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The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-05

THE ALMANAC OF THE MONTH.

From this witty miscellany we extract the following
description of an organ not yet mapped out of the
phrenological cranium. Diogenes has been taking
lessons in phrenology, and he thus addresses his in-
structor :

" There is one organ," I said, turning to my enter-
taining instructor, " winch I do not see returned to this
mental Parliament. At least, Ido not observe its seat
marked anywhere. And yet its functions are most im-
portant. It animates all society. It is the great prin-
ciple of the universe. It penetrates everywhere. It is
supposed by many to be the abode of the human mind.
It is the one great organ of the world. It is to be found
in men's hearts and their homes, and is to be met with
at church, and in the holiest places. It is the soul of
new inventions, and many sciences could not exist with
out it. It is 'the life-blood of quackery. Even phreno-
logy, that noble science which you have illustrated so
accurately to me today, is not free from it. In fact,
persons have so often confounded the two names, that
they have at last become synonymous. I do not see it
marked here anywhere, and yet—so large is its influ-
ence, and so universal its operation—that it might re-
place alone all the other functions into which you have
divided, like a child's puzzle, the human head."
" Pray, Sir, what is the name of this organ ?" said
the professor, il4 a voice of the strongest interest.
"I took a pencil, and having given a proof of my des-
tructiveness by wiping out all the qualities which were
drawn and quartered on the chalk head before me, I
wrote over the surface, in large letters, the word
London, England, 1846-10-05

411I‘

LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1846.

Whatever may be the immediate tranquillity of
British India and the surrounding territory, it ap-
pears to have but a very precarious tenure. Every
suceeigkve pa of of intelligence received from that
quarter of :AM during several months past has
but corroborated the preceding intimation of the
probability of some extraordinary turbulence follow-
ing the present extraordinary quietude. Although
the sanguinary and decisive victories achieved by our
soldiers in the last memorable campaign have, to a
considerable extent, diminished the audacity, and mo
dekrated the rapacity of the Seikhs and their imme-
diate neighbours, passions are still smouldering in
thoir bosoms which the earliest opportunity will evoke,
and which the smallest circumstance of encourage-
.: • will trecipitate. Nor is the character of the
• ernmespestablished at Lahore calculated in any
measure to tftrqgate this predisposition to an outbreak;
'ae contrary", it is the discreditable nature of that
eznment which tends mainly to the nourishment
of this4xecrableileaAtiAlity for political disorganiza-
tion, and to a disrelish for everything save perpetual
anarchy. When thre flagrant debaucheries of LALL
SINGE( and.the abandoned Atha limaz are remem-
London, England, 1846-10-05

CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL.

A perennial spirit seems to animate the editors of
this very admirable periodical. There is nothing
mawkish or affected in the contributions ; they have
always a moral purpose and a virtue. Although the
quantity of original writing, which is incessantly
being published in its columns is something surpris-
ing when the price is remembered, there is never a
sentence which can be said to verge upon twaddle.
The Edinburgh Journal is still the worthy representa-
tive of the house from which it emanates.
London, England, 1846-10-05

HUMBUG.

" Before he had recovered from his amazement, I had
left the shop."

LITERATURE.

THE CABINET HISTORY OF ENGLAND

Vol. XXI.
The nearer the narration of this history approaches
to our own immediate times the more is its utility
manifest. What are only scattered through a world
of journals, and memoirs, and biographies, is here
cotnpactel together in a comprehensible and portable
form. The grand parliamentary contests between
Fox and Pitt, imparts a peculiar lustre and a remark-
able interest to this volume.

FINE ARTS.
THE HEROINES OF SIIAKSPERE.
Part VI.

When completed, this series will form a most costly
and fitting accessory to the Shakspereian library.
Many of the characters are scarcely embodied we
must acknowledge ; but this can hardly form matter
of astonishment when the mysterious elevation of
the originals is considered. Princess Katharine of
France, for example, is scarcely the countenance one
imagines on hearing Hal the Fifth cry out amidst
-his kisses—" There is witchcraft in your lips, Kate !
There is more eloquence in a sugar touch of, them
than in the tongues of the French council I" Miss-
London, England, 1846-10-05

THE ALMANAC OF THE MONTH.

From this witty miscellany we extract the following
description of an organ not yet mapped out of the
phrenological cranium. Diogenes has been taking
lessons in phrenology, and he thus addresses his in-
structor :

" There is one organ," I said, turning to my enter-
taining instructor, " which I do not see returned to this
mental Parliament. At least, Ido not observe its seat
marked anywhere. And yet its functions are most im-
portant. It animates all society. It is the great prin-
ciple of the universe. It penetrates everywhere. It is
supposed by many to be the abode of the human mind.
It is the one great organ of the world. It is to be found
in men's hearts and their homes, and is to be met with
at church, and in the holiest places. It is the soul of
new inventions, and many sciences could not exist with
out it. It is "the life-blood of quackery. Even phreno-
logy, that noble science which you have illustrated so
accurately to me to-clay, is not free from it. In fact,
persons have so often confounded the two names, that
they have at last become synonymous. I do not see it
marked here anywhere, and yet—so large is its influ-
ence, and so universal its operation—that it might re-
place alone all the other functions into which you have
divided, like a child's puzzle, the human head."
" Pray, Sir, what is the name of this organ ?" said
the professor, in a voice of the strong, st interest.
"I took a pencil, and having given a proof of my des-
tructiveness by wiping out all the qualities which were
drawn and quartered on the chalk head before me, I
wrote over the surface, in large letters, the word
London, England, 1846-10-05

Box-office open from eleven till four o'clock.

.ASTLEY'i ROYAL AMPHITHEAIRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
LAST WEEK OF TIIE SUMMER SEASON.
Patronised by her Mos: Gracious Majesty the Queen. Ptlnce
Aibert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal. Unabated
attraction. '• The Merchant's Steed" still continues his trium-
phant course.
London, England, 1846-12-08

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.

- .
'1 he success of the reduction of prices of admission at this Theatre
is without precedent, nightly overflows being the result. Boxes,
Is. ; Half-price, 6d. ; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Continued success et
the splendid Drama of " The Black Doctor."
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THEBIJACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin-
cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, Mrs. R. Barnett, and Messrs.
Edwards, Bird-, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform.
After which TILE STAGE-STRUCK LOVERS. Tommy Tape,
Mr. Forman ; Sally Scragge, Miss Lydia Ptarce.
To conclude with JACK RAIrN ; or, Sixteen-string Jack, and
the Knaves of Knaves'-acre.

TUE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, DECEMBER 8.
ttERHOMETER, Lowest, 35; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 4
BAROMETER, 30.26.—W1ND N.N.E., fine.

WA.'fi,flit AT LONDON-liiitnut, DAt
Horning .. I mlnute3 after 5. I Evening .. 22 minutes after 5.

-41,10",‘
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London, England, 1846-12-08

WADDY V. DILLON AND OTHERS.

This was also an action in which the question of
provisional liability was raised. The plaintiff was the
Parliamentary agent of the London and Manchester
Direct Railway, and sought to recover a large sum of
money due to him for professional services rendered
during the early stages of the formation of this company.
The defendants, seven or eight in number, were mem-
bers of the managing as well as the provisional com-
mittees of the London and Manchester Direct Railway.

Mr. Montague Chambers and Mr. Bayley appeared
for the plaintiff; the Attorney-General and Mr. noggins
for the defendants.

It appeared that the services rendered by the plaintiff
to the company consisted in part of obtaining the names
of good, influential, and first-rate persons as members of
the provisional and managing committees of the railway
in question.
From the evidence called upon the part of the plain
tiff, it appeared that he had recommended six persons
to be elected as provisional committeemen. The late
secretary of the company, who was called, stated that
the plaintiff had sent in their names, and that some of
them were elected. The application to become members
of the Provisional Committee were so numerous that he
was literally deluged with them, and he considered that
the great object of the applicants was to obtain an allot-
ment of the shares.
The LORD CHIEF BARON—Does the whole of the
plaintiff's claim arise from printing these names? If so,
I think the plaintiff must be nonsuited.
Ar. M. CHAMBERS said that he would call other
witnesses, who would depose to other professional ser-
vices rendered by the plaintiff.
Another witness was accordingly called.
The -LORD CHIEF BARON intimated that no further
progress was being made by the evidence of that witness.
Mr. M. CHAMBERS said that he could not go any
further with his case.
The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited.

E COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 7.
HOLDSV/ORTH V. GIBSON AND OTHERS.-ALLEGED NBITS
London, England, 1846-12-08

et Jowl.

LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1846.

The most contradictory accounts are continually
arriving from the Tagus.
i If we were to repose im-
plicit credence upon any individual statement, instead
of collating every species of information--instead of
extracting the kernel of facts from the husk of mis-
representation—we should unquestionably be de-
ceived. Watching any disturbed country from so
great a distance, and deriving our intelligence from
separate spectators, we are, so to speak, looking
upon that remote spectacle through so many different
glasses. Taken singly, these glasses afford us only a
very distorted view of what is transpiring—one is
concave, another is convex—one magnifies, another
diminishes—one exaggerates ever} thing into a pre-
posterous magnitude, another reduces everything to a
ridiculous minuteness. It is only by combining these
lenses, as in the telescope, that their different powers
of refraction can be made to harmonise, and that we
can thereby discern the various occurrences and cha-
racters and interests in their true proportions.
According to the advocates of the royal cause, Queen
MARIA- DA GLORIA has acted constitutionally in the
selection of her Ministerial advisers—the Duke of
SALDANHA is the impersonation at once of loyalty
and patriotism—the population are disposed to confide
in the wisdom and liberality of the
_new Administra-
tion—the insurgents are little better than the spawn
of lawless insubordination. According to the well-
wishers of the popular party, on the other hand—the
SOVEREIGN bas violated the most sacred principles of
the constitution—the present Government is formed
of the creatures of the Gallic Cabinet— the nation is
throughout animated with feelings of resentment
against those who would thus endeavour to subvert
the principal engagements of the Charta—the armed
guerillas, championed by DAS ANTAS and his col-
leagues, are a phalanx of patriots. According to the
Court sycophants there never was so causeless a
rebellion. According to the enthusiastic admirers
of the present movement the nationality, the
freedom, the very independence of the Por-
tuguese are jeopardised, and hence the insur-
gent chieftains are regarded as the saviours of
the population. It is almost unnecessary to observe
that neither of these assurances can be regarded as
strictly correct ; neither of them, indeed, can be
said to possess even a moiety of truth. Both are
egregious exaggerations. One is the puff direct"
of royal coercion, the other is the puff collusive of
popular excitement. We should be merely pandering
to the tastes of partizanship did we aide with either
of these interested representations.
Scanning the present position of affairs in Portu-
gal, we cannot but acknowledge to ourselves that
there is infinite reason for a revolutionary movement
London, England, 1846-12-08

talk of exaggeration is at an end. The peoplearedying,
not by twos or threes, but by dozens—the ordinary
forms of decent burial are dispensed with—the people,
who nut having the means of supporting lit-, upon
death with a callous inuitlefenee nituetto whoLy un-
known in Ireland; and when the dead bodies are put
into a fragile shell, with the name of a coffin, those who
bear it to the grave are the only persons who accompany
it. I saw to-day and yesterday several such funerals:
not a living being but the four who had the coffin on their
shoulders.
London, England, 1846-12-08

ROYAL VICTORIA TBEATRE,

The success of the reduction of prices of admission at this Theatre
is without precedent, nightly overflows being the result. Boxes,
Is. ; Half-price, 6d. ; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, .3d. Continued success of
the splendid Drama of " The Black Doctor."
TIIIS EVENING

Will be performed TIIE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Mims Vin-
cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, Mrs. R. Barnett, and Messrs.
Edwards, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform.
After which TIIE STAGE-STRUCK LOVERS. Tommy Tape,
Mr. Forman ; Sally Scragzs, Miss Lydia Pearce.
To conclude with JACK RANN ; or, Sixteen-string Jack, and
the Knaves of Knaves'-acre.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DECE3IBER 7.
TIERMONETEII, Lowest, 33; Highest. 40 ; Noon, 39

BAROMETER, 29.95.—W1ND N.N.W., fine.

IllUli WATEtt AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 1 minutes after 5. I Evening .. 22 minutes after 5.

• ;2.
21%-'I,•P ;AAA
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London, England, 1846-12-08

THE MILITARY MAGAZINE.

This magazine, if kept up with the spirit exhibited
in the present number, cannot fail to succeed. It is
not only the soldier's friend, but his champion like-
wise, and the soldier will not he the less disposed to
accept the advice tendered to him by his friend, be-
cause, when occasion requires it, he is his champion
likewise. The following observations on the recent
peace lectures delivered at the Hall of Commerce are
admirable :

" The argument of the lecturers at the Hall of Com-
merce was, that war is a horrible, and peace a desirable
thing. This is_as true as if said by ' poor Richard'
himself. The highest living authority has pronounced
it impossible to exaggerate the horrors of war. Man's
imagination—indeed, woman's too—lags in the wake of
the reality. As the bray of trumpets has often drowned
the groans, entreaties, aye, and curses of the wounded
and dying on the battle field, so does the news of victory
—with the details of gallant daring and brave endurance
—drive from the thought of those who live at home in
case the agonies, present and enduring, that very victory
has entailed. All that we grant; we grant, too, that the
rights of property in a scene of warfare are set at nought;
life has no sacredness, for it is the soldier's duty to de-
stroy it in his enemy—to take it from men with whom
he has no personal quarrel, whom he very properly re-
gards with no animosity. These things, and many more,
have been stated by the lecturers in question (and their
motives are deserving of all respect, while their eloquence
is that of earnest men) ; but the remedy they would
apply would aggravate the evil they seek to remove.
Let the belief once be established in England that a
soldier, even a private soldier, is not an honourable, as
well as necessary calling, let the people be induced to
think that war is but a base and bloody trade—let dis-
content be engendered at the cost of the two services,
and a niggard spirit be allowed by the Legislature to
reduce the numbers and lessen the efficiency of the men,
and the materiel of war, and what would be the result ?
War would be inevitable, because victory over this
wealthy country would be thought assured.
What caused the Americans to consent to the peaceful
settlement of the Oregon question? what but the know-
ledge that England was fully prepared for war ? That,
though not anxious to wound, she was prepared to strike,
and to strike home too. What, we repeat, in this in-
stance manifestly preserved the peace ? Our being
armed at all points for war. And so, until society is
very different, it will ever be.
" No, Gentlemen of the Peace Society, if you succeed,
in making the soldier's calling an unpopular and, there-
fore, a slighted one—if you succeed in diminishing the
number of our forces, and making an army and a navy
appear costly encumbrances, the Emperor Nicholas, Mr.
President Polk, and M. Thiers would declare that, to
their views, you were the best friends the age had pro-
duced."
London, England, 1846-12-08

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS,

This day, elegantly bound, with engraved Title, and Twelve Illastra

Lions, price 55.,
THE FIRESID E, a Domestic Tale.
By PERCY. B. 5T JOHN,
Author of "White Stone Canoe," " Trapper's Bride," " Enchanted
Rock," now ready, price 3s. each.
11. K. Lewis, 15, Gower-street North ; and all Booksellers in
town and country.
London, England, 1846-12-08

•' No, Gentlemen of the Peace Society, if you succeed
in making the soldier's calling an unpopular and, there-
fore, a slighted one—if you succeed in diminishing the
number of oar forces, and making an army and a navy
appear costly encumbrances, the Emperor Nicholas, Mr.
President Polk, and M. Thiers would declare that, to
their views, you were the best friends the age had pro-
duced."
London, England, 1846-12-08

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No, 9, Denmark-street, Soho-square, Dec. 3, 1846.
ENZIES'S ANNUAL CALEDONIAN
cosTu-ntE and FANCY DRESS BALL will take place on
TIIIIRSDAY, the 21st ofJ anuary, at the QUEEN'S CONCERT ROOMS,
Hanover-square.

OR NWALL RAILWAY.
RJ Notice is he-eby given, that In pursuance of the provisions of
the Act of Incorporation, the FIRST GENERAL MEETING of
PROPRIETORA in this undertaking, will be held in the Assembly
Rooms at Truro, on WEDNESDAY, the 16th December next, at noon.
Those Proprietors only who have been previously registered can
attend, and vote at the meeting.

JOSEPH THOMAS TREFFRY, Chairman.
WILLIA.Ii 11. BOND, Secretary,
Cornwall Railway Office, 80, Lemon-street, Truro,
21st November, 1846.
The Sealed Certificates will be issued immediately after the above.
mentioned meeting has been held.

O R N WALL RAI LWA Y
J Notice is hereby given that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEET-
ING of the Proprietors in this undertaking will be held, in the
Assembly Rooms, at Truro, on WEDNESDAY, the 16th day of Decem-
ber next, at One o'clock in the Afternoon, to consider the propriety o.
an application to Parliament for an Act for the alteration of the
Line of the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and a point near
Saltash, and for powers to purchase, lease, or jointly construct and
use portions of the South Devon Railway and works, and to pur-
chase the Saltash Ferry, and to sell or lease the New Works to the
Great Western Railway Company, or to the Bristol and Exeter
Railway Company, or to the South Devon Railway Company.
JOS. THO. TREFFRY, Chairman.
• IV. 11. BOND, Secretary.
Cornwall Railway Office, 80, Lemon-street, Truro,
21st November, 1846.
London, England, 1846-12-08

PUBLICATIONS.

Just published, price Five Shillings,
HUGH T A L B O T;
A Tale of the Irish Confiscations of the Seventeenth

Century.

By 'WILLIAM J. O'NEILL DAUNT. Esq.
Dublin : J. Duffy. London : C. Dolman, 61, New Bond-street.

iloop's MAGAZINE Indexed:—
Elegy to Hood's Memory—The Avenger, Act. 11., by (I. W.
Lovell, Author of "Look before you Leap"—Person—Palmerston's
Policy—Schoolmasters' Incorporation—Books' Prolixity—Gems—
Curio ities—Whispers—Voices from the Past—Tintern Abbey, by
lon, M.A., Oxon.—My Beautiful Dream, by Cantab—The Vanden-
hoffs —Blanche Neville—Collegiate Life—Evening Ode—Sonnets on
Puseyism, Flogging, Factory Labour, Seduction—Montpensier Mar-
riage Lyrics, N. L. T., Oxon.—Verses, S. Gower—Eight Reviews—
Exhibitions.
London, England, 1846-12-08

Probate of the will of the late most Hon. Archibald
Marquis of Ailse, of the United Kingdom, Earl of Cas-
sillis in Scotland, of Cullean Castle, Ayrshire, North
Britain; of Whitehall-gardens, and of St. Margaret's,
[sleworth, Middlesex, has been granted by the Preroga
dye Court in London, to the executors and trustees, Sir
David Baird, Bart., Colonel Jonathan Peel, and Sir John
A. Cathcart, Bart. The personalty in England, and
within the provinces of Canterbury, was estimated for
duty at 160,0001. His grandson, the present Marquis
of Ailsa, eldest son of the deceased Marquis's eldest
son, the late Earl of Cassillis, succeeds to the entailed
estates of Cassillis and Cullean, and by the law of Scot-
land there is a power possessed of making provision
from entailed estates for the wife and younger children,
of which his Lordship availed himself; and has charged
the entailed estate in Scotland with the payment of
3,5001. per annum, which he has settled on his relict the
Marchioness, and has made a large provision for his
younger children. All the unentailed estate, property,
and effects, heritable and moveable, real and personal,
carriages, horses, pictures, plate, furniture, &c., to be
held in trust, and that his relict, the Marchioness, may
either enjoy a life interest from certain estates or a sum
equivalent, and the selection of any part of plate, and
the furniture, books, and pictures not specifically dis-
posed of, for her own use absolutely, and a sum of
2,0001. for mourning. Besides the furniture, plate, and
pictures at Cullean Castle, there is to be transferred
there a piece of silver plate, with an engraving repre-
senting what was termed by the family " his father's
battle;" also the following pietures as heir-looms, viz.,
Mary Queen of Scots and James her father; Louis XIV.
introducing King James to his Queen; Buonaparte; Gil-
bert, Earl of Cassillis; the Lioness in the net. The Mar-
quis has left to the children of the late Earl of Cassillis
a legacy of 4,000/. to each, and to the children of Lady
Ann Baird, 2,0001. each, and like legacies to others of
his family, as well as specific bequests of pictures and
plate. To his executors 5001. each, and liberal legacies
to his servants. The residue to his grandchildren in
certain specified proportions. The deceased Marquis
made a will for England and another for Scotland, both
of even date—the 11th September, 1843. His Lordship
attained his seventy-sixth year, and died on the Bth of
xeptember last. He was created Marquis by King Wil-
.iam IV. in 1831. The Earldom of Cassillis was made
in 1509.
London, England, 1846-12-08

RAILTVAY REGISTER.

The Number for the present month completes the
fourth Volume of the Railway Register, which is
dedicated to Henry Houldsworth, Esq., the chairman
of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company.
The opening article, by the Editor, on the Dutc&
Rhenish Railway is well worthy the study of those
who have invested, or intend to invest, capital in
foreign railway schemes. This paper is followed by
a valuable digest of the statistics of Belgian railway
traffic in 1844 and 1845, anticipatory of the publica-
tion of the Minister of Public Works for the latter
year. We have likewise a carefully-considered and
admirably-written paper on Indian Railways, from
the pen of the Editor, which contains much useful
information as to the mode in which those railways
are likely to work. This paper is the first of a series.
"The Portfolio" contains the conclusion of the official
documents relating to the South-Western Railway,
and the original prospectuses, &c., of the Cornwall,
West Cornwall, Preston and Longridge, and Nor-
wich and Brandon Railways.

THE PATRICIAN. Edited by John Burke, Esq.
The December number completes the second
volume of this very valuable and admirably arranged
geneological and archmlogical miscellany. Among
the most interesting papers of the present number is
one on that grand historical enigma "the Men with
the Iron Mall," the writer of which proves most
satisfactorily that " the Man with the Iron Mask"
could not have been Count Matthioli, as imagined by
the Quarterly Reviewer, and shows that probably
Voltaire was right when he represented him as being
the twin brother of Louis XIV. The series of curious
trials connected with the aristocracy is continued,
and in this number we have the trial of Lord Byron
for killing Mr. Chaworth in a duel, in 1765. From the
evidence adduced at:the trial, it is clear that Lord Byron
was more sinned against than sinning, and that Mr.
Chaworth was a mere spadassin, who richly merited
the fate which he provoked. The quarrel originated
in an after-dinner conversation on the subject of
game. Mr. Chaworth, who was a great game-pre-
server, insisting that the only way to have game was
to exercise great strictness and severity with the
country people, while Lord Byron advocated milder
measures. This trial is very interesting, as illustra-
tive of the brutal state of manners among the English
aristocracy at the commencement of the reign of
George 111.
London, England, 1846-12-08

< -z
COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, took their usual early
walk yesterday in the plantations of Osborne House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice
waked and rode on ponies yesterday forenoon in the
drives and pleasure grounds of Osborne House. ller
Royal Highness the Princess Helena was also taken an
airing yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince George has arrived at his
residence in St. James's Palace, from Ireland.

Mr. C Marryatt and Mr. J. Marryatt had an inter-
view with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Lord Marcus Hill had also an interview with the Noble
Earl yesterday.
London, England, 1846-12-08

RAILI;' Y REGISTER.

The Number fo,. t:1- present month completes the
fourth Volume of t:le Railway Register, which is
dedicated to Henry Iloulds worth, Esq., the chairman
of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company.
The opening article, by the Editor, on the Dutch
Rhenish Railway is well worthy the study of those
who have invested, or intend to invest, capital in
foreign railway schemes. This paper is followed by
a valuable digest of the statistics of Belgian railway
traffic in 1844 and 1845, anticipatory of the publica-
tion of the Minister of Public Works for the latter
year. We have likewise a carefully-considered and
admirably-written paper on Indian Railways, from
the pen of the Riitor, which contains much useful
information as to the mode in which those railways
are likely to work. This paper is the first of a series.
"The Portfolio" contains the conclusion of the official
documents relating to the South-Western Railway,
and the original prospectuses, &c., of the Cornwall,
West Cornwall, Preston and Longridge, and Nor-
wich and Brandon Railways.

THE PATRICIAN. Edited by John Burhe, Esq.
The December number completes the second
volume of this very valuable and admirably arranged
geneologbal and archmlogical miscellany. Among
the most interesting papers of the present number is
one on that grand historical enigma " the Man with
the Iron Mask," the writer of which proves most
satisfactorily that " the Man with the Iron Mask"
could not have been Count Matthioli, as imagined by
the Quarterly Reviewer, and shows that probably
Voltaire was right when he represented him as being
the twin brother of Louis XIV. The series of curious
trials connected with the aristocracy is continued,
and in this number we have the trial of Lord Byron
for killing Mr. Chaworth in a duel, in 1765. From the
evidence adduced at.the trial, it is clear that; Lord Byron
was more sinned against than sinning, and that Mr.
Chaworth was a mere spadassin, who richly merited
the fate which he provoked. The quarrel originated
in an after-dinner conversation on the subject of
game. Mr. Chaworth, who was a great game-pre-
server, insisting that the only way to have game was
to exercise great strictness and severity with the
country people, while Lord Byron advocated milder
measures. This trial is very interesting, as illustra-
tive of the brutal state of manners among the English
aristocracy at the commencement of the reign of
George 111.
London, England, 1846-12-08

RAILWAY REGISTER.

The Number for the present month completes the
fourth Volume of the Railway Register, which is
dedicated to Henry Houldsworth, Esq., the chairman
of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company.
The opening article, by the Editor, on the Dutcb
Rhenish Railway is well worthy the study of those
who have invested, or intend to invest, capital in
foreign railway schemes. This paper is followed by
a valuable digest of the statistics of Belgian railway
traffic in 1844 and 1845, anticipatory of the publica-
tion of the Minister of Public Works for the latter
year. We have likewise a carefully-considered and
admirably-written paper on Indian Railways, from
the pen of the Editor, which contains much useful
information as to the mode in which those railways
are likely to work. This paper is the first of a series.
" The Portfolio" contains the conclusion of the official
documents relating to the South-Western Railway,
and the original prospectuses, &c., of the Cornwall,
%Vest Cornwall, Preston and Longridge, and Nor-
wich and Brandon Railways.

THE PATRICIAN. Edited by John Burke, Esq.
The December number completes the second
volume of this very valuable and admirably arranged
geneologi2al and archwlogical miscellany. Among
the most interesting papers of the present number is
one on that grand historical enigma " the Man with
the Iron Mask," the writer of which proves most
satisfactorily that " the Man with the Iron Mask"
could not have been Count Matthioli, as imagined by
the Quarterly Reviewer, and shows that probably
Voltaire was right when he represented him as being
the twin brother of Louis XIV. The series of curious
trials connected with the aristocracy is continued,
and in this number we have the trial of Lord Byron
for killing Mr. Chaworth in a duel, in 1765. From the
evidence adduced at the trial, it is clear that Lord Byron
was more sinned against than sinning, and that Mr.
Chaworth was a mere spadassin, who richly merited
the fate which he provoked. The quarrel originated
in an after-dinner conversation on the subject of
game. Mr. Chaworth, who was a great game-pre-
server, insisting that the only way to have game was
to exercise great strictness and severity with the
country people, while Lord Byron advocated milder
measures. This trial is very interesting, as illustra-
tive of the brutal state of manners among the English
aristocracy at the commencement of the reign of
George 111. .
London, England, 1846-12-08

PAPER LIBEL.

This was an action brought by Dr. Holdsworth, re-
siding at Plymouth, to recover from the proprietors of
the Plymouth Journal damages for an alleged libel,
which appeared in that paper on the 12th of February
last, arising out of certain proceedings of the Royal
Western Yacht Club. The damages were laid at 5,0001.
S'r F. Thesiger, Mr. Sergeant Channel, and Mr.
Smith were for the plaintiff; Mr. Ccckburn, Mr. Green.
wood, and Mr. Hoggins were for the defendants.
• The defendants pleaded not guilty, and also that the
charges put forth in the alleged libel were true.
Sir F. MESMER opened the case on behalf of the
plaintiff. The action, he said, was brought against the
proprietors of the newspaper in question after the most
careful anxiety and consideration. Unless he had done
so, he could not have again held up his head in society.
In order to meet the charge the defendant, not content
with denying the libel, had declared on the record that
the charge was true. With regard to the plaintiff, the
consequences of the trial were most important. If the
verdict goes for the defendant the consequences to the
plaintiff would be most disastrous ; whereas, should it
go for the plaintiff, it would be but little reparation for
the injury done, while the defendant in that case would,
in all likelihood, not sell a single newspaper the less.
The plaintiff in the action is a physician, a married man
with eight children, who, in 1845, established
himself in practice at Plymouth, and, up to the
time of the unfortunate circumstance which led to the
present action, had been much respected. Shortly after
settling in that town he got elected into the Royal
Yacht Club. In the month of February, in the present
year, some circumstances arose in connexion with that
club which led to the calling together of a general
meeting of its members. A discussion took place, and
the result was the blackballing of the plaintiff and
another member. This was a matter unfor-
tunate enough in itself, but the matter did
not rest here. In a few days there appeared in
the newspaper in; question an article reflecting
in the strongest manner on the character of the plaintiff;
The public, it was said, liked strung meat in newspapers,
and this, no doubt, was the cause of the article in ques-
tion being penned and published. That article was so
gross and libellous that no course remained to the
plaintiff, unless he would allow his character to be for
ever blasted, but to bring this action. In order to put
the jury in possession of the libel at the earliest possible
period, he would read it. (The Learned Gentleman then
read the alleged libel from the Plymouth Journal of
Feb. 12 :
" ROYAL WESTERN YACHT CLUB.
"COURT OF HONOUR.
" EXPULSION OF TWO BLACKLEGS.

"For some time past circumstances of suspicion had attached to
two members of this club, owing to two gentlemen haying beef
London, England, 1846-12-08

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MA GAZINES-(CONTINUED.)
DUBLLV UNIVERSITY MAGAZEVE.

The biographical sketch of M. Adolphe Thiers, the
historian of the revolution and the empire, and the
great French statesman, is continued ; or, we may say
at once, completed. Although the writer is some-
times painfully discursive, he is generally so lively
and beyond all discriminates the character of Thiers,
with such impartiality, that his composition will be
generally welcome. Here is a condensed explanation
of the difference in oratory between the rival states-
men of France :

" M. Guizot, who then far surpassed him as a master
of Parliamentary eloquence, would fasten upon some one
great principle, some prominent idea, and by presenting
it to his audience in various points of view, render the
dullest minds familiar with it, until he would make them
believe the principle was their own. This is peculiarly
the art of a professor, and hence the success of M.
Guizot in its application. M. Thiers, on the contrary,
would crowd into his speech such a diversity of topics,
so intermingled with anecdotes and histvriettes, that his
discourse resembled a piece of mosaic, very dazzling to
the eye, but having little to engage the more reflective
powers of the understanding. While the one orator
would reproduce the same leading idea in many speeches,
the other would crowd a plurality of leading ideas into
a single speech. In leaving the house after hearing M.
Guizot, the Deputies went home thinking of the subject;
in leaving the house, after hearing M. Thiers, they went
home thir:king of the man."

When we remember the pecuniary disadvantages,
the ignoble origin, and the friendless condition of
Thiers ; when we remember how he had to conquer
the antipathy of the fastidious for his vulgarity, to
enable the multitude to behold his little body as
plainly as though it were colossal, to move the
passions of the members of the Legislative Chambers
by his sing-song oratory, and to diminish the disgust
with which his shrill voice was first listened to, and
his grotesque gesticulations first beheld, we shall
be enabled to form some conception of the
♦astness of his intellectual capacities of the
indomitable audacity of his ambition, of the
profundity and extent of his knowledge. It is im-
possible to desert this subject without transcribing a
few fragments from the brilliant and masterly sketch
of M. Thiers, as drawn by M. Cormenin, otherwise
celebrated as Timon. He says—
London, England, 1846-12-08

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By CHARLES ROWCROFT, Esq.
Author of "Tales of the Colonies, or the Adventures of an Emigrant,"

"The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land," &c.

" The story of ' The Ruined Merchant,' reminds us of some among
the passages of Mr. Warren's Physician's Diary.' "—..kthenxum.
"Specimens of admirable fiction, fitted to amuse and delight our
leisure."—Court Journal.

" There is a great variety of subjects, the grave, the gay, the
hurnourous, the pathetic, &c. It may be read for instruction and
profit by many—for amusement by all."—Saval aria Military
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THE MILITARY MAGAZINE.

This magazine, if kept up with the spirit exhibited
in the present number, cannot fail to succeed. It is
not only the soldier's friend, but his champion like-
wise, and the soldier will not he the less disposed to
accept the advice tendered to him by his friend, be-
cause, when occasion requires it, he is his champion
likewise. The following observations on the recent
peace lectures delivered at the Hall of Commerce are
admirable :

" The argument of the lecturers at the Hall of Com-
merce was, that war is a horrible, and peace a desirable
thing. This is as true as if said by poor Richard'
himself. The highest living authority has pronounced
it impossible to exaggt rate the horrors of war. Man's
imagination—indeed, woman's too—lags in the wake of
the reality. As the bray of trumpets has often drowned
the groans, entreaties, aye, and curses of the wounded
and dying on the battle field, so does the news of victory
with the details of gallant daring and brave endurance
—drive from the thought of those who live at home in
case the agonies, present and enduring, that very victory
has entailed. All that we grant; we grant, too, that the
rights of property in a scene of warfare are set a t nought;
life has no sacredness, for it is the soldier's duty to de-
stroy it in his enemy—to take it from men with whom
he has no personal quarrel, whom he very properly re-
gards with no animosity. These things, and many more,
have been stated by the lecturers in question (and their
motives are deserving of all respect, while their eloquence
is that of earnest men) ; but the remedy they would
apply would aggravate the evil they seek to remove.
Let the belief once be established in England that a
soldier, even a private soldier, is not an honourable, as
well as necessary calling, let the people be induced to
think that war is but a base and bloody trade—let dis-
content be engendered at the cost of the two services,
and a niggard spirit be allowed by the Legislature to
reduce the numbers and lessen the efficiency of the men,
and the materiel of war, and what would be the result ?
War would be inevitable, because victory over this
wealthy country would be thought assured.
What caused the Americans to consent to the peaceful
settlement of the Oregon question? what but the know-
ledge that England was fully prepared for war ? That,
though not anxious to wound, she was prepared to strike,
and to strike home too. What, we repeat, in this in-
stance manifestly preserved the peace ? Our being
armed at all points for war. And so, until society is
very different, it will ever be.
London, England, 1846-12-08

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER /-% 8, 1846.

The most contradictory accounts are continually
arriving from the Tagus. If we were to repose im-
plicit credence upon any individual statement, instead
of collating every species of information—instead of
extracting the kernel of facts from the husk of mis-
represeatation—we should unquestionably be de-
ceived. Watching any disturbed country from so
great a distance, and deriving our intelligence from
separate spectators, we are, so to speak, looking
upon that remote spectacle through so many different
glasses. Taken singly, these glasses afford us only a
very distorted view of what is transpiring—one is
concave, another is convex—one magnifies, another
diminishes—one exaggerates every thing into a pre-
posterous magnitude, another reduces everything to a
ridiculous minuteness. It is only by combining these
lenses, as in the telescope, that their different powers
of refraction can be made to harmonise, and that we
can thereby discern the various occurrences and cha-
racters and interests in their true proportions.
According to the advocates of the royal cause, Queen
MARIA DA GLORIA has acted constitutionally in the
selection of her Ministerial advisers—the Duke of
SALDANIIA is the impersonation at once of loyalty
and patriotism—the population are disposed to confide
in the wisdom and liberality of the new Administra-
tion—the insurgents are little better than the spawn
of lawless insubordination. According to the well-
wishers of the popular party, on the other hand—the
SOVEREIGN has violated the most sacred principles of
the constitution—the present Government is formed
of the creatures of the Gallic Cabinet— the nation is
throughout animated with feelings of resentment
against those who would thus endeavour to subvert
gthe
rprincipal
championed
col-
leagues, are a phalanx of patriots. According to the
Court sycophants there never was so causeless a
engagements of the Charts—the armed
by DAs ANTAS and his
rebellion. According to the enthusiastic admirers
of the present movement the nationality, the
freedom, the very independence of the
sPor-
tuguese are jeopardised, and hence thevi inrasure-
gent chieftains are regarded as the saviours of
the population. It is almost unnecessary to observe
that neither of these assurances can be regarded as
said
dicttlyo
possess
st ;evena
neitherm eoieftytheeftruth. Both are
egregious egregious exaggerations. One is the ‘‘ puff direct" "
puff
of royal coercion, the other is the collusive" of
indeed, ca n br ee
ant.Wea
should
pteoptuhleartaesxteciteaemf
partizanshipof these interested representations.
Scanning the present position of affairs in Portu-
gal, we cannot but acknowledge to ourselves that
did ld be
we merely
side
d e wwith
panderingeithe
r
there is infinite reason for a revolutionary movement
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"The Bushranger cf Van Diemen's Land," &c.
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the passages of Mr. Warren's Physician's Diary.' "—Athemoutn.
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leisure." —Court Journal.

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sign the dividend paper, but he had not since taken any
steps on the part of the assignee, or for himself; to have
it set right till now.
The Solicitor had been a great many times and never
had an opportunity of speaking to his Honour.
His HONOUR said that was quite incredible. It was
clear that he was not entitled to costs which had not
been submitted to audit at the audit meeting. He could
not bring the money back, but would in a proper me-
morandum being put on the proceedings, allow an
amendment, so that the new creditors might receive the
first dividend which would exhaust the assets.
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