The Sun. — London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

..„--- boe. iterth l P Ceta titir tb o ;oh 0 ° the spen t + a od ehtiDg Add COlltm .. At the b the pie a boht P l e of a bet as i p the , proper:o,. 1 n o roP° g ,ttent l° n L ying f f; ros ls does °' g o n t" , o roortgogl lined °P; they' : n r a i c e, roi 0 " P to cb via/ L ,opital D s O ti" f v e ve oper IPS SI 09 s, by in ju cr, pal O ritie d e _ ior ke rr o i s tiog, lopeo 0 ,00 11 ourg uir ronr i s or the 11/115 aps' educa th e ko t o f e Ps l6c. : by I " ° ' obo i to o f tbe 0 1°11 : ;ha t ft° 13° I. D.- til be .4 ° ~ for ?alfl be la t A t t ,dess 1366 f 31 ' cle used to rot° 80° 111 : !of W II I 1111 I 00 'vi ew Lawl3 .- 0), tin t he [ode r , to bu s e d , as Ice ti • 34 P et' bo 7e.. I ate 1 13°3 otS 3 cl 0 1 P rtd $ lit bos ine° 0 1 ' 34 ; zr - d a 'loseFe r Fre A sb e/re 3 5; 0 oft 14 e3teP T • 211 the sth D OP il°l 00 83 cit to f e d s . vi no , Roe' aben 4 de' Y - b P ro Ao a; 1- )8/ Ag fil t orv - Co da' i ` to ore net ted jet et Reg o, oul ci I ,ivg t) iS it. t o' lieved, tike up many days. The Government has Publihbed a large volume, containing most of these documents, which gent rail•; , conist of virulent at tuks upon the GRAND DUKE during his stay at Gaeta; and it would seem that the Government wishes the said volume to be extensively circulated, since it has fixed its price at about 5f., a very low sum ooesidering the size ot - the book. The Itali a e Popolo, the organ of the Mozziaizin Party, coutains the following : " God and the People.—i National Italian Association "No. I . oB .—Citiz , ?ns,—ln consequence of the instruc tions I h ave received, I rm happy to transmit to you the decree of the Union of Tuscany with the Roman States. This is a solemn year; it strengthens the opinion of "„se who l ove an d desire republican unity, an d i t more man ever dissipaivs the illusions of the federalists; it trikes the partisan s o f t h e constitutional monarchy to beart, and f a ll s lik e a mortal weirlat upon tyrants. inh uu are, from this day, invested with all tie attributions I , l: p rei " to your missiou.—Greeting traternity.— „„"ee, Aug 20th, 1852.—T0 the clttx?ns ti w Po 3 ing th e Committ, i,f tie Central interior Direc t" or the N~nwi Italian Associati te, for the Tac:in 6 1)/in eesat F1 , ,r, , , 0e the Extraordinary Committee of Central Ifitezio• Direcion." I t ii th .t tLI,t oiTIM C- i•.--v of the Gine- toittee at Rome u:lno,r;ecigi , s at.d dt.finitividy an l;Dts the o n i on o f Sf'n , CS with I.l;t ereu P'' n the e Popolo exchtims :—" The co to n I)t..wecn Rcque and l'uscany is moral!) , an !" To which the I?isorgintento of Turin, no e" quotes the alx.wo, slyly observe , , that nothing rell iains to be done but a mere trifle, Putting it into execution Letters have been received from Cat•inii of the 30th 10 the containing details of the eruption of Etna. ittti'eue direciion of Zgffarona the lava was spreading tiv t„7, it h frightful rapidity, covering the most cul- Iv: L.. " 'ands and the richetit vineyards. Another torrent biti directing its course towards Milo. The inha refautlts were abandoning the country. and taking sit - g e io places of security. Milo and Zaflarona are PN tl e at ed about fifteen miles from the crater of Etna. 413 h esti ng e a. experienced near the places is quite buffo GREECE. letter from Athens of the 31st ult. states that the ov e ,.,_ 1 4 L '"unent has gran t e d an amnes t y t o a ll th e p ersons tal te le°lll a, with th e exce pti on o f s i x on ly, w h o h a d e tilt u is Part in the insurrection got up by the monk, Tortionos PAPOULAKI. tbtrb ,':,Ff•'-'t ttion. ONCASTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) 411. ° ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Alf The Fitznilliam Handicap. i r d e e cl u t i he GI eat ... ••• •.• 4114 Y Agnes 441/ ger f The G rea t Y or k s hi re Handicap. Al otz3 ord ••• ••• ••• ••• • Tttitti ... 1 ... 2 ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ST. LEGER. Songstress in force at 5 to 2 6 to I agst Trousseau—token A triv 7 to 1 Ught H ar bi uger —t a l t en freely .k trr th Que al3--Longbovr, Songstress, Daniel O'Rourke, tie, A en. fount lilbitton liti 4cie 0 • 1 ••• t ritl°e ° • , t b i • Th e he • olt elver The Champagne Stakes. ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 bti"RlBl ' ' S RoS „ PITAL. w Tuesday, the 21 st inst., 44 e n riir St Alatthe oepita to eth s day the Lord Mayor, aldermen , and g er withthe governors of the several royal l ee tat z Will attend Divine service at Christ Church, ;7, e l, t , preached by the e . . 711 ere a ser f m p on I th e el th e • Ante-, late o emb w roke College, Cambridge, repair of Merchant Tailors' school, after which , 4 ro i e.". repair to the great hall of Christ's Hospital, w w ... he . r e e Nve e ' Lln us, on the benefits of the royal hospitals,. /1 11, 10 )1, e , 13 3' four of the senior scholars—viz., in Latin, by R. 01 English, by H. D. Sweating; in Greek, by H. e_lttere,-u French, by J. G. Gauntlett. Seven poems will be • a i rB recited b • thers of the senior scholars —viz., E l ks, e : e c ts, on " 1 , 7 11. T. Armfield; Latin ele ▪ sbi _ Alfred the Great, by H. R. Tevers ; Greek titt 'eel, tr anslation from Shakspere'e " Henry V. address ao 3 ° l diers before the battle of Agincourt," by J. W. i i „; Latin sapphics, ' on " The return of Ulysses," by J. o . o 4 ` i elelean ; Latin hexameters, a translation . from •, 1 h " I P Last Day," by C. Parey ; Greek sapphics, on Thames," by H. Ludlow ; English poem, on e Nte" t °titise t Empire in the East Indies," by C.W.P. Watts. ee Sweating will recite n. prize composition in Latin ~t4 e ' etere for which there has been made to him the first `gee ' lqa ' ledal, henceforth to be given annually, under ~d sill Of the late tt'v. G. Richards, D.D., late a gove rnor " e ubitioner of Christ'. Hospital_ ANOTHER TRU: , IC OF A TREE IN 1 %1 tat PARK.—It cannot be too much impressed on b t h lo the danger which they incur in taking their s ea t s l 't i e c i decayed trees which too abundantly exist in Ibf they are are disp osed to rest. they ought most t it g le 14' tu survey the decayed branches which may possibly th t4 d , ere v e.thern. We say hang fur it cannot be denied that th"Wqr of tuch a dilapidated state that even a heavy 4,4 \ Mol e r a , n 'will do the work of the axe t a b t e ti g m re e u s, pd a . nd T l b a i y s oft ee.. trunks of come of the trees on h o " th e , a.s _ kee_ Dark e with one tree intlbiertysionugthfit-lelaesntewrnbipeborbteiorne tol" that this we.k, a huge trunk three ted t o " should have long p have before called 4, :_ att entian s°lll e useful purpose. W e . es io r usl been severed, and C av e i f ,b t e h e e rt a t u a t i h e o n rities to the subject, and although t , e p 4 1 7 earri ec i p - in the right i,bt direction, i e boene,nyet expected,i has ; t r i er leil f is h so tn ei t i l 81(1)s speedily as P m otsibly, it may be in the . VlO,lll of is dir c ecti r n e ci u th ir e e . work to suggest some mode in 14 j . ‘rea t Public safety ma •be protected, arid until . the t e ` . 'illae - ,„" : t e enabled to lop may decayed branches, notices, - Viet ii l ght be posted where danger really exists.— ercur y mig,• IQRA T 6 rst. I " PROM BRISTOL —There are now six a elaB e vessels Ing et our quays bound for Anse Otte ho t is estimated that, in addition to 1,695 pas tlie•fteg th e have already left, the number of emigrants n 4 ie l ► ; ll to Present year will be upwards of 4,000. In ad • "le l n e e :" immediate district, a number of emigrants ktWall, "'• of Bristol from the Midland Counties, Devon, 1 4 , o'e r rild South Wales. The following (from Customs e'er 6 1e 18 the number of ships with emigrants h eet ott : Pert during the last eight years, ending the 31st 12,e, 198 er be:hies, oPs-sengers ; 1846, 6 ships, :--1844, 10ships,159 passengers;lB 4s , 10 182 passengers; 1847, 181 e 23 Passengers; 1848, 2'l ships, 1,473 . passen 7 ie etl gsre u '. 'hi Ps, 1,895 passengers; 1800, 22 ships, 1,92 U bet e Zotith: 485 1, 29 ships, 1,955 passengers; and for the en ding the 30th of June, 1852, 14 ships, 1 , 695 Rare. 44 9 5tt l'i % e4 t NI; lal tlr STAR ko ti tl Y, 43 held - VATION.— *hp 1 .. at Northampton, o°nntWednesday last an b 1 of Hannah th e 'ad been found dead in her room at an early pre mu • The body presented a most ,0,1 felled stPPearatlee, a rnm e g e . skeleton, held together by a After her m d r eath half of a half-qua tern loaf •11tilh'3'. fit her room, which she had had in a week hit tee 4 4. t h e I : h the , exception of four pennyworth meat, t I ., lll ti h i a 4 d oy e t n gut on Saturday, thre --fourths of which s 11_ 't h selthe ,Z a t. tele, that was all the food she had purchased b il ," ""'r Mr. Beebv, with whom she lodged, had k'4 l e' 9tn e Pudding ind some lamb, and he thought I,o , :tt ou but since her death he had found itcoere t t te e 4 Week had upwards of 2001. out at interest , 6 Vll l P44 t Wa s corning in reg .larly. Her a'ge Ya l:t c ' Orne t o ' let e 1 , 110 ground for any fear that she wig 4 1\ 11.' 1, 418 4 . —e ehY stated his opinion to be that she had litiede Wer e exlaustio She had pined herself to death. or t il t e h e ° f, the same n. opinion, and returned a verclic . t ed o . f 4anipteo:leitatiou of God." Deceased was unmarri th ko 0144 v Nercury. 471 aZ RMv AanEn.—We are requested to state Wh e gder th e at Which appeared in this paper on Saturday ti e ill e the ee nb °ve head, is not strictly correct. The lady t 4 ta ,tl, t - d que'," r se was returned thought, from the dress and th" at a ue Person who returned it, that she might be t o l aal t i o 11 Offer te, reward her honesty, and therefore, ki tt ie at s b elt ve L h er for the trouble she had taken, allowed present,' I* M1; bat upon being told by her mother, te e I,ereette..that the person who had brought the purse hlAt 4 l Pee h? herself as a lady's maid, I, t itt e ha t ' 23tiged followed her down stairs, and told her the lady to w om whf.Z desired th e cr i er to o ff er a reward, but did no 7 she might ask her to accept it. The reply k te eth ti t l ight ,4. 1 - • could not think of such a thing."—[ the Myles e c r i er e really meant to decline it. The reward 1 4... el that :as to have offered has been sent to us, with 0 'gees_ ne will slip 't into a poorbox at one of the k l'o — "Times 1 N e t, l e 4 , 13 - fee t e , • the uef eed ' E T---At the west corner of Berner's liLD ever, :street, the widow and daughters of Ryland P r got.4,evrno was executed at Tyburn, kept a print te ll 4 e rY oe Years after his ignominious a. When %ti e ' Wee d . t he East India Company, for which he was eet Isee eer _ q te uc e Qtrn seic . eyed, he fled from his home, and thought 13 0 e. (tit eNto L e ' In an inn of an obscure village at some l' rie ‘t hie t e ee °ver a , rad on, and there remained for some time. 4 lehlite s' he I,`" bY his name being written in his shoes, th, t,.14 tsk ad Pasted a bit of paper. This exciting () Oe t Was e en off, and his name under it coming in tli, D etq saute -PPrehended brought to justice, and suffered th e llettee t, ( . 4 the law. ' At the farther extremity of Ute., l ".Ppo s i te i rl the first house in Edgeware-road, imam kohle44 G e t° Tyburn turnpike, lived for many years tei e We e qu e li l tt e . r al Paoli, so well known and beloved for kiNele ch ont r and generous ho-pitality, not only to C ie e .av e , t e le i eLo, but t o a ll fo re igner s of di s ti nct i on godtole G .i "e ene ith took place in this house. General at her to the Emperor Napoleon.—Notes and N t l4 4 i k kEg t ,, 'it 1 1 11 4 trAite-v—.?"l CONVICTED OF POACIIING.—At ktn t,h_ark,,..,office, Halifax, Levi Smith, gamekeeper at Lists " Charged Gecr e Svke gamekeeper of 4'; 13 11 11 ' 4 1 1 m tl g r u ,s lCa :Fe , with trespassing g Upon Rishworth )4 be in pursuit of game without leave. As 41)0; 1 ' Wi th lirea or .:l been previously warned not to trespass NI- 1 /. 4,,: -a, he was adjudged to pay the full penalty esatvlseitilvltiitehh. aybepenn.eeesb.gaJgaemd Schofield, of Longwood, " driving" the grouse Lee . 11 4 8 w4S convicted in the mitigated penalty of • 4 'v • air costs. wfarl7.4utvrz, BS 3 h e eli, 4e° Vered Our Hon. Member -4ti ttu z zt tiepe,eweaiena. 1)1e to leave his room; and '••••••l3i raz z__ billi to again mingle with mown Mercury. S U N, COURT (7!l?CiLAi.k.. BALMORAL, SFPT. 12. Her Majosty rode yesterday to Ahergeldie to virit her Royal Highness the Duchess of liPut. Her Ma jesty was Lttehded by the Hon. Mary Seymour. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer sta! king. The dinner party yesterday included her Serene Highness the Princess (f Hohenlohe Lan genbourg, her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Ruben lobe Langenbourgh, the Right Honourable R. A. Christopher, and Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson, of In vereauld. Ile Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Colonel Wood, Lieutenant-Colonel Nicoll, and Mr. M. Haire had interviews with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday at the Home-office. DiFpatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governor-General of Canada and the Governors of me other North American pro vinces. SPORTIN G NOTES. No. C' 'VI. Tali, FIELD FOR T;JE EIRE XT ST. LEGER, ecc. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU?'. SIR..—As she time approaches fur the tit-en-ion of the Great Northern r<:ce, all , he interest gradually centres in a few aninrai. Out of the tandred and oveeen nominations, not more than ten or eleven at the outside wilt Ott found at the post; find th,-. names of those form ing the outside division I cannot give with any e,..rtainty. O'ltt)urke, Stockw , -11, Troussvau : Sorg• stress, Harbinger, and King of Trumps are the declared starters. The remaining three or tour doubJuls must be selected from the fallowing:—Alfred the Great, Gienluce, Clumsy Jack, the Duke of Leinster, Merry go-round, Longbow, Sackbut, and King Pepin. Lord Exeter's couple have put in an appearance at Doncaster; and although what betting has been done there prices Stockwell at 5 to 2, yet the general appearance of both have not elicited any marks of approbation from the cognoscenti. It is singular, but there is a steady deter mination on the part of several, clever members of " the talent" to fire away at Stockwell. If this horse does not finish first, I anticipate seeing him in the third po sition. Ilex, of course, will be nowhere; merely start ing to make play for his stable companion. What I have above termed the outside list contains not an animal that can be expected to attain the third position, much less the second or first. King of Trumps has arrived, and looks much better than has generally supposed he would, but his very doubtful preparation, I think, must effectually put his chance out. _ The Duke of Richmond's Harbinger is the picture of perfection, so far as training goes, and will and nbtedly finish third or fourth. How it would a-tonish the backers of the favourite were he to win? More at-part ntly im possible things than this have been accomplished; and as there must be something in the field to justify the tremendous outlay that has b-en, and still is, going on by certain knowing ones against Stockwell and Song stress, I cannot conceive who else it can refer to but Harbinger, Trousseau, or Daniel O'Rourkt-, Mr. Pediey's Trousseau. although in beautiful condi tion, and well suited to such a course as that at Don caster, I do not t xpect to see nearer the front than fourth or filth. Daniel O'Rourke and Songstress will arrive at Don caster to-day. The former has been doing out-and-out work, and the latter but moderate. I cannot get over the tact that Songstreas'a work has not been by any means first rate since the accident to her foot; and, coupled with some crotchets in my brain concerning her arising from the money cannonading she has received, and some other reasons, I think she will do very well if she manages to save the second money for her owner. As to Daniel, notwithstanding his diminutive size, and the nature of the course being against him only, I consider his chance to be as good as, if not better than, any in the race; and, ridden by Frank Butler, will be about A 1 in the race. _ _ _ The starters for the Municipal Stakes are War Whom), VandErdecken, Umbriel, and Incense. As I have placed thorn so I expect they will com e in. V. T. (Barnsley) is informed that there is but one horse of the name of Pbarold, and he is by Alarm, out of Lady Trampoline. Was originally the property of Captain Dela 6, but sold by him when a yearling to Mr. Mare. He is trained blFrench atNewmarket.—l arm&c., Sept. 14. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCAS l'Elt RACES. DONCAS I Eft, MONDAY AFTERNOON, 5 O'CLOCK, The following stakes, which it will be larrll have filled remarkably well, closed this afternoon at three o'clock : TUESDAY. The Fitzwilliam Handicap of 5 Bove. each, with 50 added, &e. One mile. Cheroot, 3 yrs—Aired the Great, 3 yrs—Sir Charles, 5 yrs—Lady Agnes, 3 yrs—Sir Charleg Napier, 3 yrs— Dividend, 3 yrs—Florence, 3 yrs—o by Theon, out of Rebecca, 3 yrs—Bess of Hardwick, 3 yrs—f by Ithu riel, dam by The Saddler, 3 yrs—Clincher, 3 yrs— Tow r, 4 yrs. The Selling Stakes of 5 sous. ea ch, with 30 added, &c. One mile end a half. Priam the Third, 3 yrs (400 —Cyclops, 4 yrs (400 — Euphony, 3 yrs (400—Florence. 3 yrs (400—Lily, 3 yrs (400—P.iquetta, 4 yrs (401.) WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Cup COMP. Wasp, 4 yrs—Csriboo, 5 yrs—Kingston, 3 yrs— aungerford, 4 yrs—Lnrywhent, 3 yrs— Galvanism, 3 yrs—N.wminster, 4 yrs—Sir Charles, 5 yrs—Florence, 3 yrs _R o b E ca a uolr, 3 yrs — Recommendation, 3 yrs— Allegro, 3 yrs—Sir Row;and Tronchard, 4 yrs. Sweepstakes for 2 and 3 yrs old. Red louse in. F by Don John, out of ,Conspiracy, 2 yrs—Lsmbton, 2 yrs—Alfred the Great. 3 yrs—Peggy, 2 yrs—f by Melbourne, out of Paddy Bird's dam, 2 yrs—St. Andrew, 2 yrs—Auchirilet k, 2 yrs—Pelion, 2 yrs— Molasses, 2 yrs—Audabon, 2 yrs—Exact, 2 yrs—Little Swift, 2 yrs—c by lago, out of Daughter of Toscar, 2 yrs—Ann Eliza, 2 yrs—c by the Emperor, out of Ilq;um, 2 yrs. FRIDAY. &c. e Cup C ourse. d 3 d r in s gto s n, 4 yrs— Stilton, I ( o )i n iz), s Doncaster r y C rs n, value _p curac 300 ov arB,3syrs., „..T3?: tress, Stilton, 3 yrs—King of Trumps, 3 yrs—Nancy, 4 yrs—Womersley, 3 yr e — Litt Barry, 3 yrs—llex, 3 yrs—Cariboo, 5 yrs—Evadne, 3 Yr— Neeminster, 4 yrs—Truth, 4 yrs—Harbinger, 3 yrs Allcgro, 3 yrs—Scarecrok 3 yrs—Ki ngston, 3 ;ra= Alfred the Great, 3 yrs — Cyclops, 4 yrs—D an i e l O'Rourke, 3 yrs—Rebecca colt, 3 yra—Trousseau, 3 yrs —Hungerford, 4 yrs. Nursery Plate of 100 sm, for two yrs - old. Last mile. Conspiracy filly Corybante Lambton—Valour— Rattlecap—Polly —Maid of Golbourne—lncense—Peggy —The Hatchet—Eaton —Nerva—St. Andrew—Ace of Trumps, by Assault Romeo —Auchinleck—Luxury colt—Pelion Moccassin f by Touchstone, out of Gaiety—Lord Lieutenant—Audabon Little Swift— Ann Eliza—Daughter of Totcar colt—Master Norton —Ada, by Poycton—Exact—Grapeshot — Begun colt. lior9es arrive3:—The Alp, Proctor, Lady Agnes, Rache 6-, Jaquenetta, Grapeshot, Exact, Audabon, Al legro, Incense, Rebecca colt, Little Swift, Russborough, Polly, King of Trumps, Vanderdecken, Claverhouse, Hurogerford, Jack Learning, Euphony, Kingston, Flo rence, Luxury colt-, Alonzo, Bess of Hardwick, Sir C. Napier, Romeo, Verbena colt, Prime Minister, The Tu rin, Nancy, Ada, Stilton, Lnrrywhent, The Hatchet, Galvanism, Recommendation, Charity. Margaret of An jou, Doubt Long, Anterverte, Saxon, View Halloo, Con rad, Lily (by the Se I), Lady of the Grove, Lord Lieu tenant, Newminster, Abbess filly,Croupier, Nerve, Phan• tom, Eaton, Evadne, The Reiver, Turnus, War Whoop, Priem the Third, Knight of the Garter, Caracara, Barba colt, Conspiracy f, Little Ha r ry , Stockwell, Ilex, Sabra, Sh-trman, Dividend, Calorie, Vindex, Gaiety filly, Cariboo, Hirsute, Glenluce, Scarecrow, Harbinger, tVomersley, Towson, Trousseau, Paquetta, f out of Paddy Bird's dam, f by Ithuriel, d by The Saddler, Cyclops. The following are expected in the course of this even ing or to-morrow :—Teddington, Orinoco, Corybantes, Clincher, Wasp, Cheroot. Sir Charles Tower , Auchin lech, StAndrew, The Queen, Pelion, Molasses, Ann Eliza, Begurn colt, Brawn, Sir R. Trenchard, Valour, Rattlecap, Hobbie Neble, Ace of Trumps, Mocassin, Master Norton, The Maid of Golbourne, &c. Daniel O'Rourke and Songstress come tomorrow. BETTING AT SIX O'CLOCK. ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Stockwell (taken and afterwards offered) 12 to 4 agst Songstret,a (take 7 to 2) 7 to 2 ugst Danil O'Rourke (offered) Nothing else mentioned. _ _ _ DONCASTER, MONDAY NIGHT, 12 O'CLOCK. The following are the entries for the Fitzwilliam Handicap:—Clincher, 5 yrs, 85t 131b—Florence, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Sir Charles Napier, 3 yrs, Est 41b—Sir Charles, 6 yrs, Bst 61b—Tbe Twin, 4 yrs, 6st 61b—Rebecca colt, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Lady Agnes, 3 yrs, Est 121b—Ithuriel filly, 3 yrs, 6st 61b—Bess of Hardwick, 3 yrs, sst 811) — Allred the Great, 3 yrs, 6st 101b—Cheroot, 3 yrs, 6st 41b —Dividend, 3 yrs, sst 41b. LATEST BETTING. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CHAMPAGNE STAKES. Even on The lieiver 5 to 2 agat Viudez 4 to 1 agst Orinoco 10 to 1 sgst Barba—token 20 to 1 agst any other GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 5 to 1 sot Knight of the Garter 5 to 1 agst Alonzo 5 to 1 sgst Jack Leeming 6 to 1 sgst The Twin 8 to 1 agst Alp 9 to 1 ag,st Lerrywhent 12 to 1 agst Imagination ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 agst Stockwell 5 to 2 agst Songstress 4 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke—taken 7 to 1 agst Trousseau—taken Harbinger not mentioned. DONCASTER, TUESDAY, 12 o'CV:CK. LATEST BETTING. CHAMPAGNE STAKES. 5 to 4 on The Myer—taken The rest as before. GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 5 to 1 on the Field 7 to 1 agst Scarecrow No other change. ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 agst Stockwell 5 to 2 agat Son gstress 7 to 2 aget Daniel O'Rourke THE L N N, 7 to 1 agsc Trousseau—taken 9 to 1 ,aFt. r—tkketi INTELLIGENCE EX URA. EPSOM AUTUMN MEETING, 1852. Mr. B. Crewe's Abdaue, 5 yrs, Bst 71b, against Mr, B. Land's The Greek, 3 yrs, 7st 71b. One mile. 200, h ft. UPTON-UPON-SEVERN, 1852. Handicap for the Upton Stakee, 3 ft, if declared on Se turday week. Candlewick, 5 yrs, Bst 5 1 b—Letterpress, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Odihani, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Batwing, 5 yrs. 7st 101 b —Worcester, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Cingari, 5 yrs, 7st 41b— Lady Amyott. 3 yrs, 7st—Ethelwolf, 3 yrs, Est 61b— Surge, 3 yrs, Est 61b—Winifred, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Royal George, 3 yrs, 6st—Romulus, 3 yrs, sst 101 b. NEWMARKET SECOND OrJTOBER MEETING, 1852.— TUESDAY. Acceptances for the Cesarewitch Stakes. Yrs at lb Yrs st lb Cavil - tat) 5 8 81';',nowstorm 66 7 Itus,borough Lady Evelyn (including 6lbs extra) IGalva L i,m P.laek Doctor 4 8 4 11 %l fiich Kingston 3 fii 4 (l(ing Pepin 36 4 Arios'o Siiltor 3 7 13 li , lquairb , 4 6 3 Alai z t ............ 5 7 12 V*imath 4 6 3 Chief Baron Ni- ily acinth crt. , l,on ...... ... 3 7 10 Cavan J e Miller Montague, . Wiralischgratz Frantic Neaahaur 4 7 6 %Vatrrfall Ir,dian IN tirrior ... 3 7 5 Lindrick 3 5 11 Timid Fawn ...... 4 7 4 Bit of Blue 3 5 10 Bird on the Wing.. 3 7 3 Atha Da Pallas Musician Knight of Gwynne 5 7 1 Mary Ann 3 5 9 Dr Juif ... Weathergage Lady Amyott 3 6 11 Lerrywhent Marchioness Knt. of the Garter 6 6 10 Madeline 3 5 5 King Charming ... 4 6 9 Little Davie Candlewick Proctor c by Melbourne Termagant out of Sally Wa- Dollond foot Butterfly 3 6 7 Missive The others did not accept. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1852. Acceptances for the Cambridgeshire Stakes. Yrs st lb Yrs st lb Teddington . 4 9 3 Rather Thames ... 3 6 8 Turnus 6 8 10 Lady Agnes Lady Evelyn (including 6lbs extra) Miss Fanny 4 6 7 Truth Rustborough Hernandez Glauca Kiogiton 3 8 3D. ceittul 4 6 5 Ariosto .... 4 8 2 Phlegra Officious Ephesus Sir Charles... 5 7 11 Sanita Stilton 3 7 11 scarecrow Neusham 4 7 11 Kate 3 6 5 Hubble Noble 3 7 11 Kilquade 4 6 4 Alcortm Harbinger Chief Baron Ni- Athena Pallas 3 6 3 1 cholson Eliza Middleton... 5 7 8 Koh-i-noor .. 3 6 3 Longinus Hook'em Snivey... 4 7 7 Bit of Blue Grief King of Trumps 3 7 5 Knightof the Shire 3 6 2 Grey Tommy 3 7 5 Follow-me-lads ... 4 6 2 Hothorpe Indian Warrior ... 3 7 4 Hyacinth ...., 3 6 1 Adino 3 7 4 Ilex 3 6 1 The Cutler 4 7 3 Lindrick Weathergage 3 7 2 Sophistry ......... 3 6 0 Le Juif Ringleader 4 7 1 Cavan ............... 3 6 0 Caracare 3 7 1 Ammonia Hungerford Flirt The Italian 5 6 13 Billy 8ar............ 4 5 12 Musician High Sheriff Al:egro Lady Amyott 3 6 12 flenriet,a ......... 3 5 8 Gladiole (including 31bs extra) •Jullien ............... 3 5 7 Trousseau b f ty Fa ugh-a- Sister to Singapore 3 5 7 Ballagh, out of Babette ............ 3 5 6 Miniature Kadidjah 3 6 10:Cotton Lady ...... 3 5 5 Proctor firr bt rt c by Melbourne, Pancake out of Sally Jessica Warfoot Glenluce 3 6 9 Peacock Manifold 5 6 9 Dollond Candlewick 5 6 8 Sabra Young Trouble- Madeline 3 5 2 some 4 6 8 Isal-..e11a The rest pay 5 save. each. THE NORTHEBN MEETING. INVERNESS, SEPT. 11.—This great annual gather ing of Highland chiefs and proprietors, and of sports men from the south, was commenced here on Thurs day and concluded list night. The attendance was more numerous, perhaps, than on any previous oc casion, for owing to the fine weather with which we have been favoured this season, and the absence of any absorbing attraction in the south, there has been an unparalleled influx into the Highlands of sportsmen of every description, of 'visitors at the houses of tht northern nobility, and of tourists from every part of England and the Continent. These have flocked in great numbers to Inverness to witness the festivities at the northern meeting, which is the modern desig. nation for the great Highland gathering, known in the famous Duke of Gordon's time as the Northern Hunt. The constitution of the meeting is so far changed that for field sports and horse .racing have been substituted piping and dancing. The northern meeting, however,i. still the most thoroug h ly Celtic demonstration ot which we can boast. At the Scottish fete, in Hol• land-park, man y of the best Highland games were con tested by a majority of the same brawny High landers who came forward at Inverness and at Brae mar; but then there is neither the noble panorama of mountains which surround this picturesque town, nor the presence of the chivalry of the north, the lineal descendants of the same men who followed the for tunes of Dundee and Prince Charlie. In the large park in which the games were celebrated during the last two days, many thousand persons were assem bled ; and though clans and clanships are utterly de molished, yet of those present fully three-fourths bear the names of chieftains with whom the readers of his tory are familiar. The Duke of Richmond, the patron of the northern meeting, did not attend; but the vice-president, Lord &howl, and Lord Lovat, took an active part in the proceedings. The games which came off here on Thursday were putting the stone, tossing the caber, throwing the hammer, &c. The hammer was thrown 96 feet three inches by Donald Fraser, of Upper KWh] ; the best throw ever known to be made at Inverness. Samuel Kennedy, the big-boned, red-headed celt of Bade noch, who regularly appears at the Scottish fete, tossed with ease a huge caber, which baffled the strength and skill of every other competitor. Yester day was set apart for the competition of pipers and dancers. The winner of the gold medal was Alex ander M'Kerizie, piper to the Marquis of Breadalbane, a hale and hearty grey old man. The prizes for dancing called forth a large host of light-footed competitors from the braes of Strathspey. The sword dance and Ghillie Callum were never bet ter performed, and the reels were given with great zest and spirit._ A ball, very brilliantly and numerously attended, concluded the festivities of each day. Amongst those present were Lady Ann Mqienzie, Lady Carolina Townsley, Lady Lovat, Lady Mostyn, &c. ; Prince Massino, the Earl of Leicester, Hon. F. Dundas, M.P., Hon. L. Grant and Hon. Lewis Grant ) of Seafield, Hon. Mr. Abercromby of Birkenbog., Hon. J. Gordon, Sir C. Hope Vere, Sir Henry Wil more, Sir Piers Mostyn, Sir Adam Hay, Sir Robert Meuziee, Count Moratt, Mr. Matheson, m.p., &c. COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILIVAY.—A collision took place near Leighton Buzzard yesterday morning, September 13. The 6.30 down train, which was a very heavy one, with a powerful engine, marked 110, driven by James Pattison, left the Euston terminus at its usual time, being due at Leighton at 7.48, where it arrived in due course, carrying a large number of second and third-class passengers. The pilot engine came up to the Leighton station. and having been attached to the down train, proceeded with it over the single line to that point where the relaying of the up line at this point termi nated. The pilot was then unhooked from the engine of the 6.30 A u. down train, and proceeded at a rapid speed on to the crossing, in order to pass on to the up line to allow th e down train to pass. The pilot engine had nearly reached the crossing, and was partially crossing on to the up lin e , when the down train, the engine of which had been kept by Pattison the driver following at a great speed, caught the left-hand hind buffer of the tender, dashing it across the line down the embankment and throwing the pilot engine round across the up line. The passenger down train had its front stove in, and was also, together with its ten' er, thrown over across the down line, and four and five of the carriages of the down train also being thrown off the down line, the road was perfectly blocked. With the exception of one gentle man, who had his face severely cut with the glass of one of the carriage windows, and injury to one of the heels of the policeman who was on the pilot engine, we understand that no one received really serious injury. _ _ MANSLAUGHTER AT LIVERPOOL. -On Sunday morning last, about one o'clock, a widow, named Grace Jones, was killed by her son-in-law, Thomas Yates, under the following melancholy circumstances:—About midnight he went home and found his wife in a state of intoxication. Being irritated, he commenced beating her, when her mother interfered, and Yates struck h er on the throat, knocking her d o wn the steps into the yard, and causing a compound frac ture of the skull, from which the deceased immediately ex pired. A post mortar/ examination has been ordered, and Yates is in custody. TIJESDAy EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, ANECDOTES OF CRITICISM. (From L liza Cook's Journal) If, in criticism, there Wire les.,; brilliance end more charity, better justice would be distributed between tt e authors who write and the public who read. When I, cut open the l oaves of a new book, as a reviewer, t a k e up my ivory knife, and set down to the genius, to attend upon my chair? lem afraid I thick of anything but the unfortunate writer of the work. My object is to flavour my "article," and if supply relish to my periods; but if unhappily our author" can supply spices, w hat do I invoke, as we ll and good; he shall i oftn g ak in i g ng er a then the mere ground of the dish, and I serve him up . with onions of transmogrified from his original shape— it ix ; ncloves [ofsarcasm,but satire, My pen is no quill from the wing of a pacific my ink no odorous distillation from an Indian wood; the .h one is tempered steel- proper material to stab wit —the other is uudi!uted gall to pour into the wound. All around my table are the busts of brilliant, critics, famous famous in their day, who , e trophies are bin' u p" of vituperation—never„stinging review.";not,goose,he pyramid or epics, essys, I tics, histories, romances, and disquisetions, ernaleatnated into solid bricks, by i the, pes t l e f irs t, and preesure eext, of ••first-rve reviews.' One Is, e realeleas sitesso helf fled g ed post;" another o "crushiree a 3 we; s egingebirel in its eststi" another qusuctutig- the 1 ape of semi embitious studeta's inspi ration. Then I tong my ewe Cammer on the rock, that se echo may come to me of lams, sod that my vani•y n,ay be plumed by the icea that ,come poetaster, or prosaic dullard efts been "ex ii l aii4ed" by a blot of the terrible is ins, bl ac k es Phleget hen b e f or e me . Lately, however, I ',aye been rr e s ce r ig on the criticsl tort and the creic'e reopoo b ib;li t . _ ; tau. I am not g„irg to write a ditquisitie n on either. I have, for my own eai fication, e ,, Peeted some anecdotes to illustrate what I have been spying, and to show that intalebility is no more an attribute of the editorial Wile than it is o f Peter's chair. The victims of great reviews have mounted to high fame in spite of their reviewers. Mt n have fallen into ridiculous errors through their refusal to acknowledge, or their inability to appreciate genius when its work is presented tangibly to their observation. There are some episodes in the history of criticism which are universally known how, the living fire of Keats's inspiration was " snuffed out " by an art i c l e i n the Quarterly; how Byron w as hunted by the Scotch reviewers until he stood at bay, and reviewed them in their turn with a vengeance; how Swift cut to pieces a whole army of scribes by means of one satirical essay; how Pope, with a single feather from the goose's wing, wrote a sacrificial song for a hecatomb of detractors. Other episodes, however, there have been, less known, but no lees remarkable than these. There never was, for instene e , a more extraordinary, a more absurd, a more impudent criticisim, than that o' Rymer upon the tragedy of Othello. He said it was "a bloody farce, without salt or savour, that fills tbe head with vsnity, confusion, tintamarre, an d ii ng hei sng k e " Now Rymer, its his time, was thought a judieieus man; reviewed a geoid many books --p t rho oeeided the lite rary fate of severa l aut h ors . Y et, if the public accepted his opinion, how much injustice was there not com mitted. Nearly equal in impertinence was the observa tion of Gifford, that Shalcipere was, a s a poet, inferior to Pope. This remark, however, fr om suc h a man, though it startles, does not astonish us, Il e was utterly tucompetent to appreciate the richness. sweetness, and beauty of that poetic neceer which Hewed from the lip, of him who was our noblest muse. lie said, that the only excellence of the dramatic minstrel, whose melo dies gushed as though "Ilyssus were in hit throat." wits his wit, and that among his merits rhythmical modulation was by no means to be included. After this, I do not so greatly wonder that a dull, dry, and dusty mathematician once told us that Milton',, Paradise Lost is " worth nothing, b ecause it proves nothing." This scientific pedant would have valued mere highly the solution of an algebraical problem, or an ingenious disposition of straight lines, curves, and cones. Figures arithmetical he loved, but figures of speech, or flowers of thought, he could by no possi bility understand. Perhaps he would equally have scorned Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard, of which a contemporary critic said, with the most amusing condescension,—" This little poem, how ever humble its pretensions, is not without ele gance or merit !" What, however, can surprise us, when Goldsmith's reviewer in the Monthly set dowry his Traveller as a " flimsy productisn;" when Wordsworth has been described as the "verbose, dry, drab-coated oroser of the lakes;" when Scott has been compared to Homer; when Rogers has been eul eg i Leu as " superior to Coleridge, Shelley, or Moore;" when Snakspere has been sneered at by Ben Jenson as an ignoramus, be cause he makes Bohemia a maritime country; and when it has been pronounced of Shelley's poetry. kid it was by Gifford, that its chief characteristi c i s, " its total want of meaning,The " ttuth is, that there can be no absurdity imagined which has not been perpetrated by critics, at one time or moth , r. Time, however, cures the little stings inflicted by the feeble. The day has gone by when readers of .he Literary Gazette would submit to be told by that journal that " Queen Mab" was " a mere mass of bloated words," or that " AdonaL" exhibited nothing but " in curable absurdity." Fortunately also the day has long gone by when that periodical would open its columns for any critic to effuse through them such spleen of a malignant soul. The " late remorse of love" has made ameuds to the fame of the poet, and if the cheap flatteries of poste rity atone anything for the wrongs endured in lite, they have been amply yielded in the " immortals" which now grace the Roman tomb of Keats, and have made another I.3eidas tihehey, who does rot " float upon his watery bed without the weed of some melodious tear," Byron and Wordsworth were harshly used by their reviewers ; but they could themselves criticise harshly, and let us odd, utjustly. The latter spent. hours with Thomas Roscoe, rai li ng at C amp b e ll , an d de scribed the most megn ifi cent lay of Burns as " over rated stuff—miserabl e i nsan i ty, without a thought, with out an icauge." We all re member how bittsrly be was assailed by the rosini ug poet of Newste 4 d Ab et-y, who seldom missed i ho opportunity to aim a blow at the— Clumsy, frowsy poem, called the "Excursion," Writ in a terweer that is my aversion. Or at " the warbling wag oot, r"whose ;bymes be cern pared to the cracking 01 a - Ploughman's whip. From Ihe same pen also descnded those rockier's lashes which galled "Bob Southey,"_,. turncoat Southey', that incar nate lie,"..—epithets w ith which a poet should never so il nis page. Nor did Byron ever display himself m ore unworthy of his get ius th an when he spoke of t h e beau if ul writings of Dea n Mi lman, us effusions from " t h e ex of verse, who plou g h s f or ever y likened the stsu zis o line," th 'ugh h e was i perhaps, more corr ec t whsn he likened biograi her to " g il ded icic,es. " " the author of Childe Harold was in the humour to utter a sarcastic thing, he little eared on whom or what his Arrows fell, whether on Campbell's "droutby hippoar,ebe," or Wordsworth's " crkz -(1 beyond ail hope ; ' or " drunken Coleridge," or . ' quaintand mouthy Southey' ' or Walter Savage Landor, that " deep-mouthed Bceo thin." Byron, also, if he could spit venom on an enemy, waswas capable of superb laudation on a friend —as On When, however, The lyre and laureTlsoovff areh tr o i m umpha e g t a i s r o e t n 2 g , , He won them w e ll and may he w Em long! This miscalled criticism, however, aids little the victory of solid literature over the concoctions of quackery. It is no less ridiculous than that of the Irishman, who onco reviewed a poem in which the word key was rhymed with sea. He seriously declared " it was a barbarous bl un d er, or at least a poe t' s license carried beyond the limit s o f the most exten d e d tolera tion. For," he conclud e d, " to just ify the rhyme , ka y must be supposed to b e pronounced hee l'' , This Milesiso critic was prof) big wise in his gene ration as hi s b rot h er o f the sans: a cs - a t t s w h o tells us that Churchill as a poet, is "d r i ve l l i ng ' and dull , " — " b y nature uninspired, unta ug h t b y art. " But P"rbel;" the most offen s i ve i nstance ot critical vulgarity was afforded many y ears ago b y the Dubin University Revie w, which littl e resembled then the mild and equita bl e censor now re igning under a similar t i t l e in the Irish copal. Tte re viewer had exhau,t e d hi s ac i dulous i n k upon one ot Campb e ll' s poems ; a Campbell should write ill, Say; he had not a point belt to attack; a line remaining to dissect . S But his rancour was not yet satisfied. . o from the book he turned to the a uthor, and was suffi ciently he had not another fierce word to dle rltly gross to tell his readers that there was no won der"eyes cold th il _ d , glassy, like those of a dead haddock." This, never theless, though more directlyEd was perhaps less malicious express , than the insinuation of a famous London reviewer, when, after speaking of Thalaba, be added this ungracious sentence :—" Of Mr. S o utheyhimself we critique since be had know nothing, and we desire to know nothing.' Philosophers pretend to be careless of opinion; but poets, whatever they affect, very seldom are indifferent. Wordsworth professed never to read a criticism on his own works ; but Keats, as I have said, perished under the hand of Gifford; Kirk White was blasted by one almost to death : B. Lho.;weitvewr ; Havrkesvvorth is said to have died un der the who swarmed like wasps assaults of reviewers, andinto the sunshine ; a single stroke of raillery wounded Racine stung him just as he was emerging by Dennis; and ' even Newton cut short a friendship of of popularity • Pop e writhed under the tortures inflicted twenty years' duration with one who had uttered an un favourable criticism on some of his works. proportion gave Kirk White a name; reviewers, most owe their reputation to their critics. It w ,- He .„the Literary Gazette which won a laurel wreath for to his genius, some esmuuothaeuythworhsohave been injured by their it was Leigh Hunt who rescued John Keats from the as persions of those who wished to tie their heavy reviews as the reviewer is great, does the exultation of the au thor he praises rise. Sheridan brt,ke into tears of joy when he learned that Byron had uttered a laudation of his powers. In some insteoces, indeed, the and sink it into oblivion. And in panegyric of the • Ilseitt, for example, amiably -disposed nas been a s absurd, though not so contemptible, as the detraction o f the en vious or un kind declared that th e " Lao damia" was a poem fit only to be read in Elysium. It i s not easy to determine which is most injurious to the author,—this unscrupulous rancour, or that inconsi d'rate Partiality; whe[her Turner lost more whop i t was said that his pictures were " mere daubs of yoke of egg." or Rogers, when his compositlonS were described as superior to those of Coleridee and Shelley. Good poets are often bad critics. and sometimes false,beoause jealous. Anna Seward ,—who was bend;j vain enough to boast that she could translate an ode of Horace while curling her hair,—tells us that wh en D arwin had published his " Botanic Garden," in couplets, he never would read blank verse again. Samuel Johnson, ends his re view o f " Paradise Lost' by saying, that its perusal is rather a duty than a pleasure; he also said that the diction of Lycidas was harsh, and its rythm unpleasing: " he would hang a dog that should read that poem twice." " What then," asked a lady, " must become of me, who can say it by heart?" "Die," replied the Goth, "of a surfeit of bad taste." Now the contradictions of genius are surprising when, in opposition to this, we find Wanton declaring that your opinion of Lycidas decides , wuether you have a " true taste for poetry or not." But I Boswell's bear could not appreciate Milton. As he con fessed to Beattie, he never read him through till be wanted to get words for his dictionary. Of Shakspere's sonnets he also wrote—" Of the best it can only be said that they are not bad." Pope condemned the author of Hamlet as writing in "the style of a bad age," and re- Ben," t oo , was i ndifferent as a critic. S gretNd that he h a d not cop i e d S ac k v i lle more ! "R are pleased hi m not, nor his manner. " Sbakspere " wanted art, and s omet i mes sense. Waller saw nothing in Milton but "an old bli n d schoolmaster, who had written a dull poem, remark a bl e f or nothing but its length." Milton preferr e d C ow l ey to Dryden. Dryden esteemed Catherine Philips abov e S 'pp h o; and asked permission from the penser's stanzas bard of Paradise Lott to turn that poem into rhyme? It was he, too, who eulogised Lord ELlifax as " the kreatest and Lord Rascommon as equal to M- I r,..,ce or Virgil. But these were flatteries which should have made the receivers of thew blush. What, how ev,r, could be expeceil from a critic who admired that Rymer aho tells us that the character of Desdemuna is below that of arty Gray thought Voltaire had no genius but for writ ing play s. and scorned tt - o reoct exqui-ite productions of R in,seau. " David Hum, ," he raid, . 4 was an infant all his life, though unhappily he was taught to read and write." Obviously, ther, fore, when vets begin predicting, and annuttocin:4 the dis , rlbut ion ut renown, fur their curate® puraries, it is not always true that— The name Of poet and the prophet is the same. On the contrary, the most lauded writers have. frequently had the most short-lived reputations Pet- r Pit,dar. though translated into many languag es ' is now decay irg in the dus' ; an d atter the ephemera; brilliaEce or a few reasons' popularity, thousvnds of names vanish and dissipate like vapours from the hill. Maccabe gives a good satirical imitation of one of there exuberant panevyrics. supposed to be a friendly criticism from the Mudford Chronicle;—" Ferdinand Count Schwellinbach.—A tale of the Sclavonic race.— We welcome with delight this new proof of the genius of the author of Baptista, or the Traitor's Grave. It is indeed, an unlooked-forwaheeicehssioonurto literature t u s t r u e r e sh happily priloy man abou t e ic ds. fic l ti n on it, with we find the broad and genial humour of Fielding; the cutting sarcasm of Smollett; and the deep tone of feeling and sentiment which pervades the works of Sterne; the whole work-d up with a p ower w hi c h i s o nly displayed at intervals in the eplendid fi ct i ons o f Scott; and a sunny gleamirs which is only seen stream iarover the pftgeor Avon bard!" _ Exaggerated this may seem, but I have read as un diluted encomiastics on the must squalid performances in oar own day, Criticism, however, is far more bonist than it was fifty years ago, and fur more judicious. Good writers may be "cut up," or, which is worse, they may be riegtecteo, while quacks may be puffed into an evanes cent renown; but on tho whole, there is a temperate and candid tone in the critical literature of the day. After all, however, time is the great judge. Mighty floats of folios, cia.AVtos, octavos, end shining but:Prtssed "twelves?' are perpetually drifting into oblivion; but the stars of real light shine with an eternal lustre. Dr. Howard, 11111111 g the reign of George th e S e c on d, c o ll e ct e d co pi es a more than tour hundred editions of _Horace. That is the true monument of an atrhor's f awe. Meanwhile, however, the critics have great power; they are improv tug their use of it, and it is to be hoped that this branch of literature will rise to the elevatton it deserves to oc cupy• j, for one, since I began these remarks, have m ingled some honey with my ink, and taken the quill of a dove instead of the steel pen, so th at w i t h t hi s so f t quivering pinion , dipped in a phial of swee t er so l ut i on, the books I review in future, shalt with more charity be treated ! THE CRITIC REPENTANT. 18k?. THE IN COME-TAX. Those of our contemporaries who most loudly clamour for a graduated income-tax, judiciously evade the trouble of investigating the theory of taxa tion by an incessant appeal to common sense —or, in other words, to the uninstructed popular judgment on a purely scientific question. On the other hand, the actuaries who were examined before the Committee display abundant ingenuity and arithmetical skill, as well as a general indifference to the practical difficul ties which might result from the adoption of their proposals. Tneir calculations are unassailable, and their conclusions infallible, on the assumption that they have stated the question correctly. One of the most judicious of their number observes, with con siderable acuteness, that the present impost is unjust so far as it tails partly on income, and partly on pro perty. But . the whol e o f t h e arguments i n f avour of gradca'ton are based on the assumption that no distinction whatever ought to be made between income and capital. The scheme fur converting every income into a perpetuity, by t ae ir.g only the interest on its assumed marketable worth, is founded on a most arbitrary fiction. As an ordinary rule, men live on their annual receipts, and not on 3 per cent. of their saleable value. There are, of course, exceptions, but all the actuaries in England will fail to persuade any reasonable person that the rare operation of cepitalivng a professional income forms the rule of private economy. If, in point of tact, a lawyer, aged 40, with an income of 1,0001. a year—which would be worth, as Mr. Williams in forms us, seven years' purchase—were considered by himself and his neighbours as the owner of 2001. a Year, the State might safely assess him at that sutn,in the expectation that it would descend to his children. But, in reality, the income is transitory, and so is the per tentage levied by the tax gatherer ; nor would the assessment be etric.ly just, even on the assumption which we have suggested. Professional incomes have been adju s t e d With some reference to the wants of the recipient, as position proporti one d to hi s e d u cation and , and assuredly the foundation of an heredi tary estate was never l cons 'dered one of the indispen sable necessarie s o f professional existence. The Popes of th e 17th century were accused of undue greediness when -they created perpetual appan ages or principaliti es f or their ntephe orillegitimate i sons. In Engla n d, however, would t seem, accord• ing to the jud gmen t o f some ofh ecclesiastical i ncomes are principal] e witnesses, that nte ch nded to found patrimonies for th e descendants ofYf principally intended i e aincumbent. A. bishop or a pr e b en d ary o f TO is to be fixed on the the full assumption that he will l eave hi s familyvalue of his preferment, s ubj ec t t o a small deduction for his own life interest. S ome o f t h e r i chest prelates of present day would, ac cor di ng to the scheme in whichthe all the actuaries con cur , b e assessed at not more than one-fifteenth or one-twentieth part of their actual re. venues. It is surprising that gentlemen mo competent to calculate individual chances, should have forgotten that a large number of casualties virtually amount to a certainty. The entire income of the Church is a perpetuity, though all existing incumbents may possibly die to-morrow ; yet the witnesses deem it demonstrably just—and some of our contemporaries echo the assertion—that the revenues of the Cburcb, as compared with hereditary property, should be at once increased by a definite and calculable per ten tage. The incomes of the legal profession, being held by a more insecure tenure, will doubtless receive a still larger advantage. The landlord will not find that, on an average of years, he pays less to his soli- citor than formerly; but he will have the satisfaction of knowing that he also pays income-tax for the purpose of ensuring the lives both of attorney and counsel. Nor will his steward fail to dative a similar benefit. In former days, two or three per cent. on the rental may, perhaps, have been considered a sufficient remuneration for agency. But new lights have arisen. The rental, being hereditary, is subjected to income-tax; but service, prover bially, is no inheritance, and the steward's place may not be worth three years' purchase. The tax, therefore, is levied, lin his case, on the interest of three times the annual value, while the employer pays on thirty-four times his yearly revenue. Atter the expiration of the three years, be must still pay the same or another steward; but he will not the less continue liable to the same disproportionate as sessment. Under such circumstances, one of two results must ensue. Either a general readjustment of salaries and of professional remuneration must take place—or the entire sum paid by the community, in the form of fees and wages, must be proportionally increased by the exact amount which the actuaries and their friends propose to deduct from the tax on precarious incomes. Until this obvious consequence has been explained and justified, theoretical reasoners will concur in that disinclination to change which practical politicians entertain on grounds of fiscal convenience. It is scarcely necessary to add that any diminution of salaries to meet a graduated in• come-tax would itself prove that the new-tangled system introduced an anomaly. While the scientific advocates of fiscal inequality are considering this diffisulty, we may conveniently turn to the so-called objections of common sense— one of which is urged by a correspondent of our own, under the appropriate signature of " Ignoramus," who prefaces his remarks with the candid admissior, "I am very ignorant." We have no doubt that " Ignoramus" at least understands his OVVLI affairs too well to have engaged in the ruinous transaction which he has thought tit, to convert from an h) pothesig into narrative. It will be observed that the bargain which he &sot ibes was made "a short time since " at a period, therefore, when the income- tax bad ex is,ed for ten years, and was likely to coninne for •en years more. We can assure " Ignoramus " that, although eminent actwies may have forgotten so trifling a consideration, no purchaser of any securi'y can be affected by an impsr, however urjust origi "llY, which existed at the time of the coninct. Our correspond, nt, on his own showing, deliberately incurred the loss of which he complains. Jr there were an income tax ofso per cent. on short annuities, a purchaser, with notice of the burden, could he in no way injured or aggrieved. "Ignoramus" states his ca,e thus:— " 90/ per annum, dividend on 3 : 0001. Three per Cent. Consols, has been my income hitherto, exempt from tax. A short time since a friend, ( , n the eve of his departure from England, had immediate occasion for 3,0001. I sold my stock; lent him the money at the same rate of interest that it yielded in Consols (3 per cent.), he givinc , me a charge upon his estate. I was to be repaid in three years, 1,000/, in each year. in the ordinary way the money wuuld have come back to me thus :—End of lat year 1,000/., with interest on 3,000/..... 1,090/. 21 „ 1,000/., If 2 0001 .... 1,0601 31 sr 1,0001. r 1,0001..... 1,0301. In all 3,1801. By re-investing in Consols 1,0001. of toe first receipt, the dividend thereon, added to 601. of the second, retained as incotne, would leave 1 0001. again to re invest; and the dividend on the 2,0001.. added to 301. of the third, would leave another 1 000/, which, re invested, would replace me as I was bi-tore ; I i n eac h year having hid the same income, 901. "But, to meet the convenience of my friend, I agreed to take a charge on his estate entitli ng me to receive 1.0601. in each of the three y ears , amounting I in the aggregate to the same sum of 3,180/. A nd now find myself in this position :-.._if • tax is continued at its present rate, a n d the income to apply, as it now does, to temporary is made _ porary as to perpetual annuities, as some pondents contend that it of your corres n a years—viz,, e t a froth vi tax, z ought, then, as I have now an annuity for three ears of 1,060/. 3 p , e l r B a o n l. 7 i n m , t, hnot threee x : 9 1 21 8 , b 411519 b e besidestaxed 00: the dividends on the first two investments " " making? all more than 951 ; and as I enotteke as m y in come more than 90/.—in three y a ears 2701.- 00 w,hic this tax of 951 falls with a weit exceeding 3`" per cent., I must, therefore, either limit my expenditure to 551. per annum, or I must cut into the PrjaciP That such a transaction should have t s ak w en e place have during the existence of the income taxtt'oast inconve shown, practically impossible. °le t the first imposi nience which could arise, except oauragement of har den of the tax, would be the di le& It may, indeed, gains in the particular form uPP 8 under the actual law, if pro be doubted whether, evenu su m would have been perly enforced, the w , , 8 capit a l replaced. Bat if the liable to duty as it o - i aorannts" assumes, the in were interpreted as resultti would only be attributable convenience of the eof general terms. When Par to the unavoidable tat on annuities, it is not on the liarnent inneetssauch incomes are mere instalments of supposition that purchase - money of an estate is paid a debt. If the P instead • 1 sums, of in one, it is evidently in three annuli . . • ble to the impost. The case suggested by our not ha correspondent is • of a similar kind ; and a puzzle will a l w ays arise as to the precise boundary line between income and property. Thirty or twenty years ago the Government Long Annuities were universally treated as income ; and when the income-tax was im posed in 1842, by tar the greater part of that Stock was held under the same character. No has purchased since that year has a right to con3plain of a tax which must have been taken into account in his bargain. But, in 1852, the Long Annuities which will expire in 1860 have naturally come to be treated only as a matter of speculation, or, in other words, as capital. The purchaser at the present time intends to re. invest his re. ceipts, after deducting the ordinary rate of interest— in other words, he is practically acquiring a per petuity ; and so long as a belief in the permanence of l the present income-tax prevails in the market, he may effect this object on as advantageous terms as if the impost had never been devised. A respected cor respondent, who signed himself " A Cipitalist," will, we are convinced, not dispute this qualification of the conclusions at which he arrived on the assumption of a new tax being about to be imposed. As a general rule, it may be said that the tax on incnme ought not to be levied on propert.v. Short annuities, pur chased without notice of tin+ tax, may perhaps belong rather to the head of capital than to that of revenue ; but life annuities, on the other' hand, and those which may be expected to last during the life of the annui tant, belong to the bead of incon. , e. If the Legisla ture has failed t o distinguish between these different forms of investment, it is at least satisfactory to know that the lapse of ten or eleven years, during which purchases and sales have been made with reference to the income-tax, has gone far to correct the anomaly. —Chronicle. THE EMPIRE IN FRANCE The following petition of the fathers of families and labourers, for the re-establishment of the Empire., is now being circulated for signature among the lowest classes in Paris : " Messieurs les Senateurs,— " 1. Considering that in a country like ours—that in France (no matter west the constitution may be) all in terests ate necessarily placed under the influence, and, moreover, under the truly sovereign influence, of the person who is the Chief of the State; " Considering, consequently, that as to who is or is not Chief of the State ought not to be made a periodi cal question—no matter whether there i be 10, 15, or 20 years between such periods—unless, ndeed, the interest& of the c o un t r y are at such epochs to be periodically and fatally affected, simply by the doubt and uncertainty which wei g h upon them, since they cannot foresee wh a t kind of a future the new Chief of the State will prepare for them; "2. Considering that a father of a family, u n d er a presidency of 10, 15, or 20 years, cannot possioly know under what political conjunctures he will provide for the marriage of the son or the daughter that just now he I oodles on his knee; "Considering, consequently, that a presidency of 10, 15, or 20 years cannot possibly altog thor and justly satisfy the loftiest and sweetest sentiments of paternal and conjugal love; And that, were it otherwise, the births ought in sa very peculiar wiener to correspond to the peculiar exi gencies of this periodical renovation of the executive power; " 3. Considering, likewise, that under a presidency of 10, 15, or 20 years the industrious and provident work- ED all is tqualiy troubled in his prudence, in his love of labour, by the uncertainty in which, under an unstable Government, he finds the political conditions which ought at some future day to promote him from the po sition of a labourer to that of an t mployer; " Considering that under such institutions the savings of the workman, for the purpose of at a future time em pl ling labour, can only commence at certain stated pe rinds in which the sovereign power changes hands—who. then, could think of fouuuing an establishment, or un deur:ung any other responsioility within the period of the two or three }ears which precede the election of the Chief of the State? " 4. Considering, then, that to stake the person of the Chief of the State upon the chances of a periodical eke tion is as mu c h as to say that a father of a family shall never be happy for, the f u t ure o f that family; that he shall nit enjoy and sate, and l oo ki ng at, and providing the love of his children ; and that the provident labourer shall not be confident arid happy in his love of laboty and his legitimate anabitiJn to become an employer of labour; " But, considering, above all things, that our genera tion would violate all the duties it owes to succeeding. generations, if, enamoured of anarchy in its conceins, i were not, with all dispatch, to create an established state of things for the future—if it allowed our political in• stitutiona to tend to individualise the principle of re aistance—since there is no length of life of individuals of generations—aud, last of all, ours, which C 312 succeed in drying up to its source the principle of evil and of evil passions; "5. Lastly, Messieurs les Senateurs, considering, on the other hand, that experience has already proved that the generous self-denial of the Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who desired to remain President for ten years in order the more fully to propitiate the reconciliation of parties, has produced exactly the reverse of the effect which the heir of the Emperor in his ardent love for the country desired; " Considering that the old parties do all they can to trouble all existing interests with their hopes, because under the present institutions these hopes may indeed, at certain periods, make a legal appearance before the country; " Considering that these hopes would not, of course, dare to cling to institutions which would not allow them to persuade the people of their future legality; " And to believe the contrary is to overloi,k altogether the economical position, and rho state of the finances of the chiefs of the old parties, as well as their well-known prudence; _ " Considering that, by a strange mixture of ingrati tude and blindness, the old parties, abasing the gri at and noble disinterestedness of the Prince inuis Napo leon, turn the same into weapons of discord and con fusion ; "6. Considering, in one word, that the present can not be tranquil, which means that it cannot be fit for busim-ss, labour, and trade, so long as the political futuro remains doublul, an , l th at the political future must always remain doubtful so long as the person of the Chiet of the State, under whose interest are, necessarily, all the great moral and material interests of the country, remains exposed, though merely in theory, to the chances of an election; " 7. Considering, moreover, that hereditary power in France will, for the future, have no other support than the people's love and its twice, and so grandly within fifty years, merited gratitude to the family of the Emperor; " Messieurs les Senateurs, future may be at eas t e he as jl t u o t t r h e e .. a and remain untroubled by the uncertainties of our political future; that industrious and Thoaft histh e f c a h tte d r re o n f , intelligent labourers may not suffer from the same un certainty in the legitimate hope of providing for their ist lett t inert: afocu C ufi at; luinrousort authority eyf u t wt oi Sovereignh o nhi cc iph c ot o o iuw n su tu f et e rrri confers o w l a d rd da o y f s, th f e o i r r t l h a e b m ou se r l a ve n s d a th n e d ir th i e r i u r ga fa li m ty il ; ies, " For this purpose have the undersigned, confiding in your high wisdom and Providence, the honour most re• speotfully to pray that you will make use of the right s al t iyn u i o n u P tnh :o se ? ia d oi g e a v ne r n i a l l t i o l yvai r t nzo o e .d r i: peh t w h s ; t e rpu i eu c h i d n l h ii i tsr e a t h r h rb e y e a s ps t o e iti o s x e L n : Bonaparte." GREAT CALIFORNIAN LINE OF TELEGRAPH. — T he route selected for this telegraph, extending over ' 2 400 miles, as stated by the committ ee on the measur n e in their the Senate of the United Statt-s,will commence a t the city of re port to Natchez. in the state of Mississippi, running through nort hern Texas to El Paso on th e Ri o Grande, thence to the junction of the G.la and Culorado rivers, crossing at the bead of the Gulf of California to San Diego on the Pacific, and then skirt ing the coast to Monterey and San Francisco- The committee report, that if this line of wires be established, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans will, for commercial communications, become as it were as one ; and that intelligence will be conveyed from London to California and India in ashorter time than was re ed ten years since to transmit a le tter from Liverpool to New York. DEATH OF THE LAST SURVIVOR OF KEPPEL'S ACTION.—Mr. D. F. Hainsselin, father of Mr. D. Hainsselin, auctioneer, of Devonport, died on the 3d instant, aged 92 years. Mr. Hainsselin was supposed to be the last survivor o f Rappel's action. He was also at the celebrated relief of Gibraltar, at the taking of St. Eustatia and other We,t India islands, in the Monarch, which led the van in Rodney's ac tion ; in the skirmish with the French fleet off Plymouth • and in the Roy al George, on the 29 . h o f May and Ist of June, for the two l a tter of which he had themedal with two DAM — Pismouth Joti.ntal• g , TENANT RIGHT'QUESTION The Irish malcontents having wound u p the ques tion of " tenant-right" w i t h a dinner, and Mr. G H. Moore having gulped down his scruples with his wine, they have now addressed themselves to the twin subject, " religious equality." The dozen P. P..'s who rendered such eaergetic assistance at tbe meet ings of the " League " have their own purpose to answer, and, as one good turn deserves ano 'her, they appear to be very well supported by their Par. liamentary allies. The two agitations are to proceed together, and doubtless the same office, the same staff, the same newspapers, the same materie4 and the same figurehead, in the person of Mr. G. H Moore,„ will do equally well for both of them. For the. Roman Catholic tenantry it will be very delightful to reflect that by a moderate subscription, equivalent to an insurance, they are delivering their land from rent, tithes, and Protestantism at the same time; so the double object will be likely enough to extract some of those sovereigns which have lately stuck with such an invincible attraction of gravity to the hot ow of the Irish farmer's pocket. Really, too, if the peasantry can be persuaded that both objects are feasible, and that landlords and parsons can both be banished from the Emerald Isle, the fearful drain of emigration, which is playing such sad work with chapel fees, may possibly be stopped. Something, it is evident, must be done. The Roman Catholic clergy, and, indeed, their lay colleagues in agitation, have no taste for accompanying their flocks across the Atlantic to a land of real religious as well as civil equality. Excepting by a few young men from Maynooth, the Church is hardly represented in an Exodus amounting now to near a thousand a day, and the clergy that remain, it is evident, must find themselves reduced to shorter commons day by day. So what is to be done ? Necessity suggests dire ex pedients, and disagreeable alliances. It will _even overcome the sense of decency, and whet is more, common sense. R That is the fair pr e t ence as sumedeligbiouyss e e v e ci n u te al e i a ty levoted Parliamentary adherents of the Church of Rome, and a crowd of its clergy. The word is positive treason and heresy in every Roman Catholic mouth. What religious equality can there ever be between the minister, the parson, and the priest, between the Methodist preacher, the Arch bishop of Canterbury, and the Pope. The whole sys tem of Rom e is founde d it advanced w i th so littl e on the claim of exclusive do mini-m• Th at claim is never dropped, and nowhere is every now and then di missives f rom S t. J 1 mo desty ar ath, a n d o th er fi er y epistles acharg d e es dfr o o r m re th se e rv c e ell a s s o in f the Irish hierarchy. Religious I* that these men desire. Reli gious equality is an equality involve the same checks, genee faelland pay. It would some respects painfully oppressivyewholesome, but in Church of England to its present ar 'th at reduce the and even tenour ; unless, indeed, which we donineses these agitators would ask to release the OBsyebt hear, Church from its present political restraints. taulilhed the religious equality of America which is askedltbe by all means let it be stated. Then we shall f or, what we have to deal with ; but we shall wonder: the more that the Roman Catholic clergy manifest so decided a repugnance to America, and Prefer starvation and empty chapels at home, to large an d well-fed flocks, with religious equality, across th e Atlantic. There is many an object, however, Whi c h i t answers to follow, though it is worthless when caught. Among the many thousands who daily hunt foxes in this island, there are few who would either swallow a mouthf u l o f th e ir prey, or wish there to be one less fox in the land. Religious equality is the rank, worthless vermin, which these political sports men bunt for the pleasure of hunting, with the inten tion of throwing it to the dogs, should they ever be so fortunate es to catch it. If Roman Catholics really like religions equality, why do they not show their principle at work, where they have all their own way ? There can be no doubt that at Rome they might exhibit a spectacle that would edify the whole Christian world, by allowing to every other communion, including the Latter-Day Saints, a perfect equality of privilege. As it is, we all know that if the Archbishop of Can !erbury went to Rome, when Sanday morning came he would have to go out of the city gates, and ascend a loft over a large pigsty, in ord,r to worship God after the light of his conscience and the roamer of his fathers. Now, what religious equality is there between St. Peter's protected by ten thousand French soldiers, and the upper fl Kir of a building of which the principal floor is occupied, as we believe, by pigs ? Give the English permission, and they will raise 20,0001. to-morrow to build a suirable church for themselves in a city to the resources of which they contribute so greatly, But no. Religious equality is absolutely inconsistent with Papal pretensions. I n Ireland, however, tbat hunting ground of party, it -nay be c,nvenient to pur.u , , thii gams for a time, particularly if a few English Di ssenters can b e found simpletons enough to j:in in the cry. If they do, they will certainly deserve what they will never . get,—_ to experience the tender mercies of a Church which has never tolerated a rival a moment longer then it was obliged to do an. That the demand of "religious equality" is quite unnecessary is evident from a glance at any of our large populations. The rival commit. thous of the country stand on level ground in such places as Manch titer, Liverpool., Belfast, or Cork. Nay, with regard to the mass of the population, they nave no real resource except in the voluntary prin ciple. In this great metropolis there are hundreds of thousands who never enter a chur c h, and who are at tached to it by no tie of affection or circumstances. So far as they are concerned there is perfect religious equality between all the communions. Dr. Sumner, C ne a w rdi f n a a n l at W ic is h e a m ye an a , n oel and t Meo i rt;a"l:C h P a fi nc t e N with , them . ; h exce l p as t, indeed, that the poorest and the least educated mis sionary will probably - n in the hearts of the ignor ct e s n ' t7nd Pr p 9 o .u o d r. i — ce in his favour Times. C A N ,a D A. QUEBEC, AUG. 26.---ince I lianierit kit Caesaa eas been occupied is with in it w e la p ih to the Geeernor's address. Tnere -- l i ttle ,; but leaders affords food for either cavil (Jr °ra t ' i n st r ilec to the Mi of parties roust throw down th:.gt4he "reply" has at rote'thteherPalr nistry apropos of something, p d ° favo ur. Thus we have a last w least late emoriai wage in ,town, Mr. B .ulton, Sir had Mr. Mslisnzie, Mr. -°"' floods of eloquence, AmildlanenNilig`Nh enlightening iy e u g. d t o h t e b s e c r: w he, ry Li p f ,t iu t to their future de by his own ac signs. M r. Hin . ft k il iaist e r of the Crown as Earl count, is "as machht proper to allude to the failure pent; of the 1 - 1 411 . Ax ~complimentary to the British of no ht m is ,an_ . ;- railroad negotiation in terms by t this the Tories , Cabinet; though at heart r l o ya l indignation. The reply will, however; burst o• a pprovicsr "thout a division. There is nothing in the Inspector-General, have indulged in a h noticing, except, perheps, Mr. eeches wort the sP tement that, whatever difference might Aforin's sas . hereafter exist in the respective populations of the bereit ' s (and the last cei.sus tells how rapidly two province Upper Canada is gaining on its eastern sister), the French Canadians would never consent to a change in the law which allots to each province an equal number of representatives in Parliament. be carried w i thout Toe supporters of the Ministry believe they h ave more then a working majority. It is estimated that the House contains about 35 Ministerialists, 24 Eng lish Conservatives, 7 French Conservatives; 5 Rouges, or Annexationists, and 14 Clear Grits. But the dis tinctions of parties have been so altered of late, that I should not place much reliance on this classification. Besides the subjects of legislation to which I have alluded in my recent letter as being likely to occupy the attention of the House, the Committee on Rail roads, will have its hands full. No less than twenty applications for charters have been received i the strife of rival interests and lines will doubtless give birth to much angry debate. The Atlantic and St. Lawrence Ituilway is to be opened to Sherbrooke 9n the ll'h instem. Lord Elgin has consented to be present at the inauguration. Your American correspondents have furnished ft you with lull accounts of the os: 11 0 i Upwards streiner on L-aie Erie, on the 19th insta nt. ilnhe Atlantic emigrants, of two hundred poor frllowta « P f P a e vourahly will the whose cleanliness ard robusettcrie left our wharfs, had contras ted 'irw ar e e g nce when they Irish and Highland destitute h,ggard aspe b c: setth-rs, perished in t waves. The recklessness o f the e.ptains of steame r s and conductors of railways i n the Sratesi is becoming proverbial. Not wit h stan ding the g l oomy prophe c i es o f t h e a agricultural rtsages, the crops in Low er C ana d a are p has spared a portion of the w heat, In and the _ay bar ley will be Plentif u l an d c h ea p. i p , ng. Theota fly to-rot is tar from being ge- . neral. look w e ll ; th e orc ha r d s never ii The oats and wore a more encouraging aspect.—Chronicle. PROPOSED EXTENSION OP THE PEEBLES We understand that measures are in progress to carry out the Peebles branch so far as Innerleithen. This portion of rail way was surveyed by the North British Company in 1845, u a co ntinuation to the westward of their Ilawiek branch. We believe that the Innerleithen branch will be a single line, like the Peebles, and will be formed upon the principle of econo mical construction now so generally approved. We under. stand that the cost is not likely to exceed 4,5 1 .01. 1f II Scottish Railway Gums. 6 f. I ,1 1 0 ) 1:1 1 0 r t r s l ' ra bl' greb° r erd 0 0 ° ,4 11 lo ge. , ,tber