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London, England, 1842-12-02 00:00:00

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POEEIGN.
Thgelsliegoe m disposedneefro to submitmßarcelona t iso
tmhoerGo
more favourable.
The
On lesday the King of the French arrived at the
Tuilerit from St. Cloud, and presided at a Council
of Miniters.
M.TcheortuotothdeienDneillecintorn-oGteicnienrgalaocfonthfeerepnoeset.woffihich
ce,
had on ionday with the Minister of Finance, men- _
tions a ',port that the object of it was to discuss some
arrangetents for a uniform postage in France, and
that a ill for the purpose will be presented to the
ebrinher in the approaching session.
The c(astruction of the tomb of the Emperor AH-:N`'
poleon islbout to be commenced, and for some days
a model )f the work has been exposed to public view,
at the Ilk-aides. An equestrian statue of the Empe-
ror is to e placed in the middle of the great court,
and on tle pedestal will be represented the arrival of
his ashes t the place where they now lie.
The e—Commissary of Police Lerurrnand, con-
demned br default, at the Court of Assizes of the
Haute-Gronne, for corruption in his office, and who
was late]) arrested at Paris, has been sent to Toulouse,
to be plac,d at the orders of the Procureur du Rol.
The Plvaganda Fides of Rome received last year
the sum o' 113,0001. which was employed in follow
ing the misionaries from the English Church, whet!.
ever they went, for the purpose of counteracting tnef
effect of tleir labours by instilling into the minds
the heather the errors of the Roman Catholic faith.
The ustal annual mass was performed on Tuesdig.
at the Chtrch of St. Roch in commemoration of the
last revolution of Poland. The numerous Polish re-
fugees wh) were present afterwards dined together:.
The poke of Lyons has been put on a track o'
band of fifty thieves, robbers and depredators of all
kinds, 7EO have lately been ransacking that city
its envircns. A liberated convict, having he
uuA
trayed by one of his accomplices, had dent:ni—
whole confederacy.
:Nire e r.
Accounts from Vienna state that Prince :nid
nich was quite recovered, and had resumed his "5--
labours.
A letter from Rome Nov. 17, in the AugOltrict
Gazette, says—" The King of Naples has endeav°ll7
to induce Don Miguel to relinquish all claims
the Crown of Portugal, on condition of his receirth've
a pension from that country. All the efforts c:.
King, however, on this point have been fruitless. ~..A
According to the latest accounts the affhirs of
were still in an unsettled state, the clergy being
tile to the new Prince.

PUBLIC OPINION. '
We quote the following from the Morning 11"ifi,
Twelve months ago that perpetual prater 11.;
Cobden instructed his confederates of the Anti-9°;
law League that through the instrumentality of grit;
tection to domestic agriculture there was far too b •
a breadth of land devoted to corn cultivation, B,e
that upwards of two million acres of our soil under
plough was unfit to produce anything but 0/47;
and was only worth rent because of the Corn,.;
Ile then insisted On the absolute necessity of cea,TA
to cultivate poor clay lands; he then persisted 114,
we grew far too much wheat and fed far too ver.:
cattle ; and he then attacked landowners for their s er
fishness in persisting to tear up land which nev.he
should, he declared, have been disturbed. Then the
curse of the country was described by this orate
leaguer to he an obstinate determination to we;
independent of foreign supplies of corn as possi
be,
then the greatest national blessing that could' to
fall us was said to consist in giving up all atteinpt!
91s.
feed ourselves ; then high rents were pourtraraw ;
the iniquitous result of pro-Corn-law legislati es;
then farmers were characterised as public nuloncoo.
and then the very idea of our ability to increase.„o
froduction of bread-corn was scouted as the Po
ancy of foolish and interested landlords. `1),.%)•
with home agriculture and up with foreign gc"-the
was but three short months ago the war Cr' G'.„ole
Manchester League. How changed is now the ihe
of the discourse of this man and his associates;
anj-.
Corn-law is now assaulted because it preventtsbus.
delays the introduction of improved systems 0' ,000 .
bandry—because it has a tendency to check t "doe'
production—because it stands in the way (N- tatt'ar
draining, better hedging, better fencing,
ploughing, better sowing, better everything--becwi
it restricts the demand for agricultural labourl-0,1
because it limits the domestic- consumptinll Qf
manufactures."
The Chronicle says, with reference to Lora a
borough'. Indian pulicy—" It is no longer attcultii-eir•
to be denied that the recent successes inAffgh4,B,7,-0'
achievedborough. The
eby Governor-Generalthe G ener Generals in
spite
ordered oheel
nious retreat; the military authorities accomplish our
most triumphant advance. The recovery
country people, whom Lord Ellenborough fe• eP
sacrificed, is of itself compensation to the nat'°"-
ry ater•
ing for a hazardous and expensive military• n°
prise; but this result, as we have shown', 091:,1-
part of the Governor-General's design. Wha' 3-veX"
tage, then, has Lord Ellenborough contrived to
had
tract from these triumphs, which, if his order It
been obeyed, could never have been achieVed'vitc,
would really appear as if mortification at ha tieo
been defeated in his attempt to defraud the it in.
of what was due both to its character and sg.
terests, had urged him to a course as nearly as
rter
fLaenrdiffpn,,.ol,::;,,,
ble similar to that upon which he had at first Ilre-
mined. The retreat which he ordered in the ,iOO
clamation of the Ist of October, with the excePerl,
of the unpremeditated recovery of the Prif,„n or
differs but little in its result from that which ",ien.
dered in the spring of this year. Battles haveinersi
fought, forts have been destroyed, a `great,,--t no
lesson has been taught in Affghanistan. has
sooner has all this been accomplished—no soneLiltf
the avenging sword fallen indiscriminately upon gbeen
and innocent, the seeds of future animosity the
broad sown from one end of the land to the other!sA
elements of greater disorganisation than ever C/4:010.
before effectually let loose, than forth comes the
50e,4,,,
proclamation ; and, to strengthen the moral le4B .
tells the Affghans, Though we have been ow 00
overrun and lay waste your country, yet I
that we are unable to keep possession of it. noise
fore we let go our hold, and undertake to rertora
any Government you may establish.' This 'B,„otila
Ellenborough's moral lesson ; which, however? - that -
not be complete without the additional assurance j ea,
all the hostilities in which the British empire lal ,ke9t
neces"
gaged against these people were crimes of the hill:41,
dye—for none deepercan there be than un
and therefore unjustifiable, war." nion
The Post says :—" It h 1 been our OP' t
as a ways .
that very little good could come of ' concessi°ll Bra
persons whose principles are bad, whose motive; we
selfish, and consciences callous. So we said vrh,ebring
saw the gifted head of the present Governmerl'int hat.
forward measures of a nature which court 11" f the,,
have the effect of making bolder and stronget- WI;
party whose political extinction the peoples e-inewo 1041
into office to accomplish. So we say nowL.,,";titil''
see this hungry, impudent, and grasping Phia:_f9r
ing round on the Premier, and taunting leaders
giving to them conditions which, their 001 Sit
would never have been able to obtain for the.M•
0°
Peel 6-
Robert has said and done much that 125 VI,
able to the principles of the Liberals.
,-Lle• 9:04;.'
advantage of the pro-eminent position of nin's
his party, but seemed more anxious to colic
his fallen foes than the friends who s°- )60
siastically supported him. Sure we are tha
ht
acted on a firm conviction of being in the rig
of doing all that was best calculated, under
_.JO
circumstances, to promote and establish his count
welfare. No doubt in this he made many ,rsa:• `•
sacrifices—no doubt, by steering a different eoti, of
he might have secured for himself a great announliee
popularity with the faithful friends on whom he
,re,_;Ad
for political power. We did ourselves, with the uttlie[,:;
sincerity of true friendship, express our alarm at •
he „
principles propounded, and disapproval of some
measures introduced by the Tory Government. .-!";!,.,.01';
Radicals, in a paroxysm of petty exultation, WILL
into exclamations of delight at the course they 8811,:
things taking. But what is now their tone ?
pudent calumny and vituperation of the PreoV°urei::'
character and motives. Nothing, they declare, D.
been done—nothing that can satisfy the philosophic,
the enlightened, the foes of farms and friends of fat'
tories. Let this be a lesson. Let men who have
principle—let men who have the destinies of an empiFe.
in their hands—think now that it is time to stop in
this career of concession."

DIONEY—TILADE—COMBIERCX.
The charity of the Royal Free Hospital, Greville-
street, is about to be removed to the extensive prel
mises of Messrs. Seddon in Gray's Inn-lane, forraerly„
the barracks of the City Light Horse Volunteers ;
these premises have been fitted up at a cost of nearlY,
10,0001. for the purpose.
NAVAL, AND MILITARY.
The Telernaque has been sufficiently raised to
ascertain the nature of. her cargo, which is found to
be of timber and tallow. Some metallic substance also
had obstructed the passage of several of the ' harpoons•:.,
Accounts brought by various vessels and steatner#•„,,y;
state that no less than the wreckage of 12 large
sels, and the complete loss of their cargoes has' •
place during the late hurricanes, as as thltil
which have been burnt to the water's edge • upwiirr
of :32 persons are ascertained to have perished in thern!:,
.+,' •
*long with an unknown number in the vessels burnt.
LAW AND POLICE.
Wilmot Buckley, the murderer of his wife at
Helen's, has confessed his crime in the presenceli Of
Mr. Greenall, M.P., and the Superintendent of
the
poce'
and afterwards at the inquest. He stated that
deceased had goaded him to distraction about his

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fernier •
sweetheart in Wigan, and that he pulled his
ne out of his pocket and stabbed her. The Jury,
,v}lollt a moment's hesitation, returned a vcrdict of
'Wilful murder" against the prisoner, who was re-
moved to Kirkdale gaol, to abide his trial at the next
4-ssizes,
st jane Biggerstaff, was finally examined at Worship-
kirfet, with having stolen a large quantity of miscel-
rus Property from different children, and corn-
Itectfor:trial upon four separate charges.
01111-Joliffe a man about 32 years of age wasze-
aniined at the Greenwich police-office, on the charge
fointermarrying with Elizabeth Winterburn, his
truer wife, Maria Joliffe, being still alive. The pri-
"ler .did not deny the offence, and was fully com-
mitted for trial.

In, _ COURT-rAsIZIONABLE.
a l'ue DuOiess of Hamilton is still at Mannheim, on
111'284 to the Grand. Duchess Dowager Stephanie of
thadec l her Grace is expected. in town at the end of
the month.
1,44:1 le Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, and
"Y Charlotte Hill, arrived at Hillsborough Castle
41 Saturday last.
4" The Earl of Zetland will leave Ask Hall, to be inn-
ed Deputy-Grand Master of England, onjMonday
e,,s at Sunderland.
The Earl and Countess Cowper are staying at
algstoNVTl.
GThe Th Earin.,,-, of Courtown has returned to Courtown
70, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Wick-
wi at Shelton Abbey.
c,.l4',rd and Lady Jocelyn have left town for Dublin
'`'l'e where his" I ordship will resume his offi-
ce, ~, . ere J
h' duties as State Steward of the Lord Lieutenant's
°l4!ehold.
tt,,,a•he Earl and Countess of Cardigan have been en-
saicing a select party at Deene Park. His Lord-
pr leaves in a day or two, to inspect his regiment,
Perf
ce Albert's Hussars, at York, which duty he
•
°rlns monthly.
• P, A IVIXSCELLANEOVII.
D .-Lobertson,
Esq. was on Tuesday last elected
1 f, earl of the Faculty Of Advocates at Edinburgh, in
e,r-fluence of the elevation of the late Derin,.Alexan-
"od, Esq., to the bench.
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AW INTELLIGENCE.
. 1 ('s?„15„ l'aws BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
-`,,ings at Nisi Prius, after term, before Mr. Justice
oLeatiaGE, and a Middlesex Special Jury.)
. MURRAY V. ELGER.
. NZ ii was an action brought by the plaintiff, a gentle
residing at 16, George-st., Hanover-square, against
'
iae defendant, for the injury done by him in erect-
,a house at the back of plaintiff's house, by which
of-,,_4ree circulation of light and air in the lowerrooms
,
dire plaintiff's house was obstructed. The plaintiff
the cot claim any special damage, but had brought
fin action with a view of forcing the defendant to re-
elh'se the boarding which . he had erected as a
0, titute fur the hoard, and whichlad occasioned the
°3l,,.rttetion.
ta:ne Solicitor-General, Mr. Platt, and Mr. Mon-
hellBe. Smith, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr.
f 'ger, Mr. Dundas, and Mr.- Watson, for the de-
ant:
J SOLICITOR-GENERAL, having addressed the
kkrrYi called William Ringer and Eliza Williams, who
esjived in plaintiff's service before and after the
th-e 4.11011 of the obstruction, and who deposed that in
thW°wer rooms the light had been diminished,
diw -the walls bad become damp, and that
tio''lc id Yhad arisen in keeping meat since the erec-
-11444 ~°1 the obstruction. Messrs. Sibly, Donaldson,
the f,cYlor, architects and surveyors, deposed as to
they gftrii -occasioned by the obstruction, by which
c,se.' considered that the house had been diminished
to in value. Mr. Symes, the medical
peVidant of the family, deposed that the im-
pl4lent to the free circulation of the air had
Vueed an injurious effect upon the health of
ex • Murray ; and Dr. Ure, who had performed several
had
to determine the' actual diminution which
the
~(41(en place in the amount of light, stated that
h,„ uiminution of light in the lower rooms of the
sv,"se, .occasioned by the erection of the board,
wa,--: SiX degrees, and that when the hoard
ei,„', removed, and the boards substituted the.
pe-miution was three degrees. The obstruction, it ap-
e:ed, had been erected within ten feet of the win-
tin's of the lower rooms of the house. Dr. Ure's tes-
i°,lY. was corroborated by that of Mr. Farraday.
4.,4r- Tnesiceit addressed the Jury in a very inge-
l-tls speech for the defendant, but did not call any
I%ite„,
• es
6it • , Gil summed up, and the Jury
;oh"- -• Justice t.,OLERID
'`l4 a verdict for plaintiff.
.XCHEQUER COURT—Tins DAY.
-IN MACNAMARA V. HULSE AND OTHERS.
as,liis was
an action brought against the defendants
1'a,.t,011„? representatives of the Metropolitan Wood
Plei,-,t4.Qct, Cumpany, for infringing a patent of the
Ti-el.l The case excited considerable interest.
CotlL74tc"'rney-General, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, Mr.
tit. fi".,rci arid Mr. Webster, appeared for the plain-
for'tet -Mr. Kelly, Mr. Warren, and Mr. noggins,
IVe defendants.
• ttiti-e 41-TT" ORNEY-GENERNL, in opening the case,
of •:\erd that the plaintiff had taken out, in the month
PaV-inlirdi, 1837, a patent for certain improvements in
Retv,g,Pitehing, or covering streets, roads, and other
144'; which invention was also applicable to other
to „lit Purposes. The invention was stated by him
and oll,tist in a peculiar manner of cutting " stones
to tai:"9-r materials." It appeared that his plan was
and ''''e a long block, and to slope one half inwards,
tiff other half outwards, on each side. The plain-
and Ir,as an Englishman, now advanced in years ;
aporipis worldly circumstances did not corre-
ract-, with Ins activity and enterprising cha-
%ye-- A plan of wood-paving had been dis-
fore-redi or copied from that of Mr. Macnamara, by a
10.. y leer. For that plan a patent had been taken out
that c Metropolitan Wood-paving Company; and
'...Plan had been adopted in paving a part of
thWhe Leila, Oxford-street, and other parts of
Nis. metropolis, The plan of the Company
twolsted simply in using blocks which, when
lait,ere joined together, resembled one of the
vii I".'S with this exception that the angle in the
than cr slope in the Company's system was greater
act: in the other. The plaintiff now brought this
Dat:ll against the Company for having infringed his
or,,t by imitation.
tlle In Ireland, the first witness called on the part of
41aintiff,produced the specification of his patent.
ps,,,p'a Ilevington, a carpenter, stated that the blocks
tifrsileed in Court were a correct copy of the plain-
frotolcvention ; they had been drawn by witness
tee 4" specification and certain directions he had
'riled from the plaintiff.
krchi°l-11as Donaldson stated that he was professor of
of thlecture at the London University, and Chairman
rirtlw Commissioners of Sewers. The angles in the
tioil ings 'which accompanied the plaintiff's specifica-
diqdwere but a slight divergence from the perpen-
tw4ar. 'Witness saw no substantial difference be-
kite„tl4l3locks such as those specified in the plaintiff's
C!otn"'• and the blocks used by the Metropolitan Paving
thorP443'., as . laid down in Whitehall and other
olighfares. •
tiqertils-examined by Mr. KELLY—The system spe-
-14,, 4,"3' the plaintiff would be much more expensive
ler the other, inasmuch as it would require much
(r blocks. , .
kiier the examination of several other witnesses
•f re plaintiff,
the 41...„.1C.xt.Ly proceeded to address the Court for
tens- ' eitlndants and had not concluded when our
'olr left. '
ENT COURT—(THIS DAY.)
„The ii,D, , IN RE JOHN EDWARD LOWE.
t'l Mr. F6,,vent had been a clerk in the employmentH
also ;1 d ;„%-urner, solicitor, of Bedford-square. e
itiliton ~;;,:ngagement in the Six Clerks'-office.His
, alr. w- suPported by Mr. Cooke.
.‘" n ' °°llllueee appeared on behalf of Mr. Tur-
tilai. rn t,lle. ground of a breach of trust. It appeared
e.tile,n'anter being several years in the employment of
aitll.iirs'cg creditor, the insolvent was entrusted
the or: receipt of the several outstanding debts of
and r.e, which he was required to enter in a diary,
Neve.2alterwards transfer to the seneral accounts.
Turf_4l defalcations having been discovered by Mr.
render, the insolvent left his employment without
then .I,llg a clear statement of the moneys received,
partfi.es-a!r. Turner, for the purpose of knowing those
14stit - ''° whom he was indebted, and not wishing to
Ilia, ililte criminal proceedings, was compelled to sue
the, 1 equity. To this the insolvent pleaded, and
. AI-114. Turner
costs had accumulated.
severe
.-Lurner said he did not wish to press for any
Which illdgment under the unhappy circumstances in
Ber `ne insolvent was placed—his wife being dan-
_, cies], ~
tltity t•Y 111. All he wanted was to discharge his
repetiti° the profession generally by preventing a
Alt °on °l' such conduct.
kted. -`sPromissioner lLtanis said Mr. Turner had
ehergew,slth much kindness in not pressing even the
order thc'e'liv.exatious defence, and be should, therefore,
.. . ischarge of the insolvent.
l'fa. :- • IN RE BEERY CAMPBELL.
[Nei 41S01Vellt had been a very extensive wholesale
tion - --aud tea-dealer in Thames-street. His peti-
W 1 148 ATP() a •
e.h,: , se in person by a creditor named.
1/4)1v,,t4 IYLI.O stated that about a month before the in-
flood. -•Was arrested he gave him (Wells) an order for
4 114%4 - the amount of about 2701., and also bought
Th_e
Alma phaeton worth 801.
prov7„lurtlier hearing was adjourned, in order to
niter4laiti; tehertin.solvent.was possessed .of reversionary
e am premises at Highgate.
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Iiii:1811%,,
,T.At .-Lad evening a gentleman, named
on :me tiuvered a lecture at the Adelaide Gallery
live 41111111 i erism, and convinced a numerous and atten-
ks ever ell,re that
.the subject remains. as mysterious
iile certainly threw no new light upon it.