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Xis ci 4 of °l° der l ll' g a co ti or i". Olt °i 4 030 ;2e jai" I rail libo l rent.- ra reciP tj , is for 4, f 40101° 1 u THE QUARTERLIES. TEE EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CXCIV. Although there are no less than ten contributions in the current number of the Edinburgh, we doubt much whether a single article amongst them will attain even a temporary amount of popularity. Not that the papers in the April instalnient. are altogether devoid of talent, or that they are without being suf ficiently diversified, but that the talent displayed is throughout (for the most part) dull and scholastic, tedious and dogmatical. Suggested by the :Nou velles Causes Celebres, the opening article, is a kind of biographical sketch of " Treason du Coudray," whose name we should rather have seen among the " Unsuccessful Great Men," who are celebrated in such a very congenial spirit by Pro fessor Creasy. The argument upon "National Education" which follows is a dry and didactic repetition of facts already again and again reiterated—from the laborious volume of Mr. Wyse, now her Majesty's Ambassador to Greece, down to the most recent number of some of our pro , vincial contemporaries. To some extent, however, ip this article we can forgive the repetition for the sake of 'the philanthropy, by which it is no less glaringly distinguished. A review of "Farini's Stato Romano," is followed by a chapter on " Athenian Architecture," and this again, by—the most important contribution in the present number of the Edinburgh—the paper on " Investments for the Working Classes." The introductory sentences of the article here particu larised, are, unhappily, of almost universal "We have often had occasion to remark on the ob stacles and perplexities, the hidden perils, the opposing risks, the surprising and unforeseen dilemmas, which beset the path of active beneficence, especially when attempted on a great scale. The difficulty of doing-good is at least equal to its luxury. To the conscientious and the thoughtful the path of philanthropy is one of briars and thorns: On the one hand lies the shame and ro• Proach of witnessing a vast accumulation of misery without aueffort to. relieve it: on the other the danger raven more clearly apprehended in proportion as our eckperience is wide and our inquiries deep—of egg"' 7 ating the evil we a tt em pt t o mitigate. On the one side lies the sin of the Levite who looks upon the wounded and bleeding.victim, and passes by, either in shrinking sensi- Ityor in sheer despair: oa the other lies the • risk, fpm igneranc e o r-i nca ution, of pouring in oil which shall Cause the Isounds to fester, and wine which shall stirau bite the fever. It is no easy matter to steer between kcYllti and Charybdis; and wo Should deal gently with the pilot—if only he be cautious and modest—vveo, in sh unning one peril, incurs shipwreck from the other." Poor Feargus O'Conuor's involvment with reference to his land scheme, is, in the course of the argument , accounted for in a manner which is clear, without, of Course, being satisfactory. After an estimate of "John Knox's Liturgy," comes a criticism of M. Bayous', biography of "Mallet du PAIL" Strang el y Rraceful is the opening of what, at a first glance, seems to be - very drily suggestive, namely, the review of "Roebuck's Whig Ministry of 1830. In the course of these . preliminary remarks to a political review it c/quisttely said, in reference to the respect and gra titude in which the venerable Samuel Rogers — (decidedly rara avis in terris, nigroquesimillima cygno, for inasmuch as he is both a Poet and a Blnker)—is held by the public up to this very moment—" It Would, indeed, have been extraordinary if the poet of Memory should not live in our recollections." A notice of " Squier's Nicaragua" is succeeded by a paper on "L ord Der b y ' s M i n i stry an d P ro t ec ti on .— a paper un quest i ona bl y f ree t ra de, but also unques tionable Whig—as Whig as might have been expected tinder the li ver y o f b u ff an d bl u e. And so the num be of the Edinburgh is brought to a conclusion. LITERATURE. THE JESUIT IN INDIA. One Volume. Burns and Lambert. A curious volume, in some respects really extra ordinary in its revelations, is the one here published. It recounts the progress made by the Jesuit mission !Pea in Southern India during the last few years, the writer—evidently a man of singular intelligence— having qualified himself for the task of inditing the narrative by four years spent in the midst of the labours he enumerates. Sir Harcourt Lees is dead, !t is true, but we have still amongst us men interested In watching the movements nearer home than the Madura mission of the disciples of St. Ignatius de li, r oyola. I n d ee d , t h e d eve l o p men t of the Society of Je sus in England is amongst the number of those remarkable events which arrest, by the force of their very singularity and importance, the atten tion of the most indifferent spectator. During several years the Jesuits have extended, Unobserved, it may be, but none the less securely ° ll that account, th e won dr ou s influence exercised by them now-a-days scarcely less effectually amongst the people of these islands than amongst any other of the various races of Christendom. It behoves every O ne, therefore, really solicitous to forward the cause of truth in religion to scrutinies keenly the course Vlirsned by this unassuming but dominant association. Spreading th e i r r a n k s over th e w h o l e o f the habitable regions of the globe, the Jesuits are everywhere ac tuated by the same motives, swayed by the same laws, struggling towards the same achievements. They are differently clad, it is true, in different re gions,speaking i n th ose diff eren t regions a different Inguage, and adopting towards their different inhabi tants very different kinds of demean Our. But in all other respects the Jesuit is still the Jesuit, nothing more and nothing less than the Jesuit, be he in the train of his General at Rome, be he a resident at the College of Stonyhurst, be he in the streets of Paris, or in the solitudes of Hindostan, floating over the oriental seas, or threading the forests of America, P ass ing under the luxuriant , foliage of the south or over the sterility of the northern snows. It is, con sequently, not waste of toil to pore over the pages which let us into the secret movements of the Society, even when these movements are so far removed from our own observation as the southern portions of the Asiatic continent. We remember the almost awe inspiring effect of that scene in the Juif Errant, in Wh ich Eugene Sue described M. Rodin as bending over a globe representing, the earth, the surface of 'which was marked in red dotted lines, with the track of the footsteps of these übiquitous Jesuit missionaries. Here, at any rate, is a volume which enables us to trace those footsteps somewhat more comprehensibly in one direction, namely, into the southern quarters of our Indian territory. The scene of the missionary la bours there, described by the anonymous traveller, embraces part of the Carnatic, the province of Tan jore, and the country down to Cape Comorin, corn prising, in fact, the southernmost extremity of Hin destine and being designated the Vicariate of Madura. Situated at from about 7.51 to 11.50 north latitude, . the climate is very relaxing, from the perpetual heat reaching sometimes 100 Fahrenheit in the day time, and fallin g only prevalent, and 12 degrees by midnight—cholera almost invariably in its most dan gerous intensity, by reason of the previous exhaus tion. Here it is that the missionaries are described as battling with an idolatry believing not merely in Om, or the Trimouti—Brahma the Creator, Vishnou the Preserver, and Siva, or Sichem, the Destroyer— but, besides these, worshippin.g selected by the moat novel the symbols g ling fetichism. Sometimes, as in the instance of the petrified shell called Salagranan, this idolatry descends even to the _ deification of the freaks of Nature, branching off into a mythology altogether so intricate as to render • all other mythologies numerically i ns i gnificant by comparison. According to the given account by this little volume, the temptations to adventure upon the labours of Christianizing the tt Ilin o rclotbos.—for the Mus sulmen, in the present but Persuasive to bfa hopeless—are any th ing worl dly sense ; the dwelling of the adventurer bein g a mud hut, thatched with palm lea ve s , at spread ally accompan ie d b y occasion on planks, his food rice, the flesh of some lean and tough poultry. Yet, by declared that upwards of 150,000 id o l a t e rs in that means such as these, it I 9 quarter of the globe alone have been redeemed to a belief in Christianity. However, the matter here cons i dered is one demand ing the serious attention of the public—aiding them, as these statements cannot fail to do, in their effort to comprehend the progress of the Jesuit party in England by watching the movements o f their brethren Iu Hindostau: BLEAK HO USE. No. HI. By Charles Dickens. Matured and mellowed in style, " Boz" is as fresh as ever in ori g i na lity. Bl ea k H ou se, which seemed in the two first numbers to commence in a s ub dued tone, such as even filled our mind with disappoint ments has already in the third number developed it - Self with a vigour and rapidity that promise to ren der it not unworthy of the pen of our incomparable novelist —one who, without extravagance, may b' called the Le Sage of his generation. Exercising during hi s lif e ti me an i n fl uence t h at L e S age neve r obtained--read by thousands and thousands almo.t o the instant of publication—his , green numbers l ying simultaneously on the tables of the artizan and 0' the patrician—we exult to find a genius possessing Power in some respects so very solemn in its re sponsibility, always displaying itself in the inculca tion or the worship of the good, the gentle, and the toautiful. Seldom has the large heart of Charles Dickens revealed this tendency more conspicuously tutu in the May instalment of his new fiction. Esther becomes more loveable than ever (uncon sciously to herself) in the writing of her autobio graphy Mr. Jarndyce himself, capital fellow though he is, with his perpetual terror of the ear Wind, and hi s unco mfortsble liability to be "floored again," hss his nose put out of joint by his friend and former school-fellow Lawrence Boythorn, who literally bur s t s i nto the narrative, takes the reader's partiality by storm, and gives promise of being one of the most glorious creations of the author, to whom the ; world is already indebted for such beings as' Old Weller, and Tom Pinch, and Captain Cattle, and and John Willett, and Mr, Mantel lini, and T 2 .x.. 4 Dick Swivisller.. His roaring voice, his intense l ieperlatives, bi 3 boisterous laughter, his grey hairs, his young heart, his good humour, and his canary, all win upon one immediately. A terrible dragonness of a Mrs. Plrdiggle (with her five restrained boys) is introduced in like manner, and sweeps us away in spite of ourselves, into a visit to the hovel of an abandoned bricktnaker. Ada and Esther are of the party who are thus characteristically addressed by the lord and master of the hovel, the brickmaker n p icg la u c t e wo . you're ow :‘ a, l rne w t sa a ag n t oe s inn a dg e o n tf d o b o pe f ionl t gl p e r s dy e r a l i wa b ne e dd i ties lciku e t e o s o tai k o n w bait a d e l ig c o emr r .y d i custom—l know what you're a going to be up to. Well! You haven't got no occasion to be up to it. I'll save you the trouble. IJ my daughter a washin? Yes; she is a washin. Look at the water. Smell it! That's wot we drinks. lioN do you like it, and what do you think of gin, instead! Au't my place dirty? Yes, it is dirty—it's nat'rally dirty, and it's nat'rally onwholesome; and we've had five dirty and oawholesouie children, as is all dead in fants, and so much the better for teem, and for us be sides. Have I read the little book wot you left? No, I an't read the little book wot you left. There atet no• body here as knoWs how to read it; and if there wos, it would'nt be suitable to me. L'l3 a book fit for a babby, and I'm not a babby. If you wos to leave me a doll, I should'ut Taus it. How have I been conducting. of my self? Why, I've been drunk for three days; and. I'd a been drunk four, if I'd a had the money. Don't I never mean for to go to church? No, I don't never mean for to go to church. I shouldn't be expected there, if I did; the beadle's too gee.-feel for me. And how did my wife get that black eye? Why, I giv' it her; aad if she says I did'ut, she °s a Lie!" Before Ada and Esther leave the room, but after Mrs. Pardiggle and her children have departed, the poor child, in the arms of the brickmaker's wife, dies. 0 Esthe; I' cried Ada, sinking on her knees beside it. Look here ! 0 Esther, my love, the little thing! The suffering, quiet, pretty little thing! lam so sorry for it. lam so sorry for the mother. I never saw a sight so pitiful as this before! 0 baby, baby l' While they are still there, a poor woman, calling out "Jenny ! Jenny !" hurries in and falls upon the neck of the bereaved mother. " She hed no kind of grace about her, but the grace of sympa:hy; but when she condoled with 'the wo man, and her own tears fell, she wanted no beauty. I say condoled, but her oely words were ' Jenny ! Jenny!' All the rest was in the tone in which she said them. "I thought it airy touching to sce these two woram, coarse and shqbby and beaten, so united; to see whet they could be to one another; to see hour they felt for one another; how the heart of each to ouch was soft ened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the, best side of such people is almost hidden from us What the poor arc to the poor is little known, excepting to them :elves and God." Our friend Harold Skimpole appears for a moment in this number, but in that moment utters thoughts anent the Bet that we should have liked to have re ferred to the consideration of Dr. Watts. It is at breakfast, and he is eating honey when he thus die courees " Ho had no objection to honey, be said (and I should think he had not, for he seemed to like it), but he pro tested against the overweening assumptions of Bees. • He didn't at all see why the busy Bee s:loold be proposed as a meth' to him; he suppth(d tie Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it—nobody allied him. It was not neciesary for the Bea to make such a merit of his tastes. If every confectioner went buzzing about the world, banging •against everything that came in his way, and egotistically calling upon everybody to take, notice that he was going to his work and must not be interrupa-d, the world would be quite an insupportable place. Tnen, after all, it was a ridiculous position to be smoked out of your fortune with brimstone, as soon as you had made it. You would have a very mean opinion of a Manchester man, if he spun cotton for no other purpose. He must say he thought a Drone the embodi ment of a pleasanter and wiser idea. The Drone said, unaffectedly, Yell will excuse me; I really cannot at tend to the shop! I find myself in a world in which there is so much to see, and so short a time to see it in. that I must take the liberty of looking about me, and begging to be provided for by somebody who doesn't want to look about him; This appeared to Mr. Skim pole to be the Drone philosophy, and he thought it a very good philosophy—always supposing the Drone to be willing to be ou good terms with the Bee: which, so .fer as he knew, the easy fellow always was, if the con sequential creature would only let him, and not be so conceited about bis honey." By the way Esther obtains some delightful nick= names, such as Old Woman, Cobweb, Mother Hub bard, and Dame Durden. And, by the way, again, this same Dame Durden has a love passage in the ninth chapter—Mr. Guppy formally filing a declara tion, or in other words popping the question. The scene is described with infinite humour. After Guppy has departed, of course rejected—saith Esther :-- , "I sat there for another hour or more, finishing my books and payments, and getting through plenty of bu siness. Then, I arranged my desk, and put everything away, and was so composed and cheerful that I thought I had quite dismissed this unexpected incident. But, when I went up-stairs to my room, I surprised myself by beginning to laugh about it, and then surprised myself still more by beginning to cry about it. In short, I was in aflutter for a little while; and felt as if an old ohOrd had been more coarsely touched than it ever had been since the days of the dear old doll, long buried in the garden." The closing chapter of the number has reference to Mr. Snagsby, law stationer, of Cook's-court, Cursitor-street, who is described as emerging from tea, " greasy, warm, herbacious, and chewing ; to Mrs. Snagsby, wife of the aforesaid, whose sharp uose.is said to have been "like a sharp autumn even ing, inclining to be frosty towards the end," to'Gnster (er, by some supposed to have been christened 4 as A h u-: gusts"), their poor slatternly 'ser van t g i r l, w ho fits," and who regards with such admiration " the little drawing-room up stairs always kept, as one may, say, with with its hair in papers and its pinnafore on." _Besides these, we are introduced again to Mr. Tulkinghorn, the solicitor of Lincoln's Inn-fields, whom we acoom pany to Brook's rag and bottle shop, and up to, the mysterious second-floor lodger, " The Law Writer," strongly suspected by us and by others, we opine, to be one of the family of the Jarndyces. So ends the number on the threshold of his apartment. FINE AItTS. THE HOLY FAMILY. Painted by Murillo; engraved by Bridoux. M'Lean. , A superb line engraving of this celebrated master piece has very recently been issued from the esta blishment of Mr. Thomas M`Lean of the Haymarket. Of late years the graver has been b 0 generally super seded by the mezz Ainto-rubber, and the etching. needle, that we regard with very peculiar satisfaction its employment in the highest department of what may be called in a twotold Sense the " imitative art" par excellence. More particu larly are we rejoiced to witness the appearance of a line engraving with anything like superior preten sions about it, when the artist has selected for representation some more than usually remarkable original. Precisely thus is it with reference to the magnificent production before us, in which the mas ter-skill of A. Bridoux has admirably interpreted the master-genius of Murillo. It is now many years since the "Holy Family," painted by Murillo some where about 1660 (namely, in the forty-seventh year of his age, and twenty-five years before his demise), came to be regarded as amongst the noblest evidences of his powers by the people of this country. Produced originally at Cadiz for the Marquis of Pedroso, the picture was valued according to Cean Bermudez at 800 pesos of 15 reels or 600 crowns, being ultimately bought for the English nation in 1837, together with Rubens' " Breecm Serpent, " for the sum of 7,3501., and deposited in the National Gallery by order of the Government. Every one who has visited that melan choly repository of the artistic treasures of Great whole r Britain bt must have paused before that, if before no rillo, with the numbered, r be pi e c d ture in the collection in admiration. It is , indeed, with the masterpieces of the teaching thend the gallery, with the "St. John," also - by Mu of Guido, Cupid," of Correggio," with the "Sussnnah Leonardo da Vinci, with, '' Eece Homo" and the " Mercury and the Elders', zarus" of Sebastian adnedl "Lot and his Daughters," " Christ and the Doctors" of the more conspicuous beautiesa with of t t h h e is " " R H a o is l i y ng ra o m f La ; To expatiate_ on of ch Murillo— lov the y the serene efeelaettiutiresPcaolntbenance of the Divine e the Blessed Virgin, colouring, the maternal tenderness of solemnity, of St. Joseph—the p s t e u h c e u e li fl arities - of exquisite meditative aspect matchless grouping, the e 1 of them transferrede and all the other glorious pathos, are ux_all the composition would be worse than would be even out of place here, but that we and en abled to remark that they are all to the engraving by the skilful hand of Brido with one exception, of course—that of colouring. The plate, which is 23 inches high by 20i wide, does signal honour t o Mr. Bridoux, while no inconsiderable portion of credit will be reflected upon the establish ment of Mr. ArLean by the issue of every successive impression. NEsDAy, MAY s.—The Brunswick Thursday, saw the Penin- Harvey, which left this port last SOUTLIA3IPTON V. PLYMOUTII. —stileatY-mpa°cUkTellt,' CWapEtaDin n g d with the mails for —say, five or six miles an hour—bound Docks the day is: l the ea Needlesn d Oriental Passage,Com p i a n ny a ' s thicksteamer o S ! ul g t o a i n n , g C a a t p . halfß r o s o p k e e e s d , the Mediterranean. She left Southampton sbiexto milesre e 2 i n 3 8 0 i x P t .A s l e . n , and had Had she sailed from r thus accomplished aboutltywmeonutya; she would have cro:se d t h e Ch anne l a nd have ma de the en trance to the Bay of Biscay, while she wa s threading the difficult navigation o f t h e S outhampton waters and the Needles Passage. On Sund ay morn i ng , the 2d instant, at half-past ten o'clock, th e P en i nsular and Or i enta l Company's steamer Madrid, Capt a i n W eeks, from Spain, was seen by a fisherman to the southward of the Eddystone, within two hours' sail of Plymouth. She arrived at Southampton on Monday night, and her mails reached London on Tuesday forenoon. had the Madrid come into Plymouth, hex letters would have reached the metropolis on Monday—more than twenty-four hours earlier thaw by the course adopted. S - AU4 4 ,i,r LO N DON, I'A7tLIA.IIIIENTARY DIVISIONS (From the Votes avi Procee•iings of the House of Commons) WEDNESDAY, MAY 5. TENANT RIGHT (IRELAND) BILL. recd, for -resunaing - the further proceeding on Ardeirdrifent proposed to Question, " That the Bill be _noNt_.-__niad.. -.a second time," :nd which Amendment was to leare - out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words" upon this day six months:"— Question again proposed, " That the word ' now' stand part of the Question." Further proceeding resumed; Question put. The House divided : MINORITY--,AYES, 57. Adair, R. A. Heard, O'Brien, Jolui Armstrong, Sir A. Henry, Alexander O'Brien, Sir T. Barron, Sir H. • Higgins, George O'Connell, M. J. Bass, M. T. Howard, P. H. O'Flaherty, Anthony Bellew, R. M.: Howard, Sir R. Perfect, Robert Blake, M. J:. • , Keating, Robert Power, Nicholas • Bright,•ooht ' Keoghi,William Bawdon, Colonel Burke, Sir T.J. Kersha, James . Reynolds, John Butler, P. S. ". Lawless w , Cecil Sadleir, John Castlereagh, Viso. M'Cullagh ,W. T. Scrope, G. P. Cobden, Richard Mogan, W. 11. Scully, Francis Cogan, W. 11. Maher, N. Scully; Vincent Corbally, M. E. Meagh Thomas Sullivan, Michael Devereux, J. T. 'Mahon, O'Uorman Tennent, R. J. Fox, Richard M. Milligan. Robert Thompson, Colonel French, F. - Monsen, William Wakley, T. Goold, Wyndham Moore, G. 11. Walmsley, Sir J. Grace. 0. 1). J. Murphy, F. S. TELLERS. Grattan, Henry Norreys, Sir D. Crawford, W. S. Greene, John Nugent, Sir Percy Roche, E. B. MAJORITY—NOES, 167. A.dderley, C.,8, Duncan, George Lowther, Henry Anson, Vistount Duncombe, A. Macnaghten, Sir E. Arkwright, G. Dunne, Colonel Mandeville, Viscount Bailey, Craw,hay Du Pre, C. G. Manners, Lord C. Bailey, Joseph East, Sir J. Manners, Lord J. Banns, H. J. Edwards, IL March,,Earl of Baldock, E. 11. Egerton, Sir P. , Morgan 0. Baukes, G. , Egerton, W. T. Naas, L ' ord Barrington, Lord Farnham, E. ,:, Napier, Joseph Barrow, W. H. Farrer, James Neeld, Joseph Bennet; Philip FeWives, E. Newport, Visct. Beresford, William Ferguson, Sir 11. Noel, G. J. Bernard Vi , count Floyer; John O'Brien, Sir Lucius Blair, Stephen Forbek Wm. Paeke, C. W. Blandford, Mavis Fordyce, A. D. Pakington, Sir John Bottliam.Carter, ,J. .FOrester,G. C. Palmer, Robert Booth, Sir R. G.. Forster, M. Patten, J. W. Bowles, Admiral Fox, B. L. Pennant, Colonel Bremrldge,Riehard Freestun, Colonel Philips, Sir G. R. Bridges, Sir B. Freshfield, J. W. Pilkington, James Brisco, M.. . Fuller, A. E. Pugh, David Brooke, Sir A. ' Galway, Viscount Pusey, P. Brotherton, J. Gilpin, Colonel Ricardo, Osman Brute,:torti t. Gore, W. R. O. Richards, Richard Bruce, C. L. Goulburn, Henry Rushout, Captain Buck, L. W. Granger, T. C. Sandal's, George ,Bunbury, William, Greenall, Gilbert Seymer, H. K. Burghley, Lord. • Gwyn, BowelSmyth, H. George Burrell, - Sir C.' - Halford, Sir IL S,nollett, A. Carew, W. H. role Hamilton, Geo. A. Somerville, Sir W. Caulfeild, J. M. - Hamilton, J. 11. Stafford, Augustus Caylcy, E. S. . Hamilton, Lord C. Stanley, Edward Chichester, Lord J. Hardinge, C. S. Stuart, H. Child, Smith 'llastie, Alexander Stuart, J. Christopher. R. • Hayes, Sir E. Sturt, Henry G. Clements, Charles ' ileadlam, Thomas 'ferment, Sir J. Clerk Sir G. Heireage, G. H. Thesiger, Sir F. Clive, R. H. . Henley, J. W. Thicknesse, It. A. Clive, Henry B. lliidyard, T. B.T. Thornely, Thomas Cobbold, J. C. , Hill, Lord E. Trollope, Sir J. Cochrane, A. D. tope, Sir,J. Tyler, Sir G. .tocks, T. S. - Botham, Lord Tyrell, Sir J. T. Codrington, Sir W. Hughes, W. B. Verner, Sir IV. Collins, Thomas Hume, Joseph Vesey, Hon. T. Colvile, C. R. Johnstcne, Sir J. Villiers, Viscount Conolly, Thomas Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Vyse, H. R. 11. Corry, ,11. , Jones, Captain Walpole, S. It Cotton, W. H. • Kelly, Sir F. Walsh, Sir J. B. Darner, Colonel Knox, Colonel Welby, G. E. Davie; Sir II: ' Knox, W. S. Whiteside, James Davies, D. A. S. Langton, W. H. Worcester, Marquis Denison, Hilniund Lennard, T. B. Wynn, H. W. Dod, J. IV. . Lennox, Lord A. Yorke, E. T. Dodd, G. Lennox, Lord H G. Drumlanrig,Viscount Leslie, C P. Drummond, Henry Long, W. Drummond, Home Lowther, Colonel TELLERS. Bateson, T. Mackenzie, W. F. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. WORCESTER AND HEREFORD RAILWAY. --Yesterday, , a ft e ie a ,prestracted inquiry, cud opposition on the part of the Great Western Railway and other interests, the Committee, consisting of Mr. Childers, Colonel Peel, and others, passed the preamble of this Bill, promoted by the London and North-Western Railway, for making a line from Weircester to Hereford, with branches to the city of Worcester, to Malvern; and to Ledbury. The Bill also takes powers to enter into working arrangements with the Midland and. London and North-Western Com• psnies, to whom it will give access to and t communication with the districts a South Wales. The estimated cost of the line is 220,000/. Evidence was adduced on the part of the Commissioners of the Severn Navigation to show that the proposed fixed bridge below Worcester, carrying - the railway acrora the Severn, would annihilate the navigation at the time of high tides, and that it would be necessary to have a swing or draw bridge, The promoters of the railway proposed a fixed bridge of a specific height and span, and that vessels at the time of high tides should lay up at Worcester. Ultimately , clauses were introduced, leaving the matter to the juris diction of the Admiralty. The Parliamentary and other expenses ofsprosectiting the Bill for this line are said to amoune - to between 40,0001, and 50,0001. LONDJN AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The Committee, in reporting the preamble of this company's two Bills, state that the object of the first is to effect ar rangements with regard to capital, and for enlargement of the stations at Wolverton and Kilburn; and of the second, for new lines near Oxford, to connect with the Buckinghatnehire,railways, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, and to effect arrangements between the latter company and the London and North- Western. The Committee report that the financial object of the Company is to enable them to convert, by , degrees, their existing debt into irredeemable stock, bearing annual interest not exceeding three and a halfyperecent , , such new or debenture stock to have priority of interest or dividend over all existing prefe rence shares or stock of the company; but inasmuch as the debenture stock will . only be created instead of mortgages or debetures bearing on an average a far higher rate ofinterest, which interest has now a priority over all preference sha res or stock of the company, the Committee did not deem the creation of the debenture stock to be a "granting of preference or priority" within the moaning of the 128th standing order, or an of the 129th standing alteration 91 the terms of any existing preference or the -mParlin d g ed the Bill b deelarin a debenture " stock," with the expediency of creating 3i per cent. , insteadof an m an interest not exceeding oprrdieerri.ty,Twhe4Chionm‘mittae amen y g terest positively of 3i per cent. RathwAY.—Yesterday the Com mitteeGßEAT WESTERN for thepurchase and Canal, transfer en of th th is e Somerset, and Weymouth, arrangements with the Wilts, assed the preamble. and for additional works at Didoot, p clclaienP:entYt'sani3ddivon for making FREE-TRADE PROTECT lONISTS. The only remedy propo sed by the pesent Adminis tration lies simply in maintaieing the existing commer cial policy of.the country. Oar friends of the Protection press, if they would be true to their own colours, must prepare to furbish up same of their best sam p les of in pvective against the Derby "traitor" and the`'renegade" of Buckiughamshire. In what respect does the reluc tant adhesion of the present First Minister to the doc trines of Free Trade differ from their recognition by that great statesman who, to his country's loss, was snatched away from us, except in so far that he has been more slow to discern the policy which this country could not but pursue if it would maintain its rank in the scale of nations? What kind of pledge did the late Sir Robert Peel give to the great Conservative party in 1842 which can for a moment be compared with the pledges given by Lord Derby as chief spokes man and recognized. leader of the Protection party since 1846 ? If Sir Robert Peel was a traitor, what is Lord Derby ? Lot it:not-however, be for a moment supposed that we wish the Quintilians and Ciceros of monopoly to turn their 'pens against the leaders of the present Administration. For the sake of decency Ist them at last leave off calling of hard names, and recognize results which any but a blind man can perceive. If there be any " treason," or any such heavy matter in Lord Derby's piesent position, it is that he had not the man liness to act as Sir Robert Peel did at a far more mo mentous time. No man can make a great speech in more efficient style than the present Premier when he fairly sets, about it. Why does he shrink from the odium of acknowledging his mistake ' and admitting in the face of the country and of his ownfollowers that he was mis taken? " Ohl but the elections are coming on ; we must not alienete• the votes of our own partisans. We must not completely destroy the shaken faith of the agricultural constituencies!" It would appear to any unprejudiced observer as though poor Sir Robert had risked far more than this,,and had exposed himself to a storm of vitu peration which would not reach Lord Derby's head. It is, however, of the Protection writers and the Protection press that we are speaking at the present moment. Why do not they, even at the twelfth hour, make a tardy at tempt to escape from the mud through which they have been too long dragged ,by every blockhead who on any hustings or at any Protectionist meeting throughout the country has stood up to add his little quantum of non sense to the 'literature of Protection? It had been our intention to speak of the last shifts and change's of the Protection writers, but a feeling of com punction overcomes us even at the last moment. Why ttianiph over men to whose position so much ridicule is attached_?__ Rather let us entreat the public to look the Other - way, than imitate the example which themselves had set. We will not too curiously remark upon their cunning arguments for proving that there is a substan tial difference between the fiscal policy of the late and the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Disraeli may ha,ya eulogised the success of the Free-trade policy and maintained it in his present budget. That is nothing. e i d s i a c s a, a te ks d He has not ad - opted the formal terms of Sir Charlea Wood's Motion,,nor e us far as we are aware, borrowed the Right anything nt the can wisest be which of s prated their Hon.. Gentleman's hat—that is everything. Be it so. I o 0 1 u f the human certainty tai beings, nty as an a d n species —that ere six months are out the Sir Robert Peel, the professional discoverers of - nests the literary grieyancemongers existed, Will h ave turned They will be vvriti from the error of their ways. ascribing th e salealtlg excellent Free-trade articles, and who have Opposed t this policy from the first. Content , let us not be process. L e t ;us avoidneedlessly over curious about the even of those who are wounding the self-love Times. least entitl e d to suc h reserve.— REMOVAL OF THE .REGISTE Act amending found necessary to ------ GENERAL'S OFFICE , eildi d ng the existing Act and marriages. The the House of Corn nd read i a FROM SOMERSET-HOUSE.—it has .been apply to Parliament for a n for registration of' births, deaths amendmentt L h o e r -- djobJohn is n introduced ners, e Monday, ii. to-alter'a clause of the above Act of P d time on providing tlrat.the daces of the Register. General m ob o j n ec s t b of y situated‘ ,lvitilin the cities of London or vves l t shall . be it having been found expedient to vacate the presenmtinorcre; in. Some; set place, in favour of the Board of Inland Revenue.s It is' understood that the department of the Registrar-Ge neral will ehortly remove to new offices, which have been 1 'some time in preparation, at Coward College, in the vicinity of the London University. EVENING, T U + . 3.SaAY SPORTING NOTES. No. CCXXI. THE RACE FOR THE CHESTER CUP AND THE FIELDS FOR TOMORROW. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU.N. Sin,—My remarks on the Cup were, for the most part, correct; the four horses that I selected to occupy the foremost positions included Joe Miller and Stilton, the first and second; Duc an Dhurras had to give place to his stable companion, Cockcrow, that being the tiag selected by Lord Waterford to win with; and Hothorpe, the remaining horse of my team, though in splendid condition, was unable to give two stone for the year to the winner. The running of Joe Miller and Stilton at Epsom was reversed in this instance; as on the Dawns, Stilton beat Joe in a canter by the same distance that Joe yesterday beat Stilton on the Roodee. .The true nature of the Handicap running of the year was borne out yesterday by that for the Cup, as the first and second for the Metroooliten, and the first for the Northamptonshire Stakes, obtained the first three places; Poodle finishing a good third, and the much talked-of Benita a fair fourth. Joe's victory was almost a repetition of the Red Deer game in 1844, as ho had the lead pretty nearly from the commencement to the finish, never having been headed after he bud taken the command of the van. The race was run at a good pace, the time being 4 min. 6 sec. The immediate effect of the result of the race for the Cup was the appearance of Joe Miller at 15 t o 1 f or the Derby. Hi s c h ance for the great event on the Downs of Epsom is of a very inferior kind, as the public will find, it being a slightly different thing to carry 4st 101 b at Chester, receiving weight from nearly everything in the race, and tearing Bst 7lb iu !ho Derby at level weights, with the best horses of the year. In my notes yesterday I forgot. to state that Bethge lert and Merry Bird would be first and second for the Triennial Produce Stakes, and the information will be of little or no service now. Omissions and mistakes will occur in the best ordered attrte of things. Seven stakes figure on th e li st for t o -morrow, three of which—the 5 sovs. Handicap, Ladies' Puree, and Grand Stand Cup—close and name this evening. The Wirral Stakes will, in all probability, terminate in a walk over; the owner of the fitly by Orlando out of the Maid of Avon being the recipient of the forfeits. The Eaton Stakes may possibly be contested by the Black Doctor, Bess of Hardwick, and Calot or Ibis, BESS OF HARDWICK and CALOT occupying the first and econd places, with the Black Doctor in the third posi tion, and ibis last. Tae Cestrian Stakes will be contended for by SciPi°, Stratagem, and Water Lily: STRATAGEM and Same filling the first and second places, Water Lily third mid The field for the Cheshire Slake 3, I believe, will con sist of Mountain Derr, the Marq u i s Doctor, Ephesus, Cardinal Wiseman,, Go'dander, Black Dulcet., and Merry Pell: GOLDFINDER or MERRY PEAL, the former for choice, looking most like business; the Marquis close up. . . _ The Betting on to-ncorrovi's events is as fol lows:—Cestrian Staker.-2 to 1 ma the field. Wirral Sc.kes-3 to lon Maid of Avon filly. Cheshire Stakes —3 to 1 egst Goldfinder; 4 to 1 each agst Merry Peal, Joe Miller, and the Black Doctor. Eaton Stake:.-6 to 4 agst Calot; 2 to 1 agst the Black Doctor. I am, Sir, yours, Sze., THE srnur OF THE TURF. May 6, 1852. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES.--WEDNESDAY. The Corinthian Haudicap of 5 sour. each, with 20 added, for all ages. Gentlemen riders. 7 fur longs. (6 Subs.) Mr. Morris's Haresfoot, lOst 51b ...... ...(Capt, Lit le) 1 Mr. Davies's Gaylad, 6 yrs, lOst 51b,........ (Owner) 2 MaDawson's na Emerystone, 9st 41b (Mr.C.Boynton) 3 Mr.H.French'sHappyQueen,6yrs,lo3lslb(MaG amen) 4 Betting-5 to 4agst Ilaresfoot, and 7to 4 agst Emery stone. Won by half a length. Rua in 1 min. 27 sec. First year of the Second Triennial Produce Stakes of 10 sows. each, h ft. with 30 added. T.Y.C. Mr. Drewe's Defiance, Bst Est (Charlton) 1 Mr. Worthington's Jagnenetta, Bst 21b (J. Osborne) 2 Batting-6 to 4on Defiance, who waited until the half distance, and won a well-contested race by a neck. The race was not timed. The Tradesmen's Plate of 200 soya., added to a handicap sweepstakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if de clared; the second to receive 50 sovs. out of the stakes, the third to save his stake, and the winner to pay 25 soya. towards expenses. The winner of either the Northamptonshire Stakes, Metropolitan Stakes, Newmarket Handicap, or the Somersetshire Stakes, in. 1852, to carry 10Ib extra, or of any other handi cap race of the value of 200 soya., including the win ner's own stake, Ms, extra. Cup Course, about two miles and a quarter. (210 Subs., 81 of whom de clared.) Mr. Farrance's Joe Miller, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b Goater) 1 Mr. Meiklam's Stilton, 3 yrs, sst 81b (Aldcroft) 2 Lord Ciifden's Poodle, 3 yrs, sst 31b ...(T Sherrard) 3 Mr. Whieldon's Benita, 3 yrs , 4st (Fordham) 4 The following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Martinson's Nancy, 4 yrs, 9st lib... (F. Marson) 0 Mr. Mangan's Rusaborough, Bst 71b (E. Keegan) 0 Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Deer , Bst 61b ...(Hiett) 0 Mr. E. Phillip' e T rut h , 4 yrs, 881211) ......(J. Doyle) 0 Mr. Mosely's Alonzo, yrs, Bst ...........(Simpson) 0 General Anson's Backbiter, aged, 7st 121 b (Charlton) 0 Mr. Greville's Ariosto, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ...(Dockeray) 0 Lord Wilton's Lady velyn, 6 yrs, 7st 81b (Flatman) 0 Lord Eglinton's Hippolytus, 4 yrs, Tat Blb (J. Sharp) 0 Mr. Phillips's Le Jul!, 4 yrs, 7st 61b ...... "(Knott) 0 Mr. Palmer's Goldfinder, 4 y rs , 7 st 61b (W. Sharpe) 0 Mr. Clark's Old Dan T uc k er , 7 st 51b (G. M ann ) 0 Mr. Saxon's Black Doctor, Tat 51b (J. Osborne) 0 Lord Waterford's Dne-an-Dhurras, 75t...(D. Doyle) 0 Sir W. Booth's Retail, 6 yrs, 7st (Kitchener) 0 Duke of Bedford's lime Homburg, 4 yrs, 7st(Esling) 0 Mr. Nott's Birmingham, 4 yrs, Est 121 b ...(Kn k ig ht ) Ci Mr. Morris's Hungerford, 4 yrs, Est 101b ...(Basua,m) 0 - Mr. H. Hill's Hotho rPe, 4 yrs, Est 101 b ...... (Arnold) 0 Mr, Langshaw na Gholab Singh, 6st 101 b (H. Neap) Lord Waterford's Cockcrow, Est Sib (W. Wynne) 0 Mr. Martinson's View Halloo (h b) ...(E. Harrison) 0 Mr. Fisher's Breba, 4 yrs, Est 41b (Hickman) 0 gr. Farrance's Cardin a lW iseman, Est 41b (J.Wynne) 0 Mr. Drinkald's Dulcet, aged, 6st (Paris) 0 Mr. Delamere's Harp, 4 yrs, Est (Atherton) 0 air. Disney's Indian Warrior, sst 11Ib (T. Smith) 0 Mr. R. Stewart's Wilm en r , 5 yrs, sst 101 b (Chilman) 0 Mr. Thomas's na Si ster to Fencer, sstlolb (J. Doyle) 0 Mr. Osborne's Merry Bird, 3 yrs. sst 61b ...(Carroll) 0 Mr. Pilling's The High Sheriff, sst 61b(T. Sherwood) 0 Ld. Waterford's Redmond O'Hanlon, sst 81b (Garvey) 0 Mr. Copeland's Lady Anayott, 3 yrs, sst (Kendall) 0 Mr. Phillips's Koh-i-noor, sst (car sst 31b)...(We118) Mr. W. D, HoltbY'a Ulrica, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b ( A. Dodd) 0 Mr. Saxon's Richard Primmer, 4 st 101b...(Quinton) fell Mr. Greville's Scarecr ow, 3 yrs , yrs, 4st 4st 71b ...(Stegeles) 0 Mr. G. Hill na Barley S ugar, 3 810 ...(Clift) Major Pat na Vamp yro, aged, Est 101 b (Glasebrook) 0 Betting-7 to 2 agst (t), Bto 1 agst Joe Mil ler (t), 14 to 1 agst Nancy 100 6 olO u (t), 15 to 1 eget Merry Bird , to , 20 to 1 apt Beaits, 20 to 1 agst Lady Evely agst n G , 25 t fi o der, 1 agst Indian Warrior, 30 to 1 agat Poodle, 33 to 1 nat. oekrow, 33 t o 1 ag st Black Doc and 50 to 1 agst an tor, 35 to 1 agst Harp (t), 50 to 1 agst High Sheriff , y other. Lord Waterford declared to win with Cockrow. Joe Mil ler made near ly a ll the running, and won in a canter by a length and a half. Poodle a good third, Benito. fourth, Black Doctor fifth. Run in 4 min. 6 sec. 60 Guineas given by the Members for the City, added to a sweepstakes of 3 soya. each, the latter to go to the second. Once round and a dis. (11 Subs.) Lord Watertord's Sharavogue, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (Doyle) 1 Mr. E. Parr's Sanaa, 3 y rs, Est 101 b (Hiatt) 2 Mr. J. Osborne's Lady Agnes, 3 yrs, 7sts (Osborne) 3 Mr. E. Buckley's Royal George, 6st 121 b (Charlton) 0 Sir C. Rushout's Flounce, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Archer) .0 Capt. Harcourt s Burndale, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Arnold) 0 Betting— 4 aget Sanita, 2 t o 1 ags t L a dy A gnes , and 4 to 1 agst Sharavogn e . Won cleverly by a length, the same between second and t h ird. Her Majesty's Plate 100 guineas. Thrice round. Mr. Spence's St. Michael, 3 yrs, 7st 21b... (Charlton) 1 Lord Waterford's The M ar qua', 4 yrs, 9st 21b (Doyle) 2 Mr. Stewart's Banshee, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (W. Sharpe) 3 Mr. J. Osborne's Priam the Third, 7st 21b ( Barham). 4 Mr. Meiklam'a Paddy Bird, 3 yrs 7st 21b...(Arnold) 5 B et ting—Even on Marquis, 3 to 1 agst Paddy Bird, 4 to 1 agst St, Michael, and 4 t o 1 agst Bans h ee . Won cleverly by half a length, a l ength between second and third, and the same between third and fourth, Priam beaten off. Run in / min. 8 sec, The Scramble Handicap of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added. Three-quarters of sa mile. (11 Sabo. Mr. Shirley's Miss ) Fanny, 4 y es , Bst 41. b (W. Sharpe) 1 Mr. Mangan's Tancred, 4 yrs, Bst 71b. ...... (Keegan) 2 Lord Chesterfield's f by Lanercost a.... (I'. Smith) 8 Six others ran. Won by half a length. LATEST BETTING AT CHESTER. • ( By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE DEE STALES. 3 to 1 agst Hyacinth 3 to 1 agat Attack DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Alcoran—taken 9 to 1 eget Hobbits Noble, 11 to 1 agst Claverhowse 12 to 1 aget. Stockwell 15 to 1 agat Kingston 15 to 1 agst Little Harry 15 to 1 agst Joe Miller 50 to 1 eget Augur ROYAL THAMES Y ACHT CLUB. The entries for the Grand Challenge Cup, open to all royal yachts,closed at ten o'clock last night, at the Piazza Coffte-house, and ar© as follow:—. Cygnet, 35 tons, Hoe. Mr. Lanahton. Musquito, 50 tons, Lord Londesborough. Volaute, 48 tons, J. L> Craigie, E sq . Mouse, 15 tons, G. E. Browne, E, q , War Hawk, 66 tons, G. Bartlett, E vi , Pauline, 35 tons, C. Brandeth, E sq. The race is appointed for the 14th instant, from Erith round the Nero Light and back. The Ruby s t eamer h as been chartered by the club, and will leave London-bridge at hall-past nine in the morning. The band of the Royal Blues will ba in attendarce. ----- A BOLITIO N OF T HEUNDAY FAIRS IN BATTERSEA FIELDS.—The Commissioners for the new park in Battersea Fields, have just issued a notice of caution which has been widely circulated, and will have the effect of sup• pressing this monster nuisance, and wholesale desecration of the Sabbath. The following is a copy of the notice issued :—" Caution. — No tice is hereby given, that on an d after Sunday next, the 9th of May, 1852, all persons seen trespassing in Battersea-fields with horses, donkeys, cock shies, barrows, 8,:c., on a Sunday., will be taken into cus tody, and all such persons so offending during the week, and the owners dealt with acc or di ng t without proper authority, w ill be taken into cust o dy, th e i r horses imp oun d e d, to law, M A Y 6. HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL. The Queen gave a State Ball last evening at Buck ingham Palace, which was most numerously attended by the nobility and gentry, nearly two thousand invitations having been issued, and owing to her Majesty's gracious permission dispensing with the Court mourning on this occasion (except fur the ladies of the household), the ball presented the brilliant and megnificent character usual at the State receptions of the Sovereign. The grand hell was decorated with beautiful flowers. This hall, composed of white marble and supported by marble columns, has two recesses or alcoves at the foot of the grand staircase; these wore filled with the choicest plants, grouped with excellent taste, springing from a border of mosses end mignionette, the one group surmounted with a beautiful specimen of the " acacia armata, " and the corresponding group with the " azalea indica alba:" The sculpture gallery adjoining the grand hall was filled with sofa tables and settees for the accommodation of the visitors. The grand staircase was brilliantly illuminated; at the foot were two tripods, bearing a mass of globes of light, interspersed with cut crystal, the upper portion of the staircase being hung with whole-length portraits of various members of the Ro;s, al Family. The ante-room at the top of the staircase is a most beautiful specimen of internal decoration. The arched csilieg is supported by columns of white marble with gilded capitals. This room contains Gibson's statues in marble of her. Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in which colour is sparingly and with much delicacy introduced in the ornaments and drapery. This apartment leads to the green drawing-room, the throne-room, and the picture gallery; and on the other side of the picture -gallery are the yellow drawing-:oom, the saloon, the ball room, and the supper-room. The throne- room was appropriated as a second ball room, the orchestra was formed in the deep alcove in which the throne is situate ; it was bat slightly raised above the floor, and the front was hung with draperies of crimson velvet embroidered in gold. The ball-room, which has a massive arched roof of groat magnificence, being pannelied in architectural compartments, profusely enriched with gilding, is sup ported by columns of crimson scagliola of the Corinthian order with gilt capitals. The permanent orchestra is a gallery at the north end. The hart pas, on which the seats of state were placed for her Majesty and Prince Albert, was covered with crimson. The draperies enclosing it were of amber-co loured satin and white lace, and at the back, forming a back-ground to the seats, was a most brilliant assort ment of beautiful flowers, rising to a considerable height , above the seats. The draperies were surmounted by a broad and massive gilt cornice. Full-length portraits of her Majesty and Prince Al bert, by Winterhalter, ornament this apartment. Adjoining the ball-room is the supper-room, having a deep recess at the end, within which a buffet was ar ranged, on which the more exquisite specimens of jewelled and ornamental gold plate were most effectively displayed, with the aid of a backgrourd of dark crimson and numerous lights from golden candelabra. This room contains the portraits of George IV., in the robes of the Garter, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, placed in the middle, with those of George 111. and Queen Charlotte, by Geinsborcugh, oa either side, Frederick, Prince of Wales, and the Princess of Wales, and the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. The tables for the supper were ranged round three aides of the apartment. The Yeomen of the Guard lined the grand ball and staircase under the command of Captain Kinceid, the exon in waiting. Captains Bellairs and Rickfords, exons of the corps, were also present. A guard cf honour ,or the Foot Guards was on duty on the Palace lawn, with the baud of the regiment. The company began to arrive at the Palace at nine o"clock, those having the entrée alighting at a tempo rary entrance in the garden, and the general company entering from the principal portico. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary arrived at ten o'clock, attended by Lady Suffield and Major Baron linesebeck. Their Royal Highnesses were received by the Maids of Ho nour, the Grooms, and the Equerries in Waiting, by whom they were ushered to her Majesty. Soon after ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert were conducted by the Lord Chamberlain from the yel low drawing-room, through the saloon into the ball-room. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by their lloyal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and were attended by the Mis tress of the Robes; the Countess of Charlemont, lady in waiting; Hon. Matilda Paget and Hon. Mary Seymour, maids of honour in waiting; the Lord Steward, the Vice Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comp troller of the Household; Lord Polwartb, lord in wait ing; Sir Edward Bowater, groom in waiting; Lord Charles Fitzroy, equerry in waiting; the Pages of Honour in Waiting; the Groom of the Stole to the Prince; Lord George Lennox, lord in waiting to his Royal Highness; Lieut.-Colonel Francis Seymour, groom in waiting to his Royal Highness; and Lieut.- Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, equerry in waiting to his Royal Highness. The Queen wore a dress of white tarlatan over white watered silk, trimmed with black and white flowers and diamonds. Her Majesty's headdress was composed of a wreath of black and white flowers and diamonds. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge wore a dress of black net over black glace silk, embroidered with black bugles, the stomacher ornamented with pearls and diamonds. Her Royal Highness's head dress was formed of a magnificent tiara of large pearls and diamonds, with black lace lapptts. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary wore a dress of white net over white glace silk, elegantly trimmed with white bugles and white roses, with ornaments of pearls and diamonds in the stomacher. Her Royal Highness's head-dress was composed of white roses, pearls, and diamonds. The assembled visitors followed her Majesty and her august circle from the saloon and picture gallery into the ball-room. A quadrille was immediately formed, and the Queen opened the ball with the Duke of Buccleach, the cis being his Royal Highness Prince Albert and her Royal Highness the Princess Mary. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at half-past ten o'clock, attended by Lord William Faulet and Major the Hon. James Macdonald. The ball having been opened, dancing was com menced in the throne-room with the " Quadrille of All Nations." The brothers Labitzky attended with their orchestra in this ball-room, and played the following dances: . NAVAL INTELLIGENCE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S LEVEE.—The followirg officers were presented at his Grace's hvee yes teiday :—Rsar Admiral Wauchope ' Admirai Gost , Ain, Rear Admiral Sir James Sterling, Rear Admiral Robin son, Rear Admiral Cator, •Sir Henry asst. Captain Richard Devonshire and John F. Apple'oy, both cSIB3B, have accepted the retirement. Cereraander Norcott, 1838, and Commander Cater, 1831, have been appointed to the coast-guard. • Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam sloop Buzzard, 6 guns, at Devonport, is ordered for immediate commis sion, but no of sera have as yet been nominated to her. A sad accident occurred on board the Amazon, 26, Capt. Barker, lying in Plymouth Sound. We under stand that in striking the topgallantniast, it came down by the run, when oce man was killed, and four others seriously wounded. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—His Royal Highness the Comte d'Aquils, Lord High Admiral of the Neapolitan fleet, and suite, arrived at this port this afternoon to in spce; the chief objects of interest. The Qaren, 116, Captain Wise, was towed into har bour this afternoon by tie Sprightly and Echo steamers. The Superb, 80, Captain Purcell, exercised her crew in' gunnery this morning at Spithead with shot and shell at target-. The Prince Regent, 90, Captain Hairiv, struck Com- • modore Martin's -broad pendant last evening at sunset, the Commodore having gone on leave. The Winchester, 50, Captain Loch, C. 8., bent sails thi. morning. The steam-frigate Highflycr, 21, Captain Matson, will be ready to go to Spithead this week. The court-martial on the sat - viving cfficers nod men of the Birkenhead bids fair to last several days. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—Lfor Majesty's steam vessel Vixen, 6, Commander F. L. Barnard, having on board Sir Charles Hothsm, the Envoy to Brazil, and suite, sailed yesterday for Rio Janeiro. Her aljesty's frigate Aatez.,n, 26, Captsin C. hacker, which arrived on Sunday from Portsmouth, went up harbour on Monday, with unbent ;,ails, and commerical taking out stores, prepi , ..ratcry to being paid off. Her Majesty's ship RAney, 92, Captain C. Gra ham, now in the Sound, is 150 m(1) short of her com plement. The crew of Britomart, 8, CLmmander Heseltine, wcre paid wages Ou Monday. The frigate Leander, 50, Captain Dacres, was taken out of dock on Monday, and roasted on Tuesday. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, MAY s.—Commander F. N. K. Waspy (1850) to study steam at the factory at Woolwich Duck yard, vice Commander Bowyear, passed. Commander Michael de Courey (1848) to study steam at the factory, vice Captain Cospatrick B. Hamilton, passed. Commander Philip de Saumarcz (1845) to study steam at the factory, vice Lieutenant Richard Moore, passed. Cumnactuder Henry I. L2c3n (1842), to study steam at the factory, vice Lieutenant Macdonald B,:,ucehier, passed. Lieutenants Macdonald Bourehier and Richard Moore, having completed a curse of study of steam, were severally examined as to their knowledge of steam and marine steam engines by Mr. Charles Atherton, chief engineer at Woolwich Dockyard, and on passing satis factorily received their certificates accordingly. The Herald, 28, Captain Henry Mangles Denham, was visited to-day by a great number of ladies and gentle men, who were conducted over the vessel by Captain Denham, who showed them the arrangements which have been made for the long atey of the Herald on the sur veying service in the South Seas, and the numeruus pre sents intended for the natives of the islands in that part of the Pacific Ocean, LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD. A court-martial, consisting of Roar-Admirel H. Pre , c3tt, C. 13., prosidsnt; Cip•ain Chads, C. 8., of the Excallent; Captain G. B. M arc i e , C 13. of the Victory; Captain , Scott, of the N eptune ; Captain ' tein Henderson, GB., of the Biei:heim; Captain S. T. Innes, of the Sampson; Captain Robinson, of the Arrogant; Captain Loch, C. 8., of the Winchester; Captain Warden, of the Retribution; Captain Symonds, of the Arethusa; Cap tain Harris, of the Prince Regent; Captain Matson, of the Hightlyer; and Sir G. L. Greetham, Deputy Judge- Advocate of the Fleet, assembled yesterday morning at nine o'clock, on board the Victory, to try Mr. It. B Richards, master's assistant; J. Bowen, 'l'. Dunn, able seamen; A. Stone, ordinary seaman; and John Ashbolt, stoker, for the loss of the Birkenhead, or rather to in vestigate the conduct of the survivors of that awful wreck. The witnesses called when our report left were Thos. Coffin, who had the first middle watch on the night of the wreck; Thomas Daly, of the first wa'cb, and look out man on the forecastle; Colour-Sergeant Drake, on the poop when the ship struck; John Archbold, gunner, in bed when the accident happened; and Mr. W. Cal hane, assistant surgeon, in his cabin at the time. All these witnesses were subjected to close and lengthened examination, and deposed to a great num ber of facts connected with the disaster; but nothing calculated to alter materially the main incidents already before the public. Ono of them stated, that had the boats remained near the wreck, and not pursued the schooner, more lives might have been saved; but all teemed to egree that both on board the ill-fated ship and after she had sunk every effort was used that, under the circumstances, was practicable. The cc:wants of the boats stated that they could not, without danger, take in more than they held; that they heard no cries and saw no oases of distress which they did not seek to relieve; that the heaviness of the surf, in their judgment, rendered landing impossible; and, in short, that they acted for the best in the trying emer gency. As to the course which the ship was steering, it was proved that she was some three miles .from shore, which, however, was not visible in the darkness; that the soundings were taken; that the rate of speed at the time was 71 knots; that a light had been discerned shortly before the catastrophe took place, and that the sound of the surf was not distinguishable. It was also shown that the boats were in perfect order for launching had time permitted; that the captain was perfectly col lected, and that the orders which he issued were obeyed; that the engines were backed for two minutes after the ship struck, and that she yielded to them; that in ten minutes the fires were completely extinguished, and that she went down in less than half an hour. Questions were put to the witnesses, not only by the members of the court-martial, but by .the prisoners, and at six p.m the Court was adjourned till to-morrow morning. EXPERIMENTS WITH ANCHORS. WOOLWICH, MAY 5.--Two anchors, in addition to those previously described, were delivered at Woolwich Dockyard on Monday last, one by an American named Isaacs, which has an arrangement to prevent what is technically termed " fouling." The other, by Brown, Lennox and Co., Admiralty contractor, differs only slightly from Sir William Parker's plan in section and in length of shank, and with a palm more epeer-shaped. The testing the seven anchors for trial with the usual strain applied to anchors of similar weight when de livered for service commenced on Monday afternoon by placing one of Lieutenant Rogers's anchors, weighing 19 cwt. 81bs., in the testing-frame, and applying a strain of 19/ tons, when the first tented arm was found to have deflected 5-16ths of an inch, and the other s.l6ths, both returning to their original position when the strain was withdrawn. On Mr. Mitehoson's anchor, .weighing .1 cwt. 141 b., being subjected to a strain of nln tons, it de fleeted the point of the palm extending * whe e n zaoly mea sured from the shank, and the other arm g av i e . the same result, the palms returning to withi n _ original position from the deflection s a d the shank. original position when measure n d c . from or, the strainshank,bebioetgl, rictto theirofentht"irier of 20 cwt. Brown, Lennox, and Co's. a of 213- tons applied, 3 qrs. 10Ib., on having deflected and from a similar result, and on the strain wairtinhelsragwivningthae and the arms resumed Isaac's anchor, deflection was entirely ri3ninoTvueeds,daayn their original position. of 21 cwt. 141 b., d and was found to deflect of wa s placed in the testing-frame, and a strain of 211 tons applie d, an inch, and the distance of the point of the arm 1-16th and . the . other anchor gave a similar from the shri nk, arms re result. On the strain being withdrawn both position. Mr. Trotman's anchor, re named their original we ighing 21 cwt. 1 q * r., had a strain of 21i t ons ap plied, and deflected , the point of the arm extending 3.16 from the shank ; and on the other arm being tried the deflection was , without any exten s i on of the arm, an d on the strain being withdrawn the deflection returned to * and the arms to their origi nal position. 3 qr. 7 1b., had a strain of 21 tons applied, and the deflection was i n and th e extens i on of the arm and the other - arm gave exa c tl y t h e same result. On the s train being withdrawn the first tested are returned to its original position, and the deflection of the other to within *, and to its entire original position when measured from the shank. Lieutenant Rogers's kedge anchor, weighing 20 cwt. 1 qr., was placed in a testing frame, and on a strai n o f 21 * tons being 1 . %V , the deflection was 1 inch, the point of the arm extending 4 of an inch from the shank. The deflection when the other arm was tested was 1 3-16th inches, and the extension I of an inch, and on th e stra i n b e i ng withdrawn, deflection on the one side retur ne d t o 6.16 andthe arm to its original positi on . Th e d e fl ect i on on the other side returned to + of an inch and the arm to its original po sition. Th e anc h ors are now l y i ng on the wharf, reay to be transferred to Sheerness to contend for the palm of superiority as regards their holding properties, and will subsequently be brought back to Woolwich dockyard to undergo an ultimate or breaking strain, in order to determine the greatest degree both of maximum strength and holding properties, the two great essentials for an anchor. A committee of six naval officers and six of the most eminent shipowners, assisted by Mr. Atherton, chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard, have consented to act as jurors on this occasion. Out of rather more than 30 persons who exhibited anchors at the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park last year, 6 have responded to the invita tion to submit their inventions to actual tests and prac tical trials for superiority. The anchors were weighed and tested without their stocks. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Lieutenant-General Lord Frederick Fitz-Clarence, G.C.H., was appointed Commander-in -Chief of the company's forces on the Bombay establishment. LINCOLN'S INN, MAY s.—The following members of this society have been called to the bar, and were sworn O. in this evening in the Hall :—John Buck, M.A.; Richt, A t !. Turner, B.A. ;•William J. Potts, Esq ; Charles Lees, D Francis 0. Adams, M.A.; John Smith, B.A. nu Augustus A. Vansittart, M.A. His Royal PRINTERS' DRAMATIC SOCIETir t . IOI. to the secre - Highness the Duke of Cambridge hose n in aid of an amateur tary of the Printers' performance at St. janinreasm'saTtiheertrei'et Society, Society and the Almshouse Endowment Fund. WALTZES. ' Flying Leaves Labilzky. Lovely Rhine Tory The Berthe (let time) Summer Night's Dream QUADRILLES._ Qqadrille of All Nations I Martini Musard. Steinhof Martha Strauss. POLKAS. Alice Vienna. The Royal Marionette GALOPS. _ Military The Laura Keene The quadrille band of Messrs Cooto and Tinney were stationed in the ball-room, and performed a number of quadrilles, waltzes, polkas, and galops. Refreshments wore served during the evening to the numerous assembly in the green drawing room and the garter room, and between twelve and one o'clock supper was served to her Majesty and her illustrious guests in the state dining room. The service was entirely of gold plate, and some of the most beautiful specimens of ar tistic skill in the precious metals were displayed on the lang range of tables on which the repast was laid. Single flowers of great beauty, and groups of plants in full blossom, relieved occasionally the gorgeous magnificence of the golden service; the whole being brilliantly lit with gold candelabra. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, took a drive yesterday in an open carriage and - four. The Equerries in Waiting, Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lient.-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon, at tended on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Colonel the Hon. C. Grey. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited her Ma jesty yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses also visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Clarerce House, St. James's. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester last even ing at Gloucester House, Piccadilly. - The Education Committee of her Msjesty's Most Hon. Privy Council had a meetin g yesterday at the Council-office. Present, the Lord President, the Earl of Derby, the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir John Pakington, the Dake of Northumberland, and the Right Hon. J. W. Henley. A deputation of steem.orners, consisting of Mr. Thomas Thompson (Hall), Mr. Charles M'lver (Liver pool), Mr. A. Bannister (Mayor of Hull), and Mr. H. Pearson, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley and Lord Colchester, at the Board of Trade. The deputation was introduced by Mr. William Brown, M.P., and Mr. James Clay, M.P. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN cORRESPONDENT.) COWES, WEDNESDAY. —The Dutch barque Japara, which was on shore at the back een steamer bet of the steamer' ween , was towed to this harbou r by the Qu nine and ten o'clock this morning., and is now (noon) alongside the Medina Commercial Wharf, preparing to discharge the remainder of her cargo. There have been no pumps going since she arrived, and she appears to make very little water. She is a very fine ship, and if her masts had not been cut away would very soon have been ready for sea again. The wind and weather have the wind has been much in her favour, or she would never have floated out of that disastrous bay. The grass and spring corn is suffering very much from the continued drouge, as are the gardens; been from the north end cast, almost continuously, for more than three months. __—.........wma....m..=•••ray... DEPARTURE or THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM -SHIP ArLANric.--Yesterday forenoon, about eleven o'clock, the United S tates Mail steam-shi p Atlantic, Captain West cNaervigo ork, with upwards of sixty l , ' and the mails for the United America. About the same hour the Li v erpool and ff a t . the l‘ilrerasv F r , aA f g or m Philadelphia Company's screw steam-ship P S a t s t ees gee and isci ,a Britishf,, City of Manchester also left the Mersey, bound for l'hiladelr phis, with seventy-eight passengers and a full cargo, con sisting chid.), of Manchester and Birmingham goods. DEATH OF MR. ALEXANDER MACKAY (From the Chronicle.) It is with sincere regret that we record the (Utah, on his way borne, of Mr. Alexander Mackay, the author of the " Weetern World," and lately the Commissioner to India of the Manchester Chamter of Comrzy•roe. Mr. Mackay was for many years connected with this journal, and we cannot withhold from his name the tribute due to the memory of an able coadjutor and of a valued friend. By Mr. Mackay's untimely fate an opening career of great promise is cut short. Endowed with high mental qualities, possessed of a clear intellect and acute and rapid powers of reasoning—a keen observer, and an in stinctive lover of truth—Mr. Mackay added to thesegifts a most amiable disposition. These powers had been as certained, and were in the act of being applied to im portant public purposes, when the climate of a hot country, acting upon a naturally delicate constitution, cut him off—not, however, before he had to a great ex tent completed his task. Alexander Mackay was the son cf Mr. Mackay, a mach-respected baulzer in Inverness, and was born in that town about 1820. He was educated at the neigh bouring town of Elgia, and afterwards at Aberdeen. Family arrangements lid him first to Canada, where he was destined for the colonial bar, and fur some brief .pace practised with reeute. Journalism, however, seems to have had more attraction for Mr. Mackay than profet sional practice, and accordingly he soon became the con ductor of a highly respectable newspaper in Toronto. After residing ia Canada for several years, and travelling over a great portion of the provinces and the States, he re turind home hi search of a wider sphere than could be afforded by colonial life. He was speedily engaged in convection with thi , journal, and so highly were his acuteness and levies" etsililties estimated, that ho was st•nt, eat again I,y the Morning Chronicle to the United States, for the put pose of examining the diplomatic bearings of the treaties as to the Maine boundary, gni observing the feelings of the American public on the question. His letters upon these subjects were replete with most vahlahle information, and with clear and logical reasoning. Not long after his return, Mr. Mackey published his " Western World," the great ability and comprehensive grasp of which were at once acknowledged. The bock was indeed pronouuced to be the best and most complete work ever written upon the Transatlantic Republic. Its success wits great and lames:late, and the volumes became at once a a:enders? authority upon that most important subject. The author's connexion with this journal was prolonged for tome time afterwards. As one of our special correspo e d en t s , engaged in investigating the condition of the Et:glinti rural population, Mr. Mackay rendered important /services to t he qaestion of Labour and the Poor, while his vermeil and successfully turned to oth:r ire spend e t pen was f lite raryl and political interest. Aft sr t he oesoger^eral f set tlement 0 tha corn-law q testion he devoted h' imsslf to the t ,pic of the euffrage; and his psmntlet upon our system tinier), with its ausletis of th e cons titutio n the of fr epresen of Cammoss, became a text-book with a larg e c lass lass House ofl? formers on the questieu of w hi c h it tre at ed' , and w as repeatedly quoted in the House o t Commons. From that period Mr. Maelcay determined to devote himself to political life. He joined thu Reform party, and de livered many able speeches at public meetiuge in the metropolis upon the franchise question. Ile had be fore him the hope of ultimately entering Parliament; but he censentsd for a time to withdraw from home politico, and to accept from the Lancashire cotton interest a mission to India to investigate the possibility of ex tending the growth of the plant in our Eastern possessions. Somewhat more than tsro years ago ho departed full of hope and spirit. He died on his passage home. The subjoined extract from one of our Manchester contem poraries rill give additional particulars, besides show ing the high character Mr. Mackay had earned for him. self in the East. Our melancholy task is over when we again express our heartfelt sorrow at the loss of a highly promising author, a rising politician, an accomplished gentleman, and a most amiable man. (From the Manchester Examiner and Times) I: is with feelings of deep regret that we announce the death of Mr. Alexander Mackay, the Indian Com missioner, appointed by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Mackay left this country on the 20th December, 1850, under the most favourable auspices— being accredited and recommended to the Chamber of Commerce of Bombay by the Chambers of Com merce of Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow, and carrying with him the fall confidence of the mercantile glad manufacarring public connected with the cotton trade. The object of his mission also received the unanimous approbation of the British press, and we have reason to know that it was regarded with good will by the leading members of the Administration. The main purpose of,his appointment was to ascertain by an unbiassed but minute investigation on the spot, the real obstacles which prevent an ample supply of good cotton being obtained from the East Indies, and the Causes which impede the extension of our commerce with that ceuntry. . • . _ The mission was one requiring great industry, intel ligence, and sound judgment, on the part of the indi vidual selected for the arduous and responsible under taking ; and it was peculiarly fortunate for the inte rests represented by the body with whom the mission ttriginated, that they were able to secure the services of a gentleman so eminently qualified in every respect to carry out their views. Mr. Mackay 'e inquiry embraced a multitude of details, all bearing on the main subject of the mission—such as the means provided by the Indian Government to promote the internal as well as the ex port trade of the country over which they rule—the nature of the roads by which the produce of the interior is brought to the coast—the means of intercommunica tion between neighbouring districts—the state and management of docks, piers, quays, &c.—the condition of the agricultural population, and the circumstances which tend to stimulate or repress their industry—the nature of the land tenure, particularly with reference to the security of the cultivator—the amount and kind• of taxation, and the mode of levying and connecting it— all departments of inquiry requiring minute and im partial personal observation. On his arrival, Mr. Mackay was cordially received by the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, and every facility afforded to him for the prosecution of his inquiries, which were continued during the whole of last year, and the results of which have been from time to time transmitted home. The iefiuenee of the climate of India, was, however, too much for a constitution not naturally robust, a nd he was compelled t o terminate his labours sooner than he had anticipated, and endeavour to regain l ea ving the country. In a letter ad hdirsesshaedaltthby to the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, dated Marsh 30th, he mentions his intention of returning to Eagland, but, at the same time, states that before disease had disabled him, he had succeeded in traversing wants, and pros the greater portion of the cotton field of the Presidency, by the aid of re and thatiie had from actual observation arrived a t im portant he had gathered i t n be th e e ° g n r d e i a ti t ° lstriet in question, England. p re or 3 t t a s n o t f e t o h n e e n lu n s t i t o n n n s t a ra s d t e o destined to be benefit iasi wo r o o f I n n o d t i a , re ,sewed o n w d c t d h a h t e he jethh,otpoe make ,on h i s oie return in form h a e t i m o n e, ,ibut. death, o a i n i d the evening ccn rr a h u e c s i e ve c to n I t i of are t . old that He left lodic. on the 31 an hourAcpfrihi b ei e p c at o i m orTs, ou a strength gradually failed until the 15 tb of wl.ich day he brathed Ili. L s ,, be auff2red lit le until wii ilia half and that up to that pried he retained the fall use ot his faculties, having, previons to hi s d. , his will and con fi de I;is papers to th e igsoietion, made passenger, to be transmitted to his b caret of a fellow- These and other detaiLare his br other in Inverness. below), addressed by N... .. 'Tr. An ther contained in a letter (given gentleman, who was on Latham, a mercantile .Bazley, the president of boa r d the the same vessel, to Mr. With the regret inseparable Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Mackay i s .wingi,d feeling fr om the untimely fate of main object of his m' ' a of satibfaction that the 1 plished. mi s s ion has not been left unaccom- "At sea, on board the Hon. Company ' s steamer Aydalio, April 17, 1 8 52. — y dear Sir — you will no d ou bt h a ve heard from Mr. Alexander Mackay, that his health having seriously uff eerteediner of India be was about to leave the country by would strength gradually him, s the arn the 3d ins ht.,oiwnetvhe, was the hope thatott o be. us the chang i e This, fsiled, until the evening of the 15th, when the doct ors suppose th a t an abscess of the liver burst into the lungs, already diseased, and suffocation and consequent death ensued. I am glad to say that he suffered little until with• in half an hour of his decease, and u ntil then also re tained the fall possession of his faculties. The captain has confid e d to mo his papers for delivery to Mr. Thomas Mackay, of Inverness, whom be has left his sole legatee and executor, under a will drawn up a few hours before his death. These I purpose to send by the first steamer to Messrs. Arbuthnot, "Evart, and Co.; of Liverpool; and I have suggested to Mr. Mackay that on their arri val he should select those of a_private nature, and ar range with those of Mr. Mackay's friends on whose behalf he came out to India as to the disposal of the remainder. "Itis at Mr. Mackay's own request, made when all hope was at an end, that I now address you; and any f urt h er i n formation respecting this sad affair I shall be most happy to afford you, on your addressing me a line, to the care of Messrs. Artbuthnot, Evart, and Co., where I expect to be about three weeks or a month hence.—Meantime I am very truly yours, " ARTHUR LATIUM. " Thomas Bazley, Esq., Manchester." GREAT MEN. Bonnet COM' THEIR MOMENTS OF COMPoSITIO9eI4.--s ßower wrote posed his grand sermons on his k j i ted; '2,filton, before his first novels in full dress, sce n ted; commencing th e ipfluenoe of commencing his great work, invo k ed the and studied the Holy Spirit; Chrysostor.a me d itated of Saint Paul. Bacon while contemplating a a oF - ainti bis great work, and prayed knelt down before composing 0 never could compose well for light from heaven. i_'' g P some time at the top of his after playing a prelude on his " antelentaeular" and w vo i i t c h e o . utr u t th d a e m els ol im m iig eou : b ed : r the organ, or whi ls i n his garden. Saint Bernard " postprandial 'm' w a lks_ tabsearosaorldoiefr.batTtlaessino wroteh i s his ears; editauons amidst the woods, Camoens composed poet Portuguese . . for m the finest pioe pike lucid intervals of madness; Rousseau his w early in the morning; Le Sage, at mid at midnight. Ilardouin rose at tour in the coposed hits vers es. withw Idvl ; t:el3sl° a n n'd wrote till late at night. La Fontaine ID o rr 1 i a g . wrote hid Fables chiefly under the shade of a tree. Pas cal wrote most of his Thoughts on little scraps of paper, ‘t h i s by-moment , .:. Luther, when studying, always had his dog lying at his feet. Calvin studied in his bed. Racine composed his verses while walking about, reciting them in a loud wiice.—Eliza Cook's Journal. The convict William Baldry, who was left for execution at the recent Suffolk assizes, for attempting to murder his wif e b y means of administering arsenic, has been reprieved during he r M a j es ty's p l ea sure. He w4l be sent to some penal settlement for the remainder of his years. :.; Yy .~~ S tbe 1 eh 4 0 At ' I 3S , On 'fl de a.° ° ' 4 ;o s ° ig• ye l l ' 1." ,b or •M _ ti ..1 ,: • 1 1 1 $ 0 0 3