The Sun. — London, England, 1852-03-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) th e Egleton, a well-dressed man, was Owed at _ ti e bar before Mr. Tyr whitt, charged with steathig L an titY of fine gold, the property of Mr. John New 'lll,l, gold refiner, of Jerusalem-passage, Clerkenweli. — 4 he prosecutor stated that last evening, about half past seven, the prisoner came to shod, and asked to :erved with 2i ounces of fine gold. The gold having ;7_ l l weighed and wrapped up in paper, was laid upon 1 , 1 : counter, when the prisoner asked for one penny -1111 of fine copper. Not having the copper, which is to as an alloy, in the front shop, be sent his daughter W hen the back shop for the purpose of getting it, and parcel his back was turned, the prisoner took up the pursued of gold, and ran out of the shop. lie immediately tied him, and after the prisoner had ran some dis tal:lc e, he turned down Waterloo - p lace, Clerkenwell e, (4 e, through which there is no thoroughfare, cd ran • Into one of the houses at the end. He waited f or the police to come up, but in the meantime an old 1 ? had in the most courageous ma nner seized him h. en attempting to get up the chimney, and brought 42 up stairs, when he gave the prosecut or the g old and 6ed to be forgiven. The gold, which was worth 41.55. „' per ounce. was of the value of 101 . 13s. 9d. He was 'Oder the greatest of obligations to the old lady , for, in t he opinion, if it had not been for her , he must have lost 140 Prisoner. Mrs. Rebecca Matthews said she took ho ld of the pri loner in her kitchen, when endeavouring to get up the le, and ne ver l e t go her hold of him until he gav e up ""ic gold to the prosecutor and was given into custody. _ Other evidence having been given, the prison er said nothing in defence. Mr. TYRwairr complimented the old lady upon t he e brrage she had displayed, and said her conduc t ou g ht to b mentioned to the judge, who would no doubt reward He then committed the prisoner fo r trial at the Criminal Court. COURT CIRCULAR OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY. The Queen ttnd Prince, with the Royal children, walked out yesterday forenoon. Sir Charles Eastlake and Mr. Gibbs were the only addition to the Royal dinner party. Rer Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by a Lady Anna Maria Dawson, arrived at twelve o'clock y e sterday, at her resider ce, Clarence House, St. James's, Frogmore House. In the afternoon her Royal Ottiness visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of G loucester, at Gloucester House, Piccadilly, and after wa!fla returned to Frogmore House. inialr- Abbott Lawrence, the American Minister, had an e lliew with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his offi eiti,l residence in Downing-street. Mr. MO had also ' 1 I nterview with the Noble Earl yesterday. tr : deputation of gentlemen connected with the Aus t. lakiaan colonies had an interview with Sir John snbi ‘ gwa yesterday, at the C olonial-office, on the si of transportation. The de p utation con delpr pi of Sir William Moleswort h, M.P., Mr. Ad- If:7, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. C. Anste y , ",_•• Mr. Ch ar l es M'Lachlan, Mr. Robert Brooks, Mr. I N walker, Mr, Edmund Gore , M r . William Jackson, kl" Illaaning, Mr. James Alexander, Mr. Donaldson, l Vdichie, Mr. S. Kennard, Mr. T. S. Atkins, Mr. J. A daekson, Mr. E. B. Boulton, Mr. John C. King (dele- T,,fretti the colony of Victoria), and Mr. G. Morphett. Mary Earl of Yarborough had an interview with Mr. - ;etary Walpole on Tuesday, at the Home-o ffi ce. ga „,_ 4 ' h a Earl of Lonsdale (Lord President of the Council) its a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers last evening at ''..r.esidence on Carlton-house-terrace. • Rincks Inspector. General of Canada, had an in 'tltjew yesterday, at the Colonial-office, with Sir John t tigtOti ott 4 - 10 ,,,rd John Russell had a Parliamentary dinner party tot :aesday, at his residence in Chesham-place. The 84, 0411 Y consisted of Earl Grosvenor, Mr. Fit z p atrick, )4„„'„! Douglas, Sir John Hanmer, Mr. Wilco x, Mr. bC: l4 ianon, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. Hastie , Mr . Strutt, Tennent, Mr. Hutchins, Mr. Westhead, Mr. Glyn, Ahted, Smi th Alelgunand d, Mr. B Gr ht, Mr. Hardcastle, Mr. John rig I)!'Vetch, Mr. anger. k a es from the Governors of the North Ameri- Nt Provinces were received yesterday at the Colonial. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. GIMAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.— (Miles in work, 241* — "um of Traffic for the Week ending March 7, 1852 : Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, dogs, and mails ... £4,392 9 5 Merchandise and minerals t', 997 9 8 Cattle 149 12 11 r Total .. £10,539 12 0 el T?nding week, 1851 (236 miles):— Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £3,911 1 9 4 Merchandise, Cattle, &c. ... 3,744 110 Total ••• ... £7,656 1 2 T Op.„ cASIIIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles 'F . )--Traffic for week ending Mar. 14 £15,747 8 9 co rresponding week in last year (260 'wen open) .. ....£13,923 411 ItI, C a t t STER AND 14YHE•D RAILWAY..-.THiffie for the ending March 14:— MAIN LINE. Passengers ••• ••• Parcels, H. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. ••• Mails ••• ••• Total ••• MOLD. Passengers •-• ••• Parcels, H. C. and D. ••• Goods, cattle, &c. ... £l,OlO 11 8 98 9 7 537 4 8 .. 575 0 0 ... £2,221 5 11 £2B 8 7 1 1 10 94 7 8 ... .£123 18 1 Total ••• •• STEAM-BOATS• Passengers Parcels, H. C. and D. ... £169 13 9 24 0 6 Total ... ... £ 193 14 3 %d in H CH/I'MM RAILWAY.—Tra ffi a for the Week -"g March 14, 1852 Passengers : • assengers (7,466), parcels, horses, . and carriages ... £756 911 Goods, cattle, &c. 903 8 2 Total .. 1,659 17 3 p...corresponding week in last year... 1,493 7 10 March 17, 1852. . ---LAW C ti ls lIN THE C OMMO N OURTS.— Yesterday co o rst Bill founded on the rep ort of the Common Law i l e ttt l iti tPissioners was printed for the regulation o f the fees of Pte tr ; It ; offices in the courts of common ,offs and to make !It Nisi for their payment by salary. The ces of la th i s , . Prius in the Court of Queen's B ench and Associate ei x L 6 Courts of Common Pleas and Exc he q uer are to be ea Cued. and the duties to be performe d b y the Marshals f ot e said courts respectively. Fees are to be accounted ssma t? the Treasury, and officers of the courts to be paid by At P resent, The Treasury may abolish the Marshal's fees. ltserreilords on circuit, a fee of 6s. Bd. is paid " for the a ,„..' of the judge," which it is propos ed to abolish, as also the -" to the Marshal's man and judge's bailiff. ,:. Tap A ... Vv .c) --... DvENTunEs OF A BEAUTY. BY MRs. f 0r : 4 4 author Susan Hopley," &c.—This new work, le r , the pen of the clever friend of the Rev. Sydney Smith, fs,:te of the best productions she has given to the world. A Of 1 it tating interest (says the John Bull) pervades this tale G b ove betrayed and humbled pride. Around the principal tr. r e , the beautiful heroine of the story, are grouped a va lip.3- of characters of aspect most diverse, all sketched to the and each sustaining his or her part in the most telling til. fanner. Without resorting to any exaggeration, either in ui - th w o ay of ideal perfection or of caricature, the talented picturreshZ produced a succession of real tableaux vivants, reader's mi e n l h a t i t ig life and animation, and exciting in the nals would call forTV sympa thies which their l i v in g ori g i- THE COUNTESS Countess of Derby held h e r —The DERRY'S ASSEMBLY. er first ~ rat reception" last evening at the official res idence of the First Lord of the Treasury , in uowning-street • The reuni er "r!,was honoured with the pre sence of a brilliant circle World, including the leading membersepolitical sad fashionable of both parties. His Face the Duke of Wellington hen his company, arriving about a quer c t r d a the ethe Countess with r to eleven o'clock. The la_rquis ol Anglesey was also among . present. Mies e Lord ra 8 an e d arl L y a v d i y si o te r r a s.. Li am, and Lady John Russell, Sir and the Earl of Aberdeen were also , C hancellor and Lady St. Leonards and Thiers was among th lion. . les Sug ,„"all arrived early. 2d• ow e distinguished %niers present. .„ TEE OLD SOLDLERS OF THE ElarraE - -The k i tePrisent an t de l'lndre publishes a list of ;the old soldiers o f the Republic and the .Empire residing in the departme nt , ear, in e xecution fir!, to receive a pension of from 200 f. to 300 f. a y . d 34 4 o. of the decree of the 14th of December last. Eight 76`"eln are upwards of 80 . years of age, an upwa tot The category, including the men of 60 years of age, is . Yet terminated.—Galig nani. Ito ti o num OF GOLD D U ST .—.Yesterdav informa "vas given to the police that a man named Peter Willis, / 1 1!,,, w1 3? arrived from California, 'Where, after years of toil and h'''"llpointment, he had collected 138 ounces of gold dust, „.. r been robbed of his entire possessions by . two sharpers, i s ( ) threw themselves in his way, and gainedthis ea.seilny: seibt"'efi confidence. After separately represen ing tn es to him simple people, upon whom, as on himsTlf panefor pp„_, had smiled, one professed to buy the dust of him, and n 'youced a roll of notes for the purpose. With strange un 'tticl,sence he suffered himself to lose sight of them while pro tit,"g a receipt stamp, and in a moment found himself h Polled and destitute of so much as the means of reaching is friends in North Britain. est,ITEA.ORD/NARY SCREW STEAMING.—The small D.o ‘ ol .-steamer Weaver, lately built by Mr. Laird, left Liver am' for her station at Northwich on Friday last, at lh. 57m., miles, reached Runcorn at Bh. 4m., thus making the run of 18 lee , with the tide, in one hour and seven minutes. The Liv erpool, is the quickest run ever made to Runcorn from lit sv H er Pool, and fully confirms all the previous reports of this 4 -, e ye ~s $ u acorn performances. After waiting some time at a - s ile.° 4 . rn and Weston Point, the Weaver left for Northwich, v a ,. - Ttance of 14 or 15 miles, and made the passage, including ve;4lla stoppages and the delays of passing through the se red locks, under two and a half hours; and when regularly et go , is work will make the run, it is expec ted, in two hours. A at e . Party of engineers and other gentlemen interested in h io lra navigation were on board, and expresse d ,themselves b ' I F pleased with the trip. r 4 Advices from Vienna mention that letters had been state from the Levant, describing a most unfavourable barin g o f commercial credit, especially in the lonian Islands. var ious the preceding week about 20 traders had failed for ° ll B sums, amounting in the aggregate to 60,000/. The 1 1 47' of Macri and Co. had all suspe nded, at Corfu, with gel liabilities. an The Volunteer Rifle Clubs have, it is stated, been gr.:bed by the new Government ; and the patriotic offer of de e - 1 114° os service for national defence has, it is alleged, been f e r lued. Should this statement prove to be true, much h tu e t l ug on the subject will doubtless be manifested throug - the country.—Daily News. 4 RAILWAY ACTS.—A return pr esented to the °ll4 e of Commons was yesterday print ed, showing that it, t heT h session of 1851 there were 61 railw a y Acts passed. Itall increase of mileage occasioned by the A cts was 5 miles 191 4 chains. The decrease of capital and loans oc -'4°11114 by the Acts amounted to 14,2421. LITERATURE. COMPLETE WORKS of SHAKESPEARE. Vol. I. Edited by Samuel Phelps. Willoughby and Company. Careful and minute as have been the investigations of his various commentators hitherto, there still re mains for Shakspere ample opportunity for the yet further elucidation of his meaning in regard to dif ferent passages, obscure even now in one or other of his great dramatic masterpieces. Whatever is at tempted therefore to this end must at all times com mand our most earnest and cordial encouragement. It is extraordinary what yet remains to be done in the way of bringing to light the interior signification of sentences to this day cause of bewilderment to the more discerning among the students of the master mind of our literature. Marvellously as many of the obscurities in his plays have been cleared away, es pecially during the last seventy or eighty years, a residue still continues to baffle the skill of the anti quary, to pique the curiosity of the philologist, and to hold out new temptations to the research of the literary adventurer. This, moreover, notwith standing the diligent inquiries of Payne Collier, the industry of Charles Knight, and the persever ance of Halli well—those three men who in our own generation have reduced to insignificance the previously admired results of the toil undertaken by the painstaking Malone, the accurate Steevens, the gifted Schlegel, the eloquent Hozlitt, the intelligent Ayscough, and the laborious Johnson. Aware of how much yet demands explanation at the hand of the commentator, we have viewed with more than customary pleasure the progressive advance made in the advent of the edition before us, an edition, like many of its predecessors, issued in the form of a serial publication. Occasionally, as the successive instal ments appeared, we commented in terms of deserved commendation upon the value of the enterprise, and may now, therefore, in noticing the completion of the first volume, confirm all we have previously said in its praise, corroborating in language yet more ex plicit in the way of eulogium whatever has 'ready in these columns, and in this instance, been said, as expressive of our admiration. Within the compass of this first volume, extending to no less than 674 pages octavo, are comprised twenty of those wonderful dramas which have conferred universal fame on the name of Shakspere—or as the title-page of the present edition barbarously has it, in defiance of the orthography of the few precious autographs still surviving, Shakespeare. Whatever notes there are— and there are happily " abundance," though not " and to spare"—they are collected together (accurately numbered, for reference), at the end of each play, so that the text itself flows uninterruptedly from Act 1., scene 1, down to to the final exeunt. Merely regard ing the matter as one of typographical arrangement, this must be acceptable io every respect, as tending considerably to impart uniformity to every page, while it is at the same moment indicative of a proper sense of poetic veneration. The annotations are, by such means, reserved until the close of each perform ance, not being thrust into imp ertinent j uxta p osition with ' the original matter, distracting the attention of the reader possibly at the precise instan t when he can least endure interruption, or when he least requires explanation. Prefixed to each drama will he found, moreover, a brief but ample " introduction," conveying precisely the amount of preliminary inform ation that is desirable, pointing out, for example, the source from which the poet may happen to have drawn the outlines of his plot, or the authors to whose prior creations he may chance to be indebted for the idea of some remarkable character. It is with exultation that we remark in the observa tion introductory to the Tempest a scornful allusion made to the " absurd alterations" daringly, and we cannot but think also, s acrilegiously attempted by Dryden and Davenant. Here, likewise, we would especially direct attention to the extraordinary care displayed by the present editor of Shakspere in re producing the text of his writings precisely as it is given in the original edition of the various dramas. Subsequent interpolations are discarded as scorn fully as the casual erasures and abbreviations are filled up with a hand displaying everywhere the most reverential exactitude, or we might even say the most minute and microscopic accuracy. Subor dinate, in a remarkable degree, to the literary merits of the undertaking, the illustrations accompanying the serial publication before us are, nevertheless, suf ficiently spirited, and in other respects, sufficiently meritorious to justify commendation. Pencilled by T. H. Nicholson, and engraved by C. W. Sheaves, they are sometimes, as in the instance of t he a pp arition of the witches to lacbeth and BliDqllo, distinguished by a really admirable boldness both of conception and of execution. Excellent as the work is in its embel lishments, it is replete with other attractions besides the pictorial, attractions (or which the lovers of Shakspere will be immeasurably more grateful, aiding, as they do, so very materially to unveil the poetic splendour concealed by the 'darkening influences of garbled copies, ridiculous false spelling, or mistaken punctuation. For the adroitness revealed in the re moval of these blemishes, the public must remain largely indebted to the pen which has thus vindicated the genius of one who, as a writer, was the greatest of human intellects. The expectations raised by the first announcement of a new edition of the complete works of Shakspere, under the supervision of one so eminently distinguished as an actor as Samuel Phelps—the tragedian upon whose shoul der has fallen the mantle of Macready—have already been justified by the success of those portions of the enterprise already issued, portions yielding ample promise of their ulterior and complete realiza tion. Besides wandering once more through the magic island of the Tempest, we are enabled in the present volume to linger again over the loves of R om eo and Juliet, over the remorse of Macbeth, the indecision of Hamlet, and the misanthropy of Timon, to watch the course of our native history anew through the medium of Henry IV. and Richard 11. and King John, and as far back as the mythical days of Cymbeline, to laugh again, as we can never cease from laughing, with Sir Toby in Twefth Night, and with Sir John in the Merry Wives of Windsor, seeing the Roman glories revived in Julius Cesar, and the Italian in Measure for Measure, and drink ing in with insatiable deli g ht the poetry, the p a thos, and the p assion aboundin g even in Love's Labour Lost, but still more in incomparable masterpieces like the Merchant of Venice, the Two Gentlemen o f Verona, Taming the Shrew, As You Like It, A Winter's Tale, Midsummer Night's Dream. From the enumeration and the of those twenty dramas, as being those comprised in the first volume of Phelps's edition of Shakspere, it will be perceived that they have been judiciously se lected with proper regard to their particularly diver sified character. As a frontispiece, it will be observed that the publishers have presented their subscriber b s with an engraving by B. Hell fr om the print y Houbraken, not the least curious or the least agree able of the different likenesses o f Shakspere. No memoir of the poet's life being give n in the present instalment of a moiety of his writings, we presume that the biography for the edition is reserved until the period of its completion—a circumstance which we are the less disposed to regret, seeing that long before then additional light may have been thrown upon that unhappily obscure theme, by the issue of the new life of the Bard of Bards from the master band of Monsieur Guizot, a work which the students of English 'iterative have recently seen, with no little surprise and curiosity, announced for speedy publication. From what we have already remarked in reference to the volume here under consideration, it becomes almost superfluous to add that we regard the present edition of the writings of Shakspere as in many respects singularly meritorious, as an edition not very frequently eq ualled in cheapness and seldom surpassed in accuracy, an d one, therefore, for which the subscribers m u s t feel especially t hankful to the enterprise o f the publishers, the Messrs. Willoughby. THE R IVAL cANDIDATgS FOR THE with great dexte*Playing PRE MIE RSHIP. We are - in a position to state, that Sir James Graham is at this mome nt as if the prize wer e three months have ela psed in his his cards for the Premiership and that he feels almost as certain of her Majesty. and that lis e t d h he will be the Prime Minister I ns : l o f naiderab h l 411 What country . 3ut hn:i rt p sy o m s w s o e irl s tel s i,m i b o eet n h. b , ei t e h isis a se t e tdbheewith y e a Graham Government. edly the ~ great formed,Barone w p i e l r i su la a s cl t es fol l . li Cabinet, when eno ugh, Ireland, which has been confe ssedl y Strangely difficulty" of all Governments darin e g ss Proved the grave the present c en tury, James of several Cabi nets, will not. in Sir Graham e stimation, " difficulty" at all to him. On the jury, and which has p prove any contrary , he - satisfied that Ireland will strengthen, rather than impa i r , ' 38 his Government, will promote, rather than impede, plans. Ile grounds this conviction partly on the good understanding which subsists between himself and th( Irish Brigade, and partly on the course which he pursued with regard to the Papal Aggression Bill, which, he thinks, cannot fail to insure him the support of every zealous Roman Catholic. In the meantime, Lord John Russell is no less eager to return to power, nor does he feel less confidheent evthatt his aspirations will be realised. 'Whether ten - will prove that hi s expectations are well founded, re mains to be seen; but of this we ca'i assure the Noble Lord—that Sir James Graham is quietly, hut surely un dermining his power, in quarters where he would least expect it. Lord Joho, we have good reason to believe, fully relies on Sir James Graham being a member of his new Administration, should he be called on to form one. It is not for us to say that the Right llou. Baronet will will n ot; but if he does join a Russell Cabinet , it o nly be in the expectation that events will enable him very soon to supplant the Noble Lord in the Premier ship. We have only one more remark to make. There is no man who, at this very hour , is doing m uch as Sir James Graham to precipitate h Derby Ministry. And, let us add, t so e downfa ll 0 thatthough , working secretly, he is working most s uc cessfully.-- Advertiser. Mr. Knox, M.P. for Dungannon, has been ap pointed Groom in Waiting. LONDON, SPORTING NOTES. N THE WARWICK AN ( D . I?,N . DIINGTON STEEPLE CHASES TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—As- I remarked in yesterday's note, my pre diction concerning the Great Warwickshire Handicap, made on Friday last, was all but verified to the letter; for had it not been for Waterfall obtaining the second place, I should have accomplished the rather clever feat of placing first, second, and third; as it was, Doubt, whom I placed first, won very cleverly from Waterfall, and Ethelwolf, whom I placed second, was third; Cnteus, my fancy animal for the third position, running home a good fourth. - My selection for the Two Years Old Stakes ran home first and third; not without a dead heat, however, on the part of Catherine Hayes and the Libel colt, whieh was more the result of good riding than equality on the part of the latter. The field for the Grand Annual Steeplechase run to morrow, will, I understand, consist of the following:— Peter Simple, Oscar Bourton(d), Carrig, Warner , Half and-Half (d), St. Helier, Maurice Daley, The Young'un (d), Dollys Brae, and The Treasurer. My opinion with respect to their chances is unaltered—PETEß SIMPLE, OSCAR.and MAURICE DALEY to be first, second, and third: Dolly . s Brae and Ninon with Carrig heading the ruck. The acceptances for the Free Handicap Steeplechase are to be declared before seven o'clock this evening to Mr. Merry, of Warwick- street, Leamington. I have ascertained that Melford, The Young un, Spectator, Voyager, Silent Friend, The 'Screw, Flight , B endi g o, Linda, Slattern, Kiss-me-quick, and several others of no account. are those that will be struck out. The field may possibly be cemposed .of--Victress, Frank, - Tally-ho, Gulnare, Mystery, Widow Machree, Jane Oaks, Orange Girl, Buscot, and perhaps another. The race, as I ob served before, will lie amongst VICTRESS, Tally-ho, Gulnare, and Widow Ilfachree, and, as I have placed them, so they staed.in my estimation. .The starters for the Hurdle Race I am not very possitive about, , but think the following list will comprise the lot, viz. :—Combatant, The Drags, Half-and-Half, Bullfinch, Ormsby, Tom Bowling, Lod dington, Scavenger, and perhaps Cosachia, and Choris ter. I see nothing to beat HALF-AND-HALF, if meant; and anticipate a good struggle tor second place between Combatants The Drag, and Bullfinch. The Hunt Steeplecna43 and Scurry Handicap do not close till seven o'clock this evening. The betting on to-morrow's events has, for the most part, been confined to two or three horses for each race; the following are the latest prices:— Grand Annual Steeplechase-4 to 1 agst Oscar, sto 1 agst Peter Simple, and 6 to 1 agst Maurice Daley; 10 to 1 offered agst any other: Free Handicap-4 to 1 agst Victress (taken freely), 5 to 1 agst Frank. 5 to 1 agst Gillnare,'6 to 1 agst any other. Hurdle Race-2 to 1 agst Half -and-Half (5 to 2 taken), 5 to 1 agst Bull finch, 5 to 1 apt The Drag, 6 to 1 agst Ormsby, 8 to 1 each agst Tom Bowling and Scavenger. I intend to review the Northampton Meeting to morrow. am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. March 18, 1852. SPORTIG INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON SPRING . . MEETING."—WEDNESDAY. The Castle Stakes of 15 Boys each, sft for three yrs old. One mile. (4 Subs.) Lord Warwick's Black . Audrey, Bst 41b ... walked over. Match, 50 son. 12st each. Two miles. Mr. Robertson's The Farmer (Owner) 1 Mr. Pottinger's Blue Devils (Owner) 2 Won in a canter. Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, and 25 added, for three yra old and upwards. Winner to be sold for 2001., &o. One mile. (3 Subs.) Mr. Whiting's Dame. Tattle (501), Est 91b ...(Kendal) 1 Mr. Delamer's Curl, 4 yrs (501), 7st 111 b (Nat) 2 Mr. Brown's. Lucy, aged (501), Bst 111b(Flatman, jun.) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Curl. Won by a length and a halt. Run in 1 mini 52 secs. The Two Years Old Stakes of 10 soya. each, 50 added; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Five furlongs. (11 Subs.) Mr. W auchope's Catherine Hayes (G.Whitehouse) 0 1 Mr. J. Arbor's t by the Libel (Rogers) 0 2 Lord CaledOn's e by Simoou (W. Sharpe) 3 0 Sir C. Rushout's Ethelbert (T. Clay) 0 0 Lord Wilton's fby Oakley (Flatman) 0 0 Mr. Sherrini's Rage (Treen, jun.) 0 0 Mr. Delatner a Madame Luideau (Bartholomew) 0 0 Bettin-5 to 4 agat Catherine Hayes (taken), 3 to agst Libel colt, 4 to 1 agst Madame Landeau, and 6 to . agst Rage. • _ A splendid race between the two favourites ended in a dead heat; the Simoom colt a bad third, and Ethelbert a bad fourth. Run in 1 min. 9 secs. Deciding heat -11 to 10 on, Catherine - Hayes, who won in a canter. Run in 1 tain 5 secs. The Great Warwickshire Handicap of 20 soya. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 50 added; the second to receive 251,, &c. Two miles. (31 Subs., 13 of whom paid 5 sovs. each.) Mr. W. Palmer's Doubt, 6 yrs, 7st 71b ...(Charlton) 1 Mr. Isaac Day's Waterfall, 4 yrs, sst 111 b (Carroll) 2 Sir C. Rushout's Ethelwolf, 3 yrs, 4st 121b(Steggles) 3 Lord Lurgan's Cnseus, 4 yrs, Est 121 b (Arnold) 4 Captain Little's Agis, aged, 7st 21b (Basham) 0 Mr. Sargent's Cogia, 6 yrs, 6st 101 b (Kendal) 0 Mr. Robinson's Selina, 6 yrs, Est 101 b (Preece) 0 Lord Clifden's Harpsichord, 4 yrs, Est 91b (G. Mann) 0 Lord Chesterfield's fby Lanercost, 4st 6lb (Aspinal) 0 Betting-5 to 2 agst ODIOUS, 4to 1 agst Doubt, 9to 2 agst Ethelwolf, 7 to 1 agat Jemima filly, 8 to 1 agst Harpsichord, and 10 to 1 apt Waterfall. Won by a neck; a length between second and third, and neck between third and fourth; Cogia a bad fifth. Run in 3 min. 47 secs. The Debdale Stakes of A sovs, each, and 25 added, for hunters, &c. Two miles. (8 Subs.) Mr. J. Little§ Whitstone, 125t . 51b (Captain Little) 1 Mr. Luc)'s Tipperary Boy, llst 71b (Captain Lane) 2 Mr. Little na Redcap, list 71b . . ... Davenport) 3 Mr. Littledale's Maid of Erin, 12st (Captain W. Peel) Mr. Jenning's Remunerator, 5 yrs, 12st101b (Owner) 0 Colonel Shirley's Half-pay, 12st ...(Captain Dyso n ) 0 Even on W hitatone. Won by a l e ngth. Redcap a good third. 'Run in 4 . min. 7 secs . T.Y.C. Handicap of 5 soya. each, and 20 added. (6 .Subs.) Mr. Bowles's Iracundus, 4 yrs, fi s t 61b ... (Charlton) 1. Lord Clifden's Sagacity, aged, 7st 101 b ...(Flatman) 2 Lord Lurgan's Tightwaist, 4 yrs, Tat 61b (Arnold) 3 Mr. J. R. ScOtt's Manchester, 4 yrs; 7st 121 b (Wells) 4 Mr. F. Allibone's Doncaster, aged, Bst 71b ...(Lowe) 5 Betting-2 to 1 agst Iracundus (taken), 2to 1 agst Sagacity, and 3to 1 agst Tightwaist. Won by half a length. Run in 1 min. 36 secs. WARWICK, THURSDAY MORNING. (BY ELECTRIC 'TELEGRAPH.) LATEST BETTING. MILITARY - STEEPLECHASE. 3 to 1 agst Hawksworth 7 ,to 2 agst Medora 8 to 1 agst Treasurer 8 to 1 agst Waterman 10 to 1 agat any other NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES. 6' to 1 agat Chief Justice CHESTER CUP. 18 to 1 agst Scarecrow—taken 18 to 1 agst Confessor—taken 25 to 1 agst Hesse Homburg INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, 1852. Handicap for the Northumberland klate; forfeits to be declared on or before the 24th. Yrs st lb Nancy 4 8 13 Elthiron Russborough Miss Ann Cossack Confessor 4 8 1 Backbiter a 7 12 Chatterbox • 5 7 10 Mark Tapley' 5 7 7 Chief Justice •The Alp Neasham 4 7 4 Musician 5 7 2 'Miserrima Goldfinder Trickstress . 4 7 0 La Ca d at y aw Ede n . Haricot ay ... 5 5 6 6 1 10 0 ..-5 6 10 Hothorpe C R o m ti g a l t e e a ll d a e ti r on .. ... 4 4 4 6 6 0 6 1 1100 S T Gt h ho e or yi C at be a e si e u irn l a g t h o r Mouse ........ Y. Altisidora b g by Morgan Rattler out of • Countysss - ...... 5 6 6 Hunierford .. . 4 6 6 Tragedian' . . . .4 6 6 Orelio Colsterdale 4 6 4 Haresfoot - Deanery . 5 6 4 1 John Dory 6 6 4 ke 1; Trs st lb Knook Knoll Vivandiere ..... 4 6 4 Jack Leeming High Sheriff raquetta 4 6 0 Sledmere 4 5 12 The Proctor IGoliah ' Phantom 3 Bird-on-the-wing 3 Merry Bird ...., 3 'Songstress Ehfed Gnzeerat 3 Rachete Ischia ... 4 Y. Troublesome ... 4 Stafford England's Glory 4 c by Birdcatcher out of Flower of the Tees 3 Stilton 3 Conrad 3 Galvanism Sally ell•• 3 Bethgelert Pelopidas 3 Captain Flash 3 Tame The Sutler Snowdrop St. Michael 3 Caracara 3 i t by Lanercost, out of Jemiaia Y. Hawthorn IRELAND. , - THE LEVEE. DUBLIN: WEDNESDAY.—Lord Eglinton held his first Lee wi e t v han ye el t o e e r p d t a i y on at or Dl,ou,blwinosCoausmtlee.rouTshbeeyttotnted dnparneccee., prece dent. The visitors commenced arriving at a quarter past twelve o'clock , and Wwanted but a few minutes to three, when the last carriage drove .up Cork-hill. Since the year 1842, when Earl De Grey, as the first Viceroy under the - Peel 'Ministry threw open the Castle gates to 'the long excluded Conservative party, there has not been such a " crush" ; within its ancient walls. The visitors exceeded 1,760, the list of names filling three .closely printed columns of the morning papers. Not za . single Bishop: or minor dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church was present at yesterday's ceremonial. Evening had far set in before the streets resumed their ordinary quiet. EXECUTION OF ELIZABETH PINCICABM—NORTH roirTorr, MARCH 17.—This wretched woman, who was or dered to be executed at the late assizes, by Chief Justice Jervis, for the horrible murder of her mother-in-law, an old lady nearly 70 years of age, in November last, near Daven_ try, underwent the dreadful sentence yesterday morning, at the county gaol in this town. The culprit, we understand, made a full confession of her guilt to the authorities of the •Yprisorl, WhO decline for the present divulging the details. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH lB, 1852. THE MANCHESTER EDUCATION. Manchester, which to the world at large is the repre sentative of one simple idea, has at least its share of in ternal dissensions. Indeed, that activity and vigour which have recently given it so prominent a place in the politics of this country and the intercourse of nations seem to hale a like efl'ect in organizing its various schools of opinion, and arranging them against one another with an energy and on a scale nowhere else to be found. Though the existing means of education in the group of communities popularly comprehended in the name of Manchester produced no less than 80,000 school children to welcome her Majesty on her return from the north, yet the ambitious philanthropists of that city are as little satisfied with the amount us they are with the quality of the education there provided. Accordingly, two rival parties are there asking the assistance of Par liament for their respective schemes, equally intended to provide at the public expense the opportunity at least of good education for all classes. One of these schemes is that which we have several times discussed under the title of the National Public School Association, and whi c h proposes to found or assist schools for purely " secu l ar " e d uca tion, leaving religious instruction to the ministers of the se veral religious communities. The principle, if such it may be called, of education unaccompanied with dog matic or even scriptural instruction, is exemplified in the whole class of day schools designed for the middle ranks of life. But that example, large as it is, will not be re lied on as a model for the education of those who, if they are not taught religion at school, are not likely to learn it elsewhere. The second scheme of Manchester origin is that which came before the House of Commons yes terday morning, and which led to an important discus sion. Nothing can be simpler than this scheme, which is merely the proposition of a rate to be divided among existing schools and new schools, when necessary, in proportion to the number of their scholars, with enough superintendence to secure a tolerable degree of efficiency, and with the condition that the Scriptures shall be read. To these two great schemes must be added another not of so definite a character, or so local an application, being the voluntary principle applied to education, and differing in no considerable degree from the system now conducted by means of a Parliamentary grant by the Education Committee of the Privy Council. The second of these schemes is evidently the favourite at Manchester, if we are to judge from the suffrages of those who would be charged with its sup port. As Mr. Brotherto n observe d —.. “ Th e petition presented in its favour was sign ed b y - °lOOO persons, a large majority of the ratepay ers in t he two boroughs , viz, by upwards of 31 , 000 in Manches ter, and in Sal ford by about 8,5 00 ." Fro m other sources A we learn that there never was so general a concurrence of mi nisters of different communio ns in favo ur of any public measure. Indeed, it is quite an a g ree able surprise to find so much unity in so bene volent a purpose, and for so respectable and costly a sc heme. F or our own part, we feel the greates t reluctance to say a word ainst it. But, unfortunately, the popular it y of th e plan is g easily great end. It ' th the founs accounted for. It removes som e g reat practical al i l n t c h o e nve pe cuniaryni wouldence s e , xttri withoutonug troubles l extinguish, r ,s e no a rd l y a at tnxl c ei c ae o st m it e nis p 1 connected s oc hin ea g ellt a ee n vdi y awt dation and maintenance of schools for the poor— all the difficulties of getting sites,' all the canvass ing for subscriptions, all the debts and arrears, the ill-paying subscribers, the non-paying scholars, and the poorly-paid teacher s. • It woul d diminish that burden which now crushes the more generous mem bers of society, by throwing it rateably over all rate payers, and by making property observe its " d uties ', as well as its "rights." These considerations too easily explain the acceptance of this measure by large ratepayers, as well as by small ones. The Home Secretary pointed out with great clearness several new and important principles involved in this measure, all of them demanding the serious attention of Parliament before it could be permitted to pass into law. A public rate for education, though it might be justified by a general unanimity in its favour, and to some extent by the present system of grants from the Exchequer, is at least a novelty, and a novelty on a very large scale, when applied to a population of nearly half a million, The principle of offering that education entirely free is a not less serious matter, as, besides its natural effect in cheapening what ought to be highly appreciated, it wou ld hardly fa il to destro y m any the scheme, w ith ou t b e ing schools and ru i n m any teachers not embrace d in always certain to supply better tea c h ers or sc h oo ls. At all events , itis a poi n t that y demands consider a tion. Several p rovisions of the Bill are at leas t sinular, and likely to p rove ver y difficult to work, particular] that for giving each ratepayer a right to demand a special appropriation of his particular rate, at least till the purpose of the approp riation should be answered. B ut the most questionable feature of the Bill, and that which has caused its rejection by the town council of Manchester, since it first came under our no tice, is its singular combination of the voluntary and the compulsory principle in the matter of religion. It pro vides that any parent or guardian may object to any distinctive religious creed, catechism, or formu lary, but absolutely . insists on the reading of the Scriptures in the authorised version This rule would admit any fanatic—even a Mormonite, as some one observed yesterday —but would exclude Roman Catholics, at least all under the influence of their clergy. As it happens, the poor Roman Catholics of Manchester and Salford are the very class most in want of education, and, though they may pay but a small share of the rates, yet, as they contribute more than their share to the ignorance, the misery, the crime, and perhaps, we should add, to the honest industry of Man chester, they cannot be put aside in a schebie of educa tion. As far as we understand, the café for this Bill is the failure of the voluntary principle; and the proof of that failure is the immense number of children running about the streets and courts of Manchester without any one to take them by the hand. But a very large part of these children are Ro man Catholics, if they are anything, and would therefore be excluded from the benefits of this measure. This at least requires the gravest consideration, for of all things nothing is to be more avoided than an injustice or an insult under the disguise of philanthropy. The House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. Milner Gibson, and with the acquiescence of G overnment, ver y wisely re ferred the question to a S e l ect Comm i ttee . The truth is, there is no such hur r y as some good people imagine. The Education Committ ee i s ready to o ff er very large assistance, on the most lib eral cond i t i ons , t o wards the foundation, the maint enance, and the mana gement of schools, and, if it does not effect more, it is simply be cause there are not more appli cants.— Times. EXPERIMENTS WITH RIFLE CANNON. THE ARMY WOOLWICH, MARCH 17.—C olonel H. w. Gordon, Colonel Dundas, C. 8., Colonel J. A. Chalmer, C olonel Brereton, C .8., I.H. , Colo ne l Bl anc h ar d, C. 8., Royal Engineers; Lieutenant-Col one l B ell, Royal Horse Ar tillery; Lieutenant-Colonel A n d erson, R o y a l Artillery; Brigade Major Walpole, Royal E ng i neers; and Captain Riddell, deputy-assistant qu ar t er - master ge neral of Ar tillery, with a number of officers of the Royal. Artillery and Royal Engineers, assembled in the marshes yester day to witness experiments with a 9-pounder field bat tery gun, rifled with four grooves, for firing conical shot or shells of galvanized iron. The 9-pounder was sta tioned at 1,000 yards from the target, and the shot, al though nearly twice the w e i g h t, ow i ng to it s elongated shape, of the common 9-pou n d er s h ot , wa s placed to the gun, previously suppli e d w i th only two p ou nds of powder, the previously r e d uced service c h arge of guns of that calibre being tw o poun d s e ight ouuces. After waiting a consid era b le time to o btain a c l ea r range, there bei ng a great num ber of v essels passing, an opportunity o f fi r i ng wa s obtained, and the conical shot entered the butt a little on the east side of the target, having been carried the entire dis tance with the small charge of powder, and an elevation of the gun of one and three-fou rt h d eg rees. The gun was again loaded with a si m il ar charge o f p ow d e r and shot, but it was nearly an hour b e f ore it could be fired, as so many vessels continued pa ss i ng u p an d down the river. The 9-pounder having been elevated to two de grees, on being fired, the shot was carried over the butt, and the long distance between it and the river, and over the river into the Essex marshes. The range continuing to be interrupted by the vessels passing on the river, the 9-pounder was turned round, and the third round with which it had been loaded fired into the bank of one or the ditches in the marshes, from which it was extracted this morning, having entered fourteen feet into the solid earth, and to a depth of nine feet from the surface. The gun did not appear to be in the least injured by the firing, and consequently further experiments will be made with the plan of making rifle cannon and shot and shells to fit, by Colonel Dundas, Inspector of Artillery. A number of gentlemen connected with metropolitan rifle clubs attended in the Marshes to-day, to try several descriptions of rifles, previous to deciding on the descrip tion of arm they will adopt in their corps. 5 12 5 12 5 12 5 12 5 12 5 12 5 12 5 10 5 10 5 10 5 10 4 8 4 8 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DEATH OP CAPTAIN SIR SAMUEL BROWN, K.H.— The death of this gallant and scientific officer has been reported, at the age of 76 years. Ho entered the navy in 1795, and during his career, as noticed in " O'By ree's Biography," served afloat fourteen yeara during the war. His first ship was the Assistance, 50, Captains He n ry Mowat, Joh u Ok es H ar dy, Robert Hall, and Richard Lee, in which ship be continued to serve as midshipman, master's mate, and acting lieutenant on the Newfound land and North Sea stations until 1801. During that period he witnessed the surrender, August 28, 1796, of the French 36-gun frigate Elizabeth to the Topaze, 36. He was confirmed into the Irresistible, 74, Nov. 6, 1801. On Jan. 30, 1805, joined, as first lieutenant, the Phoenix, of 42 guns and 245 men, Captain Thomas Baker. On August 10 following, Mr. Brown was present in the brilliant action which rendered the French frigate La Didon, of 46 guns and 330 men, a prize to the Phenix, after a fu rious action of three hours a n d a h a lf, w hi c h cost occasion of such entitled. the former a loss of 27 killed and 14 w oun d e d, an d th e latter of 12 killed and 28 wounded ; yet were s i x years suffered heroic away before in command ewa hesso was a pre-eminentlyahat i promo tion to to roll gallantry,w hicbas After sharing on November 4, in the same year, in Sir Richard John Strachan's capture of the four French line of•hattle ships that had escaped from Trafalgar, he was transferred, with Captain Baker, to the Didon, which ship had been added to the British navy. He was sub sequently appointed to the Imperieuse, 38 ; Flore, 36 ; and Ulysses, 44; and was ultimately advanced to the rank of commander August 11; on May 18, 1842, un able to procure further promotion, he accepted the rank of retired captain. He was nominated a K.H. Jan., 13, 1835. Sir Samuel Brown obtained considerable cele brity by his introduction, besides many other nseful in ventions, of chain-cables, and suspension bridges and piers. Of the latter it may be sufficient to indicate, as standing monuments of his genius, the bridge across the river Tweed, which was commenced in 1819 and finished in 1820, and the Pier at Brighton. He married August 14, 1822, Mary, daughter of John Home, Esq., writer to the Signet, Edinburgh. The Commander-in Chief of the East Indies (Rear- Admiral Austen, C. 8.) remained at Hong-Kong on Jan. 30; his flag-ship Hastings, 72, Captain Austin, with the Royalist, 6, Commander Bate, arrived from the Straits. It will be recollected that one of Mr. Cobden's bold assertions was to the effect that there were no pi rates in the Straits. To the many contradictions that have been given to Mr. Cobden's statement we may add that Commander Bate, when surveying near the Phil lipine Islands, bad a very narrow escape of being cat off, with his boat's erew, by eight large piratical prahus, which chased him for five miles. Contest, 12, Com mander Hon. W. S. Spencer, and Sphynx steam-sloop, Commander Shadwell, were at Ningpo; Salamander, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Ellman, was at Whampoa; Lily, 12, Commander Birch (acting), at Amoy. The Sphnx arrived at Shanghai Jan. 15. An expedition, consisting of her Majesty's steamer Cleopatra and the Hon. Company's steamers Semiramis and Pluto, had gone to the north-east coast of Borneo to beat up the quarters of pirates. The Straits Times states that it was understood that Commodore Lambert had forwarded very urgent dispatches to the Admiral by the Lady Wood with reference to the state of affairs in Burmab. Commodore -Superintendent M. Seymour has left De vonport on leave, in consequence of the death of his mother, Lady Seymour, widow of the late Admiral Sir M. Seymour. Masters—lttihad C. Allen (1841), of the Magician steam guard-ship at Devonport, has been appointed to the Odin advanced steam-frigate at Portsmouth; John Pyper (1846), to the Buzzard advanced steam-sloop, at Devonport. Assistant-Surgeons—James Wallace (acting), to the Victory, flag-ship, Portsmouth; Patrick W. Dillon (act ing), to the Impregnable, flag-ship, Devonport. Camel lighter, Faben, master, left Devonport on Tues day afternoon for Queenstown, with stores for Commo dore Martin's squadron. St. George, 120, ordinary guard-ship, at Devonport, •.9 Captain Niass, C B has,before inspection, been found to be so defective from rottenness in her bow timbers, that the crew are ordered to be turned over to the Agin court, pro tern. ; and the St. George will be taken along side the dockyard for further inspection and repairs. The St. George has never been to sea. Vesuvius, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Barnard, left Devonport on Tuesday afternoon for the Chops of the Channel, to relieve the wind-bound merchantmen. Vivid, Dover steam-packet, Master-Commander Smithett,. has arrived at Woolwich to receive new boilers. The store-ship of Sir Edward Belcher'e expedition, the North Star, Commander Pullen, came up to Dept ford yesterday, from Sheerness, to take her stores on board. PORTSMOU TH , WEDNESDA.Y.---The Areth use, 50, Captain Symonds, is fast completing her refit. She hauled off from the jetty this morning. Captain Sym monds applied for the advance wages of his ship's nom patay to be paid at Devonport, but the Lords of the Ad miralty have ordered them to be paid here. A shock ing and fatal accident occurred to one of her men about four o'clock last evening ; his name was Jackson, cap tain of the foretop, who was knocked off the main cap by the topsailyard. He was taken up insensible and conveyed to Hasler Hospital, but he died before reaching there. The Simoom, new iron steam-troopship, Captain Kingcome, went out of harbour this morning for a trial of her steaming powers at the measured mile in Stoke's Bay. She will start on a cruise in the Channel to-morrow. The Avon steam-vessel, Master-Commander Veitch, arrived to-day from Devonport, and sailed in the after noon for Queenstown. The St. Vincent, 100, sent up her main and mizen topmosts today. The Bulldog steam-sloop has been taken into the steam-basin to-day to have her machinery overhauled. The Arrogant, 46, Captain Robinson, has stripped her forema,t, which is to be tak en ou t to be overhauled. ROYAL MARINES —The band of the Portsmouth divi- sion was ordered over to Osborne to-day to serenade her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa to-morrow morning on the anniversary of her birthday. A detachment from the Artillery companies is ordered to proceed hence to Woolwich, to embark in the steam vessel Highflyer. The detachment consists of First- Lieutenant H. B. Roberts, 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 13 gunners. WOOLWICH, MARCH 17.—The Polyphemus steam sloop, Commander C. G. Phillips, was inspected by Commodore Henry Eden on Monday afternoon, and left Woolwich at 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning. She took her powder on board from Purfleet on the same day, and her compasses were adjusted to-day at Greenhithe, by Captain Johnson, and, she left in the afternoon for Portsmouth and the coast of Africa. Captain Henry J. Watson arrived at Woolwich to ! day, and had his pendant hoisted on. the Highflyer. MASSACRE OF THE CREWS OF TWO ENGLISH SHIPS. Advices were received at Lloyd's yesterday, commu nicating the details of two most frightful events at sea— the massacre of the commanders and portions of the crews of the British ships Victory, of London, and Herald, of Leith. The Victory was the property of Messrs. Cook and Wilson, shipowners, of Dockhead, Bermondsey. She was a barque of 579 tons burden, commanded by Mr. William Lennox Mullens; and, having sailed to some Chinese port, was chartered to convey Coolies to Callao. It appears that on the 6th of December she sailed from Cumsingrooon with upwards of 300 Coolies on board and a general cargo. On the afternoon of the 10th, be tween three and four o'clock, the Coolies made a rush into the cabin, and with little difficulty possessed them selves of the ships' arms. The slaughter then com menced. At that moment Mr. Mullens was walking the poop, and, in order that he should have no opportu nity of defeating their object, a party of them was sent to seize him. Oue of the crew, a brave fellow of the name of Henry Watt, seeing the defenceless position of the master, made towards him and endeavoured to protect him. The effort, however, quickly ended in his life being taken. Several of the wretches rushed at him with merciless fury, and having dis patched him threw the mutilated body overboard. Mr. Mullens got up into the wizen rigging. He was followed by one of them, armed with a cutlass, and eventually the master slid down one of the topmast backstays. The moment he had reached the deck, a number of the infuriated Coolies began cutting at him With their cutlasses, and beating him with heavy iron bolts, and, finding that they hrd accomplished his death, they dropped his remains overboard. Resistance was useless. Mr. Fagg, the chief mate, had gone aloft on the foretopsail-yard, looking out for land, bat the second mate, James Arauso, and the cook, Edward Baily, en countered the Coolies somewhere in the forepart of the ship, and were murdered by them. Believing that they had overcome • all probable resistance they espied Mr. Fagg, and beckoned him to come down. Be did so, and some of the Coolies who had taken an active part in the measure led him to the wheel, and by signs directed him to steer for the land, on pain o f being put to death if he disobeyed. The mate shaped a course for Point 'iam b*, and on reaching the coast a few of the fellows put off to the land, but reporting it uninhabited they returned on board. They then endeavoured to best up the away for Pule VA, where the ship . was ultimately brought to an anchor. During this cruising they took every pre caution of avoiding detection. Obtaining the ship's papers and the logbook, they tore them up, and finding a convenient place on the coast where they had brought up, they went ashore, carrying off with them a consider- Oslo amount of the cargo. They then deserted the ship, and, Mr. Fagg, subsequently obtaining some aid, she was got to Singapore in the latter part of January. The Herald, under the command of Mr. Lawson, left Shanghai for Leith in the course of last October, and in edditiou to the master and his wife, Mrs. Lawson, there w ere on board two European mates, a steward, carpen ter, a cook, a Portuguese seaman, 12 Maniiiamen, and a g a ol, boy. Some fou r or five da y s af ter the Herald had left Shanghai the crew were put upon the customary a llowances. Th is seemed to annoy the Manillara n They began t o be dissatisfied, and before the vessel hade made Angeer they had gone to the captain some four or five times, an d demanded more, which was refused.s The M an illamen then a pp eared to have planned a scheme for on the purpos e of destroying the whole of t he Europeans board, and in the hope of enlisting no tin do u bt , g the Portuguese sailor i n their ranks , w it h a io of more effec tually a ccomplishing their murder o us design, they ac quainted him with their project. In order that the Europeans might adopt means of defence, the Portuguese endeavoured to persuade them not to resort to such vio lent means, and offered, with a view, s pparently, of pacifying them, to carry th e E uro p eans o ff by m ixing i p o ison in their food. Thi s was attempte d, a lthough n a small quantity. Some was mixed with the powdered sugarcane which was used for the coffee, and of which Mr. Lawson and his wife partook. They suffered from he effects of the poison, but they quickly recovered. While this was going on t h e P ortuguese i had contrived to ntorm Mr. Lawson of the plot the Manillamen had arranged. The master then directed the chief officer to muster them every night, and to take their knives from them. He also directed the officers to always keep themselves armed, so as to be ready to act at the moment of any sudden attack. About the 25th day of the voyage, during the whole of which time the European portion of the crew were kept in a state of painful suspense as to the movement! of the . Manillamen, Angeer was sighted, but there being sufficient water and provisions on board to last them, as it was thought, until they reached the Cape or St. Helena, the Herald was not brought to an anchor, but continued the voyage. This more exasperated the men, and on the morning of the 26th the Portuguese sailor was alarmed by hearing his name called in a loud voice. He ran on deck, and, meeting some of the Manillamen, they told him that they had plenty of water and provisions at their own pleasure, as they had sent the captain and his officers to the other world. The Portuguese was sent to assist in clear ing the cabin, when he discovered the bodi es of Mr. Lawson, the carpenter, and o ffi cers, who, with the exception of the chief mate, were quite dead. Mrs. Law son, the wife of the captain, was seen near the corpse of her husband, crying bitterly. The villains then attached heavy weights to the legs of the bodies, and, taking them on deck, threw them overboard. The poor mate had not breathed his last when brought on deck, and he was heard to say " Good God !" One of the Manillamen, a gunner, then took the command, and appointed two of his companions as first and second officers. In the course of five or six days the wretches recommenced the slaughter. The steward, the cook, and the Portuguese, were tied up and told that th e i r l ast h our h a d arrived. The steward, it would seem, made an appeal to them for mercy, when the fellow who acted as chief mate split open his head with a hatchet, and, to resider his death more certain, ran a long knife through his body. The Portuguese and the cook, who was a native of the coast, contrived to move the wretches to spare them, and they were eventually released, but enjoined to keep the greatest secrecy. On that day it was determined to leave and scuttle the ship. The boats were got ready, and Mrs. Lawson, hearing of their contem plated abandonment, appealed to the Manillaman who had the command to take her ashore, and not leave her behind. The villain unheeded all her entreaties, how ever, and stated that his companions would not permit him to do so. She then implored them to allow her a spar to cling to, but this was denied. Indeed, so de termined were the villains that she should have no chance of saving herself, that before they deserted the ship they secured the unfortunate lady in one of the cabins, where she would have no chance of escaping. About ten o'clock at night they, with the Portuguese, cook, and Manilla boy, quitted the vessel in one of the large boats, and shortly after she was seen to founder. Early on the following morning the boat reached Java; the murderers landed at Sjilankang, but, the authori ties hearing of the horrible occurrence, no time was lost in arresting them, and, being secured, they were sent on to Batavia to await the operation of the law. The Portuguese seaman, the cook, and boy have also been secured, in order to give the necessary evidence against them. A third vessel was likely to have had a similar tragedy on board. The Corcyra, Mr. Paterson com mander, manned by a Javanese crew, was proceeding from Macassar to Shanghai, when the men revolted. The second-mate was murdered, but the other officers succeeded in overpowering the rascals, and the ship was got into Hong-Kong. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL At a meeting of the Conservative Association, held in the Clarendon looms, Liverpool,iyesterday'(Wednesday), it was resolved to send requisitions, numerously signed, to Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, and Mr. Charles Turner, a Liverpool merchant, requesting that they would allow themselves to be put in nomination as candidates to re present this town in Parlia men t at th e ensuing election. The Chairman stated that Mr. Horsfall, who had been asked, but had declined to contest the borough, had headed the requisition with his name, and stated his in tention to use his influence in securing the return of the Conservative candidates. Mr. F. Mackenzie and Mr. Turner have signified their willingness to comply with the desire of the requisitionists, and a public meeting will shortly be held in the Amphitheatre for the purpose of placing their respective claims before the electors. A counter meeting, on the Liberal interest, is also expected. PLYMOUTH. A meeting of the electors of this borough, over which Dr. Cookworthy presided, assembled last evening at the Royal Hotel, when Mr. R. P. Collier, a candidate for the representation on the Liberal side, explained his principles. Lord Derby, he said, was determined to in form them of nothing with respect to free trade, but his Lordship and Mr. Disraeli had stated their private opinion to be in favour of a countervailing duty. The re-adjustment of taxation was a fraud on free trade. If they submitted to a duty of ss. a quarter, then they would get one of 75., and so go backwards. He objected to grants for religious pur poses. He also objected to Cardinal Wiseman's pro ceedings, and was equally opposed to the Roman Ca tholicism which had crept into the Church. The educa tional measure of Lord Derby would throw too much power into the hands of the clergy. Lord J. Russell's measure of Parliamentary reform was extremely incom plete. Five years was long enough for the duration of Parliaments. Mr. Collier next said, the income-tax as now levied was most oppressive; why not distinguish between income derived from permanent and precarious sources? Dissenters ought not to pay church-rater. The less we interfered with foreign matters the better, and our colonies should be provided with free representa tive institutions. He preferred volunteer corps to the system of militia. A great reform was necessary in the administration of the laws. He considered the present Ministers incapable of managing the affairs of the country. Mr. Cobden, Mr. flume, and Lord John Russell were shaking hands, and he hoped the advent of a new Liberal Ministry would not prove the restora tion of a few noble families. In answer to a question from Colonel Campbell, Mr. Collier said it was his do sire to alter the liturgy of the Church. A show of hands, which was called for, was decidedly favourable to that gentleman. SUNDERLAND. Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, wh o h as t w i ce unsuccessfully c ontested this borough, having declined an invitation to come forward a third time, the friends of Mr. Wilkinson held a meeting on Monday night at the Athersearo, to determine the course the Liberal party should pursue on the retirement of that gentlemen. It was stated that Mr. Wilkinson's reluctance to ha zard a third contest arose from certain false representa tions made to his friends in London by a deputation from the Whig party, which the meeting warmly re sented, as they were satisfied that, from the growing unpopularity of Mr. Hudson, the return of Mr. Wilkin son might be considered certain. It was farther stated that Mr. W. Digby Seymour, a barrister, was in the town, and intended to come forward on the principles of free trade and Parliamentary reform as soon as Mr. Wilkinson's retirement was ascertained. It was then resolved that a deputation be sent to in vite Mr. Seymour to the meeting. On Mr. Seymour's arrival he announced himself to be an " advocate of free trade, and that he regarded a bread tax as the worst development of commercial restriction. He was for an extension of tho franchise to every householder rated to the relief of the poor, the ballot, and the abolition of the property qualification." After some discussion it was unanimonsly resolved to support Mr. Seymour's return, and that be and Mr. Fen wick be invited to a general meeting of the electors to be held this evening in the Atheneum. CHATHAM.—On Tuesday evening Sir Frederick Smith met a most numerous party of the electors of Chath i lm at the Sun Inn, in order to explain to them his political sentiments. He avowed himself a supporter of the pre sent Administration, but with respect to the re-imposi tion of a tax on corn, he should adhere to the policy 01 the late Sir Robert Peel, and if returned to Parliament would most certainly oppose any attempt that might be made to re-impose a duty on the food of the poor, whose comfort he should consider it his bounden duty to pro tect, having, in the cottage of the labourer, had ample o pportunity of witnessing its salutary effects. CHIPPartHISL—Mr. Neeld and Captainßotlhdeerro,e return present Members, are sure of re-election. COUNTY KILDARE.-0n Saturday, after _e next general pledging of Mr. Cogan, a meeting was held in that co mmittee-room; the Right Hon. R. M, O'Ferrall, M.P., presiding, when, a resolutionO'Ferrall, wasadopted the meeting to support Mr. Cogan at the —oWrceesthave es er will, election. sta tA n S g T th G a L t o t r e E M ST a E rg ß u S i n s l o ß f E W . authority for Sir Williamg time, again solicit the suffrages eeti C on o i d s r t i s n , of the freeholders, in at the proper conjunction with FORFARSHIRE.—The Prot Chronicle. it in contemplation to tn . Lyon, brother to Lordg it t° Il i s .— stated, G k h es e: t e r Strathmore, forward the Hon. Claude as a candidate for this county, in opposition to Lord J. F. Gordon Hally burton•, but it is not believed the former will have the least chance of unseating the present Member. LIARWICH.—Mr, Bagshaw, issued an ad dress, in whi hh . --sh aw' M.P., has c e states his intention to offer himselt as a candidate. Mr. Waddington (M.P. for Malden) Las also issued an address, in which he declares himself a candidate for the suffrages of the Harwich voters. It is said that Mr. Attwood also intends to stand. HULL,--Mr. Baines, one of the present Members, has positively declared that he will retire, and a declaration has been put oat by the Tories, setting forth that it would " conduce to the peace of the town, the interests of trade," &e., that a contest should be avoided by the unopposed return of Mr. Moore in conjunction with the present Whig Member, Mr. Clay. Mr. Clay's seat is considered quite sate. PooLx.—Mr. Savage, a member of the bar, who lost the last election by a majority of twenty, is again be fore the constituency on the Protectionist interest. Sir George Phillips, one of the sitting Members, retire s, and re , and Mr. Kirkman Hodgson, a director of the Bank fr of England, is bro u g ht forward as h is successor , upon ee trade principles. SALISBUR Y. --A second Protectionist candidate has just made his appearance in the field, in the person of Mr. Pownall, the Middlesex magistrate. The Hon. John Ashley had been applied to, but declined a con test, which his personal knowledge of the borough con vinced him was hopeless. Both candidates adopt the guarded language of the Ministerial chiefs. SUTHERLANDSHIRE AND R O SS-BRIBE' No contest is expected for either of these counties, and the re-election of Sir David Dundas f o r Sutherland, and of Ilr. James FURTHER PRACTICE WITH THE MINIE R. 2 p s a o r ffitiecsertio and 50 authorities having decided on supplying the new pattern rifle musket to several other line regiments in a u d r d o i w ti n on r g t g o t o h f o t e h e e that e previously Grenadier ier o uar s d e: t wieh for the purpose of being instructed by. Major non-commissioned officers have received orders at the head-quarters or depots of the regiments to which they belong to proceed to Woolwich for the purpose of being u i o n r s d t e r r u e c d t e t d o by send Major partiesß ro w t o Woolwich e for so of the neatne n r igg in th arm. The following is nearly a complete list of th e corps practice week at the Royal Arsenal, and in the Marshes:- Ist Foot, 2d battalion, from head -quarters at Cork. 4th Foot, from bead-quarters at A s h ton. 12th Foot, from head quarters at Chatham. 14th Foot, from head-quarters at Dublin. 21st Foot, from head-quarters at Hull. 26th Foot, from the depot at Newport. 27th Foot, from head-quarters at Dublin. 28th Foot, from head quarters at Newcastle. 33d Foot, from head• quarters at Glasgo w . 36th Foot, from the depot at the Isle of Wi g h t . 39th Foot, from head-quarters at Dublin. 42d (Highlanders), from the depot at Aberdeen. Royal Marines, from the Chatham Division. 50th Foot, from head quarters at Preston. 54th Foot, from the depot at Bristol. 58th Foot, from the depot at Canterbury. 62d Foot, from head-quarters at Dublin. 65th Foot, f ro m the depot at Canterbury. 69th Foot, from the depot at Chatham. 79th (Camer on Highlanders), from th e h ea d- quar t er at Edinburgh Castle. f ro m head -quarters at Dubli n . 81st Foot, ters at Cork . 90th Foot, from head - q ulr 93d (Highlanders) , from headquarters at Weedon. There will be on e officer and two non-commissioned officers from each o f the above reg iments; Dispatches were also received y esterda y f rom the Go *:t Matheson for Ross and Cromarty, may therefore be con-- sidered all but certain. = TRALEE.—The Tralee Chronicle of Saturday con Han - :,.‘.--) an address from Mr. Maurice O'Connell, denying tind ±- '" he intended to abandon the representation o f T ra f f e. - .:1 There are three candidates now spoken of:—M r . oPc j i, nen, Mr. Blennerhassett, and Admiral Sir T. Herbert.' 1 WICK BURGHS.—No opposition is anticipated to Loch in this district. l iads k idS Las WIGTONSHIRE.—A rumour has been current in this county, since the dissolution of Parliament has baen talked of, of Captain Dalrymple, the present Member, meeting with opposition, either from Captain Hay, R.N., or Mr. Stewart,jun., of Glasserton. CHANCERY REFORM ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Chancery Reform Association was held y es t er d ay afternoon, f or t h e p ur p o s e of taking into consideration the recommendations of the Chancery Reform Commissioners. Lord Erskine presided, and amongst those present were Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. Trelawny, M.P., C a pt a i n & o b e li, M.P., &c. Th e CRAntmAN, in opening the proceedings, briefly expressed his s at i s f act i on at the improvemen t w hich had taken place in the prospects of their cause since he had last addressed a similar meeting. The association had then hardly any hope, while they had now a certain as surance of the success of their projects. Although he did not know that the judges of the land agreed with them on every point, yet they did, without exception, go with them to an extent which no one suspected. Their cause was emphatically that of the country, and they felt now the greatest assurance of a prosperous issue to their labours. _ Mr. Heratz, after referring to the history of the move ment for legal . reform, said that no one i n a rat i ona l country like th i s need despair of success if their cause was a good one. They had now arrived in view of the the attainment of their object. They had all classes of politicians now in favour of Chancery reform ; and they had reason to expect tha!, before . long. the eountry would be placed in an enviable po si ti on , comp ared with that which it had hitherto occupied with respect to the powers of this court. Let every one h upon this question as his own, for no man knew how soon he or his property might be brought before it by some wicked O or designing man. He remarked w some years ago he had an interview with Mr. Challin . or, a chember of the council of this Ass..ciation ou :he subject of a pans phlet clearly exposing the ihnt rent deft cts o. Chincery. This pamphlet he had afterwards pressed on the atten tion of Lord John Russell, who read it and admitted that something ought to be done. Some ut the Bills for the reform of this court had been already prepared, and instructions had been given by the present Government for the preparation of those which had not been drawn under the direction of the late Government. He be- lieved that this question, after being agitated in and out of Parliament for thirty years, was now ripe for that settlement on full conviction which secured the perma nence of the reform which might be adopted. If they reformed this court, it would lead to reforms in other courts, and to a general simplification of procedure. Ho did not see why they should not copy the system pur sued in the Court of Bankruptcy, where a sy stem of dealing with accounts had been adopted, and was gene rally satisfactory to the mercantile interest of the coun try. lie then moved the following resolution:— " That the Royal Commissioners appointed in 1650 to inquire into the process, practice, and system of pleading in the Court of Chancery, having examined many par ties most competent to give evidence on the subject, in cluding the present Lord Chancellor, one of the Lords Justices of Appeal, some o f the Masters in ChancrrYt with their clerks, several of the most eminent barristers and solicitors practising in the equity courts, with David Dudley Field, Esq., one of the commissioners by whom the New York code of procedure was framed ; and having unanimously reported that extensive and deep rooted mischiefs arise from the present system, involving the utter denial of justice, and the ruin of th e liti gants and their families, this meeting is of opinion that so un qualified a condemnation by the eminent men forming the Commission, demands the immediate application of a legislative remedy, one of the first duties of a Govern ment being to render justice attainable by all, without delay or ruinous cost." Mr. Cetemareoet, solicitor, of Leek, in a long and able speech, characterised the Court of Chancery as a system by which the settlement of any question in dispute was deferred to the utmost possible time; and by which the money might of the kingdom had often herded is over the humbler right. It was a sort of legal gambling table on which the evil passions of the parties were worked up to the greatest possible extent tor the benefit of the keepers of the table. The keystone of the abuses of the Court of Chancery was the preventing the meeting of the parties and their witnesses in sour , . and their oral examination before the judge who tried the cause. Then there was a continual system of reference from judge to judge, which, as the opinion of only single judge was taken at each step, was never conclu sive. He expressed his satisfection at the reforms which were contemplated by the Government, but his regret that there was still an adherence to the sy to of taking evidence before an examiner, to be certified in writing to the court; remarking that he could not see any reason why a legatee should not recover his legeey fro m an exe cutor at law in the same manner as a creditor from tho executor of his debtor. A game of chess played by cor respondence was tedious enough; but it was nothing to this legal game played in writieg, for which lee yens were paid by the folio.—(Cheers.) Ho would mention the case which had made him a Chancery reformer. A farmer in Staffordshire lett his property to his wife for life, and after her death to his eldest sun, and charged it also with a legacy of 3001. to his second son. When he claimed his legacy, he was told that be had in fact received it in maintenance and other ways, and the matter was thrown into Chancery, the only dispute being whe ther he had received the legacy or not. A suit was commenced, to which seventeen pa r ties were made de fendants. In eighteen months' time it came before the Vice-Chancellor, who decided that he could not come to any decision at all, but referred it to the Master to in quire into matters which were not in di,rnte. It re mained in the Master's office for two years, when he directed that the proceedings should be commenced " do novo," because one of the principal parties to the suit had been omitted. The estate bad nearly vanished by this time; so that the matter was comromirned. From that time be had determined to use his utmost endeavours to bring this giant iniquity before the bar of public opinion. The Hon. Gentleman then contended for the principle of bringing all parties to a suit face to face in court, and stated that, although the system of written evidence had been recommended by the Commissioners to be abo lished, yet as oral evidence was to be taken only by examiners, and not by the judges who heard the cause, he thought that question had not been fully dealt with. After alluding at some length to the proposed abolition of the Masters' offices, office copies, and the other re commendations of the Commissioners, he cot...eluded by expressing his gratification at finding that the labours of the Chancery Reform Association had not been fruitless.—(Cheers.) He concluded, amid cheers, by seconding the resolution, which was passed unani mously. Mr. TRELAWNY, M.P., moved the next resolution:— " That while this meeting is of opinion that much may be done toward s redeemin g th e Court of Chancer a d s is w pe i n ll s r e en w d i e th r y e i r n the law p resent o r equ s wi t y t oays way—to 12 c m o t m oi e p i s e t t e r n o t o t m o p l take ete f ro m the obloquy which now justly attaches to it, b y h h whether e ar d u e a ri n c ee o e i n a a a t h r y e m p a o r s t t i e s: t t o i s f a a c a t u o i r t court, mend l relief in the cases which fall under its co izsnce--to a b o li s h bills of reviver and supplemental b ills, warrants for bearings, states of facts and charges, office copies, and objections to drafts of reports, and g enerally parties, as to g ether summar y a as Is . security tee both with the, oa t: oio is compatible with ren der due the proceedings of the Masters' offices--most of which is recomm, tided by the Commissioners of the Crown— it is also essured that many of the evils incident to the present „ % rateui must necessarily exist l ULU the ch. tinction between law and equity is abolished, oral sn • of the Judge w h o tr i es the cause exanu ie nation in the presence is in all ca s e s administered be c n a e rr eo d out, cud cp fu d ju s tice jurisdiction, a pract i ce which has been introduced into the United States with results." the happies t The first evil whieh he thoug ht was entailed by the operation of this court was the retention of capital from commercial purposes. If it was true that 200 millions sterling was thus detained, every labourer in the e en try had an indirect interest in the question. kn.-cause the quantity of capital from which his labour derived employment was thus diminished, and his wages were consequently lessened. Mr. BENJAMIN OLIVEIRA seconded the resolution, which was passed unanimously. Mr. MEREWEATHER TURNER moved the next resolu- Con— " That the Council of the Chaucorl Reform Associa tion6lt C proceedin gs , uli t b ib :a w l: o s t ; be requested towciotnhtinmuuecihts teivnegryhoanvine g of se i e ts n published statemmts, touching the enormities and cruelties of the present system of equity, has b ee n conceded by the Commi•sioners of the Crown, as also most of the remedies formerly proposed by the council; and being fully assured that the strongly con demnatory report of the Commissioners has but to be come generally known to force upon the Government and Legislature the so long called for t elief and remedy." The resolution was then uminimously agreed to, anti after a vote of thanks to the cbairmsh, the proceedings terminated. i a nt l ol the o hw springiT i me . DISCOVERY IN DAGUERREOTYPING, Sir,—lpaper ot to-day a p a .. ragrsph relating to a new mode of finishing daguerreo types. haveTO ToHjerlcrlledlTt:EllyoortaTHE TIMES. it received, besides the approval t:f verad by a Gentleman in Charlestown, United States, so State, Youtrhasetasteheonfevjwru:setweicf of I nf t ‘'a r u o tna d m ue : e ui d irier; b g y twP rn ailil : l f o a f r ffarso;mybeeairnf when other excellent authorities, a fav9urable notice in the Times of May 13, 1851. Since that time it ha., twee coustantly applied to portraits t:-.ltt.:n at IMII t sta Wish - meL a s . and through the perfection it hat: attained is in increasing requisition. I am, Sir, your obliged servarr, Daguerreotype Portrait-rooms, 85, King William - btrect, City, March 17. RicaulD i3EaRD. LIFE BOATS.—The Secretary to the Nersl de partment of the Board o f T rade has addressed a communi cation to the Commissione rs o f C ustoms , s i gn ifying that, as it has hitherto been impractcable to give notice of the final arrangements adopted, t h e i r Lordships cons ider that if, in any special cases occu rr i ng b efore the lit M a y nest, it should appear that a vessel is not provided with the proper boats, and that the omi ss i on has been rea lly occasioned by the want of sufficient noti ce , from proceeding to sea, but the master or owner should b e warned that OU subsequent occasions the law will be strictly enforced. the vessel should not be detained ♦, I I