The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

MAREV;? NEWS.—(TILIS DAY.)
12r.t.7 Dtx.etle.M.XTEl.
,I
,-)trrliFlELD.Atc..rtdow F 1 y, 21 8s to 3/. 103; Clover
,4410, 3/ Os to 41 103 ; and P•travv, 1/ 25 to 11 7-i Per
'Dad. Trade very dull, at barely last vveek's prices.
CutuaEn.AND.—Meadosv Hay, 2i 85 t, 3112.; Ulover
ditto, 3/ Os to good Straw I/ 23 to 1! 83 p.,1
161. Supply tolerably g, and trade dull.
IT lIITECRAPEL. AlCiulovi Hav, 2/ 85 to 31 10, ;
Clover, ditto, 3/ 03 to 4/ 105; ant] -traw, to li 81 per
1"(1. Both nay and Straw moved off heavily, at our
quotations.

Four hundred of these shares were allotted to Mr. Lord,
upn which he paid 10,0001. Ho had since been
registered for ono hunch el and twenty shares,
and ho held forty which wern not registered; the
balance of his shares he divosed of in the
mark, t. Subsequently to the issuing tf these
preferent:al shares the governor, doputy,governer, and
assistants resolved to convert the scrip shares into
money stock so et to (finalise the voting, and they passed
a bye,lav, allotting a vote to every 51. paid up; and when
Mr. Lord applied to have his forty shares registered, to
enable him to vote under the charter of incorporation,
the goretnors refaced to register them, but offered to
ieece st,.,ek for the amount which had been paid up upon
thew, which Mr. Lord declined to accept. Nov the
Court would perceive that under the charter of incorpo-
ration the holder of each 1001. share was en-
titled to one vote, and the man who had
paid up all his calls was only enabled to exercise as
many votes as he bell shares, but by this new bye-law,
ho would to taititiel to twenty votes, arid Mr. Lord in-
sisted that r either the managers Her the proprietors'
body had power to matte so vast an alteration in the con-
stitution of the company.
Mr. Justice ERLE thought the Learned Gentleman
had stst rd sufficient to justify a rule to show cause.
Eli's) nisi accordingly.

author, and Mr. John Oxenford bo wed his thanks fro m
I a private box. The tragedy was followed by a new
farce entitled A liztvband Wanted, but the "gods"
seemed to be of opinion that one triumph was suffi-
cient fur one night, and they hooted the farce as voci-
ferously as they had applauded the tragedy. The
pantomime concluded the evening's amusements. The
house was exceedingly well attended.

COX ONT.S.L.
Str°4ll.--The West India mails, t has remained dull,
and the sales have been at about ',nylons rates. Mauri-
..,tilli and Ben offered at aucien was nearly al with•
'travail at extreme rate;, holders not being disposed to
leali'bake any corcessien. 1,250 boxes Ilevannalt woe all
sed at 37s to 41i 6,1 for low brown to mid 3 ellow,
oeje,
ei 19 same instances rather easier. 4.000 bags brown
1111--Te I Manilla have been sold privetely at the pre -
vious value of las in bond.
le C,,I3PPEE.-Tlae market has bee Ceylon at about 61s 64 n duller
with buyers of
tely, includin
-ative
,and 2,000 bags s• Id psi
va a
fees at 625:
I
, 111c'E.-ll 6cli threl,e 170 ii
ots
0 g
ba d whatg
what) Bengal sold steadily at
preB4l.7.Perne.-685 bees Bengal and 460 bags Madras
withdrawn from public sales, tor want of buyers, on
erase. •
, . terms.
Ise
fe Ee.-1 000 bssees Malabar were withdraNn above
....e e 1 • ea.
av't tlai but 475 hags good clean. sifted Sumatra sold
ela,"i'Y at 4-td to 4irl.
'EA.---There is tallier leee doing.
eeee--ehas.-___-....._____
LAW IiVrELLIGI ENCE.
o guEEN'S
.BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
lel re ee
Justice PATTESON, Mr. trusii'!O COLERIDGE,
and Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
ei IN THE MATTER OF HARDER. ,
practice
meat.
.I„oergeitut WILKINS proceeded in his erg,. "•:•,,ti:houhldadnoheweipirocced to the charges of mal-
n hrst place ha would
an the g
t _r Barber, and
ured against M .
./01101111t in proceed to tl e charge of Mr.
b,..- . , which he thought he could show that Mr.
tia,rint fad been the person deserving of blame, and he
ught that Domaw Society had bcea much more te-
orlon t
1,-, 0 Mr. mit then to Mr. Barber. That Goethe;
te not yet abandoned the charge that they had brouhti
sae.
that .et
Mr. Barber, though the Master had reported
M w grounds for the charge.
o,e t" "?. THE 816E11. said that be thought that he could
asst valuable time of the Court; he only meant to
the cases cf Robins,' executor and of Guest
and Rein Holds,
• -
eel! I.' BTergeant Wrenerss would proceed with Robins'
a Au this case he submitted that there was nothing
!her in the conduct of Fletcher cveo, and how could
;avere in the conduct of Barker, who merely carried out
oetareet
of
by Fletcher. It eppeared that there
f:130 sat of I 040/• in the funds, part of the property
45
LI% Ca Reib: .deceased, of which hia executors had
tO kil 1 d ' ill
of but f r Mr. Fie t.
ob ,
tohweye
woolhatever, and which, o
seer
aim 13 d never have known anythit.g. Fletcher
e, arber ebtsred into communication ait h Mr. Reid, an
aiecators by which it was agreed that be should receive a
eville not flingexce one-sixth of the property to be te-
e
a, red, but nothing should bo recovered no charge
-la to
e(ihs, e made. It was in this part of the case that Mr.
h e had.."eY Made his appearance, when he pretended that
ios reed Mr. Barber a lecture on what he called the
propriety of such trauractions as the present, though
Rfterwtt
tee, rd. it appeared that he had come forward to At:lhr.
it tee,
to take part in a similar transaction. In . e
agreeraent which had been drawn up between the parties
'Pea duethis occasion the name of Turrall bad
.been intro
h
it
,ed to conceal the name of Fletcher, who did not we'
Viie bo known from whom the information proceeded.r
}eitherWes not done with the intention to deceive, f)
Steele stated in an affidavit that he bad informed
tagY that Turrall was not the real person contract-
nd heil'h a 4 not an uncommon practice in such cases;
a dig subtle not
that there was nothing in it of such
etto tacrechtable nature as should prevent an
oralltn;',Y from practising. He would wish to.
or utile attention of the Court to the affidavit
S,I. --"'• Barber, from which it appeared that Mr.
arietathe6eldi the solicitor to the
. Bank of England, had
tutor: to Mr. Stephens, a solicitor, to one of the axe •
pup of or Mr. Rebins, to inform bun of the self-same
hatrtY. lie submitted, therefore, that if Mr, Barber
11444 Fedrred' it was in very good company. Mr. Barber
bt'. 4) Worn the,. he was never aware that the infer-
a I°4 had bee d• d from dishonest source, but
myt ,u erive any
froseu‘' had klways believed that it lad been obtainhenorl
sdt:t4 a,.stock. broker, a friend ot Fkteher's. In anot ,
le 'hell fir. Barber swore, that 80 far from Mr. Since-
ItipProbat!ng the principle of the matter, Mr. Smedley
dean in the principle, and that be had af, er-,
Predt:.e4gaged Mr. Barber in a similar transaction, and
bailee l'al 3/, for has services. Who would for the future
spoie kr. Smedley? Perhaps in this case he bad
isk ethil with more energy than it aas proper in address-
Ilea ---' high order of intellect which he was, but
scat Was
a cuts° in which he had been from the
eteht-"gaged, which he had traced from the commence -
hissi-eleaed in which he had always greatly interested
IV `" trom the time when he had heard the deelat atems
k ie,,, ,
4f tae-a4e accomplice, of the innocence of Mr. Barber
tot°z'arge fer which he had suffered such teing as no
eaCe euuld tell. When that unfirtunate man left this
the ;h7 it had been the business of his life to anal} se
114 his affair. He had not sought for those honours
Vrate-4 Prefession, or asked for that advancerneet which
New ,lie objects of some men's ambition; and
if hed
to t, uet see William Henry Barber once more restored
fsellti4lt station from which he had been driven he shou
14 qtniti mat had not lived in vain. [flre. ill! Learned
ats, gad
so overcome by his fe( bogs that
41itti1,Quilged to sit down for some minutes to receiver te a-hi',l24l.re he could resume tho argument.] 'I ie
the4e-tu Gentlemen Veen proceeded to commebtdupond
heen-48,e of Guest and Reynolds, which be observe had
Wit-I,ll'4Ely adjudicated upon by a Mast( rin Chancery.
4 gr"Pect to the charge of fraud which had. been
'au
l't
• in swearing that had paid the
tae against Barber he
eiffidlvltnesees at Tunbridge Wills, it appeared from the
b,,id4vits taat Barber had ordered his agent at Tun-
ati,Je to Pa Barber e y the witnesses, and that this agent had nc-
,,,'ta to do se. He submitted that, though there was
tie rkt 01 caution, there was nothing that could be called
siltention to defraud.
bz., ti,rl'aUstiee PATTESON remarked, that whatever might
e t 18'u ftt ' inquiry,a
titteetion he
0 as 3 he was not sorry that this
teiee --;',t 'led arisen, as he relieved that there was tic-
Ntti,,,'" toe Whole practice of the law of so loose a
It to'b eathis making affidavits of intent, and he wished
the u: understood, that whenever attorneys came before
/erestAr' in such cases, they would fall under the se-
e.4rs,
d,ispleasure of the Court.
pot, the Waterers then proceeded to comment
(101,h
had
last caso of Stiddolph. It epee ared that Sthl-
tt4e" ffectei an insurance of 100/. on his life with
I;aid the
" agellt of an Maui aeco company, of it hick he
lee eem,° first
,conpremium and that since the effecting cf
~3>ttr,,,izy Barber had tinued to charge Stiddolph
041; a Year with the premium, 5/., while, in fact, no
,Iltiee'l4 bed ever been paid. Now, it was a happy
4e liVe Barber, that after his departure from England
I)4tiaa discovered a document, to the truth of which lie
4 laeht6W, °ria and which Stiddolph did not deny-namely,
I,,tthritte44tee'bbeetti bearing date February 1841, wh'cli was
wren Stiddolph and Barber, and upon
e/viech amaetifernent between then, was made, and in
,`',lldeuirtrre was not one item charged by Barber to
earl
w-a
-e" for the not
of insurance premium. But
44d Ca not the only occasion upon which Stieldelph
'Were ; vet old nct say perjures' himself, but at least
('P eSIIIY-
NI h°t.)earned Sergeant was proceeding when our re •
OC.O 1-1 se. , s - e
e The se 41t:gut,11.—(rms DAY.) .
4eaii4 •A`Jort was occupied during the morning in
to
~!
toesargeMent upon rules fur new trials, but the
'srtriar_e of tsch-nical and uninteresting a rature
,e a report,
SAIL COMIT-11.0 —( T lIIS DAY')
(Before Mr. Justice &ILE.) ke la.
IN RE TANNER.
*t; ~,;:111111A.RSII moved, on behalf of Mr. Tanner,
._a
i:l,4liisea.-„"° a property residing at Norwoud, ter a ru!e W t'h ".,;'P''il the dtidaeot the Comity Court of Lambeth
.14iiie5,:h°,ause why a mandamus should not issue ~re-. al,° 4 -p,;41 to hear a Cent sin paint. Some short tem.
iaolati "e"o°11 named Culling obtained judgment in the
ekeetneer
.44 against Mr. Ross, the soa-ice-law of Mr.
244.pieh awad.,.._the.. geo.ds in the house which Mr. Ross
we,ttace,
I,LT diatratned fe; the amount. The goods,
I'Me"''er 40 tilly belonged to Me. Tanner, and an inter-
li:ita brn•naans was taken out for their recovery, but
s) 54 oleeting.ealled on in the County Court for hear-
ieta-°e eetton scar taken by the Li arned Judge that
471,4' vil.llll:hiee, a claim had not been ser.vel on the
Ile' tele of the
cherge of the goods, as proyided by the
hatilyslvteatj e''''' judges, arid the summons was dismissed.jae
there-epited le3",wea given to the offiser that the goods.
15a4 taTnged to Mr. Tanner, and the objection,
cpeuil•cie4Zzebt riot to have. been ma"e..
TheY fr 114
qtt''l'X—Did the melee state on whet
11 °•ree.'t jeteleraheds how he came by the goods, and how
'Nr• Jog vN"Ae Possession of the son-in-law ?
s tia,.ice 088 said it certainly did net. .
hid -h'igood, aZtt apprehended, then, that the notice
~,"e dothlQ.,(l that
itis the judge of the county sait
~..Ntieetill,Rehu Wheth 'lle objection tarred the . claim
'lt Ta-,„4'ellejl.
„et he had power to interfere, mice thet
, kr. vv-"er 46'48 not a court of review. Could no 'titue4„„- 411't 3,g an action of trover? . M -"4 tO6k -4811 said the issuin the mterpleader
!beat-I.' ti - aa' '
,astiee 1,, ay that right entirely
, tillt if •;-'4l-t said he would grant a rule to show
Oar %tint -1"
turned out hereafter, that the judge of
%ve t h• 7 eotirt a
eao° -El die • Si- adjudicated in the matter, it would
ate Nei tt 4:lased with costs.
kr
toltbe °Jelin*.
Von • At. s3ll • CODPER.MINERS OF ENGLAND,
in )eput Ttt moved for a rule, calling upon the Gs:-
sheers of England rues, and Assistants of the Copper-
-411 44 o° t •ngland, to show cause why a
.mandamus
, area ; lsm,
-4 D. stl thr, -6 commanding them to rep ter forty_
Jett ‘ttrajeeat uense of Mr. Lord. The company of
4ilt4-,;691, a,a,,Was originated by royal charter in the
'l4;le Weee"ll a governor, deputygovernor, ar,d teriata
art aline qaetit r Jonstituted as the governing body. In
Peal °Perm' tug?), a second charter extended the powers
at Y tve eras of the heavyco to Ireland. . The cona-
-141,is aolue..s!ablished for pef smelting copper
eepid anagoi..r..und it was authorised to raise an tin-
vietcp or
co
of joint stock. In 1841 the nominal
14 thelea) itj °°r4PataY amounted to one million, di-
vetoh!tlll,4,t eharerce) of 1004 each, and by a provision
Were e,t.tr incorporation the holders of the
*ow ore, Bte
..e to ono vote in electing managers,
htt,(ettea itt
_se for each share. This nominal capital
ztrt_taay
of
trstence down to 1846, when it was found
tioe_s; reed it
we cella had not been paid on the 100/.
toil eoo,ooo7ea there!Ore determined to raise au ad-
-4 ill preferential shares of 254 each.

FRENCH PLAYS.
S 7. JAMES'S THEATRE.
This theatre has been open only three weeks, arcs
last evening Mr. Mitchell produced his third new
opera of the season. It was the Caid, by Atnbroise
Thomas, the most laughable and the most successful
" o,:era Bouffon," that has been produced of late
years, and which, although it has had a twelve-
month's run in PeriT, is still as attractive as ever,
there always being an overflow at the Opera Cam:que
whenever the Caid is announced. The plot is
an extravaganza, and is most amusingly filled up
by the actors, while the music is sparkling
with brilliancy and wit—we use the term
wit advisedly, for the caricature imitations of
Verdi and the minor fry of the Italian school of
composers are as admirable as are the imitations in
Punch of " Mr. Pips his Diary," and as full of hu-
mour. The scene is laid in a village in Algeria, to
which Birotteau (M. Lee), a Paris barber, and his
affi sliced bride, Virginie (Madlle Charton), a French
modiste, have emigrated in search of fortune. The
Arab Caid of the village (M. Buguet), conscious of
his own deserts, is in continual fear of being secretly
assassinated or grievously wounded by those over
whom he has tyrannised; and these wholesome fears
are fostered by his intendant, Aii-Thjou (M. Chao
teaufort), who finds his account in keeping the Caid
in seclusion as much as possible, as he pockets in con-
sequence divers bribes for carrying messages, pro-
curing interviews, &c. Birotteau determines to ex-
ploiter the fears of the Caid, end having obtained an
interview in spite of the opposition of Ali-Bajou, he
announces that he can put the Caid in possession of
a talisman which will forewarn him of the intentions
of all criminals against his person, for which he asks
20,000 boudjous. Birotteau accepts, but when the
time comes for the delivery of the talisman and
the payment of the money, the avarice of the Caid
assumes the ascendant, and he offers the hand of his
daughter to Birotteau, instead of the cash. Birotteau,
who thinks it a very tine thing to be son-in-law to a
Caid, accepts the offer ; but it so happens that
Fathma (Madlle. Danhausser), the Oaid's daughter,
is already engaged to Michel (M. Nathan) a French
drum-major, and Fathma, Michel, and Virginie adopt
active measures to make Birotteau repent him of bis
choice ; and so actively do they carry on hostilities,
that Birotteau, when the time comes, rtfuses to
marry the Csid's daughter, and insists upon
the money. To this the Caid at length con-
sents, being moved thereto by a mysterious
thrashing which he had recently received (the said
thrashing having been administered in the dark by
Birotteau with the cane of the drum-major), and
which the Ceid verily b.lieves he should have
avoided had he possessed the talisman. The talisman
(a pot of pommade de Lion), is accordingly pur-
chased, and Birotteau and Virginie are united, while
the Caid gives Fathma to the drum-major, ima-
gining very justly that such a man with such a cane
will be a more effectual defence against his enemies
than even the talisman. The piece was excel-
lently acted. The imitation of Grisi by
Mademofiele Charton was admirable, and, in
fact, the whole of the bravura in the second
act, describing to the Arab girl the delights of
Parisian life, was a perfect piece of florid execution.
It was rapturously and deservedly encored. Made-
moiselle Danhausser, who acted the part of the Ceid's
daughter, is a debutante very young, very pretty,
with a sweet voice, excellently cultivated. M. Lac
appears to greater advantage in Birotteau than in any
character in which we have yet seen him ; his making up
was admirable, and his acting as the coiffeur humor-
ously fantastic ; his vocalisation, toe, was excellent. M
Nathan, as the drum-mejor, sung and acted with
the most rich and unctions humour; the fears of the
Caid were elaborated with most amusing fidelity by
M. Buguet, while the acting and singing of Chateau-
fort, as the old Intendant,. was full of whimsicality,
quaintness, and fun. The music and choruses were
admirably given, and the mise en scene perfect. The
opening scene of the second act is superb. The opera
was received throughout with shouts of laughter and
applause. It was preceded by Peer's Maitre de
Chappelle, in which the Barnabe of M. Chollet was
one of the most perfect pieces of genuine comedy,
both as regards acting and vocalization, that can be
imagined. The house was crowded by the elite of the
fashionable world.

DAY.)
OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT UPON A POSTMAN WHILE ON
DUTY.—Stephen (Gregory was brought before Mr. Bing-
ham, charged with ass :tubing I/eery Graham Long, a
le-ter-zarrier, while on duty.
The prceecutor, whose flee was very much cut and
bruised, stated that this morning, about ten o'clock, I e
was poet e ling up Windmill-street with about 40 letters
in his possession, when he in, t the prisoner, who wai
perfect stranger to him, and from some cause which he
(comp!ainant) could not Rennet fur, the prisoner cane
up to him and addressed him in the mutt abusive and
foul terms. Witness srid, "I do not hnow you; I wish I
you would go away;" and ate-I him if he was
not aware that he (witi ess) was bound over to
keep the pelee ? The prisoner then struck
him, and knocked him down in the street. Wit-
ness endeavoured tr secure the letters he had ill
his pssession, knowing thet they contained valu-
able property, and told the prisoner to leave him,
but while he was lyirg on the pavement the prisoner
struck tins three or lour blows in the face. With the
assistance of several persons he succeeded in getting
away from the prisoner and gave him into custody. The
letkrs were secured and given into the hands of a post-
man who mss passing.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, entered into a
long statement c f farnify grievance-, which the corn-
plair ant did not entirely deny.
Mr. BINGHAM said it was his duty t r pass over those
matters, and to consider the assault, and being satisfied
Oat the assault was proved, he would hold the parties to
le.nl to keep the peace for three months, and in addition
should require the prisoner to enter into his own
recognizinees to appetr at the Quarter Sessions to answer
any charge that may be preferred against

DRURY-LAISI.6 THEATRE;
\re had intended writing a notice of the admirable
representation of Othello at this theatre last evening,
hut we so entirely concur in the justice of the follow-
ing critique, which we find in a morning Cootempo
rary, that we do not hesitate to adopt it :
" The tragedy of Othello, or the jiloor,:if Venice,
was performed last night 'forthaltritiii4tinder the
present management. Othello is, perhaps, the finest
acting play ever written ; the characters are so dis-
tinctly articulated, and are wrought out with such
marvellous reality, that the vvork,,aems"rather the
result of inspiration than.the laboired effort of human
skill. There is no drama .scssfultOr difficulties for
the actor ; for not only is there required a refined ap-
preciation of the craft, but superadded thereto a deep
knowledge of the workings of the heart, and a full
reverence of the poet. It is rare, therefore, that
even an approximation to uniform excellence is
reached in its representation ; for there is assuredly
no company of actors now existing possessing the va-
riety of talent necessary to its due exposition. But
what may be wanting in genius may be rendered
less apparent by the exercise of a worthy enthusiasm,
and a Just determination to convey the true meaning
and intention of the poet. The tragedy, as acted last
night, though it may not rank with the "past glories"
of Old Drury, bore fair evidence of the desire to
realise the unrivalled wonders of that scene, and
hence, taken in its entirety, it was cleverly and
in some instances sublimely rendered. The ob-
jections which we recently urged to Othello, as
presented on the modern stage, were satisfied by
the judicious restoration of Bianco. There was not,
indeed, any announcement of a rigid adherence to
the " text of Shakspere," but there was a nearer ap-
proach to the reality than has been witnessed fur nearly
a century. For this the management deserves all
praise. The play was presented throughout with
greater care and success than the metropolitan stage
has witnessed in our time. We would that the
matches of song breathed by Desdemona during her
" wit wanderings" were likewise restored—without
;hese the gentle Venetian loses a moiety of the sym-
pathy and pathos with which Shakspere has richly so
endowed her. These versicles are as essential to
Desdemona as the perfect rendering of Ophelia or the
ballads of wisdom of the Fool in Lear; for the resto-
ration of the latter to the stage, infinite thanks are
due to Mr. Macready. They are the niusical>ighs of the
o'er-fraught heart, and impart beauty, grace, colour,
and completeness to the several portraitures. Musical
knowledice, a fine voice, and the exuberances of a
prima donna are not required to give to them their due
excellence—indeed, we would not have them sung, but
rather musically murmured, and this might with faci •
I ity and satisfaction be accomplished by the actress whose
powers enabled her to personate Desdemona, end we
know no actress E 0 fully capable of accomplishing this
improvement of the present incomplete version of one
f the most perfect creations of Shakspere than Miss
Laura Addison. The Othello of Mr. Anderson is a
picture, not without imperfections, but of considerable
power. In some c f its details there are blemishes
which we would wish to see removed. Amongst
these the most prominent is the unsparing use of the
mere power of a fine voice. The passage beginning
That's a fault,' and including the imaginary de-
scription c f the famous handkerchief, was admirably
declaimed. Would Mr. Anderson deign to copy his
own taste in this, throughout the recitation of Othello,
he might fear no rivalry. Monotony and loudness
often, in other places, marred a fine conception of the
author's purpose. The readings were always careful,
and frequently original. And the physique of the
Moor was assumed to perfection. lago was acted
with marked intelligence by Mr. Vandenhoff.
It was subtle, without the accustotned exhibition of
fiendish cunning. The simulation of naturalness was

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Toe lessee of this theatre seldom lets the popular
French operas escape him, and in this spirit of activity
he now brings out an Anglicised version of the Vai
d' Andorre, which was played for the first time last
night. It has been carefully prepared for the English
stage, and the greater part of the score has been re-
tained ; while the general direction has been vested
in the hands of Mr. E Iward Loder, whose ability in
discharging duties of the kind has been well and often
tested. In some respects it would be impossible to
accomplish a more agreeable delivery of the music.
The musician-like feeling of Miss Louisa Pyne,
and the beauty both cf her voice and exe•
cution, qualify her, in certain essential particulars,
to fill the interesting part of Rose de Mai. Her exe-
cution of the music was as neat and as finished as
possible; in short the character was represented with
an artlessness that was eminently pleasing, and there
was no flattery in the applause—no impropriety in
the encore which awaited her romance in the second
act. Mdlle. Nau, as the village heiress Georgette,
was a manifest improvement upon Mdlle. Cotti, at
the other house. Mrs. Weiss was a tolerable Therese,
and published her recitative accusations against the
unfortunate Rose with great dramatic energy. Tile
part played by Chollet, the gay and nonchalant
Lejoyeux, fell into the hands of Mr. W.
Harrison, who copied his model as closely as
his powers of imitation would allow; but as the
subtleties of such personations are not of easy
transcription when the natural genius does not lie in
the same direction, Mr. Harrison did not rub out
former impressions, and the spectator still thought the
French artist the only veritable Lejoyeux. Mr. Her-
rison, nevertheless, did all that lay in his power to
give the character its individuality, and to those who
were not in a position to make contrasts, he was not
unamusing. He sang with f. ealorn, and carefully
pointed the musical dialogue : he also threw consi-
derable spirit into the military song in the third act,
winning thereby a loud encore. The tenor strains of
the hunter Stephan were rendered by Mr. Allen
as delicately and as tastefully as possible.
The sweetness of his organ, the smoothness of his ex-
ecution, and the beauty of his style are facts never to
be concealed; and hence he outweighs his contempo-
rary, M. Lac. The homely tenderness of Jacques
Sincere was portrayed by Mr. Weiss in his wonted
manner, and his singing was steady and explicit.
The choruses were executed with more vigour than
correctness, but the endeavour to do well will pro-
bably be more fruitful of good results when the dis-
cipline has extended over a week or two's public prac-
tice The principal singers were called for when
the curtain fell, and the opera may be considered suc
cessful.

artistic, and the guile and the crime were sufficiently
bidden from his victims, though clearly visible to the
spectator. It is, out of question, the best Ingo on the
stage. There is no character in which we have seen
Miss Laura Addison that is so instinct with a fine
Snaksperian appreciation as Desdemona. The femi-
nine dignity, the chastened joy, the patient suffering,
the wife-like devotion, and the passionate heroism
are all portrayed with such delicate distinctness, and
yet so harmoniously are they combined, that the pro-
found interest for the wronged wife and the loving
woman almost supersedes the agony and the heart-
wreck of the villain-ridden Moor. The scene in the
fourth act, in which she asserts her purity, is quite
Rxehelesque, and elicited repeated rounds of applause.
The Emilia of Miss Vandenhoff is commendable for
its good sense and dramatic spirit. The principal
performers were called for at the termination of the
tragedy."
ROY

AL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
A new classical tragedy, in five acts, entitled
Ariadne, was produced here last evening with the
most complete and deserved success. It is an adap-
tation by Mr. John Oxenford, of the Arians of
Thomas Corneille (the younger brother of the great
Corneille), a tragedy which is revived on the French
stage whenever there is an actress capable of sustain-
ing the character of the heroine. It has been re-
cently revived with very great success by Mademoi-
selle Rachel. Mr. Oxenfurd has executed his task
with great taste, ability, and jw7gment, and has in-
troduced several judicious alterations. Amongst the
most judicious of these is the alteration of the denoue-
ment; in the original Ariadne throws herself on the
sword of Piritheus, while in the adaptation
she, Sappho-like, casts herself from a rock into the
sea. The scene of the tragedy is laid in the island
of Naxos, where Theseus and Ariadne, accompanied
by the sister of the latter, Phadra, have taken
refuge after having escaped from Crete, where
Ariadne has saved Theseus from being destroyed by
the Minotaur. While in Nexus Ariadne makes the
discovery that Theseus loves another, and the latter
persuades Ariadne to marry Clinarus,:King of Naxos,
Ariadne consents in order, as she explains to her
sister Phaedra, to ascertain who is her rival in the
affections of Theseus, who will no doubt at once fiy
to his new love, on whom she will take a bitter '
revenge. .What new love is Pbaeira herself, to
whom Ariadne has confided her project, and this, the
great scene of the tragedy, was beautifully
acted by Mrs. Mowatt, whose Ariadne is one of the
most exquisitely tender and impassioned impersona-
tions of character ever seen. She at length dis-
covers the truth, and, denouncing Theseus, throws
herself from a rock into the sea. The denunciation
of Theseus was a splendid piece of impassioned de-
clamation, and brought down thunders of applause.
The Phaedra of
Fanny ining,a et
part, was Miss V" • " lb • t a small
admirably acted—she fairly shared the
triumphs of the great scene with .Mrs. Mowatt.
Mr. Davenport as Theseus, and Mr. Ryder
characters.
stage
w ithThealltragtehdey
as (Enarus, made the ost of two very
osecondarywaatstentpiount
to classical propriety of scenery and costume which
is now more than ever a distiogui - sareg characteristic
of the management of the Royal Olympic Thea're.
At the conclusion of the tragedy Mrs. Mowatt was
called for, when she was led on by Jr.l Davenport,
and followed by Miss Fanny Vining, who was led. ,
on by Mr. Ryder. There were then loud calls for the I

MR. WILLY'S CLASSICAL CONCERTS.
The fifth of Mr. Willy's classical chamber concerts
was given last evening at St. Martin's Hall, Long-
acre. The principal instrumentalists were Mr. Stern-
dale Bennett, Signor Fiatti (whom we were glad to
see back again here), and Messrs. Zerbini and Wes-
lake. The programme comprised, besides some vocal
music by Miss Bassano and Mr. Benson, some instru-
mental pieces of the first order. In the adagio of
Beethoven's quartett in F, No. 1, Signor Piatti was
particularly distinguished ; and nothing could exceed
the delight of the audience at the adagio and
elegro vivace of Mendelssohn's grand duo in D
major, op. 58, as given by Sterndale Bennett and
Fiatti. In Mozart's quartette in D No. 7, the
andante was encored. The concert concluded with
Beethoven's grand trio in B flat, No. 2, Op. 70, ex-
quisitely played by Sterndale Bennett, Willy, and
Piatti. The concert, as a whole, proved one of the
most interesting of the series.

AN APPEAL TO THE BENEVOLENT.—A grand mis-
cellar euus concert, under distinguished public and pri-
vate patronage, will be given at the Concert-room of the
Princess's Theatre, on Tuesday, the 26th February
next, on behalf of Mrs. George and her ehildreq, whose
cruel desertion by the composer, F. N. Crouch, is re-
port2d in the papers c f the 19th September last, at which
the following distinguished and popular artists have
most promptly volunteered their services—namely, the
Misses Williams, Bassano, Clarissa Enemy, Lucombe,
Messent, O'Connor, Pyne, Poole, Roe, and Ransford;
Messrs. Binge, F. Bodda, Genge, Lyon, Phillips, Rens-
ford, F. Smith, Sporle, &c. Instrumentalists—Miss
Kate Loder, Messrs. Distin, Nicholson, Cooper, Patey,
&c. Messrs. W. S. Roekstrow and John Roe will offi-
ciate as conductors,—Musical World.
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MonsaNG.--The Havre
cotton market was yesterday exceedingly dull, with
prices somewhat less firm than on Saturday. The sales
a-nounted to about 400 tales. The ship Parana, from
Buenos Ayres, and the Indecis from Carmen, arrive I
yesterday at the port of Havre.
THE RIVER PLATE —LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—
Private advices from the River Plate to the end of, No-
vember, via Rue, state confidently that a treaty had been
ratified between Mr. Southern, the British Plenipoten-
tiary, and Rosas. The documents had been dispatched
to England by the steam-ship Hydra, and may there-
fire be expected daily.
KING'S COLLEGF LONDON. The names of the
following students of the college and school appear in
the list of wranglers at the late Cankridge examine-
tion:—Watson, second wrangler; Irving, Harrison,
Greenwood, Northcott, Heywood, and De Lisle.

THE SVN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-, JANUARY 29, 1860

THE LATE LORD JEFFREY.
The death of one who, after a life of mental acti
vity, had reached his 77th year, is not an event in
the ordinary course of things remarkable. But when
a public persce, even at that somewhat advanced age,
suddenly departs from among ue, the natural feeling
of regret is not unmixed with surprise, and the in-
stinctive feeling that a void has been created in old
associations. This is especially the case with Lord
Jeffrey. Not so many years have elapsed since he
was known as the editor cf the Edinburgh Review,
and some passages in his life arising out of his con-
nexion with that publication have become so linked
with our ideas of two of the most distinguished poets
the age has produced, that his death cannot be passed
over without notice, and a record of the few features
of his career.
The late Francis Jeffrey, by courtesy Lord Jef-
frey, as a Judge of t!e Supreme Court of Scotland,
was born on the 231 of October, 1773. At the High
School of Edinburgh, his native city, he received
his first education, and in 1787 he became a student
at the University of Glasgow. The published Me-
moirs of Lord Brougham, ant the anecdotal
recollections of literary contemporaries, have made
the public familiar with the existence in Edinburgh
of one, amongst others, of those debating societies so
common in this country, where young men of an
ardent intellectual temper are wont to exercise their
young and vigorous faculties in discussing great
questions, to which they more often bring energy and
mental enterprise than knowledge, but which at least
elicit a spirit of inquiry and a desire to master facts,
principles, and logic. The " Speculative Society" of
Edinburgh shares, with similar societies at Oxford
and Cambridge, the honour of having included among
its earliest members some who have subsequently at-
tained great political and literary distinction. Among
the most distinguished of these were Lord Brougham
and the late Lord Jeffrey. Young Jeffrey con-
he went to Oxford, and
tinued at the Glasgow University four years, when
was entered of Queen's
College there. This was in 1791. The legal
profession was his allotted path in life ; and
having duly qualified, he was called to the
Scottish bar in the year 1794. Success in that pro-,
fession is proverbially of slow attainment, and Mr.
Jeffrey had acquired a contemporary reputation in
society as a wit and a literary man long before he
had attained eminence as an advocate. When, at
last, his opportunities fur display arrived, he es-
tablished his reputation as an advocate of the first
rank. He is described by an intelligent biographer
as excelling " in acuteness, promptness,
and clear-
ness in the art of stating, illustrating, and arranging
keen satire, and stroug and flowing eloquence." Tae
same writer, quoting a contemporary critic, the au-
thor of " Sketches of the Scottish Bar," says, "Ever
quick, but never boisterous nor pushing, Jeffrey
wound his way, like an eel, from one bar to the
other. If what he had to do was merely a matter of
form, it was dispatched in as few words as possible;
generally wound up, when circumstances per-
!flitted, with some biting jest. If a cause was
to be formally argued, his bundle of papers was
unloosed, his glass applied to his eye, and his dis-
course began, without a moment's pause. He
plunged at once into the mare magnum of the ques-
tion, confident that his train of argument would ar-
range itself in lucidorder, almost without any exertion
on his part. He possessed a most retentive memory,
and could proceed from one subject to another at a
moment's warning." The same writer quotes the fol-
lowing anecdote of Lord Jstfrey, in his professional
character:—" As Mr. Jeffrey sat down one day, at
the close of a long and argumentative speech, an at-
torney's clerk pulled him by the gown, and whis-
pered in his ear, that a case in which he was retained
had just been called on in the inner house. Good
God,' said Jeffrey, have heard nothing of the
matter for weeks; and that trial has driven it en-
tirely out of my head ; what is it ?' The
lad, in no small trepedition, began to recount
some of the leading facts, l'ut no sooner had he
mentioned the first, than Jeffrey exclaimed, ` I
know it,' and ran over, with the most incon-
ceivable rapidity, all the details, and every leading
case that bore upon them ; and the speech ho de-
livered upon the occasion was the most powerful that
ever fell from him." " Isis oratory," the same
writer goes on to say, "is not commanding ; and it is
like the frog striving itself to the size of the ox
when he attempts to be impressive; but once, indeed,
says the writer before quoted, we remember an apes-
trophe startling, nay, commanding, from its native
dignity and moral courage. A baronet having
brought an action, in which, to gain his point, he bad
shown a disregard of all moral or honourable re
strain*, Mr. Jeffrey made the following observations
on his conduct :—" My lords, there is no person who
entertains a higher respect for tire English aristo-
cracy than I do, or who would be more loth to say
anything which could hurt the feelings or injure the
reputation of any one member of that illustrious
body ; but after all that we have this day
beard, I feel _myself warranted in saying—
[here lie turned round, faced the plaintiff,
who was immediately behind him, and fixing on
him a cold firm look, proceeded in a low determined
voice] that Sir —has clearly shown himself to be
a notorious liar and a common swindler."
In 1802 was started the Edinburgh Review, a pub-
lication which, if not actually suggested by' Lord
Brougham and the late Lord Jeffrey, was at least es-
tablished mainly through their instrumentality, and
sustained by their contributions. Edited during the
first year by the Reverend Sydney Smith, the control
of the Review was from the year 1803 to 1828 en-
trusted to the late Lord Jeffrey, and some of the most
brilliant volumes of the publication came out under
his auspices, and were enriched by his pen. The re-
cent republication f the articles contributed by him,
and the ample notices they have received from the
most important political and literary journals, renders
unnecessary any criticism here. It was during the
period of this editorship that Jeffrey's name became
known to the public by his bloodless duel with
Thomas Moore, the post, arid the caustic satire in-
flicted on him by Lord Byron in his " English Bards
and Scotch Reviewers." It was a kind of negative
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Jeffrey was of importance. Until the republication
of his
tss eays those 'Messrs. Longman, that
reputation,
excep with who guessed at, or were in the
secret of; the authorship of the articles in the Edin-
burgh, rested mainly on report, and in private life.
The fact of his editor h.
s of so important and influ-
ential a publication was in itself an evidence of no
ordinary powers.
-le public have since been enabled
to judge for themselves, and their decision has fully
confirm©d a character for critical acumen, which till
then had rested so much on hearsay evidence.
In 1821 Mr. Jeffrey had been chosen Lord Rector
of Glasgow University, and in 1828 he became Dean
of the Faculty of Advocates of Scotland, on which
occasion, we believe, he resigned his editorship of
the Edinburgh Review. In 1830, on the accession
of the Whigs to power, and of Lord Brougham to
the Chancellorship, Mr. Jeffrey became Lord Advo-
cate of Scotland, and took place in tire Imperial
Parliament.
As the lawyers of England, Scotland, and Ireland
usually work their way to the bench by first working
their way into the House of Commons, Lord Jeffrey,
towards the close of the Duke of Wellington's Ad-
ministration, took measures fur getting into Parlia-
ment at the earliest convenient opportunity. To the
first Parliament of King William IV., which met in
September, 1830, he was returned for the district of
burghs that includes Forfar, Perth, Dundee, Cupar,
and St. Andrew; but a petition having been pre-
sented, the Committee unseated him on the 2ith of
March in the following year. The influence of this
disappointment was, however, of short duration,
for almost immediately be took his seat for Melton.
Lord Fitzwilliam was an earnest Reformer; Sir
James Scarlett, afterwards Lord Abinger, repre-
sented the Fitzwilliam borough of Melton in a por-
tion of the Parliament elected in 1830, and as Sir
James had resolved not to support Lord Grey's mea-
sure of reform he felt bound in honour to resign into
the hands of its patron the representation of the place
for which he sat; hence the vacancy in 1831 by
which Mr. Jeffrey was enabled to become the
nominee of Lord Fitzwilliam. This seat he con-
tinued to hold till the latter end of 1832, when he
was returned for Edinburgh, and remained the re-
presentative of that city for more than two years,
his colleague being Mr. Abercromby, now Lord
Dunfermline.
The four years during which Mr. Jeffrey had
a seat in the House of Commons form a period
during which his reputation was rather diminished
than augmented ; at all events his fame with the pub-
lic became very little extended at this stage of his
career. True, be mingled much in London society,
and rarely entered any circle in which intellectual
conversation was esteemed,—where wit and lively
repartee, brilliant disquisition, or subtle philosophy
were appreciated without exciting unqualified ad-
miration. But in the House of Commons he was
too old to enter upon a noviciate, nor was he able to
overcome in Parliament the adverse influence of great
fame acquired out of doors. It has grown into a pro-
verb that the House will have no favourites but of its
own rearing, and to that Mr. Jeffrey certainly formed
no exception. His mincing tones and metaphysical
reasoning were anything but acceptable to an as-
sembly so popularly constituted as the Commons of
England ; and though he was listened to with a cer-
tain degree cf pet ,
repos he disappointed the expecta-
tion of those who conceived that the editor of the
Edinburgh Review must necessarily Wield in Parlia-
ment an authority analogous to that of Burke, or
other great literary men who have had influence in the
councils of this country. In the formation of Lord

Grey's Government such a man as Mr. Jeffrey could
not be omitted. He was already in Parliament;
he was one of the most consistent politicians
that even the old Whig school could pro-
duce. Ile and his powerful journal had been
amongst the greatest allies of Liberal principles that
the -British dominions contained ; but though he
could not be neglected he raised himself very little
above the ordinary level of those learned gentlemen
who usually make their appearance in London clothed
with the dignity of Lord Advocate, and after a
few years retire to Edinburgh to assume the judicial
ermine.
Mr. Jeffrey's promotion followed in due course.
In the summer of 1834 the death cf Lord Craigia
created a vacancy in the Court of Session, and Mr.
Jeffrey became the successor of that learned personage,
assuming, in compliance with a usage amongst Scotch
judges, now three centuries old, the prefix of Lord—
a title merely official, and in no way connected with
the hereditary honours to which it bears so close a
resemblence. On his appointment to that dignity,
Lord Jeffrey was placed in what is called the
second division, to which, from the moment of his
elevation to the bench, business largely flowed in, so
high was the opinion entertained of his diligence, his
integrity, and his great judicial powers. It is gene-
rally understood that amongst his brethren of the
bench he held an extremely high position, although
he often embarrassed a tedious advocate by too closely
confining him to those points in the case respecting
which Lord Jeffrey himself entertained doubt or de-
sired information. But he, who had been accustomed
to adorn and elevate the dullest arguments of Scotch
law, or to illuminate the haziest depths of Scotch
metaphysics with such airy elegance, such bright and
sparkling plenitude of illustration, may well be par-
doned if with a seeming, but not real impatience, he
led inferior intellects back into the narrow circle as-
signed to them by their nature and destiny.
The writer whom we have already quoted says—
In person the subject of our memoir was of low sta-
ture; but his figure, which he tried to set off to the
best advantage, was elegant and well-proportioned.
His features were continually varying in expression,
and were said to have baffled our best artists. The face
was rather elongated, the chin deficient, the mouth
well formed, with a mingled expression of determina-
tion, sentiment, and arched mockery. The eye was
the most peculiar feature of the countenance : it was
large and sparkling, but with a want of transparency.
The late Lard Jeffrey was the eldest son of George
Jeffrey, Esq., one of the under clerks of the Court of
Session, in Scotland, by Henrietta the daughter of
Mr. Loudoun, of Lanarkshire. In 1802 he married
Catherine, a (laughter of ;the Rev. Dr. Wilson, of Ste
Andrew's, who died, leaving him no issue. In 1813
he married Charlotte, a daughter of Charles Wilkes
Esq , of New York, grandniece of John Wilkes.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
CHRONICLE.—Mr. Macgregor's letter on "The
Rationale of Unrestricted Trade" (published in our
yesterday's paper) contains a great deal of valuable
information, which our Protectionist friends would
do well to study and digest. He has brought such a
host of well-authenticated facts and figures to hear
against their pet fallacies, that their only chance of
escape is afforded by the appalling look of his eleboe
rate epistle, in closely-printed columns long drawn
out; and even this we now propose to take from them
by recaptulating the most material of his elucidations.
The grand point which the " Country Party"
are anxious to establish is,. that provisions may be,
and at the present moment are, too abundant and
too cheap. When the doctrine is thus nakedly pre-
sented to them, not a few will probably be startled
at it; but such, fairly analysed and stripped of all
its manifold disguises, is their creed—if, indeed,
they can be fairly said to have any, and are not
knowingly and consciously struggling for the simple
gratification of their cupidity. The corollary, or
obvious inference, is, that a statesman should do all
that in him lies to counteract the beneficent designs
of Providence, and that to make the necessaries of
life unattainable, except by a given amount of la-
bour, is the never- ceneing duty of the L,gislature.
Mr. Macgregor avows his complete dissent from this
doctrine ; and not satisfied with indicating its inhe-
rent absurdity, he proceeds to combat it analy-
tically, synthetically, logically, and historically.
Respect for its advocates has induced him to study it
in all its branches, and a state of confirmed disbelief
in its soundness or reasonableness is the result upon
his mind :—" I consider that there is much that we
are bound to endeavour to do with regard to ame-
liorating the condition of several millions of the
people in the three kingdoms, who are still under-
fed, insufficiently clothed, and miserably lodged ;
but I can bring no power of calculation, no exertion
f reason, to my aid, which will justify me in arriving
at the Protectionist conclusion, that those millions
will he more fully fed, more warmly clad, and more
comfortably lodged, by diminishing the quantity of
food—therefore making it scarce, and therefore dear."
If the agriculturists had rested their case upon what
is termed the 'vested- interest argument—if, forgetting
the changes wrought in almost every branch of British
industry within living memory by improvements in
science or legislation, they had merely complained
that they had been let down too rapidly--it would be
enough to remind them of their pettish or arrogant re-
fusal of a fixed duty when considerately proposed with
the view of breaking their obviously approaching
fell. But when they talk of laws pissed by what Mr.
Macgregor terms Houses of Landlords (with soldiers
drawn up in Parliament-yard to suppress the rude
protests of a starving populace) as laws of nature, or
laws of the Medes and Persians at the least, we have
no alternative but to preserve a scornful silence, or to
repair with Mr. Macgregor to the authentic records
of our social progress, and to illustrate the abortive
or baneful tendencies of their beloved system by its
fruits. Mr. Macgregor undertakes to prove "that
there have been lower prices of corn and more severe
periods of agricultural distress while prohibitive and
protective corn and food duties were in full force,
than at the present time." lie does this with a fulness
of detail which amply compensates for any want of
originality in the plan. Until the commencement of
the revolutionary war, England was generally a corn-
exporting country, and the mode in which the restric-
tive system was carried out varied according
to the emergency. The Plantagenets enforced
it in a manner which would hardly suit the
Irish landlords, the Downshires and Glengalls, who
would fain grow rich on the destitution of their
countrymen. Richard 1., finding several ships at St.
Valery laden with corn from England, when a famine
was apprehended there, hung all the masters and
crews of the vessels, and sent the corn back to be
eaten by his own English subjects. Bounties alter-
nated with prohibitions, whilst engrossere, regraters,
and forestallers (whose speculations were really of a
nature to neutralise the effects of national improvi-
dence) were sometimes pilloried by the authorities,
and sometimes pillaged by the people. But seasons
of plenty were chequered by seasons of want, and
cheap years mingled with dear years, as if to defy and
discredit the vaunted wisdom of our ancestors ; nor
did famines and riots grow less frequent when
modern legislation took up, and gave its own pe-
culiar warp to, the principle of interference. In
1795 there was great scarcity, and the Lords
of the Council set the example of eat-
ing coarse bread. In 1800 there was a scarcity, and
feod was very dear. "In February, 1803, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer stated, that in consequence of
twenty millions having been drawn from the country
for grain, it became necessary to continue the Bank
Restriction Act." In 1810 there was great distress.
The Luddite riots broke out in 1811, and assumed a
most alarming character in 1812 ; the chief ground
of discontent and the real root of all the evil being
low wages and dear food. But untaught by expe-
rience, or hardened in selfishness, the agriculturists
procured a corn-law, tantamount to a prohibition, to
be passed, amidet the clamorous opposition of the
lower orders, in 1816 ; and prohibition or protec-
tion was thenceforth the order of the day until
1846. Did wages keep up ? Did trade uniformly
prosper ? Were the agriculturists prosperous and
contented under their monopoly ? It is sufficient
to name the years 1816, 1817, 1819, 1822 (when
there was a famine in Ireland), 1823 (when sixteen
counties sent requisitions to their sheriffs to call agri-
cultural distress meetings), 1825 and 1826 (years of
great commercial, manufacturing, and shipping
calamity), or (not to render the list tedious) to 1833
as a specimen of what may happen under protection
to farmers—or to 1841-1842 as an illustration of
what may be inflicted by the same regime on manu-
facturers. The prescriptive condition of the labourer
in the most exclusively agricultural districts is the op-
probrium of the landed interest; and whenever they
now venture to talk of their bold peasanty," the coun-
try's pride," a wondering exclamation or a contemptuous
laugh is the reply. Mr. Macgregor's illustrative
commentary on the comparative state of our protected
and our unprotected manufactures is equally fraught
with instruction. Almost all which are not protected
are shown to be thriving; whilst all which are pro-
tected might bo supposed, from the must cursory
glance, to be the predestined victims of a fatality.
Need we name the Spitalfields weavers, the London
tailors, and the needlewomen, who saved from
foreign competition by those duties on silk
and ready-made articles which Lord John Man-
ners and Mr. G. F. Young ignore one day
and denounce the next—indisputably constitute the
most destitute portion of the urban and suburban
classes of the community ? A strong
bee
n
reflected has
reflected on some other important topics by Mr._
is
MecgregOr's diligence ; and our remaining space
only just sufficient for a warning to the orators who
have been wont to make a butt of him. We would
merely hint that, if they could manage in the discus-
sion of any one of the comprehensive questions of the
day, to display a tithe Of his knowledge, candour, and
good faith, they would at once obtain a more credita-
ble and more influential position in the House than
they will ever win f)r themselves by their sarcasms,

their sophisms, their vituperation, or their ficetlous
ness.

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE

We are enabled now to confirm our announcement,
several weeks since, that Captain Houston Stewart,
CM., now Comptroller-General of the Coast-guard,
will succeed Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8., the
member of the Board of Admiralty, his Lordship pro.
ceeding next week to Devonport as Superintendent
of the Dockyard, vice Sir John Louis, promoted.
The First Lord of the Admiralty, the Right Hon,
Sir Francis Baring, Bart., M.P., arrived at his offi•
cial residence last evening. Rear-Admiral the Hon.
M. F. F. Berkeley, CB , M.P., returns to the Ad-
miralty this day.
Captain Sir B. IV. 'Walker, K.O 8., Surveyor of
the Navy, Captain Ellice, Comptroller of the Steam
Department, and Mr. %Vette, assistant to Sir B.
Walker, visited Portsmouth yard on some official
business connected with the eteamers yesterday
after noon.
THE ARCTIC SEAR C LUNG EXPEDITIONS. —We
stated yesterday, on good authority, that it was de-
termined to send out a new north-west expedition
in search of Sir John Franklin. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer had an interview yesterday with
Admiral Dundas with reference to such service
Speaking of the Behrieg's Straits expedition, our
Portsmouth correspondent observes :—" The navel
men here have read with vast interest the detailed
accounts of the proceedings of the Herald and Plover
in Behring's Straits. They have not gone more than
a degree and a half further north, and very little fur-
ther east than Captain Beechey did long ago ; but
their discovery of the land and island in 71 N. let.
and 175 IV. long. is of the greatest moment, because
it is a leading object, and no doubt the first operation
to he performed by the Plover on the opening of the
navigation this summer, and also the first object of
the Enterprise and the Investigator, will be the ex-
amination of the unknewn land, and now the situation
has been defined no doubt this will be satisfactorily
accomplished. It was a most unfortunate cir-
cumstance, and much to be regretted, that
the late period of the season, coupled with
bad weather, totally prevented Captains Kellett ned
Moore from doing so last summer, when they
first discovered it. We are at a loss, however,
to perceive what object was to be obtained from
sending boats to coast along the North American
Continent from Point Barrow to the ''''Kenzie rivers ;
it was running a greatrisk lor no purpose; there was
not the least chance of Sir J. Franklin being on that
coast. If he had, he or tome of his men would have
found their way to tome of the ports of the Hudson's
Bay Company, just as well as Commander Pullen or
the men of the boat party. We have always been of
opinion that Sir John Richardson's exploration last
summer was a useless enterprise ; for we know enough
of the Hudson's Bay Company, to be aware that the
voyagers and hunters are always during the summer
travelling and hunting at the north of the Mackenzie
River and the north of that partypf the American con-
tinent."—lferald.
Commodore henry Eden, Superintendent of Wool-
wich Dockyard, returned to that establishment from
leave of absence on Friday last, relieving Captain
H. Austin, C.B. The gallant officer has not the
most distant idea of resigning his appointment as
reported.
Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B , late
Commander-in-Chief at the Brazils, struck his red
pendant on board the Raleigh, 50, Captain the
Honourable J. Hope, at Portsmouth, at sunset
yesterday ; and orders have been issued to pay the
ship off at that port, without disturbing her internal
fittings, The Raleigh, 50, discharged her powder and
live shells, at Spithead, yesterday morning, and al-
though it blew a hard westerly gale she weighed and
ran into Portsmouth harbour under treble reefed top-
sails and jib. She was exceedingly light, but she
seemed hardly to feel the gale, not listing over more
than six or seven degrees at most. Under the skilful
pilotage cf Jones,` the dockyard pilot, she shortened
sail, and lulled up to her moorings, took in a hawser
and secured ship, without letting go an anchor. Al-
together, considering the strength of the gale, it was
a most seamanlike display of nautical skill.
NEW STEERING IVeleeL.--Captain Fayrer, an old
and distinguished commander in the royal navy, has
just patented, for England, Scotland, anti Foance, a
very great improvement in a ship's steering appara-
tus. The steering-wheel has hitherto not been under
perfect command, and numerous fatal and other acci-
dents are constantly occurring to helmsmen. Cap-
tain Fayrer's invention is for the purpose of correct-
ing this dangerous propensity of the wheel to fly
round, and to prevent the danger arising therefrom,
and to ensure safety not only to the helmsman but to
the ship, under circumstances in which they have fre-
quently lost the rudder. We understand that many
scientific officers of reels have inspected and have
highly approved
yf the model.
PORTEMOUTII, JAN. 28.—The IL cate, steam-sloop,
Commander Shadwell, on her arrival at this port from
America (whither she conveyed the British Ambas-
sador), will refit and enter a new crew—her present
hands being only temporary draughts from the Ex-
cellent gunnery ship—for service on the China sta-
tion. She will carry out the domestic retinue and
personal effects of Rear-Admiral Austen.
Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert's broad pendant
will be struck at sunset this evening. Sir Thomas
proceeded to town this morning.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 26.—Her Majesty's brigantine
Viper, Lieutenant-Commander Bernard, sailed yes-
terday for Sheerness to be paid off.
her Majesty's steam-frigate Stromboli, Commander
Lord Atnelius Beauclerk, returned yesterday from
cruise in the channel.

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Sprightly arrived on
Friday from Portsmouth with seamen, gunners, and
volunteer seamen for her Majesty's frigate Arethe
50, Captain Symonds, on board which ship since,
Monday only, upwards of 300 hands have enterer,.
The Vulture steam-vessel has been brought for-
ward for commission, and is taking on i‘oard three
months' provisions and store`.
Wind northerly, stiff breeze.
APPOINTMENT.
WOOLWICII, JAr. 28.—Mate—Hugh 11. Knocker,
appointed on the 31 of July, 1849, to be actir.g mate
in the Vengeance, 84, on the Mediterranean station,
to be mate of the Frolic, 16, also. on the Mediter-
ranean station.

Commander Fishbourne superintended the launch-
ing (f his boats for the Hermes steam sloop this
afternoon from the boathouse, and had them taken
on board that vessel. The Hermes will leave Wool-
wich to-morrow for Greenhithe; but in consequence
of the state of the tide Captain Johnson will not leave
for Greenhithe to adjust her compasses until Wed-
nesday morning, on which day he will adjust them.
In a private letter, received here on Saturday from
the coast of Africa, an account is given of the Water-
witch, 8-gun sloop, Commander R. R. Quin, having
in November last, on her way with dispatches to the
Commodore off Whydah, captured, after a beautiful
chase of eight hours, a fine slave brig, named the
Diepique, fitted for 500 slaves, within one day's sail
of Lagos, fur which port she was bound. The next
day the \Vaterwitch chased for some hours a large
felucca slave vessel, but lost her in a heavy tornado.
The commander of the Water witch haring been sent
with dispatches for the Commodore did not think
himself justified in delaying to look for the felucca. I

DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF WEMYSS AND
MARCH —We regret to announce the demise of the
Countess of Wemyss and March, at Gosford Home, the
family se at in East Lothian, on Friday last. Her Lady-
ship, a daughter of the late Walter Campbell, Esq., of
Shawfield and Islay, married the Earl of Wemyss and
i March (then the Hon. Francis Charteris-Wemyss), in
the year 1794. The children born of this marriage
were a son (Lord Elcho) and eight daughters—the late
Lady Eleanor married to Walter Frederick Campbell of
Islay; the late Lady Margaret, married to Colonel
Wildman; the late Lady Katharine, married to the Lord
Grey of Groby; the Lady Charlotte, married to A.
Fletcher, Esq., of Salton; the late Lady Louisa.An-
toinctta, married to William Forbes, Esq., of Callender,
M.P. for Stirlingshire; the Lady Harriet, married to
Sir Grant Suttie, of Balgone and Preston-Grange, Bart.;
the Lady Jane; and the Lady Caroline.—J diaburgh
Courant.
DEATH OF A MISER.—On Saturday Mr. 11. W.
Waklcy held an inquest at the Rose of Normandy, High-
street, Marylebone, on Sampson Scares, aged 63. The
deceased, who had lived for 23 years in the garret of the
Rose of Normandy, was allowed by the Servants' Royal
Oak Club 3s. 6d. a week. Although possessed of 4,800/.
in the funds he scarcely allowed himself the necessaries
of life, and his room, as well as his body, presented re-
volting evidences of voluntary starvation. Two yearsgi
ago a relative gave him two flannel shirts,
whiahats
death remained untouched in his box. T
expressed it to be his opinion that deceased had
Coroner
ad starved
himself to death. Verdict, Natural deatbs
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PROVIDENT
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INSTITUTION.—TLe fourteenth annualsterday
evening, at
donors and subcribcra took place
the Freemasons' Tavern, Mr. F. lay or in the chair.
Alter the election of two annuitants, the secretary read
the re port of the board of directors, which stated that at
festival,in April last, the subscriptions
tamountedhe anniversary
to 5 O/. Its. id. After the last annual meet-
ing the committee proceeded to take the necessary steps
for the erection of the asylum at Mortlake, for the
re-
ception of aged and decayed members c f the trade, their
wives and widows. The estimate of Mr. T. Ball, viz.,
3,0994, was accepted, and the progress of the building,
under the direction of Mr. J. Turner, had been highly
setisfactery. The asylum would contain twenty-five
habitations, each dwelling to contain a sitting-room,
chamber, and kitchen. The foundation-stone was laid
on the 4th of July last, when upwards if 2001. (including
a donation of 501. from Mr: Miller, of the firm of Meyer
and 11.1.illcr) was subscribed. The report having been
received aid adopted, a statement of the finances of the
institetion was read, when it appeared that the receipts
during the past year amounted to 3,972/. Bs., and the
gross expenditure to 3,3491. 13s. Sol., leaving a balance
in hand of 622/. 14.. 4d. The customary routine busi-
ness having been transacted, the meeting separated.