The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-12 00:00:00

CORK Nov, 10.

The following were the quotations this morning :—Red
wheat, 15s Od to 21s; white, 19s Od to 23s 6d; barley lls Od
to 16s 2d; oats, 10s Od to 13s 2d.
In the butter market upwards of 1,700 firkins were on
sale. Prices—First quality, 104 s; second, 100 s; third, 90a;
fourth, 82a ; fifth, 705.; sixth, 50s.

DERBY SMITHFIELD—Nov. 9.
There was a good supply of fat beasts to-day, mostly of
excellent quality, the attendance of buvers was small, and
the greater part went away unsold. The pens were well
filled with sheep, and high prices asked. A. good number
of fat pigs, demand brisk, and prices better. A plentiful
supply of fat calves.
Beef sf dto 61d Veal 6ld to 7d
Mutton .... ....... 614 to 7d pork
Lamb . ..od to --d Rough fat, 4slod per stone.
Hides, 4d to s;d; calf skins, ilid to 51d.

n TISEMENT.i—HOiIOWay'S Pills.—ln all bilious
r Ecomplaints,&oErßl
oiwn
s pin s, indigestion,ther
es iicsknhoeldeadcihe headache, and
omhpar3rpoacbtont
0-
tdheiasseispills. They give immediate relief, but not immediate
relief only, for by purifying the blood, and imparting tone
to the stomach, they renovate the constitution, enable it to
throw off all predisposition to the disease, and protect the
patient from the chance of its return. The cure is not
local or temporary, but active and permanent. These pills
are composed off-rare balsams, without the alimiiture of a
grain of any mineral or deleterious substance. They are
so mild in their action, that a course of them nay be
entered upon without any interruption of ordinary business.

WINTER,,i---.NO
ii CH.:,NTFEMANf during the enters the House of C mmons, and there listens to
a debate within its walls upon the Indian mutiny—
MACDOUGALL'S NANO US HIGHLAND CLOAKS,
Univt'r,'allY .ackilowldged to be the most comfortable, a discussion upon the Sepoy revolt, under the
useful, and ~2,entlernanlv upper Garment now in use, either
for Town wear, or the-Rail, flu' Coach, Riding, Driving, and rooftree of the Britifth Parliament. His whole
Walking. They arc made of Scotch Tweeds, in every variety
of Plain Colours' and very pretty 3lixtures : also in dark soul kindles with aelmiration. It is the war-
(;Grey and Illack,.for;,Cerg,ym len's wear.
-• horse stirred by the sound of the trumpet. A. lON
"ties from.

265. to 36g,

Good useful plant
The best do. do. .• .. 3Ss. to 50s.
Tile Height and Size round. Sltomiders is sufficient measure.
Patterns and price pe." post, free.
Any number o 1 Cloaks forwarded la four days from date of
: .• order, free to London.
- D. MACDOUGALL,
THE ROYAL TARTAN WAREHOUSE.
INVERNESS.

11HEATRY,ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—Under
the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W
in,: -EVENING,Ife's ROSE OF CASTILLE : Miss
Louisa Fyne, Miss Susan Tyne, Miss M. Prescott; Mr. Fer-
dinand Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Bartleman, and Mr.
W. Ilarrison. •

Conductor—Mr. Alfred 3fellon.

To conclude with-a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR
D•AMOUR : 3lesdlles. L. Hichelet, 31orlacchi, and Pasquale.

OYAL. rRINCESS'S THEATRE.
_VS) Vodur the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
vrtS EVENING will he presented Shakspere's Tragedy of

MACBET H.
1\ taebeth, Mr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean,
l're ceded by the Farce of

AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY.

lIHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING' will be performed (fourth time), THE
TALE OF A COAT. Mr. Charles Mathews.
After which, THE DOWAGER. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mathews. •
Followed by THE ETON BOY. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mathews, &e.
And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
Commence at 7.

R OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
_LW Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING
IN : :Messrs. Selby, Parselle, and Miss Swan-
boron. '4ll.
After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
Fori owed by THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS: Messrs.
C. sep3 y, J. Bland, J. Clarke, &c.
And BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

AA' STLY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
• Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke.
Astound is 'g and Expensive Parisian Engagement.
THIS EVENVNG, and during the week, will be presented
THE WOODMA_N'S HORSE, introducing a treble company
of equestrians and the finest Stud of Horses in the world.
Characters by Me.iws. Holloway, W. Cooke, Anson, Francis,
Mark Howard, Anclevson..
Followed by the inimitable SCENES OF THE ARENA,
in which Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Cooke, and
Madlle. Blanche will al Tear.
After which, Madame . Nmile Maurice, from Paris, will make
her Terrific Ascent frone the Stage to the backof the Galleries.
Mons. Maurice will also have the honour to introduce Isis
extraordinary Dogs. •
To conclude with A MISTAKEN STORY.
Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. • Galleries, 6d.
Private Boxes from £1 1.8. to £2 2s. and upwards.
Stage Manager, Jlr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor—C. MoRTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
A R TS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
o ,?.EN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'ciock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters, and is also
devotk 'd to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he nta.v confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
73outsic Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added A knte-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as rega. As the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, Nv. ill be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kingdom-
The Mus 'MAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'cro,Nk•

THE IV .EATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 12.

TITY,RMSMETER, TN THE SHADE.
49—highest .s,:nce noon yesterday.
38—lowest this: morning and during the night.
45—this day at; voon.

PARomETER-30.08.
Easte,-ly ; light, with fine weather.

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THE SUN.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1858.

M. DE MONTALEMBERT has never given more
signal evide.nec of his genius, of his piety, of his
eloquence, than that abundantly afforded in the
remarkable publication for which he is about to
undergo in France the glory of a State prosecution.
And the genius, piety, and eloquence of M. DE
MONTALEMBERT WCYC already cordially recognised
all over Christendom. his reputation is not of

yesterday. _ He has long assumed high rank among
the.chiefs Of his generation. Though but now in
• its meridian, his fair fame dates back to its origin
more than a quarter of a century ago, when he had
but just emerged from being a stripling. During
this interval of five-and twenty years he has risen
to the importance of one of the most honoured of
the-intellectual notabilities of his time and coun-
try. Beyond this he has assumed to himself a far
higher dignity, that befitting ene exercising a
great moral influence over his contemporaries. The
light of his knowledge has been kindled from the
lamp of the sanctuary. His religious zeal is pro-
found and intense, but it has none of the animus
of fanaticism. Without the smallest particle of
bigotry in his nature, he is one of the staunchest
of the great living lay champions of Roman Catho-
licism. Since the demise of CHATEAUBRIAND,
since the secession of LAMMENNAIS—France, " the
eldest daughter" of that Church, has had no son -whose
fervour and whose resplendent abilities have shed
more lustre in these times upon the cause of the Pon-
tificate. And neiv, after the protracted silence of
nearly one entire decade—a silence consequent
upon, the overthrow of the parliamentary tribune,
and the restrictions imposed upon the public press
in his native land M. DE MONTALEMBEItt has
raised his voice once more in ringing and
trumpet-like reverberations in this famous argument
of his in the Correspondant. For this manly utter-
ance he is about to be arraigned at the bar of
France. The charge against him, of course, is
nothing less than that of leze majeste. His guilt,
accordingly as we may view it, is something more or
less than misprision of treason. And certainly, as
he advances to his trial, we may say of him what
Lord MAcAtLAv has said of WARREN HASTINGS,
the Proconsul—he looks like a great and not like a
bad man. The judicial examination in France of
this latest of the literary effusions of MONTALEM-
BERT is now upon the eve of its. commencement.
Meanwhile the publiratieti" itself is carefully Sup-
pressed upon the other side of the Channel.

It will be read there none the less eagerly—it
will, rather than that; be devoured far
and wide with all the more .avidity. by the more
intelligent of the population:The official
taboo under which it is placed gives it more
authority with the masses than could possibly
have been imparted to it. by the timbre of the esta-
blished Government. Stolen apples are proverbially
the sweetest.. No works are more greedily sought
after than those numbered in the index expurga-
toritts. If you want even an indifferent drama to be
enormously.successful, get it denied the chance of
being damnedby a formal prohibition under the hand
of the Licenser.

_
Meantime, at Brussels and at London, be
pamphlet, by M. de Alois'.
sure this suppressed
TALEMBERT, is running by thousands through the
webwork of the tape. s and cylinders of the printing
press. Read it—and what do you find in this per-
nicious and dangerous publication ? What but
a glowing and rhetorical panegyric upon our Eng-
lish institutions! A statesmanlike tribute from
one of the most gifted and pure-minded of all living
Catholic laymen—an earnest, manly, genial tribute
to the organisation and the influences of our free
and enlightened Government. M. de MONTALEM-
BERT is an orator whose lips are padlocked. He
crones the Channel, He lands on our shores. He

TALEMBERT—denied, the possibility of speaking—
writes. His language, not unnaturally under
the circumstances, is the language of enthusiasm.
He remembers, doubtless, how many great orators
are dumb, prematurely, besides himself—dumb,
though still living : how many lips are denied the
privilege of their old golden utterance—the lips of
TIMERS, of GUIZOT, of HUGO, of LAMARTINE. He
thinks possibly of CORMENIN with the blank page
before him—the pencil of TIMON useless in his
hand—no more eloquent contemporaries to delineate.
He contrasts the free outspcaking to which he has
just listened down at Westminster with the ominous
and oppressive silence to which he is returning.
Pens, ink, paper, lying within his reach as he me-
ditates, he writes accordingly. And for so writing
the dumb orator is now about to be impeached as
treasonous. He has been caught in the act of
strewing flowers, not upon the tomb of NERO,
but upon the grave of Parliamentary freedom.
Monstrous ! Down with him! Who among all
those 36,000,000 of Frenchmen has not a stone to
hurl at the traitorous head of MONTALEMBERT

The BRIGHT view of war is certainly not the
bright side of it. Indeed, na one can 'doubt that,
dark as its natural colours are, Mr. BRIGHT makes
them darker than those of nature. The great orator
of the people is, unfortunately, a special pleader,
not a philosopher. We have sometimes thought
what a fine pair of orators might be compounded
out of him and Mr. GLADSTONE. If some MEDEA
could take them to pieces, put them into her en-
chantress's cauldron, and bring them forth again
—Mr. BRIGHT endued with a portion of Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S over-sublety in distinction, which keeps
him for ever hesitating and doubting, Mr. GLAD-
STONE with a portion of the sturdy Quaker's un-
doubting confidence in his own conclusions, leaving
to each their peculiar modes of illustration and ex-
pression, they might both of them tickle our ears
as well as they now do, and might still relieve the
tedium of senatorial debates, but they would speak
much more to the purpose. We all of us, taking
them as they are, are glad enough to enjoy a little
of the sparkling and power of their genius, but what
a gain would it be could we also trust to their
judgment. On the whole, and for Statesmen, they
are both, we believe, remarkably honest men ; but
pre-eminent subtlety of thought too often misleads
one, and overweening self-confidence the ether, till
we are compelled, when they sit down, to ask
whether or not we have been yielding to an illusion.
As to the succession duty calculation, or miscal-
culation, be it which it may, we confess we cannot
find much fault with our Brummagem orator. Mr.
GLADSTONE devised the arrangement, and we have
little doubt it would puzzle all the actuaries in
England to do it justice. But his statement of the
cost of our wars was the most reckless we have
seen. Our orator himself acknowledged that he,
with his broad shoulders, succumbed beneath the
attempt to imagine the total, as well he might.
£2,ooo,ooo,ooo—why none of us ever did or could
conceive of a single million, and that sum multiplied
two thousand times must be left to calculators only,
for no imagination can reach it. Now we shall not
attempt to verify Mr. BRIGHT'S calculation on this
point any more than on the other. He may make
it, if he pleases, ten or twenty times the amount.
He may compute the amount actually disbursed
only, he may add single interest or compound in-
terest, just as he likes, but we must leave him and
his calculations to their fate. No one would read
them, and we therefore may comfortably f eel ab-
solved from the inquiry—How did he go to work to
make it so much ?

What all our readers know is, that some enor-
mous fallacy lurks under such computations. They
may not see where exactly, yet they are sure of it.
They perhaps can no more detect the trick played
off on their ears than spectators can detect Herr
FRIKELL'S illusion of another sense, yet that there
is illusion they arc quite confident. Not to go back
to the great wars at the close of last century and
the beginning of this, which so few of our readers
can now remember, but which, on Mr. BRIGHT'S
theory, ought to have left the nation in beg-
gary, the illusion will vanish if we
do but steadily look at the broad facts of the
late ivar. We spent, say, in round numbers, eighty
or a hundred millions on it. Was all this, as some
declaimers tell us, as good as thrown into the sea ?
The enormous waste, through mismanagement, we
as well as others exposed at the time. A waste
which seems inseparable from all Government

management, -whether in peace or in war--insepar-
able, Perhaps, even from all things managed by
boards and' committees, and in which the disbur-
sers of large amounts have not a personal interest
in the administration of them. But was the nation
poorer at the conclusion of the war ? Speculators
raised the prices of many things to reap their
merited reward; bad harvests in our own or in other
countries raised the price of food, but not in this
country only, for America—which was far enough
removed from the seat of war—suffered as much as
we on that score ; but all the time of the war our
exports, even exclusive of military supplies, went
on increasing. Our trade suffered no injury, to all
appearance, from the war, but augmented regularly
till the great panic at the close of last year. Now
to whatever cause we attribute that panic, whether
to bad currency arrangements, or to reckless bank-
ing, or to over-speculation, or, as is most correct, to
all, no one attributes it to the war.

But look more closely at the'. ' e war expen•
diture. Where was it chiefly ma ? A small
proportion of it on purchasing supplies in the East,
but by very- far the greater portion of it in employ-
ing labour at home. Even what was spent in the
East returned in part to us, through the natives
purchasing our manufactures with our own money,
so that ultimately we gave them, cotton or Bir-
mingham goods for their bullocks, horses, vege-
tables, and labour ; but the enormous amounts
disbursed in army clothing and equipments, in our
dockyards, in our arsenals, in supplies of all kinds,
were all spent in employing English labour. Our
mechanics, our textile fabric manufacturers, our
very farmers and millers and bakers pocketed most
of the money. True, we many of us grumbled
under a heavy, because iniquitously adjusted income
tax ; still though we were the poorer for parting
with the money, the nation was not the poorer.
There is a vast difference between money changing
hands in the nation, and capital going out of the
nation. In the case of railways what immense
susraitne
r a 3
hsave. been sunk—sunk we call it—we should
h
circulated. It went into the hands of
navvies, iron manufacturers, engine-makers, and a
pretty good share into the hands of land-owners
and lawyers. But none of these parties hid it in a
napkin. Most of it was purchasing immediately
all kinds of commodities imported by our merchants,
or made by native industry. Individuals suffered
sadly, but the nation gained the railways certainly,
and gained a larger consumption of articles used
by the million.
Mr. BRIGHT will of course deny that, it' we

gained a little circulation of money through the'LATEST NEW 8.
hands of the working classes, we gained anything
by the Russian war equivalent to railways. That
must, however, be matter of opinion. The present
position of Russia in the East, compared with
what it was when NICHOLAS bullied at Constan-
tinople, and when Sebastopol yet nursed beneath
her batteries the brutal and coward navy which
could Perpetrate the bloody treachery of Sinope,
but skulk from British broadsides—the difference
may seem to him trifling gain or none at all. We
beg to differ from him ; and but for the leanings of
LOUIS NAPOLEON and WALEWSKI to the Russian
brother despot, and the trimming of Lord PALMER-
STON, we might have demanded successfully the
whole of Bessarabia, and the freedom of the whole
Circassian coast. The comparatively miserable
concessions obtained by our Government are, how-
ever, something worth having, *especially since, as
we believe, the nation is not sensibly the poorer for
getting them. We have gained, therefore, the
improved position in the East, and the nation has
not lost the money spent in employing labour a
home.

The codification of the laws of England may, as
the Lord Chancellor intimated at the Mansion-
House Banquet, on the Lord Mayor's Day, baffle
the combined ingenuity of our legislators and our
jurisconsults. The fabrication of a code may, in fact,
be only really practicable under a despotic system,
as in modern France or in ancient Rome—and even
then require the guiding genius of a NAPOLEON or
a JUSTINIAN. But, at any rate, there yet remain
for us one or two great and obvious legal improve-
ments—capable of being effected without the neces-
sity of requiring for their accomplishment the apfsa-
rition of one of the world's great men—capable of
harmonious creation even under our Constitutional
Government. We may hope—if not that our laws
may be compressed and systematised into a code, at
any rate that they may be cheapened. We may
hope, again, that the Criminal Law, generally, may be
revised and reorganised. We may hope that some-
thing practically beneficial may be effected in the
way of a digest of many hundreds and thousands
of Acts of Parliament. How much, in truth, have
we not seen done of late years in the way of legal
reform and innovation ? Yet, in spite of the hercu-
lean labours of a law reformer like the ex-Chan-
, cellor Lord BROUGHAM, such was the wilderness
that great and resolute intellect undertook to
•' clear" and " cultivate " that in its regard
we are only now at the very commencement.
Descending to particulars in another direction,
there is a legal reform of a very different character
yet to be entered -upon—one often talked of but
never seriously attempted. It is a change of a very
substantial description. It is an innovation that
would be of the greatest advantage to the public
and to the profession. It would, in an extraordi-
nary manner, tend to economise time. It would
eventually, we believe, prove economical in a
, pecuniary point of view. It would beautify the
metropolis in two opposite directions—here at the
border of the City of London—there in the heart
of the City of Westminster. It must be apparent
to every one that the change we allude to is no
other than the concentration upon one given spot
of the hitherto scattered law courts. Nothing in
the way of a splendid metropolitan improvement
on the one hand, and of a wholesome and rational
legal innovation on the other, could secure at once
such a manifest combination of advantages as the
precise change we would here particularise. And,
according to Sir CHARLES BARRY, the whole could
be effected for very little more than £650,000.
True, that that eminent architect has hitherto
shown himself to be no very safe or reli-
able guide in these kind of anticipated calcu-
lations. But, even supposing for that reason
that Sir CHARLES is here once more egregiously
understating the probable amount—supposing that
instead of £650,000 the suggested alteration neces-
sitated an expenditure of £BOO,OOO, or even we will
say, of the aggregate of £l,ooo,ooosterling, we still
conceive that the benefits certain to accrue from it
would justify double or treble the disbursement.
The site originally suggested some years ago is
again in favour—namely, some seven acres of
ground, bounded on the east by Chancery-lane, on
the west by Wych-street, on the north by Carey-
street, and on the south by the Strand, a locality
central to all the legal quarters—Lincoln's-inn,
Gray's -inn, and the Temple. It is a spot, more-
over, which in its present condition is utterly abo-
minable, disreputable, and for the most part dilapi-
dated. It is, comparatively speaking, waste
land. It is literally an eyesore. It is
notoriously, in many holes and corners,
a den of filth and profligacy. Sweep all these
miserable-looking houses away—erect in their place
a noble pile of buildings—collect together within
them the now scattered law courts of all de-
nominations—Equity and Common Law, Queen s
Bench and Chancery, Vice-Chancery and
Exchequer, Common Pleas and Rolls, Regis-
trars' Offices, Judges' Chambers, and the Courts
of Bankruptcy and Insolvency—assemble in
that one appropriate home all the dignitaries
now•distributed over the capital, in the purlieus
of Westminster Hall, in the vicinity of Chancery-
lane, in the precincts of Lincoln's-inn, in I3asing-
hall-street, in Rolls-yard, in Staples'-inn, in Ser-
geants'-inn, here, there, and every where—effect all
this by one move, and yon will do what will be
certainly worth a round £1,000,000. It is an old
project revived, really and seriously worthy of
being taken into consideration.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office, Nov. 11 :
MARSEILLES, Tirum 3DAY.
The following advices have been receiv ed from
Hong Kong to Sept. 28.

The Russian ambassador has arrived, b ringing
an advantageous treaty concluded with Sap an.
The Chinese commissioners have not yet arrived.
Hopes are entertained that the negotiations for
arranging the tariff, &c., will recommence in Oc-
tober.

The official Gazette of Pekin announci;s a project
for fortifying Pei-Ho for the purpose of stopping
the further advance of the barbarians,

Details have been received of the taking of
Touron. The gunboats destroyed five forts in half
an hour. The allied troops occupied the town,
and have thrown out reconnoitring parties into
the peninsula. Touron has been declared French
territory. The expedition will advance to attack
the metropolis at the end of September.

ST. PETERSBURG, WEDNESDAY.

The Northern Bee of to-dappublishes an account
of the re-establishment of the relations between the
Russians and Chinese, on the 26th of August, at
Schougoutschaken, Kouldga, in Western China,
and the solemn inauguration of the consular
factory.

The Gazette of the Senate contains the regula-
tions of a company, established for the purpose of
supplying Petersburg with water.
The capital is 1,200,400 silver rubles, and the
municipality of 3t. Petersburg guarantees 4 per
cent.

The navigation is still open.
The quantity of tallow exported is 112,000 casks,

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

The Moniteur publishes the following note :
" After the last conflicts which took place between
the Turkish troops and the Montenegrins, the Porte
had engaged to maintain the state of possession as
it existed in 1856. In order to settle the respective
rights resulting from this agreement, commissioners
were sent to the spot, and the representatives at
Constantinople of France, Austria, Great Britain,
Prussia, and Russia, adopted, in concert with the
Ottoman Government, the delimitation proposed by
the majority of the Commission. A protocol was
signed on the Bth inst, at Constantinople, which
ratifies the understanding come to between the
parties, and will have for effect to henceforward
prevent a recurrence of those much to be regretted
complications to which it had become a matter of
urgency to put an end, in the interest of humanity
and of general peace."

BOURSE, Nov. 11.—The market continues buoy-
ant. It is reported that the syndicate of bankers
will devote 75 millions of francs to take titles
from the market at the next liquidation. Threes
have been done from 741. Sc., to 74f. 20c. ; Mobilier,
987 f. 50c. to 995 f. ; Austrian, 658 f. 75c. to 661 f.
25c. ; Orleans, 1,385 E to 1,392 f. 50c. ; Northern,
997 E• 50c. to 1,002 f. ; and Southern, 580 f. to 585 f.
The following are the last quotations :

Per Cents. 96 25
Do. end month
3 per Cents 73 90
Do. end 74 5
Bank Shares 3155
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account

Credit Foncier
Belgian 4f . 9O 75
Piedmontese (5) 93 50
Roman 95
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 42

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern

New ditto 842 60 842 50
Lyons and Mediterranean BBO .. 875
New ditto

- - • • 640 --

Geneva .
Midi — -
Southern
Western 620 .. 620
Eastern
Grand Central —
Sardinifta
Austrian

Exchange on London, et eight, peper' 25f. 10c.; money,
25f 71e.; three- months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f.
921 e.

DESECRATION OF THE DEAD AT
CAMDEN TOWN.

Whilst the indignant at the dis-
gracefulinc publiciden
incidents attendant justly
inst
upon the wholesale
removal of bodies from the St. Martin's burial
ground, at Camden-town, the fact appears to be
overlooked that this occurrence is but a sample,
upon a comparatively small scale, of what must take
place in almost every district around the metropolis,
Whenever the existing so-called Suburban
resortedCeme-
w
teries,to. In the year
1850 the General Board of Health reported to burial teries, filled to repletion, shall imperatively come
to
e accommo-
dation b e
bdeeanitecewssiathri,i; nd -
Government, " that the exiting cemeteries cannot
be used permanently for ,burial, not one of them
possessing the conditions essential to places of
sepulture ; that the soil is unsuitable in all but one;
that the chapel accommodation is wholly inadequate
that the position of six out of the eight is urban
rather than suburban, and that the remaining two
have an increasing population surrounding them;
and that they must all be closed." This sweeping
condemnation, however, it should be observed,
does not, apply to the London Necropolis or
Woking Cemetery, which was established subse-
quently to the date of that report, and
which, situated within an easy railway
distance of the metropolis, is of such extent (2,000
acres area) that overcrowding, or desecration of the
dead by after-removal cannot possibly take place in
it. Indeed it is amongst the provisions of the
special act of Parliament under which this cemetery
was established (and one well worthy of imitation
in any future legislation on the subject), that a
separate grave shall be provided for each interment,
and that it shall not be re-opened, except at the
request of the friends of the deceased, for the recep-
tion of the remains of another member of the family.
The subject is one deserving of serious attention at
the present moment.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 11.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yester-
day.

The Queen, with Prince Arthur and Princess Louisa,
walked in the grounds of the Castle this morning.

LAMARTINE AND THE FREEMASONS.

—His Royal Highness tht-Prince Consort, accompanied by
the Prince of Wales, went to London, attended by Colonel
the Hon. Sir C. Phipps and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge.
The Prince travelled by the Great Western Railway, trans-
acted business at the Duchy of Cornwall-office, and re-
turned to the Castle in the afternoon. '

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli have
arrived in London from Hughenden Manor, Bucks.

His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh
has left Claridge's Hotel for Windsor, on a visit to her
Majesty.
Baron Stutterheim has left Fenton's Hotel for
Germany.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs.
Disrali have arrived in London, from Hughenden Manor,
Bucks.

Mr. and Mrs. William Baird (of Elie) have
arrived at Fendon's Hotel from Scotland. Mr. James Baird
(of Carobusdon) has arrived at Fenton's Hotel from Ayr-
shire.

The Lincolnshire, with £422,448 from Australia,
is still of the coast, and her gold will not come to hand for
some days. The following are the gold ships known to be
on their way to England :—The Agincourt, 110 days out,
with £283,120; Dover Castle, 75 days out, with £338.900;
Malec. Polo, with £187,524, 44 days out; and the Teviot
steamer with the £169,500 (brought by the European to
Suez), which is daily expected. The lengthened passage of
the Agincourt is attributed to contrary winds, and little
uneasiness is caused by her non-arrival.
MAILS FOR THE UNITED STATES BY CANADIAN
MAIL PACKETS.—GENERAL POST-OPFICE, Nov. 11.—
Mails for the United States will in future be made up at
Liverpool, to be forwarded by each of the Canadian mail
packets during the winter season, when those packets pro-
ceed to Portland instead of Quebec. Letters for the United
States, intended to be forwarded in these mails, must be
specially directed "Per Canadian Mail Packet." Letters,
newspapers, &c., addressed to the United States, and de-
spatched by the Canadian mail packets, will be chargeable
with the same rate of postage as when forwarded by the
Britiall or United States mail packets.

M. de Lamartine has addressed the following

letter to the Freemasons' Lodge of Macon :
" I have the honour to return you the list (so
honourable both to you and to me) of sub-
scribers from French and foreign masonic lodges.
Pray assure all your brethren of my gratitude.
I do not speak the language, and am
unacquainted with the rites of our fraternal in-
stitution, but through you I know its heart
and its works. I see only in the secret of
the lodges a veil of modesty thrown upon
truth and charity to heighten their beauty in
the eyes of God and man. But for this modesty
yon would not conceal from men the secret which
your actions reveal.. You are, in my opinion, the
great eclectics of the modern world. You cull from
all time, all countries, all systems, all philosophies,
the evident, eternal, and immutable principles of
universal morality, and you blend them into an
infallible and unanimously accepted dogma of
fraternity. You reject everything that divides
minds, and profess everything that unites hearts ;
you arc the manufacturers of concord. With
your trowels you spread the cement of virtue
about the foundations of society. Your symbols
are but figures. If I am not mistaken in this
interpretation of your dogmas, the curtain of your
mysteries might be drawn without the fear of re-
vealing anything but services rendered to humanity.
The tribute of esteem and sympathy which the
Masonic lodges of France and foreign countries
have been kind enough to send to me through you,
give me a right of confraternity with them. I did
not ' require this right to esteem them ; but this
honorary confraternity now entitles me to love
them as brothers. • Receive and convey to your
honourable correspondents of all countries the
assurance of my gratitude and respectful conside-
ration.. LUIADTINE."

LAW INTELLIGEWCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood.)
JUDGMENT-BARCLAY V. MACKLEYNE.
The contention in this case arose on the true construction
of the bequests contained in the will of the late Mr. Kelso,
dated April 5, 1851. The defendant alleged that the be-
quests were void from uncertainty.

His Honour, the Vice-Chancellor, was of opinion that
the bequest in favour of poor persons to enable them to
emigrate to the colonies by the commissioners of colonial
emigration was a good charitable bequest, and directed a
scheme to be prepared to carry it into effect. His Honour
also made several declarationsrespecting other legacies, and
the residue of the testator's property to be spoke to on the
minutes this day week.

ROLLS' COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)
:RAMSBOTIIAM V. MABONS-JUDGMENT.

His Honour, in deliverikg judgment in this case, was of
opinion that the plaintiff had failed to establish a lien on
the title deeds or a mortgage over the testator's property.

The state of the case was this :

James Aitchison, by a deed in 1816, left his wife as his
executor, and four ether persons as trustees of his estates,
as tenants for life. He died in 1823. Various transactions
took place between him and Mr. Mabon, and on his death
they were continued by his widow. The title deeds were
deposited in plaintiff's hands as security for any money that
might become due to him.

His Honour considered that as it did n•t appear that any
specific sum was due at the death of the testator, and as
the testator did not give his widow or trustees any power to
burden his estates with any debts which might be con-
tracted by them, the plaintiff had no lien over the title
deeds or mortgage on his estates. He said that it could
not now be ascertained what was the amount of the dAt
due by the testator ; and suppose it could, the claim was
barred by the statute of limitations, and by prescription
of forty years.

His Honour dismissed the plaintiff's bill with costs.

EXCHEQUER COURT.

(Sittings at Guildhall—Before Mr. Baron Martin and a
Common Jury.)
RUSTOMIEE V. GOURLEY.

Mr. ROMn srm appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hawkin
for the defendant.

Mr. Robinson said this .was an action brought by the
plaintiff to recover the sum of £lOO, the value of a bill of
exchange, which the plaintiff alleged he had accepted for
the defendant's accommodation, for which he had received
no consideration. He thought the evidence of the plaintiff,
who was a Parsee xiilrchaiit, would be sufficient to secure
him a verdict.

Mr. Rustomjee came to this country in 1856. I
lived at Paddington. I first saw Mr. Gourley in the same
year. His first visit to me was to inquire for a former re-
sident of the house I occupied. He called on me the next
day, and said he hact.'been in a foreign country, and he
wished to give me any information, if I required any. He
first called once, then twice, and then three and five times
a day. (Laughter.) I never could get rid of him.
(Laughter.) In July he came to me and begged me very
hard to lend him £100,,0r he would be ruined. He nearly
went on his knees to me. He has also borrowed my spoons.
(Laughter.) I had a great deal of trouble to get
them back. He also borrowed my watch. (Laughter.)
He came to me one day and said he had forgotten
his watch, and as it looked very bad for a professional man
to appear without one, he asked me to lend him mine for
half-an-hour. (Laughter.)' I got back the watch after a
great deal of trouble. It was only borrowed for a short
time, and it was 17 days before I received it. (Laughter.)
In July, 1857, I gave my acceptance to him for his accom-
modation for £lOO. Four or five days before the bill
became due I wrote to him, telling him the bill was nearly
due, but he said he could not pay. (Laughter.) There were
some other bill accommodations in the way of renewals, but
it resulted in my having to pay the £lOO. I was sued for
the amount by Mr. Cator.
Mr. Hawkins—ls the bill in your handwriting ?
Witness—The signature only.
Mr. Hawkins—What are you ?
Witness—l am a merchant from China.
Mr. Hawkins—Ah ; but what are you now ?