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eee ee ee —————_———— is for dis: | THE FORREST OUVORCE CASE. le upon which the societiesreferred to were founded been Ter poaeigs of the greatest advantage to both England and America. ‘Mr. Conpen proposed “ ‘The Health of the Presi- dent,” and robably there was no one who could more appreciate the services Mr. Walker had rendered, not only to his own country but to this, in that able manifesto in favor of frea trade which he gave to the world five years ago. (Applause.) At that time we had been engaged in this country for many years in the free trade struggle, and one of the arguments with which they were most uniformly met was this:—‘‘Its of no use your attempting to carry out the principles of free trade inthis couatry until you have a guarantee that other nations will re- epect and follow your examp!o.” And it was espe- cially alleged that there was no prospect of reclpro: city from the United States; but just at the critical moment out came that manifostofrom Mr. Walker, which had more than anything else recommonied him to the sympathies of the people of this country and of Europe. (Hear, and applause.) And they ‘must not undervalue the merit of the author of that report, for it must be recollected that while be (Mr. Cobden) and others in the free trade struggle were private and irresponsible individuals, Mr Walker held a high official and responsible office in his country, andin giving forth the doo- trines of free trade was invested with the authority of a powerful government. (Hear, hear) He congratulated the company that they lived in a time when such meetings as this could be held, and that they could thus assemble to do honor toa entleman who had thus distinguished himself in the politics of another country. It showed a great progress in the world’s history, and that the politics of nations were becoming expansive and cosmopolitan. They had altogether passed over the artificial divisions of mankind, and were living in an age when the licy aad acts of one nation were necessarily of a charac- ter which shouid combine within them the symp1- thies and interests of all mankind. In fast, every- thing that was now paszing around them showed mere and more how they were linked together— how the whole of the nations of the world were bound up in one common interest and sympathy. it wasa truly dramatic age, for the incidents which were passing on the world’s surface were really of that sudden and startling character that they reminded one of the transitions upon the stage We heard one day of the discovery of Californian gold, and another, that the passage o/ the isthmu of Panama had been effected by an American, afte being the subject ef dispute and dissussion for oon turies. Another year they had the submarine tele crapbpynbich a person standing on the cliifs of Dover couldsend an electric spark underneath the Chan- nel, which would explode a cannon on the other side. Mon were no longer satisfied that their sym- pathies should be bounded by the limite of their mu- nicipality, or even nation—inthis age they lived for the whole world (Cheers ) Men were growing repidly in mental stature, and this meeting was ancther sign ofthe progress. He (Mr. Cobden) had no apprehension for ingland from the despotisms of the Conmtinert—he was much more afraid of the progress of American navigation and commerce. at Jet the rivalry of the nations continue, and those would make most progress which did not keep up unproductive establishments, wasting their ro- sources by keeping great multitudes of men in idle- ness and dissipation. (Cheers ) Mr. Cobden con- eladed by proposing the health of the President, which was enthusiastically responded to. Several other toasts were proposed before the company separated [From the Allgemeine Zeitung.) When the first intelligence of the coup in Paris | reached Germany, many took it for granted that within a week Louis Napoleon would be either in the Tuileries or Vincinnes. The majority woald have decided for Vincennes as the more probable of It never occurred to them to make a trade of politi- fenitvol and hehas, is at of il temper, losked vi an a per, 0. Reeslsste Kismady, opped LA age Bb at suggestions, and begun wi repeeia ence Bi a inves! ons into the Indian mythology, or of some obscure pas- sage in the Roman lowe of the Twelve Tables, or an ava ysis of the effect of light on the oxidation of metals. Ags notl happened as ho had predeter- mined it ought to happen, ho considered tho rest not worth a thought, and has consigned politics to the bottomless pit. The Frenchman does not so toon give himself up as beaten. Ifa “ situation” has escaped him, he has enlyloat a game, and looks about to see howhe can best turn the new fuit ac- compli to account. [ will slander none; peers they may be “ all, all honorable men ;’’ the French feel so happy when they can play like flies in the sunbeam of any authority, that after a little while one comes in after the other and confesses his errors, especially when, true to the Napoleon traditions, and according to the maxim of the church, every sinner is accepted who fal repents. Louis Napoleon will soon have found his Camba- ceres, his chancellors, marshals, and treasurers, and a court historio aphor will not long be wanting, like Fontanes, varnish the wisdom of the coup d@ état with unction and ponderous dignity. That we do the French no injustice in believing the fiercest eyponeais of Louis Napoloon may pos- sibly become the suitors and courtiers of imporial- ism, we will prove from French testimony, which Do one will accuse of under rating his countrymen. When, after the 18th Brumaire, the consular con- stitution was drawn up, and it becamo kaown there were to be 80 Senators nominated with 25,000! salary, 300 degiaraiie with 10,000f., and 100 tri- bunes with 15,000f., everybody gathered round tho usurper. ‘* There was an expressionin every mouth,” says M. Thiers, ‘ characteristic of the disposition of temper at the time. J! faut se montrer, it was said; we must show that far from throwing ebstacles in the way of the new power, we are willing, on the contrary, to push them- selves out of its way,’ which meant ro more, in reality, than this—‘ We must court the attention of the five great men who have got all the places to give Loa When tho heat of tho 1evolution begins to cool, desire to gain by it rises, and from horror to weariness is but a step. Napo Jeon himself despised those courtiers of places so thoroughly, that on the seventh Nivose he allowed the following remarks to appear in the Muoniteur —‘Since, according te the new constitution, a num- ber of brilliant oflices are to be given away, how has the world been put in motion! What faces unseen before; what new names every where! [low low do the stern republicans of the year eight bend themselves, and creep before the powerful man who can procure them a place! What bands of Brutuses in the ante-chambers!”’ The petty god of the world, as Goethe says, ts still the same; and whether M. Thiers has rightiy sketched the genius of his country, the conduct of the vanquished par- ties will soon show. The Election 4n France. [From the London Times, December 22 } A few hours will probably furnish us with some account of the results of Louis Napoleon’s electoral appeal to the French nation, and a few days will disclose, with the weight of irresistible evidence, the scandalous practices resorted to by his govern: ment for the purpote of overbearing all opposition. No public discussion can be hold on this vital point of the choice of a ruler, who is to frame the very | constitution of the State at his plasaute! No com- | munications can be exchanged between the capital andthe provinces, for the press is mute, and the oat is only an engine of detective police. Just be- fore the election, that is on the 18th inst., the de- cree authorizing the police to seize and remove from Paris for deportation all suspected persons came in- to operation; and there is reason to believe that, the two, believing it impossible that the French pation could throw off a republie as easily, and withas much indifference, asa yesterday'sshirt. But Germans will never rightly understand the history of the French nation unless they clearly understand the contradictions of the French national charac- ver. The French havetwice had a republic, and have never attained to a free commune or a free municipality. Their talent for organization dis- Jays iteclf in small things and great, and in their Tanda everything takes a form that cam be quickly moved at the word of command. This spirit animates the whole nation and all parties. ‘he wildest revolutionists themselves began by creat- ing a hierarchy, and, at least for the moment, eubjecting themselves blindly to it. The prosecu’ tion of the conspirators of Lyons pore the most striking proofs of this. Every revolutionist served trom below upwards; they were first loaders of sections, then presidents of arrondissemenis, were admitted then—if they succeeded in attracting at- tention to cbemselve: to the committee of the department, and thence into the Central Conmit- tee. Whoever knows how to command the French, him they follow with a». instinct of discipline, and the art of commanding is precisely the one they understand perfectly. Every public authoritymay feel quite certain that its subaltern officials wil allow the dignity of their office to lose nothing in | in pursuance of M. de Morny’s positive injuncti some hundreds of persons wero so seized in Pi | on the night of Thursday, and have been | conveyed no one knows whitoer, though a | sqgedren of powerful steamers is ominously waitin, | at Brest and Cherbourg to convey these untric ) convicts to Cayenne. Such a measure may nata- | rally check the license of univer: juffrage, which is, in fact, no more in terror-stricken France than the license to every one to vote in one way for one man. Even the bulletins or voting-tickets aro said to be controlled by the police to such a degree that it is an effence to print the word ‘* Non” on a card; and it is evident from these extraordinary precau- tions that Lous Napolesn has ceased to rely on tho enthusiasm of the people, and is speculating mainly on the effect of force and fear. Meanwhile, in spite of the defection of M. de Montalembert and the Ultramontane prelates, the Legitimists and the constitutional party, are acting with manliness and unity in behalf of their opinions. Their votes will be given against Louis Napoleon ornot given atall. | It is also a remarkable circumstance that a quarter | of the seamen in the navy have had the courage to | Vote against the Bonapartist plot, though, from ibeir | position in the fieet, they are probably quite ig- | norant of the fraud: and attrocities which acoom- | pany it. § | _ The settlement of these questions, and the ret ri- their hands. They all act with an imperative air; none wil) tolerate either objection or contradio- tion; every gendarme, every sentry, every — conductor seek opportunities of making | soen or felt. Command—obey; obey—command; it there ie anybody who can give France the parole, there it stands in rank and file be- fore himand shoulder itsarms. | the Bourbons, with the Orleaniete, with the M dors of the “ National,” with the Burgraves, with the Bonapartists. The President, perhaps, has the best chance of all those; during three years of that sharp and critical Varisian atmosphere, he has not, asa perry been quite worn out; and his name still works wonders on the Bourse aad among the blouses. The Republic began with very little sclf-confi- dence. It kept the Bourbons in exile, and drove the Orleans family across the frontiers. And yet, even before the conflict of June, the sovereign As- sembly did not venture to refuse to revoke the de- cree of banishment against Louis Napoleon. What can have fixed on the French the reputation of being difficult to govern! In 1793 had they not three masters at onse—the Committee of Public Safety, the Jacobin Club, and the Convention? Had not eaeh of those bodies men in the departments who willingly received thoir orders and executed them ! And, at last, was not the question merely which of the three should suppress the other two? The con- ty always arises from everybody wanting to com- mand. eir authority time must have a change of rulers. One must be pushed forward that others may find places behind | Gens novarum rerum cupida, Cwsar called | bim. them. Had they been ton times more softly bedded under Louis Phillippe, he could not make them for- | get that for eighteen ‘bse things had worn tho same aspect, the Oficial hierarchy the same iaces. He could not but fall, not for any special error, but because he had not fallen long before. The op- preesion of any form of government, the Frenchman does not feel ; he recognises the power of the State in the schoolmaster and the rural guard; andif the socialists ever get the opportunity of ‘ organi- zing,” they will maintain soviety at the cost of the State, and feed the citizens through State officers, in State establishments. Before a resolute man, who is believed able to command, the French will bend. Yet the coup aétat of the 18th Brumaire was « more perilous atterap! than the present imitation of it. The re- publican leavea was then still active, and the young General Bonaparte had rather dazzled the public than created any belief ia his {more solid qualities. Tho fame of his two rivals Massena and Moreau had increased, while the public confidence had been rather shaken then nore by the fantas- tie campaign on the Nile. [t had been remarked that Lis imitation of Alexander was affected, like his after passage of the Alps—a movement of ques- tionable military value, though as a State effect, cleverly calculated. And yet all went off so easily and emoothly that Napoleon Lad only to show him self with & few of his epautetted Diacedonians to be eongratulated on his success, and to tind people on all sides, “placing themaelvesat his disposal.” Tae evernment bad at that time generals on whom it could safely rely; the army of the Rbine passed for stroogly republican, and the troeps io Egypt wore deeply enraged at the desertion of Napoleon, after whose departure the discipline of the army became completely dissolved. It was then also attempted to justify the coup 1'(tat by the allega- tien of conspiracy; und probal the parties did conspire, but only against the impending usurpa- tion they began to foresee But, it is asked—how qill Louis Napoleon maint: himeelf, since the first notabilities aad celebrities of France have condemned his cowy in the oneecale is the triumsirate, Napcleon, St. Arnaud, Magnan; in the other, Thiers, Molé, hangarnier, Berryer, Dupin, Leon Faucher, ‘ocgueville, Dafaure, Barrot, Cavaignac, Lamo ciére, not to mention the supernumerari m- porsible ke can maintain himself,” it is said; per- haps it is even etili more incredible that ‘Iheire, Tesqueville, Berryer, Changarnier, and the others Wil] be able to recover themselves and gain the ground from the st cane ff of Napoleo: fto day and yesterday will ba’ v he republi- enough todo nto Lmporialists of the lend cue, theiz places will natur- artists. If th D in making the q ally be behind the fon bitter or insupportab b for vered that ery politi » the German perborean be yet worth dependent on the Frankfort cone he destiny of 18'S and 1819 pase b they actually had fai ermany would 10 al, and therefore they Low 8 ium possibility was represented to them, fitness of the eired nothing. tha’ was thei flop when when a doubt was expressed as to th yeopie o's. For themselves they ‘he restless blood of the French creates | every day a new fashion, and in a certain course of | 8 @apears | bution which must one day fasten on such crime:, | exclusively concern the French nation; and be mast | be a bold man who would bide the bruat of their resentment when these deeds of darkness are brought | to light, and when this duresse or imposture is | taken off. The subject that more immediately ia- | terests ourselves and the rest of Europe, is the na- ture of the relations to be established between the - | Dew government of France and other States; and to | this matter we shall forthe present confine our | observations. | The great continental powers hastened, through | their representatives in Paris, to express satisfac - | tion at the military measures resorted to by Louis | Napoleon, and they have not disguised their satis- faction at the overthrow of the republic. But here, if we are not mistaken, their satisfaction onds. Even those rulers who are most disposed to regard | detpotic or military government as a lawful means | of protecting the rights of the crown and the ordsr of society, are little accustomed to approve mea- | sures of ae tevority when they are employed | against alllaw, and to support the pretensions of a fresh usurper. Moreover, the governments of the continent have not discovered in the position of | Louis Napoleon, since the coup d'état, any pledge of its security or duration. ‘ On peut tout faire avec des baionettes,” seid Prince Schwartzenburg to the French minister at, Vienna, * excepté de s’assenir des- sus.” And, lastly, admitting that Louis Napo- leon’s power is legalized by the people and render- ed lasting by the army, it is clear that sueh a go verpment in France will respeot the peace of Ku- rope only so long agits own interests are opposed to war, and that no reliance can at present be placed op the traditional and conventional engagements | of France in such bands. The first question that arises after a sudden and violent transfer of supreme power is whether, the new government accepts and adopts the foreign obligations of the coantry to their full extent. [¢ wat on that pene that Louis Philippo claimed the support of Europe in 1830; and it was on some- what similar grounds that M. de Lamartine asked and obtained of Europe the recognition of the re- ublic in 1848. He adopted, indeed, in his cele- rated manifesto on that occasion a large ameunt of the Jargon of the day, about “the hour of op- pressed nationalitics Lett} in the decrees of Pro- vidence;” and he went so far as to declare that “the treaties of 1815 no longer exist de jure in the eyes of the French republic.” But this announce- ment was qualified by ey of a pacific pelicy, and by a distinct averment that “the territorial arrangements of tho treaties of ISI5 are facts which Frauce adopts as the basis and starting point in her relations with other nations.” We revert to these eT ah of M. do Lamartine—slender and unsatisfactory as they were thought at the time—because it may now be questioned whether declarations of even this force port have been or can be obtained from ‘apoleon ; and, if we are not misinformed, the attempts hitherto made to procure such desia rations have not been successfal. ‘T'o this fac: may be added a circumstance apparently of minor importance, yet of considerable tignifisause—we mean the resignation of M. de Vieil Castel, tho | political director of the ministry of Foreign Aflairs, | @ man of consummate ability and prudence, who | had hitherto patriotically consented to hold unijer | the successive mivieters of the republics the prasti- cal direction of French diplomacy, which ho con- ducted under the late monarchy, but who has now relinquished the task and ceded his post to a mere creature of the Bonapartes. ‘We need scarcely oe in the namo of this country, and, we might add, of ail Europe, that, whatever may be the opinions entertained of the actions of the French Executive, there ig a strong | and general determination to abstain from all inter- ference in French affairs, aud to leave that nation | to werk out its own pieplexing destiny. Tho idea of any attack upon Francs, in consequence of the | - | Jate revolution, bas never crossed the mind of any Eurepean statesman; and, on the contrary, the | prevailing disposition has been to acquiesce is, | ae we have acquiesced in every other seif-inflicted | political torture ot the people of France. Bat we have already seen wilder deceits and delusions | than this idea of foreign aggression propaga’ ed by the government auong a oredulous ple; and it is precisely when a nation is | tracted with @ panic at home, aggravated by the absence of discuasion, tuat it, most readi- ly oatches up every suggestion of danger from | without, The very names of Pitt and Coburg desperation to the reign of terror. If it e¢ Fronch ment to engage ia would roaduy be found and th iid t believed. " testant gov rland—against theneutrality o Ls Swit territorial acquisitions in Savoy, ° Igium—for ron the Rhine, ub of defiance, against the coasts of Zngland. On this point wo bazard or even, in the hardibe ositive assurances | j ton, and {we hope the time such conjectures may be hazarded. at which wo would arrive, and Pepeal now, more 2 mon interest of Europe. If the great principles of the Euro compact be viol for one, they are vio'ated for all; and the chief security we have for the pects maintenance of that compact is the over- whe! foroe by which it can be supported as long as there is union between all who aro inte- rested init. It may happen that attempts will be made to purchase the neutrality of some powers while others are attacked, or to asaosiate othor powers with France in measures of repression abroad, or even to procure a more active co-opera- tion in her designs. Such proposals have already been made by Louis Napoleon, since he filled the office of Prosident of the republic. But woe to the overnment which shall lend itself to any such insi- ious overtures, and woe to Europe if the general confederacy for the dafence of peace and public law be broken up! We earnestly trust that no pott) rivalries, no past differences, no minor divisions, will be allowed to weigh for an instant against the para- mount duty of maintaining, in presence of the altered state of France, one dignified and common line of conduct. All the governmonts of Europe may assure her of their resolution to acknowledge all and every form of sovereignty she may adopt ; all may assure Louis Napoleon of their fixod desire for the maintenance of peace upon the conditions of existing treaties, and of their complote for- bearance from every hostile intention and act. But they may alse, and we hope they will also, require from the head of the French government declara- tions no less general and positive; and thoy may at the same time resolve, that although no combi- nation ought to be or can be formod against France, ee that the common interests of Europe are equally opposed to every act of Brenoh aggres- sion. With these precautions, isolated and weal ened as France must be for some time by the inso- curity of her internal government, the maintenance of peace will be rendered as cssential to her as it is desirable t» ourselves. The New Austrian Tariif. [From the London Daily News, Dec. 3.[ Vienna, Nov. 26, 1851. The Austrian tariff, the principal provisions of which were contained in the patent forwarded yos- terday, has at lemgth appeared, in tho form of a emall pamphlet. Tho prohibitions formerly en- forced against tho admission and exportation of va- rious goods into or from the Austrian territories, are abolished, excepting in respect of common salt, gunpowder, and tobacco. Z ed goods, as those are called which have passed through two or more stages of manufacture, are divided into three categories. Articles in- cluded in the lowest of theso pay 15 florins per cwt. The second-class, containing materials which are tiable to a higher duty than the foregoing, pays 50 florins. The third, consisting of furniture made up of silk and feather beds of the same material, or of the finest wool or cotton, pays 100 florins per cwt. The following are the rates per customs’ owt. of the mose important articles of commerce:—tea, florins; raw ooffee, 10 florins; cocoa, 7 florins, 30 kreutzers; loaf sugar, 14 florins; moist ditto, 11 florins; syrup, 5 florins; common spices, 10 florins; fine, 25 florins; nutmegs, mace, vanilla, and the finest spices, 50 florins; eago and tapioca, 5 florins; prepared food, 20 florins; skins, 25 jutzors; furs, 10 florins; preparations of lead, 2 florins, 30 kreut- zers; iron, 2 florins, 30 kreutzors; rails and tires, 3 florins, 30 kreutzers; block shect iron, 4 florins; steel, 4 florins; raw cast iron goods, 2 florins; cop- per, in sheets, or wire, 25 florins; beaten tin, 7 flo- ring, 30 kreutzers; raw cotton, flax, hemp and wool, 5 kreutzers; raw and unspua silk, 45 krout zers; raw and spun silk, 15 florins; cleaned and dyed or undyed silk, 25 florins; cotton yarn, 7 flo- tins; raw, 10 florins; bleached, stretched, or spun, 15 florins; dyed linen yarn, 2 florins, 3) kreutzors; raw, 12 florins, 30 kreutzers dyed and 30 florins span, The import duty on raw linen yarn will be raised to 6 florins three years after the introduction of this tariff. Wollen yarn, raw, 6 florins; dyed and spun, 12 florins, 30 kreutzers. Cotton goods, common, raw, unbleached, 50 florins; middle fine (as stock- ings, &c.,) 75 florins; fine printed, 100 tiorins; extra fine, as jaconets, musling, &¢ , 150) floring; finost, as florins, 30 kreutzers per Ib. Linen goods, 7 florins 30 kreutzers, 20 florins, 75 florins, and 100 florins, according to specified qualities; the finest, 2 florins, 30 kreutzers per lb. Coarse silk goods, 2 florins, 30 kreutzers; fine, 6 florins. Leather Soy 25, 50, and 100 florins. Papor, 7 florins, 30 kreut- zers, and 25 florins. Clay goods, 5, 10, 15, and 40 florins. Manufactured iron goods, 10, 15,25 and 100 florins; manufactured Britannia metal, 100 fio- rins; zinc manufactures, 7 florins, 30 kreutzers, 15 and 50 florins; machines and implements, 15 florins. During the first year the import duty on raw cotton Superior Court. Before Unief Justice 5 CATMARINE N. FORREST V8. EDWIN FORREST. (Continuation of 's proceedings. } Mr. olsen said he thought ‘a great many of Mr. Van Buren’s rem irks were much in place—just as much as was his charge against him personally, that he would strike a blow whe torting. It requit gentleman very recent! ted to the bar, to believe such ofhim. He inclination to answer such @ charge as to com! the gentleman when he departed from the rules of order. If he were inclined to take such an advantage, or to speak without giving his opponent an opportunity of an- swering, he would certainly select some one else. The gentleman had also raid, when they,had as much con- dence in the plaintiff's truth as they had in that of the defendant, they would call her to the stand. This was certainly a strong expression of want of confidence—as strong as the vote of want of confidence which ousted the Epglith minietry. If the plaintiff could not gainas much confidence with them as their client had from him (Mr. 0°C.) she was certainly sadly off. (Suppressed laughter.) But enough of this. He would proceed to the argu! ' ‘The whole issue as A legal or forensic question, he ap- prebended, turned upon the question whether these af- fidavits were to be treated as responsive. He, (the de- fendant’s counsel) had never made an attempt to meet that argument, which he seemed to admit had been fairly presented to himto answer. They had been drawn in the exercise of the right and power, audin con- formity with the constant habit and practice of counrel, not to answer many things that they deem- ed inexpedient at that stage of the case.— Without entering very fully, there were one or two Points he could not allow to pass unanswered. The first, and an important one, was a heresy that he could not subscribe to. It was, that in consequence of Mrs. For- rest’s oath on the pleadings in this cause, presuraing that they were on oath, she stood as well as by her affidavit in answer to the other suit. This was not so. The oath ibroribed to the pleadings (if there was one) could not be taken in favor of either party making it. The jury had no right te know they were under oath. It was like an affidavit of merits filed to prevent an inquest being taken, and never was to be read to the jury or put to thera as evidence for the party making it—it was only re- quired toavoid the Court being embarrassed by false issuce, hey might certainly call for any affidavit of the opposite whole, ‘The opposite counsel had attempted to amplify, by instances, that Mrs Forrest had referred to, ani adopted as true, statements in Mr. Forrest’s affidavit. party, if they pleased, and were then bound to admit the | Adieu! adieu ! be thine each jo That earth can yield, without alloy, Bhall be earnest, constant pray’r heart shall Wear, But Consuelo, Adieu! adieu ' when next we mect, Will not all sadness then retreat, And yield the conuer’d time to blias, And seal the triumph with a kiss Bay, Consuelo ? Mr. Van Burer--I now propose to give io evidence Mr. Forrest's letter to Mrs, Forrest, dated 24th December, 1849, and her reply. We have given the other side not!ce to produce it. ir. O’Conor—If Mr. Forrest sent such a letter he can prove it. Mr. Van Buren—You admit the notice to produce it’ Mr. 0’Conor—Yer. sir. Mr. Van Buren—Then we offer the copy of this let- ter, which is set out in Mr. Forrest's afiidavit, and spoken of in Mrs, Forrest's affidavit, where a part of the letter is set out, Mr. O’Ccnor objected The Chief Justice said it seemed to him that there was sufficient here to admit the letters. Mr. Van Buren then read the following letter and reply:— T dm compelled to addrees you by reports and rumors that reach me from every side, and which a due resect for my own character compels not to disreg: ‘ou cannot forget that before we parted you obtained from me a rolemn pledge that I would say nothing of the guilty cause, the guilt alone on your part-not on mine—whieh ied to our separation ; you cannot forget that at the same time you also pledged yourselt to a like silence, a silence that I supposed you would be gla: to have preserved. But I understand, from various sources, and in ways that cannot deceive me, that you have repeatedly disregarded that promise, and are con | atantly assigning false reasous for our separation, and | making statements in regard to it, intended and calcu- | lated ;to exonerate yourself and to throw the whole | blame on me, and neeessarily to alienate from me the re- | spect and attachment -of the friends I have teft to me. Is this a fitting return for the kindness I have ever shown you? Is this your gratitude to one who, though aware of your guilt, and most deedly wronged, has en- deavored’ to sBield’ you from the scorn and contempt of the world? The evidence of your guilt you know is in my possession, I took that evideace from | among your papers, and I have your own acknowledg- | saote whom it was written, and that the imfamous letter was addresred to you. You knowas well rs I do that the cause of my leavirg you was the aonviction of your infidelity. Ihave said enough to make the object Counsel had spoken of the “said Consuelo letter,” by that described, and it was not necessary that she should say every time, “I mean the letter of which I epoke;”” and although she did not undertake to cite the passage and letter and deny it, she did deny the character of the letter, and she did deny that the letter of which she spoke admitted any criminal act,; she did, therefore, eo fur deny it, though abe did not specid- cally deny the allegation that the copy annexed was a true copy. A part of Mrs. Forrest's affidavit was, as he in this. in folio 411, Mrs. Forrest spoke of this letter; but if the defendant's counsel chose to read that, did that give him the right to read his own client's affidavit? M Forrest had answered that she did not think it neces ry to say anything further—that she had sufficiently cen- cured that letter; and it was a proper question, how had she censured it? What were the terms—the nature. of her expression of censure? The answer to those ques- tions was to be found in Jamieson’saffidavit, which the; had asked for, The learned gentleman had taken credit for the patience and assiduity with which ho had read bis client’s afiidavits; and he had asked whether they wanted any more. ‘They had answered, they thought he should read Jamieron’s affidavit, and they under- to read it; but he changed his mind then and objected, and his Honor (the Chief Justice) decided that it could not be read He also took credit for reading what he did reud. He had certainly read it as badly as he possibly could. He did not charge the learned gentleman with being » bad reader; but he thought he might eay, as Henry Clay onco did'to Isaac Hill, when the latter had read a speech which Mr. Clay had made on the subject of the Union Bank, and which had often been very distaste- fully quoted to him, that he had no further reply to make than that he had heard that read very often before, but never so badly, (Daughter ) And he, Mr. O’Conor, would venture to say, that notwithstanding Mr. F. had been read so often, yet they had never been reail #0 would be mainly whether there were to be implied any admissions from Mrs, Forrest's silenoe, and he submitted there could not. The Chief Justice gave his decision: The proposi: he said, was to admit Mr. Forrest’s aflidavit, compri from folio 370 to 391—anil be would dscide es it arose. The preposition covered the whole of Mr. For Forrest relative to the transactions at Cincinpati, in con- nection with Mr Jamieson and Mrs, Forrest, in rslation to certain discoveries aileged to have been made by him; to the party at Mrs. Voorhies ; the manner in which he Aiscovered that letter, and which he sets forth, ashe says, in hac verba, He then sets forth the circumstances of the quarrel between them, with some statement as to the “you ie” and aoforth. That he then wrote to Mr. Jumierén to obtain his handwriting. He had nl ready determined that the reading of Mre, Porc will be 1 Gorin per cwt, and on cotton yarn 8 flo- rins. This gradual reduction is intended to protect those speculators from sudden and serious logs who ossers large stores of cotton. The former daty of 4.0 florins per ewt. produced an annual average re- turn of 700,000 florins to the revenue. ‘The tariff will take effect throughout the empire, with the ex- ception of Dalmatia, Venice, aud Trisste, and the town of Brody, in Gallicia, onthe Ist of February next. Bank of England, Dec, 19. ISSUE DEVARTAENT. Notee ieeued..,.. £0,279,620 Goverament Debt £1115 ‘Ovher Seeuritie 134 Gold Coin and at lion. Bilver Bullion Total. Government & yities (including eight An- +13 241,768 11,454,7) 100 14 553,000 3,12y,b04 Bio! of Na. tions] Debt, and Dividend ' Ace counte) 8,534,018 Other De 9,358,848 Seven Da other Bill Total.. Brate or Trape Fhanck. —The events of the week before last gave rise to the apprehension that the great commercial operations which generally take place at the conclusion of every year might be either stopped alto- gether orretarded. Those fears, fortunately, have proved to begreundiess. The working classe, in general, kept clear of the barricades. Scarcely any iarge manufactory stopped work fer more than one day; and, as the pre rations for the new year are in arrear, the reaction been general and instantaneous. Not only bave all tie orders given previous to the 2d December ben renewod. but they have become so numerous that some manutac- turers have found it necessary to apprise their customers that they cannot deliver their last orders till after the Ist of January next. It is probable, therefore, that as the | eeason, an it is termed, bas commenced later than usual it will be prolonged until the end of January, by which meaus the operatives are certain of employment uatil the month of February. The establishments which have received the greatest number of orders during | the leat few days are those engaged in the manufacture of Paris ware Other branches ure notso brisk. The tra hours at this season, are not at present over- | worked. Itis remarked that an extraordinary move- ment bas taken place in the purchase cf raw cotton, wool. and silk, There were more than two million pounds weight of raw silk sold daily at Lyons during the firat three days of last week. Cotton has risen | considerably in Havre, El: euf, and Paris This rise in | explained by the fact that for the last six months the merchant kept mo large stock on hand Some Ame- rican houses have made large purchases of manufac. tured silks and woollens within the last few days. | although this is not the season; but no doubt they | feared that they should have to pay higher prices if they | | waited until the spring. There wae a considerable | amount of business transacted in the flour market of | Parison Thureday last, The sales amounted to 8,564 quintals. There was no remarkable ries in price, but there were numerous purchasers. If we are to believe | the speculators, @ great rise in the price of flour ia in- evitable, The late cattle fairs in the departments have | been more favoravle to the gro: than for some | time past, At Vierzon sil the horses, oxen, and pigs | offered for sale found purchasers at un xdvance on the | | previous fairs. The last was a bury week at the wine | market of Bercy. The wines of the present year are in | considerable demand. The wine growers in general sp- | pear to be inclined to hold over their etock. Webster vs. Palmerston. TO INE BDITOR OF THE NEW YORK ITERALD. Sim:—This morning I found in an extract from the New Yor« Heratp (which paper interests the | , calmest minds in more than one quarter of the | world), the following sentence :— | . We hear that Mr. Webster has determined not to ad- | dress Kossuth officially—thus following the example of | Lord Palmerston in England. | | _ Mush as there may be in English society which | Mr. Webster might imitate with advantago, if be could, surely the gentlemen at progent in adminis- | | tration are not exactly models for American diplo- | | macy. A better than Lord Palmerston may be | found among your own countrymen, in the person | | of Mr. Walker. His candor—his eloquence--his | love of truth and justice—finally, his sympathy | with Koesuth, and his ardor in the causo of the Hungarians, have endeared him to evory honest | man in Creat Britain. Sometimes | should be | ashamed of partiality-—-hore [ should be ashamed of wanting it. But thus tar [ am impartial; [novor | | saw—pever had any correspondence with Mr. Walk | | er; [am anxious to preserve the respectability of | any American citizen, and 1 could not cordially | jcin in the coarse merriment which would be ex- | cited in this country, at the sight either of an awk- | Ward or of @ successful imitation of Lord Palme ston by Mr. Webster. (1 the contrary, I shou stand in trombling anticipation of a caricaturo— apig on his hinderlege, imitating a poodle, cw ina court drees, and the defender of Hungary ia corner. 1 am, sir, very respectfully, &e , Bain, 19. Waucus Savage Laxpor. | Death oF V C. OaRRina@ Ton, LarE Eprror oF | me Rictmosp (Va) Ties —The Richmond Times of | the Slst ult ts dressed in mourning,and announces the | death of its late editer and proprietor, Win, 0. Carring. who died on Mon @ 28th Deo. Mr. 0. wae o | delegate elect to the of Virginia, Jewellers, for instance, who are generally employed for | | read as T de statement will not open the door to the introduction ot that. Ira party choore to lay the statement of their ad: | wersey before the jury. (aking the risk of what i | it may make, it is not that they are to be taka true? or to open the door to their own statemmnts text piece, is the statement thus given in evidence intelligible, or whether it requires the other to explain |) He could discover nothing in dirs. Forrest’staffi da | thet was uncertain, stauding by iteelf; it migut be untrue, | bat was another question But whether the statement itrelf is fairly underetood, is the one,and be thoazht | here could be n+ explanation necessary to be gos before | hejury. Each party was at liberty to ea! for the atate- | Meut ot the other side; but that did not i rive his own. ‘The question | now dispose of, the Judge, ir: the def: ndant offers in evidence statements | of his own, come of which have and some have not rofe- | rence to the letter. I am very civarly of opinion. and have been in every cuse but one, certainly net more than two in which testimony has been offered to be given to | thie jury, that it was inadmissible, without hearing any ditcbssion; but I have determined to give to this the mort regular course, and had therefore heard a1 | mente where, in many cases the court would have ruled the tertimony at ence inadmissible. At present 1 ex- clude this proposition. (Defendant's counsel took an exception to this decision, which was noted; and the court thereupon to?k a recess.) Mr, Van Buren raid: I now propose to read from Mr Forreet’s afiidavit, commencing at folio 873, omitting the uilusicn to the interview between Mr. Jami Mrs, Forreet. ‘Then he proposed to rvad folio he detcribed the examination of the bundle of letters, and down to the end of the letter of George W. Jamieson. That wil embrace the manner in which it was rece:red, the mapner in which it was kept, and the manner in which it was discovered. Mr. 0 Conor merely said he objected The Chief Justice said--If you have no observations to | make, I will dispose of it as it strikesme. The proprosi- tion is im detached parts, It does not seem to me to come within the rule laid down, As to the parts re- specting Mr. Forrest concealing about her # bundle of | letters, I do not think that can be read—ae to the party | at Mrs. Voorbies, that is immaterial. Now we coms to | letter which hes struck me asthe contest between the counsel. Everything else is extremely simple. ‘The letter has been proved to be in the handwriting of Mr. Jamieson, aud the sflidayit goes on to charge that it wes retuimed by Mrs. Forrest secretly. ll the | Propotitions as to the character of that letter come | within the rame rule ‘he point is, whether in Mrs Forrest's sflidavit, there is sufficient identification of this letter; and after all the labor, it comer do vn to th It seems to me, to comply with the evidence | that has hitherto been given. it is set forth in hee verha in Bir, Forrest's affidavit, and it is impossible | was unaware of its contents, She spenks of suggesting a denial The evidence strikes mo as quite satisfactory, that the letter referred to in Mra Foriest’s eftidavit and set out in Mr Forrest's afflduvit, in the let terahe received from Jamieson and kept for a cousider- able time. 1 am <f opinion that if the party wish to give that letter in evidence they are at liberty to do so, avd that the difficulty which hitherto existed bas bevn satis factorily removed Ir, O’Conor—What part of the affidavit does your Henor admit ? Chief Justice—I do not allow any part of the afidavit of Mr Forrest. but I allow the letter iteelf, which how been proved to be in the handwriting of Jamieson, and ad mitted to beset out in hue verte in Mr. Forrest's atti davit. Mr. O'Conor excepted. Mr. Van Puren—I would here remark to the Coart hat, having been reptimanded for my bad rei I Will now endeavor to improve. (Laughter ) 1 ;entleman then proceeded to read the Coneuvio letter, mphasising certain parte :: “and now, sweetest Couruelo, our brief dream is ovet— end euch a dream! Have we not known real bilss? Have we not realized what poets love to set up as ao ideal state, giving full license to their imagination, foare the truth that exstacy js not a fiction ? I have, and as 1 Will not permit myself to doubt you, am certain you | have, Andoh! what an additional delight to thiak— no, to know, that I have made eome hours happy to you Yes, and that remembrance of me may lighten the heavy time of many an hour to eome, Yes, ou dream of great acoount is over; reality stares us in the face Let us peruse its features. Look with me, and ad you will fod our dream fs ‘snot all a n reality tuke from wa, when she ceparates id exiles us from each other? Can she divide our fouls, our spirits? Can slander's tongue or rumor’s trumpet summon us to a parley with oursel vi ere to doubt each other we should hold a counsel) Noo uo | & deubt of thee can no more fiad harbor in wy braia than the opened rose could ceass to be the buw- bind’s harbor, And as my heart and soul are | in your possession, examine them, and you will find no text trom which to disccurse adoubt of me. But you have tcld me, (and oh! what mueic did your words create upon my grateful ear!) that you would not doubt me. With these considerations, desrest, our separation, though painful, will not be unendurable ; and {fs sombre hour should intsude itself upon you, beaich it by know. ing there is one who is whispering to himself, Vonsuelo. There is another potent reason why you shoula be happy and that io, baving been the means of another's happi- nees, for [am happy, atd with you to remembyr, aud the bliseful anticipation of seeing you again, shall remain > Iwith [ could tell you my happiness, I cannot words have been yet invented that could convey of the depth of that passion, composed of pride, a tion, awe, gratitude, Veneration and love, without worthy, that I feel for you Be heppy, dearest ; write tome and tell me you are happy. Think ofthe time whom we chal eb again Believe that I shall do my utmost to be wi of y love; and no, God bless you, a theusand times my Lwn my heart's altar. I would say more, but must stow awny my sh tinsel patches—ugh | how hideous they look att ing of you ‘Adieu | adieu ! and when thou art gone, My joy shall be made up slone, Of call ng back, with fanoy’s oharm, Those Laleyon hours when in my arm, “3 expreasion she referred to one of which she rpoke and | conceived, irrelevant, and he did not call for the reading; | stood he was willing to do so; they thought he was going | Van Buren was not abad reader, and the affidavits of Mrs. | badly. The point om which this question must turn | rest’s affidavit, containing statements on che part of Mr. | believing in its reality? Have we nov experienced | little | "4 Gopauelo, | of this letter apparent. I am content that the past shail | pemain in silence, but I do not intend nor wiil I permit that «ther you or any ope connected with you shall as- oribe our seperation to my misconduct. 1 desire you thereforéto let me know at once whether you have, by | Your own asrertions, or by sanctioning those of otharr, endeavored to throw the blame of our miserable posi- tion on me. My future conduct will depend on your rep! Ouce yours, Signed) EDWIN FORREST. New York, Deo. 24, 1849. T hasten to ant wer the letter Mr. Btevens has just left with me, with the utmost alacrity, as it affords me at least the melancholy satisfaction of correcting misstate- | ments, and of assuring you that the various rumors and * | reports which have reached you are false. You say that you have been told that I am “constantly arsigning false reasons for our separation, and making | statements in regard to it intended and calculated to ex- onerate myself, and to throw the whole blame on you,” this I beg moet distinctly to state is ullerly untrue. Ihave, when asked the cause of our sad differences, invariably replied, that was a matter known only to our. selves, and which would never be explained; and I neither acknowledge the right of the world, nor of our most inti- mate friends, to question our conduct in this affair. You say “I desire you therefore to let me know at once whether you have, by your own assertions, or by sanction ing those of others, endeavored to throw tho blame of our micerable position on me.’? I most solemuly assert that I Dave never done 80, directly or indirectly, nor has any one connected with me ever made such assertions with my knewledge, nor have I ever permitted any one to speak you in my presence with censure or urenpent, I» glad you have enabled me to reply directly to your | concerning this, as it must be evident to you that we both ina position to be misrepresented to each ot! | but 1 cannot help adding that the tone of your letter | wounds me deeply; a few months ago you would not have written thus. But in this neither do I blame you; but those who have for their own motives p risoned your mind | against me—this is surely an unnecessary addition to my sufferings; but while I suffer I feel the strong conviction thet sowe day, perbaps one so distant that it may no longer be possible for us to meet on this earth, your own naturally noble and just mind will do me justice, and that you will believe in the sffection which for twelve vare bas never swerved from you. Icannot, nor would | Lendeavor, to subscribe myself other than | Yours, now and ever, (Bigned) CATHARINE FORREST. | Dee, 24, 1849. | Mr. O°Conor—Will you read her other letter, De- | cember 29 / Mr. Vas Buren—I shall stop here, unless you call for | any other letters. Mr, O’Conor—I should like you to read it. Mr. Van Buren--I will read it as your evidence. Mr. O'Conor--do; if you don’t read it, we can do with- out it | Mr. Van Buren—Then I will read it, reserving the | right'to send Mr. Vorrest’s reply, Mr. Van Buren then | read the following -— Satenpay, Dec, 20th. | _ In replying to the letter I received from you on Mon- | day last, 1 confined myself simply to au answer tothe « | quettions you therein uek me; for inasmuch us_you said | you were content that the part should remata in silence, and as I wee unwilling to revive any subject of dispute between ve. I passed over the harsh and new accusations contained in your letter; but on reading and weighing it carefully, ae L have done since, I fear that my silence would be construed into an implied assent to those ac- curations. After your repeated ss<urances to me prior to our separation, and to others since then. of your con- viction that there had been nothing criminal on my part, Tam pained that you should have been persuaded to use such language to me. You know as well as I do that there has been nothing ia my comdnct to justify those gross and unexpected charger; and I cannot think why ou should now seem to consider a foolish and anony ous letter a¢ an evidence of guilt, never before having thought 0, unless you have ulterior views and seek to found rome grounds on this for divorce; if this be your objest, it could be more easi'y, not to say inore generously obtained. I repeatedly told you that if a divorce would make you more happy, was willing to go out of this Btate with you to obtainit, and that at any future time my proiiee to this effect would hold good; you raid such ‘war not ycur with, and that we needed no court of law todecideour future position for us. From the tims you propered cur separation I used no remonstrance save to implore you to weigh the matter seriously, and be sure, betore you decided, that such a step would make you hoppy; you raid it would. and to conduoe as much us lay in my power to that happinese, wat my only aim and employ ment until the day you took me from our home. Of my own desolate and prospectless future. I scarcely dored to think or speak to you, but ones you said, that if any one cated to cast an imputation upon me not con- sittent with honor, I should call on you to defend me; that you should therefore now write and speak as you uo, I can only impute to your yielding to the suggestions of those who, under the garb of friendship, are daring to interfere between us; but it je not in their power to kaow whether your happiness will be insured by endeavoring to work ny utter rnin. I cannot believe it; and imploce ou, Edwin, for God's sake, to trust to your own better Judgment; and sel am certain that your heart will tell you J could not seek to iojure you, ro likewise, I ain ure your future will not be brighter if you succeed fa crushing ms more completely, in casting disgrace upon coe, who has known no higher pride than the right of calling herself your wife. (signed) CATHARINE FORREST. lanswer your letter dated the 20th, and received by me on the Slat ultimo, solely to prevent my silence from being nulsunderstood, Mr, Godwin has told me that the tardy reply to the material part of mine of the 24th, was sent by his I ehould indeed think, from its whole tone and that it was written under instructions. I do to use harsh epithets or severe language to an do no good. But you compel me to say 1 the juportant parts of yours are utterly untrue. tteriy untrve that the acccusations | now briug tyou are new, It is utterly uutrue that since the Gircovery ef that infamous letter, which you so eallously called “foolish,” I have ever in any way expressed my be- jefof y@ur freedom from guilt. I couid not have done | #0, and you know that / have not done it. But I cannot carry on a correspondence of this kind i have no de- sire to ipjure wu tush you; the ‘ate! wrong has been done te me, and | onlywirh to put » Saal termination to 4 state of things which has destroyou my peace of mind, and which jn wearing out wy li EDWIN FOKKEST. Niw Yonx - 1850. Chicf Justice What nex! ! Mr, Van Buren—Some lotters cf Bra. Forrest, written to her butband when in Phiadelphia, in reference to the Macready controversy. Mr. Van Buren then read letter Tivaspay Monsta, I rend you the Jast speech of the great euperannuated wered inst night. Isuppose he thinks imeelf rate now: the ides of March are not over, Last evening, Jodge Conrad come op and brought the B.: be seemed most sadly disappointed at not seving ; eceme he thought you were to be here this week, Btevens came in while he was here, and hearing the Judge say be could not etey till came, but must go thie afternoon, he (Stevens) propored to drive us ous to Font iil) thie morning. The Judge, who only came to see you. and bad no +ther business, willingly assented, ard to did I, 80 1 have sent thie morning to see it we can | bave Wagnerand tie cannes Mr Smith catled the other day, aud said the horse santed driving, and urged me to goont. but Ihave not been To-day my bead is | very bad ( comme a Vordintire at thin me, and 1 think the drive will dome good; but even font Mill and all ite Aton’ which you only can eupply by being own Kare Van Buren—There fs no date to that letter; bat we suppose it to b ober, 1848, He then read letter [No. 30 ] Pripay Monmis Nov, 24, 1848, wine moment received your most ve reached me yesterday but giving day the poet offic» people had w holiday, and as L alient Lo hear, Atevens,who knows the man, went this morning apd has just brought me the blessed end To-day's Hex att ;—another of which he wi fexd you, and from which 1 cut the enclowed Macraw tpecon wa [was especiatiy de- most impertinent. and I lighted at your pointing out so openly whut first struck me ae Leing 60 sneaking in him—his not Cxing fo na y vr.” Iwasalso glad thet cu— bat sey ing simply “an ac — tor know how you hate writing. explanation. ho public requiced it, Pagiand has ne m clearly un- stood since your return, and whatever was written ut it was rather evasive;—but what more than allthe T like about your is ite simple, bold, aud unis. é nauege I eae it ts wholly your own, and [ am or L tee! quite assured of the fae t you ad- = oll i cy fact) that you ad. no one about it. Had you spok boldly, ond tome persone wight doubtlen sbUDK It more putts, | | Wuldthen offer the notice | when we put in our answer, wi he | and th —you would have been ever . Bless you, own Edwin—I only hope that all this excitement—in dition to the exertion of acting—will not fatigue much, Pesbody has this moment called to say for Boston this afternoon—and returns { from New York for England. He has just bee the editor-ship of & temperance in Boston. would become of tne Heavenly Angel? IfMac. reply to you, he tacitly acknowledges that he hus to! wil'ul aud unb‘ushing falsehood” — I want to know how be is to get out of that. I yesterday sent you a package which the man pro- mised rhould be delivered to-day. We have got a sort of muggy imitation of Indian summer weather, dnd I have let the furnace ont to-day, to the imfinite relief of my head. Next week I do not expect to suffer 0 muc will begin upon The Gindiator, whem the “storm dwin- dies to a calm.” Write me, my own Havin, how your engt. is—how long you play, &c. Give my regard to R. P. Smith, I am so glad to hear of him; and give my best love to your sisters, and tell them I Ret happy 12 the thought that they are taking good care of you. God bless you, YOUR OWN KATE, Mr. Van Buren said to Mr. O’Conor during the read- ing of the above note—Is heavenly angel ® newspaper oF awoman’ (Laughter ) Mr. O'@onor—You know as much about them as I do, (Continued ‘anghter.) ‘A Juror—What isthe date of that ? Mr. Van Buren—We suppose the date to be Nov, 24, He next read No. 31 :— (No. 31.] Weoxesoay Evenina, 22d November, 1848. My Dranest Eowin-- Various are the accounts (as you may fancy) which have reached me about the doings on Monday night, but they all seem to agree on the main point—that there was 8 row '—-anc that the “old woman” played Macbeth without being heerd by the audience, §o far, well enough pour fe commencement but I hope they are following the matter up to night, and [ long to hear from you. how jou are first and foremost—and how you are satisfied. When I found you were to play Metamora last night, readily supposed you would be too busy with rehearsal and other matters, to write tome. My own Edwin, pray take care of yourself. I send you the «ress and shoulder drapery for the @!1- diator, and the «ress for Rolla, which I hope will suit you —(by Adams’ Express to morrow), Pray let me have @ line-efor which I will send to the post on Suaday. I hope you will be please: with the copy of Metamora. Do you want the pare of Spartacus cmittél—like that of famora in the new copy’ You know you “gave me an order’? for one. T hope you found your sisters all well—pray let me b» affectionately remembered to them, and with regard t> the Conrads. God bless you, my own Edwin hes me a r 5 ashe . ot ate id" Your own Mr. Van Buren--The date of that we will call the of 48, I next read No. 32:- [No. 32} Weoveapar Evesiso. My Deauxat Eowix-- : I send you the ‘iography of “The Eminent” which I think gives it fo him nicely. I hope you will get somo portions of it re publishe ecially that about his condescending to play “Hamtet,”’ and his impudent remark about Cbarlos Kemble, Lrecefved your letter to-day just a T had returned from seeing Fanny Whitney, whom [ had engaged to spend Bunday and Monday with me; she is particularly apxious to see Fonthill and [ have promised to take her there on Bunday; the Monday engagement I of course will put off. If I hear from you that you are going to Baltimore and come to Philadelphia on ‘that day, I should like to stay with you till you go to Baltimore, and pack up your wardrobe, &c., 60 that you may bave everything comfcrtable, I do not think it would be wise to leave the house long in the hands of the Philistines; but if Mrs, B. doey up all her praying on Sunday, | can make her promise not t leave the house till I return As to the attacks upon you by the penny-a-liners, they are beneath notice, and [ only m because, having seen them myself, L feared y uld be angry if E withh 6 trash from you you for your enquiries after my unworthy troubles me a good deal, but I think I will take | Dr. Weldon’s prescription on,Saturday, and a0, if e, ensure my being in tolerable condition when 1 me to you, my own blessed Edwin. 1 will give your remembrances to Stevens, who will moet likely come on with me. : 1 am glad you have fair weather, asjI know {t helps to ,e you happy. I hope your cold is better, my own Edwin. With kind love to your sisters, Eyer your affectionate, K 5 Mr. Van Buren.--That is October, 48, I next read No, 88:-- [No. 33] Faivay Evenine, Oct , 1848. How sorry Lam, my own Edwin, to think that you have suffered so much. I do most truly hope that you Will have no return of that pain. For mersy’s#ake wear that flannel when you are acting; for that cold wind in Boston is enough to killone. I wish you were safely out of ft. I wish you would take some nur vomica; you may remember it did you good before—two drops on a email lump of sugar, once a day. Tum really glad you are with Mrs. Mestayer, for I think she would be careful of you if you are not well, L hope, however, you will have no return of sickness, and that you will be home on Bunday werk I have not seen any one who bas seen the “superannuated,” and the pa- pers, I eee, do not mention him; but “ there's @ good tie coming” for him in Philadelphia. Ihave not been doing much since you were here. L am copying Metamoza, and attending to working matters generally. On Tuesday (according to the arrangements made on the day you took ditmins out), he and his daugh- ter, and the Lawsons, Miss Lynch, &e , spent the evening here, and stupid enough it was—at least I thought #o— or my veld made me feel so, A fewdays ago, W: 9 attacked very much in the same way [ was, with ver ree much more severely; he was insensible for so jong that Mrs. Willis thought he was dead. Dr. Gray bas for- bidden him to write or think about anything. I have packed up and sealed all the tragedies, ready for sending off when you oome—of course you have found xcthin , goed among thore you took Iam very glad that “wood carving” man is bere, as I think you will find him usefa Write to me, my cwn Edwin, and tell me when | «hail ee you—on Sunday morning, 1 hope it will be. God bless you, my own precious Edwin. Your own, KATE, Mr. Ven Buren then read No. 34 When be came to that part where she says “the artiole from the Evenin Post I think exceedingly good; Lawson told me be wrote lit” there was loud laughter, in which the Ghief Justice joined. [No. 344 Moxpay Mone xa. My ows Deangst Epwiv.—I send you tho enclosed scraps from the Sunday papers—not because they are worth rending. but because I think you would wish to see everything which is said abous* The Row,” Tho artiele from The Evening Post, L think exceedingly geod. Law- son told me yesterday that he wrote it. 1 reques:ed him to get, if porsible, the articles from The London Times, a were given to Brady, at the time of your dinner ere. Your pantaloons came home just now, and I shall send them by Adams’ Express to-morrow —I wait till then, ia case I should hear from you, requesting me to send any- thing else. be I think you will have some fun out ofthat ‘ suit,” but hope it will not come off while you are acting, Yesterday being a very fine day, Stevens rove Jane Knower and me out to Font Hill) She was d ed with the place, and the house; and Wegner andthe can- nice came beck without damage. 1 hope you ere well, my own blessed Edwin, acd that Jou Will gice ¢ to the “superanouated.” I J ‘Would send me a paper now and then.for I know y bury ; but I like to hear all about you, if itis only to know what you are playing. God blers you. Your own KATE, Stevens is very kind in rending me news. Mr. Van Buren then read letter No. 36:-- {No. 35] 4 o'clook Sarunpar, 1), My Own Epwin—I have just sent to Mr. Blake all the articles I could lay my bands on. I will rumage c stairs, and if I find anything else of consequence” will rend it to you, I had the lock pieked olf the library drawer, arid the man will give mea key to it, which 1 shail give you, ax { thought you would not like it to be left open." Mra. W.’s lotter I have likewise sent to Biske, Give it him (Mac.) now your hand’s in, my own Fawin. Yourown KATE. Mr. Van Buren.—We don't propose te give any mora letters in reference to the Macready matter at this etege of the proceedings. We now offer the recei quarterly payment, up to the prevent time, proved it up to u certain date. He then read the re- ceipte, and said: We now offer the exteaots of Mra. Vocr- hies’ letters, which are set out in Mr. Forres at page 124, and referred to in Mrs, Forrert Mr. 0 Conor objected. Mr Van Buren replied Chief Justice—I have no difficulty in disposing of thi matter. They cannot be offered in evidence icr aay the purposes of this trial Mr. Van Buren then cilered another letter from M-a, Forrest to her husband, markea r. 0 Conor suggested that there was a paragrapo it which referred to a third party, ant could’ce'culp, offered for tbe purpose of making an enemy of thst r-r- top, whoever it ia It should therefore not Le read, ‘The Chief Justice sald it should be omitted, [No 36] Suspay Evesixe, Dee 1848. T sent down to-day, my own Edwin, and was delighte to receive yours of the Lith. and am eo happy that you Stite in better spirits, amd till inore so, in better health. When eball I see you home, my own precious childie ? By the papers you will leara the destruction of your “ fu- vonite estattishment,” the Park Theatre. Well, psace to ite aebes It is tow certain extent hallowed as be:ng the frst place where true justice was rendered to you. Yesterday I rent your chains to Driosbach--as be did rot call for them—and he told Robert he was ex- ceedingly obliged for the trouble | had taken, but, find- ing some others which answered his purpose, ke would not keep them Tam glad you have driven Mac out of the field; hie curtailing his engegement was certainly an acknowiede- ment of defeat, I shall aseuredly not die happy ate less he gets panished in some way for the annoyan-e he bas caured you, I rather like Mr. Nules’ reply to your letter; the whole correrpondence reads well, and will be republished here. The Sunday papers have no news—you will say they never have much. Write me a ling, my own Edwia, and tell me when I shall see you. Ob, how Clong fr yor en Gagimenta te be over ‘Kind regards to Wages, and ail eof W our own Kate is eapable to you, bleed Ednin. > sbeeamatetee tas Mr. Van Buren--I now offer the complaint of Mre Forrest, mede in the Sapreme Court for a divoree, oa fhe ground of edultery on the part of her husband, and Mr. Vorreat's answer denying the adultery Chief Justice—I thought that suit was for a partial div ezce onl Mr Van Buren said it was fo: @ full divorce, and b f Sirs, Forrest's counsel, awing the complaint ayment of Mr. Forrest's costs, Mr. O'Conor objected, snd rewerked that Mr. Forrest, in bis answer, denied the charges of adultery, but did not deny the reference to his marital duties. He seemed to have a vague idea between marital duties and adultery. The Chief Justice decided that the defendant might read the complaint, but not the answer. Mz, Yan Buren then merely read the notiog of Mrs,