The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. ~..~.~~ WlNDsoil, TIITIRSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the i'rince of Wales, Prance Alfred, the Princess Rua), and the Princess Alice took walking exerci.ie this morning on the terrace and grounds around the Castle. His Royal Higniesllriice Albert, attended by Colo nel Bouverie, went out this morning to enjoy the sport of shooting. Sir Robert and Lady Peel left the Castle to day. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort left the Castle in the afternoon in a pony phaeton, the Prince Oriving, for au airing. The royal suite followed in another pony carriage. His Royal Highness Prince George visited her Ma. jesty the Queen Dowager on Wednesday evening, and joined the illustrious circle assembled at Marlborough House, in honour.of the birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cznobridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and his Serene Highness the Prince Frederick of Efesse, left Marlborough House in the evening, and returned to Kew. _ Her Royal highness the Princess of Prussia took leave of her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday morning, at Marlborough House, on her return to the continent. The Princess, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar left town, for Woolwich, soon after eleven o'clock. Her Royal High ness's suite consisted of Countess Haack, Count Nailer, and Count Witzleben. The Princess was also attended from town by the Earl of Denbigh (Master of the Horse to the Queen Dowager) and Mr. Bedford. The Che valier Bunsen. Prussian Minister, attended her Royal Highness at Woolwich. The Princess and suite embarked on the Black Eagle for Rotterdam. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left her residence, Marlborough House, at half-past t wo o ' c l oc k yesterday afternoon, for Cash iobury Park, Herts. Her Majesty was attended by Frances Lady Clinton, Hon. Miss Mitchell, and the Earl of Denbigh. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yester day afternoon, at the official residence of Lord John Russell, in Downing -street. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Minto, Viscount Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Morpeth, the Marquis of Clanricardc, and the Right Hon. I'. B. Macaulay. The Earl of Minto arrived in town yesterday morning to attend the meeting, from St. Leonard's-on-Sea. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday morning from Mickleton Hall, Doncaster. The Council sat two hours and a half. • Prince Callimaki, the newly accredited Turkish Minister at this Court, was yesterday received by Viscount Palmerston at the Foreign-office, accompanied by Edib Effendi, the Chargé d'Affaires. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE TATTERSALL'S --TESTER DAY. The only bets paid by the 10 subscribers present were 8 to 1 against Torn Tullock to 25/. ; 10 to 1 agst The Baron to 551., 12 to 1 agst Sting to 10/. ; 20 to 1 agat Plaudit, 20 to 1 agst Cranebrook, and 20 to 1 agst Giantess—the last three to very small amount& THE GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES, 1847. This interesting stake, which made such a brilliant first appearance this 3 - ear, and to which 300/. was so li berally added by the inhabitants of this metropolis, has undergone some alterations and improvements at the bands of the authorities. The Stake is for the future to be 24, 15 forfeit, and fire if declared, and 100 for the second horse, and 50 for the third; the course to be lengthened to nearly two miles and a quarter :—To start at the winning chair, turning out at Tattenham Corner, and back, similar to the Goodwood Cup Course, and in sight the whole way. We bear the necessary alterations to the course are nearly corn- I plete. The amount of the bonus for 1847 is not yet ascer tained, but we understand that there is already a consider able sum promised, or collected ; and, from the activity and energy of the parties who have the matter in hand, we fancy the bonus for 1847 must be very great. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1845, (CONCLUDED). TM ItaDAT. The Town Plate of 50/. for three years old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. DJ. SiColonel Synge' s Mount Callan ""'••• (Bartholomew) 1 r J. Hawl e y' s Humdrum .................................... 2 Lord Albeinarle's Radulphus.. Betting, 2 to 1 on H um d rum ; 3 to 1 agat Mount Callan ; and 9to 2 agst Radulphus. Humdrum went off with a de cided lead, and was never approached within three or four lengths until round the turn of the land; from this point it gradually diminished, and at the distance the three were to gether; a good race home, ended in favour of Mount Callan by half a length. Match-100, h ft. First half of Ab. Mr. Mostyn's Vice Consul, 2 yrs, Bat 71b ........... (Nat) 1 Duke of Bedford's Black C a t, 3 yrs, Bst 31b...... ......... 2 11 to 10 on Vice Consul. Won by a neck. Run in 57 seconds. Match-200, 50 ft. T.C.Y. .(Robinson) 1 Duke of Bedford's raragone, Bst 7113 Mr. Merton's Missed S tays. 6t05 on Missed Stays. Run in 1 min. 15 secs. The Rutland Stakes of 30 soya, each, 20 fr, for two yrs old colts, Bst 7111; and fillies, Bst 31b. From the Turn of the Land in. (12 Subs.) Mr. Mostyn's Slander, Bibs extra •• ....... ...(W. Abdale) 1 Mr. Stephenson's Doctrine, albs extra Lord Exeter's f, by Hetman Platoff, out of Galata. ..... Colonel Peel' s P a l ma 4 6t04 on Slander, who made all the running, and won easy, by a length. Galata a bad third. Run in 1 min. 20 secs. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for two yrs old, 6st 101 b ; three _yrs, Bst 81b ; f our yrs, i re., 9st 61b. Rutland Stakes Course. Winner to be sold for 704 &c. (5 Subs.) Mr. Ford's The Attorney, 4 yrs ......... (J. Howl e tt) 0 1 Mr. Coope r ' s C aen, 6 yrs ........................... ......... 0 2 Mr. Grevill e ' s Deerchase, 3 yrs . Mr. C. Daley' s Marble Maid, 2 yrs Betting--5 to 4 agst Caen, and 7 to 2 each agst Attorney and Deerchase--a dead heat between The Attorney and Caen; the other two beaten several lengths. Deciding beat-6 to son The Attorney, who won easy. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas, for 3 yrs old, 9st alb; 4 yrs, lOst 71b; 5 yrs, list; 6 yrs and aged, list 416. R.C. Mr. Moore's Wolfedog, 4 yrs .............. (Nat) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Bravissimo, 3 yrs Lord Alberniarle's Little Vulgar Boy, 3 yrs .... ........... 3 Mr. Drinkald's Ohio, 3 yrs .................................. 4 9 to 4 on Wolfdog. Ohio made play at an indifferent pace, followed alternately by Wolfdog and Little Vulgar Boy to the corner of the plantation. The running was then taken by the favourite, 13raviseimo being kept in reserve to the hill; he then made his effort, but was beaten after a good race by a length. Little Vulgar Boy was a bad third. LATEST CESAREWITCH BETTING. 10 to 1 agst JonathanWild(t) I 20 to 1 apt liesheng (t) 10 to 1 agst Torn Tullock 20 to 1 agst Terrier (t) 11 to 1 apt The Baron 25 to 1 agst Jenny Wren 15 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes 25 to 1 agst Giantess 18 to 1 agst Sting 50 to 1 agst Wolfdog (t) .NEWMARKET HOUtifITON MEETING. Mr. Greville's Alarm and Mr. Mytton's Sorella have been matched for 1,000 each, p.p., Bst each. B.C. NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. Queen's Plate. R.C.—Satyr, 5 yrs--Wolfdog, 4 yrs— Jericho, 4 yrs—Auricula, 3 yrs--Ohio, 3 yrs—Bravissimo, 3 yrs—The Little Vulgar Boy. Town Plate. D.J.—Humdrum, Mount Callan, Radulphuse Sweepstakes. Rutland Stakes Course.—Caen, 6 yrs—Th Attorney, 4 yrs—D eer Ch ase, 3 yrs—Marble Maid (Amima filly), 2 yrs—Morseling, 2 yrs. CESAREWITCH STAKES BETTING. Bto 1 agst Tom Tullock 25 to 1 agst Giantess 10 to 1 agat The Baron 25 to 1 agst Dulcet 14 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild 25 to l agst Cranebrook 15 to 1 agst Sting 25 to 1 agst Jenny Wren (t) 16 to 1 agst Sir T. Sykes 130 to 1 agst Tugnet 17 to 1 agst Kesheng (t) I3oto 1 apt Khondooz 23 to 1 agst Ter r i er I 30 to 1 agst Itlorella filly. DERBY. Bto 1 a gs t V an Tromp 117 to 1 agst Epirote PERSHORE RACES.—TUESDAY. The Pershore Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added, were won by M r.Reid'sCharity, 6 yrs, lOst 7 1b(Turner), beating Teresa, lOst 71b, and Maleria, lOst 71b, after a good race. The Avon Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added, one mile and a half, were won in two heats by Mr. Oakley's and'Valeria, 9st 101 b Ost 10 ( Ib. Cheswas), be a ti ng A mazement, 9st 101 b, Teresa, l The Hurdle Stakes of 2 sovs, each, and 10 added, one mile and a half, were won in twoheats by Mr. T a yl or ' s Protectionist, beating Mr. My tton s Dandy, and another. The Hack Stakesof 1 sow. each, and 5 added, one mile, were won in four Leafs by Amazement, heatin g Fickle, aged; Joe Banks, 3 vrs ; and several others. CHESTERFIELD MACES--W EDNESDAY. The Chatsworth Plate of 50 sors.three 3a•raseodl,d,B'sitstl33llbb.; four, B s t 6lb ; fi ve, B s t 111 b ; six and Heats. Two miles. Mr. Raw or th' s E ng i neer, 3 yrs (11. Bradley) 1 1 Mr. J. Lalnplugh's Boltonian, 3 yrs ....................... td 2 . Mr. Di xon ' s A mazon, 3 yrs The Scarsdale Stakes of 3 soya. each, with 25 added; three yrs old, 7st 7W; four, Bst 91b; five, 9st 2W; six an l d ag el () 9st 51b; m ares and geldings allowed 21b; thesecond save his stake. Once round. (5 Subs.) litr. Pepper's Hector, 4 yrs Ird'a Tottenham, 4 yrs Mr. Lancaster's Monsieur Perrot ltr.- Whaley' s The Stranger 4 , 4 vrs The Innk eepers ' Stake of 30 soli's. added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each; three yrs old, 7st 7lb ; four Bst 7lb ; five , .9st ; six and aged, 9st 211); mares and geldings allowed 21b. Butts. On ce round and a distance. Mr. Baker's R.el Skin (h b), 5 Yrs Mr. ;Vorm a ld' s ............. •• . Mr. Di.eon's Amu (h b), 3 yrs 1 3 3 WREXHAM RACES.— TUESDAY. Sweepstakes of 50 sore. each, h ft. Twice round. (Four Subs.) Mr. T. R. Price's Baronet ...................... ...Walked over The Champagne Stakes of 20 80178 , each, h ft, with 25 added, for two and three yrs old. T. Y. C. (Four Subs ) Mr. Mostyn's Circassian Maid, 2 yrs, Est 61b (Evans) 1 Mr. F. R. Price's Kismet, 3 yrs, Bst 10Ib 2 Mr. F. 'Worthington's Sharston, 3 yrs, Bst 10Ib The Wynnst.sy Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 50 added. The second receive 15 sovs. out of the stake. Twice round and a &stance. (6 Subs.) Mr. Worthington's Hooton, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (Marlow) 1 Mr. Mostyn's Stream:. 4 yrs, 7st 41b 2 Mr. Fitzhugh as b c by Stansty, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b 3 The Caval ry S takes of sovs. each, with 20 added ; the second to save his stake. Heats. Once round and a dis. Mr. Johnson's Jesse, 6 yrs, 12st ............ ...(Jackson) 1 1 Mr. Rogers's Dairymaid, aged, 12st ..... 2 2 BREWOOD RACES. The Chillington Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added from the fund. Two miles. Mr. Davenport's Heroine.....•.•(Frost) 1 Mr. Burton's Reliance ..... 2 Mr. Wade's fhy Young Cadland, out of Tutila The Ladies' Purse of 15 stn.'s., added to a Sweepstakes of I sow. each. Heats. Mile and a half. Mr. Whittaker's each. (Stych) 1 1 Mr. Taylor's f by Barnacles.' ... ............. 0 2 Mr. Smith's Tom Bowline. ............................. 2 dr M r. w ades Q. „. .... ................... . ..... •• 1, D. .................. Mr. Lowe' s b g out o f B 3 ' . ente da ..... . "............. 3 d r 4 Mr. Charlton's b f by Talleyrsnd is. A Hurdle Race of 3 sovs, each, with 15 added. Heats. hi. _ a , Twice round an d a distance. r. ;fnpo!t's Thur garton ......... (Mr. Dav en p or t) 1 1 . Yhtllip's Jerry . 2 dr Mr. T urner's The .................................. . ELECTION OF LORD MAY 019. CONCLUSION OF THE THIRD DAY'S POLL. The Livery of London are acting manfully, and ap pear determined to keep up their character as the sup porters of the oppressed and ill-used. At three o'clock the polling of the third day clo,al, and the announca un,nt of the poll placed Alderman Wood in a much better position than that which he occupied yesterday. Little or no doubt seems now to be entertained of his ultimate success. At half-past three o'clock the following was an nounced by the Secondary to be the state of the poll : For Mr. Alderman Wood Sir G. Carroll 6BO Mr. Alderman Hooper Mr. Alderman Farncomb Mr. Alderman Moon 1 The announcements of the last two names caused great laughter. The call for Mr. Alderman Wood resounded from all parts of the hall, but the worthy Alderman gave way for Mr. ANDERTON, who stated that he was the individual who had called for a poll on behalf of Alderman Hooper ; and in consequence of a report which he had seen in the Times newspaper of that day of the speech of Alderman Wood of the previous day, he wished to explain to the Livery the grounds on which he had called for that poll. In the report Mr. Alderman Wood was represented to have stated that he knew nothing of a poll being demanded until after that demand h a d b een made. That statement was perfectly true, because he did not think it to be at all necessary or called for on his part to inform Mr. Alderman Wood that such was his inten tion. Mr. Alderman Wood had stated that he had no doubt there were good reasons for the course that had been adopted, and what those reasons were it was the duty of the party who had called for the poll to explain. —(Cheers.) Now he stood there to give that explana tion. In adopting the coarse he had pursued he was animated by no prejudicial feelings towards Mr. Alder man Wood, but, looking upon it to be the right of the Livery of London to test the fitness or unfitness of any person who offered himself to fill the office of their Chief Magistrate by their votes, he had adopted the present course to enable them to do so. Alderman Wood had been twice rejected by the Court of Alder men ; and, on one occasion, when the votes of the Livery were taken, he was the lowest on the poll. He believed that the Court of Aldermen ^ were ready, at the commencement of the present contest, to reject again the claims of Mr. Alderman Wood.—(Cries of "No, no," "Shame, shame," and " There wants reformation in the Corporation of London.") Now, thinking that if Alder man Wood was returned to the Court of Aldermen by the vote of the Livery, that they would not reject him, he had demanded a poll in order to test the opinion of the Livery.—(Cries of " You did it for the purpose of putting him to expense.") He denied that he had any such intentions, and as a proof of his sincerity, he would state that he should be willing to subscribe towards defraying those expenses, or even paying the whole.—(Cheers.) What, he would ask, ought to be the character of the man who aspired to fill the office of the chief magistrate of the city of London ? Why, he ought to be as independent in his pocket as in his principles.— (Cheers, and cries of "So is Wood.") He quarrelled with no man for being poor.—(Cries of " You would like to be Lord Mayor, if you had only money enough.") He quarrelled with no man for being limited in his means, but he did find fault with a man aspiring to the office of Lord Mayor who had demands made upon him from day to day 2 which he did not meet.—(Great uproar, and cries of " Shame, shame," and "Prove what you have stated.") He believed that Alderman Wood was doing himself injustice in forcing himself upon the Livery in the way he had done.—(Cries of " No, no.") He (Mr. Anderton) held the honourable and responsible office of Deputy-Governor of the Irish Society, and he could state to the Livery, from the knowledge he derived from that situation, that claims had been made by that society on Alderman Wood for the payment of certain fees, which he had never paid ; thereby reflecting discredit on himself, and those who had employed him.—(Great confusion, and cries of "Shame, shame.") Mr. ALDERMAN WOOD then came forward, and was received with the most deafening cheers, which lasted for some minutes. When order was in some measure re stored, he stated that he was not sorry that he had given precedence to Mr. Anderton, the gentleman who had last addressed the Livery, because he felt convinced that all that had been said by that gentleman would prove to the Livery how he had been treated, not only by him but by others.—(Cheers, and cries of " Shame.") Everything that malice could invent, every transaction in private life, had been raked up against him.—(Cries of " Shame.") He envied not the feelings of those who had adopted such a course.—(Cheers.) He envied not the feelings of the man who occupied his time in such proceedings, but he thought he must envy him the feel ings he entertained when he stated that he looked upon such proceedings with the contempt they deserved— (Great cheering) —and he thought the answer had been given to them by the mass of the Livery which he ad dressed.—(Cheers.) Some allusion had been made by Mr. Anderton to the Irish Society, with whom he (Mr. Alderman Wood) had an account, which he delivered in January last, and, not withstanding all the integrity, zeal, and punctuality of Mr. Anderton, that account re mained unsettled until Saturday last —(Great laughter)— and because he (Mr. Alderman Wood) had not gone on and done what Mr. Anderton thought he ought to have done, he came there and complained.—(Cheers.) Charges innumerable had been raked up against him, because he had been connected with a club, in which he had done all in his power to bring everything to a proper settlement. He thought the course that had been pur sued towards him was uncalled for, harsh, and unjust. —(Loud cheers.) If they were to arraign the conduct of men who had been engaged in eph emera l schemes in th e same manner that thy had done him, he thought very few in that great City would come out of the ordeal blameless.—(Great cheering.) Mr. An derton had stated that he (Mr. Alderman Wood) had challenged the promoters of the present contest to come forward and explain the cause of their doing so ; the Livery had heaid the explanation that had been made. —(Cheers.) Mr. Anderton had stated that he was not desiring to put him (Mr. Alderman Wood) to expense, and that he would sooner pay it himself. He was sure that, after Mr. Anderton s explanation of the causes that induced him to demand a poll, the Livery would call upon him to redeem his pledge and pay those ex penses.—(Laughter.) Whatever might be the motives of the parties demanding the poll, the result would be to entail great expense, and that expense, according to his own showing, Mr. Anderton was bound to bear— (Cheers)—and no doubt would give a cheque on his banker for the amount.—(Cries of " The cheque will be on the bank of elegance.") But enough of this—it was said that a man must be not only opulent but independent, before he could fill high offices.—(Cheers.) He thought if a man's finances were to be the measure of his fitness for holding office, the Livery might as well at once give up their rights.—(Great cheering.) If they were to look at a man's purse, and not his principles, the rights of the Livery were worth nothing.—(Cheers.) It had been said that he- had improperly kept up these contests ; he denied it; he had no alternative but to do to. As the servant of the ward he represented, he had fearlessly dis charged his public duties, and why, he would ask, were private transactions to be raked up against him, as a ground for his unfitness to discharge a public duty ? (Cheers.) He had risen from among the Livery ; he had come, like others, from a humble origin—(Cheers)— but it was the glory of this free country_ that such was the nature of its institutions, that they encouraged in dustry, looked to rising worth, rewarded it, and held out the prospect, even to the most humble, of filling places of the highest honour and the greatest trust.-- (Cheers.) God forbid, he would say, that it should be otherwise.—(Cheers.) He did not pre. sent himself to the Livery as a private character ; he presented himself to them as he had been for years— be presented himself to them as an Alderman in rota tion for office, and he asked the Livery fearlessly to point out one single blot on,his public conduct.— (Cheers.) It was painful and unpleasant to speak of self, but he had been compelled to do so.—(Hear, hear.) Ho had met the test that had been imposed upon him fairly, and the conclusion of the third day's poll showed the con fidence the Livery had reposed in him —(Cheers.) In the whole contest no unkind words had been used, except those that had been uttered that day.—(Cheers.) He had received the greatest kindness at the hands of his two colleagues—(Cheers) —and he thought that what had taken place that day ought never to have occurred.—(Cheers.) It reflected no honour on those who had brought it forward, and he was sure that it would not damage his cause with the Livery.—(Cheers.) It now only remained for him to thank them for the noble manner in which they had supported his cause—a cause that was their own. He trust( "d that the Livery would go on in their good work, and success was certain. — (Cheers, and cries of "We will.") He felt no doubt that at the conclusion of the poll on the following day he would he in a better position than lie was that day. Mr. R. TAYLOR then came forward to address the Livery. He was the decided enemy of the pretended veto of the Court of Aldermen • he thought nothi n g could ju s tif y it ; but he thought that all those who looked up to high civic dignities should claim them with clean hands. He was connected with a great public trust belonging to the city of London. That institution had been engaged in a long and difficult law suit ; the —r solicitor employed had h a d t h e money to do so, but had neve r paid the fees of counsel. Who was that solicitor? Mr. Aldermen A". A " il ll ts ehihalz,apsamidattther of them. (Great confusion, an d cries of " Go home and paaccount.")id his sof print it.") Am inquiry,—(Great u h i r a y v . e_ you Amid which Mr. Taylor retired. Mr. Alderman WOOD again came forward. He could assure the Livery that he was not afraid o f meet i ng the present discussion ay where, publicity.—(Che ers .) I t had been f attack elsewhere,and h e had given the ere, altho ug h i t had been brought forward for p the subject o a s he did then.—(Cheers.) That ttled there could be o doubt, ' ed in his hands till _w at a u s r t_he fact. Thatthe same a th n e d r e thatan were s t a e s t r e day afternoon ; account was not arranged till last 6 m mt: On f e ie y tes ead ns r e emain Irish Society settled his account and, as the Livery knew, hi s time had been engaged e ver fioeiet brought since then in this election.—(Hear, hear) 14eforo th e gentlemen connected with the Irish y have succeeded in at ter fifern years' litigation they y ht that, in candour, such charges against him, they should recollect that every point.—(Cheers.) He thought they ought to have spoken very d fferent spirit, with respect to him especially, when they 4 :Flew full well that details could not he gone into at C.a. mein Ile, Rola' had had the honour of rvPrgs4l ti▪ n g trt tere.ls 44' the Livery of 1. - ,nden for twel ve years IR M had e Court of Common Council, and during that ti▪ me he numberless opportunities of testing the sterling worth of Mr. Alderman Wood.—(Cheers.) That gentleman had that day been twitted by disappointed individuals"— his duties. and (Cheers.) He would unhe , itatingly te.sert that Mr , Al derman Wood had faithfully discharged there were few men who had done the Livery better suit and service. - -(Cheers.) As the head of the Com mittee of the City Police his serciAes bad been incalcu- THE_SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORN INCA, OCTOBER 2, 1846. ]able.—(Cheers.) The Learned Recorder had told the Livery over and over again that they were met to exer cise one of their most invaluable privileges.—(C leers.) He trusted that they would show that they valued those privileges, and that nothing would induce them to part with them.—(Cheers.) The Hall was then adjourned till this morning at nine o'clock. THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONDON. At half-past ten o'clock on Wednesday morning the Revising Barrister resumed the revision of the lists of householders of the city of Loudon. The list for the day consisted of the names of persons resident in the parish of St. Botolph Without, Bishopsgate. Shortly after the sitting of the court, Mr. Browne wished to make an observation with re spect to Mr. Meyrick's case, which had been decided by the Revising Barrister on Saturday. Mr. Meyrick had no intention of appealing to the Court of Common Pleas, but he wished to say that in the judgment given by the Court th( re was a remark made which was not sustained by the evidence read to Mr. Meyrick, and that was, that he held this place tO have a vote for the City, awd that was not the fact. The BARRISTER said, he had this note in his book of the statement made by Mrs. Sarah Baker, one of the witnesses. She stated that Mr. Meyrick once said that he kept the room for the purpose of protectin g his vote. Mr. Brown sa id, t h at M r. M eyr i c k wished him to state that that was not the case; that he did not occupy the place for the purpose of protecting his vote, but that he occupied it for use. That appeared to be the main ground for disallowing the vote, and he called the atten tion of the Court to it for this purpose, that if the case should be opened next year it should not have an in jurious effect. Mr. Meyrick said that he did not recollect having ever made the statement imputed to him by Sarah Baker. The BARRISTER observed that he certainly thought the point referred to by Mr. Browne was a strong fact in the case, but he did not think it would alter the decision, for he had made a similar decision in Mr. Smith's case, in which there was not that fact. The real ground for the decision was, that the place was not used or in tended to be used for the purpose of residence, but merely for a temporary occupation when the party was in town. Mr. Browne said that if that point had not been so severely commented upon by the Court he would take a case to the Common Pleas at his own expense, for he thought that without that there would be a qualification. The I;st of the parish of St. Botolph was revised, thereby finishing the ward of Bishopsgate. No case requiring particular notice came before the Court. The following is the result : Failed or Sustained. Withdrawn 7 ... 26 154 72 67 ... 4 1. . 6 Liberal objections Tory ditto Double ditto .... Liberal claims .... , Tory claims , WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL. After a tedious and toilsome day's labour, the workmen engaged at Constitution-hill, on Wednesday, succeeded in safely placing this great statue on its pedestal. Up to three o'clock, they were engaged in making all the necessary arrangements, preparing all the machinery, regulating the tackle, windlasses, &c., and properly affix ing the ropes and cable slings by which the immense mass was to be perpendicularly raised to the desired height. The ascent was accordingly commenced a little after that hour. and although Mr. Green, in the Nassau balloon, has often done the distance in a second, he could hardly accomplish it more surely. However, four hours had nearly elapsed before the statue had attained the requisite elevation, during which it hung like Mahomet's coffin, 'twixt heaven and earth, in, as it seemed to the minds of the spectators, a rather perilous position. Meantime the shades of evening were gathering round, and subsequently night fell in, and it appeared as though an adjournment of the proceedings sine die had occurred. The moon soon after rose, and though clouded in the commencement of her career, shone as brilliantly as a young moon could, about half-past eight, The riggers, who had for some time disappeared from the scaffolding, now again began to mount the ladders and " man the yards," and soon after, the large move able platform aloft, on which were the windlasses by which the statue was carried up, commenced its horizon tal locomotive efforts, and before nine o'clock the plat form, statue, and all, had been backed westward, and the precious burden fairly landed on its proposed site. Having viewed it then through the various disadvantages of imperfect moonlight, and intervening ropes and spars, we are the more confirmed in our impression that, so far from the statue being too large in its proportions for the arch, if anything, the arch is too large for the statue. But we honestly think the public will agree when a proper time and opportunity for judging have been allowed, that there could not be found in London a more magnificent position for such a noble work of art as that which the triumphal arch on Constitution -hill affords for the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington. A great concourse of visitors during the day, and to a late hour of the night, thronged the neighbourhood of Hyde Park•corner; and indeed the end of the Green Park near Grosvenor-place, presented more the appearance o a fair than anything else. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 28.—The port of Antwerp has pre sented a very animated appearance since the day before yesterday. The first basin is crowded with ships. In less than 24 hours, 26 vessels have arrived, most of them returning from long voyages. The Courier d'Anvers says, " If we are well informed, the financial results of the new sugar law are very satisfactory. The receipts have increased considerably. A few days ago the total amounted to more than three millions; thus the antici• pations of the framers of the law are completely verified. The Rubens, a fine Belgian vessel, was to sail on Friday from Antwerp, bound to Valparaiso, in Chili. Part of her cargo consists of 1,143 barrels of refined sugar. The Minister of the Interior has just sent a new circular to the governors of the provinces, recom mending them to assure the makers of the exact execu tion of the important measure of the census. Ile de sires them to take particular care to make it under stood:— 1. That the census of the inhabitants, being founded on the principle of the actual populwion, all the indivi duals, natives or foreigners, who shall be in the Bel gian territory, shall be counted in the locality where each of them has passed the night of the 14th of Octo ber, so that the number of persons present on a fixed day, in each commune, may be exactly known, with all the distinction indicated in the bulletin. 2. That the persons who, on the day of taking the census, shall be absent from their home, are, neverthe less, to be inscribed in the bulletin of the family to which they belong. It is expressly recommended that the absence be mentioned in the column of abreviation. 3 and 4, Contain particular directions relative to far mers, and to manufacturers, artizans, and shopkeepers. STUTTGART, SEPT. 23.—The Crown Prince and Princess, who had already been most unexpectedly webomed on their arrival at Heillroum, by their Ma jesties, arrived about twelve o'clock this morning at the royal country seat of Rasensteim, where they were re• ceived with the most heartfelt joy by their Mak sties and several members of the royal family, who are at pre sent staying there. After breakfast they made their public entry into the capital, conducted by the royal family and the Court, amidst the ringing of the church bells and the firing of cannon. The royal bride and bridegroom were met at the Neckar-street, where a triumphal arch was erected by the magistrates and chief civil authorities, and various companies with their ban ners. The Princess then proceeded to the royal Palace, Konigsstrasse, all the streets through which they passed being lined with military, and decorated with branches, flow era, carpets, and banners, and various tasteful de signs and ornaments. The Prince and Princess were attended by an escort of the ro) al body guard, a nnather of young men of the class of citizens, and the city guard on horsehack, and the civic companies, as far as the court of the royal residence, when the Stuttgard Philhar monic Society awaited their arrival, and executed a con gratulatory ode. On their arrival at Wilhelms Plats, a company- of yoarg ladies presented to her Imperial H ghness the Crown Princess baskets of grapes and other fruits, the produce of our vineyards and gardens. WHAT TO DO WITH BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—By Mr. Hume and others it has been suggested to convert Buckingham Palace into a Museum and National Gal lery. Now that the Rnyal Family, like the Spectre of Otranto, is becoming too large for its habitation, it is certain that the palace, somehow, must be applied to another than its present purpose. It may be a very good plan to render that building, which can no longer furnish a nursery to royalty, a nursery of art and science ; but we think we can suggest a better. Why should not the royal lodging, when vacated, be made to contribute to the payment of the expenses of building another ? Let the different apartments in the palace out to the different metropolitan exhibitionists. The Industrious Fleas might be established in the Green Drawing-room; Miss Linwood's Exhibition might be transferred to the Picture Gallery; the Banqueting room might be tenanted by the Speaking Automaton; the Throne-room might receive Madame Tussaud's Collection, and the Fourth George, resuming his scat, would look, in his robes, as large and natural as life. The Hall of Buckingham might be converted into the Hall of Rome, whilst the private apartments might be appropriately taken possession of by Tom Thumb. Thus might this edifice, which is at present neither ornamental nor useful, at all events acquire a title to the latter epithet. So much for Buckingham—Palace I —Punch. AN AMERICAN SENTINEL.—A New Orleans letter relates the manner of the death of Captain Pope, which was caused by his neglect to give the guard the counter sign. The sentinel was a boy of sixteen, who, hailing and receiving no answer, fired and killed him. The sentry is reported as saying, f' I challenged somebody twice—'in him fair warnin'—he didn't answer, and I jest plugged him." The men sprang into the bushes, and to a short time dragged into the clearing the dead body. Just then thp moon, which had risen behind a heavy bank of clouds, emkrised from behind them, and shed a pale light upon the group, displDsiny the uni form o f a volunteer officer. " Why, what 'Lave ypu done ? This is one of us," said the corporal, and, ttp head of the dead man, he gazed for a moment on biz: fer 4 1414;; p claimed, "My God ! bop, its Captain Pope f' pope ephoed the lad, " well, who'd a‘thought it rig iiiigb d typorry, twt toy fault. If it had b een the Colo nel, •t o • fl a ctOral''Taylor, 'twould bin jest the same." " They took me igtO arrest," said the boy, relating the occurrence to my in pyj.ed me by court-martial, and acquitted me. I'd only done my 41 4: y they went and discharged me under pretence that r was under Fie."-4nterican Paper. HAYMARKET THEATRE, NE WRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY. A meeting of shareholders in this company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering the conduct of the directors, and adopting the means necessary to protect their interests. Mr. CONQUEST, who was called to the chair, said that, like themselves, he was an unfortunate shareholder. He had purchased shares, not certainly with a view of re taining, but before :obtaining them three months had elapsed, and he could not sell them.—([fear, hear.) He took upon himself to write to Enniskillen, to procure some information with reference to this lire, and from the answers he had received it appeared that there was not a single shareholder in Enniskillen, though the line was from Newry to Enniskillon.—(Hear.) He had also received information to the effect that the line would never be made.—(Hear.) He called on Mr. Spack man to take the steps which would be necessary to pro tect themselves in the matter, and he was glad to be able to state, that that gentleman's effort s h a d b e e n i n part successful. He was very well satisfied with the conduct of the gentlemen at Blackburn.—(Hear.) A meeting of the shareholders had also been held at Liverpool, on the 28th instant. A report of the proceedings was in Mr. Spackman's possession, and would be submitted to the meeting. _ _ Mr. SPACKMAN read the report in question, which stated that the meeting was large and respectable, re presenting personally, or by proxy, nearly 6,000 shares. Resolutions approving the relinquishment of the line were passed, and much distrust of the directors was ex pressed, as well as a determination not to pay any more calls till the affairs of the company were better conducted. lie then read his own report, which consisted chiefly of a correspondence that had taken place between him and the secretary of the company, and from which it appeared that the directors refused to comply with a requisition of shareholders to call a general meeting to be held in London. It further appeared that they had refused to comply with another requisition, request ing the directors to call an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders for the purpose of considering the measures to be adopted in the present state of their affairs, and to suspend further calls. Some discussion ensued, after which it was agreed that a deputation of shareholders should wait on the di rectors to endeavour to make arrangements, which Mr. Spackman stated he believed might now be effected. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, after which the meeting separated. DEPARTURE OF THE FOREIGN MAILS FOR OCTOBER. The following notice was issued on Wednesday at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, giving the dates on which the foreign mails will be made up at the chief office, London, and the dates on which the retina packets are due at Southampton, Liverpool, and Fal mouth. INDIA, &c.—The next mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Ilong-Rong, and China, will be made up on the mornings of the 3d and 20th. The mails of the 3d will be forwarded by the Tagus steamer via Southampton ; by the fortnightly closed mail to the Mediterranean, Egypt. India, &c., on the evenings of the 7th and 24th, via Marseilles. WEST INDIES, MADEIRA, &c.--. The mails for the Bri tish and foreign colonies in the West Indies (except Honduras, Bermuda, and Havannah), Venezuela, and ' Madeira, will be made up on the mornings of the 2d and :7th; Mexico, Honduras. and Havannah, on the morn ing of the 2d only; and Bermuda, San Juan de Nica ragua, New Granada, Chili, and Peru, on the morning of the 17th instant. The mails of the morning of the 2d (to-morrow) will be forwarded by the Teviot steamer, via Southampton. Next packet due from the West Indies, Mexico, Havannah, &e., the Forth steamer, on the 7th, at Southampton. PENINSULAR.—The mails for Corunna, Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Maderie (via Lisb on ), C a diz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the mornings of the 7th, 17th, and 27th. to be forwarded via Southampton. Next packet due, the Madrid steamer, on the 6th, at Soutliatnpton. [The Peninsula steam packets will not call at Corunna, either on their outward or homeward ye) age, during the winter months of November, December, January, February next, commencing from the 7th of November.] BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, &c.—The mails for Bri tish North America, Bermuda, and the United States will be made up on the evenings of the 3d and 17th. The mails of the evening of the 3d will be conveyed by the Caledonian steamer, via Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston. The Britannia steamer arrived on the 30th of September. BRAZILS, &c.—The mails for Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres will be made up on the evening of the sth, and forwarded vid Falmouth. Her Majesty's brig Peterel over due since the 28th of September. [From Angust to January, inclusive, the packet touctres at Pernambuco and Bahia on her ontward paisage to Rio Janeiro, and the other six months on her homeward.] SYDNEY, &c.—The next mails for Sydney, New South Wales, South Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand, will be made up on the evening of the 31st October, to be forwarded via Gravesend. Le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. LANDSMEN ADRIFT.—The pilot cutter Nettle, Win ter, master, of this port, returning from a cruise off Spurn, during the late hazy weather, picked up a boat which, on the first discovery, having a shirt raised on an oar as a signal of distress, was supposed to contain the crew of some vessel that had been probably ran down in the fog. On bringing the craft alongside, how ever, the anxiety of the pilots to assist the shipwrecked crew was enlivened by au admixture of mirth, whil e they beard and relieved the miseries of two tailors and two shoemakers, from Saltfleet, who had a most melan choly tale to tell— " Of bow they had been cast away, Far, far from love and home ; And how they wailed by night and d ay , O'er the briny ocean s foam." The parties, it appsared, after having stuck like bricks to their lasts and shopboards all the previous week to adorn the bodies and understandings of the lieges at Saltfleet, start, d too early after their Saturday night's cup, on probably a piscatory enterprise within reach of the shore, but being caught in a fog, the boat taking ad vantage of the would-be ultra marines, turned her stem seawards, while they, pulling, as they thought, homewards, finally found themselves spending Sunday night at sea. Luckily they Were not teetotallers, and endured their fate as best they could, under a signal of distress, but another sun set on the sufferers, when, grubless and bubless, they sank exhausted in the bottom of their treacherous barque, now playing the slipp ery. trick of cas ti eg herself away on a shoal, which, .tor aught the unhappy 'mailers knew to the contrary, might be some fatal knoll in the German Qcean. By the way it was subsequently scertained to have been gi4ndll-4 1 e l , at the entran ce of the Humber, wh-re the victims might nava Pn shore, at the mere risk of immersion to th!waist; they, however, fay snug in theirsimplieity, up uldrifting to:ea again their sing luel„-_ify brought the Nettle to their relief. One of the sons Of ISt. C'rigPiTh on iaeir!T landed at Spurn Point, said he would never trust taro vet aioro z —tliore was nothing like leather, and he would wa lk . home, even , if he went round by S e lby Bridge, sooner than cross the wr.:kir in a ?Nat, 'fljn . other worthy of the last, and the 1:006. aclineidergins yeutuFed acomparli. . rho ilos to null, rind to ehititaa' by 4 catis p (31404 'ereiir whence they reached joy ortriliny'4 • solial and domestic circle, who hur la: , gun to think of " full fathoms live" in the " deep, deep sea,"--Null 1 Parkpt The Haymarket opened last night, after a very short recefs, during which. however, the house has been thoroughly cleaned and redecorated. The company (the best -,•omedy company in England) have all been se-_ - mgaged, and, in addition to the old favourites, we cr.. to haue Mr. Lester, the sin of James Wallack, the Wallack, who has been case-hardening in the provinces, and who, if provincial report speaks true. will not dis grace the name of Wall: ek ; and, therefore, we can see no reason why he should not at once assuine it, Miss Reynolds, an American actress, and Mr. Rogers, who last night made a most successful debalt, in the cha racter of Humphrey Dobbins, in Colman's admirable comedy of the Poor Gent?eman. There was a (inlet power, an honest bluntness. approaching to a saucy roughness, about Mr. Rogers's clelitration f Humphrey Dobbins which showed that he hart "stuff" about Mtn. It was in every way worthy of the Haymarket comraly, and we congratulate Mr. Webster on having secure d in Mr. Rogers a sterling actor. Farren's Sir Robert Pramble is so well known that it is needless .to dilate upon it. Webster's 011apod was exceedingly quaint and amusing ; and Buckstane, as Stephen llarrov..by, " made fun," which told well upon the audienee. Stuart's Worthington was full of pvwer and pathos; and Miss Fortescue made more of Emily than we have ever yet seen made of the part. In charac'ers of this class no one on the stage can approach her. Mrs. Glover, as Miss Lucretia M'Tab was superb ; but Tilbury, as Cor poral Foss, was scorcely equal to the part. He laboured hard, but he laboured in vain. He was harsh, hard, and angular. After the National Anthem had be n sang by the whole company, a new farce, entitled The Fortune Hunter, was produced. It is from tie pen o`" Mr. Boyle Bernard, and the scene is laid at Margate. The hero is Captain Mountgarret, a fortune-hunting Irishman. Other capt a i ns are o f h er M a j es ty's service, or in her Majesty's service, but Captain Mountgarret is A. 11. M. S., at her Majesty's service, and also at the service of any other lady who can afford to find him in dinners, clothes, andipocket money. Other fortune hunters are content with two strings to their bow, but the gallant captain has three—a widow, with four houses, an old maid, with divers canal shares, and an ancient gentlewoman ip a dropsy, whose perigrina tiaras on the sands he assinously follows. He is in doubt which to choose, therefore employs an appraiser to sur vey the property of each and help him out of his dilemma. Mr. Griffin (Tilbury), a London wholesale dealer, arrives, accompanied by his daughter and his sister. The daughter has 30,000/. in her own right, and the Captain leaves his other innamorataz to secure Miss Griffin and 30,0001.; but, unfortunately, he makes love to the wrong Miss Griffin, and finds himself at last on the point of eloping with the elder Miss Griffin (Mrs. W. Clifford), an elderly maiden lady, without a sous, when he is discovered by the brother, and after receiving a good shaking from the disappointed elderly damsel, decamps, with old Griffin's " I knew it was a swindle" ringing in his cars. Buckstone, as a cockney out for a week, who pays a fly driver five shillings for upsetting a party in the mud. just to keep up the fun, was quaint and amusing; and Clark, who is a clerk in London, and comes to Margate to occupy a back bed-room for seven nights, to be a swell on the beach, pier, and jetty, for seven days, made, according to his wont, a great deal of a very little part. The piece was given out for repetition by Hudson, amidst the unanimous applause of a house crowded to the ceiling. LITERATURE. never elar. commenced a work with so m uc h o f DOMBEY and SON. No. I. By Ch ar l es Di c h ens. of glorious promise as the p resen t. E ven t h e ill ustrious ~Pb i e c f k o w r ei el l -i c i mg aw z a i ns g G or s r ow m e ll-h s i t s r eel °t ,d i g f i nh g e Ipwoliaen‘kt‘dueßorde:zi h o the right there was Doswell-street, if he looked to the left there was. Goswell-street," is nothing in comparison. The deathbed in the work house depicted in the opening pages of "Oliver Twist;" the eccentric genealogy with which " Ni cholas Nicklehy" is begun ; the first visit to the Old Curiosity Shop; the preliminary evening at the Maypole, in " Barnaby Rudge ;" and the famous chase of the dead leaves, with which "Martin Chuzzlewit" is commenced, and with which Seth Peckst iff is introduced, possessed nothing comparable to the promise given by this inimitable introduction to "Dealings with the Film of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and gr Exportation." The story is written in that same style of simplicity and natural. ness which has acquired for Mr. Dickens a celebrity such as, in the hack but expressive phrase, "the world will not willingly let die.' Again, there is the same combination of the most subtle and moving pathos with the most fantastic and sunny wit, which has rendered the works of this admirable writer such universal favourites. Charles Dickens, as an Irish man would say, always writes " with a heart and a half." This single number of ‘• Dombey and Son" would be alone sufficient to explain our meaning, from that touching death scene in the first 'chapter, where Mrs. Dombey expires while clasping her young child to her bosom, and "thus, clinging to that slight spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world," to that beautiful scene between the nurse and Florence. Beyond this, "Boz" has a noble habit of availing himself of any and every opportunity of in veighing against abuses, whether public or private. How cutting is that side-sarcasm at the dispro portionate promotions in the sea service, where he describes a certain elderly gentleman as having paid " house-rent, taxes, rates, and dues for more years than many a full-grown midshipman; and midship men who have attained a pretty green old age have not been wanting in the English navy !" Many "characters" of singular originality are already in troduced in 'these four chapters; foremost among which are Dombey himself and his newly-born son; the latter of whom is placed close to the fire, " as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown, while he was very "new." Miss Tox promises to be the best maiden lady of an unknown age ever portrayed by Boz. From the furry articles which she wore in winter, "as tippits, boas, and muffs, which stood upon end in a rampant manner, and were not at all sleek," to the "small bags with snaps to them, that went off like little pistols when they were shut up," and which bags the said Miss Tox was accustomed to carry, the likeness is drawn to the very life, to the very hair indeed. From Mr. Chick, again, " a stout bald gentleman, with a very large face, and his hands continually in his pockets," who has acquired such a habit of whistling and humming to himself, that on the most melancholy occasions he is constantly burst ing in with a "Right tol loor rul," or a "Rump te iddity, bow-wow-wow!" we may expect intolerable amusement. The " apple-faced family," otherwise called the Toodles, is richly described, even to the smallest Toodle, who on the flight of his mother "immediately began swarming up stairs after_ her on his arms and legs." Miss Nipper is an improvement on Tilly Slowboy of illustrious memory ; she is spoken of as "so desperately sharp and biting that she seemed to make one's eyes water." Here, however, is a description of a nondescript nautical character, named Captain Cuttle—and an exquisitely ridiculous description it is too. " But an addition to the little party now made its ap pearance, in the shape of a gentleman in a wide suit of blue, with a hook instead of a hand attached to his right wrist ; very bushy black eyebrows ; and a thick sticlein his left hand, covered all over (like his nose) with knobs. He wore a loose black silk handkerchief round his neck, and such a very large coarse shirt collar, that it looked like a small sail. He was evidently the person for whom the spare wine-glass was intended, and evidently knew it ; for having taken off his rough outer coat, and hung up, on a particular peg behind the door, such a hard glazed hat as a sympathetic person's head might ache at the sight of, and which left a red rim round his forehead as if he had been wearing a tight basin, he brought a chair to where the clean glass was, and sat himself down behind it. He was usually addressed as Captain, this visitor ; and had been a pilot, or a skipper, cr a pri vateers. man, or all three perhaps; and was a very salt looking man indeed." Here, by way of a companion quotation, is one of those pictures of a London locality in which Mr. Dickens is so wonderfully successful. " Mr. Dombey's house was a large one, on the shady side of a tall, dark, dreadfully genteel street in the re gion between Portland-place and Bryanstone-square. It was a corner house, with great wide areas containing cellars frowned upon by barred windows, and leered at by crooked-eyed doors leading to dustbins. It was a house of dismal state, with a circular back to it, contain. ing a whole suit of drawing-rooms looking upon a gra velled yard, where two gaunt trees, with blackened trunks and branches, rattled rather than rustled, their leaves were so smoke-dried. The summer sun was never on the street, but in the morning about breakfast time, when it came with the water-carts and the old clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella mender, and the man who trilled the little bell of the Dutch clock as he went along. It was soon gone again to return no more that day ; and the bands of music and the straggling Punch's shows going after it, left it a prey to the most dismal of organs, and white mice ; with now and then a porcupine, to vary the entertainments ; until the butlers whose families were dining out, began to stand at the house doors in the twilight, and the lamplighter made his nightly failure in attempting to brighten up the street with gas. "It was as blank a house inside as outside. When the funeral was over, Mr. Dombey ordered the furniture to be covered up—perhaps to preserve it for the son with whom his plans were all associated—and the rooms to be ungarnished, saving such as he retained for himself on the ground-floor. Accordingly mysterious shapes were made of tables and chairs, heaped together in the middle of rooms, and covered over with great winding sheets. Bell-handles, window-blinds, and looking glasses, being papered up in journals, daily and weekly, obtruded fragmentary accounts of deaths and dreadful murders. Every chandelier or lustre, muffled in hol land, looked like a monstrous tear depending from the ceiling's eye. Odours, as from vaults and damp places, came out of the chimneys. The dead and buried ls..dy was awful in a Tlicture-frame of ghastly bandages. Every in f g rag ro m u e n n d ts th o e f corner gust of th e wind ne g h that bon rose, rn i ng brought mews, s e o d m j e , the straw that had been strewn before the house, when she was il!, mildewed remains of which were still cleav ing to the neighbourhood ; and these, being always drawn by some invisible attraction to the threshold of the dirty house to let immediately opposite, add resse d a dismal eloquence to Mr. Dombey's windows." Phiz is the illustrator, and admirably does he embody the limnings of Boz; the two etchings in the present number are capital. We are rejoiced to see Phiz still retained as the draughtsman to Dickens; we are rejoiced to see a new work by Boz appearing from month to month in the old green covers and heartily join with the nephew of old Solom on Gills in wishing " Success to Dombey—and Son—and Daughter !" --- I been a thousand times described. She enters a field which has already been traversed by a horde of lindustrious gleaners. Notwithstanding all this, how ever, the volume before us is eminently successful. By its production the authoress has enhanced the name which she had previously acquired in litera ture ; and has entitled herself to the gratitude of her readers. The pages sparkle with a most delightful animation, the narrative is peculiar for its picturesque elegance, historical remi nicenses are introduced without effort and always to the embellishment of the text, appropriate anecdotes and sentiments are scattered through the chapters, and the whole work bears the aspect of a panorama skilfully arranged and delicately coloured. Miss Costello 's volume on Venice is, altogether, a charming and clever• performance. THE WORKS Of- G. P. JAMES: Vol. IX. DARNLEY. .So remarkable is the popularity of this historical romance about " The Field of the Cloth of Gold," and so gerierally are its excellencies appreciated, that we need scarcely adventure upon any investigation of its literary merits. The admirers of Mr. James will rejoice at such a republication of one of his very best productions, especially as the typography, the embel lishment, the binding, and the compactness of the whole volume, are so excellent. PAUL FITZ-HEI Vl?l'._ A Narrative. By Henry John Thornton. Three volumes octavo have become so much the habitual dimensions of a fiction now-a-days, that we are almost grateful to any one who has the audacity to break through the general habit. Variety is pleasing in literature as elsewhere, and hence it is possible that we derive any satisfaction whatever from so small an innovation. We recur, hoWever to the times when a tale in a single volume was not un - fashionable; when "Rasselas" was not unacceptable, when the " Vicar of Wakefield" was admitted into society, whether hot•pressed or not, and when it mattered little that " Robinson Crusoe" had - no twin volume. The present story is the con densation of what might have been extended threefold without any marvellous diminution of interest. Of its general character and scene some more adequate conception may be formed from its second title—" A few weeks in Paris." Al though the outline of the plot is not remarkable for novelty, Mr. Thornton has yet arranged his mate rials so skilfully as to have written a very pleasant and agreeable "Narrative." KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME —Nos. CV.I. and CVII. BACON AND Ills WRITINGS— Vol. 11. CABINET PORTM•IIT GALLERY —Vol. IX. In publishing works of this solid and instructive character in so portable a form, and at so moderate a price, Mr. Charles Knight is increasing the debt of gratitude already owing to him by the public. As a caterer to the intellect of the people, no publisher hiss evinced more sagacity in discrimination, or more en terprise in the development of his literary projects. The little volumes of which the present form the con tinuation are a sufficient testimony of this fact. Anything that can tend to the dissemination of the knowledge of such a vast genius as that of Load Bacon among the multitude must be welcomed as a boon to humanity. The wisdom of that great sage is calculated so wonderfully to expand the mind of its reader that it is lamentable to reflect upon the circumstance that the writings of Bacon are published only in such a costly manner as to render them almost inaccessible to a large proportion of the population. The volumes of this series may be regarded as the first step towards the supplying of this deficiency. Shakspere s dramas are printed and vended at a price which is reasonable to the most moderate incomes, and the speculation is found to be remunerative. 'Why should not some similar movement be made to popularise our philosophers as well as our poets ? Lord Foppington, in " The Trip to Scarborough," prized his library, like a true numskull, because of its handsome bindings and elegant typography. The humble classes, however, are ready to look more to the oyster than to the shell: they would prize a standard work, covered with brown paper, more than a silly one in gilding and morocco. Publishers should ponder these things. Among the biographies I contained in this number of the "Cabinet Portrait Gallery" are many of eminence. Algernon Sidney, 1 the patriot, who inscribed himself, in an album at Copenhagen, inimica tyrannis : Thomas Sydenham, the most memorable of English physicians; Robert Boyle, one of our noblest philosophers, both by birth and intellect; Henry Purcell, the most wonderful, possibly, of all our native musicians, and others of lesser greatness. The letter-press is illustrated by characteristic engravings. • THE SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER. A Tragedy. By Andrew Park. This is the most hazardous adventure ever utpler taken by Mr. Park. Hitherto he had contented himself with the production of an opera, " the Mariners ;" a didactic poem, " Blindness ;" and a variety of lyrical and fugitive pieces. In this he has boldly attempted a five• act tragedy, than which, as he well observes in his preface, " there is not anything in literature so difficult of accomplislament: We cannot think that the endeavour has proved trium phant. There are, undoubtedly, passages of consi derable energy, and others of no little elegance ; but, on the whole, there is a want of that sustained dignity and pathos which can alone constitute a successful tragedy. Many low characters and mean sentiments are introduced, which entirely mar the effect of the plot, and jar in upon the interest. Whenever Shak spere interpolates a comic character or incident in his tragedies, he does so with such consummate art that the grandeur of the principal characters and incidents is actually enhanced thereby. The . gravediggers in Panda render the mournfulness of the Danish Prince's meditations in the churchyard still more affecting by contrast. Osric, again, elicits a new phase of the mind of Hamlet. The jests of the fool in Lear impart a more solemn air of desolation to the ' miseries of that " old, mad king." This, however, results from a peculiar genius for the drama, which genius Mr. Park does not possess. FATAL AFFRAY AT HAREFIELD, MIDDLESEX. On Wednesday two young men of the names of' James Carpenter and George Norman, boatmen, were brought up before Messve T. Dagnall and G. Greville, the sittiug magistrates of Uxbridge, for examination, the former charged with having caused the death of William Nor man, aged 23 years, and the latter with having aided and abetted in causing the same. Samuel Jordan cieposed that he was the keeper of the Harefield leek, on the Grand Junction Canal. On the morning of Saturday last, between seven and eight o'clock, the prisoner James Carpenter came to witness and said he wanted to fill the lock for two boats to go through, but he had not got the lock ready when the boats came up to the lock. William Norman, the deceased, was steering the first boat which came up to the lock, and some very high words took place between the deceased and the prisoner Car penter because the lock was not ready. The de ceased then got out of his boat, and used some very aggravating expressions towards Carpenter, upon which Carpenter asked deceased if he could make him what he had called him, and deceased said he either could or would, witness could not tell which. Deceased then immediately threw off his cap, and began fencing at the prisoner Carpenter. Both Carpenter and the deceased then walked on to the road which crosses the bridge at the locks, and began fighting, and fought for some time. Witness did not see who struck the first blow. After they had fought for about ten minutes, witness went on to the bridge, which was about ten yards off from them, and called to them to leave off, saying that they had had quite fighting enough, and they had better attend to their boats. The pri soner, George Norman, is a brother of the deceased, and was then there present, as he had been from the first of the affray. He likewise begged his brother (the deceased) to give over fighting, and go about his business. The prisoner Carpenter made the reply. " That's just as h e lik es ," mean i ng deceased Loth then went into Mr. Goodinan's field, whit% adjoins the canal, and raiewed the fight. About five minutes afterwards witness went into the field, and then saw the deceased down on the grass in a sitting position, and his brother (the prisoner Norman) behind him, ap parently trying to lift him up. The prisoner Norman, on seeing witness, called out for a jug of water, which witness instantly fetched ; and, as he gave it to George Norman, witness stooped ,and looked in de ceased's face, and immediately said he was a corpse. The prisoner Norman instantly asked witness if any doctor was at hand. Witness told him one lived about a mile off; and sent off for him directly. The prisoner Norman cried very much when witness said he was a corpse. Mr. Kyd, the surgeon, came, as did also Fil king, a Harefield constable. Mr. Kyd said that de ceased had been dead about half an hour. Witness pointed Carpenter out to the police as the person who had killed the deceased. Carpenter was standing crying on the bridge when he did so. The body was j afterwards removed to the King's Arms Inn, Barotteld. to await the inquest, The Bench upon that evidence discharged the prisoner Norman, and admitted him as a witness. George Norman then corrotairafed the evidence of the first witness. Deeee,.;eci struck the first blow, Mr, ITayes Kyd, surw-on, of Harefield, deposed to having been called to attend deceased, whom he found as described, He opened a vein, but very little blo o d flowed. Considered de a th resulted from a violent con cussion of the brain. T. e; deposed to taking Carpenter into cestpdy, tied on asking him if he had not been fighting, he said he was sorry to say that he had, and that the man that he bed been fighting with was dead, He then said he wanted his breakfast. The pri soner, in answer to the charge, said he (V, pot follow the deceased into the kW for tw A Q T three minutes, and th- • 1 40 WP 1114 haye tgis olf lighting before if the . tleCe2Seu V Q ild h ave l e t hi m. T he Bench --• " • to commit him. Tb 2 , it was their d u ty prisoner was shortly afterwards to Newgate by the Uxbridge coach. Dispatches from the Governor of Callada were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the c__ .t__ .. A TOUR TO AND FROM VENICE. By Louisa Stuart Costello. Often as Venice has been written about and painted on canvass, eulogised in the canzonets of the gondo liers, and lauded in the metres of poesy, this beautiful volume by Miss Costello comes upon us with a pecu liar freshness, and fascinates us as though it were the description of some newly-discovered fairy-land. Those who have never visited this city of palaces in the Adriatic, possess, nevertheless, some ideal of its ap pearance and .general character. Since the days when the mysterious Council of Ten ruled its desti nies, when the Doge went forth with exceeding pomp to marry the billows by which his dominions were surrounded, and when the prisoners of that mercan tile principality languished beneath the leads of the Bridge of Sighs, the vision of this extraordinary city has elicited the admiration of the people of all other nations. And beyond its own intrinsic at 1-1 - c:ions, Venice has been invested with a thousand extrinsic and admirable associations. Bassanio and Shy lock, Othello and Desdemona have equally imparted to it a novel and remarkable in t .res Stanfield's pencil has conveyed to the stranger some adequate impression of its mag nificence. The verse of Rogers has afforded some conception of its pristine glory. The dramas of Byron have revealed many of the dark( st incidents of its history. Since Napoleon closed its existence as an independent sate, thousands have reverted to those periods of its career in which its wealth and dignity were predominant throughout a considerable portion of Europe. That "golden wand of commerce" which Wa;hington Irving has beautifully portrayed, as grasped during many years "in the failing hind of Italy," was virtually the sceptre of the Venetian Doges; and since the relinquishment of that sceptre, the power of the sea Cybele has disappeared. When we recall to our recollection the vigour of its Govern ment, the opulence of its citizens, the multitude of its visitors, the splendour of its beneficent victories ; and the extent to which IN proceedings infleenced even the most remote kingdoms, we cannot but think that Lady Morgan selected no very extravagant sobriq let in christening Venice " the Rome of the ocean ;" and, remembering 111 these thin,rs, we can ntyer induce ourselves tq believe that tqq tniiph has already been written descriptive of its appearance. Much twaddle we are conscious has been devoted to the subject of Venice. Many tourists have penned nonsense by the oliotel pent Venice, 4n4 hot. 4 0 9iii py t i vin4it in their hearten to bestow all their tedlousnesa upon the public, as Dogberry did of yore to Leonato. But of rood books, upon the same themr. • —h::- out yet 1?; - ..,4 a surfcit 7 -_-_, , d , d rony 94 have been writ e; uun M iss o.wstello has here ad ventured upon a pilgrimage, every inch of which has beenwern by the footsteps of a myriad ore .cedino• Onl I, TIM MAGAZINES, • BLACK' WOOD. For a very eccentric and really valuable ranee descriptive of a " Visit to the Vladika of Monte negro,'' we are grateful to Blackwood. Before perusal the title itself was an attraction, after perusal the contents formed a delightful compensation. The Vladika of Montenegro ! We can fancy nineteen out of twenty readers puzzling over the words= bewildered both as to the nature of the former, and the locality of the latter. Thotbands indeed, are ignorant of the character, and occasionally of th e very existence, of certain secluded portions of this globe, and those portions not merely secludtd by remoteness, as Sabrina Land or Patrocino, but secluded in central parts of Europe, and in the very nucleus of civilisa tion. Of' the little principality of Montenegro, situated in European Turkey, beunded on the north by ligrzs , govina, on t - ,e south-east by A lb.mia, and on the west by Dalmatia and the Adriatic, scarcely anything is known, excepting that its inhabitants are warlike barbarians, governed by an ecclesiastical prince. Traffic is talintained in all the surrour,d ing ,countries; vessels from all quarters ef tlie globe float in the Venetian gulf; Zante and Corfu are separately the centres of mercantile transactions; from the Levant to Lesbos, from Byzantium to the Danube, and thence to Carlstadt, the tide of inter course is constantly flowing, and yet, amidst the whirl of land-carriage and steamship, trader end traveller, the mountainous frontiers of Montenegro sill remain uncrossed, and its people are left behind in the onward march of civilisation. There is something affecting in this moral and geographical isolation. A deep interest is aroused by the knowledge of the absence cf all regenerative prospects to a section of the European population. Hence it is that the nar rative contained in the October number of Blackzoood, being a description of the interior of this prii:cipidity by a recent visitor, has exer c i se d over ourselvt's such a peculiar fascination. Leaving the Anstrian :gar rison town of Cattaro, the writer, as one of a la rge an d miscellaneous p a rty, entered the t e r r it or i es of the Greek bishop, or Vladika of Montenegro, and was hospitably received by that potentate in his capital city of Zet tinie. Thy description of the country and its com munity, given in the narrative of this interesting ex pedition, is most agreeable from its naturalness and vivacity. According to the eye-witness himself, the frontiers of Montenegro are so peculiarly precipitous and rugged, as to be rendered by nature absolutely impregnable ; the soil is scantily scattered over solid rocks, and is so singularly barren as to require the utmost industry to extort from it v meagre crop of grain; the Mon tencgrini are a hardy and giganti c race , averaging up war d s o f s i x feet in height, armed to the teeth even in moments of temporary tran quillity. The women are subjected to the most un mannerly customs, being compelled to engage in agri cultural and manufacturing pursuits, as well as in household duties, while their huslana and brothers are occupied in a ceaseless and predatory warfare, now in one direetian, now in another. The character given by our narrator of the reigning - Vladika is singularly prepossessing. Of enormous proportions, measuring indeed considerably more than seven feet in his stockings, this warlike bishop attests even in his personal appearance the dignity of his position ; though surrounded by rude and illiterate subjects, be betrays remarkable intelligence, and through the instrumentality of the "übiquitous Galignani" preserves an intimate knowledge of all the occurrences which are transpiring beyond the precincts of his dominions. Invested with despotic power even from his eighteenth year, the Vladika is nevertheless characterised by a marked amenity in hiadeportment and a winning affability in conversa tion. Upon the parapets of the tower overlooking Zettinie the writer observed a striking testimony of the lack of refinement among the Montenegriej, namely, a m u ltit u d e o f h uman heads impaled aa staves, the beads of th o se f o ll owers of Islam stn slain in battle, and against which people the semi -bar barous, semi-religious subjects of the Vladika wtge an eternal and relentless warfare, bearing before them in their bloody expeditions their national barmier —the peaceful cross of Christianity ! .The contemplation of these facts inspires us with the hope that some endeavours may be ultimately made to modify the condition of a people so valorous and zealou s as the Montenegrini— a hope that some external or internal force may, in the end, conduce to the politie 4 l and social re-organsation of these mountaineers;' peace and domestic h app i ness may replace the bloudshed and uncivilised habits to which they have been hitherto accustomed. For opening to their contemplation a region so unnoticed a this principality of Montenegro, the readers of Maga will be indebted to its contributor. The trans lation of Schiller's fantastic and glorious "Dance," though elegant and new, is not worthy of a moment's comparison with the masterly tmaslation given in this same magazine some years back from the pen of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. " Around thee in vain the word its harmonies utters, If thy heart be not swept on in thestrearn of the st;rain," is a golden version of a golden original. There are seven delicious poems from the portfolio of Miss Barrett in this number. One of them "A Man's Requirements," is an exquisite adjuration —spoil e d by no forced conceits, but welling up with music and eloquence from the fountains of the heart. What a world of trysting memories are stored in that simple verse : "Lore me with thine hand stretched out Freely —open-minded ! Love me with thy loiteling foot Hearing one behind it." What strange but exceeding b eau t y t h ere is in those lines upon "A Dead Rose :" " The sun that used to light thee, And mix his glory in thy gorgeous urn, Till beam appeared to bloom, and flower to burn — If shining now —with not a hue would dight thee. " The dew that used to wet the , ,,, And, white first, grow iticarnardir.,ed, because It lay upon thee where the crimson was—. If dropping now —would darken where it met thee. " The fly that lit upon thee, To stretch the tendrils of its tiny feet Along the leaf's pure edges after heat— If lighting now —would coldly overrun thee. " The bee that once did suck thee, And build thy per f umed ambers up his hive, And swoon in thee for joy till scarce alive— If passing now —would blindly overlook thee." " Maude's Spinning" is a plaintive tale, told with the most simple, and hence the most touching, pathos, in seven brief verses. Miss Barrett has an intense love for nature—who can doubt it after her exulting allusion to those young days— " When the sun and I together Went a-rushing out of doors!" She regards the veriest leaf as a jewel, she invests the grass and the flower -stalks with a gory more lasting than their own, and " the green blood dancing in their veins" finds a sympathy flowing in her bosom. Hence it is that she can apostrophise them with such a tender reminiscence :-- " Oh, the birds, the trees, the ruddy And white blossoms, sleek with rain! Oh, my garden, rich with pansies! Oh, my childhood's bright romances! All revive, like Hector's body, And I see them stir again!" "Elinor Travis" is concluded, and that with some vigorous writing. A capital bit of pleasantry is, "A New Sentimental Journey,"and would have tickled the ribs of that pensive hypocrite, Lawrence Sterne himself. " The Conde's Daughter" is another read able tit-bit,---one cf those bits of literary comfits and barley-sugar Christopher North has such an insinuating way of placing on the public palate. "Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands" is a contribution which will be devoured with more relish, possibly, than any other at this particular season, when Egg and Manton have marched forth upon the heather. To " Letters and Impressions from Paris " we can moreover refer every one with a confidence of its wiling away the next wearisome hall.-hour. It is a trip to the French metropolis without the perils of rail and steam-boat. In this admirable number of Blackwood, however, commend us to the " Vladika of Montenegro." FR ASEI?. The opening article of Fraser on the " Commercial Relations of the Indian 'Archipelago," is one which our enterprising merchants, and manufacturers will read with great interest, There can be little doubt but that our new settlement at Labuan will becom e a second Singapore, opening up to us the commerce of the vast Indian Archipelago, contabling, in the opinion of the Orientals, upwards of 12,000 islands, which,stretching eastward f rom t h e Straits of Malacca to beyond the longitude of Torres Strtas, cnstitutes one of the richest and mos t extraordin divisions of Asia, inhabited by a race fond of commercial pur suits, anxious to exchange the rich products of the islands (camphor, spices , _ gold, an d j ewe l s ) f or British manufacture s , and who, in con sequence of t'Ae destruction of the piratical establishments of the 'sul tan of Borneo by the British fleets, will be v i ew e d to pur-ue their vocations in comparative peace,. Th e writer expresses a hope that the establishment at Le buan may influence even the piratical sulijects of the Sultan of Borneo and the savage inhabitants of the interior to substitute industry for thr, practices of barbarism, when they shall find comr.lerce more per manently profitable than piraoy and war. That such 'Will at no distant period be the race, is rendered ex ceedingly probable by what - we know has taken place in Mr, Brooke' s territov, at Sarawak : 4 ( Aready behold l the 1 -` in 1 11 r. Brooke's ter r it ory o f Sarawak we J actuated by a s t rong d es i re to accumu late 7,eaith , and though they have not yet relinquished their savage propensity to destroy the member of a neighbouring tribe in order to possess his cranium, it is quite clear that they are yielding to the softening in fluences of civilisation, and adopting gentler and more amiable manners. "As vet_ norhnna ;t t,