The Sun. — London, England, 1858-05-22 00:00:00

HAVELOCK MEMORIAL FUND. President, H. R.H. the Duke of Cambrid4e, K.G., dre. £25 0 0 COlonel John Thomas Leslie, C. 8., Officers, Non-Commis atoned, S aff and Man of the East India Company's Depot, Warley Barracks, one day's pay 63 3 0 A list of other contributions will shortly be published. Pabscriptlons received at the bankers', and the Committee-room, 3, Pall-mall East, S.W. Major ADAIR, Hon. Sec. May 13, 1856. EVE YOU GOING TO THE HIGHLANDS, Unrivalled for Scenery, famous in Story and Song t If so, nl , lce a note to call at (when in the Capital of the beautiful North), MACDOUGALL'S WAREHOUSE, HIGH-STREET, INVERNESS, Where only can the varied products of the Hiedands, natural and industrial, be seen, In his extensive rooms MACDOUGALL has gathered together all the best productions of the Highland looms in Tweeds, Tartans, Linseys, Plaids, Shawls, Dresses, the Avonrite Highland Cl oa k , Fl ora Macdonaleditto, &c., &c , with the best Native Jewellery (Cairngorms, Pearls, &c.), the pretty products of the Skye, L , wis, and Gairloch looms and knitting needles, the home-made undyed plaids of Ord, Sutherland, and Avoch, the Snuff Boxes, Coups, Bickers of the Culloden, earrers, &c. Side by side with this he has placed all the necessary Clothing of every description for Deer Stalking, Grouse Shooting, and for Tourists, &c. Visitors to his rooms can at once compare the varied pro ducts of the three kingdoms. D. MACDOUGALL, Inverness. MAC IOUGALL and his patterns of Tweeds. dtc. , can be seen at 24, BKEWER-STREET, REGENT-STREET, from Two till Six o'Clock, until July 10, when he retu:ns to Inver ness. THEATRE, H ER MAJESTY'S Piccolomini—Giuglini. THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, May 02, Verdi's grand Opera, LA TR A.VIATA, Violetta, Madlle. Piecolomini ; Alfredo, Signor Giuglini ; Dottore Grenvil, Signor Castelli ; G.:rmont Georgic), Signor Aldighieri. FLEUR DES CHAMPS. The principal parts by 3fadlles. Pocchini, Annetta, and 31 Durand. The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock. A limiied number of Boxes have been secured to the public. ihice 21s and 31s 6d each, which may be had at the Box Office, at the Theatre. TRE.- TIER MAJESTY'S T Titiens, Alboni, Giuglini. zyuautlitut, ortolaoi, Bellet i, Beneventano, Aldighiori. The following arrangements have been m tde : THIS EVENING, Saturday, May 22 —LA TRAVIATA and the new Ballet, FLEUR DES CHAMPS Tuesday, May 25 - DON GIO 'ANN' and Ballet. Thursday, May 27--IL TROVATORE and Ballet. Friday. May 28--Grand Morning Concert, in which al the arf..tes of the establishment will appear. Monday, June 7—Grand Morning Perfordance. In answer to numerous communications, it is announced th ,t, for the convenience of the gentry residing in the envi rGnr, a Grand Morning Performance will be given on Monday, June 7, in which all the artistes of the establishment will pert rm, including all the artistes of the ballet. Applications to be made at the Box-office at the Theatre. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. TI- IS EVENING (SATURDAY), May 21, will be per formed Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, LES HUGUENOTS. Valentina, Madame Gr si ; Margarita di Valois, Marai ; Dim d'Onore, Madame Tagliafico ; Urbano, Didiee ; Marcello, M. Zelger ; Il Conte di San Bris Signor Po'onini ; II Conte di Nevers, Signor T,gliafico ; Meru. Sig. Pierini ; Tavannes, Signor Rossi ; Huguenot Soldier, Signor Soldi ; sad Raoul di Nangis, Signor Mario. Conductor—Mr. Casta. The Incidental Divertissement will be supported by Madlle. Delechaux, Madlle. Esper, and M. Desplaces. Doors open at half-past 7, the Oper% to commence at 8 . . o'clock. Pit, 10 . 4. 6d. ; amphitheatre stalls, 10s, 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. First appearance of Madame BOSIO. Oa Tuesday next, May 26, will be per'ormed (for the firs time this season) Verdi's opera, LA TRAVIATA. R O Y A P L F . et t tI N 0 gb" ar lBs 10 SIT i or, Mr. t n. THIS EVENING, will be presented MUSIC HATH CHARMS. After which KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr, C. Kean. To conclude with the new farce, entitle! SAMUEL IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with THE HUNCHBACK. After which a C'assical E travaganza, entitled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE, Folio mod by JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Orchestra St.lls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. a, d. Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Bores.,, Pt. . . . Gallery T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be presented a Broad Eccentric Drama, OUR FRENCH LADY'S MAID. Mr. B. Webster and Madame Caleste. Atter which, THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE. To conclude with YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. John Strong, Mr. Keeley. Cornmen:.r, at Seven. OTR AND THEATRE. —Lessee and Directres=, ►J Miss Ssa•)borotib.—This Eveninz will ho presented MARRIAGE A LOTTERY, supported by Messrs. Emery, Ray, Belford, Mesdames M. Oliver, Portma-, Victor, and Selby. Followed by TAKE CARE OF YOUR POCKETS. Miss Turtle ma Messrs Swanborough and Ra,v. After which, the new burlesque of FRA. DIAVOLO ; or, The Beauty and the Brigands. Fra D aysdo, Miss Swan borough ; Beppo, Mr. C. Young. CIANTERBURY FULL, Westnain3ter-r0e. , 1. k.i OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow tmz company of Vocalists are engaged for the pe-formance of stitions from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES DUETS, titc., viz. : —Miss Russell, Ars. Badzey, %Ties Brnaell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Mi-s Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jorghtnanb, Mr. Renshaw, S. loner, J. Barker, W. Moilinr, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Ber turd; Messrs. W. T. Critchqeld, John G. Forde, and E. Mackney. Pinooorte, Mr. Cecil IRAs ; harmonium, Mr. Courtnay ; Diloctor, Herr F. Jongluans. Commence at Seven o'elo,:k precisely. Suppers, dm, until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening inn Selection fom LA DARE BLANCHE" (THE WHITE L ‘DY), first produced at the Canterbury Hall. English words by Desmond Ryan, Esq. THR WE.kTHER—SIIN OFFICE, MAY 22. THEILMOIIETER, IN THE SHADE. 71—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night, 67—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.83. WIND, S.W. ; rather fresh, with fine weather, rain early In the morning. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. I ate DAY—Morn., 45 min. aft. 9 —Even., 15 min. aft. 10 To-Moasow—Morn. 46 min. aft. 10 —Even. 16 min aft. 11 0--_-itc-A.....; ....% .....,..,' jpinivy k - a ,Z 1 ! .': i4 ari- - -,,,,!.. -- T .-- ' ' it. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1858. Parturient Montes, &a. A very ridiculous pro duction--a palpable abortion—has been the result of the Sabbath-day conspiracy —the Cambridge- House Plot I The concoctors of the notable scheme are covered with confusion at the " most lama and impotent conclusion" of their factious proje c t. The " Engineer has indeed been hoist with his own petard." The " infernal machine" has re coiled on those by whom it was so recklessly re sorted to—and none but the projectors have received damage from its explosion. A few days since the Palmerstonians and their servile adherents of the fourth estate were perfectly cock-whoop. They fancied that they had bat to stretch forth their hands, to seize the reins of power, which were apparently within their grasp. But the slips between the cup and lip are proverbial, and seldom has there been a stronger illustration of the truth of the time-honoured adage than on the present occasion. A week since one hundred and twenty majority was confidently anticipated— Lord PALMERSTON desired that it should be so decisive as to prevent the possibility of a dissulu tion---that appeal to the country, which was so dreaded by the Cambridge House Gang. A change, however, soon came o'er the spirit of their dream, The brilliant and effective oration of the Solicitor-General, one of the most lucid and argumentative. that had elect r i fied - tom ectrified the Legisla ture for many years, oeeasioned deep dismay to the Opposition. Mr. ROEBUCK, Mr. Et f l or a l b r Y e l la S n i d r ROM'. PEEL, and the Attorney - Gener a l followed with tremendous force, inflicting terrible damage on their opponents—met only by th e dreary prose of Sir C. WOOD and Sir G. C. Lzwis. The anticipated majority rapidly fell from 120 to 80, then to 60, 40, and finally a score. Even that would have sufficed ; but, unfortunately, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY_ E V ENINIG, MAY 22, 1858. many Hon. Gentlemen felt that they would have a heavy account to render to their constituents. A dissolution was the inevitable res .lt of a fac tious vote, and that carried with it consequences which they were not prepared to encounter. Like 808 ACRES, their courage rapidly ebbed forth. They could not screw it to the sticking place, could not make up their minds to march through Coventry with their self-elected leaders. The splendid ad dresses of Mr. BRIGHT and Sir JAMES GRAHAM gave the coup de grace to the matter, and it was known yesterday that Ministers would have had a fair working majority in the event of a division. But the decisive matter was the despatcb of Sir JAMES OUTRAM, earnestly and ener getically protesting against the spoliation system, inaugurated by the proclamation, and the answer of Lord CANNING controverting his enlightened views and well-considered opinion,. After that nothing could be done. The whip had been strenuously applied, but even those who had already promised could not in common decency vote. They were prepared to take up their hats and leave the House, and such a proceeding would have been far worse than any defeat. Under such circumstances it was that an almost universal demand was made for the withdrawal of the motion. Mr. CARDWELL at first rejected the proposition. The promised seat in the Cabinet was too strong a temptation, and Lord PALMER STON was equally anxious to regain the position from which he had slipped through his own truckling to despotism. The reports of the fkgel i_. • - - y. • , _ ignomine.ous minority, however, prevailed, and he ultimately blandly advised his Right Hon. friend to withdraw the motion, which was acceded to amidst the derisive cheers of the House. The course adopted by the Government was eminently judicious and highly dignified. The Chancellor of the Exchequer did not fear the re sult, bat he was satisfied to permit the loophole through which his opponents might wriggle out of the scrape—to remain unsupported. A division might have damaged the best interests both of Great Britain and of India, and he would nor, for any party purpose, force on such an encounter. It would have been well if the opposition had exhibited similar patriotism. Unfortunately for themselves they did not do so ; and they have consequently given additional stability to the Ministry, and rendered them firm in their seats for a considerable period. We can scarcely suppose that another factious movement will be adventured on daring the present Session. The lesson, although painful, has •been salutary, and the conspirators will perceive the imperative ne cessity of ascertaining their exact strength, and measuring the force which they can depend on before they again enter on a similar conflict. justice be done M. Hieune and his forty coadju tors will be severely punished. The galleys —or a protracted imprisonment, would ba the fitting re ribution for the atrocious act in which they have participated. GAME AND GAME. "DOUBLE OR QUITS." With their Cambridge Plot and their Oxford Motion All their honours gone with their sense of shame— The Senior Ops. had a mighty notion, By playing One CARD WELL, they'd win the game. But Sharpers though all of them, cunning and quick, Lo ! their stake is lost—by a single trick. With these "private letters" of Mr. SMITH, the ex-President of the Board of Control, it is for all the world like the phantoms in the wizsrd glass in MACBETH— "Another and another yet succeeds !" For a long while there was orly ONE —the One. Even after Mr. WEITE3IDE'S facetious conjecture that—for all ministers know to the contrary—there might be a bagful!. Now it turns out after all that the suspicion absurdly entertained by some upon the matter was reap), not altogether unfounded. "We have all heard to-night," said the hon. member for Birmingham on Thursday evening, "of TWO letters having been received by the right hon. gentleman ;" adding—" Before to-night there was no distinct statement of there being more thin one :" and inquiring point blank whether or no these " two" constituted the whole number actually received. This occurred, we repeat, on Thursday evening, after Lord PALliErssroN's tardy (x7lanation. Thereupon taunted into the necessity of being yet more explicit, the noble lord the member for Tiverton astounded everybody by this remarkable acknowledgment—" The hon. gentleman was, perhaps, not in the house when I gave an answer to the question on a former evening: ; but my answer was so far incorrect when 1 stated that my right hon. friend had received THREE letters, for in point of fact FOUR were received." No wonder this astonishing announcement was greeted with "ironical cheers" by the Ministerialists. It is an incident only comparable to that of FAL STAFF with the men-in-buclKarn, as we find it recorded in the 4th scene of the 2d act of the Ist part of HENRY IV. : VOCAL ASS9CIATIO:V.-Sf. JAMES'S lIALL. The fourth concert of this Association was given last evening with the eminent success which has invariably attended the series. The gifted violinist, Herr Joachim, played Sebastian Bach's ct lehrate t "Chaconne" with the wondertUlt execution and .ielicacy of rendering which essentially distinguish this artiste. Perhaps the composition was rattier too classical in character to be thoroughly appre ciated by a mixed audience ; but Herr Joachim's power of expression and inimitable finish cannot fail to elicit intense almira ion, even from those whose ears may not have been trained in the school of tee highest class music. M. Benedict gave Men leli sohn's accompo.uinaent on the pianofurto, the wh being a most excinsite performance. Herr Pischek made his first appearance in London aftor an at srice of two years, and sang as effactively as eve , , giving the old favourite, - "The Standaid Bearer," an aria from .eozart, and a German ballad from Spolir's "Faust." His reco.ti. , ii enthusiastic, and his voice in a state of unexceptionable excel lence. The part songs were sang by the Vocal Association aid the Orpheus Gl. e Union, in a manner which places the singers in a position of unqualified eminence. Meudelssohn's serenade, "Slumber, dea:est," was sweetly and evenly per f .rmetl, as was also the glee, "Lave and Wine," by the same composer. Madame Atneadi sang several airs in pleasing style ; and a violoncello obligate, by M. Paque, a c c o mpanying a " Scen a " b y M a d ame Isurchart, had but the single fault of being rather too long to constitute a feature in such a full pee gramme. M. Benedict played and conducted with his accustomed perfection ; and the concerts of the Vocal Asioeiation may be considered among the most attractive and sterling of the season. "Fal.—l have pepper'd two of them : two, I am sure, I have pay'd, two rogues in buckram sui . s. I tell thee whit, Hal—if I tell thee a be, spit in my face, call me horse. Th ni know'lt my old ward ; here I liy, aryl ihus I b ire toy poise. Four 'ogees in buckram let drive it me— "P. Henry.—What, four ? thou saidst but tiro just now. '' Fal.—Four, Hal : I told thee four. " Poins.—Aye, aye, he said four." A Lttle while longer, doubtless, and the scene may be continued— " Fal.—Thesl four came all afront, and mainly thrust at mo. I made no more ado, but took all their seven poirys in my targ-t, thus. ' " P. Henry —Seven ; why there ware but four even now. " Pal. —ln buckram. " Poins. —Ay, four, in buckram sniti. " Fal. —Seven, by these hilts, or I am a viihin 7 1 else. 6, P. _Henry —PRY 7 THEE LET HIM ALONE ; AYE SHALL HAVE MORE ANON." SO—with the " private letters" from Calcutta to the ex-President of the Board of Control. One-- Two—Three—Four—we shall have Mr. WHITE SIDE'S bagfull at last before we have done with if . . Until at length we are constrained to cry out with Prince HAL.—" 0 monstrous through sheer force of indignation. The turn that things have actually taken in the matter of Lord CANNING'S Proclamation, and Lord ELLENBOROUGH's Despatch, and Mr. SMITH'S Private Letter, reminds one of the 'whimsical chain of circumstantial evidence brought to bear upon a memorable pistol shot mentioned by Sir Benjamin Backbite, in SHERIDAN'S comedy. The pistol-shot which, it will be remembered by all familiar with the School for Scandal —struck against the little bronze bust of SHARSPERE over the fire place, grazed out of the window at a right angle, and wounded the postman who was coalin' to the door with a double letter from Northamptonshire. The analogy is strict, if notactuafalluiyoluitset The p, thunderbolt hurled through his tch by Lord ELLENBOROUGH at the braz a l act of con fiscation resolved upon by the Governor-General, strikes the Proclamation aimed at rather ruinou s ly, and suddenly glancing at a tangent out of the secresy by which it was first enveloped, wounde, it is to be feared dangerously if not mortally, the) public reputation of the recipient of a certain pri vate letter, a double letter, a treble, quadruple letter—the Right Hon. Gentleman the Membor r oe Northampton. It may be what billiard players call a " fluke"—but it is a hit, •nevertheless. And a hit, too, apparently—judging from tl quiet way in which it has been taken—that, huw ever sharp, however much like an affront, appeais to have been quietly " pocketed." The way in which an d ichthewhole affair has been brought to light, quite unexpectedly, is literally as though a card-sharper, in arranging his hand, had maladroitly dropped a secreted ace or knave of trumps out of his wrietband. The table is there upon immediately in an uproar. Even the most practised among the honest players are discom posed for the time being. There is a new deal— and the gentleman given to sharp practice has to be shown to the door ! At the next election down there, we shall have an opportunity of judging as to the nice sense of honour prevailing among the electors of Northampton. I.VIEST NE WS. INDIA. The folloing telegram, from Acting Consul- General Gras, was received at the Foreign-office on May 22, 858, at noon : ALEXANDRIA, MAY 18, 1858. Seldom has greater excitement baen occasioned in any case than that produced by the late duel in Paris, in which a highly esteemed journalist :las fallen a victim to the malevolent feelings excited amongst certain officers by his jocular, ind, we may add, innocent remarks. M. PEN; the editor of Figaro, the French Puna, bad ridi culed some of the sous-officiers of the Grand Army. For this he was condemned to death, and a large oedy of persons joined in the conspiracy to murder. These gallant (!) individuals thought it unbecoming that forty cartels should be delivered on a single day to a single man, one who had chivalrously avowed his name, and braved the consequences of his innocent jest. There was a total absence of that fair play so dear to English, and, we should hope, to French hearts. The unfortunate victim had offended the class, and his assassination was decided. One man might I,ave been taken as the representative of the party, and bad as it would have been, some excuse might have been made, but the cowardly ruffians brought forty into the field against one. He was to be insulted by assassin after assassin until, exhausted by fatigue, he would 16.67L — N1: PENn advantage, 'and there the matter ought to have terminated. But another rushed for ward to fill the vacant place. M. aIENNE, an appropriate name, grossly and wantonly insulted the gentleman, fatigued and worn out by his first encounter. He had been the "maitre d' arines," or fencing -master of the regiment. A man thoroughly practised in the use of the deadly weapon, and prepared to turn his skill to the wort use. There was but little chance for the tired civilian. He might as well have been subjected to the stiletto of an Italian bravo. His chance would have been as good in one case as the other. There is to be an inquiry into the circum stances. We trust that for the honour of the army it will be of a very stringent character. If The steamr "Nubia" reached Suez, from Cal cutta, last nijit, with Calcutta dates to the 24th of April. Sir E. Lgard forced the enemy's bridge at Azimghur or the 15th of April, and on the 17th the pursuing 'urce, under Brigadier Douglas, drove the rebels outof the city. A standard ,n 4 much ammunition taken. loss-10 killed and 37 wounded, MALTA..—Tiis telegram arrived from Alexan dria by Frencl steamer at 7.30 a.m., May 22. LYONS, Bear-Admiral. Our Letters from Naples of the 16th announce the armament of eNery point of the coast susceptible of defensive works. All regimens are to be filled up to their full complement, an.l two new regiments of cavalry are to be raised. It is further asserted that sixteen additional frigates are to be built. There has been a grand entertainment on board the English man-of-war Centaur, but the Nea politan officers were not invited, though the French and Austrian, were. A despatch from Frankfort, dated May 21st, says :—The Diet has adopte l, without opposition, the proposition for a commission to inquire into the affair of Holstein, which has been partially modi fied by the third article of the separate proposition submitted to the Diet by Hanover. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. A telegraphic despatch announces the arrival of the Queen of Portugal at Lislnn on the evening of the 17th. BOURSE, May 21.—The following were the closing quotations :- 41 per Cents 93 Lo. end month — 3 per Cent. ..... 69 70 Do. end month 69 65 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier Do. Account 672 50 Credit Fonder Belgian 44 ... Il8.! : Piedtnontese (5) ......... 91i Roman 921 Austrian . — Spanish Threes - Home Debt . --Fox CASH. RAILWAYS. Orleans Northern New Ditto 745 Lyon and Meditoran. 734 New Ditto Geneva Midi Western 555 Strasburg Grand Central .. — Sardinian Austrian MONTENEGRO. A letter from Vieuna in the Augsburg Gazette gives some slight details of the late affair at Gra howo " The real attack was masked, that is to say, Rakow Radonich made a diversion against the right Oink and rear of the TutlcF, in order to cut off their provi4ons. Mocko followed closely and attacked them in front. Feruck Pacha, being hard pressi-d, was unable to retire on his held-quarters, and was compelled to seek safe yin flight. Reval Effendi and Keaud Pacha have invoked the mt cita tion of Austria to put an end to this corre3t. Prince Danilo, on the contrary, has placed hirns3if under the protection of the Western Powers, and he will nit have recourse to the good offices of Austria, for lie knows the conditions on which they would be granted. Austria demands the restitution of the property confiscated fr-m the Montenegrin chiefs who live in exile i Dalmatia, aad requires that Prince Da:;ilo shall faithfully execute the engagements which he entered into in 1852 and 1853, when, being threatened by Omer Pacha, he was saved by Austria." LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master rf the Rolls', Sir John Romilly.) IN RE DEPOSIT, &C., ASSURANCE COMPANY-JUDGMENT, Yesterday a party of invalid troops, to the num ber of 52 non-commissioned officers and men of the Ist Royals, 14th, 21st Fusiliers, 28th, 31st, and 57th Regiments, left St. Mary's Barracks, Chat ham, and proc , eded to Fort Pitt Hospital, where they were medically inspec'el by Dr. J. R. Taylor, C. 8., and the medical staff at that establishment. At the conclusion of the inspection only a few men were declared unfit for military duty, and the re mainder will be sent to rejoin their respective depots. The 30th (Capt. W. H. Noble's) Company of Royal Engineers will shortly leave Chatham gar rison and proceed to Shorncliffe. His Honour the Master of the Rolls, in delivering judgment, said that the question here was whether Mr. Hare should be placed on the list of contributors for the purpose of windingup this company. He had executed the deed of settlement, and was prima facie a contri butor of the company; but he alleges that be was induced to do so by misrepresentation, and therefore not liable. If the misrepresentation had been by a private individual member of the company, it would not avail him, as was found in the case of Bell, vol. 22 of Bevon ; but he alleges that the misrepresentation was made by the com pany thenve!ves in their report of the state of the com pany's business. In their report of March 31, 1854, it is stated that there are about 7,8171. ls. 11d, more than the debts for the purpose of carrying on the company, whereas the company appeared to be in a state of insol vency. This report was calculated to mislead and in duce Mr. Hare to become a shareholder of the ootnpany, and therefore the official assi ',nee is not entitled to place him on the list cf contributories as a shareholder of this company. . _ _ . _ Costs, ai between solicitor and client, to be paid on of the common fund. NAISH V. BRYANT-JUDGMENT. His Honour, the Master of the Rolls, said that the question raised in this case was, who was to get the money arising from the forfeiture of a bond of a stock broker, of the City of London. His Honour was of opinion that it must be divided equally amongst his cred►tors. Costs of all parties, as between solicitor and client, to be paid in the same manner. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justics Erle, and Mr. Justice Crompton.) Trinity . term commenced this morning, at 10 o'clock. On the opening of this term the Lord Chancellor's breakfast and reception are dispensed with, and their lordships commeoc'd the business in the usual manner on ordinary term days, During this term the charge o. libels on the Emperor of the French will be heard, and it is rumoured there will be a case of breach of promise tried in the sittings after term, in which the damages are laid at 10,000/. Mr. M. Smith, Q C., said this was a case raising an important question relative to the Limited Liabilit , Act. The plaint ff, Mrs. Pen-rose, had supplied coals to the Saltash Waterman's Steam Packet Company (limited), of which the defendant was the secretary, and she drew a bill of exchange for the amount on the com pany, without stating "limited," which the defendant accepted as the security of the company without re• quiring its insertion. An action was brought for the recovery of the amount, and heard before Lord Camp bell at Guildhall The question that arose upo❑ the trial was the defendant's n-rsonal liability, under the 19th and 20,h Yin., cap, 47, clause 31, which requires the registration of a limited liability company as such, and renders the secretary of such company liable to a penalty of 501., and renders him personally liable for the amount of such bills, if not paid by the company, when be omits to affix, or cause to be affixed, to any docu ment the word "limited." Lord Campbell said there was a replcation on the trial that the plaintiff did not know the company was a limited company when she drew the bills, and the jury found in her favour. Mr. M. Smith said the defendant contended that the signing required by the Act of Parliament did not apply in Ulla case. Rule nisi granted. COURT OF COSIIIIUN PLEAS. Their .Loresh ps sat in banco this morning, but no case of ia . tsr•est came before them. Lo-d Chief Justice Cockburn took his seat this morning on the bench for the first time since his re covery from a severe attack of bronchitis. His lordship looked very well, an 1 appears to have entirely re. covered. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(This Day.; It is prjbable the 2211 Foot at present at Shef field, may return to Portsmouth to garrison that fol trees. The notification which appeared in our military and naval column of Thursday last, on the subject of a letter addressed to us by a gunner of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, in which complaint was made of the inconvenience suffered by himself and comrades in consequence of their being furnished with but one delivery of post letters per day, was immediately responded to by Gen. Williams. The garrison orders of that evening contained a clause enforcing rigorous attention on the part of quartermaster-sergeants, in order that four deli veries be henCeforth strictly and punctually at tended to throughout the garrison. Her Majesty's steam troopships Vulcan.and Ur gent, Commanders Seccombe and Macdonald, are under orders to embark troops again at Ports mouth. They only arrived from the Mediterranean last Saturday and Sunday, and are again ready for sea, the Urgent first. She will embark this day or Monday 11 officers, 344 men, one officer's wife and three children, 17 soldiers' wives and nine chil dren, of the second battalion of the 7th Fusiliers ; also a company of Royal Artillery for Gibraltar. Lieutenants Harness, James, and Morlaud, of the 6th Fiiot, who were left behind when that regiment 44.—;4•., Ailnhppfpr art 4 --- 3 .—""' saga in the Urgent. 1.7:e Vulcan will. embark on Monday 21 officers, 523 men, one officer's wife, 33 soldiers' wives, and 30 children of the second bat• talion of the 7th, forming the right wing. The troops will arrive in garrison at Portsmouth from Aldershot this day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EMBZZLEMENT BY A WORKMAN. —Thomson Road, a decent looking working man, was charged before Mr. Thngbatn with embezzlement and obtaining money by fake pretences. The following are the latest movements at Ports mouth :—The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain Eyres, C. 8., is being painted. The Flying Fish, 6-gun screw despatch vessel, was taken t o Stokes bay yesterday to try her eng , nes, tir.c., after an ex tensive docking. The Britannia, 120, sailing three • decker, is ordered to be fitted out as a training ship for young officers who have passed the College exa mination, in lieu of the Illustrious, 72, Captain R. Harris. On Monday her Majesty's ships are or dered to " dress," and Royal salutes are to be fired in honour of her Majesty's birthday, and on Tues day the like ceremony is to be repeated in honour of the birthday of the Princess Helena, with the exception that the "dressing ships" will be partial. The Victory, 104, Capt. G. H. Seymour, C. 8., flag of Admiral Sir G. F. S-ymour, K.C.8., G.C.H., is now in a condition to receive visitors, after her lengthened and thorough refit. The paint is all dry, and the ship is in the very best possible condition, not only fur the inspection of the stranger or excursionist who wants to see the Vic tory because Nelson fought and died aboard of her, but for the officer or man in the navy who can ap preciate what a shin ought to be that c trries the nation tl ensign. Her decks and everything else, from the kelson to the mastheads, are in admirable order. She not only presents the attractions of a show ship but the appearance of a man-of-war in good condition. Mr& Mary Cross, wife George Cross, plumber and glazier, of Great Portland-street, said the prisoner had been in her hu-band's service, but absconded on the scla inst. It was his duty to receive money, and to account to her for it. He bad received various rums of money and had not accounted !or them, and on the 6th inst., the day after be absconded, he oh. tained a sum of 5!. 53., representing that he had been sent :or it. Mr. Charles Godfrey Hall, bootmaker, 89, Regent street, said the prisoner called on him, and knowing him to be in prosecutor's service, he paid him the Rum of 51. Ss., a hich ho said he had called for. Joseph Med wn, license victualler, the Hibernian Stores, Old Crompton-streeP, said, on Fab. 6, 1858. he paid the prisoner the sum of if. 10s., fcr which he cave him a receipt. Nervine Dryden proved paying the Rrisoner the sum of 1/. 4.. hi. on April 10, be , ,,;, nc ,:,12 he gave her a receipt. George Cross, the prosecutor, said the prisoner had never accounted in any way for the sums mentioned )y the A commi , sion, appointed by the Admiralty, is ordered to commence siting on Monday at the Royal Clarence-yard to consider the present dres of the seamen of the fleet, with the view to he adoption of a universal style and improved mate rial. This Clothing Commission will consist of Cap tain C. 8., Superintendent of the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar and Royal Clarence Vic tualling-yard ; Captain G. H. Seymour, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, of her Majesty's ship Victory ; Captain Lard F. H. Kerr, of her Ma jesly's ship Marlborough, 131 ; and Capt. Robert Harris, of her Majesty's ship Itustr;ous. Thu Atlas, 91, one of the new line-of-battle screw steamers ordered to be built at Chatham dockyard, has been commenced on the slip fnm which the Renown, 91, screw steamer, was launched. Yesterday preparations were commenced at No. 1 slip in •Chathani dockyard for laying down the new screw corvette Orpheus, 22, one of the addi tional war steamers ordered to be constructed at Ch..th ,m. The Charles yesterday commenced sh'pping war stores from Woolwich for Halifax, and the Early Morn for Port Natal. Captain John Sanderson, R.N., yesterday took up his c)minission and hoisted his pennant on bo►rd her Majez,ty's screw steawship Archer, in dock at Woolwich preparing for the SJuth African station. In answer to Mr. Bingham, the prisoner said he bad noLbing to Eay. ile was then committed for trial. TEIAMES. A MOST ACCOMPLISHED BRUTE —AGGRAVATED AS SAULT UPON A WIFE.—John CluttertuA, upwards of 50 years of age, a painter and blind maker, dwelling in Limehouss, who is teo well known in this court, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with violently as saulting his wife, Betsy, who appeared before the magis trate, as the had more than once done before, with her fsce swollen and discoloured from the brutal trey relent she had received from her savage husband. The prisoner is a regular domestic tyraet, and belongs to a very bad family ; one of his brothers has b en transported for a felony, and another is in prison for a savage aseault. The prisoner is a dissipated, lazy fellow, prefer ring to live on the earnings of his wif e and family to working at his business. He has been frequently in custody for assaulting hii wife, and she has more than once refrained from appearing against him. At last his violeneeextended so far, and she was eo dreadfully beaten that Mr. Selfe comeelled her to appear, and sentenced the prisoner to three months' impri-onrnent and hard labour, and to keep the peace iowar le her for six uscnths' longer ; when his term of imprisonment expired, else ma o an appicatinn to the ' inagistra to to release bin; without bail which was ac ceded to. Ile soon afterwards recomesecced his career of brutal , ty and drunkenness, a id made his family very uncomfortable. He came borne a few days einee and demanded some food, although he had contributed Iv , - thing towards housekeeping fer several weeks. His wife went to the cupboard to obtain seine potatoes and meat for bins, and it was di , cavered teat a cat hal devoured what was intended for him ; on this he because very angry indeed, said it was hard that when he came home b----y hungry he should be starved, threw a dish at his wife and etrucle her on the ehouller with it, inflicting a severe bruise, and then commenced beating her with his fits. He also took up a poker, end with horrible threats and imprecation, said lie would knock out his wife's b -----y brains. His son and niece took the poker from him and he left the house. A warrant was subsequently obtained on which he was arrested. The freight ship Osbert, taken up for tLe con veyance of war stores for Barbadoes, is under or ders to sail to-day from Woolwich. Tha following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty : William B. Fegen, surgeon, to the Archer ; S. M. Saxby, acting naval instructor, to Vie Cftssy ; Jams B. Mt orman, paymaster, to the Agamem non ; J. H. Shirreff, assistant -paymaster, to the Madagascar ; an' Alfrel G. Montagu, assistant, to the Archer. THE LAT& tiE.Y. HAVELOCK'S GRAVE. Tue prisoner, in defence, said his wife was a drunken', which she refuted by good evidence. Mr. Yardl-y raid the prisoner was a most accom plished brute, and sentenced him to four months' im• prisonment and hard labour. DEFEAT OF FACTION AND TIUTI3IPLI OF JUSTICE. The triumph of the Government, announced last night amidst cheers and acclamations from both sides, that one of the most complete and unmistakeable that the House of Commons has perhaps ever witnessed, and, in proportion as the Victory was great, the defeat of the Cambridge House Conspirators wan, signal and undisguised. With the affectation of a prude, Mr. Cardwell at first declined to withdraw his Jesuitic Resolution. But when he found that men of his own party--recipients of the " beautifully en graved tickets," and ardent expectants of office under the coming Palmerston Oligarchy —were even compelled, by a sense of rude j ustice, to announce their opposition to the Re solution—when, too, the great demigod, Palmerston him self, saw a mo :e by which he could avoid completely and for ever damning the last rag of character for Statesman ship which belonged to him, and suggested that his pro tege, Cardwell, " might" do so ; then the renegade Peelite coesented, with as bad grace as possible, to place himself in the hands of the Commons ! Miserable finale this of all the " special services" at Cambridge House ! The history of this extraordinary Plot will not be without its value to the future Government of the Empire. Some useful lessons may be deduced from the unprincipled and nelfish struggle for regaining the emoluments of office, which we ' trust will not be lost to the country. All honour to those really Independent Members of the Liberal party, who could not be seluced from the clear path of duty by the blandishments of Hayterism. May this honourable part of their conduct be duly remembered, when next they shall bo brought face to face with their constituents ! Morning Chronicle. ( From the Edinburgh Witness.) We have seen a leiter written by a British officer, stationed at Alumbaqh, which was rccavered from the wreck of the Ava, and from which we are al lowed to extract the follawing sentences, referring, among other Clings, to the grave of Sir Henry Rowlock. It is the only reference which we re member to have seen to the hero's earthly resting place, and exhibits the enthusiastic regard felt to wards him by his officers. "I am now in Alumbagh (the officer pays), and a most uncomfortable place it is, with abut 200 round shot poured jut it every day. We live in a large salcon, which forms the upper a orey of the palace. On ca-11 silo of it is a large corridor or verandah, quite open on the outside and communicating I.y a series of open arches with the saloon. Through these arches the round shot sometimes sweep, for the enemy's batteries play on either flank of the palace, and the interval of wall between each arch is so unsubst intial as hardly to f run i.ktry defence when struck by a shot. The saloon is ample and lofty, but full of piercing draughts, as you can easily fancy, and mtseraVy cold, owing to its elevation, and that in spite of a roaring wood fire maintained in a fire-place at each end of she ball. The ceiling is very lofty, and profusely decorated with graceful patches of Eastern landscape, painted in no contemptible style of art. Each arch is furnished, according to the original design, with gla.zAl folding doors, but these have *early all been smashed either ao.ddentally or by round shot. The door opposite which lam sitting has its under part carried away by a shot. This happened on the day when our troops first entered the place. A wearied soldier threw himself clown to • rest, with his head against the door. In an instant he was asleep ; and arum that sleep he never awoke, for a round shot car ried off his head and shoulders. Every inch of the hall is at the mercy of the enemy's batteries. None of us dare ventute for an instant into the coal ' pound, so fast and furious do the shot fly about it. General Havelock's grave is in the compound--a narrow strip of ground, with a scathed and withered tree to mark the spot. Truly, there is au end of all thinv. Little did we think that, during that victorious and monarch-like career of his from Allahabad to Lucknow, he was marching only to lay his mortal frame in that narrow strip of ground. But it is not to form his final resting-place. At the expense of the officers whom he led so well, the honoured remains are at once to be sent home to England, there to mingle, I doubt not, with the dust of her most illtbtrious dead. Only yrs c te.his u s i t a n p m o T u l s ) e measure, I need not say, is , terday I gave my signatur p e er t f o e and I regard it as a distinguished privilege to con tribute to such an act. If ever I return to Eng land, the tomb of Sir Henry Havelock, in West minwer Abbey, will be visited by me with .no common feelings." The Earl and Countess of Lanesborough have left DEATH OP THE EARL OF It ANPURLY.—We regret to town for Delany House, Surex, where they will pans the recess. annourca the dean of the E,rl of Itaefitrly, who ex. ViscountP.es Palmerston will have an assembly this pirad on Vi re Inesday night at Dungantirn Park, his seat evening, at Cambridge bons?. in the comty Tyrone, after a short illi:essr. Tho esil VOLUNT ARY s yAuvATioN. _y e , ter d ay an i nques t was only succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father, at thrlaising S.n, fli r ford-place, Haggerstone, cn the sec md earl, on the 21st of last March. the body of Richard Boucher, a g e d 59, once a broa I It is understood that Mr. Wegnelin, M.P., who was silkweaver, who died in a wretch( d room, destitute of recently Governor of the 13 nk of England, is about to a 1 comfort. The deceased lived with hie brother, and join the banking house of Messrs. Roberts and Co. he had been fit some tima in a delicate state of hea . th, Toe Great Siuthern of India Railway hare notified but refused to have medical odvice, observing tha-. it that a guarantee of 5 per cent. has been conceded by the was cf no use. Latterly he maintained I i Itself by die- India Company on their subscribed c-pital of 1,000,0001. PCE"g of the small portion of furniture which aas in LIMERIC K E L E CTION.—After the retirement of Mr. his possession. Wh nhe was in better circumstances Bai', yesterday, Mr. Spaight was elected without further ha deprived himself of the necessaries of life. He had opposition, been un we ll since Monday wee k, a nd had taken no BETTING HOUSES. —At the M , rlborough-stnet sustearm e s i nce th en . H e di e d t n Sunday last. Ist P, lice court, yesterday, Thomas Senn was fined ,10/, for the time of his death deceased and his brother had but f keeping a netting-house in Pheelix-aireet, St. Giles's. twopeL .n , i n th e i r p oc k e ts. The jury reti:rned a verdict Toe Earl of Shaftesbury has written a letter to the of "Nat ura l death," accelerated by %act and privation Times stating that he was not present at the Sunday of the necessaries of life through his owes neglect.- 1 meeting at Cambridge House. THB MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The curtain has fallen on the last act of this drama, and the catastrope of the plot has been exactly what we fore told, a total discomfiture of the cabal. It fall, as we once SAW the canvas circle of some wander ine,er. artists in horsemanship; the ropes were cut, and the whole party smohered and extinguished with diretul con fusion. The House was crowded. "Strangers" who had been waiting from twelve o'clock for adtuis,don settled them ,•elves tato their seats with that appetite for fighting, such as men feel at a bull-fight, and report themselves to have felt at a battle. The ring was made; the bottleholders were present ; the colours were tast3ned to the corners ; the sponge was thrown up • the men stepped in; they shook h an d s an d sm il e d at each other, and then—they did not "go to work." " Explanations," they say, always make matters wore-." The truth of the oft saw was exemplified by the " explanation" of Lord Caanirg. After Sir John Ontram's exposé of his interpretation of the fatal proclamation, it was impossible for the Opposition to stand by th e suppos i t i t i ous i nterpreta ti on o f Mr. Card well, and disd a i n i ng e i t h er o f " t h e th ree c our ses " o ff ered by Mr. Cardw e ll, th ey a d opte d a f our th which b e h a d not suggested, that of r e p u di a ti on a nd secession. " I sh a ll pu t on my hat," sa id M r. Th omas Duncombe, and as h e suited the ac ti on t o t h e wor d, upwar ds of sixty evinced a simil ar i nc li na ti on , a t the same time, for a pro. m enade. Such was the ridiculous finale of a week's debate ! Sot vunter riBu Wake. The rtsolution which, on Thur.lay night, was to eject a Government, was on Friday after noon hustled off the table of the Hones of Commo ns b y the band sworn to support it. The appearance of Lord Palmerston was unpleasantly ridicol statesman so distinguished to b 3 detected in what plain people shuffling, and then to have to regret ! Lord John looked crest-fallen, though still self-sufficient. Sir R. Bethel' sneaked about like a cock with his comb cut and the fea thers pulled out of his tail ; while poor little Lord Gods iich, absolutely snuffed out by one sentence of Mr. Bright, looked like a crushed bat under the mighty hammer of our modern Thor, Mr. Nastnytb. The surprise of the baffled cabal was ludicrous. The few of them who know how to read State papers property were vainly endeavouring to explain to the rest the etreot of " the explanation" published in the morning. The man ner in which Mr. Cardwell's obstinacy was made to melt away was highly ridiculous. He fidgetted and fluttered from Lord John Russell to Lord Palmerston— sub sequently resumed his seat, keeping the house on the tiptoe of expectation. It did not seem very in telligible why Mr. Cardwell did not speak; but the riddle was solve 1 by the appearance of Lord Pal merston (who had retired for a minute or two), and who walked up to the table in a hesitating manner, and with some appearance of confusion and unwillingness, offered such excuse as a man on the horns of a dilemma would be likely to find. The delight of the Ministerial benches was unequivocal, evidently compounded by their escape from a defeat and a long night's debate. Surely we live in degenerate days. The power of the house is evidently exhausted by three night's debate, spread over more than a week ! Mr. Disraeli, who was loudly cheered i n rising, looked as modest and self-denying as a matronly widow wills seven children at a second offer. He was as proud of the triumph of his own principle as his own party, and could not forbear a slight hit at Lord John Russell's former re solutions, which were not quite so quiet as the altered tone oPwfhorrurael replying : ea ; a ndi t nn of feeling would make popular just now. This called up Lord John, who vowed that he was always for mercy and long-suffering, as far as circumstance would nos t: mtmt hrhseeoeoammdpeeae personalnri readers ih w moaf o ey uaeptl previously, followed ile a tlkoi n csw t i o i ae c fnd i m p s a hir t ni. e slß.s no t re h eiiwg a ah t l his lordship avowedßright a n t d in e but r te ._ tni sioosiharmo niousneetransit !—Morning Chronicle. The Belgian court NCI( remain in mourning for the complet e d the 18th of n ex t mon th. late Lord D uchDuchess o of Lyndhurst Orleansc om yesterday his 86th year ; hi; lordship is in excellent health. Ills seniors in the H.ouse of Peers are Lord Sinclair, who will complete his 90th year if he lives to the 30th of July next, and the Marquis Of Bristol and Viscount St. Vincent, who were in 1769 and 1 7 6 7 respectively. The latter noble man is consequently at the present moment the father of the House of Peers. Maj ir-Geheral Sir Archdale Wilion, of Delhi, arrived iu town from India on Wednesday last. The gallant eneral was warmly congratulated by his f lends at the Oriental Club on making his appearance among them. It is the intention of the members of the club to give banquet to celebrate the return of the gallant officer. TURKEY. We have received the Constantinople jour nals and lette-s to the 12th brought by the Sirtiois, but their contents are barren of political interest. The evening before, being the fete of the Kadirgoed jera, or night of power, which precedes the Bairam, the Sult.bn wen - . iu great; pomp t TJd!:ar;e, to r cceivo the slave which is every year offered him on the oc casi' n. The usual salvos of artillery, illuminv►- tions, fireworks, &c., took place. The grand fete of the Bairarn was to tyke pl ►ce on the 15th, and to ba followed by three days of rejoicings and amusement. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 17th express the opinion that a new Ministerial crisis will soon take plice, the Ministers, rt)t being in accord, and som© of them sty Oat on the retur n o f th e Q ueen f rom Alicant and Valencia new NsrvaPz Cabinet will probably be f 'med. Narvaez had gone to Aran juez. A report was current that M. Bravo Mut ill°, President of the Congress, was about to go abroad. A ril E R I CA. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING. The Kangaroo ha- arrived, wiih advicei from New York to tho Bth inst. She has brought $7,000 in specie. Accounts of an unreliable nature had been re ceived from Utab, reporting a very severe skir mish between a detachment of the troops and the Mormons. At II Ivannah, on the 3d inst., sugars were generally dull. The overhauling of American ships by the British cruisers was creating consider ablo ill fuuling, and some of the American captains talked of resisting. Mr. Obway had arrived in the Doe, en, route to At New Yo k money continued in excess of the demand. Some deposits were left. with the brokers as cheap as 3 per cent, per annum. A good many loans at call, on approved colliveral security, were ado at 4 per cent. The rate of discouut on select paper ranged from 4i to 6 per cent. Exchange was advancing. On London, 109 to 1092. Stocks and shares had improve - I. The latest quotalions for the latter were :—New York Cen tral, 884 ; New York and Erie, 241 ; Haarlem Railroad, 11, 7 4 ; Reading R a il roa d, 48k ; Ll u dion R ver Railroad, 301 ; 'Michigan Central, 64 ; Michigan Southern, 254 ; Panama Railroad,lo72 Biliimore and Ohio, 51i ; Illinois Central, 93 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 44 ; Chic ago and R. 1., 784 ; Milwaukie and Missouri, 304 ; Galena and Chicago, 894. There was a steady demand for ashes. Cotton I maintained its buoyancy until the 6th, when un- ) favourable accounts from the south gave buyers the advantage. The demand was moderate, and the market closed tam e ly ; m iddling uplands, 12 4 . Owing t o l arge rece ipts and a check to the export demand, flour had fur. her declined 5 to 10 cents. Wheat had been more active, at a conces sion of 3c. to sc. in part for export to Gla eat Bri tain. Pig iron inactive, but firm. Molasses in im proved demand. Crude turpentine inactive, and spirits of turpentine firm. Common rosin without change. Pork duller. Beef in steady demand. Sugar, owing to a better demand, bad advanced to Tobacc firm. F r eights to Great Britain had further improved. At New ()deans oti the 7th c otton was firm. Freight to Liverpool, one halfpenny. , SHIPPING.. Th- Kangaroo left in company from the Ericsson on the Btb inst. On the same day spoke the Yorktown, ar.,d on the 12th passed the British ship Dream, of Lon don, from Mobile, fur Liverpo Camden and investigator, from Havre ; Switzer land, Isaac Wright, Orient, Chicago, Universe, and Isaac Webs, from Liverpool ; Julia, and Wursata, from Sunderland ; Humbold-, and Atlanta. from Bremen ; and Lotus, from Marseilles—at Now York. The ship Pride cf Canada bad not altered her position. It teas ell; , pesei that the whole cargo would be saved ; part of the cargo had bcen brought to Quebec. There was a rock through the ship's bottom. The Tur , atvonda, from Liverpool, at Philadelphia. DI:-.:CONTINUANCE OF A RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPER.—The People, a London weekly newspaper, star , ed fsr the pur pose of promoting Christian and Radical principles, and io which many thousands of pounds have been sunk in a few mouths, has ceased to exist. The editor thus ac coonti f•ir its fall :—" The refusal to publish a Sunday edition operated against us to an extent which wool I almost of itself have been fatal. The religious world shook their heads at a Radical journal appealing to them for support. Paragraphs which could not be excluded from any piper professing to give the news of the day, were carped at. While one party clamoured for infor mation to help them to make up their betting-book, another turned aside at finding a notice of the theatre. Between them we have Mien. ' LITERATURE. One and Twenty. By the author of Wild flower," " The House of Elmore," &c. 3. vols. Hurst and Blackett. This book cannot fail to furnish entertainment. It relates the fortunes of several young men who start in life about the same time, but who meet . with very different fates on the chequered road. The hero, Philip Farley, is rather a peculiar cha racter ; he is more collected and reserved than is usual at his age, but that is in a great measure to at'ributed to his early initiation into the sad mysteries of existence. The scenes of want, and penury, in which his childhood passed were never effaced from the tablets of his mind ; the sight of his pale father's haggard face, struggling to keep up appearances in his wretched shop, and decaying business, lingered in his memory, while time and toil worked wonders, and transformed the wander ing boy into a monied man. The most striking characters in the story are John Tregancy, and his sister Rhoda, who are very peculiar in disposition and violent in their tempers. Unfortunately for his peace of mind Philip Farley married Rhoda. He saw her attachment to himself, and desired the advantages that. would accrue to himself from the union. He intended to do his duty by his wife, but the events of his domestic life 'moved the fallacy of building its fabric on an unsound foundation. Rhoda was jealous by nature, and possessed of ungovernable passions ; she discovered that her husband bad previously bten attached to his cousin, Ellen Barchard, and not to herself. Her brother J.'hn was as violent, but more ungovernable than herself, and hating his brother in-law, he devised endless schemes, which had for aim and object to subvert his plans and mar big happiness. He deceived his sister by false stories, which she, misled by passion and blinded by preju dice, implicitly believed, and the result was painful in the,cytrpme*: Rhoda lost her reason and was re moved from her home ; John, aoterinioed to satiate his thirst for vengeance, continued to set fire to the mills of Philip Farley, and thus destroyed by one minute's ungovernable fury and reckless rage the property whose profits promised competence for life. In the days of prosperity Philip appeared rather to disadvantage, the cares of his youth had brought the caution of middle life, to extinguish the freshness of the dawn of existence, and substi tute for its generous impulses, the cold calculation of a hard and censorious world. In the days of ad versity it was otherwise ; he then rose to meet the emergency with the spirit of a man of courage and constancy. The first act of his new course was to take what he called revenge on his enemy. This was of the class of injuries which consists in hear ing coals of fire on the head of the offender. He tracked his enemy to his hiding.place• and then, when 1 regancy exclaimed, "Bring on your men to seize me," Philip replied that his ven geance was to let him escape, even the stern map was moved by this conduct, and the two men, so singularly situated, parted never again to meet in this world ; but they patted in something of the spirit which alone can enable enemies on earth to meet hereafter, where contentions are over, and the language of strife shall b* heard no more. With all his mistakes, there is much to admire ir! Philip Farley, and therefore it is satisfactory to find at last that he is more fortunate. The passages which refer to the brothers Esden are amusing, and are narrated in an easy, natural manner. The love affair between Frank Esden and Annie Tackeridge is certainly unfortunate enough to satisfy the nice romantic sentimentalist ; yet the conduct of Mrs. Tackeridge makes everything in which she is con cerned appear ludicrous and strange. William, Barchard, Philip's uncle, i s a s t rong c h arac t er , and he is well delineated. The struggle for good or evil, which disturbed his mind during the last n3O - crisis of his life, is very powerfully de scribed, and his sudden death, which occurred so shortly afterward., is divested of its horrors by the reflection that he died at his post like a brave man , contending for the right. Altogether, this work equals, if it does not in some parts excel, its prede cessors. Poets and Poetry of Germany. By Madame Da; vesies de Paules, translator of "Egmont.!' vols. Chapman and Hall. The subject of these volumes is rather an arehi; tious one, and would seem, at first sight, to dement' an author of unusual abilities, as well as one thoroughly acquainted with the extensive literature. of Germany, an d di st i ngu i s h e d f or clearness 01 judgment and critical perception. It is not a light, task to follo w th e r i se an d ad k, ancement of a nations . ' literature, to examine how it has been affected 11 the leading passions of the age, and animated by its pervad;ng spirit—whether chivalry, philosophir controversy, or intellectual development—to trace, how it has, in it s t urn , reac t e d upon t h e m i n d 01 each generation—how the national idiosyncrssi has stamped itself upon its very', and how' th° language has refused to adapt itself to peculia r forms of rhythm —the prevailing weakness or vices that have been its drawbacks, and the special vir tues that have embalmed it. All this analysed is its fullest degree would demand the powers of the philosopher, the enthusiast, the critic, and the his torian. Taking the other branch of the subject, it is scarcely less alarming. Biography is a t all times confessedly a difficult task, and th e memoir of a poet is perhaps the most diffi cult of all. It is not easy to separate the author from his work, to make full allowauc° for the impassioned and sensitive nature—without too readily pardoning the faults and vices too often present with it. The story of poet's life is Vie' rally a sad one, and it is sometimes scarcely PO' sible in pitying the results of his own rashnes s or want of common prudence, to remember . wh o was their cause. The ready sympathy an d calel judgment demanded for this task are not often united in the same individual, and few of the fol lowers of Apollo have been faithfully pou r traye . d. The writer of the wo r k b e f ore us , h owever , denies their pretensions to b ing a complete history of the poets and poetry of Germany, which, indeed, they could scarcely be when the illustrious names 01 Goethe and Schiller are wanting in their pages' She has sought to trace the advance of German poetry from the very earliest records, and she cool" mences with the incantations to the deities of the Edda and the legends of Cobolds and gnomes. Fur" ther on we come to the celebrated lays of " Go,: dr un" and "The Ni e b e l ungen T reasure, " w hich • the authoress has herself adapted to English rea' dere. It is curious that in these eariy Ger man lays and legends the real and practical were quite as pro minent as the ideal and mystical are in their later productions. One of the most remarkable fig ures in these early ages is the nun Hroswith, who wrote several dramatic pieces for the representation of the sisters of the convent. Among the crowd ef, names filling these earlier times, w e meet f ew 0' any extended reputation till we co me to Ulrich von Hutten, the poet of the Reforms' titan, whose romantic story and singular vicissitudes are familiar to many. Hans Sado,' "the cobtder bard" o f N urem b ?rg, and the Ban d of Master Singers, so characteristic of the nation, fill up the dreary space when the poetic faculti seemed dormant in the fatherland. The desolation of the Thirty Years' War did not spare the fields of imagination any more than the pleasant meadows of Germany. In the next century, many well' known names appear, among theni Klopstock, Leasing, Wieland, Burger, and others of eminence, who are cast into the shaae by the more vivid bra' liancy of the fame of Schiller and Gcfithe. These two great writers are, as we have said, omitted front the present volumes, as the works of Lewes, Car' lylo, and Bulvrer appear to the authoress to leave little to be said. Should her present attempt be received with favour, she promises to give us some details of their careers, which late years have mad ° , public, and to co m pl e t e h er survey of the nations' poetry by sketches of the modern school. She ha s accomplished the task she set herself with fidelitS and discreti on . Th e li ves of t h e poets she has to ld with kindly feeling, tempered with a sense of right' She paints the sorrows of Schubarth in his te n years' imprisonment, and the remorse that darkene r; the days of Burger, but she does not extenua te the unprincipled extravagance of the one, or el e heartless sophisms of th e o th er . Th e difficulties that most of them had to contend with in early life afford encouragement to the victims of fortune but it is a singular fact that owing to the German system they were all able to p rocure aca demica l instruction. The translations, th oug h no t a lwaY o d first-rate, show taste and ability, an d t h e authorc!: has evidently bestowed much care and pains on th e whole work. We trust that h er wor k w ill W.?! with the appreciation and uneoussgernent that 1 7 carefulness and want of pre'ension amply d e server and that she will, at an early o pp or t un it y , give us the promised conclusion. THE LATE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN Fox-CounT:' The man Brown, who stands charged with attemptinef to murder a person named Perry was yesterday Pla ce s before Mr. Tyrwhitt and again remanded. Perry is 13° yet out of danger. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—The usual :Pee t. ing of the Metropolitan Board was held yesterday in the Council Chamber—Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. f r b c ° l board this day proceeded to consider the report prepare by Messrs. Bid. er, Hawkeley, and Bazslgette, en ',min drainage of the metropolis, presented by them I° March last. Mr. Leslie moved resolutions very strongly condemning the report of Messrs. Bidder, Hawlio " and Bazilgette, The res o l ut i ons were nega tived, an the dieew.eion was then adjourned. • •, • ] BR l'cz: 5 " o,r ti e ' ) v' s l 1 1 ,g H itto 0 13 itto 114_ F r b i ,"ch tell C o . 00; Pleit t ' 4 01) ° D UI ittte4,t I:7 a u di of bc sal( Wet may bees ex c i Lon Thu