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and good, and beautiful ; the more so as we know the author only through his writings ; individually he is a total stranger to us ; as Connected with his poems he is one of our familiar favourites. Our predisposition in his favour, however, arises from something beyond even the merit of his productions ; our interest towards him is aroused from the circumstance of his being the brother of one of our most agreeable female lyrists. We shall reserve our opinion upon his five-act tragedy to a later period, when the drama enlarges upon us in a more complete foim : but of his " Sonnets for the Times" we can speak in decided terms of praise ; they are nerved with the true verve of poetry. Those now lying before us form a per fect match to three preceding ones, " Moonlight on the waters," the present being descriptive of " The plies phoresence of the ocean." Regarding the wonders of nature with the sympathising eye of a lover of nature, the writer infuses into his descriptions of those wonders a reflex of their awe and loveliness. This is essentially the case with these most charming sonnets, they have upon them the bloom of truth, and within them the animation of feeling. When, for example, their writer says of the phosphoressence of the ocean— " A mys'try of volition it appears," the picture conveyed in that single line is complete, be bause it is so sunestive. With its utterance the ima gination takes in the lambent and undulating aspect of this phenomenon of the billows ; the mind at once has before it a sea corrugated with a silver - brightness. Here again is a noble piece of pictorial metre : " But now, around, On ev'ry side the thunder-drops let fall. In globules all luceolent rebound, As, quarrelling, the winds bring on a squall, Which into foam the Water-gems cloth blow, And calls Me dagger'd Lightaing to Me fray Beneath Night's ebon pall their part to play." It is pleasurable to encounter passages like these *midst the scum of verso with which the public are being incessantly drenched. It assures us that the Mantle of poesy has descended to our own generation, and that we are not absolutely lapsed into a sordid and matter-of-fact disposition. It admonishes us, moreover, to remember some that are among us, and to look with hopeful eyes to the author of the " New Timon," but especially and mainly to TIIE Young Poet of the Age, whom that same author of the " N©w Timon" scorned —Alfred Tennyson ! As likely to sustain the popular taste for poetry we rejoice that an idea which received our commendation last month, under the name of " A May Garland," is confirmed this month, under that of " A Summer Wreath for Summer-tide." It is a treat 'worth striving much to obtain, and betokens the rhythmical taste of the collector. He reminds us of Thomson's flocks, " thick nibbling through the clover'd vale ;" of Shakspere's Ariel, revelling " under the blossom that hangs on the bough ;" of Croly's " per fumed pink, that studs the earth with clustering ruby 1" and of other choive cullings of variable beauty. " Nell GWynne," the " White Cloud," and the " Bushranger," are continued with average ability, but their incessant recurrence indnees us to wish them ended. A few more miscellaneous papers make up, however, an exce lent number. TAIT'S. From Mr. De Quincey's article on " Christianity as an organ of Political Movement" we could select perfect jewels of thought ; sometimes, like the ruby, flushed with the hue of his imagination ; sometimes, like the sapphire, tinged with a heaven -ward bias ; some times, like the diamond, lambent with the sparkle of new and vivid ideas ; sometimes, like the pearl, pure from the pellucidity of truth. We might pursue the ?setaphor throughout the catalogue of the lapidary. Nor In doing so should we be violating the stern impartiality of criticism : our praise is not exaggeration ; oar ap- Prove' is not panegyric. In proof whereof, we, will quote h ap h azar d a few sentences, or, more properly a Peaking, a few th oug ht s . R e f err i ng to the Deity of the Christians, De Quincey says.— " How great was the chasm dividing the Hebrew God from all gods of idolatrous birth, and with what starry gran deur this revelation of supreme Deity must have wheeled upwards unto the field of human contemplation when first surmounting the steam s of earth-born heathenism, I need not impress upon any Christian audience." And again, when commenting on the feebleness of that love for universal peace which is now spreading amongst mankind, and upon which we ourselves took occasion the other day to dilate, he laments that— " War is still, like a basking snake, ready to rear his horrid crest on the least rustling in the forest." In another part he conveys a marvellous immensity of reflection in a few of our simplest words, where, alluding to the fact that men no longer continue such demon Worship as the Grecian and Roman mythology, he ob serves— "It is true they do so no longer in our planet. But what has been apparently may be." Nor does Mr. De Quincey fall short of himself in transcribing the views of others ; one passage, indeed, collated from Sir Isaac Newton's " Optics, is, to our thinking, sublime, however much the corollary of De Quincey may depreciate its significance :—our great Philosopher says, that— ", God is n o t goo d, b ut goo d ness ; i s not holy, but holiness ; Is not infinite, but infinity." Tait may rejoice in the possession of such a contri butor ; for, though Mr. D e Q u i ncey may b e somewhat t ranscendent a l as a metaphysician, and somewhat obscure in his mode of conveying his conceptions, there is nothing mephitic in his mists of thought, nothing baneful In the e xor bi tant i dealism of his sentiment . From A Ramble in North America," in 1844, we obtain seine novel notions respecting transatlantic natives ; , nevertheless we have no compensation in the narrative for the facetiousness of Dickens, the elegance of Hamilton, the keen observance of Marryatt, or even the amusing though injudicious scornfulness of Mrs. Trollope. The magazine reader will, however, swallow the potion of the traveller in good part, as a well-intentioned piece of Pleasantry. "Truth and Falsehood" is the continuation of a romance upon the merits of which it would be invi dious to decide before the story has been further deve loped. Tait maintains its supremacy among the month lies for analytical and elaborate critiques upon the more r emarkable effusions of the book-press. Among which we observe that the " History of Greece," by Mr. George Gr ote, obtains particular consideration. The political article at the termination of this Edinburgh Magazine, 'would have induced us to amplify the arguments of the ' o _ ri ter had it appeare d ear li er. I t i s ent i t l e d " The ' l Ms on their Trial." But as the Lords can now be Ply said t o b e any l onger on th e i r t r i a l" (h av i ng °'!o orce unced fur themselves their own acquittal) any ex 1131°11 of its reasoning would be superfluous. ixr .F l ra 3 s o e r , FRASER'S. called, this month, has no political article, pro the d a . 4 ed, and the only allusion to the politics of ' , .._ r Y , is to be found in an article on the Broad and nt ro w Gauge, (the writer of which is an ardent ad vocate of the Narrow) in which to w ard s th e conc l us i on Oc curs the following passage : e.. " But a period is, perhaps, e a t t he b r a ; nd, when large and small 'Tines shall disappear alto nevrgalloper, when Mr. Stephenson's , backed at 10,000 i. against twice his weight • "'hen the Mammoth engines, big and beautiful as they are, Splendidly rushing down their broad streams of iron, shall give place to something still more rap i d and powerful—the atmospheric principle, which Mr. Brunel believes Then let them be rolled to the National Museum, and take their Places beside Henry the Eighth's gun, or the figure of the dethroned Jupiter, or the statute of the repealed corn-laws." h enceforward field We hope that the protectionists, as a party, will as gracefully to the clearly ex pressed wishes of the people, and regard the repeal of the corn-laws as un fail accompli. But if we have no article on special politics in the present number of Fra ter, we have laid down, in an admirable article on the Ed ucation of •the Army, certain axioms in general politics in the truth of which we most cordially "lour. "It may savour of the paradox —yet we believe the senti rn.„. ,_ b -.L to be just—that the very last persons who . deserve to __ a consulted, in regard to substantial reforms in any of the 6i-eat institutions of this country, are those who, in their own pers o ns, n ,„„ constitute a portion of the moving principle, so to '7 l ' , in such institutions. - Men seldom attain to what is . eaded influence h professis, or offices, or occupations, It hatever these ma be, till they have arrived at the verge, at p., least, of old age; men seldom arrive at the verge of old :,3,"' as members of a profession, or of a public body of any rt, without having their minds overlaid by an impenetrable rust of prejudice, and their reason itself clouded and oh rinred through the growth of settled habits both of think - Cg and o f ac ting. Take the Church—as we are accustomed th e use that term, most improperly restricting it to signify e bishops and clergy—does any sane man believe that they are th e A , best judges in regard to arrangements that may be t 'eued if we seek to give the greatest efficienCy to the mi as'a,trations of their order among the people? What ecclesi astic would have originated—what ecclesiastic did not in his feel in the measures which were begun by Sir Robert tea *n 1835 , and are still in progress? The clergy looked af, their only to what they described as the respectability i r r a o l w o n ffi o n rd e zr o ; f they argued in defence of superabundant eeth e d pluralities, commendams, and Lord know s good slice owhat, because, forsooth, the chance of getting a rate talents high birth a u a t d of the loaves and fishes, lured young men of tirely overlookefidrsttl; fact, that i v %to ile tli t e he m se ifii c s o t n r dreds of thousands of foixithe people were ministry. want of spiritual clergy l i i s u T h e i h d n e , g y hu e f n n o -: sands, of hard-workin and hundreds, if not thou benefices, which brought -th Rob or eighty, or possibly a hund m en ' in men, starving upon forty pounds a-year, took a different view of the s r ißobert Peel, a layman, Lament, ho literally forced u t re S ir b ein g supported by Par tthheat they, which all among the discgn i . Church ref merits" beyond the age when menove 13- the few who horms, o f be more absurd than ave got be mistaken, now acknowledge the r 'nay, perhaps, Fraser is right, and nothing can Che t their to employ in the work of reform been nurtured in, and who imagine e t h rn a nn who hav e beingi s connected with, the existence well of the it is desired to abolish; and as it would uses whi c h to employ churchmen in devising a scheme of hated absurd r eform, or army men in devising a sch eme of ar my fort; or red-taptsts in devising a scheme of official - re form, so i t i s equally absurd to empl o y l awyers in de vising a scheme of law reform, or to consult medical Alen on any scheme of medical reform; and if Sir J. Graham, instead of listening to the selfish absurdities Propounded to him by pure physicians and pure sur geons on the one hand, and by pure apothecaries, and " all at" general practitioners on the other hand, pur sued his own course, guided by the plain dictates of Common sense, the medical world would n)t at this Moment have been in its present state of most admired disorder. The most interesting article in the present t iumber of Fraser is the opening . one on th e " Man :aers Traditions, and Superstitions, of the Shot 40anders." It has opened up a new world for fie book-making tourists, and we expect that during fro ° ensuing spring we shall be inundated with "Sketches Or ThShetrand." Colonel Mitchell continues his papers Pr eve e s Principal campaigns in the rise of Napoleon, and h ue _ most learnedly that tip , Eaireror ought not to th a t ~,woll the Battle of Austerlitz. What a pity it is kJolonel 4lld R Mitchell was nut consulted by the Austrian ussian and .I:t_td h© been Prus , ian generals on that occasion. i Z 1 n i l . so it is evident that Wellinuton would have ~ + etio,,, I Sir Arthur Wellesley, for Napoleon would .' besa destroyed ten years before the Battle of \ ALGER lA. MASSACRE OF THREE HUNDRED FRENCH PRISONERS BY THE ARABS. MARSEILLES, MAY 27.—The France Algerienne, in date of 23d May, has the following : " The master of a small sailing vessel, which left Djernmsa-Ghazaouat on the 9th inst., has announced to us a horrible event—the massacre in the Beira of Abd el-Rader of all the French prisoners ! General de La moriciere immediately ordered the GI ts;eois steamer to repair forthwith to Djemmai-Gbazaouat with Colonel Martimprey on b oar d , to exam i ne t h e me rits of this alarming report, to establish its authenticity, or other wise, and to collect all the particulars of this odious act of barbarity, of the fact of which we would fain doubt, but, alas! we fear it is but too true. The state of the sea prevented for three days the execution of M. de Martim prey' mission; the GreAeois, however, arrived at length this Light. From the report of M. de Martimprey, as well as from all th e re p or t s co ll ec t e d relative to this fatal event, it is clear that Abd-el-Kader ordered the mas sacre of our prisoners, and that this order has been executed. We hasten - to state that up to the present time this order has not extended to the officers, who have escaped this horrible butchery. I will now sum marily relate the reasons which induced the Emir to adopt so merciless a resolution. " In the course of March last, Abel-Kader ordered Bou Hamedi to transfer to Mustapha Ben Thami the charge of the Deira, and to join him immediately with the Beni Amers. Although noised about in the south, as if it had been executed, the order never was, for the Beni Amers and Bou Hamedi refused to depart. The tribe, by the confession of the Kalifa himself, on the contrary, began with Bouzianne Oulid Chaoui, negotia tions with a view to securing his assistance, in order to separate themselves from the Deira. It was agreed between them that tbe.Eeni Amers should not go beyond Tasa, that 13.0 u Hamedi should act as mediator between the tribe and the Emir, and that he should return to the Deira as commander-in -chi e f of the same. Bon Hamedi kept his word ; but the Beni Amer's breaking faith, departed for the westward, heedless of the Kalifs, who, dreading the consequences of his abortive intrigue, pro ceeded to rejoin Bouzianne Oulid Chaoui. "It ensued from from these events, which occurred in the latter end of April, that Mustapha Ben Thami, who had remained alone amongst the Hackems, and some emigrants from various tribes, and could not execute the Emir's order, received from his brother-in-law instruc tions to transport to the southward all the people that remained with him; whereupon he wrote to Abd-el- Kader, that reduced as the Deira was to one-fourth of its numbers, he would be unable to resist any attempt on the part of the Moors to seize possession of the French prisoners, the custody and maintenance of whom was becoming daily more . difficult. " Abd-el-Kader returned for answer the barbarous order to put the prisoners to death, and that the exe cution of this order might be facilitated, the report was spread in the Deira that the Mussulman prisoners had been similarly treated in France. It is by such means as these that the agitators stimulate the ignorant and cruel hatred of the Arabs. " There is not the least room to doubt the execution of our unfortunate brothers in arms. We have seen the corpses of several. A few, who escaped death, fled, although pursued, and contrived to win the protection of the Beni-Massem. This tribe has saved the life of one of them, and promises to restore others to us, who are already iu safety. I shall probably soon be able to send you the particulars, alas! deplorable to read, of this ter rible massacre, executed by order of the Emir, in whom our examples of philanthropy have as yet taken no root. Waterloo. Colonel Mitchell, however, is by no means , ARRIVAL of PRINCE NA POLEON. original in the line which he has taken up, for years ago Pri nce Napoleon Louis Bonaparte arrived in Eng- General Foy proved by somewhat similar arguments land on the 26th ult., the day after his escape from H am . that the D u k e o f W el li ngton ought to have been beaten in We learn that the Prince has written a letter to Sir R. every battle that he fought. Th e D u k e , however, seems Peel, and one t o C oun t St. Aul a i r e, the Fr e nch Am to care n o thi ng f or the criticisms of General' Foy bassador. We have been favoured with the copy of the and Napoleon, were he alive, would, no doubt, care as latter, which we offer to our readers : little for tree criticisms of Colonel Mitchell. In an era • (Translation.) cle on French newspapers, the .anaende honorable is made " TO MONSIEUR LE COMTE ST. AULAIRE. to the French newspaper writers for an undiscriminating " London, May 29, 1846. attack made upon them in the number of last month. " Monsieur le Comte,—l come frankly to declare to The fact is, the French press i s di sgrace d by the exist- the man who was the friend of my mother, that in ence of certain scandalous newspapers in the same man- quitting my prison I have not b een ac t ua t e d b y any id ea I ner as the E ng li s h press, b ut t h e De j ar ii ers , Beauvallons, of renewing against the French Government a war which and Emile de Girandins, the conductors of the Presre and I has been disastrous to me, but only to be enabled to go of the Epoque, are not to be confounded with the decent to my aged father. portion of the press, such as the Journal des Debats, the " Previous to my taking this step, I made every effort Constitutioned, th e N a ti ona l ? an d th e s t e c le, and the to obtain from the French Government the permission Courrier Franfitis for instance. The ar ticle is well to go to Florence, and I offered every guarantee con worthy of perusal, as giving a fair and just account of sistent with my honour. But, finding that all my ap- French newspapers and French newspaper writers. We plications had proved unsuccessful, I determined to have have also a witty article on beggars, a well-wi itten cri- recourse to the lastexpedient, which the Duc de Nemours ticism on British poets, and an admirably finished pen- and the Due de Guise adopted in similar circumstances, and-ink picture of Mr. Shiel as an orator. Altogether under Henry IV. this is an excellent number of Fraser. " I beg, Monsieur le Comte, that you will inform the French Government of my peaceable intentions, and I hope that such a spontaneous' assurance on my part will shorten the captivity of my friends, who still remain in prison. I am, &c., (Signed) "NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE." To prove that the Prince had done everything that laid in his power to obtain his liberty by way of ne gotiation, we give the copy of a letter he wrote to Louis Philippe, and the answer he received to it : (Translation.) " Fortress of Ham, Jan. 14, 1846. " Sire,—lt is with the deepest emotion I come to re quest of your Majesty, as a great favour, the permission to quit Franee, were it only for a short time ; I who, for the last five years, have found in the breathing of the native air a large compensation to the torments of cap tivity. But my infirm and aged father stands in need of my attentions. To obtain my liberty he has applied to several persons known to be devoted to your Majesty ; and I feel it a duty incumbent on myself to do anything that lies in my power to attain that object. " The Council of Ministers have deemed it to be beyond their competence to accede to the request I have made, of going to Florence, after taking the engagement of giving myself up again as a prisoner as soon as the Go vernment would express that wish, I come, Sire, confi dently to make a call on th e f ee li ngs o f humanity of your Majesty, and to 'reiterate my request, which I entrust to your high and generous interference. " Your Majesty will, I am confident, appreciate to its true value a step which binds beforehand my gratitude, and sensible of the lonely situation, in a foreign land, of a man who, when on the throne, deserved the esteem of all Europe, I hope your Majesty will comply with the wishes of my father and my own. " I beg your Majesty to accept the expression of my deep respect. " NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE." To this letter M. Duchatel, the Minister of the Inte rior, answered, " that the request of the Prince could not be complied with, because, to obtain the royal cle mency, it was necessary that the grace should be de served, and avowedly asked for." Since that time, a great many highly influential per sons, both English and French, continued to take steps for the setting at liberty of the Prince, but to no pur pose. It was only when all hopes had vanished, and that the news concerning the health of his father became more alarming, that the Prince determined to have re course to the only means left to him. BURFOAD'S PANORAMA OF TILE BATTLE OF SOBRAON. Time was— "ln our young days, when George the Third was King," that Panoramas of Battles were all the rage, and the Battles of ViVoria and Waterloo and Algiers were all exhibiting at one and the same time. In 1817, however, (Panorama loquitur) "A change came o'er the spirit of my dream," and fields (not t en t e d ) and cities (not beseiged) have formed the staple commodity of public pictorial exhibi tions. Diorama, from the beginning a F.A.S., intruded with its peaceful modern antiques in that year on the domain of Panorama, and even Panorama from that period eschewed all blood-colours, such as scarlet, and consuming its own smoke, like a civilised de nizen of a civilised community, became to all out • ward appearance a member of the Peace Society. The spirit of glory in Panorama was scotched, not killed, and the dispatches of Sir Hugh Gough and Sir Henry Hardinge, detailing the glorious vic tory of Sobraon, awakened Panorama from its peacef u l dreams, and behold we have a glorious Panorama of the old school—the Panorama of the Battle of Sobraon. When we say a Panorama of the old school—the phrase must be taken cum granis, for this is in reality a vast improvement upon the Battle Panoramas of the old school. They were mere representations of a melee of men in splendid uniforms, arranged in all sorts of impossible positions, and falling about in all manner of inconceivable attitudes. As to scenery and background, the artist troubled him self little about such matters, for he kept up such a furious cannonade, and enveloped the whole affair in such clouds of smoke that there was actually "no need for such vanities." Mr. Burford, however, has not acted on this plan. He has taken his view of the - battle just at one point of time, namely, when the British, having silenced the Seikh batteries, bad forced their way into the entrench ments, were driving the flying enemy into the river, con sequently there is very little smoke to cloud the prospect, and as the view is supposed to be taken from an eminence within the Seikh entrenchment, we have the background beautifully painted by Mr. Burford, on the one side the distant country from which the British are advan cing, and on the other the river Sutlej, with the towns and villages of the Punjaub in the distance. The British army is represented as advancing into the entrench ments, and driving the Seikhs in a hand-to-hand com bat across the river. In one part we have vividly repre sented the fall of the lamented Sir Robert Dick, who is in the act of cheering on his men as he is struck by a grape-shot, and in the opposite portion the flight of the Seikhs across the bridge and the ford, exposed to the de structive fire of the British artillery. The picturesque costumes of the Siekh troops have afforded Mr. Selena an admirable opportunity for showine b : his powers of colouring, of which h e h as most judiciously availed himself. The whole picture is instinct with life, and altogether it is the most stirring and interesting patio rama that has ken exhibited of late years. THE ACCOUCHEMENT OF HER MAJESTY. The following bulletin of Queen's health was issued morning:— "Buckingham Palace, June 1, 1846, " Nine o'clock A.m. " The Queen and the infant Princess continue well. (Signed) " JAMES CLARK, M.D. " CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. " ROBERT FERGUSON M.D. "Her Majesty's recovery is so far advanced that no more bulletins will be issued." COURT CIRCULAR. No bulletin of the Queen's health was issued either yesterday or on Saturday, owing to the very favourable state of her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, the'Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel, Buck ingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester called -esterday at Buckingham Palace, to inquire after the iealth of the Queen. _ __ His Royal highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back on Saturday, attended by the Equerry in Waiting, the Hon. Captain Gordon. The inquiries after her Majesty's health, by the No bility and Gentry, were very numerous both yesterday and Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, took an airing in the pleasure grounds of Buckingham Palace on Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice rode out in an open carriage on Satur day, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. The Royal Family took their usual airings yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left town on Saturday morning, for her residence, Frogmore House, Windsor, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce. Her Royal Highness proceeded in the afternoon to Bushy House, Bushy-park, and visited her Majesty, the Queen Dowager. The Royal Duchess returned to Clarence House, St. James's, in the evening. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Mr. EdmOnd Mildmay was in Waiting on his Royal Highness. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, Baron ICnesebeck, and Mr. E. Mildmay, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Cunynghame had an interview with Mr. Secretary Gladstone, on Saturday, at the Co lonial -office. The Portuguese Minister transacted business at the Foreign -office on Saturday. The Metropolitan Railway Termini Commissioners had a meeting on Saturday, at the office in Whitehall place. There were present—Viscount Canning, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, the Lord Mayor, and Sir Frederick Smith. The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. Dispatches from the Governors of New South Wales and Gibraltar were received oa Saturday at the Colo nial-office. The Duke of Wellington has left town for Strath fieldsaye. Sir R. Peel left town on Saturday for Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Sir Edward and Lady Morrison had a dinner party on Saturday at their residence in Great Stanhope -street. The Duke of Rutland and Lords Ingestre and G. Paulet attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rov. Dr. Goddard. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Sleath, the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the communion service by the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Jelf. Among the nobility present were the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort; Ladies Wilton, St. Germans, So merset, and Ernest Bruce; Lords Bessborough, Gosford, St. Germans, Ebrington, Cantalupc, Canterbury, and Ernest Bruce. The Rev. Dr. Hook will preach the sermon on Sunday next in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. REV. DR. WOLFF AND GENERAL JOCHMUS. Constantinople, March 16, 1846. Sir,—Amongst other absurdities and fabrications in the book on your fool's errand . to Bukhara (for such must be called your expedition, after you had full means of ascertaining both in Constantinople or in Teheren that Colonel Stoddart and Captain Cunolly were, unfortu nately both dead), I am told that you have stated, that I am a Jew by descent or religion. If I were in Christian Europe I should certainly good humouredly smile at your opinion, or accept, without personal inconvenience, your pretended extension of Mr. D'israeli's theory in " Coningsby," on the Hebrew origin of such great and distinguished men as Count d'Arnim, Count Cancrin, Marshals Soult and Messena, M. Mendi zabel, and others; but in the East the question is dif ferent, for there the condition of the Hebrew implies still an inferiority of race and caste. I am no religious fanatic; on the contrary, I duly pay an equal outward respect to all creeds; but I merely will not be represented as belonging to a nation which in some countries is still kept in an unjust state of civil and social inferiority. I have therefore been obliged to stop the circulation of foolish and false reports, by taking here publicly a measure of a very serious nature; and I now most positively demand that you shall publicly retract your above assertion. It is superflous to reason with you on another fabrica tion, that I (a Ferick Pasha of the Ottoman armies) should have seriously offered you to march, with the as sistance of the British Government, against the holy city of Bukhara, in order, probably, th at you might play a Peter the Hermit. • Your character of half buffoon and half hypocrite is too well established as that this statement should require any grave contradiction. - (Signed) A. JOCHMUS, Lieut.• General. To. Dr. J. Wolff. ANS WE i-t. West Port, near Langport, Somersetshire, 2d May, 1846. Sir,—l received a few days ago a letter purporting to have been written by you, but which, I confess, I suspect to be a forgery, for it is impossible that a gentleman, and one who holds the high rank of Lieutenant-General and of Ferick Pasha, should ever dream of offering an insult to a clergyman who is incapacitated by his pro fession from resenting it. You must be aware that such an act would be con sidered derogatory not only in a British officer, but even (in the present advance towards civilisation) in a Turkish officer ; more especially as I have spoken in my work with the greatest respect of your person on ac count of your bravery in Syria, Spain, and Greece. Should, however, th e letter be yours, I am quite wil ling to publish it, with my answer, in the newspapers, as well as in my fourth edition, and I will also acknow ledge that I was perfectly misled by your outward appearance and accent in considering you one of the chosen people of God, one of the blessed sons of Abra ham, one of the sons of Gideon and Samson, whose politeness and gentleness are proverbial. Until I have the honour of receiving an answer to this letter, I sign myself, your Excellency's humble servant, JOS. WOLFF. To Lieutenant• General Jochmus, Pasha of the Ottoman Empire, &e., &c. IVYATT'S COLOSSAL STATUE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Mr. Wyatt's colossal equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, after somewhat like ten years' incessant labour, is at length arrived at completion, and, pullies, ropes, levers, and other mechanical appliances permiting, will, in a few days, be raised upon its pedestal at the top of the triumphal gateway at Constitution-hill. Some idea of the arduous nature of the work which has yet to be done, however, may be gathered from the fa .t, that the horse and its rider have consumed between forty and fifty tons of metal, and that Messrs. Grissel and Peto's contract for removing and fixing them amounts to 2,0001. The inauguration of this statue may fairly, and doubtless will, be looked upon as a national event. The Iron Duke is a man whom Britain must ever be proud to call her own —a man for all time, and far above the littleness of party. We had yesterday the pleasure of inspecting this gigantic work at the artists' studio at Paddington ; but to say that we came away in a condition to give a cri tical account of it as a work of art would be preposterous. As well might the men of Lilliput pretend to take in the contour of their illustrious visitor Gulliver, as well the traveller in the east describe a coup (Twit of a pyramid viewed from its base, as see that of the effigy of the hero of Waterloo peering up in amaze from beneath his hors's belly-band. Such are its dimensions that a man on horseback may ride between the horse's legs. We descended by a ladder into its capacious stomach, and there found a goodly compartment, in which some fifty men might be packed away, and in which, we are cre dibly informed, thirteen adventurous guests have actually dined. The head, and a very fine one, is six feet in length, a datum upon which the connoisseurs in► horse flesh may judge of the other proportions of the enor mous quadruped. The horse is "standing at ease "on its four legs, and the Duke is also in an attitude of re pose, with the exception of the right hand, which is ex tended, holding a telescope, as in the act of giving the word of command on the field of battle. As we said be fore, it would be premature to hazard an opinion as to the general effect of this statue when elevated in the position to which it is destined, but our impression is a favourable one, and we shall look forward to its public appearance with interest. Lord William Clinton, son of the Duke of Newcastle, who has been for some time attached to the British embassy at Vienna, has been appointed first Attaché at Constanti nople, in the room of Lord Napier, whose promotion to other functions was announced in the Gazette of Friday. Lord and Lady John Russell will leave town either to -day or to-morrow for Wimbledon, near to which place his Lordship has taken a residence. Her Majesty the Queen Do w ager has consented to accept the office of Patroness to the according to her accus tomed Deaf and Dumb Institution, Red Lion-square, and,ccus tomed liberality, has presented the funds with 451. FREscH SHAWLS.—It having been French goods represented to the Board of Customs that an importer of had recently imported into this country , free of duty, a go at quantity of woollen shawls, with a fringe, the Commissioners the port have mad e th e o ffi cers o f t h e severa l departments of London and at the various outports and places throughout them ern the kingdom, acquainted with the same, with directions to under the resolutions and the officers under their control and supervision take care that articles of this description be charged with last, directing the the duty legally d ti u o e ns the: f eo t n h , e vi H z., ou te se n p o e f r C ce o n m t. m a o d ns, vatoran, trans mitted to them • to, now free an order issued by the Board in March a.ntnifeactures are, by the resolutions re ferredd to these woollen effect. Woollen hfringe, thvrefore, which was at same to be immediately carried into rendered them liable to thes rls, destroyed the privilege and duty named. This decision is of aonfdthtihed importers of F importance to the trade s escription. R.:_eoncah and other foreign manufacturees TIM LONDON b t l h a e u. l ts it F 0.77: IVIANcuEsrE -train will b af e te d r is ll p l a o t n e d h a e y d nett, the station of the mixed mail fori 13irming 'nthe morn ing, isrnaabckuest ham and London, at a quarter past six e o'clock e mingham Railway, London 'road, Ilianchnteh:ster, and Bir ing, arriving in London about one o'clock, which the same time that the morning mail train no London, starting from the Victoria station at four morning, and going round by Newton and Warringt on . There will be a similar trai n f rcm Li verpool, starting at six * in the morning, and join; that from Manchester at Crewe, whence they will form a joint mail train southward. There are numerous and important alterations contemplated at the Post-office, and which are also intended to commence on Monday next, if the requisite preparations can be completed in time. We believe that the London mails will arrive here a little earlier than at present,—Manckester Guardian of I 4tUrdfty. • •• • - .. .. DEATH OF THOMAS BUNBURY, ESQ M.P.—We have to record the demise of Mr. Bunbury, M.P. for the county of Carlow, who expired on the 28th of May, at his temporary residence in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. The deceased, who was 71 years of age, was returned at the last election in 1841, on Tory principles, after a sharp struggle with Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun., and Mr. Yates, of Lancashire. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. ALDERMA N PEASE.—We e have this week to record the d ea th o f T hom as Benson r u p fl artn r er ilson Pease, Esq., one of the aldermen of this boro ug h, the senior in the eminent firm of Pease, Heaton, and Co. , c hants, Park-lane, and uncle to Mr. ' W. Ald am , jun , On m e e of our representatives in Parliament. The awful event occurred suddenly and unexpectedly ; for though Mr. Pease had at tained the age of sixty-three, he appeared, up to the last moment that he was seen alive, to be in a good state of health. We understand that he attended a meeting of one of the committees of the Town Council, and subsequently dined with his son• in-law, Mr. Ford, solicitor, in Park-place, on Saturday afternoon, after which he went home to his own house at Chapeltown, and retired to bed abort ten o'clock at night, apparently as well as usual. On the following morning, one of his servants, at twenty tim room, of ask i n g n minutes past seven o'clock, went into his room, as was his custom, to take him s o me water for shaving. Mr. Pease it oio seems. was in the habit, when his servant went into the g not what making i k ak ii i i n d g o feiathme either morning ng theseit was, inquiriesor wha t i Si t m w , was; , ; said- 3 ' the servant, as he was about to leave the room, Its twent y minutes past seven, s i r ." R ece i v i ng no louder tone tlian r t e the the same words twi c e more in a efirst time. Still getti ng no re ply, h e went up t o the bedside, and findi ng th a t hi s master did not breathe, an d that he v a s cold, he a l arme d th e rest o f t h e househ o ld ; and Mr. i immediately sent for, anTivs", surgeon, of Chap e lt own , was was promptly i n a tt en d ance. As soon as he a rr i ve d he pronounced Mr. Pease to be d ea d, an d said that he had probably b een so for ab ou t f our h ours. The bedclothes we re not ruf fled or i2or displaced in th e l eas t, an d there is no dnubt th at the c , hange from lif e t o d ea th took Am *yam 01, o li ghtv qt litniggl9,---Leed4lnteatienCer, " After the catastrophe the Deira was completely dis banded. Many of the tents have gone over to the Beni- Massem and to the westward. Mustapha Ben Thami, with eight or nine Douars, turned his steps towards the south, and has encamped on the Oued Kscub, whence he will proceed to join the Emir, via Aiounsidi-Melouck, where he (the Emir) has been seen. " All accounts agree in stating that all the remains of the Deira, including the aunt of Abd-el-Kader, has pro ceeded to the westward, and is by this time far away from our frontier. The Beni-Anvers have pitched their tents between Fez and Mequinez. An old Spahis met, at three days' march from the latter town, El Berkem. This change of route has been induced by the fear with which General Cavaignac's column, at Lalla-Maghrina must have inspired the Emir, as well as the danger to which the Deira was exposed from the Moorish tribes. "This dispersion of the Deira, its state of weakness and poverty, and the difficult task to which the Emir will have to restore it, if he ever should do so, form so much excellent news, over which we might be permitted to rejoice, if they were not connected with that of the tragical end of unheard-of sufferings of our brave fel lows who had fallen into the hands of the Emir. This disaster will throw the army into mourning, and the whole African population." The following is from the Courier de Marseille : " I have bad news to give you. The steamer from Oran reports the massacre of our prisoners in the power of Abd-el-Kader, three hundred in number, among whom are comprised MM. Cognard, Larages, Thonas, officers superiors ; Doctor Cabasse ; all of whom supported their misfortunes with the greatest fortitude, and enabled and encouraged by the force of their example the re mainder of our unfortunate soldiers, captured in our various encounters with the Arabs, to do the same. It would appear that the tribes who were encharged with the custody of our prisoners were divided in sentiments : one party was in favour of preserving their lives, and the other not. Unhappily the latter party were in the majority, and the poor soldiers were butchered. After this let the Paris papers praise the clemency of the Emir." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY" EVENING, JUNE 1, 1846. had been made the victims. Other persons, similarly victimised in the neighbourhood, are expected to come forward to-morrow. Upon the different cheques being presented at Neville, Reid, and Co.'s there were " no effects;" "J. U. Wyndham" being unknown to the persons in London upon whom his draught was drawn, and deposited at the Windsor Bank. Mr. Dotesio, when he presented his two cheques, and was informed that they were not worth the value of the paper they were written upon, very naturally inquired if the bank had any re ference as to the respectability of Mr. " Wyndham" be fore the clerks intrusted him with a cheque-book. The reply was that all they knew about him was that he paid in a cheque drawn upon a London banker, and that they had just received advice that it had been disho noured. It is to be hoped that the circumstances we have rehtted will act as a caution for the future to country bankers, who, it is to be desired, for the sake of the trading community, will not intrust a perfect stranger with a blank cheque-book, without any reference or guarantee as to his respectability, and who, at the same time, may chance not to have (as in this instance) one single penny in their hands to his credit. ThiS Mr. " Wyndham " is described to be about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches in height, wearing glasses, and also an eyeglass suspended by a stout silken cord, apparently not more than 30 or 32 years of age, and of dark com plexion, with dark whiskers combed back. lie wore a dark olive frock-coat, and had with him a carpet bag, which he took away with him from the Royal Hotel when he left. Suffolk Erroll Home Radnor spencer Hertford Bute fired upon the crew, at the same time uttering the most discordant yells. The crew, seeing no chance of combat ing them, havinfs no arms, were obliged to leave the ship from the forecastle as the pirates boarded by the gangway and stern, and were extremely fortunate in escaping un hurt, as they were fired upon by the pirates as they were rowing away from the chip. Mr. Newnham came on board our ship with four bands on tho morning of the Bth instant, and, having received our sailing orders, parted from the buoy, and made sail with a fine breeze after the pirates, passing Ceuta and Tetuan, and keeping in shore as close as possible, so as to overha the beach well, and, after sailing about 200 miles, we came to a spot where we fancied we saw the wreck, but, being dusk, we could not make it out, and therefore we stood off, and intended to tack and stand in again at midnight ; but in the morn ing we found that we had drifted with the current 12 miles to leeward. A boat with a fisherman came on board, and gave us some information. He said the bay was full of pirates, and that the brig was near where we had suppos e d her, and a complete wreck ; that most of the men who had boarded her had been driven on shore in their boats, and several drowned. We then made sail for Melilah, the settlement, and were visited by the governor, who told us where the spot was, and also that they would be sure to fire upon us if we went up the bay. We then got under sail, and, after passing round a point, and being close in shore, we saw some oabnuotdatfisorfeardnalg we s e o , me of the n a ti ves , w h o ra i se d a s h out, in an d return w e w e fired t two 0 32 m -p i o le tm s 32-pounder, lower t down, were ow n, the peopl e s h outing all along the coast, and firing. ne h We short ene d sa il , and let go ourhtore,and got out the boats, an d ran d own the coast,a lowing and sh ou ti ng for about a mile, people fol when thanstooadt in shore. On e o f th e chiefs beckoned to the, the same time wav i ng a white flag. On our rowing ashore, the chief gave hi s mus k et to one of his followers, and came downinto the water, and shook hands with the captain, at the same time waving his men back ; and, after talking with the captain as well as he could, the boats returned, and we impatiently waited for the morrow. At daylight next morning we got out the cutter and gigs, and being manned and armed pulled down and saw the wreck, and, on returning, the First Lieutenant in the cutter was shot at and wounded in the thigh. The hands on board very soon got the ship under weigh, and at seven o'clock ran down to meet the boats, and about twelve o'clock came in sight of a small bay where we saw the wreck lying. We shortened sail, let go the anchor, got a kedge with a spring aft to bring our broadside on, and the boats out, pinnace, cutter, and gigs ; the pirates firing at us all the time. We now fired a 32-pounder over them, to see if they would return it. They con tinued firing. We then began to fire in right good earnest, and sent 32-pounders among them in prime style, upon which they soon began to retire. A landing party, consisting of nineteen marines and fifteen blue jackets, with a working party, was then sent to collect things from the wreck, or w h a t was l e f t of it. The men rowed cheering from the ship for the shore, but as they neared it they were fired upon by the natives, who were lying hid a mong th e roc k s. O ur men soon drove them away by a constant firing, which was kept up for four hours ; thus they kept the fellows at bay. They were very daring, and some who had expended their ammunition came down with stones, which they threw with astonishing force. They kept increasing, coming from the mountains in all direc tions, and, as nothing more could be done, and the work ing party had secured everything which was serviceable, our men were ordered to retire, which they did gra dually, down to the beach. As they were retiring the pirates came out of their biding-places with a yell and made a run at us, but as they came on we fired volleys at them, which threw them into confusion, and we re treated to our boats. It was now our loss was the greatest, as the pirates thronged the beach and kept firing at us as we pulled from the shore, and, as we were stowed so thick, they killed one and wounded two in the boats. We made sail, but were obliged to put in at Almeira, on the Spanish coast. Our killed and wounded are as follows :—Mr. Boys, midshipman, killed ; First Lieutenant, Mr. Sanderson, wounded ; Sergeant Gillon, Royal Marines, shot through the arm ; James Cottle, leg amputated since ; John Davis, George Thompson, J. M'Braith, George Perkins, and William Love), Royal Marines, wounded. Our captain had a very narrow esc a p e . He was in the midst of the fire, encouraging and cheering the men, when two bullets went through his hat, and one caught the heel of his boot, while a stone, grazed his lip. Many others had similar escapes. • One marine's cap was completely riddled with bullets. The loss of the pirates Is esti mated at 50 killed and as many or more wounded. The barrels of their guns measure six feet, and carry an im mense distance. We captured one of them and also a dagger that measured 18 inches in length, and is a mos formidable weapon." CORN IMPORTATION BILL. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 28. MAJORITY PRESENT, 138. Lord Chancellor DIMES. Norfolk St. Albans Buccleuch Roxburgh Leinster Wellington MARQUISES. Winchester Huntley Lansdowne Abercorn Sligo Camden Cholmondeley Londonderry Conyngham Ormonde Clanricarde Breadalbane Westminster Normanby - - EARLS. Devon EARLS. Besborough Mornington Courtoun Dacre Charlemont Camoys Clanwilliam Byron Clare Rollo Leitrim Kinnaird Bandon Montfort Roselyn Foley Craven Carteret Romney Suffield Chichester Thurlow Gesford Lyttelton Grey Caithorpe White Blayney Veralam Gardner St. German's Rivers Morley Sandys Howe Crewe Burlington Churchill Ripon Prudhoe Granville Bowden Effingham Glenlyeu Lovelace Delamere Zetland Forester Auckland Wharricliffe Ellenborough Brougham Uxbridge Dinorben Bruce Denman VISCOUNTS. Carew Strathallan Glenelg Torrington Hatherton Sydney Strafford Clifton - Cottenham Hawarden Langdale Canning Lovat BISHOPS. Portman Durham Do Manley Lincoln Wrottesley Chester . Sudeley Ripon Leigh Salisbury Lurgan Norwich Dunfermline Hereford Monteagle St. David's Keane Worcester Campbell Lichfield Vivian Oxford Tuam LORDS Denbigh Westmorland Essex Shaftesbury Scarborough Jersey Haddington Galloway Dalhousie Aberdeen Rosebery Glasgow Cowper Bathurst Clarendon Talbot Fortescue Liverpool Meath ARCHBISHOP. Canterbury DIMES. Somerset Leeds Bedford Devonshire Hamilton Argyll Northumberland Sutherland mAßquims. Tweeddale PROXIES, 73. Donegal' Headfort Northampton Anglesey Bristol Ansa EARLS. Pembroke Lindsey Carlisle Albemarle Stair DUKES. Richmond Grafton 13eaufort Marlborough Rutland Montros3 Manchester Newcastle Buckingham Cleveland MAILQI7IBF,S. Salisbury Downshire Ely Exeter Westmeath LAILS. Huntingdon Winthilsea Chesterfield Sandwich Cardigan Abingdon Eglington Kinnoull Airlie Selkirk Orkney Oxford Dartmouth Ayleaford Stanhope Pomfret Asbburnham Warwick Guilford Hardwieke Delawarr Mansfield Beverley Carnarvon Cadogan Malmesbnry DUKE. LORDS. EARLS. Buckingham Stourton Fitzwilliam Petre Cornwallis Saye and Sele Mount Edgcumbe Dormer Cork Ward Fingall Monson Kingston Wodehonse Sefton Cloncurry Caledon Dunally Kenmare Abercromby Bosse Erskine De Grey Manners Dunraven Castlemaine Amherst Downes Camperdewn Bexley Lichfield De Tabley Dade Plunket VISCOUNTS. Hey tesbury Melbourne Talbot of Malahide Melville Poltimore BISHOPS. Mostyn London Godolphin Carlisle Methuen P , terborough Stuart de Decies Ely Colborne Limerick Seaton MINORITY PRESENT, 126. Egmont Bangor Longford Rochester Enniskillen Liandaff Wicklow Gloucester Lucas Exeter Wilton Chichester Limerick WADS. Clancarty Fowls Nelson Charleville Manvers Oxford Lonsdale Harewood trownlow Bradford Sheffield Eldon Falmouth Somers Stradbroke Cawdor Munster Ranfurly viscOVNTS. Hereford Maynard Strangtord Middleton Gage Doneralle St. Vincent Sidmouth Lorton Lake Exmouth Beresford Combermere Canterbury Ponsonby Hill BISHOPS. Winchester PROXIES, 38. EARLS. Stanley De Ros Hastings Clinton Beaumont Willoughby de Broke St. John Saltowt rawarth Sondes Boston Hawke WaLsingham Southampton Grantley Berwick Sherborne Renyen Bray brooks Carrington Bening Boltyn Northwiek Lifford Clonbrock Crofton Redesdale Colchester Rayleigh Faversham Tenterden Skelmersdale Wynford Templemon) Ashburton Da FreYllo AN/Igor Portland EARL!. LORDS. Roden Willoughby d'Ereaby Mount Casheß Ira= Mayo Sinclair Keay Donoughmoro Dynevor Onslow Bagot Beauchamp Farnham Shrewsbury roulett Moray Balearres Seafield Ferrero Tankervilis Macclesfield waldegrove Ilchester 'itchy Shannon _ Glengall Yarborough Gainsborough VISCOUNTS. Arbuthnott De Vesei O'Neill Alvanley Ravensworth De Saumarez BUMPS, St. Asaph Bath and Wells Earl Belhaven paired (for the Bill) with the Earl of Lauderdale :against it). CARLOTTA GRISL—The pet par excellence of the ballet, Carlotta Grisi, makes her first appearance on Wed.. nesday, at Drury-lane, in the ballett of Paquita. The French papers give the most flattering accounts of the ap pearance of the fair Carlotta in this ballet, at the Grand Opera on Monday night. It was the last time of its per formance previous to the departure of Carlotta Grisi for England, and nothing could exceed the enthusiasm which she excited among the audience. The ballet itself is superb. There is a ball. scene, tho•magnificence of which, we under stand, transcends even the glories of Gustavus or Lestocq. It is got up in even more magnificent style at Drury-lane than at the Grand Opera in Paris, and it will no doubt prove one of the greitteet bite VIA DRIA bee yet igge, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, MAY 24. The return of Sir W. Parker to Malta on the evening of the. 22d in the Virago steam-frigate, from Athens, has caused new life here, and the appearance of the Hibernia off port yesterday morning, the bustling move ment of the steamers carrying out provisions, and the anxiety of friends and relations on shore to see their friends and relations on board, prior to their leaving for the westward, are indescribable. The Virago follows to-day. Sir William, during his absence from Malta, has rallied the squadron dispersed in the different ports of the Mediterranean at Athens ; and inspections, trials of sailing, &c., have been made. The following is an extract from a letter from her Majesty's ship Tyne, dated at sea on the 15th inst.:— "The Admiral, accompanied by the Inconstant, 36, Tyne, 26 ; Amazon, 19 ; Orestes, 18 ; and Virago steamer, quitted Athens yesterday morning, and on this day the Commander-in-Chief inspected the Inconstant and the Tyne. " The squadron being at sea, it is quite impossible to say more than what happens to your own vessel, as no communication with other ships is allowed. The inspec tion of the Tyne commenced at half-past 10 A.M., and finished at about 1 P.M. ; and the Admiral on leaving paid a high compliment to Captain Glascock, his officers, and crew, upon the efficiency of their ship." A court-martial was held recently on the carpenter of the flag-ship, the Hibernia, on charges of drunkenness, and they having been proved, he has been disrated and dismissed the ship. Another court-martial was held on the master of her Majesty's ship Amazon, on similar charges ; and he has been placed at the bottom of the list. His name is Cotter. This second court was held at sea, and the pri soner, within thirty hours after the offence was com- ' mitted, was tried and sentenced. Last night the Hibernia was not in sight from the telegraph. She had her provisions supplied by the Flamer and Virago steamers. The Virago goes out to-day to Gibraltar, in order, if need be, to tow the Admiral with the Meteor through the gut. In Malta Harbour—The Ceylon, 12, receiving-ship. bearing the flag of Bear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, Bart., second in command and superintendent of Malta dock yard ; the Harlequin, Commander Curry; the Locust steamer, Lieutenant-Commander Eden ; and Wee Pet steam-tug. On Surveying Duty—The Bonetta, Commander T. S. Brock, and the Research cutter, Lieutenant Spratt. At Gibraltar —The Fantome, 16, Commander Sir F. W. E. Nicholson, Bart. • the Meteor, Lieutenant-Cam mander Buttler ; and the Phcenix steam-vessel, Com mander Dennis. At Corfu.—The Orestes, 18, Commander E. St. L. Cannon ; and the Jackall steamer, Lieutenant-Comman der W. M. J. G. Pasco. At the Piraeus of Athens.—The Tyne, 28, Captain W. N. Glascock ; the Bloodhound steamer, Lieutenant R. Phillips ; the Inconstant, 36, Captain C. H. Fremantle ; the Amazon, 19, Captain J. J. Stopford ; and the Siren, 16, Commander H. E. Edgell. En route to Gibraltar.—TheHibernia, 120, Captain P. Richards, C. 8., bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., G.C.8., the Commander-in- Chief ; and the Virago war steamer, Commander G. G. Otway. - At - Constantinople.—The Heels war-steamer, Com. mander I. Duffill. MAIL STEAM-PACKETS. At Malta.—The Volcano, Lieutennnt Crang, and the Flamer, Lieutenant Lavie. En route from Malta to Marseilles.—The Acheron, Lieutenant B. Aplin. En route from Malta to the lonian Islands.—The Spit fire, Lieutenant J. A. M'Donald. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 31. Lieutenant Need, whose removal from the Terrible to the St. Vincent, to make way for an " honourable," who - thrust - Into the place to qualify for yacht service and promotion, we noticed at the time, was restored to the Terrible on the day the fleet left Spithead, but the Hon. Lieutenant Spencer also remained. To cover this glaring job each of the first-class frigates has had an extra lieu tenant appointed. Dr. Inman, formerly Professor of Mathemati cs a t th e Royal Naval College ; Mr. John Fincham, Master Ship wright of this dockyard ; and Mr. R. Abethell, Master Shipwright of Pembroke dockyard, are, we believe, con stituted a board to resolve upon which are the best models to construct ships of war upon for the future. The Porcupine steam-vessel, Captain Bullock, and the Myrmidon steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Jenkin, were at the Cove of Cork on the 29th inst. ; the former arrived here this morning, and will take back dispatches for the squadron of evolution. The squadron of evolution is reported by the Cork pilots to have been seen on Wednesday last off Galley Head, wind N.W., light, with fine weather. The Ferret, 6, Commander Sprigg, arrived at Madeira from Sheerness on the 3d ult., and sailed on the sth for the coast of Africa. The President, 50, Captain Stanley, flag of Rear- Admiral Dacres, Commander-in-Chief, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Algoa Bay on the 2d ult. The Sappho, 19, Commander G am bi er , arr i ve d a t the Cape of Good Hope from the Mozambique channel on the 23d of March, and the Mutine, 16, Commander Crawford, on the following day, also from a cruise in the Mozambique. The Cornwall, freight-ship, Captain Canney, sailed this morning for Cork, the Cape, and the Mauritius, with detachments of the 45th and 12th regiments for service at the latter places. The Echo tug again tried the effect of the shot holes in her funnel, upon the draught yesterday, in the passage to Cowes, for the troops from Parkhurst. The result was highly satisfactory. The Minerva, Indiaman, Captain Geere, sailed last evening for Madras and Calcutta. PROMOTIONS. Commander—Sir G. G. Otway, Bart., to the rank of Captain. Lieutenant—J. M'D. Smith, to the rank of Corn. milder. Mate—T. C. Bruce, to the rank of Lieutenant. Acting Master—T. Hart, late of the Penelope, con firmed to the rank of Master. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—W. C. Marshall and R. B. Beale, to the Dido ; J. Wainwright and H. Muller, of the Norwegian navy, to the Constance ; G. Marriott, additional to the Trafalgar, his presence being required in England to give evidence on Captain Denman 's barracoon destruc tion affair ; J. Corbett, to the Excellent. Chaplains—G. Bellamy, late of the Tortoise, to the Rodney, vice Halsted, retired from the service ; A. Brown (and Naval Instructor), to the Dido. Surgeon—T. Gibson, to the Eurydice. Second-Masters—G. M. Stent, to the Dido ; M. Richards and M. R. Artery, to the Terrible ; N. S. Seabrook, to the Eurydice. Assistant-Surgeons—H. Crocker, to the Ocean, vice Etnslie ; S. Clift, to the Sampson ; J. G. Campbell, to Plymouth Hospital ; C. Ede, to the Constance ; J. P. Lawrence, to the Shearwater ; R. King, to the Eury dice ; Dr. J. Barclay, to the Canopus. Midshipmen—R. B. Oldfield and P. Chase, to the Excellent ; E. C. Howson, to the Raleigh. Master Assistants—J. M. Hockley, to the Canopus ; J. S. Smith, to the Griffin; R. Cleaveland, to the Aven ger; W. Moorman and J. Parsons, to the Dee ; T. B. Neill, from the Crocodile to the Dido. Clerks—E. A. Amphlett and W. Warburton, to the Dido ; W. F. Wentworth (Assistant) , to the Croc o dil e . Naval Cadets—P. E. Luc as , J. E. Williams, and E. H. Murray, to the Constance ; B. Shiffner, to the Ra leigh ; N. B. Phillimore, to the St. Vincent ; J. J. M'Evoy and T. 0. Kidd, to the Dido; H. A. Godfrey, to the Agincourt. COAST GUARD. Appointments—Mr. R. Chambers, RN., to Robin flood's Bay Station, vice Lieutenant Warren, removed; Lieutenant W. Bailey (b), to Alothercomb station, vice Warren. Removals—Lieutenant C. B. Warren , . from Mother comb to Pembroke dock ; vice Griffith, appointed to packet service. The following officers have been appointed Naval Knights of Windsor:—Lieutenants W. Fitzmaurice (1802), vice Carte r , deceased; R. Jewens • (1809), in suc cession to the late R. Carter. , AT . The Lively, Hadfield, master, sai CHATHAM led on the M 28th 30 with stores for Woolwich and Deptford yards. The Duck, Savage, master, arrived on the 27th inst. with stores from Woolwich. A leading man and eight ropemakers have been sent from this yard to Deptford -yard to try experiments on the rope-machine at that yard. Mr. Catsell, foreman of smiths at the Devonport-yard, has been sent by the Ad miralty to this yard to explain further improvements made by him for the employment of waste heat in air furnaces at the smithy. The Fantome, 16 guns, Commander Sir Frederick ; W. Nicholson, Bart., is in the Mediterranean. A letter of much interest from this ship was received yesterday by one of th e o ff i cers on boa rd her Majesty's ship Poictiers, of which the following is an extract: — "The brig Ruth, of Scarborough, Captain W. Newn ham, manned with eleven hands, last from Messina, I bound to St. Petersburgh, was becalmed, about twenty miles westward of Mallet), a Spanish convict settlement on the Barbary coast, when some boats, six or seven in number, manned and armed by Moors, or inhabitants of the aea mat, put off to the brig, NI approaching which they SWINDLING AT WINDSOR. WINDSOR. SUNDAY EVENING.—A deep-laid scheme em swindling, by evidently a practised hand, has just been successfully played off by a well-dressed gentlemanly looking man, upon some of the most respectable inn keepers and tradesmen of Windsor, Eton, and Slough ; Itth appears p p p o e s a t r s yesterday that, on Tuesdaym orni morning. the facts havi ng b een b rought to light after the arrival of morning last, a person of highly respectabl e a p pearance and gentlemanly manners arrived at Slough b y an early trail), from London, and took up his abode a t M r. D otesio's the Royal Hotel, close to the railway station. He remained there during that and the following day. On Thursday he told Mr. Dotesio be was going to town to be present at the close of the debate on the Corn Bill in the House of Lords, having got a ticket of admission from his " friend" the Duke of Beaufort, and that he should not return till the following morning. It appears, however, that on that day, previously to proceeding to London, he went to Messrs. Neville, Reid, and C o .' s b an k, a t Windsor, an d paid in a cheque f o r a l arge amount, drawn upon a London banker, stating th a t h e was staying at the Royal Hotel, and that as he should have some payments to make, when the bankers received advice of the cheque being honoured, it would be extremely convenient to him to be furnished with a blank cheque-book. This was, as it has since proved, most incautiously given to him, and has been the means of enabling him to practise his art, with the ap pearance, at least, of a respectable man, having a banker's account open at Windsor. He perfectly well know that as his cheque was not paid into the Windsor - bauk until Thursday, Messrs. Reid and Co. would not be advised of its reception in London before Saturday morning. On Friday morning, when he returned to the Royal Hotel by the first train from London, he sent for Mr. Dotesio into the coffee-room to inform him of the result of the division, observing that "he was of the same opinion as bis friend, a Noble Duke, that it was doubtful whether a scrutiny of the proxies would not still cause considerable embarrassment to the Government." He also spoke familiarly of several Noble Lords, his " friends," as he represented them, and acquaintances. He then said he had an account at the Windsor Bank, producing his cheque-book, and asking Mr. Dotesio to cash a cheque for 101. The appearance of the cheque book would have so completely disarmed suspicion, even if any had been previously entertained, that the amount was immediately handed over to him, and he went out after breakfast, as he said, for "a stroll." It should be mentioned that he signed the cheque "J. H. Wynd ham ;" and the inference was, from his gentlemanly man ners and address, and other circumstances, that he was a member of the Egremont family. From the Royal Hotel, it appears, he proceeded o Eton, where he called upon Mr. Yarrow, the well-known tailor at the College, and ordered a suit of clothes ; stating, that as he was going to a wedding the following (Saturday) morning, and as his own dress clothes were upwards of 200 miles off, he must have them made, and sent to the Royal Hotel at Slough, by seven o'clock that (Friday) evening. Although it was then nearly twelve o'clock, the order was taken, and promised to be executed. He then said to Mr. Yarrow, "As lam a stranger to you, although I have received high recom mendations of your excellent cut and fit, I'll pay you at once; just make out your bill, and give me a receipt." M T h r e . y b i a l r l r w o w a h p a o i w d e b y y e r h c a h v e a qu upon g e some t s h e e sp W iei i o n n ds a o b r o Ba e t the matter, paid Mr." Wyndham's" cheque,with other monies, into the bank that afternoon, calling the particular at tention of the clerk to the cheque in question, and ask ing him if it was " all right. The clerk having answered in the affirmative, and given credit for it, the suit of clothes, consisting of a dress coat, white waistcoat, and trousers, was completed and sent to the Royal Hotel punctually at the time agreed upon. Mr. Wyndham then paid a visit to Windsor, calling upon Mr. Hanson, watchmaker and jeweller of the High street, whom he especially patronised by purchasing a gold watch and chain, a breast-pin, and other articles of jewellery, to the amount of between 11/. and 12/. The production of his cheque-book from the Windsor Bank, as in the case of Mr. Dotesio, induced Mr. Hanson to imagine it was "a voucher of respectability," and he had no hesitation in parting with his property, which was paid for by draught on Neville, Reid, and Co. He intimated to Mr. Dotesio that, as he intended to make a lengthened stay at theßoyal Hotel after " a cm.. tain event' had taken place (which was construed to refer to his marriage), he would like to look over the hotel to select a large and airy bed-room and one of the best sitting-rooms. On Friday evening he proceeded with the proprietor over such portions of the hotel as were then unoccupied, and arranged for the!occupaney of two apartments, to commence on Monday for a lengthened period. Shortly after the arrival of his new suit of clothes from Mr. Yarrow he ordered his bill, which was brought to him, amounting to 31. 3s. 3d., stating that he was going to London by the last train, and that he should return on Moday to take possession of his sitting and bed-room. He also stated that a large quantity of luggage would arrive for him by the train from town on Saturday, and requested that the c:,rriage might be paid by the proprietor of the hotel. lie then drew a cheque for 5/., with which he paid his bill, receiv ing from Mr. Dotesio the difference. He left Slough by the last up- , i'ain for London, and has not been seen or heard of since. The next morning (Saturday), soon after the Wi n d sor of the deception of w hi c h they B dupes an k h w a e d re op m eX, t Ae tr b e ubble burst, and hi s unfortunate DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND PRO BABLE LOSS OF LIFE. This morning, shortly after twelve o'clock, a most serious fire broke out upon the premises, situate 25, Cow Cross street, West Smithfield, occupied by Mr. J. Smith, a tinplate-worker, and seven or eight other families. The flames originated in the first-floor front, tenanted by a Mrs. Pemberton. It appears that while the occupier was standing at the street-door talking to a friend, an alarm was raised by a person that the premises were on fire. Without loss of time the party rushed up stairs, when a most distressing scene presented itself; the bed on which his child was sleeping was completely enveloped in flames, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the child could be rescued; as it was, it was most severely burnt about the body. The mother, in running out of the room with her off s p r i ng , came i n con t act w i t h one of the windows, and was most severely cut about the face. The child was quickly removed to S.t. Bar tholomew's Hospital, where its injuries were dressed. The street-door of the burning house having been left open, it caused the flames to be draughted up the staircase with the greatest impetuosity, and very speedily they had obtained the complete possession of the floor in which they commenced. There being about eight or nine separate families in the premises, it is impossible to describe the numerous expedients the inmates were forced to resort to to save their lives. Some ran down stairs, others threw their children out of window, but they were caught in the arms of the popu lace below. It is, however, to be feared that a poor bed-ridden female, who slept on the third floor, has perished, as no tidings of her escape could be gleaned. The several brigade engines, with Mr. Superintendent Braidwood, were early in arriving, as were also those of engine, th e p a w sh i t h o f lt S r. t . e o D o u n n o s r t t a o n o T an d h e t h fi e re - N oLI NT a e i s o t s o o f Eng land New River Company yielded an abundant supply of water, from which th e e n g i nes w ere worked with full vigour until the firemen had obtained the complete mastery over the flames. Before they had succeeded in that endeavour, lodgers c the greater portion of the premises, nearly sixty feet deep, were gutted, and the furniture of the numerous r o ce n ti s oh u na m do e f d o . l.l The origin of the disaster could not tbeeapecounted for. Two escapes of the Royal Society for but h thero Protection obtained nfrom t o ire strongwere a earlyhol cl i f o n r arrivin g, them to be of any assistance. THE ARMY. ROYAL ARTILLERY, W ooLwien.—Captains W. F. Williams, C. IL de Rog, Collingwood Dixon, and the Hon. R. C. H. Spencer, have been promoted to the rank of majors, in consideration of their services in Syria. By order of the Master-General the following officers have been posted to the undermentioned companies: they are all second lieutenants who have recently joined from the Royal Military Academy :—E. C. H. Dyneley to Captain T. C. Robes company, 2cl battalion, Bth company;F.H.B. company, Ist battalion, 4th company; J. Godby to Major G. T. Rowland's company, 9th battalion, 4th company; D. G. Green to Captain H. Stow's company, 6th battalion, 7th company; P. F. Mill e r to Captain P. Penn's com pany, Sd battalion, 4th company; W. W. Barry to Major W. C. Anderson's company, Ist battalion, 2d company; J. T. Orme to Brigade-Major Cuppage's company, 9th battalion, 7th company; G. H. Colombo to Captain R. J. Dacre's company, sth battalion, 2d company ;. G. W. D. Hay to Captain J. Low's company, 7th battalion, 2d company ; T. H. Harding to Captain W. H. Picker ing's company, 3d battalion, Ist company ; P. D. Mar gesson to Captain C. H. Barnaby's company, 7th batta lion, 3d company ; J. F. D'Arley Street to Major W. Furneause's company, 2d battalion, sth company ; and A. M. Calvert to Major R. Palmer's company, 9th bat talion, sth company. twhiel R.C.Rb Royale ai appointedalso ye xApsesci Academy, s te ta d n t t -hMva vice s e elr t e c r a ja. op o r- f ROYAL ENGINE ERI3 .-11 i s expected that Lieutenant Simmons. C. s t a s e in e t Pj a .? m H Fort ificn Lynn will succeed Captain J. St. V. Whitmore as Ad jutant at Chatham, and that Captain Whitmore will be stationed at Sheerness. The office of Commanding Royal Engineer at Wool wich, vacant by the retirement of Lieutenant-Colonel Barney, will be held by Brigade-Major Sandham until the arrival of Sir George Gipps, late Governor of New South Wales, which will not be until late in July. Cap tain J. F. A. Symonds has been promoted to the rank of Brevet-Major. THE FOREIGN MAILS. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. The following notice relative to the departure and ar rival of the foreign mails was on Saturday affixed at the chief office, St. Martin's-la-Grand : "THE INDIA, &c., MAILS, rid SOIIMADIPTON.—The next mail for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, India, China,.&c.,viii Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the 3d of June (Wednesday). " The Tagus will convey the Gibraltar, &c., mails as above. " INDIA, &C. (OVERLAND) MAILS, Vitt MARSEILLES.-- The next mails for the Medit erranean , E gypt, I nd i a; and China, via Marseilles, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the Bth of June. " THE PENINSULAR MAILS.—The Madrid arrived on the 26th instant ; the Pacha due on June 7. " WEST INDIES, &C., MAILS.—The next mails for the British Colonies in the West Indies (except Honduras and Bermuda), the Foreign Colonies (except Havannah), Mexico, Venezuela, and Madeira, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the 2d of June (to morrow). " The Severn will convey the above mai/sTrom South ampton. The next mails due on the 7th of June by the Te "SYDNEY (NEW SOUTH WALF:s).—The next mails for Sydney, New South Wales, will be dispatched from hence on the evening of the Ist of June (this evening). " The Trafalgar, with the above mails, will sail from Gravesend. " MADEIRA, -BRAZILS, AND BUENOS AYnES.—The next mails will be dispatched from hence on the evening of the 2d of June (to-morrow). " Her Majesty's brig Seagull, with the above mails of the 2d of June, will sail from Falmouth. " (From August to January inclusive, the packet touches at Pernambuco on her outward passage to Rio Janeiro, and the other six months on her homeward.) Her Majesty's brig Penguin arrived on the 29th of May " AMERICA, &C.—The next mails for British North America, Bermuda, and United States; will be dis patched from hence on the evening of the 3d of June (Wednesday). GRAND ROWING MATCHES. On Saturday the village of Putney was the scene of two spiritedly-contested matches—one between five pair -oared boats, manned by members of the Thames Club, and the other by four-oared boats, manned by gen • course ThamesThe fromf o Club l ow Batte r s e a ng boats w e r w e Putney. handsome silver cup s; tlemen of' Guy's Club. Th e p r i ze f or content i on by the taos t h r e ttiwt e no r s and colours:—Light Blue—R. E. Kew and L. A. Kew. Purple—B. Curtis and H. Field. Tri-colour—S. S. Robinson and J. Davis. Yellow—J. Podmare and T. Playford. Blue and White —R. Cobb and W. Field. The start was bgautiful, and the boats were equal up to Wandsworth-reach, a slight lead being taken by blue and white; but light blue ultimately got ahead, and won cleverly by about four boats' lengths. The Guy's Club four-oared scratch match, the course from Putney-bridge to the upper part of Chiswick Ait. Prize, a pair of silver oars and rudder. The following were the crews and colours:--G reen-- Squire, Marthope, Weltje, Brently; Forster, Co x swain. Yellow—Gagger, French, Wallis, Yardley ; A. Pollard. coxswain. Peach—Cooper, Cole , Cox , Rose ; J. Pol Evans, Collins, Belt ; T l a h r d o , m c p o s x o s n w , ain r coxswain. . Purple, at starting, took the lead, and shortly after fouled with green, carrying away the rudder of the lat. ter, but she nevertheless came in a winner by four boats lengths. The whole scene was very gay, and the cutters of the various clubs were out. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort leave town to-day for Badminton, Gloucestershire. The noble Duke and Duchess return on Wednesday, and that evening will receive a distin guished circle at dinner. The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, accompanied by the Marquis of Chandos and Lady Anne Grenville, lett Buckingham House, Pall-mall, to pass the holidays at Stow; near Buckingham. CLOSING OF THE TRANSFER BOOKS AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND SOUTH SEA HOUSE.—The following no tice was issued on Saturday at the above monetarvestablish ments :—" Bank of England : Annuities due sth July, 1846. going into new ledger; Consolidated Three per Cen . ts._ will be closed from Friday, June 5, to Friday, July _l7, Three s , j f t!n 0 e m 1 . 6, F Fri day, Tuesday, July - J k ul nn y u l itle i s, A l n 7 n 2 w 6, ti d es itt fe o r fr T o e m rme Th o e f sl y a e y e 17. South Sea St ock . t he • • (1751), will be closed from Wednesday, 10th Cent. Annuities IP transfer books b e oo l k% f to or F N r e i w da3 S . 'ou j t u h ly Sea, Annuities, and Three per June, to Friday, 10th Jul). SCANDAL.—An extraordinary sensation has 'been created in a rural district in the vicinity of this town, in con. sequence of a Rev. Gentleman, who has been exceedingly popular as a preacher, being caught in too close intimacy, for one of his cloth, with a lady of fortune, The Rev. Gentle man is gone, it is said, to France, and the lady has retired into strict privacy in the domestic circle of her friends. The Rev. Lothario is a married man.--Brighton Herald. DEPARTURE OF TH E G REAT WESTERN.—On Satur day afternoon, the steap-ship, Great Western, sailed from Liverpool for New York, crammed with passengers, besides a very heavy cargo. Since the committal to Newgate of William Henry Norman, who accused himself of robbing his employer, Mr. William Hoof, of Madeley House, Kensington, it has been satisfactorily ascertained that he has been in no way con.. cerned in the murder of Mr. IL Westwood, the watchmaker. bd a n dlae Y ork , ot liif belief t se h tte e r uox June, mpte the u lee r ssle d s3txe e ; r : in Princes-street, Soho, as was at first believed, he having been absent from England from the month of September. 1838, until 1841, in the Customs, in Jama twb i h c c a t having atTe hnesri singularvee sr b on e bo e fb n ad ecortfact, bt committe d a that committed in o c on Norman'snbt s h y ei e u n i emi statementgn night of oNf e t in the reports that Norman was concerned in the murder of Mr. Westwood, circumstances have been communicated to the police which lead to a hope of an elucidation of the mystery in which that dreadful crime has been so long en veloped. PROFANITY AT A. PREMIUM.—A few days ago, an auction of birds took place at the Wallace Fens, Perthshire. As the exposer holds a high reputation among ornithologists as a bird-t ra i ner, rather more than the usual number of would-be purchasers appeared upon the spot. Several to o u b t e u e p xc a i t ted 2s b s ; his being offered at such a low price; and bef ore the auc tioneer canaries sold at ss. eac h, an d parrots from 255. to 30s. A. fine-lookingprettyPoll's bird of of ofthe latter self-esteem class had time to utter any recommendationsi n her favo ur , the bird commenced a round of swearing that would have seem w ed as unlooked-for display of the bird's powers. Every o a th " beat Banagher." The audience seemed electrified by the raised his value a crown, till he was finally knocked dowel At 84 ON.