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nniform,xistoms ;matt ;nor -FivAmp..= of the Austrian dorinnohns 4 lin„qpnration, and the export anddrovr port laws publish:ad; ihgAl and!.18,38 will be annulled:, In the new Ault r the articles liable to:slutrateelinised under thirty4wopnincipal heads;:andp these into inferior bilesooaWith the exception of salunpowdor, ,tefiair31: and preparations :liableobto eiPlbde, all goods tan' he exported'', ti 40027 ported 'without -the, okeiibitilly4br 'tidy Limeiial 'Permit: Omost"ale4i°

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Mr. Spence was a pupil of the celebrated Mr.ditill.; and obtained a

deservedlyligh reputation both as a sound equity lawyer and also as an enlightened inquirer into the historical foundations of our equitable sys- tem:- 'His book on the subject is now equally the 'text-book of students findlite repertory of learning consulted by the 'adttrinced inquirer. He was sh once the supporter of the Law RefortkOnent, and in his own Society of Lincoln's Inn the instrument of iti ;Mg been chosen the first lecturer to the students of that Society,A.km,„.kfew years since, an atteMpt was made by the Inns of Court tojamtnite.a regular system of legal studies among candidates for the bar. A correspondent, who was well WV:minted with. M24 Spence many years ago, •communicates to us some points in his earlieripriblie and literary life—

"He was the anther of m work of research on the Origin and Political In-

stitutions of Modern:Europe it 'failed to attract much attention, but was judiciously) ex:anted; and successfully showed- thatilingland was more in- debted:to Erft and, Indfirthan to Germany for them.ganism of her civil and constitutional Mirtitutes. For ,some years( he sat ler Parliament for Miss Lawreace'sllipon borough; chiefly; as he said, to help torsvard Chancery re- form :1, but he had not Luther's impetuous energy' targrapple with obstinate abusem, tvhich in Equity, inanore instances than ene, have crushed the spirit of both Minna and reforming practitioners: It is manifest that his aspira- tions were not few, nor of ignoble 'spirit;' and it is possible that disappoint- ment in tome of theni-may have laid the foundatiowefithe real or imaginary maladies that so fatally overwhelmed him.Experience' often shows how

the murky clouds thicken over the spirit diet ed 'by the failure of che- rished hopes."

Mr. John Leveson Gower publishes a sequel to the correspondence formerly noticed,. recording the steps of his genertnie struggles towards a reversal of thelientetioek'Pronounced by the Maar:General of the Ord- nance with equal injustice on the unequal sme Of the youths expelled from the Woolwich-Atademy. Mr. Gower forwarded to Lord John Rus- sell a petition to the Throne, praying that the Royal prerogative "may be exercised for the reversal of a :sentence frabght with so much wrong and hijunjr." 'Lord John Russell acknowledged that he had read with great, concern Mr. Levesen Gower's letter aeon:parrying the petition; but he stated that the Government have confidence in the Master-General and the 'investigating officers, end-he ,hrid aseurienee that the petition would be referred to the 'Secretary of State for the Home Department. Again expressing Ids deep.earrow, he•returned the petition. Mr. Gower, acting on Lord John's kinel.Suggestimui, sent the, petition to Sir George Grey„ and , besought the opportunity to wait on him with a deputation. Sir meftrge- rep;lied, with region, that Ministers will not feel them- selves tualified in interfering in the case. So Mi. Gower submits with grief to the misfortune that his. must wait till Parliament shall assemble, before,he can leave it to the country to decide betw,gen the Master-Gene- ral and the boys whom, while to them in loco pare,n4s, he has "suffered to be sacrificed," The Bishop of St. David's hae, with the; _5eiiçn of the Archbishop of Danterbirry, published a letter addressed by The llishop to his Grace on .the subject of the joint Episcopal address to the Queen. " Jniteeltired *min," .131s-hop Thirlivall thought the addrese certainly free from sotne of the objections he had urged; but it had become " liable to ob- jections,still graver." "The reference to the actefFiimbeth " appears "in' every emeet mostunedvisable" ; for the' weighty reason, beyond others, that those who refer in such a manner to that statute "-must be considered as expressing a wish to see it again put in foree,",--which, as it meths to the Bishop "would inyolve the repeal of the Relief Act." 'I cannot consent," hedecla'ree, 'to Make myself responsible for language which directly or in- directly indicates such an object." lie thinks.' that it is "needlessly harsh to treat the Pope's anticipation' of our retern to,his communion, which he mast 'consider as the oereatest of all blessing": to lisc as an unwarrantable insult." And the concludieg petition, he fears,Will be interpreted, "not without an appear i atme Of "juste, as a wish to seecifthe Roman Catholic pro- selytizers silenced Icy act of Parliament." "Nothing abort of a deep °envie- tier' :of a paramount objection." would have induced Bishop Thirlwall to withhold his signature to the address; but the objection relating to the act of,Flizabe,th appears to him to involve principles which he may not sacrifice to, y ,4her consideration. ihg,Iiishop of St. David's letter reached him after all except the Bialp,pof 'Exeter had given their assent to the address, the Archbishop " thcmght it too late to make so great. an, alteration as would have been rume$417— le meet my objection."

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A correspondence of a personal nature has taken place between Ad- miral Sir - - - Ifititings„ Mr. Bright, and gr. Cobden, in reference to &hilt some critielineif fYliff.'Bright On the evidence given in .1848 by Sir Thomas before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Navy Estimates: " - --. At the recent Peace meeting in Birmingham, Mr. Bright is reported to have declaimed 011 "the superstition of the fear of war with France." Sir Thomas Hastings, an Admiral of the British Fleet, he said, was" haunted by this fear of France" when before the Committee; but when pressed harder and herder, "it Came out that a French priest—no, the Bishop of Madagas- car " was the authority for his apprehension. "Only imagine., Mr. Bnght is reported to have exclaimed, "the only authority upon which a British Admiral anticipated war, was an idle story told by the Bishop of Madagas- amwoq Jnomgiiiad lie 1199W.Nd jpq iimstfif 01407 VnieCtri Plespnd-

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car . ear Thomas Hastings, on seeing thenewspareeereport of Mr. Bright's

ispeeeh, 't.Vrete to Mr. Bright, saying, • " refereace, you. will find that, you have Mistepresentel me completely, And thatMuch of what you asserted is iiet'teumw- Biiitht replied—" The statement to which you object was made on theauthonty of Mr. Cobden." Sir Thomas, more categorically, orraticild iarintat;!Ratavardeditorextimit oftha speech from the Times, eon- taininglftheilhoto kuotation from it ; and 'aiked, was that extract correct, and was that " the statement•yotil were affiluxiiiediamake" ?. Not receiving an answer by.return of post, . on the 4th ,instant enclosed a copy of the ceirespondence te 'Mr. Cobden, .iind asked on what; ;reap& he bould have

"Mithorized Mr. Bright to make such a statement:" ' 1 Nut it' ivould teem that Sir Thomas rece'fied,' at Siiiat(tIme after the mom;

• of the 4th: instant, a letter front ,Ne.'Btight 'dated "the 3d instant,. The extinct is not a correct report of 'Vilna.' said, and I am Mit able, to asiee.theexact words.".: •Theoevidence. wart instanced by Mr. Bright as proof of the exceedingly vague statements on whisihit was sought to in- fluence opinionia.favour of.public armaments* and MI show that " evidence of this nature " was much too indefinite te justify the military expenditure

the country incurs. .

Mr. Cobden answered the appeal to him on the 6th. He distinctly re- membered mentioning the anecdote in 184S to Mr. Bright, and believed he was not incorrect in reporting it pretty much in the terms used by Mr. Bright at Birmingham. He did not understand clearly whether Sir Thomas Hastings denied having given the evidence ; if so, he must be satisfied that he had confounded the evidence of Sir Thomas with that of some other wit- ness : but he was clear that the anecdote itself was substantially true. Sir Thomas Hastings rejoined—" I inform you my ground of complaint is, that Mr. Bright, on your authority, as he states, suppressing all the more ini- portant part of my evidence, has endeavoured to throw undeserved ridicule on my statements." " The anecdote of the Bishop of Japan formed the smallest part of my. proofs" ; " and yet I am represented by you as having_ brought forward this fact as the sole proof of my assertions." Mr. Cobden corrected Sir Thomas—" Mr. Bright does not mean that I authorized him to' snake it 'the statement] publicly, but that he had my word for the truth. of what he stated." "I repeat, I am not responsible for the statement having been made public, but I am bound to say the facts are substantially correct." Sir Thomas Hastings, on the 14th, declared to Mr. Cobden, that, if he did not make a direct and explicit statement, " whether, after reper- using my evidence, you can with truth assert that my sole reason for be- lieving that the hostile feeling of France to this country up to 1844 was founded on an idle tale told of the Bishop of Japan," he should conclude

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that it was and Mr. Cobden's intention to insult him • and should send a friend. On the 17th, receiving no answer, he wrote Cobden, throw- ing in his teeth that he has adhered to what he must have known to be founded—" when you informed Mr. Bright, as he states, and you do not that my sole reason," &c. ; that Mr. Cobden had not sufficient truthfuln or manly candour to correct his statement, nor had he disclaimed the in- tention to insult. Sir Thomas closed the correspondence with an expression of supreme contempt for Mr. Cobden, and a confident appeal to the sense of jus-, lice in the English people.

Appended to the letters are extracts from the evidence of Sir Thomas Hastings, showing the substantial reasons for the general feeling in 1848 that our relations with France were extremely uneasy ; among other proofs, the then recent addition to the French navy of twenty or twenty-two war- steamers, and the constant increase of her marine since 1842.

On Thursday, appeared in the papers Mr. Cobden's reply, dated the 18th instant, to the last letter from Sir Thomas Hastings, dated the 17th instant. With a bantering reference to Sir Lucius O'Trigger, and the confession of a first impulse to name Mr. Punch as his second, he declares himself satisfied without experiment that half an ounce of lead driven by less than a quarter of an ounce of powder "is sufficient to dash the human skull to atoms, and extinguish in a moment all powers of reason, all sense of justice, and every religious sentiment." But how such a process would satisfy him that he had acted unjustly, or convince Sir Thomas of the contrary, is past his com- prehension. lie has refreshed his memory, and he recounts the groundwork of the anecdote before the Committee. When, under pressure of Mr. Cob- den's cross-examination Sir Thomas Hastings quoted as a proof of the bel- ligerent disposition of the French certain warlike sentiments which somebody had heard on board a steam-boat, fall from the lips of the French Bishop of Japan, "the uplifted eyes and hands of more than one member of the Com- mittee led to the interposition of the Chairman." The room was cleared; and Mr. Cobden was appealed to, to allow this part of the evidence to be ex- punged, as being "calculated to throw ridicule upon the arguments by which our armaments are justified," and as "likely to be used by the advocates of reduction in the sense in which Mr. Bright has used it.',' It was left to the Chairman (Lord Seymour) and Mr. Cobden to decide; and Mr. Cobden consented that the evidence should be expunged. Baton the same evening, he mentioned the anecdote to Mr. Bright and sev,eral other Members; and Mr. Bright has on a former occasion referred to it in Parliament. Sir Thomas

. . Hastings does not impugn the right of a Member to mention in the evening what transpires in the morning before a public Committee of the Rouse; be

does not even complain of the evidence which was, expunged having been afterwards made public: the complaint is, "that Mr. Bright alleged that the authority of the Bishop was the only proof,"—a fact that can be decided by reference to the evidence itself, now in the hands of every Member for two years. And with reference to "the word only," Mr. Bright has stated that the report is not free from verbal inaccuracies. "Why did you not. send me a copy of that letter? It appears to me that the whole question at • issue is involved in its contents; and, had a further opportunity been offered. to Air.; Bright, he might possibly have removed the whole ground of com- plaint." Mr. Cobden perorates with effective rotundity—

For myself, I have not another syllable to say upon the subject. Yes ; I must add a word or two before I come to what I trust will be the close of our corre- spondence.

"Yon are a public servant, filling a very responsible office, and in the receipt of a liberal public stipend. As Chairman of the Commission for increasing our coast de- fences you were largely instrumental in promoting the expenditure of many millions of public money, for purposes and in a manner which, whether right or wrong, are open to discussion. Your voluminous evidence before the Committee on the Army. Navy, and Ordnance, invites criticism ; and much of it, in my humble opinion, is open to animadversion. "Such being your position, you must, like all public men, expect that your con- duct will be freely canvassed ; and your fate will be a luckier one than that of most of us if you do not find yourself often misapprehended, and sometimes misrepre- sented. If unable to restrain the ebullitions of an irascible temper, you must needs challenge a Member of the Legislature to mortal combat, merely because another Member it reported to have made a mistake in a single word in a speech of in 'hour's length, or because a reporter's pen may have slipped at a critical moment, then you have mistaken your vocation, and you would be consulting your own reputation and the interest of the country by retiring from the public service, and seeking security for your susceptible nerves within the inviolable precincts of your own domestic

circle."

The following despatch from Earl Grey to Sir Charles Fitzroy has been published in the papers of New South Wales. It is a formal answer to the farewell missive from Dr. Lang to the Colonial Office, which appeared in our columns on the 17th November 1849. . , ".-DoWeings4trostikisembersAclit‘thsi

"'Sir—!. In some di the London newsmen' of -the 17th and 190iekjetit, Month, you will find thatDr. Lang has printed a letter Which he addreSseit tb me, rind in which, with a considerable amount of penional complains that he has teen -treated with discourtesy. Snit Alto .sonigration. soliemes propounded by him bi-ve been unjustly rejecteds that undue assist,: once hasbeen afforded to the e,ler.g,y of the Church of .England and of Boamni. as compared with the clergy of -Secitlaed ; and that in thessoleetion of elms, grants for New'South 'Wales an unfair preference has been ediovin to Irish!: orphans belonging to the Church of 'Reiner. • • • . ■■■: . !■:(i 112. The charge of diecourtesy,- so far as it may -relatts:topersonalsinieni' views, must rest on. Dr. Lang's owstessertion, and eon 4dylhesisirefIbriti. direct counter-assertion. I do not remember,: nor doefilhe: date., thatATWi any interview withhinsinyself. But I am assured by the gentlemen of m department who had occasion, to- atieDr.-lattg,T,tbatilia,itdateint,dno point is entirely without foundation.-- In. scsfar. asothe eliarisminsirstferibs the style employed in written communications, you sou'in 4essessieninfsa1li the principal letters -which have been addressed to Dr. I,eg, andithey-staisys

speak forthemselves. -; I

"3. But one-remark which I must make upon this subjeetisstint Odle! course of nearly three years, during which Dr..Lseginforms methathe been in England, he never once addressed a complaint to.me,-eitheraii to discourtesy which he alleges he metwith, ormi env Other of the topics upon ■ Vitich he now animadverts. It was only when ho hadalready embarked in the ship which was to convey him frouithis country and it was no longer poesible that he could be called upon to make.good his statements, and after it had been discovered that his conduct in certain transaetions might becomw thesubject of a prosecution atlaw, thathe addressed, not in reality to me, but to-the public which is unacquainted with the circumstances to which he ads -verbs, a letter calculated to create an entirely erroneous impression as -to -what had passed between himself and the departments of the Government 'with whi&'he has been so long in communication.

"4. The papers enclosed in my recent despatch, No. 189, of the 30th of November, contain evidence of the following facts. First, that the-plans for the promotion of .emigration which Dr. Lang successively proposed to me differed so little from each other, and that in each new proposal he took so little- notice either of the objections pointed out to those precedingit or of the offers so repeatedly made to him to promote the objects he had in view if.he should assent to more reasonable terms that it is difficult to suppose that he was acting in earnest, or wished. to bring the matter teeny practical conelnabms. Secondly, that while he was thus keeping in ostensible communication with this.offiee he persuaded the public' that he was carrying on negotiations- with her 'Majesty's Government which were likely to lead to a favourable result, and that even important concessions had been made to his advantage. Third- ly,-that by a discreditable though transparent manceuvre, he pretended to make a request to me before the departure of a certain vessel, but kept back tholetter until it had sailed, and in the meanwhile sent out to you by that very ship aletter designed to make you believe that his request had been , ranted, and to lead you thereby into making certain payments of money and certain grants of land, which he knew he was not entitled to claim. Fourthly,. that having been repeatedly warned that any immigrants sent out in the manner in which those despatched on that occasion were sent out would not. be entitled to grants of land, he induced them nevertheless to pay for their passages, and to emigrate under the-impression that they were so entitled ; so that those emigrants arrived under circumstances altogether dif- ferent from those they expected, and some of them, it may be inferred from your report, in actual want of the means of subsistence. These -are the -eharsess, founded on the evidence of his own letters, under which Dr.

now labours- and their gravity is such, that unless they can be refuted, would seem ;tiniest unnecessary furtherto notice any of his allegations:

'The new'Cardinal has received autograph letters of congratulation from the Emperor of Austria, the King of Bavaria, and the President of the French Republic.—Morning Chronicle.

The installation of the new Portuguese Cardinal took place at .Lialson on. the 4th instant, with grand ceremonies. The naval correspondent of the Yintes at Portsmouth writes—"A regal entertainment was given on the occasion, to which about four hundred of the elite of the country were in- vited; among whom were the British Minister and the officers of the 'his tish squadron ; who, however, says our informant, declined the honour to a man."

"Under the present difficulties in conducting Divine service" in the thureh of St. Barnabes Pimlico, that church has been "closed until further notice," by the Churelmirdens, Sir John Haringtou and Mr. Briscoe.

It is stated-that "Mr. Monsell, has been received into the•Chureh of ,Rome. He made his profession at Itracedieu Manor, the seat of A. L. Phillipps, Esq."

The three Principal Professors of the Owen's College, 'Manche-der, have -been appointed. Mr. A. S. Scott, whose appointment as Principal we have mentioned, to the chair of logic and Mental. Philosophy ; Mr. J.G. Green- wood, to the professorships of Languages and the Literature of Greece and Rome and of History ; Mr. Alexander Sanderson, to the chair of Mathe- matics and Natural Philosophy.

Somerville was in the service of Hawkins, and was dismissed by him on a charge of fraud. After his dismissal, Somerville went to the house of Haw- -king and held some communication with his servants; whereupon Hawkins -addressed his servants in these words—"I have dismissed that man from way service ; do not speak to him any more in public or private, or I shall think you as bad as he." An action having been brought to recover da- mages for these words, as a libel, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas held theinto be a privileged communication, and nonsuited the plaintiff. A rule for a new trial was sought, on the ground of misdirection : the full Court upheld the direction; and Mr. Justice Maule clearly explained the law of privileged communications. "That class comprehends all cases of oommunications made bona fide in performance of a duty, or with a fair and reasonable purpose of protecting the interest of a party using the words. It is an admitted rule, that in cases of privileged communication maliee must be proved, and not inferred from the use of the words. It is necessary that the evidence should raise a probability of malice, and be more con- sistent with its existence than with its nonexistence. In the present case, it appeared to the Court that the evidence did not raise any probability of malice, and there was no evidence to justify anything being leftto the jury."

Mr. Arnold, the Worship Street Magistrate, differing from other Metropo- litan Magistrates, has decided that the common-law principle which allows a passenger to engage and have reserved for him a seat in a stage-coach is applicable to passengers in omnibuses. A complaint against a conductor who - reserves seats for two constant patrons, and who refused a fare when the two seats alone were unoccu_pied, was dismissed.

At Gisildhall Police Office, on Monday, Mr. James Gilbert, a bookseller in Paternoster Row, was summoned at the instance of the authorities of the 9itritish Masenin fur not sending a copy of " Gilbert's New Map of the 'World te the library of the national repository. It was proved that such a map had been published for 3s., and that it had.not been received at the Museum. .ThoiU petialtly-foriattelt Plofaultois 61.,filaw4gt (0 fike chnegantthatAlgt ‘,Isetv.iusp.1!tim4 nO1lael'ekkglsktflibPs441 niinlightedriLlean ages, Atss tingVitsienkllagiwtieet.stl,vs, rektutednit Mirt1114 nebee .stnsertedii 10g1 ,P13 fIrd* 'word "newit-PriantLfundlidatt likos -rebrulf: 00 iiiksiouf, ' ale litdaL1nMal.liPckhaf/itteil, lasesylitialbgagisreessiorro isros sniths, lo y.iinuileogo no hgii ads ,liossssas leat 041/1034thi igete. • A'

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possess. e disco tetkifftitli ltits3innicve‘lhokliffielikYTituh1 journals ave contained interestingsuotes-of "the operation for cataract" succesiU pefforinati un 'the lifindli&irs 'by 'Mr. 'Cooper With 'the aid. Of chloroforiii affininistered 'by-the experienced Dr.•Snow. The first ease was imdertdken Oty the-5th di November, and is ' thus described by Mr..Coeper- -" The-patient harting.-been separated from the other bears, a strong leathern.00lbx and chain wae bucklell-rouadlii neck; and. theichain Wog paased, towed one of-the

front-bars of the sage,. ton ...strong .men proceeded to pull him to it as a bullock is

hauled to the-slaughtering-ring. She bear was the size of a young donkey, and his resistance 'was quite remarkable: for full ten minutes he set their efforts at defiance,

and ultimately it was only by the united strength of four men that he was placed in °position he:minable for the application of the chloroform. .Dr., Snow endeavoured to hold a spongelo his nose; hut it was only by fairly tying it to bin muzzle that the object was attained. The dropping of the paws, with the cessation of his roaring

and struggle_s, told that he was insensible ; and the sponge being removed, lie was laid with his head on a:Plank outside the den. A solution of atropine had been placed

in the eyes on the previous evening, and the pupils were found fully dilated. The instrument used was a strong straight crating-needle. The extraordinary toughness and thickness of the-Cornearendered thehisertion of this difficult; and the lens was singularly large in proportion to the eye. This rendered the breaking-up of that body by no meanawasy, and it occupied full a. minute.. The morning was dark, and the margin, of the deep brown iriamot distinctly seen; whichied to its being wounded

in one eye sad bleeding freely. The cataracts having been thoroughly destroyed, the bear was drawn again into the den. For some minutes he continued in a state of -profound coma, giving scarcely any evidence of life ; but gradually recovered, and rising with some difficulty he.atamse, redline-hie sleeping-apartment.

.• On my going tohis den the •foilowing morning, the door of the dormitory was thrown- open; and„to my:surprise, became oat with his eyes open, faced thelight

without the.slightest incooNgutenee,, and hepa licking_his paws with perfect satis- faction. A dose of Rochelle salts Waslive.n to him, rather as a matter of precaution. than because they. were needed; and his recovery was rapid, not one red vessel dis- colouring the tamp:masa. at any time." The operation on the other -bear was performed on the-15th November- " This animal was brought out of the den, and secured to the iron rail im'front six men, and was thus snore manageable. -The dose administered on the first occa- sion being rather greater than -was needed, -Dr. Snow this time used cholotorin'and

spirit in equal proportions. The bear not being perfectly insensible when I com-

menced, there was some difficulty with the left eye; for at-each attempt to insert-the needle---the comeaturnedinlseneath the mord:mum nictitans, and was quite' invisi- ble. At length, by ptimOs.g the instrument perpendicularly to, the .eurface, theyiery tough cornea was penetrated and-tile cataract.i broken pp. To obviate such a-move- ment n the right eye, the needle was introduced at the inner and lower margin Of the cornea, and the operation easily completed.

-`• The recovery of this animal was quiM as rapid as the-former ;-and considerable progress has . already been made • in the absorption of the fragments ;which may be expected to occupy a longer time than in the human subject, from the great size o the lens." 1

As-the operations were eonsidered in every way successful, the animals must hy thie time 'have made. considerable progress 'towards a recovery of their -sight. '