Friday, June 3. PROPOSED LONDON COLLEGE. Mr. BROUGHAM obtained leave to withdraw his Bill, with a view to introduce it next week as a private Bill, its object being simply to incorporate a company, without limiting the responsibility of the shareholders, or seeking any power to create fellowships, confer degrees, &c., or, in fact, any of the exclusive privileges of the existing universities. The design was, to bring home to the inhabitants of London, who were now deterred by expense and distance, the means of giving their children a liberal and scientific education. It would be a low average to say, that an education at Oxford or Cambridge cost 2001 a-year; and it was notorious, that the extravagance and dissipation at those places produced the greatest evils to society. He felt pleasure in stating, that great improvements were making at the Universities, in regard to the system of education; but the expense was an insurmountable objection to hundreds of tradesmen and others in the metropolis, who might, by means of the new college, have their children instructed at an expense of ten pounds a year, viz. in three classes of three pounds each, and a pound entrance. It was intended to secure the assistance of the best Professors of the Sciences, Letters, and the Arts, in all their branches. In order that the situations of these Professors should not become sinecures, they would not have houses at the colleges, and their salaries would be very moderate, not exceeding eighty or one hundred pounds a year; leaving them to rely principally for their remuneration on the number of their pupils. A medical school would also be attached to the college. Schools for mechanics were establishing in all parts of the kingdom: 28 or 30 of these institutions were nearly completed. The result would be the general diffusion of scientific reading. It was not likely that respectable tradesmen would be satisfied to see their sons more ignorant than the sons of their carpenters and their bell-hangers. There would be no exclusion on theological grounds; theology being, indeed, the only branch of learning it was proposed not to teach. The government of the College was to be that of a Chancellor, a Vice-Chancellor, and 19 Directors. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR defended the Universities from the charge of dissipation and idleness. He declared of his own knowledge, that at Oxford every thing was done which discipline, science, and literature could accomplish! Mr. BROUGHAM declared, that the new institution was not intended in any way to rival the Universities. He rather expected, that by rendering the thirst for scientific knowledge, as it were, epidemic among a very different class, more property would be sent them in consequence. QUARANTINE. The Quarantine Laws Bill was read a third time and passed; on which occasion Mr. GRANT expressed his surprize, that a notion had gone abroad, that this Bill did away with the precautionary system of Quarantine, whereas it really strengthened it by removing useless restrictions; and Mr. CANNING read the Ŏpposition members a lecture upon the mischievous alarm their speeches about non-contagion in that house had caused, and mentioned the vexatious regulations adopted in consequence in the Mediterranean against British ships.-Mr. HUME defended the utility of discussing so important a question. A sum of 30,000/ was voted for repairing Lyme-Regis harbour, notwithstanding strong opposition of Mr Hume, who declared on the authority of naval officers, that the harbour was utterly unworthy of any expenditure out of the public purse. The Bill to place Mauritius sugar on the same footing as West India sugar was forwarded a stage, although opposed by the West India proprietors. THE FUNDS.-As might naturally be expected, a re-action has began to take place in Consols, which have recovered upwards of one per cent. It is now rendered tolerably clear, that a certain party led to the late depression, partly by extensive sales with a view to that result, and imitation by the market at large. The Scottish Banks, who have purpartly owing to the manner in which they are watched with a view to chased at the lowest prices, it is said, will largely profit by the recent panic. The Foreign market has also recovered a little, but the Share market is in statu quo; yet new Schemes are coming forward every day, to barely exist and expire, like the Ephemera of the poet. Latest quotations: Reduced, 90 3 per Cents. Reduced, 974 Ditto Scrip (1825) 3) dis. Ditto Scrip, 91 10 dis. Mexican Bonds, 76 Ditto Account, 751 6 Consols for Account, 91 STOCKS YESTERDAY. Mexican Scrip (1825) 23 dis. Ditto Scrip, Acc. 21 dis, Peruvian Bonds. 75 4.5 Prussian Bonds (1822) 101 Russian Bonds (1822) 951 Spanish Consols, 23 Ditto Account, 23 French Rentes, 101f. 50c. THE foreign news of the past week has been altogether uninteresting. The French Papers, of course, have been filled with details relative to the Coronation, which are vapid in the extreme; the unpopularity of the Monarch and prevalent domestic policy of France abstracting from the ceremony all that in any respect can diminish its inherent folly. Greasing a man in seven places with oil from a phial which seem to care very little about it, and, as we gather from the private came down from heaven, is no every day transaction! but the French letters, quiz the mummery in all directions. The KING of France, it seems, reached Rheims on the 28th ult. As the cortège was descending from Nismes, the horses of the carriage which conveyed the Dukes d'Aumont and de Damas, and Counts Cosse and Curial, took fright at the firing of the artillery, and ran away. The carriage was speedily dashed to pieces; Count Curial had his left shoulder-blade broken, and his right cut by the glass. The Duke de Damas was dangerously wounded, and Count Cosse had a violent contusion on the head. The King himself was in considerable peril, for the horses of his carriage also took fright and attempted to run away, but were fortunately restrained." The King," says the Times, from which we borrow a few observations, recovered his fright. The entrance into Rheims looked more like a gave himself up for lost, and two days afterwards had scarcely funeral than a festive scene: nobody shouted Vive le Roi; a universal gloom prevailed. From four in the morning, the gates of the church were beset by persons entitled to, and seeking for, admittance; every thing was in confusion; women in full dress were crushed, and their robes tattered in the most unseemly way. The Duke of Northumberland, in his Court suit, worth 75,000l., lost his way in the crowd, where he was hustled about and almost suffocated, like the most make his way to the rest of the Diplomatic Body. The ceremony insignificant personage in it; and for more than an hour was unable to singing boy of the choir, had to do penance on his knees for full itself was all weariness and disorder: the poor King, dressed like a two hours, at the feet of his Confessor, the Archbishop of Rheims! The oath to maintain the Charter gave some relief. But then came a new kind of obsolete raree-show. In pursuance of an ancient symbolical custom, a thousand birds were let loose at once through the building: the wretched animals, parrots, thrushes, and various others, fluttered about the chandeliers, put out candles, screamed, and wor and set one half of this august assembly a laughing, while the others ried themselves and the company-spoiled the ladies' head-dresses, well received by the people, which gave the affair a momentary fillip; cursed and swore. At his departure from the Church, the KING was but the Diplomatic Body are horribly out of humour. The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND and Pozzo DI BORGO wished, it seems, to dine with the sovereign, or at least in the Royal apartment. This was refused on the score of etiquette, and as they would not accept the fare of their less punctilious brethren, each of these grandees-the PERCY and the Parvenu-retired to his own hotel. It is said that the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, after his unprecedented toil, trouble, and magnificence, was presented with only two tickets for his own disposal, and as many for his suite. Verily, my lord Duke has paid rather dear for his whistle.". Alluding to these follies, and to the coldness of the French people, | Slop, or his successor in the New Times, observes, that to be sure the holy ampule is out of date, and that the revived law of sacrilege is not quite the thing; but that CHARLES the Amiable is a Monarch of an excelent heart, and has done nothing to offend his people. It is nothing, therefore, in the eyes of this sturdy civilian, to revive laws which murdered a CALAS and a DE LA BARRE, or to renovate and cram down the throats of a disgusted people, the exploded follies which had previously curdled in their stomachs even to loathing! Will it be credited, that this glorious Son of ST. LOUIS has gone in form to an hospital to touch for the evil, and if we recollect truly, some of the medical attendants on this occasion were men patronised by NAPO LEON. "Look here upon this picture, and on this!" How must they have inwardly grinned! For our own parts, we are glad to perceive, amidst these senseless doings, that the good people of France are no longer to be amused into an indifference to all things; and trust that the BOURBONS may find out, at no distant period, what the STUARTS found out before them,-that a throne may be surrounded by time-serving sycophants, designing priests, and all the externals of grace and obedience, and yet vanish at the frown of a people incensed into general discontent. France has certainly not reached this mind at present; but England was quite as apparently subservient in the early part of the reign of the poor Bigot who was subsequently driven from the land. The unpopularity of a Monarch in France is deeply felt when visibly displayed, and CHARLES X. with his priesthood and fanaticism, is unconcealedly disliked. Simply as a man, this aversion is unmerited; the objection therefore is to the Monarch and his measures; and although the reduction of the Rentes may partly account for a portion of it, the bulk of the people are clearly actuated by a dislike to revived priestcraft, and to a renewal of institutions and of influences, from which they were delivered at so much cost. In the mean time, while CHARLES is anointed with oil brought from heaven by a dove, the people bawl out for the performance of Tartuffe, and for repeated editions of VOLTAIRE. At Court, indeed, all is devotion and conversion; and the monkey tricks of certain venal courtiers with prayerbooks and confessions, are said to be most amusing. These doings however, without abating the nausea, will only add to the ridicule. The vote of an additional 6000l. a-year to the Duke of CUMBERLAND is strongly opposed in Parliament; and the minority against it has increased so much on every successive division, that there seems some reason to hope it may be defeated after all. We call it a vote to the Duke simply, because it is evidently a contrivance to get him, under the guise of a provision for his little boy's education, that additional income which Parliament deliberately refused some years ago. We agree with a contemporary, that to make a difference in the provision for the Princes of the Blood, on account of the different degrees of public estimation in which they may be held individually, would be very absurd in a Monarchy, where birth, and not merit, forms the sole reason for any provision whatever. But still, as Parliament refused the grant when asked directly for the Duke of CumBERLAND, it ought to resist a device to obtain it under the absurd pretence of providing for his son's education. If this precedent be established, a pretty item will be added to the Civil List, whenever the Royal Family is numerous and fruitful! It is clear, however, that the allowances to the Royal Dukes were calculated in contemplation of their marrying and having families; and there is no more pretence for giving one of them an extra 6000l. a year, because he has a boy six years old, than there would be for increasing the salary of a Judge or Commissioner of Customs on the like pretext. But we are told, that it is the duty and interest of the nation to see to the instruction of a Child who may one day fill the Throne. There would be something in this argument, if public functionaries were specially appointed and made responsible for the proper education of the Royal Children; but we know very well that nothing of the sort takes place;-the parents pocket the allowance, and provide for the education just as they please. Then again is the extravagance of the sum-six thousand a year for the tuition of a Child! The money will not be used for the professed purpose; and if it should be, so much the worse. Mr. BROUGHAM truly said, that "nothing could be more injurious to the infant, nothing more injurious to the public, than to surround a child of that age with all the folly and expense which an income of 6000l. would furnish. Such a proceeding (and history bore out the assertion) was calculated more than any other to render him unfit for the throne." We say nothing of the compliment paid to the Royal Father by Ministers, in implying that without this grant he would not give his son a fit education; for in fact everybody sees through the flimsy disguise, and the very proposers of it do not venture to insist on a necessity for such a sum. Mr. CANNING admits that the Duchess of KENT is no party to this application for an increase of her income. It seems that her brother, Prince LEOPOLD, has hitherto contributed to her support out of his ample means; but we are told by Mr. ROBINSON, that "it is impossible such an arrangement can continue." Why so? The PRINCE must know, that the country would never have voted him 50,000l. a-year, had they taken into account the improbable event which so soon followed his marriage. To what better uses then can he appropriate a portion of this enormous and unexpected income, than in relieving his Sister from the necessity of drawing largely on the national purse, out of which her Brother is so splendidly provided?— The vote reflects injuriously both on Brother and Sister, and will tend to diminish the little popularity enjoyed by the present Royal Family. O'Connell was conducted on Wednesday last, by an immense number of Mr. O'CONNELL.-The Freeman's Journal of Thursday says, that Mr. his countrymen, from Howth to his residence in Merrion-square, Dublin by the Learned Gentleman in his late mission to London. About four "It was a proud reward, even for such personal sacrifices as those made o'clock, the swelling shouts of the multitude were heard at the Post-office, and shortly afterwards the approach of a considerable cavalcade gave earnest to the speedy arrival of "the Man of the People;" who, standing in an open family carriage, was drawn by the crowd. The windows on each side of the street were filled with their hats, and the attending crowds rending the air with shouts of welfashionables, many ladies waving their handkerchiefs, and gentlemen of the people. On arriving at the Post-office, the vehicle was stopped, come. Mr. O'Connell stood up in the carriage, returning the salutations until three cheers were given, and in like manner opposite the College, where the cheering of the multitude was tremendous. The procession continued its route along Grafton-street, Stephen's-green, Merrion-row, and round Merrion-square, until it arrived at Mr. O'Connell's house, where a vast crowd had already taken their station. From the balcony Mr. O'Connell addressed his countrymen, thanking them for their friendship, recommending obedience to the laws, and assuring them that the period of Emancipation was near at hand. held on Friday at Freemasons'-Hall, the Marquis of Lansdown in the The Anniversary Meeting of the National Benevolent Institution was Chair. The Noble Chairman stated the object of the Society to be that of giving aid to persons of the middle class, who had seen better days. He said he was happy to state that similar institutions had been formed at Bath, Bristol, and Gloucester. After passing a high and well-deserved compliment on Mr. Hervé, the founder, he concluded by informing the Meeting, that they were convened that day to enable it to extend its blessings. The cause of the charity was zealously advocated by Lord Clifford, Mr. Hervé, Mr. Brandon, and several other gentlemen; after which a collection took place. THE SPANISH EMIGRANT.-Additional subscriptions:-Mrs. Frend, Stoke Newington, 10s.; Miss Crompton, 10s.; Mrs. William Heygate, 11.; A Friend (C. A.) 10s.; Mr. Robert Wakefield, Hackney, 10s.; J. B. 58.; W. 11.; W. T. C. 11. THEATRICAL EXAMINER. HAYMARKET THEATRE. THE getting up of As You Like It at this theatre merits considerable approbation, both in respect to the genuine comedy and the introduced music of BISHOP. Rosalind has too much breadth of humour for the delicate personation of Miss TREE; and although Madame VESTRIS falls short of the native exuberance of Mrs, JORDAN in this part, we suspect she is the very first Rosalind of the day. The Orlando of VINING is also a spirited performance; and with the exception of a little supererogatory dwelling on the close of a few sentences, the Jaques of a Mr. CLARKSON is forcible and well-conceived. DowTON frolicked with Touchstone as usual; but with the exception of one or two advisable sacrifices to modern ideas of purity, we wish that he would leave the text alone. He was admirably "swift and sententious" in his lie seven times removed. Mrs. HUMBY represented the unpoetical Audrey, and was, to use the language of the part, " a good thing." She was, however, anything but "foul," for there are some "gifts which God gives," that are undisguisable. Her reading of the part, too, was her own, and very pleasant it was. In the vocal parts, VESTRIS and Miss GEORGE, (the Celia of the drama,) were very attractive; and to the genuine songs of the piece, "Under the Greenwood Tree," and "Blow thou Winter's Wind," Pyne did! much justice. In a word, the getting up of this fine romance of SHAKESPEARE is highly creditable to the Management; and the manner in which it was received by a crowded house, on Wednesday evening last, is a proof it. VAUXHALL GARDENS. On Monday last, these Gardens opened for the season under circumstances, in respect to weather, by no means propitious, which did not however prevent a considerable attendance. To the various embellishments of last season have been added a series of Indian scenery on the walls of the rotunda, which is also additionally illuminated in a very brilliant manner. The music, which we understand is under the direction of Mr. Rook, was on this occasion tastefully selected, and the songs sacrificed less than usual to the taste of the honest folks who like to laugh at jokes a century or two old. The theatre in the gardens presented a ballet, the story of which is amusing enough, although not fettered by any very strict regard to the unities. A scene of the Temple of Fortune exceedingly amused us; it was not however Mr. Bish's Lottery Office in Cornhill, which of course it might have been. An European Ramoo Samee also balanced and threw balls and knives about with considerable spirit: and a Signor Somebody in the rotunda played on half a dozen instruments at once with an inventive dexterity of movement, which Dr. Johnson would have called difficult, if he had even wished it impossible. Add to all this, the Fantoccini and Fire-works, which exhibited considerable novelty, and what more can heart desire, except the dog days and weather to suit? We learn by the bills that the Lessees have now purchased these gardens altogether, and of course we take it for granted that their exertions will prove correspondent to their outlay of capital. Q. NEWSPAPER CHAT. many other persons of taste and rank. At six years of age, he gave DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.-A letter from Paris says, that the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND greatly surprised the French peasantry by throwing to them on his way handfuls of half-franc pieces. They seem to have known his Grace. There really must be something delightful in the air of France, if it will make a man generous abroad, who is so very careful of his cash at home! CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE SOCIETY.-The Meetings of this Society continue to be regularly held in Chancery-lane, and the interest of the discussions is sustained by constant accessions of talent and eloquence on both attend. The quantity of historical and literary information afforded, sides of the important questions agitated. A great proportion of Ladies and the accuracy of statement insured by the instant correction which follows any sort of exaggeration or mistake, has rendered this institution an important addition to the means which are every day starting into life for the diffusion of knowledge. GYMNASTICS.-We are glad to observe that Gymnastic exercises, upon which the ancients set so much store, are making their way from Germany into this country. The Commander-in-Chief is intent upon introducing them into the army, and for this purpose has engaged a Mr. Clias, a Swiss, from Berne, and given him the rank and pay of Captain in the army. A military officer, said to be connected with his Royal Highness's official establishment at the Horse Guards, has likewise pub- from the deputation visiting the islands of the Pacific on the part of the MISSIONARIES AT NEW ZEALAND.-A letter appears in the Sheffield Iris, lished an elementary treatise of the gymnastic art. Professor Voelker London Missionary Society, from which it appears that they have been has also lately opened a Gymnasium in the neighbourhood of the Re-in the most imminent danger of their lives. Their vessel, the Endeavour, gent's-park, and judging from the testimonials contained in his pro- having been compelled to cast anchor at Wangoroa, on the 15th of July, spectus, we should think him well qualified to spread the practice of they sent their boat to the station of the Wesleyan Missionories, twelve these most useful and healthful exercises among the young men of miles up the bay. Whilst the boat was absent, great numbers of the naLondon. They will assuredly be extensively adopted in time, and we tives came to the ship, and began to purloin different articles in a bareare confident that before a very few years elapse no school or plan of faced manner. The Captain indignantly ordered the decks to be cleared, education will be without some plan of regular exercise. Gymnastics is and in the confusion that ensued, one of the natives fell or was pushed the art of turning exercise to the greatest possible account; it is a scien- overboard; on which the cannibals seized their spears, raised their tific direction of the athletic sports, adapted to the purpose of developing hideous war songs, and surrounded the Captain, the Deputation, and the muscles of the frame, and thereby increasing the general health and their companions on the quarter-deck, whilst the crew betook themselves strength. Those who have observed the change produced in the general to the rigging through alarm. In this dreadful condition they remained health and deportment of the young men in those parts of Germany and Switzerland where gymnastics are extensively studied, will rejoice with and even handling their persons to ascertain if they would make good food; an hour and a half, the cannibals waiting the signal to dispatch them, us that the fashion is gaining ground here. These exercises have like- and the horror of their situation was increased, by the wreck of the Boyd, wise the merit of being just as amusing and exhilarating as any other the whole crew of which was murdered and devoured by the natives sports, and especially supply, for the inhabitants of towns, exercise and fifteen years ago, being within view. They were at length relieved by enjoyment which cannot be brought within their reach by any other the arrival of the boat from the Missionary station, with Mr. White, one means. Globe & Traveller. of the Missionaries on board, and George, a native chief of great power DECOROUS CONDUCT OF A COUNSEL!-At the late Middlesex Sessions, and influence, who had instigated the murder of the crew of the Boyd, the Chairman, in the course of summing up, told the Jury, if they thought but who now immediately exerted his authority to save the lives of their the plaintiff (a constable who was engaged in a squabble, and who in- present visiters. The natives shortly retired, leaving the Deputation and dicted the defendant for an assault), had first struck with his staff, or their companions overpowered with joy and gratitude for their providenhad used it wantonly or unnecessarily, they ought to find for the defendant. tial deliverance. A few days after, a boat's crew, belonging to another The Jury having returned a verdict of Not Guilty, Mr. Adolphus immedi-European vessel, consisting of six men, were cut off and killed in another ately said "The next man that is murdered, Mr. Chairman, it is your part of New Zealand. fault." Mr. Const took no notice of the observation. UNPARALLELED PEDESTRIAN PERFORMANCE.-On Tuesday week, Robert Skipper completed the most extraordinary pedestrian task ever undertaken, viz. of walking 52 miles for 30 successive days, with scarcely any marks of fatigue. He has always performed the distance between the hours of five and eight; but the last day, determined on a grand effort, he started at three o'clock in the morning, and actually reached Southampton again at a quarter before three in the afternoon, thus performing his day's work in three hours less time than ever before. personal activity; his face is well formed, but furrowed with fatigue and A SLEEPING JUDGE.-On various occasions (says a Correspondent) I ROYAL ADJURATION.-In the course of a very pleasant speech delivered have witnessed the anxiety of the Judges to preserve inviolate the dig- at a meeting of the English Catholic Committee on Monday, Mr. Eneas nity and decorum which should ever be observed in a Court of Justice Macdonnell adverted to the comical effect of many of the intended gra-it is however impossible so to do at all times-for during the trial of vities in the recent debate in the Lords upon the Catholic question. No BROWNE v. MURRAY, on Tuesday last, in the Court of King's Bench, one (he remarked) could possibly suppose from its manner, that the Royal the Lord Chief Justice seating himself very composedly in one corner of" Help me God" exhibition was intended to debase the claims and pri the Judicial Seat, having one leg horizontally placed and the other vileges of the Catholics. What could ever have brought such a thing dangling, went to sleep for better than half an hour, and this too while into the Duke's head, he could not conceive, unless it was occasioned by his Majesty's Attorney-General was addressing the Jury! His Lordship a full bottle and an early dinner, which he had heard whispered was the awoke however in sufficient time to sum up the case with his wonted case. (A laugh, and hear!) He remembered a somewhat similar solemn precision. EARLY GENIUS.-As Master Minasi is about to have a concert at the the poet Burns was travelling, and having met at a house with a dinner cause which had produced the like effect: it was on some occasion that Argyll Rooms, the following account of the development of extraordi- that did not exactly please him, at the same time that he left the reckonnary musical talent in this youth may interest our readers:-" ANTONIO ing, he left the following:MINASI, son of Mr. James Minasi, the Artist, discovered at the age of three years and a half an astonishing talent for music, and a particular inclination for the flute. The celebrated DROUET was so much surprised at hearing him perform, that he warmly solicited the boy's father to place him under his tuition, remarking that he would make him a great man. In consequence however of Mr. Drouet's sudden departure from this country, his father has unremittingly cultivated the talent of the boy, and with such success, that when only four years old, he played Jbefore several of the Nobility's parties. At five, he visited Liverpool with his father, where he was much encouraged by Mr. Roscoe and "Called at this house, as I'm a sinner, I'll not dine here, so help me God!” EPIGRAM. Tом cannot wipe his nostrils if he pleases, (So long his nose is, and his arms so short ;) Nor ever cries" God bless me !" when he sneezes; He cannot hear so distant a report, SOCIETY ARTS, &c.-The annual meeting of this society was held at the Oper house on Monday last, when the distribution of prizes took place. Rerts, the miner, wlio has invented a hood and mouth piece by which Je can breathe in the midst of smoke, received the Society's large silvermedal and 50 guineas. The reward and the compliments of the Dule of Sussex, seemed to give him indescribable pleasure. Two or three other meritorious mechanics received prizes.-Mr. Salisbury obtained a silver medal for making known in this country the Tuscan mode of growing the wheat to produce the fine straw of which Leghorn bonnets are made. Mr. Salisbury had obtained some of this straw from corn crops in Ireland, and a bonnet made of it was exhibited to the society, and much admired. It is curious, that while Mr. S. was getting this straw, three hundred pounds' worth of the Tuscan was imported from Italy (the money being furnished out of the subscription raised in England two or three years ago for the starving Irish) and was actually detained in the Waterford Custom-house till it was spoiled, notwithstanding repeated applications from the Agents of the Society who were promoting the manufacture in Ireland! Some explanations respecting this apparently wilful and shameful conduct, is due to the public whose money was thus wasted. JURY SYSTEM.—Mr. Peel's measure will go far to neutralize those evils which Mr. Brougham endeavoured to obviate by his resolution respect ng the promotion of the Judges; and may be regarded as the greatest blow that has ever been struck at the Law of Libel.-We cannot conclude without offering the warm tribute of our thanks to the Editor of the Examiner, whose unsparing and elaborate exposure of the enormities committed against the friends of freedom under the " Law of Libel," and the "Special Jury System," has, we are quite satisfied, tended mainly to bring about the happy change which is at present contemplated. May the recollection that he has neither written nor suffered in vain solace him to the end of his earthly pilgrimage! And may he live long to rejoice with us, that out of the PERSECUTION of the Press has arisen the dawn of its FREEDOM.-Hereford Independent. The mail now goes from London to Edinburgh in forty-six hours; in the year 1712 the quickest coach on that road performed the journey in thirteen days. CURIOUS TENURE.-Oakham, in Rutlandshire, is remarkable for the tenure of the Barons Ferrers, who hold it by taking off a shoe from every Nobleman's horse that passes with his Lord through the street, unless redeemed with a certain piece of money. In token of this, several gilded shoes are nailed up on the castle-gate. A shoe was paid for by the Duke of York in 1788. CAUTION. Lately, as a young woman of Lincoln was picking her ear with a pin, the head came off and lodged in her ear; and, notwithstand ing the best advice and means that could be obtained to dislodge it, she now lies in a most dangerous state, and in the greatest agony, and it is MINUTENESS. The celebrated French naturalist, Cuvier, is said to have recently dissected an insect, one inch in length, in which he found 494 pairs of muscles, connected with as many nerves, and 40,000 antennæ! Can the German Doctors outdo this? Medical Adviser. feared will not recover. An advertisement recently appeared in a German newspaper, for a gentleman's servant. Among other indispensable requisites, it was stated, that he was neither to sing nor whistle any part whatever of Der Freischütz!—Harmonicon for June. LAW. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. LIBEL IN THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.-BROWNE . MURRAY. This action was brought by James Hamilton Browne, Esq. late Chief Assistant in the office of the Ionian Senate, against Mr. Murray, the Publisher of the Quarterly Review, for libels upon him contained in that journal. The libels complained of appeared in an article of the 57th No., purporting to be a review of " An Historical and Biographical Essay upon the Islands of Corfu, Leucadia, Cephalonia, Ithaca, and Zante." After slightly characterizing the work, the reviewer proceeded to vindicate the character of Sir Thomas Maitland, and after adverting to the attacks made on him in Parliament by Mr. Hume, proceeded as follows: -" Nor is the little knot of patriots, as they would be thought, the only polluted source from which Mr. Hume has derived his misinformation. We happen to know one still less creditable-one which we grieve to say furnishes a singular instance of perfidy in a quarter from which Sir Tho. mas Maitland had least reason to expect it. Mr. Browne became conAdentially employed in 1816 as the chief assistant in the office of the Jonian Senate, in which situation he remained till the beginning of 1822, when it was found necessary to dismiss him on the following grounds: It occurred to Sir Frederick Hankey, on reading in the report of a debate in Parliament a statement of Mr. Hume, which he said had been put into his hand by a Noble Lord near him, that it contained the substance of a document which could only have been procured from some of the Government officers in the islands; and as Mr. Hamilton Browne was known to be in constant correspondence with Lord Archibald, a suspicion immediately attached to him as the person who had furnished this document. Mr. Hamilton Browne confessed that, at Lord Archibald Hamilton's particular desire, he bad furnished his Lordship with every document he could procure relative to Parga, adding at the same time, that he had said nothing but what was true. Be that as it may, his assertion was far from being true. The correspondence between Lord Archibald Hamilton and his agent and protegé did not begin nor end with the Parga question; it continued till he was turned out of the office he had so scandalously betrayed." The reference to this passage in the index to the volume at the close of the 58th No., which was also charged as libellous, was as follows:-"Browne, H., Perfidious Conduct of, towards his Benefactor, Sir Thomas Maitland, p. 88." The defendant pleaded the general issue, and several special pleas, substantially alleging that the matters of the alleged libels were true. terly Review. The plaintiff, a gentleman of high character, had now to Mr. DENMAN stated, that the defendant was the Publisher of the Quarseek redress against this individual for one of the most aggravated libels ever issued from the press. Mr. Browne had been employed as chief assistant in the Senate of the Ionian Islands. From his appointment in 1816 to 1821, he performed the duties of his situation without censure, know the grounds of the apparently harsh measure adopted towards him; when he was suddenly dismissed. Mr. Browne was naturally anxions to but he could only obtain for answer, that in consequence of some change in the head of the department, it was thought right that the subordinate his dismissal. This dark insinuation caused him still to push for further officers should also be changed; but that this was not the only reason for explanation of a mystery so injurious to his character and his peace; but it was not until his arrival in England that he knew he had been the victim of anonymous slander. At the end of two years from the time of his dismissal, he found the secret motives of those who had acted thus harshly towards him developed in these calumnious attacks, for which he sought redress by the present action. The learned Common Serjeant then read the libel, and declared that it contained almost as many falsehoods as words. Was it possible to conceive any charge more grievous to a sensitive mind, or striking more deadlily at that good name which was more precious than life? Mr. Hume, to whom the falsehood was known, wrote a distinct contradiction of the whole; but though the defendant promised to publish it, he refused to fulfil that promise. Some slight notice, however, was taken of Mr. Hume's statement in a subsequent number, but accompanied with a repetition of invective. In March, 1824, letter to the defendant, requesting the name of the author, and distinctly the plaintiff first became acquainted with these libels, and then wrote a asserting that they were groundless. In reply, Mr. Murray stated, that the statements of which be complained were made on the authority of Sir Frederick Hankey and Lord J. Osborne, "both of whom have vouched, and are ready to vouch at any time and in any place, for the accuracy of their original statement." This letter was far from giving any satisfactory answer to the plaintiff's demand; for it afforded him no clue to discover the responsible author. Eager, therefore, to vindicate his charactér, he wrote again to Mr. Murray to demand the name of the author; but, instead of an answer from Mr. Murray, be received only an intimation from his attornies that they were ready to appear to process. Against Mr. Murray himself, then, he had been forced to proceed. This was the outline of the plaintiff's case; and surely the Jury would give him a just and liberal compensation for those deep injuries which had blasted his prospects-which had destroyed his peace-which had caused him years of anxiety and sorrow and which left him no resource but in their justice. Mr. Hume was then examined. He proved the matters as stated by Mr. Denman. He had, he said, received a letter from Mr. Murray, stating, that though, as publisher of the Quarterly Review, he was answerable for its contents, he had no discretion as to the insertion or rejection of articles, which rested entirely with the Editor, to whom the statement had been transmitted. [This assertion, we believe, is a direct falsehood.] The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, his client was a most extensive publisher, to whom the interests of literature were deeply indebted, and who had long, among other works, published the Quarterly Review. That journal had now nearly reached its 60th No., unimpeached in a Court of Law, except in a single instance, and in that the Jury had pronounced the charge to be groundless. The defendant could have no personal feeling to gratify. It would stand not only on the evidence of Sir F. Hankey, but of Lord Sidney Osborne, that Mr. Browne was dismissed from office on a charge of misconduct which no one could excuse. The case was shortly this:-That the plaintiff, holding the situation of a public officer, intrusted confidentially with intelligence relating to the Government of the Islands, bad betrayed his trust, had sent communications home, and, on complaint to the proper authorities, had been dismissed. If in private life an individual intrusted with letters in the confidence of friendship, disclosed them to strangers, would the Jury allow such a man to complain of public exposure? And if in private life such conduct would be reprobated, how much more would it deserve censure if prac tised by a public servant, intrusted by Government and receiving its protection, yet betraying the secrets of that Government to those by whom it was assailed? The interrogatories administered to Sir Frederick Hankey, and his answers, were then read. In answer to the interrogatory, "Were the documents stated to have been communicated such as the plaintiff had access to by virtue of his said office?" he replied, "I do not know to what particular document the interrogatory relates;" but proceeded to state that Mr. Browne could communicate no document from the office without grossly betraying his trust, and most particularly so in regard ta the Parga affair, on which there existed great irritation at home, and the most violent misrepresentations. Sir F. Hankey stated, that he had reason to believe from reports made to him by the agents for the packets at Corfu, that this correspondence did not end with the Parga question, nor until the plaintiff was removed from office. The deposition of Lord Sidney Osborne spoke of the dismissal of the plaintiff. "I sent for Mr. Browne and Mr. Cally: Mr. Cally said he had never sent home, any information. After they left my room, Mr. Browne came back, and said that he was sure this alluded to him, and that he had sent home, at Lord Archibald Hamilton's request-1 don't know whether he used the word documents' or information' about Parga, but he had sent home nothing but the truth." On the cross-examination, Lord S. Osborne said, " Mr. Browne continued to discharge the duties of his office for seven or eight months afterwards, and was treated with the same confidence as before; that Mr. Browne always discharged, his duties to Lord Sidney Osborne's satisfaction, and that he continued to frequent his house before and after his removal." Mr. DENMAN, in reply, asked whether the depositions, even as they stood, supplied a shadow of proof of the charge? That charge substan. tially was, that Mr. Browne had purloined, or surreptitiously copied, documents, and sent them over to England. The whole of the charge which Sir F. Hankey had ventured to make rested on unsupported hearsay evidence. Mr. Browne admitted that he sent home information; and it was clear that he spoke not of "documents," because he added that he had sent nothing but what was true-an expression which applied not to "documents," but to information only. And was there not an immense difference between them? To expose private documents was most base and shameful; but to send "information "-that was, such information as all might partake-might be perfectly innocent. Good God! was it because a man was in a colonial office, that he was to sever himself from the world, not to breathe or whisper in public affairs, nor to send a gazette or newspaper to his friends in England? The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that the pleas were not proved, and that consequently the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict; but still, in estimating the damages, the Jury would be entitled to look at the evidence offered to support them. It certainly was not proved that the plaintiff had sent home "documents," as alleged in the Review; but it did appear that he admitted sending home "information," which, if that information was obtained by reason of confidence reposed in him, was certainly deserving of censure. A suspicion of conduct which Sir T. Maitland had no right to expect, had been excited, and this suspicion was one reason for his dismissal. The article contained some strong and probably improper observations on Lord Archibald Hamilton and Mr. Hume but the Jury must not now take these into their consideration; but, confining their attention to the cause and the evidence, give to the plaintiff such reasonable damages as he had a right to receive for the particular injury of which he complained. The Jury retired for more than an hour, and then returned a verdict for the defendant-Damages, 2507. Wednesday, June 1. ASSAULT.-POOLE v. ELLISTON. Mr. BROUGHAM said, the defendant is the Manager of Drury-lane Theatre. His celebrity is sufficiently notorious; I need not stop to give you farther information concerning him. The plaintiff bears the character of a gentleman. For many years past he has been in the habit of writing successfully for the stage, and became entitled to be put upon the free list. Mr. Elliston refused him his free admission. Mr. Elliston refused to answer the letters of the plaintiff. Mr. Poole waited on him. Having sent up his card, he was desired to walk up into Mr. Elliston's room. He did so, and found Mr. Elliston in a great passion; be used the most abusive language, ordered Mr. Poole to leave the room instantly, or he would "kick his." This threat was instantly fulfilled. How Mr. Elliston, though he is a man of very great importance, could have demeaned himself and insulted his equal by such an outrage, I am at a loss to understand. That he could be under the influence of intoxication in the morning is utterly inconceivable-that he who had so many public duties to perform-who is "to hold the mirror up to nature," could be guilty of this outrage, is almost incredible. A blow to a gentleman is worse than a broken bone. If he submit quietly to it, his character is ruined, and he is driven from society. You will see, gentlemen of the Jury, that this is a very aggravated case, and you will give great damages to meet it. Mr. St. Aubyn said he was with Mr. Poole when this assault took place. Mr. Elliston came into the room in a great passion, and said, "Mr. Poole, get out of this room or I will kick you." Immediately Mr. Elliston suited the action to the word. Mr. Poole is a very little man. Witness said to Mr. Elliston “you have already struck him,” on which he turned round and said "you lie." Mr. SCARLETT, for the defendant, commented on the provocation which Mr. Elliston had received from Mr. Poole, which was admitted by his own evidence; no man with the feelings of human nature could have acted otherwise than Mr. Elliston had, and the smallest damages would abundantly satisfy the justice of the case. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, leaving it with the Jury, that if they thought Mr. Poole had brought the assault on himself, they would only give the most moderate damages. The Jury, after consulting for ten minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiff Damages, 80%, ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. BARBAROUS MURDER.-Monday last was the fair day of bonistimon, in the county Clare-and a more peaceable fair was not recollected for many years. In the evening, about six o'clock, a countryman was pointed out to the Police as a person who had annoyed one of their body several months since. The man was going quietly home-they dragged him back, beat him, and many persons naturally collected to know what was the matter. Though the Police were striking the man, there was not even an apparent disposition to interfere with them. Still they primed and loaded, and whilst in the act of doing this, as respectable an inhabitant as resides in Ennistimon called to them from his window, and desired them not to fire, as there was no danger of a breach of the peace. To this one of our life preservers answered, Take him down," and immediately a sub-constable, named Edward Tarlton, levelled his gun, not in the di rection of the window, but humanely firing into an inoffensive crowd of three hundred people, drove a ball through the breast of a woman in a state of pregnancy! She expired next morning. Tarlton, not a whit dismayed by the melancholy effect of his murderous aim, exclaimed that he was sorry he did not shoot more; and turned round to his comrades to bring them to an account for not firing also. Next day an inquest was held on the body of the unfortunate deceased, when Tarlton was ordered to be committed to stand his trial at the next Assizes. Our correspondent calls our notice to the conduct of Sergeant Wood on this occasion. The Sergeant, a short time after the murder, rode through the fair most violently, and because a cobbler, named Guttery, was unable to get out of his way, he made a blow with his sword, that were it not for some leather which Guttery had in his hat, would have sacrificed another life. The Chief, who, from an early part of the day, was in all the spirit of authority, amused himself, and endeavoured to irritate the people, by depriving even those who were driving cattle of their sticks, and breaking every pipe he met in the fair. If such is the employment of our Police force, in a portion of the country unmarked by violence or disorder, we humbly think it imperatively calls for investigation from the higher authorities. -Limerick Evening Post. SUICIDE.-An inquest was held on Wednesday, at the house of Lady. Mary Morgan, Upper Seymour-street, who was found dead in her chamber. It appeared that the deceased lady had attained her fiftieth year. A long time since she had some disagreement with a portion of her family, respecting some property. On Sunday morning one of the servants heard the falling of a great weight in the deceased's room, and on the door being forced, the unfortunate lady was found lying on the floor with a portion of a cambric handkerchief tightly fastened round her neck, and the remainder affixed to the lath of a bedstead. Her weight had evidently broken the handkerchief, and she had fallen with her head in the direction of the door, and her feet towards the bed. In her room were found two letters, written in a very incoherent strain.-The Jury returned a verdict of Insanity. Mr. and Mrs. Stagg, a respectable elderly couple, residing in Mileend New-town, were found dead in their bed-room on Friday morning. The neighbours became alarmed when the house was not opened at the usual hour, and on forcing open the door, they found Mr. Stagg in bed, and his wife lying with her head on the floor, and her lower extremities on the bed side; they were quite cold, and appeared to have been dead some hours. An investigation took place in the evening before the Coroner, and it not appearing that they had taken any thing poisonous, the Jury returned a verdict of" Died by the Visitation of God."-They had been both indisposed for some weeks. On Saturday week, Henry Rowson, Esq. Prescot, Lancashire. On the 17th ult. John Swaffield, Esq. of Wyke Regis House, Weymouth, in his 94th year. On Saturday week, in Grosvenor-square, Lady Sophia Heathcote, wife of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart. and eldest daughter of the Countess of Dysart and John Manners, Esq. Lately, at Aix les Bains, in Savoy, Charlotte Augusta Caroline, only daughter of Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. in the 10th year of her age. At Richmond, on the 27th ult. in the 20th year of his age, Lord Spencer Augustus Chichester, third son of the Marquis of Donegal. On the 1st inst. at the house of his brother, in Upper Montagu-street, Russellsquare, James Hunt, Esq. formerly a Captain in the 26th, and afterwards in the 57th Regiment of Foot, in the 41st year of his age, eldest surviving son of William Hunt Mickelfield, Esq. of West Tilbury, Essex. At Lichfield, on the 30th ult. in the 78th year of his age, General Vyse, Colonel of 3d Dragoon Guards. In Gloucester-place, Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart. in the 86th year of his age. On the 2nd instant, at the Rectory-house, Piccadilly, in the 76th year of his age, Gerrard Andrews, D.D. Dean of Canterbury, and Rector of St. James, Westminster. coln's-Inn, and Rector of Monksilver. At Brompton, on the 3rd instant, the Rev. William Walker, Chaplain of Lin On Wednesday, as R. Stracey, Esq. of Chigwell-row, was taking a ride, his horse began rearing and plunging, which the rider endeavouring to check, the veyed home. All efforts to save him proved unavailing, as he expired the same horse fell backwards on the unfortunate gentleman, who was immediately conevening, in consequence of a concussion of the brain. Wm. Armistead the elder, in Clement's-lane (one of the people called Qua kers) aged 70. On Thursday the 2nd instant, at Keswick, in Norfolk, Mrs. Gurney, relict the late Richard Gurney, Esq. |