The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-30 00:00:00

LITE RA TURE.

Although the show of Oats was by no m( ans
that grain moved off heavily, and damp qualities were
again lower.
Beans, the sup7ly of which %TN'S molerato, ruled heavy
at late rates. Fir 1), as we had a very slew inquiry,
and the currencies had a downward tendency. No change
in Indian Corn.
Fine Flour sol l at late rat
have been had on caAier ter!
CURRENCY PEE IMP
Wheat—Essex & Kent,
Red, New.... 36s to43s
Ditto,White, New 39s 495
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red.• ..• 3ts 41s
Ditto, White.• •• •• 37e 42s
Irish, Red •••• • • .. —s —s
„ itto,White ••• • • • —s —s
KYe— DOld •• 26s 27s

es. Major foreign m;ght

'ERIAL MEASURE.

Malt—Chevalier.• •• 523 to bss
Oats— Yorkshire and
Lineolnsh., Feed. 17s 19s
Potato ......• 193 23s
Youghal and Cork,
Black. •• •• •• lbs 17s

Cork, White .•• • • 15s 18s
Scotch, Feed. • • 19s 24s
Beans—Tick .•••• • • • • 238 25s
Pigeons ...... .• • . 27s 32s
Peas—Grey .. •••• • • • • 25s 2iig
Maple .••••• • • • • • 27s 321
White. ••••• • • • • • 245 278
Boilers ••••• • • • • 263 308
Flour—Town-made. • • 35s 408
Suffolk .•••• • • • . • 293 33.
Stocktu & Norfolk 298 Pi

New............. 28s
Barley—Grinding. • • .. 20s
Malting ......... 24s
Chevalier .. • • • • • 28s
malt—Suffolk and Nor-
folk• ••. • • ...... 43s 48s
Brown 40$ 42s
Xingstonand Ware 47s Ms
SEZDS,
We have again to report a steady inquiry for Clover
Seeds, at fully last week's quotations. Most other alit:-
cies are a slow sale at late rates. - -
l'urnlP,White, per bush. 108 to 12s

Red mid Green •. • • lls 12s
?dastard, Brown ••• • •• 9s 12s

White, new ...... 6s Od Od
ares,Winter 4s Od 4s 6(11

Carraway .•• • • • 31s 33s
Coriander .•.. • 15► 18s
Hempsced, per quarter 34s 35s
Linseed, Eng. -.sowing • • 54s 56s
Crushing •• • • • • 40s 43s
Baltic ••• • .. 38s 44s
Odessa ••••• • • • • • 42s 46s
Linseed Cake,pr.l,ooo—

Old 3s ed ts Od
Canary, per quarter • . 47s 52s
!.Ye grass •. •• .• • ~.. 243 30s
Clover, Red Ens. (cwt.) 328 48$
White .. • • ...... 32s 48s
Foreign Rod.. •• .. 3Cls 463
White.— 28s 48s
•• •• •• 17s 22s
SMITHFIELD.
A very limited supply—as is almost invariable the
"se during Christmas week—of foreign stock has ar-
rived in the port cf London. since Monday last —it
oilving been confined to 1,325 head. During the cor-
responding period in 1849 we received 781; in 1848,
8,892; and in 1847, 2,013 head.

Trefoil ~

English .Si 5s 9/ Os
Foreign, per ton 67 5s 71 5s
Rape Cakes, pr ton 31 15s 4/ 0
Rapeseed, New, prlst 251 Os 27/ Os

Pigs.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN TEE PAST WEER.
Prom Beasts. Sbeep. Lambs. Calves. _
Antwerp
Rotterdam
Harlingen
Nieu Diep 252 ...
uordt

Total
The yearly coml. arisen of the weekly imports is as

Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1849 395 ... 224 161 ...
--
1848, 6l ... 820 ~. 10 ... 1
1847 341 1,653 ... ... 19 ...
Scarcely any imports have taken place at Hull, &c.,
and we have had no arrivals from L.; lAnd. The show
1,:)! forfign stock in this morning's market was very
muited—the fresh arrivals, since the above returns were
amade baying been unuswilly small. Although the
'emend was by no means active, s good clearance was
effected. From our own grazing districts the receipts of
ue3st3 fresh up tc-day were but moderate, the time of
3sar considered, whilst their general quality was inferior.
,Wing to the small number of buyers in attendance, and
t° Nowgate and Leadenhall being partly supplied with
weuuntry-killed meat, the Beef trade ruled heavy, at last
a
,
"
kaquotations, the general top figure for Beef being
, 8d per 8114. The arrivals from Lincolnshire, Leices-
!rahi.re and Northamptonshire amounted to 2,000 Short-
',ores. From otl er parts of England we re-
eeived 300 Herefords, Hunts, Devons, &c. ; and
qr,"l Scotland, 230 horned and polled Scots.
fl‘here was a very moderate supply of Sheep in the pens,
the condition of the stock was good. Prime old
Downs moved off somewhat freely, at an advance in the
eUrrnneies of Monday last of 2d per 81b.; they having
luld at 4s 4d to 4s 6d per 8. bs. These, however, must
deoreensidered extreme prices. All other breeds moved
steadly, and, in some instances, the quotations
,arl an upward tendency. Notwithstanding that the
iltltuber of Calves was small, the Veal trade ruled very
tlaetive at late rater. Primo small Pigs sold steadily,
ether
kinds of Pigs slowly, at unaltered quotations.

Per Blbs. to sink the offal.

I. d. to s. d
!Iliterlot 2 8 2 10
p 704,1 quality .... 3 0 3 2
i;2l:ne large Oxeia•• 8 2 3 4
iZnich *loots 3 6 a 8
pj_gil coarse Calves 2 8 3 0
es:mall ditto •• 3 2 3 6
Calves ..18 0 24 0
.......... o 0 0 0

d. to 5..4.
Enferlor Sheep •• • 3 2 3 6
Second qual. Sheep 3 8 310
Caarse-woolledditto4 0 4 2
Southdown blether 4 4 4 6
Ditto cut of the wool 0 0 0
Large Hog■ • • •• 2 8 3 6
Small Porkers ••.• 3 8 4 0
Quartar old Pigs ..16 0 20 0

TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET,
beasts. I Sheep. Calves. Pigs
I I
3069 15,550 127 360
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
beasts, I Sheep. I Calves. I rigs.
43 150 76
For the
.B.ND LEILDENEALL.
vor the time of year these markets were fairly
with sup-
Pll d •
e th most kinds of meat (chiefly London killed),
Of NT
, full-
average quality. Prime Beef, Mutton, and Pork,
ate,
t ed off steadily, at full prices. Otherwise the demand
tiled heavy.

At per stone by the Carcase.
tee, s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s.
•• .. 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior 2 6 2
.... 2 4 2 6 -- middling ••2 10 3 6
Prinielarge 2 8 3 0 - prime .... 3 8 310
pt„., 7)ririe small 3 2 3 6' Pork, 1arge........ 2 6 3 6
-""• •--• • • ....... 2 6 3 6 - small .• •....• 3 8 4 0

BOROUGH AND SPITAIMIELDS.
Quace our last report, nearly 3,000 tons of potatoes
6.144, reached the water-side, coastwise; but the foreign
ll) arts have not exceeded 100 tons from Rotterdam.
411.ue , receipts, per railway, have been seasonably large
of excellent quality. Owing to the mildness of the
eLth er, and the low value ef bread, the general demand
is
inactive, on the following terms:—
Yee_ Per Ton. Per Ton.
,•51:1. Regents. FOs to 100 s Essex Shaws ... 80s to 90s
W9eb Regents 75s to 90s Kent Regents.... 70s to 85s
isbeacb & Cam- Essex Regents... 70s to 85s
bridge
ehreign ..... 65s to 80s Kentish Red Kid. Eos to 95s
IC°l3lll- Sham —a to a Cambridge ditto 70s to 908
eat Shaws Bos to 90s Chats

BOROUGH HOP DICARIEET.
oallr market being extensively supplied with all kinds
gj
ew Hops, the general demand is in a very slag-
-5t4 state, and prices are not supported. Factors
ail'elea, viz., ready money—East Kent pockets, per cwt
25 to 61; ditto bags, 31 8s to 51 103; Mid Kent
pockets, 21 5s to bi 10s; ditto bags, 21 to 41 ss; Weald
8,,t pockets, 3/ to 3/ 15s; ditto bags, 21 to 21 103;
slez pockets, 21103 to 3/ 10i.

WOOL.
buring last week, the imports of Wool into London
litere 194 bales from blegadore, 67 from Ilambro', 109
ti ,°4l Alexandria, 19 from Antwerp, 22 from Constan-
h;°Ple, 45 from Rouen, 5 from Madras, and 15 packages
(I°M Ireland. T to.opntract market is very mo-
,C4tely dover thou/0 ',the amount of business
steZ Y it-iVasn sill, holders arc very firm, and prices ruin

TALLOW.
%o not
withstanding that the delivery last week was sea-
large, viz., 1196 casks, our market is in a very
b',l.9tive eta e, at the prick s of Monday laq. To-day
on the spot, is quoted at 37s per cwt. For
fZ r
ward delivery next to nothing doing. Town Tallow
A=s.
36d to 370 per cwt, net cash ; rough Fat, 2s Id
81b9.

1846.

1847. 1848

hlB5O.
47,190 52,924
388 3d to 378 Od
388 6,1 to 05 Od
1,538 2,196
56,576 56,390

i
at4ck lat i day • • ••• • 1 22,71
1)11, c° of A. C. •• • • i 'tsoloB 0802
I,4llvery last week • • 1,83 a
rtt,,fre rn June 1.... 55,2,11
436
tTlN'als last •
•••Itto fri,ml „Tune Iweek „.. 67,572
Price et, Tow,
...... 548 Od

1849

17,827 34,741
45s 01 42s Od
to 45s 31 to Os Od
2,364 1,718
58,700 60,•228
10,01 1,507
68,424 87,436
49s 61 423 Od

'222 BO
78,293 83,670
424 Od 'i33 Od

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
fu::411.,—1 think you deserve the thanks ot the public
the straightforward wanner you have acted in the
ea...
(A ,
t Jaae Wilbred, end as an bumble individual I
e4der you my thanks. A free and independent press
Ate
tk e true guardians of the public, and as such I con-
eicr you have acted. I ask the same question as you,
l, where is Mrs. Sloane? I know nothing of law, but
Sloane
see that justice will not be vindicated unless Mrs.
tine be forthcoming.
fir.th Editor, suppose the case was reversed as regards
th: Position of the parties, let it be a young lady, and.
1 master and mistress people in an humble station of
Z,it', and see whether the experience end sagacity of
i'derman Humphery would not have told him that
i,?t,h. parties must be forthcoming. It is a shame station
Lige should make such a difference. Mr. Editor, you
—ll depend upon it that if it had been poor people, he
*euld not have been satisfied with the bare word that
:fle had hurt her leg. No, she would have been dragged
itei the bar, and why should not Alderman Humphery
~."e acted in the same manner with Mrs. Sloane? I
"lint to see equal justice to all parties. I an', &c.,
THOS. D., a Working Man.

December 30. 1850.

DEATH OF MR. OSBALDISTON._The death of Mr.
•W. Osbaldiston, the well-known theatrical manager,
and till lately lessee of the Victoria theatre, took place some-
.,llst unexpectedly yesterday afternoon about one o'clock.
-,l!eeeascd, who was fifty-six ears tot age, had been ailing for
three or four weeks, but hopes were entertained of his re-
cover 3
la
•
h• until te on Saturday evening, when Mr. Roberts,
'3 medical attendant, intimated to his family that the
iaYmptorns had assumed a fatal character. Mr. Osbaldiston
as been manager of the Covent Garden, Sadler'sWells, Surrey,
and City of London Theatres, and, as lessee of the Victoria,
teProdueed on Thursday last the Christmas piece which had
linceeeded at the first-mentioned theatre just fourteen years
gtfore Miss Vincent, Mr. George Osbaldiston, and Mr.
?earbrow, all of the Victoria Theatre, were with him in his
Last moments.

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MILITARY PROMENADE.—We announced some time
knee that the Government had directed the grounds and
gardens at Chelsea Hospital, which had hitherto been kept
_exclusively for the use of the officers of the college, to be
thrown open for the benefit of the public. We are now
enabled to state that on the Ist of January the gardens, in-
cluding those with the terrace fronting the River Thames,
are to be opened for the recreation of all visitors. We trust
that, in addition to this privilege, arrangements will be
~lade for admitting the public to view the Royal Chapel and
rensioners' Dining-hall, in which are deposited the cele-
brated eagles captured from Napoleon's Invincibles in the
Peninsula and at Waterloo, without continuing the practice
exacting fees from the pockets of the community. But for
the usual pace of the apathetic officers of the Board of Works,
evethese gardens would have been opened twelve months since.
believe more than a year hasp m
since the Govern-
tent had issued orders to the above effect.—Morning Paper.

ELOPEMENT.—A young lady, immured in the
_ball of the Chaytors, near Croft, now used as a boarding-
School, made her exit the other night from her window,
-2nd dropped into the arms of her lover. Off they ran to
IGretna Green—whence on the 13th inst., they returned to
otilkoley, their paternal home, in the character of man and
Wife.—.Durham Chronicle.

,A large consigns ent of ortnges was recently
_"ulded at Chester, in wll'oh port oranEes had not been ini-
vvatilVols24,--Local Paper.

CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
By Charles Phillips, Ety. one of her Mairsty's
Commissioners of the Court for Ca,' Rai," of in
solvent Debtors. W. Blackwood and Sons, Edin•
burgh and London. 1850.
This is indeed a valuable contribution to the ne.-
t:onal literature. The very title-page is suggestive.
It tells of a rare combination of advantages, of an
author worthy of his subject, and a subject worthy of
its author ; the portrait of a men of refined and
sparkling wit, fervid, impassioned, and, perhaps, un-
equalled eloquence and genuine and. consistent patriot-
ism, depict, d by one scarcely inferior in any of
these qualities to the great original ; we should rather
say a series of highly finished minatures —all gems
of inestimable value—of many of those distin-
guished men who constituted the pride and glory of
Ireland in her palmy days, wen she was an of
neither of pity or contempt, who were
" Of other times, when there were giants in the land,"
It was a period of vital importance in the history of
that unhappy kingdom, which must excite enthusiasm
in the heart and raise a blush on the countenance
of every genuine son of " Green Erin." And the
men were worthy of the days in which they lived.
Their virtues and their vices were eminently Irish,
the natural fruits of the national character. There
were no artificial restrictions to obscure the one or
conceal the other. Each was revealed in its native
lustre or naked enormity, and Irishn en have much to
boast of. The compatriots of Curran, Grattan,
Hussey Burgh, Burke, Kirwan, and of one, the last
but not the least of that bright band—Plunket, who
still happily survives in the enjoyment of the otium
cum dignitate which he has so richly merited, the con-
necting link between two distinct and, alas! very
different eras in Irish history, may well exult in the
fame of their countrymen. But Charles Phillips does
not merely delineate these stars of the first magni-
tude—the planets of the Irish system, he places
before us with almost equal care the secondary lumi-
naries, who, although they
" Paled their lesser lights"

before their more distinguished brethren, were
yet worthy of the immortality they have
now received at the hands of their ta-
lented countryman—Tom Goold, Harry Deane,
Grady, Jerry Keller, Jonah Barrington, Peter Bur-
rowes, and John Egan—honest Jack, who, to the
rough and blustering manners which gained him the
soubriquet of " Bully Egan," united a kindly and
generous heart that endeared him to his associates,
although it did not prevent them from occasionally
making him their butt—who was incorruptible and
unpurchaseable—who, although poor in this world's
wealth, yet rejected all the tempting offers that were
held out to him for his vote, and in the sterling ebul-
lition of his feelings shouted, " Ireland for ever, and
d—n Kilmainham," and died, leaving only an un-
sullied name and three shillings ! ! behind him—whose
names have been
" Familiar in our ears as household words,"
might speedily he forgotten, but for the kind and
honourable tribute paid to their memories in the work
now before us. There are others, too, of a differs nt
character, whose names are recorded in these pages,
some well entitled to the distinction, and others,
" flies embalmed in amber," who individually had
no claim to so high an honour, but who were
necessarily introduced as connected with mere
worthy objects. It may be said that the present is
but a third edition of a book that had been long
before familiar to the reading public. It is,
however, to all intents and purposes a new work.
The former editions had long been out of print, and
a copy could not be obtained save by some happy
chance. There was an eager demand for a reprint,
but Charles Phillips, jealous alike of his friend's
posthumous reputation and of his own literary cha-
racter, was anxious to amend and improve the pro-
duction of his more juvenile years, so as to satisfy
himself—a critic even more fastidious, so far as this
work was concerned, than the sternest reviewer that
ever crushed the hope of a young author. Publishers
would have rejoiced at a rescript, because they would
have been sure of purchasers, book collectors
would gladly have adorned their shelves with a pro-
duction that was placed beyond their reach ; but
the writer was inexorable. He would not consent
to its reproduction until he had leisure time to devote
to its completion. The due appreciation of his pro-
fessional exertions, the unceasing labours of a bar-
rister's life, retarded this consummation, "so devoutly
to be wished for," until his well-merited elevation to
the bench, which gave to the country •a learned,
painstaking, impartial, and exemplary judge, and to
the literary world a new edition of " Curran and his
Contemporaries." We shall not attempt to give any
summary of the life of the remarkable man who forms
the chief feature in the admirable volume now under
notice. His life was busy and stirring from the
hour when, in 1775, with, as he said himself, " no

living possession but a pregnant wife," he was, after
much indecision respecting an emigration to America,
called to the bar of Ireland, until that, in which, in
1807, be exchanged for the judicial robe " the gown
which for so many years he had worn with
dignity to himself, with advantage to his
clients, and with honour to his country ;"
indeed, he might say, from his natal dry, on the 24th
of July, 1750, until that of his death, the 14th of
October, 1817, he had passed through all the vicis-
situdes of life. " The son of a peasant" (as with too
great humility he styled himself), he gained for him-
self a seat at " the table of his Prince," where he
was the welcome and honoured guest, and that
without in any degree compromising the sterling in•
dependence of his political principles, which were
never, during his ivaried career, even momen-
tarily sullied by the breath of slander. lie was
ever above suspicion in his ardent and unde-
viating patriotism ; the zealous, energetic, and
unflinching advocate of many political victims, he
never truckled to arbitrary power, or tempo-
rised under circumstances that might have appalled
the boldest. None attacked him with impunity;
the playful gibe, cutting sarcasm, or torrent
of burning eloquence, were ever available,
and he invariably repelled his assailants with the
weapons of their own choice. As a boon companion
he was unrivalled. As his able biographer justly re•
marks—" He was a little convivial deity. He soared
in every region, and was at home in all ; he touched
everything, and seemed as if he had created it; he
mastered the human heart with the sante ease that he
did his violin. You wept, and you laughed, and you
wondered ; and the wonderful creature who made
you do all at, will never let it eppear that he was
more than your equal, and was quite willing, if you
chose, to become your auditor. Ile bed no conversa-
tional rule whatever ; he spoke from impulse; and he
had the art so to draw you into a participation, that,
though you felt an inferiority, it was a contented one."
We shall borrow from the same gifted source the fol-
lowing graphic sketch of his professional character
and position
"We feel at home with him in the Four Courts.
There mar, perhaps, lived a greater advocate—cer-
tainly never one more suited to the ciuntry in which his
lot was cast. He bad all the qualities by which his
countrymen are attracted and attached. His imagina-
tion was w onderful, his elcquecce copious, rapid, and
ornate, his powers of mimicry beyond all description.
The passions were under his absolute command; either
the laugh or the tear was ready at his bidding; his con-
trasts—their rapidity, their ease, and, strange to say,
their apparent propriety—were marvellous. There was
no time to criticise, where the mind was wrapt in
wonder and delight, and the hearer was hurried, now
into the regions of philosophy and fancy, now through
the scenes of fun, and drollery, and humour, amid
which the Irish peasant delights to forget, or laugh away,
his wretchedness. He had another quality, apart from
intellect, which the times demanded—indomitable
courage. The English advocate is engaged in conten-
tions, earneut, ardent, animated, but—peaceful. Not so,
however, must we read Curran's history. In the days
from which he dates his glory, peril beset his path,
armed men composed his auditory, exasperated authority
denounced his zeal, and faction scowled upon the daunt-
less advocate it burned to make its victim. Bayonets
were often bristling at bis breast, and the interference of
the bench was sometimes called for, to procure him
even the decency of a bearing. His daring to appear
at all in defence of a state prisoner was mate matter of
grievous accusation I Lord Carleton broadly hinted to
him, ho might lose his gown if be iefended Neilsen.
Well, my Lord,' said Curran, somewhat contemptuously,
his Majesty may take the silk, but he must leave the
stuff behind.' He scorned both the threat and the im-
putation. I feel no shame,' he says in 1798, at such
a charge, except that of its being made at such a time
as this, hat to defend the people should be held out as
an imputation upon the King's counsel, when the people
are prosecuted by the state. I think every counsel is
the property of his fellow-sajects. If, indeed, because
I wore his Majesty's gown, I had declined my duty, or
had done it weakly or treacherously—if I bad made
that gown a mantle cf hypocrisy, and had betrayed ray
client, or sacrificed him to any personal view—l might,
perhaps, have been thought wiser by those who have
blamed me, but I should have thought myself the basest
villain upon earth.' It was amid such scenes, and under
such discouragements, that Curran pronounced the
memorable orations which have made his name im-

mortal."
The following glowing description of the bar of Ire-
land, where Charles Phillips commenced that profes-
sional career which has since been continued with so
much credit to himself in this more favoured country,
is especially worthy of notice :
"To that enlightened body, as at that day constitu'ed,
the future men' et this country may be allowed to turn
with an excusable, and, in some sort, a national :satisfac-
tion. There were to be found, her nobles, her aristo-
cracy, her genius, her learning, and her patriotism, all
concentrated within that liqle circle. No insolent pre-
tension in the high frowned down the intellectual splen-
dour of the humble: education compensated the want of
birth; industry supplied the inferiority of fortune; and
the law, which in its suitors kn,-,w no dittir.ction hut
that of juAice, in its
prot:et,tiors aektmdedge-11 LOI,E• x-
cept that of merit. In other countries, ?.here flits gh,-
rious profession is degraded into a trade—where cun-
ning supplies the place of intellect, and a handicraft
imechanism is the substitute for mind—where, in Cur-

ran's peculiar phrase, 'men begin to measure their
depth by their darkness, and to fancy themselves pro-
found because they feel they are perplexed'—no idea
can be formed of that illustrious body; of the learning
that informed, the genius that inspired, and the fire that
warmed it; of the wit that relieved its wisdom, and the
wisdom that dignified its wit; of the generous emula-
tion, that cherished while it contended; cf the spetleis
honour, that shone no less in the hereditary spirit of the
highly born than in the native integrity of the more
humble aspirant; but, above all, of that lofty end un-
bending patriotism that at once won the confidence and
enforced the imitation of the, country. It is not to be
questioned that to the bar c f that day the people of Ire-
land looked up, in every emergency, with the most per-
fect reliance upon ther talent 11114 their int, grity. It
was then the nursery of the Parliament aqui the peer-
' age. There was scarcely a noble family in the land
that did not enrol its elect in that body, by the study uf
law and the exercise of eloquence, to prepare them for
the field of legislative exertion; and there, net unfre-
quently, there arose a genius from the very lowest of
tne people, who won his way to the distinctions of the
senate. and wrested from pedigree the highest honours
and offices of the constitution, It was a glorious spec-
tacle to behold the hope of the peerage entering such an
intellectual arena with the peasant's offspring—all dif-
ference merged in that of mind, and merit alone de-
ciding the superiority. On such contests, and they were
continual, the eye of every rank in the community
was turned: the highest did not feel their birth debased
by the victories of intellect; and the humblest expecteA,
seldom in vain, to be ennobled in their turn. Many a
personage sported the ermine on a back that had been
coatless; and the garter might have g:ittered on a leg
that, in its native bog, had been unencumbered by a
stocking." . _

We could multiply extracts, all eminently deserving
of especial commendation. The volume may be
opened at any page with pleasure and profit, from the
preface to the appendix. Our space will not, how-
ever, permit us to linger longer over the rich and va•
tied collection of sweets, or to give specimens of the
oratory of the gifted child of genius whose fame is
still enshrined in the memories of his countrymen. We
cannot, however, refrain from transferring to our co-
lumns the simply beautiful dedication, the most per-
fect is every respect that we have ever seen :

TO
LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX.
Poetry has said, that
" Tho Frierdahip of a gnat man is a gift Gf the Gads.'

In C URRAN'S
I once posse!sed it.
In Lord BROUGHAM'S
I again enjoy it.
To these pages, therefore, affectionately devoted
To the memory of the one,
I proudly and gratefully, with his own permission, prefix
The name of tho other.

It is only justice to make honourable mention of a
portion of the work, too often neglected in similar
publications—" the Index," the importance of which
to the reader, enabling him to make the volume one of
reference, by which any subject can at once de die-
covt red, is so fully krov, n to every profc2sional reader.
It is prepared with the utmost care ar.d accurecy,
such as you would find in a well-arranged law book,
rather than in a work of general literature. In every
respect, then, we commend this admirable volume to
public notice; it will be found eminently worthy of
repeated perusals—one without which no library can
be complete.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, DEC. 28.
The Queen and his Royal highness Prince Albert
took their usual early morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot.
ing this morning, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Duke de Nemours and the Prince de Join-
yille, and attended by Colonel Ht n. Charles Grey
and Colonel Bouverie.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duk,-,. and Duchess de
Nemours and the Prince de Joinville took leave of
the Queen and the Prince to-day, and quitted the
Castle.

DEC. 29.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince
Albert, the ladies and gentlemen ot the Court, and
the domestic household, attended Divine service this
morning in the private chapel. The Hon. and Rev.
G. Wellesley officiated, and administered the Holy
Communion.

The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking exercise.

Her Royal 'Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
continues ill, at her residence, Gloucester House,
Piccadilly. Inquiries were made after the health of
the Royal Duchess yesterday, on the part of the
Queen and the members of the Royal Family.