The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-01 00:00:00

TIER SUN, LON-nr)l4, VVIfiiN'ESDAY EVEN I NG, JANUARY 1,

BANKRUI .—( .) "FCYTHIS DAY
. wits -;: y AN I) Ci. ) NIMERCIA 1, -, i:!:%il 8
(Before Mr. Commissioner Foeneseseue.) CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
IN Ii M. EDMONDS. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet;
The insolvent, a b, er-shop keener in Somers-town,ap-
sales 3,000 bales.—Shares were in good request. Bir-
plied fur his interim order, but was opposed for Mr. mingham and Gloucester, 101 ex new ; Bristol and
Thomas Barris, brewer, Ham[stead-read, the only ere-
Gloucester, 43-A- 4; Eastern Counties, 154; Glasgow
ditor. The matter was, however disposed of, by Mr.
and Greenock, 114; Grand Junction, 228; Ditto, New,
Harris being appointed ass
;;nee. 434; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarters, 52;
IN RE HAM gnee
London and York, 4i- ; Churnet Valley, 34 ;
MO .
ND UPTON.
Manchester and Birmingham, 521 ; Manchester and
The insolvent, a farmer, near Margate, was opposed
Leeds, Half, 531 ; Midland Counties, 1151 1161 ; She&
by fir. Woodruffe, on the part of a Dr. Chambers, on a
1 ;
judgment debt. After judgment had been obtained, a field and Manchester, 98 97 Lyons and Avignon,
deed of dissolution was entered into between the insol-
21. 13s. 60.; Paris and Lyons, 31 ; Orleans, Tours, and
;
vent and his mother-in-law, with whom he had been in
Bordeaux
partnership. The examination was rather amusing, as, The colonial
Northern of France, 61 -i-.onial and general produce markets re-open
amongst the list of creditors, no less than six or seven
to;iough stocks are large, are expected to rule firm.
peered. The schedule disclosed no assets. days but the public sales are as yet limited. Prices,
tailors, Nur wine merchants, and sundry perfumers ap-
although
The attempt of the Americans to extend their trade
Mr. COOKE, for the insolvent, granted that the sche-
with China cannot too much excite our vigilance. It
-
dule did nut appear to disclose anything, and he craved is observed in a communication from New
York, that
" some short time to prepare a more satisfactory one. there is a very large trade carried on between
Russia and China on the North and West, besides traffic 1 lie interim order was consequently deferred.
to an immense extent betweea the British East India
THE TALACLUE cos IN THE MATTER Of
possessions and China. Heretofore, the foreign trade
JOHN DAVIS.
The insolvent, a director, in 1839-40, of the far-
by sea has been very insignificant compared with the
famed Talacre Coal Company, petitioned the Court.
total foreign trade of such an immense empire. Five
ports are now open to the commerce of the United States He was supported by Mr. Sturgeon, and opposed by
and Great Britain. Commercial treaties of a very fa
Mr. Cooke, for the Talacre Company, and by Mr. Wilde,
vourable nature have been perfected between these
on the part of William Littlejohn, Secretary to the said
com any. Powers, and the industry of each have, in the perspec
Mr-
p
tive, full employment for many articles of manufacture
. STURGEON contended that his Learned Friend,
Mr. Cooke, had no locus standi in that Court. for the demand that must inevitably spring from the
The HON. COMMISSIONER would wish to know for
wants of more than three hundred millions of people—
whoma mass of
Mr. Cooke appeared ? If, as he said, for the
of the worl beings gd in the a reater
gg than all
regate. The table of
rest
Talacre Company, he (the Commissioner) would wish to imports into Canton gives us an idea, of the description
see the deed or charter constituting that company. Per-
of goods they immediately require, Is bile the table of
haps the Learned Counsel would mention names, as it
exports shows us their principal staples, and to what
had been almost judicially determined that corporations
extent they are at present used by the people of the two
bad no consciences.—(Laughter.)
Mr. COOKE—Then the principal member of die corpo-
nations referred to. Wo leant from Washington that
ration could have no possible conscience, for he (Mr. the treaty recently made with the Chinese by Mr.
Cooke), if allowed, would be prepared to prove that a
Cushing, was read to the Senate while in secret session,
and we may hope soon to have the pleasure of a perusal.
sum of 30,0001., which ought to have appeared in his
schedule, was omitted. He (Mr. Cooke) appeared for Mr. The ratifications of this treaty, if as favourable to our
Chappelow and Messrs. Handyside and Taylor. The
interests as anticipated, will be one of the most import-
deed of the Company was, h ant movements made for the extension of our com-
all events he had it not in Court. e believed, in Ireland; at
coerce ever known during the settlement of the country.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—I shall always There is not a section of the Union that will not he
strictly require companies of this nature to prove their benefited by the opening of this trade. The manufac-
turers of the north, the planters of the south, and the
existence by deed or charter. I know the mischief that
accrues to the public from them, area sitting here, I will leadminers of the west, are deeply interested in this
movement, and look for a speedy settlement of the
give them no sort of encouragement.
Mr. WILDE said that he appeared for a creditor, Mr. question."
The Funds have been again very quiet, but there is no
Littlohn, and the objection did not therefore
him-
ppal
to y weakness in the market. Consols have been 1004 4
Mr. STURGEON objected to bis Learned Friend re- for the opening; Exchequer Bills have been 625. to
ceiving any instruction from fir. Ash:uses clerk, it hav- 645. prem,; Bank Stock has realised 2114 to 2101, being*
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents'''.
ing been already decided that he had no standing in that
higher again
Court. are 1031 to,.
The Foreign Market has not been active, but a fair
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE would lay down no business is doing in Spanish Bonds. The Five per
rule upon the subject, but such oral instruction from a
Cents. have beer 281 and upon a large sale made have
fore'gn party would be certainly very inconvenient. , A,
dropped again to 271. The Three per Cents. have ob.
Mr. WILDE would, with all deference to his Honour's dropped
364 to 1; Mexican Bonds have been quoted 351 is
opinion, where a ,eensing fraud had been committed by
and Colombian. 14i i, which is a slieht rally. French
some one, receive informative, from w ewe ‘-r quarter,
with the intention of laying the circumstances Scrip has been 14 premium; Dutch Two-and-a-Halfcircumstances()f that Cents are 634 •to 63-3- per
8.
fraud Lelore his Honour and the public, and therefore in
The Railway Shares are generally buoyant. Great
the exercise of what he conceived a proper discretion,
Western are higher, owing to t'oe opinion of the Board
and until obliged to desist by an order from his Honour,
of Trade in favour of its projected branches; and South-
he would go on as he had already done.
Western have declined, from the report against the eon-
The insolvent was then examined with a view of
proving that he was a trader, and, therefore, (as an in-
templated auxiliary lines.
solvent) out of the jurisdiction of the Court. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(The case was still proceeding when we went to press. I . (From the Official List.)Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO4l
New 34 per Cent. Annuties ... 10314
Bank Stock for Account.
Consols for Opening
India Stock 286
Exchequer Bills. 14d. lid.
1,0001.
5001. ...
Ditto Small —
Ditto Advertised ..... ... ....• — pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 351
Ditto for the Account .. 354
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840— 274 284 271
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Passive Bonds 64
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent 3611
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 21 per Cents
Ditto for the Account 634
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... 1031 103 to 104
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester
Churnet Valley
Cornwall ... 3 ...... 314-- to
Ditect Northern
Eastern Counties
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto Fifths
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and Blackwall
London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 5244 to
London and Greenwich ...... 124 ...... 94
London and South 'Western.. 411 ...... 74
Ditto, New B4
London and Croydon
London and Y0rk....... 24 .... 5
Manchester and Leeds 7O 125
Midland 100 ll 6
Newcastle & Darlington June. 24 ...... 62
Newcastle and Berwick
Norwich and Brandon 8 ...... 14 ...... to
Richmond and West End June 1 -4 to
Rugby
South Eastern and Dover ... 334
Ditto New
West Cornwall l4 ... .. 34 ...,.. to 44
York and North. Midland
Ditto Selby Scrip 2O 69
Boulogne and Amiens
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Strasburg and Bale
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 31 —Our
market is buoyant, and we have had a good business
done. Bristol and Gloucester, 44 ; Eastern Counties,
154 ; South-Eastern, No. 2, 111 4 14 1 * ; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 34 f; Cambridge and Lincoln,
465., 455., 465., 455. 6d. ; London and York, 44 -,1. ; Man-
chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 81 3s. 9d.,4', 84 I ls. 3d.;
West Yorkshire, 64 ; Manchester Fire an Life, 11+1 ;
I ,itto and Leeds, Half Shares, si; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
11 11-16; South-Eas'.'rn, 41; Ditto, New, No. 1, 134 ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 3i; Churnet Valley, 3
13-16 i; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby,
),9s. 6d.; Great Northern of France, 2 5-16 4 4 4 prem.

LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.)
THE PRISONERS' CELLS.—Mr. Cook, the gaoler, re-
ported to the Magistrate that the cells were extremely
damp, and in consequence of the length of time in which
the prisoners had been confined, from ten o'clock in the
morning until seven in the evening, two of them com-
plained of being ill, which, on examination, he found to
be the case ; one of them, a female, became so unwell,
that she was taken with a shivering fit, and he was com-
pelled to take her out of the cell and place her before
the fire until she partially recovered. Mr. C9ok added,
it was a great many hours for a prisoner to be confined
in the cells (from ten until seven) before the arrival of
the vans to convey them to prison.
Mr. HENRY said steps must be immediately taken to
remedy this defect, and the clerk of the works must see
that the cells were properly warmed, so that no unne-
cessary punishment or serious consequences might be
inflicted on the prisoners who had the misfortune to be
locked up.
Mr. Cook said the Magistrate's desire should be im
mediately communicated to the clerk of the works.
CL

iERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
A young man of dissipated appearance was charged
with creating a disturbance and annoying Mr. Bardon, a
respectable coffee-house keeper, in St. Luke's.
The prisoner went into the coffee-shop' between twelve
and one o'clock this morning, sat down, and began to
hoot and halloo, so as to disturb the sleeping inmates.
Ile then used the most abominably obscene language ;
he asked for coffee, but the landlord, who had previously
been repeatedly annoyed by him, refused to serve him,
and he became more noisy and indecent than before.
Mr. COMM said the landlord would have acted more
prudently if he had served the prisoner, as he had ten-
dered the money.
Police-constable, 145 G, said he knew the prisoner as
a thief.
The landlord said the prisoner was an utterer of base
coin, and an associate of the worst characters.
The prisoner was cautioned and discharged.

SPORTING IN
BETTING AT MAN]
CHEST]
35 to 1 agst Winssour
40 to 1 agst Extempore
40 to 1 agst PortobQllo
40 to 1 apt Ratan

TELLIGENCE.
;'HESTER.-TUESDAY.
:R CUP.

140 to 1 agst Valerian (t)
'4O to 1 agst The Bashaw (t:
150 to 1 agst Foig a-ballagh

11 to 1 DEP
agst Alarm—offered
17 to 1 agst Idas
18 to I agst Pam
18 to 1 agst hedger
20 to 1 agst Cobweb colt
30 to 1 agst Rebecca colt
33 to 1 agst c out of Calypso's
dam

tBY.
35 to 1 agst Pantasa
140 to 1 agst Old England(t)
66 to 1 agst Clear-the-way
6 to 1 agit Scott's lot
8 to 1 agst John Day's lot
13 to 1 agst Dawson's lot

HUNTING AP
her liajest‘'s stag hounds
at Stoke Common, at 11.

'POINTMENTS.
s will meet on Friday next

MARKET NE tvl, S.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY-.
thWe had very little English Wheat on sale to day. yet
demand fur it was in a sluggish state, at previous
Quotations. In Foreign Wheat very little was doing,
et prices were supported. The sale for Barley and
Pea, Was Very inactive, at late rates. Oats, Beans, and
4.-eas, as on Monday.

THE FRENCH LEGISLATURE.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
The Chamber met on Monday to elect its fourth Vice-
President and the four Secretaries.
The ballot for thu Vice• Presidency gave the following
results :
Number of voters

wiIITECHAPEZ
The supply of Meat on sale to-day was only moderate,
yet the demand was heavy, at our quotations. Beef,
fro the
2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Veal,
as 4d to 48 4d ; Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 10d, per Bibs.

Absolute majority
M. de Belleyme, the Ministerial candi-
date, obtained 172
_

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LLOYD'S SHIPPESG-(THIS DAY.)
nazyLONDON, JAN. I.—Wind northerly, fresh breeze and
I)EAL, DEC. 31.—Wind E.S.E. to E.,—Arrd. King
William, St. Andrew's; Pathfinder, Quebec. Sld. John
Weave
-I, Sierra Leone ; Medford, and Louisa New
Orleans. ,
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Arrd. Louisa and Emilie,
Mildenstena, Cape Hayti.
RISTOL, DEC. 31. Arrd. Canning, Brown, Ichaboe;
Xnglishman, Dyer, Africa (left Cape Mozuerdo, Oct.
28} A • Sea Lion, Gros, New Orleans.
ma k ed LMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Wind E., fresh ales.—A boat
" Erin, of Guernsey, R. Sharpe," was washed
ashore on the Low Sands, between the Black Head and
the Manacles, 27th instant.
WEXFORD DEC. 28.—The Royal Albert, from Liver
Pool to Ichaboe, struck on Blackwater Bank this morn-
Ing, and was abandoned by the crew, but subsequently
got off by some fishermen, and towed ashore two miles
south of the Jaegar.
LIVERPOOL DEC. 31.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrd.
leas, China ; Susan, Flood, Bromy, Vixen,
lainPico; Europe, Feuba, New York. Off, Theresa,
Maranham. Sld. Manilla, China; Charles Hamer-
ton,t., St. Domingo; Grampian, New Orleans; Leander,
Savannah; Sir Charles Napier, New Orleans. The
'riends, of St. Andrews, from Newport to Boston, was
abandoned in a sinking state, 20th inst.; crew saved.
SWANSEA, DEC. 30.—Arrd. Arab, How, Miramichi.
SMUNVICK HARBOUR, DEC. 25.—The Cora, of Liver-
Pool, from Africa, out nineteen weeks, short of provisions,
and the crew disabled, was spoken, 21st inst., by the
Blanche, from Donegal to Ichaboe, put back here, having
experienced very severe weather.
HULL, DEC. 30.—Oclebrook, Quebec. Sld. William
and Ann, Ichaboe ; Cestus and Britannia, Monte Video.

. -
M. Billault, the candidate of the Opposition 168
M. do I3elleyme having had one vote more than the
required majority, was proclaimed the fourth Vice-Pre-
dent. This announcement appeared to produce a lively
impression on the assembly, and was evidently regarded
as a check for the Cabinet. The Ministers retired im-
mediately after the scrutiny.
The Secretaries subsequently appointed were the
same as last year, namely Messrs. Lacross, the Opposi-
tion candidate, who obtained 192 votes ; De l'Esre,?,
189 ; Boissy d'Anglas, 188 ; and Lascases, 176. The
last three were Ministerialists. The second Opposition
candidate, M. Havin, had 162 votes.

THE BISHOP OF NORWICH AND PUSEYISM.—On
Sunday afternoon week the Lord Bishop of Norwich
preached a sermon at the parish church of St. George's
at Colegate, Norwich, to an overflow ing congregation,
amongst whom were many of the Dissenters, in aid
of a collection for the repairs of the fabric, the Dis-
senters having successfully resisted a compulsory rate.
and the Church-people having at length consented to
adopt the voluntary principle. His Lordship, after the
afternoon service had been read by the officiating minis-
ter, ascended the pulpit, and preached a sermon
upon Ephesians, chap. v., ver. 32 : " I speak concern-
ing Christ and the Church." In treating the subject
his Lordship took a brief review of the Church from
the Apostolic age, noticing the gradual falling away of
the Church of Rome till its general corruption at the
time of the Reformation, acknowledging that the re-
mains of error were still to be found in the services and
rubric of the Church; and hoping that another genera-
tion would not pass away before it should be purged of
these Papistical remains. The deterioration of the
clergy of the English Church in the eighteenth century,
and the present improved state of the priesthood, were
passed under a review, his Lordship taking special no-
tice of the Tractarian principles and their prevalence in
some of the other dioceses in the kingdom, and openly
renounced them as being a step backwards to Po-
pery. They were the hay, straw, and stubble of
religion, and their introduction had a great ten-
dency to cause discord in the parishes where they were
introduced. He rejoiced that with a few exceptions
they had not been introduced into his own diocese ; and
he assured his hearers they would have no countenance
whatever from Mm. Their object was to exalt the
clergy, giving them all the power in the Church, and al-
most excluding the laity, and to destroy the principles
of free inquiry so nobly asserted at the period of the Re-
formation. With regard to church-rates, which had so
long and so unhappily been a subject of division in this
parish, he advisedly refused to enter on that question ;
he would not rake up old disputes and heartburnings.
He hoped these had now passed away, and that a better
spirit, a spirit of peace and union, would pervade all par-
ties in future. At the end of the service a collection was
made, which amounted to 18/. 1.55. 10d.—IpswichExpress.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE RIGHT HON. FOX
MAULE, M.P.—lt has been resolved, we understand, to
pay the tribute of respect to Mr, Maule, by presenting him
with a superb carpet of needlework. several ladies in
Perth, and in other parts of the country, have been per-
mitted to contribute to this work, although the ladies of
Aberdeen have the merit of originating the proposal.
The ingenuity and good taste of the ladies will be well
directed in producing a work which will, doubtless, do
credit to them, while it is intended to do honour to one of
Scotland's truest patriots, and most talented statesmen.
—Dundee Warder.

PRESIDENT POLK.---We are informed from excel-
leat authority, that the present President of the United
States of America is the heir and descendant of our late
Worthy and respected Provost Pollock, Polk, or Poke,
of Our ancient burgh. Provost Polk discharged the
onerous duties of chief magistrate of this burgh during
the Years of the Rebellion 1745 and 1746, with great
reedit ; ar.d received for his loyal and patriotic conduct
thanks of the King's Government. The Provost was
person of considerable property, and had the influence
tib become chief magistrate in opposition to the powerful
lnily of Flea, or Fall, who, for a period of nearly one
hundred years, swayed the politics of the town. Mr.
yolk died in the year 1752, and his property and effects
came into the possession of his brother Andrew, who
settled in the State of Tennessee, or the southern part of
Igerth Carolina. Although this star of the 'Western
Dunbar
may never have heard of the Provost of
unbar being classed among tho,e who added to his
Ruzily influence, sell, when he sways the sceptre of
toe most powerful nation of the New 'World, we trust
he will endeavour to render more durable the good
linden: tending hetween the States and the mother
country, arid ever mind Provost Polk's toast, " May
Pn'er war be among us," one familiar to many old inha-
bitants to this day, as Provost Poke's toast, and the
effects of his experience of " the '4s."—Kelso Chronicle.
The railroad from Hockerill to Cambridge is fast
Progressing. The works are carried on with such dili-
gence as to afford reason for believing, that, with the ex-
,e,,Ptinn of a tunnel through Lord Braybrooke's estate,
whole line may be opened for traffic in the coming
spring, His Lordship is building a spacio inn and hotel at the Wenden Arnim station, a distanceus of rather
more than a mile Iron Saffron Walden.—Essex Herald.
BRlTisx MUSRUM.—Yesterday the British Museum
Vilk 3
closed, and will remain so till the Bth inst.

EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TlDE.—Last evening, at
high water, the banks of the river in many places were
ovi-2flow::d, etpccially in the li.w neghbourhoods of
Wapping and Tooley-street, where the tide rushed into
the cellars and kitchens, throwing the inhabitants into
considerable alarm.

MAGAZINE DAY.
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

The opening article in Blackwood for this month is
an essay on the hackneyed theme of " Homer, Dante,
and Michael Angelo." But hackneyed as is the sub-
ject, and hopeless as is the task of bringing anything
like novelty to bear on it, it is yet rendered enter-
taining by the mode in which it is treated. The
author commences his essay in a very spirited and pic-
turesque style, by showing the influences that Homer
has exercised over Europe for the last three thousand
years, observing, "Painting and statuary have been
employed in striving to pourtray his yet breathing
conceptions. Language and thought itself have been
moulded by the influence of his poetry. Images of
wrath are still taken from Achilles, of pride from
Agamemnon, of astuteness from Ulysses, of pa-
triotism from Hector, of tenderness from Andromache,
of age from Nestor." This is true, but though the
Homeric Ulysses is a synonyme for " astuteness," a
greater genius than even him of the " Iliad" and the
"Odyssey," has boldly grappled with the character of
the Istracan King, and endowed him with far more
lofty sagacity and keen worldly knowledge than
Homer had it in his power to bestow on him. In the
brilliant but strangely irregular play of Troilus and
Cressida, Ulysses displays in one single passage—we
mean that inimitable one commencing with "Time
hath, my lord, a wallet on his back," which is more
truly Shaksperian than any other to be found in the
whole range of Shakspeare's dramas—more profound
wisdom and more searching worldly truth than he
manifests throughout the entire " Iliad" and
" Odyssey." In the course of this clever essay the
author, alluding incidentally to the effects of criticism
on genius, says, " The dread of ridicule extin-
guishes originality in its birth." The power of the
critic is certainly great over mere talent, which it has
often succeeded in crushing ; but first-rate genius,
deeply conscious of its superiority, and earnest in ex-
hibiting it, bids defiance to the fiercest hostility of
criticism. " A Ramble in Montenegro" gives some
curious details respecting a sequestered European
province little known to English travellers. In the
present chapters of " Marston," the hero has just ac-
cepted the office of Irish Secretary, at the stormy pe-
riod of the rebellion of '9B, of which some stirring
sketches will, we suspect, be given in the next portion
of the narrative. In the " Red River Recollections"

we find the following graphic account of a stag-gun
on the water

" It was a long Indian canoe, made out of the hollowed
trunk of a cotton tree; a many-tined antler was stuck
in the prow, and dried legs and haunches of venison lay
in the fore part of the boat; towards the stern sat a
young girl, partially enveloped in a striped blanket, but
naked from the waist upwards, impelling the boat in the
direction of the deer by long graceful sweeps of her oar;
in front of her was a squaw of maturer age, performing
a like labour. In the centre of the canoe were two
children, queer guinea-pig-looking little devils, and
near these lay a man in all the lazy apathy of a redskin
on his return from the hunting-ground; but towards the
stern stood a splendid Antinous-like young savage,
leaning in an attitude of graceful negligence on his rifle,
and evidently waiting an opportunity of getting a blow
or a shot at the stag. As soon as these cildren of the
forest caught sight of the steamer and of Doughby's
boat, they ceased rowing. only recommencing when en-
couraged by some loud hurras, and even then visibly
taking care to keep as far as possible from the fire-ship.
It was an interesting and picturesque sight to observe
the two boats describing a sort of circle on the broad
ruddy stream, while the steamer rounding to, formed in
a manner the base of the operation, and cut off the stag's
retreat. Presently a shot fired without effect from
Doughby's boat, drove the beast over towards the canoe.
The long slender barque darted across the animal's
track with the swiftness of an arrow, and as it did so, the
Indian who was standing up dealt the stag a blow that
caused it to reel and spin round in the water, and change
its course for the second time. When I again glanced at
the canoe, the young Indian had disappeared.
" Here he comes!' shouted Doughby, pointing to the
deer, which was now swimming towards his boat.
Give way, boys! the Indians must learn of a Kentucky
man how to strike a stag. Give way, I say!'
" The noble beast had recovered from the severe blow
it had received, and had now approached the steamer,
towards which it cast such a supplicating tearful look,
that the hearts of the ladies were touched with com-
passion.
" Mr. Doughby,' cried half a score feminine voices,
spare the poor beast! Pray, pray let it go!'
" Spare a stag, ladies! Where did you ever hear of
such a thing? Hurra, boys!' shouted he, as the boat
came up with the deer, and clubbing his rifle, he deli-
vered a blow with the but-end that split the stock in
two, and threw the stunned animal upon the gunwale of
the boat. Quick as thought, Doughby clutched the ant-
lers with one hand, while with the other he reached for
the knife which one of his companions held out to him.
At that moment the deer threw itself on one side with a
convulsive movement, the boat rocked, Doughby lost his
balance, the stag, which was now recovering its strength,
drew itself violently back, and in an instant the Ken-
tuckian was floundering in the water, struggling with
the deer, to whose horns he held on with the gripe of
a tiger.

Hallo, Mister Doughby in the Red River!'
" The whole ship was now in an uproar, the ladies
screaming, the men shouting directions and advice to
those in the boat. We began to be somewhat anxious as
to the result; for although these water hunts are by no
means uncommon occurrences, they are often dangerous
and sometimes fatal to the hunter. The deer had been
severely stunned and hurt, but not killed, by the blow it
had received, and it now strove fiercely against its power-
ful opponent, throwing him from side to side by violent
tosses of its head. Doughby still held on like grim
death, but his eyes began to roll and stare wildly, his
strength was evidently diminishing, and he had each
moment more difficulty in partially controlling the stag's
movements, and preventing the furious beast from run-
ning its antlers into his body. It was in vain that the
four men in the boat endeavoured to render assistance.
Man and beast were rolling and twisting about in the
river like two water snakes. The scene that had at first
been interesting had now become painful to behold.
" Fire Parker !' Fire, Relby!' shouted several
voices from the steamer to the men in the boat.
" Knock the cussed redskin on the head!' was the
unintelligible rejoinder of one of the latter.
" The stag had now got Doughby close to a tree-trunk,
against which it was making violent efforts to crush him.
His life was in imminent peril, and a universal cry of
horror and alarm burst from the spectators. Just then
the head of the deer fell on its breast, the eyes glazing
and the legs flinging out convulsively in the agony of
death; at the same time, however, Doughby began to
sink, and a bright streak of blood that rose to the sur-
face of the water, and spread in a circle round the com-
batants, gave reason to fear that the mad Kentuckian had
received some deadly hurt. At last the men in the boat
succeeded in getting hold of Doughby and the stag, the
former being seized by the hair of the head, while his
hands still clung to the deer's antlers with the desperate
grasp of a drowning man."

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
Mr. Albert Smith here commences a new work of
fiction, with the ominous title of the " Marchioness of
Brinvilliers." The subject will require a great deal
of dextrous and delicate management to render it
palatable to the reader, for the Marchioness, together
with her paramour, St. Croix—the two most noto-
rious poisoners of the day—was a heroine in whose
fortunes it is scarcely possible for any one to take the
slightest interest. The story opens in a promising
manner, but we must see more of it before we can
venture to pronounce a decided opinion. The " Close
of the Old Year" is a poem, whose greatest recom-
mendation is that it does not fall below absolute
mediocrity. The " Fête of Peterhoff" is an ani-
mated description, by Mrs. Romer, of one of the
Emperor Nicholas's birthday festivals. We could
have spared, however, the fair writer's exagge-
rated account of the " unrivalled beauty" of the
Czar. The " Boys of Kilkenny "is a lively,
boisterous sketch of certain national oddities,
by a writer who signs himself " An Irish Whiskey-
drinker." The " Gaol Chaplain" continues his per-
sonal recollections this month, and his stories—whose
only fault is that they are of somewhat too gloomy a
character—exhibit no falling off in point of interest.
" Confessions of De Loude Chiselham" is a lively tale
from the practised pen of the author of " Richard
Savage." In the " Literary Retrospect of the De-
parted Great " occur the following reminiscences of
the late Charles Mills—one of the profoundest his-
torians of the day, and who--had he lived—would
have realised the predictions of Scott and Southey,
and taken a foremost rank among the authors of his
age. We knew him long and intimately; and as we
lift our eyes up from the desk at which we write this
to his bust, which faces us, it seems but yesterday
since we heard him, in his usual buoyant manner,
relate the progress he had made in his last and most
popular work on "Chivalry," which reached its third
edition but a few days before his death, by consump-
tion, at Southampton. The writer is mistaken in
some of his details respecting Charles Mills, who did
not winter at Pisa, but at Nice, and who was not
"thirty-six years old " when he died, but thirty-nine :"
"Coeval with my acquaintance with him, and be-
tween the period of boyhood and of college, was my
more matured friendship with Charles Mills. Charles
Mills ! I think I hear those of my grandchildren who
may, at some future time, pick up this retrospect,
among old bills, or old letters, ask, Who was Charles
Mills ? ' I answer, 'Many a worse man, many a
writer with one third of his knowledge, has lived, and
does live, whilst he is chiefly to be found in a dusty
back-room (that is, his remains), at Messrs. Longmans',
Paternoster-row.'

" He was one of that race, my child, or children, who
may scan what this hand now writes (having done,
thank Heaven ! for the present with these papers from
Lincoln's Inn)—of a race quite gone by—clean expunged
from society—a laborious gentleman writer. A man of
independent circumstances, not rich, who chose, from
the love of letters, and the desire of fame, to edicate
himself to the fabrication of long historical works, the
very subjects of which would drive our present authors
to despair. History of Mohammedanism—History of
the Crusades, History of Chivalry—admirable' neglected
works, written in a too ambitious styli., with the ghost
of Gibbon always in the writer's view, presiding over his
library table, but excellent, nevertheless—and, my
daughters, or grand-daughters, or great grand-daugh •
ters, they were pure ! The subjects were delicately
handled ; for their writer had an infinite sense of what
was seemly, and was a Christian writer.

tions of ladies, of whom he knew little enough, though
he loved their society. I well remember the deference
of his manner to them—how seldom he ventured to raise
his fine, dark, beaming eyes to gaze on any young
beauty. Yet, he was, though when I knew him inclin-
ing to the old bachelor, by no means unsusceptible. But
he lived in an ideal world. He lived with Grey, Pope,
Addison. His intimate associates were Warton, and
Thompson ; the companions of his lighter hours, Lady
Mary Wortley, and Swift, or perhaps, Mrs. Centlivre, or
Mrs. Oldfield—no scandal ! I mean to say, he spoke in
their language—he almost thought their thoughts. He
was remarkably conversant with dramatic literature,
and I doubt not was one of those who understood every
point of a good actor, from John Kerable down to
Blanchard. His quotations, in society, were infinite—
his manner gentle, but not devoid of pedantry. Pe-
dantry ! What an antiquated characteristic 1 Like the
stage coaches, it will soon be a mark of age to remember
that such a failing was ever known. With it, there
has passed away the race of close readers—the habit of
accuracy—the love and knowledge of the old writers.
" I was on the top of a Cambridge coach what I
passed, one day, the lodgings where my poor friend Mills
dyed. 1 saw him at the window, his face looked pale, I
thought—he was standing, too, unemployed. A faint
smile passed across his face as he saw ms. I called to
the guard, and jumped off, carrying my carpet-bag with
me. Absolutely the dear fellow came down to the door
to meet me. I never saw a frame more shattered. He
had been ill, broken a blood-vessel, he told me, in his
weak accents (he stuttered a little), but was doing re-
markably well now. Alas ! He had wintered in Pisa
years before for that same melancholy symptom. I
never saw him more. He took me into his room, up
stairs, well lined with well-preserved books, neat as a
don's room, with a good fire, a disused desk, an easy
chair, and prints of one or two favourite authors over
the chimney-piece. I recollect, lad as I was, envying
all this comfort. Poor Mills ! it was an easy cheerful
decline, I heard ; he was never well enough to admit,
after that, such harum scarum fellows as myself. Ido
not believe he was more than thirty-six years old when
he died."

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
The public character of the Comte de St. Aulaire,
at present French Ambassador to the Court of St.
James's, is cleverly pourtrayed in the first article of
the Number before us, entitled, " Passages in the
Lives of the Celebrated Statesmen of Europe." The
Comte, it seems, is a member of one of the most
ancient families in France, and adhered steadfastly to
the cause of the Bourbons during the famous Hun-
dred Days, which terminated with the final downfal
of Napoleon at Waterloo. His biographer repre-
sents him as a man nearly as ardently devoted
to literature as to politics, and his history of the
" Wars of the Fronde " proves that he is as competent
to shine in the one capacity as in the other. " iEsop
Illustrated " is a humorous tale from the pen of the
author of "Peter Priggins," who is rather too close an
imitator of the late Theodore Hook. " Zurbano " is
a spirited memoir of this celebrated Christino chief,
who, says his biographer, was more dreaded by the
Spanish Carlists than any other leader of his party,
not excepting even the feroci,ms Mina. The Carlists,
we are told, never considered themselves safe unless
he was within twenty or thirty leagues of them.
" He would accomplish forced marches of a length that
appeared almost fabulous ; and in an extraordinary
short space of time fall upon and exterminate some
detachment of the enemy, capture a valuable convoy,
or kidnap an officer of rank." " The Robertses on
their Travels " contains, as all Mrs. Trollope's fictions
do, some caustic and truthful touches of character,
but the story is sadly spun out, just as if the authoress
was chiefly solicitous to furnish a certain amount of
matter, and was not very particular as to the quality.
" A Discourse of Puppies " is a sprightly, satirical
essay, but, nevertheless, it would have been greatly
improved by a little judicious condensation. The
" Gentleman on Half-pay" is from the airy and
graphic pen of the author of " Stories of Waterloo,'
who relates the confessions of a murderer in a most
earnest unexaggerated manner. The subjoined inte-
resting particulars respecting the famous bandit,
Santa Lucia is quoted from Mr. George Burdett's
" Traits of Corsican and Sardinian character :"
" Santa Lucia, who is still alive, enjoys the reputa-
tion of being at present the Fra Diavolo of Corsica. He
was sent to school, at an early age, in his native dis-
trict, Sartiae, and was known as a generous, open-
hearted boy, always ready to do a good turn for a com-
panion. These seeds were, unfortunately, foredoomed
to bring forth bitter fruit, and were, in fact, the main-
spring of his future career of guilt and wretchedness.
After leaving school, he lived a contented life for some
time, tilling his little patch of ground, and surrendering
up his spare hours to the chase, of which he was pas-
sionately fond. At last the hour of his fall arrived. His
brother, a priest, was condemned at the assizes for some
trifling offence, on evidence which everybody in the
island believes to be false. Santa Lucia's warm attach-
ments and antipathies now burst out in volcanic flames.
Reputation, property, even life itself, were flung to the
winds. His brother had been unjustly punished, and it
was his task to avenge him. Having laid wait for the
perjured witness, he placed the unfortunate on his knees
without a struggle, as his known strength and determi-
nation rendered resistance hopeless.
" Did you not call Santa Lucia (a Roman Catholic
saint) to witness that you were speaking the truth ?'
66 6 yes:

" Santa Lucia is here to reward you as you deserve."
" With that he dug out both his victim's eyes with a
stiletto, and wrote a scroll with the bloody point, which
he pinned to the man's back : This is the punishment
of false witnesses.' A friend of mine, a captain of vol-
tigeurs, actually saw this scroll before it was taken off.
"All restraint was now removed, and the evil im-
pulses of Santa Lucia raged like the whirlwind. Any,
the slightest opposition to his wishes, was punished with
death. No distance, no lapse of time or fancied security
of place, could turn him from his fixed purpose, if in-
tent upon shedding blood. A medical man had given
him some ground of offence, and, fearing his wrath,
took refuge in Ajaccio, the capital. Thither Santa
Lucia followed him, and, after loitering about the
!,treets for some days, saw him approaching. Both
drew pistols, but Santa Lucia, the quicker of the
two, shot his enemy dead. A small knot of women and
boys had gathered round him, from whom he asked his
way out of the town, and by them he was directed to the
quarters of the custom-house officers, which he soon
reached at a good round pace. The sentry perceiving a
man coming along followed by a crowd, shouting out,
Stop the assassin !' levelled his piece and told him to
stand. Santa Lucia said, `What have I done ? If you
shoot me you will commit murder, as, whatever these people
may say, I have done nothing wrong.' Having closed by
degrees with the soldier during these few words, he threw
the latter for an instant off his guard by the openness
of his manner. This was enough for Santa Lucia, who
felled him to the ground with four blows of his stiletto.
He then seized the soldier's weapon, dashed through the
main gateway of the barracks, and was soon out of the
town. About three hundred yards from Ajaccio he
met a Corsican voltigeur, who made a, useless attempt to
stop him. His step was on the mountain,' and, being
well armed, he set both resistance and pursuit at defiance.
" Having gained his stronghold his steps were marked
with blood wherever he went, and the list of his murders
had already reached nine, two years ago. His wife, his
sister, and one friend, were alone entrusted with the
secret of his whereabouts. His sister was a most beau-
tiful girl, or rather amazon, who had refused many offers
of marriage, on account of her devoted attachment to
Santa Lucia, whose love of vengeance she shared.
During the day she assisted her sister-in-law in her
household duties, and at night, slinging a double-bar-
reled gun and a box of cartridges across her shoulders,
she used to plunge into trackless thickets, to carry food
to her brother.

" Last year a hot pursuit obliged Santa Lucia and his
cousin, Giacomini, to fly to Sardinia, where they made
themselves universally popular amongst the inhabitants.
Santa Lucia freely accorded his protection to any in-
jured person who sought it in the island. The Sards at
last gave him the title of " II Guerriero," the warrior,
from his approved courage and conduct. A cousin and
namesake of his was to be tried at the winter assizes at
Bastia, in 1843, for murder, on which occasion Lueia re-
turned from his exile. It was understood that he had
the address to remain concealed in the town itself during
the trial ; at all events he issued a mandate for his rela-
tive's acquittal, threatening, in the contrary event, the
judges and jury with death. An acquittal followed as a
matter of course. Since then be has declared that, hav-
ing destroyed all his enemies, he is about to quit his
native country for ever, and that he has chosen Egypt
for his future home. I have heard, however, that he
has very lately entered the service of the King of Sar-
dinia, and was almost immediately promoted to the rank
of corporal of gendarmes."

AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE.
The best thing in the present chapters of the
Editor's " Revelations of London," is his description
of Regent-street in the high noon of fashion, which
is as vigorous and lively as it is circumstantial. The
diablerie of the story is, we must honestly confess,
not much to our taste, for demons, gentlemen three
hundred years old, dwarfs of the same respectable
antiquity, and such like melo-dramatic monsters, ill
assort with the business-like, matter-of-fact habits of
the present day, in which they are represented as
playing off their romantic vagaries. However, Mr.
Ainsworth is not without his justification, "his nanz
plebecula gaudet." " Agincourt" is a kindly and
generous notice of Mr. James's latest novel—his
hundred-and-fiftieth, we believe—which comes with
peculiar grace from the pen of a rival novelist.
" Wild Oats " gives some whimsical anecdotes illus-
trative of Elliston's eccentricities, and the effrontery
with which he played on the credulity and forbear-
ance of the " pensive public." The "Country Cu-
rate " is one of Charles 011ier's unassuming domestic
stories, and is throughout pleasingly written. " Traits
and Stories of the Irish Peasantry ' contains several
characteristic portraits of this unaccountable portion
of the creation. We quote from Mr. Saville's " Per-
sian Journal" his account of an interview with the
late King Fath Ali Shah :
" JAN. 28.—This was the day fixed for our having an
au!ience of Fath Ali Shah ; in consequence, about ten
o'clock in the morning, we mounted our horses, and, ac-
companied by Mr. M‘Neill,* the secretary of the Eng-
lish embassy, directed our course towards the royal
palace. Having proceeded, with great ceremony, to a
gate leading to the residence of his Persian Majesty, we
dismounted, and wore conducted to an apartment, where
we found several Persian khans assembled, among whom
was Meerza Abool Hassan Khan, who was to present us

" Ile vas, indeed, a sort of
.knight-errant in his no-

*Now Sir John Di'Neill, G.C.B.

1845,

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to the Shah. The windows of the room looked upon a L RD L 'ME RI
spacious court, where was assembled a vast concourse 0 ClC,;Atigliji4l
T 0 THE EDI T 0 4ICC AIV4 niii
of people. We remained in this spot two hours ; the SlR,—Although opposed to you on mate; o e party-
time passed away very heavily ; for, on account of its , questions of the hour, I cannot but admire the truly in-
being during the fast of Ramazan, no kaliauns or re- dependent tone with which you approach those general
freshments were brought in, which circumstance marred questions of polity that can be touched upon regardless
the accustomed gaiety of our Persian friends. Meerza of the spirit of faction. -
Abool Hassan was habited in a fine court dress, and 1 The extraordinary scene that took place lately at
wore, as well as ourselves, red stockings and slippers, i Limerick may be classed among the latter, and is not to
which is the usual costume for any one who has the I be passed over by calling the performers in it rabble or
honour of appearing before the ' Shadow of God,' as the savages. I have reason to know this is not the first
Shah of Persia is termed by his subjects. circumstance of the sort that has happened in Ireland.
" At length the welcome intelligence arrived that his 1 While travelling in that country during the autumn of
Majesty was ready to receive us, upon which Meerza ' 1843, I passed by the wooded and picturesque domain of
Abool Hassan arose, and requested us to follow him, and I Ravendale, the residence of the late Sir Harry Good-
we all proceeded together to a spacious court, at the ricke. The untimely fate of this unfortunate gentleman,
upper end of which was the front of the royal palace, and the locality naturally turned my inquiries to the lato
seated at an open window on the ground-floor was the Baronet ; with tears in his eyes did my narrator describe
Shah, of whom we then had a side view. When we his generosity, his high spirit, his noble conduct ; in
had arrived at about twenty yards from the palace, the fact, to sum up all, he was emphatically a " good land-
Meerza shook off his slippers, and directed us to do the ierd." The whole country, for miles round, offered to
same. We then each made a low salaam, and began attend his funeral, and had this been encouraged, it
slowly to advance. We repeated the obeisances several would have been the largest one ever known, even in
times before we arrived before the entrance of the build- Ireland ; but the story did not finish with the death of
ing, when the Shah turning round, called to us to enter ; the late proprietor ; the good deeds Of one landlord re-
the words he used being `Beauyeed balau'—literally, called the evil ones of his predecessor, at whose funeral
' Come up.' We accordingly proceeded to ascend a broad the mob rushed upon the pall-bearers, dashed down the
flight of steps, and entered the apartment in which his coffin, and trampled upon the inanimate body.
Majesty was seated. It was a spacious chamber, the This story made a great impression upon
me. It drew
walls and ceilings of which were covered with mirrors, the line of distinction between " a good landlord" and
in every part of it were ornaments of various descrip- " a bad landlord ;" for lam satisfied that all the feelings
tions, chiefly of European manufacture ; I could not, of the population of Ireland centre in these distinctions.
however, help remarking the strong resemblance the
Free to follow their religion, when left alone by the agi-
spot bore to a large London china-shop. On our en- tators, all political questions are forgotten by the people.
trance, the Meerza conducted us to the corner most re- They have only one question, reel that is emphatieally
mote to that occupied by the Shah, who was seated on the landlord question—the division between " the good"
his heels on a beautiful nummud, and very plainly habited and " the bad."
in a dress made of Cashmere shawl. In his girdle was a And now for the late outrage. Lord Limerick for
large dagger, ornamented with jewels, and on his head nearly thirty years never visited the property or the
he were a black Bokhara lamb-skin cap, on which was country from which he gathered as many thousands pet
a string of pearls ,• but the most striking feature about annum. H into
him residence was uninhabited, and falling
him was his beard, which exceeded by its length even decay. That late lamented traveller Inglis, in his "Tour
what I had expected. It conceals most of his face, and in Ireland in 1828," has, iu more than one of his 'truth-
reaches to his knees ; during the whole of the audience telling pages, described him as the very worst landlord!
he continued to twist the ends of it round his fingers. in Ireland ; and I can safely affirm that in 1843, from
IVhen we had occupied the corner, his Majesty ex- Orangeman or Repealer, I never heard the contrary.
claimed, ' Khosh amedeed !' literally, ' You are welcome' Not only was he a perpetual absentee, but the charities
(well come). He then proceeded to ask us various ques- of Limerick and its neighbourhood will be vainly sought
tions concerning our travels, and showed by his obser- for any response of the noble proprietor to the wants or
vations upon our answers, that he had, for a Persian, a desires of his tenantry or the iallabitants. Lord Lime-
very fair knowledge of geography. He then proceeded rick, in fact, was, among absentee Lantdlords, absentissi-
to question Mr. M'Neill upon the affairs of Khorasan. mus. I write this without any personal' I.! l-will ; I never
(from which he, Mr. M'Neill, had just returned), and had the slightest knowledge of the late Earl—less even
the late campaign ; he spoke at the same time much in • than his tenants, for I never saw his bailiff.
approbation of the conduct in that quarter of the heir It is far more easy to commit an outrage on the feel-
apparent (Abbas Meerza). The audience lasted above ings of the living dean on the body of the dead. The
an hour, and I had ample opportunity of observing the outrage of thirty years was answered by the execration
illustrious personage before whom we were standing. of an hour ; but even this re-echo of the pent-up feelings
His Majesty is still a very handsome man, and appears of years would, I have no doubt, never been heard, had
much younger than he is in reality, on account of the the ill-advised friends of the late Earl been content with
blackness of his beard, which is kept to thatcolour by the a private funeral.
application of the Persian dye ; his voice, however, and The present Earl is said to be in some distant land,
want of teeth, plainly indicate his very advanced age. perhaps unaware of the wealth and honours that have
He bears a great resemblance to portraits I have seen of rather unexpectedly fallen upon him. If the late pro-
him. Oa his arm, above the elbow, his Majesty wore a ceedings are recalled to his memory, let him and all
large bracelet (in Persian, styled bazubend) as a mark of other proprietors remember that they are but the com-
royalty. The bracelet consisted of stones set in gold. meat on the text which should ever be their rule of
This was the article of most value amongst the few orna- conduct—" Property has its duties as well as its rights."
ments he wore. An Englishman, bound to Ireland by no feeling but
" The manner in which the audience terminated, was that of sympathy, and grateful, too, for some pleasant
by the Shah giving a nod with his head, and saying, hours spent there during the last year—not so much
' You are dismissed.' We then made several low sa- among the hospitable halls of its gentry, but as a wan-
learns, and retired, keeping our faces towards his Ma- derer in many parts of the island, in its wildest and least
jesty, and bowing, at intervals, until we reached the visited districts, and at a time when the repeal agitation
spot where we had left our slippers, which we put on, was most rampant—l am induced to send you these few
and then backed out of the court. observations. I confidently protest against the late out-
" Thus ended the ceremony-:of our presentation to the rage being mixed up with any political faction. It was
Kiblah-i Auleen, the Shahee Shahu' and the Zil Illah, but an outburst of feeling from a warm and excited
such being the titles by which Fath Ali Shah was ad- people. It could not be restrained. Some may call it
dressed ; meaning, ' Attraction of the Universe,' 'King savage ; but who can deny that it was not natural.
of Kings,' and ' Shadow of God.'" Your obedient servant, R. D.
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1844.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS,

FROM THE MORNINO PAPERS OF THIS DAT.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 12 per milli,
wkich, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOid. per
ounce for standard gold gives an exchange of 25
45 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25 57k, it follows that gold is 0.49 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.

By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4341
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/.175. 105 d.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9*;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 10, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer
in London than in Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is
1101- per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng-
land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows
that the exchange is 0.68 per cent. in favour of England.
But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills
at 60 days' sight, the interest must be added to the
above difference.
SUN.—There was a better market for the English
Securities this afternoon, and more business was done.
Consols for the Opening were 100; to S. Bank Stock
touched 211. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were
1035 4. East India Stock, for Account, realised 2865.
The Foreign Investments were also firmer, the settle-
ment having gone off better than was expected. Spanish
Five per Cents. were 27* 4, the Three per Cents. 385 I,
and the Deferred 164. Portuguese Converted were 61.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 645
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 2 to 4 ;
Churnet Valley, 1* ; Great Western, 764 to 75 ; Bir-
mingham, 129 ; Brighton, 2* ; South-Western, 334 to
34/ • Croydon, Guaranteed, ; Loudon and York, 24 ;
Midland, 16; Newcastle and Berwick, 5* ; South Devon,
•, South-Eastern, 7* to 81 ; Ditto, New, 105 ; York
and North Midland, Ilalf Shares, 265 ; Boulogne and
Amiens, 24 ; Lyons and Avignon, * ; Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 54 ; Paris and Orleans, 244 ; and Paris and
Rouen, 215 premium. Caledonian have been 5; Eastern
Counties, 9* 4 ; Blackwall, 9 ; Greenwich, 3 ; West
London, 134 ; and Strasburg and Bale, 125 discount.
There was a rise in the Exchange on Hamburgb,
Trieste, and Amsterdam, and the rates on other cities
are generally firm. _ _

PRIVILEGES OF ROYAL PALACES. WINDSOR,
TUESDAY.—It will be recollected that a gentleman, re-
siding within the precincts of Windsor Casi!e, was taken
in execution, by an officer of the Sheriff of Buda; at the
suit of Mr. Lawrence, for a debt of between 2,0001. And
3,0001., and consigned to the county gaol at Readinp
where he now remains. If this were a breach of privi-
lege, it wss not as against the party whose body was=
taken and consigned to the county gaol, but a breach of
privilege againr.i " the rightful power and dignity of the.
Sovereign." But, Lin order to guard against the commis-
sion of such an offence, and the penalties which would
thereby be incurred, a coi'munication was made on be-
half of the Sheriff to the Lord Steward, asking for per-
mission to execute the writ and take the body within
the royal precincts. A reply wag immediately trans-
mitted by Sir Thomas Marrable, the Secretary to the
Board of Green Cloth, giving the required sanction of
the Lord Steward to take the defendant in execution.
provided the capture was made with a due af.'d proper
" regard to decorum." From this it will be sew, that,
without the permission of the Lord Steward, on the part
of the Sovereign, to execute a writ within the precincts.
of a royal palace, such an act would still be a breach of
privilege. It is not, however, to be supposed, in the
cases of persons in difficulties, who i ke refuge in " pri-
vileged" places, for the only purpose Gf using them as
" sanctuaries" to be " out of the way" of civil process,
that a similar permission would ever be withheld on the
part of the Crown. The Counsel, on the part of the de-
fendant, in arguing the question before the Learned
Baron of the Exchequer, chiefly relied upon the point
that the Lord Steward had no power to give his permis-
sion for the arrest to take place; this, however, was over-
ruled.

PRIZE FIGHT ON KENNINGTON-COMMON.—YeSter.
day afternoon, at three o'clock, a fight for 31. a aide took
place on Kennington-common, between a Jew and a
Frenchman, which lasted for an hour and a half without
any interference from the police.
REVERSE OF CIRCUMSTANCES. A DRUNKARD'S

FATE.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before

Mr. Higgs, at the Red Lion, Hart-street, Covent-gar-
den, on the body of James Copling, aged forty-four.
The deceased was formerly a cab proprietor at the west-
end, but from habits of inebriation he had lost every-
thing he was formerly possessed of, and for some months
past had acted as a doorkeeper at the Red Lion public-
house, in the Strand. For some months be had been
troubled with a severe asthma, and on Saturday night
last he was crossing the yard of the house, No. 4, Leg-
alley, Long.acre, where he was lodging, when he was
seized with a violent fit of coughing, which ruptured
one of the blood-vessels of the heart. He was conveyed
into the house, and a surgeon was sent for, but prior to,
his arrival life had ceased to exist. Verdict—" Natural
death."
THE SIAMESE TWINS MARRIED.—An American
paper asserts that the reported marriage of the Siamese
twins to two sisters, which was supposed to be a hoax,
is a literal fact, and that Mrs. Chang and Mrs. Eng have
presented their lords with heirs to the name and pro-
perty of Chang and Eng. It is further asserted that,
being now married men with families growing up, the
twins intend to resume their exhibition by way of in-
creasing their store and providing for their interesting

The folloWing is the official return of the exports of
Bullion from the port of London, for the week ending
Thursday last:—
Silver Coin to Calais . . . 250,000 ounces.

progeny.
ANOTHER NEW OPERA BY BALFE.—This popular
composer has returned to Paris, and is now busily en-
(raged in the composition of another new opera, the 13,-
tretto of which has been written by M. St. Georges, the
author of La Reine de Chypre, and forwarded to Mr.
Bunn, for translation into English. The principal part
is intended for Madame Thillon, whose engagement at
Drury-lane comma nces in May next. It is also said that
an Italian opera by Balfe, entitled Elfrida, will be
brought out at her Majesty's Theatre next season.
DROWNING TO GAIN A LIVELIHOOD.--A young
man, named J. Devroe, agee 18, was taken out of the
canal on Monday last. It is supposed that he threw him-
self in on speculation, for, shortly after he was taken out,
four individuals presented themselves to receive the
usual recompense in such cases. Similar cases occur an-
nually. Some time back a man was known, why used
to attempt to drown himself every week, but there 'ems
always four men by to save him.—Brussels Ga2ette.
THE ROYAL STAG HOUNDS.—Notwithstanding the
strong indications of a fog, which prevailed during the
whole of Monday morning, her Majesty's stag hounds
met at Thorpe Green, agreeably to the announced ap-
pointment ; but from the circumstance of the fixture not
having been notified in the London papers, the field con-
sisted of not more than between eighty and ninety, in-
cluding several military Nimrods from Windsor. The
deer Wild Boy, upon being turned out, took away for
Colonel Scholefield's, where, after circling about for some
time in the plantations, made for Thorpe mill, doubling
back to Botley's, and thence to Egbam waste, on towards'
Chobham, where it was lost ; the hounds being called off
in consequence of the fog, which by this time had got sa
exceedingly dense that it was impossible to see for a dis-
tance of fifty yards, rendering the following of the pack
a matter of great danger to both man and horse. The
hounds were taken back to the kennel at Ascot, and
Wild Boy left to roam at large for the night.
THE INCOME-TAX.—Three hundred pounds per
annum, arising from capital invested in the Three per
Cents. is at the present moment worth 10,0004 The
income of a clerk is unsaleable ; it depends upon per-
sonal services, for which he may be incapacitated at any
moment ; and if he die, his family are beggars. Yet
the clerk is called upon to contribute the same amount
to the revenue as a rich man with 10,0001. in the
funds ! A system of fiscal policy more cruelly unjust
it would be difficult to conceive, one in which the mins.,
tice is more clear and self-apparent ; but the majority
of the House of Commons, when the tax was thus un-
equally imposed, shut their eyes to its iniquity ; and
they will do so again if the public let them. The ?sin-
ciple is the same if we compare the case of a tradesmen'
with an income of 1,0001. derived from the profits of his
business and a nobleman of 1,0001. per annum derived
from landed estates. The value of the latter at only 25
years' purchase is 25,000/. ; the goodwill of a business,
dependent upon the innumerable accidents of trade, will
rarely sell for more than five years' purchase. The re-
lative position, therefore, of the tradesman and the
nobleman, in the case supposed, is as one to five, arrl
the operation of the present income-tax is as five to one
in favour of the nobleman. At the end of three years,
each will have paid 90/. to the revenue—the one out of a
property worth 5,0004 at the time the tax was imposed,
the other out of a property worth 25,0001. at the same
lVestminster Review.

,
INNOVATIONS IN THE CHURCH.—On Saturday, St
eleven o'clock, a deputation, consisting of more than
forty gentlemen of high respectability, waited upon the
Mayor at the Guildhall with a requisition to him, signed
by nearly 2,000 citizens, all members of the Church of
England, to call a public meeting of the inhabitants of
Exeter, to address and petition the Queen on the present
state and danger of the Protestant Church. Mr. J.
Bacon addressed the Mayor in most eloquent terms, and
his worship immediately conceded to the wishes of his
fellow-citizens, and appointed Thursday next for that
purpose. An earlier day would have been fixed, but it
was feared it might interfere with the business of the
sessions.— Woolmer's Exeter Gazette.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ,
z.vz-r411,16 PXPERg OF YESTERDAY.

is not unsound in doctrine, would openly avow
that conclusion in vindication of a man, whom,
upon the hypothesis, he must suppose to be '
treated not merely with formal but with substantial
injustice. These considerations conduct to the un-
pleasant conclusion that the Bishop of Exeter was
aware of Dr. Pusey's unsoundness in doctrine when
he permitted him to preach at Ilfracombe. Indeed,
the caution which he says he gave upon the occasion,
proves that the Bishop was aware of Dr. Pusey's un-
soundness, or, which is nearly as strong an objection
as unsoundness—the uncertainty whether he was sound
in doctrine. But the character of Pr, Pusey's doc-
trine, surely, did not depend upon the single sermon
upon which issue was taken at Oxford—because
it was most convenient to take issue upon a single
publication. Doctor Pusey has been a principal
contributor to those " Tracts for the Times" against
which the Bishop of Exeter protested with so much
eloquence and vigour ; he is now oceupied in preparing
for the press no less than 17 Roman Catholic religious
works in contempt of his engagement to the Bishop
of Oxford—he is so notoriously the leader of the Ro-
manising sect, that he has given to it his name. Hew
then would any Bishop who held the doctrine of that
sect to be a heresy, or even the occasion of. a schism,
consider Dr. Pusey a person sound in doctrine ?
SHIPPING GAZETTE.—A writer in the Friend
of China has taken upon him to show that, notwith-
standing we are bound by treaty to give up posse!.
sion of the island of Chusan to the Chinese authori
ties in a very brief period, it would be very desirable
if we could, somehow or other, contrive to keep
possession of that island. The Friend of China
seems to us to be talking in a strain of
very equivocal friendship. He says, " From
its insular position, excellent harbour, healthy
climate, and proximity to the main land of
China, Chusan possesses advantages which pecu•
liarly fit it for the head-quarters, in this part of
the world, of a great maritime and commercial
people. In all this the Friend of China fixes his eye
on the interests exclusively of a great maritime
and commercial people, which manifestly does not
form an integrant part of the population of the
Celestial Empire. He is addressing himself, nt t
to the Chinese, but to us outside barbarians ; evi-
dently with a feeling to persuade us that it would
be very much to our interest to retain possession of
a piece of foreign territory, which we hold mo•
mentarily under solemn stipulation to restore to the
rightful owner at a prescribed period. Upon the face of
the proposition there is spread too glaring a Machiavel-
lian colouring, too palpable a tinge of the Thiers mo-
rality on the restitution of Ancona, for us to adopt the
thing at first showing, as self-evident and unquestion-
able. The very first consideration with us as a people,
the paramount duty of our Government in its relations
with that of China, are to show an unhesitating resolve to
abide strictly, even to our detriment, to the very
letter of a treaty. Is it for us to let in a limping
morality, in our public dealings with a people which
has been taught hereditarily to regard us nationally
as inferior to its own population in knowledge
and in civilization ? No ! shame be upon the base
mind which could drop a word that would leave
Chinamen ground to suppose, that we were less
scrupulous about the fulfilment of an engage-
ment, than we were jealous in the vindication of an
asserted right. In our diplomacy with this singular
people a much higher obligation rests upon us than
that of a pertinacious pursuit of our own interest;
we have to convince a nation new to us in the freedom
of commercial intercourse, that we are a people whose
public pledge is sacred. Give up Chusan at the very
moment that you have stipulated so to do, and then, if
mutual interests of the two nations indicate the fitness
of a permanent British settlement upon that point of the
Chinese territory, institute new negotiations with the
view to bring about such an arrangement ; but above
all things, let us not hear of retaining it permanently
as a colonial possession, on account of its pecu-
liar fitness to be the head- quarters, in that part of
the world, of a great maritime and commercial people.
We are, it is true, a great maritime and commercial
people ; and therefore the more imperative is the
obligation on our Government to show, while it
manifests on fitting occasions the greatness of our
power, that we are a nation jealous of our good
faith. Whatever further facilities for the extension
of our commercial dealings with the people of China
beyond those obtained by the recent treaty may seem
requisite, we must look for them only by the free
concession of the Chinese authorities, which, it is to be
presumed, will only be led to concede them
on a fair showing of reciprocal advantages
to result from the new grant. As to the supe-
rior eligibility for commercial purposes of Chusan
above Hong-Kong, it is possible that experience
and more deliberate observation may have dis
covered it ; yet we are still inclined to hold to the
opinion that the judgment of the eminent individual
who managed the entire negotiation, and gave his as-
sent to the various stipulations, was more mature, and
confirmed by more comprehensive views, than we are
warranted in considering that of the present writer in
the Friend of China. There are some indications in
the writing before us of a capacity which we should
say was not fully competent to embrace a wide scope
of national, or even commercial policy. The docu-
ment in question does not impress upon us the
emanation of a master-mind. It speculates too ad-
venturously on political improbabilities, draws deduc-
tions from superficial views of existing necessities, and
calculates too freely on the possible rupture of esta-
blished relations, and on the subversion of accustomed
order. And moreover the writer shows that his specu-
lations are not more firmly fixed upon the channels
through which the cash of the Celestials may here-
after be made to flow, than they are upon the
creed which they may be asked to adopt. We warn
the writer from indulging in the momanical halluci-
nation, that traders in tea and hardware are infallible
doctors in speculative divinity. Ne tutor ultra crepi-
dam. It is possible, that as a trading station, Chusan
may be somewhat more commodious for intercourse
with the eastern and northern ports of China than
Hong-Kong ; but Hong-Kong is more on the line
of established trade ; it is better adapted to that
which is, than to that which may be. Then, the
harbour of Hong-Kong is safe, commodious, and of
easy access ; whilst that of Chusan, according to the
reports of nautical men of sound judgment and of
long experience, who have well examined the localities,
is one of the most difficult of approach. The chow-
chow waters of the entrance to Chusan harbour are
notorious to the navigators of those seas ; and have
impressed on the minds of sailors a wish to avoid them
a little more strongly than they appear to have operated
upon the nautical judgment of the Friend of China.
Of the insalubrity of Chusan for European residents,
we have not forgotten the dismal reports of our first
possession. Other proofs than those adduced by the
Friend of China of the super-eminent desirableness of
Chusan as a permanent commercial British station,
must be adduced, before we can think it expe-
dient for our authorities to petition the Chinese
Government for leave to have a factory perhaps in the
island. In the very recent settlement of disputes,
we have solemnly acceded to certain conditions, among
which was the acceptance of Hong-Kong as a trading
station, conceded to us by the Emperor. It would be
little becoming our national dignity, and as little con-
sistent with respect to ourselves or to the parties with
whom we have been treating, for us to break out now
and say, " We won't have that, and we will have this."
Such is not the conduct of adult and cultivated minds.
Immense interests, in both countries, are now de-
pendent on the amicable prosecution of a recipro-
cally beneficial commerce between Great Britain and
China ; and the diplomatic intercourse between the
countries will demand the most ample demonstration
of mutual respect, and on our side the most marked
observance of national rights. We have latterly put
forth our strength rather rudely towards an un warlike
people, as a demonstration of our power till then un-
known to them. -We must not henceforth presume
to bluster with them as superiors ; but use our best
endeavours to show them that we consider them our
equals in civilisation, and entitled to the like consi-
deration with ourselves in the community of nations.
Our intercourse must he based on a reciprocity of
interests, and be cultivated under a sedulous regard
for each other's independence.

PRICES OF SHARES

it uANAL.S, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE,
AND OTIIER COMTANItS' STOCK.

GLOBE.—The old proverb that you cannot eat
(your cake and haire it too, seems reversed by Mr.
President Tyler, in favour of American foreign
Policy. He appears resolved to " have" the credit of
cultivating peace and eschewing warlike conquest,
and to "eat" the fruits of avowed hostile provocation
to Mexico—a State which had offered none. It is
curious to trace the self-contradictions in this lengthy
manifesto of self-aggrandisement. It is stated to
be unreasonable, because impracticable, on the part
of Mexico, to persist in her efforts to repossess
herself of Texas. This would appear an argument
for letting the Texians alone to deal with her; but no
—the exhaustion of both the combatants would in-
duce the interference of other Powers ; " which, with-
out the interposition of this Government, might even-
tuate in the most serious injury to the United States."
Presently it appears that it is not the exhaustion of
both the combatants, but the excessive vigour of one
of them, that is the object of legitimate apprehension
—and this apprehension, strange to say, proceeds
solely from a tender interest for Mexico :
"Mexico requires a permanent boundary between
/that young republic and herself. Texas, at no distant
day, if she continues separate and detached from the
United States, will inevitably seek to consolidate her
strength, by adding to her domain the contiguous pro-
vinces of Mexico. The spirit of revolt from the control of
the Central Government has heretofore manifested itself
in some of those provinces, and it is fair to infer t.-,at
they would be inclined to take the first favourable op-
portunity to proclaim their independence, and to form
close alliances with Texas. The war would thus be
endless ; or, if cessations of hostilides should occur,
they would only endure for a sease,n. The interests of
Mexico, therefore, could in nothing be better consulted
than in a peace with her neifjhbours, which would result
in the establishment of a -permanent boundary."
It is impossible thst Mexico should not be sensible
of this tender care for her interest ; and that she
should not feel that the United States, whose Execu-
tive would annex Texas with so little ceremony, are
likely to form much safer and less encroaching neigh-
bours than Texas, single-handed ! Particularly,
when—throwing off the thin veil of concern for either
party—President Tyler comes to the real motive for
this attempted crowning measure of his
"American Interest would seem to require it. The
extensiont of our coastwise and foreign trade, to an amount
almost, incalculable—the enlargement of the market for
out; manufactures—a constantly growing market for our
agricultural productions—safety to our frontiers, and ail-
ditional strength and stability to the Union ; these are
the results which would rapidly develop themselves
upon the consummation of the measure of annexation."
Presently, the moral face is put on the whole trans-
action :

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"We seek no conquest made by war. No intrigue
will have been resorted to, or arts of diplomacy essayed
to accomplish the annexation of Texas. Free and irrie-
pendent herself, she asks to be received into our Union.
It is a question for our own decision, whether she shall
be received or not."
No intrigue resorted to, nor arts of diplomacy es'.
sayed ! This is really too good, in the face of the
testimony of successive observers of those arts and of
those intrigues. Read any traveller in those regions,
from Featherstonhaugh to Mrs. Houston. The latter
writer gives a story on this head, so good that it
should be true, whether it is or no. "We were
privately informed by a person worthy ot'
that a negotiation for the sale of Texas, and to
which he had been a party, had been on the point of
being concluded between America and Mexico. The
latter were to make over Texas, for a stipulated sum,
to the United States. The transaction, as he assured
us, was all but concluded, and the papers required
only the signatures of the respective Presidents, when
the person charged, on the part of the Americans, with
the necessary documents, thought he might first as
well do a little business on his own account. In-
stead, therefore, of proceeding direct to Mexico,
he betook himself to Texas to purchase land ; be-
ing induced to do so by the knowledge of the value
to which land would rise, immediately on the con-
clusion of the sale. This :ktour was the cause of con-
siderable delay, and in the interim events occurred
which rendered the projected compact impossible,
and altered entirely the aspect of affairs?' President
Tyler's involved narrative gives it to be supposed
that more than one slip has occurred, between
cup and lip, in this matter of Texas. Mrs. Houstoun
reports the talk of Texian politicians on the pro-
bable destiny of the country. " The future fate of
the country, and its probable annexation to some
Other Power, was discussed; but what Power was it
to be Ythat was the question. France, they declared,
bald been most anxious to obtain possession of them,
but her propositions had not exactly suited them, and
the affair had ended. England, they seemed to think,
would be the most eligible country on which to lean,
but it was doubted, and that very generally, whether
that Power would have anything to say to them."
All this is loose enough talk ; but -talk which was
beard on the spot in question. The objects of the
American annexation party (besides Mr. Tyler's ten-
derness for Mexico and for peace) lie on the surface.
The Southern States see in Texas a superior soil and
climate to their own, superior advantages for the pro-
duction, and superior outlets for the disposal of their
own staple products. The present Anti-Commercial
Tariff of the United States could not stand a day in
the face of a liberal commercial tariff of the indepen-
dent republic of Texas. But it is not merely a tariff
question. All communities depending on slave-labour
—depend on perpetual migration to, or annexation of,
new and fertile fields for its working. It is becomie
unprofitable in the States. Texas offers an apparently
inexhaustible field for its further operations ; and the
parties who hare already inoculated thet new reg;on
with the taint, pretend that the labour of blacks alone
is available—owing to the climate. There is probably
about as much truth in this as in other such
allegations ; but what is very certain is, that
the older States may, for some time longer,
reap profit as slave breeders and slave-dealers,
which they are In great measure ceasing
to reap as slay-a
-cultivators. To the slave-interest—
the interest of that great domestic institution which
force of combination, and acting en masse,
domineers over all others in the United States—it
cannot be indifferent whether this new territory is
peopled by independent producers—commercial
rivals, under better commercial auspices—and per-
taps even abolitionists of slavery—or by subjects of
the same tariff as themselves—sure customers for
their surplus slaves, and fresh recruits to their already
predanunant cause in the Union.
STANDARD.—We had laid aside our first pur-
pose of alluding to the Bishop of Exeter's reply to
Mr. M. Phillipps, in the determination not to be par-
ties to the continuance of a painful and dangerous
Controversy. We have been compelled, however,
to resume our original intention by information
that De-ator Pusey has been since invited and per-
mitted to preach at Clifton..... Clifton is not, indeed,
'are believe, in the diocese of Exeter, but in that of
Bristol. As the Bishop of Exeter's argument, how-
.every justifying the permission to Dr. Pusey to preach
at Ilfracombe, probably led to the invitation to the
Rev. Professor to preach at Clifton. The duty of a
Bishop, as laid down by St. Paul, requires before all
things that they who are to teach be men of saund
doctrine. [See 1 Timothy, i. 3, &c. ; 1 Titus,
11, 48cc.] The Bishop must not only preach
sound doctrine himself —he is required to
atop the mouths of those who teach what
they ought not." This is, we say it re-
spectfully, the most peremptory, and incom-
parably the most .ignified and useful of the episcopal
&nations. Now, Doctor Pusey has been convicted
by competent authority of preaching unsound doc-
trine; and it necessarily follows that it is the duty of
every bishop to "stop his mouth" as a preacher;
certainly, to invite him, or to connive at inviting him
to preach. The Bishop of Exeter, indeed, intimates
that Dr. Pusey's conviction is void, because in his
opinion, the Reverend Professor was not fairly heat(' ;
this, however, is a reason that will not stand
in law—still less in substantial equity. With a pro-
test that Dr. Pusey was fairly and statutably tried,
that he bad a fair hearing for his own defence, though
not for the defence of his heresy in a formal thesis,
and that he was statutably condemned—with this
protest, we say, that with the order of the trial at
Oxford the Bishop of Exeter had nothing to do. It is a
rule of law, admitting ofno exception, that the judg-
ment of a court of competent authority is, until reversed
by a higher court, universally conclusive. Until lately
there were, and perhaps still there are, some offences
which rendered a man incompetent as a witness.
But was it ever heard that a judge permitted the re-
cord of conviction, produced to prove the party's in-
competency to be questioned, on the ground that he
had not been fairly tried ; or, in one of those eases
in which a second conviction leads to a heavier
punishment, was it ever heard that the record of the
first conviction was allowed to be impeached upon
such grounds ? No, the law presumes that whatever
is done by competent authority is done rightfully ;
and upon the principle of law, the Bishop of
Exeter was officially bound to consider Dr. Pusey as
a preacher of unsound doctrine. Bishops, however,
it will be said, are not bound by the strict legal prin-
ciple. We cheerfully admit that they have a
ranch wider discretion, but with the enlarge-
ment of their discretionary power unquestionably
extends • their responsibility. We contend that
the Bishop of Exeter needed not the au-
thority of Dr. Pusey's conviction to own the
duty and to exercise the power of "stopping
the mouth," in his Lordship's diocese, of the
author of Dr. Pusey's sermon. His Lordship, it
appears, paid some attention to the proceedings
against the sermon at Oxford. It cannot be doubted
that a man so truly zealous of justice, and so
pious, as the Bishop of Exeter, carefully read and
candidly considered the composition whichi
was the subject of these proceedings. As late
can- it •be doubted that a man of the Bishop of
Exeter's characteristic generosity and courage,
baving applied his powerful mind to the discourse,
indhaving come to the conclusion that it

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like " thousands of others" which are given up as in-
curable at the hospitals, was soundly healed in about a
fortnight, by the use of Holloway's Pills and Ointment.
Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment 244, Strand,
where advise may be had gratis), and by almost all
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tr'n stlN, L 0144 poN, IV Et)NtsnAV RVgN INC I_:JANLIARY1_:JANL1ARY 1_ 1345.

32d Foot—J. W. Botssxt, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Sir E. Poore, appointed in the Scots Fu-
silier Guards, Dec. 31.
35th Foot—Lieutenant A. Leslie, from half-pay Glen-
garry Light infantry Fencibles, to be Lieutenant, vice
Ward, promoted ; Rap F. G. Elkington to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Leslie, who retires ; C. B.
Daveney, Gent , to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Biking-
ton, Dec. 31.
46th D. D. Wemyss, from the St. Helena
Regiment, to be Li.eutenant, vice Lacy, promoted, Dec. 31.
51st Foot—Ensign E. C. Singleton to be Lieutenant,
F. purchase, vice Doveton, who retires ; Ensign W. L.
Sheaffe, from the 57th Foot, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Singleton, who retires, Dec. 31.
57th Foot—J. H. Lothian, Gent. to be Ensign, by
Dec.chase, vice Sheaffe, appointed to the 51st Foot,
D 31.

Both Foot—C, F. B. Dawkins, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hetherington, whose ap-
pointment has been cancelled, Dcc. 31.
66th Foot—Lieut. E. M. Davenport to be Captain ht•
purchase, vice Rainsford, who retires ; Ensign W. M. S.
Caulfield to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Davenport;
R. Gordon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Caul
field, Dec. 31.

66th Foot—H. Peard, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, Dec. 3 1

98th Foot—E.lsign R. Young to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Dallas, deceased, July 28 ; Quarter-
master-Sergeant J. Reardon to be Ensign, vice Young,
Dec. 31. _ _

Rifle Brigade—Second Lieutenant Sir 11. Tyrwhitt,
Dart., to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dundas,
who retires ; E. A. Thesiger, Gent., to be Second Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Sit' IL Tyrwhitt, Dec. 31.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Second Lieutenant G. T.
Dawson to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smith,
who retires ; J. Hill, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Dawson, Dec. 31.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieut. A. J. Campbell
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet Major Nash, who
retires ; Ensign L. G. Cox to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Campbell ; A. F. English, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Cox, Dec. 31.
STAFF.—P4ymaster J. H. Matthews, from the 31st
Foot, to be Paymaster of a Recruiting District, vice
Macbeath, deceased, Oct. 1.
BREVET.—Captain E. Croker, of the 2d Dragoons, to
be Major in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837.
BREVET.—The undermentioned Cadets of the Ho-
nourable East India Company's Service to have the local
and temporary rank of Ensign, during the period of their
h. iii placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
Sir F. :-.3with, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for
field instructions in the art of Sapping and Mining, viz.:—
C. I). New march. Gent.; F. C. Grindall, Gent., J. Crofton,
Gent.; W. W. H. Greathed, Gent.; J. Jones, Gent. ;
F. J. Moberly, Gent. ' • C. T. Boddam, Gent. ; J. T.
Walker, Gent.; J. Bean,Gent.; F. T. Haig, Gent., Dec. 31.
MEMORANDUM.—Lieut. J. B. Hamilton, having been
appointed Adjutant of a Recruiting District, has repaid
the difference he received on exchanging to half-pay of
10th Light Dragoons, in December, 1828.
The under-mentioned Officers, having been appointed
Staff Officers of PensionerF, have repaid the differences
they received on exchanging to half-pay, viz.:—Lieut.
J. M. Tittle, half-pay Royal African Corps ; Lieut. R.
N. Rogers, half-pay Unattached.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 27, 1844.

Corps of Royal Marines.—Gentlemen Cadets to be
second Lieutenants.—B. B. Herrick, W'. K. Ireland,
A. F. Sutherland, E. Richards, F. H. Noot.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
John Cooper White, draper, Canterbury.
BANKRUPTS.

George Bartlett, cement ornament manufacturer, Wel-
lington-street, Goswell-street, to surrender Jan. 14, at
two, and Feb. 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Oriel,
A 1 fred -place, Bedford-square.
William Ellis Gould, carver and gilder, Finsbury-
place South, City, Jan. 7, and Feb. 11, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's
Arms -yard; Venning, Naylor, and Robbins, Token-
house-yard.
Frederick Dudley, builder, Rochford, Essex, Jan. 7,
at half-past twelve, and Feb. 22, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury,
London; Turner and Hensman, Basing-lane, City.
John Taylor, carpenter, Market-street, Mayfair, Jan.
7, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 18, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Cole-
man-street; Kirks, Symond's Inn.
Ralph Eldridge, innkeeper, Bletchingley, Surrey, Jan.
8, at one, and Feb. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Russell and Mackenzie, High-street, Southwark.

Thomas William Burford, victualler, Brydges-street,
Covent-garden, Jan. 15, at one, and Feb. 7, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee,
Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Henderson, Mansell-
street, Goodman's- fields.
Emily Sarah Ann Findlay, dress-maker, Grafton-
street, Fitzroy-square, Jan. 15, at half-past one, and
Feb. 7, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom,
official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Ro-
berts, Spring-gardens, Whitehall.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

J. Hilton, leather-seller, Tipton—second div. of 11d.
in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr.
Christie, Birmingham.
L. Flersheim, merchant, Birmingham—first div. of 7d.
in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr.
Christie, Birmingham.
J. Wicke, clothier, Trowbridge—first div. of 2d. in the
pound, on Wednesday, Jan. 1, and any hubsequent
Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Acraman, Bristol.

R. G. Roberts, timber-merchant, Liverpool—fourth
and final div. of 3-16ths of a penny in the pound on new
proofs, and Is. 4 Ad. and 14-16ths of a penny in the pound,
on Monday, Jan. 6, and any subsequent Monday, at the
office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
J. Sugden and D. Sugden, fancy-cloth-manufacturers,
Huddersfield—first div. of 10s. in the pound, on Tuesday,
Dec. 31, and any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of
Mr. Feat Dv, Lee,ls.

J. Harford and W. W. Davies, iron-masters, Bristol
—second div. of 10d. in the pound, for No. 1 to 200
inclusive, on Thursday Jan. 2, and for No. 203 to 401,
on Friday, Jan. 3, and any subsequent Wednesday,at the
office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol.
S. Hadfield, file-manufacturer, Manchester—first thy.
of 10s. 7d. in the pound, on Tuesday, Dec. 31, and any
subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Stanway, Man-
chester.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
A. L. Asrons, oil merchant, St. James's-place, Aldgate,
Jan. 21, at half-past one—R. Lee, R. J. Brassey, F. Farr,
and G. Lee, bankers, Lombard-street, Jan. 17, at two—
F. Hoskins, wine merchant, Birmingham, Jan. 21, at
twelve—F. Barry, miller, Rye, Sussex, Jan. 21, at eleven
—R. Armfield, button manufacturer, King-street, Cheap
side, Jan. 21, at half-past eleven—E. Graham, singing
master. Dover-street, Piccadilly, Jan. 21, at half-past
one—C. Mann, banker, Romford, Essex, Jan. 22, at one
—T. Peterson, builder, Liverpool-road, Islington, Jan.
22, at one—E. Turmaine, porter merchant, Canterbury,
Jan. 23, at half-past eleven—J. P. Davis, innkeeper,
Bromley, Kent, Jan. 23, at twelve—W. Read, engraver,
King-street, Covent-garden, Jan. 23, at Pleven—J. Stone-
bridge, corn merchant, Wivanhoe, Essex. Jan. 23, at
twelve—L. and W. Fenner, merchants, Fenchurch-
street, Jan. 23, at half-past twelve—C. Robinson, tailor,
High Holborn, Jan. 23, at one—C. Terry, quill mer-
chant, Shoe-lane, Jan, 23, at two—W. Espivent, mer-
chant, Coleman-street buildings, Jan. 23, at one.
In the Country.
R. Lang, tallow chandler, Birstall, Yorkshire, Jan. 24,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—T. Eyre, corn
merchant, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Jan. 23, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court—J. Metcalf, grocer, Liver-
pool, Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court
—H. Ward, builder, Stafford, Jan. 22, at eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
W. Scovell, jun., brick maker, Chilworth, Southamp-
ton, Jan. 22—D. J. Mackenzie, provision merchant,
Chambers-street, Minories, Jan. 22—H. Bragg, bottle
merchant, Montague-close, Southwark, Jan. 23—C. S.
Harvey, dressmaker, George-street, Hanover-square,
Jan. 21—M. and B. Lee, Duke-street, Piccadilly, Jan.
21—J. Dyson, scythe manufacturer, Sheffield, Jan. 21—
B. W. Franklin, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 21—J. Win-
ning, upholsterer, Dover-street, Piccadilly, Jan. 21—
T. B. Andrew, tea dealer, Ashton-under-Lyne, Jan. 21
—L. D., H., and G. F. Smith, crape manufacturers,
Gutter-lane, City, Jan. 21.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Kelly and J. H. Law, coal proprietors, Holcome-
moor, Lancashire—B. Evans and C. Canning, iron mer-
chants, Birmingham—J. Iredale and J. Oxley, tanners,
Rotherham, Yorkshire—W. Gresham and J. Leete,
attorneys—J. R. and J. Hayward, booksellers, Man-
chester—H. T. Wright and J. W. Bazalgette, architects,
Great George-street, Westminster—R. Watson, S.
Broom, and A. Crumb°ld, woolstaplers, Kidderminster
(so far as regards S. Broom)—F. O'Brien and J. Kevan,
corn merchants, Liverpool— W. Fairbairn and J. He-
therington, machine makers, Manchester—W. and J.
Fairbairn, engineers, Manchester—J. Gadd and H.
Huskisson, lace manufacturers, Nottingbam—J. Pickard,
W. B. Earl, and R. Dickinson, brick makers, Shotley-
bridge, Durham—H. Stoddart and J. Knight, engineers,
Bolton—W. Caswell, J. Callow, and W. Caswell, jun.,
builders, Paradise-row, St. Luke's, Chelsea—W.
Boutcher, W. Mortirnore, 11. Bowden, and S. Linning-
tun, emualission agents, Liverpool (so far as regards S.
Linnington)—A. Spottiswoode and H. R. Vizetelly, pro-
prietors of the Pictorial Times—W. Jones and A. Heath,
omnibus proprietors, New-cross, Old Kent-road—S. and
E. Ramsay and C. Greenwood, dress makers, Bruton-
street, Hanover-square--G. Wallworth and T. Robinson,
silk throwsters, Congleton, Cheshire—W. and J.
Vaughan and E. Sheldon, merchants, Austin-friars (so
far as regards W. Vaughan)—H. C. Kempson and T. S.
Lea, millers, Kidderminster—J. Ainsworth and H. Ward,
cotton spinners, Blackburn.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

A. Rankin, iron-stone.contractor, Grahamshill, Air•
drie, Jan. 6 and 27, at one, at Mackersy's chambers,
Airdrie.
J. Maclennan, timber merchant, Bonar-bridge, Jan. 6
and 28, at twelve, at the National Hotel, Dingwall.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WALLACE, 20TH MADRAS
NATIVE INFANTRY.—This officer, who has lately dis-
tinguished himself in commanding the troops that at-
tacked and captured the Strong Hill Fort of Samunghar,
and in subduing the insurrection in the Raja of Cala-
pore's country, is the eldest son of John Wallace, Esq.,
of Gloucester-place, Portman-square, first cousin of the
late Lord Wallace, to whom he was indebted for his ap-
pointment in the East India service.

The sum of 1001. voted by the Commln Council of
the City of London to the national tedtituoidtti io Mr,
was paid
ylteoswtelradnady theoHtill,the ere It i
aturethasourrofthePes hopedPostage,nny
other corpora-
dons will follow this worthy example.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
A boy, named Richard Mumford, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having most
cruelly ill-used a donkey.
William Harris, a labourer, residing in Castle-
street, Bethnal-green, stated that on Friday last the
prisoner borrowed his donkey. In the evening, in
consequence of information which he received, he ran
home, and found the donkey lying in the yard as if
dead. He, however, got it upon its legs, and, upon
examining the hinder parts, he found the skin tern off
the thighs, and the flesh lacerated and bleeding. He
then ran after the prisoner, who, he had been given to
understand, had been beating the poor animal, over-
took him in Norton Fo]gate, and gave him into the
custody of a policeman. The donkey had been per-
fectly well when the prisoner took it away in the
morning.
A boy, named Benjamin Bryant, stated that he saw
the prisoner about four o'clock in the afternoon of
Friday thrust a stick into the donkey, and beat it
most severely.
Mr. May, Assistant Secretary to the National
Animals' Friend Society, stated that on Monday he
went to the residence of the owner of the donkey and
examined the animal, which was greatly lacerated
about the thighs, and appeared to be suffering se-
verely. There was a discharge
,of purulent matter
from the wounded parts.
The LORD MAYOR asked the prisoner what he
had to say in answer to such a charge of brutality ?
The prisoner merely said that he gave the donkey
no more than moderate chastisement for its obstinacy,
and that the injury it sustained had been inflicted by
a crowd of boys.
The LORD MAYOR said he was determined to
punish such brutal cruelty as heavily as possible. The
case was not one which he could for a moment think
of summarily disposing of, as the authority of the
magistrate, under such circumstances, could not avail
in at all proportioning the punishment to the offence.
He should, therefore, commit the %prisoner to New-
gate, to be tried at the Central Criminal Court for
the misdemeanour, which could be punished by trans-
portation, imprisonment, and severe whipping.
The prisoner, who evidently expected to get off
with a slight correction, was shocked at hearing the
decision of his Lordship, and was committed for trial.
Thomas Fletcher, a carman in the service of Messrs.
Chaplir, and Horne, of Hainburgh- wharf, Thames-
street, ciariers, was charged with embezzlement.
Thomas Gill, a clerk in the house, produced a book,
from the entries in which it appeared that the pri-
soner had received several sums of money from par-
ties for his employers, and/ never accounted for them.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
BOW-STREET.
Samuel Gregory, a person whose manner indicated a
great degree of excitement, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Jardine, charged with having broken plate-glass
worth 101, at the house of Mr. Canton, the dentist, in
St. Martin's-lane.
Mr. Davis, a solicitor, ;stated that he was at Mr.
Canton's house on Monday evening, when the prisoner
came and asked for ',qr. Fear; es O'Connor. He told
him that that gentleman did not live there, and he went
away. Presently he came again, and was again in-
formed that Mr. O'Connor did not live there. After
some hesitation he went away, and witness went up stairs
to the drawing-room. But he had scarcely got to the
top of the stairs when he found that the prisoner had
followed him. He again asked for Mr. O'Connor, and
appeared disposed to persist in saying that he did live
there. Mr. Davis said, " I told you before that he did
not live here ;" and after some hesitation the prisoner
ent down, but just as he had got outside the door, and
Mr. Davis was about to shut it, he turned round and
smashed the glass to atoms.
Mr. JARDINE asked the prisoner what he had to say to
the charge ?
Prisoner—Your worship means, have I any extenu-
ating circumstances to relate ?
Mr. JARDINE.—I ask you generally if you have any-
thing to say in explanation of having broken the glass ?
Prisoner—Oh, decidedly. In the first place, I beg to
say I have not the means of paying so large a sum as
10/. ; some smaller sum, perhaps, I might pay. If I
had known what I had been about, of course I should
not have done what I did, so far, at least, as worldly
prudence is concerned. I should also tell your worship
that I have had no sleep for many nights past, in con-
sequence of the annoyance I have experienced from Mr.
O'Connor and several other riotous persons making a
disturbance about my apartments. From that cause I
have had no sleep for the last six nights ; what little I
have had was one afternoon—during the day time. Now
that, as your worship must be well aware, makes a great
difference in the bearing of a person, and gives the ima-
gination a great predomination over the judgment. That
being the case, I dare say I shall not give a very good
explanation of my conduct ; but, perhaps your worship
would rather that I should give even a bad explanation
that none at all.—(A laugh.)
Mr. JARDINE—Have you been living in London long?
Prisoner (in a wandering manner)—Oh, that I was about
to explain. I have been endeavouring for some time past
to obtain employment suitable to my capacity and ac•
quirements ; but have been unable to find anything suit-
able. I have, consequently, no means of supporting
myself, and am obliged to have a small amount advanced
to me by my family in the country, to enable me to
live and appear a little decent. I have overstrained the
nerves of my head, and my memory is considerably
impaired from not having had sleep. If I had had
sleep instead of having been awake for 60, 70, or 80
hours, I should have been able to give you a more con-
sistent account.
Two persons who knew the prisoner (he lodged with
one of them) stated that he had for some time com-
plained of noises in his head, and had fancied persons
made a noise near his room ; but he had not before been
known to imagine Mr. O'Connor to be one of those who
annoyed him. He was a person of education and general
mildness of demeanour. He never drank anything but
cocoa and water. His family lived at Brighton, but were
rather poor in circumstances.
Mr. JARDINE, seeing that the prisoner was evidently
insane, directed that he should be taken to the sur •
geon of St. Martin's parish, and after a medical
opinion had been obtained, he would make an order re-
specting him. The magistrate told Mr. Canton that
he regretted there was little chance of his getting paid
for the damage done. The fact of it being over 5/. took
it out of his jurisdiction. If the relations of the pri-
soner should be in a situation to pay, he would advise
them to do so.
BURGLARY AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. —I? icha, d
Elliot, described on the police sheet as a tobacconist, re-
siding at No. 20, Bell-street, Paddington, and Richard
Vincent, 19, Carlisle-street, Portman-market, omnibus
driver, was brought up in the custody of the detective
police, and placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine, charged
with burglariously entering the dwelling house of Mr.
Thomas Cox, tailor, 29. Southampton-street, Strand, on
the 26th Dec., and stealing therein various pieces of silk,
linen, &c., to a considerable amount.
The prisoner Elliot is the same person who was tried
and acquitted about nine months back at the Oxford
assizes, on a charge of having been concerned in steal-
ing the sum of 800/. from the boot of the Cheltenham
coach.
Mr. Clarkson appeared for the defence.
The prosecutor being sworn, said that shortly after
ten o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, the '24th of Dec.,
he left home for the purpose of going to Tonbridge
Wells, from which, in consequence of a message he re-
ceived, he returned on the Thursday following, when he
found that his premises had been brOlten open, and pro-
perty amounting to nearly 200/. bad been taken away.
The articles produced formed a portion of it, consisting
of 460 yards of silk, value 1301., together with 18 pieces
of linen, worth 201., and a great coat, the price of which
was 41., which was takes from the stand in the shop.
There were also 146 yards of linen, being 8 pieces, with
some remnants, and 82 yards of lavender-coloured silk,
all of which bore his private mark.
William Booker, foreman in the service of the prose-
cutor, stated that on Tuesday evening, about a quarter-
past eight o'clock, he fastened up the shop, and having
locked the outer and side doors, he left the key of the
front door in the lock inside. There was an iron bar
running across to fasten the outer door on the inside,
which was secure when he left, and the key of the side
door he took with him. A man and his wife slept in an
apartment under the shop, which he considered was a
sufficient guarantee for the protection of the property in
the absence of the prosecutor, who also resided on the
premises. About twenty minutes before eight o'clock
on Wednesday morning he went to the house with the
intention of opening the shop, when he found he could
not unlock the side door with the key he had locked it
with, and after several attempts, the boy who was with
him also tried, but without effect, and after examining it
with a candle, and no damage appearing to be clone, he
sent for a locksmith, who upon seeing it said violence
had been used, and ultimately the lock was forced open
with a chisel. On entering the shop he found the
goods in great disorder, there being fifteen silk
rollers, which were full when he left the house, com-
pletely bare, one of the drawers in the counter open,
from which a great coat was taken, the bar removed
from the front door, and the key taken out of it.
He then made William Hart, who slept in the apartment
under the shop, acquainted with the circumstance, and
dispatched him to the station-house to give information
to the police. There were also eighteen pieces of linen
removed from the pile, which were the same as those
produced, and he believed the lavender-coloured silk to
be the same that had been stolen.
Inspector Shackle, of the detective force, proved that
he made inquiries about the robbery up to Saturday last,
when he received information that Elliott had gone into
a public-house in the Coal-yard, in Drury-lane, and
having watched, saw him come out about four o'clock in
the afternoon with a tall man, and after following them
into Lincoln's Inn-fields, he lost sight of them. Ile then
returned to the public-house, and received the piece of
lavender-coloured silk, consisting of seventeen yards,
from Mrs. Dismore, Ahe landlady, and on Monday,
having gone to the pffsoners, because he saw Vincent
come out, carrying a' bundle, and as he passed into
the Edgeware-road, he was stopped by another officer,
when he said he would convey them to the place and
person from whom he had purchased the contents.
They accordingly went into the Key public-house, in
Ball-street, where the' prisoner said, " That is the per-
son (pointing to Elliot) from whom I got the property,"
which he denied. He then took Elliot into custody, and
found upon him the halves of six 5L Bank of England
notes joined together, hut with different numbers and
dates, two notes of the 1,40-11110 Birk, with patteras
silk that had been cut off the piece produced. There was
also a piece of silk found in the first floor of Elliot's
house, with some duplicates and half notes of part of

8501. that had been stolen from the Leicester Bank. Oa
entering the house, the prisoner desired witness and the.
other officer to searcL and take what they liked from the
premises. Witness then produced a list of the articles
found, which was handed to the Learned Counsel.
Cross-examined—There were also two gold wa.echef,
with a chain and some plate, which he had reason for
detaining.
Mrs. Dismore, landlady of the -King's Arses, in the
Coal-yard, declared she could not swear to the man she
had bought the silk from on Saturday, :for U. ss. 6d., le
it was handed to her through a window by ?mother per-
son. There were several persons in front of the bar at
the time ; but the silk was in the possession of only one
person, of whom she had no recollection.
Mr. JARDINE said he should take care to note such
conduct in a person keeping a licensed pnblie-house
for the property was bought for about a quarter of
its value.
Inspector Haynes, after corroborating the greater pert
of the other inspector's statement, said that when the
prisoners were confronted in the public-house, Elliot at:
first denied, hat then admitted, the other had the linen
from him. There were memorandums found on Vincent,.
mentioning the number of yards in two pieces of Ike
linen ; some duplicates relating to valuable property„
and other articles. On searching Elliot's house they
found a piece of violet-coloured silk, containing 47 yards;
and upwards, folded tip, from which the patterns had..
been cut, and another piece of the same colour between
a bed and mattress, and in the parlour two pieces of
linen ; also a third in a bed-room, with others having
the prosecutor's private mark. There were also six noies
of the Bath Bank, and three halves of Bank of Engirt:oi
notes found on the mantel-piece, with other property.
This being the whole of the evidence for the present,
Mr. JARDINE ordered the prisoners to be remanded,.
at the same time giving directions to Superintendent.
Pearce to make a report of the landlady of the public-
house in the Coal-yard to the licensing magistrates,
and, in case no notice was taken by them of the circum-
stance, he would take care to represent it in a qnarter
where the subject would meet with the attention ion
deserved. _ _