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the same flippant terms and volatile language.
Among his other " amiable" pieces of merriment, for
example, the Baron observes, " I had some thought
cf moralising with you, but what's the use! The
wine is drawn, and you must drink it !" Unfor-
tunately: " the wine was drawn," fur the victim
was already established in apartments in the French
metropolis, but fortunately the guilt of the seducer
was not consummated, and this in consequence of the
vigilance and sagacity of. the father of ISABELLA
liaminToer. Suspecting the cause of his
child's sudden abduction, the English clergy-
men applied at once to the Procureur
do la Republique, and in compliance with the prompt
directions of that official, the Count FoRESTIER DE
COUBERT was arrested while still tarrying at Tours,
awaiting near the sick bed of his wife, the signalfor his
appearance in the capital. Thereupon the child and
her bonne were sent back to Tours, having happily
escaped the polluting presence of the profligate, but
damaged, if not altogether ruined, in reputation.
As the trial approached, of course offers of a
compromise were made by the intimidated de-
fendant, and, his wife having just expired, he
even proposed to marry the young girl ISABELLA as
the most effectual means of compensation. While,
nevertheless, indignantly rejecting the suggestion of
such an alliance,
_the Reverend Mr. HAMILTON
entreated the Procureur to allow the matter to
be hushed up without being publicly blazoned
in the Court of Assizes of the department. To this
entreaty, however, that functinary turned a deaf ear,
and the result of all is that the trial has ineffectually
bruited about the name of the unfortunate victim, and
has led at the same time to the acquittal of her
licentious inamarato. Altogether it is impossible to
conceive any transaction more lamentable than this
abortive effort to secure the punishment of a most un-
mitigated scoundrel. So far, indeed, from having
received the puni.hment which his offences against
the laws of society, against the laws of
religion, and, considering the extreme youthfulrasi
and innocence of his victim, against the very laws of
humanity, the Count FORESTIER DE COUBERT has
been consoled for the inconvenience of his position by
the plaudits of the mob in a court of justice. The whole
proceedings afford a new and melancholy illustration of
the rottenness of certain portions of the social fabric
and of the utter inadtquacy of the law as at present
constituted to deal with criminals whose offence is
nothing less than the heinous offence of seduction.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Great success of Giralda and the New Farce.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed GIRALDA ; or, the Invisible Husband, sup-
ported by Messrs. Leigh Murray, G. Cooke, W. Farren, Jun., Comp-
ton ; Mesdames. Stirling and Leigh Murray, Madlles. Louise and
Adele. . . .

After which THE OLDEST INHABITANT, in which Messrs.
W. Ferret), Compton. Diddear, Norton; Mesdames Bartlett, Adams,
and Ellen Turner will appear.
Te conclude with the PRINCESSES IN THE TOWER.

ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prin:e Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
. Great Novelty in the Scenes of the Arena.
Repetition of the Equestian Ladies' Fete.
Cr3wded Houses to witness the attractive and magnificent Sneetaele
of Mazer pi., which, with brilliant novelties in the Wonders of the
Arms, form the most varied and attractive Entertainments in the
Metrov.oiis, which will be continued for this week only. Fourth
Week of the accomplished vocalist, Miss Annie Hardie, who .will
sing a favourite Ballad.
• THIS EVENING,

Will be produced Lord Byron's gorgeous Spectqcle of MAZEPPA
nd the WILD HORSE. Mazeppa, Mr. N. T. Hicks.
In consequence lite immense success of the Equestrian Ladies'
Fete, it will be re,.-eated, the Scenes of the Circle being performed
and conducted exclusively by the highly ta!ented Female Artists of
the Establishment.

To conclude with Fitzball's popular Melodrama, entitled WAR.
DOCK RENNELSOY.

Box-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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of the official lists compiled under the superintendence
cf the Stock Exchange. As to. the prices of shares
generally given in 7 Sun, they represent the actual
bargains of the thy, while the quotations sought by
our correspondent would be merely approximate or
" nominal."'

The vacancy on, the judicial bench in Ireland, oc-
casioned by the lamented death of the late, Chief!
Justice Donzarrr, has given. origin to numerous
conjectures and a wide field of speculation as to the
course likely to be- adopted by the Executive in re-
ference thereto. Some hiSist that the recommendation
of the Committee. Qll Official Salaries for the reduction
of the number of Irish judges from twelve t 6 nine,
leaving three_ only in each court, wilt be carried cut,
and that no appointment whatsoever will be made tä
the vacant office. • This assertion is as vehemently de-
nied in other quarters, where it is justly argued that
nothing less than an Act of Parliament would be
sufficient to warrant a diminution in the judicial
body, a diminution which would not only largely
increaie.the labours of the other judges, but would
render necessary an alteration of the circuits, and a
variety of complicated arrangements which would
require the Legislative sanction before they could be
carried into practical operation.. Indeed we do not
see hOW it could he effected if the English and Irbil
bars are to remain separate and distinct bodies, and
the establishments at the Four Courts, Dublin,
are to.. be continued in Existence. The new,
Chief Justice may he subjected .to any changes
in the amount of salary which may ultimately
be decided on by the Imperial Parliament,
upon due consideration of the report of the
Profligacy appears in France to set at open de- Committee above alluded to, a condition si-
fiance the powers of criminal jurisprudence. What miler to that upon which Sir JOHN JERVIS
is, moreover, yet more lamentable—the sympathies accepted office in this country; but we cannot see
of the populace seem to go, not with the victim of a how. the 'Government can legally or constitutionally,
detestable lust, but with hie seducer and his de- in jutice either to the remaining judges, or to the.
benched associates. Such, at least, are the only con- suitors of the-courts of common law in Ireland, per-
elusions to be drawn from the particulars already, mit the office to-continue-vacant for so long a period
given in our columns of a recent trial at Tours, lis.7 as must necessarily elapse befcre the ultimate daci-
fore the Court of Assizes of the ' department.
Inli s.
on of PArli*mont can- Bo .hintned on the Tiespv,o•37 eircumstano. of that miserable transac-. i
li on. IF it should be attempted it will
thin awe: , can only find reason to regret afford conclusive evidence that Government'
the impotence of the law when deal- has determined on the immediate amalgamation of the
ing with scoundrels as unprincipled as the Count, bars, and the removal of the Irish courts from the
FOEESTIER DE COUBERT. From the evidence banks of. the Liffey, to that of the Thames—from the
adduced during the examination of the various wit- Inns-quay to Westminster; and, as Lord Jonrc Res-
nesses, as well as from the admirable and lucid narra-
SELL distinctly arid positively asserted at the close of
tire ' delivered by the public prosecutor, it appeared
the last session that no such step was even contem-
that the accused nobleman had, by a most, plated at; present, -it may, - therefore, reasonably be
systematic conspiracy, inveigled into an in-
anticipated that the office will be filled up whenever
trigue a young girl named ISABELLA HAMIL- , the necessary arrangements can be completed.
TON, then residing in Tours with her father, • •
• Assuming,
.-then, that the appointment will be
an English clergyman. Besides the unfortu-
made—a matter about which we do not en-
nate child entrapped into this wretched offaire
eertain the slightest ' doubt--the next question
du came, Mr. IlemieToN was " encumbered" with.
' -
a wife and " a host of childrea." One' might have will be, who is the fortunate individual to
?
imagined; therefore, that this fact, together with the be selected for the high and distinguished position
And on this point an Equal diversity of opinion ap-
protected him from the carnal machinations of even sacred calling of the foreign minister, might have
pears to prevail. Some who were offended by the
zeal and energy, ability and efficiency, with which
a roué of the most lax morality. When, moreover, it
'
is considered that the poor girl was yet scarcely fif- Mr. AIONAHAN discharged. the arduous duties of his
situation during the state trials, desire that the usual
teen years of age, in all respects innocent as a child, .
etiquette of the profession should be disregarded, and
and as inexperienced, nothing but the most loath.'
some abandonment of all principle, nothing but the that an insult should be offered to the entire bar of
--
most implicit obedience paid to a passion inflamed by Ireland in his person. It is, therefore, suit
the most ungovernable concupiscence could induce
Bested` that one of the puisne judges should be
ed to the vacant chiefdom, and that Mr.
pass, after the most prolonged and ays-
any man, however depraved in sentiment, to corn-
promoted
should be well contented with the in-
ferior, but not less honourable position, thereby
tematic endeavours, the destruction of youth-
vacated. Although we fully recognise the important
ful purity. Nevertheless, it was proved against
services of PERRIN, of RICHAEDS, of BALL, and many the accused that be not only carried out his abomi-
of
others, indeed every member of that bench, who,
noble project in reference to ISABELLA. HAMILTON, in
spite of those powerful restrictive considerations, but as a judicial body, are second to none the world ever
that ha pursued her with his illicit affections while saw, we cannot for a moment imagine that the pare-
his wife was l ill of a disease which mount claims of the Attorney-General can be slighted
ying ultimately or despised. Mr. MONAHANhaS bsen the first law
brought about her premature dissolution. Having officer of the Crown during a period of no ordinary
excitement, and under circumstances of no gained the affection of his victim, and embittered her
or-
life at home by his insidious arguments, the Count diaary difficulty. During his tenure of office
FOIIESTIER DE COUBERT at length induced her to the
poor-law was brought into operation
leave 1 Tours, 'accompanied by her bonne, and, after throughout the entire country. The repeated
reaching Paris by the railway, to await the failures of the potato crop, under the msterious visita-
arrival of her paramour. Everything prospered in
Lion by which 'P y
ROVIDENCE was pleased to afflict the
this miserable arrangement, even to the meeting, at
nation, occasioned the deepest suffering and distress ;
the terminus in the French capital, of the two mis-
and the year of ravolutiono when so many dynasties
guided females and a friend of the seducer, a man
were overturned, and an many popular commotions'
called the Bann DE VIVIER, who appears, in these
took piece on the continent of Europe, inflamed the
proceedings, to have acted in the capacity of the
passions cf the "Young Irelanders" to the highest
merest pander to vicious appetites. Nothing, to 'our
pitch, and led to the abortive attempt at in-
mind, can exceed in prurient licentiousness the tone
of the letters in which these two " gallant" debauchees eurrection, which terminated in the banish-
arranged tits 'Lent of the honest but mistaken enthu-
preliminaries to the seduction of the
siasts, who acted as leaders in the movement.
young girl ISABELLA Haeutreroer, and her bonne AHELLI
GRENDON. Writing to a friend in Paris, the Count During all that time the conduct of Mr. MONAHAN
FORE6TIER DE CODBERT says, "I send you, my dear was beyond all praise, and to his merciful and tem-
perate, but at the same time
-firm and unflinching, ad-
friend, a young English girl, aged fifteen, aith a
pretty little face, clear blue eyes, delicate nose, sari-
hands the happy termination of the troublesome ministration of the extensive powers committed to his
" seal mouth, and a slightly prominent chin. She is - ~
tines, the crushing of the spirit of disaffection and
the daughter of an Irish minister, who has a hest of
children. She will be accompanied by a little 'bonne turbulence, and the restoration of order and tran-
'of seventeen, with auburn hair, ecc., named ADELB"— plillity,may, partly be attributed. He ably seconded
'expatiating upon the physical characteristics of each i and carrieiout the ssatesmanlike views of the Vice-
with the brutality of a Colonel CHARTERIS. "
• "Do soy, the best, as he will be the last, of the Lords-
not," he continues, make any Objection, I have Dril
y Lieutenant of Ireland. We cannot believe that such
Sou acted after long deliberation. I beg of
to meeyt • a man could be passed over, contrary to the usual
arrival---eTsaneeee course of precedent and to the erdinary rules of judi-
(that is the
them at the railway station on their arri
name of my charming pretty
Ibis)) will .
ciel appointments.
have a plaid gown, a straw bonnet, and a. black It, then, Mr. MONAUAN be the new Chief Justice,
woollen cloak ; the-servant, an old black bonnet of the present Solicitor-General, Mr. Ilareneee, will
her mistress. They have been told you will be as a matter of -course become Attorney-General, and
there, and will expect to meet you. That they may there would he a selection from a host of well-
recognise you, have
- a white flower at your qualified and competent candidates for the office of
button • bole, or rather keep a pocket ,
Solicitor-General. When such men are to be found
handkerchief constantly to your mouth. I laugh at as LEB.WICH O'BRIEN CIPIISTIAN, HUGHES, both
the PIT' ' '' ' .
atures. LGERALBS, kEocir, and a host of others whose
the thought of your meeting these poor cre name is " I,gion," '
Take an apartment for them; let it be simple, but be- who support the Government—to
say nothing of GREENI3; II T)
coming. The father will no doubt tale
some men- , ENN, ,ItEWSTEB, BUTT,
;" I shall I
sures, which it is important to render va..... , re Arlen, Wilereaine, and other members of tile
Conservative bar, who could s • 1
therefore continue to show me self in the public pro- Circe y be C.X-
Twaed
.to accept or hold office - under the
menades, that I may not be suspected ; and then I r
Whig Miniatry—thtre can be no difficulty in finding
will relieve you in 3 cur guard. My wifd is better.
a lit and proper person to di!charge the professional
BRETONNZAU is tending her BS if she were his own
duties of the office. But there are other consideia--
child. She is surrounded with devoted attendants,
tic -l=, which cannot he omitted from the calculation,
has a good house, nod her physician in ordinary is
which must be taken into account in making the new
one of the pine( s of the science. What can Ide
appointment. It has long been a subject of complaint
more ? I mar venture to give me self this little gra-
that there was no Irish law efficer of the Crown hay-
tification. Do not scold me. I tell you that the ing a seat in the House of Commons, to take charge
father is an Englishman and a clergyman—two
'of7he vatious law reforms relating to Ireland. Mr.
animals . I detest, and who are, as it were, grafted
_.,.
TtleentuAN sat for. Galwey but fur a few
one .on the other, expressly
to take
fromme - all sorts of remorse." From . the Baron enonths ; while Mr. HATCHELL was only returned for
Windsor towards the utter end of last session.
DB Vivian, the. vivacious reducer of an innocent
4t is also' asserted; *lib 'what fimedation we knot{ not,
chilli of fifteen receives ' a response couched in .i

THE_ WEATHER.—Stat OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 26.
THERMOMETER, IN TUE SHADE.
63—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowest this morning and during the night.
56—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.84.
Wcm S.Y.—rain all the morning, and up to half-past two,
with dull heavy weather.
THREE O'CLOCK.
The weather is now fine, with sunshine. '

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