The Sun. — London, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

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We havo received the following message by electric telegraph, dispatched yesterday monailig, the 25:h, from Trieste : " The steamer Egitto has just arrived. " A brigade, under Brigadier Reynolds, C. 8., consisting of her i'd,tjesty's 18 , 1 Royal Irish, her htijesty's 80th Regiment, and the 35th Native Infantry, with a proportio7,ate force of artillery, left Rangoon on the 18th of September in steamers for Procne, accompanied by General Godwin. " The: steamri were to return immediately fc.r the second brigade. " The Burmese troops bad destroyed Promo, and had posted themselves is masses on a height ten miles off th , t town. " They were said to be only 7,000 strong, w a fe w guns." FR ANC E. Wo have received the Paris journals of yesterdly. Cabinet Councils are deity held at St. Cloud. Ti ! , Moniteur says :—" Seine journals hive spoken of a journey which they said the Prince Pre,ident on the point of making in the north of France. We are authoriz d to declare that the statement is en tirely unfounded." Among the numerous addresses presented to the Prince President in favour of the reestablishment of the Empire, published in the Illoniteur of this day ' is the following, from the Cha m b er of Commerce of Paris:— Monseigneur—You have said, L'Empire, c'est la p a i x ;' that to say, or d er , l abour, credit, aod an im pulse given to all great public and private undertakings; it is public welfare finding its way into all classes of so ciety ; it is general prosperity I France, which has faith in your words, which relies on all that you meditate fur her happiness, and which knows, by experience, that between your will and its realizition there is scarcely time for hope—France, by her immense and unanimous acclamation, decrees to you the supreme power. " Yield to her wishes, Monseigneur ; it will constitute another claim which you will acquire to her gratitude. "The Commerce of Paris, of which we are the orgar, offers to you beforehand its sincere thanks. In order to live and prosper it has need of peace, and it expects it from you with the most complete security ; it compre hpeth that it will be the more solid and more durable, as under your reign it %%ill never be purchased at the price of the honour and grandeur of our country." Preparations are being made at the Luxembourg for the extraordinary session which will commence on the 4th November. The bureaux are busily em ployed in examining the petitions which every day arrive from the departments in favour of the Empire. Several clerks belonging to the different ministries are, says the Constitutionnel, now employed at the National Library in collecting all the details which have been published relative to the coronation of dif ferent Kings, and of the Emperor Napoleon. The Presse, is its weekly commercial bulletin, says : " The commercial accounts of this week are not less satisfactory than were those of the preceding one. The activity in industrial affairs, end the well-maintained improvement in the public funds, have tended to excite the most sanguine hopes among our mercantile and Manufacturing interests for the winter season. Extra ordinary activity prevails in the manufactories of Paris, Where f ears are even entertained that they will not be able to_ Supply sll th e art i cles wanted for winter sale. Good workmen have become so scarce that an increase of w ages has been given in almost all the manufactories." i The mayor of Li s i eux h av i ng su b m i tte d to t h e n habitant s of that town a petition for the Emperor, the text of which he announces to have been sent to him by the prefect of the department, the Presse this So me persons will, p er h a p s , b e t em pt e d t o regar d i ntervention of the administrative authority as a e ' l lgularity, W hil st ot h ers will blame the mayor for 'ttving revealed this detail. We consider, on the co l n i - . 4 ,. i .Y, that the prefect and the mayor have acted equally h - r e i . d , as they have conformed their conduct to prevailiug - aa - e -n e; lP i es- Frank and avowed interference in the free which of the country is one of the principles .h .;elch belong to the present Government, and. principle was 'the Morey, then Minister an o d f w th i e th l g n r te e r a i t o n r, in i a n rn th es e s, ca b s y e election's for the Legislative body. The Mayor Lisieux has, therefore, nothieg to di.semble, because th e Pref ect of the Calvados has done nothing isolated." in ft St. Cloud, at which were present General A ll offici a l recept i on took p l ace on S atur d ay even -0 t greatlle MM. Fould, Abuttcci, and Bineau, and a t unaber of sena t ors , d e puties, and c ounc ill ors o f state.i,ha the Prince President, whose health a pp ears :vitt" been improved by his journey, conversed 0 4 r niniber of the persons present. Industrial° Sunday, Mr. Roney, the secretary of the Great hon our Exhibition to be held at Dublin, had the St. Cloud t ,t ) be received by the Prince President at jeet °ll q. The Prince at once entered on the sub r 1 with which he appeared to be perfectly familiar, X f' e gretti ng that he had not been able to meet Mr. whi'ehhwith Mr. Roney on the occasion of their visit, 0 14 o n e ; f• ha Mr. just as he was on the eve of setting since " , h tour to the south. Without hesitation the isetn;baceeded to Mr. Roney's request to send over With oet"h°ei;eobBP.ecirnens of the famous Sevres porcelain, departm pets of rare excellence in the French bliah m . -e : l ts of manufactures from the national esta eolftniot:ce-soth'llunev:e:r?sfatl3:vais, Gebelins, &c., under the cars The - 4-ughness's own agents, and at his own cost d . which was of some length, turne °n matters practically connected with the coral,nß E xhibition, for the success of which the Prince -,411y manifested his best wishes. 4 The Si ter ecle has the followi n g on the French in vention in Italy : peci?sr from us b e the idea of reviving, in any way, the te tta , na te to which the expedition to Rome gave rise. We er... ; be llowed, however, to call to mind that the Go that of the President of the Republic declared in prevent t hat it sent an army into Central Italy, in order to exel that part of the Peninsula from falling under the Cai e ll i st ve influence of Austria. A personal act of the c olonr of sh e , Government of that time—the letter to iet e „,. l -edgard Ney—afterwarda proved the decided sy ` - naon of causing to predominate in the Roman States _ :. triciples which are not, se far as we know, those of .Mbs, • , ria. Events may have caused the Presidential 15 di ci r l e ie3' to deviate from the object to which it was We l e a t ed ; but, until we have proof to the contrary, ti e 4 " a right to think that there has not been 00e410,,eatipl,iehed at Rome what it was wished to ac triur ' I I Aus there in the name of France. The . th br „, -3 and the Ultramontauo party do not deceive Brats on this point, and while affecting to feel 'oritude for the re .establishment of the temporal power Go o Lb° PoPsf, and unlimited confidence in the French Bi nd Went, they take the most active measures to ex ti Me French influence. Parma and the Duchy of M0)3645 ) 3 645 no longer enjoy any real independence; it will soon e sh e . forna.d same with Tuscany and Lucca, which have only far - one State since the death of Maria Louisa. So the a3 regards Tuscany, the thing is clear from one of 4 , c lauses of the commercial league concluded with Wh r tl ,.' t ria, and which will be carried into activity at the i t ha opportunity. The Port of Leghorn, "meh is to be enlarged and fortified, will become the e.°Ltinaercial and military port of the Customs' League, ,I,°l Austria will keep up a permanent garrison there. 4 hta is not all: the Austrians will be charged to guard t ., 4 0 c oast f rom the Pietbnontese to th e Roman frontier. 4 3 this clear? It is, however, on the ascendancy of the Clergy that reaction relies the most; every endeavour is therefore made to abolish indirectly, at least, in Tuscany Rthe Leopoldine laws by means of a new Concordat with ome. However reactionary they may be, the pre their our r Tcan my i efore b must sters, being s u., e by e ppon, longgive place t o others.l'he A rc hd u k es o f A us t r i a , of a hundred years ago, are h ow found to be revolutionists, and we do not complain °` it. since it is are wrecked alwayscked against their own exaggeration In order to again give the th at reactions . ascendancy to religion, we think there is but one means,. 411 ( 1 that is to strengthen morality by the example of clunn i and indifference to the things of tereetednen simplic.ty, opinion,that the more the Ts world ' Others are of ci s become richand able to unite l dhei n r w ac i t il ion ga t i o n that the civil authorities, the more re %to Pir a , re e over the mi n d s of the people. Experience has - 'adY spoken on this puint; but since it is ag l ai h n e in p t l e a r n - Aated, it will again pronounce its opinion. b oi th . n er)n, ? reacttonists will not, d - Pl"to unless it embaces Piedmont. To obtain . o .. ....Ipl . as we have before sai d , . b e meinatic pressure he r withdrawal of the law on civil arriage, the modification of the Siccardi law on ine Toro ecclesiastico, to bring back to their sees C 3 u m Ph Ph the Archbishops of Turin and .of pre g' l ari, and then in the midst of the impression Ouced by this ensemble of measures to make an ap dicrtto the disconcerted electors who will name the can es: of the sacristies; such is the end to which reaction e_ oreuvreeds both a t h ome and abroad. We have already 'Pris the fullest confidence, that the Sardinian intrigue- will know how to resist intimidation as well as Party, The efforts, however, of the ultramontaue ir l ,, kl ) stipported as they are by a power capable of ra dii everything in order to satisfy its ambition, or its h tlt ` e ,must not be disregarded. The game is not lost ; i efie t .. ' would be dangerous to dissemble the fact that the h o ,."`, o hos of France in Italy has received a check. It ire vn : ~ a r US to give advice to the Government ; all that 1) 40_ 7 to say here is, that in Italy we cannot rely ewir on n Prussia, on Russia, or on Naples. There is anti th:tP9wer with whom we might proceed in accord, aan s e 4 . Is England. We therefore learn with serious takea Ftton that our diplomacy is supporting the steps ah, f ,_, h3' the British Government, in order to enter into ttver.errelations with the Pontifical Court. Sir H. r ee ' s w e , n. has not succeeded in his first attempt, but his als7 i ! thg at Rome is a proof that he does not absolutely V flu citt the mission with which he has been charged.. eucrecohnitribute .give a legal tlverooole.,tir,id,tabeeon, an thereao t England,ofishnrigeoahwseopvtioelritcosym. all PtiZt ptol.etheemCigahthtohlee: thi A I f t e t t i r i f , i s a u t n' t h h the 11)1 pledge e S ,( ' ) f f : h eetet 'i a le t ;IT e d b r ti e n le d i r better t t t o e w r a t r h e a s n tihtehna ideas tehxeprrt gr of April 7,1849." en e :le done in the the ‘"Veraltlent seoltrities were firms fi 4 t th w e Bourse yes- ~\ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26 , 1852. SPORTING NOTES. No. CCCXXXIV. YESTERDAY'S RACING AT NEWMARKET, &c. In one of the most uncomfortable days that can be well imagined, as good a list of sport was decided as could be wished fur. The match between Diomedia and Warbler, marked for the first race of the day, having been . declared off by consent, the sport commenced with the Criterion Stakes, which resulted in a very unexpected manner in favour Mr. Payne's Spf ed-the Plough, who was not backed, that I have heard, either in town or at Newmarket. Ile has only run once before, when, backed by his owner at small odds, he deceived him, finishing however a good fifth to Orestes for the Woodcote, at Epsom. He is un commonly well bred for heavy ground, being by Cother stone, out of the Farmer's Daughter ; and to the state of the course yesterday, I think, may be attributed in some measure his victory. Along with North Pole, West Australian, Filbert, and Sittingbourne, he ran head to head to the stand, where he took a lead of halt a length, and kept it. A close race for second place between West Australian and Filbert, terminated in favour of the former by a long neck. North Pole was fourth, close up, and the crack Sittingbourne, backed against the field of six at evens, dead beat by his six pounds Penalty and the dirt, was a good fifth. Amazon and lonic were beaten early. The Handicap Plate of 501. over the Cambridgeshire c':urse—a sort of trial stake to the great race of to-day —was carried off very cleverly on the post by one of Babette's trial horses, Gladiole. Carbuncle cut out the work to the Duke's stand, where all cried, Enough! with the exception of the winner, Trousseau, Carbuncle, Knight of the Garter, and Henrietta. Trousseau took u p the lead, and carried it on, until within a stride or two of the chair, where Gladiole got her head in front and kept it there. It was a close race fur the last hundred yards. Carbuncle finished a good third, Knight of the Garter fourth, and Henrietta fifth. The rest, in cluding Hungerford, the Confessor, and Cotton Lady, were scattered far and wide. This victory of Babette's Schoolmistress, looking through the trial telescope at (he Cambridgeshire, caused the immediate fall of Ba bette from sixes to fours, and Lady Evelyn from twenty fives to sixteens. It was said, by persons connected with the stable, that the heavy state of the ground was rather in favour of Babette than against her. Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy filly, bad as she is, was quite good enough to b ea t th e D u k e o f Bedford's Pen sioner, on whom they laid sto 4. lam glad to see- Lord Glasgow's luck, or judgment, or whatever it may be termed, has taken the right road at last. He has been, on the whole, the most unsuccessful racing man of the present generation, though a staunch and truly honourable supporter of, and an ornament to, the Turf. Vivandiere made all the running, and won the 10 sovs. Sweepstakes over the D.M. by a short length; and afterwards changed hands for 60 sovs. Only a head divided the second and third—Florence and Trinket. The 10 sous. Sweepstakes over the first half of the Ab. M. produced a very one-sided race, Goiddust having it all her own way from end to end, and winning, with half a stone in hand at least, by a length and a half. Lady Vernon beat Convict nearly three lengths for second place. Kernel was a wretched fourth, and the Treacherous filly last. A splendid race for the last half of the distance next came off in a match between Walnut and Gossip; Nor man on the former, despite all Butler's best efforts, get ting the Judge's fiat in his favour by a head. They laid odds on Gossip; and for the third time in one day, was the match-making Captain's judgment at fault. The speed of Poodle was well served in his match against Ilex ; the 71b in favour of Ilex, however, brought the former to a length at the finish. The renowned Lapidist of other days, over his favour ite distance, was literally beaten off, and finished a bad fourth, and last to Conmore for the 10 sovs. Stakes over the Criterion course; such things as Guy Mannering and Phlegra filling the places between him and the winner. Sic transit gloria rnundi The stakes for to-morrow are all of the skeleton description, and, consequently, will not close and name till this evening. lwo out of the three matches set down for to-morrow, will not produces races, as Diomedia receives four soya. forfeit from the Alkali colt, and Flutter receives forfeit from the Physalis filly. Constantine and Alamode are scratched for the Glas gow Stakes; Peach for the 50 soya. Stakes on Thursday; and the Lauercost colt, Berengaria. St. Benedict, and the Meanee colt, for the 300 soya. Stakes on Friday. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Oct. 26. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. MONDAY. Criterion Stakes of 30 soya, each, 20 ft, for two-year olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b ; winners extra. From the turn of the Lands in. Mr. Payne's Speed the Plough, Bst 71b (Flatman) 1 Mr. Bowes's West Australian, Bst 71b (F. Baer) 2 Lord Exeter's Filbert, Bst 71b (Norman) 3 Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne, Bst 131 b (including 61b extra) (Rogers) 0 Mr. Fox's lonic, Bst 71b (Bartholomew) 0 Mr. Pownay's Amaz in, Bst 51b. (A, Day) 0 Mr. J. M. Stanley's North Pole, Bst 7111...(J. Manion) 0 Betting—Even on Sittingbourne, 2 to 1 agst West Australian, and 4to 1 agst Filbert. Speed the Plough, Filbert, West Australian, North Pole, and Sittingbourne got away in a line, and ran in company, at a bad pace, to the stand, where Speed the Plough obtained a slight iead; this he maintained to the end, winning by half a length, West Australian beating Filbert as tar; North Pole and Sittingbourne close up. Run in 1 min. 29 sec. handicap Plate of 5 soya, for three-year-olds and up wards. Cambridgeshire course. Lord Chesterfield's Gladiole, 5 yrs, 7st 91b (Flatman) 1 Pedley's Trousseau, 3 yrs, 6it 81b...(F. Allison) 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley's The Confessor, 4 yrs, Bst 10Iu (J. Maroon) 0 Mr. R. Read's Sir Robert 5 yrs, Bst 41b (Templeman) 0 Mr. Morris's Huogerford, 4 yrs, Bst (Basham) 0 Mr. R. Walker's Treasurer, 3 yrs, 7st (Perry) 0 Lord Glasgow's Knight of the Garter, 4 yrs, Est 1010 (T. Smith) 0 Count Battbyany's Hambletonian, 3 yrs, Est 61b (C. Bradley) 0 Mr. St. Aubyn's Jessie, 6 yrs, 6at (Hammond) 0 Mr. Thomas's Carbuncle, 6 yrs, 6 st...(T. Sherwood) 0 Mr. Phillips's Henrietta, 3 yrs, Est (J. Veale) 0 Mr. Boyce's Urbanity, 3yrs, sst 101b...(5. Steggles) 0 Mr. Wright's Spark, 3 yrs, sst 101b...(J. Goodman) 0 Mr. Payne's Cotton Lady, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Rickards) 0 Betting-5 to 2 apt Knight of the Garter, 4to 1 agst Sir Robert, 4 to 1 agst Cotton Lady, and 5 to 1 agst Ham oletonian. After a delay of a f.w minutes, caused by Carbuncle breaking away, a good start was effected, Carbuncle taking the lead, followed by Cotton Lady, Trousseau, Knight of the Garter, Gladiole, and air Robert, and making the running to the Duke's Stand, where Sir Robert and Cotton Lady were beaten. Trousseau now went in front, attended by Gladiole, who challenged in side the cords, and defeated her by a neck ; Carbuncle, Henrietta, and Knight of the Garter well up. Run in 2 min. 9 sec. Match—loo, h ft, Bat 71b each. D.M. Lord Glasgow's f by Don John, out of Conspiracy (Flatman) 1 Duke of Bedford's Pensioner (F. Butler) 2 Betting-5 to 4on Pensioner. Won by a length. Not timed. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; three-year-olds, let 61b; four, Bst 41b; five, Bst 81b; six and aged, Sst 101 b. The winner to be sold for 60 sovs., if demanded, &c. D.M. Mr. Jaques's Vivandiere. 4 yrs (Bartholomew) 1 Mr. Pedley'a Florence, 3 yrs (J. Osborne) 2 Mr. Barnes's Trinket, 4 yrs (Flatman) 3 Mr. R. Walker's .2EAus, 4 yrs (Dockeray) 4 Mr. Sams piphony, 3 yrs (Charlton) 5 Betting-- - sto 4 agst Vivandiero, and 3 to 1 agst Zulus. Vivandiere made all the running, and won cleverly, by three parts of a length, and was claimed. Run in 1 min. 51 sec. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for two-year-olds ; colts, Bit 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b. Th© winner to be sold for 250 sovs., if demanded, &c First half of Ab. M. Mr. Jacques's Gold Dust (Flatman) 1 Mr. W. Stebbing's Lady Vernon (Basham) 2 Mr. Arbor's Convict (Rogers) 3 Lord Exeter's Kernel (Norman) 4 Mr. Mare's f by Lanercost out of Treacherous (T. Smith) 5 Betting-5 to 4 agst Gold Dust, and sto 2 agst Con vict. Won very easily by a length; Convict a bad third. Not timed. Match-100, h ft. T.Y.C. Lord Exeter's Walnut, 7st 121 b (Norman) 1 Duke of Bedford's Gossip, Bst 81b ...(F. Butler) 2 Betting-5 to 4on Gossip. Won by a head. Run in 1 min. 24 sec. Match-200, h ft. Cesarewitch course. Lord Clifden's Poodle, Bst 71b (F. Butler) 1 Lord Exeter's Ilex, Bst (Norman) 2 Betting-5 to 4on Poodle. Won by a length. Not timed. Sweepstakes of 10 Boys. each for three-year-olds 7st 71b; four, Bst 31b; five and upwards, Bst 81b. Winner to be sold for 3501., ScceNCriterion course. 4 subs. Mr. Dobson's Conmore t 3 yrs (J. Osborne) 1 Captain Lane's Guy Mannering, 4 yrs (Bartholomew) 2 (Norman) 3 L btwe o ua r st d emnt Exeter's Phlegra, 4 yrs Mr. Sam's Lapidist, 3 yrs (Charlton) 4 Betting-5 to 4 agst Lapidist, 7to 4 agst Conmore. dmau C led o ,da n y m ßa u no r ud o niy m e. ade all the running, and won by two lengths • a head between second and third ; Lapidist miserably b loyr _ Match-100, h ft ; Bst 71b each ; T.Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's Diomedia received forfeit from Lord Ribbles rhs sport, as our returns will show, was ample, a) , t r ho iti ugh the Criterion excepted, not remarkable, either embracing c s o e l v d eri w ty t ot' competition. a n di' thebo weathergrousd the c p; most the 1. ti a u e c ahn e totl , ly.r n asi e es y s e i r n th t e h l ee anticipated.s t s o , v w n a large, a bril liant of the Turf. From we e ' a racing cedentedt:hne,i9salntetebeoenn,rda oh:I:no BETTING UP TO SIX O'CLOCK. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 9 to 2 agst Babette taken. 7 to 1 agst Azael 8 to 1 agat Weathergage 9 to 1 agat Robbie Noble 12 to 1 agst Knight of the Shire 12 to 1 agst Vermuth 16 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn 100 to 6 agst Convulsion 20 to 1 eget Alfred the Great TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sit,—The approaching obsequies of the late great Captain, affords an opportunity of considering the gene. ral question of intramural interment, and of an appro. priate receptacle for commemorative monuments of our departed worthies. Will you then, give me leave to suggest, briefly, in reference to the first, that all the evils arising from the present practice of burying in our cities might be avoided, and all the proposed advantages of far-off &metrics might be secured, by means of a py• ramid, fur the reception of our dead. Such a plan of interment was proposed some time since, and a company was projected for carrying it into effect ; but nothing in this way is yet accomplished. Architecture and che mistry might secure a resting place for the remains of our deceased, without shocking the feelings or endanger ing the health of the living. In other words, a proper ar rangement of cells, and the employment of peat-charcoal, or other substances, which would prevent the generation and escape of mephitic gases, would enable us to bury our dead amidst the living, and thereby avoid the cost and trouble of interment in distant places. In reference to the second question,—that of a suitable place for the monu ments of our warriors, statesmen, patriots, and poets, and other " great (?)" men,—might not the proposed pyramid be surrounded, at the base, with a gallery, or vallialla, for statues, tablets, and other monuments. Such a British Aristodernion would be fitter than our cathe drals, abbeys, and churches, for the display of comme morative works of art. Subscriptions are raised for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of the late Duke—the Man of Duty. What, if the money gathered for this purpose were applied, as a nucleus, to the construction of a py ramid, and a Hall of British Worthies? Such a Wel lington Testimonial would be worthy of the deceased, and would confer a benefit on the inhabitants of London. The city of London has shown an eagerness to do all honour to the memory (or remains) of the illustrious soldier, by heading the funeral pageant from the gate of Temple Bar to St. Paul's Cathedral. Let the corpora tion go a little bayond mere pomp and display, and, by giving up the area of Smithfield for the proposed pyra mid, confer on itself, on the city of London, and on the public, a benefit which will be the best monument to the memory of the Duke. I am, Mr. Editor, your very obedient servant, EXOPTANS. Lambeth, Oct. 25, 1852. THE COTTON TRADE. We have received through favour of Mr. James Irvine s Liverpool, the following report : "NEW ORLEANS, 2nd October, 1852.—Since the date of our last review, the m rnbie a acd r lee k se e rac t ashtkh h aeen a drg s aww,r f in e eeoe a dl rnru t ees u e t. stillto presentedbuyers only new rym t enor2a i;staoi disappointingn n e a d l , e n s o . tw o i t a h s y i r t a t n ehd d en i neggsedut Wednesday, ,a h l t e h a e ex v i y epcet r coa e tn c fa e t i id. receipts, 1,800 bales were sold on Saturday, at last week's quota tions. id m ev o idn u ee n ms t amounting B t b h , en t ha t ne d pe a t y leem t s to sn September rovneom: Liverpool bales. resulting Tuesday 's nn u as e ma s deasyo'shasoaannl hand, 4,250 bales. The supplies in the meantime factors,on cont inuing Thursday, aggregateanimat e d for a n t d h etew3ae' yes• heavy and accumulating the showed themselves more disposed to meet the views of an u loses buyers, and 7,000 bales were taken at easier rates ; s 3, O 00 a n b d a bales, making mnr market et of 23,600 bales. To-day, sales, as far as report ed, 6 t e , o r do bales,aoy, are at our quotations below. " We find much irregularity in prices, various sales being reported below, and others again above our quota tions; this is, howe►er, a natural consequence of the less strict classification which is now being used by m an y parties, and though we have reduced our quotations slightly, we would state that for a classification, such as used four weeks ago, our outside figures would be too low. The demand is chiefly for the North and Great Britain; little has been done for-France and Spain ; for Trieste, a vessel, of about 2,200 bales was taken by one party. The supplies are heavy, showing already aa ex cess of 25,104 bales over the same period last year, but, as stated previously, the high state of the rivers will continue to keep our market abundantly supplied, as the high prices prevailing are an inducement for planters to hurry their crops to market. " With regard to quality, we find the finer descrip. tions becoming extremely scarce, and very full prices are demanded and paid for the same; a good deal of low cotton is coming forward now, but such grades being also much inquired for, prices for the same are high; good middling to middling fair are comparatively the eheapest qualities. " The advices from the country state, that they had rains all along the river during this and the last week, and the weather is much complained of as promoting the destruction by rust, worm and shedding, and preventing planters from picking. From the Atlantic States, the accounts are contradictory, some representing the crops in a fine condition, others again as suffering materially from various causes. " We quote to-day: ordinary to good ordinary, 81 to 9; low middling, 91; middling, 94; good middling, 9i to 10i; fair to good fair, 11 to lie. "Export since Ist September, 31,259 bales." ROMAN CATHOLIC "EDUCATIONAL" MOVEMENT.- A public meeting was held last evening at St. Bridget's Ro man Catholic Chapel, Baldwin's-gardens, Gray's-inn-lane, for the purpose of raising funds in support of stlneAtion amongst the children of the poor, in accordance with the principles of Catholicism. The chair was take* by R. Swift - , Esq., M.P. There was a large number of Roman Catholic priests on the platform, many of whom strenuously advocated the necessity of educating the child ren of the wor kin g c l asses , so as to counteract, as much as possible, " t h e bl asp h emous and apostatising influen ce o f P rotestantism !" As may be expected from the locality, the meeting was densely crowded, and the speeches were mostly of an exciting character, and vociferously applauded. The meeting did not separate till a late hour. THE DUEL AT EGHAru...—The following particulars of the duel may be relied upon. It is the custom in France to place the principals at a distance of twenty paces from each other. The seconds toss for the first fire. The men then advance three paces each, by the military side-step— un, deux, trois—and the pistol of the one entitled to fire is then removed from the perpendicular position in which it had previously been held by the side of the head, and dis charged sideways at his antagonist. All these regulations were carried out to the letter on Tuesday last. M. Cournet lost the toss, and was killed by the first shot of his antogo nist. It is said upon good authority that the unfortunate man (Courn6t) had fought fifteen duels before the sad affair when he met with such an untimely and tragical end. THE ACCIDENT AT CAMDEN TOWN.—The Mar chioness of Anglesey and the Bishop of Lichfield were in the train, and they were also among the passengers who went on at eleven o'clock. One of the foreign ministers, resident at this court, with his wife, did the same. The only passengers at all injured, as far as con'd be ascertained, are Lady•Blay ney, who, being considerably shaken, preferred remaining at the " Euston " a few hours before continuing her journey; a Mr. Deere, of Stone-buildings, who sustained a slight in cised wound on the ear; and a Mr. and Mrs. Matis, who have since left London. The driver of the mail engine, Benj. Blake, received a blow on his chest by being thrown against the reversing lever, and fainted shortly after the acci dent, though it is believed more from fright than from having sustained any serious injury, as he had quite reco vers t last evening. It is understood that both Ashb ur y a nd , his fireman ar e b ot h un d er t h e surve ill an ce of the company s police. It i s no t yet accurate l y k nown w hat course will be taken with r egar d to t h em . When questioned by the pointsman, Morgan, whose duty it was to have signalled him " All right," bef ore h e crosse d the line, Ashbury admitted, that he had seen no signal, and only , i accoun ted for his con duct by re mar ki ng, with regar d t o the mail train, We thought she h a d b een gone ." THE FISHERIE S AND HER MAJESTY'S CRUIZERS. — A New Y or k paper says —" The Americanschooner Ann has a rr i ve d at Portsmou th, N. LL, from P ri nce Ed ward's Isl a nd, w i th i nformat i on th a t s h e had been twice fired at by th e B r i t i s h steamer Deva s tation, and forbid. den to ent er G aspe B ay . Our v e ssels are excluded from the Bay of Chaleur. - ------ - THE POPE AND Du CULLEN.—The ceremony of investing Dr. Cullen with tho pallium took place on Sunday, in Dublin, with almost regal pomp, in the Church of the Conception in :Marlborough-street. The sermon was paeached by an American importation the " Lord Bishop" of Pittsburgh, who, it seems, was the delegated bearer of a "message of peace" from the Sovereign Pontiff to his well-beloved subject Primate Paul Cullen. SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN LIVERPOOL. -011 Sunday even ing, about six o'clock, one of the boys employed at the Vauxhall -road Gas-works, Liverpool, while meddling with one of the valves, turned it in the wrong direction, thereby causing an instantaneous and terrific explosion. Several persons were dreadfully scalded, and it was thought at the time that two of the injured parties, named Walker and Davis, would have been deprived of sight. We are glad, however, to find that though they lie in a pitiable condition at the Northern Hospital, their injuries are such as time and skill may cure. C1113A.---The feeling in Cuba of discont e nt i s chiefly confined to about two-thirds of the creole, or native white p o p u l a ti on , the Spaniards being lopal. Th e complaint of the disaffected is, that the Government is arbitrary, and that all the prominent situations ar e h e ld by the Spaniards. There are 25,000 troops in Cuba, all Spaniards, The strictest watch is kept over th e dis affected, and all suspicious persona are promptly arrested. In addition to the regular police, there is an organised secret police, which is very active. - - - . - TILE AMERICAN MARKETS.—The advice by the Canada from New York are not unfavourable, commer cially ; but they represent a growing state of uneasiness in the stock market. This might have arisen in som e degree from the late excitement of over-speculation and anxiety about the result of their bargains, when settle ments of account became due with those who have ope rated largely, and at high prices for the rise. It is feared, however, that a graver cause was connected with the unsteady appearance of the stock m arket. The banks of New York city had been largely increasing their discounts for some time past, whilst contempo raneously, and notwithstanding the large imp o rts o f gold from California, the stock of specie in their vaults had absolutely and in the aggregate diminished, as w ill be observed by the following, being the late st returns made up for the inspection of the State Comptroller, charged officially to see that the bankin g l aws are not infringed. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—A Dangerous Wound in the Thigh Cured by their Use.—About three years ago, Mr. Acton, of Melbour ne , had his thigh fearfully lacerated wh en out ridin g , his orse impaired using that running away, and his leg comi n g in violent colli sion with a wall. He was confined t o his bed for nearl y e ighteen months, suffering from the ac cident ; and notwith standing the best medical advice, every effort p roved unsuc cessful in uhi healing osllliofwe aw t y, h a Il Ointmente despairedwound ,a n oa d fn. d b ir i his ni l health hs ti cabecame cthe effect of o so m Paired commenced heal ing his wound with wonderful rapidity, anti restoring him to , amid health. LITERATURE. Annette : A Tale. 3 Vols. By William Frederick Deacon. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Hon. Sir T. N. Talfourd, D.C.L. Colburn and Company. A romance crowded with hair-breadth 'napes, and diversified with the moat brilliant traits of heroism, is this beautiful story of " Annette," in which an Eng lishman has celebrated the loyal and religious wars waged by the chieftains of La Vendea against the infi delity and the cruelty of the Revolution. As a posthu mous work, moreover, the narrative appeals yet more persuasively to our sympathies. Under no circum stances, we conceive, does criticism find itself so effectually disarmed as when required to decide the merits of an effusion coming to us, as it were, out of the grave (d'outre tombe), according to the solemn and melancholy thought of Chateaubriand. It is some what difficult, upon such occasions, for the reviewer to speak with anything like his accustomed calmness or precision, when he remembers that the heart whose emotions he is weighing in the balance of judg ment has become still for ever—that the hand whose latest traces are submitted to perusal is but dust—and that to "the dull, cold ear of death" the words of praise or of condemnation are alike become matters of supreme and everlasting indifference. "Annette" is among the number of fictions invested with this peculiar and pensive fascination. It possesses also a pathetic charm of its own, derived from the nature of the incidents recounted. It relates to the history of those fsmous struggles in the name of God and of loyalty which have consecrated the thickets of the Bocage, and shed a lustre over the marshes of the Marais. Recognising, as we do, the justice and the glory of those great principles which first gave rise to the revolutionary movement of 1789 among the Parisians reverencing as we do that sublime hope of Liberty for France which may be said to have first become visible in the flames of the Bastile, as they undoubtedly first became audible through the voice of Mirabeau—it is impossible for us at any moment to look otherwise than with the profoundest sympathy, and the most unaffected admiration, at the annals of that outbreak in La Vendee where the white flag so long fluttered in defiance of the tricolour, and where the Royalist peasantry withstood, during so many months, the valour and ferocity of the Re publicans. It were idle, in fact, to dream that the loyalty of the Vendeans could ever be denied the meed of that eulogium which it has extorted from the lips o those historians even who have shown themselves most devoted to the cause of the Revolution. Everything, indeed, conspires to secure this feeling towards the .Vendean insurgents. Their simplicity revolting against the arrogance of the ultra-democrats—their love of the past inspiring them with a horror of in novation—their piety rousing them in the defence of religion : it was only natural that they should have listened with eager delight to the rallying cry simul taneously raised by the ministers they viewed with reverence, and by the seigneurs whom they regarded with affection. It was under these auspices that the tocsin was sounded in La Vendee, early in the spring of 1793, in the first horror excited by the intelligence that the head of Louis XVI. had fallen under the axe of the guillotine. Although the war which there upon ensued throughout the Bocage and the Marais can scarcely be said to have lasted during the brief period of a single twelvemonth, there were accom- ' plished within that memorable interval so many actions of daring and magnanimity, that the annalist can find but few popular outbreaks more remarkably illus trated by patriotism, by courage, and by generalship —by unselfish patriotism, by unfailing courage, and by untutored generalship. The narrative of all this has long since rendered glorious the name of many, until then, obscure villages in Anjou and Poitou— provinces now better known as the departments of Vendde, o f D eux -Se vres, o f M a i ne - e t-L o i re , an d o f Loire I n f er i eure. Wi th i n t h e country o f L a -Ven dee, 800,000 cons tit ute th e num b er o f th e p o p u l a ti on . Sixty years ago, the number must have been smaller. Yet, such was the front raised by the Vendean peas antry against the soldiers of the Jacobin Government, that it is estimated no less perished in the course of the subsequent struggle than the vast and terrible aggregate of one million Frenchmen. This, too, let us remember, in consequence of the rising of a few agricultural labourers armed with scythes and pitch forks ! The account of their achievements the world has already obtained through the authentic writings of Beauchamp and Lacretelle, through the military records of Jomini, ansk4he picturesque memorial of Madame de LarochejaClueTtin. Even English students, the majority of them,are familiar with these narratives of glory and of suffering. They regard with the homage due to heroism the fame of those renowned and redoubtable leaders of La Vend6e, who withstood with equaNsuccess the science of Kleber and the prowess of Westermann. What generous heart is there that has not throbbed with admiration for the young De Lescure ? of whom, although as brave as a lion, it has been written " his humanity was ange lic." Who has forgotten the valiant D'Elbee ? who, although a Saxon peasant, rose to the rank of general i,simo. Are we any of us dull to the skill of Cba rette, the naval lieutenant, like Espartero "of a feeble and delicate constitution"—to the resolution of Staler, the daring Alsatian gamekeeper—to the genius or generosity of Bonchamps, whose audacity was only surpassed by his gentleness—to the perse verance of Marigny, and the vigilance of D'Auti champ, and the inflexible determination of Beaure paire ? Can we ever lose 4 remembrance of that warrior-peasant the good and valiant Cathelinean ? described by the author of Annette" as a wool dealer, but in reality a simple charioteer—that illus• trious Cathelineau, whose oiety was so pure and ele vated that he was known amongst his brother rustics as the Saint of Anjou, and mho, although bred in the habits of an humble villager, was proclaimed unani mously by the haughtiest nobles of Vendee (on the outbreak of the war) the Commander•in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Royalists. Least of all, can we regard without the most tender and the most generous emotions the brave, the young, the gentle, the daunt less—most heroic figure, amidst all that matchless group of heroes, with the red sash, and the scarlet handkerchief about his head, and his sword flaming at the gates of Tbouars, and his cap thrown into the trenches at Saumur—the brave, the young, the dauntless Henri de Larochejaquelein ! Henri, who gave that noble cry of battle to his soldiers, " If I advance, follow me ; if I retreat, kill me ; if I fall, avenge me !" Henri, of whom it has been written (list. Eur., ch. xii.), "Notwithstanding his passion for danger, he was lull of sweetness and humanity." Henri, of whom another annalist has said with such touching suggestiveness (Genoude 47), "Chance has covered his tomb, as well as that of his' brother Louis, with the flowers of Achilles." The hero of our boy hood, the palladin of Southern France, the gay and gallant De Larochejaquelein ! . . . It was a circumstance illustrative in a very curious manner of the extraordinary vicissitudes of that epoch that, in the wars of La Vencke ' while Biron, a peer of France and son of a Marshal, was, on one side, the leader of the Republican forces, the Royalist Seig neurs were marshalled under the banners of the pea sant Cathelineau. For Cathelineau was Commander in-Chief until his death on the Place d'Armes, during the unsuccessful storming of Nantes, when the rank was conferred upon D'Elbee, ; and on the demise of D'Elb6e the responsible authority of Generalissimo was awarded to Henri de Larochejaquelein. A feeling of breathless interest carries the reader on while perusing the history of the civil war in the Bocage un interruptedly from its propitious commencement to its melancholy and disastrous consummation. How rapid were the alternations of fortune during those eight months of 1793 may be seen by a glance at the re cords of the Revolution. On the 4th of May the Re publicans were defeated at Thouar, and on the sth of May the Royalists were in their turn defeated at Fontenay. On the 6th of May, however, the latter place witnessed the return of triumph to the white banner of the Bourbons; and later on (10th June) the tricolour was again obliged to yield to the valour of the Seigneurs, at Saumur. Upon the 29th of June the Royalists were worsted in their attack upon Nantes; while on the 13th of August, at Luc on, the Republicans were again victorious. Septem ber, nevertheless, brought success back with it to the Vendeans, who were triumphant on the 15th of that month at Coron, on the 19th at Torfou, and on the 20th at Montaigu. Yet they were overcome for a while on the 17th of October, at Chollet, where D'Elb6e and Bonchamp were both mortally wounded. At Chateau-Gontier, on the 25th of October, they were, nevertheless, once more enabled to route the troops of their antagonists —shortly after which, the gentle and valorous De Lescure, breathed his last, in the arms of his bride at Fougkes. At Granville, on the 14th of November the Royalists were again con quered, but on the 19th of November, at Ponterson they were again victorious. Antrain, on the 20th of November, was, however, the scene of their last success, for they were compelled to yield to the numerical superiority of the Republicans, on the 30th of No vember at Angers, on the 10th of December:at Mans, and on the 22d of December at Savenay the straggle, being at length closed on the 14th of March, 1794, on the cruel, but heroic death of Henri de barochjaquelein. Thereupon the unfortunate pea santry were compelled, to bend their proud heads before the ghastly and terrible vengeance of the Re volutionists. It was then that the world was horri fied by a series of atrocities, surpassing even those of Marat and Robespierre. It was then that the noyades of Nantes drowned the "suspected" by whole sale. It was then that Thurreau devastated the pro vino() with his Infernal Columns, and that Carrier destroyed the children by his Republican Baptisms, and the old men, and the young men ; and the virgins, and even mothers on the eve of their confinement, by hi s hideous device called Republican IllarriwYes. And thus was it that in Nantes alone, there perished within a few weeks, no less than 18,000 souls by the river, by the bullet, and by the guillotine. And so Liberty deeecroted, and the Delll9lla of the Revolution were triumphant, and the Royalist Chieftains were shot, and stabbed, and hurried away, and their very names for a white—but only for a while—forgotten. It has not surprised us, therefore, to find a scholar of generous sympathies, like the author of "An nette," selecting the scenes and the times of the Great Civil War in La Vendee, as those of a romance re lating to the French Revolution. Several of the principal personages engaged in those events are in • troduced in the coarse of the narrative—their fortunes being ingeniously interwoven with those of the merely fictitious characters. The result of the com bination is, as might be conjectured, a story in many respects eminently attractive. It introduces us once more to Cathelineau, to De Lescure, to Stofflet to Cbarette, to Bonchamps, to D'Elbee, and to Larochejaquelein , —not to the empty names, be it observed, but to the very men themselves. Annette, of course, as the title-page sufficiently inti mates, is the heroine : an amiable though rather colourless creation—the daughter of Delille, a mer chant of Nantes. Delille himself is, to our thinking, the blemish of the baok, being in truth a man so painfully weak and timid as to become in the end ab solutely contemptible. The author has adroitly selected as the hero of the talc—Alphonse, the son of one no less distinguished among the Vendean Chiefs, than the bravo old Msrquis de Chatillon. Around Alphonse the interest of the fiction is woven from first to last, so that we are enabled to follow his foot steps continuously, down to the conclusion. The beginning of the work is little else than what may be termed a mere episode, serving the writer's purpose doubtless well enough, by making the render acquainted with the villain of the plot, the unprinci pled De Chantereau. The real interest of the story only commences with the arrival of Alphonse in Paris, where, in connection with the worldly-minded Count de Sevrac, he becomes engag e d i n var i ous state intrigues, and at last takes part in the memo rable flight of the Royal Family from the Tuileries. Nothing can be more ingeniously contrived than the incidents at this portion of the narrative—the hero being introduced by his tutor Servette, into the drawing-rooms of Madame Roland, where he familiar izes himself with the manners and appearances of revolutionists as renowned as Barbarroux and Brissot, and Robespierre. Immediately after the return or Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette from Varennes the horrors of the epoch thicken, and Alphonse ulti mately becomes involved as one of the defenders of the palace in that terrible storming of the Tuileries, which ended in the slaughter of the Swiss soldiers. De Chatillon is soon afterwards seized in his lodgings and dragged off to the Bicetre, where he is incarcerated among the number of the " suspected " as an aristo crat. Here the anxiety in his fate attains its climax, for the reader finds himself arrived at the very eve of the dreadful and ever-infamous Massacres of Septem ber. Alphonse appears doomed to irretrievable de struction : for as the critical night draws on, there enters his dungeon—the vindictive and relentless De Chanteresu. Death seems to be closing in upon him, and we leave the hero surrounded by murderers, and horrified by the din and the yells of assassination. There is one ray of hope glimmering, however, through the darkness—dimly and timorously. Jacques the half well-natured, and half rascally ex-valet of De Sevrac has joined the party of the Jacobins, and been installed as under jailor of the Bicetre. He de termines, if possible, to save the life of the friend of his former master, the ill-starred and helpless De Chatillon. Jacques communicates with Servette and informs the old man of the perilous position of Alphonse. Whereupon the Republican dreamer rises from reverie to action, and resolves, " come what come may," that he will dare even a forlorn hope of intercession. After a vain application to Ro land, he ventures, late at night, to carry his petition into the presence of the dreaded Minister of Justice himself—to Danton, the author and organizer of the Massacres of September ! Servette's appeal to the great and terrible democrat is one of the finest pas sages in the three volumes, rising in the end to a burst of eloquent and impassioned adjuration. Of this, however, we will let our readers judge for them selves. The supplicant has employed every argument he could contrive by way of entreaty, but each has proved in succession utterly and agonizingly fruit less. Pathos has been treated with contempt, and solemn warnings as to the future with derision. In the last distracting sense of disappointment, Ser vette, and even Danton, are startled by the clanging of a distant bell in the midnight. It is the tocsin ! " Well may the fierce demagogue have started, for that gloomy bell, which flung its awful voice far and wide over the trembling capital, tolled the knell of not less than six thousand of his victims! " Almighty God!' exclaimed Servette, every muscle quivering with agitation,' can it bo possible? Only one hour?' and sinking on his knees before the Minister of Justice, who stood buried in gloomy thought, the old man thus addressed him, his eyes streaming the while with bars: Oh, Danton, if I cannot prevail upon you to spare all the wretched victims of this dreadful policy, at least let me, once more, conjure you to spare one when I know to be as innocent as he is dauntless and high-hearted. Consider his youth, and the grey hairs of his sorrowing father! You are brave, bo generous—you are great, show true greatness by tempering justice with mercy. Men say that you are a fond and f.sppy father, and that your infant child is to you as a second self; think then, what you would feel, were you, when that child had grown up to man's estate, to plead for his dear life to some future Minister of Justice, and be met with the same chilling reply4hat you have this day given me! Oh, think what is is wanton)/ to extinguish that holy spirit of lile which the Almighty gave, and which you cannot restore! Lo, here in the dust at your feet, 1 conjure you to be true to yourself —true to your fame— true to that just and sacred cause of which you are the triumphant advocate! You speak not! Eternal God!' —and the old man clasped his hands together, and raised his eyes to heaven—. Eternal God, grant me power to touch the heart of this cold, haughty man, who, when he might descend to after ages as the benefactor of his fellow-creatures, can endure to be branded as their scourge. Still silent? Well, then'—and the speaker started abruptly to his feet —' since the voice of conscience and humanity finds no echo within your breast; since blood must flow, no matter from whom, spare Alphonse, and take me as your vic tim! Better, far better that the old should go than the young; no one will miss the helpless, solitary man, whose lamp of life is already well•nigh extinguished; besides, were it not so, I have lived long enough, since I have lived to see this day. " The old man poured forth these supplications with such impassioned energy, and in tones or such heartfelt anguish, that Danton, who had made many efforts to stop him, at length desisted from the unavailing task. S9rvette's solemn appeal to the Deity he acknowledged only by a smile of scornful incredulity; ho was visibly off 'cteci, however, when he was reminded of his infant boy, to whom ho was devotedly attached; but when the old man offered his own lito in exchange for his friend's, the heroic generosity of the offer struck Danton so powerfully, that the tears actually stood in his eyes! The rock was smitten, and the living waters came gush ing from it. " Citizen,' exclaimed the stern demagogue, dashing away the moisture from his lids,' your prayer is granted! The chosen friend of so magnanimous a spirit can never be the base, treacherous conspirator I had imagined. No, I see I was mistaken, and it is right that I make reparation. But, remember, Ido this as an act of mere justice, not of pity,' and advancing to the table, he sat down and wrote with an unsteady hand an order for Alphonse's release, to the jailer of the Bic6tre. Away, he added, thrusting the document into Servette's hands, lose not a moment, or you may be too late. Not a word—no thanks—you owo nothing to my compassion —away, away!' and he pushed him towards the door. " No sooner was he gone, than Danton resumed his seat at the table, and in a few minutes had regained much of his usual stoical hardihood." Alphonse de Chatillon is saved—snatched as it were while the bloody weapons of death are already drip ping before his eyes, from the grasp of the assassins. Soon afterwards he escapes from Paris in the disguise of a sans curlotte, and upon joining his father, forth with takes part, with the rest of the chiefs, in the Loyalist insurrection. Hereupon it is that the author reveals the most clearly his skill as an historical novelist. His description of the somewhat compli cated movements of the campaign, his delineation of the contrasting temperaments of the different leaders, and especially his account of the various battles and sieges, are all of them admirable for their vigour and perspicuity. In one particular alone—but that a ra ther important one—we conceive him to have been labouring under some strange and inexplicable kind of misapprehension. We mean in his appreciation, or perhaps we should say in his want of appreciation, of the character of Henri de Larochejaquelein. Henri he has failed to estimate accurately, as he had already failed to estimate aright Louis XVl.—a king as good in his life as he was great in his death. Henri, we take it, was no mere flippant, thoughtless, vo'iatile, dallier with the chivalrous, any more than Louis was a mere gluttonous, fickle, suspiciou s, craven imbecile. Henri was as gentle ' as he was daring, and as resolute as he was impassioned. Louis, again, was forgiving, generous, and humane, virtu ous as a man, and valiant as a prince, resigned under misfortuho , and ybe in gnant in prosperity, grand in captivity, and su ime th e hour of his execution. Alphonse de Chatillou, h ow . ever, might have been altogether overshadowed had not the writer endeavoured thus to render subordinate to him in some me asure the heroic character of Henri de Larocbejaque l e in. Therefore, possibly, do w e fi n d that the justice of the historian has yielded overmuch to the exigencies of the rornancist. pass ages in relation to this portion of -Al e (31 the least objectionable the narrative is the following —a puss • passage interestin g for inasmuch as it contains a description th,, Venuean Chevalier : of yo ung rin e Larocbajaquelein was of a more impetuous and merc urial temperament ' so enthwitrtice that he seemed • t o love fighting—more Hibernico— or fighting's sake ; he was impatient of all counsels except such as encou raged his military ardour; and so invariably sanguine as s carcely to believe i n the possibility of reverses. His ; h figure was tall and elegant o had li g ht h a i r . an d an oval i countenance, ene an d contour was rathe rEr gl tsh than F tho w se w h a o s a dash of eccentricity in his cos luamuch as _ he usually wore several red handker chiefs—one on his head, another about his neck, and three or four round his waist, bolding his pistols." As a companio❑ picture to this, we may transcribe the subjoined sketch of the aspect and character of Charette " He was slight in figure and of middle 'height, with a small but brilliant and penetrating eye, t nose turned up in the Tartar fashion, and a mouth remarkable for its shape and width. His nature was stern and obstinate ; he had none of that lofty and generous pa triotism which glowed in the bosoms of the majority of the Seigneurs ; but was too much influenced by a desire for personal aggrandisement, which seemed to be his rulin g principle of action. In manner he was cold, re served, and dictatorial, and in carrying on his military operations he was reckless of human life, and was apt Pa wink at the excesses of his troops after a victory; more,- over, he was a rigid martinet, and was never known fao forgive or forget any act of disobedience." Further particulars as to this plot of "Annette" need scarcely be enumerated, seeing that the tale foil aws truthfully enough the moving records of histr , ry ; besides which, it were scarcely fair to the narrator to deprive his effusion, by a bold epitome, of its pro minent and most acceptable fascination. It may be permitted us, howbeit, to mention one incident as among the most enthrallin g in the development of the story—that of the escape of Annette and her father from a sequestered aubtige, under the guidance and. guardianship of Alphonse, where the three wayfarer.a seem at one moment to he infallibly fated to assassination. This occurs when the Delilles rare proceeding to the sea-coast in order to find shelter by flight into England. Thither Alphonse ultimately follows the refugees, when disasters having settled down upon La VenoL, the young De Chatillon i s entrusted by his brother-chieftains with the task of applying for assistance to the British Governm en t. Prior to his return to the Marais in company with Lord Moira's expedition, Alphonse is happily married to Annette; and whets the last gloomy occurrences of the Royalist movement have been recounted, and when the civil war is seen to have closed for a time in blood and calamity, the hero and the heroine, as bride and bridegroom, are revealed to us at length in the tardy enjoyment of something like happiness and tranquillity. " All's well that end's well," saith even the divine Shakspere, and so rest we contented. Ow other extract must we indulge ourselves with before concluding our reference to the narrative—it is one descriptive of the death of our hero, the death of the youthful and dauntless Henri de Larochejaquelein : " With some difficulty Henri, at times, restrained his soldiery from giving way to a natural desire for ven geance when some stragglers from the republican army occasionally fell into their hands. On one occasion Larochejaquelein came upon a party of his men as their muskets were turned upon two grenadiers, wbo, sepa rated from their companions, had entered the forest Full of horror at an act which, to his chivalrous soul, appeared a murder, Henri interposed ; s i gn i ng to his men to desist, ho advanced alone towards the soldiers, exclaiming : " Surrender, I give you quarter!' " Perhaps incredulous of the existence of a magna- Dimity of which their own actions never bore a token, the soldiers, for all reply, raised their guns and fired with fatal effect. Henri fell, as his friends and soldiers gathered round bim, and the arms of Alphonse tenderly sustained the dying hero. Human help was vain. Only a few moments of life remained to Henri Larocheja quelein! They were passed in acts of devotion and tender adieus to his comrades in arms; and taking the hand of Alphonse within his own : " Farewell, my early friend,' he murmured in low, faint accents, together we have fought and suffered. You alone, may God grant it ! will live to see the vic tory for which we have signed. But not now, Alphonse. It is only a protracted death-struggle, which can be carried on here. Heed my last injunctions—withdra w yourself, for a time, till the fury of the storm is over; and then, when a brighter day is dawning for France— come back and fight and conquer; and in your hour of victory remember Henri—' Exhausted with so much exertion, the dying youth paused, and then again re covering himself, added, as he saw the tears coursing down the cheeks of Alphonse! ' Do not grieve for me, Alphonse; I could not have lived away from La Vendia, while my arm could wield a sword: sooner or later the blow must have come to me. All our friends fallen around us. But you may yet be spared —a future is before you. The house of Chatillon may again be num bered among the pillars of the throne. Obey my last wish, Alphonse, and live for France as I—l thank God, according to my repeated prayer —die for her.' A few more words of tenderness and resignation, and that gentle heart had ceased to beat, that chivalrous spirit, which in a brief existence of only twenty years had given so many proofs of gallantry and heroism, had fled. Henri de Larochejaquelein was no more. sadly, with broken hearts and tearful eyes, his followers consigned their chieftain to the grave, in his soldier's accoutre ments; and as they heaped up the earth upon his last resting place : " Now, indeed,' said Alphonse, the Convention may say that La Vendea no longer exists.' ' And so, ihdeed, ended that memorable struggle of the Roysliits against the Democrats—the struggle of a chivalrous peasantry against the overwhelming might of the Revolution. We have left ourselves but small space for reference to one of the most interesting portions of the work lying before us, and one to which as yet we have made no allusion—the graceful prefatory memoir of the author, penned by his schoolfellow, Mr. Justice Talfourd. Neither is much comment required, we conjecture, upon a biographical tribute which for years hence will be turned to with satisfaction not merely by those who knew the writer of " Annette," but by those also who can appreciate the poet of "Ion" and the commemorator of " Elia." Sir Thomas Tal fourd has afforded us one other evidence of his large and g►enerous heart in that tribute to the memory of his friend, William Frederick Deacon [a name men tioned once more not without emotion in these columns of The Sun, which his hand, up to the period of his decease, so often adorned by his criticisms]---a tribute in which the biographer has deservedly cele brated the merits of a scholar as well as those of an amiable and accomplished gentleman. THE LORD-LIEUTENANCY OF HEREFORDSHIRE,—. Much speculation is afloat throughout this county as to the probable successor to the late lamented Earl Somers in the Lord-Lieutenancy. Lord Rodney, Lord Bate man, and the present Rid Somers are all spoken of as likely ; but as the last-named nobleman supported Li beral principles at the last election, it is not very likely that Lord Derby will pass by two of his supporters to appoint an opponent. —Hereford Times. IRISH EMIGRATION.—The report of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission has shown that the total emigration from the United Kingdom for the year 1851, in those parts alone in which Government agents are stationed, exceeded 335,996, of whom 257,372 were from Ireland; and that if the emigration of the succeeding months of the year 1852 does not diminish from that of the four earlier months, it will have exceeded 500,000, of whom we may take 350,000 at least as the proportion of rho emigration from Ireland alone. THE WILL OF THE LATE MR. NEILD.—The will of this gentleman, which has excited so much curiosity, is now in Doctors' Commons. It is written by the de ceased himself, in a clear bold round hand, and only occupies the front of a sheet of foolscap. Th e will begins by saying that he, James Camden N e ild, o f Lincoln's-inn and Chelsea, in the county of Middlesex, wished his body to bo interred in Battersea Church, and in a vault as near as may be to his beloved father, James Neild. He bequeathed to his executors 100/. each, and directed them to pay all his just debts (which were very trifling), and thereafter he gave and be queathed all " real and personal property to which I may be entitled at law or in equity, unto her most gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, for her own private use; and advantage, and her heirs, executors, and as signees." And he expresses a hope that her Majesty will be pleased to accept the same. He appoints as his executors, the Hon. the keeper for the time being of her Majesty's privy purse, the very Rev. Henry Tatton, Archdeacon of Bedford, and James Stephens, Esq., of the county of Kent. The will is attested by Charles Shadwell, of Gray's-inn, and George Tatton, his clerk. The will was pro v ed on the 21 st in st. b y the lion. Charles Bowman Phipps, keeper of her Majesty's privy purse, tbo Archdeacon of Bedford, and Mr. Steph ens, f o trh f e °in t h estatee Tourney, Property Sworn ot of of aftseuenxdeecru2tosros,oaopoptointed under le i e t t , sta a e : re d o t h c a A t EtilheE. de —e rite i t Md e do Bocapja6, took place that Bury, belonging to Oct. 18, In. morning at the village de Baugnies. Tw MADAME 8 t states to 9 3 both higher than that made by Two new offers were ma de, Count Ferdi nand de Visart de Bocarn 6, and eventually nan the Cheva lier Jeniebek, a Hungarian gentlemen, residing ' was declared the purchaser, fora sum of 137,500 f, in Paris, new proprietor, it is said, has given orders The house and grounds at once cleaned and to have the to allow of their being occupied in repaired, in order lots of land and wood were after the spring. Some which gives a total of 1 64,500 f forwards sold for 27,000 f., value of the property in the all. The estimated late Count wits 2,350 000 F. Itmarriage settlement of the of Mdme. do Bocarm6 is is said that the marriage postponed to Nov. 22. THE " RELIGIOUS EQUALIT Y " executive committee have had CONFERENCE.—The the last few d ays . f or the P several meetings within purpose of revising a nd discus sing the s evera l c l auses of the r draught report which is to be submitted to • a pre.r itninary meeting of the Conference, Tuesday to be held on " next. The document in question is said to be cautious and moderate in its tone, e nd iu terms sufficiently ind e fi n i te to entrap Protestants opposed to the connexion betweeu Church and State into the belief that the plotters have really no ulterior object is view bevjnd the establishment of perfect "religious cquelity " for all creeds. There is not a word about the proximate appropriation of the " spoils," nor is the plan for the commencement of open hostilities against the enemy as yet laid bare. hum PROPRIETOR9.—The number of proprietors in fee in Ireland has been calculated not to exceed 8,000, some of whom individually possessed more than 100.000 acres. Between the years 1841 and 1850, it is asserted that emigration and deaths have swept away more than two-thirds of the entire holdings under five acres, a quarter of a million of small farms have disappeared, and 50,000 farms, of flora 5 to 15 acres, have also gone, while an increase of 103,944 has, in the tame period of time, taken place in farms of upwards of 30 cores, and a further increase of 66,042 moderate farms of from 15 to 30 acres. In one single year, from 1849 to 1850, the ne t increase in farming etoek was to a value of 11,250,000% terday, with little buniness doing. The Four-and-a- Half 'per Cents. opened at 107, and closed at 106 f 953 for the end of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at 82f 10c ; Orleans Railway shares, 1 5901; Rouen, 977 f 50c; Havre, 455 f; Great Northern, 7981 75c; Avignon, 5901; Basle, 365 f; Paris and Strasburg, 792 f 500; Paris and Lyons, 985; Lyons and Avignon, 755 f; Western cf . France, 740 f; St. Dizier to Gray, 6001; Caen to Cherbourg, 6251• Dijon to Besan9m, 6121503; B, )r d eaux and Cette , 640 f; Turkish Loan, 1,060 t 1,0571 503. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT Tlilt LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 25. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 30% —Charleroi and Erquelines, 15,--Dijon and Basancon, —Grand Junction of France, — Luxembourg, 7A—ditto (Railway ), 4;,i—Paris and Lyons, 293 —Par is and Orleans, 63—Paris and Rouen, 39 th —Paris and Strasbourg-, 31 Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg, B', 7 —Rouen and Havre, 17 5 / B—Sambre and Meuse, .;g —West Flanders, VA—We,tern of France, 18k. THE CONTINENT. SPAIN. Madrid ad v i cos are dated the 20±. The Clamor Public.° states that the Government intends to defer the construction of the Northern Railway until the lines from Madrid to Valencia, from Barcelona to Madrid, and from Alar to Santan der, shall have been completed, from a fear that a monetary crisis might be produced by the withdrawal of the capital necessary for the construction of so many lines at the same time. M. Sanchez Mendoza, who has obtained the concession for a line from Cadiz to Jerez, had returned from London, where be bad been to give orders for the materiel necessary for the construction of the line. A Madrid letter of the 20th says :—" General Au pick, the French Ambassador, since his return from Bordeaux, has loudly expressed the interest felt by the Prince President towards Spain, and his warm desire to strengthen as much as possible the bonds of friend ship and good intelligence which now exist between the two nations and their governments." Madrid Bourse, Oct. 20.—The Three per Cents., 472; Exchange on London, 50 30 paper. GERMANY. The Postarnpt Gazette of Frankfort of the 22 , 1 says :—" Several journals have announced that the Austrian government had purchased some of the ves sels of the German fleet. This account is unfounded, at least for the present. Neither is it correct that the Germanic Diet has had a sitting within the last few days ; there was merely a confidential meeting of the envoys to the Diet. Baron de Brenner-Felsach, di rector of the Federal Chancellery, has returned from his visit to Vienna. Couut de Thun Hohenstein, president of the Germanic Diet, is not expected here until towards the end of next week." The Vienna Journal of the 21st announces that Baron Stockhausen delivered his letters of credence as Hanoverian Ambassador to the Emperor on the 18th. On the following day his Majesty granted an audience to the Marquis de Marcel, the Brazilian Ambassador. It is currently rumoured at Vienna that his Imperial Majesty intends laying down the command in chief of the army, in order to attend more exclusively to the affairs of Government. The Archduke Albert is spoken of as his probable succes sor in the chief command, and is to be raised to the dignity of field-marshal on this occasion. ITALY. The Genoese journal, r Italia e Popolo, states that preparations are being made at the Vatican which appear to indicate the approaching journey of the Pope to Paris. On the 19th there was a funereal military parade at Milan in honour of the memory of the late Duke of Wellington. A Turin letter baying stated that great excitement had been caused at Turin by the rumour of a discus sion of an unfriendly character said to have taken place between Marquis d'Azeglio and M. His de Butenval, the French Minister to the Sardinian Court, on the subject of a French refugee named M. Pastorel, on which occasion Marquis d'Azeglio was represented as having sent back two of M. His de Butenval's notes unanswered, the Siecle quotes a letter of the 31st, from its correspondent at Turin, which indeed confirms the fact of two notes having been most unaccountably sent back unanswered to M. His de Butenval, but at the same time states that the French Minister and M. d'Azeglio have discussed the matter between themselves, and that it is not likely to lead to any misunderstanding. As for another rumour to the effect that France and England had jointly demanded the introduction of certain modifications in the organic laws of Piedmont, the correspondent states that the French Minister has flatly denied ever having started such a subject; and that the British Minister had not only repelled such assertions with indignation, as totally unfounded and contrary to his own sentiments as well as to the policy of bis Government, but had even had an explanation with M. d'Azeglio on the subject, in which he ex pressed his dissatisfaction at the part attributed to him. These explanations have appeased the general appre hensions entertained by the public on the subject of the durability of the Piedmontese Constitution, but have, according to the correspondent, placed M. d'Az-glio in such an equivocal light, that his resigna tion is considered more than probable. The Augsburg Gazette contains the following ab stract of the Pope's allocution in the secret consistory of the 27th ult., which has not been officially pub liThed. The Holy Father deplores from the bottom of his heart the vehement attacks directed against the church militant in most parts of Europe, but derives some consolation from the thought that a copious and certain spiritual harvest is promised beyond the At lantic. The Church must, he says, strenuously op pose the agitation brooding in the bosom of the Ca tholic Church in France, Germany, and England. His Holiness trusts that the impending desertion of many believers in Piedmont will eventually redound to the glory of the true faith. The expressions used towards England seem to exclude the possibility of an encyclic letter being directed against clerical agitation i❑ the British dominions. Nevertheless, the correspondent who has furnished the above abstract, states upon his own knowledge, that not long after the secret consistory of the 27th ult., a momber of the permanent congregation of cardinals drew up a moni tory epistle, the contents of which, though not con ceived under an official form, were intended to calm the agitation by exhortations addressed to the Irish clergy, to yield to the times, however perverse. TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople, of the 10th, states that the French Ambassador was that clay to receive official rejection of the loan. The Sultan has declined giving M. de Lavalette an audience on the subject. The new loan was going on successfully. Sir H. Ward, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, had left the Turkish capital for Corfu, after a few days' stay; and Mr. Cumberbatch, Eng lish consul-general in Constantinople, had also left for England, on leave of absence. The Journal de Con stantinople asserts that the new ministry will follow the reforming system of Rechid Pacha, which was inaugurated on the accession of the present Sultan, and which, it says, can alone secure the regeneration of Turkey. Mouktar Bey was about to proceed to Alex andria, on a mission from the Government. It was stated in the last accounts from Constantinople, that the plague bad broken out on the frontiers of Persia ; but the Board of Health of Constantinople has de clared that the malady which prevails there is not the plague, but the cholera. On the Bth, four hundred merchant vessels had, owing to a favourable wind, entered the port, and the Bosphorus. Such an extra of city ymoedf Constantinople extra ordinary number of vessels caused some confusion, and one of them, an English one, which had not per• quarantine, s havingand its e t n h v u i s r o violated the sani tary regulations, the Board of Health had placed the that great activity continued the imperial docgkoy qua rantine of five day environs under u to nd p e r r e a vailin;ards A . c r c w ou o n n tsewfrobmrigtehwe were e ar la d u an ne e h ll e e d s represent otthiwereberig and n s d h short anadnother was launched on the 6th, agu ' n way to -boat w ere on t h e stoc k s Ethem Pa c h a bad arrivesin the D ar d ane ll es on board the Nile, on hi s Co nstantinople, on a m i ss i on from the govern ment of _Egypt, and was performing quarantine. ItlEileo. Sept,lll. President. Minister iiinanGeoevernor We have files of Mexican papers to new CAinet is not yet completed. The named D. Nunoz Ledo of Guansjusto,heeaxs. of Foreign Affairs and L. Rive Palacios of the State of Mexico, as Minister of the sth ult., after a conference of five hours with th e Csa resident, they declined accepting the appoint men Sr. Aguirre has taken the oath of Minister of Justice. Sr. Eiparza is de facto Minister of Finarace, throug h nominally first clerk in th at de p artment, and Sr. Arroyo is first clerk in the Foreign Department, acting as Minister ad interim. It is supposed Robles will re-accept the Department of War. From Guadalajara we have nothing new, except that more of the towns of the state have declared their ad herence to the Provisional Government. Affairs in Mazatlan remain in the same state as at last dates. The President has named a committee, consisting of Don Luis de la Rosa, D. Lucas Alaman, and D. Mariano Yanez, for the opening, qualifying, and de ciding on the proposals for the privilege of the open ing of the communication across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. D. Luis de la Rosa, in his reply to the Department of Relations, exposes at length the fears he entertains, and has ever entertained, for the safety of the Republic, should the privilege for open- ing and enjoying this road across the isthmus be given to foreigners. He feels certain, he says, "it will tutu out auother Texas business." , 11 1