The Express. — London, England, 1852-12-13 00:00:00

TILE BUDGET. DKr [FORD. At a 'iv , la m e sad mirectublepublic meeting, held r r i a lq rectum, the . ldth in.t., at the hallway Tanta, u„. t•ors, fv.,4forsl, it was resolved (three dissentient.), this oseeanz einside,s that there ought to be to 617 era malt ~nd hone a ; k they fora • staple article of In the &alma but that the proposed partial Ma 112:77,. 4 - ,„ impoitien is their stead uf ot.el louse tan , incans , las, and property tat, will „h y ~; ;; ,...ka the oursleus lathier solii.h the neltodrieus *we.A,s, hib°l,t4gl so Inlay years. That is tie opis sin iseeting • tray great ats int( eau, and vught to bi , i g.o.l In all depertm,, to of the •tate, by the curtail wet of the Wiser those, of all *Alice il salaries, and the o s utins ot sioreares, and of pensions granted without a f „...,fikssinsisleratlon; 3hd t not it is of vital important* Ivo.; erity of the kingdom that all such wiles/ espenditure should he immediately put an end to; •l OW the. r, ...idiom he rlseed in the hands th' the twin- Itte for the borough ef Ur, ennieh." EXETEIt. Sttual.a.—The moat strenuous efforta are now wed in th's city to °pp.. , the budget, more trpccially tkc hJuse.t..s. Tit • news of the soliournorent of the debate iced' into, ten to the more ae:iire opponents If Ike measure, and a re.i,iisition to the mayar (It. S. Coro na p,. Fgal 1, to cdl • Vi. y meeting, to be held Moue ancient Oskar .1 4 Is sow in •uut-e of signature. This wit. no l imb% Ii e 11..41 t irly in the ensuing w ek, and • great dein•nsuatioa is ant.eip ...ed. The recharged opposition to the exoe tto is Whne. nn l ad parties are muted in its con dom Jahn. The citizens of Easter have reason to be Meitons.l with it, to. house property has greatly J..pre• M,..1 of lane; and it was stated at sue of the yersh meetings held this week. by • large owner of property, that it the additional tan proposed by the Chane.i:or of the lisehequer nos carried, h u „.. ; property is the city of Eseter would not I. worth haring. Not only in the letting of oppJsition to the budget manifested 'oy Whigs and 'ladies,' ; but the awl rity of wl.at is here erne.' " the great Conservative are vidently op7.eed to it ; in fact miny of them Ore declared that they sat more rote for • camb ia.) who supports the i aition uf an additional house bay. At 4 meeting of th.- pari,,hioners of St. Mary Major. slime pnrials. the tenoning r.solsitim wan unanimously paced.—'• That the propeal of the Chancellor of the Es te pier to inereas the duty to inhabited houses, and is...ow the las on incomes of less than I.lot. per annum, in I emest. and salcul still w inft.ct an allitiJual burthen whi.b the proposed refection of malt and !ea would in Woe r ,, ingewlette. That in the opinion of the parishioners m esina:ut of the laud tax throughout the kingdom, sad the CirtZell of probate duty on real as well as peloweal property. world considerably increase the ri.renue LI the emintf7." OWL CESTER. IM Saturday evening n public meeting of the in ks, dont• of titou,ester was held at the Shire 11.11 , "to ton.,:tr the nitneet of the new bodied of the Chancellor of t h e E tc h...lute, and pinked toll with referesce to the pro posed est. nine ot the 13113hitcd home tan." The meeting pic*:tol ova by It.. MAYOR, on.l the spaciam ball, est elite: oi ate miniAste litany 3,000 persons, was ne a rly co Mere (Mr. W. 'VI ashlsnern) haste:: opened Me hada**. of the inertia?, Mr. T. M. Sturgc addressed the sw, dud It • ut , length, denouncing the budget as op. peewee to the werkwg classes, the producers of the wealth tithe e,n tiy. and r avai.l.d by Mori. g—" That house prep rty. i..og slr...tly wee."' to the pr. , perty and income La W tae smaimiem amount of 7.1. in the pound, and also hatted Id 'y been subt, et,' to en seditious' tan of 0.1. in St posed .4 shops an.l 9d in the pound ea dwellimutionses, is them moo of this 11•11 USK that the pro e m.. bon made by the C a:wetter of the Each, quer for doubling the said Mae tea .• unlud and own, wire to that large provortiou elbsupholdere who are already snl.iject to ct• ry impost,. heal and estsdial."—Mr. Way 6f pmprittor a. a Glows' stcoeded the resolution, which was earned, tkere heirs 011:1 One hands hold up against it.—Mr. W. T. Nice. M I'.. and et ties' other gent!ctueu hating ad. detwtlit.o . unit is co iJ. m .atiou a: fury item in the haw, the proceedings 1. neicated. TILE DERBY ELECTION INQUIRY. The committee continued tht ir "hole and corner" augury oa Sourasy, at It o'clock. Faidtnce was Shen ti the irt e th at Frail and nailord were " too much India post, " at the present m o ment to azteed ; whereupon Norma. WA•ezamiacd —lie stated that it was to maze carece at insiructions he received from Frail, who gave Ina a t!..r to Main lisresford, telling him to follow the tastrut!..., contain. din it, that he went from Shrewsbury le D rhy at the last election, when he repaired to the County Torn, and ii , nt in his card to Mr. Co:. He there saw titsAer sad Radfonl. Frail, on the occasion at goyim: him the letter, also gave him 2/. Wit- ares, in pursuance of the ir.truetions he received, g ave' 2: each to the penons who presented cheque., whic h he thought e! tie time was, for a le2itimate purpose. A man statemed at the Mal door to prevent any person !S -wim who had not cheques, to pay which money was lesuht t.. him (Morgue) ow two occasions by " a man in drab. - au I who be believed to be Flewker. Wayne@ farther 4.0..4 that ail he had told the policeman who test him custody was false. Did ant think he was en. Raged in any ..ostil trusattion at the time, sad had not area a per. n 0.m.nl Lund in the matter. The ugly oti.ce witness examined was the lantrord of the County lace -. who deposed that Lund. who was at the bunion the Weduesd ty night, was " dressed in drab," bat that 'leather, who was also there, wee, as usual, domed en black." inee,tetUttitTediteeted that Laal should be sunansed he the atat stung, And Una adinroett to Wetlands, ant. REMOVAL OF THE RAILING ROUND ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. The following correspondence on this subject his token place between the secretaries of the City Semen Coonoussua and the Dean and Chapter of St. Paal's : .• Sewers-office, Guildhall, Nov. 29, 1852. am directed to inform the Dean and Chapter of IX Pear* that the ConuouniJner. of Sewers of the City of Leedom have referred to a committee to riegociatie with the *peer he the throwiag open the sees of the said cat*• ikal. sad alsi a purtion thereof into the carriage -way, with bones to soles the Arnie, and to promote the accommoda- tons( the public in that thoroughfare. The commissioners will be happy to effect this in the way of compensation for the ground so laid into the public way, and will be obliged by the lh , as and Chapter espousing a time to confer with them thereupon, oe otherwise putting the matter in a train *semc.atson. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " (Signed) JOANN( DAW. ' Very Rev. the Dame of St. Pad's, £c. , dke." " Dean's yard, Westenioster, Dec. 2, 18.52. Sir.-1 ma desired by the Dean and Chapter of St. hair, in ansocr to your 'Luce of the 29th of November lost, to Mem you that they still decline a second confer ence with the Commissioners of Sewers, became the caw &Mon. e. have not prop sea to the Chapter measures for eolueinz the approaches to the Church-yard. meal esperiii i i, the opening to The Dean an CMptir, on hut*, consideration since the correspondence between theta and the commissioners in December, 1881, on the 'one •u!.Ject, are the more convinced that, until such moon. ire proposed, a conference can land to no result. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " (Signed) CHIIIITOP•SA HODOSOIt, " Chapter Clerk. ' laidh Dam, Seq." ExrtBse or FRENcit FuNrsAt.B.—The fixed ex- Few, kr • funeral of the tint diem, with extras, is according nth, prtsent contract, about two hundred sad eighty-seven Peels sterling ; without 'etre+ one hundred and ninety- Ints ps , ands. Second clam with extras (named in the WI. "lint section") one hundred sad thirty-seven poud. ; wittiest estrus for " second section") one bun- Get Aunt hints pomade. Third &uses eighty pounds, and eitty.sasui pomade. Fourth class forty•four pounds, and llt•ry pounds. Fifth elms twenty-two poiinda, ten pounds. Six class seven pounds, and six Inv. , . Seventh class seven pounds, sad three Innis To the eight close funerals there is only one Ilstboe, no esteem being allowed, and its con is nearly bounds. Fur a ninth class funeral no more than fianes seventy•flre centimes is charged. In the lsi7 there were about twenty-five thousabd burials, of which eirht th . iiisand belonged to one of the nine sad thou. seventeen thousand received the ordinary v rvice. It thin were twenty-J.4r thousand ',unix!, pert mined 17 the p lithe undertaker, of which about six thousand *WA hu...l:ed pant for extrsonlinary service. It is found that mare that nee hall of the families which pay for ex t.'', In , ey wrote sr+ et, for their dead, • funeral accord• tot stale elven for th• sixth or seventh class; the which range between seven pounds and I "ands. Out of ?Iv , eight thousand class, il oi 147, only about three thousand belonged to II" 'it" , elms, costing • little mere than seven pounds. 1 ,1 ten t!inienatl six hundred more belonged to the seventh t eas. and eget three putsads ten. Next to the fifth C 141., the !.meth is the one amid frequently selected, but toe ha eels is that tow—casting about forty.two pounds—do snl each fire hundred in numbs,. Next to the fourth th.- 'hied is the one rommouly chosen. Is 1)117, the tlsoi—the cheapest form of independent burial—in "lick else. the huserals each coot under a sovereign, sum hind tai or three hundred. In the second chum, paying a head,. it and sateen pound-, there are about a hundred f r. , .a, I funerals of the first clam—the dearest and the fur.? - oi..urred only twenty-seees times in 1847, end ~"1 1 tw. !inutile the year ISM. Funeral, of the eighth a " 'l`rt rare; there brie, about fifty or eighty in the r - 7 .-116, ' "we. "linearhad Words." tut Pi.DicEdit CAMOLI imp irAsA.—Thu neirer• Gaartte contains • letter frusta Dreeden, of r I, whirl says .—" The hadepesukisf Gnu*, of lid mistak•n when it eminent. d that Prince Al s-lted for 4.• bond t f the Ptincess Carobs of " • the esintrary, tl , e Prince intends demenehog ti,. Lad tit!, Dowager Arelidnclues Elisabeth a Este (burn ?t , ry 17. 1(5.11), deughts rof the Palatine Joseph of tlie.4 if, •nd het nt th ). Ur.; fluke Fettheend or Bite, e victim o f the philanthropic visit which he " paid tn. hospitals et Prague on December 16, 1849." THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The December general meeting of this society took place on Saturd.,y, at the Societ)'s Rooms, Hanover sorer ; CoIooeICII.II.LONSM in the chair. The report stated that : " Ammon of the society are is • satisfactory condi tion, as is shown by the auditors' balance sheet to the 3.nli .f June last ; since witch time tli. finance committee have repor.erl, that all claims al.tiu.t the roeety su! , initted to them had been ditehasged, and that the funded property now stands in the Dem.., of the trustees •J the society, at 9,990/. Stuck. The MULCH have resolved to tiller, in to their cu-rent prise ail for uu on the gen graphical discovery of new supplies of guano, a priao for the discovery of a substitute fur Peruvian guano, under the following terms and conditions "1. TERMS 01 , THE Putts: "Oct thousand pounds and the gold medal of the society will be atom for the discovery of • manure cqurl in fer tilising properties to the l'ecnvian guano, and of which en unkmitcd supply ems be furnished to the English farmer at a rate not exceeding five pounds per ton. " ttoe 11 —Conids or Conrgrirtom 7. • " 1. That in the oiler of 1,1.1001. and the gold medal of the soeiety,:as a prize for the discovery of it manure equal in every respect iv its fertilising properttes to Peruvian guano, the 1.0001. shell be offered in one unill%ided sum. "2. That the eteuderd of such l't melon guaro shall be assumed to be the average et suit obtained by ProfcesorWay, the euusulting chemist to the eocietv, and puhlished in ►u paper in the lOth volume of the "Journal," pages 206 'O4. "3. That each competitor claiming the prize shall send in with his sample a chemie it Real> cis under seal, together with such practical proofs of the successful application of the ma nun to growing crops of grain, reads, and grasses, as he can preluee duly certified by growers. That such samples of manure shall be liable to be subjected to all such further twice, and for such period of trial, as the council may deem requisite. All claimants shall, on application made to them by the secretary, be expected to supply, free of expense to ice society, such quantity of their respective manures as may be required for trial. " 4. That no claim for the prise will be entertained unless the clsimant can satisfy the council that an unlimited supply of the manure at a price not ex: evillest de per ton wit; st all times be within the reach of the agriculturists of the United Kingdom. the council hen already reason to believe that the attention which this prise will call to the whole economy of manuring, and to the agricultural as well as unitary quos lion of the manurial mourns of the kingdom, will lead to new and important results. " The council, alter full deliberation upon the following emended conditions, proposed to them by their veterinary commit?, 1 . , and which have been accepti.4 2o a the college, decided last month to renew the gr an t o f ' for the Cur rent year to the Royal Veterinary College : " I. That members of the society shell:have that privilege of sending cattle, sheep, and pies to the Royal Veterinary College on the same terms as if they were members of the College. " 2. That the college shall investigate particular classes of 'linens or subjects as may from time to time be directed by tne council. 3. That in addition to the increased number of lectern given by Professor Simonds, the lecturer on Cattle l'athm logy, to the pupils in the college, he shall also deliver lectures in the council room before the members of the society. " 4. That the college shall supply a detailed report of the cases of rattle, sheep and pigs treated in the Royal Veteri nary College. •• The council have had their attention called by his royal highness Prince Albert to the limns of inoculation so ex tensivelycarried on st the present tints in l'ruesia, Belgium, and the Netherland., with a slew to modify the severity of the symptoms of pleuro-pneumonia in cattle. la eons,- qnence of the information furnished by his royal highness to the Council, they authorised Professor Simonds, as the veterinary. inspector of the society, to proceed to Belgium, in Auisut laat,fer the purpose of msking himself personally acquainted with the facts connected with the conditions and results of the employment of this process. 'rho report which Professor Simonds has made to the conned on this visit of inspection will appear in the next partof the society's journal, along with a second report on the occur rence of pleuro-pneumonia in the extensive herd of dairy cows belonging to Mr. Paget, of ltuddiegton Orange, near Not tingham, and which that gentleman has with great libe rality placed at the disposal of the society for any experi ments the council may direct to be made on them. Profess sor Simends has accordingly selected a certain number of animals for the purpose of experiment at Ruddingtnn, mid a further number to be brought up to the Royal Veterinary College for experiment under his own immediate superin- teadenee. The council have expressed to Mr. l'aget their warmest thanks for the invaluable opportunity he has thus afforded to the society, of having direct investigations most tatistaeterily made on the nature and cure of this fatal ma lady. The council have also been favoured hz Lord Stanley, Uuder-Secretary of State for the k °reign Depart ment, Sir Emerson T t, Secretary to the Board of Trade, and Le. Willem', of Ranch, in Belgium, with cos munications on this subject. " The council have decided that the Gloucester meeting 1 for the South Wales district shall be held in that city in the:week commencing Monday, the I Ith of July. They have decided on the prizes to be offered for live stock, and for the prizes and conditions of implements for that occa sion, deferring uatil after Christmas the final arrangements fur the poultry prizes. They have also decided on the prizes to be offered for the essays and reports of next ' year. They have agreed to the arrangements for pre paring the land for the trial of implements, and have accepted the offer of the contractor of works to under take their execution at the same rate of charge as in for mer years. They have received from the professors at the Royal Agricultural College, at Cirencester, the offer of co-operation in any way in which their services may be thought, by the council, in any way Ii promote the objects of the society at the Gloucester meet ing. In order to consider the best means of obviat ing over-feeding of .live stock for breeding purposes exhibited at the country meetings of the society, the Earl of Dude, your late president, uadertook the task of entering into communication with the greater number of those gentlemen who had acted as judges at the country meetings of the society, and the great majority of their opinions being in favour of decisive measures to put a atop to en evil so generally complained of, a committee was ap pointed, who have made the following recommendations, which have been since adopted by the council : I. To appoint three juries of condition for the three divisions of (1) cattle, (2) sheep, (3) horses and pigs ; each jury to be drawn by lot by the steward of each division from the whole of the judge* comprised in it, and to consist of nine judges endow steward ; the steward himself not to vote, hut to take the decision in each cue by a show of bands, the majority of votes to decide. " 2. The following notice to be printed in red ink at the foot of each certificate of entry—namely, ' All salamis sent for exhibition whisk shall in the opinion of the jury be in an over-fed condition will be disqualified by the jury before inspection by the judges ;' and a placard to be placed over the standing of every animal that shall be so disqualified, stating the reason of sueb disqualification. " 3. The sge of bulls in the two classes of each division of capital not to exceed four years and two years respec tively on the Ist of July in the year of show for which they are entered. 4 No boll in Class I. of each division of settle to be eligible for • prise unless • certificate is produced of his luivirsg served not lees than three different cows within saw this. ateatbs preceding the Ist of June in the year of the show. "b. No alteration to be made is the limit of sp tor cows; bet that every cow in milk and ant M calf nisei ho certified to haws bad a live calf within*, Mho amain preceding the date of the show. No kart deftwei se be calf to be eligible unless certifi.d to lava Imo bona bibs. let of Marsh is the year of show sod sot to ham Leos again in bulling subsequently to thee dote; see her owner afterwards to receive th e prise, sinless es the produetion of a further certificate that she has produced a live calf before the Ist of February ensuing. 6. No cattle or sheep to hays been fed with milk subse quently to the Ist of January in the year of the show. " 7. No boor or sow to be shown that cannot walk on ac count of over-fatness._ The council have determined the district for the country meeting in 1856 to be comprised of the counties of Hunting don, Cambridge, Bedford, Buckingham, Hartford, sad Essea.l Mr. C. TOWNLIT, in moving the adoption of the report, adverted to the new regulation there stated with reseed to the exhibition of cattle, and expressed his belief that It would prevent numbers from exhibiting. It was, he said, impossible to Is down the precise degree of fatties', which any animal should have u a audition of obtaining the prise ; all that was really necessary vine that it should be a boom fide breeding animal. He bad himself an excellent breeding cow which it was impossible to keep from fat , toning. The Rev. J. LTNTON, in seconding the motion, raid the council were entitled to the best thanks of the members for their efforts to effect a reduction in the price of guano, and more especially (or their recent offer of a reward of 1,0001. for the discovery of a substitute for guano, equal to it both in quality an .1 quantity, which could be sold in the market at per ton. The motion was agreed to. Mr. It. BAkkan then presented the cash statement, from which it appeared that tho receipts during the year amounted to 6,1371. 13e. 3d., need the expenditure to 4,464/ 13a. 9.1 , leaving a balance in hand of 2,0821. 19s. Gd. Thanes were voted to the auditors, who were re-elected. Mr. W. Toot moved a vote of thanks to Professors Way and Simonds for their valuable lectures. Mr. W. loxes seconded the motion, and observed, that though a purely scientific farmer would cut a poor figure la the prevent day, no one mould be a grad farmer who was not guided in Rome degree by arientille principles. The motion havicg been agreed to, Prof. sour WAY Slid that whilst he was investigating sub jects shieh hors on the daily life of the agriculturist, and whilst results w, re necessarily slow ' the belt encourage ment he could have to persevere was the confidence of the society. Professor SIMONDS, who followed, dwelt with satisfac tion as the good understending and harmony which ex isted between that owlet, and another body with which he was eanate ed, namely, the Royal Vet. Hoary College, and expressed his con•iction that the diffusnn of acientifie knowledge would tend to the edvaneement of both, as well as to the benefit of the whole community. The business having thus terminated, The CHAIkNAN asked if any gent'cman wished to put re fase o s e tion or to make any remark foe the council's Mr. Towni.ze then introduced the 'shiest of the new fnlinhlieeli and repeated his Issavietion that it would ope rate Injuriously in reference to future cattle exhibitions. Mr. 11. BARRER maid, having lien chairman of the vete- Haag committee, he felt hound to explain the alteration had arisen from the fact that animals should be valued, not in proportion to their fatness, but to their milts a• breed ing stock. It was well known that in more clues than one animals hat been inhibited which were perfectly use less a. breeding Meek. Mr. 0111111{ILL thought that, although individuals niigh sugar by the new regulation, the "labile generally wreslil be greatly benefited. (11, .r, hear.) It wa s •Insied %shi ny felt that animals of all descriptions had been very much overfeit. He would suggest to the council the im portance of devising some means of colliding the sweep logs of the, metropolitan street. for manuring imposes. The other day, in passing over the Slit Meld and Lincoln shire Railway, he observed a long line of truck., and on making inquiries he was told that they belonged to the cor poration of Manchester, and were emistautly employed in conveying the offal and manure of Idaucluster to the low lands of Lincolnshire. Mr. W. F. llotineiSaid that, in adopting the new regula tion, the council had selected the only plan which appeared likely to check the continued ezbibition of feet animals in a yard intended fur the show of breeding stock; but he did out think the nine judges would reject a good breeding animal in a fat condition, provided the fat were nut pro elue..el by the use of milk, meal, or oil cake. The Rev. J. Lionize entirely approved of the new regulation. Mr. R. BARllltft said one of the moot eminent stock breeders in the Midland counties had told him that, having expressed to some one his astonishment that he did not gain prizes, he found the cause to be that he did not give his animals milk up to the last minute; after adopting that course he gained almost every prize for which he competed. It wag not the intention of the society to encourage such a practice. (Hear, hear.) Mr. W. F. 'loom said, as a member of the council, he wished to state that in future no bull was to he ellubited after be was four years old. Cows must have produced a live calf within twelve months, and the prize would not be awarded unless •licy also pr,iduced a live calf before the lot of February succeeding the show. The whole matter hail been duly considered, and he trusted that the alteration would meet with the approval of most practical men. The subject was then dropped. On the motion of Lord CANOTII, seconded by Mr. S. Doves, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and, after a brief acknowledgment from the chairman, the pro ceedings terminated. RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TILE SOUTH AND NOUTII COASTS OF Plans hare been deposited, and notices given, for the purpose of bringing before the present session of parlia ment two projects for making a railway from Plymouth northwards. These are the South Devon and Tariatuck Railway, of which company Lord Morley is the chairman, and which is promoted by the din ctors of the South Devon Railway Company ; and the Plymouth, Tavintock, Oke liampton, end Eimer Railway, of which company Mr. Thomas Gill, late M.P. for Plymouth, stet formerly the chairman of the South Dom Railway Company, is the chairman, The first-mentioned company, the South Devon and Tavistork, only contemplate at present going for powers to make a railway from Plymouth to Tasistock, but it is presumed that in another year they would seek powers to continue the line by the way of Weet Des , n from Taviw tock to Litton and Launceston, thence to Holswerthy and Bids ford to the Bristol Channel. The other company now seek powers to make • railway from Plymouth through Tavistoek to Okehampton to Coleford, theca to connect itself with the North Devon or Taw Vale line. and so enable plies ogen to go or goods to he forwarded either to Exeter on the east, or to Bideford and Barnstaple on the north. By the proposed line the distance from Plymouth to Exeter would be 57 miles, by the South Devon it is 52; but the promoters of the new line say, in consequence of superior gradients and corners, the journey might be mado in a shorter period by many minutes than by the South Devon. This statement will be sufficient to indicate that the pro posed line will be opposed by the South Devon directors, and a resolution to that effect was accordingly come to at one of the recent meetings of the board. The promoters of the Okehampton line c .ntend that the illereMe of traffic which railway communication with Bideford and the dis trict between Okehampton and Plymouth to the South Devonshire would be far greater than any portion of the through traffic from Plymouth to Exeter it may divert. There EMI be no question of the fact that the Okehsnipton line in far the most popular in the district through which it is to pass, as well as iu Plymouth. Nearly the whole of the landowners along the line have agreed to sell their land at a fair agricultural value end to take payment in the shares of the company, and in addition many of them have taken • large number of shares beyond the value of their land. In Plymouth, dueng the past week, meetings iu favour of the minipanic* have been held. MUSIC. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. M. Jolliet) has terminated his series of farewell concerts at Drury-lane Theatre, previous to his departure fur America. The lest took place on Saturday night, and attracted an immense assemblage, every part of the house being densely crowded during the whole evening. The pro grammind this's of the preceding conoerts,was an agreeable mixture of great orchestral pieces, with the light and bril liant dance music which Jullicn (both in its composition and in its performance) has brought to an tinper cedented degree of excellence. The principal features of the eoacert were, Weber's overture to "Buryanthe ;" Mendelmohn's Sym phony in A, generally called the "Italian Symphony," from its having been written in Italy, and from its most characteristic movement being in the style of • Neapolitan Sallarello • grand selection and fantasia from • Don Giovanni," arranged by Jullien, the vocal parts being per formed by Barret, Prospere, and Herr Koenig ; Angelina's beautiful " Marche Funehre," which has been nightly repeated during the series; Jullieu's quadrille, from his own opera, " l'ietro it Grande;" and Pruch's air and varia tions, and Haas's 71yroliessies, sung by McWe. Anne Zen. At the end of the concert " God Save the Queen " was performed with the whole strength of the orchestra and chorus, haiku had • " tremendous " reception; he was ap plauded with acclamations which might well be called enthusiastic. And truly this able and enterprising musician deserves well of the English public, having done more than ever has bees done by any other individual to popularise the art, by educating (as we may say) the gene ral taste, and raising and refining the discernment and feel ing of the million Wan appreciation of the meet clerical works of the great masters. Whoever remembers the progress of the entertainment called the "Promenade Con cert " since it was first introduced within thees twenty year, cannot but be struck with the change in the character of the towers themselves, and in the manner of their re ception. When Jullien began cautiously to introduce, now and then, an overture or • short movement of • symphony among his dashing waltzes and quadrilles, the intrusive novelty was barely tolerated, and was the signal for noisy inattention or weary impatience till the audience were again enlivened by the spirit-stirring measures of the ball-room. Bet Jullien persevered, and gradually got the =tithed« whom he attracted by his quadrilles and waltzes to listen to his symphonies, overture*, and elegant operatic setae tie«, and at last to prefer them to everything else. Is this respect the series just closed has been an advance upon these of every preceding year. The finest works of the greeisst masters have formed the largest portion of every peetymimme, and have been uniformly listened to with the alma attention and interest. Some night. there has Meat a greater quantity of classical music than has ever Mw given even at • convert of the Philharmonic Society. One night there were two of Beethoven's greatest sympho nies (the Pastorale and the C minor) ; the same composer's Choral Fantasia for the pianoforte, orchestra, and chorus; and his Overture to " Leonora," almost a symphony for magnitude and grandeur. We do not believe that such • profusion of classical piece., demanding for their enjoy ment • cultivated taste and practise d ear, was ever before given at any concert en Europe; and yet the whole of this lerned and profound music was not only warmly applauded, but • portion of it was actually encored. A similar result was produced another evening, when the entertainment consisted chiefly of great orchestral pieces by Mendelsohn. Nor is it in London only that Jullien has wrought this improvement in the public taste. At Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow—all the principal towns, indeed, of the three kingdoms—the effects of Lis exertions have been marked and satisfactory. And we cannot help feeling that his de parture for the New World—where, however, he has • great field before him—is in the meantime • serious loss to the music of this coastry. THE WEST INDIA STEAMERS. —,Sir William Pym, the inspector of quarantine regulations under the Board of Health, arrived in Southampton on Thursday night, and in consequence of there being no sickness on board the West India steamer Medway, and ten days having tran spired since a death from yellow fever occurred on board of her, she was allowed to strike her yellow flag yes terday morning, and enter Southampton dock. All the parsons who came home in the La Plata ill in the yellow fever have recovered or are recovering, with the exception of one, an engineer, named Napier, who died this week, and whine death is registi red by the medical gentleman who attended him as having been caused by malignant fever. Napier's case appears to have been a mitigated form of yellow fever, but the most virulent kind that could possibly exist in this country. A low fever prevails to some trifling client in Soutledripton the some as in other Mime, hardly rising to the malignity ot typhus, and this illness Is attributable to the humidity of the atmosphere end the unfavourable *father, redwing the standard of health. Dr. Sutherland and Dr. C•ioper, of the Board of health, have recommended the West India Company to make some alterations in their ateami re in order to secure some better ventilation throuehout their ships, and which is now rendered doubly desirable on account of the intense heat of the West Indies and the prevalence of yellow fever there. By better ventilation and other sanitary improvemen4 it is most probable that the West India packets would be able to arrive et Southampton with clean bills of health. QUEEN Virroma (my. the Ilambrorg Vorreapm dent) having expressed a desire to the King of Henover, that the medals, crimes, and other decoratious of the late Duke of Wellington should be auerabled together in a no. ' tlnnal collection, his Majesty at once weeded to the Omen's I & s i r , , as far ee he w a s tonrerned. lie also directed the baton of Marshal of Hannv , r, which had been accorded M ' the late Duke, and the Orsnil Cross of the Oaelphic Order, should be gins to the eldest eon of the deemed. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1852. IRELAND GOVERNMENT DEFEAT AT LISIURN. Dumas, Dec. 11. The government has sustained a must unlooked•for defeat in Lisburn, where Mr. Johnson Smyth was returned last eveninp by a majority of 14 over the Lord Advocate, Mr. twits. Although neither party i can be said to belong to what have hitherto been , considered the liberal r an k s i n t hi s country , the prin. I ciplea under which the successful candidate has tnumphed were these of free trade, freedom of elec tion, and local Mu:tests; and in the defeat of the l ininisterial candidate a death blow has been given to the Hertford House interest, which has from time immemorial, up to the present election, made Lisburn a pocket borough. 'the result of this election is therefore a most decided and gratifying popular triumph. The numbers polled at the close of the poll, at 6 o'clock last evening, as far as they could be then ascertained, were—Smyth, 101; Inglis, 87 ; in .jority for Smyth, 14. Since the above was written I have received the Northern Whig of this morning, which states that a few votes had been knocked off Mr. Smyth's list; and that the numbers finally stood thus :—Smyth, 18.); Inglis, 87—majority for Smyth, 12. The If7riy says: for the first time during a period of Inure than silty years (when we taut of such a period the historical memories of our readers are carried hack to the daysof that anmiated, and brilliant, and amit-ing assemblage. the Irish parliament) there has boon a disputed election in Lisburn. During all that long period, the nomination of the Hertford family has been sufficient to give a member to Lisburn. Now, fur the first time that that nomi na ti on h as not been received as a law, but has bete fairly provoked to show its power, it is found wanting, and the Hertford nominee is rejected. The lectors et Mr. Smyth ureic,s to ground their preference of their man on no other merit which he could boost of over his opponent, then on the special and most desirable merit of being entirely destitute of the influence of the family whose will has hitherto given members of parliament to Lisburn. In returning Mr. Smyth they I eve smarted the indepead. two of the borough. They had to make their choice between two conservative candidates, and they do not pro fess to have chosen thu one who is the more liberal of the two in general politics, or the man of greater abilities or higher character. Apropos of Irish elections, the subjoined letter from Mr. Alexander Stewart, of Ards, in the county of Down, affords one of the most remarkable instances that have yet been exhibited of a public avowal of oppression on the part of the landlord as a penalty for the free exercise of the franchise on the part of the tenant. The Northern Whig, in publishing the letter, thus explains the circumstances under Which it was written: It appears that the tenants of Mr. Alexi...der R. Stewart, of Ards, had, last year, oa paying their rents, /*mitred a deduction of fifteen per cent. on the amount. Ou Satur day last, on some of the tenants on the Bann coming to pay their rents with the deduction of fifteen per cent., as allowed last year, they were trld by Captain Bowen, Mr. Stewart's .gent in that quarter, that in conaequence of having plumped for Mr. Crawford, at the lest election, they were to be deprived of this deduction, and that he could not receive anything leas from them than the full rent with out any abatement. The agent, at the name time, showed as his instructions the following letter which he bad received from Mr. Stewart "Ards, Monday Evening.—Dear Sir,—l received your letter this day. In no case will I limn ge my decision ; that those who voted—' plumped '—for Crawford ore to be deprived of the abatement ; and certainly, if they do not pay, I shall bring ejectment, against every man of th e m. Tell them that by coming to me, in the first place they pro- bably will not find me at home, and if they do, they will have the same answer u I now give, and they will lie at large expenses for nothing. As to wilds and others, Ido not mind them in the least. Mr. Hobert Law must pay the 15 per rent. bark again, or proceedings will certainly be taken. Show thin letter if you like.—Yours truly, " ALELANDIIII H. STIWART. "G. E. Bowen, Esq., Lawrenettown." In commenting on this extraordinary letter, the Northern Whig says: This bold, distinct, and shameless avowal by Mr. Stewart, of a resolution to oppress all who refuse to submit to his die toilets, is everything that could be wished in removing all doubt as to tl a re 'I cause why 15 per cent. more rent is charged on the tenants who voted for Mr. Crawford than on those who voted for Mr. Stewart's candidates, Messrs. Hill and Ker. There is no ambiguity in this insolent missive. The writer appears to have been desirous of directly court. ing public obloquy. Lord Londonderry is the landlord who might have been expected to be mod irritated against the supporters of Mr. Crawford—but his lordship, in his deal ings with his tenants, basset an example which Mr. Stewart, atiome future day, when, es is to be hoped rather than' expected, he may have acquired more consideration fur the just rights of his fellow men, and a better knowledge of his duties to society—will regret that he has not imitated. His lordship, in making deductions from the rents of his tenants, made no distinction whatever between the supporters of the liberal and the conservative candidates. The dissatisfaction of the Irish forks with Mr. Napier's landlord and tenant measures has at length found vent in the columns of the Evening Nail, the leading organ of tho party, which, in its number of last night, calls the Insh Attorney-General to account for his compromise with the tenant league party in allowing their bill to accompany his own before a select committee. The -Vail says : Proverbial wisdom pronounces that certain articles may be too cwt et to be wholesome ;" and we confess the maxim intruded itself into our thoughts when we read Mr. Na pier's very elaborate and bland speech on the introduction of his four land bills. Recognising soma points of good in the plans stated, we owned our inability to penetrate the haze of words in which the meaning of the fourth measure especially seemed to be shrouded. Much light was not thrown into this thick obscure by the descriptive pamphlets which the Attorney-General (somewhat unprecedeetedly) circulated under the name of bills ; and up to this moment we have not been able to procure a sight of the bills them selves. The doubt, we must even say suspicion, created by these very peculiar circumstances has certainly not been re moved by the compromise agreed to by Mr. Napier en Wednesday morning when he consented to refer Mr. Ser. jeant Bhee's project for the confiscation and re-division of Irish property, along with his own measures, to a select contra ittee. The sales, yesterday, in the Incunibered Estates Court, gave the following results :—An estate in the county of Limerick, yielding a nett rent of 1631., but valued by Griffiths at 2301, and for the poor laws at 2131., was sold for 2,6001. An estate in the same county, belonging to Wm. O'Dell, and yielding a nett annual rent of 3561., was sold for 5,6504 The estate of Thos. Welah, of Woodstock, in the county of Waterford, was sold in three lots for 8,2351., the aggregate nett annual value being about 6441. The estate of John Chapman Judge, in the county of Westmeath and King's County, was put up for sale in six lots, and realised the sum of 11,7601:, the ag gregate annual value of the whole being, according to the Ordnance valuation, 9354 An estate in the county of Waterford, belonging to George Wyse and others, and producing a nett yearly rent of 9121. 145., was purchased for 13,1004, in trust for Mr. Har grave, of South Park, Lancashire ; and the day's sales closed with a lot of a small property in the Queen's County, of the annual value of 371. 12a., which was sold for 2901. The sum realised by the sales yesterday was 47,6461. Dr. Banks, Physician in Ordinary to the Lord Lieutenant, and one of the most distinguished me dical men in this city, has got involved in a dis agreeable affair, which is likely to cause him much trouble. It appears that some days since he saw a young man, who, he thought, wished to annoy him, commit a nuisance near his hall door, and, in the excitement of the moment, he struck him on the head with a cane. The man was taken to the hospital, and died yesterday; but whether from the imme diate effects of the blow or not I cannot say, as I have not yet heard the result of the coroner's inquest, which was held this afternoon. Dr. Banks appeared to-day before tho magistrates of College.. street Police-office, and was held to bail to appear whon required, on his own recognisance in 6001., and two others in half that amount each. THE MURDER AT IRELAND'S EYE. THE SENTENCE. At ten o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning the doors of the court-house were thrown open W the vest number of persons who had congregated outside rem an early hour, for the purpose of securing as f►vourable a position as pos sible within the court. In a very few minutes after the doors were opened every available spot was crowded to ex cess. The conduct of all present was most decorous and becoming, the strictest silence being preserved the ughout the entire of the solemn proceedings that ensued. Some inconvenience was caused in the galleries by the endeavours of occupants to get a look at the prisoner. Shortly before eleven o'clock Mr. Justice Crampton and Mr. Baron Greene took their seats on the bench, and at once directed the prisoner to be put to the bar. In a few moments Mr. Kite au advanced to the front of the duck. He was as neatly and as studiously dressed as on the previous days, and his manlier was exceedingly calm and collected. The Clerk of the Crown Living a.ked if he had anything to say u to why sentencs of death should not be wooed upon him, Mr. Kirwan, in a firm and nerfcrtly calm voice, then spoke as follows - -My lords, !night I claim the indulgence of the court for stew moments, for the purpose of stating some matters connect. d with this unfortunate affair that have not been broueht out on feint. On the morning of the day in question, before we left Howth for Ireland's Eye, Mrs. Kirwan parked the small bog spoken of wit • provi- Mona, u she had done on former occuinas ; sad when your Lordship was speaking in your charge of the evidence as to the body, you made some observations which were inaccu rate with regard to her bathing dress and the sheet being put into the bag. On that incoming Mrs. Campbell was desired to give the bag, the bathing dream, and the sheet to Nannies daughter to bring over to the boat; and there was also • basket which contained seine provisions to be sent over, which the girl came far, and hronght down to her father, Michael Nangle, who put them into the boat. When we gut into the boat, and before we went over to the island, we sailed about • little to accommo date the men, and enable them to cast their lines ; end when we went upon the island Mrs. Kirwan proceeded to bathe near the Mertello Tower, and I went to sketch. After some time she came to sue and told Tee she maw a boat with another party advancing, and aftet • little time the boat arrived with Mr. Brew snd his friends, who re mained until about four o'clock, shortly after which we both went under the shelter of a rock to eat our dinner. When we finished our dinner I went again to sketch te emed* Mouth, and Mrs. Kirwan left me sitting there, taking the bathing dress and sheet with her, and said she would go and bathe again. Such was her usual practice. We were several times on the island, and have always acted in the came way. I sketched, and she bathed and walked about reading, and sometimes she has bathed twice. When she leftme on this occasion she was away tut more than two hours, and until it was getting dusk ; and, not finding her returning, I went on an eminence and called to her, but got no answer. In some short time I saw the boat advancing, and 1 called out to it, but the witness, Patrick Nangle, states that he did not hear me, although one of his emnpauions did, which shows that one party ' might hear a noise and another not. When tee boat came up, and 1 recognised it as my boat, I told Nangle that Mrs. Kirwan had gone to bathe, and that I was lookine fur her but could not find her, and requested some of them to come and heip me to find her, desiring the others to remain in the boat in case she arrived at it. Mingle then left the boat and came with me, and we went along the bank towards the church, and in our couree to the church there was a great deal of long thick grass, which retains rain for a considerable time, and may account for my clothes having been wet, as described by the witnesses. Previous to going with Nangle I expressed to him my opinion that Mrs Kir- wan might have slipped and hurt herself, and that if we called she might hear us • accordingly we celled, but there was no response. I called also very loud, but there was still no answer. After going on again to the strand, I asked him to call, and he uid so, and with the same result; &tattoo we both continued to call until we get beyond the old church, where the view was entirely shut out from Howth. There again Naugle gave another shout, lint there wu no response. We continued our course en to the Long Hole u to an we could. I then suggested that we should go mend the island, and for that purpose we went towards the bank, I and Patrick Naugle called and was not heard ; the other boatmen stated they did not hear him. Michael Nangle did not hear us. Judge Crampton—l don't like to interrupt you, but I may tell you that it is impos.ible that I can enter into these mittcrs now. You had able counsel, and lem sure they conducted your defence with care and ability. The prisoner —I consider myself a doomed man, from the result of the triel which has taken place, and the sentence about to le pronounced ; but I am anxious fur my own me mory, and for the sako of those who know end regard me, to assert my innocence. If your lordship wishes me to pro ceed I shall. Judge Crampton—You may, if you wish, add anything you please. The prisoner rmide a few observations as to his search for the deceased, and concluded what he hsd to nay in the same collected manner which he manifested throughout his address. Mr. Justice Crampton then proceeded to peas the last solemn sentence of the law. He adverted to some of the leading facts, and said that neither he nor Mr. Baron Greene saw any reason whatsoever to be dissathded with the verdict that had been returned. He strongly admonished the prisoner to avail himself of the short time that remained to hint in this world, In endeavouring to riconcile himself to the Almighty, through whom only lie could be saved. His lordship having stated that he could hold out no hope of life whatever to the prisoner —that the die was cost, and his doom sealed—sentenced him to be hanged by the neck until he was dead, and that hie body should ho buried within the precincts of the gaoL The prisoner, whe appeared to be wholly unmoved dur ing all this bine, then amid, in aloud, clear, and firm voice— Now that I consider my hopes in this world are at an end, I solemnly declare, in the presence of this court, and of that God before whom I must soon appear, that I had neither act or part in the death of the late Mrs. Kir wan; and I will further declare that I never treated her unkindly. The prisoner was then removed. Tuesday, the 18th of January, is the day fixed on for the execution of the prisoner. The interval is sufficiently long to afford an oppertunity to get up a memorial in his favour, and to make any other efforts to obtain • commutation of his punishment. No step, however, I believe, has been yet taken for the purpose, and the current of opinion is so strong against the unfortunate man that it is not very probable any interference on his behalf will be available. The Freeman, of this morning, thus describes him after his return to the prison yesterday, when sentence had been passed : "At eight minutes past twelve o'clock the convict arrived from Green•street at the prison, in a covered car, in which two turnkeys were with him. As be entered the prison his manner appeared to be quite composed. lie was imme diately conducted to the apartment he had occupied previous to trial, in the juvenile class yard, but in some time after was removed thence to the capital yard, and placed in a day room there. Into this apartment a stretcher bed, with a straw pelisse, was brought for his use, and he was put in charge of two turnkeys, to remain constantly with him. Shortly after his return he desired to have a cup of tea and some dry bread. This was immediately served to him, and, after having partaken of it, he lay down for half an hoer, complaining of feeling languid. He aftee wards, on rising, sat and walked about occasionally until three o'clock, when two gentlemen, fuends of his, it was understood, visited him, and remained with him for up• ' wards of an hour. It was halt oast two yesterday morning' before he went to sleep, and he - then desired to be called at • half-past five, as he stated he had some writing to do. His wish was complied with, and he at once rose, dressed, and commenced writing, with which he occupied himself for upward. of half an hour. He still remains dressed in the same clothes he wore during his trial." NAVAL ADMIRALTY, DEC. 11.—APPOINTIIENTS.—Second Master Rowland B. Richards, to Resistance. Assistant. Surgeons Seyton Wads, to Bien/ions ; Fred. V. Sand i ford, to Magieienne. Captain Claude H. M. Buckle, to Valorous (commiuioned) ; C. H. Tongue, to be fig lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Pellew. Lieutenants Hon. A. C. Hobart, to Coast Guard • W. Gore Jones, to Cruiser. Naval Cadets Robert Edwin etirst nomination) ; Thos. L. Woods, to Sidon. Midshipman T. G. Mead, to Amonbeits non. Mate R. C. F. Duntares, to Calliope. Second Muter R. E. Jones, to Vulture. Master's Assistant George Chapman, to Vulture. Midshipmen Edward Richards, to Marcienne; R. H. Thompson, to Vulture; Thomas G. Roe, to Megiciassw. Navel Cadet Samuel Ling, to Aoarisenuson. PILOMOTIONI.—Second Muten Edward J. H. Tucker, Thomas IL CoUingwood, Charles A. Cleveland, George R. Morrison, George Richards, George Marsh, to ke Masters. lieutenants Edward Andrews, J)lin T. Ultay, Thomas Boardman, John Dawson, to be Retired Commanders, under the Order in Council of 1830. Samuel Stephens, to be Chief Engineer. Commander George Pierce, to be Captain (on the Reserved Ralf -pay List. Commanders Henry Harvey, Louis T. Tindal, Lord Fre derick H. Kerr, William R. Meads, to be Captains. Mates Henry Sainsbury, Arthur R. Owen, William Simpson, Augustus C. Sutton, Charles B. C. Dent, Thomas H. B. Fellowes, John H. Chad", Hon. H. A. Capel, Charles 11. V.utterbuck, to be Lieutenants. PORTSMOUTH, Dac. 12.—The London, 80, Captain Mundy, was to leave Sheerness this morning for Spithead, the Cyclops, steam frigate, accompanying her round. It is stated that the London's otHcen and crew will be turned over to the Doke of Wellington, 131, screw ship. The only man-of-war at Spith ead is the Russian screw corvette thins. At the quarterly examination at the Royal Naval Col lege at this port, during the past week, on subjects con nected with the steam engine, the following °Slicers have obtained high certificates of merit and ability :—Commander Henry Trollope, Lieutenant Charles Stuart Forbes, Mr. Thomu Lebunte Ward, and Mr. Henry Edward Howard, mates; and Edward Congreve, L. Dernford, and Dasher Lee Morris, Royal Marines. The following mates and midshipmen have passed during the week at the Naval College, in navigation, &c.:— Messrs. Seymour Curtis, Arthur Wing Lewis Morris Croke, Denis Bereeford Pack, Eugene Wring Batty, Henry Golden, Charles C. Mitchell, and the Hon. Arthur Hay; and for masters--Messrs. J. C. Scrivcn,W. H. Moore, A. F. Mugford, Alexander R. Hermiston, H. W. C. Wise, and J. P. Grant. The following have passed into the service as naval ca dets, and joined the ictory, till appointed to seagoing ships :—Mesfrs. Charles 8. Shuckburgh, Berkeley Banbury, Thomas Leyland Wood, Richard H. D. King, Samuel Long, Herbert F. Campbell, Henry Balmond, and Francis Sarkis Clayton. Darmiroßr, DEC. 12.—The Quail lighter, which arrived here on Wednesday with stores, &c., for Pembroke, left yesterday, but in consequence of the boisterous state of the weather was obliged to put barn again at 4 p.m., and she still remains here. The Devon lighter sailed on Wed nesday for Portsmouth and Chobham. The Dido, IS, Capina Morehead, was paid wages on Wednesday, and the Spiteful steamer, Commander Parker, was paid off the same day. The Brisk, skinner, was taken tufo No. 4 dock, on Thursday, and the Nile is to be taken into dock to- morrow (Monday) morning, to bo converted into a screw propeller. The Avon, steam tender, Master Commander A. Veitch, sailed on Thursday, with supernumeraries and men paid off from the Spiteful. The Vulture. steamer, Captain F. 11. (Maw, is to he taken into dock to-morrow to have her bottom cleaned, &c. Nearly the •hole mechani cal strength of the dockyard is now entplovtil by tusk et unlimited earnings, on the Algiers, 90, and the St. Jean iFicre, 100, building, to hasten their completion ; both ships are to have screw propellers. Four third clam clerks from the srere.keeper's office, in addition to four previously appointed, are to be employed extra house to expedite the aceinints, and are to receive the usual allowance of Gs. per day. INFV.RNAI. MACIIINK IN ITAI.V.—Tho correspon dent of the Dames, writing from N‘ples, on the 29th lilt., reports the dircUv• ry of a conspiracy against the King's life, which was to have been carried out ou the Bth of De cember. An infernal machine had been seized and many arrests had been made. LITERATURE: • Jisirso , rs, Journal and correspondence ,t now?: Moore. Edited by the Itight liottuurahlt Lord Joan itUbBELL, M.P. .P. h, Loasawsluit equal judgment, g oo d feeling, Lord and good taste, left his illustrious friend to tell his own story. A brief explanatory preface introduces Moore's " Memoirs, Journal, and Correa ! poudence," which (at least in these first volumes) are not obscured and encumbered with annotations, —as in such books is too often the case. First, of Lord John's part of the work. In whet he says of Moore as a friend and a man we recognise that gem knees and good sense which has made Lord John so esteemed by his personal friends --so beloved by his own family. In the allusions to polities we find, no doubt, the peculiar views of tbe old family Whuig, but expressed with a candour, a re spect for the differing views of others, an unobtru sive and unpretending sincerity, that enforces esteem and liking. Lord John's critical do:manta are least to our taste. Very respectable they arc, but very common-place. They are the d ,etrines of the original Edinburgh li,ricre retailed at second hand ; but they are excusable in one whose One has been mainly directed to politics, and whose literary opinions must be little more than rum inCsecnce• of the persuasions ho entertained when he had leisure to attend to them. Lord John's introductory remarks have, however, a charm beyond what the moot ingenious and just observations of a simple literatteur could possess. 'fho charge de% olved upon him by the ;stet in his will was to " select and arrange his MSS., so that some kind of publication might be the result that would utfird the means of making a provision for his wile and family." What was required fur the dis charge of such a task num simply de limey, good sense, and knowledge of the world. All these Lord John, it is clear, possesses in a rnre degree. lle is one of the tew happy natures who havecunt rived, in the words of Schiller, to "combine the clear views of the man of the world with the earnestness of the young enthu siast" (mit Sclau amen Ernst des Weltinalin's Blick). We admire and enjoy what he says of Moore, the man and politician; and we tolerate Alva ho is pleased to say of Moore, the poet. The family of the poet have been redt , ced by death to the alto alone, and advantage has been taken of this to ensure for her an annuity, thereby leaving the noble editor free to consult his own feelings and judgxn nt in what he publishes or suppresses,—undisturbed iby the consideration whether he is thereby doing his beet for the pecuniary interest of his pro ' tegi"?. Moore was a politician, a party man, and a satirical wit. There will, therefore, be some diffi culty in deciding how much may be told at present. Perhaps the satest side to err on now will be to avoid excessive communicativeness, provided all documents are pri served. The time will come when all may be used without hurting any one's feelings-- the only valid season for present suppression. Tho period to which the first volume extends is not that in which this delicate question arises. Here all is as yet plain sailing. It extends from the birth of the poet in 1779 to 1413, about and immediately before the time ashen that wicked wag "Toni Browne the younger" first burst upon the town. There is nothing to tell of this era that could well annoy the most sensitive now alive. It is an era that precedes most of the productions of Moore that are likely to live—with, indeed, the important ex ception of someof his finest melodies. It is the period of the poet's growth and development—perhaps the most interesting to contemplate, so far as he is personally concerned. Personally the life of Moore can bear There is a unity in the man and the poet, and that unity is such as to make us like him better. A great man he can scarcely be called ; the precise may question his claim to the title of "good " in a high degree. But a man of genius; he unquestion ably was—a most fikenb:e man—and as men go, tar better than the average run. It is in the private life of Moore that we must seek the key to his poetry. It wss the blossom of his presence—the natural and necessary efflorescence of the latter. Even as a child he was a fascinating companion. A quick apprehension, a vivacious fancy, a sentiment trank,and generous— tender rather than deep, an irresistible craving for social converse, singular power of felicitous expres sion, and a delicately susceptible ear for music, wero his natural gifts. The society into which he was thrown favoured the development of his peculiar talents. His schoolmasters made him a show declaimer ; his friends engaged him as an amateur actor ; social circles encouraged hint to cultivate music. The friends with whom he asso ciated awakened political enthusiasm, but a certain epicurean disposition and fastidious taste kept him an eclectic or theorist in politics. This and tho restrictions on catholics threw him upon literature as a vocation, and the prompting themes and subject matter of his literary efforts he found in the social circles to the charm of which he so highly contri buted. His style—more especially in verse—is essentially his own. Its main—perhaps its sole defect— is that festal facility of words which ho obtained from his early declamatory and histrionic exercises. Its principal merits are that cicarness and ease which arc owing to his more con versational than school training, end that exquisite musical cadence which he owed to his combination of the arts of poetry and music. So much for the me dium of expression. His thought has more of fancy than imagination. He does not dwell with earnest ness upon one or two great ideas, and breathe a reality and intenser life into them. He flits from thought to thought, from image to image, from sentiment to sentiment. His light, graceful, varied, redundant ideas find utterance in words so clear as to show them in their naked beauty, so mu sical as to excite a rapturous sentiment that prepares to feel their charms more intensely. This peculiarity of the poet's mind determines his success and failure. He is never sublime, never profound, often indig nantly vigorous, more often fascinatingly playful— sometimes scattering beautiful ideas round, sometimes wicked pleasantries. Greater poets we have had both among his predecessors and contemporaries, a more perfect poet of his kind never. His lyrical effusions are the most successful. This they owe to the complete identification of the sound and sentiment with the music—an identification which imparts a value to some of them whose literary merit is at least questionable, and heightens that even of the most beautiful! Next in order comes his exquisitely melodious "Light of the Harem ;" next his playful satyric effusions. His more laboured and aspiring poems we confess we care less for. His prose has been deemed flippant. Perhaps it is; but it is full of matter. So much strange out of the way learning was assuredly never brought together with so much of eloquent pleasantry, or made the channel of such judicious and instruc'ivc remarks. Of his earlier poetical sins we would say as little as possible. The best thing for all parties is to forget them. We can not, however, so entirely forget them as to wish that the remembrance of them in after life had sometimes tempered the acerbity of his remarks on writers who had less offended than himself in his own way. His moralisations to which we allude are those of a man who fancies he has grown virtuous simply because his voluptuous impulses have been deudened by age. The contents of the first volume are an auto biography embracing the first twenty y e ars of Moored life; letters from the earliest produceable effusions of the sort to Isl:i and • statement respecting his duel with Jeffrey. The letters are eminently natural and ph Astlig ; those to his mother admirable beyond what words can express. The memoir is supetfirial enough. The statement respect ing the duel is curious, us showing Low touch all concerned disapproved of what they were doing. The volumes, in a word, are a valuable addition to the biographical treasures of our language. THE Pori'. NO Corot:Hon.—The following is an extinct from a letter recently received from Rome: " A short time since a disciple or M. Robin was iu Rome, nod, aliong his conjuring trick., he handag. d hi. wile's Ile., placed Int in another part of the theatre, and asked her what he hat in his band, where it was made, and ether questions. This trick, so c imrnon in England, wes thought aojwonderful in Rome that when the Pope's Vicar heard of it he suspended the performance, although the announce ment had been stock all over the city. The conjunct was called before his Eminence, charged with being in'. ague with the black gentleman la.low, end threatened with ell aortit of things. The poor roan, to get himself nut the serape, was obliged to divulge the sm•ret of the trick u ter which the performance was allowed to be continued. I mention this that vim navy judge of the hatealectual statu of the Eternal City."