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TEI E SUN, LONDON, F-17RI_DAY ENi NG, MARCH 17, 1848.

LITERATURE.
LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND,
Vol. XI. Hg Agnes Strickland.
As a biographer Miss Strickland has achieved for
herself a very brilliant reputation. A nobler theme
could not by any possibility have been chosen, dur-
ing the lifetime of a Queen Regnant, than that afforded
by the lives, the characters, and the vicissitudes of
her royal predecessors. Our authoress has made an
admirable selection, and very admirably has she ful-
filled even our most sanguine anticipations. There
is a piquancy in the revelations, a vividness in the
portraitures, and a feminine minuteness in the narra-
tives, in the historical work here undertaken by Miss
Strickland, which cannot but exercise a very benefi-
cial fascination over her contemporaries and her pos
terity. We say a beneficial fascination, because the
numerous attractions of her style, of her subject, and
of her disclosures must familiarise a large multitude
of readers with matters of which they would other-
wise have remained ignorant, and tend to the justifi-
cation of many individuals who would other wise have
been regarded as heretofore through a disingenuous
and distorting medium. Of all the personages de-
picted in these biographies of the different Queens of
England, the most repulsive to ourimagination, in con-
sequence of her odious and most unwomanly characte.
ristics, is assuredly the daughter of James 11., and
wife of William 111., namely, Mary ll.—the subject
of the eleventh volume, now lying before us for con-
sideration. We will acknowledge, of course, that
Mary the Second was subjected to an extraordinary
and almost unparalleled trial, that she was placed in
a glare of light so intense and intolerable, that her
vices as well as her virtues must perforce be divulged to
the whole world in all their beauty or in all their ugli-
ness—in the beauty of their virgin and celestial per-
fections, or in the uglinesslof their unnatural and
abhorrent baseness. She was so situated, indeed, that
her affections as a wife were placed in direct antago-
nism with her affections as a daughter, that she must
either abandon her husband or neglect her father,
that she must either display a sublime magnanimity
or a cruel and even fiendish ambition. The nature of
Mary 11. was tested in this manner, and it proved
most despicable. She was afforded an opportunity of
handing her name down to all after times as one of
the brightest and purest in our history, and instead of
so doing, she has rendered herself a very proverb of
meanness and austerity. She—she—the daughter of
the unfortunate and erring, but sincere and consistent
James—she has been christened in the nineteenth
century by the young and eloquent representative of
Canterbury—" England's Gonneril !" " And Eng
land's Gonneril," says he, in one of his most striking
ballads—

IRELAND.
THE "DEMONSTRATION."
Duntax, MARCH 15.—There is now scazeni ly the
shadow of a chance of there being any distuthit ice on
Friday next. A proclamation addressed to the people
of Dublin by J. O'Connell was extensirekr posted
throughout the city this morning. The RAW wing is
a copy:—

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, March IG.

The House met this morning to proceed with the ap-
peals. The Peers present were, the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Campbell, Lord Farnham, and Lord De Tabley.

JUDGMENT.-TURNEULL AND OTHERS V. --- COWAN, E.

This, it will be remembered, was an appeal from an
interlocutory judgment of the Court of Session, in Scot-
land, and was argued on Tuesday last.
The LORD CRANCELLOR this morning moved the
judgment of the 'louse, to the effect, that the appeal
should be dismissed, with costs, and the interlocutory
judgment of the Court below affirmed.

" TO TILE PEOPLE OF DUBLIN.
" March 14, , 1848.
"Fellow-citizens,—The wards of Dublin • 'nil hold
meetings upon St. Patrick's-day to petition for the
immediate repeal of the disastrous and ruino us Legis-
lative Union, and the restoration of our nativ e Parlia-
ment.
"We ask of you to give your assistance, each in his
own ward, to this constitutional movement; ,and we
earnestly exhort you to abstain from all proceF .si ons, in
order that there shall be no chance of the °CCU/ !r4 'nce of
anything to prevent the good and peaceful issue o: F those
meetings.
"Thus you will assuredly baffle the fell hopes o f your
secret enemies, earn the gratitude of your real I; iends,
and bring a blessing on our cause.
" Monday's proceedings at the Repeal Ass )2iation
will prove to you that you are certain—if you 1 lu.t con-
tinue in your admirable course of strictly peaceful agita-
tion—of having the accession to the cause of Ireland of
Irishmen of rank, station, and high and deserved influ-
ence in the land.
" Peace then—Good Order—No Processio a s—No
Flags—No Banners, nor Emblems of any kind I
" No chance to be given to the Enemies of the- ,People
of Ireland ! and thus
" Hurrah for the Repeal
" JOHN O'CONNELL, Chairman of Coma nittee.

This judgment was agreed to, and thus the judgment
of the Court bolow was affirmed, and the appeal dis-
missed, with costs.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, March 16.
(Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER •)
IN RE A. B. VISE.

Mr. Cooke opposed for several creditors, and Mr.
Lucas supported.

The complaint was extravagance. The insolvent,
who applied under the Protection Act, had been fore-
man to his father, Mr. Vyse, bonnetmaker, in Ludgate-
street, and had a weekly salary of 51. 10s. His father-
in-law had assisted him, and he had only two children to
support. He had incurred debts to about GOOL, and now
applied to be relieved therefrom. It appeared further,
that the insolvent had expected money from an opera he
was composing, but had been disappointed.
Mr. COOKS said it was not a case for the new Act.
Gross extravagance had been committed, and debts so
incurred wore not to be so easily discharged.
Mr. LUCAS admitted that the insolvent had been
thoughtless. He was, however, of opinion, that if he
was sent to prison ho would be made a great deal worse.
He, therefore, asked for an adjournment, to make some
arrangement with the creditors.
The CMIEF COMMISSIONER said it was undoubtedly a
case of great extravagance, and, as at present advised,
he did not see, according to the terms of the statute,
that he was authorised to name a day for the final hear-
ing. He would, however, adjourn the case for a fort-
night, with protection, hoping that something would be
dune for the creditors.

" Corn Exchange."
The confederated ;trades assembled in full fox e last
night, and came to a resolution to have en open- sir de-
monstration on Monday next at Newmarket, ti, large
square in the Earl of Meath's Liberty. At the trade?:
meeting referred to, the following resolutions, were
adopted on the motion of Mr. John Dillon, :a bar-
rister :
"That none but the Sovereign, Lords, and Ccon mons
of Ireland are qualified to legislate for Ireland. That
the time has arrived for putting into operation t'h e pro
ject of the illustrious Liberator, of a council of 30C of the
citizens, to devise proper means of achieving ?as xtional
rights. That they hail and acknowledge with grati-
tude the recognition by the French nation of the rights
of labour."
In reference to the abandonment of the bottitid de-
monstration, the Evening Mail remarks,—
" The great national Irish demonstration in favour of
Republicanism is, in a word, altogether forgotten —clean
driven out of the heads of the score of mischievous
demagogues who devised it, by the roar of ex ?oration
and contempt which has greeted them from the lips of
every humane and honourable man of every rank, class.
creed, or party. Sympathy with glorious France' has
died, and made no sign, save in the following advertise-
ment, which this morning occupies a position of solitary
grandeur in the columns of the Freeman's Journal:—
" SYMPATHY WITH GLORIOUS FRANCE.

Adjourned accordingly.
Mr. Commissioner Law and Mr. Commissioner Phil-
lips, held Courts, but the proccedings were not of a re-
portable character.

COURT OF EXCISE, March 16.

.Before H. F. STEPHENSON, Esq. ; C. J. HERRIEB, Esq.,

and CHARLES Ross, Esq.)
The Court was occupied for a considerable time this
day in hearing the following case, being the first
brought before it since the regulation of hackney car-
riages has been transferred to the Excise department.
William Smith, proprietor of a cabriolet, No. 2,073,
was charged with plying for hire within Aye miles of
the General Post-office, without license, and with using
forged plates, purporting to be those issued from the
Excise Office, the more effectually to carry on such
fraud. _ _ _

smiles to hear
The shouts that triumphed o'er her crownless Lear."
iVe turned, therefore, we will confess it, with a sort
of loathing or repugnance to the eleventh volume of
Miss Strickland's elegant and remarkable composi•
tion. We would sooner have been required to read a
biography of Robespierre than of Mary 11., for there
was a certain sublimity in the fanaticism of that
bloody despot, whereas in the career of the Queen of
William of Orange there is only visible a harshness
quite incongruous with her sex, and a baseness
wholly unworthy of her position. Miss Strickland
does ample justice to her very abominable subject ;
she does not write like a partisan, like a Jacobite, or
like a factious supporter of the Revolution—no, she
writes like a historian, and writing with this historic
impartiality she so narrates the events in the life of
Mary 11., and so develops her disposition to her
readers, as to hold that sovereign up to;their ineffable
reprehension. Here is a single passage which will of
itself evidence the character of Queen Mary 11., and
the spirit in which Miss Strickiand has delineated
that character. It has reference to the flagrant and
unseemly joy with which the child of the ruined
James repaired in state to that palace of Whitehall
from which he had been so recently driven.
" Four writers, who all profess to be eye-witnesses of
her landing or her demeanour in the palace, have each
recorded what they saw ; one of them, a philosophical
observer, Evelyn ; another an enemy, Lady Churchill ;
a third, a panegyrist, Oldmixon ; and the fourth, an
apologist, her friend, Burnet. This concurrence of evi-
dences, each of whom wrote unknown to the other, makes
the conduct of Mary one of the best authenticated pas-
sages in history. She came, into Whitehall, jolly, as
to a wedding,' wrote Evelyn, seeming quite transported
with joy.' Some of Mary's party, to shield her from the
disgust that eye witnesses felt at her demeanour, de-
clared that she was acting a part that had been sternly
prescribed her by her husband's letters. Her partisan,
Oldmixon, enraged at these excuses, exclaimed, If
they had seen her as others did, they would not have
ventured to report such falsity ; so far from acting a
part not natural to her, there was nothing in her looks
which was not as natural and as lovely as ever there
were charms in woman.'
"Lady Churchill, in her fierce phraseology, speaks of
what she witnessed without the slightest compromise,

Mr. Douglas, the barrister, conducted the case on
behalf of the Crown.

" ' The Deputies of the several Trades' Bodies are re-
quested to meet in the Committee-rooms, 28, Westmore-
land street, on this (Wednesday) evening, at eight
o'clock, to arrange the order and route of procession to
the place of meeting, and for other business.
" By order of the Special Committee, Monday next,
the 20th inst., is fixed for the day of meeting, that the
local meetings fixed for the 17th inst. may not be inter-

Thomas Richards, City police-constable 486, stated
that on the 15th of December last he saw the defendant
in Cornhill, with one of Hansom's cabs. As he was there
for a considerable time loitering backwards and for-
wards, witness gave instructions for a summons to be
taken out against him, which was accordingly done, and
the 23d of December,was appointed for hearing. The
defendant did not appear, but the driver of a cab belong-
ing to a Mr. Davidson, of Dorset-street, attended, whose
cab bore the number observed by the policeman. The
summons was dismissed, as it was found out that they
had got hold of the wrong party. Soon after the sum-
mons had been dismissed, witness saw the real defendant
plying for hire as before, and the number of his cab the
same (2,075). Upon this he told him that a summons
was out against him, and that he must go to the station-
house. The defendant said, " Very well, jump in, and
I will drive you there." Witness got into the cab,
and was driven down Bow-lane, where the de-
fendant got down for the purpose, he said, of desiring
that a waggon might be removed, and then took the
opportunity of making his escape. The cab was taken
to the green-yard, and the defendant was subsequently
taken, when he admitted that he had been driving with
false plates, and that he would rather have lost his cab
than ho would have been taken, as he feared he should
be transported.
The COURT gave judgment for the full penalty of 501.
John Booth, of Priest's-alley, Tower-hill, was fined
1501. for not renewing his wine, beer, and spirit licenses.

fered with.' -
"It is possible this Special Committee' may include
some earnest dupes. If so, we ask them in kindliness
and good feeling, do thoy not see the frailty of the reed
upon which they have been leaning ? De they not
perceive that they have been urged onward by designing
knaves upon a course which has been left to their sole
occupation the moment it was found that it might lead
to the gallows, or to a bloody grave ? Will they make
themselves the 'scape goats, as well as the dupes, of
such men as Mr. John O'Connell, and his fellows of the
begging box ?"
MILITARY PREPARATIONS.-IThder this head the
Evening Mail has the annexed paragraph :
" We have every reason to believe that the disposable
force at present in Dublin, including cavalry, infantry,
artillery, and police, considerably exceeds 10,000 men !
During this day large• quantities of ammunition have
been dispatched from the magazine to the several points
which are to be occupied on Friday by the military.
The only ostensible preparations made by the disaffected
consists in a quantity of stone-shot, placed at their dis-
posal by the Paving Board. There is scarcely a street
in Dublin that has not been covered within the last few
days with shingle."

character, and also instruct him in his system, which
was likewise described as being peculiar to himself and
unknown to any other person, and the business was
still further to be secured to the plaintiff by his having
handed over to him models of the mouths of most of the
patients, and the possession of which it was said would
secure him their future custom. The evidence that
was adduced went to show that the extent of
the business of the plaintiff had not been exaggerated,
for it appeared to he admitted that the profits of each
year, upon an average of six, amounted to more than
1,7001., and the plea of fraud and covin, principally, if
not entirely, rested upon the fact that the plaintiff's
system was not one peculiar to himself and unknown to
any other person, and also that he had not handed over
the models and other matters connected with the profes
sion, which he had undertaken to do.

A person named Hayes was the principal witness for
the defendant, and the evidence given by him caused a
good deal of merriment in the Court. He said that he
was assistant to Dr. Koecker in 1838, and remained with
him in that capacity for more than seven years. During
that time he became acquainted with the use of all his
instruments, and also made up his tooth powders and
articles of that description, and they were sold to the
patients to the amount of several hundreds of pounds a
year. When he left the service of the plaintiff, he set
up for himself in Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, and
afterwards in Conduit-street, and he made use of similar
instruments, and practised the same system as the plain-
tiff, and obtained a good deal of his practice. The
plaintiff had frequently suggested to him to purchase
his business, and told him that it would be useless to
any one else, but that it would suit him, as he was ac-
quainted with his mode of practice, and was likewise ac•
quainted with all the patients. The plaintiff at this time
wanted 3,000 L for his business, but he would not have
given him 1,000/. for it.

- By Sergeant SHER—The practice of the plaintiff was
very select, and he was visited by ladies and gentlemen
and persons of distinction. His fee was one guinea.
The plaintiff gave him a recipe for making tooth powder,
but the tinctures he sold were the sole invention of wit-
ness.—(A laugh.) The plaintiff was entirely ignorant
of tho ingredients of his tinctures at that time. When
he first went to the plaintiff, he used to send to a che-
mist's and pay ss. 6d. for a bottle of tincture, and wit-
ness then suggested his tincture, and told him he would
make several hundreds a year by it ; and after this he
used to make it, but never allowed the plaintiff to know
the

secret of the composition, although he tried to
smuggle it from him.—(Laughter.) While he was living
with the plaintiff he used to open the door and let in pa-
tients, and sometimes he waited at table.—(Laughter.)
Sergeant SHEE—And I believe you used to dine in the
kitchen with the cook?—(Roars of laughter.) Witness

s .
—I did sometimes.—(Renewed laughter.)
Sergeant SHEE—NoII, there's no harm in it. I dare
say she was a very respectable person.—(Laughter.)
Pray, did you ever by chance clean the boots and shoes?
Witness—Oh, certainly not.
Sergeant SHEN—May I ask what salary—l suppose I
must not say " wages"—you received? Witness—My
salary was 381. a year; but I wish you to understand
that, in addition to this, I was allowed to wait upon as
many patients of my own as I pleased.—(Renewed
laughter.)
Sergeant SHEE—Were you never sent out to fetch a
cab when it rained? Witness—l was never sent out for a
cab; but I may have stood at the door and called for one.
Sergeant SHER—Did you not go to the butcher's to
order the meat for the family? Witness—lt is possible
that I may have ordered such a thing as a haunch of
mutton; but I only did so because Dr. Koecker did not
understand such things, and was no judge of meat.
Re-examined—Notwithstanding the nature of the
duties he bed to perform while he was in the plaintiff's
service, he was quite certain that ho now used the same
articles, and made them up in the same manner as those
sold by the plaintiff, and that after he had been with him
seven years he wanted him to purchase his business.
Witnesses were called to answer the evidence adduced
on the part of the defendant, and from their testimony
it appeared that the business had realised as much as
1,8001. in one year, and that there had been no exagge-
ration of the amount of the profits. It was also stated
that shortly before the bill became due the defendant
had expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the con-
duct of the plaintiff in the transactions, and said that he
considered him a man of honour and integrity.
Sergeant SURE, in replying upon the whole case, sub-
mitted to the jury that there was not the slightest evi-
dence to support the plea of fraud, and that the plaintiff
was clearly entitled to their verdict.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE having summed up, the
jury almost immediately returned a verdict for the
plaintiff for the amount claimed.
GLASS V. HARDING.
This was also a special jury cause.
Sergeant Shee, Mr. Russell Gurney, and Mr. Ogle,
were for the plaintiff; and Sergeant Channel' and Mr.
lietersdorff, for the defendant.
The action was brought to try the right of the de-
fendant to exact a toll from vehicles and horses passing
along a road leading from Sydenham to Penge-common.
It appeared to be admitted that the defendant had a
right to take toll at one gate, which was erected near to
the common, and it seemed that the neighbourhood
having of late years very much increased, the owner of
some of the property had made a private road by which
the inhabitants were enabled to avoid the old toll-gate,