The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

OLPMPIC THEATRE.

This theatre, under the new management, seems
to progress in public estimation, and the new drama,
introduced for the first time yesterday evening, will
yet more establish the lessee's claims to the support
of the admirers of the sock and buskin. The piece
introduced was entitled Six Degrees of Crime; and
exhibited in the most striking manner the various
stages of vice which, deepening in colour as the pas-
sions are more depraved, eventually terminate with
that fearful, but unfortunately too common climax—
the scaffold. The hero, Julio Dormilly (Mr. J. Hud-
son Kirby), from the man of fashion, sinks into the,
confirmed roué, and, after figuring as the gamester,
the thief, and the assassin, is at last doomed to death
at the hands of the public executioner. Such a plot
necessarily involves many situations, which, from
their severe realities, rather grate upon the sensibi-
lities of the more refined part of the audience ; but
what is thus lost by the seeming absence of delicacy,
is more than compensated by the lifelike development
of the story. The intensity of passion was most
admirably pourtrayed by the transatlantic ar-
tist. As the man of fashion, he was
faultless ; and as he degenerated into the ruffian, his
acting (if we may use a seeming contradiction) was of
a still higher character, simply because it gave scope
for the display of more concentrated passion. Of the
auxiliary characters we would particularly mention
the Lacaille of Mr. B. Rogers, one of those gentlemen
who are said, in common parlance, to " live upon
town." Mr. Waldron, Mr. Broadfoot, Mr. P. Emery,
and Mr. Smith, were also well up in their several
parts. Miss L. Melville, as the heroine of the piece,
Louise, evinced the same lady-like appreciation of
character which we have ever observed in this young
lady's acting. In the ball-room scene, Mr. Flexmore,
without doubt the most happily grotesque ballet-
master on the English stage, was much and deser-
vedly applauded in the Cracovienne, a la Fanny
Ellsler. The drama throughout was highly suc-
cessful, and at the conclusion Mr. J. H. Kirby was
called before the curtain, and announced the piece for
repetition amid unalloyed applause. Don Cesar de
Bazan followed, and concluded the evening's enter-
tainment.

WHOLESALE DEALERS.

EXTENSIVE RODBERT.—On Thursday evening a
cattle dealer was robbed of a sum of 1002 in a notorious
house in Greensiile. It appears that he suspected the
parties of robbing him soon after he entered the house,
and charged them with the theft ; the landlady indig-
nantly denied the charge, and desired him to count his
money and see if he had lost any,on which the simpleton
drew out a handful of money, and began to count it. The
sight of so much money proved too strong a temptation;
a dash was made at the money and taken from him, with
which they escaped to the street. The parties were soon
after taken into custody, but the money has not been re-
covered.—Scotsman.

STRANGE SCENE.—On Friday last, a most singular
scene took place at St. Peters, near this town. For
some time, cracks and rents have been observed in the
walls of various houses in this vicinity, and especially in
those near the docks. On Friday, however, as the land-
lord of the Ship Inn was at breakfast, several squares of
glass gave way with a crackling noise, and an evident
settling or sinking took place in the house. This was
followed by a sinking of some other houses, and of the
docks. Some walls tell, and the whole had the appear-
ance of an earthquake on a small scale. No personal
hurts were sustained, but the damage is great, and some
of the houses are closed. The cause is a shrink or
" creep" in the older workings of Friar Goose Colliery
(on the opposite bank), which extend under the river at
this spot.— Tyne Mercury.
ADVANCE IN WAGES.—We are happy to learn that
an advance in the wages of all hands employed by the
three extensive flax-spinning establishments here has
taken place this week. The rise is from 10 to 15 per
cent., making an aggregate increase to the income of
that section of our population of about 501. per week.
We sincerely hope that the advance will be general
throughout the country. and that the state of trade will
justify its continuance. Notwithstanding this appearance
of prosperity, we could wish to see the manufacturing
interest in a more favourable relation, for the seller finds
it impossible to realise an advance on linen equivalent to
the rise in yarns.—Montrose Review.
A specimen of Irish linen, denominated " the golden
flax," has recently come before us, as a manufacture in
this neighbourhood ; and we cannot withhold our testi-
mony to the beauty of its bleach and fabric, uniting the
greatest softness and brightness with the strongest fibre.
This bids fair to put further off than ever all foreign
competition with Ireland in the linen fabric, and to ex-
tend our home consumption for this beautiful manufac-
ture ; affording at the same time an additional encou-
ragement for the production of the finest qualities of flax
at home, for which our soil and climate are found in
every way suitable. We cannot help indulging the hope
that ere long Belfast may be to the linen trade what
Manchester is to the cotton, with this further advantage
on the side of the former—that her looms may be work-
ing up the product of a happy industry—gradually ex-
tending itself throughout our agricultural districts in the
south—yielding food and clothing—an appreciation of
comfort, with means for its gratification—and, above all,
issuing in an honest independence of mind, capable of
discerning, and daring to choose, the truth.—Be/f_zst
paper.
CRIME IN FRANCE, OR THE FRENCH PAINTED BY
THEMSELVES. - The Constitutionael of Sunday pub-
lishes the following horrible details of a murder and
suicide which were committed at St. Laurent-de-Vignes
on the Ist instant :—" M. Beaupoy had sold to M.
Brunet, some years since, a property which he pos-
sessed at Cetty, in the commune of St. Laurent-
des-Vignes. He reserved for himself at the same time
the enjoyment of the property for a certain period, but
at the expiration of that time he refused to give up pos-
session, threatening to murder M. Brunet if he re-
peated his demand. M. Brunet, being aware of the
savage character of M. Beaupoy, suffered him to re-
main at Cetty, where he became the terror of his neigh-
bours. M. Beaupoy had an only daughter, whom he
determined to disinherit, for which purpose he con-
verted all his property, worth, it was said, 40,000 f., into
bank-notes, with the determination to destroy them, at
the same time that he should put an end to his own
existence. On the morning of the Ist instant be pro-
ceeded to the house of M. Geraud, his brother-in-law,
armed with a double-barrelled gun. M. Geraud, seeing
that he appeared greatly excited, endeavoured to pacify
him, but he quitted the house, uttering most violent
threats. At a short distance from M. Geraud's house
he perceived a vine -dresser, at whom he fired two shots,
and wounded him severely in the arm. He then returned
to M. Geraud's house, and reloaded his gun. He again
set out, and having met a servant of M. Brunet, to whom
he had expressed his dislike, he fired at him, and left
him for dead on the road. He next set fire to a neigh-
bour's house, and threatened to shoot the owner should
be present himself. He then proceeded to his own
dwelling, and, having placed a quantity of brushwood
round it, he set fire to it. He then set fire to the apart-
ments, and having called for assistance, he presented his
gun at the peasants who came to aid in extinguishing
the fire. In a moment afterwards two reports of fire-
arms were heard in the house, which were caused by M.
Beaupoy shooting himself through the head. The
authorities having proceeded to the spot, found the house
almost entirely consumed. Among the ruins were found
the remains of a human body, supposed to be that of
M. Beaup
oy but no trace could be discovered of his
bank-notes, which it is supposed he burned, in order
to prevent his heirs from enjoying them. The peasant,
who was wounded in the arm, is at present out of
danger, but M. Brunet's servant expired after three days
of horrible torture."

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEIVIRE

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday the first Court of the present Mayoralty
was held.

The LORD MAYOR, in addressing the Court, said he
had full reliance upon their support during his year
of office.

FLEET PRISON.
Mr. JOHN DIXON said that, having seen an adver-
tisement in the papers that the Fleet Prison was to be
sold, he wished
.to know from the Chairman of the
London-bridge Approaches Committee whether there
was any intention upon the part of the City of London
to purchase the ground for the purposes of the great
improvements which were in progress ?—(Hear.)
Mr. R. L. JONES said he certainly was of opinion
that it would be extremely desirable that that pur-
chase should be made by the Corporation, with the
view of forming an avenue through the ground into
the heart of the City.—(Hear, hear.) He had called
upon the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and
pressed the necessity of not making sale of the pro-
perty until the Corporation should have an opportu-
nity of taking the question into consideration, and de-
ciding upon it.—(Hear, hear.)
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY.
Mr. HEPPELL desired to know when the account of
the expenses incurred by the visit of her Majesty to
the City to open the Royal Exchange, and of the
fund from which the expenses were to be paid, would
be laid before the Court ?
Mr. R. L. JONES stated that the Court mightexpect
the accounts within a fortnight.
THANKS OF THE COURT TO THE LATE LORD MAYOR.
Mr. KING rose to move the thanks of the Court to
Sir William Magnay, Bart., the late Lord Mayor.—
(Cheers.)
It was, he said, unnecessary for him to
address those who had had such experience of the
late Lord Mayor's conduct during the Mayoralty at
any length, upon the claims of a gentleman who
had entered on his office without ostentation or
parade, and had performed all the duties of it so
highly to his own honour, and to the maintenance of
the dignity and honour of the City of London.--
(Cheers.) In the comparison with those who pre-
ceded him in the office, Sir William Magnay could
suffer nothing in respect of any one of the essentials
of a chief magistrate of the City of London, and it
was to be hoped that those who are to follow would
take a leaf out of his book.—(Cheers.) Mr. King then
moved " That the thanks of the Court are emi-
nently due, and are hereby presented, to the Right
Hon. Sir William Magnay, Baronet, late Lord Mayor
of this City, for the ability, energy, and zeal, dis-
played by him in discharging the various duties of
chief magistrate; for the discriminating judgment
which characterised his
,administration of the
law, whereby he combined moderation with
vigour, and uniformly tempered justice with
mercy ; for his firmness in maintaining the
rights and privileges of all orders of the Corporation,
and in preserving the franchises of the freemen and
liverymen of the City; for his courteous attention
to the members of this Court, and for his prompti-
tude in convening, and his impartiality in presiding
over, all their meetings; for the ready and cheerful as-
sistance he has at all times rendered to the various
charitable and benevolent institutions which adorn
this City ; for the manner in which he upheld the
character of the Corporation for hospitality, graciously
blending with the dignity and splendour of his
official banquets the liberality and urbanity of social
life ; for the indefatigable zeal and sound discretion
which characterised his Lordship's conduct on the
occasion of her Majesty's visit to open the New Ex-
change, which obtained from his Sovereign a signal
mark -of her royal approval in conferring upon him
a titleof honourable distinction, which it is the earnest
wish of his fellow-citizens that he may long live
haivr.
ppiilyDto.
W. WHITS
seconded the motion, whichvv. (Loud cheers.)
was, after some observations from other members,
carried, amidst loud and enthusiastic expressions of
applause.
The vote was ordered to be published in the usual
newspapers.
Mr. W. JONES moved " That the thanks of the Court
be presented to Lieut.-Colonel Cox, and the officers
and gentlemen of the Hon. Artillery Company, for
their efficient services as the guard of honour to her
Majesty on her visit to the City on the occasion of
opening the Royal Exchange."
Mr. JOHN DIXON seconded the motion, which was
carried amidst loud cheers.

In the list of applicants for freedoms to the Court,
presented by the Chamberlain, appeared the name of
Sir John. Rae Reid, M.P. for Dover, late a Governor
of the Bank of England. The announcement was
received with cheers ; but why the applause was given
was not stated, for it was evident to the whole Court
that the change in the opinions of Sir John Rae Reid
was occasionei by the City Solicitor's letter to the
wholesale dealers, informing them that if they did
not forthwith take up their freedom, proceedings
would be at once adopted against them. The name
of the Hon. Baronet was followed by those of five
publicans and one barber.

22, 1844.

MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF
I COMMERCE AND SIR HENRY POTTINGER.

_
The Board of Directors of the Manchester Cham-
ber of Commerce and Manufactures, at a recent meet-
ing, unanimously adopted a congratulatory address to
Sir Henry Pottinger, K.C.8., on his recent return to
this country, after his arduous labours as British
Plenipotentiary and Commander in China. Of this
address the following is a copy :
" TO SIR HENRY POTTINGER, BART., K.C.8., &C., &C.
" The Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com-
merce and Manufactures at Manchester cannot per-
mit your return to your native country to take place,
without tendering to you their warmest congratula-
tions upon your safe arrival.
" They are moved to this expression of their high
regard by the lustre which surrounds your administra-
tion of the important commission which a confiding
country last entrusted to you ; a lustre which they
believe will not be transient, but accumulative; re-
ceiving increase year by year, as the great principle
by which the close of your severe labours in China is
brilliantly distinguished shall become more and more
internationally developed. It is not for them to
speak of military achievements, the supervision of
which formed the sterner portions of your duty. As
merchants, anxious for the diffusion of civilisation
and peace, they look with higher admiration upon
the wisdom by which your negotiations were go-
verned. Not content with opening new channels for
the commerce of your own country, you generously
and wisely secured the same advantages for
all the world, leaving the issue to those be-
nign influences which cannot fail to attend upon
an unrestricted interchange of superfluities and
wants between nations. From the high prin-
ciple which actuated you in your negotia-
tions with the Chinese authorities, and from the
wisdom which they have themselves manifested in
the arrangement of their tariff of duties, has arisen an
irrefragable demonstration of how much the true in-
terests of the human race would be promoted, were
nations, who do not hesitate to boast of superior en-
lightenment as contrasted with the Chinese, to pursue
the same policy. Receiving on equal terms from all
nations those supplies which it is their interest to
attract, the Chinese see their markets stored with
merchandise from every country, whilst the demand
for return enables them to become the arbiters of the
prices at which they will purchase from others, or
dispose of their own. They do not seek to ascertain
what profit other nations derive from intercourse
with them : they are content to know that the inte-
rests of their own people are safely and permanently
promoted.
" Confident that the same results would follow the
adoption of the same wise principle by every other
nation, the Directors of this Chamber rejoice that,
under measures which you have directed, the world
may learn a practical moral lesson from China.
Nations, like individuals, may be ungrateful ; but
the gentlemen who now address you will be much
deceived if the terror which your name so lately
created in war merge not soon into blessings for the
benefits which your diplomacy has secured.
" Animated by these sentiments, the Directors of
this Chamber tender to you the tribute of their admi-
ration and gratitude ; and they fervently hope that
your health, which they fear has suffered from the
labours and anxieties that have beset you, may be
speedily restored, so that the talents which you pos-
sess may soon be called again to the service of your
country.—Manchester Oct. 29, 1844."
To this address, which was duly forwarded to the
Gallant Commander, the Chamber of Commerce have
received the following reply :
" 49, Albemarle-street, London, Nov. 5, 1844.
" To the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com-

THE QUARANTINE LAWS.

merce and Manufactures, Manchester.
" Gentlemen,—The address of congratulation on
my return to ngland which you have been so good
as to forward to me, has given me great pleasure,
and I beg you will accept my sincere acknowledg•
ments for it.

" It is most gratifying to me to know that you,
who are so deeply interested and so competent to
judge, have seen cause to form the flattering opinion
you have expressed as to the result of my commercial
arrangements with China; and it is further peculiarly
satisfactory to me to learn from your address, that
you fully recognise and concur in the principles
which formed the groundwork of that portion of my
negotiations, which ended in, the commercial regula-
tions and tariff.

"I trust that China will, in due time, reap the full
reward she so well merits for her liberality in the ar-
rangements; and that all other nations wishing to
participate in the trade with that vast and wonderful
empire, will take example by the moderation which,
I hope I may say, England evinced through me, her
humble instrument, in these discussions, and in the
final settlement.

" Should it be so, I have not the least doubt but that,
at no very distant day, China will take her proper po-
sition amongst the civilised and enlightened nations of
the earth, and will be the first to acknowledge and
proclaim the advantages she has gained from the
changes that recent events must inevitably cause in
her whole social system and policy.
" I thank you, gentleman, warmly for your good
wishes toward me personally; and you may be as-
sured that, whenever my humble exertions can be of
use to my country, they shall be at her free disposal.
—I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your very faith-
ful, humble servant,

" HENRY POTTINGER."

EXTENSION OF THE MORNING MAlLS.—Thirteen
additional towns have been added to the list of mails dis-
patched daily from the General Police-office, by com-
mand of the Postmaster-General. Subjoined is a list of
them, copied from the " notice" issued on Wednesday :
Bolton, Bury St. Edmund's, Chesterfield, Cockermouth,
Dunmow, Grantham, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray,
Newmarket, Northallerton, Pwlheli, Ripon, and Thirsk.
It may be well to remind new venders, merchants, and
others, residing in the metropolis, that according to the
most recent postal arrangements with reference to morn-
ing mails, the official order as to the hours of posting by
the day-bags from London is as follows :—" Newspapers
are received-at the various receiving-houses throughout
the metropolis in time for dispatch by morning mails to
all the places upon the list, including the whole of Scot-
land and Ireland, until seven A.M. Letters are in time
until eight A.M. At the branch offices in Cavendish-
street, Charing-cross, and Blackman street, Southwark,
for newspapers until half-past seven A.M., and for letters
until eight A.M. Newspapers may be posted at Lom-
bard-street and, the General Post-office for the same
conveyance until a quarter before eight A.m., and letters
until half-past eight A.M." It may also be as well to
state that for newspapers, by the morning dispatch, there
is no "late fee," as is the case with the dispatch of the
evening mails.

THE TIMBER, WOOL, AND GUANO TRADES.—It•iS
said that the above trades are the only ones in which
large sums of money have not been lost by importers
during the present year; and it is a fact worthy of notice,
that in two out of three of these trades the protective
system has been in whole, or in part, abandoned during
the last four years. It will be remembered that one of
Sir Robert Peel's earliest measures was to diminish the
amount of protection on colonial timber, and that it was
most confidently predicted at the time that the colonists
would be ruined by the change. The result has shown
that this was a false prophecy, for the timber trade has
never been in a more healthy or prosperous state. This
is partly the result of the breaking up of a system of
speculation and over-trading, but still more of the re-
vival of trade and commerce. People have once more
begun to build houses, mills, warehouses, and ships, and
the result has been to create a brisk demand for timber,
and to show that commercial and manufacturing pros-
perity are of infinitely more value to the timber trade
than all the protecting duties that ever were invented.
Another trade which has prospered, either in conse-
quence or in spite of the repeal of the protective duties,
is that in sheep's wool. The repeal of the duty of Id. a
pound on foreign wool has not only been followed by
great briskness in the demand for that kind of wool, but
also by equal briskness in the demand for colonial and Bri-
tish wools, to which the duty served as a sort of protection.
They have seldom sold better than during the present
year, and although it would be too much to say that this
is owing to the change in the duties, yet it is clear that
the change has had no injurious effect upon the wool-
growers, whilst it has greatly benefited the manufac-
turers and all dependent upon them. The import of
colonial wool, which twenty years ago was a mere
nothing, has now reached the large amount of 70,000
bales from Australia alone.—Liverpool Times.
AQUATICS.—henry Clasper has accepted the chal-
lenge of Coombes, the London waterman, to row from
Tyne-bridge five miles up the river, the cockney staking
100/. to 801. of the Northumbrian. Clasper gives 101. to
Coombes to corer the expense of his journey to New-
castle. It is to be a skiff-race. We understand that
Clasper has put his signature to the articles of agree-
ment, and that they are sent to London. The match
may therefore be considered as good as made.—Tyne
Mercury.

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If the existing sy.,tern ‘aoitary r-gulations and
quarantine lays is to remain unchanged, not only
until the question of contagion or non-contagion has
been decided by the scientific world, but even until
all the Governments of Europe have unanimous:y*
adopted a scientific opinion on the subject, it is ev-
dent that nothing short of a mathematical demonstrp-
fion can put an end to these inconvenient restrictions
on the intercource of nations. Such a demonstration
can never be arrived at, especially under a system
which prohibits experiment ; and thus the whole
restrictive system is retained, because we consent to
he the victims of an uncertainty and the slaves of a
doubt. It is doubtful in the highest degree whether
if a person affected with Oriental plague in its worst
form and stage were suddenly transported into the
heart of a foreign, and particularly of a northern,
country, where no previous tendencies to the dis-
ease prevailed, the disorder would prove infec-
tious. Yet, so strong is the prepossession of alariu
ingrafted on our legislators and our Administration,
that we still act upon the most terrible conceptions of
pestilential influence, and the officers entrusted with
the care of the public health, exert all the vigilance
of a vexatious police over a considerable portion of
the commerce of this and all other countries. .To
such an extent do these sanitary regulations extend,
that they are directed-not only against those places
where infectious disorders are known to prevail, but
against whole quarters of the globe. It was not
till the French had been many years established
on the northern coast of Africa that they dis-
covered that the plague was as little known in the
Regency of Algiers as on the shores of Provence,
and they at last abandoned, without inconvenience,
the system of quarantine, which they had till then
rigorously enforced. In like manner, nine-tenths of
the precautions taken to avoid the transmission of
infectious disease are utterly fantastical ; and the
question, which it behoves our Government to con-
sider is, how large a portion of these superfluous re-
strictions may be abolished, without too great a risk
of exposing our ports and our population to any real
danger. It is an old maxim of law, " omnia pra:su-
nzuntur contra spoliatorenz ;" and assuredly this prin-
ciple has been held good against infectious disease.
Not only are they supposed to be transmissible over a
vast distance of sea and land, and through a con-
siderable lapse of time, whenever they have occurred ;
but travellers and merchandise are treated yith
almost equal suspicion in spite of direct evidence
that they come from places where no pestilence exists
at
,all. A clean bill of health is received only
in mitigation of these rigorous precautions ; and
under the system which now prevails, with more or
less severity, throughout Europe, the whole com-
merce and intercourse of the world will the sus-
pected countries is dealt with as if the exception
was the rule. The proportion of vessels coming
to this country with clean bills, even from the coun-
tries where plague most frequently :prevails, is hap-
pily very large ; yet these ships, against which no
practical evidence whatever can be said to exist, are
detained on the bare theoretical presumption, that
they may have latent plague on board, though none
was known to have disclosed itself in the places from
which they sailed. It is of so much importance to
proceed in this important matter with due caution,
that we should be most unwilling to run any direct
risks, or even to alarm the prejudices of the public or
the scruples of foreign nations, by a premature ad-
mission of vessels coming from infected countries to
free pratique. But long before we arrive at this stage
of sanitary reform, we may hope to see the precau-
tions disposed of which are taken, not against real,
but imaginary, perils ; and we shall venture to throw
out one or two suggestions on the most obvious of
these changes. It is in the north of Europe, and es-
pecially in the ports of the United Kingdom, that these
experiments may be tried with least risk and with
most advantage; for the most zealous contagionists
admit that the propagation of these diseases requires
something more than mere contact—namely, a certain
concourse of circumstances unfavourable to health,
and an epidemic tendency to that form of disorder.
The best writers on the plague have remarked that,
even in the East, whenever it has occurred out
of season, it has not spread; and it is evident that the
total diversity of climate and habits on the banks of the
Nile and on those of the Thames render it most impro-
bable that a disease should be transplanted with the
same fatal results from one to the other. We rest our
view of this subject, however, on grounds more ac-
curately ascertained than theories of science. There
is, we believe, no recorded instance of a case of plague
occurring in any of the quarantine establishments of
this kingdom. No one seriously believes that there is
more plague, or chance of plague, at Standgate Creek
or Bamborough Pool than in the heart of the me-
tropolis ; yet the vessels which undergo this deten-
tion are all assumed to have on board the germs of a
pestilence ; the amount of suspicion is expressed by
the length of time they may remain in quarantine ;
no shins from the suspected ports are allowed to es-
oape, although in none of them has this presumption
ever been verified. It would not be difficult to show
that the present system, especially as it is practised
at Malta and in various foreign ports of the Mediter-
ranean, is inconsistent and unsatisfactory upon either
hypothesis. If the plague is highly contagious, the
carelessness and indifference to various minor but es-
sential points in the lazarettos would infallibly let the
disease into Christendom, and all these precautions,
ought to be redoubled; if it be not contagious, it is
not to these precautions we owe our security, and
they are vexatious without being requisite or effectual.
The first steps, however to be taken in the matter by
the British Government should be at once extremely
moderate and very important, we see no reason, con-
sidering the length of the voyage from any port of
the Levant to the United Kingdom, that all vessels
arriving with clean bills of health, and from a port
where no plague was known to exist at the time of
their departure, should not at once be admitted to
land their passengers, and even to discharge their
cargoes. The mode of dealing with vessels and
cargoes from infected ports is a more delicate part of
the subject; but we have no doubt, as we hinted
on a former occasion, that even with them the mere
lapse of time spent in a lazaretto is by no means the
best or surest preventive of contagion. The more
urgent and important measure of relief, however, is
that which would exempt from the quarantine regu-
lations the large majority of vessels against which no
colourable apprehensions can be said to exist; and
we are satisfied that this relaxation may be extended
to all the foreign trade of this country, except from
places at which the plague or some other epidemic
may be raging with violence at any particular time.
To some up our opinion as briefly as possible, we
dissent from the application of general and permanent
restrictions of this nature, without denying that it
is the duty of the Government to protect the public
health by particular precautions, whenever it is en-
dangered; and we blame the present quarantine
legislation of Europe, because it exists as a system,
and is endured as an institution, instead of being
adapted, with as much regard as possible to the in-
terests of trade, to the places, seasons, and times, in
which epidemic diseases may prevail. We are aware
that any considerable change in this system must be
carried into execution by several at least of the mari-
time Powers; and the negotiations to effect this im-
portant object are of so delicate a nature, that we
hope they will not be intrusted to obtrusive volun-

teers, or to men whose readiness considerably outruns
their reason and respectability. But we see no reason
to despair of our obtaining the concurrence of the
Baltic maritime States in the first instance, and after-
wards extending the same modifications, with the
assistance of Austria, to the Mediterranean. Mean-
while, however, there are powerful elements mast
actively at work in this cause. All the Eastern

events-of the last few years—the culture of Egypt—
the overland communication with India—the Oriental

CALLS TO TIIE BAR.—LINCOLVS INN, Nov. 19.
The undermentioned members of this honourable Society
having kept the full number of terms, they were, in the
customary manner, called to the degree of Barrister-at-
Law:—Mr. John Sayres, of Wadham College, Oxford,
the second son of John Sayres, of North Stokes, in the
county of Sussex, Esq. ; Mr. Edward Stirling Dickson,
of the Old-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, the eldest son of
Admiral Edward Stirling Dickson, of Paris ; Mr. Hugh
Ross, of Edinburgh, and of Chancery-lane, in the county
of Middlesex, the eldest son of Colonel Hugh Ross, of
Edinburgh aforesaid ; Mr. William Benson, of Queen's
College, Cambridge, the second son of Robert Benson,
of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Esq. ; Mr.
George Charles Appleby, of Magdalen College, Oxford,
the only son of the Rev. George Appleby, of Barton-
upon-Humber ; Mr. Nicholas Darnell. of New College,
Oxford, the second son of the Rev. William Nicholas
Darnell, of Stanhope, in the county of Durham ; and
Mr. Samuel Edward Moberly, of Christ Church, Oxford,
the youngest son of Joseph Maberley, of King's-road,
Bedford-row, Attorney-at-Law.
We understand that a matrimonial alliance is on
the Lapis between the sister of a Noble Earl possessing
large estates in the county of Sussex and connected with
the most illustrious of the British aristocracy, and a
member of a noble family in Norfolk, as highly distin-
guished for its virtues as for its great antiquity.

packet service—the Syrian expedition—and the pro-
jects for crossing the Isthmus of Suez—have already
shown how little the fear of infection interferes with
the operations of politics, war, or trade in the country
where the disease is supposed to be most rife, and will
ultimately relieve us from apprehensions, which we
should cease to entertain if we were better informed
as to the precise nature of the danger.—Times.

MATCH AT QUOITS FOR 501. A-SIDE.--On Friday,
this match, which excited considerable interest from the
celebrity of the players—Messrs. David Weir, Glasgow,
and J. Dunlop, Pollokshaws, against Messrs. A. Smith
and R. Paterson, Mauchline Ayrshire—came off on Mr.
Weir's green, Tradeston. The morning was exceedingly
stormy, but at mid-day it cleared up, and the weather,
considering the season, was highly favourable. Messrs.
Dunlop and Weir took the lead and kept it till they num-
bered 50 shots. The game afterwards was keenly contested,
both sides being equal at 55, 57, and 58 ; at this point
Messrs. Smith and Paterson got two shots a-head, making
them 60 against 58. All hope cf beating the far-famed
Ayrshire men seemed now at an end, when Messrs.
Dunlop and Weir, whose playing throughout (particularly
that of the latter) was admirable, again took the lead,
and gained by one shot, the result being—Messrs. Weir
and Dunlop, 61 ; Smith and Paterson, 60. The green
was crowded all day with visitors, many of whom wers
deeply interested in the game. Considerable sums of
' money, we understand, changed hands, the defeated
party having been heavily backed by Liverpool sports-
men
BRAIN.—At
Giaw
—Arguts. T the inquest held on Monday
upon a person who survived for
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sandorretatdimfuel
ekl\lr. Wontheakhield with a pickaxe, and
agoiiij a manuryofti‘as
h,ebrsatrinu,
that although his brains escaped from the wound and
besmeared his hand, he was able to run without assist-
ahnocsepittoalthhee ‘‘L.aosnadsoknedllhooswpital. felt, when
h arriving at tho
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he was much better since he
he lost r.
Wakley further said that it was almost incredible how
long persons survived injuries of the brain.

We understand that the reduction of fares on the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway has been followed
by a great increase in the number of passengers.-
4iverpool Courier,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROH THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—As the Court of Aldermen has shown a
disposition to listen to the remonstrances and recom-
mendations of Sir James Graham in the matter of the
evening sittings of the Central Criminal Court, we
venture to suggest to the Right Ilon. Baronet that he
offer a hint to their worships as to the expediency of
taking the state of the City prisons into their serious
consideration. An intimation from him, that the
Government may find it necessary to interfere, if the
civic authorities do not undertake the obvious duty
of rendering their prisons sufficiently capacious
for the purposes of health, and to admit of
something like classification of the prisoners,
in
difference
of act as a spur upon the proverbial
of the Court of Aldermen to such matters. Really,
it is too bad that, while every other city and town
of the empire has provided suitable buildings for the
purpose of introducing the plans which are required
for rendering prisons not merely places of confine-
ment, but of discipline, the criminal prisons of the City
of London, provided and controlled by the Corpora-
tion authorities, should be, as they are, miserably de-
fective in everything that is required for the attain-
ment of this important object. Were it not notorious,
and thus placed beyond all controversy, it would
scarcely be credited that, 'in the very centre of the
metropolis, stand ill-constructed buildings for the re-
ception of prisoners, placed therein for the punishment
of offences against society—buildings which ought te
be so constructed as to conduce to the reclaiming of
those of the inmates who have not yet become har-
dened in crime. When surprise is expressed at the
manifestly defective state of these City prisons, the
answer which the inquirer in the cause receives is—
" The Government has no control here : the Copora-
tion has absolute management of these prisons ; is
extremely jealous of its privileges ; and, though the
funds at its command and disposal are immensely
large, it has not found either time or money for such
purposes." Newgate—the principal criminal prison,
situated in the heart of the metropolis, is notoriously
in competent in point of size, and inconvenient in its
construction, for the required purposes. We admit
that there have been attempts to improve the system
of management in this prison ; and that a marked
change for the better has been effected. But the de-
fects of the building cannot be cured. These would
prevent the best intentions of the most efficient prison
disciplinarians from being carried into execution. The
site of the prison is too contracted, and the formation
of the wards and yards too confined, for the purposes
of preserving the health of the prisoners ; classification,
on which their reformation so much depends ; and
stringent discipline, without which mere deprivation
of personal liberty is no punishment to a London
thief. But if Newgate be objectionable, as a pri-
son, for the reasons we have assigned, what shall
be said of Giltspur-street Compter ? That prison
was constructed according to the crude and im-
perfect notions of the prison architects of
nearly a century ago ; when to thrust the largest
number of prisoners within the narrowest pos-
sible space, and to surround them with immensely
thick walls, was regarded as the perfection of
prison building. With these now-exploded notions
Giltspur-street Compter was constructed to accom-
modate about 150 prisoners. It is now by no means
an unusual occurrence for 200 to be incarcerated
therein :-210, and even 220, have been huddled to-
gether within its walls, exposed to the malaria arising
from almost living putrescence ! We are not now
describing things that were, and have passed away.
Within the last few days, as we have reason to know,
this was the case in Giltspur-street Compter ! What
renders this state of things the more blameworthy
is, that there is literally no excuse for their existence.
So valuable is the site occupied by this ill-constructed
and inefficient prison—especially to the Governors
of Christ's Hospital, whose edifices it adjoins—
that the latter have offered to build the Corporation
of London a new prison, constructed after the best
model, and on a convenient spot, in exchange for
Giltspur-street Compter, and the site it occupies.
Yet the prison stands—a monument of reproach to
the City of London, and to the age and nation in
which a Corporation is permitted to perpetuate a
building which lacks every requisite, as a prison,
suited to reclaim as well as punish its wretched in-
mates.
STANDARD.—We insert to-day a great number
of communications and letters upon the subject of
some late proceedings in the diocese of Exeter, and of
some further proceedings in the same diocese, which
are expected with anxious alarm. These communi-
cati▪
ons are not one-twentieth part of the communi-
cati▪
ons and letters upon the same subject received at
our office within the last two days ; and we can state
with perfect truth, that, in selecting them from the
voluminous mass, we have been actuated chiefly by a
desire to publish those only which appeared the most
moderate in their views and the most temperate in
style. Let us not, however, be understood as con-
demning the spirit of those correspondents whose fa-
vours we suppress. We hope that the channel of pub-
lication which they have preferred is warrant that
they are good Protestants and zealous Churchmen; but
the best men, when they are dissatisfied and in earnest,
will, as was well remarked by the late excellent Michae
Sedley, say bitter things ; and the case is one from
the consideration of which we would, if possible, ex-
clude all bitterness. Every Protestant must feel a
deep debt of gratitude to the Bishop of Exeter—all
acknowledge his stupendous talents, so long and
so indefatigably devoted to the service of our
Protestant Church; and they who are acquainted
with the kindness, the purity, and the sincerity
of his private, life, must unite love of the man
with their veneration of his public character.
The errors of such a man are, it is true,
the least to be overlooked, because they are by their
example, the most dangerous ; but, surely they are
to be treated with gentleness in the exposure of them.
The feeling that the serious errors, into which we
conscientiously believe the Bishop to have fallen in
the recent proceeding, command such gentle treat-
ment, might have caused us to modify even those
of the articles relating to the proceedings in ques-
tion, which will be found in our columns, but that
we dislike to meddle with the writing of our
friends when we can help it, and also consider
it necessary that the Bishop, and others who may be
disposed to imitate him, shall be informed of the
impression made upon the minds of some of the best
Protestants and best Ckurchtnen of the country,
by his Lordship's treatment of the Helston case.
Fully apprised of that impression, the Bishop of
Exeter would, we are convinced, be among the
very first to labour in effacing it by the manly
abandonment of a course which, though re-
commended to him by his fullest conviction leads,
as he knows, to nothing essential in religion, to
nothing at least both essential and good (for it may,
in many ways, lead to essential evil), while it
causes both offence and fear, not to say scandal.
We have alrdady more than once lamented the
prevailing propensity to make such questions as this
before us the subject of newspaper discussion, but
what can we do ? Views are presented and even
acts are done that excite discontent and alarm from
one extremity of England to the other, and
the discontented and alarmed classes are compo.ed
precisely of those whom we are most accustomed
and most bound to respect. Are we to impose
silence upon their remonstrances, even if we our-
selves could say that we stand indifferent in the
matter, which certainly we cannot say P The
able and truly learned correspondent, whose
letter we annex to these observations, proves, we
think, most satisfactorily, that even the letter of the
law does not enjoin any rigour of rubrical con-
formity, like that suggested in the Helston case,
upon either bishops or clergy ; but what if
the letter of the law did enjoin such
rigour ? The letter has been a dead letter
for at the very least two centuries. Now this
long desuetude would be treated as an absolute
repeal of the law in every country of the world
except England ; and upon these obvious grounds
of reason, that in the lapse of many years changes
of manners arise, new institutions have birth, new
laws ate enacted, to which it is natural to suppose
the dormant law would have been adapted had
not the law slept in the practical disregard of the
people.. Ia the secular code of England, and in
this code only in all the world, desuetude, as we
have admitted, does not work a repeal ; and
why ? Because in England, the Legislature has
for centuries been presumed to be always alive,
and awake, and vigilant to relieve our code from
mischievous or frivolous and useless laws ; an un-
merited compliment to the Legislature of the coun-
try, as was proved by all the cloud of disused and
obsolete laws swept from the Statute-book
in 1824 by the present Premier; but a complimen-
tary notion which sufficiently explains why in Eng-
land only desuetude does not work the rereil of a
law. " Cessante ratione," however, " eessat et lex."
Our ecclesiastical legislature is not constantly sit-
ting—on the contrary, it has not for more than
a century sat for any effectual purpose ; and,
therefore, by the analogy of all other codes
in similar circumstances, •we are bound to con-
sider as repealed all ecclesiastical laws that have
fallen into desuetude. Even supposing, therefore, in
defiance of the clear demonstrationof our corres-
pondent, that the law relied upon by the Bishop of
Exeter was ever of force, it is of force no longer ; and
why in the name of
peace and common sense should
it be now revived' no other possible effect than
to distract the Chu ?eh?

IMPORTATION OF Du.r4:3-n"....,,L.,,.
&c•—Wednesday
afternoon, at four o'clock, the—Zl -picket Batavier,
Captain David Dunlop, arrived at tall'
steam-packet wharf, from Rotterdam. SlimietbmriCenoultatrifinfteis-
six head of live oxen and cows, and an
tity of live poultry, chiefly geese, turkeys, and quan-
tity
The importation of all kinds of live poultry is now car-
ried on to a greater extent than usual, as the ice on the
Dutch coast may be expected to put a stop to the navi-
gation in a few weeks, and dealers are bringing over
large quantities at present to be fattened for Christmas,