The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON; WEDNESDAY EVENING. NoVRWEIER 27 1344.

THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
Immediately, in 3 vols., post Bvo.,
PALAIS ROYAL.
AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
By the Author of
" HENRI QUATRE ; OR, THE DAYS OF TIIR LEAGUE."
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Grew, Marlborough-street.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 27,
Will be produced a Grand Opera veria, called THE DAUGHTER
OF ST. MARK. Lusienano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornare, Mr.
Borraei ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W.
Harrison ; Catarina Corner°, Mho Rainforth
To conclude with the Ballet of Action, entitled THE DESERTER
OF NAPLES. Henry, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Sk:rinish. Mr. T.
Mathews; Simpkin, Mr. Wieland; Louise, Mier Clara Webster;
Annette. Madame Giubilei.

The Box•ottice is open daily, from Ten la the Morning until Six
an the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places,
and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons

THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER :7,
Will be Performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts,
calved OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket,
Mr. S rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe s ; Toni Coke,
Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Ferran ;
The Counts ss of rrorpion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthorn
Madame Vestrls; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett.
To conclude with THE I lIIiH AMBASSADOR. Sir Patrick
O'Plempo, Mr. Collins ; laaballa, Miss Julia Bennett.
Pnvate Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each.
Tickets and Places to be had ef Mr. L T. Ar cher, at the Box-office,
trom Ten till Five o'Clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELFHL
Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 27,
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS
STRANGER. Court Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count
Vanilla. Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ;
Croquet, Mr. Wright ; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith.
After which. THE WRECK ASHORE. Miles Bertram, Mr.
Hudson i bfarmaduko Magog, Mr. Wright ; Alice, Mrs. Yates;
Bel/a, Mrs. Pitswilliam.
o conclude with CUPID. in which Mews. 0. Smith, Wright
Paul Bedford, and Miss Woolgar, w,ll perform.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Kr Pitt i Leader of the
Band, Mr. Helm—Box—odic. open from Eleven till Four. Private
Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libtag.s._

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX.

THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 27,
Will be performed THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr.
Wallack ; Bullfrog', Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling
To be followed by the New Drama, called DON CAESA It DE
13AZAN. Don Cesar. Mr. Wallack ,• Charles the Secont , Mr.
Walten ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs.
Fosbroke.
To conclude with A New Grand Orientil Ballet, cancel: THE
ENCHANTED BELL, Azolin (an Hindoo Peasant), M. Roussett ;
Palnaira (the Sultan's Daughter), Mdlle. Caroline Itoussett; Naire
(her Friend), Mdlle. Teresing; Ling Doug (the Genii of the Bell),
Miss :darsball.
Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. WallaclC Stage Di ector, Mr. Emden.
Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL
Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Oallo ls. Half-price at
Vine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d.; Boxes 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea any 'unalf • Prows-
ilium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opj."eci at Half-
:list and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clocZ.
The Six,3°x-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh
Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the I
Theatre.

I HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 27,
Will be performed a New Comedietta, entitled WATCH AND
WARD. The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A.
Wigan; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
To be followed by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINGEN
Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin ot.ll, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold,
Turner, Stoker, and Keeley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley.
In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in wt ich
Aldlles. Louise and Adele, et her Majesty's Theatre, will make their
3pUearauxe.

Atter which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO
MAUR Suppoited by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Turner,
and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. IA
To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS‘ONS
With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal
Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr.
^,raveta, and Mr. Keeley ; Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli tge, Mrs
A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Idt ,s James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and
Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 41. • Upper
,Loxes, as.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 29. ;
Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the It de my Tier
?.olding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
ier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Halt Private
Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea,
The Box-. Mice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc-
:ou of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. ROBERTS.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER %.7,
Will he repeated Douglas Jerrold's NELL GWYNNL'.
yone, Mrs. Walter I acv ; Orange Moll, Mr. H. Hall.
After which. THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE, in whict
tl r. It. Hall, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. Montgoinerie, Mrs. C. Pepe;
and Miss Bromley will perform.
To conclude with LA CATARIN 4, in which Alessi,. Roberts,
Searle, Howard, Ayllffe, and Mrs. Coleman Pope will perform.

Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This
Evenieg, at
ASTLFY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY,
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 27,
Kill be repeated a New Speztacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX
HUNT; or, fhe Race- Her.e and Life's Course of Man and Steed;
introducing unequalled Natiot al Fetes. Re3l Fox-chase on tie Stage
and in the Circle by living Fos and real Pack of Hounds, purchased
by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production.
Epsom Races and other Sporting Features.
New Scenes of the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsersaaship.
To conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Three
Conscripts
Acting and stage-m onager, Mr. W. D. Broadfook
Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding
,y Mr. It. Smith daily.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 27,
Will be repeated a New irama, entitled THE SEALED SEN-
TENCE, supported by A 4 essrs. Hughes, N. I'. Hicks, Vale, Johnson,
Morrison, Mrs. It Bonner, M.s. Lewis, &c.
Af which, a New Farce, entited A NIGHT OF HORRORS.
Characters 'y Messrs. Va e, Lewis, Johnson, Heslop, Mrs. Daly, Miss
Terrey, &c.
An Ethiopian Entertainment by the REAL AMERICAN
SOW HERN MINSTRELS.
To conclude with MARTHA WILLIS, THE MAID SER.
VANT. Supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Vale, Morrison,
Lewis, Johnson, Mrs. H. Vining, Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. W. Daly, &c.
Places and Pnvate Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box
nice, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 27.
Will be repeated THE STRANGE INTRUDER, In which
Messrs. Seaman, Higgie. Herbert, and Miss Vincent will perform.
After which, A HUSBAND AT SIGHT. Lonisberg, Mr.
ilig,ie; Baroness, Mu. w. West.
To coaclude with ALIVE, OR DEAD. Rudolph, Mr. W. H.
Maddock, ; Agnes Hanber, Mrs. W. West.
Private Family Boxes, X 1 Is. Od. and :61 lle.

IIIE WEATIIER.—StrN OFFICE, Nov. 277
THERMOMETER, LOWOBt, 29 ; Highest, 43 ; Noon, 37
BAROMETER, N.W.

NoTm.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
reezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
teanally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
•if ming ... b minutes atter 3 f Evening ... Ye minutes after 3.

energetic and powerful kingdom in Europe ! There
is scarcely a wreck left. She has not one ship of the
line fit for service—she has no mercantile navy.
Bankruptcy, dishonour, public swindling, conspira-
cies, and murders, are the only features which distin-
guish this miserable country. A new constitution,
under the directions of French authorities, has
been framed, and will be fully completed, un-
less interrupted by some new conspiracy—some
new scheme for individual interests at the ex-

ppnie of the wretched inhabitants—the victims of
every regenerator and impostor. Zuunaxo has raised
the standard of revolt, but what can be expected from
ruffian of his character, whose only mode of punish-
ment is death, and who for his own individual inte-

rests would sacrifice the constitution of 1837, and sell
himself to the first bidder. NARVABZ is bad enough,
but ZUBBANO would be infinitely worse, and even
Don CARLOS himself, who ought to have some regard
fur the people, would be worse than either. His Du-

rango decrees mark his ferocious nature, and &together
every leader that has yet appeared, with the exception of
ESPARTSRO, only exhibits the utter degradation and
corruption of the Spanish nation. We look to the

contest without the slightest hope of consolation; and
every friend of humanity can only lament in despair
the sufferings to which the lower classes, from all
accounts the most remarkable in Europe, are sub-
jected by the worthless aristocracy, the grasping
priesthood, and the mercenary officers and soldiers.
Every year, nay, every month, some new out-
break takes place; the unfortunate inhabitants

Ire made the victims, their property is pillaged, they
are shot like beasts of prey, and there seems to be
no end to their calamities. If ever any nation had a
claim to the humane consideration of Christian
States, Spain has the best right to demand their aid ;
and France and England, and the other great
Powers, will suffer much in the judgment of pos-
terity, if these horrible scenes are not put down by a
•
universal combination in the cause of humanity.

he Madrid Gazette of the 19th instant publishes
a supplement, containing a dispatch from the military
chief of the Logrono, in which he states that he came
up with the band of ZURBANO near Montenegro, and
that his followers, on the approach of the QUEEN'S
troops, threw down their arms and fled in all direc-
tions. ZURBANO and his two sons made their escape,
with the intention, apparently, of crossing the Ebro,
and seeking refuge in France. The Government
continue to show great jealousy and suspicion of the
numerous disbanded officers residing in Madrid and
the provincial towns. The Generals ESPINOSA,
RAMIREZ, GRACES, &c., have been ordered to quit
the capital. All the officers have been ordered
to present themselves every week to the mili-
tary commandants of the towns where they reside,
and not more than three of them are to be
.permitted
to meet at the same time. These discontented officers
are said to amount to nearly ten thousand. "Most
of them," according to a Madrid letter which appears
in a French Government paper, " are destitute of the
means of existence, and are disposed to join any party,
whether Carlist, constitutional, or republican, pro-
vided they can procure bread. It is thus that almost
all the bands of brigands that infest the roads and
environs of Madrid are commanded by old officers.
These bands, if a civil war were to break out in any
part of Spain, would become factions, for they have
arms and money."
The Paris Moniteur, on the authority of a letter,
says ZURBANO had entered Saragossa and put the
Governor to death, but the report is not entitled to
credit.

The QUEEN'S fete was celebrated on the 19th,
when a grand levee was held at the Palace. The
Bourse in consequence was closed on that day.

Some of the Paris journals of Sunday commented,
with much bitterness, on an offensive letter from
Otaheite, which appeared in some of the London
journals. The subject, however, hardly deserves
further notice; and we should not have adverted to
it again, but for an amusing, and at the same time,
in some respects a very sensible article, in the
Journal des Debats. That journal treats these
exparte statements as they deserve. " In the dearth,"
it says, " which at present prevails in the domain of
polemics, several journals have contrived to discover
a new subject against England, and yesterday copied,
with a great increase of indignation, a letter from
Otaheite, published by an English journal. We
should ourselves have given this Methodist tirade if
we had believed that it merited our doing so, or if
we had discovered anything new in it. But, in truth,
we do not consider ourselves obliged to pay a serious
attention to all the epistolary fragments which vi e
find every day in the vast catacombs of the English
papers, and to which these journals themselves attach
only a very secondary importance. In England, the

at any rate so important, as they originally ap-
peared; next they persuaded themselves—for who are
so easily persuaded as those whose fancy predisposes
them to delusion ?—that they were not errors at all ;
and, finally, they hugged them to their hearts as so
many distinguishing excellences. How happily do
the following lines of POPE, which we quote from
memory, and therefore with diffidence, apply to the
course of a Tractarian convert !
" Vice is a monster of such fearful mein
As to be hated needs but to be seen,
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace I"
The Archdeacon wound up his Charge by observ-
ing :—" That which above all we should each one
dread, is a cold, worldly, trifling Ministry—a Minis-
try which is busy in circumstantials, which is idle as
to materials, which is formal or frivolous, or charit.
able, or busy, provided it be not spiritual—a Ministry
which does not indeed lay hold of the souls of our
people, because our own souls are not given up to
Him whose name we fear." These remarks apply
with peculiar force to the recent conduct of
those ghostly Prelates, LONDON and EXETER,
who have notoriously distinguished themselves by
being " busy in circumstantials," as, for instance,
when the former in his famous Charge of 1841—of
which we have already made honourable mention—
elaborately discussed the question of wax candles on
the Communion-table, and whether the minister
should bow to the east or west on leaving the church;
and when the latter, in his judgment on the Helston
case, expatiated with equal emphasis on the still
more momentous theme of black and white surplices I

Unfortunate Spain seems destined to undergo new
convulsions, and, to all appearances, as fruitless as
any that have taken place since the first invasion of the
French during the reign of NAPOLEON. The country
now has been for nearly forty years in a constant
state of turmoil ; any little trade that existed has
been completely destroyed ; the energy of the people
has been turned—not to the arts of civilisation, or
commerce, or literature—but to plots and conspira-
cies and intrigues ; and the most lamentable fact in
this dismal account is, that not one man of energy,
combining honesty and patriotism, has sprung up
during that long period. In the revolutions
which have broken out in England and
France, some bright genius—some man sur-
passing all his competitors, great as they were—
. ez:ne ferth to vindicate the honour of his country,
ion of a system of liberty, or, at
and lay the fr'undgt
all events, of stable goiT.rnment. England and
France never appeared to such salvantag4, or were
more respected and dreaded by foreign countries, than
when they were torn by civil dissensions, and ap-
peared almost helpless against foreign aggression.
What saved them ? The patriotism of the people—
that love of country which surpasses all other
passions in energy and enthusiasm, and that noble
spirit of independence which will . brook no
interference of strangers. CROMWELL vindicated the
majesty of the English nation, and though regarded
as an usurper, was courted by every Sovereign, even
the most absolute, in the civilised world. For years
before 130NAPARTB distinguished himself, the French
had set all their enemies at defiance; raw troops, in-
spired with the love of country, marched almost to
certain death—nothing was thought of but the inde-
pendence of their country ; and, to their immortal
honour, they not only expelled their worthless nobi-
lity and clergy, but male inroads on their meddling
neighbours, and magnanimously asserted the inde-
pendence of the French nation. What glorious
struggles, too, the people of the Nether-
lands made against the whole power of
Spain ! They fought to the death against
slavery, and were finally victorious, and the house of
Austria strove in vain against a handful of patriots
who followed the banners of TELL, and established a
pure Republic in the midst of despotic States. Wha
a contrast, when we turn to Spain—once the mos

THOUARB:
" The Ministry was accused of having put the crown-
ing point to its baseness by recalling Admiral Dupetit-
Thouars ; it was a calumny. In place of recalling him,
the Ministry forbids him to return, It is only too just.
The prompt return of M. Dupetit Thouars would pro-
bably excite public indignation more keenly ; and if his
appearance coincided with the sitting of the Chambers,
who knows what part the Opposition might draw from
it against the Ministry ? M. Guizot has come to the
conclusion that a second voyage of circumnavigation
should be prescribed to the Admiral, in the Interest of
the Cabinet. The Admiral will be permitted to return
home when the Otaheite affair is forgotten, dead, buried.
M. de Machu, it is said, has gone further. His solici-
tude for his brethren in arms, and his zeal for his corn-
rades, are well knowu• lie desired to charge M. Du-
petit Thouars to make a voyage of discovery to one of
the Poles, to seek for unknon lands, or even to at-
tempt the north-west passage from America. Never did
a smaller matter more completely dishonour a Ministry!
All the falsehoods which it heaped together to justify
its renunciation of the sovereignty of Otaheite, and the
disavowal of M. Dupetit Thouars, are evident ; the
Moniteur proves it. The Admiral's Aide-de-camp was
kept in a sort of sequestration, when he arrived in France
at an inopportune moment ; the news from Otaheite
was kept back from the public until information arrived
from other sources ; the country, and the families of
persons out at Otaheite, were allowed to remain in the
utmost uneasiness relative to the combats engaged in
with the natives ; and now, behold ! the officer who was
disavowed is not permitted to repair to France, but is
kept under arrest on board his frigate, during a fresh
voyage, of great length ! An article was wanting to the
penal cods of the Ministry which invented disavowal and
blame—it is circumnavigation."
These papers furnish no additional information re-
specting the fate of ZURBANO, but publish extracts
from Bayonne papers, containing both a proclamation
to the people, and an address to his followers after
having entered Najera. They are, however, very
contemptible productions. 'We fear there is too much
truth in the following character of this man, as given
by the Presse :
" Zurbano unites in himself some of the good qualities
and all the defects of those Guerilleros who, from the
epoch of the invasion until the treaty of Vergara, covered
themselves with glory in the war of independence, and
with blood in the civil war. He is in the highest degree
a man of stratagem, audacity, ferocity, and indefatigabi-
lity ; a compound of the fox, the boar, and the tiger, a
dangerous friend, a redoubtable enemy. Before he made
himself the terror of Catalonia, he was the butcher of
the Carlists, and if Narvaez had not arrested him at Tor-
rejon, he would not have treated the Progressistos in
1843 better than he treated the Moderados at Vittoria
and Bilboa in 1841. The proverb says—Honours
change manners, but Zurbano gives the lie to the adage.
He has preserved, under the uniform of a Lieutenant-
General, his habits of a smuggler ; always ready to give
a blow with his fist or a shot from his musket, always
acting with brutality, and speaking in language of the
grossest insult. In proof of this, the case of M. Laserna,
the political chief of Bilboa, may be adduced. He treated
him in 1841 as he had all his life treated the officers of
the Customs who opposed his contraband practices. All
the endeavours of the Government have been in vain ;
nothing
can appease the instincts of this sanguinary
being. The necessity for being in action, which is the
distinguishing characteristic of Zurbano, and that con-
tinual excitement of ferocity which urges him into adven-
tures which promise him the gratification of insatiable
desires do not, however, exclude him from having great
subtlety and much prudence. Danger never stops him,
but he never seeks it without a motive. At the same
time, it is not very easy, we repeat, to assign any serious
motive for his last coup-de-main."
THE BOURSE--AloriDev, Nov. 25.'
First Highest Lowest° Last
Prim Price. Price. Price.
1131 20 119 10
111139 20
French
FFiovuer
Fours lO7 •• 107 .• 107 .. 107
Three per Cents.•• 83 05 .. 83 10 .. 83 .. 83
Bsnk of France 313.5 ••3140 —3135 ..3135
I.allitte Bank, I,ooof. Bhareslo9s „
-and dC-6an 1139 15
1095 ..1095 ..1092 10
5,000 f. 8a5re55037 50 ..6037 50 ..5035 —5035
Belgian Bank . ...... •• • 565 .. 565 .. 525 .. 550
Belgian FlCtes,lB3l... ..... 1021 • • 102 f • • 102 f • • 1021
1840 ..•••••• 1021 .. 1031 102/ .. 1031
1842 •• •••• •• 1061 .. 1061 .. 1061 .. 1051
Two-and-a-Half.••• 61 65 .. 61 65 .• 61 60 .. 61 60
Spanish Active.. •••••• 321 .. 32f •• 321 •• 321
Threes•••• •• •••••• 351 .. 3sl .. 351 .. 351
Passive •••••• 51 .. 5f .. 51 .. 5/
Portuguese Five per Ccilts•• 51 .. 54 .. 54 .. 84
Ncap01itan.........••• • •• 95 75 .. 95 90 .. 95 75 .. 95 90
Roman •••• 104 f .. 104} .. 1041 .. 1041
RAILWAY SHARES.
Yer5ai11e5,R.8............. 442 80 .. 445 .. 442 50 .. 445
L.B.•••••••••••• 315 .. 315 .. 312 50 .. 315
Rouen .. • ....
Rouen to Havre. ••
Orleans .... ..... ....,•..• 1040 ..1040 ..1037 50 ..1037 50
Strasburg to Bale— • . 278 75 .. 278 75 .. 276 25 . 276 25
Avignon to-'Marseilles 897 50 .. 897 50 . 892 50 .. 892 50

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, Dr,o 3.

Versailles, R. 8....•. 412 50 .. 445 .. 442 50 .. 442 50
315 .. 317 1.0 .. 313 75 .. 315
Rouen •• •• •• —.1003 75 —lOO5 ..1002 50 —lOO2 50
Rouen to Ilavre •• • • ........ 785 .. 786 26 .. 785 785
Orleans ......•••
Strasburg to Bale— ........ 277 50 .. 277 50 .. 277 50 .. 277 50
Avignon to Marssillee...... 896 25 .. 900 .. 891 25 .. 891 25

An inquest was held last evening before Mr.
Higgs, at the Barley Mow, Duke•street, Grosvenor-
square, on Mr. Henry Seabrook, aged 50, the landlord
of the above house. Mr. Knight, butler to a gentleman
in Grosvenor-square, said that he was in deceased's
company on Monday night, and at twelve o'clock he left
him at his house. Deceased was then perfectly sober.
Mr. William Bloxham, surgeon, said that he was sent
for last Tuesday morning to attend upon the deceased,
whom he found in bed, much injured. Deceased told
him that on the previous night he went down into the
cellar to do something to the barrels, and was at the
top of the first flight of stairs upon his return, when Le
missed his hold of the bannisters, and fell over and over
to the bottom. He had sufficient strength to go up stairs
again, and did not complain of what had happened until
the next morning, when witness was called to him. 04
Saturday inflammation of the brain commenced, and he
died that day. He was a very heavy man, and that,
perhaps, accounted for the severity of the injuries. Ver-
dict—Accidental Death.

PAISLRY.—We have this week had an occurrence
in town which has afforded an excellent subject for local
scandal, and which is likely to afford employment for
the gentlemen of the long robe in the highest court in
the country. While such proceedings are pending, it
does not become us to publish particulars ; but we may
briefly state that the substance of the occurrence is this:
—One of the magistrates who occupied an important po.
sition in the late election of our chief magistrate, met in
company with a gentleman carrying on an extensive
business in town, last Tuesday, in Glasgow. The gen-
tleman referred to has taken a warm interest in the
lelection, on the opposite side from tilt? bailie, and, in
consequence, high words ensued soon after their ta4et.
ing, and severe language was made use of on both sides.
With this the parties separated at the time, but, having
come out to Paisley in the same train, they came in con-
text it the foot tor the railway stairs, when blows ensued
—the magistrate haying 002 n zt,ruck, and finally, knocked
clown, before a number of people by 114 opponent.--
Scotch Paper.

At the last rent audit, Mr. Byng, M.P., made a re-
duction of 10/., 201, and 30/. per cent., according to the
exigencies of his tenantry.

principal object of the journals is to have news
which the others have not, and thence it follows that
they in general receive all the communications sent
to them, without much caring what political signifi-
cation they may have. It is, we are inclined to
think, to this unlimited custom of publicity, more
than to any 'deliberate sentiment of malevolence,
that must be attributed the insertion in an English
journal of great circulation of the famous letters dated
from the harbour of Tangiers. These letters, al-
though the whole affair concluded in a manner bur-
lesque enough by the confession and contrition of a
chaplain, nevertheless possessed a certain importance,
from the position of the persons to whom they had
been in the first instance attributed, and the very
awkward consequences which they might involve.
But, in good faith, we have something else to do with
our time, and with the attention of the public, than
waste both in what an illustrious orator has called
querelles de sacristie. We do not judge it necessary
to blow up the flame of discord between two great
nations relative to the ill.humour of a missionary, cry-
ing out the abomination of desolation, because some
French sailors danced on a Sunday with the savage
ladies of tih,eoris,lewoefmCsythy
say,
era, What is there in that so
so offensive ? Every one
knows that a French Sunday is not, thank Heaven, like
an English one ! The Methodists had taught the Ota-
heitans to observe the Sabbath in the English way—to
be melancholy on the seventh day, and not to take any
strong liquours unless perhaps such as they themselves
sold them—and, behold ! they find all their economy
disarranged by the introcluetiou of more sociable and
more tolerant habits ! What is there astonishing in
their exaggerating their grievances, in their increas-
ing to an immoderate extent what they consider a
stumbling-block of ofrOnce, and in accusing our
sailors of giving to the gentle and simple daughters
of the South Sea lessons in forbidden choregraphy ?
We are well persuaded that these accusations are so
many calumnies ; but it must be borne in mind that
dancing, even of the noblest character, is in the eyes
of zealous Protestants a monstrous desecration of the
Sabbath. It is, therefore, natural for them to cry
out a little. When their language is risible, it ought
to be laughed at; when it is rude, to be pitied; and
when well-founded attended to ; but in no case do we
think that there is sufficient cause in their complaints
to recal ambassadors, or to excite sentiments of ani-
mosity between two nations who look on each other
seriously. We are well convinced besides that, on
this point, as on many others, the Opposition journals
make much more noise than they think there is harm,
and that if they are going to seek for war at Otaheite,
it is, as M. DE LAMARTINE very justly observed, what
they will not find."
The Courrier Francais contradicts in these words
a paragraph, which we copied yesterday from the
Presse, relative to the return of Admiral DUPBTIT

OMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins.)
WEBB V. BEVAN AND OTHERS.
The plaintiff is a livery-stable keeper in Gray's Inn-
lane, and brings this action of trespass under the follow-
.ng somewhat singular circumstances :—The defendant,
Mr. Bevan, a barrister, had placed a horse at livery in
the stables of Mrs. Savage, in Fetter-lane, for the pur•
pose of being taken by some trusty person in her service
to be sold at Tattersall's. This commission was in the
first instance entrusted to one of Mrs. Savage's ostlers,
named Charles Stocking ; but from something that
transpired respecting that person, his mistress strictly
forbad him to take the horse away. However, he'did
so ; but instead of taking him to Tattersall's he lota it
f)r 101. to Mr. Webb, the plaintiff, to whose possession
it was traced, The defendant Mr, Bevan, accompanied
by the other defendants, of whom three were pol"
constables, proceeded to Mr. Webb's stables, and re
nising his horse, demanded it to he restored to him. r. lie
plaintiff refused, insisting that he had fairly purchased( it
from a person authorised by the defendant, lie then
locked the stahletdocr, which the defendants broke open,
and took the horse away.
Mr. WiLanis (with whom was Mr. Lush), for the
plaintiff, contended upon these facts that the first aut,ho-
rity to Stocking to take the horse to Tattersall's was
sufficient to make good the purchase by the plaintiff.'
Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, for the defendant Mr. Bevan,
Mr. Sergeant Channel), fur another defendant, and Mr.
Sergeant Byles, far the constables (who suffered judg-
ment to go by default), addressed the jury at scene
length, complaining that all who were present with Mr.
Bevan were made defendants, and he was deprive&,of
their testimony, and contending that upon his own case
the plaintiff was entitled to no damages, or at most 0 a
very small amount.
.-
The evidence for the defence went to prove the owrer-
ship in Mr. Bevan, and the unlawful removal of the Wile
(or stealing) by Stocking. .1
(The case had not concluded when we went to preili.)

APPEAL COURT, DOCTORS' COM-
MONS.—(THIS DAY.)
The Court sat to-day for the purpose of hearing ap-
peals, of which but a comparatively small number were
on the list.

The only case of the slightest general interest which
was heard was an application for a monition to issue
against John Doricourt Taylor, whose case has aliegdy
appeared in this paper, for having failed to comply with
certain orders of the Court.

•
The case had been heard some time ago, when the
Court adjudged that Mr. Taylor should pay a stated
sum into Court within fifteen days from the 13th of this
month. This term having expired to-day, the process of
Court was now sought. In support of the application,
affidavits were put into Court and read, which stated that
Mr. Taylor had left England, and was out of her Ma-
jesty's dominions, and that any further delay in the is-
suing of the monition would be attended with a frustra-
tion of the order and intention of the Court.
The COURT held that it would be rather precipitate to
issue such a process on the very day when the order of
the Judge was only to expire, and consequently deferred
issuing the monition until the next day appointed for the
sitting of the Court.
This being the last case on the list, the Court rose.

CRIMINAL COURT-(TIIIS DAY.)
OLD GOURD.
(Before Lord Chief Justice DEztuAN.)
His Lordship entered the Court and took his seat al
10 o'clock.

THE SLAVE TRADE ON THE COAST OF
AFRICA.

Mr. PRENDERGAST and Mr. CLARRSON appeared to
make an application on the part of Captain Thomas
Jennings, late of the Augusta, who was charged with
slave trading on the Coast of Africa.
Mr. PRENDERGAST prayed that his Lordship would
enter at once upon the trial this session, or at least fix a
time for it, as Mr. Jennings's character and prospects
were greatly injured while the present charge of felony
was kept suspended over his head. The injury was the
greater, as that gentleman solemnly protested that the
accusation was a most unfounded one.
Mr. PAYNE opposed the application upon an affidavit
of Sir George Stevens, which was read to the Court. It
would be quite impossible to proceed with the trial until
the presence of Captain Hill, who was at present in com-
mand at the Bolam River, could be had in this country.
That would, at the lowest computation, involve a delay
of six months, and on that ground he moved that the
application be dismissed, and a postponement granted for
that time.
Lord DENMAN said that Captain Jennings had already
urged a plea in another Court, that he had been already
tried for this offence, which plea had been dismissed.
Had it, however, been held gocd, there would have
been no necessity for Captain Hill's evidence in the case;
but now that officer's evidence was indispensable. He
would, therefore, order that the trial take place in the
coming January Sessions.
Three young men, labourers, named William Sadd,
Henry Clow, and George Henry Vaughan, were indicted
for feloniously assaulting John Augustus Lock, with in-
tent to murder him. A second count charged them with
a common assault.

Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Doane appeared for the prose.
cution ; Mr. Prendergast for the prisoner Sadd, Mr.
Payne for Clow, and Mr. Ballantine for Vaughan.
The person assaulted, John Augustus Locke, a sworn
constable at Nicholson'a wharf, had taken a drunken
person into custody for obstructing the business theie,
and while conveying him to the station-house, ho was
surrounded by a mob, among which the prisoners were
conspicuous who committed the assault complained of,
and released the prisoner. They were at a subsequent
period taken into custody. The prisoners were this day
tried for the common assault only.
Evidence having been given, and the counsel for the
prisoners having severally addressed the jury,
Lord DENMAN summed up, and the jury, after con.
suiting together, returned a verdict of Guilty against
Henry Clow, but recommended him to mercy on account
of previous good character, and Acquitted the other two.
His LORDSHIP then said that the prisoner had been con-
victed of a brutal and cowardly assault, but in considera-
tion of the good character he had received, and the recom-
mendation of the jury, the punishment inflicted would be
lighter than the crime deserved. The sentence was that
he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six calendar
months, and at the end of that period enter into his own
reoognizances in 50/. to keep the peace for two years.
The additional charges upon the oalenclar unica last
Monday are twenty-seven, consisting principally of lar-
cenies from houses and from the person. No charges of
a particularly heavy character are added.

CLERKENWELL,(THIS DAY.)
Two men named Bryant, and one named Lynch, were
charged with lighting a fire in an uninhabited house, the
property of the Globe Insurance-office. Lynch was
further ehar&efl with violently assaulting' police-constable
Moss, G 195, and poliee-sergeant G b.
It appeared from the evidence that about ten weeks
ago an extensive warehouse was bnrned down in Back-
hill, clerkenwell. It was insured in the Globe Insurance-
office, and is now in prowess of re-eoection by that esta-
blishment. Last night, Moss being on duty in Back-
hill, saw a fire on the first floor of the warehouse, and
on climbing up to the first floor, saw a large fire in the
more irowdiaiely o;,iewor4a of tte laiga w0,.-,den beams,
and all the chips and shavings in the neighbourhood of
it. The inhabitants of the adjoining houses were startled
out of sleep by the flames and smoke. Moss sprung his
rattle, obtained assistance, and extinguished the fife:
There was neither orate nor 041110600 in the room;
and there can be no doubt but for the timely arrivill
of the constable, the whole premises would have been
consumed. The men were under the influence of liquor,
and Lynch kicked the constables so violently that Moss
was almost disabled, and sergeant G 3 much hurt. Lynch
removed to the station house until his arms
and legs were fettered.
The two Bryants were in default of fine sentenced to
ten days' imprisonment, and Lynch to three weeks.

'THIS DA Y'S NEWS
L
EXCHEQUER—(Tlll S DAY.)
ORD
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before the
CHIEF BARON.)
THE ATTORNEY-CErILRAL U. TOPLIS.
G This was an inforin<ion filed by the Attorney-
-1 against the 0-afendant, for harbouring and con-
cealing, and haitig in his possession a quantity of
tobacco, whit*, had not paid the duty.
The Solicitor-General, Mr. Jervis, and Mr. Wilde,
contl'acted the case for the Crown ; Mr. Huinfrey and
Mr. Barstow were counsel for the defendant.
The SOLICITOR•GENERAL said, the circumstances of
this case were very short. The defendant carried on
the business of a tobacco manufacturkr in Bermondsey-
street, Surrey. About three o'clock on the morning of
I)ec.3, 1843. an officer of the Customs, named Jordan, in
consequence of information he had received, proceeded to
watch the premises of the defendant. He planted him-
self under one of the arches of the Greenwich Railway,
and had not been standing there long before he observed
a man coining from a court or alley adjacent, with a
brown paper parcel on his shoulder, which he took to
the defendant's house. The door having been opened, he
went in, left the parcel, and returned. A boy followed
soon after, carrying a small parcel, which he disposed of
in the same way. The man who was seen first returned
with a third parcel, which, like the former, was left at
the house of the defendant. The officer then prticeeded
in search of a policeman, and not being able to find one,
he called up another officer in the Customs to assist him.
The man and the boy escaped, but Jordan succeeded
in seizing a parcel, which was found to contain a
quantity of pressed tobacco. On entering the premises
he found the defendant partly dressed, standing on the
stairs ; and, on seeing him, he ran out of sight. To-
bacco was seized on the premises to the amount of
1,906 lbs., which was appraised at 3471. 14s. An in-
formation was then laid for the purpose of condemning
the tobacco, and on the trial a verdict was given
for the Crown, and judgment entered on that ver-
dict. This judgment was conclusive evidence that
the tobacco was liable to seizure. The only
question which the jury had to decide on that
occasion was, whether the defendant harboured and con-
cealed the tobacco, knowing that it had not paid the duty.
Witnesses were then called and examined on behalf of
the Crown, after which,
Mr. HUMFREY, for defendant, said he would not call
into question the evidence just adduced, but he thought
he might fairly call upon the jury to deduct 600 lbs., on
which duty had been paid.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied, saying he could not
conceive how the jury could yield to the request of his
Learned Friend, after the evidence had been so strongly
unfavourable to the point on which he rested.
His LORDSHIP having summed up the evidence briefly,
The jury found a verdict for the Crown, with damages
in the single value of 3471. 17s.—Verdict entered accord.
ingly.

UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
George Seymour, a fine tall young fellow, was charged
on his own confession, with being a deserter from the
49th Regiment of Foot.
A policeman stated that the prisoner walked into the
station-house the preceding night, and saying he was a
deserter from the above regiment, added that be came
there to give himself into custody.
Mr. COTTINGRAM asked him why he deserted; and his
reply was that when with the regiment he got drunk and
remained from barracks so long that he did not like
to go back, and came up to London. He added that
he was now most anxious to join his regiment.
Mr. COTTINGIUM said the prisoner had committed a
serious offence against the articles of war, and asked him
if it was likely he would get punished? The prisoner said
that he was certain he would not be flogged, that he
would get a few days sharp drilling, and a little soli-
tary confinement in the black hot*.
Mr. COTTINGUAM said that his present condition was
attributable to liquor, and advised him is future to ab-
stain from it. The Magistrate added that it was his
duty to commit him to gaol until the authorities at
the War-office were apprised of his being in custody.
The:deserter was then sent to prison.

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