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THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries. MRS. MABERLY'S " LEONTINE." In 3 vols. post Bvo. Henry Celbnrn, Publisher, 13, Great 3larlboreugh-street. E UNION MAGAZINE, June 1, No. VI., with numerous Illustrations, price is. CONTENTS. 1. Recollections of Rome-2. My Brother-3. Quarantine Tale, Tl.-4. Rise and Progress of Liberty in England and France 6. Answer from my Old Parlour Carpet-6. Musings at Home and Abroad, No. H.-7. Anacreontic Shrub-8. Late for Lectures 9 Royal Academy and National Gallery-10. Phasures of Home— ]l. German Criminal Jurisprudence. Published by Barker and White, 33, fleet -street, and to be ob tained of all Booksellers in town or country. The First Volume is now ready, elegantly bound, containing 646 pages of letter-press, and 54 illustrations, by Phiz, Mason, &c., price 6s. 6d. sUKL Y HALL NIGHT."-GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—There will be an EXTRA TRAIN from Slough to Paddington, at Half-past Ten o'clock, r.m., ou TUURSIDAY, the 4th June. By order of the Directors, _ _ CHARLES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. D IRECT EAST AND WEST JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the SCRIP of the above Company may be EXCHANGED for Scrip of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcesterslaire Junction Railway (these respective Companies having amalgamated) on application at this office I, Moorgate, May 25, 1846 R. S. MACKENZIE, Secretary, ILVILWAY SHARKS BY PUBLIC SALE. itTESSItS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND TA_ LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Fr ends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of hallway Shares, dec., 1..0 place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favour+, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, at least one day previously to their being offered ; arid advices of results will be forwarded by the first post ,after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. On ices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle -street, London. xEr. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, JUNE 2, Will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera, in Four Parts, entitled, I LOMBARDI : ALLA Op CROCIArA. With new scenery, dresses, &c. ; the scenery by Mr. Marshall. Gr.selda, Madame Grisi; Sofia, Madame Bellini ; Viclinda, 3ldlle. Corbari ; Oronte, Signor Mario; Arvin°, Signor ; Pirro, Big. Rotelli ; Acciano, Sig. Ginbilei ; Pagano, Sig. Fornasari. To conclude with the grand Ballet, by M. Deshayes, re-arranged in Three Tableaux, by M. Perrot, the Music by M. Costa, entitled, ALMA ; on, La Fdle do Feu. Perephite, M. Perrot ; Ba l fegor, M. Gosselin ; Em - Igor, M. St. Leon; Alma, Mdile. Cerito. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Pubic, are respectfully in formed that there will be an EXTRA NIGHT on THURSDAY NEXT, JUNE 4, When will be performed Mozart's chef d'oeuvre, IL DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira, e, Sanchioll ; Zerlina, Madame Caste'lan ; Don Giovanni, Signor Fornasari ; Leo porello, Signor Lablache ; Masetto, Signor F. Lablache ; Il Com mendatore, Signor Botelli ; lion Ottav!e, Signor Mario-. With various Entertainments in the BALLET Department. Comprising the talent of ,Mlles. Cerito, L. Taglioni, Moncelet, De melisse, Cassan, and Lucile Grahn ; M.M. Perrot, Gosselin, Di Mattia, and St. Leon. THZATRE ROYAL, T>RUHY•LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, liorrani, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. Ring, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. After which, the Ballet d'Action, entitled PEROUSE ; or, The Desolate Island. Principal characters by Madlle. Louise, Madame liubllei, air. W. H. Payne, Mr. Howell, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. Wieland, and Master F. Payne. To conclude with the second Act of the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. Duke of Silesia, M. Mathis; Hilarion, Mr. W. ;11. Payne ; Prince of Courland. Mr. Howell ; Wilfrid, M. Adrien ; Giselle, Mdlle. Sall ; Mirtha, tifdile. Louise ; Princess Bathilde, 3ldlle. St. Lenin; Bertha, Mrs. Payne; Principal Willis, Mesdames Adele and Ginbilei. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKT. THIS EVENING _ Will be performed the Comedy of JOHN BULL Peregrine, Mr. Stuart ; Hon. Tom , huffleton, Mr. Holl ; Jub Thornbury, Mr. W. Farren ; Dennis Brulgruddery, Mr. Hudson; Dan, Mr. Backstone ; Mrs. Brulgruddery, Mrs. Glover; LaJy Caroline Braymore, Miss Julia Bennett; Mary Thcrnbury, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the Overtures, " Cenerentola,." and " Dac d'Olonne," the " St. James's Polka," " Philomel Walser," and the " Chatsworth Quadrilles." After which (by desire), a Comic Drama, entitled USED UP, Messrs. Webster, Brindal, I. Bland, Howe; Miss Bennett and Mrs. ilumby will sustain the principal characters. To conclude with A CABINET QUESTION. In which Messrs. Brindal, Tilbury, Buckstone, and Miss Julia Bennett will appear. THEATRE ROYAL. LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY- Three New Pieces for Whitsun Holidays. Another brilliant Triumph " Robin Hood and Richard Coeur de Lion" every Evening. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Comic Drama, in Two Acts, founded on a recent well-known event, called THE DUST MAN'S BELLE. Principe , character, by Messrs. Keeley, Did fear, Meadows, F. Vining, Kinloch ; Miss Villars, and Mrs. Keeley. After which a new Farce, called SISTER AND I. Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, A. Wigan, Emery, Turner, Kinloch, and Bellingham; Miss E. Daly, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, and Miss Forster. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic Romantic Burlesque Spec tacle, founded upon certain St rtling and hitherto Uurevealed Pas sages In the Histories of ROBIN HOOD AND RICHARD CCEUR DE LION. Characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Vißars, Miss E. Daly, Miss Howard, Miss Bromley 31 iss Laidlaw, and Miss Grove ; Mr. A Wigan, Mr. F. Matthews, 31r. Keeley, Mr. Tamer, and Mr. J. W. Collier THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, entitled THE MEMOIRS OF AN UMBRELLA; or, The Silent Observer. In which Messrs. La ribert, Howe, Boyce, 0. Smith, Wright, R. Ryan, P. Bedford, Selby ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. F. Mathews, &c., will perform. After. which, the interesting Drama, entitled THE CABIN BOY. In which Madame Cele s te, Mi ss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, &c., will appear. To lea followed by the Burlesque, entitled PETER WILKINS ; or, The Loadstone Bock and the Flying Indians. Principal characters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor ; Mr. I's a: 1 iftl:ord, Mr. Mun:,ard, Mr. Mitchenson, YR IN C Et-iteti T dEATit OXFORIw , T it KT Last Week but One of Mr. MACREADY performing in London, THIS EVENING Will be performed a. new Historical Play, in five Acts, entitled THE KING OF THE COMMONS. James V. of Scotland, Mr. Macready; Sir Adam Weir, Mr. Ryder ; George Weir, Mr. Cooper ; Malcolm Young Mr. Murray ; Laird Small, Mr. Compton ; Mungo Small, Mr. Oxberry ; Lord Kilmaurs, Mr. Roxby ; Madeline Weir, Mrs. Stirling ; Widow Barton, Mrs. Fosbroke. To conclude with DON C..F.SAR DE BAZAN. Don Ciemr, Mr. Wallack ; Marltana, Mrs. Stirling. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEAIRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the especial patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, and their Royal H'ghnesses Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Priacess Royal. Grand routine of Holiday Entertainments, THIS EVENING Will be performed the New Military Spectacle, realising our recent Triumphs, called TILE SIKHS' INVASION ; or, The War in India. New and popular SCENES of the CIRCLE, by the numerous troupe of British and Foreign Artistes ; double stud, &c. Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in stating, that in obedience to the wishes of several of his patrons and heads of families, he has made arrangements to give, during the ensuing holidays, four mid- day performances, the first of which will take place on THURS DAY, June 4, and each succeeding Thursday until the nnmber are complete; on which occasion the Entertainments will be precisely the same as those so recently performed by royal command, and so highly eulogised by her most gracious Majesty. The representations will each day commence at two o'clock. Mr. Batty begs to announce, that he has entered into an en gagement with the celebrated GENERAL TOM THUMB, who will appear in the Drama of " Hop o' my Thumb," at this Theatre, on Monday, June S, and during the Week. VIDG E'S ROYAL. SURREY THE A TRE. Great attraction. The celebrated artists, Madame Vestris an 4 Mr. C. Mathews for a limited number of nights. A new Grand Spec taele, with new scenery, dresses, and real water. THIS EVENIN( Will be performed a Comic Drama, entitled USED U?. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. C. Mathews. After which, THE FOLLIES OF A NIGHT. In which Madame Testris and Mr. C. Mathews will appear. To conclude with THE DARK FALCON; or, The Magic Goblet. Characters by Messrs. Johnson, Rogers, Cowell, Maynard, Lewis, Heslop ; Mesdames H. Vining, Martin, Hughes, Daly, &c. • ROYAL VIC lORIA THEATRE. Varied and attractive Novelties for the Whitsuntide Holidays. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a New Domestic Drama, called THE FLIT- Tr.NG DAY ; or, The Trials of an English Farmer. Principal characters by Messrs. Saville, niggle, F:edericks, Tindell, Raymond, Searle, Burton , /*ward : Miss Vincent, Miss E. Terry, &c. After which, a new laughable Burletta, entitled LITTLE AN NOYANCES ; or, The Miseries of Hum in Lite. Supported by Messrs. Howsud, Fredericks, Miss Terry, and Miss Treble (her first appearance). To conclude with THE HET OF THE RED MOUNTAINS ; or, Thirty Years of a Gambler's Life. Supported by the entire company. Under the Patronaite of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL ',SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TrEADAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. This magnificent spectacle is revived in an unprecedented scale of grandeur, the picture being more than twice the size of the former, and represents, as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great Eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, when the Destruction of Her culaneum and Pompeii took place: produced under the direction ot Mr. Damon. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CONCERTS are again confided to Mr. God frey. The Band is most complete in all its departments, and includes many eminent native and foreign musicians. In addition to the other attractions of the Gardens will be exhi bited CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO nated Gothic B r id ge , re ,. etin in , approached by the Illumi relating his advent ures to g the ' alert " Tel emachus o Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DINPLAYS, by Mr. Southb most complete and effecti ve scale. y, are on the Preceding the Volcanic Displ ay a novel exhibition will b e intro duced, representing the Descent of Phoebus in the Chariot of the Sum. blocs. Farinelli will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake , where a Naiad's Car will r i se to recei c o lam, and bear him to his c . larystal home. An Illuminated Marine Cave, and the Glass Conservatory, splen didly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of five Carnivorarebliyeangass:llB,ghc.t: at half-past Feeding of the Carnivore at , the ; Concert at six ; andt he Eruption at dusk. Admission, Is. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NO W PUBLISHING. PRICE (TO SUBSCRIBERS) SIXPENCE. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 31. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 54; Highest. 71; Noon, 70 . BAROMETER, 30.25.—W1ND, S.W., fine. JUNE 1. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest, 75; Noon, 71, BAROMETER, 30.22,—W1ND E.S.E.; fine. HI WATER AT LONDON-EIHDGE THIS DAY. Ifirning .. 16 Eraniftes after 6. I Eq,rening .. 40 minutes after 6, e •Fa & koiT -__(.. SECOND EDITION. rwmg LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1846. When we felt it to be our duty to expose the tern of mi4overnment in the Channel Islands, and to trace - 412e numerous instances of oppression and injustice in our possession to their true source, we quite - 'made up our minds to be subjected to attacks from 7arious quarters—to haTe Our veracity t THE SUN, _LONDON, MONDAY _EVENING, JUNE 1, 1846. from an enthusiastic protectionist to a still more en thusiastic free-trader—the dispatch and reception of petitions from various influential bodies in different quarters of the kingdom—the refusal of Mr. COBDEN to assist at public demonstrations in favour of the Ministerial policy, because he 'regarded them as essen tially superfluous ;—these and a number of similar occurrences tended to illustrate tho advantages arising from Parliamentary holidays, and also to mature the thinking portion of the Commons in their mode of considering the great question at issue, previously to a dig sion upon the third reading. What is poisonous to a Lord is equally poisonous to a Com moner, and what is nutritious to a Commoner is equally nutritious to a Lord. Hence it is that we consider the Whitsuntide recess, which has already commenced under precisely analogous circumstances to the Upper House as the Easter to the Lower, is a coincidence in all respects of a fortunate character. For one thing, it would be utterly futile to grumble at the fact of the procrastination, because it is a constitutional proerastina- ' tion, and one, therefore, not likely to be interfered with by all the grumbling in the universe. So much for the social MAWWORMS and the political SCROOGES. Public time is all 'very pre cious, is all but invaluable, it is true ; but the health, and by inference the healthy judgment of our legisla tors, is equally necessary for the continuance of na tional prosperity. It is only those who are agitating for a diseased and unwholesome policy who would precipitate its adoption in either house of Parliament, surrounded by the promptings of party, of personal pique, or of petty political prejudices. Excitement, whether for or against, must by necessity blurr the judgment. It is by a happy coincidence, therefore, that the last divisiun of the Peers is preluded by Whitsuntide. Accounts from Beyrout of the 16th ult. state that the question of Lebanon has been satisfactorily arranged, and that CHERIB EFFENDI and Emit PASHA were about to return to Constantinople. The territorial tax is to be assessed in the manner prac tised under the former Administration. The Exe cutive power in each of the caimacans is to be exer cised by a divan, or council, in which every class of the population is to have a representative. A riot occurred in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, at Jerusalem, on Good Friday, between the priests of the Greek and Latin Churches. The Latin fathers repaired in procession to Golgotha to adore the cross. The Greeks had, however, previously obtained pos session of the chapel, and deni e d th e i r a d m i ttance. After some altercation the two parties came to blows, and the Governor of Jerusalem at length interfered to preserve peace, and ordered a Turkish regiment to clear the place. Syria was perfectly tranquil. The Cologne Gazette announces that during the course of the present month the King of Paussia. will make known his views on the subject of a constitu tion to the Members of the Provincial States, and that the royal propositions will, some time in the course of the autumn, be submitted for discussion to a General Convocation of the States, to be assembled in Berlin. It is stated in a Berlin letter that 30 noblemen of Posen had met at the Arc hbishop's palace to consider the propriety of addressing the KING to im plore his clemency- for the Polish prisoners. Inas much, however, as the parties were desirous of not committing themselves by writing to any opinion on the subject of the late insurrection, it was determined that the Archbishop should wait upon the KING, and per sonally implore his MAJESTY'S clemency for the pri soners. The KING, it is stated, very graciously com plimented M. DE PEZYLUSKI on his arrival at Potsdam, and immediately invited him to dinner, without, however, granting him a private audience, or speaking to him of the particular object of his journey. It would appear from this, that the Monarch :does not approve ,of this sort of intervention. Nevertheless, the Archbishop set out again for Berlin, and presented, on the 18th ult., a written petition to the KING, which was accepted. Madrid papers of the 25tb, ult. have arrived. A Cabinet Council was held on the 23d in the QUEEN'S presence. The state of the negotiation with the POPE is stated to have been the subject discussed, and a courier was dispatched the next day to Rome with dispatches, stated to contain propositions calcu lated to facilitate an arrangement. The report of the assassination of RUBIN DE CELLS is contradicted. General VILLALONGA has been ordered to station a corps of observation at Orense, and the steamer Isabel 11. has been sent to Lisbon to protect the Spanish residents in that city. The accounts from all the provinces of Spain continue to be satisfactory. The Three per Cents. were dine on the Madrid Bourse on the 25th at 334 for cash ; the shares of the Bank of San Fernando, at 396 ; and those of Isabel, at 200. The official list observes, that al though only one operation in the Three per Cents. was quoted at 33i, that stock had sold at 33 13-16 for cash, with a tendency to rise. The Five per Cents. were done at 2041 - - 1 ; the Passives at 6-a 4 ; and the Coupons at 20i. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. M. GUIZOT, on Fri(lay, obtained a fresh triumph in the Chamber of Deputies, which rejected by a majority of 220 to 147, an amendment proposed by M. O'DILON BARROT, for a reduction in the amount of the Secret Service Funds for the Minister of the Interior of 10,000 francs. In the course of the debate, M. TRIERS renewed his attack upon the Government, and through the Government attacked the KING himself, taking as his text his own famous maxim :—" Le Rui regne et ne gouverne pas. He was replied to by M. GUIZOT, and the conflict between these two eminent orators is thus described by the Presse : "The sole interest of the sitting was in the single combat between M. Thiers and M. Guizot. M. Thiers being wounded by words which fell from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and in which he fancied he recognised a feeble echo of attacks made upon him by the Debut, on the occasion of Lecomte's attempt upon the King, wished to protest against insinuations which he con sidered not only as personal, but against the freedom of speech in the tribune. If he had confined himself to expressing his indignation at a polemic into which his name was introduced, he would not have incurred the least blame; for the whole Chamber appeared to have but one opinion on the impropriety of these attacks. He, however, enlarged upon his famous maxim —the King reigns but governs not. M. Guizot succeeded him upon the same thesis, and obtained an immense success. The Minister of Foreign Affairs evidently touched the true principle of constitutiotial government, and never was it expounded in more magnificent language. Still, we cannot help declaring that this discussion is to be deeply e t:: ; v r rhe i incht actingh tehpress he occupied pw i i n ei s, tieh the e C j h . a u m r i b:s ~ We Whe regretted. Such theses cannot be entered upon without a month ago we declined meddling in controversies of prudence. From the r a t w u e e r i dtcon ceivedhainsgr. same motive we now abstain from all comment upon the 1 debate of yesterday —a debate which was replete with eloquence, but which it is not right to prolong." ..The question is decided," says the Fpo ue. "The Chamber has passed sentence: M. Thiers g the nresuniptive heir of the Ministry, as M. Pe:hard desig t , , picturesque a manner, will natea Dim In so . .. not yet in herit a succession he is so anxious to enjoy : 221 votes the have declared that Government had done forfeit the confidence of the country two Legislaturesand . after traversing . six sessions—after surmounting the diffi culties to which it owed its origin, and th ose t h at since arose, and continuing in office double the ti me of any Ministry sincelB3o— Cabinet of the 29th of Oct o b er, t any of its force, credit, an d so'far from having los vit•lity, finds rn itself stipported in Pat lisment by one o f -- any Administ rat i cn the I.:rgent aj,n-Ifi,s v:.tat 7 n d 1 out ') 01 367 voters." "The during the last 16 years — country," adds the Epoque," may now choose between the two rival systems,—the system pursued during the las 4 six years by the Government, and the system held hiatus most yearned for—here was a natural inter regnum of meditation, and one, too, which could scarcely be presumed to agitate those who, out of doors, were chiefly anxious for a speedy set tlement of the question—because the delay was one of ordinary routine ; - it was as little to be cavilled at as the whole holiday of Saturday and the half-holiday of Wednesday every week. What were the latent consequences of good resulting from the Easter recess it is impossible, of course, to calculate to a nicety; but the division which followed the subsequent meeting of Parliament—the Majority of ninety -eight—showed clearly enough that benefit did accrue from the habitual adjournment. It enabled the wavering to bring their opinions to an equilibrium, to judge from the past, to infer for the future, and to decide definitively, calmly, and absolutely, for the present. Various circumstances testified, likewise, in an open and more appreciable manner, the advisability of such benificent intervals of repose : the acknowledged conversion of the Earl of ESSEX I out to us by the Opposition. The country is now well acquainted with both. The Conservative policy is no longer a mere theory ; the country has uitnessed its effects ; it knows what it has produced and what it is likely to produce ; it enjoys the blessings it has be stowed—a glorious and fruitful peace, tranquillity, liberty, wealth, and progressive amelicration, at home ; abroad, force, grandeur, and security, and prosperity everywhere.' " The 4th of June is fixed for the commencement of the trial of LECOMTE, who will be defended by M. DUVERGIER, the battonier of the Parisian bar. Forty witnessess have been summoned on the trial. The Journal des Dibats, of Friday, publishes the following particulars of the escape of Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON : " On leaving his apartment, at seven o'clock A.M., the Prince was dressed as a workman, and carried under his arm a shelf of his own library. He had taken the pre caution of shaving off his mustachios and whiskers, which made it impossible to recognise him. A cabriolet was waiting outside the town. and he got into it with his servant-man, who, b.ing well known to the inhabitants of Ham, had made a long circuit to meet him. The Prince proceeded directly to St. Quen tin, where he took a post•chaise, and immediately left for Valenciennes. He paid the postillions liberally, re commending them to drive as fast as possible, being desirous to overtake a rich Englishman, who was going to Brussels. He reached Valenciennes at half-past two o'clock, stopped there an instant, and asked the post master if he would consent to keep his carriage, his in tention being to continue his journey to Brussels by the railway and to return in a few days. Having received a reply in the affirmative, Prince Louis, Without waiting until his servant had settled his account, repaired by al back street to the station of the railroad, and departed by the first train. He must have arrived at Brussels in the evening of the 250, the day of his escape." In the Chamber of Peers, on Friday, the Prince DE LA MosKowA asked what information the Ministers had received respecting the massacre of 300 French prisoners by ADD-EL-KADER ? None of the mem bers of the Cabinet were present, and the Prince gave notice that he should repeat his question. In the same sitting the Chamber received the reports of the Committees on the Bordeaux and Cette, the Cen tral and the Western Railway Bills. The Journal des Chemins de Fer announces that the Northern Railroad would positively be opened on the 14th inst. A report had prevailed during several days on the Paris Bourse, that the Avignon and Marseilles Railroad Company was under the necessity of negotiating a loan to complete the line. The loan, according to that journal, was to be applied to the construction of the branch to Aix, which had been conceded to the company, and the 20,000,000 f. subscribed and paid was more than sufficient to ter minate the principal road. It was considered pro bable that the Dijon and Mulhausen Railway Bill would not pass the Chamber of Peers this session. The receipts of the Paris and Orleans Railroad dur ing the week ending on the 26th ult. amounted to 171,274 f., or 31,000 f. more than in the corresponding week of 1845 ; those of the Paris and Rouen line, during the same period, were 151,663 f., or 18,000 f. more than last year. The Paris Bourse on Saturday wore a somewhat different aspect from that which it presented during many preceding days. An express had arrived with the division of the Lords on the Corn Bill, and al though qualified by the declaration of war by Ame rica against - Mexico, it caused a sensible improvement in stock. Shares, generally speaking, participated in the upward movement. The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 25c.; the Five per Cents., at 119 f. 85c. ; Orleans Railroad shares, 1,247 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,020 f.; Havre, 7501.; Great Northern, 745 f.; Avignon, 880 f.; Vierzon, 632 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 615 f.; Boulogne, 487 f. 50c.; Troyes and Montereau, 3801. ; Basle, 217 f. 50c.; Dieppe, 4151.; Paris and Strasburgb, 505 f.; Tours and Nantes, 515 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 543 f. 75c. ; Spanish Ac tives, 32l ; Ditto, Three per Cents, 38k. The following are the quotations in the new lines: Lyons and Avignon, Definitives, 517 f. 50c.; Bor deaux and Cette, 508 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, ➢IAY 30, Boulogne and Amiens, 11ii113.utch Rhenish, 7% —East Indian, 74 —Great Indian Peninsular % —Jersey, %—Namur and Liege, 314—Northern of France Constituted, 13%—Orleans and Vierzen, 14—Orleans and Bordeaux, 9%—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6 —Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4%—Sambre and Meuse, 4% West Flanders, 2%. On Saturday, important intelligence was received from the Cape of Good Hope. The latest ditto we have seen is April, brought by the ship Gloriana. War had been declared by Governor Maitland against Sandilli, Tola Botman, and the Gaika tribes generally, or such as were in strict alliance with them, and the Governor himself had proceeded to the frontier to take the com mand of the troops in person. The citizens of Graham's town and other places had been enrolled and armed, and nothing short of the signal punishment of the Kafirs was expected, so excited were the colonists by their constant and increasing depredations. Governor Maitland had published a lengthy manifesto, setting forth the immediate cause of the war, and the general necessity for it. As regards the former, it was the rescue from a small British escort of two or three Kafir prisoners, by an armed body of twenty or thirty of their countrymen, some lives being lost on both sides. The outrage was committed between Beaufort and Graham's Town, and is said to have been actually planned by Tole, and Botman on the market place of Beaufort. The next advices from the colony will be most anxiously looked for here. • THE COLOSSEUM.—Among the m os t favourite places of amusement is the Colosseum, the powers of attraction of which still continue undiminished. On several recent occa sions, when we have visited it, we have found it crowded both in the morning and the evening. A stranger, visiting London, should pay his first visit to the Colosseum. It fur nishes him with an admirable carte du pays. OPENING OF THE SOUTH DEVON LINE FROM EXETER TO TEIGNMOUTIL—The South Devon line of railway from Exeter to Teignmoutb, was opened to the public on Saturday last. The railway consists of a single line of rail only, and is intended to be worked on the atmospheric principle; as, however, the apparatus is not quite complete, it is for the present worked by locomotives. The scenery along the line of the South Devon is the most picturesque in the world, and we doubt not but that, during the course of the summer, excursions to Teignmouth will become quite po pular. The directors and officers of the company were pre sent. The weather was brilliant, and not the slightest contre temps occurred to mar the pleasure of the day. Tue Duke of Wellington left A psley House on Satur day afternoon, to pass the Whitsun recess at Strathfieldsaye, where his Grace will entertain a small circle, and return to town on Wednesday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert is expected to honour the Noble and Gallant Duke with his company at dinner at his Grace's annual Waterloo banquet on the 18th instant. Lord Stanley has recovered from the effects of a cold under which he was suffering at the latter end of last week. We have the gratification to announce that Lady Louvain was safely delivered of a son and heir, on Friday last, at the family mansion, in Charles -street, Berkeley square. Lord and Lady Vaux, of Harrowden, have arrived in Wilton-cresent, from Coughton Court, Warwickshire. The Cambridge papers state that the Hon. and Rev, G. N. Grenville, M.A., wbo has been appointed to the deanery of 'Windsor, has no intention of resigning the mastership of Magdalene College, Cambridge, as there is no law to prevent the two offices being held by one person, very short residence on the part of the Dean being required at Cambridge. PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON.—We are given to under t stand that Prince Louis Napoleon intends to quit England for Florence in the course of the ensuing week, there to join his invalid father, whose health is rapidly on the decline. The Prince, since his arrival here, on Wednesday last, has preserved the strictest incognito. Prince LouiS Napoleon Bonaparte was amongst the promenaders in St. James's-street, on Saturday. COAL Fox THE METnoroms.—A correspondent in forms us that if the Midland Railway Company obtain their Acts now before Parliam en t ( an d w hich they are likely to do, there being no opposition to them) for new lines and branches in Nottinghamshire, a great deal of coal will be sent from the pits in that county (that are already open and . others to be opened) to the metropoli s . Th e c oal, too, in that locality is, generally speaking, very good. Let us have "free trade" in coal as well as other things. SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—GLOUCESTER, FRIDAY.--The town of Newnham, about twelve miles from Gloucester, was thrown into consternation on Wednesday last, by a most extraordinary suicide and attempt to murder com mitted by Mr. John Knowles, of the above town. On Wed nesday afternoon Mr. Knowles went into the shop of Mr. Morse, the postmaster • Mrs. Morse put out her hand for Mr. Knowles to shake, hilt instead of doing so, he took up a mallet used for breaking sugar, and struck her a blow on the forehead, which felled her to the ground. The shopman seized him by th e arms behind, and, w hil e i n t hi s pos i t i on, Knowles cont r i ve d to opena razor, which he had concealed in his breast, and, drawing it across his throat, he fell to the ground, and di e d shortly afterwards. The deceased was a respectacle shopkeeper atewnliam, and no motive is assigned for his extraordinary conduct. The general opinion is that he was labouring under insanity. Mrs. Morse is recovering. DREADFUL STEAM-BOAT EXPLOSION IN SCOTLAND. —An awful accident took place on Thursday. The steamer Finn, Maccoull, left Wi gtown at twe l ve o ' c l oc k f or Liverpool, and on the passage called at Garliestown for goods, and when just loosing the rope to leave the quay the boiler burst, and the under engineer and one firemen were killed, and the head engineer and two men were dreadfully scalded, and are not expected to live, None of the oassengers were injured. The boiler burst at the bottom ; if it had burst at the top there is no saying what amount of lives might have been lost. The steam had just been shut off about one minute before the ac cident took place, and the poor fellows had to lie in the en gine -room upwards of five minutes before assistance could be got, on account of the great quantity of steam and dust. TEt P E —ELGIAN CORN-LAW.—The Belgian Govern ment, who su s p en d e d t h e corn-law of that country before our Ministers had begun seriously to entertain the que:.tion, have now, Nye learn, determined to continue the admission of grail and rice duty free till the lit of October, instead of closing the ports on th e Ist of June, as had been ' intended.—.2ll..an cheater G uar di an. NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC ASSOCIATION FOR CLEAN ING TEE STREETS. —A deputa , ior, consisting of the Duke of Grafton, Lord Robert Grosvenor, B B Cabbell, Esq., Charles Cochrane, E q., IL F. Iticl'ard r : * E*. and others, waite(: su "' ' cl " ion Chesham on Lord J. Russell, on Satinaia at his mans , and place. His Lordship received ) the deputation roost cour teously,objects of the Association, support dagreed to receive a deputation (WM tl2O Counioloura of Sewers , After the recer* Pledged his to the useful and benevolent MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were nearly 5,000 bales, including 1,500 on speculation, with a steady market. Shares were better, and with a prospect of an in creased business. The formation of railroads in British North America are of such high importance, in a military point of view, that it is satisfactory to find the home Government duly alive to it. A recent communication from Canada states :—" We are happy to learn, upon undoubted authority, that the Cambria brought the copy of a dispatch, dated the 18th April, from the Right Hon. Mr. Gladstone to Lord Falkland, in reply to a dispatch from his Excellency dated the 2d April, inclos ing a copy of the proceedings in Nova Scotia relative to the projected railway from Halifax to Quebec. Her Masty's Government, in reply to the appli ca ti on ma d e b y the Legis lature of Nova Scotia, have ordered a survey to be made of the whole line by officers of the Royal Engineers. And we understand that no time will be lost, so that in all probability the survey will be completed before the close of summer. The Colonial Secretary admits this great work to be, not only of vast im portance to the North American provinces, but to the general interests of the empire, and says that the Home Govern ment will, as soon as the survey is made, decide as to the appropriation to the railway, of the funds intended for the construction of a military road, connecting the places men tioned. The dispatch refers to the proceedings expected to be taken by the Legislatures of Canada and New Brunswick. This action (•n the part of the Imperial Government has given the friends of the undertaking new hope, and induces them now to believe th a t th e E xeeut i ve will mit hesitate longer in asking from the Legislature the contingent pledge, proposed by Mr. Young, in aid of this great enterprise, nor mar its success by any timidity on their part." In accounts from Van Dieman's Land, of the 4th of February, we find the settlers question, as it is called, still a subject of debate, but apparently without its approaching any tangible point, since we may hope that the Governor, by his representatiors to the Colonial Secretary has already paved the way for a more satisfactory state of things. The revenue for the September quarter.of 1845, had only just been published. The amount was larger by 3,0501. than at the same period of 1844, though still below the expenditure by about 40,0001. per annum. An improvement was looked for, both as regards increase of revenue and decrease of ex penditure. The English Stocks have been very quiet to-day, and the fine weather has caused the attendance in the market to be very limited, while the recent settlement of the Account leaves parties at liberty to absent themselves without the least anxiety. Consols for Transfer to-morrow have been 96i a ; and for 'rime 96%. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been steady at 16s. to 17s. Bank Stock has been quoted 2061. The New Three-and-a-Qarter per Cents. have been 97 1 ,08, and the Three per Cents. 95y 8 to%. The Foreign Investments have not been largely dealt in, but seem rather firmer. Spanish Three per Cents. bring 37 1 4%, and Portuguese Three per Cents. 541 Mexican Bonds have realised 299‘ % for the Five per Cents., and 15% 15% for the Deferred. Brazil Stock is 82 3 /. Dutch Two and-a Half per Cents. have been 60 to 60%. The market for Railway Shares has been very quiescent this morning, the previous rates being those current, with out any material exception. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .. • • • • .. • • • • • • 206% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 95 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97 4 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .• 101 Consols for Opening .• .. • • .. • • 96% Exchequer Bills. I%d. 1 54 d. 1,000/. .• .• • 16 17 pm. 5001. .. •• • • 17 pm. Ditto, Small .. •• • • 17 —— pm. Ditto, Advertised .. •• •• 9 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • • 82% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 29% Ditto, for the Account • • • • 29% % Ditto, Deferred ~ . ~ •• 15%34. Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent. Ditto, 3 per Cent • • Ditto, for the Account Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditt, 5 per Ct., '3B, 9, 40, div. 1840 Ditto, 1844 .. .. • • .. • . 20% Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. • • 37% Ditto, for the Account .. • • 37 34 Dividends on the above payable in London/. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 60% 60 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91% 92 1 4 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. rEE. SHADE. Aberdeen • • • • • • • •• 10 .. • • 4 .. ••to Birmingham and Gloucester • • ..100 .. • ... to Ditto New (issued at 73 dis.) .. 17%..,. 314 to - Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 2 .... 2%.... to Birmingham and Leicester Direct .. 425. .... 3s dis. to Bristol and Exeter .. • • .. 75 .... to Ditto New .. • • • • • • 5 .. • • 10 .. • • to IZuckinghamshire • • .. • • 425. % p.. to Caledonian . • • • • • 10 .. .. 11% .. • . to Ditto Half Shares .. • • • • • • 2% •• • • 1% .. ••to Cburnet and Blythe • • • • .. 2 .... .. to Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford • . .• 1% •• • • to Direct Manchester (Itastrick's) .. • • 5 4 .... 3% .. • - to Direct Northern .• • • .. 2%..,. 1%.... to Dublin and Galway .. • • .. 4 .... 3 .. .. to Eastern Counties • • • • 14/. 16s. 0d... • . 23% 1 4 .. to Ditto, New .. .. • • • • 10/. 16s. 0d.... • 7% p• • to 7p x d Ditto, York Extension • • • . 105..... 15 q . • • • to Eastern Union .. • . • • .. 30 ••• • •.•. to Ditto, Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 6% .... 5% •• • • to Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • •• 50 .. 75 to Ditto, Halt Shares .. •• • • • • 10 .... 17 .... to Ditto, New Quarter Shares • • 12% .. •• 18 . to Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester 2 3 4 ...• 2% to 1% Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c... 425. .. • • % die. to Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 20 .. •• 23 .. to Great North of England .. • • —l.OO •••• to Ditto, New .. . • • • . 10 ... 39 .. •.to Great Western .. .. 85 to itto, Quarter Shares .. .. • • 5 ... 16%.... to Leicester and Bedfard .. • • .. 225, ... pto Leicst., Tam.,Bir., & Trent Val. June. 425. ... die. to London and Birmingham -. • • ..100 .• • 229 .... to 227% London and Croydon .. • • 13/. 15s. 9d. •. • 22 .. to London and South-Western 411. 6a. 10c1. .. • 80 .... to 79 Loudon and York .. .. • • • . 2% 2% 34 . • to Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • • • 2%.... 2 .. •.to Manchester and Birmingham .. • • 40 .... 81% .... to Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. .. • • 1 p.... to Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .. • . 14 .... to Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 45 to 44% Newcastle and Berwick • • • • .. 15 .. 25 .... to North British .. • • .. • • 22% 29%.... to Ditto, Half Shares . • .. .. • • • • 11k .• to Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 • 1% %.. to -- Ditto, Dalkeith .• .. • • • 25 •• . •• • • to Ditto, ditto .. .. • • • • .. .. 5 .... 6 .... to North Staffordshire • . • . • • • . 425. 4% p.. to 3% Portsmouth Direct • • • • • • • • 3% •• • • 3.3 i ...• to Shrewsbury and Birmingham • • • 2% 2%.... to South Midland • • • .. • • • • 425. %% dis to South Eastern and Dover • . • • • 33% .... to Ditto, New, No. 2 .• .. • • • • 10 .• • 14% .... to Ditto, New, No. 4 • • • • • • • • 2% •• . • 2%.... to South Wales .. • • • • • • • • 5 •. • . 1 to Welsh Midland .. • • • • • • • • 2% • • 1% .... to West Riding Union .. .. • • • • 425.• •.. 2% p.. to York and North Midland .. .. • . 50 .... • ... to -- Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .... 114 •• • • to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. • • .. 12 .... 11% .... to Butch Rhenish .. .. • • .. • • 6 .. • • 7' %•• to Luxembourg • • .. 4 •. • . 2 .• • . to 1% Namur and Liege • • .. 6 • • 3% • • to Northern of France Constituted • • 5 14 .. • • to Orleans and Bordeaux • . .. 6 .. • • 10 .. • • to Paris and Lyons Constituted • . .. 5 •• • • 6%.. • • to Sambre and Meuse •. 8 •• 5 .. • • to MINES .. .. 54% .. .. 54% British Iron .. . • .. .7.7 10 .... 19% .... to Heal del Monte. Unregistered .. .. • • to LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY). LONDON, JUNE I.—Wind E., light airs, and fine clear weather. DEAL, MAY 31.—Wind S.E. to E.S.E., light.—Arrd. 27th, Doggerbank, Kirklioven ; 30th, Baltic, Thomason, New York, and sailed for Hull; Andes, Williams, Port Madoc, and sailed for Hamburgh. Sld. 31st, Crest, Smith, Ceylon; Lady Reifies, Kirk, St. Lawrence. COWES, MAY 31.-- Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Patriot Miniu, Tiedman, Havannah. LIVERPOOL, MAY 31.—Wind N.W., very light.—Arrd. 31st, Robert Pulsford, Robinson, Calcutta. Sld. Victory, Smith, Hong-Kong; Tynwald, Metcalf, Cape of Good Hope; Costanza and Onore, Perra, Bahia ; Walter Scott, Barbadoes ; Urania, Martin, Santa Martha; Feronia, Eldus, Angos' ura ; Caledonia, Brander, Deccan, Phildelphia ; Airnawair, Swansay, ditto ; Great Western steamer, Matthews, New York; Swan, Taylor, St. John's, N.B. ; Albion, Matthews, ditto; Independence, Herpes, Slaten Island ; S ea Ki ng, Dunn, Quebec; Elizabeth, Duckett, ditto; Leo, Rees, Mon treal; Hannah Salkeld, Robertson, Calcutta ; Margaret, Best, Boston; United Ki. , gdom,' Teulon, Slaten Island; Yucatan, ditto. Off, arrd. 30th, Louisa; Helen (bark). CLYDE.—Arrd. 29th, Southampton, Flint, St. John's, N. B. Sld. 2tb, Victory, Potter, Bombay. 29th, Peggy, Smith, Jamaica. 30th, Annisdale, Johnstone, Demerara; Orbit, Larkins, St. John's, N. B. CORK, MAY 28.—Wind S.E,—Arrd. Earl of Leicester, Bullard, Rio Grande, and sailed for Plymouth. Sld. John Hawkes, Richards, Prince Edward's Island. NORTH FORELAND, MAY 29.—The Emulation (French brig), of Marseilles, for Shields, was assisted off the Long Sound, with loss of false keel, and proceeded. OFF BRIGHTON, MAY 31.—Gilbert Henderson, Twedie, Hobart Town. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 31.—Sid. Minerva, Geere, Madras and Calcutta ; Cornwall, Canneys, Cork, Cape of Good Hope, and Mauritius. PLYMOUTH, MAY 31.--Wind E. to S.—Sld. Florentia, Webster, Quebec; her Majesty's steamer Cyclops, Westward. JERSEY, MAY 29.—Sld. Catherine, Yarmouth, N.S. BRISTOL, MAY 31.—Wind S.E., light.—Sld. Frederick, Gower, St. John.s, New Brunswick ; Belmont, Grant, ditto. BEA UMARIS, MAY 28.—S1d. Ann Davies, Morris, Besten. OFF CORK, MAY 30.—Helen, Risk, Savannah, for Liverpool ; Columbia, New York, for Liverpool. MONTROSE, MAY 27.—S1d. Argent, Wilson, Quebec. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN - EXCHANGE -MONDAY. The past week's arrivals of English Wheat have been mo derate, but those of all other kinds of Grain of home produce have been limited. From Ireland and Scotland very little Grain has come to hand, while from abroad the receipts have been by no means extensive. Fresh up, the arrivals of Wheat of home produce were small, but of fair average quality. The stands being scantily filled with samples, the demand for all kinds of English Wheat was steady, at fully the prices obtained on Monday last, and at which a fair clearance was effected by the Factors. The accounts which have come to hand by this morning's post respecting the appearance of the wheat crops are very favourable, Notwithstanding the show of free foreign WLeat was again small, that description of produce, if we except the very finest parcels, which sold in every instance at full prices, moved off slowly, at barely late rates. Bonded Wheats, the supply of which was somewhat on the increase, commanded very little attention, yet a few thousand quarters changed hands on certificates, at 103 to lls per quarter. The stock in bond is now extremely large. We had only a moderate quantity of Barley on offer. Fine qualities moved t ff at very full currencies; but all other kinds were a mere drug, though we cannot call them cheaper. The show of Malt was moderately goon. The demand was wholly of a retail character at late rater. Although the show y of Oats was trifling, that article met a very inactive inquir. .. Fine dry parcels sold at last week's prices, but th ß e e m th id u d e l a in e g s and inferior kinds were 6d. per quarter lower . and Peas ruled excessively dull, at barely e late o te od ra m te a s r . ks l o n f Flour next to nothing was doing , a nd some town-made sold at 475. per 2801bs. CURRENCY PER IMP E ,i i i t a l l A t_ L c 11,1 he E vai AiSeir T ..... 63s to 65 s RE . Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red, New •• • • 445 to 55 Oats—Yorkshire and L Di tto,White, Old • • 49 s 63s incolnsh., Feed. 23s 24 s Potatoe • • 305 33 1 Norfolk and Lin coln, Red. •• —44 s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • . • 49s 59s Cork, scotc li h l 7 4 } Li e . ... ... ... ... 222823 i 22 2 97 4 s : Irish, Red ••.... • . —s — 8 Ditto, White ••• • • . --8 —s tya 01.1 .••... . . . . . . 32s 33s Beans—Tick ....... .. t: 4386: New N e .. ...... .. • • 31s 33s Pigeons ....... •.• ;arley —Grinding Pease—Grey . ...... . • 31 9 31 8 Maple • .......... 33 9 36 8 3lalting .•••• • • • • 29s 82s White ........... 37 8 38, Chevalier •••. • • • • 33s 34s Halt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers . - -- folk•• ••••• • • • .• 558 598 Brown.•. 41ngotoup,m1W4re 620 Oa ..... •• •• 398 41s Flour—Town -made .• • sth bas Suffolk •• •• •••41s Otgickta foltonigli 41s 425 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. Wheat—Dantzic • . 53s to 56s Beans ..... .. • 30s to 3IS llamburgh •• • 48s 50s Pease... 30s 33s Barley .••• • • • • 20s 24 3 Flour—American ... .. 26s 27s Oats- —New ••••• • • • . • 243 25s Baltic .. 27s 29s Feed •• • • ••• • • • 19s 203 SMITHFIELD. The imports of live stock t rom abroad, since this day se'nnight, into London, have consisted of 68 Oxen. 25 Cows, 260 Sheep, and 26 Lambs, from Rotterdam; together with 15 Oxen, 45 Cows, and 3 Sheep, f rom H arl i ngen, in, com paratively speaking, excellent condition. At Hull about 300 head of Beasts and Sheep haVe come to hand from Hol land. We had on sale 50 Oxen from Prussia (shipped at Rotterdam, and included in the above), an d 30 di tto from Holland, which moved off slowly, at barely stationary prices. Annexed is a statement of the arrivals of stock from abroad, in the three months of the last three years, ending on the sth of April _ _ 1844 1845 1846 Oxen 156 - 583 Cows Calves Sheep • Lambs Pis The arrivals of beasts fresh up this morning, though con siderably less than those on this day se'nnight, was, owing to the warm weather, more than equal to the wants of the butchers; hence the Beef trade was in a very inactive state, at barely, but at nothing quotable beneath last week's prices. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we re ceived about 1,500 Scots, Homebredr, and Short Horns; from the western and midland counties, 400 Hereford's, runts, Devons, &c. ; from other parts of England 300 of various kinds ' • and from Scotland, 295 horned and polled sorts. The numbers of Sheep were seasonably large ; yet, otr the whole, the Mutton trade was steady, and previous rates were well supported in every instance. The supply of Lambs was moderately extensive; yet the sale for that description of stock was ,firm, at very full prices. In Calves, very little was doing, at Friday's depressed figures. The Pork trade was unusually dull, and the quotations had a downward tendency. The general quality of the stock was very good. 17 peached —our information questioned —our motives slandered and ,paligned. There is no man who has not some friends who will valiantly struggle in his behalf, who will strain every nerve, exert every energy, in his defence, and when be is at length brought to condign punishment, will lament and deplore his misfortunes. The most blood-thirsty tyrant that ever existed h a d p ersons to bewail his fall. So it has ever been, and so i n a ll h uman pro b a bility it ever will be. What has thus been said of a single person may, a fortiori, be predicated of a body of men, each of whom will have his own friends and supporte rs, all of th em rea dy t o app l au d a system by much power i s g i ven to their friends, whoat w l h e l a c s h t will support them ; and perhaps some slight hope of one da attainingthey m to similar have power themselves, and becoming the , centres fawn treso on,f ad miring circles, who will look up to, and flatter them in their turns. No important changes in the laws of a country can ever be brought round without much exasperation and acerbity being felt by persons interested in the maintenance of things as they are; and the more crying are the g-rievances, the more glaring the enormities perpe trated thereunder, with so much the more virulence will they be defended, and their opponents libelled and calumniated. It has not therefore surprised us to ' find that what we had ex pected has come to pass, and that the defence of the Royal Court of Guernsey has been taken up by some of the island newspapers, whose editors are sufficiently alive to the value of the pro tection that may be afforded to them by that Court, the necessity for which may be judged from the fact that one of those very editors was tried so lately as the month of April last for attempting to excite sedition among the militia, on which occasion, we be lieve, he received the full benefit of that friendliness on the part of his judges. It is but a slight return for that protecticn, imperatively demanded by gratitude, for him to praise in the strongest terms the wholesomeness of the laws, and the admirable manner of their administration, to cry out against our En glish Courts, and to speak of " the injustice of those who would thrust upon them British laws, British usages, and British customs." We confess that we do think that the writer in that journal would have much cause to regret such a change. It is very pos sible that if British laws were extended to Guernsey, and administered by a British judge, be might not find for the future that protection he has hitherto enjoyed, and which, to judge from the style and tenor of his article—where coarse and vulgar personality takes the place of reasoning, and where the strength of his argument consists in the virulence of his abuse—is so essentially necessary to his future impunity. It is not to be supposed that we should condescend to answer the foul-mouthed invectives contained in this scurrilous publication, or that we should suffer it to attain the degree of notoriety which it would receive if we were to follow its various statements, and to expose the fallacies con tained therein. It sometimes commences by giving a paragraph containing one of the cases we have mentioned, which, in its own peculiarly gentlemanly style, it designates as being "quite in the style and taste of the writer—a tissue of falsehood from first to last." It then professes to give the true facts of the case, from which, although coloured and distorted, it becomes perfectly manifest that our statement was substantially accurate and correct in every par ticular. 'We have made no charge save on the strongest and most satisfactory evidence. We cannot doubt but that the cases to which we have alluded will be brought forward before the Commissioners appointed to investigate into the mode of the adminis tration of the law in the Channel Islands, and that it will then be found that we have, if anything, rather understated the facts. We have not set down aught in malice, but with the - strongest conviction of the necessity that exists for the expo sure of a system so defective and unjust in all its particulars, so incompatible with public liberty, and partial in its operation towards such of our fellow countrymen as happen to reside within its sphere of action. Until the time comes we can easily rest satisfied on the established character of our journal against any charge of want of veracity which may be brought against us by such an opponent. The most pitiable exhibition, however, ismade where the writer attempts to justify the conduct of the Court in the case of the advocate who was found guilty, without extenuating circumstances, of , having stabbed an Eng lishman. Will it be believed that the defence brought forward is, that the affair was purely accidental and unintentional, and that it was so sworn by the pro secutor, and yet that the punishment was of the weightiest description ? If this be the fact, have we brought forward anything which tells with such fearful force against the Court as that asserted by its friend, viz., that they convicted a gentleman of so serious an offence, adding thereto that it was committed without extenuating circumstances, in fact without provoca tion of any kind, and that they sentenced bim there fore to two months' imprisonment, when it was clearly established that the act was purely accidental and unintentional ? We really feel that this is one of the most serious charges yet brought against the Court, if well founded. We shall not, however, make any charge which is based on no better authority than that of the writer in question; we shall, therefore, refrain from any further comment thereon. We feel that some apology is due to the other parties for at all joining their names with the person to whom we have alluded ; for, whatever are the errors in their statements and contradictions, they are, at least, put forward in a more gentlemanly manner, and with some degree of acquaintance with the courtesies of civilised society. Mr. LE MAactlANT's letter was written in the language of a gentleman, and we hesitated not to give it insertion the day we received it, but at the same time we felt it necessary to expose its fallacies in such a manner that we do not think that gentleman will speedily rush to arms in defence of his friends. 1 Another writer questions th e t ru th o f a sma ll part of our statements, leaving the gre a t er p or ti on w h o ll y untouched, and thereby, as we st a t e d i n M r. LE MARCHANT'S case, admitting the genera l accuracy of that which he has not ventured to contradict, and charitably supposes that we have been duped by false statements. To him we shall only say, that contradiction is no argument, and that time will establish the perfect and entire accuracy of our information. We shall only add that we shall not be deterred from fearlessly per forming our duty as public journalists by any de gree of vituperation or calumny directed towards ourselves. We cannot but regard the recurrence of Parlia mentary holidays as a mos t refreshing an d invigo s entforour e and Peers Coun c il. It r a a ff t o i n r d g a both r o a t h n gem the RepresentativesLnen°PPs3r tunity for forethought ; it g i ves a wboleeesrsom breath ing•tirne to the Mi n i s try ; an d, b y so doing, • the advant age o f mature deliberation—a charact e ris ti c ensu res most necessary for the healthy continuance of Go vernment. What is the more especially requir e d i n a national conclave of lawmakers is that m ens sana which can alone enable them to discriminate between what is judicious and what fallacious: and the Roman has already insinuated that the mens san e is scarce ly attainable without the corpore sano. The casual holidays of the session pos sess, consequently, an inferential as l balsood, which w ellas an immediate merit;they purify may, perchance, have been muddied with an infusion of a bilious character during the storms of discussion ; they tend to render the lymphatic mare animated and resolute in their adherence to principle ; and they en able the Members of the Lower House to interchange explanations with their constituencies wherever those explanations may on either side appear desirable. During the present session—the great session of the Peel Administration—we have, however, looked upon the interposition of these holidays as peculiarly bene ficial for the cause of justice and the appreciation of truth. The accidental position of debate has, moreover, so happily accorded with their arrival, as to present to us two remarkable instances of fortuitous good fortune. Precisely when the Commons had proceeded to such an, advanced stage of discussion upon the commercial measures which h.-ive engaged their attention during the greater por- tion of tie pant four rooTAI.s. that a mumetita:y pause was requisite to many minds before committing themselves to the responsibilities attached to a final vote--the Easter holidays transpired. Here was the Per Sibs. to sick the offal. s. d. s. d inferior Beasts .... 2 6 2 8 Second quality ditto. 2 10 3 4 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots • .. 3 10 4 0 Large coarse Calves 3 8 3 10 Prhne small ditto .. 4 0 4 8 Suckling Calves ..18 0 29 0 Inferior Sheep .. . 3 2 3 6 s. d to s. d Second quality ditto 3 6 3 Coarse-woolled ditto 310 4 0 Southdown Wethers 4 2 4 4 Ditto out of the wool Large Hogs ••• • • • 3 . 8 4 6 Small Porkers 4 8 410 Quarter old Pigs •• 16 0 19 0 Lambs .... • . 5 0 6 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. Calv es . • 2,G t 4 24,290 I 114 ISTEINTGATE 11111113 ZELAX/111%1M.411.36. Notwithstanding the prevailing warm weather, the arrivals of country-killed meat up to these markets since Monday last have been on the increase, and of full average quality. The supplies of meat slaughtered in the metropolis having been somewhat extensive, the general demand ha s b een i n a very inactive state, a n d the quotations have had a down ward tendency. About 50 carcases of foreign Beasts, and 100 ditto of Sheep, have appeared on sale. I P 2 l lo s ‘ At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Beef, inferior.... • • 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior .. 3 4 3 8 middling .... 2 6 2 8 middling.. 310 4 0 prime large .. 210 3 2 prime .. •. 4 0 4 2 prime small 3 4 3 6 Pork, large.... ••• • 3 4 4 2 ' r eal •••••••• • • • • • • 3 8- 4 8— small •••• ••• • 4 4 410 Lamb. 5s Od to 6s 2d. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs. 25 260 180 30 300 240 20 110 120 30 120 80 30 200 100 35 150 80 20 80 60 100 18 120 80 150' Scotland .. Yorkshire . Lincolnshire .. Norfolk • . • . • . Suffolk ...... Cambridgeshire Essex ..... Surrey .. Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts ••• • • ..... •• .. 40 100 90 80 •• .. 50 200 100 100 Total ••• • • • ••• • • 298 1,640 330 1,300 Previous week's arrival...... 220 1,160 200 970 Difference since oar last BOROUGH arm SPITALPIELDS. Notwithstanding the supplies of Potatoes on offer are small, the demand for all kinds is in a very inactive state. The following are the prices of the sound qualities, but the inferior kinds are offering at unusually low figures :—York Reds. 140 s to 180 s; ditto Regents, 90s to 120 ; Perth Reds, 110 s to 120 s; Montrose Buffs, 90s to 110 s per ton. - 78 480 EOECUGH HOP =B7a SET. The accounts from the plantations not being to say favour able, the fly• being still on the increase, the demand here is firm, and prices are well supported. WOOL.. The last imports of wool have been again moderately ex tensive, viz., 557 bales from Hobart Town, 1,103 do. from Sydney, 354 do. from Bombay, and 400 do. from various other quarters. The public sales were brought to a conclu sion on Saturday. Although nearly the whole of the parcels offered have found buyers, prices have receded ld to 3d per lb. Privately, next to nothing is doing, and the quotations must be considered almost nominal. TALLOW% The market may be considered firm at full prices. Town Tallow is 40s 6d to 41s net cash. SPORTING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sits,—ln yesterday's Era appeared a very incorrect state ment of the race for the Great Epsom Prophet Stakes, that paper taking to itself the sole credit of having named the winner, the real state of affairs was the following : THE DERBY PROPHET STAKES. Name. Nomination. Jockey. The Era. Pyrrhus Shade of Old Buckle 0 The Sun. Pyrrhus Spirit of the Turf 0 Morning Post. Pyrrhus Argus 0 The following started, but were not placed B(11's Life Fancy Boy Pegasus 0 Sunday Times Do. Miles's Boy 0 The Era Sir Tatton Sykes Riddles Worth 0 The Herald Do. Bunbury 0 Advertiser The Field Observer 0 Daily News Yates 0 Sporting Magazine Sting Criterion 0 A dead heat between the three first! Bell's Life well up. By the insertion of the above, those persons who pin their faith on the ,prophets will not be misled by the bombastic effusions of the Era, whose Jock Riddlesworth was entirely out of the race, for he places Pyrrhus in the rear. Last year I stood alone in my glory for I was the only seer who even hinted at the Merry Monarch's winning ; this year I named the winner and spoke of Fancy Boy fa vourably ; the latter would have been either first or second had he not met with a mishap previous to starting, and been thrown out of his stride twice, in fact nearly sent off his legs at the turn. Singular to relate not one of the many observations I have at various times made on the Derby from June last year up to the day of the race have been in the slightest degree in correct, a circumstance decidedly unprecedented. I will now take a cursory glance at the St. Leger and one or two other stakes, previous to closing my epistle. For the Leger, the following select circle must be taken care of, to wit :—lago, Fancy Boy, Grimston, Sting, Pyrrhus, Hum drum, Peri colt, Couroush, Woodpecker, Sir T. Sykes, The Mist, and Brocardo. My reasons I will give at some fu ture time. For the Emperor's Plate, at Ascot, my pick will be Sweet meat, Miss Sarah, and the Peri colt.—More about this on Monday next. For the Northumberland Plate, at Newcastle, Glossy, Mentor, and Red Robin look well. The Manchester Meeting commences on Tuesday with a Free Handicap, destined for Psalmsinger, Princess Royal second. The Manchester Cup to Parthian, Lord Saltoun second. On Wednesday, the Filly Stakes to Cossack Maid or Fair Stat. A Cup of 100 sovs. to Burgundy, Philip, or Lord Harry. A Handicap Hurdle Stakes to Deuce Ace or Alice. The Victoria Stakes to Banter filly and Saddleworth, and the Kersal Stakes to Lord Harry, if he starts, otherwise Ca melia. On Friday the Broughton Stakes to Lord Harry or Fair Star. I am, Sir, yours, &c., Monday morning. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS.—On Saturday night, at eight o'clock, a numerous meeting of the Broad Silk Loom Weavers' Union of Spitalfields was held at the Crown and Anchor, Waterloo -town, Bethnal-green, to take into con sideration the propriety of petitioning the House of Lords to show the weavers to be heard at the bar of the House in support of their opposition to the proposed reduction of the duties on foreign wrought silks, as contemplated in the Cus toms' Duties Act, Mr. Gurnell, president of the Union, in the chair, who briefly alluded to the objects that were about to come before the meeting, and urged the necessity of some immediate steps being taken. Mr. 'Bradly,moved—" That we, the members of the Broad Silk Hand-loom Weavers' Union, do petition the Honourable the House of Lords to allow counsel to be heard at the bar of their Honourable House, in defence of the silk question, feeling that the new tariff will have a ruinous effect on their trade." Mr. Snow observed that he would second the resolution, as he believed it was their last resource. The chairman put the resolution, which was carried unanimously. AN INGENIOUS TEST.—A few days ago a merchant, in prosecuting his morning tour in the suburbs of Edin burgh, found, as he walked along, a purse containing a con siderable sum of money. He observed a lady at a distance, who he thought would be the owner and loser. Determined to be correct in the party to whom be delivered it, he fell upon a strange yet ingenious plan to effect this. He resolved to act the part of a " poor distressed tradesman," and boldly went forward, hat in hand, and asked alms. This was an swered with a polite "Go away—l have nothing to give you." The poor man, however, persisted in his entreaties, would not go until he bad relief for his famishing wife and children. The lady, from reasons, no doubt, similar to Mrs. Maclarty's, at last condesceded, but, to her dismay, found that the werewith was gone. The merchant, now satisfied that he was correct, with a polite bow returned the purse, with an advice that in future:she would be more generous to the distressed and destitute.—Edinburgh papa. FATAL ACCIDENT FROM THE SPARK OF A RAILWAY ENGlNE.—During the p rogress o f one o f the trains on n the York and North Midl an d li ne , a few (lays agoe,tia dis tressing event occurred at the Milford Junction very station, owing to the ejection of a burning piece of coal i from interesting i ti t n h g e chimney of the engine, which alighted of the uponwaiters an in the re freshment-rooms, and her tafe girl, about eight years of age, onees being set on ff s u tire eg , ri s n he s t was he so dreadfully burned that death terminated her the age connected with same evening. Amidst h N t V r o a n v d el e l lif n u g l , itlllheprreovaepttlpeeanrtas toof be a great defect in the prevention of accidents of this nature. —Le'Cds Illercury. REMARKA DEATH OF A TIGER. --A magnificent r oyal tiger, ABLE forming part of a travelling menagerie at the fair of M e t z , has recently met with its death in a very cu. r s way. In consequence of the bl ows of a whip or stick received i i n its youth, it had near th e j aw two wens of some size, which no one had ever thought of removing, till a vete rinary surgeon of Metz proposedactooeppteerfdorhmy t th he is p p r e o r p il r o i u e_ s operation. The offer having been to of the menagerie, the tig er was securely fastened down• with chains and ropes. The poor animal submitted to this unaccustomed manoeuvre with much quietness; but on the operator entering the cage with his knife, and attempting to perform the operation, the tiger was seized with such ex treme rage, that being unable to burst his bonds, congestion of the brain ensued, and he expired in a few seconds. The town has purchased his remains for its cabinet of natural history. THE ELECTRIC TELECRAPIL—The division in the House of Lords on Thursday night was received here yester day morning (Friday) about nine o'clock, the news having been conveyed a considerable part of the way (reaching to the Midland static.n at Normanton) by the electric tele graph. .When the telegrah is complted betv% een Leds and London, which we understand will be in the course ot the summer, information may be conveyed from either ex tremity to the other in the course of about seven minutes.-- Leedslntelligencen MAGAZINE DAY, • BLACK WOOD'S. An unusual variety of articles characterises .131 ac, li , wood for June ; hut from th e i n f erences w hi c h are ae duced from it, and the scholarship which is e videncei of ZU its composition, the dissertati on upon the d e Fall - Rome" assumes the mo s t pr om i nent pos i t i on . In the writer of this p a p er we recogn i se e i t h er a man verse d 0 classic lore, and willi ng , f or t h e sa k e o f an i ngen i ous hr pothesis, to contort th e s i gn ifi cance o f past events to se particular meaning, or one w h o , w hil e i m b ue d w ith * knowledge of the occurrences of antiquity, regards them only through th e di stor ti on o f pre j u di ce . W e aro inclined to attribute the unphilosophical arguments contained in his lucubration to the former cause ; espe cially as we cannot conceive the possibility of any well' read and thinking student being so little of a logician as to advance reasonings so totally averse to common sense. Let us see now what is the precise delinquency against which we are thus inveighing. It is, then, as follows :—The author, as a contributor to Ebony, see?, the advantage which might result from, and the creelo which would be attributed to, a dissertation demonstrates ing the fallaciousness of those who now- a-days are, thank God, abolishing the atrocious corn-laws ; and he perceives that this credit and this advantage would be sevenfold if; by any ingenuity of disputation, however fraudulent, th e quest i on were enforced by some str i k i n g coinc'dence of fa c t i n anc i ent hi story. So far h i s con ' elusions are rati ona l an d a ll owa b le ; but fer the Poe ' sided purpose of ill us t ra ti ng t h e protective system in t his manner, he altog e th er over l oo k s the greatest duty o f e political economist, and w h at i s equa ll y the ch i ef neces sity of a logical co mmentator, that of adhering str i ct ly to the honest . narration of facts, and of neither tam pering with the truthfulness of the historian for a mere party object, or of imposing u pon the credulity or ignorance of his reader by s false use of his own eru di t i on. N ow, we dis tinctly impugn the writer of this dishonesty , this imposture, and this shameful employment of learn: hz, merely with the view of pandering to the political partialities of partisanship. He audaciously attempts to apply the destruction of the Roman empire to the (Joni' mercial controversy now agitating the English public* He assumes the downfall of that marvellous power as * fair prototype of what he implies must result from the establishment of a free-trade policy in our native coun try. He rejects the aphorism of Montesquieu, that the decay of Roman authority was the natural consequence of the extension of its territories ; in like manner he throws aside, as wholly inconclusive, the idea that that decay originated in the preva'ence of serfdom under the later emperors ; and with the intention of carrying out his original design, he attributes the " Fall of Rome " solely and exclusively to the circumstance of its rulers permitting the free importation of provisions from its colonial possessions. According to him, that importa tion of corn and cattle from Egypt, and Lybia, and Sicily, at first enervated and finally extinguished the agricultural energy of the mother country ; according to him, a considerable portion of Italy degenerated to barrenness from a previous state of fertilisation, entirely from that introduction of foreign grain. Now, stir posing, for the sake of argument , t h at a ll t h ese asser tions hold good (which they do not !), and that his de • ductions are correct in regard to the heathen empire (which we deny !), the whole aim of his rev" zoning is nugatory, the entire fabric of his inferences falls to the ground, because THERE IS NO SPECIES of ANALOGY IVUATEVER BETWEEN TEIE POLITICAL OR COMP MERCIAL, OR AGRICULTURAL POSITION OF ENGLAND AND or ROME ! It is an incontrovertible aphorism in logic that a comparison between two things altogether disian lar is by necessity altogether inadmissible. Now we can demonstrate, i n a f ew sentences, that the position of England, and the position of Rome, are two things es" sentially dissimilar, consequently the comparison of :hem is absolutely inadmissible, and, being in admissible , the conclusions arrived at from that comparison go for nothing. That, we take it, is an unanswerable propo sition. First of all, then, for the non-existence of any thing analogous between the Roman and the British Empires. The Romans were, be it observed, a people of warriors, a people almost entirely engaged in the prosecution of warfare ; the bulk of them was portioned out in cohorts and legions ; the nation, or more strintlY, speaking, the R oman c i t i zens, travelled in a body, swore . in hand, upon Gaul, upon Africa, upon Sp a in, u pon Germans-, upon Britain. They conquered those regions irict rendered them subsidiary to the great core of an thority—te the Great City. A minority of the Romans were agriculturists in the vicinity of Rome, a minority of that minority wore artizans in the streets of Rome but the vast majority of those citizens had carried the sword, had fought the battle, had swelled the carnage consequent upon a military government. When, how ever, the opportunity of engaging in warfare had become a matter, well nigh of impossibility, from the circumst ance o f t h e R omans having su b ve rted nearly the whole of the then known world .e ol: their own indomitabl e p rowess, an d under the ! dership of Caesar, and Pompey, and Trajan, and 5 ' forth, a continuance of their former exertions was rendered unnecessary. A comparatively insignificant force—a st an di ng army — was scattered at i nterva ls upon the frontie rs o f t h e co l ossal empire to awe t he new subjects i n t o su b m i ss i on, and to assert the dor mant strength of R ome i n case of an emergency. By this state of thi ngs t h e c i t i zens may be said literally to have "retired f rom b us i ness " for the more leisurely enjoyment of the proceeds of their labour. Subsidiary nations tilled the ground, and worked the mine, and ir rigated the soil, and reaped the harvest " in the sweat of their brow " for the support of the luxurious and indolent Romans : prodigious was the wealth of the Romans that home labour became absolutely super fluous. While the rest of the world was drudging to administer food and raiment to the rulers of the world, those rulers saw no reason to trouble them selves with any effort, save an effort for the extol. sion of their amusements. Their slaves—those slaves who in the struggling days of Rome had populated the workshops and the homesteads—were now enlisted as accessories to the recreations of their. Epicurean row rers. Gladiators wrestled in the amphitheatres, the great city became the arena of one interminable car nival, every individual Roman lived a life of the most profligate extravagance, the most consummate luxury, the most unremitting idleness. Their limbs were hence enfeebled by efliminacy, their courage was emasculated; political imbecility supervened upon social abandon ment ; their warriors straggled homewards and were soon swallowed up in the contagion of indolent enjoyment, until the cohorts which they had de serted were comp ose d i n ti me o f enlisted bar barians and mercenary swordsmen. These we con ceive to be the real motors in " the fall of Rome," and not the free importation of provisions. After de scribing, as we have just done, the political, commercial, and agricultural condition of that empire, it is surely unnecessary to particularise the precise want of analogy between it and the position of Great Britain—their dis similarity is so glaring and so undeniable. The Romans, as we have said, were luxurious revellers, simultaneously with the free importation of provisions; we English are a striving, labouring, agricultural, mercantile, money-getting race : our middle class is our chief class ; we eat our bread by the sweat of our brow. Napoleon called us, rightly enough, a nation of shop keepers ; and such will continue our position when free trade comes into operation. We possess vast factories through the medium of which our home-made merchan dise may be exchanged for whatever corn, or wine, or oil, or oxen will be imported. Had the Romans these factories? We possess such advantages in scientific knowledge as applied to agriculture, that our farmers are second to none in the wide world. Had the Romans these advantages? Our princes are mostly devoted to agricultural pursuits, at the moment when free trade is proposed. Were the Roman patricians so in like manner? • Our country is threaded with a multitude of railways, whereby it is but a step from the corn-field to the corn market, from the pasture land to the butcher's shams bles, rendering competition with remote growers of grain and fatteners of cattle little more than nominal. Had the Romans these railways? The questions are their own emphatic answers in the negative. Assuredly the dissimilarity between the state of Rome and England is so preposterously evident, that any amplification up!, ll the matter would be an egregious impertinence. We have already (and our readers must in candour admit it) proved clearly that nothing analogous subsists be tween those two things; reason has already informed us that a comparison of two such dissimilar things is logic ally inadmissible, and, being inadmissible, the whole argument necessarily drop s t o th e groun d . The paper in Blackwood on the " Fall of Rome" is, therefore, an impotent nonentity. It is, however, because it is spe ciously, and learnedly, and elegantly written, and ti°bee es in Out cause, on these accounts, it might possibly unreflective, that we have deemed it a length . . W e its inconsistency and absurdity at such at tention of the writer in old Nag' commend our foregoing observations 4., coloured sketches of Out line" are amusing d with smartness. "Elinor sarcasm, and pencilled with mawkish, Travis" we regard as a veryexaggerated, en,t;ttiotnhgeuzasteisor.liaoiuscslose and, in some port ions, an extremely vulgar attempt at romance. must have been i n a Chris topher, our brav e o l d Christopher North, singular good humour when admitting this fir s t of three chapters into his fastidious Ebony. The criticism on Fox" is another of those crushing satires u pon what is sure. " Greek Fire and Gunpowder". v erroneously designated the Cockney schoolisa‘noßafenpoingearutr:ereitahlin: which Blackwood has t l t h o e r reign morceau which will infinitely alway s e uriAsherdathdeurridnegsu paced such a pica' noble work upon the literary who take an interest in the w v e h n n t i oflne.manodresctiheanntifiscateisfyaracthose. progression of science an.d_ars y notice of Lord Bro h ugn a terS lIL cow' menses a very admirable of George number of the Magazioe , though in it we think the influence of Sir Joseph Bank s as a minor Maceenas is somewhat underated. N v o ce t orce o y n B ly a new covering , li°° b p ut ' S a . new character is give n to remarkableM a Ma gazine fo improvement June ; and seeing upon that m sny recent elactetner is a ri t numbers, we congratulate the publisher upon the altera tion. Since the untimely decease of its first gifted edi tor, we regretted to observe a singular falling off in th e ability of his miscellany, and we regretted this the mor e as it was intimately con nec t e d w i t h hi s memo ry, an d with some of his last and noblest liteiary efforts, by as sociation. It faded away from a sparkling and humour" ous collection of papers to a mere hodge-podgeing (t o employ a homely phras e ) o f i n diff eren t fi c tions, and those moreover in a swarm of fragments. Without all question the present number is the best which has er peared since cur noble poet Thomas Hood seceded from the magazine. It is c ommence d, t oo , i n a very nuns" , manner for a periodical publication—the first contribu tion being the first act of a Portuguese tragedy, entitled Ignez de Castro, from the pen of Mr. J. Jones, the ac: compli,hed author of "Rural Sonnets." Anything that may appear under the signature of this gentlema n i sure to enlist our sympathies, and, to a reasonable ex tent to propitiate our favour. In speaking thus, inereorg, we are inflaeuce4 whelly.by a pew of what is trutilf" 130 330 _ 4