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Its conductors are neither Whigs nor Tories, but men who eschew party spirit; and who, while they take a lively interest in the politics of the day, are actuated solely by a love of their country, and a detestation of injustice and oppression," under whatever plausible dis- guise they may lurk, and by however long usage they may have been sanctioned. Although a fearless and independent tone in polities is the principal characteristic of this Magazine, fully two- thirds of its contents are al- ways devoted to literature. Instruction is always aimed at; amusement is not less studied in this magazine than in the other Monthly Periodi- cals. Its conductors are well aware, that while many are willing to be instructed, all are desirous of being amused. The reception which this Magazine has met with from the public, has been favourable beyond all precedent. There has been no instanec of a monthly periodical attaining the same extent of popularity in so short a time. With much pride the conductors of this magazine acknowledge, that the favour it has found with the public, has been owing to thc ma- gazine having been made the monthly organ of the distinguished poli- tical writers who advocate the cause of the people, independently of party. These writers the public has had the discrimination to recognize as the ablest and most noble- minded of the present day. In ability, they equal the early writers in " The E . inburgh Review;" while in zeal for the promotion of good government, and in earnest advocacy of the just rights of the people, they immeasurably excel both the past and the present writers in that celebrated journal. Besides the highly dis- tinguished writers to whom allusion has been made, a host of generous young spirits, English and Irish, as well as Scottish, have been at- tracted to Tait's Magazine by their regard for its principles; and have, bv their talents in various departments, contributed much to make it . ... ... i . . 1 ... .......... 1..-...+ T HE NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE for JANU- Oaks In 1831), engraved by Scott, from a painting by A. Cooper, lt. A., and " The Dying Woodcock," a highly finished Engraving by R. Gold- ing, from a painting by Mr. Cooper. Among tlie Contents are the fol- lowing articles:— Pedigree and Performances of Oxygen— The Road— Review of the Racing Season 1832—" Sharp Shooters." 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To- morrow will be published, price One Shilling, to be continued Monthly, with Illustrations, THE FIELD NATURALIST'S MAGAZINE, and REVIEW of Animals, Plants, Minerals, the Structure of the Earth, and Appearances of the Sky. Edited by Professor RENNIE, King's College, London, Author of " Insect Architecture," " Alphabet of Insects," & c. home, to the adjustment of it: with high approbation in all these mat- ters, am gratified in sending the cheque ( enclosed) in payment of the account. Yours, & c. ( Signed) ' To Mr. Fletcher, 33, New Bond- street." ' GERARD NOEL. This publication has been projected for the simple facts in natural history, unclog purpose by the of communicating too often fanciful DEPUTY LORD LIEUTENANT'S Coat and Epaulettes Pantaloons, with Lace I TI, Cocked Hat and Feather flhlrty Guineas. Sword, Knot, and Belt Sash and Stock.... 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Dublin.— Of whom may be had, In One Volume, 18mo. with upwards of 100 Illustrations, price 2s 6d. THE ALPHABET OF BOTANY, for the use of Beginners, being Vol. II. of Professor Renriie's " Scientific Alphabets." under the old system to subvert, they, the heads of the Collemvliesitat. not to declare, in the face of the Faculty, that this new light iSft- t. eom pletely change the whole course of thc Materia Medica, and intr/ Tluee a what the public press has been pleased to call it— one of the very best periodicals of the day. In proof of the degree of favour to which Tait's Edinburgh Magazine has attained, the publisher may mention that, in point of circulation, it already ranks immediately after " Blackwood" and the " New Monthly Magazine," amongst the numerous monthly periodicals; and, of the high opinion entertained of it by the public press, the hearty welcome with which every number has been received affords ample evidence. Not only has the liberal press throughout all Scotland, England, and Ireland been loud in praiss of the talents and adherence to principle shown by the writers in Tait's Magazine, but even the political oppo- nents of tlie magazine have recognised it as an able and honest adver- sary. The following honourable testimonies are all from Tory papers, generous enough to recognize merit in an adversary. " Were we to write a review of five columns in length, we could not say more than the simple truth, that Tait's Magazine is good, very good. Indeed, ( but this must be a secret between the public and our- selves,) it is our particular favourite. We turn over ' Blackwood'— read an article here and there in the ' New Monthly,'' Metropolitan,' Sic. • but when ' Tait' comes to hand, we make it a point to read it all. We' read it all; for though we dissent from many of its opinions, we ad- mire tlie boldness with which they are declared, and the talent with which they arc vindicated."— Derbyshire Courier. " Of Tait's Magazine, in point of ability, we still feel ourselves bound to report favourably ; although we do not concur in all the sentiments expressed, or in many of the objects advocated in its pages. With scarcely any exception, the contents, whether prose orpoctry, criticism, sketch," or tale, are all made subservient to the grand design of incul- cating the peculiar opinions, to support which the Magazine was ex- pressly established—[ that truth, justice, and the greatest happiness of the greatest number, should dictate every act of legislation.]— Of Mr. Tait's political integrity, however, and that of his contributors— many of whom, we know, stand at the head of tlieir party— no man can doubt. To the development of the revolutionary principle [ that the good of the manv is to be consulted, and not the unjust advantage of the few] all their" efforts seem to be directed. We trust their influence will be exerted - for good, [ it shall,] and not for evil."— Aberdeen Journal; a liberal Tory paper, and in point of circulation, at the head of the Scottish newspaper Pr'STait has much that is excellent this month." Dumfries Journal. AN ALBUM, OR NEW YEAR'S GIIT.— The A Number of the LADIES' MAGAZINE AND MUSEUM published in Dec., 1832, completed the First Volume of that work, and thus affordsa desirable opportunity for the purchase of the commencement of a most valuable publication. No expense or pains have been spared in the va- rious departments of prose, poetry, music, fashion, and embellishments to render this publication ot the greatest interest to the Nobility and Gentry of this country. Amongst the contributors in the Literary de- partment will be found the names of Gait, Howitt, l'ickin, the Author of" The Village 1' oor- house," F. W. N. Bayley, Don Trueba, Sheridan Knowles, Mrs. Hoffland, Miss Agnes Strickland, and Miss Jewsbury. The Musical contributions consist of Six original Songs, composed by Mr. Hodson, Author of " My Arab Steed," including the two popular ballads, " My pretty Gazelle," and " He reached the Valley," the words by J. O. Delhogue, Esq. The Fashions are taken from the Plates of that celebrated Parisian work, " La Follet Courrier des Salons," and are coloured in Paris expressly for tire Ladies* Magazine and Museum, rendering this publication the accredited organ of English Fashions. In the Pictorial Department the volume will present Six highly- finished original Engravings by Rogers and Sharp, including the admired Por- trait of Sir Walter Scott, which is admitted to be one of the most strik- ing likenesses of the lamented Bard which has hitherto been published. Tbe price of Vol. I. of the above interesting and valuable Work is only 12s 6d., and as only a very few copies remain on hand, early orders are requested to be given. Published by J. Page, 113, Fetter- lane; and all Booksellers. The LADIES' MAGAZINE AND MUSEUM, for January, will contain splendid portrait of the Duchesse de Berri; also a plan of the room wherein she was taken prisoner, with Three beautifully coloured Fashions of the Month, and Papers by the above celebrated Authors. To be had of all Booksellers throughout the kingdom. On the First of January will be published, to be continued monthly, THE BRITISH LIBRARY. Comprising the Classic Authors of Great Britain. Elegantly printed in f. cap Svo. price 3s. THE PLAN OF THE WORK IS— 1. To publish the works of the principal authors of Great Britain in this OfteneVthan once it has fallen to our lot to speak favourably of Tait's political articles, as compositions, wljjle differing from them in opinion. But the present and two last numbers, exhibit proofs of Mr. Tait's dili- gence ana success in the nobler and less disputable departments of liter- ature The O'Hara Family are regular correspondents. Of the present number, if may be truly said that it abounds with the delightful.— Edin- burgh Observer. monthly volumes, each containing from 320 to 400 pages, with illustra- tions on wood, where necessary, at the lowest possible price. 2. A leading object will be to free the British Library from the nume- rous errors which abound iu even the best editions of our popular writers. 3. 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Those who regard money less than time will be led insensibly to renew profitable study; the young will commence their reading with the best examples of scholarship, while the humble and poor may become possessed of those genuine sources of moral andintellectual eminence. The first volume will contain WHITE'S NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, and. Observations on Nature, with Illustrations by Bonner, and Notes by Captain Thomas Brown, F. L. S. President of tlie Iloyal Physical Society. London : Published for the Proprietors, by William Orr, Paternoster- row ; James Chambers, Edinburgh ; and sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country. NEW ANNUALS, WORKS OF BIOGRAPHY AND FICTION Just published by EDWARD BULL, 26, Holies- street, Cavendish- square, London. THE G E O G R A P H I C A L ANNUA L- 1833, and II. " THE BIBLICAL A N N U A L- 1833. Elegantly bound in Turkey morocco, 21s. OPINIONS OF THESE ANNUALS. 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Author of " Constantinople in 1828." 2d edition, in two vols, em- bellished with 16 beautiful Engravings. VII. OUR ISLAND. Comprising FORGERY, a Tale; and THE LUNATIC, a Tale. In 3 vols. VIII. RECORDS OF Al Y I. I F E. By the late JOHN TAYLOR, Esq. Author of " Monsieur Tonson. In 2 vols. 8vo. with Portrait. new era in the science of physic: that, in fact, mankind will- be taugiitv in future, a new and certain mode of investigating the nature and cause of Diseases in general, and of possessing a certain and harmless mode of cure, making every individual his own efficient doctor. In confirmation of what is here asserted, the heads of the College mean lo insert, in this Paper, a continued series of new cases, from individuals giving their names, residences, and dates of time of cure, all of which nave been voluntarily given, and ascertainable as to the facts by inquiry Mr. Morison, the father of this new school, after labouring under a disease of the most excruciating kind, and for thirty- five years under- going every experiment which a perplexed faculty could devise, gave them up, and commenced his own cure, which lie brought to a success- full issue ; and far advanced in life, began for the first time to enjoy a healthy state of existence. Proceeding from practice to theory, and ain applying his theory to all diseases, from slight cold to devastating cnolera, he" has persuaded himself, and would also convince others, that he has discovered the universal remedy; and under this impression, h » has dared to attack the whole system of physic and surgery, and all tin learned and illiterate practitioners of these dubious sciences, Afcun thai starched piece of solemn profundity, Sir Samuel Sulkisumph,' witli i. i- coacli and six, gloves, and golded- headed cane, down to Jack Hashaway, that droll composition of leech, barber, and sow- bleeder! and in anti- cipation lie beholds their splendid establishment vanish before the Hy- geian lamp, like the " baseless fabric of a vision"— an establishment however, which has been anything but a vision hitherto, and rather a gigantic vampire, which has sucked the life- blood, and drained the purse of a suffering and bubbled community, or some dreadful incubus resting on the bosom of society, while underneath riots, in tumultua.: spasms, hideous agony and despair. The theory of this bold innovator is so simple, that a few suffice to convey an idea of it to the dullest comprehension. The iou^ J and support of life is blood ; and while it is kept pure, and in const^ H circulation throughout all parts of the body, and while respirationjipl^ impeded by outward causes, the health of the body, and the frfl^ nay of all its faculties will be sound, active, and entire; but shwuld the veins, glands, and finer passages through which the bloofr circulates, become choked by corrupt humours, settling, festering, and spreading inflammation to the surrounding parts, disease commences, and untii these humours be carried off, it must continue till it terminates in death. Thus the Hygeist insists that all diseases whatever originate in bad hu- mours, secreted in channels through which the blood ought to flow", and hence all that is required in curing disease is to drain offthese'hh- mours. The vegetable medicine which he manufactures and prescribes, is a sufficient agent to effect this purpose, no matter in what part of the human constitution the obstructions settle. By this simple and harm less process, he undertakes to cure every disease, and challenges the faculty to a trial of skill, by taking promiscuously a hundred patients from an hospital, and while the one half of them is put under tn « care of his opponents, he will cure the other half thoroughly in a shorter pe- riod, at considerably less expense than they possibly can: say for 10/. sterling worth of vegetable pills. Refoie concluding, there are two circumstances attending the new school which we cannot help remarking upon as rather suspicious— namely, the high price of the medicine. The prime cost of a box sold at one shilling exclusive of duty, cannot exceed one penny : now 90 per cent. is too much to charge as profit, if the Hygeists are sincere in their professions, and smells rankly of the school extortion. The other cir- cumstance is, endeavonring to recommend their system to public notice, by tacking to their publications a number of whining, canting letters, descriptive of extraordinary cures under the favour of pills and Divine Providence, which must produce nausea and disgust in students or taste and discrimination. A mere reference to the persons aud cases was in all conscience sufficient. The body of the work, however, inde- pendent of these adjunctive bad humours, is worthy of a perusal, and. not like most books on medicines and surgery, our sensitive frames are not kept twitching and writhing, and assuming all the symptoms of everydlsease we read of; but we are rather, in reading " Morisoniana'" apt to fall in love with physic ; and although the pills have not purged our body of its infirmities, our minds have certainly been cleared of tin horrors with which it formerly regarded the healing art.— Trades Ad- vocate, Glasgow. The " Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to he had at the College. New- road, King's- cross, London; at the Surrey Branch, 96, Great Sur- rey- street, Blackfriars; Mr. Field's, 16, Air- street, Quadrant; Mr Chappell's Royal Exchange: Mr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit- passage. Red Lion- square; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mile End- road; Mr. Bennett's, Co- vent- garden- market ; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur- de- lis- Court, Norton- folgate: Mr. Haslett's, 147, Ratcliffe- higliway; Messrs. Norbury's, Brentford Mrs. Stepping, Clare- market; Messrs. Salmjn, Little Bell- alley; Mis.- Varral's, 24, Lucas- street, Commercial- road ; Mrs. Beech's, 7, Sloane square, Chelsea; Mr. Chappel, Royal Library, Pall- mall; Sirs. Clements 12, Bridge- street, Southwark; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke- row, Wal worth; of Mr. Pain, 64, Jermyn- street; Mr. Wood, hair- dresser, Rich mond; Mr. Meyer, 3, May's- buildings, Blackheath; Mr. Griffiths Wood- wliarf, Greenwich ; Mr. B. Pitt, 1, Cornwall- road, Lambeth ; ant at one Agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the Island: of Guernsey and Malta, and throughout the whole of the United State of America, the Canadas, and New Brunswick. BE L G R A V E R I D I N G - S C II O O L, ( adjoining the Pantechnicon), MOTCOMB - STREET, Belgravc- sSuSSeC^ n'' DAv, s begs to offer his respectful acknowledgments to the Nobility and Gentry for the liberal patronage he has received, and has the honour to inform them, that his RIDING- SCHOOL IS OPEN FOR THE WINTER SEASON, where Ladies and Gentlemen are instructed scientifically to manage their Horses. Mr. Davis also informs his Friends and the Public that, in conse- quence of a number of Gentlemen having expressed a wish to receive EVENING INSTRUCTION, he proposes lighting up the Riding- Scliool twice a week for that purpose, the subscription for which will be Three Guineas per Quarter. Mr. Davis has well trained Ponies for the use of Juvenile Puulls during the Vacation. Horses broken for every purpose, and bought or sold by commission i to be had at the Riding- Scliool. Cards of- the terms t Difcoun 37S THE TOW*. NOT e m b e r 25. LAW. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. WILLIS V. GILBERT, CLERK.— This action was upon a breach of promise of marriage by the defendant. Plea, general issue. Damages laid at 20,000?. The Lord Chief Justice suggested an arrangement, but the terms proposed were rejected, and the case proceeded. Mr. Sergeant Wilde stated the plaintiff's case, and called Sir A. Carlisle, surgeon. In the year 1810 he knew the plaintiff; her husband was a respectable tradesman, but fell into difficul- ties and went abroad. The defendant was an elderly gentleman and a clergyman ; the defendant is nearer 70 than 60 years of age— certainly upwards of 65. Witness on one occasion had had a conversation ( at the defendant's own request) with him respecting his intended marriage with the plaintiff; he asked witness's opinion as to whether the plaintiff would be consi- dered, in the eyes of the world, a suitable wife for him. She had two or three children— she was having children rapidly. Could not say whether she had 20 or 25 children. Her husband became insolvent, and left the country, partly on account of debt and partly on account of some paper transactions, which witness believed to have been neither honourable nor honest. Witness had discontinued his acquaintance with the husband because he was a disreputable man. Knew that defendant had supported plaintiff and her family for some years before her husband died, and since his death down to the rupture between them. Mrs. Willes had five children, the youngest about 7 or 8 years of age. The defendant, he understood, had sent them to school. The eldest was in partnership with Mr. Powle, but witness did not know that defendant had set him up. Mr. F. Pollock addressed the Jury on behalf of the defendant. The Learned Counsel dwelt on the generous conduct towards the lady by the defendant from first to last. He concluded by trust- ing, that the Jury would protect him from being made, because he had hitherto acted with the most outrageous liberality, the victim of extortion or imposition. The Lord Chief Justice told the Jury that they were not bound by the offer of the settlement, but might take that with all other circumstances into their consideration. If the ground on which the marriage went off was that suggested in the answer to the letter of Sir C. Farnaby, the Jury would say whether the value of the marriage was not diminished by that circumstance, as a marriage that cut the plaintiff off from society, no matter from what feeling or prejudice of society, would, of course, have been less happy than one contracted under more favourable aus- pices. There w- as not the slightest imputation on the character of the plaintiff, and none ever appeared to have been cast upon • . it. The question of damages was one peculiarly for the conside- ration of the Jury, who would treat it as gentlemen and men of the world. The Jury retired for half an hour, and then returned a verdict or thejplaintiff — Damages, 3,000?. . [ Haa Solomon lived in our day, we think he would have said, " There be four things which are too wonderful for me— yea, five— which I know not, and the fifth would have been to divine after hearing or reading the trial of a cause, the determination to which the Jury would come. After some experience in these matters we must own that our powers of augury avail us nothing, so frequently have our anxious, though disinterested conjectures been disappointed. An elderly woman, the widow of a trades- man, catches at the good luck of being hired as the house- keeper of an old gentleman. She enters his service, and he supports and educates the whole of her family for many years. At the death of her husband, she succeeds in getting a promise from him which he does not fulfil, but by which she suffers no earthly injury unless it be in Jthe disappointment of what she could never reasonably have expected, and a Jury awards her 3,000/. upon the strength of this imperfect obligation. To ques- tion the immaculacy of trial by jury, is an invidious task should we, in any case, desire to remove or shake this powerful bulwark of our rights and liberties. Yet we will venture to say, that in many cases much more satisfactory justice to the public at large ywj* rfil be administered by the tempered wisdom of three or fou& e* j » erieaced disinterested Judges. Time and reflection very Sten convince us — nay, reconcile us to the judgments of Courts of Equity, and the decisions of the common law Judges in Banco, though opposed to our wishes and interests ; but no time nor per- fectly disinterested calculations can reconcile us to the exorbitant amounts given by impassioned Juries, or the conflicting verdicts depending more upon variable and uncertain impulses and in- fluences than the unbiassed results of temperate judgment.] seeks justice through this medium. Such an impost is worthy the act of a Charles. It is in the nature of, and bears the im- press of the other illegal patents granted in that day. But we deny the right or power of any Sovereign in any way to inflict a. tax of this nature upon his subjects, seeking redress in a Court of Justice. This inferior Court, one of the most useful among all the Courts of Justice, is the only one which has been allowed, through all changes, still to retain its monopolising privileges. The Court of Exchequer has thrown open its doors to the attorneys. The Common Pleas, with its monopolising Serjeants, has never adopted thePalace Court system of exaction. At Nisi Prius the Common Pleas Court is open ; iu Banco a single Serjeant may hold a brief to argue a point of law, if the client be too poor to afford, or the cause do not require the aid of a second; but here, in this Palace Court— this inferior Court— monstrous extortion 1— it is obligatory upon the client to fee two Barristers upon the most insignificant matter for inquiry. At the trial of a cause it is the same. No suitor can employ an Advocate of his own choice, till he has, as we have above stated, paid the whole number of four to permit him. We understand the Common Law Commissioners have at length entered upon an investiga- tion touching the practice of this Court. Let them remove the monopoly power— let them sweep away the scandalous obstruc- tions to justice now existing in this close Court; and the Palace Court, inasmuch as it will afford speedy as well as cheap justice, will become the most useful Court in the metropolis.] PALACE COURT. LIABILITY OF HUSBANDS.— SCULTHORPE V. DENNIS. On Saturday an action was brought to recover the sum of 71. for the support of the defendant's wife and child for seven weeks. Mr. Sergeant Adams ( who was specially retained,) Mr. Capron and Mj* » Bcsanquet conducted the plaintiff's case ; and Mr. Earle ( who was also specially retained), Mr. Ross, and Mr, Talbot that of the defendant. From the evidence it appeared there had been frequent quar rels between the defendant and his wife's relatives, and he had locked her up to prevent lier going to see them. In August he ordered her to leave his house, and she took refuge with her Sid under the roof of her father, the plaintiff. Shortly after. ; e gave the plaintiff notice that he would receive her back, e refused to go, being afraid of further ill usage. At the • ation of eight weeks the plaintiff brought his action against tndant for 8/. for the support of his wife, and it was tried my this Court, when the Jury found a verdict for the former. Immediately after that was decided the defendant gave another notice that lie was ready to take his wife back, but again she refused to return; and the present action was brought for seven subsequent weeks' maintenance of the wife and child. Earle, in reply, contended that Mrs. Dennis was as wil- ling' to leave her husband as he was to part with her, and there- fore the plaintiff, by harbouring her, was not entitled to call upon the husband for the expenses of her support. The Jury, after being absent about half an hour, returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 7/. [ Is there any one, lawyer or layman, experienced or uninitiated in the proceedings of a court of justice, who can read without disgust the above report. Six barristers— yes, six gentlemen learned in the law— fee'd to settle a dispute about 71. At the lowest computation the fees to Counsel on either side must have exceeded the amount in dispute. The fee to the Learned Ser- jeant would have been but moderate had it alone amounted to the sum. Our readers, we expect, will ask how and why is it thus ? We will tell them how and why. The circumstance of prose- cuting an action in this Court evidences the wish of the litigant parties to keep down the costs as low as possible ; the reason for employing three Counsel on each side, therefore, must be sought for off the face of the proceedings. A point of some importance was involved in the decision of the above case, and the parties wished to have able assistance— they look to the Counsel practising in the Palace Court, but turn from them with misgivings— perhaps with too low an estimation of their talent. It may be mere fancy, for aught we know, but " I will have Sergeant Adams," says the plaintiff—" I wish to have Mr. Earle," says the defendant, and these gentlemen are specially taken down ; but before they can speak one word for their clients in this Court of Justice— this cheap Law Court— the parties must give fees to all the Counsel belonging to that Court; we ought rather^ to say, to whom that Court belongs. Yes, all the four Honourable Barristers must be feed before they will permit any advocate from any other Court to open his Month. And why— why are they who are not themselves ex- cluded from practising in other Courts, thus empowered to mo- nopolise all ? We cannot assign a reason; but their answer is, " because they pay for it." They purchase of each other from generation to generation, the privilege of taxing every suitor who COURT OF REQUESTS. THE ST. JOHN LONG SYSTEM.— Edward Buckles was sum moned before the commissioners, by Mr. Masterton, of Aldgate High- street, for the price of a fine poodle dog. The Plaintiff stated that he had given into the care of the defen- dant, who is a dog- doctor and fancier, a very beautiful poodle, for the purpose of making him " frost proof." In about a fortnight news was brought to him that Prince was dying, and upon inquiry he ascertained that the poor animal had been harnessed be- tween two great mastiffs to a catsmeat waggon, and had sunk un- der such severe toil. The defendant said that the dog was in a galloping consumption when it came home to him, and did notTike the company of the mastiffs, and that, for the purpose of curing it of a " wiolent cough, he tackled him to the waggon between the other hannimals, who was very good natred, they was'nt the same breed, how- somedever."—( laughter). Plaintiff— They worried the poor brute in a shocking manner. Defendant— It's no sich a thing; I've used ' em to keep company with all sorts, and they never falls out with none on ' em. They cures the sick hannimals by rubbing ' em into a sweat as they tod- dles along with the meat.—( laughter). Commissioner— I suppose you cure upon Doctor Long's prin- ciple of scrubbing ? Defendant— I never knowd it fail yet, barren the liannimal was too far advanced in a hinside mortification, and there is no- thing we've found out yet as will serve a dog out with a new lot of bowels, nor a man neither—( laughter). Plaintiff— The poor dog was in such a condition that I didn't know. I understand that he would lie down with fatigue in the street, and the other dogs used to drag him along through the mud. Defendant— There's nothing sarves a dog better nor a tumble in the mud; it takes away all the foolish tenderness out of him. Besides, I told the gentleman afore I took the dog, that I thought he was agoing bang into tother world. John Mickles ( defendant's feeder) swore that his master cured more dogs than any other man, by the simple process of working them into " passperations" between his two mastiffs. The mastiffs understood their business perfectly well, and what they had to cure in every sick un; they goed slow, and he was blowed if they didn't behave themselves to the poor hannimal was dead and gone like a brother, though ' twas moral impossi- ble they could a come of the same father aud mother.—( Great laughter). The plaintiff insisted that his dog died of cruel treatment. Defendant.— Open the hannimal. Anatomise his^ body, and you'll see which on us speaks the truth. The feeder— The dog as comed to us for to be cured vant fit for no hardship; but, howsomdever, master can sweat the most de- licatest of em all till they'd eat any thing. Now this here dog as died vas a poor, unsetisfactory, haggravating sort of a hannimal, as could be brought for to eat no wittles, and every body knows none on us can live upon the hair !—( loud laughter). The commissioners said that they could not decide against the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff was aware of the doc- tor's practice, and no proof had been given that any unusual se- verity had been exercised. At the Court of Excise, Thomas Charles and Mary Castle were fined 100/. each, for unlawfully working a private still on premises at London- terrace, Commercial- road. The offence, which appears to be greatly on the increase, was clearly proved by two excise officers. It was stated that the spirits and wines, which were of an inferior quality, were retailed in bladders as choice smuggled liquors. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. FRIDAY". William Blackford, Edward Conolly, Robert Newsom, and John Wilkins, all of them stout young men, were charged with assaulting Mr. Samuel Hurdy on the highway, oil the night of the 26th instant, with intent to rob him. The Jury found all four prisoners Guilty. They were sentenced to imprisonment; Conolly to three months, and the others to six. POLICE. MANSION- HOUSE. Timothy Martin, a poor- looking fellow, who had received a good education, was brought up, on Wednesday, charged, upon suspicion, of having stolen the hind- quarters of a sheep. The prisoner was seen trudging along the street under his greasy burden, and upon being asked by an officer where he got the meat, he said that a person had employed him to carry it to the lower end of Bishopsgate- street. He assured the Lord Mayor that he never had, although miserably poor, committed a dishonest act. The Lord Mayor— You seem to be above your present condi- tion. Have you not been a singer ? The prisoner— Yes, my Lord, and I could earn a good live- lihood at that profession, but I havin't as much clothes on me as would scour a spit. The whole trade of acting is falling into ruin; so that whenever I have gone to sing or recite of late, I have found several rivals from the theatres in the field. But, for all that, I would not despair if I had a little toggery. The Lord Mayor— I am afraid that your brethren at the theatres are very badly off, and it is a melancholy thing to see a person who is capable of amusing a room apprehended on suspi- cion of stealing a side of mutton. The prisoner— I was glad of the offer of a trifle for carrying the meat. The Lord Mayor— Well, I don't think you got the meat dishonestly, and I hope I shall never see you here again in such a character. The prisoner— You never shall, my Lord: but I hope you will have no objection to let me describe this event in a poetical way. I can dress it up in a bit of a dialogue in Tom Hudson's style. The Lord Mayor—' Tis an honest, but a very doubtful way of living, and will always make you poetical about the pockets. His Lordship then gave the poor fellow a pair of shoes, and sent him off to compose. Mr. James, the Secondary of the City of London, waited on the Lord Mayor on Wednesday, for the purpose of informing liis Lordship that the police appeared to him to neglect a very important part of their duty. He had frequently of late ob- served in the evenings that swarms of very young children were sent out, no doubt by their parents, with scarcely any clothes upon them, for the purpose of exciting compassion amongst the passers by. He hoped that the Lord Mayor would exercise his authority to abate so grievous a nuisance. His Lordship immediately gave directions to the officers that all childron so found be brought before him. At the Mansion- house on Thursday an old woman, who has been for several years receiving parish relief and parish clothing, was brought up, charged with having got drunk and abused the parish authorities. The LORD MAY- OR— I am sorry to hear such an account of an old parishioner who has been so well treated. The Beadle— My Lord, she lias by her conduct lost 21. worth of Christmas clothing which the churchwardens were about to send her. The Old Woman— Please you, my Lord, if the poor had their rights the churchwardens and overseers wouldn't stuff themselves and get drunk so often together. ( Loud laughter.) The LORD MAYOR— I hope they do no such thing, and I be- lieve you say that to excuse yourself. The Old Woman— No, my Lord, they belong to the rcg'lar squad of Lushington. They are fond of the lush, and if they sees one of us overcome with hunger, and a little drop of whisky, they mediately begins for to talk morals to us, and they refuse to tog us for the winter. ( Loud laughter.) The LORD MAYOR said that if he received a solemn promise of amendment from the aged pauper he would interfere with the parish authorities in her behalf. The Old Woman— God bless your Worship, and I think we'd better not say a word about the lusli. ( Laughter.) Alexander Dobie, a Scotchman, having taken it into his head that the ladies of Glasgow were captivated with Mm, thought himself obliged, in consequence, to leave that city and visit Lon- don, but found here that though " fashionable ladies of rank loffed up in his face and pulled him about," they were so far from inviting him to provide for his comfort that they allowed him to sleep sub Dio in Bedford- square, from the clear area of which he addressed a letter, which he presented to the Lord Mayor. The poor fellow, whose " upper story" was evidently " to let," was kindly dismissed, with some little assistance from the Lord Mayor. BOW- STREET. INCENDIARISM.— Much interest has been excited by the fol lowing case :— On the evening of the 19th November last, abou" half- past seven o'clock, the town of Lamburne was discovered to be on fire at each end. On the following morning a woman go- ing to market found at the back of some grounds belonging to a gentleman's house in the town, a parcel, partly soiled with mud, containing touchwood, tinder, rosin, and other combustibles. In- formation was given to the Rev. C. Hippesley, the Magistrate, who, coupling this discovery with the fires which had taken place on the previous night, sent to this office for assistance, and Ruth- ven a- nd Stevens came down. These officers obtained informa- tion which induced them to take the following men into custody, viz.— Robert Chivers, John Carter, William Winckworth, John Cox, and James Rider. Before the Magistrate, Carter said volun- tarily that he met Chivers in the neighbourhood of the town, and the latter said to him, " There will be no good done till we have had some fires hereabouts." To this Carter replied, " I know we sha'nt," and said, " I should like to knock up a good blaze at the Red Lion." Chivers replied, " That would be a good place, for I helped to put a dozen loads of straw on their premises a day or two ago." They then agreed to fire the town. Fortunately the fire was soon suppressed. All the prisoners were fully com- mitted to Abingdon gaol; Chivers, Carter, Winckworth, and Cox as principals, and Ryder as an approver. [ This is a very sad, but unhappily not a solitary case. The evil spirit is again at large throughout the country. We shall speak more at length of the matter in our next.] An Irishman named Thomas Cummins was charged with com- mitting an aggravated assault on a young lady named Allen. From the statement of the young lady it appeared that, be- tween six and seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, she was passing the end of Wellington- street, Strand, when the defendant, who was intoxicated, met her, and without the slightest provoca- tion raised his foot and kicked her with great violence between the eyes, which had the effect of blackening one of them and cauzing her nose to bleed. She was almost rendered senseless from the kick, and should have fallen but for a gentleman who was pass- ing at the time. Another gentleman gave the prisoner into custody. The defendant, when called upon to explain, endeavoured to as- sume a look of penitence; he replied—" Your wurtchip, I am very sorry for it, but you see I have a nasty fashion of lifting up my foot when I am drunk, and sure enough I didn't intend at all at all to hurt the young lady. Now did I, jewel?" he added, stretching out his brawny arm, and tapping Miss Allen on the shoulder. The appeal was, however, lost on the young lady, and the ma- gistrates ordered him to pay a fine of 51. to the King, and in de- fault of payment he was sentenced to be confined two months in the House of Correction, with hard labour. [ The above is only one instance more added to the thousands which disgrace our streets, arising from the beastly habits of in- temperance so unfortunately prevalent amongst the lower ranks of the people. For our parts we heartily wish God speed to the temperance societies which, though much ridiculed, have, already done incalculable good, and if supported as they deserve, can- not fail to do much more.] At Bow- street, on Wednesday, a man named Larkin was charged with having attempted to stab his landlord, and with assaulting a woman with whom he cohabited, as well as two police constables. His only defence sas the violent conduct of the female and the state of intoxication in which he was at the time. He was fined 51. for each of the assaults, and in default of payment sentenced to six months' imprisonment. On the same day Robert Wilcox was brought up in conse- quence of having violently assaulted his wife in a fit of jealousy, and afterwards attempting to cut his own throat. It appeared that the parties had been spending their Christmas at the house of a friend ; the unfortunate man, without the slightest grounds, took into his head, ( a practice usual with him when intoxicated), that a young man, one of the company, had been taking un- becoming liberties with his wife. This gave rise to the quarrel, but such occurrences had been so frequent that it became neces- sary to bind over this suspicious gentleman to keep the peace. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. Information was given of a robbery, in which property to the estimated value of 2,000/. was carried off. The robbery, which is wrapped in complete mystery, was com- mitted at the house of Colonel Howard, Grosvenor- square. He had gone out with his lady to spend the evening on Tuesday, leaving the articles safe, and ou his return home at eleven o'clock at night, missed his gold watch, which he was in the habit of winding up regularly. Search was made, when it was discovered that the jewel- box had been forced and its contents carried off, and also a considerable sum in money. Whether the thieves had been concealed in the house, or whether the robbery has been committed by any of the domestics, is alike unknown ; but no doubt remains that the thieves must have been intimately ac- quainted with the locality of the premises. Each of the officers, Plank and Clements, we believe have examined the servants, but nothing has been elucidated that can tend to implicate them in the slightest degree. Even Plank, who has had thirty years' expe- rience, cannot discover any clue to the apprehension of the offenders. titled to considerable property. As he thus obtained her com- plete confidence she narrowly escaped the consequences of more extensive frauds than that with which the prisoner now stood charged. At Marlborough- street, on Wednesday, Mrs. George Kent, a young married woman, charged a tradesman named Warren, living in London- street, Fitzroy- square, with having, on seve- ral occasions, conducted himself towards her with gross impro- priety. Warren declared that if ever he happened to touch the complainant it was wholly through inadvertence. j Mr. Dyer, with whom Mr. Conant fully concurred, said if there was one case which more than another, called for a severe infliction of the law, it was where a respectable woman encoun- tered insult in the public street. Holding this opinion they should fine the defendant 31. On Wednesday, at Marlborough- street, James Hill was com- mitted, charged with stealing a watch, & c., from an old lady named Strictland, in whose house he lodged. He had persuaded the simple old woman that he was the son of a Baronet, and en- LAMBETH- STREET. At Lambeth- street on Thursday two young men, named Thos. Thompson and Alfred Jay, were brought lpefore Mr. HARIJWICK, charged with throwing a pint stone bottle on the stage of the Pavilion Theatre, during the performance on the preceding night. The charge was clearly made out, and both were held to bail. AUEEN- SAUARE. On Monday the Rev. Mr. F. Dusantoy was brought up in cus- tody, charged with creating a disturbance at Trinity Church, Chelsea, during the performance of divine sendee on the previous day. The office was crowded to excess by some of the most respect- able inhabitants of Chelsea, who were present when the defendant disturbed the congregation. Several of - the Magistrates of Chelsea also took their seats upon the bench. It appeared from the statement of Captain Bague and Mr. Burgess, two of the churchwardens, that just as the Minister had concluded the first lesson for the day the defendant rose from his seat, and in a loud voice called out, " Hah, hah, hie, hie, hesto, hesto, Tlie day of judgment is come." The whole of the con- gregation were alarmed, and some of them even ragout of the church. The defendant was at length taken out of church, and given in charge to the police at the station- house in Elizabeth- street, Pimlico. On being asked the reason for addressing the congregation in the extraordinary manner he had done, he re- plied that it was not liis fault; it was the spirit within him that was the cause, and he had no power to prevent it. With the ex- ception of religious subjects, the defendant was most coherent, and evinced a mind of superior attainments and knowledge. On being questioned, the unfortunate gentleman said his friends resided at Bampton, near Taunton, which place he came from himself, and he was educated at the University of Cam- bridge. He added, that our Saviour would appear to- morrow in his own proper person, and that sin and wickedness would be no more. The Magistrates having consulted together, Mr. White said that he had better send for his friends, and he should require two sureties for his future good behaviour. Mr. Dusantoy was then removed in custody and taken into a private room, when he requested pen, ink, and paper, which was immediately furnished him, and he wrote several letters. On Wednesday he was again brought before the Magistrates, and he was subsequently removed in a carriage to Mr. Finch's Lunatic Asylum, at Kensington, where he was received by that gentleman with great humanity, and every care and attention im- mediately paid to his unfortunate situation. On Monday evening two miserable looking fellows, named Richard Price and William Cochrane, were brought before Mr. White, by Colley, one of the Stamp- office agents, charged with selling an unstamped Almanack, called The People's Almanack, which purported to be printed and published by John Doyle, of No. 12, Liberty- street, New York; price 4 cents. The charge was established against them, and they were com- mitted to Kingston gaol for two months. [ This subject must soon occupy our attention. It is one that calls more loudly than any other for a repeal of the Stamp Duties. Ministers are fully aware of it.] HATTON- GARDEN. John Sullivan, a labourer, and Mary Dale, about eighteen years of age, were charged by James Simpkin, a diminutive fancy article, with having wiolantly salted him for nothing wot- sumdever under the following circumstances :— Simpkin, with all his blushing honours thick upon him, rub- bing his left cheek bone, which was swollen and discoloured, stated that on Sunday he went out to take a cup of tea with the young woman wot keeps him company ; and after they had had tea and a few glasses of rum and water at White Co » < ftc£- house, they were going home arm- in- arm through ^ Saffron- hill, when the gentleman at the bar came up, and, in the most unpolitest way, put his arms round the shoulders of Sally, his intended bet- ter half, and he thought as how he was going to take unproper liberties. " I said, ' Do you know that ' ere gentleman, Sally ?' your worship, and says she, ' No, James ; I knows nuffen at all about him.' With that ' ere, says I, ' Do you know that lady, Tir ?' and without any more cause he hit me over the eye, and down I went in the mud, your Worship ; and the lady at the bar began kicking me and drew out a knife. Sally, as icos quite natral, screamed out, seeing as how I was in danger ; and when I got up I sarched my pocket. I missed six pence three far- things, your Worship." Mr. Simpkiu was asked whether he gave no provocation ? Simpkin— No, pon my honour; I was never so grossly " salted," and here is striking proofs of his wiolance, your Worship. " Where's Sally?" inquired the Magistrate. Simpkin— She's under the doctor ; she's so wery narvous that she can't attend. I have taken my haffidavey, aad I assure you I did nothing wotsumdever, your Worship, to be mauled and kicked. Sullivan insinuated that Simpkin forgot to tell the whole truth. He didn't tell how he insulted him and some friends the night before. On meeting him he did go up to him and hit him on the eye. The girl denied the " salt," saying she good- naturedly went to pick up Mr. Simpkin, after he was knocked down. Her foot might have touched him somewhere, but she positively denied having kicked him. The Magistrate's impression certainly was, that the prosecu- tor had been, as he said, " most wiolantly salted," and in order to convince the defendant and his fair companion in trouble that they were not " to take the law into their own hands in future," they were ordered to find bail, for which Sullivan and his " fancy article'' were consigned to durance vile. A singular case was heard at this office on Wednesday. Mr. Beaume, the proprietor of an estate lately established at Isling- ton, entitled the " French Colony," was brought up under the following extraordinary and mysterious circumstances:— The prisoner, who appears to be about forty years of age, is a foreigner, and some time ago contemplated the erection of a num • ber of small cottages on a spacious piece of ground in the neigh- bourhood of Islington, and which were to be tenanted at low rents for the purpose of economy, the prisoner being, as it is re- presented, guided by liberal principles. His sister died on Saturday week in childbed, when she was carried away by him in a box ; on the Wednesday following the infant died, and it was also carried from the premises by the de- fendant, who was followed, by a person named Skinner, to the London University, where he left the box and contents, and re- turned to the colony. These circumstances set the whole neigh- bourhood in a ferment. The defence was that the deceased had a peculiar complaint, and she wished the community to be benefited by a medical ex- amination. [ The case was again heard on Friday. Dr. Somerville was present, by direction of the Home Secretary. Beaume was dis- charged without the least imputation upon his character. It was evident that his object was to ascertain, for the benefit of science, the nature of the disease of which his sister died. He has been November 1 8 . THE TOWS, 30 Government) near the Abbey. It is to be built in the Tudor style, after an elegant design by Messrs. Inwood. We have heard from a correspondent, on whose veracity we can rely, that these gentleman have not been fortunate enough to obtain the entire ap- probation of the Governors of the Hospital, with reference to the plan on which they are laying down the foundation of the new building— it is that of throwing rubbish of various kinds to har- den and . consolidate in the ground. On this shabby foundation, they mean to raise the superstructure of walls which ought to last for centuries. Such a course is the more to be deprecated, as the workmen have had to dig to a much greater depth than was originally supposed necessary, in consequence of meeting with a bed of loose soil, around some old under- ground ruins of the ancient precincts of the Westminster Sanctuary. We trust that some of the public spirited individuals who were on the building committee, when Messrs. Inwood proposed this new foundation plan, will keep a watchful eye over its progress— and unhesitatingly expose whatever may be wrong about it. They are answerable to the public, and it is to them the public will look. We invite a further communication on the subject. ON THE ELECTION OF MR. EMERSON TENNENT. Poor tenants 1 we daily see landlords make bold To coerce ye with threats, or seduce ye with gold ; But how soon would the base tyrant- landlords be spurned, If but fine honest Tennenls like this were returned! THE MISSES TURTON AGAIN!— A paragraph appeared in the Times a few days since, exculpatory of the conduct of the elder of these ladies, on the ground of insanity, from repeated attacks of St. Vitus's dance, to which it appears, from Dr. Cham- bers's certificate, she had been often subject; and that, accord- ing to the Doctor's understanding ( as weak, by- the- bye, as that of some of his patients), the youngest Miss Turton was " quite free from the shadow of an imputation as to the matter" 11 Our readers will, however, bear in mind, that this " youngest Miss Turton was with her sister at the time the robbery was commit- ted ; but there are none so willfully blind as those who will not see. To the back of Dr. Chambers's certificate, Mr. Crockford tacks his authority" and states that all the other par- ties ( i. e. Mrs. and young Miss T.) are completely free from all blame in the transaction, and Dr. Chambers winds up his epistle hy pitying the youngest Miss Turton from his " very soul." After all the noise and vapouring which the Times made when the robbery was committed, we are the more surprised that the Editor should allow such a weak and palpable subterfuge of facts, to be foisted on the credulity of his readers. If neither Dr. Chambers, Mr. Crockford, or the Editor of the Times are aware of the fact, we will state for their satisfaction and that of our readers, that neither St. Vitus's or any other dance affects patients with shop- lifting insanity ; but, with a low nervous melancholy of the spirits, which so far, from inducing them to ride out in their carriages to Mr. Crockford's, or any other Bazaar, has, in gene- ral, a most opposite tendency— viz., that of inducing them to shun all society, whether it be that of Miss Margaret Findlay, or Miss Margaret Any- body- else. The object of the paragraph in question is clearly, to establish the fact of the eldest Miss Tur- ton's insanity, and thus to throw all the blame of the younger daughter and her mother upon her shoulders ; but we repeat it again, the facts, as they are laid down, give the lie direct to the statements they make. THBT SEVEN O'CONNELLS. How strange that Ireland's state is such, She's always O' wing us too much 1 ELECTION BALL.— Mr. Portman, the newly elected mem- ber for Marylebone, has, it is said, announced his intention of giving a ball to the ladies of that Borough. The population amounts to about 250,000 persons, one half of whom may be set down as danceable. The honourable member should borrow the Zoological gardens and be, like the bears, again at the top of the pole.— He is now the great lion of the Parish. QUICK TRAVELLING.— Lord Londonderry is stated to have been speaking one night during the last session in the House of Lords, and to have been at his own door, in the county of Durham, 250 miles, on the next. It is right to add, that this happened just after the chancellor's memorable reply to his Lordship. The Marquis of Conyngham expired on Friday morning, at his residence in Hamilton- place. His Lordship had been de- clining in health for some days past. OLD COBBETT.— We have been favoured with a long string of verses, the burthen of which is the return of Old Cob- bett for Oldham. Our readers must be content with a portion:— The Whigs are mad at my return, And Daddy Burdett will fret it I ( That fellow owes me a thousand pounds: I only wish I may get it.) They sneer about my future course, And say I shall " find my level:" Their's, I can tell the blockheads, is On a footing with the devil I The sovereign people shan't be snubb'd ; That custom which, these few years, Has styled them " lower classes," shall By no means be the new year's. To talk of " lower orders 1" faugh! ' Tis humbug and hypocrisy : The real lower orders are The cursed aristocracy! ENGLISH DANCING.— A foreigner, in a recent work on England, humorously asks, " Why are not the English good dancers ? Because they do not practise. Their houses are so small and so weak, that he who would cut a caper in the third story must run the risk of thundering, like a bomb- shell, down into the kitchen, which is placed under ground." DUKEDOM OF BRONTE.— Afterthe glorious victory which Nelson achieved in Aboukir Bay, the Neapolitan government presented him with a fine estate in the vicinity of Bronte. This estate has descended with the title to the present heir, who has now to lament the total loss of it, in consequence of an eruption of Mount Etna, which has covered its whole surface with lava and ashes. CORRUPTION OF MEDICAL TERMS.— Dr. Elliotson, in a clinical lecture, gave some very amusing instances of this :— A patient who was inhaling for chronic bronchitis, said that he had used the inward healing— another, who was labouring under typhus fever, described it as a tightish fever— another who had rheumatic pains, called them romantic pains— a costive patient, described himself as caustic, and a woman who had lumbago, Ipoked very shamefaced, and said she believed she had the bumbay. POLITICAL " PIE" TY.— The Lord Chancellor's want of Piety will now be more than ever manifest to the Perceval con- servatory faction, by the following anecdote. Since the eleva- tion of Henry Brougham to the woolsack, a gentleman of Shef- field, instigated by the most pious motives, prepared a most stu- pendous Yorkshire pie, as a Christmas present to his lordship. The said pie containing almost as great a variety of animals as Noah's Ark, and after being duly baked, was set in the window of the baker, a Mr. Walker, of Forgate- street, Sheffield. On Saturday morning last the pie was called for by a party prepara- tory to its being packed up for the metropolis— but whether from its tremendous weight, or the overpowering flavor of the combus- tibles within, we know not— but at last its centre of gravity was • disturbed; and it mingled its pure essence with the kennel stream. In a moment the swinish multitude in utter contempt of the Highest Judicial officer and keeper of the King's conscience, with no small number of dogs, made about as ferocious an attack on the fallen citadel as the French soldiers might, or would, or could, or should have made upon the citadel of Antwerp. Hares, geese, game, { owl, and turkeys, were seen flying about among the mob in all directions, until not a " wreck was left behind." We are happy to state that the military were not called out on the occa- sion, and that no lives were lost. The conservatives are zealous for a public demonstration at the downfall of the pie, which they looked upon as a bribe to the chancellor, to gain the ballot, or some such thing, and quite appalling to the pure spirit which animates the ghost of Schedule A. A TRIFLING GIFT. " Your votes," cries Baring with his pocket lined, " Your votes— but with your questions do not press; " To all these subjects I shall give my mind—" No doubt he will; I'm sure he can't give less. THE GULLIBILITY OF THE HOUSE.— It is not true that the conservatives have engaged Thomas Cribb, ex- champion of England, to oppose Mr. Gully in the House of Commons— the honourable gentleman intending to accept the chiltern hun- dreds, and consequently rendering such opposition unnecessary. HENLEY ON THAMES.— The Conservative toast a few weeks ago was " Henley on Thames,"— it is now " the Thames on Henley."— The Hen- lay Eggs were all addled. In consequence of the projected alterations in the Equity Courts, bets have been laid that there will be a new election for the borough of Marylebone within six months. A PROUD BOAST.— At the Smithfield cattle clnb show the Duke of Richmond said he prided himself on living in the native county of that invaluable breed of sheep, the South- down. If this be a subject for pride, how ought his grace the Duke of Wellington to be proud ? He ought to pride himself surely, in being Lord Lieutenant of the Hog country, of living in the times of the swinish multitude j particularly as he has ma- naged so well to save his Bacon. CONSERVATIVE PROPHECY.— We venture lo predict says the " Quarterly," that in ordinary cases, and in the long run, the Reform Bill will generate more bribery in one election, than the old system did in seven— assuming the bill to have a long run, is letting the cat out of the bag. It would be well if the quar- terly told us on which side the bribery is to take place— to ren- der the prophecy intelligible. It is reported that the Insurance offices will bear the tax for the education of the poor, under the forthcoming Bill, agree- ably to the following paragraph in the Patriot.—" The conflagra- tion that blazed through the county, was the result of deplorable ignorance— let the people be educated, and it will be a cheap in- surance upon agricultural produce." This hint ought not to be lost sight of. THE RIVAL EDITORS.— There is much " Town Talk" in reference to the appearance of Mr. William Cobbett and Mr. John Walter upon opposite benches, or side by side, as the case may be, in the House of Commons. It is well known that they are " ancient enemies," and, more- over, that every epithet of abuse, old and new, has been liberally, or illiberally, flung from one to another during the last twenty years. " The bone- grubber" and the leader of " the hirelings" are about to meet— there will be rare sport for the spectators. We do wrong, however, to link together the two names-— even for a joke. They have nothing in common, save that they are both " honourable" members. The character of Mr. Walter has ever stood high ; he has long maintained the reputation he had made by industry, and perseverance. He is well entitled to his seat, and, as labourers on the public press, we consider ourselves as participating somewhat in the honour he has gained. It is such men who have the best right to become our Representatives. Why are there not more such in a Reformed Parliament ? Within a hundred yards- of the place in which we write, there are at least a dozen whose claims to the distinction would, we imagine, be readily allowed by the electors of any borough in the kingdom. DONATIONS TO THE POOR.— The system of receiving weekly deposits from poor people, and adding a donation at the end of the year as an encouragement, the whole of which is af- terwards laid out under proper superintendence, is extending it- self considerably.—[ We should like to have some further details of this system ; it is one from which great benefit is likely to arise — a speciesof charitythat does goodwithout producingmeanuess.] A Scotch artist, we understand, sought the suffrages of the electors of a town, north of the Tweed, but was not success- ful with his canvass. GAMING.— It has for some time past been a subject of very general complaint, that the magistrates and the police, alert enough in suppressing minor nuisances, take no notice whatever of the glaring increase of " hells" at the west end of the town, especially in the immediate neighbourhood of Regent street. This winking at the vices of the great, and of the middle class, will hardly suit the age of Reform.—[ We shall gladly lend our columns to give publicity to such infamous places, and the weak and wicked by whom they are frequented.] COURT AND FASHION. THEIR MAJESTIES.— Their Majesties are still at Brighton, enjoying good health, and taking daily rides in the vicinity. The answers to inquiries relative to the Duke of Sussex, state that " his Highnes continues to improve— but slowly." The Duchess of Gloucester continues to improve in health ; but, in consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather for the last few days, her Royal Highness has not left the Palace. The Duke of Newcastle intends to give a series of brilliant fetes at Clumber during the ensuing month, in honour of the recent nuptials of the Earl of Lincoln and Lady Susan Douglas Hamilton. Since the death of the Duchess of Newcastle, Clum- ber has not been distinguished by any entertainments so splendid as those announced as about to take place. The Copenhagen papers state that " Baron Adolphus Von Blome, nephew of our Ambassador in Russia, is appointed Danish Ambassador in London." The King has been graciously pleased to approve of Frederick de Lisle, as Consul- General in Great Britain for the Oriental Re- public of the Uruguay. The Duke de Stacpoole has abandoned his projected tour and returned to London, intending to winter here. His equipage will surprise the frequenters of Hyde Park next season. The Earl of Harborough is taking the lead at Melton Mowbray. The Marquis of Hertford and Lord Lowther were expected to pass the winter months in Naples, amidst the festivities with which the Neapolitan noblesse were preparing to honour the nuptials of their young Sovereign. The Earl of Derby is at Knowsley, in Lancashire, to the great delight of his tenantry. His Lordship's hospitalities are un- bounded at this season of the year. RUMOURS. The Standard states, as a rumour, " that Lord W, Ben- tinck is to be immediately recalled from India, and that the splendid piece of Government patronage will be bestowed upon Lord Durham, son- in- law of the Premier— in reward, we sup- pose, for his Lordship's brilliant services during his late embassy extraordinary."—[ We believe this is nothing but a story got up for the purpose of saying something bitter about Lord Durham — an amusement very prevalent of late with all parties. Few have a greater number of enemies than his Lordship; it has been broadly said of him, as also of one of his colleagues, Mr. Stanley, " he never speaks but to give pain."] It is slated at the west end of the town that one of the first questions submitted to the House of Lords, on the re- assem- bling of parliament, will be Lord Brougham's bill for separating the legislative and judicial functions of the Great Seal. It is also said, that in case the bill should pass into a law, Lincoln's- Inn Hall will in the first place be offered to the present Master of the Rolls, and, in case of his declining its acceptance, which is very probable, to the Attorney- General ( Sir Wm. Horne), but that, under any circumstances, Lord Brougham will retain the woolsack.—[ This rumour comes through a suspicious me- dium— the Standard.] It is rumoured that the sovereigns of Leadenhall- street fully understand that they are to be deposed— the East India trade thrown open— the whole management of the civil and military departments to be put in commission— the present establishment of clerks transferred as far as may be desirable from the East India House to Government, and the rest pensioned off. All this may be true. We have it on what we consider good authority. The Repealers are already beginning to talk of a Na- tional Council of Irish Members favourable to domestic legisla- tion, to assemble in Dublin previous to the meeting of Parlia- ment. In fact, it is decided by the Dictator that the " Honour- able Members" shall sit in Dublin as well as in London, and writs will be issued in a few days for calling this Irish Parliament together. The report which has been so freely circulated in our city that General Palmer has accepted an official appointment wider the Crown, is, we are told, untrue.— Bath Chronicle. Wc understand a Bill is now in progress by his Majesty's Ministers for the general diffusion of education, the British and Foreign School Society having lately had an order from the Council for their reports and papers on the subject. It is to be hoped that the leading feature of that establishment, which im- poses no peculiar religious creed, will not be lost sight of. LORD LIEUTENANCY OF IRELAND.— It is still confi- dently asserted that the Duke of Richmond will proceed to Ire- land early in the spring, to replace the Marquis of Anglesey. The health of the present Noble. Viceroy is understood to be extremely delicate, and unequal to the duties of his high office. THE NAVY.— A new Code of Naval Instructions, which was expected to have come out in July last, will, it is said, be issued early in January, the same having been delayed by altera- tions which the consolidation of the Admiralty, Navy, and Vic- tualling Boards, has rendered necessary therein. We are enabled to contradict the report which has been generally circulated, that the venerable Earl Fitzwilliam had died on Friday last at Milton, But we fear he is not to remain among us much longer. THE WEEK. CAUTION TO DRAMATIC WRITERS.—" A poor Poet," as he is truly and emphatically termed by the newspapers, ap- plied a few days ago at the Mansion- House for relief. He stated himself to be the author of " one hundred successful interludes, operas, and farces," and yet in a state of absolute want. When asked how he became so much reduced ? he re- plied, " the managers were slow in giving pecuniary remunera- tion ; and, in many instances, the name which dramatic repre- sentation gave to a poet was considered quite sufficient pay.' This is a case to which we hope Mr. Bulwer will give his serious attention. We believe we know the party, but withhold his name as he has not thought fit to publish it. The subject is one upon which we might comment for an hour, but we prefer asking the unfortunate author if we can do any thing to serve him ? Our pen shall do much, and our purse something. USEFUL TO CONCHOLOGISTS.— The famous French Bomb that has been insulting Antwerp fired off several dozens of shels, each of which cost the sum of 122. sterling. EXTRAORDINARY ' CASE.'— Any body wishing to adonize in the very first style, and having at command 10,000/., may help himself to a most extraordinary dressing- case now ex- hibiting in a shop window in the Lowther Arcade, Strand, and ticketed up at the above price. It is said to have been made for the celebrated pea- green Hayne, of Miss Foote notoriety, at an expense of 15,000?. The different articles of which it consists are indeed " horribly beautiful." It is another proof of the extreme " greenness" of the coxcomb. PORTRAIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.— Sir John De Beau- voir has expressed an intention of presenting to the inhabitants of Windsor a fine picture of Queen Elizabeth, to place in the Town Hall, as a mark of his gratitude for their kind reception. JTlie painting is the celebrated original of Zttcchero. SUSPENSION OF PAYMENTS.— There is no fund out of which to paythe revising Barristers under the Reform Act; though means can be found to defray various other expenses not yet sanctioned by Parliament. BREAD.— The late proceedings at more than one Police Office leave no doubt that frauds are practised in the baking trade most grievously injurious to the health and the pockets of the public. MR. WYNN.— The recent election of ( he Right Hon. Charles Williams WTynn for Montgomeryshire makes the thirteenth time successively that he has been returned for that county, though his age is scarcely beyond that of middle life. ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL— The architect of this building ( W. W'ilkins, R. A.) has just completed the wing that looks on the western road, and, although from the vexatious caprice of the gentleman whose house adjoins the hospital, the architect has not been enabled to throw it sufficiently forward, and conse- quently has been compelled to alter his original plan, the build- ing, as it now stands in its finished state, is a just object of admiration to all who view it, and reflects great credit on the talents of the architect and designer. Those who are curious on such points we would recommend to notice the new plan of roofing over the portico of the hospital. A LEG OF MUTTON POET.— Our Mansion House report gives the case of a poet who was " brought up" on suspicion of stealing two legs of mutton. Such a sight was indeed suspicious if the calling of the man was known. He bore, it appears, the said legs upon his shoulders. He was discharged ; and patheti- cally asked the Lord Mayor's permission to render the subject poetical. We will gladly purchase this poor fellow's rhymes. It is a meet subject for his muse: and he may owe more to his legs than he has ever done to his head. He ought to be install'd at Whitechapel, and become the Poet Laureate of the Scales. DULL DAYS— Much epidemic disease is said to prevail at present in the metropolis, which the moist and un- Christmas- like weather is not calculated to remove. Friday morning was ushered in by a dense fog; it continued during the greater part of the day. We are now looking with some anxiety for the arri- val of General Frost. COMMERCE.— Our commercial men appear to he in the utmost perplexity, and no orders are given upon any matter which the question of peace or war could affect; nor will this suspension of business terminate until the immediate results of the surrender of Antwerp become known. COALS.— The present unexampled cheapness of coals at this season of the year must prove a great blessing to the lower classes, and enable the benevolent to extend their means of use- fulness. The very circumstance however— the mildness of the weather— that renders it cheap, also prevents it from being as necessary as usual during the December month. The Honourable Caplain Barrington, one ofthe Lords of the Admiralty, lies dangerously ill at Lambton Hall, the residence of Lord Durham. ANATOMY.— The high price of " subjects," and the un- due preference which is said to be manifested in supplying the schools, form topics of angry complaints, and several meetings have been held for the purpose of devising measures to remedy the evil. It is proposed, if the attempt to equalise the supply be successful, to establish a catalogue of equal prices— a sort of price current" of corpses— among the different teachers of anatomy. CHURCH REFORM.— The Bishop of Bristol, in his an- swer to a late address presented by his clergy, speaks of a re- form of the revenues of the church, and their application to their legitimate purposes as) a thing agreed upon. Their reverences had better look to it, " for if the reform come not from within, it will come with a vengeance from without." We have just received a letter from an English Officer, at present " visiting" in the French camp, in which the writer states that he had seen old Chass£, whose first words to him were—" Ah I what will your countryman, the Dulse of Wel- lington, say to my defence ?" Complaints have been made that the British Museum has been closed during the holidays. It is the only period during which it can be visited by a number of persons. The library may be shut, but the Museum, as a place of " public amuse- ment," should be kept open. THE DRAMA. THE PANTOMIMES. Pantomimes ! what magic there is in that word ; what visions) of Harlequins and Columbines, Clowns, Pantaloons, Scarab mouches, and Supernumeraries does it conjure up ! How young one feels in the contemplation, of that motley crew! Who could find fault with a pantomime ? The sternest critic is disarmed by the sweet fiction, and his soul is turned into honey by the wand of Signor Arlecchino. If ever we try our pen in dramatic composition, pantomime shall be the walk we choose. Oh ! the merry tricks of those pets of ours, Clown and Pan- taloon— how we enter into the spirit of tlieir jokes— how we commiserate their perplexities, and rejoice at their hair- breadth escapes ! Then, when that demi- deity, Harlequin, comes whiz- zing, spinning, dancing, flut ering on, all light and life, glittering in blue, green, gold, red, violet, indigo, and ten thousand spangles, a man- rainbow, more chequered than life itself, how fairy- like we feel, and what visions of Elfland float before our eyes ! Columbine ! the sweet, short- petticoated creature ! how we would like to be Harlequin for her sake! What a lovely compound of nymph, fairy, zephyr, and peri! Would the world were peopled with Columbines, and life one long Harlequinade ! But we must be didactic. DRURY- LANE. Harlequin Traveller; or, the World Inside Out, is the name of the pantomime at this theatre. It commences with a view of the starry world— Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, & c., and an intersiew between Orion, Aquarius, and Sagittarius. Mercury- drops in. The celestial bodies ( the stars we mean) move forward, and " that dim spot which men call earth" appears, sailing through the vast empyrean. The Earth opens and out steps Asia; another revolution, Earth opens again, and out pops America ; Africa and Europa follow in due course. A dinner party is made up, each quarter agreeing to furnish the best his country affords. A numerous train of servants then appears from the planet bearing the choicest viands of their respective countries ; old England's roast beef, of course, forming a striking feature. A question arises during- the repast as to which part of the world contains the loveliest woman ; and a mission is agreed upon by the four " great Powers" to ascertain the fact. Mer- cury takes the command, and changes himself to aHarlequin forth- with. An American Indian becomes Pantaloon; an African Roscius Clown ; and John Chinaman, Pierrot. The first view we get on reaching ten a firma is " a view of London from Greenwich," by Stanfield, in other words, very beautiful. Divers mutilated pensioners are here discovered stretching their ( wooden) legs, accompanied by their wives and daughters. One of the young ladies is selected by Harlequin and becomes Columbine incontinently. But we have not time to accompany our friends through every scene in their tour ; suffice it that we notice some of the most striking. By- the bye, before we forget, Columbine's blue frock is far too dark for so eHjgrial a lady— too dowdy, as they say in the city. An amusing trick occurs in " Hungerford Fish . market;" Clown buys a bottle of Rowland's Macassar, and swallows it. The immediate result is a long tuft of hair growing out of his mouth. In the archery scene, one of the worthy Toxophilites sends his arrow into a real bull's eye— tlie animal breaks in among the company, and tosses poor Clown sky- high. The view of Cape Town and Table Land above, by Stanfield, is the best scene of the whole ; the Goa Island Fall ( Niagara), a moonlight view, by the same artist, also very beautiful. The scene on the Broadway, New York where Clown gets drunk, and the moon, lamps, doors, & c. become double, is very laughable. The postures of Mr. Greene are mira- culous. We will back him against the great sea- serpent, for any sum not exceeding a plum, to go through a series of contortions on any day between this and next Easter Monday. The whole went off well, but some of the changes want prac- tice. The letters in the last scene, F- A- I- R- Y L- A- N- D, were particularly out of order. By- the- bye, we don't see the neces- sity of these literary characters at all, for we have already been told that the coming scene is elfin ; and if we hadn't, we flatter ourselves we could have given a pretty good guess. .. They ai quite supererogatory ! ' COVENT- GARDEN. Although we have seen every pantomime produced'at the major theatres for the last three and twenty years, we must say. that we never witnessed one so splendidly got up in every res- pect as that brought out at Covent- garden on Wednesday night. If the most gorgeous scenery, united with amusing tricks and transformations, can render a pantomime popular, this one, we conceive, must prove eminently so. It is founded on the nur- sery tale of Puss in Boots, which must be so familiar to our readers as to render all description of plot, & c. quite superflu- ous. If the chief aim of pantomime be to " shoot folly as it flies," it has been fully attained in this instance. There are several good hits at " passing events," which drew down shouts of applause from all parts of a well- filled house. Amongst others, a barrel of Dutch herrings and a bundle of Brussels sprouts ( both animated by the magic wand of Harlequin) were with difficulty restrained from fighting by Pantaloon, while the Clowns were manufacturing protocols by the thousand at a patent printing press, which suddenly exploded in smoke. Nor, while the vices of the Poor were satirized, were those of the Rich al-. lowed to pass unnoticed. The titled gambler of St. James's, and the gin- drinker of St. Giles's, were both held up to ridicule. We cannot pass over the very excellent acting of Miss Poole'* aS' Josselin, the miller's son, and afterwards Mar./ uis of Caribas" J and of Master Mitchinson as Puss in Boots, without bestowing- upon them our tribute of admiration. The entire scenery by fne Messieurs Greves, surpassed all their former productions. Miss Caroline Foster made a lovely Columbine; and Harlequin, Clowns, Pantaloon, & c., were admirably provided for in the persons of Messrs. Ellar, Paulo, Matthews, and Barnes. Come we now to the Moving Panorama. It was a most beautiful sight. We need no longer expose ourselves to dangers in visiting foreign parts in search of the picturesque; for while seated in our box at Covent- garden we sailed from the Downs— had a peep at Calais— passed along the French and Dutch coasts— saw the English and French squadrons in full sail— weathered a gale in company with the Tala- vera and Calypso ; then entered the " Lazy Scheldt," and sailed up to Antwerp amidst the roar of guns, shells, and bombs. So complete was the illusion of being on board a steamer— caused by the rocking of the bulwarks on the stage— that we were glad to get ashore again, as ( not being very good sailors) we were begin- ning to feel " rather queer" from the pitching of the vessel. SURREY. Cheap production has long been the order of the day ; it is extending its influence over the nocturnals. The Surrey has re- opened ( on Wednesday) at " reduced fares"— boxes, two shillings ; pit, one shilling; gallery, ' only sixpence," as the cheap glove - sellers say. After an inaudible new melodrama, called The Charcoal Burner; or, The Dropping Well of Knares- borough, came Signor Diavolo Antonio, whose exhibitions on the corde volante were well adapted to an occasion like the present, when hearing is a mere sinecure. Valkyrce ; or, The Patriot Pole, the pantomime, succeeded; but,, really, the gen- tlemen ' on the Surrey side," are so very full of spirits that we couldn't make heads or tails of the plot. Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and Pantaloon, conducted themselves extremely well, and we heartily wish Mr. Osbaldeston a good season, and a happy new year when it comes ! Two little Diavoli Antonio's, sons of the Diavolo, exhibited a series of gymnastic feats, which were truly astonishing. The romance of Oberon closed the per- formances— enough for the money, in all conscience. COBURG. The Coburg pantomime is called Harlequin and the Royal Ram; or, The Brazen Dragon, founded upon a ' Fairy Tale,' which, we believe, may be found in Mother Bunch's unrivalled collection. A certain prince, Istolah ( Mr. C. 3. Smith), after- T wards Harlequin, is confined, in the shape of a yam, in the 423 fME TOWS. December 30. tower of an enchantress, into which the JVracess Miranda obtains admission, by the assistance of Grabugeon, a humpbackcd dwarf ( Mr. Norman), afterwards Clown, who procures for her the golden key of the enchantress. While in the gardens they are surprised by the enchantress, who enters with Wang Bang, the King, and father of the Princess ( Mr. T. Blanchard), afterwards Pantaloon, and, obtaining possession of the key, is about to wreak vengeance on the lady, when the good fairy, who had given to the Princess Grabugeon as a slave, appears, and instantly transforms her protegee into Columbine,- while, at the same time, the other parties appear in their usual Christmas characters, and the fun proceeds without intermission to the close of the entertainments. The changes and tricks went off very well, and some of the scenes do much credit to the ai'tists, Messrs. Bengough and Morris. OLYMPIC. The Witch of Wych- street does not give us a pantomime ; therefore we put her at the bottom of our list, hoping this pun- ishment may prevent a repetition of the offence. A new piece, called The Paphian Bower; or, Venus and Adonis, has been produced instead. It is of the Olympic Revel school, full of puns and parodies. The widow played Venus, and Bland per- sonated the ' bashful boy.' The piece was well received, and is likely to become a general favourite. ADELPHI. Harlequin, King of Clubs; or. The Knave that Stole the Syllabubs, is the name of the pantomime at this theatre. Jack, having proved himself a recreant knight, is doomed by his most gracious Majesty of Clubs to perform penance— that penance is an abstinence from syllabubs. Jack, however, manages to get his share, and adroitly, but ungallantly, fixes the guilt on a female domestic in the royal palace. After a variety of tricks and illusions, the great transformation takes place, and Messrs Harlequin and Co. take possession of the stage. The ' Hunger- ford- market' scene, and that of the ' Cloth Mart, Holborn- hill,' are the most amusing! We hardly need say that the house was crammed. SADLER'S WELLS. The Wells re- opened on Wednesday, under the sole manage- ment of Mr. W. H. Williams. The pantomime Was named Humpty Dumpty; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Enchanted Egg. Here also ( as at Covent- garden) we are indulged with a trip to Antwerp— but' comparisons are odious.' MASQUERADE AT THE OPERA HOUSE. " We shall never be younger"— thought we, as we paced up the Hay- market, that bright morning after Christmas Day ; and, stepping into Mr. Thresher's shop, we bought ourselves a mask and secured a handsome black domino for the succeeding Thursday. On Thursday, with hearts as light as hydrogen gas, we found ourselves on the magic floor of the King's Theatre, surrounded „- j tJ. rlequin and Columbine, Turks, Flower- girls, Jews, Nuns, Knights, Fairies, Spaniards, Persians, Highlanders, Foxhunters, and ten thousand nondescripts of all sorts and sizes. Dominos, of course, were in abundance ; and there was such a profusion Of Turks that we' thought the whole Mussulman Empire had been let loose upon us. Flower- girls were as plentiful as stars on a frosty night; and Nuns ( save the mark!) were by no means scarce. The greatest good- humour prevailed, and, after the first hour or two, every one seemed to enter freely into the magic scene. Such music— such lovely ancles displayed in the giddy maze of the dance— such perfect order as was exhibited in every part of the arrangements— could not fail to delight the most fas- tidious ; and, if we may judge from the frequent libations of certain Paynim friends of ours, the wines Were of a very entic- ing description. On the whole, we never passed a merrier evening, and are almost ashamed to acknowledge the hour at which we broke the spell that bound us to this scene of enchantment. abledby a kick from Chikini. Being recovered from his ow- damages, Mr. B. now sought to recover damages from Captain Polhill; and in this he was successful, the sum of 14?., hown ever, having been deducted from the original demand on its being proved that Mr. B. had been in Co. with the Co- burg. It is understood that Morris, of the Hay. market theatre, intends to open at the ( to him) very unusual season of Easter, and that he has already engaged John Reeve, Buckstone, Mr. and Mrs. Yates, Mrs.- Honey, and other members of the Adel- phi company. EVERY THING BUT BLISS FOR MRS. WAYLETT.— A few days since an advertisement appeared in one of the Daily Papers, announcing—" that if Mrs. Waylett, late of the Strand Theatre, did not come and take away certain articles, her property, they would be sold to pay the expences incurred." This notice was signed with the name of Bliss. Unfortunately for the accom - plished actress, she was at the time amusing the good citizens of Dublin; and, had she even seen the paper, the specified time would have elapsed before she could have answered the demand. Presuming, however, that Mrs. Waylett never frequents a Pub- lic House, the announcement was fruitless— unless Mr. Bliss considered the buildings in which the rival of Madame Vestris performs Public Houses. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. —• II GREEN ROOM GOSSIP, • ft NEW OPERA AT DRURY- LANE.— A new Opera, the music De Pinna, is in preparation at Drury- lane.— It is to be called The Alhambra, and will be brought out soon after Christmas. NEW OPERA AT COVENT- GARDEN.— It is in contemplation at Covent- Garden Theatre, to produce a three- act musical drama, founded on one of Scott's novels. ITALIAN OPERA.— Amongst those engaged for this Theatre are Mr. Seguin, Madame Pasta, Madame De Meric, Madame Boccabadati ( her first appearance in this country), Madame Cinti Damoreau, & c. Of the male vocalists we are to have Donzelli, Zaclietti, Galli, De Begnis, Tamburini, & c. The ballot is to be under the direction of Deshayes, who is shortly expected in town, and will comprise Mademoiselle Heberle, Pauline Leroux, St. Romain, and Taglioni ; with Albert, Thieodore, D'Aumont, and the celebrated Perrot, the principal dancer of the Grand Opera at Paris. The house will open on the 26th of next month, with Matilde di Chabran, or II Crociato, and will be succeeded by some new operas by Bellini, never yet yet performed in this country. I Capulelti e Montechi, and Norma, are mentioned as amongst the novelties. Laporte has engaged Madame de Meric to sing at Covent- Garden before she appears at Drury- lane in Don Juan ; she is to sing in Der Freischutz. Don Trueba has withdrawn i. is comedy, the " Men of Pleasure," from Drury. lane. - i- Kean concluded his engagement at Drury- lane on Friday night, on which occasion he played Othello to Macready's Iago. On the engagement of these Dons, it was agreed they should play alternately the characters of Othello and Iago; but when it came to Kean's turn • to play " second fiddle" there was a screw loose; and the end of it was, that the management was obliged to double Macready's salary to induce him to act Iago This was a keen trick, to say the least of it, aud we think the Gallant Captain has been scurvily used. Maciejoiski, the celebrated violinist of the east of Europe, has just arrived in London. If his fiddle is not more more musical than his name, we won't go to hear him. Phillips is engaged at Drury- lane theatre, and will appear about the 17th of January. Charles Mathews, the comedian, is still at Brighton, nearly recovered from the effects of the accident he experienced on the Pier at Southampton, during the summer. Letters have been received from New York, statiug that young Kean does not return to England for some time.— Howard Payne had just taken a benefit at the Park Theatre, the produce of which amounted to 1,030/. The performances were Catherine and Petruchio— the hero and heroine by Mr. C. and Miss Fanny Kemble ; and Charles the Second, in which Mr. James WaHack performed Captain Copp. The production of Colonel d'Aguilar's translation of Schiller' tragedy of Fiesco, at the Dublin theatre, on Saturday evening, was honoured by a brilliant assemblage of rank and fashion. The Lord Lieutenant and suite'occupied a private box, and all the officers of the garrison were present. THE ITALIAN CORPS.— Donzclli, De Begnis, Mad. de Meric & c. closed their engagement at the Edinburgh theatre; on Fri- day. II Fanatico per la Musica was the opera selected for a grand finale. A very great alteration has taken place in the prices of admis- sion to tlie Coburg, Surrey, and other Minor Theatres. It has been arranged that the boxes shall be 2s., pit Is. and gal lery, 6d. MANAGER AND DAMAGER.— Mr. Blanchard, who had been engaged to play at Drury- lane, " in Tragedy, Comedy, Farce, Burletta, Interlude, Opera, Ballet, Pantomime, and a great variety of other kiwis of performance," atone pound per night, has obtained damages against Captain Polhill, to the amount of ' 92 pounds. Some words, it seems, had occurred in a panto mime, between the plaintiff and Chikini. Words led to blows, then came " the tug of war," and, finally, Blanchard was dis- THE EXHIBITIONS. According to our promise, we return to the subject we left un- finished last week— the most popular exhibitions in the me- tropolis. At Exeter Hall, in the Strand, is a gallery of paintings by the most celebrated of the old masters ; and many of the pictures are as fine specimens of the various schools as we have ever wit- nessed. A picture at the stair head, by Guido, is a charming production: the figure on the right hand side, " Lot's daughter," is one of the sweetest bits of painting we ever saw. No. 40, " St. Joseph and the Infant Saviour," by the same master, is our chief favourite in the gallery itself. The next picture ( No. 41) by Schedoni is a fine composition, and the colouring admirable. But the finest bit of colouring, combined with delicacy of pencilling, is, to our mind, the " Holy Family" of Frate Bartolomeo di St. Marco— No. 73 in the catalogue. Above this, is a pleasing picture of Schedoni—" Head of Ca- therine," No. 92. A splendid production of Garofalo, ( No. 84.) must not be overlooked. No. 31. " A Holy Family," by Zurbaran is another of our prime favourites— a fine specimen of this great Spanish master. The lamb in the picture of " St John," ( No 7.) is an extraordinary work— nothing but life could exceed it. A beautiful composition is No. 19. " St. Augus- tine Writing his Homilies," by Tiepolo. " The Magdalen," ( 23) —" Christ Bound to the Pillar," ( 33)—" Christ Bearing the Cross," ( 51)—" Holy Family," ( 62)— and a picture by Jan Steen ( 122), are among the most striking of this collection : but to enumerate each good one would be almost to reprint the catalogue. The whole are of a sacred character, and the prices marked on some of them ridiculously low. While we are here, we may as well step into the room be- neath, where the Model of a Copper Mine is exhibited, showing the various processes which that valuable metal goes through before it is fit for pence and halfpence. In Suffolk- street, Pall- mall- East, is the winter exhibition of British Artists; which will take at least a day to look through with any degree of attention. No. 13, " The Political Barber" is a clever little picture, by Kidd— the countenance ofthe man reading THE TOWN leader is admirable. 71," DeadGatne," by Steven s, is a very beautiful thing. The pigeon is— we were going to say, alive— but, however, it is as true to nature as anything that has paid the debt of nature can be. The stone bottle in the same picture is capital. 88, ". Theodore and Honoria" Fuseli. The figure of Honoria in this picture isa perfectwork. 95, " The Interior ofa Cowshed," by R. B. Davis, is excellent. Mr. T. Uwins' " Comus"( No. 108) is an admirable little picture ; the colouring good. 113, " The Portrait of a Boy," by Liverseege, is a beautiful bit of painting. A Landscape, by De Lutherbourg ( No. 128) will arrest the at- tention of the most lacklustre eye. It is a finely managed com- position. Three pictures, by Liverseege ( Nos. 137, 138, and 151) will find an admirer in every visitor. Clint's " Landscape" ( 152) is very fine ; and Landseer's " Puppy" ( 157) quite alive. Two pictures near the door—" A Waterfall," by C. Marshall; and " A Mountain- pass," by Liverseege and Vickers, are among our prime favourites. In the " room to the left" the " Disappointed Dinner Party" is entitled to especial consideration. The cockney villa, with its vegetable monsters in front; the disappointed look of the city gallant on being informed that " master's out;" the red- hot countenance of the lady, who is just " ready to drop" with heat and disappointment— the whole, in short, of the picture is as amusing as an Olympic farce or a Christmas pantomime. No 294 is a charming picture by G. Lance: the pearly nautilus ex- quisite. The fruit, too, is very tempting ; particularly as, about this time, one begins to get very hungry— and there is no Swiss Cottage, as there is at the Colosseum, to refresh the outward man, woman, and child. No. 310 is a very— what shall we say ? pleasing, lovely, beautiful, exquisite ? We have had them all- not an epithet of admiration is left in our vocabulary. In a word, the collection abounds in pictures of first- rate excellence, and the eye can turn in no direction without encountering some great work of art. It is a week's task to look over the whole with due attention ; and a pleasant week, too, for those who have taste, patriotism ( remember they are British artists !), aud a feeling for whatever is beautiful in nature or refined in art. At the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, is a very curious and inte resting collection of Etruscan vases and bronzes, gold ornaments, & c., which were dug up ou the estate of Lucien Bonaparte in Italy. Some of the vases are beautiful in form and rich in orna- ment ; among the bronzes are helmets, urns, weapons of war. and ornaments, of almost every description. The whole, we believe, are to be disposed of. Before we close our notice we have to direct the particular at- tention of our readers to another exhibition opened to the public on Thursday, by Mr. Seth Smith, the spirited proprietor of the Pantcc'nnicon, Belgrave- square. We allude to the new Diorama of the " Falls of Niagara." We attended the private view, and have much pleasure in recording our unqualified approbation of the truth and beauty of these fine pictures, which will bear com- parison with some of the best efforts of Bouton and Daguerre, the painters of the Diorama in the Regent's Park. The artist, Mr. E. Sintzenicli has represented the " Falls from both sides of the St. Lawrence ;" the one on the Canadian shore places the specta- tor beyond the ridge of the " Horse- shoe Fall," while before him is the mighty river, with Goat- Island separating the stream, and part of the Canadian with the entire long vista of the American cataract rushing down into its narrow bed and wearing ( as it is sup- posed) a channel for itself deep under the opposite shore, on the spectator's left hand. This picture, which gives the most capa- cious view of the entire scene, is represented as at broad noon, which, when changed for the grey light of eve, gives to it a different, and, in our opinion, a more natural effect. The other view is taken on the opposite, or American shore— from the bottom of the cataract, and pourtrays the whole of the American with the entire curve of the Horse- shoe Fall. Tlie artist has been extremely successful in delineating the falling body of wa- ter, and the immense masses of light and shade are very skillfully made out. Tbe rising mist from the cataract is here seen to great advantage, and some figures are introduced in the foreground to show the relative size of the different parts of the scenery. We have been thus minute in our description of these interesting pic- tures from an anxious wish to do all the justice in our power to the meritorious and unassisted labours of the artist who has painted them, and whilst we express a desire that our readers should not take our judgment as. final, but go and see for them- selves, so also are we satisfied that none will leave the Diorama without paying that compliment to the proprietor and painter whiclf they so truly and justly deserve. SIEGE OF THE CITADEL OF ANTWERP. FRIDAY NOON ( 22d Day).— The last act of the'siege commenced to- day. The breach battery, armed and fully prepared, began at half- past eleven o'clock the work of destruction on the left face of the bastion Toledo. This battery consists of six 24- pounders, the balls of which strike the wall at the water level, and shatter- ing the old bripks of which it is composed into pieces, raise clouds of dust. It plays horizontally upon a width of about fif- teen yards, and from a distance of about thirty. The great Liege " monster- mortar" was to- dayplacedinthe counterguard, between the Mechlin gate and FortMontebello. The first enormous shell thrown by this mortar during its approach to the citadel, revolved as it were on its own axis, and fell upon and sunk into the ram- part of the citadel, near the gate of the esplanade. After a delay of about three minutes it burst, and scattered an immense quan- tity of earth on all sides. At four o'clock four or five more were thrown with precision into the citadel— a distance of more than 1,000 yards. Much firing took place to- day on the tower. The French have guns of heavy calibre, stationed, one at Burcht, and the other on the opposite side, which have discharged a consi derable number of shot against the Dutch gun- boats in the Scheldt, near the citadel, to cut off, as it is said, the communica- tion with the Tete de Flandres. King Leopold attended by a brilliant staff, was seen to- day on horseback returning to Brus- sels. During his stay in Antwerp, his Majesty visited all the hospitals, and made inquiries into the cases of all the wounded, even of the Dutch prisoners. He also rode through every part of the city, which liis presence contributes to console at this critical period. SATURDAY.— There was during the night a cessation of the battering cannon, although the fusillade continued brisk. About nine o'clock this morning the battery resumed. The battery in breach will discharge about 6,000 bullets per day. It is now six months since Marshal Soult required from the engineer depart- ment a plan of the attack projected against Antwerp. That do- cument pointed out the 28th or 29th day from the opening of the trenches, as the time when all the preparations for the assault would be ready. The event has come within twenty- four hours of the calculation of the engineer. The works of attack against the citadel extend to 11,000 metres, and cover about two leagues. The French lost to- day a considerable number of men, and four or five excellent officers. The best place for viewing the citadel, viz., the little Theatre of Varieties, has been closed to- day, in consequence of some persons having made signals from the roof. A French sentinel who observed them fired his mus- ket, and lodged a ball beside the man most remarkable for his movements. SUNDAY.— There was a great fire all last night in the citadel. One of their large buildings, which has been considered bomb- proof, was blazing all night. At eight o'clock this morning the Dutch sent two superior officers, a Colonel, and a Captain, as parlementaires to Marshal Gerard. The officer to whom they presented themselves was unwilling at first to receive them, as tlie commandant of the citadel had refused to receive the parlementaires on the part of the Marshal with the first summons. At half- past nine this morning, the firing ceased by order of Marshal Gerard. The Dutch soldiers jumped out of their casemates, and danced with delight on the ramparts. It soon became generally known that Chasse had proposed to ca- pitulate, and at nine o'clock a flag of truce was hoisted on the citadel. The negociations Were carried on during the whole of the day, and at half- past ten at night definitively settled. Chasse at first demanded that himself and garrison should be allowed to return to Holland. This Gerard positively refused, and de- sired that the citadel should surrender at discretion. A second parlementaire was then sent to Chasse, with a different proposi- tion. The Marshal, having consulted a Council of War, re- turned for answer, that Chass£ should give up all the forts be- longing to Belgium along the Scheldt; and that, on such condi- tions being acceded to, he would consent to the first demand of the Dutch General. Chasst', after a little delay, sent a third parlementaire with a note to Gerard, stating that he had no con- troul over forts Lillo and Liefkenshock, which were placed under the orders of Captain Bake. Gerard at length sent his ultima- tum to Cliass£, and desired a categorical answer with as short de- lay as possible. The Marshal demanded that Lillo and Liefken- shock, with all the forts and dependencies of the citadel, should be given up, when the garrison would be permitted to leave the cita- del with all the honours of war; or, that the dependencies only should be given up, and the garrison remain prisoners of war, until the forts Lillo and Liefkenshock were in possession of the Belgians. Chassd accepted the latter condition, and the capitu- lation was signed at ten o'clock, by which the Belgians are to take possession of the out- posts of the gates of the Esplanade and Secours, and that the Tete de Flandre, forts Burcht and D'Aus truwil, were to be immediately evacuated. The deplorable condition in which Major de la Fontaine found the citadel beggars all description. Not a house was left which could shelter the garrison ; the ammunition and provisions were either destroyed, burnt, or blown up, and only sufficient food was left for one day's rations. The casemates, or vaulted pas sages, were all knocked down ; and Chass£ himself was seated in a vault at a table, with every thing around him destroyed by the bombs. The garrison bore their misfortunes with great bra- very and devotedness, and until Friday night not a murmur es- caped their lips. On that night a deputation of the garrison waited on Chass£, and urged him to make a desperate sortie ; and either to succeed in spiking the guns of the besiegers, or fall in the attempt. They complained that the fire of the enemy pre- vented them from standing to their guns, and that they preferred risking their lives on the field of battle to being murdered by bombs coming from an enemy hid from their sight, and against whom they could take no sure aim. Chass^ felt all the force of this remonstrance— termed a mutiny by the French and Bel- gians— and from that moment he seriously thought of a capitula- tion. To attempt a sortie he knew was worse than madness— to continue to defend the citadel in its dilapitated state was impos- sible— and, having proved to the world the bravery of his men, and satisfied the honour of his country, he considered it no de- gradation to succumb to superior force. At the first interview of tlie French parlementaire- with Chass^ he was introduced with his eyes covered. The veteran, tlie instant he saw him, ordered the bandage to be removed. " We have no more secrets;" said he, " admire the glorious works of your bombs— tell Marshal Gerard the exact situation of the citadel." Thus, after twenty- four days siege, by an army of 75,000 men, with upwards of 150 pieces of artillery, the citadel of Antwerp, manned at the first by about 4,000 soldiers, has been captured, more by the immense artillery of the French than by any especial acts of military daring on their part. Still the affair has ended so far much better than was expected by many. A French jour nal ( the Messager des Chambres) says the citadel has been taken in the shortest time possible, and at the sacrifice of the fewest possible lives, and affects to have expected that 6,000 or 8,000 lives might have been lost, instead of fewer than as many hun- dreds. In the course of the night the gun boats in the Polders, and before the citadel, attempted to descend the Scheldt. The batteries on the quay instantly fired on them, and only one of them was enabled to make its escape. They returned to the Polders, and are now on fire. MONDAY.— The twelve gnn- boats are all destroyed by fire sunk. The steam- boat La Chasse ife among the number. It is said they were blown up by order of the Dutch commander, Koopman, to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy The garrison of the citadel await now the return of a courier sent by Marshal Gerard to the Hague. TUESDAY.— Things remain much as yesterday. Antwerp is all in motion with the major part pf the p9pulation of Brussels, who are flocking to see the battered citadel. WEDNESDAY,— Matters remain in statu quo ; the answer of the King of Holland being looked for with the greatest anxiety. The weather is fine, and crowds perambulate the streets. THURSDAY MORNING.— The news is of deep interest. The Herald correspondent, who agrees with him of the Times, has written thus :— " I have two pieces of news of great importance to commu- nicate ; the one is the reply of the King of Holland to the de- mand of Marshal Gerard— the other, a despatch received by the Marshal from Paris. " 1 THE KING OF HOLLAND POSITIVELY REFUSES GIVING UP- FORTS LILI. O AND LIEFKENSHOCK OTHERWISE THAN BY FORCE, AND REJECTS THE TERMS OF THE CAPITULATION.' It is re- ported at the Hague, that for the purpose of showing the firm resolution of William not to give up voluntarily one inch of ground, that Chass< 5 should be tried by a Court- martial for giving up the citadel before the breach was practicable. William also protests against the different garrisons being considered prisoners of war. " The despatch from Paris is signed by Marshal Soult, as Pre- sident of the Council. It is a positive order to Marshal Gerard to quit, with all possible expedition, the Belgian territories, and toform a junction with the\ Army of the Moselle. The last phrase of the despatch is almost verbatim in the following terms :— ' The retiring of the Army of the North is a satisfaction that France thinks due to England.' " The citadel and the different forts will be given up to the Bel- gians in two or three days, and it is expected the French will march to the right about the beginning of next week. " It is said that the Dutch prisoners will be sent to Lille anil Valenciennes by 1,000 at a time, and that the first detachment is to march this afternoon. ' 1 The French do not intend attacking Lillo and Leifkenshok, but will keep their prisoners until these forts are given up." A note is added bearing date one o'clock on Thursday to the following effect:— " I have just been informed at head- quarters that the whole of the Army of the North are to have recrossed the frontiers by the 4tli of January, 1833. Orders have already been given for trans, porting the wounded to France." We wait with intense anxiety for further intelligence. TURKEY. The Turkey mail arrived on Thursday ; the dates are, from Smyrna the 20th, and from Constantinople to the 27th ult. The previous accounts are fully confirmed ; the Sultan will not treat respecting peace with his rebel subject, the Pacha of Egypt. The Turkish fleet was in th^ Dardanelles, and Tahir Pacha, who commanded at - Navarin, had left Constantinople to report re- specting the state of the fleet, and take the command of it. Great preparations for war are still continued throughout Turkey. Tlie army to be opposed to the Egyptians is numerous but un- disciplined ; it is commanded by Redschid Pacha, the Grand Vizier. The forces of the Pacha of Egypt are in motion near Konish, the ancient Iconium ; but the accounts are contradic- tory, one party stating that they are marching upon Constanti- nople, the other that they are retiring upon Egypt. The ex- change at Constantinople had risen to 91 and 92, on account of a great demand for bills, and also on the report of a further de- basement of the coin in Turkey. THE COLONIES. Jamaica Papers have been received to the 14th November. The debates in the House of Assembly had been of rather an acrimonious nature, and some misunderstanding had arisen be- tween the Governor and the House relative to his Excellency's answer in reply to the Address at the opening of tlie Sessions. ST. BENOIT.— The latest accounts from the Isle of Bourbon state, that several of the negroes implicated in the plot of St. Benoit had been tried, and two of the most guilty executed. Two others had been sentenced to capital punishment, but had had their sentence commuted. It was intended to send the other criminals to Madagascar. THE TO WN. WORKING OF TIIF. BANKRUPTCY BILL.— In the year 1816 a commission of bankruptcy was issued against Mr. Joseph Hudson, tobacconist, residing in Oxford- street, and his debts were discovered to amount to 6,931?. No dividend was ever paid, to the creditors, nor does it appear that any steps were taken to wind up the proceedings until within the last few months, when a rigid inquiry was made. The consequence is that Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque has made an order, which he is very seldom called upon to do, viz., that a dividend of twenty shillings in the pound should be paid to each creditor, leaving a surplus for the benefit of the bankrupt.— [ Every day's experi- ence proves that nothing could have been more conducive to justice and the interests of trade thin the abolition of the old system of working commissions of bankrupt.] CAPTAIN ROSS.— The East India Company have added 100?. to the subscription for the discovery, if possible, of the in- trepid Captain Ross and his gallant companions in the Arc- tic regions. The subscription at present amounts to 2,800?., 100?. of which was subscribed by Lord Goderich, the only mem- ber of the Administration who has contributed to this laudable undertaking. THE LAD'YE- CHAPEL.— A dinner was given on Monday by a few of the subscribers, towards this ancient building's restora- tion, to the workmen employed thereon. The company included all the artisans engaged in the undertaking, and the entertain- ment was very worthy of the occasion. CANADA COMPANY.— A meeting of the proprietors of shares in the Canada Company was held on Thursday, and a dividend of four per cent, for the year was declared upon their shares. The affairs of the Company are going on prosperously. ELECTION EXPENSES.— The election expenses charged by the returning officer of Marylebone amounted only to 64?. 5s. to each of the candidates. Considering the cost of booths, officers, clerks, agents, printing, and stationery, it could not well be less. A public meeting of the subscribers to Lloyd's was held on Wednesday, to confirm the grant of money to the sufferers in the Shetland Islands, and a further sum to the expedition in search of Captain Ross. The former was confirmed ; respecting the latter a motion was made to double tlie former grant the con firmation of which is fixed for a future day. COURTS OF ALDERMEN AND COMMON COUNCIL.— The Lord Mayor has appointed the following days for Courts of Alder- men and Courts of Common Council to be held throughout the ensuing year :— COURTS OF ALDERMEN. January .. February February .. March .... March „ v. April May May June J une 16 7 21 4 2+ July September . October .. October - 2 28 15 . 23 COURTS OF COMMON COUNCIL. July 11 and 25 September 19 October — 10 and 24 THE COUNTRY. [ We have little news to tell the Town about the country this week. The elections have occupied the papers, and our private letters do not give a line on any other topic. We trust it will soon become settled, aud that the plough and the hand will be again at work. The few fairs that have been held have been in general satisfactory to the dealer. Com and hay keep up their prices ; and the farmers are in good spirits. The manufacturing towns liaye been in such a state as to render any accounts of them exceedingly unsatisfactory. A week or two now, we hone will bring matters about J r ' ESSEX.— ACCIDENT FROM STEAM.— On Saturday last an inquest was held by the Coroner of Essex, at the Harrow Inn Stratford, on the body of Richard Outridge, an engineer, in the employment of Mr. Walter Hancock, of Stratford, who met his death under the following circumstances :— George Bish, foreman to Mr. Hancock, deposed that the de December 30. THE T © WH; 419 scandalously treated by his neighbours, and ought to follow up his threat of taking proceedings against some of them.] TOWN- HALL. Mary Davies, a good- looking female, about twenty years of age, very respectably dressed, and Elizabeth Harding, a woman about forty years of age, were brought before Mr. Alderman Thorp for final examination, charged with inserting a narcotic or other poisonous drug in some beer, which they administered to Edward Wilmore, a young man, a paper- hanger in Botolph- lane, whom they afterwards robbed. The prisoners were fully committed to take their trial at the forthcoming Sessions for the double offence. They left the bar with the utmost sang froid. IRELAND. A man was .". brought up" charged with stealing his master's pocket- book. The prosecutorproduced a long array of witnesses, and the following dialogue took place. The Magistrate having expressed some doubts that the charge could be sustained— Prosecutor— Sure I've a man here will swear he tuck it. Come up here Johnny. Johnny— Oh, yer honour, I know nutin about it at all at all; bud here, Bill does. Bill— Is it I your after saying Johnny ? Oh, thin, de devil a ha'porth do I know about the matter,; may be Tim does. Tim— All I can say about the matter is— is— is, ye see— at all— but Larry knows all about it. Larry— There's Judy, yer Worship; now, Judy says she heard a girl say— dat she heard from a boy that de prisoner's wife told him dat de money was taken by Magistrate'— Oh, go along, Sir ; you know nothing about it; have you any more witnesses ?— No. Then you can make nothing of it; dismiss the charge. One Higgins was indicted for assaulting one White. The - nothin following is Higgins' account of the matter: Higgins— Why, your Worship, I'm a dacent belabourin' boy, that wouldn't denoy any body; but when he cotched a hoult of me, shure there was never a harm in demontr'tin wid him ; and then he sends for the Polis, and when I was in custardy, your Worship, up comes his brother, and he het me a clip in the nose that was nigh lavin' me plain- faced. White— Didn't you hit him first with your stick ? Higgins— Oh, your Worship, the devil a ha'porth I had in my hand but my fist. John Scott having been indicted for stealing a pocket- handkerchief, defended himself as follows :— My Lord, it wasn't I tuk it; there was a boy between me and the jontleman, who had it, my Lord; and he let it go, d'ye see ; and it was comin' my way, and I— you see, Sir, it fled— I mane the wind was very high, my Lord, and it fled near me, from t'other boy, and a— and so, my Lord, I thought I might as well catch it as it fled, and— a— a— and so I did, my Lord, and that's all about it. We regret to add that the Jury did not believe his story, but were merciless enough to find him guilty. William Wafer, whose outward man was in good keeping with his name, and who might have been, apparel and all, " trussed in an eel- skin," thus described the " origin and progress" of an assault committed upon him by Richard Ruth— who was moreover Ruth- less. " The sorrow ha'porth I did to the man by any means ; only as we were comin over the bridge, I said, in a bit of a joke, what would you think now of your son marrying my daughter Biddy ? Upon that, your Worship, I thought the seven senses had left him, and he committed the assault in the way I tould you." Richard Kane summoned Henry Lynch for 11. 4s. Gd. Magistrate— What is the nature of the debt ? Kane— You may well say nathur, your Honour ; sure the debt was pure nature, and nothin else ; aitin and drinkin bread and buther, and turf and buttermilk and brooms, and the loan of the bellis now and then, your Worship, avick. Magistrate— On what account does he refuse to pay you, or is he unable to do so ? Kane— Och ! mocking he's not, avourneen; sure he's a car- pinthur, workin in Weslan- row, on the new chapel there; the Lord's blessin and mine be on his work, for all he's such a uagur of a spalpeen. Magistrate— Does the defendant appear ? Kane— Not him honey; he knows a thrick worth two of that. Magistrate — Will you swear to the debt, and that you served the summons on him within the city ? Kane— Arrah, for why not, your Worship ! Tip us the primmer. He was sworn to the truth of his statement, and obtained an order. time, and making an attempt to force the lock of the safe, they found their designs completely frustrated, owing to a detector which required the master key before the lock could be opened. The party were indeed so puzzled, that means were resorted to by the use of the poker, but to no effect, and he or they were only enabled to obtain possession of the watch and the few shillings which were found missing upon discovery of the atrocious act. DREADFUL MURDER AT ENFIELD CHASE.— On Wednesday night week, a most barbarous murder was perpetrated in Holt White's Lane, Enfield Chase. The unfortunate victim was a man named Danby, son of the late Mr. Danby, the wig- maker in the Temple. For some time previous to his death, he resided with his cousin, Mr. Addington, of Chase Side, Enfield. On Wednesday evening, about four, he left his cousin's house, but did not return that night, although he promised to be back by ten. He carried a gun with him. At a quarter before six on Thursday morning a little boy discovered the body in the lane above- men- tioned. The head was lying in a ditch, and the legs were pro- jecting towards the path of the lane. On turning the body face upwards, a most awful and horrible sight presented itself. The face was cut and slashed in a dreadful manner, the flesh was scored out, as it were, in five places, and the right whisker cut away ; in the throat of the murdered man was a deep stab, right through, as a butcher would kill a sheep, and as if the knife had been turned round in the throat. Some shot were lying by tlie side of the deceased and a very small penknife shut up, and free from blood. Some half- pence also, and a pair of gloves were found near. The pockets were turned inside out, and the con- tents appeared to have been carried away. The Coroner was instantly sent for, and means taken for dis- covering the murderer. It was soon found that the deceased had been drinking at a small public house called the Three Horse Shoes, situated by the side of the New River, and in the neigh- bourhood of Chase Side. Four persons of notorious bad charac- ter had been in his company all the evening, playing at dominoes and drinking with him. The names of these persons are- Richard Wagstaff, a baker ; Samuel Cooper, the son of a poor man in the town ; Samuel Fare, and William Johnson, the son of a gardener of that name in Enfield. They were immediately ap- prehended and examined. It appeared, by the evidence given on the inquest, that the de- ceased remained drinking with the men above mentioned till 11 o'clock. He then left the house, his companions undertaking to see him home— for it appears that he was so drunk he could at first accounted for by saying that he carried some dog's meat in it the Saturday before, but upon the officer's remarking that if he even had done so it was impossible that the blood could have remained so long wet, he then became silent. The pro- ceedings of the inquest did not terminate until Thursday. The evidence was read over to the prisoners, who appeared very in- different, scarcely asking a question, or making any remark. The verdict returned was—" That Benjamin Couch Dauby was wilfully murdered by William Johnson, at or about midnight of Wednesday, the 19th instant, and that Samuel Fare aided and assisted in the commission of the crime." Johnson has for a long time been considered one of the most ferocious cha- racters in- the neighbourhood. Thursday evening b ® th the prisoners were remanded to the New Prison at Clerkenwell.— The spot where the murder took place bears a close resemblance to Gill's Hill- lane, where Thnrtell murdered Weare ; but is only half a mile from the town.— It is sixteen years since a respecta- ble man, named Draper, was murdered at or near a public- house called the Bald- faced Stag, on Enfield- ehase. The murderers were never discovered; but the present horrible circumstance has called up the past and almost forgotten murder fresh in the me- mory of the inhabitants. LITERATURE. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, On Friday morning, at an early hour, one of the vast gasome- ters of the London Gas Company exploded ; the shock, as may be supposed, was tremendous, and occasioned much alarm in the neighbourhood of Salisbury- square. The flames did not spread, nor does it appear that any injury was done beyond the precincts of the gas works. Since the death of Sir William Congreve there has been no Government Inspector of gas works. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.— On Sunday evening a young woman engaged a waterman to convey her across the Thames, near Waterloo- bridge, but had not proceeded far when she threw her- self into the water ; the boatman, however, succeeded in saving her. With some difficulty she consented to be conveyed to her residence, in Clare- street, Clare- market, but would assign no reason for attempting to drown herself. THE MURDER IN CLERKENWELL.— On Monday afternoon the remains of the murdered man were interred in his family grave in the new burial- ground of St. Luke's, Middlesex, in the presence of several thousand persons. The body was conveyed to the grave in a hearse, followed by two mourning coaohes containing the relatives of the deceased, and Messrs. Williams and son, his late employers. We regret that not the slightest clue to the murderers of the deceased has yet been obtained. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.— On Tuesday morning Mrs. Fran- cis, of Great Surrey Street, while standing near the kitchen fire, permitted some part of her dress to come too close to the grate, when immediately she was enveloped in flames, and, though speedy assistance was rendered, she expired in a few minutes. ROBBERY.— On the evening of Christmas- day, the house of Colonel Howard, in Grosvenor- square, was broken into, or en- trance otherwise obtained, when money, jewels, and various articles of value, amounting in the whole to nearly 1,000/. were carried off. Rewards have of course been offered. BURGLARY.— On Wednesday night the counting- house of Messrs. Goodhart and Company, sugar- refiners, in Horseferry- road, Limehouse, was broken into. The thieves got clear off with a check for 36/. 15 « . ( id., between 30/. and 40/. in- gold and silver coin, and other valuable property. ATTEMPT OF BURGLARS AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE.— On Sa- turday morning about one o'clock, some of the honsehold at St. James's were alarmed by hearing footsteps on the roof of the Palace. The police was immediately summoned, and, though footmarks were discernible, the parties who seemed well acquaint- ed with the Palace, found means to escape. CONFLAGRATION.— Thursday afternoon a most alarming fire broke out in the kilns for drying corn, in the Boal, Norwich, the - property of Mr. Shaw. The fire, which originated in accident, spread with alarming rapidity, and destroyed some granaries in the neighbourhood. The damage is estimated at about 3,000/. THE LATE MURDER LN CLERKENWELL.— It appears that the . cause of the late murder was the attempt to get possession of two keys, a minor and a master, to the safety- lock of the strong box. These keys Mr. Sheppard usually carried about him. The party, after murdering Mr. Sheppard, took the minor key from his pocket, the only one which it seems he had in his possession at the scarcely stand when he left the public house. In the course of the evening he had very foolishly made a display of his money, some 3/. or 4/. in gold and silver, and also a curious bird- skin pouch which he had brought from the South Seas. These paltry prizes were, it would seem, the only inducements to the wretches; who, pretending to guide him home, huddled him on beyond his house, under the pretence of getting something more to drink at another pot- house. The man Wagstaff, it appears, left his com- panions on arriving at his home, and fearing some mischief was intended by Johnson and Fare, persuaded Cooper, who is a youth about 17, to go home— this advice he disregarded. To use his, Cooper's, own words when examined—-" I, Johnson, and the de- ceased, then turned up the Chase road, as I thought to procure some beer. When we came near Pinnock's beer- shop on the Chile, Johnson turned us round to go back. I at that time had hold of deceased's left arm, and Johnson the right. On going down the road Johnson said to me, " I am d— d if Sam hasn't robbed him." About half a minute after Johnson put his fist behind the deceased, and threw him down on me. I was close to the ditch at that time, and the deceased, falling on me, threw me into the ditch, and the deceased fell on the top of me. I drew myself from under him, and, in so doing, my cap came off, and, when I found it, it was covered with blood. I said to Johnson, " What have you been doing to him ; don't hurt him." Johnson replied, I have done him." I then got out of the ditch, and went and stood in the middle of the road trembling. The deceased then lifted up his head and said, " O pray, O pray— don't— pray don't— I know." Johnson then came up to me, and said " I have begun it, here take this knife and finish him." I said " I wont;" and he. said, " Don't say a word," and shook his flat at me. He then went to the deceased and killed him. I should have run away only I thought he would follow me and sen • me the same. I saw Johnson pick up something lying beside the deceased after he had killed him. He took a red handkerchief from the deceased, which contained a piece of bread. He gave me the bread, but I threw it over the hedge. We then came down the road, and Johnson said, " don't say any thing to anybody." I wanted to go home, but he said, " Come across the fields" We went across Mr. Corney's fields, over the New River- bridge. Johnson washed his hands and the knife in the river, near to the bridge. The knife was a black- handled knife ; I saw it when he offered it to me. The night was star- light, and freez- ing at the time ; the knife was something of a gardener's knife ; I saw it before in his possession. After washing his hands and the knife, he went on over the Horse- shoe- bridge. He turned down by Mr. Robinson's, by the river side, and threw the hand- kerchief into the river. The handkerchief, from the look of it, appeared to me. to be a silk handkerchief— it was a red handker- chief. We then parted— I went home. We left Fare at Mr. Shuffle's; I never saw him after ; I took the arm of the deceas- ed. Johnson and I parted after he had washed his hands and the knife in the river, and I went home." In addition to the above it was alleged by a witness named Thomas Newman, that on Tuesday morning, as he was standing near the Hollybush public- house, talking to Fare, the deceased passed in Mr. Addington's cart. Fare said, " Tom, is that the man ( meaning the deceased), that is worth so much money they talk about?" Witness replied he did not know, and Fare then said, " I wish I knew he had it; I should like to have some of it, and would cut his wizen ( throat) if I could light on him in the dark." The parents of Johnson, who is alleged to be the chief actor in the murder, are decent and industrious people, the father having for many years followed the business of a gar- dener, and recently kept a small nursery or garden, in which he reared plants and seeds, which he sold to the townspeople. Johnson himself was a gardener, and was considered a respect- able young man up to the time of his marriage, which took place about three years ago, shortly previous to which he had been in the service of Mr. Bowles, a gentleman of fortune in the neighbourhood. While there a youug man named Wood robbed Mr. Bowles of a quantity of plate, for which he was ap- prehended, and afterwards executed, Johnson being one of the witnesses on the trial. Since Johnson's apprehension on the charge of murder, he has all along betrayed great sullenness of temper, and has manifested no disposition to make any confes- sion of the crime with which he is charged. When in custody in the cage at Enfield, it was found necessary to have a person continually with him, as he betrayed so much uneasiness of mind, and he is closely watched in the New Prison from the same causes. Fare, who is a labourer, and the son of a poor though industrious woman, with whom he lived at Enfield- chase has for some time pa3t obtained a livelihood by jobbing for tradesmen in the neighbourhood, but having very little to do lately, he was compelled to apply for parochial relief. Since his apprehension he has exhibited much more nerve than Johnson, and appears rather indifferent; this, perhaps, may arise from his not taking an active part in the murder, though from the con- fession of Cooper, and the fact of his having some articles be- longing to the deceased on his person when taken into custody, there can be no doubt lie had been implicated in the robbery It may be necessary to state here, that neither of the prisoners above named has been as yet apprised of the voluntary confes- sion made by Cooper before the resident Magistrates at Enfield Cooper, who is very youthful in his appearance, was employed in a brewery in the town, and, consequently, was not driven to the necessity of resorting to dishonest practices as the others, he having sufficient wages to support himself. The anxiety he ma nifested so soon to confess all he knew of the murder is attri buted to the discovery made by the officer who apprehended him of his cap being deeply stained with blood in the inside. This he THE POETICAI WORKS OF LEIGH HUNT.— MOXON. It is now just thirty years ago when a volume of poems fell into our hands, entitlad " Juvenilia, written between the ages of twelve and sixteen, by J. H. L. Hunt, late of the Grammar School of Christ's Hospital." To it was pre- fixed a long list of subscribers, which enrolled the names of all the most distinguished noblemen, prelates, and gen- tlemen, which this country could then boast. Had we formed an opinion as to the youthful aspirant's future fame and prospects from this auspicous commencement, we should have anticipated for him not only a high literary re- putation, but, in the worldly sense of the term, complete suc- cess. But authorship unconnected with a lucrative em- ployment seldom yields a competency, and perhaps Mr. Hunt's original mistake began here. He entered, it is true, into business, and this probably was another false step, which plunged him at once into tho cares and anxieties oj life, and gave a turn to his pursuits totally incompatible with the enthusiastic temperament of his mind, and the discipline which lie required in order to fit him for the higher departments of intellectual exertion. Politics and poetry arc sadly at variance with each other, and though Mr. Hunt paid his earliest devotions at the spirit- stirring shrine of Liberty, the proud ardour of his youth was chilled by the stormy atmosphere which he felt himself surrounded. He became a party man, and volunteered as the champion of principles and opinions which alienated from him all his most influential patrons, while those under whose standard he enlisted had neither the power nor the inclination to carry him triumphantly through the con- test to which he felt himself committed. He possessed little of Ihe learned spirit of human dealing. His heroism was greater than his sagacity, and his generosity outstripped his prudence. His individual interests were sacrificed to the public cause, and now that he is no longer young, and pressed upon by Ihe claims of a numerous family, he has to struggle wilh pecuniary difficulties, when other men who set out with him iu the same career are enjoying the otium cum dignitate, which has been to him only the dream of a fervid imagination. This we are sure, can afford no gratification to his opponents, who are not dead to all the sentiments of humanity, and must deeply grieve liis friends, who know his worth, and who can never forget how fear- lessly and nobly he fought for a long succession of years the battle of his country against Hie mighty phalanx which Toryism had marshalled against him, with a view to crush the lofty spirit of freedom which he breathed in his writings, and embodied in all his actions. The episode, the pa. en- thesis, call it what you will, in his history, relating to his connexion with a certain noble poet now no more, and tile exacerbation produced in li'ts feelings by the unmanly treat- ment heaped upon him by that extraordinary individual, with its results in a publication, which has added nothing to his character as a man, or his fame as a writer, - inflicted upon him a stunning blow from which lie has never reco- vered. We allude to these painful circumstances with sincere regret, and the only extenuation that can he pleaded in his fat our is, that he was incensed by real arid imagi- nary wrongs of such a nature that 110 mortal, constituted as lie is, could have borne with patience. When these events are forgotten, and the sooner they are buried inob- ivioti the better, the Reformers ot Great Britain must ever cherish with lively gratitude a sense of their obligations to him for his unwearied efforts in the cause, which they have at length brought to a successful issue. Lot it also be put to his account that he suffered heavily, and with ( he spirit of a martyr, under the resentment of vindictive power, and that his political virtues'were visited with a punishment which scarcely anyoffences ofthepen call merit. Thevolume before us, we understand, is published for the purpose of retrieving his ruined fortunes, and to afford the public an opportunity of showing at once their magnanimity and their justice in raising from the dust a man of genius, whose whole life has been employed in extending their knowledge, and promoting, according to his own views, their highest interests. We do not feel ourselves on such an occasion called upon to enter into any critical analysis of the con- tents of the work. The Story of Kcmini, unquestionably the best of his performances, stands first in order, arid we cordially welcome it as an old friend, whose delightful con- verse always awakens our kindest sympathies, and affords us exquisite enjoyment on every reperusal of its beautiful imaginings. " The Gentle Armour" is a revolting subject, and can only excite disgust. If Hazlilt and Shelley had been living, we suspect it would never have seen the light. Hero and Leander" is in better taste, but the subject is amincd the contents to see if due modesty is preserved, hut, for our parts, we contemn such considerations' and would never see an Annual without the proper accom- paniments of roast beef, plum pudding, mince pies, and kissing bunches. Robin Hood had his merry men— so has Thomas Hood, Es wVe-- arid both seem ready enough at the long bow. Mr. Hood is much improved in his drawing— we suppose he has been practising during the summer months— aud some of his cuts are capital. " Jack's alive," a young fisherman with his finger in a pike's mouth.—" If the coach goes at six, pray what time goes the basket ?" a hoy with a basket of fish, coach in the distance—" Refusing tithe," a sow defending her ten farrow with a pilch fork from the incursions of a fat vicar,—" Blind to his own interest," a poor blind ( qy ? purblind) man holding a crown- less hat, ( himself, no doubt, penny- less,) into, or rather through which, some sister of Charity is droppinga penny ; a rag- ged urchin, meantime, holding his beaver beneath to catch the donation : these, to our mind, are among the best of the cuts; but there are many which will raise a hearty laugh when seen, lhat might appear flat through the medium of our description. Of the letter- press, the " Unfavourable Review," " Letter from Van Dieman's Land," " A Zoolo- gical Report," and " Our Village" are the most humorous though a man can scarcely light on a page but, like larks at Dunstable, he is caught in a grin. The following is ex- tracted from a detailed account of a review of yeomanry, given by one of the principal warriors of the fieid :— " We mustard very strong— about sixty— besides two volunteers, one an invalid, becausehc had been ordered to ride for exercise, and the other, because he had nothing else to do, and he did nothing when he came. We must have been a disagreeable si'. e to eyes as is unaffected towards Government— though how Hopper's horse would behave in putting down riots I can't guess, for he did nothing but male revolutions himself, as if he was still in the thrashing mill. But you know yeomanry an't reglers, and can't be expected to be veterans all at once. The worst of our mistakes was about the cullers. Old Ensign Cobb, of the White Horse, has a Political Union club meets at his house, and when he came to unfurl, he had brought Ihe wrong flag : instead of • Royal Bum- per Daggle,' it was ' No Boromongers.' It made a reglar liorse laugh among the cavalry ; and Old Cobb look such dudgeon at us he deserted home to the While Horse, and cut the concern with- out drawing a sword. The Caplain ordered Jack Blower to sound the recal to him, but sum wag on the rout had stuck a bung up his trumpet; aud he gallopped off just as crusty about it as Old Cobb. Our next trouble was with Simkin, but you know he is any thing but Simkin and Martial. He rid one of his own docked waggon- horses— but for appearance sake had tied on a long regulation false tale, that made his horse kiek astonishing, till his four loose shoes flew off like a game at koits. Of course nobod" liked to stand nigh him, and he was obliged lo be drawn up in single order by himself, but not having any one to talk to, he soon got weary of it, and left the ground. This was some excuse for him— but not fur Dale, that deserted from his company— some said his horse bolted with him, but I'll swear I seed him spur. Up to this we had only one more deserter, and that was Marks, on his iron- grey mare ; for she heard her foal whinnying at home, and attended to that call more than to a deaf and dumb trumpet. Biggs didn't come at all ; he had his nag stole that very morning, as it was waiting for him, pistols and all." * * * nearly threadbare. " The Feast of the Poets" is in this edition— a tame affair, aud we congratulate ourselves that we are iu possession of the spirited original. The miscel- laneous pieces and the sonnets are ot" high merit. The translations, allowing for some blemishes of taste, are well executed, though some of them might have been left in their original obscurity without any loss to our literature. I he volume is well got up. The preface is a friendly gossip with the reader, and contains much that is inte- resting. We heartily wish that the chief « :: d of the pub- lication may be more than realised. Mr. Hunt has been generous toothers; we only ask that the world maybe just to him. THE COMIC ANNUAL. BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ..— TILT. Mr. Hood docs wisely in reserving his book till Christmas. We hate your " Winter's Wreaths " in the mild mornings of October, and always thought our friend in the Strand did not display much of the critical Ackerman by bringing out his Forget- me- not when so many rivals were blooming in every hedgerow. Christmas is" the very time fur Annuals— and for Comic Annuals the very time of times. Stingy old uncles may say they like to have an opportunity of leading the hooks be- fore tliey send them off'to Jane, Julia, Joseph, or Jonathan; and prudish old aunts may protest they cannot venture to fill up the floral presentation vignette till they have ex- LITERARY NOVELTIES. An interesting work is announced, entitled " Two Years and a Half in the American Navy, comprising Ihe Journal of a Cruise to England, and in the Mediterranean, and the Levant, on board of ihe United Service frigate ' Constellation,' in 1829, 1830, and 1831." The '• Recollections of a Chaperon" is by Lady Dacre ; lier literary taste is well known. Several of her exquisite translations from Petrarch were given by her to that extraordinary gwnius, Foscolo, and published some years ago in his Essay^^ fclhe cele- brated Italian. Her Ladyship's dramas, too, whichSvS> h£ e| lf ® frequently acted at tlie private theatres of the notnlity, attest tR^ great variety of her powers. BITS FROM BOOKS. Captain Chamier, in his newly- published work, relates an anecdote of a famous American robber. " Gomez,\ he states, " was systematic in his cruelties." On one oc- casion he met a poor stranger from whom he heard his own character in no very fluttering terms. The sum and substance of it was, that " he was used to murder travellers and wash his hands in their blood." The stranger was forced to follow the robber, who, on arriving at his den, said to Iris gang— " ' Bring that large chest here.' It was brought. ' Now get in here,' he continued, addressing himself to his new acquaintance ; which being complied with, the lid was fastened down, and the captive heard the following remark:—' Now, senhor, you shall know how false is common report. You shall die; but your blood shall not be spilt, neither shall I gloat over the murder, or wash my handsin the stream of life ; now starve, suffocate, and die!' The poor wretch in vain solicited mercy, and perished while the brutal murderers were laughing at his woes, and gambling on the < Dr. Cormaek, in his " History of the Cholora ~ fast," records the following affecting story. It is not; litary instance of the deep devotedness manifested, lower classes of the Irish towards their suffering relatives and friends during the recent awful visitation of cholera in that country: " There was an old man, a military pensioner, brought into the hospital on one occasion ; he was very ill, and his wife came daily to see him. At length she entreated to stay ty him and watch him constantly : she would be a nurse to him, she said, and knew his cvays better than any one else could, and she evinced so much dis- tress when first refused, that she was finally permitted to do as she pleased. The attention of this faithful creature never relaxed ; ex- cept during the brief moments that she slept, she tended her sick husband as if he had been a helpless child. ' We have now been fifty years together,' she said, ' and if 1 lost him I would not wish to live.' It was useless to warn her, and force would have been cruel, perhaps fatal, had it been justifiable. At length she fell sick of cholera as he was getting better, and the poor old man's distress and sorrow were extreme"; yet during her own illness she never ceased to speak and think of him, and regret lhat she could not be about him : she felt no concern about her own . sufferings. After a little time she died, but wilh his name on her lips. When the old man grew better his loss was communicated to him ; he never raised his head afterwards, but sat drooping and mourning till he left the hospital. One cold wel night before he went away he asked leave lo go out; he wanted, he said, to go lo Friar's Bush, to his wife's grave." Sir Arthur Brooke l'aulkner, in his " Visit to Germany and the Low Countries," describes the women of Wabern iu the following flattering terms— " To their laborious habits it must be owing, that the females of the servile order in this country have a breadth of shoulder, extent of tliew, and proceri'ty of limb, I would venture to swear, not to be found in any pari of the habitable earth. They really quite outinan our sex. In all other animals but the human, the males are, I believe, most usually remarkable for beauty. Here thev make good the geneial analogy. Instead of a ' peeping ankle",' you have a calf of brawn, in full display, under a petticoat reach- ing no lower than a little under the knee, whose owner steps along at her ease, a full geometrical yard and half at a stride. The cos- tume of the sex is appropriate. The head is bagged, or trussed, in a soit of night- cap, tied close under Ihe chill, the top of which casing is pursed into a knob stuffed with their hair, and from this a long cue or two of plaited tresses depend to the waist, if waist it can be called, which preserves its diameter undiminished one irre from the shoulder to the hip,'' 42 © THE TOW nr. December 30. M ADAME VKSTRIS'S ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.— To- morrow, Dec. 31, 1832, THE CONQUERING GAME. Charles the Xllth. ( aged 21), Mr. Webster; Frederick Von Lieben, Mr. James Vining; and Catherine Ormsdorf, Madame Vestris. KILL OR CURE. MR. Brown, Mr. Liston ( who lias recovered from his late indisposition), Mr. Mildman, Mr. Webster. Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Orger. P. Q., OR BACHELORS' WIVES. Sir Carraway Comfit, Mr. Webster; Kitty Cameleon, Mrs. Orger. The whole to conclude with, THE PAPHIAN BOWER, OR VENUS AND ADONIS. Venus, Madame Vestris. Adonis, Mr. J. Bland. Box Office open from ten till four o'clock.— Private Boxes only of Mr. Andrews, 167, New Bond- street. REVIEW, No. XCVI. - Witchcraft— THE QUARTERLY CONTENTS: I. On the Philosophy of Appiritions— Demonology Natural Magic. , . II. The Poor Laws and Surplus Labour, and their Mutual Reaction. III. Public Carriages— The Road. IV. On the Phenomena of Life, and the Mysteries of the Human Frame. By Dr. Stevens V. Zohrab the Hostage. VI. The History of Cnarlema By G. P. R. James, Esq. nagne, VII. Memoires'de Louis XVIII. . VIII. Sir Edward Seward's Shipwreck, and extraordinary and highly interesting events in liis Life. IX— 1. On the Statistics and Political Institutions of the United States, with Observations on the Ecclesiastical System of America, her Sources of Revenue, & c. X. La Fayette et la Revolution de 1830. Par B. Sarrans. XI.— 1. How It Must Work. By Lord Teynham. 2. Church Reform By Lord Henley. , „ ... John Murray, Albemarle- street. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are called upon to caution a person in Grantham who lias made an alteration in the name'of one of our agents, in an announcement m the " Lincolnshire Chronicle." The person it" is said is well known, and must beware of punishment for forgery." HEBDOMAD ARY. Uo7 Day High Water. Mo. We. Morn. Aftern. H. M- H. M. 30 Sil. 7 7 7 32 31 M. 8 4 8 36 1 Tn. 9 12 9 43 •>. W. 10 15 10 44 3 Th. 11 11 11 36 4 F. — — — 2 5 Sa. — 32 1 0 Remarkable Events, etc. Sun rises 8 after 8 Rob. Boyle d 1691 Boerliaave b 1668 Irish Union, 1801 Gen. Wolfe b 1727 Imp. of 5 Minist. 1641 R. Ascham d 1568 D. of York d 1829 Sunday Lessons. Morning: Isaiah 37 Acts 27 Evening: Isaiah 38 3 John. THE TOWH LONDON: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1832. In China, when a Physician is callcd in, he feels his pa- tient's pulse carefully in three places; he then pronounces his disorder and undertakes his killing or curing, upon the condition, however, that if there be no cure there shall be no pay— so that what becomes in the one case the pro perty of the Doctor, may in the other be bestowed upon the undertaker. Now this is fair play, and as we who are starting upon new enterprize may be supposed to have a new nostrum this is the kind of plan we should recommend the State to set out upon with its politicians. The Gentleman who accepts office should, after a fair examination of the affairs he is entrusted with, be called upon to declare what is the evil he raeans to remedy or the blessing he means to pro- cure,, and only receive his salary when his end is accom- plished. jfJfi'e should gain three things by this procecd- ay^ rtfei^ n in council, celerity in execution, and eco- nomy in payment. We have a great opinion ofLord PAL- MERSTON— he is a very clever and able man— capable of resolution, as he has shown himself— and yet we very much doubt whether, if our scheme had been in force, we should ever have seen 70 protocols, or be now wondering what Russia will do, or what Prussia will do— and whether, when these winter fogs clcar np, war will be seen in the horizon. What it cost us three years to write about, it just took three weeks to perform. Antwerp is taken. The warlike Prince of ORANGE looked on while the fire- eating General CHASSE surrendered. The Crown Prince of PRUSSIA, that violent young man, kept his sword tight in its scabbard, and the eloquent Monsieur Aneillon allowed all his wrath to evaporate in his despatches. The citadel of Antwerp is taken— and what is the result? Now here wc again see the necessity of the system we pro- Had it been acted upon, our foreign Minister i have said—" Such or such a measure will bring & ters to a [ decision ; until they are decidcd I shall not and,- therefore, whatever effort I make shall be complete in its result." The taking of the citadel of Ant- werp unfortunately is not so— it only cuts through one string of the diplomatic knot, which, when we drew the sword, we should have severed. It is not, however, an event of that little consequence which many have repre- sented it— it is of much consequence, because it places one of the principal posts in Belgium in the hands of the Bel- gians— it is of much consequence, because it removes two hostile parties, between whom we wish to preserve the peace, from one of the probabilities of daily collision ; but it must bo a very microscopic eye, indeed, that can see in the taking of the citadel of Antwerp no other consequences than these. There is a great, an immense moral conse- quence resulting from the event; it will be felt from one extremity of Europe to the other— by the imperial Despot at St. Petersburg, and liis pigmy prototype in Portugal. England and Fraucc, the two free Governments of Europe, united for an object, and they carried that ob- ject into effect. They carried it in spite of the dark looks of tlie Holy Alliance, and the prognostications of jealousy among themselves. They have shown that they can be united— that when they are united they can bo successful— and it is to be hoped that those who were heretofore incredulous will for the future cease to doubt that they will unite, if the interests of liberty, humanity and peace, which, largely understood, are the in- terests of Europe— should require it. What will be the next steps taken in pursuance of the object of our Conven- tion ?— is the question daily repeated by the Press. Will the dependencies of the citadel be surrendered by the Dutch? Will the fortress of Venloo, and Ihe parts of Limburg, still retained, be given up by the Belgians? The obstinacy of the Cabinet of the Hague, and the insolence and selfish- ness of a part of the Chamber at Brussels, are, no doubt, difficulties in the way of any satisfactory and speedy ar- rangement of the affair we have in hand. But what can give importance to the obstinacy of the one or to the absur- dities of the other, but weakness, irresolution, inconsis- tency and want of confidence among ourselves? Is it Holland that we dread— or Belgium that we dread ?— or should we care two straws, if these puissant empires alone were concerned, if they fought like the cats, of whom MUNCHAUSEN found nothing but the fails? These pigmy Powers strut and fret and puff themselves out with the im- potent and dwarfish satisfaction which things so small may be expected to feel at being able to do a great deal of mischief. But their power rests, and all their insolence depends, upon the idea they entertain of being able to bring into conflict the two contending principles which agitate Europe. If France and England are firm and united, this is out of their power. The Cabinets of Berlin and St. Petersburg may talk big, and Madame de LIEVEN and M. de BULOW hold solemn council together— but if England and France remain firm and united, they possess a power, even in the very heart of the armies which might be callcd out to put down the liberties of mankind, that the tyrants who command them would not dare to despise. Neither is it necessary for England to send out her fleets, nor to fit out her armies : all that France will require from her is a moral force— the moral force to be derived from her approbation and opinion. With this sanction given to tho tri- coloured flag— a sanction that separates it from the dreams of un- profitable conquest which dishonoured the days of theem- piie— it has, and must have, a prestige against which no drilled banditti will venture to contend. What, then, we wish our Government to do is, to look and to look only to the maintenance of this alliance— to show no impolitic mis- trust, no ill- timed jealousy of her new confederate. The moment that France shows herself selfishly ambitious, at that instant she will cease to be formidable to us— for she will have lost her power. These are the days when the force of a nation consists in its character, and there can be no reason to fear that a con- duct which would strip France of the sympathies of Europe could ever render her dangerous to ourselves. bishoprics— the abolition of pluralities, and livings in com- mendam— the residence of the Clergy— a more equal dis- tribution of livings— the doing away the necessity of Curates as a body attached to the Hierarchy, considering them as supernumeraries to assist sick, infirm, and aged Rectors, with a fair remuneration for their services, and worthy of their rank and education as Gentlemen— and, lastly, tho commutation of tithes. We confess wc are not thus sanguine as lo the projected reform at Lambeth, and which we are told is to supersede the introduction of the subject in the House of Commons. We doubt not, how- ever, that their Lordships, though children of light, are quite as wise in their generation as the children of this world, and they must be blind, indeed, if they do not dis- cern the signs of the times. From official returns laid before Parliament, it appears that one- fourth of the population of Lancashire are open and avowed Nonconformists. Is it not high time for the CJiurch to bo up and doing? Wc shall be glad to see a general comprehension, which shall inclose within the pale of the National Church all true Christians and loyal subjects. In the present state of the Tory party, beaten as it has been by popular feeling and by adverse votes at the elec- tions, it would be hard- hearted in us to visit them with any very great measure of severity:— " ' Tis a cruelty To load a falling man." We are disposed, in the abundance of that good nature for which we hope to be henceforward as much distinguished, as for the vigour with which wc shall expose and chastise wilful and obstinate Since the above was written we have received intelli- gence of the refusal of the King of HOLLAND to surtender the two forts ( Lillo and Leifkenshoek) ; and that, conse- quently, old G'HASSE and his comrades remain prisoners of war. pose. wSolPa 1 We have read the Irish Papers from day to day with considerable astonishment, and no slight degree of alarm. Its condition is such as to embarrass any Government, with wisdom, prudence, and temper, second only to the ALLWISE. Lord GREY and his colleagues, present and to come, will, we venture to assert, find it a task of greater difficulty to legislate for this unhappy country than for the rest of the United Kingdom put together, unless Ihey can act upon the advice of the late Gallant Admiral Sir JOSEPH YORKE, and " scuttle her for twenty- four hours." Now that Boroughmongers— wholesale dealers in Mem hers of Parliament— have become the property of History and we arc beginning to feel assured that a representative of the people means one who represents the people, will it be believed that a single individual has had, and exercised the power of sending to the House of Commons upwards of twenty Members, as directly nominated and appointed by himself as ever were the Members for Gatton or Old Sarum. DANIEL O'CONNELL, himself Member for the City of Dublin, will introduce to the British Parliament three sons, one son- in- law, one brother- in- law, one nephew two cousins, and about twenty nominees, as perfectly the creatures of his will as the stick he carries or the shoes that cover his feet. He will also controul the votes of— it may be fifteen or twenty more— who have pledged them- selves to " Repeal," and appeared before their constitu- ents under the shadow of his mighty wings. With his son MAURICE for Tralee, his son JOHN for Youghal, and his son MORGAN for Mealh— a leash of beardless, ignorant, and presumptuous boys— and his host of cousins and cater- cousins in the rear, he will enter the chapel of St. Stephen at the head of a force which, if not met with spirit and firmness, will render all efforts to improve and tranquillize Ireland as vain as the attempt to throw fetters over the wind. But it is not by the Ministers alone that he and his lroo|> must be encountered. It becomes tho duty of the pub- lic— the English public— to watch them at every step : to mark them as so many odious and dangerous tumours on the body politic that must be cauterised to the quick. If we are to be hampered with them, in GOD'S name let us by every means in our power limit their opportunities of doing evil— this can be done only by keeping them under a perpetual surveillance of the Press. wrong, to act the part of blandi doctores to the beaten party of the old ascendancy, and to show them plainly, and without harshness, by what errors they have fallen, and still continue to fall. Should they be unthankful for this benevolence, we must look for our reward in the conscious- ness of having endeavoured to lead the politically blind in the right way. The greatest enemies of the Tories have undoubtedly been themselves. Not so much the prowess of their ad- versaries, as their own wilfulness and ill management, have caused their swift descent from tho plenitude of power to tbe lowest state of weakness. They had the ball at their foot, but instead of guiding it gently and cau- tiously along, with a keen eye to the changes in the sur- face of the road, they kicked it with violence— its resistance was unexpected aud unprepared for, and they fell. To drop metaphor, the plain state of the case is this.— The Tories had been so long in office ihat they really looked upon the power and patronage of Government as a sort of possession, like their houses and lands— to be enjoyed by them while they lived, and to be transmitted to their de- scendants after them. They forgot their true position. They were so accustomed to " suit and service," that they never dreamed that the great body of the people had rights which upon occasion they might demand with a voice irresistible, or if this be saying too much, it will at least be admitted that they became neglectful of the feelings and interests of the people. Now, in a popular State like ours, States- men can hardly be guilty of greater folly than this. It will not do to say, " these people are wrong and foolish; let us check them by instant and peremptory rejection of their complaints." If the people imagine vain things, they must still be listened to ( we do not say yielded to) ; and care should be taken while the Government shows that it is strong, to show also that it is not despotic. Of this con- ciliatory caution the official Tories seem to have had no idea. Men who had been brought up all their lives to keep suitors at arm's- length, lest they should be led into embarrassment by promises, actually treated the people who asked for bare justice as though they were men suing for favors, which it belonged to the grace and good plea- sure of the Tories to give or to deny. Such was, undoubtedly, the great fault of the Tories when in power; they thought only of carrying on the Government, wholly neglectful of the important duly of Statesmen to make Ihe Government pleasing and benefi- cial to the people. In this manner they had for a long time alienated the great body of the people from their side; but at last they carried the neglect so far, particularly the manner in which they carried the Catholic question, as to alienate also a largo body of their former parliamentary sup porters. Then came the French Revolution, and tho ex- citement of the English people consequent upon such a popular explosion iu their near neighbourhood. This the Tories, instead of directing, turned themselves directly against, and then at last they fell, never, it would seem, at least as Tories, to rise again. Perhaps this short lesson may do for this day. The Tories are not accustomed to have good instruction in kindly terms, and we shall not fatigue them wilh asking them to learn too much at once. Next week we shall show how they have continued to blunder on, and down- ward, even since they have not had the errors of govern- ment to answer for. TOWN TALK. THE NEW SPEAKER.— The Government is in a state of considerable perplexity as to who will fill the Speaker's chair on the assembling of Parliament. Opinions are divided between four persons— Mr. Littleton, Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. Manners Sutton, and Mr. Wynn ; but there are strong and serious ob- jections against each and all of them. Mr. Littleton ( why, we are not able to say,) is personally disliked by a large proportion of the House. He has the interest of no party, aud he would certainly be rejected if Ministers were hardy enough to propose him. Mr. Spring Rice is, on the other hand, much liked, but his weight and influence are not considered such as to juitify the choice falling upon him. There are many reasons for and against the late Speaker. First, his re- election would save the country 4000/. a- year ; he is already " master of his business," and neither age nor infirmity have called upon him to resign ; but then he is known to be hostile to the government, and is justly charged with marked partiality towards the Tories during all the recent discussions relative to Reform. His eye was rarely directed to the Treasury benches ; and if a member rose on his right he seldom found himself in possession of the chair. We must add also, that when an impressive speech had been delivered on his left, and four or five on the opposite side rose to reply, the Speaker was sure to fix upon the most in- efficient member, who was likely to do more harm than good to the cause he advocated. It was not often, moreover, that Mr. Hunt failed to attract his notice; whether because of the long and prominent form of the late member for Preston, or because he was a sharp thorn in the sides of ministers, we shall not pretend to say. The hearts of his opponents will not, therefore, go with him. We have yet to name Mr. Wynn. In. our opinion the lot ought to fall, and will fall, upon the de- scendant of the Princes of Wales. Mr. Wynn is a conservative, but not an " out and out" Tory. He is the best authority, not excepting even the late Speaker, in the house, on all matters of form, precedent, and privilege— a man of high and irreproachable character, and already possessed of the confidence and good feelings of all the old members. of parliament. It is more than probable that he will be chosen, although reluctantly, to fill the chair. We have some authority for stating, that if the matter be not made a party question, he will not be opposed by the Whigs. Ministers have the best reason to allege for permitting his election in lieu of one more directly connected with them- selves ;— they have no candidate to offer at once so palateable to the house, and so well fitted, by temper, habit, and experience, to fill the most important station to which a commoner is eligible. THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION.— We may add, as a note to the above, that the Conservatives anticipate a power- ful auxiliary in the late Speaker. It is said that he will lead the opposition. Such is by no means improbable. Their con- fidence is not with Sir Robert Peel; Mr. Croker has quitted the house " in disgust," and Sir E. Knatchbull, the Marquis of Chandos, and Sir Richard Vyvyan are considered only half hearted. If Mr. Manners Sutton be deficient in some points he is looked upon as very strong in others. The value of a man is only known by the circumstances under which he is placed. Few could have believed that Mr. Croker would have proved so powerful an antagonist to the ministers as he became when his nightly seat was opposite to the Treasury benches. AN ECHO FROM ESSEX. What, Wellesley defeated by Baring Long Wellesley, prodigious at swear'ng '. So fond too of hustings and chairing. And he to be thrown out by Baring; By dint of the gold he is sparing To those who have votes worth ensnaring. So Wellesley's supplanted by Baring— Alexander the Little not caring What people may say— though declaring It odd that affairs should be wearing A colour to Wellesley despairing— Since Wellesley, till now was past Bearing. IRISH BRIGADE.—' The Dublin Freeman's Journal states, that Donna Maria is to have in her service an Irish regiment, in imitation, we suppose, of the celebrated Irish brigade in France. A recruit the other day in talking over the subject, said lie was sure of finding a good port, aud that nothing could bring him down but grape shot. LIBELS IN SLOANE STREET.— Our police reports of this week give the account of an examination of the Rev. Mr. Frede- rick Dusantoy, before the magistrates at Queen- square, on a charge of disturbing the congregation of the Rev. Henry Blunt, in Trinity Church, Sloaue- street, on the previous Sunday. We need not here recapitulate the facts connected with this distur- bance, as they are detailed under the head of " Union- Hall." The parish of Upper Chelsea, of which Mr. Blunt is the minis- ter, has for the last week been in a very unsettled and disturbed state, owing to a most scurrilous play- bill having been sent through the post to most of the inhabitants of the parish, re- flecting . in a scandalous and disgraceful manner upon the charac- ter of the Rev. gentleman, announcing the Comedy of " The Hypocrite" to be performed at the Sunday- school room, and libellously distributing the various characters amongst the most respectable members of Mr. Blunt's congregation. We should like to know the name of the fellow who has been guilty of this — it should have through us the infamous publicity it deserves. The Archbishop ef CANTERBURY and his Right Reve- rend Brethren, during the last few days, have been in fre- quent conclave at Lambeth Palace. Grave, and serious, and secret are the measures which these venerable per- sonages have under discussion. The London Clergy betray very considerable anxiety on the subject, and ask one another gravely, what portentous changes are in con templation ? We are of opinion that they have nothing to fear from Lambeth. Various rumours are afloat, and by some it is said their Lordships seriously intend a volun- tary withdrawment from tho House of Lords— the equali- zation of their incomes— the prevention of translation from inferior to higher Sees, except in the cases of the Arch- Wc have authority for stating, that the earliest act of Ministers, after the meeting of Parliament, will be to propose a total alteration— amounting almost to a repeal— of the Newspaper Stamp'Duties— the evil and obnoxious tax upon knowledge. We are in possession of some part of the plan to be adopted, but prefer waiting another week, when we expect to be in possession of all the details. We have just learnt— but at too late an hour to avail ourselves of the information to any extent— that Mr. P. THOMPSON, at a dinner given to him on Friday, at Manches- ter, broached opinions essentially different from those of his Right Hon. Colleague, the Member for Preston. We must treat this matter hereafter. act- From all we can learn of Mr. Blunt, he is a Christian clergyman, in the best sense of the term— one who is always " going about doing good," and whose " hand is open as the day to melting charity." We may find it our duty to return to this subject. THE M. P. FOR PONTEFRACT. No Parliament e'er gave promotion like Gully's; For were the House filled, not with Chathams and Tully3, But gamblers and black- legs and base money- getters, Yet Gully, on all sides, would look on his betters. POLYANDRI A— The sacreddufy performed on St. Thomas's Day, at the Cathedral Church, Hereford, was deserted by the Dean of St. Asaph, the Chancellor of the Diocese, the Rector of Hanken of Llan Navydd Llavir— Tail Hannan Dauvair Kred- ly— Vicar of Benneyand and Prebend of Hertford— because HE was gone to poll for the conservative candidate in the County of Denbigh. Here are pluralities, non- residences, and performance of spiritual duties with a vengeance ; we, however, think it hard that the worthy Dean, Rector, Vicar, and Prebend, should have only one vote. ANOMALOUS INQUEST.— An inquest has been held on the body of young Grimaldi, but it appeared that the witnesses, the doctor, and all who attended, could give no account of the man- ner in which the ex- clown made his final exit; and the dead body having in the mean time slipped into the grave unawares, in the same way that when alive it had evanished through the trap doors of the theatre, Law and Physic were both con- founded. It appears as if the clown had been merely playing one of his presto passo pantomimic tricks, and slipped out of the world, leaving the public like pantaloon staring after him in " Prodigious Wonder." The verdict ought to have been " exit by mistake." A HOT WAR IN WINTER. ' Tis now admitted, both in camps and courts, That Cha » s<>' s/ o » ' te is in defending forts ; But how soon over 1— battery, bombs, and drummery I Nee'r did a war, in winter, prove so summary ! SIGNS OF THE TIMES.— A waggish butcher in the Bo- rough, in his show of prize beef, had a fine Falstaffian ox ; fat, three fingers deep, labelled a Bishop, weighs 2,5001.; another, not quite so fat, was, called a Dean, 1,3001.; an immense over- grown porker, was called a Pluralist; another was called Tythe Fed. His pickling tub was lettered conservative beef, and the corner in which his stale meat was hung, was lettered Schedule A. NEW WESTMINSTKR HOSPITAL.— This building is erect- ing on a site of ground ( purchased by the Governors from tho December 30. THE TOW\. ^ ceased, who had been some months in the employ of Mr. Han- | ck, was, with other workmen, putting the machinery of a steam- coach in action, on the premises, in order to try its brmances. The witness described the peculiar construction tr. Hancock's chamber- boilers, and deposed that there- were two safety valves on the boiler in question, one of which he had himself weighted to the pressure of 100 pounds upon the square inch, the deceased undertaking to adjust the one on the other side of the boiler to the same pressure. The witness then left the carriage for a short time, and on his return discovered the steam was blowing off very powerfully from the valve he ( the witness) had adjusted, and that the sides of the boiler were rapidly dis- tending. He called to the deceased ( who was standing in the en- gine- room of the coach, with his back to the boiler, examining the working of the engines) to throw off the blower* by which means the tire would have nearly ceased its action; the de- ceased replied he had forgot to fix the lever on; the deceased then stopped the engines ; the witness cast his eyes to the valve which had been left to the care of the deceased, when he saw it fastened down by a strong copper wire ; he called to the deceased to relieve it, which before he could manage ( through the wire being twisted several times round an iron punch which the de- ceased had strongly driven into the wood framing of the engine- room in absence of the witness) one of the eleven chambers com- posing the boiler was rent, and the great force of the accumulated steam threw the deceased back against the engines. The deceased was removed into the house, and medical assistance immediately obtained, but he expired in about an hour. The witness, in answer to questions from the Jury, said that, had it been a boiler as constructed by others years ago, much injury must have ensued from the fragments of metal which would have been driven in every direction with great violence amongst the men who were at the time around the coach. Other witnesses were ex- amined ; and it being ascertained to the satisfaction of the Coro- ner and Jury that the fastening down of the valve was the act of the deceased, the Coroner observed that, had the deceased sur- vived and any other person met his death, in that case the de- ceased would have taken his trial for manslaughter, from his cul- pable negligence in the management of a thing which he by his occupation so well understood, it being proved that he had been for a length of time engaged in similar work, and was well aware - of the nature and operation of steam.— The Jury, having mi- nutely examined the boiler and engines of the coach in question, as also of another coach upon the same construction, and which was put at work for the purpose, and all its parts being explained to them, brought in the following verdict:—" Accidental death, caused by the deceased's own negligence"— the Jury adding, that they were quite of opinion that Mr. Hancock's boiler, from its peculiar construction, was as free from danger as any boiler could be, and in which opinion they were borne out on their ex- amination of the body of the deceased, which was not at all mu- tilated, neither was the machinery nor the body of the coach injured. The deceased, who bore the character of a steady workman, was 28 years of age, and has left a widow and three children to deplore his loss. SOMERSET.— KIDNAPPING.— About six months ago, two girls, 13 to 15 years of age, went with their parents to see the Bristol illumination; by some accident they missed their parents, and were overtaken on their way home by some gipsy carts.; the drivers of which seized them, put them into separate carts, and threatened that if they made the least noise they should be mur- dered. One of these carts lately came within four miles of Wor- cester, the owners of it being employed in collecting bones. One ofthe girls who had been kidnapped contrived to escape to Wor- cester, and related her case to an individual, who kindly wrote to her uncle, John Bidgood, 17, Broad- street, Bristol. He imme- diately sent her money and clothes to take her home, whither she was conveyed on Thursday last. The gipsy, on discovering his loss, had the audacity to offer a sovereign for her apprehension, fc. paying she was his sister's child. He confessed, however, that he should have made a great deal of money of her by sending her into Wales. It is to be regretted that means were not adopted to apprehend the scoundrel who claimed the child.— Birmingham Journal. — BURGLARY.— On Thursday last the dwelling house of J. Mitchell Esq., No. 19, Circus, Bath, was feloniously entered by some villains, and robbed of a large quantity of plate and jewellery of every description of the value of between 1,000/. to 2,000/. A reward of 100/. has been offered for the discovery of the thieves. NORFOLK.— A fire, which at first assumed a very alarming character broke out in the premises of Mr. Shaw, of Norwich, on Thursday, but eventually the progress of the flames was arrested, and no serious damage done, except in that gentleman's granaries, where several thousand quarters of grain were con sumed. — It is intended to invite Mr. Coke to a public dinner at Norwich, in honour of his political integrity and private worth, as exhibited during a period of nearly sixty years. STAFFORDSHIRE.— EXTRAORDINARY SHEEP.— A wether sheep, ofthe Leicestershire breed, weighing 1641bs., was slaugh tered by Mr. C. Stanton, butcher, of Walsall, for the Christmas show of meat, on Tuesday last; the fat through the breast mea- sured seven inches. It was bred and fed by Mr. G. Strongi'tli' arm, of Cordifield, near Walsall. SUSSEX.— AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.— Mr. Baron Gurney, ' in charging the Grand Jury at Lewes, last week, observed that the increase of crime was alarming, and he thought was owing to the ignorance of the people and want of employment. Youth ought to be instructed ; but education, and even religious instruction, would be found comparatively useless, if they were afterwards left in a state of idleness—[ The above remark was not selected on account of its originality, but because the in culcation of such doctrines from the Bench is new]. — NOVEL MODE OF ESCAPING FROM CONFINEMENT.— During the election last week one of the ringers at Chichester, who had partaken of too much beer, fell asleep in the belfry, and was there left by his comrades. On waking, about two o'clock in the morning, he discovered where he was, and being unable to get out at the door, he ascended to the top of the tower, and in order to get released from his unpleasant situation he threw a ten- foot ladder down upon a house beneath, which broke through the tiling and rafters into a bed- room, where the servant was asleep. She had a very narrow escape. — INCENDIARISM.— On Saturday morning, about two o'clock, three stacks of wheat, and two of barley, belonging to Mr. Francis Hadden, of Staines, were discovered to be on fire. The blaze was seen distinctly at Staines, and the parish engine was soon on the spot, but was useless ; the stacks were consumed in about an hour, together with a wooden shed, which stood near. — The Duke of Norfolk, as usual at this season of the year, has distributed a profusion of game to his tradesmen at Arundel. KENT.— William Wilberforce, Esq., is now residing at East Farleigh. We are happy to hear that the venerable champion of freedom is now enjoying as comfortable a state of health as could be expected at his advanced age, especially when we con- sider the rarely equalled labours of his life, and reflect that his active benevolence and philanthropic exertions have probably conferred a greater amount of good upon the human race, than the collected energies of some hundreds of his contemporaries. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.— A lad who was attending a cow grazing in the road between West Farleigh and Maidstone, in- cautiously fastened round his own neck the end of tlie halter which was attached to the neck of the cow, and immediately tak- ing off and waving his cap, the animal took fright and gallopped off, dragging the poor boy along the road till he was killed, his neck being broken and his body disfigured in a frightful manner. VICTIMISING.— The good people of Tonbridge Wells were taken in very completely last week by a woman who engaged a house called Somerhill Lodge, and required tho willing services of the butchers and grocers, linendrapers, & c., who thought themselves " too happy" to be so patronized. She pretended to be housekeeper to Lady David, of London, whose family she said she expected down immediately. Before the time appointed she decamped, leaving the linendraper minus 20/. worth of goods. CORNWALL.— PILCHARDS.— Six thousand hogsheads of pil- chards have been taken at Mount's Bay during the last week. WALES. [ Wales too has had its triumph, and is rejoicing thereat. But beyond the elections it has given us but few matters whereupon to enlighten the Town.] MARCH OF DISSENT.— It is said, of the total number of the population of the principality of Wales, two- thirds, at least, are Dissenters from the Established Church; and yet, strange to say, that, bearing in mind the number of the population, there are more Welchmen ordained Ministers of the Church than from any other part of the United Kingdom.— Western Times. A WELSH BIDDING.— There is a very useful custom in Wales of securing to young persons about to enter the matri- monial state something " to begin the world with." This cus- tom is called a bidding, which is clearly explained in the follow- ing copy of a genuine printed handbill, circulated, according to the date, in the town of Llandovery :—• " Oct. 12th, 1832.— As we intend to enter the matrimonial state, we are encouraged by our friends to make a bidding on the occasion, on Friday and Saturday, the 26th and 27th of October instant, at our house, situate in Bridge- place, in the town of Llandovery; when and where the favour of your agreeable com- pany is humbly solicited, and whatever donation you may be pleased to bestow on us then, will be thankfully received, warmly acknowledged, most cheerfully and readily repaid, whenever called for on a similar occasion, by your most obedient servants, " WILLIAM WILLIAMS, CATHERINE GARNER. " N. B. The young man, with his aunt ( Tamar Williams, Cevenyolyn, in the parish of Newchurch), desire that all gifts of the above nature, due to them, may be returned on either of the above days, and will be thankful for all favours conferred. Also, the young woman, and her father and mother ( Wiliam and Dorothy Garner), and brother and sister ( John and Charlotte), desire that all gifts of the above nature, due to them, may be returned on either of the said days, and will be thankful for all favours granted." SUSPECTED ROBBERS APPREHENDED.— Three men, having the appearance of tinkers and rat- catchers, and one woman and two girls, were taken up at Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, last week, on suspicion of felony. They had with them a four- wheel caravan on springs, with the name of " John Lee, Shrewsbury," painted thereon, also a covered cart, with the name '' Aaron Lee, Worcester," thereon. A variety of jewels were found in their boxes, consisting of watches, ear- rings, bracelets, neck laces, & c., of considerable value. They had likewise with them eight horses and colts. The men describe themselves as tinmen and braziers. They are now in custody in the House of Correc- tion at Carmarthen. SCOTLAND. [ As with England and Ireland so it is with Scotland— nothing but the elections has been talked of or thought about during the past week. Our northern neighbours are full of joy at the results of the first experiment under the Reform Bill. They are such as to satisfy all who desire the preservation of good order as the only way of insuring prosperity to agriculture, commerce, and manufactures.] DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.— A fellow, named Lockhart, living at Paisley, entered his house one evening last week while his wife was sitting by the fire, and after some abusive language, seized her aud threw her on the fire, and by force held her there. In this cruel act he was assisted by a companion in wickedness, of the name of Garvin. The poor woman lies in a hopeless state. Both Lockhart and Garvin are in custody. The scoundrel was one of the most drunken and abandoned characters in Paisley. -— Glasgow Chronicle. IRELAND. [ The Irish papers during the week, although chiefly filled with the proceedings at the various elections, have contained, as usual, sundry accounts of murders and robberies, principally arising from the obnoxious tithe system or the unpopularity of the police. It would be but a " vain repetition" to copy the details. The country is in a most wretched state— a state more wretched than ever— and it is impossible to say what course wisdom would point out in reference to it. We could extract outrages enough to fill half our paper. It is only a few days ago since we perused a private letter from a* clergyman who had re- cently been appointed to a living in the county of Wexford, valued at 1,000/. a. year, but before he set out to take possession of it, he received so many anonymous letters threatening his life, that he preferred retaining his small curacy in Dublin, and actually resigned his benefice. No person has yet been found fool- hardy enough to accept it. The state of the Irish clergy is lamentable in the extreme. They are, for the most part, scarcely able to exist, and are as much dependent upon charity as the inhabitants of an English workhouse. This must be looked to.] We are assured that among a party of six Whitefeet who, one night lately, were looking for arms, about a mile north of Waterford, was a man carrying a child upon his back.— Clonmel Herald.—[ This man ought to have been child- less.] Parties of the military stationed in Casliel had to escort several vehicles filled with voters, who were returning from Clonmel. The Gazette has offered a reward of One Hundred Pounds for the discovery of all or any of an armed party who, on the morn- ing of Tuesday, the 4th iflstant, attacked the house of James Cowan, in the townland of Drumroosk, in the county of Cavan and shot the said Cowan dead, wounded his son- in- law despe rately, and tore the house down on them to the ground. ANOTHER SHIPWRECK ON THE COAST OF CUNNEMARA.— On Friday morning, the 14th inst., at four o'clock, A. M., the bark William Booth, of Belfast, timber laden, bound from New Liverpool to Belfast, struck on a reef of rocks at the entrance of Mannin Bay, and was immediately dismasted. The crew, in- cluding Captain Lynch, fifteen in number, then took the boat, and miraculously eseaped. Assistance was procured from the shore, and eventually the caigo was saved as well as the vessel herself, though not without great difficulty. THURLES, DEC. 18.— A sergeant of the 81st regiment was violently assaulted and deprived of his arms within about a mile of Thurles, on Saturday, the 15th instant, by some desperate ruffians as yet unknown. It is remarkable that though he had iu his possession ECt the time a sum of forty pounds ( probably the pay of the company) they never attempted to rob, though they evidently attempted to murder him. Through the public repro bation of the crime expressed by the Catholic priests at mass, the villains who had the arms gave notice where they might be fround. The sergeant is said to be in fair way of ecovery. HINTS TO THE COUNTRY- THE AURICULA.— There is no plant so quickly or so much damaged by an over supply of water as our beautiful powdered Auricula, which, though originally brought from a cold Alpine region, assumes all the caprices and delicacies of a fashionable fop, within the least possible time. It is well to turn an oyster- shell over the hole in the bottom of the pot appropriated for those sweet flowers, and cover it with a layer of small stones or cinders ; the water gradually filters through this, leaving the earth sufficiently damp for the wants and wishes of the plant. The famous Shire Oak extended its branches into three counties— York, Nottingham, and Derby. There is something magnificent in these monarchs of the woods and hills out- spreading their monstrous arms as if to protect their native soil, aud commanding the admiration of aline of centuries— flourishing when those who sheltered beneath their branches from the hail- storm and thunder, or shook their green and glittering leaves with peals of merry laughter and the light songs of hay- field and harvest- home, are cold and silent in their graves— still— still the tree lives on in great magnificence ; or, when torn from its native soil, subdues the ocean, and rides a sea- king over the wild waters. Its name is chronicled in our history—• « Nelson" and the " Victory" go down to posterity together, THE ELECTIONS. This all- exciting and universally interesting topic must now give place to others. The elections are nearly all concluded, and as we have elsewhere stated, as favourably as the friends of rational free- dom and good government could have desirod— beyond their most sanguine expectations, at the time the writs were issued for calling a new Parliament together. We have now to close— or nearly so— our account of the gratifying events that have taken place through- out Great Britain. RETURNS OF MEMBERS SINCE OUR LAST. ENGLAND. Bedfordshire— Lord C. J. F. Russell, and W. Stuart, Esq. Cumberland ( West)— Lord Lowther and Mr. Stanley. Carnarvonshire— Thomas A. Smith, Esq. Carmarthenshire— E. H. Adams, Esq., and Hon. G. Trevor. Durham ( North)— Mr. H. Lambton and Sir H. Williamson, Bart. Essex ( North)— Tyrrell and Baring, Esqrs. Northumberland ( County)— T. W. Beaumont, and W. Bell, Esqrs. Sussex ( East)— Hon. C. C. Cavendish, and H. B. Curteis, Esq. Yorkshire ( North Riding)— Hon. W. Duncombe, and E. S. Caley. SCOTLAND. Ayre District of Burghs.— Mr. Kennedy. Ayr ( County)— A. Oswald, Esq. Argyleshire— J. H. Callander, Esq. Bute ( County)— Charles Stuart, Esq. Berwick ( County)— Charles Marjor'tbanks. Banff, County— G. Ferguson, Esq, Caithness ( County)— Hon. G. Sinclair. Dumfries— Hope Johnston, Esq. Dumfries Burghs— General Shaipe. Dundee— Mr. Kinloch. Dumbarton, County— J. C. Colquhoun. Edinburgh ( County)— Sir J. Dalrymple. Elgin and Nairn United Counties— Hon. Francis W, Grant. Falkirk— Mr. Gillon. Fife— J. Wemyss, Esq., R. N. Fife, Burghs— A. Johnston, Esq. Forfar ( County)—- Hon. D. G. Halliburton. Forfar— Mr. Ross. Greenock— Iv. Wallace, Esq. Haddington—- Mr. Balfour. Haddington ( County)— J. Balfour, Esq. Kilmarnock ( Borough)— Captain Dunlop. Linlithgow ( County)— Sir Alexander Hope. Lanark ( County)— Mr. Maxwell. Nairn and Fortes Burghs— Colonel Bailey. Renfrew ( County)— Sir M. S. Stewart, Bart. Roxburgshire— Captain Elliot. Selkirk ( County)— Robert Pringle, Esq. St Andrew's District of Burghs— Mr. Andrew Johnstone. Stirling, Burghs— Lord Dalmeny. Stirling, County — Admiral Fleming. Wigton Burghs'— E. Stewart, Esq.. Wick Burghs— James Loch, Esq. IRELAND. Belfast ( Town)— Lord Chichester and E. Tennant, Esq. Clare ( County)— Major Macnamara and C. O'Brien, Esq. Carlow ( County)— Blakeney and Wallace. Carrickfergus ( Town)— C. K. Dobbs. Cork ( City)— G. Callaghan and Dr. Baldwin. Dundalk ( Borough)- W. O'Reilly, Esq. Derry ( County)— Sir R. Bateson and T. Jones, Esq. Donegal ( County)— Sir E. Hayes and Colonel Connolly. Ennis ( Town) — F, Macnamara, Esq. Galway ( Town)— Lynch and Maclaughlin. Kilkennv ( County)— Hon. P. Butler and W. F, Finn, Esq. Kerry ( County)— Mr. F. W. Mullen and Mr. C. O'Connell. Kildare ( County)— E. Iiutliven aud R. M. O'Farrell, Esqrs. Longford ( County)— L. White and J. Rorke, Esqrs. Limerick ( City)— W. Roche and D. Roche, Esqrs. Loulb ( County)— J. Fitzgerald and H. M. B'ellew, Esq's. Leiirim ( County)— Lord Clements and S. White, Esq. Mayo ( County)— J. Browne and D. Browne, Esqrs. Sligo ( Borough)— J. Martin, Esq. Sligo ( County)— A. Percival and E. Cooper, Esqrs. Wicklow ( County)— R. Howard and J. Grattan, Esqrs. Waterfoid ( County)— Christmas and Barron. Wexford ( County)— Carew and Lambert. Westmtatli ( County)— M. Chapman, Esq., and Sir R. Nagle. We have not yet seen it; but, trusting to the accounts - behave received,, we doubt not it will be one of the finest works of the English school— second only to Wilkie's picture of the C elsea Pensioners, We have- seen a delicious picture by Mr. Webster, to be exhi- bited at the British Gallery. It is that of a Mournful Widow, whose children are blowing bubbles at her feet. A short time ago, a weekly paper complained that Mr. M'Clise's picture of " the Veiled Prophet," for which the artist received the Birmingham Gold Medal, remained unsold. This is a mistake : it was disposed of immediately— the painter having only to choose between three offers brought to him by the same post. Mr. David Roberts, Mr. Harding, and Mr. Lewis, are all in Spain, with their Sketch Books. The two former are, we un- derstand, at work for two of next year's annuals. We understand that Martin— the painter of the Fall of Nine- veh— has lately painted several PORTRAITS. This is indeed a marvel in art— Saul among the Profits I A man of the highest genius— and such is John Martin— may do what he will, and succeed in all he does : but, again we say, it is a marvel. A criticism appeared the other morning iu a well- known Journal, on Stanfield's " Fall of Niagara," in the pantomime at Drury- lane, which has paid, unwittingly, a high compliment to the power of the artist's pencil. The critic thought it rather in- judicious " to introduce real water in so large a volume," and prosed, very satisfactorily to himself, on this " matter of taste," as he called it. Mr. Bunn the next day set his musing at rest, by an assurance in the Herald, that not a " drop of real water" had been employed. We have just seen a transparent slate, published by Mr. Essex, whose name is familiar lo us, as connected with art. It is in- tended to facilitate the study of drawing, and is admirably suited for the purpose. We can scarcely convey an idea of the plan, but we may safely state that it is as simple as it is ingenious. To the young, who find it a task of exceeding difficulty to convey by the eye the lines of an original to the intended copy, it is an acquisition of great value ; it will render their delightful pursuit at once easy, intelligible, and pleasant, and repay them, by the accuracy of the transfer, for the labour, by which only success is to be obtained. The designs, we should observe, have been selected with extreme ca ® £" so as to be in true taste ^ and are chiefly made from the sketched of the most celebtated artists. STATE OF POLL. CORK, County, Dec 24.— O'Connor, 292 ; Barry, 284 : Ber- nard, 243 ; Morris, 189 ; King, 86. FUSE ARTS. —_ OF ZOFFANY-.— There THE " METHOD" ZOFFANY-.— There are two curious and interesting paintings by Zoffany in the Royal collection, placed^ ro tem. in Pall- mall. The first represents a gallery at Florence, in which the most distinguished connoisseurs of the time are assembled, examining the various works of art that de- corate the walls. The painter was occupied upon this picture several years, aud it was his practice, when any person of rank or remarkable for talent visited Florence, to introduce into it his portrait, for which honour a sum of twenty guineas was paid. It is said, that after the various groups were com- pleted, when a new arrival was announced, it was the artist's custom to rub out the head of some forgotten customer to make room for that of the new comer— thus robbing some unhappy man of the immortality he had bought and paid for. The artist himself is represented as exhibiting to the late Lord Cowper a Virgin, by Guido. His lordship objected to pay for it the sum demanded, but agreed to settle upon the artist an annuity of two hundred pounds in exchange for his favourite. Zoffany was then about sixty years old, and the nobleman doubtless thought he had made a very advantageous bargain. The painter, how- ever, lived to plague both the grantor and his son, the present lord ; the annuity was paid for nearly forty years after the tran- saction. Zoffany lived to be upwards of fourscore and ten. The other picture fo which we refer is also very interesting. It con- tains portraits of all the Royal Academicians of his day. Zof- fany had a pique against Wilson, and threw him into the back ground ; but as a further mark of his dislike, he represented the great landscape painter leaning against the chimney- piece, on the top of which was a pot of porter, a beverage not too vulgar to be in high favour with the British Claude. The circumstance created a strong feeling when the picture was sent to the Royal Academy, and the artist was induced to erase the obnoxious token ; but those who examine minutely, will still perceive the outline of the unclassic cup. We perceive that proposals have been issued for disposing by lot of Stothard's most celebrated painting—" the Pilgrimage to Canterbury"— now in the possession of Mr. Tiffin, the print- publisher in the Strand. The subscribers to be 125 at 2 guineas each :— the 124 who may be unsuccessful are to receive a print of the plate. A similar plan was resorted to a short time since, in reference to the magnificent drawing after Wilkie's picture, from which the Chelsea Pensioners" was engraved. The fortunate winner of the prize was Mr. Goodall, an eminent landscape- engraver. A series of drawings intended to illustrate the poetical works of Walter Scott, are at present to be seen at the rooms of Messrs. Moon, Boys, and Graves. They are from the pencil of Turner. The poems are about to be published in the same size and form as the Waverley novels. Among the portraits of the Byron Illustrations about to appear is one of Mr. Murray, the publisher ; another of the Countess Guiccioli; and another of the Countess of Blessington. The two former are from pictures by Pickersgill: the latter from one by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Mr. Burnet is, we understand, preparing for the Exhibition a picture o£ which we have heard several of his brother artists speak in the liighest terms. It is a scene at Greenwich— in the Palace Hospital— and a group of veteran tars are occupied in talking over some great naval victory—" showing how ships are won.", PUBLICATIONS. FINDEN'S GALLERY OF THE GRACES, NO. I.— TILT. We have seen the first part of one of the most beautiful oj interesting publications of modern times— notwithstanding marvellously cheap rate at which it is issued. It is called " I den's Gallery of the Graces," and consists of three portraits, ( the proper number) if portraits they may be called— for it is evident the artist has wrought out his own' idea of female love- liness in addition to that which he has found out in nature. Eae print is designed to illustrate some poet's sketch :— for exampl " Quiet, like a nun Breathless with adoration," is graven underneath as sweet a countenance as ever dreams gave birth to. This gentle creature has been called into ex- istence by the pencil of Boxall. Again, we have, from a sonnet of Shakespeare— " When to the session of sweet silent thoughts I summon up remembrance of past times." It is moonlight, and if the lady's thoughts be more sad than sweet we can pardon the painter— for the pensive are ever beau- tiful. Yet is it not more of the future than of the past that dwells upon her brow and presses down her eye lids— but there can be no enduring troubles for one so lovely— one who was born to be and to make happy, and to whom the sorrow of an hour js but as the passing cloud that comes between the young rose aind the sun that hath had too much of luxury in his embrace, an4 pants for the coolness that shall bring renewed strength again ifj meet him. But we have yet another— a merry laughing soul— to V-. b. om care hath ever been a stranger, " A thing to bless All full of light and loveliness," with a heart as guileless as the air that floats around Graces have made us grow poetical— our forty wi- have lost half their weight,— we feel as if our youth had returne to us " after many days "— and— but we must speak in selemn prose of their merits as works of art, for, alas 1 as such only are we to regard them. The prints are engraved in stepple— and are among the finest specimens in this style we have ever seen. The burin has been used with ease and freedom, yet with extreme care, and the effect is in proportion. We shall have to notice them again, and will then speak of Mr. Hervey's delicious poems by which they are accompanied. Of the success of the work there cannot be the remotest doubt. It is to be published in monthly parts. THE PAINTER'S STUDY'. PAINTED BY LAWRENCE, ENGRAVED BY COUSINS. COLNAGHI AND SON. Here Lawrence was at home and happy. He had a study worthy of his pencil, and he has immortalized it. We believe this is the third copy of the Lady with which the world has be- come familiar since the painter's death, But he guarded the rich treasure from others' eyes, with a miser's care, while he lived— resisting all the offers of the publishers and all the en- treaties of his friends, to have the fair face looking at the world from the shop- windows of the dealers in prints. PORTRAITS OF THE PRIKOIIAL FEMALE CHARACTERS IN TUB WAVERLEY' NOVELS. PART 3. CHAPMAN AND HALMFC Of the four prints contained in this part we shalj only- iH^?" one from Leslie's picture of Jeannie Deans. The painter has embodied the very idea of the author. It is to all intents and purposes the daughter of old Davie Deans— plain in person, but perfect in mind— the high- souled and truthful creature— the most finished of all the portraits to which the great artist if. the North gave birth. Leslie has been peculiarly happy in this di£ sign. His Jeannie is not beautiful, but she has in her counte- nance a something better and more winning than beauty, as with upraised eyes and uplifted hands she prays for her sister's* life. Let Messrs. Chapman and Hall procure such subjects as this, and their work will be indeed a valuable one. The Landscape Illustrations issued by the same house have reached number XI. They are both interesting and useful, and published at so cheap a rate that no edition of the Waverley Novels should be bound up without them. SCIENCE AND THE USEFUL ARTS. GLASS BLOWING.— Among the prizes awarded by the Paris Academy of Sciences, at their last sitting, was the following : " To Israel Robinet, workman, for the substitution of the ac- tion of a machine for that of the human lungs, in glass blowing, 8,000 francs. By means of this valuable invention the health of the glassblower will, in future, be preserved, and the product of his manufacture greatly improved, both as regards accuracy of form, and the capability of making articles of greater dimen- sions than was formerly possible." We understand that Sir David Brewster has, within this last week, made two very remarkable discoveries, which promise to be of some use to science. In a new salt, discovered by Dr. William Gregory, viz., an oxalate of chromium and potash; he has detected the extraordinary property, that one of its imagfes formed by double refraction is of a bright scarlet, while the other image is of a bright blue colour. In examining the pure liquid, an hydrous- nitrous acid, prepared in the manner which is sup- posed to yield it in its purest state, he found that the acid actually consisted of two separate fluids, one of which was heavier than the other, and possessed a much higher refractive power. When the two fluids were shaken, they formed an imperfect union, and separated again by being allowed to remain at rest. What the second fluid is remains to be investigated. It may perhaps turu out to be an entirely new substance. Its physical properties now under investigation.— Caledonian Mercury, tbiu TOWS December 30 424 THE SPORTSMAN. tains • CHRISTMAS- DAY.— The old- fashioned times, when Christmas TL used to come in with frost and snow, seem to be gone for ever, P If- iff were not for the mistletoe bush in the kitchen, and the sprigs < of' holly and ivy in the parish Church, we should hardly know F< that Christmas was here at all. " Christmas comes but once a Lore year," says an old adage ; now- a- days Christmas don't come I once a year; but far be it from us, as sportsmen, to grumble Yatf at the mildness of the season— such scenting days never were known— such sport as all countries are enjoying was never heard of before, and our correspondents seem to vie with M each other in the use of superlative terms to describe it. Such Hillj phrases as " a magnificent burst"—" splendid fun"—" tremen- Tl dous skurry"— and, ( from the Emerald Isle,) " an iligant thing," Wyt are of common occurrence in the letters of the past week; but jg with this general postscript, " horses exhibit strong symptoms of swii distress, and if the weather continues open much longer, many Tl a good nag will suffer for it to the end of his days." It may Fri> appear strange to any one who is not a sportsman, that people M should ride their horses beyond their strength, and the ii policy and of such a course might be proved by many an excellent syllogism. ® But when a man has " a horse in the stable,'' and the meet is TJ,, » t a convenient distance from his home, how the deuce is he H to resist the impulse that urges him forth? Grant that he is one T of your discreet boys who, with the soul of an Arab, loves his T horse as he loves himself; yet it can do the gallant tit no harm Fri just to ride him to the cover side. Nay, it will do him good— T it will stretch his legs after the hard day he had on Wednesday. & Then the find is so quick, and reynard goes so prettily away for at i Oakwood Spring— we must trot over these two or three fields to J see if the chase takes refuge in the cover. He is in among the 1 g0rse— the merry pack are at his heels, and soon rout him out. £ h As the devil will have it, pug bolts away just at our feet. Tahlio ') tahliol— the hounds are all out of cover, and, Heaven help us, neJ we can't hold our horse now if you'd give us the planet Jupiter. Ev P. S.— The frost has commenced at length, and we have every Ma prospect of a holiday for our gallant tits. The gun must now I take place of the hunting- whip, and the green jacket of the , well- beloved " bit of pink." Have at ye, birds 1 Carlo— da, f o^ lnto— here, here, here, here '. ^ ^ ,; , v THE TURF. K( BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S. da STATE OF THE ODDS FOB THE DERBY ON THURSDAY. J) to I agst Glaucus 16 to 1 agst Muley colt • mto 1 agst Revenge 17 to 1 agst c out of Moses' dam at, < Mto 1 agst Forester 20 to 1 agst Bravo JFt'k l agst Prince Llewellyn 25 to 1 agst Emmelme '^ r Bi DONCASTER. The Stewards for the Doncaster Meeting, 1833, are Lord Kel- W burne and Sir R. W. Bulkeley, Bart. The races will commence on v 1 Monday fortnight previous to the Newmarket First Oc- at Hfcber Meeting. IjChe present Subscribers to the Champagne Stakes are Lord 11 HpUnd, s. Cradock, Esq., and Lord Kelburne. To be run aI on the Monday. at The St. Leger Stakes to be run on the Tuesday in the Don- caster Meeting. The subscription will close on the 1st of Jan. next. Present subscribers:— Cleveland, Leeds, Ed. Dodsworth, Kelburne, T. Houldsworth, M. Wood, S. L. Fox, George Wal- g, ker, R. W. Bulkeley, W. Chifney, George Osbaldeston, R. p Ridsdale, John Mills, John Gully, and John Beardsworth. n The Cleveland Stakes, to be run on the same day. To close ij on the last day of the York Spring Meeting, and the weights to tl be fixed by the Stewards, or whom they shall appoint, by the h first day of July. Subscribers:— Cleveland and John Gully. ii The Clarence Stakes, to be run on the Wednesday in the Don- " caster Meeting. Four subscribers, or no race; and if ten sub- J scribers, t.' . c second horse in the race to save stake. To close on d the lirst day of January next, and the horses, & c. to be named r on or before that day. Subscriber:— Cleveland. J Tbv Four- year old Stakes ( on Wednesday), will close on the ' s- jtest of Jul., 1833. I - v^ B^^ JAcoigneStakes close on the same day. Run on the 1 ^^^^^^^^ Hi/ i- ar old Stakes close on the first of January. Run ) I^ Brs.' ay. Lord Kelburne and S. Cradock, Esq. ] ^^ subscribers. < The Filly Stakes will close on the first of January next, and is to be run on the Friday in the Doncaster Meeting. The Scarborough Stakes, to be run on the Friday. Sub- i scription to close on the first of January. Lords Cleveland and Kelburne are subscribers. , DONCASTER MEETING— 1835. 1 The Two- year old Produce Stakes, to be run on the second , day of the Doneaster Meeting, 1835. A description of the pro- , duce, or failure of produce, to be declared to the Clerk of the Course, during the Doncaster Meeting, 1833, otherwise to be I considered a forfeit.— This sweepstakes to close on the first day of January next. Subscriber :— Kelburne. Thc Foal Stakes, to be run on the Wednesday, in the Don- caster Meeting, 1835. This sweepstakes to close on the fifst day of January next, and the colts, & c. to be named on or before that day. Subscriber i— Cleveland. DONCASTER MEETING, 1837. Produce Stakes, to be run on the first day of the meeting, 1837. A description of the produce, or failure of produce, to be declared to Mr. Lockwood, jun., on or before the last day the Ddncaster Meeting, 1833, otherwise to be considered a jjMFive produces, or no race. This sweepstakes to close iSWrst daj\ of January next. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING, 1833, ( Maghull Course.) The Produce Stakes, to be run on Wednesday ( the week after Chester races). Sir T. Stanley'sch. c. by Waxy Pope, out of a ches. mare, by Rubens ; Mr. Houldsworth's b. f. by Buzzard, out of Mis in j-( 31bs.); Sir W. Wynn'sb. f. by Filho da Puta, out 7f a black m ue, by Smolensko. / Present subscribers to the Traelesmen's Cup:— Sir R. Williams Bulkeley, W. Massey Stanley, Esq., the Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn, * T. W. Giffard, Esq., A. Bower, Esq., Mr. Beardsworth, Mr. Miles, and Sir Thomas Stanley. Subscribers to the Maghull Stakes : — L. Charlton, Esq., and R. Alanson, Esq. Subscribers to the Stand Cup :— Sir R. Williams Bulkeley, W. Mass' v, Stanley, Esq., Mr. Beardsworth, and Sir Thomas Stanley. Sir R. W. Bulkeley, Bart., and W. M. Stanley, Esq. are the Stewards. LIVERPOOL MEETING, 1833, ( Aintree Course.) Lord Grey de Groby is the only present subscriber to the Crox- teth Stakes. The Produce .'-. takes:— Lord Derby's b. f. by Whisker, out of Armida ; Lord Wilton's b. f. by Reveller, out of Jenny Sutton ; „ Sir 11. W. Bulki'ey's ch. f. by Waxy Pope, out of Mrs. Suggs ; • » Mr. T. W. Young's ch. c. Beaver, by Swiss, out of Wagtail, by Young Woodpecker ; Mr. T. W. Young's br. f. by Lottery, out of a Walton mare, out of Stella, by L'Orient; Sir G. Pigot's ^ r ,1,. f. by Sultan, out of Active; Sir W. Wynn's ch. c. by Lan- f gar, out of Rufinn ; Mr. T. Leigh's b. c. by Lottery, out of Primrose, by C mus, out of Cowslip, by Cockfighter, or Bening- m- brough ; Sir T. Stanley's b. f. by Lottery, out of General Mina's • < iam ; Mr. •. Ya " es's b. c. Ironsides, by Edmund, out of Matilda ; f I " id Westminster's f. Honeymoon, by Filho, out of Hybl; Lord • L - estmmster's c. The Controller, by Filho, out of Etiquette; } lajor Gore's ch. f. Arvonia, by Partisan, out of Vice; Major Gore's ch. f. Tiara, by Waxy Pope, out of Ticket's dam. For the Tradesman's Cup " the present subscribers are:— ^^* Derby, Lord Derby,- Lord Grey de Groby, Mr. G. Walker, Sir ^ m R. W. Bulkeley, Hon. R. B. Wilbraham, Mr. Giffard, Mr. Price, ^^ Mr. F. Richardson, Mr. A. Bower, Mr. J. Wilson Patten, Gen. Yates, Mr. R. Willis, jun., Mr. H. Wormald, Mr. Tempest, Mr. Ogden, Lord Wilton, and Mr. Kent, tie The F& ai Stakes :— Sir T. Stanley's ch. c. by . Waxy Pope, out i deper, a Rubens mare, bought of Sir W. W. Wynn ; Lord West- Will tile TBI E T€ minster's c. Sir Hugh, by Filho, out of Larfesa; Lord Westmin- ceedii ster's c. The Controller, by Filho, out of Etiquette. word Third d'ay.— A match between Sir W. Wynn's br. f. by Filho A 1 da Puta, out of Signorina, and Lord Kelburne's b. f. by Jerry, ing a out of Georgiana. she " Fourthday, the Stand! Cup— Present Subscribers.— LordDerby, what Lord Grey de Groby, Mr. G. Walker, Sir R. W. Bulkeley, Hon. Cc R. B. Wilbraham, Mr. F. Richardson, Lord Molyneux, General the ' 1 Yates, Mr. H. Wormald, Mr. Clifton, and Lord Wilton. stree killei HUNTING MEETS. Chri Mr. Mure's fox- liounds— Tuesday at Stowlangtoft Spiney. The Norfolk fox- hounds— To- morrow at Langor Bridge, Thursday at M Hillington Ilall, andSaturday at Litcham Common. . The Shropshire hounds— To- morrow at Rowton Castle, Wednesday at sible Wytheford Wood, Friday at Halston, and Saturday at the Fox, All- s; ive brighton. ,},:.. Mr. Wickstead's hounds— Tuesday at Broughton, aad Friday at . Swimmerton. thirt The Allbrigliton hounds— Tuesday at Sutton, and Thursday at Galacre. Pre j Sir R. 1' uleston's hounds— Tuesday at Bangor Cross Lanes, and Friday at Proud Oak. , Mr. Meynell's hounds— Tuesday at Kedleston, Thursday at Bradley, elect • and Saturaay at Langley Village. 176' Sandback hounds— To- morrow at Barnby moor. The Cheshire hounds— To- morrow at Beeston hall, Wednesday and (( , * Thursday at Duddon Heath, and Saturday at Kelsall Toll Bar. 1 i Hanibledon hounds— To- morrow at Berry Lodge. who The Warwickshire hounds— To- morrow at Stoneleigh Abbey. j; pS The East Sussex hounds— To- morrow at Five Ash Abbey. f * The Herefordshire hounds— Tuesday at Aconbury Turnpike, and P10) 1 Friday at Wormelow Tump. genl The Tickham hounds— To- morrow at Doddington, and Thursday at J,; s Long Beach. - r Mr. Portman's hounds— To- morrow at Bryanston Kennel, and Friday r at Cucklington. que 5 Mr. Codrington's hounds— To morrow at Stockton Wood. Cla The Craven hounds— To- morrow at Newtown Hoe, near Newbury. The Somerset Vale hounds— Tuesday at High Ham, and Friday at jChafcombe Wood. tha1 1 The Somerset subscription hounds— Tuesday at Crowcombe, Heath- the field, and Friday at Buncombe Bottom. m; s '' Mr. A. Smith's hounds— To- morrow at Tedworth House, Tuesday at '• Everleigh- house, Thursday at Hurst Bourn, Tarrant, and Friday at W01 v Manningford Common. Ho „ Mr. Horlock's hounds— Tuesday at Spye Park, and Friday at Stanton i Bury. i e Mr. C. Brock's fox- hounds— Tuesday at Brockeridge Furze, and Fri- ldn - day at the Red Lion, Holt. to The Mathon and Colwall fox- hounds— To- morrow at Wall Hills, and i ( Thursday at the Duke of York Inn, Mythe- road, Tewkesbury. r The Dumbledon harriers— Wednesday at Didcote, and Friday at thc f Kennel. Lord Harewood's hounds— To- morrow at Harewood Bridge, Wednes- Mr day at Towton, and Friday at Partington. : n The Badsworth hounds— To- morrow at Sprotborough Hall, Thursday at Norton Village, and Saturday at Crofton Village. J a< The West Kent hounds— To- morrow at Well Hill, Wednesday at Che- Lo vening, and Friday at Hop Pole Inn. w0 The East Kent hounds— Tuesday at Trenley Park, and Friday at New Barn. un Lord Yarborough's hounds— To- morrow at Howsliam, Wednesday lib 1- Weelsby House, Friday at Crabouru, and Saturday at Kirmington .„ Vale. Lord Fitzwilliam's hounds— To- morrow at Cherry Orton, Wednesday c" at Stanwich Pasture, and Thursday at Milton Ferry Bridge. Sir R. Sutton's hounds— To- morrow at Saxilby, and Tuesday at Midge rd Inn, Wednesday at Hackthorne House, Thursday at Stapleford Moor, and Saturday at Wragby Town. ln The King's Stag hounds— To- morrow at Winkfield Church, and Friday - It at the Magpies, Hounslow- heath— at eleven, n- " mi n. SPORTING VARIETIES. h, THE CHACE.— One day last week, the Aikton hounds had po il- gallant run with a fox, of upwards of 30 miles, which was accom- ha R. plished in three hours and a half. Reynard made neither feint in: nor double, but at once broke cover, with the dogs at his brush, Tl > se in Orton Park, the property of Sir W. Brisco, Bart. He led m to them at a dashing pace to the banks of the Caldew, along which pc he he skirted down to Caldewgate, where he entered a large garden, in which both dogs and horsemen were at one time all prancing ur m- " among the roses." He then crossed close by Caldewgate af ib- Newtown banks, Little Orton, Bunker's Hill, Newby, Cummers- M on dale, and from there back again to Orton Park, and was at length ca ied run in upon and killed ffear the Halfway- liouse.— Carlisle w; Journal. v- the COLONEL THORNTON AND THE RING.— On the 29th November last, as Mr. John Ewbank was shooting on Hebden th the Moor in Craven, he killed a moor cock, with a brass ring round A his leg, with the following inscription engraved upon it, " Colo- hi ton nel Thornton, 1812 ; Thornville Royal 30." The ring is in the tc are possession of Mr. Thomas Joy, innkeeper, in Hebden, near pi Grassington, in Craven.— Leeds Mercury. ei ind BALL OF THE BRITISH YACHT CLUB.— The thirty- first gi January is fixed for the ball of this society, which will take place al ub- at the British Coffee- house, in Cockspur- street. pi ind An excellent article on COACHING has appeared in the Quar- sj terly Review this last week, which we recommend to the atten- d tive perusal of our readers. It commences with a humorous w ™ d description of an old gentleman of 1742, traveling upon one ef p TO - our fast roads ; his astonishment at the changes that have taken ii the place since his youthful days, gives rise to many curious and d he amusing dialogues between him and the passengers, waiters, C day ostlers, & c., that he meets with on the journey. The remainder si of the article embraces a view of the " rise and progress" of " on- coaching in England, and is full of interesting and useful in- n day formation. a fore IMPORTANT TO PIGEON- SHOOTERS.— A superb silver cup n to be shot for to- morrow at Chalk Farm Tavern. Shooting to commence at twelve o'clock. d ' ng, On Monday, at Hereford, as a young man named Vaughan li > to was adjusting tlie lock of a gun he carried, two young men being 1 y of with him, the gun accidentally exploded, and one of the party t for- named Inns received the charge in the lower part of the bowels ; : on he died the same evening. f ELECTION SQUIBS AND CRACKERS. I fter t lies. A BROAD HINT.— When any gentleman offers himself for t . t of the representation of a borough, it is usually considered as not ] out being too much to presume, that the various institutions of ] the place, to whose favours he thus aspires, should receive his , ams liberal support, that the public assemblies, schools, charities, tyn, and hospitals, should be duly benefited by the connexion which " Mr. he seeks, and that on no account, should he withdraw him- , self from the di- charge of such duties— for as such they are ge- j and nerally regarded. [ We copy the above from the Devonport Te- legraph. We hope the Editor will in future be generous enough W. to acknowledge our acquaintance when he borrows any of our imas own " good things." We trust we shall not offend if we express a Esq. hope that the hint will be taken by the Paisley Advertiser, the Plymouth Herald, the Derby Mercury, the Cheltenham Chron- icle, and one or two others. Our thanks are due to the Northern rox- Whig, for having liberally extracted and as liberally acknow- ledged the source.] nt of When Dr. Lushington was seen approaching the polling- ton ; booth, to vote at the Middlesex election, he was received ggs; by the crowd assembled with the most rapturous cheers; 1, by but no sooner was it discovered that the Learned Civilian had , out given a plumper to Mr. Byng, than the previous cheers were got's converted into the most discordant yells, and tlie Doctor had no Lan- small difficulty in escaping still rougher usage, it of SHEFFIELD.— During the late riots in Sheffield, the inmates ling- of the debtors' prison in that town, made some very daring at- ina's tempts to effect their escape and join the disturbers of the peace ilda; out of doors, but order was soon restored by efficient military in- Lord terference. ette; The following is part of an ode by the poet Laureat of the lajor Cheltenham'Chronicle .— Let Patriot Stroud exulting cry- Lord Let Cheltenham echo glad reply— r, Be merit's claim at once allow'd— ' rice, High honour to the men of Stroud I Rise— glorious Sun of Freedom— rise I ipest, Hurrah for Moreton and for Guise I At the Glasgow election, the Lord Provost, after having spoken i, to the worthy electors at great length, turned to the friends be- Yest- side him au'd said, " Really, Gentlemen, the applause was so ex- ceedingly boisterous during my address, that I am sure not one word of it was heard." A TORY*— A servant at Liverpool, the other day, in describ- T ing a beggar whose character was not altogether blameless, said expe she " was the greatest Tory in the Town," and, Upon being asked latic what she meant, added, " she is the greatest thief in Liverpool." that CONSERVATIVE OXEN.— According to the Bristol Mercury, veri the Tories have artfully paraded fifteen fat oxen through the he i streets, decorated with blue ribands. They were intended to be Gre killed, cut up, and given away to the Conservative operatives at cert Christmas, in fulfilment of the election contract, entered into peo between them and— their betters. a H Mr. Hunt's friends are giving him the most unkind cut pos- the sible, if we may judge from their eagerness to get clear of the prei silver medals given to his supporters when he was returned for J this borough. A silversmith in the town bought in one day son thirty- six of these memorials of the exMember's return.— cun Preston Pilot. tail LONGEVITY.— A freeholder of Derbyshire voted at the last par election. The first vote he gave was at the contest in the year ant 1764. '. Mr. Stuart, at the Waterford election, stated as follows:— yes " I have an honourable gentleman in my eye, this moment, by 261 whom I am assured, upon his honour, that he had it from the tur lips of Mr. O'Connell himself, that that learned gentleman em - res I ployed the repeal question as a means, and not an end. The am gentleman sits near me, though I am not at liberty to mention wh ' his name." do ? IRISH ELOQUENCE.— The following specimen of Irish elo- lay quence is from a speech of Mr. Thomas Steele, to the men of hai Clare :—" I have the boundless, the measureless confidence of on t the people, and why ? because I am the servant of the Liberator— th< that 1 am true to liim— and that I stand by him— and that I am mt - the determined enemy of that abominable wretch— that atrocious pe t miscreant— that infernal assassin— O'Gorman Mahon." " Prave [ t words, my masters." This Steel is rather hard upon the once sei Honourable Mimber. RI II The following is a bit of anonymous sent to an elector in Scot- land :—" False Poltron, How Dared you to pledge your vote to Capt Elliot scoundrel, and now to withdraw it for a Paltry d J Crown and give it to that traitor and destroyer of his country c Jock the Laird's In- other." ce The Lancaster Herald gives the following elegant sketch of u s- Mr. Patten, the Member for North Lancaster :—" He is a Tory iy in his heart, and a Whig in profession. He has the voice of 25 Jacob, but the hairy hands of Esau. We should as soon expect s- Lombardy grapes to grow upon blackberry- bushes, or ferocious w wolves to litter meek and docile lambs, as Mr. Patten to cleave c0 unto liberal opinions, or distinguish himself by giving a series of at liberal votes." J4 11 The following is from a squib in the Edinburgh Evening Post— n1 ty " The Whigs grow Tories when in place, Ji The Tories then grow Whigs : < Ji ? e And I can tell them to their face ir' They're a' the same sow's pigs." ay This is a litter ary squib. The canny electors of Monaglian have not elected the same , mon- again. Sir Charles Forbes, the late candidate for Middlesex, is highly w a popular among the omnibus proprietors, having paid them most ™ n- handsomely for doing nothing.— [ This " doing nothing," we nt imagine, means doing nothing out of which any thing came. 5 h, The term is a very equivocal one. Sir Charles polled a large ed number of votes, and if his election was not carried, we sup- ch pose his voters were.] : n, MORAL REFORM.— Mr. O'Connell's jormcip7es are making so ^ ng universal a progress, that even fighting is going out of fashion, to after his example. The potent expressions bandied between n rs- Messrs. Fitzgibbon and Massy, such as coward, poltroon, liar, . ; th calumniator, base- born villain, & c. have ended harmlessly. It ' tie was an old fashioned maxim among gentlemen, that " a man who wishes to avoid the ratio ultima ( pistols for two) should keep of a civil tongue in his head." But such an intolerable restraint on ° en the freedom of speech has been taken off by the great Liberator, nd A man may now call another " liar, and slave," without having lo- his sleep haunted with images of friends in the morning, and de- J' he tonators, and surgeons with tourniquets in hand, and ligatures ; ar prepared, to take up his femoral artery. The improvement has even extended across- the Channel. Tom Duncombe said to a of gentleman at Hertford, last week, " You lie." This, it must be ice allowed, was taking a gentleman rather short; but the man was perfectly sui compos— and, instead of flooring honest Tom on the j a r- spot, he posed him at once by coolly replying—" I lie, Sir I What i do you mean by that ?" Now this, we maintain, is the only t JUS way to bother an adversary ; for there is nothing so hard to ex- | plain as a simple idea ; and Tom not being able to convey himself 2 ten in a more intelligible form, gave the fellow up for an incorrigible • tnd dunce, and there it ended. A similar rencontre occurred at ; rs, Cork a few7 days ago, in one of the booths. A Mr. Reynolds said r der something unhandsome, to which a Mr. M'Carthy answered—- c As far as regards myself, tis a lie." Whereunto Mr. Rey- 1 nolds rejoined—" Oh, Sir, you're nothing— you're nothing ;" ' and as nothing is more clear than the axiom, " Ex nihil fit,' c 1 is nothing came of it.— Dublin Evening Packet. 1 ; At the Waterford election, Mr. Roger Hayes, the Repeal can- ' didate, made the following official announcement:—" O'Connell ran has the bill drawn up that is to be brought in to repeal the Union, ing The bill is complete ; every office in this country is already filled irty up by O'Connell's, from tlie Chancellor down to the doorkeeper I" ils At the county of Wexford election, Mr. Wilson Croker was formally put in nomination, and had twelve votes. Wednesday seven or eight farmers went together to one of booths at Mansfield to be polled for Mr. Houldsworth, and when the fourth was asked the usual question,'' Who do you vote for ?" f° r the elector paused and paused again ; at last he exclaimed, " Oh, j> ve forgot the name ; but I'm to do the same as my ne'ghbour s ® f here I" This is a fact that several who were in the booth at the time can testify.— Nottingham Review. ties. A FASTIDIOUS" CANDIDATE.— During the Cork City election rich Dr- Baldwin went to a Meeting of the Trades' Union, at the Lan- llm* casterian Schools, and there announced that he would not accept Se- the representation of Cork if he were to be second on the poll to Te- Mr. Callaghan. ™ gh At a dinner given to Lord Althorp at Northampton, the Noble Lord referred to some sneers which had been cast at him in con- ; ss a sequence of having corresponded with a hair- dresser of North- the ampton. He said he was not so aristocratic as to be ashamed of rem- writing to a tradesman, and he thought no British statesman hern ought ever to be. 10W- — THE LONDON GAZETTE. ung- - y. : ived [ From Tuesday's Gazette.] : ers • INSOLVENTS. . , W. Tydeman, Great Yarmouth, saddler. nANKRUPTS. were F. Brown, Watford, Hertfordshire, grocer— J. Crundall, Brixton- road, d no builder— H. Evans, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, corn- merchant—^ T. Free- thy, Acton, carpenter— J. Feusham, l'ortman- street, Portman- square, carver and gilder— G. F. Hunt, Martin's- lane, Cannon- street, oilman— nates j. Hardwick, White- hart- yard, Tottenham- court- road, horse- dealer— W. ; at. Leahy, Grove, Great Guildford- street, Southwark, millwright— P. C. J. seace al,( 1 J' Phillipps, Birmingham, jewellers— E. K. Proctor, Hernies- street, Pentonville, engraver— W. Robinson, Stockport, flour- dealer— J. y ln" Rc « s, Bristol, bookseller— N. Smith, Warminster, Wiltshire, innkeeper — J. Stockall, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, coal- merchant— W. Smith, ' the Portsea, draper— H. Wright, Southampton- street, Camden- town, sur- geon— G. Williams, Henrietta- street, Marylebone, lodfing- house- keeper — J. Williams, Liverpool, builder. [ From Friday's Gazette.] BANKRUPTCIES" SUPERSEDED. J. Ditclifield, Warrington, Lancashire, victualler— J. C. Reiffenstein, Langport- place, Camberwell, merchant. BANKRUPTS. W. Armstrong, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, timber- merchant— W. Butler Birmingham, miller— T. Perry, Knittfitsbridge, victualler— T. B. Loader v Hart- street, Bloomsbnry, map- publisher— J. Jackson, Bedford- row, * Middlesex, tailor— H. I . add, Liverpool, merchant— G. Graves, Skinbur- s ness, Cumberland, innkeeper— S- Levy, Exeter, silversmith— W. White o ex- Great Bridge, Stafford, grocer. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The Globe of last evening states, that" M. Pozzo di Borgo's un expected arrival in this country has led to a good deal of spec lation. The reasons we have heard assigned for it are two : fir , he is anxious to remove from the minds of the English go- vernment an impression created by reports of misreprentations is said to have made to other Courts of the instability of Lord Grey's administration; and, secondly, that he is desirous of as- certaining for himself what degree of confidence the English people have in that government through which they have obtained House of Commons which will really express the sentiments of the people." The unexpected visit is by others attributed to the precarious position in which Turkey is at present placed. Marshal Bourmont, who has been sojourning in London for some days past, left for Holland yesterday. An unfortunate cir- cumstance occured in the course of his removal. A casket con- taining a large sum in gold, and also private papers of importance particularly some relating to the Duchesse de Berri, is missing, and is supposed to have been stolen. The Austrian Observer and Nuremburg Correspondent arrived • yesterday, and brought intelligence from Constantinople to the ' 26th ult. They state that Koniah, so far from having been cap- ! tured, had been placed in a position of defence, and is able to • resist an attack. The Grand Vizier had accelerated his march, i and was supposed to have arrived at the above date at Koniah, 1 where his head- quarters were to be established, though it was doubted whether the march of the troops would not be de- - layed by the continued bad weather and heavy rains. The Sultan f had previously sent his chief favourite, Fewzi Ahmed Pacha,, f on a mission in the direction of the intended march of the army, - the chief object of which was said to be to inspect the depots and 1 magazines. No positive information had been for a considerable s period received respecting the army of Ibrahim Pacha. e The Dublin Evening Mail states, that a petition will be pre- e sented to Parliament against the return of Messrs. O'Connell and Ruthven, for Dublin. e LAW NOTICES. y COURT OF CHANCERY. y PETITIONS AND SEALS BEFORE HILARY TERM, 1833. Lord Chan- cellor's Court at Lincoln's Inn. Jan. 9.— Petitions. Jan. 10.— Seal day F HILARY TERM. Sit at Westminster. Jan. 11.— Motions. Jan. 12! 14,15, and 16.— Appeals and rehearings. Jan. 17.— Motions. Jan. 18, y 19, 21, 22, and 23.— Appeals and reliearings. Jan. 24.— Mo'tions. Jan' if 25, 26, 28, and 29.— Appeals and rehearings. Jan. 30.— King Charles's- Martyrdom. Jan. 31.— Motions. VICE- CHANCELLOR'S COURT. S PETITIONS AND SEALS BEFORE HILARY TERM, 1833. Sit at Lm- ' e coln's- inn. Jan. 9.— Petitions. Jan. 10.— Seal day. > f HILARY TERM. Sit at Westminster. Jan. 11.— Motions. Jan.. 12 14,15, and 16.— Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further di- rections. Jan. 17.— Motions. Jan. 18, 19, 21, ' it, and 23.— Pleas, de- murrers, exceptions, causes, and further directions. Jan. 24.— Motions Jan. 25, 26, and 28.— Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further- directions. Jan. 29.— Short causes. Jan. 30.— King Charles's Martyr- dom. Jan. 31.— Motions. MARLBOROUGH- STREET.—( YESTERDAY EVENING.) le Mr. Dyer informed Broomhead, the overseer of St. George's,. that he had taken the opinion of his brother Magistrates as to lv whether he could make an order upon Mr. Mangles, the gentle- s't man against whom a warrant had been obtained at the instance of fe a Mrs. Hanmer, and he found that as she was a married woman that no warrant could be issued, nor could he even be held to , e hail, unless the parish was in a condition to prove non- access on ' the part of the husband. Broomhead replied that he had no additional evidence than what he had already produced. The lady was ready to make oath n that her husband was in India, and had been absent from her for ^ nearly two years. r Mr. Dyer— The law will not allow her to prove that fact, and jj it is very proper it should pot, for it would be opening the door m to a great imposition. Broomhead— I have no doubt the necessary evidence can be obtained ; but, as the case stands, no further proceedings' - will * be taken for the present. ° Mr. Dyer observed that he would write to Mr. Mangles, in- e_ forming him what was his opinion on the subject, and that he ! es had no occasion to attend until he received further information. as Just as Mr. Dyer left the office Mr. Mangles came, but no- 1 a thing further took place on the subject. be • as BIRTHS. , In Sloane- street, Mrs. Alex. Hall of a son— On the 22d inst. at Stone- . leigh Abbey, the lady of C. Leigh, Esq., of a son— At Host Sheen, tho iat Hon. Mr. Penrliyn, of a son, that only lived a few hours—) n the Adelphi ily the Lady of Horatio Leggatt, Esq., of a daughter— In Wilton- cresent, Lady F. Higginson, of a daughter— At Southampton, the lady of Capt ' Inglefield, It. N., of a son— At Dartmouth House, Blacklieath, on the etr 24th inst. Lady Barbara Newdigate, of a son. ble — — — —— • at MARRIED. lid At Paddington, Thomas Charles, Esq., of Merton, Surrey, to Catha- rina, only surviving daughter of the late Edward James, Esq., of Ham- —• common— At Westerham, Johti Will. Lewis, Esq,, jun., late of the East ; y_ India Company's Artillery, to Mary, eldest daughter of W. Loathe, Esq. of Goddarcls, in the same county— At St. Luke's, Chelsea, by the Rev > , John Rush. Charles Payne, Esq., of Thavie's Inn, to Caroline, youngest • t, daughter of the late Jas. Fuge, Esq. of Sloane- street— At Paris, at the Ambassador's Chapel, Ambrose Poynter, Esq., of Poet's- corner, West- minster, to Miss Forster. ' — - DEATHS. , , At Sliene, Surrey, Wm. Bray, Esq. in his 97th year. At his father's, led Westcombe park, Greenwich, Thomas Brockelbank, jun. Esq., aged 22 . J" years, deeply lamented— At Richmond, Surrey, Lady Sullivan, relict of Sir ltichard Joseph Sullivan, Bart., of Thames Ditton, aged 72— At his house, Highbury- terrace, Henry Rogers, Esq.— At his housein Wimpole- street, Thomrs Pitt, Esq., in the 78th year of his age— At Enfield, the the Right Hon. Charles Henry Earl Cadogan, aged 84— On Friday morning ; after a lingering illness, the Marquis of Conyngliam, K. P., at his house in Hamilton- place— On the 26th instant, at his house in Devonshire- street, Portland- place, Lieutenant- General John Gordon, of the Hon 3h, East India Company's service, eldest son of the Hon. John Gordon, ami our grandson of John, third Earl of Aboyne. 1 CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 28. There has been but fewfresh arrivals since Monday of any kind of Gram ; ion and there is scarcely any business doing. We do not find any altera- , an- fi° n of price in the few sales that were effected. , AVERAGE PRICE FOR THE WEEK ENDED DEC. 21. , r , • , ,, ", vheat- Barley- Oats. 1 to Imperial weekly average 54s 5d 30s 3d 18s lid Six weeks'ditto, which regulates duty. 53s lid 30s lid 18s lOd ible Duty ° n Foreign Corn 33s 8d.... 16s lOd.... 19s 9et AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR, rth- ( Computed from the returns in the week ended Dec. 25.) J Brown or Muscovado Sugar cwt 28s Sid nan Exclusive of the import duties thereon. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, DEC. 28. Amsterdam, 3 m. 12 34 Vienna 2 m. 10 10 Naples 3 m.. 40 Ditto short, 12 2 Trieste do. lOtoll Palermo... per oz.. 120 Rotterdam.. 3 m. 12 3i Madrid do.... » 6i Lisbon 30 days 47 Hamburgh . do.. 13 14 Cadiz do 36JOporto do. " 48 Paris short, 25 75 Bilboa do.... 361 Malta 46 Ditto 3m. 26 0 Leghorn .... do.... 47i Dublin u Frankfort do... 153 Genoa do... 28 0Cork PRICES OF BULLION. V oz. » 02 iare, Portugal Gold in coin.... 0 0 0 New Dollars with pillars. 0 4 ' » Foreign Gold in bars .... 3 17 9 New Dollars without do.. 0 4 9} cy New Doubloons 3 15 3 Silver in bars, standard.. 0 4 10| PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS, leper „ , , Mon- T « fs- Wed. Thur. Frid. Satur„ Bank Stock - _ 1893 1904 — ' ,, '' Reduced Three per Cents 83J _ 844 84J 846 84* • ener Consols> Three per Cents — y — — _ _' p Consols for Account 843 5- 85J 85j- 85f 85* Consols, 34 per Cents — ^ — — Reduced 34 per Cents 913 g 924 93 92i 92J New 34 per Cents — « > — — _ _ tern, New 4 per Cents 101J S 102j 1024 1024 1024 Long Annuities 164 5 16j 16J 164 — India Bonds 23 ' 23 24 24 utler Exchequer Bills 31 31 31 31 11 tader IW' LONDON: Printed by A. W. GRAHAM, Savoy Precinct, and Published by him at the Office, No. 2, WSLLINQTON- STREET, STRAND : where . ( only) Advertisements, and all Communications addressed to the Editor, are r « c « ived.