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eontinne to ch..nge hands for shipment to the Continent ; Whilst the demand, tor home v is steady, at frill prices LO73:OIITGX! ATZD St.ZTAX42IM.F.,=S. Our aLlrkets c:.ntieue to well supplied with Pots cosstwise end by railway, in excellent cor.diiion. For all kinds we have a fair inquiry, at last week's prices. No imports have taken place from abroad. Per Ton. I Per Ton. orksh. Regents. 65s to 80s1Wisbeach & Cam lpitto Shaws —sto - sl bridge §Lincoln. Regents 603 to 70s , Kent Regents 605 to 7? otch Regents.. 60 8 to 70 s E ssex Regents 6os_to 718 Ditto Cups 50s to 60 Essex Shaws 60s to t. 53 ...... s Ditto B/ues ...... sto —s Kent Shaws 6os to 65s Ditto Dahlias •-• —s to —st Kent& Essx. Mid. --S to —s C ommon Whites. —s to —sl French •••••-***** —s to s Newcastl e &Ber ;German ditto Wick Regents.. 60s to 70sDutch Whites., —s to —s Nentish Red Kid. —s to —s:Cliats LLOWT. Both o n th e spot and A for forward delivery, the de tiland still rates exceedingly inactive, and prices have farther receded fully 3d per cwt. To-day new P. Y. C, 01 1 the spot is quoted at 35s 6d to 36e, acid old 35s to 358 3d per cwt. Town Tallow, 36s to 36s 6d per cwt. net cash; Rough Fat, 2s Id per Stns. Last week's delivery was 2,355; the import 521 casks, chiefly from BYdney. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. 1102. Meek this day ...... 12,394 15,501 42,864 45,527 54,931 !'ties of Y. C. .... 53s 9d 41s Od 37s Od 383 Od to , 85s (id to 08 Od to Os Od to 37s 94 388 3d to 3jB Od I)3ll7 ery last week •• 2,392 2, 67 1,978 2,133 2,35 5 Ditto from June 1.. • . 79,081 74,264 69,353 70,157 77,005 Arrivals last week . 1,097 , 1,472 130 321 Ditto from June I ... 83,314 102,233 83,746 90,456 96,3,7 Price of Town 548 6d 43s Od 3)s Gd 395 Gd 39s 6d CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor did not sit to-day. (Before the LORDS JUSTICES.) REYNELL V. SPRYE. The reply in this lengthensd case was commenced this morning. The rest of the Courts were occupied with motions of an unimportant character. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Lord CAMPBELL and a Special Jury.) QUEEN V NELLERSH. This was an indictment for perjury, to which the de fendant had pleaded not guilty. Mr. James, Q.C., with whom was:Mr. Sergeant Jones, 11 PPPared for the p rosecut i on , an d M r . Cl ar k son an d Si r Thesiger, with, whom was Mr. Huddlestone, con ducted the defence. The inquiry was of a somewhat complicated cha racter, arising out of a Chancery proceeding relating to a disputed mortgage deed. Mr. Holland, the real pro seater, was a bre w e r , an d th e d e f en dant was an at torney at Godalming. In 1943 the defendant advanced the , prosecutor 2,0001. upon the security of a mortgage "et!, and the' advance was subsequently increased by another Party to 12,0001., and it was alleged the prose-. r t. " was induced to sign a deed coasigniug property to t riend s of the defendant which the prosecutor had no in tention whatever to mortgage. Immediately after this banker the defendant became the attorney rad ti l l l niter of the prosecutor, and, acting upon his advice, oeiresecutor left Godalming because he was in a state so I h ealth. He remained absent from Godalming for ._ c a° time, and on his return he found the defendant in mores.session of his Mortgaged property. The prosecutor, alleged, then discovered that he had signed the 4acrtg a . gedeed without kuowing the real nature of . .8 e i ts g° and he fi led a bill in Chancery against the t" udant, for the purpose of upsetting the deed, and the o et iaD , assigned in thi s i n di c t men t was a ll e g e d to be wattled in the answers to that bill. The answer set r t ic ' h t e th that so far f rom th e p rosecutor b e i ng i gnoran t o f ,Plarport and f orce o f t h e d ee d , i t was i n po i nt o f f act n c ti r over to him, and minutely explained, and he was th e cognizant of the real conditions and provisions ( f h av ue ed• The prosecutor, however, denied all this, and of fa l sehoods , pronounced the answer to be made up of a tissue lt ,_ ai sehnotls, he was induced to prefer various indict dequets for perjury against the defendant, as many, in by t u; as ten, but the majority of them were thrown out also jury before whom they . were taken. He eth preferred indictments for perjury against several a l l e r persons, including the defendant's clerks, the all eged Perjury arising out of the same transaction, and these indictments are now waiting for trial, but of rag their eventua ll y b e i ng b r ought into court will l e t ad upon th e resu lt o f t h e p res ent trial. ue trial was proceeding when our report left, and eyewas every prospect of its engaging the attention of • Court the whole of the day. EX CHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) R STANFIELD V. HELLAWELL. Zl• -non PARKE delivered judgment in this case, in o eleh a ru l e had been obtained to arrest judgment, and reduce the damages to a nominal sum. The Court *ere of • opinion that the bond on which the action was ques tion Was not void un d er t h e statute , an d that the t(iltestion as to the amount of damages was entirely one di ; li the ju to decide. The rule would, therefore, be ar ged.--- rY Ilule discharged. T B °W- STREET,—(THIS DAY.) ut e m i o rnng, near l y an hour before the time ap his ' 1111 '. Peargus O'Connor (who was at large upon th e r o jlg nis anee) presented himself at the entrance to f.yithe int erval was peened by the Hon. and Learned • ,_, won in walking about Covent-garden and the ~,,psDourhood. Immediately after Mr. Henry took hie '7 14 ; Mr. O'Connor came into court and was shown into the a • trace. He bowed to the magistrate , and his appear '▪ nee was perfectly calm and u nconcerned. atT▪ homas Norton, police-const a bl e A 17, state d t h a t on urday evening, being oa duty in the Lyceum eatre his attention was attracted by a great tumult of tghter and cries of " Turn him out" from various i rtS of the house, but principally from the pit. Going that part he saw M r . O'C onnor i n a b ox o f t h e F „e i eolld tier dancing a jig, imitating a violin ever by the motion of his arms, humming loudly e t Z t tb i e music of th e overture, and occas i ona ll y cry i ng 800, boo 1" H is grotesque b e h av i our seeme d to %'„• use some people, an d t h e au di ence i n th e pi t l aug h e d cheered and applauded. The ladies in the dress circle seemed much alarmed. The overture was nearly e aeluded, the curtain w a s j us t go ing to rise, and th e reZnanaece on the st a g e was a b ou t to b eg i n . r. O'Connor-I did not interrupt anything. I was • Y.doing this (imitating a violin player). There was Cit it h lng going on. They had not b egun . pr, HEN RY -Th e overture had begun, and that was !art of the performance. But you had better let the Witness proceed, and you can ask hi m w h at you t hi n k Prop when he has finished. •! I „.r. O'Connor-Well, I will. I'll wait, your Worship. • ei ., 4 "r- HENRY - You had better. . e , 'vitae/15—i went up to him and requested him, as 1 0 1111 . 1 y as possible, to take a seat, and not go on disturb -1 ' L im audience. Whilst I was speaking he slapped disturb 1e in the face, over the mouth. y ft l '. O'Connor-I did not, your Worship. I assure y ou, Upon my honour, I did not. * Cr* HENRy-Let the witness go on. You can say It. You please afterwards. Witness-. After he struck me in the mouth I again bgged of him to sit down ; but he went on making 're noise i n th e same wa y, d a ncing, and moving his b o t ids and arms like a fi ddler, andninging out " 800, 4) * We then got him out of the theatre, and on the r i a3' to the station-house he offered me a shilling .1 1 him go. When I refused to take it, he said he wou t ld o live me two shillings, and make me an inspector in two months, if I would let him go.-(Laughter.) Mr. O'Connor-I occasioned no interruption. I was hilly doing this (humming and imitating the bowing Motions and fingering of a violin player, amidst laughter) and all the pe op l e in the pit were laughing. That was an I was doing when be came and turned me out. I assure your Worship, upon my h p on ea o k u s r, u t p h o a n t was a o l a l. th. Mr. to the HENRY-But the witness Heswears that yo u were an annoyance hou se. To the policeman -Was h e ezcited?W ies The gentle he d man was not drunk, but n 3 - was very much an ' Mr. O'Connor-I was never tipsy in my life the W. Holcroft , of No. 15, New Bond-Street,, one of 'Ail prin c ip a l box keepers of the Lyceu m was next 'heedhouse, ho went into Mr. O'Connor's box wi t h the Pedie ernan:whose evi d ence be now corrob orated in every Particular. They and another gontlemau did all they could civilly to persuade Mr. O'Connor to be quiet, or to g o Sway. H e ( t h e w itness) offered to return his money if he would only go away quietly. But he went on in th e same m anner , an d at length struck the poli ceman Violently upon the month. Mr. O'Connor-Upon my honour, I did not touch him. ' h er Worship. Witness-He struck him with his open hand. It was hot an accidental blow; it was deliberate, and the most unprovoked thing I ever saw in my life. thin Mr. O'Connor-I assure y our W o r s hip I did no such g. b Mr. HENRY-How did he strike him? How did be his arms to satisfy you that the blow was not an ac dental one? one? Witness-He raised his right arm, an d With the open hand slapped him smartly on the cheek !lid Over the mouth. 1 had, on the part of the manager, ;lesired the policeman to interfere. Mr. O'Connor's con t.:" Was such as to alarm and annoy the audience, and interrupt the performance. tb! tt r. R. Beckett Wyatt, a gentleman 'connect e d w ith management of the theatre, had interposed with the oth er witnesse e , whose evidence be corrobated in every Parti cular. Mr. O'Connor struck the policeman pur- P°sel 3', and without the slightest provocation. This slap :Via be h eard all over the h ouse, an d th e constable's pe ek and mout h wore swelled for two h ours a f terwar d s . 1 1 .:r• O'Con nor -0 goo d grac i ous me ! I never struck e i C a t all. I only raised my hands is self- defence ehe t oo k me by the collar to lull me out. If your eirt .rship will swear me now I'll take my oath I did not ke him at all. Or- HEN RY sa i d he could not put Mr. O'Connor on r , , oath. Th e law did not allow him and the law ) "un take the sworn testged him to imony of three unim pee ehen witnesses. Zdr th e • O 'Connor-If any done body else but me had T ho F tree thing there would be nothing said about it. the-es`4°h• and Learned Gentleman repeatedly pressed , - iagistrate to swear him, but was met with the same ie Planation. At length Attr. HENRY y protect the ut- said- I ant bound to convict you, and it It Is preyed you have cccasioned. It frcopleudY th et public from such aneoyance es Etna obliged to aPhor e of life for Fuck pun is hburn o.ther places where the Persons in a occurs put ? l e i n e deet in the t heatr es, wore and !Lori and where it is intole la this way. But it has selrcitiblie o sort for peac-eble recrea- Punishment for such nano ,crin they should be annoyed uo been my duty to ni reition in society, and when n t" " a imaz Immo) that duty is forced upon me ster the Im f • person of your With equal jugioe, and SUN, LITERAT U tE. LORD GEORGE BENTI.NCK. A Political libiography. By B. Disraeli, 111. P. Third Edition. Colbyrn. . eer y numerous admirers of Mr. Disraeli's writings have latterly had cause to lament those po• litical avocations which have induced him to lay aside the n oveliserepen—that pen which he wielded with such peculiar, grace. The eloquent Parliamentary spee -hes of the Member for Buckinghamshire, and the zealous lebours of the Protectionist chief, have not compensated to the reading multitude for the non appearance of :any new " Coningsby," or " or " Wondrous Tale of Alroy," or " Contarini Fleming," &c., &c.- In these regrets we must con fess that we have participated, because, differing widely from Mr. Disraeli as a po li t i c i an , we h av e always . justly appreciat e d hi s gen i us an d a d m i re d hi s fascinating powers as an author. The new work recently issued, and which has already reached a third edition, differs materially from his former productions, but, nevertheless, we are rejoiced, if not a little surprised, in being enabled to award:: to it fully the same meed of commen dation which we have, from time to time, be stowed upon the forme'r works of its author. Under the peculiar circumstances in which it appears we should have been willing to look with an especial leniency upon the partiality to be naturally expected in the record of a friendly biographer, while the total dissimilarity between our political eepinions and those of Lord George Rentinck could only dispose us to regard with a more impartial admiration his per sonal characteristics, and to sympathise most sincerely with those who sorrowed for a noble life cut short at the moment of its highest promise. That admiration and that sympathy have been amply evoked by a perusal 'of the biography, but our in tended "allowances " for the partiality of the historian have not been found in any way necessary. The unaffected simplicity with which Mr. Disraeli.bas penned this record of his " comrade in arms," and the delicacy with which he has kept him self in the background, scarcely making more than the most casual mention of one who was a principal actor in all the events which he relates, can only be appreciated by those who have read the book, and the most discriminating among them will, we doubt not, be of opinion that) nothing in his former works has charmed them more than these graceful characteris tics of this, " political biography." Duly aware of the importance of a true record of a competent wit ness, Mr. Disraeli remarks near the very commence ment of his task :—" should not be forgotten that the most authentic and interesting histories are those which have been composed by actors in the transactions which they record. The con temporary writer, who is personally familiar with his theme, has unquestionably a great advantage; but it is assumed that his pen can scarcely escape the bias of private friendship or political connexion. Yet truth, after all, is the sovereign passion of mankind; nor is the writer .of these pages prepared to relinquish his conviction that it is possible to combine the accu racy of the present with the impartiality of the future," a difficult and well-nigh impossible undertaking, but in his endeavour to accomplish it, Mr. Disraeli has been sufficiently successful. Another point which has also afforded us much gratification in this work is the 'manner in which mention is made of the late Sir kobert Peel. Iu many of Mr. Disraeli's sentiments respecting that statesman we do not, of course, concur ; for' it is not necessary to observe that we look upon that great and good Minister in a very different point of view to that in which he appears to the eye of his former supporter, yet this very cir cumstance induces us to regard with greater pleasure some portion of Mr. Disraeli's elaborate criticism on that Minister. Some extracts from that criticism we subjoin, not because we entirely agree with them, but because they afford an interesting specimen of a very interesting: portion of this work : " Nature bad combined in Sir Robert Peel many ad mirable parts. In him a physical frame incapable of fatigue was 1 united with an understanding equally vigorous and:flexible. He was gifted with the faculty of method in the highest degree, and with great powers of application which were sustained with a prodigious memory; while ho could communicate his acquisitions with clear and fluent elocution. Such a man under any rcumstances, and in any sphere of life, would probably have become remarkable. Ordained from his youth to be busied with the affairs of a great empire, such a man, after long years of observation, practice, and perpetual discipline, would have become what Sir Robert Peel was in the latter portion of his life, a transcendent administrator of public business and a matchless master of debato.in a popular assembly. In the course of time the method which was natural to Sir Robert Peel had Matured into a habit of such expertness, that no one in the dispatch of affairs ever adapted the means more fitly to the end; his original flexibility had ripened into consummate tact; his memory had accumu lated such stores of political information, that he oeuld bring luminously together all that was necessary to esteblish or to - illustrate a subject; while in the House of Commone-he was equally eminent in exposition and reply—in the 'first distinguished by his arrangement, his elearness,!andfiis completeness; in the second, reedy, in genious, and adroit, prompt in detecting the weak points of his adversary, and dexterous in extricating himself from an embarrassing position. "Thus gifted and thus accomplished, Sir R. Peel had a great deficiency; he was without imagination. Wanting imagination, he wanted prescience. No one was more sagaciuns when dealing with the circumstances before him; no one penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless provided he had not to deal with, the future. Thus it happened, h tis treo campaigns career, that whil e h e was a l wa y s l o oked upon the long most, prudent and s a f es t o f l ea d ers , h e ever, protracted display o f a d m i ra b le tact i cs, conc l u d e d by surrenderi u g at di s c ret i on . lie was so hat str adroit thst he could prolong resistance even beyond its term, but so little foreseeing that often in the very triumph of-his manoeuvres ha found himself in an un tenable position. And so it came to pass that Roman Catholic emancipation, Parliamentary reform, and the abrogation of our .commercial system, were all carried in has t e or in passion and without conditions or mitigatory arrangements. Sir Robert Peel bad peculiarity which is perhaps natural to men of very great talents who have not the creative faculty; he had a dangerous sympathy with the creations of others. "Instead 'of being cold and wary, as was cora hhe wasewa impulsive sad even inclined to a s ambiguous, unsatisfactory, re served.rm°siltilieB6B::oPrtPuW°oB.huedse,n; it was that he was perplexed, he did not see his way,..that the routine which he had admir ably administered failed him, and that his own mind was cot constructed to create a substitute for the custom that was crumbling away. Then he was ever on the look out for new ideas, and when be embraced them be did so with eagerness and often with precipitancy; he always carried these novel plans to an extent' which even their projectors or chief promoters had usually not anticipated; as was seen, for example, in the settlement of the currency. * * ' After a great disaster, it was observable of Sir Robert Peel that his mind seemed always to expand. His life was one of perpetual education. No one more clearly detected the mistakes which he had made, or changed his course under such circumstances with more promptness; but it was the past and the present that alone engrossed his mind. * * • In an ordinary period he would have been a perfect Miniger, but he not a Minister for stormy times; he wanted depthe'and passion and resource for such an occasion. After destroying the Tory party in '46 be fell a thinking again over the past and the present as he did alter his tall in '30,. and again arrived at a great con clusion. In '3O he said he would act no longer as a su bordinate; in '46 he- said he would actnolongeras a par tisan. In '3O he visited his position upon the Duke of Wel lington; in '46 on the political ties of '4l; but if he had been a man of genius, he would have guided the Duke of Wellington, and in '4l would have given a creed . to lisp party, always devoted to him, instead of borrowing their worn-out ideas. * 4 * As an orator, Sir , Robert Peel had perbape the most avails* talent that has ever been brought to bear in the House of Commons. We have mentioned - that both in expesition and in reply he was equally eminent. His statements' were perspicuous, complete and dignified; when he combated the objections or criticised the pro positions of an opponent, he was adroit and acute; no speaker over sustained a process of argumentation in a public assembly more lucidly, and none as debaters have united , ire au conspicuous a degree prudence with promptness. In the higher efforts of oratory, he was not successful. His vocabulary was ample and never * * H e meal), 'but it was:neither rich nor rare. was gifted with an admirable org an, perhaps the finest that has been heard in t he House in our days, unless .we except the thrilling tones of O'Connell. Sir Robert Peel also modulated his voice with great skill, His enunciation was very clear, though some what marred by provincialisms. His g reat deficiency was want of nature, which made him often a pp ear, even with a good'eause, more plausible than persuasive, and more specious than convincing. He may be said to have gradually introduced a new style into the House of Commons, ,which was suited to the age in which lie chiefly flourished, and to the novel elements of the As sembly which he had to guide. He had to deal with greater details than his prededessors, and he bad in many instances to address those who were deficient in previous knowledge. , Something of the lecture, therefore, entered i*nto.bis displays. This style may be called the didactic. and it' i na y b e 'i s question wh e eth g e r r e ht v s e t r r y ug b g e l s e t speeches * Sir Rob e rt P ee l ma d e some o f hi s most considerabl e e ff orts in th were not those w hi c h he made during the het thhrt6ees; 'was' more years of his , life. position, there earnestness x i They than his speeches, either Us were and d or m e or n e at h u e r s a t l ister or as Leader of Op about them,, and much less of plausi bility. * Lie had the ob affectation of plausi control over his temper, which wast}:iiyeed a complete fiery. His dispnsition was good; therenature somewhat was eothing petty about him; he was very free from rancour; not only not vindictiVe, but, partly by tem p er ament, neour; he was still more, pethee s , by he was even and magna nimous. * Far from any coldness subsisting Sir Robert Peel and th e grea t h ouses which hula! supported hue through his long career, there never was a niter, who was treated with such nice homage, it may be said, with such affeclienate devotion. , The proude:t in the land were prouder to be his friends, and he returned the feeling to its f u ll e x te nt and in a ll it s o s i n cerity. * * One cannot say of Sir Robert Pcei, notwithstanding his unrivalled powers of eispatchieg affairs, that he was the greatest minister that thin country ever produced, because twice placed TUE without distineti(m of ra+•k ur sfArion. I feel that should riot iii - seharga that duty if I did no t i m p ose rip u you the punishment of iioprisoument. I wilt rut flue you, butt seuteee2e yuu o lat , imprisoned tiveri days in the 'Louse of Correction, Mr. O'Connor a..ado no observation aloud, but Icoki'd somewhat angry, and Lift the dock, muttering sometLite, to himself in a 1.),,v tone. MARLI3MY-STREE I—(THIS DAY.) AN IMPOSTOR.—;:nn Smith, a 11%01.4)113 vagrant, was 7brought betoie Mr. Hard Nick, cha; ge d with taing drunk and begging. Gummer, 21 0, stat , d that at. half-past seven On SatUr day evening, be vas on duty in New Bond-street, when he saw the prisoner, who was very tipsy, stop two gen tleman, who called witness's attention to her. He walchel her and saw her follow ano , her gentleman, arid witness then went up to her and tech her into custody. She then threw herself down and refused to move. Ile then sent for the stretcher, and as soon as he laad done so she got up and walked a short distance apparently in great pain, and he then observed that she appeared to be in tee last stage of pregnancy. On arriving at the station she struck him on the bead with a stick which she had in her hand. Inspector \Wail said ho was at the station when the pri.oner was brought in; she. appeared ,to be in great paic, and from her siza be thought she was in an ad vanced stage of pregnancy, and he therefore sent for the female searcher, but before she arrived the prisoner be. came so violent that witness was obliged to go to the assistance of the constables. He then saw appearances which induced him to cut a string, when to his great surprise down fell a bundle of rags, which the prisoner had suspended in front'cf her, in order to lead the public to believe that she was pregnant. Mr. Whall added that the prisoner was a well-known impostor. Commited for three mouths. CRUELTY TO A HORSE.— William liuyhes, a young man in the employ of Mr. Saund-rs, carrier, Sanderton, Bucks, was summoned before Mr. Hardwick by Mr. Thomas, secretary of the Royal Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals, for cuelly ill-treating a horse. Strachan, one of the society's constables, stated that about eleven o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, the 20th of January, he observed the defendant driving a horse and cart, laden with timber, in Oxford-street. A piece of rag was striking out from under the corner of the saddle, and on looking at the horse, witness found a wound as large as a crown piece, which was bleed ing at the time. He called the defendant's attention to the state of the horses hack, and told him he should report it to their secretary. The prisoner said the wound was occasioned by tha ssddlo getting wet and chafing the horse, the lattv was otherwise in good condition. Police-c:uistable E 91 corroborated the above. The defendant's master was present, and said the wound was caused in the manner stated by defendant, bat it was now healed, and the horie was in good work ing condition. The horse having been examined by an officer and found to le.a as stated, Mr. HARDWICK said the officer had acted very properly in taking up the case, and as the horse was now in good condition he should inflict the minor penalty of 2s. 6d. and costs.—The money was paid. THE GREENWICH ELECTION. At ten o'cl,ck this morning, notwithstanding the un propitious state of the weather, an immense body of the inhabitants of Greenwich, Deptford, and Woolwich, both electors and non-electors, assembled at the hustings which were erected at the corner of Lon don-street, in High-street, Greenwich, for the pur pose of nominating a candidate to fill the seat in the House of Commons for this borough made vacant by the retirement of Admiral Dundas, who has take► the command of the fleet in the Mediter ranean, and who sails thence on the 17th of the present month. The candidates were, Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., and Admiral Houston Stewart. The Sheriff having read the writ and Bribery Act, Mr. Lang proceeded, to propose Mr. Montagu Chambers which was se conded by Mr. Nott, and speeches having been made by those gentlemen in support of the proposi tion, Mr. Pontifex proposed Admiral Stewart. Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., then addressed the assem blage in an hour's speech, during which his sentiments met with the hearty concurrence of the majority of his hearers; after which Admiral Stewart made a long, humorous, and seaman-like address. The High Sheriff then came forward and demanded a show of hands for the two candidates, which having been gene through, he declared a large majority in favour of Mr. Chambers. The polling commences to-morrow (Tuesday) morning. HAY MA RK.ET THEATRE. Mr. Barry Sullivan, a provincial tragedian, made his first London appearance on Saturday night in the character of Hamlet. Mr. Sullivan's performance was highly correct and intelligent. To all the most promi nent speeches he gave the ordinary point. Passion there was none, but there was invariably " good emphasis and discretion." He played the whole of the third act, wherein the principal burden of the character lies, with care and smoothness, always refined and reflectant, if never manifesting any particular power. His close ad herence to the text of Shakspere may be mentioned to his credit, though in one or two cases he ventured upon readings for which he had no previous autho rity, and but little intelligible motive. The quality of this new, or latest, personation of the Danish Prince may be judged from these generalities. It was sensible and scholarlike, disorimicative , methodical, and accurute, so far as we have any standard of accuracy to refer to in a case so fraught with doubt and uncertainty. In figure Mr. Sullivan is short, but symmetrically formed; while his deportment denotes all the maturities of professional experience. His voice is sweet and musical, weaker probably than it should be for a large area. The au dience applauded Mr. Sullivan with great zeal at the close of the performance; and that ho is destined to become a useful metropolitan actor there is no doubt. Another representation or two in more tangible walks of the art will establish his position more definitively than that which was afforded on Saturday; though we can but feel that the encouragement accorded by the specta tors was fairly and honourably won. Mr. Leigh Mar• ray announced the repetition of the tragedy amid rounds of applause. A Cabinet Council WWI held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John Rus sell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Earl Granville, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right don. Henry Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and Lord Seymour. the Council sat two hours and a half. --- - A few days ago an accident befel W. Marshall, Esq., M.P. for East Cumberland, which will prevent him from attending to his Parliamentary duties. While trying a new horse, which be had bought, to leap over a hedge, the animal swerved and fell. Mr. Marshall was thrown on his side, and his collar bone was fractured in two places, as w as also one of his ribs. He is, of course, totally incapacitated from attending to business by this untoward accident, and will for some time be prevented from being in his p l a ce in the House of Commons.— Carlisle Journal. THE SALMON SEAsoN.—On Monday the salmon , fishing north of the Tweed commenced for the season. The Ness was so high in flood on that day that not a net could , be cast in it, and consequently none were taken. In the Oich Mr. Tait's men caught four fine fish, which were sent on to the Glasgow market. In the Beauty the Master of Lovat captured one with the rod, and one was taken by the nets, the river very high. None were taken at Fort teorge in the early part of the day, at least; but at Rosemarkie the fishermen had better luck. At Spsymouth fourteen clean fish were taken. Our Banff contemporary reports that " one hundred fine fish were taken in the Deveron." Surely this is a mistake; the foul as well as the clean fish, were we suspect, were counted. It is said that there are large numbers of spent fish in the Ness--promising fairly for the sport of this and after seasons. A. P.: Gordon Cumming, Esq., and Mr. Dunbar killed on Monday, - in the Dunbeath water, two fine clean salmon with the rod—one 7i lbs., the other 111, lbs.; lost two more, and saw two snore, besides landing no less than twelve foul fish, This looks well, not withstanding the unfavourable state, of the weather.— Inverness Courier. A NEwsrArEn.— A. man eats a pound of sugar and the plerkure he enjoys is ended; but the information he gets from a newspaper is treasured up in his mind, to be enjoyed anew, and to be used whenever occasion or inclina tion calls for it. A newspaper is not the wisdom of one man or two men ; it is also the wisdom of p ast a g es. A famil y without a newspaper is always half an age behind the time in general information ; besides, they never think much, or fi ezt n i d lss m :et u he c ei h rrecli o s talk about. . And then there are little ones growing up, without any taste for reading. Besides all these HAPPOINTED the work is done, has to with her hands in her lap, and nothing to amuse her, or a divert her mind from the toils and cares of the do me c love,f 01l y and but disappointment money, American Pa Who, then, o w u h ld en b e without a newspaper? -- Per A D • • BRIDEGROOM attending perS — ons A not p young man, who after a short but attentive m r o a o r f ry o i. r f g thefor resides occurred within the last few days. A who gave him to supposeon the southern side of the town. In a day or two after the ive courtship, won the smiles of one that she was worth a bit of " tin." that she would go and fetch he r union she told her partner fortune--viz, 0 001. Off she went, leaving him, of course, inr2h(lgh expectations ; at even fine hweithconstoernation depicted on the shiners, but with " the easilyy be imagined.-- fi tide tle p s she a e t returned , i g bai r ü b s u . t ,, Leeds ontls Reeves, in husband's countenance may telligencer. In . DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—.m r . 0 . • Era Diavolo, followed by Madame Plunkett, in the" Dejazet, supported ballet, drew the greatest house of the Beason on Saturday.new Balfe's new opera is, we hear, in active rehearsal. Frederic Lemaitre FRENCH PLATS, ST. JAMES'S THEATR E ....._W . • a per; that these fashionable and agreeable' entertainments w by i I I L . b a e fuht, 111 commenced appearon alstlotnhdeaoypenneinxgt.. and Mae. Clsrrisse will succeed, and we are promised also the services of Mdlle. Rose Cheri, whose performances a few seasons ago were so extraordinarily attractive ; Reguier, the best actor of the Theatre Fratais, is also engaged, 'v% e are given to understand that many engagements of great in terest and novelty are in progress, which, when completed, will present a combination of excellence and variety seldom equalled. Mr. Mitchell is now in Paris completing his ar rangements. • SUICIDE D T A P RISO NER.--- On Sa turday en in quest was held b y t h e coroner of Liverpoo l o n the body of a young man named J ones, who had been conv icted of felony on the previous day, an d sentenced by t h e R e corder to 15 years' transportation. Th e prisoner was remov ed the Borough toe Borough gaol, and clothed in the prison dress; th e turnkey gave him some oakum to pi c k, and on going to hi s ce ll about . an hour after he was found h ang i ng by the nec k , h av ing tied his braces to an iron bar placed across an air-hole i n hi s cell, and lite quite extinct. He had previ ous l y man y times PI o tested his innocence of the crime for which he was sentenced to transportation, and from subsequent inquiries, there is reason to believe that one of the witnesses who spoke to this prisoner's identity may possibly have been mistaken. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity d3ing, and goes ri b ou t I-:y is reported to be the shadow of his former self, supported by two attendants. General Melden, also, the late military governor of Vienna, 4 lying dangerously ill at Gratz. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, et the helm, and en the second occasion with the Court and the Parliament equally devoted to him, he never could maintain himself in pwer. Nor, riotwithst:ald ing his coEsuoataate Parliamentcry tactics, C 313 he be described es the glTat"t F t ny, levier that ever flourished among us; for he c on t r i ve d to eetroy the most, computl, powerful, and devoted party that ever followed a British statesman. Cert a i n ly, notwithstand ing his great sx ay in debate, we cannot recognise him as our greatest orator, for in many of the supreme re quisiva of oratory he was singularly deficient. But what he la ally was, and what posterity will acknowleige him to .have been, is the greatest Member of Parliament that ev:r lived. _ "Peace to his ashes I. His name will be often ap pealed to in that scene which h e l oved so well, an d never without parts homage of eveaonbvy his opp onents. " Many e come with pecu t par force and r ' grace from the hand of one who gained no little cele ' brity by his former attacks on Sir Robert Peel, and his denunciations of " the or gan i zsd • " hy pocrisy. But the hand of death has appeased the violence of poli tical animosity, and it imparts a very mou*iful inte rest to these pages when we consider that the two circumstances of a peculiarly Bseffinitciicng chief actors in that stormy struggle which they so vividly recal, have both passed away, and both under The sudden death of Lord Georgewith his almost instantaneous rise into in •k, together political leader after years of ve d Parliamentary inte rest which the record in this vo ili lu a m e :;> pnu w b il i l inc t a e nt n d rt life, impart to his name a strange romantic to enhance. The portrait of the as sketched by the hand of his friend and Protectionist chief, .biographer, is . an attractive one. Lord George ei c.e greatly a sa was indeed a gallant leader of a forlorn hope, and can not help sympathising with his struggles, disapproving of their object and desiring their defeat. as sll ch even ' w e whil while to this gallantry of bearing and a chivalrous hopefulness that held nothing to b a impossible, he brought to the struggle also qualities not less im portant.—an energy of will that nothing could dis turb, and an application to business that nothing could weary. His predominant characteristic was earnestness. The reputation acqui re d during a po eliatricnaeldcbayreaern oafinounnlynttnhfreelabnborierf Year s was certa i n ly an d application not w in a t s o e t n h g re a e ge t d im i e n s tphoalt it period. Often, ical duties for o w f e t e a n r e condensedtold, he eighteen hours out of the twenty-four , and often without taking food during the interval. This sort of labour, be it remembered, though h ot always, of course, of the same duration, was not taken up by fits vigorously sesi'ofti in the d a n a y d s a t f a t r e t r s , d a but y a n w d a smpnunrtsbu after steadilyfter month. andstns. —...e m o r n i ngs were occupied by interviews with individual s o f va . ready-made the Protec tionist a id ttribut e d to i r n i o fo u r s m c a l t a i s o s n e s n a n n d t b v e ar i t o e u p s i n c a l u l i n n d g e s , r ca p i s a c b u l s i t i a u t u e s m e , e nt for o f L f a o c r t d s . George i a n d e e s p t i t n e n d no was subj ec t e d t o on certain m si° a: n te ' rs a , s if wrong conclu mostthe occasionally v eand at no want of proper caution on hi s part. The minute and elaborate natur e o f that can bnuerttat i h n i l n y k h b e e d his researches into the details of any matter that he "took up" is amply evidenced by some extracts from his correspondence (given in this volume) with parties able to afford him the necessary information. This correspondence gives a very favourable idea of the business-lika qualities of Lord George Bentinck. The earnestness and zeal which he displayed in mat ters of, apparently, trifling importance, are almost sufficient of themselves to account for the prominent position established by the fallen Protectionist party. " He came forward," observes his biograper, " with details in support of his principle and policy which it had been before believed that none but a Minister could command. Instead of experiencing the usual and inevi table doom of private Members of Parliament, and having his statements shattered by official information, Lord George Bentinck was the assailant, and the sue. cessful assailant of an administration on these very heads. He often did their work more Efftctually than all their artificial training enabled them to do it. His acute research, end his peculiar sources of information, roused the vigilance of all the public offices of the country. Since his time there has been more care in preparing official returns and in arranging the public correspon dence placed on the table of the House of Commons." His mornings devoted to these investigations, his days were constantly occupied by attendance on Com mittees, and his evenings and nights were always passed in the House of Commons when it was sitting. He grudged even the time spent in a dinner at Bel lamy's ; "he always thought that something would be said or done in his absence which would net have occurred had he been there—some motion whisked through or some return altered. His principle was that a Member should never be absent from his seat." No one can read this biography without admiring the wonderful energy which it records ; the motto of Lord George, according to what we read of him in this book, might indeed have been " Thorough," for mind and body, heart and soul, did he devote himself to the cause in which he believed. To one sacrifice, however, even his resolute heart was not quite in differenF, as is feelingly mentioned in the following passage : _ _ " Ii was the day after the Derby, May 25th, the writer met Lord George Bentinck in the library of the House of Commons. He was standing before the book shelves, with a volume in his hand, and his countenance was greatly disturbed. His resolutions in favour of the colonial interest, after all his labour?, had been nega tived by the Committee on the 22d, and on the 24th his horse Surplice, whom he had parted with among the rest of his stud solely that he might pursue without distraction his labours on behalf of the great interests of the country, had won that paramount and Olympian stake, to gain which had been the object of his life. He bad nothing to console him, and nothing to sustain him e xcept his pride. Ev en th at deserted him before a heart which he knew at l e a s t could yield him 530 pathy. B e gave a sort of superb groan All my life I have been trying for this, a n d f or what have I sacr ificed it! , he murmured. --,, It was in vain to offer solace. ... y o u do not know what the Derby i s 1' be moaned out. . y es , I do ; it is the blue-ribbon of the turf.' .. . It is the blue-ribbon of the turf,' he slowly a re peated to himself; and sitti ng - 67 'in at the table he buried hi m self in a folio of st at i st i cs. " Very affecting are the coucludin work, in which is simply and naturally recorded the last interview between Lord George Bentinck and his friend and biographer. The session had closed, and Mr. Disraeli, about to leave London, called at Har court House to bid his friend farewell. They p assed the morning together, " rather indulging in the con templation of the future than in retrospect. Lord George was serene, cheerful, and happy. i They Parted at the gate of Harcourt House. 4‘ H o put g pages of this c h ara cteristic of the man .7 of his warm feelings and _ f o rth his hand to bid farewell, and his last words were o f his ruling passion---' tiod bl ess you ; we must work, and the country w ill come round us."' In less than a month from that day th e lifeless body o f L or d George Bentinck was disc overed by the way s id e a t a little distance from his native home. Friends and p • ()Rica opponents lament e d together over the sudden departure of that energetic spirit ,and, according to the 15e b eau tiful concluding passage in iti this volume, " one who stood by his side in an arduous and unequal struggle ; who often shared his councils and sometimes, perhaps, trace i n these soothed his cares ; who knew of faithful,theof his nature, and esteemed his chief of worldly blessin g s ' has stepped aside from the strife and passion of public lif e to draw up this record of his deeds and thoughts, th a t those who come a f ter us may form some concepti on of his character an d career,ees, imperfectre g well friendship thegreatne among greatness an En g li s h Worthy." As such, and as a memento of a very stirring period in the political history of the co untry, this work will be long valued. It will be pe rused pages, the and portraiture with very general feelings of sympathy and ad m i ration by both friends and opponent', for it appeal s not to th t o l u ie gh narrow p judices of one class or party, but to those generous sentiments which are common t) al l -- admiration for a gallant nature and sympathy for faithful friendship. .17utTheeis particularlya serious over- DESTRUCTIVE INUNDATION OP THE S EVERN AND over flowing G or th ij e cl N!r i. 3, E , e i t a , n S d n T u itDA Severn,Y river. It appears that in the middle of the the former spout and deluging rains fell in North Wales week a water and Severn rose, and the result was, thal when the Wye ,6 f res h" came down the Wye on Thursday a a tremendous all the country along the course of the river yesterday ; laid under water, and at Hereford the war:er was soon than it has been known for more th an t was deeper On either side of the bridge over the Wyeans a century. the traffic between Hereford, Ross Gloue across which and South Wales is conveyed, there Iv:aster, London, some five or six feet of water; conseque n tlY, the depth of coaches was rendered impossible, and no publice passage of from Hereford to this city through Ross, arrived conveyance It was reported in Gloucester that this bridge y.esterday. swept away, but the report, we are told, via. , n im p been The only means of communication between the two untied was through Ledbury. An early coach from Gloucesteities Hereford, after proceeding as far as Ross, returned againer t t o o this city, deferring its journey until this day (Saturday.) We understand, too, that a very suGden rise took place about mid-day yesterday in the Severn, at Worcester and Tewkes bury, and the meadows near the river were submerged to a depth of some 18 inches in about an hour, the water at deal of dame h rng rapidly afterwards. A gre confused as been dons, but at present the accounts are very , _ to the difficulties of communication. owing um THE CALEDONIAN A ...BYL . Of the numerous charitable institutions supported by . voluntary contributions which shed a lustre on the metropolisnofdthis kingdom, per haps there is none more interesting aedd eser•vi n — of ruing support than the Caledonian Asylum, found for the maintenance and education of the children ofsoldiers and sailors who have served their country, and of Scotchraen w h o are unable from poverty to educate - their children. These are th e spec i a l pleaders of this charity. to . It is muchbe regretted that the funds are not inso flourishing a state as its friends could wish, hut, with a benevolence that does credit to its m em b ers, the Caledonian Society have announced that the proceeds of their annual ball, which takes place on Thursday next, will be devoted entirely to its replen ishmen t , and we hope suc cess will crown their efforts. TH E SECRETARY OF BANKRUPTS. - -On --,-,n Saturday a Bill was printed, by order of the House of Lords, to abo, lish the office of Secretary of liankrlTts, and to give tom= 1 pensation to the present holder. th e Bill was k oala forward by the Lord Chancellor. FEBRUARY 9, 1552. RAILWAY IN TELLIGEN GREAT WESTERN. It 'Appears from the gcnerel stirement of this com pany's receipts aed payments to the 31st of December last that the receipts o7no2,c2esp7iite on accountlaccountaomfotllblletfiedx,tdo 14 : 582,135/., 41 2 per cent. stock, 126 6454 advances on shares, and 5,518,7534 on debentereF, loan-notes, loans, &c. The payments amount to 14,698,827/ , of which 10,611 ; 923/. was cepsnded in rerpeet Of the Great Western, Oxford, Berke, and Rants, Windser, and other lines, end for lo comotive stock, including 234,150/. expend- d during the half-year; 1,048,193/. expended on the Oxford and Rugby line (opened to Baebury); 125,466/. on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weyrneuth (opened to Freme and Warminster); 873,943/. subscribed to the Birmingham and Oxford; 224,693/. to the Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley; 603,9751. to the South Wales Railway; 38,6451. to the Gloucester and. Forest of Dean; 545,000/. to the Wilte, Somerset, and Weymouth; 230,414/, to the South Dev. n; 185,1031. to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhemeton; 68 . 5581, to the Chel tenham and Oxford; 12,013/. to the Cornwall, end 9.5001. subscrib e d t o th e Plymouth and Great Western Deck; on new locomotive attar, 44,0221.; on new sta tion at Paddington, 33,299/ ; and re the hotel, 14,u751.; making tho total expenditure, as above, 14,698,8271., h eying a balance against the conipan) of 116,6914 The liabilities in respect of the railways completed, abandoned, or not in progress, wereestimated on the 31st of December, 1849, at 350,000/.; of this sum 234,1501 has been paid, leaving 115,849/. still outstand ing for liquidation. The expendituie for new works on the railways completed, and addition to works in 1851, is charged in the general revenue account. The inte rest on 1,6932094, subscribed to oth e r companies, is borne by revenue. Out of the 65,0004 voted by the pro prietors for new locomotive stock, 44,022/. has been ex pended; out of 50,0001. voted for the new station at Pad dington, 33,299/. has been expended; and out of 50,000/. for the Paddington hotel, 14,0751 has been expended. The revenue account for the half-year ending 31st of December, 1851, shows that 591,5741. has been received; viz., 571,6814 for traffic, 7,0501. for rent, Bee., from the Bristol and Birmingham Rstlway, 4.4514 for use of plant on the South Wales Railway, 5,9954 interest on cash balances during the half-year, 2,1881. rent of pro perty, cottages, &c., and 206/. for registration fees. The expenditure on revenue account amounted to 175,0841., including 14,9451. for Government duty, and 10 6851. for rates and taxes, leaving a balance of 416,4891. The working expenses amounted to 29.59 per cent. of the receipts, being 6.24 per cent. less than those at the corresponding period of 1850. The general revenue account states that a balance of 49,9401. was brought from the preceding half-year, which, added to the balance of 416.498/. for the half-year ending on the - 31st of December last, makes the balance to the credit of revenue 466,430/. Out of this sum 153,130/. is deducted for interest on loans and preference shares, leaving a disposable balance of 313,3001. A dividend at the rate of 2} per cent. per annum for the half-year, or 5 per cent. per annum, on 8,219.4404 being the total amount of stock and shares on which dividend is payable, would amount to 205,4864, and leave a balance over of 107,8141. The 153,1301. deducted from the 466,4301., balance of revenue, consisted of 1,848/. paid during the half-year for new works and additions to works on lines opened; 15,3181. annuities of 4 per cent. per annum, guaranteed to shareholders of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway; 1,369/. interest on the Berke and Hants ex tension shares; 12,718/. interest on fixed 4f per cent. stock; 3,2251. rent of the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway; 1,2861. rentcharge on Paddington estate; 107,336/. interest on loans; and 10,000/. on account of interest previously charged on the South Wales sub scription. The number of miles travelled by locomotive engines during the half-year ending the 31st of De cember, 1851, was 1,135,799; corresponding period of 1850, 944,839 miles; and of 1849, 906,844 miles. The tons of coke consumed were, respectively, 16,370.,13,735, and 13,680; and the price 18e 7d., 20s. Id., and 19s. 10d, TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFOR'I ASSOCIATION. (PITIMISIT:::D EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.) Sir,—As the procefdings in Partisrnent .tince the fir& day have been of inferior interest, on the principle tic- Patently ou nhich f , chool-boys put off Everything to the last, it may sllowahl9 to go back to some of the first day's proceedings and theie consequences. To which course I find myAll further prompted by the dis• _ _ cussiona in your Bradford Observer, decidedly the bold est and ablest eroviecial paper within my knowledge, and the one in whose judgement and opinions I feel the most of confideuce. It strikes me that the newspapers have not accurately represented what the Premier said in the portion of his speech which is most likely to be trought up at the bar of posterity. As my report may be as good as another's, I will describe the facts as accurately as I am able. The whole House was in a very low frame of mind; some thing like that of passengers in a steam-boat when they have got a notion of a hole in the boiler, or a probable rock under foot. Everything that was said in any quar ter was received with a dull ellen° , like what might have taken place in an assembly in France or Algiers, which had received an intimation from the reigning D.'y, that noisiness would be punished with transportation to Cay enne. But when the Premier carne to the passage con cerning the good intentions of the French President, it was followed by a humming eoise, mingled with 601110 laughs and cries of " Hear, hear," exactly as takes place in a provincial public meeting when a speaker plunges into something very contrary to what was expected from him, —as if Joseph Sturge, for instance, should declare for the necessity of immediately drilling every male, or Mr. D'lsraeli burst out before his Buckinghamshire consti tuents on the importance of the ballot. The Premier turned round to his supporters with a disappointed air, and said he would repeat what he had said, for he believed it had not been understood. Ho re peated it, and with the same reception, only in an in creased degree. And after ull, it is my belief he was not understood; the reason of which may be, that his mean ing was not easily intelligible. My individual persuasion is, that he meant to lay down a rule, that though the members of a Government may each of them in the tribunal of their inward man be persuaded of the wicked ness of the acts of a foreign Autocrat, yet so long as the Autocrat is an Autocrat, and all the powers of a nation are prostrate at his feet, it is the duty of that Government in a certain Pichwickian sense to admit that the design of the Autocrat may have been to do everything for the best. This is a claim never extended to Jonathan Wild when he was uppermost; but there is no knowing what may be come to. But what the newspapers appear to have missed, is the Pichwickian sense. ThePremierdid not say that either he or any ef the Government individually approved of the acts of the President, but that they col lectively tendered him their approbation in a certain hypothetical and conventional sense, of which the term Pickwickian is the only expression familiar to the ap prehension of Englishmen. Surely on this subject it might have been permitted to preserve a sullen silence, like a lady who found herself shut up with loose company in a railway carriage. It might not be prudent to speak all her mind; but the lest thing she would think of would be a declaration, that she was in a certain sense bound to admit that her com panions were probably acting according to their own views of life and its enjoyments. I have not seen the article in the Eclectic Review al luded to in your journal of last week; and of course can give no opinion on the authenticity of the informa tion purported to be conveyed. But this lam bound to say, as a man who may be told hereafter he ought to have had an opinion upon the subject and communi cated it to his constituents, that if something like what is there threatened is not done, it will be because the concerned are scant informed in their trade,—Mac• heaths who lay their hands upon the pistol, and their heart fails them when they " hear the sound of coaches." Are there not eighteen millions, 3601. or 9,000 francs a-piece for an army of 50,000 men, the most splendid prize-money ever offered on the face of the earth,—collected by a cruel supersti tion within two days' march of an invading army, or per haps, no march at all; to say nothing of the Kohl Noor, the natural heir-loom of the last successful robber? Tho stories of the French auto crat having something else to dc', are ail " what gods call potter and what men call prose." The precise, par ticular, actual danger is, that he should be forced on it whether he will or no, as a faint-hearted confederate is pushed forward by his bolder fellows. And all the while the professed advocates of the people's cause are doing their best to smooth you down with a " Ye shall not surely die," as a lady who underwent the knout in Russia used to be patted by the executioner to make her put herself into the proper position. I am afraid, from all at present seen, the question is above the calibre of anything collected in :he House of Commons, and if the people are to be safe, the people must lead the House and not the House the people. If every man had had a taste of the Austrian stick with which somebody taunted the Italians, there could not have been a more prudent absence of the energy which might offend a conqueror. And here begins to loom in the distaste another danger, which threatens you in your commercial capacity. The Tories in the other House have politicly laid the ground, without incurring any responsibility at present, for declaring hereafter that they announced their disapproval when the Whigs quailed. Now if two or three French officers in disguise, with a clerical aide de-camp from the French general's instrument at Rome, should be found in Ireland,—or the officers of a French battalion in their cups should drink to the plun der of London as officers in India did to the plunder of Lahore,—a fear-born courage will take possession of the nation, and it will be declared that everything must give way to the necessity of self-preservation. And then will step forward the Tories and insist, that they are the men who never bent nor bowed, and to them only the salvation of the country can be committed. And the nation will believe them; and, so believ ing, what will become of you and your Free Trade? The first not thorough going despot who takes the English side,—and some such there may be; will intimate that nothing would tend so much to strengthen him in his position, as ceasing to bring on his back the " protectors of his native industry." And so this bone will be thrown to him as a very little thing. And then the country will be appealed to if need be, to say whether the Free-Traders were not found allied with everything that could prevent the preparation' against a foreign foe, and whether it their advice had been taken the Chasseurs .de Vincennes would not have kept their New Year's Day at Charing-Cross. I do not ask how far all this would be literally true, but whether it is not what to a certainty will be said, and act against you. Nobody is more con 'rinsed of the impossibility of altering the past; but there is often a future, which is capable of a better and a worse. Think of your being invited to trust to a 'Member's re port that he believes the sentiments of the present ruler of France are perfectly amicable towards England, when, so far as reports of that kind are of any value, it is as well known as anything else which is matter of common conversation, that when the individual in question was in England, be declared to parties who are named, that though he had great esteem for England and for English men, yet if he ever came to power he should think it a duty to his uncle and to France, to attempt the invasion of England. It is hard, on such foundations, to desire you to leave your door open, in confidence that the steed will not be stolen. The speech of the leader of the Conservative Opposi tion, in the debate on the Address, was of the composi tion for which I believe you have a name in the manu facturing districts, where cloth that has been worn out is torn to pieces and made up into new. The sufferings of the farmers and the necessity of taxing you for their relief, Mr. McCulloch and the Pope, and all the rest of the materials of last session, did service over again as if they had never served before. Some of the Opposition of the other end, did their best to set up the nephew of his uncle, by calling him Napoleon. Possibly they have persuaded themselves there has been a transmigration of souls. It is very hard upon the oldeone. It rained hard in the House of Commons during all Thursday's sitting. One Member put up an umbrella. A Roman would have been as much alarmed by such a portent in the Senate-house, as when an ox spoke in the Forum. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. Blackheath, 9 Feb. 1852. SINKING OF A. STEAM-BOAT.—Yesterday (Sunday, shortly after twelve o'clock at noon , the Ant st eam-boat, which plies from the Adelphi-pier to London-bridge, left the first -named place with a number of passe n g ers. It was what is technically termed dead low water. The vessel proceeded as far as Blackfriars-bridge without meeting any accident, but as she was passing nuclei one of the arches another steam-packet came along, and caused the water to turn off in the opposite direction to that taken by the Ant. The con sequence was that he was dragged over a heap of aton placed on the bed of the river t.,) strengthen the piers. The speed at which the, boat was going caused a portion of the bottom to give way, and the passengers experienced a most unusual sensation; for as the water entered through the aperture in the steamer, it caused it to rock to and fr. , with amazing rapidity. The captain, knowing what bad taken place, refrained from telling the passengers, and the vessel proceeded towards its destination without auy one but the crew being aware of what had occurred . Shortly aft pame ass ing under Southwark bridge the cabin passengers b er ec fearfully excited, owing to the water gushing in in a treen dous body, and there is no doubt bu t many would have jumped overboard had the steamer been far away from the landing pier, and thereby have perished. As it was ~the boat was run alongside of the dummy at the Lon it pier, and the passengers were all enabled to land in safety. The water in the hold of the steamer accumulated so the ves fast as the tide rose that the vessel sunk , and last evening sel still remained under water. [ADvEansEateNT.]—THE ROYAL EXHIBITION.— S. and B. Solomons, Opticians , 39, .Albermarle - s tree t , Picca dilly, opposite the York Hotel. A valu a bl e , newl y-isize nvented, lass, the very small powerful waistcoa t- p ocket g of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known 14 miles distant. They answer every purpose on the race -Course, at the opera-houses; country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for Shooting, Deer Stalking, Yachting, to Sportsmen, GGentlemen,Game K eepers, and Tourists. Telescopes possessing s uch extraordinary power. that some, 34 inches, w ith an extra eye piece, will show "dis tinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's Ring, and the double stars • with the same Telesc o p e can be seen a person's countenance 3' miles distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles ; they super .nglyo f sede every other kind for the Waistcoat a re pooatpwocekrset,acacnodrdi larger, and all siz es with increasing Op er a and Race-course' glasses, with wonderful powers. Newly-invented preserving Spectacle Lenses ' • immediately they are placed before imperfect vision, ever y obj ect c l ea r and distinct , the most aged defe c ti ve s i g h t is Or ganic appears its youthful , na tural and original st a t e . The Invisible Vibrator , and all kinds of Acoustic instruments for relief o f extreme deafn ess. 39, Alb emarle - street, Piceadli s its the York Hote l. oppo • LORD BROUGHAM'S NEW COUN TY COURTS BILL. —On Saturday Lord Brougham's wa s printed by order of the House h Bill on the County Courts of Lords. In its pre sent shape it contains twenty- • of the judges may be increased eig t sections. The salaries is to lie in case either part to . i,sopt. a year. An appeal where the came , ; ,, A y Is dissatisfied in point of laW wow with or without A jury. LONDON AND bOUlii-WESTERN. The statements of accounts of this company, to be submitted to the proprietors at the half-yearly meeting on Thursday next, are on the same plan as those sub mitted at the last half-yearly meeting, and which state ments were so much complained of by the shareholders as not giving an account of the total expenditure on the main and branch lines separately, being contrary to the usual practice of railway companies. On one side of the capital account to the 31st of December last, appears the item of total receipts per last report, 8,593 4041. 16s. 10d., to which is added 41/. ls. 4d. as the difference between cells paid and bonds paid off, making the total receipts 8,593,445/. 18s. 2d. The total expenditure on the main line and thirteen branch lines is lumped in one sum of 1,493,1211. 15s. under the head of " total pay ments as per last report." The sums since paid on ac count are given separately for each line and branch, amounting to 80,814/. 11v. Id., which, with other items of expenditure during the halt-year, amount to 84,7141.; from this sum is deducted 10.169/. for the sale of surplus land and sundries formerly purchased for those lines, thus reducing the expenditure for the half year to 74,5451, making the total expenditure 8,567,666/.83., and leaving a balance of 25,7791 10s. The sum of 80,814/. censists of 2,205/. expended on the main line, 1611. on the Bishopstoko and Salisbury, 6,0741. on the Southampton and Dorchester, 541. on the Weybridge and Chertsey branch, 5861. on the Hampton Court branch, 6,5031. on the Metropolitan Extension, 1,425/. on the Richmond branch, 30,507/. on the Windsor and Brent ford loop line, 1,1151 on the Guildford and Gedaiming, 2,287/ on the Guildford and Farnham, 681. on the Guild ford extension, 14,500/ on the Farnham and Alton, in course or construction; 12,1791.-in respect of the Lon don-bridge extension, and 3.149/ on the Basingstoke and Salisbury line. The amount expended on plant, as per last report, was 569,3921., to which is added 768/, to make it up to the estimate of February, 1850-570,1601. The total share capital. irrespective of preference stock, is stated to be 7,434,0501, of which 6,698,1281., includ ing 400,000/. di:couut on the shares, is entitled to divi dend, .438,815/. s h ares i n t h e han ds of the company 287,706. not called up, and 14,4001. non-converted Gos port shares. The debenture account shows that 1,115,083/. had been borrowed up to the 31st of December last, of which sum 773,378/. was borrowed at 5 per cent.,133,010/. at 4 per cent., 12,0001. at 41 per cent., 1,111,600/. at 4 per cent., 63,700/. at 31 per cent., and 21,400/. at 3} per cent. Of the amounts borrowed at 5 and 4f per cent., about 240,0001. has since been borrowed at 4 per cent. The re venue account for the half-year ending the 31st of Dec , 1851, shows that the receipts amounted to 377.550/, and the expenditure to 138,0281., including 20,110/, Go vernment duty, rates, and taxes, and 1,300/. gratuity to staff on account of Exhibition traffic, leaving 239,521 Z ' net revenue from the line. From this sum is deducted 47,544/. interest on loans and preference shares, and 10,000/. towards reserve account for plant, leaving 181,976/, to which is added 2,321/, the balance from the last account, making the sum applicable to dividend 184,297/. The proposed dividend for the half-year, at the rate of 54 per cent. per annum, will absorb 175,749/., leaving to be carried to the next halt year 8,5481. The arrears of calls on the 501. and 401. shares amount to 9571., and on the third shares to 74,1141, together 75,0721., of which the payment of 73,418/. is optional with the holders. The report of Messrs. Noyes and Close, the auditors, states that the accounts have been carefully examined and audited by them, and that they are correct. During the half-year an expenditure was incurred of 11,128/. for additional plant. Of this sum 7671, has been charged to capital account, and brings the entire outlay under this head to 570,160/., an amount which it was proposed in the report of February, 1850, not to exceed. It states that the balance of 10,3601. ought, in accordance with the same report, to have been liquidated out of revenue by half yearly instalments, spread over five years, but it has been considered more advisable to write 10,000/ from the revenue of the past half-year. The farther balance of 360/. appears at the debit of " reserve account f or . plant," and which account will in the first instance b ead e . also charged with any further outlay under thi s e The steamboat accounts have been w ithincorporate s d to . u t . n y, general accounts of the company since the t l id ike any 1851, and the packet service is now tr i e t a other department. It has been charged Thou on the loan of 50,000/. for the year 18.51, i b e o t h o e g h i a t t h e e r r e e s - t salts hitherto of ith profit, do erto the au di tors notoftbena state ees b" a amount ibat ex there bi canny g he no ef lands,cient an c o mdaisou'h u . e qttuo7tbiootetwetehoatFthraeokoeo:ptihneg u c e ba o an o f oe l amp r to a n ii , w is of the utmost importance to the interests of the AllaCythE 1% W. Payne the body of Mrs. Anastasia Aulanyor's, aged :39, w h o d estroyed hersel under the following cdrcum `'latces :—The d ecease d was t h e w if e o f an o fficer in the East India Company's service, who some time ago had brought an action again.t a brother officer for criminal conversation with his wife, and had recovered 7501 damages. The husband _ had at one time allowed the deceased P. per week, which was paid by Mr. Peachy, his solicitor. The allowance, how ever, after the first payment, was refused by the decease 1, who wrote an insulting letter to her husband, and went to reside with her paramour, until he went to India, wh en s h e was left in great distress, and was again forced to apply to Mr. Peachy to obtain some allowance for her from her hus band. On Friday last she called at Mr. Peachy's office, but not finding him at home, she asked leave to write a letter to him, and was shown into a room by herself. When the clerk afterwards went Tutu t!,e room, he found her lying upon the fl or. .-, medical gentleman was called in, but life was ex tinct. In her pocket was found a small bottle which had contained the essential oil of bitter almonds, with which it is supposed she must ha. a poisoned herself, but there was no sine,l of the poison. The jury expressed a wish that &post mortem examination should take place, and the inquest WU BEGIN G EXPEDITION.- - A YORK N sire consequently irTe sateE p Ato ARCTIC adjourned. caTrdisc tsheE Ar the ap , EWCASTLE AND B and his companions has at length been taken, by the directors of this ' ERWICK.—R appears that pointment ot Sir Edward Belcher to the command of the mend a aividend f company have determined to recum or the past half-year at the rate of 3 mewed search for Sir John Franklin Arctic expadition. It is undo stood that the nominations Ear cent, per annum. have included Captain Kellett as the second in command, and Captain M'Clintock, and Lieut. Sherard Osborn, late of , e, an th d er P e e t r b a r e- e YORK AND NORTH MIDLA D —The directors of this tte Pioneer. to one of the steam-tenders . There has been company have d d N . ie- already sufficient proof of the ability, h . f-year at the rate g of tor', at decide on recommending to the propr 2perct a nt.perannum. the ensuing meeting, dividend for the past verance of all these gallant officers , an . . . t ntment with satisfaction. every reason to regard their appoin CALEDONIAN.—It is stated that the directors of this It is to be hoped also that Captain Penny to whom it • F nklin miLit have taken is company / :performed the gratifying duty of paying the owing that the course Sir J, h di a n ve his allotted portion of the halt-year's interest due to the guaranteed companies on at last discovered, will a indtrvepeidhiatyv the 2d instaat, being the day after it was due, bject in view, if experience such as ing to 41,200/. The guaranteed dividend for the half amount_ great work to bedscbgal;sesince it will appear a lamentable t i i n s i h ss e ioT . , as re e gar with, a f sto o vffii r .l3cca a ecT n k y t. _no Hackney, , v h e a n e o r od service, Lww : s c R committed , ar s e A n T o Ti w lyingpfromAy. a d the exclusion would be most un huisiesl ets.v.vce—vCerrne2ansmi,culte:Cfi o l t year OR the Garnkirk amounted to 6,250/. ; oa the just to a ls m pe a n n s whose services can receive no other reward. Clydesdale, to 9,4501.; on the Greenock, to 11,5001.; on William Fox, aged 36, by trade a bar the Wishaw, to 8,8001,; and on the Barrhes.d, to 5,200/. The dividend on the preference shares is to be decided bo -- ecr : wb s e c hre a :b r lwrs s sa or , A on at the half- yearly meeting, which will be held next " r A convict, month. RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING OR:DEM.—GREAT stree t Worship 5o where he was in th Central Criminal Court in WESTERN.—On Saturday the standing orders were de it.m., on Friday last. ki and larceny, and e same month found guilty , dared not complied with in the case of this company's I:l,rfsbn:puOrtation, escaped, betwcen steilaetehnced of sevennydeigurs Bill, for additional powers for construction of the Ox- übgPoro born C e a - The conovuirectcloejaeesa he had ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway; for ex- or , were found the same afternoon under a coal sack in one tension of powers to purchase lauds and construct the of the coal cellars near the blacksmith's shop, and it is slip- Birmingham , and Oxford Junction, and Birmingham'' p:.sed some of his former London associate! ), have supplied Wolverhampton, and Dudley Rail wa y s; a lso for 11 . -'w : him with their clothing, which they might easily carry in lines and p owers to lay broad gauge rails on the S...uth ! with them by wearing tliem over their other clothes when Staffordshire Railway, between WednesVary and Dudl y. ; they visited the dockyard. A sentry, consisting of one tier. BASINGSTOKE AND SALISBURY; Ot i Saturday tne , geant, two . corporals, and thirty-one privates, were put on standing, orders were declared not complied with inthe o'clock, duty o th n e Friday and Saturday nights, from dark until day. case of this company's Bill for making' a • vict maybe bneexsttill morning,hid under the to position th i a m t the con ease to Salisbury, at a cost of 280,01. - he l however, is that he ing in the yard. 'rhe general a mongst the warner' in non-compliances were only with refs fence to the point railway fromT light f„ the afternoon with has gone out tunra der tile disguise he as to Whether the subscription cer g act, sign" fo r had augmed. 9141'34'g re"gui4e LEEDS AND BRADFORD. The half-yearly meeting of this company Was held at Leeds on Friday. Mr. J. Waddinghani pr es id e d . Mr. BEST, the secretary, read the statem-nt of capital account up t December 36, 1851, from which it ap g eared that the expendi!ure had been 1 ,481 4731.; and The CHAIRMAN explained that only 24,00 U/. had been expended between June and -December last. The accounts were pissed. Mr. George Goodmcn was re -elected a director ; Mr. Willi am Waiumsn ap p dtoirv,idinentdheotr2oln.mioos.f peilirra.blalsleit:glewsosritnh(,,omdies: qus :? was dc c) declared f,r th e halt -year; d the usual power given to the directors t o oppose any Bills, &c., in Par liament. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the business. 212,20 a, and v. - ith 2/ : 2204 paid up, was a copy o the EXORBITANT SALVAGE CLAI,IIS. "Lord Frac c i a R usse ll , I The Lets of the case Of I Dillon and others," decirled in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on I': illy lest, afford a very timely illuitration of the notion the royal navy entertains of its duty to our merchant service, under pretence of protect ing, and aiding which such ptioons Lord Franci s kussell are appointed to command the Tweed, and Lord Edward Busse.. the veng a , acc. The Jane, of Liverpool, three years ago ran aground on the English bank, a very dangerous spot, where many vessels are lost, at the mouth of the Plate. Her Ma jesty's ship Tweed being in the river, for that and other such purposes, was dispatched by the British Commo dore to the Jane's assistance. Before, however, the Tweed reached the merchantman, all the crew (except the captain) steamer, the skipp er rema i n i ng —half chunk, as is said and passengers were got away by the Harpy by the salvors, hat more likely to brae his ship and cargo from the law of derelict Without any peronal risk, or much trouble, t h e Tweed shipped part of the Jsns's cargo, and carried it to MouteVideo,where it was sold for 1,805/. 16s. Id. F or t hi s service Lord Francis Russell cla i me d by way of sa l vage, two thirds of the precteds sah.s, or 1,2001. Alt er two Francis dissatisfied, L iiss o a r ti d s s fi b e i s c d p: a 3 p yours' I d i t, t o i a g no a nd t ico-nifil,fi one-fifth, o the p Apde 3501.; 1a i t r e a t Lord y - e Court on Friday affilm,«l Dr. Lushingtoa's judgment, but re fused to h ive costs to the respondents, in wNuse favour they decided. So that the chances ore, the underwriters will lose money by the assistance Lord Francis .Rusaen and the Tweed rendered them. They will, however, have the satisfaction of having .checked the rapacity of the Royal Navy in this matter of salvage; —a rapacity which now constitutes one of the grievances of oar mer chant service. • We say the rapacity, because there is really no more correct term for the txactions the Queen's ships have been levying on mereatitmc , n for such assistance. Let us repeat a few apt cimens. The Sappho, of Liverpool, was stranded on the same bank as the Jane a few months previously. The mer chant brig Atli., with two laurches, and her lalsje,ty's steamer L'zard came off to tier. By the aid of the mer chantman the tatpho was light , fled, and h a d th en towed off the bank by the L'zird, a ta,k which alto gether occupied five days. For this service Lieutenant Psarse gravely stated he was entitled by law to one half of the value of the ship and cargo, but would take one-third; and he was actually paid 15 per cent. of the value, or 2,5001, besides 651. for fuel. On the same bank, the William Peel subsequently got ashore in fine weather. The consignees at Monte Video sent a schooner. the Pio Nono, and a launch to her aid; into them part of her cargo had been tran shipped, when MM. steam-tender Harpy arrived; and in threesquarters of an hour gut the William Peel into deep water, thence towirg her to Monte Video. For this service the emit mous sum of 3,1461. was claimed by, and, on the precedent of the Sappho, paid to the Com mander of the Harpy, Three years before, the John Dalton, bound for Sydney, was wrecked if Rio. The Queen's ship Al f red came to her aid, but the Brazilian authorities interfering , she withdrew, having done nothing. The Alfred, how ever, claimed of the John Dalton 4001., and compromised the claim for 100/. The case of the Anna Robertson is still worse. That ship, being in China, was there deprived of half her crew by H.M.S. Royalist, and being incompetently manned, encountered a severe gale off the Cspe of Good Hope. Atter the storn was over, H.M. steamer Hermes volunteered assistance, and towed the merchantman into Algoa Bay, being occupied twenty hours in doing so. For this assistance the skipper off-red 500/. The captain of the Hermes chimed 3,0001., arrested the Anna, Robertson, and prosecuted her in the Vice Adtairall Court. That tribunal awarded the Hi rmes 1,5002; but, as the rsaater had no cr. dit in Algoa flay, be was (ate great loss) obliged to 8111 part of his cargo, and, being detained four months, had to draw for 500/. on his owners for current expenses. So that altogether the twenty hours' assistance of the Hermes in getting the Anna Robertson into Algoa Bay cost not less than 3,000/. In the case of the Charles Forbes, which struck on the pyramid shoal in the Straits of liaison, H.M.S. Amszm and Pluto got two-fitths of her cargo, or 5,100 dollars, for their salvage services; and in that of the Anne, which got on the reef at the eastern entrance of the same straits, the East India Company's steamer Semiramis received one-eighth, with costs of the suit at Singapore. _ _ This, we repeat—without any desire to undervalue the services performed—is mere rsincity. By no other country in the world, save by England, is salvage al lowed the royal or national nsvy. In other states such services are considered part of their public duty; and it is no uncommon thing for British merchantmen to receive assistance in distress from foreign ships of war, for which no claim or puyment is ever made. And even amongst us the grievance is of modern growth; for merly no such claims were made; the evil lass grown out 4 . salvage paid to merchantmen. But now u Queen's ship cannot throw a tow line or a haw,er to a outman.- til© vessel without making it the groundwork of an ex orbitant demard for salvagt ; and, it resisted, they throw the owners or undtrwrilcrs into mat den of iniquity, the Admiralty Court; .or, if abroad, into what is even Horse, one of the Vice-Admiralty Comm, presided over pro bably by a colonici secretary, surgeon. or 'Wortley acing as judge for the nonce, by whom the most extravagant sums are awarded. Yet when any Member complains of these extortions in the Howie >t Commons, up jump. , a Lord of the Ad miralty to bully Hnd to bluMi4.— Daffy - Prews. DISMISSAL OF LORD PALMERSTON. Looking with perfect impartiality at the transaction, as explained in the House of Commons', we are bound to confess that we do think Lord John has made out a clear case ogling his colleague, and that, ij he were so inded, be was perfectly justified in diAnissing him. m When we say this, we wish our readtrs well to mark our qualification, if he were so minded, because if he were not so minded, there certainly was no obligation, either of duty or necessity, at once to take irrevocable and no very courteous reemaires for the removal of an old col league, who had held the seals of the F , reign Depart ment some years before Lord John himself had attained to a seat in the Cabinet. I Lord Palmerston, doubtless, acted a great deal too cavalierly to his Sovereign, and too independently to wards his colleagues; but some little allowance surely ought to have been made in the one ease for " the pres sure of business" in so laborious an (Ace; and some ought to have been shown in the ot her case for agleneoatctnoefss i nsu b u rdination, much more for one of what and courtesy was to him one of customary indep endence. Fairn ess required that befor e an y decisive steps were taken the offence should have been made known to him, and an opportun it y g iven bim to explain his con duct. The offence wa s certainly a venial one; b y an L it ad w not e uldbe havee minded been to folly hims expiated. If of , acknowledgment of erro r, and a promise to be mor e careful if ful his colleague foe ot h e r . causes than those w hi c h he has on this occasion p r r oclaimed to the world, a ssuredly Lord L i n o: d u ef t ri o r h l' n Palmerston would never have been dismissed, and this little episode would 7ae2er have been magnified into its present dimensions. The public may depend upon it that they only know half the story • Lord Jobn wanted to get rid of his collea g ue ; he ca ught him tripping, and him greedily he se ized the o pportunity to throw I n what this desire has originated soon er or later become 'band," vc may, perhaps, not, b ec ause Lord John dOprov 5 isa ofe know that it is ehis foreign policy or the principles ou which it wa that Lord Palmerston's antipathys conducted . . It may be preten sions in this country was the to the Papal Premier, who .deeply committedreal inconvenience to the wads, indicates by his against them by his their fulfilment. Lord actions his desire to escape from is evidently Granville, with his Popish be longings,Lord John Russell a more convenient coadjutor to would be,and - - • than Lord Palmerston ever c.,uld or •nell we see what we see. Herald. S