The Sun. — London, England, 1852-03-29 00:00:00

ROUSE OF LORDS—(THIS DAY.) Their Lordships sat this morning to hear appeals. The Aers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and Lord Truro. Mt EDI 2CII UftGII, PERTH, AND DUNDEE RAILWAY COMPANY V. LEVEN. Thfis was an appeal from an interlocutory of the Court of §tesion of Scotland, confirming a previous decision of the sheriff-Substitute of Fifeehire. The respondent is the pro prietor of certain lands at Burtesland, in the city of Fite, and on a notice being served on him i❑ the year 1846, pur suant to the 36th section of the Lands Clause Consolidation Act, that part of their lands wouldb6 required by the appellants for the purpose of completing their railway, the respondent flied the sum required by him as compensation at 3,0001, a::c1 signified at the same time his readiness to refer the matter to a jury. The appellants thinking the sum too large, called Upon the Sheriff-Substitute of the county to empanel ajury, as provided by the same Act, to arbitrate on the matter. This - request was resisted by the respondent oa the ground that the appellants had not complied with the 37th section of the Act, which requires that the party intending in such case to appeal to a jury must give ten days' • notice. and also of the sum which they consider a full com pensation. On argument the Sheriff-Substitute dismissed -the request on the ground cf this informality, and the Court of Session, on appeal, pronounced an interlocutory confirm ing his decision. From this interlocutor the present appeal is made. The arguments were proceeding when we went to press. 731ARLBRO'-STREET-(T HIS DAY.) OUR NATIONAL DEFENOIRS —Captain Charles Bolton, of the 52d Foot, was charged. before Mr. Bingham, with being drunk and incapable of taking care of his horse and chaise. Police-constable 151 C stated that about 9 o'clock on Saturday night he was on duty in Regent-street, when he saw a mob of people standing round a horse an chise in Air-street. He went to the spot, and, in r eply to his a inqui ries, was told that a gentleman had been thrown from the chaise, and taken into a public-house close by in a state of insensibility. Witness went into the house, and there saw the defendant, who was in such a state of intoxication that, for his own safety, witness took him to the station-house. Defendant did not deny the charge. Mr. BINGHAM said, in consequence of the defendant having been punished already for his indiscretion by having been thrown from his chaise, he (Mr. Bingham) thought a fine ofwould meet the justice of the case. The fine was paid, and the defendant discharged. SPORTING I: LATEST BETTINCi TELLIGENCE. ►'i THE 'ESC END. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 4to 1 t-pt S oton 100 x& BLi gst Ba-khiter 9 to 1 «gst. Kite 2i to 1 ug.t Ei,111. - ou 12 to 1 apt 511,s Atm 25 to 1.4g4 J ..t BP.r.iek 12 to 1 ug,t livoita 40 to 1 aizst 1-lare4toot -- ---- a CUP -0.1 ~ C 131;tf 1: - 1., GI ~ V j CHEST% vv NIJ I II loss. =v. .y - gs 40 to 1 agst .1 . H 10. ARArIY. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 27.—Lieuienant G-neral the Bon. U su ry Murray will be superseded in the comma'" of the western district by Major General fir J ho Reit. G.C.8., a most distinguished officer, who served with the 58th Regiment in Egypt, in 1801, and was shot through the body in the 'soften on lancing. He accem. wird the expeuition to Naeles in 1805. end rematnen with that army until its arrival in Sicily; served with - the 2d battalion in the Peninsula the latter part of 1809, and until February, 1810,' when be was appointed to the Portuguese service; was present at the battle of Busece, covering the operations against Ciudal Redrigo, and cap ture of Badajoz; cemtnanded the 17:1 Portuguese regi ment from 1812 to the conclusion et the 'vat, including the ections of Berlai,ia, and near Lis Cassas; butt e Of Viitorie; actions in ihe Pyrenees at S.oita Bar bars, August 2;• and attack at Vera heights, October 7; battles of the Nivelle; battle and operaitens of the Niv., on the 9th. 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13 , h of December, 1813; and bat lea of Orthes and Toulouse. From the period of landing in the Peninsula, in 1809. until the conclusion of hestilittes in 1814, he was eever one day absent from his duty. fie has u god medal from the Grand Seignior for services in Eeypt, the gold cross anti one clasp for Vittoria. Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Tou louse; and the silver war medal with three clespa for Egypt, Busato, and the Pyrenees, The General has appointed his son, ensign and lieutenant in the Cold stream Guards, to be his aide-de camp. Lieutenant Milt has been six years in the army. The 77th Regiment, under the command of Lieu tenant-Colonel Egerton, is under orders for removal to Weedon, to be relieved by a regiment from Portsmouth. The 19th Regiment, commanded by Colonel Hay, will also remove from this garrison to Winchester, and will be replaced by the 35th Royal Sussex, from Dublin. ROYAL ARTILLERY. WOOLWICH, MARCH 27.—An omission of two lines in the General Order given yesterday rendered it im perfect. It should have read—Colonel James Nip:l3.t Colquhoun to be Inspector of the Royal Carriage De partment, vice Colonel Gordon, whose period of holding the appointment has expired. Captain H. Clark to be assistant inspector in the Royal Carriage Department, vice Colonel Colquhoun. GENERAL ORDER. Deputy Adjutant-General's-office, Woolwich, March 26,1852. 1. His Lordship the Master-General has made the following appointments, viz.:— Colonel T. Dyneley, C. 8., to command the Royal Artillery in Ireland, vice Major-General Turner, C.B. Colonel Charles C. Dansey, C. 8., to command the Royal Artillery at Gibraltar, vice Colonel Cator. Colonel W. Bell, to command the Royal Artillery in Canada, vice Colonel Dyneley. Lieutenant-Colonel F.: Warde, to the Royal Horse Artillery, vice Bell, promoted. Captain G. Sandham, to the Riding House Troop, vice Wingfield, promoted. Second Captain H. F. Mountain, to the Royal Horse Artillery, vice B. Price, promoted. 2. In consequence of the above, the undermentioned oftleers are posted to baLntlions, as follows: Lieutenant Colonel W. Fuser, to the 12th battalion, on li e utenant -colonel's pay , vice Warde. Lieutenant-Colonol C. W. Wiegfi , -Id, to the 9.h bat talion, on major's pay, vice Fraser. Captain Blackwood Price, to the Ist battalion, vice Sandham. 3. Lieutenant -Colonel T. F. Strangways, Royal Horse Artillery, is raised to lieutenant-colonas pay, vice Bell, promoted. _Lieutenant-Colonel Warde will therefore receive major's pay, vie* Strangways. ja. D. Ross. D putt' Adjutant-General. REGIMENTAL ORDER Lieutenant Yates will perform the duties of acting ad iutant to the 3d battalion until further orders. SCREW STEAMERS AT LIVERPOOL. The rapi dity with which sc rew steamers t rading with foreign part s i n crease at Liverpoo l is truly astonishireng. w s n Saturda n less than three lar g e and powerful sc O sailed from y h a t Mersey, namely , the Pelican. for Rotterdam, the Arabian, f or f or Constantinople, and t he Osmanli, for Messina. arrived, via., the O rontes, from Alexandria, and the ao Astro loger, from Constantin o p le. Mostly all the screw steamers sailing from Liverpool for foreign parts are well freighted, and must be bringing a fair return for the capital which the owners have embarked therein. THE DUCHRiS OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S PARTY. On Saturday evening their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland entertained a distinguished circle of the aristocracy at dinner at their mansion, Northumberland house. Upon this occasion the guests included the Duke and Duchess of Ath the Paohess of Somerset, the Duke of a ol ' , arq uis and March [ one Marchioness of Ely, the Earl Newcstle, the M and Countess of Sandwich, the Earl and Countess Tyrcenpel, the Earl Nelson, Lady Agnes Buller, Lord and Lady Rad stock, Sir J. Herschel and Lady Herschel, Sir Wm. and Lady Hinton Jolliffe, Sir C. Adam and Lady Adam, Sir H. Hart and Lady Hart, Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Sir Francis Beaufort, Sir Alexander Gordon, Admiral Arthur Fanshawe, Captain Milne, and Miss Burdett C o utts. Covers her were laid for thirty. Later in the evening the I 'uchess gave fourth and, until after Easter, last assembly, w hich was honoured with the presence of a select circle of the oreign ministers and b e au monde. His Grace the Duke of f Wellington was among the early visitors. THE Qui" 11 . THE MESSRS. ALLEYNE.—It is understood bill of that these gentlemen a nd have put in bail on a are returned to England, exceptions, signed by the Lord Chief Justice Campbell, before whom the ca use was tried, and in a writ of error. Th ey persist in affirming in a futuretheir innocence, and that trial they have ev id e nce to prove it, and to vindicate their characters; DESPERATE ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF C O NVICTS.-- A gang of convicts who were being removed by tr • on the Castle a to m Wake- York and North Midland line, from York field Gaol, on Friday., made a most determined atte mpt e to escape, and considering the peril some of them to, it is surprising that they were not cut to wpreecesx. posed Noble, the govern or of the Castle, started with 14 in all, 14r. eluding Ellis, Jones, Jackson, Green, and Marshal, who we n t. - convicted at the last assizes for uttering forged notes of th e e Yorkshire Banking Company. yre ironed, an d con. ducted themselves peaceably enough until the train h a d arrived about a mile from Wakefield, when Ellis managed to snap the chain which attached him to the other four trans ports. Ile then opened the carriage-door and made an effort to jump out; Mr. Noble seized him, when he was attacked by Marshal. Mr. Noble was at length compelled to release his grasp, and Ellis leaped on to the permanent way, and made across some fields towaris Normanten. At this momen t Jones bolted out at an opposite door ; he, however, slipped his footing and fell, and at the time it was thought he was killed ; however, he escaper', although seriously hurt. At length the train was stopped, and the convicts were more firmly secured. Ellis wasp seedily captured Uy some naviga tors on the line. WitECS of THE SHI P AMY. FIFTEEN L IVEs LoST.--A melancholy shipwreck was made known on Thursday in the City, namely, the „total loss of the ship Amy of London while on a passage from Belize, Bay of Honduras, for Cork, on the coast at Kinsale, and that all the crew, three men excepted. met with a watery grave. On Tuesday mo fling, when off the Barry Cove, sl ed her e was overtaken with a he av y gale of wind, which for ashore, within a shor distance of the coast-guard station, and within the short space of twenty minute s swept went entirely to pieces, and her fragme nts and cargo were along t shore for miles. The crew amountedree were to eighteen saved. men, in cluding master and officers; only th The ship was a fine vessel, 400 tears burden. P EDEST RIANISM. —On Monday laAt at one o'clock , in the afternoon, Henry Wilton, a dealer in oranges, started to walk from Newbury to Reading and back three times, which amounts to 102 miles, in 24 hours. He performed the task in gallant l st 2 le, style, having a quarter of an hour to spare. Oa the same day, at three o'clock in enerall the afternoon,tbe a man of the name of Ha y ward who g y follows Craven hounds on foot, started off to accomplish the same feat, and he came in a gallant winner, with five minutes to spare. He afterwards adjourned to Mr. Smith's brewery tap, in the London-road, and enjoyed himself with the company and a jug of ale until about six o'cl cok in the even ing, when he was paraded through then town, and a number of boys cheering him as he proceeded. This walking mania has got to such a rage in this town that actually a lad about eleven years of age, son of a respectable butcher of Speenhamlani, started off with Hayward early on Tuesday morning, the last time for him to go to Leading, and went the distance, and came in just before him. The boy walked a distance of thirty-four miles in about eight hours.-13erk• skin (Arai*. T 14,1 LITERATURE. ALICE RIVERS; or, Passages in the Life of a Young Lady. Written by herself. Shoberl I% the old days of rountece, and tes, eneieet times of nov,ds, their legends and nerrations always termieated at the approach to the temple of Hy men. On the threshold ot that mystic deity, the readers were left to suppose all tiff,rences were annihilated, and all vexaiioes towel an end. But it is reserved tor the present race of authors t reveal t'ie hidden and fatal truth, it is given to the pe rusers now-a-days to beanie acquainted will the fact, teat to merry in haste is retell to repent at leisure. As suredly, it not so fascinating and agreeable, it is more praiseworthy and ueetul to let those who mu s t mix with the worn of trouble and trial, behold its plain reflec twee unvereished by the gloss of iency and uncevered by the veil of fiction. It is unworthy and absurd fur people of sense to expedite engagements, saying, it once united, they will be settled. Settled it is true they may be, but for what—a lifetime of mi--ery and sin, and a death-bed haunted by the spectres of a wasted existence, and violated vows. Surely a work like the present is needed, when every day brings fresh testimony to the assertion that hundreds and thousands aro willingly, throwing away all chance of peace by rushing to the altar in order to possess only a remote chance of high prizes in the social lottery; while reflection would show them, that even it they became successful iii their hopes, no wealth the most lavish, no rank the most exalted, and no power the most unbounded that the world can shower down on its choicest votsriee, ever couipensates for a single moment for the want of that eace it neither gives nor takes away. Safety consists no in innocence but in virtue, not hi pushing away the thoughts of the evil day in store for all, bet in training aright the spirit, Viet when the trial comes it may rise prepared at the invocation to meet temptation end over come ia. Whether in a mental or a moral point of view; whether as the 'sovereigns ot' the earth or as the denizens of heaven, surely human beings must agree that all de secrate their position and dishonour their Privilege, who make the churches of their faith the market for their water, arid take the name of their Maker as a wit ness to an act into which they would blush for their tallow-men to scrutinize. To all young ladies in baste to be mierried this book is dedicated, and to all such it must prove useful; but, at the same time, there is no reason why the other sex sheuld not benefit by its perusal, for although young ladies are, as a class, set apart for ridicule on this subject, which they doubtless deserve for their unwise coeduct, it is to be questioned, it greater blame should not be the portion of those who' &ain't:Lege er such toll) aed then revile it. So long ts men are suet Wl.h. every day who seek in a bride nut .me thing neetrut, money, and th,u .n.manct in a wife cops, y possible perfection. , sr-Honig -.a.'u y ,run, ` perhalis it is to be c unlit:led re wiz is beested ou iso b sid , s. Althoukti few actually act like Alice Rivera, new neatly virtually be heve the same, how many ►()mug, levels, uccompltstied girls become d up. b, vie 210 S, soil 1.81:11elt SS W4141'8 But huwats nature tempts us Owe) ato Awl our eyes to the living examples beture us; then let us learn from the pages 01 retuauce a sad reality, and from the people of (loom.' warning ot w hat is to many a h, me truth. Th. mi....,,spresa the putpese of the work at its conclusion:— " I assure you that it is no malicious motive that inclines me to make these statements, but a simple wish that the natural fruits of Young Ladyism existing as it did in these young women, and in myseit, in its most frivolous, selfish, and unsabdued state, should be clearly manifested. No teeture in that profession is so distinct and universal as au eag er anyeey and haste to be married, and this not aiwaye, nor, as 1 believe, even generally, from the fewest motives, but trees an impatience of the restraints of domestic rule, and an ambition of rising in the scale of society, which can ob viously meet their otject only in the promotion which mar riage produces. Hence in giddy and uncultivated minds, careless respecting tee means provided the end be ob tained, there is no solicitude to become acquainted with the moral or mental character ot the individual who offers him self to notice ; let him be what he may he can make them Mrs. So and So, and put a wedding-ring upon their finger, and take them away from papa and mama's con trol, and commonly s p eakin g that is enough; but this is not enough for a lieppe , ess that is to . endure, or for any hap piness that deserves th e name. Of this, according to my aunt's views of the wor l d, there is little or eons to be found in our present state of being. Ido not profess to agree with her in quite so sombre a contemplation of sublunary things, but this I hope and believe I have learned, partly from her shrew d o bservations and still more from the sharp lessons of my own experience, that a young woman's most graceful as well as her safes t position is that of contented submission to h e r domestic duties, accompanied by that entire negation of miss. So fullyotthhwe e e d loces idea , ef in t v heestspthhee other w x s i e th anx iety to get married, which, at the same time that it usually' prov es the dirdeicg y y t which hiceohnsettihuey never ea e nd r associ ate wit h the of a husband hunting t a t hint am I assured of this that I feel, in relation to my precious g irl, as if I never could be watchful enough so to regulate and contrforelmheh_remmei,ndb,utthtieltl regularly and never seek her happiness away and properly guided to still nearer and dearer protection . than mine, she may find her best friend and confidante met and . she may never know a thought or _ L thus, being delivered from the snare of ev sh il e c f o b m e p in a g nio d n i s s li ti l e p .. ; guishedas her mother was in the annals of Young adyism. FIN E ARTS TI .E WRECK OF THE MINOTAUR. Every admirer of genius , and consequently every ©,ad mirer of the late Mr. Turne r, 8.A., should exami we have done, the picture now on view at the Messrs. Colnaghi, Pall-mall East, one of the noblest specimens of that great master we ha ve ever had the grathtification season of witnessing. Two ye ars a g o, namely, then e of 1850, the painting formed one of the principal ob jects ot :attraction on the walls of the British Institu tion. A., it is at present in process of engraving, by Mr. Henry Cousins, the lovers of art will enabled to obtain a " counterfeit presentment of th be eno w plate, originally produced by Mr. Charles Turner in int main to. 'I he celebrated Masterpiece referred to re pre Befits the " Wreck ot the Minotaur," a .twenty • tour. lost off the Hoeg Sands at the commence ment of the present century—and -having been produced up ward> of forty yelrt ago, has become exquisitely nisi nmed in the tone of its colowit.* Nothing can be more wonderfint than the distribution of the lights from the lurid .• wind gall," irnme tta ely over the uplifted bull, to the mi. utest tyirti2le of spray on the crests, or in the bollotva of the tuinul.uous sea. Tae s pars, with the shipw recited sailors °hexing to them in the swirl" of :be bill. or, lead a human interest to a scene, such as to describe in befitting language would rt quire the vivid enthusmaco and pictorial el..quence of Mr. Ruskin. Tbe fortunate possessor of thi, very wonderful composition `Ae pregent Earl of Yohorough. is the p, WINDSOR CASTLE in the MODERN TIME. Perhaps the most charming of all the delineations of the Royal Family, and certainly a one of the most seer, gand race ful of all the vari ous productions Sir Edwin L is at present on view at the Messrs. Graves' near the Opera-colsmnade . Entitled as above, " Windsor then Modern Time," this picture, which is the property of her Msj ~ s ty, is daeigned as a companion to the ealebtatsd " Button Abbey in thr Olden Time." THE R LIBBER Painted by tti ebster. Engraved by Lumb Stocks M Lean, Haymarket. Tnere ere two at is now living upon w nose shoulders some, at least, among the excellences ot Hogarth end of Wilkie 4:eem to have fall,n, in. the repre..sentation of domestic scenes and the delineation of the more humo rous phases of character. These painters, it is scarcely necessary to observe, are no other than Goodall and Webster. Among the many admirable productions of the latter " The Rubber" is one ot the most meritorious —displaying as it does a comic power quite delightful of its kind, and a knowledge ot human nature -really ex traordinary. It is consequently with delight that we observe the original popularized by the aid of the very masterly graver of Mr. Lumb Stocks. The scene de picted is a cottage interior, and as the title of the con 3", position intimates, the interest of it is concentrated upon the four cardplayers. The one who has to play • the third card in the trick is hesitating glumly over his " hand," with puckered brow and pursed up mouth, being regardcrd meanwhile by his partner with intense and breathless solicitude. The one who waits his turn to play, and by playing to finish the trick, waits trium phantly I.—the card already selected I —looking delight edly, with expanded countenance, and every feature riant and sunlit with complacency over at his partner, as much as to say, " Bravo! my boy—we've booked them with a vengeance." The old ".codger" leaning over the half door as a spectator, blandly smoking his pipe with the dispassionate air of a mere looker-on, is ano ther and not the least truthful character in the composi tion. Al to gether, the plate just published by Mr. M‘Lean re presents a very - admirable painting, through the media= of a very admirable engraving. -_,---- THE AusTRALIAN COPPER. MINING COMPANY.--- A prospectus has been issued proposing the establishment of 1 the above company, for the purpose of working some im- portant mineral ground at Strathalbyn, within thirty miles 1 of Adelaide. The sett secured ccnsists of the fee simple of icnogpp y oe fr. openeds black , evSeveral y b o, y la tn m hde e about 653 acres , in which several lodes have been discovered, varyingpar tially from one to ten feet wide. These have been par from 200 to 250 tons of copper ore have bean taken, consist whence tages and facilities in working , few fathoms of each other , ha, late thereby a ff ording great'advan earraoirkel,, with and are som: i t n h a i t n iv a e easy for sihking. Captai n J. :rree4pecially as the ground is to the Colonial Government, wart yellowanjnds esofarchuonapfti: and edits, mineral sur veyorand encouraging account of the property , a to very satisfactory -refer. He -a ates that this mine is possess'ed of more report we or dinary features, bei g in a highly mineralised country; than and beautifully character sed by well-defined lodes. lodes. They have sunk the shaft 2 th e 8 fathoms, wher e lode is found to be from 1 0 to 12 feet w i d e , composed of v rich quality ore- Also, other lo de s have bee n o iscovered e o7 productiveness, and be strongly.recommends that .machinery be immediately erected for m ore full y develo p in g t h ese lodes. The whole report is of the most satisfactory character. The directors, who are highly influential, both here and in the colony, propose to carry out the adventure with energy and spirit, and at the same time with the strictest regard to economy. Steam machinery being necessary, a 60-inch cylinder will be erected, which will afford sufficient power for other requi s ite purposes; wood is abundant, and the . greater portion of the land is applicable for agricultural pur- ' suits. There is a smelting furnace erected at the cost of about 1,000/., and some of the ore been reduced to regulus, which, on assay here, gives from 48 per cent. of copper. Looking at the property as reported on, supported by the . re , ponz , ihilitv e f the influential colonial gentlemen who are now in England, or fully represented, connected with it, we consiGer it one of the leading investments of colonial copper mines. —Alining Journal. In writing on Saturday of the calamities which had befallen the Megrera and the Hydra, we, inadvertently left it to be supposed that the latter vessel bad been on fire. It was the Megura that , our correspondent stated had been on fire three times between Plymouth and Madeira.— Times. DEATH OF LADY MtLFORD.—Thif Noble Lady, broke, was daughter o f J o h n G or d o n, Esq , of Heiman , who died on Thur s d a y l as t, a t Pi s t o n Castle, near Pere and married the present Lord Melford, by whom she has left 110 Wu% UN, LON ON, NAVAL IN TELLIGEN CE. PROMOTIONS Commanders Thomas Hope (1841) and John Foote (1845) have been promoted to the rank of captain. Captain Hope is the son of Sir John Hope, Bart., of Craigbill, county Fife. He entered the navy in 1825, and has served afloat 18 ears. He was lucky enough to get his first commission in 1832, and as a lieutenant served in the Mel Ville, 72, and Hyacinth, 18, in the East Indies. He then served as first of the Sappho, 16, in the West Indies; was promoted at the general promotion in 1841, and since then commanded the Sappho for three years on the coast of Africa. Captain Foote, we believe, is the son of Captain Foote (1827). He entered the college 1827, passed in 1833, and was made in 1835. As a lieutenant he served in the Sappuire, 28; commanded the Fawn and Curlew, 10, on the coast ot. Africa ; and was promoted in 1845, after serving in the Dublin, 50. As a commander, he commanded the Rosamond, 6, steam-sloop, in. the Mediterranean and the Cape of Good Hope. APPOINTMENTS. Captain Edward Hinton Scott (1838) has been appointed to the command of the Neptune, 120, ordinary flag-ship, at Portsmouth, vice Yates, whose term of service has expired. This is the 'first opportunity Captain Scott has had of serving afloat since his promotion, and that he is a distin guished officer of superior claims will be seen from the fol lowing summary from O'Byrne's account of his career during twenty- eight years' service afloat:- "-This officer entered the navy Clay 1, 1798, as first-class voluneeer on board the Anson, 46, and 3:47 men, Captain Philip Charles Durham, and which ship encountered, and for 17 days dogged, in company with the Ethalion, 38, a French equdron under Commodore Bompart, consisting of La Roche, of -78 guns, eight frigates, a brig, and a schooner, destined for the invasion of Ireland. With five of thetrigates ' - after the three others together with the line of-battleship had fallen into the hands of Sir John Borlase Warren, she came; Oct. 12, singly into collision, anu sus tained a loss, -with injury to her masts and 3 ards, of 2 men killed and 13 wounded. Oa the 18th of the same month we find her, in company with the Kangaroo, 18, enduring a similar loss in a gallant action of an hour- and a quarter, which terminatedin the capture of isa Loire, of 46 guns and 664 men (including troops), of whom 46 were killed and 71 wounded. While attached to the Anson, Mr. Scott contri buted also to the capture of several fine privateers. In the Blazer gun-brig, as sub-lieutenant, he was often in action with the French flotilla, in the neighbourhood of Ostend, Dunkerque, Calais, and Boulogne, and assisted, in July, 1805, .in rescuing the crew- of the Oreates, 14, Captain Thomas 'Brown, when wrecked on the Splinter Sand and exposed to the fire of the enemy. In the course or the same year he commanded a rocket-vessel in Sir Sidney Smith's attack upon the Boulogne flotilla. On leaving the Blazer, he be . came , Acting-Lieuteuant of the Skylark, 16, and while in that brig (to which be was,coniirined June 12, 1807) he had charge ot her boats in a running fight with a French cutter privateer- of 8 guns - and 48 men, whom, after having cut sway, her sweeps, and chased her for three hours, he drove under the guns of the Skylark. On one occasion he landed o yniisg t : spiked .tue ; sumo va or. the guard off prisoners. He served as Lieutenant in several ships, and was appointed, August 23, 182..., to the Cambrian, 48, Captain - Gawen Witham Hamilton. lie was trequently, iu the SU , urn and her boats, engaged with the enemy's • forts and armeJ vessels (several ot which he captured) while affording protection to the trade passing through the Great Belt. During his servitude in cue Or lando he took part in many boat affairs in the Adriatic and Chesapeake. He commanded her boats, too, in several skirmishes with the Malay proas in the Straits of Sunda and arataLca, and once . succ,eded in repelling an attack made by them at night on a wrecked Indiaman, of which he had been placed in charge. In the boats of the Cambrian we find - him' cutting out, in the Gulf of Athens, with much spirit and judgment, a piratical schooner, carrying 2 long guns and AO men, together with three of her prizes, besides taking three email -pirate. vessels ?rum the island of Skupeio and eilecting the re capture of an En 6 lian sloop. He also assisted at the reduction ut.Napoli di Rumania, and, at tit,. head of 100 - Seamen,landed there at the request of the pro visional government, had the good fortune when the troops entered the town to save tue lives of 2,000 Turks, men, women, and children, who were afterwards placed on shore at Smyrna. For these services he twice received the thanks of Sir Graham aloore, the Commander-in-Chief, was pre sented with a sword by the Greek provisional Government, and v. as advance:, July 18, 1623, to the rank ot Commander ia, the Diapatca sloop, of .8 guns. In that vessel, stationed lit4wise in the Mediterranean, he remained until the close ot 1824. He was lastly, from Nov. 23, 1835, until April, 1838, employed Again on the station last-named'as second captain in the Rodney, 92, Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Hyde Parker. His promotion to the rank he now holds took place Jan. Ir, 1838. For his conduct in jumping overboard from the Orlando and saving the lives of four persons, Captain Scott (who is senior of 1838) received the thanks ot the Royal Humane Society." Lieutenahts-Hubert Campion (1849), to the Hecate, 6, steam-sloop,:lleyonport ; Thomas J. Young (1851), to the Excellent, gunnery-ship, Portsmouth. The Commander-in-Lhief Admiral Sir J. A. Ommanney, K.C.8., returned to - Devonport on Friday morning, and re hoiated his flag. "PAYING DOWN . ," AND A FORTNIOEFT'S LEAVE. -Are- Ilium, 50, Captain Symonds, was paid down to six months, at Portsmouth, on Saturday, and her men were granted the fortnight's leave. Arrogant, 46,- steam-frigate, Captain R. S. Rubinson, will be paid down to six months, on Monday, at Portsmouth, and her crew will have a fortnight's leave. Dauntless, 33, screw-frigate, Captain Halatead, will be ".paid - down," at Devonport, to-morrow • (Tuesday), and have the leave, and not Wednesday, as before stated. Superb, 80, Captain Purcell, as we have already stated, will not be paid off (at which we hear that some few of her men are dis satisfied) but will be paid down to six months, and the men have leave:of absence. The Hants paper says, " There - was a misunderstanding yesterday on paying down the Arrogant, the wages being offered to part ot the crew and not the whole. On looking to the orders, however, and referring to the authorities, the matter was quickly settled as the Ad miralty had arranged, and the men were ordered to be paid down to what was intended, and will go ashore with three weeks' leave on Monday. Ro,lney, 92, Captain Graham, C. 8., was towed out of Portsmouth harbour on Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, by the Antelope and Echo steamers, one on either side; after anchoring she saluted the flag of the Commander-in- Chief, Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, with 17 guns. She is still about 150 able seamen short of complement. Superb, 80, . Captain Purcell, it is expected, will go into Portsmouth harbour this day (Monday), and take up the moorings in harbour . lately _occupied by the Rodney ; her defects are various ; her decks are very detective, especially her lower deck. 'Constant exec cise of her heavy guns, dry holystone, and dumb scraping for two terms of commission have worn thern very thin in places. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.--1 he Ellin, royal dispatch tender, acting Master-Commauder Balliston, is on the graving-slip having her bottom cleaned and some repairs to her rudder effected. The crew of her Majesty's steam-vessel Antelope, 3, Lieu tenant Young, were paid advance wages this day, at the Treasury-Office, in this duckyard. • The Blenheim, 3-, steam gaard-ship, Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 1 3 :, has sent up her lower yards and top masts id the steana-basin, where her hullers are being re paired. The Sampson steam-frigate, Captain Jones, will soon be complete in her refit. She is to be paid down on Tuesday. The Sorithampton, • American line-of-packet ship arrived this morning from the Thames,_ and sailed, after embarking passenger?,. and stock, fur New York. PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY. The crew of her Majesty's brig Racer, 12,-Commander Beddoes, was inspected on Thursday by Captain Low, of her Majesty's ship Impregnable. • She was towed into the harbour on. the same day by the Avon, and will be paid off on Wednesday. - Her Majesty's troop-ship Resistance arrived on Thursday from Woolwich, and was towed. on Friday by the steam vessel Pike into harbour to refit. Her Majesty's ship Caledonia is ordered to be taken into dock to-be repaired On Thursday the, crew Of her Majesty's ship Impregnable got up lower yards and topmrtsta, and crossed topgallant yards. ' SUNDAY.-Her Majesty's frig ate Leander, Captain Dacres from Cork, entered the Sound at one o'clock to-day, and sa _Med the Admiral. _ _ _ Her Majesty's screw steam troop-ship Vulcan, which was spoken by the Simoom on Wednsday last, the 27th instant, at the entrance to the Channel, had then been absent $2 days from the Cape of Good Hope. We are informed that the intermediate shaft of her machinery was broken, and that it was out of order prior to her arrival at Ascension; she in consequence landed her coal at that island, and has since been ender canvas only. ; She had on board several passengers and invalids from *Lagos. Dr. Dick., from the Cape, left the Tit - dean for the Simoom and landed here on Thursday. nothing has . since been heard of the Vulcan, and the wind continues easterly. The Simoom spoke her at 7.30 A.M. on Wednesday, and having supplied her with provisions, parted company . at 10 46.24., when the Vulcan was 12 miles south-west of the Scilly Islands. It is not.impro bable,that she has, gone in there for shelter. The screw stea m frigate Simoom, Captain* Bingcombe; broke the lower part of the connecting-rod of her. machinery on Thursday morning, when nearing this port. She was securely anchored, in seven fathoms, outside the . eastern enl of the breakwater; by Mr. Thompson, her Majesty's har bourmaster, and signal made for the assistance of a steams tug,'when two steamers (the Avon and Confiance) went out. The former was sent to the Racer ; the latter took the Simoom in tow, and placed her in the Admiralty anchorage ground, inside the breakwater- She is to be supplied with gear from the steam-frigate Sanspareil. The Simoom is not yet out of the hands other contractor. _ A large_screw frigate, under full steam, was observed, at half-past four o'clock this morning, off the Eddystone, going up Channel againat a strong easterly wind. The Veievius steam-sloop, Commander Barnard, has left this port for — Portsmouth, where the officers will be ap pointed to the Vizen steam-sloop, fitting for the Brasils station. When ready she will embark a gentleman accre dited for the Brazilian Government from this country. Dar ing the last cruise of the Vesuvius, two of the engineers were injured by. the machinery, one of them dislocating his foot, and the ether having his hand seriously cut. Engineers were-sent on board from the steam-reserve, at this port, to in for art t . , h er e , supply their -places prior to the vessel's departure for Ports mouth. was taken alongside the Algeria hulk purpose of being commissioned. She hoisted the pendant this morning. Commander Albert Iles ' (1846) has been selected by the Duke of Northumber landselttued the Britomart. He served as a lieutenant to cowman le ships Electra, Grecian, Stag, Sappho, and M je-ty y in her d his present rank at the general pro e'srtheerdßaYri,ti) -and attained , Conway, motion in 0346. • - • 120, Captain Nun, on being completed The St. George, d from the dockyard, after wa s remove on the 24th inst., which Captain Nias, C. 8., sent for the leading man of caulk ere, and expressed to him his hig h gratification at the clean at and expeditious manner in which the work was performe d, the same =timeianding him a 51. iote, to be given to any charity he feltdisposed.- .. The money has since been handed over to Ihe treasurer on account of the Dockyard Female Orphan,,Ariylutii.l, The quarterly payments of salaries and civil pensions will cemmenCe at the Pay-office on Thursday next, the Ist April. • - The seamen en board her Majesty's ships of advanced wages at this port, be empowered to remit any portion-af'the same. - • • SMEERNESS, MARCH 28.—Her Majesty's screw. steam frigate Arnphion 34, has crossed her lower and topsail yards and pointed her topgallant-masts, and will be complete in her rig in a tew days. Some alterations and additions in her machinery being, determined on, she will not be ready to leave the fitting - basin for anothe r f ortn i ght at l east. Her Majesty's ship London, 90, Captain the lion Mon tague Stepfordovill shortly be ord ere d to fill up her comple ment Of 850 men, and will proceed t o S p i t h ead early in June , to farm one of a Channel squadron during the summ e r, ultimately be, stationed in the Mediterranean . Captain and G. R. Mundy Will assuine the command of thi s s hi p on the Ist of April, vice Captain the Hon. Montague Stopford, who noes to the Waterloo, 120, as Flag Captain to Vice-Admiral the Hon. Jocelme Percy, Commander-in-Chief at the Nora. Her Majesty's screw-steam-frigate Horatio, 24, Capt a i n the Hon. 5.1. Carnegie, is nearly completed by the dock- EVENING, MONIA yard. She will leave the flttingibasin in ten days, and be moored in the harbour on the west shorn, opposite to the Garrison-point, a position which will command the entire entrance to the river Medway. Iler armament is a formid able one, consisting of 20 8-inch and four 10-inch guns. She wants nearly 40 men to complete her crew. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Cyclops, fitting as an advanced steamer, will not have made good her defects till the end of April. Colonel Ord, Commandant of the Royal Engineers at Chatham, arrived here on Thursday on an official visit, for the purpose of inspecting the sea wall on the harbour side of the land fortifications, with the view of placing it in a proper state of defence. The necessary works will shortly be com menced, and, when completed, wiil render the dockyard secure from all approaches by land, at the same time form ing a formidable battery for the protection of the upper part of the harbour as far as Saltpan Reach, upon which, at pre sent, no battery guns can be made to bear. The committee which has been sitting at the Admiralty for the purpose of devising the most efficient uniform sys tem of lighting all vessels afloat have, we are informed, agreed upon their report. We stated in our impression of the 15th inst., " the evidence was not in favour of placing fixed" coloured lights on board small vessels, but that never• theless they should have them in readiness to exhibit in cases of emergency. Having duly weighed and coneidered the whole of the evidence adduced on this important subject, the committee have resolved to advise that system of light ing and signalling, liable, we presume, to certain suggestions in rendering the details perfect. Some seamen and two or three subordinate officers, borne as supernumeraries on board her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120, were dispatched on Friday to join her Majesty's ship Winchester, 50, fitting at Portsmouth as .flag-ship - for the East Indies, in lieu of the Hastings, 72, ordered home to be paid off. It appears by a return which has been made and printed, that on the Ist of January, 1852, there were 791 midship men and cadets in the Royal Navy. The number of each class of officers could not be separately given. On the Ist January, 1851, there were 175 mates, 580 midshipmen, and 219 cadets. Two leading men of ropemakers at Chatham Dockyard have been superannuated on pensions of 541. a year each. One shipwright and one workman at metal mills, 241. each. Two labourers, at 201. and 151. respectively. One shipwright also, who had served but a short time, has been allowed a gratuity of three months' wages WoowacTr, MARCH 27.—The Highflyer, 21, screw L steam-sloop, Captain Henry J. Matson, received a number of seamen on Friday, who were brought round from Ports mouth in the Sprightly steam-vessel. The Valorous steam-sloop, fitted with engines of 400-horse power, by Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., had her steam up on Wednesday at her moorings, opposite the dockyard, to test the working of her engines, and they were found so satisfac tory that she will, without any further trial here, be taken round to Devonport, and placed on the list of advanced war steamers at that station. The Monkey steam-vessel, Second-Master Sallenger, went up the river yesterday, having been placed under orders to i tr i v u t i hlpt2ella screw steamer to the D ios o ti w n n ute s a . npdte T acji h nt e oz l e s ree = ri a , to Bhering Straits, under a a n ni with the view of passing through the Straits in search of Sir John Franklin. The Monkey returned to Woolwich the same day, as the Isabella was not quite ready for sea. VARIATION OF THE COMPASR. —Mr. Parkinson, second master of her Majesty's brig Nautilus, has invented a com pass whereby a most desirable object is attained, and to en sure which many endeavours have previously been unsuc cessfully made, viz., that of enabling mariners to make the allowances for the differences of the magnetic true course, without the exercise of the thought, hitherto required. This is effected by an arrangement, simple, but at the same time entirely mechanical. The Nautilus is employed at Devon port for the instruction of naval apprentices, under the su perintendence of Mr. Parkinson, who finding it extremely difficult to make his pupils, after taking bearings, compre hend the laying them off the chart, directed his attention particularly to the subject. Many officers who have tested the instrument (the cost of which is not much more than the ordinary good compass) speak highly to its advantages, especially when entering ports or rivers, in rendering the giving of the course more simple and easy. The instrument has been approved by the department under the Board of Admiralty, and several have been ordered for trial on board the ships of the East India Company. That so young an officer as Mr. Parkinson should have directed his attention to this important subject reflects the highest credit on him, and it is to be hoped the successful result of his labours will be duly appreciated in the proper quarter. THE VULCAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As there is some public anxiety expressed about the Vulcan, perhaps you may think the following ex• tract worthy attention. The letter is dated, " Off Scilly, March 24th":— " We have been cruising about for the last three weeks, detained by easterly winds, and losing on one tack what we gained on the other. The Vulcan is the veriest tub that ever swam; she cannot beat a mile to windward, and seldom goes about in stays, so that unless we get a fair wind we must soon put in somewhere, as we have been on reduced al lowance of four ounces of bread,i and other things in pro portion, for some days, and little now remains." Yours, &c.,M. G. March 26. [Why has not a steamer been sent to her assistance? Can Admiral Ommaney answer?—En. Sun.] TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) Sir,—On Wednesday the 24th was a rather amusing debate on Dogs and Dog-Carts; in which the Dogs won. The House broke up at an early hour. On Thursday wasllr. Hume's motion for bringing in a Bill to amend the Elective Franchise. He might as well have proposed a Bill for our immediate translation to heaven, as far as any chance of carrying it was con cerned; and there was the further disadvantage, that it was sure to bring out in the list of Noes, a number of those whose assistance must be given to any Bill of the kind when it has a chance of success. If those who voted for the motion had been asked their opinions, there can be little doubt the majority would have been against proceeding with the motion. But as it was, there was nothing to be done but vote. There is almost always some good to be obtained out of things adverse;_ and there was some here. The Ministerial party were drawn into exhibitions of that pride, which medical men in the mental line since Solomon have declared to be premonitory. They eschewed the gentler term Conser vative, and adopted in all its rudeness the antique deno mination of Tory. The Tory of any time iu the last two centuries is upon us, minus only the appendages of dress and person by which be used to be gracefully dis. tinguished. They further volunteered an attack upon the Sovereignty of the People." in which they only showed great ignorance of the meaning of terms, and a wonderful confidence in the power of obsolete mystifi cetions We may expect to bear next of " the Balance of Trade" and • rh or find them " agnisieg on their ‘e hearts' knees" afte r the manner of their predecessors. As regards the particular question, they have evi dently a great desire to get up a quarrel where no quarrel is. They paint the unrepresented classes as enemies of the Monarchy; when the fact is there are not fifty among them simple enough to wish to see Mr. This and Mr. That quarrelling for the place of Sovereign, or who view the House of Lords in any other light, than as the descendants of men who in their days of power sometimes used rather unceremoniously their rights of pit and gallows, but whose successors by , the operation of natural causes have turned into humane and well conditioned gentlemen, quite as good as any oth er speci mens of the clas s , and as often found in the course of modern history on t h e peop l e ' s s ide es on the opposite. Under these circu mstances, it is mere stratagem of war, to raise the cr y o f host ili ty t o the monarchy and aristocracy. That na me o f t h e M on archy is awfully taken in vain. There is n ot an a b use gr eat or small, the re moval of which has nut been described as dangerous to the Monarchy. To hear the Tories , as they are hence forward to call themselves, it might be supposed our ancestors had established Monarchy to be the fountate of election ales, and grand guardian of all minor un reasonablenesses which should revel beneath its shade. On one point, the Chancellor of the Exchequer must be met-in his own department of arithmetic. Nothing is easier than not to find a hare, if you look for her in the chimney-pots. The Chancellor of the Exchequer says, that on comparing the proportion of Members to certain counties, and to the boroughs in the same, the first are fewest in proportion t o t h e popu l at i on . This is only a travestie of what was stated in his hearing a few nights ago,—that if the constituencies of the present Protec tionist Ministers are taken as a sample, their county Members are 6 to 1 as compared with the county and population of Lancaster, and their borough Members 13 to 1. as compared with the constituency of Manchester. The pith of the question lies in the existence of small counties and small boroughs sending the same number of representatives as large ones; and what the Chancellor of the Exchequer says, is not pith, but " bay, straw, stubble," tending only to throw dust about the subject. He cautiously ignores the existence of the small boroughs in other places. He looks for his hare in the chimney pots, cud of course he does not find her. On division, the Ayes were 89, the Noes 244. It is understood there were 17 new Ayes, and 41 absences .of old; which last includes the pairs. It is strange it cannot be impressed upon minorities, that minorities ought not to pair. Suppose, for example, a minority were to pair off till nobody was left but the two tellers, And yet it might be a very respectable minority, if only its men bad voted instead of pairing. Supposing the pairs in the present instance to have been only ten, there were at all events above a hundred in favour of the motion. On Friday a Bill for the Extradition of Deserters was read a second time in the House of Commons without a division. The downward road was always proverbially easy; and here we are in the position of Switzerland, • Belgium,•Piedmont, or any other of the powers which between alarm and the complicity of rulers, are threat ened with annexation by the ne w H o l y Alliance that hangs over Europe. Great will be the stir in the bureaux of the autocrats of Russia, France, and Austria, ..when it is known that the British Parliament has yielded this parti cu l a r co wman.; without a division. Surely tion might have been averted by those who took charge of the opposition to the Bill. But on all occasions of ibis nature, the weakest counsels are those which prevail. - IF we' amusing is the present instance, to hear what a flood of remenstrants discharged themselves upon the infiv4r, to induce him to withdraw his motion, which he was ibdividually well disposed to press. The effect will be encouraging in Belgium, consoling in Switzerland, and in Poland and Hungary excite a spirit of philosophic to what nations of lou-ler wor d s and smaller ie,it j submittedohntßouwllitihso:ottrdeesitsetramnicneed to shut his resistance. midgesnai inn i, eyes that he may not see where he is being driv en, the resignation, coming elections afford him an opp ortun i t y o f at all even ts making the tault nobody's but his own. I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. Blackheath, March 29, 1852. THE AMAZON.—On Saturday intelligence reached Lloyd's that several bundles of printed papers of instruc tions from the dir ectors of th e Royal West India Mail Packet Company t o t he dicers of t he ill - fated Amazon had b een p i c ked up by the Monkey fishing_ boat ? three miles 113X,E. of rearane, cant of Cormau. MARCH LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. When the coup d'etat of the 2d of December and the strangulations of the French press had suddenly deprived every independent citizen of France of the power of making known his personal opinions or of adimadverting upon the op pression of his country, two men of character resolved to take such means as they could find in a voluntary expatriation for protesting, in the face of Europe, against the iniquity, treachery, and violence of the Government established by the usurpation of Louis Napoleon. The first of these gentle men was the Count d'Haussonville, well known for his mo derate opinions, his large fortune, and his near connexion with the family cf the Duke de Broglie; the second was M. Alexandre Thomas, one of the chief writers in the Journal des Debats, and late occupant of a Professor's chair at Versailles. • With no other object than the defence of legal rights and of liberty, and at the greatest personal inconvenience and risk, these gentle men repaired to Brussels for the purpose of founding at their own expense a periodical publication called the Bulletin Francais, to communicate to the world independent opinions on the affairs of their own country. To use M. d'Flausson ville's own words on his late trial, "On the day on which he saw the most eminent men in France seized by the collar-like malefactors, and dragged by a deluded soldiery through a stupefied population, he vowed that one voice should at least be raised, in some place or other, to de nounce, at his own risk and in the name of the moderate party, the unworthy triumph of force over right, that overthrow of all justice, law, and equity, and that attack, not only on the liberty of a few individuals, but on the whole majesty of the nation." The Bulletin Francais was published at Brussels under these auspices. We have already expressed our opinion, that considering the position of the Belgian Government towards that of France, it would have been more politic and considerate not to afford a pretext for French remonstrance by acts committed on the territory of Belgium ; for the strength of that little state is obviously not equal to its love of freedom. The same measures might have been taken in this country with perfect impunity. Yet we can hardly regret this transaction, since it has given the world a striking proof that the independence of a Belgian jury is proof against the menaces of a foreign oppressor, and that the people are fully . prepared to use and to maintain their rights of free discussion. No sooner had the first number of the Bulletin Francais appeared in Brussels than they were made the subject of diplomatic remonstrance by France. But the Belgian Government had no legal means of suppressing the publica tion, and a prosecution could only be instituted under the obsolete provisions of a Dutch law of 1816, passed to protect the Bourbons from the rancour of the exiled Bonapartists, which imposed a small penalty on publications offensive to the character of foreign Sovereigns. The French Minister expressly demanded that these proceedings should be insti tuted, and they accordingly came on for trial last week before the assizes of the Court of Brabant. The charges in themselves, as contained in 15 extracts from different numbers of the Bulletin, were sufficiently explicit, and their authors courted no diseise. It was true they had said that Louis Napoleon is a charlatan if he is not a fanatic; that the suffrages of seven millions had been eztof h ted by" intimidation or fraud ; that hypocrisy and falseood were stamped on ali the acts ot titoyetement ; that its familiar and favourite weapons are espionage, cor ruption, and terror; and that France despises and detests the hnoble domination of a counterfeit Caesar The accused declared at the bar that these expressions are no more, in their opinion, than terms appropriately applied to criminal actions contrary to morality and honour, and reprobated as such by all civilised nations; and they readily assumed the whole responsibility of what they had written or caused to be published. It mattered, therefore, little what was the tenor of their defence, but it may here be mentioned that when M. Berryer and 51. Odillon Barrot applied for passports to enable them to appear at the bar in Brussels in support of these eminent clients, they were informed by the French police that if they left the country on such an errand they would not be suffered to return. The case was, therefore, left in the hands of M. Bartels, a Belgian advocate, who did ample justice to it. But though the Belgian Government had been constrained to institute this prosecution, and the Attorney-General, M. Bavay, appears to have exerted himself with great profes sional energy to obtain a conviction, public opinion in Bel gium had already judged this case. It was universally felt that the question thus raised was of vital importance to the liberty of the press and to the national independence of Bel gium. It was evident that however strong the terms applied by Al. d'Haussonville and M. Thomas to the head of the French Government might be, they were not stronger than the events we have recently witnessed in France amply warrant. Those expressions emanated from the pen of two French gentlemen who might have been supposed to write from the bitterness of party feeling; but since it was the pleasure of the French Government to bring them before an independent court of jus tice, every one of those vituperative epithets and cutting accusations is now sanctioned by the unanimous and deliberate judgment of twelve honest burghers of Brussels. According to the forms of proceeding in the Belgian courts, we understand that each of the incriminated passages, fifteen in number, was successively put to the jury, and the jury re fused unanimously, on every one of these counts, to bring in a verdict against the prisoners. The principal Belgian journals have given a very imperfect account of these pro ceedings; but we are informed that the acquittal was re ceived with enthusiasm in the court and out of doors. M. d'Haussonville and M. Thomas escaped with difficulty from the crowd, which would have carried them in triumph to their hotel, and the result of this trial will long be remem bered to the credit of the judicial impartiality and national spirit of the Belgian people. The gentlemen placed at the bar to meet these charges were foreigners, bat so in reality was the prosecutor. As in the celebrated case of Peltier, who was prosecuted in this country by the First Consul during the Peace of Amiens, the political disputes of another nation were then brought before an independent tribunal ; but there the parallel ends, for the charges made by Peltier were undoubtedly libellous and extravagant, the language of the Bulletin Francais is that of men well ac quainted with the proper limits of public discussion and as incapable of perverting a fact as of sacrificing an opinion. Wherever Louis Napoleon has attempted, in France or out of it, to face the independent scrutiny of the law, he has been beaten. The Press itself, which he has gagged and destroyed, is not more terrible to him than the indignant protests of the bar and the severity of the bench towards his own acts. To acquit his antagonists is to condemn him ; and, as long as there is in Europe an independent journal or an honest jury, all the despotism of France will not save his policy from the chastisement which is most severe when it is dealt, as on this occasion, by the hand of justice.— Times. PROTECTION—LAND—LAW MONEY. The mirage of the desert which lures the thirsty traveller onward by the prospect of an imaginary lake, the apples of the Dead Sea, fair and luscious on the outside, and only de tected by the taste, are but faint images of the illusions wherewith Protection beguiles her credulous votaries. Fair and specious at a distance, it is only when approached and grasped that she melts into empty air, or is pulverised into dust and ashes. Su long as their leaders were out of office, what anion so firm, what policy so definite, what ends so well understood as those of the country party? But pos sessed of the citadel of power, when one would suppose they had nothing to do but to will and have, their volition seems to be struck with incurable paralysis, and falters in the very , moment of apparent success. If Lord Derby have not ab solutely renounced Protection he has at any rate clogged its restoration with conditions which he perfectly well knows to be impossible—conditions not imposed upon him by the tyranny of an adverse majority, but the offspring of his own wavering will and shattered convictions. Neither does the plan of indirect compensation by relief from local burdens seem likely to achieve a more favourable result. Considering what real property consists of, to shift a portion of these burdens from realty to personalty would be quite as much relief to the trading and manufacturing classes as to agricultural. Labourers it would not affect, farmers would pay in rent what they were dispensed from paying in taxes, and landlords would probably find the burden reimposed on them in some other shape. It is vain for men to shut their eyes to the fact, that the hopes and promises with which the rural constituencies and their members have been mutually feeding each other during the last six years meet the eye but mock the touch, and a few months will inevitably show the utter futility of the agricultural search after legislative relief. Under these circumstances it is really refreshing to see a friend to the landed interest step forward who undertakes to relieve it by means fair and just in their nature, perfectly practicable and reasonable, and implying no sacrifice from any other class in the community. To the means indicated by Mr. Slaney we have more than once alluded; but as they neither implied any tax on the food of the many for the benefit of the few, nor any attempt to transfer the onus of taxation from the shoulders of the rich to those of the poor, they have met with little favour from that class of politicians who would define the art of government to be the enabling a class to live at the expense of its neighbours, doing as little as possible for itself. The remedies to which the agricul tural interest ought to look are, in our opinion, those which arise from a wider extension and more logical application of the principles of free trade. Free trade is like the spear of Achilles, which alone was capable of healing the wounds it had inflicted. We do not now speak of the absurdity of taking the unprotected farmer for the purpose of protecting the sugar of the West Indies or the freights of the shipowner, or of his right to be freed from such demands himself the moment he renounces the attempt to impose them on others. The great merit of free trade is that it removes all obstruction to the circulation and ex change of commodities. The great demerit of protection is that it impedes such circulation and exchange. Apply these doctrines to the tranfer and sale of land. The system which has been suffered to grow up in this country is one which might have been devised expressly to render land as little an article of commerce, as little vendible and purc haseable as po s sible. If a man has a certain sum of money which he wishes to exchange for shares or stock in a public company or the funds, the law points out an ostensible owner with whom he may deal, and though the stock or funds be affected with any amount of trusts the writing of a few words settles the transaction. But if a man wish to exchange his money against land he is at once involved in a labyrinth of d a bie culty and expense. Voluminous abstracts, innumer queries and objections, interminable conveyances, weari some delays, and still mo re interminable attorneys' bills, beset his path, and unl ess the p urchase be veryclarege6ibinegare a formidable ratio to the outlay. Now, thatlarge, are not absolutely necessary is perfectly obvious , when we consider that stock in the funds or shares in a anra_ilw.tsay4com pany are practically as permanent as rthe I d and that the only essential difference between them consists in the manner of describing them, the former being gnatdesinaed by numbers, the latter by local descrip ions, g the ofo which is as easily transferred by the simple registration a name as the other. Only admit that every piece of land may have, as every pound nf sto . ck has" some one to repre seat it for the purposes of alienation, and to act as a trustee for all those who may be beneficially interested in it, and there is no reason why land should not be transferred with as much cheapness and simplicity as stock. Now, what would be the effect of such a change? All the expenses which now clog a purchase of land are so much deducted from the purchase money, and though nomis nallv paid by the purchaser really fall on the vendor, who would receive more if the legal expenses were less. If we estimate them with Mr. Staney at ten per cent., they impose just the same burden on the seller of land as an export duty of ten per cent. would inflict on the manufacturer, with this difference in favour of the latter—that the duty would go t o defray the expenses of Government, while nobody benefits by the complexity of titles to land except the class of lawyers who live by their investigation. It is quite unne cessary to point out to the landed interest the advantage of such a rise in th eir p ro p ert y , or in how many instances it would enable those who live on the narrow margin between rents and interest of mortgages to extricate themselves from a position of what appears at present a hopeless embarrass ment. The only persons who would have any just cause to complain of such a change would be those who have made it their business to acquire a knowledge of the complicat ed law which at present fetters the transfer of land ; but we greatly mistake the spirit of the Protectionist party i t they would be willing to pay an unnece ssar y tribute on the mort gage and transfer of their land for the sake of affording a remunerating price to the British lawyer. We commend this recipe to th e attention o f those who begin to appreciate the true nature of the ehitnairas they have been so hotly pursuing. Leas ingenious than the eliding ) 9 &=o scale, less level t the meanest capacity that! a fixed duty, our remedy has at any rate the advantage of doir,g wrong to nobody, of being their own power, and, if once esi.Wis bed, beyond the risk of reversal. O ne -t we ntieth part 1:f the ingenuity which is devoted to unsaying that which has be en said and undoing that which has been done, to mystifying opponents and quieting clamourous supporters, would have sufficed to strike cut something which would be a permanent benefit to the landowner as well as a solid improvement to our jurisprudence.—Times. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The opening night of the sixth season of this splendid establishment—the house of Grisi, Mario, and Costa—took place on Saturday. The opera selected was the Maria di Rohan, of Donizetti, which was played at the Italian Opera in the season of 1847. There is a resemblance between the story of this opera and Othello. Maria di Rollin is se cretly the wife of the Duke de Chevreuse while she is pas sionately beloved by the Count de Chalais, the husband and the lover being attached friends. At the opening of the piece, the cause of secrecy being removed, the Duke re veals his marriage, to the despair of his friend. Chalais is involved in a duel. Being prevented from attending the rendezvous, bis friend Chevreuse, to save his honour, fights in his stead. He is wounded and conveyed home, v. here he is affectionately tended by his wife and his grateful friend. Unfortunately, while preparing tor the combat, Chalais has written a few lines of ten der farewell to the object of his love, and the letter falls into her husband's hands. Mad with jealousy, the Duke is about to sacrifice his wife to his fury, when his friend enters. Upon him Chevreuse turns his rage ; handing him a pistol, he drags him from the room. The next moment two pistol shots are heard, Maria falls senseless, and the curtain drops. This story is complicated with a good deal of extraneous matter. The introduction of the gay Abbe de Gondi, afterwards the celebrated Cardinal blazarin, was, we believe, an after-thought, this character not being in the piece when first produced, but introduced to give it some variety and lightness. It is De Gondi who chal lenges Chalais, and fights with Chevreuse. He is represented as a very youthful rake ; the music of the part is for a contralto voice, and it is performed by a female. Ronconi, Tamberlik, and MadameCastellan were in splendid voice, and sustained their roles with triumphant perfection. Madlle. Seguin made her debit as the new contralto, and, notwithstanding a considerable nervousness in the outset, achieved a decided success by the excellence of her voice and style, which were enthusiastically appreciated in her rendering of the cavatina in the second act. The intro duced ballet divertissement in the first act might better have been omitted. The house was crowded by a fashionable audience, who testified a warm and unequivocal approbation of the execution of the music, vocal and instrumental, of Maria di Rohan. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The cast of Saturday evening showed only one principal astist included in that of five years ago—Signor Ronconi - whose merits as a tragic actor in Maria di Rohan are gene rally known and appreciated. On Saturday evening he kept up his old reputation, singing with all his artistic delicacy and skill, and acting, particularly in the last scene, with that tragic power which has made his impersonation of this part a lyric tradition. Madame Castellan replaced Madams Ron coni as Maria. The latter artist, it will be remembered, made her dibut in the part, but her efforts were so unsuo cessful as to amount to a positive failure. Madame Castellan is a happy remplacante. Her pure and vibratory organ, and her thoroughly musician-like style, contribute to do the utmost justice to the music. She was in good voice, and sang with animation and spirit. In the original Covent garden cast Salvi was the Ricardo. The character was on Saturday represented by Tamberlik, who has returned from his Russian campaign without injury to the delicacy or strength of his organ. The original tremulousness of voice which marked this artist, and which was by some esteemed a beauty as a return to an ancient trick of art, and by others denounced as a radical defect in the organ, has been for some time on the decrease, and was little perceptible on the recent occasion, except in the more strongly impassioned passages, in which, however, the cha racteristic in question is frequently not misplaced. Like Ronconi and Madame Castellan, Signor Tamberlik was in excellent voice. The sole debutante was Madlle. Seguin, a French lady, we believe, who is the new contralto. Madlle. Seguin possesses a slight but well formed figure and intelli gent features. Her powers on her first entrance were sadly marred by nervousness, but she gradually recovered her com mand over her voice, and ended by achieving in the cavatina in the second act a decided hit. Madlle. Seguin's voice is a light contralto, more powerful than usual in the upper re gister; but well defined and satisfactory in the lower notes. Her style is excellent—even and musician-like, and her in tonation severely accurate. The air in the second act was encored by acclamation. Madlle. Seguin has mach to learn as an actress. She is, indeed, clearly a tyro upon the boards, but her voice and style are both much in her favour. The opera was steadily and evenly played. The orchestra, which numbers eighty-six, and includes Piatti and Bottesini, went with their usual accuracy and 3 plonsb, under the direction of M. Costa's baton, and the chorusses were on the whole efficient. We have one thing, however, decidedly to object to in the representation—the introduction of a feeble ballet divertissement in the first act, which breaks the flow of the music, and perfectly stops the dramatic action of the piece. In every respect this introduced ballet was bad. It was improperly introduced, and its performance was not of a character to which opera audiences are accustomed. First rate dancing may, by a stretch, be tolerated in a lyric work, but certainly not dancing of the species exhibited on Satur day evening. The whole affair is quite a mistake. No music ought to be performed as part of an opera, unless it be written by the composer of the opera, and thus carry out his original designs. Let the divertissement be given at the conclusion of the principal work. It is then at all events harmless. After the fall of the curtain " God save the Queen" was sung. Madame Castellan was the only principal vocalist who took the solo parts. (From the Daily News.) The cast was strong, and the performance excellent. Ma dame Castallan was a charming representative of the heroine, and sang exquisitely, particularly the air " Cups fatal mestizia," the finest morceau in the part. In the terror, agony, and distraction of the closing scene she showed a high degree of tragic power. Tamberlik did all justice to the cha racter of the Count de Chalais, both as an actor and a singer ; but the part is not so interesting, either vocally or dramati cally, as it ought to have been. None of the airs belonging:to it have left any trace on our memory. The little part of De Gondi served to introduce the new contralto, Mademoiselle Seguin, who achieved a decided triumph. Her aspect is very pleasing, but her excessive timidity for a little time seemed to paralyse her powers. Encouraged, however, by a kind re ception, she rallied her spirits; and when she came to the salient point of the part, the exceedingly pretty romance, " Per non istare in ozio," she poured it out with a verve, a fire, a richness of voice and brilliancy of execution which took the audience by storm, and it was encored with salvos of applause from every part of the house. We shall be much disappointed if this young lady do not turn out another Brambilla or Alboni. But all the other parts were eclipsed by Ronconi's magnificent performance of the Duke de Chevreuse. It is regarded as his chef donors, and is indeed a wonderful (we might almost say matchless) application of the vocal art to the ex pression of passion in its utmost violence and in tensity. In the final scene. the storm of frenzied jealousy, raging in the breast of a desperate man, has never been more powerfully painted by the greatest trage dians of Shakspere's stage. The piece has been produced with the completeness and splendour to be expected at this theatre. The orchestra remains under its able conductor, Mr. Costa, and has been strengthened by some eminent names, particularly Piatti and Bottesini. The scenery and decorations were rich and beautiful. (From the Times.) The general execution of the opera was unimpeachable. The scenery and dresses were excellent; the orchestra was as perfect as ever, and the chorus seemed stronger and more efficient than last season. The overture, a very flimsy com position, was rendered interesting by the admirable manner in which it was played. Mr. Costa, who was received with acclamations on taking his seat in the orchestra, con ducted with his wonted decision and skill. The only objec tionable point in the performance was the interpolation of a series of dances, entitled a divertissement, into the first act of the opera, which divertissement proved by no means diverting to the audience, who, during its progress and at the conclusion, expressed their dissatisfaction in audible terms. Notwithstanding this, Mademoiselle Brussi and Mademoiselle Robert (the former a young and promising dancer, whose personal appearance is much in her favour — the latter a pantomimist of acknowledged eminence from the Grand Opera in Paris) were frequently and warmly ap plauded. The introduction of the divertissensent was, never theless, an unpardonable liberty, and its suppression on the next occasion will be advisable. If a ballet be necessary, it should be placed at the end of the evening's performance, unless originally a feature in the opera. The Royal Italian Opera has gained a reputation for giving the works of cele brated composers as they were written and ought to be chary of following bad examples. With this exception there was nothing but approval and genuine applause. The receptions accorded to Ronconi, Tamberlik, and Madame Castellan were highly complimentary, and the usual number of recalls testified to the general content. The last scene of Ronconi created &furore, and he was compelled to come for ward ,twice after his aria. After the opera the National Anthem was performed, Madame Castellan taking the prin cipal solos. Her Majesty's box was occupied by Lady Caroline Barring ton and Miss Barrington, Col. the Hon. Charles Gray, and party. Among the fashionable company attending the theatre were the Marchese Brancaleoni and Madlle. Brancaleoni, the Earl and Countess of Desert, the Earl of Durham, the Count and Countess de Morella, the Earl of Lisburn, Viscount Clifden, Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount Sydney, Viscount Exmouth, Viscout Bury, Viscoun miyb t bisscie C asc r: ar o g u Lt r ao n dn e y , Lord and Lady Carington and t y h , e L H or o Ld n a . Rd, Lord Broughton and the Hon. Miss Llobhotise, and the Hon. Mrs. Strange Jocelyn, Lady Hislop and Miss E • Lord John Hay, Lord Arthur Ha a r b n o . Elliot, Atkinson and party, Sir John and Loftus and Lady Otway, Hon. Otway Toler, Larvpbell Sanders and Dlr. Sanders, ALP., Lord Georeox, Hon. nSiir Webb. Sir William Leopold Agar Ellis, Baron de Steinberg, Ho M.P. Captain the Hon. Claude Lyon,n Bur rgdoG,yeii Burgoyne ache, a c s l , Dillon c. and the Hon. Misses Dillon, farlane;:and Miss Macfarlarne, Sir J h Misses Burgoyne, Sir Henry t re Sir George Armytage, Colonel m p i A m in , t i e d i lir! Williamson and Miss Williamson , Ca 'V illiers "-- Batton and Mrs. Villiers Hatton, Ca t • Th u d Blane, Laurie Colonel andTyr w m h i i s t s t , Gage, Mrs. Pugh and the Missesann' ?rain•Rand Mrs. tha s? JoM.hn Webster, Mr. W. ' Mr. Henry Greville M • Mr. H. Bingha m LCacuprtiae nEHr,i,ti.nWPD:eßnaxthol3th. r. Bulteel, Mr. Thist Gill es , Mr. nard, Mr. Mills, &c. Gascoyne and 3111. Colonel Ewer, m a rtineauL e : y 7 e, Gregor Mr. Bur- CHA pc Mr. Coles w a usr . On Sat tiro a of tbe shareholders of this R__G-c ßoss s gNsIoN-BRIDGE COMPANY. — y A special meeting Villiers-street, Strand, company ~.. subject of the new ap proaches at a previous meeting P r " c hes from the York-road, had been d t be made by the directors, and sanc ilhdeilnd the thecbsi r o e ffl o c n es, th % Propose o In a circular issued by Messrs. tioned by the shareholders. which the proposition was Perry and Farisb, the grounds on • d, the directors, adopted were strongly conettrionly it was • o the c al leged, having offered no . e _ . which making such the increased income was to cover approaches', while the outlay , w as not stated. A resolution in accordance withthese views • ~a s submitted to the meeting by Mr. Tyrrell, whichas suppor ted at great length by Mr. Hawes, late a Iv director. An ame ndment by was moved Mr. Few, solicitor to the company, to the effect that it is highly desirable that such a pproaches should be made , and that the directors be requested to take such steps as they deem proper to carry the plan into effect. The probable cost, he said, would be about 12,000 L, and increased tolls to the amount of 400/. a year, or 526 passengers per diem, would justify that outlay, while the sum of 4,9001. would purchase all the property re quired for carrying out the project. After a lengthened discussion the resolution was rejected, and the amendment of Mr. Few was adopted by a majority of 11. The prec2ed bags then terminated. The lonw-pending agreement between the London and North-Western, the Chester and Holyhead, and the City of Dublin Companies, for the conveyance of the Irish goods and cattle traffic to and from Holyhead, was finally settled pa giatiuday reek. r - • - - 7< a l \‘` THE CRYSTAL PALACE The report made to the Lords of the Tre asktfy i Tll the Commissioners appointed to inquire into tbeCpaj, , L nd applicability of the Crystal Palace has a t eng bees: printed, and will he read with interest... Only seven witnesses were examined, viz. :—Sir Charles Fox, Mr. Dilke, Mr. Fleming, the Duke of Suther land's ger ,lener at Trentham, Sir Joseph Paid ion, Mr. John lilk , )roprietor of some of the houses opposite the of the building, Mr. Hawkins, bead of south eside the department of antiquities in the British Museum, and Mr. Cole. " Offic•e of Works, &c., 19th Feb. 1852. "M Lords, —In ,lon.ipliance with your Lordships' directions we have mktde inquiry into the several mat. tern referred to us in the Treasury letter, dated the 13th of December, 1851. " It will be most convenieklt that we should in the first place report upo n those q ue,stioas which will admit of distinct and definite re p lies ; eiese are— " 1. The price at which the Government could par chece the Exhibition building. "It appears that since the 31st of December, 1851, the building has been given up by the Commissioners appo.'nted to superintend the Exhibition, and - has be. Come the property of the contractors. In order, th ere fore, to obtain a reply to this question, we applie.3 to Sir C. For, and he has stated on the part of the contractors, that the pricy of the building as it now stascia is 65,834/. :is. lld,, to which amount, how ever, must be added a sum for its maintenance since the Ist of Decem:Jer. Sir C. Fox has stated that he expects the Royal Commissioners to pay a sum of 20,912/. 4s. 4d. beyond what he has already received, and if this expectation should be realised the purchase money would be reduced to that extent. 2. The cost at which it could be adapted for a m ammy structure. "The works necessary for this purpose th, contractors would undertake to execute for the sum of 216,0001., as suming that it were determined to retain the building on its present site:- Course depend " 3. The cost of removin g the buildin g and refixing it upon another site. proposed to re'fix the buildi ng; b at r q e u m es o ti va on i, iu m l us d t t he o n f attire of the soil upon n T w t h h h e e Bedistanceat may be f b i t e h i e s assuming it to be within a dist,snce to which the m ater i a l s could be carted, and that the site chosen for its re-construe tion were attended with no unfavourable circa matances, Sir C. Fox has stated the cost of its removal and r oom . struction, including such improvements as I would ad a pt it for a pennant building, to be 61,5001. In o th ; er words, adding the cost of removal and reconstructi on to the price of the purchase, the Exhibition Building could Saw removed and refixed for the sum of 127,3351., a me.. dition in which it could be permanently maintained. "4. The probable cost which would be required fo r the maintenance of the building. " The contractnrs would undertake to maintain th e structure, including the cost of painting it externally an d internally every fon: years, for the sum of 5,0001. a yea r. " The other questions which your Lordships have sul s mitted to our consideration must be matter of opinic fa, and will not allow of such easy solution. These are-- "5. The purposes to which the building could be most advantageously applied. of suggestions have been " A large covered spac e affords, it is said,. socommo off`e'rUedp.on this point a variety accommo dation for innumeiable objects, and facilities for public amusement and instruction. These are a dvantagee which, it is argued, should not be neglected, bi it should, in some way or other, be rendered available; an d accord ingly the Exhibition Building might, it has b een sug gested, comprise within its ample area museums, sculp ture galleries, lecture-rooms, sheltered walks for inva lids, places of recreation for the idle, and of scientific re search for the studious. " It is impossible fairly to examine those various sug gestions without at the same time considering another question, namely, "6. The site which it may be desirable to select for this building. " Whether or not the Government could, cons istently with former engagements, retain the building u pon its present site, is a question into which we do not ct minder it our province to enter; but we have not deemed it t right, in regard to this point, to exclude some evidence which appears to deserve your Lordships' attention. " Assuming that the present site were deemed unob jectionable, it appears to us that a portion of Hydu-park should not be permanently appropriated, unless to an object of very general interest and advantage. " The British Museum affords undoubtedly insufficient space for its daily increasing collections; but we believe that the structure in Hyde-park could not be rendered subservient to its relief without extensive alterations, which, while they would impair the effect of the build ing, would ill satisfy persons who visited the collection. " The sculptures of Egypt, of Lyeia, and of Nineveh might, it has been said, be advantageously seen under a roof which from its lightness and transpstrency resem bles the open air.—The contrast of light and shade is, however, deemed advantageous to sculptetre, and the colossal character of these antiquities may be by other persons thought to accord best with massive architecture. " Mr. Hawkins, the head of the department of mai -1 guides at the British Museum, thinks it objectionable to divide the collection, while he observes that articles of value could not be safely deposited in this building, un less the precautious resorted to during the time of the Exhibition were aplin adopted. " It is, moreover, obvious that rooms for the officers of the department must be provided; and it is probable that gradually the sab,iivisions and alterations cf the interior would prove the- bad economy of appropriating this much admired structure to a purpose for which it was not originally designed. "The force of these observations appear to have been in some measure admitted, even by persons' who recom mend this appropriation of the building. It may be seen, for instance, that Mr. Cole contemplates this only as a temporary employment of the building until same more suitable edifice shall have been eons tructed for the various institutions which he thinks it dosirable to establish. " Amidst the various schemes that have been pro posed with a view of rendering the building perma nently attractive on its present site, the plan recom mended by Sir J. Paxton appears to be the most eligi ble. He submitted a very ingenious plan for convert ing the building into a garden, and having estimated the coat of this conversion, be states that the entire outlay necessary for the purchase of the building and its subsequent adaptation would be 1.50,0001. He also estimates the cost of its future maint enanoe at 12,0001. a year. Upon further consideration, however, Sir Joseph Paxton has revised this estimate, at sd stated the yearly charge for the maintenance of the fa brie and the renewal of the interior decorations required ID render it permanently attractive at 20,0001 a year. "Even after making these extensive alterations in th e present building, Sir Joseph Paxton has admitted that it will not be in all respects the best adapted to its pur pose, and that for the sum of 150,0001. he could put up a much finer, a more magnificent, and more appropr iat e struc ture than the Exhibition Building. whichdi whinh will would be w e e " We are not prepared to say that the sum of 150,000 wo uld cover the cost of adapting the building to th e 1. pur poses of a garden. We should think it more pru dent to sesame Considering 2 00, O 001. theas the lar expenditurelarge annual ture ex expenditure n cessary for these works. , be required for the maintenance of the gardens when recommend toimperfec t. the to Parliament an annual grant for the maintenance of an ornamental garden under gsluacshs within the precin eta of t a structure should, we ithforall the skill w hi c h sc i e nce and a b r e ks d , es t ig he ne p d la w n experience could direct to think, h e P this task; and it would be unfortunate that the arc hi tect should be fettered by the endeavour to employ old materials and re -adapt former arrangements. "We believe that the remembrance of the late Ex hibition would be unfavourable to a new appropriation of the building, as it would be impossible to reproduce induces us to the brilliant effect obtained from the rich collections which were temporarily placed there. believe "The vite, s eu that even if the building were removed to another Battersea -park, it could not establishment, unless it be rendered a self•suPP rtin g were under the management of persons who might con che:fiocirenincestawnehei,cahs have taken duct it as a commerc ial speculation. I 66 W e object, and therefore we have not in quiredchase it for such an "ofthe o such an appropriation further into e do not suppose that the Government would pur the structure, could be f ortion of vv e endeavoured to ascertain wether the Exhibition Building, yp n ew in connexion with the Botanical Gardens. .house affords space for the exhibition of ants, but a building for the growth of plants tropical pl helter and moderate heat is much desired. requiring b In those grounds there exists already an establish ment which could be employed in the care of the plants, and it must be admitted that the height and beauty of e to , p lTcred palm -house the transept forming the most striking portion of the building would be a great ornament to the gardens at Hew. " We inquired therefore of Sir C. Fox the cost of re moving the central portion of the extent of 33 bays, erecting this central piece together with two new ends, and completing this diminished building as a permanent structure. " From his reply it appears that the price of the pur chase and the charge for refixing it would amount to about 80,0001. Some additional expense would have t o be incurred for warming and ventilating apparatue. " Thesesults of the evidence hero collected appear to of to show, that if it be proposed to retain the building on its present site, the best purpose to which it Could be applied would be the formation of an ornamental garden, as suggested by Sir J. Elate': ; if it were decided not to retain the building in Hyde-park, we do not know any other site upon which a e can recommend its re-construe. Lion at the public expense. If the expenditure of 80,0001. were not deemed an in superable objection, the principal portion of the building might be removed to Hew, where its future maintenance as a conservatory, both useful and ornamen tal, might be provided for with a comparati ve l y esta blishment of the bot an i c gardens. "In the event, however, small increase to the ,0 f such a scheme meeting with the sanction of your lord:hips and the approval of Par liament, we believe that it would be the most economical course of proceeding to purchase the entire structure, and again to dispose o f t h ose po rtions which might not be required for the purposes of the botanical gardens. " We have the honour to be, my Lords, " Your Lordships' very humble somata, " SETIouR. " W. Ctrurrr. " Jou); LXNDLZI. "The Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury." I N r Y.~ T.