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and his son had been at variance, but their mutual
friends at length succeeded in bringing about a recon-
ciliation. And on the occasion of Kean's t king leave
of the stage, they played together ; the on as Othello,
the other as lago. In the first scenes, wh h are tame,
Kean got on very well ; but when he came o the words,
"Farewell 1 Othello's occupation's gone !" I e moved his
fingers beseechingly to his son, who stoo at the side
while he fronted the audience, and as th former came
forward he faltered, fell on his shoulder, and was obliged
to be taken out, while Ward came on and finished the
part for him. In a few days after he was no more.'
" It is a fact,' he resumed, after a deep sigh, that
Edmund Kean could never play till he was three-parts
drunk. Of course,' he said, addressing the cadaverous-
looking barrister beside him, ' you have heard of Fred.
Cooke, the contemporary of Elliston and John Kemble.
His passion for drink was so great, that when he was
without money, or means of raising it, he has been
known to go to a certain pawnbroker's, where he was in
the habit of applying, and to say, I want five guineas ;
but I have nothing to pledge but myself. Give me the
money, they'll be sure to redeem me when I'm wanted.'
And having sent word to the theatre of his situation, he
has frequently been found seated on the pawnbroker's
counter, with a duplicate pinned to his buttonhole. On
one occasion, when Ellistoa wished him particularly to
be quite correct, he invited him to dinner, and after-
wards begged he would oblige him by submitting to one
thing, which Fred. promised. He, however, looked ra-
ther funny when Elliston, drawing him into a small room
in the theatre, told him he must content himself there
till it was time to dress. As there was no getting off,
Cook consented ; but after being locked in for some
time, he began to long horribly for punch. By and by,
he heard a noise of a broom on the stairs. Hope revived
—he called, Mary, Betsy I—whatever your name is,
come here, for God's sake !' and he contrived, while
curiosity made the maid pause in her labour, to push a
crown-piece between the door and the floor—' There,
that's for you ; and Mary (pushing through another), go
like a good girl, and get me a pint of brandy and a clean
pipe with this.'
" Oh, Sir, I dare not I Master desired that I
shouldn't come near the door, Sir, nor speak to you upon
any account.'
" Pshaw ! Go, do as I tell you, and you shall have
another by and by.'
" The girl was not proof against the bribe. The
brandy and pipe were both brought, and the tube of the
latter being put through the keyhole, the bowl was filled
on the outside, and in this way the liquor was sucked up
as the Americans drink sherry-cobler. It is hardly ne-
cessary to say, that on Elliston's coming to let him out,
Fred. was found on his back ; but a plentiful supply of
soda water enabled him to go through his part as effec-
tively as ever."

THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in IS vols., post *vo.,
THE PALAIS ROYAL.
Az HISTORICAL ROMANCE.

By the Author of
QUATRE ; OR, THE DAYS OF THE LEIGITE."
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2,
Will be repeated a Grand Opera Seth, called THE DAUGHTER
OF ST. MARK. Lluignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Corner*, Mr.
Borrani ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss • Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W.
Harrison; Catarina Camaro, Miss Rainforth.
To conelude with the celebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Achmet,
M. Desplaces ; The Peri, Illdlle. Plunkett; Nourmahal, Mdlle.
O'Bryan ; Aysha, Mrs. Payne.
The Box-office is open daily, from Ten In the Morning until Six
in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Steil', Places,
and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARLET.
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVBNING, DECEMBER 2,
Will be porformed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts,
called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket
Mr. Strickland; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathev s ; Tons Coke
Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ;
The Countess of Pompion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthoru
Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett.
To be followed by a New and Original Farce, called YOUNG
ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James
Peoley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Dooley, Mrs. Humby.
After which, the Farce of TEDDY THE TILER. Thady
lowny (the Tiler), Mr. Collins.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half each.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. LT. Ar ober, at the Boa-office,
from Ten ve eClosk.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADRLPHL
Un4er the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
'L SS EVENING, DECEMBER 2,
Will be produced a New Drama, entitled SIDONIA DI
MOLINA ; or, Ruse de Guerre. Principal Characters by Messrs.
Hudson, Selby, Wright, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, and Miss
Woolgar.
Atter which, a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS
STRANGER. Count Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count
Vanille, Mr. Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ;
Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith.
To conclude with NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul
Bedford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform.
Prompter, Illr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Sir. Pitt; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Private
Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2
Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE
OF AYM011; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanoir,
Mr. Walton; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C. Horn, Jun. ;
Mohan', Mr. Him. ; Renaud, Mr. Mattacks; Ivon, Mr. Layer;
Hermine, Mdlle. Melen Condell ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke.
To conclude with THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr.
Wallack ; Bullfrog, Mr. Campton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling.
Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Di ector, Mr. Emden.
Machinist Mr. Edmund BradwelL
Dress Circle, se. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallo ls. Half-price at
Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls.; Gallery, GC
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce-
nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half-
past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock.
The Box-office, under the direction .f Mr. W. Massingham.
Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the
Theatre.

I HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2,
Will be repeated an Original Drama, entitled HOME AGAIN;
or, The Lieutenant's D.iughters. Characters by Messrs. F. Vining,
F. Mathews, Craven, and Keeley, Miss Fortescue and Mrs. Keeley.
To be followed by a New Farce, called A. TRIP TO KISSINGEN
Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold,
Turner, Stoker, and Ke ley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley.
In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which
Jullien's Mazurka and Cellarius Valse will Ise danced by bld/les.
Louise and Adele, Miss James, and blips Fairbrother.

To conelude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASSIONS
With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses. &c. Principal
Characters by Mr. Dlddeer, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr.
Craven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrothor, Mrs. Woollidge, Mrs.
A. Wigan, Miss Turner, MI a James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and
Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 4s. • Upper
loxes, Si.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
olding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
I ler (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private
dozes on the Pit Der (holding six persons), One Guirea.
"Fhe P0x..)1-fice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr.
ti ,n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee. Mr. ROBERTS.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2,
Will be repeated MARTIN CHUZZLE VVIT. Principal Cha-
racters by Messrs. Maynard, Ayliffe, Altwood, Roberts, H. Hall,
Mrs. Montgoiretrie, and Mrs. Coleman Pope.
After which, THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE, In which
Mr. H. Hall, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. Montgomerie, Mrs. C. Pepe,
and Miss Bromley will perform.
To conclude with DON CESAR DE BAZAN.

Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This

Evening, at
ASTI, PY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS,
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY,
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2,
V, ill be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX
HUNT; or, Flie Race-Horse and Life's Course •f Man and Steed;
ietruducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage
and in the Circle by living Fot and real Pack of Hounds, purchased
by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel produethn.
Epsom Races and other Sporting Features.
New Scenes of the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship.
To conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Three
Conscripts.

acting and stage-manager? Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.
Box-office open from Eleven till rive. Lessons in the Art of Riding
Mr. R. Smith daily.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 2.
ITERMOMETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 38 ; Noon, 37.
BAROMETER, 30.1.—WIND, E.N.E.

NaTE.—Tha number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
,e,zing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair iB
u placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
=iwning ... 6 minutes after 6 1 Evening ... 29 minutes after 6.

treme worldliness of its ecclesiastical system, and the
exquisitely skilful way in which it has adapted itself
to the prejudices of society, and rendered the weak-
ness and short-sightedness of human nature subser-
vient to its own views of temporal and spiritual
aggrandisement. Rarely, if ever, has it neglected an
opportunity of serving its own purposes, and we really
believe, that the only serious blunder it ever made—
and which it has ever since been striving to remedy--
was in driving LUTHER and the Reformers to extre-
mities, at a time when by making a dexterous com-
promise, it might have retained much, if not all, of
what it afterwards lost. In the long and eventful
annals of the Church of Rome, priestcraft wears a more
subtle worldly aspect than is the case with any eccle-
siastical establishment in the ancient or the modern
world.

We take leave to indulge in a few Parliamentary
reminiscences connected with the Bank Charter
Bill of last session, which appear to us to have an
important bearing on some features of our present
monetary and commercial condition, to which we
adverted on Saturday, and return to-day. On the
6th of May last Sir ROBERT PEEL, in a speech of
three hours' duration, expounded his views on the
Currency question, and on the theory and working
of banking institutions; and on the 20th of the same
month he got the House of Commons to affirm a
series of resolutions embodying the measures pro-
posed to be taken by Government for the future re-
gulation of those institutions. The Bill founded on
these resolutions, and afterwards brought in, he de-
fined to be " a measure which would prevent our
commerce from future liability to those revulsions
which it had in past times been subject to—a mea-
sure intended as the complement of the Currency Bill
of 1819." The Right Hon. Gentleman had arrived
at an opinion—First. That there prevailed in the
country too great a tendency to commercial specula-
tion. Secondly. That this tendency was encouraged
by the facility—still too great—(notwithstanding the
desolation of the panic of 1825, produced by his re-
straining Bill of 1819)—for obtaining issues of money,
especially bank-notes. The point at which " legiti-
mate commerce" ceases and the illegitimate trade
that is identical with " speculation" begins, being, in
its nature, uncertain and undefinable—Sir ROBERT
applied to it a positive and fixed principle, and even
exemplified all the specific details of its mode of
action. He assumed, which in a commercial com-
munity of the first rank cannot be true, that specula-
tion in the abstract is an evil. Without :speculation,
however, commerce would soon retrograde, until it
declined to a mere routine of commission trading un-
worthy of the name of commerce—without enter-
prise, without energy, without expansiveness, with-
out forecast, without any chances of that abounding
success which has been the proud reward of our
maritime spirit in all former time. The Premier had
already hit upon the notable expedient of a moveable
double-action standard of value. He declared the
value of gold, as coined money, to be immutable,
and pinned it down to 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce. He
left the value of gold as metal, or bullion, a mer-
chandise and commodity, free to fluctuate with its
rise or fall in the bullion market. That which was
to supply a circulation of gold sovereigns bearing,
each of them, an immutable, specific value, was left
utterly mutable (as it is of necessity unascertainable
beforehand), both in quantity and in appreciation or
value. But if the quantity of gold in the world—
above ground, at least—or in the market at any given
future time, cannot be assigned by any man, it would
seem still more difficult for him to foretel either the
amount of property in the nation actually repre-
sented by symbolic money, or money of any kind—
or the amount of property which its holders might
be at any period to come desirous of converting into
money. How did the Premier set about obviating
these incipient difficulties in any scheme of monetary
reform ? By throwing them overboard. The gold
mines of Peru, or the gold dust of Timbuctoo or of
Ashantee, may increase to any extent; the product
of the Ural Mountains may exceed its rapidly in-
creasing amount ; the caravans of Soudan or Sokatoo
may carry a twenty-fold multiplied number of pre-
cious bars to the gold traders at either extremity of
the Great Zahara next year ; or, if you will, all or
some of these sources of gold production may fail, or
simply decrease. No matter. Sir ROBERT finds a
starting point—namely, the assumed amount of gold
circulation in the kingdom, and the official returns of
Bank of England paper, and the note issues of joint-
stock banks, at any day he chooses to select for his
purpose. The gold and the notes together represent
the aggregate of the country's money circulation.
He finds that there is a redundancy of paper as com-
pared with gold ; and argues, " ergo—there is, pro
tanto, an excess of currency." But he determines that
all paper currency in the shape of bank-notes shall be
payable, upon demand, in gold. 'Alas, there is not in
the known circulation of the whole world one-half of
the paper circulation of Great Britain and Ireland.
What is to be done ? If the gold cannot come to the
notes, the notes must go to the gold. But how to
catch so vast an aggregate of notes in order to cut
them down to the limited dimensions of the gold
coinage ? To solve this problem, the Premier enacts
that notes of the Bank of England, or notes of their
own, convertible to gold on demand, shall be the only
currency in which the joint-stock and country
banks of issue shall deal ; and that since the Bank
of England shall be compellable, by his Act of Par-
liament, to hold in its strong room at all times a store
of bullion adequate to meet all its own outstanding
notes, if produced to it for payment, it is evident
that the Bank of England will equate the sum of
their, own outstanding notes to their own stock of
bullion. Q. E. D. And in this way Sir R. PEEL
supposes he has adequately provided for the monetary
exigencies of a country (on a basis of gold and Bank
of England note circulation, on which all issues of
notes must henceforth be ultimately discharged, if
some thirty-seven, or say, in round numbers,
though far, very far, above the, actual amount,
forty millions)— of a country of which the
yearly revenue collected in taxes, &c., is fifty-
seven millions, the national debt between 750 and
800 millions, the interest annually paid thereon 24
millions, and of which the foreign trade is so enorm-
ous that the: imports and exports of a single year
amount, on a very moderate computation of value, to
150 millions 1 The Bill of last session, in the face
of these admitted and notorious facts—in defiance of
the experience of those terrible convulsions of the
commercial world and mercantile credit which had
ensued within six years of the restoration of
the gold currency in 1819—convulsions which,
in a single twelvemonth, had far exceeded the
whole aggregate of the shocks occasioned by the
failures of private establishments from 1797, when
cash payments were suspended by the Bank of Eng-
land, to the year 1815, at the close of a war which
had cost us 500,000,000/.—this Bank Charter Bi

was unanimously passed. So contagious was the fatal
example of the Premier's propensity for tampering
with the free evolution of trade, and the action of our
monetary system—a tampering whose effects were
already traced in the bankruptcies of 1825-26, 1830,
and 1837-38—that Mr. HawEs's motion of the 10th
of June on the second reading of the Bank Charter Bill,
to the effect " that no case had been brought before the
House to justify the interference of the Legislature
with the circulation of the banks of issue," was ne-

gatived by a majority of 155, in a House of 215
Members (185 to 30). Since 1819 the Bank had
been often reduced to the very verge of a stoppage,
owing to a rise in the market price of gold having
drained the coffers of that Company, who were corn-

pelled, by the absurd enactment of 1819, to pay
their notes in gold, at the arbitrarily fixed Mint price
of that metal, instead of the current market price.
Yet, in 1844, the great majority of both

Houses kindly permitted the same absurdity
to be re-enacted. On the 14th of June last,
on Mr. MUNTZ'S amendment to the motion for
their going into Committee on the Premier's Bill,
namely, " on that day six months, "only eighteen
Members were found on the side of the Hon. Mem-
ber for Birmingham against the Ministerial phalanx
of 205 supporters of the original motion. On the
sth July the Bill finally passed the Commons with-
out even a division. In the House of Lords, on the
motion for its second reading, 12th July, Lord Asst..
BURTON expressed his strong apprehensions that the
Government would find their Bill of by no means so
beneficial a tendency as they had anticipated—re-
marking, that upon their own showing, the objects it
proposed to accomplish could have been carried out
only by establishing a double standard of gold and
silver.

To these memoranda of the only divisions which

took place last session in Parliament upon the Bill,
we will only add one more not unimportant fact as a
preliminary to the further examination into which we
shall presently enter of this all important question
more especially as considered in its relations to the
agitated demand for the repeal or modification of the
malt tax and the duty on tea. By the returns pub-
lished in last Friday's Gazette, it appears that the
stock of bullion in the Bank of England stores had
declined to 13,500,0001. From this point it will as-
suredly hare still further retrograded before the end
of the year, if the usual drain of December happens
in its usual course. We cannot look, we own, without
deep apprehension, to the turn of the year 1845.

Accounts from Madrid of the 24th ult. state that
the Supreme Military Tribunal had confirmed the
sentence passed on Genaral Pfrim. " Yesterday morn-
ing," says the Clamor Publico, "at half-past six, the
brave General left Madrid by the Toledo gate ; he i
repairing to Cadiz in a coach drawn by six mules, and
escorted by twenty-five foot soldiers of the Princesa
Regiment, and twelve troopers of the Regiment of
Leon. His ultimate destination is still unknown." It
is generally believed, however, that he would be
transported to Cuba or the Marianne Islands. The
appeal of his accomplices, who were all civilians, hav-
ing been admitted, they were to be tried again by the
ordinary courts. Some of the journals confirm the
report of the capture of the son and brother-in-law of
ZURBANO. The mother of the former and the mother
of his young wife, the niece of the unfortunate General
ESCALERA, who was assassinated by the Carlists in
1837 at Mirande de Ebro, had set out for Madrid to
implore the clemency of the Government for the pri-
soner. The court-martial appointed to try General
ARAOZ at Cadiz, for participation in the late conspi•
racy, had found him guilty.
On the 23d the Three per Cents. closed at 28 5-16
for Cash, and 28,i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at
20t at 60 days ; the Floating Debt at 65f for Cash,
and 66 at 60 days.

The Journal des Debats contains another article
on the state of Ireland, and particularly the repeal
question. It is founded upon the work of M. DE
BEAUMONT, which appears to be very popular in
France, and in a few weeks has reached a sixth edi-
tion. That journal, on the whole, takes a very ra-
tional view of the subject, points out the utter hope-
lessness of repeal, and the folly of a party that would
alienate the best friends of Ireland, in the vain at-
tempt to accomplish an impossibility. The following
plain truths we recommend to the attention of those
repealers who think they can carry repeal without the
aid of that powerful and disinterested party, composed
of Tories as well as Whigs :—" It would seem as if
the idea was entertained that Ireland, and Ireland
alone, brought about the great reform of Catholic
emancipation. A simple element in the question has
been forgotten, and that is England. Without the
slightest doubt, the Irish agitation, the Catholic Asso-
ciation, and all the movement which came to a head
in the Clare election, contributed much to open the
eyes of England, and to force the hands of the Duke
of WELLINGTON and Sir R. PEEL. But what is
apparently forgotten is, that there were also meetings
in England for Catholic emancipation ; that this great
measure was prepared by a century of discussions ;
that it could boast of the illustrious patronage of Mr.
Fox, Mr. CANNING, Lord GREY, Lord J. RUSSELL,
in a word, of all the Liberal party. It was not, there-
fore, Ireland alone that achieved Catholic emacipa-
tion—it was also England and the irresistible force
of public opinion. It is also to her aid that Ireland
has since owed the reforms of church-rates and of
municipal corporations, and the reduction and com-
position of tithes ; it is to her that is due the Cha-
ritable Bequests Bill, which gives the Catholic clergy
the right of collective property, and which raises so
high at this moment the anger of the Protestant
party ; jit is to her, in fact, that Ireland will he in-
debted for the ameliorations which she demands so
loudly, and which cannot be long refused. The only
resource of Ireland, we must repeat, is her alliance
with what may be called the Irish party in England;
and therefore whatever can alienate that party, as an
absurdity like repeal must do, is a calamity for her."
M. DE BEAUMONT, in his preface, pays the highest
compliment to the House of Lords in reference to
Mr. O'CoNNELL's case, when they preferred the strict
observance of constitutional law to victory over a
determined opponent. " All the judges of England,"
he says, " except one, ratified the sentence of the Irish
judges. The Chamber of Lords, that Chamber which
Mr. O'CONNELL had called an " assembly of pigs,
the Duke of WELLINGTON being their keeper," held
in their hands the fate of the condemned, and then it
was that a Minister of the Crown rose in his place
in Parliament and induced a vast majority of the
Lords to abstain from voting, and leave the final
judgment to three political adversaries. Woe to a
country in which such examples do not excite admi-
ration." In another place he adverts to the pre-
tended assistance which France would find in Ireland
in case of a war, and says, "Is not such an idea an
illusion ? If we only study the past and present his-
tory of Ireland, we shall be convinced that in such
a case Ireland would remain English. It is doubtful
that she wishes a revolution, and if she wished it, it
is doubtful that in order to accomplish it she would
accept even the most generous assistance of France."
If M. LEDRU Roman, before he accepted his cele-
brated embassy to the Repeal Association, had taken
the tronble to consult his honourable colleague of the
Opposition, he would have spared himself both the
uncourteous reply of Mr. O'ConNgLL, and the pro-
found ridicule with which his burlesque enterprise
covered him.
The intelligence in the French papers from Spain
confirm the accounts of the utter dispersion of the
small force under ZURISANO, and the capture of his
son and brother-in-law. The subjoined details from
the Phare des Pyrenees of the 27th ult. will be read
with interest :
" After the affair of Montenegro, in the direction of
Soria, in which Zurbano beheld himself abandoned by all
the foot soldiers who accompanied him on his entry into
Najera, he could only think of seeking for safety by
flight. The Queen's troops divided into various de-
tachments, and even the population was in active pur-
suit of the fugitives ; and the number of those who have
submitted has amounted to forty-six. The younger son
of Zurbano, by name Benito, chef d'escadron in the army,
was yesterday made prisoner, as well as his uncle, an inn-
keeper near Logrono, and a servant. After having
abandoned their horses, one of which was found dead
from starvation, they had hid themselves in an olive
wood, near the village of Varca, not far from Logrono,
where Benito was born. It was the sight of the aban-
doned horses which put the troops on the scent, and
when the fugitives were taken their condition was despe
rate. They had not slept several nights, and more than
four-and-twenty hours had elapsed without their having
tasted food. On their being taken to Logrono, General
Oribe had given orders to have them shot, but a few in-
stants after he suspended the execution, and applied for
fresh instructions from the Captain-General of Burgos.
As to Zurbano, and his brother-in-law, Cayo Muro, it
appears positive that the former was not far from his
son, a little before the latter was arrested ; and, as to
the second, he is supposed to be concealed in the moun-
tains of Cameros. Considering, however, the active
search that is made, it is almost impossible for them not
to fall into the hands of our troops."
The Prase gives some particulars of the defeat of
Ruiz, and his escape into France :
" The rebels of the valleys of Anso and Hecho aro in
flight. General Ruiz, Colonel Gavila, and Commandant
Casanovo were arrested at the moment they were at-
tempting to cross the frontier. At nine in the evening
of the 24th they were brought into Oleron and placed in
confinement. In the night of the 20th Zurbano and the
horsemen who accompanied him made an attempt to
get into the village of Mansares, but the inhabitants op-
posed them with their fire-arms, and drove them back.
It was in consequence of this repulse that the insurgents
threw away their arms, and that the eldest son of Zur-
bano, his brother-in-law Cayro, and a servant, were
taken. It is impossible to gain any intelligence of Zur-
bano himself. In Castille, in the Rioja, in the Basque
Provinces, and in Navarre, all the troops, both infantry
and cavalry, are in motion. At Ham the very name of
Zurbano inspires so much terror that the inhabitants of
the country, although they believe him to be quite alone,
have assembled in arms to the number of 400, not con-
sidering themselves safe, notwithstanding the passage
of the Ebro is guarded by 50 carabineers and 100 other
soldiers. General Jos4 Concha, Captain-General of the
Basque Provinces, has visited Haro and Miranda, and
taken the most active and best-combined measures to
secure the capture of Zurbano."
The Moniteur announces that, in consequence of
the great number of deaths from poison, a Commis-

sion has been appointed by royal ordonnance, to as-
certain if the sale of violent poisons, such as arsenic
and prussic acid, could be prohibited altogether, with-

out serious inconvenience to the medical and manu-

facturing interests. The Commission, presided over

by M. GAY LussAc, was composed of MM. ORFILA,
DUMAS, and PAYRN, of the Academy of Sciences, and

a number of manufacturers. The preamble of the or-
donnance states, that the Academy of Medicine, the
College of Pharmacy, the Council of Public Health,

and the Commission of Arts and Manufactures have
already been consulted as to the means of altering the
colour and external character of arsenic in such a
way as to render the use of it difficult for criminal
purposes without immediate detection on the part of
those to whom it is to be administered.
THE BOURSE--SATURDAY, Nov. 30.

First Highest Lowest

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents llB 90 .. 119 15 .. 118 90 .. 119 15
Three per Cents B3 10 .. 83 GO .. 83 18 .. 83 GO
Bank of France 3150 ..3150 3150 ..3150
Laffitts Bank, I,ooof. Shareslo9s ..1095 .. 1095 ..1095

5,000 f. Sharesso4o —5040 .•5040 ••5040
Belgian 8ank..... •• •• 580 .. 585 .. 580 .. 582 50
Belgian Fives,lB4o •• •• lon .• lon .. log • . 1031
1842 ....•••• 1061 1061 •• 1061 1061
Dutch Two and-a-Hai1....• 63 •• 63 •• 63 . 63
Spanish Threes...—. .• •• •• 351 .• 36 .• 351 •• 36
Passive ...... ....•• 61 .• 6 .. bi .. 6
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 551 •• 561 55/ •• 551
Neapolitan
Roman ••••••
RAILWAY SHARES.
443 75 .. 443 75 .. 441 75 .. 441 75
L.B.•••••••••••• 320 .. 320 .. 318 75 .. 320
R0uen.......• • •
Rouen to Havre •
Orleans .....••......-• 1047 50 —1055 ..1047 50 ..1055
Strasburg to 8a1e.........• 275 .. 278 75 .. 275 . 278 75
Avignon to Marseilles— 900 .. 910 . 900 910
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, Dse. 3.
Versailles, 441 25 .. 441 25 .. 441 25 .. 441 25
Rouen ..........•••• •• —.1005 —lOlO ..1005 ..1010
Rouen to Havre—. •• • • 780 .. 783 75 .. 780 .• 783 75
Orleans ......... ••• • • 1045 ..1056 25 .•1045 ..1055
Strasburg to Bale 275 .. 278 75 275 .. 278 75
Avignon to Marseilles 895 •• 913 75 .• 895 .. 910

THIS DAY'S NEWS

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
This being the first seal after Michaelmas Term, the
Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall, and took ap-
peal motions to-day, none of which possessed the
slightest public importance.
We could not but notice the different appearance of
the old hall since our last visit. Those remants of an-
tiquity which have for centuries adorned its windows
have all been removed, for the purpose, we presume, of
decorating the new hall, and thereby casting the halo of
former days upon the young aspirants of the present
day to forensic fame. We must confess that the anxiety
that has been displayed on the part of the present
benchers of Lincoln's Inn to preserve these relics of
their forefathers cannot be too highly appreciated. Making
this statement we must not forget the name of a most
eminent member of the bar, Mr. Wakefield, under whose
auspices and superintendence the new hall is being built,
and through whose exertions we trust—nay, we do not
doubt—that it will be an honour to the Society and its
future members.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
This was the first seal after Michaelmas Term, and hia
Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England took motions,
none of which were of the slightest importance.
(Before Sir J. WIGRAM).
His Honour was occupied this morning in taking
motions, and then proceeded to the case of Mallalieu v.
Miller, which has been already part heard, and the facts
reported in The Sun. It comes on again on further
directions.
Sir K. Bruce did not attend Court to-day.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord DENMAN and a
Middlesex Special Jury.)
HOPE V. HARMAN AND OTHERS.
This was an action brought by Mr. Alexander Beres-
ford Hope against the executors of the late Mr. H. P.
Hope, to recover possession of a cabinet of jewellery of
the value of 40,0001.

Mr. Kelly and Mr. Serjeant Channel! appeared for
the plaintiff; and Sir Thomas Wilde and Mr. Watson for
the defendants.

It appeared that the late Mr. H. P. Hope had i.
1832 executed a deed of gift, giving to the plaintiff, Mr.
Alexander Beresford Hope, a cabinet of gems, which
was lodged in Hammersley's Bank. Among the gems
at that time in the cabinet there was one blue diamond
which alone had cost Mr. H. P. Hope 13,0001.—the total
value of the gems in the cabinet in 1832 was 40,0004
From 1832 to 1838 gems to the amount of 2,0001. were
added to the collection. In 1838 Mr. H. P. Hope executed
another deed of gift of the cabinet and its contents to
the plaintiff. From 1838, up to the time of Mr. H. P.
Hope's death, which took place in 1839, he was con-
tinually adding to the collection. At his death the ca-
binet was opened, and in one of the drawers was found
a slip of vellum, on which was written, " This belongs
to Mr. Alexander Beresford Hope." This vellum had
been put into the drawer by Mr. H. P. Hope. At the
death of Mr. H. P. Hope the defendants, his executors,
took possession of the cabinet and its contents, alleging
that the deeds of gift were invalid, and that the whole of
the gems therefore came to the residuary legatee ; that,
at all events, all the gems added after 1832 were the
property of the residuary legatee ; and that even if the
deed of 1838 were valid, all the gems added to the col-
lection afterward were the property of the residuary
legatee.
The case, which was not concluded when we went to
press, appeared to excite the greatest interest among the
members of the fashionable world, several of whom were
on the Bench during the trial.

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