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augh.)—There being no further business before the
meeting, thanks were voted to the Chairman and Direc-
tors, and the meeting adjourned.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS'

/ROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—Everybody must be struck with the
complacency with which Sir James Graham talks of
his colleagues and himself ; and the contrast between
this complacency and the absence of any cause for it
known to the public, is equally striking. The most
sterile of all Ministries is, nevertheless, the most
self-complacent. With what unction Sir James
talks of the Premier, the Duke, and himself 1 Yet,
except a barefaced attempt to take the credit of
the Anti-slavery Treaty, be does not produce a single
good deed done or intended, as a pretext for his unc-
tuous complaisance. " Look at me and my col-
leagues—did you eyer see the like of us?'' Yet not
one good thing can he adduce. " Did ye ever," said
a happy father, addressing a Scotch hostess, " did ye
ever see sic a sight in your house before, as me and my
three sons a' placed ministers o' the Kirk o' Scotland ?"
" Never, Sir," was the reply of the dame, remembering
that none of her guests could preach a good sermon,
" but once, when I had a Highland piper and his three
sons o' Highland pipers, and deil a tune amang them."
Of all the Administrations which have held power of
late years, none has equalled the present in sterility of
ideas. Their friends, when saying the best they can
for them, hare merely hinted they still have sense
enough to adopt parts or imitations of the measures of
the men they have displaced. Ideas of their own they
have not, nor pretend to have. Nobody knows what
they will do, nor does any one of themselves know. Sir
James Graham only seems to think it clever to vapour
about how soon and readily they will resign. Search
the universe, and you will not find a more con-
temptible sight than a purposeless Government
And the Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel is purposeless.
Observers, who have Tory friends, know that they
always consist of two kinds—men who wish to retake
power which has been conceded to the people and men
who wish to concede still more power to democracy.
In Ireland there are men resolute for taking away
the grant to Maynooth, and those who are bent on
conciliating the priests by increasing the grant and
giving endowments to the entire priesthood. Yet these
men of opposite purposes both belong to the Govern-
ment party. Scotland has Conservatives determined to
give up their party if a power is not given to the people
in the election of their clergymen ; and the strength
of Scotch Toryism lies in the patrons from whom this
power must be wrung. How long will these men hang
together? In England, an active and zealous body of
Tories are Ultra-Protestants, who have societies all over
the land for agitating against Romanism. Another, and
a more powerful body of Tories, are banded together to
make the Church of England more like the Church of
Rome. Can these persons continue to pursue the same
path 7—to form companies of the same army in the same
war ? We trow not. Again, in the last general elec-
tion the rallying cry of the Tory party was, the preser-
vation of the Corn•laws untouched. Already the
altering of these laws is reckoned a certain thing—per-
haps prematurely enough. Undoubtedly, however, the
Tory party is divided on this very matter, and consists
of free-traders, who feel the necessity of concessions to
allay the distresses and the discontents of the manufac-
turing interests—and of bigots of aristocracy, who
menace the Government with destruction the instant a
reforming hand is lifted up against their monopoly.
STANDARD.—That the public distress has had
some influence upon the revenue, if not in producing
the whole or any considerable part of the Excise de-
crease, at least in preventing an km: ease, which the
great increase in the other sources of revenue would
seem to promise, we aro not disposed to deny. The
sinking of the edifice is first felt by those en the
ground floor, and they are unhappily the last to
emerge from it. The humbler classes, the great con-
sumers of exciseable commodities, are always the
earliest in sufering by general distress, and the latest
to enjoy a recovered prosperity. That the nation is re-
covering is proved by the signal improvement in the
Customs' revenue. Allowing, as we have done, that
some of this improvement is borrowed from the Exciso,
still an improvement in the Customs, at the rate of
1,658,000/. per annum, ,manifests a wonderful aug-
mentation of public confidence, and a corresponding
revival of foreign trade—the trade upon which so
many tell us the happiness and security of the country
depends. It will not 4p to say that this improvement
in the Customs is all the produce of corn duties, be-
cause it is an increase upon a quarter of the same year
in which 1,200,000/. was received in corn duties ; and if
414,000/., or any great proportion of it, has been realised
upon corn duties,—much of these dufes being col-
lected at the rate of one shilling the quarter,—what is
to be said of the practical exclusion of foreign corn, It
is idle, however, to pursue the inquiry further, until we
shall have before us the particular details. We have
now but to congratulate our fellow-subjects upon the
first financial fruits of Sir Robert Peel's Government,
the enjoyment to which for many years they have been
unaccustomed, of a well-grounded prospect of improve-
ment in the revenue of the country.
COURIER.—We do not seek to justify the indis-
cretion, for it scarcely amounts to more, committed by
the Herald in fixing the imputations falsely current in
public rumour with apparently so much distinctness on
one or two noble persons, and two there were equally
answering by title and other circumstances to the one de-
scriptive process employed; but we may be allowed to say
that had the existence of such rumours only been referred
to, without personal application, the Herald was no more
than in the just performance of its duty towards the
public, not only without prejudice to individuals, but
the reverse, for the notice of such rumours would
have led to more particular inquiry on all sides, and
thus parties injuriously and falsely implicated, but still
in ignorance of the privately circulated slander by
which their fair fame was hourly being assailed, would
come to cognisance of the fact through some friend
or other, so as to enable them at once to meet the ca-
lumny, and vindicate their reputation, What most
surprises us, in the otherwise proper retractation of the
Herald, is the terms in which made, at least so far as
the first paragraph, as follow :—" In our paper of the
21st ult. we noticed upon authority, on which we have
been accustomed to place implicit reliance, the exist-
ence of rumours relative to the Exchequer bill fraud,
which we were assured had gained an extensive circu-
lation in the City. The result of inquiries which we
subsequently instituted on the subject now leads
us to the conviction that we have been im-
posed upon, and that such rumours hsd gained
no such circulation as our informant confidently
. stated." We can; only say that the Herald,
imposed upon at all, was grossly so, but not certainly
by the informant by whom the " existence of the ru-
mours"! as'l”serted and their circulation in the City.
The " Inquiries instituted" must have been conducted
in a strange fashion to lead to the " conviction" that
the rumours alluded to "had gained no such circulation"
as stated. Ifor in fact they were unfortunately the
talk even in taverns of public resort. From the moment
that the rumours were first guardedly broached in the
Times we ourselves heard them broadly connected with
names, not in the City merely, but in the west end of
this metropolis. We sincerely rejoice that at length
they have been disposed of, as the base fabrications of
calumny for which there existed not the slightest foun-
dation.

The last of the royal mail steamers, the Teviot,
proceeds steadily in her equipment, and will complete
the six furnished by the Clyde builders for that splendid
undertaking. _

The Duchess of Kent has been pleased to di-
rect that a shawl, similar to those lately made for her
Majesty, shall be made for her by the inmates of the
Royal Victoria Asylum for the Blind, Newcastle,—Tyne
Mercury.
' It has reached its that their Serene Highnesses
the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg, uncle of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, and the Dowager Duchess
of Saxe Coburg Gotha, will unavoidably be absent
from the christening of the Prince of 'Wales. It
is said his Excellency Baron Gersdorif, the Saxon.
Minister, will have the honour to officiate as represent-
ative of his Serene highness as one of the sponsors, and
we believe her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
will act for the Dowager Duchess.
THE PEussrAN EMEASSIti—The personnel
of the Prussian legation have removed to his Excellency
Chevalier Bunsen's mansion (recently Lord Stuart de
Rothesay's),on Carlton-house-terrace, whereßaron Canitz
and Baron Schlenits have taken up their residence.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. s.—(From a Correspon-
dent.)—The Jenny Jones arrived from London on the
2d. About twenty miles east of Tuskar fell in with her
Majesty's steamer Avon, hence to Plymouth, on fire ;
remained by her for about an hour, when the fire was
got under by ripping up the decks. The Avon then bore
away for Milford.

It appears the candidate who was expected to
come forward on the Tory side for Dublin was Lord Jo-
celyn, but he would not meet the support of the mode-
rates of nis party, and is besides engaged for Lynn.
The deputation from the Dublin Orangemen has arrived
in London, to " fish up," somewhere or other, a rich
squeezeable" candidate. Amongst others to whom,
in the desperation of the Orangeman, it is said they are
likely to apply, is Mr, Colquhoun

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ADMIRALTY COURT, Jun. 5.

THE OCEAN QUEEN.

This was a motion to arrest a vessel under the 3d and
4th Victoria, c. 65. The vessel was built and registered
at New Brunswick, and was the property of a firm
carrying on business at Liverpool, in Nova Scotia.
Having arrived in the Mississippi, to obtain goods on
freight. the master left the vessel in the river, and went
up to New Orleans to see if freight could be procure',
and there applied to the house of Lizardi and Co. for
advice and as:L3tance. He had goods on board, taken at
Panama, and under the American navigation law he had
rendered his vessel liable to seizure and condemnation in
an American port ; whereupon Lizardi and Co. advised
him to put to sea again, but he wanted funds to pay for
necessaries, and neither he nor his owners had any credit
at New Orleans. Lizardi and Co. accordingly advanced
the necessary funds, amounting to 250/., for which the

master gave bills of exchange payable in London, but
they were refused acceptance by the owners at Nova
Scotia. The :vessel had now arrived in the port of
London, and a warrant of arrest had been applied for on
behalf f Lizardi and Co., who had a house in London,
which the registrar had refused to issue, on the ground
that the 6th section of the Act gave this Court jurisdic•
tion in such cases only over " foreign ships or sea-going
vessels." It was contended that the word " or." being
disjunctive, placed all " sea-going vessels" within the
jurisdiction.
Dr. LUSHINGTON, ho,wever, was of a different opinion,
and rejected the motion.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 5.
IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM BRETON.
Mr. WOODROFFE, on behalf of the insolvent, who had
been in very affluent circumstances formerly, and resided
at Walham Cottage, in the county of Devon, but who was
now reduced to the deepest distress, moved for the ap-
pointment of an assignee. The grounds on which he
founded his motion were, that a small property had be-
come available to his estate, and upwards of forty of the
creditors, compassionating his unfortunate reverses, had
signed a release from all demands, and petitioned that
Mr. Ford, who was a creditor for 1,5001., should be ap-
pointed assignee, in order that this property might be
appropriated to the old gentleman's use.
Mr. Commissioner BOWEN said he should appoint the
assignee ; still he thought it possible that the few cre-
ditors who did not sign the document alluded to might
call upon him to account to them.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

NEW COURT.

BIGAMY.—Joseph Cooper, aged 32, was indicted and
charged for that he on the 13th of September, 1832, was
married to one Rebecca Cooper, and that he on the 30th
of May, 1838, was married at St. George's, Hanover-
square, to Elizabeth Perkins, his wife Rebecca being
then alive.

Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner.
Eleanor Harvey stated that she was the mother of Re-
becca Cooper, who was married to the prisoner 11 years
ago last September. Her name had been always Cooper,
which was the maiden name of witness. She was born
before witness was married. Witness was at her daugh-
ter's wedding, which took place at St. Luke's, Chelsea.
Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Her daughter
Rebecca was 24 years of age when she was married. At
that time she was a laundress. Witness did not know
that she got her living in any other way. She lived with
witness. She used to be out of an evening, but not all
night. Witness knew a person named Godfrey. He
kept company with her daughter. He was a Catholic.
Witness never heard from her daughter that she was
married to him by a priest before she married the pri-
soner. The prisoner and her daughter only lived toge-
ther two or three years. She had no child.
James Hatfield was a labourer, and came from Wing-
field, Berkshire. On the day of the marriage of the
prisoner with his last wife, witness was in the neigh.
bourhood of St. George's, Hanover-square. The pri-
soner came up to witness, and asked him if he would go
to church with him, as he had been disappointed by a
young man. Witness went to church, and saw him
married, but he did not know to whom. Besides himself
there was a young woman present, who acted as bride's-
maid. Had never seen the prisoner before or since,
until he saw him at the police-office. Witness was cer-
tain the prisoner was the man, because he took particular
notice of him. The prisoner gave witness half-a-crown
after he was married.

Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Was out of
situation at the time the occurrence took place. Witness
saw the prisoner that morning about eleven o'clock.
When he asked him what he was, the prisoner said he
was a gardener. Witness could not say whether the
lady to whom the prisoner was married was tall or
short, dark or fair, nor could he say what
coloured bonnet she had on. Witness signed
the register. Could not remember what coloured
coat the prisoner had on. His trousers were drab. The
reason he had come to give evidence was because he
had been summoned by the police. At the time he re-
ceived the summons he was at Wingfield, in Berkshire.
Witness was not acquainted with Mrs. Harvey, nor the
prisoner's first wife, Miss Cooper. Had been to two
other weddings since he attended the
_prisoner's, but did
net know either"' the parties. Could not say whether
he should know the woman the prisoner married three
years ago. • _ _ _ _ _

Thomas Bates, a policeman, produced the certificates
of both the marriages of the prisoner. He apprehended
him on the 16th of DeCember last. When he did so,
the prisoner said to him, " They think they have a pull
upon me about my first wife, but she was married before,
and I don't care ar.ything for them."
Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner was
living, when I took him into custody, very respectably,
in a cottage at Battersea. Witness saw the first wife at
the Police-court, but did not know how she got her
livi lg. The two certificates he had produced liere,sent
to the station-house. Witness had examined them with
the original registers. The reason witness apprehended
the p:isoner was, that he received an order from his ser-
geant to do so whenever he saw him. The supposed
second wife was not at the Police-court, nor had she
made any complaints to him. Did not look after the
second wife after the first day. The reason he went to
find the mother of the first wife was, that he was sent to
do so by the Magistrates. Found her in the Commercial-
road, Pimlico.

Mr. CLARKSDN here objected to the reading of the first
certificate, which was overruled by the Court.
The certificates having both been put in and read,
Eleanor Harvey, the mother of the first wife, was re-
called, and in answer to Mr. Clarkson, stated that she
was delivered of her daughter, the first wife of the pri-
soner, before she was married. Iler daughter was not
walking the streets, to her knowledge, before she was
married.

Mr. CLARKSON then, at some length, addressed the
Jury on behalf of the prisoner.
Mr. Justice MAULE summed up, and
The Jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner
Guilty, but strongly recommended hi-n to mercy on ac-
count of the dissolute conduct of 'ormer wife.
Mr. Justice MauLE sentenced him to two calendar
months' imprisonment.