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LITERATURE. 111 ER VYN CLITI EROE. No, IV. By W W. It is Harrison Ainsworth. with peculiar regret that we observe from an announcement at the close of the present number, thet ery yn Clitheroe" is interrupted f o r an indefinite Period by' unavoidable circumstances. We lament this interval in the course of its publication, the more Particularly because we regard the story as pro- Il n e 'sing in som e respects to be incoinparably the most delightf u l o f a ll its author's compositions. Situated as the scene of the narrative is, in a locality familiar to the novelist from his childhood, he has been enabled to describe it with more than usually graphic celonring, 1 1 , 1 , 1 d with m ore th an or di ca ry admirable exactitude. The various characters introduced, rnorPover, in the course of the fi c ti on a re selected (or some of thew, at least, we feel assured) from his household recollections. 46 eYnnd which it must be borne in mind that Mr. Ain se l orth has never more conspicuously displayed his ,1 aill as a story-teller than in the opening chapters of " Mervyn Clitheroe." Always alive to the ne cessity of incident, with a view to rouse the :attention and to waken curiosity, he has here crowded the Pages with changes and vicissitudes of a homely cha racter, it is true, but still fraught with a pecu liar fascination. The work, of course, has been with but the breathless escapes of " Jack Sheppard," Without the diabolical glamour of " Rookwood," without the occasional excitement lighting up the Pages of the " Miser's Daughter." It has nothi g of the pageantry of " Windsor Castle," of the dungeon glOom of the "Tower of London," or of • the Court intrigues of " St. James's." It is without the rapid movement of " Crichton," without the as lotinding surprises of " Auriol," and without the grim attraction of the " Lancashire Witches." But notwithstanding all this, home tale as it is, domestic as the dramatis personce are, " Mervyn Clitheroe " has, even in the brief space of four instalments, given' promise of emu lating in merit and equalling in popularity, the best of its author's productions hitherto published. Yet, in the midst of this fair promise, at the precise moment When the interest of the reader had been enkindled to a state of agreeable animation, the course of the story, like that of true love, runs no longer smooth, but, encountering some obstruction or other, becomes temporarily interrupted. For Mr. Ainsworth's sake, and for the sake of his readers also, we regret this very sincerely, but must resign ourselves quietly to What appears to be unavoidable, only sanguine that 'the thread of the narrative will be speedily resumed, and that as it has commenced, so it will terminate._ ',.Prasperously. After a nocturnal alarm in the old laritt•house, and after the body of Uncle M obberle y ti: 48 been, next day, consigned to the grave , th e will -Z.read, bestowing the whole of th e property O'Malpas Sale and not on Mervyn Clitheroe. There "`ter Come some most exciting interviews between 710 -- .. t e n,innah and her husband — the latter i nterview taking place at midnight in the churchyard, follo wed by a chase across the mere with bloodhounds. See lag that th e curren t n umber ends most nnsatisfec iMile' in all respects—leaving the reader in almost 'unendurable suspense—it is with unusual fervour that We clo se our present not i ce o f Mervyn Clitheroe with two words addressed to the author—Au revoir ! • - EARL GREY AND Slit HARRY SMITH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. t he have airs ad y remarked that, in his answer to e e Member for Lambeth, Lord John Russell acknow teugecl only that the dispatch of the 14 th January from arl Grey to Sir Harry Smith had been sent to him (Lord John), and that he avoided to say whether he h,ad or % liad not read it; but, at the same time, with an ap rettrance of great candour, and as if most anxious a. added, every information to the House, his Lordship T T' that the recall of Sir Harry Smith had been ap •rry'ved of by the Cabinet. Now ibis was indeed a ge terOus v o l unteer (his Lordship little tbenefit then het 41 1 1 1 P l bug volunteers would turn him out)—ior his Lord 1P well knew that the very document of recall itself, th at abominable dispatch of the 14th January, containe:i ;1 1 1 , information his Lordship then wished the House to tr ick he was giving them. These are the words of the 11 18 Patch:—. , It is my painful duty to inform you, that ce at ing consulted my colleagues on the subject, they have uncalled with me in corning to the conciusio . n . . aria• that, therefore, we should not be justified in v king from tendering to the Queen our humble ad : the that the government of' the Cape of Good Hope and 1 0 1`. 6 conduct of the war should be placed in other hands." :`,: 4111 Was it, then, that Lord John Russell did not give a ‘,,ar and correct answer to Mr. Williams's question? by right had his Lordship to trifle With the House, te Y Avoiding an answer to a simple question, and pre ' ti ding to volunteer additional information? or rather et Us ask, what motive his Lordship had? Was this the proper conduct for the Prime Minister of England to ado pt? However, let that pass now, althoug h it Ste ed not be forgotten—a day of eeckoning may ~, e t Come. A certain Lord Stanley once , in spilling of TA political tricks of the Whigs, made use of the word ;, t himble-rig." Lord John Rueeeil's conduct looks very it. He no doubt knew, or guessed that very few, if any, of the Members had read tho dispatch in quo; __°A, and so he gained the applause of the moment fcr ridour. His Lordship was like a dying patient, sof ' er ing from acute agony, before mortification takes place and dissolution becomes inevitable; and he felt thankful even for a moment of repose, though should its .2ault be only to plunge him deeper in his fatal disease. 4 nt we must now proceed with our business of the day— thconduct of the Colonial Minister. There is one pa -1 graph in that famou3, or r a ther infamous dispatch, that up to this moment has passed unnoticed, but not, be assured, the less cruel or the less unfelt by the seusi ttve and Gallant General to whom it was addressed. I Can hardly approach it without a feeling of such intense disgust at the conduct of Earl Greyas almost incapari t, tee me for the task I have undertaken. Surely, Sir, it n uittst be pain and anguish enough for any British gc:- :Pa to have his brave followers, the officers and tee tr!iers, destroyed by the savages with whom it has been t aunted unlucky lot to have to contend, without being that , nnted with their death. Did not Earl Grey consider Poor Sir Harry had sufficiently felt the loss of the he ant cafieer who died, as a soldier ought to do, at the it ad of his reginient—the brave Colonel Fordyce? Was in the l east neces sary that Earl Grey should dwell Up on 1 4 1 °/1 that loss in the manner in which be has done? His hi mself would almost imply that Sir Harry Smith had e t a cif killed poor Fordyce—certainly that be had sa taed him, when he ought to have gained him laurels. • tt I learn from these dispatches," says Earl Grey, Mitit • , t atts another month of this distressing warfare hes b eeb e l away, and though the force at your disposal had • ta i ," increased to a very considerable amount, no advan iac of any real importance has been gained over the e x ' a q, while the loss ot her Majesty's troops has been lieeediegly beavy, that very distinguished officer, th ie utenant-Colonel Fordyce, being included amongst • c i te who have fallen." • i n `r t ,ood God! Sir, is a British general to be written to 4 „,.. t fija style? Lieutenant Colonel Ford) co died, Sir, at the head of his regiment, I believe the second 14 13 he was under fire. At all events, Sir, had he b een _ th ousand and one times under fire, had there not been nether his equal in Kafraria or in Etigland, why should • Sir Harry Smith have his corpse pointed out to him in this most remarkable and inhuman manner? Sir Harry 431 Sir, distinctly told by Earl Grey in that paragraph that he had haistcienandthat he •• had done noshing,t force to do much, sacrificed the lives worse than nothing that be had larly one very diet?! her Majesty's troops, and partial . - ; means that, Sir, if liguished officer: Tads paragraph . well; for before I t A a _ana anything. Remember it of that dispatch af "et to remark on the rest back to consider what his Lordship 14th I must turn time before. The case, Sir, is sbiP had written a short altogetherthink a most curious but most melar °holy one, and I shall be clearly . able to show that the whole has bee n a manifest Conspiracy as ever was known —ant of thel Tasntyanifest a case of but of ° tie man's bad notions and ill*temPer, against another generous and confiding. But I must leave this to my • n eat letter. I wish the m atter to be fairly and o pe n l y c anvassed, although I co nfess that no p re vious conduct of Sir Harry Smith, had it been found fault w i th even, • nculd justify the tone and character of Earl Grey's dia. Patch of the 14th of January.—l am,Sir, YOUR CONSTANT READER. • L ONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERTS. Last evening the first of a series of seven of theso con ' ce t r t B 9 and of seven farewell performances of Mr. Braham, r graham place at Exeter Hall. The recept ion given to m ra hatn last night, by an audience sluaoq filling the g r eat hall, was most enthusiastic. some minutes e lapsed before the cessation of the repeated bursts of up . ?muse allowed him to commence his first ; Total eclipse," from Handel's Sampson. The other piece—the scene, ° l B selected by Mr. Braham for last evening were, th "T he Old English Gentleman," " A man's a man for a' 13 , 4 „, t ' ; " and " The Bay of Biscay." For the rest the ti o -Ta ing's programme, us usual, included a varied of popular and classical music, most of it admirably rfortned. Mr. Swift received a well-deserved encore , a r , h is execution of a recitative end aria of Monclel jo?ua's, "If with all your hurts;" and Handel's " Re ,,,lee greatly," sung by Miss Alleyne, was much ap ;',!anded: as were many other of the tastefully selected .ees constituting the :first of a serics of entertain ments which promise fully to sustain the high am , Concerts;' already obtained by the "London Wednesday "neerte ROYAL POLYTECH — NIC INSTITU TION, of Peed, professor of singing at the Royal Aefid, my Music, has just commene,d- his second lecture on music.., The subject chosen by the Priofessor is on the t i i, ll : lee and mu.ical compwitions of Dibein. After hi!'ng a brief sketch of the life of this composer and te ' Career, both as a poet and musician, Mr. Peed pro wleided to illustrate his lecture by singing several 01 bia 4 . --, r d ies, "Poor Jack," " The Greenwich Pensioner," i t , tom Bowling," "The Lads of the Village," Szo. The ereduction of the music of Dirdin at this particulur me no doubt, will induce many to visit this admirable • litation to listen to the above popular and beautiful me l odies, so justly celebrated for their de s c ri ption and t h "'el copies of sea life. Mr. Peed acquited himself, w e always does, with great judgment end taste, and it s greatly appl.uded throughout his lecture. —lofessor Blackie, of Aberdeen, was elected on l t 4 t esd Y by the town council of Edinburgh to succeed the e Professor Dunbar in the Greek chair et the univirsity of that ,Clty. , ul . -1 - he Earl and Countess of Clarendon, family and ae, arrived in Grosvenor -crescent on TtIOCIAY, tzgria the Viceiegal Judge, HER 111AJET 'S LEVf E. The Queen held a levee (tae s,cund this =on) yes terday afternoon hi st. James'6 11-ijc:sty ard his Royal Highuess Prince Albert arrived shortly before two o'clock. from I3unkinghana Palace, escorted by a detachment of Ufe Gruard3. Colonel Vernon liatcoutt had an audience of the Queen, and delivered the insignia of the Oder of the Lit:: of the late Earl of Liverpool. The E.irl of 1),..; , rby had an audience of her MajostY ! Thc , Queen also gave audience to - the field.efficcr in waiting. lii Serene Highness Prince Edward ofSa4a-yirtimar attendcd thou levee. .• . . her niejesty'a honourable Corps of Gentleruen-at- Arnas was ou-duty in the State Salood; -the scab-afficera ettieeling were Lieutenant-Colonel P. P. Nevin and. M ajor Cooke. The gelitlecan on duty were Winchester, Watts, Lkyd, Robinson, Lyon, Connor ' Mills, Cotton, Tyler, Pew, Banks, Field, Lamotte, Holmes, Davies, Huqhes, Tinkler Hayward, Barnard, Smyth, Lloyds Cox, and Rice. 'The (lacers on duty were the Lieu tenant, Sir James Tyler; the Standard Bearer,: Major Harmer; and the Adjutant, Capt. Curling. The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty at the Palace as usual under the command of Captain Bellairs, the Exon in Waiting. The officers attending were, the Lieutenant Sir George P. I,e; the Exons, Captain Kin caid, Captain Phibbs, and Captain Bickford; and the Adjutant, Litut.-Colonel Fitzruaurice. The Qsoen wore a train of white watered rainbow sil!i, trimmed with white satin ribbons and tulle. The petticoat was of white satin, trimmed with whit e s a ti n ribbons and tulle. Her Majen,ty's head-dress was com posed of emeralds and diamonds. Her Majesty and Prince Albert entered the Throne room, attended by the Mistress of the Robes, the Mar chioness of Eiy, Lady in Waiting; the Duke of Men trose, Lord Steward; the Marquis of Exeter,, Lord Chamberlain; the Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse; Lord Claude Hamilton, Treasurer of the Household; the Vice-Chamberlain, Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting; Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse; Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey private Secretary to his Ro) al Highness; Major-General Berke ley Drummoed, Groom in Waiting; Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Major- General Buckley, Equerry in Waiting; Colonel Bon verie, Equerry iu Waiting to his Royal Highness; Hon. Alired Crofton and Mr. Henry Farquharson, Pages of Honour in Waiting. The Foreign Ministers were introduced, when the following presentations to her Majesty and Prince Al bert took plane in the diplomatineirelc,— By the Belgian Minister—M. Vander Straeten, func tionnaire eui erieure au department des finances de Belgique. By the Russian Minister—Lieut.-Colonel Schwabe, Russian Imperial Engineers. By the Sardinian Minister—Le Comte S. P. Bend veglto d'Aragon, Officier de Cavalerie dans l'Armte Sarde. _ By the Turkish Minister—M. Jean Musurus, 'member of his Imperial Mi.jesty's Council of the Ministry of Trade. By the Brazilian Minister—M. L. de Montezuma, Lieutenant of the Brazilian Navy. By the Earl of Malmesbury—Le Colonel F. Faeio, Mexican Charge d'Affeiree. By Colonel Facio—Don. D. Savignon, Attache to the Mexican Legation. The diplomatic circle was attended by Count Wa leweki, French Ambassador, Viscount Serurier, the First Secretary, M. Dervien, Attaché, and M. de, Veillate Atiacee to the Embassy; M. Van de Weyer, the Bel gian Minister, aid M. Octave Delepierre, Secretary of Legation and Consul-General; Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister; Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Minister, end M. Alexandre de Berg, First Secretary of Legation; Chevalier Bunsee, Prussian Minister, Count Perponcher and Baron Bethemann Hollweg,g; Baron de Rehausser, Swedish and Norwegian Minister, and Baron de Geer, Se er. tart of Legation; Mr. Abbott Lawrence, United Stria s Minister, and M. Banero3 Davis, Secretary of Liga tion; le Marquis; d'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister; M..Tri coupi, Greek Minister; M. Muturus, Turkish Minister, M. P. Musurus, First Secretary, and Dilaver Effendi, Attache to the Legation; Comet Biro' Sehauenstein, Aus trian minister; Count de Lavradio, Portuguese Minis ter, and le Chevalier Pinto de Several, Secretary of Le gation; Baron Bentinck, Netherlande Minister; M. Macedo, Brazilian Minister, and le Chevalier de Souza Lisbon, Attacee to the Legation; Prince di Carini, Siei han Miei * ter ; M. d e Bide, Danirh Minist e r , and M . T. de Bille, Secretary of Legation; Shuf i Khan, Envoy from his Majesty the King of Persia, and Major Mirza Ibrahim Malcolm, First Secretary and Interpreter to the missioc ; Mr. J. T. Comyn, Spanish Charge d'Affaires, and Mr. J. L. de Urbiztondo, Attache to the Legation; the Earl of Malmesbury, the Queen's Principal Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs; and Majo r- . General the Hoc. Sir Edward Cust, , her Majesty K.C.11 s Master of the Ceremonies. ,' After the reception of the diplomatic circle the general circle were introduced. The reception was attended by Lord St. Leonards, Lord Chancellor; the Archbishop of York; the Earl of Lonsdale, Lord President; the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Privy Seal; the Earl of Derby, First Lord of the Treasury; the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Secretory of State for the Home De part; the Right lion. Sir John Pakington, Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, Chancellor of the Exchequer; the Duke of Northumberland, First Lord of the Admiralty; the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, President of the Board of Trade; the Earl of Ilardwieke, Postmaster-General; the Right lion. J. C. Herries, President of the Board, of Control; the Marquis of Anglesey, Geld Stick in Waiting; the Earl of Sandwich, Captain of the Honourable Corps of' Gentlernen-at-Arms; Lord de Ross, Captain of the Yeomen Guard; the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn wall; the fee an of the Arches; Lord Colchester, Pay master of the Forces; the Right Hunourable W. Beresford, Secretary. at • War; the Earl of Morton, Lerd in. Waiting to the Queen; Sir Fitzroy Kelly, her Ma jesty's Solicitor-Gcrierul; the Lord i'vlayor; Mr. Horatio ea'addington, Under-Secretary •of State, Home Depart- i • ra,ni ; Mr. Sheriff Swift, Mr. Sheriff Cotterell, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting; Captain Sir George Tylor, RN., and M.P., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen ;; Colonels Wood, Priaulx, Oldfle!d, and Pennyrather, C 8., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen; Colonel .M.Donal, 2d Life Guards, Silver Stick in Waiting; LieuteColonel the Hon. A. Gordon, Equerry to his Royal Highness Prince Albert; lion. General Upton, Equerry eo her. Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent; the Chevalier:. Hebeler, their Prussian and Wurtemberg Majesties' Consul-General; Mr. Under-Sheriff Millard, Mr. Under- Sheriff Hopwood; Colonel H. Bentinck, Coldstream Guards, field.afficer in brigade waiting; .Mr. Frederic Peel Round, Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod; Co lonel Sir Frederic Smith, Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber in Waiting; Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Groom of t he Privy .Chamber; Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Gentle man Usher to her Majesty in Waiting; Colonel Diggle, Gentleman Usher in Waititig; Captain G. C. Blakey R N. (in Waiting), and Dr. Lyon Play fair , ' C. 8., Gen tlemen Ushers to his Royal Highness Fringe Albert. The following noblemen and gentlemen had the honour of being presented to her Majesty:— Mr. James Anderson, Q.C., on being appointed one Of her Majesty's Counsel, by the Lord C hancellor. Hou. Jacob Astley, on appointment .as Deputy-Lieu tenant for the county of Norfolk, by the Earl of Leicester. Mr. John Baily, Q.C., on appointment as one of her Eluj, , sty's Conuhel, by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Hilbert Butler Butken, West Sumer6et Yeomanry Cavalry, by Colonel Tynte. Ensiror J. Baseni, Hen. India Company's Engi- nuers, by Colonel Harry D. Jones. Lieutenant Li. . t Bainbrigge, R N by his father - in law, Lieutenant-Colonel itisSel Harvey. Mnjor-General Bainbridge, on receiving a grant of dis tinguished service money, by the Duke of Wellington. Mr. Richard Blanchard, on return from Vancouvera' -Ikland, by Earl Grey. Lieutenant T. H. Bosworth, Bengal Artillery, by the Right Hon. J. C. 'ferries. Ensign E. P. Brownlow, Hon. East India Company's Engineers, by Colonel Harry D. Jones, R E. Lieutenant-Cotonel Brown, on promotion, by Majbr- General Sir R. Doherty. Lieutenant R. W. Brett, Bombay Light Cavalry, by Sir Robert Campbell, Bart. Lieutonant Burrows, R.A,, on promotion, by the Mas- ter-General of the Ordnance. Sir William Burnett, K.r.la, on being appointed a K.C.8., by the Duke of Northumberland. lion. Frederick Byron, on his marriage, by Lord Byron. Majesty' Major-General itradshawe, on promotion, by the Duke of Wellington. Chamberlain: Rev. Renry Mildred Birch, on being appointed one of her Captain Beechey, Chaplains iu ordinary, by the Lord. de-Camp to the' Q u . e • Lieutenant T. P. care en, by Sir Francis Baring. , on appointment as Naval Aide .Ct.:Herries Master-Gener a l t , the R.A., on promotion, by the .Campbell, on return from India, by Liethueteinitziguht Honc JR° Mr. Ctiandless, on appointment its "e of her Majesty's Counsel, by the Lord Chanc e ll or. Colonel Chesney, R.A.,, on promotion, by the D u ke o f ellington. J. T , • Clarke, ' Veutenaot v. R.A., on promotio n , Master-General of the Ordnance, by the Lieutenant J. Wa lr o nd Clarke, loth Huss ars , on return from India, by Lieutenant-General H. B. Lygon, Lord Clermont, on being created an Irish Peer, by Lord John Russell. E Lieutenant-General Lord Ensign g a nE , G.C.8.G.0 E. A. Collins, Lord Colville, on bis appo intment as Chief Equerry and by of the Horse. Lieut. Sidn e y Cousens. by the Right Clerk Marshal, by the Mast er Licute u , nt -C o l one l J. G. W. Curti s, on appointment lion. J. C. Harries.. es C. 8., by Viscount Gough, G.C.S. Major-General the Lion. • Sir Edward Gust, on his pro motion, by the Duke of Wellington. Lord Crofton, on b e i ng a pp o i l acd one of the Lords in . Waiting to the Queen by the Lord Chamb erlain. Sir William Dalzell, B'art„ en succeediug to the ba ronetcy, and appointment as Deputy-Lieutenant of LinlitbgowAire,Ad ' Sir ' d IC-•C B ' by mind C. A am, • . Colon P 1 Charles DixTi, on by General Pi"t. promotione M;•jor• General Sir .e.. Doherty,.• ... the Duke of Wellington. on promotion, by Earl of Donoughinore, by the Earl of Glengall. Commander Thomas Geo. Drak e , RN., on return front foreign service , by the President of the Board of Trade. Captain D. Dunbar, by Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Mac- Mahon. Hon. W. Ernest Duncombe, on his marriage, by Sir J. Graham. Lieutenant W. Du Verret, by Viscount Chewton. Lieut.-Colonel Egerton, by his father, General Sir C. Egerton. The ion, Leopold Agar Ellis, by th —0 E arl of Carlisle. THE SUN, LONDON, Mr. William Ell-Juicy, on appointment as one of her Ma ' jesty's Counsel, bythe Lord Chancellor. Cept . Eraltine, N., on return from foreign service, by Lord Eiphinstone. ' Rear. Ji - Ar tbur Fanshawe, C. 8., on promotion and retnn trona command on the coast of Africa, by Sir Byam Martin, Admiral of the Fleet. Lieutenant Sir Jamee Fergussen, on appointment to the Grenadier Gu arde, by Colonel Sie 0. Honyman, Bart. • Ensign A. H e ll. Fica, by Lieut.-General MtLeod. Major-General Hon. J. Finch, on proincition, by the Duke of Wellington. Sir James Fitzgerald, Bart., by Right Hon. Thomas Fremantle Bart. Mr. Spencer Follett, on appointment as one of her Ma , jesty's Connsel, by the Lord Chancellor. Lieut. H. Forrest, on appointment to the lion. Artillery Company, by Rear-Admiral Hon H. Byng- Major Henry Forster, C. 8., by the Earl of Ellenborough. Col. Hon. Henry Fane, by the Lord Chamberlain. Captain Goad, on promotion, by Lieut.-General Hon. E. P. Lygon. Cornet, G. Maxwell Goad, on appointment to 13 th Light Dragoon s , by Lieut.-General E P. Lygon. Ensign: 4 l. Goodwyn, by Lieutenant-General M‘Leod. Mr. Robert Grahume, by Rear-Admiral Houston Stew art, M.P. The Rev. Maze William Gregory, by hie father, Rev. Thomas Gregory. Colonel Prederiek Griffiths, on appointment to command the Xavalry Del in, by tee. Adjutant-General of the Forces. Viacount Galway, on bring appointed one of the Lords En i s n ig l n V , a ll it a i l g th to or t n h , e Q by u L ee i t e i u , te by n • a t n h t e L .Ge o n rd er C al ha s m ir be T rain. Thomas l omas MacMahon. Cornet Ileneage, by Lieutenant-General Brotherton. Major-General Home, on promotion, by the Adjutant ' Goeirel. Captain Sir Charles Hotham, on being appointed a naval Aide-de-CaMp to her Majesty, by Lord Hotham. Major-General Lord Hotlaana, on promotion, by Rear- Admiral Bowles. General Huskisson, on promotion, by the Duke of Wellington. Captain Frederick Hutton, R.N., on return from service, by Rear-Admiral Arthur Faushawe, Rev. 11. Hutton, by Lord Charles J. Russell. Viscount Ilawarden, on being appointed one of her Ma jesty's Lords in Waiting, by the Lord Chamberlain. Major Forbes Jackson, by Major-General W. Campbell. Captain Lewis. Jones, R.N., on return from the coast of Africa, by Rear-Admiral Fanshawe. Lieutenant Joy, R A., on promotion, by the Master- General of the Ordnance. Lieutenant Kerte, on appointment to the Royal Artil leryeby the Master- General of the Ordnance. Lieutenant Kelly, R.A., on promotion and return from _foreign service, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. Lieutenant Kerr, R.E., on return-from foreign service, by Viscount Hardinge. Commander Henry Kerr, on promotion, by Lord Adol phus Fitzclarence. Vice. Chancellor Kindersley, by the Lord Chancellor. Sub-Lieutenant Lane, on appointment to 2d Life Guards, by Lieutenant-Colonel Williams. Lieutenant W. G. Law, by his father, Mr. Law. Captain S. H. Lee, on promotion, by Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. H. Fitzroy. .Lord Henry Lennox, on being appointed a Lord of the Treasury, by the Earl of Derby. Lieutenant Longley, R.A., on promotion, by the Master- General of the Ordnance. Lieuteliant-Colonel I. J. Louth, on promotion, by Lieu tenant-General Hon. H. Arbuthnott, C.B. Major-General the Earl of Lucan, by the Duke of Wellington. Cornet Mecartney, on appointment to the 15th Hussars, by Lieutenant-General Brotherton. Lieutenant-Colonel John Maclean, on promotion, by Lieutenant-General Lard Fitzroy Somerset. Captain George Martin, R.N., on appointment to her Majesty's ship Victory, by Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs. G"-. W. H. Massy, 19th Regiment, en return from foreign service, by the Earl of Glengall. Mr. H. F. Massy, 19th Regiment, on return from foreign service, by the Earl of Glengall. Dr. M'Dermott, R.N., on promotion, by Sir William Burnett. Mr. R. Home Middlemuss, by the Hon. F. Chartoris, M.P. Dr. James Millar, by the Earl of Munster. Commander Thomas Miller, R.N., on return from ser vice on the West: Coast of Africa, by Lieutenant- General Sir Thomas MacMahon, Bart., K.C.B. Major J. A. Moore, on appointment as Deputy- Lieutenant of Middlesex, by the Marquis of Salis bury. Lieutenant Richmond Moore, R.N., on promotion and re - turn from foreign service, by Admiral Sir W. Beau champ Proctor. • Mr. - 1'00;0" • Mackenzie, M.P., on appointment as Joint - Secretary to the Treasury, by the Earl of Derby. Lieutenant Henry Nangle, by Lord Camoys. Lieutenant Naylor, by Lieutenant-General Brotherton. Lieutenant Horatio Nelsen, R.N., on return from foreign service, by Mr. Charles A. Moody, M.P. Lieutenant George Neville, by the Earl of Lucan. Mr. Toup Nicolas, on appointment as her Majesty's Consul for the Society Islands, by Viscount Palmer ston. Mr. John Thomas Norris, on appointment to the Lieu tenancy of the city of London, by the Lord Mayor. Lieutenant Joseph Oldfield, by the Bight Hon. J. C. Berries. Lieut. Thomas 'M. S. Pesky, R.N., by Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M. G. Captain en r o o f n. the Ordnance. Frederick Lieut.-General Sir Ch ar l es W. P as ley, by the Master- G Pelham, R ap pointed private S ecretary to the First " bin Lor e do g f the Admiralty, by the Duke of Northumberland. Comet Phillips, by Lieut.-General Brotherton. Captain Richard Quin, R.N., on promotion, by Rear- Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart. Mr. Henry Reeve, on his marriage, by Earl Granville. Captain Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Bart. R.N., on his marriage, by the Duke of Newcastle. Mr. Rowand Ronald, by Sir Robert Walter Carden. Lieutenant W. 11. Rough, on promotion, by Lieutenant . Colonel Hon. Henry Fitzroy. Lieutenant Thomas Saumarez, R.N., on his return from Lagos, by Captain Saumarez, R.N. Assistent , Surgeon George Saunders, by the Right Hon. J. C. Herries. ,Major-General Simpson, on promotion, by General the Earl of Strafford. Lieutenant C. Smith, Royal Horse Artillery, on return from foreign service, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. Lieutenant M. E. C. Stocker, on appointment to the Royal Artillery, by the Master-General of the Ord- LOAM Lieutenant John Stokes, Royal Engineers, on re turn from service at the ape of Good Hope, by Lieut.- - Geri - oral Sir J. Burgoyne K.C.B. Lieutenant G. M. Stopford, Royal Engineers, on pro motion, by the Inspector-General of Fortifications. Viscount Strathallan, on succeeding to his title, by the 'Duke of Northumberland. Mr. George Strachey, on appointment as Attache to her Majesty's Legation at St. Petersburg, by Earl Gran ville. Mr. T. F. Stewart, by Mr. H. Styleman Le Strange. Lieutenant Henry Strover, R.A. on return from foreign service, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. Lieutenant M. L. Taylor, on appointment to the Royal Artillery, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. Sir Frederic Thesiger, on appointment as her Majesty's Attorney-General, by the Earl of Derby. Captain Charles William Thompson, on promotion and return from India, by Lieut.-General D. Barr, East India Company's service. Colonel. William Thornton, on promotion, by Colonel Sir Ord Honyman, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Trollope, by Lieut.-General Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Major Tullach, by Lieut.-Colonel Sir James Douglas. Lieutenent and Adjutant H. W. Turner, on promotion, by sir James Kempt, G.C.B, Lieutenant Arthur Vandeleur, on return from foreign service, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. The Earl of Verulam, on being appointed one of her Majesty's Lords in Waiting, by the Lord Cham berlain. Lieutenent W. F. Walker, on appointment to Royal Ar tillery, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. Captain Edward Ward, R.E., on promotion, by Lieu tenant-General Sir J. Burgoyne. Mr. 11. Edmond Waters, by Lieutenant-General Edmond F. Waters, C.B. Lieutenant-Colonel Waters, on appointment as Com manding Royal Engineers at the Mauritius by the appointed one of s. Sir F. Baring, Bart. o l hl n eo s rn p em e l c a t o j vile r s G et ya e ,rs n i n e A r g d l s F e 0.. Camp, tai on a ft b t i be o yi n n Lieutenant Edward W. White, by the President of the Board of Control. Colonel Hon. E. B. Wilbraham, on promotion, by the Earl of Derby. g v r. C. j. Captain Alfred Wrench, by Rev. Conrad. M. Wemberley, by Herries. by Major-General Sir W. Herries. t li he r. R ß i .T ht ur H st- on 'are N ew ton Abbott A petition from the inhabitants of Major A. F. W. Wyatt, on return fro m New Zealand, and Newton Bushell and, their neighbourho od, a g ains t the continuance of the Maynooth grant , and any further concession to Romanism, was presente d to the Queen by Mr. Henry Cartwright, magistrate for Devon. EQ.u-•--Is'NEso.rf_olke. hand. The Earl of Powis presented an address to her Ms jesty frot?i the Bath Church of England Lay Associa owing noblemen and gentlemen attended the Zhu following any increased grant to Maynooth. L e im v ) e uA e Kß : Lanadowne, Breadalbanee e g. oi Worcester, Westminster', mondelehy,oseslirnr,hamaradeee.les ficeaEl rd A lis n r e e,e s ,i—sibaDdiGoeuwogbl;:o na f , ee M to, Grey, Listowell, verLshat, , Aber m d t ' nt lfa i s n t, Lorins.—Harry Vane, March,. Veseouries.—Gege, Villiers, Le ;:nder Gordon) Lennox, William Graham, Grant: ll"m ham Powlett, Colborne, Camoye, Chain , Canterbury- Truro, Seymour, Lyndhurst, Foley, Broughton, Port men.BlGHT HONOtTRABLES.—CoIoneI Darner, he s e i . HenrY Lytton Bul wer . G.C.8., Fox Maule, Sull a - ! / Sir Charles Wood, Hen r y L a bouchere, M.P., Si r G eo v i‘ ' G r ey, R. Vernon Smith, M.P., Sir Thomas Fremae t l I Bart. HoNounABLEs.-•—Rev. Augustus Phipps, Rev. R e/ nnlcf W. Stickville West, Frederick Calthorpe, Frederi cl e Cadogan, Rev. Henry Legge, Hamilton Duncan, Hen ry Parnell, Algernon Egerton, H. Butler Johnstone, t - en John Butler, E. Littleton, Stuart Knox, M.P., EIC airy Blackwood, S. P. Vereker, R. W. Clive, Charles Ge me. jleatonws---Whomas Dyke Aelaud, William Jc aliffet THURSDAY Edward Bulger Lytton, Henry Dukinfield, John Trol lope,mas M.outganery Cunin g h ame , J o h n B. Johnstone, George Sc union, M.P, R o b er t Price, M.P., Tho- Willoghbv Jones, J ames MailiTson, MX,. W. s Clay, M.P. John Hall, B en j am i n C. Brodie, Ralph Howard, M.P., James Duke, M.P., J. F. Herschel], Lu cius O'Brien, M.P.. Alexand er Campbell, James Clark. SlRS—Herbert Maddock, Charles Fallowes, David Brewster, Archibald Islay Campbell, Robert Walter Carden, George Nicholls, Minto Townsend Far quhar, Charles Barry, John Kirkland, Thomas Hubert, K C.B. DEAN—Carlisle. QUEEN'S COUNSEL—Hogging, Andrews, Kenyon Par ker, John Stuart, M.P., Mathews.. REVEREND DOCTORS —Sy corns, Al exan d e r E. Sketch ley, Spry, Hastings Robinson,Vivian, Wesley. Kynaston. REVERENDS—John Jackson, William S. O. Du San top, Wadham Barbin Richard Burgess, Henry CU , Charles B ar i nT , Henry Blacken ford Radelyffe, Thomas Cator, John Clarke Haden, William, Perceval Baily, Th omas Gregory , t h e Ch a p. lain-General. DccTons 7 —Locock, H o ll and, SERGEANTS — Thompson, Cha nne l]. H. Ashley. Travers Twiss, William The Accountant in Bankrupt er , MESSIEURS —Layard, Wil liam ; Too, Ewart, M.P., Charles Edward Jenkin s , E liott Lockhart, M.P.,W. Lockhart, M.P., Freshfield, M.P., Portal, M.P.. Sander son, William Payne, Verschoyle, William • Paynter, Merivale, ex-Sheriff Nicoll, Hugh Seymour, Baillie, Grenfell, M.P„ H. T. Erskine, Helbert Helbert, W. Cecil Pecbell, W. H. Stone, P. Somerset Butler, IL?., Judd, W. R. Dalton, Munro (of N ovar), Franc i s Caven dish, Moody, M.P., J. E. Blunt, P eter Maze, James N. Merriman, Thomas Field Gibso n , Wi ll i am C aven di s h, Hastings Russell, E. Turat Carv er , C o l ston , Ad o l p h us Samuel B. Cook, Wyndham Goold, :,M.P., Merriman, Tancred, M.P., Chides tHugerFhorßteteture, M.P., Hashes, H. W lip Bennet, M.P., W. Raymond Gingell, Buck, M.P., R. Monckton Milne's, M.P., Her bert Wodehouse, Robert Rintoul, Ch ar l es B ruce , M. Wyvill, M.P., Babbag e, Arthur Rus se ll, Styleman le Strange, Nouaille Budge, F. Mowatt, M.P., Fellowes, M.P., Baring, William Fergusson, Daniel Mildred, Somers, .Charles Mills, John Shaw Lefevre, H. Hussey Vivian, Frederick Dundas , Philip Pleydell Bouverie, Ootavius Morgan, M.P. , Thomas Fellowes Reade, Mau rice O'Connell, 51. P., De Horsey, Hume, Alexander G. Mackenzie, Cartwright, A. Waddington, M.P., William Cubitt, M.P.,llughan, A rchibald Peel, Beauchamp Proc tor, William Strachey , Sut ton Elliott, W. D. Starling, Jones (ot Pantglas), Keit h Edwa rd Abbott. FIELD. MAnSHAL.—DLIke of Wellington. GENERALS. -- Sir Jam es Den niP,_ K.C.8., Taylor Ewart, C. 8., Clitherow , M ac l anes, Sir George Scovell, Edmund F. Waters, GB., Sir Charl es E gerton, Macdo nald, C. 8., Thackeray , McLeod , Cavendish. COLONELS.—P. F. Ne vin ' S p en cer Stanhope, Wood, Peter Hawker, Monino, Sandham, Peel, Dick, M.P., Sir Ord Honyman, Gordon D r ummond, F. Abbott, C. 13., Cowell,Erl oof Cardi gan , Crombie, Hugh Baillie, Stepney KIEL, 4 James Jones , Al ves, Clifford, M.P. Blan shard, C. 8., Lord George Paget , Gawler, Joh n T. Les a lie, C. 8., Ridley, Matson , G. T. Greene, Vicars. MAJORS.—Graham, Bla den Ne ile , De Salle, Arthur, R. D. White. Edward CAP Sutherland, T AI Ns . —She rs°l3'm'Coy, Tomkin son, J. A. E war t, Warre, George Stevenson, Maher, J. W. Wallington, Arthur Taylor, D. E. Wood, Hig ginson, Henry Hitchins, Charles Wright, Sh ea , • rhesiger, Ouvry. LIEUTENANTS.—.T. S. Warden, Hon. Somerset Cal thorpe, Ward, W. Pulteney Scott, Clutterbuck, H. A. Sparke, Edward Howard, W. Drummond Short, E. F. Wingfield, Whitahed li, Hawkins, Frederick C. Keppel, Hon. A. Fraser. ENSIGN —Winniett. ADMIRALS.—Sir W. Beauchamp Proctor, Bart, Hous ton Stewart, C. 8., M.P., Purvis, Sir James A. Gordon, K.C.8., Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8., Sir Thomas Briggs, Sir Hugh Pigot, K.C.8., K.C.H., Price, Sykes, Sharpe, Sir Charles Napier, Hon. W. Gordon, Byng, Sir J. W. Loring, K.C.8., K C.ll-, Sir George A. Westphal, Sir Henry Dart, Lord Radstock, Earl Cadogan. CAPTAINS (ROYAL Navy).—Sir. G. B. Pechell, Mx., W. H. Henderson, C. 8., William Loring, Hon. J. R, Drummond, Chaos, Houstonn , James Scott , C. 8., W. H. Hall, R. Fanshawe Stopford, Samnarez, Collier, Sir Baldwin W. Walker, Lord C. Paget, James Stopford, John M`Donell, M. J. Currie, Townshend, M.P., Ellice, Farquhar, Th omas Gill, Thomas Sparke Thompson. CAPTAINS (TRINITY HOUSE).—W. Pixley, John Tulford Owen. COMMANDERS (ROYAL NAVY).—Tudor, Edward A. Inglefield, H. W. Hill, F. Beauchamp Seymour, Glad stone, Richard Purvis, George Wodehouse. LIEUTENANTS (ROYAL NAVY).—Grut, Charles Bullen. Lord John Russell was prevented from attending the levee by a severe cold. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Royal suite, returned to Buckingham Palace after the levee. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TDB MORNING PAPERS OF Tins DAY. TlMES.—Between Manchester and London there are ld not be more in the but if they wor e A nt i po d es they cou or generally but two de g r ees o f l at it u d e and as many of longitude, contrary. Whatever i s r i g ht hero, rest of the world, is wrong i n that favoured region be tween the Ribble and th e M erse y. There they go by the rale of the road, of which the proverb says : " The rule of the road is a paradox quite, To those who are driving along; If you go to the left, you are sure to be right. If you go to the right, you are wrong." When the country is threatened with invasion _ Manchester recommends an i mmed i ate di s armament, while its maxim ag a i nst the P ro t ec tionists at home, who are wri gg li ng as fast as they de cently can out of their creed, is Si optas pacem, bellum para. A declaration of war against this country from all nations in Europe would not excite h alf the ecstasies in the A rm y an d Navy Club that Lord Derby's simple acceptanc e o f office has at the head-quarters of _ the League. W e on l y h ope that in the actual event o f war our three-d ec k ers w i ll be got ready as qu i c kl y as tens of thousand s are subscribed against the agricul tural inve,siou. Th e arsenals of free trade are a l rea dy teeming with manifestoes, candidates, mot i ons , tracts, an a d all the mterials o f controversy. The plan is to seize the hostile fleet in the harbour at once, and burn it, before it can get room for its manoeuvres in the open son. It is absolut e ly any Frenchman can be so little of a gentleman as to attack us unawares; but from English gentlemen there is nothing too bad to be expected. His only is too policy is to force them, will or nill, into fighting at impossible, says Mr. Cobden, that once; and no challenge insult too gross, no tauut too cutting for this pur pose. Free Trade, which we have all been picturing as the sister of Ruhens' "Peace and Plenty," is suddenly transformed into a gaunt virago, mouthing shrill defi ance, and shaking her fist in the very face of the object of her suspicion. Wen provocative, no ave beea roundly lectured of eul country—asatio ofs if old w i e er w s l a a s te tn fo t r he ad d m ef i e tt n i e n e g n t f he th s is d at war! The 'Pry same Peaceable gentleman, whose good taste is oCended with a supposition so compli mentary to the neighbouring e a r n e d a s lr a e i a lor y s autocrat, is proclaiming irreconcilable war with some of our own statesmen, whose greatest offence, on his own admission, is that they disclaim the attempt to bring back the corn-laws. And of course we come in for our share of these amenities. To the best of our re ccllection Mr. Cobden has scarcely opened his mouth for the last two or three years without sliding somehow or other into abuse of The Times, with some scheme for swamping The Times with a flood of penny ester p a pers cons • - aiming nothing but news from Manch, or with some allusion to the possi bility of The Times ibeing one day pp suressed. The lib e rty of the press i s destroyed at Paris; it may be at London; and should that come to pass, Mr. Cob den intimates that he will neither be surprised nor indig nant, as i t will, in his opinion, be no more than we de serve. One tinng is very clear, that we have far too mach liberty for Mr. Cobde n, mu and that if, after helping to destroy half-a-dozen Governments in succession, he should one morning find e siimself President of the British Republics we may expect an early com munication from him, of course of a friendly character. On the present occasion Mr. Cobden takes not the peaceable, but the hi g h moral line, and den ounces our " immorality" in recommending forbearance an d a fair trial. In order to establish a case so flattering te his own pretensions, and so little to ours, he assumes that the new Ministers came into power by being pledged to Protection, and that they were so pledged up to their acceptance of office, and ELT gees that they are bound, for the sake of public morality, to propose in office what they advocated in Opposition. Now every lawyer knows that if you make out your own case you may have your own m i n ion. Certetinly,were alias Mr. Cobden describes, there might be some grounds for his vituperation. But the case is far otherwise. In justice to Mr. Di inionsr aelihe mwe are h b ound to say th at , what three abstract opay ave admitted in favour of Protection, he has for two or three years s t rong ly urg ed upon agr i cu lturists the wisdoca of d ropping that de mand. His predecessorin office, and Alr. Cobden him self, cannot but remember that wh en they have had to reply to him, it has been on the ciairn to some relief from the burdens alleged to press unequally on the landed interest. He did so at the risk of breaking with his more bigotted friends, and, in fact, did lose ground by doing so. The same may be eaid, in a lees degree, of Lord Derby ; and all must remember that more than a twelvemonth since it was anx i ous ly debated in the agricultural world whether his Lordship had g i ven up Protec tion or n o t ; an d at one time there were so Many examples of the same kind that we described is as a rot amengs . the Protectio nists, or something of that sort. sr —ere, then, is our case. We have been for years urgingedupen the leaders of " the country Party," as theyc a they themselves, to give up all idea of a corn-law, whether . ble, and to wishedaddress it or not, simply because it was impossible, ress themselves to objects of a more practicable character, Some of them, particularly Mr. Dis.raeii, common what we advised, most p r obably because their own sense t o ld th em it While in this • • position, that is to was the only course. protection as an opinion, ' b t having say, while holding sarrendered it for so ummoned to form t i . ' l ' t ri i his friesals are s an A minis r :and simply n 1 default of others. The oe tion, if they can, are summoned has no more to do sion on which they n it has with Poperywith ewaith Protection than There is, then, nothing ?t• t,O Protestantism. _.l. in thaccessione circumstances of their that to power circumstances we r existing o s iti on ll s hould qualify th eir be Protection as 'aw !f leopiniov, have described to nn as two but not as a demand, and as cle ar of pledgee ould Now, in , s il en ce c • make them. Ow, or three years this case, we should like to know where's th e i mmor ality the new Chancellor of the Exchequer of demanding for he stood before he accepted offic e liberty to stand where has been . __ a what ho has been doing these two Ye' —liberty to do liberty to make no snore pledges th an h e was a l re ady to thatwhich h ba d policy e under—liberty to adhere ? long ago urged oa lus potty 115 the only pQntble one EVENING, Are we first to give advice, arid then, _ when a mate has been taking it ter two years, to turn round and abuse him for doing so? Our political duties relate not to the " country patty," though the men themselves have as much claim to consideretion as the men of Manchester, or any other men, but to their policy; and ne that no hey is now very much what it has 1.3...01) for two teet;ra and what w e urge d u po n theta, we don't see why we ere suddenly to es3ume that it is a fraud on the coun try. On the oth er h an d, w h e re is the virtue, th e hi g h morality of trying with all the force of spei eh naking, mul:itudes, and money, to drive these men to resume • demands which they have long ceased to mak e ? We can see a certain policy in pressing hard on an antagonistic party, in irritating it, in piquing it, in goading it, in maddening it, and making it forget all the wisdom which experieece , may have taught. It is the policy which Mr. - Cobden has adopted in thisinetance ; but so far from te being the policy of morality, it seems to us, besides its intense illiberality, simply atrocious. It may; - be - politic I;tit it is false and foul, for it proceeds on a false neeumPticn as to the facts of the case, and appeals to the Most deplor able weaknesses of humanity. What else is it but simple wickedness to pique and taunt a man back into an error from which he has long since been struggling to escape? Mr. Cobden himself betrays the fal s ity of the premises on which he founds these char ges o f immo rality, when he lets oat, in a subsequent passage of his speech, " They are all anxious to get rid of it (Protec- ' tion), no doubt." So this high moral authority manu factures his facts just as it answers his purposes. When he wants to stir the country against the new Ministers, he says they are really practising to bring back Protection; when he wants to make them out contemptible, he calls Protection a tin kettle tied to their toils, which they wish to get rid of. Of course we are not objecting to any decided and vigorous policy if cause can be shown for it. Should it appear that the Government will gain ground by forbearance, and will appeal to the country with a better chance of success in July or August than this or next month, and that it will appeal on the ground of protection, then compel the earliest possible appeal. We have already given it as our opinion that the brightening prospects of agricul ture will every month weaken the case for protection, and we now find the scarcity so great in the States of the Zoilverein that the duties on the importation of corn, flour, and vegetables are suspended by decree till August 31. But this policy, mainly compelling an early appeal, should not be enter tained without some thought of the consequences, and what Government we are to have in the place of the present, and, possibly, also, of the past. Nor should it be overlooked that if the appeal be precipi tated by violence, the war of classes, which has been almost slumbering for these two years, may be revived into dangercataactivity. These consideratione enter into the question of policy, for it is not at all clear that when Mr. Cobden urges an immediate settlement of the controversy, he is not taking the very course to revive and perpetuate it. We object to no policy which can be proved to be such, so as it be honest. But we do object to a policy which proceeds upon falsehood, which plays upon weakness, which panders to malignity, and which, under the disguise of patriotism, seeks only the incidental advantages which strife and confusion may possibly bring to its particular authors. HERALD.—Mr. Disraeli's admirable address to the electors of Buckinghamshire describes in a few words the position of the Queen Ministers in reference to the great social and economic questions, the advocacy of which unquestionabiy gave to them the position which entitled thorn to be called to the councils of their Sove reign. Their first care, says the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, must be to provide for the exigencies of the public service—but, he adds, that they hope, " at no distant day," to establish those principles which they have advocated in opposition. These words indicate a complete appreciation of the position of the Ministry and of their duties. They have not been invited to the councils of the Queen because they aro Protectionists, bat bf cause they exercise such an influence in Parliament and the country as to offer a reasonable prospect of their being able to carry on the Government of the country. They owe, indeed, that influence to the fact, that in the schism of 1846 they continued true to the principles upon which the Conservative party was originally consti tuted, and as the reward of that fidelity they . now pos sess the " following" of the Conservative portion of the community. It is, nevertheless, true that they have not been called to power by their advocacy of Pro tection. In this respect their position is peculiar, perhaps anomalous. Other parties have succeeded in this country to power, because they advocated some principle for which the country and Parliament had declared, and which, therefore, its advocates were called in administration to carry out. This is not the case with the present occupants of the Treasury bench. Parliament had not condemned a single principle held by their predecessors—not a single vote had affirmed any one of the maxims of policy upon which the Pro tectionists are at issue with their opponents. The late Ministry fell, not because they were at issue with Par lioment upon any ono principle upon which the affairs of the country are to be managed, but because, by per sonal incompetence and internal dissensions, they were incapable of governing the country, even with a Parlia ment that approved of their principles. The Country party have been been invited by their Sovereign to her Cabinet, not because the Parliament demanded a policy of which they were the representatives, but be cause, in the broken and distracted state of parties, they alone had the elemenss of power suffi cient to give to a Ministry the means of existence— or even to supply to the Sovereign the materials of an administration. Tho duty of a Cabinet called to direct public affairs under such circumstances, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer has most clearly and forcibly expressed. They are bound, in the first instance, to meet the exigencies of the public service which have induced the Sovereign to appeal to their assistance; after this they are bound to endeavour to impress upon the course of public affairs the principles which they believe essential to the welfare of the country. These duties the Chancellor of the Exchequer promises that the new Ministry will perform. In the performance of the first of them they have a right, let us say, to the cordial and generous support o f ever y loyal subject of the Queen —in the inevitable postponement of the second they have an equally clear right to the forbear ance and indulgence of their friends. They have " re canted" no declaration—they have altered no opinion— they have abandoned no pri nc ipl e; an d M r . Disraeli promises that at no distant day they will obtain the concurrence of the country i n p u t t i ng i n t o prac tical operation the great principles or policy to which they have committed themselves in opposi tion. To the solemn and deliberate d ec i s ion of the country the Queen's Ministers refer the determination of the great question of social policy upon which they are at issue with the Free-traders. We say the deliberate decision, for it must not be forgotten that Ministers are practising no surprise. So far from it, the complaint of their opponents is that they are giving the cou ntry too much time for reflection. Neither do th e y a tt em pt to disguise the issue which will be submitted to the nation. They neither practise deception nor surprise. They distinctly warn the countay of the time and the con sequences of the appeal. They give ample time for preparation for everything that can tend to secure the true expression of the national opinion. There is not a politician in the empire who does not now know that a general election is intended by Ministers at the close of the present session, and that, if the new Parliament ex hibit the decision of the country to be in favour of a proton tive system, Ministers are prepared to shape their policy in obedience to that decision. It is not often that a great political question is thus fairly and calmly submitted to the judgment of the nation. The course proposed is one from which only faction can shrink, and which nothing hat political dishonesty can seek to embarrass or interrupt. Those who desire a premature appeal to the country can only do so because they dread its deliberate judgment, and desire to snap, if possible, a declaration of opinion in opposition to the true sentiments of the nation. If we were to sit down to frame the very method in which the sense of the constituencies of the empire could be fairly taken on the question of free trade—would it be possible to frame a plan better calculated to attain the object than that which Ministers propose? Would we not say, that, in order fairly to collect the opinion of the country, due notice should be given of the intended appeal to that opinion—that ample time should be given to every constituency to deliberate upon the modem which it would express its sentiments. But this is the very mode which Ministers propose to adopt, and while they refer to the constitutional decisions of the people at a . general elec tion the question of Protection , they esk in the mean time for tne support of Par l iam ent in providing for the i n di s p e nsable exigencies of the public service. These, we take it, are the views pat forward, with singular force of expression, in two sentences of Mr. Disraeli's ad - dress. Equally remote from any b a s e abandonment of their own opinions, and any unworthy atte mp t to force those opinions upon a reluctant country—Ministers man fully avow their principles—candidly acknowledge g that in the present Parliament they ought not to be enforced; and fearlessly and in good faith refer to the decision of the country, after an interval amply sufficient to secure a deliberate expression of opinion, the question of the re that ultimate triumph of those principles. Sure w a any attempt to interfere with a course so fair, , rate, and so just, will only bring upon it the contempt and indignation which fa s ea w es e o e h o t i eema this es couutry is always sure to provoke. r.......... , THE EXPORT TRADE.---ACCOrditig tO the monthly accounts relating to trade and navigation (yesterday printed) the declared value of British and Irish produce and manufactures exported from the United Kingdom was, in the month ended the sth February, 4,821,718/. In the cor responding period of the preceding year the amount was 4,817,8701., and in the like period of 1850, 4,069,4311., show ing an increase in the three years to some extent. THE POPULATION AT TUE CAPE. — Yesterday a return to Parliament was printed, from which it appears that the colony of the Cape of Good Hope at the Census of May, 1549, contained, as was considered, an area of 118,256 1/; square miles. The population in whites was 39,840 males ' and 36,1550 females, and the coloured population 90,252 males I and 94,694 females, the estimated population being i n western and eastern divisions of the colony, 265,,..,the 141,609 males an d 143,670 females. It is stated that‘ -tre number of the coloured population, from their wandering and unsettled mode of life, cannot be accurately ascertained, but it is supposed to exceed that given in the r e t urn. DEATH OF THE PROVOST OF GREE,Nocii. P a t er son, who ha s for three y ears fil led the office .07 chiefl r magistra te of Greenoc k, was, after spending Saturday in his usual health attending busily to the duties of his office, expectedly cut off boil) midnight, almost un lie was attacked, sy after retirng to rest, without warning. coughing, which induced him to with a lit of oillcl not clear his throat of arise. He felt as if he obstruction, and a few minutes after, remarking tois a w il wife that he was dying, in stantly expired.— Greenock Advertiser. THE DUTY ON RAILWAYS AND STAGE CAE'. MAGES.—Last yeacratrhrieaincome to the Excise arising from railways and stage a Parliamentary ges was very great. It is stated in Paper was 287,3311. justlls3 printed, that the duty on rail waysPros2l, ' ,as mach as 2 ,y 4 d., and from stage carriages 'f'S. B %tl. was realised. MARCH 4, 1852. SPORTING NOTES. No. =XXI. ANALYSIS OF THE GREAT NORTHAMPTON SHIRE (CNicludoi from No. 180.) TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra,—Lord Derby's; Criel, )rs, Sit 31b, if in form on the day, possesses a mod( rate chance of achievie i .ae a triumph, and only a moderate one; but as he is out of wcrk at the present time, he must be considered a very improbable starter, there being but a abort space to pre pare him for this race: Mr. Palmer's Doubt, 6 yrs, 7et Bfie, is the only representative of Saunders's powerful stable; but notwithstanding the rather light weight al lotted to her, I doubt her having any chance for this race. Clothworker, 6 yrs, 7st 71b, I consider makes the ' last-named perfectly safe; and although they nearly ran him off his legs last year, he seems to be coming out in good term again. Torn Dawsen has three animals in the entries, his OWO, Mark Tapley, 5 yrs, 7st 61b; Mr. Williams's Chief Juslice, 5 yrs, 7st 51b; and Cyclops, 4 yrs, 53t Sib. The last-named reauires no consideration what ever, es his winning is a peefi ct impossibility; as to the other two, it does not seem at all clear which they in tend; and, moreover, their chances being so much on is par, they are sure to be equally successful with either one or the other. Tom is always mystifying the public with his handicap horses; rarely allowing the Simon Pare to be known until he can no longer keep it a se cret. The public and stable money are on both; but which carries the larger amount of the latter I am un able to specify. Each stands a very fair chance of running forward in the race; and it is not at all impossible but that the winner may be fcund in one of them, but of this more aSir non. Tom Tayl or h as a tr i o at work at Bret b y, in Rowland 7'rench ar d, 4 yrs, 7st 61 b ; Herbert, 6 yrs, 7st lib; and Jemima filly, 3 yrs, 4st 9!b. The fitly is a perfectly hopeless speculation. Herbert I should fancy would be the pick of the lot, Sir R ow l an d Trenehard having, at the least, half a stone too much on his back. Lord Waterford's Cockcrow, 4 yrs, 7st 611), is a very un likely starter, as he will, I presume, be reserved for Chester. Jim Rogers has a couple of nominations— Mr. Crawford's Darkie ' 5 yrs, 7st 51b, and Mr. White's Pluck, 3 yrs, sst 21b. Darkie has a few admirers who think him good enough to ,win on this occasion; but, remembering his exhibition at Newmarket last Octo ber, I cannot recommend him as worthy an invest ment. Saunders s light weight, Pluck, appeared in public once last year, when she ran a dead heat with Lady Blanche, at Marlborough, for the 10 Soya. Sweepstakes, and in a deciding heat beat the Lady by half a length. She is well bred, being by Venison out of Dauntless; but the course is dreadfully against her and all other three years old. Combatant,6 yrs, 75t, will never do. Mr. Parkinson's Grand Duke, 4 yrs, 7st, is in my opinion overrated; he was thought good enough to win the Goodwood Stakes last year, but he neither did that nor anything else worth doing; and I doubt his accompiishing anything noticeable at Nor thampton. Count Bathyany's aged Jack•in-the Corner may as well remain there. Stebbing has a couple of nags figuring in the entry, namely, his own Knook Knoll, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b, who I believe is not intended for this bout, and Mr. Morris's Haresfoot, 4 yrs, Est 61b, who will represent their inte rests. Mr. Drew's Ballet Girl, 5 yrs, Est 31b, has been backed by its owner to win him a tidy little stakes; it being his opinion that she possesses as good a chance as any in the race; and really 6st 31b for a five years old, if the animal is at all above the grade of a donkey, ought to oblige her to get somewhere near the mark. Captain Scott's Mayday, 6 yre, 6st, the identical weight and age of Mrs. Taft when she accomplished the feat of winning the Cesarewitch, will not enable her to go and do like wise. Lord Clifden's Harpsichord, 4 yrs, 6st, has such comical legs, that even light weighted as he is, I do not feel inclined to venture the smallest fraction of cash upon his chance; and as his Lordship has a couple of others to represent his interests in this stake, I ' presume he will trust one of them in preference to his musical instrument. The other two are Royalty, 3 yrs, 4st 81b, and Poodle, 3 yrs 4st 51b ; the last - named probably the starter, who, if he ' has any running in him, ought to show it on this occasion. Ingratitude (Mr. Magenis's), 4 yrs, sst 81b, is an almost certain runner, but I doubt her powers being good enough to beat her her competitors. Blood Royal (Mr. Thompson s) 3 yrs, sst 71b, I know nothing about; and Old Rowley, 3 yrs, sst 51b, with the Delia colt, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b; Farmer's Boy, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b; Surprise; 3 yrs, 4st 91b, and Virago filly, 3 yrs, 4st, ferns a light-weighted but hopeless class; Old Rowley, however, much the best. My present im pression is, that CARIBOO, under the guidance of Nat, will be the winner; and that if he is destined to be de feated, it will be by Clothworker, Toni Holtby, or Daw son's ha; se. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. March 4, 1852. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING—WEDNESDAY. The Trial Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added by the Earl of Sefton; three yrs, 6st 41b; four, Bst 41b; five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 41b; mares and geldings allowed 41b. One mile and a quarter. (8 Subs.) Mr. Russell na Sir Charles Napier (E. Harrison) 1 Mr. Buckley's Royal George, 3 yrs, 6st 41b...(We115) 2 Mr. Osborne's Lady Agnes, 3 yrs, Est (Carroll) 0 Mr. W. T. Rothwell's Lenny Whent, 3 yrs (Aldcroft) 0 Mr. Wilkins na Allendale, 3 yrs, fist 41b (Doyle) 0 Betting-2 to 1 agst Sir Charles Napier, sto 2 agst Lady Agnes, and 4 to 1 agst Royal George. Won easy by a length. Run in 2 min. 22 sec. The Scramble Handicap of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added; the second to save his stake. Half a mile. (10 Subs.) Mr. Owen's cby General Pollcck, Est 41b (D. Doyle) 1 Mr. W. T. Rothwell's Emerystone, 7st 61b (Mahon) 2 Mr. Johnson's Lady Jersey, 6 yrs, Bst 10lb (LiveseY) Mr. Jeffery's Forest Deer, 4 yrs, SA sib (W . Sharpe) 0 Mr. Harrison's Toy, 4 yrs, Sat 31b (C. Sharpe) 0 Mr. Osborne's Lady Agnes, 3 yrs, 7st 10lb (Metcalfe) 0 Mr. Hall's rby H. Platoff, 3 yre, Gst 61b ...(Wells) 0 Betting-5 to 2 agst Forest Deer, 6to 1 agst Lady Jersey, and sto 1 agst Lady Agnes. The winner not mentioned. Won cleverly by three parts of a length, Forest Deer a bad third, Lady Agnes fourth. Time 55 secs. The Liverpool Spring Cup of 100 soya. i❑ specie, by Subs. of 15 Boys, each, 10 ft, &c., with 60 added; the second to save his stake. One mile and three quarters. (30 Subs. 13 of whom paid 5 SOV9. each.) Mr. Stewart's Banshee, 3 yrs, sst 111 b... (Wells) 1 Mr. Cotgreave's na Abbess of Jerveaux...(Charlton) 2 Mr. Morris's Hungerford, 4 yrs, Bst slb ...(Barham) 3 Mr. O'Reilly's Kilquade, 4 yrs, 7st 13ib ...( Arnold) 0 Mr. E. Jones's Meltord, aged, 7st 111 b (Thick) 0 Mr. R. E. Oliver's Ischia, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Crouch) 0 Mr. J. Walker's True Girl, 4 yrs (W. Sharpe) 0 Mr. J. Scott's Don Carlos, 3 yrs. Est 31b (E. Harrison) 0 Mr. G. White's Snowdrop, 3 yrs, Est llb ...(Carroll) 0 Betting-7 to 2 agst Hungerford, 3to 1 agst Abbess of Jerveaus (t), 6to 1 each agst Ischia and True Girl, and 12 to 1 agst Banshee. Won in a canter by a length and a half; the same between second and third; Ischia a had fourth. Bun in 3 mins 14 secs. The Grand National Steeplechase Handicap of 20 sous. each, h ft, with 1001 added; the second to save his stake, and the winner to pay 25 sots. towards the expenses. About four miles. (60 Subs., 22 of whom paid 5 sous. each.) Mr. Mason's Miss Mowbray, lOst 41b...(Goodman) I Mr. Cartwright's Maurice Daley, 9st 41b.. (Boyce) 2 Mr. Barnett's Sir Peter Laurie, list 21b (Holman) 3 Lord Waterford's Sir John, aged, 1 Ist 101 b (Ryan) ° Mr. Osborne's Abd-el-Kader, eto.ed, llst 41b (Wynne) 0 Mr. Davenport.nd Peter Simple llst 21b(Davenport) 0 Mr. Atkinson's Chieftain, lost 101 b ......(garrison) 0 Mr. S. Darling na Bourtan, 10st 10 1 b (S. Darling) 0 Mr. P. Barling's Bedford, 6 yrs, lOst lolb...(Ablett) 0 Captain Little's Agis, aged, lost 101 b .....•••• Archer 0 Lord Waterford's Warner, aged, 110 81b (Archer) 0 Mr. Higgins's Maria Day, aged, lOst 61b...(Frisby) 0 Mr. Mangan's Dolly's Brae, 5 yrs, lOst • (Frisby) 0 Mr. Courtenay's Silent Friend, 9st 121b......(Parry) 0 Mr. Goodwin's La G' azz a Ladra, 9st 121b,..(Neale) e l Mr. Choyce's Bedford, 5 yrs, 9st 121b...(A. Taylor) 0 Mr. R. Jones's M'lon, aged, 9st lolb ...... (J ( . Sadler) rasker) 0 0 Mr. Bourke's Carrig, aged , l ost 41b (Debeau ) 0 Mr. Palmer's Victress, aged , 9st 71b (Bradle y) 0 Mr. Murphy's Lamienne , 5 yr s, 9st 71b ( M eehan) o Mr. J. Bird's Cogia , 6 yrs , 9st 61b Mr. Henderson's Maley, 5 yrs, 9st 61b (Co 0 ,.. ) , g-6 to 1 agst La Gazza Ladra, l 9 t t o o 1 1 - asst assto Mr. Elmore's Everton, aged, 9st 61b Mr. Ilarding's Royal Blue, 6 yrs, 9st (Ste e ve - i 7 s j ) " qto 1 2 agst Cogin, A w b ß a d r e - n t e t e l i r fK , l a 2 d e t r n , 1 10 ag 8 tot Missl a,rr st Mowbray,Chieftain, 15 to 1 agst Maurice Daley, and 20 to - 1 agst any other. Lord Waterford declared to win with Warner. Won eas ily by two or three lengths, Sir Peter L aur i e a goo d t hird. of 5 sous. ea c h, an d 30 j a in dd s: e: 63 l ibb;s ; maidens having s 6 yrs and age d , 1 The Option3alyrSsellniladg Stakes , 7st 101 b • ; 4 yrs, 9st 101 b; 5 yrs, lost if rermore, t rt l ed Olb t ; w m in a e r , e 4 s in a s n ; d th g r e ic ld e : 6lbs; and sold for 1301., allowed 121bs. The winner to be sold, demanded, allowed for 1501.; and if entered, to be 121bs; 50/ , 181 b 31bs; if for 1001., 71bs; SOL , (5 Subs.) 9 ; and 301., 281ba, &c. One m ile. Celeste, Mr. Stebbing's br f}, Irish Birdcatcher, out of 3 yr s ( 3 n/YY Mr. W. T. R otil u i t ) ....... Mr. Hall's br a fby (50/ ) . 2 s Emerystone, 3 yrs • ..... Hetraan Platoff, 3 yrs (501.) ......3 Mr. Harriie n s Toy, 4 yrs (301.) ............ .................... 1 The weather was very fine, and the company the most numerous seen at Aintree for many years. The meeting, in fact, Went off with great éclat. COURSING. WATERLOO MEETING.--TIIESDAY. The Waterloo Cap. Mr. Cooke's Cerito bt Mr. Randall's Lopez. Mr. Swan's Soda Ash bt Mr. Gradwell's Sefton. Mr. D a y' s Mocking Bird bt M r. Astbur y 's Bounce. Mr. Gibson's Stanley b t Mr. J. B. Nielson's E xchequer , Mr. Boron na Japhet beat Mr. Wombwell's R a ttl er . Mr. Slater na Housemaid beat Mr. Simson's Security. Mr. Bagge's Tcndresse bt Mr. J. B. Marshall's Grecian. Mr. Gordon's Genevra bt Mr. Scott's Kate. Mr. J. Robinson's Positive bt Mr. W. Bailey's The Throe Blues. Mr. A. Graham na Bella bt Mr. Hope's Hubert Da Burgh. ig r , Dunlop's Wellington bt Mr. Mansfield. Mr. Deakins Dance zm a b t C y Mr. C. Lee's Not:- Condition. Mr. G. J. Henderso 'L - 111 a I g's Nother . Watson's M Henderson 'a suasion bt r. i- iller of staffe. Mr. Sharpe's Mr. J. Blund e ll' s Br "enht bt Mr. Corbett's Cricketer. Moore's Baronet. lda bt Mr. Uughie Graham Mr. Arderis's Mc:chant bt Mr. Virilson's Jamie Forrest. Cerito bt S o d a Ash F i rst Ties. B e lla bt Positive. I Stanley bt Mocking Bird 1 Dancetsw" bt Wellington. I Larrienn bt Hu ghieGraintri. i Brenhilda bt Merchi.nt Ileulemaid Tendresso bt GE?: (Via. '11; I M r . Vwfvf6 5,7,r, IFiiP:'i t N! ter na Ti:.. i. io' ;~ Li to a Tht:.• t bt tin CooKt.'3 Cc Mr. J. Ito:::ineou 13Qnnio n 9, .Geraldine. Mr. Randall's Raven l t Mr. W:. 14 ) ria Sam Wo/kr. Mr. A. Graham nd Fanny ht M. Davy s' Maalvvorm. Mr. Deakint'sPriam b M:. BIRMINGRA , iI DISTRICT COUR7 OF BANKRUPTCY, March 3. (Before Mr. Commiseiorter BALGUY.) THE STOUEBRIDGE AND BROMFGROYE BANKS. The adjourned last examination of Mem:. Rudoids and Wragge vs as reenmed this morning. Mr. Powell, barrieter, of the Oxford Circuit, appeured for the assignees; Mr. T. f 3. .fames for the bankrupts; and Mr. Eigie, of Worcester, for various creditors. It appe a r e d, f rom a s h ort i nqu iry into the state of the Bromegrove B an k t h at w h en it stopped its dents amounted to 227,8.'6/ . 9 s. 2 d ., t o e vict I,s.hioh there were only 13:0004 Daring 11 y ears Rutferd had drawn out of the b an k 56,8.59/. 14;. 10d. The bankrupt (Mr. F. Rufford. me.) was now ex amined with regard to his separate estaete. In 1840 he had drawn out 21,425/., which he hasi epent prin cipally upon property at Belhroughton, w here he /re sided. His household an d other personal expenses were at the rate of abo u t 3 ,430 per annum, a great portion of whieh was spent i n travel li ng. He a h on ld say one-half. Slime the year 1847, then the bank was insolvent, the amounts he had drawn were gr.( aster than previously, but his private expenditure had Icoen less. Formerly he had received remuneration for We va rious offices he held in public companie s , but of late' he had received none, and . that accounted f or hi s h av i ng drawn more money than formerly out of the bank. Ho had paid in one sum 4,2671. for expenses incurred in his election as Member for the city of Worcester. That was the amount of the agent's bills, but his election alto gether had cost him more. His 11(mA:en—I suppose there were other expenses beyond agent's charges?—The bankrupt replied that there were; his personal expenses during the five days the election lasted might be 2001.; but his extra expenses while in Parliament, as Member for Worcester, were not more than 1001. per annum. By Mr. ELGIE—At the time he put up for Worcester his account with Glyn's was very satisfactory, and he was told that his election would cost him only a mode rate amount. If he had known that it would cost him 4,0001. or 1,0001. he should not have offered himself. His Hoivoun—A prudent man would have said, " Gen tlemen of Worcester, what do you call a moderate sum? There aro many opinions in electioneering as to mode rate expenses?" Mr. ELGIE was anxious to know how the 4,267/. had expended at Worcester?—The bankrupt replied that he never examined the bill sent to him. The purity of elec tion gentlemen began to open houses in the city, and he could not himself say how the money was expended. Mr. Rufford, sen., was allowed to pass without any question being put to him. Mr. POWELL said it was not the intention of the as signees to offer any opposition to the bankrupts passing their examination, and they would reserve any observa tion they might feel it their duty to make until the cer tificate meeting. Mr. ELGIE would not resist the bankrupt passing, but he called ugon his Honour to refuse protection to Mr. F. Rufford. A great deal of money had gone, and the creditors wished to know where it had gone to. He (Mr. Elgie) contended that, according to the 255th section of the Bankruptcy Act, inasmuch as the bankrupt, in the management of the Bromsgrove Bank, had kept his books imperfectly, carelessly, and negligently, with the intent to conceal the true state of his affairs, he was not entitled to protection. It was found that for several years no less a sum than 100,000/. had never been posted, until the bankruptcy, and this could have been for no other reason than to conceal the state of his affairs from the parties in the bank. Mr. JAMES, on the other hand, contended that the real meaning of the clause to which Mr. Elgie referred was an intention on the part of a bankrupt to perma nently mislead and prevent the true state of his affairs ever being made known to his creditors. Now here there was no concealment. The creditors were made fully acquainted with the bankrupt's affairs. There might have been some irregularity, but there was no concealment. His HONOUR concurred in the ♦iews expressed by Mr. James, and allowed the bankrupt to pass. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. On Monday last, by permission of the directors of the submarine telegraph between England and France, a se ries of interesting experiments were made by Mr. Reid, telegraph engineer, of University-street, London, for the purpose of testing a pair of double-needle instruments and two new batteries which he had constructed. One of these instruments was placed in the company's offices at Dover, and the other in the French office at Calais, with a battery to each. Two of the submarine wires were then connected with the instruments, and put in circuit with the batteries. The length cf the submarine cable in the Channel is about 24 miles, and about five miles of land telegraph on each side, making in round numbers a circuit of 68 miles. The battery that was to work this distance formed a strong contrast to the present battery now in use, the length being only 4 inches by 11 deep, and the weight 11b. 5 cz., while the old common battery used on the lines is 36 inches long, 7i inches wide, si inches deep, and weighs 64.1 b. Some of the telgraph clerks in the office smiled incredulously when Mr. Reid connected the miniature battery with the instrument, but were surprised to find the signals to and from Dover and Calais quite equal to the signals they were receiving from their former batteries. The next experiment was for the purpose of testing an improvement in the double needle instrument, and will require the utmost stretch of faith on the part of our readers to believe. It was as follows :—The miniature batteries were removed from the instruments cn each ;aide of the Channel, and a piece of zinc, tbroo-fourths of en inch square, and a piece of silver to correspond, were then introduced into the mouth of the operator at the office in Dover, and instruc tions sent to do the same at Calais. The wires, at tached to these pieces of metal were then connected with the instruments, and by this simple moans, and by the simplest of all batteries, the telegraph clerks sent several messages to and fro from England to France. The next experiment was similar to this, only is larger piece of zinc and a larger piece of silver wore in troduced into the mouth of the operator. The result was an improvement of the signals. These experiments were witnessed on the Dover side by Captain Baldock, Mejor Hammond, and by Messrs. Cheshire, Ed en the French side by M. Morley, 8s Vice-. Feiscred-sC:oancnsedu,lE; E v ans;. n.sM; Th or is w ris, as onh irectotre evening of Frenchof teleg tond raph a s; 2,1 March 1. The next day, March 2, the experiments were repeated with the same success. The instruments packed up and sent to London. It was with the miniaturriceehsaotftesrtioecTain.usnmdist,tB:edc.aolilllthoenecoom,cmlocekr: theys ta w : se' r during pe these operations the miniature bat tpctwehirhar:ylevunemgdile,ts wouldand seemedbeconie perfectly exhausted; to on maintainth e i tits reverse, i t character.im From iswemt'y and batteries. They conclude a new revolu tion rpimeesrsweinthts telegrap hs will income more simple, more easy t o understand, and w ill eventually not only b ecome as familiar as household words, but familiar and use f u l as household servants. -:11 thes e inr, r o e g x chief vi E eefr s pn T el E oa r t eSploso'fEl itcheSesicshuoiuGprOtK,7)nN yesterday, '--- et I ir which n l Alexander m E N D t h A a a l e ktt portte h a r e , on Monday from Amsterdam, was charged with smuggling 121 b. of cigars; and Moses Metcalfe, steward of the ship Cor nucopia, was charged with smaggling 6lb. of foreign manu factured tobacco, live bottles of - brandy, two bottles of 1101- lands gin, one bottle of rum, a keg containing three gallons of wine, and three bottles of wine. A number of other charges of a trifling kind were at the same time brought against other seamen, but the two former were remanded for further examination, and in the other cases small penalties were imposed. THE IMPORTERS Or COTTON.—Last year the im porters of cotton lost large sums of money; this year they are clearing from a halfpenny to three farthings a pound, or from 20s. to 30s. par bale. When you multiply these gains by a million, or a million and a half, they become something consilerable. This great interest never was i n a more satis factory state than it is at prese nt. SMALL-PDX AND VACCINATION HOSPITAL, UPPER a l t li t e b l e a teM disposalr s . of Henryher executors, having tor s e sum of 11"L°1 money vAY.— more than ever useful institution. Esq , and Henry Dintoo, Esq., they have generously given the sum of 470/. to this harplelasceOdglesr disease This act of benevo lence comes ve ry opportune, as the claims for adm i ss i o n of patients efflieted with the dreadful . of smallpox, and particularly th e e creased the admissions to 652. rr —This ~ MAJORITY OF THE MARQUIS OF BAT-• when the young nobleman came of age on Monday last, feat, the epidemic of last year, me event was celebrated with great rejoicing a at c Long s_3 enied by family seat in Wiltshire. The Marquis, nde P d Divine the members of his family and friends, given at sham. In the evening a magnificent 160 guests. Among the banquet were laid for service in the morning at the parish church of Horning the baronial hall of the mansion, who w the auspicious ttehneaol gw° been Marquis with their presence to commemorate_, . Lord Jahn Viscount Enn) n , advent were Lord Ashburton, Lord Edward Thyme, parties where e h c onoured the young Thyune, Lord William The - ans.,. .. is A. A'Court Holmes, Lord Charles Thynne, q. trlitiancis Thynne, Mr. Arthur - Viscount Dungarvon, 11 -,* une, Mr. Humphrey Mildmay, Thynne, Mr. William ToY and erentry of the neighbourhood, and the leading clergy '7, se e surrounding estates. The ere regaled in their respective the principal tenantrY Marquis's expense. It should be furnished with a liberal sup ply were cot forgotten, nearly 4,000 mentioned that thehalping r lo es c t ali o t l ies th a e t men and sr°s'en f a re anal strong ale to substantial . make merry on ply of subs the occasion. Cspte• IVarburtor, R.M., hag been c h ange d fr o m Fork llill t n _ , havingbeen permanently appointed to the latte r district. ~ 0 l'aearry iseeecrime OF LORD 11FCTOIt CF MARISCHAL COL• LEW , ' ANLF.DESS.—This Electiun took place on Monday. ;Dere had been a meeting of the students on Saturday, when Lord Glenelg was nominated along with the Earl of Eg segton, the late rector. The former Noble Lord was brought forward as (in the language of his supporters) " the frien d of our Church, our colonie s , an d our literature;" but the re sult proved that tic Earl of Eglington continued to possess the confidence at a large majority of the students. Th e Noble Lord had a majority of 4 to I in the Angus Na_t_i m o t n c ; n 3 ; to 1 in the Mar Nation • 26 to 11 in the Buchan 3S r _ s _i: , i, and 21 to 13 votes in the Moray Nation. His Lo d hip t l , official engagement will prevent ail addressing the studen personally.—.Edihburgh Advertiser. The town-clerk of Foikstone has received an inti mation from th e L or d s o f th e TreasurY that the port is to be late so raised to the fo ur th c l ass . The imports . have of now being con siderably increased, that the Custom-house is made one-third l arg er, to afford ACCOmandatiou,Soutk- Zstern c =cue. ;"' f ~, ~ t, /?q _ "Icr. e tsio ol—o. • r ist. b: Sir J. Boswell itadlids), . -40' ... -.... 0 Puree ,p"