The Express. — London, England, 1849-07-09 00:00:00

et aristocratic leadership, the protect i mists will sooner er later fall back °IWO more emir: the yoke of the Lie cotri s and iitiente. IT is certainly a gratifying sight to behold that laidittry imperator, who, when we hat turned oar I regards towards Sp in, was confiscating its Mord" impending its 000stitutioo, exiling its liberals, trine porting its journalist*, shooting and imprisoning every object of sospicion—it is gratifying to behold this Peninsular CAESAR relating of his rigours, We trusting the safety and duration of a purely despotic pole, and recurring mice mote Os losuce l to • • sms t o pu bli n i ty. G m oy one we have seen the ben;stied liberals re turn. Tim Cortes has been »spited, nor have its speeches been coofined to tt - e besi"e.d courtiers se epauletted ministers. Cornice has recovered his voice, and ()LOMA his influeuee. TLe friends of EAPARTERO, limited of being scooted, are favoured. The pram itself is allowed to breathe. A fall amnesty km bees granted, and the objects of it have been enabled to return to their country. In doing all this, Heaven has but folios el the advice which Sir HENRY Butwelt gave him, and for giving which he quarrelled with and outraged our envoy. By his change of policy NAIVAIIE dove make some kind of apology to the British government for his pas sionate conduct, although, we admit, not as yet a complete and satisfactory ore. Much of the wisdom and liberalism of this changed conduct on the pert of the military government of Spain, is no doubt owing to the influence assumed over NARVAEZ and over the councils of 0,6 QUEEN rthe NLaTOR of our day, King LitoeoLo. ut the sagacity of NARVAY.Z himself has enabled him to descry the new danger which menaces Spain, from the universal reaction going on through out Europe, should that reaction prove successful. It is impossible, indeed, to cast our regards eastward. without entertaining the fear that 11450 may prove another I'4ll Russia, again, after a sleep of thirty five year', comes forth active, conquering and dicta torial. Austria in in her hinds. Prussia, which would fain resist, had sLe German natiouslity behind her, ca nnot succeed in rallying this nationality and rendering it sufficiently docile and intelligent for the purpose. Italy sinks under Austrian or French cannon, whilst France herself, under a prince of the dynasty of NAPOLEON, seems more ready to renew the treaty of Tilsit than that of Campo Formic,. In all this there is grave mittcr of consideration for Spain. Neither Russia nor Austria have recog nised the present dycasty, nor the constitutional regime connected with it. NARVAPZ, however de spotic, bases still his honour and his dignities on the constitutional regime. Reaction menaces him, es well as every man born of the new order of things. France and its republic might be formidable barriers to prevent the powers of the East and their influence passing into Spain. But France and its republic seem to be in the bands of children too week to know tl'eir own minds, too unsteady t be sure of their own aims. Seeing the chafer s, the inconsistencies, the weakness of public men in France during the last eighteen months, who could depend upon any public man or party in that country ? NARVAEZ feels this; and he has wisely taken the resolve of reconciling, as far as possible, all Spanish liberals and parties, so as to pre sent a national front to danger, wherever it may come from. In this there is sound policy and true patriotism, from whatever party it proceeds ; even though it advances under a military flag. The moat pleasing result to Englishmen, however, in the changed politics of Spain is to contemplate the Spanish Cortes engaged for the last month in the calm and intelligent discueslon of the financial and final affairs of the country. The national mind has been turned to this subject; the mo-t eminent men have devoted their time and researches to it, some, like OLOZAGA, turning even momentary exile to Iles account; and the result is • fortnight's debate in the Spanish Cortes on the question of free trade, which, for its intelligence, and talent, and advance ment of ideas, rivers the debates of Englard or of America, and leaves thole of Paris or of the Zollverein fsr behind. The great protectionist orator, Senor MADOz, is a kind of Lord GEORGE BENTINCE in his way—ardent, obdurate, diffuse—throwing out clouds of figures and objection., the doll mass of which he seeks to animate by passion ann by an almost Maho media devotion to the principles of preeection. In vain do the Spanish free traders most able men, too, with BABZANALLANA at their he ad, prove beyo- d thepossibi lity of a doubt that Spain has net the capital wherewith to build the factories, and produce the supply, which is needed in many branches of the most necessary and every-day manufacture. In vain does Senor MoN demoorrato that in his proposed admission of twist and of cotton stuffs at a duty of from thirty-five to fi'ty per cent. ad valorem, there are none of the kinds which Catalonia produces ; —those which it does produce being still left under the strict law of prohibition. It matters not. Even these first inklings of free trade are deprecated by the ardent Catalonian as the ruin of the capitalist, the bereavement of hundreds of families of bread, and the degradation of the peninsula. If you want to see the wealth and power that protection can pro duce, exclaims Senor MADOZ, look to England. If pr ohibition be the only path to prosperity and wealth, rejoins BARZANALLANA, look to Speen. Spain surely has been prohibitive enough at home and in her colonies. For the result, eireumapive. If English debates have furnished arguments and convictions to the free traders of the Cortes, they have no less supplied its protectionists with obstinacy and with tactics. Even those pro hibitions, for which there was some show of excuse in England, are as manfully recommended in Spain, without even a rag of excuse for them. Thekose of the amendments is in favour of a Spanish corn law, some worthy hidalgo being alarmed at an Max of wheat from Odessa or Tamisoff, which, once shipped, instead of sailing to a British port, may be induced, it is supposed, to seek a market at Valencia or Cadiz. Then a worthy shipbuilder of Santander dickies for a Spanish navystion law, whilst again the hidalgo is at variance with him on the score of Spasish timber, to which he would preserve the monopoly of I ribbing and planking Spanish ships. High timber duties in a country denuded of forests is a ' crotchet too absurd not to be insisted upon, tooth and nail, by the protectionists. The first portion of the tariff indeed, which limited to 14 per I cent. the duties on raw material, including timber,l sod to 30 per cent. those on iron and coal, gives rim to a host of amendments and hostile debates. The new tariff, however, is not altogether one of free trade. It contains a notable augmentation of the Spool& sow duties, supported by the Minister of Finance with arguments not so orthodox as these which he employs upon silks and cottons. Boast MON once endeavoured boldly to make up the iblic ciences in the Spanish revenue by direct taxation. Having reached what he considered a limit to that, in the disorganised state of industry and the depression of agriculture, owing to dyil war and stagnant trade, he recurs to levy upon sugar the same duty which it paid in 1841. The minister oomplairui that the consumption of sugar does not increase in Spain, and that an Englishman consumes 221ba. in the year, when a Spaniard uses I only five. Whilst sugar, however, supplies the re venue of the Spanish colonies by the export duty paid on it in the colony, and then the revenue of the mother country, by the import duty it pays on arrival, the minister cannot wonder if sugar repays such ill treat ment by disappearing from consumption. Bat whatever fiscal mistakes Spanish statesmen may yet persist in, immense good must result from the present agitation of such questions, and from Spain thus entering on the path ofngland in economical discussion, discussion, instead of following her neighbours in the paths of ambition, revolution, or intrigue. BRUTAL ATTACK UPON AN At/MONISM—At the county serious. Mancheater, on Thursday last, John Hutchinsoa, a adder, residing at Henley, was brought up on a charge of maliciously wounding Mr. Ganef:Mosul*4b, aucti ,of this town. It appeared that on Monday leak about noon, Mr. Greenbalgh went to the primmer's house with a warrant of digress from the landlady, and after speak ing with him in the lane the prisoner meet Into hie house, and, seising a poker, ease vat and struck him six or sawn aavege blows about the he.td and sane, fatiguing deep wounds. He was conveyed to the police station. where be was attended by Mr. Sharp, Surgeon, and elegy attention psid to him. Though able to attend the bout he was net considered oat of danger. A polies's= wr ea e y e w itness to the affair, but the taart was so sump and outrageous that he dazed not interfere with him natl' he had procured another officer to audit. The printer's conduct was very unseemly in court, and, after a reproof from the bench, be was conszaiTtnd for trial at the ant essies&—Mencherisr Miestirwr. Abe Court. 081101N11, BrrunnaT.—Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Mies Peel, us expected at o.boras this day, on a visit to her Majesty mid his Royal Highness. BUNDAT, JULY 8.--The QUlllia and Priass Albert, her Majesty's visitess, and the ladies sad gentlemen is waiting, atteaded divine smirks this scorning, in Wtippingham church. _ . _ ^ Bv James Clark aril( d at Osborne yesterday evening. His Royal Memo the Duke of Cambridge attended divine Ilefflal yesterday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Aedley-street Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Smiles I attended disks service yesterday morning, in St. Paul's , Ai 1, • • sughtibridge. A Cabioet Conseil wan held on Saturday at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John Russell. the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmer ston, Earl tiny, the Comesllor of the Exchequer, Sir Fransis Bering, the Mght lion. 11. Lehooehe►e, Lord Campbell, and the Earl of Carlisle. The Council sat two hosts. A meeting was held on Saturday at the office of the Scud of Trade, which was attended by Ma Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Lord Jahn Raven, Earl Grey, Sir Francis Baring, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl Granville, end Lord John Hay. His Royal Highness Primo Cielege of Cambridge, assompanied by his Serene Wahans Prises Edward of Saxe Weimar, has returned from visiting the King of Hanover, at Hanover, and from visiting the scene of the military opera tions against the insurgents in the dominions of the Or..nd Duke of Baden. The royal prime shortly departs for Dob lin, to resume his military duties against the visit of her Ma jesty 1.4 tire Prince Consort to that city. Quires MEBB6I4OER.—Mr. T. H. Fendall is ap pointed a Queen's Massager an Foreign 8-nice in place of Mr. Pricker, deceased. Mr. Foothill owes his appointment entirely, we understand, to the strong recommendation of the late Robert Vernon, Req., the founder of the gallery ut native art. NOVA SCOTIA APPOINTMENTS.—James 241 Nab, Esq., ia appointed R,ctiver-Oeneral ; and Herbert Hunt ingdon Esq ,to be Financial B,cretary for the Province of Nova Bootle. THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. We ere enabled to state that the following semis of the royal navy will most likely compose the royal squad ron, on liar bispesty's visit to Ireland next month. They will be all steam vessels, either propelled by the screw or paddle-wkeeL Guns. Mem Commanders. Vietoriaand Albert, royal yacht 2 118 Capt. Lord A. Vitnelarenea. Black node, Admiralty yacht. 38 Mamer Um. Cook. La Hogue (screw) Arrogant (mow) Dragon —.— 6 NO Captain W. IL Mall. 3 1 ,0 5 02 Stromboli 2 40 Master Com. nenithetk lire Q u een — 29 Master Com. Alien. The Sphysz and Fire Queen are at Portsmouth ; Lit Hogue at Sheerness; the Armonnt is expeeed from the Medit‘r ranean ; Dragon is at Kingstown, Dublin; Stromboli has proceeded to Sheerness, to be refitted. On the mast of Ire land the royal rquadron will most probably be joined by one or two other steamers ; the Shearwattr, 2, Lieutenant Com mander Tumour; the Trident, 2, Lieutenant Commander Risk • the Lucile?, 2, Lieutenant Command. r Lloyd ; and the Dwarf, 1, strew steamer, Liewenant Commands!. Os horse, without any more commiuiening or intefering with the routine duties of the service. This will give her Majesty an escort of thirteen steamers (including the royal yacht), mounting 135 guns, the aggregate of whose complement will be nearly 2,000 officers, seamen, and marines.— United Ser. rice Gassite. LAUNCH OF A "RAILWAY STEAMBOAT" AT BLACK WALL. Although the above title may seem to involve an absurdity, it is nevertheless the correct designation of the very elegant and powerful iron vessel which was launched on Saturday from the building•yard of Messrs. Robinson and Rural at Millwall. The Manchester is a fine blot of 340 tons burthen, and of a steam power unusually large in pro portion to her tonnage (150 horse), and is intended to act as a sort of floating and moveable bridge, connecting the ter minus of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail way with the town of Hull. Mr. Fowler, the engineer of the line, having brought the rail, by means of pure., Ist into the Humber on both sides, the Manchester (and with her consort the Sheffi4d) is so constructed as to berth alongside the quay on a level with the carriages from which the passengen may step into a spacious saloon, 50 hot in length by 12 in Wendel and 9 in height, on deck without knowing that they Piave lea terra firma. The launch was advertised for two o'clock, but, owing to various delays incidental to events of this descrip tion, operations did not commence until a quarter past three, when the wedges were struck away, and the "noble vessel" did not "glide majestically into her native element," but went slowly about half the distance, where she stuck fast, until a whole squadron, consisting of one large steamer and three or four small ones, came to her assistance, and, d'er , the snapping of half web urn hempen hawsers, induced her, by the persuasion of some chain cables, to perform the remainder of her journey. The delay, however, was short, sad served rather to heighten the into ' rest of the woe, giving to the nautical quidnunc present a subject of demotion, in the course of which each gave a different opinion as to the cause of obstruction. We under , stood the delay to have arisen from the fact of the vessel being launched with her machinery on board, a novelty which has recently been introduced in some of the Thames , yards. Immediately after the launch, the visitors were hospitably treated with luncheon on board another of Messrs. Robinson and Russell's steamers, which, independently of her gastro nomic attractions, was well worthy of the universal curiosity and atrentlin she excited. This vessel, which is called the Panders, was, it appears, coestreeted for the Nawab Nisi= of Moorshedebad, one of the tributary pridces of India, and was intended for hunting parties on a shallow branch of the flanges. Although of large size, being 150 feet in length by 19 in breadth, and 10 feet 6 inches in depth, her draught of water is only 22 inches, and her form and decorations fully realise all our preconceived notions of Oriental magnificence. Her gilded prow constructed on Mr. Ressel's " wave" prin ciple with scientific regard to speed, would become Cleo patrs's galley, while her spacious platform, vestibule, saloon, and luxurious divan, prove that his High ness the Nizam, to whose order she was constructed, has an excellent apprecia tion of creature comforts as they are understood in - Bengal. Her works are all of hammered iron, and those parts usually made of east iron are blouse or brass, and her cabin windows plate glass. Her guaranteed speed is fourteen mile, an hour. A SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL TO THE UNITED STATES will is futon be made up and forwarded to and from South ampton by the United States contract packets Hermann and Washington. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH DEAL AND DOVER. —The communication b 7 steam boats between Deal and Dover sad the metropolis, which has been suspended since last summer, in consequence of Mr. Napier having with drawn his steam vessels, has bees again opened up by the lime Bay Steam Packet Company, who have placed on the station their fast and excellent sea boats, Herne and Father Thome*, the former of which has made some extraor dinary passages. The accommodation is very much approved of bythoee persons who prefer the trip by water, with the splendid scenery of the nista, to the transit by railway. LAUNCH OF AN AUSTRIAN WAR STEAMEIL-000 of three war steamers now building for the Austrian poem mint, at the ship yard of Mesas. Patterson and Co., Bristol, was launched on Thursday afternoon. The follow ing is a description of the vessel, which is called the Cora. She is 180 feet in length between the perpendiculars, 34 feet 3 inches in extreme width, and 17 feet depth of hold. By the rule laid down by the British Admiralty she is 970 tons burthsa. The Cora is fastened with stage and banging knees to every beam, and her keel and garboard streaks are contrasted upon Lang's improved principle. She is diago nally tattooed upon the plan of Sir Hobert Seppings. Her onion havenen manufactured by Messrs. Miller and Raven hill, of London, and are of the collective power of 270 horses. There is no war steamer of the size of the Cora fitted with 'slow a steam power; but Mr. W. Morgan, from whose draw ings, and under whose direction she has been constructed, means that she will sail faster and better than she would N fitted with double that steam power, and it is undentosel that as soon as she is in a sufficiently complete state a trial tripe iT ztak place. US VOYAGE OF THE OREGON EMIGRANT V85.21..-We have been favoured with a sight of • primes letter hos Captain David Enos, master of the ship Omsk al s • siaissels, which contains the melancholy intelligence el the lea* of thirty-eight of the passengers on board, end two oldie grew during the voage. The Oregon sailed from Limps( in the begiening_of the month of May, en her aIPINIMI voyage to New York, with a cargo of emigrants, =Wetly of Irish, with comparatively a small Mesh, some of whom, however, we are informed wen oar near neMiskson—a family from Peen*. The I water appearA mey favourable, and every thing held a propose of • speedy pusag when the vessel inn* sal ties essomil ON she rounde d Cape Clear. On Knew, the 7th of May the first death occurred on board— s boy, Ores moan old. Subsequent to this time the weather Meese very wifavourahle, and many of the unfortunate pessuraws are said to have punned tram bar and even Msg. lodes. Most of the lAA oa bawd we shesribed to be in a nest destitute state—otabsat a bed to lie twos, er a reps to cover thasaselve• In this state they wess oerotabas by the metal mange me o irk f trent cholera nil }midi Isvor, whisk the work of de. olestio. In a hot s balk onowtod to skies osil Isar idly, oat eon_ a mei :r ma ponadod the thus amid Immo. NA idiom olio Amine to thus amid 100101100. into of watisasd fir Wee weeks. direr Ishii the posts serried Mr thirty-sight of the awl twe of the mew. We have not heard that WWII Webb egbrealle at beard have died. It is molds sox the sod esdased stale of the Irish ea Wad Irma die lOW= 10 seth sessagst them prinei ers moo of the ofthe weer who died are Williams M WINER Davie& The former was a H masa kon O owl M, OM NW' serpeater. e has a sib rid ad Miss Wag al Orms, in the ems OMNI. Polk Iles puts on NM to liato died of dam THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1849. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC BANQUET AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. Sir Uses Duke his fully redeemed the promise he made at his inauguration—that the greeted sod wealth iest metropolis in the world should not miffs, in its character for hoepitalky whilst he occupied the civic chair. Since the commencement of the season the Manekuliouse has been almost every week the scene of festive anion, sad the citizens of Ludgate and Cheepoide have been made as familiar with the embroidered liveries and the =Wormed chariots of the nobility u the shopkeepers of Bt. lanzes'iestrest. The most brilliant assemblies of rank and fashion that even in this country can be brought together have followed seek other in rapid succession. The great end distinguished in the senate, in the church, and at the bar, have received due respect from I the present Lord Mayor —it remained Guy to pay humus is the aristocracy of letters and of science. The gathering in the banquet chamber on Saturday, though amongst the last if not the least of the present mayoralty, was by far the most interesting. The company began to as semble at hail past 8 in the reception-room, where they were received by the Lord Mayor, with a heartiness that at once dispelled the idea that the meeting was one of mere ceremony. The entertainment was given In the Egyptian Hall which wee superbly decorated for the occasion, and where coven were Lid for about 200 guests. The list of the company comprised the names of the Earl of R use, the Marquis of Westminster, Earl de Grey; the Bishops of London, Llandat, end Norwich ; Lord Dudley Stuart, the Lord Chief Bane, Hon. G. Waldegrave; Admirals Sir E. CArington ' and Sir F. Beaufort; Captains Sir E. Belcher, and Sir 8. Brown, R.N. ; Sir Roderick hiurchison, Sir Henry de Is Beche, Sir George Staunton, Bart., M.P., Bir de Lacy Evan', M.P., Sir Charles Lemon, Bert., M.P., Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., Sir Henry Dymoke, Bart.. Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart., Sir W. Burnett, &CZ., Sir W. C. Roes, Sir R. Westmacott, Sir Henry Ellis, Sir Frederick Madden, Sir John Rennie ; the Dean of Westminster, Mr. Rennie, Mr. Bell, Lieut.- Colonel Sabine, Mr. Gasket, Mr. Graham, Dr. Miller, Dr. Roget, Professor Wheatstone—Council of the Royal &clef; Me•srs. Jones, Turner, Mulready, Cooper Bally, Cook, Leslie, Piekersgell, Buy, Butleke, B. Linkmen., Clarkson Btanneld. Deering, Twins, Lee, Wyon Mao- WitherinVon, Hart, Hardwick, Robe* on, Knight, C. LandauW , ebster, M'Dowell, Herbert, Cope, Dyee, end Westmacott—Royal Academicians; Mesas. Hume, U P.,H. T. Hope, M.P., R. Stephenson, M.P , Loam. M.P., glionby, M.P., Anderson, M.P.. Bro- Illinois, M.P., Thornely, M.P., Chaplin, M.P., Christy, M.P., Dina, M.P., and Dorman M.P. Lieut.-Colonel Sykes. Capt. Walcott, R.N. Prof essors Faraday, Forbes, Donaldson, Hofmao, Brands, and Ferguson. Dr. Paris, President of the College of Physician.. Mr. Stanley, Pre sident of the College of Surgeons. Mr. Field. President of the College of Civil Engineers. Doctors Lyon Playfair, Looock, 141' William, Arnott, Roots, Conquest, and Holland. Aldermen Falmouth, Moon, Laurence, and Carden. Meson. Samuel Rogers, Brunel, Cuhitt, Rundell, Rehberg., Tooke, Tite, Panizzi, J. G. Lrckhart, Brown, E. Forbes, Graves, Hopkins, G. R. Porter, Carnegie of Craige-hill, Laurence, J. 11. Green, Rintoul. Murdo Young, Scott, Knox, Copley Fielding, Bishop, Doh* Pope, Broekedon, G. F. Guthrie, Hurlestone, Bunning. J. B. Smith, Callen der, Tayler, Charles Dickens, Thackeray, Mark Lemon, Horace Mayhew, Doyle, Leech , Leigh Jordan Tom Taylor, Weld, St. George, Burke, Davie. Dillon, J. Simon. Reve rends .1. Barton, S. R. Canny, M. Churltone. M. Harding, J. Taylor, Waldis, Dickson. Gower, John Wood, W. 8. /Isle, Richard Taylor, Edkins, Lias, Fox, &c. received Th e following invitations, but were unavoidably prevented from being present:—Lord John &well, the Marquis of Northampton, Earls of Burlington and Yar borough, Lord Brougham, Lord Ashley, Right Hons. T. B. Macaulay and Wilson Croker, M. Guizot, Sir Martin Archer Bhee, Sir James Clark, Sir John Herschel], Sir R. Smirks, Sir Denis Le Merchant, Sir W. Hooker, Sir C. Fellowes, Mr. Hawn, M.P., flerjeant Talmud, M.P., Monekton I Midas, M.P. Professors Owen, Sedgwick, and Airey, Mums. Hallo:in, Leonard Horner. M'Culloch, Al heel Chalon, F. F. Chalon, James Wicker, James Ward, Phillips, Douglu Jerrold, and J. G. Shaw Lefevre. The LORD MAYOR having pledged his visitors in the loving cup, proceeded to give the usual loyal and constitu tional toasts, which were warmly responded to by the com pany- The LORD MAYOR then rose and said, that though politics wi re, as a rule, generally excluded from that hall on occasions like the present, it was nevertheless customary to pay a mark of respect to her Majesty's minister. He regretted that the late debate on the previous night in the House of C 301010112 deprived him of the company of Lord John Russell, who was most anxious to be present to meet so distinguished a comptny, and he (the Lard Mayor) had also been most anxious to show his lordship that the chief magictrate of the ci'y of London was honoured by the presence of an array of talent not to be equalled in any other city in the whole world. The tout was drunk with applause. The LORD MAYOR next gave the health of the Earl of Rune, the president of the Royal Society, coupling with it the heaths of Mr. Jones, R A., and the Royal Academy, and referred to the great beneflot those institutions conferred on the community and on the world at large. The Earl of ROSSE, on the part of the Royal Society ex pressed the obligation which he as the president, and he was sure he might say every member, of that sone:, felt at the honour which had just been conferred upon them. In coacluvion, the noble lord repeated, on the part of the It ,val Society, his thanks fur the honour which had been conferred upon it in his person. Mr. JONES, 8.A., returned thanks on the part of the Royal Academy. The LORD MAYOR then gave the House of Lords, uniting with the toast the health of the Marquis of West minster. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER returned thanks. The LORD MAYOR next proposed the health of the Bishops of London, Llandett, and Norwich. The Bishop of L ONDON acknowledged the compliment. He returned his sincere and hearty thanks for the honour which had been conferred on him in common with his right reverend friends. He spoke of the connexion which existed between hint ard the city of London, now contrast ing it with his position 22 years ego, when he officiated in that hall as Lord Mayor's chaplain. He also alluded to the usefulness of science and the arts in promoting religious principle, and extending a knowledge of the gospel, and in conclusion, after a graceful compliment to the profuse hoe pitality of the Lord Mayor proposed his lordship's health. The tout having been drunk with the greatest enthu siasm, The LORD MAYOR acknowledged it in an eloquent ad dress. The next tout which was proposed by the LORD MAYOR was Earl de Grey, as president of the Royal Insti tute of Arts. Earl DE GREY returned thanks, commenting on the beneficial results of the institution over which he presided. The LORD MAYOR afterwards proposed the held* of " the Lord Chief Baron and her Majesty s Judges," ' Sire. Lemon and the House of Commons," which was acanew 'edited respectively by Sir F. Pozzocn and Sir C. Limon. The LORD MAYOR then gave "The Literary Goad,. men present," connecting with it the health of Mr. C. Dickens, to whole genius he paid a high compliment. This toast was met with the most hearty and enthutrastin response. Mr. C. DICKENS briefly expressed his deep-felt sense id this graceful recognition of the claims of literature. It war a gratifying compliment to those who devoted their abilities ' to the instruction and moral advancement of their fellows, to receive such a tribute from the chief magistrate of the City of London. h • remaining toasts were " the Sheriffs and City Magis trates," which, having been duly acknowledged, tU ems. pay separated. The band of the Coldstream Guards was In attendance, and a musical party, under the direction of Mr. Jolly, com prising, besides the leader, Miss Ransford, Miss Henderson, and Mr. Raiford, performed several vocal pieces, acorn ponied by Mr. T. Jolly on the piano. of . CHURCH UNIONS IN LONDON.—Tiro Associations have recently been formed in London, similar to the church unions already established in different parts of the country. The Metropolitan Church Liston (whose office is at No. 18, Chancery-lane) annonnees the following as the prominent objects of the society : —l. Security for the legitimate exer cise of the royal supremacy in the appointment of bishops ; 2. A representative assembly of the church ; 3. Church dis cipline ; 4. Increase of the three orders of the ministry, ade quate to the spiritual wants of the people; 6. Measures of church extension, with provision for tie due exercise of official church patronage, lay and onleelartic. The London Union on Church Matter* proposee—To watch the course of events and proceedings which may effort the church : and with reference thereto to obtain and spread inkemation ; to ooneepoad and co-operate with parties in the several dio ceses ; and te procure legal advice sad resistanco when re ini aaderet that the two bodies, although distinct ia their seganisation, :sad in their mode of procedure, will sot concurrently for the pursuit of their common object, the security and welfare of the church.—John Bull. MONUMENT to SIR HENRY ILLiTING.—A MORD. ment to this distinguished officer, who was Lieutenant- General is her Majesty's army, and Colonel in the 33rd Regiment of Foot, has recently been erected at Cheltenham. An inscription on the tablet gives the following account of his military career. "He was born on the 13th of November, 1776, at Banshee, in the county of Tipperary, and in 1793 began his militarynner in the 33rd regiment, with which he served in the West Indies, at Martinique and Guade loupe, where he was twice severely wounded ; he afterwerds served with the 66th regiment in Ireland and the East Indies. In 1810 ha commanded the forces at the conquest of the Island of Bourbon, and led the advance at the cubes. quest capture of the Ma uritius, when he was again wounded. He died at Cheltenham, on the 12th September, 1847, aged 72, having served hie country for 64 years." SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON BOARD A RAMSOATE firaseas.—As the Little Western, one of the General Steam Navigation Company's steamers, was on her passage, on Friday morning, from Hamra' to Loudon. with a sail set on the foremast, a sudden land squall caught her when near Margate, which mapped the topmast short. and, in falling Beanie incanted withseveral of the passengers. Two females wen brought into Margate, one of whom, about 60 years of age, supposed to be a matron or nurse to some esta blishment in town, was dead before she amid be brought on shore; the other, a yoaag woman from Bamegete, on her way to take's situation in Lndon, was severely igjurd. One gentleman Was veep muck injured, but preferred going on to London, to be nailer his owe azalea attendant, who was telegraphed from Margate, to meet the boat at Loudon bridge on its arrival. Several others appeared on board with handkerchiefs, lie., bound round their heads, Wiest* their having combed ewe seats us a Ober. FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. OREENWICH. On Friday evening hat a preliminary meeting of the electors at the borungh of Greenwich was held at the Lecture-hall, Greenwich, for the purrs, of forming a Par liamentary and Financial Reform Association, to co-operate with the 'metropolitan soritty. An extended meeting is to be held on Wednesday evening next, to complete the arrange. menus aerwasar7 for the carrying out the objects of the so ciety, and to appoint the time for a boroegh meeting. Mr. Prentice bu meetings in Edi n- bUtga, Haddington, Caper-in-Pee, St. Andrews, Kirkaldy, Dunfermline Paisley, f.mock, Kilmarnock, end Stirling. The Wender:es in general has been meastred by the extent of the place of meeting, and in cc instance has there been any interruption to the proceedings, sad everywhere there has been an aneatiO2ollll feeling in favour of extensive finan cial reforms, not only bemuse they would bring with them a great redaction of taxation, but becalm in lessening our hostile demonstrations we should be leas likely to be involved in interventional and aggressive ware. MEETING AT PERTH. On Friday a meetiog was held in the City Hall, Perth, to hear an address trom Mr. Prentice, of the Financial Parliamentary Reform Association of Manchester, to take into crinaiduation the propriety of establishing a financial reform association in Perth. - BAILLIII Dimas in the chair. The address having been delivered &resolution was passed to the effect that a financial reform association should be established in Perth. ---.--- - Dr. &MIAS then moved " That the association shall have for ha primary aim to obtain a legislative revision et our national finance system, with the immediate view of reducing the present extravagant amount of public expenditure, and of relieving the industrial interests of the country' turn a proportionate amount of unnecessary taxation. That ' the association shall use every constitutional 111111111 LS for the attainment of these urgent reforms, by strengthening wad giving effect to public. opinion wi thin the Rhin of its own local influence, and by co-operating with other bodies organt,ed for similar objects through out the country. Teat the association shell consist of all who shall to any amount voluntarily subscribe to its funds. That the office bearers shall consist of a president, via-president, secretary, and treasurer, with a committee of not lea than twenty members, who shall fall to be elected annually. That the office-bearers shall meet from time to time as they may think necessary, and shall have power to call public meetings, and adopt such meutues for ascertain ing and giving eression to the views ana feelings of the xp members, and of the community generally, as shall consist with the constitution and aim tithe association." The motion wu carried unanimously. It was afterwards agreed that a committee should be appointed, including the Lord Provost as president, and Bea's, Dewar and Pullar as vice-presidents. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting repented. THE EXPLOSION AT DUDLEY PORT COLLIERY. The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the tinter- tunate persons killed by this accident, took place at Dudley on Friday night. Mr. John Yardley, mine surveyor of the Moat Colliery, deposed that be had examined the working condition of the pit in question that (Friday) morning. Tke air was th thrown into three different ways or directions, as before the explosion. Witness examined the spout saddens where the explosion took place, and, supposing the dam to be properly stopped, the air-way was sufficient for the safe working of the pit ; but in case the dam was not properly stopped, gas might have accumulated and exploded, on the other side o's the dam, in the workings. If the last length of air-way had been wider, at d the dam not sufficiently . stopped, it would not have prevented the gas from accumulating, even if the air way had been three times wider than it was. He moot opinion after a minute examination of all the works, that the pit was in a proper state for working. The sir-ways were properly driven to carry off the gas. It was the boy's duty to see that the dams of the spouts were properly stopped, and when they diseovered any gas in the workings not to let the men commence work until it was cleared. He ought not to have used a naked light. There were two perfect safety-lamps in the pit on the morning of the explosion. Witness had seen a satety-lamp which had been found in the pit that mailing, with the top off ; and from the appearance of it, being covered with dust and dirt, the lamp must have been unscrewed before the explosion took place. Oa unscrewing a lighted safety-lamp, a candle may be lighted by it ; but it is at all times improper to unscrew the safety-lamp where Mere is the loot appearance of gas. Mr. Yardley minutely explained the working of the pit, and his replies to tines dons as to its working condition were satisfactory. Mr. Henry Johnsen, mine surveyor, of Dudley, was next called. He stated that he had examined the pit, and made • plan of it. The air-way was, in Ws opMioas ' sufficient to ovry off any quantity of gas ; in other rwpeets his evidence was corroborative of that given by Mr. Yardley. The lamp (he said, had evidently been unscrewed by head, and nut blown off. After one er two other witnesses had been called, the Coroner trammed up, and the jury returned the following verdict: " That the explosion was caused by the want of proper precaution on the part of the doggy, Pritchard." Edward Brighton, another of the sufferers, died on Tuto r day, sad two others are not expected to survive. THE CALEDONIA, Captain Stone, sailed from Liver pool oa Saturday for Halifax and Boston. TIM CUSTOM-HOUSE. CENTRALISATION. -- An order was issued on Thursday from the Board of Customs, to all the outporn, that the accounts of imports and exports kept at the different pone in the United Kingdom from which the various periodical returns have been made, show ing the state of our foreign trade, are, is future, to be kept at the Custom-house in London, and that all the necessary documents must be transmitted from the outposts daily. This arrangement commenced on the 6th inst., which is the beginning of the official quarter, and is to be tried for three months. If the order becomes a permanent one, half the Customhouse clerks at many of the ports will be dispeased with. The object of this new arrangement is, no doubt, to save the national expenditure. INCRIASINGTEADE OF THEPORT OF HAVRE.—The increase of trade and the growing importance of the port of Havre may be inferred from the published Custom-house revenue returns •f that port, which amounted, fur the month of June this year, on imports, to 2,353,172 francs, against 1,115,694 francs for the same mouth lest year; and on exports, to 22,936 francs for tha month of June this year, 'genet 9,560 francs for the Nuns month last year, showing an increase of more than 100 per cent. in both departments of the Customs revenue of the flourishing port of Havre. ANOTHER MINE ERPLOGION.—OR Wednesday morning another of these fearful «Terrence. took place at • colliery belonging to the British Iron Company, known as "The Black ‘Faggon," and situated at Old Hill, in the parish of Rowley Regis. A quantity of inflammable gas was ignited by the exposure of a lamp or candle, when an ex plosion occurred which seriously scorched four men, slightly injured another, and, we are informed, killed a sixth.— Wor cestershire Chronicle. AWFUL ACCIDENT.—OR Friday morning, about seven o'clock, a young man, about twenty years of age, who is a " drawer" in one of the collieries belonging to Jacob Fletcher, Esq., of Clifton, was in the act of reaching a hook which he was using to draw waggons upend down the mine, standing at the same time at the bottom of the shaft, when a brick fell upon his head, and haunted his skull so dread fully, that he died immediately afterwards. The shaft is eighty-five yards deep, and the brick had become detached from the side, about fifteen feet from the top, so that it must have fallen with great force. An ioquest was held by Mr. Rutter, yesterday afternoon, at the " Seven Stars," Clifton, when a verdict was returned in accordance with the circum stances of the case.—Manchester Examiner. BURGLARY AT CROSTHWAITE. —On Thursday night, or early on Friday morning, • daring robbery was committed on the premises beleoging to Mr. John Halhesd, of Crosthwaite, near Kendal, his pantry window having been forced open, and some iron hers wrenched off, and five cheeses, a loin of mutton, a pound of butter, a quantity of bread, cream, sto., having been extracted, together with two pain of boots. Information was immediately given to the police, and the suspected parties were ultimately captured in a barn, near the Sun Inn, Crook. They had in their posses sion, when taken, the two pain of boots, the mutton, and part of one of the cheeses. They gave their name. John Hart, John Jackson, John Hall, and Mary Welch, alias Hall. On the same day they were committed to the anises. —Kerulal Mercury. THE GREAT SEA SERPENT.—PROBABLE SOLUTION OF ran Quximow.—Mr. J. A. Harriman, commander of the ship Brasilia'', makes the following statement : He left the Caps on the 19th of February, and in the morning of the 24th the ship was becalmed is lat. 26. smith long. 512 411" being about 40 miles from the piece where Capt. M'Quaigh, R.N., is said to have seen the great sea serpent. About 8 o'clock on that inning he perceived something right a-beam, about half a miffs to the westward, stretched along the waters to the extent of from 25 to 30 feet, and moving with a sinuous motion. The head, which seemed to be several feet above the water, had something like a mane mining down to the floating portion, and within about six feet of the tail the supposed, animal faked out into a double fin. As the Brazilian was making no headway Captain Herrin= had a boat lowered and took with him Mr. !=irand, on nearing the object, it was found to be more than an immense piece of ma-weed, evidently detesited from a coral reef, drifting with the current which sets emetantly to the westward in this latitude, and which, together with the swell left by the gale, gave it • sinuous snakelike motion. The captain had it hauled on board, but, as it soon began to decay, was compelled to throw it over. He now regrets that he did not preserve kin a water butt for exhikition in the Thames, where the conflicting motion produced by the tide and steamers would, in a ll probability, give a like appearance. FIRE IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—A various accident hin the parliamentary train, which left the Water -1 station on Saturday morning, at twenty minutes past tlt appears that one of the explosive signa ls midst guard had with him in Me pemecases cos 4trade woo engin fire, exploded, and caused the other to emplede. The luggage was set fire to, and a derable parties ef it was completely destroyed. FortunsWir, the train was near the Andover-road strike, and ea foss as it reached andstanos was prorated, awl the Aro woo =Us plebe& A POOR MAN'S PICNIC. (Front the Spectator.? A great pinnate party left the Eastern Counties Railway station, at Shoreditch, on Monday, to spend the day in the pleasant neighbourhood of Havering-atte-Bower. Every year the poor of the perish of to. Mathias, in Bethnal green, are carried out into the country, to see how It ature made the hills and the Tallies before Man made Spitalfields ; being too numerous for exportation in one mare, the holyday makers are taken oat in different parties ; and this time the Zily lasiaded some twelve or fourteen hundred souls. i g ratraage sight was it to see them pouring by one of the side-dews on to the platform of the station, in order that they might be absorbed into the carriages of the train : SOW same a charity. school of boys—one of girls—a body of weavers in their Sunday clothes—a score of workhouse men —an aged . couple—a miscellaneous crew of weavers, into, .vier., sun *Winn; end old, fat ail lean, grave and gay, dirty and clean—a score of old workhouse women—a horde of boys—the Sunday school teachers, the aristocrasey of the race—more miscellany : there seems no end to them : the hour wears away, and still they come, lige ants in Africa. The only change is, that as the time slips on they come faster ; the railway officers stimulate them with " Now, this way ! Carriages in front!" Boys get excited and run ; fat women with large families display a power of collective locomotion which is amazing ; aged couples do their best— which is not much. The spectacle ought to be • pleasant sight, as any multi tudinous holiday should be ; but it Is not, at least on the suffice. The race thus filing before yea is not prepossessing ; neither does it look happy. It is upon the whole a stunted race; plain flat feature., with pallid checks, are the staple— ' not • starved, but an underfed, unwhclesome, unventilated look. The old people are short, small-limbed, and big faced ; slender types of Teniers' human kind. The boys are :dull and heavy-looking—less stupid than dull : they Gan get up • run, and a shout and • grin ; but they cannot mutter the radiant life of your country boy. The women are better—women always are! —lea deteriorated: but they are homely if not squalid, careworn, feeble , oppressed with the troubles of life. Some are bad sight —brutal and joyously malignant : no spectacle can be mere repulsive than your robuster work house hag, spoiled to all memories except • brutal profligacy, deadened to all hope except the brawling gin-bottle. The girls are the best—women as yet unspoiled, except by what soever has stunted their growth. Beauty peeps out here and there, faintly, like • wild flower in the neglected alleys of Bethnal-green. But for some part of her life at least woman carries the affections in her countenance, and that charm can not be obliterated. Altogether it is a depressing sight—so many living things, and so little life. Their mien is disengaged, as if free from restraint, yet they are on the whole subdued and slow. • At last the vast herd le packed away, and the train moves off. From the embankments you view the miserablest tract of inhabited land—that pari h of Bethnal-green from which these people have been drawn—an overpenpled, dingy, bustling, tumbledown place ; you Bee squalid back yards— behind the scenes of that low drama; squalid loungers mounted at window and on house-top tocheer the parting train. The engine, swift and steady, bears you into the freshen ing air; the lands grow greener and more green. The train stops ; the narrow defiles of liomford station slowly disgorge the invading tribe; and when at last you take the road, the street of the market town is tilled with the moving mass. Already they look more cheerful; and they fall into good walking order—though, the town passed, some few do run to the hedges to pluck the first dog rose. A slow journey is it to Havering, 3 miles off ; but not • dull one. Exercise lends its heathiul stimulus; and when at last the multitude turns into the great open field on the hill-side, breaking into varied and scattered groups, the people have grown quite gay and sportive. They sit down ti the dinner they have brought with them, and then spread abroad. But excellent order they keep. How is that ? Some unseen spirit of order must possess this great herd of creatures from the troubled region of Spitalfields ; where, you know, the people are too wretched to be virtuous, where they are so sunken as to be beneath the influence of order. And indeed hers is such a spirit. Moving among them, unmarked except by his übiquity and the unostentatious defe rence paid to him, goes a man in black—guiding their steps, animating the feeble, checking the disorderly: he it was who planned the expe dition,: who orders the carriages, who mapped out the route, who conciliated the local authorities— who provides for that multitudinous march its object, its means of transport, its fixed path, its order. it is the clergy man of St. Mathias. the lien. Joseph Brown, of whom Lord Ashley made such respectful mention. He is there with his family ; his excellent wife—a true working parson's kind and diligent companion, and his active sons; and even the infant is brought out to share the holyday of his people. It is a priest in his duty—the father cf his flock, their corn. panion and guide, the teacher and exempl..r of manners to his people, be they never so lowly and lost. He it is th en brings them again from the stifled oblivion of the crowded Spitalfields to the presence of nature—carries them out into the fresh fields, to sing the praises of God, and to bear home with them kind and healthy memories—flowers that never fade. Ile does his duty in the pulpit, with credit and approval in the church to which he is appointed ; but here we find him doing • wider duty in the roofless church,which is open to all, be they never so poor or so sunken. He is working for the welfare of the people. The consequence is obvious: he not only bears his doctrine where the mere pulpit preacher cannot reach, but he fastens upon Lis penile an influence once common to the church, but now 1 well nigh forgotten. Carlyle has said that the function of the priest, as a teacher and guide, has ponied to the more modern " cloth " of literary writers; and the remark is true, because the priest has forgotten duties which the want and misery of Bethnal-green have recalled to the kind and acute mind of Joseph Brown. Of course .such a man finds help; and accordingly Mr. Brown was suer 'undid by a few friends, clerical and lay, who aided him in his active duties. But strangers also assist. A leading magistrate came down to the Itoinford station, to help in the tasks of guidance and order; he tad in his pocket the keys of ltomford Townhall, sent by • brother magistrate, in case it should rain ; a gentleman at Havering lentthe grounds ; the local clergyman, the Reverend Mr. Faulkner, was on the spot, hospitably active for the comfort of Mr. Brown's personal friends. 'the ruling spirit extended to all engaged. It is penetrating no secret to say that Mr. Brown must be it poor man, looking after other interests than his own : but he is powerful in zeal and rich in kindness, and by those two great influences, although he cannot renew the miracle of feeding the whole multitude from hie own scanty store, he does contrive that they shall have their holiday in ease and comfort without hindrance and without reproach. EFFECT OP TITS DANISII BLOCKADE.-04 Wednesday next the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway sharehold- ers will meet to receive a further report from their committee of investigation; and on the following day the York and North Midland shareholders meet for a like porpsee. The purport of these reports is at present unknown, the greatest secrecy being maintained. Rumours, however, have been propagated of an unfavourable character, on the faith of which the shares of the latter company fell en Saturday about 31. per share, and the Berwick line was affected in a lesser degree. They have since partially recovered the de pression, and are now quoted at about the price at which they stood a fortnight ago. The traffic on both lines con tinues to be seriously affected by the Danish blockade ; but, nevertheless, this week presents a decided improvement. The near approach of the opening of the Leeds and Think line, and its probable effects on the traffic, excite some inte rest. With reference to this meetings next week, we par pose giving very fall reports, that such of our readers as are interested, and are unable to &timid, may be placed in pos session of every particular.— Yorkshire Gazelle. ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On Friday evening, about six o'clock, a most diabolical attempt was made to destroy the life or lives of two ladies, daughters of Dr. Stokes, of Portland-place, Islington. They were sitting in the draw ing-room, when they were fired at by some ruf fi an residing in Northampton-street, which is at the back of Mr. Stalin's grounds. Police-officers Collins and Withers, of the N division, who wen on the spot in private clothes, watching some thieves, were instantly called into the doctor's house; and, after the alarm had somewhat subsided, they found a bullet embedded in the wall, it having passed over the ladies' heads, and then through a carved cornice. Every effort was immediately made by those active constables to find out the dastardly scoundrel, but, up to yesterday, no clue had been obtained of him.—Sunday paper. AN INCORRIGIBLE OPPENDER.—At the Dorset Quarter Sessions, a few days ago, a woman named Caroline Burden was found guilty of stealing a quantity of oak bark, the property of John Kendall, at Sixpenny Handley. This woman had earned for herself the unenviable reputation of being an old and incorrigible offender, for it appeared from the records of the gaol that on the 2nd of May, 1842, she was sentenced to six weeks hard labour, for leaving her family chargeable to the pariah ; on February sth, 1846, to twenty one days hard labour, for misbehaviour in the union workhouse ; on August 20th, 1847, to one calendar month, hard labour, for stealing peas ; on December 14th, in the same year, to twenty-one days hard labour, for stealing a fence ; and on December 22nd, 1848, to one calendar month, hard labour. She was now sentenced to one month hard labour. SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN BODT.—On Thursday morning a man who was drawing water from a well situated in a field at Aldrington, found some obetruc• lion to the descent of his bucket, and, on looking down, perceived the body of a man. He gave an alarm, and the body was drawn up and taken to the Ship Inn, Hove, where it was recognised as that of Peter Freeman, a young man, 23 years of age, who kad gained a living latterly in Brighton by wheeling trucks for laundresses, fetching water from the sea, itc. He was seen alive last, engaged in this latter occupation, on Wednesday morning, opposite Bruns wick-terrace. Evidence of this, and of the (lading of the body, was given at the inquest held on the body at the Ship Inn, Hove, on Friday afternoon, and which was adjourned until Saturday, in order to procure further evidence. De ceased was never known to have any property in his pos session, and it is not likely, therefore that he came to his end by any other than his own act.—Brighton Herald. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LAMBETlL—Yesterday be tweenlo and 11 o'clock, a fire of a very alarming character broke out in a long range of premises belonging to Dieters. Baker and fions,ths builders at Palace New-road, Lambeth. in that portion of the works termed the " fitting shop." Several engines of the London establishment were promptly in attendance, but the firemen were unable to get the flames extinguished until the fitting and blacksmith's shops were almost consumed and the store room burnt. The total lows is very considerable, and unfortunately Messrs. Baker wan uniustrad. From the examination made there is no doubt but that the fire was caused by the spontaneous igni tion of some old rope stowed away in the basement floor of Ike buildiag. SERVICE. Friday's Gazette gives a list of the masters and mates in the merchant service, who have soluntarily puma an examination and obtained certificates of qualifies ion, foe the class against each 'signed, under the regulations issued by the Board of Trade since 31st May last. _ hisscaan. Arthur Wellesley Eyre, :3;sicl;.sscertifieste, Ellenborough, Newcastle. Andrew Williamson, Ist, Jane, London. David Rome, Ist, John Dugdale, Limp's)]. William Williams, Ist, Henry Winch, Liverpool. William Henry Flenley, let, Laurina, Liverpool. William Stewart Corrigall, 3rd, Spray. 13-. nth Shields. Martin Parnell, tad, City of London, London. Robert Watson, 2nd, Asiatic, London. Gilbert Jameson, 2nd, Fly, London. John Maude, god, Sea Park, London. William Hobbs, 3rd, Salads, Wbitby. David James, 3rd, Asiatic, London. Henry Taithfull, 2nd, Pekin, Newcastle. John Macneill, Ist, Adino, Dundee. Ebe n Lawson, let, Sea, Liverpool. William °raison, lit extra, Windsor, London. John Hill Abram, tad , Blanche, Sunderland. John Browne, 2ud, Larkins, London. Henry Joblin, tad, Ildarchlonem of Bute, Cardiff. James Mackay, 2nd, Sea. Liverpool. James Robertson, 2ud, Herschel, Dundee. Wilson Bennett Cursing, 2od, Ann Beet, Liverpool. Thomas Colley Starner, 2nd, Tamar, London. Thomas Spedding, 2nd, Sarah Scott, Landon. John Gardiner, 2nd, Garland Grove, London. John Gimblett, 2nd, Barham London. Thomas 0 wen, 3rd, Pauline Houghton, London. Stephen Stack, Ist, Blarney (screw steamer), Cork. William Walker, 2nd, Jane, Liverpool. John Black, let, Free Trader, Belfast. William Henry Canszsr, let, Una, Liverpool. Henry Lawson, Ist, Thomas Feilden, Liverpool. Henry Rawlings Percival, Ist, Louisa Baillie, London. John William Murton, 2nd, Alfred, London. Henry Edwards Lansdowne, 2nd, Sea Park, London. William Bell, 2nd, Bucephalus, Newcastle. Joseph Grey, 2nd, Columbus, South Shields. John Brown Teuton, 2nd, Malabar, Liverpool. Robert Tenison Cochrane, 2nd, Niagara (steamer), Glasgow. Wallow Cumberland, 2nd, Camperdown, London. John Hole, 2nd, Lively, London. Themes Mathew Hopkins, 3rd, Bucephalus, Newcastle. Jiang Young, Ist, Jessie Greig, Dundee. Robert Burgoyne, 2nd, Hindoo, London. John Inner, Ist, Kelso, London. John Plowman Ward, let, Ottoman, Great Yarmouth. John Henderson, 2nd, Sir Howard Douglas, Liverpool. Charles Thomas Budge, 2nd, Fantee, Bristol. Richard Stephenson, 3rd, Brightman, Landon. Thomas Wishart, let, Swan, London. Charles Granger Weller, Ist, Monarch, London. John Toyer, 2nd, Marlborough, London. David Wilson Lang, 2nd, Lee, London. Charles William Goddard, 2nd, Flora, Hamburg. Jahn Clara, let, Dana, Dundee. John Lsiog, Ist, Amelia Gordon, Glasgow. Thomas Cooper, 2nd, Amelia Gordon, Glasgow. MATES. Robert Gilpin, 2cd class certificate, Sovereign, Plymouth. George Alexander Williams, 2cd, ILM S. Pontien. Ebenezer Yeats, 2nd, Ocean Queen, Bristol. Clarkson Tuner, 3rd, Tasman, Hobart Town. John Login Sinclair, 2nd, Cowlitz, London. Alexander Dyce Wilson, 3rd, Westminster, Londod, Jonathan Thompson Durrell, 3rd, Indus, Port Glasgow. John Watson A kenh ead, 2nd, Duke of Wellington, Glasgow, William John Lewis, 3rd, Bordeaux, North Shields. John Swanson, 2nd, Cowlitz, London. Lan Norton, 2nd, Euphrates, Liverpool. John Alexander Grant, let, Waterville, Onßenown. MUSIC. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. RE-APPEARANCE OF Sowrao.—Thc once celebrated Mademoiselle Sontag having after so many years emerged from the shades of private into the glare of public life, is an occurrence which will be recorded as one of the most remark ible events in the history of the musical drama. However much we must regret the cause of a step which appears to have been sudden as unexpected, we cannot but rejoice at the resumption, even at this late period, of a career which began with unparalleled brilliancy, and at the resto ration to the stage of one who, even in the brief space that she remained upon it, had become one of its brightest ornaments. The enthusiastic reception of immense audience Sontag on Saturday night, by the audience who filled her Majes'y's Tneatre, showed the strong and general prevalence of this feeling. Many, who had never seen her eagerly em braced an opportunity which they never ex pected to meet with. Many indulged in specula tions on the probable effects of time on the obje t of their curiosity—speculations about to be solved.in a few moments. But kindness and sympathy were evi dently the feelings of the whole audience ; and these feelings were most emphatically expressed by the uni versal burst of welcome the moment that Linda, in her picturesque rustic attire, was seen advancing rom the back of the stage. Its effect on its object seemed to be overpos.ering ; she trembled, and withdrew for an instant to regain composure. When the applause subsided, she began her opening recitative, introdu cing the eavatina " Ah, luce di quest' anima," one of Donizetti's happiest and most original inspirations, and long before she bad finished it all doubts about her vocal powers were at an end. Her voice had not lost a jot of its purity, volume, or freshness. In evenness and perfection of tone, throughout its whole compass, it equalled the finest violin, with that living quality which belongs to the voice alone, aad which the violin of Paganini himself could never emulate. The grace and fiaieh with which she exe , cuted this little air, and the brilliant but delicate and appropriate orsments with which she enriched it, set description at defiance. Its conclusion produced an other scene of general excitement, and similar scenes were renewed, at short intervals, to the end of the opera. Her representation of the character (one of the most interesting . on the musical stage) was sim ple, beautiful, and in many places deeply pathetic. To those who had seen her before, her appearance gave a vivid idea of her former self. Twenty years cannot pass without leaving traces over the head of any one; but Time has been kind to Sontag. Her figure, always round and full, is a lit tle, and but a little, enlarged ; her motions sad deportment have their former lightness and lady like grace; and her features, still, as of old, remark able for their sweet and open expression, are those of a much younger woman than she really is. The scene which made the deepest impression was that in the second act, where Linda, living in apparent shame, has to ensounter the grief and anger of her aged father. Sontag's intense passion, joined to Co letti's very fine acting in the character of the old man, gave an effect to this scene hitherto unparalleled on our stage. In the last act the picture of Linda's melancholy manna was full of truth and beauty. At the moment when reason first flashed on her m;nd, the sudden convulsion which shook her frame as she sank senseless iu the arms of her mother, was one of those " tender strokes of art " which reach the heart of every spectator. By way of finale Madame Sontag introduced a bravura air which, in itself, was not much to our taste, and which, being in the Spanish style, was wholly inappropriate to the situation; but she sang it with marvellous brilliancy and immense eclat. Madame Sontag had been called for at the end of the first and second acts ; but at the conclusion of the opera it seemed as if the audience did not know how they could sufficiently express their enthusiasm. After the fall of the curtain she was called for three times, and was received each time by the whole audience standing with cheers, acclamations, and showers of wreaths and bouquets. In short her rc ' ception was such as has probably never been sur passed within the walls of this theatre. It cannot, we think, be doubted that while her voice and execu tion are unimpaired, her intellectual powers are ma , tared and strengthened since the days of her youthful , triumphs, and that she is, in fact, a greater performer than ever. The opera, in its ensemble, was admirably per ' formed. Coletti's Antonio, as we have said, was a fine piece of acting. Gardoni, as Carlo, sang beauti fully, and received mach app lause; Madlle. Cesaloni, both by her acting and sing ing gave great effect to the pretty part of the boy Pierutto ; and F. Lablache and Belletti did justice to the Marquis and the Pre feet. DARING SMUGGLING ATTEMPT.—On Friday even ing, about 6 o'clock, three men beloneing to the Royal Artillery,stationed at Fort Moncton, observed • boat, having • skiff in tow, approach the shore westward of the fort and land three men, each of whom carried a half anker of spirits. The soldiers went up and captured the spirits, but did not detain the men. The boats were yesterday seised by the Coast guard, and, with the spirits, delivered over to the Custom-house. The boats belonged to a publican residing in the High-street, Gosport ; and the three men, ere this, are no doubt In custody. THE CHOLERA IN DAMPSIIIRE.—We regret to state that during the last few days the cholera has made its appearance at Southampton, Poole, Gosport, the island of Portage, Fareham, and the Defence, convict hulk, at Ports mouth. Inquests on several cases have been hell in some of the places mentioned, and "Death from Asiat i c cholera" las be= ntarasd.