The Sun.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1847.

was scarcely one who7l accumulated around his
own head such storms o buse and indignation as
Mr. ROEBUCK. Yet of ill men in th? late House
of Commons there was not one who was
more essential to the cause of popular advance-
ment. The anomaly his position is only
comprehensible when d through the ano-
malies of his charac With no ordinary
abilities, and no mere affec ion of political sincerity,
Mr. ROEBUCK was not unfrequently surprised into
blunders of rhetoric by his impetuosity, and rendered
the object of distrust and jealousy by the occasional
eccentricity of his opposition. The secret of this
impetuosity was his earnestness— of this anta-
gonism, his perpetual anger his earnestness
in the advocacy of the reforms requisite for
the development of the principles of civil
liberty and religions toleration—his anger, always
vigilant and always intense, in the detection and
reprobation of more place-hunting and venality.
Hence his very vices as a Debater were his virtues
as a Tribune. His eloquence was almost always
infected by the virus of vituperation, but
that addiction to the splenetic tones of the
satirist originated in his devotion, in his single-
mindedness, in his readiness to sacrifice even
friendship and popularity wherever he believed
them in his conscience to stand as obstruc-
tions between himself and the national interests.
During the fifteen years of his senatorial career Mr,
ROEBUCK has remained moreover in an intermediate
and isolated position; so that, untramelled by con-
nexion with either party he has been able, without
any dereliction of duty, to assail whomsoever and
whatsoever he might conceive to be culpable. In
this respect he has become the scourge of the legis-
lators—the rhetorical discipline of St. Stephen's.
And for this reason especially he will be missed by
the nation. He will be missed, too, both for his
daring and his usefulness. Of his daring nothing can
be said that would not be superfluous. However
overwhelming the authority, however incomparable
the oratory, however vast the influence, however
withering the sarcasm of his opponent, Mr. ROE-
BUCK ever expressed his dissent with energy and
fearlessness. He attacked Sir ROBERT, he at-
tacked Lord Joux, he attacked STANLEY, he at-
tacked O'CoNnzu., he attacked MACAULAY, he
attacked DISRAELI. Had he been in the Long Parlia-
ment he would have bearded larrox, have flung his
words in the teeth of VANE, and have spat forth his
enmity even against the great OLIVER, whenever it
might have seemed to him that the public prosperity
demanded such evidences of audacity. Had he been in
the National Convention he would have hurled
defiance alike at the heads of VERNIAUD and ROBES..
PIERRE. Of his usefulness nothing need be said,
when his labours for the abolition of Slavery, for the
prevention of the renewal of the East India
Company's Charter, for the abrogation of the Bank
Charter Act, for the extinction of the abuses of the
Court of Chancery, for the advancement of the
Municipal Reform Act, for the establishment of the
Local Courts, &c. &c., are borne in recollection.
Almost his last attitude on the floor of the House of
Commons was consonant with his position, his
audacity, his usefulness, and his ability—when he
impeached the brawling demagogues of Ireland in the
face of the empire, and threatened that the rope
should be cut which bound the islands together, and
that they should be sent adrift upon the ocean of
their miseries. A man of this courage, of this
honesty, and of this intelligence cannot be well
spared from the Councils of the United Kingdom.

We have hope for Ireland ; all that was ever re•
quired on her behalf, to elevate her from her lowly
and wretched condition to a more fitting position in
the scale of nations was, that her children should be
animated by a spirit of unanimity—that they should
lay aside their own petty disputes and party dissen-
sions, and co-operate cordially together for the re-
generation of their common country ; and, above all,
that they should rely on their own activity and their
own strenuous exertions, and endeavour to effect the
amelioration of Ireland by the proper application of
her own internal resources. An earnest effort has at
length been made to achieve these desiderata. The
fearful calamities of the past year, and the portentous
and threatening aspect of the coming winter and
spring, have afforded solemn warnings to the
entire nation that the time for apathy and
negligence has long since gone by, that
the fate of Ireland is trembling in the balance, and that
the greatest zeal and energy must be manifested by
every class in society to preserve their native land
from the perils with which it is environed, and that
if events should turn out unfavourably, none can hope
for exemption from the general ruin. True it is that
last year, on the earnest recommendation of the Li-
berator, who has unhappily been removed from this
life, and can no longer devote his mighty genius, his
extraordinary talents, and his unbounded influence
to the service of, his much-loved country, an attempt
was made to form an Irish party, who should merge
.11 minor differences, and act together in all ques-
tions relating to,,.,trv.and advance its
interests by every means in their power ; hut the
lessons that had already been taught had not been en-
forced with sufficient severity ; the iron had not en-
tered so deeply into their souls as was necessary to era-
dicate their former errors. There was also a question of
the most vital importance, in which the interests of
an influential body, the landed proprietors of the
country, were in apparent opposition to those of the
great body of the people. An efficient poor-law was
urgently required. It was essential that the people
should possess a legal right to a provision out of the
soil on which they had been born. Every considera-
tion, both of natural justice and expediency, ren-
dered it an imperative duty that the Legislature
should pass an enlarged and comprehensive measure
for this purpose. The selfish fears of the landlords
were awakened, they feared the operation of such
a law, they possessed considerable weight amongst
the Irish party ; and the exertions of the body, which
should have been devoted to the general welfare of
all, were expended in endeavouring to fritter away
and impair the efficacy of the dreaded law. As a
natural consequence they lost the confidence of the
people, divisions took place amongst themselves, and
no good results attended the operations of a confede-
ration which, at its first formation, afforded the most
propitious auguries. The crew was disorganized, and
an efficient pilot was wanting, and ere the vessel had
well started on her voyage she struck upon a rock,
and the objects of the expedition were frustrated.
That rock has, however, since been removed, and
there is a well-grounded hope that new adventurers
may be rewarded by a more successful termination
to their labours.

Fifteen years of faithful service to a constituency
cannot protect a consistent politician from the
poisoned barbs of invective and ingratitude. The
electors of Bath have recently afforded an example of
this fact in their abusive opposition and contumelious
rejection of Mr. ROEBUCK. Because their late dis-
tinguished representative had toiled in the cause of
civil and religious liberty during fifteen long years of
his life—because he had elevated himself to dis-
tinction in the House of Commons by advocating the
principles of toleration and reform—because he had
invoked upon himself the malignities and vitupera-
tions of all those adventurers in legislation who
battened upon political jobbing, or acquired a spurious
popularity by becoming the mere mongers and huck-
sterers of humanity, Mr. ROEBUCK might have counted
upon his return to the new Parliament in his old
capacity with the utmost degree of confidence. If
j oatice were an inseparable characteristic of
tie franchie, he might have done so. If
public decency were valued by the inhabi-
tants of the first city in Somersetshire,
he might have done so. He might have done so if
intrepidity, and disinterestedness, and an unyielding
devotion to the interests of the people could be re-
garded as entitling a senator to the regard and admi-
ration of the community. Such, however, is not the
cure. It has been written in the history of the Le-
gislature. It may be read in the very hornhock of
Government--in the alphabetical list of Dodd's Par-
liamentary companion.
After the recent discomfiture of Mr. ROEBUCK by
tliait enfranchised citizens of Bath, it was necessary
tisat some sort of reparation—however inadequate—
s.ionld be made by the more honest and conscientious
of his constituents. That reparation was made on
Thursday. A testimonial laccompanied by a suitable
address, was presented to the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman by a minority
which
appreciated his pro-
longed services within the wallsof St. Stephen's, and
was solicitous on that account to evince its indigna-
tion at his unmerited rejection. The testimonial,
consisting of a sculptured cabinet, containing golden
euwgistic
evidences of gratitude, was accepted - an i
eulogistic
harangue was delivered by the Chairman;it
sponded to in language the pervading suavity of washrieel;
was spiced by the constitutional acerbity of the
speaker, and Mr. ROEBUCK parted from his more
faithful supporters, like KATHLEEN MAVOUENEEN
from her lover, " it may be for years, and it may be
ti)r ever." So may terminate the alliance between
many another constituency, and many another repre-
sentative. It is a melancholy precedent—attesting
that a protracted period of exertion may, although
enhanced by the utmost self-forgetfulness, and the
most indisputable consistency, be repaid in a simi-
lar manner by opprobrium and expulsion. It is
a precedent, indeed, which can in no manner
tend to the advantage of the population, see-
ing that it must necessarily diminish the
incentives to such activity and audacity as that
which has been so unremittingly displayed for fifteen
years by Mr. ROEBUCK, and so ungenerously re-
warded by his quondam well-wishers. The talisman
of electioneering confidence has been broken in a city
whose tutelary genius is—appropriately enough--
BEAU NASH, the Prince of Frivolity and Fickleness.
Of all men in the late 'louse of Commons there

On Thursday the Irish metropolis witnessed a
cheering spectacle—a meeting was held, consisting of
persons of every shade and variety of creed and poli-
tics, and amongst them many Members of the Legis-
lature, at the Rotundo, in obedience to the call
of the Irish Council, and even while we are writing
these observations it proceedings are still continuing.
Two reports, that of the General Council to the meet-
ing which they had convened, and " the First Report
of the Sub-Committee on the relation of Landlord
and Tenant in Ireland," were read, and although
there might have been some improvement on minor
points, both documents, from their tone and cha-
racter, are eminently entitled to our approbation, and
evince a true sense of the national exigencies, and of
the means by which they can be successfully encoun-
tered. The first, as might be expected, touches on
the general nature of the measures that are expedient
and requisite in the present condition of the country,
while the report of the sub-committee enters into
the details of the best method of securing compensa-
tion to a tenant for his improvements, in the
event of his removal, and offers very va-
luable suggestions for a tenant's compensation
Bill. Certain resolutions founded on these reports
were also submitted to the meeting, of which the
three first were carried by large majorities, and the
consideration of the
remainder were postponed to
this day, the meeting having been adjourned for that
purpose.
We regret that our space this day does not permit
our entering into the consideration of these drome
ments and resolutions (which will be found in an-
other part of The Sun) so fully as their importance
merits. We shall, however, briefly state their cha-
racter, and on a future occasion comment at greater
length thereon. The first point alluded to in the
general address referstothfemd
for theosturgentpeaonpe
dlp, dreasns-
ing topic, the supply of food

the means to be adopted to avert starvation
from the people. The letter of Sir JOHN
BURGOYNE, which we some time since pub-
lished in The Sun, affords ample corroboration
of the statement, " that it will again be necessary to
procure and distribute supplies of food to great num-
bers of the destitute population ;" and we believe it
is unhappily too true, that in very many districts
(particularly those on the western coasts), the entire
resources of the several Poor-law unions are wholly
inadequate to meet the wants of the destitute inhabi-
tants, and that unless some efficient means are adopted
to relieve the distress, there must be a recurrence of
the horrors of the past year. It is unnecessary now
to allude to the much disputed point of on whom this
burden should fall, or by whom the necessary funds
should be provided. The Council declare that Ire-
land herself will support her own poor ; we, there-
fore pass, without comment, the observations " that
the necessity has arisen from a calamity, to meet
which the funds of the State are properly
applicable." We shall not attempt to show
how far the principle has been acted on, or
what aid we have afforded and are still
affording to our suffering brethren, but we must ex-
press our approbation of the opinion expressed, " that
further appeals to the Imperial Treasury would but
perpetuate the reproach and evil of national mendi-
cancy," and " that the Irish ought themselves to bear
the charge of supplying the Government with the
means of purchasing whatever may be requisite for
preserving the lives of the people," and theirconse-
quent invitation to the Parliament, now about to as-
semble, to impose a tax on Ireland for that purpose
without delay. This tax they desire should be
raised by an income or property - tax on
Ireland, the proceeds of which should be
applied for the relief of the destitute in aid
of local taxation, which they desire to be main-
tained to such an extent as to give individual
inducement to keep down pauperism. In fact, it very
nearly approaches the principle of a national poor-
rate, and much may be alleged in in its favour, modi-
fied in the manner proposed. They desire also " that
the aged and infirm poor should be comfortably
provided for, but that relief to the able-bodied
should only be given in exchange for labour, and that
in addition to an alms department for the aged and
infirm, each relief establishment should comprise an
industrial department, and school of labour, and to
be made as far as possible to support its own ex-
pense." They then allude to the necessity of a law for
securing oompensation to tenants for their improve-
ments, and also to the laudable efforts of the Royal
Flax Improvement Society, to the Irish Fishery
Company, which is about to receive a charter, and
to the means of encouraging Irish manufactures.
Their last suggestion is, however, by far the
most important, and shows that they have
become alive to the real cause of the evils
by which not !only Ireland, but this country
also, has been so grievously injured—viz.,
a deficient and inadequate circulation—they, there-
fore, state " that an additional currency is necessary,"
and, they suggest " the expediency of taking some steps
to secure an issue of Government debentures for the
country ;" in other words, what we have so repeatedly
demanded, the issue of national notes, receivable in
payment of every species of taxation, and secured on
all the resources of the country.

A letter from Constantinople, of the 17th, says—
" The news from Albania is more and more satis-
factory. The rebels have been dispersed on all
points. The Turkish troops are masters of all the
positions, and it only remains to seize the chiefs of
the revolt. Although this result has not yet been
obtained, the Greek papers themselves consider the
affairs of Albania as terminated."

It is stated in a letter from Constantinople, of the
17th' ult., that the news of the cholera was very
satisfactory. With the exception of Trebizonde, where
not more than three or four attacks per day took
place, the disease had ceased its ravages on all the
coast of the Black Sea.

On the 24th the Diet of the united kingdom of
Croatia, Esclavonia, and Dalmatia unanimously re-
solved to declare the language of those coutitilcs to
be the official language, and to decree that they be
used hereafter respectively to the exclusion of all other
languages in all public, judicial, and administrative
affairs in the three kingdoms, with the single ex-
ception of diplomatic and judicial relations with the
kingdom of Hungary, in which they will continue to
use Latin, in conformity with the statute of 1805.
This measure has produced the most unbounded joy.

A letter from Berne of the 31st, says—
" Decisions by the Diet are following each other
with vast rapidity. The day before yesterday it re-
jected the soi-disant conciliatory propositions of the
deputies of the Sonderbund, which was followed by
the abrupt departure of those gentlemen. Yesterday
it issued a summons to the state of Neufchatel to
furnish its federal contingent, under pain of coercive
measures, and an invitation to the cantons of the
majority to call out and embody their reserves, and
to-morrow or the day after we are to have the decree
for enforcing the execution of these measures. There
is a general aspect of solemnity on all countenances,
for every one is expecting serious events. The
spirit of the federal troops is excellent. Our sol-
diers, no doubt, see with pain the approach of a
conflict with their fellow- citizens, but they feel that at
the point to which affairs are come they have nothing
left but to do their duty bravely in supporting the
decisions of the majority. As to the resistance of
Neufchatel, although it be sanctioned by the legis-
lative authority, with a majority of 73 to 14, every
one is persuaded that it will not be held out against
the threat of military occupation, and that this prin-
cipality of a canton will get nothing but its protesta-
tions. On the close of the sitting, at eight o'clock, an
estafette was sent off to Neufchatel with the resolu-
tion of the Diet. I told you yesterday that the en-
voys of the Cabinets of the Holy Alliance would re-
move from Switzerland as soon as the executory de-
cree was pronounced. I know not whether the French,
English, and Spanish Ministers will follow this ex-
ample, but Mr. Peel has announced that he is shortly to
receive another destination. The number of the Federal
army ordered out is 58,000 men, without comprising
the reserve, which has been ordered to be embodied,
with the view only of guarding against the old notion
of an intervention. The accounts from the Vaudoise
frontier of the Valais represent that in that quarter
hostilities are imminent. A simple bridge alone
separates the people of the cantons, who burn to try
their strength against each other. The Executive
Council of Berne has to-day ordered to be called out
four battalions of infantry, two companies of cura-
bineers, and a company of artillery from the reserve,
and placed them under the command of M. Ochsen-
bein. They will be employed both in guarding the
canton and in supporting the military operations of
the federal commander-in-chief, General Dufoul.
They are to be in the pay of the Confederation. This
call is independent of the fourteen battalions of 4ite,
which have been embodied within the last week."
In another letter of the same date we find the fol-
lowing :

"We have this moment learnt that the Govern-
ment of Appenzell (Inner Rhodes) has come to the
same resolution as Neufchatel, and refuses to place its
contingent at the disposal of the twelve, and to make
an appeal to the Landsgeineinde if any new requisition
is made. The determination of Bale Town is not yet
known."

A letter from Berne of the Ist states, that the
Council of Neufchatel has recognised the right of the
Vorort to call upon it to hold its contingent in readi-
ness, but refused to allow it to act against the Sonder-
bund without a distinct order to that effect from the
legislative body. This letter mentions a report of a
collision between the troops of the Diet and those of
the Soiderbund, near St. Maurice, but it does not
appear to be entitled to credit.

It was reported that the POPE'S Nuncio at
Lucerne would require the Jesuits to withdraw, and
thus put an end to the contest.
General DUFOUR, the Commander-in-Chief of the
Federal troops, has fixed the sth of November for the
commencement of hostilities.

The Patria of Florence has the following from
Fivizzano, dated Oct. 2.6 :—" The whole of the Civic
Guard are in motion ; every gate is guarded, every
house provided. An occurrence of yesterday proves
that courage and resolution are equal to the prepara-
tions. A rumour spread that the troops of Modena
were near, upon which the whole population rose ;
drums beat, and the toscin was sounded. The Civic
Guard was reinforced by private individuals ; every
species of arms was had recourse to; the po cyder-
mapzine was opened ; thousands of cartridges were
distributed. The whole people, transformed into an
army, marched out of the town, and occupied the best
points to repulse the invaders , but the rumour was
false ; no enemy appeared. The Eivizzanese left

Madrid papers of the 30th ult. have arrived.

tfip SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENI Ne, NOVEMBER 6,

videttes at the advanced posts, and returned to the
town in good order, determined to defend it." The
same journal adds, that a body of Modenese troops
having obtained permission of the Tuscan Govern-
ment to cross the frontier on their way to Massa, did
military honours to a body of Civic Guard from
Fi-
vizzano, whom they met on their way.
A letter from Florence, of the 28th ult., states that
the French squadron in the Gulf of Spezzia had, on the
25th, been increased to five ships of the line and three
steam-frigates. The same letter informs us that the
force of 200 men and four pieces of artillery sent by
the Duke of MODENA to take possession of Fivizzano,
had, in consequence of the determination of the
people of that town to resist their entry, been ordered
to Massa, where they have arrived.
The Comercio of Rome says that on the 12th ult.
the dragoons of Parma had an affray with the
Austrians, in which the people took the part of the
former. Eight individuals were arrested, but seven
of these were eventually rescued by the people.
It is said that the POPE has revoked the appoint-
ment of the Bishop of Palau, a decided partisan of
the Austrian policy, and who is said to have taken an
active part in the intrigues against the Pontifical
Government.

The Austrians appear less than ever disposed to
evacuate Ferrara. An order from the Aulic Council
at Vienna has been received, commanding that the
works necessary for rendering the buildings used as
barracks more habitable should be forthwith executeds,
At the same time orders have been sent to Venice to
supply the Austrian troops at Ferrara with various
military stores.

The King of SARDINIA has published an edict abo.
lishing several excluAve privileges.

NARVAEZ is exceedingly anxious to get rid of Ros
DR OLANO and of CORDOVA, now they have served
his turn, and brought him into power ; but the wor-
thies having no wish to share the fate of their late
colleagues, absolutely refuse to resign until specially
ordered to do so by her MAJESTY. Several arrests
have taken place of individuals charged with being
engaged in a Montemolinist conspiracy.
MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 80.—The Three per Cents.
26j, at fifty days ; Four per Cents. 15f ; Five per
Cents. 15i ; Debt without Interest, .si, paper;
Coupons 11i ; Exchange on London, 48f. 85c.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.

The Debats has the following on the subject of the
loan :

" It appears very'positive that the council of the'Bank
has determined to take 25,000,000 E of the new loan.
The bank has sold its renter when it has had need to
do it; it purchases at present, because its disposable
capital has acquired propoirtions more than sufficient ;
and this is an operation perfectly simple and legiti-
mate. It is not only a good one for thelßank, which is
not assuredly the principal object which it ought to
propose to itself; but who does not see that, under
present circumstances,it is good for everybody ? For
the State first of all, which will have conditions:so
much the better, from the persons interested in the
loan being more numerous and richer ; for trade
afterwards, to which the loan adjudged under bad
conditions would be much more fatal than the main-
tenance of the discount at the present rate during
some months. We know not if the rumour which
attributes to the Caisse des Depots the project to
take also an interest in the loan be as well founded
as that which concerns the bank. But we avow
that the objections which:are:made to this project seem
to us even less founded than those which are made
against the resolution of the Bank."

It is a curious fact that as yet not a single applica-
tion has been made to any Paris banker by any
foreigner, or by any inhabitant of the French pro-
♦inces, for any portion of the loan.

The KING held a Cabinet Council on Wednesday,
and afterwards gave audience to several foreign di-
plomatists.
The Duchess of AUMALE left St. Cloud on Wed-
nesday, and proceeded to Bourges by railway en route
to Toulon, where she will embark for Algiers to
join the Duke. Her Royal Highness is accompanied
by her:son, the young Prince DE CONDE. She is
expected to embark for Toulon on the nth.

The Mussulman authorities of Algiers, wishing to
show a mark of respect to the Duke D'AUMALE, de-
terminer to give in...., grand ball. Stewards were
selected from amongst the most distinguished families
to make the necessary arrangements, and the event
took place on the 28th ultimo, is the hotel which
belongs to the family of MUSTAPIIA-PACHA. The
court of the building was roofed in, and the marble
covered over with boards. The fountain in the
centre was allowed to stand, and poured its waters
into a rich collection of marine plants. Flags, dra-
peries, shrubs, flowers, and coloured silks orna-
mented the room. A seat of honour was fixed at one
end for the Prince, and over it were inscribed some
verses in the Arabian language, expressive of the joy
felt by the population at the arrival of the Prince to
the colony. About a thousand invitations had been
distributed, but the number of persons present was
far greater. About half-past eight the Duke arrived
with a numerous suite, and was received at the en-
trance of the building with great ceremony by the
stewards. The moment he entered the room a burst
of Turkish music was heard, and continued for some
moments. On its ceasing the French orchestra struck
up, and dancing commenced. The Prince seemed
highly pleased with all the arrangements, and con-
versed repeatedly with the Mussulmans present. He
withdrew about twelve o'clock, after again expressing
his gratification at the fête. Refreshments were
handed about in great profusion, and dancing con-
tinued until three o'clock in the morning, when the
company withdrew.

The vintage, which is now nearly closed, has been
the most abundant ever known, and the wine is of
excellent quality. The crops of grapes have been so
large that in some places one•fonrth of the crop has
been suffered to perish, from the impossibility of pro-
curing casks for the wine.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Thursday at 76f. 90c. ; the Five per Cents., 116 f.
40c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,187 f. 50c. ;
Rouen, 916 f. 25c, ; Havre, 520 f. ; Great Nor-
thern, 545 f. ; Avignon, 542 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 547 f. 50c.;
Bordeaux, 472 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 355 f. ; Dieppe;
250 f. ; Bask, 152 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 422 f.
50c.; Tours and Nantes, 4001.; Paris and Lyons,
411 f. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon, 472 f. 50c. ; Belgian
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 504 ; Spanish Three per
Cents., 28i ; Ditto Domestic Debt, 244.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NovKMaEa 5.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14—Northern of France, 111h—
Orleans and Bordeaux, s—Paris and Lyons, s%—Paris and
Strasbourg, 414—Sambre and Meuse, s—West Flanders 1 ih

DEATH OF THE ARCHBISHOP

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool has been heavy
throughout the week, the decline being 1-31c1. per lb. The
sales yesterday were 4,000 bales, and for the week
21,580 bales. Stock 408,010 bales.
Railway Shares were again rather better.
The following are the most interesting changes in the
Bank of England return to the 30th ult., compared with
that to the previous Saturday

Notes issued now
Increase
Rest, now

£22,009,490
144,045
3,537,819

Increase

23,384

Public deposits now 4,696,032

Decrease..

70,362
Other deposits now
Increase
Seven day and other bills now 931,335
Decrease 15,678
Government Securities 10,613,607
Decrease 286,100
Other Securities now 20,409,897
Increase 942,769
Notes now ....
Decrease . . 370,530
Gold and Silver Coin
Decrease
Bullion now 8,438,874
Increase
Active circulation now 20,832,750
Increase
The Bank, it will be seen, was enabled greatly to ex-
tend its advances upon bills, &c., and to make the re-
serve of notes available for the purpose. The increase
in the bullion almost sufficed to meet the enlarged note
issues, and thus, as was anticipated, the confidence
engendered by the knowledge that the Bank possessed
increased powers, has almost rendered them unnecessary.
Notwithstanding this, we should remark, however, that
the Bank has strained too much to demonstrate how
well it can get on without infringing Peel's Bill.
More mishaps are talked of in the West India
trade, but we refrain from entering into any of the cir-
cumstances bruited about by the tale bearers, of whom
there are many in the City eager in their vocation.
We regret to learn that the advices from Manchester
this morning are somewhat of a discouraging character.
There are either four or five failures spoken of, but
we do not hear that they are for any very considerable
amount, separately or aggregately.
The Foreign Exchanges were, upon the whole, steady
yesterday afternoon.
There are no colonial arrivals in the City this
morning.
Consols for the Account are firm at 83k, and for Money
at 834. There have been some good purchases in
money stock, as is said, for parties who have sold out
of the savings' banks, and invested in Consols or Re-
duced, to get an increased rate of interest. The discount
upon Exchequer-bills is 15s. to 12s. Bank Stock holds
up, as well as East India Stock.
More transactions have occurred too in the Foreign
Funds, at the following values :—For Brazilian, 77; for
Mexican, 154; for Old Portuguese, 76; for the Four per
Cents., 201; for Russian, 1044; for Spanish Five per
Cents., 164; for the Three per Cents., 264; the French
Five per Cents., at 115 f. 25c.; and Dutch Four per
Cents. and Four per Cent. Dutch Certificates, lf
Great Western Railway Shares are up to 100. In
several other of this sort of investment there is more
business doing to-day.

-4 ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns .4.) ii 82%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.... 831% 82% 83% 83%
New 314 per Cent. Anns . . 831 i 82% 832 83%
Long Anns. to expire Jan. 1860 ... BON 8%
India Stock 230 230
India Bonds, 1,0001 —
Ditto under 1,0001... — 30 dis
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
.
1,000/.
500/
Small
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FDNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Brazilian Bonds 77
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 15%
Portuguese 5 per Cents. 76
Ditto, 4 per Cent
Russian Bonds ......... 1041,4
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account..... ......... ri-
Venezuela Bonds, 2 jAi per Cent

15%
76
203/4
104%
16%
3%
26%
263/4
34%

OP YORK.
(From the York Herald of this day.)
The great bell of our cathedral is tolling. The
Archbishop has passed from time t. eternity. The
mournful event took place a little before one o'clock
yesterday, at the Palace, Bisbopthorpe, near this city.
His Grace's death was both sudden and unexpected,
having been in York Minster on Tuesday, apparently
in his usual state of health. On Wednesday he was
found laid on his bed in a state of exhaustion, having
had a slight fit. Dr. Ferguson, his London physi-
cian, was immediately sent for, but only arrived at
the palace yesterday morning, when his services were
of no avail.

, -74
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent. llsf. 25c. 115 f. 25c.
F,,rehange 2lf. 80c. 25f. 80c.
Belgian 4% per Uent
Dutch, 21/2 per Cent., 12 Guild —
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 81143/1
PAID. 82
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES,
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2% —
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2% —
Belfast & County Down 10 ...... ....... „
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 .....1314
Birming., Wolverlepton,
and Stour Valley... .. 8 ......
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.— 73/4 .
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5
Bristol and Exeter 75

131 i
SIA

Ditto, Thirds
Buckinghamshire 101. 4s 3% di5..—...... 31/2 dis
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares 33%
Ditto, Clydesdale June 50
Chester and Holyhead... 371,Y' ...
Ditto, Preference 8
Clarence .784
-
Do. let Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. lO .....
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 20
Dundalk & Enniskillen 15
East Anglia, 25/., L. &
E. and L. and D....... 25 ...... -- .........
Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18
Do., 31.105., E. &H. 1
Easter,' Counties
Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1. 61.135. 4d...
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 6/. 135.4 d... ... —
Do., York Extension.. 10 ......
Do., North. & Eastern 50 ......
Do., Quarters
Do., New 23
Eastein Union 5O
.. ... ........ •••

Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/s —
Ditto, Thirds ... l3s. 4d

-
14%

Do., (guar. 6 percent)
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters... 3%
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ••••••
Ditto Half Shares ... 15
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
' Edinburgh & Northern.. 20 - ......... ••..••
Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport ..... ... 7 ......
Ditto, ditto, New . ... 1% —
Edinburgh and Perth... 2
Ditto Extension los.
Exeter:Yeovil, & Dorch. 2%
Ditto, New
' Glasgow Dumfries, and
Carlisle 81.65. 8d
Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ......
Ditto, New .. 40 . —
Do. Preference Consol. 12;4--
Great Northern 8
Do., London and York 2 %.. ...
Great South. and West
(Ireland)
Great North of England..loo
Ditto, New 40/ 5
Ditto, New 301.
Ditto, New 15/. ...... ... 11,4 — ..
Great Western.
Ditto, 1,4 Shares .. 50
Ditto, % Shares ...... 15
Ditto, Fifths
Ditto, New 17/
Huddersfield & Blanches. 22 ...... ........ .... .•
Ditto, Thirds ••• -
Hull and Selby 5O .. ... . ...... ......
Ditto, Half Shares 25 ••• •
Ditto, 4 Shares....... 12%
Ipswich& Bury St. Edm. 15 ~....
Do., do., and Norwich 15
Do., do., Extens.Scrip
(late Camb. & Ely)... 2%
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 82
Ditto 1.4 Shares . ... 38
Do. Quarter Shares... 14%
Do. Fifths 6%..... 6 ..... .........
Do. Sixteenths 6%
Do. Thirds (Reg.)....101. 4s. ...
Do. Liverp. and Bury 34
Ditto '4 (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheff.) 33
Do.( Wakefield, Ponte-
fract. & Goole
Do. ( W. Riding Union) 4/. 2s
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 —
Do. 14 Shares (A) 9
Ditto ditto (B) ... 1%
Leeds and Bradford 5O -
Leicester and Bedford... 16s.
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 374 — ...... .........
Do., Branch 1/2 Shares 1214~.
Do. New Branch( blue) 2% — ......... ......
--
Do. Extension (green) 2%..
••••
Do. Ne wExten. (pink) 2%
Leeds arid Thirsk 36
Ditto, New 17% •••••••. ...... _
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%. ..„
_..
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport .... .... ...... 2 ....
Liverp., Mnchstr& New
castle Junction 2IA ..... _
London and Blackwall..l6/. 13s. 4d.
„, 5
Do. New, No. 1
Do. New, No. 2 .. 3/ 13s. 4d.... 1% dia l% die.
Do. Extension l5 ......
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O
403 A% 41 ...... 4114

The Right Hon. and Most Reverend Edward
Harcourt, D.D., D.C.L., was primate and metropG-
litan of England, and eighty-third archishop of this
diocese. His late Grace was born in 1757, conse-
quently was in his 91st year, and we believe the 41st
of his translation. The deceased was son of the first
Lord Vernon, by his third wife, third daughter of the
Hon. Simon Harcourt. He was educated at West-
minster school, and afterwards removed to Christ's
Church, Oxford. He was a Fellow of All Soul's
College, and Prebendary of Gloucester. He married
in 1784 the third daughter of the first Marquis of
Stafford (she died in 1832) and assumed the surname
of Harcourt on inheriting the estates of that family.
He was appointed a canon of Christ's Church in 1785,
and was a Governor of the Charter House, and of
King's College, London. lie was consecrated Bishop
of Carlisle in 1790—was translated to York in 1807,
and was patron of 62 livings.
The deceased was highly respected by all sects and
parties. As a religious teacher his precepts were clear
and forcible, and they were fully supported by a
practice highly consistent.

21%

641/2

The Earl of Dalhousie had an interview yesterday
with Lord John Russell. ➢ir. Lindsay had also an
interview with the Noble Lord.

...
6%

33
10%
534

Do. Consol. Eighths.. 30
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9
Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50
London and Grer.;nwich 12115 s 4d —
Ditto, Preferi,nee ... 18/1;s 2d.
London and N. Western 100
Do., Quarters L. & B. 17
Do., do., New 2
Ditto Fifths
Do. 14 Shares (G. J.) 25
Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 101. (b 1 & B.) A. 71%
Do. 10/. (11. & B.) B. 71/2 lO3/4
Do. 10/. M. & B.) C. 1
Lond. & S.Western 41/. 6s. 8d 54% 55%
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. New 50/. .. ..... 32%.. _
Do. New 401.
Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50
Ditto ditto .... 40
Ditto, Thirds 6/. 13s. 4d....
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... c... 1%......
Londonderry&C.deraine 27%.
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 23%......
Manaester,Buxton,and
Matlo k... .....
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 •••
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25
Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7% —
Ditto and Grimsby.... 25
Ditto ditto . ........ 7
Ditto ditto .. 4% — ........

.152 151 153
28

10:-%
551/2

39

Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire 7%
Manchest. & Southampt. 2 1,4.•••••
Mildand
Do. Consolidated Pref.100
Do. 401. Shares
Do. 501. Shares lO
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Midland Consol. Brist. &
Binning., 6 per cent.loo ......
Midlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 ...... ... •••
Ditto, ditto 74 98 — .•••••••• —
Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar. 50 ......
Midland Great Western
Irish 3O
Newcastle and Carlisle...100
Do. Quarters 5O .... .. —
Newmrket&Chesterford 13%
Do. Extension .........21. 125....
Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford . 4 ......
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Rostrevor
Norfolk .......... ........ —.lOO
Do. New 20/. - .........» •
Do. Extension -

Do. Scrip, 1847, North
of Norfolk
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2
Northern Counties Union 4 —
North British . ....... ... 25
Do. Half Shares 12%......
Do. Quarters 434 4 ...
Do. Extension
Ditto Thirds
North Staffordshire 7% ...... 7% 7
North Wales
North Western 6
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 35 ...
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Royston and Ilitchin ... 1% — ... ........ .•
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 17% — . ....
Ditto, New 10
Sheffield, Rotherham,
and Goole
Shrewsbury- and Birm... 6
Ditto ditto, Class B. 3
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) l6
Ditto Halves ... ditto 8
Ditto Oswestry ...... 12
Ditto New
Shrewsbury and Herefd 2 ......
Shropshire Union
South Devon
Do. Preference - •••• •-• ••••
South Staffordshire 21. 125....
South Eastern & Dover 33% 273' 28
Do., No. 1 20
Do~ Nc, 2.
Do., No. 3.. ..... ...... 15 ......
Do~ No. 4
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal. ... 4
Taw Vale Extension ... 4
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway l7l/8 ......
Vale of Neath ... .. 4
Waterford and Kilkenny 13 %.,.... ..
Waterford and Limerick 3.i —
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
West Cornwall 4 ... .
Whitehaven & Furness 8 —
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western ..... ... 525. —
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth .. ..... 30
York, Newc.astle,... and
Berwick. .... .. ......... 25
Do. Original New and
Berwick .. .... ...... 25
Do. North Shields Pur. 25
Do. Extension No. 1. 10 -- ........ ••• ••
Do. do. No. 2......... 10
Do. G.N.E.Preference 8
York and North Midland 50
Ditto, Preference
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

2%

313%

103/4
8%
75

1514

Anglo. Belgian.— 4
Barbadoes 1
Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ......
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) ... 14
Central of Spain ... . ... 2
Ceylon
Demerara 2% —
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and
Madras
Dutch Rhenish 7
East Indian ... ..... .... ss.
Great Indian Peninsular ss.
Great Southern of Madras ss.
(eat Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada... 314
Italian and Austrian.... 4 .• —
Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1
Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . •••••• • .......
Luxembourg. 6
Lyons and Avignon 5 —
Madras
Madras. Nellore, and
Arcot %
Madrid and Valentia ..„ 2 ... —
Namur and Liege
Northern of France....... 10 ....• 111/
Orleans and Bordeaux 6 —
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d
Paris and Lyons .. 10 ......
Paris and Orleans 2O .. ...
Pans and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg 8
ta
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse ...... 16 .... 51% 4% 5 %
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
['ours and Nantes ....,. 8
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-

den, and Elasseit...;;.. 12
Trinidad
West Flanders ...... 8
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
London Joint Stock
British North American 50
Colonial
Commercial of London 20
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
Ditto,New
London & Westminster. 20
Ditto New... ..... 13 .. ••• .........
National Prov. England. 35
Ditto, New ...... ..... 10
National of Ireland 221/2...... ...
Union of Australia

Ditto,New... ... 21/2 •••••• • ••••
Union of London.... lO ...... ...
Union of Madrid 40

-
VA

111/2
4

-
6 V,

MINES.

Anglo Mexican
Galvanized Iron
Real Del Monte, Unreg.

_
2/4

-au

PLimouTfi, Nov. ZaUrti, of rweilhafil. we( t
) on shore on the Battery Reet; Sutton Pool, but was at
sisted off without apparent damage.

MARKET NEWS.-(T lIIS DAY.)
C OVENT-GARDEN.
Potatoes, 53 to 6s 3d per cwt.; Apples, is to 3s ; and
Pears, 23 3d to 5s 6d, per half-sieve ; Walnuts, 6d
to Is per hundred ; Greens, is 3d to ,2s ; Turnips,
is 8d to 2s 3d; Leeks, Is 2d to ls 9d ; Onions, is 6d to
2s 3d; and Carrots, 2s 6d to 4s per dozen bunches ;
Red Cabbages, 2s to 5s 6d ; White ditto, 9d to Is ;
and Cauliflowers. 2s to 3sild per dozen; Pine Apples,
4s 64 to 8s each; Celery, 8d to Is 6d; and Horse-radish,
Is 64 to 4s ; and Brocoli 9d to is per bundle; Mush-
rooms, 5s to 8s per bushel; Hothouse Grapes, 2s to
4s; Out-door ditto, 31 to 8d ; Filberts, 44 to 9d, and
Cob-nuts, 6d to 8d per lb ; Spinach, Is 8d to 2s 64 per
sieve.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Nov. 6.—Wind this day at noon S.S.W.,
light breeze and rainy.
DEAL, Nov. s.—Wind S.W. to S.S.W.—Arrd. Re-
gina, Krieft, Monte Video; Jesse, David's Xabia ; Me-
diator, Stark, New York; British Tar, Storey, Mira-
michi. Sid. Dale Park, Sierra Leone. Arrd. from the
River and sld. Elienora, Ceylon; Crusader, St. Thomas;
Duke of Wellington, Cadiz and Calcutta. The Virginius
was passed, waterlogged and abandoned, 17th ult., lat.
46 N. long. 40 W., by the British Tar, arrd. in the
Downs. Put back her Majesty's ship Asia, for Sydney.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov s.—Wind S.E. to S.S.W.—Arrd.
Delia, Adey, Quebec.
OFF THE NEEDLES, Nov. 2.—Arrd. Laurel, Knaeston,
Quebec ; 3d, Rory O'More, Craigie, ditto.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. s.—Wind W.—Arrd. Mary
S eaton, Baldwin, Quebec.
OFF THE LIZARD.—Lady Katherine Barbum, Smith,
Trinidad.
IN THE CHANNEL.—Britannia, Symonds, Barbadoes,
for Bristol.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. s.—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W.—Arrd.
Magellan, llindmarsh, Callao; Sandford. Nelson, De-
merara. Sid. Lord Sandon, New Orleans; Elizabeth,
New Orleans ; Rialto, New Orleans ; Joseph Porter,
Charleston, Frances, Boston; Susannah, Halifax; Fun-
chal, Newfoundland. Off port, Emma, schooner.
TEIGNMOUTH, Nov. s.—Arrd. Nancy, Terrell, La-
brador.
DARTMOUTH, Nov. s.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Jane,
Welsh, Labrador.
GREENOCK, Nov. 4.—Arrd. Abercrombie, Quebec.
DUBLIN, Nov. 3. —Arrd. Sir Henry Pottinger, Low,
Quebec. Sid. Kate Kearney, St. John's, New Brunswick.
BELFAST, Nov. 3.—Arrd. Gem, Montgomery, St.
Stephens, New Brunswick.
SUNDERLAND, Nov. 4.—Arrd. Horatio, Quebec.
BRISTOL, Nov. s.—St. Vincent, Furlong, Jamaica
Sld. Sybella, Jamaica.
OFF SALCOMBE, Nov. 4.—Princess Royal, Jenner,
Rio Janeiro ; Resolution, Gates, Quebec.
NEWPORT, Nov. 4.—Arrd. Eliza, Jones, Quebec,
with loss of bulwarks, &c. Sid. James, Bermuda. A
large boat, painted red, bottom up, and several broken
spars, were passed by the Eliza.
On lima, Nov. 4.—Aurora, Quebec,

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lionee that it Was moat desirable that ft should be
brought forward for argument, and the Learned
Counsel had better, therefore, take a rule.
Rule granted.
No other cases of any importance were heard by
the Court during the morning.

JANE EYRE.

LITERATURE.

An Autobiogravhy. Edited by Currer
Bell. Three Vols.

Jane, who is poor and dependent, wishes to obtain
some employment, and St. John offers her a very
humble one, the direction of an obscure village school.
But, insignificant as the situation seems, the sublime
and beautiful sentiments in which the proffer is made
at cnce elevate it to its true position. " Since lam
myself poor and obscure," he says, " I can offer you
but a service of poverty and obscurity. You may
even think it degrading, for your habits are what the
world calls refined, your tastes lean to the ideal ; but
I consider that no service degrades that can better
our race. I hold that the more arid and un-
reclaimed the soil where the Christian labourer's task
of tillage is appointed him, the scantier the meed his
toil brings, the higher the honour. This, under such
circumstances, is the destiny of the pioneer, and the
first pioneers of the Gospel were the Apostles
—their captain was Jesus the Redeemer him-
self." Were it not, as we have said, for
his sternness and coldness, both external and
internal, St. John Rivers presents an almost perfect
character, bearing some resemblance, in his contempt
of worldly, conventionalities, in his self.denial
and relinquishment of earthly affections, to
those Christian heroes of former times who
earned the appellation of saints ; yet, perhaps,
if we come to compare them closely, one great diffe-
rence is perceptible. St. John, good Christian
though he was, appears to have triumphed over his
affections rather by the force of an indomitable self-
command—by a vigorous effort uprooting earthly
passion from his heart, while, on the contrary, with
those to whom we have compared him, the light of
the human love was not annihilated by extinction,
but rendered powerless by the superior radiance of
the divine—as the stars shine always, yet are in-
visible in the daylight. We have lingered too long
over the character of St. John, but it forms in many
respects a most interesting study, and in some, per-
haps, an excellent example. Various adventures
befal Jane Eyre ; she of course again meets Mr.
Rochester, but under most melancholy circum-
stances—he is blind. This bereavement, while it
grieves her to the heart, naturally increases her
affection, and the account of her tender attention and
playful attempts to restore him to cheerfulness, are
necessarily interesting. But we need follow her
fortunes no further; and we may conclude as we
commenced, by observing that, notwithstanding its
imperfections—and it has many—the "Autobio-
graphy of Jane Eyre" is full of interest.

Whatever the blemishes or imperfection; of this work
—and what work in three volumes is quite free from
them ?—it is certainly full of interest and not deficient
in originality, qualities which—for a novel especially
—are no small recommendation. Its interesting
character is, to a certain extent, to be attributed to its
form ; a biography—and especially an autobiography
—must necessarily, unless ill-arranged and ill-nar-
rated, possess some peculiar points of attraction.
Generalization destroys interest ; the more our powers
of observation are concentrated the greater is the
pleasure and the benefit that we derive from them.
Whatever were the ill effects of what has been called
the "star-system" upon the stage, by which the
chief interest of a play was concentrated in the person
of its hero, it is certain that the pleasure of the
audience, for the time being, was in nowise di-
minished by the practice. On the contrary, be-
coming peculiarly interested in an individual, they
took an almost personal concern in everything con-
nected with him and his affairs. Some such
sentiments are experienced by the readers of
biographies; they become for the time personally
associated with those whose fortunes they are, in
imagination, following, and they are naturally dis-
posed to sympathise with emotions of which they are
constituted as it were the sole confidantes. Being an
autobiography, then, the history of Jane Eyre pos-
sesses these attractive qualities, and they are consi-
derably enhanced by the very natural and simple
manner in which the various adventures are narrated,
and the very vigorous way in which feelings and
passions are portrayed. But perhaps the characte-
ristic which is most deserving of commendation is
the very admirable delineation and nice discrimina-
tion of character which it reveals. Jane Eyre, the
heroine, is of course drawn at full length, but most of
the minor personages (as is natural in a biography)
are merely sketched ; these sketches are, however, of
that kind in which every line tells, and in which a
few strokes convey as perfect a resemblance as the most
elaborate portrait. Some portions of the tale are not
of a very pleasing character, and many, very many, of
the incidents are most unnatural. The story, more-
over, as a whole has no definite object, it lays
down no main principle, carries out no one idea; as
we have said, it is not without imperfections. Never-
theless, if it aim after no particular object, it cer-
tainly attains a not unimportant one—namely, the en-
tertainment of the reader during its perusal ; and if it
have no one great principle it view, it contains many
sublime and beautiful thoughts, and inculcates some
most ennobling sentiments. If many of the incidents
of the tale are unnatural, that fault is in some degree
atoned for by their novelty. In the present day espe-
cially, when we are so often wearied by " thrice-told
tales," it is almost a relief to have something new, even if
not quite within the bounds of probability. Jane
Eyre is a friendless orphan, committed by her rela-
tions to a sort of charitable institution, from which,
on her education being completed, she emerges as a
governess. Owing to her friendless and solitary life,
she has early acquired a habit of thinking for herself,
and like all persons much accustomed to thinking, she
exhibits a strongly marked individuality of character.
We do not propose to follow the young governess
through all her wanderings, but merely to notice two
scenes in which she takes part, and in which she be-
comes associated with two rather striking characters.
Although one of that unhappy sisterhood, the ordi-
nary troubles of a governess 's life are quite unknown
to Janc,—her first situation is her last. Engaged as
the instructress of a little French girl at the house of
her guardian, Mr. Rochester, a gentleman consider-
ably older than herself, and of very peculiar tempera-
ment, Jane excites his attention, and ultimately wins
his affection. She is about to become his wife, when
it is discovered that he has a wife still living who is a
maniac, and consequently whose existence he endea-
vours to keep a secret. Jane is tenderly attached
to Mr. Rochester, and this intelligence, and
the separation which it occasions, are necessa-
rily most painful to her. She is next do-
mesticated with some newly-discovered cousins, one
of whom St. John Rivers is a most interesting cha-
racter admirably described. A most interesting
character, and were it not for a certain coldness of
manner and deficiency of heart, a most beautiful and
exemplary character is this St. John. A clergyman,
but naturally of a most ambitious and enterprising
temperament, his energy and ambition are all devoted
to advancing the sacred cause in which he has em-
barked. He becomes a missionary, and prepares to
leave home, and friends, and country, to carry the
sacred message among the unbelievers. His sister
describes him as " inexorable as death," and great in-
deed is his self-command and his perseverance in his
self-appointed course ; nevertheless it is not achieved
without a struggle. Love, which like death knows
no distinctions, but tyrannises over all alike, the strong
as well as the feeble, attempts to bend him from
his purpose. The beautiful Rosamond Oliver, en-
dowed, of course, with a thousand nameless perfections,
is beloved by him and not in vain. Yet even while

WORSHIP-SrREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Charles Coggan, a mechanic, was charged with
brutally assaulting a married female named Sarah
Ray, in the public street.
Mrs. Ray stated that she was proceeding along
Shoredi.tch last evening at about five o'clock, when she
observed the defendant, struggling to release himself
from his friend and as he did so he ran and gave her
such a blow in the breast as to knock her violently
against the wall, and, he would have repeated the
blow, but for the interference of his friend. She had
not given him the slightest provocation or said a word
to him.
The complainant here exhibited a black
mark upon her bosom of the size of a large penny
Piece, and which she said gave her great pain.
The defendant said he was very sorry for what he
had done. It was very seldom he drunk more than
Vas necessary, and when he did so it greatly affected
his head.
Mr. RAMMILL, the sitting magistrate, said that that
Wag the very reason he should hare for refraining
from excess. His conduct had been brutal in the
extreme. He (Mr. Hammill) would suffer him to
retire in order that he may have an opportunity of
Making the poor woman proper compensation. One
of the officers (Alderman) quickly returned, and inti-
mated to the magistrate that the defendant had offered
the complainant ss. as a liberal compensation for the
injuries he had inflicted.
Mr. HAsimlLL—Twenty shillings would have been
little enough. A fine of 21. or three weeks' impri-
sonment will be inflicted. This appeared to have the
desired effect, as in a very short time the magistrate
Was informed that the desired compensation was forth-
coming.

" She is lovely,' he murmured. She is well named
the Rose of the World, indeed!'
" And may I not paint one like it for you?'

" Cui bow; ? No.'

THAMES.—(THIS DAY.)
Charles Nicholson, a very respectably dressed
Young man was charged on suspicion of having stolen
a cheque for 71. 55., the property of Mr. West, brass-
founder, Commercial-road.
It appeared, that on the 21st of August last, Mr.
West received a cheque for 71. ss. drawn on Messrs.
Martin, Stone, and Co., 68, Lombard-street, from
Mr. Hazeltine, engineer, Stratford, in payment for
some castings he had made for that gentleman. On
the same night Mr. West's house was broken open,
and a great deal of property abstracted, amongst
which was the cheque in question. Mr. West
proceeded the next morning to Lombard-street,
and stopped payment of the cheque, which was
not presented till between three and foul. o'clock yes-
terday afternoon.
Mr. W. Stone, cashier to Messrs. Martin, Stone,
and Co., attended and identified the prisoner
as the party who had presented the cheque for
Payment. When informed that the cheque was a
stolen one, and that payment thereof had been con-
sequently stopped, he appeared very confused and
said he had picked it up in the street. He was
immediately given into custody.
Police-constable K 228, said Mr. West was not
then iri attendance, but if the prisoner was remanded
there was good reason to suppose that some light
would be thrown on the burglary which had been
committed on the 21st of August.
The prisoner was remanded accordingly.

TRIAL BY JURY.
Yesterday the fifty-third anniversary of the ac-
quittal of Thomas Hardy, John Horne Tooke, and
John Thelwall, from a charge of high treason, was
celebrated at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Black-
friars, when upwards of one hundred gentlemen at-
tended to do honour to that great palladium of public
liberty—trial by jury. Among the gentlemen pre-
sent we noticed Alexander Galloway, Esq., who had
been a member of the London Correspondent So-
ciety ; R. Taylor, Esq., F.R.S.; R. Burnett, Esq. ;
R. R. Moore, Esq. ; J. H. Parry, Esq ; J. Beckwith,
Esq. ;J. A. Galloway, Esq. ; Williams, Esq. ;
Saul, Esq.; Ashurst, Esq., &c.
A letter was received from W. J. Fox, M.P. for
Oldham, expressive of his regret that illness pre-
vented him from attending the anniversary.
Colonel T. P. Thompson, M.P., presided on the
occasion.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Wamsou FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
took their usual morning walk.
„ .The Royal Family walked and took pony exercise
C
"as
tle. morning in the slopes and grounds around the as
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode on horse-
back this forenoon, attended by his Equerry in
waiting.
Gill The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
litlY Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, and
'• G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.

The cloth having been removed,
The CHAIRMAN said they had met that evening to
commemorate the sufferings of men who had preceded
them, and whose sufferings in the cause of popular
principles had given to them that peace which they
now enjoyed.—(Hear, bear.) They therefore did not
expect that they would be found fault with if, that
evening, they observed upon what had taken place,
on what was then going forward, and, as far as they
could judge, on what was likely to arise, in respect to
the great question of the rights of the people.—(Hear.)
He would be an unhandsome traitor to the great
question settled in the year 1688, if he should
decline to give, upon all occasions, " The sovereignty
of the people."—(Cheers.) Foreign countries looked
to us for the assertion of this great principle, for it was
admitted to be the panacea for all the evils that
afflicted a state.—(Hear.) There was no dispute in
this country as to the origin of power, for the will of
the community was the origin of all power, and when
that will was properly exercised, it was sure to be
for the benefit of the state generally. He begged in
col clusion to give " The sovereignty of the people."
—(Three times three.)

& Cabinet Council was held at one o'clock yester•
,Lay afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers
Sir
Present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor,
,_George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auck-
and, Sir John Hobhouse, and Lord Campbell.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
deputation, consisting of Sir William Clay, Mr.
rd tunes, and Mr. James Clay, had an interview with
John
Russell yesterday, at his official resi-
uenee in Downing-street.

..............„.........„......
ThSPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE,
~TY OFLCESTER STEE PLR -CHASE—YESTERDAY.
it norcester Handicap of 00 soya. each, 10 ft, and 5 only
If
declared, with 100 added. Four miles. Gentlemen
riders. (37 Subs 21 of whom declared.)
ult.:: loittle:s Chandle; ..• ••• ••• (Owner).
21
nrr. tries abg by Glaucus ... ••• :. 3
Mr, Holman nd Daddy Long Legs ••• ' -
/lack Stakes of 2 soVS, each, and 10 added. Heats.
One mile and a quarter, (6 Subs.)
Mr. J'. DaOy's The Milliner ... (Wakefield) 0 1 1
Mr.Mll.r. EL Johnstone's John Harris
••• ... 1 2 2
r. Amazement Wood's
.. 0 3 3
Minor'
Minors
Augustus"' • • 2 0 0
•-
...
r. Pearce's Arkwriht .•
—.3 0 0
The Worcestershire Free Handicap Hurdle Race Stakes
of 10 sovs, each, and 50 added. Heats, two miles. 1 Lir. Pearce 's Jack, 10st 71b ~,(Fitton) 3 0 2 2
Air. J. Anderson's Chance, lOst 71b ••• 1 2 1 0
441„,r• Ar. Ilawkin's Teresa, list ...
4Ylr. bonaldson's Variety, lost 71b
Ur. Smith's Pembroke, lOst ... 000 dr
......... 02 0- 0- dr
-
th• J. Herbert's Powick, lOst ... 0 0 odr
Mr, Oliver's Auricula, 9st 71b ... ••• 0 00 dr
fir.
Davies' Jack, 9st 71b 0 dr
• ••• 'tr. Pulleston's Geor•ty, •
9st ••• ••• 0 dr
The first heat was won by half a length, the second
zR a dead heat between Jack and Clarence, the third
eso: la a canter, the fourth was run in the dark,
t' -- wino easily; the stewerds postponed the fifth
forIII SaturdaY, but Jack's rider persisted in walking over
. it; his claim is disputed.
EWMARKET COURSING MEETING.—FRIDAY.
CHIPPENHAM FIELD.
kworth's Bute tuThe Derby was won by Mr. Dobede's Dorou; Mr.
cute ran up.
fvTa
oike Cupldeston was won by Mr. Gillett's Girl of Kent; Mr.
•-'3's Whittington ran up.
The
ran
up Oaks was wonby
Mr.
_The Port Stakes were won by Mr. Gillett's Great
Then;Wester Mr. Buckworth's Batchelor ran up.
t la Stakes were won by Mr. Buckworth's
aksheesh; and the Downing
Gustavus. Stakes by Mr. Fyson's
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Brighton harrs., Mon , patch ro • Wed., the Race-
course; Fri., the Dyke---. 10/. a '
Brookside harrs.,Xton. v
9 Newmarket-hill; Thurs., Tels-
combo Tye-10i.
Crawley
and Hawley hds., Mon., Crawley Village;
Wed., West Grinstead; Pri.,llohnbush Lodge-10i•
Dorrington hds., Mon., Costock Village; Wed., Little
Eaton Village; Sat., Coleorton Village-10i.
Sherwood harrs., Tues., Mansfield Race-course; Fri.,
klanableton•hill-11.
. Mr. Lumley's hds., Mon., Barnby Moor; Tues., Di-
nington
; Thurs., Armthorpe Village; Fri., Marlton Bar.
_ Earl of Harewood's hds., Mon., Collingham Bar; Wed.,
Deighton Bar; Fri., Tadcaster Bar--11.

he loves her with all the fervour of a generally unim-
passioned nature, he perceives plainly that hers are but
superficial attractions, that she could never be a mis-
.

sionary's wife, and, consequently, he must relinquish
his project or relinquish her, and he chooses the latter
alternative. His conduct in these trying circum-
stances is very naturally and effectively portrayed.
The following conversation between St. John and his
cousin Jane, gives a favourable description of his
character, and gives, moreover, a beautiful description
of the influence of religion on such a character as his.

Jane, who is a very skilful artist, has taken a portrait
of Rosamond, and offers to copy it for St. John ; he,
somewhat reluctantly, refuses the proffered gift and
then, breaking through his habitual reserve, speaks of
the powerful but contradictory emotions which agitate
his heart.

The CHAIRMAN said that they had the happiness to
live under a monarch whose pride it was to be in
truth the Sovereign of the people.—(Applause.) It
seemed to him as if there was at that moment a set
made against queens.—(llear, hear.) For himself
he owned that he was favourable to the rule of
woman. It seemed to him that when a woman ruled
the supremacy of the law was sure to be upheld. In
such a case physical force m as sure to give way to
moral force. He, therefore, confessed upon all those
grounds he loved a queen.—(Applause and a laugh.)
The Gallant Chairman, after adverting to the success-
ful rule of Queen Elizabeth, concluded by proposing,
"Long life to the Queen ; may she never be sur-
rounded by those perils which beset the reign of her
predecessor, Queen Elizabeth."—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN said he now came to the considera-
tion of that great question in reference to which their
forefathers exercised the greatest jealousy, and in
support of which he trusted those present were ready
to exercise the same jealousy, and, if need be, to
adopt the most energetic course to defend—need he
say that he alluded to the great principle of "trial by
jury" ?—(Applause.) The principle had been tested
in the worst of times, and trial by jury had been
found equal to all that could be required of it.—
(Hear, hear.) Let them think what might have been
the consequence if, in the instance of the men whose
acquital they had that evening met to celebrate, the
jury had bowed down to the dictum of a legal tyrant,
and consigned the defendants to the tender mercies of
the executioner.—(Hear, hear.) The jury, however,
were not overawed by power. They acted as became
honest men, and in the exercise of the right which
belonged to them they acquitted the men whom the
law-officers of the Crown were anxious should be
convicted of high treason.—(Applause.) This was as
it should be, and let them be ready, if ever the time
came again when they should be required to stand by
the liberties of the people, to do so, and to do so with the
same effect as their forefathers. A judge may be a
most learned person—something superhuman if they
pleased, but give him twelve honest men of ordinary
understanding, and with well regulated minds, and
he would place greater dependence on their decision
than he would upon any that might be arrived at by
the most learned judge they could think of.—(Hear,
hear.) In conclusion, he begged to give " Trial by
j ury."— (Applause.)
Mr. R. TAYLOR said he felt greatly honoured by
being called upon to give the next toast—namely, the
memory of the twelve men who, in 1794, were put
upon their trial for sedition and treason, and whose
acquittal they were that night met to celebrate. The
toast was " The memory of Thomas Hardy, John
Horne Tooke, John Thelwall, John Augustus Bon-
ney, Stewart Ryd, Richard Hodgson, Thomas Hol-
croft, 'Jeremiah Joyce, Thomas Wardle, Matthew
Moore, John Baxter, and John Ritchter." When he
considered that this ist consisted of persons in various
situations in life, from the humble shoemaker, as Mr.
Hardy was, to the minister of religion, he was bound
to believe that this was a determined effort on the part
of the Government of the day to make all classes
feel the weight of their hostility in opposing the rights
of the people.—(Hear, hear.) All that the men
whose memory they were about to do honour to did,
was to attempt to effect that which had since been
successful. They sought to uphold the rights of the
people and carry out Parliamentary reform.— (Hear,
hear.) For this they were branded as traitors to their
country.—(Hear.) But they were not traitors—they
were worthy men and good citizens, and he believed
that much of the success that attended the prisoners
upon that occasion resulted from the excellent cha-
racter of that worthy man, Thomas Hardy.—(Ap-
plause.) They could hardly believe now that such
things had occurred, and which had been alluded
to that evening, had in reality taken place. But
there was no doubt of the fact, and yet, bad as the
times were in 1794, there had been worse times,
when men were sent to the scaffold by, that cruel and
wicked judge, Jeffery, and when the intervention of
a jury could not save an innocent man from destruc-
tion.— (Hear, hear.) Trial by jury had, however,
saved twelve good men from being immolated at the
shrine of despotic power under cover of the law, and
it was the duty of the people of this country to keep
up the recollection of that happy result.—(Hear,
hear.) He had always great pleasure in attending
those meetings, and so long as he was able to be
present he should appear amongst them.—(Hear,
o f thear.)he Hehad
twelve
meh the
whosepleasu
memories
et know in
mo
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wereight
were about
to do honour to, and he could truly say of them, as
might be said of all, that they were virtuous and good
men.—(Hear, hear.) They had defied death and
torture, and all the fearful consequences that arose to
persons found guilty of treason, in order that right
principles might be upheld. He therefore thought
they were worthy of all the sympathy that could be
a,
of
counselnf,
oadotnti
o efefe, s
Eat
of
three enrdd s
kt he Thelwall,i
ntowards them. With that view he pro-
posed their memories in solemn silence.
Mr. F. LAWRENCE then proposed " The memory
c accused,"
ca juriescnud s Gibbs,
ewho, i
on a n
andcharge
1794,aefrtgae
ebr acquitted,
al
nu dd highip g t
rHardy,teoa gratuitousstohoe:
honesty of the jury and to the ability of Mr. Gibbs,
he proceeded to pass a high eulogium on Mr. Erskine,
to whose unequalled eloquence and honest enthusiasm
in favour of his clients he attributed the acquittal of
I Messrs. Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall. The judges,

" ' While something in me,' he went on, is acutely
sensible to her charms, something else is as deeply im-
pressed with her defects: they are such that she could
sympathise in nothing I aspired to—co-operate in
nothing I undertook. Rosamond a sufferer, a labourer,
a female apostle? Rosamond a missionary's wife? No!'
" But you need not be a missionary. You might re-
linquish that scheme.'
" Relinquish ! What—my vocation ? My great
work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in
heaven? My hopes of being numbered in the band who
have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of better-
ing their race—of carrying knowledge into the realms of
ignorance—of substituting peace for war—freedom for
bondage—religion for superstition—the hope of heaven
for the fear of hell? Must I relinquish that? It is
dearer than the blood in my veins. It is what I have to
look forward to, and to live for.'

" After a considerable pause, I said —' And Miss
Oliver? Are her disappointment and sorrow of no
interest to you?'
" ' Miss Oliver is ever surrounded by suitors and
flatterers: in less than a month my image will be effaced
from her heart. She will forget me ; and will marry,
probably, some one who will make her far happier than
I should do.'

" You speak coolly enough ; but you suffer in the
conflict. You are wasting away.'
" No. If I get a little thin, it is with anxiety about
my prospects, yet unsettled—my departure, continually
procrastinated. Only ,this morning I received intelli
gence that the successor, whose arrival I have been so
long expecting, cannot be ready to replace me for three
months to come yet: and perhaps the three months may
extend to six.'
" You tremble and become flushed whenever Miss
Oliver enters the school room.'

RAILWAY RETURNS
itimwAy TRAFFIC, RETURN
following are the Total Receipts of R&'h
!rays for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
week returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year :-
-__________.____

Week
eliding

Oct, 31

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Amiens and Boulogne
Arbroath and Forfar :: • ••
••
••
•• •••
•••
••
••
• •
• Chester and Birkenhead • ••
•••• • • •
Dublin and Drogheda ... : • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown • • • ******
• •••
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdecii• • •••
Edinburgh and Glasgow .... •• • • •• • •
Eastern Counties and North Etui t • •
East Lancashire ..... ern
Eastern Union..... • ... • • •.. •- •
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and A3l• • • • • • •
Glasgow and Greenock.. .. ••• • • •
Great Southern and Western .. :• • •
Great Western, &c ...............:
Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and North Western, &c.
London and Biackwall ............
London and Brighton . • •
London and South Western...
,Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Maryport and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • •
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
Midland Great Western (Irish) ......
Newcastle and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Newcastle, Berwick, and North Shields
North British .. • • • • • • • • • • • • " • • " • •
Paris and Rouen . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Preston and Wyre........ • • • • • • • • • •
Rouen and Havre .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Shrewsbury and Chester ..
South Eastern and Branches ... • • • • •
South Devon
Taff Vale ............. ..... ........
Whitehaven Junction .• . .•.•• • . • .
York and Newcastle . •..• . • • . .•
York and North Midland ••••• • • • • •

Last
week.

674
218
773
815
1,422

28
'" ~y. 2

Qet. z
31
30
24
30
30
30

a..",
ci.i.:, •
V.i
t co
be
~
0 -9

750
1,456

3,602
12,004

352
3,714
9,509

890
1,118
2,632
1,001
1,940
8,967
1,404
39,273

418
2,116

962
18,539
9,647

39,098

855
8,727
8,598

726
7,639
6,232

2,248

1,762

648
21,449

586
17,864

975
2,40

2,404

1,946
2,367
7,253

1,531
1,170
6,356

2,861

556
9,062
1,291
1,913

8,487
872
1,326
767

IS7
12,279
8,946

5,791
6,524

- _
DRATH Or SIR NATHANIELL LEVETT PEACOCKE,
4•14.111%--We have to record the demise of this li venerable aronet, who expired on the Ist inst, after a short
Illness. The deceased who, in early life, served in the
was born in 1760, being the son tithe first holder
of ilia title.
T/LE WICK FISH AND POTATO MARKETS.—Last
Week, in the Wick fish and potato markets, very large
"PPles were bought. The potatoes, it is said, were
generally of inferior quality, though high prices were
(tined. A small cargo from Morayshire was disposed
0 at 203• per boll in retail.—lnverness Courier.
i_ggs are now extensively exported from Zetland.
tzsnort time ago they might be had in plenty at 2d. per
en in Lerwick, though now they sell at 5d., and at
4t Price are scarcely to be had.—lnverness Courier.

" Again the surprised expression crossed his face. He
had not imagined that a woman would dare to speak so
to a man. For me, I felt at home in this sort of dis-
course. I could never rest in communication with strong,
discreet, and refined minds, whether male or female, till
I had passed the outworks of conventional reserve, and
crossed the threshold of confidence, and won a place by
their heart's very hearthstone.
" You are original,' said he, and not timid. There
is something brave in your spirit, as well as penetrating
in your eye : but allow me to assure you that you par-
tially misinterpret my emotions. You think them more
profound and potent than they are. You give me a
larger allowance of sympathy than I have a just claim to.
When I colour, and when I shake before Miss Oliver, I
do not pity myself. I scorn the weakness. I know it is
ignoble; a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, a con-
vulsion of the soul. That is just as fixed as a rock, firm
set in the depths of a restless sea. Know me to be what
I am—a cold, hard man.'
" I smiled incredulously.
_ `You have taken my confidence by storm,' lie con
simply,
ld,.tinned; ! and now it is much at your service. I am
.37.
_in my original state—stripped of that blood-
bleached robe with which Christianity covers human
de:ormity—a cold, hard, man. Natural affec-
tion only, of
over me. Reason,
inthe sentiments, has permanent power
ald not Feeling, is my guide : my
ambition is unlimited
; my desire to riso higher, to do
more than others, insatiable. I honour endurance, per-
severance,
industry, talent; because these are the means
by which men achieve great ends, and mount to lofty
eminence. I watch your career with interest, because I
consider you a specimen of a diligent, orderly, energetic
woman : not because I deeply compassionate what you
have gone through, or what you still suffer.'
" You would describe yourself as a mere pagan phi-
losopher,' I said.
44 No. There is this difference between me and deistic
philosophers: I believe; and I believe
missed your epithet. lam not a paganthe Gospel.o Youhristian
philosopher—a follower of the sect of butj aus b senAigsnalliiist
disciple, I adopt his pure, his merciful, his
doctrines. I advocate them : I am sworn to spread
them. Won in youth to religion, she has cultivate
1 original qualities thus:—From the minute germ, natural
affection, she has developed the overshadowing tree, phi-
lanthropy. From the wild, stringy root of human
uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine
justice. Of the ambition to win power and renown for
my wretched self, she has formed the ambition to spread
my Master's kingdom ; to achieve victories for the
standard of the cross. So much has religion done for
me ; turning the original materials to the best account:
pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate
nature: nor will it be eradicated till this mortal shall
put on immortality.'
" Having said this, he took his bat, which lay on the
table beside my pitletta. Once more be looked at the
portrait.

THE SUN, LONDON, SA.TURDA.Y EVENING, NOVEMBER, 0, 1847.

juries, prisoners, and advocates; had all passed away
from that sublunary scene, but the memory of those
who suffered in the cause of the people, and of those
who upheld the sufferers, still lived, and was deeply
cherished by the people generally; and he trusted that
such means as that afforded to them that evening, by
which they were enabled to give expression to their
feelings on this most interesting subject, would long
be continued to them. He begged, in conclusion, to
give the toast with which he commenced his observa-
tions.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BECKWITH then proposed " The memory of
Thomas Muir, Joseph Gerrald, Maurice Margarot,
Fyshe Palmer, and William Skirving, victims of the
arbitrary sentence of a vindictive Scotch Court in
1799," and observed upon the hardship of the treat-
ment which these men endured for endeavouring to
carry out principles which were now declared to be
the law of the land.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HAVESTOCK, as we understood, proposed "The
members of the London Corresponding Society," and
eulogised the efforts of that society to uphold the
rights of the people.— (Cheers.)
Mr. ALEXANDER GALLOWAY rose to return thanks,
and was received with applause. He said—lt is fifty
years since I was arrested at a public meeting at St.
Pancras with seven others, and bound over to take
our trial on the charge of sedition. I was taken in
1789, on the imputation of high treason, examined
by the Privy Council twice, and discharged on bail,
to take trial for high treason.—(Hear, hear.) In less
than a month a warrant for high treason was issued
against me. I surrendered to it, and after being ex-
amined by the Privy Council, I was committed to
Newgate. There were 70 or 80 persons confined in
gaols on charges of treasonable practices, and many
were imprisoned for four and six months, and about
20 or 30 were incarcerated for 40 months.—(Hear,
hear.) I am, with one other, the only survivor of
70 or 80 who were imprisoned in the year 1798. In
the year 1803 I was arrested on the charge of sedi-
tion, but never brought to 'trial. I have been four
times in custody, and no guilt has been proved against
me.—(Hear, hear.) The next year will make
half a century, and here I am, and have
seen the condition of the country greatly improved.
—(Hear, hear.) The great objects of the London
Corresponding Society have been accomplished. The
Parliamentary Reform Bill, the Postage Bill, the Corn
Bill, the Railway Bill, the Free Trade, and the Re-
duction of the Tariff Bill. The principles and ex-
ample of the London Corresponding Society have
produced that sublime doctrine—the people are the
sovereign power.—(Applause.) I hope to see you
all again. Rest assured I will come amongst you so
long as I am able to do so, and when I am not, why I
must only bid you farewell.—(Applause.)
Mr. PARRY said they had gone through all the for-
mal toasts of the evening. They had remembered
Hardy and Thelwall, and !their coadjutors. They
had done honour to the services of the juries who had
tried those men—to the advocates who had defended
them. They had remembered their brother reformers
who had suffered in Scotland; and there was yet one
other thing they had to do, and that was, not to forget
the principle for which the men whose memories they
had that night celebrated were ready to suffer the se-
verest penalty of the law, rather than see it violated.
That principle was enunciated by the chairman when
he proposed the "Sovereignty of the People." It
had been often upheld by the Gallant Chairman
upon platforms and in his place . in the House of Com-
mons. He was proud to think that the Hon. Gentle-
man would shortly have an .
opportunity of again ex-
pressing his views respecting it his place in the
Commons of England, and that principle was the right
of every man of sound mind to be in possession of
the elective franchise.—(Cheers.) That was the
principle the London Corresponding Society upheld
and propagated in the tracts of great ability, and
which he should be glad to see reprinted, at the in-
stance of a political tract society.—(Hear, hear.) He
contended that the principle of universal suffrage,
which Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall were prosecuted
for proposing, was as much violated now as it had
been in 1794, and the effect of the present system
was to say to six millions out of seven of our fellow-
subjects, that they were unfitted to discharge the
duties of citizens as electors, while they were at the
same time called upon to bear all the burdens of the
state, in common with their more favoured fellow-
subjects.—(Hear.) After some equally appropriate
observations, the Learned Gentleman concluded by
proposing—" A radical reform of all abuses, and a
true representation of the people of the British empire
in Parliament."—(Cheers.)
Mr. SAUL proposed " Civil and Religious Liberty
all over the world," which was drunk with enthusiasm.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTII, Nov. s.—The Sharpshooter iron
gun boat of 489 tons, and a screw propeller of 202
horse power, built on lines by Fincham, at Blackwell
last year, was hauled alongside this jetty this morning,
to be immediately rigged and prepared for commis-
sion by the dockyard hands.
The Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, is getting
on very well with her fitment and manning. She
now only wants about 130 to complete her crew. It
is highly creditable to both officers and men in this
ship, that up to this time not one man has " run."
Desertion generally prevails to a great extent in ships
fitting out.
The orders for the Terrible steam frigate to proceed
to Sheerness to refit have been countermanded,
boilermakers having been sent from London to make
the necessary repairs at this port.
The Virago steam sloop, Commander Lunn, arrived
to• day from the Mediterranean. She left Gibraltar
on Saturday last, direct for Spithead. She has been
four years and seven months in commission, and will
now be paid off at Woolwich.

Mr. R. R. MOORE proposed " The Press," after
which,
Mr. P. A. TAYLOR proposed, in complimentary
terms, the health of " The Chairman."

The Asia, 84, Captain R. P. Stopford, and the
Satellite, 18, Commander R. I-1. B. Rowley, are
hourly expected here ; the former from Sheerness,
the latter from Plymouth.
In Harbour—Victory, Excellent, Victoria and Al-
bert, Bellerophon, and Recruit; Terrible, Sidon,
Lightning, Fairy, Myrtle, and Echo steamers ;
Blenheim, and Maria Somes, transports.
At Spithead—Virago, and Princess Royal trans-
port. _

In the Basin—The Prince Regent, Retribution,
Birkenhead, Helena, Frolic, and Rocket.

The CHAIRMAN briefly expressed his acknowledg-
ments for the compliment conferred upon him, and
assured the company that he was always happy to be
present on occasions of that kind, when the real
principles of public liberty were to be upheld and
supported.
Thanks having been given to the stewards, the
company retired, evidently much gratified at the
proceedings of the evening.

In Dock—Leander, Ajax, Orestes, Sappho, Firefly,
Rifleman, and Emerald, tender.
___.

Wind south, fresh breezes, and cloudy weather-
-5' P.M.

Royal Clarence-yard Battalion—The drills for the
summer season having terminated, the officers of this
battalion have presented their serjeant-major (John
Snedwell) with a handsome gold-headed cane, and
their drill-serjeants (Messrs. Charles Betts, William
Lock, Joseph Clark, and John vegan) with silver-
headed canes, with suitable inscriptions.
CHATHAM, Nov. s.—The Castor, 36 guns, Captain
Charles Graham, from the East Indies, is ordered to
be paid off at this port, without any of her bulkheads
or internal fittings being removed.
The Bonetta brigantine, and Sealark, 10 guns, in
dock, were both finished in their coppering up to their
loadwater line. They are being painted, and both
will be undocked next week, when it is expected they
will be immediately placed in commission.
The Oberon steam packet, Lieutenant Commander
(Tardner,:will be completed and put out of dock in the
ea
lorlypth instant.artofnext week, and will leave this port on
the

The Meander, 44 guns, fitting for sea, is to have
a complement of 320 men. Her captain, the Hon. 11.
Keppel, arrived at this dockyard yesterday and went
on board the ship, where he remained some time.
The marines for this ship will be draughted from the
Chatham division.

The Rhadamanthus steam•vessel, Master-Com-
mander Jonathan Aylen, arrived yesterday morning
and disembarked the seamen belonging to the ordinary
guard-ship Poictiers. She also brought the seamen
belonging to the Ocean at Sheerness, being the seamen
who navigated the Blenheim steam guard-ship to
Portsmouth. She sailed again the same day.
The Rochester, Sedwick, master, remains loading
for Portsmouth, and will sail on the 9th inst.

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BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

STANGE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST AN IN SOLVE N

PARKER V. BAILEY.

Mr. CHARNOCA applied to the Court for a rule to
show cause why the defendant, who had been arrested
on a writ of capias ad satisfaciendem, should not be
discharged out of custody on the ground of irregula-
rity. In June, 1844, the defendant was taken into
custody on this writ, and he immediately filed a
petition in accordance with the 5 and 6 and 7 and 8
Vict., chapters 116 and 78 and 9G, in order that he
might obtain his discharge from custody and protec-
tion. The Commissioner discharged him, granted
him his interim order, and appointed the 16th of
October for him to come up to receive his final order;
he was consequently discharged on the 9th of Sep-
tember in the Fame year, after having been in con-
finement from June until that day. Prior to the
16th an agreement was entered into by the defendant
with his creditors, by which they were to receive 20g.
in the pound, he agreeing to pay Si. per mouth for
the first six months of the ensuing year, and
101. subsequently into the hands of the official
assignee, until all their claims were dis-
charged. This was explained to the Commissioner
when he came up, and as all the creditors, save one,
assented to his proposition, the Court seeing that he
was at large, and that his creditors were satisfied, dis-
missed his petition. However, from some cause, he
was not able to complete this arrangement ; and on
the 28th of September last the plaintiff issued a fresh
writ on the same judgment, and the defendant was
taken into custody. His first objection to the pro-
ceeding was that the proceedings with respect to the
first writ ought to have been fulfilled. Then there
was no return made to the first writ that he had been
arrested upon it, and this was a fresh writ without
any statement that the process was a fresh one. He
contended, therefore, that the scire facias was wrong,
inasmuch as it ought to have contained a recital of
the former proceeding. Then the Court held that a
man could not be taken twice on the same judgment;
even it had been held that a man who had been
arrested, and liberated, on his making an arrange •
ment with his creditors, or in default to consent to be
again arrested, could not thereby be bound; and
surely a similar rule would apply to this case.--Rule
granted.

EXCEIEQUER—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Baron PLATT and
Common Juries.)
FESSEMEYER V. ANCOCH.

This case, which has occupied the attention of the
Court during the last two days, and which was an
action brought to recover the amount of a solicitor's
bill of costs, for professional services alleged to be
rendered to the plaintiff, was again resumed to-day.
The evidence, which was of a very voluminous na-
ture, having been concluded,
Mr. CROWDER and Mr. MARTIN were heard in reply.
The Learned JUDGE, having summed up,
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after
an absence of upwards ofan hour, returned a verdict
for the plaintiff for the sum of 11. 11s., the jury being
of opinion that there was no evidence to show that
the plaintiff was employed upon any other business
by the defendant than that for which charges were
made, amounting to the sum given in the verdict.
(Sittings in Banco.)
STAGG V. LORD MILTOWN.

In this case the Lord Chief Baron stated at the
sitting of the Court, that the Court had had an op-
portunity of consulting with Mr. Justice Coleridge,
and they were of opinion that the rule applied for
yesterday ought to be granfed.—Rule granted.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Nov. s.—The grocers
have shown rather more disposition to purchase, and a
fair amount of business has been done, since our last,
chiefly in Barbadoes, at from 375. to 48s. per ordinary
good middling qualities. Nothing doing in rum or
molasses.—Bristol Mercury.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—Our ar-
rivals of grain are moderate, and the report generally
from the -agricultural districts represent the sup-
plies as very small. To-day we experience a steady
sale for wheat at an advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter
over the rates of last week. Barley realises full prices,
but there is no desire to purchase beyond actual want.
Oats and Shelling steady.

THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT HACKNEY.--For
the third time, the inquiry concerning the mysterious
death of Mr. Samuel Nelme, aged 73, was resumed yes-
terday, before Mr. H. Baker, the Middlesex coroner.
On the last occasion it was stated, on oath, by Dr.
Letheby, of the London Hospital, that he had detected
arsenic in the contents of the stomach. He also ana-
l) sed some pounded sugar taken from the residence of
the deceased, which had been used to sweeten a wine-
glassful! of arrow root which the deceased had drank
just before he had been attacked. In four ounces and a
half of this pounded sugar, Dr. Letheby extracted half
an ounce of arsenic—enough to kill 100 persons. The
following additional evidence was adduced::—Maria
Buchan, a servant at Mr. Nelme's residence,
stated that she did not attend to the pounding
of the sugar. On Sunday week the lad Allt-
well brought her some pears to bake, and asked
her if she did not think his grandfather would not
die suddenly. She replied she did not know, and
' inquired of him why he thought so. He answered be-
cause his eyes looked so queer. On Tuesday, as well as
she could recollect, she found two keys under the sofa
cushion. One was the garden-gate key, and the other
belonged to a closet, but not where the sugar was kept.
[lt was explained that the arsenic was kept in a book-
case, in a back room.] Mrs. Simpson,, who was on a
visit at Mr. Nelme's house when he expired, spoke to
receiving the keys from the above witness, and handing
the drawer key to the police. Sergeant Ha wkes pro-
duced it. Ile then went into a lengthened statement
about the shooting transaction. It was ottly a repetition
of what has already appeared. It was explained that
Dr. Letheby was now engaged in a more extensive
and satisfactory analysis of the contents of the sto-
mach. After much evidence had been Lepia'etle Main"
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