The Sun. — London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

heved D I A N L take up many days. The Government has -- '" d 1 mostof these iirs eurn a l arge volume, containing t fiv k 'ate, which eiirrl.ll%, consi,r. of virulent at uFme the GRAND DUKE ellri fig his stay at wish :; abd it would seem :hat the Government Nate it the said volume to he ex`ensively circulated, Nate it fixed its ' c o , • its price at about 5f., a very low sum - ,„4.loleting the, sizes ho'k. ,2 1 :he Italia e Popolo, the gan of the r'it:tz, contains the following : ...tik*od and the P..eple.—.National Italian Association tion:',l".—Citiz-ns,—ln consequence cf the instruc- L . have received, lam happy to transmit to uhe c• !F the Union of Tutcany with the Roman . States th 0 4 , 1,1? a teleran year; it str,ngthens the opinion of tb"Lio love and desire republican unity, and it more t ever dissipates the illusions of the federalials; th e : 8 the Partisans of the constitutional monarchy to toh`eart, and falls like a mortal weight upon tyrants. k3;are' from this d a y, i nveste d w i t h a ll th e attributions ' el lt to your mission.—Greeting and trwernity.— tot h : fle , e, Aug 20th. 1852 —To th, cit , z tta tio l lunk; the Couitnitt• e the Central Interior TuscanDi re e Pro v ?„ t he NAti , nal Italian Asacciati 0,, for the th eg ,"ces at Florence, the Extraordinary Committee of / t " i antral Interior Direction alitt e l `"th'r stated th -t the Commissary of !he , Com: e at Rome acknowledes and definitive , y ac 11th: t he union of th.s Roman States wi , h Tuscany. tio' rett P c ia the Italia e Popolo exclaims :—" The I°4 between Rome and Tuscany is morally ac bbiPhli3hed I" To which the Risorgimento of Turin, tow q u otes the above, sly ly observes, that nothing pe t ' maths to be done but a mere trifle, viz., L ettr k e i_ t .into execu' ion ! 4 411 0 nave been received from Catania of the 30th t , c ontiining details of the eruption of Etna. elf a di rection of Zlffarona the lava was spreading litktefpith frightful ra pidity, covering the most cui L I % d. Itt e (l4 and the ri c h e -t vineyards. Another torrent tit % treeting its course towards Milo. The a te 41 % We re abandoning the country. and taking ja• Places of security. Milo and Zsflarona are about fifteen mil from the of Etna. Ile • 111: ex perienced near s the places crater is quite buffo- 4o k le tte GREECE. v et r from Athens of the 31st ult. states that the 14 bt , L n t has granted an amnesty to all the persona 14 0ni • 411 I to with the exception of six only, who had t% Part i II kat the insurrection got up by the monk, °r a ,. o3 rr , -4APOULAKI. vtrb liattton. DO NCASTER RACES (THIs DAY.) (111' E LECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) h4l 44/,e4 The Fitzwilliam Handicap. 'demgoeg theat ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• • 41 0 - *Nl orti The Great Yorkshire Handicap. 1' 143 ..• ••• ••• ••• • kth "' •, ••• ••• ••• ... 1 ... 2 ••• 1 ••• 2 ... 3 ST. LEGER. Songstress in forco at 5 to 2 6 t r , agar Trousseau—taken Qg t° 1 agst Harbinger—taken freely bk r_ t t ivala - 4tie) .. " - •4 ll3 gbow, Songstress, Daniel O'Rourke, -Leen. I‘°t lrtb wvition j:i 444 ,, 0 % % - , 1 4 " Nt ever The Champagne Stakes. ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 TAL.- 5t 8 0 t Tuesday, the 21st inst., to ew a day the Lord Mayor,' aldermen - , and gether ,t e .. a, will with the governors of the seve ral ro y al s 4 ejlkte attend Divine service at Christ C hurc h , tyiloliulltreet, where a sermon will be preached by the th l t ftli * Airey, late of Pembroke College, Cambridge, t kp, e lh astera of Merchant Tailors' school, after which n e Pair to thegreat hall of Christ's Hospital, where • i er ta e li -B ', oll the benefits of the royal hospitals, will be j u Y p nitir of the senior scholars—viz., in Latin, by R. ,Qt ‘ j it ~hglish, by H. D. Sweating; in Greek,by H h ree' re heh, by J. G. Gauntlett. Seven poems will e . recited by others of the senior scholars—viz., rate s ' °EI Naples," by H. T. Aeinfield ; Latin ele lih• .tit:Alfred i the Great," by H. R. Tevers; Greek Onfilation from Shakspere'a .• Henry V. beatees -I.4lers, before the battle of Agincourt," J. W. 'aki;" l l aapphics, on " The return of Ulysses," by J. 'l4 ° :kei t , ; Latin hexameters, a translation . from Pd 11wetast Day," by C. Parey; Greek English poem, on [ 7 4 1 Empire in the East Indies,' by 0..W . .P.. Watts. kteSti tt : Sweeting will recite a prize composition in Latin for which there has been made to him the first 4 4 114 14 rnedal, henceforth to be giver. annually, under Ptit the late Rev. G. Richards, D.D., late a governor y tt o ner of Christ's H o s p it a l _ 1 - S t llti4 l " ANOTHER Tavel( OF A TREE IN It) P 4 ll 4j t 4 , 6I PARX.—it cannot be too . much k impre e s i s r e s d s t e: i t n n e ki t ,, then danger which they incur abundantat their i S 4 : l l ;4lt. vSL decayed trees which too y t A t theY are disposed to rest, .they ought most k ttoy' L bee ci t s l , ll.7 eY the decayed branches which may possibly 'ke p /tr a e —er a• We say hang. for it cannot be denied that La l ? all ch a d'l dilapidated state that even a heavy -ale r t - ru - n:Lill n do the l a w - ork of the axe at times, and lay the ea . '" of some of the trees on the ground. This tgpl krls B e with one tree in the south-eastern portion Okie thitt it week, a huge trunk having fallen which bore I ttZ l to 80 '," °111 d have long p eviously been severed and ;",t, l useful purpose. We have before called hre q `:' h e authorities to the subject, and althou . gh bleareLl u een taken in the right direction, yet it has 0 4 ,e 1 , 1 % 4 c . 1i - 3 - 0 % , ° 11 . _ 8 . 0 speedily as migh . t hay . e been expected, tho e `u.uell required. Possibly, it may be in the k 4 tk til the h e : h reeting the work to suggest some mode in it h .% et e rrtu lic safety may be protected, and until the ernio s ta abled to lop the decayed branches, notices, OCs 1 44' 4 ba posted where danger really exists.- 10 "Y• at° It A'rto kt ie, 4 ,..t.tla t . ll FROM BRISTOL —There are now six i lk : l !t te •witl lc vessels lying at our quays bound for Au *l lO nt_ e stimated that, in addition to 1.69 . 5 pas- Qlke t4 t l ke /11 „ 47 e already left, the number of emigrants 44 0 4 owvBen Year will be upwards of 4,( 0 100 f e . mi ln ra a n d t - s Pere r n i f t nediate district, Midland b tt e ,, Bristol from the . 111 Counties, er Lon, t e l b r t? ) l, i e s4 trit Wales. The following (ti OM Customs % hi Att e t - 1 1 p on e hUmber of ships with ernigr . ants which 111 11 1, 1 „e114. during the last eight years, endin . g the 31st Ist tall' 9 8 p a , 4 77 1 844, 10 ships, 159 passe,usgseenrsg,ersl 1847,10 1 1 44 4 1%; %23 :Zen ; 1846, 6 sh ips, 182 pa li t 10 4 : 2 4 s s engers ; 1848, ships, 1,473 passen -2passengers;lBs, 22 ships, 1,920 te S NI4II I 188113 29 1 11 8 1 9 0 5 s p sengers; and for the Lti tetft ' ell'iju g the 30th o ' f' June, 1852, 14 ships, 1 , 695 -11tt:;t1R4411,4iti. STARVATION.—On Wednesday last an ti 4 4,44 :4 tt14 i, 4 ot e ld at Northampton, on the body of Hannah 4 4i the 1 , 41 been found dead in her room at an early reVi fte Morning. The Cody presented a most `k.N.l 4l lte ra nee, a mere skeleton, held together by a i rt her After her death half of a half . - quartern loa W room which she had had in a week last 14 414 t he , lth the exception , of four-pennyworth of meat, un t e lght on Saturday, three-fourths of which st.ll i ee Z e n, that was all the food she had purchased_ B 0 • Mr. Beeby, with whom she lodged, had 4 04 41 4 e„tktee me Pudding and some lamb, and he thought Nee igtoi lu ir Dtlt since her death he had found it covered 'reek e d. She had upwards of 2001. out at interest,. o I ,Va c t,%_lras Rowing in reg Her age was 6 'olo k qtr. arod for any fear that she might 6', Oni s e .4 4 1 1 e heer ee bY stated his opinion to be that she had \k'd of the She had pined herself to death. e'W l 4 . th r i;;l s t he r same n o • , pininti, and returned a verdict of th" l o* ' 4 / 3 to u ;1 4 ion of God." Deceased was unmarried. 14t , M ercury. b t4 Neeeoll ." „ iI wARDEn.—We are requested to state 40 tt aok % rth," t which appeared in this paper on Saturday ,o at puerb(we head, is not strictly correct. The lad y th was returned thought, from he dress and 4 ti t tlik‘t e Person ht who returned it, that she mig be 6 11 t o lose. k tl ffer to r ewar d h e r honesty, and therefore , 4 4 - .lt4tte th e tr for the trouble she had taken, allowed 14 1 14 4Jreee l ; re 00 1; but upon being told by he r mother, 114 1 7 ~e,t, t hat the person who had brought the purse he rsOf as a lad i's maid, the lady to whom ir s fed . followed her down stairs, and told her ZS: o ti Vil4 tb . desired the crier to offer a reward, but did l'hoe lle fi r s he might ask her to accept it. The reply 'hi t q 'tkiat ; ll ` could not think of such a thing."—[The ~Olar g e cri er 6 really meant. to decline ir. The reward tcla.,4ltlizt w e a l to have offered has been sent to us, with slip it into a poorbox at one of the 1 4, ...,,„ e s 1 % ) ,o kford the west corner of 13.rner's kklikier,°,,e,!, wh": tr _eet, the widow and daughters of Ryland L t4,3%,,g+ 0 e v.,.„.7 B es a executed at Tyburn. kept aprnt ile; . c . l, l ir its e:t i r:r tast ft , e r his ignominious death. h h When liet‘44lll'4lBe(Prer India Company, for v. lc ewa f„_ 101, e 1,, ed, he fled from his home. and thought 1.. 1 1 4 an inn of an obscure village at some e It lir , oe -11 `" ) u, and there remained for some time. e ll 1 1 er ect by a, t o e * , e h ad his name being written his shoes,. q e t h e 1 14 h ik Pasted a bit of paper. This exciting skOrre t W ail ett off, and his name under it coming in PPrehended brrivitt to justice, and suffered 4 t,ti 1 1' - ` t eet °t the law.At the - 'farther extremity of ‘sl. °ll liti t e 14 the t first house in Edgeware road, imme ti T kit •etie er , 3 burn turnpike, lived for many years t,lll Otieeii„at aoli, so well known and beloved for i rel•le -y anti„ B and generous ho,pitality, not only to ti•J ' , len but to all foreigners of distinction as is * t h ,A tod. f . t , h took place i this house—/Vo. eneral utir to the Emperor Napoleon. G tes and 1? i /4t tlee" 4 . N r alee en I NVICTED OF POACHING. — At i t le 4 o ll ll ttirl,,,seunce,_e, Halifax, Levi Smith, gamekeeper at kb!kr,,,Witle Lilt gun by George Syke, gamekeeper ;) g un IT, with . trespassing upon Rishwor.h, he h ad ' !rt pursuit of game without leave. A. beeneNDreriet,,,_ previously warned not to trespass t; e'axf...nenwas adjudged to pay the full pe w n o a e lty , ‘ov4reitellttd engagedses'James schofield,of Long wood, 110. 1/. 48 WM cony . "driving " . the V' Iv • erists. icted in the mitigated penalty of 1/414kt tqr 4bN rg E, , Nit e ' ) ver M.P —.Our Hon. I.lProb : We hors_ will to be able t o l eave bis room; bud cy.Z""3. 10 enabl e him to again mingle with 944un Mercuiv, TFIE SUN. CIRCULAiA BALMORAL, SEPT. 12. Her Mujcsty rode yesti-relay to Ahergeldie to visit her Royal Highness the alchoE.s of K-nt. Her Ma jesty was &trended by the Hon. Mary Seymour. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer stalking. The dinner party yesterday included her Serene Highness the erincess of Hobenlohe Langenbourg, her Serene Highness the Princoss Adelaide of Hohen lohe Langenbourgh, the Right Honourable R. A. Christopher, and Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson, of In• vercauld. The Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Colonel Wood, Lieutenant-Colonel Nicoll, and Mr. M. Haire had interviews with Mr. Secretary Walpole yestrerday at the Home- cffice. Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governor-G-neral of Canada and the Governors of the other North American pro vinces. SPOitTiiNG NOTES. N. THE FIELD FOR THE GRE kT ST. LEGER, &c. TO THE EDITOR Oi THE SUN. SIR,—As the time approaches for the decision of the Great Northern race, all !he interest gradually centres in a few animals. Out of the hundred and sixteeen nominations, not more than ten or eleven at the outside will be found at the post; and the names of these form ing the outside division I cannot give with any certainty. Daniel O'Rourke, Stockwell, Ilex, Trousseau, Song stress, Harbinger, and King of Trumps are the declared starters. The remaining three or tour doubtfuls must be selected from the following:—Alfred the Great, Glenluce, Clumsy Jack, the Duke of Leinster, Merry. go-round. Longbow, Sackhut, and King Pepin. Lord Exeter's couple have put in an appearance at Doncaster; and all hough what betting has been done there prices Stockwell at 5 to 2, yet the general appearance of both have not elicited any marks of approbation from the cognoscenti. It is singular, but there is a steady deter mination on the part of several clever members of " the talent" to fire away at Stockwell. It this horse does not finish first, I anticipate seeing him in the third po. Bi:ion. Des, of course, will be nowhere; merely start ing to, make play for his stable companion. What . I have above termed the outside list contains not an animal that can be expt-cted to attain the third posi:ion, much less the second or first. King of Trumps has arrived, end looks much better than was generally supposed he would, but his very doubtful preparatiou, I think, must effectually put his chance out. The Duke of Richmond's Harbinger is the picture of perfection, so far as training goes, and will and ,übtedly finish third or fourth. How it would a,tonish the backers of the favourite were he to win? More at part ntly im possible things than this have been accomplished; and as there must be. something in the field to justify the tremendous outlay that has b-en, and still is. going on by certain knowing ones against Stockwell and Song stress, I cannot conceive who else it can refer to but Harbinger, Trousseau, or Daniel O'Reurke. Mr. Pedley's Trousseau, although in beautiful condi tion, and well suited to such a course as that at Don caster, I do note xpect to see nearer the front than fourth or fittb. Daniel O'Rourke and Songstress will arrive at Don caster to-day. The former has been doing out-and out work, and the latter but moderate. I cannot get over the tact that Songstresa's work has not been by any means first rate since the accident to her foot; and, coupled with some crotchets in my brain concerning her arising from the money cannonading she has received, and some other reasons, I think she will do very well it she manages to save the second money for her owner. As to Daniel, notwithstanding his diminutive size, and the nature cf the course being against him only, I consider his chance to be as good as, it not better than, any in the race; and, ridden by Frank Butler, will be about A 1 in the race. The starters for the Municipal Stakes are War Whom Vanderdecken, Umbriel, and Incense. As I have pieced thorn so I expect they will come in. V. T. (Barnsley) is informed that there is but one horse of the name of Pesrold, and he is by Alarm, out of Lady Trampoline. Was originally the property of Captain Detain but sold by him when a yearling to Mr. Mare. He is trained b)French atNewmarket.—l am &c., Sept. 14. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. SPORTING IN TELL IGENCE. DONCAS I'Elt RACES. DONCAS I ER, MONDAY AFTERNOON, 5 O'CLOCK. The following stakes, which it will be seen have filled remarkably well, closed this afternoon at three o'clock:— TUESDAY. The Fitz w illiam Handicap of 5 sOvs. each, with 50 added, One mile. Cheroot, 3 yrs—Al red the Great, 3 yrs—Sir Charles, 5 yrs—Lady Agnes, 3 yrs—Sir Charlep Napier, 3 yrs— Divide nd, 3 yrs—Florence, 3 yrs— c by Tneon, out of Rebecca, 3 yra—B,ss of Hardwick, 3 yr,—f by Itbu riel, dam by The Saddler, 3 yrt. 7 —Clincher, 3 yrs— Tow. r, 4 ) The Selling Stakea of 5 sovs. cacb, with 30 added, &c. One mile ar d a half. Priam the Third. 3 yr. (401) —Cyclops, 4 yra (401) Eu[hony, 3 yra (401)—Florence, 3 yra (400—Lily, 3 yra (401)—Psquetta, 4 yrs (401.) WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Cup Course. Wasp, 4 yrs—Cariboo, 5 yrs—Kingston, 3 yrs— Hungertord, 4 yrs—Lerrywhent, 3 yrs—Galvanism, 3 yrs—Newminster, 4 yrs—Sir Charles, 5 yrs—Florence, 3 yrs—Rebecca colt, 3 yrs—Recommendation, 3 yrs— Allegro, 3 yrs—Sir Rowland Treuchard, 4 yrs. Sweepstakes for 2 and 3 yrs old. Red House in. F by Don John, out of ,Conspiracy, 2 yrs—Ltmbton, 2 yrs—Alfred the Great, 3 yrs—Peggy, 2 yrs—t' by Melbourne, out of Paddy Bird's dam, 2 yrs—St. Andrew, 2 yrs—Auchinleck, 2 yrs—Felton, 2 yrs— Molasses, 2 yrs—Audsbon, 2 yrs—Exact, 2 yrs—Little Swift, 2 yra—c by Ingo, out of Daughter o f T oscar, 2 yrs—Ann Eliza, 2 yra—c by the Emperor, out of Begurn, 2 yrs. FRIDAY. Course. Doncaster Cap, value 300 ,ova C up Alonzo, 5 yrs—Caracara, 3 yrs—Teddington, 4 yrs— Stilton, 3 yrs—King of Trumps, 3 yrs—Songstress, 3 yrs—Nancy, 4 yrs—Womersley, 3 yrs—Little Harry, 3 yrs—llex, 3 yrs—Cariboo, 5 yrs—Evadne, 3 yrs— Newminster, 4 yrs—Truth, 4 yrs—Harbinger, 3 yrs— Allegro, 3 yrs—Scarecrow, 3 yrs—Kingston, 3 yrs— Altred the Great, 3 yrs—Cy clops, 4 yrs—Daniel O'Rourke, 3 yrs—Rebecca colt, 3 yrs — Trousseau, 3 yrs —Hungerford, 4 yrs. Nurssry Plate of 100 sovs. for two yriold. Last mile. Conspiracy filly Corybante— Lambton—Valour— Rattlecap—Polly —Maid of Golbourne—lncense—Peggy —The Hatchet— Eaton —Nerva—St. Andrew—Ace of Trumps, by Assault Romeo Auchinleck—Luxury c'lt—Peliou Moccassin f by Touchstone, out of Gaiety—Lord Lieutenant—Audabon Little Savdt— Ann Etiza—Daughter of Toscar cult—Master Norton —Ada, by Poycton—Exact—Grapeshot—Begum cult. Horses arrived:—The Alp, Prcctor, Lady Agnes, Rache - e-, Jaquenetta, Grapeshot, Exact, Audabon, Al legro, Incense, Rebecca colt, Little Swift, Russborough, Polly, King of Trumps, Vanderdecken, Claverhouse, Hungerturd, Jack Leeming, Euphony, Kingston, Flo• rence, Luxury colt . , Alonzo, Bess of Hardwick, Sir C. Napier, Romeo, Verbena colt, Prime Minister, The Tu rin, Nancy, Ada, Stilton, lorrywhent, •The Hatchet, Galvanism, Recommendation, Charity, Margaret of An jou, Doubt Long, Anterverte, Saxon, View Halloo, Con rad, Ltly (by the Se t), Lady of the Grove, Lord Lieu tenant, Newminster, Abbess filly,Croupier, Nerve, Phan tom, Eaton, Evadne, The Reiver, Turnus, War Whoop, Priam the Third, Knight of the Garter, Camara, Barba colt, Conspiracy 1, Little Hairy, Stockwell, Ilex, Sabra, Sherman, Dividend, Calorie, Vindex, Gaiety filly, Cariboo, Hirsute, Glenluce, Scarecroe, Harbinger, Womersley, rowton, Trousseau, Pequetta, f out of Paddy Bird's dam, t by Ithuritl, d by The Saddler, Cyclops. Tne following are expected in the course of this even ing or to-morwm:—Teddington, Orinoco, Corybantes, Clincher, Wasp, Cheroot. Sir Charles Tower , Auchin lech, St:Andrew, The Qleen, Pelson, Molasses, Ann Begutn colt, Brawn, Sir R. Trenchard, Valour, Rattlecap, Hobble Noble, Ace of Trumps, Mucassin, Master Norton, The Maid of Golbourne, &c. Daniel O'Rourke and Songstress come to morrow. BETTING AT SIX O'CLOCK. ST. LEGER. _ 3 to 1 agst Stockwell (taken and afterwards offered) 12 to 4 apt Songstre s s (take 7to 2) 7 to 2 agst Dania O'Rourke (offered) Nothing else mentioned. DONCASTER, MONDAY NIGHT, 12 o'CLocx. The following are the en ries for the Fitzwilliam Handicap:—Clincher. 5 yrs, Bdt 131b—Florence, 3 yrs, 5 71b—Sir Charles Napittr, 3 yra, 6st 41b—Sir Charles, 6 yrs, Bst 61b—The Twin, 4 yrs, 6st 61b—Rebecca colt, 3 yrs, sst 121b—L1dy Agnes, 3 yrs, bat 12ib—Ithuriel filly. 3 vrs, Est 61b— Bess of Hardwick, 3 yrs, sst 81b— Al:red the Great, 3 yrs, 6st 101b—Cheroot, 3 yrs, 6st 41b —Dividend, 3 yrs, sst 4in. LATEST BETTING. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CHAMPAGNE STAKES. Even ou Tb River 5 to 2 agst Vindex 4 to 1 agst Orinoco 10 to 1 agst Barba—taken 20 to 1 sot any other GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 5 to 1 agst Knight of the Garter 5 to 1 egst Alot , zo 5 to 1 egst Jack Leeming 6 to 1 agst The Twin 8 to 1 IP git Alp 9 to 1 agst Lerrywhent 12 to 1 agst Imagination ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 agst Stockwell 5 to 2 agst Songstress 4 toto 1 1 a agar T t llraonoiesise O'Rourke—taken 7 Harbinger nut mentioned. DONCASTER, TUESDAY, 12 o'CW_CK. LATEST BETTING. CHAMPAGNE STAKES. 5 to 4 en The Rviv,r—taken The rest es before. GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 5 to 1 on the Field 7 to 1 agst Scarecrow No other change. ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 sgst St.,ckweil 5 to 2 agst Songstress 7 to 2 age; Daniel O'Rourke L N ON, 7 t') 1 agt Trousseau—taken 9ac 1 .e.t• 1-I , rhir r—t, ken INTELLI(iENCE EXPRA. EPSON.I AUTUMN MEETING, 1852. Mr. B. Crewe's Abdall4ll, 5 yrs, 83; 71b, against Mr. B. Land's The Gri-ek, 3 yrs, let 71b. One mire. 200, h fr. UPTON-UPON-SEVERN, 1852. Handicap fur the Upzon Stakes, 3 ft, if deelarcd on &- tut day wE Candlewick, 5 yrs, Sat 51b—Letterpress, 4 yrs, 7?t 101b—Ochbare, 4 yrs, Tat 10113—Batwing, 5 yrs. 7st 101 b —Worcester, 4 yrs, lot 41b—Cingari, 5 yrs, 7.t 41b— Lady Amyott 3 yrs, 7st—Ethelwolf, 3 yrs, bat 61b — Surge, 3 yrs, 6a] 61b—Winifred, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Royal George, 3 ) rs, 6st—Romulus, 3 yrs, sit 101 b. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEZTING, 1852.— TUESDAY. Accptareos for the Cesarewitch Stakes. Yrs st lb Yrs at lb Cariboo Itus:.-borough ...... 5 8 6 s_:onmore Lady Evelyn (including Gibs extra) Galvanism Black Doctor 4 8 4 Mrs, Bitch Kingston 3 8 4 King Pepin 3 6 4 Ariusto ' 4 8 0 Phlegra Stilton .... 3 7 13 Kilquatio 4 6 :.1 Alorzi Chief Buren Ni- Hyacinth cholsun Joe Miller Montague, Windischgratz Frantic Netuham 4 '.' 6 Indian ur r i o r 3 7 5 Timid Fawn Bird on the Wing, 3 7 3 Musician 5 7 2 Knight of Gwynne 5 7 1 Le Juif ......... 4 6 13 W eathergage 3 6 11 Lady Amyott 3 6 11 Marchioness Knt. of the Garter 6 6 10 King Charming 4 6 9 Candlewick Proctor c by Melbourne Merry man La Gazza Ladra 6 5 12 barrier Waterfall Liudrick 3 5 11 Bit of Blue 3 5 10 Ather, as Pallas Jullien 3 5 9 Mary Ann 3 5 9 Richard Primmer 3 5 8 Knight (Atha Shire 3 5 8 Lerrywhent Lady Harriet 3 5 6 Madeline 3 5 5 Utile Davie Dangerous Babette Termagant _ _ _ out of Sally War foot Butterfly 3 6 7 The others di Dollond 3 5 3 Missive xi not accept. NEWMARKET HOUGI Acceptances for the C Yrs st lbl Teddington 4 9 3 Turnos 6 8 10 Lady Evelyn (including 6lbs extra) Truth Rtbsborough Hernandez Glauca Kregt ton 3 8 3 Ario.to Officious Ept , eus Sir Charles 5 7 11 Silton 3 7 11 Neasham 4 7 11 Robbie Noble 3 7 11 Alc Tan Harbinger Chief Baron Ni- HTON MEETING, 1852. Jambridgeshire Stakes. Yrs st lb I Father Thames 3 6 8 Lady Agnes Poodle 3 6 7 Miss Fanny ~ 4 6 7 I Dulcet a 6 6 i Lancastfr Bardolph 3 6 6 King Pepin 3 6 6 I Dt ceitful 4 6 5 ! Phlegra ! Evadne Convulsion Sanita 'careerow Kate 3 6 5 Kilquade 4 6 4 Old English OA 3 6 4 Sackbut Athena Pallas 3 6 3 cholson Eliza Middleton Longinus lionleem Snivey 4 7 7 Grief King of Trumps 3 7 5 Grey Tommy 3 7 5 Hot horpe Indian Warrior Adine 3 7 4 The Cutler 4 7 3 Weatherguge 3 7 2 Le Juif Ring leader 4 7 1 Curacars 3 7 1 Hungerford 4 7 0 Flirt The Italian 5 6 13 Musician High Sheriff 3 6 12 Al!egro Lady Arnyott Gladiole (including 3lbs extra) Trousseau b f by Faugh-a- Ballagh, out of Miniature Kadidjah 3 6 10 Proctor Herbert c by Melbourne, out of Sally Warfoot Glenluce 3 6 9 Manifold 5 6 9 Candlewick 5 6 8 Young Trouble some 4 6 8 Butterfly 3 Koh .i-noor . 3 Vermuth Bit of Blue 3 Aerryman ...... a Knight of the Shire 3 Follow-me lads Azael Hyacinth 3 Ilex . Lindrick Sophistry La Gazza Ladra 6 Cavan 3 Ammonia Puri- an Alfred the Great 3 Billy Bar 4 Sir J. Barleycorn 3 Plot 3 TeAed 3 Henrietta Rachet si 3 Jullie❑ 3 Varmint 3 Sister to Singapore 3 Babette Brawn 3 Cotton Lady 3 Termagant ..... 3 Dividend 3 Pancake Jessica ... 3 ' Cornelius ... 4 Peacock 3 Dollond Sabra Madeline 3 Isabella 5 soya. each. The rest pay THE NORTHERN MEETING. INVERNESS, SEPT. 11.—Tbis great annual gather ing of Highland chiefs and proprietors, and of sports men from the south, was commenced here on Thurs day and concluded last night. The attendance Was more numerous, perhaps, than on any previous oc casion, for owing to the fine weather with which we have been favoured this season, and the absence of any absorbing attraction in the south, there has been an unparalleled influx into the Highlands of sportsmen of every descript ion, of vi si t o rs at the houses of the nort h ern nobility, and of tourists from every part of England and the Continent. These have flocked in great numbers to Inverness to witness the festivities at the northern meeting, which is the modern desig nation for the great Highland gathering, known in the famous Duke of Gordon's time as the Northern Hunt. The constitution of the meeting is so far changed that for field-sports and horse-racing have been substituted piping and dancing. The northern meeting, however, is still the most thoroughly Celtic demonstration of which we can boast. At the Scottish fete, in Hol land-park, many of the best Highland games were c on t es ted by a majority of the same brawny High landers who came forward at Inverness and at Brae mar; but then there is neither the noble panorama of mountains which surround this picturesque town, nor the presence of the chivalry of the north, the lineal descendants of the same men who followed the for tunes of Dundee and Prince Charlie. In the large ma ny thousand persons were assem park in which the game s were celebrated durin g the last two days, bled ; and though clans and clanships are utterly de molished, yet of those present fully three-fourths bear the names of chieftains with whom the readers of his tory are familiar. The Duke of Richmond, the patron of the northern meeting, did not attend; but the vice-president, Lord Saltoun, and Lord Lovat, took an active part in the proceedings. The games which came off here on Thursday were putting the stone, tossing the caber, throwing the hammer, &c. The hammer was throw n 96 feet thre e inches by Donald Fraser, of Upper Killin ; the best throw ever known to be made at Inverness. Samuel Kennedy, the big- boned, red-headed celt of Bade noch, who regularly appears at the Scottish fete, tossed with ease a huge caber, which baffled the strength and skill of every other competitor. Yester day was set apart for the competition of pipers and dancers. The winner of the gold medal was Alex ander M'Kenzie, piper to the Marquis of Breadalbane, a hale and hearty grey old man. The prizes for dancing called forth a large boat of light-footed competitors from the braes of Strathspey. The sword dance and Ghillie Callum were never bet ter performed, and the reels were given with great seat and spirit. A ball, very brilliantly and numerously attended, concluded the festivities of each day. Amongst those present were Lady Ann M'Kenzie, Lady Carolina Townsley, Lady Loyal, Lady Mostyn, &c. ; Prince Massino, the Earl of Leicester, Hon. F. Dundas, M.P., Hon. L. Grant and Hon. Lewis Grant, of Seafield, Hon. Mr. Abercromby of Birkenbog, Hon. J. Gordon, Sir C. Hope Vere, Sir Henry Wii. more, Sir Piers Mostyn, Sir Adam Hay, Sir Robert Menzies, Couut Moratt, Mr. Matheson, M.P., &c. COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY:A collision took place near Leighton Buzzard yesterday morning, September 13. with The snowed .30 down ul e gain , which was a very heavy o ne, a left the Euston marked 110, driven by James l' attison, terminus at its usual time, being due at Leighton at 7.48, where it arrived in due course, carrying a large number of second and third-class passengers. The pilot engine came up to the Leighton station, and having been attached to the down train, proceeded with it over the single line to that point where the relaying of the up line at this point termi. Dated. The pilot was then nhooked from the engine of the 6.30 A. st. down train, an unhooked proceeded at a rapid speed on to the crossing, in order to pass on to the up line to allow the down train to pass. The pilot engine had nearly reached the crossing, and was partially crossing on to the up line, when the down train, the engine of which had been kept by Pattison the driver following at a great speed, caught the left-hand hind buffer of the tender, dashing it across the line down the embankment and throwing the pilot engine round across the up line. The passenger down train had its front stove in, and was also, together with its tenLer, thrown over across the down line, and four and five of the carriages of the down train also being thrown off the down line, the road was perfectly blocked. With the exception of one gentle man, who had his face severely cut with the glass of one of the carriage windows, and injury to one of the heels of the policeman who was on the pilot engine, we understand that no one received really serious injury. MANSLAUGHTER AT LIVERPOOL, --- On Sunday morning last, about one o'clock, a widow, named Grace Jones, was killed by her son-in-law, Thomas Yates, under the following melancholy circumstances:—About midnight he went home and found his wife in a state of intoxication. Being irri ated, he commenced beating her, when her mother interfered, and Yates struck her on the throat, knocking her down the steps into the yard, and causing a compound frac turetile skull, from which the deceased immediately ex - A post mortem examination has been ord e r ed, and Ip,.iared. t of e 8 iss custody. TUESDAY EVENING-, SEPTEMBE ANECDOTES OF CRITICISM. (From lliza Cook's Journal) are surprising when, in opposition to this, we find Warton declaring that your opinion of Lycidas decides whether you have a " true taste for poetry or not." But Boswell's bear could not appreciate Milton. As be con fessed to Beattie, he never read him through till he wanted to get words for his dictionary. Of Shakspere's sonnets he also wrote—" Of the best it can only be said that they are not bad." Pope condemned the author of Hamlet as writing in "the style of a bad age," and re gretted that he had not copied Sackville more! "Rare Ben," too, was indifferent as a critic. Spenser's stanzas " pleased him not, nor his manner." Shakspere" wanted art, and sometimes sense. Waller saw nothing in Milton but "an old blind schoolmaster, who had written a dull poem, remarkable for nothing but its length?' Milton preferred Cowley to Dryden. Dryden esteemed Catherine Philips above Sappho; and asked permission from the bard of Paradise Loa to turn that poem into rhyme? It was he, too, who eulogised Lord Halifax as " the krcatest genius," and Lord Roscommon as equal to Ho raca or Virgil. But these were flatteries which should have made the receivers of them blush. What, how ever, could be expected from a critic who admired that Rymer who tells us that the character of Desdemona is below that of any ki"chen-maid. If, in criticism, there were less brilliance end more charity, bever justice would be distributed between tee authors who write and the public who read. When I, as a reviewer, take up my ivory knife, and set down to cut open the leaves of a new book, what do I invoke, as the genius, to attend upon my chair? I am afraid I think of anything but t h o untortunate writer of t h e work. My object is t o fl avour my " article, " an d if " our author" can supply sp i ces, well and goof; he s h a ll supply relish to my periocis; but if un h a ppily not, ho is then the mere ground o f th e di sh, and I serve h i ts up transmogrified trom his or i g i nal shape—with onions o f satire, cloves of sarcasm, g i nger of vitup eration —never thinking of him, but of ma ki ng a " stinging review. ' My pen is no quill from the wing of a pacific goose , my ink no odorous distillation Irons an Indian wood; the one is tempered steel—th e proper material to stab w i t h —the other is undiluted gat ' to pour into the woun d . All around my table ar e t h e b usts of brilliant cr i t i cs, famous in their day, wh ose trophies are built upon a " pyramid of epics, essays, 1 3 r i es, histories, romances, an d disquisitions, amalgamat e d i nto solid bricks, by the pestle first, and pres su r e next, of " first-rate reviews. " " One I see mangling some half-fled ge d poet; " another crushing a young singing -bird in it s n e st; another quenching the lamp of some ambitious student ' s inspis radon. Then I ring my ow n h ammer on the rock, that en echo may come to m e o f s i milar fame, and that my vanity may be plumed by th e i dea that some poetaster, or prosaic dullard has b een " extinguished " by a blot of the terrible liquid, lying, black as Phlegethen, before me. Lately, however, I have been reflecting on the critical art and the critic's responsibility; but I am not going to write a disquisition on either. I have; fur my own edi fication, collected some anecdo tes to illustrate what I have been saying, and to show that infallibility is no more an attribute of the editorial table than it is of Peter's chair. The victims of great reviews have mounted to high fame in spite of their reviewers. Man have fallen into ridiculous errors through their refusal to acknowledge, or their inability to appreciate genius when its work is presented tangibly to their observation. There are some episodes in the history of criticism which are universally known—how th e li v i ng fire of Keats's inspiration was " snuffed out" by an article in the Quarterly; how Byron was hunted by the Scotch reviewers until he stood at bay, and reviewed them in their turn with a vengeance; how Swiit cut to pieces a whole army of scribes by means of one satirical essay; how Pope, with a single feather from the go ose ' s wing, wrote a sacrificial song for a hecatomb of detractors. Other episodes, however, there hprve been, less known, but no less remarkable than these. Gray thought Voltaire had no genius but for writ ing pla3s, and scorned the most exquhito productions of Rousseau. '• David Hume," he said, " was an infant all his life, though unhappily he was taught to read and write." obviously, therefore, when poets begin predicting, and announcing the distribution of renown, for their cootena poraries, it is not always true that— The name Of poet and the prophet is the same. On the contrary, the most lauded writers have frequently had the most short-lived reputations. Peter Pinder, though translated into many languages, is now decaying in the dust; and after the ephemeral brilliance of la few seasons' popularity, thousands of names vanish and dissipate like vapours from the hill. Maccabe gives a good satirical imitation of one of these exuberant panegyrics, supposed to be a friendly criticism from the Mudford Chronicle:—" Ferdinand Count Schwellinbach.—A tale of the Sclavonic race.— We welcome with delight this new proof of the genius of the author of Baptista, or the Traitor's Grave. It is indeed, an unlooked-for accession to the stores of ro manlic fiction, with which oar literature happily abounds. In it we find the broad and genial humour of Fielding; the cutting sarcasm of Smollett; and the deep tone of feeling and sentiment which pervades the works of Sterne; the whole worked up with a power which is only displayed at intervals in the splendid fictions of Scott; and a sunny gleaminess which is only seen stream ing over the page of Avon's bard!" Exaggerated this may seem, but I have read as un diluted encomiastics on the most squalid performances in our own day. Criticism, however, is far more honest than it was fifty years ago, and far more judicious. Good writers may be "cut up, or, which is worse, they may be while quacks may be puffed into an evanes cent can did tone in the critical literature of the day. A f t er all, ne r g e i n e o c w te n d ; but on the whole, there is a temperate and w time is the great judge. Mighty floats of folios, oc t a vos, and shining hot-pressed "twelves," perpetually drifting into oblivion; but the stars of ragheruottealleltvieh: shine with an eternal lustre. Dr. Howard, d u ring the reign of George the Second, collected copies of more than tour hundred editions of Horace. That is the true monum ent of an author ' s fame. Meanwhile, u se of it, and it is to be hoped that this branch of literature will rise to the elevation it deserves to cc p 1 . , for one, since I began these remarks, have mingled so me honey with my ink, and taken the quill of ci h rut o g however, theiry er , the critics have great power; they are improv a dove instead of the steel pen, so that with this soft qu i ver i ng pinion, dipped in a phial of sweeter solution, the books I review iu future, shall with more charity be treated ! THE CRITIC REPENTANT. There never was, for instance, a more extraordinary, a more absurd, a more impudent criticism, than that of Rymer upon the tragedy of Othello. lie said it was " a bloody farce, without salt or savour, that fillsthe head h y im b e o , o wasks— thought perhaps ciseid e d the a judi c i ous man; with vanity, confusion, tintamarre, a n d jingjel angle:, rNeuvwiewßed a goodymer,in h m is an t t o lite rary fate of several authors. Yet, if th e public accepted his opinion, how, much injustice wa s there not com mitted. Nearly equal in impertinence was a a s poet , e infer inferior to Pope. Tobserva tion of that remark,S h a ks however,pe re was f rom such a man , though it startles, does nct astonish us. lie was utterly incompetent to appreciate the richness, sweetness, and beauty of that poetic nectar which flowed from the lips of him who was our noblest muse. He said, that the only excellence of the dramatic minstrel, W h o „ melo dies gushed as though "Ilyssus were in his throat," was his wit, and that among his merits rhythmical modulation was by no means to be included. . _ After this, I do not so greatly wonder that a dull, dry, and dusty mathematician once told us that Milton's Paradise Lost is " worth nothing, because it proves nothing." This scientific pedant would have valued , p mere highly the solution of an algebraical roblem or an ingenious disposition of straight lines, curves, and cones. Figures arithmetical he loved, but figures of 3 , Chur c hy ar d , o f speech, or flowers of thought, he could b y no possi bility understand. Pe a s w c h o i r e n h e d a Gray's contemporary criticeo u s ;la earn, with th e most r amusing condescension,—" This i little p oem, how ever humble its pretensions, s not without ele gance or merit 1" What, however, c an surprise us, whenraveier a Goldsmith's a reviewersmiTfli:smsyct prod in the Monthly set d own his T ; when W or d sworth h ~ whenas the s 'c' Scott t r bhoass b e, dry,een compared to d r a b .coated proser o beent Homer; when Rogers has been eulogise as " superior to Coleridge, Shelley, or Moore;" when Shakspere has as tbe l describedak lakes;" s ; been sneered at by Ben Jonson as an ig noramus, be. cause he makes Bohemia a maritime country ; and when it has been pronounced of Shelley's poetry, as i t was b y Gifford, that its chief characteristic is, " its total want of meaning. THE .EMPIRE IN FRANCE The following petition of the fathers of families and labourers, for the re-establishment of the Empire, is now being circulated for signature among the lowest classes in Paris : " Messieurs les Senateurs,— " 1. Considering that in a country like ours—that in France (no matter what the constitution may be) all in terests are necessarily placed under the influence, and, moreover, under the truly sovereign influence, of the person who is the Chief of the State; " Considering, consequently, that as to who is or is not Chief of the State ought not to be made a periodi cal question—no matter whether there be 10, 15, or 20 years between such periods—unless, indeed, the interests of the country are at such epochs to be periodically and fatally affected, simply by the doubt and uncertainty which weigh upon them, since they cannot foresee what kind of a future the new Chief of the State will prepare for them; pre"B2td.ehCcy h onsi f de l r o i , ng ls t , h o a r t 20a years, cannot possibly knowr of a family, under a under what political conjunctures he will provide for the marriage of the son or the daughter that just now he fondles on his knee; "Considering, consequently, that a presidency of 10, 15, or 20 years cannot possibly altogether and justly satisfy the loftiest and sweetest sentiments of paternal and conjugal love; " And that, were it otherwise, the births ought in a very peculiar manner to correspond to the peculiar exi gencies of this periodical renovation of the executive power; " 3Considering, likewise, that under a presidency of 10, 15, or 20 years the industrious and provident work man is equally troubled in .his prudence, in his love of labour, by the uncertainty in which, under an unstable Government, he finds the political conditions which ought at some future day to promote him from the po sition of a labourer to that of an employer; " Considering that under such institutions the savings of the workman, for the purpose of at a future time em ploying labour, can only commence at certain stated pe riods in which the sovereign power changes hands—who, then, could think of founding an establishment, or un dertaking any other r es p ons i b ili t y w i t hi n th e period of she two or three years which precede the election of the Chief of the State? The truth is, that there can be no absurdity imagined which has not been perpetrated by critics, ht o ne time or a nother. Time, however, cures the littl e stings inflicted by the feeble. The day has gone by when rea d ers of t he Literary Gazette wou ld su b m it to be told by that journal that " Queen Mab" was " a mere mass of bloated words," or that " Adonais" exhibited nothing but " in curable absurdity." Fortunately also the day has long gone by when that periodical would open its columns for any critic to effuse through them such spleen of a malignant soul. The " late remorse of love" has made amends to the fame of the poet, and if the cheap flatteries of poste rity atone anything for the wrongs endured in life, they have been amply yielded in the ‘. immortals" which now grace the Roman tomb of Keats, and have made another Lycidas of Shelley, who does not " float upon his watery bed without the weed of some melodious tear." Byron and Wordsworth were harshly used by their reviewers ; but they could themselves criticise harshly, and let us add, unjustly. The latter spent hours with Thomas Roscoe, railing at Campbell, and de scribed the most magnificent lay of Burns as " over rated stuff—miserable insanity, without a thought, with out an image." We all remember how bitterly he was himself assailed by the roamin g p oet o f N ewatea d Ab bey, who seldom missed the opp or t un i ty to a im a blow at the— Clumsy, frowsy poem, called the "Excursion," Writ in a manner that is my aversion. Or at " the warbling waggoner," whose rhymes he com pared to the cracking of a ploughman's whip. From the same pen also descended those reckless lashes which galled " Bob Southey, turncoat Southey, that incar nate lie,"—epithets with which a poet bhould never soil his page. Nor did Byron ever display himself more unworthy of his genius thvia when h e spo k e of the beau tiful writings of Dean Milman, as effusions f ro m the cur of verse, who ploughs for every line," though he was. perhaps, more correct when he likened the stanzas of Tabso's biographer to " gilded icicles." the author of Childe Har o ld was in the humour t o utter a sarcastic thing, he littl e eared on whom or w h a t his arrows fell, whether on Campbell's "drouthy hippoorene," or Wordbworth's " crsz-d beyo n d a il hope ; or " drunken Coleridge," or " qua i nt and mouthY Southey; or Walter Savage Land or , that " des mout h e d Bceo clan." Byron, also, if h e cou l d spit venom on an ene m y , was capable of superb l au d at i on on a frien d —so on doors-- When, however, " 4. Considering, then, that to stake the person of the Chief of the State upon the chances of a periodical elec tion is as much as to say that a father of a family shall never be happy for, the future of th at f am il y; that he s h a ll no t enjoy and safe, and looking at, and providing the love of his children; and that the provident labourer shall not be confident and happy in his love of labour and his legitimate ambition to become an employer of labour; " But, considering, above all things, that our genera tion would violate all the duties it owes to succeeding generations, if, enamoured of anarchy in its concerns, it were not, with all dispatch, to create an established state of things for the future—if it allowed our political in stitutions to tend to individualise the principle of re sistance—since there is no length of life of individuals or generations—and, least of all, ours, which can succeed in drying up to its source the principle of evil and of evil passions; To whom are given The lyre and laurels of triumphal song, He won them well and may_ he wear th - s , This miscslled criticism,the however, aids little victory of solid literature over the concoctions of quackery. It is no less ridiculous than that of the Irishman, who once reviewed a poem in which the word key was rhymed with sea, He seriously declared Churchill, it was a barbarous blunder, or at least a poet's license carried beyond the limits of the most extended tolera- This Milesian critic was probabl tion. " For," he concluded, " to justify the rhyme, kay must be supposed to be pronounced ke '' e I most offensive instance of critical vulgarity fi h i as brother s a poet, i t s h the same "drivellingcraft, andVlVi h i s o n le tells d ilon u 13 1 h i g , i puss gene ration,th b a y nature uninspired, untaught by art." B u t perhaps the i many years ago by the Dublin University Review, which .tle resembled then the mild and equitable censor now reigning The under a similar title in the Irish capital. reviewer had exhausted his acidulous ink upon one of Campbell's poems ; he had not another fierce word to Say; he he had not a point left to attack; a line remaining froaissect. But his rancour was not yet Campbell should write ill, since he had was afforded satisfied. So m the book he turned to the author, and was suffi cientlyder C gross to tell his readers that there was no won and This, never theless, like those of a dead haddock." , s, though more direct! - a wag perhaps less malicious y expresse , than the insinuation of a famous London rtheviewer, when, after speaking of Th,alaba, he added is ungracious sentence :—" Of Mr. Southey himself we know. nothing, and we desire to know nothing.'" eyes cold Philosophers pretend to be careless of opinion; but own works; but Keats, as I have said, P vets, whatever they affect, very seldom are indifferent. Wordsworth proiessed never to read a criticism on his the hand of Gifford; Kirk White was and stung him just as he was emerging blasted by one critique ; wounded Racine a single stroke of raillery perished under almost to death; Hawkesworth is said to have died un der the assaults of reviewers, who s warmed like wasps reviewers of popularity ; Pope under the tortures inflicted by ~.,' Dennis; and even Newton cut short a friendship of into the sunshine . -en 'y years' duration with one who bad uttered an un favourable criticism on some of his works. If, however, some authors have been injured by their was the Literary Gazette which won a laurel wreath for L. B. L. it was Southey who gate girk White a name; i t was Leigh Hunt who rescued John Keats from the as persionsowe of those who wished to tie their heavy reviews to his genius, and sink it into obliv ion. And in pro p ortion as the reviewer is great, does the exultation of the au thor he praises rise. Sheridan broke into tears of joy damia" when he learned that Byron had uttered a laudation of iris powers. In some instances, indeed, the panegyric of the amiably-dieposed has been as absurd, though not was said that his so contemptible, as the detraction of the envious or un kind. Ilszlitt, for example, declared that the " Lao- Good poets are nut easy to determine which is most injurious to the author,—_thin unscrupulous rancour, or that inconsi derate Partiality; whether Turner lost more when it yoke of Egg." or Rogers, when his compositions were described and d e d s a n u m b e s ti o m f es false p o i f c t t e u n r e b s a were e r e critics, as superior to those of Coleridge and Shelley. —tells ue that when because jealous. Anna Seward, —who was herself vain enough to boast that she could translate an ode of Darwin had published his " Botanic Garden," in couplets, he never would read blank verse aga i n. Samuel Johnson, en d s his review of " Paradise Lost" by s a yi ng , t h a t i ts perusal is rather a duty than a pleasur e; he also sa id that the diction or Lycidas was harsh, and its rythm unpleasiug; " be W°lll4l "I T a (4 , g that should read that poem twice." " What then," asked a lady, "must become of me, who can say it by heart?" "Die," replied the Goth, " ot a surfeit of bad taste." Now the contradictions of genius " 5. Lastly, Messieurs les Senateurs, considering, on the other hand, that experience has already proved that the generous self-denial of the Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who desired to remain President for ten years in order the more fully to propitiate the reconciliation of parties, has produced exactly the reverse of the effect which the heir of the Emperor in his ardent love for the country desired; " Considering that the old parties do all they can to trouble all existing interests with their hopes, because under the present institutions these hopes may indeed, at certain periods, make a legal appearance before the country; " Considering that these hopes would not, of course, dare to cling to institutions which would not allow them to persuade the people of their future legality; " And to believe the contrary is to overlook altogether the economical position, and the state of the finances of the chiefs of the old parties, as well as their well•known prudence; • "Considering that, by a strange mixture of ingrati tude and blindness, the old parties, abusing the great and noble disinterestedness of the Prince Louis Napo leon, turn the same into weapons of discord and con fusion ; "6. Considering, in one word, that the present can not be tranquil, which means that it cannot be fit for business, labour, and trade, so long as the political future remains doubtful, and that the political future must always remain doubtful so long as the person of the Chief of the State, under whose interest are, necessarily, all the great moral and material interests of the conntry, remains exposed, though merely in theory, to the chances of an election; " 7. Considering, moreover, that hereditary power in France will, for the future, have no other support than the people's love and its twice, and so grandly within fifty years, merited gratitude to the family of the Emperor; " Messieurs les Ssnateurs,__ . . . " Thlt the father of a faMily may be at ease as to the future of his children, and remain untroubled by the uncertainties of our political future; that industrious and intelligent labourers may not suffer from the same un certainty in the legitimate hope of providing for their old days, for themselves and their families, the just re ward of their labour and their frugality; " For this purpose have th e undersigned, con fidi ng in your high wisdom and Providence, the hon our moat re• spectfully to pray that you will make us e o f t h e right which the existing Constitution confers upon you, for the interest of the future of the country, in order to re establish political authority on its truly nati ona l an d popular basis—the only one w h i ch suits our age — v i z ., hereditary tenure of Sovereign power in the family of Bonaparte. GREAT CALIFORNIAN LINE OF TELEGRAPH.--The route selected for this f te ls l l e i g ss r ei a ns p si b tph , pe e i x ,mr t u e en n esn d ei i n n reg g over their 2,400 miles, as Natchez, stated b i yn the ee statecommittee o report to the Senate of the United States, will commence at the cityof on the Rio Grande, thenc t e h t r o ou t g b h e Texas to El Paso of the Gila and Colorado rivers, crossing at the head of the Gulf of California to San Diego on the Pacific, and then skirt ing the coast to Monterey and San Francisco. The committee report, that if this line of wires be established, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans will, for commercial communications, become as it were as one ; and that intelligence will be conveyed from London to California and India in a shorter time than was re quired ten years since to transmit a letter from Liverpool to Janudne,ifnorMay ede l with and two w o o f New York. northern DEATH OF THE LAST SURVIVOR OF KEPPEL'S ACTION.—Mr. D. F. Hainsselin, father of Mr. D. Hainsselin, auctioneer, of Devonport, died ' on the 3d instant, aged 92 of Keppel's action. He was also at the celebrated relief of years. Mr. Hainsselin was supposed to be the last survivor Gibralt ar , a t th e taking of St. Eustatia and other West India islands, in the Monarch, which led the ♦an in Rodney's acti on ; in the skirmish with the French fleet off Plymouth ; o h n ich th h e e 2h9atdh the of m the the R tw oo a latterl G eo George, e w , bare. —23/ vmout h Anonah 14. I e,.. THE INCOME-TAX. Those of our contemporaries who most loudly clamour for a graduated income-tax, judiciously evade the trouble of investigating the theory of taxa tion by an incessant appeal to common sense —or, in other words, to the uninstructed popular judgment on a purely scientific question. On the other band, the actuaries who were examined before the Committee display abundant ingenuity and arithmetical skill, as well as a general indifference to the practical difficul ties which might result from the adoption of their proposals. Taeir calculations are unassailable, and their conclusions infallible, on the assumption that they have stated the question correctly. One of the most judicious of their number observes, with con siderable acuteness, that the present impost is unjust so far as it falls partly on income, and partly on pro perty. But the whole of the argumen t s in favour of graduation are based on the assumption that no distinction whatever ought to be made between income and capital. The scheme for converting every income into a perpetuity, by taxing only the interest on its assumed marketable worth, is founded on a most arbitrary fiction. As an ordinary rule, men live on their annual receipts, and not on 3 per cent. of their saleable value. There are, of course, exceptions, but all the actuaries in England will fail to persuade any reasonable person that the rare operation of capitalizing a professional income forms the rule of private economy. If, in point of fact, a lawyer, aged 40, with an income of 1,0001. a year—which would be worth, as Mr. Williams in- i forms us, seven years' purchase—were considered by himself and his neighbours as the owner of 2001. a year, the State might safely assess him at that sum,in the exp ec t at i on that it would d escen d t o his children. But, in reality, the income is transitory, and so is the per ce n t age levied by the tax-gatherer ; nor wou ld th e assessment be strictly just, even on the assumption which we ha ve suggested. Professional incomes have been adjusted wit • h some reference to the wants of the recipient, as proportioned to his education and position ; and assuredly Eery estate was theneypercfoenees professional od foundation of an one of the he r e di century indispen sable necessaries of re The Popes of the 17 t h undue greediness when they created were accused of ages or principalities for their nephew s perpetual ;pan sons. In England, howe ver , itor illegitimate wouldem, accord• ing to the jud gm e n t o f some o f the witnesses, that each to found bee bncumbent. intended fixed ecclesiastical inc omes are p r i nc i pa l ly patrimonies for the de scen d ants on the A bishop or a prebendary o f 70 h to assumption that he will lea ve hi s family the x f ed ll value of his preferment, subject t o a sma ll d eduction u own life interest. Some of the richest prelates of the for his present day would, according to the scheme in which all the actuaries concur, be assessed at not more than one-fifteenth or one-twentieth part of their actual re venues. It is surprising that gentlemen so competent to calculate individual chances, should have forgotten that a large number of casualties virtually amount to a certainty. The entire income of the Church is a perpetuity, though all existing incumbents may possibly die to-morrow ; yet the witnesses deem it demonstrably just—and some of our contemporaries echo the assertion—that the revenues of the Church, as compared with hereditary property, should be at once increased by a definite and calculable per cen tage. The incomes of the legal profession, being held by a more insecure tenure, will doubtless receive a still larger advantage. The landlord will not find that, on an average of years, be pays less to his soli• citor than formerly; but he will have the satisfaction of knowing that he also pays income-tax for the purpose of ensuring the lives both of attorney and counsel. Nor will his steward fail to derive a similar benefit. In former days, two or three per cent. on the rental may, perhaps, have been considered a sufficient remuneration for agency. But new lights have arisen. The rental, being hereditary, is subjected to income-tax; but service, prover bially, is no inheritance, and the steward's place may not be worth three years' purchase. The tax, therefore, is levied, lin his case, on the interest of three times the annual value, while the employer pays on thirty-four times his yearly revenue. After the expiration of the three years, he must still pay the same or another steward; but he will not the less continue liable to the same disproportionate as sessment. Under such circumstances, one of two results must ensue. Either a general readjustment of salaries and of professional remuneration must take place—or the entire sum paid by the community, in the form of fees and wages, must be proportionally increased by the exact amount which the actuaries and their friends propose to deduct from the tax on precarious incomes. Until this obvious consequence has been explained and justified, theoretical reasoners will concur in that disinclination to change which practical politicians entertain on grounds of fiscal convenience. It is scarcely necessary to add that any diminution of salaries to meet a graduated in come-tax would itself prove that the new-fangled system introduced an anomaly. While the scientific advocates of fiscal inequality ere considering this difficulty, we may conveniently turn to the so-called objections of common sense— one of which is urged by a correspondent of our own, under the appropriate signature of " Ignoramus," who prefaces his remarks with the candid admission, "I am very ignorant." We have no doubt that " Ignoramus" at least understands his own affairs too well to have engaged in the ruinous transaction which he has thought fit to convert from an hypothesis into a narrative. It will be observed that the bargain which he describes was made "a short time since' at a period, therefore, when the income-tax had ex isted for ten years, and was likely to continue for ten years more. We can assure " Ignoramus " that, although eminent actuaries may have forgotten so trifling a consideration, no purchaser of any security can be affected by an impost, however unjust origi nally, which existed at the time of the contract. Our correspondent, on his own showing, deliberately incurred the loss of which he complains. If there were an income.tax of 50 per cent. on short annuities, " a purchaser, with notice of the burde n, could be in no way injured or aggrieved. “Ignoramus states his case thus : " 90/. per annum, dividend on 3,0001. Three per Cent. Consols,;has been my income hitherto, exempt from tax. A short time since a friend, on the eve of his departure from England, had immediate occasion for 3,0001. I sold my stock ; lent him the money at the same rate of interest that it yielded in Consols (3 per cent.), he giving me a charge upon his estate. I was to be repaid in three years, 1,0001. in each year. In the ordinary way the money would have come back to me thus :—End of Ist year 1,0001., with interest on 3,0001 1,0901. 2d „ 1,0001., I 2,0001..... 1,060/. 31 „ 1,0001., 1,0001..... 1,030/. In all 3,1801. By re-investing in Consols 1,0001. of the first receipt, the dividend thereon, added to 601. of the second, retained as income, would leave 1,0001. again to re invest; and the dividend on the 2,0001., added to 301. of the third, would leave another 1,0001., which, re invested, would replace me as I was before ; I in each year having had the same income, 901. " But, to meet the convenience of my friend, I agreed to take a charge on his estate entitling me to receive 1,0601. in each of the three years, amounting in the aggregate to the same sum of 3,1801. And -I now find myself in this position :—lf the income tax is continued at its present rate, and is made to apply, as it now does, to te mporary as to of perpetual annuities, as some your corres pondents contend that it oug ht,as I , have now an annuity f or three ye then years of 1,0601. per annum, not exempt f rom tax . shall be ta x ed on 3,1801., in the three years—viz. , 921. 155., besides on the dividends on the a fi n rs ci t twolinvestments, making.nin all more than 95/ • come more than 9 01.—in cannot take as EnYlh three years 2701.-- o _ .n 0 1- Thi ' this tax of 951. falls with a weight excee ding 5 per cent., I must, therefore, either limit . my P!_ l l 6l :... t a u l r ' to 551. per annum, or I must cut into the prlviv'e That such a transaction should have taken Plac e during the existence of the income-tax is, as we have shown, practically impossible. The utmost inconve nience which could arise, except . at the first imposi tion of the tax, would be the discor et of oar ir :nay, indeed, ' gains in the particular form thesuppose actual law, if pro be doubted whether, even under would have been perly enforced, the capital sluancid. But if the law liable to duty as it wa s rreaPaaus" assumes, the in were interpreted as g I would only be attributable convenience of the re"sili)fltn general terms. When Par to the unavoidable on annuities, it is not on the !lament imposes owes are mere instalments of a tax u lion t such inc f . . supposi the purchase-money o an estate is paid a debt. If - s instead of in one it is evidently a nal sum , in three an Th ' - liable to the impost. e case suggested by our not liable is of a similar kind ; and a puzzle will a l w ays arise as to the precise boundary line between income and property. Thirty or twenty years ago the Government Long Annuities were universally treated as income ; and when the income-tax was im posed in 1842, by far the greater part of that Stock was held under the same character. No holder who has purchased since that year has a right to complain of a tax which must have been taken into account in his bargain. But, in 1852, the Long Annuities which will expire in 1860 have naturally come to be treated only as a matter of speculation, or, in other words, as capital. The purchaser at the present time intends to re-invest his re ceipts, after deducting the ordinary rate of interest— in other words, be is practically acquiring a per petuity ; and so long as a belief in the permanence of the present income-tax prevails in the market, he may effect this object on as advantageous terms as if the impost had never been devised. A .... respected cor respondent, who signed himself " A Capitalist," will, we are convinced, not dispute this qualification of the conclusions at which he arrived on the assumption of a new tax being about to be imposed. As a general ------ -- •- -- ~ e ;.x.'..,?) •' rule, it may be said that the tea 011 irplliti . i . , '.. ' l . li - Iselt to be levied on property. ' Short Brihui ~,. •,,.;..., i , ;7' 2 ehmed without notice of thz , tax, ml. , y le;rkglo', L ~ - . s.-- , ,t, ‘. .. 1 rather to the head of capital tofu) to there(' ; ,•:t , : . ''" iiii *.i . , , tattl but life annuities, on the other baud, and 111_,4- , , ,;',.•::: may be expected to last during the life otd,n , -.a .; ' ' 4 '" \ : , . , ) , - 05 tent, belong to the bead of income. If us •'' ~' 7 ture has failed to distinguiA between these ottl.U . 'e forms of investment, it is at least satisfactory to ' . that the lapse of ten or eleven years, during which purchases and sales have b , !en made with reference to the income-tax, has gone far to correct the anomaly -Chronicle. • TENANT RIGHT" QUESTION- The Irish malcontents having woun d up the ques tion of " tenant-right" with a di nner , and Mr. G. H. Moore having gulped down his scruples with his wine, they have now addressed themselves to, the twin subject, " religious equality." The dozen P. P.'s who rendered such energetic assistance at the meet ings of the " League " have their ( - tem purpose to answer, and, as one pal turn deserts another, they appear to be very wall supported by their Par liamentary aides. The two agitatiobs are to proceed together, and doubtless the same office, the same staff, the same newspapers, We same materiel, and the same figurehead, in the person of Mr. G. 11. Moore, will do equally well for both of them. For the Roman Catholic tenantry it will he very delightful to reflect that by a moderate subscription, equivalent to an insurance, they are delivering their land from rent, tithes, and Protestantism at the same time; so the double object will he likely enough to extract some of those sovereigns which have lately stuck with such an invincible attraction of gravity to the bottom of the Irish farmer's pocket. Real, v, too, if the peasantry can be persuaded that both oc,j,acts are feasible, an d that landlords and parsons can bath bs banished fr om t h e Emerald Isle, the fearful drain of emigration, which is playing such sad work wi.'h chapel fees, may Possibly be stopped. Something, it is evident, must be done. The Roman Catholic clergy, and, indeed, th e i r l ay colleagues i n agitat i on , have no taste for acco mpanying their flocks across the Atlantic to a land of r ea l religious as well as c i v il equality. Excepting by a few young men tram Maynooth, the Church is hardly represented in an Exodus amounting now to near a thousand a day, and the clergy that remain, it is evident, must find themselves reduced to shorter commons day by day. So what is to he done? Necessity suggests dire ex pedients, and disagreeable alliances. i t will even overcome the sense of decency, and what is more, common sense. Religious equality ? That is the fair pretence sis.- sutned by seventeen devoted Parliamentary adherents of the Church of Rome, and a crowd of its clergy. The word is positive treason and heresy in every Roman Catholic mouth. What religious equality can there ever be between the minister, the parson, and the. priest, between the Methodist preacher, the Arch bishop of bishop of Canterbury, and the Pope. The whole sys tem advanced with so . Ro T t n n e a i t s n f l o a u ini nd i e s d on the d claim d of en ea d e n l o u w si h ve er d e o i ; missives from St. never roppe , every now and thenj little adrsct bh m ,ar o g d eesdtyfroorm the reserve e i l a s s o in f the e and other fiery epistles thdt these men desire.Reli e9u4lit Y Irish hierarchy. Religious of other things besides prigvioleus is the very last thing equality is an Equality and pay. It would holesome, but in n e i t vye h ' a ‘ d v r o m n l harmless and even that reduce the s yet hear, involve the same checks, genegraell tab f li . shed as k l ed st f be s C o ru e rc r h e o sp f e E ct n s g p la a n ie d fu to lly its ep p p re r s e e s tenour ; unless, indeed, which w e these agitators would ask to release the e E t Church from its present political restraints. the religious equality of America which is or by all means let it be stated. Then we shall kn ° what we have to deal with ; but we shall wonder all the more that the Roman Catholic clergy manifest so decided a repugnance to America, gad prefer starvation and empty chapels at home, to large and well-fed flocks, with religious equality, across the Atlantic. There is many an object, however, which it answers to follow, though it is worthless when caught. Among the many thousands who daily bunt foxes in this island, there are few who would either swallow a mouthful of their prey, or wish there to be oce less fox in the land. Religious equality is the rank, worthless vermin, which these political sports men hunt for the pleasure of hunting, with the inten tion of throwing it to the dogs, should they ever be so fortunate as tocatch it. If Roman Catholics really like religious equality, why do they not show their principle at work, where they have all their own way ? There can be no doubt that at Rome they might exhibit a spectacle that would edify the whole Christian world, by allowing to every other communion, including the Latter-Day Saints, a perfect equality of privilege. As it is, we sit know that if the Archbishop of Can terbury went to Rome, when Sanday morning came he would have to go out of the city gates, and ascend a loft over a large pigsty, in order to worship God after the light of his conscience end the manner of his fathers. Now, what religious equality is there between St. Peter's protected by ten thouland French soldiers, and the upper floor of a building of which the principal floor is occupied, as we believe, by pigs ? Give the English permission, and they will raise 20,0001. to-morrow to build a suitable church for themselves in a city to the resources of which they contribute so greatly. But no. Religious equality is absolutely inconsistent with Pepsi pretensions. In Ireland, however , that hunting•ground of p ar ty, it may be convenient to pursue this game for a time, particularly if a few English Dissenters can be found simpletons enough to join in the cry. If they do, they will certainly deserve what they will never:get,— to experience the tender mercies of a Church which has never tolerated a rival a moment longer than it was obliged to do so. That the demand of " religious equality" is quite unnecessary is evident from a glance at any of our large populations. The rival commu. nions of the country stand on level ground in such places as Manchester, Liverpool, Belfast, or Cork. Nay, with regard to the mass of the population, they have no real resource except in the voluntary prin ciple. In this great metropolis there are hundreds of thousands who never enter a church, and who are at tached to it by no tie of affection or circumstances. So far as they are concerned there is perfect religious equality between all the communions. Dr. Sumner, C ne a w rdi f n a a n l at W ic Wiseman, Mr. Megru.aßl achanceptist standthepnjde i leastuicedun his ca favors: mis sionaryeducated N wi o t e h l, thein and ; the last except, i de ed, that m,,il the probablypoo r E fi , find some in the hearts of th e i gnorant and poor.—T imes. CAN ADA. QUEBEC AUG. 26.—mince I last wrote, the Par liament of ' Canada has been occupied w i t h the t reply which to the Governor's address. There is little in : n leaders affords food for either cavil or oratory;t to the Mi nistry parties must throw down the gau nistry apropos of something, Thus we have least immemorial usage in its favour. Boulton, Sir floodst hre o f eloquence, nt,,e re ply" has at had Mr. M'Kenzie, Mr. Broaw.nscii, to their future de- Allan M‘Nab, and others pourin g and enlightening the country b y his own no -100, Crown as Earl signs. Mr. Ilineksiiiin count, is " as mach a roper to allude to the failure Derby," has thought p iroad negotiation in terms of the Hali fax :plinientary to the British later of t he by no Tories, though at heart f. General have indulged in i be Ind pec-or- 1 approving t loyal indignation. The reply will, however, Cabinet; burst of ithout a division. Tbere is nothing in be carried without worth noticing, except, perhaps, Mr. ,ech t es tement that, whatever difference might the Pe maetaesthisee the '"'LorinBß a 'st in the respective populations of the hereafter provinces exi (and the last census tells how rapid)y two ads is gaining on its eastern sister), the U pp er Gan d' s would never consent to a ch ange French Ca nalan in t he each province law which allots to . • nce an equ a l number of representatives in Parliament. The supporters of the Ministry believe they have more then a working majority. It is estimated that the Hcuse contains about 35 Ministerialists, 24 Eng lish Conservatives, 7 French Conservatives, 5 Roug e s, or Annexationists, and 14 Clear Grits. But the dis tinctions of parties have been so altered of late, that I should not place much reliance on this classification. Besides the subjects of legislation to which I have alluded in my recent letter as being likely to occupy the attention of the House, the Committee on Rail' roads, will have its hands Lull. No ..co less than twenty applications for charters have been received ; the strife of rival interests and lines will doubtless g ive birth to much angry debate. The Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railway is to be opened to Sherbrooke on the 11th instant. Lord Elgin has consented to be present at the inauguration. Your Am er i can correspondents will have fu rnished ...antic you with f u ll accounts of the loss of the AV steamer on Lak e Erie, on the 19th instan t. Upwards of tw o hundred poor fellows, Norwegian emigrants, e when they whose cleanliness and robust ap - Pears :a c bly with the left our w h ar f s, had contras t e d favourably and Highland destitute haggard aspect of the Irish settlers, perished in the waves wave of railways in . The recklessness of the captains of steamers and conductors bial. the States is becoming prover Notwithstanding t he gloomy prophecies of the the crops in Lower Canada are agricultural sag es , he fl y has spared a portion of the wheat, promising. T . ot is far from being ge neral.and the po tato-r ot be plentiful and asap' Hay will look 11 we • the orchards never The oats and barley, wore a more encouragin g aspect. —Chronicle. PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE PEEBLES LIMB -- We understand that measures are in progress to carry out the Peebles branch so far as Innerleithen. This portion of rail way was surveyed by the North British Company in 1845. am a continuation to the westward of their Hawick branch. We believe that the InFerleithen branch will be a single line, like the Peebles, and will be formed upon the principle of econo mical construction now so generally approved. We uoderrn stand that the cost is not likely to exceed 4,5G01. a 32111 00 ' Scottish Railway Gazette.