, Rio Janeiro.
JERSEY, OCT. 30.—Wind S.—Arrd. Flora, biller,
Labrador.
QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 30.—The Jane (brig), of New-
castle (supposed to be from New York), with a cargo of
flour and logwood, was brought into harbour this morn-
ing by the mate and two sailors of the Regent, from
Cardiff, bound to Wilmington, N. E., which vessel fell
in with her, 25th inst., abandoned 188 miles S.W. of
Cape Clear, and with her starboard stove, apparently
having been in contact.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY'
(Before Mr. UnderEheriff BURCHELL.)
IMPORTANT CASE UNDER THE COUNTY COURTS ACT.

HAMMOND V. STEEDES.

This was an action brought to recover the sum of 9/.
103., the balance on a bill of exchange, of which de-
fendant was alleged to be the acceptor.
The defendant pleaded, first, that he did not accept ;
secondly, that the drawer did not indorse, and that the
indorsee did not indorse to the plaintiff. There were
two other pleas to the same effect.
Mr. Lush appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Charnock for
the defendant.

Mr. LUSH stated that the plaintiff is an attorney,
and defendant is a carrier, at Finchley. In January,
1848, a person, named William Edwards, drew upon de-
fendant for 191. 10s., and Edwards, who has since
died, indorsed it to his son, who indorsed it to the pre-
sent holder. Defendant had paid 101. on account, and
had agreed to pay the balance by instalments. He paid
21., but not paying the rest he ,was sued, but plaintiff
wrote to him to say that he was not desirous to put him
to great expense, and if defendant would consent to a
Judge's order, on which judgment could be entered up,
he (plaintiff) would forego all further proceedings, each
party paying their own costs. Defendant, however,
refused to accede to these terms, and put the se-
veral pleas on the record, without the shadow
of chance of establishing either. The Learned
Counsel then called witnesses, who positively swore to
the acceptance and indorsements, but Mr. Charnock in
cross• examination elicited that the plaintiff had been
attorney to Edwards, jun., and had received money on
his account on the bill. Plaintiff wrote, as his attorney,
requiring payment on or before the 25th June last, but
on the 26th, fifteen months after the bill was overdue it
was indorsed by Edwards, jun., to plaintiff, and on the
27th the writ was sued out by plaintiff in person.
Mr. CHARNOCIC addressed the jury for the defendant,
and urged that his Learned Friend was not justified in
taking credit for his client's liberalloffer:to stay proceed-
ings without costs, for he (Mr. Charnock) could not re-
concile the proceedings at all to a liberal feeling. First,
the plaintiff held it as the attorney of Edwards, and got
10s. for costs, and in default of payment on the 25th the
tricky farce was played on the 26th of indorsing the
bill, but there was no proof of consideration, and on the
27th the writ was sued out. If the jury were not aware
of the reason for which this was done he would unravel
the mystery. If Edwards had sued ho most have taken
proceedings in the County Court, or have lost his costs
in the Superior Court, but by a slip in the County
Courts Act, an attorney was entitled to sue
in the Superior Court and recover costs. By
suing in thel Superior Court there was also an
advantage gained in such a case as neither the plaintiff
nor defendant could bo examined on oath. This state of
things, he was happy to say, had been put a stop to by a
new Act, passed on the Ist of August, for the abolition
of the Palace Court, the odour of which was too strong,
thanks to Jacob Omnium and the Times newspaper,
even for the Attot ney-General to bear, for in that Act
there was a little clause, the 18th, which provided that
no attorney, solicitor, or other person, should have any
privilege to sue for any debt under 20/. except in the
'County Court. Plainte.iff, however, had taken good
care to sue before the Act came into operation. He felt
satisfied that the jury would not consider that he had
been wasting their time by calling their attention to the

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little clause, the nth, as he Lad no doet it ha 1 tamped
general attention.
Mr. Lusa said be should like to see the Act.

Mr. CHARNOCIE said that he had much pleasure in
obliging his Learned Friend, who he was surprised to
find ignorant of the clause, as he knew -almost every-
thing; but no doubt now it would be made public. He
would call Mr. Edwards, and if he admitted the indorse-
ment defendant must submit to a verdict. _ _ _

Mr. Edwards was then called, and proved the indorse-
ment. He said he bad an account with plaintiff, and
always indorsed over all bills which he could not recover
himself. _

The UNDERSHERIFF said the case was &early ma-1/4
out in law, and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.

BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)

" WHERE IGNORANCE IS ELISS 'TIS FOLLY TO BE
WISE."—An operative engineer, residing at 140, Grove•
street, Camden-town, charged a young woman with
having robbed him of 79.
He stated that he met the prisoner in George street,
St. Giles's, about half past eight o'clock on Friday
evening. She solicited charity of him, observing that
she bad not broken her fast the whole day.
Mr. HALL—WeII, and you went to some public-
house? The prosecutor replied no. He took her to a cook-
shop and gave her some soup. At her request he then
accompanied her to a house in George-street, where she
was in the hope of receiving some money that was due
to her.

Mr.
,HALL—WeII, did you not know what sort of a
place it was? The prosecutor said he did not.
Mr. HALL—Dear me, what an innocent person you
must be.
The prosecutor continued that while in the house hi,
fell asleep, and the prisoner took advantage of this op-
portunity to rob him of 75., which he carefully placed
in his fob just before leaving the cook-shop.
The prisoner denied having robbed him at all.
The fact was, ho induced her to go to the house, which
was a brothel, for an improper purpose, having pre-
viously well plied her with gin and ale, and presented her
with three shillings.
Mr. HALL doubted whether a jury would credit the
prosecutrix's story, but still it was his duty to commit
the prisoner for trial.
She was committed accordingly.
ALL Smota.E.—A little urchin, whose head could
scarcely be seen above the dock, was charged with
having alarmed the neighbourhood of Broad-court,
Bow street, by firing off squibs, rockets, blue-lights,
and Roman candles.'.
Folice-constable F 105 stated that he was on duty
beetween seven and eight o'clock last night, in Drury-
lane, when he heard a dreadful explosion in Broad-
court. He made his way into the court, and found it
so full of smoke that he was obliged to grope along.
When the smoke had disappeared he discovered the
prisoner and some other lads firing off squibs, gun
powder, &c.; and as the landlord of the Wreaken Tavern
had complained to him that he was afraid to live in his
house while the lads of the district were allowed to con-
gregate in the court and amuse themselves with fire-
works he deemed it necessary to bring the prisoner
before bis Worship.
Mr. HALL said a stop must be put to the proceedings
of the mischievous lads who now infested the streets 01
London. The practice of firing off squibs in courts and
by-places had become so common that it was quite dan-
gerous to property, and something must be done to rid
the metropolis of the nuisance.
The lad said it was not his fault. He happened to be
passing through the court at the time, and some other
bo3 s who were there seeing the policeman approaching,
placed a blue light in his hand and made him hold it till
it had burned out.
Mr. HALL thought the only mode of putting an end to

the practice was to fine all who were brought before
him, and he should therefore commenco with this case,
and fine the prisoner ss.
The fine was paid by the lad's parent.

Mr~HLBRO'-STREET--(THIS DAY)
James Miller, a well-dressed man, was brought before-
Mr. Biegham for re-examination, charged with em-
bezzling the sum of 241. received for and on account of
Mr. W. Pawson, pianoforte maker, 4, Cleveland-street,
Fitzroy-square.
The prosecutor stated that in the month of July last
the prisoner was introduced to him as a person who
possessed great facilities in disposing of pianofortes, and
by engaging him as commission-agent witness would
materially benefit himself. Witness said he should con-
sider about it, and the prisoner then left the place. On
the 18th of August the prisoner came to
him again, and told witness that he had got
an order to purchase a pianoforte for a friend at Brigh
ton, and if witness would let him have one to show the
party, he (the prisoner) had no doubt of getting
.him to
buy it. Under these representations witness agreed to
let the prisoner have a pianoforte, with the understand-
ing that he was to act as his agent, and to receive on all
orders and sales effected a commission of 10 per cent.
! On the following day the prisoner selected a piaeo
worth 241., and gave witness written directions to
forward it to Brighton, where ho himself was going,
and as soon as he got the money he would send him
a Post-office order for the amount iess 10 per cent.
The instrument was sent accordingly, and a few days
after he received a letter from the prisoner, enclosing
two sovereigns, with a request rb.s --ones® would draw
upon him at three months for the balance- He refused
to do so, and on subsequent inquiry he ascertained that
the prisoner had appropriated the proceeds of the sale
to his own use, and that he had spent it all in riotous
living. Under these circumstances, he gave him int,
custody.
Mr. John Latham, 28, Howland-street, said, the pri-
soner told him that he bad acted very foolishly, but he
had forwarded Mr. Pawson 151., enclosed in an envelope,
and Mr. Harper, the person Rho purchased the piano,
had paid the rest.
Mr. George Harper, an innkeeper residing at Brighton,
proved purchasing a piano of the prisoner for 241., on
the 27th of August last, and that he paid the prisoner
the amount, and received the receipt produced from him.
Mr. M'Gregor Logan, said he was present when the
arrangement was er.tered into between Mr. Pawson and
the prisoner, and distinctly he ard Mr. Pawson state that
the prisoner was to act in the capacity of agent, and to
receive 10 per cent. commission on all sales or orders.
The prisoner's solicitor contended that the charge of
embi zzlement could not be sustained, inasmuch as the
prisoner had sold the piano in Ha own name. This,
therefore, made it merely a matter of debt. He had
attempted to effect an arrangement between his client
and the prosecutor, but had failed in his effort to do so.
Mr. BINGHAM said he had remanded the prisoner in
the hope that he would have settled the matter. Ile
should now remand him until next Monday week, in the
hope that he would pay the money down, and all the
expellees to which the prosecutor has been put. If this
was not done, he should certainly commit him for trial.
Bail was accepted for the prisoner's appearance on
that day.

INCENDIARY FIRES IN SUFFOLK.
BURY ST. EDMUND'S, OCT. 30.—1 t is with deep
concern that wa have to announce a very alarming
increase of fires in this district. A vast amount of
farming property has been destroyed; and, to add to
the alarm these destructive outbreaks have neces-
sarily occasioned, there is little doubt that most
of them, if not all, were the work of some
diabolical incendiaries. Within the last five days
no fewer than six farms have been on fire, and
in the week previous almost a similar number
shared a like fate. Disastrous as this list may ap-
pear, unfortunately it does not include other out-
breaks of equally as destructive a character, which
happened in more distant parts or the county.
News reached here to-day of two very serious
fires having occurred last night. One broke
out about half-past nine o'clock, on the
farm of Mr. J. Westrup, at Deuston, and
three stacks, with some outbuildings, were
consumed. The dwelling and other portions of
the property were only preserved by the timely
arrival of Lord Thurlow's engine, which has rendered
most valuable aid in suppressing these disastrous
events. The second outbreak happened shortly after
ten o'clock, at Lavenham, on some property belonging
to Mr. Sturgeon. Nearly 100 coombs of barley, two
stacks and a barn were destroyed. On the night
previous (Sunday) the village of Herndon, near Clare,
was the scene of a calamitous fire. Between eight and
nine the rear of the premises of Mr. G. Savage were
discovered to be in flames, and ere they could
in any way be subdued a serious sacrifice of property
had taken place. The dwelling-houro, two barns,
cow-house, and some outbuildings, vi:h a portion of
the stacks, were burnt. On Saturday evening some
farm property at Wickham Brook, belonging to Mr.
T. Webb, was set on fire. The flames vere discovered
raging in an oat• stack, but forturately by the
early arrival of the neighbouring labourers,
two barns filled with grain which were nigh were saved.
On Friday, the rear of the Greyhound, at Lavenham,
was found to have been fired, and on Thursday night
an attempt was made to kindle the fart premises of
Mr. Young, at Chevely. About nine o'clock some-
thing was heard to fall near the barn, and fire was
perceived amongst the straw on the ground. It was
instantly extinguished, and it was ascertained to
have been caused by a quantity of ligUted tinder or
linen rags wrapped round a stone, leing thrown
over the wall from the road. It is stated that a party
has been apprehended on suspicion of throwing the
diabolical missile. On the afternoon 0' Wednesday
great damage was done on the farmiig premises of
Mr. R. Mumford, at Combs ; and abut the same
time a similar disaster befel the propety of Mr. T.
Tilbrook, at Cowbage. Must of the lufferers were
insured. The constabulary are institutng searching
inquiries into the circumstances connected with the
respective outbreaks.

EQUESTRIAN STATUE IN HONOUR OF RIR MAJESTY'S
VISIT TO GLASGOW.—The proposal to btild a granite
arch on the site of the temporary triumphal structure in
Jamaica-street having been abandoned, he Lord Pro-
vost, the Sheriff, and other influential gntlemen, we
understand, are making the necessary Vtliminary ar-
tangereents, with a view to a public subsiription for a
noble equestrian statue of her Majesty, as an enduring
memorial of the Queen's late auspicious vest to Glasgow.
--Glasgow Courier.
The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, vho came to
town for the express purpose of attending at the cere-
monial of the opening of the new Coal l-xchange, left
Whitehall-gardens yesterday, on his retail to Drayton
Manor.
The number of persons assembled on Clearing-cross
bridge ou Tuesday last, at one time, has beet ascertained
to bon been upwovdo of spo.

MAGAZINE DAY.
BLACKWOOD.
Having finished with the " Caxtons," and leaving
an interval between the chapters of the " Green
Hand," our noble old Ebony has brae( ly buckled to
again with a new serial of a perfectly different cha-
racter. "My Peninsular Medal, Part I," promises
to rival the gossipping and roystering remini,cencc a
of that merry blade Jack Hinton, the Guardsman, or
of that congenial lover of fun, Captain Charles
O'Malley, of the 14th Light Dragoons. Y-----, for
as yet we have no authenticated name, not even the
" make. shift" of a soubriquet, appears to be as comica
a rogue at heart as one could well desire,
with just an agreeable dash of spooneyism at
the outset, kindred in some measure with that
of the immortal Mr. Sparks. His acquaintance,
Gingham, "the white man," is exactly the fellow
we would like to hob and nob with while campaign-
ing; as good a trencherman as Dugald Dalgetty of
Drumsthwacket, more of an bon vivant than Justice
Greedy, and possessed of as large an appetite for
creature comforts as the great Sir Epicure Mammon.
His suggestion with reference to fried soles—namely,
to eschew all melted-butter and fish-sauces, restrict-
ing ore-self to a mixture of salt and cayenne—is,
seriously, not unworthy of remembrance. Also
should be borne in mind, by all connoisseurs of
" the rosy," that hint of his about clearing the palate
with hot potatoes, so as to taste the
true flavour of the wine—be it port, sherry, or cham-
pagne, claret, hock, or bucellas, sauterne, maideira,
or burgundy. We don't know precisely which to
prefer, the description of the turtle dinner or of tte
herring breakfast. The perusal of either is sufficient
to give one a sense of repletion. Against the
excruciating latin puns cf Mr. Gingham we must
protest with all earnestness ; and most devotedly
trust we have done with them from this time forth
and for ever. Whether the series just commenced
be from the pen of Lever or Maxwell we know not,
though we suspect one or other of them to be the
inditers of the manuscript. Seeing that in addition
to his scarcely completed novel "Roland Cashel,"
Harry Lorrequer is now adding the labour of his
anonymous masterpiece, " Con Cregan, the Irish Gil
Bias," we cannot but think that even the industry of
Lever would be insufficient to drive three fictions
abreast into circulation at a hand gallop like a Young
Hernandez of Literature. W. H. Maxwell, the
indefatigable, has all the esprit and drollery in him to
conceive the character of Gingham, the scene in the
fast stage coach with the garrulous traveller, the
rencontre with the three Peninsulars, and the trick
played on the two Falmouth boatmen. Joey,
too, is of a genus somewhat akin to the bur-
lesque of Hector O'Halloran and his man Mark
Antony O'Toole ; Mr. Belvidere coming manift stly
from the same fancy which created Captain Blake.
A. continuation of the story will confirm or dissipate,
these conjectures. " The Transportation Question'
is profoundly examined in the opening article for
November, and evidences at once deep reading and
deep reflection. Delta is scarcely as happy as usual
in his metrical contribution, the verses before us being
entitled rather appropriately " Disenchantment."
A. rapid, but by no means superficial, and altogether
a very eulogistic criticism follows on Mr. Herman
Melville's new nautical work called " Redburn," to
which we ourselves shall soon have occasion to
revert. " Peace and War Agitators" is a caustic
allusion to the day dreams about Arbitration ; and
in a paper which follows immediately afterwards
we have an agreeable review of some of the more
conspicuous among the "French Novels of 1849.,,
Christopher North himself comes forth anew in all
his glory, and were his body as hale as his intellect,
we doubt not he would soon fling aside his crutches.
His subtle analysis of the character of Macbeth is $
masterpiece of criticism. It is another jewel in the
bonnet of King Christopher, and another golden
chapter in the history of Blackwood's Magazine.

B ILA i'L.EY.
Bentley's Miscellany has for some time past beet►
remarkable for the number and excellence of its tales

of travel and descriptions of local scenery, mannerS
and customs; and the number for the present month
quite equals any of its predecessors in these partial'
lars. We have the " Venter° of the Ronda Mourr

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tains, an Incident of Spanish Travel," which is ad;
mirably illustrated by Nicholson ; " Portsmouth an°,
its Environs," by Mrs. Ward ; the continuation 0;
" The Bye-lanes and Downs of England;" and
" Recollections of Canada," containing some &dull'
rable descriptions of the scenery of the Ottawa. The
lover of the marvellous and the terrible will read with
breathless interest Mrs. Romer's Egyptian story Of
" A Haunted House;" while the antiquarian will
revel in Alfred Crowquill's amusing gossip about th,o
City of London." The " Note-book of a Coroner
Clerk" is continued, as are the "
ems
moirs of Chateaubriand," and the " Private
Corespondence of George 111. with Bishop Ilurd:'
It appears from this correspondence that it was •tho
King's intention had Bonaparte effected a landing in
180.5 to have placed himself at the head of the troops
intended to oppose the invaders, and to have sent the,
Queen and Princesses to the Episcopal Palace '
Bishop Hurd at Worcester. The memoir which ap-
pears in the present number of Bentley of Dr. Cooke
Taylor, is a kindly written tribute of respect to the
memory of one to whom the readers of the Miscel'
lany have been heretofore indebted for much useful
information conveyed in a most agreeable manner'
Professor Cressy gives us the ninth number of his
series of- the " Decisive Battles of the World," the
Battle of Pultowa being the subject of his present,
commentary. From a foot note at the conclusion 0'
Professor's Creasy's paper we extract the following
suggestive observations on the progress of Russia
" Orators and authors, who have discussed the progres!
of Russia, have often alluded to the similitude betwee"
the modern extension of the Muscovite empire and the
extension of the Roman dominions in ancient times. 13t
attention has scarcely been drawn to the closeness of t"",
parallel between cot; quering Russia and conquering Rolunei
not only in the extent of conquests, but in the means
,0
effecting conquest. The history of Rome during t-a
century and a half which followed the close of the See° f
Punic War, and during which her largest acquisitions .%
territory were made, should be minutely compared
the history of Russia for the last one hundred and fiAiff
years. The main points of similitude can only be hi"(
cated in these pages ; but they deserve the fullest coes;;
drration. Above all, the sixth chapter of Montesquieu,
great treatise on Rome, De la conduite que les Bowl,'
tinrent pour soumettre les potpies,' should be carefullY
studied by every one who watches the career and
of Russia. The classic scholar will remember the state;
craft of the Roman senate, which took care in eve.;
foreign war to appear in the character of a Protect J-4.
Thus Rome protected the lEfolians, and the Greek nitte,";
against Macedon; she protected Bithynia, and ot":„,„
small Asktic states, against the Syrian kings; she pro
tected Numidia against Carthage; and in numerous ofh
instances assumed the same specious character.
Woe to the people whose liberty depends on the C 0 y
tinned forbearance of an over-mighty protector!' BYerif
state which Rome protected was ultimately subjugaste
and absorbed by her. And Russia has been the protector f
Poland—the protector of the Crimea—the protector
Courland—the protector of Georgia, Immeritia, Mil)ghits
iis, the Tcherkessian and Caucasian tribes, &c. She 4e
first protected, and then appropriated them ell. She
protects Moldavia and Wallachia. A few years sges„,l
became the protector of Turkey from Mehemet
this summer she hes made herself the protector of A us"'„,
When the partizans of Russia speak of the disinter
restedness with which she withdrew her protecting troop
from Constantinople, and is now withdrawing them froo,
Hungary, let us here also mark the ominous exactness ;
the parallel between her and Rome. While the ancleh,
world yet contained a number of independent state;
hich might have made a formidable league agnieer
Rome, it she had alarmed them by openly avowing 1,1
ambitious schemes, Rome's favourite policy was seen3l%
disinterestedness and moderation. After her first wil%,
against Philip, after that against Antiochus, and rOOl%
others, victorious Rome promptly withdrew her troda
from the territories which they occupied. She affeler„
to employ her arms only for the good of others. vd
when the favourable moment came, she always fonetea
pretext for marching her legions back into each oleo;
district, and making it a Roman province. Feerz.tioa
moderation, is the only effective check on the avail to.
of such powers as Ancient Rome and Modern 11.eir'eli
The amount of that fear depends on the amount of ti
vigilance and energy which other states choose to 0401
against the common enemy of their freedom
national independence."

FRASER. • tli°
Fraser this month tomahawks M. Theirs 10 .„09
true Fraserian style for the gross misrepresentfiti"
f io,
and exaggerations concerniug the battle of Trs-", the
of which he has been guilty in his " History. nie•
Consulate and Empire'—exaggerations and
sentations which cannot but be considered V 11„,"rials
as he himself in the same work furnishes the uni"over
for his own refutation. Morgan Rattler, in his Poe,
entitled "Of a Philosopher, Patriot, and Poet," of
justice to the greatest genius, the most 0100118 W
honest man, and the purest patriot that Fray; tbus
ever produced, Pierre Jean de Pi:anger, an
does Morgan Rattler speak of him : a
00 A
" I speak, then, of Pierre Jean de riranger;re 00P
say, that if, in Booth, there ever yet was a since of bis
genuine patriot, it was he. The whole tenor its
existence in its resolution and inde
struggles, privations, sacrifices, and suficringh oient
eloquently demonstrates this. No sage °f.i:sopbie
Greece ever led a more simple or purely phaileefrolo
life—one more serene or self included, or inor,e irosionso
the disturbances of inordinate appetites and P taocest
less tarnished by contact with external circutosnd
less of the earth earthy. And yet this patriot that
pendenriost
losopher boasted only to be a song writer! Stit „over
heretofore humble capacity he exercised grest.eir, Leo,
over the French nation than any writer ever off
in any country, or any capacity, or, peradventy!%., the
will again. He got possession of the nationniors ofre
national sentiment, the national soul. 5°4,11 in the
cn every lip. They were heard with delight g!,11, of the
salons of the rich and great, in the convivial 0.1:Torok
witty and learned, in the hut of the pcasant,ntnibou
ca "eau'
of the soldier, the work6hopof the artisan--iii otreeto
the cabaret, the guinguette—in the fields,' 1"

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