The Sun. — London, England, 1852-03-29 00:00:00

ROUSE OF LORDS THIS DAY.) 1 Their Lordsltips sat thi3 moining to hear appeals. The Nears present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Breugham, Lord Campbell, and Lord Truro. THE EDINEUECIII, PERTH, AND DUNDEE RAILWAY COITANY V. LEVEN. This was an appeal from au interlocutory of the Court of Session of Scotland, confirming a previous decision ef the Sheriff-Substitute of Fifeshire. The respondent is the pro prietor of certain laud; at liurtesland, in the city of Fife, and on a notice being served on him in the year 1846, pur suant to the 36th section of the Lands Clause Consolidation Act, that part of their lands would be required - by the appellants for the purpose cf completing their railway, the respondent fixed the sum required by h im as compensation at 3,000/ , d signified at the same time his readiness to refer the matter to a jury. The appellants thinking the sum too large, called Upon the Sheriff-Substitute of the county to empanel a jury, Is provided by the same Act, to arbitrate on the matter. This request was . resisted by the respondent on the ground that the appellants had not complied with the 37th Section of the Act, which requires that the party Intending in such case to :Ippeal to a jury must give ten days' notice. and also of the sum which they consider a full com pensation. On argument the Sheriff-Substitute dismissed the request on the ground of this informality, and the Court 9f Session, on appeal, pronounced an interlocutory confirm ing his decision. From this interlocutor the present appeal 13 made. The arguments were proceeding when we went to press. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) OUR NATIONAL DEFENDERS. —Captain Charles Bolton, of the 52d Foot, was charged. before Mr. Bingham, with being drunk and incapable of taking care of his horse and chaise. Police-constable Il C stated that about 9 o'clock on Saturday night he was on duty in Regent-street, when he Saw a mob of people standing round a horse an chaise in Air-street. He went to the spot, and , in reply to his inqui ries, was told that a gentleman had been thrown from the chaise, and taken into a publia-house close by in there saw a state of insensibility. Witness went into the house, and the defendant, who was in such a state of intoxication that, for hie own safety, witness took him to the station-house. Defendant did not deny the charge. Mr. BINGIIABI said, in consequ:nce of the defendant having been punished already for his indiscretion by having been thrown from his chaise, he (Mr. Bingham) thought a Erie of 10s. would meet the justice of the case. The fine was paid, and the defendant discharged. .PORTING LATEST BETTING TELLIGENCE. LT THE WEST END. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 4 to 1 agst Saiton 100 to 8 agst Backbiter 9 to 1 lig‘t Kite 25 to 1 apt Etthiresit 12 to 1 ag,l 13.-uita 40 to 1 aiost Harestoot :R CUP. 50 to 1 agst Nancy CHEST 30 to I - apt iStirry Bird 4 0 to 1 agst H Altill Y. PLymonTIL MAaes 27.—Lieutenant General the floe. Henry Murray will be superseded in the command of the western district by Major General Sir J hp Rolt. G:C.B., a most distinguished officer, who served with the 58 t h R eg iment in Egypt, in 1801, and was shot throu g h the body in the action on landing. He accom panied the expedition to Naples in 1805, and remained with that army until its arrival in Sicily; served with the 2d battalion in the Peninsula the latter part of 1809, and until February, 1810, when he was appointed to the Portugn.se service; was present at the battle of Busaco, Covering the operations against Ciudad Rodrigo, and cap ture of Badajrz; commanded the 17th Portuguese regi tont from 1812 to the conclusion ot the war, including the actions of Berlatoca, and near Las Cassas; batt e , of Vitoria; actions in the Pyrenee s at Santa Bar bara, August 2; and attack at Vera hei g hts, October 7; tlattle of the Nivelle; battle and operations of the Nive, on the 9.b. 10th, 1 lth, 12th, and 13 , h of December, I 813; and bat les of Orthes and Toulouse. From the Pbried ,ot landing in the Peninsula, in 1809, until the conclusion ot hustilities in 1814, he was never one day t a .„haent from his duty. Ile hss a gold medal from the tand Seignior for services in E 2 ypt, the go ld s:: a nd ut , 1 : 41 e clasp for Vittoria , Ntvell -, Nive. 0, this, ;Ind Too Louie. ; and the silver war medal with three clasps for Egypt, Butneo, and the Pyrenees, The General has ‘Ppviuted his son, ensign and lieutenant in the Cold llream Guards, to be his aide-de cam p . Lieutenant Aolt has been six years in the army. The 77r.b Regiment, under the command of Lieu -Icuant Colonel Egerton , i s under orders nor reineval to Weedoe, to be relieved by a regiment from Portsmouth. The 19th Regiment, cemtnatided by Colonel Hay, will also remove from this garrison to Winchester, and %ill be replaced by the 35th Royal Sussex, from Dublin. ROYAL ARTILLERY. WOOLWICH, MARCH 27.—An omission of two lines ' 4 the General Order given yesterday rendered it im brfect.. It should have read—Colonel James Nishet Uolquhonn to be Inspector of the Royal Carriage De partment, Tice Colonel Gordon, whose period of holding the appointment has expired. Captain 11. Clark to be 4 1listant inspector in the Royal Carriage Department, Ike Colonel Colquhoun. GENERAL ORDER. Deputy Adjutant-General's-office, Woolwich, March 26,1852. 1. His Lordship the Master-Gmeral has made the , ollowing appointments, viz.:— Colonel T. Dyneley, C. 8 ., to command the Royal Attiilery in Ireland, vice Major-General Turner, C.B. Colonel Charles C. Dansey, C. 8., to command the "gal Artillery at Gibraltar, vice Colonel Cator. Colonel W. Bell, to command t he Ro y al Artillery in uthe.da, vice Colonel Dyneley. Lieutenant-Colonel F.: Wade, to the Royal Horse Artillery, vice Bell, promoted. Captain G. Sandham, to the Riding House Troop, vice ''ioafield„ promoted.. Beeorit; Captain R. F. Mountain, to the Royal Horse Artillpry, vice B. Price. promoted. In consequence of the above, the undermentioned deers are posted to battalions, as follows: — Lieutenant Colonel W. Faber, to the 12th battalion, Ch lieutenant colonel's pay, vice Warde. Liuutetratit-Gilonel C. W. Wingfi4d, to the 9,h bat talion, on major's pay, vice Fraser. b Captain Blackwood Pr ice, to the Ist battalion, vice ulkidham. Lieutenant-Colonel T. F . StrAn g wa y s, Ro y al Horan Artillery, is raised to lieutenant-colonsl's pay, vice Bell, Promoted. s..Lieutenant-Colonel Warde will therefore receive % libels pay; vice Strang way s. H. D. Ross. D •pnty Adjutant-General. REGIMENTAL ORDER Li eu t e nant Yates will pet form the duties of acting ad italtet W the 3d battalion uutil further orders. Scam./ A, S TEAMERS AT LIVERPOOL. ---The rapi ;7 with which screw steamers t ra din g with foreign parts l ' . ! rease at Liverpool is truly astonishin g . On Saturday no , than three large and p owerful screws sailed from the r s ttsey, namely, the Pelican , f or Rotterdam, the Arabian, Constanfinople, and the Os manli, for Messina. Two also af jnved, viz., the Orontes, from Alexandria, and the Astro -Ig, from Constantinople. Mostly all the screw steamers 7 , ilm g f ro m Liverpool for foreign parts a re well freighted, :od must be bringing a fair return for the capital which the "hers have e mbarked therein. 0 Ina 91.1CHSvS OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S PARTY. — VI Saturday eyed' g their Graces the Duke and Duchess of N orthumberland entertained a distinguished circle of the Zistocracy at dinner at their mansion, Northumberland- L'Stle. Upon this occasion the guests included the Duke and jaachess of Atboll, the Pu bees of Somerset, the Duke of "Nessus, the Marquis and 51archioness of Ely, the Earl 141 (1 Countess of Sandwich, the Earl and Coumess Tyrti conel, Zia Earl Nelson, Lady Agnes iluller,• Lord Lady Rad b. Sir J. Herschel and Lady Herschel, Sir Wm. and Lady tkcia; grown Julliffe, Sir C. Ad; .m and L ad y Adam, Sir H. hart S ad Lady Hart, Admiral Sir Charles N a p ier, Sir Francis 'anfort, Sir Alexander Gordon, Admiral Arthur Fanshawe, e aPia . t „ in Milne, and Miss Burdett ()mitts. Covers were laid Z thirty. Later in the evening the ' ucbess gave her fourth V, until after Easter, last assembly, which was honoured dhabe presence of a select circle of the foreign ministers k.. 11 141 b eau monde. His Grace the Duke of We was —"lig the early visitors. Tni Q,HEEN v. THE MESSRS. ALT, --EYNE.—It IS 114 derstood that these gentlemen are returned to England, signe ca d us h e y w th as e bill of exceptions, tit have put in bail on a tein Chief Justice Carnpbell, before whom the a „.—a, end in a writ of error. They persist in affirming their b - " 4 „ .. ocence, and that in a future trial they have evidence to '''''re it, and to vindicate their characters. k bBSPERATE ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF CONVICTS.— n the 1. gang of convicts who were being removed by train o e. ° ,tk and North Midland line, from I ork Castle to Wake %.,,-"d Gaol, on Friday, made a moat determined attempt to aVR S e , and considering the peril some of them were exposed Noble, it is surprising that they were not cut to pines. Mr. ai°l3le, the governor of the Castle, started with 14 in all, in. 'tiding Ellis, Jones, Jackson, Green, and Marshal, who were illlvicted at the last assizes for uttering forged notes of the d °rkshire Banking Company. They were ironed, and con " Sated themselves peaceably enough until the train had Stri ve d a bout a mile from Wakefield, when Ellis managed to 141 b ,, 5 1 ) the chain which attached him to the other four trans -:la- He then opened the carriage-door and made an ;sort to jump out; Mr. Noble seized him, when he was ' tt saked by Marshal. Mr. Noble was at length compelled to r elease his grasp, and Ellis leaped on to the permanent way, Stld made across ' some fields towards Normanton. At this I n aa°lnent Jones bolted out at an opposite door ; he, however, he his footing a nd fell, and at the time it was thought ° was killed; however, he escaped, although seriously hurt. At 1 .ngtl, the train w as stopped, and the convicts were more fi . rrnlY secured. Ellis was s p eedily captured by some naviga tors on the line. a \Vim& OF THE SHIP AMY. FIFTEEN LIVES I,casT.—A melancholy shipwreck was made known on 'attrsday in the namely, the total loss of the ship fray of London while on a passage IroM Belize, Bay of „onduras, for Curk, on the coast at Kinsale, and that all the crew three men excepted, met with a watery grave 'l:l Tuesday mo•ning, when off the Barry Cove, she was O vertaken with a heavy gale of wind, which forced her a 'shore, within a short distance of the coast-guard station, to within the short space of twenty minutes went entirely 41Pieces, and her fragments and cargo were swept along the !_, ore for miles. The crew amounted to eighteen men, in- Itl?ding master and ( Beers; only three were saved. The ' II P was a fine vessel, 400 tons burden. PEDEsTRIANIsM.-011 Monday last, at one o'clock in the afternoon, Henry Wilton, a dealer in oranges, started t o . walk from Newbury to Reading and back three times, tlntch amounts to 102 miles, in 24 hours. He performed 4 ',..% task in gallant style, having a quarter of an hour to :are. On the same day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Craven of the name of Hayward who generally follows the raven hounds on foot, started off to accomplish the same t es ta and he came in a gallant winner, with five minutes to Pare. He afterwards adjourned to Mr. Smith's brewery t ap, in the Landon-road, and enjoyed himself with the i (l a l t nany and a jug of ale until about six o'clock in the even 4g, when he wra parad. - d through then town, and a number bas g o t cheering him as he proceeded. This walking mania 4v 7,7 got to such a rage in this town that actually a lad gsmAt eleven years of ago, son of a respec'ehe butcher of „o:ittnliamlan,, started off with Hayward early On Tuesday t he die the last time tor him to go' to R aiding, and Went a ,. atstance, and came in just before him. The la y walked _it!tetance of thirty-fm 111i194 ill alMit eigliti howo.-,Berk "Wl On**. THE SIUN, LITERATURE ALICIT RIVI,; 'RS; or, Passageg in the Life of a Young Lady. Written by liers.lf, Shoberl. lii tao old day a of renieeee, and tee aneieet times of novel?, their legends and nerretions always termitett , dflu the approach to the temp:, of Hymen. On the threshold of that mystic deity, the readers were left to suppose all differences were annihilated, and all vexations found an end. But it is reserved for the present race of authors t reveal the hid& n and fetal truth, it is given to the pe rusers new-a-days to became acquainted wah the fact, that to merry in haste is often to repent at leisuree As suredly, if not se fascinating and agreeable, it is more praiseworthy end useful to let those who must mix wah the world of trouble and trial, behold its plain rtflec• twist, unvar , ished by the gloss of fancy and utic;Nered by the veil of fiction. It is unworthy and alisurd for people of sense to expedite engagements, saying, if once united, ;hey will be settled. Settled it is true they may be, but for what—a lifetime of maery and sin, anti a death-bed haunted by the spectres of a wested exieteuce, and violated vows. Surely a wuik like the present is needed, when every thy brings fresh testimony to the assertion that hundreds and thousands ere willingly throwing away all chance of peace by rushing to the altar in order to possess only a remote chance of bigh prizes in the social lottery; while reflection would show them, that even it they became successful in their . hopes, no wealth the most lavish, no rank the most exalted, and no power the most unbounded that the world can shower down c n its choicest votaries, ever compensates for a single moment for the want of that peace it neither gives nor takes away. Safety. consists' not in innocence but in virtue, not in pushing away the thoughts of the evil day in store for all, but in training aright the spirit, tact when the trial comes it may rise prepared at the invocation to meet temptation and over come it. Whether in a mental or a moral point of view; whether as the sovereigns of the earth or as the denizens of heaven, surely human beings must agree that all de secrate their position and dishonour their privilege, who make the churches of their faith the market for their wares, and take the name of their Maker as a wit ness to an act into which they would blush for their fellow-men to scrutiniv. To all young ladies in haste to be married this book is dedicated, and to ell such it must prove useful; but, at the same time, there is no reason why the other sex shrnid not benefit by its pertnel, for nlthough young' hdies arz . . as 2 claw, set apart fur ridicule on this suiject, which they doubitee deserve for their unwise conduct, it is to be questioned if greater blame should trot ba the portion of those who take advantage o' such folly nod then sevile it. So long - -.r but one thing need ul, money,' and then' a. (nand in a wife every reainle perfection. while sp,ndiug her motiey - far away from her, pt rheps it is to be a uelud, d re orm is needed on huh Althaugh few actually act !the Alice R;eel,, now many virtueily behave the tome, how many ) uung, iuvely, aceotepltshed girls sec, me duvr, vic i u ,s, and eatnelt-ss martyrs But huteee nature prompts us always to shut our eyes so the living examples betore us; then let u, learn from the pages 01 romance a sad reality, and from the prople of fiction take warniug of what is to many a la me truth. Thi following lines express the purpose of the wink at its conclusion:— " I assure you that it is no malicious motive that inclines me to make these statements, but a simple wish that the natural fruits of Young Ladyism existing as it did in these young women, and in myself, ill its most frivolous, selfish, and unsubdued state, should be clearly manifested. No feature in that profession is so distinct and universal as an eager anxiety and haste to be married, and t I his not nways, nor, as 1 believe , even generally, from twest motives. but from an impatience of the restraints of domestic rule, and au ambition of rising in the scale of society, which can ob viously meet their object only in the promotion which mar riage produces. Hence in giddy and uncultivated minds, careless respecting tt.e means provided the end be ob tained, there is no solicitude to become acquainted with the moral or mental character 01 the inoividual who offers him sell to notice let bins be what he may he can make them airs. So and So, and put a wedding-ring upon their finger, end tike them away from papa and maina's a n• tree and com monly spealting hat is t enugh ; but this is n ot enough fur a happi ap es in g est 18 to endu o re, or for any nap.. piness that deserves the name. Of this, according to my aunt's views of the world, there is little or . one obe bound in our present state of being. Ido not profess to agree with her is quite so sombre a contemplation of sublunary things, but this 1 hope and believe I have learned, partly from her shrewd observations and still more from the sharp leesons as my own experience , t hat a young woman's most graceful well as her safest position is that of contented submission to her domestic duties, accompanied by that entire negation of at the same time that it anxiety to get married , which, usually proves the direct path to wedlock, invests her with a consequence and dignity in the eyes of the other sex which they never associate with the idea of a husband hunting miss. So fully am I assured of this that I feel, in relation to my precious girl, as if I never could be watchful enough so to regulate and control her mind, that she may never seek her happiness away from home, but till regularly an d properly guided to still neare r and dearer proect than mine, she may find her best friend and confidante in me; d an thus, being delivered from t he snare of evil distin companionship, s he may never know a thought or w ish of being - guishedas her mother was in the annals of Young Ladyism' , FINE ARTS THE WRECK OF THE MINOTAUR. Every admirer of genius, and consequently every ad mirer of the late Mr. Turner, RA., should the exam Messrs.ine, as we have done , the picture now on view Colneghi, rail-mall East, ono of the noblest specimens of that great master we have ever had the gratification of witnessing. Two years ago, namely, in the season of 1850, the painting formed one of the pi incipal ob jects of attraction on the walls of the British Institu tion. As it is at present in process of engraving, by Mr. Henry Cousins, the lovers of art will be enabled to obtain a " counter:tit presenint.mt " if the now scarce plate, or i g inally produc ed b y Mr. Charks Turner in Lizzatinto. The celebrated masterpiece referred to repretirnts the " Wreck of the Minotaur," a seventy-four, lost off the Hoag bands at the commence ment of the , present cent and having been prAueed upwards t:f forty ye?,r3 ago, has become otqulsitely met tov,ed in the tone ,f its c Aouti , .g. Nothing can be more wonderful than the cliKttibuciolt ot the li g hts from the lurid .• cvmd gao," invne tat ely over the uplifted bull, to the mi, utest p: rale of spray on the crests, or in the hollows of the tutnul nous yea. The spars, with tht , shipwreckel sailors clinging to them in the "swirl" of , be billow, lead a human int. rest to a ld r sce ire ue, th .suc y vi h vid as to &bathe. in b e tittiug language w,,uqu enthusiasm and pictorial el, quence of Mr. Buskin. The fortunate poss essor of rbi,vtry wonderful composition is the present Earl of Y4rhorough. la 1.1.5• r - - ...-------_ WINDSO.R CA6TL.E iii the MODERN TIME. Perhsps the most charming ot all the delineations of tbe Royal Family, and certsinly one of the most grace ful of all the various productions of Sir Edwin Lundster, is at present on view at the Messrs. Graves', near the Opera-colonnade. Entitled as e h above ich , is the property of " Windsor in the Modern Time," this picture, her Mspely, i, detigned as a corm. ertion to the 13 . - )Abrated 'a Button Abbey in the Olden Time. . ' THE BUBB El? Painted by Webster. Engraved by M Lean, Haymarket. L a mb Stacks There are two artist e DO" living up . ,u vy : , 95,w shoulders SOWP, at least, atnoig the nc excellees ot Llogarth and of Wilkie see m to havo hill. ii, in the repre.entatien of domestic t eenes and the cl, linestion of t e it here humo rous uha , s of chsracter. Tht se painter', is scarcely re e essur y to ~t,s , , v ..,, ar e no .. t h e r than G.ln.tail at,Ci Webso-r. Amoi.g the many admirable pro:luetions of the hitter 6. The Rubber" is ilue ot the most delightful o m,ritoriousf —displaying us it does a comic power quite its kiwi, and a knowledge of human nature really ex traordinary. It is conseqw-ntly with deli 4 ht that w,, observe the original pnpulsriz9d by the aid of the very masterly g raver of Mr. Lamb Stocks. The sc ene de picted is a cottage interior, and as the title of the tom posititm in timat-s, the interest of it is concentrsted upon the four c,rdple,yers. The one who has to ptlr his y third ()aid in the trick-is hesitating glumly ove " hand," with puck ered brow and pursed up mouth, being regarded meanwhile by his partner with intense and breathless solicitude. The one who waits his turn to play, and by playing to finish the trick, waits trium phantl) I .—the card already selected I—looking delight edly, with expanded countenancencceover at , and ever hisy f artner, eature a unt and sun lit with complay p as ia much Bravo! my boy—we've booked them with a vengeance.' The old ":codger" leaning over the half door as a spectator, blandly smoking his pipe with the dispassionate air cf a mere looker•on, is ano ther and not the Inert truthful character in the composi of reaAltogether, the plate just published by Mr. L n represents a very admirable painting, through the mediuma very admirable engraving. THE .AUSTRALIAN COPPER. MINING COMPANY A tphoe p rt r aa o bn s o p tv e me ct i u en s oemr h ap a i s an be , e issued proposing the eatabliblrueot 0 for the purpose of working . .sorne i . m. ground at StrathPlbyn within thirty miles of Adelaide. The sett secured Consist s . of the fee simple of about 653 acres, in which several lod es ve h beeu discovered, varying from one to ten feet wide. Thes e a been par tially opened on by means of shafts and aditr e f from 21)0 to 250 tons ot copper ore have been take n , rom whence ing of black, grey, and yellow copper ore, with some con a 6st" copper. Several of the lodes run parallel, and as t a h r e e g w ro i n i u h n i t n d iv . few fathoms of each other, thereby affording great advan tagesa and facilities in working, especially easy for sinking. Captain J. Trewartha, late mineral sur veyor to the Colonial Government, gives a very satisfactory and encouraging account of the property, to whose report we refer. lie states that this mine is possessed of more than or dinary features, bei g in a highly mineralised country, and beautifully character sed by well-defined lodes. They have sunk the shaft t 8 fathoms, where the lode is found to be from 10 to 12 feet wide. composed of very rich quality ore. Also, other lodes have been Oiscovered of equal productiveness, and he strongly recommends that machinery be immediately erected for more fully developing these lodes. The whole report is of the most satisfactory character. The directors, who are highly influential, both here and in the colony, propose to carry out the adventure with energy and spirit, and at the same time with the strictest regard to economy. Steam machinery being necessary, a 60-inch cylinder will be erected, which will afford sufficient pow theer f o r other requisite purposes; wood is abundant, and greater portion of the land is applicable for agricultural pur suits. There is a smelting furnace erect ed at the cost of 1 about 1,0011., and some of the ore been reduced to regulus, which, on assay here, gives from 48 per cent. of copper. Looking at the property as reported on, supported by the respomibilitv of the influential colonial gentlemen who are now in England, or fully represented, connected with it, we consider it one of the leading investments of colonial copper m i e es.-3linin9 Journal. In writing on Saturday of the Calamities which had befal'en the Megmra and the Hydra, we inadvertently left it to be supposed that the latter vessel had been on fife. It was the Megrera that our correspondent stated had been on fire three times between Plymouth' and Madeira. - 771 "eS . DEATH OF LADY MELPORD.—Toi% Noble Lviy, who died on Thursday last, at Picton Castle, near Pem broke, was daughter ot John Gordon, Esq , of Reload!, and marri e d the present, Lora blv-itvo, by whom she has left l no i4PIQ. LONDON, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE PIIO3IOTIOM Commanders Th , Anas . ll. lie (1841) and John'Foote have been prhthoted to the rank of captain. Captain ',Hops is the awl of Sir John Hope, Bart. ; of Craiglaill county Fife. He entered the navy in 1825, aad has served afloat 18 ti ears. He was lucky enough to ge . first cominisiion in 1832; and-as a lieutenant served in t' - e Melville, 72, and. Hyacinth,. 18, ire the East Indies, He the: served as first of the Sappho, 16, in the West.lndies; was promoted at the general,promotion in 1841; aad since then commanded the Sappho for three years on the coast of Africa. Captain Yoote, we believe, is the son of Captain Foote (1827). He entered the college 1827, passed in 1833, and was made in 1535. Al a lieuteniat he served in the Sapphire, 23 ;,.eointnanded the: Fawn and Curlew, AO, on the c.)ast of Africa ; and was promoted in 1845, after serving in the Dublin, 50. -As -a commander,' he commanded the Rosamond, 6, steam- sloop, in the Mediterranean aid the Cape of Good Hope. APPOINTMENTS. Captain Edward Hinton Scott (1.8a8) has been appointed to the canvaimaill - of the Nelautre, 120, ordinary flag-ship, at Polastuouth, vice Yatesaaatiosk term of service has expired. Thia IS the' first opportunity Captain Scott has bad of . serving afloat sieee.his prometiou, and that be is a distin guished efficer of superior claims will be seen from the fol lowing summary from OTyrne'e.acaount of his career during twenty- eight years' service afloat : " This officer entered the navy May 1,1798, as first -clays . voluneeer on board the . Anson, 46, and 3a7 men, Captain Philip Charles DurhaM, 'and which ship encountered, and for 17 days dogged,_ in company with 'the Ethalion, 88, a French sqadrou under` Commodore Bompart, consisting . of - leloche,. of 78 guns; eight frigates , a brig , and a schooner, defined for the invasion of -Ireland. With five of the frigatee, Utter the three Others together with the line of-battle ship had fallen into the hands of Sir John Borlase Warren, she came, Oct. - 12, singly into collision, and sus tained a loss, with injury to her masts - and yards, of 2 men killed and 13 wounded. On the 18th of the same month we find her, in. company: with the: Kangaroo, 18, enduring a similar loss 'in . a gallant action of an hour and a quarter, which terminated in the capture of La Loire, of 46 guns and 664 men (including troops), of whom 46 were killed and 71 wounded. While attached to the Anson, Mr. Scott contri buted also to the capture of several fine privateers. In the Blazer gun-brig, as sub-lieutenant, he was often in action with the French flotilla, in the neighbourhood of Ostend, Dunkerque, Calais, and Boulogne; and e.ssisted, in Julv , , 1805, in rescuing the crew of the Orestes, 14, Captain r lhonias Brown, when wrecked on the Splinter sand and exposed to the fire ef-the enemy. In the course of the same year he 'commanded .a Feaket-vessel .Sir Sidney Smith's attack upon the Boulogne flotilla:. On: leaving the Blazer, he be came Acting-Lieutenant of the Skylark, 16, and while in that brig (to .which he was confirmed June 12; 1807) he had f t w ira 01 - iiee.buits in a tanning light with a.,Freneh cutter privateer of -8 guns' anti .40 aneni. wham, after having cut away. het sweeps, and chased her fbr three hours, he drove Under the guns of 'onii odcasiou he landed at Fl us h g, spiked the 8' gas Of • a battery, and brought the guard' off prisoners. • He served as Lieutenant in several ships, and was appointed, August 23, 182 , to the Cambrian, 46, Captain Galata William Hamilton. lie was frequently, in the Sutra and her boats, engaged With the enemy's forts and alinel vessels (several ut which he captured) while liffutdiug protection to the trade passing through the Great. Belt. During his servitude in Lae Or lando he took pert in many boat affairs in the .Adriatic and Chesapeake. He commanded ~ her boats, too, in several skirmishes with the Malay proas in the Straits ut suuda. and Malacca, and once suce.eded in repelling an attack made by them at night on a wrecked Indianian, of which .he had been placed in charge. in the boats of the Cambrian we find him cutting out, in the Gulf of Athens, with much spirit and judgment, a piratical :schooner, carrying 2 lung guns and 5U men, together with three of her prizes, besides taking three small pirate. vessels from the rslan t ut Skupelo and etleceing the re capture ut an English sloop. He also assisted at the reduction ut Napoli di Rumania, and, at 1,11: head of 100 seamen, landed there at the request ut the pro• visional guvernmeat, had the good fortune when the troops entered the town to save toe lives of 2,000 'links, men, women, and children, who were afterwards placed on shore at Smyrna. For these services he twice received the thanks of Sir Graham aloore, the Coninuender•in-Chiet, was pre sented withaseord by the Greek provisional Government, and was advatice,i,- July 18, tb23, to the rank of Commander in the Dispatch sloop, of .8 guns. In that vessel, stationed ,„ewise in the Alediterzaut an, he remained until the close of 18a4 He was lastly, from Nov. 23, 1865, until April, 1838, employed again on the s%ition last-named as second captaia in the Rodney, 92, Captain (now Rear•Aditiral) Hyde Parka-. His i.ranwtion to the rank he now holds wok place Jan. 1 , 1838. For his conduct in jumping overuoard hum the Orlando and saving_ the lives ut four persons, Captain Scott (who is senior of 1838) received the thanks of the Royal Humane Society." • - Lieutenants—Hubert Campion (1849), to the Hecate, 6, steam. sloop, Devouport ; 'Thomas J. Young (1851), to the Excellent, guenery-ship, Purtetuoutn. The Commander-in- Lltiel Admiral Sir J. A. Ommanney, K.C.8., returned to Devonport-on Friday morning, and re hoisted his flag. PAYINO . GOWN," AND A kORTNIGHT'S LEAVE. Arc bush., 50, Captain Symonds, watapaid down to six months, at Portsmouth, 'on Saturday, and her men were granted the fortnight's leave. Arrogant, 46, steam-frigate, Captain R. S PO Rbin rt o smott n h , willn to • s h it se months, a on fortnight's ' AI. on 'Monday, at willa d 1) 11 6 ( p r a crew ed w Dauntless, 33,. screw-frigate, Captain Halstead, will be "I:aid down," at Devonport, to-morrow (Tuesday), and have the leave, and not Wednesday, as before stated. Superb, 80, Captain Purcell, as we have already stated, will not be paid off (at which we hear that some few of her men are dis satisfied) but will be paid down to six months, and the men have leave of absence. The Hants paper says, " There was a misunderstanding yesterday on paying down the Arrogant, he wages being offered to part of the crew and not the whole. On looking to the orders, however, and referring to the authorities, the matter was quickly settled as the Ad miralty had arranged, and the men were ordered to be paid down to what was intended, and will go ashore with three weeks' leave on Monday. Itry:.'ney, 92, Captain Graham, C. 8., was towed out of Portsmouth harbour on Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, by the Antelope and Echo steamers, one on either aide; after anchoring she saluted the flag of the Commander-in- Chief, Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, with .17 guns. She is still about 150 able seamen short of complement. Superb, 80, Ceptain Purcell, it is expected, will go into Portsmouth harbour this 'day (Monday), and take up the moorings in harbour lately occupied by the Rodney ; her defects are various; her decks are very defective, especially her lower deck. Conetant exelcise of her heavy guns, dry holystone, and dumb scraping for two terms of commission have worn them very thin in places. PuRTSMuUTH, SUNDAY. he Ellin, royal dispatch tender, acting Master-Commander Balliston, is on the graving-slip having her bottoin,cleaned and some repairs to her rudder effected. The crew of her Majesty's steam-vessel Antelope, 3, Lieu tenant Young, were paid advance wages this day, at the Treasury-office, in this dockyard. The Blenheim, 3-4, steam guard-ship, Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 8., has sent up her lower yards and top masts in tee steam-basin, where her boilers are being re paired. The Sampson steam-frigate, Captain Jones, will soon be complete in her refit. She is to be paid down on Tuesday. The Southampton, American line-of-packet ship arrived this morning from the Thames, arid sailed, after embarking passengers and stock, for New York. PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY. The crew of her Majesty's brig Racer, 12, e,ounnander Beddees, was inspected on Thurs da y by Captain Low, of her Majesty's snip' Impregnable. - She was towed into the harbour on the same day by the Axon, and will be" paid off on-Wednesday. Her Majesty's_ troop-ship Resistance arrived on Thursday from Woolwich, and :was towed ,on Friday by the steam vessel Pike into harbour to refit. Her Majesty's ship Caledonia is_ ordered to be taken into dock to be repaired On Thursday the,ceew'of her Majesty's ship Impregnable got up lower yardi and topmasts, and crossed topgallant yards. Su NDAY.—Hei Majesty's frigate Leander, Captain Dacres from Cork, entered the Sound at one o'clock to-day, and sa luted the Admiral. Her Majesty's screw - .steam. troop-ship Vulcan, which was spoken by the Simoom on Wednsday last, the 27th instant, at the entrance to the Channel, had then been absent $2 days trom the Cape of Good liepe. - We are informed that the intermediate shaft of her machierry was broken, and that it was out of order prior to her arrival at Ascension; she in consequence lauded her coal at ' that island, and has since been ander canvas only. She had on board several passengers and invalids from Lagos. Dr. Dick, from the Cape, left the Vulcan for the Sunouin and landed here on 'Thureday. Nothing has since been heard of the Vulcan, and - the wind continues easterly. The Simoom spoke her at 7 30 A.M. on Wednesday, and having supplied her with provisions, parted company at 10 A.m., when the Vulcan was 12 miles south-west of the - Scilly Islands. lt is not impro bable that she has gone in there for shelter. The screw steam-frigate Simoom, Captain Kingcombe, broke the'lower part of the connecting-rod of her machinery on Thursday morning, when nearing this port. She was securely anchored, in seven fathoms, outside the eastern end of the breakwater, by Mr. Thompson, her Majesty's har bourmaster, and signal made for the assistance of a steam tug, when two steamers (the Avon and Confiance) went out. The former was sent to the Racer; the latter took the Simoom in tow, and placed her in the Admiralty anchorage grouted, inside the breakwater. She is to be supplied with gear from the steam-frigate Sanspareil. The Simoom is not yet out of the hands of her contractor. A large screw frigate, under full steam, was observed, at half-past four o'c lock this morning, oil the Eddystone, going up Channel against a strong easterly wind. The Vesuvius steam -sloop, Commander Barnard, has left this port for Portsmcuth, where the officere will be ap pointed to the Vizen steam-sloop, fitting for the Brazils CI d for the Brazilian Government from this country. Dur ingjte tstion. When ready she will embark a gentleman accre dited machincrs , one o cf th 'in dislocating his foot, injured by the last cruise of . the ilesuyius, two Of the engineers were a havingd froin the steam-reserve, at ilis i urt, t o his hand seriously cut. Engineers heir places prior to departure for Ports mouth. taken. alongside the Algeria hulk the vessel's The Britomart, 8, wasbeing • awnedreth,eenettoh_erb jAr. of :commissioned. She yesterday,purpose • f o t tbe . - Commander Albert Iles hoisted the pendant this !Horning the Duke of Northumber seltine (1846) has been eelected.by the served as a lieutenant land to command the Britom art. S Sd bo, and in her Maje s ty' s s hips Electra, Gr ecian, tag' PP ral ro- Conway, and attained his pr esent rank at the gene p motion in 1846. The St . George, KO, Captain NIA • • • on - being completed after OD the 24th inst., was removed from the dockyard, which Captain Nies, C. 8., sent for the leadi n g man of caulk era, and expressed to him his high-gratification at the clean and expeditious manner in which the work was performed, at the same time handing him a 5/. note; to be given to any charity he felt disposed. The money has since been handed over to the treasurer on account of the Dockyard Female Orphan Asylum. - The quarterly payments of salaries and civil pensions will commence at the Pay-office on Tbur cl s ay next, the let April. The seamen on board her Majesty's ships will, on payment of advanced wages at this purr, be empowered to remit portion of the same. . ' , r . any §HEIERNESS, MATCH 28.—Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Amphion, 34, has crossed her lower and topsail yards and pointed her topgallant-masts, and will be complete in her rig in a few days. Some alterations and additions in her machinery being , determined on; she will not be ready to lave the fitting-basin for another fortnight at least. Her Majesty's ship London, 90, 'Captain the Hon. Mon tague Stoptord, will shortly be ordered to fill up her comple ment of 830 men, and will proceed to Spithead early in June, to form one of a Chsunel squadron during the summer, and ultimately be stationed in the - I.editerranean. Captain G. R. Mundy will a , sume the command of this ship on the Ist of A p ril, vice Captain the Hon. Montague S;opford, who goes to the Waterloo, 121', as Flag Captain to Vice-Admiral the lieu. Juceliue Perc.)-, Commander-in-Chi , f at the Nore Her ISL,jesty's screw-eteam-frigate Horatio, 24, Captain the ilea. S, I. Carnegie, is nearly opapits,w by the (194. EVENING, yard. She will leave the fltting-basin in ten days, and be moored in the harb , dr on the west shore, opposite to the Garrison-point, a position which will command the entire entrrlce to the river Medway. Her armament is a formid able one, consisting o: •20 3-iuch and four 10-inch guns. She wants nearly 40 men to complete her crew. Her Majesty's steam frigate Cyclops, fitting as an advanced steamer, will not have made good her defects till the end of April. Colonel Ord, Commandant of the Royal Engineers at Chatham, arrived here on Thursday on an official visit, for the purpose of inspecting the sea wall on the harbour side of the land fortifications, with the view of placing it in a proper state of defence. The necessary works will shortly be com menced, and, whet completed, Will render the dockyard secure from all approaches by land, at the same time form ing a formidable battery for the protection of the upper part of the harbour as far as Saltpan Reach, upon which, at pre sent, no battery guns can he made to bear. The committee which has been sitting at the Admiralty for the purpose of devising the most efficient uniform sys tem of lighting all vessels afloat have, we are informed, agreed upon their report. We state , ' in our impression of the 15th inst., the evidence was not in favour of placing fixed" coloured lights on board small vessels, but that never theless they should have them in readiness to exhibit in cases of emergency. Having duly weighed and coneidered the whole of the evidence adduced on this important subject, the committee have resolved to advise that system of light ing and signalling, liable, we presume, to certain suggestions in rendering the details perfect. Some seamen and two or three subordinate officers, borne as supernumeraries on board her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120, were dispatched on Friday to join her Majesty's ship Winchester, 50, fitting at Portsmouth as flag-ship - fur the East Indies, in lieu of the Hastings, 72; ordered home to be paid off. Jt appears by a return which has been made and printed, that on the Ist of January, 1852, there were 791 midship men and cadets in the Royal Navy. The number of each class of officers could not be separately given. On the Ist January, 1851, there were 175 inatee, 580 midshipmen, and 219 cadets. Two leading men of ropemakers at Chatham Dock y ard have been superannuated on pensions of 5 4 /. a y ear each. One shipwright and one workman at metal mills, 2.11. each. Two labourers, at 20/. and 151. respectively. One shipwright also, who had served but a short time, has been allowed a gratuity of three months' wages- WOOLWICH, MARCH 27.—The Higliflyer, 21, screw steam-sloop, Captain Henry J. Matson, received a number of seamen on Friday, who were brought round from Ports mouth in the Sprightly steam vessel. The Valorous steam-sloop, fitted with engines of 100-horse power, by Miller. Rayenhill, and Co., bad her steam up on Wednesday at her moorings, opposite the dockyard, to test the working of her engines, and they were found so satisfac tory that she will, without any further trial here, be taken round to tievotitiort, and placed on the list of advanced war- The Monkey steam-vessel, Second-Master Sallenger, went up the river yesterday, having been placed under orders to tow the Isabella screw steamer to the Downs. The Isabella is in one of the docks up the river, and is intended to proceed to Bhering Straits, under the command of Captain Beatson, with the view of passing through the Straits in search of Sir John Franklin. The Monkey returned to Woolwich the same day, as the Isabella was not quite ready for sea. VARIATION OF TIIE COMPASS.—Mr. Parkinson, second maste of her Majesty's brig Nautilus , has invented a com pass whereby a most desirable object is attained, and to en sure which many endeavours have previously been unsuc cessfully made, viz.. that of enabling mariners to make the allowances for the differences of the magnetic true course, without the exercise of the thought hitherto required. This is effected by an arrangement, simple, but at the same time entirely mechanical. The Nautilus is employed at Devon- Port for the instruction of naval apprentices, under the su perintendence of Mr. Parkinson, who finding it extremely difficult to make has pupi's, after taking bearings, compre hend the laying them off the chart. directed his attention particularly to the subject. Many officers who have tested the instrument (the cost of which is not mach more than the ordinary good compass) speak highly to its advantages especially when entering ports or rivers, in rendering the giving of the cour-e more simple and easy. The instrument has been approved by the department under the Board of Admiralty, and several have been ordered for trial on board the ships of the East India Company. That so young an officer as Mr. Parkinson should have directed his attention to this important subject reflects the highest credit on him, and it is to be hoped the successful result of his labours will be duly appreciated in the proper quarter. THE VULCAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As there is some pubiic anxiety expressed about the Vukti, , perhaps you mly think the following ex tract worthy attention. The letier is dated, " Off Scilly. March 24th":— " We have been cruising about for the last three weeks, detained by easterly winds, and losing on one tack what we gained on the other. The Vulcan is the veriest tub that ever swam; she cannot beat a mile to windward. and seldom goes about in stays, so that unless we get a fair wind we must soon put in somewhere, as we have been on reduced al lowance of four ounces of bread, and other things in pro portion, for some days, and little now remains." Yours, &c,, M. G, March 26. [Why has not a steamer been sent to her assistance? Can Admiral Ommaney answer?—ED. Sun.] TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) Sir,—On Wednesday the 24th was a rather amusing debate on Dogs and Dog-Carts; in which the Dogs won. The House broke up at an early hour. On Thursday was Mr. Hump's motion for bringing in a Bill to amend the Elective Franchise. He might as well have proposed a Bill for our immediate translation to heaven, as far as any chance of carrying it was con cerned; and there was the further disadvantage, that it was surd to bring out in the list of Noes, a number of those whose assistance must be given to any Bill of the kind when it has a chance of success. If those who voted for the motion had been asked their opinions, there can be little doubt the majority would have been agsiust procceditne with the motion. But as it was, there was nothing to be done but vote. There is almost always some good to be obtained out of things adverse; and there was some here. The Ministerial party wore drawn into exhibitions of that pride, which medical men in the mental line since Solomon have declared to be premonitory. They eschewed the - gentler term Conser vative, and adopted in all its rudeness the antique deno mination of Tory. The Tory of any time in the l ast two centuries is upon us, minus o n ly the appendages of. dress and person by which he used to be gracefully dis tinguished. They further volunteered an attack upo n the Sovereignty of the Peopl e ," i n which they on l y showed great ignorance of the meaning of terms, and a wonderful confidence in the power of obsolete mystifi cations. We may expect to hear next of " the Balance of Trade" and '` the Mercantile System," o r find them " agnising on their hearts' knee s " after the manner o f their predecessors. As regerds the particular question, they have evi dently a greet desire to get up a q ua r r el where no quarre l is. They paint the unrepresented classes as eneudes of the Monarchs ; when the tact is there are not fifty among them simple enough to wish to see Mr. This and Mr. That quarrelling for the place of Sovereign, or who view the fic;use of Lords in any other light, than as the descendants of men who in their days of power sometimes used rather unceremoniously their r i g hts of pit and gallows, bet whose succe s sors by t h e operation Of natural causes have turned i n t o humane and well c mditioned gentlemen, quite as good as any other speci mens of the class, and as often found in the course o f modern history on the people's side as on the opposit e. Under these circumstances, it is a mere strateg m o f war, to raise the cry of hostility to the monsrehy and aristocracy. That name of the Monarchy is.aw fully taken in vain. There is ii au abuse great or 'smell,' the re moval of which has tint been described as dangerous to the Monarchy. To 'hear the Tories, as they are hence forward to call themselves, it enieht he supposed our ancestors had established Monarchy to be the fountain of election ales, and grand guardian of all minor un reasonablenesses whieti should revel beneath its shade. Oa one point, the Chancellor of the Exchequer tnu:a be.reet in his own department of arithmetic. Nothing is easier than not to find a hare, c himney-pots. The Chancellor if you look for her in the or of the Exchequer says, that on comparing the proportion of M e mbers to certain counties, and to the boroughs in the same, the first are fewest in proportion to the population . This is only a travestie of what was stated in his hearing a few nights ago,—that if the constituencies of the present Protec tionist Ministers are taken as a sample, their county Members are 6 to 1 as compared with the county and population of Lancaster, and their borough Members 13 to 1 as compared with the constituency of Manchester. The pith of the question lies in the existence of small counties and small boroughs sending the same number of representatives as large ones; and what the Chancellor of the Exchequer says, is not pith, but " hay, straw, stubble," tending only to throw dust about the subject. Ha cautiously ignores the existence of the small boroughs in other places. He looks for his hare in the chimney pots, and of course he does not find her. On division, the Ayes were 89, the Noes 244. It is understood there were 17 new Ayes, and 41 absences of old; which last includes the pairs. It is strange it cannot be impressed upon minorities, that minorities ought not to pair. Suppose, for example, a minority were to pair off till nobody am left but the t wo t e ll e rs. And yet it might be a very respectable minority, if °lily instead dofpairing. Supp os i ng the to have been only ten , th e re were at all events above a hundred in favour of the aed present voted instance motion. i p t a s ir m s e i n n t h h On Friday a Bill for the Extradition of Deserters was read a second time in the House of Commons without a division. The downward road was always proverbially easy; and hare we aro in the position of Switzerland, Belgium, Piedmont, or any other of the powers which between alarm and the complicity of rulers, are threat ened with annexation by t he ne w Holy Alliance that hangs over Europe. Great will be the stir in the bureaux of the autocrats of Russia, France, and Austria, when it is known that the British Parliament has yielded without a division. Surely this particular consumma tion might have been averted by those who took charge of the opposition to the Bill. But on all occasions of this nature, the weakest counsels are those which prevail. It was amusing in the present instance, to hear what a flood of realonittants discharged !tieniselves upon the to induce tin 3 to witbdra`v hie mo'iou, r troTh etie which was ii divisata ll y well dispose p w in algium, coeto lug in bwirzorlan , i, b e e ccoursgteg and in Polan d an d Iluegary excite a spirit of philosophic whit naftons of 1 euser words and smaller resignation, 1.) Hai-land to without resistance. deeds h a ve su it Juba Bull is not determined to shut his Datliti"Thile! eyes Oat. be not s ee where he is being driven, the coming elso r l tray ot› -effael him an opp ortunit y of at a l l ev en t s making the 'cu lt nobody's but his own. ova, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. 9 1852. Blackheath March - THE A NIA Virl.--0(1 Saturday intelligence reached Lloyd's that several bundles . of printed papers of instruc tions from the director:4 of the Royal vi tst India Mail Packet Company to the officers of the ill-fated Amazon had been picked up by the Monkey fishing-beat, three miles 9t roiazitace, coat coawall. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS, When tl , e coup d'itat of the 2d of December and the strangalations of the Feeneh press had suddenly deprived every independent citizen of France of the power of making known his personal opinions cr of adimadverting upon the ep pression of his country, two men of character resolved to take sash means as they could find in a voluntary expatriation fcr protesting, in the face of Europe, against the iniquity, treachery, and violence of the Government established by the usurpation of Louis Napoleon. The first of these gentle men was the Count d'Haussonville, well known for his mo derate opinions, his large fortune, and his near connexion with the family of the Duke de Broglie; the second was M. Alexandre Thomas, one of the chief writers in the Journal des Ddbats, and late occupant of a Professor's chair at Versailles. With no other object than the defence of legal rights `and of liberty, and at the greatest personal inconvenience and risk, these gentle. men repaired to Bret.sels for the purpose of founding at their own expense a periodical publication called the Bulletin Francais, to communicate to the world independent opinions on the affairs of their own country. To use M. d'Hausaon vine's own words on his late trial, "On the day on which he saw the most eminent men in France seiz&l by the collar-like malefactors, and drageed by a deluded soldiery through a stupefied population. he vowed that one voice should at least be raised, iu some place or other, to de nounce, at his own rick and in the name Of the moderate party, the unworthy triumph of force over right, that overthrow of all justice, law, and equity, and that attack, not only on the liberty of a few individuals, but on the whole majesty of the nation." The Bulletin Francais was published at Brussels under these auspices. We have already expressed our opinion, that considering the position of the Belgian Government towards that of France, it would have been more politic and considerate not to afford a pretext for French remonstrance by acts committed on the territory of Belgium ; for the strength of that little state is obviously not equal to its love of freedom. The same measures might have been taken in this country with perfect impunity. Yet we can hardly regret this transaction, since it has given the world a striking proof that the independence of a Be l g ian j ur y is proof against the menaces of a foreign oppressor, and that the people are fully prepared to use and to maintain their rights of free discussion. No sooner had the first number of the Bulletin Fran oais appeared in Brussels than they were made the sub j ect of diplomatic remonstrance by France. But the Belgian Government had no legal means of suppressing the publica tion, and a prosecution could only be instituted under the obsolete provisions of a Dutch law of 1816, passed to protect the Bourbons from the rancour of the exiled Bonapartists, which imposed a small penalty on publications offensive to the character of foreign Sovereigns. The French Minister expressly demanded that these proceedings should be insti tuted, and they accordingly came on for trial last week before the assizes of the Court of Brabant. The charges in themselves, as contained in 15 extracts from different numbers of_the Bulletin were sufficiently explicit, and their authors courted no 'disguise - . at was-true they had said that Louis Napoleon is a charlatan if he is not a fanatic; that the suffrages of seven millions had been extorted by intimidation or fraud ; that hypocrisy and falsehood were stamped on all the acts of his Government; that its familiar and favourite weapons are espionage, cor ruption, and terror; and that France despises and detests the i ,noble domination of a counterfeit Caesar The accused declared at the bar that these expressions are no more, in their opinion, than terms appropriately applied to criminal actions contrary to morality and honour, and reprobated as such by all civilised nations; and they readily assumed the whole responsibility of what they had written or caused to be published. It mattered, therefore, little what was the tenor of their defence, but it may here be mentioned that when M. Berryer and M. Odillon Barrot applied for passports to enable them to appear at the bar in Brussels in support of these eminent clients, they were informed by the French police that if they left the country on such an errand they would not be suffered to return. The case was, therefore, left in the hands of M. Bartels, a Belgian advocate, who did ample justice to it. But though the Belgian Government had been constrained to institute this prosecution, and the Attorney-General, M. Bavay, appears to have exerted himself with great profes sional energy to obtain a conviction, public opinion in Bel gium had already judged his case. It was universally felt that the question thus raised was of vital importance to the liberty of the press and to the national independence of Bel gium. It was evident that however strong the terms applied by M. d'Haussoqville and M. Thomas to the head of the French Government might be, they were not stronger than the events we have recently witnessed in France amply warrant. Those expressions emanated from the pen et two French gentlemen who might have been supposed to write from the bitterness of party feeling; but since it was the pleasure of the French Government to bring them before an independent court of jus tice, every one of those vituperative epithets and cutting accusations is now sanctioned by the unanimous and deliberate judgment of twelve honest burghers of Brussels. According to the forms of proceeding is the Belgian courts, we understand that each of the i criminated passages, fifteen in number, was successively put to the jury, and the jury re fused unanimously, on every one of these counts, to bring in a verdict against the prisoners. The principal Belgian journals have given a very imperfect account of these pro ceedings; but we are informed that the acquittal was re ceived with enthusiasm in the court and out of doors. N. d'Haussonville and M. Thomas ascaped with difficulty from the crowd, which would have carried them in triumph to their hotel, and the result of this trial will long be remem bered to the credit of the judicial impartiality and national spirit of the Belgian people. The gentlemen placed at the bar to meet these charges were foreigners, but so in reality was the prosecutor. As in the celebrated case of Peltier, who was prosecuted in this country b y the First Consul ' during the Peace of Amiens, the political disputes of another nation were then brought before an independent tribunal; but there the parallel ends, for the charges made by Peltier were undoubtedly libellous and extravagant, the language of the Bulletin Francats is that of men well ac quainted with the proper limits of public diecus.slon and as incapable of perverting a fact as of sacrificing an opinion. Wherever Louis Napoleon has attempted, in France or out of it, to face the independent scrutiny of the law, he has been beaten. The Press itself, which he has gagged and destroyed, is not more terrible to him than the indignant protests of the bar and the severity of the bench towards his own acts. To acquit his antagonists is to condemn him ; and, as long as there is in Europe an independent journal or an honest jury, all the despotism of France will not save his policy from the chastisement which is most severe when it is dealt, as on this occasion, by the hand ofjustice.— Times. PROTECTION—LAND —LAW MONEY. The mirage of the desert which lures the thirsty traveller onward by the prospect of an imaginary lake, the apples of the Dead Sea, fair and luscious on the outside, and only de tected by the taste, are but faint images of the illusions wherewith Protection beguiles her credulous votaries. Fair and specious at a distance, it is only when approached and grasped that she melts into empty air, or is pulverised into dust and ashes. So long as their leaders were out of office, what anion so firm, what policy so definite, what ends so well understood as those of the country party? But pos sessed of the citadel of power, when one would suppose they had nothing to do but to will and have, their volition seems to be struck with incurable paralysis, and falters in the very moment of apparent success. If Lord Derby have not ab solutely renounced Protection he has at any rate clogged its restoration with conditions which he perfectly well knows to be impossible—conditions not imposed upon him by the tyranny of an adverse majority, but the offspring of his own wavering will and shattered convictions. Neither does the plan of indirect compensation by relief from local burdens seem likely to achieve a more favourable result. Considering what real property consists of, to shift a portion of these burdens from realty to personalty would be quite as much relief to the trading and manufacturing classes as to agricultural. Labourers it would not affect, farmers would pay in rent what they were dispensed from paying in taxes, and landlords would probably find the burden reimposed on them in some other shape. It is vain for men to shut their eyes to the fact, that the hopes and promises with which the rural constituencies and their members have been mutually feeding each other during the last six years meet the eye but mck the touch, and a few months will inevitably show the utter futility of the agricultural search after legislatve relief. Under these circumstances it is really refreshing to see a friend to the landed interest step forward who undertakes to relieve it by means fair and j ust in their nature, perfect fromly practicable and reaso nable, and implying no sacrifice any other class in the community. To the means indicated by Mr. Slaney we have more than once alluded; but as they neither implied any tax on the food of the many for the benefit of the few, nor any attempt to transfer the onus of taxati n from the shoulders of the rich to those of the poor, they have met with little favour from that class of politicians who would define the art of government to be the enabling actass to live at the expense of its neighbours, doing as little as possible fur itself. The remedies to which the agricul tural interest ought to look are, in our opinion, those which arise from a wider extension and more logical !application of the principles of free trade. Free trade is like the spear of Achilles, which alone was capable of healing the wounds it had inflicted. We donot now speak of the absurdity of taking the unprotected farmer for the purpose of protecting the sugar of the West Indies or the freights of the shipowner, or of his right to be freed from such demands himself the moment he renounces the attempt to impose them on others. The great merit of free trade is that it removes all obstruction to the circulation and ex change of commodities. The great demerit of protection s is that it impedes such c irculation and exchange. Apply se doctrines to the tranfer and sale (Aland. The system which has been suffered to grow up in this country is one which might have been devised expressly to render land as little an as ar ticle of commerce , as little vendible and pnrchaseable possible. If a man has a certain sum of .money which be wishes to exchange for shares or stock in a public company or the funds, the law points out an ostensible owner with whom he may deal, and though the stock or funds be affected with any amount of trusts the writing of a few words settles the transaction. But if a man wish to exchange his money against land he is at once involved in a labyrinth of erable diffi culty and expense. Voluminous abstracts, innum queries and objections, interminable conveyances, Weari some delays, and still more interminable attorneys' bills, beset his path, and unless the purchase be very large, bear a formidable ratio to the outlay. Now, that these things not absolutely necessary is perfectly obvious, when we are consider that stock in the fund as s or sres in a railway com pany are practically as permanent as the" land itself, and that the only essential difference between them consists in the manner of describing them, the former being designated by numbers, the latter by local descriptions, the one of which is as easily transferred by the simple registration of a name as the other. pound dmit that every piece of land may have,as every pof stock has, some one to repre sent it for the purposes of alienation, and to act as a trustee for all those who may be beneficially interested in it, and there is no reason why land should not be transferred with as much cheapness and simplicity as stock. Now, what would be the effect of such a change? All the expenses which now clog a purchase of land are so much deducted from the purchase money, and though nomi nally paid by the purchaser really fall on the vendor, who wou ld receive more if the legal - expenses were less. If we estimate them with Mr. Slaney at ten per cent., they impose just the same burden on the seller of land as an export duty of ten per cent. would inflict on the manufacturer, with this difference in favour of the latter—that the duty would go to de; ray the e xpenses of Government , whi l e nobody benefits by the complexity of titles to land except the class of lawyers who live by their investigation. It is quite unne ee , *a sy to point out to the landed interest the advantage of su ch a rise in their p roperty, or in how man y instances • t wou ld enable those who live on the narrow m arg i n b e t we en rents acid interest of mortgages to extricate themselves from a position of what appears at present a hopeless embarrass anent. The only persons who would have any just cause to complain of such a change would be those who have made it their business to acquire a knowledge of the complicatee law which at present fetters the transfer of land; it grea tly mistake the spirit of the Protectionist party e they wo uld be willing to pay an unnecessary tribute on part inert • a gage and transfer of their land for the sake of affording remunerating price to the British lawyer. We commend this recipe to the attention of those who begin to appreciate the true nature of the eh i nlehrreutdhuleyg Kaye been o hotly miming, Legs ingelgOUs scale, less level to the meanest capacity than a fixed duty, our remedy hag at any rate the advantage of doing wrong to nobody, of being: their own power, and, if ones established, beyond the risk of reversal. One-twentieth part of the ingenuity which is devoted to unsaying that whi c h h as been said and an:loing that which has been done, to mystifying opponents and quieting clamourous . supper ers , wou ld h ave sufficed to strike f ut sometbmg which would.be a permanent benefit to the landowner as well as a solid improvemeut to our jurisprudence —Macs. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The opening night of the sixth season of this splendid establishment—the house of Grisi, Mario, and Costa—took place on Saturday. The opera selected was the Maria di Rohan, of Donizetti, which was played at the Italian Opera in the season of 1847. There is a resemblance between the story of Ude opera and Othello. Maria di Rohan is se cretly the wire of the Duke de Chevreuse while she is pas sionately beloved by the Count de Chalais, the husband and the lover being attached friends. At the opening of the piece, the cause of secrecy being removed, the Duke re veals his marriage, to the despair of his friend. Chalais is involved in a duel. Being prevented from attending the rendezvous, his friend Chevreuse, to save his honour, fights in his stead. He is wounded and conveyed home, where he is affectionately tended by his wife and his grateful friend. Unfortunately, while preparing for the combat, Chalais has written a few lines of ten der farewell to the object of his love, and the letter falls into her husband's hands. Mad with jealousy, the Duke is about to sacrifice his wife to his fury, when his friend enters. Upon him Chevreusa turns his rage ; handing him a pistol, he drags him from the room. The next moment two pistol shots aro heard, Maria falls senseless, and the curtain drops. This story is complicated with a good deal of extraneous matter. The introduction of the gay Abbe de Gondi, afterwards the celebrated Cardinal Mazarin, was, we believe, an after-thought, this character not being in the piece when first produced, but introduced to give it some variety and lightness. It is De Gondi who chal lenges Chalais, and fights with Chevrouse. lie is represented as a very youthful rake ; the music of the part is for a contralto voice, nd it is performed by a female. Ronconi, Tamberlik, and Madame Castellan were in splendid voice, and sustained then: roles with triumphant perfection. Madlle. Seguin made her debdt as the new contralto, and, notwithstanding a considerable nervousness in the outset, achieved a decided success by the excellence of her voice and style, which were enthusiastically appreciated in her rendering of the cavatina in the second act. The intro duced ballet divertissement in the first act might better have been omitted. The house was crowded by a fashionable audience, who testified a warm and unequivocal approbation of the execution of the music, vocal and instrumental, of Maria di Bohan. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The cast of Saturday evening showed only one principal astist included in that of five years ago—Signor Ronconi - whose merits as a tragic actor in dfaria di Rohan are gene rally known and appreciated. On Saturday_ evening he kept up his old reputation, singing with all his affistic delicacy and skill, and acting, particularly in the last scene, with that tragic power which has made his impersonation of this part a lyric tradition. Madame Castellan replaced Madame Ron coni as Maria. The latter artist, it will be remembered, made her debut in the part, but her efforts were so uneuc ceesful as to amount to a positive failure. Madame Castellan is a happy renzplacante. Her pure and vibratory organ, and her thoroughly musician-like style, contribute to do the utmost justice to the music. She was in good voice, and sang with animation and spirit. In the original Covent garden cast Salvi was the Ricardo. The character was on Saturday re presented by Tamberlik, who has returned from his Russian campaign without injury to the delicacy or strength of his organ. The original tremulousness of voice which marked this artist, and which was by some esteemed a beauty as a return to an ancient trick of art, and by others denounced as a radical defect in the organ, has been fur some time on the decrease, and was little perceptible on the recent occasion, except in the more strongly impassioned passages, in which, however, the cha racteristic in question is frequently not misplaced. Like Ronconi and Madame Castellan, Signor Tamberlik was in excellent voice. The sole debutante was Madlle. Seguin, a French lady, we believe, who is the new contralto. Madlle. Seguin possesses a slight but well formed figure and intelli gent features. Her powers on her first entrance were sadly marred by nervousness, but she gradually recovered her com mand over ber voice, and ended by achieving in the cavatina in the second act a decided hit. Madlle. Seguin'a voice is a light contralto, more powerful than usual in the upper re vieter ; but well defined and satisfactory in the lower notes. Her style is excellent—even and musician-like, and her in tonation severely accurate. The air in the second act was encored by acclamation. Madlle. Seguin has much to learn as an actress. She is, indeed, clearly a tyro upon the boards, but her voice and style are both much in her favour. The opera was steadily and evenly played. The orchestra, which numbers eighty-six, and includes Piatti and Bottesini, went with their usual accuracy and a plumb, under the direction of M. Costa's baton, and the chorusses were on the whole efficient. We have one thing, however, decidedly to object to in the representation the introduction of a feeble ballet divertissement in the first act, which breaks the flow of the music, and perfectly stops the dramatic action of the piece. In every respect this introduced ballet was bad. It was improperly introduced, and its performance was not of a character to which opera audiences are accustomed. First rate dancing may, by a stretch, be tolerated in a lyric work, but certainly not dancing of the species exhibited on Satur day evening. The whole affair is quite a mistake. No music ought to be performed as part of an opera, unless it be written by the composer of the opera, and thus carry out his original designs. Let the divertissement be given at the conclusion of the principal work. It is then at all events harmless. After the fall of the curtain "God save the Queen" was sung. Madame Castellan was the only principal vocalist who took the solo parts. (From the Daily News.) The cast was strong, and the performance excellent. Ma dame Castallan was a charming representative of the heroine, and sang exquh.itcly, particularly the air "Cups fatal westizia," the finest torecau in the part. In the terror, agony, and distraction of the closing scene she showed a high degree of tragic power. Tamberlik did all justice to the cha racter of the Count de Chalais, both as an actor and a singer; but the part is not so interesting, either vocally or dramati cally, as it ought to have been. None of the airs belonging to it have left any trace on our memory. The little part of De Gondi served to introduce the new contralto, Madcmeiselle Seguin, who achieved a decided triumph. Her aspect is very pleasing, but her excessive timidity for a little time seemed to paralyse her powers. Encouraged, however, by a kind re ception, she rallied her spirits; and when she came to the salient point of the part, the exceedingly pretty romance, " Per non istare iii oeio," she poured it out with a verve, a fire, a richness of voice and brilliancy of execution which took the audience by storm, and it was encored with salvos of applause from every part of the house. We shall be much disappointed if this young lady do not turn out another Brambilla or Alboni. But all the other parts were eclipsed by Ronconi's magnificent performance of the Duke de Chevreuse. It is regarded as his chef d'ceuvre, and is indeed a wonderful (we might almost say matchless) application of the vocal art to the ex pression of passion in its utmost violence and in tensity. In the final scene, the storm of frenzied jealousy, raging in the breast of a desperate man, has never been more powerfully painted by the greatest trage dians of Shakspere'a stage. The piece has been produced with the completeness and splendour to be expected at this theatre. The orchestra remains under its able conductor, Mr. Costa, and has been strengthened by some eminent names, particularly Piatti and Bottesini. The scenery and decorations were rich and beautiful. (From the Times.) The general execution of the opera was unimpeachable. The scenery and dresses were excellent; the orchestra was as perfect as ever, and the chorus seemed stronger and more efficient than last season. Tile overture, a very flimsy com p sition, was rendered interesting by the admirable manner in which it was played. Mr. Costa, who was received with acclamations on taking his seat in the orchestra, con ducted with his wonted decision and skill. The only objec tionable point in the performance was the interpolation of a series of dances, entitled a divertissement, into the first act of the opera, which divertissement proved by no means diverting to the audience, whey dining its progress and at the conclusion, expressed their di-satisfaction in audible terms. Notwiths ending this, Mademoiselle Brussi and Mademoiselle Robert (tee former a young and promising dancer, whose pereunal appearance is much in her favour— the latter a pantomimist of acknowledged eminence from the Grand Opera in Paris) were frequently and warmly ap plauded. The introduction of the divertissement was, never theless, an unpardonable liberty, and its suppression on the next occasion will be advisable. If a Lana be necessary, it should be placed at the end of the evening's performance, unless originally a feature in the opera. The Royal Italian Opera has gained a reputation for giving the woks of cele- brated composers as they were written, and ought to be chary of following bad examples. With this exception there was nothing but approval and genuine applause. The receptions accorded to Ronconi, Tamberlik, and Madame Castellan were highly complimentary, and the usual number of recalls testified to the general content. The last scene of Ronconi created o. furore, and be was compelled to come for ward , twice after his aria. After the opera the National Anthem was performed, Madame Castellan taking the prin cipal solos. Her Majesty's box was occupied by Lady Caroline Barring ton and Miss Barrington, Col. the Hon. Charles Gray, and party. Among the fashio nable com p an y attendin g the theatre were the Marchese Brancaleoni and Madlle. Brancaleoni, the Earl and Countess of Desert, the Earl of Durham, the Count and Countess de Morella, the Earl of Lisburn, Viscount Clifden, Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount Sydney, Lady i i i s i s s O H p onbnhdo lilies a Elliot, Vi scou nt Exmouth, Viscout Bury, Viscount Cranbourne,. Li Lord and Lady Carington and the Hon. Miss Caring . Lord Hon la Br r o s u . gsh Strange n g a o n . i d 0 r t , h i N e m !I L o n. Campbell, Sir Lord John Hay, Lord Arthur Hay, Lord Ribblesdale, L a dy Atkinson and party, Sir John and Lady Loftus and Lady Otway, Hon. Otwav Toler, L Sanders and Mr. Sandars, M.P., Loid Geore Lennon, Virginia Leopold Agar Ellis, Baron de Steinberg, H M.P. Captain the Hon. Claude Lyon, ennox, Hon. n on. E. S. Russell, and the Hon. Misses Dillon, Hon. W. II a_rbcra, LadYx irl p illia m m r. v an e ( ( A i rs . farland and Miss Mac e :ar c la u r l Misses Burgoyne, Sir Henry Webb. S. on. Gerard Dijalocii. e x h _Rurgoyn . e, and the Ba onel Sir George Armytag Williamson and Miss Williamson," Hatton Ca Villiers and Mrs. Villiers Hatton, Captain De ainßathe, Colonel Diane, Colonel Tyrwhitt, Captain Ellison tain D Flotham, Major Gage, Mrs. Pugh and the Misses Pugh Dlr. and Mrs ' John Laurie and Miss Laurie, Mr.B.° gham Baring, M.P., Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. B H. r Thistlethorayt. 11- Webster, Mr. W. E ulteel, M mi ss Gilles, Mr. Ewer Mr. Martineau, Gregory, Colonel Qase nd G as coyae, Mr. Bur- Gregory, a nard, Mr. Mills, &c. ____________••------ 7 ---- -•'''"----------- CHARING.CROBB SUSPENSION-lISIDGEI COMPANY.— I cons ist r. anp e y e s w c a u s ilhdeilnd theat tchheairoffi On Saturday a sp ec i a l meeting of the shareholders of this b ill e e c r t s- o s f tre t e h t, e n S e t w ra a n p d . , preaches from the York -road, which at 'a previous meeting had been proposed to be made by the directors, and sane oceiPth9e, Vsui tioned by the -shareholders. In a circular . issued by Messrs. erted, the directors, it was Perry and and Finish, the grounds on which t he . proposition was adopted were strongly controv leged, having approaches , w as the outlay was not sta ted. . t c.ffered no estimate o t h e cost of making such 011ie the increased income which was to cover A resolution in accordance with Nag as submitted to the meeiing by Mr. Tyrrell, supported at great length by Mr. Hawes, late a twhichhese vvvie:An amendment was moved bi Mr. Few, solicitor director. to t he company, to the effect that Cis highly desirable that such approaches should be made, and that the directors be requested to take such . steps as they deem proper to carry the plan into effect. The probable cost, he said, would be about 12,000/., and increased tolls to the amount of 400/. a year, or 526 pass'engers per diem, would justify that outlay, while the sum of 4,9001.' would purchase all the property re quired for carrying out the project. After a lengthened discussion the resolution was rejected, and the amendment of Mr. Few was adopted by a majority of 11. The proceed ings then terminated. The long-pending agreement between the London and North-Western, the Chester and Holyhead, and the City of Dublin Companies, for the c onveyance of the Irish goods and cattle tra ffi c to And fmn Holyhead, was filially settled cai satut day week, The report made to the Lords of the Treasury by the Commiisioners appointed to inquire into the cost end applicability of the Crystal Palace has at length been printed, and will he read with inter est. Only seven witnesses were exemiaed, viz.:—Sir Charles Fox, Mx. Dike, Mr. Flaming , the Duke of Suther land's gardener at Trentham, Sir Joseph Paxton, Mr. John Kelk, proprietor of some of the houses opposite the south side of the building, Mr. Hawkins, head of the department of antiquities in the British Museum, and Mr. Cole. " Office of Works, &c. 19th Feb. 1652. 4 compliance wit h , your Lordship? directions AlyLz(3ls,h—avlen made inquiry into the several mat. tens referred to us in the Treasury letter, dated the 13th of December, 1851. " It will be most convenient that we should in the first place report upon those questions which will admit of distinct end definite replica; these au— " 1. The price at r, hich the Government could per chase the Exhibition building. "It appears that riince the 31st of December, 1851, the building has been given up by the Commissioners appointed to superintend the Exhibition, and has be come tba property of the contractors. In order, there fore, to obtain a reply to this question, we applied to Sir C. Fox, and he has stated on the part of the contractors, that the price of the building as it now steads is 65,834/. 'Ts. 11d., to which amount, how ever, must be added a sum for its maintenance since the Ist of December. Sir C. Fox has stated that he expects the Royal Commissioners to pay a sum of 20,912/. 4s. 4d. beyond what he has already received, and if this expectation should be realised the purchase money would be reduced to that extent. " 2. The cost at which it could be adapted for a per manent structure. " The works necessary for this purpose the contractors would undertake to execute for the sum of 2 6,0001., as suming that it were determined to retain the building on its present site. " 3. The cost of removing the building and refixing it upon another site. The answer to this question must of course depend upon the distance of the removal, and the nature of the soil upon which it may be proposed to refix the building; but assuming it to be within a distance to which the materials could be carted, and that the site chosen for its re-construo- Lion were attended with no unfavcurable circumstances, Sir C. Fox has stated the cost of its removal and recon struction, including such improvements as would adapt it for a permant building, to be 61,5001. In other words, adding the cost of removal and reconstruction to the prioo of the purchase, the Exhibition Building could be removed and refixed for the sum of 127,3351., in a con dition in which it could be permanently maintained. "4. The probable coat which would be required for' the maintenance of the building. " The contractors would undertake to maintain the structure, including the cost of painting it externally and internally every four years, for the sum of 5,00 C/. a year. " The other questions whieh your Lordships have sub mitted to our consideration must be matter of opinion, and wilt not allow of such easy solution. These are— "s. The purposes to which the building could be most advantageously applied. " Upon this point a variety of suggestions have been offered. "A large covered space affords, it is said, aceommo iiadwunmahgtsuiil ocy o s n ei t:mehi f eewt o n r ialtsyx i a n aohr n agri ü bduoi m ett idh e io,ne r ar a ss ht b rßbo l u e :cul o tirdii e b do j nnni e udo. c get t r s be , medl a in n ahg d veehgas r f eii a lea c ic b i sta l el i reh t de i ;: e s s abtinbu f dd n etv r esasn p uchct t pu blic sug gested, c tmprLe within its ample area museums, sculp ture galleries, lecture-rooms, sheltered walk s f or inva lids, places iecreation for the idle, and of scientific re search for the studious. " It is impossible fairly to examine those various sug gestions without at the same time considering another question, namely, "G. The site which it may be desirable to select for this bulking. " Whether or not the Government could, consistently with former engagements, retain the building upon its present site, is a question into which we do not consider it cur province to enter; but we have not deemed it right, in regard to this point, to exclude some evidence which appears to deserve your Lordships' attention. " Asiumiag that the present site were deemed unob jectionable, it appears to us that a portion of Hyde-park should not be permanently appropriated, unless to an ()eject of very general interest and advantage. " The British Museum affords undoubtedly insufficient space for its daily increasing collections; but we believe that the structure in Hyde-park could not be rendered subservient to its relief without extensive alterations, which, while they would impair the effect of the build ing, would ill satisfy persons who visited the collection. " The sculptures of Egypt, of Lycia, and of Nineveh might, it has been seid, be advantageously seen under a roof which from its lightness and transparency resem bles tho open air.—The contrast of light and shade is, however, deemed advantegeous to sculpture, and the colossal character of these antiquities may be by other persons thought to accord best with massive architecture. " Mr. Hawkins, the head of the department of anti quities at the British Museum, thinks it objectionable to divide the collection, while he observes that articles of value could not be safely deposited in this building, un less the precautions resorted to during tho time of the Exhibition were again adopted. " It is, moreover, obvious that rooms for the officers of the department must be provided; and it is probable that gradually the subdivisions and alterations of the interior would prove the bad economy of appropriating this much admired structure to a purpose for which it was not originally designed. " The force of these observations appear to have been in some measure admitted, even by persons who recom mend this appropriation of the building. It may be seen, for instance, that Mr. Cole contemplates this only as a temporary employment of the building until same more suitable edifice Isbell have been constructed for the various institutions which he thinks it desirable to establish. " Amidst the various schemes that have been pro posed with a view of rendering the building perms neutly attractive on its present site, the plan recom mended by Sir J. Paxton appears to be the most eligi ble. He submitted a very ingenious plan for convert ing the buildieg into a garden, and having estimated the cost of this conversion, he states that the entire outlay necessary for the purchase of the building and its subeequent adaptation would be 150,0001. He also estimates the cost of its future maintenance at 12,0001. a year. Upon further consideration, however, Sir Joseph Paxton has revised this estimate, and stated the yearly charge for the maintenance of the fabric and the renewal of the interior decorations required to render it permanently attractive at 20,0001 a year. "Even after making these extensive alterations in the present building, Sir Joseph Paxton has admitted that it will not be in all respi cts the best adapted to its pur pose, and that for the sum of 150,0001. he could put up a much finer, a more meguificent, and more appropriate structure than the Exhibition Building. " We use not prepared to say that the sum of 150,0001, would cover the cost of adapting the building p to ru th .e e Fur ps.es of a garden. We should thick it more a ssume 200,0001. as the expeuditure which would abeutnteo. cesstr o y ns f i o d r e t tng hiesetzeorlkarsgo annual expendit ure which will . be oa e required ,uipt oanppae f a o pt r a n t t l o l a e ud sm en ti f o l t i t n be t de e i t tn ii c ri xb e ev e ci o ti t evi t c, h tt • ico a is e mo oela hen ce the w grant for the_ maintenance "Should your Lordships determine et. to recommend to ornamental garden under glass Parliament an annual within the precincts ?_t_ think, be designed with all the eakill of a? tho Parks, the plan for such 'and experience could direct to this tall:; and tudtaveur to employstructure sho n u c i e d we it would be uulortunate that the architect should ; b fettered by the old raateriele and re-a IV , d t former ars angernents. "We believe th a t t h e remembrance of the la te Ex hibition would be unfavou ra b ' e to a now approp riation b e impossible t o re p roduce of the building, as it would the brilliant eff ect o b tained f ro m the rich collections which were temp orar il y p l ac ed there. "The evid ence wh i c h we have taken i nduces us to believe that even if the building be rendered a se lf-support in g it could not site, such, for instance,were Battersea-park,removed to another__ estabus _unless I c , nt of persons who might can` were under the manages c that the Government would pars " We do not am i g os ? duct it as a commercial er o b j ect, and therefore we have not in quiredchase it for selloh an farther i n to such an appropriation of the building. culation. A voured to ascertain whether the Exhibition We eneea Kew in connexion with the Botanical Gardens. employedat palm-house affords space for the exhibition of Building, or any portion of the structure, could be usefully The pa plants, but a building far the owth of plants troPiF 4 requiring shelter and moderate heat is much desired. o In those grounds there exists already an establish ment which could be employed in the care of the plants, an d it must be admitted that the height and beauty of the transept forming the most striking portion of the building would be a great ornament to the gardens at Kew. " We inquired therefore of Sir C. Fox the cost of re moving the central portion of the extent of 33 bays, electing this central piece together with two new ends, and completing this diminished building as a permanent structure. "From his reply it appears that the price of the pur chase and the charge for refixing it would amount to about 80,000/. Some additional expense would have to be incurred for warming and ventilating apparatue. "The.results of the evidence here collected appear toto ut to show, that if it be proposed to retain the building on ies present site, the best purpose to which it could be applied would be the formation of an ornamental garden, as suggested by Sir J. nat• n; if it were decided not to retain the building iu Hyde-pails, vie do not know any other rite upon which we cell recommend ioa ree censtruce Con at the public expense. ~ t he expenditure of 80,0001. were n o t d eem ed an in superableberemovedob to ectior, the principal port i on of the b u ilding might .:e v, where it s f u t ure maintenance as a conservatory, both useful and ornamental, might be provided for with a comproativ e ly sma ll increase to the establiee me . tar tl.e bet:laic atom s. g "In the event, he ever, of such is scheme m eetin g with the sanction of your lotthhi pe ai d the approval of Par liament, we believe that it w oulel be the most economical course u" a e gaiu to dispose of uf proceeding to purchase the Entire structur e, those portion s which mi g ht not be required for the imposes of the bo tanical g ardens. " We have the h oneu r to be, my Lords , "Your Lordships' very humble servants, " SEYMOUR. " W. CUBITT. • " JOIIN LINDLEY. "Tile Right honourable the Lords Co,ramissioncra of her majesty's Treasury.' MONDAY MARCH 9, 1852. THE ALACE