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THE SUN, LONDON; MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1842.

been most exemplary and while he can boast of
that, he will do his duty towards them as he has
hitherto chine it, and continue to tax the bread
of his starving neighbours. I-Ie and the rest of
the landlords will be just towards the people
when they are convinced it is not safe to be
otherwise, and not before.

The Irish are a grateful people. The affec-
tionate regard they still entertain for Lord NOR-
MANDY, the first Lord Lieutenant that meted out
to them even-handed justice, their public demon-
stration of regret at the departure of Lord
EBRINQTON, who followed in his footsteps, and
their still warmer attachment to Lord MORPETH,
who acted but a subordinate part in the great
work of reconciling contending factions, are
incontrovertible proofs of their generous and
ardent dispositions. The electors of Dublin,
on Friday last, paid another high, com-
pliment to this noble and amiable statesman, and
seem determined, if they cannot have him as
Secretary, to make him at least their represen-
tative. A private meeting of the friends of the
Liberal interest was held on that day, the LORD
MAYOR in the chair, when it was unanimously
resolved to put Lord MORPETH in nomination,
and in a few moments 1,0001. was subscribed to
defray the expenses of the election. Will the elec-
tors of the West Riding of Yorkshire be behind
the people of Dublin ? Let them subscribe
also, and they will still have him as their repre-
sentative also in the House of Commons. A
great public meeting of the inhabitants of Dub-
lin has been announced for to-day, when we are
convinced such a demonstration will be made as
will leave little doubt as to the result. Whether
Lord MORPETH accept the offer or not, this
public mark of respect will be gratifying to his
feelings, and do him and the electors of Dublin
()Teat honour.

The Speech delivered by the Regent of
SPAIN, at the opening of the annual session of
the Cortes at Madrid, on the 26th ult., published
in another part of The Sun, is a well-arranged
business document; and its perusal will afford
great pleasure to all who take an interest in
the consolidation of the peace and the growing
prosperity of Spain. There are topics, how-
ever, upon which it greatly disappoints public
curiosity. A mystery is observed respecting
the chief originators of the rebellion ; the
correspondence between Senor OLOZAGA and
Madame Muxoz is not so much as alluded
to; nothing is said of the executions that
took place; and the quarrel between Spain and
the Holy See is spoken of incidentally as an
affair of secondary, or rather of no moment.
But' upon other, and perhaps more really
important, matters the Speech is exceedingly
explicit. It announces the conclusion of
friendly Treaties between Spain and three of the
South American Republics; the negotiation of a
treaty with Portugal for the navigation of the
Douro, and another with France for preventing
the violation of the Aldudes. The British Go-
vernment having given satisfaction to Spain for
the cutting out of the vessel at. Carthagena,
the REGENT has no further ground of
complaint on that score. The speech, after
briefly noticing the suppression of the late
rebellion, and the declaring Barcelona in a
state of siege, proceeds to state that the con-
struction of the public roads, suspended by the
civil wars, has been resumed, that bridges have
been ordered to be built, and every measure
taken to facilitate safe inland communica-
tion, and promote the interests of com-
merce. The Government has also directed its
attention to the establishment of normal schools
of education ; and various measures are in pre-
paration for enforcing the execution of justice,
and effectual administration of the laws. The
proper maintainance of the clergy, the punish-
ment of frauds in the collection of the pub-
lic revenue, a general review of the Customs,
Tariffs, and other taxes, and the appropriation of

funds for honourably discharging the public

debt, are all measures recommended to the
serious attention of the Cortes. The Courts of
justice are to be re-modelled, a necessary and
most useful measure, and efforts are to.be trade

improve the commercial navy of Spain. The

only harsh measure recommended in the speech
is one for restraining the licentiousness of
the Spanish Press—a measure which we are
deeply pained to state is loudly called for by the
abuses of some of the Spanish Metropolitan
Journals. In some of these Papers we have
recently seen articles openly advocating another
revolution, the suppression of the Regency, and
the abolition of the Constitution of 1837.

The conclusion of the Speech is full of spirit,
arid well calculated to make a deep impression
on the grave national heart of Spain. Address-
ing the Cortes, the REGENT says Your mis-
sion is serious, and tends to regenerate the
nation, and the book of immortality reservesyou
a golden page. Depend upon my efforts and

the honest heart of a soldier, who always fought
for the liberty and glory of his country. Let us
draw closer the bonds of a sincere and consolidat-
ing union, and let us consolidate the Constitu-
tional throne of a young QUEEN, whose name has
always vanquished the enemies of liberty."

This is excellent advice ; and now conies the
best possible reason why the Cortes should fol-

low it. In the REGENT'S continuation we have
the very climax of patriotism :—" I have no
ambition for myself. My life belongs to my
country, and the glory of serving it with honour
forms my patrimony. May the existing Consti-
tution, the Throne of the young ISABELLA, the
national independence, and the Government
framed according to the wishes of the nation, be
the programme of our fidelity, and the point of
departure whence to direct the legislative la-
bours towards the consolidation of a strong and
just Government; which, resisting the snares of
ambitious factions, may secure for ever the pros-
perity and happiness of the nation !"
This is surely not the language of the man
whom the French zepresenfed as the betrayer of
Queen CHRISTINA, in order to usurp the throne
of her august daughter. These, on the contrary
are the sentiments of a soldier and a patriot.
There was a time when we doubted the honesty -
of ESPARTERO) but that time has not been since
the flight of Madame illinvoz into France. That
was a result to which we felt patriotism must
have contributed.

The speech is silent on the subject of the
differences between the REGENT and NI. SAL-
VANDY, the French Ambassador, respecting the

presentation of the latter's credentials. His Ex-
cellency, to avoid the mortification of an exclu-
sion from the Ambassadors' seat in the Cortes,
visited Toledo and La Granja on the 25th and

*26th ult. This whole affair, on the part of
France, would be very ridiculous, were it not
well understood that the object of the Ambas-
sador's presentation to the young QUEEN is to
prepare the way for surrounding her with the
French Camarillo, who made such a dupe ofher
mother.

The whole of the French Journals of Friday
and Saturday have been received. They are
chiefly occupied with the Speech of the PRESI-
DENT of the United States at the opening of
Congress. Their comments amount to this :
That Great Britain cannot persist in exercis-
ing a right of search in the case of American
vessels engaged in the slave trade, without pro-
voking a war with that Republic.
The Borsenhalle, under date of Stockholm, 14th inst.,
states that an annual pension of 2,000 rix-dollars banco
of Hamburg, has been granted to Baron Rothschild, for-
merly envoy at Copenhagen.
The Diario di Roma states that the Prince of Monaco
was received by the Pope on the 19th inst.
The Gazette de France says—" 'The establishment of
a Viceroy in Algiers, in the person of the Duke de Ne-
mours, is again talked of, and the mission of General de
Rumigny is said to be for the purpose of making the ne-
cessary administrative arrangements."
We find the following in the Handelsblad of Amster-
dam :—" The Governor-General of the Dutch settle-
ments in the East Indies has announced that, in virtue
of a Royal Decree, the Western India Bank at Surinam
was again authorised to issue its paper, from which it
has been interdicted since 1831. The cholera morbus is
making great ravages in the island of Java, and the
other islands of the Indian Archipelago, whilst the
islands to the north west of Timor are so reduced by fa-
mine, that upwards of 300 natives have died from this

terrible scourge, although the Government had afforded
them large supplies of provisions."
The Temps says, " A rumour was current yesterday
evening, that an ex-Deputy, who is now Editor of an
ultra-Radical Paper, had been arrested in consequence
of the new investigations of the Court of Peers. This
rumour does not appear to us to be probable. We be-
lieve that all the persons who have been arrested belong
to the working classes. We are assured that in the
course of yesterday the Court ordered new arrests.
Owing to the rumours in circulation, the approaches to
the Luxembourg have been crowded with curious per-
sons. The Journals which have announced the removal
of the prisoners from the Luxembourg for Doullens and
Mont St. Michel have been misinformed as to the mode
in which they have been disposed of. According to the
order of the Court of Peers, Dupoty, Bazin, Boggio, and
Mallet have been sent to ullens ; and Petit, Jarrasse,
Dufour, and Launois. to Mont St. Michel." The Debuts
states that the wife of Colombier was interrogated yes-
terday by Baron Pasquier. -
A few days ago, says a Brussels paper, as two men
who had dug up some carrots in a field at Mariakerke,
and were preparing to carry them off, a man armed with
a fowling-piece made his appearance, and desired the
thieves to lay down their booty and retire. On their
refusal he fired, and one of them fell. He died of his
wounds on the following day, and the other thief has
been arrested.

The Journal de Bruges contains an account of the
murder of a poor woman, aged 69, at Saint Requiers,
during the absence of her husband, who was at church.
The murderers carried off a sum of ten sous, which was
all the money in the possession of this poor couple.
A good deal of snow has recently fallen on the Jura,
and in some places on the Lyons and Geneva road it has
drifted from 15 to 20 feet in depth.
Cardinal Mattei, -the Minister of .the Interior, and Pre-
sident of the Board of Health at Rome, has lately issued
an ordonnance whereby the physicians and surgeons of
all the public establishments in the Papal dominions are
bound to vaccinate all persons admitted into these re-
spective houses. The same is to be done for the troops
and persons confined in prisons. Days are appointed for
the vaccination of the poor gratuitously, and measures
are prescribed for isolating all persons affected with the
small. pox.

A letter from Ajaccio mentions that a notorious ban-
dit, named. Stefanini, of Sari d'Orcino, in Corsica, who
had taken refuge in Sardinia, had returued to the island
with another bandit, and carried off by force the Mayor
of Sari, demanding 4,400 f. for his ransom. Orders had
been given for a company of the Corsican Voltigeurs to
go in search of the malefactors, but they had been un-
successful, and the Mayor still remained in the hands of
Stefanini.

About four months ago, Letang, a chaser by trade,
married a young woman from mutual affection. The
bride was so brought up that she had a peculiar horror
of drunkenness, and perceiving, three days ago, that her
husband was, when he came home to her in the evening,
somewhat heated with liquor, determined to watch him.
Next day she went to the shop where he worked to in-
quire fur him, and learnt that he had not been there for
two days. This intelligence had such an effect upon her
that she lost her reason, and determined to destroy her-
sel£ Instead of returning home, she first went up the
stairs of a house in the Rua Maubuee, but, not finding it
suit her purpose, came down again, and, entering No.
43, in the Rue des Blanes Manteaux, ascended to the
fourth story, opened the window on the landing-place,
bound a handkerchief over her eyes, and threw herself
down into the street. This did not cause immediate
death, but she was carried, with both her legs broken, to
the Hotel-Dieu, where she has undergone amputation,
and now lies in imminent danger.
The architectural and internal decorations of the new
Chamber of Peers are all finished, except the allegorical
paintings of the Conference-room, but the sittings will
not be held in the new hall till the middle of next month.
The construction of this building has cost 300,000 f.,
and the ornamental sculpture and paintings 800,000 f.
It was commenced in 1837, and has been four years in
execution. The new Chamber in which the sittings
are to be held is placed between the archives-room and
a spacious library, with windows looking into the gar-
den. The cabinets for the President and the Grand Re-
ferendary, and the committee-rooms, are to the right and
left of the Chamber. The ceiling is both rich and grand.
The four pendentives are ornamented with figures of
Wisdow, Justice, Law, and the country, executed by M.
Abel de Pujol. The three grand 'medallions, and the six
window compartments, representing Prudence, Truth,
and Confidence, and the six most illustrious law-givers
of the ancients—Moses, Draco, Solon, Lycurgus, Numa,
and Justinian, are by M. Vauehelet. On each side of
the semicircle, in which the President's chair is to be
placed, are two allegorical paintings by M. Blonde'. To-
wards the centre of the ceiling, in six medallions round
the opening, to permit the passage of the chandelier, are
the profiles in bronze of Charles V., Louis XII., Fran-
cois 1., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis XVIII. The
gilding and accessory ornaments by Messrs. Adam Bro-
thers. The Minister of Public Works, the Commission
of Monuments, and a great number of Peers and Depu-
ties, have highly congratulated M. Gisors, under whose
direction the whole has been accomplished.
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HOMICIDE AND SUICIbE.—It is observed, in a

letter published in a Weekly Journal, that
suicide and • homicide very often go together.
The writer, a Mr. Sampson, quotes a consider-
able number of instances in which murder has
been committed from a disregard of the mur-
derer's own life, or an actual desire to get rid of
it. Our Journal of Saturday evening recorded
such a case at Mansfield, which will add to the
number of the writer's illustrations. From the
connection he notices, he draws a conclusion that
capital punishments, by gratifying the desire of
suicide, encourage and promote murder. If that be
a just conclusion, what a commentary does it
supply on the wisdom of our law-makers!
There is undoubtedly some truth in the obser-
vation, and it makes apparent a most benefiCial
change in the character of man. At present no
inconsiderable number of murders arc commit-
ted from this morbid desire to get rid of the
monomaniac's own existence, which will proba-
bly terminate when the law ceases to supply its
gratification. But whatever may now be the
case, undoubtedly in former times life was fre-
quently taken from jealousy, from revenge, and
from avarice, with a view to obtain worldly en-
joyments by committing the crime. The remark
of the author we have referred to shows that
crimes of violence in modern times from such
motives are much rarer than is generally sup-
posed. That is the beneficial change in the ~char-
acter of man, which his remark makes obvious.
POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY.—We gave
a favourable notice of this work when it was
published, and we are glad to find that every
London journal that afterwards adverted to it
has expressed unqualified approbation of the
plan and execution of the publication. Messrs.
Kelly and Co. deserve great credit for having
produced a Directory which surpasses any that
has yet appeared. The press is unanimous in its
favour, and we have no doubt that when the
public have an opportunity of judgitig of its
merits, they will find that the press, in this in-
stance, states the truth.
The Marylebone Vestry have come to the
sage conclusion of postponing the question
of wood pavement for Oxford-street for a
period of three years. This was carried
by a majority of only two. We recommend
the inhabitants to resent this insult offered
to the deputation by calling a public meeting
without delay. Let them persevere, and they
will compel this speechifying vestry to act as
well as to speak. To postpone the consideration
of such an important subject for so long a period,
is a disgrace to the inhabitants of this large
district.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
The third Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, dur-
ing the present Mayoralty, commenced this morning, at
the Justice Hall, at the Old' Bailey.
At ten o'clock the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Alder-
man Sir Chapman Marshall, Alderman Lainson, the
Sheriffs, the Under-Sheriffs, and the other City autho-
rities, took their seats upon the bench, and the Court
was opened with the usual formalities.
The Grand Jury having been impanelled and sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded briefly to address them or
their duties, the performance of which would not, he was
happy to state, according to present appearances, detain
them so long as was sometimes the case. The cases that
were brought before them were for the most part of an
ordinary character. There was one case, however, to
which he would direct their attention for a few moments.
It was on a charge of feloniously uttering forged notes.
It was perfectly possible that a person might be inno-
cently iu possession of forged notes, and might attempt
to pass them without knowing they were forged,
therefore the mere fact of possession could not be
taken as an assumption of guilt. It was for them
to decide whether the previous circumstances deposed to
in the case, such as that the party charged had made a
previous unsuccessful attempt to pass the same note, ar-
gued a guilty knowledge on the part of the accused.
H e was sorry to observe that the Calendar contained
six charges of cutting and maiming, none of which,
however, presented any legal difficulties. He would
not detain them longer, but at once remit them to the
execution of their duties.
The Grand Jury then retired.
The Calendar contains the names of 162 prisoners, of
whom 21 are committed from the City of London ; 111
from the county of Middlesex ; 14 from Rent ; and 16
from Surrey. There are four charges of cutting and
maiming from Middlesex, and two from Surrey.

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The most interesting foreign event reported this
morning is the Speech of the Regent of Spain at open-
ing the Collies of the Kingdom on the 26th ult. This
speech is very pacific, and altogether of a most satis-
factory character.
New Year's-day in Paris is a festival never dese-
crated by any public business, so that • our accounts
from the capital of that date are but records of courtly
and official visits and addresses to which we have only
space for a passing reference.
The Univers states that orders have been sent to M.
de Salvandy to demand his passports immediately, and
I to return to France with all the persons of his embassy,
if Espartero does not withdraw his pretensions in refus-
ing to the French Ambassador the right of delivering
his credentials to the Queen of Spain in person.
A commission, composed of three Peers, and of Messrs.
Pinsonniere, Jouffroy, Felix Real, De Corcelles, d'Ar-
blay, Gustave de Beaumont, Musson (du Lot et Garonne),
Laurence, Filleau de Sainte Hilaire, Director of Colo-
nies at the Ministry of the Marine, General Bellonet, of
the Engineers, and M. Linguay, as Secretary. has been
appointed to take into consideration all questions relat-
ing to the colonisation of Algeria.
A letter from Berlin of the 22d ult. says :—The de-
parture of the King of Prussia for London is now defini-
tively fixed for the 16th of January next. He sups the
first night in Magdeburg, whence he proceeds to Hagen,
and arrives on the 19th, by way of Aix-la-Chapelle, at
Liege. On the 20th he will reach Ostend, where a Go-
vernment steamer will be in readiness to receive him, and
he will reach London on the 21st. The suite of his Ma-
jesty will not be so numerous as several German papers
have represented. It will consist of Generals Ratzmer
and Von Neuman, the celebrated traveller and author
Alexander Von Humboldt, and Count Stolberg, the Ca-
binet Councillor Muller and the Marshal of the Palace
Von Meyerinck.
Accounts from Lisbon of the 27th ult. report that the
elections have terminated in Portugal in the complete
triumph of the Ministers.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Chronicle contains an article the hints
for which have been furnished by Sir James Graham's
late speech at Dorchester. In this article our Contem-
porary says :—" The paltry trickery of Sir James Gra-
ham will be but of slender benefit to his leader. The
country is not now in a mood to be trifled with. Sir
Robert Peel must make his election between the people
and the Monopolists. He is in a false position, from
which he cannot, by any degree of ingenuity be ex-
tricated."
With reference to an article in the New Farmer's
Journal, which is one of the organs of the landed in-
terest, theAdvertiserobserves:—"The Monopolists are not
wanting in sufficient foresight to perceive that it is a
dangerous thing to make even a show of reform in the
details of a bad system ; their policy, therefore, is to
resist, as long as they can hold out the approach of even a
fallacious reform."
The Morning Herald recommends the Dublin electors
to lose not a moment in selecting some stiff-necked Tory
to represent them in Parliament • and specially exhorts
them to oppose Lord Morpeth's election by every means
in their power.
The Times is exceedingly out of humour with the
Anti-Corn-law agitators, and says:—" We can tell these
gentry that the snore fiercely they preach a crusade
against the landed interest, the more absolutely do they
detach from all sympathy with them and their exertions
the large class of honourable and respectable British
merchants who are as ardent as themselves in their oppo-
sition to the Corn-laws."
The Liverpool Chronicle, commenting upon the pom-
pous announcement of the Morning Herald on the " fa-
mily residence of the Lyndhursts," observes :—" That
Lord Lyndhurst has advanced himself from a mud cot-
tage to Great George-street is much to his credit. We
admire him for it, and we can afford to say it as we ad-
mire him for nothing else, but still that does not at all
lessen the folly and absurdity of the Morning Herald.
We marvel too who composed the select party. "
The growth of Anti-Corn-law principles and their
gradual extension in England is dwelt upon by the
South Wales Advertiser thus :—" It is not many months
since our Parliament refused even to consider the ques-
tion relating to the effects of the Corn-laws--they would
not hear evidence as to their operation, neither would
they consent with any degree of patience to their discus-
sion. Now; how stands the case? Why, one of the most in-
fluential supporters of those laws, a County Conservative
Member, stands up before a meeting of landowners and
says--, Parliament is now obliged to entertain the ques-
tion, and whatever we may think as to the prudenee or
policy of Parliament entering into this discussion, it is
not in our power any longer to resist it. I would ask you,
as practical men, as men not merely well acquainted with
agnculthre, but well versed in general public affairs,
can you, in the present state of public feeling, refuse any
longer to consider in detail the existing Corn-laws.' "
The Bristol Mercury in dilating upon class distinctions
of the first, second, and third class Railway trains; re-
marks—" On our Great Western Railway, how admirably
are the gradations of society preserved I The thirty-shil-
ling aristocrats 101 l upon luxurious couches, securely
protected from wind and weather ; the one-and-
twenty-shilling shopocrats sit upon uncovered seats,
exposed to all the" skyey influences,' antici-
pating that draughts will lead to draughts, and
indulging in doleful visions of stiff necks, sore throats,
coughs, catarrhs, doctors, and doctors',bills ; whilst the
twelve-shilling mobocracy, coming under the denomina-
tion of the swinish multitude,' are appropriately packed
off with the pigs in the luggage-train ! Nor does the
distinction end here. The two former classes are whirled
the whole distance in four hours, whilst those to whom
time is, emphatically, money, are detained on the road
for twelve ! '
The distress in Paisley, and the methods now using
towards its relief are thus stated by the Scotsman of
Saturday:—" Amidst the overwhelming sufferings to
which this town and its neighbourhood has for these last
six months been exposed, it is even a satisfaction to ob-
serve that the last week's increase of applicants for sup-
plies of food is only sixty-three—which makes the total
number depending upon the Relief Committee for a
very bare subsistence, 13,303. To-morrow is the day
appointed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh for an extra•
ordinary collection to be made, forenoon and afternoon
in all the Established Churches of the city and neigh-
bourhood,"

The meeting held at Dublin, last Friday, on the ap.
proaching election for that city, and the conduct of the
Liberals in their fervent display for the cause of Lord
Morpeth, is highly eulogised by the Dublin Evening Post,
which thus continues:—" The resolutions of that meeting
will be read in every part of Ireland—in every part of
England, and in Yorkshire particularly, with exultation.
There is no second opinion as to the propriety and the
policy of selecting the Nominee—for Candidate he can-
not be called. His high talents—his noble character—
his eminently amiable demeanour—these are qualities
and attributes acknowledged by all, and by none more
readily than the gentlemen of the Conservative party."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
A silk manufacturer at Basle, in Switzerland, writes
that in that town all the silk-trade houses are busy to
the utmost, and remarks that as good workmen are get-
ting scarce and troublesome there, our own factories
might send a re-inforcement.

At a meeting of the unemployed Spitalfields weavers,
held at Bethnal-green on Saturday, the hardship of
putting weavers to stone-breaking at the poor-house was
bitterly complained of. A representation was unani-
mously resolved to be made to the Poor-law Com-
missioners.

Six French vessels laden with wheat were entered at
the Plymouth Custom-house last Monday. Their car-
goes amounted to 458 tons. The duty is now 225. Bd. per qr.

COMMERCIAL REPO RIVI.
At a Corn-law meeting last week at Maidstone, a letter
from a resident gentleman was read, stating that sixteen
f►milies in that locality had refused to sign the petition
for a repeal of the Corn laws " because to do so," they
said, " would lose them their election money."

ECCLESIASTICAL.
The monastery on Mount Carmel is to be repaired,
and the King and Queen of the French have given 1,500
francs for that purpose.

EX.ECTIONEERING.
The signatures to the West Riding address of York-
shire to be presented to Lord Morpeth on his return to
this country, al ready numbers 25,050, and the subscrip-
tions amount to 1,4301. 9s. 3id.
The succession of Lord Boscawen (son of the late
Earl of Falmouth) to his father's honours, 'creates a
vacancy in the representation of West Cornwall.
About twenty individuals of the citizens of Dublin, at
a meeting held there last Friday, subscribed 1,0001. to
secure Lord Morpeth's return. The determination ex-
hibited by the Liberals to start his Lordship has caused
Mr. Vance to retire. The Lord Mayor is active in those
admirable proceedings.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A Liverpool man last week, anxious to enter the East
India service, but unqualified by being one-eighth of an
inch under the standard height, fixed a ball of wax
covered with hair on his head, and thereby passed, but
on detection was discharged from the corps.
iThe decoration of the Red Eagle has been conferred
on Admiral Walker, of the Turkish service, by the King
of Prussia.

LAW AND POLICE.
The session for the Central Criminal Court commenced
this morning at the Old Bailey, being the 87th, and third
during the present Mayoralty. The calendar contains
about 120 prisoners : two cases are of a very serious
nature, the others are chiefly common larcenies.

PINE
Charles IL, when pensioner of the French Court, had
given orders that the national bust of Britannia for the
coin of the realm should be an exact likeness of the
Duchess of Portsmouth, the French Courtezan, and her
Grace was about to sit for it, but Nell Gwynne prostrated
herself in the King's way, and admonished him against
it. Accordingly the bust of Miss Byron, a celebrated
beauty and virtuous lady, was adopted in its stead. This
coin is esteemed a gem.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
A scientific soiree was held by Dr. Mantell on Clap-
ham Common last week-250 persons were present. -
Of Literary Ambassadors, three have of late been very
eminent men, viz. Niebuhr, the historian at the Court of
Rome; Dr. Bunser, his successor, author of " The Ro-
man Forum," whose wife, Madame Bunsen, is an English-
woman, and one of the co-heiresses of a wealthy Welsh
iron-master, the other daughter married Sir Benjamin
Hall, the Member for Marylebone ;:and, lastly, Mr. Eve-
rett, one of the most distinguished of the American
literati, the new Minister for the Cabinet of the -United
States.