The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-30 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read.'

FOIE MN.
The Paris papers contain no news, if we except the
excitement caused by the election of a Deputy for
the first district of the city, and the violent speeches
made on the occasion, which spare neither the Eng-
lish, nor M. Guizot, nor the king. himself. Nothing
can be done in France without reference to England.
Even the election of a church beadle would furnish
topics for abusing " perfide Albion."
On the 19th a peasant, named Mariano Rincon,
who was found 'guilty of robbery, was executed by
order of the popular Junta at Barcelona.
The steamer Phenicien arrived from Cadiz at Mar-
seilles on the 23d inst. She -reached Barcelona on
the 21st, and left at seven o'clock in the evening of
that day, for Port • Vendres, where she landed 50
Spanish emigrants, amongst whom were the family
of Captain-General Van Haien, and several superior
officers.

Accounts from Girona of the 21st announce that
the authorities had fled, and that the declaration in
favour of the Junta of Barcelona had been attended
with no disorder.

PUELIC OPINION.
The Post thus alludes to the announced retirement
of the British troops from Affghanistan :—" The re-
cent' news froM 'Affghanistan of the complete success
of the armies which had been ordered to advance upon
Gliriznee and Caubul, was most gratifying to us, and
not the less so, that it was far better news than we
expected to receive from that quarter. We are bound
in candour to confess that it did not seem to us pro
liable that oui troops could have advanced so rapidly
and so triumphantly, nor that Akbar Khan would
have left it in our power to profit by the re-taking of
Caubul to the extent of recovering the prisoners,
whom he held in his possession. Even now, while
we rejoice at the successes which our brave soldiers
and skilful officers have achieved, we are inclined to
think that had the same union existed among the Aff-
ghan military tribes, which enabled them to harass and
destroy our troops in the winter, we should scarcely
have accomplished so much, and with so little loss, as
appears by the late accounts to have been accom-
plished. The satisfaction, however, which we felt in
the vindication of our military honour, in the punish-.
ment of the cruel Affghan chiefs, and in the release
of the prisoners detained by Akbar Khan, has been
crowned by a still greater satisfaction in the use
which the Governor-General of India has made ®f his
complete victory. The
,object for which the re-ad-
vance of the British troops upon Caubul was ordered
having been triumphantly attained, these troops are to
retire altogether from the territory of Aithanistan.
Never was there a more honourable retirement."
The Times, speaking of Lord Ellenborough's pre-
sent course of Indian policy, says— " We hoped well
from the speech with which Lord Ellenborough left
this country, sanctioned as it was by the presence of
all those who were responsible for the welfare of
India. He then pledged himself to a policy of conso-
lidation and peaceful improvement. We rejoice to
find that among all the temptations to conquest with
Which the ardour and discipline of his troops, the
tried courage and discretion of their Generals, and
the taunts of his adversaries around him, he is
showing that those promises were no hasty or ill-con-
sidered figures of speech, but the expression of a firm
and practical sense of what would be for the benefit
of India, and therefore for the honour of this coun-
try. Lord Ellenborough has, by this highly im-
portant and decided act, unreservedly staked his cre-
dit on the success of a just and pacific policy; and it
will need for the future even more courage to seek
eminence through the old means of blood and con-
quest, than he has now shown in their abandonment.
He has cut away the temptation to relapse. The de-
cision and promptitude of this act mark a conscious-
ness that it will be approved at home. We willingly
identify- the Government with their nominee, and in-
quire
what they mean by this their act. It is a re-
nunciation as formal and pointed as- words and sir-
cumstances can make it, not only of the policy, which
is bad enough, but of the principles, which are worse,
on which his predecessors founded their invasion of
Affghanistan."
The _Herald says.:—"Elsewhere in this day's
Herald will be found a proclamation from Lord
Ellenborough, dated Simla, October 1, 1842, the
efFect of which far exceeds in importance the destruc-
tion of Ghuznee or the capture of Caubul. Our as-
saults on Affghan independence are terminated • Lord
Auckland's policy is reversed ; Central Asia fias no
longer to be harassed by our criminal folly or foolish
criminality; Affghanistan has to be evacuated; and
the Indus and the five rivers of the Punjaub have
again to become the natural boundaries of our
Eastern Empire. We congratulate the country on
this emancipation from guilt apd return to justice and
sanity ; we congratulate Lora Ellenborough on the
glory which this retributive aQt will throw around his
administration, and on the ability which it will give
him to benefit the magnificent territories committed
to his; government; and we congratulate her Ma-
jesty's Ministers that their Eastern policy is at last
placed in the most direct antagonism to that of Lord
Palmerston and Lord Auckland. The Conservative
Administration has but to take one more step in the
right direction, and it will have accomplished all that
was within its power, to redeem the British nation
• from the disgrace into which the late Government
plunged it—that step is inquiry into the origin of
the Affghan ar, with a view to the punishment of
those who commenced so unparalleled an atrocity."
MONEY—TR./VIM —COMMERCE.
The " Universal Hall of Commerce," which,has
for some time past been erecting in Threadneedle-
street, was opened on Monday to the public. It is to
be used as a hall of assembly or exchange, and is
capable of holding 3,000 persons. Business will com-
mence in it in January next.
LAW .eiND POLICE.
The City Police-force has been advised by the
Committee not to exceed 542 men for the year 1843.
A quarter's rate, according to the prescriptions of the
Act of Parliament, is to be made for this purpose.
William Bennett, a man for many years in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Maudsley, the engineers in the
Westminster-road, was charged at Union Hall with
attempting to stab himself with a knife. He was
committed to gaol to prevent a recurrence of the act,
and meanwhile his difficulties should be arranged.
Henry Tonikins was charged at Clerkenwell with
having set fire to a hay-rick, belcmging to Mr. John
Burgess, corn-chandler, of High-street, Newington.
He was remanded, as positive evidence is expected
agaitot him.

ZlTZlit.anY /IND SCIENTIFIC.
A monument to Zachariah Macaulay, the cele-
brated anti-slavery advocate, has lately been erected
in Westminster Abbey.
The splendid display of shooting stars which has
annually happened for some years past upon the 12th
inst., has not appeared this year.

COUUT-rAIikiXONAIME.
The Marquis of Hertford is expected to arrive at
Dorchester House at the end of February.
Earl and Countess Grosvenor and the Ladies
Elizabeth and Cayoline are expected to arrive the
middle of next month from Motcombe House, Dorset,
to pass the Christmas At Grosvenor House, which is
now under repair.
The Marquis and Marcbioness of Westminster have
returned to Eaton Hall, Cheshire, from a visit to Mr.
and Mrs. Wilbraham Egerton, at Tatton Park, near
Knutsford.

The Earl of Cardigan has left Deane Park to join
the hunt at Melton Mowbray.
The Earl of Harewood has returned to Goldsbo-
rough Hall from Learnington Spa.
The Envoy of the Sultan of Muscat to this country
returns to his own Court by the overland route to
Cape Aden, whence he wilt proceed either to Zanzibar
or Muscat. The Envoy has been delighted with his
residence in London.

NIXSCELLIMEOTTS.
In the present Baronage of England there are
3 Dukes, 7 Marquises, 31 Earls, 1 Viscount, 35
Barons, and 5 Legal Barons (not Judges), in all 82,
who owe their origin to the profession of the law.
The new comet in Draco will be at its nearest point
to the earth on the 15th of December. Its distance,
however, even at that period, will be seven millions of
leagues.

The British and North American Tfoyal Mail
steamer Caledonia, which would leave Boston on the
IGth, and Halifax on the 18th inst. will be due at
Liverpool to-day. The Great Western, which
would leave New York on. the 17th inst., will be due
at Liverpool on Thursday.
SEALS IN THE TWEED. —Since the close of the
fishing season there have been two or three seals seen
in the river. One in particular took up his residence
nearly opposite to South Bells Fishery, where he has
been ever since on the "look out," for salmon on their
passage to the upper parts of the river. The bailiffs
hearing of the depredations committed by this notorious
poacher, sent out a party in pursuit of him, and after
a capital chase of several hours they succeeded in
shooting him. On being brought to shore he was
found to weigh upwards of a hundred weight, and
maintained, hi an eminent degree, the character for
fatness for which seals are proverbial.—Berunck
Warder.

A letter from Ratisbon of the 18th instant, pub-
lished in the Frankfort Journal, announces that the
King of Bavaria had sent 50,000 fib:-ins to the Danube
Steam Navigation Company, in co nsideration of the
critical circumstances in which the Company was
placed.

Dean Swift held this doctrine, that there were
,three places where a man should b e allowed to speak
without 'contradiction, viz., "_ thtg bench, the pulpit,
and the drop.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
A re-action has occurred this afternoon in the
value of the public securities of a more decided
character than we had occasion to notice in the early
part of the day. The jobbers for a fall pretend that
the quarter's income will not be satisfactory, and that
other circumstances are against the maintenance of
prices. At all events the sales made, together with
the heavy feeling, have caused a decline to-day.
Consols for immediate transfer closed at 941 f
Time bargains were concluded at 95k to 941,
being buyers at 94+ at the close. The apprehended
reduction of the interest continues to affect the
premium on Exchequer Bills, which to-day was
down to 54 and 51. India Bonds receded to 51 and
49 premium. There were sales in India Stock also,
which occasioned a fall to 266 and 264, but Bank
Stock kept steady at 174 to 1721; New Three-and-
a-Half per Cents. were 101 f to 101+.
No movement occurred in Spanish Bonds, although
the accounts respecting Espartero being about to visit
Barcelona must naturally lead to mueh suspense and
anxiety for the result. Spanish Stock was firm at 18
for the Active, and at 224 + for the Three per Cents.
Portuguese New Five per Cents. were steady at 38,
and Mexican was rather better supported at 304 to
30i. Brazil Stock ranged from 661 to 651 ; and
Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. were quiet at 52+.
Shares commanded a good sale, and the rates ob-
tained were satisfactory, being for the principal lines
as follow :—London and Birmingham, 96 to 94 ; the
Thirds, 301; Great Western, 20 to 21; South
Western, 198; and York and North Midland, 43
premium. Manchester and Leeds were 2 ; Croydon, 4 ;
and Northern and Eastern 81 discount.
In the Foreign Exchanges the, same firmness was
again exhibited.
The following are the official returns of the exports
of bullion from the port of London for the week
ending Thursday last •
Silver bars—Hamburgh 15,000 oz.
Calais 60,000
Madras
Calcutta
Coin—Ditto
B. West Indies 9OO
Hamburgh ....... 14,000
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The accounts from Liverpool receited to-day
notice a large business as having been done in Cotton,
the sales being 12,000 bales, of which 2,500 were
Surat, and 1.500 American, on speculation. In some
instances rather higher prices were paid : 3,600 bales
Surat realised 31d. to 40.; 1,200 bales Maranham,
s+l to 6/d.; 150 bales Bahia, 61d. to 611:1.• 600
hales Egyptian, 61d. to 61d.; and 6,450 bales of
American, 4d. to 70. Railway Shares were much
the same. Eastern Counties, 8+ ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, Quarter, 58; Grand Junction, 183 ; Great
Western, Fifth, 81; Liverpool and Manchester,
Quarter, 444 ; Brighton, Quarter, 10A ; South
Western, 601 ; North Midland, 61A ; and Paris and
Rouen, 24/.
The Mexican affair continues to excite animadver-
sion, notwithstanding the impotent efforts of the Post
and Herald to smother inquiry, or strip the surreptitious
issue of its objectionable character. Whatever the
public may think of it, one thing is certain, the
bondholders themselves will never be persuaded that
they are not in a worse position than before. The
Government, or its financial agents, it appears, have
been no less free with the Deferred than with the Ac-
tive Stock; and thus a " pretty considerable" addition
has been made to the permanent debt of Mexico, which
no one ever dreamt or thought of. It is pretended
that the Mexican Government has set apart one-fifth,
instead of one-sixth of its Customs' revenue, but even
if this be correct, which is denied in some quarters,
the argument built upon it as a justification for the
surreptitious issue is entirely fallacious, and what is
still worse, by no means honest. The Debenture
holders are clearly mulcted of their interest, which
was to be obtained from any surplus after paying
the dividend on the Active Stock ; and to
write as does the Lizardi organ, the Herald,•
of this debenture question, forming no inte-
gral part of the main matter in dispute, is both
absurd and incorrect. The whole foreign debt of
Mexico was included in the last compromise, and it is
impossible the provisions of that compromise can be
carried out while underhand measures are in progress,
because the Mexican Government did not choose to
come fairly forward and represent its necessities. The
Post, which has been writing about Spanish iniquity
till it has made itself remarkable as the Bondholder's
organ, has not a word of sympathy for the Mexican
creditor*, so different in its estimation appears jug-
gling ala Mendizabal, when transferred to the oppo-
site shores of the Atlantic.
The Stock Market is drooping, and although upoh
the opening of the market previous quotations were
realised, there have been sales since that have led to a
decline. The broker acting for the Savings' Banks
invested 10,000/. in Consols at 941, but they have
since been marked 941 f ; for the opening the rates
have been 95 to 958, and are now 94+ to 95 ; Ex-
chequer Bills are lower again, being at 545. to 51s.
premium. East India Bonds have obtained 50s. to
51s. premium. Bank Stock is worth 1711 to 172 A ;
and East India Stock is not higher than 165 to 165 k-
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 1018 to 10117;
and the Three per Cents. 93+ to 94k.
Some of the parties who suffer most by the recent
serious depression in Mexican Bonds, hut who never-
theless approve of the " surreptitious issue," have been
mooting a question as to the justice of not paying the
differences on their speculative operations, but we
doubt if they can under any pretence excuse them-
selves, seeing that the proceedings of the Stock Ex-
change in unravelling the mysterious origin of the
constant sales that were depressing prices, have been
perfectly justifiable ; and further, that the suspicions
in the house, which were some time previously enter-
tained, must have told them something was wrong.
The Stock is at 308 to 30k, being a little firmer; the
Deferred are 8/ to 8g;; Active Spanish Bonds are at
18, and the Three per Cents. at 221 to 22+, being an
improvement; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are
52+. There is no animation in the Foreign Market.
Railway Shares are firm, but the business doing is
not extensive. Great Western New, are 121 ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow New, 8 ; Eastern Counties, New,
11; Birmingham, 96 ; and Paris and Rouen, 41 to
4 premium. Bristol and Exeter are 241; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 1 to 11; Eastern Counties, 14 ; and
South Eastern,. 261 dis. National Provincial Bank
of England Shares are -.A to I ; London and Westmin-
minster, 2 ; and Provincial of Ireland, 17A prem.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV. 26.—We
have had a very quiet market, and lower prices have
been taken for Edinburgh and Glasgow Quarter and
South-Eastern New. The former have been sold at
5 1-16, and the latter at 18f and 181. Manchester
and Leeds are 69 to 70; Manchester and Birming-
ham, .191 to 20 ; London and Birmingham, 185 to
186; Manchester Assurance, 9.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. ........ 94 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. C0n5..... 94} Ditto Old Annuities
3} per Cent. Red... 1004 Ditto New Annuities —
New 3} per Cent... ...... 101 i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 53 pm
New 5 per Cen' — Ditto 500/... .. .54 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 54 pm
Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12} Bank Stock for Acct.
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1:60 l2 13-16 Consols for Opg.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, b per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 3B
Brazilian Bonds 6si Prussian, 5 per cent. ...
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent — Russian, 5 pei cent......
'Milian 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic . ....
'olombi --
an,',6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent lB
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... .
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 791 French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Danish, 3 per sent — Exchange f —c
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent ---f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent al Dutch, 2} per cent....... 528
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 1011
........_

Peru;i an, 1825, 6 per ct.

SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ... .. ... 45
Eastern Counties (23 paid) 94
Ditto New (—paid) lO4
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... ... 484
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) si
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid)...........~
London and Brighton (50 paid) ...... 35A
London and Birmingham (90) ...... ,... 1844
Ditto Thirds (32 paid) ...... ............ . 624
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid ) ... ........ ... 33i
London and South Western (4116 s 10dpd) 604
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ... 91
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip (.5 paid) 9
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 23}
8
Ditto Scrip (20 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ...

- .
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsteniam CF. 12 9 Gibraltar ... ... 46
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 9i Genoa . ... 26 10
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice .....
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon
Marseilles -
Bourdeaux 26 0 Rio Janeiro 23*
Frankfort on Maine ...152 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 37 Buenos Ayrea
Berlin... ......... .. ...... 7 New York, 21 days sight 46i
Vienna, effoc. fl. 3M. 10 1 Philadelphia 4€
Trieste, ditto ........ ... 10 2 PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz.
Madrid ... ............... 36i Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Cadiz ..................... 36i Portugal Geld C0m...3 17 5
Bilbao ................. ... 36 New Doubloons OO 0
Barcelona ............... 36 New Dollars 0 4 9.,1
Seville .........•.......• 36 Silver in Bars... ... . 0 4 11g

Dickens' " American Notes for General Circula-
tion" reached New York by the Great Western on
the evening of Sunday, the 6th inst., and was pub-
lished next day in newspaper " extracts," and sold for
one penny

Their RoGyaOlHUigßhilnessGestitheCDUultkanßd.Duchess of
Cambridge, the Princesses Augusta and Mary of
Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke of :Meeklen-
burgh Strelitz, and Prince George of Cambridge,
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glouces-
ter yesterday, at. Gloucester House.
His Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick of
Austria paid a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge at their residence at Kew on Sunday, the
birthday of the Princess Mary of Cambridge:
terday his Imperial Highness visited the Horse.
Guards, attended by the noblemen and gentlemen of
his suite. The Archduke also visited the extensive
establishment of Messrs. Mortimer and Hunt, jewel-
lers to the Queen, and was greatly pleased at the
magnificent display of plate and jewellery. His im-
perial Highness much admired the numerous splendid
pieces of presentation plate, amongst which, the,
centre pieces presented to Sir George Cockburn an
Sir Moses Montefiore, were particularly noticed by
the Archduke.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glouceste.r
visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at. their
residence at Kew, on Sunday. • =
A meeting of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
was
held yesterday afternoon at their office in Whitehall-
place. Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Bishop
of London,
and other Commissioners attended.
Mr. George Moffatt, and Mr. W
A deputation, consisting of Sir George LarPent'
Bart., Mr. J. Kempson Gladson, Mr. John Treversi
an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at 1113
official residence, in Downing-street.
The Governor of the Bank- of E gland and the
n
De - pug -Governor had an interview with the Chan'
cellos of the
Exchequer in Downing-street. .rset
The Judicial Committee of the °Privy Couil
W. W. Wilkinson, ha.d
yesterday. The Lords present were--Lora Camp'.bell, the Jude of the Prerogative Court, the Vice,:
Chancellor Knight Bruce, and the Judge of the Au
miralty Court.
Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel,, resumed_.
in " Logan v. the Queen, ' from the -V Jo-,
allat
Court at Sierra Leone relative to the brig Gli
the ship and cargo ofn forfeited. 1)r.
Phillimore followed which had been 1-1 Ad
dara
on the same side. mi.'
was heard in reply. Lordships,
Lord Campbell, on the part of their ._
gave judgment on the question as to whether trw,
loi,
owners could prosecute an appeal,
an inhibition i
0,
having been obtained until a,fter the expiration
_i_
twelve months. The Court of • on that au
htisdnaldidrarelts;
were opinion
having
appeal could not be prosecuted,' conditions n:t
been imposed by Acts of Parliament which had
been complied with.—Their Lordships then rose.

HAYMARKET THEATRE; t.o
A Cure for Love is the title of a most amusals
last
act comedietta, which was produced at this theatre
night. As the disease is at all times a prevad,inftiuPtd-
d emic, and as in this case it was of nine years ,:colu
ing, e
our readers will be doubtless anxious to u.e this
.acquainted with the mode of treatment which, intieut
Instance, was so completely successful. The Ttißer-
was Richard Sadgrove, Esq. (Mr. Buckstone I, with
rister-at-Law, who having, at Cheltenham, rot
onti,
a divinity rejoicing in the name of Laura, ine.
nently waxed, like Petrarch, amorous and Pntic,..,oo
.Stead of
took to reading Moore instead of Coke upon
—wrote sonnets " to his mistress' eyebrow" istfei%cir,
endorsing briefs, and, deserting the Courts 0' .-9,125 l
opened pleadings in the Court of Love; bn,t actin
after the record had been filed, notice 01[
served, and the cause called on, poor Mr. boa
grove was nonsuited. A rich East Indjanad the
made an offer to Laura after Sadrove had cur-
wedding day, and the lady preferring a nietBlhe,uted
rency to a paper or a parchment on, had achciloos
the gold, burthened as it was with a husband as -1
she
looking as itself. Love is proverbially.light, a 9,",, to
only followed the fashion of the times in ref,°sFofer
accept a light sovereign. Sadgrove wandered
nine
Europe in search of a cure, and at the end °.joient
years returned to London with his disease as vh; de-
as ever. Having arranged his worldly affairs "-biro-
termined to try the cold water cure by throwind g the
self and his woes into the Serpentine. A-rrive °n
Felix
banks of the river he finds there a certain the
Trimmer (Mr. W. Farren), who had come wiAt"3 re-
same Preissnitzian intention ; and here we fir 9:, CO-ld
markable instance of universal applicability of he 'nut
waterSadgrove sought it as a remedy applicability
wife.
of a wife, Trimmer as a cure for too pinch ,Teart
lie, the son. of a cotton-spinner with B,oool` le
had made an offer to a widow, who on that CO
occasion had answered him " Yes," for which. So"
cession she had indemnified herself by saYingA,Afloe
to everything that he had proposed fromppl
forward. But not alone by a wife was the lin-ligrs•
Felix tormented—that wife had a mother, 5 - of
Major Browne (Mrs. W. Clifford) " a 'VI; in
war," as Felix feelingly describes her, who, o,e
the same hits.ek4. brought the artillery of fie' -cajole°
to bear on the.‘ilaiserable victim, on- whose de :II it
head she kept Alp a constant fire. These °II
may be thought twould be quite enough to keep
he as
elderly gentleman. in hot water, but they h 3,: old
potent ally in Miss Bitterton (Mrs. Glover), %our
maid, who, if she had had a little oil is
her for
position, would have been an excellent dressing.nitted,
salad; but that ingredient having beer', Tjuega,
we find her composed of mustard 'll-lauen
in equal proportions, and both of the most pun t in
is pleasa"ar
possible quality. Company, they say,
hanging; but, from this instance, it would app be
that the proverb by ,no means holds gn°divroce,
article of drowning, for Trimmer and ''°d Thitian
having compared notes, appeared to be of 0P 00e
arl
ti
that the Serpentine was only licensed to e
inside, and, balked in their desire for water, thefoet
journ to a tavern, and try wine. Here thekroe
with some friends, and the wine makes Saluras
tipsy, and Trimmer courageous. The latter re, al-
to his own house, accompanied by his frierldsfe'rees
sumes the command, ejects Miss Bitterton, sod
" the woman of war" to strike her colours,
Bot t°
his own wife to return to her allegiance., agrove
the cure. In the virago Mrs. Trimmer,
havinv
recognises his quondam divinity, Laura, w'hn'h in
worried her East Indian husband to deotlbreol
twelvemonth, has been endeavouring to cut the 'wee.
of the cotton-spinner in the same manner ever fait of
Blessing his stars for his lucky escape, and, 014
gratitude to Trimmer for having shown him tlewsed,
of angel into which a divinit7 may be metalling) iiud
he returns to the Middle Temple a merrier deter
happier man, completely cured of love, and
mined advocate for celibacy. The piece was sim „led
cast and admirably acted. Farren, as the he.ritrri
husband, was the very beau ideal of well-bred 4:. he
Sneakism. The tavern scene was excelletT,ort,
warmed gradually under the influence of the °'...erored
until at last, elevated but not intoxicated, he sc;olne'
his courage to the sticking-place, and, returning
hi house
stormed all the enemy's positions, and made —dsprtal;--
once more his own ; and a most formidable 1111„,,,- grs•
ing it was, as all those must admit who saw,_t";everf
Major Browne of Mrs. W. Clifford—she looked
indis-
inch " a woman of war," and one by no raenn„seal te
posed to maintain her sex's charter by an arrst none
physical force, if necessary. Miss Bitterton le- with
of her pungency in the hands of Mrs. Glover ;ode of
what gusto did she recommend, as the best fworrY,
managing the male wretches, to constantlY would
worry, worry!" Oh ! what a proficien,t_ol4o..
she have been in the art if Providence, out
lion tomen, had not doomed her to irrevocable ("c` good
,ery
ism. Buckstone, as the love-sick swain, was, v were
in the earlier scenes ; his des air and his rnisere-ver, he
richly humorous. In his drunken scenes,'how
intosi-
was somewhattoo extravagant—his was notthe eln
cation of a gentleman—it was the drunkenness 0'
• one a
and bitters, not the effervescing inebriety of th
rous juice of the grape. The piece was an tilts
repetition by Farren amidst the unanimous
plause of an exceedingly well filled house.

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COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINV rCr
DECEMBER.—The new Number of this periodicai:
which for utility and interest yields to none, aboanu'd
as usual, with interestinc, discussions on naval Yes
military affairs, interspersed with stirring nail?, our
of deeds of arms by the gallant defenders of -0;1
country. Among the most important of the PDT
are the "Notes on the Army," the " Naval Imprte-
meats of the 19th Century " the " Late Prussian JO'
views at Dusseldorf and BOnn," the " Errors in Of
Military System," the " Staff," the "Volunteering Sr'
tern in India," " Lieut.-Col. Wilkie's:Military Histori
of Jamaica," the "Recent Operations in Syria," B';e'
,A,
Lmioenugt...tchoel.arNtiacpleies;svhNicoltlesfuornnsis3h7raiam;sing inform"-
tion for the general as well a 3 the professional reader,
passages
the. Life of a Sailor," " Scenes in Ireland," "I\lY °la
.Messmates," by Jonathan Oldjunk, Pitcairn's Is"
land," &c. At the present moment, too, great atten-
tion will be paid to the "Papers on the War in A
ghanistan and the Peace with China," which are con-
tained in this Number, of so excellent an authofir
on such subjects as the "United Service Magazine.
DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Last night between five .and
six o'clock, a fire broke out in the lower part of the
premises of Messrs. Warren and Co., blacking mow
facturers. In a few minutes three of the Chandos-
street engines, with Mallet and several firemen, were
on the spot, and instantly got the engines into
om
operr
tion, but from the dense smoke issuing f
srtraw tt.
?ie!
cellars where the fire was raging among the
the crates, considerable difficulty was experienced. for
some time to bear upon the flames, till fottunatell We,
vvest
County, Farringdon-street, Crown-street,
England, and also the City engines arrived to their.,
assistance, with Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent
when the supply of water being abundant, they
enabled to pour streams of water into the lower Aver
p.s“'
of the premises, and thug prevented the fire reacin.nvg
the shops, otherwise the whole of that extensr.de
establishment must have been destroyed. It I—
that the fire was caused by an explosion front
matches.