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Afp 4 rrovit `, - 0 1 11 1,1 h 6l eP °r. di g r b e vbea .0 "" jeP - , ifford ri fe° Altora -1 fa r. i'Cle Off ire ° p g ai fot 0, a l e d d au. s ie ffrog` a oit l one 4 c ol V wa rt', i'ori b re ( % d a 3 11 , 3„0- 1 ,bury' .51u- - ; Ai yea, INI3I 3 1.k°' iVT 3119' IVO t2C6 Ca l )? a ° of. d i ° air:ve , 0 - f rt tO Looter -0 I • OVERLAND MAIL. We have received the following message by Fh etric telegrqb, di-patched yesterday morning, the 25th, from Trieste : " The steamer Egitto has just arrived. " A brigade, under Brigadier Reynolds, consisting of her Mejesty's 1811 Royal Irish, her INll)j , !sty's 80th Regiment, and the 35th Native Infantry, with a proportio2ate force of artillery, hit Rangoon on the 18th of September in steamers for Prom?, accompanied by General Godwin. " The steamers were to return immediately for the second brigade. " The Burmese troops bad destroyed Prom , , and had posted themselves in masses on a height ten miles off tha town. " They were said to be only 7,000 strong, with a few guns." FRANCE. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. Cabinet Councils are daily held at St. Cloud. Toe Moniteur says :—" Some journals have spoken of a journey which they said the Prince President was on the point of making in the north of France. We are authorized to declare that the statement is en tirely unfounded." Among the numerous addresses presented to the Prince President in favour of the re-establishment of the Empire, published in the illoniteur of this day, is the following, from the Chamber of Commerce of Paris:— " Monseigneur—You have saifl, L'Empire, c'ev. paix ;' that is to say, order, labour, credit, and an im pulse given to all great public and private undertakings; it is public welfare finding its way into all classes of so ciety ; it is gene r al p ros p er ity ! " France, which has faith in your words, which relies on all that you meditate for her happiness, and which knows, by experience, that between your will and its realization there is scarcely time for hope—France, by her immense and unanimous acclamation, decrees to you the supreme power. " Yield to her wishes, Monseigneur ; it will constitute another claim which you will acquire to her gratitude. "The Commerce of Faris, of which we are the organ, offers to you beforehand its sincere thanks. In order to live and prosper it has need of peace, and it expects it front you with the most complete security ; it compre hends that it will be the more solid and more durable, as under your reign it will never be purchased at the price of the honour and grandeur of our country." Preparations are being made at the Luxembourg for the extraordinary session which will commence on the 4th November. The bureaux are busily em ployed ih examining the petitions which every day arrive from the departments in favour of the Empire. Several clerks belonging to the different ministrits are, says the Constitutionnel, now employed at the National Library in collecting all the details which have been published relative to the coronation of dif lerent Kings, and of the Emperor Napoleon. The Presse, in its weekly commercial bulletin, Says : " The comm'rcial accounts of this week are not less satisfactory than were those of the preceding one. The activity in industrial affairs, and the well-maintained improvement in the public funds, have tended to excite the most sanguine hopes among our mercantile and manufacturing interests for the winter season. Extra ordinary activity prevails in the manufactories of Pari,, where f,tri are even entertain,d that they will not be able to supply sit the articles wanted for winter sale. Good workmen have become so scarce that en increase of wat:rs has been given in almost all the manufactories." The mavor of Lisieux having submitted to the inhabitants * of that town a petition for the Emperor, the text of which he announces to have been sent to him by the prefect of the department, the Presse Says:— "Boone persons will, perhaps, be tempted to regard this intervention of the administrative authority as a singularity, whilst others will blame the mayor for having revealed this detail. We consider, on the con trary, that the prefect and the mayor have acted equally well, as they have conformed their conduct to prevailing principles. Frank and avowed interference in the freo manifestations of the country is one of the principles which belong to the present Government, and which distinguishes it from preceding ones. This principle was set forth for the first time, and with great clearness, by M. de Moray, then Minister of the Interior, in the case of the el ec ti ons f or th e Legislative body. The Mayor of Lisieux has, therefore, nothing to dissemble, because the prefect of the Calvados has dune nothing isolated." An official reception took place on Saturday even ing at St. Cloud, at which were present General St. Arnaud, MM. Fould, Abuttcci, and Bineau, and a great Lumber of senators, deputies, and councillors of state. The Prince President, whose health appears to have been improved by his journey, conversed With a number of the persons present. On Sunday, Mr. Honey, the secretary of' the Great Industrial Exhibition to be held at Dublin, had the honour to be received by the Prince President at St. Cloud. The Prince at once entered on the sub ject, with which he appeared to be perfectly familiar, regretting that he had not been able to meet Mr. Keogh with Mr. Honey on the occasion of their visit, which happened just as he was on the eve of setting out on his tour to the south. Without hesitation the Prince acceded to Mr. Honey's request to send over some choice specimens of the famous Sevres porcelain, with other objects of rare excellence in the French departments of manufactures from the national esta blishments of Beauvais, Gobelins, &c., under the care of his Highness's own agents, and at his own cost. The conversation, which was of some length, turned altogether on matters practically connected with the coming Exhibition, for the success of which the Prince cordially manifested his best wishes. The Siecle has the following on the French in tervention in Italy : " Far from us be the idea of reviving, in any way, the Polemic to which the expedition to Rmne gave rise. We must be allowed, however, to call to mind that the Go vernment of the President of the Republic declare I in .1849 that it sent an army into Central Italy, in order to prevent that part of the Peninsula from falling under the exclusive inflaence of Austria. A personal act of the Chief of the Government of that time—the letter to Colonel Edgard Ney—afterwards proved the decided intention of causing to predominate in the Roman States principles which are not, so far as we know, those of Austria. Events mey have caused the Presidential Policy to deviate from the object to which it was directed ; but, until we have proof to the contrary. We have a right to think that there has not been accompliehed at Rome what it was wished to ac complish there in the name of France. The Aus trians and the Ilan:montane party do not deceive themselves on this point, and while) affecting to feel Rratitude for the re -•establishment of the temporal power of the Pope, and unlimited confidence in the French Government, they take the most active measures to ex clude French influence. Parma and the Duchy of Mo dena no longer enjey any real independence; it will soon be the same with Tuscany and Lucca, which have ordt formed one State since the death of Maria Louise. So far as regards Tuscany, the thing is clear from one of the clauses of the commercial league concluded with Aurtria, and which will be carried into activity at the first favourable opportunity. The Port of Leghorn, which is re ba enlarged an d fortified, will b ee me t h e : commercial a , ,d military port of the Customs' League, .sand garrison nd Austria will keep u p a permanent there. This is not all: the Au s t r i ans wi l l be charged to the coast from the Piednaontese to the Roman guard hf frontier. the Is this clear? It is, howev er , on t h e ascendancy clergy that reaction relies the most ; every endeavour is Concordat with th e refore made to abolish indir ec tly, at least,in she Leopoldiee laws by means of a new 'Rome. However reactionary they may be, th e pre. sent Tuscany ministare, being accused of Jusephism by their opponents, must before long give place to others. The Archdukes of Austria, of a hundred years ago, a re now found to be revolutionists, and we do not complain of it, since it is always against their own exaggeration that reactions are wrecked. In order to again give th e ascendency to religion, we think there is but one means, and that is to strengthen morality by the example of disin terestedness, simplicity, and indifference to the things of this world. Others are of opinion, that the more the clergy become rich and able to unite their action to that of the civil authorities, the more religion will gain em- Piro over the minds of the people'. Experience has alre ady spoken on this point; but since it is again inter rogated, it w ill aga i n pronounce i ts o pi n i o n. The plan of the reactionista will not, as we have before said, he complete unless it embraces Piedmont. To obtain by I,l.d.iaprircirae nati , c pressure the withd rawa l ef the law en civil the modifieation of tho Siccardi law on tha foeo ecc/csiastico, to bring back to their sees 3,111 triumph the Archbi s h o p s o f T ur i n and of u , p,diari, and then in the midst of the impression Produced by this ensemble of measures to make an ap• Peal to the dieconcerted electors who will name the can delatea of the sacristies; such is the end to whi c h reaction cr2aavrees both at hums, and ithrotd. We h a ve already ex pressed the fullest cenfidence, that the Sardinian P e oPle will know h ow to ' resist intimidation a s w e ll as intriCue. The efforts, however, of th e u lt ramon t ane Party, supported as they tare by a power capable of risking everythin g in orate to satisfy its ambition, or its Z ani t i 3 t '- w m ot u a s t t i n h tit e bri disregarded. The game is not lost ; not for us to dangerous to dissemble the fact that the ki luenee of Prim gizeinaLiely has received a check. It is Ive to e to the Government ; all that ri i hove telly one poweErhtgvii4hti - , •toer on Prussia, hon Russia, or on Naples. There ie whom we might proceed in accord, satisfsetioo that our il . ' and that is iplo W in o ei hkea by the British t 7 her is eto s r l o pp le o u r gr t n ing with serious the sV pa direct relaii,, litilwer has not su : t".ert "'nr, in order to enter ants " "' i t'll the Pontitieil Court. Sir 11. r emaining at Rome is -"thd in his fl'st attemP' abandon the 14 6 i 1. 0 ri a. withpr f vr t i h t a i c t h h h e ed o has es beennot a b e s h b o a l i r u t , t y i h : l d i y s. , elvi.shulr;:ilibeinalEtraitettlantd, however 's'nogaalllptihaacet To contribute . • to give a 1" gal o. aegis policy, , there is rea,o t o the be, place might is fist such a pledge of v ii i ,b e u ,, l : l si e t r: , [2.r t, l : ll " 7 ' i d , hie t h h attol it has htitrtthoe done Ere etcrterovoee'ruAtupj expressed in as ritp,es the reiall t 7; ell c 'B u g4 r 9 i t i o' i eNsawrdesreL the a dc at the ' Bourse yes tetchy, with little business doing. The Four-and-a 1-TAy per C ry, (3. 107', aryl a t. 10(3 . 95c for the ebd or the month; the Three per Ceo , s. closed at 82f 10.1 ; Orleans ltlilway shares, 1 5901; Rouen, 9771 503; Havre, 455 f; Great Northern, 798 f 75c ; Avignon, 590'; Bible, 365 f; Paris and Strasburg, 792€ 503; Paris and Lyons, 985; Lyof:s and Avignon, 755 f; Western cf France, 7401; . St. Dizier to Gray, 600 f; Go-n to Cherbourg, 6251; Dijon to Besancm, 612150 c; I3ordeaux and Cette, 640 f; Turkish Loan, 1,06 W 1,057 f 503. B'JSINESS DONE IN` FOREIUN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Oar. 25. _ _ _ Central of Francs (Orleans and Vierzon), 30%--Charleroi and Erquelines, 15A—Dijon and Basancon, 8 3 4—Grand Junction of France, Luxembourg, 7A—ditto (Railway e t —Paris and Lyons, 292--Paris and Orleans, 63—Paris and Rouen, 39 LA—Paris and Strasbourg, 31 —Paris, Caea, and Cherbourg, 878—Rouen and Havre, 17 5 / a —Sambre and Meuse, 9 5 / B —West Flanders, 4:y 4 —Western of France, 18A. THE CONTINENT. SPAIN. Madrid advices are dated the 20th. The Clamor Publico states that the Government intends to defer the construction of the Northern Railway until the lines from Madrid to Valencia, from Barcelona to Madrid, and from Alar to Santan der, shall have been completed, from a fear that a monetary crisis might be produced by the withdrawal of the capital necessary for the construction of so many lines at the same time. M. Sanchez Mendoza, who has obtained the concession for a line from Cadiz to Xerez, had returned from London, where he had been to give orders for the materiel necessary for the construction of the line. A Madrid letter of the 20th says :—" General Au pick, the French Ambassador, since his return from Bordeaux, has loudly expressed the interest felt by the Prince President towards Spain, and his warm desire to strengthen as much as possible the bonds of friend ship and good intelligence which now exist between the two nations and their governments." Madrid Bourse, Oct. 20.—The Three per Cents., 47i ; Exchange on London, 50 30 paper. i \ _ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1852. SPdRTING NOTES. No. C; C XX YESTERDAY'S RACING AT NEWMARKET, &c, In one of the most uncomfortable days that can be well imagined, as good a lint cf spurt was decided as could be wished for. The match between Diomedia and Warbler, marked for the first race of the day, having been declared off by consent, the sport commenced with the Criterion Stakes, which resulted iu a very unexpected rr alner in favour Mr. Payee's Speed-the Plough, who was not backed, that I have heard, either in town er at Newmarket. lie has only run once before, when, hacked by his owner at small odds, he deceived him, finishing however a good fifth to Orestes fur the Woodcote, at Epsom. He is un commonly well bred for heavy ground, being by Cattier stone, out of the Farmer's Daughter ; and to the state of the course yesterday, I think, may be attributed in some measure his victory. Along with North Pole, West Australian, Filbert, and Sittingbourne, he ran bead to head to the stand, where he took a lead of half a length, and kept it. A close race for second place between West Australian and Filbert, terminated in favour of the former by a long neck. North Pole was fourth, close up, and the crack Siteingbourno, backed against the field of six at evens, dead beat by his six pounds penalty and the dirt, was a good fifth. Amazon and lonic were beaten early. The Handicap Plato of 501. over the Cambridgeshire course—a sort of trial stake to the great race of to-day —was carried off very cleverly on the post by one of Babette's trial horses, Gladiole. Carbuncle cut out the work to the Duke's stand, where all cried, Enough! with the exception of the winner, Trousseau, Carbuncle, Knight of the Garter, and Henrietta. Trousseau took up the lead, and carried it on, until within a stride or two of the chair, where Gladiole got her head in front and kept it there. It was a close race for the last hundred yards. Carbuncle finished a good third, Knight of the Garter fourth, and Henrietta fifth. The rest, in eluding Hungerford, the Confessor, and Cotton Lady, were scattered far and wide. This victory of Babette's Schoolmistress, looking through the trial telescope at the Cambridgeahiro, caused the immediate fall of Ba bette from sixes to fours, and Lady Evelyn from twenty fives to sixteens. It was said, by persons connected with the stable, that the heavy state of the ground was rather in favour of Babette than against her. Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy filly, bad as she is, was quite good enough to beat the Duke of Bedford's Pen sioner, on whom they laid sto 4. lam glad to see Lord Glasgow's luck, or judgment, or whatever it may be termed, has taken the right road at last. He has been, on the whole, the most unsuccessful racing man of the present generation, though a staunch and truly honourable supporter of, and an ornament to, the Turf. Vivandiere made all the running, and won the 10 sous. Sweepstakes over the D.M. by a short length; and afterwards changed hands for 60 soya. Only a head divided the second and third—Florence and Trinket. The 10 soya. Sweepstakes over the first half of the Ab. M. produced a very one-sided race, Golddust having it all her own way from end to end, and winning, with half a stone in band at least, by a length and a half. Lady Vernon beat Convict nearly three lengths for second place. Kernel was a wretched fourth, and the Treacherous filly last. A splendid race for the last half of the distance next came off in a match between Walnut and Gossip; Nor man on the former, despite all Butler's best efforts, get ting the Judge's fiat in his favour by a head. They laid odds on Gossip; and for the third time in one day, was the match-making Captain's judgment at fault. The speed of Poodle was well served in his match against Ilex ; the 71b in favour of Ilex, however, brought the former to a length at the finish. The renowned Lapidist of other days, over his favour- ite distance, was literally beaten off, find finished a bad fourth, and last to Conmore for the 10 sous. Stakes over the Criterion course; such things as Guy Mannering and Phlegra Hinz the places between him and the winner. Sic transit gloria mundi The stakes for to-morrow are all of tho skeleton description, and, consequently, will not close and name till this evening. Two out of the three matches set down for tomorrow, will not produces races, as Diomedia receives four sovs. forfeit from the Alkali colt, and Flutter receives forfeit from the Pisysalis filly. Constantino and Alsmode are scratched for the Glas gow Stakes; Peach for the 50 sovs. Stakes on Thursday; and the LauQrcost colt, Berengaria. St. Benedict, and the leaflet) colt, for the 300 sovs. Stakes on Friday. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Oct. 26. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. MONDAY. Criterion Stakes of 30 soya, each, 20 ft, for two-year olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bat 51b ; winners extra. From the turn of the Lands in. Mr. Payne's Speed the Plough, Bst 71b (Flatman) 1 Mr. Bowes's West Australian, Bst 7lb (F. Bct er) 2 Lord Exeter's Filbert, Bst 71b (Norman) 3 Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne, Bst 131 b (including 61b extra) (Rogers) 0 Mr. Fox's lonic, Bst 71b (Bartholomew) 0 Mr. Pownay's Amaz )n, Bst 51b. (A. Day) 0 Mr. J. M. Stanley's North Pole, Bst 7113...(J. Marson) 0 Betting—Even on Sittingbourne, 2 to 1 twat West Australian, and 4to 1 agst Filbert. Speed the Plough, Filbert, West Australian, North Pole, and Sittingbourne got away in a line, and ran in company, at a bad pace, to the stand, where Speed the Plough obtained a slight lead; this he maintained to the end, winning by half a length, West Australian beating Filbert as far; North Pole and Sittingbourne close up. Run in 1 min. 29 sec. Handicap Plate of 5 sovs, for three-year-olds and up wards. Cambridgeshire course. Lord Chesterfield's Gladiole, 5 yrs, 7st 91b (Flatman) 1 Mr. Pedley's Trousseau, 3 yrs, bit 81b...(F. Allison) 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley's The Confessor, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (J. Marson) 0 Mr. R. Read's Sir Robert 5 yrs, Bst 41b ( l'empleman) 0 Mr. Morris'a Hungerford, 4 yrs, Bst (Bashaw) 0 Mr. R. Walker's Treasurer, 3 yrs, 7st (Perry) 0 Lord Glasgow's Knight of the Garter, 4 yrs, Est 101 b (T. Smith) 0 (C.ra Count Batthyany's Hambletonian, 3 yrs, B 6st dley 61b) 0 Mr. St. Aubyn's Jessie, 6 yrs, Est (Hammond) 0 Mr. Thomas's Carbuncle, 6 yrs, 65t...(T. Sherwood) 0 Mr. Paillips's Henrietta, 3 yrs, 6st (J. Veale) 0 Mr. Boyce's Urbanity, 3yrs, Set 101b...(5. Steggles) 0 Mr. Wright's Spark, 3 yrs, sst 101b...(J. Goodman) 0 Mr. Payne's Cotton Lady, 3 yrs, 53t 71b (Rickards) 0 Betting-5 to 2 agst Knight of the Garter, 4to 1 agst Sir Robert, 4 to 1 aget Cotton Lady, and 5 to 1 spit Ham oletonian. After a delay of a f ew m inutes, caused by Carbu ncl e breaking away, a good start was effected , Carbuncle taking the l ea d, f o l lowe d b y C o tton Lady, Trousseau, Knight of th e G arter , Gl a di o l a and Sir Robert, and making the ru nu i ag t o t h e D u ke's Stand, where Sir Robert and Cotton Lady were beaten. Trousseau now went in front, attended by Gladiola who challenged in side the cords, and defeated her by a neck ; Carbuncle, Henrietta, and Knight of the Garter well up. Run in 2 min. 9 sec. _ _ Match-100, hft 83t 71b each. D. H. Lord Glasgow's f by Don John, out of Conspiracy (Flatm.tn) 1 Duke of Bedford's Pensioner ..............(F. Butler) 2 Betting-5 to 4ou Pensioner. Won by a length. Not timed. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; three-year-olds, 7st 61b; four, Bst 41b; five, Sst 81b; six and aged, Sst 101 b. The winner to be sold for 60 sous., if demanded, &c. D. M. Mr. Jaqueb's Vivandiere. 4 yrs ......... (Bartholomew) 1 Mr. Medley's Flurenco, 3 yrs .......... Otborne) 2 Mr. Barnes's Trinket, 4 yrs ............... (Flatman) 3 Mr. R. Walker's dEilas, 4 yrs ............ (Dockeray) 4 Mr. Sams Euphony, 3 yrs (Charlton) 5 Betting-5 to 4 agst Vivandiere, and 3to 1 apt tEulus. Vivandiere made all the running, and won cleverly, by three parts of a length, and was claimed. Run in 1 min. 51 sec. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for two•year•olds ; colts, Sit 710 ; fillies, Set blb. The winner to be sold for 250 sovs., if demanded, Ste First half of Ab. M. Mr. JAcques's Gold Dust (Flatman) 1 Mr. W. S.abbing'o Lady Vernon (Basham) 2 Mr. Arbor's Convict (Rogers) 3 Lord Exeter's Kernel (Norman) 4 Mr. Mare's f by Lauercost out of Treacherous (T. Smitb) 5 Betting-5 to 4 agst Gold Dust, and sto 2 agst Con vict. Won very easily by a length; Convict LS bad third. Nut timed. Match-100, h it. T.Y.C. Lard Exeter's Walnut, 7st 121 b (Norman) 1 Duke of Bedford's Gossip, Bst 81b ...(F. Butler) 2 Betting-5 to 4on Gossip. Won by a heal. Run in 1 rain. 24 sec. ...-• Match-200, h ft. Cesarewitch course. Lord Clifden's Poodle, Bst 71b (F. Butler) 1 Lord Exeter's Ilex, Bst (Norman) 2 Betting-5 to 4on Poodle. Won by a length. N ot timed. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each for three-year-olds 7st 71b; four, Bst 31b; five and upwards, Bst Btb. Winner to be sold for 3501., &e. Criterion course. 4 subs. Mr. Dobson's Conmore, 3 yrs (J. Osborne) 1 Captain Lane's Guy Maunering, 4 y rs (Bartholomew) 2 Lord Exeter's Phlegra, 4 yrs (Norman) 3 Mr. Sam's Lapidist, 3 yrs (Charlton) 4 Betting-5 to 4 agst Lapidist, 7to 4 egst Conmore. Conmore made all the running, and won by two lengths • a head between second and third ; Lapidist beaten Off. _ _ _ Match-100, h ft ; Bst 71b each ; T.Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's Diotnedia received forfeit from Lord Ribbles dale's Bounty. Th.) sport, as cur returns will slier, was ample, although the Criterion excepted, not remarkable, either tur interest or severity of competition. The weather was miserably cold, wet, and misty, and the ground muddy and deep; the attendance, nevertheless, was large, embracing moat of the " inflaentials" of the Turf. From the unprecedented n um b er of horses in the town, a bril liant week's racing is confidently anticipated. BEPTING UP TO SIX O'CLOCK. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 9 to 2 agst Babette taken. 7 to 1 apt Azael 8 to 1 agst Weathergsge 9 to 1 agst Robbie Noble 12 to 1 agst Knight of the Shire 12 to 1 agst Vermuth 16 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn 100 to 6 agst Convulsion 20 to 1 apt Alfred the Groat TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,._ 1;)e quo s of the Ltr great Captain, affords an opportunity of considering the gone. rut question of intramural interment, and of au appro priate receptacle for commemorative monuments of our departed worthies. Will you then, give me leave to suggest, briefly, in reference to the first, that all the evils arising from the present practice of burying in cur cities might be avoided, and all the proposed advantages of far-off cemetries might be secured, by means of a py• ramid, for the reception of our dead. Stich a plan of interment was proposed some time since, and a company was projected fur carry irg it into effect ; but nothing in this way is yet accomplished. Architecture and che mistry might secure a resting place for the remains of our deceased, without shockaig the feelings or endanger ing the health of the living. In other words, a proper ar rangement of cells, and the employment of pout-charcoal, or °thar substances, which would prevent the generation and escape of mephitic gases, would enable us to bury our dead amidst the living, and thereby avoid the cost and trouble of interment in distant places. In reference to the second question,—that of a suitable place for the monu ments of our warriors, statesmen, patriots, and poets, and other "great (?)" men,—might not the proposed pyramid be surrounded, at the base, with a gallery, or valhalla, for statues, tablets, and other monuments. Such a British Aristodeusion would be fitter than our cathe drals, abbeys, and churches, for the display of comme morative works of art. Subscriptions are raised for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of the late Duke—the Man of Duty. What, if the money gathered for this purpose were applied, as a nucleus, to the construction of a py ramid, and a Hall of British Worthies? Such a Wel lington Testimonial would be worthy of the deceased, and would confer a benefit on the inhabitants of London. The city of London has shown an eagerness to do all honour to the memory (or remains) of the illustrious soldier, by heading the funeral pageant from the gate of Temple Bar to St. Paul's Cathedral. Let the corpora tion go a little beyond mere pomp and display, and, by giving up the area of Sniithfleld for the proposed pyra mid, confer on itself, on the city of London, and on the public, a benefit which will be the best monument to the memory of the Duke. I am, Mr. Editor, your very obedient servant, EXOPTANS. Lambeth, Oct. 25, 1852. THE COTTON TRADE. active, re sultin g aggregater stock,e We have received through favour of Mr. James Irvine, Liverpool, the following report : "NEW OULEANS, tad October, 1852.—Since the date a aa r lt e k u s e r changed ha rather hay nage at edl presented ahsa quiet, tnweek's on, eyaken, buyers dile quota tions. being oia prices t e ea w ; i t o li, f ot j noesou. features.rol last baless m t Twroheneevrdieswe Monday, 41 week openedh Bo e ono m sb reluctant to pay the full prices asked by holders, and only were still maintained, 18ththa ts edpatye September obe:ct notwithstanding f,roooulo a a d m v o ic u e n s ti o n t g were only 2,750 bales. On Wednesday, the Canada's L b i a v i e e r s p . o o l came Tuesday's hand, sai es and their tenor disappointing the general expectation, became h th e e av d y em an a d nd 4,250 bales. The supplies in the meantime continuing accumulating less factors, lti ng i li f oosnra 1 the Thursday, eofw only eeweek showed themselves more disposed to meet the views of buyers, and 7,000 bales were taken at easier rates; yes sales, as far as reported, are yes terday, d2a3y.6, 23.600 bales. bales, T o- making day, 6,000 bales, and the market closes animated and steady at our quotations below. " We find much irregularity in prices, various sales being reported below, and others again above our quota tions; this is, however, a natural co nsequence of the legs s trict classification which is now being used by many parties, and though we have reduced our quotat i ons slightly, we would state that for a classification, such as used four weeks ago, our outside figures would be too low. Tdo demand is chiefly for the North and Great Britain; little has been done for France and Spain; for Trieste, a vessel, of about 2,200 bales was taken by one party. The supplies are heavy, showing already an ex cess o f 25,104 hales over the same period l a st y ear , but, as stated previously, the high state of the riv e r s w ill con tinue to keep our market abundantly supplied, as the hi g h prices prevailing are an inducement far planters to h u rry their crops to market. " With regard to quality, we find the finer descrip tions becoming extremely scarce, and very full prices are demanded and paid for the same; a good deal of low cotton is coming forward now, but such grades being also much inquired for, prices for the same aro high; good middling to middling fair are comparatively the cheapest qualities. " The advices from the country state, that they had rains all along the river during this and the last week, and the weather is much complained of ss promoting the destruction by rust, worm and shedding, and preventing planters from picki ng . F ro m the Atlantic States, the accounts are contradi c t or y, so me representing the c rops from various causes. in a fine condition, oth ers aga in as suffering mater ially " We quote to-day: ordinary to good ordinary, iii to 9; low middling, 9/; middling, 94; good middling, 9i to 101; fair to good fair, 11k to 11i. "Export since Ist September, 31,259 bales." ROMAN CATHOLIC "EDUCATIONAL" MOVEMENT. — A public meeting was held last evening at St. Bridget's Ro man Catholic Chapel, Baldwin'e-gardens, Gray's-inn-lane, for the purpose of raising funds in support of education amongst the children of the poor, in accordance with the principles of Catholicism. The chair wss taken by R. Swift, Esq., M.P. There was a large number of Roman Catholic priests on the platform, many of whom strenuously advocated the necessity of educating the children of the working classes, so as to counteract, as and apostatising much as possible, "the blasphemous influence of Protestantism !" As may be expected from the locality, the meeting was densely crowded, and the speeches were mostly of an exciting character, 'and vociferously applauded. The meeting did not separate till a late hour. THE DUEL AT EGuam.—The following particulars of the duel may be relied upon. It is the custom in France to place the principals at a distance of twenty paces from then advance other. The seco n d s toss f or th e first fire. The men ut, advance three p aces each, b y t h e military deux,sido-step— trois—and the pistol of the one entitled to fire is then removed from the perpendicular pesition in which it had previously been held by the side of the head, and dis charged sideways at his antagonist. All these regulations were carried out to the letter on Tuesday last. M. Cournot lost the toss, and was killed by the first shot of his antogo rust. Jt is said upon good authority that the unfortunate man (Cournit) had fought fifteen duels before the sad affair when he met with such an untimely and tragical end. THE ACCIDENT AT CAMDEN Tows.—The Mar chioness of Anglesey and the Bishop of Lichfield were in the train, and they w ere a l so among the passengers who went on at eleven o'clock. One of the foreign ministers, resident at this court, with his wife, did the same. The only passengers at all injured, as far as cou'd be ascertained, are Lady Blay ney, who, being considerably shaken, preferred remeining at the " Euston " a few hours before continuing her journey; a Mr. Dacre, of Stone-buildings, who sustained a slight in cised wound on the ear; and a Mr. and Mrs. Matis. who have since left London. The driver of the mail engine, Benj. Blake, received a blow on his chest by being thrown against the reversing lever, and fainted shortly after the acci dent, though it is believed more from fright than from having sustained any serious injury, as he had quite reco vers t last evening. It is understood that both Ashbury and his fireman are both under the surveillance of the company's police. It is not yet accurately known what course will be taken with regard to them. Wnen questioned by the pointsman, Morgan, whose duty it was to have signalled him " All right," before he crossed the line, Ashbury admitted that he had seen no signal, and only accounted for his con duct by remarking, with regard to the mail train, e We thought she had been gone." THE FISDERIES AND HER, MAJESTY'S CRUIZERS.— A New York paper says—" The American schooner Ann has arrived at Portsmouth, N. H., from Prince Ed ward's Island, with information that she had been twice fired at by the British steamer Devastation, and forbid. den to enter Gaspe Bay. Our vessels are excluded from the Bay of endear." THE Porn AND Du CULLEN.—The ceremony of investing Dr. Cullen with the pallium took place on Sunday, in Dublin, with almost regal pomp, in the Church of the Conception in :Marlborough -street. The sermon was paeaPhed by an American importation the " Lord Bishop" of Pittsburgh, who, it seems, was the delegated bearer of a " message of peace" from the Sovereign Pontiff to his well-beloved subject Primate Paul Cullen. SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN LIVERPOOL.--011 Sunday even ing, about six o'clock, one of the boys employed at the Vauxhall-road Gas-works , Li v e r pool , while meddlin g with one of the valves, turned it in the wrong direction, thereby causing an instantaneous and terrific explosion. Several persons were dreadfully scalded, and it was thought at the time that two of the injured parties, named Walker and Davis, would have been deprived of sight. We aro glad, however, to find that though they lie in a pitiable condition at the Northern Hospital, their injuries aro such as time and skill may cure. CUBA.—The feeling, in Cuba of discont en t i s chiefly confined to about two-thirds of the creole, or native white population. the Spaniards being loyal. The complaint of the disaffected is, that the Government is arbitrary, and that all the prominent situations are held by the Spaniards. There are 25,000 troops in Cuba, all Spaniards, The strictest watch is kept over the dis affected, and all suspicious persons are promptly arrested. In addition to the regular police, there is an organised secret police, which is very active. THE AMERICAN MARILETS.--The advices by the Canada from Now York are not unfavourable, commer cially ; but they represent a growing state of uneasiness in the stock market. This might have arisen in some degree from the late excitement of over speculation and anxiety about the result of their bargains, when settle ments of account became due with those who have ope rated largely, and at high prices for the rise. It is feared, however, that a graver cause was connected with the unsteady appearance of the stock market. The banks of New York city had been largely increasing their discounts for some time past, whilst contempo raneously, and notwithstanding the large imports of gold from California, the stock of specie in their vaults had absolutely and in the aggregate diminished, as will be observed by the following, being the latest returns made up for the inspection of the State Comptroller, charged officially to see that the banking laws are not infringed. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Dangerous Woun o d in the Thigh Cured by their Use.--About three y ears ag , Mr. Acton, of Melbourne, bad his thigh fearfully lacerated when out riding, bis horse running away, and his leg coming in violent collision with a wa ll . H e wa s confined to his bed for nearly eighteen months, suffering from the accident; and notwithstanding the best medical advice, every effort proved unsuccessful in healing the wound, and his health became so impaired that his life was despaired of. In this state he commenced using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which had the effect of heal ing his wound with wonderful rapidity, and restoring him to sound health. LITERA'TURE. Ann,:tte : A Tale. 3 Vole. By William Frederick Deacon, With a Memoir of the Author, by the Hon. Sir T. N. Talfourd, D.C.L. Colburn and Company. A romance crowded with hair-breadth 'ewes, and diversified with the most brilliant traits of heroism, is this beautiful story of " Annette," in which an Eng lishman has celebrated the loyal and religious wars waged by the chieftains of La Vendee against the infi delity and the cruelty of the Revolution. As a posthu mous work, moreover, the narrative appeals yet more persuasively to our sympathies. Under no circum stances, we conceive, does criticism find itself so effectually disarmed as when required to decide the merits of an effusion coming to us, as it were, out of the grave (d'outre tombe), according to the solemn and melancholy thought of Chateaubriand. It is some what difficult, upon such occasions, for the reviewer to speak with anything like his accustomed calmness or precision, when he remembers that the heart whose emotions he is weighing in the balance of judg ment has become still for ever—that the hand whose latest traces are submitted to perusal is hut dust—and that to " the dull, cold ear of death" the words of praise or of condemnation are alike become matters of supreme and everlasting indifference. "Annette" is among the number of fictions invested with this peculiar and pensive fascination. It possesses also a pathetic charm of its own, derived from the nature of the incidents recounted. It relates to the history of those famous struggles in the name of God and of loyalty which have consecrated the thickets of the Bocage, and shed a lustre over the marshes of the Marais. Recognising, as we do, the justice and the glory of those great principles which first gave rise to the revolutionary movement of 1789 among the Parisians reverencing as we do that sublime hope of Liberty for France which may be said to have first become visible in the flames of the Bastile, as they undoubtedly first became audible through the voice of Mirabeau—ik is impossible for us at any moment to look otherwise than with the profoundest sympathy, and the most unaffected admiration, at the annals of that outbreak in La Vendee where the white flag so long fluttered in defiance of the tricolour, and where the Royalist peasantry withstood, during so many months, the valour and ferocity of the Re publicans. It were idle, in fact, to dream that the loyalty of the Vendeans could ever be denied the meed of that eulogium which it has extorted from the lips of those historians even who have shown themselves most devoted to the cause of the Revolution. Everything, indeed, conspires to secure this feeling towards the Vendean insurgents. Their simplicity revolting against the arrogance of the ultra-democrats—their love of the past inspiring them with a horror of in novation—their piety rousing them in the defence of religion : it was only natural that they should have listened with eager delight to the rallying cry simul taneously raised by the ministers they viewed with reverence, and by the seigneurs whom they regarded with affection. It was under these auspices that the tocsin was sounded in La Vendee, early in the spring of 1793, in the first horror excited by the intelligence that the head of Louis XVI. had fallen under the axe of the guillotine. Although the war which there upon ensued throughout the Bocage and the Marais can scarcely be said to have lasted during the brief period of a single twelvemonth, there were accom plished within that memorable interval so many actions of daring and magnanimity, that the annalist can find but few popular outbreaks more remarkably illus trated by patriotism, by courage, and by generalship —by unselfish patriotism, by unfailing courage, and by untutored g enera l s hip. Th e n arrative of all this has long since r en d ere d g l or i ous th e n ame of many, until then, obscure villages in Anjou and Poitou— provinces now better known as the departments of Vendee, of D eux Se vres, o f M a i ne-et -L o i re, an d o f Loire Inferieure. Within the country of La Ven die, 800,000 constitute the number of the population. Sixty years ago, the number must have been smaller. Yet, such was the front raised by the Vendean peas antry against the soldiers of the Jacobin Government, that it is estimated no less perished in the course of the subsequent struggle than the vast and terrible aggregate of one million Frenchmen. This, too, let us remember, in consequence of the rising of a few agricultural labourers armed with scythes and pitch forks! The account of their achievements the world has already obtained through the authentic writings of Beauchanaps and Lacretelle, through the military records of Jomini, and the picturesque memorial of Madame de Larochejaquelein. Even English students, the majority of them,are familiar with these narratives of glory and of suffering. They regard with the homage due to heroism the fame of those renowned and redoubtable leaders of La Vend6e, who withstood with equal success the science of Kleber and the prowess of Westermann. What generous heart is there that has not throbbed with admiration for the young De Lescure ? of whom, although as brave as a lion, it has been written " his humanity was ange lic." Who has forgotten the valiant D'Elbes ? who, although a Saxon peasant, rose to the rank of general issimo. Are we any of us dull to the skill of Cha rette, the naval lieutenant, like Espartero " of a feeble and delicate constitution"—to the resolution of Stofilet, the daring Alsatian gamekeeper—to the genius or generosity of Bonchamps, whose audacity was only surpassed by his gentleness—to the perse verance of Marigny, and the vigilance of D'Auti champ, and the inflexible determination of Beaure paire ? Can we ever lose a remembrance of that warrior-peasant the good and valiant Cathelinean ? described by the author of "Annette" as a wool dealer, but in reality a simple charioteer—that illus• trious Cathelineau, whose piety was so pure and ele vated that he was known amongst his brother rustics as the Saint of Anjou, and who, although bred in the habits of an humble villager, was proclaimed unani mously by the haughtiest nobles of Vendee (on the outbreak of the war) the Commander. in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Royalists. Least of all, can we regard without the most tender and the most generous emotions the brave, the young, the gentle, the daunt less—most heroic figure, amidst all that matchless group of heroes, with the red sash, and the scarlet handkerchief about his head, and his sword flaming at the gates of Thouars, and his cap thrown into the trenches at Saumur—the brave, the young, the dauntless Henri de Larochejaquelein ! Henri, who gave that noble cry of battle to his soldiers, " If I advance, follow me ; if I retreat, kill me ; if I fall, avenge me !" Henri, of whom it has been written (Hist. Eur., ch. xii.), "Notwithstanding his passion for danger, he was lull of sweetness and humanity." Henn, of whom another annalist has said with such touching suggestiveness (Genoude 47), " Chance has covered his tomb, as well as that of his brother Louis, with the flowers of Achilles." The hero of our boy hood, the palladin of Sautbern France, the gay and gallant De Larochejaquelein ! . . . It was a circumstance illustrative in a very curious manner of the extraordinary vicissitudes of that epoch that, in the wars of La Vendee, while Bi ron , a p eer o f France and son of a Marshal, was, on one side, the leader of the Republican forces, the Royalist Seig neurs were marshalled under the banners of the pea sant Cathelineau. Fur Cathelineau was Commander in-Chief until his death on the Place d'Armes, during the unsuccessful storming of Nantes, when the rank was conferred upon D'Elhe3; and on the demise of D'ElleSe the responsible authority of Generalissimo was awarded to Henri de Larochejaquelein. A feeling of breathless interest carries the reader on while perusing the history of the civil war in the Bocage un interruptedly from its propitious commencement to its melancholy and disastrous consummation. How rapid were the alternations of fortune during those eight months of 1793 may be seen by a glance at the re cords of the Revolution. On the 4th of May the Rtee publicans were defeated at Thouars, and on the sth of May the Royalists were in their turn defeated at Fontenay. On the 6th of May, however, the latter place witnessed the return of triumph to the white banner of the Bourbons ; and later on (10th June) the tricolour was again obliged to yield to the valour of the Seigneurs, at Sautnur. Upon the 29th of June the Royalists were worsted in their attack upon Nantes; while on the 13th of August, at Luce'', the Republicans were again victorious. Septem ber, nevertheless, brought success buck with it to the Vendeans, who were triumphant on the 15th of that month at Coron, on the 19th at Torfou, and on the 20th at Montaigu. Yet they were overcome for a while on the 17th of October, at Chollet, where D'Elboe and Bonchamp were both mortally wounded. At Chateau-Gontier, on the 25th of October, they were, nevertheless, once more enabled to route the troops of their antagonists—shortly after which, the gentle and valorous De Lescure, breathed hi s l as t, i n the arms of his brid e at Fougeres. At Gr anv ill e , on the 14th of November t he Royalists were again con quered, but on the 19th of November, at Ponterson they were again victorious. Antrain, on the 20th of November, was, however, the scene of their last success, for they were compelled to yield to th e numer i ca l superiority of the Republicans, on the 30th of No vember at Angers, on the 10th of Decemberiat Mans, and on the 22d of December at Saveuay the struggle, being at length closed on the 14th of March, 1794, on the cruel, but heroic death of Henri de Larochjaquelein. Thereupon the unfortunate pea santry were compelled, to bend their proud heads before the ghastly and terrible vengeance of the Re volutionists. It was then that the world was horri fied by a series of atrocities, surpassing even those of Marat and Robespierre. It was then that the noyades of Nantes drowned the "suspected" by whole sale. It was then that Thurreau devastated the pro vince with his Infernal Columns, and that Carrier destroyed the children by his Republican Baptis!its, and the old men, and the young men, and the virgins, and even mothers on the eve of their confinement, by his hideous device called Republican Marriages. And thus was it that in Nantes alone , there perished within a few weeks, no less than 18,000 souls by the river, by the bullet, and by the guillotine. And so Liberty was desecrated, and the Demons of the Revolution were triumphant, and the Royalist ChieftLins were shot, and stabbed, and berried away, and their very names for a whit e —b ut oily for a while—forgo'ten. It has not surprised us, therefore, to find a schol tr of generous sympathies, like the author of "An nette," selec!ing the scenes and the times of the Great Civil War in La Vendee, as those of a ro.nance re lating to the French Revolution. Several of the principol personages engaged in those events are in • troduced in the course of the narrative—their fortunes being ingeniLlidy interwoven with those of the merely fictitious characters. The result of the cont. bination is, as might he conjectured, a story in many respects eminently attractive. It introduces us once more to Csthelineau, to De Leicure, to Stofflet to Charette, to Bonchamps, to D'Elhee, and to Larochejaquelein—not to the empty names, be it observed, but to the very men themselves. Annette, of course, as the title-page sufficiently inti mates, is the heroine : an amiable though rather colourless creation—the daughter of Delille, a mer chant of Nantes. Delille himself is, to our thinking, the blemish of the book, being in truth a man so painfully weak and timid as to become in the end ab solutely contemptible. The author has adroitly selected as the hero of the tale—Alphonse, the son of one no less distinguished among the Vendean Chicle, than the brave old Marquis de Chatillon. Around Alphonse the interest of the fiction is woven from first to last, so that we are enabled to follow his foot steps continuously, down to the conclusion. The beginning of the work is little else than what may be termed a mere episode, serving the writer's purpose doubtless well enough, by making the reader acquainted with the villain of the plot, the unprinci pled De Chantereau. The real interest of the story only commences with the arrival of Alphonse in Paris, where, in connection with the worldly-minded Count de Sevrac, he becomes engaged in various state intrigues, and at last takes part in the memo rable flight of the Royal Family from the Tuileries. Nothing can be more ingeniously contrived than the incidents at this portion of the narrative—the hero being introduced by his tutor Servette, into the drawing-rooms of Madame Roland, where he familiar izes himself with the manners and appearances 0: revolutionists as renowned as Barbarroux and Brissot, and Robespierre. Immediately after the return o: Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette from Varennes the horrors of the epoch thicken, and Alphonse ulti mately becomes involved as one of the defenders of the palace in that terrible storming of the Tuileries, which ended in the slaughterof the Swiss soldiers. De Chatillon is soon afterwards seized in his lodgings and dragged off to the 13icletre, where he is incarcerated among the number of the " suspected " as an aristo crat. Here the anxiety in his fate attains its climax, for the reader finds himself arrived at the very eve of the dreadful and ever-infamous Massacres of Septem ber. Alphonse appears doomed to irretrievable de• struction : for as the critical night draws on, there enters his dungeon—the vindictive and relentless De Chantereau. Death seems to be closing in upon him, and we leave the hero surrounded by murderers, and horrified by the din and the yells of assassination. There is one ray of hope glimmering, however, through the darkness—dimly and timorously. Jacques the half well-natured, and half rascally ex-valet of De Sevrac has joined the party of the Jacobins, and been installed as under jailor of the Bicetre. He de termines, if possible, to save the life of the friend of his former master, the ill-starred and helpless De Chatillon. Jacques communicates with Servette and informs the old man of the perilous p-sition of Alphonse. Whereupon the Republican dreamer rises from reverie to action, and resolves, " come what come may," that he will dare even a forlorn _ . hope of intercession. After a vain application to Ito land, he ventures, late at night, to carry his petition into the presence of the dreaded Minister of Justic,.. himself—to Danton, the author and organizer of the Massacres of September ! Servette's appeal to the great and terrible democrat is one of the finest pas sages in the three volumes, rising in the end to a burst of eloquent and impassioned adjuration. Of this, however, we will let our readers judge for them selves. The supplicant has employed every argument he could contrive by way of entreaty, but each has proved in succession utterly and agonizingly fruit less. Pathos has been treated with contempt, and solemn warnings as to the future with derision. In the last distracting sense of disappointment, Ser vette, and even Danton, are startled by the clanging of a distant bell in the midnight. It is the tocsin ! " Well may the fierce demagogue have started, for that gloomy boll, which flung its awful voice far and wide over the trembling capital, tolled the knell of not less than six thousand of his victims: Almighty God!' exclaimed Servette, every musCe quivering with agitation,' can it be possible? Only one hour?' and sinking on his knees before the Minister of Justice, who stood buried in gloomy thought, the old man thus addressed him, his eyes streaming the while with tears: 6 Oh, Banton, if I cannot prevail upon you to spare all tbo wretched victims of this dreadful policy, at least let me, once more, conjure you to spare uue whom I know to be as innocent as ho is dauntless and high-hearted. Consider his youth, and the grey hairs of his sorrowing father! You are brave, bo generous—you are great, show true greatness by tempering justice with mercy. Men say that you arc a fond and happy father, and that your infant child is to you as a second self; think then, what you would feel, were you, when that child bad grown up to man's estate, to plead for his dear lifts to some future Minister of Justice, and be met with the same chilling reply that you have this day given me! Oh, think what it is wantonly to extinguish that holy spirit of life which the Almighty gave, and which you cannot restore! Lo, hero in the dust at your feet, I conjure you to be true to yourself—true to your fame— true to that just and sacred cause of which you are the triumphant advocate! You speak not! Eternal God!' —and the old man clasped his hands together, and raised his eyes to heaven—' eternal God, grant me power to touch the heart of this cold, haughty man, who, when ho might descend to after ages as tho benefactor of his fellow.creatures, can endure to be branded as their sc mrge. Still silent? Well, then'—and the speaker started abruptly to his feet sinco the voice of conscience and humanity finds no echo within your breast; since blood must flow, no matter from whom, spare Alphonse, and take me as your vic tim! Better, far better that the old should go than the young; no ono will miss the helpless, solitary man, whi , se lamp of life i 3 already well•nigh extinguished; besides, were it not so, I have lived long enough, since I have lived to soo this day.' " The old man poured forth these supplications with such impassioned energy, and in tones of such heartfelt anguish, that Wilton, who had made many efforts to stop him, at length desisted from the unavailing task. S , rvette's solemn appeal to the Deity he acknowledged only by a smile of scornful incredulity; he was visibly affected, however, when he was reminded of his infant boy, to whom ho was devotedly attached; bat when the old man offered his own lire is exchange for his friend's, thi heroic generosity of the offer struck Danton so powerfully, that the tears actually stood in his eyes! The rock was smitten, and the living waters came gush ing from it. " ` Citizen,' exclaimed the stern demagogue, dashing away the moisture from his lids, `your prayer is granted! The chosen friend of so magnanimous a spirit can never be the base, treacherous conspirator I had imagined. No, I see I was mistaken, and it is right that I make reparation. But, remember, Ido this as an act of mere justice, not cf pity,' and advancing to tho table, he sat down and wrote with an unsteady hand an order for Alphonse's release, to the jailer of the Bieetre. ,‘ Away, ho added, thrusting the document into Serrate a hands, luso not a moment, or you may ba too late. Not a word—no thanks—you owe nothing to my compassion —away, away 1' and ho pushed him towards the door. " No sooner was ho gone, than Danton resumed his seat at the table, and in a few minutes had regainei much of his usual stoical hardihood." Alphonse de Chatillon is seved—snatched as it were while the bloody weapons of death are already drip ping before his eyes, Irons the grasp of the assassins. Soon afterwards he escapes from Paris in the disguise of a sans curlotte, and upon joining his f a th e r, forth with takes part, with the rest of the chiefs, in the Loyalist insurrection. Hereupon it is that the author reveals the most clearly his skill as an historical novelist. His description of the somewhat compli cated movements of the campaign, his delineation of the contrasting temperaments of the different leaders, and especially his account of the various battles and sieges, are all of them admirable for their vigour and perspicuity. In one particular alone—but that a ra ther important one—we conceive him to have been labouring under some strange and inexplicable kind of misapprehension. We mean in his appreciation, or perhaps we should say in his want of appreciation, of the character of Henri de Larochejaquelein. Henri he has failed to estimate accurately, as he had already failed to estimate aright Louis .X.Vl.—a king as good in his life as he was great in his death. Henri, we take it, was no mere flippant, thoughtless, volatile, dallier with the chivalrous, any more than Louis was a mere gluttonous, fickle, suspicious , craven imbecile. Henri was as gentle as he was daring, and as resolute as he was impassioned. Louis, again, was forgiving, generous, and humane, virt uous as a man, and valian t as a prince, resigne d under misfortune an d benignant in prosperity, grand in captivity, and sublime in t'n e hour of his execut ion. Al p honse de Chatillon, how ever, might have bee n a l together overshadowed had not the writer endeavoured thus to render subordinate to him in some measure the heroic character of Henri do we fi n d de Larochejaqu elein. Therefore,possibly, that the justice of the historian has yielded o vermuc h to the exigencies of the roar •neist. One of th e l east a o bjectionable passages i n re l at i on to this portion of the narrative is the folios\ ing—a passage interesting for inasmuch as it contains a description of the young Vendeun Chevalier : " Do Larocl e' Jaquelein was of a more impetuous and mercurial temperam n o e r n e t ; so enthu: iastic that he seemed to love fightiug— he was impatient of Hibernian—for fighting's sake ; ardour counsels except such as encou raged his mint try our ; and so invariably scarcely to believe in sanguine as the possibility of reverses. His figure was tall and elegant ; he had light hair. and an oval cc untenance, whose con our was rathe rEr gl sh than French; and there was a (lash of eccentricity in his cos- Win?, inasmuch as he usually wore several red handkor ehlefs—one on his head, enotbir about his neck, and three or four roun:i his waist, Yo'sling his pistols." As a companion picture to this, we Inv tranicribe the subjoined sketch of the aspect and character of Charette He was slight in figure and of niitidia height, ei:h a small but teelliant and penetrating eye, a nose turned up in the Tartar fashion, and a mouth remarkable for its .shapo and width. His nature was stern and obstinate ; ho had none of that lofty and generous ps trioti,en which glowel in the loosens of the majerity of the Seigneurs ; but was too much influenced by a desire for personal aggran di sement, which seemed to be his ruling principle of acrion. In manner he was cold, re served, end dictatorial, and in carrying on his military operations he was reckless of human lite, and was apt to wink at the excesses of his troops after a victory; more over he w as a r i g id martinet, and was never kaewn to forgive or forget any act of disobedience." Further particulars as to this plot of "Annette" need scarcely be enumerated, seeing that the tale follows truthfully enough the movin t e records of lu - story ; besides which, it were scarce ly fair to the narrator to deprive his effusion, by a bold epitome, of its pro minent and most acceptable faFeination. It may be permitted IP, howbeit, to mentio n one i ncident as among the most enthralling in the developraent of the story—that of the escapo of Annette and her father from a sequestered auberge, under the guidance and guardianship of Alphonse, where the three wayfarers seem at one moment to be infallibly Fated to assassination. This occurs when the Delitles are proceeding to the sea-coast in order t o fi nd sh alter by flight into England. Thither Alphonse ultimately follows the r e fug ees , when disasters having settled down upon La Veneb, the young D . e Chatinon is entrusted by his brother-chieftains with the task of applying for a ss i s t ance t o th e British Government. Prior to his return to the Marais in company with Lord Moira's expedition, Alphonse is happily married to Annette; and when the last gloomy occurrences of the Royalist movement have been recounted, and when the civil w a r i s seen to h ave c l ose d f or a time in blood and calamity, th e h ero an d t h e h ero i ne, as bride and bridegroom, are re vea l e d t o us at l engt h in the tardy enjoyment of something like happiness and tranquillity. "All's well that end's well," saith even the divine Shakspere, and sorest we contented. One other extract must we indulge ourselves with before concluding our reference to the narrative—it is one descriptive of the death of our hero, the death of the youthful and dauntless Henri de .Larochejaquelein : " With some difficulty Henri, at times, restrained his soldiery from giving way to a natural desire for ven geance when some stragglers from the republican army occasionally fell into their hands. On one occasion Larochejaquelein came upon a party of his men as their muskets were turned upon two grenadiers, who, sepa rated from their companions, had entered the forest. Pull of horror at an act which, to his chivalrous soul, appeared a murder, Henri interposed; signing to his men to desist, he advanced alone towards the soldiers, exclaiming : " ' Surrender, I give you quarter!' " Perhaps incredulous of the existence of a magna nimity of which their own actions never bore a token, the soldiers, for all reply, raised their guns and fired with fatal effect. Henri fell, as his fri en d s an d soldiers gathered round him, and the arms of Alphonse tenderly sustained the dying hero. Human help was vain. Only a few moments of life remained to Henri Larocheja quelein I They were passed in acts of devotion and tender adieus to his comrades in arms; and taking the hand of Alphonse within his own : '• 'Farewell, my early friend,' he murmured in low, faint accents, ' together we have fought and suffered. You alone, may God grant it ! will live to bee the vic tory for which wo have signed. But not now, Alphonse. It is only a protracted death•struggle, which can be carried on here. Heed my last injunctions—withdraw yourself, for a time, till the fury of the storm is over; and then, when a brighter day is dawning for France— come back and fight and conquer; and in your hour of victory remember Henri—' Exhausted with so much exertion, the dying youth paused, and then again re covering himself, added, as he saw the tears coursing down the cheeks of Alphonse• Do net grieve lor me, Alphonse; I could not hove lived away from La Vene6, while my arm could wield a sword: sooner or later the blow must have come to me. All our friends fallen around us. But you may yet be spared —a future is before you. The house of Cna,tillon may ugain be num bered among the pillars of the throne. Obey my last wish, Alphonse, and live for France as I--I thank God, according to my repeated prayer —die for her.' A few more words of tenderness and resignation, and that gentle heart had ceased to boat, that chivalrous spirit, which i❑ a brief existence of only twenty years had given so many proofs of gallantry and heroism, had fled. Henri de Larochejaquelein was no snore. Sadly, with broken hearts and tearful eyes, his followers consigned their chieftain to the grave, in his soldier's accoutre ments; and as they heaped up the earth upon his last resting place: " indeed,' said Alphonse, the Convention may say that La Vend6e no longer exists.' " And so, indeed, ended that m emora bl e s t rugg l e o f the Royalists against the Democrats—the struggle of a chivalrous peasantry against the overwhelming might of the Revolution. We have left ourselves but small space for reference to one of the most interesting portions of the work lying before us, and one to which as yet we have made no allusion—the graceful prefatory memoir of the author, penned by his schoolfellow, Mr. Justice Talfourd. Neither is much comment required, we conjecture, upon a biographical tribute which for years hence will be turned to with satisfaction not merely by those who knew the writer of" Annette," but by those also who can appreciate the poet of "Ion" and the commemorator of " Elia." Sir Thomas Tal fourd has afforded us one other evidence of his large and generous heart i❑ that tribute to the memory of his friend, William Frederick Deacon [a name men tioned once more not without emotion in these columns of The Sun, which his hand, up to the period of his decease, so often adorned by his criticisms]—a tribute in which the biographer has deservedly cele brated the merits of a scholar as well as those of an amiable and accomplished gentleman. THE LORD-LIEUTENANCY ORDSHIRE..-- --- orn; _-_- REF Much sp3culation is afloat throughout this county as to the probable successor to the late lamented Earl Somers in the Lord-Lieutenancy. Lord Rodney, Lord Bate man, and the present Earl Somers are all spoken of as likely ; but as the last-named nobleman supported Li beral principles at the last election, it is not very likely that Lord Derby will pass by two of his supporters to appoint an oppouent.—Hereford Times. IRISH EMIGRATION.—The report of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission has shown that the total emigration from the United Kingdom for the year 1851, iu those parts alone in which Government agents are stationed, excreded 335,996, of whom 257,372 were from Ireland; and that if the emigration of the succeeding months of the year 1852 does not diminish from that of the four earlier months, it will have Exceeded 500,000, of whom we may take 350,000 at. knst as the proportion of the emigration from Ireland alone. TILE WILL OF THE LATE MR. NEILD.—The will gen tleman, which has excited so m uc h cur i os i ty , in Doctors' Commons. it is written by the de ceased himself, in a clear bold round hand, and only oecupies the front of a sheet of foolscap. The will begins by saying that he, James Camden Neild, of Lincoln's-inn and Chelsea, in the county of Middlesex, wished his body to be interred in Battersea Church, and in a vault as near as may be to his beloved father, James Neild. Ile bequeathed to his executors 1001. each, and directed them to pay all his just debts (which were very trifling), and thereafter he gave and be queathed all " real and personal property to which I may be entitled at law or in equity, unto her most gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, for her own private used and advantage, and her heirs, executors, and Hon. :hO his as signees." And he expresses a hop e that her Majesty came.will be pleased to accept thcame.li,leev.epHpeoninry ltltll, appoints a'lllia' t Ta t t e to i n, by his C h clerk.a r l ee cxrcutors, the the keeper fur the time being of her Archdeacon Majesty's Redford, rivypiirs e and t he veryl James Steph ens , E sq., of the county of Kent. 1 , T Sh h a u dw w e il l i l, of Gray ra p y ro 's v - e in d n, 111 ed will Georgeses on the 21st l out , by the Hon. Charles Bowman Peipps, keeper of her Majesty's privy purse, the Archdeacon of Bedford, and Mr. Stephens, Pe letter fromf Tournay, of the executors appointed under it, and the estate sworn to as c l‘ t u . lnA l d B pe , li s m2 t s a : t e iß s on t o h cl a A t ß Ch i E e definite' — ttohoekpprolacpeerttyhoatf Bury, belonging to M , lme. de Bee tl r tr o e , hviigilhaegrethdtetni3thaautglimia"ie by Count Fordi nwmaeotrirdeninidnega6V(itsbatorhtthede Rectum& and eventuTalwlyothneewChflevears her Jenichek, a Hungarian was declared the purchaser, tgentlemen, residing in Paris, new proprietor, it is said, .or a sum of 137,500 f. The house std grounds at once clheaasurgedivaenia to allow of their being dorderst repaired,o have i n ord t the lots of land and woodfwerea which gives a total value of theoccupiedt'terwianrdtsb the sold spring. ' 27 B' OO%T, 164,500 f. for all. The estimated of Mdme. do u o property ca 3 T , soo e oo l . i n f the marriage settlement of the late Count was 2,350 000 f. a t i do Nov. that t 2 h 2 e . marriage THE "RELIGIOUS EQUALITY" CONFERENCE—The executive committee have had several meetings within the last few days. for the purpose of revising and discus sing the several clauses of the draught report which is to be submitted to a preliminary meeting of the Conference, It o bo held on Tuesday next. The document in question is said to be cautious and moderate in its tone, end in terms sufficiently indefinite to entrap Protestants opposed to the connexion between Church and estate into the belief that the plotters have really no ulterior object ia view beyond the establishment of perfect " re li g i ous equality " for all creeds. There is not a word about the proximate appropriation of the " spoils," nor is the plan for the eommencement of open hostilities against the enemy as yet laid bare. IRISH PROPRIETORS.—The number of proprietors in fee in Ireland has been calculated not to exceed 8,000, some of whom individually possessed morn than 100,000 acres. Between the years 1841 and 1850, it is asserted that emigration and deaths have swept away more than two -thirds of the entire holdi ngs un d er f i ve acres , a of ft Om 5 t o 15 acres, have also gene , w hile an increase of 103,944 h as, i n the same per i o d o f o q o u d ar s te o, r oo of 0 a fa millionm,, of sm e ll farms have disappeare d, time, taken place in farms of upwards of 30 acres, and a further increase of 66,042 moderate farms of from 15 to 30 acres. In one single year, from 1849 to 1850, the net inertias° in farming stock was to a value of 1,250,0001. GERMANY. The Postampt Gazette of Frankfort of the 22d says :—" Several journals have announced that the Austrian government had purchased some of the ves sels of the German fleet. This account is unfounded, at least fur the present. Neither is it correct that the Germanic Diet has had a sitting within the last few days; there was merely a confidential meeting of the envoys to the Diet. Baron de Brenner-Felsacb, di rector of the Federal Chancellery, has returned from his visit to Vienna. Couut de Thun Hohenstein, president of the Germanic Diet, is not expected here until towards the end of next week." The Vienna Journal of the 21st announces that Baron Stockhausen delivered his letters of credence as Hanoverian Ambassador to the Emperor on the 18tb. On the following day his Majesty granted an audience to the Marquis de Marcel, the Brazilian Ambassador. It is currently rumoured at Vienna that his Imperial Majesty intends laying down the command in chief of the army, in order to attend more exclusively to the affairs of Government. The Archduke Albert is spoken of as his probable succes sor in the chief command, and is to be raised to the dignity of field-marshal on this occasion. ITALY. The Genoese journal, l'ltalia e Popolo, states that preparations are being made at the Vatican which appear to indicate the approaching journey of the Pope to Paris. On the 19th there was a funereal military parade at Milan in honour of the memory of the late Duke of Wellington. A Turin letter having stated that great excitement had been caused at Turin by the rumour of a discus sion of an unfriendly character said to have taken plat: between Marquis d'Azeglio and M. His de Butenval, the French Minister to the Sardinian Court, on the subject of a French refugee named M. Pestorel, on which occasion Marquis d'Azeglio was represented as having sent back two of M. His de Butenval's notes unanswered, the Siècle quotes a letter of the 31st, from its correspondent at Turin, which indeed confirms the fact of two notes having been most unaccountably sent back unanswered to M. His de Butenval, but at the same time states that the French Minister and M. d'Azeglio have discussed the matter between themselves, and that it is not likely to lead to any misunderstanding. As for another rumour to the effect that France and England bad jointly demanded the introduction of certain modifications in the organic laws of Piedmont, the correspondent states that the French Minister has flatly denied ever having started such a subject; and that the British Minister had not only repelled such assertions with indignation, as totally unfounded and contrary to his own sentiments as well as to the policy of his Government, but had even had an explanation with M. d'Azeglio on the subject, in which he ex pressed his dissatisfaction at the part attributed to him. These explanations have appeased the general appre hensions entertained by the public on the subject of the durability of the Piedmontese CJnstitution, but have, according to the correspondent, placed M. d'Azeglio in such an equivocal light, that his resigna tion is considered more than probable. The Augsburg Gazette contains the following ab stract of the Pope's allocution in the secret consistory of the 27th ult., which has not been officially pub lished. The Holy Father deplores from the bottom of his heart th e vehement attacks directed against the church militant in most parts of Europe, but derives some consolation from the thought that a copious and certain spiritual harvest is promised beyond the At lantic. The Church must, he says, strenuously op pose the agitation brooding in the bosom of the Ca tholic Church in France, Germany, and England. His Holiness trusts that the impending desertion of many believers in Piedmont will eventually redound to the glory of the true faith. The expressions used towards England seem to exclude the possibility of au encyclic letter being directed against clerical agitation in the British dominions. Nevertheless, the correspondent who has furnished the above abstract, states upon his own knowledge, that not long after the secret consistory of the 27th ult., a member of the permanent congregation of cardinals drew up a moni tory epistle, the contents of which, though not con ceived under an official form, were intended to calm the agitation by exhortations addressed to the Irish clergy, to yield to the times, however perver3e. TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople, of the 10th, states that the French Ambassador was that day to receive of rejection of the loan. The Sultan has declined giving M. de Lavalette an audience on the subject. The new loan was going on successfully. Sir H. Ward, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, had left the Turkish capital for Corfu, after a few days' stay; anti Mr. Cumberbatch, Eng lish consul-general in Constantinople, had also left for England, on leave of absence. The Journal de Con stantinople asserts that the new ministry will follow the reforming system of Rechid Pacha, which was inaugurated on the accession of the present Sultan, and which, it says, can alone secure the regeneratiou of Turkey. Mouktar Bey was aboutto proceed to Alex • andria, en a mission from the Government. It was stated in the last accounts from Constantinople, that the plague had broken out on the frontiers of Persia ; but the Board of Health of Constantinople has de clared that the malady which prevails there is not the plague, but the cholera. On the 8:h, four hundred merchant vessels had, owing to a favourable wind, entered the port, and the Bosphorus. Such an extra ordinary number of vessels caused some confusion, and one of th em, an English one, which had not per formedt its quarant i ne, having thus violated the sani eirtyy o r e f g c u o l n a s t i t o s n n s t the n op e Board and itsf e Health nviron had a under placed nd er n the qua rantine of five days. Accounts from the Dardanelles represent that great activity co n ti nue d t o preva il i n t aa h ns e dh i o m ari p ito e tt r hi i m a e l re g d b o ar c gi k o y ; a rds another'.Tw ownew launchedbri g s we r o e n launched c 6 h t e h d , and a igun-boat were on th e s t o cks. Ethem Pacha b a d arriven t t n e Dard ane ll es on b oar d f t .r h o e m N t i h le e , goonvehrisnmweanyt toof cnnnsEgypatn,tainnodpwas le,on a mission performing quarantine. MEXICO. Sept, 11. The The president A.. exs.Glimater Finance. We have files of Mexican papers to new Cabinet is not yet completed. named D. Nunoz Ledo of Guanajuato of Foreign Affairs and L. Rive Palacios F ,' of the State of Mexico, as Minister of the sth ult., after a conference . of five hours with Pesident, they declined accepting the appointments. Sr. Aguirre has taken the oath of Minister of Justice. Sr. Eaparza is de facto Minister of Finaace, through nominally first clerk in that department, and S r . Arroyo is first clerk in the Foreign Department, acting as Minister ad interim. It is supposed Robles will re-accept the Department of "War. From Guadalajara we have nothing new, except that more of the towns of the state have dec l a red their ad herence to the Provisional Government. Affairsin Mazatlan remain in the same state as at last dates. The President bus named a committee, consisting of Don Luis de la Rosa, D. Lucas Alaman, and D. Mariano Yanez, for the opening, qualifying, and de ciding on the proposals for the privilege of the open ing of the communilation across the istlamua of Tehuantepec. D. Luis de la Rosa, in his reply to the Department o f Rel a ti o ns, exp oses a t length the fears he entertains, and has ever entertained, for the safety of th e. Republic, should the privil eg e for open ln given g a nd foreigners. enjoyi ng He fee this road l a s the t acrcoesrsinhe isthmus ssays, ‘i be t will turn out another Texas business." ~'- a : 4 _ .e ___ . w NIII ------~ I AI sip: I ,ils 3i 1.6 .1 t:3 t 2 ;.I 311;