The Express. — London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

instance of Alderman Copeland, for brutal treatment to • number of calves. The alderman described the state in which he saw the animals ; their legs were tied together in a cartand their heads were hanging down on the tail-board; they were struggling violently, and • quantity of saliva issued from their mouths. Ho appealed to the man to alter their position, but he refused, and he was treated with great derision by a number of salesmen, who were standing near. Several salesmen deposed that the mode of packing was the beet that could be devised. The bench fined the defendant 20s and coats. ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFL—On Friday night, as Mr. Blyth, a shoemaker living in the Commercial-road, was returning in a chaise-cart from Fairlop lair, accom panied by his wife, and a Mr. and Mrs, Owen and their ighter, while endeavouring to clear a waggon the wheel of the cart came in contact with the kerb stone, awl was over turned. All the party were thrown out; some fell under the wheels of the waggon, which paved over them, and ethers fell uncle r the cart. They all sustained serious iujurirs ' all being insensible when picked up. Shutters were procured, and the sufferers conveyed to the London Hospital, where, shortly atter her arrival, Mrs. Blyth expired, the waggon having gone over and entirely crushed her legs. Mr. and Mrs. Oxen and their daughter are in a meet precarious state. Mrs. Owen's leg was fractured, and has since beea amputate d ; Mr. Owen sustained a fracture of the thigh bone, aid two ribs were fractured. His daughter, who is also in the hospital, is not expected to survive many hours. The circumstances of a revolting robbery to which the accident gave rise are given in oar report of the Thames Police-office. NUMEROUS FlRES.—Yesterday morning, at a quar ter-past three o'clock, a very destructive fire broke out upon the premims numbered IS, North-place, Kingaland read, belonging to Mr. Charles Truste, coffee-house keeper. The flames originated in the cellar, and rapidly extended up the staircase to the first and second floors, destroying in their progress the furniture and wearing apparel contained therein. The perish, London Brigade, and West of Eng land engines promptly attended, but the fire by that period had broke., through the roof, and for some time the destruc tion of the adjoining buildings appeared certain. Plenty of water, however, having been obtained from the mains in the district, e powerful stream was scattered over the tarots, which completely subdued them by 5 o'clock, but not before consider ,hle damage was done. Fortunately, Mr. Truster was insured in the Sun Fire Office. A spark from a lighted candle, it is supposed, was the cause of the dissater.—The same morning, about one o'clock, a fire broke out in the workahoes of Mr. R. Marten, millwright and engineer, sit uate in Fox-lane, Shadwell. On ing to the timely assistance afforded, the fire was soon extinguished.--A third fire broke out at half-past three o'clock yesterday_ afternoon, the premises in the occupation of Mr. Jacket, oil and colourman, No. 2.5, James-street, Covent-garden. The eueines of the London Brigade attended, when the firemen found that a large beam iu the back parlour had ignited from a defict in the chimney, and the flames were pouring out with such fury, that, if a few minutes longer had elapsed before the discovery was made, the entire build ing must have been destroyed. As it was, the firemen were unable to get the fire extinguished without pulling down the wainscot, and cutting away the beam.—At a late hour on Saturday night a report was raised that the London Univer -67 ~,,,,, fire. Several engines were immediately despatched thither, when the firemen ascertained that a bottle of piles ono, in the chemical theatre of the university, had 'tied. and the light being so strong, it was at @rat imagined at a tearful conflagration had taken place. The inmates succeed. d in getting the fire out before any considerable da mage was done.—The same day, a fire broke out on board the Esp, riment, railing barge, lying in the Surrey Canal, near tl.e Old Kent-road bridge. It was caused by the over heat of the cabin stove, which set the vessel in a blaze. The workmen got the flames subdued, but not until about two thirds of the after bulkhead and the cabin were burned, and the afte.. deck cut away. The vessel was uninsured. INQUFsT, SATURDAY—SUSPICIOUS DEATH AT THE SCRREY COUNTT LUNATIC ARTLUN.—At this institution, by the Coroner fur Surrey, on the body of a pauper named Burden. The deceased, it appeared, had been exceedingly obstreperous in his conduct, and required constant attention. Mr. Joseph Holland, the medical uttendant, said that the deceased had suffered from diarrlicea, and he had directed that every attention should be paid to him , and had ordered proper medicine to be admini.tered. The poor fellow got worse, his breathing was affected, his skin was hot, and his pulse quick. He asked deceased how long he had been in that state, an.l he was about to answer, when the attendant, John Steel, observed that the patina had made a complaint that he had been ill-used by him. Mr. Holland then examined the deceased, and found a rib broken, and two lacerated contusions en the right side ; he lived until the 23rd ult. Several other witnesses were examined, but the cause of the broken rib and the contusions was not specifically traced to any indisidual. Before the deceased ceased to exist, his de position, in eztrem is, was taken by Edward Johnson, Esq., a county magistrate, and in that deposition the deceased accused on •of the keepers of kicking him iii the side. The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased died of in flammation of the lungs, set up by • fractured rib, how caused unknown." A rigid inquiry into the circumstances is to be instituted by a commits e of county magistrates.— Reletteet or A JURY TO RETVEN A VERDICT IN THB AB SENCE OF THE ACCUSED.—By Mr. Mills, in the University College Hospital, on Robert bustard, aged eleven months. On Thursday night, as deceased's mother, with deceased in her arms was crossing the corner of the Hampatead and the New rondo, • cab, which was proceeding at the rate of eight miles an hour, knocked the mother down, and, passing over both, killed deceased. They were conveyed to the hospital, and the driver of the cab was brought before a magistrate, and remanded until the inquest was held. The jury declared that they would not return a verdict until either the prisoner was brought before them, or he was enabled to produce witnesses, respecting the transaction, especially as none but policemen were examined. The inquest was accordingly adjourned for the reason assigned oy the jury. THE ODE. Foe thing or pewee, that 'leaven duping.— Yor tempts, towns, and throe.— Too long insulted by the spoiler's shock, Indignant Europe east Her stormy foc at !apt, To reap the whirlwind on a Libyan rock. _ Time a ebequeretTreantle wears, Earth awakes from wintry deep; ?imam the tree a blossom bears— Cease. Britannia, mare to weep! Hark to the peals on this bright May mat, They tell that your future quern is born! A guardian angel tattered Above the babe unseen One word he softly ut:ered, It named the futur e queen : And &joyous cry through the Island rang, An ale r and laid as the trumpet's clang, As bland as the reed of peace— .. Victoria he her name" For righteous triumph. are the ham Whereon firitrinia rests her p...iceful fame. nraatarr, Time, in his mantle's sunniest fold, Uplifted on his arms the child ; And while the touter infant smiled, Her blamer destiny foretold Y. Infamy, by wisdom mild, Trained to health and artier beauty, Youth by plearre all From the lore uf lofty duty; womanhood in pure renown, Seated on her lineal throne; Leaves of myrtle in her crown, Fresh with lafter all their ovra. Love, the treasure worth possessing More than all the world heolde, This phut be her choir eat blessing, Oft to royal hearts denied." ercir. (ACCO.PANIAD) -RAM That ere, the Mar of Brunswick shone With steadfast ray benign On Gotha's ducal roof and on The softly towing Leine; Nor failed to gild the spires of Bonn, And glittered on the Rhine. 01,1 (Atoms, too, on that prophetic night conscious of the my ; And his willows whispered in its light, Sot to the Zephyr's sway, But with a Delphic life, in sight Of this auspici, on day. 41111:11.. This day, when Drente halls her churn lord, And proud of her award, Orr:Aiding in rat star term*, Welcomes the Consort of a happy Queen. aia—consahro. Prince, In these collegiate bowers. Where tremor, leagued with holier truth, ()nude the sacred heart of youth, Solemn monitors are oars. Them reverend aisles, these hallowed towers, Bard by many a band augur, Are haunted by majestic powers, The memories of the wise and just, Who, faithful to a pious trust, Here in the founder's spirit sought To mould and stamp the ore of thought In that bold form and Impreee high That best Cerro patriot loyalty. Not in Yam those sages taught— True disciples, good as great, Have pondered here their country's weal, Weighed the future by the past, Learnt how social frame. may last, And how a land may rule Its fate By cautery inviolate— Though worlds to their fonadations reel, The sport of factious hate or godless zeal. Albert, in thy race we cherish A nation's atrengh that will not perish While Ergland's 'metered line True to the King or binge is found; Ulm that Woe• ancestor of thins Who threw the Saxon shield o'er Luther's life, When first above the yells of bigot Mite The trumpet of the Living Word Assumed a voice of deep portentous sound, From gladdened Elbe to startled Tiber beard. goons. What shield more sublime E'er way bhmoned or gong; And the Prince whom are greet, From Ma hero to sprang. Resound, resound, the strain That hails him for our own ! Again. V.A. , . and yet Vain ; For the Church, the &ate, the Throne ! And that presence fair and bright, Ever blest wherever sees, Who deign, to grace our foetal rite, The pride of the islands— Vtcronia the Qom t • Frederick the Wise, nectar of Seamy. THE INSTALLATION AT CAMBRIDGE. CAMBRIDGE, JOLT 4.—The preparations for the installation of Prints Albert, to-morrow, and the reception of bee Majesty, are by no means confined to Cambridge. At the Tottenham station, a triumphal arch, 50 feet high, composed of evergreens, and ornamented with the arms of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, flips, and other devices, has been erected. A road, 300 feet long, and at the sides of which are placed flag-staffs,trimmed with wreaths,leads from the arch to the pavilion, a building in the Swiss style, the centre of which forms a reception room ; beyond which is a corridor, supported by columns, and lined with exotics, lead ing to the departure platform. The number of flags supplied for the decoration of the Tottenham station and its vicinity is 200. The train will consist of six vehicles, arranged as follows :—Next to the tender of the engine will be placed a break van, then a first class carriage, next the carriage for the suite, the fourth from the engine will be the royal car riage, the fifth carriage is for the directors in attendance upon her Majesty, behind which there will be the!hinder break van. Immediately on the arrival of her Majesty at the Tottenham station, a pilot engine will start on its downward Tourney, and, by a combination of the semaphore and hand styrnals in use on the line, and of the electric telegraph signals, this engine will be steadily in advance of the royal train by five minutes. Precisely ten minutes after the train has started, a second pilot engine will leave the Tottenham station, and, by the 54L119 combination of eiunalo, this will continue throughont the journey at the tame interval. The three en gines will be driven by men specially selected from the whole of the company's 120 engine-drivers for their good conduct and skill as drivers. The train will start from Tottenham at half-past eleven. At Cambridge a portion of the station has been parti tioned off and fitted up with great splendour for the use of the royal party. 'Under the portico a gallery has been erected for the directors of the company and their friends; and the whole building is to be decorated with evergreens, and nearly 300 flags and banners. Proceeding from the railway station, on either side of the road are other galleries tsstefully fitted up kir the accommodation of the municipal authorities and their friends, and beyond this, about midway between the station and the end of the new road leading from it, is a triumphal arch covered with evergreens, and decorated with a variety of flags. On each side of the road from thence to the end of Regent street, where the procession will turn off, proceeding by New-town into Trumpington-street, are numerous galleries erected by private speculators, and yclept "ths Victoria," " the Albert," dce., from whence the eunous may, for a con sideration, obtain a view of the royal visitors whose names are thus unceremoniously employed. At the end of Trump ington-street, opposite Addenbroke's Hospital, is a second triumphal arch of greater proportions than the first, and here it is understood the mayor and town council will meet the royal party and present the town address. Along Trampingtortstreet, and all the way to Trinity lodge, where the vice-chancellor and the university authorities meet the sovereign and their royal chancellor, and where the chancellor himself, receiving the stsves of office from the rice-chancellor, presents them to her Majesty—every vacant spot—even every recess between the buttresses of the several churches which abut upon the line which the cortege will pass, is fitted up with seats or standing-places for spectators. Within the university the preparations are on the most eateeeive scale. In the ficnate-houme, a raised dais at the western end, surmounted by a canopy of crimson cloth, or namented with gold, and furnished with two chairs of state, is appropriated as the place of honour for her Majesty and the chancellor. There are raised seats on the north and south sides of the building for the accommodation of the ladies, and the north and south galleries and area are for the IMO of the members of the university and gentlemen visitors. There is also an orcheetra opposite tla throne capable of con taining three hundred musicians. The whole of the inte t4or of this building is decorated in crimson and gold. At all the colleges, which it is understood her Ma testy will visit, and more especially at Trinity and Catherine-balls, preparations on the most magnifl mat scale are in progress. At the grand banquet at Trinity, on Tuesday, accommodation is provided for 330 pats. A troop of the 2nd Life Guards has arrived in the town, under the command of Col. Macl)ouall, which will form the guard of honour. The Whittlesea troop of Yeomanry is also here, together with a body of the enrolled pusioners. So many soldiers have not been seen in Cam bridge for many years before, and the evolutions of the t= on parade this morning, in Trupington-street— rn dismounted--attracted an immense concourse of spectators. In addition to the numerous fetes and ceremonies within the colleges, a variety of amusements have been pro- vided for the three days during which the proceedings will lest, in various parts of the town and suburbs, including balloons, horticultural Ptes, fireworks, races and rustic _Vans; and last, but not least, a performance of "the Measiab," by the Choral Society, who hays made several metropolitan engagements for the *cession. The University sermon was preached at Bt. Mary's this morning by the Rev. Edward Thompson, DN., of Clare Hall, from Luke xi., 28. After which was the commemora tion of benefactors, and an anthem. The church was crowded, In " the throne," in addition to the dignitaries of the university, we observed the Bishops of Durham, St. David's, and Oxford, Sir E. H. Alderson, Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Hon. C. E. Law, the Dean of Windsor, &c., &c. At two o'clock the Right Rev. Dr. Perry, Bishop of Mel bourne, delivered an eloquent discourse from Matt. v. 16, at St. Mart's. The church was densely crowded by members of the university and visitors. A portion of the testes' graduates' gallery was set apart for ladies intro , members of the senate. The Lord Bishop ofOxford at St. Mary's, this evening, on behalf of the Netitel Society. The usual promenade in King's College grounds, and Clare Hall piece, took place this evening. A great number of visitors have arrived by the several trains to-day, and on Saturday plias from London were so heavily laden with passengers that the later ones were considerably behind time. Seldom did Cambridge present such a scene of anima. tion. The following is a copy of the Installation Ode, written by Mr. Wordsworth, poet-laureate ; the music by Professor Wahnesley War is paniicare basest come, Madly played to wis a name. Ltp Warts some tyrant, earth mid heaven to dare; The .erode million how; But will the lightning glance onlde to spare The despot's laurelled brow! War is riser7aL.7 fame, Waged in It' 's holy cause— Freedom such as mon may claim Under God'. restraining laws. Such la Alblon's fame and glory, Let rescued Earope tell the • ory. awn. (AIVDMPANIZD) -CONTRALTO. But, to: what sudden cloud has darkened all The lard as with a funeral pull' The Kew of England suffers blight: The bower has drooped the Isle's delight, Flower and bud together fall, A nation's hopes lie crushed in Claremont's desolate hall. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1847. PAPER WAR WITH AMERICA. BIB,—I represent a class, which the advance o f civilisation and the increase of commercial intercourse between the two greatest commercial countries of the world have combined to render somewhat numerous. I am an American, for many yean resident in England. With an abundance of American feeling—with all the rights and all the obligations of American citizenship resting upon me—m 3 pecuniary interests are English, and my home is in England; and, as a matter of mere commercial er pecuniary considera tion, the prosperity of England is more important to me than that of any other country of the world ; while, in re turn, I, of necessity, assist to swell her revenues, through the multifarious channels of taxation, direct and indirect. The advantage which any country must derive from such a body of resident foreigners as that to which I belong, is obvious and ncognised. Men seldom "quarrel with their own brad-and-butter; " sad, in common with many of my countrymen, I came to this country, with the most friendly feelings towards its government, its institutions, and its people. I cherished the recollection of everything which should unite England and America in the bends of brotherhood . their common origin, their common language, their common faith, their commu nity in civil and religious liberty, and stronger than all, their common interest ;—that common interest, the bonds of which the Almighty himself bath latelystrengthened and cemented in rendering America, as it were, the provision store-house of Europe ; and unmistakably indicating (what the rela tive and comparative condition of the two countries should long since have shown) that the mission of the United States is to produce, while that of Great Britain is to manufacture. I delighted, sir, to muse upon these things: and when men talked of hostile collision between the two countries ; of an unnatural contest between parent and child ; when the Oregon cloud " gathered blackness," and lowered ominously upon the Western horizon, I spoke of these things as " cast ing out fear ;" I pointed to them as the escaped few from the Deluge might have painted to the rainbow as the token that the elements should not again be allowed to work their unrestrained will for thus, I thought, this Iris-like blend ing of the faith, feeling, fame, and interest of the two countries, might extend its arch across the intervening sea, and be accepted as a token that the elements of discord—the " envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitibleness," which were characteristic of a departing era—should never again darken that one sky which o'er-arches both England and America. . . Bat, sir, the "gentlemen of the press" cannot content themselves to let this placid atmosphere remain unclouded; they must darken and bespatter this blue sky with ink, and arouse and stimulate passions even blacker than itself. They do not seem to have acquired even the experience of the itinerant musician,--they do not "know the value of peace and quietness." A fault or folly can neither exist, nor be imagined to ex ist, on the western shores of the Atlaatic, but the English press must seise upon it es a vulture would pounce upon carrion--the taste being as degrading and 1 revolting in the one case as the other. If the fault or folly really exist, the probabilities are in favour of its being grossly exaggerated in the course of narra tioll, or if exthgeration of facts be wanting, en amiable spirit of bitterness develops, itself in comments, in such a manner as amply to supply the want of mere vulgar misstatement. Those men " on whom the tower in Siloam fell " were not more closely identified in their doom, than the English press (with one or two honourable exceptions), are in feeling, as regard. America and everything American. England has, in sober truth, been so long the unquestionable superior of all the other nations of the world, in many prominent traits of character, that she cannot regard with patience the rivalry of the upstart child, who seeks to share with her the reputa tion of being the freest, most generous, most moral, and most enlightened country of christendma. This feeling of impatience, and of something between anger and contempt, pervades nine-tenths of all that is written and spoken in this country in reference to America ; and a moiety, at least, of the other and more amiable " tenth," is made up of diplo• matte generelitiee, or of after-dinner speeches, where " the American minister," or some one of his " distinguished countrymen" is present ; and which, consequently, have every conceivable merit. except the trifling one of sincerity. The evident feeling of the English press, generally, though they may hardly confess It, even to themselves, is, that any approach to candour in speaking of America would blunt the . point of many a charming paragraph, or, perhaps, entirely destroy the paragraph itself. Like the Italian sonnetteer, who" had known, himself, the weight of praise," I bare known the temptation which the chance to form or point • paragraph produces, and could well excuse the want of self-denial in this particular, were America still the terra incognito of 30 years since, when steamers were not, when our international commerce was in ita infancy, and inter communication imperfect and infrequent. But now, the United States have emerged from the condition of infancy to that of youthful manhood; and wish their venerable parent to learn tho difficult lessen, that her maternal rights do not confer the privilege of under-estimating, and treating with authoritative superciliousness and unfairness, all the actions, rights, and feelings of her independent offspring. The feeling so universally manifested by the English prise, is unfair and unworthy and has a tendency to keep up an irritability of feeling, w hich both countries may, at no dis tant period, find cause seriously to regret. But there are • few journals in this country, upon whom a heavier respon sibility rests, and to whom • deeper and darker guilt is chargeable. Foremost among these stands that monument of insincerity . , that immemorial follower of the public opinion which it should lead, the London Times—a, camel as " firmly fixed " to its principles (self-preservation to wit) as a weathercock is to a steeple, and reserving to itself the same happy facility for frequent and extraordinary changes of position. Of late, and especially since the outbreak of the Mexican war, the Times has given to my countrymen especial cause of complaint. The last drop in the cup of bitterness was so article published on the 10th of May last, in reference to the capture of Vera Crux. This article has called forth, from the great daily journal of the United States, a reply which, I may safely say, it has reluctantly uttered, after enduring the abuse and misrepresentation of Years in comparative silence. The New York Courier and Enquirer has been the constant and unflinching opponent of the anti-English feel ing which the New York herald and some of the minor journals of the United States, have endeavoured to create and foster. The Courier and Enquirer has at last yielded to renewed provocation, and uttered an article (quite unpre cedented in its columns) by way of retaliation. I inciene this article, and solicit for it your careful consideration ; for it shows the inevitable tendency and probable result of a continuance on the part of the English journals of this system of irritation and insult towards my countrymen.-1 am, sir, your very obedient servant, AXOLO-KNICILIABOCKEIL. • Landon, June 33, 1847. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. BIRMINOWAN4.-Mr. Monte, on Saturday, republished the address which he issued to the electors in 1840. Judging from this document, it would appear that at that time, at least, he did not contemplate the moat distant alliance with a tory of so old a school as Mr. Spooner. City or LONDON.—In the Morning Herold of Saturday the following spasmodic paragraph was put forth at a leader " We are happy to be able to announce, Oat within the next few hours, at least one, and probably two, new candi dates, of the highest commercial standing, will be an nounced, on the conservative interest, f6r the city of London." So far aa we could ascertain, our contemporary was not made " happy" during the day by a verification of the announcement. Coini.—The local papen announce that, on Friday, at 4 p.m., Dr. Power had a majority of 281 on the gross poll. The numbers polled respectively were—For Mr. Leader, 5,a0; for Dr. Power, 831. It was stated, notwithstazding these proportions upon the third day of polling would indi cate but little prospect of success on Mr. Leader's part, that he would poll to the last moment, but no one imag no; he can possibly be returned. Ile, however, subsequently resigned the contest. There is one circumstance mentioned in these journals, as characteristic of this election, which is not less creditable than unusual in tinnier cases in this country there has not occurred one single act of violence or riot. This silent determination of the electors in rejecting the nominee of the landlords, for so Mr. Leader on the hust ings described himself, is a fact, the significance of which no mtnister can safely overlook. " Tenant right," says our cor respondent, " much more than repeal has worsted Mr. Leader and the landlords of Cork." DINNTWIOII.—This borough is to he contested by Cynru Lloyd, Esq., who opposes the re-election of Sir J. Pakington DUNDALK.—Mr. MacTavish, as I already have informed you, will offer himself for Dundalk. He has already can vassed the constituency, in company with Mr. Maurice O'Connell, with some success. Notwithstanding, be will hardly succeed without a contest. Lord Jocelyn has in fluence. and those who find their interest in a contest will not be slow to encourage him, fer though his lordship is be lieved not wealthy, Mr. MacTaviah is. HADDINOTON HPRORS.—CameI-like Sir J. W. Drum mond has retired from the field as abruptly as he entered it. Sir H. R. F. Davis haying driven two opponents from the ground, may surely now deem himself secure. LEITRIM.--Lord Clements will not be opposed in this county. Mr. Godley and Mr. Tennyson will go to a poll. The former is of that class of men now designated in Ireland conservative nationalists." No interpretation for the term is given. Mr. Tennyson is a whig he will rally the popular party round him. Mosvaose BURGII6.—No lees than three opponents to Mr. Hume are rpoken of. MONAGNA.N.—Mr. Shirley will not offer himself again to the constituency. Matters are here fast approaching that arrangement mentioned in this paper long since, namely, that the Hon. T. Veny Dawson would probably be returned for this county in place of one of the present tory members. PORTAILLINOTON.—" An Elector " of this borough, in a letter to a local paper, hints that ejectments cannot be served on any of Lord Portarlington'a tenantry without Col. Daw son Damer's consent. Notwithstanding this announcement there will be a contest. QUEEN'S COrrlTT.—The ultras of this county talk of Mr. Busfield Ferrand, but that enemy to poor-law commissioners will bad no resting place in Ireland. Mr. Fitzpatrick will be returned certainly. READINO,—Mr. Serjeant Talfourd has issued an address, offering himself, for the third time, as a candidate. He says: I refer to my past conduct an the best areurance I can glee of the future; bat on one question of eolemo interest to the Christian world, the propriety of endowing the priesthood of the Roman cathoile church, I feel it right to volunteer a die:inct avowal To that ens nare, and to all others which may tend to weaken the security of the protestant faith, I shall offer my most strenuous opposition, from whatever party they may proceed. ST. A SlattneB Butane.—" If Mr. Ellice stands for the county (says a local authority), te Provost of St. Andrew's may become a candidate for the burghs." Yes, " if" Mr. Ellice chooses to give up certainty for hope. STAFFORD.—The celebrated " pot-wallopers" of this noto rious borough are in fine feather for the approaching elec tion. There are now ne less than seven candidates an the field. Capt. Carnegie will in all probability be re-elected. The other seat will be sharply fought for; but Mr. Ald. Sidney, of London, and a native of the borough, is the favourite. Mr. Urquhart (the rejected of Sheffield) is one of the candidates. • TZWIMBIIRY.—There will be a contest here. Amongst the candidates we notice Mr. Humphrey Brown, who wee a few years ago superintendent of (we believe) the goods traffic department on the Birmingham and Gloucester railway. Woaccerea.—Bir Denis Le Merchant retires from the representation of the " faithful city." The announcement of this purpose by the hon. baronet has taken all partite by surprise. Mr. Osman Ricardo, who contested Kidderminster in 1841 with Mr. Godson, has been named 'as his successor; but Mr. G. R. Robinson, the chairman o? Lloyd's. being first in the field, will probably be found to stand A 1. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JULY 3. The Lord-Lieutenant arrived at Kingstown this morning, at 6 o'clock a.m. His excellency was ac companied by the Countess of Clarendon, the Ladies Villiers, and Viscount Hyde. His excellency was attended by Mr. Corry Gonnellan, private secretary, and the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby, son of the late Lord- Lieutenant, who also acts as secretary. The noble viceroy was received on landing with a salate of 21 guns; he started, together with his family and suite, immediately for town, and arrived at Westland, entered the private carriages awaiting him, and drove forthwith to the vice-regal lodge in the park. Lady Clarendon was dressed in Irish manufacture. His Grace the Commander-in-Chief has beenyleased to approve of the undermentioned officers being ap pointed to the personal staff of his Excellency . the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, vis. : STATE STIMARD.—Comet the Earl of Mount Charles, 2nd Dragoons. AIDES-DI-CAMP.—Capt. George &taut, 41st Regiment; Lieut. the Hon. Robert Da, 20th Regiment; Lieut. H. F. Ponsonby, Grenadier Guar ds; Lieut. Lord Denkelin, Cold stream Guards. Erni. AIDES•DR-CAllP.—Capt. T. Bernard, 12th Len cen ; Lieut. 8. T. Williams, 47th Regiment Capt. W. 8. Sandes, 11th Hussars; Lieut. F. F. Hervey, 13th Light Des goons; Lieut. the Hon. H. Noel, 88th Regiment; Lieut. Viscount Bt. Lae...core, 7th Hussars; Lieut. W. H. Fitz gerald, 7th Hussars. Lord John Russell's statement continues to excite astonishment, for, up to his declaration, the aspect of the country, and the moat accurate and exten sive inquiries, afforded " no reasonable fear that the potato crop will be lost." In the country papers of yesterday and this day there is no indication of apprehension. They continue to represent the con dition of all cropv, without exception, as singularly luxuriant and healthy. The last week of glorious summer has greatly strengthened and filled the wheat. The hay crop, which is most abundant, will soon be saved, while the young potatoes coming into market are recovering their long-lost Savour and " mealy" attributes. Lord John's prediction has created more surprise than apprehension in this country ; but we are still in the wood, and should not halloo too lustily. The Central Relief and Society of Friends' Com mittees for the relief of Irish distress have issued two documents —the firstoontainin ir the half-yearly amount of receipts and disbursements from the Ist of January to the Ist of July ; the second, the receipts only in money and food from the United States up to the hitter period. The whole amount of money received by the central body was 59,4391., of which 56,0001. was thus distributed: Leinster, 7,4461. ; Munster, , 15,2451.; Ulster, 10,1901.; Connaught, 18,0601. ; leaving a balance of some 3,0001. in favour of the committee. It is most creditable to the distributors lof this fund that the expenses of management amounted to no more than 4801. The Society of Friends publish an immense list of receipts in detail. The money contributions reach 14,576/., and about 60,000 barrels of corn meal, besides a very large quantity of other produce, such u Indian corn and meal, wheat and rye flour, peas and beans. The acknowledgments are pub lished for the out-going packet, which sails in a few days. AU advances under the Temporary Relief Act will be discontinued in the first fortnight of August. The relief commissioners have so intimated to the poor law commissioners. The half-yearly report of the Mining Company of Ireland does not present a state of progressive pros perity. The net amount of profits was less than 4,0001. The company's present stock of mineral produce is valued at 28,9751. ; amount of cash, bills, good debts, and mining materials not in use, 25,489/. ; mines, farms, and mill sites, 139,6951. ; and, deducting the amount of unclaimed dividends, rents, and other liabilities of the company, 12,3981., the assets amount to 181,7601. No dividend has been declared for the past half-year. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Jui.v 2. The National Association for the Reform of Excise Abuses is prosecuting a vigorous agitation through out the provinces. A large meeting has been held in Glasgow, and there, as in the case of all the other places visited by deputations, district associations have been formed with the view of keeping up the excitement. The emaciation will do well to enlist the sympathies of the people in its behalf by appeal ing to the public at large. An anti-entail meeting of the farmers in Anchin leek has been held—and from the liberal views ex pressed it is evident that the opinions of the biographer of Johnson have not clung to the soil of his patri monial domains. In Perthshire a germination theory prevails that harvest follows sixty-four days after the bursting of the ear from the sheath, which latter event having taken place on the 18th of June, the advent of the siekle is set down for the 22ndof August, or thereby which will bring on the golden days of harvest earlier in 1847 than in 1845 or 1846. The of a dividend of 8 per cent. on the stock of the Western Bank for last year is another proof of the stability of the Scotch monetary system. This institution, commenced in 1832, has a reserve fund of 375,0001. and 16 branches. LINLITMOOW Town-HALL BORNEO.-This venerable pile was yesterday almost entirely consumed. The origin of the conflagration is said to be the ignition of the old wood in the roof by the sun ; but we suspect a more artistic cause will yet be discovered. THE LORD ADVOCATE'S BILL FOR THE PROTECTION OF I'IILIIBELIL-Some parties ore complaining that his lordship is not legislating on matters of more importance-but when he attempts higher game who supports him ? How many Scotch newspapers backed him in the Marriage and Registration Bills? REVIEW OE THE SCOTTISH GRAIN MAREETB.-The markets during the past week were execasively dull. The fine weather and the excellent state of the crops, coupled with the Lear approach of harvest, renders buyers unw,lling to transact business, except at very reduced rates, while sellers, expeetally the grain dealers who bought in at high prices, are unwilling to yield, or to bring on a general panic in the market. Hence purchases are made only from absolute necessity. The supplies have been extremely scanty. At Perth only a few small parcels were bought by the local millers for immediate use. At Elgin very little business was transacted. At Kirkcaldy only three parcels of barley and three of oats were brought forward, and even these were not sold, foreign being comparatively cheaper. At Stirling there were only 232 bolls altogether ; of which 23 were wheat and 9 barley. At Falkirk there were 74 bolls of wheat, 10 of barley, and 27 of oats. At Had-1 dington the supply was much es before, with the ex ception of oats, which was less. Wheat : At Perth there was a fall of 3s. to 41. a quarter, the return being (60 to 63 the.) 755. to 83s. At Elgin there was no alteration. At Kirk caldy there was a slow sale, at a reduction of Is. to 2s. per qr. At Stirling there were 29 bolls, which had a dull sale, with • fall on the average of 31d. At Falkirk there were 74 bolls, the greater portion of which remained unsold. The return gives (61Iba to 6211b5. a bush.) 36.. to 41.. a boll. At Had dington sales were very dull, with an average fall of 2.. Ild. • quarter. There were 308 quarters in the market, of which 181 sold. At Edinburgh to-day there was a good supply of wheat, there being 895 quarters, 549 of which were sold. Prices fell 10e. on the top, and 9s. 9 2-12d.:0n the average. At Glasgow today there we, little doing, retailers pur chasing sparingly, anticipating a further reduction. Wheat fell 2a. to 3s. en the quarter. In Ayr market, with a supply of 115 bolls of wheat, not a single sale was effected-Barley : At Perth and Elgin there was no alteration. At Kirkcaldy only three parcels were brought forward. At Stirling there were 9 bolls, which sold at an average fall of 2s. 6.1. At Fal ' kirk there were 10 bolls, which had a dull sale. The return gives (4611 b. to 5311 b. a bushel), 31s. to Ms. • boll. At Had dington there was a rise on the average of Is. Bd. At Edin burgh there were 145 qrs. barley, only 47 of which were sold, Prices fell ss. 6d. on the top, and4a. 7 11-12 d. on the ge. At Glasgow Were was little doing in barley, with prices much the same as last week.-Oats: At Perth there was a fall of lc to 2s. The return gives (401 b.), 38.. to 395. At Elgin there was little done, and no alteration in prices. At Kirk caldy there were only three parcels, which did not all sell. At Stirling there were 132 bolls, which fell Is. 114 d. At Falkirk there were only 27 bolls, which had a dull sale. At Had dington the supply was less, which fell on an average 2a. 6 , 1. At Edinburgh, there was a moderate supply of oats, but which, however, was far beyond the demand. There were 377 qrs., only 197 of which were sold. niece fell 2s. 4d. on the top, and 2s. 9 9-12 d. en the average. At Glasgow, to-day, oats fell 2a. per qr. In Ayr market there were 66 bolls, only 8 of which sold, at 355. -EdirsburgA Register. PROVINCIAL. ANOTHER COAL-PIT EXPLOPION.—On Thursday morning last, an explosion took place that will, it is feared, result in the deaths of two men. It occurred in a pit belonging to A. T. Haliburton, Esq , adjoining the North Union Railway, in Wigan, known as the No. '2 pit. At the time of the ex plosion taking place, four men were io the pit, engaged io sinking lower down to a bed of coal galled the Arley Mice. It appears the men, on account of the quantity of damp in the pit, carried on their works without the use of lights; and, in blasting, came to the top of the shaft and fired the train, by a process called "ringing it," each explosion of which caused the damp also to be fired. A shot was laid on Tuesday last; and it would seem, from some part of the train being fewer- feet, the main body of powder was not, ignited, the damp alone being fired with part of the train. The men, on Thursday morning, were at work with the boring-rods again, and, at the time of the explosion, it is supposed they were boring through the powder laid for blasting on Tuesday, from the friction of which the powder was fired, and the explosion produced. It is also supposed, in the blowing up of the rocks, the damp would also be fired. Two men, named Winstanley and Morgan, were takes out very se rioney injured, with, it is feared, very little hopes of their recovery ; but the other two, who were at the time behind a tub of water, escaped apparently unhurt. Winetanley is a married man, with four children, and resides at Pemberton. Morgan, a single man, resides in &holes, Wigan. DIATIAUCTIVE FIRM AT HALIFAX.—A destructive fire oocured at Halifax on Thursday evening, at the mill of Meters. James Akroyd and Son, at Bowling Dike. The fire originated in the garret, which was used fur reeling purpmes, and was first discovered a little after nine o'clock, and in the short space of little more than an hour the whole was in flames. The mill is entirely gutted, and we understand contained from 70 to 100 spinning and drawing frames. One of the engines was preserved entire that was detached from the mill. The other is considerably damaged. The property is partly covered by insurance. It is almost im possible to estimate the amount of damage, which is thought cannot be less than 30,0001. The number of bands thus thrown out of empl tyment met be very considerable. AT A Patna-Floor. —At the police court, at Cbanda•-house on Saturday, two men named Maurice Perry and Samuel Crawlty, were committed by the county magis trates for the wilful murder of one of the liathAmpton police, under circumstances of great brutality. On Monday last, early in the evening, two navigators employed in the neighbourhood, on the Wilts and Somerset Railway, had • quarrel, and, failing to settle it by means of words, adjourned to an adjoining field, at Bathampton, to fight it out; the prisoners and two others acting as seconds. An organised ring woo formed and a large mob collected, when, after a few rounds, John Bailey (the deceased) and another police man forced their way between the combatants and de sired them to desist fighting and disperse. The pri soners immediately pushed the officers back, where they held them, the men still fighting. The constables again attempted to interfere, when they were instantly knocked down, the prisoners kicking them unmercifully about the head and body. Bailey almost immediately ex pired. Several witnesses clearly identified the prisoners as the parties who committed the outrage, Crawley being de scribed as holding the unfortunate man down by kneeling on his chest, whilst Perry kicked him about the head and stomach. The deceased told them on entering the ring that he wu a police constable and was bound to put a stop to the disturbance. Tho prisoners, who made no defence were committed to the county gaol, on the capital cha rge. A verdict of " Wilful murder" had been returned at the coroner's inquest, held on Friday. The deceased constable has left a wife and large family.— It appears that the brutal practice of prize-fighting is again becoming frequent in some parts of the country. The Le 4e Mercury of Saturday says ' We should not allude to such an exhibition, but to make one observation. A prize fight took place on Wednesday, on Baildon Moor, between Don nelly, of Manchester, and Askey, of Birninshau, when, after 32 rounds, occupying one hour and eight saismiss, the latter proved the victor. Now, although this light, and the place where it occurred, was known some time previous, foe a constable of Baildon or anywhere else interfered. Of lap several prize fights have taken place unmolested by the authorities on Bandon Moor. We call the attention of the magistracy of the district to the culpable neglect of the con- I 'tabular,. Above 1,000 pumas were present, most of them the lowest operatives, whom it would have beseeated better to have ben at their work." DEVONSHIRE. THE FOOD RIOTERS WERE TRIED at the county and city sessions, Exeter, last week. At the county sessions alone there were 180 prisoners is the calendar, the aversive number on such occasious being about 100. Many of the rioters pleaded guilty. The sentanoes were various, the majority being short terms et imprisonment. LITERATURE. Reminiscences of D;;;;;17) 7 67n3e7171:5q , l'., during the agitations of the Veto, Emancipation, and Repeal. By a ED/NETER FARMER. Though this pamphlet is by a " Monster Farmer," it is written with singular ability. The author has the happy art of conveying the greatest amount of information in the fewest possible words. It furnishes incomparably the best account of O'Connell's life which has yet appeared ; and the estimate here presented of that great man's character comes, perhaps, as near the truth as possible at the present time, and will be in all its main features confirmed by the verdict of history. It is well remarked that "around O'Connell's cradle were formed the passions which follow his hearse." He belonged to a family who claimed their descent from " Catholic Royalists, who shed their blood in the cause of the ungrateful Stuarts, whom Charles IL allowed to be stripped of most of their property, by the act of settlement, for loyalty to his father, and from whom William 111. took the remainder for fidelity to his father-in-law." These facts, often repeated by the heads of his family, most have made a strong impression on the mind of young Daniel O'Connell. But the existing state of society nt the time had a large share in the formation of his character. The penal less were then in full force ; priest-hunting was an tarot:Ate • sport with the ultra-Protertant gentry, as (ox-hunting And hare-hunting at • later period; the ritual and services of the Catholic church, preeerthed by law, were celebrated in the rocky ravines and remote recess,s of the mountains; any Protestant could compel hin Catholic neighbour to give him up his best horse for Ave pounds, and thin taw was absoiutely enforced by • Pruteetant squire, whose horse was worsted in a rate by the stredot• Catholic gentlem an. Ile consoled himself for his defeat, by the compulsory percher* of the winning horse. The peasants of Ireland, goaded to agrarian incur reetions by intolerable oppreseloe, were mimed by laws, which • Arthur Young declared to be ' fit only for the regions of Barbary ;^ and the great bulk of the Protestant clergy neglected almatt every clerical duty rum the levying of tithes, but in this they exhibited a zealous energy, almost amounting to severity, an if to oompvienate for their deficiency in everything else. But hope had already dawned for Ireland, as one of her popular propheciee predicted, in the far. distant west; the war of independence had begun in America ; and, as the successes of the celonistri increased, no the galling restrictions on the Irish Catholics were relaxed, partly from the necessity of conciliating them during a dons. tow straggle, but chiefly Dom the growing lilwrality and lotelligeras of the age. Having Bald so much of the time, we have next to notice some peru. liarilies of the plat*, of his birth. The rocky coast of Kerry, In dented by numermoi small harbours, afforded means of embutation for the roung and nilventurous Irish Cetholies,wbo, finding themselves excludi 1 from the British army on account of their religion, nought to gratify their love of excitement by entering the Irish brigades in the service of France. " The flights of wi'd germ," as the evasions of these emigrants were whimsically called, are said to hove been period ical from Valenti& harbour ; and iu conneguenee of thin form of inter. course, what the law called smuggllne and what these engaged In It called free trade, was very active betirem the French ports and this part of Ireland. Morgan O'Connell's store, or chop, at Cahirel veen, received many a cargo of French laces, wine., and Mike, which were sold at an immerse profit in the south and west of Ireland, and enabled him rapidly to accumulate a large fortunt—pp. 3, 4. Our author regards the era of 1782 in a light very different from that in which it is seen by the re peaters. There is truth, however, in the following distinction : Grattan'. boasted revolution eatablinhed not the Independence of Ireland, but the independence of the Irish Protestant asorndancy, and compelled the English ministry to support the power and I wink at the eters., of that ascendancy rather than peril , the integrity of the em,iire. That aseendatcy, aware that its Imo rule was odious to tlic great not of the population, strove to maintain its power by palming a melancholy [cries of instates, not to be rivalled by the ukases of the wand of the Kasten demote ; they enacted in rapid metes/don, a Convention Act, a Blot Act, an Arms' Act, an Indemnity Act, n Suripcanion of the Habeas OWN= and, finally, they placed the greater part of Ireland under law. It in utterly absurd to impute these remeMus misdeeds of the latch parliament to the will of the Engh.h ministers it is • ntrange defence to make for that body, LW it united execeeire servility to exceenve tyranny ; but the excitor, such OP it lA, won ennui— the Einglinh Milliner, were deliberately deceived by the Irish amendlicv, and the tortures openly inflicted in Dublin were unbluatiingly denied in London. The" Munster farmer" draws an important dis tinction, very little attended to, between the rebellion and the insurrection of 1798. The former, he says, Was essmtially protestant. It was planned by men, mine of whom, like Lord Edward itegerald, enjoyed rank and station; their minds had been inflamed by the success of the Americana, in achieving independence, and by the bright promise of the early cages of the French revolution. Their great popular strength lay among the Fres h' terians of the north of Ireland, lineally cleseendid from the old covenanters ; inheritors of their principled, and like them, intrepl assertons of freedom for themselves, without any regard for the rights of others. -- The in; urrection or I iv was catholic, simply because catholicswere engaged in it,— the catholic peasant. of Wexford and the midland comities. It war the work of a pearantry deliberately goaded to re sistance by local oppression and military outrage. It was the /ewe. rate struggle of men destitute of arms, organisation, or leadare—who fought with the courage of depair, because they had no h of mercy. A civil war had been plan ed , but a Jacquerie m ; the only connexion between them being that both were the °brim'. and neoewary result of the misrule of the Irish parliament. On O'Connell's opposition to the union in 1800, tho " Munster farmer " makes the following remarks, which deserve the attention of repealer.: A Union woe memory for the advation of Ireland, when it became evident, to every man in his norm, that the Irish parliament was quite unable to govern the country; an opinion which wm further rontirmed by its moment ins to be b Pad to effect It. own annihilations The Union anx the vindication of the United Irishmen, and the ex- culpation of the misguided Insargenta: it was, therefore, naturally I ?? &T ed es,' l ' 'y ea t ifi C ee, 'lriehowwho End to Irelas h ; ro thar kw e hav a e i no . nu • 111 view but her sort—net:ling in our hearts but the desire of mutual forgivenera, mutual toleration, and mutual affection ; In tine, le' erer y enm, min 'eh, Info rich nye prorto'rn,thnt ifthe alien.- tire were offered him of Oman, or the re-enactment ef the petlrti rode in all it, pristine horrors, that he would pvfer, without hesitation, the loiter, a. tile lesser and mart viferatok eril—that he would rather confide in the Justice of his brethren, the protestanta of Ireland, who have already !Aerated him, than lay his country at the feet of foreigners." " fir sentiment," lA}! the report, " wee met with much and marked approbation." A more unwurthe sentiment was never uttered by the Um of man. The Orangemen, who then arrogated to themalree exclusively the title of " Protestants of Ire land," would, had they not been restrained by the English minister, have re-trapmed the penal code with still mere strimpent and san guinary enactments: they bad nicknamed Lord Cornwalis, then lord neuters:4V, Lord Croppymrallis, becalm he granted pardon to the un fortunate insurgent., whom the loyalist. tolled " mimics," became they did not wear pig-tails, which in those drys were regarded as cognisancee—asore than thirty catholic chapels had been burned to various parts of the oountry, and the only complaint heard in the land was, that too much lenity had been shown in the suppression of the rebellion. The bar of IMAM wan naturally opposed to the union, which threatened to :nester a share of their business to the courts of Westminster; the shopkeepers of Dublin disliked a measure which threatened to deprive them of some portion of their trade ; a large body of the orangemen driliked It, because they dreaded that the Imperial parliament wowed set limits to the ascendancy which they hail so grossly abused ; and a more enlightened body to which O'Con. nell belong d, felt proud of natimality, and not unreasonably Malmo of that spirit of commercial monopoly which has too often been a guiding maitre in the policy of England. The author gives, from peculiar sources of informa tion, an interesting account of Robert Emmet's in surrection in 1803 ; and then passes on to the personal history of Mr. O'Connell, of whom he says : That, up to 1810 im ts c m i ght be considered as her:aging to that party which, at • en pe ri od of his career, he need to et. Min a birime, es that et Orange Oatholios; but the &mime of the Grey mad OnmMe odgMdetration greatly abated the ferrour of his royalist Magi; aid fY tameness with which the Catholic undo. craw, ef Issismil soma to endure their exclusion from the pale of the conatftwilemdimbidiell In an equal proportion his sympathies with that body. Ma tae Ora time that he mated the sweets of rapturous apulams, heatewa by en enthusiastic multitude on his speeds, advo. eating • rental vitae union, in 1010, he felt that It wee his rotation to become an aerator, and he thenceforward organised the force of democratic movement, to impel forward his favourite mess are. O'Connell's education and intellectual attainments. O'Corniell'a education at St. Omer was narrow and recta:lan • In no rerninary were Merocntie doctrine. more rigidly inculcate; and the duties and laboured him arduous proferalon prevented hint from haying them notions corrected by general reading and literary ac quirements. O'Connell was neither a round nor en elegant ',choler; his cLuafticil attainment s were below the average of a schoolboy ; la history be had read little beyond the eimptlatiom with which men or large brains,e are too genre - Mr contented; and though he had some taste for mental and moral philosophy, It was sever cell:l...led. Ile relied entirely for his success on hi. own mental resource., and they were ungeirtionably vain; never did any men make so great a show with so Melted a 'tusk of Ingemialita. It was eat until he turned author, aid gave the world his purge History of Ireland, that mt. eli.cdirered Ism scanty wee the itedt as which he trasled. The theology of at—Onar, which stbibellml • solidity, and almost an impeccability, ea Ma maaaniced dreadaw, we the predominant feel ing of WO:waft Oh: r hisstly lama that the best service he could render Ireland see to lawrame and elemstars the power of the catholic priesthood; and It is therefore W Minder that he received, through Inv the anion. mtpport in that tisk, width is indented almost entir ely to him for Its pe. sent existents.. a power in the •tide. — P. 44 . We must stake room for one extract more, on the Clare sleeka and its results. The history of the Clare electionnenaina to be written ; time cannot' efts, the vivid recollectionu of drawee. Mr. Pltagentklappe.ired on the hustings surrounded by the principal gentlemen of the county, including runny who had been Ids political opponent& Indeed, be woe ptopened by the gentleman Was had been his rival candidate at the ',receding election. O'Connell bad with him a eery few of the gentry, but he Ind a large ettend•aw of the priesthood. Ile we proposed by O'Oornian Mahon, mit smicuided by Kr. Steele. Mr. Fitzgerald then add:need the nay t be spoke toe subdned and melancholy tone ; he buret Into tears ae he reftred to the minim of his revered father, then Weeded we a hid et Nakano god approach ing dreth ; spoke of hlaweitwith amateled atetlsa s neenneeni log that the oppoeition to lle else*. wag operly morlithrig sad unexpected. do coneillelegy vie hie address, Wt thrash the vat majority ot Ss audience we willindeelbe la ON eeppert at Ide viral, they cheered hisa et the endardsa with a bast et opplaare which shook the osighharare. CfOrewirs eddraw was sewer empaired by himself to sower sleepwalks. Mb teapaage, toah sad maser, exhibited arewrwase et oYeery, sad lawourelew coatempt Ow Ms opponent..“lldam geld pailleg to hie rinl„ la dee Mend of the bloody Percend, end to. NMI ad rally Few; ead he Mar friend, sod no in elleylodea Mat* Vairrited as w the epithet appliod to tarrowal, It wee dellesred with a twee of esprede• which thrilled the graightit, mul eves seed throe who waseesenbeed of lie inpedies. He Mow to so Mr. Cttopendira paimelpal sup porters, sad emeMed then with Withering hnoOlve. wet nabs. quently dopmeratie hie dwandght abase, bet ask as that scoutuit, lea pietas le the pima raaireity of Item vim he ad. domed. Theeteelkit meths geerterria ever ereisehed la behold. The albedo mat the themehaswilowatally to keep the pmple gilt. They = ii them to Wok spirlamwe ItosorN and, etwepti - Telhor Mathew hod set yet ',pissed. ad a ingjs w. e. of widely mat tested by say el dm weetatry dodos the tiorocabraeope mots occurred. Or Hiwad Wlldra ecermlad Ids trowahe In • lady, to at the himitip owl vete kr Wow /haft, et O wego,mit theta. berempial himself at head. Ird them Mao Zak earl thres, le a sue, ter O'Oommi. Mawr Tea Mg the we the lee eke of Mr. Augustine War. Owa male& at the rime et the prit, while the crowd waited a ham the fain anewmed, a ealbrita petrol, rodhaap to his weresage Or Walter Seoul dersetplea et Us. Wald' Maeldewmik aserwiest to. hustings, awl to • robot •••••••ei that a While had that day lead lIM Groans and cries of "shame'" burr from the crowd. " Silence!" acid the priest, " the hand of God has struck him; he has just died of apoplexy. Pray for Ma Rout." The whole multitude knelt down, and • prayer was muttered In sob and tears. The announcement WWI correct; the wretched man was so affected by hacieg v.ded, he bettered, against his conscience sad bLa country, that he sunk under the feeling. On the Math day Mr. Pitegerald resigned the erten, and O'Connell was re Ib coneequen.es of this victor:s were momentous : aggregate meeting. were held In varier ports of the country, at which many, both of the protestant and catholic aristocracy, attended, and took the pledges dictated by the Catholic Association. The ui pcaatt faction, which nevi to meet for battle an every holiday and every fair, met, under the guidance of the agitators, to tonneau thin: . feuds, and Join hands in amity. The tranquillity of Ireland was terrible. Mr. G. K. Daman announced himself a convert to emancipation; the more ardent protenanta formed Brunswick clubs, In which they emulated the violence, with. out exhibiting the eloquence, of the Colle Amociation. Minster, bad to choose between emancipation and civil war. The Duke of Wellington, after a long and painful struggle, induced the King to consent that Catholi should be restored to their place in the coned. tution. Emanclpation had been delayed too long, and was at the last very ungraciously conceded. A stringent act was peened fur sup.~ peering the association; a miserable clause prohibited the eatholk prelates from taking the titles of their sees ; and, to gratify the spleen of George IV., the Emancipation Act woe so worded se to exclude O'Connell from his seat for Clare. Buell war the brewed measure of 1029; so concocted no to combine favour with insult—ea romagod m to show that the favour was extorted, and the insult designed.—Pp. 70-72. 4rillt THE CHEVALIER 10SCIII.—There was a great ga thering of artists and amateurs en Saturday evening at Mere. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi's, in Pall-malllEeast. The company was assembled to meet the Chevalier r.e-chi, the president of the academy of Parma, who is on a visit to this country to superintend the publication of a series of mutter ings from the works of Correggio at Parma. It is at Parma, as many will remember, that Correggio is on his throne. Some of his early works are on the walls of a saloon in the convent of St. Paolo, others of a later date on the cupola of St. Giovanni ; the perfection of his style is in the cupola of the Looms; and in the gallery are fire of his pictures, in cluding the famous St. Jerome. Correggio's pictures are well known. but the corregieseity of Correggio cannot be un derstood without a very careful examination of his frescoes. Few who visit Parma have hitherto paid much attention to these frescoes. Cupola decorations ore not easily seen, and the many are content to put their beads in the churches at Parma, look hurriedly about them, express their approbation , and then hasten oft fur Venice or Vienna. That Correggio was never greater than in his frescoes at Parma any one must at once admit, who saw the beautiful watercolour copies by the Chevalier Toschi, with which the Meier,. Colnagki had decorated their rooms on Saturday. In the saloon in the Convent of St. Paolo, Correggio painted Diana returning from the chase in a car drawn by white stags, and on the ceiling a vine-arbour with ovals and lunettes, filled with all the playful and thoughtful beauty of his style. In the church of St. Giovanni he poiattd the "Ascension of Christ," and in the cupola of the Doom° the " Assumption of the Viruin." These fine works are fast going to decay—the pleat , r has cracked, and plats have fallen from the walls. I'hi • a is, therefore, every reason to fear that, without the art of the engraver, these noble examples of Correggio's best period and style will be irrecoverably lost to us. The Chevaliet Toschi has not begun his work too soon—nor is he without encouragement As h;01 labours. The drawings have boon bought by the Archduchess Maria Louisa. and the president of the academy of rnrma has now undertaken to extend the reputation of Correggio by engraving the series in a size and style commensurate to their merits. Sit are already executed—the Diana and two of the vine-arbour ovals and lunettes, in the saloon of St. Paolo ; the lunette of St. Jobs the Evangelist ; a group of the apostles watching the ascen sion of the Saviour; and a St. John and a St. Augustine ; all from the cupola of St. Giovanni. The series deserves the fullest encouragement, no much for the skill displayed in the engraving as the pride and love which dictated the preserva tion and extension of so much that is beautiful and exalting in art. LOVGII'd STATUE OF PRINCE ALBERT.—Mr. Lough has just completed his marble statue of Prince Albert, for the interior of the New Royal Exchange, and on Satur day last invited his friends and toe critics to a private view of it at his studio, in Harevrood-square. It is better than his marble statue of the Queen, in the centre of the qua drangle of the Exchange—but in no way very remarkable, or, indeed, worthy of what people affect to call the ad vanced position of art at this time. It it a standing statue, and in action remiods one of Chantrey's first statue, his George 111., in the council-room at the Guildhall. But Chantrey is broad and bold in treatment, as if he was aware he was working in marble, while Lough has wrought as if he had no better material than porcelain, and the statue, when finished, was to be surmounted by a large glass shade. Surely the neck is too long, and the standing collars of the coat in Mr. Wyatt's or Madame TUVII/Gre style, and wholly at variance with the principles of the bi,t times of the hest schools. It is right to add that the statue is very bexiti fully carved. .fnufstr. THE ROYAL ITALIAN6FiRA " Ercani " was performed at Covent-garden on Saturday evening. We had been led, fur some time past, to expect that the next novelty at this theatre would be the " Nimes di Figaro" of Mozart ; but, in place of one of the masterpieces of the greatest of dramatic composers, we have got a repetition, with new performers, of one of the feeblest productions of the present degenerate Italian school. This is not the kind of management the public has bad reason to expect. We were promised the greatest works of the lyrical drama, per formed in the completest manner. To the manner of per formance, during the season, we have had, on the whole, little to object. But the selection of operas has been no im provement whatever on that which has been so often made matter of reproach in the management of her Majesty's Theatre. Indeed, Covent.garden Ins confined itself entirely to the old worn-out riperlotre of the Haymarket, with the single exception of the, " Italian in Algieri," one of the poorest of Rossini's pieces, which turned out all but a total failure. Of Mozart, the only opera produced has been " Don Giovanni," a piece which has been performed at her Ma jesty's Theatre several times (very season fur many years past. The lesson is now drawing so near its close, that the public are in a condition to judge how far the promises made at its commencement have been fulfilled. It is quite evi dent, not merely that th'y have not, but that they can not now be fulfilled ; no time remains for their accompl ish " Reliant " having been already performed at Loth houses previous to this last performahce on Saturday, we have had more occasions than we desired of expressing our opinion of its merits, or rather its demerits; and we elnid not, there fore, say another word upon the subject. Its second produc tion at Covent Garden had two novel features—the &Lel of Steffauoni in the character of Elrira, and the appear ance of Mdlle. Alboni in that of Don Carlos. Mdlle. Stet fanoni is a performer of merit, but without any striking cha racteristic either as an actress or a singer. Her appearance is pleasing ; her action if, intelligent, though deficient in the tragic power necessary for some of the situations ; her voice is good ; her execution, on the whole, satisfactory ; and her style that of a cultivated musician. She is, in short, • per former very capable of doing justice to a go od: part not de manding the highest trestle genius, and to music possessed of intrinsic excellence. But she is not • Oriel, to convert a feeble outline into a powerful picture, and to clothe a trite melody with charms not its own ; hence, it was injudicious, we think, to bring her forward in this character. She was mach applauded, however, and her reception was deci dedly favourable. Mdlle. Alboni's tall and somewhat mas culine figure and deportment, were well suited to the part of Don Carlos; her male attire was picturesque and becom ing, and she looked the Spanish cavalier admirably. The music, which properly belongs to • baritone, sung by her an octave higher, was not unsuitable to her deep contralto voice, and was executed with consummate beauty and excellent effect. As to the fine orchestra and chorus of this theatre, their powers are thrown away upon Verdi's unnonous psalmody and noisy accompaniments. THE CAMBRIDGE INSTALLATION ODE,--The Ode, written by Mr. Wordsworth, the poet-laureat, and set to music by Mr. Walmisley, the professor of music at Cam bridge, which is to be performed to-morrow as part of the ceremonial of the installation of H.R.H. Prince Albert, as Chancellor of tho University of Cambridge, was rehearsed on Saturday morning at the lisnover-equare Rooms. It was more like a public performance than a rehearsal; the great room being completely filled with auditors, and all the per formers, principal ringers, band, and chorus, being present. The solos were sung by Miss Birch, Mime Dolby, lir. Lackey, and Mr. Phillips; the orchestra contained the dire of oar intrzutneutwlieds, and the chorus was atrong and etlsctive. The poem (from which, previous to its performance, we cannot make any extracts) possesses considerable beauty, and handles with felicity the vicious topics of courtly compli ment which obviously present themeelves on such an *eva sion, though the execution of such • task is rather cut of the way of the author of "The Excursion." As an ode written expressly to be set to music, it labours under the objection of not being at all lyrical, In ord.. to write with effect a poem for such a purpose, it is neceessry that the poet shall have in view, and be able to form, at least a general con ception of the musical form which it is to assume ; that cer tain stanzasshall be written with a view to declamation, others to melodious snug, and others to choral harmony. But of all this Mr. Wordsworth does not appear to have had the slightest ides ; and the composer, when he set about his teak, seems to have pieced it off into a number of lengths, making one a recitative, another an air, a third • quartet, mid • fourth a chorus, almost at random, there being nothing in the vanes tneinselve• to guide his choice. Such being the difficulties Mr. Walmisley has had to encounter, he is entitled to great praise for the manner in which, we will not say he has conquered, but con tended with them. As might be expected, he is most sateessfel in hie choruses, and least happy in his airs. It is established as a principle in music, deduced from the practice of every great composer, that an air must be the vehicle of a sentiment or passion couched in the fewest and simplest word., which are dwelt upon and reiterated by the musician with various shades of expression, their force and pathos being eahareed by every recurrence. A long narrative, or series of reflections, is wholly unfit to be made the subject of an air. The lecture bestowed on the royal chancellor, on the duties of his high office, in some twenty or thirty grave and solid lines, will not be the mom imaressive from being delivered in smooth sing-song throug h : the lips of Him Dolby. All such airs must necessarily cold, incoherent. and tedious no composer can make them otherwise. The choruses, supposed to speak the collective sentiments of a body, are morn manageable, and some of them are treated with great ability and power. The chorus, in parttcu ies lar, " War is mercy, glory, fame ;" that which accompan the soprano solo," A guardian angel fluttered;" and the grand choral beide, we are convinced, will produce a very great effect in the Senate House of Cambridge. There is, also, • quartet far the principal singers, in hie mantle's sunniest fold," which is full of beautiful har mony. The whole composition does great honour to the talent, of of 7 th ii e p dis ur ti e ngu and ish rat ed C l ar.. 4 b iemiaing ridge - Profemo va reoftaMousioimi 1