The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

opENINO OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. y es terday was a memorable day on the banks of the ivy , having been chosen for the triple purpose of she new docks at Birkenhead, the splendid new oulPe6ik,nsag tithe extension lice of the Chester and Birkenhead b ra y to the sleeks. The docks to be opened on this te ✓mini were the Woodside and Bridge-the en Pd.rince the joint Doc accom wadi= of which is equal to 's kat lentrol- Immediately adjoining these docks are the extensive ware. kenhead Dock Company ; twelve of which, bosses of th e 13 r en h capable of storing 4,000 bales of cotton, are already pleted. These warehouses are two stories in height, and when finished will form three long tiers, running rectangn. torn from the shore. The extension line of railway to the docks, affords ', t ook' and advantages which few railways or docks mjee. From the main line branches run along each Side of the warehouses: one side will be made available Sir the storing of goods by vessels just arrived—the other lee co nveying goods to vessels loading for sea. The rails Te n to close, that the goods can be hoisted direct from, or lowered into, the trucks, and thus all confusion and necessity lor es ning will be avoided ; neither will there be delay nor heard from exposure on the quays. The docks were opened in person by Lord Morpeth, chief mumissioner of Woods and Forests. His lordship sy nced in Liverpool about ten o'clock in the forenoon. A *K iel train, with Lord Lincoln, Lord Monteagle, and ether vieitors, left Loudon about six in the morning, and arrived in Birkenhead at twelve o'clock. Shortly after that hour the Lords Commissioners, with other distinguished guess, the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners, the Birkenhead Im provement Commissioners, the Directors of the Birkenhead D e ek (Warehouset) Company, the Directors of the Sicken hod. L enei shire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, and the Directors of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, embarked it Monk's Ferry on board the Lord Warden, a handsome sew iron steamer. Six pieces of artillery were ported along t h e qua ; and the steamer, which was beautifully de , started amid music, the roar of cannon, e nd the cheers of 013 spfetators. After steam ing about a mile up the river, the boat returned, sad, similarly saluted in its proems, slowly entered the ens docks, and moored alongside the south wall of the Bridge-end Dock ; after which the party repaired to the sew warehouses to partake of a cf. je iner , at which 800 ladies sad gentlemen sat down. The weather was serene : flags and streamers floated from every available spot: the terry steamers were erowded : Liverpool poured its throng to the opposite bank. A more animating spectacle than the river presented, it would be impossible to conceive. Four of the warehouse rooms, each 140 feet long and AO feet side, were beautifully and tastefully fitted up for the festival with pink and white drapery. The walls and roofs were lined with fluted drapery. The reception-room was adorned with a magnificent cascade, which poured out a crystal jet 'midst a profusion of choice conservatory plants sad ilowers. Joseph Bailey, jun., Esq. M.P., occupied the chair; John Laird and Wm. Potter, Emirs., the vice chairs. After the toasts—the Queen. the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, sad the test of the Royal Family, the Army and Navy, the Bishops and Clergy of the Diocese, and the Lord-Lisutenant of the county had been given, with the usual honours), the Chairman proposed the hearth of Lord Viscount Morpeth. He thanked the noble lord, not only in the name of the two boards of directors sad the dock commissioners, and those who bad taken a direct interest in the prosecution of these works, but also in the name of the public, for having given kis sanction to the proceedings of that day by his presence. The noble lord's public career had now been of some considerable duration, and his public character so well known that it would be needless for him to enlarge upon it. His private worth was also as conspicuous as his public virtues, and he felt great pleasure in doing honour to them. (Hear.) It might not be inappropriate to remark, as they were on the shores of the Money, that the noble lord had recently visited a country which was the most intimately connected with us by com mie*, and from which we were now drawing largely our necessary supplies of food. In that country the noble lord had hod the oppo.tunity of witnessing the energies of that great people the Americana—(hear)—of seeing the fertility of their soil, and of judging to what extent our commercial rektions with them might be carried. He honoured the noble lord for having devoted his leisure in that most useful field, instead of in visiting countries, no doubt interesting in themselves, but not so important to be known to a man who was a servant of the craven and a British statesman. (Hear, bear.) The presence of the noble lord, who had more than once enjoyed the confidence of his sovereign, and was now a cabinet minister, stamped the works on the shores of Wallasey Pool, on the west banks, with that degree of I nationality which their warmest friends claimed for them, but which the _ public at large might not be willing I to concede. (Hear, hear.) Those works were not undertaken for the benefit of a few individuals merely, but partook of a national character. When they adjourned from that room it would be to open the Birkenhead Park • for such a duty no more appropriate person cou l d be selected than the noble lord. Knowing the warm interest he had always taken in the sanitory condition, the health and com fort of the people, and the improvement of towns, he wee sere the noble lord would feel gratified to see a park devoted to the health and recreation of the people in the midst of these piles of buildings which were extending in every direc tion around it. (Hear, hear.) On an occasion like the present, when no political feeling interfered, but where men of all parties were met together to celebrate the opening of a great national work, he was sure they would all unite iu doing honour to the toast. (Hear, hear.) It was his mis fortune to sit on the opposite side of the House of Commons from that occupied by the noble lord ; but neither he nor any other gentleman who sat there could fail to pay to the noble lord's character that respect to which it was entitled. (Hear, hear.) He gave them the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Morpeth. (The tout was drank with three times three.) The cheering having subsided, - - - Lord MORPETH said, Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentle men, I assure you that I feel most sensibly the more than kind and cordial manner in which this toast has been re ceived. (Hear.) Ever since I have been called to the office I have now the honour to hold, and which connects me with the property of the crown, I have fat the strongest in terest in the rising fortunes of Birkenhead • nor is it unna tural that I should do so, foryou are probably aware, that be sides the general parental interest which the crown may be mimed to take in the welfare of all that are represented by the abstract idea of its subjects, it has also motives not so pe culiarly abstractor disinterested for wishing well to the poet and town of Birkenhead. I avow this the more readily, because it is quite obvious that the proportion in which the undertakings here set on foot can become profitable to the crown, must be according to the degree in which they are made valuable for the aceornmo• dation of commerce and for the public good. (Hear, ar.) As a well wisher, then, to the public, and as a servant of the crown, as an admirer of courageous enterprise and suc cessful perseverance (hear, hear), I find a combination of claims upon me for doing, in combination with my col lapel by whom I am most willingly and zealously seconded, and in pursuance of that example which has been set to me my predecessors in the same office—(cheers)—all that id us lies to promote, on all legitimate grounds, the perma nent prosperity of Birkenhead. (Cheers.) With these tether, then, you may judge with how keen • re l ish, with what lively emotion, I partake In all the proceedings of this day. (Loud cheers.) We bear sometimes of the old gala days of Venice, when the Doge went forth in his golden galley to plight his faith to the wave which bathed his palaces—(hear)—but we have seen something this day beyond even the dreams of Venice. For instance, such an array of steamers as has to-day graced the Mersey, never could have been witnessed in Venice ; and though perhaps a steamer, when viewed by itself, may notbe so picturesque an object as a gondola, I may yet remind you that even in the palatiest days of her pomp, and her argosies, Venice never could have sent forth a message which in ten days might reach thee* harbours and roadsteads of the new world where her flag shall think it, if amongst the first uses of that simple basin into which our vessel to-day has been the first to glide, sur rounded by all those striking specimens of engineering skill and admirable masonry, we should apply those works to the admiration of the surplus harvests of more favoured regions, and make provision for the bread which keepeth alive. (Hear, hear.) Next in the progress of time—l hope in the course of this very autumn—you will be able to bear your part in accommodating the timber trade. I will not proceed further iii those long vistes of usefulness, of enterprise, and Of "mess, which, I trust, will stretch out before the future prospects of Birkenhead, and to which I hope the proceed ings of this day will have given an auspicious commence ment, and a powerful impuiee. (Hear, hear.) I would jest express • hope in passing that the best feeling and the hest understanding will always prevail between you and the great city immediately opposite you. (Cheers.) Liverpool divides with London the supremacy of the commerce of the modern world, and as London could only feel benefited by the expansion of Southwark, Liver pool can never have cause to repine at the growth of Birken heed. Believe me, gentlemen, and I hope all on the other side of the water will believe me too, that if over your own wide Mersey was thoroughly walled by a double wall of docks and warehouses, there will not be more than room for the corn, the cottoa,and the forests of the western hernia- Pftera (Hear, hear.) And I trust you have this day forged • new and an abiding link to that chain of amity which ought ever to connect England with America. I feel this not the time to dilate further on these points. It is well known the attractions of Birkenhead are not limited to its water frontage, and that if the genius of a Bendel has completed its docks, the skill of a Paxton has laid out its pleasure -grounds. (Hear, hear.) Nor will my most resent occupation permit me to forget that this is one of the first plates which has begun a systematic attention to the physical comforts of the vast numbers of workmen it calls together, and the important subject of public health. With this assurance about us and around us, I feel that the meant of to-day, even when its gaieties shall have paned away and its shouts are silent, will still give us grounds for remembrance that it has not been • triumph which gathers its trophies from the strife of nations and the arts of destruction that it has cot been a mere unmeaning sacrifice to frivolity std dissipation, but that it has struck its roots deep in public usefulness, and will bear rich fruits of peace and Progress through coming ages. (Cheers.) The seat toast given was, The County Members." Sir P. Eoserost, M.P., returned thanks. Two years ago only he had attended the preliminary proceeding en the commencement of the works which they had now assembled to open to their uses, He had not expected so soon to wit ness the fulfilment of their hopes, though he had never been influenced by those who said that they might as well propose to build docks in the air u at Birkenhead. lle congratulated the commis s ioners upon having, while Pftviding for the commercial improvement of the town, been equally attentive to the religious instruction, the health, and comfort of the poor. Formerly there was a couplet— Tromßlrkenhead to Mlb I,7 4 ±t;c7..CiWe to tree. Ere long he hoped they might read it thus: Vrom Birkenhead to Kilterce ,‘" Zip may nailfrom Me rsey to Dee. The Earl of LINCOLN proposed the next tout—" The commerce of the Mersey," a duty which devolved upon him in consequence of the absence of Sir T. Fremantle, the Chairman of the Customs. His noble friend had said that Liverpool and London divided the commerce of the United Kingdom. Ile believed the commerce of the Mersey, as re presented by Liverpoool, not only equalled, but by the most recent accounts, exceeded that of London itself. (Hear, hear.) And from this auspicious date he had no doubt that ' that increase would go on until, in a few years, the port of Liverpool would be equal to any two or three in the kingdom, London included. He had been in formed that coals had been that gay sent from Wales by the new railway to be shipped on board a , steamer already lying in these docks. An American vessel too, he understood, wu now in the port, principally laden with guano, the cargo of which would be sent back by the same railway, and probably, ere nightfall, be spread over the fields. (Hear.) lie could not but express a fervent hope that the introduction of this fertilising agent on this occasion might be taken as an auspicious omen of an abundant harvest. The noble earl, after some more eloquent observations, formally proposed the toast, which wu drunk with enthn. slum. . . . The other touts were—" The Mayor of Manches'er ; " "'The Chairman ~• pro posed by Lord Morpeth; "The Birkenhead Docks;" ' The Dock Warehouse Company ;" " The Guests of the Day ;" " Mr. Rendall, the engineer* I and Mr. Paxton, the designer, of the New Park:" " The Railway Interest connected with Birkenhead;" "The Cheshire Witches," &o. &c. After the riejethier, Lord Morpeth, accompanied by several distinguished guests, proceeded to open the New Park, which has been formed with a wise foresight to the future wants and genitor, condition of the population of Birken head, at a east of 127,7711. The park was during the day the scene of great rejoicing and festivity, and in the evening there was a gorgeous dis play of fire-weeks. The day at Birkenhead, and indeed partly at Liverpool, was observed as a holiday; and the workmen at the Birkenhead Docks, 2,000 in number, each received a day's wage. Later in the evening a ball and sup per took place in the Dock warehouse, which had been appropriately fitted up for the occasion, at which were pre sent the majority of the principal persons who had attended the previous proceedings. PJ_ Taus _ =..T!!_ co,e i..ei ...._...„.~....._...„.._.__....... alias Imprest ig =ofter Warp Repayments at Advames Total Income (anninate~l arfeM on Woof 111 isms as MOW IWO AponadloOludia. Twd. sank& ((Advances Ditto am Moms Do.apponmannatorlimmagailtntoons of the year Told INCOME. cam. Emile .................... Stamps Taws Property Tax ..... Past Office Crawit Leads bnprat and other Moneys Repayments of Anymore iisell 473,11811 iii:.2".T?ol 47,041,899 750,659 170,646 1,516,667 4!.480,4541 Ix_roll 12,373,187 440,000 73,939 111,607 The INCOME end CHARGE of the CONSOLIDA7 To Cash brought to this Account, being the ring Instil!mint d Lem of Elgin Millions 03,961,919 1,641,800 1,665,868 146,112 1,963,882 215,000 45,000 91,522 52,909 456,472 PRUSSIAN SYSTEM OF EDUCATION. Dr. Schmitz, head master of the High School of Edinburgh, has published the (cawing letter in the Scots man. It corrects some of Mr. Baines's blunders: was not a little surprised to find that after so many able explanations which have recently been published in this country about the working of the Prussian system of education, there still are men of talent and intelligence, and, what is worse, men coming forward to instruct the public on matters of education, who display an utter ignorance of the system which they revile. Mr. Baines, in his address to the Edinburgh meeting, on the governmentscheme of education, is reported to have said that in the continental states in which a government system of education is established, the government take into their hands both the pulpit and the press. He does not seem to be aware of the fact that both the pulpit and the press were in the hands of those govern ments long before their system of education was thought of, and that one of the first fruits of their very system of edu cation was an attempt, in several parts of Germany, to emancipate the pulpit and the press from the hands of the government. The struggle has been going on ever since the year 1819, and every one who reads newspapers must know that at this moment, in consequence of the general diffusion of education, the people in that country are more clamorous for religious and political liberty than they Lave ewe been, and that in some instances great objects have already been gained. The government system of education, therefore, far from having, even in Germany, and under despotic governments, checked the growing desire for religious and political liberty, has, on the contrary, conjured up these very spirits, for whose safety, in a free country, our orators are so much alarmed. Every day furnishes fresh examples of the truth of what I have here stated. I have now been in Great Britain for a great many yeah, and have from the first kept a watchful eye upon the educational establish ments of the country ; if I had time to draw up • statistical and comparative table, I might give you some very curious facts, to show the different standards and the different ex tension of education in this and continental countries, which would, perhaps, not turn out very flattering to Scotland. and still less to England. But as it is, I shall confine myself to a few general observations. When I speak of continental countries, I mean more especially Prussia, in which the system of government education has been carried cut more fu than in any other state. While in England and Scot land a very large number of people of the lower classes are ,till unable to read and write, you will find that in Prussia scarcely one in twenty is ignorant to nho same ex tent, although the system has hardly been in operation for thirty yearn. As for the qualifications of teachers, both male and female, we can scarcely make a compa rison at all, for in this country they are admitted either without any examination at all, and on the mere re commendation of Kind friends, or the examination is of the very slenderest and lowest kind. I have been present at some, and been obliged to act the part of examiner at others, and in each case I have been amazed at the little which satis fied the patrons of schools. lam not singular in expressing this opinion ; it is one of the main reasons which have re cently led the more intelligent teachers in Ireland, England, and Scotland, to form associations for the purpose of raising the standard of education. The teachers themselves are be ginning to feel that their profession is degraded by the igno rance attune that are admitted into it. A person who in this country is regarded as a very fit teacher, would, in Prussia, scarcely be admitted as a student into a normal school. He would have to remain in it at least three years, to make himself acquainted not only with all the various subjects be has to teach, but also with the different methods of teachinz ; hat is, he must make himself thoroughly acquainted with the theory of his professioa—a thing which is scarcely known by name in this country. The subjects which the master has to teach, independent of religious instruction, are reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography, botany, zoology, drawing, singing, and all those branches which are calcu lated to make the children fill with propriety the station in life which they are likely . to occupy, for which reason there is some slight difference an the subjects taught in the schools of towns, and in those of rural districts. In the schools for the higher and middle classes, the same attention is paid to the probable future calling of the TToaths ; those who prepare themselves for the learned pno~aMma attend the gymnasia, where they go through • mum of aiming which lasts eight years, and during which dustman make themselves tho roughly 'acquainted with the *Wed Imig=f it al , tief o ltz, one living language, history, gsra natural philosophy, botany, , and some WSW subjects. Those again who are to engage in com merce or any of the practical palmate of life, have their Burger, or Heal-Schulen, in which tie principal subjects of instruction are the living languages, history, geography, natural philosophy, mathematics, elleasistry, drawing, te. Now, I ask you in which of our schools can this kind, or this amount, of information be obtained? and can a population trained in these branches, and trained not in a mere mecha nical way, but in a manner calculated to rouse their think ing and intellectual powers, be said to be trained for religious or political slavery? Experience says No! I for one feel the strongest conviction that a reasonable government sys tem of education in this free country would confer upon the population blessings far beyond those which most people anticipate, and certainly greater blessings than were and are attainable in despotic countries.—l. SCHNUTZ.—Edinburgh, April 1, 1847. THE ROYAL HOSPlTALS.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor attended at Christ's Hospital uponthe occasion of the preaching of the first Spital sermon at Christ's Church. A true report of the number of children and other poor people maintained in the several royal hospitals of the City of London under the care of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and governors thereof the year last put, was presented to him. Tan BRITISH MUSEUM.—Yesterday the British Museum was visited by 36,128 persons. otwithstanding the exertions that kad been made, the grand entrance and staircase could not be completed for the admission of the public. A MONUMENT TO LORD BYON AT MISSOLONOUI is spoken of, to be erected on ths site of the DOW demolished house in which the ebampion-bard died. The proprietor has offered the ground for the purpose, and a handsome sub scription towards the work has been commenced. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENINC4, APRIL 6, 1847. 1846, and in the Yi Oct. IN MOS. 44uartes4 want ese ended Arsi4l7s., -----,1 Jan, 5, April 5, IM7. 1847. 5,310,333 4,514,721 4, 4 17, 073 10.798,6291 4,141,926 3,008,133 1.937, 12,547,63,1 1,774,364 1,740,687 7,917,29 7,062,528, 209,940 1,909,999 130, 1 ,92 4,257,148 1,972,129 450,219 2,033,072 5,461,341 217,000 203,000 219,009 620,000 43,000 50,000 37, 112,000 177,910 29,657 92,593 319,101 13,669,103 12,496,333 10,430,377 49,379.001 227,644 .... 667,641 23,915 31,564 . 33, 193,49; 199,682. 1 302,441 164, 779,508 14,350,441 12,520,671 10,043,004; 51.019,633 7,817,43.5 8,613,594 3,287,6011 27,917,074 472.5001 537,500 2,940, 4,341,301 ow l 6,2110,509 3,367,273 5,061,18 19,720,076 14,330,4441 ttstunll it,i the QUARTIIII ended April 5, 1846, CHARGE. I im0.,79.1 7 , 1t! , ??.!I 'a4oi 4,315,7: 3.111 1,078,017 10,200,414 510,2W,314 30,433,681 1,406478 17,62E019 4,447,673 1,665,471 1,117.282 130,892 2,033,072 219,000 37,000 92,393 33,839 1134,3611 10,1381,417 980,000 511,11,11,4t7 13,19f4,7331 8.4'.5!1 ." - 91,74511 4,631,0911 nmeassl FUND, IRELAND. 41,978,632 ' Total Charge ..... ...... The Surplus - DUI3LIN,.APRIL . 4. An important letter appears in the Galway Mercury, of Saturday, addressed by Mr. Trevelyan to J. H. Towel, R.N. It contains instructions for Mr. Towel's guidance on taking charge of the Odin, with a cargo of aced, on behalf of the British Associa tion. Mr. Towell is to proceed first to Galway, where he is to communicate with the local author'- ties, and offer the several descriptions of seed for immediate sowing at the following ready-money prices :—Oats, 20s. per barrel of 14 stones ; barley, 255. per do. ; peas, 50s. per quarter ; beans, 40s. per do. ; white stone turnip seed, 258. per b ushel ; all other kinds, 355. per bushel; onion seed, 3s. per pound. On leaving Galway, the Odin will proceed round to Clifden and Westport, and thence to Bal mullet, in all which the same course will be pursued as at Galway. A discretionary power is left to visit intermediate places without danger to the ship. Any seeds remaining unsold in Balmullet are to be trans ferred to the commissariat officer in charge of the dep6t. Mr. Towell is earnestly requested to use all expedition, as the sowing-time is fast running by. Along the western coasts they sow oats so late as the Ist of May. The Odin will be a welcome guest. The finance committee under the new Relief Act were engaged all day yesterday at the Mansion Rouse revising the lists of the destitute presented by the general committee on the day previous. Mr. o•Donoghoe, the relief-inspector, was most efficient in forwarding the labours of the committee. The Bete for all the wards in the North Dublin Union were gone through by six o'clock p. m., and the esti mate of the amount necessary for their relief corn pleted. The commissioners have applied to the treasury, as directed by the act, for a sum of 14,0001. for three months. The estimate was, I understand, forwarded, together with the report of Mr. O'Dono ' ghee, to the lord-lieutenant by last night's post, as that gentleman was determined nothing he could do to further the operation of the act should be left un- I done. The committee anticipate that the sanction of the treasury will be immediately accorded, and that relief, under the act, will be afforded on Saturday, the 13th instant, at the latest. Emigration is not less active in the south than in the eastern and midland counties. On Friday and Saturday four vessels sailed from Limerick with 1000 1 passengers, including many independent farmers — nearly all for British America. There are fifteen other vessels to sail in a few (lays from the same port. The southern landlords also contribute to the emigre don. Mr. Spaight, a Limerick proprietor, having obtained possession of some hundreds of small hold ings, shipped away 300 of the quondam owners to Canada. The colonising principle is beginning to attract attention in Ireland. Mr. Do Vere, brother of Sir Aubrey De Vere, and nephew of Lord Alonteagle, is going oat to Ca nada, and thence to the western states of America, to choose a settlement. In the early part of this unhappy season the Daily News recommended, amongst other things, that the mill ing power of the country should be increased, as it is now notoriously inadequate to our necessities. The ad vice, which was prudent and wholesome, was unheeded then ; but circumstances have enforced its wisdom, and I now learn from the Limerick paper that " several proprietors" are about to take measures to remove this obstruction to the effective distribution of the large arrivals of corn recently amongst the poor." The fact is that the slight fall in the price of manufactured corn in Limerick, notwithstanding the immense arrivals in port, arises from the inadequacy of milling . power, as will be apparent from the fact that the price of manufac ture of a ton of Indian corn, which in Cork is from 16s. to 205., is in Limerick 245. to 255. In Belfast, Indian corn sells at W. a ton. The arrivals there are immense. At an auction of Mauritius sugars in Limerick on Thursday, prices averaged 51s. 6d. to 53s dd. the cwt. _ _ The guardians of the poor of Galway have applied to government to sanction the payment of interest on a loan of 3,000/., as they are unable to collect a new rate. The government is, however, averse to permit guardians to borrow on interest, as it tends to limit the exertions they may be disposed to make to collect the rates. There are 939 paupers in the house, of whom 136 are in hospital. The cost of maintenance is 2s. each per week. A large brush factory was burned down in Limerick on Friday night last. The premises were c ivered by insurance to the extent of 3,0001. REPBAL AND FANINB.—The famine has taught the em pire an important lesson as to Irish Repeal. For many years put, that country his been convulsed, and the empire bsrassed by the loud and threatening demand for the repeal of the union, and the incessant outcry that the Irish people are perfectly equal to the duties of self-government, and that all their distresses have been owing to the oppression of the &MOD. The wind of adversity has blown, and where are these menaces nowt Had Providence punished them by granting their prayer—had England cut the rope, es Mr. Roebuck said, and let them go, where would Ireland have been at this moment? Drifting away on the ocean of star ration. Let this teach them their dependence upon their neighbours, and let another fact open their eyes to what those neighbours are. England has replied to the senseless clamour, the disgraceful ingratitude, by voting ten millions sterling in a single year to relieve the distresses which the heedlessness and indolence of the Irish had brought upon themselves. We say advisedly, brought upon themselves. For, mark-worthy circumstance! the destruction of the potato crop has been just u complete, and the food of the people has been just ea entirely swept away in the West Highlands of Scotland, u in Ireland, but there has been no errant of public runty to Scotland. The cruel Anglo- Saxons have given it all to the discontented, untaxed Gael in the Emerald isle.—Blackwood's Magazine. 2,410,1 872.: aad 1847. 718.787 1 315,15.5! Permanent Debt Terminable Annuities Intension Exchequer BM* Woad Isnot Orro at Orksiiiii Pad Sinking Fund The Civil List Other Charges cm the COMolidated Fund For Advances, including £7,300,000 in pram& 4kostir Inks/. per Act 9 k 10 Vic. cap. 107 3,631,691 1,314,333 114,410 116,065 136,705 146,000 11ea 7 4 01 I.7UASS nia,xso,stt The Surplus of ittiCIIIIC on Jan. 5 , 1817, lifter providing for theehargea ot that Quarter, "s 1 To which is to be added the surplus of the Consolidated Fund, es above gated, on the . . preurot Quarter - I The Amount baud in the Quarter ended sth April, 1817, of the Sumo granted by Par ! Ilament out of the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services The probable Amount of Exchequer Bills nquired to meet the charge on the Coma i dated Fund. Quarter 'ruled Sth April', 1841 5,594,907 1,310,291 711,577 911,235 337,814 2,910,000 10,992,636 626,7R1 11,621,117 ,363,43 S 828.781 1,994,138 3,464196 3,466,9q0 Mr. M'D. raises other 5,0001., which, judging from his past success, there is little doubt the rev, gentle man will soon be able to do. In Aberdeen, where industrial schools first commenced in Scotland, their efficiency, if not existence, has been jeopardied by jealousies which have sprung up between the Esta blished and Free Church Clergy. There is now, however, sonic prospect of concord. The Edinburgh Destitution Fund is reported to day as amounting to 68,0831. 2s. Hitherto there has been no regular steam commu nication between Scotland and the Continent, which in future will be obviated, as a screw steamer, being the first of a class to run between Leith, Hamburg, and Rotterdam, arrived at the former port last Thursday. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, APRIL 3. The Edinburgh voluntary ministers are to deliver a course of lectures against the government scheme of education. At the Glasgow meeting, to hear Mr. Baines, the Rev. Mr. D'Orsey, of the High School, in reply to a taunting allusion to an anonymous letter in the Scots man, acknowledged the authorship, and challenged Mr. Baines to a public discussion, either then or on some future occasion, to which that gentleman re turned an evasive answer. It is understood that an other Glasgow meeting will be held, when dir:cusaion will be permitted. The Free Church is taking steps for the enlargement of the Macdonald school fund. About three years ago, the Rev. Mr. Macdonald un dertook the duty of raising 50,0001. by subscription, payable by instalments extending over five years, for erecting 500 schools in connexion with that body. At that time there were 500 churches, and it was desir able that 500 schools should be attached to them. He raised the 50,0001. in six months, and without going over the whole of his intended ground. No place which he visited subscribed leas than 100 L—even Shetland had given its 1001. There were three rates of subscriptien—ld., 3d., and 6d. :—the first, Id. for each school; the second, 3d.; and the third, 6d. per annum. As churches are increasing, and deaths occurring, he has been commis sioned by the Free General Assembly again to resume his tour. One hundred friends have offered 501. each additional to their present subscrip tions, thus making a sum of 5,000!., for carrying further the end in view, bat on the condition that •OON A 414 la 1817. I B . "° I 23,230 111 . ,e03 315,153 Dcd. Deer. Increue 1111 llouter 7 m 7 .11 eiiiel - An!. 1.071 1 777,677 950 12,411,5181 59,282 ...-.• 11,0001 71, - eii 41,215 738,361 872,288 Ded Derr. beereme ad tke year 2,387,806 22,631 WALES. A BOILER EXPLOSION attended with loss of life occurred onThunday, on board the Troubadour, which trades between Swansea, Bristol, and Liverpool. The vessel had just arrived at the Mumbles, and turned off her steam, when one of the principal tubes of the toilers exploded, filling the engine-nom with scalding steam, which rose in a dense cloud, and was seen from the shore. Two men were below at the moment, and their sufferings were frightful. One of them rushed out of the d.or which communicated with the engine room, and fell ex:masted. The other mode for the ladder, with a view of getting on deck, but the scalding steam drove him backwan!s, and he sunk. When extricated their appearance was truly appalling—they were actually boiled. They were conveyed to the Swansea Infirmary, where one shortly died : the other remains in a dangerous condition. None oldie passengers sustained any injury. PROVINCIAL. _ YORKSHIRE. BREEDING AND BEED1;0 0E• CATTLE.—F. H. Fawkes, Esq., of Fernley Hall, has addressed a letter to the president of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, on the very impor tant subject of the proper encouragement of the rearing of horned cattle. Mr. Fawks s considers the principles adopted in awarding prizes in this department of farming pursuits arc seriously inimical to the reproductive and milking pro perties of cattle ; that the over-fed and "gaudy " condition of the animals " will prevent all usefulness in the cow, and is preparing the heifer fur no other power of profit to its owner than the prematurity of its prize beef, end the post humous, but very questionable, honours of the shamble'," He approves, on the ezperi .nee of 10 years' close attention to the hoed, of the society's judgment in sAecting as most deserving of patronage the improved Durham or short-horn breed, than which none "can be brought to an earlier or more profitable maturity of usefulness to the proprietor and the public, and none under rational treatment c •mbines so large an amount of the desiderata of butter and beef" But," Mr. Fawkes premeds, were It a point of any doubt or dispute whether the Melt hAnded earl the porpoise( reproduc tion were injured or set by that besity whiehom far from attempting to correct be Muir 'Moral temperament, me, through the medium of your judges' ellnelle, do all In your maw arOlsisft to I promote, I had sal peaselled the great rcluetaase that I Mk to Bid any fault with your premolinp, to be sußicient some Is weir Ise I o more protracted limes. Bee as I Mae reser had a dos hanitded , and sum REpoliar, as well es ZVI= practical men of the pest awls she primal agate Midi I havehed ; mew, mum am thathet tallsgaraldy mortraml, It Is lerwed, • show ceotlitiond the anima, as yes teml us leraything but that state of its is whisk whiter la thebeihrs ww, Worth the public, or Ms emir Bs posit ameba of his calling and hie • the present pries dai edged bed, so cos ermaory of the otkarielse imeeetone but VW the terms et settle In the ouuntu s heer i becoming lemehrlM mewl to the INNEIIINESI of the community, tt r ites that I ehoidd hesitate to denounce the &Teton Mt pee RN pealed In your aheolZ taxoniging a wasted the kid of Maria, sad a motet the of ma. And if that prematate md emdasitlag, a trebrossarAls, we ell know, to your show-mediMiny ken(en I that you game ohm It to be), mums:eery to the Meg gewlegmest of the frame and lane tiros of the adult female, a what glee, I wail eek, You, whose magemol object it is so to Mead Me operelieme of agriculture ' that the 'mica amount of peahen may he elowlead r the hest partible coat of producti.n,' justify*, gamma me then- wk ant only provoke to • waste of food s had ere, ia ahem of It which they en courage, converting nutriment has Omar • • • "I am ask you to retied of what useful kulesotien M tin pews home you are by the permissicat of this theerdeadltise degetthe your selves ; —for what em be mows Imonaws Ike the pow Mem to know, what more adrannameas ea him than IMAM AMER learn by a promo less costly Mon Me see tasted amalgam, beets select for purebam in the ler Me the mini that re sad Wen lated to realist his cascades ea their reeds Is the la earetets But it is not tha t :x 4 m imereemey Melee yewslwe, fa the awards of your et this limelientimtrantim to the young farmer that I re My hs esaaptsbr, bat that indeed et directing Ms to a right judgment. yea me misting !Ilia to a mews one, and teralting him to Immo OM raft else is requisite le szeenenee la the wow than whet is le miketica In the a: you are elm demblag him Of the sight, "OW abets, of the Mt ealmets for as Male far his gaiime in warts" er gterehas tgli=smemeed hie eird to the exis=gelm a r a Pardwa dam ask Is the spirit of Ile mere faul bls samarticae of a meaty. Be erm), ' , As nothing ea& be be the sagarimead ta aide are sem le Meet than the primes et a sambaed sad per* rolidelei Mule at seadhise, a MMg era be Wee dm Is maw sea meets eels mind a maned et mebeelss framed ef eingeltilm l,—am I would gs ferthsr„—frsea all et Memo Ws mar eltermerdu Such • Ms se this, rig~me e wed a It mot be, te be et say snag woahl assmarUy, I m atey slab temestibiliannany, beams trremedlebly fat, oßerwhe MOM, Mode; bet It le air* pregnable that these devil be mated, lha thr dera dwir eft/20ft se brew rod dew Mimi of whet tamtitates the elidea et the animal for repro ductive seal other unto' putymee, Mold be engrafted on the tanner . . . . In ceselnewn, Mr. Fawlms Eye that the show-yard shall be sionsible to all classes of exhibitors of cattle, and that the short horns shall be allowed to show the powers of general usefulness, of which he knows them to be capable, for the instruction of every condition of farmer. CLIPPED SILEEP.—A large number of clippe d sheep I I wldch were on their way to, or had arrived at, Rotherham market on Monday lost, received so much injury from the severe weather, in the abwoce of the ll.ece, that awes found necessary to slaughter them immediste".y. This circumstance shows the impropriety of early clipping, unless the state of the weather is of so mild a character as to justify such a proceediag. T5.,13 - 0 SS DIMINO A VIOLENT OALE on Friday night, two of the groins, established at great cost, as a breakwater for Sun derland Docks, were destroyed by the sea. They were formed of large stones, cemented together and clasped with iron; yet the water washed away two manes, each about twenty-five yards long. This untoward circumstance has created a great sensation in the town, Ella givea rise to fears that the final completion of the docks will be attended with great danger and expense; but as yet no official account of the accident has been given, and it is impossible to say whether the masonry has been insufficiently put together, or it Is one of these casualties which the greatest care cannot always prevent. The expense of repairing the breaches will be very considerable, but it will not fall 'Jinn the contractor, 14011THUMBEItLAND. TUN Eorcertote;:CilatZLOn Thursday evening, the 25th ult., a meeting was held at Bentham, at which the Itev. Messrs. Rogers end Shaw, and also other gentlemen, spoke in oondeennation of the government scheme, and a hck•tile re solution was moved and seconded. Before, however, it was put from the chair, Mr. Robb, of Rexham, stepped upon the platform, and vindicated the measure of the government. Oa a show of hands, the numbers were so nicely balanced that it was difficult to say on which side there was a pre ponderance, but a correspondent states that the resolution was lost. " Take it, however, which way they like," he observes, " the opponents of the government plan at Ben ham must look upon themselves as defeated, and that upon their own ground." ..... TEE FORCE or CREDIILITY.—At Stockport last week Hannah Butterworth was charged with using abusive lan guage to Elizabeth RoLimon. There had been a difference between them for some weeks, arising from an impression entertained by the defendant that the complainant bad a ring of hero A police-officer was applied to, and by ocular demonstration the defendant was convinced, at least for a time, that the ring worn by the complainant was not hers. Still haunted by the old impression, however, she applied to a fortuneteller, who told her that complainant had the ring, and, relying upon this statement, her prejudices against the complainant were so stimulated, that she continued the abnse with doable vigour, and hence the present summons. Legal ' gentlemen were engaged on both sides, but the matter was I at last settled by the defendant paying the costs, and pro milling not to offend again. THI DIME 07 P OSWI:WIZ L6n Sunday evening a servant arrived at the Chesterfield station with a message, to be conveyed, per electric telegraph, to Sir Benjamin Brodie, in London, requiring that gentleman's immediate attendance on his grace, in consequence of sudden and serious indisposition. Sir Benjamin arrived at Chesterfield in conseptence;the following morning about eleven, pro , ceeded to Welbeek, and departed again tor London yesterday, the noble duke being much better.—C/iesterjtelel Courier. LINCOLNSHIRE. SINGULAR Crsrau.—An exception to an old rule took place at the pariah church of Cantor on Sunday se'nnight. For very many years it has been the custom in that parish church to have a gad whip, with a purse tied to its lash con taining half-a-crown, flourished over the pastor's head during the service every Palm Sunday, by a man from Brooghton. This custom, however ridiculous wee under stood to be necessary, or the church, it was mid, would low f, an estate, left on condition that the custom be at all times " kept up on Palm Sunday]. Sir Culling Eardley Smith, and several other influentiil gentlemen, formerly tried to pre vent the gad being cracked, but finding it could not be legally laid on one side, they withdrew all opposition. How ever, on Sunday ae'nnigbt the gad was there, and the man was there ready to perform the usual ceremony, which caused an unusually large congregation to he thereto wi'ness the exhibition ; but through the interference of an individual it was not allowed to proceed. Thus ended a curious ens tom: whether legally or not, our informant cannot decide. LEICESTERSHIRE. AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.—On Friday evening week, about dusk, a man named Mugg, of Burton-on-the- Welds, having been to eec his brother, at Sherwool, near Nottingham, an returning home on the Flood-road, took it into his head to jump over the wall opposite the skinner's house, and mistaking the locality he fell, not upon the bank, as he intended, but into the canal. The water et that place is very deep; and, as he was unable to swim, his situation was one of extreme peril. He contrived, however, by dint of much struggling, to reach the side; but being near the *even arches, there is a smooth wall down to the water's edge, so that he was unable to get out. Fortunately, he found a corner in which there was a ledge sufficiently low for him to cling to ; and in that position he remained for tee or three hours. His shouts for help were not noticed by the paten by; or the place where the poor fellow was fixed was so removed from sight that it could not be ascertained whence the cries proceeded. At last, a person discovered Mugg's " whereebout," and immediately ' went to the Trent Bridge Inn for assistance. It was now quite dark, but four young men procured from the Trent side a light skiff, and launching it in the canal, proceeded to ' fetch him off. Some time was thus lost, for the boat had to' be carried a good distance over land ; and when they arrived at the spot, they found that some persons had let down a rope from the bridge close to him, hut he was so benumbed as to be quite unable to grasp it. He was, in fact, in the last stage of exhaustion, and there can be no doubt that had assistance been only a few mioutes later. he would have slipped from his hold and been drowned. He was with con siderable difficulty lilted into the boat and conveyed to the Union Inn, where he was put to bed. He had, however, so completely lost the use of his limbs that he was obliged to be earned into the house; nor was he able to utter a word. Every attention was paid him, and he at length recovered. HAMPSHIRE. HELPING SHE Poore.—H. Cook, Esq.. of Tithaley, last week bought a number of seeks of potatoes, at 18s. a sack, resolving to furnish each poor industrious man with one saik of three bushels; the land he allows them to have rent free. The only stipulation he makes with the recipients is, that all shall be planted, and if the crop be good the quan tity furnished to he returned; if not, the poor will have nothing to pay either for land or seed. sieeeseissiiimre ErAcrioN GOSSIP.—Two of the sitting members for this county are, it is said, desirous of retiring, and Col. Calvert, Mr. Hale , Spencer Cowper, Sir E. Bawer Lytton, and Mr. Bosanquet have, according to the Hertford Mercury, declined the honour of being placed in nomination. nevi sitions are now in course of signature, to be presented to Ur. Brand, • gentleman of Whig politics and much respected in the county; and should he consent to be a candidate his re turn is regarded as certain. LITERATLRE. Tanered. Thousands will read this book, for Mr. Disraeli's reputation is deservedly great ; but not twenty of those thousands will be either edified or amused by it. The first volume contains the usual baiting of the trap for the goi)emouches of the circulating, library. It presents the picture of a duke and a duchess, a princely mansion and domain, fine and fashionable company, with an insight into their cookery and domes tic habits. Sack is the bill of entertainment which Mr. Disraeli hangs before the door of his caravan, to entice the humble and numerous adorers of high English life to step in. No sooner, however, have they entered, and the door been clo sed behind them, than they are treated to a Judaic mystery, made up of personages, scenes, events, religion, and philosophy, all as unnatural, irrational, impossible, uninteresting, and disgusting, as can be conceived. Take Lord Palmerston's Blue Book on Syria—a 'subject on which we have been too well wearied ever to recur to; take, at the same time, Lady Hester Stan hope's monstrous compound of vanity and folly, which she had the audacity to represent as a religion. Mingle and shake these together till the slight ele ments of fact in the one be utterly lost in the turbid falsehood of the other, and the compound will give you the last two volumes of Tancred. The English politics with which Mr. Disraeli has hitherto seasoned his novels had at least the claim of being apropos, of having a moral and a meaning. But the polities of Syria! the old stupid intrigues of Maronite and Drage, and the interests of the house of Skehab—to warm np tins very cold and dirty hash for us in the year 1847, is really un pardonable on the part of a chef of literary cookery. The most unnatural and contemptible bore through out the whole universe of post octavos is indisputably Mr. Disraeli's " Fakradeen. If the politics be stale and insipid, what shall we say of the sentiment? For the only attempt at passion or feeling in these volumes are two or three dandified and lukewarm attempts at being ena moured, unsuccessfully made by the hero of the tale ; andtheseare performed obligato, like certain flourishes of the tenor in every opera, as pretty as usual, but as devoid of originality or force. As to the sudden passion of Astarte for Tattered, which alone affords an incident, and gives a shove to the author to ena ble him co reach the end of his third volume, it is too comical and absurd to be borne seriously, although the facts of the Blue Book are brought in to vouch for its veracity. And what is the philosophy of this pretentious work ? It is evidently that the civilization and the forms of religion and government, founded upon Christianity and freedom, are effae, that the British constitution is a humbug, that British piety is a farce ; and that England has need of a new Avatar, to be made by the genius of Arabia, which is to replace the bench of bishops by a theocracy, the representative system by a ckspotismo illustratio, like that of the caliphs, and the House of Peers by the Sanhedrin. For the Jews, as an ancient people, we entertain a mystic reverence. To the Jews, as a modern race, we would extend every civil privilege and every reli gious tolerance. But our mystic reverence for Jewry closes with the commencement of our era. To seek to enhance what they were before that time were as conspicuous a piece of impertinence as Mr. Disraeli's attempt to " write up" Moses in the pages of a novel. Hitherto in no country of the world have Jews been citizens, or been allowed to feel as such. They have been parked out and excluded from respect, from government, from land, and honours; and where, as in Poland, they have been allowed to form exclu sively the middle class, it has been found that for poli- Seal and social purposes and progress, each land might as well have been without any middle class at all, for the Jews there were not citizens. Let us make citizens of this people—honoured citizens. But let us look elsewhere for political, or moral, or philo sophic grades. Mr. Disraeli in politics is something of a doctri naire. He would rule society by its capacities. But he differs from the French doctrinaires in this, that whilst they consider talent as the sole capacity, he considers race to be the great title to predominance. Mr. Disraeli upholds the right of the Saxon to oust I the Celt, the white to domineer over the black ; and after having arranged his " races" in the order of their rank, he would put the foot of the Arab Jew over all, as the original lord and master. His modest proposal is evidently to dethrone Louis Philippe and Queen Victoria, in order to put Sheik Ismael and Sheik Omar in their places. And as these are and must be the humble servants of the Baron de Rothschild, it is quite plain in what part of London Mr. Disraeli would ' establish his seat of empire. His aim is evidently to re-establish the money-changer, once more in posses sion of the temple. All this is palpably absurd if we consider it as a code of political philosophy. What are we to say of , it, if it be the mere vanity of self-illustration? If it ' be setting up race against race, the Caucasian against the Norman,—if it be the crushed and humbled pride of the English Israelite, vindicating his ancient birth against the haughty superciliousness of an aristocracy, and appealing to the genealogies of Moses against those of Doomsday Book—what is this, but com bating illiberal prejudices by prejudices of the same kind, more gross and more irrational? If we want te protest against the overweening pretensions of birth, let us do so by appealing to the natural equa lity in rights, endowments, and intellect, of all man kind. If we take our stand against an aristocracy, let us do so in the name of humanity. But to combat the outrageous arrogance of one race by the mon strous exclusiveness of another, is merely perpetua ting the gross tomfoolery of our social creed. Mr. Disraeli's former novels gave promise of better things than are to be met with in the philosophy of Tattered. IFtur arts. }AMBITION OP ME LOUVRE. Crowds flock daily up the steps of the Louvre, and rush on the catalogue as their guide ; they drop an exclama tion of surprise, as they miss therein the names of their favourite masters, and ask why Decamps, Delaroche, Meis sonier, Scheffer, Cabat, J. Dupri, and so many others are absent ? but the specimens of new and rising talent soon reconcile them to the loss of the absentees. The first small room, instead of its homely suit ot trecentistes, assumes the somewhat gaudy garb of 1847. That clever picture of Andrea del Sart° painting the fresco of the " Madonna del Sacco," by Baron, covers a Pietro Verne:el ; this is enough to startle the shades of Perugino or Guit landaio ' his neighbour; but let us follow their example , and wait till time remedies that enormity, the annihilation of se many clufs-d'..eurres for five months in the year. M. Couture, who attracted notice some four years ago with his " Amour de ler," since then confined himself in his atelier, and has brought to !Wit the " Remains dt la Decadence." The subject is inspired from Juvenal's sixth Satire— hesior . . . emus Luxuria ineubuit, netum one elder:sitar orbem. The creative power he doubtless what distinguishes high art from low art, and that M. Couture possesses to a high degree; his picture is • powerful protest against the material tendencies of the day. Somewhat more is required of the painter than poking into Plutarch, the Bible, or the old chroniclers, and finding subjects ready cut and dried. M. Couture not only invents his picture, but its sub ject. In a spacious hall or atrium, supported by Corin thian columns, are spread the preparation for the feast. Between the pillars, statues of stern old Romans frown on the revellers, and contrast nobly with their fallen progeny ; that of Brutus seems to recall the time when one couch was reserved for the women, another for the men : here they mix promiscuously, bringing in contact fair and dark skins; in the centre a recumbent female figure reminds one of the Phidian statue, even to the colour of the plaster. A. damsel tries to rouse gorged and drowsy Vitellius ; on the left a masterly Fawn raises the cup—this noble disciple of Bacchus is perhaps the finest figure. Morality has its corner, and saves what else might be repulsive. A poet resting on one of the pedestals, laments over this scene of debauchery ; on the right two philosophen look on scornfully ; behind them a youth presents the overflowing cup to a may be marble Seneca. All these groups are painted with a boldnein which the old masters scarce allowed themselves in their old age. Vases, up-set and enwreathed with flowers, form the foreground. The silvery grey which pervades the whole is pleasing. The pictures around it suffer dreadfully from the contra , t. R. Lehmann's Pope Pius V. blessing the Pontine Msrshess, which would elsewhere look warm, here looks buttery. The figure of the Pops is floe. In the Volwian mountains, near that nest of brigands, Sonnino, Is a rock which, to this day, is called "11 iaise di papa Saito," (niche! Sixtus V). After the vast undertaking of drainage. he cams there with all his court to consecrate lus work by is solemn benediction. All inhabitants of the surrounding country flocked to this unique scene; even the brigands surren dered in hopes of absolution. This forms • remarkable picture : we observe the profiles of the painter and his brother modestly put in the corner. Talent seems this year to have taken refuge chiefly in small canvases, and especially in those of E. Delacroix. It is a pity that " Morbidezza " is almost as hacknied a term in ertatical criticism as " Angel " in romance, for it is the only word for Delacroix. He is a sort of half-and-half between the Dutch and Italian schools, wanting the patience of the former and the soberness of the latter. His" Christ on the Cross," his" Abandoned Boat," give artistieal pain ; the " Musicians of Mogador " bring back pleasure: we cannot say as muck of his purple "Odalisque." He has also " Martial exercises of the Marocceese," the most outlandish canters, firing_ of guar, impossible draperies. One person exclaims, " Why, hes making game of us!" the next, "The colour is very fine :" those remarks form the best criticism. Theophile Gauthier says Marilhat would be proud of that green beck-ground-- we however deny it. Diaz leads one through a sylvan maze where small blue dots of sky admit large dots of sun ; yet these sketches, at a distance, assume the appearance of nature, and its poetry too. Horace Vernet astoniehes the multitude by the dexterity and truth of Louis Philippe, his sons, and hones,—the latter by far the noblest. Robert Fleury brings us before the council. Grim-visaged Galileo abjures his apparent contradiction of the Bible before the council and yet cannot help exclaiming " epur si mullet." This is a tale which does not belong to the brush, and Robert Fleury's talent scarce makes it interesting. The same may be said of his " Christopher Columbus presenting the inhabe tants of the new world to Ferdinand and Isabella." It is refreshing to turn from these burnt skins and unwashed visages to Winterhalter's pretty studies,—hie •• Tete de Femme" is delicate and beautifully coloured. Adolphe and Armand Leleux are two brothers, whose styles have a family likeness, but are marked with a differen character—the general law of nature. Adolphe revels in midsday—in picturesque Spanish shepherds, with their swarthy limbs and bright waistbands. Armand prefers broad and darker effects the last rays of the sun illumine a scene of charity •, two meat raffianly-looking villains are the eleemosynary object' of a woman returning on her hors* from market; the breadth and intensity of colour are re markable. Guillemin sparkles here and there in the gaß'ry, indulging both in humour and pathos. In the " Evening prayer," the sinking sun illumines the cheeks of a boy and girl praying; the cows are lowing this composition is simple and touching. Jacquand unites succesefelly Terburg and Delaroehe—" Henrietta Maria and her children requesting an interview will Charles are unmercifully refused by Cornet Joice," very pretty colour, draperies, boots, light of the pipe, are capital ; but „Twee is a regular Frenchman. A. Hesse (so successful a few years ago an' Titian's Interment") has sent a sort of pendant, " the Triumphs of Pisani." Them figures seem as if steeped in ink. How singular and lament able the sudden stop in art, and, unfortunately, how frequent ! The " Birth of Henri 1V.," by Eug. Deveria, was announced as • work of promise, yet be this year reproduces no more than a feeble reminiscence of it,—" The Death of Jane Sey mour after EdwardVl's birth." D. Pape ty is another instance. There are fewer large pictures than usual: whether owing to all provincial churches being fall, or to people being tired of martyrdom and crucifixions, we know not. A work of real vigour is that of " A Grecian boy and girl gazing on a cock-fight ;" their snimation is quite wonderful. The picture is by L. Demme., we believe a pupil of Delsroche, who might be proud of having it proclaimed in the cata logue, if this custom of the " empire " had not fallen into disuse. Blanchard's landscapes are clever but opaque. Oudin's subject is the discovery of the St. Lawrence, seemingly flowing with milk and water ; the savages in the fore-ground give an air of reality to the scene though the rest of the picture tends rather to the: Turnerian. Portraits represent, as usual, the ugliest part of the Parisian population—with the exception of that of an old gentleman by Flandrin, which is remarkably well.. drawn, stern, and real. He is the author of the " Napoleon Li gialateur," which may as well be left unmentioned. Ibra him Pacha and the Bey of Tunis leave tracts of their passage: Champmartin has been the immortaliser of the modern Yet. Some masterly drawings by Yvon represent Russian scenes: the most forcible is the " Route to Siberia," and • " Tartar Mosque." Nothing has been spared—chalk, lead, water colour' and brown paper the effect is very successful. IL Picots has a drawing of the "Children of the Nile." These is a breath of " naif prod'-hoinme air about it, which strongly recals the Corregglo of the French school : they are prettily drawn, and fore bo de something in future from if. Picou. On looking over the catalogue, we find we have omitted a host of Judith*, more or less brandishing Prolophernes's beads accompanied by yatagans. That by . Ziegler has a leather girdle, a leathern paletot, which Is prepoitereus enough; but why a leather akin? In that by Vernet, mental struggle is still depicted in the countenance, although the deeds done, and that savagely too : she is covered with blood, and drops the head in a wonted basket. Camille Roqueplan comes to our rescue ; his " Peasants of the Pyrenees" are full of character. Not less successful is his small landscape of the Spanish frontier. Biers!, in whom the via cornice was formerly so strong, is not so good as usual. His "Salon at four o'clock," • supposed caricature falls short of reality—from the keen admiration of the: cognoscenti, to the open-mouthed bourgeois. 'Mt Mrama. - - Dauftlf-LANE.—IAM night the long announced " Grand Oriental Spectacle," entitled " The Desert, or, the Imsura's Daughter," was presented to the holiday visitors of this once national temple of the legitimate drama. The primary object of the management would seem to be the in troduction to a Lowlon audience of Mr. Hughes's establish ment of elephants, camels, homes, ponies, and bipeds. In the provinces, we believe, Mr. Hughes has pursued for some time a most profitable career, and itis perhaps to be regretted that be should have quilted the scenes of his successes. This regret is justified by the equivocal soccer—not to say failure—of the production of last night. Regarding the spectacle only as the basis of zoological cavalcades, it would be a waste of time and space to enter upon its dramatic con struction. It is more than enough to announce that a cer tain Princess, the Imaum's daughter (Mn. Mermen!), while engaged in her devotions at the grand temple of Mecca, is summoned by the envoys of her illse trious progenitor to attend him forthwith at hie palace on the Euphrates, preparatory to her union► with the Prince of Persia. whom she has of course never seen. The Priam of Persia has visited Mecca in the disguise of a minstrel, in order to see his intended bride, and is present when the imperial edict arrives. Thug disguised, he easily acquires a knowledge of the intentions of a band of Bedouins, of which Barek (Mr. W. R. Payne) is the chief, and resolves to follow the march of the caravan. as the guardian and protector of the princess. The caravan sets forth, and on its halt for the night is surprised by the Bedouins. A conflict ensues, which, however, is interrupted by the appearance of the " anima), or the wind of fire," which, wsth the rising of the sand, puts an end to the ow. slaught, and make* an effective termination of the first act. In the second act, the minstrel caution's his devoted watch over his fair inamorata, and racists her from the as sault of the Bedouin chief. Eventually, she is brought in safety to the Euphrates, when the minstrel declares himaelt to be the prince, and the " lovers are made happy." Suds are the slender materials of which the dramatic coition of the spectacle is composed, and a production more destitute , &any redeeming point it never was our lot to witness. We must, except, however, from this condemnation, those necee sary adjuncts to a spectacle—the music and the seep The former consisted pnncipally of an adaptation, by Mr. e. H. Tully, of Pendell David's symphony " Le Desert," performed a few seasons back at Her Majesty's Theatre. Though the solos were effectively sung by Miss Messent. Mr. Rafter (the minstrel Prince), and Milli Rebecca Imam, the character of the original music is too lunbrious to befit an Easter holiday piece. The scenery by Grieve anti Telbin, however, was everything that could be desired. The progress of the second act was frequently interrupted by the aibilations of dawn , tents, and at the fall of the curtain the rivalry between the contents and nen-contents was tre mendous. We left them in conflict; but whichever party triumphed we venture to opine that the spectacle (to use the v. 4.w., July 3, 1343. 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